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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A psychiatrist who helped fellow Cambodians recover from trauma resulting from the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal rule and a Japanese ophthalmologist who led an effort to treat thousands of Vietnamese villagers were among those selected for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.
The other winners were a Filipina pediatrician who has provided medical, legal and social help to thousands of abused children and their families, and a Frenchman who battles plastic pollution in Indonesian rivers.
The annual awards, announced Wednesday, are named after a Philippine president who died in a 1957 plane crash, and honor “greatness of spirit in selfless service to the peoples of Asia.” They are to be presented in Manila on Nov. 30.
The winners “have all challenged the invisible societal lines that cause separation and have drawn innovative and inspiring ones that build connections,” said Aurelio Montinola III, chairperson of the award foundation.
Cambodian Sotheara Chhim, 54, has led the treatment of thousands of traumatized survivors of the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule and other patients in his country since becoming executive director of its Transcultural Psychosocial Organization in 2002, the foundation said.
As a child, he was forced to work in Khmer Rouge camps for more than three years until their rule ended in 1979. He became one of Cambodia’s first psychiatrists after years of war and devoted his life to treating people, especially in rural communities, where he said “the mental health worker should be.”
Japanese ophthalmologist Tadashi Hattori, 58, was awarded the prize for training local doctors who have treated thousands of Vietnamese. He decided to become a doctor at age 15 when he witnessed the rude treatment that his cancer-stricken father received in a hospital, the award foundation said.
In a 2002 visit to Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi, he was deeply moved when he saw how villagers had become blind because of an acute lack of eye specialists and treatment facilities, and started raising funds, training experts and donating equipment to local hospitals, it said.
“Even just healing one eye may make it possible for someone to attend a school or go back to work,” Hattori said. “I can’t turn my back on people who are on the verge of losing their sight just because they lack the money to pay for treatment.”
In the Philippines, where child abuse has been a longstanding problem because of poverty, child labor and trafficking, pediatrician Bernadette Madrid, 64, drew attention by providing treatment, raising awareness and engaging policymakers and civic groups to address the issue, award officials said.
Since 1997, she has led the country’s first child protection center at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila. It has served more than 27,000 children as of last year.
Madrid won the award for “her leadership in running a multisectoral, multidisciplinary effort in child protection that is admired in Asia, and her competence and compassion in devoting herself to seeing that every abused child lives in a healing, safe and nurturing society,” the award foundation said.
It said Gary Bencheghib from France became a “warrior” against plastic pollution on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, where his parents relocated years ago, when he discovered the extent of plastic clogging its waterways. At 14, he started a weekly beach cleanup with his sister, brother and friends in a project that led him to environmental protection advocacy.
Bencheghib, 27, later took up filmmaking in New York and produced more than a hundred videos on plastic pollution and environmental protection that millions have watched on YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms. A 2017 documentary on the polluted Citarum River in West Java helped prompt President Joko Widodo’s administration to begin a seven-year rehabilitation program, award officials said.
He and his siblings have led the deployment of about 170 trash barriers in polluted rivers and plan to install hundreds more in Bali and Java.
He won the award for “his inspiring fight against marine plastic pollution … his youthful energies in combining nature, adventure, video and technology as weapons for social advocacy and his creative, risk-taking passion that is truly a shining example for the youth and the world,” the award foundation said. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/cambodian-japanese-among-winners-of-magsaysay-awards/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-31 12:33:22 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/cambodian-japanese-among-winners-of-magsaysay-awards/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
OLYMPIA, Wash., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fungi Perfecti, LLC - makers of Host Defense® Mushrooms™ - is pleased to announce that Founder and Chief Science Officer, Paul Stamets, will receive the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Eco Hero Award. This award honors those who have committed themselves to work in service of the planet and its inhabitants for thirty years or more, with actual solutions and concrete ways forward that benefit many, often on a global scale.
This year, both Paul Stamets and Louie Schwartzberg will receive the award. After more than a decade of project collaborations together, both Paul and Louie will be celebrated for their enormous contributions in their respective fields.
In learning that he would be celebrated in this way, Paul said:
I am so grateful to receive this Eco Hero Award. This is a shared journey as we walk upon the mycelial networks that support all life. These networks have deep knowledge that can help us become better stewards and Earth citizens. Thank you ALL for your support and kindness.
Having recognized the enormous potential for the use of beneficial mushrooms and, specifically, mushroom mycelium to support the health of both people and planet, Paul Stamets started Fungi Perfecti® in 1980 with the goal of supporting the beneficial connections between people and fungi. Since that time, Paul has become a world-renowned expert in all things mycological.*
The visionary research and stewardship of Paul Stamets has led to significant breakthroughs revealing the power of fungi. Research by Paul and his team at Fungi Perfecti has directly resulted in numerous innovative mycological solutions, including the use of fungi in everything from water filtration (mycofiltration) and ecological rehabilitation (mycoremediation), to using beneficial mushrooms to combat Colony Collapse Disorder in bee populations, and as supplements to support human health.*
Paul has dedicated his life to discovering, understanding, and spreading knowledge about the unique, mysterious, and incredible world of fungi.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing, officials said Saturday.
The government of Peru, where Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot was serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of a Peruvian woman, authorized his extradition to the U.S. in May.
Máximo Altez, van der Sloot’s lawyer, said is client was being taken by land from the Challapalca prison in Peru’s southern Andes to the Piedras Gordas prison on the outskirts of Lima.
“In the coming days, the INPE (National Penitentiary Institute) will hand over the condemned man to Interpol Peru with the goal of handing him over to U.S. authorities from the FBI,” said a statement from the INPE released Saturday.
Altez said that once the bureaucratic procedures are completed and van der Sloot is given a medical exam, his client will be transferred to the U.S. He estimated the extradition could take place on Tuesday, but Peruvian officials did not confirm this day.
Van der Sloot has agreed to be sent to the United States where he faces trial for alleged extortion and wire fraud charges linked to the Holloway case, his lawyer said.
When asked by the Associated Press why his client agreed, the lawyer responded: “He is imprisoned in the worst prison in the world,” referring the maximum-security Challapalca prison.
“Any prison in the United States is a five-star hotel” in comparison, he said.
Altez said that, according to the treaty between Peru and the United States, van der Sloot is being extradited to the U.S. temporarily for one year to face legal proceedings and in the event of a delay, this period can be extended for another year.
“At the end of this, he has to be returned to Peru,” Altez said. He will spend “at most two years in the United States.”
Altez said his client denies being guilty of the crimes of extortion and fraud.
Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to the Caribbean island of Aruba. She vanished after a night with friends at a nightclub, leaving a mystery that sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, who was a student at an international school on the island.
Van der Sloot was identified as a suspect and detained weeks later, along with two Surinamese brothers. Holloway’s body was never found, and no charges were filed in the case. A judge later declared Holloway dead.
The federal charges filed in Alabama against van der Sloot stem from an accusation that he tried to extort the Holloway family in 2010, promising to lead them to her body in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars. A grand jury indicted him that year on one count each of wire fraud and extortion, each of which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Also in 2010, van der Sloot was arrested in Peru for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was killed five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance.
Peruvian prosecutors accused van der Sloot of killing Flores, a business student from a prominent family, to rob her after learning she had won money at the casino where the two met. They said he killed her with “ferocity” and “cruelty,” beating then strangling her in his hotel room. He pleaded guilty in 2012.
Van der Sloot married a Peruvian woman in July 2014 in a ceremony at a maximum security prison. He has been transferred from prisons in response to reports that he enjoyed privileges such as television, internet access and a cellphone, and accusations that he had threatened to kill a warden.
A 2001 treaty between Peru and the U.S. allows a suspect to be temporarily extradited to face trial in the other country. It requires that the prisoner “be returned” after judicial proceedings are concluded “against that person, in accordance with conditions to be determined by” both countries. | https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/key-suspect-in-natalee-holloway-case-moved-to-new-prison-ahead-of-extradition-to-alabama/ | 2023-06-05 16:53:54 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/key-suspect-in-natalee-holloway-case-moved-to-new-prison-ahead-of-extradition-to-alabama/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — The day has come. It has finally arrived and we are going to be celebrating with all of our hearts, and taste buds.
That’s right, it’s Wednesday, July 13! Not what you expected to read? Well, this day is special because it’s National French Fry Day! On this day we shall celebrate as a country for one of the greatest side items known to mankind. Whether you’re eating a burger, chicken, steak, fish, or vegan food, french fries will always be there to make your meal delicious.
NationalToday explains where exactly fries came from, “Potatoes were being fried in Belgium way before the French, but more on that later. When it comes to the tastiest French fries on the planet, everyone seems to have an opinion. It’s a time-consuming decision to find your favorite because no two restaurants seem to have the same recipe.”
We wanted to make sure you can get the best fries in Dallas and not waste time attempting to perfect your at-home fries today because who needs a hot kitchen when it’s so hot outside? We checked out Yelp’s list of the best fries in Dallas:
- Potato Corner
- Hopdoddy Burger Bar – Uptown
- Rodeo Goat
- Fish & Fizz – North Dallas
- Maple Leaf Diner – North Dallas
- Jimmys Big Burgers
- Vegan Food House – Oak Cliff
- Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers
- Whiskers Fish & Burgers
- Streets Fine Chicken – Oak Lawn
- Angry Dog
Now, if you don’t mind we’ll be munching on some delicious Dallas fries. If you want more options to pick from, click here for more from Yelp. | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/list-eat-at-these-spots-in-dallas-to-decide-who-really-has-the-best-french-fries-in-town/ | 2022-07-13 17:12:30 | 1 | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/list-eat-at-these-spots-in-dallas-to-decide-who-really-has-the-best-french-fries-in-town/ |
Rain, winds lash Guam as Typhoon Mawar closes in and residents shelter
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - Typhoon Mawar aimed its fury at the tiny U.S. territory of Guam on Wednesday as residents with nowhere to go hunkered down to face the devastating winds and torrential rains from what was expected to be the worst storm to hit the Pacific island in decades.
The U.S. military sent away ships, residents stockpiled supplies and anyone not living in a concrete house was urged to seek safety elsewhere ahead of the typhoon, which was forecast to arrive as a Category 4 storm with winds of 140 mph (225 kph) but could possibly strengthen to a Category 5, the most powerful. The last time a Category 5 directly hit Guam was 1962.
Forecasters at the National Weather Service office in Guam said they were seeing “almost whiteout conditions” at their office and hearing low rumblings and shaking shutters and doors as the storm intensified Wednesday afternoon.
Lightning had become an increasing threat as conditions continued to deteriorate into the evening, the weather service reported. And an extreme wind warning was in effect for northern Guam for extremely dangerous hurricane winds.
“Stay inside. Trees are coming down; power lines are coming down,” said Brandon Aydlett, a meteorologist with the service. “Everything is changing — it is too dangerous to be outside.”
Many communities on the 212-square-mile (549-square-kilometer) island had lost power by the afternoon and some to the south had lost water service. A flash flood warning was issued for the entire island as forecasters predicted as much as 25 inches (64 centimeters) of rain in addition to a life-threatening storm surge of 4 to 6 feet (1.2 to 2 meters).
Ahead of the storm, Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero ordered residents of coastal, low-lying and flood-prone areas of the territory of over 150,000 people to evacuate to higher elevations. The highest point on the island is Mt. Lamlam in the southwest at 1,334 feet (406 meters). But much of the beachfront tourist district of Tamuning, where many resort hotels are located, is close to sea level.
In low-lying Agat along the southern coast, resident Reuel Drilon began preparing Friday and spent the weekend tying down patio furniture and trash containers. Nearly every home in the village, he said, has a mango tree — which officials warned could be ripped from the ground and become roadblocks and deadly flying projectiles.
“A lot of folks are keeping their eyes on trees,” he told The Associated Press before the storm hit. “Down south, we have a lot of coconut trees and mango trees.”
Guam is a crucial hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific, and the Department of Defense controls about a third of the island. Rear Adm. Benjamin Nicholson, Joint Region Marianas commander, authorized the evacuation of defense personnel, dependents and employees in areas expected to be affected.
The military said it moved its ships out to sea as a standard precaution. It sent its aircraft off the island or placed them in protective hangars. Any personnel remaining on the island were sheltering in place. About 6,800 U.S. service members are assigned to Guam, according to the Pentagon.
With rain from the storm’s outer bands already falling over the island as of late Wednesday morning, the typhoon had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) with gusts peaking at 170 mph (274 kph), said Landon Aydlett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Guam. Its center was about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of the island and was moving to the north-northwest.
The weather service warned of “considerable damage” from a “triple threat” of winds, torrential rains and life-threatening storm surge of 4 to 6 feet (1.2 to 2 meters), with dangerous surf of 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters). It said the storm could hit Wednesday afternoon in the southern part of Guam, which lies west of the International Date Line and is a day ahead of the U.S. mainland and Hawaii.
If Guam doesn’t take a direct hit, it will be very close, said Patrick Doll, the lead weather service meteorologist in Guam. Mawar is a Malaysian word that means “rose,” he noted.
School buses picked up residents at island community centers and transported them to 11 elementary schools outfitted as shelters. Civic workers in various villages warned residents to secure loose objects in their yards and seek shelter immediately. Some spread the word by megaphone, while others turned to social media. Power flickered off and on as the rain and wind intensified, and officials said nearly 900 people were in shelters.
Leon Guerrero urged residents in a YouTube message to remain calm and ordered the National Guard to help those in low-lying areas evacuate, saying, “We are at the crosshairs of Typhoon Mawar. Take action now.”
Guerrero said an emergency declaration approved by President Joe Biden will support the mobilization of resources into Guam, which is “especially crucial given our distance from the continental U.S.”
The storm was moving at 7 mph (11 kph) but had an eye 17 miles (27 kilometers) wide, meaning people at the typhoon’s center could see calm conditions for over three hours and conclude, far too soon, that the worst is over, Doll said. As the eye leaves, the winds could rise to 150 mph (241 kph) in minutes, so people should remain sheltered until the government gives the all-clear.
“Folks may say, ‘Hey it’s over, we could go outside and start cleaning up,’” Doll said. “That is totally wrong.
Joshua Paulino, a client manager at Xerox Guam, was sheltering at home in the central village of Chalan Pago with his wife, two sons and mother after the family closed the shutters and secured outdoor objects. He worried that the storm could dump rain on the island for a long time, since it was forecast to pass by gradually.
“This storm is moving very slowly so that is making me really uneasy,” Paulino said by text message.
And an ocean away in Los Angeles, Marichelle Tanag was fretting from afar after her parents, who are in their 70s and have survived many typhoons in their decades on the island. They boarded up windows, stocked up on a couple of weeks of food, prepared the generator and filled bathtubs with water. Their home in Tamuning, also in central Guam, is made of concrete, but she worried about it nevertheless.
“Will the house stand? ... If not, will they be able to go to another place of safety if needed, as fast as possible, and not get in the way of any of the flying debris?” Tanag said by phone.
Rota, an island in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was also under a typhoon warning, Doll said. Tinian and Saipan, in the Northern Marianas, were under tropical storm warnings. Some people in those areas are still in temporary shelters or tents after Category 5 Super Typhoon Yutu in 2018, Doll noted.
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Kelleher reported from Honolulu. AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein and Associated Press writers Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu, Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles and Sarah Brumfield in Washington contributed.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — King Charles III arrives at Palace of Holyroodhouse, where his mother's coffin lies ahead of procession in Edinburgh.
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- At least 78 beaches in Massachusetts are closed, according to the state's Department of Public Health, due to high levels of bacteria.
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In addition to a gorgeous full moon, the things to see during September’s nights include the closest views of Jupiter and Neptune we’ll get all year. Keep reading to find out when and how to get these awe-inspiring glimpses at what’s in the universe.
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The 2022 September full moon, also called the Harvest Moon, appears pretty early in the month. You’ll be able to see it best on Sept. 10 at 5:59 a.m Eastern.
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The names we use for most full moons originate from Native American, Colonial American or other sources and usually relate to the season in which they occur. The Harvest Moon is the only full moon tied to a specific date: in this case, the fall equinox. In 2022, this officially occurs at 9:04 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 22.
The full moon closest to the fall equinox is always called the Harvest Moon, which means it sometimes falls in September and sometimes in October. When the October full moon is the Harvest Moon, then September’s full moon is called the Corn Moon.
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If you’re willing to try your luck at seeing this far-off planet, Neptune will appear to rise in the eastern sky around sunset on Sept. 16, climb higher in the sky until about midnight and then set in the west around sunrise.
If you can’t find Neptune at opposition this year, you’ll have to wait another year and a few days before it happens again. That’s because it takes about 165 Earth years for Neptune to make a single revolution around the sun! By the time our planet goes around the sun, Neptune has barely moved.
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‘Fame’, ‘Flashdance’ singer Irene Cara dies at 63
(Gray News) - Oscar-winning musician Irene Cara has died at the age of 63, according to a statement from her publicist.
Cara’s publicist, Judith Moore, reported the news on Twitter Saturday morning. She reported Cara died at her home in Florida and the cause of her death is unknown at this time.
“She was a beautiful, gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and movies,” Moore said in the released statement.
Cara was best known for singing the title tracks to the movies “Fame” and “Flashdance.”
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Moore said in the statement a memorial service for Cara’s fans will be planned.
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Coos County has been my birthplace and lifelong home for 70 years. I am usually proud of my roots, but I take exception to your recent letter regarding the 1902 lynching of Alonzo Tucker in Marshfield (renamed Coos Bay in 1944).
There is not a single sentence in your entire letter that is true, except for the dictionary definition of LYNCH. Many people mistakenly believe that “lynched” means a person was hanged for an alleged offense, without a legal trial. Hanging is only one way to be lynched. The term covers any extrajudicial killing by a group. The following historically accurate details certainly qualify Alonzo Tucker’s death as a lynching.
Alonzo Tucker was not shot dead in a store. He was arrested after a white woman accused him of assaulting her. A mob formed with the intent to lynch Mr. Tucker. He escaped while being transported away from the mob. He hid overnight, amongst the pilings under a local dock. The mob posted guards around town to keep watch all night. In the morning, Mr. Tucker was spotted by two young boys. The mob converged on the location and Mr. Tucker was shot in the leg, as he ran for his life. He managed to run into a shop where he pleaded for mercy, but the mob pursued Mr. Tucker and shot him again, in the upper body. Incapacitated by the second wound, Mr. Tucker was caught and thrown into a cart. The mob intended to lynch him at the site of the alleged assault, but he died of his wounds before they made it that far. Then the mob strung Mr. Tucker’s body from a light pole (at the site of the old Marshfield Bridge), in front of a crowd of several hundred, where it hung for several hours.
You, Valerie Still, are the one who owes an apology to “the good people of Coos County” for pushing a “FALSE NARRATIVE of the lynching of Mr. Alonzo Tucker.” Coos History Museum, Mr. Taylor Stewart (CHM’s Juneteenth keynote speaker), The Oregon Remembrance Project, and the State of Oregon are to be commended for the work they have done, and continue doing, to shine a light on past injustices. | https://theworldlink.com/opinion/letters/letter-revisionist-history/article_abd8bdd6-20f9-11ee-a29f-170f5b2a366d.html | 2023-07-14 10:55:38 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/opinion/letters/letter-revisionist-history/article_abd8bdd6-20f9-11ee-a29f-170f5b2a366d.html |
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — And it came to pass — actually, quarterback Terry Bradshaw came to pass, but bear with us. This is a story about football, culture and religion, so it seems right to begin with some biblical phrasing.
Thus, Bradshaw barely got off the pass, which was deflected in a collision between defender and receiver. Everyone thought the game was over except a hustling fullback, Franco Harris. He made an improbable shoestring catch and raced into the end zone, securing the Pittsburgh Steelers' first-ever playoff win, the start of a long dynasty.
That was 50 years ago this Friday, on Dec. 23, 1972. But even though the NFL has officially designated it the greatest play in league history, it was bigger than that.
“Dec. 23 will henceforth be celebrated in Pittsburgh as the Feast of the Immaculate Reception,” legendary local sportscaster Myron Cope proclaimed.
He got the idea from a caller whose boyfriend had coined the name in a barroom victory celebration — putting a twist on the recently passed Catholic Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which marks the belief that the Virgin Mary was conceived without sin.
The coinage was as durable as it was instant, “using religious terminology to almost mythologize a sporting event,” said Anne Madarasz, chief historian and director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.
The Immaculate Reception crystallized the rise of the Steelers — even as their namesake industry was on the decline, as was the Pittsburgh of compact immigrant neighborhoods with multiple ethnic Catholic parishes.
By 1980, just as the Steelers were celebrating their fourth Super Bowl victory, Pittsburgh’s famed steel industry was moving from decline to all-out collapse. Many young people moved out of the demoralized region in search of jobs across the country (helping build the Steelers' national fan base, by the way).
Still, those who left and those who stayed had the memory of a play called immaculate — a story with a never-give-up moral.
“This was our cultural rallying point,” said the Rev. Lou Vallone, a retired Catholic priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh.
“It’s what kept us going as we saw our immigrant culture begin to dissipate, as the economics went down, the steel mills closed, as people moved out into the suburbs, people moved out of the area," said Vallone. He used to preside at Masses at St. Peter Church, the parish nearest the stadium, where the congregants included many game-day tailgaters, clad in Steelers' black and gold.
The city's and region's population decreased in the years after the catch. The ranks of Catholics — 40% of the region's population in 1972 — dropped by about a third. Many ethnic and other parishes have closed or merged, and often merged again. A church named for the Immaculate Conception recently closed.
The region has taken on new economic drivers — education, medicine, energy.
But the mythology of the Immaculate Reception endures.
At the Pittsburgh International Airport, a statue immortalizing Franco Harris at the moment of his catch stands next to another historical figure, someone named George Washington.
And where Three Rivers Stadium once stood — now a sea of parking spaces near the Steelers' current stadium — there's a monument to the Immaculate Reception. You might call it a shrine.
It includes a marker where fans who are so inclined can put their foot in the exact spot where Harris' foot landed.
And as with the Immaculate Reception, people have been putting themselves in Harris' cleats since they first poured onto the field in 1972, joining him in an end zone celebration.
“It’s not just him crossing the goal line, it’s the team and the city,” Madarasz said.
It’s hardly the only Catholic connection to the Steelers. “There was nobody more Catholic than the Chief,” Vallone said of the team's legendary founder, Art Rooney. And for decades, the team has practiced at St. Vincent College, a nearby Catholic school and home to a Benedictine abbey.
While the Immaculate Reception has a Catholic name, it also has an element of interfaith cooperation.
Sportscaster Cope was Jewish. Years later, he addressed the perennial controversy of whether the catch was even legitimate under NFL rules (depending on whether the ball touched the defender or receiver before bouncing to Harris). In a New York Times essay, he posed an only-in-America question:
“Was Franco Harris' Immaculate Reception kosher?”
It was indeed, he insisted, after studying the film.
Religious and football iconography have merged long before praying coaches had their day in the Supreme Court this year. Quarterback Doug Flutie’s 1984 “Hail Mary” touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan gave a legendary victory to a Catholic school, Boston College, over the University of Miami.
“Touchdown Jesus,” a large mural of Christ with his arms raised, is a landmark near the stadium of Notre Dame University, the Catholic school that long ago fielded the apocalyptic backfield, the Four Horsemen.
The Oakland Raiders, while on the losing end of the Immaculate Reception, may have benefited from divine help another time, if nicknames are to be believed. They won a 1978 game on a “Holy Roller” fumble that took a long, winding route through running back Pete Banaszak’s hands toward a teammate in the end zone. “I believe in the Big Guy,” Banaszak later said. “He was there.”
Vallone hears that kind of talk a lot, from fans as well as players. He's even got a homily to go with it.
“If you want to believe God’s on your side in a football game or a soccer game, that’s fine, as long as you live your life on God’s side,” Vallone said.
Fans tailgating near the Immaculate Reception monument before the Steelers' Dec. 11 game against the Ravens could readily recite the moment-by-moment details of the play. That includes those who saw it live, and those who weren't even born then.
The 1972 game was subject to local blackout rules. But Buster Boots, living northwest of Pittsburgh in Ellwood City, recalled his family using a large antenna to catch the broadcast “on a big old 25-inch RCA TV with a picture coming in from Cleveland."
After the play, “we were going nuts,” he recalled. “We got to see it live.”
John Michael of nearby Aliquippa said he saw the Immaculate Reception in person. He said there's a good reason for the name.
“Probably because of Pittsburgh, you know,” he said. “A lot of ethnic groups, a lot of religions, a lot of churches and a lot of love.”
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It took a while—but the sun broke from the clouds temps more like those of late April than mid June. The high near 69 Friday is a reading 11-deg below normal.
It was cool enough to rank among the coolest 20% of June 16’s on the book in Chicago since 1942.
We head into the Father’s Day weekend with slow warming bringing daytime temps closer to seasonal norms. Lake breezes are likely to limit warming on area beaches. Highs Saturday reach 77 inland and 83 on Sunday—but air temps on Chicago’s beaches will remain in the mid 60s to low 70s.
SMOKE OFF CANADIAN WILDFIRES (446 of them—half burning out of control) will ease a bit—but NOT disappear. So weekend skies will continue to boast a HAZY APPEARANCE due to lingering smoke aloft.
A disturbance slips southeastward from Iowa and Missouri into downstate Illinois and Indiana largely bypassing the Chicago area with its rains—and allowing the region’s abysmal rain tally since April to stand.
Full forecast details and more at the WGN Weather Center blog
And while heat sets records from Texas into Louisiana and produces regular severe weather outbreaks quite atypical of early meteorological summer in their scope across the southern Plains and Gulf States, warming is to be restrained here until a dome of warm air builds over the Midwest later next week and the weekend which follows. This leads to warming which could have Chicago area temps flirting with 90-deg away—especially away from the Lake Michigan shoreline—Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday next week.
A rain-diverting dome of warm air if predicted to develop across the Midwest and Northeast—NOT what one wants to see if rain is to occur. The pattern predicted to develop is one of atmospheric blocking—will continue to divert major precip production away from the Chicago area.
While this week is to produce an average temp which comes in 8-deg below normal, day to day average temps will creep higher and average above normal from Monday through the remainder of the 15 days upcoming. Next week is likely to post a temp which average 13-deg warmer than this week and 3-deg above normal, the early reading on the following week is it should average 2-deg above normal.
And while humidities will trend high, albeit slowly later this coming week, any precip which occurs looks limited. Current estimates are precip totals over the coming 2 weeks are likely to remain anemic with only 40% of our normal rainfall likely to occur.
This all but assures drought conditions will continue and likely worsen.
ALSO OF NOTE: The summer solstice occurs at 9: 7am CDT Wednesday marking the astronomical start of the summer season. The first day of summer is the northern hemisphere’s longest producing 15 hours, 14 minutes and 41 seconds of daylight in Chicago—-making the period of daylight more than 6 hours longer than what we see on our shortest day which occurs on or about Dec 21.
TONIGHT: Clouds scatter, smoky aloft. Cool for the season. Low 52.
SATURDAY: Mixed sunshine, hazy as smoke lingers aloft. Also modestly warmer—though lake breezes will continue to cool the lakeshore and beaches. High 77—but mid 60s to around 70 lakeside.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy, milder. Still hazy. Low 57.
SUNDAY (Father’s Day): Partly cloudy, seasonably warm—and remaining a bit hazy aloft. High 83—but closer to 70 on area beaches.
MONDAY: Partly sunny, warmest inland. High 84—upper 60s to near 70 lakeshore.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny, seasonably warm. High Tuesday 84; Wednesday’s high 86—with low to mid 70s each day along Lake Michigan.
THURSDAY: A good deal of sunshine—just scattered clouds. Quite warm inland. High 89—but mid to upper 70s beaches. | https://wgntv.com/weather/pleasant-dry-for-fathers-day-weekend/ | 2023-06-16 22:00:23 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/weather/pleasant-dry-for-fathers-day-weekend/ |
Kickoff event with local affiliate Rebuilding Together North Jersey to support NJ-based homeowners in need
RINGWOOD, N.J., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rebuilding Together, the leading national nonprofit organization with a vision to ensure safe and healthy homes and communities for everyone, and Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., the foremost omnichannel retailer for home, baby and wellness products today announced a partnership to provide no-cost home repairs and essential household items for local neighbors in need in communities across the country. The partnership kicked off in Ringwood, NJ today with Associates representing local Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuy BABY and Harmon Face Values stores, as well as from corporate headquarters in Union, N.J., volunteering in support of several local homeowners.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is partnering with Rebuilding Together as part of its ongoing initiative to provide a sense of home to the people and communities they serve. Along with providing critical home repairs to improve safety, increase accessibility and help neighbors remain where they feel most at home, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is donating household items – including kitchen and dining ware, bedding, bathroom towels, home décor and wellness items – to further support homeowners' needs.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. will support more than 25 projects nationwide this year, helping neighbors across the country receive quality critical home repairs at no cost to them and allowing them to remain safe and healthy in their homes. Project volunteers will be locally based Associates from the company's Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuy BABY, Harmon Face Values and Decorist retail banners.
"We believe now more than ever that creating a sense of home is critical for the well-being of both individuals and the communities we serve," said Mark Tritton, President and CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. "By joining forces with Rebuilding Together to invest in revitalizing homes across the country, we can support homeowners in need and enable our Associates to create an impact where they live and work."
Neighbors receiving repairs include Lucy, a retired school bus driver who shares her 160-year-old home with six family members and is in dire need of repairs, and Kelly, a schoolteacher who serves as the sole caregiver for her husband, mother and two adult children. Key repair highlights will include roof repairs for Lucy and a new refrigerator for Kelly, who must store insulin to meet her husband's health needs.
"Rebuilding Together's mission to repair homes and revitalize communities is more critical than ever before as the nation faces a devastating housing crisis," said Caroline Blakely, president and CEO, Rebuilding Together. "We're incredibly grateful to Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. for their partnership and look forward to making a difference together in New Jersey and nationwide."
Rebuilding Together and its affiliates have over 30 years of experience providing services to neighbors in need so they can age safely in place, live independently, preserve generational wealth and remain in the communities they love. The repairs are provided at no cost to neighbors who are often faced with diminishing resources. Over time, deferred home maintenance can cause significant potential health hazards, like risk of injury due to falling, and lead to crumbling foundations, sagging roofs and windows and doors that can't be secured.
Today's event was made possible by Rebuilding Together North Jersey, an affiliate that serves Bergen and Passaic Counties.
About Rebuilding Together:
Rebuilding Together is the leading national nonprofit organization repairing the homes of people in need and revitalizing our communities. Through its national network of affiliates, Rebuilding Together works proactively and collaboratively with community leaders, long-term residents, funders, and volunteers to foster dialogue and create safe, healthy communities across the country. Learn more and get involved at rebuildingtogether.org.
About Bed Bath & Beyond Inc:
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond. Bed Bath & Beyond operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca, facevalues.com and decorist.com.
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Helen Gloria Rockenfield was born in Quincy, Illinois on October 20, 1935 to Elizabeth Mund Hackemack and Wilber Powhatan Hackemack. She passed on March 16, 2023 at 87 years old with her daughters by her side. She was raised on an Illinois farm and attended a one room grade school, being the only student in the 2nd grade. Later she was named Valedictorian of Warsaw HS, in Warsaw, Illinois. Her horse Cricket was her favorite growing up. She married Robert Rockenfield in 1954 in Tioga, Illinois, after meeting him at a local square dance. They soon started a farm of their own and spent nearly 70 years side by side. After the birth of their first child, Kathleen ‘Rocky' LaRose (Mike Proctor) they moved to Phoenix, AZ where their 2nd child, Melissa Dunagan (Wade) was born. There Helen began a fulfilling career in insurance becoming a top-rated casualty claim specialist. In 1995, she and Bob moved to Tucson to be near their two daughters and to enjoy retirement rooting for the Arizona Wildcats, traveling, and anything and everything their two granddaughters (Taylor and Delaney Dunagan) were involved in, just as they had done with their two daughters growing up. Neither ever missed an event involving their kids! Helen loved telling stories of her farm life, was proud of her kids, enjoyed researching her ancestry and loved country music, especially Marty Robbins. She is survived by her husband, her two daughters and sons-in-law, her grandchildren and her two sisters (Elizabeth and Nancy). A celebration of life will be scheduled later this year. Neptune Society has handled the arrangements and cremation.
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Trump lawyers rail against DOJ in letter, reveal foreign leader briefings may be among classified documents taken from White House
By Paula Reid, Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Two of Donald Trump’s defense lawyers now believe that classified briefings of phone calls with foreign leaders were among “all manner of documents” in 15 boxes that Trump returned to the National Archives a year after he left the presidency, according to a new letter his lawyers sent to Congress.
This organization of the materials “indicates that the White House staff simply swept all documents from the President’s desk and other areas into boxes, where they have resided ever since,” the two lawyers, Timothy Parlatore and Jim Trusty, wrote to the GOP chair of the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
Their characterization not only reveals new details about the documents but also comes as part of a broadside against the Justice Department’s investigation into Trump over the classified documents that lays out talking points for Republicans as they try to portray the ongoing probe as politically motivated.
The lawyers urge Republicans to tell the Justice Department to “stand down,” even as special counsel Jack Smith’s probe has shown signs of nearing its end and even though Congress doesn’t have the power to control DOJ criminal investigations.
Parlatore and Trusty say they reviewed the 15 boxes earlier this year that are now part of the Justice Department’s investigation. They saw placeholder pages where classified documents were removed by the National Archives, according to the letter.
“The vast majority of the placeholder inserts refer to briefings for phone calls with foreign leaders that were located near the schedule for those calls,” the lawyers wrote.
The 15 boxes were turned over to the Archives in January 2022. The FBI seized more boxes in August 2022 during a court-authorized search that found more than 100 classified documents, including 18 at the highest “top secret” classification level. Trump’s own legal team later found more classified materials in a search other locations.
The Justice Department has never said exactly what was in the classified material found in Trump’s possession after the presidency. Trump’s lawyers say in their letter that the Justice Department has refused to tell them whether any of the documents remain classified.
It’s not clear why at this point in the special counsel’s investigation that the Trump legal team was given access to the boxes turned over to the National Archives to look through them.
Wednesday’s letter was sent to House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner, and it represents Trump’s legal team seeking a political lifeline by asking Congress tell the Justice Department to step aside because they believe the intelligence community should conduct the investigation into what happened with the classified documents.
“DOJ should be ordered to stand down, and the intelligence community should instead conduct an appropriate investigation and provide a full report to this Committee, as well as your counterparts in the Senate,” the lawyers wrote to Turner.
“This is indicative of the staff’s packing processes and not any criminal intent by President Trump,” the lawyers argued.
The lawyers also pointed to classified documents since discovered at the residences and offices of President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.
“As demonstrated by the discovery of documents with classification markings in the homes of President Trump, President Biden, and Vice President Pence, deficient document handling and storage procedures are not limited to any individual, administration, or political party,” the lawyers wrote.
The intelligence community said in August following the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that it was conducting its own damage assessment of the classified documents that had been retrieved.
Earlier this month, intelligence leaders in Congress were provided access to some of the classified documents that had been taken from the residences and offices of Trump, Biden and Pence so that Congress could do its own review.
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Hundreds of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed public government buildings on Sunday, calling for the military to take over Brazil's government after spending more than two months denying the results of the country's presidential election.
In scenes evocative of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, supporters of the Trump-styled populist leader smashed windows, clashed with police and raided Brazil's congressional building, its Supreme Court and the Planalto presidential palace.
With the riots now under control, the country's newly installed president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said that those who broke into the building would be "found and punished."
But what about the man who united the rioters in the first place?
Bolsonaro wasn't on the scene.
In sharp contrast to the U.S. insurrection, the far-right leader didn't promise to walk to the government building with his supporters. He didn't deliver any rallying speeches or even publicly address his supporters at all.
Bolsonaro was lying low in Orlando, Fla., where he has been residing since late December. And now analysts say Bolsonaro being outside Brazil helps shield him from legal consequences he could face back home.
On Monday, his wife said on Instagram that Bolsonaro had been admitted to a Florida hospital with abdominal pain related to his 2018 stabbing.
Why did Bolsonaro leave Brazil for Florida?
Bolsonaro left Brazil just two days before his term ended, with Lula's inauguration on Jan. 1.
The decision read like a symbol of his disdain for the peaceful transition of power, but the move and its timing could also help insulate Bolsonaro from legal jeopardy.
The former president is under investigation in at least four criminal probes, according to Reuters.
All four investigations are led by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who, Bolsonaro's critics claim, is trying to silence free speech. The allegations against the former president span from using the federal police to protect his sons to spreading baseless election fraud claims.
Brazil's sitting presidents can't be arrested unless convicted by the Supreme Court, according to the country's constitution.
But now that Bolsonaro has left office, he could be tried by any number of courts. According to Reuters, Bolsonaro is facing 12 requests for investigation at the Superior Electoral Court for fraud claims and power abuses.
Following this weekend's violence, he could also see fresh investigations, which his successor threatened Monday in a letter co-signed by Senate and Supreme Court leaders.
"We are united so that institutional measures are taken, in the terms of the Brazilian laws," reads the letter, which was posted to social media. "The country needs normality, respect and work for the nation's progress and social justice."
Like in the U.S., Brazil's judiciary is independent, but presidents, in practice, have been able to apply pressure in criminal probes. The federal police, which has already investigated Bolsonaro, is now run by a Lula ally.
Oliver Stuenkel, a professor of international relations at Brazil's Getulio Vargas Foundation, said that leaving the country lends Bolsonaro the appearance of less responsibility for the riots — which could play a role in whether he faces legal consequences.
"The electoral justice system has made clear that if he explicitly incites his followers, he may lose his political rights," Stuenkel said on NPR's Morning Edition.
What has Bolsonaro said about the attacks?
Bolsonaro indirectly condemned the attacks on Twitter on Sunday, saying that invasions of public buildings were not the same as peaceful protests.
He also rejected the notion that he bore responsibility for the attacks, saying there was no evidence to support the claim.
But for months, Bolsonaro has been stoking beliefs that the country's electronic voting system was prone to fraud, even as mounting terrorism threats left the country on edge.
Lula's election win, which came with the slimmest margin in a generation, was quickly recognized by politicians across the spectrum and governments around the world. But Bolsonaro never conceded defeat.
His allies filed a lawsuit to annul a batch of votes, but the case was quickly dismissed, spurring more protests.
Some tactics looked strikingly similar to those used in the U.S. after the 2020 presidential election. In one case, truck drivers and die-hard Bolsonaro fans caused national transportation nightmares by blocking roads in over a dozen Brazilian states, prompting the Supreme Court to issue orders to federal highway police.
Bolsonaro's son and fellow lawmaker, Eduardo Bolsonaro, held several meetings with former President Donald Trump, Trump's longtime ally Steve Bannon and senior campaign adviser Jason Miller, according to several U.S. news outlets.
Bolsonaro's decision to reside in Trump's home state also hasn't escaped notice. Trump and Miller had yet to weigh in on the riots as of Monday afternoon. Bannon called the rioters "freedom fighters" in a post on Gettr, the social media platform founded by Miller.
Biden is facing pressure to send Bolsonaro back to Brazil
On Twitter, President Biden condemned this weekend's riots, framing them as an "assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil."
"Brazil's democratic institutions have our full support and the will of the Brazilian people must not be undermined," he added. "I look forward to continuing to work with @LulaOficial."
But already, some are raising questions about the U.S. government's role in Bolsonaro's Florida retreat, especially given the ideological similarities to the Jan. 6 attack.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted that the U.S. must "cease granting refuge to Bolsonaro."
Nearly 2 years to the day the US Capitol was attacked by fascists, we see fascist movements abroad attempt to do the same in Brazil.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 8, 2023
We must stand in solidarity with @LulaOficial’s democratically elected government. 🇧🇷
The US must cease granting refuge to Bolsonaro in Florida. https://t.co/rzsZl9jwZY
"Nearly 2 years to the day the US Capitol was attacked by fascists, we see fascist movements abroad attempt to do the same in Brazil," she added.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, told CNN that "Bolsonaro should not be in Florida" and "the United States should not be a refuge for this authoritarian who has inspired domestic terrorism."
What options would Biden have for sending Bolsonaro away?
The U.S. doesn't need a legal justification to revoke a foreigner's visa, which it could easily do in the case of Bolsonaro.
Many heads of state enter the U.S. on a temporary A-1 visa, which doesn't have a uniform time limit but varies depending on the purpose of the visit.
It's unclear whether Bolsonaro entered the U.S. on an A-1 visa, or it's also unclear whether such a visa would've expired when his term did.
The State Department had not returned NPR's request for comment at the time of publication.
But John Feeley, who served as ambassador to Panama during a presidential extradition case, says the visa question is beside the point: "There's nothing that prevents Biden from saying to Bolsonaro, 'You have to be out in 24 hours.'"
A Biden decision to keep Bolsonaro in the U.S. might be less of a political decision than a safety one: Bolsonaro's return could spark more violence.
Should Biden decide not to deport Bolsonaro, a Brazilian judge could start the extradition process by signing an arrest warrant based on pending investigations.
If Bolsonaro refused to return on his own, he could be detained by U.S. agents, which could, in turn, lead to a lengthy extradition battle in the courts.
How lengthy? One recent precedent is the case of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, who fled Panama for the U.S. in 2015 after his term ended amid impending criminal investigations.
Feeley, who was ambassador at the time, said that Martinelli's arrest warrant was issued by the Panama Supreme Court in 2015 and posted to Interpol in 2016. But thanks to bureaucratic delays amid a presidential change in power and various legal hold-ups, Martinelli wasn't arrested for another 18 months.
It was nearly two years later, in 2018, that he was finally extradited to Panama, where he was eventually acquitted. Martinelli is now leading polls for the 2024 presidential election.
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It might be down the street from Southern Lehigh, but DeSales belonged to Donegal on Monday night.
The fourth-place team from District 3 defeated the Spartans 11-7 in the PIAA Class 5A first round at DeSales University’s Weiland Park.
Donegal (17-8) advances to the state quarterfinals on Thursday, where it’ll meet District 3 runner-up Ephrata.
Donegal loaded the bases in the top of the first inning with a double from Colin Eckinger and walks from AJ Small and Nicholas Eichelberger. Landon Sexton cleared the bases with a triple to right-center field, giving his team a 3-0 advantage.
That lead swelled to 5-0 in the next inning. Coy Allman smacked an RBI single into the outfield and courtesy runner Sawyer Floyd later scored on a passed ball.
“The disappointing part is the energy that we came out with,” Southern Lehigh coach Todd Miller said. “That was frustrating from the get-go. And we got ourselves behind; we dug ourselves a little hole. Our guys didn’t make enough plays and we put ourselves in bad situations. When we needed to make a play, we couldn’t. It was difficult.
“I give (Donegal) a lot of credit. Their pitcher (Jonathan Holmes) threw well; they made plays; they barreled up a lot of baseballs.”
Southern Lehigh fought back for a pair of runs in the bottom of the second. Paddy Laughlin struck an RBI single past the first baseman to score Landon Bealer, who had walked. Courtesy runner Matt O’Neill crossed the plate thanks to a dropped flyball in right field.
Donegal stretched its lead to six runs in the fourth. Holmes blasted a solo home run to left field to get things started. After a pair of singles to left, Small shot a double down the right field line to bring two around and make it 8-2.
Southern Lehigh left the bases loaded in the bottom of the fourth and stranded two more in the next frame.
“Everybody has to understand, you get to this level and everybody can play. It’s a matter of who is going to play,” Miller said. “… We left runners on-base all day long that could have brought us back into the game. We didn’t get timely hits with two outs or runners in scoring position, and they got a lot of them.”
Three more runs broke the game completely open in the sixth. Sexton tallied his fourth and fifth RBIs with a single, and another runner scored on an error to give Donegal an 11-2 advantage.
The Spartans sent 10 to the plate and scored five runs in the seventh, taking advantage of Holmes, the starting pitcher, reaching his pitch limit midway through the half-inning. Bealer deposited a base hit into right field, which was misplayed to allow Matt Tankred to score. Luke Lea followed with a two-run double, and Janssen Brown and Christian Pickell added run-scoring knocks to cut the deficit to 11-7.
Eckinger, a senior, and Holmes, a junior, had three hits apiece for Donegal.
Laughlin went 3-for-4 and Pickell had a pair of hits for the Spartans.
Solehi, which finished the season 21-4, will graduate its most decorated class of seniors (Michael Andrews, Justin Balliet, Laughlin, Pickell, Tankred and Will Woodring), who won a Colonial League title this spring to go with back-to-back District 11 5A titles.
“They’ve got nothing to hang their heads about ... It’s a frustrating way to end it when you don’t play well, but they had a hell of a year; those seniors had a hell of a career,” Miller said. “They rewrote some record books. I couldn’t be prouder of the way those guys competed ... They’ve put us in a good place. We’ve got some decent young kids coming back, but they’ve got some big shoes to fill ... (The seniors) worked hard and they earned a lot of stuff in their career. They should be proud and I’m proud of them.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn't swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments.
In an Associated Press interview, Jha said Americans' immune protection from the virus is waning, the virus is adapting to be more contagious and booster doses for most people will be necessary — with the potential for enhanced protection from a new generation of shots.
His warning came as the White House said there could be up to 100 million infections from the virus later this year — and as President Joe Biden somberly ordered flags to half-staff to mark 1 million deaths.
"As we get to the fall, we are all going to have a lot more vulnerability to a virus that has a lot more immune escape than even it does today and certainly than it did six months ago,” Jha said. "That leaves a lot of us vulnerable.”
Jha predicted that the next generation of vaccines, which are likely to be targeted at the currently prevailing omicron strain, “are going to provide a much, much higher degree of protection against the virus that we will encounter in the fall and winter." But he warned that the U.S. is at risk of losing its place in line to other countries if Congress doesn't act in the next several weeks.
In March, Biden requested $22.5 billion in emergency funding for the virus response, but the money has been held up, first by sticker-shock in Congress and now amid wrangling over expiring pandemic-era migrant restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jha said he’s been making the case to lawmakers for additional funding for weeks, calling it a “very pared down request” and “the bare minimum that we need to get through this fall and winter without large loss of life.”
The Food and Drug Administration is to meet in June to determine the specific strains of the virus that the fall vaccines will target, and Jha said it takes two to three months for manufacturers to develop them. Right now the U.S. has run out of federal COVID-19 response funding to place new orders of vaccines.
“If we had the resources we’d be there having those conversations today,” said Jha. “The window is really closing on us if we want to be in the front of the line.”
“I would say we’re really kind of at that deadline and waiting much longer just puts us further back of the line,” he added. “If we’re willing to be in the back of the line and get our vaccines in the spring, we have plenty of time. But then we’ll have missed the entire fall and winter. That’s not an acceptable outcome, I think, for the American people.”
Jha, who took over the job of coordinating the federal government’s response to the virus a month ago, called the marking of 1 million American pandemic deaths a “somber” day.
“Every one of those deaths tragic, so many of them preventable,” he said.
While acknowledging that “getting to zero is going to be a challenge,” Jha said most deaths from the virus now are preventable, with vaccinations and boosters, and with effective therapeutics, The challenge is often making sure that they are available to people when they need them.
“We have so many capabilities and we’ve got to deploy them at full speed and at full capacity to make sure that nobody dies from this disease,” he said.
Jha said there is “no viable alternative path” right now than to have the U.S. government take the lead in securing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, rather than allowing the commercial market deal with procurement as with other medical treatments. He cited the global mismatch between supply and demand.
“We have to have the US government still playing an active role,” he said. “That role will change over time. But right now that’s still critical.”
“One of the things that we’ve been talking to Congress about is these tools are great — but only if you have them, only if you can use them,” Jha said. “And without support from Congress it can be very hard to continue to protect the American people." | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/The-AP-Interview-US-vulnerable-to-COVID-17168856.php | 2022-05-12 20:43:36 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/The-AP-Interview-US-vulnerable-to-COVID-17168856.php |
MANDAN, N.D. (KXNET) — It’s National Public Works Week and Mandan Public Works is celebrating its staff for all their hard work.
There was an open house this evening until 6 o’clock. It allowed people to come into the public works building and learn about the different jobs it takes to keep the town running smoothly.
Adults and kids were also able to visit with different crew members, and there were loads of fun activities for the kids.
“We are giving them tours and showing them some of the equipment we have. We are also doing a coloring contest, and we are also giving kids street sweeper rides. Kids are fascinated with them but never get up close and personal with them. So, this is their chance to do that,” said Mitch Bitz, Mandan Public Works Director.
This is the second year Mandan has hosted a Public Works open house and officials hope to continue this tradition for years to come. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/how-does-it-all-work-national-public-works-week-in-mandan/ | 2023-05-26 01:39:42 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/how-does-it-all-work-national-public-works-week-in-mandan/ |
A roundup of the most newsworthy press releases from PR Newswire this week, including the world's most influential companies and best travel experiences.
NEW YORK, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists and consumers stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- TIME Reveals its 2023 List of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies in the World TIME Chief Executive Officer Jessica Sibley said: "The annual TIME100 Companies list demonstrates that businesses can be an agent for change. From artificial intelligence to fashion, this list spotlights the innovative companies and visionary leaders that are shaping the world."
- Tripadvisor reveals best travel experiences in the world for 2023
Travelers' Choice Best of the Best "Things to Do" is a definitive list of extraordinary experiences for travelers looking to create memorable moments. The list brings together the very best activities and excursions – from bookable tours and experiences to top attractions that travelers can visit along the way. - Aerosmith Unveil Career-Spanning Compilation Greatest Hits on Official Aerosmith Store
Featuring 44 handpicked tracks in the deluxe editions with packaging curated by Aerosmith, the set is available for pre-order today (June 20) along with a new merch collection, only through the band's official artist store and will be available for pre-order at all other retailers and DSPs on Thursday, June 22, 2023. - New Survey Reveals What Snacking is Lacking for Today's Consumer
The survey revealed that a majority of general consumers regularly replace meals with snacks, with parents especially likely to "snackstitute." And while taste, nutritional content and convenience top the list of what people are looking for in snacks, fruit, in particular, is a key component of what snackers are missing. - Lilly to Acquire DICE Therapeutics to Advance Innovation in Immunology
"In combination with its novel technology and expertise in drug discovery, DICE's talented workforce and passion for innovation will enhance our efforts to make life better for people living with devastating autoimmune diseases," said Patrik Jonsson, executive vice president, president of Lilly Immunology and Lilly USA, chief customer officer. - The Great Exhale™, A Soft Space for Black Women, Launches On Juneteenth
Liz Leiba, Co-Founder of The Great Exhale, said, "Our mission is to provide a nurturing space for Black women around the globe to embark on a journey of self-discovery, self-empowerment, and self-love, while surrounded by a community of sisters to encourage them." - COLECO Unveils Revival Series: Mini Arcade Machines that Bring Back the Nostalgia of the 80s
The Revival machines feature a full-color LCD display, a powerful new gaming chip set, revamped joystick and accurate action buttons, and the option for AA battery operation or charging via a charger port. The highly-detailed, colorful art wraps add a touch of nostalgia, ensuring that Retro is done right. The Revival Series launches with three captivating titles: Frenzy, Berzerk, and TopRacer. - Dove Men+Care Highlights Fathers' Most Defining Moments with NEW #CongratsItsADad Campaign
#CongratsItsADad celebrates men who received the ultimate Father's Day gift this year – the birth of their child. Throughout Sunday's holiday, starting at midnight, Dove Men+Care compiled photographs of some of the newest dads in the U.S. and created an agile campaign, encouraging everyone to acknowledge the care of dads and father figures in their lives. - Air India Finalizes Order for Up to 290 Boeing Single-Aisle and Widebody Jets
At the 2023 Paris Air Show, the companies held a signing ceremony to celebrate the historic purchase of Boeing's market-leading single-aisle and widebody jets to renew and expand Air India's fleet. - Laugh Factory Launches Series of Benefits To Help Those Affected by Writers' Strike
Laugh Factory is starting a series of benefits at its clubs, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Writer's Guild of America Strike Fund and the Entertainment Community Fund. - Group Black and NBCUniversal Partner to Accelerate Inclusive Investment Across NBCUniversal's Content Portfolio
Through this partnership, Group Black will have exclusive access to sell ads within premium Peacock AX programming that features Black-led dramas, Black-led comedies, and Black-led cinema, as well as a curated collection of NBCUniversal content that amplifies Black voices. - HOT DAD SUMMER: New Dating.com Survey Reveals More Women Are Looking to Date Single Dads
"More women are less willing to put up with indecisiveness, uncertainty and immaturity. They're increasingly interested in stability, and in the heightened levels of maturity and responsibility that naturally come with many single fathers and parents," said Maria Sullivan, Dating Expert and Vice President of Dating.com. - Great American Eclipse creates flyover video of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse
This flyover animation video simulates the view from a spacecraft 100 miles high chasing the Moon's shadow during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.
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Lacks was a Roanoke woman being treated for cervical cancer in 1951 when doctors took samples of her cancer cells without her consent. Her lines of cells helped with cancer research and vaccines.
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Father buys son first lottery ticket for graduation, hits $50,000 jackpot
WASHOUGAL, Wash. (KPTV/Gray News) - A high school graduate in Washington state is getting a little extra financial help thanks to the lottery.
Lance Wall, 18, won $50,000 while playing his first lottery scratch-off ticket.
According to Washington’s Lottery, Wall just graduated, and his dad bought him a Six Figures Scratch ticket as a gift for the occasion.
After scratching the ticket to see if they were a winner, the father-son duo said they saw the $50,000 jackpot.
Lottery officials said the high school grad had a 1-in-913,000 chance of winning.
Wall shared that he is currently enjoying his summer vacation but has plans to use the bonus money to help with his future in becoming an artist.
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KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN BARKER COLLABORATES WITH BOOHOO TO DISCOVER MORE ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY & STYLE. WORKING TO EMPOWER HERSELF AND OTHERS WITH A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FASHION INDUSTRY'S ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global e-retailer boohoo announces collaboration and partnership with Kourtney Kardashian Barker, entertainment personality and the CEO & founder of Poosh. Kardashian Barker is the brand's newest ambassador with a focus on sustainability, delivering two capsule collections that have been created in tandem with a journey of investigation into opportunities for creating a more sustainable fashion future. Launching in September 2022, the year-long project started with design meetings, where Kardashian Barker posed questions about the possibility of using the partnership to discuss the challenges of sustainability in fashion and help people make more informed choices. As the design team worked with Kardashian Barker to develop the first 46-piece capsule collection, discussions with global industry experts began, and Kardashian Barker worked to gain a better understanding of the challenges the fashion industry faces in this space. The entire journey has been captured as part of a social content series and gives a first-hand account of the experts they met on and off camera, the conversations they had, what they discovered and how this continues to inform the project and the boohoo brand into the future.
In the series, Kardashian Barker works to dig under the surface of the industry, speaking with experts who help her and the audience, form a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities. The audience will hear from specialists in worker welfare, human rights, textile waste, upcycling, resale and vintage fashion. Kardashian Barker also called upon the expertise of her long-time friend sustainability influencer Stephanie Shepard, co-founder of Future Earth to identify the difficult questions we need to ask and get the conversation started about whether style and sustainability can really go together.
"When boohoo first approached me with this idea that was all about sustainability and style, I was concerned about the effects of the fast fashion industry on our planet. Boohoo responded with excitement and a desire to incorporate more sustainable practices into our line. It's been an enlightening experience speaking directly with industry experts. I'm grateful for the opportunity to use my platform to drive conversations that lead to ongoing change and use my voice to share actionable tips with consumers on how we can play our own part. There's still lots of work to be done and improvements to be made, but I truly believe that any progress we can make when it comes to sustainability is a step in the right direction and will open up the conversation for future advancements." - KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN BARKER
The conversation starts with the content series and New York Fashion Week will be the backdrop for the launch of the first collection and help to ignite a more in-depth conversation. The fashion industry has challenges ahead, and boohoo are committed to playing their part in delivering more sustainable style choices. This is just the start and as the discovery continues, the second collection, launching in spring will encompass more of what Kourtney and our design team have learned and we will mark the end of the partnership by announcing a series of commitments based on what all of the independent experts have recommended.
The first limited edition 46-piece capsule has been carefully curated, our customers told us that they think more sustainable options are out of their reach, so we've made the prices of these collections extremely attractive to make sure it's accessible to all. We want to get these products into the hands of those who want a more conscious choice, because we know they'll love the quality, design and feel, so we are investing into certain price points and categories so that our customers don't have to pay more.
The collection includes boohoo's first foray into vintage, with two key styles custom sourced exclusively for this range. John Hickling from Glass Onion said, "These biker jackets are your statement vintage piece. It has taken us months to individually source, hand select and curate this huge collection. We have made sure that each piece is authentic, standout and aged to perfection"
Other garments feature materials made from recycled fibers, statement pieces to cherish forever, staple wardrobe silhouettes made with traceable cotton and cleverly designed multiway pieces that give customers a variety of styling options. The brand has also explored ways to extend the life cycle of the collection and have embarked on a partnership with Hirestreet. Our customers love faux leather and sparkle in their wardrobes, and so we have created selected outerwear pieces using recycled polyester backing for the faux leather and three showpieces using recycled sequins. UK customers will be able to hire a selection of garments through the partnership with Hirestreet exclusively. Although these improved fabric options are not the perfect solution, customers are given clear information about how their garments are made, offered options in terms of how they might access these pieces, and also provided with a free Kares document to help them extend the life of their purchases. Boohoo believes customers should be able to buy clothes at an affordable price and that includes more sustainable ranges and so all items in the collection have been priced in line with boohoo's mainline collection.
'We are delighted to be working with Kourtney. We all know there's an environmental and social cost to producing clothes, but there are ways the fashion industry can be smarter. boohoo has taken the bold decision to listen to our customers when they tell us they want to make more sustainable choices, but that the jargon makes it hard to really understand what their options are. When we first met with Kourtney, she said exactly the same thing, and we realized we had an opportunity to use this collaboration to try and help inform our customers and empower them to make more informed choices. When we spoke to the experts from across the industry, everyone said education was the key, and we could all see this was quite a unique opportunity to speak directly to millions of people across the globe and deliver something we don't believe has been done before.' - Carol Kane ' Co-Founder and Executive Director boohoo Group'
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Collection Details
Collection will launch on September 13th, 2022 at 12 ET ahead of the New York Fashion Week show at 8pm ET as see now, buy now from the runway
- 45 pieces with price range - From $6 to $100
- 2 vintage pieces
- 41/45 contain pieces that contain recycled fibres like recycles cotton
- 12 styles made in the UK including our own British Factory
- 5 styles can be worn in multiple ways
- 2 made from cotton connect which has seen 2500 farmers trained in the benefits of more sustainable cotton production and good business practices
The Content Series Cast
- Tim Nelson – Hope for Justice
- John Hickling – Glass Onion
- Christina Dean – Redress
- Steven Bethell – Bank and Vogue/Beyond Retro
- Patrick Duffy – Global Fashion Exchange
- Steph Shep – Future Earth
We launched our UPFRONT sustainability strategy in 2021 and we're focusing our efforts in the areas that stand to deliver the biggest impact on creating more sustainable fashion - materials, design, waste, packaging and finding ways to keep our clothes in use for longer.
Entertainment Personality, executive producer, entrepreneur, and mom Kourtney Kardashian Barker has been a staple in the American media since 2007, when she rose to fame as the witty, monotoned sister alongside her family on the hit E! Entertainment reality series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." In 2021, after 15 years, 20 seasons, and multiple spin-offs, Kardashian Barker and her family parted ways with E! and began their journey with Hulu, where they produce and star in the successful documentary-style reality show "The Kardashians."
Kourtney, an advocate for clean living, founded Poosh in 2019 as a content-meets-commerce lifestyle platform that promotes living your best life with actionable insights and tips. Poosh remains a trusted destination to inform and inspire across multiple content verticals including sustainable practices, healthy recipes, sex and relationships, clean beauty, and mindfulness hacks.
Kourtney's commitments to both health and the environment have continued as she has advocated for the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab and successfully lobbied congress alongside the Environmental Working Group for the Personal Care Products Safety Act, helping implement cleaner standards for personal care products.
Leading the fashion e-commerce market and founded in Manchester in 2006, the group started life as boohoo.com, an inclusive and innovative brand targeting young, value-orientated customers. For over ten years, boohoo has been pushing boundaries to bring its customers up-to-date and inspirational fashion, 24/7. In early 2017, the group extended its customer offering through the acquisitions of the vibrant fashion brand PrettyLittleThing, and free-thinking brand Nasty Gal. United by a shared customer value proposition, our brand's design, source, market, and sell great quality clothes, shoes and accessories at unbeatable prices. This investment proposition has helped the group grow from a single brand into a major multi-brand online retailer, leading the fashion e-commerce market for 16 to 30-year-olds around the world. The boohoo group has continued to further strengthen its multi-brand platform, in 2019, the group acquired online womenswear retailer Miss Pap and UK brands Karen Millen and Coast. Today the boohoo group sells to over 8 million ever-growing customers globally.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Extreme drought-like conditions are putting a strain on farmers, but what does this mean for local farmers' markets and their shoppers?
If you're looking for locally grown corn or tomatoes, you’ll want to move quickly because there’s no telling how long this season will last.
The farm patch assistant manager Mike Marino is responsible for sourcing the local produce they sell.
Marino acknowledges it’s a difficult time for farmers. Although he said the produce is coming in he fears the conditions farmers' crops are facing.
”With this heat coming on we just don’t know how long it will probably last it might be a shorter season, like homegrown tomatoes might come off at one time,” said Mike Marino, Farm Patch Market assistant Manager.
It’s that sweet spot these farmers are looking for not too much and not too little.
“Last year was bad too, was too much rain, but this year it’s no rain, so it’s hard on farmers right now,” said Marino.
But if these conditions continue for farmers Marino says he may have to outsource out of state.
“You just got to go to other places to get what you're looking for because when the locals are done that's it their done,” said Marino.
According to the U.S drought monitor, the majority of South Texas sits in an extreme drought condition zone. But those may not be the only problems farmers are facing.
“It’s heat and drought but also some labor as well. Some having to get this product out of the field faster,” said Marino.
Marino said the farm patch shoppers come for the locally grown produce, so he hopes to continue giving them what they want for as long as possible. | https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/summer-heat-causing-extreme-drought-conditions-now-impacting-brazos-valley-farmers | 2022-06-14 04:35:54 | 0 | https://www.kxxv.com/brazos/summer-heat-causing-extreme-drought-conditions-now-impacting-brazos-valley-farmers |
CEDAR FALLS -- Tickets are now available for the annual Ghost Tours in Cedar Falls. Join local host Lauren Riensche on a one-hour, one-mile walking tour as she recounts local history and hauntings, sourced from community members who have lived and worked in the area.
Riensche is a downtown Cedar Falls local and haunted history buff. Please note the tour is the same as 2021.
Approximately 10% of tour proceeds will be donated to the Cedar Falls Historical Society.
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Meskwaki tribe members perform the Friendship Dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds.
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Veterans are honored during the grand entry of the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds.
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Meskwaki Nation hand drummers perform.
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Visitors watch as Meskwaki tribe members perform the Friendship Dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members perform the Swan Dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members perform the Friendship Dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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Meskwaki tribe members dance during the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama on Saturday.
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SHOALS, Ind. — A tornado struck an Indiana home, killing a man and injuring his wife while two people died in Arkansas after a tree fell onto a house there as severe weather rumbled through several states.
The tornado that struck the home Sunday evening was part of a storm system that pushed through a rural area of southern Indiana's Martin County. A tornado also touched down Sunday afternoon in the southern Indianapolis suburbs of Johnson County, damaging at least 75 homes, authorities said.
High winds caused tens of thousands of homes and businesses to lose electricity in Tennessee, Arkansas and Michigan.
The Indiana man was killed when the tornado hit the home in an isolated wooded area. His injured wife was flown by helicopter to a hospital, said Cameron Wolf, Martin County's emergency management director. The newer log cabin-style house was destroyed as a storm that also had large hail and other strong winds raked the area about 85 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.
“The home that was totally destroyed, just a few feet away they had a shop building that is perfectly good," Wolf said. "I mean, didn’t even touch it.”
Another tornado touched down Sunday afternoon the suburban Indianapolis communities of Greenwood and Bargersville, officials said.
Bargersville Fire Chief Erik Funkhouser said at least 75 homes suffered moderate to severe damage in a 3-mile (4.8-kilometer) area as the tornado crossed Indiana State Road 135 in the vicinity of Interstate 69. Crews did not find any deaths or injuries from the tornado, which officials estimated was on the ground for about 15 minutes.
Kimber Olson, 42, told her 8-year-old son to sit in the bathtub while she stood outside and recorded video of what looked like two cyclones circling toward her apartment in Bargersville
“The sound is deafening,” Olson told The Indianapolis Star. “You’ll never forget the sound. Your ears pop in such a strange way. You get a ring in your ear.”
After the tornado got closer, she went inside, closed all the doors and jumped in the bathtub with her son. She said she heard glass explode as her window shattered.
Sheriff’s officials say two people were killed and a third was injured Sunday night in the central Arkansas community of Carlisle when a tree fell onto a home, KTHV-TV reported.
In the city of Millington, located north of Memphis, officials reported multiple rescues from homes and cars and planes overturned at the city’s small airport. No injuries were immediately reported. The fire department reported extensive wind damage that knocked down trees, leading to road closures.
The storm caused more than 120,000 power outages in the Memphis area, with most of those homes and businesses still without electricity on Monday, utility officials said. More than 80,000 outages were reported in Michigan, mostly in the Detroit area. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/tornado-severe-weather-arkansas-indiana/507-918d1e8c-3977-43e8-811c-2854d6a2197c | 2023-06-26 19:40:42 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/tornado-severe-weather-arkansas-indiana/507-918d1e8c-3977-43e8-811c-2854d6a2197c |
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Five days have passed since Lorenzo Gamble was killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. His mother, Linda Gamble, hasn’t been able to do much of anything, including eat, because she misses him so much.
“It’s been really hard because I never, ever in a million years thought it would be my baby,” Gamble said. “He’s gone, but he will always be in my heart.”
Gamble spoke Sunday evening before a prayer vigil at The Mount Chesapeake church that honored her son and five other employees who police say were fatally shot by a store supervisor. Six others who were wounded in Tuesday’s rampage were also honored.
The 90-minute vigil — filled with music, hand raising and invocations of God — was an effort by the Chesapeake Coalition of Black Pastors to provide some kind of balm for a community that’s still raw from the violence.
By the end of the service, Gamble and her husband, Alonzo, stood with dozens of others who had lost someone to the carnage, knew a person who was wounded or who works at the store.
Among them was Shelia Bell, 70, a Walmart employee who worked with Lorenzo Gamble, a custodian at the store for 15 years. She said she also knew the shooter, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.
“To tell you the truth, right now I’m numb inside,” Bell said.
During the vigil, a tall purple candle was lit for each of the victims. They were Gamble, 43; Fernando “Jesus” Chavez-Barron, 16; Kellie Pyle, 52; Tyneka Johnson, 22; Brian Pendleton, 38; and Randy Blevins, 70.
“We cannot know your pain of waiting to hear about your loved ones or even understand the horror of the phone call when it came,” state Sen. Mamie Locke said earlier. “But what we can do is come together as a community and provide a shoulder to lean on.”
Congressman Bobby Scott said that Chesapeake, a city of about 250,000 people near the Atlantic coast, “now joins the list of all too many communities forced to bear the unbearable.”
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Here are the Reporter-Telegram’s high school boys & girls athletes of the week for the period of Nov. 28-Dec. 3 based on online fan voting. The honors are sponsored by Midland Meat Company. Each week throughout the school year, fan voting can be done at mrt.com/aotw.
MALE
Chapman Sims, Jr., Grady
The Grady boys basketball team is off to another strong start thanks in part to the play of junior Chapman Sims.
The reigning District 8-1A Newcomer of the Year has picked up where he left off as one of the key players for the No. 20-ranked Wildcats this season.
Sims helped Grady go 4-0 at the Tahoka Tournament last weekend by averaging 12.5 points per game.
Thanks to that performance, Sims garnered the most votes by the Reporter-Telegram readers to earn the Male Athlete of the Week honor.
“Chapman Sims has played well all season,” Grady coach Chris Short said. “Chapman has a tremendous work ethic both on and off the court. He’s a big part of our early success.”
FEMALE
Natalie Magallanes, Jr., Legacy
Legacy’s Natalie Magallanes is a regular nominee for this weekly award as she constantly puts up great numbers for the Lady Rebels basketball team.
Last week, Magallanes averaged 14.6 points per game and in helping the Lady Rebels go 3-2. She also scored a game-high 20 points in a 48-42 victory over No. 20-ranked Lubbock High, and she capped off the week by being named to the all-tournament team at the Cowtown Tournament over the weekend.
For the second time this season, Magallanes won the Female Athlete of the Week by garnering the most votes by Reporter-Telegram readers.
“Natalie continues to do great things for us on the court,” LHS coach Alfred Acosta said. “Amongst her being an instinctual defender, last week she provided us some efficient scoring throughout the week which helped us as a team have some success.” | https://www.mrt.com/sports/highschool/article/Grady-s-Sims-LHS-Magallanes-win-Area-Athlete-of-17643268.php | 2022-12-10 00:55:42 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/sports/highschool/article/Grady-s-Sims-LHS-Magallanes-win-Area-Athlete-of-17643268.php |
Knife & Spoon Awarded Prestigious MICHELIN Star and Primo Recognized on MICHELIN Recommended List in Florida's Inaugural MICHELIN Guide
ORLANDO, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grande Lakes Orlando is thrilled to celebrate the awarding of its restaurant Knife & Spoon at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando with a coveted MICHELIN Star, as well as the recognition of its restaurant Primo at JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes on the 2022 MICHELIN Recommended list. The esteemed accolades came as part of an invite-only ceremony that took place at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes on June 9, where the very first MICHELIN Guide Miami, Orlando and Tampa guide was unveiled.
"We are extremely honored to not only serve as the host for this inaugural guide launch but to also have two of our distinguished restaurants be awarded with coveted MICHELIN distinctions," said Jon McGavin, Area General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes and JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes. "This is a proud day for the Knife & Spoon and Primo teams and both hotels, and a major step in showcasing the region's culinary excellence. We are excited to build on these prestigious recognitions."
A signature steak and seafood restaurant conceived and led by award-winning Chef John Tesar, Knife & Spoon at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes was hailed as one of the most highly anticipated restaurant openings of the year by Vogue and The Daily Meal upon its debut in 2020. Under the helm of Chef de Cuisine Gerald Sombright, the restaurant offers an exceptional dining experience, showcasing the finest cuts of dry-aged meats balanced with the area's freshest seafood and ingredients.
At Primo, featuring menus crafted by award-winning Chef Melissa Kelly, guests can discover fine Italian dining and Mediterranean-inspired organic cuisine. Guided by the talents of Chef de Cuisine Eric Petrie, Primo shines brightly with its fresh ingredients produced on-site at the Primo Organic Garden as the restaurant mirrors Chef Kelly's philosophy adopted at the Rockland, Maine location of nothing is wasted – everything has a place.
These new recognitions of Knife & Spoon and Primo are a further testament to the world-class dining experiences that are presented at Grande Lakes Orlando. Across the 500-acre luxury resort complex and its two hotels, Grande Lakes Orlando showcases 12 acclaimed dining venues and serves as a culinary destination in its own right.
"We wish to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the teams at Knife & Spoon, Primo, The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes and JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes for these well-deserved recognitions," said Chris Gabaldon, Senior Vice President, Luxury Brands, Marriott International. "The culinary and beverage programming at the hotels and their acclaimed restaurants is a shining example of the outstanding dining environments our properties cultivate for guests to create lasting memories and we are proud of the dedication and commitment to excellence our Ladies and Gentlemen in Orlando have displayed."
Visit the MICHELIN Guide website, or download the free app for iOS and Android, to view the inspectors' comments about Knife & Spoon and Primo, as well as other restaurants in the selection.For more information and to book reservations, please visit www.grandelakes.com.
Hidden in the heart of Orlando, Grande Lakes Orlando sits on 500 lush acres at the headwaters of the Florida Everglades. The resort features a 582-room Ritz-Carlton, 1,010-room JW Marriott hotel, the 40,000-square-foot Ritz-Carlton spa as well as three picture-perfect pools. The Ritz-Carlton Golf & Tennis Club, which hosts the PNC Championship, includes an 18-hole Greg Norman-designed championship golf course. A dozen celebrated dining venues throughout include Knife & Spoon, a steak and seafood restaurant led by award-winning chef John Tesar, and Primo, Mediterranean/Italian fare by Melissa Kelly, a leader in the farm-to-fork movement and the only female chef to win James Beard Foundation American Express Best Chef Northeast Award two times. Grande Lakes Orlando restaurants source fresh ingredients from Whisper Creek Farm, an on-property 18,000-square-foot working farm, as well as on-site apiaries. The resort features a wide array of additional activities: kayaking, eco-tours on Shingle Creek, falconry, mountain biking and fishing school. Conference and meeting attendees have their pick of meeting space options located across 150,000 square feet plus more than 100,000 square feet of outdoor space. Grande Lakes is located 15 minutes from the Orlando International Airport, five minutes from the Orange County Convention Center and minutes from the major theme parks.
Follow Grande Lakes Orlando @grandelakesorlando on Instagram and grandelakesorlando on Facebook. Also, The Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott on Twitter @RC_Orlando and @JW_Orlando, Instagram @ritzcarltonorlando and @jwmorlando and Facebook ritzcarltonorlando and jwmarriottorlando. For more information, visit www.grandelakes.com.
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The new anti-phishing browser extension uses a state-of-the-art algorithm to provide advanced protection against disruptive phishing campaigns, enhancing BUFFERZONE's Safe Workspace cybersecurity solution.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BUFFERZONE, a provider of next-generation endpoint security solutions that protect organizations and individuals from advanced threats such as ransomware, zero-days, and phishing scams, has officially launched its new anti-phishing solution aimed at evading disruptive phishing campaigns.
BUFFERZONE Anti-Phishing is a lightweight browser extension based on state-a of-the-art algorithm providing a security solution powered by BUFFERZONE's novel artificial intelligence (AI) analysis and detection suite. The solution extends BUFFERZONE's browsing protection beyond endpoint containment and content disarming to include defense against threats stemming from users falling victim to malicious phishing campaigns.
BUFFERZONE Anti-Phishing combines state-of-the-art technologies, including brand detection, image context understanding, natural language processing (NLP), language translation, protocol analysis, static page analysis, dynamic URL sandboxing technology, and BUFFERZONE's Threat Intelligence.
The new solution, which will be available for beta users in the first quarter, defends against credential theft, scareware/dynamic content (fake virus alerts), social engineering scams (credit fraud), and other phishing abuses.
"The solution adds another layer to our award-winning virtual endpoint containment and content disarming technology and prevents malicious phishing attacks that are common and dangerous threats in today's internet," said BUFFERZONE CTO Dr. Ran Dubin. "This is a major milestone in our efforts to fulfill our vision of providing a secure workspace and remote work protection."
"Cybercriminals favor using phishing attacks as they do not require much effort and are still very effective. More than 80 percent of international organizations report that they have experienced such an attack," said Israel Levy, BUFFERZONE's CEO.
"We work hard to meet our customers' requests and provide them with a novel solution for protecting them against phishing attacks as part of our endpoint browser isolation and disarming product. Our solution combines prevention technology for protecting against evasive attacks with phishing detection to provide an excellent security suite."
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PATIENTS KICK OFF 4TH ANNUAL "ARE YOU O-K+?" CAMPAIGN FOR HIGH POTASSIUM AWARENESS DAY ON MAY 1
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the oldest and largest fully-independent kidney patient consumer organization in the USA, continues to put a national spotlight on the devastating impacts of high potassium (hyperkalemia) on individuals with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) on National High Potassium Awareness Day, May 1, 2023. Over three million U.S. adults have experienced hyperkalemia, and among those, over 48 percent had chronic kidney disease (CKD) and/or heart failure. AAKP will conduct its annual "Are You O-K+" campaign through AAKP's Center for Patient Education and Research for the fourth year. The campaign utilizes AAKP's sophisticated global and nation social media platforms to reach millions of Americans who are at risk for hyperkalemia.
In 2019, AAKP launched the Decade of the Kidney™ to organize greater awareness of kidney-related issues and the overwhelming need for transformative innovations in kidney drugs, diagnostics, and devices to prevent and treat the advancement of kidney diseases and potential kidney failure. The "Are You O-K+" effort is a central element of that initiative and engages kidney patients, care partners, allied medical professional associations, and the larger kidney community. AAKP advocates for streamlined clinical trials, greater involvement of patients and their unique patient insight data, real-world evidence, and patient-reported outcome data in the approval and launch of safe, new kidney innovations. For 2023, AAKP is working to remove burdensome and unnecessary barriers to patient consumer access to safe, U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved kidney therapies and devices, erected by insurers, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS).
AAKP will be hosting a FREE virtual educational "Are You O-K+" webinar on Monday, May 1, 2023, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. ET. Register at www.areyouok.org or click here. The webinar will include educational presentations, kidney-friendly cooking tips, patient stories about the impact and importance of potassium management, and much more. The virtual event will be available OnDemand after May 1 for enduring education.
The "Are You O-K+" campaign utilizes the scientific symbol of potassium "K+" with a popular message, "Are You Ok," to encourage individuals with kidney diseases to know their potassium level. The safe range for blood potassium level is under 5.1 (3.5 -5.0 mEq/L). Levels of 5.1 and higher may indicate hyperkalemia, making May 1 (5.1) the key time for this annual awareness day. Educational resources about high potassium and kidney disease are available in English and Spanish at www.areyouok.org.
"Since 2020, AAKP has been educating millions of people about the risks of hyperkalemia and the availability of innovative treatments to prevent the most devastating impact of this condition. For 2023, AAKP continues to vigorously expand our reach and educational resources so kidney patients, their medical teams, and our allies across the kidney community can support this national grassroots movement to continue to mark May 1 (5.1) as National High Potassium Awareness Day," Edward V. Hickey, III, USMC, AAKP President, said. "We are honored to initiate and continue to lead this awareness day campaign for the last four years, and we appreciate our ongoing educational partnership with campaign supporters AstraZeneca and CSL Vifor."
"AstraZeneca is proud to continue our partnership with the AAKP on the 4th annual National High Potassium Awareness Day. As a company dedicated to improving the lives of people living with and at risk of developing chronic kidney disease, we believe it's imperative for patients to feel empowered and make informed decisions about managing their potassium levels, which can be life-threatening if left untreated," said Katherine Keller, Executive Director, Marketing, AstraZeneca.
For more information on the "Are You O-K+" campaign and the available educational resources, visit www.areyouok.org. Get involved on social media and help spread the word by downloading the campaign toolkit and following us on Facebook @areyouok5point1, Instagram @areyouok5point1, and Twitter @areyouok5point1. For more information about AAKP's educational and advocacy programs, visit www.aakp.org or join today as a FREE member at www.aakp.org/join.
Since 1969, AAKP has been a patient-led organization driving policy discussions on kidney patient consumer care choice and treatment innovation. By 1973, AAKP patients had collaborated with the U.S. Congress and White House to begin American dialysis coverage for any person suffering kidney failure, a taxpayer effort that has saved over one million lives. In 2018, AAKP established the largest U.S. kidney voter registration program, KidneyVoters™. Over the past decade, AAKP patients have helped gain lifetime transplant drug coverage for kidney transplant recipients (2020); new patient-centered policies via the White House Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health (2019); new job protections for living organ donors from the U.S. Department of Labor (2018); and Congressional legislation allowing HIV-positive organ transplants for HIV-positive patients (2013). Follow AAKP on social media at @kidneypatient on Facebook and @kidneypatients on Twitter, and visit www.aakp.org for more information.
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, himself considered a possible candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, predicted Sunday in no uncertain terms that former President Donald Trump won’t win.
“Thank you for your service, we’re moving on,” Sununu said.
The leader of the “live free or die” state was speaking with Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday when the fourth term governor predicted former President Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee in 2024.
“I just don’t believe the Republican party is going to say that the best leadership for America tomorrow is yesterday’s leadership; that doesn’t make any sense,” he said.
Trump “is not going to be the nominee, that just isn’t going to happen,” according to Sununu.
Sununu’s supposition is at odds with polling, where the former president is currently leading among Republican hopefuls, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis often cited as a distant second.
A recent Harvard survey seemed to indicate the former commander-in-chief would win the Republican nod regardless of who is running or how many contenders there are and theoretically go on to beat President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.
Sununu’s prediction is also at odds with attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where this weekend a straw poll showed Trump holding support by wide margins.
So far, among well known candidates, only Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley have officially declared their intentions towards the White House, though both DeSantis and Sununu have broadly signaled their own ambitions towards the nation’s highest office.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Michigan businessman Perry Johnson have also announced presidential bids.
The quickly growing field may explain Sununu’s appearance on the Sunday shows this weekend and for most of February’s Sundays, as he and the rest of the party’s hopefuls begin the process of building national name recognition ahead of a potentially crowded list of candidates, all of whom will all have to vie for the attention that Trump has so successfully held for the last eight years.
“I think there is a lot of opportunity to bring forward what the Republican party, not what we were, not yesterday’s leadership or yesterday’s story or crying about what happened in November of ‘22, but what we are going to bring to the table and get done tomorrow,” Sununu said Sunday.
However, according to New Hampshire’s governor, it would be Florida’s chief executive, DeSantis, not Sununu or Trump, winning the state’s primary if it were held immediately.
“Right now, if the election were today, Ron DeSantis would win in New Hampshire. There’s no doubt about that in my mind,” he said.
That prediction did not stop Sununu from launching a national fundraising organization earlier in February, created with the ostensible purpose of talking “about the model that New Hampshire has,” but more likely as a bid to feel out donors for 2024.
Sununu’s ambitions have been particularly popular in his home state, where the first primaries will be held. According to polling the governor’s approval numbers have jumped from +13% to +36% since rumors of a run began.
“Currently, 66% of New Hampshire residents approve of Governor Sununu’s job performance, 30% disapprove, and 5% neither approve, disapprove or don’t know,” pollsters at the University of New Hampshire Survey Center said in late February.
As of now that’s not enough to win the primary, according to UNH political science Professor Dante Scala.
“Polling shows DeSantis with the edge here,” he told the Herald. “The more interesting question is what happens to DeSantis if a third strong candidate — maybe Sununu, maybe someone else — emerges.”
Another much rumored potential candidate, outspoken Trump critic and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, announced Sunday he would not seek the nomination and would instead clear the field, since, he said in a statement, “the stakes are too high for me to risk being part of another multicar pileup that could potentially help Mr. Trump recapture the nomination.”
“I have long said that I care more about ensuring a future for the Republican Party than securing my own future in the Republican Party. And that is why I will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president,” Hogan’s statement reads, in part. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/05/trump-will-not-be-2024-nominee-n-h-gov-says-party-has-moved-on/ | 2023-03-06 01:45:44 | 0 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/05/trump-will-not-be-2024-nominee-n-h-gov-says-party-has-moved-on/ |
Elon Musk’s tumultuous $44 billion bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse — after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter’s board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a message for comment. It is not entirely clear whether Twitter’s board will accept the $1 billion breakup fee or if there will be a court battle over the deal.
The possible unraveling of the deal is just the latest twist in a saga between the world’s richest man and one of the most influential social media platforms. Much of the drama has played out on Twitter, with Musk — who has more than 95 million followers — lamenting that the company was failing to live up to its potential as a platform for free speech.
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On Friday, shares of Twitter fell 5% to $36.81, well below the $54.20 that Musk had offered to pay. Shares of Tesla, meanwhile, climbed 2.5% to $752.29.
In a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk said Twitter has “not complied with its contractual obligations” surrounding the deal, namely giving Musk enough information to “make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform.”
Musk’s flirtation with buying Twitter appeared to begin in late March. That’s when Twitter has said he contacted members of its board — including co-founder Jack Dorsey — and told them he was buying up shares of the company and interested in either joining the board, taking Twitter private or starting a competitor. Then, on April 4, he revealed in a regulatory filing that he had became the company’s largest shareholder after acquiring a 9% stake worth about $3 billion.
At first, Twitter offered Musk a seat on its board. But six days later, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted that Musk will not be joining the board after all. His bid to buy the company came together quickly after that.
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Musk had agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share, inserting a “420″ marijuana reference into his offer price. He sold roughly $8.5 billion worth of shares in Tesla to help fund the purchase, then strengthened his commitments of more than $7 billion from a diverse group of investors including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
Inside Twitter, Musk’s offer was met with confusion and falling morale, especially after Musk publicly criticized one of Twitter’s top lawyers involved in content-moderation decisions.
As Twitter executives prepared for the deal to move forward, the company instituted a hiring freeze, halted discretionary spending and fired two top managers. The San Francisco company has also been laying off staff, most recently part of its talent acquisition team. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/08/business/elon-musk-says-hes-terminating-44-billion-twitter-buyout-deal/ | 2022-07-08 21:46:38 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/08/business/elon-musk-says-hes-terminating-44-billion-twitter-buyout-deal/ |
Teen charged with murder in death of 15-year-old girl
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - The Toledo Police Department said they had made an arrest in connection to the killing of 15-year-old DeAsia Green.
According to the police department, officers arrested a 15-year-old boy last week. He has been charged with murder and felonious assault.
On Jan. 9, police reported finding DeAsia’s body in an alley.
Toledo police said DeAsia was a “habitual runaway.” However, investigators said the teen’s parents reported her missing earlier in the month after they realized something different about her recent disappearance.
Her parents gave a police search team information they had received, which led detectives to where the area Green’s body was found.
Investigators confirmed DeAsia is the daughter of an unsolved homicide victim from 2010, DeAndre Green. His case was highlighted last year for WTVG’s Case Files.
Police said DeAsia’s death has nothing to do with DeAndre’s death.
While police have made an arrest, officers have yet to release any further details regarding the circumstances surrounding her death.
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Fans and critics may disagree over when exactly the “Fast & Furious” franchise jumped the shark, but there is only one correct answer: When the Pontiac Fiero went into space.
Weightless and violating every physical law, the floating car — tasked with bumping a satellite in the ninth installment — was the very symbol of how bloated and crazed the once-plucky series had become. There really was no way down after that.
And yet we have come to 10, part of a planned series of films finally saying goodbye. “Fast X” is, thankfully, shackled to Earth's gravity — sometimes tenuously, it must be said — but it has become almost camp, as if it breathed in too much of its own fumes.
“Fast X” reaches into the fifth movie — 2011's “Fast Five” — for the seeds to tell a new story. In a memorable moment five movies ago, Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto wrecked a bad guy and his team on a bridge in Rio de Janeiro. Little did we know then, but that bad guy had a son who survived and now, years later, vows vengeance. That's it. That's the plot.
That said, “Fast X” is monstrously silly and stupidly entertaining — just Wile E. Coyote stuff, ridiculous stunts employing insane G-forces and everything seemingly on fire. There are elements of “Mission: Impossible,” 007 and “John Wick,” as if all the action franchises were somehow merging. But here's a warning: It careens to an end without a payoff, a more dangerous stunt than any in the movies themselves.
The film would not be near enough as fun without Jason Momoa, who plays the bad guy's son as a full-on flamboyant psycho, licking a knife clean after killing someone with it and painting the toenails of a dead victim as he displays the corpse in a demented garden party. “Never accept death when suffering is owed,” he says.
He is half Joaquin Phoenix from “The Joker” and half Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Momoa has a penchant for planning explosions and then standing on a high spot and throwing his arms wide like Christ the Redeemer as the blast wave hits. The film sags as soon as he's not in it.
Momoa is part of the franchise's familiar tactic of stacking ever more stars with not enough to do — this time we also welcome Brie Larson, Alan Ritchson, Daniela Melchior and Rita Moreno. There's even a Pete Davidson cameo.
That's on top of regulars Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jordana Brewster, John Cena, Jason Statham, Charlize Theron, Sung Kang, Scott Eastwood and Helen Mirren, whose attempt once again at a working-class accent is comical. This is a clown car of talent. The poster for the film includes 14 characters, like an Avengers movie.
At the center is the always-sleeveless Diesel, who keeps getting exposed as a truly terrible actor, one who evidently only attended the Brooding 101 seminar in drama school. The filmmakers usually just prop him up in front of a wall of family photos and he stares at them intently. “I only care about protecting the people that I love,” he will growl.
Family — as fans of the franchise know well — is always central, or rather, a gothic zero-sum notion of blood's bond explained with soap opera dialogue. Toretto must protect family no matter the cost (but apparently OK with leaving his 8-year-old son in someone else's care as he drag races in Rio). “You know what your problem is?” teases Momoa. “Family. You can't save them all.”
New director Louis Leterrier — from a screenplay by veteran Justin Lin and newcomers Zach Dean and Dan Mazeau — take us from Los Angeles to Antarctica, threatening much of Rome with a 20 kiloton bomb along the way and ending the movie at the side of a dam in Portugal in a cliffhanger. Stick around for the credits and even more mega-stars are promised for the next installment.
What you get this time are two brutal hand-to-hand fights, a car smashing two helicopters and rush hour traffic, car bombs, remote-controlled cars (big and small), vehicles that leap into the sky like salmon and a plane that drops a souped-up racer from its belly onto the highway.
Taking material from “Fast Five” means the delicate task of returning to Paul Walker, the franchise veteran who died in 2013. Old footage of Walker does appear in “Fast X” as the movie recreates events on that Rio bridge. It is handled respectfully and coolly. In a nice touch, Walker's daughter, Meadow, has a cameo as a flight attendant.
With a foot in the past, one in the future and one on the gas, “Fast X” is pure popcorn lunacy. Was that too many feet? Oh, excuse us, you wanted logic?
“Fast X,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense sequences of violence and action, language and some suggestive material. Running time: 134 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The final phase of jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz began Wednesday with prosecutors and defense attorneys asking candidates about their job histories, opinions on law enforcement and racial minorities, whether they own guns and if they could handle viewing gruesome crime scene photos.
The final 83 candidates remaining from about 1,800 who began the three-step process back on April 4 are being brought back to Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s courtroom in four groups over two days, the first two undergoing questioning Wednesday.
The 23 men and 15 women in the groups come from diverse backgrounds. An airline pilot. Bankers. A circus fire eater and stilt walker. A city councilwoman. Grocery store and Walmart workers. A loading dock supervisor, a human resources manager, a special education teacher, a new self-help author, a librarian, computer techs, a longshoreman and retirees. They appeared to range from their 20s through their 60s and at least 17 appeared to be racial minorities. Two volunteered they are gay. About a third said they own guns. Some are U.S. military veterans.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. After the finalists are questioned, 12 jurors and eight alternates will be selected on Tuesday by the attorneys and judge for the four-month trial that will decide if Cruz is sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. The trial is scheduled to start July 6.
While lead prosecutor Mike Satz mostly asked straight-forward questions Wednesday about the panelists’ backgrounds, assistant public defenders Nawal Bashimam and Tamara Curtis followed with more wide-ranging and open questions, their motivation not always obvious. About half the men raised their hands when Bashimam asked if any panelists play violent video games and most panelists said they have strong animosity toward people who torture animals — both something Cruz did in the years before the shooting.
When Bashimam asked the first group if any believed in the existence of “white privilege” — the assertion that white people in the U.S. have societal advantages over minorities — about half raised their hands, including some of the white ones. The pilot, an Air Force veteran, interjected to strongly disagree, saying this country provides opportunities to all who work for it. The book author, who is Black, agreed with him.
All said they could remain fair toward Cruz even after they see crime scene and autopsy photos and walk the still blood-stained and bullet-pocked Stoneman Douglas classroom building where the massacre occurred. A retired U.S. Customs agent said he did recovery work at the World Trade Center in 2001 after the 9-11 terrorist attack, so he’s already experienced something similarly horrific. A firefighter and nurse agreed when asked if some people aren’t cut out to see such photos.
The jury selection process was expected to take only about a month, but turned into a slog because of attorneys’ illnesses and controversies.
Those included a threat by Cruz’s lead public defender, Melisa McNeill, to withdraw if Scherer proceeded when a member of her team became ill. Scherer resumed the trial the following day, the ailing attorney sitting at the defense table. That resulted in a defense motion that the judge remove herself from the case as biased. Scherer rejected that motion..
Still undecided is a motion by the defense to delay the trial because of the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 dead. The defense argues that the shooting has again raised emotions in Broward County and makes it impossible for him to get a fair trial currently.
During Tuesday’s final selection, each side can try to convince Scherer that certain candidates are biased and ask her to dismiss them. If she refuses, they will each also have at least 10 peremptory challenges where they can dismiss a potential juror for any reason except race or gender.
When a jury is finally seated, it will have to decide whether the aggravating factors such as Cruz’s multiple victims, his planning, the terror he created and the cruelty he showed outweigh such mitigating circumstances as his long history of mental and emotional problems, his possible sexual abuse and the death of his parents. For Cruz to get death, the jurors must unanimously agree. If one or more vote for life, that will be his sentence. | https://www.koin.com/news/national/school-shooters-jury-selection-enters-final-stretch/ | 2022-06-23 14:30:35 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/national/school-shooters-jury-selection-enters-final-stretch/ |
Stocks post another loss as markets worry about higher rates
(AP) - Stocks deepened their late August skid with more losses Tuesday, as Wall Street grapples with the prospect that high interest rates are here to stay until the Federal Reserve brings inflation down.
The S&P 500 fell 1.1%, bringing its loss in the past three days to 5.1%. The benchmark index is down 3.5% for the month with one day left in August.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1%, while the Nasdaq composite lost 1.1%. Smaller company stocks also fell, dragging the Russell 2000 1.5% lower.
Markets have been weaker since Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated Friday that the central bank will stick to its strategy of raising interest rates to try and tame the hottest inflation in four decades.
The latest wave of selling reflects a “hangover” from Powell’s speech last week and uncertainty ahead of the Labor Department’s monthly employment report on Friday, said Megan Horneman, chief investment officer at Verdence Capital Advisors.
Markets are trying to get a better sense of “how far, how fast the Fed’s going to have to go” in slowing down the economy in order to fight inflation, she said.
A strong report on the job market Tuesday morning further diminished any hopes that the Fed would be able to ease up on its inflation-fighting policy. The higher rates the Fed is imposing are meant to keep inflation in check by slowing down the economy, including the pace of hiring.
The government reported that there were 11.2 million open jobs on the last day of July. That’s near;y two jobs for every unemployed person, on average. That number was up from 11 million in June, and June’s figure was also revised sharply higher.
“Employers will have to increase their incentives to fill jobs, which could be inflationary,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. “We’re not seeing numbers that are consistently offering encouragement.”
Wall Street is worried that the Fed could hit the brakes too hard on an already slowing economy and veer it into a recession. Higher interest rates also hurt investment prices, especially for pricier stocks.
The central bank has already raised interest rates four times this year and is expected to raise short-term rates by another 0.75 percentage points at its next meeting in September, according to CME Group.
The selling was widespread Tuesday, with all the sectors in the S&P 500 ending in the red. All told, the S&P 500 fell 44.45 points to 3,986.16. The Dow dropped 308.12 points to 31,790.87 and the Nasdaq fell 134.53 points to 11,883.14. The Russell 2000 gave up 27.35 points to close at 1,855.59.
Major indexes had gained ground in July and into early August on hopes that weaker economic data would prompt the Fed to ease up on its high-interest rate policy. Those gains followed a weak first half of the year where the S&P 500 dropped 20% from its most recent high and entered a bear market.
Investors have been closely watching economic data for any additional signs that the economy is slowing down or that inflation may be cooling or at least holding at its current level. Businesses and consumers have been hit hard by rising prices on everything from food to clothing, but recent declines in gasoline prices have provided some relief.
Consumers regained some confidence in August, according to a survey from The Conference Board. Its consumer confidence index rose this month after three straight monthly declines. It also rose well above what economists expected.
Technology stocks were among the biggest weights on the index Tuesday. Chipmaker Nvidia fell 2.1%.
Energy stocks fell along with U.S. crude oil prices, which dropped 5.5% to settle at $91.64 a barrel. Chevron dropped 2.4%.
While the price of U.S. crude is up more than 43% this year, it has fallen nearly 5% this month.
“The biggest challenge with oil is the fact that the Fed has basically said they’re going to produce economic pain to try and bring down inflation, and typically when you have an economic slowdown or recession you’re going to get energy prices that will fall,” Horneman said.
Best Buy was a bright spot, gaining 1.6% after reporting results for its latest quarter that were much better than analysts were expecting.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury held steady at 3.11%.
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The National Basketball Referees Association said Sunday that LeBron James was fouled on the last play of regulation in the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Boston Celtics.
The NBA office also confirmed for the second time that a foul should have been called.
”Like everyone else, referees make mistakes,” the union wrote in its tweet. ”We made one at the end of last night’s game and that is gut-wrenching for us. This play will weigh heavily and cause sleepless nights as we strive to be the best referees we can be.”
James got the ball about 35 feet from the basket, with 4.1 seconds remaining in what was a tied game at Boston on Saturday night. He split two defenders as he got into the lane, then went airborne and got past Jayson Tatum as well.
James laid the ball up with his left hand, Tatum clearly made contact with James’ shooting arm, no foul was called and the game went to overtime. Had a foul been called, James would have gone to the free-throw line with an opportunity to put the Lakers ahead with 1.8 seconds remaining.
The Celtics wound up winning the game in overtime, 125-121.
”We got cheated tonight, honestly. … It’s unacceptable,” Lakers forward Anthony Davis said after the game.
The NBA acknowledged shortly after the game that a foul should have been called – ”There was contact. At the time, during the game, we did not see a foul. The crew missed the play,” crew chief Eric Lewis told a pool reporter – and reaffirmed that Sunday in the report detailing calls made and missed in the final two minutes of regulation and overtime.
The Lakers entered Sunday 13th in the Western Conference at 23-27, only two games back of the final play-in spot and four games back of the fourth-place Los Angeles Clippers. But the Lakers have also spent virtually the entire season on the outside of the playoff picture.
”We don’t have room for error,” James said after Saturday’s game. ”And it’s one of the best games we played all year. For it to fall on somebody else’s judgment, or non-judgment, it’s just ridiculous. It’s ridiculous.”
Neither James nor Davis will play in the Lakers’ next game on Monday at Brooklyn, the team said. Injuries are the reason; James has left ankle soreness and Davis continues to deal with a right foot stress injury.
James reacted with no shortage of animation after the missed call on the Tatum play, immediately pointing to his arm and eventually slumping to the court, resting on his knees and elbows as he tried to come to grips with no foul being called.
Lakers guard Patrick Beverley brought a camera onto the court during the ensuing stoppage to show Lewis an image of the contact; Beverley got a technical foul, and the Celtics wound up starting the overtime with a 106-105 lead because of the resulting free throw.
It marked at least the fourth time in recent weeks that the Lakers felt a late-game call went against them in what became a loss.
”I don’t see it happening to nobody else,” James said. ”It’s just weird.”
Added Lakers coach Darvin Ham: ”As much as you try not to put it on officiating, it’s becoming increasingly difficult.”
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Chambers and Partners recognizes global consulting firm J.S. Held as a global leader in Asset Tracing & Recovery, Political Risk, Investigative Due Diligence, and Business Intelligence & Investigations.
JERICHO, N.Y., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global consulting firm J.S. Held announces recognition in Chambers and Partners' Annual Ranking of Crisis & Risk Management and Litigation Support firms.
The J.S. Held Global Investigations team receives a global leadership ranking in Asset Tracing & Recovery, Political Risk, and Investigative Due Diligence. Further, the Global Investigations teams in the United Kingdom and in Asia Pacific were recognized in Business Intelligence & Investigations.
J.S. Held is proud to share the recognition of our Global Investigations team and individual experts who received top Chambers and Partners rankings in the areas of:
Global Asset Tracing & Recovery – Global | Band 1
Peter Pender-Cudlip, Global Investigations & Intelligence Expert; Senior Managing Director within the J.S. Held Global Investigations Practice and Co-Founder of GPW Group. Peter advises clients on commercial and sovereign asset tracing, complex fraud investigations and a wide range of cross-border litigation and arbitration matters.
"Peter is extremely experienced as well as easy-going. He understands what is important for blue-chip clients and is able to get useful and usable information with his team. Peter is great to deal with, and he gets results."
Ashley Messick, Global Asset Tracing & Recovery Expert; Managing Director within the J.S. Held Global Investigations Practice. Ashley leads J.S. Held's Sovereign Debt Advisory Practice and has extensive experience advising on sovereign and commercial disputes, asset recovery & enforcement.
"She is someone in this space who is very well respected, particularly on the distressed debt side. She is a true asset for J.S. Held."
Political Risk – Global | Band 1
Livia Paggi, Political Risk, ESG, and Business Intelligence Expert; Managing Director within the J.S. Held Global Investigations Practice
"I worked with Livia and she is brilliant. She is dynamic and responsive."
Philip Worman, Global Political Risk, Business Intelligence, and Investigations Expert; Senior Managing Director within the J.S. Held Global Investigations Practice and previously a Partner in GPW Group
"Philip Worman has on-the-ground- experience and has a real international coverage."
Global Investigative Due Diligence – Global | Band 3
Business Intelligence & Investigations – Asia Pacific | Band 2
Bruno Vickers, Managing Director within the J.S. Held Global Investigations Practice, is a global business intelligence & investigations expert.
"He quickly understands what is required, asks good questions and anticipates further steps. The word product is excellent, structured, and easy to read."
Business Intelligence & Investigations – United Kingdom | Band 3
Sebastian Neave, Senior Director within the J.S. Held Global Investigations Practice, advises clients on complex disputes, cross-border litigation, and arbitration claims.
"He brought a level of professionalism, expertise and dedication that was truly impressive. At every step of the way, Neave went the extra mile to ensure that I was satisfied with the results, and I was stuck by his attention to detail and commitment to delivering the highest quality work."
Equally important to the overall and individual expert rankings is the specific feedback from clients and peers acknowledging the work of J.S. Held:
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PASADENA, Texas (AP) — A winter storm that brought severe weather to the Gulf Coast and wintry precipitation to the north was headed east Wednesday, a day after tornadoes caused widespread damage in the Houston area and injured three people in Louisiana.
On Tuesday, forecasters issued a rare tornado emergency for the Houston area as the storm system moved through the heavily populated area. Substantial damage was reported in cities east of Houston, but there were no reports of injuries.
In Louisiana, three people suffered “mild to moderate injuries” when their mobile homes were flipped or destroyed after a tornado hit the Morel Lane area north of Baton Rouge, the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office said.
The storm on Wednesday was expected to bring damaging winds to parts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, forecasters said. Winter weather advisories stretched from southern Missouri to Maine, with areas of New England expected to see 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters) of snow, the National Weather Service said.
In Texas, several businesses in Pasadena, east of Houston, sustained major damage, including the city’s animal shelter. Nearby, fences were blown over and shingles and sections of roofs were torn from homes. The American Red Cross said it was opening a shelter in Pasadena.
In Baytown, there were downed power lines and damage to homes and businesses, but no reports of serious injuries, said Baytown spokesperson Jason Calder.
Officials in nearby Deer Park said the tornado did severe damage to a nursing home. Residents had to be taken away, but no one was hurt.
“There is one aspect of me that’s amazed that no one got injured,” Deer Park Mayor Jerry Mouton Jr. said as emergency crews worked to restore power. “We will deal with the property and recover and rebuild.”
Many of the suburbs in the area have a heavy presence of petrochemical facilities.
Shell Chemicals’ location in Deer Park was flaring, or burning off natural gas, after it lost steam because of severe weather, according to Shell spokesperson Curtis Smith.
“We are taking steps to minimize any noise, light, or smoke associated with this activity, though it’s expected to continue until the units are restarted,” Smith said via email. “There is no threat to the community, nor are there any indications a nearby tornado touched down within the Chemicals facility.”
The storm system was also bringing snow and ice to much of the central U.S.
Schools and businesses remained closed Wednesday in parts of Oklahoma, which saw snowfall totals of between 1 and 6 inches (3 and 15 centimeters) across central and eastern parts of the state. More than 160,000 homes and businesses were without power Wednesday morning in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri after heavy snow fell in the Ozarks a day earlier.
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Hispanic voters largely stuck to historical partisan trends in 2022, despite a narrative of a rightward shift among Latinos that could propel a Republican wave election.
Democrats largely outperformed Republicans in heavily Hispanic districts around the country, with the exception of Florida, a state that for decades was a GOP Hispanic stronghold.
The partisan split and the influence of Latino voters on a series of key elections underscored the importance of a Hispanic electorate once derided as a “sleeping giant.”
“From now on two things are true: Nobody can ever talk about a fucking sleeping giant. Because in Florida last night for the Republicans, and then in the rest of the nation for the Democrats, Latinos made a huge fucking difference in all of these races” said Chuck Rocha, a Democratic political operative who ran Latino outreach for Democrats in Pennsylvania.
“And the second thing is, it shows when Democrats woke up after the 2020 election, and started doing a better job – at least throwing a lot of money and resources at a lot of districts and states – it proved to work,” added Rocha.
In Texas, for example, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who lost his election, won the 93 percent Hispanic Hidalgo County with a 60-40 split, roughly the numbers Hispanic advocates expected to see there.
Throughout the country, but particularly in the West, Hispanic voters largely put down narratives of a rightward shift, with Democratic candidates in Hispanic districts largely doing well.
“We’ve seen these all these articles, all these narratives, I mean, the post mortems were written before [Tuesday],” said Victoria McGroary, the executive director of Bold PAC, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) campaign arm.
“Like ‘the rise of the Latina conservative,’ right, all of this? And yeah, over at Bold PAC and Latino groups on the ground, all of us who have been doing this work, invested in their communities for so long, have been like, ‘no, no, no, we gotta run through the tape,” she added.
In large part, the lack of a rightward shift followed a national trend of rejecting candidates seen as too extreme.
“That’s because Latinos rejected MAGA, period. Maga is toxic to Latinos,” said Kristian Ramos, a Democratic political operative.
Still, stories of a reddening of the Hispanic electorate were everywhere this election cycle, worrying some Democrats that the narrative would morph into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“I think Latino Democrats don’t listen to pundits. And I think that’s the reason why they just came out and voted in their own self-interest,” said Bold PAC Chair Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.).
“If you had been watching CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and listening to other political pundits, you would have thought that this was going to be obviously a different election, instead Latinos came out because it was important to them,” added Gallego.
So far, no Bold PAC House incumbents lost their seats, and Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto’s race is still too close to call.
Bold PAC’s dual mission is to protect CHC incumbents and add new members to the group of congressional Hispanic Democrats – after the 2022 midterms the CHC’s membership is likely to be the largest in its history.
The Republican Latino push had more ups and downs, although the GOP’s absolute dominance in Florida maintained the historical home base of Hispanic conservatism.
“In general, I would say overall, it was a mixed bag … just in general our election results, but also for the Latino vote. And one of the things that worked against Republicans was the high expectations,” said Jennifer Sevilla Korn, executive director of the Hispanic Leadership Network and a former Trump White House official.
Florida was the silver lining for Republicans in 2022 – their success was in part a result of aggressive redistricting, which yielded a handful of blue districts dotting a ruby red landscape.
“[Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis won by .05 percent four years ago. And the fact that he won by 20 percent and gained in Miami-Dade, a very blue county, is historic. And it’s not just Cubans, because that area has become very diverse,” said Korn.
The GOP’s Florida operation quashed Democratic hopes that South Florida districts would remain competitive, six years after then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton led a blue surge in the historically Republican region.
“South Floridian Latinos are going back to what they were prior to Hillary Clinton, and it looks like we have stemmed the bleeding in Texas, where obviously [Latinos are] still conservative leaning but still Democratic. And it looks like we are moving in the right direction everywhere else,” said Gallego.
Bold PAC took a victory lap Wednesday, celebrating wins in New Jersey, Florida, Texas, California and Illinois.
While the incoming members from those states were expected to win their races, Hispanic Democrats successfully defended two at-risk incumbents in South Texas, and remain competitive in too-close-to-call House races throughout the West, including in California, Washington and Oregon.
One New Mexico race was called early Thursday for the Democratic candidate, Rep.-elect Gabe Vazquez, who beat Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.), a top Bold PAC target in part for her role in perpetuating election denials.
In Colorado, Rep.-elect Yadira Caraveo (D) won a tight race to become the first Latina Colorado sends to Congress, representing the state’s newly-drawn 8th district.
And those wins are not coincidental – Bold PAC moved aggressively after the 2020 Census to influence redistricting, seeking to draw more districts that could supercharge Hispanic representation nationwide.
“Not to brag, but our staff practically went and got involved in redistricting, and created new districts that basically are probably going to end up getting us three Democrats, with Gabe Vasquez, Yadira Caraveo and Andrea Salinas. If it’s not for Bold PAC helping on redistricting on that, I’m not sure we get those districts and I’m not sure we get three new seats,” said Gallego.
Salinas, who competed for Oregon’s sixth district, is leading Republican Mike Erickson in a tight race with about 60 percent of ballots counted.
In that sense, Bold PAC’s aggressive campaign strategy mirrors DeSantis’ no-holds-barred approach to Florida politics, which stands in contrast to a national Democratic campaign that detractors say is too cautious, incumbent-centric, and East Coast-biased.
It’s also a strategy that some Democratic strategists say stands in contrast to the focus on so-called “frontline” members, moderate Democrats mostly from the East and Midwest who have traditionally been the focus of the party’s campaign apparatus.
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Biden’s brother says the president is ‘very open-minded’ about psychedelics for medical treatment
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s youngest brother said in a radio interview Wednesday that the president has been “very open-minded” in conversations the two have had about the benefits of psychedelics as a form of medical treatment.
Frank Biden made the comments during a call into The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM. The host had just interviewed a Wall Street Journal reporter who recently wrote about powerful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and employees who believe the use of psychedelics and similar substances can help lead to business breakthroughs.
“He is very open-minded,” Frank Biden said when asked by Smerconish about conversations he’s had with the president on the topic. “Put it that way. I don’t want to speak, I’m talking brother-to-brother. Brother-to-brother,” the younger Biden said. “The question is, is the world, is the U.S. ready for this? My opinion is that we are on the cusp of a consciousness that needs to be brought about to solve a lot of the problems in and around addiction, but as importantly, to make us aware of the fact that we’re all one people and we’ve got to come together.”
Frank Biden added that he had “done a great deal of research” on the issue “because I’m a recovering alcoholic for many, many years.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Some researchers believe psilocybin, the compound in psychedelic mushrooms, changes the way the brain organizes itself and can help users overcome things like depression, alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder. A drug that’s related to the anesthetic ketamine was cleared by the FDA to help people with hard-to-treat depression.
But medical experts caution that more research is needed on the drugs’ efficacy and the extent of the risks of psychedelics, which can cause hallucinations.
The American Psychiatric Association has not endorsed the use of psychedelics in treatment, noting the Food and Drug Administration has yet to offer a final determination. The FDA designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” in 2018, a label that’s designed to speed the development and review of drugs to treat a serious condition. MDMA, also known as ecstasy, also has that designation for PTSD treatment.
Earlier this year, Oregon became the first state in the nation to legalize the adult use of psilocybin. Colorado’s voters last year voted to decriminalize psilocybin.
Republican strongholds, including Utah and Missouri, have or are considering commissioning studies into the drugs, partly inspired by veterans’ who have used psilocybin to help with PTSD.
Former Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry spoke at a conference last week in Colorado about helping get a bill passed in the Texas legislature in 2021 to fund a study of psilocybin for veterans. He doesn’t support recreational use.
In Congress, similar veteran-focused proposals brought progressive Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and far-right Rep. Matt Gaetz from Florida into an unlikely alignment.
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Clio issues boil water advisory
CLIO, Mich. (WNEM) - The city of Clio issued a boil water advisory for residents on Beach Street and Butler Street from North Mill Street to Cherry Street.
Due to the drop in pressure in Clio’s water supply, bacterial contamination may have occurred in the water system.
The pressure drop occurred when a city contractor hit a service lead along Butler Street, Wednesday, July 12.
The city is working to get the pressure restored, and water staff is working on taking samples of the water for bacterial contamination.
The city advises residents to not drink their water before boiling it first, as boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water. The city said water should be boiled for one minute before using it. The city also said residents can use bottled water in place of boiling water.
Residents are asked to continue to boil their water until the advisory is lifted.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Everyone knows Deion Sanders. Behind the scenes and not as well known is the guiding force behind his evolution from “Prime Time” to “Coach Prime.”
The orchestrator, too, of the deal that brought Sanders to Boulder to revive a University of Colorado football program that's fallen on hard times.
Constance Schwartz-Morini is Coach Prime's trusted adviser /business associate/friend/guardian, one who's built a resume working with the likes of Hall of Famer Michael Strahan — her business co-founder turned “Good Morning America” co-anchor — and hip-hop artist Wiz Khalifa.
Really, though, Schwartz-Morini goes by many titles — psychologist, business incubator, life coach, mentor, award-winning producer, even “consigliere” (a name Snoop Dogg bestowed upon her). She has the ear of Fortune 500 executives, the respect of the NFL commissioner and the desire to open doors for others in what’s traditionally been a male-dominated industry.
“She's created a space and a lane that only she could walk in right now,” Sanders told The Associated Press. “She’s truly a visionary.”
By his own admission, Sanders wouldn't be here — about to lead the Buffaloes into a sold-out Folsom Field on Saturday for a spring game airing on ESPN — without a huge assist from Schwartz-Morini.
He was all set to spend his retirement fishing and relaxing before she convinced him that coaching should be his new calling. It led him to a wildly successful stint at Jackson State.
And then she touched base with a search firm to get the ball rolling on Sanders' arrival at Colorado, a program coming off a 1-11 season. She coordinated a meeting between Sanders and Colorado athletic director Rick George. Later, she and George had a dinner meeting at a Los Angeles restaurant, where they bonded over a brussels sprouts salad and several kinds of pasta dishes.
She told Sanders afterward she had a good feeling about what he could accomplish at Colorado. She was encouraged by George's promise that he would let Sanders be his charismatic self — complete with a film crew tagging along to document his every move.
That's how they worked out the parameters on a five-year, $29.5 million deal that lured Sanders and his coaching/social media team — along with a bunch of transfer-portal stars — to Boulder. His arrival has put the Buffaloes back on the college football map before they even play a game under their new coach.
“She’s very passionate about what she does and her partnership with Coach Prime," George said. "She’s very savvy.”
Growing up in Yonkers, New York, Schwartz-Morini was a high school softball player with no real interest in seeing the inside of a frog in biology class. So she brokered a deal: She would join the school’s bowling team that was coached by the science teacher if she could get out of having to take a scalpel to a frog.
Negotiation 101.
Schwartz-Morini got her first big break working at NFL properties in the early 1990s. She made an impression on Roger Goodell, who would succeed Paul Tagliabue as commissioner in 2006.
“Constance is a dynamo,” Goodell said. “Constance develops strong relationships and trust with everyone who works with her.”
She’s t he co-founder and CEO of SMAC Entertainment, a talent management firm and production company she started in 2011 with Strahan. The business she started at her kitchen table is now a boutique agency with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Boulder.
Her portfolio includes league kickoffs (assisting with Snoop Dogg’s youth football league ), along with helping launch clothing lines ( sports broadcaster Erin Andrews ) skin-care products ( Strahan ) and even posh pet gifts ( Snoop Dogg, of course).
Schwartz-Morini — a manager, not an agent — also works with NFL greats turned broadcasters (Troy Aikman) and her company deals with college athletes in the realm of name, image, likeness compensation (Buffaloes standouts Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter). Recently, Schwartz-Morini's team began representing Diana Flores, a flag football world champion.
Also on Schwartz-Morini’s plate — producer. She oversees film and TV projects, like the “Coach Prime” series on, appropriately enough, Prime Video, which was recently nominated for a sports Emmy award.
Really, though, it's about instilling confidence.
“She’s the encourager,” Strahan said in a phone interview. “The person who makes sure that I know that I’m capable of more than what I probably give myself credit for."
It’s a photo from her wedding day in 2015 that hints at the influence of Schwartz-Morini. Taken on a beach in Turks and Caicos, the picture includes Coach Prime and fellow NFL Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez standing close by her and her husband, Mike Morini. There’s Khalifa sitting in the sand and Strahan, the officiant for her ceremony that day, kneeling next to her, cigar in hand.
The rare time when Schwartz-Morini was the center of attention.
Usually, she’s somewhere in the room just watching, observing. Like at Sanders’ inaugural news conference last December in Boulder, where she soaked in the scene of cheering boosters and fans from the side.
Schwartz-Morini first crossed paths with Sanders at the Super Bowl following the 1993 season, and reconnected with him 15 years later. They've been teammates ever since.
He bounces ideas off her — like when he thought of becoming a full-time football studio analyst. Or maybe a recruiter for Florida State, his alma mater.
Her suggestion: Coaching college kids. That's how it was decided.
“She don’t play,” Sanders cracked. “Constance reshaped the whole thought process of who I am. I’m forever grateful, forever thankful and appreciative."
She also aspires to serve as a trailblazer for more powerful female voices in the sports and entertainment realm.
“At some point," Schwartz-Morini said, "you just want everybody to be, ‘She’s the best,' and not, ‘She’s the first.’"
Thirty years ago, at her first Super Bowl, Schwartz-Morini was one of the several women in attendance in a lead role. This year, there were female discussion panels, symposiums and meetings.
“What I admire most is that she is a devoted role model to women who are interested in a career in sports, music, and culture,” Goodell said.
Added Strahan: "I’m a father of three daughters. I want them to know who this badass woman is, the one who’s guiding my career. This is someone who’s really a powerful force.”
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How to watch 2023 Australian Open men’s semifinals, final originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
A men’s champion will be crowned at the 2023 Australian Open in just a few days.
Adding to the intrigue, two of the four remaining players – Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas – are competing for the new world No. 1 ranking. It’s not going to be easy for the top favorites, however, as American Tommy Paul and Russia’s Karen Khachanov have been playing impressive tennis.
There’s even more on the line for Djokovic. If he wins his 10th Australian Open, he will also secure his 22nd Grand Slam singles title, which would tie a record Rafael Nadal currently holds.
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Here’s everything you need to know about the 2023 Australian Open men’s semifinals and final.
Who is in the men’s semifinals of the 2023 Australian Open and what are the matchups?
The semifinal matchups for the Australian Open are as follows:
- No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. No. 18 Karen Khachanov
- No. 4 Novak Djokovic vs. unseeded Tommy Paul
What time are the men’s semifinals of the 2023 Australian Open?
The semifinals will begin on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 10:30 p.m. ET with Tsitsipas facing Khachanov. Djokovic and Paul will follow that up with their semifinal match at 3:30 a.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 27.
How can I watch the 2023 Australian Open men’s semifinals?
The semifinal matches will be available on ESPN.
When is the 2023 Australian Open men’s final?
The winners of Tsitsipas-Khachanov and Djokovic-Paul will face off in the Australian Open men’s singles final on Sunday. That match will take place at 3:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, Jan. 29.
How can I watch the 2023 Australian Open men’s final?
The final will also be available on ESPN.
Who is favored to win the 2023 Australian Open men’s singles title?
Djokovic is the heavy favorite to win the Australian Open, according to PointsBet.
- Novak Djokovic, -500
- Stefanos Tsitsipas, +450
- Karen Khachanov, +2000
- Tommy Paul, +5000
How much money does the 2023 Australian Open winner make?
The winner of the Australian Open will collect $2.975 million AUD ($2.05 million USD).
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved pair of socks to eliminate the pain associated with dry, bleeding, cracked feet," said an inventor, from Saint Paul, Texas, "so I invented the VH SOCKS. My practical and convenient design would offer an alternative to using traditional socks or plastic wrap."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective covering for moisturizing dry feet. In doing so, it helps to eliminate chapping, cracking, blistered, and scaling of the soles and heels. As a result, it enhances comfort and it could provide added therapeutic benefits. The invention features a practical design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for individuals with dry or cracked feet. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DAL-264, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Boeing pleaded not guilty Thursday to a fraud charge in an unusual case in which families of passengers who died in two plane crashes are trying to throw out a settlement the company reached to avoid prosecution.
At a hearing dominated by emotional, wrenching testimony from passengers’ relatives, a federal district judge took the plea and ordered Boeing not to break any laws for the next year.
The judge delayed ruling on a request by the families to appoint a special monitor to examine safety issues at the aerospace giant. Boeing and the Justice Department opposed the request.
More than a dozen relatives of passengers on a Boeing 737 Max that crashed in 2019 in Ethiopia — less than five months after a Max crashed in Indonesia — held nothing back as they testified about their loss.
Boeing’s chief aerospace safety officer and lawyers for the company and the Justice Department sat just feet away but showed no reaction to any of the stories.
The Justice Department investigated Boeing after the second Max crash and settled the case in January 2021. With the settlement, the government agreed not to prosecute Boeing on a charge of defrauding the United States by deceiving regulators who approved the plane. In exchange, the company paid $2.5 billion, including a $243.6 million fine.
The families are still stunned.
“We want to see real justice, and that has to be prosecutions for manslaughter,” said Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband was on the second Max that crashed.
Naheed Noormohamed, who lost his father on the same flight, said the Justice Department had failed the families by not considering their pain.
“This is not just a failure of justice, it’s a failure of humanity,” he testified.
The fate of the settlement could rest with Judge Reed O’Connor. He carved a path for the families to challenge the settlement by ruling last November that the Justice Department had violated federal law by not consulting with crime victims before what amounted to a plea deal.
The families have asked O’Connor to throw out part of the settlement that gave Boeing immunity from prosecution. They want that so they can lobby the Justice Department to throw out the deal and prosecute the company. The judge has not ruled on that request.
The families also asked the judge to impose conditions on Boeing much as he might on any criminal defendant during an arraignment.
Boeing and the Justice Department joined ranks to oppose two of the proposed conditions: the special monitor, and the appointment of three passenger advocates who would make a public report about the company.
The company, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, and government lawyers said such steps were unnecessary because Boeing has been following the terms of the settlement, called a deferred prosecution agreement, for two years.
Mark Filip, a lawyer for Boeing, said the government’s supervision of the agreement is “robust” and is working. Another Boeing attorney, Benjamin Hatch, said representatives from the company and the Justice Department meet least monthly: “It’s very real oversight.”
Boeing has faced civil lawsuits, congressional investigations and massive damage to its business since the crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed a combined total of 346 people.
The first Max passenger flight was in 2017. The first crash occurred in October 2018 in Indonesia and was followed by another in March 2019 in Ethiopia.
Before both crashes, an automated flight-control system that Boeing did not initially disclose to airlines and pilots pushed the nose down based on a faulty sensor reading. Boeing blamed two former employees for misleading the Federal Aviation Administration about the system, known by its acronym, MCAS.
One of those former employees, a test pilot, is the only person prosecuted in connection with the Max. A jury in O’Connor’s courtroom found him not guilty last year. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/ct-aud-biz-boeing-max-case-20230126-hbc3k35hv5f4bdhw7skjwjuyxa-story.html | 2023-01-26 22:57:33 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/ct-aud-biz-boeing-max-case-20230126-hbc3k35hv5f4bdhw7skjwjuyxa-story.html |
Circular polyester makes its debut at the world's most anticipated fashion event
PARIS, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a groundbreaking moment for the fashion industry, Ambercycle, a leading circular materials innovator, proudly announces the launch of the TOMBOGO™ x cycora® collaboration at Paris Fashion Week. This monumental partnership introduces a three-piece modular collection crafted using cycora® regenerated canvas, as part of designer Tommy Bogo's S/S 2024 ready-to-wear collection titled "The Future is Bright". It marks the first-ever garments to grace the runway at Paris Fashion Week that incorporate circular polyester. The collaboration showcases the exceptional potential of innovative circular materials in meeting the artistic and technical demands of high-fashion creations.
"Partnering with Tommy to bring his vision to life is a really exciting opportunity for us. Forward-thinking designers are essential to our circular ecosystem, enabling us to lead the path towards a future where style and circularity seamlessly coexist," said Shay Sethi, co-founder and CEO at Ambercycle.
For designers seeking sustainable alternatives, cycora® regenerated polyester offers an exceptional choice that not only upholds high-quality standards but also demonstrates a deep commitment to environmental sustainability. By minimizing raw material extraction from the earth, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and diverting materials away from landfills, cycora® material provides designers worldwide with an environmentally responsible material option.
Said designer Tommy Bogo, "Using cycora® fabric was a surprisingly seamless experience – lacking the complexities and constraints you sometimes associate with sustainable fabrics. As a designer who cares about fashion's impact on the world, I find it refreshing to work with a fabric that effortlessly fits into our design and production process, while also being better for the environment."
Research shows that approximately 80% of a product's environmental impact is determined during the design phase. The TOMBOGO x cycora® collaboration showcases a new standard of how designers can seamlessly integrate circularity into their creative process. By making sustainable material choices and designing multi-functional garments, designers empower customers to maximize the value derived from each piece.
This collaboration serves as an extension of Ambercycle's vision for the fashion industry, where circular materials become the foundation of all garments, from performance to high-fashion creations.
About Ambercycle
Ambercycle is the ecosystem for circular textiles. Established in 2015, this Los Angeles based company is revolutionizing the fashion industry with its award-winning molecular regeneration technology. cycora® regenerated polyester is the company's first premium material solution made from end-of-life textiles. Driven by the vision to improve humanity's relationship with materials, Ambercycle is minimizing the impact of raw material extraction on our environment and paving the way to decarbonize fashion.
Contact: press@ambercycle.com
About TOMBOGO
TOMBOGO™ is the ready-to-wear fashion brand helmed by 28 year-old designer Tommy Bogo. The brand's signature focus is innovative, functional, and sustainable pieces made using experimental design techniques. Since the brand's formal start in 2020, TOMBOGO's products have expanded into intricate and technical apparel and goods with a range of multifunctional trousers, hoodies, t-shirts, hats, sunglasses, and bags.
With a commitment to sustainability, community, and thinking outside of the box, TOMBOGO's products are designed with the intention to spur dialogue about function, form, and the environment, and to inspire the next generation of artists and creatives.
TOMBOGO™ has shown at New York Fashion Week as part of IMG's NYFW: The Shows & CFDA's official fashion week program for four seasons now, and has amassed a following amongst celebrities including J. Balvin, Kid Cudi, Kehlani, Lizzo, and Angus Cloud as well as Bad Bunny – who has commissioned custom pieces for red carpet appearances & performances. The brand has also been featured in top publications including Esquire, Los Angeles Times, GQ, Complex, Highsnobiety, Hypebeast, New York Magazine's The Cut, and more.
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Saturn’s rings are glowing in Webb Space Telescope’s latest cosmic shot
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn has a fresh new look thanks to NASA’s Webb Space Telescope.
The gas giant is dark in the latest photo by Webb, released Friday, but its icy rings are glowing.
Webb snapped the picture in the infrared last weekend. At this wavelength, the planet appears dark because sunlight is absorbed by methane in the atmosphere. But the icy rings remain bright.
Three of Saturn’s many moons also got caught on camera.
Scientists are thrilled with this latest shot, which captures Saturn’s atmosphere in detail. They hope to uncover new ring structures as well as any new, faint moons that might be lurking there.
“We look forward to digging into the deep exposures to see what discoveries may await,” Matthew Tiscareno, a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute, said in a statement.
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HOULTON, Maine, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Katahdin Bankshares Corp. (OTCQX: KTHN), the parent company of Katahdin Trust Company, a community bank founded in 1918 serving northern Maine and the greater Bangor and Portland regions, announced that it has declared a cash dividend of $0.138 per share for the second quarter of 2022.
In making the announcement, Jon J. Prescott, Katahdin Trust President & CEO, stated that it represented a 10.4% increase over last year's second quarter dividend. The dividend will be payable on June 23, 2022, to shareholders of record as of June 16, 2022.
About Katahdin Bankshares Corp.
Katahdin Bankshares Corp. is the bank holding company of Katahdin Trust Company. Founded in 1918, Katahdin Trust is a community bank based in Houlton, Maine with more than $963 million in assets and 16 banking offices that serve Aroostook, Penobscot, and Cumberland counties. The Bank has nearly 180 employees and, in 2021, was named one of the Best Places to Work in Maine for the fourth year in a row. Katahdin Bankshares Corp. common stock is quoted on the OTC Markets (OTCQX) under the symbol KTHN. Learn more about the Company and its subsidiary bank at www.katahdintrust.com and follow Katahdin Trust on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
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The Folk Fest benefit is happening soon. The Albuquerque Folk Festival works to provide the public a chance to enjoy some folk, music, dance, and storytelling.
The Folk Festival Benefit Jam will take place on July 24, located at the B2B Garden ABQ Brewery from 12 P.M. – 8 P.M. The brewery will be donating 20% of their food orders for that day to help their organization. Their AFF Acoustic Jam will run from 4 P.M. to 6 P.M. bands performing include Lady Fingers and Cheap Shots; Celtic bands Duke City Ceili and Sandia Celtic Ensemble; old-time Virginia Creepers, and a sing-along at the end of the event.
To learn more, visit www.abqfolkfest.org/index.shtml. | https://www.krqe.com/new-mexico-living/benefit-hosted-for-the-albuquerque-folk-festival/ | 2022-07-22 20:29:17 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/new-mexico-living/benefit-hosted-for-the-albuquerque-folk-festival/ |
At least $200 billion in aid for small businesses may have gone to frauders, according to a new inspector general report. The Small Business Administration questions those numbers.
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At least $200 billion in aid for small businesses may have gone to frauders, according to a new inspector general report. The Small Business Administration questions those numbers.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Land Title Association (ALTA), the national trade association of the land title insurance industry, announced the winners of the 2022 ALTA Our Values Awards. The awards program showcases the title insurance industry's Our Values initiative, which serves as a cultural compass and highlights core ideals ALTA members embrace.
The four ALTA Our Values Award winners were honored during ALTA ONE, the largest annual event for the land title insurance industry, being held Oct. 11-14 in San Diego. Each of the three individual awards represent one of the three values:
- We Lead: We are the authority in real estate transactions and innovate for our customers.
- We Deliver: Our customers trust us to do the right thing, the right way--before, during and after the transaction. We ensure land transfer is accurate, swift and secure.
- We Protect: We protect the property rights of those we serve.
The fourth award recognizes an entire ALTA member office or operational team that demonstrate these ideals.
Jonathan Holfinger OLTP, NTP, president of Northwest Title and Northwest Law, won the We Lead Award for leading the creation of the Ohio Land Title Association (OLTA) Academy to promote new standards of practice to the industry. The academy consists of three certifications with multiple online courses, corresponding certification guides and tests after every course.
James M. Czapiga, president and CEO of CATIC, won the We Deliver Award for delivering a strong, positive environment for his team during the COVID-19 pandemic. Czapiga created an intern program at CATIC, continuing to grow the team during a time of uncertainty. CATIC's intern program provides training and education to an average of 15 individuals per session, setting the stage for the next generation of title professionals.
Dan Buchanan, senior vice president and deputy chief title counsel of First American Title Insurance Co., won the We Protect Award for his leadership on the ALTA Forms Committee and working to develop the ALTA 47 Series Endorsements and Operative Law Addenda to address the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which raised potential jurisdictional questions regarding choice of law.
Finally, Association Online won the Collaboration Award for developing an environment that supports employee volunteerism and donating 10 percent of their profits to charity.
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The series provides users with a comfortable noise-free experience when using electricity outdoors
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World champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier did nothing to harm their chances of becoming the first American pairs team to win the prestigious Grand Prix Final, turning in a brilliant short program Thursday in Turin, Italy.
Knierim and Frazier trailed their biggest rivals, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan, by less than half a point heading into Friday's free skate at Torino Palavela, where the capstone to the Grand Prix season is being held after the event's two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We both skated from our hearts and we skated with passion and we are very proud and happy with how we skated today,” Knierim said. “We made a big improvement from the (Grand Prix season) and we are relieved with the outcome.”
In the men’s event, world champion Shoma Uno led a Japanese sweep of the first three spots following his short program, scoring a world-leading 99.99 points to “Gravity” by John Mayer. Sota Yamamoto and Kao Miura were close behind, while American hopeful Ilia Malinin was in fifth after a series of shaky jumps.
The women's short program and rhythm dance also take place Friday. The men's free skate is Saturday.
The pairs competition figured to be a summit meeting between Knierim and Frazier, fresh of a successful Olympics, and the team of Miura and Kihara, who finished second to the Americans at the world championships earlier this year.
Neither of the pairs teams disappointed.
Knierim and Frazier put together their best program of the Grand Prix season, highlighted by a high-amplitude throw triple flip. They're looking to become the first U.S. team to ever win the Grand Prix Final. Knierim closed her eyes as their scores were read, and both lit up in smiles when they heard the total of 77.65 that briefly put them in the lead.
“I was very proud how we performed,” Frazier said. “We tried to add some details and tonight it came alive.”
Miura and Kihara were last on the ice and also performed flawlessly to a mashup of “You'll Never Walk Alone” by Marcus Mumford and Elvis Presley. The winners of Skate Canada and the NHK Trophy landed their side-by-side triple toe loop and a big throw triple lutz to earn 78.08 points, nearly eclipsing their own season best.
“Unbelievable,” coach Bruno Marcotte said as they exited the ice. “That was amazing."
Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada were third with 69.34 points, putting them in podium position. They were followed by the two Italian teams of Sara Conti and Niccolo Macci and Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini, as well as the second American team of Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe.
“We went through some tough times together,” said Kihara, who has dealt with a series of injuries over the course of his career, “and we were able to share these feeling and we can now enjoy every competition and it’s wonderful.”
Uno, who has two silver and two bronze medals from Grand Prix Final, did what he could to position himself for gold. He landed his opening quad flip, a quad flip-triple toe loop and triple axel in his best short program this season.
Yamamoto was more than five points behind with 94.86 for his short program. Miura scored 87.07 points, while Daniel Grassl performed well for his home crowd. Malinin faltered through his program to leave him playing catch up, though his big-air quads — and the quad axel that only he has landed in competition — keep his podium chances alive.
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Aaron and Lacey Jennen's roots in Arkansas run deep. They've spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family. So they're heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move to one of an ever-dwindling number of states where gender-affirming health care for their transgender teenage daughter, Sabrina, is not threatened.
“We were like, ‘OK, if we can just get Sabrina to 18 ... we can put all this horrible stuff behind us,’” Aaron Jennen said, “and unfortunately that’s not been the case, as you’ve seen a proliferation of anti-trans legislation here in Arkansas and across the country.”
At least 17 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, though judges have temporarily blocked their enforcement in some, including Arkansas. An Associated Press analysis found that often those bills sprang not from grassroots or constituent demand, but from the pens of a handful of conservative interest groups.
Many of the proposals, as introduced or passed, are identical or very similar to some model legislation, the AP found. Those ready-made bills have been used in statehouses for decades, often with criticisms of carpetbagging by out-of-state interests. In the case of restrictions on gender-affirming care for youths, they allow a handful of far-right groups to spread a false narrative based on distorted science, critics say.
“These are solutions from outside our state looking to solve nonexistent problems inside our state,” said Aaron Jennen. “For whatever reason, they have the ear of legislatures in states like Arkansas, and the legislators will generally defer to and only listen to those individuals.”
The AP obtained the texts of more than 130 bills in 40 state legislatures from Plural, a public policy software company, and analyzed them for similarities to model bills peddled by the conservative groups Do No Harm, which also criticizes efforts to diversify staffing in medicine, and the Family Research Council, which has long been involved in abortion restrictions.
One of the clearest examples is in Montana, where nearly all the language in at least one bill can be found in Do No Harm’s model. Publicly available emails from December show the Republican sponsor, Sen. John Fuller, tweaked the model before introducing it weeks later. Democrats criticized his efforts.
“This is not a Montana issue; it is an issue pushed by well-funded national groups,” Democratic Sen. Janet Ellis said during debate in February.
Republicans pushed back.
“Someone mentioned this is not a Montana solution. And I can tell you that I won my election on this issue,” said Republican Sen. Barry Usher, who ran unopposed in the general election after winning his contested primary.
The Montana bill passed in March with much of Do No Harm’s model language intact and has been signed into law.
Do No Harm’s model and the 2021 Arkansas bill endorsed as a model by the Family Research Council also have many similarities, including the assertion — rebutted by major medical organizations — that the risks of gender-affirming care outweigh its benefits.
Republicans' recent focus on legislation to restrict aspects of transgender life is largely a strategy of using social “wedge issues” — in the past, abortion or same-sex marriage — to motivate their voting base, political observers say. And it does appear to resonate; a Pew Research Center survey a year ago found broad support among Republicans, but not Democrats, for restrictions on medical care for gender transitions.
“These organizations are not introducing this model legislation to make legislators’ jobs easier, to support kids in their constituencies. They’re introducing this model legislation to gain wealth, to gain eyes, to gain power, and to gain access,” said Heron Greenesmith, a senior research analyst who monitors anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric for Political Research Associates, a liberal think tank.
Such bills often distort valid science that supports gender-affirming care for youths, said Dr. Jack Drescher, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University who edited the section about gender dysphoria in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual. Do No Harm cites the manual in its model bill.
“These bills are not at all interested in patient care,” Drescher said. “These bills are designed to inflame.”
It's problematic “any time policymakers are cherry-picking isolated studies or scientific research that arrives upon a different conclusion than the rest of the community or that relies upon studies without having that expertise," said Marty P. Jordan, an assistant professor of political science at Michigan State University. "It’s problematic for the individuals that the legislation could impact. It’s problematic for the larger public, and problematic for democracy writ large.”
Kent Syler, a political science professor at Middle Tennessee State University, said: “If it’s a good bill, no one should be shy about where they got it because that’s the federal system working correctly.”
Do No Harm launched last year with an initial critical focus on the role of race in medical education and hiring, and the Virginia-based nonprofit has registered lobbyists in at least four states. People associated with it have testified in statehouses around the U.S.
When asked about Do No Harm’s legislative activity, founder and chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb responded in an email: “Do No Harm works to protect children from extreme gender ideology through original research, coalition-building, testimonials from parents and patients who’ve lived through deeply troubling experiences, and advocacy for the rigorous, apolitical study of gender dysphoria.”
The Family Research Council, an advocacy group that opposes abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has been behind what it calls the Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, or SAFE Act. Among other things, it falsely asserts that “‘gender transition’ is an experiment.”
A leader of the Family Research Council declined to directly answer several questions about its model bill, including where it had been used and which legislators it had worked with, but said, “What should be an issue debated in the scientific community now has to be dealt with through legislation.”
“The SAFE Act gives minors a chance to experience development before imposing lifelong chemical and surgical procedures that increasingly show evidence of psychological and physiological harm and completed suicide after the transition,” Jennifer Bauwens, the organization's director of family studies, said in an email.
In Arkansas, Sabrina Jennen — who will turn 18 in July — continues to receive gender-affirming health care while her family's suit winds through the courts.
“For these outside groups to carry more weight than the people these legislators were elected to represent is very upsetting,” Aaron Jennen said. “They didn’t listen to us before, but now they have to listen to us because we filed a lawsuit and went to court.”
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists around the country, including Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Arkansas; Amy Beth Hanson in Helena, Montana; and Michael Goldberg and Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi.
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What’s next for Tennessee’s expelled lawmakers?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans have expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control. Here’s a look at what could happen next:
WHAT HAPPENED?
Republicans voted Thursday to expel two Black lawmakers who last week approached the front of the House chamber with a bullhorn and participated in a chant after joining protesters calling for passage of gun-control measures.
The protests followed the March 27 shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville. Six people were killed, including three 9-year-old children.
GOP leaders argued that the move against Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson was necessary to draw a line against lawmakers using protest to disrupt House proceedings.
Jones and Pearson have regularly criticized the white-majority House chamber.
Jones was once temporarily banned from the Capitol several years ago for throwing a cup of liquid at then-House Speaker Glen Casada during a protest calling for the removal of a bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early Ku Klux Klan leader.
Pearson faced scrutiny when he wore a black dashiki on the first day of the session rather than a suit and tie. Pearson later said a “white supremacist” attacked his choice to wear the tunic-like garment that originated in west Africa.
Rep. Gloria Johnson, who is white, also participated in the House floor protest. She survived a move to expel her by one vote.
Republicans have a supermajority control in the House, which allows them to advance most of the political agenda despite objections from Democrats.
WHAT’S NEXT?
County commissions in each of the expelled lawmakers’ districts will choose replacements to serve until a special election can be held.
The commissions could choose to appoint Jones and Pearson to serve in the interim ahead of a special election, letting them return to the Capitol.
Depending on how fast the commissions and statehouse move, there is a chance that Jones and Pearson could return even before lawmakers adjourn, which is expected to be in several weeks. The expelled lawmakers also would be eligible to run in the special elections to fill the seats.
Local leaders in Davidson County, which encompasses Jones’ Nashville district, have already scheduled a special meeting for Monday to discuss appointing an interim representative. Many have already voiced support for choosing Jones.
Over in Shelby County, which includes Pearson’s district in Memphis, commissioners have not yet set a time to discuss temporarily filling the now-vacant legislative seat.
Democratic Rep. Torrey Harris, a Memphis Democrat, told reporters that he planned to meet with commission members Friday evening and hoped that another meeting would be scheduled soon.
Under the Tennessee Constitution, lawmakers cannot be expelled for the same offense twice.
COULD A REPUBLICAN TAKE EITHER SEAT?
Tennessee is a Republican-dominant state, but the two first-term lawmakers represented House districts that are extremely friendly to Democrats.
No Republican even ran against the pair following successful Democratic primary wins.
Pearson cruised to an easy win over nine other candidates in the January special election for House District 86 following longtime Rep. Barbara Cooper’s death. The district runs from southwest Memphis north to the Millington area.
Jones had a tougher fight in his 2022 primary, beating Nashville Metro Council member Delishia Porterfield by fewer than 250 votes. Porterfield has been among Jones’ supporters during the fight to expel him from the House.
The district includes southeast Nashville and the Nashville International Airport.
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Two Healdsburg men are being held on $1 million bail in connection with a string of 2021 fires in Sonoma County, according to authorities.
Esteban Miranda-Silva, 24, and Gabriel Gonzalez-Flores, 19, were arrested on Tuesday and booked into Sonoma County Jail on 21 counts of arson, according to jail records.
The men are accused of setting multiple fires in Healdsburg, specifically during the night of Sept. 6, 2021, Cal Fire said in a press release.
At the time of his arrest, a ‘ghost gun’ was recovered from the vehicle Miranda-Silva was driving, Cal Fire stated, adding the agency will be looking to add firearms related charges.
Both men are expected again in court on Friday, according to county records.
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Pete Buttigieg warns airlines to help fliers trapped by cancellations, delays or face new rules
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has warned airlines that his department could draft new rules around passenger rights if the carriers don’t give more help to travelers trapped by flight cancellations and delays.
Buttigieg is asking airline CEOs to, at a minimum, provide lodging for passengers stranded overnight at an airport and give out meal vouchers for delays of three hours or longer when the disruption is caused by something in the airline’s control.
The Transportation Department on Friday released a copy of the letters, which it said were sent to CEOs of 10 U.S. airlines including the major ones, their regional affiliates, and budget carriers.
A spokeswoman for Airlines for America, a trade group whose members include American, United, Delta and Southwest, said airlines "strive to provide the highest level of customer service." She said the airlines are committed to overcoming challenges including a tight labor market.
FILE - Travelers wait to board a plane at Miami International Airport in Miami, Fla., on April 22, 2022. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)
Buttigieg's agency recently proposed rules around refunds for passengers whose flights are canceled or rescheduled. He told the CEOs the department is considering additional rules "that would further expand the rights of airline passengers who experience disruptions."
Buttigieg has been sparring with the airlines since late spring over high numbers of canceled and delayed flights. In his latest salvo, he told airline CEOs he appreciates that airlines have stepped up hiring and trimmed schedules to better match the number of flights they can handle.
"Still, the level of disruption Americans have experienced this summer is unacceptable," he wrote.
The head of another airline trade group took issue with Buttigieg's praise of schedule cuts. Faye Malarkey Black, president of the Regional Airline Association, said those cutbacks are being driven by a pilot shortage and are especially harmful to people who use smaller airports.
"There is a lot of responsibility to go around in this crisis and solving (the pilot shortage) means solving it for the long term, not just trimming back capacity until the only people with air service are those traveling between the large urban centers," Black said.
So far this year, airlines have canceled about 146,000 flights, or 2.6%, and nearly 1.3 million flights have been delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. The rate of cancellations is up about one-third from the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, and the rate of delays is up nearly one-fourth.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans erased regulations Wednesday allowing local election clerks to fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes, the latest move in the GOP’s push to tighten voting procedures in the crucial swing state.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission developed an emergency rule earlier this year that permits local clerks to fill in missing witness address information on absentee envelopes without contact the witness or the voter. The rule reflected guidance the commission issued to clerks in October 2016. The guidance was in effect during the 2020 presidential election, which saw Joe Biden narrowly defeat then-President Donald Trump.
The Republican-controlled Legislature’s rules committee voted 6-4 to suspend the emergency rule. The guidance remains in place, but it’s unclear how many clerks might follow it in light of the committee vote and a court could soon erase it as well.
The committee vote is part of a string of Republican efforts to impose tighter restrictions on voting around the country as Trump continues to spread the false claim that Biden stole the election.
Multiple reviews and court decisions have found no evidence of fraud on a scale that would have affected the outcome but Trump and his supporters keep working to convince people the election wasn’t legitimate.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, at least 19 states enacted laws that made it harder to vote last year, including shortening the window for applying for an absentee mail ballot, stiffening voter identification requirements and limiting early voting hours.
Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature passed a sweeping package of bills earlier this year to require the rules committee to sign off on any commission guidance, to make it harder for people to declare themselves indefinitely confined in order to get an absentee ballot and to ban private groups from giving local governments money to administer elections.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the entire package, but Republicans won a major victory earlier this month when the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court outlawed drop boxes. The GOP has argued that the boxes aren’t secure and invite fraud.
Now GOP leaders have set their sights on the clerk guidance, arguing that state law doesn’t allow clerks to fill in blanks on ballot envelopes and if the witness doesn’t fill in the missing information the ballot doesn’t count. They demanded that the commission codify the guidance in an emergency rule, which would allow the Legislature’s Republican-controlled rules committee to erase it.
The commission complied and drafted the rule. The committee met Wednesday afternoon to block it at the request of Republican legislative leaders, including Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu.
Democrats on the committee spent an hour criticizing the move, labeling it a “disgusting” attempt to tamp down voter turnout ahead of the Aug. 9 primary and Nov. 8 general election, which includes critical races for governor and U.S. Senate.
“This is a horrible mistake but it continues the road Republicans are going down,” Rep. Gary Hebl said. “They don’t have the votes so they’ve got to cut down the number of people who can vote any way they can do it. It’s a sad time in our democracy that we have to stoop to these levels.”
GOP committee members countered that state law simply doesn’t allow clerks to fill in missing information. They stressed that clerks can attempt to return ballots with incomplete witness addresses. Hebl countered that overworked clerks will simply “chuck” incomplete envelopes in the trash.
“I care about following state law,” the committee co-chairman Sen. Steve Nass said. “No one has mentioned a state law that allows (the elections commission) to do what they’re doing. (The commission) is attempting to create a new law. That is a core legislative function.”
It’s not clear how many clerks may have acted to fix witness information during the 2020 election.
The Legislative Audit Bureau last year reviewed nearly 15,000 absentee ballot envelopes from the election across 29 municipalities and found that 1,022, or about 7%, were missing parts of witness addresses. Fifteen didn’t have any witness address at all, eight lacked a witness signature and three didn’t have a voter signature.
Auditors found evidence that clerks had corrected addresses on 66 envelopes, or 0.4% of the sample. The audit cautioned against extrapolating the findings statewide, however, noting auditors reviewed ballot envelopes from nine of the 10 municipalities with the highest proportion of absentee ballots.
Even though the rule is no more, the elections commission’s initial guidance saying clerks can correct missing information still stands but maybe not for long. The Waukesha County Republican Party filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging the guidance is illegal.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said if clerks are blocked from adding missing information on their own, they will have to track witnesses down that could be cumbersome for some offices with already heavy workloads. He said clerks may decide to mail the ballot back with a request to fill in the missing information if there’s enough time to do so before Election Day. Otherwise they may have to call or email the voter.
He said allowing clerks to add missing information on their own is a “common-sense system.” Often the witness is the voter’s spouse and clerks can confirm an address through the state voter database.
“Any fair-minded person would think this was reasonable,” he said.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe said the committee vote “puts clerks in a difficult spot” since the guidance saying they can fill in witness address information remains in place, creating confusion.
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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of ‘McDonell’ in 17th graf.
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How is air quality measured?
Air quality has become a hot topic in recent years. After parts of the U.S. dealt with some of the worst air quality in recorded history in June, you might be wondering how it’s actually measured.
Here are seven facts you should know about measuring air quality.
1. Air quality is measured with the air quality index
The air quality index, better known as AQI, as we know it today was released in 1999, according to AirNow.gov. It has gone through several updates over the years, but the goal has always been the same – to offer people an easy-to-understand daily report about the air they’re breathing.
The AQI ranges from 0 to 500 and has six color-coded categories to correspond to a different level of health concern, according to AirNow.gov. Basically, lower numbers equate to better air quality and higher numbers equate to poorer air quality.
THE AIR QUALITY INDEX EXPLAINED: WHAT AIR QUALITY IS BAD?
The air quality index ranges from 0 to 500 and has six color-coded categories to correspond to a different level of health concern. (FOX Weather)
2. There are six common air pollutants
Air quality managers monitor six common air pollutants: particle pollution, ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and lead, with the first two comprising the bulk of pollutants.
The reporting period is different for each air pollutant in the AQI, according to AirNow.gov. For example, the AQI for ozone is valid for eight hours, while the AQI for particle pollution is valid for 24 hours.
3. Lead is not included in daily air quality reports
Although lead is monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s not included in the daily AQI reports. According to an EPA spokesperson, that’s because the effects of lead pollution are cumulative.
"The AQI focuses on health effects that may be experienced within a few hours or days," the spokesperson said in a written statement. "Health effects from airborne lead more usually accumulate over longer time periods, so daily reports about air quality and potential health effects from lead exposure are not possible."
THESE 6 AIR POLLUTANTS CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR YOUR HEALTH
4. When air quality is poor, an air quality action day might go into effect
An air quality action day, sometimes called an air quality alert day, is put into effect when the AQI reaches unhealthy ranges.
A view of the smoky air in downtown Chicago seen from Highway 90 as the air quality is at unhealthy levels due to smoke from Canadian wildfires in Chicago, United States on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
There are numerous air pollution control agencies across America, each having slightly different terminology for such days and using varying AQI levels when considering them.
WHAT IS AN AIR QUALITY ACTION DAY?
According to AirNow.gov, air quality action days are most commonly put into effect when the AQI is expected to be unhealthy, or Code Red (AQI value of 151 to 200). In this case, everyone should reduce exposure to air pollution, especially the members of the sensitive groups for that day’s particular pollutant.
AirNow.gov provides several suggestions at this link on what you can do to help keep the air cleaner every day.
5. Instruments on the ground and in space collect air quality data
Measurements of air pollutant concentrations are taken at more than 4,000 monitoring stations owned and operated mainly by state environmental agencies, according to the EPA. These agencies send their hourly or daily pollutant concentration measurements to the EPA's Air Quality System database.
In addition, satellites orbiting the Earth collect information about air quality. For example, according to NOAA, satellites in NOAA’s GOES-R Series monitor the particle pollution in the atmosphere.
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) also collects information about particles in our air. These include smoke particles from wildfires, airborne dust during dust and sand storms, urban and industrial pollution and ash from erupting volcanoes, NOAA said. The JPSS series of satellites can also measure ground-level ozone.
WHAT TO DO WHEN WILDFIRE SMOKE SMOTHERS YOUR AREA AND HOW TO KEEP YOUR HOME'S AIR CLEAN
6. Air quality is affected by the seasons
When temperatures soar in the summer, the air quality in large cities usually takes a turn for the worse – especially ozone levels.
Ozone is good in the higher levels of the atmosphere, where the chemical protects us from harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun.
But near the Earth’s surface, ozone is the main component of smog and can trigger a number of health issues, including chest pain, coughing, throat irritation and congestion, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Smog can even worsen bronchitis, emphysema and asthma and reduce lung function.
Ozone is at its worst on those hot summer days, when the hot sun "cooks" everyday emissions from motor vehicles, industry, paints, solvents and gasoline fumes, according to the PSCAA.
In the summer and especially during extreme heat waves, ozone often reaches dangerous levels in cities or nearby rural areas, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
But in some colder climates, winter doesn't escape polluted air either – though, in this case, it's not ozone but tiny particulates that degrade the air quality, such as from wood smoke out of a fireplace. Idling cars to defrost or keep them warm also increases the amount of air pollution, UCAR noted.
"We can get very strong inversions in mountainous regions, for instance, and an inversion is very good at trapping pollutants down to the surface," said Joost de Gouw, a chemistry professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. "So in a lot of areas – for instance, in Salt Lake City – the air quality is the worst in the winter because the airspace is trapped."
An inversion is when temperatures rise with height, with warm air sitting overtop of colder air below. Since cold air is denser than warm air, it is trapped near the Earth’s surface.
Some areas will issue air quality burn bans when fireplace smoke could become an issue during strong wintertime inversions.
7. Sources of air pollution have changed over the years
Most people think air pollution comes from car exhaust or industrial production, and this is a correct assumption. Wood smoke from either wildfires or home fireplaces can also contribute to degraded air quality due to an increase in tiny particles in the air.
But the sources of air pollution have changed over the years, scientists say, because of some tighter regulations.
WHERE DO OUR TOP AIR POLLUTANTS COME FROM?
"I would say 20 years ago, the top three (air quality polluters) were transportation/motor vehicles, power generation and industry," de Gouw said.
But the Clean Air Act, passed in 1970 and amended in 1977 and 1990, has reduced pollution from those sources.
"And so now, other sources that haven't been addressed so much are coming to the top of the list," said de Gouw.
Many of those are chemical products we use every day.
"For instance, all the shampoos and deodorants that we use in our daily lives; all the bottles we have in our homes that come from the automotive shop, the grocery store and the garden store, basically," he said.
Even agriculture can contribute to air quality issues.
"There's a lot of ammonia that comes from animal feedlots," said de Gouw. "We smell those here on a regular basis in Colorado. And so, yeah, so the number of sources has really diversified because we've been so successful in skimming off the top ones, you might say." | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/how-is-air-quality-measured-aqi | 2023-06-29 12:53:15 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/how-is-air-quality-measured-aqi |
A new season brings about new expectations for Harding University, but that doesn't automatically mean the current bout are any different than the previous ones.
When it comes to the Bisons, who are set to open up defense of their Great American Conference title tonight against East Central (Okla.) at Ada, Okla., setting a precedent is the name of the game.
"We don't talk about a winning season or a conference championship or even a national championship," Harding Coach Paul Simmons said. "We just talk about trying to have the very best culture in America. That is the only goal that we have from a standpoint of loving each other, accountability, work ethic, passion and doing things the right way. We want to be the very best in the country at that, we want to be the standard. If we do that, then wins are going to come along with that.
"But there's also parts of winning that are out of your control, and we really want to work hard at the things we can control. I know that sounds cliche, but it's the truth."
There's also a great deal of truth in the fact that the Bisons have been the model for consistency as of late and have set the standard for winning when it comes to collegiate programs in Arkansas.
Harding, which was picked to finish first in the GAC preseason coaches poll and is ranked No. 9 in NCAA Division II, has won 88 games since 2021, including 54 over the past five seasons. Both win totals are more than any other state team has accumulated during that same span.
The Bisons have been equally impressive within their own conference. Harding has six of the league's eight NCAA Division II playoff victories since the GAC began play in 2011.
"When you fall in love with the details, fall in love with doing things the right way, the byproduct is winning," explained Simmons, whose team has played in the postseason in each of the past five seasons. "Now we certainly enjoy winning. It's great for the guys, and the best part of winning for us is if you win, you keep playing."
Harding defeated East Central 28-0 in last year's opener as former Bisons running back Cole Chancey became the GAC's all-time leading rusher. The Georgia native ran for 102 yards and three touchdowns in the game and eventually finished his career at Harding with 5,124 yards and 64 touchdowns.
The Tigers won't have to deal with the bruising back this time around, but they have several others who are aiming to pick up with Chancey left off.
Sophomore Jhalen Spicer averaged 9.9 yards per carry and totaled 524 yards and 6 touchdowns last season in a vaunted Flexbone attack that produced a NCAA Division II-leading 5,071 yards on the ground. Junior Zach Smith also churned out an average of 7.7 yards. Those two, along with sophomore fullback Blake Delacruz, form a trio who's proven they're capable to keep the chains moving.
The quarterback spot is another area where Harding will have a new face. Preston Paden was one of four Bisons with more than 500 yards rushing a year ago. Either junior Peydon Harlow or redshirt freshman Cole Keylon will take over this season.
For Simmons, he's comfortable with whomever is taking snaps.
"I don't want to blow smoke and act like we don't have a lot of talented young men because we certainly do," Simmons said. "This is still a very talented, deep football team. If we do things the right way, take care of the football and eliminate big plays on defense, we've got a chance to have another great season."
East Central (Okla.) certainly has the personnel to produce big plays offensively. Quarterback Kenny Hirncir completed 52.8% (153 of 290) of his passes for 2,175 yards and 18 touchdowns last year. The junior also has his top receiver back in JayQuan Lincoln, who had 74 receptions for 1,088 yards.
"This is a very scary Week 1 opener for us," Simmons said. "[East Central] went 7-4 last year, basically return the entire team and have a very dangerous quarterback.
" They've got a head coach that's kind of a riverboat gambler, too. I mean, they're the only team in the country that I've seen that might run back-to-back reverses. They're dangerous, and they're not afraid to go for it." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/01/harding-looking-for-additions-to-its-winning/ | 2022-09-01 09:02:00 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/01/harding-looking-for-additions-to-its-winning/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-9-2-9
(seven, nine, two, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
7-9-2-9
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Report finds artificial intelligence and analytics key to achieving climate goals
NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies that have embedded sustainable climate-related practices into their organizations see significantly better business performance than those who have not, according to a new study released today by Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation.
The research, Tech for Progress 360: Accelerating climate action with data-led insight, finds that 58% of senior executives who strongly agree that their companies have embedded environmentally sustainable business practices – the sustainability leaders – have better business performance compared to 40% of other respondents. These leaders also are most likely to say their organizations adopted new technologies over the previous two years (70% vs 45% of other respondents), demonstrating that forward-thinking companies often lead the way on multiple innovation fronts. They understand the necessity of leveraging digital technologies and data across their organizations as well as the importance of putting environmental sustainability practices front and center in their businesses.
For those sustainability leaders, technology plays a critical role in helping them achieve their ambitious goals. Half of the respondents recognize the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and 40% see the potential of advanced analytics to advance their climate-related sustainability goals. Conversely, those who have less established practices are less likely to call out the value of these technologies. This underscores an ongoing and widening gap between those leaders who know how to use AI, data, and analytics to unlock enduring value for their organizations and those who do not.
The research reflects input from 510 senior executives from large global enterprises. It examines the challenges and opportunities businesses face as customers, investors, and employees seek out responsible businesses, and regulators impose more environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting requirements.
"As businesses grapple with economic uncertainties, the time is ripe to identify, manage, and reduce ESG-related risks that can have a significant impact on the environment and a company's long-term sustainability and profitability," said Katie Stein, chief strategy officer and global business leader for enterprise services and analytics, Genpact. "We believe that organizations that lead with smart, agile, and data-driven action plans will be the winners. Combining advanced analytics, AI, and automation with human judgment plays a vital role in helping enterprises drive meaningful transformation that builds resilient companies, a healthier environment, and stronger communities."
Tracking environmental sustainability with data-led insights
Businesses can no longer ignore or play lip service to environmental sustainability. As regulators place more scrutiny on ESG practices, companies need to pay closer attention to how they track both their initiatives and those of their entire supply chain ecosystems, by taking advantage of data-driven insights.
Perhaps not surprisingly, survey respondents whose companies lead with embedded sustainable business practices are also more likely to use data and insights to encourage their partners to make progress towards their sustainability goals (58% vs 47% of other respondents).
However, these sustainability leaders are no more likely to track performance against climate goals, report on emissions, or monitor regulations than other respondents. All companies have more work to do as governments and regulatory bodies continue to require organizations to provide stakeholders with consistent, comparable, and reliable climate-related information.
Leading in the Race Against Climate Change
Genpact's partnership with the Formula E team, Envision Racing, is a prime example of how companies can use AI and analytics to glean faster insights, monitor, and report on sustainability goals. In addition to continuously enhancing the team's performance on the track, the two organizations are collaborating to accomplish ambitious goals off the track, leveraging data and innovation to combat climate change.
As the greenest team on the greenest grid, Envision Racing became the first Formula E team to be certified carbon-neutral by the Carbon Trust in 2020. Genpact's data analytics expertise helps Envision Racing to streamline, analyze, and automate the collection of carbon-emissions data to report on and maintain its carbon-neutral status. With this, the team has been able to cut the time it spends on carbon reporting by 50%. Genpact has also built a carbon calculator that uses AI and analytics to empower the Envision Racing team to make greener travel decisions. It gathers data such as the distance between two locations and uses a machine-learning model to predict what the journey will involve and give the team travel recommendations based on carbon output.
Envision Racing and Genpact's work can be seen in action during the E-Prix in New York City later this week on July 16 and 17, and in London on July 30 and 31.
"Genpact's latest research underscores Envision Racing's deeply held belief: successful organizations can only win if our planet thrives too. For us, combating climate change lies at the heart of what we do," said Jennifer Babington, operations director and general counsel at Envision Racing. "By embedding automation into our carbon reporting process, Genpact not only improved speed and accuracy but also made the approach user-friendly so we can easily access insight into our carbon consumption and offset data, helping us continuously make choices that have a lasting impact on our communities and planet."
Conducted in partnership with FORTUNE Brand Studio, Genpact's report is the second in a three-part series, Tech for Progress 360, analyzing how companies are using technology to drive impact beyond the bottom line. The research examines how businesses are working toward three distinct objectives: enhancing the employee experience; delivering environmental sustainability; and achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion.
For more information, see https://www.genpact.com/tech-for-progress/environmental-sustainability
About the Research
Genpact and FORTUNE Brand Studio conducted an online survey of 500 senior executives across the U.S, U.K, Germany, Australia, Japan, and Canada in the fall of 2021 to study how companies are using technology beyond the bottom line by examining progress toward three distinct objectives: enhancing the employee experience; strengthening communities through diversity, equity, and inclusion; and protecting the environment About 30% of respondents hold C-level positions and the remainder are director-level or above. Respondents represent the finance, IT/technology, supply chain/procurement, operations/ production, compliance/risk, general management, digital innovation, business transformation, sales, marketing, and HR sectors. All respondents report annual company revenue of $1 billion or higher.
About Genpact
Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services firm that makes business transformation real. Led by our purpose – the relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people – we drive digital-led innovation and digitally enabled intelligent operations for our clients. Guided by our experience reinventing and running thousands of processes for hundreds of clients, many of them Global Fortune 500 companies, we drive real-world transformation at scale. We think with design, dream in digital, and solve problems with data and analytics. Combining our expertise in end-to-end operations and our AI-based platform, Genpact Cora, we focus on the details – all 100,000+ of us. From New York to New Delhi, and more than 30 countries in between, we connect every dot, reimagine every process, and reinvent the ways companies work. We know that reimagining each step from start to finish creates better business outcomes. Whatever it is, we'll be there with you – accelerating digital transformation to create bold, lasting results – because transformation happens here. Get to know us at Genpact.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
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NEW YORK – Goldman Sachs will pay $215 million to settle a years-long class action lawsuit that claimed the bank discriminated against women when it came to pay, performance evaluations and promotions.
The lawsuit, initially filed in September 2010, was set to go to trial next month. The plaintiffs in the case are women who worked for Goldman as an associate or vice president in the U.S. in the investment banking, investment management or securities divisions.
The settlement covers about 2,800 female associates and vice presidents in Goldman's investment banking, investment management and securities divisions.
“My goal in this case has always been to support strong women on Wall Street. I am proud that the result we achieved here will advance gender equity,” plaintiff Allison Gamba said in a prepared statement.
Aside from the payment, the settlement includes a three-year period during which Goldman will work with an independent expert to perform more analysis on its performance evaluation processes, as well as its process for promoting individuals from vice president to managing director. It also requires an independent expert to conduct additional pay equity studies and for the New York City company to investigate and address any gender pay gaps where appropriate.
“Goldman Sachs is proud of its long record of promoting and advancing women and remains committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace for all our people. After more than a decade of vigorous litigation, both parties have agreed to resolve this matter," said Jacqueline Arthur, Goldman Sachs global head of human capital management. "We will continue to focus on our people, our clients, and our business,” | https://www.wsls.com/news/2023/05/09/goldman-settles-gender-discrimination-suit-for-215-million/ | 2023-05-09 15:45:07 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/2023/05/09/goldman-settles-gender-discrimination-suit-for-215-million/ |
ATLANTA, Ga. — It takes minutes into a visit with Deborah Glover to see she’s one in a million. But in fact, she's one of ten million. One of ten million Americans over 70 living by themselves, aging in place.
As seniors age, they, and their families, face decisions about where to live. A University of Michigan poll found that 88% of adults ages 50 to 80 want to remain in their homes as long as possible. A report from Harvard estimates the number of seniors living alone will nearly double in the next 20 years.
Often, those seniors end up in nursing or assisted living centers before they need to.
Glover lost her husband in 2014 and her daughter in 2019. All she had was her shed. For 20 years, she lived in the makeshift home on a plot built for a house.
Kathy Colbenson is the president and CEO of CHRIS 180. They’re a nonprofit in Glover’s home city of Atlanta. They’re known for supporting homeless youth. But one of their partner programs connects them with seniors, which is how they learned of Glover.
Colbenson’s team came up with Glover’s new home: a house built on that plot— with three units. Two are for mothers without homes in need of stability and mentorship. One is Glover’s. She provides mentorship and can stay as long as she likes.
“When they got out there, they said, ‘We got some good news for you. You can have more than a bathroom. We’re going to build your whole house.’ I, like, fell out,” Glover said.
Glover’s new home is, for now, a one-time endeavor by CHRIS 180. Her arrangement is exceptional, and not realistic for the millions more seeking a path for aging in place.
But it’s worth seeing how it looks when they can. Glover sets out food for six cats. provides a shoulder for those in need and gets to remain in the place she loves. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/two-americas/seniors-search-for-ways-to-age-in-place | 2023-04-06 14:17:15 | 0 | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/two-americas/seniors-search-for-ways-to-age-in-place |
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AACC, a global scientific and medical professional organization dedicated to better health through laboratory medicine, is pleased to announce that the impact factor of its journal Clinical Chemistry has risen to 12.167 in the 2021 Clarivate Journal Citation Reports. This impact factor places Clinical Chemistry in the top 2% of 21,430 ranked academic journals and reaffirms that it is the top journal on medical laboratory technology—a position it has held for more than a decade.
Laboratory medicine professionals have played a vital role in managing the coronavirus pandemic by developing and performing tests for the virus, and by ensuring patient access to these tests. As the most trusted and authoritative journal in laboratory medicine, Clinical Chemistry has supported this work by disseminating essential research on all aspects of coronavirus testing. Clinical laboratory testing is also key to diagnosing and managing a broad range of other conditions—from diabetes to cancer—and the journal has continued to publish peer-reviewed papers that drive testing forward for all of these diseases.
Clinical Chemistry's high impact factor is a testament to the innovative and rigorous nature of this research, as is the journal's 2021 immediacy index of 2.7, which places it in the top 3% of all academic journals. A journal's impact factor is based on the number of times articles published in the journal are cited over a two-year period, while the immediacy index is determined by the journal citations in a single calendar year. Both are calculated by Clarivate, a recognized authority for evaluating the usefulness of a journal.
"We are thrilled to see this jump in Clinical Chemistry's impact factor," said AACC President Dr. Stephen R. Master. "The journal's editorial board and AACC staff have worked tirelessly to maintain—and exceed—Clinical Chemistry's high standards. It is very gratifying to see that this hard work has paid off, and that Clinical Chemistry has succeeded in providing valuable scientific information on laboratory medicine at a time when COVID-19 has challenged the field more than ever."
About AACC
Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 70,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit www.aacc.org.
Clinical Chemistry (clinchem.org) is the leading international journal of laboratory medicine, featuring nearly 400 peer-reviewed studies every year that help patients get accurate diagnoses and essential care. This vital research is advancing areas of healthcare ranging from genetic testing and drug monitoring to pediatrics and appropriate test utilization.
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Democrats’ lead in the generic congressional ballot narrowed to 2 points in a Politico-Morning Consult poll released Wednesday.
The poll found that Democrats led Republicans in the ballot 45 percent to 43 percent, down from the 5-point lead they had in the same poll last week. Democrats are holding the narrow lead six weeks out from the crucial November midterms.
Democrats are seeking to defy a historical trend that usually sees the president’s party lose seats in Congress in the midterm elections, while Republicans are trying to retake control of both chambers.
The poll also found President Biden’s approval rating dropped from 46 percent last week to 41 percent this week following a notable increase recently.
A Grinnell College-Selzer & Co. poll released Wednesday found Democrats leading in the ballot by 4 points, 46 percent to 42 percent.
The Politico poll was conducted for three days, and the margin of error was plus or minus 2 percentage points. | https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/democrats-generic-congressional-ballot-lead-narrows-to-2-points-survey/ | 2022-09-28 16:04:23 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/democrats-generic-congressional-ballot-lead-narrows-to-2-points-survey/ |
Deer crashes into LATS bus window
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - It was a close call for a LATS bus driver when a deer came crashing through the front windshield.
Buses have hit deer before but they’ve never had one smash through the window.
It was a typical start to the morning for LATS bus driver Alisha Sutton.
Just two minutes into her morning route, near 2nd Street and Bishop Road a deer smashed through the front window of the bus.
“My first reaction was, did that just happen? and I was talking to it trying to calm him down,” said Sutton.
Sutton was in shock, she said she immediately stopped the bus and opened the door so the deer could get out.
Sutton and the deer were separated by a plexiglass door and she said she knows it could’ve been worse.
“I was okay until I watched the tape myself and saw how close it was to ending up in my lap with me,” said Sutton.
Sutton was not injured and there were no passengers in the bus at the time.
Ryan Landers, general manager for LATS says he was impressed with the way Sutton reacted.
“I love the way and really appreciate the way our driver reacted and how she dealt with the whole situation, I will be perfectly honest I’m not sure if I would have been able to do that,” said Landers.
Landers said he has never seen anything like this in his entire career and will use this close call as a training tool for the future.
“Yeah she handled it perfectly and we’re going to use this video for a number of years for training purposes,” he said.
The Lat’s bus that was damaged in the crash was repaired this morning and is ready to go back on the road.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Thursday, the normally quiet surroundings of the Tennessee State Capitol were filled with the voices of frustrated residents.
“Everybody’s demanding change, everybody’s had enough, and, it was a beautiful day,” said Linda McFadyen-Ketchum, a volunteer with Moms Demand Action.
The demand for change poured into the Capitol. Inside the Senate Chamber, chanting could be heard through the door, while state troopers tried to control the crowd.
“Angry,” is how McFadyen-Ketchum described the feeling during the protest. “There’s a time for tears. I don’t have any more tears. I’m angry, and a lot of people there were angry. I didn’t see much emotion. It was, ‘Fix this, there are things that we can do. Fix this.'”
The protest was held just three days after six lives were taken in The Covenant School shooting. Gun control is now at the center of the issue, especially for those who knew the victims personally.
“He called me on the way and said, ‘She didn’t make it, Anna,’ and I had to pull over. That was devastating,” remembered Anna Caudill, a close friend of Dr. Katherine Koonce.
Headmaster of The Covenant School, Koonce sprung into action when she heard gunfire. Now, those close to her want to see a change in her honor.
“I’m very proud of our young people, who have had to endure growing up with this, and what I see as the arrogance of legislatures who couldn’t even wait until my beloved friend’s funeral was over to try to push for even looser gun limits,” said Caudill.
This month, a Vanderbilt University Poll showed Tennessee parents agree on several school firearm safety measures. More than 1,000 people were polled. The study found 70% agree background checks should be expanded on all gun sales, 63% believe law enforcement should be able to temporarily restrict a person’s access to guns if they pose a risk to themselves or others, and 53% believe the age to purchase a gun should be 21.
However, Republicans have been moving this year to loosen gun laws in Tennessee.
“The disconnect is at the ballot box. Tennesseans are terrible voters, we don’t vote enough. In the Tennessee House, each rep represents about 64,000, but when it comes to election time only 25,000 people on average vote in those elections. And the folks who know what they want — you want easy relaxed gun laws and easy access to guns— they have figured out how to get their people to vote,” said McFadyen-Ketchum.
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, one of the largest gun-violence prevention organizations in America, Tennessee has the 10th highest rate of gun deaths.
“I am for responsible gun use and ownership, my father-in-law taught me how to respect a gun,” said Caudill. “But this need to have assault weapons available, without permits and willy-nilly …
it’s incredibly dangerous, as we have learned, [and comes at] great costs. And we will continue to bear the cost of [it] for years to come.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/everybodys-had-enough-tennesseans-demand-action-after-covenant-school-shooting/ | 2023-03-31 16:14:07 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/everybodys-had-enough-tennesseans-demand-action-after-covenant-school-shooting/ |
Porsche’s 963 and the rest of the new LMDh field are just months out from their first race, the 2023 24 Hours of Daytona, which will serve as the opening round of the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship.
Ahead of the new season, and that first race, Porsche has been conducting a series of tests for the 963, with the most recent taking place earlier in September at Daytona International Speedway. A total 397 laps were completed, representing a distance of more than 1,400 miles.
The conditions were particularly punishing, as man and machine faced ambient temperatures of around 95 degrees during the day (and even hotter at the track surface), and also humidity of over 90% and regular downpours. Taking turns behind the wheel were factory drivers Dane Cameron, Matt Campbell, and Mathieu Jaminet.
Unveiled in June at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Porsche 963 is the first of a new generation of top-level endurance racers built to LMDh regulations. The cars will compete alongside similar cars built to existing LMH regulations, with Balance of Performance rules to ensure an even playing field.
LMDh and LMH cars are both eligible for the new GTP class of the SportsCar Championship, which in 2023 replaces the current DPi premier class. Both car types are also eligible for the premier Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship, a series whose highlight is the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Acura, Alpine, BMW, and Cadillac are also committed to LMDh, while ByKolles, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Toyota are all committed to LMH. Lamborghini also announced in May it will join the LMDh fold in 2024. Audi was also set to join LMDh in 2023 but in August announced it had canceled the effort to focus resources on a planned Formula 1 entry in 2026.
In line with LMDh regulations, the powertrain in Porsche’s 963, a hybrid setup, can generate at any time a maximum output of around 670 hp. The internal-combustion component has been confirmed as a twin-turbo 4.6-liter V-8 related to the engine that powered the 918 Spyder hypercar. Porsche is yet to detail the electric side of the powertrain.
Porsche will run its LMDh campaign with America’s Team Penske, under the banner Porsche Penske Motorsport. The squad is based out of Penske’s headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina, the same site where Penske oversees its IndyCar and NASCAR campaigns. In addition to the drivers mentioned above, the team has also confirmed Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen, Andre Lotterer, Laurens Vanthoor, and Felipe Nasr.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks are emphasizing defensive improvement as they consider offseason changes.
Change already has come in the front office, where Landry Fields has been promoted to general manager.
Field on Monday continually stressed defense as the offseason priority for a team that took a big step back after advancing to the 2021 Eastern Conference final.
Fields said a defensive identity must be established for the Hawks to make another run at the title after being eliminated in the first round by Miami.
“The identity defensively has been, well that’s something we’re going to have to build into,” Landry said. “That’s been part of the reason why we haven’t taken that step. We have to have an everyday hard-hat approach to our defensive capabilities. … The identity piece is going to come when we see it consistently.”
The Hawks ranked only 21st in the league in scoring defense, allowing 112.3 points per game. It was a big reason the team played below .500 much of the season before making the play-in tournament and then earning the No. 8 seed in the playoffs.
Fields had been assistant GM. His promotion becomes official on July 1 and has not been announced by the team. Even so, he discussed his new role on Monday and said team president Travis Schlenk “is still the decision-maker.”
Led by All-Star point guard Trae Young, the Hawks ranked sixth in scoring. The disappointing season showed the Hawks need improved defense and perhaps a more established complementary scorer behind Young.
Atlanta has the No. 16 overall pick in Thursday’s NBA draft but could trade that pick for a veteran player.
“It’s always a fine line and you have those discussions for sure,” Fields said.
Fields, 33, had a five-year career as a player with the New York Knicks and Toronto before becoming a fast riser off the court. He took a scouting position with San Antonio in 2016 and joined the Hawks as assistant GM in 2020.
A disappointing finish this season have forced the Hawks to consider changes.
“It seems natural based off of where we wanted to go this season and where we ended up,” Fields said.
Young may be the only player who is off-limits to trade discussions. The team’s young core also includes power forward John Collins, small forward De’Andre Hunter, center Clint Capela and shooting guard Kevin Huerter.
Following the playoff loss to Miami, Hawks principal owner Tony Ressler said the team was too complacent last offseason. He said the team wouldn’t make the same mistake.
“I think we should have tried to get better rather than bring back what we had,” Ressler said last month before adding “That won’t happen again, by the way. It was a mistake, in my opinion.”
Ressler’s comments have fueled speculation the Hawks are open for a trade.
Fields said the Hawks have had calls from teams “about any and every player. We take that in and see if there’s anything that makes sense.”
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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 63-year-old man was arrested for allegedly being in possession of child pornography, according to the Porterville Police Department.
Police say they received information from the Department of Justice Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Taskforce, Porterville Police Detectives say they conducted an investigation into 63-year-old Steven Daniel Jones, for potentially being in possession of child pornography.
Through the course of the investigation, Detectives say they obtained evidence indicating Jones had downloaded pornographic images and/or videos of children under the age of 18 at the time he was residing in Porterville.
Officials say an arrest warrant for Jones was obtained for the crime of possession of child pornography and a search warrant was obtained for Jones’ current residence located in the 14000 block of Imperial Road in Poplar.
On Wednesday, at approximately 12:00 p.m., Jones was contacted in the front yard of his residence and taken into custody without incident. Porterville Police Detectives served the search warrant at Jones’ residence where they allegedly collected a variety of electronic devices for further investigation.
Jones was later booked at the Tulare County South County Detention Facility. He is being held in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Anybody with any information regarding this case is encouraged to contact the Porterville Police Department General Investigations Unit at (559) 782-7400. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/porterville-pd-man-arrested-for-alleged-possession-of-child-pornography/ | 2023-02-02 19:06:16 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/porterville-pd-man-arrested-for-alleged-possession-of-child-pornography/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — The American front door is a place where the welcome mat offers friendly greetings, where affable neighbors knock or ring, where boxes brimming with possibility are delivered. It is where home meets a world full of potentially good things.
The American front door is a place where signs trumpet words of warning, where cameras monitor visitors in high definition, where intruders find an entry point. It is where only a hunk of wood or metal separates the innermost spaces of home from a world full of chaos.
Both conceptions are real. They can and do exist together — usually peacefully but sometimes, particularly of late, contentiously.
In a land where private property is venerated and “get off my lawn” has become a mantra of jokey crankiness, the American front door is the landscape’s most intimate and personal of borders, the place where the public sphere encounters private space — occasionally with disastrous results.
Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot April 13 at Andrew Lester's front door in Kansas City, Missouri. The 84-year-old man, without a word, opened fire at the teenager who stood outside the door of what he believed was the house where he was picking up his two younger brothers. Lester, who has pleaded not guilty, said he was terrified when he opened the door.
It was one of several recent shootings, many of which took place near that threshold — in a driveway, on a front lawn and, of course, right at a front door.
“There is so much division in American society, so much polarization, so much animosity and so much fear,” says Bill Yousman, an associate professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. “The front door does in some ways embody all of that — as that last place that separates your internal domestic life with the life of the public.”
PRIORITIZING PRIVATE PROPERTY
The United States, more than many countries, has made private property a priority — a fetish, some would say.
And while American landowners often view all of their property as private, the front door — be it on a single-family home or an apartment unit — is that final boundary that controls access to the inner sanctum. It is the place to assess threats, but at the same time it retains the sensibility of a less coiled nation — one where traveling salesmen, cookie-selling Girl Scouts and local political canvassers can come amicably calling.
That decision — to welcome or rebuff — has only become more fraught in the past two decades as political polarization surges, racial tensions spike and “stand your ground” laws multiply. The stakes were exacerbated further by the height of the pandemic, a time of “no-contact" doorstep deliveries when even loved ones and friendly figures could bring potential doom.
“This is a space where we have to kind of choose whether we’re literally going to throw open the door or bar the door," says Nicole Rudolph, an associate professor at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, who teaches a class called Domestic Politics: The Public Life of the Private Sphere.
“I think we want to show our better selves to the world much of the time, so we open the door — cautiously,” Rudolph says. "But we are also sensitive to the risk that opening the door entails.”
Consider the phrase “direct to your door," used these days in connection with everything from DoorDash and GrubHub deliveries to the ubiquitous blue trucks of Amazon. It implies convenience, speed and the ultimate 21st-century American consumer value — frictionlessness. Yet as any Amazon user who checks delivery status knows, many drivers are required to take — and post — photos of the delivery right at the front door to prove they left it there in case “ porch pirates ” strike.
Or dip into Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network in which neighborhoods' residents exchange information. It is also a clearinghouse for people noticing what they consider suspicious activity around their front doors — some of which might not have been considered menacing a generation or two ago. A recent sampling: “Yesterday afternoon, someone pounded on my front door.” “I just had two people knocking on my door handing out pamphlets." “Just a heads up, we caught this guy on our ring camera last night.”
“We’ve made our homes prisons. Who are we keeping out? We’re keeping ourselves locked in. There’s so much focus on who’s coming to get you,” says Lori Brown, a professor of sociology, criminology and criminal justice at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
“Because we’re very object-oriented, everything is about protecting my car, my packages, my front door, my yard,” Brown says. “Everything is very private, and I need to keep you away from my stuff. And guns are the ultimate way to protect my stuff.”
LOOKING INWARD
At the same time, the messages from invisible sources already in our homes — the internet, gadgets like Alexa, streaming television — can encourage us to turn inward more than we did when only newspapers and telephones brought the outside world in. You can sit and watch TV news stations or doomscroll on your phone and become ever more convinced that peril — or “the other” — lies immediately outside.
If that wasn't already entrenched, the pandemic made it so at an entirely new level.
Zein Murib, a political scientist at Fordham University in New York, suggests that examining the front door as an American borderland might also mean “taking the border metaphor one step further” to the notion of borders writ large, and who is allowed to approach and cross them.
Stand-your-ground laws and the “castle doctrine," which says residents don't have to retreat when threatened in their homes, are based on the notion that “certain people have the right to occupy space while others don't," Murib says.
“Those who are perceived as not belonging in that space are targeted,” Murib says. “People are afforded rights based on how close they come to that standard.” And the front door, they say, can act as a concentrated litmus test for that decision.
Let's leave the final word on front doors to comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, who weighed in on the American front door a few years ago in a standup routine that, like so many, was about far more than laughs.
“Twenty years ago, the doorbell rang, that was a happy moment in your house. It was called ‘company’,” he said. “You can't stop by anybody's house anymore. If you do, you have to call from the driveway. You're like, 'I'm here — can I approach?'"
He was joking, and it was funny. But only because it wasn't.
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Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation at The Associated Press, has been writing about American culture since 1990. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/politics/article/the-front-door-threshold-of-welcome-and-17913145.php | 2023-04-23 04:50:48 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/politics/article/the-front-door-threshold-of-welcome-and-17913145.php |
Dr. Stanley R. Rosen
April 7, 1931 - Feb. 11, 2023
Dr Stanley R. Rosen, 91, passed away on Feb. 11, 2023, in Denver CO. Born April 7, 1931 to Rabbi Milton and Sarah Rosen, he was honored at a funeral service, led by Rabbi Youseph Samuels and interred in Chicago, IL on February 13, 2023.
Dr. Rosen was the devoted husband of Judith Morrill Rosen. Married in 2012 the couple resided in Kenosha WI. Previously, he had been a loving husband to the late Bernice Barach Rosen (z”l) for 57 years. He was the loving father of daughter, Dr. Lynn (Tzvi Horowitz) White and son, the late Jeffery Solomon Rosen (z”l) and dedicated stepfather to Jennifer Morrill. Dr. Rosen is also survived by three grandchildren, Jay White, Dr. Sharon (Chris Brown) White, and Rivkie White, two step-grandchildren, Zuri Horowitz and Mattan Horowitz and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. He is the cherished brother of Carol (Rabbi Hillel) Yampol and brother-in Law of Jerry (Norma) Barach.
An Army Veteran, Dr. Rosen was a proud American who served as a Radio Operator and as a writer for the "Stars and Stripes" Newspaper during the Korean War. He was also the author of "An American Rabbi in Korea", a memoir of his father's service in Korea. After the war, Dr. Rosen enrolled in Medical School in Zurich, Switzerland, from which he graduated with honors with a Degree in Internal Medicine. He practiced in Kenosha for 25 years and served as the Chief of Staff of Kenosha Memorial Hospital. Dr. Rosen will be remembered by countless patients as an extremely caring physician who sought to treat the whole person rather than focusing simply upon the ailment. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/dr-stanley-r-rosen/article_2bb294fb-6c8d-5cad-b4b0-37f8bd8a5e03.html | 2023-02-19 06:21:15 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/dr-stanley-r-rosen/article_2bb294fb-6c8d-5cad-b4b0-37f8bd8a5e03.html |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 2, 2023
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HIGH SURF ADVISORY
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Diego CA
106 PM PST Mon Jan 2 2023
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Breaking waves of 3 to 5 feet with sets to 7 feet today
will gradually subside this evening.
* WHERE...San Diego and Orange County beaches.
* WHEN...Through 6 PM PST today.
* IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and
localized beach erosion.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to
dangerous surf conditions.
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Lisle Benet called "game" in the waning moments of a 51-35 defeat of Roselle Lake Park at Lisle Benet Academy on Feb. 28 in Illinois boys high school basketball action.
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Shoppers could soon find it easier to tell if those grocery store steaks or pork chops were really “Made in the USA.”
Federal agriculture officials on Monday released new requirements that would allow labels on meat, poultry or eggs to use that phrase — or “Product of USA” — only if they come from animals “born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the United States.” That’s a sharp change from current policy, which allows voluntary use of such labels on products from animals that have been imported from a foreign country and slaughtered in the U.S., but also on meat that’s been imported and repackaged or further processed.
Imports of beef from countries including Australia, Canada and Brazil, for instance, account for about 12% of the total consumed in the U.S. Overall, imports of red meat and poultry account for less than 6%, while imports of eggs account for less than half of 1%.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the proposed rule would better align the labels with consumers’ views. A survey commissioned by the USDA found that nearly two-thirds of shoppers believed that a “Product of USA” label meant that most or all meat production steps occurred in the U.S.
“There’s obviously a disconnect between what the consumers’ understandings and expectations are and what the label currently is,” Vilsack said in an interview.
About 12% of all meat, poultry and egg products sold in the country carry the U.S.-origin labels, USDA officials said.
The label change was first proposed by President Joe Biden in 2021 and was included last year in a series of steps to bolster the U.S. meat and poultry supply chain.
The USDA survey, conducted last summer, included a nationally representative sample of more than 4,800 American adults who do the grocery shopping for their families and who bought beef or pork in the previous six months. More than 40% of the shoppers said they look for the USA label when buying meat.
The rule was praised by consumer advocates and representatives for U.S. ranchers and farmers, including the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association, which petitioned the USDA for the label change in 2019.
“The proposed rule finally closes this loophole by accurately defining what these voluntary origin claims mean,” said Justin Tupper, the group’s president. “If it says ‘Made in the USA,’ then it should be from cattle that have only known USA soil. Consumers have the right to know where their food comes from, full stop.”
Thomas Gremillion, director of food policy for the Consumer Federation of America, said the change is a “small but important step” that should have been made long ago.
Under the current rule, Gremillion noted, a cow can be raised in Mexico under that country’s regulations for feed and medications, then shipped across the border and slaughtered that same day to make ground beef and steaks that qualify as “Product of USA.”
Carrie Balkcom, executive director of the trade group American Grassfed Association, said the existing rule also penalizes small domestic producers.
“It’s expensive to raise grass-raised animals from scratch,” Balkcom said. “And these large producers were importing these animals raised elsewhere and just repackaging them and then kind of coasting on the ‘Made in the USA’ label.”
An official with the North American Meat Institute, which represents large firms that process most of the meat and poultry products sold in the U.S., said she hadn’t seen details of the new rule. But Sarah Little added, the group “opposes overly prescriptive labeling requirements that will raise prices for consumers.”
Another industry group, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, has called for eliminating the voluntary USA labels entirely and allowing for strict labeling standards verified by the USDA.
The voluntary labeling rules are different from country-of-origin labels, known as COOL, which required companies to disclose where animals supplying beef and pork are born, raised and slaughtered. That requirement was rolled back in 2015, after international trade disputes and a ruling from the World Trade Organization.
Country-of-origin labels are still required for other foods, including fish, shellfish, fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables and more.
Companies won’t have to prove that their products are American-made before using the labels, but they will have to file documentation. The proposal applies only to meat, poultry and eggs, products overseen by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, which can pull the label if companies are found to violate the rule.
The label proposal is open for public comment before it becomes final.
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Elon Musk is offering to go through with his original proposal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. The offer comes just two weeks before Twitter’s lawsuit seeking to force Musk to go through with the deal goes to trial in Delaware Chancery Court. Twitter said it intends to close the transaction after receiving Musk's offer.
Here’s a look at some of what’s transpired between the billionaire Tesla CEO and the social media platform:
January 31: Musk starts buying shares of Twitter in near-daily installments, amassing a 5% stake in the company by mid-March.
March 26: Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and is active on the site, said that he is giving “ serious thought ” to building an alternative to Twitter, questioning free speech on the platform and whether Twitter is undermining democracy. He also privately reaches out to Twitter board members, including his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
March 27: After privately informing them of his growing stake in the company, Musk starts conversations with Twitter's CEO and board members about potentially joining the board. Musk also mentions taking Twitter private or starting a competitor, according to later regulatory filings.
April 4: A regulatory filing reveals that Musk has rapidly become the largest shareholder of Twitter after acquiring a 9% stake, or 73.5 million shares, worth about $3 billion.
April 5: Musk is offered a seat on Twitter’s board on the condition he amass no more than 14.9% of the company's stock. CEO Parag Agrawal said in a tweet that “it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.”
April 11: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces Musk will not be joining the board after all.
April 14: Twitter reveals in a securities filing that Musk has offered to buy the company outright for about $44 billion.
April 15: Twitter’s board unanimously adopts a “poison pill” defense in response to Musk’s proposed offer, attempting to thwart a hostile takeover.
April 21: Musk lines up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter. Twitter board is under pressure to negotiate.
April 25: Musk reaches a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion and take the company private. The outspoken billionaire has said he wanted to own and privatize Twitter because he thinks it’s not living up to its potential as a platform for free speech.
April 29: Musk sells roughly $8.5 billion worth of shares in Tesla to help fund the purchase of Twitter, according to regulatory filings.
May 5: Musk strengthens his offer to buy Twitter with commitments of more than $7 billion from a diverse group of investors including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
May 10: In a hint at how he would change Twitter, Musk says he’d reverse Twitter’s ban of former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, calling the ban a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.”
May 13: Musk said that his plan to buy Twitter is “ temporarily on hold.” Musk said that he needs to pinpoint the number of spam and fake accounts on the social media platform. Shares of Twitter tumble, while shares of Tesla rebound sharply.
June 6: Musk threatens to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.
July 8: Musk says he will abandon his offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter threatens to sue Musk to uphold the deal.
July 12: Twitter sues Musk to force him to complete the deal. Musk soon countersues.
July 19: A Delaware judge says the Musk-Twitter legal dispute will go to trial in October.
August 23: A former head of security at Twitter alleges the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation. Musk eventually cites the whistleblower as a new reason to scuttle his Twitter deal.
October 4: Musk offers to go through with his original proposal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Twitter says it intends to close the transaction after receiving Musk's offer. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/A-timeline-of-billionaire-Elon-Musk-s-bid-to-17486322.php | 2022-10-05 04:50:27 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/A-timeline-of-billionaire-Elon-Musk-s-bid-to-17486322.php |
Veto puts Kentucky in thick of fight over transgender rights
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill aimed at transgender health care has put Kentucky in the middle of a national fight. But the consequences are more immediate in Kentucky. Its election this year offers an early test on the state-by-state assault on gender-affirming care for minors. The veto issued Friday set off competing messages likely to be repeated until the November election. That’s when Kentucky voters will decide whether to reelect the Democratic governor or hand over the governor’s office to a Republican. No one seems to know yet how much weight voters will put on the transgender issue. | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/26/veto-puts-kentucky-in-thick-of-fight-over-transgender-rights/ | 2023-03-26 15:13:55 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/26/veto-puts-kentucky-in-thick-of-fight-over-transgender-rights/ |
Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is considering whether to join the 2024 Republican governor’s race, nearly three years after his reelection bid was derailed by allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a party.
Hill built a following among social conservatives during his time in office and his entry into the governor’s race could further complicate what already is shaping up to be an expensive fight for the Republican nomination. U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and Fort Wayne businessman Eric Doden are already vying to replace Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, who can’t seek reelection because of term limits.
Hill expects to make a decision in the coming weeks as he and his wife “are carefully praying for guidance,” he said in a statement provided to The Associated Press by his political advising firm.
“At a time when Hoosiers are hungry for fresh leadership, it is crucial that we distinguish between those who genuinely represent conservative values and those who simply say they do,” Hill said. “Our state deserves a proven conservative who has the guts to challenge the Indianapolis status quo and the grit to stand up against the Washington, D.C., crowd.”
Hill, 62, won election as state attorney general in 2016 after 14 years as the prosecutor in northern Indiana’s Elkhart County. Hill had been seen as a rising African American star among Republicans and built himself up as an anti-abortion and tough-on-crime crusader, making appearances on Fox News to discuss topics such as San Francisco’s troubles with homelessness.
Hill faced calls for his resignation from Holcomb and many other state Republican leaders after allegations became public that he groped the women during a 2018 party at an Indianapolis bar. He denied wrongdoingbut the state Supreme Court ordered a 30-day suspension of his law licenseafter finding “by clear and convincing evidence that (Hill) committed the criminal act of battery” against three female legislative staffers and a state lawmaker during the party.
The allegations were a key campaign issue when he narrowly lost the 2020 Republican attorney general nomination for his reelection to Todd Rokita, who took office in January 2021.
Hill failed in another attempted political comeback last year when he lost a vote among Republican precinct committee members to replace U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski on the election ballot following her death in a highway crash. Business executive Rudy Yakym won the GOP nomination and election for northern Indiana’s 2nd District seat.
Even though Hill finished a distant second, the caucus vote showed that Hill still had a base of supporters and could further split conservative voters in a competitive race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, said Steve Shine, who’s been the Republican chairman in Allen County, which includes the state’s second-largest city, Fort Wayne, for more than 30 years.
“Add that to what he has had to go through, because if it was so damning, he wouldn’t have been in second place. He would have been at the end of the pack rather than at the top of it,” said Shine, who hasn’t endorsed any candidate.
Hill, however, would be entering the race far behind in campaign fundraising.
Braun, Crouch and Doden all started this year with campaign bank accounts approaching or exceeding $3 million and have raised at least hundreds of thousands more since then. Hill’s state campaign reported ending 2022 with about $20,000.
Whoever captures the Republican nomination will be looking to extend the party’s dominance in the state, which includes winning five straight governor elections since 2004. Former state schools Superintendent Jennifer McCormick, who won election as a Republican in 2016 alongside Hill and Holcomb but later broke with the Statehouse GOP, is the only declared candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
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Christmas is God 'with us' in Bethlehem, and the New York Stock Exchange
Christmas has everything to do with a connection to the material world
There is a pervasive sense of nostalgia that suffuses this season. This was so even for a nine-year-old who hadn’t yet lived long enough to lay any claim on nostalgia if it is defined as a bittersweet longing for some pleasant remembrance of one's past: How much of a past can a nine-year-old have?
Yet, there I found myself, one Christmas night, with an intense feeling of nostalgia once all the guests had departed and my mother had stored the last morsels of the feast, straightened up the house, and finally gotten off her feet. At the time, I was unsure what I was experiencing, but it was palpable. Lonely, yet beautiful; sad, yet full of comfort.
There is something about Christmas that invites us to reflect back to a younger version of ourselves: to the sights and the sounds and the smells of our mothers’ kitchens, or the excitement and anticipation of opening gifts for Christmas.
At this point in my life, I have come to think of Bethlehem as that common home for which we each long.
At nine, I was hardly surveying the previous years of so short a life. The human mind, I think, can go back much further, to a home, indeed an origin that we discern as if by nature, even if our vocabulary fails us. For the Christian it is that first Christmas – a home for which we each yearn. What occurred in Bethlehem is itself the restoration of God’s original intention in creating his world which involved a young maiden in whose womb that was to be found the erasure of Adam’s primordial legacy – the scar of Original Sin.
Here is where the ineffable God, who is outside time, condescends into the material world at a particular moment and to a particular place, subsuming our mortal nature into his divine nature, uniting us to himself by the incarnation of his Son. The experience of nostalgia is made all the more real by this particularity, uncovering for us our very selves at our origin.
Such cherished recollections of, say, the sweet thickness of the under-crust of your aunt’s cinnamon roll, that place where all the brown sugar has coagulated and almost hardened; or the simple yet evocative smell of percolated coffee in one of those old tin coffee pots; the smell of my father’s Old Spice (his Christmas gift every year). A grandmother’s well-worn apron.
All these can evoke nostalgia, but in each is some particular connection to a tangible memory of something or someone we recall which touches a deep sense of the bond between the physical and the transcendent. Christmas has everything to do with this connection to the material world, or more precisely, to the divine breaking out of our material world, and in this action, throws back meaning upon the whole of the human endeavor.
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The incarnation of God’s Son, we are taught, by the scriptures and reinforced in the art and music of this season, tells us of a world that was broken but has been restored. A world, "in sin and error pinning," as the old hymn says, that reveals to the soul its worth. This is not just some abstraction; it is particular and concrete, because sin effects not only our souls, but our whole world and all of its substantial parts.
And this is what redemption does as well, so that the physicality of the baby who comes from Mary might become the vehicle of salvation. It is also seen in the water of baptism, or the bread and wine of Communion, or the act of physical love in marriage; God works his love through all of these and more. The entirety of our world may become sanctified, indeed sacramentalized.
So too our family feasts, our gift giving and even our work, if these are offered to God for his glory. This God, this Emmanuel, is "with us" in the whole of it: from the baby’s cry in the manger to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. | https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/christmas-god-with-us-bethlehem-new-york-stock-exchange | 2022-12-25 07:36:16 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/christmas-god-with-us-bethlehem-new-york-stock-exchange |
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — For 90 years, Engelbert Schlechtrimen’s family has been baking wheat rolls, rye bread and chocolate cakes in this western German city. Next month, they will turn off the ovens for good, because they can no longer afford rising energy prices resulting from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Schlechtrimen’s grandparents founded the bakery in Cologne before World War II. The 58-year-old took over the business 28 years ago from his father and turned it into an organic store that uses traditional recipes and bans chemical additives in the bakehouse.
Still, even these innovations won’t save him from closing down the family business — consisting of a bakery and two stores that employ 35 people — after almost a century. It’s one victim of a European energy crisis driven by Russia’s cutbacks of natural gas, used to heat homes, generate electricity and power factories.
The resulting hikes in energy and power prices have squeezed businesses already struggling with a rise in other costs as inflation rises.
“For some time now, we have been juggling several crises at the same time: job vacancies, lack of personnel, closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, extreme increases in raw material costs, and now the explosion of energy costs and the further increase in personnel costs,” Schlechtrimen said this week.
He pointed to the costs of materials going up 50%. And “now, there is also the energy cost crisis. So far, we have only seen an increase of around 70%, because we heat the furnaces with diesel oil. A fourfold increase in price is to be feared.”
Schlechtrimen tried to save energy wherever possible — but that wasn’t enough to make up for growing expenses.
He also raised the prices of his products to cover his spiking costs, but customers, who also are tightening belts as inflation rises, stayed away and turned to discounters selling industrially manufactured baked goods for less money.
Eventually, the Cologne baker had to concede that he’s no longer making enough profit to sustain his business.
Schlechtrimen isn’t the only baker struggling to make a living in Germany these days. Small, family-owned bakeries across the country are having a hard time covering their costs.
“Many businesses in the bakery trade are worried about how they are going to get through the next few months. They are facing a cost tsunami,” said Friedemann Berg, managing director of the German Bakers’ Confederation.
“We would like to see a financial bailout for our bakeries, with the federal government providing aid to help our businesses effectively, quickly and unbureaucratically,” Berg said.
The German government this month announced an additional 65 billion-euro investment in a new round of measures aimed at easing the sting of inflation and high energy prices for consumers.
But for people like Schlechtrimen, the aid may be coming too late.
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Kirsten Grieshaber and Pietro de Cristofaro contributed to this report from Berlin. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-after-90-years-german-bakery-to-close-as-energy-costs-soar/ | 2022-09-23 18:17:11 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-after-90-years-german-bakery-to-close-as-energy-costs-soar/ |
Pipeline advancements and investment in innovation and disruptive technologies to help fuel sustainable, profitable growth for CSL's three businesses, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor, in the decades ahead
MELBOURNE, Australia and KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At its annual R&D investor briefing today, global biotechnology leader CSL (ASX:CSL; USOTC:CSLLY) demonstrated how its growing, innovative pipeline is well-positioned to meet the current and future needs of patients and public health. CSL revealed progress and plans in advancing assets that have the potential to disrupt current standards of care in its areas of focus (immunology, haematology, respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic, transplant, nephrology, vaccines) using its strategic scientific platforms (plasma protein technology, recombinant technology, cell and gene therapy, and sa-mRNA, adjuvanted, cell-based and egg-based vaccines).
Among the highlights presented were the following:
Late-Stage Development Includes Disruptive Innovation and New Additions to the CSL Portfolio
- Etranacogene dezaparvovec (also known as CSL222), an investigational gene therapy for the treatment of adults with haemophilia B has been accepted for priority review by the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and standard review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). If approved, etranacogene dezaparvovec would be the first-ever gene therapy treatment option for the haemophilia B community. The regulatory filings are supported by results from the pivotal HOPE-B trial, the largest gene therapy trial in haemophilia B to date. The multi-year clinical development program for etranacogene dezaparvovec was led by uniQure (Nasdaq: QURE) and sponsorship of the clinical trials has transitioned to CSL after acquiring global rights to commercialize the investigational treatment.
- Top-line Phase III results for garadacimab (CSL312, anti-FXIIa), an investigational first-in-class monoclonal antibody being developed as a long-term preventive treatment for patients with hereditary angioedema, demonstrated that the study met its primary and secondary efficacy objectives and showed favourable safety and tolerability. CSL aims to begin filing for approval with global regulatory authorities next calendar year. Garadacimab was discovered and optimised by scientists at CSL's Bio21–based Research site, with formulation and manufacturing for the clinical programs completed at the CSL Broadmeadows Biotech Manufacturing Facility.
- CSL Vifor brings a leading portfolio of therapies in nephrology, dialysis and iron deficiency. New late-stage assets to the pipeline include Sparsentan for IgA nephropathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and SNF472 for calciphylaxis and calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA).
R&D Portfolio Progress Across Areas of Focus and Scientific Platforms
- Clazakizumab, an anti-IL6 monoclonal antibody, intended for the treatment of chronic active antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in kidney transplant recipients continues to progress in the Phase III IMAGINE trial. This is CSL's leading program for clazakizumab, which will also be investigated in a Phase IIb/III study for improvement of cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in dialysis patients. CSL plans to engage Fresenius Medical Care dialysis centres in the study.
- AEGIS-II, a Phase III, multicenter, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CSL112, compared to placebo, in reducing the risk of major adverse CV events (MACE) in patients following a heart attack, will enrol the last patient by the end of 2022, with completion of the trial expected towards the end of 2023.
- CSL is advancing the Phase IIb study for its adjuvanted, cell-based high-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine (aQIVc). This study will help CSL further build the body of clinical evidence to support the optimal formulation for when the company moves into the Phase III immunogenicity and safety study for aQIVc.
- Published results from the preclinical studies of CSL's self-amplifying messenger RNA (sa-mRNA) influenza vaccine candidates, the next generation of mRNA vaccines, indicate a potent, cross-reactive immune response against pandemic and seasonal influenza strains, A(H5N1) and A(H1N1). CSL's sa-mRNA candidate is expected to enter clinical trials in 2023.
Recently Announced
- Collaboration and license agreement with Arcturus Therapeutics aims to accelerate next-generation mRNA capabilities in influenza, pandemic preparedness and other selected respiratory viral pathogens -- including a near term COVID-19 vaccine that has recently reported interim results from a large Phase III efficacy study, meeting its primary and secondary endpoints of prevention of infection and severe disease with a favourable safety profile.
- A strategic option and license agreement with Translational Sciences to license TS23, a first-in-class anti-α2-antiplasmin monoclonal antibody. TS23 is being developed to dissolve thrombi that cause serious conditions such as pulmonary embolism (PE) and acute ischemic stroke (AIS). The treatment candidate is soon to be evaluated in the US in the NAIL-IT Phase II study, which has been designed to evaluate the safety and thrombolytic effect of ascending doses of TS23 in patients with sub-massive (intermediate risk) PE.
"CSL is on the leading-edge of innovation in areas we know well and we have strategically and methodically built a pipeline that has never been more robust with diverse sources of innovation, from in-house and external sources, that include the disruptive scientific platforms of gene therapy and sa-mRNA," said Dr. Bill Mezzanotte, Executive Vice President, Head of R&D, and Chief Medical Officer for CSL. "Our enhanced capabilities across all of our scientific platforms and therapeutic focus areas will help us in our relentless pursuit to deliver on our promise to help patients lead full lives, protect public health and sustainably grow our business in the decades ahead, while providing promising futures for our employees."
In fiscal year 2021-2022, CSL invested approximately $1.16 billion in R&D. This includes growing CSL R&D's footprint in Melbourne, Australia; Marburg, Germany; throughout Switzerland and Waltham, Massachusetts – helping to create an integrated global organization that can conveniently collaborate with institutions everywhere -- offering scientists a wide array of opportunities for professional development and enhancing access to external innovation.
Advancing External Innovation: The Biotechnology Incubator at CSL's Global Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia Names Its Operator
CSL, WEHI and The University of Melbourne have appointed Cicada Innovations as the independent operator of the new biotech incubator which will be located in CSL's new global headquarters currently under construction in the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct. The appointment follows the project partners joining forces to create an incubator for biotech start-up companies, with the Victorian Government's landmark Breakthrough Victoria Fund providing funding to support the AU$95 million project. It will be Australia's first and only incubator that is co-located with a leading biopharmaceutical company and will have space for up to 40 start-ups.
"Incubator residents will be working in an innovation-driven environment alongside a large and focused CSL R&D team, enabling opportunities for peer-collaboration, learning and sharing of ideas," said Dr. Andrew Nash, CSL's Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President, Research. "The strong collaboration between CSL, the University of Melbourne, WEHI, Breakthrough Victoria and now Cicada Innovations has been critical to bring the incubator to fruition and reflects CSL's values and desire to deliver on our promise to patients worldwide."
For more about the incubator, https://www.csl.com/news/2022/20221103-cicada-innovations-to-operate-new-biotech-incubator.
For more on CSL's R&D Investor Briefing, please visit https://www.csl.com/.
About CSL
CSL Limited (ASX: CSL; USOTC: CSLLY) is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of lifesaving medicines, including those that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, as well as vaccines to prevent influenza. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives using the latest technologies. Today, CSL – including our three businesses, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus, and CSL Vifor – provides lifesaving products to patients in more than 100 countries and employs more than 30,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial strength, R&D focus, and operational excellence enables us to identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live life to the fullest. For inspiring stories about the promise of biotechnology, visit CSLBehring.com/Vita and follow us on Twitter.com/CSL.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — State lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill they hope will address the shortcomings of Tennessee’s new third-grade retention law.
During a House K-12 Subcommittee meeting, Rep. Scott Cepicky (R-Culleoka) presented an amended bill combining the “good ideas” from other lawmakers’ bills into one.
The bill addresses testing, appeals and help for students who are held back.
Under current law, students who earn an “approaching” or “below” score in English language arts (ELA) on the third-grade TCAP cannot advance to the fourth grade unless they retake the test and score proficiently, attend a summer learning loss bridge camp or are assigned a tutor for the entirety of the next school year.
The legislation would change that by allowing students who score as “approaching” on the TCAP to be promoted to the next grade if they scored in the 50th percentile on the most recently administered benchmark assessment prior to the TCAP.
This would result in fewer students being held back than if the current law remains unchanged, Cepicky said.
Rep. Mark White (R-Memphis) said this would also alleviate the “one test, one day” concerns about the current law.
The bill would also change the process of appealing a decision to retain a student. Right now, an appeal can only be filled out by a student’s parent or guardian. Under the bill, parents would still initiate the appeal but school officials would be allowed to help fill out the paperwork, a change lawmakers hope will ease the burden on parents.
The legislation also adds something that Cepicky said was left out of the third-grade retention law. He said they forgot to put in the initial bill that if a student is retained in kindergarten through third grade, they will automatically be assigned a tutor for the upcoming school year.
The legislation would add that to the current law and also allow the Department of Education to procure three online tutoring providers for schools to use.
The House K-12 Subcommittee approved the amended bill and referred it to the full Education Administration Committee. The Senate version of the bill is scheduled to go before the Senate Education Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Jon Lundberg (R-Bristol), on Wednesday.
Several local school boards, including those from Johnson City, Kingsport and Sullivan County, have expressed concerns about the third-grade retention law, which went into effect this year. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/tennessee/bill-addressing-third-grade-retention-law-moves-forward/ | 2023-03-15 02:35:21 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/tennessee/bill-addressing-third-grade-retention-law-moves-forward/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in U.S. Bancorp ("U.S. Bancorp" or the "Company") (NYSE: USB) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of U.S. Bancorp investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between August 1, 2019 and July 28, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
USB investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email
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CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (a) U.S. Bank created sales pressure on its employees that led them to open credit cards, lines of credit, and deposit accounts without consumers' knowledge and consent; (b) since at least 2015, U.S. Bank and by extension, U.S. Bancorp, was aware of such unauthorized conduct and that it was violating relevant regulations and laws aimed at protecting its consumers; (c) U.S. Bancorp failed to properly monitor its employees from engaging in such unlawful conduct, detect and stop the misconduct, and identify and remediate harmed consumers; (d) all the foregoing subjected the Company to a foreseeable risk of heightened regulatory scrutiny or investigation; (e) U.S. Bancorp's revenues were in part the product of unlawful conduct and thus unsustainable; and (f) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in U.S. Bancorp during the relevant time frame, you have until December 27, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats over a gun control protest is an extraordinary showcase of how the levers of single-party power in America’s statehouses can be pulled not only to shut down opponents, but to also punish them.
On any given day in Tennessee, Republicans have the commanding majority to pass just about any law they want. The lopsided dynamic is common in many U.S. statehouses — including where Democrats are in charge — and it has widened under gerrymandered voting maps that redraw legislative district boundaries to dilute the opposition party’s votes.
But in ousting Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson altogether from the Tennessee Legislature on Thursday, Republicans went beyond their typical ability to steamroll Democrats. They instead maximized their parliamentary power to exact retribution.
Not only did Republicans have the votes to oust the lawmakers — one of the few times such drastic action has been taken since the Civil War — they suspended legislative rules of procedure to hasten the process.
The expulsions reverberated far beyond Tennessee, with Democrats in states where they’re similarly outnumbered taking notice. GOP leaders defended their actions as necessary to send a message that disruptive protests in the Tennessee House would not be tolerated.
A third Democrat, Rep. Gloria Johnson, was narrowly spared expulsion by a one-vote margin.
“The erosion of democracy in the state Legislature is what got us here,” Pearson said after his ouster. “It wasn’t walking up to the well, it wasn’t being disruptive to the status quo, it was the silencing of democracy and it’s wrong.”
THE TENNESSEE VOTE
In Tennessee, Republicans hold a supermajority control in both the House and Senate and have wielded full control of the Legislature since 2008.
But in the House, GOP members have increasingly used parliamentary maneuvers to cut off debate – particularly on controversial topics ranging from abortion to LGBTQ+ issues and guns. Republicans have used a legislative tactic known as “calling the question,” which forces an immediate vote on a bill and cuts off debate that can otherwise stretch on for hours.
In the days leading to the expulsion hearing, Republicans also employed what’s known as “suspending the rules,” which allows lawmakers to sidestep usual procedure — such as what happened on Thursday, when lawmakers suspended rules to allow the so-called “Tennessee three” to defend themselves.
Suspending the rules is not always divisive — it can be used to speed up passage of uncontentious bills, for example — but it can also inflame tensions.
Democrats who spoke during Thursday spent most of their time calling on Republicans to pass some sort of gun control legislation in the aftermath of the Nashville school shooting. But they also accused their GOP colleagues of having used the rules to keep debate to a minimum on other topics throughout the legislative session.
Several Democrats joked Thursday how they normally weren’t allowed to talk at such length but got a minor break of sorts during the hearing because of to the national attention it had attracted.
House Speaker Cameron Sexton, a Republican, dismissed suggestions that Democrats have been silenced, saying lawmakers have many opportunities to speak up during legislative committee hearings and on the House floor.
“We haven’t had anybody complain,” Sexton said. “People raise their hands to be recognized. I don’t know who is going to call the question.”
LEGISLATIVE TACTICS
The aggressive actions by Tennessee Republicans demonstrated a flip side to parliamentary tactics that lawmakers in the minority often use to as a last-ditch effort to thwart the other side. Among the most common are filibusters, in which lawmakers try to run out the clock on a bill through lengthy speeches.
In Nebraska, a filibuster brought lawmaking to a standstill for weeks this year over GOP legislation that would impose restrictions on transgender rights. State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, a Democrat, introduced amendment after amendment to every bill on the Senate floor and took up all eight debate hours allowed by the rules each day.
Two years ago, Texas Democrats temporarily stalled passage of new voting restrictions for weeks by breaking quorum and going on a 38-day walkout. They had quietly walked out of the House chamber one by one while facing the potential of Republicans calling the question for a decisive vote before a midnight deadline to pass the bill.
‘NUCLEAR OPTION’
Texas state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, who helped spearhead the Democrats’ walkout in 2021, described calling the question as a “nuclear option” and criticized it an offensive tactic to stop debate.
On Friday, he called the expulsions in Tennessee a warning for lawmakers in minority parties to keep their guard up. He said he was especially mindful of how state legislators act at a time when there is gridlock in Washington and the Supreme Court is throwing contentious issues back to the states to decide.
“If you can willy-nilly silence voices by changing rules, then I think that is a significant assault on our democracy,” Fischer said.
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SOUTH WHITTIER, Calif. (KTLA) – A group of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruits was struck by a vehicle in Southern California on Wednesday morning. Officials say 23 people, including the driver, were injured, five of them critically.
The collision, which took place at about 6:25 a.m., sent dozens of police, fire and medical units to an intersection in South Whittier, near the LASD’s STAR Explore Training Academy.
The 22 LASD victims were initially identified as cadets, though the LASD later confirmed that they are recruits.
Five of the recruits were critically injured, four were moderately injured, and 13 others were minorly injured.
Patients were taken to several hospitals, including St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and LAC+USC Medical Center.
Capt. Sheila Kelliher of the Los Angeles County Fire Department shared a statement Wednesday morning, wishing all of the injured recruits a speedy recovery.
“It is hard to see because these young people are getting ready to go put themselves in the line of danger in their career, and who knows that while you’re training to do that, you’ve put yourself in harm’s way,” said Capt. Kelliher. “So my heart goes out to all of them as they pursue this career.”
Aerial footage from Nexstar’s KTLA showed a gray SUV, possibly a Honda CRV, that appeared to have crashed into a pole, suffering major front-end damage. Victims were also seen being attended to by emergency personnel, with some on gurneys and others receiving care at the scene.
“The vehicle’s driver that struck the recruits was detained pending further investigation,” the department said in a press release.
The driver was identified as a 22-year-old man heading the wrong way on the street, according to Kelliher. His injuries were minor.
A motive, and the events leading up the crash, are still under investigation.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/multiple-recruits-with-la-county-sheriffs-department-seriously-injured-after-being-struck-by-car/ | 2022-11-16 17:49:38 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/multiple-recruits-with-la-county-sheriffs-department-seriously-injured-after-being-struck-by-car/ |
Mbappe rescues draw for France vs. Austria in Nations League
By JEROME PUGMIRE
AP Sports Writer
PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappe came off the bench to rescue a point for France in a 1-1 draw at Austria in the Nations League on Friday. But the defending champion is in last place with just two points from three group games. Mbappe curled a fine left-footed shot into the top corner in the 83rd minute for his 27th international goal. World Cup winner France is under pressure ahead of Monday night’s must-win home game with Croatia, which won 1-0 at Denmark thanks to Mario Pasalic’s goal midway through the second half. The Danes top Group 1 with six points while Austria and Croatia have four. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/06/10/mbappe-rescues-draw-for-france-vs-austria-in-nations-league/ | 2022-06-10 21:55:23 | 0 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/06/10/mbappe-rescues-draw-for-france-vs-austria-in-nations-league/ |
Biker events, scenic rides, racing, industry's top vendors and concerts
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Daytona Beach is celebrating a significant milestone in 2022 with the 30th annual Biketoberfest® rally on October 13-16, Southeast's best motorcycle rally.
The four-day motorcycle rally attracts motorcycle enthusiasts to Daytona Beach and Volusia County area with beautiful Florida weather, live music, industry's top vendors, bike shows, motorcycle racing at Daytona International Speedway, and miles of scenic rides along famous A1A, historic Main Street or the scenic loop.
For the 10th straight year, GEICO will serve as the official sponsor of Biketoberfest®.
"For three decades, motorcycle enthusiasts have gathered by the thousands in October in Daytona Beach for Biketoberfest® and we're looking forward to continuing that tradition in 2022," said Lori Campbell Baker, Executive Director for the Daytona Beach Area CVB. "With venues stretching from iconic Main Street, Daytona International Speedway, Destination Daytona, Midtown, and points in between, riders will be able to explore a variety of activities and experiences during their visit to the destination."
The Official Biketoberfest® Welcome Center presented by GEICO will be at ONE DAYTONA, located directly across from Daytona International Speedway (One Daytona Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114). Along with information about the area, the Welcome Center will be handing out free posters, pins, poker chips and helmet stickers for visitors.
As motorcycle enthusiasts explore the area, they will want to make sure to check out Downtown Daytona Beach and the recently opened south end of the Riverfront Esplanade where they can visit the Veterans Memorial and the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune bronze statue. When fully complete later this year, the Riverfront Esplanade will extend a mile along the Halifax River and include a promenade along the water's edge, running and walking rails, and landscaping designed to encourage relaxation and reflection including water features, shade tree and raised botanical gardens.
More information is available on the official event website, Biketoberfest.org, including a list of area events, concerts, demo rides, places to stay, top scenic rides, and more.
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Experience endless adventures in this eclectic destination that offers the perfect, beach base camp from which to explore the greater Daytona Beach area and all Central Florida. Choose thrilling activities or embrace the tranquility of days spent on 23 miles of world-famous white-sand beaches. With more than 12,000 rooms, and a variety of meeting hotels and unique spaces, the destination has accommodations for meetings and groups of all sizes and budgets. Learn more at DaytonaBeach.com. #LoveDaytonaBeach
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Kari Lake still expects God (and the state Supreme Court) to make her governor
Opinion: It seems more likely that her prayers already have been answered. Just not with the reply she’d hoped to receive.
Failed Republican political candidate and former TV news reader Kari Lake wants – perhaps even expects – the Good Lord to do what the voters of Arizona would not do: Make her governor.
The latest prank in Lake’s ongoing Christian nationalist post-election publicity tour is what she described as a “prayer event” at a Mesa church Tuesday where, in a tweet, Lake said it was time to “pray together for the Supreme Court & praise God with great expectations!”
Expectations?
Lake has lost each of her many court challenges to the November 2022 election in which she was defeated by Gov. Katie Hobbs by 17,000 votes.
Most recently, her arguments before the Arizona appeals court were described by a judge as “quite simply, sheer speculation.”
The ruling against her also said, “Lake’s arguments highlight election day difficulties, but her request for relief fails because the evidence presented to the superior court ultimately supports the court’s conclusion that voters were able to cast their ballots, that votes were counted correctly, and that no other basis justifies setting aside the election results.”
A campaign that's more theatrical than theological
Not too long after that Lake took her case to the Arizona Supreme Court, tweeting, “Pray for our Attorneys. Pray for the Judges. Pray for Justice. Pray for America.”
I am not an expert in the ways of the Almighty, but it seems likely that her prayers already have been answered. Just not with the reply she’d hoped to receive.
Lake has been playing the Christian (small “c”) nationalist (capital “N”) card almost from the beginning of her campaign, a strategy that has seemed from the beginning to be more about praying for donations than for divine election intervention.
Along the way it has included a number of episodes that seem far more theatrical than theological.
Like when a group of evangelical supporters laid hands on and anointed Lake at an event in Scottsdale.
The walls of the elections center didn't tumble down
Or when she compared MAGA Republicans to Jesus and said God would help her and her supporters “take back our country and save this republic.”
Or after the election, when her followers marched around Maricopa County’s election center seven times while blowing horns, expecting the walls to come tumbling down as in the Bible story of the battle of Jericho.
Along the way Lake has described President Joe Biden and Democrats not as political opponents but as “demonic.”
The far-right Pentecostal website Charisma News published an article about Lake under the headline: “Is God Raising Up Kari Lake as a New Breed of Prophetic Politician?” The story said Lake “doesn't just speak; she prophesies in almost everything she says.”
Noting a position for which Lake seems qualified
Except, so far, in regards to that whole reversing the election thing.
A while back an organization called Faithful America, a group of Christians who say they are speaking out against Christian nationalist politicians who have “hijacked” Jesus' message and “distort the Gospel for their agenda of hatred, power, and division.”
Kari Lake made the group’s list of “false prophets.”
Unlike Arizona governor, it is a position for which she appears to have the qualifications.
Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.
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Woman dies in fire caused by electric blanket, officials say
Published: Jan. 18, 2023 at 11:54 AM CST|Updated: 48 minutes ago
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. (Gray News) – A woman in Maryland died in a house fire Monday that was caused by her electric blanket, officials said.
Baltimore County police identified the woman as 61-year-old Kim Marie Wilson.
Fire crews were called to the home at 9:40 a.m. Monday for a report of a fire. When firefighters arrived, neighbors told them someone was possibly inside the home.
Firefighters found Wilson on the second floor, rescued her and immediately began CPR. She was taken to Northwest Hospital where she died.
Investigators determined a malfunctioning electric blanket caused the fire.
The only heat in the house was from electric space heaters and an electric blanket, officials said.
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UVALDE, Texas — One week after the school shooting here, locals and out-of-towners stop by a makeshift memorial in the town square to lay flowers, light candles and say prayers.
Under a blue canopy to block the hot South Texas sun, a woman wearing the face paint and bright colors of a clown calls out. Her apron says Bippy's World, the clowning business she operates in Houston.
"Would you like a snow cone, popcorn, cotton candy? Or do you want all three?" she asks 4-year-old Israel Sanchez.
He's with his grandmother Amy Nuñez from Austin, passing through on their way back from Del Rio, to the west of here. She wanted to pray for the kids. "Every prayer counts," she says.
"I have six grandkids, and it got to me," says Nuñez. "That's why I'm here." She points to her grandson. "He's the youngest, and he's getting ready to go to school, so, yeah, it's very emotional for me."
Behind the face paint of Bippy the Clown is Deturice Dunbar, 55. She's here in Uvalde because gun violence has touched her own family and she felt God called her here to serve.
"He told me I had an assignment to be here," she says. "When these type of things happen, the politicians come out, the news media — but nobody comes for the kids. It was such a tragedy. I just wanted to give them just one moment where they can come over and smile and be a kid again."
She's also here because she knows the pain of a parent waiting to know about her child's condition after a shooting. Her daughter was wounded in New Orleans in February — shot twice by the girlfriend of her son's father.
"She lived, thank God," she says. But the experience shattered Dunbar, whose grandson was in the car at the time.
"By the grace of God, I'm still here, because I almost lost my mind," she says, "because I wanted to know what happened when nobody could give me no answers."
She rushed to the New Orleans hospital where her daughter was being hurried into surgery.
"I said, 'Can you wait? I just want to see her.' One of the bullets had severed the main artery in her right leg. She had no feeling, no blood flow," Dunbar says, choking on her words. "I remember sitting in that waiting room just saying, 'God, please.' "
And so she dwells on the image of the Uvalde parents who waited in fruitless agony to be reunited with their children.
"They never got to see their child. And to know that your child needed you, and you wasn't there. ... Think about the mom who's sitting at home saying ..., 'I should have been there to protect her.' That's how we feel as parents. But we're not the Savior — we can't save the world — but we feel like we should be able to save our children."
For Dunbar, being a clown is her ministry: answering God's call to minister to "the young in age and the young at heart, and put smiles on their faces." And her calling to serve has been met by warm hospitality in Uvalde: A local woman has offered Dunbar a place to stay while she's here.
"When all everything is said and done and this community is still here, it's a lot of brokenness. It's a lot of pain. It's a lot of hurt," she says.
She wants something to change in this country, whether stationing a National Guard member outside every classroom or the automatic reporting of anyone who tries to buy hundreds of bullets, or ...
"I don't know," she says. "I just know that the answer is not to continue to do nothing."
She hands Israel a pink cloud of cotton candy larger than his head, and he selects a frisbee from her array of toys to take home with him to Austin. The smile on his face is enormous.
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Vote for the Athlete of the Week for April 24-29
Athlete of the Week nominees are selected from scores and statistics sent in by Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte county coaches throughout the week to htincoming@gmail.com. Readers can then vote in the online poll to determine the Athlete of the Week.
The last winner was Manatee High baseball player Max Mullet, who garnered 7,573 votes or 48.1% of the vote.
North Port High baseball player Joshua Doerrfeld came in second with 7,166 votes or 45.5% of the vote
The poll will be posted at heraldtribune.com each Monday, and voting will end at 10 a.m. Friday each week.
Here are the nominees:
Ben Capel, Palmetto, baseball
Pitched a 5-hit, complete-game shutout with 4 walks and 3 strikeouts against Braden River
Tyler Cripe, Parrish Community, baseball
Went 3-for-3 with a double, stolen base and 2 RBI against North Port
Tanner Crump, Sarasota, baseball
Pitched a 4-hit, complete-game shutout with 1 walk and 4 strikeouts against Port Charlotte
Carter Malarisik, Out-of-Door, baseball
Pitched 4 1/3 innings of 2-hit, 1-run relief with 2 walks and 3 strikeout against Manatee
Carly Ramsden, Sarasota, softball
Went 2-for-3 with a double and run scored against Venice
Haley Rosa, Saint Stephen's, girls lacrosse
Scored 5 goals, including the 100th of her career, against Community School of Naples
Payson Rumley, North Port, softball
Went 3-for-3 with a double and run scored against Palmetto Ridge
Brady Schumaker, Venice, baseball
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WESTFORD, Mass. (AP) — WESTFORD, Mass. (AP) — NetScout Systems Inc. (NTCT) on Thursday reported a loss of $3.2 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
The Westford, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of 5 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 38 cents per share.
The provider of products that gauge network performance posted revenue of $208.1 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $59.6 million, or 82 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $914.5 million.
NetScout expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.20 to $2.32 per share, with revenue in the range of $915 million to $945 million.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law.
The designation means that releases of long-lasting chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS that meet or exceed a certain quantity would have to be reported to federal, state or tribal officials. The requirement would increase understanding of the extent and locations of the contamination and help communities avoid or reduce contact with the potentially dangerous chemicals, the EPA said.
PFOA and PFOS have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers but are still in limited use and remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time. The compounds are part of a larger cluster of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS that have been used in consumer products and industry since the 1940s.
PFAS is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which are used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products.
The chemicals can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods of time, and evidence from animal and human studies indicates that exposure to PFOA or PFOS may lead to cancer or other health problems.
“Communities have suffered far too long from exposure to these forever chemicals,'' EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement Friday. “The action announced today will improve transparency and advance EPA’s aggressive efforts to confront this pollution.”
Under the proposed rule, “EPA will both help protect communities from PFAS pollution and seek to hold polluters accountable for their actions,'' Regan said.
The EPA’s action follows a recent report by the National Academies of Science that calls PFAS a serious public health threat in the U.S. and worldwide.
Regan said many sources of PFAS contamination are near communities already overburdened with pollution. The proposed rule would provide the agency with improved data and the option to require cleanups and recover cleanup costs to protect public health, he said.
The move follows an EPA announcement in June that PFOA and PFOS are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.
The agency issued nonbinding health advisories that set health risk thresholds for PFOA and PFOS to near zero, replacing 2016 guidelines that had set them at 70 parts per trillion. The chemicals are found in products including cardboard packaging, carpets and firefighting foam and increasingly found in drinking water.
The EPA said in a statement that it is focused on holding responsible those who have manufactured and released significant amounts of PFOA and PFOS into the environment. The agency also said it is committed to further outreach and engagement to hear from communities affected by PFAS pollution.
Several states have set their own drinking water limits to address PFAS contamination that are far tougher than the federal guidance.
The revised health guidelines issued in June are based on new science and take into consideration lifetime exposure to the chemicals. Officials are no longer confident that PFAS levels allowed under the 2016 guidelines are safe from adverse health impacts, an EPA spokesman said.
Attorney Rob Bilott, an anti-PFAS advocate, said the EPA's proposal "sends a loud and clear message to the entire world that the United States is finally acknowledging and accepting the now overwhelming evidence that these man-made poisons present substantial danger to the public health and the environment.”
Bilott, whose work to uncover the widespread presence of PFAS chemicals in the environment and in human blood was highlighted in the 2019 film “Dark Waters,'' represents states, water providers and others affected by PFAS contamination. He said in a statement that any hazardous substance designation under the Superfund law must be implemented so the costs of cleaning up the toxins are borne by PFAS manufacturers who caused the contamination — “not the innocent victims of this pollution who didn’t create the toxins and were never warned any of this was ever happening.”
Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the announcement an important step to clean up hundreds of contaminated sites across the country and protect millions of families exposed to the toxic chemicals.
“Listing PFOA and PFOS as hazardous under Superfund law should allow EPA to hold polluters responsible for that contamination," he said. “Ratepayers and public utilities should not be footing the bill for industry’s decades of wonton use of these dangerous chemicals.”
The EPA said it expects to propose national drinking water regulations for PFOA and PFOS later this year, with a final rule expected in 2023.
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I read the recent column from Casella in the Bangor Daily News calling for a change in state law regarding out-of-state waste disposal in Maine, and I wanted to offer my deepest sympathies during this difficult time. We know how much the company enjoyed those big profits generated from importing waste from Massachusetts to Maine for decades, and that they are grieving the loss of that due to passage of LD 1639 last year.
We wish them swift movement from the denial, anger, and bargaining stages of its grief process so that they may know the peace that comes with accepting change. I know it’s difficult to hear, but the majority of Maine’s lawmakers do not appear interested in delaying the implementation of that important environmental law.
Although their annual billion-dollar revenue may decline slightly by using a different material to bulk the sludge in the state-owned landfill at Juniper Ridge, we want them to know that they are doing right by the people of Maine by becoming a helpful partner and we thank them.
LD 1639 effectively ended the decades-long injustice of filling our state-owned assets with materials that were generated outside of our borders. We know the weight of environmental problems created by PFAS contaminated sludge, toxic landfill leachate, and methane generated from landfills weighs heavy on us all. And that Casella too has a great responsibility to deal with these issues in such a way that protects our land, air, and water.
Chuck Leithiser
Old Town | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/07/opinion/letters/letter-im-sorry-for-casellas-loss/ | 2023-04-09 00:26:18 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/04/07/opinion/letters/letter-im-sorry-for-casellas-loss/ |
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