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West Jefferson Boulevard is restricted today between Freeman and Catalpa streets during guardrail repair, the city of Fort Wayne has announced.
For questions or to report problems, contact the city's right of way department at 427-6155.
West Jefferson Boulevard is restricted today between Freeman and Catalpa streets during guardrail repair, the city of Fort Wayne has announced.
For questions or to report problems, contact the city's right of way department at 427-6155. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/west-jefferson-section-restricted-during-guardrail-repair/article_1186f078-198d-11ed-b78f-034a7c16456e.html | 2022-08-11 17:38:45 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/west-jefferson-section-restricted-during-guardrail-repair/article_1186f078-198d-11ed-b78f-034a7c16456e.html |
Giants-Packers tickets soar ahead of Week 5 NFL game in London originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Sorry, England. It’s going to cost a pretty penny to attend the NFL’s next matchup in London.
As the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers prepare to square off in their Week 5 matchup, which counts as a home game for the latter, ticket prices to watch the game live have soared in recent days.
Whether that’s because fans will finally get to see a matchup of two teams over .500, this pound-for-pound matchup record-wise will cost many pounds.
Here’s a look at the ticket prices for the Giants-Packers game in London:
How much are tickets to the Giants-Packers London game?
As the quantity of seats available decreases, the prices are increasing. Ticketmaster UK has sold out of tickets, while the cheapest on StubHub UK is £327, or $369.23, in Section 256, Row 39 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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How much are the cheapest tickets to the Giants-Packers London game?
As aforementioned, the cheapest you’ll likely find is £327 via StubHub. Vivid Seats’ cheapest is currently $486 in Section 525, Row 28.
The most expensive, via Stubhub UK, is £2,390, or $2,698.63, in Section 251, Row 35.
What is the New York Giants’ record in 2022?
The Giants have gotten off to a strong start at 3-1 under new head coach Brian Daboll. New York has beaten the Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears, while its only loss came against divisional rival Dallas Cowboys.
However, the Giants’ record is not good enough for first place in the NFC East. Instead, the Philadelphia Eagles are the top team in the division – and the entire NFL – with their flawless 4-0 start.
What is the Green Bay Packers’ record in 2022?
The Packers are also 3-1 to start the season. After falling to the Minnesota Vikings in Week 1, Green Bay has won three straight over the Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New England Patriots.
Green Bay is second in the NFC North behind the Vikings (3-1) based on a tiebreaker.
What are the odds for the Giants-Packers London game?
Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are the early favorites to go 4-1 as the Giants are expected to fall to 3-2. Here are the odds for Sunday’s contest, courtesy of our betting partner, PointsBet:
Spread: Packers -8
Over/under: 41
Moneyline: Packers -375, Giants +300
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ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — The Zephyrhills Police Department is investigating a report of shots fired at the parking lot of AdventHealth Zephyrhills.
Police say the location is not related to the hospital on Gall Boulevard and the area is secured.
There are no reported injuries.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Zephyrhills Police Department at 813-780-0050. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/shots-fired-advent-health-zephyrhills/67-d35c4a3f-190e-4093-ad57-89f5ee56b86f | 2022-07-06 05:53:58 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/shots-fired-advent-health-zephyrhills/67-d35c4a3f-190e-4093-ad57-89f5ee56b86f |
Authorities ID New Mexico gunman who killed 3 as 18-year-old high schooler
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others while roaming through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood and apparently firing at random targets was an 18-year-old high school student named Beau Wilson, authorities said Tuesday.
The attack occurred Monday morning in Farmington, a city of about 50,000 people near the Four Corners, where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet.
Witnesses and police say the gunman walked through a neighborhood a short drive from downtown Farmington spraying bullets at cars, homes and passersby until police arrived at the scene and shot and killed him.
San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari said at a news conference Tuesday that four officers fired a total of 16 rounds at the gunman, including one of two officers who were wounded.
Mayor Nate Duckett said Tuesday both wounded law enforcement officers — a local Farmington officer and a state police officer — were treated and released from a hospital.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The bullets that an 18-year-old high school student fired while meandering through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood struck targets he apparently picked at random, including cars, homes and passersby. Police responded to the scene within minutes and swiftly killed the gunman, but not before he killed three people and wounded several others.
Authorities on Tuesday were trying to determine what led to Monday’s attack in Farmington, a city of about 50,000 that is a bedroom community for the oil and gas industry near the Four Corners, where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet.
The attacker, whose name hadn’t been released as of Tuesday morning but who neighbors say was a student at Farmington High School, carried at least three weapons, including an AR-style rifle, according to police. Authorities also hadn’t identified the dead or six wounded, including two police officers who were treated at a hospital. Police were expected to release further details about the case at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
“At this point it appears to be purely random, that there was no schools, no churches and no individuals targeted,” Police Chief Steve Hebbe said Monday night in a recorded video statement.
Hebbe said the “suspect randomly fired at whatever entered his head to shoot at,” as bullets pierced a half-dozen houses and several cars.
It was “honestly one of the most horrific and difficult days that Farmington has ever had as a community,” he said.
Former state Rep. James Strickler said among the three killed were an elderly mother and daughter who were both over the age of 70.
“Obviously this person is not of sound mind. It’s tragic, because these poor ladies were innocent,” Strickler said.
Officers began receiving reports of gunshots at about 10:57 a.m. and the first one arrived at the scene at 11:02 a.m., Hebbe said. Three minutes later, the gunman had been killed.
A Farmington officer was wounded and taken to a hospital where he was treated and released. A state police officer who was shot and drove himself to the hospital, where he remained Monday and was doing well, Hebbe said. That officer was reported to be in stable condition.
Joseph Robledo, a 32-year-old tree trimmer, said he rushed home after learning that his wife, Jolene, and their year-old daughter had sought shelter in the laundry room when gunshots rang out. A bullet went through his daughter’s window and room, without hitting anyone.
Jolene Robledo said she and her daughter had just finished breakfast when she heard “pop, pop, pop, pop,” which she first thought was a car backfiring. She said they were going to run out the back door until she heard a male voice that sounded right outside the home say the f-word, so she quietly shut the door and hid with her daughter between the washing machine and dryer.
“I mean it was crazy. I called my husband and he could hear the gunshots over the phone,” she said. “He was freaking out and I was like ‘don’t hang up, don’t hang up!’”
Joseph Robledo said he jumped a fence to get in through the back door. Out front, he found an older woman in the street who had been wounded while driving by. She appeared to have fallen out of her car, which kept rolling without her, he said.
“I went out to see because the lady was just lying in the road, and to figure just what the heck was going on,” Robledo said. He and others began to administer first aid.
Neighbors directed an arriving police officer toward the suspect.
“We were telling (the officer), ‘He’s down there.’ … The cop just went straight into action,” Robledo said.
Robledo’s own family car was perforated with bullets.
“We’ve been doing yard work all last week. I just thank God that nobody was outside in front,” he said. “Obviously, elderly people — he didn’t have no sympathy for them.”
Downtown Farmington, which is a short drive from the residential neighborhood where the attack happened, has undergone a transformation of sorts in recent years, with cafes and breweries cropping up alongside decades-old businesses that trade in Native American crafts from silver jewelry to wool weavings.
Nick Akins, a middle school teacher who lives in the area where the attack occurred, said it’s a great place to live, with a mix of homes, short-term rental apartments and churches.
“You never think it’s going to happen here, and all of a sudden, in a tiny little town, it comes here,” Akins said.
On Tuesday, orange circles of spray paint still marked the ground where police had collected evidence in the shootings. Authorities were using metal detectors to search the grass in front of one of the churches along the street where gunfire erupted.
As night approached Monday, dozens of people gathered at Hills Church, a few miles (kilometers) from the attack scene, to pray at the base of a tall metal cross. Lead pastor Matt Mizell talked about living in a “dark and broken world” but told the crowd there was still hope and asked God to provide them strength.
Politicians also weighed in about the attack.
Mayor Nate Duckett said in a statement that the shooting “has left us reeling in anguish and disbelief.”
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement that she was praying for the families of those killed and that it “serves at yet another reminder of how gun violence destroys lives in our state and our country every single day.”
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, a Democrat who represents the area in Congress, said in a Facebook post that “our beautiful Nuevo Mexico is not immune to the mass shootings that occur across the country — Every. Single. Day.”
“I praise the heroes who drove to danger to stop the violence. I pray for the quick recovery of the wounded and for the families of those we lost,” she said.
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Ritter reported from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Lee from Santa Fe. Associated Press writer Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed.
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Long for the days when BMW’s design team was more subtle in its approach to flaunting the performance of the M range?
Then look no further than Alpina, whose new B5 GT perfectly translates the subtle performance design language of past M car greats like the E39 M5 and E36 M3 for the modern era.
The B5 GT is an uprated version of Alpina’s B5 based on the BMW 5-Series, and with a peak power rating of 625 hp, it’s the semi-official BMW tuner’s most powerful model yet.
The power comes from a twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 that delivers a peak torque of 627 lb-ft. It’s mated to a reinforced version of the 5-Series’ 8-speed automatic transmission, as well as a rear-biased version of BMW’s xDrive all-wheel-drive system. Performance estimates include 0-62 mph acceleration in less than 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 205 mph.
To shore up the handling, a dome-bulkhead-strut claimed by Alpina to improve steering accuracy and response has been added. The B5 Touring wagon benefits further with a slightly reduced ride height at the rear.
Stopping power comes from a Brembo brake package comprising 4-piston fixed calipers up front and floating calipers at the rear. They clamp down on to 15.5-inch rotors up front and 15.7-inch rotors at the rear.
The standard wheels are a 20-inch set of Alpina’s classic multi-spoke design. They are wrapped in 255/35 and 295/30 tires front and rear.
Alpina also offers a number of options to dress up the cabin. One of these is a pair of sport bucket seats with extra bolstering. The seats feature a combination of leather and Alcantara trim. Alpina also has its own trim pieces to line parts of the dash.
Some 250 examples will be built for worldwide sale.
For buyers who miss out, BMW is close to revealing a redesigned 5-Series, and the new car will almost certainly spawn a new Alpina B5. There may even be an electric B5 from Alpina since the next 5-Series will also have an electric i5 variant.
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Chippewa Nature Center (CNC) will host its 17th annual Native Plant Sale 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, June 4 and 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 5. Members are invited to a special presale 1-6 p.m. Friday, June 3. Visitors may become a member and shop the sale on Friday. New memberships purchased through June 5 will receive a free wildflower or grass of their choice or a credit toward their purchase; see website for full details. A complete list of plants available at this year’s sale is available at www.chippewanaturecenter.org. Plants will be available for immediate purchase at CNC, located at 400 S. Badour Road in Midland.
Many varieties of native plants will be available including grasses, wildflowers, ferns, trees and shrubs. Specialty plants such as prairie smoke, marsh marigold, native lupine, wild petunia and cardinal flower will be available, species you won’t find at local nurseries. New to the sale this year are yellow coneflower, penstemon, barren strawberry, meadow beauty wildflowers and paw paw and tamarack trees. A pictorial guide of plants can be purchased for $5 at the sale, complete with growing conditions, wildlife value and more. CNC staff and the native plant group “Wild Ones” will be on-hand to help shoppers with their needs.
Native plant species are adapted to our climate and soils, making them easier to establish in a home landscape. Planting a diversity of native plants will add beauty to the landscape, providing a wide range of colors throughout the spring, summer and fall. Native flowers also attract many pollinators including native bees, ruby-throated hummingbirds and butterflies.
Using native plants in a landscape is one way gardeners can contribute to a healthy ecosystem. They provide the food, shelter and cover that wildlife needs to survive. By planting native species, gardeners can help restore areas that are being displaced by invasive exotic or ornamental plants that have less value to wildlife. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Chippewa-Nature-Center-s-native-plant-sale-set-17203900.php | 2022-06-02 10:53:43 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Chippewa-Nature-Center-s-native-plant-sale-set-17203900.php |
House Democrats are itching for a fight with the new GOP majority over who should qualify for committee assignments, tapping Reps. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (Calif.) to sit on the Intelligence Committee in the face of Republican vows to keep them off of the powerful panel.
A similar collision is likely to play out in a separate arena over Rep. Ilhan Omar, the third-term Minnesota lawmaker who is expected to be named by Democrats this week to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite GOP promises to boot her from the panel.
The Democrats’ moves — and the imminent clashes they’re certain to spark — indicate party leaders are confident the public battle over what constitutes disqualifying behavior will play to their political advantage, particularly after Republicans granted a pair of committee seats to Rep. George Santos, the embattled New York freshman who is under fire over lies about his background and questions about his finances.
In nominating Schiff and Swalwell to the Intelligence Committee, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) made sure to name-check Santos, emphasizing his new committee posts and hammering GOP leaders for elevating a “serial fraudster” to the panels.
“The apparent double standard risks undermining the spirit of bipartisan cooperation that is so desperately needed in Congress,” Jeffries wrote in a Jan. 21 letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
The debate arrives as the controversy surrounding Santos has shifted from one focused on resume fabrications to more serious questions about his campaign finances — allegations that have led some Republicans to call for Santos to resign from Congress altogether. Dismissing those concerns, party leaders last week nominated Santos for two committee assignments, on the House Small Business panel and the Science, Space and Technology Committee.
McCarthy himself has defended Santos, saying he was fairly elected by Long Island voters who now deserve his representation in Washington. He’s deferring questions of potential misconduct to the House Ethics Committee.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, unlike most other panels, has special rules empowering the Speaker to assign every member. The selections are to be made in consultation with the minority leader, but the final roster requires the endorsement of the Speaker alone, granting McCarthy the unilateral authority to block Jeffries’s recommendations.
Traditionally, that biennial process has been a routine rubber stamp, and the minority party’s picks have been seated without controversy.
But those dynamics have shifted since 2021, when Democrats staged successful votes to strip two Republicans — Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) — of their committee assignments.
That feud was exacerbated when former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vetoed two of then-Minority Leader McCarthy’s picks for the select panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — a move that prompted McCarthy to boycott the probe altogether.
Since then, McCarthy has vowed to keep Schiff and Swalwell from returning to the Intelligence panel — a pledge he amplified on Capitol Hill this month, when he accused the pair of politicizing the committee.
“I’m doing exactly what we’re supposed to do,” McCarthy said.
The accusations Republicans are leveling against Schiff and Swalwell are unique to each lawmaker.
Schiff, as former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, had led the investigations into former President Trump’s ties to Russia, and he was the lead manager in Trump’s first impeachment, which centered around charges that Trump had leveraged U.S. military aid to pressure Ukrainian leaders to investigate his political rivals. Republicans have accused Schiff of lying to the public during the course of those probes.
In Swalwell’s case, Republicans are pointing to his association with a suspected Chinese spy who had helped fundraise for Swalwell’s 2014 reelection campaign — an episode first revealed publicly in 2020. After the FBI informed Swalwell of their concern, he cut ties with the Chinese national, who fled to Beijing. But that’s done nothing to temper the attacks from Republicans accusing Swalwell of being a national security risk.
“If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have Swalwell on any committee,” McCarthy told reporters this month.
Fact-checkers have repeatedly found the GOP accusations to be false. And Democrats maintain that McCarthy’s threats are just another of the many concessions he had to make to the conservative detractors who fought to deny him the gavel earlier in the month.
“This is Kevin McCarthy once again catering to the most right-wing elements of his conference and doing the will of the former president as well,” Schiff said Monday in an interview with MSNBC. “It’s just a further destruction of our norms and, I think, deterioration of our democracy.”
Jeffries, in his letter to McCarthy, sought to distinguish between each party’s standards when it comes to committee evictions, noting that both Greene and Gosar were removed by a vote of the full House after revelations that they had promoted violence against Democrats. Both votes, Jeffries emphasized, had some Republican support.
“This action was taken by both Democrats and Republicans given the seriousness of the conduct involved, particularly in the aftermath of a violent insurrection and attack on the Capitol,” Jeffries wrote. “It does not serve as precedent or justification for the removal of Representatives Schiff and Swalwell, given that they have never exhibited violent thoughts or behavior.”
In nominating the California Democrats, Jeffries went out of his way to force McCarthy’s hand.
Under Intelligence Committee rules, rank-and-file members are limited to four cycles — a cap Swalwell has hit — meaning that Jeffries could have simply replaced Swalwell with a less controversial Democrat. Instead, he waived the term limit in order to force McCarthy to take the aggressive step of intervening to block Swalwell from the panel. Schiff, as ranking member, is exempt from the cap.
It’s unclear when McCarthy will announce the expected decision to block the pair. The Speaker was in Florida on Monday for an annual gathering of GOP leaders. A spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Separately, the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee is scheduled to meet this week to finalize the party’s committee rosters, including the expected move to put Omar, one of three Muslim lawmakers in Congress, on the Foreign Affairs panel, according to several sources familiar with the Democrats’ plans.
The Minnesota Democrat, a Somali refugee, has been highly critical of the Israeli government and its supporters, particularly on issues related to human rights in Palestine, leading to charges of antisemitism. In one 2019 episode, Omar was forced to apologize after suggesting wealthy Jews are buying congressional support for Israel.
Unlike the Intelligence panel, the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee are chosen by each party and ratified by the full House, meaning McCarthy cannot unilaterally block Omar from taking her seat. Instead, GOP leaders are expected to remove her from the panel on the House floor, as was the case with Greene and Gosar. | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/democrats-itch-for-fight-with-gop-on-expelling-lawmakers-from-committees/ | 2023-01-24 22:11:45 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/democrats-itch-for-fight-with-gop-on-expelling-lawmakers-from-committees/ |
Liz Cheney has cut a national profile, crossing former President Donald Trump because of his conduct on Jan. 6.
The Wyoming Republican is one of two Republicans on the House Jan. 6 committee, of which she is the vice chair — and her voice has been one of the clearest laying blame for the insurrection on Trump.
But on Tuesday, Cheney faces voters back home in Wyoming who will determine her fate and whether they want to send her back to Congress.
And she looks to be in significant trouble.
Cheney's broadsides against Trump put her job in serious jeopardy, having drawn his ire and prompting him to endorse primary challenger Harriet Hageman.
Polls show Cheney down by 20 points or more as her approval among Republicans in the state has nosedived.
In an effort to adjust for that, Cheney has been trying to appeal to Democrats, encouraging them to cross over and vote for her, even invoking the late Democratic President John F. Kennedy in a fundraising email.
That seems like a good idea on its face, but it's likely ill-fated. There simply aren't enough Democrats in Wyoming, the state that voted by a wider margin for Trump in the 2020 presidential election than any other state in the country.
It's been odd to see Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, lauded as something of a folk hero among Democrats. The numbers bear that out: In the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, Cheney had a 60% favorability rating with Democrats.
But among Republicans, her favorability sank to just 13%.
Looking at other surveys, it's a similar story. A Quinnipiac poll, for example, showed her approval with Republicans at 17%.
In Wyoming, a survey found Cheney's disapproval in Wyoming at 72%.
That's bad news for a candidate trying to win a competitive primary.
Let's look at the numbers. Broadly, even if every Democrat, every member of the Constitution Party, libertarian and every other otherwise unaffiliated registered voter in the state broke for Cheney, she'd still be more than 200,000 votes short in a state of just under 300,000 registered voters.
To put an even finer point on it, if Cheney wins every Wyoming voter who is not a Republican, she'd still lose by almost 50 points (73%-27%) if she won no Republican votes.
Cheney will obviously win some Republicans' votes, but that's quite the steep hill to start from.
It all points to a possibly rough night for Cheney, and if she does lose, just two of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump's impeachment as a result of his conduct on Jan. 6 will have won their primaries.
One of those, California's David Valadao, is one of the most endangered Republicans in the country, because he's in a district President Biden won in 2020 by double digits.
That means when the next Congress begins, it's possible just one Republican Trump impeacher, Washington's Dan Newhouse, will likely still be in office.
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(iSeeCars) — Today’s new car prices are the highest they’ve ever been, with dealers regularly charging over MSRP for even the most rudimentary models meant to serve basic daily driver duties. And if you’re looking at specialized, limited production newer cars, the market value could be thousands over sticker price.
Sadly, pricing for used cars is following the same pattern. The normal depreciation curve for older cars, even high-mileage examples with a few dents and scratches, has reversed. Owners checking the blue book value on their old car often find it’s higher than they expect. But just like when the housing market takes off, it doesn’t help much when the cost of buying your next car has risen as much or more than your current car’s value.
Beater Cars: Reliable Transportation at a Reasonable Price
With new and used car prices at record levels you’re going to have to buy an older car with more miles on the odometer to keep your used car payment low. That means it’s more important than ever to identify models with bulletproof drivetrains and low maintenance costs. If these are the traits that matter most to you, with cosmetic perfection a distant third on your priority list, you can seek shelter from today’s high prices in a cheap beater car.
A beater car is loosely defined as a cheap, reliable car with a less-than-stellar appearance. Beater cars come in all forms – from fuel-efficient hatchbacks and sporty coupes to large, capable trucks and four-wheel-drive SUVs. But the key to a good beater car is being mechanically sound while being cosmetically…well…less sound. It’s the high mileage and cosmetic imperfections that bring the price of these vehicles down, which is the whole point of buying a beater car.
How to Identify a Good Beater Car
While you could start raiding junkyards looking for beater car candidates in need of mechanical reconditioning, we’re assuming you’d rather buy one ready to go. If that’s the case, there are a few steps you’ll want to take when seeking a good beater car at a low price.
First, you’ll need to run a free VIN check to confirm the car hasn’t suffered any catastrophic damage. The iSeeCars VIN report will link to CarFax or Autocheck history reports and often provide them for free. The report will show you if the vehicle has a salvaged or flood-damaged title. It’s worth noting that some salvaged or flood-damaged cars can still serve as reliable transportation. But unless you’re an experienced mechanic, capable of identifying when that’s the case, you should avoid these cheap cars that seem too good to be true. Because they usually are….
Next, you’ll want to scrutinize the history report to confirm regular maintenance. Remember, a beater car doesn’t have to look great – or even good – but it has to offer the mechanical reliability that comes from proper maintenance. Otherwise you might simply be swapping a higher up-front purchase price for higher ongoing maintenance costs, and at that point you should just buy a mechanically sound and cosmetically desirable non-beater car – for more money.
Even if a car’s history report checks out you’ll still want to take it for a test drive. Because dealerships tend to recondition their cars to improve their appearance, you’re more likely to find beater cars in the hands of individuals. That might mean filtering your iSeeCars vehicle search for private party sales, or using Craigslist to find local beater cars. Either way, you should always test drive any vehicle before you buy it. And if you can have a local mechanic perform a pre-purchase inspection, even better.
If after all of these steps there’s every indication a vehicle has solid mechanicals, and assuming you’re getting a healthy discount for its cosmetic flaws, then congratulations, you’ve likely found your beater car.
What are the Best Beater Car Candidates?
As mentioned above, beater cars come in all shapes and sizes. The Honda Civic, Nissan Sentra, and Toyota Corolla are three compact cars with excellent reputations as beater cars. Midsize cars like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, and Volkswagen Passat, or larger sedans like the Chevy Impala and Nissan Maxima, are also known for their longevity.
On the SUV side, the Jeep Wrangler and Mercedes-Benz G-Class are popular for combining strong mechanicals with rugged, off-road capabilities. For summer fun, the BMW 3 Series convertible and Mazda Miata have proven reliable, and if you need a winter beater keep in mind nearly every Subaru includes all-wheel drive as standard equipment.
If you’re looking for a good place to start when seeking cheap, reliable transportation, check out iSeeCars Longest Lasting Cars list. These are the vehicles most likely to reach 200,000-plus miles, confirming their inherent mechanical durability and likelihood to keep going long after the paint fades and the upholstery starts to crack.
Below are the top 15 models most likely to hit 200,000-plus miles and keep going:
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The Hemingway plan opens for tours this Saturday!
LEONARDTOWN, Md., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Richmond American Homes of Maryland, a subsidiary of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MDC), is pleased to announce the grand opening of a brand-new model home at Clarks Rest, a sought-after masterplan in the quaint waterfront town of Leonardtown.
The two-story Hemingway model is fully furnished and features airy 9' main-floor ceilings, quartz countertops, hardwood flooring and a tranquil covered patio. The notable new neighborhood also offers the two-story Yorktown and Hopewell floor plans, as well as the ranch-style Arlington plan.
Prospective homebuyers and area agents are encouraged to stop by Clarks Rest between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 13, and Sunday, August 14, to explore the Hemingway model and discover everything this brand-new community has to offer.
- Four inspired ranch and two-story floor plans from the low $500s
- 3 to 7 bedrooms, approx. 1,950 to 2,930 sq. ft.
- Community clubhouse, pools, sports courts, playgrounds, walking trails and more
- Desirable location offering easy access to Alexandria, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore
- Close proximity to notable schools, major employment hubs, unique shops, art galleries, dining and historical attractions
Those who choose to build a new home from the ground up at this community will have the opportunity to work with professional design consultants to select colors, textures, finishes and fixtures for their new living spaces—a complimentary service!
Clarks Rest is located at 23266 Applewood Lane in Leonardtown. Call 410.312.2829 or visit RichmondAmerican.com for more information. View health and safety updates at RichmondAmerican.com/COVID-19.
Operating under the name Richmond American Homes, MDC's homebuilding subsidiaries have built more than 220,000 homes since 1977. Among the nation's largest homebuilders, MDC's subsidiary companies have operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Mortgage lending, plus insurance and title services are offered by the following MDC subsidiaries, respectively: HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency, Inc. and American Home Title and Escrow Company. M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MDC." For more information, visit MDCHoldings.com.
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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- A horticulture teacher from Minnesota set a new U.S. record Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after raising a giant gourd weighing 2,560 pounds.
Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota set the new record and won an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California.
"Minnesota has a great midyear, but our spring in our parts is really, really tough. So to do it in Minnesota, it just shouldn't happen," Gienger said. "It's like winning the Tour de France on a big wheel. You know, you can only hope, but it worked."
Gienger drove the gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to see his hard work pay off at the 49th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
"You think driving in a snowstorm is bad? Try driving one of these things," he said.
Gienger, who also won the same contest in Northern California in 2020, broke a record set last week in New York where a grower raised a massive pumpkin weighing 2,554 pounds.
A grower in Italy holds the world record for the heaviest pumpkin. He grew a 2,702-pound squash in 2021, according to Guinness World Records. | https://abc11.com/heaviest-pumpkin-record-half-moon-bay-contest-travis-gienger-minnesota-man/12313616/ | 2022-10-11 13:42:03 | 0 | https://abc11.com/heaviest-pumpkin-record-half-moon-bay-contest-travis-gienger-minnesota-man/12313616/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Staff at Multnomah County jails shared personal and medical information belonging to hundreds of people who were incarcerated, officials said.
A statement from the county said names, dates of birth and photos — as well as medical information like diagnoses and treatments — may have been released amid sharing between September 2019 and June, impacting more than 350 people, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
The data transfer affected people who were participating in the county’s program to evaluate if they were mentally healthy enough to participate in their own criminal defense. The information was shared with the county Health Department’s Behavioral Health Forensic Diversion staff for coordinating services to help with legal defense.
The county said it has not been able to confirm whether the information was legally shared in all cases. For some, county corrections health staff could not determine whether an order was in place to release personal information.
After completing its internal review, the Multnomah County Health Department sent letters notifying all patients whose information was disclosed.
Officials said they believe there is a “low to moderate” risk of the information getting into the wrong hands because it was only shared among county staff and the patients’ attorneys, but the county is offering free identity theft protection services to all of the people who were incarcerated and affected by the data transfer. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Personal-information-of-some-in-jails-possibly-17361287.php | 2022-08-09 14:53:35 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Personal-information-of-some-in-jails-possibly-17361287.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee is launching a digital ad campaign to energize its voters after last month’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, warning that Republicans’ ultimate goal is to outlaw abortion nationwide.
The committee is sponsoring an at least $10,000 ad buy beginning Tuesday on the websites of more than 20 lifestyle publications, including Teen Vogue, Refinery29, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Essence, GQ, Men’s Health and Esquire.
The ads feature a picture of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell alongside pink, white and blue text that says: “Republicans are pushing to ban abortion nationally. Join us in fighting back.”
The cost is modest for a national campaign — especially when activists have accused President Joe Biden and other top Democrats of failing to respond forcefully enough to the Supreme Court’s decision. Still, Democrats are betting outrage over the high court’s action can fire up their base ahead of the midterm elections, while inflation is at record highs and Biden’s approval ratings sag.
The DNC says it also plans to launch a separate, six-figure television ad campaign encouraging activism to defend abortion rights later this week across a dozen media markets in battleground areas.
Many top Republicans, meanwhile, are eager to lean into the fight against abortion rights, seeing the overturning of Roe as a promise they kept to voters.
Since the Supreme Court nullified Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized the right to an abortion, in a ruling June 24, many Republican-led states have rushed to enact broad restrictions on the procedure. No federal legislation outlawing it exists, and getting such a bill through Congress would likely be difficult — but McConnell suggested even before the Supreme Court’s ruling that a future nationwide ban was “possible.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence said after the ruling that “we must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land.”
The DNC’s digital ads are promoting what it is calling a “week of action” devoted to defending abortion rights.
“With this Defend Choice Week of Action, we’re giving people across the country a chance to turn their anger into action by holding anti-choice Republicans accountable and helping to elect Democrats,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement.
The digital ads, and the television campaign beginning later this week, are also helping publicize DefendChoice.org, a website the various Democratic campaign arms created after the Supreme Court ruling.
The DNC says the site connects grassroots activists with the party’s existing national infrastructure, and it notes that its volunteers made 23,000-plus calls in the weekend following the ruling — its most active weekend since last November’s election. The committee says even before the ruling, it held briefings for state parties, elected officials and campaign staff to share research and messaging ideas compiled on the national level.
Tuesday’s digital ad buy and the upcoming TV buy follow a five-figure digital campaign launched June 29 in which the DNC proclaimed that Republicans “want to go further and ban abortion. Believe them.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former correctional officer at the biggest women’s prison in California has been accused of engaging in sexual misconduct against at least 22 inmates, state prison officials said Wednesday.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it has shared the results of an internal investigation into Gregory Rodriguez, a former officer at the Central California Women’s Facility, with the Madera County District Attorney’s Office. Charges have not yet been filed against Rodriguez, said Dana Simas, a spokeswoman for the corrections department.
Misconduct at the hands of prison officials “shatters the trust of the public,” Jeff Macomber, the correction’s department’s secretary, said in a news release.
“We are continuing this investigation to ensure we are rooting out any employee who does not obey the law and to seek out other victims,” Macomber said.
The investigation began in July after officials discovered possible sexual misconduct by Rodriguez against inmates at the Central California Women’s Facility, the department said. The prison is in Chowchilla, a small California city about 120 miles (190 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco.
The corrections department said Rodriguez retired in August after he was approached about the investigation.
It’s the latest allegation of abuse by prison officials at facilities in California. A 2003 federal law known as the Prison Rape Elimination Act created a “zero-tolerance” policy for sexual assault against inmates. But in 2018, another former correctional officer who worked at the Central California Women’s Facility for more than a decade was fired for sexual misconduct.
An Associated Press investigation found that a high-ranking federal Bureau of Prisons official, who formerly worked at a women’s prison in the San Francisco Bay Area, was repeatedly promoted after allegations that he assaulted inmates. Another investigation found a pattern of sexual abuse by correctional officers at the women’s facility.
The state corrections department’s news release does not specify the type of conduct that Rodriguez allegedly engaged in. But the state’s allegations against Rodriguez come after lawyer Robert Chalfant filed two federal civil rights lawsuits in early December alleging Rodriguez raped two inmates, who are known in the suits as Jane Doe and Jane Roe.
Federal court records did not list an attorney for Rodriguez, and attempts by The Associated Press to reach him through phone numbers found in public records were unsuccessful. The lawsuits were first reported by The Sacramento Bee.
One of the lawsuits alleges that Rodriguez forced Jane Doe to perform oral sex on him and raped her in May. The other alleges Rodriguez started making sexually inappropriate comments about Jane Roe before harassing her, groping her on multiple occasions and eventually raping her in June.
Both lawsuits accuse prison officials of negligence, saying they failed to prevent the assaults even though Rodriguez developed a reputation among inmates as a predator.
One lawsuit also names the state corrections department as a defendant.
The district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. But Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno told the Sacramento Bee that her office received the results of the state’s internal investigation last week. She said her office is still reviewing the information.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jayla Everett made a go-ahead shot with 0.3 seconds left and St. John’s edged Purdue 66-64 on Thursday night in a First Four game.
Everett curled off a screen and sank a jumper from the free-throw line with 1:30 left for a 64-62 lead. But the Red Storm turned it over on their next possession and Lasha Petree made a shot in the lane to tie it at 64-all with 30.3 left.
After a timeout, Mimi Reid dribbled down the clock before starting the offense with about 10 seconds left. Everett drove the right side of the lane and had the ball knocked loose before corralling it and sinking a shot from a difficult angle.
Everett finished with 20 points on 7-of-14 shooting and Unique Drake added 16 points with four 3-pointers for St. John’s. Drake was 4 of 6 from distance, Everett made 3 of 6 and St. John’s finished 11 of 23 after entering averaging just 6.2 makes per game.
Everett was called for a technical foul with 3:48 remaining in the fourth quarter for arguing with an official after she appeared to cleanly block a shot. Petree celebrated the call and made contact with an opponent, leading to an intentional foul. The two fouls offset, but Everett went to the bench with four fouls before returning with 2:07 left.
Petree had 20 points and eight rebounds for Purdue (19-11), which was making its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2017. Caitlyn Harper scored 14 points.
St. John’s scored 22 points off 16 Purdue turnovers.
Everett scored nine points in the third quarter and Drake made St. John’s 11th 3-pointer late in the frame for a 60-45 lead — its largest of the game.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
224 PM PDT Mon Jun 13 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM PDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Wind Advisory, northwest winds 20 to 30 mph
with gusts up to 50 mph expected. Isolated gusts to 60 mph are
possible. There will likely be lulls in the winds late morning
through mid afternoon.
* WHERE...Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range and Santa Barbara
County Southwestern Coast.
* WHEN...Until 3 AM PDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down large objects such as
trees and power lines. Power outages are possible. Travel
could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO
11 AM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...For the High Wind Warning, north winds 20 to 35 mph with
gusts up to 60 mph expected. For the Wind Advisory, northwest
winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. The winds
will be strongest near and through the I-5 corridor.
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains and Los Angeles County
Mountains.
* WHEN...For the High Wind Warning, from 6 PM this evening to 11
AM PDT Tuesday. For the Wind Advisory, until 6 PM PDT this
evening.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down large objects such as
trees and power lines. Power outages are expected. Travel will
be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around
trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of
your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if
you must drive.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
expected. The winds will be strongest in the west especially
in the foothills.
* WHERE...Antelope Valley.
* WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds and reduced visibility from blowing dust
will make driving difficult. Gusty winds could blow around
unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few
power outages may result.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches and Santa
Barbara County Inland Central Coast.
* WHEN...Until 9 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects and
make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
* WHERE...Santa Clarita Valley.
* WHEN...Until 3 AM PDT Tuesday.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains.
* WHEN...Until 5 AM PDT Tuesday.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 AM
PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph
expected. Local gusts to 50 mph possible.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast and Lake
Casitas.
* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening to 3 AM PDT Tuesday.
PDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
expected. There will likely be lulls in the winds late morning
* WHERE...Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range.
* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening to 3 AM PDT Wednesday.
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DECATUR -- In 2020, when the opportunity presented itself, Bryan Austin and his wife Becca took advantage of the surplus of produce they grew and sold them at 20411 Arkansas 102 in Decatur. Today, their Dairy Barn Market is open for business with more vegetables and goodies for this year.
It started with a few tables, some produce, and a "Nike shoebox" cash register, and now it has become a flourishing business with a whole assortment of vegetables, handmade soaps and other culinary goodies. With their expansion of land and knowledge, the business continues to grow day by day.
Initially, the Austin family grew vegetables for their own table but realized they grew more than they could consume. So they decided to sell their leftovers. But, to their surprise, the demand surpassed their expectations.
"If somebody would call us or stop in, then we would go ahead and sell it," said Bryan. "So the 30 days [of produce] went away in 10 days. I said, 'Man, that's amazing.'"
So the Austins decided to convert their land and expand their property by purchasing nearby land.
The Dairy Barn Market grows corn, okra, squash, tomatoes, carrots and multiple varieties of beets. Each of these beets has a unique taste.
One of Bryan's favorites is the Chioggia beet, which he calls the "stripe" because it has a distinct red and white color inside.
This beet has a robust, earthy taste with a subtle hint of "sweet." It takes less time to cook compared to other beets and has many applications. When served raw, it adds vibrant colors to salad or soups. It also can be sliced thin and baked into chips. The leaves are also edible.
The Austins take pride in their work and use every opportunity to add a personal touch to their business. They harvest honey straight from the bees in their apiary. They make all their breads and jellies from scratch and package them with a label that reflects the Dairy Barn Market location, which features their barn and silo on the property.
Becca makes all the breads and jellies. She bakes different varieties of sweetbreads and sourdough breads every Friday night so they'll be fresh on Saturday. Her most popular culinary creations are her jellies. This year, her redbud jellies are selling faster than last year.
"Last year, we didn't make enough," said Bryan. "We sold out very quickly. Well, we actually are (selling) about six times more redbud jellies than we did last year."
Redbud jelly comes from the redbud tree flowers which bloom in Arkansas and the Ozarks. Its purple-pink flower petals are edible and once they are blooming, they are collected and soaked in boiling water. This extracts the flavor and essence of the flowers, which is used to give the jelly its floral taste and maroon color.
Aside from redbud jelly, Dairy Barn Market has an assortment of other jellies. Bryan says his favorite "breakfast jelly" is raspberry, served with biscuits.
Alongside the traditional flavors, Becca experiments with more robust ingredients to make unique combinations.
Bryan said, "We've got the jalapeno jellies or strawberry jalapeno. And we put that on a block of cream cheese and pour it on top of [biscuits]. Even with crackers, we've decided that it is absolutely fabulous."
The Dairy Barn Market is optimistic this year because it has experimented with uncommon varieties of vegetables alongside local favorites. Bryan admits it's been a bit of a "learning curve," but that hasn't slowed the Austins down.
"We talked about it and said, 'Look, why don't we take the opportunity to go check out some other farmers markets?' So we went to Memphis and Nashville to check out those big farmers markets and talked to the people there. ... We got a lot of knowledge from those two big area markets," Bryan said.
By exchanging different tips and tricks from the farmers markets, they have been able to implement different techniques to take full advantage of their crops and preserve the freshness of their vegetables once they have harvested them. One of these tricks preserves the freshness of lettuce.
"The lady in Memphis ... sold lettuce but didn't take off the roots," said Bryan. "She sold it in a tray that ... had water in it. And that kept it alive and vigorous."
For the Dairy Barn Market, it's exciting to explore new and inventive ways to expand the business. As of now, the Austins grow locally and deal locally as opposed to shipping their produce because they want to ensure their customers get the best and freshest quality of produce, they said.
The Dairy Barn Market also sells handmade soaps which the Austins source from a local neighbor. These soaps offer fragrances ranging from honeysuckle to vanilla tobacco combinations.
What is their favorite thing about the Dairy Barn Market?
Bryan said, "I know it's going to sound crazy, but I've gotten to meet people that I haven't seen in a really, really long time. You know, they'll drive by and say, 'Hey, we heard you were doing this' ... and so we'll get to talking and visiting, and I think that's the most enjoyable part."
Dairy Barn Market is still expanding. The Austins have a five-year plan to see where this business will take them and currently have a Facebook page to reach out to the community at facebook.com/dairybarnmarket. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/09/dairy-barn-market-in-decatur-features-local/ | 2022-07-09 17:17:14 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/09/dairy-barn-market-in-decatur-features-local/ |
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Winmark Corporation, a resale industry leader for over 30 years and franchisor of five resale brands Play It Again Sports®, Once Upon A Child®, Plato's Closet®, Music Go Round® and Style Encore®, announced today that it has extended their sponsorship of PGA Tour member Tom Hoge with a multi-year partnership agreement.
"Since we launched our partnership, Tom Hoge has emerged as one of the top golfers in the world," stated Brett Heffes, Chief Executive Officer. "We are thrilled to extend our formal relationship for an additional two years. Tom and his family were introduced to Winmark at the Fargo Play It Again Sports location over twenty years ago. Together, we look forward to fulfilling our mission to provide Resale for Everyone!"
Tom Hoge had a break-out season with his first career PGA Tour title at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, runner up at The American Express, six top-10's including T9 at the PGA Championship and capped off the year by advancing to the Tour Championship for the first time in his career where he finished 10th.
"Winmark's focus on small business formation and sustainability is a perfect fit for me," said Hoge. "My family and I know firsthand how important Winmark's stores are to the local communities they serve. We have shared values, and I am excited to continue our partnership."
Winmark - the Resale Company, is a nationally-recognized franchising business focused on sustainability and small business formation. We champion and guide entrepreneurs interested in operating one of our award-winning resale franchises: Plato's Closet, Once Upon A Child, Play It Again Sports, Style Encore and Music Go Round. As of June 25, 2022, there were 1,293 franchises in operation and over 2,800 available territories. An additional 46 franchises have been awarded but are not open. For more information, please visit www.winmarkcorporation.com.
Tom Hoge was born in Statesville, North Carolina, grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, and played college golf at Texas Christian University. He turned pro in 2011 and joined the PGA TOUR in 2015. He recently finished his most productive year on the PGA Tour where he won the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am and had five other top ten finishes including the PGA Championship. He qualified for his first Tour Championship and finished 10th in the final 2022 FedEx Cup standings. He and his wife Kelly reside in Fort Worth, TX.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Connected Nation (CN) today announced the launch of a Digital Literacy and Learning program in collaboration with AT&T. The program, which is part of AT&T's national digital literacy initiative to help narrow the Digital Divide, will offer in-person and virtual digital literacy training workshops in underserved areas across the country where training is needed most for the digital empowerment of residents. CN will partner with local community organizations in each area to host training workshops from September 2022 through March 2023. In addition, CN will lead virtual and in-person workshops for military families at its Digital Works office in Fort Campbell, Kentucky
"Digital literacy has long been part of Connected Nation's mission — ensuring that every person is able to use technology meaningfully is absolutely essential in today's digital economy," said Heather Gate, Executive Vice President of Digital Inclusion. "This program provides us the opportunity to meet people where they are in their digital skills level, confidence with embracing technology, and interest in enhancing their skills as new technology adopters. There is no better way to do this than by collaborating with trusted partners to bring much-needed training to local communities across the country. We are excited to get started."
To launch this program, CN staff is reaching out to communities that previously participated in the nonprofit's technology planning process and identified digital literacy as a need. "Offering a tangible skill like digital literacy training to communities that Connected Nation works with allows us to model closing the Digital Divide in a real way," said Pamela Waggoner, Broadband Solutions Manager.
The amount of federal and state funding earmarked for broadband initiatives continues to grow. More communities than ever have access to these funds, and can use them to bring programs like this one to their residents.
"In recent months, there has been a considerable emphasis and focus on the large investments being made by federal and state governments to support the buildout of very high-speed networks across our communities," said Dan Manning, CN Broadband Solutions Manager. "We also need to prepare these communities with the tools and training necessary to take advantage of these capabilities to help improve their lives. This initiative will be a significant factor in addressing that need."
Connected Nation is ready to partner with local community organizations to host in-person and virtual workshops. To learn more, visit: https://connectednation.org/digital-literacy-workshops/.
About Connected Nation: Connected Nation celebrated 20 years of service in 2021. The national nonprofit's mission is to improve lives by providing innovative solutions that expand access to and increase the adoption and use of broadband (high-speed internet) and its related technologies for all people. Everyone belongs in a Connected Nation.
For more information, please visit: connectednation.org and follow Connected Nation on Facebook and Twitter.
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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders prepared to provide Ukraine with more military assistance for fighting Russia but only vague assurances of future membership as the alliance’s summit draws to a close on Wednesday.
A draft agreement states that Ukraine can join NATO “when allies agree and conditions are met.” The ambiguous outcome reflects the challenges of reaching consensus among the alliance’s current members while the war continues, and it is likely to leave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unsatisfied.
Although Zelenskyy planned to attend the summit’s final day, he has been sharply critical of what he described as NATO’s “absurd” reluctance to set a timeline for his country’s acceptance into the alliance.
In essence, Western countries are willing to keep sending weapons to help Ukraine do the job that NATO was designed to do — hold the line against a Russian invasion — but not allow Ukraine to join its ranks and benefit from its security.
Zelenskyy said in a Tuesday speech in a town square in Vilnius that he had “faith” in NATO, but that he would “like this faith to become confidence, confidence in the decisions that we deserve, all of us, every soldier, every citizen, every mother, every child.”
“Is that too much to ask?” he added.
Symbols of support for Ukraine are common around the city, where the country’s blue-and-yellow flags hang from buildings and are pasted inside windows. One sign cursed Russian President Vladimir Putin. Another urged NATO leaders to “hurry up” their assistance for Ukraine.
However, there’s been more caution inside the summit itself, especially from U.S. President Joe Biden, who has explicitly said he doesn’t think Ukraine is ready to join NATO. There are concerns that the country’s democracy is unstable and its corruption remains too deeply rooted.
In addition, Western nations fear sparking a wider conflict. Several leaders, from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, said it was too risky to admit Ukraine during the war.
Under Article 5 of the NATO charter, members are obligated to defend each other from attack, which could swiftly draw the U.S. and other nations into direct fighting with Russia.
However, defining an end to hostilities is no easy task. Officials have declined to define the goal, which could suggest a negotiated ceasefire or Ukraine reclaiming all occupied territory. Either way, Putin would essentially have veto power over Ukraine’s NATO membership by prolonging the conflict.
Wednesday’s commitments were to include a new “framework” from Group of Seven nations acting on the margins of the summit that would provide for Ukraine’s long-term security.
The British foreign ministry said in a statement the G7 joint declaration would “set out how allies will support Ukraine over the coming years to end the war and deter and respond to any future attack. It is the first time that this many countries have agreed a comprehensive long-term security arrangement of this kind with another country.”
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement that supporting Ukraine’s “progress on the pathway to NATO membership, coupled with formal, multilateral, and bilateral agreements and the overwhelming support of NATO members will send a strong signal to President Putin and return peace to Europe.”
Although international summits are often tightly scripted, this one has seesawed between conflict and compromise.
At first leaders appeared to be deadlocked over Sweden’s bid for membership in the alliance. However, Turkey unexpectedly agreed to drop its objections the night before the summit formally began.
The deal led to boasts of success from leaders who were eager for a display of solidarity in Vilnius.
“This summit is already historic before it has started,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters that “rumors of the death of NATO’s unity were greatly exaggerated.”
Erdogan has not commented publicly on the deal over Sweden’s membership, even during a Tuesday evening meeting with Biden where Biden referenced “the agreement you reached yesterday.”
However, Erdogan appeared eager to develop his relationship with Biden. He said previous meetings were “mere warm-ups, but now we are initiating a new process.”
The Turkish president has been seeking advanced American fighter jets and a path toward membership in the European Union. The White House has expressed support for both, but publicly insisted that the issues were not related to Sweden’s membership in NATO.
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CVS Health announced Monday that it's buying home health care services company Signify Health for about $8 billion.
In a news release, the drugstore giant said it would pay $30.50 per share in cash.
CVS said the deal would come with a network of more than 10,000 doctors nationwide across every state while offering technology platforms.
"Signify Health will play a critical role in advancing our health care services strategy and gives us a platform to accelerate our growth in value-based care," said CVS CEO Karen Lynch in a statement. "This acquisition will enhance our connection to consumers in the home and enables providers to better address patient needs as we execute our vision to redefine the health care experience. In addition, this combination will strengthen our ability to expand and develop new product offerings in a multi-payor approach."
Along with Signify, CVS said it also acquired Caravan Health, which Signify purchased in March.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States and one of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in a pre-dawn operation Thursday that set off gunfights and roadblocks across the western state’s capital.
Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Army and National Guard personnel had captured a son of “El Chapo.” Sandoval identified him only as Ovidio, in keeping with government policy.
Ovidio Guzmán, nicknamed “the Mouse,” had not been one of El Chapo’s better-known sons until an aborted operation to capture him three years ago. That attempt similarly set off violence in Culiacan that ultimately led President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to order the military to let him go.
Thursday’s high-profile capture comes just days before López Obrador will host U.S. President Joe Biden for bilateral talks followed by their North American Leaders’ Summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Drug trafficking, along with immigration, is expected to be a top talking point.
“This is a significant blow to the Sinaloa cartel and major victory for the rule of law. It will not, however, impede the flow of drugs into the U.S. Hopefully, Mexico will extradite him to the U.S.,” Mike Vigil, the DEA’s former Chief of International Operations, said Thursday.
Vigil said that Ovidio Guzmán was involved in all of the cartel’s activities, especially the production of fentanyl.
The CDC said last July that more than 107,000 Americans had died from a drug overdose during the year ending January 2022, most of them involving opioids including illegally made fentanyl.
López Obrador’s security approach reversed years of what came to be known as the kingpin strategy of taking down cartel leaders, which led to the fragmentation of large cartels and bloody battles for dominance. López Obrador put all his faith in the military, disbanding the corrupt Federal Police and creating the National Guard under military command.
The capture was the result of six months of reconnaissance and surveillance in the cartel’s territory, and then quick action on Thursday, Sandoval said. National Guard troops spotted SUVs, some with homemade armor, and immediately coordinated with the army as they established a perimeter around the suspicious vehicles and forced the occupants out to be searched.
The security forces then came under fire, but were able to gain control of the situation and identify Guzmán among those present and in possession of firearms, Sandoval said.
Cartel members set up 19 roadblocks including at Culiacan’s airport and outside the local army base, as well as all points of access to the city of Culiacan, Sandoval said, but the Air Force was able to fly Guzmán to Mexico City despite their efforts, and he was taken to offices of the Attorney General’s organized crime special prosecutor.
Sandoval said Guzmán was a leader of a Sinaloa faction he called “los menores” or “the juniors,” who are also known as “los Chapitos,” for the sons of El Chapo.
Other “little Chapos” include two of his brothers — Iván Archivaldo Guzmán and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán — who are believed to have been running cartel operations together with Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
The Chapitos have been taking greater control in the cartel because Zambada was in poor health and isolated in the mountains, Vigil said. “The Chapitos know that if el Mayo dies, (the cartel) is going to break apart if they don’t have control.”
“It’s going to be very important that the U.S. requests Ovidio’s extradition quickly and that Mexico does it,” Vigil said.
Alleged cartel members responded to Thursday’s operation by carjacking Culiacan residents and setting vehicles ablaze in the cartel stronghold. Local and state authorities warned everyone to stay inside.
Such attempts to create chaos often come in response to arrests of important cartel figures in Mexico. One of the most notorious came when federal security forces cornered Ovidio Guzmán in October 2019, only to let him escape after gunmen shot up the city with high-powered weapons.
That attempt came only months after his father, Joaquín “El Chapo” or “shorty” Guzmán, was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison.
López Obrador said at the time he had made the decision to avoid the loss of life, even though the U.S. was seeking Ovidio Guzman’s extradition on drug trafficking charges. A 2018 federal indictment in Washington, D.C., accused him of conspiring to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana in the United States.
López Obrador entered office highly critical of the toll of his predecessors’ drug war. He embraced the phrase “hugs, not bullets” to describe his approach to Mexico’s chronic violence, which would focus on social programs aimed at weakening the draw of organized crime.
But four years into his six-year term, the death toll remains high.
In July, Mexico captured Rafael Caro Quintero, once one of the godfathers of drug trafficking and the man allegedly responsible for the murder of a DEA agent more than three decades ago, just days after López Obrador met with Biden at the White House.
At the time, the capture was seen as a signal that Mexico could be willing to go after high-profile cartel bosses again, something López Obrador had been loathe to do.
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AP writer Fabiola Sánchez contributed to this report. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-violence-paralyzes-mexican-stronghold-of-sinaloa-drug-cartel/ | 2023-01-05 21:02:35 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-violence-paralyzes-mexican-stronghold-of-sinaloa-drug-cartel/ |
GRAPHIC: Bodycam video released from deadly hospital shooting
DALLAS (KTVT) - On Wednesday, Dallas police released video of the deadly chaos and violence that erupted inside Methodist Dallas Medical Center last month.
A gunman shot and killed two health care workers. Authorities call it capital murder.
Suspect Nestor Hernandez, seen in surveillance video, entered the labor and delivery unit.
GRAPHIC WARNING: The video in this story contains content that some may find disturbing.
Social worker Jacqueline Pokuaa and nurse Katie Flowers were both shot and killed.
Some of the released video has been blurred, but it documents the moments the suspect started shooting.
The video was recorded by hospital police Sgt. Robert Rangel’s bodycam.
Police claimed Hernandez had pistol-whipped his girlfriend, who had given birth at the hospital the day before this attack.
“Throw that gun outside, partner. Come on, work with me,” Rangel said.
Rangel fired one shot, hitting Hernandez. For the next 15 minutes, he tried to get Hernandez to surrender.
“Come out, over here. Please come out. Come outside,” Rangel said. “OK, listen, we can work this out. All I want to do is get the people outside, please,” Rangel said. “Come out with your hands up. Come out the hallway. Hands up.”
“Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him please!” The last voice heard in that video is believed to be Nestor Hernandez’s girlfriend.
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What to Expect in 2023:Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put geopolitical risk front of mind for corporate leaders. That could see deglobalization determine M&A priorities.
This would amount to an unwinding of the trends in corporate activity in recent years. Instead of deals being hatched to enter emerging markets or new product areas, the focus could shift to more selective acquisitions in relatively mature markets, with a focus on buying key suppliers or striking conventional cost-cutting mergers in regions close to home.
Alongside this de-globalization will be a financial priority: de-leveraging. Investors have been rewarding companies for keeping debt under control and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. True, the pharmaceutical majors need to do M&A to replenish their drug pipelines. But in the main, bold, debt-funded megadeals that take companies in adventurous directions are likely to be the exception.
Of course, there will always be some opportunistic dealmaking. Take the UK stock market, for one such hunting ground. Valuations are cheap and bid targets remain relatively affordable for dollar buyers given sterling is more than 10% off its 2021 high against the greenback.
For private equity, 2023 must surely bring a reckoning. The seizing up of the leveraged-loan market ended the deal boom in 2022. Hereon, the acute challenge won’t be resurrecting deals, it’ll be keeping afloat those buyouts of yesteryear that can’t cope with cost inflation and weakening demand from their customers.
Combine those dynamics with the demands of servicing high debts, and the year ahead looks set to test buyout firms’ willingness to support portfolio companies when the prospect of earning any kind of return recedes. Businesses that succumbed to private equity bids toward the end of the boom — when buyers more likely paid high prices that required lofty borrowing — may be the first to go awry.
There is one scenario where the buyout industry could start making new investments: a staggered recovery in the debt and equity markets. If leveraged finance ungums first, without lifting stock valuations, that would enable buyout barons to go bottom fishing. Conversely, a bounce-back in the equity market would be a trigger for initial public offerings. The one to watch? CVC Capital Partners taking the opportunity to revive the trend of buyouts firms going public.
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Monica Poole looked forward to voting in Georgia's primary in May.
But after breaking her ankle, she couldn't drive. Even navigating the stairs from her second-floor Atlanta apartment was impossible, so waiting in line to vote wasn't an option. Poole applied for a mail-in absentee ballot, like many Georgians have in recent years, and wanted to return it using a drop box.
But the nearest one in Fulton County, where Poole lives, was a 20-minute drive and accessible only during limited hours and days, unlike 2020 when drop boxes were available all across the county and accessible seven days a week around the clock until Election Day.
The new restrictions made the drop boxes difficult to use for Poole, who had limited mobility and a rigid work schedule. So she was forced to mail in her ballot.
But Poole's ballot didn't count, because it didn't arrive at the county's elections office in time.
"To find out I did all that and still didn't get my vote in, I feel discouraged," Poole said. "I'm an African American female, and we weren't able to vote for many years, so I feel like it's my civic duty."
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Poole is one of millions of Georgia voters affected by sweeping changes to state election laws enacted by lawmakers last year. The changes include restricting access to drop boxes in counties that used them the most, which also have the highest number of voters of color and Democrats, according to an analysis by NPR, WABE and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) of drop box locations, voter registration and other data.
NPR, WABE and GPB compiled drop box usage data by reviewing thousands of forms used to document the number of ballots deposited in drop boxes daily across Georgia in 2020 and calculating travel time intervals to a drop box for more than 7.5 million voters. 2022 drop box locations are current as of Georgia's May 24 primary.
An analysis by NPR, WABE and Georgia Public Broadcasting also found:
NPR, WABE and GPB compiled drop box usage data and locations by manually reviewing more than 9,000 collection forms from drop boxes used in the 2020 presidential election. Poll workers documented the number of ballots deposited in 295 drop boxes across the state daily.
Ballot drop boxes were provided to Georgia voters in the 2020 primaries for the first time as a way to vote safely while COVID-19 ravaged communities. Even before the pandemic, they were a popular tool for voters in states such as Oregon, Washington and Colorado.
After former President Donald Trump's defeat, many of his allies in Georgia and elsewhere equated drop boxes with voter fraud. So, Republican lawmakers, particularly in Georgia, have moved to curtail access to the boxes before the November midterm election.
The new law, known as Senate Bill 202, requires all 159 Georgia counties to have at least one box — but no more than one per 100,000 voters. Instead of making them available outdoors 24 hours a day as in 2020, the drop boxes must be kept inside early voting locations with limited hours — typically 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. That can be problematic for voters with inflexible work schedules or those with other time constraints. The bill received no Democratic support.
While it's too early to measure the law's impact on turnout, experts say even small changes to voter behavior and turnout can sway election outcomes and erode trust in the voting system, especially in a politically divided state like Georgia with a history of discriminatory voting practices that disproportionately impact people of color.
"In any state that's going to have tight elections, and Georgia's had some nail biters, then even those marginal changes could have significant effects on the outcome of elections," said Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, who teaches political science at San Diego State University and has studied drop box access and voter turnout. "Not every election is decided by tens of thousands of votes. Some are decided by under 100 votes."
In 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes. In 2018, Republican Brian Kemp defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams by 54,723 votes — 50.2% to 48.8% — in the race for governor. Polls show similarly tight races this year that could decide control of Congress and who becomes the next governor.
Drop boxes became a political target
Forty-three states used drop boxes during the 2020 election. But in the months following, ballot drop boxes became a stand-in for more sweeping debates around voting rights and election integrity in Georgia and around the country, though they were used by voters of all political parties and in many states like Georgia they were under round-the-clock surveillance. They became a target of conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud promoted by Trump and his allies.
Even after voting to officially add drop boxes as a voting method in 2021, some Republican lawmakers who faced far-right primary challengers later tried unsuccessfully to completely eliminate them, claiming concerns about security and fraud.
"Drop boxes were introduced as an emergency measure during the pandemic, but many counties did not follow the security guidelines in place," Georgia Senate President Pro Tem Butch Miller said after proposing that drop boxes be banned altogether. "Moving forward, we can return to a pre-pandemic normal of voting in person. Removing drop boxes will help rebuild the trust that has been lost."
Miller lost his primary election to be the party's lieutenant governor nominee, and the legislation banning drop boxes failed to gain traction.
NPR, WABE and GPB reached out to five Republican sponsors of the new election law, including Miller. None responded to requests for interviews.
In an interview with GPB, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended the election law as a balance of accessibility and security. He said the state's recent primary election was proof that Georgia has "tremendous opportunities for people to access the vote," including by drop box.
"We have record registrations, we have record turnout," he said. "And we have the appropriate guardrails of making sure that the drop boxes are on government property, that they're now inside an office under the physical surveillance of election workers."
State Rep. Bee Nguyen disagreed. The Atlanta Democrat voted against the 98-page election law and said her colleagues approved the changes to placate voters who agreed with Trump's election lies. She said the law intentionally makes voting by drop box harder for Democrats and nonwhite voters in cities and suburbs.
"The attacks were not backed up by any kind of facts," said Nguyen, who is the Democratic nominee for secretary of state. "All of this was wrapped up in the greater scheme of the 'Big Lie.'"
The Georgia State Board of Elections recently dismissed a handful of complaints about drop boxes, where voters were alleged to each have deposited multiple ballots in a drop box. Investigators determined in each case that voters were legally dropping off ballots for their family members.
Concerns over drop boxes are not limited to Georgia. In Wisconsin, for example, the Supreme Court recently ruled that ballot drop boxes were not allowed under state law. The court suggested that votes cast that way "weaken the people's faith that the election produced an outcome reflective of their will," despite no evidence of fraud.
The provision had a disparate impact
Rep. Jan Jones, Georgia's Republican House speaker pro tem, said during a 2021 floor debate on the law that the drop box provision would provide parity for all Georgia voters.
"The vast majority of counties that offered one drop box will continue to do so," Jones said at the time. "And the very few that had multiple drop boxes will have them according to their population."
But NPR, WABE and GPB found that the uniformity of drop boxes across the state came at the expense of urban and suburban voters, who make up most of the electorate.
The drop boxes in cities and suburbs are now so widely spread out that they have become complicated to access in places already dealing with traffic gridlock or unreliable public transportation.
When Jessica Owens arrived at the library branch a 10-minute drive from her suburban Atlanta home to deposit her ballot in the May primary, the drop box she used in 2020 was gone.
After several hours driving around Gwinnett County with her two toddlers in the backseat, poring over maps and scouring the internet to try and find one, Owens was almost ready to give up. She finally contacted her state representative, who told her that the closest one was now nearly an hour drive roundtrip.
"Now, I have to plan my day around dropping off the ballot," Owens said. "An hour doesn't feel like a long time, but when you have two small kids, it is."
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Twenty-three drop boxes were spread across Gwinnett County in 2020. Under the new law, only six remain in Georgia's second-largest county — one of its most diverse.
In 2020, more than 70% of urban and suburban voters lived within 10 minutes' travel of a drop box, the analysis by NPR, WABE and GPB found. That number dropped to less than 50% for this year's midterms.
The percentage of rural voters who can access a drop box within 10 minutes of their home this year is 22%, about the same as it was two years ago, the analysis found.
In one urban county, drop box use plummeted
Edward Grimes, 71, showed up at the C.T. Martin Natatorium and Recreation Center in Atlanta. It was the last day of early, in-person voting before the May primary, and Grimes wanted to deliver his ballot in the drop box.
"You don't have to stand in line, you just go in, put it in the box and you're out," Grimes said, noting the line of mostly Black voters that coiled around the lobby. "I don't think you can beat that."
Grimes is in the minority. Less than 1% of Fulton County voters used a drop box this year, compared to 6.3% in the 2020 primary, according to county election officials.
Interim Fulton County Elections Director Nadine Williams said many voters who took advantage of a drop box in 2020 did not use it again in 2022, mostly because the new laws have made them inconvenient.
"If you're going to have to get out of the car to go inside, you might as well go ahead and vote," Williams said.
Fulton County, like other mostly urban and suburban counties, invested heavily in drop boxes in 2020 as a way to remove voting barriers. But when state lawmakers imposed new limits on the boxes a year later, election officials were forced to slash the county's drop box offerings from 38 to seven.
"There was no way we could possibly cover everything 100%," Williams said. "We did the best we could."
Limiting access to drop boxes could also worsen existing voting problems in these mostly communities of color, which already have more voters assigned to polling places and longer lines on Election Day.
An NPR/ProPublica analysis in 2020 found about two-thirds of Georgia's polling places that had to stay open late because of long lines in the state's primary were in majority-Black neighborhoods, despite those neighborhoods comprising about a third of the state's polls.
Some election experts also worry that restricting drop boxes not only makes it harder for voters to cast their ballots but may discourage them from voting at all.
"When we look at it in terms of the data, it may be a two-minute increase (each way)," Gonzalez O'Brien said. "That may be something that for some voters will lead to them not casting a ballot."
The actual burden on voters is difficult to measure, since the data analysis doesn't take into account other factors such as rush-hour traffic, he said.
Gonzalez O'Brien has co-authored two studies that examined drop box access and voter turnout in Washington state, which has conducted solely absentee voting since 2013. The studies suggest that proximity to a drop box isn't just a matter of convenience; living farther away from a drop box is associated with a lower likelihood of voting.
But little research has been done on drop boxes and turnout. Studies on other similar voting methods, like vote by mail, have had mixed results. Still, Gonzalez O'Brien said that voting methods proven to be secure should be available to voters.
"I don't believe there are any studies saying making voting easier actually leads to less voting," he said.
While some voters in urban and suburban communities find ways to overcome the new obstacles of using a drop box, doing so is even harder for marginalized populations, such as voters who are less likely to own a car.
In 2020, nearly 90% of voters in those communities were able to reach a drop box within 10 minutes. By 2022, that plummeted to 56%, NPR, WABE and GPB found. The bulk of these neighborhoods are majority Black and voted overwhelmingly for Biden.
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Kristin Nabers, the Georgia state director of All Voting is Local, a voting rights nonprofit, said even with restrictions on the location and hours, drop boxes remain valuable for people with limited options.
"I think it's key that we keep those drop boxes available for people who need to send their ballot with a family member or a disabled person who needs to send it with a caretaker," she said.
Nabers said that Georgia's history with laws that discriminate against nonwhite voters also looms over the drop box changes, prompting voting rights groups to educate voters of the changes.
"I truly believe that the motivation for rolling back drop boxes is to make it harder for voters, particularly in urban communities, to vote," Nabers said. "And I really think it's a shame that our leaders listened to the conspiracy theorists and actually took action that made voting harder."
"We basically have a useless drop box"
While Georgia Republicans have touted expanding access to drop boxes in counties that did not offer them in 2020, voters in many of those communities — mostly rural — haven't used them.
In Heard County, near the Alabama border, elections director Tonnie Adams said the one drop box he's required by law to keep is pointless for his county's roughly 8,000 voters. Voters encounter three election employees before getting to the drop box, so they just drop off the ballots with them.
"We basically have a useless drop box," he said, adding that no one used the drop box in the May primary.
In most elections, especially in rural areas, an overwhelming number of Georgians vote in person — either during the three week early voting period or on Election Day.
In Putnam County, about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta, 107 of the nearly 12,000 ballots were returned via drop box in the November 2020 election. Chattahoochee County saw only 10 ballots returned in the drop box, according to election records.
Election directors are now required to follow the new law instead of making decisions that best serve their voters.
"The nice thing about having local control over elections is that we can all take care of our citizens in a way that works for our citizens," said Joseph Kirk, elections director of Bartow County, 40 miles northwest of Atlanta.
Democrats, including Biden, have slammed provisions in the new law as being akin to "Jim Crow 2.0." But Republicans have publicly insisted the law makes it "easy to vote and hard to cheat."
The reality of Georgia's drop box changes tracked through the analysis by NPR, WABE and GPB paints a more complex picture than political absolutes. Gonzalez O'Brien said that any changes to voting laws, particularly the use of drop boxes, matter.
"Could it only have effects on the margins for certain voters? Sure," he said. "But even if those effects are only marginal, what is the justification for it?"
So far, the changes have been more than marginal for some Georgia voters, including Monica Poole.
In the May primary, Poole's absentee ballot was one of about 1,200 rejected for arriving too late, records show.
She said she has lost confidence in Georgia's voting system and didn't vote in the runoff election in June.
"It just makes you feel apathetic," Poole said.
This story is a collaboration from NPR's Station Investigations Team, which supports local investigative journalism; NPR member station WABE in Atlanta; and Georgia Public Broadcasting.
How NPR estimated the amount of time different voters need to travel to a drop box
For each drop box location, NPR generated travel time maps, or areas in which a voter can travel to the drop box by driving and public transit within given time frames. NPR used TravelTime to generate transit travel time maps and here.com for driving travel time maps. NPR then overlaid the travel time maps with voter addresses to estimate the minimum time frames it would take for each voter to get to a drop box within their county. NPR used the drop box data, 2022 drop box locations provided by the state, and Georgia's voter rolls to calculate travel time intervals to drop boxes available in 2020 and 2022 for nearly every voter.
The travel time analysis excluded one drop box in Chattahoochee Hills, Ga., that was available for just over a week during the 2020 election season. You can view the analysis here.
Characteristics of each voter including race and ethnicity are from the registered voter list from the Georgia secretary of state; the census-tract-level income and ownership data comes from American Community Survey, and precinct voting data is compiled by The New York Times.
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Analysis of prior decade shows that learning loss will become permanent if schools and parents do not expand learning time this summer and next year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Education Recovery Scorecard, a collaboration with researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and Stanford University's Educational Opportunity Project, released 12 new state reports and a research brief to provide the most comprehensive picture yet of how the pandemic affected student learning. Building on their previous work, their findings reveal how school closures and local conditions exacerbated inequality between communities — and how little time school leaders have to help students catch up.
The research team reviewed data from 8,000 communities in 40 states and Washington, D.C., including 2022 NAEP scores and Spring 2022 assessments, COVID death rates, voting rates and trust in government, patterns of social activity and survey data from Facebook/Meta on family activities and mental health during the pandemic.
They found that where children lived during the pandemic mattered more to their academic progress than their family background, income, or internet speed. Moreover, after studying instances where test scores rose or fell in the decade before the pandemic, the researchers found that the impacts lingered for years.
"Children have resumed learning, but largely at the same pace as before the pandemic. There's no hurrying up teaching fractions or the Pythagorean theorem," said CEPR faculty director Thomas Kane. "The hardest hit communities—like Richmond, VA, St. Louis, MO, and New Haven, CT, where students fell behind by more than 1.5 years in math—would have to teach 150 percent of a typical year's worth of material for three years in a row—just to catch up. That is simply not going to happen without a major increase in instructional time. Any district that lost more than a year of learning should be required to revisit their recovery plans and add instructional time—summer school, extended school year, tutoring, etc.—so that students are made whole."
"It's not readily visible to parents when their children have fallen behind earlier cohorts, but the data from 7,800 school districts show clearly that this is the case," said Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford Graduate School of Education. "The educational impacts of the pandemic were not only historically large but were disproportionately visited on communities with many low-income and minority students. Our research shows that schools were far from the only cause of decreased learning—the pandemic affected children through many ways – but they are the institution best suited to remedy the unequal impacts of the pandemic."
The new research includes:
- A research brief that offers insights into why students in some communities fared worse than others.
- An update to the Education Recovery Scorecard, including data from 12 additional states whose 2022 scores were not available in October. The project now includes a district-level view of the pandemic's effects in 40 states (plus DC).
- A new interactive map that highlights examples of inequity between neighboring school districts.
Among the key findings:
- Within the typical school district, the declines in test scores were similar for all groups of students, rich and poor, white, Black, Hispanic. And the extent to which schools were closed appears to have had the same effect on all students in a community, regardless of income or race.
- Test scores declined more in places where the COVID death rate was higher, in communities where adults reported feeling more depression and anxiety during the pandemic, and where daily routines of families were most significantly restricted. This is true even in places where schools closed only very briefly at the start of the pandemic.
- Test score declines were smaller in communities with high voting rates and high Census response rates—indicators of what sociologists call "institutional trust." Moreover, remote learning was less harmful in such places. Living in a community where more people trusted the government appears to have been an asset to children during the pandemic.
- The average U.S. public school student in grades 3-8 lost the equivalent of a half year of learning in math and a quarter of a year in reading.
The researchers also looked at data from the decade prior to the pandemic to see how students bounced back after significant learning loss due to disruption in their schooling. The evidence shows that schools do not naturally bounce back: Affected students recovered 20-30% of the lost ground in the first year, but then made no further recovery in the subsequent 3-4 years.
"Schools were not the sole cause of achievement losses," Kane said. "Nor will they be the sole solution. As enticing as it might be to get back to normal, doing so will just leave the devastating increase in inequality caused by the pandemic in place. We must create learning opportunities for students outside of the normal school calendar, by adding academic content to summer camps and after-school programs and adding an optional 13th year of schooling."
The Education Recovery Scorecard is supported by funds from Citadel founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Walton Family Foundation.
About the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, seeks to transform education through quality research and evidence. CEPR and its partners believe all students will learn and thrive when education leaders make decisions using facts and findings, rather than untested assumptions. Learn more at cepr.harvard.edu.
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Joyce Louise Johnson
Joyce Louise Johnson, 95, of Duluth, MN passed away on December 17, 2022, at Benedictine Health Center in Duluth. She was born on September 24, 1927 to Sam and Emma Jackson in Rice Lake Township and lived in Rice Lake until moving to Primrose Independent Living in 2013. Joyce graduated from Duluth Central High School in 1944 and married Henry O Johnson in 1946. Together they built a home near where she grew up and raised four beloved children. Joyce enjoyed reading, baking, playing Yahtzee, knitting striped mittens for her family and friends, helping at her daughter’s farm, and especially treasured family time together with her children and grandchildren. There was always a plate of cookies and a pot of coffee on if you happened to stop in.
Joyce was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 65 years Henry, her sister, Donna Albertson, who lived in Florida but still considered Minnesota home and spent many summers there, her daughter Gale Garberg, and son Mark Johnson.
She will be missed by her son Paul Johnson, daughter Dana Garberg, daughter-in-law Kathy Johnson, grandchildren Al (Teri) Johnson, Bryan Johnson, Tara Johnson Leuthard, Ben (Polly) Cashen, Bethany (Anthony) Gartin, Kjell Fromberg, and Emma Thompson. Joyce is also survived by nine great grandchildren and numerous nephews, nieces, cousins, and friends.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, December 22nd with visitation at 2:00 and the service at 3:00 with a luncheon following the service at Minnesota Cremation Society at 4100 Grand Ave. Duluth MN 55807.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Police is investigating a deadly crash that happened on Indianapolis' southeast side Wednesday morning.
The crash happened around 9 a.m. near the ramp from Interstate 74 eastbound to Interstate 465 southbound.
INDOT confirmed one person died in the crash, citing Indiana State Police. It was not immediately known if there were other injuries.
The ramp from I-74 eastbound to I-465 southbound was partially blocked Wednesday morning while police investigated the crash.
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Meals on Wheels: after forced closure for snow storm, meals are back on track
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Many businesses, events and non-profits have been affected by the snowstorm last week, including those who deliver meals to people who may be homebound or have difficulties leaving the house.
For the first time in a long time, Meals on Wheels was not operating on Thursday and Friday during the storm. A volunteer for 20 years, Reinie Kembel, says it was a very hard choice, but they are up and running now once again.
“Just being able to serve others, and being able to do it, you know, it’s rewarding. That’s what we were put on earth was to serve people, serve our neighbors,” said Kembel.
Meals on Wheels is offered to those who either are on low income or otherwise cannot go out to get their own food. Volunteers bring both hot and cold meals right to recipients’ doors.
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Heart pounding, I sit bolt upright in bed, flushed, sweaty and utterly panicked. My brain has snatched me from a nightmare — a dream so alarming I wake up.
I've only had one or two such night terrors, but for people suffering from trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or anxiety, frightening dreams may come night after night, ruining their sleep and ultimately their health.
Visions from nightmares can also creep like dark shadows into the light of the next day, disrupting a person's ability to focus and think. Mood plummets, and anxiety rises. Days may be filled with an intense fear of falling asleep and trigger yet another terrifying dream.
Such symptoms can lead to a diagnosis of nightmare disorder, a sleep condition that affects about 4% of adults, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Treatment can include stress reduction, counseling, gradual desensitization and medications, but the gold standard is imagery rehearsal therapy, a form of cognitive behavioral training that teaches people to reimagine their nightmares with positive endings. Still, not everyone with nightmare disorder responds to the treatment, experts say.
Now a new study has added a twist — playing a sound the person's memory has associated with a more positive outcome during REM (rapid eye movement) or the dream stage of sleep. The result was a fourfold reduction in nightmares over the basic therapy alone.
"As far as I know, this is the first clinical and therapeutic study that uses target memory activation to accelerate and enhance therapy," said lead author Dr. Lampros Perogamvros, a psychiatrist at the Sleep Laboratory of the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva.
"This is a promising development. It does appear that adding a well-timed sound during REM sleep augments the effect of image rehearsal therapy ... which is a standard and perhaps one of the most effective non-pharmacologic therapies at this time," said Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler, lead author of the most recent American Academy of Sleep Medicine guidelines on nightmares.
"The result should be replicated," said Morgenthaler, who was not involved in the study. "But I was a bit excited at this new possibility."
Reinventing the nightmare
Imagery rehearsal therapy has four basic steps that can be taught in one day, experts say. First, people are asked to write down every detail of their nightmare. Next, each person rewrites the nightmare with a positive arch, making sure that it ends with a pleasant or empowering solution or resolution.
Now the practice begins. The reworked dream must be rehearsed five to 20 minutes each day until it's woven into the memory circuits of the brain. Once that is in place, it's time to put it into action by rehearsing the new dream just before bed.
In the new study, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, researchers added a twist to the therapy. Eighteen people with nightmare disorder heard a neutral sound — a piano cord — while they reinvented their nightmares in more positive ways. A control group of 18 people who also had nightmare disorder heard no additional sound, while they reworked their dreams.
All 36 people were given a headband called an actimeter to wear at night for two weeks. In addition to monitoring the stages of sleep, the device delivered sound in a way that would not wake the sleeper — via bone conduction.
"One of the significant things about this study's intervention is the use of relatively new technology that can more accurately time the stimulus to true REM sleep," said Morgenthaler, a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine.
"Most wearable devices do not accurately measure actual REM sleep," he added. "Of course, further study might find that the timing is not that critical — but that remains to be determined."
The sound was delivered to both groups every 10 seconds during the dream stage of sleep over a two-week period. In this case, "imagery rehearsal therapy worked for all of the participants, including the control group," Perogamvros said.
"But in the experimental group, where the sound was positively associated, the decrease was significantly bigger — they had nearly four times fewer nightmares," he added.
Imagery rehearsal therapy also lessened overall distress, measures of mood and sleep quality in both groups, but nightmare reduction happened faster in the experimental group and persisted at a three-month follow-up, Perogamvros said. In addition, members of the group who heard the sound reported more joyful dream experiences during their dreams than those in the control group.
Additional research is needed to verify these results and expand upon the concept, but Perogamvros said he hoped the technique might lead to breakthroughs for the about 30% of patients who are unresponsive to imagery rehearsal therapy, also called IRT.
"The ideas underpinning the hypothesis that targeted memory reactivation might boost the effects of IRT have merit," Morgenthaler said, "and this elegant test of that hypothesis strengthens that theory."
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Positions Elevation Labs for Continued Growth and Expansion; Company at Forefront of Fast-Growing Prestige Beauty Segment
SAN FRANCISCO and IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Knox Lane, a growth-oriented investment firm focused on partnering with businesses in the consumer and services sectors, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to invest in Elevation Labs (the "Company"), a leading formulator and manufacturer of premium beauty products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
With a reputation for exceptional product quality and breakthrough innovation, Elevation Labs provides extensive formulation and filling capabilities to over 100 industry-leading beauty brands across more than 80 distinct product categories. The Company operates state-of-the-art facilities in both Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Denver, Colorado, with a deep bench of experienced chemists and lab technicians. With over 20 manufacturing certifications and end-to-end capabilities spanning product formulation, sourcing, regulatory support, logistics, manufacturing, and packaging, Elevation Labs is a go-to provider for complex and innovative products. The Company has further distinguished itself with its commitment to ESG through a variety of key initiatives, including powering its facilities entirely with renewable energy.
In partnership with Knox Lane, Elevation Labs will seek to grow its capacity, capabilities, and team in support of both existing and new brand partners, while continuing to build on the Company's reputation for best-in-class innovation, quality, and customer service. Additionally, Elevation plans to supplement its organic growth with strategic acquisitions that complement its existing geographic footprint and capabilities.
"Thanks to our talented team's unmatched dedication to creating the highest quality products for our clients, we have become an industry-leading formulator and developer for some of the most dynamic, high-growth beauty brands in the world," said Michael Hughes, President and CEO of Elevation Labs. "We are excited to partner with Knox Lane to execute on our strategy, given their multiple decades of investment and operational experience in the consumer products sector and track record of building exceptional beauty and personal care brands. We look forward to leveraging their team's industry expertise and operational insights to unlock value for our business, employees, and importantly, our valued customers – all while fulfilling our mission to create Phenomenal Customer Experiences Every Day."
"We are thrilled to support Michael and the Elevation Labs team as they continue to partner with innovative brands in the beauty industry," said John Bailey, Managing Partner at Knox Lane. "The combination of culture, customer service, and differentiated capabilities truly sets Elevation Labs apart, and we look forward to working together to build on their strong momentum and drive continued growth."
David Coghlan, Principal at Knox Lane, added, "Consumers are increasingly passionate about the ingredients going into their products, and Elevation Labs has distinguished itself as a partner of choice for some of the world's most prominent and sustainable clean label brands."
William Blair & Company, L.L.C. served as the exclusive financial advisor to Elevation Labs, and Alston & Bird LLP acted as legal counsel. Financo | Raymond James served as financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as legal counsel to Knox Lane.
About Elevation Labs
Elevation Labs is a leading formulator and manufacturer of premium skincare, haircare and color products, focused on exceptional product quality, breakthrough innovation and an unwavering commitment to solving client challenges. Headquartered in Idaho Falls, Idaho, the company offers custom development and comprehensive contract manufacturing solutions in both traditional and high-performance clean beauty. Since 2018, over 150 products innovated by Elevation Labs in collaboration with partner brands have been recognized by Allure and other beauty awards around the country. For more information, please visit www.elevationlabs.com.
About Knox Lane
Based in San Francisco, Knox Lane is a growth-oriented investment firm comprised of a team of accomplished investors and operators with a shared work history and a strong track record of partnering with leading companies to accelerate transformational growth. Knox Lane seeks to provide support across a number of business components, including human capital, brand management, end-to-end digital transformation, sourcing, supply chain and logistics, strategic acquisitions and business development. For more information, please visit www.knoxlane.com
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RICHMOND, Va. -- For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of people gathered in person at the Marriott in downtown Richmond to take part in the 45th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Leaders Celebration.
"This Commonwealth, our city, we’re experiencing so much that we can’t forget the importance of coming together, Black, white, Hispanic, Asian. Wherever you're from, whatever your belief, whatever your orientation," Virginia Union University President Hakim Lucas said. "Allowing the love that’s in that vision Dr. King talked about to guide us in how we will live in our community."
While the event focused on Dr. King and his legacy, it also honored the late Congressman Donald McEachin and Richmond Public School principals.
"We’re always looking for people who are unsung heroes, people who are living the dream every day but may not be seen, may not be appreciated, may not be recognized at the level we think they need to," Lucas said.
Reverend Dr. Howard-John Wesley, the Senior Pastor of the historic Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, was the keynote speaker.
He delivered a message about putting faith into action.
"There comes a moment when there's got to be more than your religion, there's got to be your politic," Keynote speaker Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley told the crowd. "There comes a moment when there's got to be more than your Sunday shout. There's got to be your Monday movement. At some moment, God shows up and says, 'I heard your prayer. Now go fight.'"
The MLK Community Leaders Celebration, hosted by CBS 6 anchor Reba Hollingsworth, will broadcast this Monday at 10 a.m. on CBS 6 (Comcast, channel 206 and Verizon, channel 466).
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(NEXSTAR) – One of the world’s largest known moths has been reported for the first time in the United States, and experts are now asking residents to report any other sightings of the insect.
Entomologists in Washington state confirmed the discovery of an atlas moth in Bellevue, located west of Seattle, earlier this month. The Washington State Department of Agriculture said the moth, found on the side of a garage, was reported by a University of Washington professor in early July.
After confirming the species with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, experts now believe this is the first time the moth has been detected in the U.S.
The atlas moth is a native of Asia, primarily from India to the Philippines and south to Indonesia, according to the California Academy of Sciences. Its wingspan of 10 inches is second only to the white witch moth of Central and South America, which has a wingspan of 14 inches.
Its wings are also mesmerizing to some and serve as protection from birds looking for a snack. When open, the atlas moth’s wings may appear to instead be two cobra heads, deterring predators.
Despite its size, the atlas moth doesn’t live long. As London’s Natural History Museum explains, the moth’s proboscis – what butterflies and moths use to drink nectar – is very small and unusable. Because it has no way to eat, the moth typically lives only one to two weeks.
The moth gains much of its sustenance as a caterpillar. During this phase, they will eat leaves of cinnamon, citrus fruit, guava, and Jamaican cherry trees. Moth caterpillars produce silk, and the cocoons they leave behind are sometimes used as purses, according to the Museum.
The atlas moth is a federally quarantined pest in the U.S., according to Washington State officials. This means it is illegal to have or sell live atlas moths, regardless of their stage in life, without a permit from the USDA.
This is the only atlas moth reported in Washington so far, meaning there is no evidence a population has been established in the state. Without a known way to trap the moth, officials are now relying on reports from the public to determine if there are more in the state.
Officials haven’t explained how the moth may have found its way to the U.S.
Because it is a tropical species, Sven Spichiger, managing entomologist for the state’s Department of Agriculture, says its unclear whether the atlas moth could even survive the conditions of the Pacific Northwest.
“USDA is gathering available scientific and technical information about this moth and will provide response recommendations, but in the meantime, we hope residents will help us learn if this was a one-off escapee or whether there might indeed be a population in the area,” Spichiger said in a statement.
If you spot this mesmerizing moth, you are encouraged to take a photo of it, note where you spotted it, and notify your state or local agriculture department.
This rare sighting comes as officials on the other side of the country are warning residents to kill a stunning but invasive bug that could drastically impact certain trees and even grape and wine industries.
Measuring about one inch in size, the spotted lanternfly, with its spots and pair of bright red wings, was first detected in the U.S. in 2014. It has since spread to 11 states, primarily across the Northeast. The spotted lanternfly is a native of China and feasts off of fruit, ornamental, and woody trees, especially the tree of heaven, a fellow invasive species native to China, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If allowed to spread, experts say the spotted lanternfly “could seriously impact the country’s grape, orchard, and logging industries.”
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SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — It still happens to Silene Frederiksz-Hoogzand after more than eight years. Walking down the street, she will see a girl with long, dark hair or a young man in a baseball cap and think, that’s my son Bryce or his girlfriend, Daisy.
But the grim reality quickly kicks in. Bryce and Daisy were among the 298 people killed on July 17, 2014, when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 above conflict-torn eastern Ukraine.
“Sometimes, when you are low, you hear them. ‘Pap, pap. Dad, dad,’ and then you remember that this fake. But you feel it,” said Silene’s husband, Rob.
The couple have attended almost every day of a drawn-out trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged in the Netherlands with murder for their alleged involvement in shooting down the Boeing 777 that was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
On Thursday, they will be in court again as the panel of Dutch judges delivers its verdicts in the case. While the outcome is unclear, one thing is certain — none of the four suspects will be there as they have not been arrested and are being tried in their absence. That means that even if they’re convicted, they’re unlikely to serve any prison sentence.
The verdicts are being delivered against a backdrop of all-out war in Ukraine triggered by Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of its neighbor and the case could set an example for the prosecution by courts in Europe of crimes committed during the war and other conflicts.
None of the suspects is alleged to have actually fired the Buk missile. According to Dutch prosecutors, the three Russians and a Ukrainian worked closely together to procure the missile and launcher, known as a telar, and its crew. It allegedly was fired from an agricultural field in rebel-held territory in Ukraine that was part of a region recently illegally annexed by Russia.
At the time the plane was shot down, scattering wreckage and bodies across fields of sunflowers and rural settlements, pro-Russian separatists were battling Ukrainian forces in the region.
Dutch prosecutors say the missile launcher came from a Russian military base and was driven back there after the plane was shot down. Because of their alleged involvement in organizing the transportation, the four suspects are charged with causing the crash and murdering all 298 people on board the flight. Prosecutors have sought life sentences against all four — the highest sentence possible in the Netherlands.
The most senior defendant is Igor Girkin, a 51-year-old former colonel in the Russian Federal Security Service or FSB. At the time of the downing, he was defense minister and commander of the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic — the region where the plane was shot down. Girkin reportedly is currently involved in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Also on trial is Sergey Dubinskiy, 60, a former officer in the Russian military intelligence service known as the GRU and one of Girkin’s deputies in 2014. Like Girkin, he was in regular contact with Russian officials in 2014 and was also head of intelligence in the breakaway Donetsk republic.
Oleg Pulatov, the only one of the four suspects who was represented by lawyers in the trial, is a 56-year-old former officer in the special units of the GRU, who was a deputy to Dubinskiy at the time MH17 was shot down. He insists he is innocent.
The only Ukrainian among the suspects is Leonid Kharchenko, who prosecutors say was commander of a pro-Russian rebel combat unit in Donetsk in July 2014 and took orders directly from Dubinskiy.
The trial started on March 9, 2020, with a prosecutor solemnly reading out the names of all those killed. It went on to hear evidence of tapped communications between the suspects that prosecutors say point to their guilt, forensic evidence from the crash scene and a reconstruction of the missile’s journey through Ukraine pieced together using social media posts and other imagery.
Judges also visited the hangar at a Dutch military air base where wreckage of the doomed passenger jet recovered from Ukraine is still stored.
Pulatov’s lawyers sought to discredit the prosecution case and aired alternative theories in an attempt to cast doubt in the minds of the judges that could prevent them from reaching guilty verdicts.
“The defense has argued on … many aspects of the evidence that is unreliable and should be excluded,” said Marieke de Hoon, an assistant professor of international criminal law at the University of Amsterdam who has closely followed the trial.
“It is extremely difficult to have the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for a conviction. But they did present a case that seemed very convincing to me,” she added.
De Hoon said the use of social media and open-source data by prosecutors could set a precedent.
“A ruling like this with judges deciding on so many different aspects, including how to use digital evidence, will be very useful for practice for prosecutors around the world,” she said.
Piet Ploeg, who has led an organization of families of the dead, says he wants the judgments to help people move on.
“I really hope that next of kin after the verdict feel the space for themselves to go on with their lives,” he said.
For Silene and Rob, the verdicts are another milestone in the painful journey since MH17 was shot down, robbing Bryce and Daisy of their futures.
“The only thing that has been changed during those eight years is that we’ve become stronger. That the hurt and the missing and the pain every time, it’s still the same, but it’s more — deeper, deeper in your heart,” Silene said. “But it’s always with you. Whatever you do.”
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The Supreme Court said an armed man who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice’s house in Maryland.
The man was arrested around 1:50 a.m. EDT Wednesday, court spokeswoman Patrica McCabe said in an email. The Washington Post initially reported the arrest, quoting sources who said the man is from California and was upset by a leaked draft opinion suggesting the court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade, the court’s landmark abortion case.
He was also said to be upset over recent mass shootings, the Post reported. Kavanaugh lives in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC.
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France’s defense minister goes to Ukraine to boost support
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — France’s defense minister arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss further military support for Ukraine, insisting the French government’s backing is unflagging while efforts are made to reach an eventual negotiated end to Russia’s invasion.
French Minister for the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu traveled to Ukraine’s capital after a trip to Poland, where he announced a deal Tuesday to sell Poland two French-made military satellites.
In Kyiv, Lecornu laid a wreath at a heroes’ monument to pay homage to Ukrainians who have died defending their country against Russia’s invasion. He was scheduled to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and army officials.
While France has been less vocal about its military support for Ukraine than the United States and Britain, the country has sent a steady supply of weapons to Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
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France also hosted two aid conferences for Ukraine this month. But many in Ukraine remain critical of the French government’s response to the war because of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to maintain contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin and seek a negotiated solution.
“Our support for Ukraine has been constant,” Lecornu tweeted ahead of his trip.
It was not immediately clear what concrete deals Lecornu’s talks in Kyiv might produce. He came to Ukraine a week after Zelenskyy visited the U.S., Ukraine’s chief ally, and with the fighting focused mostly in the country’s east but neither Moscow nor Kyiv reporting major gains in recent weeks.
While both Russia and Ukraine have said they were willing to participate in peace talks, their stated conditions remain far apart. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated Wednesday that any peace plan must acknowledge four regions of Ukraine that Russia illegally annexed as Russian territory, a demand that Kyiv flatly rejects.
Russian forces have pressed their offensive to capture all of eastern Ukraine by concentrating in recent weeks on Bakhmut, a city in Donetsk province. Ukrainian forces were pushing a counteroffensive toward Kreminna, a city in neighboring Luhansk province, in hopes of reclaiming the area and potentially dividing Russia’s troops in the east.
France has supplied Ukraine with a substantial chunk of its arsenal of Caesar cannons, as well as anti-tank missiles, Crotale air defense missile batteries and rocket launchers. It is also training some 2,000 Ukrainian troops on French soil. Macron pledged last week to provide a new injection of weapons in early 2023.
Western military aid to Ukraine has angered Moscow. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Washington and NATO of fueling the war with the aim to weaken Russia and warned the conflict could spin out of control.
Also on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning oil exports to countries that support a $60-per-barrel price cap that was declared by the European Union and Group of Seven countries in a bid to reduce Moscow’s revenue during wartime. The ban takes effect in February and is slated to run through July.
The price cap is higher than what Russian oil has sold for in recent weeks, so the potential effects of Putin’s ban are uncertain.
Russia invaded Ukraine 10 months ago, alleging a threat to its security orchestrated by NATO. The war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions so far, with an end nowhere in sight.
Russian attacks on power stations and other infrastructure have left millions of Ukrainians without heating and electricity for hours or days at a time.
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said in its analysis published early Wednesday that Russian efforts to take Bakhmut “may be nearing culmination” due to combat losses and degrading equipment.”
Russian advances likely will decrease “if Russian forces continue advancing at all, unless significant new reinforcements and supplies of artillery rounds arrive soon,” the analysis said.
The latest Russian shelling has wounded at least eight civilians, including three in Bakhmut, the Donetsk region’s governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said.
In the southern region of Kherson, Russian shelling hit a maternity hospital soon after two women delivered babies there, although Ukrainian officials said no one was wounded there. Regional Gov. Yaroslav Yanyshevych said the shelling also damaged apartment buildings, a kindergarten and a bakery.
Zelenskyy’s office later reported that shelling of a riverfront village in the area wounded three civilians, including a 14-year-old.
The British Defense Ministry said in its daily assessment Tuesday that Russia has likely reinforced its front line near Kreminna as its forces come under continued pressure from the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russia will likely prioritize holding the line in the logistically important area, the ministry said.
Ukraine’s foreign minister told The Associated Press this week that his government would like to see a peace conference by the end of February. Ukraine has said in the past that it wouldn’t negotiate with Russia before the full withdrawal of its troops, while Moscow insists its military gains and the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula cannot be ignored.
Asked about Ukraine’ intention to hold a February summit under the U.N.’s aegis, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said any peace plan could only proceed from the assumption of Russia’s sovereignty over the illegally annexed areas of Ukraine.
“There isn’t any peace plan by Ukraine yet,” Peskov said during a conference call with reporters. “And there can’t be any Ukrainian peace plan that fails to take into account today’s realities regarding the Russian territory, the incorporation of the new four regions into Russia. Any plan that fails to acknowledge these realities can’t be considered a peace plan.”
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HONG KONG (AP) — Every few generations, Hong Kong transforms itself, evolving from a swampy fishing village to 19th century colonial port, to capitalist outpost and factory after China’s 1949 revolution, to 21st century financial center.
As the former British colony marks the 25th anniversary of its return to China, reeling from pandemic curbs that devastated business and a crackdown on its pro-democracy movement, Hong Kong leaders say it is time to transform again. They say the city should become a leader in technology that relies more on its ties with nearby Chinese factory cities than on global trade.
Chief Executive-elect John Lee’s government is under pressure to generate new sources of economic growth, looking beyond COVID outbreaks and anti-virus controls that have devastated tourism and business and uncertainty about the legal climate after a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement.
In April, during his election campaign, Lee promised to “start a new chapter” for the city better known as one of Asia’s busiest ports and biggest stock markets and “strengthen its competitiveness” in technology and innovation as well as trade and finance.
Lee gave no details but pointed to the Greater Bay Area, a Chinese government initiative to link Hong Kong with neighboring mainland cities including the technology and finance hub of Shenzhen and the manufacturing powerhouses of Dongguan and Foshan.
“There are great opportunities in the Greater Bay Area that haven’t been realized yet,” said David Graham, executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. “It is a big opportunity for Hong Kong, and it will be very hard to replicate in other cities like Singapore or Dubai.”
Adding to the urgency for Lee to roll out a long-term strategy, executives frustrated with Hong Kong’s travel controls are leaving the city, business groups say. Some companies are moving for good to Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai or other business centers.
“Hong Kong’s strength as a global connector has been greatly reduced,” said Joseph Armas, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Executives have left for cities where “travel is feasible.”
Armas appealed to Lee for a “concrete roadmap” to revive Hong Kong, which remains, together with mainland China and Taiwan, one of the few places that still requires inbound travelers to serve mandatory quarantines.
For Michael Chan, who manages a fashion goods manufacturing business, the restrictions have extended what used to be one-week trips to factories in Bangladesh or China to a month or two, since it makes no sense to spend weeks in quarantine for a short work trip.
Chan has considered temporarily relocating to Singapore, whose controls are much less strict.
“When I meet government officials, I often have to meet them face to face and talk about things,” said Chan, a veteran of multiple quarantines. “It’s not like in the U.S. where I can just use Zoom for a video call.”
Hong Kong lost nearly 90,000 of its 7.5 million population in 2021, according to government figures. More than 100,000 people left in February and March of this year, during the city’s worst COVID wave.
The angst over Hong Kong’s travel controls “presents an opportunity for others to dip into our talent pool,” said Sally Wong, CEO of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association.
Activists and foreign governments complain the ruling Communist Party is chipping away at the 50 years of autonomy Beijing promised after 1997. The freedoms afforded to Hong Kong and its leeway for self-governance had helped it keep its status as a center for Asian headquarters of global companies even as rent and other costs soared to record levels and levels of inequality grew ever wider.
Hong Kong still has a skilled workforce, an efficient port and a Western-style legal system considered to be impartial and reliable.
But its status as a global hub for trade and business center is waning.
One in 20 companies surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong plan to move their global or regional headquarters out of Hong Kong, the chamber reported in January. It said half were uncertain about whether to go.
Some businesses are watching to see how law enforcement and the free flow of information and people that are crucial to commerce and finance might change. Two out of five companies surveyed said they worry they will lose free internet access, vital for a trading center that relies on the flow of information.
“There is a perception that foreign businesses are less welcome,” the report said. “More than half our respondents feel the government is ‘unconcerned’ or ‘dismissive’ about business concerns.”
Until now, Hong Kong has been largely free of the censorship on the mainland, where internet barriers known as the “Great Firewall” are used by the ruling party to block China’s public from seeing foreign websites run by news outfits, governments and human rights activists. But the territory’s leading pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, was shut down during the crackdown and its publisher, Jimmy Lai, sentenced to prison.
Kurt Tong, a former U.S. consul general in Hong Kong who is managing partner of The Asia Group, a consulting firm, said that so far the city’s national security law, though used to stifle dissent, has not had much impact on business and finance.
But the effect of the law and Beijing’s overhaul of the territory’s political system bear watching, he said.
“People who care about the Hong Kong financial system need to think about that,” Tong said.
Hong Kong thrived as the trade gateway to China for decades, but it was eclipsed as the world’s busiest container port in 2000 by facilities in the Chinese mainland. Two decades later, with cargo volume barely 10% above its 2000 level, Hong Kong’s port ranks 8th in the world. Shanghai, Shenzhen and three other Chinese ports are bigger.
Hong Kong’s stock market, once Asia’s biggest outside Japan, also has grown steadily but has slipped behind regional rivals.
Companies traded in Hong Kong have a total market value of $5.4 trillion, compared with $8.2 trillion for the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Companies on China’s second exchange in Shenzhen are worth $6.2 trillion, according to the World Federation of Exchanges.
Tong is among those who believe Hong Kong’s recent setbacks are only temporary.
“The current status is that Hong Kong is a very significant global center, one of the most important in the world, and it plays a unique and critical role in linking the Chinese economy with the rest of the global economy and channeling finance in both directions,” said Tong.
The city is meanwhile nurturing its role as a center for innovation, setting up research centers that have helped incubate dozens of start-up companies.
A vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Rocky S. Tuan, pointed to medical and biotechnology research as one of the city’s less well-known strengths. Writing in the newspaper South China Morning Post, he said “Hong Kong offers access to capital, expertise, global regulatory recognition of its clinical trial data and a network of world-class universities.”
That could lend the city an edge over regional rivals.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After 13 years, at least three crashes, dozens of scams and Ponzi schemes and hundreds of billions of dollars made and evaporated, cryptocurrencies finally have the full attention of Congress, whose lawmakers and lobbyists have papered Capitol Hill with proposals on how to regulate the industry.
The latest bipartisan proposal came Wednesday from Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and John Boozman, R-Ark. It would hand the regulatory authority over Bitcoin and Ether to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Stabenow and Boozman lead the Senate Agriculture Committee, which has authority over CTFC.
Bills proposed by other members of Congress and consumer advocates have suggested giving the authority to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
This year, crypto investors have seen prices plunge and companies crater with fortunes and jobs disappearing overnight, and some firms have been accused by federal regulators of running an illegal securities exchange. Bitcoin, the largest digital asset, trades at a fraction of its all-time high, down from more than $68,000 in November 2021 to about $23,000 on Wednesday.
While cryptocurrencies have had crashes before, most recently in 2018, this crash has been broader and more systemic. A major hedge fund filed for bankruptcy earlier this summer, which in turn has caused other cryptocurrency brokers to collapse as well. Some crypto brokers have falsely claimed that their customers’ deposits are backed by deposit insurance, like banks are.
Lawmakers, who have run out of patience with the cryptocurrency industry’s attempts to live out an unregulated Libertarian, bank-free world, are now desperate to implement stringent oversight. The industry spent $9 million in 2021 on lobbying fees, according to a report by Public Citizen, a figure that is certain to be higher with all the Congressional proposals this year.
The Stabenow-Boozman bill would be a win for the cryptocurrency industry, which sees the CFTC as more industry-friendly regulator than the SEC. The CFTC, which had a budget last year of $304 million with roughly 666 employees, is a fraction of the size of the SEC, which had a budget of nearly $2 billion and 4,500 full-time employees.
“(The cryptocurrency industry is) trying to get anyone other than the SEC to regulate them,” said Cory Klippsten, CEO of Swan Bitcoin. While an advocate for Bitcoin, Klippsten is deeply skeptical of much of broader crypto industry, which has produced a myriad of tokens and other coins that he considers to be nothing more than scams.
Cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who has donated millions of dollars to mostly Democratic-leaning candidates and super PACs, tweeted his support for the Stabenow-Boozman bill.
Boozman, in a call with reporters, said the industry’s preferred choice to regulate crypto is the CFTC.
“They are fairly united on this,” he said.
In a press conference, Stabenow and Boozman both acknowledged that while they have faith that the CFTC is up to the task of regulating cryptocurrencies, the agency would need support. The CFTC already oversees futures contracts for Bitcoin and Etherium, and the bill attempts to alleviate issues about staffing by imposing user fees on the crypto industry. Those funds in turn would fund more robust supervision of the industry by the CFTC. The bill would leave crypto-like products, like tokens or non-fungible tokens (NFTs), for the SEC to potentially assert its regulative authority.
“Obviously if the CTFC is to move aggressively in this area, they are going to need more resources,” Stabenow said.
There has been a growing list of proposals out of Congress this year that in various ways are trying to address the problems in the cryptocurrency industry. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., in April introduced legislation, called the Stablecoin TRUST Act, that would create a framework to regulate stablecoins, which have seen massive losses this year. Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency pegged to a specific value, usually the U.S. dollar, another currency or gold.
In June, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., proposed a wide-ranging bill called the Responsible Financial Innovation Act. That bill proposed legal definitions of digital assets and virtual currencies; would require the IRS to adopt guidance on merchant acceptance of digital assets and charitable contributions; and would make a distinction between digital assets that are commodities and those that are securities, which has not been done.
Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and John Thune, R-S.D., are also co-sponsors of the Stabenow-Boozman bill. Along with the Toomey legislation and the Lummis-Gillibrand legislation, a proposal is being worked out in the House Financial Services Committee, though those negotiations have stalled.
Committee chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said last month that while she, top Republican member Patrick McHenry of North Carolina and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had made considerable progress toward an agreement on the legislation, “we are unfortunately not there yet, and will therefore continue our negotiations over the August recess.”
President Joe Biden’s working group on financial markets last November issued a report calling on Congress to pass legislation that would regulate stablecoins, and Biden earlier this year issued an executive order calling on a variety of agencies to look at ways to regulate digital assets.
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Authorities in Nevada want to find the person who has been breaking into rooms at a resort and fondling women's feet.
The first incident happened on July 2 in Stateline, which is home to numerous Lake Tahoe lodging accommodations.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said the person entered the room through an unsecured exterior screen door and began fondling a woman's feet while she was asleep. The intruder reportedly left as soon as the woman woke up.
Authorities said the same thing happened to another woman on July 3, at approximately 4:30 a.m.
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The sheriff's office said the victims were staying in rooms on the ground floor at the unnamed resort.
The women were not physically harmed, authorities said.
A description of the suspect has not been released, but the sheriff's office said it's "actively working this investigation."
The incidents also prompted the sheriff's office to issue a warning to people staying in the area.
"Residents and guests staying in the Lake Tahoe area are reminded to secure all exterior doors to their homes/rented rooms," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
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QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Baran Ramadan Mesko had been hiding with other migrants for weeks in the coastal Algerian city of Oran, awaiting a chance to take a boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
Days before the 38-year-old Syrian Kurd was to begin the journey, he received news that a smuggler boat carrying some of his friends had sunk soon after leaving the Algerian coast. Most of its passengers had drowned.
It came as a shock, after spending weeks to get to Algeria from Syria and then waiting for a month for a smuggler to put him on the boat.
But having poured thousands of dollars into the journey, and with his wife and 4- and 3-year-old daughters counting on him to secure a life safe from conflict, the engineer-turned-citizen journalist boarded a small fishing boat with a dozen other men and took a group selfie to send to their families before they went offline.
After a 12-hour overnight journey, Mesko made his way to Almería, Spain, on Oct. 15, and then flew to Germany four days later, where he is now an asylum seeker in a migrant settlement near Bielefeld. He’s still getting used to the cold weather, and is using a translation app on his phone to help him get around while learning German. He said he’s hopeful his papers will be settled soon so his family can join him.
At least 246 migrants have gone missing while trying to cross the western Mediterranean into Europe in 2022, the International Organization for Migration says.
Mesko is among a growing number of Syrian Kurds making the journey to Europe on a winding course that includes travel by car and plane across Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, then finally by boat to Spain. Migrants say they are opting for this circuitous route because they fear detention by Turkish forces or Turkish-backed militants in Syria if they try to sneak into Turkey, the most direct path to Europe.
According to data from the European Union border agency Frontex, at least 591 Syrians have crossed the Mediterranean from Algeria and Morocco to Spain in 2022, six times more than last year’s total.
A Kurdish Syrian smuggler in Algeria said dozens of Kurds from Syria arrive in the Algerian coastal city of Oran each week for the sea journey.
“I’ve never had numbers this high before,” the smuggler told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of arrest by Algerian authorities.
Years of conflict and economic turmoil have left their mark on Syria’s northern areas, home to some 3 million people under de facto Kurdish control. The region has been targeted by Islamic State group militants, Turkish forces and Syrian opposition groups from the country’s northwestern rebel-held enclave. Climate change and worsening poverty spurred a cholera outbreak in recent months.
Like Mesko, many of the migrants come from the Syrian city of Kobani, which made headlines seven years ago when Kurdish fighters withstood a brutal siege by the Islamic State militant group.
The town was left in ruins, and since then, “not much has happened" to try to rebuild, said Joseph Daher, a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, adding that most development funding went to cities further east.
Recent events in northeastern Syria have given its residents an additional incentive to leave.
Turkey stepped up attacks on Kurdish areas in Syria after a bombing in Istanbul in November killed six people and wounded over 80 others. Ankara blames the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party and the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Unit in Syria. Both have denied responsibility.
Since then, Turkish airstrikes have pounded areas across northeastern Syria, including Kobani, further battering its already pulverized infrastructure, and Ankara has vowed a ground invasion.
Bozan Shahin, an engineer from Kobani, recalled a Turkish airstrike last month.
“I saw my mother trembling in fear and holding my 4-year-old sister to keep her calm,” Shahin said.
He now wants to join the flow of Kurds headed from Syria to Europe.
“I have some friends who found a way to get to Lebanon through a smuggler and go somewhere through Libya,” he said. “I’m not familiar with all the details, but I’m trying to see how I can take that journey safely.”
The operation, which takes weeks and costs thousands of dollars, is run by a smuggler network that bribes Syrian soldiers to get the migrants through checkpoints where they could be detained for draft-dodging or anti-government activism, then across the porous border into Lebanon, the migrants and smugglers said.
There, the migrants typically stay in crowded apartments in Beirut for about a week while awaiting expedited passports from the Syrian Embassy by way of a smuggler’s middleman.
With passports in hand, the migrants fly to Egypt, where Syrians can enter visa-free, then take another flight to Benghazi in war-torn Libya before embarking on the journey to Algeria through another network of smugglers.
“We went in vans and jeeps and they took us across Libya through Tripoli and the coastal road and we would switch cars every 500 kilometers or so,” Mesko said.
During the journey across the desert, they had to cross checkpoints run by Libya’s mosaic of armed groups.
“Some of the guards at checkpoints treated us horribly when they knew we were Syrian, taking our money and phones, or making us stand outside in the heat for hours,” he said.
An armed group kidnapped the group of migrants who left before his and demanded $36,000 for their release, Mesko said.
By the time they reached the Algerian city of Oran, Mesko was relieved to take refuge in an apartment run by the smugglers. While they waited for weeks, he and the other migrants spent most of their time indoors.
“We couldn’t move freely around Oran, because security forces are all over and we did not cross into the country legally,” Mesko said. “There were also gangs in the city or even on the coast who would try to mug migrants and take their money.”
Human rights groups have accused the Algerian authorities of arresting migrants, and in some cases expelling them across land borders. According to the U.N. refugee agency, Algeria expelled over 13,000 migrants to neighboring Niger to its south in the first half of 2021.
Despite his relief at arriving safely in Germany with a chance to bring his wife and girls there, Mesko feels remorse for leaving Kobani.
“I was always opposed to the idea of migrating or even being displaced,” he said. “Whenever we had to move to another area because of the war, we’d come back to Kobani once we could.”
Mesko spends much of his time at asylum interviews and court hearings, but says he's in good spirits knowing he’s started a process he only dreamed of months ago. He hopes to be granted asylum status soon, so his wife and daughters can reunite with him in Europe.
“Syria has become an epicenter of war, corruption and terrorism,” he said. “We lived this way for 10 years, and I don’t want my children to live through these experiences, and see all the atrocities.”
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Winter Storm Warning issued December 30 at 1:40PM MST until January 1 at 11:00AM MST by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Light to moderate mixed precipitation below 6500 feet MSL
and moderate to heavy snow above 6500 feet. Additional snow
accumulations of 3 to 9 inches below 6500 feet and 12 to 24
inches above 6500 feet. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE…Malad Summit, Border Summit, Geneva Summit, Emigration
Summit, Holbrook Summit, Fish Creek Summit, Georgetown Summit,
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Grace, Soda Springs, Henry, Bone, Wayan, Swan Valley, and
Victor.
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commute.
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The House approved the debt ceiling bill, and it will now head to the Senate. This is brushing up against the deadline for when the U.S. is projected to run out of money to pay its bills: June 5.
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School bus drivers are on strike in the northwest Georgia city of Dalton, leaving parents and school officials scrambling to take students to and from school.
Bus drivers began manning picket lines on Monday, attacking what they say are anti-union actions by First Student, the Cincinnati-based company that contracts with Dalton schools to run buses.
The district taught its 7,500 students online on Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday, it held class in person but ran buses for only two of its 10 schools, where students were taking state-mandated tests. District officials asked parents to bring students to other schools. Beginning Thursday, the district plans to offer a limited number of drop-off sites in neighborhoods.
POSSIBLE PILOT STRIKE THREATENING SUMMER TRAVEL
Chris Crowe, vice president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1212, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that 53 bus drivers in the district are members of the union, and as many as 40 were actively manning picket lines on Monday. First Student said 20 bus drivers had crossed picket lines and were driving buses with police protection.
The company and union have been bargaining over wages, vacation time and insurance. First Student on Monday called it "extremely unfortunate" that employees continue to strike amid bargaining.
JUDGE RULES UMICH GRAD STUDENT STRIKE UNFAIR
It’s illegal for public employees to bargain collectively or strike in Georgia, but those rules don’t apply to drivers for private school bus companies.
The union filed legal charges with the National Labor Relations Board last week accusing First Student of breaking labor laws. Crowe said First Student illegally retaliated against drivers negotiating for the union. He also said First Student illegally told drivers they couldn’t talk about the union at work and took down notices about the union from the bus drivers’ bulletin board.
"Our drivers are dedicated to transporting the kids safely back and forth from their homes to school," Crowe told the Chattanooga newspaper. "They love their jobs and want to keep working but can’t because they’ve been mistreated. They’ve got to take a stand for what’s right." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/georgia-school-bus-drivers-continue-strike-stranding-commuting-parents-students/article_6d7a6e36-db8f-5444-ad12-f076e8ad5f7c.html | 2023-05-18 01:43:57 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/georgia-school-bus-drivers-continue-strike-stranding-commuting-parents-students/article_6d7a6e36-db8f-5444-ad12-f076e8ad5f7c.html |
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SOLEBURY TWP., Pa. - In real estate it’s all about location, location, location, but what about a home's history? A home having a notorious past can play a role in the sale.
In Solebury Township, Bucks County, a $700,000, nearly 1600-square-foot home comes on nearly an acre. Its listing says it's been completely re-done. However, it was once owned by the parents of confessed killer Cosmo DiNardo. The car of one of Dinardo's four victims was found in the shed.
“From what I've seen it's usually more difficult to sell a stigmatized property,” said Lehigh Valley Realtor Eric Leadbetter of Iron Valley Realty.
He has shown clients properties with notorious and high-profile pasts, including a Bethlehem home where a woman was killed, dismembered, and then stuffed into garbage bags in 2011.
“I remember it being on the market for a very long time. However, I think when time passes people kind of forget,” he said.
Or do they? Ghost hunter and real estate marketer Justin Torok recalls, while on a photo shoot for Catasauqua's Dery mansion, hearing of its macabre past from the care taker. In one case he said in the 1930’s or 40’s a man dived into the home's basement swimming pool and died after hitting his head.
“I've run into a number of people that I know who would like to own a property like that. Tragedy happened on that property and somebody wants it for that reason,” he said.
“Everybody thinks this needs to be disclosed. Something horrible happens on the property and you have to tell someone and that is not the case,” said Allyson Lysaght of the Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors.
She coordinates the course Boo, how to sell stigmatized properties.
History, heinous or not, is not a material defect, and doesn't have to be disclosed.
“It's better to disclose. I understand it's a personal preference. You just have to know your consumer and what they want,” she advises.
The question for buyers of the DiNardo home: will a murky past cloud its future?
We did reach out to the realtor of the home, but we did not get a return comment. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/realtors-discuss-difficulty-of-selling-homes-with-notorious-pasts/article_ec0c286c-4ffc-11ed-b1a0-9fc5e12f9e5a.html | 2022-10-19 23:18:46 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/realtors-discuss-difficulty-of-selling-homes-with-notorious-pasts/article_ec0c286c-4ffc-11ed-b1a0-9fc5e12f9e5a.html |
There are new developments in the legal battle involving former President Donald Trump and the alleged hush money scheme involving adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s attorneys have asked a federal court to take over his New York City criminal case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought against him.
In a nine-page petition, they argued the case should be moved since some of the alleged actions took place during his time in office.
Trump's attorneys say the case "involves important federal questions," which include claims that involve both federal and state election law violations.
This request comes one month after Trump pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment.
He's accused of falsifying business records in connection with money paid Daniels to keep her silent about an alleged affair.
Although the Manhattan district attorney's office would still prosecute Trump and state law would continue to apply, a federal judge would supervise the case if it were moved.
The request will now be evaluated by a federal judge while the case proceeds in state court and all pretrial deadlines stay in effect.
This case is just one of six in which Trump is a defendant. There are four criminal cases and two civil cases against him.
The criminal cases that he’s facing, besides this indictment, include the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and two cases involving2020 election interference.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Gulf nations of Bahrain and Qatar agreed to restore diplomatic relations late Wednesday.
Bahrain had been the last holdout of four Arab nations that imposed a boycott on Qatar in 2017. They were angered by Qatar's support for Islamist groups that rose to power in some countries following the 2011 Arab Spring protests, which the other autocratic nations viewed as terrorist organizations.
The boycott was lifted at the start of 2021, and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have restored ties with Qatar since then, with top leaders paying official visits in recent months.
Bahrain and Qatar each issued official statements announcing the decision to restore relations following a meeting between their delegations at the headquarters of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-nation bloc of which both are members, in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
The four nations had severed all ties to Qatar, and at the height of the crisis there was even talk in local media of digging a trench along the 87-kilometer (54-mile) border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and filling it with nuclear waste.
The boycott had little impact on Qatar's economy, however. The tiny Gulf country, which hosted soccer's World Cup last year, is one of the wealthiest countries on Earth owing to its vast natural gas reserves. Turkey, which is also friendly to Islamist groups, stepped in to aid Qatar during the crisis.
Wednesday's agreement comes amid regionwide efforts by longtime enemies to repair relations following years of war and unrest sparked by the 2011 protests.
Saudi Arabia welcomed Syria's foreign minister earlier Wednesday. It was the latest sign that the Arab League might be ready to reinstate Damascus after suspending its membership more than a decade ago as Syrian President Bashar Assad launched a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
Last month, Saudi Arabia and its main regional rival, Iran, agreed to restore diplomatic ties that had been severed in 2016, in an agreement brokered by China. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/gulf-nations-bahrain-qatar-to-restore-ties-after-17894050.php | 2023-04-13 03:51:33 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/gulf-nations-bahrain-qatar-to-restore-ties-after-17894050.php |
Suit: Brink’s driver was asleep during pricey jewelry heist
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote southern California rest stop earlier this summer, when thieves broke a lock and stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry and gemstones, according to a lawsuit filed by the security company.
While the second driver was getting food inside the rest stop early July 11 — spending nearly 30 minutes away from the vehicle — the thieves stole 22 bags of jewelry from the vehicle and fled.
The heist nabbed a haul that’s been described by some as worth less than $10 million and others as roughly $100 million and the value is now the subject of two lawsuits filed this month. If the latter figure is accurate, it would be one of the largest jewelry thefts in modern history.
But Brink’s, in a federal lawsuit filed Aug. 4 in New York, stated that the pickup manifests signed by the jewelers reported a total of $8.7 million worth of merchandise in the 22 stolen bags.
The security company’s lawsuit alleges that the jewelers under-declared the value of the items that were being transported and the company is only responsible for the declared value.
The theft occurred near the “Flying J” rest stop and gas station in the unincorporated community of Lebec, about 75 miles (120.7 kilometers) north of downtown Los Angeles, as the items were being sent overnight from a jewelry show in the San Francisco Bay Area down to the Los Angeles region for another event.
Brink’s is seeking to limit potential payouts to the jewelers, who say their cargo was worth $100 million and that the security company is trying to deny compensation to its customers for a theft “its drivers practically invited to happen.”
Fourteen jewelers and jewelry companies alleged breach of contract and negligence in a lawsuit filed Monday against Brink’s in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
“Everyone in our group has been emotionally and financially destroyed,” the plaintiffs said in a statement on Tuesday. “We are lost and do not know what comes next in our lives. Whatever plans we all have for the future for our businesses and our families has evaporated in an instant.”
A spokesperson for Brink’s declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday, citing the pending litigation. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant who is investigating the case did not respond to a request for comment.
The Los Angeles Times first reported the lawsuits on Tuesday.
Brink’s lawsuit states that the driver left his partner in the big rig’s sleeping berth while he went to get food — a move the company says was “per Department of Transportation regulations.”
He was gone for 27 minutes and returned to find the lock broken, though the sleeping driver said he hadn’t seen or heard anything unusual, according to the lawsuit. It was not immediately clear whether the driver was supposed to be gone for so long, and if the sleeping berth is sound-proof.
In their lawsuit, the “mom and pop” jewelers are seeking $100 million in damages and $100 million in restitution from Brink’s. The jewelers allege that a Brink’s employee told them to under-value their merchandise on the pickup manifests “in order to save money, because the cost of shipping would be too expensive if they declared the full value of their goods.”
“We are astounded by Brink’s lack of support for their longtime customers who thought they were in safe hands with Brink’s,” Jerry Kroll, an attorney for the jewelers, said in a statement. “After relying on Brink’s for their guarded transportation services, our clients have lost virtually everything in this theft, including their source of income.”
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STOCKHOLM, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandvik has completed the previously announced acquisition of the assets of US based company Peterson Tool Company, Inc., ("PTC") a leading supplier of machine-specific custom insert tooling solutions. The product offering includes custom carbide form inserts for high-production turning and grooving applications, primarily within the general engineering and automotive segments. The company will be reported in the GWS Tool business unit in Walter, a division within the business area Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions.
In 2021 the company had revenues of 9 million USD and an EBITA margin neutral to Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions. Impact on Sandvik's earnings per share will be limited, yet slightly positive.
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(The Hill) — Former President Trump won a comfortable majority of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) straw poll, maintaining his position as the favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Organizers announced at CPAC’s convention in Texas that Trump won 69 percent of the vote, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) with 24 percent. Trump expanded his lead from the last CPAC straw poll in February, when he received the support of 59 percent of voting attendees to DeSantis’ 28 percent.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came in third place with 2 percent, while other choices received 1 percent support or less.
In a hypothetical poll without Trump in the race, DeSantis held the lead with 65 percent. Donald Trump Jr. came in second place with 8 percent, Cruz came in third with 6 percent and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came in fourth with 5 percent.
Despite DeSantis gaining attention as a possible alternative to Trump as the 2024 GOP nominee, Trump has consistently dominated CPAC’s informal straw polls since he left office last year.
Trump won the straw poll taken at CPAC in February 2021, about a month after his term ended, with 55 percent of the vote, followed by DeSantis with 21 percent. He received 70 percent support in the straw poll taken at a second CPAC convention last July.
DeSantis has meanwhile remained the consistent second-place finisher but has been unable to top 30 percent support.
DeSantis led among potential choices to be the vice-presidential nominee with 43 percent, followed by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) with 9 percent and Pompeo at 7 percent.
Trump’s approval rating among CPAC attendees ticked up to 99 percent, up two points from February. Nine out of 10 said they strongly approve of Trump’s performance as president.
More than 60 percent of voters listed election integrity as the most important issue, a sign of Trump’s influence on the party as he continues to claim without evidence that voter fraud cost him reelection in the 2020 presidential election.
More than half of voters listed building a border wall and immigration as one of the most important issues, while about 30 percent listed energy independence and constitutional rights, respectively.
The results also showed that CPAC attendees largely do not expect President Biden or Vice President Harris to be the Democratic nominee in 2024.
A 37 percent plurality believe California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will be the Democratic nominee, while 16 percent expect former first lady Michelle Obama. Biden was chosen by 8 percent, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Harris was chosen by 4 percent. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/trump-wins-cpac-straw-poll-with-more-than-two-thirds-of-the-vote/ | 2022-08-07 00:35:47 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/trump-wins-cpac-straw-poll-with-more-than-two-thirds-of-the-vote/ |
LUMBERTON, N.J. and TORONTO, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BLANCO, the premium kitchen solutions brand backed by industry-leading German engineering, announces the appointment of Diana Windsor as Senior Vice President, Sales for BLANCO North America.
In this role, Windsor will lead all strategic and operative market activities for BLANCO North America across the U.S. and Canada. Her primary focus will be on continued and sustainable market growth and promotion of the BLANCO UNIT, the seamless water place system for residential kitchens.
"We are thrilled to continue investing in the overall growth of our North American team, an important region for BLANCO," stated Garth Wallin, President and CEO of BLANCO North America. "With Diana's previous experience in building products, strategy development, customer service and e-commerce, along with her entrepreneurial spirit and proven track record of leading high-performance teams, we are confident she is a strong addition to our executive leadership team."
"I'm honored to be a part of the BLANCO North America team," notes Windsor. "I admire the company's commitment to offering award-winning designs and premium quality product solutions. I look forward to driving further awareness of the BLANCO UNIT to make everyday life easier in kitchens across North America."
Windsor boasts more than 13 years of sales and management experience in the plumbing industry. Prior to joining BLANCO, her experience includes general management for Waterworks, multiple senior leadership roles at Watts Water Technologies and plumbing sales experience at Kohler.
For more information on BLANCO, visit BLANCO.com.
With BLANCO, kitchen chores are transformed to be sources of joyful moments. BLANCO is the premium brand for well-thought-out kitchen water hubs in residential homes. At its core, the BLANCO UNIT is based on three founding pillars: "Drink, Prep, Clean" and is characterized by a wide array of seamless combinations of sinks, high-end faucets, water optimization solutions, complementary accessories and organization systems. This range of product and the design, color and material options, make it easy for every kitchen lover to find their perfectly customized UNIT at BLANCO.
Founded over 95 years ago, the company is now an internationally recognized premium brand for the kitchen water hub. With subsidiaries in Europe, North America and APAC, plus its trading partners, BLANCO has a presence in about 100 countries all over the world and offers its customers a portfolio that is perfectly tailored to consumer needs. The company headquarters and key production sites in support of North American demand are in Southwest Germany and Canada.
Established in 1925 by Heinrich Blanc, BLANCO is part of BLANC & FISCHER Family Holding. BLANCO America and BLANCO Canada have proudly served the North American market for over 30 years. BLANCO.com
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PHILADELPHIA — A third person has been arrested in the escape of two inmates from a Philadelphia prison, one of whom remains on the run, police said.
Police said the 21-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon in Berwyn and will face charges of criminal conspiracy, hindering apprehension, escape and criminal use of a communication facility in the May 7 escape of 18-year-old Ameen Hurst and 24-year-old Nasir Grant.
Authorities haven't specified the role he is alleged to have had in the escape of the pair, who cut a hole in a recreation yard fence and fled from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center. The two, who were in the same unit but in different cells, were gone for nearly 19 hours before officials knew they were missing.
Grant, incarcerated on drug and weapons counts, was captured Thursday night after a task force staked out a north Philadelphia address where they believed he was staying. Authorities said he was wearing women’s Muslim clothing including a head covering that obscured his face. He’s now facing escape and conspiracy charges.
The U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force is now focused on tracking down Hurst, who is charged in four homicides and other crimes.
A woman was earlier charged with escape, conspiracy, hindering apprehension and criminal use of a communications facility. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that 21-year-old Xianni Stalling is accused of putting Hurst in touch with a potential getaway driver during recorded phone calls he made from jail hours before the escape.
Authorities have also alleged that the escapees were aided by a fellow inmate who’s charged with murder for a brawl outside a famed Philadelphia cheesesteak shop. Thirty-five-year-old Jose Flores-Huerta is charged with criminal conspiracy and escape. He is one of several people charged in the September 2021 death of 28-year-old Isidro Cortez of Queens, New York, outside Pat’s King of Steaks. Flores-Huerta's lawyer has said other suspects were primarily responsible. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/3rd-person-arrested-escape-2-inmates-from-philadelphia-prison-1-still-large/521-0de804cd-991c-4d7d-94b6-a29a59c7a2d8 | 2023-05-15 23:51:31 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/3rd-person-arrested-escape-2-inmates-from-philadelphia-prison-1-still-large/521-0de804cd-991c-4d7d-94b6-a29a59c7a2d8 |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
9-8-9, Fireball: 8
(nine, eight, nine; Fireball: eight)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
9-8-9, Fireball: 8
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Revlon files for bankruptcy protection amid heavy debt load
NEW YORK (AP) — Revlon, the 90-year-old multinational beauty company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, weighed down by debt load, disruptions to its supply chain network and surging costs.
The New York-based company said it expects to receive $575 million in financing from its existing lenders, which will allow it to keep its day-to-day operations running.
None of Revlon’s international operating subsidiaries are included in the proceedings, except for Canada and the United Kingdom. The filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Revlon, whose brands from Almay to Elizabeth Arden had been a mainstay on store shelves for decades, has struggled for years for failing to keep pace with changing beauty tastes and stiffer competition. It is backed by billionaire Ron Perelman’s MacAndrews & Forbes.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cohen & Steers, Inc. (NYSE: CNS) announced today pending changes to its Realty Majors Portfolio Index (RMP) and Global Realty Majors Portfolio Index (GRM), effective as of the close of business on November 18, 2022.
These free-float adjusted, modified market capitalization-weighted total return indexes of selected real estate equity securities are quoted intraday on a real-time basis by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The Indexes' modified capitalization-weighted approach and qualitative screening process emphasize companies that Cohen & Steers believes are leading the securitization of real estate globally.
The Indexes can be used as indexing benchmarks, stock selection universes, underlying indexes for derivative instruments or performance benchmarks. All index weightings are independently calculated by Standard & Poor's.
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About Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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There is one sure sign that winter is coming to an end: Grizzly bears are coming out of hibernation.
Yellowstone National Park had its first bear sighting of 2023 on Tuesday. The National Park Service said an adult bear weighing 300 pounds to 350 pounds came out of hibernation and was seen near a bison carcass within the park.
The National Park Service said male grizzlies generally come out of hibernation in March. Females and their cubs typically come out of hibernation in April and early May.
When bears emerge from hibernation, they are generally seeking food and can become aggressive. Because of this, Yellowstone restricts certain visitor activities in areas with high bear populations starting March 10.
“Spring visitors skiing, snowshoeing, or hiking in Yellowstone National Park are reminded to carry bear spray and be especially alert for bears near carcasses and areas with early spring green-up. These are the first foods sought out by grizzlies after emerging from hibernations,” said Kerry Gunther, the park's bear management biologist.
Bears generally go into hibernation because of dwindling supplies of food. During hibernation, bears reduce their temperature and activity level to not burn as many calories. | https://www.kbzk.com/first-grizzly-bear-sighting-of-2023-at-yellowstone-park | 2023-03-09 19:34:35 | 0 | https://www.kbzk.com/first-grizzly-bear-sighting-of-2023-at-yellowstone-park |
Sabre Hospitality's SynXis® platform to power Hotel M's Co. Ltd's distribution strategy as it focuses on international recovery
SOUTHLAKE, Texas, and SINGAPORE and KYOTO, Japan, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, today announced a new agreement with Hotel M's Co. Ltd in Kyoto, Japan, to help the chain to grow geographic reach and attract international travelers as Japan eases border restrictions.
Japan has been steadily relaxing travel restrictions since March ahead of a wider-scale re-opening to foreign visitors. To prepare for, and capture, the expected influx of tourism, Hotel M's Co. Ltd has inked a new technology agreement with Sabre. The deal will enable the chain to put its inventory in front of hundreds of thousands of travel agents globally across all major Global Distribution Systems (GDSs) through Sabre Hospitality's innovative SynXis platform.
"We want more people to know about Kyoto and to love the city as much as we do, and we want all of our guests to come back again and again," said Kohei Otsuki, president, Hotel M's Co. Ltd. "Our philosophy when it comes to true hospitality is to look outside of services that are traditionally thought of as within the bounds of the hotel. We think about the entire city as a hotel. So, it's vital to us to have a technology partner who will enable us to expand our geographic reach while sharing a forward-thinking vision of hospitality retailing that goes beyond the hotel room."
Just as Sabre has advanced its technological transformation during the pandemic, Hotel M's has taken time to rethink its own growth strategy. Established in 2014, the chain has 16 hotels across Kyoto city, opening one close to Kyoto Station during the pandemic in anticipation of future inbound tourists. With 1,274 hotel rooms currently, the chain has selected Sabre technology to help advance its expansion strategy and revenue growth.
"Our Sabre recovery data clearly shows that as soon as borders re-open and markets open up, there's an influx of inbound and outbound tourism, so we expect that as soon as it is possible to travel to Japan, there will be a huge demand to do so," said Frank Trampert, senior vice president and global managing director of Community Sales, Sabre Hospitality. "It's essential hoteliers have the right technological tools to put their offers in front of global markets, and we're very excited to be working with Hotel M's to enable them to capture and create future travel demand at this key moment for Japanese tourism."
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visit www.sabre.com.
Hotel M's was established in Kyoto in 2014, making use of the design and design capabilities cultivated as the parent design office. We operate 16 hotels and 1274 rooms in Kyoto city, which are particular about the design of details.
A hotel full of luxury and playfulness with the theme of "fusion of design and comfort" in a convenient location within walking distance from the station. We provide high-quality Kyoto-like hospitality to customers all over the world.
As a hotel born and raised in Kyoto, we value regional connections and are working to revitalize the entire city of Kyoto.
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HOUSTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC ("ICE") has partnered with California Resources Corporation ("CRC") and the University of Houston ("UH") to undertake a joint project to harvest thermal energy from producing assets and convert it to 24/7, emission-free electricity. The project will take place on CRC's flagship Elk Hills asset and will be partially funded by a grant from the Department of Energy's Wells of Opportunity program.
The project will test the feasibility of producing zero-emission electricity at one of the Northwest Stevens facilities in Elk Hills using Organic Rankine Cycle ("ORC") technology. For this project CRC will be sending aggregated production from 11 wells through ICE's patented system, recycling thermal energy from the geologic formation which is brought to surface through production. This energy will be converted into emissions free power which will be utilized to power CRC's in-field operations and offset purchased electricity. The project will utilize ICE's ICEPACK heat harvesting unit and ORC combination in a modular, mobile system designed for plug-and-play use that requires no civil infrastructure or third-party EPC engagement.
ICE will lead the project, contributing their patented methods for harvesting heat for the conversion to emissions-free, baseload power. "We are excited to have CRC as a partner working with us on this early project, which will not only provide emission-free power but also ultimately increase the overall efficiency of their operations. CRC's desire to be an early mover in this space shows their commitment to sustainability," says Ben Bodishbaugh, co-founder of ICE.
CRC will support the project by providing a testing site and infrastructure to supply production fluids in addition to continued engineering support for CRC assets and facilities. Potential benefits for CRC include decreased emissions, postponement of asset retirement obligations, and an increase in power reliability. Successful demonstration of the commercial and technical elements of the pilot are expected to scale to additional installations on CRC's assets, targeting 6MW of total power production.
ICE Thermal Harvesting was founded as a partnership between like-minded individuals who are changing the way we power people's lives. By providing complete, effortless solutions, ICE provides 24/7 renewable power by harvesting heat from clients' existing operations. ICE Thermal Harvesting is based in Houston, TX. For more information about the company, products, range of services and careers at ICE, visit www.ice-th.com.
California Resources Corporation (CRC) is an independent oil and natural gas company committed to energy transition in the sector. CRC has some of the lowest carbon intensity production in the US and we are focused on maximizing the value of our land, mineral and technical resources for decarbonization by developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and other emissions reducing projects.
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Michael Kors smartwatches or Fossil smartwatches?
Smartwatches are extremely popular because they’re perfect for individuals who love fashion and fitness. Overall, smartwatches function like smartphones. With the right smartwatch, you can customize experiences and reduce screen time.
Aside from Apple, Fossil and Michael Kors are popular smartwatch brands. They’re great options if you’re looking for a polished watch. Most smartwatches are compatible with Android and iOS devices, while some have exceptions. They’re great for listening to music while exercising, or checking notifications and weather.
However, these smartwatches come at a price. The average range for a high-quality smartwatch is $200-$300. Typically, they are designed in standard sizes including 38mm and 42mm, with larger models costing more. Another element to consider are the features it provides and wristband style. Access to GPS, cellular data and premium wristbands can increase prices up to $100 or more.
Michael Kors smartwatch
Michael Kors is a popular designer, and one that makes a fashion statement. The Michael Kors smartwatch stays up-to-date with the latest smartwatch technology, enabling users to connect to smartphones and receive information such as calls, texts and weather updates.
Michael Kors smartwatch pros
Overall, the Michael Kors smartwatch is perfect if you’re looking for a watch that is more elegant than other watches.
- Built-in quality: The classic case design and strap creates a distinctive colorful look, appearing clear, concise and sharp in all lighting. The watch strap is interchangeable and comes in different materials and colors.
- Wear OS by Google: When used with an Android device, Wear OS provides more reliability and better activity. There is 8GB of storage for music or applications. Google Assistant can help check weather, set reminders or answer questions.
- Changeable watch faces: Michael Kors smartwatches are designed so faces are interchangeable while still keeping a flashy exterior. Use the “My dials microapp” to view different watch dials based on your preferences. Alternatively, you can choose your own photo from Facebook, Instagram or camera roll.
- Built-in speaker and microphone: Google Assistant provides feedback and allows you to hear notification sound alerts. You can receive and make phone calls when Bluetooth enabled. At any time, this smartwatch can play music and allow you to pause, skip or repeat a song.
Michael Kors smartwatch cons
- Connectivity: You sometimes may experience connectivity issues and not receive notifications. When this happens, leave Wear OS by Google running in the background of your smartphone. If this doesn’t work, check the System Updates to see if the software is up-to-date. Another option is to disconnect and reset the smartwatch.
- Watch strap: While there are a variety of strap designs, overall, the smartwatch can feel heavy. The case is on the bulkier end, with the buckles on the strap feeling chunky. Because of these elements, the Michael Kors smartwatch may be more suitable for those who prefer to work out at gyms.
Best Michael Kors smartwatch
Gen 6 Bradshaw Pavé Gold-Tone Smartwatch
While at a luxurious price, this gold-tone smartwatch is glamorous. Designed to pair with iOS and Android devices, the full color display is waterproof to 30 meters. It tracks activity goals including heart rate, steps, sleep and cardio, making it perfect for those who live active lifestyles. You can answer calls and texts from the watch when your smartphone is out of reach. This smartwatch automatically connects to different time zones and syncs your calendar.
Access Gen 5 Bradshaw Rose Gold-Tone Stainless Steel Smartwatch
This rose-gold smartwatch is equipped to measure heart rate and includes a speaker designed with voice recognition. It also tracks activity and sleep. When paired with Apple or Android devices and/or connected to Bluetooth, it receives notifications and phone calls in addition to playing music. On one charge, battery life lasts up to 36 hours or one week in clock mode, based on usage.
Fossil smartwatch
Fossil is known for its luxurious watches. This brand has been releasing smartwatches since 2015, consisting of unique and glamorous designs and features.
Fossil smartwatch pros
Similar to the Michael Kors smartwatch, the Fossil smartwatch is stylish and versatile. It features an innovative design, Google Assistant, Google Pay, and even allows users to choose the option of it being fully smart functioning.
- Innovative design: The Fossil smartwatch is sure to look fashionable on any wrist due to its innovative design. Specifically, the round-faced style keeps the traditional watch appearance but is designed with tech-savvy features. Each watch is designed with replaceable bands, making it versatile.
- Hybrid smartwatch: Fossil offers the option of a hybrid smartwatch, which is perfect for those who prefer traditional watches but want extra features. It connects to mobile devices, making it easy to receive phone calls and other notifications.
- Google Assistant: Google Assistant is voice activated, so you can answer phone calls, read text messages and play music. It is compatible with smart home devices.
- Google Pay: This feature is great if you lose your wallet or don’t like to carry a purse. Payments are quick and secure where Google Pay is accepted. Simply tap the watch face to a Google Pay device.
Fossil smartwatch cons
- Lack of features and performance: Compared to the Michael Kors smartwatch, the Fossil smartwatch lacks certain features, including sleep tracking, blood pressure monitoring and fall detection. Water-resistance can only reach up to 30m whereas other devices can reach up to 50m. While the Fossil smartwatch can be paired with iPhones, you can’t answer or reply to texts and emails, only view them.
- Battery: If battery life is an important factor, you may want to reconsider. On the Fossil Gen 5 smartwatch, for example, battery life only lasts one day on a single charge. However, the smart Battery mode can help save battery life for emergencies.
Best Fossil smartwatch
Fossil Gen 5 Julianna Smartwatch
Extremely stylish, this smartwatch uses Google technology. Some applications this watch specifically utilizes is Google Fit and Google Assistant. The built-in GPS is perfect for distance tracking and it’s waterproof.Battery life lasts over 24 hours and it comes equipped with a magnetic USB cable that clips two rings, allowing 360 degree access.
Sold by Amazon
Men’s Gen 5E Black Stainless Steel Smartwatch
Designed in a matte black stainless steel, it has an overall sleek and sophisticated look. Battery life lasts over 24 hours with the option to choose the multi-day extended mode. It’s compatible with iOS and Android devices and connects to Bluetooth, NFC and Wi-Fi. Resistant to 50 meters of water, the touch-screen feature is sure to stay intact. Other features include the ability to access applications such as news, games, weather and music.
Sold by Amazon
Should you get the Michael Kors smartwatch or Fossil smartwatch?
Michael Kors and Fossil are both popular and fashionable brands. The Michael Kors smartwatch is perfect for those who love making fashion statements. While they do provide a multitude of features, size and weight may be downsides. The Fossil smartwatch offers hybrid options, so those who prefer the feel of a traditional watch can still experience some elements of smartwatches. A major distinction between these two watches is battery life. If battery life is a top priority, the Michael Kors smartwatch is more suitable.
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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne says schools applying for safety grants must prioritize armed police officers over school counselors.
Horne announced the changes to Arizona’s School Safety Grant Program, which allows schools to get state funds for counselors, social workers or school resource officers.
However, according to reporting from KJZZ, Horne announced the state will now deny requests for new counselors from schools that don’t already have armed officers.
The Arizona School Counselors Association responded to the announcement, saying that the recent changes put student access to school counselors in jeopardy. | https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2023-02-15/horne-arizona-schools-must-prioritize-armed-officers-over-counselors | 2023-02-15 14:46:50 | 0 | https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2023-02-15/horne-arizona-schools-must-prioritize-armed-officers-over-counselors |
50 blue state mayors call for offshore wind moratorium amid whale, dolphin deaths
'The current level of marine mammal mortality is unacceptable,' the mayors wrote to Congress
Dozens of East Coast mayors representing cities in three Democratic-led states — New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland — are calling for an offshore wind development moratorium in light of recent marine wildlife deaths.
In an open letter to Congress sent Tuesday, 50 mayors from across the three states said offshore wind development should immediately cease until a thorough investigation is conducted. The mayors expressed concern that the increasing number of whale and dolphin deaths is negatively impacting the ocean ecosystem their communities rely upon.
"Our coastal economies rely on a healthy ocean ecosystem to function, and we are increasingly concerned about the environmental impacts offshore wind may already be affecting our communities," the mayors wrote to Congress.
"The current level of marine mammal mortality is unacceptable, and we need answers," the letter continued. "In the absence of scientific evidence explaining the increase in marine mortality, we believe the connection between offshore wind activity and marine mammal mortality must be investigated now."
According to the mayors, since December, at least 39 whales and 37 dolphins have been found stranded on East Coast beaches near where energy developers have been conducting offshore wind surveys. Over the past five days alone, a humpback whale and six dolphins have been beached near such acoustic surveys which some environmentalists argue disturb wildlife.
For months, local leaders, Republican lawmakers and environmental groups have called for a moratorium on offshore wind development and an investigation into wildlife deaths. Their concerns have butt heads with clean energy proponents and Biden administration officials pushing offshore wind.
Days after taking office, President Biden issued an executive action ordering his administration to expand opportunities for the offshore wind industry as part of his aggressive climate agenda to curb greenhouse gas emissions and stop global warming. Months later, he outlined goals to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, the most ambitious goal of its kind worldwide.
"Two years ago, President Biden issued a bold challenge to move America towards a clean energy future," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in April. "The Interior Department answered that call and is moving rapidly to create a robust and sustainable clean energy economy with good-paying union jobs."
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And federal officials have thrown cold water on claims that offshore wind is causing whale deaths.
During a press briefing in January, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted there has been an unusual mortality event in relation to whale deaths along the East Coast dating back years and that recent whale deaths couldn't be attributed to energy operators. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/50-blue-state-mayors-call-offshore-wind-moratorium-amid-whale-dolphin-deaths | 2023-05-24 15:45:23 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/50-blue-state-mayors-call-offshore-wind-moratorium-amid-whale-dolphin-deaths |
Last month, I had the good fortune of revisiting one of my creative projects I'm most proud of: The Black Film Canon, a collection of great and culturally significant films by Black directors as voted on by esteemed film critics, scholars, and filmmakers. Not long after it was originally published in Slate in 2016, my co-author Dan Kois and I were already talking about updating the list – mere months later came the releases of Moonlight and Get Out, just for starters. (Fun fact/humble-brag: When I interviewed Barry Jenkins about Moonlight for my old podcast Represent he deemed our inclusion of his debut feature Medicine for Melancholy in the canon as "the highlight of [his] life." Fortunately, I'm pretty sure he's had several moments since then that have far surpassed this honor.)
Seven years later, Dan and I finally got around to expanding the list, and we published The New Black Film Canon earlier this week as a collaboration between Slate and NPR. We asked a bunch of experts, including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Robert Townsend and W. Kamau Bell, to send us their top five Black-directed movies released since 2016; we also sought out suggestions for any pre-2016 films they felt we missed out on the first time around. Some of the picks we received were hardly surprising – as you might've guessed, the aforementioned Get Out and Moonlight came up on our participants' lists over and over again).
But among the happy outcomes of curating a list like this are the surprises and discoveries that accompany it; while I studied film in college and grad school and have made it a point throughout my career to seek out as many kinds of Black films as possible, there are plenty of movies I still haven't seen or haven't even heard of. How is it that it took me so long to watch RaMell Ross' mesmerizing documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening? Well, thanks to it landing on several of our participants' lists, I finally have.
We've viewed The New Black Film Canon in the same vein as something like the National Film Registry – a way of preserving art that's made a notable impact within Black culture and popular culture writ large. It's both a celebration of the big hits and a way of saying, 'Hey, look over here!' while pointing people toward movies they may not stumble upon otherwise.
And that's been the driving force behind our assembling of this list of 75 films. It's not necessarily about anointing the "definitive" list of the "best" Black-directed films, itself a fraught and totally subjective exercise. We've viewed The New Black Film Canon in the same vein as something like the National Film Registry – a way of preserving art that's made a notable impact within Black culture and popular culture writ large. It's both a celebration of the big hits and a way of saying, "Hey, look over here!" while pointing people toward movies they may not stumble upon otherwise. That's why we're proud to have a list that runs the gamut from "low-brow" (Friday) to prestige (Do the Right Thing), from the experimental (Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One) to the absurdist (Sorry to Bother You) and the utterly obscure (Looking for Langston, a movie that remains difficult to find streaming 30+ years later).
If you haven't already, I welcome you to peruse the list and check out our corresponding Pop Culture Happy Hour episode. While putting this whole thing together, I got to thinking about how I might program a series around it ... which led me to imagine some sick double features I'd love to see. Give these pairings a try this weekend, or beyond (all streaming info is here):
Cane River (1982) and Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
Theme: Walking and talking while philosophizing and romancing
Both movies feature a pair of strangers who flirt and dig deep into existential questions against the backdrop of their culturally rich environments (Natchitoches, La., and San Francisco, respectively).
Black Girl (1966) and Nanny (2022)
Theme: Bad bosses
Nearly six decades separate these two films, yet in their own unique ways they each offer up biting critique of a system that inherently preys upon immigrant domestic workers.
Chameleon Street (1990) and Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Theme: Getting weird
Some of my favorite stories come from creators who embrace the utter absurdities of racial constructs and what it can feel like to be Black in America. These films are zany yet pointed in their social commentary, ending in the most unexpected of ways.
House Party (1990) and Lovers Rock (2020)
Theme: Keep the party going
I wish I could say that I've ever been to a house party as awesome as these, but alas, I'm not that cool. At least I can live vicariously!
Daughters of the Dust (1992) and Alma's Rainbow (1994)
Theme: I'm every woman
One movie is set in the Gullah Geechee community of South Carolina in the early 20th century, the other in 1990s Brooklyn. Both explore girlhood and womanhood across multiple generations tenderly and expressively.
One last thing I'll note: There are two movies I caught at Sundance this year I'm already convinced deserve a spot on the list, but they haven't been released yet, so we didn't include them in our update. Is it possible that a few years from now, we could expand yet again to bring you The New-New Black Film Canon? I wouldn't rule it out.
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The White House is offering subsidies to charging stations that use Tesla connectors, as long as they also include Combined Charging Standard (CCS) connectors, Reuters reported Friday.
The report follows an announcement by General Motors this week, and Ford a couple of weeks earlier, that they would adopt the Tesla connector, which Tesla recently rebranded as the North American Charging Standard (NACS) for future EVs. Both automakers have favored CCS up to this point.
The federal government said earlier this year that Tesla will need to open its network to other EVs in order to be eligible for a piece of the $7.5 billion set aside in the Biden administration’s infrastructure law, which aims to create a national network of 500,000 chargers. States have control of $5 billion of that funding, spread over five years, but it must be approved by the federal government.
The White House did not say whether CCS adapters were enough for Tesla to prove interoperability, and that wasn’t addressed in the statement reported by Reuters. Green Car Reports has reached out to the Joint Office that oversees implementation of the program.
In a letter to the Federal Highway Administration last year, Tesla argued its Supercharger stations should qualify for federal funding if they were co-located with CCS stations, which would allow the automaker to avoid installing CCS connectors on its own chargers.
The federal government is also in the midst of tackling charger reliability in the infrastructure buildout—including requirements for data on uptime and reliability. It’s another box Tesla will have to check to receive federal funding for its charging stations—funding other networks relying on the CCS connector had hoped to take advantage of.
After the defections of Ford and GM, federal funding for Tesla charging stations would be another blow to CCS. It also puts hardware manufacturers in the position of having to decide which format to support. Some have already announced plans to offer NACS compatibility.
“Ultimately, the increased adoption of the NACS standard relates both to its widespread use by EV drivers and the reliability of stations that currently offer NACS,” Nathan Yang, chief product officer of FLO, said in a statement, adding that “FLO is an industry leader in reliability, offering a 98%+ uptime.”
ABB North America released a statement on Twitter Friday saying it would offer NACS connectors as an option on its products.
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of IonQ, Inc..
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ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum the computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were the materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Thousands of people joined Virginia’s football team, coaches and staff Saturday in honoring three players who were shot dead as they returned from a field trip last weekend.
Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were remembered during a memorial service in Charlottesville as great teammates who wore constant smiles and sought to brighten the lives of those around them, from fellow players to other students and fans.
“Only time will reveal God’s purpose in this adversity. … Going forward I’m confident that all three are rejoicing in paradise, speaking good things on behalf of each of us in preparation for the time we will all be together again,” first-year head coach Tony Elliott said.
To the family members and friends seated in the first two rows, Elliott added: “I am grateful for your willingness to share your family’s gifts with all of us.”
Athletic director Carla Williams shared stories she heard this week from family members of the players and said the tragedy “has pushed me to my limits.”
“We are better and will do better because we will make sure their legacies never fade at the University of Virginia,” she vowed, telling the families, “We loved your sons.”
The service at John Paul Jones Arena came on a day when the Cavaliers had been scheduled to play No. 23 Coastal Carolina, but opted instead to honor their fallen teammates as well as injured player Mike Hollins and another student who was shot.
Among the presenters was Grammy-winning gospel singer Cece Winans, who the school said asked to take part. She sang “Goodness of God.”
Several Cavaliers took part. Placekicker Justin Duenkel offered an opening prayer, linebacker Hunter Stewart read the Langston Hughes poem “Life is Fine” and defensive end Jack Camper offered the closing prayer. In between, administrators and teammates of the slain men offered stories and reflections about their football brothers.
Perry was “destined to be great in everything he did,” defensive tackle Aaron Faumui said. He added that Perry often reminded him that “life was more important than football.”
In a letter to Chandler, who Williams referred to as “a dancing machine,” Cody Brown told him that “you lit our lives up like a shining star in the sky” and said, “We love you so much and know you’re smiling down on us from heaven.”
Coach Marques Hagans said Davis was humble with a radiant smile and “determined to be a great example for his younger sister and brother.”
Teammate Chico Bennett offered a message for Hollins and Marlee Morgan, the injured student, neither of whom was in attendance: “We love you. We got you. The journey begins.”
Kicker Will Bettridge shared that once, on the sideline, Perry told him he was going to tell his child to play that position because kickers have so little to do.
“A piece of my life was taken from me and from the Cavaliers community,” Bettridge said.
University president Jim Ryan said the shootings “changed our world” and while he and others will mourn the games that the students will never get to play, “we will find strength again together.”
The players were killed last Sunday after a field trip to Washington, D.C. Former Virginia football player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. is faces three counts of second-degree murder and other charges. The shootings set off a manhunt and 12-hour campus lockdown before Jones was apprehended.
The suspect was never mentioned during the nearly two-hour service.
Mourners were allowed in an hour before the scheduled start of the service and heard musical performances from school choral groups and the MLK Community Choir. Photos of the players as children and in action on the field scrolled across the video board. | https://www.kark.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-virginia-honors-slain-players-in-memorial-service-on-campus/ | 2022-11-20 00:35:30 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-virginia-honors-slain-players-in-memorial-service-on-campus/ |
CHICAGO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AArete, a global management and technology consulting firm, has been named to the inaugural list of Forbes World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2022. AArete was awarded in the Healthcare and Life Sciences category based on recommendations from clients and consultants surveyed globally.
"Data-driven strategies to improve financial and operational performance have been the key to successfully delivering results for our clients," said Loren Trimble, CEO of AArete. "It is a great honor to be recognized amongst our peers globally, as AArete continues to help clients navigate business transformation and address their most complex challenges."
This prestigious award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2022 list is the result of Statista's years of experience in evaluating the consulting market in numerous countries. For the analysis, Statista's national top lists of consulting firms, including the recommendations of thousands of consultants and clients, were evaluated.
AArete was named to the Forbes list of America's Best Management Consulting Firms in 2021 and 2022, and was one of two firms featured in a Forbes article for its work with healthcare clients. AArete healthcare consulting expertise includes serving hundreds of health plans and healthcare provider organizations.
AArete is a global management and technology consulting firm specializing in strategic profitability improvement, digital transformation, and advisory solutions. Our cross-industry solutions are powered through modern technology, market intelligence and data-driven strategies to drive purposeful change and actionable outcomes. We work across all industries and business functions to optimize profits in a compressed timeframe. AArete humanizes data by translating numbers into actionable insights, helping clients make better decisions and standing by their side to foster change with confidence, empathy, and purpose. Learn more at AArete.com or follow us @AArete on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Tampa police officer was fired Tuesday after a video showed him dragging a woman into jail last month.
The Tampa Police Department said Gregory Damon was terminated after an internal investigation determined he had violated multiple departmental policies while booking an inmate into the Orient Road Jail.
On Nov. 17, police said they were called to the Tampa Family Health Center because a woman was reportedly sleeping outside the property and refusing to leave.
Officers said the woman was previously given a warning for trespassing on the same property in October. She was arrested and taken to jail by Damon, the department said.
When they arrived at the Orient Road Jail, the woman refused to get out of the patrol car and walk into central booking. Instead, police said the woman yelled at the officer “I want you to drag me!”
Tampa police said Damon took the woman by the arm, dragging her from the vehicle to the entrance of the jail. Damon then buzzed the door entrance and two deputies came to help by raising the woman from the ground and beginning the jail intake process.
Police said the woman was not hurt during the incident.
Throughout the incident, investigators said the woman repeatedly used vulgar and obscene language and Damon made rude and derogatory comments to her.
Police said the correct procedure would have been for Damon to request assistance from the booking staff.
The police department said it was made aware of Damon’s actions through supervisors at the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which operates the county detention facilities.
“Professionalism is not only expected, it is demanded, in every encounter our officers have with the public, regardless of the arrestee being uncooperative or unpleasant in return. As law enforcement officers, we are held to a higher standard,” said Interim Police Chief Lee Bercaw.
“The actions of one individual should not tarnish the work of the nearly 1,000 officers protecting and serving our city who, on any given day, encounter people who choose to be uncooperative during the arresting and booking process; however, they do not let the actions of that individual deter them from following the policies and procedures put in place for safety. This former officer’s actions were unacceptable and are not tolerated at this department, which is why we acted swiftly in initiating an internal investigation, relieving him of his duties, and ultimately terminating his employment.”
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De Tomaso unveiled the P900 hypercar on Monday, further accelerating the revival of the historic Italian performance marque.
It started in 2019 with the reveal of the P72 supercar, which is a showstopper powered by a Roush-tuned Ford V-8.
The modern De Tomaso revealed a follow up in the form of the V-12-powered P900 hypercar. The design is clearly derived from the P72 but the new rear section features a roof scoop, stabilizer fin, and huge wing to create the aura of a race car, adding to rumors De Tomaso is mulling an entry in top-level endurance racing with its own LMH.
The company remains tight with details but said the P900 is aimed at track enthusiasts, in contrast to the P72 that was designed as a grand tourer. The company also said the V-12 in the P900 is a unique design.
As for any racing potential, De Tomaso said the project’s aim is to highlight the use of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels that a number of companies, including oil giants like Aramco, are exploring. Potential sources for such fuels include biomass or newer carbon-capture technology, like what Porsche is developing at its pilot plant in Punta Arenas, Chile. Formula 1 is also committed to introducing synthetic fuels by 2026.
De Tomaso is yet to announce production details for the P900. The main focus at present is the P72, due in 2023 and built in a run of 72 cars at a plant jointly operated by De Tomaso and the German engineering company Capricorn Group, and located at the Nürburgring. Capricorn, which also helped develop the carbon-fiber monocoque structure underpinning the P72, and presumably the P900, is the same company that helped Porsche with its hugely successful 919 Hybrid LMP1 race car.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Jarace Walker had a career-high 25 points and seven rebounds, and No. 3 Houston rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit to defeat Cincinnati 75-69 on Saturday.
Walker, who scored 13 points in the second half, was 10 of 14 from the field.
“I was just feeling good tonight,” Walker said. “The ball was feeling good off my fingertips. I felt like everything was kind of falling. I feel like I still made the right plays. Just finding my teammates as well.
“I felt like I was real comfortable out there tonight, real confident as well.”
J’Wan Roberts added 14 points and six rebounds, and Jamal Shead scored 13 points for Houston (20-2, 8-1 American Athletic Conference).
“Jamal’s will to win equals his refusal to lose,” Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said. “Jarace is just getting more comfortable and more confident, and you can see it in the things we do in practice.”
Houston has won at least 20 games in eight straight seasons under Sampson. The Cougars shot 57%, but were just 5 of 17 on 3-pointers.
“We executed at a really, really high level tonight,” Sampson said. “Whatever was called, we executed. The ball moved, probably got a little sticky in the first half. We had some clean looks. … Our kids kept fighting. When you get down, you don’t give in.”
Landers Nolley II had 24 points, including si 3-pointers. Viktor Lakhin added 15 points and David DeJulius had 14 points and nine assists for Cincinnati (14-8, 5-4). The Bearcats shot 44%, including 11 of 27 on 3-pointers.
Cincinnati coach Wes Miller said Nolley missed the last two days of practice with an injury.
“He’s one of the best players in the country,” Cincinnati coach Wes Miller said of Nolley. “And not just his ability, but his approach, his toughness.
“He’s really hurt. I did not expect him to go tonight. And he finds a way to tough through it and performs like that. I think the world of him, and he’s just getting better and better. He’s a tougher kid than I think anybody has ever given him credit for.”
Trailing 60-49 with 11½ minutes remaining, the Cougars used a 20-4 run to take a five-point lead — capped by Roberts’ dunk with 2:49 remaining. But the Bearcats responded with five straight points to tie it at 69 on a 3-pointer by DeJulius with 1:19 left.
Houston answered with a step-back jumper from Shead with 47 seconds to give the Cougars a two-point lead.
After Cincinnati was whistled for a shot clock violation, Shead made two free throws with 14 seconds remaining to put Houston up 73-69. On the other end, Lakhin was whistled for goaltending with 5 seconds left.
“We had some failed execution,” Nolley said of the shot clock violation. “It was good defense; it was good offense. We had little things that we failed at that led to that shot clock violation.”
Cincinnati used a 16-0 run to jump out to a 19-6 lead on a 3-pointer by Jeremiah Davenport with 13 minutes remaining. It was the largest deficit for Houston this season. The Bearcats took a 43-36 lead into the half on a halfcourt 3 by Mika Adams-Woods at the buzzer.
The Bearcats struggled in the second half, shooting 30% and making just three of 15 3-point attempts.
Houston outrebounded Cincinnati 35-27 and held a 42-28 advantage in points in the paint.
BIG PICTURE
Cincinnati: The Bearcats missed a chance at a marquee win. Cincinnati last beat a top 3-ranked team on March 9, 2012 (No. 2 Syracuse, 71-68).
Houston: The Cougars have not lost consecutive home games since January 2017. … Houston has won eight straight over the Bearcats. … Houston’s struggles from the free-throw line continued, finishing 10 of 16.
UP NEXT
Cincinnati: Hosts Tulsa on Wednesday.
Houston: At Wichita State on Thursday.
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The Iconic Coffee Liqueur and Culinary Personality Stir Up At-Home Holiday Entertaining with a Custom Cocktail Kit that Takes the Espresso Martini to a New Level
NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This holiday season, Kahlúa is teaming up with famed culinary and television personality Gail Simmons to inspire fans to stir up how they enjoy the Espresso Martini by swapping a martini glass for a delicious and edible Stemless Cocoa Cup. The custom recipe, developed by the Emmy Award-winning food expert, calls for ingredients easily found in the everyday kitchen and was thoughtfully crafted to complement the rich and velvety smooth profile of the iconic Kahlúa Espresso Martini.
To make it easy and fun for anyone to put their seasonal spin on the popular cocktail, the world's #1 coffee liqueur is offering the limited-edition Stir It Up with Kahlúa & Gail Simmons: Espresso Martini Kit, which supplies Gail's recipe, festive trimmings and table decor, and the makings for a Kahlúa Espresso Martini. Whether staying in for date night or hosting an intimate dinner party, the Kahlúa kit is an easy way to playfully elevate at-home holiday occasions, and is also the perfect gift for hosts and cocktail connoisseurs alike.
"The Stemless Cocoa Cup was a labor of love, taking inspiration from the rich and smooth taste of my go-to cocktail, the Kahlúa Espresso Martini. It's a new and simple way to enjoy the beloved cocktail, made with ingredients found in most kitchens, while leaving room for people to put their own twist on it with a variety of garnishes," said Simmons. "As someone who spends ample time in the kitchen, I'm always looking for ways to help people stir up everyday classics and I think the chocolate tart recipe will quickly become a go-to for holiday hosts!"
To complement the recipe, the celebrated coffee liqueur is making an evening of entertaining at home all the more merry by supplying Kahlúa Espresso Martini essentials and the seasonal trimmings to match. From candy canes and toasted hazelnuts to turbinado sugar and festive sprinkles, cocktail and baking enthusiasts alike can take advantage of the limited-edition kit to customize the chocolate tart for both the occasion and their palette before pouring in the beloved Kahlúa Espresso Martini. Gail's pro tip: as the seasons change, so can the trimmings and cocktail napkins to match!
"With some of the busiest days of the year ahead of us, taking time for each other and spending a night in to stir up something special with friends and family is exactly what the Stir It Up with Kahlúa & Gail Simmons: Espresso Martini Kit is designed to do," says Rima Sawaya, Brand Director, Kahlúa Coffee Liqueur. "At Kahlúa, we believe in breaking with routine and trying something new, so we thought it was best to start with how we sip the Espresso Martini."
From a cozy date night to an intimate dinner party, the Stir It Up with Kahlúa & Gail Simmons: Espresso Martini Kit is the perfect purchase to make at-home occasions all the more special this holiday season, as well as a thoughtful gift for hosts and cocktail connoisseurs alike. The kit includes the pairing of Kahlúa (750ml) and Absolut (375ml); espresso; seasonal garnishes (candy canes, hazelnuts, turbinado sugar, sprinkles); a muffin tin for baking; and a garnish board and place-card holders to stir up how consumers garnish the sip at home. The kit will be exclusively available on CocktailCourier.com through Dec. 17.
About Kahlúa
Kahlúa, the Mexican coffee liqueur, made with 100% Arabica coffee beans. Our story began in 1936 in Mexico with one big passion – coffee. The unique and intense flavor of our coffee liqueur is rooted in our Mexican heritage and achieved by only using the finest quality coffee beans out there – the Arabica Coffee bean. Grown on a 1.25 – 1.55 miles altitude, the coffee used in the making of Kahlúa is associated with a rich intense flavor and high quality. Since the 80's Kahlúa has been the world's leading coffee liqueur and withholds its position due to its unique, characteristic taste profile in combination with the increased global consumer demand for versatile coffee cocktails. Used in some of our most iconic – and trending cocktails, such as the Espresso Martini (currently the no. 3 most trending cocktail according to Difford's Guide in 2022), Kahlúa is enjoyed by consumers worldwide in a wide range of sweet and refreshing coffee cocktails.
About The Absolut Company
The Absolut Company has the worldwide responsibility for the production, innovation and strategic marketing of Absolut Vodka, Malibu, Kahlúa and Our/Vodka. Absolut Vodka is one of the world's largest spirits brand. Every bottle of Absolut Vodka comes from one source, Åhus in southern Sweden. Malibu is the number one rum-based coconut spirit in the world, sold in more than 150 countries. Kahlúa coffee liqueur is the world leader in its category. The head office is located in Stockholm, Sweden. Chairman and CEO is Stephanie Durroux. The Absolut Company is a part of Pernod Ricard, which holds one of the most prestigious brand portfolios in the sector.
About Pernod Ricard USA ®
Pernod Ricard USA is the premium spirits and wine company in the U.S., and the largest subsidiary of Paris, France-based Pernod Ricard SA., the world's second-largest spirits and wine company. Pernod Ricard employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide, is listed on Euronext (Ticker: RI) and is part of the CAC 40 index. The company's leading spirits include such prestigious brands as Absolut ® Vodka, Avión ® Tequila, Chivas Regal ® Scotch Whisky, The Glenlivet ® Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Jameson ® Irish Whiskey, Kahlúa ® Liqueur, Malibu ®, Martell ® Cognac, Olmeca Altos ® Tequila , Beefeater ® Gin, Del Maguey ® Single Village Mezcal, Monkey 47 ® Gin, Plymouth ® Gin, Seagram's ® Extra Dry Gin, Malfy ® Gin, Hiram Walker ® Liqueurs, Midleton ® Irish Whiskey, Powers ® Irish Whiskey, Redbreast ® Irish Whiskey, Aberlour ® Single Malt Scotch Whisky; Lillet ®; Smithworks ® Vodka, Jefferson's ® Bourbon, Smooth Ambler ® Whiskey, Rabbit Hole ® Whiskey, Pernod ® and Ricard ®; such superior wines as Jacob's Creek ®, Kenwood ® Vineyards, Campo Viejo ® and Brancott Estate ®; and such exquisite champagnes and sparkling wines as Perrier-Jouët ® Champagne, G.H. Mumm™ Champagne and Mumm Napa ® sparkling wines.
Pernod Ricard USA is headquartered in New York, New York, and has more than 700 employees across the country. As "creators of conviviality," we are committed to sustainable and responsible business practices in service of our customers, consumers, employees and the planet. Pernod Ricard USA urges all adults to consume its products responsibly and has an active program to promote responsible drinking. For more information on this, please visit: www.responsibility.org.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another huge lottery jackpot will be on the line Saturday night for players willing to put up $2 against daunting odds of actually winning the top prize.
The estimated $700 million Powerball jackpot is the 10th largest in U.S. lottery history and the latest in a string of huge lottery prizes. Someone in Maine won a $1.35 billion Mega Millions prize less than three weeks ago and a California player won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot last November.
The jackpots grow so large because the tough odds offer just a miniscule chance of matching all six numbers and winning the top prize. That enables the jackpots to roll over and increase for months.
The last time someone beat the odds of one in 292.2 million and won the Powerball jackpot was Nov. 19, 2022.
The $700 million estimate is for a winner who is paid through an annuity over 29 years. Winners usually opt for cash, which for Saturday night’s drawing would be $375.7 million.
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ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Donald Trump had won the state in 2020 and that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors will have to appear before a special grand jury investigating whether the former president and others illegally tried to interfere in the state's election, a judge said Thursday.
Lawyers for 11 of the 16 people who signed that certificate, all of whom have received letters saying they could face criminal charges related to the investigation, had asked the judge to quash their subpoenas. Attorney Holly Pierson said that once her clients were told they were targets of the investigation, rather than witnesses, she advised them they should invoke their rights against self-incrimination and there are no questions she would be comfortable with them answering before the panel.
“We’re asking you on behalf of our clients not to have them frog-marched in front of the cameras into this courtroom,” Pierson said to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the special grand jury.
Lawyers with the Fulton County district attorney’s office said they planned to ask questions about topics other than just the selection of an alternate slate of electors, so they shouldn’t be excused from appearing just because they won’t answer questions on that topic.
McBurney said he would issue a written order soon, but said he would not quash the subpoenas. He suggested that the lawyers for the district attorney’s office and the lawyers for those who signed the false certificate should meet before each witness testifies to talk about the topics to be covered and then he could settle any disputes.
McBurney also heard arguments from a lawyer for state Sen. Burt Jones, the Republican nominee for Georgia lieutenant governor, who had asked the judge to remove District Attorney Fani Willis from the investigation. Willis has a conflict of interest because she hosted a fundraiser last month for Jones’ Democratic opponent, Charlie Bailey, attorney Bill Dillon argued. He also suggested that the district attorney’s office had leaked the fact that Jones, who signed the false electors certificate, was considered a target of the investigation to a reporter and then publicly confirmed that in a court filing to hurt Jones and help Bailey.
Disqualification of a district attorney requires an actual conflict of interest rather than just the appearance of a conflict of interest, and routine political support by an elected district attorney for another candidate from the same party does not meet that bar, said Anna Green Cross, a lawyer for Willis’ office.
McBurney said he doesn’t disagree that there’s an appearance of a conflict: “It’s a ‘What are you thinking?’ moment. The optics are horrible.”
But he repeatedly pressed Dillon on whether there was an actual conflict. He said he’s not inclined to remove the entire district attorney’s office from the investigation and asked Dillon what he would propose. Dillon suggested having state Attorney General Chris Carr appoint another prosecutor to handle any part of the investigation that has to do with Jones.
“Find somebody who doesn’t have a dog in the hunt. Fani Willis has a dog in the hunt,” he said, referring to her known support of Jones’s opponent.
The special grand jury, which operates behind closed doors, was seated in May at Willis’s request and has the power to subpoena evidence and witnesses. It does not have the power to issue an indictment. Instead, once its investigation is completed, it will issue a report with recommendations. It will then be up to Willis to decide whether to seek an indictment from a regular grand jury.
Dillon raised concerns that Willis could release the special grand jury report in mid-October, right before the November general election, and that could hurt Jones politically.
McBurney clarified that there is no definite timeline for the special grand jury, but he said it would be him and not Willis who would receive and release the report. He said he would ensure that there is a “meaningful time buffer” between the release and the election.
Also Thursday, Willis responded in federal court to an attempt by U.S. Rep. Jody Hice to avoid testifying before the special grand jury. She rejected his arguments and asked that the matter be returned to Fulton County Superior Court “in preparation for Congressman Hice’s compliance with his lawfully issued subpoena.”
Hice was one of several GOP lawmakers who attended a December 2020 meeting at the White House in which Trump allies discussed various ways to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral win.
Willis has also said her team is looking into is a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump urged Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss; calls that Sen. Lindsey Graham made to Raffensperger; and false claims of election fraud that were made by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others during December 2020 legislative committee hearings at the state Capitol. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-wont-quash-subpoenas-for-georgia-false-electors/2022/07/21/7169d928-093f-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-21 22:30:01 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-wont-quash-subpoenas-for-georgia-false-electors/2022/07/21/7169d928-093f-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html |
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona and defender Marcos Alonso have reached an agreement to extend his contract until the end of the 2023-24 season, the Spanish club said Friday.
Alonso joined Barcelona as a free agent in September after terminating his contract with Chelsea. His initial contract only tied him to Barcelona until the end of this season.
The 32-year-old Alonso has scored two goals in 19 appearances since arriving to Camp Nou. He has played both as a left back and as a central defender for coach Xavi.
He was part of a major overhaul of Barcelona’s squad last summer made possible by the club selling some of its future television rights and other assets.
Barcelona said that his buyout clause remained at 50 million euros ($54 million).
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SAN DIEGO (KSWB) – A sea lion charged tourists on the beach at La Jolla Cove in San Diego Sunday evening.
It happened as summer crowds, mostly tourists, overwhelmed the tiny, protected beach — one of the most iconic in California — trying to get up-close photos with the beautiful sea mammals and newly weaned pups. But it’s a dangerous risk.
“I feel like people should educate themselves a little bit about the marine life here — what to do, what not to do, respect the sea lions, don’t touch them, don’t get in their space,” Japhet Perez Estrada, a La Jolla native and business owner, said to Nexstar’s KSWB on Monday. He swims the cove every day and captured video of the incident as he was getting out of the water.
“I looked to my left and I see a big sea lion just come out of the water and start charging and that’s when it turns to chaos,” Perez Estrada said. “Everyone was screaming and running around.”
There are no hard-and-fast regulations or fines. Posted signs warn not to touch the sea life, but with little to no enforcement, there’s really nothing to be done. Lifeguards do their best to remind folks, many of whom don’t understand English, to stay 10 feet away.
“People get bit here every summer, people get charged every summer. And for us locals, it’s annoying because we like and respect the wildlife here,” Perez Estrada added. “I understand their excitement and they want to get close, but it’s nature. You got to give a distance.”
While KSWB was in La Jolla on Monday, dozens of people were climbing on the rocks and getting dangerously close, even climbing into a cave where the pups rest. A father with his kids next to him tried to feed one, with the male sea lion just a couple of feet away.
Perez Estrada says it’s an everyday occurrence.
“We can see that right here there’s a sea lion, it’s obviously being a little aggressive, being territorial, and we have little kids standing maybe five feet away from it,” he said. “Parents should be more aware of the sea lion barking and that’s just a recipe for disaster.”
Another woman says she no longer goes down onto the sand at the cove because she was charged by a sea lion once during a scary encounter.
“I guess I got a little too close, not as close as these guys. He was really big and surprisingly fast. It’s one of those things, you’re just like, ’Oh my God. I’ve got to get away from him.’ I kind of tripped up the stairs. The terror was there.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/watch-sea-lion-charges-tourists-at-california-cove/ | 2023-07-25 15:39:47 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/watch-sea-lion-charges-tourists-at-california-cove/ |
A nonprofit has acquired a luxury apartment building in Northeast D.C. and plans to convert all of its units into affordable housing, financing the purchase in part with a loan from an Amazon housing fund.
The building, located at 250 K St. NE in NoMa, consists of studio, one- and two-bedroom units, almost all of which are market-rate apartments. According to its website, a new tenant can pay from $1,700 to $3,500 a month for a studio apartment.
WHC said the purchase enables it to stabilize rents for moderate-income workers and their families. The nonprofit will preserve for 99 years the Loree Grand’s existing 30 affordable units created under the city’s Inclusionary Zoning program. The city limits the rent on those units based on the renter’s income. WHC said it will create an additional 129 affordable units for residents earning up to 80 percent of the area median income and set aside the remaining 53 units for residents earning up to 120 percent of the area median income.
Such income limits are typical of workforce housing programs aimed at helping essential workers such as teachers, nurses and police officers. The area median income in D.C. in 2022 is $142,300, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
WHC said that no residents will be forced to vacate the property and that it will meet its affordability goals over several years through a combination of current residents, vacancies and turnover.
The acquisition is the latest financed by Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Amazon launched the fund in January 2021 with $2 billion and a goal of preserving and creating more than 20,000 affordable homes in and around Nashville, Seattle and Arlington, Va., where it is building its second headquarters.
Critics have complained that the fund has not done enough to help the poorest renters. As of April, it had spent about $750 million. The overwhelming majority of the money has gone to help people earning more than 50 percent of area median income, according to a Washington Post analysis of company data.
Housing Equity Fund officials have said that Amazon alone can’t solve the affordable-housing crisis but can partner with governments. Amazon-funded deals have reportedly increased Arlington’s supply of affordable housing by 22 percent.
“With tremendous support from Amazon and its Housing Equity Fund and the Impact Pool, we are preserving long-term affordability in diverse, high opportunity neighborhoods under tremendous redevelopment pressure,” WHC Executive Director Kimberly Driggins said in a news release. “And we ensure that more middle-income earners — like first responders, hospitality workers, and teachers — are relieved of the rent burdens that make it hard to save money and build wealth for their future.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/27/amazon-affordable-housing-dc/ | 2022-12-28 00:10:00 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/27/amazon-affordable-housing-dc/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The training program for Navy SEALs is plagued by widespread failures in medical care, poor oversight and the use of performance-enhancing drugs that have increased the risk of injury and death to those seeking to become elite commandos, according to an investigation triggered by the death of a sailor last year.
Medical oversight and care were “poorly organized, poorly integrated and poorly led and put candidates at significant risk,” the nearly 200-page report compiled by the Naval Education and Training Command concluded.
The highly critical report said flaws in the medical program “likely had the most direct impact on the health and well being” of the SEAL candidates and “specifically” on Kyle Mullen, the sailor who died. It said if the shortcomings had been addressed, his death may have been preventable.
The investigation also dug deep into the longstanding problem of sailors using steroids and similar banned drugs as they try to pass the SEAL qualification course. The report recommends far more robust testing for the drugs — a move the Navy and the military more broadly have been slow to make — and better education for service members in order to prevent their use.
Mullen collapsed and died of acute pneumonia just hours after completing the grueling Hell Week test last year. A report released in October by Naval Special Warfare Command concluded that Mullen, 24, from Manalapan, New Jersey, died “in the line of duty, not due to his own misconduct.”
It said there was no evidence of performance-enhancing drugs, but that he had an enlarged heart that contributed to his death. The report said, however, that he was not tested for some steroids because needed blood and urine samples were not available, and that multiple vials of drugs and syringes were later found in his car.
His death shined a light on the brutal test that pushes SEAL candidates to their limits. During the five-and-a-half day test, which involves basic underwater demolition and survival and other combat tactics, sailors are allowed to sleep just twice, for two-hour periods only. It tests physical, mental and psychological strength along with leadership skills, and is so grueling that at least 50% to 60% don’t finish it.
Navy leaders conducted multiple reviews and investigations in the wake of his death, and this latest report makes a lengthy series of recommendations for changes to medical care staffing and training and to drug testing.
Rear Adm. Keith Davids, who heads Naval Special Warfare Command, said the Navy will learn from the tragedy and was already taking steps to prevent it from happening again.
“Our effectiveness as the Navy’s maritime special operations force necessitates demanding, high-risk training,” Davids said in a statement. “While rigorous and intensely demanding, our training must be conducted with an unwavering commitment to safety and methodical precision.”
He said the command will “honor Seaman Mullen’s memory by ensuring that the legacy of our fallen teammate guides us towards the best training program possible for our future Navy SEALs.”
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said in a statement that the probe “exposed a culture that needs radical change, and the Navy has given every indication that they will implement serious changes to address the egregiously flawed command structure and failure after failure that led to Kyle’s death.”
Smith was briefed on the investigation Thursday along with Mullen’s mother, Regina, a registered nurse who has vowed to work to force changes to ensure this doesn’t happen to another family.
“Looking at the egregious failures that went on, there needs to be serious accountability,” she said. “The next stage of accountability is where I am focused.”
Already the command has taken steps to overhaul procedures, add medical staff and improve their training, particularly on heart and breathing problems commonly seen during Hell Week. Commanders are also doing more drug testing and heart screenings.
The latest report notes that special operations forces are routinely required to carry out high-risk military operations, and thus require demanding training. But it said SEAL instructors in recent years appeared to focus on weeding out candidates, rather than teaching or mentoring. Compounding that problem, the report said, is that candidates were often reluctant to seek medical care because it would be seen as weak and could get them removed from the course or delay their completion. According to the Navy, about 888 SEAL candidates are considered every year, and the goal is to graduate 175.
The “ability to continue training through discomfort and some degraded physical condition was seen as a positive trait by instructors and this was understood by candidates,” the report said.
As a result, candidates would push on and not tell medical staff or leaders about injuries, and there was pressure to use drugs to help keep them going.
The use of performance-enhancing drugs has been a persistent problem. Investigations in 2011, 2013 and 2018 into suspected steroid use by SEAL candidates led to discipline and requests for enhanced testing.
The use of hair follicle testing was denied at least twice by Navy leaders over that time. Random testing for steroids wasn’t authorized by the Defense Department. The Navy has asked the department to do a study on testing and to allow random tests and sweeps for drugs, but those requests have not been approved by the Pentagon. In the wake of Mullen’s death, however, the command began some additional testing.
The new report, however, suggests there may have been conflicting messages to candidates. In one case, it noted that during a discussion about the policy with Mullen’s class, an instructor, who was not identified, told sailors that all types of people make it through the course, including “steroid monkeys and skinny strong guys. Don’t use PEDS, it’s cheating, and you don’t need them. And whatever you do, don’t get caught with them in your barracks room.”
The report said that after an “awkward silence” the instructor added, “that was a joke.” It said some candidates interpreted it as an implicit endorsement of using the drugs. Barracks are subject to routine inspections, which the report said were done about once a week during Mullen’s class, and it noted several instances where the drugs were found or sailors admitted to their use.
According to the report, Mullen told his mother that he was thinking about buying some of the performance-enhancing drugs, “because he did not want to be at a disadvantage since many other candidates were taking PEDS.” It said his mother encouraged him not to. The report details that in addition to drugs in his car, his phone also had text messages discussing their use and attempts to buy them.
The report concluded that Mullen’s death was not “unforeseeable,” noting that candidates had sought medical treatment for pneumonia 11 times in 2021 and early 2022, and there were 112 visits for other similar issues.
Three Navy officers received administrative “non-punitive” letters as a result of Mullen’s death. Navy Capt. Brian Drechsler, who was commander of the Naval Special Warfare Center, received a letter and was pulled out of the job this month. Capt. Brad Geary, commanding officer of Naval Special Warfare’s Basic Training Command, and an unnamed senior medical officer also got letters. The report never names the medical officer, but notes a number of concerns with his command. | https://phl17.com/national-news/ap-navy-seals-training-plagued-by-pervasive-problems-according-to-investigation-after-death-of-sailor/ | 2023-05-26 20:37:09 | 1 | https://phl17.com/national-news/ap-navy-seals-training-plagued-by-pervasive-problems-according-to-investigation-after-death-of-sailor/ |
Why Pakistan army is targeting Imran Khan’s party
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The party founded by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan is in shambles weeks after supporters took to the streets to protest the politician’s arrest.
The protests snowballed into deadly riots targeting military installations across the country. Now, thousands of party workers and activists have been thrown in jail, and top figures have defected. Local media have been ordered not to mention Mr. Khan’s name on air, and the capital is smattered with posters glorifying the Pakistan army and denouncing the perpetrators of May 9.
Why We Wrote This
A story focused onWho’s responsible for the May 9 riots in Pakistan? As the army sets out to gut former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, some Pakistanis, looking to the not-so-distant past, say that furor is misdirected.
Indeed, Pakistan’s powerful army, which recently promised to stop meddling in the country’s political affairs, has launched a campaign to dismantle the very party it helped bring to power back in 2018.
In spite of the dangers of speaking up against the military, journalists and politicians are questioning the fairness of persecuting ordinary supporters of Mr. Khan while the true architects of his rise – the military establishment – remain largely untouched.
“Every child knows who the real culprits are,” says political commentator Gul Bukhari. “The puppets are important. They did play a role ... but if that’s where it stops, that’s not going to resolve our problems.”
Pakistan’s powerful military is cracking down on the party founded by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, weeks after his supporters took to the streets to protest the politician’s arrest. These protests snowballed into deadly riots targeting military installations across the country, and now the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party is in shambles.
Thousands of party workers and activists have been thrown in jail. More than 100 top PTI figures have defected. Rights groups decried the intimidation of sympathetic journalists last week after several overseas commentators were charged with sedition, and local media have been ordered not to mention Mr. Khan’s name on air. Islamabad and the adjoining city of Rawalpindi are smattered with posters glorifying the Pakistan army and denouncing the perpetrators of May 9 – a day the army has termed “Pakistan’s 9/11,” though commentators around the world say it bears closer resemblance to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Congress.
Indeed, the army, which recently promised to stop meddling in the country’s political affairs, has launched an organized campaign to dismantle the very party it helped bring to power back in 2018. In spite of the dangers of speaking up against the military, journalists and politicians are questioning the fairness of persecuting ordinary supporters of Mr. Khan while the true architects of his rise – the military establishment – remain largely untouched.
Why We Wrote This
A story focused onWho’s responsible for the May 9 riots in Pakistan? As the army sets out to gut former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, some Pakistanis, looking to the not-so-distant past, say that furor is misdirected.
“The Pakistan army has a history of reacting harshly against real or perceived attacks on its preeminence,” says Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador to the United States. “The May 9 attacks on military facilities and installations were larger than anything the army has faced before. ... The crackdown in response has also been disproportionate and heavy-handed.”
Project Imran
In the early 2000s, near the end of Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s military rule, the exiled leaders of Pakistan’s two traditional ruling parties, the Pakistan Muslim League and the Pakistan People’s Party, pledged to cooperate to reestablish a civilian-led democracy. As a result of this alliance, Pakistan witnessed its first-ever peaceful transfer of power between civilian governments in 2013. Seeing its influence threatened, the army began to promote Mr. Khan and the PTI, a populist party that had seen limited success until this point.
“They decided to do whatever it took to upend that understanding between the existing political forces within the country by injecting Imran Khan into the system,” says political commentator and activist Gul Bukhari. “They had to abduct people; they had to torture people; they had to gag the media” to ensure the former cricketer’s victory in the 2018 elections.
Like virtually every political leader before him, Mr. Khan eventually fell out with his benefactors, and after his ouster last year, he began to style himself as an opponent of the army’s outsize role in politics. It was in this context that his supporters took to the streets on May 9 and attacked the army’s command center in Rawalpindi, as well as the residence of the corps commander in Lahore.
According to Ms. Bukhari – who was abducted by intelligence agencies in 2018 for her criticism of the military – the crackdown on Mr. Khan’s party will have no legitimacy unless the generals who brought him to power are also prosecuted. “Every child knows who the real culprits are,” she says. “The puppets are important. They did play a role ... but if that’s where it stops, that’s not going to resolve our problems.”
Her comments are echoed by Asad Ali Toor, a journalist and vlogger based in Islamabad. The real architects of Project Imran “are playing golf while the ordinary folk who believed their propaganda are rotting in prison,” he says.
Complicated paths to justice
Not everyone agrees, however, that prosecuting the generals is a feasible strategy. Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, a former senator, says the army’s long history of meddling has created a slippery slope.
“If prosecuting the architects of Project Imran is the right and politically correct position to take, then what about the ones who orchestrated the overthrowing of democracy in ’99?” he asks. “Why even stop there and not go further back and prosecute the architects of Project Nawaz Sharif in the ’80s to set the record straight?”
Military meddling has been a constant in Pakistani politics, he explains, but “when it benefits one section of the elite at the expense of the other, we see tantrums being thrown.”
Mr. Khokhar argues that the biggest impact of the May 9 riots has been to give the military an excuse to show its might. “When chips are down, proportionality is hardly a concern in third-world countries. It’s about establishing or reestablishing your position as the ultimate power center,” he says. “As a consequence, the space for discussion revolving around rights and freedoms has greatly shrunk. ... The concerns of prosecution turning into persecution are not unfounded.”
There are others still who question the efficacy of the media blackout on Mr. Khan and his party.
“Similar moves in the past have not produced desired results,” says journalist Absar Alam, who was shot by unknown assailants after criticizing the military during Mr. Khan’s tenure. “Ideologies can’t be defeated by silencing voices, but I doubt Imran has any ideology. He wants power at any cost, so let’s see.” | https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2023/0621/Why-Pakistan-army-is-targeting-Imran-Khan-s-party | 2023-06-22 21:36:33 | 1 | https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2023/0621/Why-Pakistan-army-is-targeting-Imran-Khan-s-party |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Frederick Gaudreau, Sam Steel and Kirill Kaprizov scored in the third period to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-1 victory against the New York Islanders on Thursday night.
Filip Gustavsson made 19 saves for the Wild, who snapped a three-game losing streak in the finale of a two-game road trip.
Scott Mayfield scored for New York, and Ilya Sorokin finished with 33 saves. It was the Islanders' fourth consecutive loss.
The Wild went in front to stay with two goals in 93 seconds in the third.
Gaudreau tied it at 1 when he scored a short-handed goal at 10:55. Sorokin was able to get his glove on the puck, but not before it crossed the goal line upon video review.
Joel Eriksson-Ek sidestepped Islanders forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau and assisted on Gaudreau's 10th of the season.
Steel then gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead at 12:28 off a nice setup by linemate Mats Zuccarello. Kaprizov recorded the secondary assist and picked up his 50th point of the season.
Kaprizov added an empty-net goal at 18:48.
Gustavsson made a critical save five minutes into the third period, denying a one-timer from Simon Holmstrom after Minnesota defenseman Jon Merrill turned the puck over in the defensive zone.
The Wild failed to convert six power-play opportunities.
Mayfield opened the scoring 16:49 into the first with his fifth goal, matching his career best from the 2018-19 season. The bruising defenseman sent a long wrist shot past Gustavsson.
It was the first time the Islanders had scored first since Dec. 29 against Columbus. It also was the 26th goal by an Islanders defenseman this season.
HELP ON THE WAY
Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech practiced with the team prior to the game against the Wild for the first time since sustaining an undisclosed injury on Dec. 6 against St. Louis. Pelech skated on his own for the previous three days. ... Islanders forward Kyle Palmieri also is close to returning. He traveled with the team on its recent four-game trip. Palmieri left the game against Arizona on Dec. 16 with an upper-body injury. He has missed 22 of the previous 23 games.
UP NEXT
Wild: Host the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday.
Islanders: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.
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Presidents and prime ministers, secretaries and kings are in Egypt for the United Nations annual climate change negotiations. And when world leaders talk about climate change, they evoke one group more than any other: children.
The plight of future generations, and the need to protect today's children from a future made unlivable by global warming, is at the moral heart of international climate negotiations. The United Nations estimates about a billion children are at extremely high risk because of climate change, whether that's because of rising seas, heavy rain, drought or deadly heat waves.
But what is life like for children living on the front lines of climate change? How is information about a changing planet passed down to the inheritors of a hotter Earth? And in places where the Internet is not ubiquitous, how do young people understand the changes that they are witnessing?
We visited one school in Nepal's Rolwaling Valley and talked to students and teachers there about their experiences, frustrations and hopes for the future.
A school surrounded by beauty and danger
The Rolwaling Sangag Choling Monastery School is nestled in a steep valley. At the bottom is the Rolwaling River. Behind the school, the rocky cliffs of the Himalayan mountains climb dramatically to peaks of more than 23,000 feet. It is about a two day walk from the school to the nearest road. The area only had sporadic solar electricity until earlier this year.
The school is home to nearly two dozen boys who live and study there most of the year, except for a brief period in the winter when they return to their hometowns nearby.
It is a life that is intensely, unavoidably, connected to nature. And the students, especially the older ones, have noticed nature changing.
"We can see many mountains here," says Mingma Thamang, an 18-year-old student at the school who has hiked up to a nearby glacial lake multiple times in recent years. He says he has heard rumors that the lake, which is upstream from his school, could cause a big flood in the future.
Indeed, the lake is at critical risk for flooding, according to scientists. And the school is located very close to the river, and would likely be damaged or destroyed in such a disaster.
Bolendra Acharya has taught at the school for 12 years and says there are other obvious changes as well. Snow that used to cover the nearby mountains in thick blankets is now spotty and thin. Now, bare rock shows even on the highest peaks. And rain that used to arrive on a reliable schedule in the summer is now more variable.
The unreliable rain is a problem because most people who live in the area farm, raise livestock or work in the mountain trekking industry. When the rain comes late, or all at once, it hurts crops and makes it difficult to safely cross the river. Domestic yaks and other livestock are unable to access grazing areas.
And as the area gets more popular with local Nepalese tourists, it also becomes more dangerous for hikers who are using narrow riverside paths and suspension bridges because of high water from heavy rain and glacial melt.
Acharya grew up nearby and says, when he was young, life in the valley was very different. "Our life was safe. We would just cross the river," he says. "But now it seems like, at any time, it could just sweep us away. There is a kind of fear among us. Anything could happen."
A desire for to know more about a changing planet
Acharya makes it a point to talk to his students about the environment. "From my point of view, I'm very interested to introduce the students to climate change," he says, "because they live in an area where there is a lot to learn."
Right now, there's no formal climate change curriculum, although they do study general science. The primary goal of the school is to educate students to become lamas – Buddhist religious leaders. Students study math, history, science and other academic subjects for the first five years and those that continue on for the remaining three years focus on religious and language training.
"We learned about the weather, about different types of animals," says Thamang.
Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, who recently graduated from the school, says he learned about plants and animals of the region, and about the larger geography of Nepal.
But students at the school say they know only a little about where their home fits in the larger picture of global climate change, and would like to know more.
"We want to learn more about the environment," says Thamang. "Because then maybe we can do something to make it cleaner and safer."
The teacher, Acharya, says even if most of his students will go on to work in religious roles that don't directly interact with environmental policy, it's still important to bring climate change into the classroom. These future religious leaders will be the ones that local people turn to as they try to make sense of their changing environment. And decisions to protect local forests or adapt to flood risk will likely include consultations with religious authorities in this heavily Buddhist area.
To that end, Acharya says he wants his students to understand that the changes they are witnessing are being caused by people in other parts of the world.
"We are not the people polluting the environment. It's factories in cities, especially out in the bigger world. It's not people like us, living in rural areas, that are contributing to the damage of Earth," he says. "Local students need knowledge about climate change, to be empowered to make their own decisions, and to protect themselves."
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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Thursday that there’s no daylight between himself on President Biden on the question of standing firm against negotiating with House Republicans on raising the debt limit until they manage pass a package of cuts or fiscal reforms.
Schumer said Biden and White House staff assured him the president is not looking to cut a debt limit deal with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) if House Republicans can’t prove they have the votes to pass spending cuts through their narrowly divided chamber.
“I’ve spoken to the president both before and his staff after the meeting. He had the same position — [House Democratic Leader] Hakeem Jeffries [N.Y.], Chuck Schumer, the House Democratic caucus, the Senate Democratic caucus and the president have the exact same position, we should pass the debt ceiling clean. That’s where we’re at,” Schumer said.
His comments contradicted McCarthy’s optimistic prediction Wednesday that he would be able to strike a deficit reduction deal with Biden in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
“I think there is an opportunity here to come to an agreement on both sides,” McCarthy told reporters after meeting with Biden at the White House.
McCarthy promised House conservatives that he would not support legislation to raise the debt limit without major spending cuts or fiscal reforms attached but he has remained vague about exactly what cuts he favors.
Schumer is betting that McCarthy doesn’t have enough Republican votes to pass a fiscal reform package of any size given his small five-seat majority.
“We believe the House cannot pass a debt ceiling bill the way they’re talking about. That if it is very minor cuts, the MAGA Republicans will rebel. If it is major cuts, the more mainstream Republicans rebel. That’s why we’re saying, ‘Show us you plan.’ Because I don’t think they can get one together,” he said.
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The U.S. Supreme Court for now has tossed out former President Trump's objections to the way the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is handling the seizure of classified documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.
The court's action was announced even as the Jan. 6 committee was conducting its last public hearing focused on Trump's role in the violence at the Capitol after the election.
The Eleventh Circuit has twice blocked legal actions taken at Trumps behest by Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointed judge, who named a special master to examine the documents and blocked the Justice Department from continuing its investigation into the handling of the documents and related matters.
Already the appeals court has blocked much of what Judge Cannon has done. Trump "has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents," wrote the appeals court panel, which included two Trump appointees. Moreover, said the three-judge panel, "The United States has sufficiently explained how and why it's national security review is inextricably intertwined with its criminal investigation." Indeed, said the panel, it would be "difficult if not impossible" for the Justice Department to pursue its investigation if it is barred from reviewing the seized materials.
Addressing Trump's claim that he may have declassified the documents, the panel called that a "red herring," noting Trump had failed to present any evidence to support his claim. "The record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified," the appeals court judges wrote, adding that Trump in appearing before the special master, had "resisted providing any evidence that he that he had declassified any of these documents."
That was in late September. In early October, the appeals court ordered the whole process of examining documents by the special master, speeded up, prompting Trump to appeal all of this to the Supreme Court.
Trump watchers were divided over why Trump's lawyers went to the Supreme Court at all. Did Trump insist on going to the high court, where three of the nine Justices are his appointees? Or was this a classic Trump maneuver aimed at exhausting his adversaries by prolonging litigation. If the latter, his adversary this time is unlike any he has faced before. The Justice Department won't run out of money like others who have faced off against Trump. If the former, Thursday's order likely infuriated Trump, though it is unlikely to have disabused him of the notion that the justices he appointed would side with him out of loyalty.
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Is inflation still surging? Jobs report will provide clues
WASHINGTON (AP) — A month ago, the government dropped a bombshell jobs report that showed that America’s employers added a sizzling half-million-plus positions in January — twice the December gain and far more than economists had expected.
The February jobs report, to be released Friday, will be closely watched by economists who are eager to know whether the January blowout was a one-time blip or some sign of a strengthening economy.
The answer could heavily influence what the Federal Reserve does in the coming months. A second month of robust hiring could amplify fears that inflation is re-accelerating after months in which it had appeared to be steadily easing. The Fed, in response, would likely pursue a more aggressive pace of rate hikes beginning with its next policy meeting in two weeks.
Some economists say they think the central bank will announce a substantial half-point increase in its key short-term interest rate, rather than a quarter point hike as it did at its meeting in February. In testimony to Congress this week, Chair Jerome Powell made clear that the Fed would increase the size of its rate hikes if evidence continued to point to a robust economy and persistently high inflation.
When the Fed raises its benchmark rate, it typically leads to higher rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit card borrowing and business loans. The goal in raising loan rates is to cool borrowing and spending and slow inflation.
Economists have estimated that employers significantly slowed their hiring in February, with a gain of 208,000 jobs, according to a survey by the data provider FactSet. Though that figure would be far below January’s gain, it would still be consistent with a healthy economy.
Rapid hiring typically leads businesses to offer higher pay to attract or keep workers, and their higher labor costs are often passed on to their customers through higher prices. It’s a cycle that tends to keep inflation elevated.
“We have two or three more very important data releases to analyze before” the Fed’s next meeting, Powell told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. “Those are going to be very important.”
Besides Friday’s jobs report, those data releases include Tuesday’s report on consumer inflation in February. Last month’s report on January inflation had raised alarms by showing that consumer prices reaccelerated on a month-to-month basis.
January’s vigorous hiring data was the first in a series of reports to point to an accelerating economy at the start of the year. Employers added 517,000 jobs, the most in nearly a year, and the unemployment rate reached 3.4%, the lowest level since 1969. Sales at retail stores and restaurants also jumped, and inflation, according to the Fed’s preferred measure, rose from December to January at the fastest pace in seven months.
The stronger data reversed a cautiously optimistic narrative that the economy was cooling modestly — just enough, perhaps, to tame inflation without triggering a deep recession. Now, the economic outlook is hazier.
High borrowing rates have cratered the housing market, with home sales having dropped for 12 straight months, a consequence of the average mortgage rate nearly doubling over that time. Manufacturing is also showing signs of weakness. Higher rates have made it harder for businesses and consumers to borrow to buy major factory goods, from machinery to cars to appliances.
By contrast, spending for services — things like traveling, dining out and attending entertainment events — remains strong. Many Americans continue to engage in activities that were restricted during the COVID lockdowns.
One reason why hiring likely slowed in February, analysts say, is that some of the outsize hiring in January had reflected one-time factors. The weather, for example, was unusually warm, which likely caused more people to go out and spend and allowed more construction projects to continue. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has estimated that the weather added about 120,000 jobs to January’s total.
And a strike by workers at the University of California system ended, adding 36,000 jobs to January’s total. Subtracting those two factors would have lowered job growth in January to about 360,000, matching the average gain for the past six months.
Hiring even at that rate is about triple the level the Fed would prefer. Job gains of about 100,000 a month would be just enough to keep up with population growth and prevent unemployment from rising. A figure that low would also mean that employers weren’t so desperate for workers and wouldn’t have to keep raising wages.
Higher pay is great for employees, of course. But Fed officials say it is contributing to higher inflation, particularly in labor-intensive service industries like restaurants, health care and hotels.
“Strong wage growth is good for workers but only if it is not eroded by inflation,” Powell said in testimony to Congress on Wednesday.
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Colorado Springs police said they made an effort not to misgender Club Q victims. Here’s why that matters
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
Police chief Adrian Vasquez took a basic but still relatively uncommon step when announcing the names of the five victims killed at Club Q, the beloved LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
Instead of relying on IDs or legal identifiers, Vasquez and the police department communicated with victims’ families through victim advocates, who provided the names and pronouns by which their loved ones were known, Colorado Springs Police Department spokesperson Pamela Castro told CNN in an email.
In a press conference earlier this week, Vasquez said he wanted to identify the victims “how they identified themselves, and how their families have loved and identified them.”
Using the right name seems less like a thoughtful gesture than an obvious sign of respect for a victim and their loved ones. But many police departments have misgendered LGBTQ victims of crime, particularly trans people, in investigations or press conferences. The Human Rights Campaign estimates that since 2013, police and media have misgendered 70% of trans people killed in violent attacks.
Advocates say that when law enforcement or the media misgender a crime victim, it can add trauma and pain to a community that is already grieving. It can also perpetuate violence against LGBTQ people and reinforce the belief that trans people’s identities are not legitimate. Introducing the victims as they lived was a way to “represent them with compassion and dignity,” Castro told CNN.
“Police, media and public officials have a responsibility to lead with respect,” said Jay Brown, Human Rights Campaign senior vice president for programs, research and training, in a statement to CNN. “There must be a willingness to learn about the full lives of those taken from us — for the sake of respecting and honoring their lives.”
To be sure, most people share varying degrees of personal information with family, co-workers, friends, and other acquaintances — and that is, perhaps, especially true of people in the LGBTQ community. For some, concealing one’s name or gender identity may be a matter of personal safety or job security. This can make it difficult to discern whether police and media are using the right terms to describe them. But police making the effort to get it right, particularly now, when anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is rampant, is meaningful.
Here’s why it’s harmful to misgender LGBTQ victims of crime, and why it’s important that Colorado Springs police took steps to honor LGBTQ advocates’ wishes and treat the Club Q victims with sensitivity and respect.
The harms of misgendering trans crime victims
Police will often rely on legal names to identify victims or suspects. But many trans people don’t use their legal names, even though many still use IDs that incorrectly list their name and gender. Some trans people don’t seek to change their legal names on identifying documents because of economic or logistical barriers, according to the ACLU. Refusing to acknowledge someone’s humanity in death “adds insult to injury,” according to GLAAD, “compounding the tragedy by invalidating the person’s lived reality.”
Misgendering a trans victim of crime can also thwart the delivery of justice. In a 2018 analysis, ProPublica found that in 74 out of 85 cases of murders of trans people, law enforcement agencies referred to the victims by the wrong name and gender. Incorrectly identifying a victim can slow down an investigation, confusing people who may have known them by the name they used in everyday life, the outlet reported.
In 2018, after three Black trans women were fatally shot in three separate instances in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office repeatedly refused to refer to the victims by their correct names and pronouns, ProPublica reported. Referring to a trans person by a name they no longer use is often known as “deadnaming.” A man was sentenced in 2020 for the murder of one woman, but the other two deaths have not been solved.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told ProPublica it was following its policy at the time, identifying victims based on medical examiner reports and the victim’s state ID. The department also told ProPublica it would create an LGBTQ liaison program.
Many police departments lack training or specific policies for interacting with LGBTQ residents, according to a report on policing and LGBTQ people by the National LGBT HIV Criminal Justice Working Group, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Transgender Equality.
But even departments in cities with sizable LGBTQ populations, such as the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in central Florida, can be careless in their interactions with LGBTQ victims and witnesses: In 2018, when investigating the death of Sasha Garden, a Black trans woman, the sheriff’s office misgendered her and used descriptions that LGBTQ advocates said were damaging, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department had previously responded to the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, where 49 people were killed.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment on their handling of Garden’s case. In 2019, Brandon Ragan, one of the department’s LGBTQ liaisons, told WMFE, Orlando’s public radio station, that the department had made mistakes in its investigation into Garden’s death and would learn from them going forward.
The killings happened amid increasing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation
The shooting at Club Q occurred at a time when anti-LGBTQ sentiment continues to flare across the US. More than half of US states this year introduced legislation that targeted LGBTQ residents, with a focus on transgender children and teens. Much of the legislation aimed to limit trans youth’s access to gender-affirming health care or banned participation in school sports that aligned with their gender.
Many right-wing extremist groups have narrowed their focus on drag performers who read books to children at local libraries or other venues. Over the summer, members of the extremist group Proud Boys interrupted a drag queen story hour, and other groups have since protested the events or forced them to be canceled. Opponents of these events often use language that conflates drag performers with trans people and dehumanizes LGBTQ people.
Some conservative lawmakers and leaders have supported anti-LGBTQ legislation rooted in the same harmful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric espoused by extremist groups. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis championed and later signed a bill this year that earned the nickname “Don’t Say Gay,” because it banned some public school teachers from discussing sexuality or gender identity with elementary school students. When the Senate recently voted to codify same-sex marriage, holdouts included influential GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio of Florida.
Brandon Wolf, Equality Florida press secretary and a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, said the killings at Club Q were the result of years of hateful rhetoric toward LGBTQ people.
“When you pump that demoralizing rhetoric into the atmosphere, when you supercharge the political environment to make it as hostile as possible toward LGBTQ people, someone has to pay the price,” he told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday. “It may be short-term political gain, but with our community, it comes with real lived consequences.”
Police did not announce the Club Q shooting suspect’s motive, but they face five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, court records show.
Lawyers for the suspect in the shooting said in a court filing Tuesday that their client is nonbinary and uses “they/them” pronouns, marking the first time that information was public. (In a Monday press conference identifying the victims, department representatives refrained from using gender-specific pronouns to describe the suspect. Other local enforcement officials, including the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office — which has taken over custody of the suspect — continued to refer to the suspect using “he/him” pronouns after the filing stating their gender identity. CNN has reached out to the sheriff’s office for comment.)
Colorado Springs residents stand against hate
Colorado Springs once had a reputation as an unwelcoming place for LGBTQ residents. In the 1990s, the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family advocated to amend the Colorado Springs Constitution to make it illegal to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The amendment passed, and Colorado earned the nickname “the hate state,” according to the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum. The US Supreme Court later struck down the amendment.
But in the face of anti-LGBTQ discrimination and hostility, many Colorado Springs residents established LGBTQ funds and advocacy groups, Colorado Springs Indy columnist Brandon Flanery wrote in 2020.
Club Q was Colorado Springs’ only remaining gay bar at the time of Flanery’s piece. (Icons, a downtown bar with singing staff, opened a year later in 2021.)
Stephanie Vigil was just elected to represent Colorado Springs in the state legislature. She said she’s seen and heard hateful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from influential figures in Colorado Springs. But the shooting at Club Q only reinforced a commitment to defending LGBTQ constituents, Vigil said.
“We will never, ever, ever stop being who we are,” Vigil tweeted. “We will not go back into any closet. We will not take violence against our community and our families lying down.”
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DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — Just east of the National Cemetery on Lee Street lies a rolling green expanse of hills dotted with grave stones.
Known as the Freedman Cemetery, the city’s nearly 8-acre, first Black cemetery dating back at least 160 years is being examined by the city of Danville for identification of unmarked graves. So far, a firm using ground-penetrating radar has located what are believed to be 418 unmarked graves in the multi-phase interment location project.
The goal of the project started in August 2021 is to collect and document a history of the cemetery and those buried there. City officials hope to beautify the old cemetery and add kiosks and historic markers for visitors.
Phase one was completed last year with a result of more than 400 interments located and a report containing a history of the cemetery completed by Rivanna Archeological Services in Charlottesville.
The second phase will work to locate more unmarked graves.
Each grave from the two phases of the project will receive a stainless-steel marker with a unique identifier and a GPS point will be collected. Those points will be used to map and update cemetery records.
“It’s (the cemetery) been in city ownership and maintenance for years,” said Renee Burton, planning consultant for the city. “We’ve been maintaining it for years. It just hasn’t received a lot of attention.”
Officials want to learn more about the history of the cemetery and the people buried there.
“We want to figure out what that history is before we honor them properly,” Burton said.
For years, Danville resident Dean Hairston has been researching the genealogies of those buried there.
There are about 2,000 Black people — many of them who died while enslaved and others who were born into slavery but died free after the Civil War — buried in Freedman Cemetery, Hairston said.
During their span of time in this world, they filled a variety of professions — from carpenters to shoemakers, physicians to janitors, barbers to tobacco workers.
Hairston, deputy police chief with the Danville Police Department, developed an interest in the cemetery years ago, and would visit it and walk through it while working his beat.
“Not too long ago, I started recording the names from the stones and started going to ancestry.com, and then tracing the history and going to the genealogical section of the library and researching their names,” Hairston said.
According to the report from Rivanna, Freedman Cemetery, like the neighboring National Cemetery, was carved out of the 34-acre Green Hill park and cemetery property bought by what was then the town of Danville in 1863.
The report estimates Freedman Cemetery was most likely established between 1866 and 1873, during Reconstruction.
“No formal deed of sale for the ... 7.75-acre Danville Freedman’s Cemetery was found during archival research,” the report states. “Because of this, it is assumed that the cemetery continued to be owned by the town of Danville.”
The report mentions that “at least one prominent source states” that a man named Moses M. Green donated the cemetery to the town of Danville, but casts doubt on that story. But because Moses Green’s mother was Black, he may have had some connection to the establishment of the cemetery, the report states.
Few options
Black residents in Danville had few options for public burial during the post-emancipation period, the report states.
“No public burying ground accepting African-Americans existed in the town of Danville until the establishment of the Danville Freedman’s Cemetery,” the report states. “The Danville Freedman’s Cemetery then was established out of necessity.”
It is not known who managed the cemetery. But during the first 50 years after emancipation, many Black cemeteries in the U.S. were managed by benevolent or mutual aid societies and other charitable organizations.
“Within post-emancipation African-American society, these social groups helped their members and the broader community during financial difficulty, often providing aid to the elderly and poor, and during sickness and death,” the report states.
The cemetery had been neglected by the city and overgrown before Danville removed broken stones in the 1960s or 1970s so the site could be mowed, Hairston said. Those broken stones were used to fill in ditches, he said.
Hairston found out in his research that they were also put to other uses.
“I came across someone who had taken the stones out of the cemetery,” he said. “They had a house on Holbrook Street and were using them for steps. It turned out the people said they had gotten the stones out of a ditch and found them discarded. That’s why they were using them.”
At the cemetery, it’s easy to spot the difference between the neighboring, largely white National Cemetery with neat plots with gravestones and the spotty, sparsely-marked Freedman Cemetery.
During slavery, the graves of enslaved Black people didn’t get stones, but were marked by painted rocks instead — an African cultural tradition, Hairston said.
Freedman Cemetery pre-dates Reconstruction and the Civil War era, Hairston said, estimating that about 30%-40% of those buried there died during slavery. Others interred there were born in slavery, but died free after the war, he added.
Others were born after slavery. People were buried there through the mid-20th century into the 1960s, Hairston said.
Prominent residents
There are prominent people buried at Freedman, Hairston pointed out.
Nathaniel Holbrook, who was enslaved by Levi Holbrook and founded the first Black funeral home in Danville, is buried there, Hairston said.
Another man, Spy Allen, was born into slavery but died a free man. His grave is symbolically marked with three links of a chain.
Hairston said he plans to donate his genealogical research information to the city for use in its database.
Ground penetrating radar involves sending it below the surface to see if there are anomalies underneath, Burton said.
“It cannot tell you what’s there,” she said. “It can give the size and width of what’s there.”
Phase one of the project cost about $16,500, but about $11,500 was paid for by a grant from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Phase two will cost $18,209, with $12,709 to be covered by a grant from the department, Burton said.
The city is paying for the remainder of the project’s costs.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global color cosmetics powerhouse KVD Beauty® announces a new collection of liquid lipsticks sure to be their next cult classic. Introducing Everlasting Hyperlight Liquid Lipstick, a next generation, long-lasting, transfer-proof formula set to replace the original collection, Everlasting Liquid Lipstick. To celebrate the launch, brand partner Paris Jackson takes her partnership with KVD Beauty to the next level, serving not only as the face of the campaign, but also a co-creative director.
Everlasting Hyperlight Liquid Lipstick lasts like a liquid lipstick but feels like vapor. The evolution of their liquid lipstick revolution, KVD Beauty took the iconic, all-day, transfer-proof wear of brand's original formula and evolved it for an even better experience: extreme comfort and a hyper-lightweight feel. 100% of wearers said Everlasting Hyperlight Liquid Lipstick was comfortable even after 8 hours of wear (in a consumer study on 32 volunteers).
Powered by nourishing raspberry stem cells, this ultra-thin, flexible formula moves seamlessly with lips to help prevent caking, flaking and feeling dry. This pigment-packed formula is ultra-comfortable without compromising the impactful color payoff KVD Beauty is known for.
Dangerously bold and undetectably light, this evolved formula comes in 21 feather-resistant matte shades and features a slim, precision applicator for complete control without needing a lip liner—just line, fill and let it set. Pluck your favorite shade from a collection of petal-soft neutrals and intoxicating pops named after poisonous plants and bizarre blooms.
With 21 shades available at launch and more rolling out over the next year, Everlasting Hyperlight Liquid Lipsticks' shade names are inspired by a strange garden filled with beautiful, yet dangerous botanicals. Available shades include: Moonflower (terracotta rose), Moth Orchid (soft pink), Cobra Lily (rust red), Scorpiris (indigo blue) and more. Most notably, the brand's bestselling shade Lolita is undergoing an evolution of its own, relaunching with this new collection as Queen of Poisons.
Back for her second campaign with KVD Beauty, multi-hyphenate Paris Jackson is the face of the new Everlasting Hyperlight Liquid Lipstick, an appropriate fit for this collection of both serene and statement shades. In addition to being featured in the campaign, Jackson was also involved in the creative direction of the shoot, where she contributed to location selection, guided the fairy-goth-meets-grunge aesthetic thanks to strategic styling realized by Jackson and her stylist, Danyul Brown, and collaborated with campaign makeup artist and KVD Beauty Global Veritas Artistry Ambassador Anthony Nguyen on the beauty looks showcased within the images.
"KVD Beauty has grown significantly over the past few years, and we're excited to continue to evolve both the brand and our cosmetics to fit the needs of our loyal consumers," says Tara Loftis, Global Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations at Kendo Brands. "With the new Everlasting Hyperlight Liquid Lipstick, and the incredible Paris Jackson as the face of the campaign, this new launch underscores our continued support of the artist community while also taking the bold collection of products you all know and love to the next level. We're confident this new collection will be well received by brand loyalists and new shoppers alike."
100% vegan and cruelty-free, KVD Beauty's Everlasting Hyperlight Liquid Lipstick ($22) is now available online at KVDBeauty.com, in store and online at Ulta.com, and in store and online at Sephora.com on August 21, 2022.
KVD Beauty stands for Kara, Veritas, Decora—Value, Truth, Beauty—because your truth is valuable and beautiful. We create high-pigment, high-performance makeup inspired by tattoo artistry, like our #1 award-winning Tattoo Liner. With long-wear, ink-like pigment and needle-sharp precision, it's the uncontested holy grail of liquid eyeliner. But we stand for more than just performance: Our makeup is 100% vegan and cruelty-free, we care about the planet, and we champion artistry of all kinds—not just makeup. We celebrate the individual through artistic self-expression and limitless creativity. And above all, we give you the tools to live your beauty truth.
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22nd Annual Peanut Butter Drive Benefits Food Bank & Local Food Pantries
WESTERLY, R.I., April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington Trust Company collected more than 1,100 jars of peanut butter and raised $13,590 to benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank during the 22nd annual Peanut Butter Drive. The funds collected can help to source the equivalent of more than 8,000 jars of peanut butter. Collectively, the drive brought in more than 4.6 tons of this important pantry staple!
The twenty-second annual Washington Trust Peanut Butter Drive was held to benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and local food pantries across Rhode Island, Massachusetts and southeastern Connecticut. Since launching the drive in 2001, Washington Trust has collected more than 156 tons of peanut butter. That's enough to make almost 5 million peanut butter sandwiches!
"During the pandemic, our communities experienced the highest levels of food insecurity recorded in the past 20 years, so the need to support hunger relief programs is more important than ever," said Edward O. "Ned" Handy III, Washington Trust Chairman & CEO. "We're pleased with the success of this year's peanut butter drive and our ability to provide emergency food assistance to local pantries and the families they serve," adds Handy, who is also the President of the Board of Directors for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
The annual peanut butter drive kicked off during an employee appreciation event where employees generously donated thousands of dollars. The Washington Trust Charitable Foundation offered a match to employee fundraising efforts, and then the drive was opened to the public, inviting customers and community members to contribute jars of peanut butter and funds to the effort.
Several local businesses and community organizations also made donations and held peanut butter drives of their own, including ServiceMaster by Mason in Westerly, RI; South Shore Village in South Kingstown, RI, Tecta America New England in Billerica, MA; Nuts 'n More in East Providence, RI; and McQuade's Marketplace locations in Westerly, RI and Mystic, CT.
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Sotero providing data security framework for Space and Time decentralized data warehouse
BURLINGTON, Mass., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sotero, the leader in revolutionary data security, today announced their partnership with Space and Time, a leader in data warehousing, to provide enhanced security for the decentralized data platform.
Space and Time is a decentralized data warehouse that powers low-latency transactional queries and scalable analytics in a single cluster. Space and Time has developed a novel zero-knowledge proof called Proof of SQL℠, which cryptographically proves that the SQL operations run in Space and Time are verifiably tamperproof.
Sotero will provide an encryption and security solution for the decentralized data warehouse. Sotero's patented ability to query encrypted attributes will be a key part of Space and Time's ability to store confidential data and extend its capabilities to non-public and enterprise-grade sensitive information. Sotero's ability to handle federated queries on any SQL datastore is an integral part of the solution's support of off chain data stores.
This partnership will revolutionize the ability of enterprises to embrace Web3 technology. Space and Time acts as the trustless intermediary between enterprise data and the blockchain, allowing businesses to easily connect their source EDWs or data lakes to major chains, join on-chain and off-chain data, and run tamperproof SQL queries. Sotero enables Space and Time to encrypt data in-database, in transit, and in-use, to allow enterprises to join public on-chain data with sensitive, private off-chain data.
The areas of opportunity being targeted by these two companies include IoT data collection and healthcare data sharing.
"Sotero's powerful encryption solution is vital to Space and Time's ability to handle private data," said Space and Time CTO and Co-Founder Scott Dykstra. "Space and Time's verifiable data warehouse ensures data hasn't been manipulated, but Sotero ensures data stays private and secure. Our integration with Sotero allows sensitive data to be encrypted in-database, in-transit, and in-use, without sacrificing latency."
"Decentralized data warehousing and processing data at the edge is the future. Centralized data collection frameworks and centralized processing capability are going to be impossible to sustain as the volumes of data increase exponentially," said Purandar Das, Co-Founder and CEO of Sotero. "Couple this with the increasing need for security and privacy at both the transaction and the data level, and it is clear that a new platform and approach is needed. A platform that provides the scale, reach and privacy for Web3 adoption. Space and Time and Sotero provide this platform."
For more information about Sotero's Partnership with Space and Time, please visit https://www.soterosoft.com/data-encryption-technology-partners/
About Sotero
Sotero is a global innovator and leader in revolutionary data security. The Sotero Data Security Platform provides a centralized way to protect data anywhere, all the time. Sotero's multi-layered approach reimagines security and privacy to close the critical vulnerability of unencrypted data in use. Sotero encrypts and protects the data through its entire lifecycle, including in use, while preventing active threats with real-time detection and automated quarantine of malicious access. Sotero's solution is easy to deploy and manage without disrupting the user experience. Organizations rapidly gain complete control over their data privacy, compliance, auditability, and governance with 360-degree data security to protect data at the edge, IoT devices, streaming data, and data moving through collaboration systems. For more information, please visit: Website | Twitter | LinkedIn
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About Space and Time
Space and Time is the first Web3-native decentralized data warehouse that joins tamperproof on-chain and off-chain data to deliver enterprise use cases to smart contracts. Space and Time has developed a novel cryptography called Proof of SQL℠ that allows developers to connect analytics directly to smart contracts, opening up a wealth of powerful new use cases and business logic on blockchain technology. Space and Time is built from the ground up as a multichain data platform for developers in financial services, gaming, DeFi, or any project requiring verifiable data across enterprise, blockchain and AI.
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GAINESVILLE, Va., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital University (DU), powered by Business and Enterprise Systems Product INovation (BESPIN) and Omni Federal, has recently been awarded a contract to work with Advana, which is the advanced analytics platform of the Department of Defense (DoD).
Advana has joined forces with DU to offer an innovative data literacy education program. The initiative will guide learners through several phases of training, each building on the previous one, to help them develop a thorough understanding of data analysis, interpretation, and visualization techniques, culminating in the ability to effectively convey insights through storytelling with data.
Through this partnership, Advana learners will have access to DU's flexible and convenient anytime access. This enables learners to take courses at their own pace and on their own schedule, from home, the office, or on their mobile devices. With DU's powerful Admin Portal, learners can combine custom content developed by Advana with off-the-shelf courses from Udemy to create a personalized training plan. Additionally, DU's Admin portal allows for the management of users, training plans, and analytics, providing a comprehensive set of resources to boost data literacy across the DoD.
DU welcomes Advana as our newest Mission Partner as we continue to build on DU's commitment to innovation and digital transformation. By equipping learners with the skills they need to make sense of complex data, the DoD, Department of the Air Force (DAF), and other branches of the military can make more informed decisions, drive efficiencies, and better serve the needs of the nation.
About Digital University
Digital University (DU) is an innovative online learning platform that provides anytime access to best-in-class commercial training content in the most in-demand Operational Cyber Career Pathways. Currently, DU serves over 80,000 learners across the DoD with a 32,000+ course catalog across Udemy, Pluralsight, Data Camp, Cloud Academy, Coursera, Workera, and Udacity.
About Omni Federal
Omni Federal is a commercially rooted small business, delivering user-centric digital solutions to the Federal government. With a focus on being the software accelerator for the DoD and Intel community, they simplify complexity, challenge the status quo, and develop innovative platform technologies. Their 180+ employees across 28 states serve the Air Force, Space Force, Army, NGA, DHA and CMS, and almost 30% of their workforce are veterans. Omni is committed to serving men and women in uniform by enabling better decisions through training and building game-changing modern software solutions.
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Acquisition will enable retailers and destinations to optimise operations via real-time data and actionable insights
LONDON, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MRI Software, a global leader in real estate software solutions, today announced the acquisition of UK-based Springboard, a leading provider of footfall counting and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics to retailers, landlords, and government bodies. In acquiring Springboard, MRI will expand its MRI@Work™ for Retail solutions suite, which currently serves more than 500 retailers and retail property owners and operators globally.
Leveraging plug-and-play software, existing camera networks, and proprietary AI-powered algorithms, the Springboard™ solution provides real-time data and actionable insights, enabling retail stakeholders to optimise operations and improve outcomes for both individual retail locations and retail destinations. The solution continuously measures visitor activity, capturing anonymised demographic and sentiment information while identifying behaviour patterns – such as movement and dwell time – and presents this information via a comprehensive, easy-to-use reporting platform.
"Springboard is an exciting addition to the MRI family that will bolster our retail and smart data offerings and provide clients with deeper insights to guide their business decisions," says Patrick Ghilani, Chief Executive Officer of MRI Software. "In light of post-pandemic shifts in the retail landscape, the adoption of in-store technology has become increasingly critical, and physical locations are playing a more prominent role in a redefined shopper and guest experience. Springboard's intelligent, actionable data enables retail stakeholders to increase shopper traffic and engagement, improve capture and conversation rates, and, ultimately, level the analytical playing field between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar."
Founded in 2002, Springboard holds the industry's largest and most comprehensive data set on footfall. Serving more than 450 clients across 3,000-plus sites, the company is trusted by global media outlets, brands, and governing bodies for the accuracy of its data, quality of reporting, and retail insights.
"Our clients will benefit tremendously from Springboard joining an organisation of MRI's global scale and broad solution portfolio, and we look forward to bringing our solutions to their dynamic client community," says Steve Booth, Chief Executive Officer of Springboard. "Footfall is a huge predictor of business performance, and precise data ultimately helps businesses make faster, more informed decisions that optimise store operations and generate more revenue. We look forward to continued innovation in collaboration with the MRI team."
Springboard will continue to serve its clients without interruption.
About MRI Software
MRI Software is a leading provider of real estate software solutions that transform the way communities live, work and play. MRI's open and connected, AI-first platform empowers owners, operators and occupiers in commercial and residential property organisations to innovate in rapidly changing markets. MRI has been a trailblazer in the PropTech industry for over five decades, serving more than two million users worldwide. Through innovative solutions and a rich partner ecosystem, MRI gives real estate companies the freedom to realise their vision of building thriving communities and stronger businesses. For more information, please visit mrisoftware.com.
About Springboard
Springboard is the leading provider of insights on bricks and mortar retail activity, tracking and forecasting pedestrian traffic and delivering performance metrics across retail destinations since 2002. Springboard has the most comprehensive pedestrian traffic data using the latest generation automated technology. Globally, Springboard records over 600 million pedestrian traffic counts per week at 6,637 counting points in 3,350 shopping locations. Springboard partners with leading brands across the world and is relied upon by global media and government bodies. For more information, please visit spring-board.info.
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SOLEDAD, Calif. (AP) — Rapper MoneySign Suede has died after he was stabbed in a shower at a California prison, authorities and his attorney said.
Jaime Brugada Valdez, 22, of Huntington Park, was found in the shower area of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Despite life-saving efforts, he died at a prison medical facility.
The agency didn't detail his injuries but said his death was being investigated as a homicide.
“They said it was a stabbing to the neck,” Valdez's attorney, Nicholas Rosenberg, told the Los Angeles Times.
Suede signed to Atlantic Records in 2021, and released his most recent album “Parkside Baby” last September, the Times said.
The Monterey County prison houses more than 4,000 minimum- and medium-security inmates.
Valdez was sent there after being sentenced in Riverside County last December to serve two years and eight months on two charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a gun, according to state corrections officials. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/rapper-moneysign-suede-dies-in-california-prison-17921251.php | 2023-04-27 01:30:46 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/rapper-moneysign-suede-dies-in-california-prison-17921251.php |
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's government will close state agencies for two days in December due to severe fuel shortages caused by a disruption in the arrival of supplies and Western sanctions, state media reported Tuesday.
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The decision to close the institutions on Dec. 11 and Dec. 18 comes at a time when many employees have been unable to make it to work because public transportation has been badly affected by the crisis.
Fuel shortages have paralyzed government-held parts of Syria over the past few weeks in one of the worst crises since the Syrian conflict began 11 years ago. The crisis has hit almost every sector as fuel is needed for power generators that supply factories, telecommunications networks and other institutions with electricity amid widespread power cuts.
The fuel crisis was one of the reasons behind riots in the southern Druze-majority Sweida province Sunday that left a protester and a police officer dead and seven others wounded.
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The crisis comes during the winter season when many people rely on diesel for heating. On Monday, the Ministry of Internal Trade almost doubled fuel prices to reach 5,400 pounds (93 cents) for a liter of diesel while gasoline reached 4,900 pounds (84 cents).
The price of subsidized fuel did not change and each vehicle has the right to 25 liters every 10 days but recently they have been getting the amount every 20 days instead..
A taxi driver in Damascus, who identified himself as Abu Ali, said he only works three days a week because of the shortages, adding that the government is not giving out enough subsidized fuel and he cannot afford to buy from the black market, which is double the price.
“I'd rather rest,” he said, than work at a loss.
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Iran, a main backer of President Bashar Assad since the conflict began, decided last month to increase oil supplies to Syria by 1 million barrels a month to reach 3 million barrels a month to help the Arab country through its fuel crisis, according to the pro-government Al-Watan daily.
Before the conflict began, Syria produced some 380,000 barrels of oil a day, of which 250,000 barrels were used domestically and the rest were exported. Now, production has dropped sharply as Syria’s largest oil fields in the country’s east are controlled by U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters.
Syria’s oil ministry says government-controlled areas now produce about 80,000 barrels a day.
Syria’s Oil Minister Bassam Toamah told state TV last week that the fuel shortages are the result of Western sanctions and a 50-day delay in supplies. That's an apparent reference to oil-rich Iran, which has been the main source of fuel since the sanctions were imposed during the early years of the conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands.
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Iran-flagged tanker Lana made it to Syria last week, months after it was seized near Greece with the assistance of the United States in an attempt to seize oil due to American sanctions imposed on Tehran. Iran retaliated by seizing two Greek oil tankers in May and released them last month.
Although the Iranian tanker, carrying hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil, delivered the oil it is not enough to ease the crisis.
“Life has become completely paralyzed especially because of the diesel shortage,” said Samir Asfour, who owns a cement brick factory in the Damascus suburb of Adra. He said heavy machinery and trucks rely on diesel. “This could stop the whole construction business.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Syria-to-close-govt-agencies-for-2-days-amid-fuel-17634738.php | 2022-12-06 17:17:54 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Syria-to-close-govt-agencies-for-2-days-amid-fuel-17634738.php |
By ERIC WILLEMSEN
Associated Press
Ingemar Stenmark’s unbreakable skiing record just got matched by Mikaela Shiffrin.
The American won a giant slalom on Friday to equal the Swedish great’s record of 86 World Cup victories, which he set more than three decades ago.
When Stenmark retired from World Cup racing 34 years ago to the day — on March 10, 1989, a week before his 33rd birthday — his mark was widely considered unbreakable.
Lindsey Vonn, Shiffrin’s former teammate, came close 30 years later but retired after 82 wins. Vonn’s last World Cup race was a super-G in January 2019 — a race won by Shiffrin for her 54th victory.
Four years later, Shiffrin overtook Vonn and has now matched Stenmark, three days before her 28th birthday.
Here is a closer look at the facts and figures behind Shiffrin’s and Stenmark’s shared record.
ROAD TO GLORY
Timewise, Shiffrin was faster to get to 86 victories.
The American needed 11 years, 11 months, 27 days after her first top-level race on March 11, 2011, to get the record. It took Stenmark 15 years, 2 months, 11 days between his World Cup debut in December 1973 and his last win in February 1989.
By the number of races they competed in, Stenmark was faster — at least according to official statistics, which say the Swede had 230 World Cup starts, compared to Shiffrin’s 245.
However, the database of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation is lacking information from some events in Stenmark’s era because skiers who competed in races but failed to score World Cup points have not been not registered.
Therefore, Stenmark’s exact number of World Cup starts is unconfirmed. His exact number of victories is beyond doubt, though.
DIFFERENT ERAS
Ski racing has vastly changed between Stenmark’s era and Shiffrin’s — in quantity and quality.
Stenmark’s debut World Cup season in 1973-74 lasted only three months and included 21 races; Shiffrin’s current season started in October and has 38 races scheduled through next week.
Professionalization and commercialization have changed the sport drastically over the decades. The design of skis is under constant development and courses are prepared differently, making ski racing faster and more competitive.
Safety regulations have been adapted accordingly. Nowadays it seems unthinkable that Stenmark raced for most of his career wearing just a knit hat.
SPECIALIST VS. ALLROUNDER
In Stenmark’s first season, the World Cup circuit consisted of only three disciplines: slalom, giant slalom and downhill. The combined event with a downhill run and a two-leg slalom legs was introduced in the mid-70s, and the super-G in 1982.
Not that it made much difference to Stenmark, a technical specialist who stuck with his strongest events of slalom and giant slalom throughout his career and only had a handful of starts in other disciplines. All his World Cup wins came in giant slalom (46) and slalom (40), helping him rack up three overall titles.
Shiffrin, on the other hand, also started as a tech specialist but ventured into speed racing from her fifth season on the World Cup circuit.
Shiffrin has raced, and won, in six different disciplines: slalom (52), giant slalom (20), super-G (five), parallel (five), downhill (three), and combined (one). She won her fifth overall World Cup title this season.
NEVER CHANGE
For most skiers, it’s common to change their equipment supplier at least once during their careers. For Stenmark and Shiffrin, so far, it’s not.
Stenmark bought his first pair of Elan skis when he was 13. He still raced with the Slovenian brand when he entered the World Cup circuit four years later — and kept doing so until his retirement.
Shiffrin’s story is similar. The American was already using skis from her long-term supplier, Austrian-based manufacturer Atomic, when dominating the field at youth races.
WHAT’S NEXT?
“She’s much better than I was. You cannot compare,” Stenmark said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think she can win more than 100.”
Shiffrin, though, feels like she will never truly overtake Stenmark, no matter what the numbers say.
“His legacy is synonymous with ski racing,” Shiffrin said. “Everybody, if they know anything about ski racing at all and even if they don’t, they know Ingemar Stenmark. I don’t think that’s something I can surpass. He set the standard for what ski racing has become.”
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BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations said Thursday that it is asking member states for a record $51.5 billion in aid funding for next year, as disasters and the ongoing war in Ukraine drive up humanitarian needs worldwide.
The global body’s humanitarian office said the funds are needed to help 339 million people in 69 countries, an increase of 65 million people compared with the same time last year. The appeal is a 25% increase on that made for 2022, it said.
“Humanitarian needs are shockingly high, as this year’s extreme events are spilling into 2023,” said the U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths.
He cited droughts in the Horn of Africa, floods in Pakistan and the conflict in Ukraine, which have pushed the number of displaced people worldwide above 100 million.
“All of this on top of the devastation left by the pandemic among the world’s poorest,” said Griffiths. “For people on the brink, this appeal is a lifeline. For the international community, it is a strategy to make good on the pledge to leave no one behind.”
The U.N.’s annual Global Humanitarian Overview combines funding required by the global body and numerous nongovernmental organizations
Current funding provided by member states is less than half of what’s needed, forcing aid groups and agencies “to decide who to target with the funds available,” the U.N. humanitarian office said. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-un-makes-record-aid-appeal-amid-disasters-ukraine-war/ | 2022-12-01 19:19:48 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-un-makes-record-aid-appeal-amid-disasters-ukraine-war/ |
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