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Authorities identify suspect from hours-long standoff near Speedway, Tanque Verde Loop
Philip Lawrence Lineberry is facing charges of discharging firearm in city limits, prohibited possessor
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A man was taken into custody following an hours-long standoff at a home near Speedway and Tanque Verde Loop in Tucson on Monday, Feb. 13.
The Tucson Police Department identified the suspect as 49-year-old Philip Lawrence Lineberry. He is being held on a $7,500 bond and is facing charges of discharging a firearm in the city limits and prohibited possessor.
According to Tucson City Court documents, Lineberry has recently been cited for aggravated assault and criminal trespass for a separate incident.
Monday’s standoff began around 7:30 a.m. when neighbors told 13 News they heard a gunshot around. They said they heard more shots about an hour later.
The TPD said around 9 a.m., they were called to a home in the 730 block of North Northern Vista Place for a welfare check related to the shots being fired.
“Officers responded along with our SWAT Team and Hostage Negotiating Team,” the TPD said in an email. “Ultimately an adult male was taken into custody.”
Around 4 p.m., Lineberry was taken into custody and the TPD said there were no reported injuries to bystanders.
At the height of the standoff, more than 30 TPD vehicles surrounded the home. That included SWAT, bomb squad, and hostage negotiation units.
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DALLAS, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CounterFind, Inc. has launched the first automated solution for removing counterfeit NFTs. With some of the most recognizable brands in the music and entertainment industries already subscribed, CounterFind's solution will allow anyone with trademark, copyright or right of publicity rights to control how their brand is represented in the new digital era.
Creators and trademark holders are struggling to protect their intellectual property as NFT marketplaces are growing faster than their ability to establish counterfeit restriction policies. CounterFind's solution is the best way to scalably combat this influx of NFTs that are launched without any marketplace accountability or intervention.
"CounterFind is leading the path towards creating a safer, more reliable space for creators and consumers to buy authentic NFTs," CounterFind Founder Darren Woodson says. "As a former professional athlete, I know first-hand how important it is to protect your brand in every aspect."
CounterFind's "Token Takedown" solution has already helped remove more than 500 NFTs valued at over $400 million. Some of the world's most recognizable brands in the entertainment, music, and sports industries, including the University of Southern California, are already using their technology.
While many would consider NFTs to be a relatively new and emerging technology, trademark, copyright, and right of publicity law still applies to all items that are listed for sale. "As the global representative of the estates of Albert Einstein and Steve McQueen, we're tasked with enforcing IP rights for our clients on all mediums," Liz Van Denburg Cohen, Director of Merchandise Licensing at BEN Group says. "CounterFind's solution allows us to consolidate all infringements across every major NFT marketplace for seamless review and removal of fakes. What would have taken us weeks to review and report, we can now do in seconds."
CounterFind's "Token Takedown" solution is now available for subscription. For more information visit www.counterfind.com
About CounterFind
CounterFind is the leading brand protection software for finding and removing all counterfeit online. From merchandise to NFTs, CounterFind's proprietary software allows the biggest brands across sports, music, entertainment and consumer products to remove infringements in real time.
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2022 World Cup: This could be Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi's last appearance in the tournament
BERLIN (AP) - Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are among a handful of players hoping for a final hurrah in what is likely to be their last World Cup appearance.
Besides those two, there's also Robert Lewandowski, Luis Suárez, Luka Modric, Dani Alves, Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller.
Hanging on for the next World Cup in 2026 in North America might just be a step to far for these veterans.
CRISTIANO RONALDO (Portugal)
Perhaps ominously for Portugal’s Group H rivals, the 37-year-old Ronaldo has endured a frustrating season so far at Manchester United and will be eager to show what he can do in Qatar. Ronaldo is already the all-time top-scorer in men’s international soccer with 117 goals and has made a Portuguese record 191 appearances. The five-time five Ballon d’Or winner has scored goals wherever he has played, whether in his first stint at United, in a trophy-laden spell at Real Madrid or in helping Juventus win two Serie A titles before his return to the Premier League. However, his return has not gone as he would have liked so far this season. Ronaldo has been restricted to only one goal in nine Premier League appearances — most of those as a substitute.
LIONEL MESSI (Argentina)
So much of Argentina’s hope is pinned on the little artist from Rosario. The 35-year-old Messi has eclipsed Ronaldo with seven Ballon d’Or titles, all but the last of those coming for his outstanding play while at Barcelona. Now with Qatari-backed Paris Saint-Germain, Messi missed out on the 30-man shortlist for the 2022 Ballon d’Or award. Messi, however, has regained his form this season. He came close to winning the World Cup in 2014 when Argentina reached the final, but so far his only major international title has been the 2021 Copa América.
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI (Poland)
The 34-year-old Lewandowski perhaps never got the credit he deserved in the shadow cast by Messi and Ronaldo. Lewandowski quietly kept scoring goals for Borussia Dortmund, then Bayern Munich, where he racked up 312 goals in 384 appearances before his recent switch to Barcelona. Lewandowski is Poland’s undisputed leader, the team captain and record scorer with 76 goals in 134 appearances, including nine goals during qualifying for the World Cup. Lewandowski has yet to score at a World Cup. In his only previous World Cup tournament in 2018, Poland was eliminated from the group stage.
LUIS SUÁREZ (Uruguay)
Uruguay’s all-time leading scorer with 134 goals, the 35-year-old Suárez is set to play at his fourth World Cup tournament. It will be his first while playing back with boyhood club Nacional in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo after a storied career that wasn’t without controversy at Ajax, Liverpool, Barcelona and Atlético Madrid. Suárez was sent home from the 2014 World Cup for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder during a group game. Suárez helped Atlético win the Spanish league title in his first season with the club in 2021, staying another season before he returned to Nacional. He dueled with Ronaldo when they were playing for Barcelona and Real Madrid, respectively, and the old rivals are scheduled to meet again when Uruguay plays Portugal at Lusail Stadium on Nov. 28.
CAMP NOU, BARCELONA, SPAIN - 2020/12/08: Cristiano Ronaldo (L) of Juventus FC is challenged by Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona during the UEFA Champions League Group G football match between FC Barcelona and Juventus. Juventus FC won 3-0 over FC Barcelo
LUKA MODRIĆ (Croatia)
The 37-year-old Modrić is one of those players who seems to be getting better with age. Now in his 10th season with Real Madrid, Modrić played a key role in a decade of success for the Spanish club, winning five Champions League titles and three league titles in that time. He also won the Ballon d’Or in 2018 in the first occasion since 2007 that it wasn’t won by Messi or Ronaldo. For Croatia, he’s just as important — the all-seeing controller in midfield, the driving force that helped the team reach the World Cup final in 2018. Although Croatia lost to France in that final four years ago, Modrić was still awarded the Golden Ball for the best player at the tournament. This will be his fifth World Cup tournament.
DANI ALVES (Brazil)
One of the best attacking right backs ever to play the game, the 39-year-old Alves is determined to finish his international career on a high, particularly after missing the last World Cup because of a knee injury. Alves has only played in two World Cups, in 2010 and 2014. He came to prominence with lightning runs up and down the right side of the field in a successful spell at Sevilla before moving to Barcelona in 2008. He spent eight trophy-laden years at the Catalan club before spells at Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain, then São Paulo, before a return to Barcelona last year. He joined Mexican club Pumas this year.
MANUEL NEUER (Germany)
The 36-year-old Neuer is undoubtedly one of the best goalkeepers to have emerged from Germany, a country that has been spoiled with talent over the years with the likes of Oliver Kahn, Jens Lehman, Harald Schumacher and Sepp Maier. Despite the strength of rivals like Barcelona’s Marc-André ter Stegen or Eintracht Frankfurt’s Kevin Trapp, Neuer has maintained his No. 1 status since claiming the spot at the 2010 World Cup. The Bayern Munich captain was voted goalkeeper of the tournament when Germany won in 2014. This year's tournament will be his fourth World Cup.
THOMAS MÜLLER (Germany)
The 33-year-old Müller scored five goals at the 2010 World Cup and has been an almost ever-present for Germany and Bayern Munich since. He was briefly dropped by Joachim Löw in 2019 in the then-Germany coach’s ultimately unsuccessful shakeup of the team after its poor World Cup showing in 2018 as defending champion, but Müller was recalled for last year’s European Championship and has established himself as a leader. When not scoring goals in typical Müller fashion — he has always had an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time — Müller can be seen encouraging his teammates and passing on tips and advice to younger players. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/2022-world-cup-this-could-be-cristiano-ronaldo-and-lionel-messis-last-appearance-in-the-tournament | 2022-11-04 13:17:34 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/2022-world-cup-this-could-be-cristiano-ronaldo-and-lionel-messis-last-appearance-in-the-tournament |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 10, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
715 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Heat indices ranging from 103 to 110 and high
temperatures up to 106 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of south central Texas.
* WHEN...From noon to 8 PM CDT Sunday
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* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Hilary Swank's million dollar babies are here!
The Oscar winner confirmed April 9 that her and her husband, Philip Schneider, welcomed twins.
"It wasn't easy. But boy (and girl!) was it worth it," Hilary shared on Instagram. "Happy Easter! Posting from pure Heaven."
The newborns, whose names have yet to be revealed, are the first children for the couple, who tied the knot in a private outdoor ceremony at a California preserve in 2018.
The 48-year-old first announced her pregnancy in October. While speaking about her upcoming projects on Good Morning America, Hilary revealed that she was looking forward to motherhood as her "next thing."
"And not just of one, but of two," the actress gushed. "I can't believe it."
She added at the time, "It's so nice to be able to talk about it and share it."
Since then, Hilary has kept fans up to date on her pregnancy journey. On Halloween, the Alaska Daily star showed off her growing bump in punny maternity wear.
"#HappyHalloween from me, Pumpkin Moon and my PumpTwins," she captioned the shot, which showed her clad in a black shirt reading, "My little pumpkins."
And in December, Hilary posted a picture of her large baby belly in front of the Christmas tree. "We couldn't wish for a more incredible miracle," she wrote in the caption. "So grateful for these two gifts of a lifetime!!"
She continued, "Wishing you all miracles in your own lives in whatever forms they take."
According to Hilary, her babies were initially due on what would've been her late father Stephen Michael Swank's 75th birthday. The patriarch passed away in October 2021 at the age of 73.
"I had a rather unique relationship with him as I was his sole caretaker after a lung transplant seven years ago," Hilary wrote in a December 2021 tribute to her dad. "I grew incredibly close to him during this time, deepening our relationship and savoring every moment we had together. He will always remain one of my most favorite persons and not a day goes by that I don't miss him."
While his death was "devastating," Hilary wrote that it also "helped me better understand the circle of life and where we come from and where we go back to, which has connected me back to my truest self."
"It helped me forgive, to move past the things that hold me back, in whatever form that takes each day," she shared. "We are all in this together." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1362566/hilary-swank-gives-birth-welcomes-twins-with-husband-philip-schneider?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-04-10 05:08:48 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1362566/hilary-swank-gives-birth-welcomes-twins-with-husband-philip-schneider?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
The City of Portland and Multnomah County will open a cooling center and librarians will hand out bottled water this week as another heat wave rolls in to bake the region.
The cooling center, located at 435 NW Glisan St., will be open from 2 pm to 10 pm on Wednesday. It will provide food and water and is pet friendly.
The Lloyd Center mall will stay open until 9 pm on Wednesday and Thursday. People who needs a free ride to a cool space can dial 2-1-1.
Wednesday’s heat wave will be short compared with the record-setting seven consecutive days at 95 degrees or more in July. The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory for most of Multnomah County from 12 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, to 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18.
Temperatures are expected to approach 100 degrees Wednesday, and overnight lows will stay near 70 degrees. The heat is forecast to linger into Thursday, perhaps touching 100 degrees.
Officials encouraged people to make use of libraries that are open until 8 p.m. They are: Belmont, Gresham, Hillsdale, Hollywood and Midland. See library hours here.
Other cooling options including splash pads and fountains, the city and county said. Community and arts centers managed by Portland Parks & Recreation allow anyone to enter and cool off, at no charge. Guests who aren’t able to pay an admission fee can congregate in building lobbies. | https://www.wweek.com/news/environment/2022/08/16/cooling-center-to-open-librarians-to-hand-out-water-as-another-heat-wave-arrives/ | 2022-08-17 02:03:35 | 1 | https://www.wweek.com/news/environment/2022/08/16/cooling-center-to-open-librarians-to-hand-out-water-as-another-heat-wave-arrives/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Mobilum Technologies Inc. ("Mobilum" or the "Company") (CSE: MBLM) (OTC: MBLMF) (FRA: C0B) is pleased to announce that it has appointed Dr. John Henderson, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, as Interim Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), replacing Ms. Heidi Gutte. The Company thanks Ms. Gutte for her tenure as CFO.
"Heidi has been a valued member of our accounting team and has made significant contributions especially during our recent year-end reporting and audit," said Steven LaBella, Mobilum's CEO.
Incoming interim CFO, Dr. Henderson, is a PhD in Management and MBA in Finance with over 20 years in capital markets and senior management with publicly listed companies.
Steven LaBella stated, "John brings a strong track record of driving results and an exceptional background in capital markets, and we are happy to have him take on the role as interim CFO."
Mobilum Technologies Inc. (CSE:MBLM) (OTC:MBLMF) (FRA:C0B) is a technology-driven Digital Service Provider (DSP) with a mission to make digital assets and cryptocurrencies accessible through traditional finance and payment infrastructure and digital asset management technologies, providing solutions for Exchanges, Wallets and Cryptocurrency Businesses, NFTs marketplaces, Protocols, Decentralized Applications and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Metaverse and Play-to-Earn games, and Traditional Finance Institutions (Banks, Hedge Funds, Insurance and Fintech companies) opening its doors to digital assets space. Our goal is to allow consumers around the world to convert fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat with Mobilum's on-ramp and off-ramp solutions. Mobilum has offices in Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and the United States. For further information go to www.mobilum.com.
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Technology, media and telecom, and financial and business services seen as markets with the most potential for growth and acquisition
CHICAGO and NEW YORK, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Business leaders say this is a good time to acquire companies and believe that mergers and acquisitions may rise in the next two quarters, according to the DealMaker Meter report, Optimism Prevails Despite Uncertainty, from Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN), a leading risk and compliance company. Based on an online survey of 100 company executives, financial experts including advisors, corporate clients, lawyers, and bankers, the DealMaker Meter provides a snapshot of recent activity, including IPOs, M&A and SPACs, and forecasts the upcoming three months of activity.
Due to continued volatility in the global economy, including disruptions in the global supply chain, war in Ukraine, and inflation, 67 percent of those polled believe it's a good time to acquire companies, and 53 percent say that deal volume will rise. Similarly, 86 percent say that the pace of deals will continue at the current rate or possibly faster. While the market volatility from increasing inflation continues, a report by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis complements these optimistic outlooks with encouraging economic news that real GDP grew 2.1 percent in 2022, following up strongly on a 5.9 percent increase in 2021.
"The DealMaker Meter report highlights the potential for growth and positive outlook for deals in the coming months," said Craig Clay, President of Global Capital Markets at DFIN. "Executives are doing their due diligence to determine accurate company values, and the report indicates that Q2 and Q3 of 2023 will start to see green shoots of IPO activity. The report also supports the belief that a large number of deals will occur in many regions, with the U.S. leading the way."
Other key findings include:
- Take-private activity continues: 76 percent think the pace of take-privates will continue or increase due to the economy.
- North America seen as most active in deals: Executives believe that deals will continue in all global regions, but 76 percent believe that North America will be the most active region, with APAC (25 percent) and EMEA (23 percent) next in line.
- Cybersecurity impacting dealmaking: 70 percent of executives are concerned that security breaches are impacting the number of deals being closed. Virtual data rooms, like Venue® by DFIN, are needed since they are designed to store and securely manage data across disparate company systems.
The winter edition DealMaker Meter, "Optimism Prevails Despite Uncertainty," is available for download here.
About Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
DFIN is a leading global risk and compliance solutions company. We provide domain expertise, enterprise software and data analytics for every stage of our clients' business and investment lifecycles. Markets fluctuate, regulations evolve, technology advances, and through it all, DFIN delivers confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter. Learn about DFIN's end-to-end risk and compliance solutions online at DFINsolutions.com or you can also follow us on Twitter @DFINSolutions or on LinkedIn.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Daivien Williamson had 24 points, Tyree Appleby scored 22 and Wake Forest turned back Georgia 81-71 on Friday night.
Williamson sank 7 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for Wake Forest (2-0). Appleby added six rebounds and six assists. Davion Bradford buried all five of his shots and scored 11.
Williamson had 15 points in the first half to help the Demon Deacons take a commanding 41-22 lead at the break.
Mardrez McBride scored all 13 of his points in the second half and Georgia used a three-point play by Justin Hill and a 3-pointer by Terry Roberts to pull within 73-65 with 1:21 left to play. Two free throws by Appleby ended the Bulldogs' 18-7 run and wrapped up the win for Wake Forest.
Roberts added 13 points and five assists for Georgia (1-1). Kario Oquendo had 12 points and KyeRon Lindsay scored 10 before fouling out.
The Demon Deacons shot just under 51% from the floor and made 9 of 26 from 3-point range. The Bulldogs shot 41.9% overall and hit 8 of 27 from distance.
Georgia is led by first-year coach Mike White, who joined the Bulldogs after seven seasons as coach of the Florida Gators. Appleby played for White in his last two seasons at Florida.
The Bulldogs are 4-3 all-time versus Wake Forest.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Organizations face an average of six breaches in their SaaS supply chain every year, according to new data published today by Nudge Security. With threat actors like Lapsus$ exploiting this modern attack surface, securing it has become a top cybersecurity priority and was the subject of a recent executive order. In fact, by 2025, 45% of organizations worldwide will have experienced attacks on their software supply chains, a three-fold increase from 2021, according to Gartner, Inc.
To address these threats, Nudge Security announced the addition of multiple new SaaS attack surface management capabilities to its platform, including SaaS supply chain breach notifications, OAuth risk scoring, and a SaaS attack surface dashboard.
"Every security leader is contending with a sprawling mix of cloud and SaaS providers, permissions, accounts, and identities. Until now, this emerging attack surface has been largely invisible and vulnerable to the types of supply chain attacks in the headlines week after week," said Kevin Mandia, CEO, Mandiant and Strategic Partner, Ballistic Ventures. "Nudge Security recognized that securing the SaaS supply chain is one of the core challenges of modern cybersecurity, and that's why the Ballistic Ventures team was so eager to invest."
With a new centralized SaaS attack surface dashboard, IT and security teams can continuously identify critical targets like cloud infrastructure, code repositories, and apps that handle IP and sensitive data as well as publicly exposed apps, registered domains, and social media accounts. Additionally, new OAuth risk scoring extends Nudge Security's existing OAuth discovery capabilities, so teams can understand what access is given between apps and surface overly permissive grants.
"Recent breaches like the one at CircleCI show how SaaS supply chain attacks can ricochet across modern software development and CI/CD environments," said Jaime Blasco, CTO and co-founder of Nudge Security. "Our data shows that, on average, organizations use three SaaS providers for source code repositories and artifact hosting, which they connect to other services, creating permissions sprawl and heightened risk. For example, organizations give Github access to about 10 different SaaS applications on average."
When breaches occur, organizations must be able to quickly assess impact. That's why Nudge Security expanded its SaaS supply chain capabilities with new breach notifications for third- and fourth-party SaaS providers, so customers can know immediately if they're in the blast radius of a breach, such as the recent GoDaddy breach.
For more, join Nudge Security for a live webinar on SaaS attack surface management on Thursday, February 23, 2023. Register at www.nudgesecurity.com.
About Nudge Security
Nudge Security enables SaaS security at scale using the power of the modern workforce. Founded in 2021 by Jaime Blasco and Russell Spitler and backed by Ballistic Ventures, Nudge Security was named a "Cybersecurity startup to watch in 2023" by CSO Magazine. Learn more at www.nudgesecurity.com and follow on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Re: “Judge rules BNSF intentionally violated terms of easement with Swinomish tribe” [March 27, Northwest] and “Protect Swinomish tribe, environment from railroad company” [March 27, Opinion]:
Thanks to The Seattle Times for coverage of the train derailment on Swinomish land. BNSF totally ignoring its signed agreement with the tribe while it powered through with its own agenda was just stunning. This is exactly the kind of history we need to be learning.
More information makes better all-around citizens. The citizens of Florida should take a lesson.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Outset Medical, Inc. ("Outset" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OM).
Class Period: September 15, 2020 – June 13, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance" that required an additional 510(k) application; (2) as a result, the Company could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) the Company's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected the Company to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell the Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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Upper Deck enters an exclusive agreement with one of the greatest ice hockey prospects of this generation
CARLSBAD, Calif., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Upper Deck, the worldwide leader in entertainment and sports collectibles, is proud to announce its exclusive autographed trading card deal with hockey sensation and the number one overall NHL Draft™ pick, Connor Bedard. Under the new agreement, Upper Deck will be the sole producer of Bedard's trading cards.
Connor Bedard was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks® as the first overall draft pick in the 2023 Upper Deck NHL Draft™ on Wednesday, June 28, which marks the second number-one pick in Blackhawks' history. Bedard is considered one of this generation's greatest ice hockey prospects and one of the youngest in this year's draft at just 17 years of age. The first player ever granted early exceptional status into the Western Hockey League, Bedard's illustrious career with the Regina Pats spanned 134 regular season games, scoring 134 goals and 137 assists for 271 points. Notably, Bedard scored 23 points in seven games at the most recent U20 World Junior Hockey Championship, which broke a new record for points in a single tournament–already proving his promising future in the NHL®.
"Connor Bedard is one of the most anticipated prospects in sports right now, and we're thrilled to have him as part of the Upper Deck family," said Jason Masherah, president of Upper Deck. "Throughout the upcoming NHL season, and Bedard's entire NHL career, we'll capture his iconic moments on the ice and immortalize them exclusively on trading cards fans can enjoy for years to come."
Connor Bedard trading cards will be available in flagship products featuring his highly anticipated rookie cards like Young Guns®, Future Watch, and more during the 2023-24 NHL season at hobby shops worldwide and via Upper Deck Authorized Internet Retailers (AIRS). His exclusive cards will also be available on Upper Deck e-Pack® and the newly launched Evolution platform featuring Authentic Digital Collectibles.
About Upper Deck
Upper Deck is a global entertainment company creating trading cards, memorabilia, collectibles, games, and online platforms that deliver the experiences collectors crave. Upper Deck has set the unmatched industry standard for quality, authenticity, and innovation and continues to bring generations of fans closer to their favorite athletes and characters with unique and authentic sports and entertainment product offerings, as well as its digital trading ecosystem. The company prides itself on creating collectibles that produce invaluable experiences for sports and entertainment's most dedicated and loyal fans, with a goal to deliver excellence to the community across the most coveted properties as a means to develop memorable moments for collectors of all kinds.
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Free virtual special event to be held March 24 at 4 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 400 Years of African American History Commission (400YAAHC), a 15-member federally appointed commission established to coordinate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies on August 20, 1619, announced today a free, live virtual event designed by women to lift up women who tell their stories of triumph, empowerment and accomplishment. The second annual STRONGER THAN™ special event will be held on Friday, March 24, 2023, at 4 p.m. EDT. Registration for STRONGER THAN™ T.E.A. is free and open to all at Stronger Than Tea 2023 March 24th.
"This Women's History Month we are so proud to bring women together to celebrate the incredible drive and immense contributions of strong women who have endured and overcome challenges that tested their human resolve," said Addie L. Richburg, executive director of the 400 Years of African American History Commission. "As we focus on past and present storytellers, we illuminate the power of our voices so future generations can continue to speak up, speak out and emerge STRONGER THAN™."
The newest event under the Commission's STRONGER THAN™ campaign will be hosted by Coré Cotton, a GRAMMY AWARD®-winning singer, attorney and author. 400YAAHC Commissioners Kenya Cox, president of Kansas State Conference of NAACP Branches; Kay Coulson, president of nAction Network; and Prophet Anyanu Cox, RN, M.Ed., a licensed, ordained minister and a holistic practitioner, will deliver remarks on triumph, empowerment, and accomplishment, respectively.
In addition, the Commission will present its 400YAAHC Distinguished 400 Award to two journalists who have used their work to highlight the cultural contributions and resilience of Black women. Jericka Duncan, the Emmy-nominated national correspondent and anchor of the Sunday edition of the "CBS Weekend News" will be recognized for her storytelling, and Tashara Parker, anchor at WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, will be recognized for her advocating for women of color to wear their hair naturally on the air. STRONGER THAN™ T.E.A. will also feature a review of other women from history who have told stories that commemorated the optimism of women and the need to be STRONGER THAN™.
Before the event concludes, the Commission will acknowledge Jill Carson in memoriam as its STRONGER THAN™ Woman of the Year. Since 2019, Carson served as vice mayor of Pennington Gap, Virginia, until her death on January 28, 2023. She co-founded the Appalachian African American Cultural Center to preserve history and to tell the stories of African American, particularly in the coalfields of southwest Virginia, eastern Kentucky and northeast Tennessee.
STRONGER THAN™ is a special emphasis campaign of the Commission to recognize and celebrate the strength, courage, and resilience of women across diverse dimensions, historical and present day—sung and unsung. The 400YAAYC develops and facilitates activities throughout the United States, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colonies. The Commission recognizes and highlights the resilience and contributions of African Americans from that seminal moment forward, while simultaneously acknowledging the painful impact of slavery, racial discrimination, and racism on the U.S.
The public is invited to learn more at https://www.400yaahc.gov.
About the 400 Years African American History Commission
The 400 Years of African American History Commission is a federally appointed committee, operating independently as established by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and administered by the National Park Service. The 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act, signed into law January 8, 2018, established this 15-member commission to coordinate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies on August 20, 1619, when 20 enslaved Africans were brought to Point Comfort in the English colony of Virginia (now part of Fort Monroe National Monument). Learn more at https://www.400yaahc.gov and the 400YAAHC TV streaming channel on smogotelevision.com.
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2-year-old boy dies after being infected with rare brain-eating amoeba, officials say
LINCOLN COUNTY, Nev. (KVVU/Gray News) - Health officials say a young boy has died in rural Nevada after getting a rare infection.
According to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, a 2-year-old child in Lincoln County named Woodrow Bundy died from a Naegleria fowleri infection, also known as a brain-eating amoeba.
“It came on real fast. Flu-like symptoms, fever – just like any other little sickness that a little boy might get.” Woodrow’s aunt Bailey Logue told KVVU.
According to the DPBH, Woodrow may have been infected at Ash Springs, a natural hot spring located on federal land in Lincoln County.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified health officials that Naegleria fowleri was the cause of the boy’s illness.
Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled living amoeba that occurs naturally in the environment.
This amoeba can cause a very serious rare infection that destroys brain tissue and is almost always fatal, according to the DPBH.
“If you wind up getting infected with it, chances are you’re going to die,” Dr. Brian Labus said. “Very few people have actually survived this type of infection.”
Heath officials said that Naegleria fowleri lives in soil and warm freshwaters, such as lakes, rivers and hot springs. The amoeba infects people by entering the body through the nose and traveling to the brain.
“That’s where it starts to multiply and starts to destroy brain tissue,” Labus said. “It progresses rather rapidly because it’s actively destroying brain tissue. So, it’s very difficult for your body to deal with something like that and fight it off.”
Naegleria fowleri is not spread from person to person. Symptoms reportedly start with a severe headache, fever, and nausea before progressing to seizures and possible death.
Because Naegleria fowleri occurs naturally in the environment, it cannot be eliminated from fresh bodies of water. Although the risk is low, recreational water users should always assume there is a risk when they enter warm freshwaters.
Doctors are reminding parents of the dangers of their children swimming in freshwater, but this type of infection still remains very rare.
“We’re not supposed to live in fear,” Logue said. “You can still take your kids to the lake and the ponds and all the things.”
The CDC recommends taking precautions that include not jumping into bodies of warm freshwater, especially during the summer, and avoiding putting your head underwater in hot springs and other untreated geothermal waters.
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Cher launches gelato company called ‘Cherlato’: 'It's finally happening'
Cher has announced her latest project – and this time, it’s not new music.
The 77-year-old singer revealed that she is launching a gelato company, called "Cherlato," which she said was five years in the making.
"Yep, this is real … I’m launching my gelato," Cher wrote on Instagram Sunday. "Watch out LA!! All started 5 years ago and now it’s finally HAPPENING. More to come."
A video, shared on her page, showcases the company’s ice cream truck and logo. Another post published Monday displays a preview of some of the ice cream treats that will be served.
As of Tuesday, Cher did not release any other details about the venture.
EARLIER: Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, dead at 96
Cher is one of the world’s best-selling music artists and the only performer to have earned "top 10" hit singles in four consecutive decades, according to IMDB.
Aside from her music and film career, Cher also has other business ventures including a perfume and clothing line. She is also known for her philanthropic endeavors and social activism.
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Laurie Sicaeros Leads California Health System Growth Initiatives
LOS ANGELES and ORANGE COUNTIES, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominent health care executive Laurie Sicaeros has been named Chief Strategy Officer and Leadership Academy Dean for MemorialCare, a nationally recognized Southern California health system.
Since 2018, Sicaeros has served as Chief Operating Officer for MemorialCare Medical Foundation, one of the country's fastest growing physician organizations and acknowledged national innovator in value-based care, serving hundreds of thousands of patients. With more than 2,000 employed and affiliated physicians that are part of MemorialCare Medical Group and Greater Newport Physicians, the Medical Foundation—which she was instrumental in establishing in 2010—also includes 225 outpatient surgery, imaging, urgent care, breast health, kidney dialysis, physical therapy and other health centers throughout Southern California. Sicaeros also served as MemorialCare Senior Vice President of Physician Integration.
"Laurie's significant contributions, deep commitment to MemorialCare and excellence in operational and business strategy and cultivating innovative partnerships, uniquely qualifies her as Chief Strategy Officer," says MemorialCare President & CEO Barry Arbuckle, Ph.D. "Over the last 25 years, Laurie has achieved exceptional success with a 'can-do' style and extraordinary leadership in pivotal initiatives that transformed MemorialCare from a hospital system to an integrated health network."
Sicaeros' past MemorialCare management roles include business development, mergers and acquisitions and physician practice alignment. Her work in clinical informatics and electronic health record integration link physicians and outpatient centers to MemorialCare hospitals in Orange and Los Angeles counties—providing seamless continuity of care for millions of patients served by nearly 3,000 affiliated physicians. She helped expand MemorialCare's footprint into an ambulatory network of primary and specialty care medical groups, Independent Practice Association (IPA) for physicians and outpatient center partnerships.
She played a major role expanding MemorialCare Physician Society, dedicated to clinical and customer service best practices that drive superior clinical outcomes and performance that often rank above national and regional benchmarks.
"I'm honored to be named MemorialCare's Chief Strategy Officer and continue my work with our remarkable physicians, employees and communities," says Sicaeros. "MemorialCare has been a big part of my life and career, and it's exciting to help advance our vision of continuing excellence."
Sicaeros holds a master's degree in health care administration from Chapman University and bachelor's degree from California State University, Long Beach.
MemorialCare, nonprofit Southern California integrated delivery system and innovator in value-based care, has over 225 care locations; 15,000 employees and affiliated physicians; top hospitals—Long Beach Medical Center, Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Medical Center and Saddleback Medical Center; award-winning MemorialCare Medical Group and Greater Newport Physicians; MemorialCare Select Health Plan; and outpatient surgery, imaging, urgent care, dialysis, breast health and physical therapy centers. MemorialCare's many honors have included Best U.S. Health Systems, Top Places to Work, Top Hospital rankings from readers of eight regional newspapers, 10 Largest U.S. Children's Hospitals, Top 100 Hospitals, A Hospital Safety Score, Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals, Magnet nursing excellence status for all MemorialCare hospitals, among much more. Visit www.memorialcare.org.
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By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Basketball Writer
The Final Four is headed for the first time to Las Vegas, where wagering on the NCAA Tournament has long been a staple of March Madness revelry, after the NCAA awarded the men’s national semifinals and championship game to Allegiant Stadium for the 2027-28 season.
The NCAA also announced Tuesday that Ford Field in Detroit would host the Final Four in 2027, while Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis would get the 2029 event and AT&T Stadium in Dallas would get the 2030 event.
“We are excited to bring the NCAA’s premier championship to Las Vegas, a city that for a number of years has hosted numerous championships from several member conferences,” said Bradley athletic director Chris Reynolds, who chairs the NCAA selection committee. “The feedback from leagues, the fans of their teams and the media covering the events staged there has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are confident we’ll get the same reviews.”
The national championship this season will be decided at NRG Stadium in Houston, while State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, the Alamodome in San Antonio and Lucas Oil Stadium already had been chosen for the following three Final Fours.
The NCAA long shied away from taking marquee events to Las Vegas because of its reputation as a gambling mecca. But the stance softened over the years, particularly as sports wagering became legal in states across the country, and many leagues have made its glitzy arenas the homes of their postseason basketball tournaments.
The Mountain West will play its championship game this season at the Thomas & Mack Center, the Pac-12 at T-Mobile Arena, the West Coast Conference at Orleans Arena and the WAC split between Michelob ULTRA Arena and Orleans Arena.
Las Vegas already was scheduled to host nine other NCAA championships over the next four years, and the men’s NCAA Tournament will head there for the first time next March when a regional round is played at T-Mobile Arena.
The other Final Four sites chosen Tuesday have a history of hosting the men’s basketball championship.
Ford Field was the site of the 2009 tournament, when 72,922 fans packed the home of the Detroit Lions to watch North Carolina beat Michigan State. AT&T Stadium will also get its second Final Four after hosting it in 2014, when Connecticut beat Kentucky before a crowd of 79,238 at the home of the Dallas Cowboys.
Lucas Oil Stadium has hosted the Final Four six times in the past 25 years, including the 2021 event, when the entire NCAA Tournament was conducted in front of a limited number of fans at venues scattered across Indiana. When it hosts the Final Four in 2029, Indianapolis will tie Kansas City for the most times conducting the title game with 10 apiece.
“It’s been said many times about how coaches, players, fans and media love coming to the Final Four in Indianapolis, but I don’t think you can overstate just how much everyone enjoys their experience when they go,” Reynolds said. “The people not only embrace major events, but they don’t take a single thing for granted.”
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cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
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10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to
106 in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
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gusts up to 30 mph.
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15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
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cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
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mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
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gusts up to 25 mph.
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10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to
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partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
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cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 110.
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Brooks-
Including the city of Falfurrias
357 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
mid 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105 in the afternoon.
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Northern Hidalgo-
Including the city of San Manuel
357 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Breezy with
highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 110.
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TXZ251-022100-
Inland Kenedy-
Including the city of Sarita
357 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Breezy with
highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Breezy with highs around 90. Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ351-022100-
Coastal Kenedy-
357 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then clearing. Breezy with
highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up
to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Humid with lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
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TXZ454-022100-
Willacy Island-
357 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy and breezy with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
around 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the mid 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ451-022100-
Kenedy Island-
357 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Breezy with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and breezy. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
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Copland will be responsible for delivering best-in-class operational excellence internally and externally across Ledgebrook's E&S product lines.
BOSTON, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ledgebrook, a tech-enabled E&S MGA, has announced that Adrian Copland is joining the company as its COO. Copland previously served as COO at insurtech Fairmatic and brings decades of experience at Catlin/XL Catlin/Axa XL in both operational and innovation roles.
Adrian's role at XL Catlin included building an offshore operational entity from scratch to over 475 employees, providing services across the whole XL Catlin business. Adrian's most recent experience at Fairmatic saw him build the operational business to achieve a 10x growth in premium and headcount whilst supporting the successful Series A raise. Most importantly, Adrian is passionate about building and leading teams that deliver market leading solutions proven to consistently drive profitable growth. He currently resides in the UK with his wife and two sons.
"I'm overjoyed to welcome Adrian to Team Ledgebrook," said Founder & CEO Gage Caligaris. "He's proven the ability to build successful insurance operations from the ground up but more importantly is known throughout the industry for being a thought leader in establishing a positive, forward-thinking culture."
"Upon meeting Gage it became instantly clear that we shared the same vision in both leveraging technology to improve broker experience whilst increasing operational efficiency, and building a company culture that attracts and retains the best talent across the industry. I am truly excited to join a team with such deep insurance expertise coupled with a first class tech delivery capability," said Copland.
About Ledgebrook: Ledgebrook is a tech-enabled E&S MGA looking to provide the fastest, easiest quoting experience to wholesale brokers while delivering best-in-class pricing and risk selection via their innovative next-gen tech stack. Led by insurance industry veterans, Ledgebrook offers the best of both worlds: deep insurance expertise empowered by the best of modern technology. Visit us at ledgebrook.com
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A wave of newly approved abortion restrictions in the Southeastern United States has sent providers scrambling to reconfigure their services for a region with already severely limited access.
Stiff limitations enacted in South Carolina and pending in North Carolina and Florida — states that had been holdouts providing wider access to the procedure — are threatening to further delay abortions as appointments pile up and doctors work to understand the latest constraints.
“There’s really going to be no way for the whole abortion-providing ecosystem to manage it all,” said Jenny Black, the president of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.
Black, who oversees the organization’s work in North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and parts of Virginia, said providers have had to quickly determine how to comply with the pending laws amid the “decimation of abortion access across the South.” She expects new restrictions will compound the stressors on a system that was already seeing lengthy waiting periods in North Carolina driven by an influx of patients from Georgia and Tennessee.
Abortion is severely restricted in much of the South, including bans throughout pregnancy in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. In Georgia, it’s allowed only in the first six weeks.
South Carolina joined its neighbors rolling back the procedure Thursday when the governor signed a bill banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy. But providers quickly filed a lawsuit seeking to block the law that resembles one already deemed a violation of the state constitution’s right to privacy by the South Carolina Supreme Court.
“This is a great day for life in South Carolina, but the fight is not over. We stand ready to defend this legislation against any challenges and are confident we will succeed,” Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said in a statement.
A report released in early April by the Society of Family Planning found rising numbers of abortions in states near those with the deepest restrictions but where abortion had remained largely legal. Florida and North Carolina were among the states with the biggest increases — and among those where new limits are pending.
Most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will be banned in North Carolina beginning July 1 and a six-week ban in Florida will take effect only if the state’s current 15-week ban is upheld by the state Supreme Court.
South Carolina had also proven to be a key destination for people seeking abortions. Provisional state Health Department data showed larger numbers of out-of-state patients after the state’s highest court overturned previous restrictions and left abortion legal through 22 weeks.
The new law will change that status, according to Caitlin Myers, an economics professor at Middlebury College. Myers, who studies the effects of reproductive policies, said limited evidence suggests about half of the people who want abortions won’t be able to make the six-week threshold.
“It’s likely to end up sending a lot of desperate people seeking abortions even farther distances and result in even greater congestion at the facilities that are left to receive them,” Myers said.
Jessica Tarleton, an OB-GYN in Charleston, anticipates sending patients outside the state for abortions. She said the new law will disproportionately affect those who lack financial means for child care, hotels and air travel. Most women who get abortions are already mothers, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The action comes as many state legislatures convene for their first regular sessions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck federal abortion protections. Over the past two months, Republican officials in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida have pushed Virginia closer to being a regional outlier as a place with relatively permissive access.
The tide of state-level activity has been welcomed by anti-abortion groups who had long chipped away at access. Caitlin Connors, the southern regional director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, celebrated the recent legislative changes as victories made possible by last summer’s ruling.
“We are officially in an era where states who have tried to pass pro-life legislation — laws that would protect unborn children, laws that would also implement services for moms and families and babies — to finally be able to be enacted and not be under the chokehold of the Roe v. Wade decision,” Connors said.
That shifting landscape has also heightened uncertainty among providers that has kept them from expanding services, Myers said, and likely will prevent some patients from getting abortions as doctors weigh what is and isn’t permissible.
Erica Pettigrew, a family medicine doctor in North Carolina, said the new constraints will make it much more difficult for her to help patients navigate the system. Although North Carolina Republicans pitched the new 12-week limit as a middle-ground change, Pettigrew pointed to other provisions that make it much more restrictive.
New hurdles require that women make in-person visits to a medical professional at least 72 hours before the procedure. The three-day waiting period could previously be initiated over the phone. The law also requires a doctor to schedule a follow-up visit for women who have a medically induced abortion, increasing the hardship on those who travel from other states.
Those regulations will make it harder to advise patients on their options, she said, especially when waiting periods already spanned two to four weeks in some cases.
Other delays may result from what Pettigrew called unclear exceptions for certain life-threatening conditions.
“Now we’re in this horrible purgatory of trying to figure out how to interpret it, how we can comply with the law,” Pettigrew said. “There’s so many unknowns.”
Immediate reproductive care has been slowed in states restricting abortion, and Tarleton believes South Carolina will be no different. The new law mandates that doctors document their rationale for inducing an abortion under a list of excepted circumstances and make “reasonable efforts” to avoid the procedure. She expects to seek legal advice when treating patients for early pregnancy complications and miscarriages, which she fears will increase maternal mortality in a region where many states already report some of the nation’s worst rates.
“We are likely to see sicker pregnant patients, sicker babies,” Tarleton said. “That’s going to start happening now that there’s really no place to turn in the Southeast for this kind of care.”
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Deserving dad wins $50,000 and a year's supply of Entenmann's Donuts!
ISLANDIA, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After calling on fans to nominate their deserving father figure into the "Dads of Glory: A Father Figure Showcase," Entenmann's® is thrilled to announce Michael B. of Talala, Oklahoma as the "The Golden Donut Award" winner! Michael will be taking home the Grand Prize of $50,000, a year's supply of donuts and the oversized "Golden Donut Award" trophy.
Entenmann's invited fans from across the country to nominate the deserving father figure in their lives by submitting a video that exemplified why he is a "Dad of Glory" across one of the five "Dad-egories" including: Dad Humor, Dad Feats, Dad Engineering, Dad Fashion, and Dad Love. After receiving thousands of incredible submissions, an Entenmann's® panel of judges selected not only "The Golden Donut Award" winner, but they also chose a winner in each "Dad-egory" who will each receive $1,000 and a year's supply of donuts!
"We were overwhelmed by the number of heartfelt and entertaining nominations about father figures across the country who have made an impact," said Jason Amar, Director of Marketing at Entenmann's®. "In the end, we awarded Michael with 'The Golden Donut Award' for his inspiring story and all the amazing ways he goes above and beyond to encourage, support and love his daughter!''
Michael's wife submitted his nomination for the showcase, lovingly discussing her husband's relationship with their daughter, Kenzi, who has cerebral palsy. While Kenzi is dependent on her parents, Michael does everything in his power to help her live life to the fullest, taking her fishing, rafting and even snowmobiling. The father-daughter duo share a unique bond, and Kenzi often refers to her dad as her hero.
"It was so amazing to be recognized by Entenmann's as 'The Golden Donut Award' winner in the Dads of Glory Showcase. I am so honored to be chosen out of the nearly 2,000 amazing father figures who were nominated," said Michael B. "Being Kenzi's dad is my most important role, so it feels really special that my story was so well-received. This is the sweetest gift ever for me and my family!"
- Best of Dad Engineering - Thomas K., Bowling Green, K.Y.
- Best of Dad Fashion - Mitch B., Bismarck, N.D.
- Best of Dad Feats - Melvin L., Davie, F.L.
- Best of Dad Humor - James S., Hutto, T.X.
- Best of Dad Love - Eric W., Winder, G.A.
For more information, including how to view the "Dads of Glory" winners, please visit www.DadsofGlory.com.
Entenmann's history dates back more than 120 years to 1898 when William Entenmann opened his first bakery in Brooklyn, New York. By the 1960s the company was selling delicious donuts throughout the New York metropolitan area; by the 1970s it began selling nationwide. Today, Entenmann's markets over 100 different baked goods in the U.S., producing more than one billion donuts annually – one of which is the #1-best-selling classic Entenmann's Rich Frosted Donut introduced in 1973.
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Trump, DeSantis court Moms for Liberty in a sign of the group's rising influence over the GOP
PHILADELPHIA - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday cast the 2024 election as the year that parents "finally fight back" as he kicked off the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a group that has fiercely opposed instruction related to race and gender identity in the nation’s classrooms.
The two-year-old group, which was founded in Florida in 2021 to fight local COVID school mask mandates and quarantine requirements, has quickly become a force in conservative politics as an advocate for "parental rights" in education. But it has also been accused of preaching hate, with the Southern Poverty Law Center recently labeling it an "extremist" group for allegedly harassing community members, advancing anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation and fighting to scrub diverse and inclusive material from lesson plans.
The conference has nonetheless drawn leading Republican presidential candidates, including DeSantis and former President Donald Trump, the race's frontrunner, who is set to speak later Friday afternoon.
DeSantis, in his remarks at a downtown Philadelphia hotel, praised the group for "coming under attack by the left," saying it was "a sign that we are winning this fight." He ran through his efforts in Florida to ban discussions of race and sexual identity in classrooms as well as certain books from school libraries. And he pledged to "fight the woke" as president.
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"I think what we’ve seen across this country in recent years has awakened the most powerful political force in the country: Mama bears. And they’re ready to roll," he said, predicting moms would be "the key political force for this 2024 cycle."
"2024 is going to be the year when the parents across the country finally fight back," he said.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, another GOP candidate, railed against transgender women athletes competing on women’s sports teams — an issue that has become a major flashpoint for the right and that she called "one of the biggest women’s issues of our time."
"They are literally trying to erase all the progress we have made in all of this time," she said. "We have to fight for our girls."
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are set to give remarks at the conference Saturday.
The high interest in the event among GOP hopefuls underscores the influence of Moms for Liberty, which has made connections with powerful GOP organizations, politicians and donors to become a major player in 2024. The group has said it doesn’t plan to endorse any presidential candidate in the primary election.
The group has transformed from three Florida moms opposing COVID-19 mandates in 2021 to claiming 285 chapters across 45 states. Along the way, it has found a close ally in DeSantis, who was presented with a "liberty sword" at the group's first annual meeting last year and has signed multiple bills that Moms for Liberty supported.
Beyond remarks from the candidates and other speakers, the summit will feature strategy sessions on such topics as "protecting kids from gender ideology" and "comprehensive sex education: sex ed or sexualization."
Summit attendees said they liked what they were hearing so far.
"I love Moms for Liberty," said Debbie McGinley, who is running for the school board in Methacton School District outside Philadelphia. As a parent of three kids who lost her business as a hairdresser during the COVID-19 pandemic, she said she appreciated that the group is "fighting for our kids."
Lucy Reyna, a treasurer for a local Moms for Liberty chapter in Indiana, said she traveled to the conference to learn more about the national organization.
"What am I a part of? I need to know those things," Reyna said, adding that if the group leaned too partisan in one direction, it would make her reconsider her participation.
Outside, roughly 100 parent activists and LGBTQ+ advocates gathered to protest, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s designation of the group as an "anti-government extremist" organization. They chanted, "Not in our city" and "Let's say gay" while holding signs that read, "Hate is not patriotic" and "Philly is the LGBTQest city."
Some protesters said specific incidents prompted their activism, including an Indiana Moms for Liberty chapter publishing an Adolf Hitler quote in its newsletter before apologizing and removing it, and a Tennessee chapter complaining about lessons on Black civil rights figures Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges.
"I think they stand for fear. And that turns into hate very quickly," said Molly Roses, a Philadelphia resident who joined the protest.
In the days before the conference, several historical associations, state senators, activists and employees at Philadelphia's Museum of the American Revolution had pleaded unsuccessfully with the museum to cancel a welcome event for the conference Thursday night. The event went on as planned.
The museum told The Associated Press that "because fostering understanding within a democratic society is so central to our mission, rejecting visitors on the basis of ideology would in fact be antithetical to our purpose."
Haley in her speech acknowledged the protesters, saying she "appreciates that" as an expression of free speech.
People for the American Way was among several groups rallying against the gathering Friday. Its "Grandparents for Truth" campaign was mobilizing grandparents and other supporters "who are fighting for the next generation’s freedom to learn."
One such grandparent, Maureen Carreño, said she wasn’t taught a diverse history as a child and wants something different for her five grandkids.
"I would hope that we teach the totality of history," she said. "And, yes, it might make you feel a little bad or sad or something, but that’s part of history."
In her remarks ahead of DeSantis' speech, Moms for Liberty National Director of Engagement Tia Bess rejected claims that the group is racist.
"Do I look like a racist to y'all?" Bess, who is Black, told the overwhelmingly white audience.
Tiffany Justice, one of the group's co-founders, responded sarcastically to the SPLC's "extremist" label onstage Friday, referring to herself as "the face of domestic terrorism, apparently."
Though Moms for Liberty says it is nonpartisan, it has largely drawn conservative support. The group also has fought to elect conservative candidates to school boards around the country.
While the group’s status as a 501(c)4 nonprofit means it doesn’t have to disclose its funders, its public donors include conservative powerhouses such as the Heritage Foundation and the Leadership Institute, a national political training organization.
Patriot Mobile, a far-right Christian cellphone company paying to sponsor Trump’s remarks at the conference, has a political action committee that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to take charge of Texas school boards.
Mom for Liberty’s Florida-based PAC also has received a $50,000 donation from Julie Fancelli, a Republican donor whose family owns Publix grocery stores and who helped fund Trump’s Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally, according to House Jan. 6 committee findings. Fancelli didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running in the Democratic presidential primary, had been scheduled to speak at the group’s summit, but his "campaign told us his schedule changed," Justice said.
Kennedy's press team said he dropped out "for family reasons." Hours later, Kennedy said during a town hall with NewsNation that he "made a mistake by accepting that invitation" and that once he learned of Moms for Liberty's positions on LGBTQ+ issues, he "declined to go."
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press video journalist David R. Martin contributed reporting.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Justin Fields spent the offseason tweaking his footwork and mechanics and trying to improve his presence in the pocket.
He also embraced his leadership role as the Chicago Bears’ unquestioned starting quarterback. Now, he’s hoping the work he and his teammates put in leads to a big payoff for a team that struggled last year, starting with the season opener this week against San Francisco.
“Coach says all the time, it’s about us. It’s not about the 49ers this week,” Fields said Wednesday. “It’s about us — how we play, how we execute. So I’m just playing for my teammates, playing for my coaches and going out here and executing to the best of my ability.”
All eyes will be on Fields when the Bears host the 49ers on Sunday.
He comes into his second season trying to convince new general manager Ryan Poles and first-year coach Matt Eberflus he is the right person to solidify a position that has historically haunted the Monsters of the Midway.
A strong showing against a dominant defense that helped lead San Francisco to the NFC championship game last season would sure be a good way to start. The fact that the 49ers passed on him and drafted Trey Lance with the No. 3 overall pick in 2021 might make it that much sweeter.
“He’s gonna prove everything that everybody doubted him on — especially Week 1,” receiver Darnell Mooney said last week. “That team passed on him. So they’re gonna have to pay a little bit for that.”
Fields said he not out to prove the 49ers wrong and shrugged off Mooney’s comment as “Moon being Moon.” The former Ohio State star was the fourth quarterback taken last year after Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson and Lance were drafted in the top three overall spots. The Bears traded up with the New York Giants to grab him at No. 11.
Fields said he’s glad to be in Chicago and, therefore, “I’m glad that they passed on me.”
If he has a little extra motivation going against the 49ers, that’s fine with Eberflus.
“Motivation is funny, isn’t it?” Eberflus said. “Sometimes different people are motivated a certain way, and I think if you have that under control, meaning self-control, and use that the right way to motivate you, I think there’s nothing wrong with that. That can be whatever. That can be anything.”
Fields is in a far different position than he was this time last year, when the previous regime opted to go with veteran Andy Dalton as the starter and have Fields watch and learn from the sideline.
That plan blew up when Dalton was injured in Week 2. Fields got thrust into the starting role after having no practice reps with the starters, and the Bears had to adjust on the fly.
It wasn’t an easy transition. Fields threw more interceptions (10) than touchdown passes (seven) and had an unimpressive 73.2 passer rating. Chicago’s offense ranked among the NFL’s worst.
The Bears, with issues all over their roster, went 6-11 and missed the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 years. That convinced chairman George McCaskey to make big changes, so he fired former general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy.
Poles, hired out of Kansas City’s front office, overhauled the roster. But he didn’t make any splashy additions to an offense that had a glaring lack of playmakers.
The Bears are banking on improvement from within, particularly from their quarterback. Fields said he’s more comfortable overall, is clicking with new offensive coordinator Luke Getsy and is studying opponents differently.
Teammates said they notice a difference, too. Bears players voted Fields a captain along with left guard Cody Whitehair and defensive stars Roquan Smith and Robert Quinn.
“There’s a lot more confidence knowing it’s his show, he’s the guy we’re looking at,” Quinn said. “And I say everyone else is embracing it around him, making sure they do their jobs, but helping him be successful as well. It’s a joint joint thing. Everyone’s gotta do their part.”
NOTES: The Bears had two players listed on their initial injury report. WR Velus Jones Jr. (hamstring) did not practice and DL Dominique Robinson (knee) was limited.
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We shouldn’t have to receive special reminders to be careful on the road. As tired as the cliché is, the best driving is defensive. Be aware of your surroundings, and be prepared for the unpredictable.
That’s the best advice as school starts again, with this year being as close to “normal” as we’ve been in the decade.
The Illinois Insurance Association and its member companies have offered some specific tips as we roll into another school year.
• Young pedestrians can be unpredictable. Be alert for walkers and bicycle riders. Reduce speed near schools and residential areas where children and teens gather. Use extra caution between 7 and 8:30 a.m. and between 2:30 and 5 p.m. Follow school crossing guard instructions.
• Yield to school buses. This is particularly important in larger towns where children are being picked up and dropped off on four-lane roads, and buses are stopping and starting. Remain twenty feet behind the stopped school bus until flashing lights are turned off and you have confirmed no children are nearby.
• Watch for passenger vehicles preparing to load or unload children. Respect carpool rules if you’re the driver. Do not double park, pick up or drop off children across the street from the school. If you’re new to the process, don’t worry – the other parents will definitely let you know what needs to be done. Hopefully, the veterans are patient with the newbies.
Meanwhile, students, we wish you a prosperous year of learning, growing and laying the groundwork to become stewards of our society. Pay attention in class. You'll be grateful you did.
Parents, we wish you boundless patience and wisdom. As much as growing up doesn’t change from generation to generation, this group of young people faces challenges unlike any before. There are also things their ancestors experienced that are long since solved or long since gone. Keep that in mind as you navigate through new waters.
To the teachers and staff, thank you. Your contributions to our community are endless. Your impact is substantial all year long. You do so much that is never recognized. You should be told more often, but you are appreciated. | https://pantagraph.com/opinion/editorial/our-view-be-aware-of-schools-reopening/article_cc598ffa-258b-11ed-8283-2371b61575e3.html | 2022-08-26 22:40:09 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/opinion/editorial/our-view-be-aware-of-schools-reopening/article_cc598ffa-258b-11ed-8283-2371b61575e3.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Bono’s next tour will be without U2 and without a new album to support.
He will instead be promoting his memoir “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” which comes out Nov. 1.
Live Nation and Penguin Random House announced Monday that the 62-year-old superstar will visit 14 cities in November, starting at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan on Nov. 2 and ending Nov. 28 at the Teatro Coliseum in Madrid.
“I miss being on stage and the closeness of U2’s audience,” Bono said in a statement released Monday. “In these shows I’ve got some stories to sing, and some songs to tell… Plus I want to have some fun presenting my ME-moir, Surrender, is really more of a WE-moir if I think of all the people who helped me get from there to here.”
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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...OZONE ACTION DAY...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued
an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Wednesday,
June 29, 2022.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing
high levels of ozone air pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
on Wednesday. You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a
ride, walking, riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work,
avoiding drive-through lanes, conserving energy, and keeping your
vehicle properly tuned.
For more information on ozone:
Ozone: The Facts (www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/ozonefacts)
Air North Texas: (www.airnorthtexas.org)
EPA Air Now
(www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action.local_state&STATEID=45&TAB=0)
Take care of Texas (www.takecareoftexas.org)
North Central Texas Council of Governments Air Quality
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More than 70 incoming lawmakers will be sworn into the House this January after winning their races earlier this month.
Republicans are poised to control the House next year, with 220 seats having been called in their favor compared to Democrats’ 213. Two races remain uncalled.
Next year’s crop of freshman lawmakers in the House includes 37 Republicans and 35 Democrats who hail from 32 states across the country.
Here are seven to watch:
Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.)
Frost is set to become the first Gen Z member of Congress. The 25-year-old community organizer will represent Florida’s 10th Congressional District after beating his Republican opponent by roughly 20 percentage points.
He is poised to become a leading progressive voice in the next Congress, advocating for liberal policies and serving as a representative for the youngest generation of voters, which broke decisively for Democrats this cycle.
“[I’m] excited to be here with my future colleagues in the Progressive Caucus, because we’re gonna be pushing and pushing and pushing for a world that works for every single person, no matter who they are,” he said days after the election at a Progressive Caucus press conference at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C.
In an interview with PBS, Frost said “the economy is top of mind” and zeroed in on affordable housing and increasing wages as key issues.
Frost characterized his victory as part of the “bigger puzzle” of getting more young people involved in government.
“I think it’s important that we have young people at the table. Look, I’m not one of these people that say we need to take out all the old folks and just have young people. It needs to be diverse, right, in age, in race, in gender, in economic status and experience,” he said.
Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.)
Hageman is sure to be the center of attention when she is sworn in as Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) replacement.
Hageman, a Trump-endorsed attorney, overwhelmingly beat Cheney, one of former President Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics, in a primary this summer, all but assuring her the general election victory.
The constitutional and natural resource attorney will join the ranks of Trump defenders on Capitol Hill as the former president makes another run for the White House. She previously said the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” against Trump.
During her victory speech, the congresswoman-elect thanked the former president for his support.
“Today we have succeeded at what we set out to do: We have reclaimed Wyoming’s lone congressional seat for Wyoming,” Hageman said. “But I did not do this on my own. Obviously we’re all very grateful to President Trump, who recognizes that Wyoming has only one congressional representative, and we have to make it count.”
“His clear and unwavering support from the very beginning propelled us to victory tonight,” she added.
Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.)
Goldman won’t be a new face on Capitol Hill — or to many Americans — when he gets sworn in next year.
The former federal prosecutor served as the lead counsel for House Democrats during Trump’s first impeachment investigation and hearings in 2019-2020.
Goldman, who was assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York for 10 years, has been a fixture on cable news since then, offering legal analysis on the myriad investigations involving Trump.
In Congress, the New Yorker vowed to be a “bulwark” against the former president.
“He will be front and center and in conjunction with the House Republicans that he still controls,” Goldman said of Trump during an interview with PIX on Politics Sunday. “I would expect to see more abuses of power and more excessive conduct that is extremist conduct, really, that the American people don’t want anymore. And I look forward to being in Congress as a bulwark against that.”
Aside from Trump, the congressman-elect said he plans to focus on housing, mental health treatment, substance abuse, homelessness and crime.
Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.)
Van Orden will be closely watched in Congress next year, after the retired Navy SEAL attended the Jan. 6, 2021, rally on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., and walked to the Capitol afterwards.
He beat Democratic state Sen. Brad Pfaff to represent Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District in the House, flipping the Badger State seat red. He will replace retiring centrist Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.), who held the seat since 1997.
Van Orden has struck a distinctly more bipartisan tone since his election, telling PBS Wisconsin, “I fully understand that 48 percent of the voters in this district did not support me and I plan on representing them as equally as the 52 percent that did.”
But he’ll join the ranks of Trump-backers in the House just as the former president continues his crusade to disprove the 2020 results and win another term in 2024. And he remains mired in controversy.
Van Orden contends he never entered the building on Jan. 6 and left the premises after “it became clear that a protest had become a mob.”
“When it became clear that a protest had become a mob, I left the area as to remain there could be construed as tacitly approving this unlawful conduct. At no time did I enter the grounds, let alone the building,” he wrote in an op-ed published by the La Crosse Tribune days after the Capitol attack.
But in June 2021, The Daily Beast published a photo of Van Orden before the Olmstead Lantern which, according to the Architect of the Capitol, is on Capitol grounds. According to The Washington Post, Van Orden has not called the authenticity of the photo into question.
Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.)
Luna is poised to become an outspoken member of the House Freedom Caucus, telling The Washington Post she plans to join the conservative group known for stirring controversy within the party after its political action committee endorsed her and funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into her campaign.
The Air Force veteran also secured endorsements from Trump and Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). She has said Trump won the 2020 presidential election and that voter fraud occurred.
Luna made history on Election Day, becoming the first Mexican American woman to be elected to Congress from Florida. Her victory over former Obama aide Erica Lynn flipped the Sunshine State’s 13th Congressional District red. She will replace former Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), who left the seat to run for governor.
Luna spent time with some of her future colleagues earlier this month when she attended a gathering of the Second Amendment Caucus. Kyle Rittenhouse — the teenager who was acquitted of homicide related to the killing of two people in Kenosha, Wis., during a protest in 2020 — was also in attendance.
Cory Mills (R-Fla.)
Mills, who has already aligned himself with a contingent of Republicans opposed to allocating more funding for Ukraine in its battle against Russia, will be a lawmaker to watch in Congress as it weighs whether to do just that.
Mills worked as a Department of Defense adviser during the Trump administration and appeared at a press conference with GOP House members last week where Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unveiled a privileged resolution to audit the funds allocated to Kyiv by Congress.
The congressman-elect lent support to the measure.
“Americans deserve transparency of where their money goes. That is our job as elected officials,” he said at the press conference. Separately, the incoming lawmaker told Florida’s Voice, “I personally would not vote for any continuance of funding.”
The White House earlier this month asked Congress to appropriate more than $7 billion in additional support for Ukraine. Assistance to Kyiv has received broad support from Republicans in both the House and Senate, but a small faction of GOP lawmakers in the lower chamber — which could grow after Mills’s victory — has been opposed to more funding.
Mills, a U.S. Army combat special operations veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and received a Bronze Star in 2006, beat Democrat Karen Green to represent Florida’s 7th Congressional District.
Summer Lee (D-Pa.)
Lee made history earlier this month when she became the first Black woman to be elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. She beat Republican Mike Doyle to replace the 12th Congressional District’s retiring Democratic lawmaker, who is also named Mike Doyle.
The two-term state House member, lawyer and former labor organizer is expected to be a prominent figure in the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The congresswoman-elect is also rumored to be joining the “squad,” a group made up of progressive lawmakers of color in the House, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
“I think that what we are going to see is that our progressive movement is going to continue to endure because we are doing the work to bring new people in, to expand the electorate every single election cycle, but also to do the work and to lay that groundwork, even in districts where we’re not supposed to have, or don’t usually have progressives,” she said at a Progressive Caucus press conference. “So our work continues.”
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Spots Teach Consumers How to Say Midea Brand Name While Introducing Product Line
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Midea America Corp. announced the launch of its first-ever cross platform U.S. brand campaign. The creative is centered around the concept of a fictional "Chief Idea Officer" (CIO) played by actor and comedian Sam Richardson of popular TV series "The Afterparty" and "Veep."
Included in the campaign is a 60-second hero spot which debuts Wednesday, June 15 across broadcast streaming platforms and social channels as well as three additional 30-second spots appearing later this month. Each video spot depicts how the company's innovations are solely attributed to pretend Chief Idea Officer, Richardson, who surprisingly appears in customers' living spaces and other settings pointing out every Midea product as "My-Idea" – a twist on the brand's pronunciation. In the videos, the proclaimed CIO tries to take credit for all of the smart innovations the brand has launched, such as the Midea U-shaped air conditioner unit designed to keep the noise low, the Midea Cube dehumidifier that allows for more time between having to empty and the Midea front-load dryer with Dynamic Vibration Control, much to the surprise of engineers and consumers alike, all while teaching viewers to say Midea as Mɑɪ'dɪɑ - similar in sound to "My Idea."
"As Midea's newly appointed fictitious Chief Idea Officer, I'm excited to bring these scenarios to life, where every product is inspired by 'My-Idea'," said Sam Richardson. "The spots are funny and clever while introducing the audience to this awesome brand and the right way to pronounce it. We shot these spots over three days and I must have said Midea about 10,000 times - making for an unforgettable experience if I do say so, as I collaborated with the brand on their first U.S. campaign."
Reaching more than one billion dollars in U.S. sales in 2021 alone, Midea with more than 50 years of experience in the business and a global presence as one of the world's largest manufacturers, produces and specializes in smartly designed home appliances including dehumidifiers, residential air conditioners, fans, refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, and more. Midea's one-of-a-kind, U-shaped Inverter window air conditioner – the Midea U - which stays in place when consumers open and close their window, co-stars in the spots as Richardson promotes its ability to create a quiet and perfectly chilly sleeping environment. Viewers will also laugh and learn as Midea dehumidifies a living room during a heated televised sporting event, all thanks to ideas that the brand manufactured into an appliance consumers can appreciate.
"This campaign is designed to introduce the Midea brand to US consumers and teach them how to confidently say our name," said Kurt Jovais, president of Midea America Corp. "Through Sam's charming comedic delivery, our campaign not only helps everyone to understand how to pronounce 'Midea,' but it also shares many reasons why consumers will want our innovative products at home. We hope as consumers find our products in stores, they will choose one of our appliances knowing the surprisingly friendly solutions they provide, while also keeping the campaign's lighthearted comedy in mind."
Midea developed their first campaign in partnership with their newly appointed agency of record, full-service advertising agency, Pereira O'Dell.
"With this campaign, we're poking fun at the trend where big companies hire celebrities as C-level creative executives, who then expect us to believe they were actually responsible for coming up with the ideas themselves." said Nick Sonderup, Executive Creative Director, Pereira O'Dell. "We all know they're just taking credit for the ideas, and not actually creating them. So, we created the Chief Idea Officer who does exactly that - takes credit for the ideas at Midea by saying they are 'My idea.' Ultimately, he's really just teaching the country how to say the brand name."
For more information on Midea and its full portfolio of appliances, please visit Midea.com/us.http://www.midea.com/
ABOUT MIDEA AMERICA
Midea America Corp. is a U.S. subsidiary within Midea Group,(SZ: 000333), a publicly listed, Fortune 500 company and the world's leading manufacturer of home appliances. With more than 150,000 employees and presence in over 195 countries, including in the United States, Midea's products touch the lives of millions of people and families through air treatment, refrigeration, laundry, small and large kitchen appliances, water appliances, floor care and lighting.
Midea America is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ and has a Research and Development Center in Kentucky, as well as an Emerging Technology Center in California. Midea understands that the home is a special place, and the moments people spend there are precious. The Midea brand's promise to all its U.S. customers is to provide surprisingly friendly solutions to treasure those tiny moments at home. Therefore, the company creates home appliance innovations, that not only perform a function but have a meaningful impact for those who use them. For more information, visit Midea at midea.com/us.
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A controversial oil project that would connect oilfields in a Ugandan National Park to a port in Tanzania breaches global environmental guidelines for banks, according to a new nonprofit report Tuesday.
The 897-mile (1443-kilometer) East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), planned by French oil giant TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation has been mired in allegations of human rights abuses and environmental hazard. The 230,000 barrels of oil produced daily will emit 34 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to Ugandan nonprofit the Africa Institute for Energy Governance. Construction will take three years, once a final decision has been taken.
At least 20 banks and eight insurers have ruled themselves out of the project, many coming under pressure from environmental groups. South Africa’s Standard Bank and the Japanese Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) are financial advisers and lead debt arrangers. The UK’s Standard Chartered bank is also considering financing it.
All three signed up to the benchmark Equator Principles, voluntary environmental and human rights guidelines for financing infrastructure projects. A report by the non-governmental organization Inclusive Development International, shared exclusively with The Associated Press, says the project repeatedly breaches these principles and banks would violate them too if they go ahead. Banks are forbidden from financing non-compliant projects. But the scheme is powerless to eject members that do.
Oil wells will be drilled within Murchison Falls National Park, western Uganda. Here the Nile plummets some 130 feet (40 meters) through a gap just 20 feet (6 meters) wide, the surrounding wilderness home to hippos, egrets, giraffes and antelope. The pipeline would then pass through seven forest reserves and two game parks, running alongside Lake Victoria, a source of fresh water for 40 million people.
“An oil spill could prove disastrous for the millions that rely on the lake’s watershed for drinking water and food production,” the environmental campaign group 350.org has warned.
The report says the risk of oil spills breaches an Equator Principle requiring minimal environmental impact. A review of the plans by the nonprofit E-Tech International, which advises communities affected by infrastructure projects, found best practice was not followed.
“EACOP oil spills will occur over the lifetime of the project,” the review concluded.
The pipeline’s environmental assessment doesn’t contain a robust oil spill plan, the report’s authors contend, a further breach of the Principles. The pipeline will also traverse an earthquake zone — the Great Rift Valley — the Inclusive Development International report warns.
TotalEnergies said the pipeline’s state of the art design will ensure safety for decades.
The oil has a high wax content, solidifying at temperatures below 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) which would stop oil from spreading as liquid, the company said. Emergency plans are being prepared, the company insisted. Summer temperatures can hit 104 Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in Uganda.
Human rights standards have also allegedly been broken, according to the report. At least four letters from UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights, sent to the Ugandan president and TotalEnergies’ CEO Patrick Pouyanné over two years, detail “various acts of harassment and intimidation” against protesting Ugandans. Numerous activists and a journalist have allegedly been intimidated, forced into hiding, arrested and interrogated.
The Equator Principles are “not being met with regard to the risks facing community members that express criticism,” the report finds.
TotalEnergies said it was unaware of threats emanating from its own staff. The company said it is “vocal about the need” for Ugandan security forces to respect human rights, and had written to the Ugandan president to share its concerns.
“TotalEnergies does not tolerate any threats or attacks against those who peacefully defend and promote human rights,” the statement read.
The Principles have also been violated by a lack of community engagement “free of manipulation, interference, or coercion, or intimidation”, according to the analysis.
More than 120,000 people will lose land to make way for the project, an evaluation by environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth found. There must be “free, prior and informed” consultation with people whose lives may be changed, according to the Principles.
But the report found these requirements were not “sufficiently met”.
The project has “systematically failed” to consult and disclose accessible information, it said.
TotalEnergies said only 13,300 people would be economically impacted across Uganda and Tanzania. Since 2017, meetings have reached over 200,000 affected individuals along the route, the oil major said.
Finally, the project violates standards on land acquisition and resettlement, the report finds. Compensation processes “exacerbated, rather than mitigated” negative impacts, impoverishing villagers who lost access to farmland and faced long delays awaiting compensation.
TotalEnergies said it had already begun paying compensation. The process abides by local laws and is in compliance with the Principles, the company insisted.
Equator Principles chair Amit Puri said each member was “individually responsible for its own internal procedures” to comply. He added that The Equator Principles do not have the authority to respond to concerns about breaching them.
Mr Puri is global head of environmental risk at Standard Chartered, one of the banks that the report says would allegedly be breaching the guidelines by financing the pipeline.
Standard Chartered itself and SMBC declined to comment. The China National Offshore Oil Corporation did not respond to numerous requests for a statement.
Standard Bank said its due diligence on funding the project was being assessed, but no final decision has been made. The decision’s subject to a full assessment of climate change strategies, the bank said, while “full compliance” with the Equator Principles was needed to fund the project.
Despite environmental and human rights concerns, the campaign to stop the pipeline is “unrealistic”, said Angelo Izama, of Ugandan think tank Fanaka Kwa Wote.
“Uganda is being thrust into this role as a poster child for climate damage, and it’s really unfair,” he said.
It amounted to a “dismissal of the national interests of Uganda”.
Ugandan oil officials declined to comment.
But President Yoweri Museveni has said oil wealth can lift millions out of poverty, while other government officials hope Uganda can become a middle-income country.
Efforts to stop the pipeline have left some dismayed at what they see as concerted efforts to sabotage the project.
“TotalEnergies and CNOOC … have the financial muscle and technical know-how to deliver a world-class project” wrote Elison Karuhanga, a prominent oil attorney, in Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.
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Additional reporting by Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda.
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From today, the new, reduced packaging will be gradually rolled out to Pao Chi Chung's complete range of prepared halal foods and sauces.
TAIPEI, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pao Chi Chung (Pao Chi Chung Enterprise Corporation Ltd.), a family-owned and operated natural, Halal Asian Food manufacturer, is today unveiling new packaging that's speaks to the time-honored heritage of the brand.
More cohesive, more user friendly
Pao Chi Chung wanted to create a more cohesive brand identity that connects the brand with its new line of family-friendly, Halal-certified foods sold under the brand name in the United States. In addition to creating a more uniform brand identity for its best-selling fermented broad bean chili sauce and non-GMO crispy soybean ball/powder.
Announcing the new packaging, Mr. Jia-Jeng John Ju, General Manager of Pao Chi Chung, said, "A key tenet of the company since its founding 30 years ago is to improve constantly. During the last two years, while people were cooking at home, we noticed changes in consumer preferences. In response, we reviewed our packaging to see how we could make it more user-friendly, informative, reduced in size and appropriate for family and home cooking. The new packaging reflects this, and we hope consumers love it as much as we do."
Established in 1963 by founders Mr. Ju Jing-Wen and Mrs. Ju Chan Shou Zen as a family business, the company has since grown into an international enterprise, shipping to over several countries and territories in the last 30 years. During that time, it has managed to keep production procedures and recipes as genuine as they were when originally created over 60 years ago. From the fermentation process of the broad beans in the hot chili sauce or soybean ball/powder, all stick to the traditional secret family recipe.
Quality, authentic and global
Pao Chi Chung worked to create something that felt modern and approachable yet has a deep meaning to the brand's roots and family heritage and is informative for consumers. It also had to be user-friendly, pleasant to hold, and look great on supermarket shelves. The new look bottle's available in 100g, or 260g varieties are also recyclable.
The revamped packaging provides updated certifications, branding, and texture to visually communicate the brand's origin and convey a look reflective of the product's quality. The newly adopted packaging will be gradually rolled out to Pao Chi Chung's entire range of products available in EMEA, North America, APAC, and the Middle East.
Updated labelling
The new labelling on the bottle of Pao Chi Chung sauces reflects the wide variety of hand-selected, lab-tested ingredients homegrown in Taiwan or sourced from Thailand, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, the U.S.A, and Canada. It also lists SGS FSSC 2200/HACCP, Anti-Additive Clean Label Organization Three Stars, A.A. Taste Award 2021, and Halal certification.
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About Pao Chi Chung
Pao Chi Chung was established in 1963 by Mr. Ju Jing-Wen and Mrs. Ju Chan Shou Zen as a family business specializing in non-additive sauces (bean paste, spicy sauce series, sesame paste), seasoning oils, spices (100% chili, pepper, pepper, etc.). Since its establishment, the brand firmly believes that to eat healthily is to eat naturally. Therefore, the company has been to only produce top quality and healthy sauces, seasoning oils, and spices to consume. In 2006, the business passed to the third generation of owners, who continued the brand's 60-year history of international expansion.
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SEOUL, South Korea – The U.S. and South Korea announced steps on Wednesday to strengthen their alliance and deter North Korea, as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol made a state visit to Washington.
A U.S. official, speaking on anonymity, said Washington will deploy a U.S. ballistic missile submarine to the western Pacific for the first time since the 1980s, to be followed by other U.S. military hardware.
The official added that the two nations will establish a consultative group to discuss deterring North Korea from using its nuclear weapons, a group like what the U.S. had with European allies during the Cold War.
South Korea has been requesting and the U.S. has been promising to give Seoul a bigger say in how to deter North Korea, including more joint planning, consultation and intelligence sharing.
And it has stepped up joint military drills with South Korea, and the deployment of U.S. aircraft carriers, strategic bombers and submarines. In bilateral talks last November, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pledged to make such deployments a routine occurrence.
Washington has made it clear it will not redeploy tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, as hawks in both countries have called for. President Yoon suggested in January that South Korea might have to acquire its own nuclear weapons, but the U.S. opposes the idea, and Yoon quickly backpedaled from his assertion.
North Korea this month tested a new solid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, the latest addition to its growing nuclear arsenal. It has also revamped its nuclear doctrine to include the possibility of preemptive strikes.
South Koreans have long been inured to the threat from the North, but a jittery South Korean public has prompted Seoul to ask the U.S. for tougher deterrence measures. The announcements appear to be aimed at calming those jitters, by repackaging previous commitments or adding new material to existing policies.
U.S officials have suggested that aiding Ukraine will also be on the summit's agenda, but Seoul has said the issue of sending weapons, as the U.S. has requested, is currently not on it. Pres. Yoon recently said changing South Korean policy to allow sending weapons to Ukraine is possible. But that would represent a major shift for Seoul, and Russia has warned South Korea that it could retaliate. The issue is sensitive because recently leaked U.S. intelligence documents purport to show that the US has been eavesdropping on South Korea's presidential office, and their discussions about whether or not to comply with US requests to arm Ukraine.
Economic cooperation will also be front and center during Yoon's visit. Yoon is being followed by a delegation of roughly 120 business executives, and the two countries' nations have already announced billions of dollars in deals.
But U.S. requests for South Korea to side with it in competition with China have proved contentious. The U.S. reportedly recently asked South Korean semiconductor manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix not to go after the market share of U.S. chipmaker Micron, if the company is sanctioned by China.
China is a key market for South Korean chipmakers. South Korean opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung warned that "the government must firmly respond to such unjust demands from the US. No alliance can precede our national interest and the life and livelihood of our people."
NPR's Se Eun Gong contributed to this report in Seoul.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
8-5-1-4
(eight, five, one, four)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
8-5-1-4
(eight, five, one, four)
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Monday is day one in office for Karen Bass, Los Angeles’ first woman mayor.
Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes hears what issues are top of mind and what challenges she may face in office from Austin Cross with member station KPCC in California
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the social media platform is capping the number of tweets users can view — saying the unusual measure was needed to fight off companies that scrape Twitter for data.
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the social media platform is capping the number of tweets users can view — saying the unusual measure was needed to fight off companies that scrape Twitter for data.
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DENVER, Colo. — Productivity in the workforce has slowed down to levels seen almost 100 years ago, and long term, this could have big consequences for the economy.
You probably felt that surge of productivity at your own job at the beginning of the pandemic. We all stopped commuting and had extra time—time that most of us ended up using to work. Now, the latest reports show that the extra effort is shrinking, and employees are doing less today than they did in 2020.
“If you're running a mile-long race and you sprint the first half, in the second half, most of us are going to have to slow down and catch our breath,” said Vanderbilt University Economics Professor Adam Blandin.
Blandin said right now, the American workforce is catching its breath. The productivity we saw at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a one-time burst that couldn’t be sustained.
“I personally feel like the last few years have been exhausting, and I know a lot of my friends and colleagues feel the same way,” said Blandin. That feeling is reflected in our economy.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics creates a productivity score for the country based on how many products companies make—and the hours employees work.
Levels have fluctuated back and forth since COVID began, but the decline we’ve seen this year is the sharpest plunge in 48 years.
Blandin said if we don’t keep productivity rising, the consequences could hit us all.
“Our incomes would stop going up. We would lose influence in the world. Politics would probably become more divisive as people are arguing over a stagnant pie. So if that were to continue, that would be a very serious problem,” he said.
Why is this happening? Blandin sees three big trends. The first is the Great Resignation.
“We've seen historically high levels of reshuffling as workers change jobs. It can take a while for the right firm to find the right worker and for them to make a productive match, so that could be part of the story,” said Blandin.
Two, a tight labor market gives workers more power and would, “possibly make it easier for some workers to maybe not push quite as hard as they could because they know that they won't be fired,” Blandin said.
Third, Blandin said he thinks many workers are just burned out. The question then becomes, how do we get more productive?
We spoke with burnout coach Dr. Kate Steiner, who said we can be more productive if we give ourselves time to recover.
She finds that the first step in recovery is scheduling time throughout the day for yourself.
“When I say schedule time for yourself, I don't mean like the full day on Sunday or even a few hours at the end of the night. I mean like 2 to 5 minutes, at least 3 to 5 times throughout your day,” she said.
Take that time for positive affirmations—listening to music, playing with your kids or pets—find something small that brings you a little joy. Over time, this will improve your focus and energy for work.
“They're more clear-headed,” said Steiner of employees who take time to recover. “So, they're better problem solvers, less mistakes are made, and that's, you know, really important to the bottom line.”
Steiner believes the more companies that support recovery, the more productive employees and the economy can be.
“It can have a pretty big impact on how we show up in the world. People want to work, but they want to be valued for what they're doing,” said Steiner.
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Tom Homan says Texas border sheriffs, judges right to ask for declaration of invasion: 'They've had it'
Sheriffs, judges push Texas Governor Abbott to declare border invasion
Former acting ICE director Tom Homan is pushing for Texas to declare an invasion as the border crisis escalates as a result of Biden's open border policies.
Homan joined "Fox & Friends" Tuesday to reveal exclusively that local judges and sheriffs will ask Texas Governor Greg Abbott for an invasion declaration in order to step up measures to secure the southern border.
"There's a press conference out of Texas this afternoon with several sheriffs and several judges. And I've been pushing the idea, along with several others, that we need to look at the invasion clause of the Constitution," said Homan, adding that state and local officials want to be able to make arrests of people crossing illegally.
TEXAS SHERIFF TAKES MIGRANT CRISIS INTO OWN HANDS, DRIVES DETAINEES BACK TO BORDER
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich classified the crisis as an invasion back in February, a move he said would give the state the power to take additional measures to defend itself.
"The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the Governor’s authority as Commander-in-Chief," Brnovich wrote. "An actual invasion permits the State to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border."
They have pointed to language in Article I of the Constitution, which allows for States to "engage in War" when it has been "actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay" without the approval of Congress. They also note Article IV says the U.S. "shall protest each [state] against invasion."
Homan said border sheriffs are "fed up" with the rise in crime, and deaths all associated with the border crisis and want to enforce border security if the federal government will not.
Homan said declaring the border crisis as an "invasion" is "the next step for Texas," to secure the border.
"I think that for the good of the counties in Texas, for the good of the safety of Texans, this is the next step. I think the sheriffs are making a good plea and I support them on it."
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Homan called out Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for pointing to climate change and COVID for the surge in migrants and claiming the border is under control.
"He's an embarrassment to the position he holds," Homan told host Brian Kilmeade, accusing Mayorkas of lying and having "no integrity."
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OROVILLE — With standing room only, and barely that, members of the public packed the Butte County Board of Supervisors chambers Tuesday as the governing body held the annual public hearing for this year’s budget.
“Last year at this time, we had nearly reached a crisis point with our staffing,” Butte County Chief Administrative Officer Andy Pickett said. “Our salaries had taken a back seat to disasters, disaster work and the pandemic work. That exacerbated a number of other local and societal issues that resulted in our workforce being decimated. We were very, very close to not being able to provide critical services at this time last year. So we took a substantial effort to bring our salaries up to market rate, which was expensive but necessary.”
The hearing was led via a presentation by Pickett and his deputy officer, Matt Michaelis.
Pickett said the county’s workforce is nearing stabilization, however, he added that doing so created a structural imbalance.
“To balance the budget, we have to reduce costs and/or increase revenues on an ongoing basis,” Pickett said. “Now for the purposes of this budget, we have matched one-time revenue to one-time costs. We have included every ongoing revenue we know of, we have included grants and we have included all the funding we know of that is available and still there is not enough funding there to balance the budget. While I take great pride that we are recommending a balanced budget, I get no joy from one that decreases services.”
In his part of the presentation, Pickett spoke on the unclear futures of the local, state and national economies but said the budget was planned with no extremes, either good or bad, in mind.
The two elephants in the room were the proposed cut in library hours and the closing of three Amador Program fire stations for the winter months. The vast majority of people who showed up and spoke during the public comment period were there for one of those two reasons and that’s not counting the 445 comments submitted by mail or email.
In Concow, Jarbo Gap and Sterling City, residents feared that first responders would not arrive on time should there be an emergency. Some said their insurance companies threatened to cut their coverage without a nearby fire station year-round. Library patrons spoke on the importance of libraries outside of just checking out books but rather their use as community resources, cooling stations and social spaces.
Ultimately, toward the end of the meeting, the board unanimously opted to dip into the $9 million contingency fund to allow the fire stations to remain open for another year and for libraries to keep their current hours.
Budget breakdown
With the budget adjustments in place, the county is working with $834 million for the 2023/2024 fiscal year, a 6.9% increase from last year’s budget. Of this sum, the general fund is looking at $237 million. Overall, the county saw a net increase of 3.5 additional staff positions. The following includes some of the larger budgets for county operation.
The presentation opened with the Butte County Board of Supervisors budget, totaling just under $2.852 million. The staff includes 10 people including the five supervisors themselves and each of their assistants. The budget covers salaries and benefits.
For the Agriculture Department, led by Agricultural Commissioner Louie Mendoza, is expected to have a budget of roughly $3.166 million with 19 total positions.This will include the replacement of a heavy-capacity weight truck to certify commercial scales.
The budget for the Assessor’s Office, which will have 35 positions, came out to just under $4.53 million and will include money to go toward new software while the Auditor-Controller’s Office is looking at about $2.019 million with 19 positions.
Having one of the higher budgets at about $97.5 million, the Behavioral Health Department is adding 16 new positions while eliminating seven positions that had sunset clauses. Additionally, five positions are being converted. This year, the department is implementing new state requirements for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder services.
Child Support Services is looking at a $9.512 million budget with 88 positions including two new child support specialists and one administrative position.
Pickett’s office, County Administration, will have a roughly $10.1 million budget which deletes one vacant position putting the total positions at 26. This year, the office will continue recovery efforts related to the Camp Fire and North Complex fires. The office will also be continuing the switch to new software like Workday and Adaptive.
The Clerk-Recorder’s Office budget is just north of $5.325 million which eliminates two part-time positions. The funding will also prepare the office for the presidential primary election as well as the Tuscan Water District election in the coming year.
County Counsel’s budget was set at $844,750 with no major changes from last year.
Development Services is eyeing around $8.5 million with 41 staff positions. Five vacant term positions will be ending while another position’s term will be extended by half a year. This budget will reduce funding for contract services while maintaining fire recovery, planning for housing and code enforcement.
It’s been clear over the past year that District Attorney Mike Ramsey’s office has been struggling to maintain staff for trying cases as the pay hasn’t been as competitive as other counties in California. This year, the DA’s Office, with 88 total positions, will have a budget of around $16.57 million which removes a vacant investigative assistant position. Pickett noted that the staff shortage has caused significant workload increases on top of additional work from changes in legislation.
The Department of Employment and Social Services will have a budget of about $183.27 million with the total positions coming out to 657.
“A major focus on this department this year will be to review Medi-Cal client eligibility now that the pandemic eligibility review suspension is over,” Pickett said.
Butte County Fire, which is contracted through Cal Fire, initially was budgeted at $24.074 million, but with the three Amador fire stations getting contingency funding, an additional $600,000 will be added for winter operations.
General Services is looking at short of $7.6 million with 54 positions. This year there will be a larger number of projects including the expansion at the Butte County Jail.
Information Systems is getting $7.417 million and Human Resources will have $2.57 million.
The Butte County Probation Department will have a $31.013 million budget with 153 positions. A vacant assistant chief position will be cut with a program manager added. The budget was set with the knowledge that the state is transferring juvenile justice responsibilities back to the counties this year.
Butte County Public Health is looking at 10 new positions, totaling 209, and a budget of $37.638 million.
Public Works will receive $67.94 million with 114 positions. Considerations for the department’s budget included road repairs related to major disasters as well as rehabilitation projects.
The Sheriff’s Office is looking at a little over $70.34 million with 287 positions.
“The sheriff’s budget has taken a lot of hits in recent years,” Pickett said. “And we’re glad that the sheriff is a great partner and continues to look for and create efficiencies to live within limited resources while maintaining critical services and the ability to respond to large-scale emergencies.”
Water and Resource Conservation will receive around $3.968 million with four positions.
Capital Projects include a lengthy list of major projects this year like the jail expansion, a new fire station and more. In total, the county is looking at shy of $83.2 million in projects for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Missing man’s body recovered and identified after boat capsizes in Lake Pontchartrain near Mandeville
Five other boat occupants were rescued after capsizing
MANDEVILLE, La. (WVUE) - A man that was missing after a boat capsized near Mandeville in Lake Pontchartrain on Memorial Day (Mon., May 30) afternoon has been recovered and identified.
The owner of the 31-foot cigarette boat, Darrell Williams, of Ponchatoula, said that the body of Kevin Childs, 32, has been recovered after authorities tirelessly searched throughout the evening.
Williams said that Childs was visiting the area from California and had never been on a boat before.
Williams said he has no idea what happened, noting that he took the boat out a few weeks ago and it was fine. Today, around 3:30 p.m., he and 5 other friends were out, for not even 15 minutes, going to get some dinner when the back end started to take on water.
Williams said that he got everyone situated with a life jacket except for himself and he held onto the hull of the boat that was still sticking up.
Everyone was floating in the water but Childs did not have the life jacket fastened properly and was struggling and panicking in the rough waters. He slipped out of the jacket and slipped under.
The men had to wait 45 minutes to be rescued. A Good Samaritan noticed Williams waving his T-shirt and took their boat out to rescue them.
Williams said Childs just had a baby two weeks ago and that everyone involved today is just devastated.
Around 3:30 p.m., St. Tammany Marine Division responders were dispatched to the scene, just west of the cabins at Fontainebleau State Park.
Deputies with the Marine Division assisted Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries in the search.
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No-code leader launches app store ecosystem to help enterprises and creators scale business
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webflow, the leading visual development platform for building powerful no-code websites, today at its annual event Webflow Conf announced that users have created more than 7.5 million sites on Webflow, a 60% increase over 2021. To meet the ever-complex needs of a rapidly growing user base, Webflow is launching the Webflow Marketplace, a one-stop shop for all the Webflow products and services users need to launch and maintain powerful websites. Marketplace will help businesses of all sizes scale powerful websites faster and allow creators to build their business and drive revenue on Webflow.
Webflow is leading the way for visual development as it becomes a critical component of any company's web journey. Webflow's enterprise customer base continues to grow rapidly, with new customers including Greenhouse, Away and VICE Media Group. Additionally, ecommerce activity on Webflow more than doubled even as the broader ecommerce sector slowed, helping more companies and individuals expand their business on Webflow.
"Webflow has had an incredible year — from our Series C funding round, to building out an incredible team, to today's Marketplace release which dramatically expands the Webflow ecosystem," said Vlad Magdalin, co-founder and CEO of Webflow. "Even with an uncertain economy ahead, our mission to bring the incredible power of web development into the hands of vastly more people becomes as important as ever. We remain laser-focused on building more powerful tools and marketplace capabilities for our vibrant community and all the organizations that rely on Webflow to run their mission-critical websites."
The Webflow Marketplace is designed to be a valuable hub for no-code development, bringing the superpowers of the Webflow community directly into the platform to help users easily find apps, libraries, templates, inspiration, and freelancers and agencies to support any Webflow project at scale. In turn, Marketplace creates an ecosystem for developers, creators and service providers in the Webflow community to promote, market and distribute their work, helping the community drive more leads, installs and purchases for their products and services.
Hundreds of thousands of agencies and freelancers have emerged in recent years to help companies build on Webflow. Thanks to their work, hundreds of assets, including app developers, library creators, template creators, experts and users, will be featured in the Webflow Marketplace at launch. Many in the community already generate substantial revenue by selling templates on Webflow. On average, top template creators earn over $3,000 per month, with some creators averaging closer to $9,000 per month. One template creator has surpassed $1 million in the last 12 months.
"My Webflow agency has grown in amazing ways over the past year, building high-performing websites for some of the world's most prominent brands and enterprises—and even earning me a Netflix credit," said Matt Varughese, CEO of visual development firm 8020 in British Columbia. "Now that I can reach new customers on Webflow's Marketplace, we can grow faster while helping customers build even better websites. The Webflow Marketplace is a win-win for Webflow and its community, and I'm excited to see more creators join the ecosystem in months to come."
"Webflow empowers our in-house design teams to use more interactive storytelling to spotlight on-the-ground reporting you won't find anywhere else," said Sander van Gestel, global director of product strategy at VICE Media Group. "In our fast-paced industry, Webflow allows us to move quickly and create powerful sites that will be integral to our digital presence moving forward."
To learn about additional products and features Webflow announced at Webflow Conf, see here: https://webflow.com/
About Webflow
Webflow is the leading visual development platform for building powerful websites without writing code. By combining modern web development technologies into one platform, Webflow enables people to build websites visually, saving engineering time, while clean code seamlessly generates in the background. From independent designers and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, millions worldwide use Webflow to be more nimble, creative, and collaborative. Webflow powers websites for innovative companies like Zendesk, Lattice, Getaround, Upwork, Allianz, and Dell. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Webflow is backed by Accel, CapitalG, Silversmith Capital Partners, Y Combinator, Rainfall, and Draper Associates. Learn more at webflow.com or contact press@webflow.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. resolved his New York City forcible touching case Thursday with a guilty plea to a lesser charge and no jail time after complying with the terms of a conditional plea agreement reached in April.
Prosecutor Coleen Balbert said Gooding has stayed out of trouble and completed six months of alcohol and behavior modification counseling, allowing him to withdraw his misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to a harassment violation.
Balbert said she has received “positive reports for the last six months” from Gooding’s therapist. The actor is continuing with treatment beyond the time required by his plea agreement, Balbert said.
Gooding, 54, faces no additional penalties and, by replacing his misdemeanor plea with a plea to a noncriminal violation, he will not have a criminal record. If Gooding had failed to comply with the terms of the deal, he would have faced up to one year in jail.
Gooding pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor charge that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018. That was just one of dozens of allegations of inappropriate behavior by the Oscar winner that came to light in recent years.
Some of Gooding’s accusers criticized what they regarded as light punishment for the “Jerry Maguire” star and some are pressing ahead with civil litigation against him.
Gooding “saw minimal repercussions” while his victims dealt with the aftermath of his actions, the nightclub worker said in a victim impact statement that Balbert read into the court record.
Arrested in 2019, Gooding was among a profusion of Hollywood heavyweights accused of wrongdoing in the #MeToo movement.
As Gooding was in court Thursday wrapping up his case, another Oscar-winning actor, Kevin Spacey, was on trial down the block in a civil lawsuit alleging that he sexually assaulted actor Anthony Rapp.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, former studio boss Harvey Weinstein and “That 70’s Show” star Danny Masterson are in the midst of separate rape trials. Weinstein was convicted of similar charges in New York in 2020 and is serving a 23-year prison sentence.
Gooding’s case has taken more than three years to play out, prolonged by court delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police he fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square. That incident wasn’t the one in his guilty plea.
A few months later, prosecutors charged Gooding with pinching a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and the allegation to which he pleaded guilty — forcibly kissing a waitress at LAVO New York in midtown Manhattan.
Both incidents were alleged to have occurred in 2018.
Gooding admitted at a plea hearing in April that he “kissed the waitress on her lips” without consent and, in explaining his actions during Thursday’s harassment plea, told Judge Curtis Farber: “I kissed a waitress, your honor.”
The waitress, in her victim impact statement, said that Gooding forced his tongue into her mouth unexpectedly while she was serving drinks. She said she was aware of incidents involving Gooding and three other women at the club.
Gooding had previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor counts and denied all allegations of wrongdoing. His lawyers argued that overzealous prosecutors, caught up in the fervor of #MeToo, were trying to turn “commonplace gestures” or misunderstandings into crimes.
Judge Curtis Farber earlier had ruled if the Gooding case went to trial, prosecutors could have called two additional women to testify about their allegations that Gooding also violated them. Prosecutors say the judge later reversed that decision — leading them to seek a plea deal.
Along with the criminal case, Gooding is accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in New York City in 2013. After a judge issued a default judgment in July because Gooding hadn’t responded to the lawsuit, the actor retained a lawyer and is fighting the allegations. | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/No-jail-time-for-Cuba-Gooding-Jr-in-forcible-17506665.php | 2022-10-13 15:59:55 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/No-jail-time-for-Cuba-Gooding-Jr-in-forcible-17506665.php |
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Parker Migliorini International (PMI Foods) announced the planting of 10,000 trees in the Amazon in partnership with One Tree Planted, an environmental non-profit tree planting charity. The announcement is part of PMI Foods longer-term plan to plant 1,000,000 trees.
"Partnering with One Tree Planted is a great fit for PMI Foods as we work together to help combat climate change," said Darin Parker, President of PMI Foods. "Sustainable growth is critically important to the future of PMI Foods. Our work with One Tree Planted is a great step forward that will allow us give back and help the environment."
Reforestation is one of the best ways to combat the damaging effects of climate change, particularly in the Amazon Rainforest. Unsustainable farming practices and expansion of ranching endanger the Amazon Rainforest's delicate ecosystems, which provide habitat to over 80 percent of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. As a planting partner, PMI Foods is proud to assist One Tree Planted with reforestation efforts in the Amazon that seek to provide tremendous social impacts and support communities impacted by environmental change.
"We all have a role to play in protecting the environment and combating climate change, and we admire PMI Food's dedication to being a force for good" says Matt Hill, Founder & Chief Environmental Optimist at One Tree Planted. "With PMI Food's generous support, we're restoring forests, creating habitat for biodiversity, and making a positive social impact in the Amazon Rainforest."
PMI is committed to creating solutions in the global food market that protect our environment, while generating value for both customers and suppliers. The partnership with One Tree Planted will allow PMI to create more sustainable long-term value, help rebuild rainforests and make a positive social impact around the globe.
PMI Foods is a global enterprise that supplies an extensive range of products to all major international markets with corporate offices strategically located in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Oceania. PMI Foods operates on several platforms representing two brands: PMI Global Solutions; managing product procurement, sales and logistics, and PMI Distribution; supplying the needs of local wholesale markets and PMI Food Service, that provides a constant supply source while focusing on personalized services and customer specific adaptation of products and packaging. To learn more visit: https://www.pmifoods.com/
One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Their projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and knowledgeable experts to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. Reforestation helps to rebuild forests after fires and floods, provide jobs for social impact, and restore biodiversity. Many projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of benefits that contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. To learn more, visit onetreeplanted.org
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ATLANTA, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eagle Merchant Partners ("Eagle"), a private equity firm investing in lower middle-market franchise, consumer and industrial companies, today announced the closing of its inaugural fund, Eagle Merchant Partners I, L.P.
The fund closed with over $265 million, well in excess of its initial target. Investors include U.S. and international institutions, endowments, foundations, wealth managers and family offices. Led by Stockton Croft and Bill Lundstrom, Eagle leadership has invested more than $1 billion of equity and is committed to growing founder-owned businesses in the Southeast with $2 million to $20 million of EBITDA.
"We are grateful for the support from our previous investors and the positive response we received from our diverse group of new investors. We appreciate their confidence in our focused investment strategy and experience across our core sectors," said Stockton Croft, Partner and Founder of Eagle.
"The Eagle team is excited about the six platform investments we have already made in Fund I, all of which are representative of our strategy," said Bill Lundstrom, Partner and Founder of Eagle. "As we deploy the rest of the fund, we look forward to partnering with additional founders, owners and management teams to help them create value and achieve sustainable growth."
Having invested in the Southeast for over 20 years, Eagle maintains deep networks in the region, providing strong access to business founders and key intermediaries in the region. The firm applies its Eagle operating playbook to build A+ management teams, invest in portfolio company infrastructure and accelerate growth through acquisitions, new unit development and organic initiatives.
Aviditi Advisors served as exclusive placement agent for the fund and Kirkland & Ellis LLP provided legal counsel to Eagle.
About Eagle Merchant Partners
Eagle is focused on partnering with founder-owned businesses based in the Southeast with unique growth opportunities and targets investments in leading franchise, consumer, and industrial businesses. The partnership is one of the region's most experienced private equity investors. Eagle serves as a strategic partner and is committed to long-term value creation for its companies at critical transition points. For more information, visit www.eaglemerchantpartners.com
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CANNES, France (AP) — Tom Cruise mania descended Wednesday in Cannes where the actor made a whirlwind appearance at the film festival, walking the red carpet, receiving a surprise Palme d’Or and watching a squadron of French fighter jets fly over the European premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Cannes pulled out all the stops to fete the 59-year-old star, paying tribute to Cruise with not just a rare interview on stage and a red-carpet premiere featuring a flyby of jets trailing colored smoke, but with the unexpected presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or. Festival president Pierre Lescure announced the award — about 15 honorary Palmes have been given before — on stage just before the screening was to begin. Cruise clutched Cannes’ top prize while the audience gave the actor a standing ovation.
Cruise brought a palpable buzz to the Croisette, where throngs gathered around the Palais des Festivals shouting “Tom!” to try to get a glimpse of the 59-year-old star. “Great Balls of Fire” blared on the carpet.
Cruise hadn’t been to the festival in three decades. But with plenty of media disruption challenging the theatrical experience, Cannes and Cruise exuded the vibe of long-last pals. “He is devoted to cinema,” declared artistic director Thierry Fremaux. Cruise’s enthusiastic welcome smacked in some ways of an action hero’s reception, here to save the day.
“I make movies for the big screen,” Cruise said to applause in an interview on stage at Cannes’ Debussy Theatre.
The European premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick,” directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, brought out what’s likely to be among the most star-studded red carpets of the Cannes Film Festival, which opened Tuesday and runs through May 28. Among those in attendance were Viola Davis, Dakota Fanning, Omar Sy and Eva Longoria — along with “Top Gun: Maverick” stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and Glen Powell.
While Cruise arrived by helicopter at the film’s San Diego premiere aboard an aircraft carrier, he came to the Cannes premiere more traditionally, with the film’s cast and filmmakers in a cavalcade of cars. Cruise paused for several minutes to sign autographs and take pictures with fans lined up across the street from the red carpet.
Before that, the festival honored Cruise with a tribute that consisted of a career-spanning video montage, after which Cruise spoke about his dedication to filmmaking in an interview that stayed away from any personal questions. Instead, he responded to prodding from interviewer Didier Allouch about why, Monsieur Cruise, do you take such risks doing your own stunts?
“No one asked Gene Kelly ‘Why do you dance?’” answered Cruise.
The Cannes stopover for “Top Gun: Maverick” is part of a worldwide tour for the film ahead of its May 27th launch in theaters. It has already touched down at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and premiered in San Diego. Paramount Pictures delayed its release two years during the pandemic, a move that appears to be paying off with glowing reviews and box-office expectations that “Top Gun: Maverick” will easily mark Cruise’s biggest opening weekend ever.
Asked if he was ever tempted to steer the film to a streaming service, Cruise replied emphatically.
“No, that’s not going to happen ever,” responded Cruise to loud applause. “That was never going to happen.”
Cruise spent the majority of the conversation explaining his extreme dedication to the craft of moviemaking, how from an early age he dug into every element of film productions and analyzed how particular modes of acting worked best on the big screen. Shooting the 1981 film “Taps,” with George C. Scott, he returned to it again and again as a formative experience.
“Please,” Cruise said he thought at the time, “if I could just do this for the rest of my life, I will never take it for granted.”
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ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s government on Wednesday staved off the immediate prospect of an early election after a key ally indicated he would remain in the coalition for now.
Draghi met with former Premier Giuseppe Conte, now the leader of the populist 5-Star Movement, for more than an hour.
Draghi, whose coalition partners range from the left to the right of the political spectrum in addition to the populists, has said publicly that his government couldn’t continue without the support of the 5-Stars.
Conte is caught between the loyalty to the coalition and pressures from the increasingly restless base of his party.
“We spoke with Draghi, we delivered a document in the name of the 5-Stars, we have tallied up a strong political discomfort” over government policy, Conte told reporters.
Conte said that Draghi will “take time to review our requests.” Those include more generous financial relief for families and businesses slammed by high energy costs and guarantees of continued funding of a guaranteed monthly salary to those unable to find work — a pledge which helped the 5-Stars sweep parliamentary seats in the underdeveloped south in 2018.
Draghi issued no immediate assessment of their talks.
“I wasn’t expecting an immediate response — that wouldn’t even be serious,” Conte said.
But Italian media indicated more meetings between the two men will be held — a further indication that for now, Conte hasn’t decided to bolt.
“We’re willing to share a responsibility of governing as we have done up to now, I stress, in a loyal and construction manner, but what’s needed is a strong signal of a break” with policies so far, Conte said.
Irritating some fellow leaders of the 5-Stars has been Draghi’s decision to send more military aid to Ukraine to defend itself from the Russian invasion. Ultimately, populist lawmakers did vote for its passage.
Conte is a mediation lawyer who got drafted by the 5-Stars as their choice for the premiership after the Movement triumphed in the last parliamentary elections in 2018, becoming the legislature’s largest single political force.
But the party’s fortunes have been unraveling since then — among lawmakers, among the public in opinion polls and among voters, who have trounced them in regional and mayoral elections in the last few years.
Dozens of Movement lawmakers have left their party to join other forces in Parliament, be independents or in the recent case of Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, the highest-ranking 5-Star in Draghi’s Cabinet, defect to form their own political entity.
Di Maio contended that the 5-Stars have been less than stalwart backers of Italy’s pro-NATO stance.
Conte led two governments before concerns arose that he wouldn’t be authoritative enough to guide Italy through the rest of the pandemic and crucially through its economic recovery.
Draghi, a former European Central Bank chief, then was tapped by Italy’s president to forge a unity coalition out of the country’s chronically squabbling parties. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/italian-govt-staves-off-immediate-prospect-of-early-election/ | 2022-07-07 04:11:00 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/italian-govt-staves-off-immediate-prospect-of-early-election/ |
Congratulations to WIPP on milestones
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has had a big week. The underground repository for defense-generated transuranic waste recently announced that the new air shaft has reached its planned depth. Miners are now in the process of connecting it to the rest of the underground. The purpose of this new shaft is to increase airflow into the WIPP underground. This is important to the safety of the workforce, and it also allows multiple tasks to be performed underground at once. This project has been in development for many years, but efforts were delayed due to COVID and other setbacks.
Additionally, Jeff Avery, who is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Energy, visited New Mexico this weekend. He participated in a WIPP town hall on Tuesday in Albuquerque, and we had a chance to meet with him on Wednesday.
Before joining EM (the Department of Energy group in charge of WIPP), Avery spent more than 26 years working at Naval Reactors. Most recently, he worked as the Director of Regulatory and Security Affairs, which provided oversight at Idaho National Laboratory. Providing the communities near WIPP with a direct line of communication to the Department of Energy is one of the reasons that WIPP has been so successful for such a long time.
During the Wednesday town hall, Avery, Carlsbad Field Office Manager Mark Bollinger, and SIMCO President and General Manager Ken Harrawood did an excellent job fielding questions. We especially appreciated comments made by Bollinger about the strong partnership between WIPP and the Department of Energy. WIPP officials also stressed that WIPP’s eventual closure is tied into a specific amount of volume, not a specific date. They also addressed questions about transportation safety, touting the incredible record of the men and women who drive the trucks containing TRU waste.
Opponents of WIPP have pushed back against the project since well before it opened. The best solution to this pushback is to continue to professionally provide accurate information about the project. It’s an ongoing effort.
Carlsbad is very fortunate to be the host community for WIPP, but the project has provided benefit to the entire state, through cleanup at Los Alamos and Sandia, and through highways that were created specifically for WIPP. We are diligently working to restore additional road funding for the state.
We are very fortunate to have individuals such as Bollinger and Harrawood in Carlsbad who do such a good job explaining WIPP. | https://www.currentargus.com/story/opinion/2023/07/16/congratulations-to-wipp-on-milestones/70410704007/ | 2023-07-16 14:28:12 | 1 | https://www.currentargus.com/story/opinion/2023/07/16/congratulations-to-wipp-on-milestones/70410704007/ |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A student who said he got goosebumps the first time he played the violin in an orchestra is this year’s recipient of a college scholarship given in honor of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in January 2002 while investigating a story on terrorism.
Geivens Dextra, who is scheduled to graduate from Pittsfield High School on Sunday, will use the $2,000 Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship to study music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The scholarship has been awarded annually since 2003 to a high school student from the Berkshire Hills region of western Massachusetts who plans to major in journalism or music, Pearl’s passions. Pearl’s journalism career began in the region.
“It’s really an honor to receive this scholarship for music, a subject that meant so much to Daniel Pearl,” Dextra said Wednesday.
Dextra’s first formal introduction to music came in the second grade when his mother put him in the after-school music program, Kids 4 Harmony, he wrote in his scholarship essay.
Inspired by a cousin already in the program, he took up the violin and eventually got to play with Bard College’s Longy’s Sistema Side-By-Side Symphony Orchestra.
“I can vividly remember getting goosebumps when playing alongside the brass and winds for the first time, and instantly falling in love with orchestral music,” he wrote.
In high school, he performed in the school orchestra and the musical theater pit orchestra. He volunteered as a mentor and worked as a teaching assistant for Kids 4 Harmony, and played in several orchestras and summer programs, including the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
He also composed a piece of music for “Hear Me,” a documentary about gun violence and drug abuse in Berkshire County.
“Doing this project has opened my eyes to how music can be used to spread awareness in my community and in the spirit of Daniel Pearl, I am eager to take on more opportunities that can make a change in society through music,” he wrote.
Pearl, south Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in January 2002 while investigating links between Pakistani militant groups and Richard C. Reid, known as the “shoe bomber.” Reid had attempted to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoes, a flight that was diverted to Boston.
Pearl began his journalism career at the North Adams Transcript and The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield.
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister on Thursday denied that he had bribed or given preferential treatment to a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official who has been indicted in the United States.
Edi Rama, leader of the ruling Socialists, told Parliament that the opposition wanted “to politically exploit a legal process in the USA that has no links at all to Albania, the government or me personally.“
The opposition asked for the parliamentary debate with Rama claiming he was involved with Charles McGonigal, a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official. McGonigal is accused in the U.S. of hiding from the FBI key details of a 2017 trip he took to Albania with a former Albanian intelligence official who is alleged to have given him at least $225,000.
McGonigal met with Rama several times and urged caution in awarding oil field drilling licenses in the country to Russian front companies. Rama had acknowledged the meetings but denied allegations of giving him money or preferential treatment.
“Among the lines of the indictment there is no charge or any other information beside accurate reporting of my meetings“ Rama said in a 45-minute speech, after which he left the parliament building.
McGonigal is also accused of working for a Russian oligarch at a time when he was supposed to be investigating them.
Albania’s opposition center-right Democratic Party of former president and prime minister Sali Berisha, and the left-wing Freedom Party of former president Ilir Meta have been demanding the government’s resignation since last month, alleging corruption, links to organized crime and poor economic policies.
The opposition has planned another national rally in front of the government building on Friday. On the same day, an appeals court will decide who should lead the main opposition Democrats — Berisha or his predecessor Lulzim Basha.
The party has been plagued by infighting after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2021 barred Berisha and his close relatives from entering the U.S. for “corrupt acts that undermined democracy” during his 2005-2013 tenure as prime minister. Britain did the same last year. ___ Follow Llazar Semini on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsemini | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-albanian-leader-denies-corruption-over-indicted-fbi-agent/ | 2023-03-03 11:57:43 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-albanian-leader-denies-corruption-over-indicted-fbi-agent/ |
Much like the song from her latest album, Beyoncé is heated over the Internal Revenue Service which claims she owes them $2.7 million in unpaid taxes.
According to reports, the singer filed a petition on April 17th protesting a decision by the I.R.S. to serve her with a tax bill demanding that she pay $2.7 million dollars in conjunction with a Notice of Deficiency back in January 2018 over the matter. The documents of Beyoncé’s motion include her stating that the I.R.S. committed multiple errors in reviewing her taxes from 2018 and from 2019. The full detail from the agency’s billing claims that the singer owes $805,850 in taxes and $161,170 in penalties for 2018. For 2019, the estimation was $1,442,747 in taxes plus $288,549.40. The interest added to those figures totals $2.7 million.
“We are working with the IRS and anticipate that the matter will be resolved shortly,” said Michael C. Cohen, an attorney representing Beyonce’s legal team. The singer notes in the petition that if there were discrepancies that occurred, she should not pay the penalties because she “acted in good faith”. The petition also alleges that the I.R.S. disallowed multiple deductions related to her business income, including utilities, insurance, management fees, legal services, and professional services for both years. An example presented by the lawyers in the petition state that the I.R.S. disallowed a charity contribution of $868,766 the singer claimed as an itemized deduction. The charity itself was unnamed.
Beyoncé has donated to numerous causes in the past and present. She created the BeyGood Foundation in 2013 to assist communities with mental health, education, and disaster relief among other issues. She and her husband, Jay-Z, have also jointly made charitable contributions. The most publicized in recent times was tied to their appearance in a new campaign for Tiffany in 2021, where a pledge of $2 million was made to Historically Black Colleges & Universities.
The news comes as the 41-year-old is on the verge of embarking on a highly anticipated world tour for her latest album, Renaissance. The tour is already projected to earn $275 million, which will add to her considerable net worth of $500 million.
Beyoncé also counts her Ivy Park streetwear brand in her portfolio, which she fully acquired in 2018 through her Parkwood Entertainment company.
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DENVER — Thanksgiving may be a month away but we can all be thankful for 40 new Hallmark Christmas movies coming this holiday season.
"Hallmark Channel" and "Hallmark Movies & Mysteries" have revealed a schedule of brand-new Christmas movies for 2022.
Hallmark Channel will debut 31 new "Countdown to Christmas" originals and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will debut nine new movies in their "Miracles of Christmas" lineup.
Hallmark legends Lacey Chabert, Alison Sweeney, Jodie Sweetin, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Holly Robinson Peete and Luke Macfarlane all have Christmas films this season.
New movies air every Friday, Saturday and Sunday on Hallmark, while Hallmark Movies & Mysteries debuts new flicks on Saturday nights.
Hallmark and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries begin their around-the-clock Christmas schedule on Friday, Oct. 21.
Here are some of the 40 new Christmas movies you'll be watching this season:
Countdown to Christmas
Hallmark Channel
Noel Next Door
- Natalie Hall, Corey Sevier
- Friday, Oct. 21
We Wish You a Married Christmas
- Marisol Nichols, Kristoffer Polaha
- Saturday, Oct. 22
A Kismet Christmas
- Sarah Ramos, Carlos Marks, Marilu Henner
- Sunday, Oct. 23
A Cozy Christmas Inn
- Jodie Sweetin, David O'Donnell
- Friday, Oct. 28
Jolly Good Christmas
- Reshma Shetty, Will Kemp
- Saturday, Oct. 29
Ghosts of Christmas Always
- Kim Matula, Ian Harding, Beth Leavel
- Sunday, Oct. 30
A Magical Christmas Village
- Alison Sweeney, Luke Macfarlane, Marlo Thomas
- Friday, Nov. 4
Lights, Camera, Christmas!
- Kimberley Sustad, John Brotherton
- Saturday, Nov. 5
All Saints Christmas
- Ledisi, Roger Cross
- Sunday, Nov. 6
In Merry Measure
- Patti Murin, Brendan Penny, Jennifer Robertson
- Friday, Nov. 11
The Royal Nanny
- Rachel Skarsten, Dan Jeannotte, Greta Scacchi
- Saturday, Nov. 12
Christmas at the Golden Dragon
- Kara Wang, Osric Chau, Sara Canning
- Sunday, Nov. 13
Inventing the Christmas Prince
- Tamera Mowry-Housley, Ronnie Rowe Jr.
- Friday, Nov. 18
Three Wish Men and a Baby
- Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker, Margaret Collin
- Saturday, Nov. 19
When I Think of Christmas
- Shenae Grimes-Beech, Niall Matter, Beth Broderick
- Sunday, Nov. 20
My Southern Family Christmas
- Jaicy Elliott, Bruce Campbell, Ryan Rottman, Moira Kelly
- Thursday, Nov. 24
#Xmas
- Clare Bowen, Brant Daugherty
- Friday, Nov. 25
A Royal Corgi Christmas
- Hunter King, Jordan Renzo
- Friday, Nov. 25
A Tale of Two Christmases
- Kat Barrell, Chandler Massey, Evan Roderick
- Saturday, Nov. 26
Haul Out the Holly
- Lacey Chabert, Wes Brown, Ellen Travolta, Stephen Tobolowsky
- Saturday, Nov. 26
A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe
- Rachel Boston, Victor Webster
- Sunday, Nov. 27
A Holiday Spectacular
- Ginna Claire Mason, Derek Klena, Eve Plum, Ann-Margret
- Sunday, Nov. 27
A Big Fat Christmas
- Shannon Chan-Kent, Shannon Kook, Tia Carrere, Jack Wagner
- Friday, Dec. 2
A Fabled Holiday
- Brooke D'Orsay, Ryan Paevey
- Saturday, Dec. 3
Undercover Holiday
- Noemi Gonzalez, Stephen Huszar
- Sunday, Dec. 4
The Most Colorful Time of the Year
- Katrina Bowden, Christopher Russell
- Friday, Dec. 9
Christmas Class Reunion
- Aimee Teegarden, Tanner Novlan
- Saturday, Dec. 10
The Holiday Sitter
- Jonathan Bennett, George Krissa, Chelsea Hobbs
- Sunday, Dec. 11
Holiday Heritage
- Lyndie Greenwood, Brooks Darnell, Holly Robinson Peete
- Friday, Dec. 16
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
- Torrey DeVitto, Zane Holtz
- Saturday, Dec. 17
Hanukkah on Rye
- Jeremy Jordan, Yael Grobglas, Lisa Loeb
- Sunday, Dec. 18
Miracles of Christmas
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
We Need a Little Christmas
- Erica Durance, Patrick Sabongui, Lynn Whitfield
- Saturday, Oct. 22
Christmas Bedtime Stories
- Erin Cahill, Steve Lund, Charlie Weber
- Saturday, Oct. 29
A Maple Valley Christmas
- Peyton List, Andrew Walker
- Saturday, Nov. 5
Our Italian Christmas Memories
- Sarah Power, Beau Bridges
- Saturday, Nov. 12
Long Lost Christmas
- Taylor Cole, Benjamin Ayres
- Saturday, Nov. 19
Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas
- Holland Roden, Tyler Hynes, Tenille Townes
- Saturday, Nov. 26
The Holiday Stocking
- Nadine Ellis, B.J. Britt, Karon Riley
- Saturday, Dec. 3
The Gift of Peace
- Nikki LeLoach, Brennan Elliott
- Saturday, Dec. 10
Five More Minutes: Moments Like These
- Ashley Williams, Lucas Bryan
- Saturday, Dec. 17
To see the complete Hallmark Christmas schedule, and watch previews for the festive flicks, visit HallmarkChannel.com/Christmas.
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BENSALEM, Pa., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against LMP Automotive Holdings, Inc. ("LMP" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LMPX).
Class Period: June 29, 2021 – May 19, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 26, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their LMP investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that the Company engaged in the improper identification and elimination of intercompany transactions; (2) that the Company used incorrect estimates for chargeback reserves for finance and insurance products; (3) that the Company had misclassified certain items in its financial statements which impacted balance sheet and income statement financial statement captions; (4) that there were material weaknesses in LMP's internal control over financial reporting; (5) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company overstated its revenue; (6) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company would restate certain of its previously issued financial statements and results; and (7) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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David Daniel knows his son needs help.
The 8-year-old spent first grade in remote learning and several weeks of second grade in quarantine. The best way to catch him up, research suggests, is to tutor him several times a week during school.
But his Indianapolis school offers Saturday or after-school tutoring — programs that don’t work for Daniel, a single father. The upshot is his son, now in third grade, isn’t getting the tutoring he needs.
“I want him to have the help,” Daniel said. Without it, “next year is going to be really hard on him.”
As America’s schools confront dramatic learning setbacks caused by the pandemic, experts have held up intensive tutoring as the single best antidote. Yet even as schools wield billions of dollars in federal COVID relief, a small fraction of students have received school tutoring, according to a survey of the nation’s largest districts by the nonprofit news organization Chalkbeat and The Associated Press.
In eight of 12 school systems that provided data, less than 10% of students received any type of district tutoring this fall. To compare, in a federal survey, school officials said half of all U.S. students started this school year behind grade level in at least one subject.
A new tutoring corps in Chicago has served about 3% of students, officials said. The figure was less than 1% in three districts: Georgia’s Gwinnett County, Florida’s Miami-Dade County, and Philadelphia, where the district reported only about 800 students were tutored. In those three systems alone, there were more than 600,000 students who spent no time in a district tutoring program this fall.
The startlingly low tutoring figures point to several problems. Some parents said they didn’t know tutoring was available or didn’t think their children needed it. Some school systems have struggled to hire tutors. Other school systems said the small tutoring programs were intentional, part of an effort to focus on students with the greatest needs.
Whatever the reason, the impact is clear: At a crucial time for students’ recovery, millions of children have not received the academic equivalent of powerful medication.
“It works, it’s effective, it gets students to improve in their learning and catch up,” said Amie Rapaport, a University of Southern California researcher who has analyzed students’ access to intensive tutoring. “So why isn’t it reaching them?”
The Indianapolis school district last year launched two tutoring programs that connect students with certified teachers over video. One is available to all students after school, while the other is offered during the day at certain low-performing schools.
District officials say a trial run boosted student test scores. Parents give it high marks.
“The progress that he made in just a couple months last semester working with his tutor was kind of far beyond what he was grasping and doing at school,” said Jessica Blalack, whose 7-year-old, Phoenix, opted in to after-school tutoring.
Still, the two programs combined served only about 3,200 students last fall, or roughly 17% of students in district-run schools. Two additional tutoring programs operate at a handful of schools.
Only 35% of the students who registered for after-school tutoring last fall attended more than one session, according to district data.
Indianapolis Public Schools spokesperson Marc Ransford said the district is working to improve attendance and hopes to enroll more students in tutoring next school year. It’s also trying to accelerate student learning in other ways, including with a new curriculum and summer school.
Nationwide, schools report that about 10% of students are receiving “high-dosage” tutoring multiple days a week, according to a federal survey from December. The real number could be even lower: Just 2% of U.S. households say their children are getting that kind of intensive tutoring, according to the USC analysis of a different nationally representative survey.
Schools trying to ramp up tutoring have run into roadblocks, including staffing and scheduling. Experts say tutoring is most effective when provided three times a week for at least 30 minutes during school hours. Offering after-school or weekend tutoring is simpler, but turnout is often low.
Harrison Tran, a 10th grader in Savannah, Georgia, struggled to make sense of algebra during remote learning. Last year, his high school offered after-school help. But that wasn’t feasible for Harrison, who lives 30 minutes from school and couldn’t afford to miss his ride home.
Without tutoring help, he started this school year with gaps in his learning.
“When I got into my Algebra II class, I was entirely lost,” he said.
Relatively low family interest has been another challenge. Though test scores plunged during the pandemic, many parents do not believe their children experienced learning loss, or simply are unaware. The disconnect makes it more important to offer tutoring during school, experts say.
“Parents just aren’t as concerned as we need them to be,” said USC education professor Morgan Polikoff, “if we’re going to have to rely on parents opting their kids into interventions.”
Even when students want help, some have been let down.
In Maryland’s Montgomery County, 12th grader Talia Bradley recently sought calculus help from a virtual tutoring company hired by the district. But the problem she was struggling with also stumped the tutor. After an hour trying to sort it out, Talia walked away frustrated.
“My daughter was no farther along,” said Leah Bradley, her mother. “Having an option for online tutoring makes sense, but it can’t be the primary option if you’re looking for good results.”
Repeated in-person tutoring tends to be more effective than on-demand online help, but it’s also harder to manage. District rules add complexity, with safeguards like tutor background checks and vendor bidding rules slowing the process.
In Wake County, North Carolina, the school district began planning a reading tutoring program last summer. The program did not launch until November, and district officials last month said volunteers are tutoring fewer than 140 students — far fewer than the 1,000 students the program was designed to reach.
“We’re always looking to serve more students,” said Amy Mattingly, director of K-12 programs at Helps Education Fund, the nonprofit managing that program and another serving about 400 students. But, she added, it’s important to “see what’s working and make tweaks before trying to scale up.”
Some districts defended their participation numbers, saying tutoring is most effective when targeted.
In Georgia’s Fulton County, 3% of the district’s 90,000 students participated in tutoring programs this fall. Most of the tutoring was offered by paraprofessionals during the school day, with one hired to give intense support in each elementary school.
The district says time and staffing limit how many students can get frequent, intensive tutoring.
“We don’t want to water it down, because then you don’t get the impact that the research says is beneficial for kids,” said Cliff Jones, chief academic officer for the system.
Others worry too few are getting the help they need even as programs continue to grow.
This school year, about 3,500 students are getting reading tutoring from the North Carolina Education Corps. Meanwhile, in fourth grade alone, more than 41,000 students statewide scored in the bottom level on a national reading test last year.
“Who we are serving,” said Laura Bilbro-Berry, the program’s senior director, “is just a drop in the bucket.”
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The NFL season doesn't start until September, but Justine Lindsay is making history in the off-season as the league's first openly transgender cheerleader.
Lindsay, 29, announced that she had made the Carolina Panthers TopCats team earlier this year in an Instagram post.
"Cats Out the Bag you are looking at the newest member of the Carolina Panthers TopCats Cheerleader's @topcats as the first Transgender female," Lindsay wrote. "I would like to thank the beautiful and talented dancers who supported me along the way ... This is a moment I will never forget and I cannot wait to show you all what this girl has to bring. Thank you @topcats a dream come true."
Lindsay told BuzzFeed News that she was "so scared" to share the Instagram post in which she publicly came out.
"I just felt like when I posted it, whatever reaction I get from everyone, it does not matter," Lindsay told BuzzFeed. "And then my phone started blowing up."
Fans have sent messages of support to Lindsay on her Instagram posts, including telling her to block out any messages of hate or those questioning her spot on the squad.
TopCats director Chandalae Lanouette and the Panthers have both said Lindsay's skills are what secured her spot on the team.
"Members of the TopCats are hired based on their qualifications and abilities," the Panthers said in a statement to NPR. "Our organization is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin. We wish all the TopCats, including Justine Lindsay, an incredible season."
Lindsay said she knows that her making the team as a Black trans woman is a big deal and is already speaking out against those who are trying to bring her down.
"Thank you to all my haters who think I'm bringing the organization down, clearly I don't," Lindsay said in an Instagram post on Monday. "The carolina panthers Organization is an excellent one, one that supports all people white, black , yellow trans, straight etc. at the end of the day myself and the other 29 members @topcats made the squad fair and square."
Lindsay acknowledged that it isn't always easy, but that she is going to continue "paving the way for those under me who are scared and afraid to take that step."
"I will continue to inspire and help my African American beautiful trans sisters until my last breath."
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New Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in the official Republican response to Tuesday’s State of the Union that she will be revealing “an education package that will be the most far-reaching, bold conservative education reform in the country” on Wednesday.
Without giving many specifics, Sanders said the plan for her state “empowers parents with real choices, improves literacy and career readiness and helps put a good teacher in every classroom by increasing their starting salary from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the nation.”
President Biden’s State of the Union address included relatively little on education. The president called for universal preschool and teacher pay raises while highlighting increases in Pell Grants under his administration.
In her response immediately after, Sanders, using several popular GOP talking points, said Republicans “are working to end the policy of trapping kids and failing schools,” a nod towards school choice measures, which are all but certain to feature in her plan.
“We will educate — not indoctrinate — our kids, and put students on a path to success,” she said.
Sanders’s tease of a sweeping education reform package for her state comes as Republicans have increasingly made education a top priority.
In numerous states throughout the country, school choice initiatives such as education savings accounts have been introduced or passed this year.
States including Florida, Texas and Virginia have increasingly taken on battles in the classroom regarding critical race theory, LGBTQ book bans and policies for transgender students. | https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-uses-sotu-response-to-tease-far-reaching-conservative-education-plan/ | 2023-02-08 06:26:25 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-uses-sotu-response-to-tease-far-reaching-conservative-education-plan/ |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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RED FLAG WARNING
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
603 AM MDT Mon Apr 17 2023
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS...
.A Western U.S. trough pattern will bring a prolonged period of
elevated to critical fire weather conditions to Southern New
Mexico and Far West Texas. Daily temperatures will run warmer than
seasonal normals, by about 5 degrees for the week, leading to an
unstable atmosphere with enhanced lifting. In addition the deep
westerly flow will keep the atmosphere quite dry with single-digit
daily minimum relative humidity and poor overnight recoveries in
the 25 to 35 percent range. Finally, southwesterly and westerly
winds will be strong, with each afternoon being high-end breezy to
moderately windy. Conditions are expected to moderate slightly by
Friday with lighter winds from the north.
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 9 PM MDT TUESDAY FOR
LOW HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 055, 056,
110, 111, 112, AND 113...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND
STRONG WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 055, 056, 110, 111, 112, AND
113...
The National Weather Service in El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa has
issued a Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 1 PM to 9 PM
MDT Tuesday. a Fire Weather Watch has also been issued. This Fire
Weather Watch is in effect from Wednesday afternoon through
Wednesday evening.
* AFFECTED AREAS...Southwest and South Central New Mexico and Far
West Texas. Including the lower elevations of the Gila region,
the southwest and south central New Mexico lowlands, the
Sacramento and Capitan mountains, and El Paso and Hudspeth
counties in Far West Texas.
* 20 FOOT WINDS...For Tuesday, southwest to west winds 20 to 25
mph with gusts to 35 mph. For Wednesday, west winds of 25 to 30
mph with gusts 40 to 55 mph.
* HUMIDITY...Lowland minimums 5 to 10 percent. Mountain minimums
10 to 15 percent. Overnight recoveries poor at only 25 to 35
percent.
* IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of
strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can
contribute to extreme fire behavior.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible
Red Flag Warnings.
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Nikki Glaser's comedy career began when she was 18.
Since then, she has added actress, podcaster, radio host, and TV show host to her resume.
She joins Jennifer Palumbo to talk about "The Good Girl Tour," her love of Lexington, and more.
Glaser will be at the Lexington Opera House on Saturday, February 25 with shows at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at the Lexington Opera House Tickets are on sale at https://www.nikkiglaser.com/tour. | https://www.lex18.com/community/best-of-the-bluegrass/nikki-glaser-brings-the-laughs-to-lexington | 2023-02-19 01:45:56 | 0 | https://www.lex18.com/community/best-of-the-bluegrass/nikki-glaser-brings-the-laughs-to-lexington |
High-rise homicide suspect attempts to escape, gets stuck in window, police say
Published: Dec. 12, 2022 at 2:15 PM MST|Updated: moments ago
BOSTON (WCVB) – Police in Boston say a suspect in a murder at a high-rise apartment building got stuck trying to dive out of a window.
The incident began when officers were called overnight to a 12th floor apartment.
Police said a body was found inside the apartment. A suspect was also found inside, and a standoff followed.
The suspect attempted to dive out of a window, but police said they got stuck and wound up hanging from the window.
SWAT officers pulled the suspect down from the window to the floor below.
The suspect was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The incident is under investigation.
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Fort Wayne/ Allen County
Smoke detector blitz set for today
Mayor Tom Henry, the Fort Wayne Fire Department and the American Red Cross will conduct a smoke detector blitz today in neighborhoods in the Waynedale area beginning at 9 a.m., the city announced Friday.
The starting point will be the Waynedale American Legion Post 241, 7605 Bluffton Road.
The mayor and firefighters will make door-to-door visits to check current smoke alarms and install new alarms, if needed.
“It’s a way for the fire department and Mayor Henry to meet people and help educate residents about the importance of having working smoke detectors to assist in protecting the public from fires,” spokesman John Perlich said through email.
DEA ‘Take Back’ Rx disposals today
The Drug Enforcement Administration is sponsoring its 24th national “Prescription Drug Take Back” initiative today with drugs being accepted for proper disposal at two local collection sites from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Indiana State Police Fort Wayne Post at 5811 Ellison Road will accept medication, and Kroger pharmacists and Fort Wayne police officers will accept items outside the Kroger store, 5725 Coventry Lane.
Both sites will accept pills, liquids, gels and patches. Vaping pens without batteries and vaping cartridges will also be taken. Needles, new or used, will not be accepted for disposal. The service is free and anonymous with no questions asked.
Give Greater raises over $600,000
Give Greater Allen County, an event organized by the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, helped raise $613,190 for 110 local nonprofit organizations, foundation officials announced.
Donations were accepted from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The Community Foundation announced surprise prizes for nonprofits and matching grant opportunities throughout the day.
Kiley Tate-Potts, the foundation’s director of philanthropic services, commented on the second annual event.
“The generosity of Fort Wayne and the Allen County community continues to inspire us. It’s amazing to see the impact that philanthropy can have when we all give together,” she said in a statement.
Humane Fort Wayne received the most money, with 241 donors providing $70,327. Blue Jacket Inc., which helps people with barriers to employment find jobs, received $30,585, the second-highest amount.
Give Greater’s overall goal was $750,000.
Electric Works sets inclusiveness event
Ancora, the lead developer of Electric Works, is seeking insights to cultivate an inclusive space and has invited Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit education and research institute, to conduct an advisory services panel May 5.
The event kicks off at 8:30 a.m. with breakfast and is expected to last until 11 a.m. Admission is free, but reservations are required. Go online to https://tinyurl.com/57xxa4xm.
ULI leaders will spend time in Fort Wayne prior to the panel to meet with the community before making recommendations on inclusive business development and hiring practices for minority, women and veteran-owned businesses in the region. The panel discussion will include a Q&A session with attendees.
The discussion will be in the Don Wolf Conference Center at Do it Best, 1626 Broadway, Suite 100, on the Electric Works campus.
Event organizers recommend parking in the Union Parking Garage, which offers free visitor parking for up to two hours.
Roundabout wins contractors award
The city of Fort Wayne’s Pontiac/Wayne Trace Roundabout Renovation & Beautification Project has received the 2023 Building Contractors Association of Northeast Indiana’s Excellence in Construction Award in the specialty category, the city announced Friday.
The $850,000 project was part of the city’s Southeast Strategy and an improvement to the Coliseum Boulevard-Pontiac Street corridor, local officials said in a news release.
The redesigned roundabouts form an entryway between the Greater McMillen Park, Eastside Community and Harvester Community neighborhoods – three of the city’s largest southeast neighborhoods.
Right of Way staff designed the plans in-house, along with some donated structural engineering services provided by Engineering Resources Inc., a local civil engineering firm.
– Journal Gazette | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/metro-briefs-city-sets-smoke-detector-blitz-for-saturday/article_d4be62b4-e07b-11ed-9207-17d6395ea542.html | 2023-04-22 05:48:15 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/metro-briefs-city-sets-smoke-detector-blitz-for-saturday/article_d4be62b4-e07b-11ed-9207-17d6395ea542.html |
SPOTTED: ‘Joker 2′ Filming at Old Hospital in Essex County, NJ! (PICS)
Gotham City has returned to New Jersey!
Filming has been underway in New York City, Belleville, NJ for Todd Phillips' "Joker: Folie á Deux" (Joker 2), the sequel to 2019's "Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix, which went on the win him an Academy Award for "Best Actor" in 2020.
In the sequel, Phoenix returns as the menacing, mentally broken Joker, aka Arthur Fleck, alongside newcomer, fellow Oscar-winner Lady Gaga, who is cast to play his infamous partner in love and crime, Harley Quinn. The film's projected premiere date is October 4, 2024, according to its IMDb page.
The two stars were seen filming in New York City for some very flashy scenes. Here we can see Lady Gaga in full Harley Quinn garb. Looking iconic, of course. .
And over in New Jersey, filming took place at the now-shuttered Essex County Isolation Hospital in Belleville, which has been transformed into the fictional Arkham State Hospital according to NJ.com. The building dates all the way back to 1905, and it fits perfectly in the Gotham universe.
You can see the hospital looks amazingly creepy in these clip filmed by onlookers. The billowing smoke and flashing lights showcasing the manufactured mayhem.
In this shot you can see the old-fashioned vehicles, vans, and cop cars that are in the style of the early 1980's when the movie's timeline takes place.
Can't wait to see how these scenes turn out looking in the movie! If you've seen them filming anywhere else in New Jersey, let us know in the comments! | https://wpst.com/joker-2-filming-new-jersey/ | 2023-03-28 06:19:44 | 1 | https://wpst.com/joker-2-filming-new-jersey/ |
Former Republican President Donald Trump says he’s launching another White House bid
By Gabby Orr, Kristen Holmes and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Former President Donald Trump, aiming to become only the second commander-in-chief ever elected to two nonconsecutive terms, announced Tuesday night that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump told a crowd gathered at Mar-a-Lago, his waterfront estate in Florida, where his campaign will be headquartered.
Surrounded by allies, advisers, and conservative influencers, the 45th president vowed to run a campaign that will “bring people together,” claiming the Republican Party cannot afford to nominate “a politician or conventional candidate” if it wants to reclaim the White House two years from now.
“This will not be my campaign, this will be our campaign all together,” Trump said.
Trump’s long-awaited campaign comes as he tries to reclaim the spotlight following the GOP’s underwhelming midterm elections performance — including the losses of several Trump-endorsed election deniers — and the subsequent blame game that has unfolded since Election Day. Republicans failed to gain a Senate majority, came up short in their efforts to fill several statewide seats, and have yet to secure a House majority, with only 215 races called in their favor so far out of the 218 needed, developments that have forced Trump and other party leaders into a defensive posture as they face reproval from within their ranks.
Trump’s paperwork establishing his candidacy landed with the Federal Election Committee shortly before he delivered his announcement at Mar-a-Lago.
To the delight of aides and allies who have long advised him to mount a forward-looking campaign, Trump did not harp much on his lies about the 2020 election in his remarks Tuesday. Rather, he framed this moment as a battle against “massive corruption” and “entrenched interests.” Many of Trump’s top advisers have expressed concern that his fixation on promoting conspiracies about the last presidential election would make it harder for him to win a national election in 2024.
On the heels of last week’s midterm elections, Trump has been blamed for elevating flawed candidates who spent too much time parroting his claims about election fraud, alienating key voters and ultimately leading to their defeats. He attempted to counter that criticism on Tuesday, noting that Republicans appear poised to retake the House majority and touting at least one Trump-endorsed candidate, Kevin Kiley of California. At one point, Trump appeared to blame his party’s midterm performance on voters not yet realizing “the total effect of the suffering” after two years of Democratic control in Washington.
“I have no doubt that by 2024, it will sadly be much worse and they will see clearly what has happened and is happening to our country — and the voting will be much different,” he claimed.
Beating others to the punch
Trump is betting that his first-out-of-the gate strategy will fend off potential primary rivals and give him an early advantage with deep-pocketed donors, aides say. He is widely expected to be challenged by both conservative and moderate Republicans, though the calculus of some presidential hopefuls could change now that he is running. Others — like his former Vice President, Mike Pence — may proceed anyway.
Trump’s third presidential bid also coincides with a period of heightened legal peril as Justice Department officials investigating him and his associates revisit the prospect of indictments in their Trump-related probes. The former president is currently being investigated for his activities before and during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office. While Trump is counting on an easy path to the GOP nomination with his sustained support among the party’s base, his announcement is likely to dash the hopes of party leaders who have longed for fresh talent. In particular, top Republicans have been paying close attention to the next moves of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who won his reelection contest with a 19-point margin of victory and considerable support from minority and independent voters. Some Republican leaders may try to scuttle Trump’s campaign by elevating or encouraging alternative candidates, including DeSantis, who has been quietly laying the groundwork for a possible White House bid of his own.
Of course, any countereffort to inhibit Trump’s path to the nomination is likely to prove difficult. Despite his myriad legal entanglements and the stain of January 6, the twice-impeached 45th president remains immensely popular among most Republican voters and boasts a deep connection with his core backers that could prove difficult for other GOP hopefuls to replicate or weaken. Even leading conservatives who disliked Trump’s pugnacious politics and heterodox policies stuck with him as president because he helped solidify the rightward shift of the US Supreme Court with his nominations — one of the most far-reaching aspects of his legacy, which resulted in the conservative court majority’s deeply polarizing June decision to end federal abortion rights. In fact, while Trump ended his first term with the lowest approval rating of any president.
Republicans viewed him favorably, according to a May NBC News poll. That alone could give Trump a significant edge over primary opponents whom voters are still familiarizing themselves with.
Among those potential competitors is Pence, who would likely benefit from high name recognition due to his role as vice president. Pence, who has been preparing for a possible White House run in 2024, is sure to face an uphill battle courting Trump’s most loyal supporters, many of whom soured on the former vice president after he declined to overstep his congressional authority and block certification of now-President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. Trump could also find himself pitted against DeSantis, who has risen to hero status among cultural conservatives and who is widely considered a more polished version of Trump. Even some of the former president’s advisers have voiced similar observations to CNN, noting that DeSantis also made inroads with major Republican donors during his quest for reelection and built a mountain of goodwill with GOP leaders by campaigning for federal and statewide Republican candidates in the middle of his own race.
Beyond his potential rivals, Trump has another roadblock in his path as the House select committee continues to investigate his role in January 6, 2021, and Justice Department officials weigh whether to issue criminal charges. The committee, which subpoenaed him for testimony and documents in October and which Trump is now battling in court, held public hearings throughout the summer and early fall featuring depositions from those in Trump’s inner circle at the White House — including members of his family — that detailed his public and private efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results through a sustained pressure campaign on numerous local, state and federal officials, and on his own vice president.
But Trump’s desire to announce his campaign early can be especially traced to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, which advisers say further emboldened his decision to mount what he believes will be a triumphant political comeback. The day after the search, the former president fielded calls from allies advising him to accelerate his 2024 timeline. That night, he huddled with House lawmakers in the Republican Study Committee and told them he’d “made up his mind” about launching a bid, though some of those same House Republicans later convinced him to wait until after the midterm elections to announce his next move.
Preparing for 2024
From the moment Trump left Washington, defeated and disgraced, in January 2021, he began plotting a return to power — devoting the bulk of his time to building a political operation intended for this moment. With assistance from numerous former aides and advisers, he continued the aggressive fundraising tactics that had become a marker of his 2020 campaign, amassing a colossal war chest ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, and worked diligently to elect steadfast allies in both Congress and state legislatures across the country.
While maintaining a home base in Florida, he also regularly jet-setted across the country for campaign rallies that afforded him crucial face time with his base and with candidates he bet would become valuable allies in the US Senate and House.
Through it all, Trump continued to falsely insist that the 2020 election was stolen from him, indulging in far-flung conspiracy theories about voter fraud and pressuring Republican leaders across the party’s election apparatus to endorse changes that would curtail voting rights.
Trump’s aides were pleased earlier this fall when his public appearances and rally speeches gradually became more focused on rising crime, immigration and economic woes — key themes throughout the midterm cycle and issues they hope will enable him to draw a compelling contrast with Biden as he begins this next chapter. Allies of the former president have long said that he views the 2024 contest as an opportunity to regain what he believes is his: another four years in the Oval Office.
But there is no guarantee that Trump will glide easily to a nonconsecutive second term. In fact, it could be quite difficult.
Not only does history offer just one example of such a feat (defeated in 1888 after his first term, President Grover Cleveland was elected again in 1892), no previously impeached president has ever run again for office. Trump was first impeached in 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of justice, and then again in 2021 for inciting the riot at the US Capitol. Though he was acquitted by the Senate both times, 10 House Republicans broke with their party the second time around to join Democrats in a vote to impeach him. Seven Republican senators voted to convict him at his Senate trial.
Trump has also been the subject of a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, including a New York state investigation and a separate Manhattan district attorney criminal probe into his company’s finances, a Georgia county probe into his efforts to overturn Biden’s election win in the state, and separate Justice Department probes into his campaign’s scheme to put forth fake electors in battleground states and his decision to bring classified materials with him to Mar-a-Lago upon leaving office.
Trump’s actions since he left Washington have, for the most part, signaled his interest in an eventual return. While most former presidents go quietly into retirement — resurfacing to assist their parties during midterm cycles or for the opening of their presidential libraries — Trump bucked tradition to instead plot the comeback he now hopes to make. Despite its distance from Washington, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club has transformed into a new hub for Republicans and a home base for his political machine. Assisted by a small group of paid staffers, he has hosted numerous candidate and committee fundraisers and seen a rotating cast of party leaders and congressional hopefuls filter through its gilded hallways in the hopes of nabbing his endorsement or reingratiating themselves with his base. Trump’s schedule has enabled him to build close relationships with party leaders and fringe figures — from House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of California to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — whose support in a contested primary could ultimately help him clear the field. Many of the aides who have been with him since he left the White House are expected to continue on as campaign hands, as the former president and his de facto chief of staff, longtime Florida GOP strategist Susie Wiles, aim to maintain a lean operation much like the early days of his 2016 presidential campaign. Among those who are likely to be involved are Wiles, Taylor Budowich, Chris LaCivita, Steven Cheung, Justin Caperole, Brian Jack and Brad Parscale, who managed part of his failed 2020 campaign. Notably, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who was deeply involved in his quest for reelection, is widely expected not to be involved this time around.
Time in office
As president, Trump faced criticism over several of his actions, especially his management of the worst public health crisis in nearly a century — the Covid-19 pandemic — though his administration helped facilitate the development of vaccines to treat the novel coronavirus in record time. He also was blasted by critics over his handling of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017; the White nationalist rally, also in 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer was killed while walking with a group of counterprotesters; and Black Lives Matter protests.
While in office, Trump signed sweeping tax cuts into law, enacted controversial hard-line immigration policies, including a policy that separated migrant children from their families and one known as “Remain in Mexico,” which the US Supreme Court ruled in June could be ended by his successor, and appointed hundreds of federal judges with deep conservative credentials. He also successfully nominated three Supreme Court justices, whose decisions this year as part of the court’s majority have shifted American society and laws rightward on issues such as abortion, guns, religious freedom and climate change.
The former real estate businessman and reality TV star was first elected to office in 2016, beating out a wide field of more than a dozen GOP candidates in an ugly primary, and then prevailing over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a contentious general election, despite sexual misconduct allegations that would have typically been campaign-ending.
As president, Trump was an impulsive leader, who dispensed with long-standing norms, often announcing policy and Cabinet personnel changes on Twitter. (He was ultimately banned from the platform following the US Capitol riot and was later barred from Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube as well.)
He pushed an “America First” foreign policy approach, pulling the US out of international agreements such as the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal, a pair of controversial moves that were decried by many of America’s top European allies.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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Long covid may be behind the recent surge in women with a disability, who surpassed their male counterparts in the workforce during the pandemic, reversing historic trends in the United States.
Women are disproportionately affected by lingering effects from a covid-19 infection, a health condition that is still little understood and manifests in persistent symptoms that can be debilitating.
The emergence of long covid coincides with an increase in women with disabilities, who have outnumbered their male peers in monthly government labor figures on a regular basis since last June.
"We have a pandemic that is resulting in a long-term infection associated with a chronic illness that we know disproportionately impacts women," said Katie Bach, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who researches jobs and wages. "At the same time, the percentage of disabled people who are women is increasing -- the two are probably related."
The gender difference has important implications for the labor market. Researchers have estimated that covid illnesses may have reduced the workforce by 500,000 to 1 million people when accounting for those who either worked fewer hours or left entirely.
As a result, sectors that tend to employ more female workers are likely facing more shortages. For the women affected, setbacks in careers may further derail pre-covid progress in the gender wage gap.
Statistically, a smaller share of people with a disability have a job.
Roughly one in five of them was employed in 2022, compared with about two-thirds of people without disabilities, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. People with a disability are also twice as likely to work part-time and are more likely to be self-employed.
"Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply," researchers Gopi Shah Goda from Stanford University and Evan Soltas at Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote in a paper last September. They found that workers who miss a full week because of covid are about 7 percentage points less likely to be employed a year later.
Linda Loxley, a former case manager at a senior center, said she would want nothing more than to return to her job of 20 years.
After contracting covid in May 2021, she became too weak to continue, collapsing at her desk and finding herself unable to drive home. She stopped working later that month and has been receiving Social Security Disability Insurance payments, which she applied to with the help of a lawyer -- a route she's recommended to fellow long haulers.
"I would love to be able to work again," said Loxley, 56, of North Providence, R.I. "I am at that point where I'm just not reliable. I have days that I have trouble walking, and intense pain. And I still cannot function on a regular basis."
Labor data is probably underestimating the economic impact from long covid. Women who were out of the workforce and primary caregivers of kids or parents have reported that their partner had to step back from work or that the couple had to spend money on outside care when they became chronically ill, Bach said.
Long covid was officially recognized as a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act in July 2021, for conditions that include difficulty breathing and damage to organs like the heart, lungs and kidney, among others. Research has found that it can cause a wide range of physical and emotional symptoms that impact everyday life.
A recent survey conducted by the Census Bureau found that among the 11.2 million people who reported long-term covid symptoms that reduced their ability to carry out day-to-day activities, 65% were women.
A significantly higher proportion of women reported having to cut their working hours or quit entirely due to long covid in a separate poll by CivicScience.
Differences in how immune systems respond to infections has been cited as a possible explanation why women experience long covid more often than men.
Before the pandemic, the number of men with a disability who were working or looking for work in the government data exceeded that of women -- because industries with dangerous and more physical jobs tend to employ more men. The fact that the trend has reversed is especially concerning given that there are 10 million more men than women in the labor force.
Loxley said she was planning to retire at 67 before falling ill. She has gone to two neurologists and enrolled in two long covid clinics, she said. But nothing seems to work.
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Which blazer dress is best?
Blazer dresses exude sexy sophistication by blending the strong silhouette of business attire with delicate elements such as satin detailing. They are an excellent go-to as the weather cools and can effortlessly transition from day to night with the right accessories.
The best ones have a flattering shape with a design that hugs your body in all the right places. The City Studios Velvet Blazer Dress is a top pick because it shows off your curves and has a smooth finish with a satin trim that gives it a sleek aesthetic.
What to know before you buy a blazer dress
What is a blazer dress?
A blazer dress is also referred to as a tuxedo dress. It resembles a traditional suit jacket but has a long hemline that makes pants optional. As with the classic jacket, these dresses come in many shapes and lengths. They can also have various sleeve styles and necklines.
Blazer dress silhouettes
The shape of a dress can help you accentuate your best features. Determine the parts of your figure you wish to highlight or mask as you consider the six blazer dress silhouettes:
- A-line: This style is fitted at the top, flares out from your waist and skims over your hips.
- Sheath: This fit hugs your body from top to bottom.
- Asymmetric: This has a higher hemline on one side and a shorter one on the other.
- Shift: This silhouette hangs loose from top to bottom.
- Empire waist: This hugs your bustline and skims over the rest of your body.
- Mermaid: This style hugs your upper body and flares from your thigh or shin to the ground.
Blazer dress neckline
While it might seem that a broad shoulder and high V-neck neck are necessary for the perfect blazer dress, some well-executed varieties maintain the suit style at the bodice with buttons and satin trim, then add a flirty neckline.
If you wish to experiment with necklines, there are six for you to consider:
- V-neck: This plunges to a point on your chest; some are deeper than others.
- Off-the-shoulder: This style cuts across your chest and either sits high on your upper arm or adds a small cap to your shoulder.
- Crew: This high collar encircles your neck and is known for its classically flattering appeal.
- Halter: This sleeveless shape wraps around your neckline, exposing your shoulders and upper back.
- Strapless: This silhouette uses a snug bodice to hold the dress in place, leaving your shoulders, upper chest and upper back exposed.
- Scoop: This cut encircles your neck with a looser drape that shows off your clavicle.
What to look for in a quality blazer dress
Delicate details
While the blazer traditionally has a more rigid shape, eight details can give it a softer look:
- Tapered waist
- Tie at the waist
- Short hemline
- Sheer sleeves
- Sleeveless cut
- Metallic buttons
- Pleating at the waist
- Lush material, such as velvet or satin
Lining
Lining is an underrated bonus that seems to be missing from many dresses these days. However, it’s beneficial because it keeps your undergarments hidden with an added layer of material. It also prevents the dress from riding up and hugging your body in unflattering ways.
Pockets
Added pockets are always a bonus on dresses. You can typically find them at the waistline, at the chest or along the seams at the hips. While they are not as common as they should be, manufacturers are beginning to include them in their designs.
How much you can expect to spend on a blazer dress
Depending on the style, brand and materials, you can expect to spend $40-$200. However, many high-quality dresses are around $60-$120.
Blazer dress FAQ
How can you accessorize your dress when temperatures drop?
A. Try adding a pair of leggings and knee-high boots for a stylish winter transition.
What’s a good way to make your dress even sexier?
A. Try adding a pair of stilettos. If your hemline is above the knee, it can make your legs look even longer and leaner.
What’s the best blazer dress to buy?
Top blazer dress
City Studios Velvet Tuxedo Blazer Dress
What you need to know: This stylish dress has a soft velvet finish and a satin trim.
What you’ll love: It has a notched collar, front button closures and two pockets at the waist. It is also fully lined, 34.5 inches long from the center of the back to the hem and comes in sizes 2XS-2XL.
What you should consider: Some customers said this dress fits a little bit small at the waist.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top blazer dress for the money
Akarise Double-Breasted Gold Button Blazer Dress
What you need to know: This asymmetric dress has a sleek silhouette and delicate details.
What you’ll love: It is a double-breasted jacket with shoulder pads, long sleeves and a sexy short hemline. It also has gold buttons, a deep V-neck, a lining for added coverage and a flattering fit that skims your body.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said this dress fits a bit small and suggested that you size up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Adrianna Papell Midi off-the-Shoulder Tuxedo Dress with Slit
What you need to know: This elegant off-the-shoulder dress has satin trim, buttons down the front and pocket detailing at the hips.
What you’ll love: This mid-length sheath dress shows off your curves in all the right places with a slit that runs up the thigh. It has a tuxedo-style bodice with boning for added support and a built-in bra. It also has a little added stretch for comfort.
What you should consider: Some people reported they had to go up one size to get a perfect fit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) commends the House and Senate for swiftly passing the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" to help address the public health issue of firearms violence. We are especially grateful for the leadership of Sens. Murphy, Cornyn, and the bipartisan Senate workgroup for developing a reasonable commonsense compromise on firearm injury prevention legislation.
"Every day, emergency physicians shoulder the honor of being on the front lines while bearing the responsibility of treating the victims of firearms violence. We bear witness to this public health crisis and see firsthand how deeply it affects the lives of our patients, their families, and the communities we serve," said Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP, president of ACEP.
"We thank Congress for taking these concrete steps to improve the safety and well-being of all Americans, including our children and victims of domestic abuse.
"We recognize there is no cure-all that will prevent all firearms violence and that we still have much work to do, but this is a critical first step that, above all, will save lives," said Dr. Schmitz.
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the national medical society representing emergency medicine. Through continuing education, research, public education, and advocacy, ACEP advances emergency care on behalf of its 40,000 emergency physician members, and the more than 150 million people they treat on an annual basis. For more information, visit www.acep.org and www.emergencyphysicians.org.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J. Edgar Hoover are among the finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards. Former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo has won an honorary award for lifetime achievement.
Last fall’s National Book Award winner for fiction, Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch,” is a nominee for best first book. Other finalists announced Tuesday night include Ed Yong’s “An Immense World,” recently awarded a Carnegie Medal from the American Library Association, and the poetry collection “Milkweed Smithereens,” by Bernadette Mayer, who died in November at age 77.
Winners will be announced March 23 during a ceremony in Manhattan. Besides Harjo’s award, the NBCC also will present honorary prizes to former critics circle president Barbara Hoffert, San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore and the critic Jennifer Wilson, who writes for The Nation and The New York Times.
In fiction, nominees include Everett’s novel “Dr. No,” Ma’s story collection “Bliss Montage,” Namwali Serpell’s “The Furrows,” and two works in translation: Jon Fosse’s “A New Name: Septology VI-VII” and Mieko Kawakami’s “All the Lovers in the Night.”
Finalists in autobiography are Jazmina Barrera’s “Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes,” Hua Hsu’s “Stay True: A Memoir,” Dorthe Nors’ “A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast,” Darryl Pinckney’s “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan” and Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ “The Man Who Could Move Clouds.”
In biography, the nominees are Beverly Gage’s Hoover biography “G-Man,” Jennifer Homans’ “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century,” Kerri K. Greenidge’s “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family,” Clare Mac Cumhaill’s and Rachael Wiseman’s “Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life” and Aaron Sachs’ “Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Louis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times.”
Pulitzer Prize winner Margo Jefferson’s “Constructing a Nervous System” is a finalist for criticism, along with Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves,” Timothy Bewes’ “Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age,” Peter Brooks’ “Seduced by Story” and Alia Trabucco Zerán’s “When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold.”
In nonfiction, nominees besides Yong include Proulx’s environmental study “Fen, Bog, & Swamp,” Isaac Butler’s “The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act,” Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands” and Joseph Osmundson’s essay collection “Virology.”
Meyer was a finalist in the poetry category, along with Mosab Abu Toha’s “Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear,” Cynthia Cruz’s “Hotel Oblivion,” David Hernandez’s “Hello I Must Be Going” and Paul Hlava Ceballos’ “banana.”
For the first time, the NBCC will award a prize for translation. The nominees are Boris Dralyuk’s translation from the Russian of Andrey Kurkov’s “Grey Bees,” Jennifer Croft’s translation from the Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob,” Fady Joudah’s translation from the Arabic of Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s “You Can Be the Last Leaf,” Mara Faye Lethem’s translation from the Catalan of Irene Solà’s “When I Sing, Mountains Dance,” Christina MacSweeney’s translation from the Spanish of Barrera’s “Linea Nigra” and Mark Polizzotti’s translation from the French of Scholastique Mukasonga’s “Kibogo.”
Gunty is a finalist for best debut work, along with Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers,” Jonathan Escoffery’s “If I Survive You,” Zain Khalid’s “Brother Alive,” Maud Newton’s “Ancestor Trouble,” Morgan Talty’s “Night of the Living Rez” and Vauhini Vara’s “The Immortal King Rao.”
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Following the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, NPR's Miles Parks speaks with professor Jeff Kingston about Abe's long legacy in Japan.
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Pennsylvania counties can notify voters who submit mail ballots with mistakes like missing dates or signatures and help those voters resolve the issues, a state judge ruled Thursday.
The decision was a loss, at least temporarily, for Republicans who have tried in recent years to stop local elections officials from helping voters fix errors with their ballots, arguing that state law hasn’t been updated to allow it.
“Such sweeping relief against the 67 County Boards would clearly cause greater injury than refusing the injunction, precisely because it would seriously harm the public interest and orderly administration of the 2022 General Election, which is already well underway,” Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler wrote in her ruling.
But the ruling in the lawsuit led by the Republican National Committee will almost certainly be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
The question of how to handle clearly flawed ballots has dogged counties since Pennsylvania’s massive expansion of mail voting in 2020. Voters inevitably make mistakes, and when they submit ballots with what are considered “fatal flaws” — the kind that require the ballots be rejected — some counties try to fix it.
Fatally flawed ballots include, for example, those without the signature of the voter the outer envelope, which is required under state law, or so-called “naked ballots” — those returned without the inner secrecy envelope.
Depending on the error, some counties — but not all of them — undertake “notice and cure” procedures to try to alert voters of the problem and help them resolve it so their vote can be counted. For example, a county might call, email, or send a postcard to a voter telling them know to visit their local elections office to sign an unsigned ballot.
Some counties leave contacting such voters to political parties. Others don’t do anything at all, rejecting the ballot outright.
In Thursday’s ruling, Ceisler, who was elected as a Democrat, said counties‘ notice and cure procedures “have generally been accepted in order to fulfill the longstanding and overriding policy in this Commonwealth to protect the elective franchise.”
State law, she wrote, “does not specifically prohibit [elections officials] from implementing notice and cure procedures.” Instead, they “enjoy broad authority … to implement such procedures at their discretion to ensure that the electoral franchise is protected.”
In its lawsuit, the RNC argued that the lack of uniformity leads to inequities in whose votes get counted. Voters who live in counties that allow ballot curing get an extra chance to correct their mistake, while those who don’t and submit flawed ballots won’t have their votes counted simply because of where they live.
Democrats and state elections officials argue that all counties have the option to implement curing policies, and say that banning curing will disenfranchise lawfully registered voters.
“It’s about votes, not counting. … The outcomes of elections can be affected if people are disenfranchised,” Cliff Levine, a Democratic lawyer, said in a hearing last week.
Though many states have very clearly defined procedures for how to handle ballot curing, Pennsylvania doesn’t, and counties struggled in the 2020 election — and since — with the question of how to handle flawed ballots.
It’s not clear how many ballots are cured statewide in any given election, in part because the lack of standard procedures means there isn’t standard data collection.
But Republicans argue that any kind of “notice and cure” processes — no matter what they may be — are illegal. State election law doesn’t address the issue, other than to specifically allow voters who were missing identification when voting by mail to provide it after Election Day.
In 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined a request by Democrats to require all counties to adopt notice and cure procedures.
“The decision to provide a ‘notice and opportunity to cure’ procedure... is one best suited for the Legislature,” the court wrote.
That ruling has led to more disputes. Republicans say the court found that only the legislature had the power to implement curing policies. Democrats and elections officials who support curing say the ruling only means curing can’t be required statewide, not that counties can’t implement policies on their own.
At a hearing last week, Ceisler said the 2020 ruling had largely tied her hands and given her “clear marching orders.”
Still, she appeared to frame her thinking about the case as a choice between two less than ideal outcomes — barring curing and potentially disenfranchising legal voters or allowing the current patchwork of practices to continues, potentially giving room for voters to doubt the integrity of election results.
“I don’t remember in my 65 years on this Earth that we’ve had this much public rancor and entire blocs of the population saying election results are fraudulent,” she said. “We’ve got to weigh the loss of a couple thousand votes [here] with the times that we’re in right now.”
On Thursday, Ceisler acknowledged the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had said in its 2020 decision that notice and cure procedures are best suited for the state legislature.
“However, this Court does not read that decision … to stand for the much broader proposition that County [elections] Boards are necessarily prohibited from developing and implementing notice and opportunity to cure procedures.”
The 2020 ruling, she said, only said state law doesn’t require notice and cure procedures. It doesn’t forbid them.
Republicans are very likely to appeal their loss to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which is required to take up the case if appealed.
Even if Republicans ultimately lose there, the ongoing litigation may deter some counties from curing ballots. That could mean some number of voters who might previously have been able to fix their ballots might miss out.
And whatever happens with the legal fight, the political one will continue.
A strong partisan divide over voting methods has existed since Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud in the 2020 election, and Democrats continue to be much more likely to vote by mail than Republicans. So any ruling that results in more rejected mail ballots is likely to help Republicans and hurt Democrats. Some of the counties that do the most to help voters cure ballots are large and heavily Democratic ones.
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When was MLB’s last perfect game? A look at the history of perfectos originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
Two New York Yankees pitchers came oh so close to perfection this week.
Jameson Taillon retired the first 21 Los Angeles Angels hitters he faced on Thursday night. But Jared Walsh ended the former No. 2 overall pick’s bid at history when he led off the eighth inning with a double up the middle that shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa couldn’t come up with.
The following night, ace Gerrit Cole nearly matched Taillon’s feat. Cole sat down the first 20 Detroit Tigers batters he faced before Jonathan Schoop singled up the middle past a diving DJ LeMahieu with two outs in the seventh.
The Yankees became the first team in the expansion era (since 1961) to carry a perfecto beyond the sixth inning in back-to-back games. But, while they made some history, Cole and Taillon failed to end a near-decade-long drought in Major League Baseball…
When was the most recent perfect game in MLB?
King Felix last pitched in 2019, but he still owns MLB’s most recent perfect game. On Aug. 15, 2012, Felix Hernandez tossed a perfecto against the Tampa Bay Rays. The 2010 AL Cy Young winner struck out 12, including the final batter, to record the first perfect game in Seattle Mariners history.
Hernandez’s outing was actually the last of three perfect games in the 2012 season. Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants (vs. Houston on June 13) and Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox (vs. Seattle on April 21) also threw perfectos that season. Hernandez, Cain and Humber combined for the most perfect games ever in the same season, topping the previous record of two.
How many perfect games have there been in MLB history?
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There have been 23 perfect games in MLB history, with the first two coming just days apart all the way back in 1880 courtesy of Lee Richmond and John Ward. Twenty-one perfect games have occurred in the modern era (since 1900) and 17 have come within the last 60 years.
For context, Angels rookie Reid Detmers’ no-hitter last month was the 316th no-no in MLB history, showing just how difficult perfection is to achieve for a pitcher.
MLB is currently in the midst of the longest perfecto-less droughts in the modern era. There have been just three other times over that span where at least nine years went by without one happening.
Has an MLB pitcher ever thrown two perfect games?
MLB’s 23 perfect games were thrown by 23 different pitchers, meaning no player has ever recorded more than one and there has never been a combined perfecto.
The Yankees and White Sox are tied for the most perfect games with three apiece. Meanwhile, the Rays, who were founded in 1998, and Dodgers have each been on the wrong side of a perfect game three times, the most of any team.
Here’s a look at all the perfect games in MLB history:
Felix Hernandez, Mariners: 2012: vs. Rays
Matt Cain, Giants: 2012 vs. Astros
Philip Humber, White Sox: 2012 vs. Mariners
Roy Halladay, Phillies: 2010 vs. Marlins
Dallas Braden, A’s: 2010 vs. Rays
Mark Buehrle, White Sox: 2009 vs. Rays
Randy Johnson, Diamondbacks: 2004 vs. Braves
David Cone, Yankees: 1999 vs. Montreal Expos
David Wells, Yankees: 1998 vs. Twins
Kenny Rogers, Rangers: 1994 vs. Angels
Dennis Martinez, Montreal Expos: 1991 vs. Dodgers
Tom Browning, Reds: 1988 vs. Dodgers
Mike Witt, Angels: 1984 vs. Rangers
Len Baker, Cleveland: 1981 vs. Blue Jays
Catfish Hunter, A’s: 1968 vs. Twins
Sandy Koufax, Dodgers: 1965 vs. Cubs
Jim Bunning, Phillies: 1964 vs. Mets
Don Larsen, Yankees: 1956 World Series vs. Dodgers
Charlie Roberston, White Sox: 1922 vs. Tigers
Addie Joss, Cleveland: 1908 vs. White Sox
Cy Young, Boston: 1904 vs. A’s
John Ward, Providence Grays: 1880 vs. Buffalo Bisons
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The headlines keep on coming for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Two new accusations from two different publications, both published Thursday, center around money and gifts Thomas and his family received from outside interests.
ProPublica revealed that GOP megadonor Harlan Crow allegedly paid for Thomas's teenage grandnephew to attend at least one — perhaps two — private boarding schools.
It's unclear if Crow picked up the tab for all four years, but if he did, the grand total could have exceeded $150,000.
That's in addition to the undisclosed private jet flights, international vacations and luxury yacht excursions Thomas accepted from Crow for years – revealed in a previous ProPublica report.
"I think the aggregate is key here. I mean, it's really, it's this pattern that is most remarkable. There's no known precedent for this in the modern history of the Supreme Court," said Joshua Kaplan, a reporter with ProPublica
On the same day, reporting from The Washington Post detailed secret payments to Thomas's wife.
Documents reviewed by the Post said the payments were directed to "Ginni" Thomas by conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo.
According to the report, Leo instructed Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group he advises, and use the money to pay Ginni tens of thousands of dollars for "consulting work."
Leo emphasized – the paperwork should have "no mention of Ginni, of course."
SEE MORE: Report: Clarence Thomas sold real estate to donor, didn't report deal
The continuous drumbeat of controversy surrounding Thomas and his finances has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle voicing their concerns and calling for stricter ethics rules for Supreme Court justices.
"I think the best thing for the Chief Justice Roberts and the judges to do is to take this experience and go back and consider whether the changes in their code of ethics for the Supreme Court are appropriate," said Teaxs Sen. John Cornyn.
"You cannot have a situation where the Supreme Court justices are influenced by money,' said Montana Sen. John Tester/ "And by the way, I would say the same thing for us in Congress. And so there should be a bipartisan effort going on, not just Democrats, not just Republicans, to make sure that these folks are following a set of guidelines."
Last week, Chief Justice John Roberts and the eight other justices released a "Statement on Ethics Principles and Practices." But critics say it doesn't go far enough.
Some Democrats are pushing for Congress to step in and enact stricter guidelines.
But Republicans are pushing back, saying the high court should take steps toward more transparency of its own accord.
As for Thomas, he's not facing any imminent consequences — at least for now.
A number of Democratic lawmakers have already called on him to resign.
And the Project on Government Oversight last month sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging action against Thomas – either criminally or civilly.
Ethics experts say the fact that there's a debate here shows a double standard at play, an imbalance between who is held accountable and who isn't.
"I think there probably is a feeling within the Supreme Court that they are a unique kind of court. That they are no subject to the regulation of mere mortals," said Charles Geyh, a law professor at Indiana University.
"It is highly problematic and dangerous our democracy and impactful to every citizen of this country when the highest court in the United States and America has the lowest ethical standards within all of the branches of government," said Donald Sherman, senior Vice President and chief counsel with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "And this court has no binding code of conduct, unlike even the lower courts."
SEE MORE: Justice Thomas' actions prompt calls for Supreme Court ethics reform
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New York (PIX11) Tennessee Williams’ classic American play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is back with a modern twist. The production will be around for a limited time off-Broadway in New York City. Actors Alison Fraser and Matt de Rogatis take center stage in the roles of ‘Big Mama’ and ‘Brick’.
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ centers around ‘Brick’s dysfunctional family, mostly his relationship with his father ‘Big Daddy’ and his wife ‘Maggie’ Alison looks at the story having a timeless theme that anyone can relate to. Although the play touches on dark topics such as adultery, greed, deceit, suicide among other things, there’s some humor as well. For Matt, taking on the role of ‘Brick’ was a dream. He loves the barbaric nature of his character and the challenge behind acting him out.
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Kits available in more than 1,300 stores nationwide
CINCINNATI, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's largest grocery retailer, today shared that Home Chef, a subsidiary of The Kroger Co. and the leading meal solutions brand with both a retail and online presence, has collaborated with television host, best-selling author and philanthropist Rachael Ray to bring a new line of meal kits to stores across the Kroger Family of Companies.
"Rachael Ray, widely known for her quick, easy-to-prepare recipes, popular cooking shows and best-selling cookbooks, and Home Chef have come together to offer a series of meals from new Rachael recipes that are simple, convenient and delicious," said Dan De La Rosa, group vice president of Fresh Merchandising. "Personalized food experiences do not have to be complicated. We know customers have busy schedules and we're excited to offer special meal kits that even the most inexperienced home cook can prepare, offered in collaboration with Rachael Ray."
The first Rachael Ray Home Chef meal kit, in stores now, guides customers through an easy-to-follow recipe created by Ray herself for a delicious Steakhouse Burger with Dijon mushrooms and onions. The series will include meals like Pork Lo Mein with carrots and bok choy, Spicy Sloppy Joes with oven fries, and more.
New meal kits featuring Rachael Ray recipes will be available each month in more than 1,300 stores across the Kroger Family of Companies through mid-March. Customers can find even more Rachael Ray recipes delivered straight to their doors at homechef.com/rachael for purchase.
About Kroger
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of companies nearly half a million associates who serve over 11 million customers daily through a seamless digital shopping experience and retail food stores under a variety of banner names, serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site.
About Home Chef
Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available from www.homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,200 Kroger family stores, Home Chef is committed to bringing ease and convenience to home cooking through simple, delicious meals, so fans can enjoy their time at home, both in and out of the kitchen. The Chicago-based meal kit company was ranked #1 in Customer Service among Meal Kits by Newsweek. Home Chef is a subsidiary of The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR). Find out more and get cooking at www.homechef.com. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for updates and inspiration.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF)– A Kansas City clothing brand is getting some love from the Kansas City Chiefs.
The owner told FOX4 it makes all the hard work and sleepless nights coming up with the designs worth it.
“This right here is actually the newest Travis Kelce shirt we’ve made that Mecole Hardman was wearing at the AFC Championship game,” Aphiliated Apparel owner Charles Williams said Tuesday as he pointed at a graphic tee.
What started as a project for Williams’ fraternity 5 years ago has quickly morphed into his passion. Last year, Williams decided he would introduce new designs aimed at Chiefs fans.
“I actually started making the Chiefs shirts a year ago. It was actually after the Chiefs played the Chargers, and Travis Kelce had a great game,” he said.
What he didn’t know was that the person he put on his first shirt would soon be wearing one of the graphic tees. Kelce was sporting one of Williams’ shirts on the New Heights podcast about a month ago.
But it got even better on Sunday. Chiefs receiver Mecole Hardman wore his newest design during warm-ups of the AFC Championship game.
“All the hours long sleepless nights I spent trying to develop a plan and developing a brand that someone will actually recognize and want to be a part of, it just shows that everyone is supporting and loving what I’m trying to accomplish,” Williams said.
Brian Roberts, the owner of The Black Pantry, a local business that focuses on highlighting Black brands from KC and beyond, knew how special Williams was.
“He’s got the entrepreneurial spirit. He sees an opportunity and a gap, and he capitalized off of it,” Roberts said. “When you do something on a high level, it’s going to get people’s attention. And not only did he do it at a high level, he did it at the perfect timing.”
Williams said his next design will be a shirt with Andy Reid’s face on it.
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Rare video of 1986 dive in Titanic wreckage to be released
FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Rare and in some cases never before publicly seen video of the 1986 dive through the wreckage of the Titanic is being released Wednesday by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
The more than 80 minutes of footage on the WHOI’s YouTube channel chronicles some of the remarkable achievements of the dive led by Robert Ballard that marked the first time human eyes had seen the giant ocean liner since it struck an iceberg and sank in the frigid North Atlantic in April 1912. About 1,500 people died during the ship’s maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City.
A team from Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in partnership with the French oceanographic exploration organization Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer, discovered the final resting place of the ship in 12,400 feet (3,780 meters) of water on Sept. 1, 1985 using a towed underwater camera.
Nine months later, a WHOI team returned to the site in the famous three-person research submersible Alvin and the remotely-operated underwater exploration vehicle Jason Jr., which took iconic images of the ship’s interior.
The release of the footage is in conjunction with the 25th anniversary release on Feb. 10 of the remastered version of the Academy Award-winning movie, “Titanic.”
“More than a century after the loss of Titanic, the human stories embodied in the great ship continue to resonate,” ocean explorer and filmmaker James Cameron said in a statement. “Like many, I was transfixed when Alvin and Jason Jr. ventured down to and inside the wreck. By releasing this footage, WHOI is helping tell an important part of a story that spans generations and circles the globe.”
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Karen Cohen Khazon, "Turpaz's double-digit growth and strong profit, profitability, and EBITDA stem from our combined growth strategy, which proves effective despite challenging macroeconomic conditions"
Company completes three acquisitions YTD, reaching a total of six acquisitions since it's IPO in May 2021
HOLON, Israel, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Turpaz Industries (Turpaz) (TASE: TRPZ), the developer, manufacturer, and marketer of fragrance and flavor extracts, intermediates for the pharma industry, specialty ingredients for the agrochemical and fine chemicals industries, as well as citrus products and aroma chemicals for the flavor and fragrance industry., reported its financial results for the second quarter of the year, today. The Q2 and H2 results set new records thanks to high growth rates in sales, gross profit, operating profit, and adjusted EBITDA.
Karen Cohen Khazon, Turpaz's CEO, commented on the results, "the record results we reported today reflect double-digit revenues and profit growth stemming from the company's growth strategy. Our strategy combines organic growth and acquisitions. The strong capital structure, low leveraging, and the experienced global management team allow Turpaz to deal effectively with challenging global macroeconomic conditions and persist with our acquisition strategy."
The double-digit growth presented by Turpaz was evident in all parameters reviewed, reflecting the management's global growth strategy. The sales in Q2 2022 grew by 50% to $30.3 million compared with $20.2 million in the same quarter of last year. The sales in the first half of 2022 grew by 46.3% to $57.7 million compared with $39.4 million in the same period last year. The growth is due to acquisitions completed during 2021 and 2022 as well as from organic growth net of currency fluctuations impact that accounted for 11% in the second quarter of 2022 and 10.3% in the first half of the year. These financial outcomes were achieved despite currency fluctuations, particularly in the markets in which the company trades in US$. These fluctuations impaired the sales in the second quarter by 7.7% and 5% in the first half of the year.
The gross profit in the first quarter of 2022 grew by 40.7% to $11.7 million, compared with $8.3 million in the same quarter of last year. The gross profit grew by 41.7% in the first half of 2022 to $22.4 million compared with $15.8 million in the same period last year. The growth in the gross profit and the stability of the gross profitability occurred despite the global increase in raw material and shipping costs.
The adjusted EBITDA grew by 34.7% in the first quarter of 2022 to $7 million, compared with $5.2 million in the same quarter of last year. The adjusted EBITDA grew to $13.3 million, compared with $9.9 million in the same period last year, an increase of 35%. The operating profit in the second quarter of 2022 has expanded by 19.8% to $5 million, as compared with $4.1 in the same quarter of last year. The operating profit in the first half of 2022 grew by 18.8% to $9.5 million, compared with $8 million in the same period of last year.
The net profit in the second quarter of 2022 grew by 32.7% to a total of $ 4.2 million, compared with $ 3.2 million in the same quarter last year. The net profit in the first half of 2022 grew by 29.8%, totaling $8.2 million, as opposed to $6.3 million in the same period of last year.
For more information about Turpaz, and the full financial report, visit ir.turpaz.co.il
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North Dakota has long been a hub for domestic energy production, carrying the state through periods of national economic turmoil. As it often goes, times change rapidly, and so do the nation's economic priorities and markets. Today, there is a strong demand for low-carbon energy, and our core industries are looking to adapt.
Luckily, carbon sequestration is a viable opportunity for North Dakota's energy sector and the communities that rely on its success. Companies like Summit Carbon Solutions are working to develop this technology that will prolong the life of our domestic energy resources and ensure our economic stability. We cannot rely on one energy source forever. Rather, we must find a way to lower the carbon intensity of coal, ethanol, and other fuel sources that we produce here in North Dakota.
Our family is partnering with Summit Carbon Solutions and allowing them to sequester carbon on our land because we believe it is essential to protecting the state’s economy. This project will also bring economic benefits during the land acquisition process and construction.
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• The project will create a need for thousands of jobs during the construction phase, which will account for $392 million in labor income.
• The Summit project will contribute millions in new property taxes to every county it touches.
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We urge others to learn more about carbon capture and storage technology. This project is a fundamental step in keeping our core industries competitive as alternative forms of energy grow in popularity.
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Woman arrested for taking raccoon into a bar, officials say
MADDOCK, N.D. (KVLY/Gray News) – A woman was arrested after walking into a bar in North Dakota carrying a raccoon, according to the Benson County Sheriff’s Office.
Erin Christensen, 38, was charged with North Dakota Game and Fish violations, tampering with evidence and providing false information to law enforcement. According to the sheriff’s office, the animal was put down and will be tested for rabies and other diseases.
Bartender Cindy Smith said she was serving drinks at the bar last week when Christensen brought in the animal during happy hour. There were about 10 people in the establishment at the time, she said.
Smith said she immediately asked the woman to leave but instead she took the raccoon around the bar to show another customer. The woman eventually left with the animal after about five minutes.
Smith said the raccoon never left Christensen’s arms and didn’t bite anyone.
Christensen said her family found the raccoon three months ago and had been caring for it ever since.
Health officials issued a warning to those who had contact with the animal about possible rabies exposure and asked anyone who may have been bitten or had contact with the raccoon’s saliva to seek medical care.
Six rabid animals have been reported in North Dakota this year, including two bats, two cats, one bovine and one skunk.
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Woman fatally shot with 5 children at home, authorities say
LANCASTER, S.C. (WBTV) - Authorities in South Carolina say a man is charged with murder after a woman was shot and killed inside her home while five children were present.
According to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to a home on West 3rd Street in Kershaw, South Carolina, for a report of shots fired late Sunday morning.
The person who called 911 lives on the same street and said that four children ran to the caller’s home and said their father shot their mother, authorities said.
When deputies arrived, 41-year-old Hurley D. Braddy Jr. walked out of the front door of his home and was taken into custody, according to the sheriff’s office.
A deputy went into the home and found a 1-year-old child sitting in a highchair in the kitchen, authorities said. The infant was not hurt, WBTV reports.
The deputy then found a 34-year-old woman, Christy Rozier, on the floor in a bedroom with gunshot wounds. EMS rendered aid and then pronounced Rozier dead, according to law enforcement.
Investigators said they found a handgun during a search of the home. They added that the five children, ranging in age from 1 to 16, were all inside the residence when the shooting occurred, and none of them were injured.
A sheriff’s office victim advocate responded to the scene and assisted the neighbor in caring for the children while arrangements were made, a news release stated. Relatives arrived later in the day to take custody of all five of them.
Braddy was transported to the sheriff’s office and later to the Lancaster County Detention Center. He was charged with murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime, authorities said. Bond was denied.
Investigators are unsure about the motive for the crime.
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Kuba Poraj-Kuczewski brings successful growth marketing background to Senior Leadership
DALLAS, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Western, the largest national private source of distressed residential investment properties, announced today that Kuba Poraj-Kuczewski joined the leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Poraj-Kuczewski will be responsible for leading all marketing efforts for the company and overseeing New Western's marketing team.
"We are thrilled to have Kuba serve our team as CMO," said Kurt Carlton, co-founder and president of New Western. "The vision we have for New Western far exceeds traditional levels of growth and requires the expertise of a leader with a proven track record of optimizing capabilities, positioning and tangible business results."
"New Western has an impressive history of building high-performing teams, and my passion lies in helping these teams drive customer awareness, demand and retention," said Kuba Poraj-Kuczewski. "I'm excited to support New Western in this next growth stage, and the challenge of moving it from stealth mode to a leading industry brand."
Poraj-Kuczewski brings more than two decades of experience in customer acquisition, engagement and marketing communication strategy. He has a keen understanding of brand awareness, product marketing and performance marketing. He has had tremendous success in growing industry-leading online products, campaigns and brands from launch to exit.
Before joining New Western, Poraj-Kuczewski led marketing at high-growth tech companies from early-stage industry leaders, including ClickBank, Quote Wizard, Redfin and Education Dynamics. He graduated from Seattle University with a degree in Marketing and International Business, where he serves on the Alumni Board.
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Trumpet, a bloodhound, was crowned the Best in Show winner at the 146th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Wednesday night.
The show is the second-oldest continuous sporting event in the US after Kentucky Derby and crowned its winner from among contenders who won in earlier best-in-group competitions.
Trumpet, who is 4 years old, is owned by Chris and Bryan Flessner, Heather Buehner and Tina Kocar, according to the WKC.
Bloodhounds are "one of the oldest breeds of dogs that hunt by scent," according to WKC classifications. A discovery by a trained bloodhound may be used in a court of law, the club said.
Winston, a French bulldog, took home the Reserve Best in Show title. One of Winston's owners is NFL defensive lineman Morgan Fox.
The show began Saturday at the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, New York, marking its second year at the location instead of its usual home at New York City's Madison Square Garden. The competition was originally relocated due to Covid-19 concerns.
Nearly 3,500 dogs -- representing more than 200 breeds and varieties -- took part in the competition, according to a news release from the organizers.
Here's how the winners were chosen
The show's seven finalists had won their individual group competitions.
Here's who won in each of the groups:
Hound: Trumpet the Bloodhound
Toy: Hollywood the Maltese
Non-sporting: Winston the French Bulldog
Herding: River the German Shepherd
Sporting: Belle the English Setter
Working: Striker the Samoyed
Terrier: MM the Lakeland
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Grocer donates apples to Storehouse New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An apple a day keeps the doctor away and it’s what a grocer is donating to a local food pantry to help people in New Mexico.
Storehouse New Mexico received nearly 5,000 pounds of apples from Albertsons Market. The donation occurred Wednesday and is a part of their “Take a Bite Out of Hunger” program.
Albertsons created the program 13 years ago to not only help feed underserved communities but bring attention to food insecurity.
This year, they donated more than 50,000 pounds of apples across New Mexico and Texas.
“When we look at food insecurities in the area, we want to give back and help that cause. Apples are a great way to do that as they’re nutritious and shelf-stable,” said Eric Fuller, from Albertsons Market.
The donation is helping Storehouse with the ever-more prevalent issue of food insecurity.
“Due to SNAP benefits being reduced, we’ve seen a sharp increase in demand. The Storehouse has been very, very busy in the last month. We have seen lots of people coming through and we’re proud to serve everyone and not turn anyone away – and have for everybody and it’s donations like this that make that possible,” said Kevin Cochran, the operations manager at Storehouse NM.
The Storehouse usually provides people with carts full of food. They say the apple donations will help a lot because it’ll add a variety of food and produce something the food pantry is hoping to give more of.
Roadrunner Food Bank will also be getting apple donations. For more information, click here. | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/grocer-donates-apples-to-storehouse-new-mexico/ | 2023-04-20 15:23:41 | 1 | https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/grocer-donates-apples-to-storehouse-new-mexico/ |
Twitter said Tuesday it will add a gray “official” label to some high-profile accounts to indicate that they are authentic, the latest twist in new owner Elon Musk’s chaotic overhaul of the platform’s verification system.
The site's current system of using what are known as "blue checks" confirming an account's authenticity will soon go away for those who don't pay a monthly fee. The checkmarks will be available at a yet-to-be-announced date for anyone willing to pay a $7.99-a-month subscription, which will also include some bonus features, such as fewer ads and the ability to have tweets given greater visibility than those coming from non-subscribers.
The platform's current verification system has been in place since 2009 and was created to ensure high-profile and public-facing accounts are who they say they are.
Experts have expressed concern that making the checkmark available to anyone for a fee could lead to impersonations and the spreading of misinformation and scams. The gray label — a color that tends to blend into the background whether you use light or dark mode to scroll Twitter — is an apparent compromise. But it might lead to more confusion, as Twitter users accustomed to the blue check as a mark of authenticity will now have to look for the less obvious “official” designation.
Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee who has been working on the verification overhaul, said Tuesday on Twitter that the "official" label will be added to "select accounts" when the new system launches.
"Not all previously verified accounts will get the 'Official' label and the label is not available for purchase," said Crawford, who recently was the subject of a viral photo showing her sleeping on the floor of a Twitter office while working to meet Musk's deadlines.
Crawford said those receiving the label include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures.
There are about 423,000 verified accounts under the outgoing system. Many of those belong to celebrities, businesses and politicians, as well as media outlets.
But a large chunk of verified accounts belong to individual journalists, some with tiny followings at local newspapers and news sites around the world. The idea was to verify reporters so their identities couldn't be used to push false information on Twitter.
Musk had previously floated designating official accounts in a way other than the blue check. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/twitter-to-add-official-mark-to-verified-big-accounts/GCZMQ6PDYBDL5FVFXUTNY5CGIE/ | 2022-11-09 02:32:05 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/twitter-to-add-official-mark-to-verified-big-accounts/GCZMQ6PDYBDL5FVFXUTNY5CGIE/ |
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Tyler Huff completed 21 of 22-pass attempts, threw for 295 yards and two touchdowns and Furman beat Wofford 63-28 on Saturday to end the regular season.
The Paladins (9-2, 7-1 Southern Conference) missed out on a chance to earn a share of the conference title when Samford (10-1, 8-0) beat Mercer 50-44 in double overtime. Furman closed the regular season with a six-game win streak and will now await an at-large bid to the FCS playoffs when the playoff field is announced Sunday.
Furman scored three touchdowns in each of the first three quarters.
Wofforrd's (3-8, 3-5) Jimmy Weirick threw for 428 yards, two touchdowns and was intercepted twice.
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HONOLULU — Towering waves on Hawaii's south shores crashed into homes and businesses, spilled across highways and upended weddings over the weekend.
The large waves — some more than 20 feet high — came from a combination of a southern swell that peaked Saturday evening, unusually high tides and rising sea levels from climate change, the National Weather Service said.
A wedding Saturday evening in Kailua-Kona was interrupted when a few particularly large waves swamped the event, sending tables and chairs crashing toward guests.
Sara Ackerman, an author who grew up in Hawaii and attended the wedding, filmed the waves as they barreled ashore.
“It just was huge,” she said. ”I was filming it and then it just came over the wall and just completely annihilated all the tables and chairs.”
She said it happened about five minutes before the ceremony was scheduled to begin.
“It wasn’t like a life-threatening situation by any means whatsoever,” she said. “It was just like, ‘Oh my gosh ... what are we going to do? Where are we going to put the tables?’”
She said they went ahead with the ceremony and cleaned up the mess after the newlyweds exchanged vows.
“We had the ceremony and it was beautiful, having all the (sea) spray,” she said. “The ocean was really wild. So it was great for the photos.”
Chris Brenchley, the meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service office in Honolulu, called the swell historic: “It’s the largest it’s been in several decades.”
He said the waves were a product of “an interesting convergence of events.”
Remnants of Tropical Cyclone Darby passed south of Hawaii but had no impact on the surf, he said.
Brenchley said the swell was produced in the South Pacific, where it's currently the winter season.
“They had a particularly strong winter storm where the the winds were focused directly towards places like Samoa and then further on to the north into Hawaii,” he said.
While singular events like this hard to pin directly to climate change, Brenchley said the warming planet is playing a role.
“The most direct type of impact that we can use with climate change is the sea level rise. Any time you add just even small amounts of water, you raise that sea level just a little bit,” he said. "And now those impacts will be exacerbated whenever we have a large storm event or a high, high, high tide. Everything just sort of adds adds a little bit more.”
The weekend waves had faces in excess of 20 feet high, Brenchley said. Most large swells that come from the south are typically no bigger than about 10 feet, which would trigger a high surf advisory.
Hawaii’s north shores, where professional surfers often compete, usually get much larger waves. The predominant swell hits the north shores in the winter and the south shores in the summer.
Lifeguards across the state had a busy weekend.
They conducted at least 1,960 rescues on the island of Oahu alone on Saturday and Sunday.
Officials reported one serious injury when a surfer suffered a laceration to the back of his head.
“Other than that, fortunately, it was a very safe weekend,” said Honolulu Emergency Management Services Department spokesperson Shayne Enright. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/video-hawaii-waves-crash-wedding-homes-south-swell/507-2a480cbf-2875-48ce-9443-4ba6b8d550bc | 2022-07-19 00:19:10 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/video-hawaii-waves-crash-wedding-homes-south-swell/507-2a480cbf-2875-48ce-9443-4ba6b8d550bc |
ABF Freight agrees
to settle U.S. case
Fort Smith-based ABF Freight System Inc. has agreed to a settlement resolving allegations it violated the Clean Water Act, according to a release by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Arkansas.
The consent decree includes a proposed settlement where ABF will implement a comprehensive stormwater compliance program companywide at all its transportation facilities except those in the state of Washington. It also includes a $530,000 civil penalty, some of which will be allocated to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, the state of Maryland, and the state of Nevada who were all part of the settlement.
In 2015, ABF voluntarily told the Environmental Protection Agency it failed to obtain industrial stormwater permit coverage at several facilities and discovered other areas of noncompliance through its own audits. ABF is a subsidiary of Fort Smith based ArcBest.
"Being a good steward is important to ArcBest and that means following environmental policies and being a leader in the ESG space," a company spokesman said in an emailed statement. "When we recognized an issue back in 2014, we voluntarily reached out to agencies and began working to correct the problem."
The consent decree is subject to a 30-day public comment period and approval by the federal court.
-- John Magsam
Kuria Therapeutics'
plan backed by FDA
A division of the Federal Drug Administration has given Kuria Therapeutics of Little Rock permission to move forward in developing a topical solution to treat patients with eye disease, including cataracts.
The pharmaceutical company was given approval by the pre-Investigational New Drug (IND) interaction program with the FDA, Kuria announced Friday.
The company can move ahead with nonclinical studies and received feedback from the FDA on the design of clinical trials.
"We are delighted by the positive, constructive, and practical feedback provided by the FDA during this pre-IND interaction," said Dr. Keith Ward, president and chief executive officer of Kuria. "We look forward to continued partnership with FDA on our future development program."
-- Andrew Moreau
State index gains
6.92 to open week
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, closed Monday at 749.89, up 6.92.
"Stocks closed higher on Monday as bank shares rebounded from big losses in the past week as the group was forced to shore up their deposit bases in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank," said Chris Harkins, managing director at Raymond James & Associates.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/21/news-in-brief/ | 2023-03-21 11:12:48 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/21/news-in-brief/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of reported sexual assaults across the military inched up by about 1% last year, as a sharp decline in Army numbers offset large increases in the other three services, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
The small overall uptick is significantly less than the 13% jump the Defense Department saw in 2021, but it’s overshadowed by the fact the Air Force, the Navy and the Marine Corps all had more reports last year than the previous year, according to the two U.S. officials.
Because the Army is much larger than the other three services, its 9% drop in reported sexual assaults last year drove the overall military increase down. That large decrease comes a year after Army leaders saw a nearly 26% jump in reports involving soldiers — the largest increase for that service since 2013.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Pentagon’s report on the cases had not yet been publicly released, said the Air Force saw the largest increase in reported assaults during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, at 13%, while the Navy had a 9% jump and the Marine Corps went up by about 4%. The Pentagon report is expected to be released Thursday.
Overall, there were more than 8,942 reports of sexual assaults involving service members during the 2022 fiscal year, a slight increase over the 8,866 the year before.
The Pentagon and the military services have come under increasing criticism and pressure from members of Congress to reduce sexual assaults and harassment in the military. The services have long struggled to come up with programs to prevent sexual assaults and to encourage reporting, including a number of new initiatives over the past year.
Defense officials have long argued that an increase in reported assaults is a positive trend because so many people are reluctant to report them, both in the military and in society as a whole. Greater reporting, they say, shows there is more confidence in the reporting system, greater comfort with the support for victims, and a growing number of offenders who are being held accountable.
It’s unclear whether the latest increase in reports represents a growing problem or whether those who say they were assaulted were just more willing to come forward.
While the military has made inroads in making it easier and safer for service members to come forward, it has had far less success in sustaining reductions in assaults, which according to a confidential survey returned to a high level last year. And Army leaders, as an example, have acknowledged that issues such as sexual assaults, suicides and other problems have an impact on recruiting. All of the services have been struggling to meet recruiting goals.
Army officials were alarmed as they saw the growing numbers last year and began trying to implement new programs, and by late fall they said that some changes were starting to work.
They said one change involved a training program that soldiers get when they report to their first duty station. It is rolled out right away, and it has soldiers acting out dangerous situations and emphasizes training on how to respond.
The Army officials also said they were beefing up evaluation programs that grade unit leaders, including randomly picking peers and others to do the assessments.
According to officials, the number of Air Force sexual assault reports increased from 1,701 in 2021 to 1,928 last year, while the Navy went from 1,883 to 2,052, the Marine Corps went from 1,201 to 1,244 and the Army decreased from 4,081 to 3,718.
The Pentagon releases a report every year on the number of sexual assaults reported by or about troops. But because sexual assault is a highly underreported crime, the department also does a confidential survey every two years to get a clearer picture of the problem. The most recent survey was released last year, so it won’t come out again until next year. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/military-sex-assault-reports-rise-even-as-army-numbers-fall/ | 2023-04-27 15:12:30 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/military-sex-assault-reports-rise-even-as-army-numbers-fall/ |
Girls high school hoops is back in action Thursday night as regional play continues. Class 1A continues the regional semifinals, while Class 2A, 3A and 4A are set to begin tournament play with the quarterfinals.
Class 1A Regional Semifinals
The 21-5 Newberry Panthers take on the 19-8 Hilliard Red Flashes at 7 p.m.
The Panthers ended their regular season with a 20-4 record, their best since 2012. The Panthers fell short in the district championship game against Hawthorne on Friday. Head coach Damien Hughes’ mindset going into the game is to “focus on his team.” He isn’t worried about learning Hilliard’s game plan, but rather focusing in on his players so he doesn’t miss anything.
In other class 1A semifinal games, the Madison County Cowboys face the Hawthorne Hornets at 7 p.m. The Cowboys finished their season at 13-5 and the Hornets ended with an 11-5 regular season record. Moreover, the Trenton Tigers take on the Williston Red Devils at 7 p.m.
Class 2A Regional Quarterfinals
The Oak Hall Eagles host the North Florida Educational Institute Fighting Eagles. Oak Hall finished their regular season with a 16-7 record. The Fighting Eagles ended their season with a 14-8 record, earning the No. 2 seed in region 1 of the tournament.
Class 3A Regional Quarterfinals
The P.K. Yonge Blue Wave are set to take on the Trinity Christian Academy Conquerors at home Thursday. The Blue Wave have shown resilience throughout the season, according to head coach Willie Powers.
“It’s one game at a time. You just want to come out one point better than the other team and get to the next game,” Powers said.
P.K. Yonge is the No. 2 seed in their region, while Trinity Christian Academy is No. 7. When speaking about his team’s regular season, he explained that he noticed the team’s intensity from the first two practices. Coach Powers has made his expectations for his players clear.
“With this group we have this year, they have been with me for a while, and they know what I expect. We just try to expect the best out of them every day,” Coach Powers said.
P.K. Yonge has a history of making a deep postseason run. Powers shows his players their wall of awards every year to motivate them and show them hard work pays off.
In other Class 3A quarterfinal games, Bradford will travel to the Providence School for a matchup starting at 7 p.m., and Florida State High School will host Trinity Catholic at 7 p.m. Florida State High School and Trinity Catholic both enter this game with a 16-10 regular season record.
Class 4A Regional Quarterfinals
The Niceville Eagles will travel to Gainesville tonight to face the Hurricanes at 6 p.m. The Eagles wrapped up their regular season with an 18-6 record, while the Hurricanes finished with a 14-7 record. | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2023/02/09/girls-high-school-hoops-continues-tournament-play/ | 2023-02-09 23:27:07 | 1 | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2023/02/09/girls-high-school-hoops-continues-tournament-play/ |
Man wins largest table games jackpot in Arizona history
CHANDLER, Ariz. - Christmas came early for a Phoenix man playing blackjack at an Arizona casino.
Officials say 21-year-old Luis Rodriguez Gomez won over $1 million at Gila River Resorts and Casino's Lone Butte location.
Gomez's $1,100,075 prize is the largest table games jackpot in state history, officials said.
"I was actually down to my last hand when I put down a $15 bet and put $5 on the progressive circle," Gomez said. "When I realized what I had won I immediately jumped on top of my brother," Gomez said."
Gomez said he plans on buying his parents a new home with his winnings, as well as a new car for himself and his family.
Officials say 21-year-old Luis Rodriguez Gomez won over $1 million at Gila River Resorts and Casino's Lone Butte location. (Gila River Resorts and Casinos) | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/man-wins-largest-table-games-jackpot-in-arizona-history | 2022-12-06 17:10:28 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/man-wins-largest-table-games-jackpot-in-arizona-history |
Since the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has referred often to Hillary Clinton’s emails, but the references have increased in urgency and frequency as he continues to deploy them in response to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his own handling of classified documents. He has posted comments on Truth Social at least seven times in the last three weeks, both before and after he was indicted on federal criminal charges that he repeatedly broke the law by hiding classified documents in his home.
Why wouldn’t “Deranged Jack Smith” look at “Hillary’s 33,000 emails that she deleted and acid washed,” he wrote in a post on June 13 and again on June 16. “CROOKED HILLARY DELETED 33,000 EMAILS, MANY CLASSIFIED, AND WASN’T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING CHARGED! ONLY TRUMP - THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!” he posted on June 5. Trump’s allies have echoed the comparisons in hundreds of social media postings as they suggest there is a two-tiered justice system.
In a speech at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club the evening of his arraignment, Trump was more expansive, making many false claims about materials found on the private email server Clinton maintained as secretary of state. As usual, Trump mixes partial facts and invented assertions into a stew of false equivalence. Let’s try to untangle it.
“Hillary Clinton set up an illegal private server in her basement … with the deliberate intention of violating public information law so she could hide her pay-for-play scandals at the Clinton Foundations or whatever.”
This is fiction. FBI interviews revealed that the arrangement came about because Clinton, a technophobe who according to aides never learned how to use a desktop computer, did not want to give up her BlackBerry device. Her preference for a personal email account was not against the rules but it was discouraged.
At the same time, to the chagrin of other agencies in the U.S. government, the State Department before Clinton’s arrival had a lax security posture that often relied on unclassified email systems. As the Fact Checker disclosed in 2016, many intelligence officials believed there were serious shortcomings in how State handled sensitive communications.
There is no evidence of any “pay-for-play” scandal at the Clinton Foundation. The Washington Post in 2015 revealed that Bill Clinton was paid at least $26 million in speaking fees by companies and organizations that are also major donors to the foundation. Charity Navigator, which rates nonprofits, briefly put the Clinton Foundation, a large public charity, on its “watch list” because it had an “atypical business model” but then in 2016 rated it as of “low concern,” with a four-star rating, its highest.
By contrast, Trump in 2019 was ordered by a judge to pay $2 million for misusing funds in the tax-exempt Trump Foundation.
“Hillary stored vast quantities of classified and sensitive information on her illicit server.”
This is mostly false, especially with regard to classified information. (Trump also said there was “sensitive information” — a vaguer term that covers material that is not classified.) None of the more than 30,000 emails bore classification markings — in stark contrast to the documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, where many have clear markings indicating they contained highly sensitive classified information.
There has been some confusion over whether Clinton’s emails were marked classified because of a mistake made by FBI Director James B. Comey at his 2016 news conference announcing that Clinton would not be prosecuted. He said three emails “were classified at the time they were sent or received.” At the time, he said one was marked “secret” and two “confidential,” but at a congressional hearing two days later, he said all were marked “confidential,” the lowest form of classification. Moreover, he acknowledged that the markings — a (C) — were contained in the body of the text and, contrary to standard practice, there was no header at the top alerting the recipient that this was classified material. He told lawmakers that without a header, it was “a reasonable inference” that this material was not classified.
The emails concerned proposed talking points for Clinton when she called a foreign leader. The State Department later said the (C) markings should have been removed as a matter of course once Clinton decided to place the call, but through “human error,” they had not been deleted. In her FBI interview, Clinton said she did not know what (C) meant and “speculated it was a reference to paragraphs ranked in alphabetical order.” A nearly 600-page Justice Department inspector general report released in June 2018 said the FBI missed the (C) markings until late in the investigation.
Two further investigations of the Clinton emails conducted during the Trump administration — first when Rex Tillerson was secretary of state and then again when Mike Pompeo was the chief diplomat — confirmed that none of the emails had been marked classified.
Still, investigations determined that classified information sometimes seeped into email exchanges. In one instance, a State Department official forwarded a newspaper article; then in subsequent exchanges, aides revealed sensitive details of a secret program as they discussed the shortcomings of that public report. Ultimately, the email chain ended up in Clinton’s inbox.
But this was relatively rare. In all, 52 email chains were determined to contain classified information, Comey said.
The 2019 Pompeo report was critical of Clinton’s decision to have a private server — “it added an increased degree of risk of compromise as a private system lacks the network monitoring and intrusion detection capabilities of State Department networks.” But the report concluded: “Instances of classified information being deliberately transmitted via unclassified email were the rare exception and resulted in adjudicated security violations. There was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.”
Clinton herself was not found to “bear any individual culpability” for the classified leaks under investigation.
“Some of it happened to leak; it leaked into Anthony Weiner’s computer, remember Anthony Weiner, into his computer. You don’t want to be on his computer.”
Trump seizes on a discrete instance to suggest there was a wider leak of Clinton’s emails. Anthony Weiner, a former member of Congress, at the time was married to Huma Abedin, one of Clinton’s top staffers, and was under investigation for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. The FBI seized his laptop and discovered it also contained emails and BlackBerry messages between Clinton and Abedin.
The FBI identified 13 confirmed classified email chains that were duplicates of what it had also already examined in the Clinton investigation. None were marked classified at the time, but the FBI “determined that Abedin forwarded two of the confirmed classified emails to Weiner,” the IG report said.
There’s an irony to Trump’s decrying the “leak” of Clinton’s emails, because on the campaign trail in 2016 he regularly cited a different set of emails — from the Clinton campaign — that had been hacked by Russia operatives and then distributed by WikiLeaks.
“And all of it was illegal because thankfully she was never president. She didn’t have the powers to declassify.”
Clinton’s actions were not illegal, though ill advised. Trump tosses in a reference to the power of the president to declassify. One of his excuses for keeping the records that resulted in his indictment is that he wrongly claims that the material was declassified simply because he took the documents with him. There’s a formal process involved. (The indictment also cited an audio recording of Trump in July 2021 referring to a document he had retained that he claimed was “highly confidential” but he couldn’t share because he was no longer president and could not declassify it.)
“When caught, Hillary then deleted and acid washed. Nobody does that because of the expense.”
For some reason, Trump regularly says Clinton at great expense “acid washed” her emails. When Clinton staff asked an aide to delete about 30,000 personal emails before handing over work emails to the State Department, they were deleted with a free software program known as BleachBit; there is no such thing as “acid washed.”
“But it’s pretty conclusive, 33,000 emails in defiance of a congressional subpoena already launched. The subpoena was there and she decided to delete, acid wash, and then smash and destroy her cellphones with a hammer. And then they say, I participated in obstruction? No, think of it. That’s called obstruction. There’s never been obstruction as grave as that.”
This is false. Clinton’s staff had requested that the personal emails be deleted months before the subpoena, according to the FBI. Moreover, there’s no evidence Clinton deleted the emails in anticipation of the subpoena. Comey said his agency’s investigation found no evidence that any work-related emails were “intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them.”
The FBI reported that a Clinton aide destroyed two old phones with a hammer — which is an effective way to prevent data from being assessed — but there is no indication this was done in response to a subpoena.
“The FBI and the DOJ protected her, did not issue subpoenas, did not use a grand jury, did not execute search warrants. And then, the corrupt head of the FBI, James Comey, declared, ‘No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case.’ Can you believe it?”
This is wrong. Investigators “sought to obtain evidence whenever possible through consent but also used compulsory process, including grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, and 2703(d) orders (court orders for non-content email information) to obtain various evidence,” according to the IG report. “We found that the prosecutors provided justifications for the preference for consent that were supported by Department and FBI policy and practice.”
Investigators did not require witnesses to testify before a grand jury and relied on voluntary witness interviews, including with Clinton. But the IG said “one of the reasons for not using the grand jury for testimony involved concerns about exposing grand jurors to classified information.” The IG added that allowing two fact witnesses to attend Clinton’s interview as her counsel was “inconsistent with typical investigative strategy” but the FBI “determined that the only way to exclude them was to subpoena Clinton to testify before the grand jury, an option that we found was not seriously considered” because the evidence did not support criminal charges and the interview was deemed unlikely to change the outcome.
“Hillary Clinton took hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of furniture, china, flatware, rugs and more from the White House and she wasn’t prosecuted. How about that one? She took the furniture and the china.”
Trump extended his comparison with Clinton in commenting more broadly on what she and her husband removed from the White House. He greatly exaggerated. When he left office, Bill Clinton reported that he had retained $190,027 worth of gifts that he had received. “Many of the gifts the Clintons are taking with them are from Hollywood figures, Democratic donors and a wide array of friends and associates, including his Georgetown University classmates,” The Post reported. The Clintons took about $21,800 worth of china, including gifts from actor-actress couple Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and movie director and producer Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw. Other gifts retained by the Clintons included artworks, flatware, furniture and rugs.
But then The Post revealed that some gifts were intended for the White House, not the Clintons. Within a week, the Clintons returned $28,500 in furnishings that The Post had identified as legally designated as White House property by the National Park Service. The Clintons also decided to pay for $86,000 worth of gifts given to them in 2000, given that Hillary Clinton had been elected a U.S. senator and thus became covered by strict ethics rules that prohibit the receipt of any gift (other than from relatives) worth more than $50.
Trump, by contrast, failed to report nearly $300,000 in gifts from foreign leaders, a report by House Democrats said this year. Two gifts, including golf clubs from the Japanese prime minister, cannot be found.
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Rosario Dawson has made a grave mistake—accidentally lying to Marvel fans!
While the actress, soon to be seen in the Disney+ Star Wars series Ahsoka, is no stranger to blockbuster franchises and their love of secrecy, she recently got a bit ahead of herself in sharing some big Marvel news.
"I found out yesterday that The Punisher was happening again so I feel like it's my second chance," Dawson said during an appearance at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo Aug. 7. "It's the only one of the shows that I wasn't in and I love Jon Bernthal so let's all make it happen collectively, guys."
There's just one problem—the show isn't actually getting a revival (yet).
Later that night, Dawson realized the error of her ways, tweeting: "I can't be trusted…! Getting intel from fans during signings is iffy apparently. My bad. I get excited. Confirmation is key when you're told what you want to hear…"
The Punisher was canceled in 2019 after running for two seasons on Netflix.
Dawson is no stranger to the Marvel universe. After all, she appeared as former night nurse Claire Temple on the Netflix adaptations of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and The Defenders.
Alas, her long-awaited on-screen foray with Frank Castle will have to wait—at least for now.
Rumors of a revival of The Punisher have been percolating for a while, especially in the wake of the news that Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio will reprise their Daredevil roles for a new Disney+ series titled Daredevil: Born Again.
Dawson is also set to appear in the new Daredevil show, which she said came with a lot at stake.
"We definitely felt the pressure, but we really enjoyed just bringing our all to it," she said at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. "The fight sequences were really fun. There was this beautiful intimacy, we just had a really, really good time."
While we cross our fingers that an official Punisher announcement is ahead, get your Dawson fix when Ahsoka hits Disney+ sometime in 2023 and Daredevil: Born Again arrives in spring 2024. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1341213/rosario-dawson-walks-back-punisher-revival-news | 2022-08-08 20:44:14 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1341213/rosario-dawson-walks-back-punisher-revival-news |
NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Confluent Group is starting off the new year focused with renewed optimism on the finish, as the firm nears completion of its largest ground-up project to date in Harrison, NY. The uber luxe development is one of its kind and will redefine elevated living in Westchester County market.
The boutique private equity firm, led by LA based investor David Gross, and its partners in the development, former NBA stars Luol Deng and Charlie Villanueva, are mere months away from beginning lease up of the 24-unit, transit-adjacent, luxury building, with plans of selling it once stabilized.
This will be a major off the court win for the former high school teammates, who have a history of scoring big together on the court.
"The project and the group behind it are unique," said Gross "A former NBA All-Star is my co-GP, and the bulk of our LP capital comes from another former NBA star. Collectively, we're 97% of the equity in the deal. That's rare, and I'm lucky that they were my partners in the deal. It's been a challenging environment for ground-up development, and covid would have destroyed the project without their continued support.
What we're doing is big for the three of us, and for our culture. The dearth of minority developers doesn't make us special. It merely highlights the need for more, which is primarily a function of resources and supportive capital to help black and brown firms succeed in an industry where success is largely a function of access to capital. Like it or not, our ultimate outcome impacts the fate of other minority development firms out there, so we have to win."
The multifamily development, which stands at 95% completion today, was significantly impacted by the pandemic. Supply chain issues and inflation posed an existential threat to the project, impacting the budget and timeline. The extreme move in interest rates across 2022 is a headwind for the entire real estate ecosystem, but the trio doggedly persevered in face of the myriad obstacles that continue to pose challenges to the entire industry, and are now ready to test the capital markets to take out their existing construction lenders Lightstone Capital and LISC's Black Economic Development Fund with new partners who share their vision for the trophy asset.
"Completing a development of this scale is a significant milestone in my second career as an investor and developer" added Deng. "Lightstone and BEDF played an important role as capital partners willing to invest in minority developers. Though we were dealt a tough hand with timing, we're here now and expect all of our partners to have great outcome ."
"Coming from a background developing and investing in single family homes, as well as new construction, condos, townhomes and remodeling, I always wanted to invest in multifamily" said Villanueva. "Finding the right partners was imperative, Luol and David were just that. Even though this project has been extremely challenging to complete, we can now see the light at the end of the tunnel."
About Lightstone
Lightstone, founded by David Lichtenstein, is one of the largest and most diversified privately held real estate companies in the United States. Lightstone is active in 27 states across the country, developing, managing and investing in all sectors of the real estate market, including residential, hospitality, commercial, and retail. With over 140 existing properties, Lightstone's over $6.5 billion portfolio currently includes over 3 million square feet of office, retail and industrial commercial properties, over 15,400 residential units, and over 4,100 hotel keys. Lightstone also owns over 12,000 land lots across the country. Headquartered in New York City, Lightstone continues to grow its development portfolio with over $3.5 billion currently under development in the residential and hospitality sectors spread across New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami.
Lightstone Capital is Lightstone's real estate debt platform, providing sponsors with flexible, creative, and immediate financing solutions. Launched in 2018 it has a $500 million pipeline.
About LISC
With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families. Since 1979, LISC has invested $22 billion to build or rehab more than 419,000 affordable homes and apartments and develop 70.3 million square feet of retail, community and educational space. For more, visit www.lisc.org.
About the Black Economic Development Fund
The Black Economic Development Fund (BEDF) is an impact investment fund built to address economic challenges in Black communities and to help close the racial wealth gap. The fund targets Black-led financial institutions, businesses, real estate developers and anchor institutions with the goal of growing these organizations and strengthening their contributions to Black communities. The fund deploys capital across a diverse set of industries, borrowers and geographies in the United States. The BEDF is managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Strategic Investments team and LISC Fund Management, LLC, a LISC affiliate.
Get in touch:
Luol Deng: @luoldeng9
Charlie Villanueva: @cvbelieve
David Gross: @david.a.gross
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Starbucks introduces new chocolate-flavored coffee
Published: May. 10, 2022 at 8:02 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - If you like chocolate, Starbucks has a new drink for you.
Starbucks added a new chocolate cold brew to its menu on Tuesday.
The drink is topped with a light chocolate-cream foam and is sweetened with vanilla syrup.
Cold beverages, like iced coffees and Frappuccinos, have been extremely successful for Starbucks.
Interim CEO Howard Schultz said in last week’s earnings call that they account for “almost 80% of the business.”
Starbucks said its new chocolatey drink is meant to convey a “nostalgic” feeling of summer but will be available all year long.
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BERLIN (AP) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday that its director-general will travel to Tehran for high-level meetings at the invitation of Iran’s government.
The announcement by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency comes days after it reported that uranium particles enriched up to 83.7% were found in Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site.
The IAEA tweeted that Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi would hold a news conference upon his return from Iran to Vienna on Saturday.
The confidential quarterly report by the IAEA, which was distributed to member states on Tuesday, likely will raise tensions further between Iran and the West over its nuclear program.
The IAEA report described inspectors discovering on Jan. 21 that two cascades of IR-6 centrifuges at Iran’s Fordo facility had been configured in a way “substantially different” to what had been previously declared. The IAEA took samples the following day, which showed particles with up to 83.7% purity, the report said.
The IAEA report only spoke about “particles,” suggesting that Iran isn’t building a stockpile of uranium enriched above 60% — the level it has been enriching at for some time. However, the agency also said in its report that it would “further increase the frequency and intensity of agency verification activities” at Fordo after the discovery.
Iran has been producing uranium enriched to 60% purity — a level for which nonproliferation experts already say Tehran has no civilian use.
Uranium at nearly 84% is almost at weapons-grade levels of 90% — meaning any stockpile of that material could be quickly used to produce an atomic bomb if Iran chooses.
Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal limited Tehran’s uranium stockpile to 300 kilograms (661 pounds) and enrichment to 3.67% — enough to fuel a nuclear power plant. The U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018.
Iran long has denied ever seeking nuclear weapons and maintains its program is peaceful.
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Sectional run ends for Edgewood boys' soccer
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GREENCASTLE — Northview scored in the final two minutes of the first half and added an insurance goal in the second half to post a 2-0 win over stubborn Edgewood in the semifinals of the Class 2A Greencastle boys' soccer sectional on Wednesday.
The Mustangs (2-14) kept the Knights in check before Matthew Mullenix scored with 1:18 left in the opening half. He didn't wait nearly as long to strike again, giving his team a two-goal lead with 25:59 to go.
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NEWBURG, Pa. — Keswick Creamery is recalling ten different types of cheese due to a possible listeria contamination.
According to an announcement from the FDA, listeria infections can be serious and sometimes fatal. No illnesses have been reported to date.
The recalled cheeses are labeled from Keswick Creamery with the type of cheese named on its label.
Here are the cheeses that are being recalled:
- Calverley Cheese in 4-ounce to 12-ounce packages, price and weight labeled in red, black, or purple ink
- Vulkwin’s Folly Cheese in 4-ounce to 12-ounce packages, price and weight labeled in red, black, or purple ink
- Havarti Cheese in 4-ounce to 12-ounce packages, price and weight labeled in red, black, or purple ink
- Vermeer Cheese in 4-ounce to 12-ounce packages, price and weight labeled in red, black, or purple ink
- Wallaby Cheese in 4-ounce to 12-ounce packages, price and weight labeled in red, black, or purple ink
- Cider Washed Tomme Cheese in 4-ounce to 12-ounce packages, price and weight labeled in red, black, or purple ink
- Feta cheese in 4-ounce to 12-ounce packages, price and weight labeled in red, black, or purple ink
- Whole Milk Ricotta, 8-ounce and 16-ounce clear deli container, expiration dates 7/18/22, 7/25/22, 8/1/22, 8/8/22, 8/18/22
- Bovre Cheese (plain, oregano and garlic, herbes de Provence, cranberry and honey), 8-ounce clear deli container, expiration dates 7/25/22, 8/1/22, 8/8/22, 8/22/22
- Quark Cheese (plain and dill and onion), 8-ounce and 16-ounce clear deli container, expiration dates 7/7/22, 8/4/22, 8/25/22
These recalled cheeses were distributed at the following places:
- Dupont Circle Freshfarm Market in Washington, D.C.
- Takoma Park Farmers Market in Takoma Park, Maryland
- Smith Meadows Farm Store in Berryville, Virginia
- Oylers Organic Farms and Market in Biglerville, Pennsylvania
- Talking Breads Farm Store in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Anyone who purchased any of the recalled cheeses from Keswick Creamery are urged to discard the product, and you can contact the creamery directly via e-mail at keswickrecall@gmail.com or call 1-800-946-1631 to report the product and receive a full refund. | https://www.fox43.com/article/money/personal-finance/recalls/keswick-creamery-cheese-recall-pennsylvania/521-7bf9f6f4-57bc-46b3-b5ca-7f8ff98b866d | 2022-08-30 20:02:31 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/money/personal-finance/recalls/keswick-creamery-cheese-recall-pennsylvania/521-7bf9f6f4-57bc-46b3-b5ca-7f8ff98b866d |
Elon Musk tells investors he’ll pause on Tesla stock sales
(AP) - CEO Elon Musk says he won’t sell any more shares in Tesla for 18 months or more, likely an attempt to comfort shareholders of the electric vehicle company who have watched the stock lose nearly half of its value since Musk’s purchase of Twitter went through in October.
“I’m not selling any stock for 18 to 24 months,” Musk said during an audio-only Twitter Spaces group conversation on Thursday. Musk then said he wouldn’t sell Tesla shares for two years, but backtracked and said he would pause sales for at least one year.
Musk dumped another $2.58 billion worth of Tesla stock last week and has sold nearly $23 billion worth of his car company’s shares since April, when he started building a position in Twitter. A significant portion of those proceeds have gone to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, which has been marked by chaos since Musk took over.
In less than two months, Musk has presided over a dizzying series of changes that have unnerved advertisers and turned off users. He’s laid off half of the workforce, axed contract content moderators and disbanded a council of trust and safety advisors. He has dropped enforcement of COVID-19 misinformation rules and called for criminal charges against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert.
Tesla investors have grown weary of the 24/7 Twitter chaos that they say has distracted the eccentric CEO from the electric car company, his main source of wealth.
Tesla’s market value was over $1.1 trillion on April 1, the last trading day before Musk disclosed he was buying up Twitter shares. The company has since lost nearly two-thirds of its value, at a time when rival automakers are cutting in on Tesla’s dominant share of electric vehicle sales.
Tesla shares fell more than 1% on Friday, to $123.74. They were more than $360 each on April 1 and hit an all-time high of more than $414 in November of 2020.
This week, Tesla boosted the discounts it’s offering through year’s end on its two top-selling models, an indication that demand is slowing for its electric vehicles.
The Austin, Texas, company began offering a $3,750 incentive on its Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV on its website earlier this month, but on Wednesday doubled the discount to $7,500 for those who take delivery between now and Dec. 31.
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SECOND QUARTER 2022 OPERATING RESULTS AND INCREASED 2022 GUIDANCE ANNOUNCED BY NATIONAL RETAIL PROPERTIES, INC.
Published: Aug. 3, 2022 at 7:30 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National Retail Properties, Inc. (NYSE: NNN), a real estate investment trust, today announced its operating results for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2022. Highlights include:
Operating Results:
Revenues and net earnings, FFO, Core FFO and AFFO available to common stockholders and diluted per share amounts:
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights:
Maintained high occupancy levels at 99.1%, with a weighted average remaining lease term of 10.6 years, at June 30, 2022 as compared to 99.2% at March 31, 2022 and 99.0% at December 31, 2021
Invested $153.8 million in property investments, including the acquisition of 43 properties with an aggregate 348,000 square feet of gross leasable area at an initial cash yield of 6.2%
Sold 8 properties for $7.9 million producing $0.8 million of gains on sales
Raised $31.8 million net proceeds from the issuance of 734,298 common shares
Maintained sector leading 14.2 year weighted average debt maturity for fixed rate debt
First Half of 2022 Highlights:
Invested $364.6 million in property investments, including the acquisition of 102 properties with an aggregate 1,227,000 square feet of gross leasable area at an initial cash yield of 6.2%
Sold 18 properties for $28.0 million producing $4.8 million gains on sales
Raised $32.5 million net proceeds from the issuance of 751,869 common shares
Core FFO guidance for 2022 was increased from a range of $3.01 to $3.08 per share to a range of $3.07 to $3.12 per share. The 2022 AFFO is estimated to be $3.14 to $3.19 per share. The Core FFO guidance equates to net earnings of $1.83 to $1.88 per share, plus $1.24 per share of expected real estate depreciation and amortization and excludes any gains from the sale of real estate, charges for impairments and executive retirement costs. The guidance is based on current plans and assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties more fully described in this press release and the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Steve Horn, Chief Executive Officer, commented: "National Retail Properties saw continued operational momentum through the second quarter of 2022, highlighted by the selective acquisition of just over $150 million in new properties. In July, we increased our common stock dividend by nearly four percent to 55 cents per share, while preserving our low dividend payout ratio, marking our 33rd consecutive year of increased annual dividends, a feat matched by only two other REITs and by fewer than 90 public companies in the United States."
National Retail Properties invests primarily in high-quality retail properties subject generally to long-term, net leases. As of June 30, 2022, the company owned 3,305 properties in 48 states with a gross leasable area of approximately 33.8 million square feet and with a weighted average remaining lease term of 10.6 years. For more information on the company, visit www.nnnreit.com.
Management will hold a conference call on August 3, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. ET to review these results. The call can be accessed on the National Retail Properties web site live at http://www.nnnreit.com. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available on the company's web site. In addition, a summary of any earnings guidance given on the call will be posted to the company's web site.
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements. These statements generally are characterized by the use of terms such as "believe," "expect," "intend," "may," "estimated," or other similar words or expressions. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, which may cause the company's actual future results to differ materially from expected results. These risks include, among others, the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company's business operations, financial results and financial position and on the world economy, general economic conditions, local real estate conditions, changes in interest rates, increases in operating costs, the preferences and financial condition of the company's tenants, the availability of capital, and, risks related to the company's status as a REIT. Additional information concerning these and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements is contained from time to time in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") filings, including, but not limited to, the company's (i) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and (ii) Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022. Copies of each filing may be obtained from the company or the Commission. Such forward-looking statements should be regarded solely as reflections of the company's current operating plans and estimates. Actual operating results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in this press release. National Retail Properties, Inc. undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date these statements were made.
Funds From Operations, commonly referred to as FFO, is a relative non-GAAP financial measure of operating performance of an equity REIT in order to recognize that income-producing real estate historically has not depreciated on the basis determined under GAAP. FFO is defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("NAREIT") and is used by the company as follows: net earnings (computed in accordance with GAAP) plus depreciation and amortization of assets unique to the real estate industry, excluding gains (or including losses), any applicable taxes and noncontrolling interests on the disposition of certain assets, the company's share of these items from the company's unconsolidated partnerships and any impairment charges on a depreciable real estate asset.
FFO is generally considered by industry analysts to be the most appropriate measure of performance of real estate companies. FFO does not necessarily represent cash provided by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to net earnings as an indication of the company's performance or to cash flow as a measure of liquidity or ability to make distributions. Management considers FFO an appropriate measure of performance of an equity REIT because it primarily excludes the assumption that the value of the real estate assets diminishes predictably over time, and because industry analysts have accepted it as a performance measure. The company's computation of FFO may differ from the methodology for calculating FFO used by other equity REITs, and therefore, may not be comparable to such other REITs. A reconciliation of net earnings (computed in accordance with GAAP) to FFO, as defined by NAREIT, is included in the financial information accompanying this release.
Core Funds From Operations ("Core FFO") is a non-GAAP measure of operating performance that adjusts FFO to eliminate the impact of certain GAAP income and expense amounts that the company believes are infrequent and unusual in nature and/or not related to its core real estate operations. Exclusion of these items from similar FFO-type metrics is common within the REIT industry, and management believes that presentation of Core FFO provides investors with a potential metric to assist in their evaluation of the company's operating performance across multiple periods and in comparison to the operating performance of its peers because it removes the effect of unusual items that are not expected to impact the company's operating performance on an ongoing basis. Core FFO is used by management in evaluating the performance of the company's core business operations and is a factor in determining management compensation. Items included in calculating FFO that may be excluded in calculating Core FFO may include items such as transaction related gains, income or expense, impairments on land or commercial mortgage residual interests, preferred stock redemption costs, executive retirement costs, loss on early extinguishment of debt or other non-core amounts as they occur. The company's computation of Core FFO may differ from the methodology for calculating Core FFO used by other equity REITs, and therefore, may not be comparable to such other REITs. A reconciliation of net earnings (computed in accordance with GAAP) to Core FFO is included in the financial information accompanying this release.
Adjusted Funds From Operations ("AFFO") is a non-GAAP financial measure of operating performance used by many companies in the REIT industry. AFFO adjusts FFO for certain non-cash items that reduce or increase net income in accordance with GAAP. AFFO should not be considered an alternative to net earnings, as an indication of the company's performance or to cash flow as a measure of liquidity or ability to make distributions. Management considers AFFO a useful supplemental measure of the company's performance. The company's computation of AFFO may differ from the methodology for calculating AFFO used by other equity REITs, and therefore, may not be comparable to such other REITs. A reconciliation of net earnings (computed in accordance with GAAP) to AFFO is included in the financial information accompanying this release.
National Retail Properties, Inc.
2022 Earnings Guidance
Guidance is based on current plans and assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties more fully described in this press release and the company's reports filed with the Commission.
As of June 30, 2022, Debt / EBITDA based on current quarter EBITDA annualized is 5.4x.
National Retail Properties, Inc. Debt Summary – Continued As of June 30, 2022 (unaudited)
Credit Facility and Note Covenants
The following is a summary of key financial covenants for the company's unsecured credit facility and notes, as defined and calculated per the terms of the facility's credit agreement and the notes' governing documents, respectively, which are included in the company's filings with the Commission. These calculations, which are not based on U.S. GAAP measurements, are presented to investors to show that as of June 30, 2022, the company believes it is in compliance with the covenants.
National Retail Properties, Inc. Rent Deferral Lease Amendments (in thousands)
The following table outlines the rent deferred and corresponding scheduled repayment of the COVID-19 rent deferral lease amendments executed as of June 30, 2022 (dollars in thousands):
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After causing outrage by making over the Green M&M and launching a special bag featuring its new Purple character in honor of International Women's Day, M&M'S says it is taking a step back from its candy reps — sort of.
"In the last year, we've made some changes to our beloved spokescandies," the chocolate candy brand said in a statement Monday . "We weren't sure if anyone would even notice. And we definitely didn't think it would break the internet."
The brand added that the changes were so polarizing that "we have decided to take an indefinite pause from the spokescandies." Mars has tapped comedian and actress Maya Rudolph to represent the product instead.
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The Green M&M, pre-makeover, is seen here in her go-go boots.
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"We are confident Ms. Rudolph will champion the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they belong," M&M'S, which is owned by Mars, said in a statement Monday.
The partnership with Rudolph has been "in the works for a while," said Gabrielle Wesley, chief marketing officer for Mars Wrigley North America, in a statement emailed to CNN.
"There are lots of stories out there but let me say conclusively that this decision isn't a reaction to but rather is in support of our M&M'S brand," Wesley said. "The original colorful cast of M&M'S spokescandies are, at present, pursuing other personal passions."
That doesn't mean the brand is ditching the candy characters: "We will share more on the spokescandies new pursuits over the next few weeks," a spokesperson told CNN.
Rudolph will appear in an M&M'S Super Bowl commercial. Mars announced in December that it would run an ad during the game. Online, some guessed right away that the announcement was part of a Super Bowl campaign, while others criticized the brand for bowing to pressure. Even Merriam Webster weighed in, tweeting that "spokescandies " is not in the dictionary.
M&M'S sparks controversy Last year, M&M'S unveiled a new look for all of its anthropomorphized chocolate characters to make them more relevant to young consumers.
Most of the updates were subtle. But the change to Green's shoes, from go-go boots to sneakers, caused outrage on social media, with many bemoaning the loss of the character's signature look. A petition to "keep the green M&M sexy" garnered over 20,000 signatures. (M&M'S didn't heed the plea, but did note in its statement on Monday that "even a candy's shoes can be polarizing," adding that "was the last thing M&M'S wanted since we're all about bringing people together.")
M&M said Monday that the changes they made last year were so polarizing that they "have decided to take an indefinite pause from the spokescandies."
M&M'S
And then in September, M&M'S announced another change : A new female character, Purple, was joining the lineup (but not actual bags of candy) in another effort to make the group of spokescandies more inclusive. Purple was recently deployed as part of a limited-edition pack of purple, brown and green M&M'S — the colors of the female spokescandies — in honor of International Women's Day.
"If this is what you need for validation, an M&M that is the color that you think is associated with feminism, then I'm worried about you," Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum said, adding that the move emboldened China. "I think that makes China say, 'Oh, good, keep focusing on that. Keep focusing on giving people their own color M&M'S while we take over all of the mineral deposits in the entire world.'"
A graphic on a Fox show even called the candy "woke."
Jane Hwang, Global Vice President of M&M'S, previously told CNN that the reaction to Green's change was "unprecedented" and that "we were incredibly overwhelmed."
But, she said at the time, "now we know for certain that M&M'S is a cultural icon."
Which candy bar is the best?
1. Take 5
Shut it down. We’ve got a winner. We already loved Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five,” the jazz piece in 5/4 time that is really, really hard to whistle. We’ve now got the unrelated Take 5 candy bar, which manages to crack the candy bar code with the addition of pretzel. Pretzels! Of course! The simple, modest pretzel does so much by adding salt and texture, two essential components to a great candy bar. The rest of the bar combines seemingly every other good thing you find in other bars: chocolate, caramel, peanut butter and peanuts. It’s an unbeatable combination.
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2. Butterfinger
Remember the good old days when our favorite TV shows used to sell out? Not the sneaky sponsored content of today but, like, very obviously, shamelessly sell out? Bart Simpson shilling for Butterfinger created some pretty good commercials back in the ’80s and ’90s, such as when he illustrated for his friend Milhouse the four food groups: sandwich group, cow group (milk), jungle group (banana), and Butterfinger group. Butterfinger remains one of the best candy bars out there: the thin, brittle candy layers taste strongly of peanut butter, and there’s a great saltiness to the bar. I used to nibble off the waxy chocolate outside as a kid and eat the candy core in one go.
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3. Payday
This thing is salty. It’s really salty. It’s saltier than Twitter whenever Bret Stephens publishes a column. And for that reason, and nearly that reason alone, the Payday bar is extremely good. Why more companies haven’t keyed in to the magical Salt + Sweet = Good equation is confounding, but it makes it all the more satisfying when you find a bar as good as a Payday, a caramel core rolled in salted peanuts. The chewy center can get to be a little much, but it’s a small price to pay for this candy bar par excellence.
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4. Snickers
Snickers, introduced in 1930, has a done a great job with its marketing over the years, etching the slogan “Packed with peanuts, Snickers really satisfies” into my television-addled brain at a very young age. They successfully convinced a generation that candy is actually a good thing to eat when you’re hungry and that it may even fuel your Olympics and discus-throwing aspirations. But peanuts, caramel and nougat are a combination that’s hard to argue with, and the classic brown-and-blue design remains attractive to the eye after all these decades.
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Photographer: Samokhin Roman
5. Toblerone
Let’s give it up for the Toblerone bar: that thing we buy at the airport duty-free store when we have some euros left over from a trip, but not enough for it to be worth exchanging them back to dollars. Toblerone, while still made in Switzerland, is owned by the Illinois-based Mondelez International, formerly known as Kraft Foods. Fun fact: “Mondelez” is literally a nonsense word made up by employees and doesn’t refer to anything. That’s how badly they wanted to change the name. The Toblerone has an amusing shape — three-dimensional triangles joined together — and the chocolate certainly tastes richer and milkier than your average U.S. bar. I like the sticky nougat chunks dotted throughout that invariably end up deep in your back molars.
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6. Twix
The Twix candy bar owes an incalculable debt of gratitude to the Swiss one-hit wonders Yello (and I might be stretching the definition of “hit” in this case), who created the song “Oh Yeah,” featured in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” as well as several late-’80s Twix commercials. Twix isn’t salty enough but is still one of the better candy bars due to the crunch of its bottom cookie layer. Why more candy bars don’t add cookies is a mystery to me: a crisp, crumbly cookie is a perfect foil to sticky caramel.
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7. Baby Ruth
It’s been posited that the Baby Ruth candy bar, introduced in 1921, was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, and not baseball legend Babe Ruth, who was in the prime of his career when the candy hit the market. This makes literally no sense, as Babe Ruth was hugely popular at the time, and Ruth Cleveland had been dead for 17 years when the bar came out. It would be like if I debuted a line of microwavable frozen curries in the Bay Area under the brand Stephen’s Curry, then claimed I’d never heard of the Golden State Warriors. But the courts bought it: Babe Ruth sued the candy maker and lost. Fortunately, the quality of the candy bar is less debatable. It’s a good candy bar. Peanuts riddle the outside of the solid nougat core (although they’re unsalted), which provides for a crunchy, satisfying snacking experience.
Wrapper ranking: 17
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8. Whatchamacallit
First and foremost, I give extreme graphic-design-is-my-passion props to the Whatchamacallit label, which combines Lichtenstein-ian dots, with a cheesy font and wonderfully bad color scheme. As a bonus, the candy bar is pretty good too, the key being the inclusion of peanut butter-flavored crisped rice, which adds flavor and texture to the chocolate and caramel. But really, I’m all about the aesthetic, embodied in this great late 80s commercial which easily could have been a Bananarama video.
Wrapper ranking: 1
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9. (if eaten frozen. If not, -1,000) Charleston Chew
Fun fact: The Charleston Chew is not, in fact, named after a city in South Carolina but rather the Charleston dance, which was apparently a thing when this candy bar debuted in the 1920s. Why did we stop naming food after dance fads? (It’s important to note that the dance-to-candy-brand journey has worked the other way around, too. See: Laffy Taffy.) Why don’t we now have a candy bar called the Backpack Kid? Someone at Big Candy needs to get on this right away. The Charleston Chew is mushy and sticky on its own, like a sad Tootsie Roll. It works exponentially better when frozen, however. A cold Charleston becomes light and crunchy, nearly meringue-like, and then yields to a pleasant chewiness.
Wrapper ranking: 5
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10. Oh Henry!
Sue Ellen Mischke, the “braless wonder” from Seinfeld and heiress to the Oh Henry! candy bar fortune, may not have used her money on undergarments, but certainly had ancestors with good taste in candy. The Oh Henry! is a sleeper hit: The layers of caramel and nougat might lead you to think it’s going to be another soft, spineless Mars- or Milky Way-like experience, but there are actually peanuts embedded in the caramel, as with a Snickers. The Oh Henry! has a thicker caramel layer, whereas the Snickers has a thicker nougat layer. I slightly prefer the latter, but both are tasty. Would I sell my watch for this bar? Not likely; but I might sell my hair.
Wrapper ranking: 6
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11. Cadbury Flake
It’s a little unfair to include a Cadbury Flake, I suppose, because the chocolate standards in the U.K. are so much higher than here in America. But it was important to include a nod to our English allies, especially seeing as they have far superior mass-produced chocolate than we do. The Cadbury Flake tastes like actual chocolate. The flakiness is a little messy and annoying, and the chocolate a bit grainy, but there’s a milky, chocolatey creaminess present in a way it isn’t in nearly all the mass-market American products. And it’s very good with a soft-serve ice cream cone.
Wrapper ranking: 22
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12. Kit Kat
I feel the same way about Kit Kat bars as I feel about the Who. I like, but I do not love. I respect the craft, but I rarely put it on in the car. I don’t seek out Kit Kats, but sometimes I’ll eat one if it’s there and think, “Yeah, that’s not so bad.” The wafer matters. The layers give a good texture and crunch to the Kit Kat, and it’s nice that they’re very easy to share. It’s fun to try to eat off the individual layers one by one. This does not include the hundreds of different Kit Kat flavors available in Japan, some of which (cantaloupe, sake) are really outstanding.
Wrapper ranking: 19
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13. Skor and Heath
Hershey’s introduced the Skor bar back when it competed with the Heath bar. Now the company owns Heath and Skor but still puts out both for some reason. Both bars are thin slabs of toffee coated in chocolate. They are virtually identical, but Skor tastes slightly butterier and might be a tiny bit better. Heath, however, has the superior name. “Skor Bar Crunch” ice cream just doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
Wrapper ranking: 8
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14. Almond Joy
Almond Joy and Mounds are similar — so much so that both products used to be advertised in the same commercials with the tagline, “Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t.” Almond Joy and Mounds are cult favorites — candy bars with small but rabid followings. You’re either a coconut person or you aren’t. And if you are, you really are. Almond Joy is clearly the superior item of the two, because who doesn’t like almonds? The moist coconut is a little cloying and this is a disappointing thing to get during Halloween trick-or-treating, but there are far worse candy bars.
Wrapper ranking: 21
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15. Hershey’s Special Dark
While not nearly as good as a quality European dark chocolate, this does actually taste like chocolate, unlike most of Hershey’s products. With a higher cocoa percentage than its milk chocolate counterpart, this has a whisper of the deepness and complexity you’ll find in a good dark chocolate. But it still has that Hershey’s characteristic sourness. Probably better to treat yourself to some Valrhona or something, but the gas station doesn’t usually stock it.
Wrapper ranking: 14
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16. Chunky
The Chunky bar has always confused me, even as a child, but I respect it for doing its own thing. The Chunky bar is the kid in high school who was an A/V supergeek but so comfortable and guileless about it, it was cool. Why is this candy bar square? Who knows. Who puts raisins in a candy bar? Chunky does. The peanut and raisin mixture gives it a trail mix feel, and the entire bar tastes vaguely rum raisin-like or like a freshly opened package of cigarettes. Chunky is an odd duck, but I’m glad it exists.
Wrapper ranking: 15
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17. Mounds
This is Almond Joy without the almonds and with dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. The coconut is fairly meaty in the Mounds bar, and while too sticky and sweet, it’s hard to fault the candy makers — the alternative would be to have drier, flakier coconut, which wouldn’t really work. The dark chocolate is a nice touch.
Wrapper ranking: 20
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18. Bounty
A Bounty bar is virtually identical to the above Mounds bar so, like Artie on “The Larry Sanders Show,” I’m torn. The Bounty is packed with coconut and covered in milk chocolate. While I like Bounty’s milk chocolate, I prefer the dark chocolate of the Mounds. Bounty’s coconut is a bit more finely minced; the meatier, thicker coconut flakes of the Mounds are better. The Bounty label, it’s worth noting, has a great design with palm trees and cerulean waters you can taste in every bite (not literally).
Wrapper ranking: 3
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19. Nestle Crunch
I retroactively call B.S. on the aggressively cheery Nestle Crunch commercial from the 1980s, which features people biting into the candy bar and eliciting a sound-barrier-breaking crunch. It certainly didn’t do that when I bit into it. This, along with candy bars like Krackel, are really only useful at Halloween, doled out in fun-size portions. While the crispy rice adds texture to the chocolate, the overall effect doesn’t exactly inspire. The best qualities of this bar are the various online memes inspired by the commercial. If you’re a Nestle Crunch fan, try tracking down a Crunky, a Japanese variation on this theme.
Wrapper ranking: 10
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20. 100 Grand
I was looking forward to 100 Grand being a sleeper fave, but it came up short. It’s a pleasant-enough candy with a great look and name, but it’s just not that good. The crisped rice in the chocolate adds some welcome texture, but this bar is essentially a big, chewy lump of caramel that lacks proper saltiness. The attractive wrapper may draw you in and convince you otherwise though.
Wrapper ranking: 4
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21. 5th Avenue
The 5th Avenue, with layered peanut butter-flavored candy brittle covered in chocolate, was created in response to the Butterfinger candy bar. It’s just not nearly as good. It’s too sugar-forward and lacks the saltiness and peanut butter punch of the Butterfinger. The logo on the wrapper is excellent.
Wrapper ranking: 2
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22. Mars
A Mars bar, with chocolate nougat and caramel, is essentially the U.K. version of a Milky Way. There used to be a with-almonds version that was sadly discontinued, as the Mars suffers from the same issues that face the Milky Way and similar bars: too soft and a very uniform texture.
Wrapper ranking: 25
Photographer: Samokhin Roman
23. Reese’s Fast Break
I was a little confused by the description for this bar, “milk chocolate, peanut butter and nougats,” as I always thought the plural of “nougat” was “nougat.” But I was willing to be wrong; maybe there were several nougats inside this Reese’s Fast Break. Nope, it was one nougat. There’s also peanut butter, the good, grainy, salty kind that comes in a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. But like your ex-boyfriend, it has no backbone and is far too soft. A mushy disappointment.
Wrapper ranking: 27
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24. Milky Way
See Mars bar. There’s not nearly enough salt in this bar, and it’s too soft in the middle, like the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s” album. While I appreciate the old commercials that claimed eating a Milky Way was like drinking a quarter cup of milk (that’s supposed to be appetizing?) I see little reason to ever consume one.
Wrapper ranking: 23
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25. Oreo Chocolate Candy Bar
This is a candy bar version of the Oreo: chocolate outside with a white mystery cream center. Cookie bits dotted throughout the oily middle make it somewhat nice to munch on, but if you’re like me, you actually prefer the Oreo Thins precisely because there’s less of that gross, waxy center. To this I say, no, thank you.
Wrapper ranking: 30
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26. Symphony
What is this nonsense? This is a just a Hershey bar, only slightly less bad. What was released in the ’80s as a fancy-pants chocolate alternative targeted at people who go to the symphony, I suppose, it’s still the same, disappointing Hershey’s chocolate. It is marginally — and I mean by a hair’s breadth — more creamy, which I suppose makes it better.
Wrapper ranking: 28
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27. Mr. Goodbar
Unlike the 1977 Diane Keaton film “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” this is a chocolate candy bar loaded with peanuts. Similar to the film, consuming it was a horrible, scarring experience that ended in tears. The first three ingredients on the Mr. Goodbar are sugar, peanuts and vegetable oil. The fourth is chocolate. Unsurprisingly, this tastes absolutely nothing like chocolate. It resembles chocolate in the same way grape soda resembles an actual grape. The one saving grace is that it has a lot of peanuts — nearly enough to bring this back from the brink of inedibility, but not really.
Wrapper ranking: 12
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28. Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Creme
Do you like eating candles? Then you’ll love the Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Creme bar, which has tiny cookie bits embedded into sallow, waxy white chocolate. One one hand, white chocolate is gross. On the other hand, it’s also terrible and fit for consumption by bugs, rodents, and select birds.
Wrapper ranking: 29
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29. 3 Musketeers
Booooorinnnng. 3 Musketeers is boring. 3 Musketeers is the candy bar equivalent of TV’s “Modern Family” — very little substance, has been around for freaking ever, and makes you think, “Who likes this? Does anyone actually like this?” The 3 Musketeers bar is filled with nougat and exclusively nougat. Nobody wants a candy bar that’s just nougat. Are we not in America? Are we not free to put whatever ridiculous things we want into a candy bar? Not even a semblance of flavor or textural variation? The only good thing I can think of is its name, which makes it the sole candy bar named for characters in a work of 19th century French literature. But that’s it!
Wrapper ranking: 26
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30. Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
In the European Union, cocoa solids must comprise 30% of a chocolate bar for it to be considered chocolate. In the United States, that number is a staggeringly low 10%. That leaves a lot of room for miscellaneous solids and emulsifiers. Hershey’s chocolate is bad. And, at least by some standards, it’s barely chocolate. I understand that Hershey’s makes a large number of the candy bars included on this list, and that each contains its chocolate. But in the context of, say, a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, the quality of the chocolate isn’t really noticeable. In an actual Hershey’s bar, however, all you get is the chocolate, and so the flavor really comes to the forefront: acrid, waxy, almost rancid-tasting. A biting sweetness is followed by a terrible, sour aftertaste that stays on the tongue. Use this to wax your surfboard, or maybe for s’mores, but I cannot recommend consuming it for any other reason.
Wrapper ranking: 13
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