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NEW YORK (AP) — Darren Walker, Ford Foundation president and preeminent connector and advocate for artists and art institutions, joined the exclusive company of global superstars like Stevie Wonder, T.S. Eliot and Meryl Streep, in receiving France’s highest cultural honor.
Walker was named commander of France’s Order of Arts and Letters for his work as a benefactor of the arts on Tuesday at a Gilded Age mansion in New York owned by the French embassy.
“Being in this firmament is absolutely humbling,” Walker told The Associated Press. “I’m simply a servant to the idea of art and justice in the world, because we can’t have justice without art.”
Walker became president of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest in the U.S., in 2013. He came in with a vision to shape the organization’s giving to support social justice in part through funding the arts.
To symbolize that mission, Walker arranged to sell the foundation’s art collection of works almost exclusively from white male artists. Starting in 2017, the collection displayed at the foundation’s buildings was rebuilt with some 350 works of newer artists, many of whom are people of color, women and queer people.
Walker has steadily built a connection with French institutions in part because of what he described as the country’s parallel journeys to live up to their founding ideals of freedom or liberty for all, equality and fellowship.
“France, just like America, unfortunately, has engaged in the exclusion of especially the art and culture and stories of people of African descent,” Walker said. And just like in America, “France is on a journey” toward great inclusion and recognition of the contributions of Black artists, he said.
Under his leadership, the Ford Foundation funded an exhibition in New York at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery in 2018 that explored the participation of Black models painted by modernists like Edouard Manet in the creation of those works. The exhibition curated by Denise Murrell, who was a fellow at the Ford Foundation at the time, traveled to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris where it made a big impression.
Laurence des Cars, who is now president-director of the Louvre Museum, partnered with Walker and Murrell to bring the exhibit to Paris when she was leading the Musée d’Orsay.
On Tuesday, she bestowed the honor to Walker on France’s behalf in front of 50 guests in a room shimmering with mirrors that overlooks Central Park. Des Cars recalled Walker’s unwavering support of the exhibition that they were told over and over would cause problems.
“You see what others do not see or refuse to see, and you see what could be,” she said before placing a medal on a green and white stripped ribbon around Walker’s neck.
French ambassador Philippe Etienne listed off projects that the Ford Foundation and Walker have supported, including art residencies both in France and the U.S., and a planned exhibition highlighting the many Black American artists who spent time in France especially after World War II.
“As president of the Ford Foundation, he brings the foundation, of course, but he brings himself too,” Etienne said, referring to Walker’s expertise and knowledge, “but also a real passion, a real energy.”
Walker sits on the board of the National Gallery of the Arts, the first Black man to do so, as well as the boards of many other arts institutions and companies.
The Washington-based organization, Americans for the Arts, invited Walker in 2017 to give an annual address where he made the case for public funding of the arts, tracing his own journey as a child in Texas raised by a single mother to a banker and now leading voice in philanthropy.
Nolen V. Bivens, the organization’s president and CEO, said Walker believes deeply in the power of cultural diplomacy and the power of art.
“Darren Walker is the most influential arts policy grant maker and I would say thought leader in America, especially in the area of diversity and equity,” he said, adding that Walker’s “dedication to the support of the arts and certainly artists is exceptional.”
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BOSTON, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC ("ArcLight") announced today that Yokasta Segura-Baez has joined the firm as a Managing Director, Investor Relations.
Yokasta brings almost two decades of private equity fundraising and investor relations experience. Yokasta was recently with Capital Dynamics, where she was responsible for strategic investor and consultant relationship management and capital raising in North America. Previously, she held senior positions with Campbell Lutyens, Pantheon, and Ardian. Yokasta holds a B.S. in International Law from the University of Santo Domingo, an M.A. in International Relations & Politics from the University Catolica de Santo Domingo and a Finance Certification from New York University. Yokasta has been extensively involved in promoting both diversity and ESG initiatives and plans on continuing this focus at ArcLight.
"We are pleased to have Yokasta join ArcLight. Yokasta will work with our team to help drive fundraising and investor relations," said Dan Revers, Founding Partner of ArcLight. "She brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, and understanding of our business and limited partners, which we believe will add value to our investors and the firm."
"I am very excited to join the ArcLight team," said Yokasta. "ArcLight has a long, deep track record across the infrastructure sector including power, renewables and strategic gas infrastructure. I believe the strategy they've honed over the past two decades positions them well to continue to play an important role in the electrification and de-carbonization sectors of our economy. I look forward to working with the team, its current investor base, and sharing this story with new prospects."
ArcLight is an experienced, middle market infrastructure firm with a successful long-term track record of performance for its partners. Founded in 2001, the firm helped pioneer an asset-based approach to investing across the power, renewables, strategic gas infrastructure sectors and broader value chain. Since then, ArcLight has, as of September 30, 2022, invested approximately $27 billion in 122 transactions, including over $11 billion of equity capital into the electrification segment, which includes power, transmission, renewable infrastructure and energy transition investments. Through its large infrastructure portfolio, ArcLight is currently focused on providing decarbonizing energy solutions with a strong ESG focus. Based in Boston, the firm's investment team employs a value-added investment approach that benefits from its dedicated in-house technical, operational, and commercial specialists and partners, as well as the firm's approximately 1,800-person asset management partner. More information about ArcLight can be found at www.arclight.com
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The Food and Drug Administration is considering a major shift in the nation's COVID-19 vaccine strategy, NPR has learned.
The goal is to simplify vaccination against COVID and perhaps adopt an approach similar that used for the flu vaccine, with annual updates to match whatever strain of the virus is circulating. This is according to a federal official who spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The FDA will outline the strategy publicly Monday when it releases a set of documents in advance of a meeting Thursday of the agency's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. The committee will vote on the agency's proposal.
Currently, people who want to be fully vaccinated against COVID have to first get their primary vaccinations — two shots of the original vaccine spaced weeks apart. That's followed at least two months later by a booster, currently the bivalent shot that's tailored to protect against omicron.
Under the new approach, most people would be advised to simply get whatever the latest version of the vaccine is annually each fall like the flu vaccine. They wouldn't have to worry about how many shots they've already gotten and which one they got when.
Vaccine makers would update the annual shot through a process that would begin each spring to try a match the vaccine as closely as possible to whatever variant will likely be dominant in the coming winter. That's how the flu vaccine is formulated each year.
Some immunologists and vaccine researchers say simplifying the process along the lines of the flu vaccine is appropriate at this point in the pandemic. However, many questions remain about emerging booster strategy.
"As far as the tools that we have right now, I think it just makes the most sense to plan to update each year as close as we can to the currently circulating variant," says Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona. "So I think all the things the FDA is considering make a lot of sense."
Questions about efficacy of updated shots
There's an intense debate about the wisdom of updating the COVID vaccines regularly to try to match new variants. Some researchers question whether that really makes the vaccines more effective. They also argue the low demand for the latest booster shows the public has little appetite for continued boosting with the vaccines, even if they've been updated with new strains.
"The public is voting with their arms if you will and said, 'No. I'm not going to get this. This doesn't make sense to us,'" says Dr. Gregory Poland, a vaccine researcher at the Mayo Clinic.
While endorsing continued boosters for those at high risk, such as the elderly, some question whether the current bivalent vaccines updated to target omicron have enhanced protection compared to the original vaccines. Most people are still well-protected against severe disease by the immunity they already have, they say.
"We have no solid data about the performance of the bivalent boosters," says John Moore, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medical College. "The hard evidence is lacking, and the evidence that is out there is at the very least inconclusive and to me trends towards saying the bivalent boosters were little if no better."
Moore and others argue the virus is changing so fast that it's pointless to constantly try to match the vaccines to the latest variants.
"We shouldn't really be chasing these variants, which are evanescent and are often gone by the time you've created the vaccine," says Dr. Paul Offit of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the FDA's advisers.
Offit and others also question whether everyone will necessarily need to be boosted regularly, or just those at high risk, like the elderly.
Arguments for alternate vaccine strategies
Critics of the FDA's proposed new strategy argue it would be better to invest in developing better vaccines that might be more appealing to people, and in campaigns to get more people vaccinated. Better vaccines could include those that could keep people from catching the virus in the first place not just from getting seriously ill — such as a nasal spray vaccine. Or perhaps vaccines that provide longer protection or are administered in pill form, to make them more acceptable to the needle-averse.
"Particularly now when Congress is not allocating new funds for COVID response, we have to be especially judicious in how we spend our money and what would be most cost-effective," says Dr. Celine Gounder, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "It's unclear whether updating the booster formulations and repeatedly boosting people is the most effective approach to controlling COVID at this stage."
Another concern some researchers have is that the FDA continues to rely on antibody levels to test vaccine efficacy.
"I think we need to raise the bar and require more evidence of clinical efficacy," says Dr. Eric Rubin, a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard who is also a member of the advisory committee. For instance, Rubin says the FDA should require proof the updated vaccines are actually reducing the risk of getting infected, getting sick, hospitalized and dying.
Others say updating the vaccines make sense to make sure people are as well-protected as possible while researchers continue to try to develop new vaccines.
"Even if you don't have a booster that matches 100% what's circulating, you will have a booster that matches 75% to 80% to 90% of what's circulating," says David Martinez, an immunologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "And that will be good enough. I would probably benefit most people."
FDA looks ahead to endemic COVID
Some researchers think it's too soon to rely on annual boosters. COVID hasn't quite settled into a seasonal pattern like the flu, they note, and the SARS-CoV2 virus is changing more quickly than the flu virus. So people may need to be boosted more frequently, especially since protection against severe disease may only last about four to six months, they say.
"We're going to be reaching that pretty soon with the early adopters of the bivalent boosters, like myself," says Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine. "I don't know if an annual strategy is going to cut it."
The FDA's plan comes as COVID appears to be moving towards becoming an endemic disease. That doesn't mean it's going away or it's not a threat anymore. The disease will continue to be a threat for the foreseeable future, making many people sick and even potentially killing hundreds a day, making it a major public health problem and a leading cause of death, health experts say.
But unless some more dangerous version of the virus suddenly emerges, the world might finally be settling into a more predictable co-existence with the virus. The federal official NPR spoke to says the goal of the new vaccine strategy is to make the vaccines, which are the major weapon for protecting ourselves, simpler and hopefully therefore more appealing. The latest boosters have found very few takers.
The thinking is that at this point in the pandemic the overwhelming majority of people have a significant levels of immunity, either from having gotten vaccinated and boosted, or infected one of more times, or both. And while that immunity appears to protect most people from severe disease, that protection does appear to fade with time.
The FDA is also considering making the shots interchangeable. That way people wouldn't have to worry which brand they're getting. Again, the change is aimed at making COVID shots more like the flu shots. People don't typically worry about the brand of the flu vaccine they receive.
The vaccine would still be administered at different doses for different ages. And very young children and older people would still get two shots each year, much like the flu vaccine.
If the FDA advisory committee endorses the approach Thursday, the FDA would work with the vaccine companies and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to finalize the details. And the FDA advisers would meet again in the spring to pick the specific strain or strains of the virus the new shots should target.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Guardians made quite a name for themselves this season — from outcasts to October contenders.
With questions scattered across the roster out of spring training, they weren’t supposed to win the AL Central in a runaway. They weren’t picked to sweep Tampa Bay in the wild-card round. They definitely weren’t expected to push the New York Yankees to the limit before running out of rallies.
But baseball’s youngest team — 17 players made their major league debuts in 2022 — grew up much faster than anyone expected, and in doing so, the Guardians reconnected with a Cleveland fan base still wearing its Indians gear.
“We can definitely build from this,” rookie outfielder Steven Kwan said Tuesday night in a somber clubhouse inside Yankee Stadium, still rumbling from the home team’s 5-1 win to advance to the AL Championship Series.
“It’s really fresh right now, but I’m sure after a couple days, we’ll be able to reflect, learn some things from the situations we’ve been in and hopefully move on from there.”
The foundation is set. The future is bright for a franchise that hasn’t won the World Series in 74 years.
Nobody, and that includes some inside the organization, envisioned the Guardians putting together this season. But by embracing their youth and not using it as an excuse, manager Terry Francona’s team defied odds and came within a couple errant pitches and timely hit or two of being one of the last four teams standing.
“This is the most special group I’ve ever been a part of,” said catcher Austin Hedges, one of the team’s emotional leaders and only notable free agent. “It’s a year I’m never going to forget.”
It began with All-Star third baseman José Ramírez’s decision to sign a seven-year, $141 million contract on the eve of opening day, the team-friendly deal shifting the focus away from Cleveland’s contentious name change and quiet offseason.
Ramírez’s commitment set the tone off the field, and he led the way on it (29 homers, 126 RBIs, defensive excellence) with a season worthy of MVP consideration, if not for Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani’s brilliance.
Incredibly, Ramírez did it while playing the season’s second half with a torn ligament in his right thumb. The team said Wednesday that Ramírez suffered the injury in June. He’ll undergo surgery next month and is expected to need two months to recover.
The Guardians said Ramírez’s offseason training will not be significantly affected and he should be ready for the start of the 2023 season.
Kwan emerged as one of the game’s best leadoff hitters while embodying the team’s offensive ethos: slash over smash.
Cleveland offset a lack of big bats by focusing on making pitchers work, hitting for contact and putting the ball in play. Derided by some fans in this swing-for-the-fences era, the style worked for the Guardians and helped them stage late-inning comebacks that became routine.
The Guardians won an MLB-high 29 games in their final at-bat, and posted 40 comeback wins.
It was two bloops that propelled their shocking comeback win in Game 3 of the ALDS over the Yankees, who had been 167-0 in their rich postseason history while leading by multiple runs heading into the ninth inning.
There was no such magic in a winner-take-all Game 5 (Cleveland has lost eight straight of those since 1997), and when the Yankees recorded out No. 27, second baseman Gleyber Torres mocked the Guardians by pretending to rock a baby the way Cleveland’s Josh Naylor did during his home run celebration a day earlier.
The Yankees put Cleveland to sleep. The baby may soon be too big to cradle.
“Our plan was to shock the world through the whole thing,” Hedges said. “We wanted to win the World Series. That’s a good Yankees team. But the cool thing is now we’ve got a bunch of dudes with a ton of playoff experience in the most hostile environment you can imagine.
“Watch out for the Guards next year.”
FRANCONA’S FUTURE
The 63-year-old Francona isn’t under contract for next season, but there have been discussions and all signs point to him returning for an 11th season in Cleveland.
Although he’s won two World Series, this was one of Francona’s best managing jobs as he and his staff got the most out of a team lacking experience. Francona was also in a better way physically after having his two previous seasons cut short by health issues.
POWER OUTAGE
While “small ball” made for a fun storyline, it didn’t dent the Yankees.
Cleveland outhit New York (44-28) but got outhomered (9-3) by the AL East champions in the five-game series.
The Guardians lack a proven cleanup hitter, a void created when Franmil Reyes struggled and got traded. Postseason hero and SpongeBob SquarePants fan Oscar Gonzalez has shown the potential to put up power numbers, but Cleveland’s best avenue to add a slugger could be through trade or free agency.
The bottom line is the Guardians can’t count on singles, steals and hustle. After scoring just 17 runs in seven postseason games, they need someone who can change the scoreboard with one swing.
MORE MONEY
Cleveland’s financial shortcomings ($68 million payroll compared to New York’s $274 million) are expected to get a boost with minority owner David Blitzer’s arrival.
Blitzer, also a part owner of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and NHL’s New Jersey Devils, will give the club more resources to better compete in the free-agent market, a place Cleveland has rarely ventured in recent years.
The Guardians may still not court the top players, but should be able to take a stronger run at those second-tier free agents out of reach in the past.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ricochet, the beloved Golden Retriever who found her calling as a therapy dog when she learned to surf, has died in Southern California.
The 15-year-old canine helped countless veterans and kids during more than a decade providing therapy in the waves off San Diego, according to her owner Judy Fridono.
The dog, who died Friday, was diagnosed with liver cancer last August, she said.
Ricochet was trained to be a service animal, but the energetic pup was more fond of chasing birds than assisting with household chores, Fridono said.
The canine’s mission became clear in 2009, when she got on a surfboard with quadriplegic surfer Patrick Ivison. A viral video of their ride got more than 6 million views.
“That day she hopped on the board with Patrick, she was reborn,” Fridono said in a 2012 interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune. “She kept running back to the water with her tail wagging like she could finally tell me, ‘This is what I want to do.’”
For the rest of her life, Ricochet helped kids with special needs, wounded service members and families of fallen veterans.
She worked as a therapy dog for Pawsitive Teams and the Naval Medical Center San Diego where she supported people with trauma, anxiety and other emotional challenges, the Union-Tribune said.
In addition, Ricochet helped raise $1 million for charity and the donation of more than 1 million bowls of food for homeless animals, the newspaper said. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/ricochet-san-diegos-surfing-therapy-dog-dies-at-15/ | 2023-04-04 21:38:51 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/ricochet-san-diegos-surfing-therapy-dog-dies-at-15/ |
NAPOLEONVILLE, La. (BRPROUD) – Anthony James Ewell, 58, of Napoleonville, remains behind bars in the Assumption Parish Detention Center after an altercation that allegedly involved threats and bricks.
The altercation allegedly took place at a location south of Napoleonville.
That is where deputies met with the victim in this case.
“Deputies were advised that Anthony James Ewell was throwing bricks at her home,” according to the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office.
APSO said the deputy who arrived first at the scene allegedly got into “a physical confrontation with” Ewell.
The deputy was apparently hit during the fight and other police units were requested to come to the scene.
“While deputies were present, they witnessed verbal threats toward the complainant as well as her residence,” according to the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Ewell was eventually arrested and charged with the crimes listed below:
- Terrorizing
- Simple Assault
- Criminal Mischief
- Resisting an Officer
- Battery of a Police Officer
Bond was set at $12,000 for Anthony James Ewell. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/crime/louisiana-man-charged-with-terrorizing-after-allegedly-hurling-bricks-at-home/ | 2022-10-13 17:33:28 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/crime/louisiana-man-charged-with-terrorizing-after-allegedly-hurling-bricks-at-home/ |
The Jefferson Star is going back in time to explore past pages of The Rigby Star. Every month, there will be a few highlights from the top stories in the 1900s. This project will appear in the last issue of every month.
1906
The Yellowstone special was an hour and a half late Sunday morning on reaching this point. It seems that among the passengers on board was a count or an earl, or something of the kind, and at Pocatello he left the train and started to “rubber” around town, with the result of the train pulling out and leaving him. After he became weary of gawking around he returned to the depot to find no train, he secured an engine and started to run the special down. The railroad officials telegraphed ahead and had the train held at Blackfoot for him. Hence it was late in getting up the branch.
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W. A. Gray was in town Monday from Annis, and in talking with him regarding the good roads proposition, he stated that himself and neighbors had a system of their own. Aside from their regular road and poll tax they donate a sufficient amount of work every year to keep the road in their vicinity in good repair, and the result is they have something like three-quarters of a mile of road that is always in good condition. It is indeed to be regretted that every neighborhood is not blessed with such citizenship. Instead we have men who will in every manner attempt to avoid working their poll tax.
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The school board held a special meeting Monday night, and let the contract for the finishing up of two more large rooms in the building. With the school facilities we have in our midst, parents should make it a point to see that their children are in school early, and allowed to remain throughout the winter months at least. Some of the boys in the neighborhood have exhibited their depravity by smashing nearly all the window lights, not covered, in the old school building. They have determined to punish the guilty parties if caught, and to this end have offered a reward of $10 to any person or persons furnishing evidence sufficient to convict.
1926
Saturday and Sunday were the warmest days in Rigby this year, registering well up in the 90’s, with very little air stirring Saturday. The heat wave extended over Idaho and Nevada, being the warmest in years at Boise. Following are some of the readings Saturday: Boise 105, Idaho City 107, Gooding 104, Emmett 106, Weiser 106, Nampa 102, Caldwell 104, Pocatello 100, Glenns Ferry 110.
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Rain, something believed almost extinct in this section, halted a perfectly good, red-hot baseball game on the local diamond here Wednesday afternoon, between Ashton and Rigby. At the time hostilities ceased, due to the large and ever increasing drops of moisture, and the players were forced to duck and run to cover, Rigby was at bat in the last half of the fifth, one man down, Ted Bennett had just crashed a three base hit to center field, and the score was 5 to 6 in the visitors favor. Rigby did not fulfill their time at bat in the fifth due to the rain, and thus the game was declared no contest.
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Jack Stahl, as secretary of the Jefferson County Fish and Game Protective Association, during the months of April, May and June, of this year received more than 10,000 magpie eggs, which were brought in as a result of the club’s campaign against magpies. Children who brought in the eggs ranged in all ages. It. is a safe assertion that many pheasant eggs will hatch next spring which otherwise would not had it not been for the energetic campaign of the youngsters and the club.
1946
According to Mr. Lockwood the consumer averaged 104 pounds per person in 1941. In 1945 the consumer received 20 pounds plus 15 pounds for canning. This year the consumer will receive 15 pounds for table use, plus 5 pounds for canning, or a total of 20 pounds for the year, compared to a pre-war average of 104 pounds per person. All of which does not explain or justify the increase for industrial sugar on one hand and the penalizing of the housewife by a further reduction in canning sugar on the other hand by the federal government.
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Jefferson county citizens were called upon today for cooperation by H. L. Campbell, county Famine Emergency Program manager. “If you can’t buy that usual loaf of bread in the store today,” he said, “please be patient – that loaf has gone overseas to save a life. The unfortunate fellow human-beings in much of the famine area have little more than half a loaf each day to keep them alive – and little if anything else.” The temporary shortage of bread and other wheat products reflects the large shipments of old-crop wheat by your government to assist famine-stricken people. More than 81 million bushels of 1945-crop wheat including approximately 2½ million bushels from the state of Idaho were acquired from farmers.
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Sheriff Oscar Orstrom has a two-way radio installation in his car now in operation, to participate in the present statewide police communication, thus adding another link to the state system. Sheriff Orstrom stated that the permit for the installation was allowed by the federal commission, “with lots of red tape attached.” Call letters KCUX have been assigned the Sheriff who will participate with the transmitter station of KNFB at the Idaho Falls police station and the state highway patrol. Sheriff Orstrom stated that the installation enables instant communication.
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Whenever “Copper”, two-year-old stallion belonging to and trained by Hicks L. Morris of Menan, appears, he gets a big hand from the crowd. Mr. Morris decided that he would produce something new in a trick horse act, and as “Copper” was willing two trick acts and a jumping act, all without bridle, halter or whip are the result. The stallion was shown at Kilgore; took first place for best horse and outfit in the parade at Rexburg; performed at the Sacred Heart hospital benefit in Idaho Falls; and the celebration in St. Anthony. “Copper” is booked for the Jackson Hole rodeo and hundreds of friends hope he gets prominent billing for the Jefferson County Roundup.
1966
Issues pertaining to pending school issues were discussed at the regular meeting of the Rigby Chamber of Commerce. If the new location is in the Rigby area, the Roberts Midway and Rigby students would travel 25,000 student miles per day, compared with 34,000 student miles to the west location. Cecil Green mentioned such major items, as less travel for all concerned, the nearness of public utilities, police protection and the construction of a caretaker’s home as not necessary, garbage pickup, closeness to doctors, and that most important fact that a 20-acre plot had been offered to the district without charge.
The County Commissioners reviewed the 1966 preliminary budgets submitted by the various department heads at their regular meeting January 10. The total budget for 1966 for all purposes is $617,858.00 compared to $526,255.00 for 1965. The largest increase is in the Road and Bridge budget and the reason for this is explained by the County Commissioners elsewhere in this issue. The County receives approximately $150,000.00 from the State as Motor Users Revenue to help in financing the budget.
Action was taken last week by the Rigby City Council with the purchase of fifteen acres of ground to be used as a recreation area, adjoining the rodeo ground. Rigby’s present City Park site was a gift to the City of Rigby by a former mayor, the late B. L. Bennett who, with his council, began the work about thirty years ago of beautification. Rigby’s City Park has met many recreational needs but it is not large enough for sports, although it is also a playground for Rigby elementary school children and a football field for Rigby High school. The new park site will serve many needs. First the recreation and sports for baseball, football and probably other events will be scheduled. Maybe someday a swimming pool.
From KRXK editorial of July 10 by Gene Shumate – I want to congratulate several thousand motorists, Idahoans and non-Idahoans. You came through the Fourth of July holiday last weekend without a fatality on Highway 191. And it is quite an accomplishment in view of the fact that the bulk of the travel was on the paved cow path between Idaho Falls and Chester. A friend of mine told me he came north on the Archer-Lyman road the afternoon of the Fourth and stopped at the stop sign where the road feeds into 191. He sat there for fifteen minutes before there was enough break in the traffic to allow him to drive onto the highway. | https://www.postregister.com/star/features/pages-of-the-past/article_9d90a566-4854-59ea-a121-58606ec65e84.html | 2022-07-27 14:51:45 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/star/features/pages-of-the-past/article_9d90a566-4854-59ea-a121-58606ec65e84.html |
Hefty as the fees were for advertising time on this year's Super Bowl — up to $7 million per 30 seconds — there weren't that many commercials whose concepts and execution seemed worthy of the price tag.
Instead, viewers were stuck watching commercials that stranded some big name celebrities in thoughtless concepts (Jon Hamm and Brie Larson inside a giant refrigerator for Hellmann's mayonnaise?) or spots which made the products they were advertising look bad (Jennifer Coolidge getting her face stuck to a glass door by e.l.f. Cosmetics).
And, after cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase made waves with a QR code embedded in a Super Bowl ad in 2022, it felt like every other advertiser this year found a way to stick them inside their commercials.
Ironically, this year saw almost no crypto ads — perhaps the only good outcome from the spectacular collapse of FTX (seems their Super Bowl ad last year with Larry David expressing a comical level of skepticism about the company was right after all). We also saw lots of nostalgia and more partnerships, including Netflix passing up ads of its own to partner with GM and Anheuser-Busch's Michelob Ultra.
Another trend also stuck out: a rise in ads for products normally considered adult vices, including liquor (via the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl for Crown Royal), sports betting and a wider variety of beers (since Anheuser-Busch gave up its exclusivity, allowing Molson-Coors to come play).
Here's a sampling of what worked — and didn't — in the most expensive advertising showcase on American television.
Best culture war head fake: M&M's "They're Back for Good"
M&M's cultivated a controversy announcing they would pause use of their animated "spokescandies" — pundits like Tucker Carlson had criticized changes in the characters as being too "woke." New pitchwoman Maya Rudolph was selected to take over, but her ad during the game changed the name of the candies and put clams in the center of every pellet. After the game, M&M's aired their spot with the punchline: The candies were coming back for good, with the purple M&M, which Carlson had specifically criticized, saying, "I'm glad to be back, because this is what I was made for." Well played, candies.
Best "I'm not crying, you're crying" ad: The Farmer's Dog's "Forever"
The company, which specializes in fresh dog food, didn't create the Super Bowl's most moving ad by hiring a famous pitchperson or filling their spot with fancy effects. They traced the story of a woman who promised to love her dog forever, starting when she was a little girl and the dog was a puppy and ending when the owner has a baby of her own and her trusty pet is still there — but with a little gray in his coat. Viewers on social media said the ad brought them to tears. (I just got a speck of dirt in my eye while watching it. Honest.) The buzz proved that strong storytelling and a cute puppy trumps most other advertising gimmicks come Super Bowl time.
Best team up: GM and Netflix's "Why Not an EV?"
There may be no surer sign of tightening belts in showbusiness than Netflix teaming with GM to share the cost of a Super Bowl ad. But this one's a winner, with Saturday Night Live alum Will Ferrell inserted into Netflix shows like Squid Game and Army of the Dead, promising that the streamer will feature more electric vehicles in their shows (okay, probably not a period piece like Bridgerton, though seeing Ferrell trying to pronounce "shan't" in a frilly shirt and fancy coat was still kind of funny.)
Best use of nostalgia, Part I: PopCorners' "Breaking Good"
It may be a little odd to call an ad centered on characters from a show that ended barely 10 years ago "nostalgic." Still, this hoary TV fan couldn't help feeling a thrill, watching Bryan Cranston's Walter White, Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman and Raymond Cruz's Tuco Salamanca revive the spirit of Breaking Bad while pretending air popped crisps are some kind of controlled substance. And it's a pleasure to see a Super Bowl ad used to remind viewers of one of the best TV series ever to hit the small screen.
Best ad that probably came from a hallucinogenic experience: Squarespace's "The Singularity"
Having Adam Driver in your Super Bowl ad is cool. So I don't blame Squarespace for deciding even more Drivers would be even cooler. But the ad that resulted, featuring multiple copies of the actor standing in a desert field muttering about the wonder of a "website that makes websites" before getting sucked into a giant glowing ball called The Singularity....? It's an ad that tells you almost nothing about the product, with a storyline that looks like it was hatched during a peyote bender. (I liked the "teaser" ad featuring multiple Drivers hanging out backstage much better.)
Best use of a superhero catchphrase: Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Flash"
This film has been plagued with problems, including the public meltdown of star Ezra Miller. But the Super Bowl ad for The Flash is so packed with compelling revelations — from the return of Zod to a new Supergirl — that it seems more understandable why Warner Bros. is committed to getting this movie in theaters. And after I saw Michael Keaton utter the words he first made famous back in 1989 — "I'm Batman" — I decided they can have all my money.
Best use of nostalgia, Part II: Michelob Ultra's "New Members Day"
If someone had told me Michelob was planning a homage to Caddyshack with Serena Williams as Chevy Chase's character, Brian Cox as Ted Knight's character and Tony Romo doing a passable Bill Murray impression, I would have told them to save their $7 million. And I would have been wrong. Because somehow this ad — with an added cameo from original co-star Michael O'Keefe — references just enough of Caddyshack's absurdly fun spirit to be entertaining, while stacking the cast with faces the Netflix generation might actually know.
Weirdest use of a Travolta: T-Mobile's "New Year, New Neighbor"
Much as I love me some John Travolta, the bald, bearded guy who keeps making uncomfortable appearances in Super Bowl ads — he did the Grease dance with grown daughter Ella in a spot two years ago — is not my favorite. This year, he recreated the classic number from Grease, "Summer Nights," with Scrubs co-stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison. Viewers got a multi-generational shot of nostalgia and celebrity, but it mostly just reminded me of how strange Travolta seems these days.
Worst use of nostalgia (tie): Rakuten's "Not-so-Clueless" and Uber One's "One Hit for Uber One"
Points to Rakuten for realizing Alicia Silverstone could easily slip right back into the red beret of her Clueless character, Cher. But those points fade once you realize they don't have much of idea what to do with her, once she's used Rakuten to rack up purchases at a few big retailers. As if...that would fly in a Super Bowl ad.
Uber One suffers from the same problem; snagging a cool celebrity — in this case, Sean "P.Diddy" Combs — and then trapping that Big Name in a terribly unfunny commercial. In this case, Diddy is asked to write one hit for Uber One, so he turns to a bunch of artists considered one hit wonders for terrible, Uber-centric versions of their old hits. Unfortunately, I don't think most viewers are going to recognize the current look of artists like Montell Jordan — and the cheesy jingle they make out of Haddaway's dance classic "What Is Love" just makes Diddy look like the derivative hack his critics have always said he was.
Ad where the teasers were better than the commercial: Pepsi's "Great Acting or Great Taste?"
This is another problem which often crops up in Super Bowl ads; in this case, the "teaser" spots — short blips of content, usually dropped early to preview the Big Game ad — are more entertaining than the actual commercial. Steve Martin and Ben Stiller are the stars here, and the teaser featuring them bickering over who is the better actor is way funnier than Martin's spot, where he's in various locations daring the audience to guess if he's acting. Stiller's Super Bowl spot is more entertaining, in part because he calls back to his Derek Zoolander character — more nostalgia! — and he's in funnier situations overall.
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HOLLYWOOD -- In the new ABC series "Will Trent," Ramon Rodriguez and Erika Christensen play characters who grew up in the foster care system, but are now in law enforcement and trying to make a difference in the community.
"And then their work crisscrosses and they both made their way from abused childhoods to law enforcement, which is an interesting path, you know? It definitely means their hearts are in the right place," said Christensen.
"They both really had a rough time but it's nice to see, you know, they're managing as adults. They have such a deep connection. They have such a history together and, interestingly enough, even though they've known each other since childhood and they're kind of, like, closer than siblings because they grew up together -- but they're also lovers. Their adult friends and associates aren't aware of that."
When it comes to the on-screen chemistry between Christensen and Rodriguez, she's thrilled it's working.
"So we're just like buddies from New York from fellow actor friends from 15 years ago and it's completely not a necessary element in playing characters that also go way back. But you can feel it. It is really nice," said Christensen.
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As more Americans turn to drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to slim down, a new obesity medicine is showing even better results, and it could soon upend the market.
Eli Lilly's tirzepatide, which is marketed under the brand name Mounjaro to treat type 2 diabetes, has helped overweight people with the disease lose up to 34 pounds, the company said in a press release Thursday. In late-stage trials, diabetics who were overweight or obese saw their weight drop by up to 16% over 17 months.
Those without the disease saw even greater results taking Mounjaro, losing up to 22% of their body weight, the study showed. Additionally, nearly four-in-ten adults taking the highest dose of the drug lost 25% or more of their total body weight. For someone who's over 220 pounds, that could mean a loss of more than 50 pounds.
Based on the new, unprecedented results, Eli Lilly announced plans to seek fast-track approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to advertise and sell the drug for weight management. It could gain authorization by the end of this year.
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"Based on these results, Lilly plans to complete the U.S. submission for tirzepatide in adults with obesity or overweight with weight-related comorbidities in the coming weeks," the company said. "We expect regulatory action as early as late 2023."
The injectable drug gained FDA approval as Mounjaro in May of last year to treat adults with type 2 diabetes, but thousands of patients have used it off-label to help them slim down.
"Mounjaro is the hot new medication that we're all really excited about in the medical world," said Jennah, a board certified MD who goes by the username @weightdoc on TikTok. "FDA approved for diabetes only right now, but it's already being used off-label for obesity."
Industry experts predict that it could become one of the best-selling drugs ever, outpacing similar drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, both of which have gained widespread popularity after gaining FDA approval to manage weight.
Social media posts containing #Wegovy, #Ozempic and #Mounjaro have generated hundreds of millions of views and now more people are flocking to get their hands on this new generation of drugs to help them shed some pounds. But the popularity of the drugs has put them out of reach for some needy patients.
"Because of the unfortunate TikTok trend, we're running out of Ozempic for diabetics. For diabetics this is a life-saving medication, for heart attack and stroke," said Dr. Frank Chae, who works at Sky Ridge Medical Center.
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For patients, the new trend could mean an even more effective way of losing weight without invasive surgeries.
While these new medications can have side effects, they're considered much less severe than those of obesity drugs in the past. For Mounjaro, "the most common side effects reported by patients were nausea, diarrhea and decreased appetite."
Dr. Michelle Guy, director of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, says obesity, which already affects more than 41% of Americans, has been on the uptick in recent years.
"We are becoming a more obesogenic society," Guy said. "We have more access to calorie-dense foods, as well as sometimes our infrastructure doesn't support having more access to commuting, walking, having a more healthy lifestyle outdoors."
Eli Lilly has already boosted production of Mounjaro in anticipation of widespread demand should it gain FDA approval.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 4, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
426 PM CDT Sun Sep 4 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN JOHNSON...PARKER
AND HOOD COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 430 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits. Therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. However
gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Deep South Texas, including the following
county, Kenedy.
* WHEN...Until 600 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 429 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Armstrong, U S 77 Border Patrol Station, Norias and Armstrong
Ranch Airport.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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Alex Jones faces second trial over Sandy Hook hoax claims
Posted/updated on: September 13, 2022 at 4:43 amHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A Connecticut jury is set to hear opening arguments about how much money conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax. The trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Waterbury, only 18 miles from Newtown, where 20 children and six educators were killed in 2012. Lawyers for the Sandy Hook families say Jones caused the families emotional and psychological harm. Jones says he now believes the shooting did occur, but has cited free speech rights in saying it was a hoax. A Texas jury last month ordered Jones to pay nearly $50 million in damages to Sandy Hook parents in a similar lawsuit over the hoax lies. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1162285 | 2022-09-13 12:06:05 | 1 | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1162285 |
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Fire crews battling a pair of wildfires in northern Arizona were expecting some growth Thursday because of warm, dry and breezy conditions, but rain that could help quell the blazes is on its way.
Both blazes were moving through grass, brush and pine trees on the northern outskirts of Flagstaff, a mountainous city that’s home to Northern Arizona University and the observatory where Pluto was discovered. It’s also a popular respite from the sweltering heat in the low deserts, including Phoenix.
The larger fire has burned more than 38 square miles (100 square kilometers), destroying one home and another structure. It was 27% contained Thursday, down slightly from a day earlier because of burnout operations, fire information officer Mike Reichling said.
The blaze has overlapped some of the footprint of a wildfire that started on Easter Sunday and destroyed 30 homes and other structures while consuming about 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of forest, chaparral and grassland.
A smaller fire in northern Arizona has burned more than 8 square miles (21 square kilometers) and was 11% contained.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday declared a state of emergency because of the fires and allocated $200,000 to the state emergency management department to help respond and recover from the blazes. This allows the state forester and other agencies to provide other assistance as needed and provide disaster relief.
“For a community still recovering from the path of the Tunnel Fire in April, this new blaze is a reminder for all Arizonans to be vigilant and safe this wildfire season,” Ducey said.
The forecast in the Flagstaff area calls for a chance of showers and thunderstorms starting Friday and throughout the weekend, which could help suppress the wildfires. Flooding and dry lightning that could spark new blazes also are concerns.
Some evacuation orders were still in place because of the wildfires, including for the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort.
Parts of the Coconino and Kaibab national forests will be closed starting Friday, including popular trails and camping areas, because of the wildfire danger. Forest officials said more extensive or even full forest closures could come if conditions worsen. Campfires aren’t allowed anywhere in the forests under current restrictions.
Authorities have reopened U.S. Route 89, the primary route between northern Arizona and the Navajo Nation up into Utah. Drivers also use it to get to the east rim of the Grand Canyon.
Tall, blackened trees lined the highway, some of which fell over from the fierce winds that fueled the wildfire in the first couple of days, Reichling said.
“It wasn’t scorched earth, but it was burnt,” Reichling said. “It cleaned up the forest on the understory, so hopefully a lot of those trees will bounce back.”
Nationwide, three dozen active large wildfires have burned 2,186 square miles (5,616 square kilometers) — much of it in the U.S. Southwest. New Mexico’s two largest fires have now charred more than 1,027 square miles (2,659 square kilometers) of tinder-dry forests in northern and southern parts of the state. Nearly 7,200 wildland firefighters and support personnel and working the blazes.
Multiple states had early starts to the wildfire season this spring. Climate change and an enduring drought have fanned the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires.
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MIAMI — Eugenio Suárez and Anthony Santander had two hits each as Venezuela beat Nicaragua 4-1 Tuesday and improved to 3-0 in the World Baseball Classic.
Suárez’s two-run single capped a three-run fourth that overcame a 1-0 deficit. Andrés Giménez’s run-scoring single tied the score, and Suárez’s lined a ball to right-center that scored Santander and Giménez.
Santander added an RBI double in the fifth.
José Ruiz got the win, pitching two perfect innings of relief. Carlos Hernández, José Quijada, Silvino Bracho and José Alvarado followed and limited Nicaragua to four hits over the final five innings.
Brandon Leyton’s RBI groundout against starter Eduardo Rodriguez put Nicaragua ahead 1-0 in the second.
Rodriguez allowed seven hits and struck out three in two-plus innings.
Venezuela closes Group D against Israel on Wednesday.
Nicaragua finished 0-4 in its first WBC and will be forced to participate in qualifying for the 2026 tournament. The Nicaraguans hit .192 and and were outscored 22-4.
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CONROE, Texas, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapphire Gas Solutions, a Conroe, Texas based natural gas solutions service provider, announced the rollout of their new Pipe to Pipe Compression service offering today.
"The creation and successful implementation of this new service offering is another milestone for Sapphire. Most importantly, it provides our current and future customers with another crucial service related to the Natural Gas integrity space," said Sam Thigpen, CEO of Sapphire Gas Solutions.
Why are pipe to pipe compression and pipeline evacuation services important to Sapphire's customers?
The ability for Sapphire to evacuate pipeline gas from the system and pull the system down to a pressure of 5 PSIG while moving volumes of up to 3 MMSCF (million standard cubic feet) of natural gas per compressor unit in 24 hours is industry-leading. This service prevents the release of methane to the atmosphere during planned or unplanned maintenance on a section of pipeline ranging in distances from yards to miles. The preservation of the molecule assists Sapphire's customers in meeting their current and future ESG goals by lowering vented or flared methane emissions while preserving the commodity.
Sapphire's compression team completed two successful Pipe to Pipe Compression projects in the last two weeks.
The first project was performed for a major energy infrastructure company in Illinois. Sapphire's compressors moved 20 MMSCF in four days with two units along a 14-mile section of 32-inch pipe. The second project was an emergency call-out where Sapphire deployed its compressors and technicians in under 36 hours to the pipeline injection site for a significant natural gas distributor in Texas and moved 2.7 MMSCF in under 24 hours along a 42-mile section of 14-inch pipe.
Sapphire currently operates a fleet capable of moving volumes greater than 12 MMSCF per day and expanding the capability to 24 MMSCF per day by the end of July. All inquiries can be submitted via Sapphire's contact us form found at this link: http://sapphirenatgas.co/p2pc-press-release
Sapphire Gas Solutions provides compressed natural gas (CNG), renewable natural gas (RNG), and liquefied natural gas (LNG) solutions to industrial, utility, manufacturing, and other end-use applications across the United States.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Mets were somewhat fuzzy about the next steps in Jacob deGrom's potential return to the rotation, saying Sunday the two-time NL Cy Young Award winner threw a side session and will make another minor league rehab start.
New York manager Buck Showalter said before Sunday's game against San Diego that he had not watched the side session at Citi Field, and he wouldn't publicly detail where and when deGrom will pitch next.
DeGrom, a 34-year-old right-hander, has not pitched in the major leagues since July 7 last year. He missed the second half of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow and has been sidelined since late in spring training by a stress reaction in his right scapula.
“I’ve got to operate like it’s not going to be here. I’d be stupid if I didn’t,” Showalter said of deGrom's next outing.
DeGrom has made three injury rehabilitation appearances in the minors. He threw 24 pitches over 1 2/3 innings on July 3 and 36 over three innings on July 8, both for Class A St. Lucie, then 42 over four innings for Triple-A Syracuse on July 14.
“We’ll see how he feels tomorrow and what the plan is for him to make a start somewhere during the coming week. And we’ll see where that takes us,” Showalter said. “I know what the plan is. But if something happens that makes us deviate from that plan, we will, which we have a couple of times, just barely, a day or two.”
Right-hander Trevor May threw 14 pitches Sunday during a one-inning appearance for Double-A Binghamton, allowing one hit and striking out one.
May has not pitched for the Mets since May 2 because of right triceps inflammation. Showalter said May likely will pitch on back-to-back days in the minors before he is activated.
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Someone tried to get the Texans to not pick quarterback C.J. Stroud. Someone wanted to make Houston wobbly, and possibly to spark a draft-day slide.
Maybe it was a team, one that drafted after No. 3 -- or that hoped to trade up as high as No. 3. Maybe it was an agent representing another highly-rated played, hoping to boost a client higher.
Regardless, an effort was made to trigger a slip. And, as Will Levis learned, a slip can become a slide. A steep one.
Stroud, after landing with the Texans at No. 2, reflected on the situation in comments to Peter King of Football Morning in America.
“A lot of people haven’t played the sport, and I mean critics are gonna critique ,” Stroud told King. “For me I know the film speaks for itself. Everything that I’ve done in college, I’ve been very consistent. I think I’ve been one of the most consistent players in college football for the last two years. If you turn on the tape, you can see, you can answer the questions. But those who don’t understand tape might want to go to other things and analyze other things. They’re more than welcome to do such. But the people who are making the choices and the picks, they knew what I can do. They understood the IQ that I do have.”
The thing that stuck the most for Stroud, even if it didn’t was a low S2 score. Stroud continued to push back on the idea that he lacks football smarts.
“I have a great memory when it comes to football,” Stroud told King. “I feel like there’s different ways to be geniuses. You don’t just have to be book smart. You can be analytics smart. You can be numbers smart. You can be football smart. I really think that there’s different types of ways to be smart. That’s something that I pride myself on. And I am book smart. I did have over a 3.0 in college. I had over a 3.0 in high school. I know that I can think. I can process very, very fast. The film, you can see me going from first option to second and then back to one and then to three to four if I have to. I can check down. I can use my feet.”
That didn’t stop the noise, because the goal was to get the Texans to doubt their evaluation, so that someone else could or would take him. And Stroud seems OK with it. Which is easy to do when, at the end of the day, the effort to made him fall failed.
“Everything happens for a reason,” Stroud said. “I’m not upset. I’m actually blessed, I’m super blessed to be a Texan. Number two overall pick in the NFL draft, man. A little kid from the [California] Inland Empire. All smiles, man. I ain’t tripping about this.”
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an easier way for individuals with various disabilities or limited mobility to dress or undress," said an inventor, from Waterloo, S.C., "so I invented the DESIGN BY AOFO. My design could provide wearers with added independence and a sense of accomplishment."
The invention provides improved pants or shorts for individuals with various physical limitations. In doing so, it allows the wearer to partially or fully dress or undress without assistance. As a result, it enhances comfort, safety and convenience and it could save time for the wearer and caregiver. The invention features a practical design that is easy to position and remove so it is ideal for individuals with various disabilities including the elderly or children with restrictive movements. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The 100 “deadliest days” for younger drivers are underway, according to AAA.
It’s the time period between Memorial Day and Labor Day that teen drivers are most vulnerable on the roads, with 30% of deaths involving teen drivers nationwide occurring within those 100 days.
“Summer is historically a dangerous time for teen drivers,” Megan Cooper, a spokesperson for AAA, said in a statement issued this past week.
New teen drivers are three times more likely to be involved in a deadly crash compared to adults, AAA reported. Crashes are also the leading cause of death for teens 16 to 19.
“Now that school is out, teens will spend more time on the road, often driving with friends at odd hours of the day and night. Because of their inexperience, teens are more susceptible to dangerous driving behaviors — like speeding, driving distracted, and not wearing a safety belt,” said Cooper.
Inexperience, obviously, is a major risk factor. But so is distracted driving, which accounts for nearly 60% of crashes involving teenage drivers. Those distractions include phones and “infotainment” systems, AAA says, but the biggest distractions are the drivers’ teenage friends in the passenger seats.
In a 2012 report, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) analyzed data from multiple studies which determined that risky driving behaviors increased with the number of teens in the car. Just one teenage passenger increases risk by 2.48 times, the NHTSA noted, and two or more teen passengers increase risk by 3.05 times.
“In fact, research shows that the risk of a fatal crash goes up in direct relation to the number of teenagers in the car,” the NHTSA wrote.
The NHTSA acknowledged, however, that teenage passengers were 10 times more likely to make encouraging or helpful comments to the driver (pointing out hazards, helping with directions) than they were to be observed making comments “encouraging risk-taking behavior.”
“There were many more instances of passengers assisting the driver — or admonishing the driver for ‘bad’ behavior — than actively encouraging the driver to do something risky,” the NHTSA wrote in its 2012 report.
The increased risk, the NHTSA said, was more related to “loud conversations or horseplay” happening in a car with multiple teens.
AAA is urging parents to “model safe driving behavior” and be involved in their teen’s learning process.
“Spend time coaching your teen while they’re behind the wheel and have a serious discussion about safety. While parents can be a great teacher, it also helps to seek out professional training courses, like those provided by AAA,” said Rachel Wilson, the director of driver education programs for AAA.
AAA also suggests its 25-hour online driving course to help reduce a teen’s risk behind the wheel, or its database of training-course recommendations. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/100-deadliest-days-for-teen-drivers-underway-aaa-says/ | 2023-06-03 17:27:52 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/100-deadliest-days-for-teen-drivers-underway-aaa-says/ |
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Republicans on Tuesday launched an early and absentee voting push ahead of this fall’s critical legislative elections, an initiative intended to boost ballot access measures that GOP lawmakers in the state have sought to roll back in recent years.
“Republicans got to stop sitting on the sidelines and allowing the Democrats to do a better job of voting early. I’m tired of us going into elections down thousands of votes,” Youngkin, who also advocated for early voting during his winning 2021 campaign, said on Fox.
The initiative dubbed “Secure Your Vote Virginia” will be a data-driven effort aimed at turning out Republicans and swing voters, Youngkin’s PAC said in a joint news release with Republican legislative leaders, the state party chair and the Republican State Leadership Committee. Zack Roday, director of the Republicans’ coordinated campaign, told reporters at least $1 million would be spent on the program.
The push is in line with a similar "Bank Your Vote” initiative by the Republican National Committee for 2024, a get-out-the-vote campaign that also aims to boost early voting techniques that some in the party have criticized as ripe for fraud.
Virginia Republicans did not directly address former President Donald Trump or his persistent falsehoods about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, which polling continues to suggest has taken a toll on Republican voters’ confidence in elections. But state party chair Rich Anderson said in a statement that the new program would help assure voters that voting absentee by mail or early in person is “easy, secure, and necessary.”
Virginia voters don’t register by party, but analyses based on voting history have routinely showed a partisan gap in early voting in recent years, with Democrats dominating.
“It’s time for us to stand up and make sure our votes are counted,” Youngkin said on Fox.
While curtailing early voting has not been a top legislative priority for Youngkin, House Republicans have recently sought changes or wholesale repeals of some of the Democrat-enacted ballot access measures they are now pushing.
In 2020 and 2021, Virginia Democrats who at the time were in full control of state government passed a sweeping series of voting reforms, ending the state’s ID requirement, creating a 45-day early voting period, implementing same-day voter registration, making Election Day a state holiday and creating a permanent absentee list for voters who want to automatically receive a ballot for every election in which they are eligible to vote.
Republicans have since tried to curtail or end some of those reforms, arguing that doing so would boost voters’ confidence in elections. For instance, in 2022, the GOP-controlled Virginia House voted to repeal the creation of the permanent absentee list, something Roday told reporters Tuesday would be a key part of this year’s push.
The 2022 repeal bill and other Republican-proposed voting reforms have been blocked by Democrats who currently control the state Senate.
“We welcome the Virginia Republicans’ newly discovered interest in promoting democracy,” Liam Watson, a spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Virginia, said in a statement Tuesday about the new program. “Of course, we wish they had shown up in support of early voting and vote-by-mail years ago, instead of consistently voting against reforms designed to strengthen democracy in the commonwealth.”
House Democratic Leader Don Scott called the Republicans’ agenda “blatant hypocrisy.”
When asked if the initiative should be interpreted as newfound support for the Democrat-enacted voting laws, Matthew Moran, executive director of the governor’s Spirit of Virginia PAC, told reporters that Republicans were simply playing by the rules.
Moran and other political aides, who met with reporters for a discussion about the legislative elections, said the program would include outreach to all factions of the party, citing for example a GOP lawmaker expected to discuss the initiative on a right-wing radio show.
Youngkin, who continues to be mentioned as a possible 2024 presidential contender and has declined to decisively rule out a bid, has staked a great deal of political capital on the outcome of the November elections. Moran suggested Tuesday that anything less than a full sweep would be seen as a failure.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Boone was worried last Tuesday, wondering whether Aaron Judge would leave the New York Yankees for the San Francisco Giants.
“All the tea leaves that day and the uncertainty of it all, it was a little bit of an uncomfortable, somber, not sure day,” the Yankees’ manager recalled Friday.
Boone was asleep his hotel room at the winter meetings in San Diego that night when a friend texted “Congrats.” News of Judge’s decision to accept a $360 million, nine-year contract from the Yankees broke about 5:30 a.m. PST. Boone then checked and learned Judge was staying in pinstripes.
“That morning we flipped the script on me a little bit,” he said with a smile during a break while handing out presents to children at the Yankees’ winter wonderland event.
Boone got more good news Thursday when the Yankees agreed to a $162 million, six-year contract with left-hander Carlos Rodón. The deals with Judge and Rodón are both subject to successful physicals.
“Obviously, we’re talking about a really, really talented guy that’s really starting putting it together here these last couple of years and, hopefully, he can have a big impact on us,” Boone said.
Judge’s deal is likely to be finalized next week.
Rodón, an All-Star the past two seasons, joins a rotation that includes Gerrit Cole, Nestor Cortes and Luis Severino, with Frankie Montas, Domingo Germán and Clarke Schmidt also in the mix.
“It’s got a chance to be really, really special,” Boone said. “A lot of talented pitchers. But, again, we’re here in December. We’ve got to go out and do it. But I like potentially where we’re starting from.”
Boone spoke with Rodón on Thursday. The third overall pick in the 2013 amateur draft, Rodón was hampered by injuries early in his career and let go by the White Sox after the 2020 season, then re-signed. He went 13-7 with a 2.37 ERA for Chicago in 2021, striking out 185 in 132 2/3 innings, and followed that by going 14-8 with a 2.88 ERA and 237 strikeouts in 178 innings for San Francisco last season.
“He’s been someone that’s been on our radar for a couple of years, honestly,” Boone said. “And then to see him now go out and really put together the kind of seasons he has the last two years I think is a realization of a lot of people within the industry that expected this out of him when he was a top pick out of N.C. State.
“He’s become one of the game’s really great pitchers. The way he’s thrown the last couple of years, he’s a top-of-the-rotation guy,” Boone added. “Over the last couple of years he’s probably learned a lot about himself and his mechanics. I know he’s made some mechanical changes that have really unlocked him and unleashed him.”
NOTES: Boone said RHP Michael King is on pace to be ready for spring training. King fractured his pitching elbow on July 22.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Two years after Myanmar’s generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, thousands of people have died in civil conflict and many more have been forced from their homes in a dire humanitarian crisis.
Myanmar’s economy, once one of the fastest growing in Southeast Asia, now lags behind where it stood before the Feb. 1, 2021, military takeover compounded the country’s struggles with the pandemic.
Ten years earlier, Myanmar had emerged from decades of military rule, gradually transitioning to a civilian government, opening its economy to more foreign investment and entrepreneurship and relaxing censorship of the media.
A modern consumer culture took hold, with glitzy shopping malls in the biggest city, Yangon, and use of Facebook and cellphones the new normal. The army takeover brought thousands into the streets in peaceful protests that were suppressed with lethal force.
WHAT HAPPENED ON FEB. 1, 2021?
The army arrested Suu Kyi and top members of her governing National League for Democracy party, which had won a landslide victory for a second term in a November 2020 general election. The army said it acted because there had been massive voting fraud, but independent election observers did not find any major irregularities. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, best known for his role in a 2007 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, now leads the government.
The ouster of the civilian government provoked widespread demonstrations and civil disobedience. As weeks dragged on, security forces crushed shows of opposition with violence. So far, nearly 3,000 civilians have been killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes by fighting between security forces and civilians who took up arms, sometimes allying themselves with ethnic armed groups that have been fighting for autonomy for decades.
The military’s seizure of power drew international condemnation. Many governments have shunned the army-led leadership and imposed sanctions, cutting off some financial flows. But neighboring countries in Southeast Asia and Myanmar’s most powerful ally, China, have balked at taking such actions.
WHERE IS AUNG SAN SUU KYI?
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, 77, was the de facto head of government, holding the title of state counsellor, when the army arrested her and took power. In December a court sentenced her to seven years in prison for corruption in the last of a string of politically tinged criminal cases against her, leaving her with a total of 33 years to serve in prison.
Suu Kyi’s supporters and independent analysts say the numerous charges against her and her allies were an attempt to legitimize the military’s seizure of power while eliminating her from politics before an election promised for later this year.
Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s martyred independence hero Gen. Aung San, spent almost 15 years as a political prisoner under house arrest between 1989 and 2010. She is being held in a newly constructed separate building in the prison in the capital, Naypyitaw, near the courthouse where her trial was held.
WHAT IS LIFE LIKE UNDER MILITARY RULE?
Two years after the army seized power, life in Yangon and other big cities has inched back toward normality but fighting in much of the countryside has left the country deeply mired in civil conflict.
Rights advocates say the military and security forces have carried out arbitrary arrests, torture and other abuses to quash dissent. Human rights monitoring groups said Tuesday that Myanmar’s military is increasingly turning to airstrikes with deadly results to try to crush stiff armed resistance,
While the military is responsible for massive use of violence throughout the country, militants in the opposition have carried out bombings and assassinations of military officials and their supporters. Min Aung Hlaing on Tuesday accused opponents of army rule of trying to take power with “wrongful forcible means.”
The World Bank forecasts the economy will grow a meager 3% this year, with some strength in agriculture and industries such as garment making. But it remains smaller than it was in 2019, before the pandemic and then the military takeover.
The military’s return to power has stymied a decade of reforms and left 40% of the population living in poverty.
Despite stringent foreign exchange controls and uncertainty over rules and regulations under army rule, some businesses are finding ways to operate by using informal payments and trade channels. The reopening of Myanmar’s trade routes with China also has helped.
But risks have been heightened by security issues due to the civil conflict.
WHAT LIES AHEAD?
The way out of the crisis remains unclear. The military-controlled government enacted a law on registration of political parties that will make it difficult for opposition groups to mount a serious challenge to army-backed candidates in the general election set to take place later this year.
Critics have already said the military-planned election will be neither free nor fair because there is no free media and most of the leaders of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party have been arrested.
The party has declared it will not accept or recognize the election, which it has described as “fake” and a ploy by the military to gain political legitimacy and international recognition. The vote is also opposed by the National Unity Government, which was established by elected lawmakers who were prevented from taking their seats when the army seized power and serves as an underground parallel national administration.
Units of the People’s Defense Force, the armed wing of the banned pro-democracy movement, have been attempting to disrupt preparations for the election by attacking personnel of the military government who are conducting a population survey that could be used to assemble voter rolls. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-how-myanmar-is-faring-2-years-after-army-ousted-suu-kyi/ | 2023-01-31 18:10:20 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-how-myanmar-is-faring-2-years-after-army-ousted-suu-kyi/ |
How to Watch the Rays vs. White Sox Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for April 30
Published: Apr. 30, 2023 at 8:11 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
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- The Tampa Bay Rays have hit a league-leading 57 home runs, averaging two per game.
- Tampa Bay has an MLB-high .521 slugging percentage.
- The Rays lead MLB with a .279 batting average.
- Tampa Bay scores the most runs in baseball (186 total, 6.6 per game).
- The Tampa Bay Rays lead the league with a .349 on-base percentage.
- The Rays' 8.4 strikeouts per game rank 12th in baseball.
- The pitching staff for Tampa Bay has a collective 8.9 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Tampa Bay's 2.81 team ERA ranks first across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Rays have the lowest WHIP in MLB (1.064).
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- Drew Rasmussen (3-2 with a 3.33 ERA and 31 strikeouts in 27 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Rays, his sixth of the season.
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UPPER MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Samantha couldn’t believe her eyes when her sister started playing cellphone video last Wednesday morning in the kitchen of their family apartment in Upper Manhattan.
“My sister recorded 13 rats in the kitchen, and one got caught in the mouse trap,” Samantha told PIX11 News in New York.
She shared the shocking video from her sister, Yovanka Landa, which showed rat after rat scampering across a kitchen counter and slipping through an opening in the stovetop.
“They go through the stove to get to the gas line so they can go into the hole that’s behind the refrigerator,” Samantha said.
Seven family members live in a six-bedroom apartment on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard; a pregnant woman sleeps in a room next to the kitchen.
“I have a video of me killing one yesterday,” Landa said of the rats, telling PIX11 News she used a baseball bat.
The family realized they were in for some trouble when their refrigerator stopped working on March 7.
“We pulled it out and we noticed the cable was chewed on the fridge,” Samantha said.
The next morning, the sisters made the horrifying discovery that rats were infesting their kitchen.
“The exterminator came Wednesday night to cover the hole with metal fencing,” Samantha said. “But we can actually hear them chewing through it.”
Samantha said when her family called the management company to say the fence wasn’t enough, they were told the exterminator only comes once a month.
Landa said she left work early when the exterminator was supposed to come back, but no one showed up.
“They want our rent on time and want to take us to court,” Landa said. “I left work early for nothing to happen.”
The sisters shared their story as New York City is grappling with an overwhelming rat problem. Mayor Eric Adams has said he is going to appoint a “rat czar” to address the crisis, but no announcement has been made yet on who will take the job.
Samantha said her family has lived in the apartment for close to 30 years. She worries now about her sister’s children, who are 11 and 15, and dealing with rats in the kitchen as boxes of Cocoa Puffs sit on the fridge. | https://www.koin.com/news/rats-invade-stove-near-pregnant-nyc-womans-bedroom/ | 2023-03-17 02:21:05 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/rats-invade-stove-near-pregnant-nyc-womans-bedroom/ |
Taxes are no one's favorite topic, unless of course, we're talking about how to save on them.
Kyle Winkfield, of Finley Alexander Wealth Management, says instead of just focusing on taxes from year-to-year, you should look at taxes in the long-term. Being strategic about how and when you make money decisions can have a significant impact on how much you owe the IRS.
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Macy's 47th annual Fourth of July fireworks feature new colors and effects
NEW YORK - The 47th annual Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks kicked off with some amazing new effects this year.
The show had 30 different colors and shapes in the fireworks. There were 2,400 shells and effects per minute with a total of 60,000 shells firing off from barges spanning a mile across the East River.
Drones perform a light show in the form of the American Flag before the Macy's fireworks display celebrating the United States 247th independence day on July 04, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
This year’s show also included a mile-wide waving flag with red, white & blue & strobing shells, a sunflower ring, and new type of pyro that features four different alternating colors.
The streets were completely filled with people at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, where the views were unrivaled.
Some families set up their spot as early as 9 a.m. to secure a good view.
People came from all over the country to celebrate the holiday, New York style.
Drones perform a light show before the Macy's fireworks display celebrating the United States 247th independence day on July 04, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
"I feel like it’s, it’s hard to explain. It’s crazy to know, like, how this is possible. You don’t how do they do this?" one woman told Fox5.
Another spectator said there’s nothing like Fourth of July in this city.
A view of the Macy's fireworks display celebrating the United States 247th independence day on July 04, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
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Samaritan’s Purse volunteers continue to help clean up parts of eastern Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Volunteers with Samaritan’s Purse are continuing to clean up parts of eastern Kentucky from July’s historic floods, and they aren’t taking a day off just because it’s Labor Day.
“I know this is a holiday but I can’t think of a better thing to do on a Labor Day than to give some labor and help some people who are down,” volunteer Tom Gusler said.
Gusler is on his 39th mission with Samaritan’s Purse. He’s retired, 80 years old, drove from Pennsylvania and is now in Breathitt County working to help others during their worst times. He recognizes the meaning behind the holiday, but said the founders of Labor Day would approve of this type of work.
Steve Hesslink, 65, came all the way from Idaho and oversees a team of eight.
“We’re the hands and feet of Jesus. You know the Bible story of you don’t leave the ox in the ditch just because it’s Sunday. People are suffering here,” Hesslink said.
Addie Combs is a flood victim herself. Seven feet of water from nearby Troublesome Creek filled her living room. Now, with the help of others, she has no more muddy floors and her dry wall has been pulled out.
“They have just cleaned it up they have made it ready to start rebuilding,” Combs said.
So far Samaritan’s Purse has gutted out 70 homes with 260 homes to go.
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DETROIT (AP) — Strong sales in the U.S. helped General Motors increase its first-quarter net profit 19% over a year ago, leading the company to raise its full-year profit guidance based on expectations demand for its vehicles will remain robust.
The Detroit automaker said Tuesday that it made $2.37 billion from January through March, up from $1.99 billion in the previous year.
Excluding a $900 million charge to pay severance packages to about 5,000 white-collar workers who took buyouts during the quarter, GM made $2.21 per share. That soundly beat analysts' estimates of $1.72, according to FactSet.
Revenue for the quarter came in just shy of $40 million, up 11% from a year ago and beating analysts' expectations of $38.55 billion.
The strong quarter prompted the company to raise its pretax profit guidance for the full year to a range of $11 billion to $13 billion. Previously it was $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion.
Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson wouldn't make a prediction about a recession this year, but he forecast strong demand for its vehicles through December.
“Overall, April remains really strong for us,” he said. “So we're confident we'll be able to hit this higher guidance.”
GM already is seeing benefits from the buyouts, and Jacobson said a projected $1 billion annual savings also will help the company this year.
Although GM's average transaction price dropped slightly, prices remained strong as sales in the U.S., GM's most lucrative market, rose almost 18% during the quarter. The average price paid for a GM vehicle in the U.S. was $50,263, down $490 from a year ago.
“We will have a little bit of a challenge as we lap last year's pricing increases through this year,” Jacobson said, adding that new models GM is introducing should help with pricing and demand.
He said he doesn't see any reason for GM to match multiple electric vehicle price cuts announced this year by market leader Tesla.
“We feel good about where we're priced right now, and consumers seem to be really demanding our products,” he said.
GM expects several new electric vehicle models to raise sales this year, fueling a large increase in sales. The company expects to build 400,000 EVs in North America between 2022 and the first half of 2024. In the first quarter, GM sold only 20,670 EVs, still good enough to get it into the No. 2 spot behind Tesla.
A global shortage of computer chips and other parts forced the auto industry to slow production last year, driving up prices as demand stayed strong. But the parts shortages and production are starting to improve. GM's inventory at the end of March rose 50% from the same time a year ago to 412,000.
GM's pretax profits in North America rose 14% for the quarter to $3.58 billion. But its income from China fell 64% to $83 million. Jacobson said the company has new gasoline and electric vehicles coming as Chinese sales recover. | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/big-us-sales-push-up-gm-s-1q-profit-company-17916781.php | 2023-04-25 10:46:58 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/big-us-sales-push-up-gm-s-1q-profit-company-17916781.php |
Officer, 3 others injured in shooting near Mississippi surf shop
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - At least one police officer and three others were injured following a shooting near surf style shop in Mississippi.
According to WLOX, officers responded to a shots fire called at the Surf Style on Highway 90 in Biloxi.
A WLOX reporter who was near the scene said 10 shots rang out from multiple spots nearby and people scrambled for safety. A crowd of police and EMS officials swarmed the scene shortly after the call.
In a video circulating on social media, an officer with Biloxi Police Department can be seen receiving assistance for what appears to be a gunshot wound in his right arm. A press release sent out by the department has since confirmed the incident, saying he was struck while searching for the assailant.
A WLOX reporter also saw two other people being loaded onto stretchers to be treated for their injuries. Law enforcement vehicles have also been seen at Memorial Hospital.
Later, WLOX learned of a third person sustaining injuries. The extent of the injuries are unknown at this time.
Gulfport Police Department, Ocean Springs Police Department and Harrison County Sheriff’s Office also responded to the scene.
As a result of the shooting, Highway 90 is currently closed from Beauvoir Road to Edgewater Mall.
Officials have also asked people to avoid the area as police continue to investigate.
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Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration's work to attract investment to Central America has generated $3.2 billion in private-sector commitments.
The effort is intended to reduce migration toward the United States by creating more economic opportunities in countries plagued by poverty and violence. Harris made the announcement at this week's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which brings together countries from across the hemisphere.
As vice president, Harris is responsible for tackling migration issues, although progress has been slow. Harris has made just two trips to Latin America since taking office last year. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/tackling-migration-harris-backs-investment-in-latin-america | 2022-06-08 00:54:06 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/tackling-migration-harris-backs-investment-in-latin-america |
TOKYO, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellar Works and Sony's Creative Center have collaborated in creating 'STAYDREAM – a surreal reality,' which will be staged during NYCxDESIGN 2023 (May 18-25). This conceptual presentation aims to communicate and reveal new forms of user experience, innovative sensing, and interactive engagement, exploring the coexistence of physical and meta realities.
A series of conceptual pieces designed in partnership with Sony's Creative Center will be showcased within an immersive environment that will focus on bringing key elements of the outside to indoors. The resulting installation serves to demonstrate the juxtaposition of the ambience of nature within the context of interior spaces, providing exciting future possibilities which enhance a sense of wellbeing in our homes.
STAYDREAM will be an experiential and sensorial feast of storytelling that takes over the entire Stellar Works showroom on Canal Street in New York. The installation explores the possibilities of design via the lens of creativity, to provide the audience with an ambient experience using both space and furniture. Elsewhere, Calico Wallpaper, specially chosen for this exhibition, will be deployed across both levels of the Stellar Works Showroom and will form an integral backdrop to a series of projections designed by Sony.
Stellar Works founder and CEO Yuichiro Hori comments on the launch: "From the beginning of this exciting project, there has been an organic synergy between Sony's Creative Center and Stellar Works. Together we have created an experience that combines Stellar Works' skills in furniture design and manufacturing with Sony's unrivalled expertise in innovation and technology. We look forward to welcoming all visitors to our New York showroom to experience something special for NYCxDESIGN."
Hirotaka Tako, Creative Director and Head of Sony's Design Centre Europe adds: "We wanted to discover how technology, craft, entertainment, and hospitality could seamlessly merge to a point where both virtual and physical experiences coexist. I believe that our collaboration with Stellar Works will make this possible."
This joint installation will be hosted at Stellar Works' New York showroom: 304 Canal Street, New York, NY 10013 from May 18–25, 2023 (10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. daily).
STAYDREAM official website:
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/design/staydream/
About Stellar Works
Founded by CEO Yuichiro Hori in 2012, Stellar Works is a Japanese furniture brand with a global distribution network and offices and showrooms worldwide. The brand also collaborates with the world's most respected designers.
The Stellar Works factory incorporates a specialised furniture design atelier where traditional craft techniques are preserved within the manufacturing process. Over the last 10 years, Stellar Works has undergone exponential international growth in both commercial and consumer markets, while continuing to deliver bespoke furniture for some of the world's most iconic bespoke hospitality projects.
Instagram: @stellarworks_official
www.stellarworks.com
About Creative Center, Sony Group Corporation
Sony has always been at the forefront of design and became one of the first companies to create an in-house creative studio. Since its inception in 1961, Sony has forged its reputation for having a leading and award-winning global design team. Today the team's contribution has expanded beyond purely product design to a wide range of design activities, including user experience, communication, entertainment and more. Design Centre Europe is an extended arm of Creative Center.
We continuously explore the possibilities of design, working with people around the world to realize richer experiences and more comfortable lifestyles – whilst creating 'new standards' of value through the fusion of creativity and technology.
Instagram: @sonydesign_official
www.sony.com/en/design
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Bobby Witt Jr. Player Prop Bets: Royals vs. Orioles - May 2
Published: May. 2, 2023 at 1:23 PM CDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
The Kansas City Royals, including Bobby Witt Jr. (.159 batting average in his past 10 games), take on starter Tyler Wells and the Baltimore Orioles at Kauffman Stadium, Tuesday at 7:40 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his last game (0-for-5) against the Twins.
Bobby Witt Jr. Game Info & Props vs. the Orioles
- Game Day: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
- Game Time: 7:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Orioles Starter: Tyler Wells
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +180)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +100)
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Bobby Witt Jr. At The Plate
- Witt Jr. has four doubles, two triples, four home runs and seven walks while batting .222.
- In 55.2% of his games this season (16 of 29), Witt Jr. has picked up at least one hit, and in seven of those games (24.1%) he recorded more than one.
- Looking at the 29 games he has played this year, he's hit a home run in four of them (13.8%), and in 3.2% of his trips to the plate.
- Witt Jr. has driven in a run in nine games this season (31.0%), including one multiple-RBI game.
- In 15 games this season (51.7%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Bobby Witt Jr. Home/Away Batting Splits
Orioles Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Orioles has a collective 9.5 K/9, the eighth-best in the league.
- The Orioles have a 4.23 team ERA that ranks 14th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Orioles pitchers combine to allow 30 total home runs at a rate of 1.1 per game (to rank 11th in the league).
- Wells (1-1 with a 2.79 ERA and 23 strikeouts in 29 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Orioles, his fifth of the season.
- In his most recent time out on Wednesday against the Boston Red Sox, the right-hander went 5 2/3 innings, giving up two earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 28-year-old's 2.79 ERA ranks 23rd, .724 WHIP ranks first, and 7.1 K/9 ranks 58th.
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Florida fans also are buying into Billy Napier’s fresh approach.
Season-ticket sales are their highest in five years, with more than weeks remaining before a Sept. 3 visit from Utah to open the season.
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“Really very thankful for the support,” Napier said.
A UF spokesman told the Orlando Sentinel the school has sold around 46,000 season tickets, the most since fans purchased around 49,000 in 2017 — Jim McElwain’s third and final season. Students also purchased the entire 17,500 allotment last month.
The Gators never sold more than 44,000 season tickets under former coach Dan Mullen, the spokesman said.
Most telling, UF has sold roughly 6,500 new season tickets, compared with just around 2,000 in 2017 when more fans renewed their previous tickets. The 2022 Gators, in other words, are winning new season ticket holders and attracting some former ones.
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“We’ve got unbelievable fans and the alumni group that we have,” Napier said. “We said at the beginning here if we’re going to have success, it’s going to require a team effort and our fans and their positive energy and the things that they bring to game day can make The Swamp a very unique and challenging place to play.” | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-sp-uf-florida-gators-season-ticket-sales-surging-0810-20220809-viwdinu65jay3hyhk5nll7gzta-story.html | 2022-08-10 00:00:07 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-sp-uf-florida-gators-season-ticket-sales-surging-0810-20220809-viwdinu65jay3hyhk5nll7gzta-story.html |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amwins Program Underwriters (APU), part of the Amwins Underwriting division, today announced that, after nearly 45 years with the MountainGuard program, Bo Adams will retire from Amwins effective June 1, 2023. Going forward, Tim Barnhorst will be responsible for the operational oversight of MountainGuard's Portsmouth, NH office as well as the sales efforts in Eastern and Midwest U.S. and Canadian territories. Tim Hendrickson will continue to oversee MountainGuard's Park City, UT operations and the sales efforts in Western U.S. and Canada.
Tim Barnhorst joined the MountainGuard team in 2010 as a Client Service Specialist and Associate Producer. Tim quickly developed his insurance acumen by earning his Associate in Risk Management (ARM) and Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designations within his first three years in the insurance business. In 2018, he was promoted to Assistant Vice President, and in 2019 he assumed the role of Vice President. Tim currently serves as senior vice president and program manager running the eastern office of the MountainGuard program.
Tim earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from St. Lawrence University where he was a member of the men's alpine ski team and captained the nationally ranked men's lacrosse team. He is an avid skier and is fortunate to have skied all over the world, including an extended stay in Lech, Austria. During the ski season, Tim is a Level 100 USSA alpine ski coach for the Franconia Ski Club.
Bo's career began in 1978 when he joined the MountainGuard team. Based out of the Portsmouth, NH office, he was promoted to Senior Vice President in 1989 and has co-managed the MountainGuard program's sales efforts and operations.
Over the years, Bo has participated in numerous seminars throughout North America on behalf of individual clients and various ski industry organizations including the National Ski Areas Association, Canada West Ski Areas Association and the Ontario Snow Resorts Association. In 2017, Bo was appointed to the Massachusetts Recreational Tramway Board. Currently, Bo serves as president of the New England Ski Museum.
"We are very appreciative for all of Bo's contributions not only to the MountainGuard insurance program, but to the ski industry," said Dan Curran, senior vice president and underwriting officer of APU. "We look forward to the continued success of the MountainGuard program under the leadership of Tim Barnhorst and Tim Hendrickson."
About MountainGuard
The MountainGuard insurance program has been insuring the ski industry for over 60 years. The program is designed to provide comprehensive property and casualty coverage for all standard alpine ski operations in the United States and Canada. For more information, visit www.mountainguard.com.
About Amwins Program Underwriters
Amwins Program Underwriters (APU) is a managing general agency (MGA) specializing in affinity and program management. For more than 30 years, APU has developed and maintained programs for a variety of niche markets that provide broad-based property and casualty coverage. Today, the company administers over 35 programs, generating premiums in excess of $500 million. For more information, visit www.amwins.com/apu.
About Amwins
Amwins is the largest independent wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products in the United States, dedicated to serving retail insurance agents by providing property and casualty products, specialty group benefit products, and administrative services. Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company operates through more than 155 offices globally and handles premium placements in excess of $29 billion annually. To learn more, visit www.amwins.com.
For further information contact:
Amwins
Lisa Kuszmar
Telephone: 704.749.2780
Email: lisa.kuszmar@amwins.com
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New features allow marketers to activate customer data directly from the data warehouse to power hyper-personalized digital experiences across marketing channels
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hightouch, the world's leading Data Activation platform, today unveiled a suite of features to make first-party customer data activation easier than ever. Using Hightouch Audiences, non-technical users can now create dynamic user segments or "Audiences" that can be activated to any business application or marketing platform.
Hightouch empowers organizations to leverage their data warehouse as their single source of truth for customer data. From there, teams can seamlessly activate their valuable customer data to the tools marketers use every day. This warehouse-first approach, coupled with a deep expertise in customer data management systems (attributed to their founder's experience building Segment's core features), inspired the Hightouch team to build a modern data activation platform that eliminates the need for a traditional customer data platform.
As part of the new suite of features launching today, marketers can leverage Audience Insights as they define customer segments to receive feedback informing them of the makeup of each audience as they build in the UI. The new features include:
- Audience Breakdowns identifies the characteristics of each audience segment to help marketers better understand their audience composition.
- Audience Overlaps supplements these insights to ensure that marketers limit (or maximize) collisions between multiple audience segments.
Perhaps the most powerful of the features released, Audience Splits, unlocks seamless management of multivariate testing by providing end-to-end randomized audience creation. Now, using Hightouch, marketers can seamlessly create the (randomized) audiences needed to perform cross-channel multivariate testing. Advanced features like stratification variables provide an additional layer of granularity to ensure that audiences are distributed as desired.
"Our enterprise customers have shifted Hightouch into the hands of their (often less-technical) marketing teams. They now use Hightouch Audiences as a vehicle to unlock the value of their customer data, without the need of engineering resources," explains Tejas Manohar, Co-Founder and CEO of Hightouch.
The new features further solidify Hightouch as the leading warehouse-first data activation platform available today. To learn more about Hightouch's new audience features, visit Hightouch.com/cdp.
Hightouch is the world's leading Data Activation platform, syncing data from warehouses directly into SaaS tools. In November, Hightouch announced $40M in Series B financing at a $450 million valuation led by ICONIQ Capital. Hightouch's hundreds of customers range from fast-growing startups like Plaid, Betterment, Calendly, and Lucidchart, to large enterprises like AXS, Nando's, and Autotrader. For more information, visit www.hightouch.com.
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Temple University’s new acting president JoAnne A. Epps said she wants to hear from faculty, students, community members and stakeholders about any concerns or expectations they may have surrounding the university in North Philadelphia.
“I pledge to the community that I will listen to them,” Epps said. “I will seek out their concerns, advice and recommendations because I think we need to work in partnership.
“I want to hear from everyone,” she said. “I want to know what are the things that concern them and the hopes they have for the university and community.
“I also like to infuse some optimism moving forward and restore a sense that Temple is a great place to be,” she added.
Epps, 71, was named Temple’s acting president this week by the university’s Board of Trustees.
She will lead the 33,600-student university until a permanent president is found. Epps will not be a candidate for the permanent position. Temple will launch a national search for a new president within the next few weeks.
“This university is truly in my blood and in my soul so it’s really an honor to have been asked to lead it at this time,” she said.
Epps’ connection to Temple began in her childhood when both she and her mother worked for the university. For more than 30 years, she’s been a member of Temple’s faculty and has held several leadership roles in the university.
Epps was the dean of Temple’s Beasley School of Law in 2008 and was named executive vice president and provost in 2016. She was previously the senior adviser to former president Jason Wingard, who resigned from being Temple’s 12th president last month.
“There is no one more qualified than JoAnne to assume the role of acting president during this critical moment for our university,” Mitchell Morgan, chair of Temple University’s Board of Trustees, in a statement.
“Her lifelong dedication to Temple and the greater Philadelphia community make us extremely confident in JoAnne’s ability to unite the Temple community and lead a focused effort on developing and implementing solutions to our key challenges,” he said.
State Rep. Jordan A. Harris praised Temple’s decision to have Epps be the university’s acting president.
“This is an outstanding decision by Temple to elevate JoAnne Epps to the role of acting president,” Harris said on Twitter. “I’m confident JoAnne can do what’s right for both the university and the community it resides in and I’m looking forward to watching her lead.”
However, The Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP) has been critical of Epps’ appointment, saying in a statement that her selection was made without consulting the union.
The faculty union will hold a formal vote of no-confidence for Morgan and provost Gregory Mandel on Friday. The vote is largely symbolic as a no-confidence vote cannot authorize change.
“Publicly funded institutions of higher education shouldn’t need closed-door meetings to make critical decisions affecting thousands of students, workers and the people of North Philadelphia,” the union said in a statement.
“TAUP will request a meeting with our new interim (acting) president to address the concerns of our members. We will continue to seek a new vision for Temple. We will continue to work with our colleagues, students and the community in shaping that vision,” the union said.
Epps enters her new role following a tumultuous year at the university, which had a six-week strike byThe Temple University Graduate Students Association.
The university has also been dealing with public safety concerns after Temple Police Sgt. Christopher Fitzgerald was fatally killed in February.
Fitzgerald, 31, had been on the university’s police force since October 2021. He was the first line-of-duty death in the history of the campus police department.
In 2021, Temple student Samuel Collington was killed near campus during an attempted carjacking. Undergraduate enrollment has also dropped at the university by nearly 11% since 2020.
Epps said that safety and enrollment will be the two areas she will be focusing on as acting president.
“Those are the two big challenges that we have to confront,” she said. “I’m going to listen to people and take stock of where we are and what we are currently doing in those areas.
“I think there’s actually a lot going on that people might not know — including me — so I have to learn and that’s how I’m going to approach this,” she said. “I was asked by the trustees not just to be a custodian, but to be encouraged to lead this year.
“Once I get a sense of where we are on enrollment and safety, I will continue to work with the many constituencies, both internal to Temple and external members of our surrounding community in order to continue to address those issues,” she added.
Epps, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia and a deputy city attorney in Los Angeles prior to her time at Temple, said her background will help address the issues of public safety at the university.
“I understand the issues that are involved with law enforcement; they’re complex,” she said. “I understand the narrative and I understand the issues that will confront us. I think my background will help with that as I know some of the players in the city that we will need as allies.”
Temple student Cole Heilman said he’s glad Epps will be making safety a top priority.
“Everyone who lives near this side of Broad Street knows that it can get a little scary at times,” Heilman said in an NBC10 interview.
“To hear that one of the reasons we’re having a new acting president is to address safety on campus is great,” he said. “That makes me feel a lot better.” | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/joanne-epps-ready-to-lead-temple-as-acting-president/article_f57433ea-406d-5937-bab5-be5d35bc8b6e.html | 2023-04-14 11:52:20 | 1 | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/joanne-epps-ready-to-lead-temple-as-acting-president/article_f57433ea-406d-5937-bab5-be5d35bc8b6e.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, Hershel W. "Woody" Williams, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.
The native West Virginian will receive that tribute at a later date.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the honor on Sunday.
During a memorial in Charleston, West Virginia, Williams was remembered for his courage, humility and selflessness.
President Harry Truman awarded the Medal of Honor to Williams in 1945 for his heroics during one of the Pacific theater's fiercest fights, the battle for Iwo Jima.
He was 22 when he received the medal.
Williams died June 29 at the age of 98.
According to his foundation's social media accounts, he died in Huntington at the Veterans Affairs medical center that bears his name. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/wwii-medal-of-honor-recipient-to-lie-in-honor-at-us-capitol | 2022-07-05 17:03:41 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/wwii-medal-of-honor-recipient-to-lie-in-honor-at-us-capitol |
It is no secret that the U.S. has one of the highest obesity rates in the world and that obesity leads to long-term health issues.
So it should come as no surprise that most Americans do not get the recommended level of physical activity needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just 1 in 4 adult Americans in 2020 performed the recommended amount of physical activity for both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities.
EXERCISE GUIDELINES:
150-300 MINUTES A WEEK OF MODERATE-INTENSITY AEROBIC ACTIVITY
OR
75-150 MINUTES A WEEK OF VIGOROUS AEROBIC ACTIVITY
AND
2 DAYS A WEEK OF MUSCLE-STRENGTHENING ACTIVITY THAT WORKS THE ENTIRE BODY
The CDC said that 22.7% met only the guidelines for aerobic activity, 6.8% met only the guidelines for muscle-strengthening activity, and 46.3% did not meet the guidelines for either type of activity.
Guidelines call for a minimum of 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity. Guidelines also call for adults to perform two days a week of activities that strengthen muscles throughout the body.
The CDC data found that income, gender and race all played a factor. The data showed that those who earn at least 200% of the federal poverty level are more than twice as likely to meet exercise guidelines than those making below the poverty level.
Men were also more likely to meet exercise requirements than women. Hispanic men were much more unlikely to meet physical activity guidelines than Black, Asian or white men. White women were more likely to exercise enough than Black, Hispanic or Asian women. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/most-americans-especially-those-who-are-poor-not-exercising-enough-data-finds | 2022-09-01 16:56:49 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/most-americans-especially-those-who-are-poor-not-exercising-enough-data-finds |
Apple has finally launched its long awaited buy now, pay later plan -- Apple Pay Later -- but only for some iPhone owners.
In a press release Tuesday, Apple announced that a "prerelease version" of Apple Pay Later is now available for "select users." The company didn't specify which users or how many, though it says it "plans to offer it to all eligible users in the coming months."
Apple Pay Later was first announced in June 2022 at Apple's WWDC event and was expected to be released sometime in the fall of that year, but the product's launch was delayed due to "significant technical and engineering challenges," per Bloomberg. Apple's new features page for iOS 16 still says that Apple Pay Later is "coming in a future update for qualifying applicants."
Apple Pay is a feature within Apple Wallet, the iPhone's digital wallet app that also includes Apple Card and Apple Cash. Apple Pay lets you save debit and credit cards electronically and make purchases online or in brick-and-mortar stores; Apple Card is a digital credit card issued by MasterCard and Goldman Sachs; and Apple Cash is a peer-to-peer payment service.
Apple's entry into BNPL financing with Apple Pay Later comes at a time when many retailers are accepting payments from BNPL apps such as Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay. Most of these apps provide similar short-term interest-free payment plans, while a few offer longer installment plans with variable interest rates.
Learn everything there is to know about Apple Pay Later, including how it works, where it is accepted and when it will be available for all iPhone users.
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How do I use Apple Pay Later?
Apple Pay Later lets you break the cost of purchases into four equal payments spread over six weeks. The first payment is due when you make your purchase, and the remaining payments are due every two weeks after that.
Once Apple Pay Later is set up on your phone, you have two options when completing a purchase: Pay in Full and Pay Later. Selecting the latter option will bring up a payment schedule displaying the amount of each of the four payments and when they will be due.
Stores and merchants don't have to implement any changes in order to accept payments through Apple Pay Later. Transactions occur as they did before -- the only difference will lie in how back-end payments are made. Apple Pay Later will work with any merchants who accept Apple Pay.
MasterCard Installments, the credit card company's white-label BNPL service, is providing the merchant payments for Apple Pay Later. Apple has created its own financial subsidiary -- Apple Financing LLC -- that handles loan approvals and credit checks. Banking partner Goldman Sachs is the official loan issuer.
Payments for Apple Pay Later must be made with a debit card; you can't use a credit card. You can set up automatic payments or make additional payments at any time. Each BNPL purchase will be reviewed and approved or rejected using a soft credit check.
Apple Pay Later has no plan to charge fees for late payments, though it may use late payments as an excuse to reject future BNPL loans. The minimum purchase for Apple Pay Later is $50; the maximum is $1,000.
When can I use Apple Pay Later on my iPhone?
If you're one of the "select users" to receive an invite from Apple, you can start using Apple Pay Later now. For the rest of us, based on the wording in Apple's press release, Apple Pay Later will likely be enabled for all Apple Wallet users in a future update to iOS.
Apple has already released four point upgrades since iOS 16 launched in September 2022. The first update -- iOS 16.1 -- came in October 2022; the second -- iOS 16.2 in December 2022; the third -- iOS 16.3 -- in January 2023; and the fourth -- iOS 16.4 -- in March 2023.
Based on that bimonthly release schedule, all Apple Wallet users can probably expect access to Apple Pay Later some time in May 2023.
How is Apple Pay Later different from Apple Card Monthly Installments?
Apple Card Monthly Installments is an Apple program that lets you finance the purchase of certain Apple products when using the Apple Card credit card. The length of the 0% APR period for these purchases depends on the product. Installment plans range from six months to two years.
Apple Pay Later isn't restricted to Apple products, nor does it require the use of the Apple Card. With Apple Pay Later, you can finance any purchases from $50 to $1,000 using a debit card, as long as it's connected to Apple Wallet. Also, the interest-free installment period for Apple Pay Later -- six weeks -- is much shorter than the payment plans offered by Apple Card Monthly Installments.
What other Apple Wallet features were added in iOS 16?
One new Apple Wallet feature that launched with iOS 16 is Apple Pay Order Tracking, which adds the ability for merchants to provide detailed receipts and delivery statuses for purchased products to customers via Apple Wallet.
Apple also expanded support in Apple Wallet for driver's licenses and identification cards. Following IDs from Colorado and Arizona, Apple Wallet plans to add support for 11 more states.
These driver's licenses can be used at select Transportation Security Agency checkpoints. They can also be shared with other apps that require identification, such as alcohol purchases through Uber Eats.
Apple Wallet has also added support for sharing keys for locations such as hotels, offices or automobiles. New features let users share keys with friends or associates using email, text messaging or other messaging apps.
What other online services let you buy now and pay later?
Some existing online payment systems provide buy now, pay later short-term financing similar to what Apple Pay Later is offering. PayPal's Pay in 4 program works very much like Apple Pay Later, except that purchases are limited to between $300 and $1,500.
BNPL app Sezzle also uses a system of four payments over six weeks, but permits users to reschedule one payment for up to two weeks later at no cost and postpone further payments for an additional fee.
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LYNN TWP., Pa. - Fire tore through a house in Lehigh County on Monday afternoon.
Firefighters were called just before 2:30 p.m. Monday to a home in the 3100 block of Old Post Road in Washington Township.
A fire official says no people inside were hurt.
Two dogs were rescued. They were treated at the scene and taken to a vet.
The flames were mostly contained to the kitchen, officials say.
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Samyn: When can I golf after back surgery?
This is a very common question physical therapists are asked after a patient has started their post-operative rehab for back surgery. As with most things in medicine, the answer is: it depends. Factors such as the type of surgery, the number of spinal levels involved, and the pre-surgery/injury fitness level of the patient all play significantly into the speed of recovery. Other factors like cardiovascular health, metabolic disease and bone density also play a role. Even smoking can be a factor, as tobacco use slows tissue healing time.
The most common types of back surgeries are lumbar laminectomy, discectomy and fusion. A laminectomy is a procedure which creates space by removing the back part of the vertebra which covers the spinal canal. Also known as decompression surgery, a laminectomy enlarges the spinal canal to relieve pressure on the spinal cord or nerves.
A discectomy is a procedure which removes herniated disc material that is pressing on a nerve root or part of the spinal cord. It is fairly common to have both a laminectomy and discectomy at the same time.
A fusion is essentially a welding process that joins two or more vertebrae so that they heal into a single, solid bone, providing improved stability.
To learn more on how soon a patient can return to golf after surgery, I spoke to Dr. Tony Bozzio, MD. Dr. Bozzio sees patients in Petoskey, Charlevoix, Roger’s City, St. Ignace, Cheboygan and Gaylord.
After a lumbar laminectomy, how soon might a fairly-fit patient under 50 hope to return to playing golf? How about a less-fit patient over 70?
There are a number of different opinions on when to return to sport after this, and no clear consensus, so the timeframes will differ based on surgeon, patient factors and specific type of surgery performed. Regarding age, I don't make any specific changes based on the number alone. For golf, chipping and putting is fine around the 3-week post-op mark, after the skin incision has healed. If there is no discectomy performed, return to sport is fine around the 6-week post-op mark. I see patients again around six weeks after surgery and at that point golfing is fine. If there was a discectomy performed, I have patients wait 10 to 12 weeks before golfing to reduce the risk of disc re-herniation.
After a single-level lumbar fusion, how soon might an average patient be able to return to golf?
For a single level fusion, regardless of approach, which could include either anterior, lateral or all posterior surgery, chipping and putting is fine around the 6-week post-op mark. Most patients are golfing again at 10 to 12 weeks after surgery.
What advice do you give to patients who want to get back to golfing as soon as possible after a back surgery?
I try to encourage most people to do a gradual return to golf, and take things one step at a time. Immediately after surgery, the goal is walking more each day and resuming day to day activities while the skin is healing — this is usually for the first three weeks. Then, patients start gentle physical therapy that gradually progresses to more golf-specific movements. Patients can start to do some chipping and putting soon after that. A full return to golf starts with some easy time on the driving range, then a progression to 9 holes, and then finally returning to full rounds.
Jeff Samyn is a physical therapist, board certified orthopedic clinical specialist and certified strength and conditioning specialist at Northern Michigan Sports Medicine Center in Petoskey. He can be reached via e-mail at jsamyn@nmsportsmed.com. This information is not to be considered medical advice and is not intended to replace consultation with a qualified medical professional. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/healthcare/2023/03/25/samyn-when-can-i-golf-after-back-surgery/70038453007/ | 2023-03-25 23:10:05 | 1 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/healthcare/2023/03/25/samyn-when-can-i-golf-after-back-surgery/70038453007/ |
QUELIMANE, Mozambique (AP) — Weeks after massive Cyclone Freddy hit Mozambique for a second time, the still-flooded country is facing a spiraling cholera outbreak that threatens to add to the devastation.
There were over 19,000 confirmed cases of cholera across eight of Mozambique’s provinces as of March 27, according to U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, a figure which had almost doubled in a week.
Freddy was likely the longest-lived cyclone ever, lasting over five weeks and hitting Mozambique twice. The tropical storm killed 165 people in Mozambique, 17 in Madagascar and 676 in Malawi. More than 530 people are still missing in Malawi two weeks later so that country’s death toll could well exceed 1,200.
Freddy made its second landfall in Mozambique’s Zambezia province, where scores of villages remain flooded and water supplies are still contaminated.
At a hospital in Quelimane, Zambezia’s provincial capital, National Institute of Health director general Eduardo Sam Gudo Jr reported there were 600 new confirmed cases a day in Quelimane district alone, but said that the real number may be as high as 1,000.
At least 31 died of cholera in Zambezia and over 3,200 were hospitalized between March 15 and 29, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Cases are highest in the neighborhood of Icidua on the city outskirts, where most residents live in bamboo or adobe mud huts and fetch water in buckets from communal wells. Flooding brought by the cyclone has exposed many of these wells to water contaminated with sewage overflow and other sources of bacteria. Cholera spreads through feces, often when it gets into drinking water.
But until water pipelines ruptured in the floods are repaired, these wells are the only source of water for those in Icidua and communities like it. For now, temporary solutions offer the only hope of stemming the outbreak.
Volunteers go from house to house distributing bottles of Certeza, a local chlorine-based water purifier. Each bottle should last a family for a week, but supplies are running low as local production struggles to keep pace with demand. There are also not enough people to distribute the Certeza, even if greater supplies could be procured, Gudo said.
In the meantime, health workers are struggling to treat the infected with many clinics and hospitals badly damaged. “The cyclone destroyed the infrastructure here,” said José da Costa Silva, the clinical director of the Icidua health center. “We are working in parts of the hospital that were not destroyed. Some colleagues are working outside in the open because there’s not enough space available for everyone.”
Eighty health centers in total were affected by Freddy’s two landfalls in Mozambique, according to INGD, the country’s disaster management agency.
Although cyclones do occur in southern Africa from December to May, human-caused climate change has made tropical cyclones wetter, more intense and more frequent. The now-dissipated natural La Nina event also worsened cyclone activity in the region. While Cyclone Freddy itself hasn’t yet been attributed to climate change, researchers say it has all the right hallmarks of a warming-fueled weather event.
Formed in early February off Australia, the cyclone with exceptional longevity made an unprecedented crossing of more than 8000 kilometers (5,000 miles) from east to west across the Indian Ocean.
It followed a looping path rarely recorded by meteorologists, hitting Madagascar and Mozambique for the first time at the end of February, and then again in March before barrelling into Malawi.
Restoring normal water supplies in Mozambique will take time, as many damaged pipelines run through areas that are still inaccessible two weeks after the cyclone’s last impact.
“A cholera outbreak in a flooded flatland with a very high water table is ‘mission impossible’ to address,” Myrta Kaulard, the UN resident coordinator in Mozambique, told Associated Press. “Sanitation is a huge problem and the flooding has affected key infrastructure, such as the water pipelines and the electricity supply … Repairing that infrastructure in flooded areas is another ‘mission impossible.’”
Meanwhile, rural areas around Quelimane are facing other threats. Many villages and fields are still underwater, and the humidity has bred swarms of mosquitoes carrying malaria. In a makeshift displacement camp on the bank of a flooded rice paddy near the village of Nicoadala, 20 out of 290 residents are sick with malaria, according to Hilário Milisto Irawe, a local chief.
There were 444 reported cases of malaria in Quelimane district on 24 March alone, but the number is likely much higher as many, such as those in the camp outside Nicoadala, lack access to health facilities.
Compounding the public health crisis, the material livelihoods of hundreds of thousands are at risk as Freddy hit just before the main harvest. It also carried seawater inland, threatening the long term fertility of the soil in an area where malnutrition is already chronic.
“All our farms are flooded. Our rice farms are destroyed. All we can do is start over again, but we don’t know how we will do that,” said Irawe. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/mozambique-works-to-contain-cholera-outbreak-after-cyclone/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-04-02 08:00:50 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/mozambique-works-to-contain-cholera-outbreak-after-cyclone/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
07-12-24-33-35
(seven, twelve, twenty-four, thirty-three, thirty-five)
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It's time to mark the beginning of the end for 'Ted Lasso' Published March 15, 2023 at 4:09 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email NPR's Juana Summers speaks with critic Laura Sirikul about the new, and final, season of Ted Lasso. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.wunc.org/2023-03-15/its-time-to-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ted-lasso | 2023-03-15 21:13:17 | 0 | https://www.wunc.org/2023-03-15/its-time-to-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ted-lasso |
Bronx post office robbed of more than $100K
NEW YORK - The NYPD says an armed robber got away with more than $100,000 and 1,000 blank money orders from a Bronx post office.
The man walked up to a 56-year-old U.S. Postal Worker in front of 1163 Castle Hill Ave. in Unionport at about 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday. He hit her in the head with a black gun.
Her husband, who had walked away after she got to work, heard her screaming and ran back.
The gunman told them "Don't be stupid" and ordered them to let him into the post office.
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They handed over the cash and 10 boxes of blank money orders. The suspect also demanded a printer for the money orders before taking off.
The New York City Police Department described him as a Black male wearing all-black clothing and a full face mask. There were reports that the man was wearing a Squid Game mask but police could not confirm that.
He got away in an older model white minivan and has not been caught.
The female postal worker was treated at the scene for minor injuries. | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/bronx-post-office-robbed-of-more-than-100k | 2022-09-06 16:25:28 | 1 | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/bronx-post-office-robbed-of-more-than-100k |
NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Ironnet, Inc. (NYSE: IRNT) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Ironnet, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company had materially overstated its business and financial prospects; (ii) the Company was unable to predict the timing of significant customer opportunities which constituted a substantial portion of its publicly- issued FY 2022 financial guidance; (iii) the Company had not established effective disclosure controls and procedures to reasonably ensure its public disclosures were timely, accurate, complete, and not otherwise misleading; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false, misleading, and/or lacked any reasonable basis in fact at all relevant times.
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Getting crushed: NJ needs more affordable housing, report says
The cost of housing in New Jersey is high for everyone, but a new report finds lower-income families are being crushed by a shortage of affordable places to live.
Arnold Cohen, the senior policy advisor for the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, said the report finds that there are 1 affordable and available apartments for every 100 families earning $30,000 a year.
Tough to make ends meet
He said many poor families in Jersey are forced to spend half of their income on housing costs and that means “they’re doing without; they have to rely on food stamps and other support programs.”
Nevertheless, Cohen said getting even the basic essentials including food and clothing for all family members can be challenging.
He said to change this situation we need to be focusing on long-term solutions that will create more affordable housing in the Garden State.
The proposed fiscal year 2023 state budget directs $300 million from the American Rescue Plan money to support affordable housing across the state, which is a good start but it’s not enough, he said.
“New Jersey has a rental assistance program that hasn’t seen any increase in the last 10 years, we need to put more dollars into that," he said.
Cohen said the Congressional Build Back Better proposal would increase housing vouchers and improve expanded public housing and increase dollars for the National Housing Trust Fund.
“Hopefully the federal government will look at this again, it’s on hold right now, we need that kind of massive infusion of funding," he said. “Although finding an affordable place to live is difficult for folks at many different incomes, the lower income you go, the more extreme the problem is.”
He noted the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey has created a HouseNJ campaign to push for more federal dollars for affordable housing.
For additional information you can visit www.hcdnnj.org/housenj.
The Gap report was prepared in partnership with the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
David Matthau is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at david.matthau@townsquaremedia.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Producers Guild of America has elected Hollywood veterans Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line as its new presidents, the organization said Tuesday.
Allain, a longtime producer behind films like “Dear White People,” “Hustle & Flow” and “Beyond the Lights,” is the first woman of color to assume the role in the organization’s history. De Line’s credits include “Ready Player One,” “The Italian Job” and “Pain & Gain.”
The nonprofit trade group represents more than 8,000 producers in film, television and new media and is behind the annual Producers Guild Awards, which has become the best bellwether for predicting the eventual best picture winner at the Oscars.
In a joint statement, Allain and De Line said that, “We will continue to educate the industry on the role of the producer, support producers’ efforts for fair and commensurate compensation and benefits, welcome and encourage a more diverse membership, and endeavor to attain broader healthcare coverage while educating members on the current benefits and opportunities available to them.”
They replace outgoing presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher who were in the role since 2018, during which they helped guide the guild through changes from the #MeToo revolution, the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Stephanie-Allain-Donald-De-Line-to-lead-17393615.php | 2022-08-24 13:46:58 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Stephanie-Allain-Donald-De-Line-to-lead-17393615.php |
WWE Hall of Famer Rick Steiner is expected to make an appearance at WrestleCon in Detroit in August months after he was accused of making "hateful phrases" toward transgender wrestler Gisele Shaw.
WrestleCon announced Rick Steiner, and his brother Scott, will be at the Detroit event at the same time WWE hosts its premiere summer premium live event SummerSlam. Rick Steiner had been banned from the convention since he was accused of making the remarks toward the Impact Wrestling competitor back in April.
"Rick made completely inappropriate remarks to Giselle Shaw at our event in Los Angeles," WrestleCon owner Michael Bochicchio said in a statement on Twitter. "As soon as we were made aware of what happened, we swiftly addressed the issue, but we never shared details of what happened at the event. In hindsight, it was probably a mistake not to share more details during or immediately after the event concluded."
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Bochicchio said he made "a lot of mistakes" during that time as his wife battled and later died of cancer.
"However, at no time then or after do we condone the remarks Rick made at LA," Bochicchio said. "We did not fail to act after we were notified, and as a result, we removed him from the convention for the duration of that event. Rick’s poor decision forever impacted his brand, relationships within the wrestling community, and alienated many of his fans.
"One of the positive things Rick did, and it was not publicized, is immediately apologize. He apologized to members of the Wrestlecon staff, he apologized to many of his fellow wrestlers, and (offered) apologies to the members of Impact Wrestling staff that chose to hear from him at a private mediated event.
"Giselle chose not to attend Rick's apology, which we 100% understood, supported, and still support to this day. She had no obligation to hear anything from Rick nor should she ever feel obligated to accept any apology from him then or now."
Bochicchio said he felt like Steiner "learned a lot from his huge mistake."
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"I know it's easier to cancel people when they make mistakes than to forgive and help educate. However, sometimes I think it's important that we give people a second chance," Bochicchio continued. "That being said, Rick will forever be on a zero-tolerance scale moving forward at any of our events. If we are proven wrong, that he has not learned from his mistakes, we will enforce a permanent ban. That is not to imply that everyone gets one free strike.
"We continue to strive to have an environment where everyone feels safe and included. If we are faced with issues that compromise that environment, we will take all necessary action."
Shaw and Impact Wrestling did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital about WrestleCon’s decision to allow Steiner back into the fray.
Shaw initially made the allegations in a statement posted to her Twitter account. Shaw wrote that Steiner’s "hateful phrases" were "quite shocking and disheartening."
Shaw came out as transgender in 2022. She has been a mainstay on the independent wrestling circuit for several years.
Steiner, 62, is mostly known for his career in World Championship Wrestling in the late 1980s and mid-to-late 1990s. He and his brother, Scott Steiner, were tag-team champions seven times. Their tag-team was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame last year. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/ex-wwe-star-to-appear-at-convention-after-making-hateful-phrases-toward-transgender-wrestler/article_6fb57aa4-cf17-5295-a6d0-7cfced1cd001.html | 2023-07-17 13:56:28 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/ex-wwe-star-to-appear-at-convention-after-making-hateful-phrases-toward-transgender-wrestler/article_6fb57aa4-cf17-5295-a6d0-7cfced1cd001.html |
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, backed by the satirical The Onion, from a man who was arrested and prosecuted for making fun of police on social media.
After his acquittal on criminal charges, Novak sued the police for violating his constitutional rights. But a federal appeals court ruled the officers have “qualified immunity” and threw out the lawsuit.
The Onion filed its brief in defense of parody. Its lawyers wrote that the First Amendment protects people from prosecution when they make fun of others.
“The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists,” the site’s lawyers wrote in a brief filed in October. “This brief is submitted in the interest of at least mitigating their future punishment.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justices-reject-appeal-from-man-arrested-for-spoofing-police/2023/02/21/7bad9ef4-b1f7-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html | 2023-02-21 15:45:09 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justices-reject-appeal-from-man-arrested-for-spoofing-police/2023/02/21/7bad9ef4-b1f7-11ed-94a0-512954d75716_story.html |
TORONTO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX: QSR), (NYSE: QSR), (TSX: QSP) will release its second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, August 4, 2022 and will host an investor conference call that morning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
The earnings call will be webcast on the company's investor relations website (http://rbi.com/investors) and a replay will be available for 30 days following the release. Investors may also access the conference call via the following dial-in numbers: 1 (646)-904-5544 for U.S. callers, 1 (226)-828-7575 for Canadian callers, and 1 (929)-526-1599 for callers from other countries. For all dial-in numbers please use the following access code: 194063.
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Restaurant Brands International Inc. ("RBI") is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 29,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities. To learn more about RBI, please visit the company's website at www.rbi.com.
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Denham Springs Elem. launches Child ID Kit program
Published: Jan. 19, 2023 at 5:11 PM CST|Updated: 18 minutes ago
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (WAFB) - Denham Springs Elementary School launched a Child ID Kit program on Thursday, Jan. 19.
The program provides free and easy kits designed to help families to better identify their children and increase the chances of finding them after an abduction or runaway.
Attorney General Jeff Landry was at the school to help deliver the kits.
Louisiana launched its Child ID program last year to bring them to students in kindergarten through fifth grades.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — On a recent afternoon in San Francisco, a DoorDash driver was circling the neighborhood — first in his car, then on foot — trying to find the restaurant where he needed to pick up two orders. Finally, he Googled the location and realized DoorDash’s app sent him to the wrong address.
It’s an error he vowed to fix, and he probably will. Because that worker is Andy Fang, DoorDash’s chief technology officer and one of the company’s three co-founders.
“If it happens with one restaurant, it might actually be happening with a lot of other restaurants as well,” Fang said after he retrieved the orders and settled back into his car. “If we can see why that happened, maybe we can fix other issues too.”
Fang is one of a growing number of executives who occasionally do the hourly work that makes their companies hum. Starbucks’ new CEO, Laxman Narasimhan, is a trained barista and puts in a half-day of work at a store each month. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Lyft CEO David Risher occasionally shuttle passengers. Air New Zealand CEO Greg Foran has been spotted serving drinks and snacks on flights.
Amazon recently re-launched a program called the Associate Experience Week, which encourages employees to shadow operations workers for a week to gain a better understanding of their job. The program is mandatory for some managers. A1 Garage Door Service, which operates in 16 states, also encourages job-shadowing and requires all employees to learn skills outside their immediate responsibilities. A1 CEO Tommy Mello says the policy promotes empathy and collaboration.
But few companies have a program as robust as WeDash, which requires thousands of salaried DoorDash employees in the U.S., Canada and Australia to complete at least four deliveries per year. Employees are strongly encouraged to make deliveries monthly. They can use work time to complete those shifts, and they keep any money they make.
“We just want to make sure that people who are working here, who are supporting our audiences, are understanding what people are going through,” Fang told The Associated Press.
When they started DoorDash a decade ago, while they were still students at Stanford, Fang and the company’s other two co-founders — CEO Tony Xu and Chief Product Officer Stanley Tang — made all the deliveries themselves.
“We had to. There was nobody else to do them,” Fang said. “But what we quickly found out was that by doing these deliveries ourselves, we learned a ton of insights into what it actually took to get these deliveries fulfilled.”
The company started WeDash in 2015 to make sure every employee was getting those insights. Fang said there are some exceptions; if an employee can’t drive, for example, they might visit merchants or work in the call center.
DoorDash has grown exponentially since then. In 2022, more than 6 million DoorDash drivers — all independent contractors — fulfilled 1.7 billion orders worldwide. DoorDash has expanded beyond restaurant delivery into convenience stores, groceries, pet stores and pharmacies.
Fang, who makes deliveries for at least an hour each month — sometimes with Xu and Tang in tow — says he has made real changes to DoorDash’s app based on his experiences. When he was on the East Coast recently, he set a time to make deliveries when he returned to California. But when he got home, he realized the time he had set was off by three hours because the app assumed he was still on the East Coast. He got that bug fixed.
Another new feature, introduced this week, arose from employee feedback in WeDash. The feature, Dash Along the Way, lets drivers specify where they want to start making deliveries and then assigns them orders that they can complete en route.
Fang also experiences drivers’ other frustrations. The wrong address in the DoorDash app cost him time delivering orders from Bonchon, a Korean fried chicken chain. On the afternoon he drove with an AP video journalist, Fang only made $15.50 for 51 minutes of work. DoorDash says that’s lower than the $34 per hour that California drivers make on average, including tips.
It’s also vastly lower than what Fang pulls in as CTO. His annual compensation in 2022 totaled $2.79 million and Forbes pegged his net worth that same year at $1.1 billion, illustrating the gap between those at the top of a company and those at the bottom.
DoorDash and others recently pushed back against a new rule introduced in New York City implementing a minimum pay rate for app-based food delivery workers that could nearly triple their average earnings in the coming years. DoorDash said it may pursue legal action.
Still, the company is seeking ways to make drivers’ earnings more reliable. This week, it announced a new Earn By Time mode, which will let drivers earn a guaranteed minimum rate for the time they spend on a delivery, not including tips. Drivers can still opt for an Earn Per Offer mode, which is how they have always been paid.
Fang said he knows there are limits to how much he can understand the day-to-day work of the company’s drivers, which is why he also seeks feedback from a council of drivers and from other employees.
Denise Rousseau, a professor of organizational behavior at Carnegie Mellon University, said there is a lot of value in asking workers to do other jobs within their company. Having senior leaders participate, as DoorDash does, sends an even stronger message.
“If you spend your own time on it, that’s not cheap talk anymore,” she said. “You are trying to convey, ‘This is the focus of our business and we care.’”
Elizabeth Bitter, who delivers for DoorDash in Broomfield, Colorado, didn’t know about the WeDash program but has noticed updates in the app that make their job easier.
DoorDash’s app used to ask if a delivery was good or bad, and if the driver felt safe or unsafe, after every delivery. Bitter appreciated the safety concerns, but filling out the survey slowed deliveries, so it was a relief when the app recently stopped requiring that information. Another recent update lets drivers unassign themselves from an order if they have to wait too long at a restaurant to get it.
“It does make me feel better knowing that the people I work for are getting to experience firsthand what it’s like to work for them,” said Bitter, who makes an average of $20 per hour on DoorDash.
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Colorado's governor has by now made it quite clear that he would like to see Disney move from its current home near the beaches of Florida to be near the mountains of his state.
There may be a lot of betting on the NBA Finals, but none of the prizes would be as unique as Disney World. In a tweet on Tuesday, Gov. Polis tagged Florida Gov. DeSantis, who has recently announced his campaign to run for the White House.
The governor wrote in his "friendly wager" to DeSantis, "if the @nuggets win the finals against the @MiamiHEAT, Disney World will move to Colorado, the ACTUAL happiest place on earth [sic] to do business, have fun, and be free! #ColoradoForAll."
While the move could be a pipe dream of sorts for Polis, it did signal growing pressure on Florida's lawmakers to consider how their politics could affect big revenue creators for the tourism-dependent state. Reports have cited how over $1.1 billion in state and local taxes have run through Florida because of Disney's residence there.
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DeSantis has been accused of installing key figures in a legal battle against Disney to favor his side as Florida's legislature made major changes to Disney's governing structure.
The changes were said to be a retaliatory measure in response to Disney's public opposition to the so-called "Don't Say Gay" legislation in that state. It's not the first time Polis has made his thoughts on the row between DeSantis and Disney known.
Last year he called DeSantis' legal battle "authoritarian" and "socialist." Polis said it was an attack on the private sector. Polis said the government of Colorado would not "meddle in affairs of companies like Disney or Twitter. Gov. DeSantis had said at the time that he would look for ways that Florida could hold "these Twitter board of directors accountable for breaching their fiduciary duty."
He was responding to the leadership at Twitter last year who were reportedly making moves to affect Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform.
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YORK, Pa. — Steelton-Highspire's state-playoff quest continues after a dramatic last-second 42-35 victory over Northern Lehigh in Saturday's Class 1A quarterfinal.
The Rollers' reward?
A rematch with the team that ended their postseason run last year.
Steel-High will face District 4 champion Canton Friday night at 7 p.m. at Shamokin High School.
The Warriors defeated the Rollers 32-27 in the quarterfinal round of last year's state playoffs, before falling to eventual state champion Bishop Guifoyle in the semifinals.
Canton brings back several key figures from the team that eliminated Steel-High last year, including top rusher Riley Parker and imposing fullback/linebacker Weston Bellows.
Friday's winner will face either District 7 champ Union (12-3) or District 9 champ Port Allegheny (12-1) in the state championship game on Thursday, Dec. 8 at Cumberland Valley High School. Union and Port Allegheny will square off Friday night at Clarion University.
Here's a look at Friday's semifinal clash between Steel-High and Canton:
Steel-High (12-1) vs. Canton (13-1)
Friday, 7 p.m. at Shamokin High School
ABOUT CANTON: The Warriors captured their second straight District 4 championship with a resounding 42-7 victory over arch-rival Muncy, then opened the state playoffs with a 42-13 triumph over District 6 champ Northern Cambria last week.
In that game, Canton returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown on its way to a 28-0 explosion in the first half. Northern Cambria managed to play the Warriors evenly the rest of the way, but by that point the damage was already done.
Canton held Northern Cambria QB Cameron Bougher, a 2,000-yard passer, to 71 yards on 9-of-20 passing. The Warriors intercepted him twice, returning one 25 yards for a touchdown.
Northern Cambria managed 229 total yards and turned the ball over three times.
It was the fourth straight win for Canton. The only blemish on the Warriors' record is a 23-0 defeat against eventual District 4 Class 4A champ Jersey Shore on Oct. 21.
The Warriors average 40.7 points per game on offense, relying mostly on the ground game. Parker, a 6-0, 190-pound senior, is the leading rusher, with 1,397 yards and 25 touchdowns on 146 carries. He had 107 yards and a score on 10 rushes against Northern Cambria, and also scored on a 25-yard pick-six.
Bellows, a 5-10, 190-pound senior fullback, scored on a 77-yard kickoff return to open the game, while Hayden Ward and Hudson Ward both scored on rushing touchdowns as well. That trio has accounted for an additional 891 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns this season.
Canton has just 772 passing yards this season, though six different players have thrown at least once. Starting QB Austin Allen has completed 23 of 37 passes for 347 yards and three scores.
The Warriors have scored five special teams touchdowns, four on punt returns. Canton's defense has posted five shutouts this season and allows 8.2 points per game.
In last year's victory over Steel-High, Parker rushed for 134 yards and four touchdowns on 19 carries to lift the Warriors, who benefitted from four Steel-High turnovers.
Bellow added an 89-yard touchdown reception in last year's game for Canton.
Steel-High had a chance to catch Canton when the Rollers got the ball back with just over two minutes remaining, but the Warriors forced Steel-High to turn the ball over on downs after just four plays and knelt out the clock.
ABOUT STEEL-HIGH: The Rollers' flair for the dramatic was in full effect in last week's victory over Northern Lehigh. QB Alex Erby hit wideout Jaeion Perry on a 20-yard touchdown strike with four seconds left to lift Steel-High to victory.
The play capped a 58-yard scoring march that began with 23 seconds left. Perry, who finished with five catches for 68 yards, managed to keep his feet in bounds as he hauled in Erby's throw at the right sideline in the end zone.
It was a sloppy yet satisfying win for the Rollers, who committed 11 penalties for 141 yards and struggled to get their powerful offense untracked against the Bulldogs.
But Steel-High exploded for 28 fourth-quarter points, fueled by Erby's two touchdown passes and a pair of scores by running back Ronald Burnette, who rushed for 212 yards on 20 carries and found the end zone three times in all.
Erby finished with 134 yards on 12-of-15 passing and added a third touchdown on a 3-yard run.
The game featured 819 total yards, with Steel-High barely outgaining the Bulldogs 412-407.
It was the 11th straight victory for the Rollers, whose only loss -- a 38-18 setback to unbeaten District 8 champion and Class 2A state semifinalist Westinghouse -- came all the way back in Week 2.
Erby, a junior, led the Rollers to a state title as a freshman and has won three straight district crowns. He's already Steel-High's all-time leading passer, with 8,299 career yards and 113 touchdowns. This season, he's thrown for 2,545 yards and 42 TDs for the Rollers.
Burnette has rushed for 416 yards and six touchdowns in his last two games, nearly equaling his regular-season totals (455 yards, eight TDs).
Perry (44-576, 9 TDs) and Durrell Caesar Jr. (63-1,050, 15 TDs) are the Rollers' top receivers.
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Man gets life in prison for fatally stabbing child more than 50 times
RENO, Nev. (KOLO/Gray News) - A man who killed a 12-year-old boy will spend the rest of his life in prison.
According to the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office, 44-year-old Edward Rivas stabbed the boy more than 50 times before setting him on fire, apparently to cover up the evidence.
Rivas pleaded guilty to first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon and to first-degree arson.
KOLO reports the 44-year-old was sentenced to life in prison without the opportunity for parole.
Authorities said an additional 20 years was also added to Rivas’ prison sentence for using a deadly weapon and another 15 years for arson.
The boy, identified as Stevie Jamon, was found dead at a Reno-area home in September 2020. Police said Rivas lived at the house for a short time with Stevie and his mother. The fire Rivas set also killed the family dog.
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- Q1 revenue of KRW 1.396 trillion, operating profit of KRW 316.5 billion
- Continued robust growth in combustibles and Heat Not Burn, fundamentals intact
- Overseas Heat Not Burn sales volume and operating profit up 64.3%, 127% YoY
- Overseas subsidiaries sales volume and revenue up 60%, 44.3% YoY
SEOUL, South Korea, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KT&G Corporation("KT&G" or the "Company") (KRX:033780), South Korea's leading tobacco manufacturer, today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2023.
The first quarter consolidated revenue decreased 0.5% YoY to KRW 1.396 trillion and consolidated operating profit decreased 5% YoY to KRW 316.5 billion. The slight decrease in operating profit was mainly driven by COGS inflation, mix, and increase in costs.
Despite such headwinds, KT&G delivered continued robust growth in its main business, consisted of combustibles and Heat Not Burn, which proves the company's fundamentals remain intact. It is also worth noting that the company's first quarter overseas sales volume accounted for more than 58% of its total sales volume, showing that the company is on track to become a 'global top-tier' company.
For the combustibles, KT&G sold 9.48 billion sticks in the domestic market and 13.37 billion sticks in the overseas market in the first quarter. The overseas combustibles category saw remarkable growth in both sales volume and revenue compared to the same period last year.
As mentioned above, KT&G's overseas combustibles category recorded the sales volume of 13.37 billion sticks, which represents 16.1% growth YoY. The revenue increased 17.1% to KRW 265.1 billion. Such significant growth in overseas combustibles category was led by strong performance by the overseas subsidiaries. Overseas subsidiaries saw 60% increase in the sales volume and 44.3% increase in the revenue compared to the same period last year. The company's Indonesian subsidiary played a huge role as it accounted for 24% of the total overseas combustibles sales volume in the first quarter. KT&G's Indonesian subsidiary reported sales volume of 3.21 billion sticks, representing 40.8% growth YoY.
The total Heat Not Burn sales volume that includes both domestic and overseas figures increased 41.9% compared to the same period last year to 3.22 billion sticks, fueled by robust growth in both domestic and overseas markets. In the domestic market, KT&G's market share hit an all-time high of 48.4% buoyed by the company's successful launch of the new Heat Not Burn platform, lil AIBLE, and the rapid growth of the market. Out of the total 3.22 billion sticks, overseas sales volume accounted for almost 58%. KT&G sold 1.84 billion sticks of Heat Not Burn consumables in the overseas market, representing 64.3% growth YoY.
Strong performance in the overseas Heat Not Burn category is largely attributable to the strategic alliance with Philip Morris International("PMI") to expand KT&G's Heat Not Burn product line lil into the overseas market. The two companies began their partnership in 2020 and successfully launched lil in more than 30 global markets.
Based on the successful outcome of their initial partnership, KT&G and PMI have entered into a new long-term agreement of 15 years on January 30, 2023. The two companies set volume commitment for the Heat Not Burn consumables, securing profitability of the business. The volume commitments are subject for three-year performance review cycles that allow flexibility for changing market conditions. Over the initial stage of the agreement, which covers from 2023 to 2025, PMI will guarantee the minimum sales volume of 16 billion sticks. The company expects the overseas Heat Not Burn revenue and consumables sales volume to grow 20.6% and 24% CAGR respectively for the next 15 years through the collaboration with PMI.
Earlier this year, the company has unveiled the 2027 KT&G Vision and outlined its growth strategies that focus on three core business areas, which include Heat Not Burn, Health Functional Food, and overseas business. As the company has continuously strived to foster growth of the three core business areas, the sum of their revenues for the first quarter accounted for more than 60% of the company's total revenue, and their operating profit saw 14% growth YoY. The company plans to strengthen its commitment to leap forward as a 'global top-tier' company and accelerate the global expansion of its core businesses.
Meanwhile, KT&G has decided to host a webcast of its financial results and disclose financial performance of each business unit starting from the first quarter, as an effort to engage in more open and transparent communication with its shareholders.
Currently, the company is faithfully executing on its three-year shareholder return policy worth KRW 2.75 trillion from 2021. In the second half of this year, the company also plans to announce a New Shareholder Return Policy that includes treasury cancellation and increase shareholder returns.
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DALLAS — Meet Chaz and Whitney Gates, the North Texas couple disrupting the wine industry.
"I always joke about the 'Cat Lady.' She was the Wine Lady," said husband Chaz Gates, one half of the dup behind Wondry Wine. "When we first started dating, every time I would come to her place, she always had wine all over the place."
With roots in sunny South Dallas, Chaz is an attorney by trade and has been labeled the "dreamer" of the duo. Whitney Gates is a serial marketing guru, but also admits she’s very practical about outcomes.
Together, they're using their corporate experience to propel their business forward.
Whitney laughed while explaining, her dad even calls her behavior "an intensity."
"I literally googled how to make wine and I made so many mistakes," Whitney said. "My first wine fermentation was a total disaster, but I have this determination."
While Wondry’s concept blurs the line between premium wine and a craft cocktail, their story bridges the gap in a once very exclusive industry.
"What we noticed before launching this business is that there is a large base of consumers who are being overlooked by the traditional wine industry," Whitney added.
She’s in part, referring to millennials and even Generation Z.
"They haven't really gravitated to wine. They want craft cocktails, craft beers. And so, we've created a product that all people can enjoy, particularly people who don't have a sophisticated palette in the wine industry," Chaz added.
Their motto: Shatter glass ceilings by filling glass bottles.
"There is this element of diversity and uniqueness in who we are and who we represent," Whitney said. "The startling fact is that less than 1% of American winemakers are Black, and we became very understanding of that when we launched the business.”
Due to those numbers, she says during the beginning phases of launching their business, they were often met with stares of disbelief.
"Oftentimes, people would mistake us for simply just sales people," she added. "When we told them we made this wine, they would look at us crazy."
Even with the additional challenges of starting the business, those tough days have fueled one of their greatest initiatives. With every purchase, they'll make a donation to underrepresented entrepreneurs as they work to bring communities one step closer to unity and inclusion.
Their fruit-infused wine and sangria collection boasts a 13.9% ABV. They say the heightened alcohol content in their semi-sweet wines are another way the couple expressed they are disrupting the wine industry.
"A lot of wines, particularly semi-sweet wines, range in the 5-7% ABV range," Whitney added. "We had to figure out how to deliver this sophisticated taste profile with an elevated alcohol experience.”
From Forbes to Black Enterprise Magazine, since their launch during the pandemic in 2021, the couple has been featured all over, but it was this $225,000 investment from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank that really took Wondry Wine to the next level.
"We ask for it, we work for it," Chaz added. "We stepped out on faith and here it is, so we're just so grateful that happened. If you don't do anything, you know for sure, nothing will happen.”
The Texas winemaking duo have won 11 medals in the oldest, most prestigious wine competition in Texas.
Before their appearance on Shark Tank, they were already in Target and Total Wine. Now, the couple has expanded their reach to multiple retailers across Texas.
They also have plans to launch in Georgia and Arkansas.
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INZAI CITY, Japan (AP) — Brendan Steele finished with four consecutive birdies and shot a 6-under 64 on Thursday to take the first-round lead at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship.
“Everybody says if you birdie 18, dinner tastes better,” Steele said. “But four in a row is definitely, really nice and feels good.”
It was a happy return to the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, where Steele was the runner-up a year ago in the same tournament behind winner Hideki Matsuyama.
“I love it here,” Steele said. “Loved the course last year — really happy be back.”
The Zozo Championship is the only PGA Tour event in Japan and has a purse of $11 million. There are no COVID-19 crowd-limit restrictions in place this year.
“Nice for us to be able to get out the hotel a little bit this year and enjoy the culture a little bit,” Steele said. “So I’ve enjoyed it a ton.”
It was a big day for other Americans as well.
Adam Schenk was a shot back after a 65 on a rainy day on the course on the outskirts of Tokyo. Sam Ryder, Matthew NeSmith, and Keegan Bradley were two back.
Three more Americans were three behind: Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, and Maverick McNealy.
Defending champion Matsuyama, who won by five strokes a year ago, got off to a slow start before a home crowd with a 71.
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Students at Bismarck State College spent the weekend moving in and checking into their new spaces away from home.
“I’m really excited, but I’m also nervous at the same time.” Bismarck State College Student Alaina Frey said.
BSC students Alaina Frey and Emily Tryon added finishing touches to their dorm rooms.
The two come from separate parts of the state, Hazen, and Mott.
“There are some things I still call my mom about. I’ll Facetime her a couple of times a week and say, ‘Mom I need help’,” Frey said.
“I’m a bit nervous, but I’m excited about what I’ll do and who I am going to be,” Bismarck State College Student Emilly Tryon said.
Frey is a nursing major and said she’s always had a passion for helping people, which will correlate well with her role as an Resident Assistant.
“I like caring for people. I like to put their needs before mine,” Frey said.
While Tryon is a communications major, she also enjoys art, which has distracted her from being away from home.
“I actually started doing some work and that’s how I’ve been coping,” Tryon said.
Although the new chapters have started in their lives, they say they’re prepared to lead by example.
“Be smart with your choices, don’t do anything that you will regret in the future, and pay attention in classes,” Frey said.
“I’m used to a lot of responsibilities, as long as it keeps me busy, I’m good,” Tryon said. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/college-students-settle-in-for-the-new-semester/ | 2022-08-22 16:04:01 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/college-students-settle-in-for-the-new-semester/ |
CAIRO (AP) — Suspected al-Qaida militants on Tuesday attacked a security post in southern Yemen, sparking clashes that killed at least 21 troops and six militants, military officials said.
The early morning attack in Ahwar, in the province of Abyan, targeted a post manned by troops from the Security Belt, a security force loyal to the secessionist Southern Transitional Council.
The separatist council is backed by the United Arab Emirates and controls much of Yemen’s south. It is at odds with the internationally recognized government.
The officials said at least 21 troops were killed in the attack and the clashes that ensures for hours. Four more troops were also wounded, they said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
Among the dead troops was Yasser Nasser Shaea, a senior commander in the force fighting terror groups in Yemen, the Security Belt said in a statement.
It said six militants were killed and others were detained. It posted images showing bodies it said were the dead militants.
No group claimed responsibility for the ambush. But it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP.
AQAP has long been considered the global network’s most dangerous branch, and has attempted to carry out attacks on the U.S. mainland.
AQAP, along with an affiliate of the Islamic State group, are active in several regions of Yemen and have taken advantage of the yearslong civil war to make inroads.
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre alarmed Twitter users on Wednesday after insisting that the decision to receive gender treatments should be made by a child along with their parents.
During the latest press conference, Washington Examiner writer Philip Wegmann asked Jean-Pierre about President Biden’s position on puberty blockers and gender transition surgeries for minors after Indiana recently passed a law banning both procedures.
"Today Indiana just banned puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and gender transition surgeries for minors. I’m wondering what the President’s reaction is to the Indiana governor signing that bill into law. And does the President have a position on at what age these kinds of therapies and surgeries are appropriate?" Wegmann asked.
"That’s something for a child and their parents to decide, it’s not something we believe should be decided by legislators. So I’ll leave it there," Jean-Pierre responded.
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Social media users reacted in disgust by the suggestion that the White House supports gender transition surgeries for minors based on a child’s decision.
"But not any therapy that offers any option other than affirmation and transition," conservative personality Chad Felix Greene remarked.
OutKick podcast host Dan Dakich asked, "Then why not smokes and alcohol?"
Columnist David Marcus wrote, "The official position of the White House is that if a 5 year old boy decides he wants his penis removed, and the parent agrees, then it’s none of our business and should be perfectly legal."
"Pure evil. Child sex changes. This is madness," legal commentator Dennis Noel Kavanaugh tweeted.
Canadian blogger Samuel Sey commented, "Democrats hate your children and the God who created them."
"Suddenly parents matter," Independent Women’s Forum analyst Julie Gunlock noted.
Travel Pulse CEO Mark Murphy agreed, "The child? And I thought Dems don’t want parents involved in that decision?"
"Joe Biden thinks kids should be able to get their genitals chopped off at any age. This is bats--t insane," radio host Clay Travis tweeted.
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During the press briefing, Jean-Pierre reiterated Biden’s support for the transgender youth.
"In the past couple of months, we have seen a record number of LGBTQI bills — anti-LGBTQI bills, more than 600 of them have been filed in statehouses and a significant number of them have been anti-trans bills targeted at youth. And this is a president that has said these are some of the bravest people he knows. But no one should have to be brave just to be themselves," Jean-Pierre said.
She added, "And so, this is a president that has committed to this community, that has been committed to our kids in the trans community, to our trans youth, and he is going to continue to fight for them. But again, I’m just going to leave it there."
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year.
Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, is eligible to receive a payment. To apply for the settlement, users can fill out a form and submit it online, or print it out and mail it. The deadline is August 25.
It’s not clear how much money individual users will receive. The larger the number of people submitting valid claims, the smaller each payment will be since the money has to be divided among them.
The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.
Uproar over the revelations led to a contrite Zuckerberg being grilled by U.S. lawmakers and spurred calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts.
Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people connect and entertain themselves on rival services such as TikTok, but the social network still boasts more than 2 billion users worldwide, including an estimated 250 million in the U.S.
Beyond the Cambridge Analytica case, Meta has been under fire over data privacy for some time. In May, for example, the EU slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion fine and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October. And the tech giant’s new text-based app, Threads, has not rolled out in the EU due to privacy concerns.
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SVB Securities and SVB Capital's Funds and General Partner Entities NOT Included in Chapter 11 Filing
Strategic Alternatives Process for SVB Capital and SVB Securities Operations Underway with Significant Interest
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SVB Financial Group ("the Company") (NASDAQ: SIVB) today announced that it has filed a voluntary petition for a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to preserve value.
SVB Securities and SVB Capital's funds and general partner entities are not included in the Chapter 11 filing and continue to operate in the ordinary course as SVB Financial Group proceeds with its previously announced exploration of strategic alternatives for these valuable businesses.
- SVB Capital, a venture capital and private credit fund platform with deep roots in the innovation economy, continues to operate in the ordinary course and serve its clients. The SVB Capital funds and general partners are separate legal entities, distinct from SVB Financial Group, and are not included in the Chapter 11 filing. SVB Capital funds continue to have access to sources of funding, including subscription credit facilities and investor and general partner commitments. SVB Financial Group is committed to providing SVB Capital with support throughout the reorganization process.
- SVB Securities, a regulated broker-dealer with its own management, employees and capital, is a separate legal entity from SVB Financial Group and is not included in the Chapter 11 filing. It continues to operate in the ordinary course. SVB Financial Group, which owns the equity of SVB Securities, is committed to providing SVB Securities with support throughout the reorganization process.
- SVB Financial Group is no longer affiliated with Silicon Valley Bank, N.A., or the bank's private banking and wealth management business, SVB Private. The bank's successor, Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A., is operating under the jurisdiction of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") and is not included in the Chapter 11 filing.
The Company believes it has approximately $2.2 billion of liquidity. In addition to cash and its interests in SVB Capital and SVB Securities, SVB Financial Group has other valuable investment securities accounts and other assets for which it is also exploring strategic alternatives.
SVB Financial Group's funded debt is approximately $3.3 billion in aggregate principal amount of unsecured notes, which are only recourse to SVB Financial Group and have no claim against SVB Capital or SVB Securities. SVB Financial Group also has $3.7 billion of preferred equity outstanding.
SVB Financial Group intends to use the court-supervised process to evaluate strategic alternatives for SVB Capital, SVB Securities and the Company's other assets and investments. As previously announced, this process is being led by a five-member restructuring committee appointed by the SVB Financial Group Board of Directors. Centerview Partners LLC is assisting the restructuring committee with the strategic alternatives process, which is already underway and has attracted significant interest. Any sale process will be conducted through the Chapter 11 proceeding and be subject to court approval.
"The Chapter 11 process will allow SVB Financial Group to preserve value as it evaluates strategic alternatives for its prized businesses and assets, especially SVB Capital and SVB Securities," said William Kosturos, Chief Restructuring Officer for SVB Financial Group. "SVB Capital and SVB Securities continue to operate and serve clients, led by their longstanding and independent leadership teams."
"SVB Financial Group will continue to work cooperatively with Silicon Valley Bridge Bank," Mr. Kosturos continued. "We are committed to finding practical solutions to maximize the recoverable value for stakeholders of both entities."
SVB Financial Group plans to file customary first day motions with the Bankruptcy Court that, among other things, seek authorization to continue the operations of SVB Financial Group in the ordinary course of business as soon as a hearing can be scheduled. Additional documents relating to the Bankruptcy Court proceeding will be filed in the coming days.
Centerview Partners LLC is proposed financial advisor, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP proposed legal counsel and Alvarez & Marsal proposed restructuring advisor to SVB Financial Group as debtor-in-possession.
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Lava from Mauna Loa is less than 4 miles from a key highway. Officials say they have a plan in case the road closes
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN
With the Mauna Loa volcano continuing to erupt on Hawaii’s Big Island, local officials and residents are keeping an eye on the lava flow as it creeps closer to a major roadway and making plans for the possibility that access to the highway could soon be cut off and have a major impact on daily life.
Lava from Mauna Loa was 3.6 miles from Saddle Road, also known as Daniel K. Inouye Highway, as of Wednesday morning, the US Geological Survey said. The crucial roadway is the fastest route linking the east and west sides of the island.
“County officials have been working with the state Department of Transportation on a plan to shut down the Daniel K. Inouye Highway if the lava moves close enough to the road to pose a hazard,” Adam Weintraub, communication director with Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement to CNN. “The plans are preliminary and subject to change based on how the lava advances.”
As of Wednesday, the lava was moving into a relatively flat area, “so it is slowing down and spreading out,” Weintraub said.
Emmanuel Carrasco Escalante, who lives in Hilo on the island’s east side, told CNN if the road ends up being shut down, his commute to work would take about four hours round trip — twice as long as normal, not accounting for traffic.
Carrasco Escalante works in landscaping in Kona on the west side of the island and said he usually leaves for work around 3:30 a.m.
If Saddle Road is closed, he’ll have to detour to either the north or south coastal roadways, he said.
“That would add almost two hours, more gas, and more miles so hopefully it (lava) doesn’t cross that road,” Carrasco Escalante told CNN.
The fountains of lava that began pouring from Mauna Loa this week marked the first time it has erupted in 38 years, joining nearby Kilauea, which has been erupting since last year, and creating rare duel volcanic eruptions on the Big Island. At 13,681 feet above sea level, Mauna Loa is the world’s largest active volcano.
The transportation department can provide a six-hour notice of the road’s closure, Weintraub said. “And the staff at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say that they can provide at least 24-48 hours advance warning if the lava appears to be threatening the roadway,” he added.
According to the US Geological Survey, the lava’s pace has slowed in the days since the eruption and it could take at least two days for the lava to reach Saddle Road.
In case of emergencies if the road closes, there are hospitals and first responders on each side of the island, Weintraub said, noting there is already “substantial coordination” between hospitals in the state.
Hawaii’s transportation department is monitoring the situation and response plans are in place if the highway must be closed, according to a statement from earlier this week. The department also shared a preliminary plan for the possibility of closure.
No threat to property, but air quality could be compromised
Despite the dual eruptions of Mauna Loa and Kilauea just 21 miles apart in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii Gov. David Ige has maintained it’s still safe to visit the Big Island. And the park has said neither eruption is threatening homes.
“The eruption site is high up the mountain, and it’s in a relatively isolated location,” Ige said.
State health officials, however, have warned of potential air quality issues, including vog, or volcanic smog.
Residents and visitors can expect “vog conditions, ash in the air, and levels of sulfur dioxide to increase and fluctuate in various areas of the state,” the Hawaii health department said.
Volcanic gas, fine ash and Pele’s Hair (strands of volcanic glass) could be carried downwind, the US Geological Survey said. A field team has found Pele’s hairs across older lava flows, the geological survey said Wednesday, adding: “Hairs deposited many km (mi) from active vents by the windblown eruption plume.”
Children, the elderly and those with respiratory conditions should reduce outdoor activities that cause heavy breathing and reduce exposure by staying indoors and closing windows and doors if vog conditions develop, the health department said.
The governor acknowledged the potential for air hazards and said officials are tracking air quality monitors across the island.
“The concern is about dangerous gases from the fissures. And the most dangerous is sulfur dioxide,” Ige said Wednesday. “Observing the volcano should occur at a distance. It’s not safe to get up close.”
While evacuation orders have not been issued, Ige said he signed an emergency proclamation as a “proactive” measure.
Volcanoes also erupting in Alaska
More than 3,000 miles to the north, officials in Alaska are also monitoring two erupting volcanoes in their state.
Both the Pavlof Volcano and Great Sitkin Volcano are experiencing low-level eruptions in the remote Aleutian Islands chain, according to Cheryl Searcy, duty scientist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
“Pavlof has been erupting for over a year,” Searcy told CNN in a phone interview from Anchorage. “Roughly 15 months of activity, longer than any of the previous eruptions.”
During that time, Pavlof — which stands at 8,261 feet– has not produced a high ash cloud, posing no threat to aviation, Searcy said.
As for the Great Sitkin Volcano, lava is still erupting in its summit crater, according to a report from the state’s volcano observatory. Searcy noted the 5,709-foot Great Sitkin has also been active for quite a while.
Researchers are also keeping an eye on three other volcanoes that have shown signs of unrest, including the Semisopochnoi, Takawangha and Cleveland volcanoes.
Overall, Alaska has more than 40 active volcanoes stretching across the Aleutian Islands chain.
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 2, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Energy Transfer securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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Alec Baldwin's lawyers are seeking to have state Rep. Andrea Reeb disqualified as a special prosecutor in the criminal case tied to the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of the movie Rust, claiming the role conflicts with her position as a legislator.
Three lawyers representing the Hollywood actor and producer filed a motion Tuesday in state District Court requesting a judge disqualify Reeb based a clause in the state constitution they say bars individuals from simultaneously exercising powers in more than one of the three branches of government.
"Ms. Reeb's continued service as a special prosecutor in this case is unconstitutional," according to the motion filed Tuesday by attorneys Luke Nikas, John F. Bash and Heather LeBlanc. "The legal question is not a close one. She must be disqualified."
Nikas is based in New York; Bash in Austin, Texas; and LeBlanc in Albuquerque.
The motion cites Article III, Section 1 of the New Mexico Constitution.
The motion also quotes a New Mexico Supreme Court ruling contending the provision "articulates one of the cornerstones of democratic government that the accumulation of too much power within one branch poses a threat to liberty."
The state Board of Finance awarded the First Judicial District Attorney's Office more than $317,000 last fall after District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told officials she might need about $635,000 to prosecute defendants in the Rust case. Carmack-Altwies has asked the Legislature for an appropriation to make up the difference.
If Reeb were to continue acting as both special prosecutor and legislator, Baldwin's motion argues in part, Reeb could be in a position to make decisions about an appropriation funding her own salary in the case.
"Even if she recuses from votes on her own compensation, her clout with her colleagues on other matters could (wittingly or not) encourage them to maintain funding her position," the filing says.
The District Attorney’s Office charged Baldwin and film set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed — who was tasked with maintaining firearms, ammunition and gun safety on the set — with involuntary manslaughter last month in connection with the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, which occurred during a rehearsal at the Bonanza Creek Ranch south of Santa Fe.
The bullet fired from a .45 caliber Colt revolver Baldwin wielded during the scene passed through Hutchins' body and also wounded director Joel Souza.
Carmack-Altwies announced in August she had hired Reeb — a Clovis Republican who retired last spring as district attorney in the 9th Judicial District — to help work on the Rust case.
Reeb has since been appointed "special prosecutor," which Baldwin's motion says by statute means she is vested with "all the power and duties" of the appointing district attorney.
Heather Brewer, a spokeswoman hired by the District Attorney's Office to handle Rust-related media inquiries, wrote in an email Tuesday, "Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys can use whatever tactics they want to distract from the fact that Halyna Hutchins died because of gross negligence and a reckless disregard for safety on the Rust film set. However, the district attorney and the special prosecutor will remain focused on the evidence and on trying this case so that justice is served.”
Jennifer Burrill, president-elect of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, said she believes Baldwin's question is "valid."
"You can't benefit from state contracts while you are in the Legislature, and that goes directly to what they cited: separation of powers."
Burrill noted Reeb is a co-sponsor of House Bill 58, which proposes including involuntary manslaughter — the charge Baldwin faces — in a "three strikes" list of violent felony crimes. Under the measure, a person convicted of three crimes on the list could be sent to prison for life.
Involuntary manslaughter is not currently classified as a violent felony, Burrill said.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels on Thursday for another European Union-mediated attempt to resolve lingering issues between the two wartime rivaling states that have spiked tensions in the Balkans.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, speaking before the meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, said “recent tensions in the north of Kosovo have demonstrated yet again that it is time to move forward towards full normalization” of relations between the two states.
“I expect both leaders to be open and flexible to find common ground,” Borrell tweeted.
Kosovo is a former province of Serbia, which has refused to recognize the country’s 2008 declaration of independence. That came after a NATO-led intervention in 1999 stopped Belgrade’s bloody crackdown against majority Kosovo Albanians.
The European Union has overseen years of talks to normalize their ties, saying that’s one of the main preconditions for eventual membership in the 27-nation bloc.
Even before the latest round of talks started Thursday, Vucic expressed pessimism that the meeting would produce any major result.
“I am hoping for any solution, although I do not believe in it,” Vucic said on Instagram.
The latest tensions between Serbia and Kosovo soared late last month when Kurti’s government declared that Serbian identity documents and vehicle license plates would no longer be valid on Kosovo territory.
Minority Serbs, who live mostly in northern Kosovo, reacted with anger, putting up roadblocks, sounding air raid sirens and firing guns into the air and in the direction of Kosovo police officers. No one was injured.
Under apparent pressure from the West, Kurti postponed the implementation of the measure for a month, to Sept. 1.
Serbia and its allies Russia and China don’t recognize Kosovo’s independence, which is supported by the United States and most other Western states.
There are fears in the West that Russia could encourage Serbia into an armed intervention in northern Kosovo that would further destabilize the Balkans and shift at least some attention from its war in Ukraine. | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/eu-hosts-crisis-serbia-kosovo-meeting-amid-soaring-tensions/ | 2022-08-18 15:50:46 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/international-news/ap-international/eu-hosts-crisis-serbia-kosovo-meeting-amid-soaring-tensions/ |
SHANGHAI and CLINTON, N.J., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HuidaGene Therapeutics (辉大基因; HuidaGene), a clinical-stage genome-editing company, today announced the appointment of gene therapy industry veteran, Alvin Luk, Ph.D., M.B.A., C.C.R.A., as Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Directors, and Chief Executive Officer.
On behalf of the Company and the Board of Directors, Hui Yang, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Advisor, and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) at HuidaGene, extended a warm welcome to Dr. Alvin Luk and stated, "With more than a 30-year career in biotech/biopharma industry, we're delighted to appoint an industry veteran of Alvin's caliber as the Company's co-founder and CEO. As more of our innovative medicines progress toward clinical development, Alvin's significant global drug development experience, proven leadership, passion for genetic medicine, and focus on bringing novel modalities to patients globally add tremendous values to HuidaGene. As we enter the next phase, our mission of 'answering the patients' remains the same. My team and I look forward to working closely with Alvin to ensure continuity, build on the progress HuidaGene made, and deliver value to our stakeholders."
"HuidaGene has a solid foundation and world-leading gene editing platform which is rapidly advancing its pipeline to the clinical stage," said Dr. Darren Cai, Founder and Managing Partner at Sherpa Venture Capital. "Alvin has been deeply involved in the field of gene therapy for many years and has rich multinational work experience with global vision in new drug development. His leadership and experience will help HuidaGene become a world-class gene editing company. We warmly welcome Alvin to join the HuidaGene team and provide direct guidance for the ongoing IITs, IND submissions, and international collaborations. I look forward to working with Alvin as we advance the Company into a new phase of development and start an exciting future with us."
"Alvin has a track record of repeatedly building and operating successful biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations in China and the United States with extensive practical experience and strong leadership in the field of global drug development," commented by Mr. Tianji Zhu, Partner at CD Capital. "In the past three decades, Alvin has successfully launched impactful patient-centric therapies and driven outstanding results of championing 21 approved products; all of which will be critical to helping HuidaGene reach the next stage in its growth. We're thrilled to welcome Alvin to our growing organization, as we realize our mission of bringing next generation of CRISPR-based therapies to transform the lives of patients suffering from severe and life-threatening diseases."
Dr. Alvin Luk brings to HuidaGene over 30 years of experience in global drug development, gene/cell therapy medicines, biological drugs, and rare diseases, from bench to the beside participating in 21 approved products at different biotech/biopharma companies, including Spark Therapeutics (acquired by Roche), Biogen, Bayer HealthCare, Shanghai Henlius, etc. Dr. Luk also has a proven track record of over 250 cumulative total of IND, BLA, and MAA submissions in North/South Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. For more information about Dr. Luk, please see recent news of 'HuidaGene Appoints New Members to the Scientific Advisory Board' (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/huidagene-appoints-new-members-to-the-scientific-advisory-board-301792898.html).
"I'm impressed by HuidaGene's 'In China, For Global' and 'Answering the Patients' spirits, the quality of its science and its employees, and its drive to become a global leader in the discovery and development of novel gene therapy medicines," Dr. Luk commented. "I'm incredibly excited to be a part of this unique company putting the patients first by putting the employees first, which has made significant strides in realizing the potential of gene editing to address incurable diseases. Together with Prof. Yang, Dr. Yao (Co-Founder, President, and General Manager of China) and Dr. Shi (co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer) , we will join force to transform the platform and advance clinical trials to develop potentially life-changing medicines for people living with devasting diseases worldwide. The future of gene editing and HuidaGene are bright."
About HuidaGene -辉大基因
HuidaGene Therapeutics (辉大基因) is a global clinical-stage biotechnology company focusing on discovering, engineering, and developing CRISPR-based genetic medicine to rewrite the future of genomic medicine. Based in Shanghai and New Jersey, HuidaGene is committed to addressing patients' needs globally with various preclinical therapeutic programs covering ophthalmology, otology, myology, and neurology. We are currently advancing clinical programs in RPE65 mutation-associated inherited retinal dystrophies and our preclinical pipeline, including programs in neovascular age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, hereditary hearing loss, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and MECP2 duplication syndrome. Company's CRISPR-based therapeutics offer the potential to cure patients with life-threatening conditions by repairing the cause of their disease. HuidaGene is committed to transforming the future of genome-editing medicine.
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Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly stabbed a Los Angeles Metro Bus operator multiple times Wednesday evening, leaving him in critical condition.
A male suspect boarded the bus in Woodland Hills and began arguing with the driver before stabbing him, Metro Los Angeles said on Twitter.
"The bus driver and the suspect exited the bus and continued the argument, at which time the suspect produced a knife (or sharp object) and stabbed the bus driver multiple times," police said in a press release.
The suspect then fled on foot near Erwin Street and Topanga Canyon Boulevard, officials said.
L.A. Police Department officers began a grid search of the area, Chief Michel Moore said, adding that the department "has mustered a number of night watch detectives and uniform personnel to investigate this senseless attack."
Police officials released a statement with images of the suspect.
"This heinous act of violence is horrific and the harm done to one of our Metro drivers is tragic. I join the entire City family in praying for him tonight, and my heart also goes out to his family," Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement.
Police described the suspect as a 21-year-old white man with blonde curly hair and a thin build. He is about 6 feet tall. He wore a red shirt, black pants and a black backpack.
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WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, June 25, 2022
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The Dixie West Burn Scar. in...
Southwestern Lassen County in northern California...
Northwestern Plumas County in northern California...
* Until 1130 PM PDT.
* At 535 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain over the Dixie West Burn Scar west of Chester along
highway 36. Up to 1 inch of rain has fallen. The expected rainfall
rate is 1.00 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts up to 1
inch are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly.
Excessive rainfall over the warning area will cause mud slides near
steep terrain. The mud slide can consist of rock, mud, vegetation
and other loose materials.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding in and around the Dixie West
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Chester, Almanor, Prattville, Lake Almanor West, Lake Almanor
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extensive and severe flash flooding of creeks...streams...and
ditches in the Dixie West Burn Scar. Severe debris flows can also be
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places. If you encounter flood waters...climb to safety.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Prosecutors have dropped the possibility of a sentence enhancement that could have carried a mandatory five-year sentence against Alec Baldwin in a fatal film-set shooting, according to new court filings made public Monday.
The actor-producer’s attorneys had earlier objected to the enhancement, saying it was unconstitutional because it was added after the October 2021 shooting.
“The prosecutors committed a basic legal error by charging Mr. Baldwin under a version of the firearm-enhancement statue that did not exist on the date of the accident,” Baldwin’s attorneys said in an earlier court filing.
Baldwin’s attorney declined to comment.
Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the weapons supervisor on the set of the film “Rust,” were charged last month with felony involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died shortly who died shortly after being wounded during rehearsals at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe.
Authorities said Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza.
Hutchins’ parents and sister have filed a lawsuit over the shooting after a similar suit filed by her husband and son was settled.
Production is expected to resume this spring on “Rust” after it was halted following the shooting. Rust Movie Productions said Hutchins’ widower, Matthew Hutchins, will be the film’s new executive producer with Blanca Cline as the new cinematographer.
Rust Movie Productions said last week a related documentary will detail the completion of the film and the life of Halyna Hutchins.
Souza will return as director when production resumes, although it’s unclear in what state the filming will take place.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yuri Covington's 22 points helped UMass-Lowell defeat LIU 84-64 on Monday night.
Covington shot 8 for 12, including 6 for 8 from beyond the arc for the River Hawks (9-1). Everette Hammond added 18 points while shooting 7 for 13 (0 for 4 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free throw line, and he also had six rebounds. Abdoul Karim Coulibaly shot 4 of 5 from the field to finish with eight points. The River Hawks picked up their seventh straight win.
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Jacob Johnson finished with 18 points, nine rebounds and three steals for the Sharks (1-7). R.J. Greene added 15 points for LIU. Cheikh Ndiaye also put up 14 points and six rebounds. The loss was the Sharks' sixth straight.
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Gov. Brad Little and several Idaho State Police troopers recently went to the U.S.-Mexico border.
In May and June, 12 ISP troopers traveled to the border to provide aid to overwhelmed Texas authorities and also to get first-hand experience and training that can be applied to the Gem State.
They recently held a roundtable discussion, which included some lawmakers as well. They debriefed and talked about what Idaho can learn from the situation in Texas.
Each trooper spoke about their experience and what new skills they hope to apply in the Gem State.
“Those drugs are destined not for the border of Texas – they're destined for everywhere else in the United States, including Idaho," said ISP Col. Kedrick Wills.
Six troopers from Drug Highway Enforcement, or DHE, went to learn more about drug interdiction, and identify current trends and methods of drug concealment.
“I kind of refer to it a “ground zero” so ground zero to where the drugs are coming into the U.S.," said Sgt. Curtis Sproat.
“The biggest thing over there they deal with is after market hidden compartments in vehicles," said Trooper Tyler Scheierman. "We obviously see some of those in Idaho and there’s a lot more that we’re missing. So being able to see those in person - I was lucky enough to get to go to a yard to where those vehicles were to put my hands on them and see how they operate and how to get into them and how to find those. That's probably the skill I’m most excited to bring back to Idaho.”
Sproat added that he rode along with a Texas state trooper with 30-plus years of experience and he was also able to take away some important training.
“He was looking at vehicles, I thought he was actually looking at the occupants of the vehicle but he was actually looking at the vehicle," Sproat said. "He was seeing if the body of the vehicle was actually lower than it was supposed to be which would mean there was like a false floor in there which would give additional space to put drugs. I’d heard of that but I hadn’t really looked for it.”
Six SWAT troopers also went, with their focus on human trafficking and learning more about specialized tracking and searches.
“One of the things that our SWAT team does in the Idaho State Police that’s fairly unique among SWAT teams is we ask them be excellent trackers of people," Wills explained. "Because we have more federal land than any state in the lower 48 and so we have a lot of rural areas."
So ISP SWAT tracks those who are fleeing or even those who are lost in Idaho's vast rural landscape.
“And our SWAT commander said they got more experience in two weeks than they could have got in two years here,” Wills said.
The troopers said seeing all the technology and learning the best ways to utilize it was also an eye opener.
“Utilizing drones to help us through every inch of this whether it was checking areas we couldn’t get to, finding hotspots with thermal imagery, using night vision and laser pointers to show us exactly where we needed to be," said Sgt. Matthew Clark.
“Combining drones with the mapping software and of course doing this all at night because that’s when most the criminals try to come across is in darkness," added Capt. David Neth. "Then being under night vision the entire time as well. Those were the huge takeaways for us. We have a long ways to go in that training area but we have some of those capabilities now.
“In any industry it’s important to stay cutting edge. Criminals change their tactics and we have to combat that. We're always behind the eight ball. So it’s critical to stay cutting edge. That's how we do our jobs better and make better use of our resources,” Neth continued.
Troopers said what they learned was invaluable and they will teach and apply it to agencies throughout the state.
“Seeing what problems they’re dealing with in Mexico and not wanting that here definitely drives a lot of us," Clark said. "We're driven to not have to deal with how bad it could be. We're trying to make it better.”
“We owe it to the citizens of Idaho and to our officers to be the best we can be and be the safest we can be," Neth said.
“It really was an opportunity to get a front line look at the enemy to Idaho and that’s the drug smugglers," Wills said. "We want to know how they think, we want to know why they’re doing it so we can stop them before they kill one more Idahoan.”
Gov. Little said they will continue awareness campaigns and outreach efforts, like "Fentanyl Takes All" and work on more recovery centers.
Legislators at the roundtable also said they believe some laws need to be changed and potentially harsher consequences added to combat the issue.
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Journalist previously kicked out of Russia weighs in on Evan Gershkovich's detainment in 'lawless' land
David Satter says the Kremlin can interpret espionage statue 'any way they want'
The Russian government can interpret the espionage statute that led to the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich "any way they want," according to author and journalist David Satter.
Satter, former Moscow-based reporter who expelled from Russia in 2013, has written several books on the fall of the Soviet Union and the role of post-Soviet Russia. He believes it was a considerably different era that was "much freer" when he was kicked out of the country and that Gershkovich faces President Vladimir Putin’s vague espionage statute that could make consequences more severe.
"I was kicked out, I’m pretty sure, because of my interest in how Putin came to power. Putin came to power through a terrorist act against his own people; this was the bombing of the apartment buildings in 1999 and that was the one really taboo subject. It’s also the most important subject," Satter said Tuesday on "America’s Newsroom."
WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER'S IMPRISONMENT BY RUSSIA RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY HE WAS TARGETED
"I was involved with that in trying to learn about it, and I had written extensively about it, and that just became too much for them," he continued. "Even though, at that time, they were trying to create the impression that they didn’t expel Western correspondents."
Until he was abruptly arrested and charged with espionage last week, Gershkovich had been regularly traveling to Russia to put a spotlight on issues inside Putin’s country. Russian state news has reported that Gershkovich was ordered to be held in custody until May 29.
Substitute co-host Martha MacCallum pointed out that Putin has "kind of backed out of judicial reforms that were put into place after the fall of the Soviet Union," which means the judicial environment Gershkovich finds himself in doesn’t resemble the American system despite what surface-level claims. But Satter said he doesn’t think the Russian judicial system has ever been particularly fair.
PUTIN USING WSJ REPORTER TO PUSH NARRATIVE US IS TRYING TO 'DESTABILIZE' RUSSIA, EXPERTS SAY
"I wouldn’t exaggerate how much of a functioning, and fair, judicial system existed in Russia before Putin came to power. It’s been pretty lawless ever since the fall of the Soviet Union," Satter said. "Of course, when the Soviet Union existed, it was a dictatorship."
Satter believes the problem now is that Russia has "always" been free to interpret the espionage statute however it wants.
"The wording of the statute pretty much says anyone who conveys information damaging to Russia, to a foreign power – that can be interpreted to mean anyone who honestly reports on genuine social conditions and in a war-time situation, which we have now, they’re interpreting any way they want,’ he said. "They have not announced to anyone what they consider to be secret in Yekaterinburg, which is where Evan Gershkovich was arrested. It’s simply up to them to decide."
Satter said there have been previous cases where the Kremlin decided what someone was arrested for after an arrest was made.
WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA HAILED BY COLLEAGUES FOR CHARISMA, COURAGE
"The city of Yekaterinburg is a military city, it’s full of military factories," Satter said. "If he went out and conducted normal journalistic interviews there with people to try and get the mood of the place, they can interpret that as espionage. There is nothing in the statute that would prevent them from doing that."
President Biden has called on Russia to release Gershkovich, and his administration has said it will do everything possible to bring him home, as well as imprisoned U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. The Wall Street Journal has also defended Gershkovich and called for his freedom.
"The Wall Street Journal demands the immediate release of our colleague, Evan Gershkovich, a distinguished journalist who was arrested while reporting in Russia. We know what’s going on in the world because of the fearless reporting of journalists like Evan. Evan’s case is a vicious affront to a free press, and should spur outrage in all free people and governments throughout the world. No reporter should ever be detained for simply doing their job," a Wall Street Journal spokesperson said.
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The search for a missing Titanic-bound submersible has become an investigation and salvage mission that will take an indefinite amount of time, officials said, as tributes from around the world poured in for the five people killed when the vessel imploded deep in the North Atlantic.
The announcement Thursday that all aboard perished when the submersible imploded near the site of the iconic shipwreck brought a tragic end to a five-day saga that included an urgent around-the-clock search and a worldwide vigil for the vessel known as the Titan.
The investigation into what happened was already underway and would continue in the area around Titanic where debris from the submersible was found, said Rear Adm. John Mauger, of the First Coast Guard District.
“I know there are also a lot of questions about how, why and when did this happen. Those are questions we will collect as much information as we can about now,” Mauger said, adding that it was a “complex case” that happened in a remote part of the ocean and involved people from several different countries.
The first hint of a timeline came Thursday evening when a senior U.S. Navy official said that after the Titan was reported missing Sunday, the Navy went back and analyzed its acoustic data and found an “anomaly” that was consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the vessel was operating when communications were lost. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive acoustic detection system.
Those killed were Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned and operated the submersible; two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; British adventurer Hamish Harding; and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
OceanGate, which has been chronicling the Titanic’s decay and the underwater ecosystem around it via yearly voyages since 2021 that included paying tourists, released a statement calling all five people killed “true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans.”
Tributes to those killed and praise for the searchers who tried to save them poured in from across the globe. The White House thanked the Coast Guard, along with Canadian, British and French partners who helped in the search and rescue efforts.
“Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives on the Titan. They have been through a harrowing ordeal over the past few days, and we are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers,” it said in a statement.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry wrote on Twitter that it appreciates “the multinational efforts over the last several days in search of the vessel.” The Dawood family also thanked all involved in the search.
“Their untiring efforts were a source of strength for us during this time,” the family said in a statement. “We are also indebted to our friends, family, colleagues and well-wishers from all over the world who stood by us during our need.”
The Titan launched at 6 a.m. Sunday and was reported overdue Sunday afternoon about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Rescuers rushed ships, planes and other equipment to the site of the disappearance.
Authorities were hoping underwater sounds detected Tuesday and Wednesday might help narrow their search, whose coverage area had been expanded to thousands of miles — twice the size of Connecticut and in waters 2 1/2 miles (4 kilometers) deep.
Any sliver of hope that remained for finding the crew alive, however, was wiped away early Thursday, when the submersible’s 96-hour supply of air was expected to run out and the Coast Guard announced that a debris field had been found roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic.
“The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” Mauger said.
The Coast Guard said Thursday that the sounds heard in the previous days were likely generated by something other than the Titan.
“There doesn’t appear to be any connection between the noises and the location (of the debris) on the seafloor,” Mauger said.
The Navy official who spoke of the “anomaly” heard Sunday said the Navy passed on the information to the Coast Guard, which continued its search because the Navy did not consider the data to be definitive.
At least 46 people successfully traveled on OceanGate’s submersible to the Titanic wreck site in 2021 and 2022, according to letters the company filed with a U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, that oversees matters involving the Titanic shipwreck. But questions about the submersible’s safety were raised by both by a former company employee and former passengers.
David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former director of marine operations, argued in 2018 that the method the company devised for ensuring the soundness of the hull — relying on acoustic monitoring that could detect cracks and pops as the hull strained under pressure — was inadequate and could “subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible.”
“This was problematic because this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,” Lochridge’s attorneys wrote in a wrongful termination claim.
OceanGate disagreed. Lochridge “is not an engineer and was not hired or asked to perform engineering services on the Titan,” it said, and it noted he was fired after refusing to accept assurances from the company’s lead engineer that the acoustic monitoring and testing protocol was, in fact, better suited to detect any flaws than a method Lochridge proposed.
One of the company’s first customers likened a dive he made to the site two years ago to a suicide mission.
“Imagine a metal tube a few meters long with a sheet of metal for a floor. You can’t stand. You can’t kneel. Everyone is sitting close to or on top of each other,” said Arthur Loibl, a retired businessman and adventurer from Germany. “You can’t be claustrophobic.”
During the 2 1/2-hour descent and ascent, the lights were turned off to conserve energy, he said, with the only illumination coming from a fluorescent glow stick.
The dive was repeatedly delayed to fix a problem with the battery and the balancing weights. In total, the voyage took 10 1/2 hours.
Nicolai Roterman, a deep-sea ecologist and lecturer in marine biology at the University of Portsmouth, England, said the disappearance of the Titan highlights the dangers and unknowns of deep-sea tourism.
“Even the most reliable technology can fail, and therefore accidents will happen. With the growth in deep-sea tourism, we must expect more incidents like this.”
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Associated Press writers Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia; Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire; Lolita C. Baldor in Washington; Frank Jordans in Berlin; Danica Kirka in London; Gene Johnson in Seattle; Munir Ahmed in Islamabad; and John Leicester in Paris contributed to this report. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/with-the-fate-of-those-on-titanic-bound-submersible-known-focus-turns-to-cause-of-fatal-implosion/ | 2023-06-23 06:25:36 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/with-the-fate-of-those-on-titanic-bound-submersible-known-focus-turns-to-cause-of-fatal-implosion/ |
(WXIN/NEXSTAR) — Do you say “pop,” “soda,” or “Coke” when you’re talking about carbonated beverages? Chances are where you live affects how you ask for a soft drink — and that has everything to do with your vernacular.
But what does regional vernacular actually mean?
Regional vernacular or dialect is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as a language that’s native to a region rather than one that belongs to a culture or country. It’s often distinguished by unique vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation depending on the person speaking.
These idiosyncrasies happen as parents pass down their way of speaking to their children and those children eventually pass it along, too. Sometimes this becomes complicated if children are raised elsewhere and have parents from different regions.
StudySmarter broke down a few examples of dialect by region.
Northern dialect regions
Inland North dialect stretches from the Great Lakes to Western New York including major cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Toledo. People from this region might pronounce the word “cat” like “kiy-ut.”
Eastern New England includes major cities like New York City and Boston. Natives from the “Big Apple” tend to switch the letter T for D and say “da” instead of “the.” In Boston, they often switch the “r” for “h.” For example, someone from Boston may say “waduh” instead of “water,” while a native Philadelphian might say “wudder.”
Inland/mountain Southern dialect regions
The Inland/Mountain Southern dialect is prominent among people from Appalachia, Texas, Tennessee and other nearby Southern states. In this region, people are known for their distinctive drawn-out vowel sounds which combine phrases like “you all” into “y’all.”
Dialect vocabularies
Vocabularies vary by regional dialect. People in the Midwestern U.S. drink “pop,” while on the East Coast the same drink is called “soda.” Some people born and raised in the South are known to call all soft drinks “Coke,” regardless of which brand or flavor they’re referring to.
In the southern U.S., people work out in “tennis shoes” while in the East Coast they call the same shoes “sneakers.”
A few other examples include “lollipops” vs. “suckers”; “lightning bugs” vs. “fireflies”; “grocery carts” vs. “buggies”; and “subs” vs. “hoagies.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/do-you-say-pop-or-soda-regional-dialect-across-the-u-s-explained/ | 2023-06-18 00:42:11 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/do-you-say-pop-or-soda-regional-dialect-across-the-u-s-explained/ |
DALLAS — In 2000, Chris Cassidy applied for NASA’s astronaut program.
He didn’t get picked.
But, after serving two tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Navy SEALs Team and completing a graduate degree in ocean engineering at MIT, he was ready to apply again in 2003.
“I was printing everything, making sure it was all perfect [and] compiling the papers when the accident happened,” Cassidy said.
Twenty years ago -- on February 1, 2003 -- the Columbia space shuttle exploded on reentry, killing the seven astronauts on board. An investigation found insulating foam damaged the wing during takeoff, leading to hot gases breaking apart the shuttle on reentry.
"I remember stuffing all those things into the big envelope and mailing it and going, 'OK, whoa, it’s real,'" Cassidy said. "You’re sad for those people as individuals, sad for those families that lost somebody."
Cassidy’s eventual NASA training began in 2004, just months after word came that the shuttle program would end.
"The shuttle’s chief purpose over the next several years will be to help finish assembly of the International Space Station," President George W. Bush said on Jan. 14, 2004. "In 2010, the space shuttle, after nearly 30 years of duty, will be retired from service."
There were around 120 astronauts at NASA when Chris Cassidy was accepted into the program in 2004. By the time he retired after a final flight in 2020, only 40 remained.
But, it turns out, that end meant the beginning of a new era.
Texas is now home to Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space program in Van Horn, as well as Elon Musk’s SpaceX company in Boca Chica. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is located just across the border in Sierra County, New Mexico.
Joel Quintana is an assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at UTEP, which is conveniently located close to the headquarters for both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin.
"You go, "Is that going to work? Is there enough money? Is there a market for it?'" Quintana said of his reaction to the Blue Origin facility.
Now, though, half of Blue Origin’s staff are UTEP grads. And the company has completed six crewed space missions ton this point.
"All those companies are hurting, hurting for engineers," Quintana said.
Both Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, which made it to space nine days before Bezos' brand did, are targeting a burgeoning space tourism industry.
Craig Curan got into the space tourism game as an accredited Virgin Galactic "space agent" after 35 years spent working as a traditional travel agent -- because, as he puts it, it was something different.
"Going to space... was sexy," he said. “It was fast, it was on the edge. It was risky. It was next-level."
Curan himself is around 400th in line to fly on Virgin’s spaceship after having bought his seat in 2011. He hopes to fly sometime in 2025.
"Demand exceeds capacity right now -- that, I think, is pretty clear," he said. "All of this infrastructure, it's starting to become built out right now -- and it's here.”
Investment bank UBS estimates the space tourism industry will be worth $4 billion by 2030.
"Opportunities to invest in the broader space economy will continue to grow, helping to get the Space Economy to nearly double over the next 10 years as it has over the last 10 years," the bank’s report read.
Already, it's a big-money field.
A thousand people have paid the $450,000 fee to fly Virgin's shuttle, which has gone 53 miles up in the air.
Meanwhile, Blue Origin -- which went to 66 miles up into space -- auctioned its first seat for $20 million. Since then, bidding has slowed some to around the $1 million to $3 million marks. There’s some speculation the bidding was a way to determine where future seats could be priced.
And then there are the three men who paid $55 million each to fly SpaceX's flight to the space station a full 250 miles above Earth.
“When aircraft first started flying at the dawn of the jet age, only the very wealthy, and very few people, could go by jet travel," Curan said. "My son is 31. He'll have an opportunity to go to the moon if he wants to. He will absolutely be able to go to a space hotel."
Marco Caceres, a senior space analyst at the Teal Group, agrees with that notion.
"The vision for these companies, to me, is infinitely more ambitious than NASA," Caceres said. "They can afford to be -- because these entrepreneurs plan to be around for the long term."
Caceres says SpaceX is focused on exploration, whereas Blue Origin and Virgin target tourism. But all three are quickly lowering costs for space travel with the aim of eventually being on par with a plane ticket.
"I don't think it's a pipe dream," Caceres said. "But I don't think we're going to see it in the next 10 years. I think the reason for that is because you need volume. I think the next year and the next two years are going to be very telling in terms of who survives in this space launch industry."
With the perspective he has from his time at NASA, Cassidy is a little more tempered in his timeline: “Maybe in 50 years it’s like, 'Hey, what do you want to do for Christmas break this year? Want to go to Hawaii?' 'No, dad! We went there last year -- let’s go to the space station.' 'OK, alright, we'll go to the space station.'"
Cassidy said he isn’t bothered by private astronauts. Rather, he welcomes them.
"I don’t claim that only government-selected astronauts are the people that can experience this," Cassidy said. "I fundamentally think if you take a big picture of humanity, that the world would be better off if every single person had five minutes to look out the window of a spacecraft and see Earth going by. You just see blue and green and brown, and white clouds and white mountaintops, and oceans of all colors. It looks like one blob that’s a home for everyone."
Of course, there are more options beyond the three companies getting in on space travel, too. There are planes designed to create micro-gravity situations, space facilities that give the feeling of takeoff G-forces, and balloons that can be rented by groups for special events to reach the edge of the atmosphere.
"Imagine, if you will, celebrating a wedding and getting married at 100,000 feet," Curan said.
The possibilities are vast.
"There are different companies that are talking about providing different experiences for space tourism," Quintana said. "It’s grown by leaps and bounds, and we’ve been able to kind of democratize but also kind of spread out that supply chain."
The eventual goal, most parties in this field agree, is using the moon as a launch pad to colonize Mars.
"Elon Musk's vision is out of this world," Caceres said. "I mean, it's just no pun intended, but his goal really is to colonize Mars. What SpaceX is doing is infinitely more difficult and more challenging, and they're much farther along."
The out-of-this-world is, indeed, becoming possible.
"If it hadn't been for the Columbia disaster, which led to the end of the shuttle program, you wouldn't have had enough room for and money to encourage the development of some of these private companies,” Caceres said.
And things will only take off from here.
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SAN ANTONIO — Actress Debra Jo Rupp speaks with Paul about her new Netflix series, That 90's Show.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Bourbon Street Extravaganza, a free concert held in New Orleans amid Southern Decadence — one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ events — has been canceled over monkeypox concerns, organizers said Wednesday.
The concert was scheduled to return Sept. 3 for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut down Decadence in 2020. It normally attracts up to 20,000 people to the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets in New Orleans’ French Quarter outside the bar Napoleon’s Itch.
The concert’s producer, Chuck Robinson, called off the concert in light of the rapidly spreading monkeypox virus, news outlets reported. The virus, which seems to disproportionately affect gay and bisexual men, is spread by prolonged skin-to-skin contact.
“I regret that we can’t do the show, but monkeypox just came out of the blue, and quickly,” Robinson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “My concerns have to be the safety of the artists and the production team.”
He added there were plans to bring in stars from Australia and England and yet the virus has “stats that frighten me.”
“It’s spread by touch and closeness, not by droplets like COVID and I did not feel, in all good conscious, that I could be responsible for an event that could become a mass spreader,” he said.
The Washington Post first reported on the Bourbon Street Extravaganza’s cancelation as part of a story about the growing threat of monkeypox. There have been concerns about the lack of availability of the monkeypox vaccine in Louisiana, which has 120 confirmed cases, state health officials said.
Earlier this month, the Louisiana Department of Health said it was in contact with Southern Decadence organizers to get people vaccinated before the event scheduled to run Sept. 1-5 over the extended Labor Day holiday weekend.
Since 1972, Southern Decadence has grown from an informal gathering to an annual blowout that draws thousands of revelers to New Orleans over the long holiday weekend. In 2019, an estimated 225,000 people attended various events and the wide-ranging street party. An even larger crowd was expected this year.
The Bourbon Street Extravaganza has been part of Southern Decadence since 2004, the year Robinson and co-founder Ron Julian opened Napoleon’s Itch at 734 Bourbon. Robinson and Julian launched the concert on an outdoor stage in part as a way to promote their new bar, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. Over the years, Jeanie Tracy became a frequent, and favorite, performer at the concert.
“It has grown into the largest event of Southern Decadence,” Robinson said. “It’s our gift to the city.”
Robinson said the concert will return in 2023.
“I pray for everyone’s safety, but this is what I had to do,” he said of the decision to cancel.
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Board games are having a renaissance — but which should you play?
For generations, when you thought of board games, you’d probably think of the same old titles: Household names like “Monopoly,” “Scrabble” or “Risk.”
But the market began to transform in the 1990s: Titles considered niche then are mainstream now. (“Settlers of Catan,” I’m looking at you.) Today, the hobby bursts with unique games for every taste and season.
Want a 30-minute game that’ll get everyone talking and laughing? Try “Monikers,” the “Metagame” or “Wavelength.”
Want to feel like a word wiz? “Codenames,” “Decrypto” or “Letterjam” might be for you.
Perhaps you want to deceive your friends — or better yet — catch them in a lie? “Secret Hitler,” “Avalon” and “One Night Ultimate Werewolf” offer all the social deduction mayhem you could ask for.
We tried some of the best games for new players (including some games that are hot off the presses!) Here are our findings:
Good things come in small boxes
Particularly, hat boxes! The new game “Hats” challenges players to collect the most stylish headgear at the Mad Hatter’s party. The trick is, you won’t know which hats are worth points until the final turn, as you trade cards from a central board with an ever-shrinking hand.
Don’t let the whimsical caps and cloches fool you: This game is all about numbers and subterfuge, and it rewards you for switching strategies at the drop of, well, a hat.
The small-box curious should also consider the legendary “Love Letter,” which has numerous variants, but packs more strategy and drama into 16 cards than games many times its weight. “Scout” also deserves mention, which has you compete to pull off the grandest carnival acts (by way of collecting — you guessed it — numbered cards).
A silly game with a bigger rulebooks
“Quacks of Quedlinburg” isn’t about ducks — rather, the game casts you as inept potion-makers competing to cram the best components into your cauldrons without combusting.
“Quacks of Quedlinburg,” along with its most recent expansion “The Alchemists.” (James Mastromarino/Here & Now)
I have to admit that I’ve been brewing badly for years. I could count on one hand how many games of “Quacks” I’ve actually won, and I’ve lost to a 6-year-old more times than I care to admit.
But I just can’t help myself. “Quacks” turns me into a gambler, eager to chuck mushrooms, mandrake roots, and pumpkins into my pot, even as I know it only takes a few errant poppy flowers to blow me sky-high.
However, my efforts to convey this delirious balance of risk and reward hit were stymied by the game’s intimidating set-up. If you’re new to the hobby, budget the time to punch out card pieces and see if you can recruit an experienced player to show you the ropes. Host Deepa Fernandes and I spent over an hour on Zoom before it began to click for her — more time than it would take experienced players to finish a game.
Naturally, you’ll also want to start with the base game: the absolute simplest version of “Quacks” you can play. It’s been expanded twice over the years, and while I particularly like “The Alchemists,” these additions may overcomplicate the core experience of pulling tokens out of a bag until you either win … or explode.
War games and historical games
Some of the oldest board games simulate armed conflict, however abstract (from “Chess” to “Go”). But if you use the words “war game” in sequence, hobbyists know you mean a decades-old subgenre notorious for dusty rules and intricate maps.
While these games model actual history, from Waterloo to World War II, more recent designs evolved to depict other kinds of conflicts, from the Cold War in “Twilight Struggle,” to this year’s “Votes for Women,” where you battle to pass (or stop) the 14th Amendment.
“Votes for Women” and its designer, Tory Brown (Courtesy Bradley Herring)
“I think it would be really hard to play ‘Votes for Women’ and not learn a little bit, not feel a little bit,” says Tory Brown, the designer of “Votes for Women.” I bumped into her at a small D.C. game convention, and we talked about the history the game tries to bring to life.
“There are lessons from that movement that can inspire and teach us today. It wasn’t a perfect group of women that got it done. They had their flaws. The game is very honest about it, but they made sacrifices, they made choices and they worked.”
I, for one, will never forget how a Jeanette Rankin card destroyed my chances for an Opposition victory. My wife gathered so much momentum as the Suffragist player that I even lost battlegrounds like Louisiana and Texas that I had taken for granted. The end of the game felt like a real campaign: a long, hard slog where every state matters.
A word of warning, though: “Votes for Women” is the most complex game discussed in this article. While it succeeds as a lovingly researched production, it doesn’t offer the kind of bubbly fun I usually go for. Should long, complicated games appeal to you, however, it’s certainly a welcome novelty, and can be played cooperatively, as well as competitively.
The joys of deckbuilding
While “Votes for Women” may simulate a real conflict, “Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game” offers pure fantasy for two players. Nostalgic and beautifully illustrated, you’ll win the game by buying Rebel or Empire cards from a shared market to add to your respective deck, which enable you to win the balance of the force and claim planetary strongholds.
“Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game” (Courtesy: Asmodee)
It’s not Earth-shattering design, but it’s a good introduction to one of my favorite mechanics. The venerable “Dominion” popularized this kind of deckbuilding in 2008, where players play improve their cards turn by turn (unlike a trading card game, where decks only change between games).
To its credit, “Star Wars: the Deckbuilding Game,” adds more interactivity to the formula by allowing players to destroy rival cards before they can be bought. You’re not just fighting to control the Galaxy, but you can also stop an opponent from recruiting Luke Skywalker or Leia Organa before they can be turned against you, for example.
Board, never boring
This piece can only scratch the surface of a vibrant and ever-shifting pastime, which has brought me untold hours of joy and some of my deepest friendships — I would not have gotten to know the woman I married if not for them! They may be made of cardboard, wood, and plastic, but board games can conjure some of the richest experiences you may ever have.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In a federal complaint Tuesday, the NAACP said Mississippi officials “all but assured” a drinking water calamity in Jackson by depriving the state’s majority-Black capital city of badly needed funds to upgrade its infrastructure. The organization asked the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the state’s alleged pattern of steering money to white communities with less need.
The group said the state’s refusal to fund improvements in Jackson culminated in late August when the water system suffered a near-total collapse after a heavy rainstorm. Over 25 years, it said, Jackson received funds from an important federal program only three times. When Jackson tried to fund improvements itself, those efforts were repeatedly blocked by Mississippi state political leaders, according to the complaint.
NAACP president Derrick Johnson lives in Jackson and joined other local residents in filing the complaint with the EPA under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids anyone who receives federal funds from discriminating based on race or national origin. In the past, this part of the law has rarely been used on environmental matters, but the Biden administration has promised to step up enforcement in communities overburdened by pollution.
“Jackson’s majority-Black population has been repeatedly ignored, spurned, or ridiculed, resulting in the most recent water access inequity and crisis,” the NAACP said.
The group wants the EPA to make sure that from now on federal funds are distributed equitably.
The U.S. Justice Department is working to improve Jackson’s water system. If a voluntary improvement plan isn’t reached with the city, the department threatened Monday to file legal action under a different law, the Safe Water Drinking Act, which regulates harmful substances in tap water. The city has repeatedly violated this law in recent years.
There were warnings the Jackson water system was struggling before it failed. Roughly 300 boil-water notices were issued over the previous two years. Racism and neglect created a particularly bad situation in the city.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited the community Monday to talk to city officials and ensure they can “deliver long overdue relief for Jackson residents.”
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, has blamed Jackson’s water problems on mismanagement by city leaders. Reeves declared an emergency for the water system in late August and brought in out-of-state crews to help make repairs. Before the city’s latest water crisis, though, Reeves expressed his own opposition to state funding for Jackson water improvements, saying he wants to hold down Mississippi’s overall debt level.
The Biden administration has several other environmental civil rights investigations open. The Justice Department is looking into how local and state officials in Alabama allowed chronically bad wastewater problems to fester in majority-Black Lowndes County, and for the first time the EPA initiated its own investigation into Colorado’s air program.
More than 80% of Jackson residents are Black and roughly a quarter live in poverty. About a decade after the public schools integrated in the 1970s, white flight began. Mississippi’s largest city now struggles with a shrinking tax base.
Denecka Samuels, a mother of six children, lives in one of the poorest parts of Jackson. When water was not flowing from the tap, she said she had to fetch it from a barrel and cart it home to bathe her children. Samuels said frequent boil-water notices also make life much harder.
“It’s a constant struggle,” Samuels said. “I have to keep reminding my younger kids, ‘Do not drink the water out of that faucet.’ … They’re young and they don’t understand.”
Samuels was among several people who spoke Monday evening at a Poor People’s Campaign protest to bring attention to Jackson water problems. The event was near the Governor’s Mansion.
“I did not choose to be Black. I did not choose this life to not have no water,” Samuels said. “It chose me.”
In addition to her family responsibilities, Samuels said she has been working with the Poor People’s Campaign to distribute bottled water to Jackson residents.
It is crucial for water systems to maintain pressure so that untreated groundwater doesn’t seep into cracks in the pipes. After heavy rain, the quality of water entering Jackson’s treatment plants changed, which the system couldn’t handle, causing a drop in pressure. Residents were told to boil water to kill potentially harmful bacteria.
Officials lifted Jackson’s citywide boil-water notice Sept. 15, nearly seven weeks after it was issued. But new boil-water notices have been issued for several neighborhoods within the city since then because of broken pipes.
In other legal actions earlier this month, four Jackson residents filed a proposed class action against current and former local officials, an engineering firm and a business contracted to replace water meters. They want lead pipes and equipment replaced and the system fixed, plus damages.
The EPA said it would decide whether to investigate within 25 days.
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Phillis reported from St. Louis.
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Amid an economic downturn, cybersecurity staffing shortages and endless cyberattacks, financially motivated attacks are the top concern among IT professionals
MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SonicWall, publisher of the world's most quoted ransomware threat intelligence, released the 2022 SonicWall Threat Mindset Survey which found that 66% of customers are more concerned about cyberattacks in 2022, with the main threat being focused on financially motivated attacks like ransomware.
"No one is safe from cyberattacks — businesses or individuals," said SonicWall Executive Chairman of the Board Bill Conner. "Today's business landscape requires persistent digital trust to exist. Supply-chain attacks have dramatically changed the attack surface of the typical enterprise in the past few years, with more suppliers and service providers touching sensitive data than ever before. It's likely we'll see continued acceleration and evolution of ransomware tactics, as well as other advanced persistent threats (APTs), as cybercrime continues to scale the globe seeking both valuable and weak targets."
Companies are not only losing millions of dollars to unending malware and ransomware strikes, but cyberattacks on essential infrastructure are impacting real-world services. Despite the growing concern of cyberattacks, organizations are struggling to keep pace with the fast-moving threat landscape as they orient their business, networks, data and employees against unwavering cyberattacks.
"The evolving cyber threat landscape has made us train our staff significantly more," said Stafford Fields, IT Director, Cavett Turner & Wyble. "It's made us spend more on cybersecurity. And what scares me is that an end-user can click on something and bring all our systems down — despite being well protected."
SonicWall's proprietary threat mindset survey uncovered additional findings:
- Rising Concerns about Escalating Cyberattacks: There is growing concern regarding cyberattacks amongst 66% of organizations surveyed; ransomware leads the distress as 91% of all customers cited it as their biggest concern. Phishing and spear-phishing (76%), as well as encrypted malware (66%), comprised the top three concerns.
- Anxiety around Financially Motivated Cyber Threats: 89% of organizations are most concerned of financially motivated threats; 43% of those surveyed were concerned about state-sponsored threats.
- Organizations Too Slow to Patch: Despite rising cyberattack concerns, 78% of organizations don't patch critical vulnerabilities within 24 hours of patch availability; another 12% only apply critical patches when time allows.
- Skills Gap: 46% of organizations don't have enough IT headcount, while only 3% feel they have more than enough headcount to tackle day-to-day security operations.
In an effort to promote cybersecurity attentiveness, SonicWall supports Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October with an added emphasis on the 'people' component of cybersecurity. Individuals, employees and consumers alike need to take basic steps to protect online information and privacy, while vendors and suppliers can take ownership by putting strong cybersecurity guidelines in place at work to help prevent.
"SonicWall's solution suite puts the security IT mind to rest," said Quarterhorse Technology CEO Ken Fletcher. "The home office security is extended to the devices in the field, so the worry of feeling unprotected when out of the office is mitigated."
To explore the complete 2022 SonicWall Threat Mindset Survey, please visit here.
About SonicWall
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Events aims to connect seniors with community resources
Published: Oct. 24, 2022 at 5:10 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - As we get older, it can be tougher to navigate all that goes along with an illness or injury - and the recovery process.
Topeka Area Continuity of Care aims to help. Hayley Young, TACC board member and PACE Center Administrator at Midland Care, visited Eye on NE Kansas to discuss TACC’s upcoming fall Senior Resource Fair.
The event will take place 10 am to 1:30 pm, Thursday, Oct. 27 at Fairlawn Plaza.
People will be able to get flu shots and take part in Medicare reviews. They also expect approximately 40 vendors with information on services, living communities and care for seniors available in the Topeka area.
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The 'Great Reshuffling' played a big part in pushing home prices higher
The pandemic changed the way people lived and, for many, where they lived. Working from home was a significant driver of this "Great Reshuffling" and accounted for more than half of the steep increases in home prices seen during the pandemic, new research has found.
Remote work allowed some people to move to places farther away from their office and prompted others to buy larger homes to accommodate their new lifestyles. The demand for more house and the ability to move to warmer climates played a sizable role in pushing home prices higher, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the University of California, San Diego.
Home prices grew by 23.8% during the pandemic, according to the researchers' population-weighted analysis of Zillow's home price index between December 2019 and November 2021. And the study found that remote work accounted for 15.1% of that growth.
The findings suggest there was more than just speculation behind the turbo-charged growth in home prices during the pandemic, said Johannes Wieland, an associate professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author of the study. He added that the evolution of remote work is likely to have a large impact on the future path of home prices and inflation.
"We were pretty shocked remote work had this impact, once we saw the estimates," Wieland said. "We thought about how people moving to different locations would be important. And it is. But it is the people who are remaining in a metro area -- the people who need more space at home if they work at home -- that is really pushing up prices. That is the majority of the story."
The findings support what economists at Zillow have been seeing throughout the pandemic.
"We've seen what we called the 'Great Reshuffling' that has contributed to the demand for housing nationwide," said Chris Glynn, senior managing economist at Zillow. "It has accelerated trends that existed before the pandemic. Migration to places like Austin [Texas] and Raleigh [North Carolina] has been happening for a while, but the pandemic accelerated it because of the un-tethering between an office and home that has allowed people to make choices about where they want to live."
What makes a hot remote work spot
The Sun Belt attracted remote workers looking for a warm-weather lifestyle even before the pandemic. But the researchers found that the trend gained further momentum during the pandemic, pushing up home prices in those areas at a much faster rate than before the pandemic.
By the end of the fourth quarter of 2021, the median single-family, existing-home price in Austin had grown by 26% from the year before, according to the National Association of Realtors. Prices in Phoenix were also up by 26% and in Boise, Idaho, by 24.3%.
The researchers found that cities that already had a large share of remote workers before the pandemic tended to attract even more after the pandemic shutdowns pushed a whole wave of people to work remotely.
"Where more people are working remotely, that's where the home prices grow," said Wieland, who noted that cities like Austin, Boise, Phoenix and San Diego saw some of the biggest home prices increases in the country as a result.
These remote-work-friendly cities share three main features, he said. The first is a predominant industry that allows for remote work. Tech jobs, for example, are easily done remotely because they mostly involve work on a computer, he noted.
The second aspect is a lower population density, where there is more space and more affordable housing than in the biggest cities in the country.
"It is hard to work at home in New York City, for example," he said, explaining the cost of living there means that having extra space for an office comes at a premium. "Lower-density areas are more attractive for remote work."
The third feature is a warmer climate or appealing lifestyle. "There is more remote work where the weather is nice," he said. "When you're not tied to a location because of your job, you can choose where you want to be. Many of these places...are attractive to people who can move to a place for lifestyle and not for work."
That is why many of the cities in the Sun Belt saw such huge increases in home prices during the pandemic, he explained.
A fast impact on home prices
The pandemic spurred us to change the way we work very quickly, said Wieland.
"There hasn't been a peacetime period where we have changed the way we do work in such a quick fashion," he said. "Suddenly, we are moving further away from where our work is located. We don't need the office space. We now need this home space for work."
In a perfect world, you'd want to see the economy adapt to this change in preferences and opportunities, he said. "But it is hard to do with housing in a year or two, especially at a time when supply is not very high to begin with," he said. "That is one of the reasons why home prices are going up at such a rapid rate."
In their research, Wieland and his co-author John A. Mondragon, an economic research adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, looked at a housing market impacted by many variables, including the low supply of homes for sale, a demographic bulge of Millennials reaching typical home-buying age and the Fed's slashing of interest rates during the pandemic, which resulted in ultra-low mortgage rates for more than a year.
The researchers measured the amount home prices in an area went up as it related to the amount of remote workers living in the area.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to keep racoons from getting into my garbage cans," said an inventor from Happauge, N.Y., "so I invented the CRITTER PREVENTER. It keeps garbage in the cans instead of all over my yard."
The patent-pending invention prevents animals from getting into garbage as it effectively secures the lid in place, even during a strong gust of wind. It would provide peace of mind knowing that garbage would not be strewn across the yard. It will be easy to use and install. Convenient and durable it could save time and energy.
The original design was submitted to the Long Island sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-LJD-174, 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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Women are being abused, raped, and humiliated every day at Mississippi’s public universities, and the people who can stop it don’t care.
Parents who are sending their daughters to live in the dormitories of Mississippi State, or Ole Miss, or Southern Miss, or our other universities probably think that their children are being protected, but they are not.
The rules which forbade men from entering women’s dormitories, except for the public area downstairs, have quietly been replaced.
Male visitors are allowed in women’s dormitory rooms now at the following times at Ole Miss and similar times for our other universities.
9:00 a.m.—midnight —Sunday through Thursday
9:00 a.m.---2:00 a.m.---Friday and Saturday
The downstairs public rooms have in some instances been removed.
A dormitory room has room for two twin beds and little else.
The adults in charge of our universities know what the combination of alcohol, hormones, and a young couple locked in a spartan bedroom is likely to produce.
Men and women are not physically equal; the playing field is not level here.
The Me Too movement has opened the eyes of America to the truth that sexual assaults mostly go unreported because the victims aren’t believed and there are no other witnesses; moreover, if the victim makes waves, she herself is blamed.
Mississippians must demand that our university campuses return to the policy of safety which we had in the past---no opposite gender visitation in any dormitory rooms. That policy kept our young people safe for well over a hundred years; there was no valid reason to change it.
Scattered thunderstorms during the morning. Cloudy skies this afternoon. Morning high of 70F with temps falling to near 55. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%..
Tonight
Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 42F. Winds light and variable. | https://www.djournal.com/new-albany/non-profit-wants-to-limit-males-access-to-females-dorm-rooms-policies/article_238543a8-d868-5327-aea1-151e02a97804.html | 2022-04-06 15:03:21 | 0 | https://www.djournal.com/new-albany/non-profit-wants-to-limit-males-access-to-females-dorm-rooms-policies/article_238543a8-d868-5327-aea1-151e02a97804.html |
WATCH: Wyoming Teacher Under Investigation For Sexual Misconduct
A Sublette County School District teacher was dismissed last week for allegations of misconduct.
The school district employee, identified as David Shaw, reportedly appeared in a video in San Diego.
In the video, the cameraperson confronts Shaw for allegedly attempting to meet up with a 14-year-old boy through the gay dating app Grindr.
The video appears as part of a YouTube series titled "People v. Preds." The man in the video is identified only by his first name, David.
Roughly 10 minutes into the video, David calls the police as the cameraperson continues to follow him.
"Are the cops coming to save you?" the cameraperson says to David.
"You're 57 and trying to meet up with a 14-year-old boy," the cameraperson later says. "You're despicable."
Eventually, David owns up to intending to meet up with someone but says he wasn't there to meet who the cameraperson thought he was there to meet.
"Whoever I thought I was talking to — but I was not thinking they were 14," David says.
The cameraperson confronts David w with their conversation on Grindr.
At some point during the conversation, the cameraperson told David via Grindr that he was 14.
"Then why did you go to the meetup location of a 14-year-old boy who's on Grindr?" the cameraperson asks. "You're lying to me, you scumbag."
Near the end of the video, multiple San Diego police arrive. They briefly speak with David and take pictures of him before leaving. David accepts a ride from a police officer.
At the end of the video, several screenshots — purported to be the conversation between David and the 14-year-old are shown. | https://k2radio.com/watch-wyoming-teacher-under-investigation-for-sexual-misconduct/ | 2022-05-18 02:21:29 | 1 | https://k2radio.com/watch-wyoming-teacher-under-investigation-for-sexual-misconduct/ |
No. 20 Texas and No. 11 Oklahoma State play on Saturday, Oct. 22. The game will be live streamed on fuboTV (free trial).
Last week, Texas rallied to beat a tough Iowa State team and remain well positioned in the Big 12 race.
After taking that positive step, the Longhorns could find themselves in another tight one this Saturday when the 20th-ranked Longhorns (5-2, 3-1 Big 12) visit No. 11 Oklahoma State (5-1, 2-1). The game is critical in the conference race, with both teams trying to keep up with TCU and Kansas State, which both are unbeaten in league play.
Oddsmakers are buying into Sarkisian and the Longhorns. According to FanDuel Sportsbook, they are favored despite playing on the road against a higher-ranked opponent.
The home crowd helped Texas last week, but the Longhorns will be in a hostile, notoriously loud environment on Oklahoma State’s homecoming weekend.
One reason the Longhorns have been competitive is their defense. Linebacker Jaylan Ford leads a unit that allows just 18.3 points per game. He leads the Big 12 in tackles. His acrobatic end zone interception and a late fumble recovery rescued the Longhorns against Iowa State.
The Longhorns will face an Oklahoma State offense that ranks fourth nationally in scoring with 45.3 points per game. Quarterback Spencer Sanders averages 324.7 yards of total offense per game, good for 11th nationally and tops in the Big 12. He has completed fewer than 50% of his passes the past two games, but has rushed for 124 yards and four touchdowns during that span.
Oklahoma State also is coming off a 3-point game, a 43-40 double-overtime loss to TCU. Gundy said the Cowboys were a little better in that game than he originally thought.
When is Texas-Oklahoma State?
Texas and Oklahoma State play at 2:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. ET) Saturday, Oct. 22.
Live stream
FuboTV
The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 121-plus channels for $69.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. It comes with more than 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR, and up to 10 screens at once.
Will it be televised?
Texas and Oklahoma State will be televised on ABC.
Preview
COWBOY RUSHERS: Dominic Richardson has gotten most of the rushes for Oklahoma State this season, but Gundy said Jaden Nixon and Ollie Gordon will get more carries.
It’s nothing against Richardson. Gundy just wants to keep Richardson healthy and he believes the others have earned more carries. Richardson already has 108 carries in six games. Gordon has 16 carries and Nixon has 14.
Still, Oklahoma State will have to run the ball better against Texas. Gundy felt Oklahoma State’s lack of balance was costly in the loss to TCU last week. The Cowboys gained just 141 yards on 41 attempts last week.
BIG-TIME BIJAN: Texas running back Bijan Robinson leads Big 12 players with 111.4 yards rushing per game. He ran for 135 yards and two touchdowns in last year’s meeting with the Cowboys. In his past five games, he has 651 yards and eight touchdowns rushing and 10 catches for 118 yards.
GLUE GUY: Texas running back Roschon Johnson may be the most versatile and valuable player on the team.
The converted quarterback averages 5.3 yards per carry as a rusher when spelling Robinson, 10.3 yards per reception and has run the offense from the wildcat formation taking direct snaps.
He even has four tackles on special teams, including a bone-rattling hit on a kickoff return against Iowa State.
Johnson said he’d even volunteer to play linebacker: “I’m serious. I would if they want me to.”
ANOTHER CHALLENGE: TCU’s Quentin Johnson caught eight passes for 180 yards and a touchdown against Oklahoma State last week.
Now, the Cowboys face another dangerous receiver in Xavier Worthy. Last week, Worthy snagged eight passes for 72 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score in the win over Iowa State. For the season, the sophomore has 32 catches for 432 yards and six scores.
DIFFERENCE MAKER: Oklahoma State kicker Tanner Brown has gone 4-for-4 on field goals for two straight games. He ranks No. 1 in the FBS in kicker scoring with 11.0 points per game, No. 2 in the FBS with 2.0 made field goals per game and No. 4 in the FBS in scoring overall.
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The beer brand partners with the NBA to unveil its second series of NBA Team Cans with an immersive digital pop-up experience, featuring a performance by 21 Savage
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 19 special-edition cans, six artists, and one NBA season where joy runs deep. Michelob ULTRA is teaming up with the NBA to unveil the 2022-2023 Michelob ULTRA NBA Team Cans to coincide with Art Basel.
To debut year two of the collection, the beer brand and playmaker at the intersection of sports, tech and culture, is bringing basketball fans the ultimate digital art pop-up experience where some of the biggest sports and entertainment stars will come together to celebrate the joy that beer and basketball brings to NBA fans everywhere.
"Michelob ULTRA is proud to partner with the NBA to bring fans a new way to support their favorite team and enjoy the game they love," said Ricardo Marques, Vice President of Marketing, Michelob ULTRA. "As the beer brand known for superior enjoyment, the Michelob ULTRA NBA Team Cans represent the joy and passion that fans have for their teams. We're excited to bring this year's Team Cans to life with a first-ever digital art experience and remind fans everywhere: no matter who you root for, it's only worth it if you enjoy it."
Before the collection hits stands nationwide, fans heading to Miami's hottest contemporary arts festival can catch the brand's signature blend of sports, technology, and culture on full display at Michelob ULTRA x NBA digital art pop-up and experience:
- A headline performance by Grammy-award winning artist, 21 Savage
- NBA Legends and former Miami Heat players, Alonzo Mourning and Gary Payton, NBA skills trainer, Chris Brickley, and WNBA All-Star, Nneka Ogwumike, compete in the Michelob ULTRA's Courtside Countdown Challenge
- A DJ set by the Miami Heat's very own DJ Irie
- An interactive LED court where attendees can choose the team they want to rep, and pair up for a quick-fire game of basketball shots and watch as the Michelob ULTRA NBA Team Can art reveals itself.
- A sneak peek at the full line up the 22-23 NBA Team Cans and more
Ready for tip off? RSVP here for this one day only, exclusive event. The Michelob ULTRA x NBA digital art pop-up experience will be open to fans on Thursday, December 1 from 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. ET at the MAPS Backlot in Wynwood.
The 2022-2023 NBA Team Cans were designed by a starting lineup of six dynamic artists with their own unique style who bring the new collection to life in a way that represents the pride, joy, and culture of each city's team, including:
- Jacob Rochester – Took a lo-fi analog approach, infusing collaged and scanned imagery throughout the Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and Orlando Magic team cans.
- Chuck Anderson – Returns to the Michelob ULTRA NBA Team Cans roster to bring bold, powerful, intense and thoughtful designs to instantly recognizable and iconic teams, including the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz.
- Bradley Ward – H-town based artist reps his hometown team, the Houston Rockets, by infusing classic elements from the "Clutch City". Bradley also designed the New Orleans Pelicans Team Can, which boldly features the team's colors of midnight blue, red, gold and white.
- Josanna Torrocha – Took inspiration from the role currency plays in basketball slang to create designs for the New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers.
- Eric Elms – A visual story can be found throughout Eric Elms' designs, as he took inspiration from each team's fandoms and the slogans they use to cheer on their teams including the: Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards and the Charlotte Hornets.
- BigShot Robot – The Milwaukee-based artist known for creating colorful explosions and explorations of curiosity, vibrancy, humor, and movement, drew inspiration from his relationship with the city and the Milwaukee Bucks team to pay homage to its two championship seasons.
The collection comes just in time for the NBA's holiday game schedule and gives fans another way to cheer on their favorite team while enjoying their favorite beer with a one-of-a-kind Michelob ULTRA can created just for them.
This year's Michelob ULTRA NBA Team Cans are available for a limited time beginning December 5, 2022, at local beverage retailers and arenas in participating markets. For more information, visit MichelobULTRA.com or follow @MichelobULTRA on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
About Michelob ULTRA
Introduced in 2002, Michelob ULTRA is the No. 2 beer in the industry by volume. With just 95 calories, 2.6 carbs and no artificial flavors or colors, it is a superior light beer that celebrates the active, balanced lifestyle of its drinkers that includes both fitness and fun. Michelob ULTRA's choice of grains and extended mashing process leads to its refreshing taste and fewer carbohydrates. It is brewed with the finest barley malt, rice, hops, and a pure-cultured yeast strain, all of which reflect Anheuser-Busch's commitment to brewing quality. Michelob ULTRA reminds you to always drink, and sweat, responsibly.
About Anheuser-Busch
At Anheuser-Busch, our purpose is to create a future with more cheers. We are always looking to serve up new ways to meet life's moments, dream big to move our industry forward, and make a meaningful impact in the world. We hope to build a future that everyone can celebrate, and everyone can share. For more than 160 years, Anheuser-Busch has carried on a legacy of brewing great-tasting, high-quality beers that have satisfied beer drinkers for generations. Today, we own and operate more than 120 facilities, including breweries, wholesaler distribution centers, agricultural facilities and packaging plants, and have more than 19,000 colleagues across the United States. We are home to several of America's most loved beer and beyond beer brands, including Michelob ULTRA, Cutwater Spirits, Stella Artois, Budweiser and Bud Light as well as a number of regional brands that provide beer drinkers with a choice of the best-tasting craft beers in the industry. From responsible drinking programs and emergency drinking water donations to industry-leading sustainability efforts, we are guided by our unwavering commitment to supporting the communities we call home. For more information, visit www.anheuser-busch.com or follow Anheuser-Busch on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of May's National Mental Health Awareness Month, Discovery Behavioral Heath, a nationwide network of evidenced-based treatment centers, will host a free-to-the-public webinar entitled "Trauma - The Invisible Epidemic" on Thursday, May 26 at 10 am to 11:30 am PST.
WHEN: Thursday, May 26th, 10 am to 11:30 am PST
WHERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-the-invisible-epidemic-tickets-333858518817
WHAT: Hosted by Discovery Behavioral Health, the webinar will explore the most common types of trauma, how trauma can be "invisible" with people experiencing it without realizing it, and coping strategies for people of all ages. Following the initial discussion, the attendees can submit questions to the panel.
WHO: A panel of speakers including – therapists, an author and a filmmaker – will discuss trauma from different perspectives.
- Moderator – George Livengood, LMFT, Vice President, Discovery Mood & Anxiety Program
- Maia Evrigenis, author of "Neon Jane," her autobiographical account of surviving a cancer diagnosis in childhood and the impact it had on her and her family
- Elizabeth Ayiku, director of the feature film "Me Little Me," which made its world premiere earlier this year at SXSW Film Festival, about a young Black woman who is fiercely pursuing a promotion at work while attending an intensive out-patient treatment program for eating disorder recovery
- Jan Wagman, PhD., a mental health professional with 23 years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, and with extensive experience working with victims of natural disasters
- Alex Santana, ACSW, a clinical social worker for Casa Palmera treatment center in Southern California with extensive experience working with PTSD, TBI (traumatic brain injury) and Substance Use Disorders.
WHY: May is National Mental Health Awareness Month
MORE facts about mental health crisis in the U.S:
- An unprecedented mental health crisis is affecting people of all ages, according to a statement on the "national mental health crisis," issued by The White House on the occasion of President Biden's first inaugural address.
- Two out of five adults report symptoms of anxiety or depression. And, Black and Brown communities are disproportionately undertreated – even as their burden of mental illness has continued to rise. Even before the pandemic, rates of depression and anxiety were inching higher.
About Discovery Behavioral Health
Everyone deserves a happy, rewarding life. That's why Discovery Behavioral Health has strived to make evidence-based, outcome driven healthcare accessible and affordable since inception. Our portfolio of more than 130 treatment centers includes service lines in successful operation since 1985. When quality behavioral healthcare is within reach, so is happiness.
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Review: On a moonlit night, new music and nature meet at the Ford under a Green Umbrella
There were no green umbrellas Wednesday night when the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented a Green Umbrella concert for the first time at the Ford. Even if the green umbrella happens to be the surreal symbol of the L.A. Phil New Music Group’s prophetic concert series, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, a quaint artifact meant to shield us from something once known as rain would have looked ridiculous at the Ford, with its beauteous green and rugged hillside backdrop behind the stage.
Chosen a century ago as a natural setting for spiritual pageantry, the site of the Ford remains an excellent site to ponder art and environment. That isn’t necessarily the venue’s purpose. Run by the L.A. Phil since 2020 at L.A. County’s request, the Ford mainly serves to present a wide range of musical genres at more or less popular prices. The L.A. Phil seems to be otherwise keeping classical music out of its way, having three other enviable venues — Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and the Beckmen YOLA Center — for that.
But new music fits the Ford just fine. Wednesday may have been a new-music program without the usual Green Umbrella bells and whistles, so to speak. No composers arrived to talk about their music. No program notes. If you wanted to know what was being played, you had to pull out your phone and find that on an app. If you wanted to know something about the music, you could try Google and hope for the best.
No helpful bells and whistles, but the stage boasted plenty of percussion noise makers onstage. Ticket prices were kept at a reasonable $20 for all seats, attracting a mostly young crowd and some families with young children. The pieces were short, between four and 15 minutes, and varied. Percussion pieces, curated and led by L.A. Phil principal timpanist Joseph Pereira, dominated. Music was heard simply as music, take it or leave it.
Maybe it was just as well that there were no program notes for the short opening piece, Gérard Grisey’s “Stèle,” in which two percussionists, on opposite sides of the stage, hit big bass drums, slowly building an impressive sonic and rhythmic profile. Grisey’s intent was to evoke the mysterious unearthing of an ancient ceremonial stone slab (or stela).
Around the same time “Stèle” was written, the L.A. Phil commissioned one of Grisey’s last pieces, “L’Icône Paradoxale.” A Times review mercilessly ridiculed the French composer’s explanations of his “spectral” technique, a fanciful use of the harmonic overtone series to create a sense of aural wonderment in the listener. “Stèle” did just that at the Ford. Not only have times significantly changed but, in the great Ford outdoors, a stela from a Theosophical Society pilgrimage played a century ago could easily be imagined buried on the hillside.
What followed was one different kind of music after another, each entering into an interplay with the not always benign environment. Vivian Fung’s “Pizzicato,” a string orchestra arrangement of a movement from her First String Quartet, begins with plucked strings and ends with the players tapping the wood of their instruments as though they were percussion. At the Ford, a small plane suddenly flew overhead and entered into sonic play with that tapping.
Had this been a string quartet concert, the effect would have produced an ugly intrusion. But since percussion and electronics were meant to be a significant part of the evening, and everything was prominently amplified, I heard the plane as an improvement.
The most striking piece was Juan Felipe Waller’s “Teguala” for amplified tiles and electronic playback. In a dazzling display of rub, rattle and roll, four percussionists hit dozens of Mexican tiles with mallets, while a fifth fiddled with a laptop. The Mexican Dutch composer, who appears to have one foot in the kinds of spectral electronics that Grisey pioneered and the other in Mexican musical traditions, builds musical structures from complex interlocking rhythms, while the electronics sound as though trucks or trains rumbling through, mosquitos buzzing next to your ear, crickets chirping in the woods, planes whirring overhead. I can’t say for sure whether some of those sounds were from the environment instead of the performance.
Gabriella Smith’s “Riprap” for marimba and strings, which followed the intermission, was written in 2013, the year the composer from Berkeley got her bachelor’s degree in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and turned 22. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra gave it its L.A. premiere three years ago, by which time Smith had already become an L.A. sensation and has since been eagerly commissioned by the L.A. Phil and featured at the Ojai Festival.
“Riprap” has the freshness, zest and originality of a young Mendelssohn. The strings make delightful sounds. The marimba dances around them. Underlying all of Smith’s music, however, is a deep involvement in environmental issues, presenting music as a representative of what the world around us might be and might not continue to be. The sun had set for “Riprap,” and stage lighting made the hillside appear dark and mysterious. But the outside remained friendly, with no disturbances for this happy music, happily performed.
The final piece was Kaija Saariaho’s “Trois Rivières” (Three Rivers). Four percussionists rhythmically speak a French translation of 8th century Chinese poet Li Po’s “La nuit de lune sur le fleuve” (Moonlit night on the river) while playing an extensive collection of instruments. A fifth percussionist operates surround-sound electronics.
The night was moonlit. I had moved by this point to an empty section of seats furthest back from the stage, as mask-wearing is not yet back in fashion at the Ford. The theater isn’t large, but I was too far back to make out the instruments, and the electronics added to the feeling of being in a cavernous space.
Words barely comprehended, a panoply of percussive sounds and the reverberant electronic ambience all contributed to producing an uncanny sensation of being in the remove of nature. How that could be, I cannot say. But when a plane flew overhead, it felt too distant to matter.
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A lucky person in California won a $2 billion lottery prize in November.
The Powerball jackpot was the largest in history.
Maybe you waited in line and tested your luck and dreamt of what you would do with all that money.
But, what's the history of the lottery?
A play of chance, the chance to dream.
"I would like to be a billionaire. I want to win that lottery in there," said Sally Tanner, a Powerball ticket hopeful.
"If I win, I'll probably take a vacation," said Charles Williams, a Powerball ticket buyer.
"Maybe buy a couple of nice cars, take a nice vacation. And then probably set all my friends and family up for the rest of their lives," said Scott Henyan, a New York resident.
But the lottery is about more than fantasies of egregious wealth.
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So, why do we have it?
"Lotteries are extremely old mechanisms of raising money for government that date back as early as the 15th century," said Jonathan Cohen.
Cohen is the author of "For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America." He says the precise origins of the lottery are unknown.
"It's tough because the evidence is sort of mixed. There's some evidence I'm not really convinced of it, that like a lottery was used to fund the construction of the Great Wall of China," said Cohen.
Other records suggest Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus used a lottery to help fund city repairs.
A lottery was played in parts of Europe in the 1400s.
There's a record from 1445 of a Dutch town using a lottery to raise funds to build a wall around the city.
In fact, the word lottery comes from the Dutch word "lot" which means fate.
Eventually the lottery made its way to the U.S.
"A lottery was used to fund the British colonization of Jamestown. And then in the early American Republic, in the colonial period, it was used to fund infrastructure projects, including the construction of churches and dormitories for such notable universities as Harvard, Princeton and Yale," said Cohen.
Cohen says lotteries back then looked different.
They more closely resembled raffles, and tickets could be pricey; so sometimes people bought just a share of a ticket.
But not everyone was on board with this form of gambling.
"During the second great awakening there, there is a bit of a moral backlash in the 1820s, 1830 states outlaw them that after the Civil War, actually they come back very briefly. But then by the 1880s, 1890, there's only one state lottery left in the country," said Cohen.
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That was the notoriously corrupt Louisiana state lottery.
Officials bribed state lawmakers and agents to sell tickets across America.
It was depicted at the time as an octopus, spreading its evil throughout the country.
But in 1890 congress banned interstate lottery ticket sales, effectively shutting down the last legal lottery in the U.S.
Because of this, Americans soured on lotteries for decades until 1964, when New Hampshire started a state-wide lottery.
"That was the New Hampshire sweepstakes, it was called. And it was absolutely insane compared to what we have for modern lotteries," said Cohen.
Initially, a horserace determined the winning ticket numbers.
New Hampshire tried its luck at the lotto to bring in funds to supplement its low state taxes.
Its success sparked other states to follow.
In 1974, Massachusetts introduced scratch-off tickets, and four years later the roll-over jackpot was born, producing massive winning pots.
National games like Powerball and Mega Millions meant even larger possible winnings, and Americans continue to test their luck.
Lotteries are legal in 45 states, and about half of Americans say they play the lottery, according to a 2016 survey from Gallup.
In 2021, Americans spent over $100 billion on lottery games.
"It's more than they spend on books, sports tickets, video games, music and movie tickets combined," said Cohen.
The odds of winning are astronomically slim.
Lottery officials say you have a 1 in 292.2 million shot of winning the Powerball jackpot.
That means it's more likely you get struck by lightning, die from a shark attack, or get a hole-in-one in golf — twice in the same round — than you are to win the lottery.
But that doesn't keep people from lining up for a shot.
"What keeps people playing the lottery is that it is a form of pursuit of the American dream. Even losing tickets provide value to lottery players because they provide the chance for a few minutes, for a few days, for a few hours to dream of a new life," said Cohen.
And you can't dream unless you play.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers want to find out if corporations are taking advantage of Americans and fueling inflation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says big corporations are using the pandemic and war in Ukraine to make money.
“During all this instability, that this be a moment in which large corporations continue to enjoy huge profits,” Sanders said.
During a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Sanders accused companies like Tyson and Amazon, who he said prioritize corporate greed, of causing inflation.
“Corporations are making record-breaking profits and over 700 billionaires in America became nearly $2 trillion wealthier,” Sanders said.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) says competition usually drives the price of items down, but there isn’t enough in the gas or meat industry.
“Is there something unusual about those two markets that seemingly causes this market theory not to pertain in those markets?” Whitehouse asked.
“A relatively few number of producers who can easily coordinate their production,” UC Berkeley Public Policy Professor Robert Reich answered.
Sanders and Whitehouse believe these corporations deserve a windfall tax for their profiteering, but Republicans say Democrats are pointing the finger at the wrong culprit.
“The best cause for inflation lies in the policy choices of this administration,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.
Graham says higher corporate taxes aren’t a solution.
“If we impose new taxes now on businesses who changed their business model in light of COVID, we’re going to make a huge mistake,” Graham said.
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Colorado fans have been infused with a dose of Prime Time.
The arrival of Deion Sanders as coach created quite a spectacle at the Buffaloes' spring game, which drew more fans than the nine previous spring games combined.
Coach Prime doffed his hat to the crowd and took a bow before a 90-something long-time fan literally kicked things off with her right foot as numerous former Colorado players looked on.
“It’s unbelievable. Coach Prime has exceeded everybody’s expectations," former CU receiver Jeremy Bloom said. "I think a lot of people knew, including me, that if we could get him here, the buzz would be back. I don’t think anybody imagined this — even in your wildest expectations.”
The expectations on the field might need to be tempered, at least at the start of Sanders' tenure.
Sanders was hired to rebuild a program that went 1-11 last season and his arrival has led to a mass departure through the transfer portal — some right before the spring game.
“I didn’t kick them out. They walked out,” Sanders said. “Anytime someone quits a few days before the spring game, that should tell you a lot."
The departures continued right after the spring game as several more players entered the portal, including Montana Lemonious-Craig, who had a 98-yard touchdown catch on Saturday.
The good news for Buffs fans: Sanders has been doing quite a bit of portaling himself.
Colorado’s transfer-portal class was rated No. 1 by the 247 Sports composite and includes Sanders' son, Shedeur, who followed his father from Jackson State.
“We don’t look behind us, man," Deion Sanders said. "We look ahead.”
QUARTERBACK RICHES
Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams is returning to Southern California for what is expected to be his final collegiate season.
He's not the only quarterback expected to have a huge impact during the 2023 season.
Utah's Cam Rising, Oregon’s Bo Nix, Washington's Michael Penix Jr., Washington State's Cameron Ward and Arizona's Jayden de Laura also will be back.
Oregon State added former Clemson quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei, who was sharp after struggling with accuracy early in the Beavers' spring game. TCU transfer Sam Jackson V gave California fans a glimpse of what he can do with his arm and his legs in the Bears’ spring game.
Arizona State landed Notre Dame transfer Drew Pyne, who will compete with senior Trenton Bourguet — the backup turned starter last season — and highly touted recruit Jaden Rashada in coach Kenny Dillingham's first season.
UCLA's bid to replace Dorian Thompson-Robinson could come down to Kent State transfer Collin Schlee, returnee Ethan Garbers or Dante Moore, the first five-star recruit coach Chip Kelly has landed since coming to Westwood.
USC'S DEFENSE
USC came within one game of reaching the College Football Playoff last season.
The Trojans' defense was a big reason for it.
USC struggled defensively against the top teams on its schedule last year and coach Lincoln Riley hit the transfer portal to overhaul that side of the ball.
The Trojans added a huge piece with 300-pounder Bear Alexander's decision to transfer from two-time national champion Georgia, joining Purdue transfer Jack Sullivan, Texas A&M transfer Anthony Lucas and Arizona transfer Kyon Barrs on the new defensive line line. USC also added Oklahoma State transfer Mason Cobb and Georgia State transfer Jamal Muhammad at linebacker.
“The difference in the front seven is noticeable,” Riley said. “I think we all knew deep down that we had some holes there last year."
BUILDING MOMENTUM
Arizona coach Jedd Fisch created quite a buzz in the desert, even if it didn't translate on the field.
A year after going 1-11, the Wildcats took a big step last season, finishing 5-7.
The biggest task in continuing the momentum will be improving a defense that was among the worst in FBS.
Arizona lost some key players to the transfer portal, but added defensive linemen Bill Norton (Georgia) and Tyler Manoa (UCLA), along with former Cal edge rusher Orin Patu.
“Our defense is getting better,” Fisch said. “Our defense is flying around, our defense is making it harder on the offense.”
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