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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Discovery, Inc. ("Discovery, Inc." or "the Company") (NASDAQ: DISCA, WBD) for violations of the securities laws.
Investors who (1) exchanged Discovery, Inc. ("Discovery") common stock for Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. ("Warner Bros. Discovery") common stock pursuant or traceable to Discovery's February 4, 2022 Registration Statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") and Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 10, 2022 (the "Prospectus"); and/or (2) purchased shares of Warner Bros. Discovery common stock on the open market traceable to the Prospectus through the date of the filing of the Discovery class action lawsuit (September 23, 2022)., are encouraged to contact the firm before November 22, 2022.
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
We also encourage you to contact Brian Schall of the Schall Law Firm, 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2460, Los Angeles, CA 90067, at 310-301-3335, to discuss your rights free of charge. You can also reach us through the firm's website at www.schallfirm.com, or by email at bschall@schallfirm.com.
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According to the Complaint, the Company made false and misleading statements to the market. WarnerMedia's HBO Max service suffered from a significant churn rate that damaged the viability of the business. At the time, AT&T was overinvesting in WarnerMedia without regard for ROI. WarnerMedia was focused on growing the size of its userbase without any concerns about costs and profitability. WarnerMedia overstated the number of subscribers to HBO Max by as many as 10 million customers. Based on these facts, the Company's Registration Statement and Prospectus were materially misleading throughout the merger period. When the market learned the truth about Discovery, investors suffered damages.
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Kyrgios enjoyed the best grand slam run of his career when he finished as runner-up to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon this year, while he also reached the last eight at the US Open.
However, the Australian questioned his future in the sport earlier this week, telling reporters in Dubai: "Hopefully I can win a slam and just retire."
The world number 22 insisted that remark was serious, saying his private life had suffered due to his time spent travelling to take part in ATP Tour events.
Asked if he would really call time on his career in the event of winning a first major singles title, Kyrgios said: "Honestly, I probably would.
"Especially being from Australia as well, there's just so much travel, so much time away from family, so much time away from friends.
"You're just missing milestones in the family, you're just not having a normal life, really. No other tennis player that's not from Australia gets that."
Kyrgios believes few athletes can match the sacrifices he has made in his career, citing the strain caused by spending long periods away from his home country.
"It's easy for a European or an American player to lose or win a tournament, then you take a five-hour flight back home and you spend a week there before the next event," Kyrgios said.
"Whereas as an Australian, you're doing four- to seven-month travel blocks. Honestly, I don't think it's healthy.
"No other real athlete does that in the world, in any sport, doing seven months on your own.
"I'm exhausted honestly. It's just stressful. The more you win, the more success you have, the more demands you have off the court. People expect more from you.
"People are like, 'why are you complaining about it?' It's not what they think. You're living out of a suitcase at hotels, it's not like you're on holiday.
"You've got to go to tennis courts and train. The lifestyle is quite vigorous. If it happens, I probably would [retire], to be honest."
Kyrgios has only reached the last eight at the Australian Open on one occasion, and with the next edition of his home slam approaching, the 27-year-old is less than enthusiastic.
Asked if he will feel refreshed by the time the Melbourne major begins next month, Kyrgios said: "Probably not. There is a little bit of excitement, but it's probably 95 per cent stress, five per cent excitement, to be honest." | https://www.beinsports.com/au/atp-tour/news/kyrgios-doubles-down-on-retirement-claim/2010348 | 2022-12-23 04:04:01 | 1 | https://www.beinsports.com/au/atp-tour/news/kyrgios-doubles-down-on-retirement-claim/2010348 |
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a streamline work station to increase efficiency when making or repairing jewelry," said an inventor, from Seattle, Wash., "so I invented the JEWELRY UNIT. My design would eliminate the need to employ several different tools and power supplies."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective work station for making or repairing jewelry. In doing so, it ensures that all the necessary tools and a power source are readily available. As a result, it saves time and effort. It also can be used for creating sculptures or models. The invention features a practical and versatile design that is easy to use and transport so it is ideal for individuals who create and repair jewelry, artists, model builders, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Seattle sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-FED-2419, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Gullion, Edwin, services are 11 a.m. Friday at the Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, 705 E. Southway Blvd., Kokomo.
Dudely, Annie, services are 12 p.m. Friday at Shirley & Stout Funeral Home & Crematory, 1315 W. Lincoln Road, Kokomo.
Kern, Edgar, services are 1 p.m. Friday at Temple Baptist Church, 1700 S. Goyer Road, Kokomo.
Shiflet, Bobby, services are 2 p.m. Friday at Shirley & Stout Funeral Home & Crematory, 1315 W. Lincoln Road, Kokomo.
Smith, Roger, services are 10 a.m. Saturday at Abundant Life Church, 1025 E. 400 South, Kokomo.
Hamock, Rex, services are 1 p.m. Saturday at South Side Christian Church, 201 E. Markland Ave., Kokomo.
Fording, Janet, services are 1:45 p.m. Saturday at Loree Brethren Church, 8483 S. Strawtown Pike, Bunker Hill.
Bagwell, Russell, services are 2 p.m. Sunday at Ellers Mortuary Main Chapel, 725 S. Main St., Kokomo.
Eaker, Carolyn, services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Shirley & Stout Funeral Home, 1315 W. Lincoln Road, Kokomo.
Kinley, Susan, services are 11 a.m. Tuesday, at Legacy Cremation and Funeral Service, Anderson.
Dunlap, Robert, services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Sunset Memory Garden Funeral Home, 2097 W. Alto Road Kokomo.
Cloyd, Jacqueline, services are 10 a.m. July 18, at Marion National Cemetery, 1700 E. 38th St., Marion.
Cloyd, Jerry, services are 10 a.m. July 18, at Marion National Cemetery, 1700 E. 38th St., Marion. | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/funeral-listings-july-8-2022/article_f8f7d816-fe15-11ec-ad5e-73cb41b919c8.html | 2022-07-07 21:34:53 | 1 | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/funeral-listings-july-8-2022/article_f8f7d816-fe15-11ec-ad5e-73cb41b919c8.html |
Republicans expand their Hunter Biden investigation by seeking an interview with the lead prosecutor
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday requested voluntary testimony from nearly a dozen Justice Department officials involved in the investigation of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as GOP lawmakers widen their scrutiny into what they claim is improper interference by the agency.
Leaders of the Republican-controlled House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means committees asked in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland for nine officials from the Justice Department and two from the FBI to appear for the interviews to address recent allegations made by two IRS employees who worked on the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings.
“Recent startling testimony from Internal Revenue Services whistleblowers raises serious questions about the Department’s commitment to evenhanded justice and the veracity of assertions made to the Committee on the Judiciary,” Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, James Comer of Kentucky and Jason Smith of Missouri wrote in the letter obtained by The Associated Press.
The individuals named in the letter include David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware in charge of the investigation, as well Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf of Delaware and the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves. Garland said last week that the Justice Department will not object to Weiss testifying to Congress.
The request comes about a week after Biden, 53, reached an agreement with the government to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses. The plea deal would also avert prosecution on a felony charge of illegally possessing a firearm as a drug user, as long as Biden adheres to conditions agreed to in court.
Days later, the House Ways and Means Committee, led by Smith, voted to publicly disclose congressional testimony from the IRS employees.
The testimony from Greg Shapley and an unidentified agent detailed what they called a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” and delaying enforcement actions in the months before the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.
It is unclear whether the conflict they describe amounts to internal disagreement about how to pursue the investigation or a pattern of interference and preferential treatment. Department policy has long warned prosecutors to take care in charging cases with potential political overtones around the time of an election, to avoid influencing the outcome.
The Justice Department has denied the claims and said Weiss, appointed to his job when Donald Trump was president, had full authority over the case.
The letter provided a deadline of July 13 for the department to begin scheduling the individuals for transcribed interviews. It said that if the deadline is not met, the committee chairmen will resort to using a congressional subpoena to force cooperation.
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LONDON (AP) — Police said Monday that they spoke to Scotland’s leader to remind her about sticking to coronavirus mask rules after she was filmed without a face covering indoors while on the election trail.
Police Scotland said officers reminded First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of the “importance of wearing a face covering when there is a legal requirement to do so.” The force said no further action would be taken.
Sturgeon was filmed without a mask at a barber shop in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, while campaigning Saturday for next month’s local elections. Sturgeon later apologized, saying that “after a few seconds of being in the shop, I realized I had forgotten to put my face covering back on. I then immediately put it on.”
Sturgeon’s slip-up came two days before Scotland lifted the legal requirement to wear a mask in indoor public spaces. As of Monday it is only a recommendation to wear one in places such as shops and hairdressers and on public transportation.
Scotland is the last part of the U.K. to remove its mask mandate. England, Wales and Northern Ireland have already done so.
Sturgeon isn’t the only politician who has been caught violating COVID-19 restrictions. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls to resign after beingfined by policefor attending a birthday party in his office in 2020 that broke coronavirus lockdown rules. Police are still investigating several other gatherings involving Johnson and his staff that may have breached the restrictions. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/police-speak-to-scottish-leader-sturgeon-over-mask-slip-up/ | 2022-04-19 04:32:55 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/police-speak-to-scottish-leader-sturgeon-over-mask-slip-up/ |
US Together refugee assistance effort gets help from local Jewish, Mennonite communities
Local religious organizations and Stark County residents are helping a Cleveland-based refugee organization by collecting and donating items to help new arrivals get resettled.
Temple Israel in Canton, the Mennonite Central Committee Gift & Thrift store in Hartville and other groups help US Together, a program founded in Cleveland in 2003.
More:Hartville Thrift Shoppe donates $1 million gift to Mennonite ministry
US Together is one of nine national nonprofit refugee resettlement agencies in the country that work directly with the federal government, said Community Engagement Manager Lee Columber II.
Over the past year, the agency has helped 300 to 400 refugees resettle in the Cuyahoga County area. Most of those being helped are Afghans fleeing the Taliban.
"With the Afghanistan crisis, through the phase one of the emergency response, we resettled 165 individuals in the Cleveland area," he said. "And we're anticipating 40 more during phase two."
The agency has primarily served refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo and east Syria.
US Together also has served people from Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, former Soviet Union, Iraq, Somalia, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepali/Bhutanese, Pakistan Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, El Syria, Tanzania and Uganda.
Columber said they were helping a few Ukrainians already in the pipeline before war broke out in February. The Biden administration has granted Ukrainian war refugees who arrive in the U.S. "humanitarian parolee" status for up to two years.
"We're still waiting on the Ukrainians to come in," he said.
US Together operates under the auspices of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, one of the world's oldest refugee resettlement organizations. HIAS was founded in New York in 1881 to help resettle Jews escaping the pogroms, government-sponsored attacks on Jewish communities in Russia and eastern Europe.
Working in partnership with faith-based groups, Columber said, "has been our bread and butter."
US Together's goal:120 Days to self-sufficiency
US Together uses a wraparound approach by helping refugees secure food, housing, clothing, furniture, health screenings, transportation, workforce redevelopment, school registration and secure any government benefit for which they may qualify, Columber said
The goal, he said, is 120 days to self-sufficiency.
The agency also works with Americans in poverty.
"We always want to support as many people as possible," Columber said. "It's not a pick-and-choose. It is building these resources and the capacity to build a community to help out these people who are being persecuted. Many are fleeing their country, not because they want to. They have a distinct fear for their life if they stay where they are."
Columber said he's heartened that the Biden Administration has committed to welcoming 125,000 refugees, plus 100,000 Ukrainians.
"The prior administration only allowed 15,000, and they did even meet that mark" he said.
Columber said most new arrivals are families, "women and children especially."
"Sometimes we see a lot of trauma," he said.
Canton connection to US Together
In Canton, Rita Schaner has spearheaded donations of household items at Temple Israel. Schaner said the Canton Jewish Federation decided to adopt and support US Together in November.
They created a flyer containing a wish list of needed items, and reached out to churches and Muslim community leaders, Schaner said.
Canton's Jewish community helped resettle refugee families from the USSR in 1991.
"This whole process is familiar to the Federation," she said. "We knew we could do it, and that why we reached out to the rest of the community. We felt this was really an opportunity to develop collaboration among the entire Stark County community, not just one silo. Who could have anticipated Ukraine in November, but the fact that the mechanism's in place give us an opportunity to respond."
Dr. E. James Witmer, a retired pediatrician in Louisville, said he reached out the Mennonite Central Committee to make arrangements for storage. Items dropped off at Temple Israel are transported and stored in Hartville before they're dispersed in Cleveland.
"We want to acknowledge the value of the Mennonite community in working with us because without them, we'd never have access to the storage, which is critical," Schaner said. "They have a very sophisticated system."
Witmer said at least one local business, Grove Appliance TV & Mattress in Alliance, has committed to donating bedding as its needed.
Schaner also recruited Jeff Sklar, a Canton business owner and community volunteer who oversees the collection and delivery logistics between Canton and Hartville.
"I'm very happy to help out, but I am a very small part of this project," Sklar said. "I'm fascinated by the depth of this program and am willing to help out Rita or whatever anybody needs."
The Temple Israel Brotherhood is donating 15 homework desks they recently built to US Together.
Helping others in need is not just a "mitzvah," or good deed, it is at the heart of the faith, Temple Israel Rabbi David Komerofsky said.
"Judaism reminds us many times to welcome the stranger since we were strangers in the land of Egypt," he said. "It's at the heart of the Exodus story. Embracing the causes of the vulnerable is at the heart of our mission to leave the world better than we found it."
Columber said US Together is in constant contact with other agencies so it can help as many people as possible.
Columber said he is excited about a new Biden Administration initiative "Community Sponsorship Hubs," which allows individuals and groups to oversee and cosponsor different aspects of the refugees' arrival and resettlement needs. He said he'd like to see groups who will sponsor six months of housing.
"We really want to build that capacity right now," he said. "The humanitarian parolees will be coming in soon."
The new initiative also allows for a wider geographic area to accept refugees, which includes Stark County.
The group stressed that everyone is welcome to help.
"It takes a village," Columber said.
To learn more about the Community Sponsorship Hub program, contact Columber at 216-456-9630 or by email at : lcolumber@ustogether.us or visit https://www.ustogether.us/
To contact Schaner call 330-327-3890.
Reach Charita at 330-580-8313 or charita.goshay@cantonrep.com
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Leading franchisor of gifting and fresh fruit snacks, treats and arrangements bringing widely recognized brand to new regions, actively seeking franchise agreements
ATLANTA, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edible Arrangements, the largest global franchisor of stores offering fresh fruit snacks, dipped treats and fresh fruit arrangements and the United States' favorite gifting company, is looking to expand its presence in "The Last Frontier" with a goal of breaking into the market and opening four new franchise stores across Alaska by the end of 2023. Most franchise ownership opportunities are available in the greater Anchorage region, but the brand has also identified Juneau and Fairbanks as destinations ready to take on fruitful opportunities.
With 1000+ franchise locations worldwide, Edible Arrangements is bringing to Alaska massive business opportunities – rivaled only by the size of the Denali – for the state's aspiring business owners and entrepreneurs to reap the benefits. Edible Arrangements' robust catalog of gifts, including fresh fruit arrangements, chocolate Dipped Fruit®, fresh fruit smoothies, fresh produce boxes, fresh flowers arrangements, platters and more, have become a part of all of life's sweetest and most precious moments for people around the world. The brand intends to ensure communities across Alaska can experience the same under the leadership of strong local partners as franchise owners.
"Edible has been around for more than two decades, and it's about time we bring the brand recognized by the masses for sweetening moments that should be remembered that we're known for to the great state of Alaska," said Ramzi Daklouche, vice president of franchise sales at Edible. "As a recognized industry leader for the work done across franchising, Edible is opening up new opportunities to invest in with an innovative and disruptive business model that includes expanded product offerings, dedicated field support, robust expansion plans, and a vision for the future that's shared by our experienced team."
With no franchise locations currently open and operating in the area, Edible Arrangements is building momentum to break into the Alaskan market, seeking multi-unit investors looking to grow their business endeavors. Eligible prospects should possess the ability to invest approximately $183,600 to $409,700 per franchise location.
Edible Arrangements offers its franchisees comprehensive corporate and onsite training, unparalleled technology, daily store support and national brand recognition marketing programs. Multi-unit store development plans and financing options are also available for qualified applicants and incentive programs for veterans and first responders.
"I am delighted for the opportunity for interested entrepreneurs in Alaska to join the incredible ecosystem and Edible Arrangements team," said Uri Geva, an Edible Arrangements franchise owner with 28 locations across three states. "Business ownership with Edible Arrangements has given me opportunities I could never have imagined. Edible Arrangements' omnichannel business model allows for growth and ability to expand all while giving our guests more ways to gift, treat, and shop for the people they care about - making every experience with our gifts meaningful to all."
Potential prospects interested in learning more about Edible Arrangements and its growth opportunities in Alaska, the rest of the United States and Canada are invited to visit ediblefranchise.com.
Edible® is the world's favorite gifting company and parent company of Edible Arrangements®, the world's largest franchisor of stores offering fresh fruit snacks, dipped treats and fresh fruit arrangements with more than 1,000 locations worldwide. Since its founding in 1999, Edible has been recognized as an industry leader for the work done across its brands in franchising, eCommerce initiative and gifting, ranking first in its category in Entrepreneur magazine's annual "Franchise 500," Entrepreneur's Top 40 of "Fastest Growing Franchises'' and "America's Top Global Franchises," as well as being included among the "Inc. 5000" list of the fastest growing privately-held companies. Edible's robust line of gifts, including fresh fruit arrangements, chocolate Dipped Fruit®, fresh fruit smoothies, fresh produce boxes, fresh flowers and more, can be ordered through any local Edible store or online at edible.com. Edible has franchise opportunities in many key markets in the United States and Canada. For more information, visit ediblefranchise.com.
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Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced GOP-backed legislation to ban discussion of "divisive concepts" in classroom lessons and worker trainings on race and gender.
The bill would prohibit a list of what it calls "divisive concepts," or ideas that people from any one group should be asked to accept "a sense of guilt" because of their race or gender — or that fault, blame, or bias should be assigned to a race or gender solely because of their race or gender.
The House State Government Committee approved the bill on a 9-3 vote, so it now moves to the full House of Representatives.
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Republicans in several states have proposed restricting how race and gender are taught in classrooms and diversity training sessions for state workers. Rep. Ed Oliver, the bill's sponsor, told the committee that the bill is needed because people are concerned about racist ideas and what he said are "woke policies" taught to children.
"It is designed to prevent racism in schools and state agencies," Oliver said.
But opponents have called the legislation an attempt to whitewash the nation’s history.
"This is a slap in the face to every decent hardworking Black Alabamian that's in this room, that's out of this room. It's divisive that not a single white person on this committee is going to vote against this bill," said Democratic Rep. Prince Chestnut, a Black lawmaker from Selma. He noted that white Republicans are voting to ban "divisive concepts" while supporting the state law protecting Confederate monuments.
Several educators expressed concern that the bill would have a chilling effect on classroom discussions, making teachers afraid to broach already difficult topics.
"I feel like HB 7 has a pretty predictable outcome which is to create an atmosphere of intimidation that causes educators to reasonably fear for their careers and their livelihoods if they were to unintentionally cross some ill-defined (rule) in the classroom," said Steve Murray, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, after the vote. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/alabama-advances-gop-bill-banning-classroom-discussions-of-divisive-concepts-on-race-and-gender/article_f28a4768-9458-538d-a075-593d1c423aca.html | 2023-04-13 21:43:36 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/alabama-advances-gop-bill-banning-classroom-discussions-of-divisive-concepts-on-race-and-gender/article_f28a4768-9458-538d-a075-593d1c423aca.html |
(NEXSTAR) – Jeremiah Green, drummer and founding member of rock band Modest Mouse has died just days after the band announced he had been diagnosed with cancer. He was 45.
“Today we lost our dear friend Jeremiah,” the band wrote in a Saturday night Facebook post. “He laid down to rest and simply faded out. I’d like to say a bunch of pretty words right now, but it just isn’t the time. These will come later, and from many people.”
Last week, lead singer Isaac Brock announced Green had been diagnosed with cancer and was receiving treatment.
“It seems to be going smoothly and making a positive difference,” he wrote Wednesday.
In a Christmas Day Facebook post, Green’s mother, Carol Namatame, said her son was “battling stage 4 cancer,” Nexstar’s KOIN reports. Green’s brother Adam told Fox News the drummer had roughly a month of chemotherapy and radiation left.
“He went peacefully in his sleep,” Namatame wrote Saturday. She went on to say her son “was a light to so many” and that more information regarding a celebration of life for friends and family is forthcoming.
Green and Brock founded Modest Mouse alongside bassist Eric Judy in 1992 in Washington, according to Variety. Green also played with Vells, Satisfact, Red Stars Theory, and Peeved. He landed on Stylus Magazine’s list of the top 50 best rock drummers, coming in at No. 37.
Modest Mouse has released seven albums since its founding, including “The Golden Casket,” released in 2021. The band is scheduled to start touring in March, their website shows. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/jeremiah-green-modest-mouse-co-founder-and-drummer-dies-at-45/ | 2023-01-01 16:48:45 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/jeremiah-green-modest-mouse-co-founder-and-drummer-dies-at-45/ |
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- equipifi, a fintech company providing banks and credit unions with a white label Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solution, announced today that it has added Kyle Starkey to the company's Advisory Board. As an advisor, Starkey will support equipifi's team in ensuring the security of its platform and the protection of client data as it scales to serve thousands of financial institutions throughout the United States.
With over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Starkey specializes in helping businesses design technical security solutions as well as implementing and managing compliance. He is an experienced Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), having previously served at multiple enterprise software companies in the banking space, most notably with Early Warning, the owner and operator of Zelle.
equipifi's BNPL software connects with financial institutions through their banking cores and is launched within their digital banking application. Its proprietary decision engine leverages cardholder data to produce pre-approved BNPL offers that are not only fully customized to institutional risk tolerance, but also in alignment with cardholder financial health.
"It is exciting to help design and execute the security architecture of an industry defining product," Starkey commented. "equipifi's technical team is providing customers with enterprise level security rarely seen in fintech startups and often not seen in much larger and more established organizations."
"Financial institutions are the ideal providers of BNPL for US consumers," said Bryce Deeney, CEO and co-founder of equipifi. "We've built a product from day one that is compliant with the security and regulatory guardrails our customers already follow, and we will continue to engage the most experienced and forward-thinking industry leaders to do so."
In addition to Starkey, equipifi's Advisory Board includes experts such as Fred Rubin, an experienced Chief Credit and Compliance Officer and former National Bank Examiner at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Paul Watkins, the founder of the Office of Innovation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It also includes Brian Gruttadauria, former CTO of Oracle Cloud.
About equipifi
equipifi is a fintech SaaS powering banks and credit unions with split payment capabilities on their existing debit cards. This is a white label Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solution for financial institutions that aligns with consumer purchase habits, payment preferences, and financial goals. The equipifi platform seamlessly integrates with financial institutions to deepen customer engagement, grow market share, increase revenue, and provide a single place to view, accept, and manage BNPL plans on their existing banking app. For more information, please visit www.equipifi.com.
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Glenda Jackson has died at the age of 87, after a brief illness, according to her agent, Lionel Larner.
"One of the world's greatest actresses has died, and one of my best friends has died as well," he told NPR. Jackson died Thursday morning at her home in London, he said.
In addition to a distinguished career that included Oscar, Tony and Emmy awards, Jackson represented her London district as a member of Parliament's House of Commons for 23 years.
Jackson lived her life in three distinct acts. The first, and longest act, was as one of the finest actors of her generation. She blazed hot on the stage, first attracting notice in 1964 with the Royal Shakespeare Company when she played Charlotte Corday in Peter Brook's production of Marat/Sade, set in a mental hospital. (She reprised her role in the 1967 film.)
Jackson's success on stage translated to film. She starred in Ken Russell's 1969 adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel, Women in Love and the romantic comedy, A Touch of Class, with George Segal. She won Academy Awards for both films. Other roles included Sunday Bloody Sunday and Mary, Queen of Scots. Jackson also entered peoples' households as Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC series, Elizabeth R., for which she won two Emmys.
Quite a trajectory for a woman who grew up among the working-class poor, outside of Liverpool, in a flat with an outdoor toilet. Jackson found her calling acting with an amateur group, and ended up with a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
"You learnt that you are your instrument, which is your voice and your shape and how you move," Jackson told Colin Grimshaw in a 1976 interview. "And that can be tuned and toned and kept in trim, ready to actually tackle acting, which is a mysterious process."
New York University theater professor Laurence Maslon said Jackson was a working-class, female version of such British contemporaries as Albert Finney, Michael Caine and Alan Bates. "They were the angry young men, but she was sort of the angry young woman, I suppose," he said. "She certainly had the looks and the skill to transition into film pretty quickly."
But despite great screen and stage success – she starred in Eugene O'Neill's five-hour play, Strange Interlude, in London and on Broadway – Jackson admitted that her profession had its insecurities.
"I think the longer you act, the more you realize you don't know," Jackson told Grimshaw. "The possibilities for making the wrong choices are much greater than the probabilities of making the right ones. And that sort of fear is something that you probably learn to control better, but it doesn't grow any less."
As she was settling into middle age, Jackson was already thinking about her second act. "Certainly, the life of an actress in films is very short. And in the theater, there's a terrible trough when there are no parts worth playing," Jackson explained. "I mean, until you sort of hit about 60 and then a few sort of cracking character parts. And I really can't see myself hanging around for 20 years waiting to play an old biddy in something."
Always a supporter of the Labour Party, Jackson ran for Parliament in 1992 and won. When she stepped down, after serving for more than two decades, she told NPR in 2018, "I enjoyed the constituency responsibilities. I was extremely fortunate. But I must be honest, I don't miss Parliament itself. I mean, I saw egos going up and down those corridors that would not be tolerated for 30 seconds in a professional theater."
But in a moment of political theater, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was eulogized in Parliament in 2013, Jackson took the moment to vociferously criticize her and got roundly booed by Tories on the back bench.
Glenda Jackson's third act was her triumphant return to acting, in her 80s. She starred in Elizabeth is Missing, a television film about woman coping with dementia, as King Lear in both London and New York, and in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, for which she won a Tony Award in 2018.
When asked about retirement in a 2019 interview on WHYY's Fresh Air, Jackson replied, "Well, if I don't get offered to work, then I'll be retired... I've had a good run."
"I like gardening and I'm a grandma, so I get grandma duty, which is an interesting experience," the legend of British theatre added.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An American citizen has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, tortured and sentenced to 16 years in prison over tweets he sent while in the United States, his son said Tuesday.
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a 72-year-old retired project manager living in Florida, was arrested last November while visiting family in the kingdom and was sentenced earlier this month, his son Ibrahim told The Associated Press, confirming details that were first reported by the Washington Post. Almadi is a citizen of both Saudi Arabia and the U.S.
There was no immediate comment from Saudi or U.S. officials.
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It appeared to be the latest in a series of recent cases in which Saudis received long jail sentences for social media posts critical of the government.
Saudi authorities have tightened their crackdown on dissent following the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is seeking to open up and transform the ultraconservative kingdom but has adopted a hard line toward any criticism.
A Saudi court recently sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for allegedly damaging the country through her social media activity. A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in England was sentenced to 34 years for spreading “rumors” and retweeting dissidents, a case that drew international outrage.
Ibrahim says his father was detained over 14 “mild tweets” sent over the past seven years, mostly criticizing government policies and alleged corruption. He says his father was not an activist but a private citizen expressing his opinion while in the U.S., where freedom of speech is a constitutional right.
President Joe Biden traveled to the oil-rich kingdom in July for a meeting with Prince Mohammed, in which he said he confronted him about human rights. Their meeting — and a widely criticized fist-bump — marked a sharp turnaround from Biden’s earlier vow to make the kingdom a “pariah” over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Ibrahim said his father was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Oct. 3 on charges of supporting terrorism. The father was also charged with failing to report terrorism, over tweets that Ibrahim had posted.
His father was also slapped with a 16-year travel ban. If the sentence is carried out, the 72-year-old would be 87 upon his release and barred from returning home to the U.S. unless he reaches the age of 104.
Ibrahim said Saudi authorities warned his family to stay quiet about the case and to not involve the U.S. government. He said his father was tortured after the family contacted the State Department in March.
Ibrahim also accused the State Department of neglecting his father's case by not declaring him a “wrongfully detained” American, which would elevate his file.
“They manipulated me. They told me to stay quiet so they can get him out,” Ibrahim said, explaining his decision to go public this week. “I am not willing to take a gamble on the Department of State anymore.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/18/world/saudis-sentence-us-citizen-16-years-over-tweets-family-says/ | 2022-10-18 18:55:02 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/18/world/saudis-sentence-us-citizen-16-years-over-tweets-family-says/ |
MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week closed Sunday after five days of mostly womenswear previews that celebrated diversity and renewal, with more designers of color represented than ever and a host of new talent making their debuts at major fashion houses.
The Italian fashion council was also putting the spotlight on sustainability with the return of the Green Carpet awards Sunday night recognizing progress in practices that reduce waste in the industry and its carbon footprint.
Even while the fashion world was putting the spotlight on sustainability, this season’s calendar presented unsustainable trajectories between shows, forcing the fashion crowd to travel back and forth, multiple times in one day, in an already gridlocked city. Even biking proved a challenge with few bike lanes on the routes.
Some highlights from Sunday, the closing day of Milan Fashion Week:
REMAKING BENETTON FROM THE KNITWEAR UP
Benetton is embarking on yet another remake, this time under the creative direction of Andrea Incontri, a Milan designer with experience at a host of fashion houses, including Tod’s.
An architect by training, Incontri wants to reshape the Benetton retail experience, and emptied the Corso Buenos Aires flagship store for his runway debut as creative director. Upstairs, his new collection — replete with colorful fruit-repeating motifs, pretty melange knits and tweeds — hangs against a bare tiled wall, in well-curated, easy to survey constellations.
Underlining his desire to start with the consumer, Incontri staged the runway show on the ground floor, allowing passersby to catch a glimpse.
The modern silhouette includes culottes — a hot trend in Milan for next spring and summer — and leather Obi belts that shape crisp cotton dresses or corresponding cotton shirt-short sets for men.
The brand’s famed knitwear is pretty in melange, which layers nicely. A bra top gives a modern edge to a ribbed tunic and trousers, as cozy as it is chic. Knit biker shorts transform a tweed skirt and jacket into active daywear. Fruit motifs create a cornucopia of mix-and-match looks: the reds, pinks and yellows of cherries, pears and apples all aligning cheerily with green, sky blue and yellow backgrounds.
Incontri has given the Benetton octopus logo a much-needed graphic update, deploying it sparingly, and he has created necklaces with the B and E for Benetton, in the spirit of personalization popular with Gen-Z. Just six months in the job, Incontri promises an even fuller makeover at the 57-year-old brand, which has experienced periods of malaise.
Whereas Benetton’s heydey is strongly associated with the socially forward United Colors of Benetton advertising campaigns of Oliviero Toscani, Incontro wants to put the product and the consumer first.
“This is a brand that I feel a lot of affection for, as do many Italians, because I grew up with it,″ Incontri told reporters.
FERRARI APPAREL GAINING TRACTION
Super sportscar maker Ferrari’s foray into luxury goods is finding traction with its luxury auto buyers, as hoped, but also Formula 1 fans whose garages house less flashy cars.
Rocco Iannone, the creative director of Ferrari’s fashion line, said he saw the effect during the Monza Grand Prix event this month. Many Formula 1 fans were buying pricey made-to-measure Ferrari garments, and showing up the next day wearing them at the race track “with badges and all of the iconic elements.”
“This mix is what I am interested in telling: They exist and we want to give them a wardrobe,’’ Ianonne said.
Iannone’s third collection focuses on what the creative director called Ferrari’s “primordial materials:” leather, denim, cotton and silk.
The new collection combines pieces Formula 1 fans would covet, including racing jumpsuits and pit jackets adorned with patches, as well as elegant statement pieces incorporating the Ferrari technological drive with more subtlety.
Jacquard cargo pants are made with recycled nylon, rendering a camouflage look. The denim is technological, each piece treated with sprays of ozone to give a colorful stone-washed effect without the usual environmental damage. And napa glove leather is used to make supple leather jumpsuits in a deep red with orange undertones or black.
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(NEXSTAR) – A Minnesota man showed up at the Cook County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday covered in blood and confessed to beating a 77-year-old to death, first with a shovel, then with a moose antler.
Levi Axtell, 27, told sheriff’s deputies he killed Lawrence V. Scully in his Grand Marais, Minnesota, home. Back in 2018, Axtell had accused the elderly man of stalking his 22-month-old daughter, the Star Tribune reports. In a request for a protective order, he said Scully would park his van outside his daughter’s day care and wait for her to go out on walks.
The court granted the protective order temporarily but dismissed it weeks later, according to the newspaper.
Before Axtell’s 2018 complaint, Scully was already a convicted sex offender. Cook County Sheriff Pat Eliasen confirmed to the Associated Press that Scully served a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old and was released in 1982.
According to court documents, Axtell confessed he drove to Scully’s house Wednesday, beat him with a shovel from the deck “15 to 20 times” and then “finished him off” with a moose antler.
The Star Tribune reports Axtell was intoxicated when he confessed to Cook County law enforcement.
Scully was found with major head trauma and was already dead when first responders arrived at his home, according to WCCO-TV.
The county attorney called it a “brutal attack without provocation on an elderly man.”
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Police: Suspect Arrested After Pointing Gun at Woman in Atlantic City, NJ
An Atlantic City man is facing charges after he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman during an apparent mental health crisis.
The scene unfolded just before 2:00 Wednesday afternoon in the 300 block of Rosemont Place.
Police arrived at a home after they received information that a woman was being held against her will and a suspect, who was suffering from a mental health episode, was armed with a handgun.
Shortly after officers arrived, the victim ran out of the residence. Officers took up a tactical position around the residence to contact the suspect, Troy Williams. Williams exited the home onto a balcony where Officer Jonathan Walsh engaged him in conversation. After a discussion, Williams agreed to leave the residence. He surrendered shortly after and was taken into custody without incident.
Police say Williams, who was found to have cocaine, pointed a gun at the woman during an argument.
Inside the home, authorities allegedly found two guns.
45-year-old Troy Williams was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, certain person not to possess a weapon, and possession of CDS.
He was remanded to the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
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Police chase: Suspect slams reported stolen car into South LA fruit, flower stand at end of pursuit
By Leo Stallworth
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SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A suspect fleeing police in a reportedly stolen car slammed the vehicle into a stand selling fruit and flowers at the end of a chase in South Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The collision occurred near the intersection of Vernon Avenue and Flower Street at around 1:10 p.m. Tuesday. It’s not clear where the pursuit, which involved LAPD, originated.
Eyewitness News obtained video of the moment the vehicle slammed into the street vendor’s stand.
The suspected driver ended up becoming trapped inside the wrecked vehicle. He was eventually extricated and rushed to the hospital in serious condition, fire officials said. No other injuries were reported.
The suspect was not immediately identified, though fire officials described him as being in his 30s. LAPD said he was in police custody.
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Editor’s note: This story first appeared on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
By Mariela Murdocco
“Hey Erika, when can you come by the house so we can write a new song?” asked Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi when he called Panamanian multi-award-winning singer songwriter Erika Ender in 2015. “I’m working on some new material.”
They met around 2 p.m. Sept. 15 at Fonsi’s home in Miami. “We haven’t seen each other for a little while,” said 47-year-old Ender, who had composed many songs for Fonsi before. “I walk into his home studio and he goes, ‘Since this morning I had this idea in my mind.’”
His vision of what he wanted to develop with her was very clear. “He had the des…pa…ci…to-thing split into syllables, I thought it was an amazing idea,” recalls Ender, “and he went: ‘vamos a hacerlo en una playa en Puerto Rico’ (let’s do it on a beach in Puerto Rico) and then I responded: ‘hasta que las olas griten ¡Ay bendito!’ (I just wanna hear you screaming, ¡Ay bendito!) We started laughing and created the whole song from scratch, trying to keep the female angle in there, trying to bring a little romance to a world that is so superficial nowadays and that is totally focused on sex, instead of getting to know someone slowly.”
Ender described the process as very organic, with the song coming together out of just a guitar, without beats or a producer.
“Later on, Daddy Yankee jumps in and does the rap and the ‘pacito pacito, suave suavecito,’ which was a genius post chorus. Then (Justin) Bieber heard it and wanted to jump in.” After having coffee, in less than three hours, Ender and Fonsi had co-written their masterpiece mega hit.
“Despacito” became an immediate phenomenon, winning seven Guinness Book of Records for being the most viewed music video. It also became a Billboard Hot 100′s Longest-Leading No. 1 Song of All Time in 2017, more popular than Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’; it was a snowball showcasing Latino culture that kept growing, accumulating awards and reaching international audiences.
Part of its magic was Ender’s input as a songwriter incorporating a feminine touch.
“Fonsi is very smart,” said Ender, a multi-talented pioneer who recently celebrated her 30-year career anniversary with a mega concert in her hometown, Panama City, where she sang and shared the stage with colleagues including Ednita Nazario and Danilo Pérez.
One thing that makes Fonsi different from many male music performers, Ender thinks, is that he loves getting women’s input when he collaborates with them. “He understands that his market is mostly women — the ones who buy his songs and go to his concerts. He wanted to be respectful to women and wanted them to identify with the song.”
Fonsi has co-written with Claudia Brant from Argentina; one popular song they co-wrote was “Llegaste tú,” a romantic bachata featuring Juan Luis Guerra. He has also worked with Colombian songwriter Mónica Velez, who has composed for heavy-hitters Los Tigres del Norte, Gloria Trevi, Camila, Roberto Carlos, Timbiriche and David Bisbal.
Starting out
At first, Ender felt she was not welcomed by other male artists and was constantly rejected for being a woman. She wanted to write songs for others, so she sent her compositions to male singers, whom she said, immediately rejected them. “Back then I had to burn a CD and send it through regular mail,” she recalled. “If somebody would answer, they would say, ‘Hey, that song sounds too feminine’.”
The music business wasn’t made for women then unless, Ender said, they were the ones on stage. It was assumed that women would be “at home taking care of the kids or doing other kinds of professions and careers,” she told me.
But Ender would find creative ways to be heard. “I’m not going to take this personally,” she would tell herself in those early days. “I’m going to find a way to get through the back door so that I learn to be resilient and see how I learn from this lesson and stand up again and find a way in.”
She suspected her female name was the problem, so she started using her initials.
“I’m not going to let them see that there is a woman behind. It wasn’t about hiding myself; it was mostly about cooperating with their lack of vision,” she said, punctuating her words, especially “cooperating,” with a sardonic laugh. “Let me get the song through on its own merit.”
She would find a male friend or pay a male singer to sing her songs. “I would just put ‘E. Ender’ and send the song. They would hear the song with a male’s voice and understand that, Yes! A woman can write for a man.”
Artists started listening to her compositions, and she finally began to sell her work. After that, her career boomed. By 2000, when she was 24, she composed her first hit on Billboard: “A Puro Dolor” by Son by Four, a song that lasted 26 weeks in the charts. Within a year, she’d composed Chayanne’s “Candela,” which lasted 20 weeks on the charts. She became one of the most respected songwriters in the English, Spanish and Portuguese-language music industry and, at 42 years old, the youngest composer inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has written songs for Marc Anthony, Anitta, Akon, Prince Royce, Elvis Crespo, Horóscopos de Durango, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Milly Quezada and many others.
As a songwriter, Ender has the rare gift of being able to compose for different musical styles and genres —from pop and reggaetón to tropical rhythms like salsa, merengue and bachata to Regional Mexican.
“It was a huge challenge for me to make it in that genre and to be respected as a woman and as a non-Mexican,” Ender said, referring to the masculine style of many of the Regional Mexican sub-genres, such as grupero, which is male dominated, reflects only a male point of view and often contains “machista” and even misogynistic lyrics. But not all female music professionals may be as resilient or willing to challenge norms as Ender when they are about to go through the recording studio’s door.
A 2021 USC Annenberg and Spotify study taking a look at 900 Popular Songs from 2012 until 2020, found that there’s a real absence of women in the recording studio. Women, it concluded, are definitely missing in the entire music industry: Only 21.6% are artists, 12.6% are songwriters and 2.6% are producers. The study revealed that only 9 out of 1,291 credits during that decade went to female producers of color.
“There is a sizable gender gap in the entertainment industry, which is even more pronounced for Latinas,” said Iveliesse Malave, senior vice president for communications at the Latin Recording Academy. There is no specific data in the study for Latina artists.
“There is still a lot of work to be done to advance the role of women in the music industry,” said Malave, pointing to the “Women In The Mix” study done earlier this year by the Recording Academy, Arizona State University Design & the Arts and Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship. “That quantified and put into perspective what we’ve known: that women — as a result of gender — face unique challenges,” she said. “It demonstrated that women in the music industry are severely underrepresented.”
The study concluded that women in the music business still face discrimination, low earnings and under-recognition regardless of their racial or ethnic identity. A majority of respondents to the study reported discrimination; 77% said they felt they had been treated differently because of their gender, and a little more than half said they believed gender had affected their employment, with music creators and performers expressing this the most.
Even though she feels she’s experienced it in her career, Ender doesn’t like to talk too much about discrimination. “In the end, the majority (in the music business) are men, so never attack men.”
Even today, she still tends to be the only woman in the room during a recording or songwriting session. When she shows up, she will often say, “I’m here to complement whatever you do,” although this experience and her need to appease others is frustrating to her. “There are some men out there that maybe are not the gentlemen that you think.”
“Why do I have to show double? Why do I have to really struggle in order to show that I’m as good as you?,” said Ender. “I’m not competing with my (physical) power. I understand that male structure is different. I’m not trying to play football.”
Light on the other side
Gale, a 29 year-old Puerto Rican singer-songwriter whose explosive second single, “Problemas,” is rapidly rising on the Latin Billboard charts, finds that recording studios are going through a positive evolution. “When I started, I was the only girl in the room,” she said, referring to just four years ago. “Most of the time, I was the only girl with three, four or five men.”
Besides her debut as a singer with a fresh urban rock-pop style, she has an impressive songwriting portfolio. She has been writing songs since she was 6 and has composed for big stars including Christina Aguilera, Shakira, Cardi B, Pharrell, Manuel Turizo, David Bisbal, Juanes, Myke Towers, Wisin & Yandel and Anitta. Gale often collaborates with a growing number of female producers, recording engineers, technicians and assistants who are now more welcomed by male professionals.
“When I go into the room and there is another woman, I go, ‘phew!’ It makes you feel so comfortable. It makes a big difference because it’s a more balanced energy,” said Gale, who will be performing for close to 20,000 people at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., with Ricky Martin, Reik, Becky G, Pablo Alborán, Camila and Manuel Turizo.
“Sometimes women can experience some prejuicios (prejudice) in the room; it could get uncomfortable,” Gale said. Luckily, she says she has not experienced this firsthand, but she has heard too many stories from her colleagues, particularly female producers who have to work with male producers who don’t believe in their talent and say they would rather do the work themselves, without having to pay attention to their female colleagues’ ideas.
She emphasized the need to tune into each other. “It’s not about, ‘Hey I’m the leader’. No! It’s a collaboration. I think that the way it works best is when you listen to each other’s ideas,” said Gale, who first entered a recording studio in Miami in 2018 to collaborate with Colombian singer Fanny Lu.
When Gale writes for another artist, she understands the uniqueness of her role. “It feels like acting a little bit,” she said, something she did in Puerto Rico when she was younger, including a role in the musical, Rent. “I’m sucking all this information from them, trying to shape what they want to say, and putting it into words in a cool melody.”
Finding women’s power
Since “Despacito’s” success and its crossover to international audiences in 2017, the industry has finally started to recognize — and harness — the power of women in Latin music. For three years in a row, the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) in New York City has included a panel on “Wonder Women of Latin Music” that’s meant to empower, mentor and provide a powerful networking platform for women.
Malave of the Latin Recording Academy was one of this year’s panelists. “There have been so many admirable women who have paved the way for others,” she said, highlighting the work of the Leading Ladies platform that the Academy launched six years ago to recognize women making an impact in entertainment.
Despite the challenges and a lack of female representation in the Grammys, women’s presence in music is growing ... slowly. Even though female Grammy nominees have increased threefold since 2013, in 2021 they still formed no more than 13% of the nominees. Men were 87%.
Women are believed to have a unique ability to multitask, with an exceptional attention to detail that make them well-equipped for the business. But most importantly, women have a power that has yet to be fully taken advantage of by the majority of male artists: they know how to reach a female audience. In Gale’s case, she also has a talent for writing songs about sex, as well as romance. Both are blockbuster ingredients she uses at will in her single, “Problemas.”
While her hit’s lyrics are raw, sexual and aggressive, Gale is able to channel deeper feelings through her catchy song that describes a toxic relationship, a problema many of her fans will relate to.
“I have problems, so do you,” she sings in Spanish. “I complain, you complain. You explode in my brain, the tension keeps rising. We work it out in the bedroom.”
“That’s something artists are understanding more,” said Gale. “I love when I work with my male colleagues, writing a song for a woman, and they go like, ‘How would you say it? Because I’m a guy. How would you feel it?’”
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Mariela Murdocco, a bilingual multimedia journalist and photographer, has been nominated for five Emmy Awards. Born in Uruguay and based in New York City, she began her two careers simultaneously in 2002. She has worked as a reporter, TV producer, anchor, photographer and videographer for Consumer Reports, Telemundo, News 12, The New York Daily News, Banda Oriental, The Jersey Journal and The Associated Press. She was a TV correspondent for Canal 7 in Uruguay and has contributed to The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Hola TV and Fox News. In 2012 she was elected national Spanish at-large officer for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. | https://www.mlive.com/palabra/2022/09/where-are-the-women-in-the-music-industry.html | 2022-09-28 18:17:34 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/palabra/2022/09/where-are-the-women-in-the-music-industry.html |
‘Electrifying’: What it’s like watching Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé in person at Qatar 2022
By Ben Church, CNN
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé have arguably been the two best players at Qatar 2022 and the two will come head-to-head in the World Cup final on Sunday.
Millions are expected to watch the clash behind television screens around the world, most desperate for the opportunity to one day see the two superstars in the flesh.
CNN watched both forwards play live at different points of this year’s World Cup and such a privilege helps you understand just what makes these two men so special.
Lionel Messi
Attending a World Cup in which Lionel Messi is playing makes you appreciate just how big a superstar he is.
Walk around the streets of Doha and you’ll see his name everywhere; from billboards to the back of people’s shirts.
Market stalls sell his jersey, with fans from around the world coming to catch a glimpse of the Argentine magician playing in his last World Cup.
The atmosphere steps up to another level on an Argentina game day.
His name is sung by his adoring fans, reaching deafening levels when he leads his team out for the warmup.
Despite being a quieter personality than some superstars of the game, the 35-year-old knows his role and plays it perfectly.
Waving to the crowd he shows his appreciation for their support before switching his attention to the task in hand.
Even as he enters the twilight of his career, Messi still controls games and doesn’t even need to be on the ball to do so.
Every time an Argentine player is in possession, their task seems simple and well-drilled; find Messi.
Even if the diminutive forward doesn’t receive the pass himself, he’s pointing to where he wants the ball played, like a conductor leading his orchestra — something you don’t always see on the television screen.
Much has been made of his tendency to walk around the pitch during games and, although true, it’s important to note that his mind is always working.
While his body language may appear uninterested at times, he’s a coiled spring, waiting for that pocket of space to appear so he can work his magic.
“The difficult thing about him is when we are attacking, he is chilling somewhere in a corner or something,” said Dutch defender Virgil Van Dijk ahead of his quarterfinal with Argentina. “You have to be so very sharp in terms of defensive organization.”
High praise indeed from arguably the best defender on the planet.
When on the ball, Messi’s first touch is almost always perfect and the crowd sit a little closer to the edge of their seats.
In truth, he doesn’t have the lightning speed he once had but his mind is still as electrifying and the quality of what he does, if anything, has only improved.
Things he does may appear simple to some watching on the screen, but watch him live and you see that everything is done with such elite pace and precision.
His weight of pass dictates what his teammates do next and the areas he puts the ball cause nightmares for opposition defenses.
Even after the match, it’s still all about Messi.
Journalists gather in the mixed zone, waiting to speak to players as they leave the locker rooms and make their way to the team bus.
Even the most experienced, hard-nosed reporters wait a little longer to see Messi up close, desperate to get even a sentence from the seven-time Balon d’Or winner.
So used is he to his superstar role, Messi stops to talk — even after his side’s humiliating 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in its opening World Cup match — and poses for photos from journalists across the world.
It’s one brief moment in time for Messi, but those moments last a lifetime for the people around him.
Kylian Mbappé
Being only 23, Mbappé doesn’t have the same global reach as Messi yet but his ability to excite is just as powerful and his quality is evident even before kickoff.
Those who have taken their seats inside stadiums early at Qatar 2022 have witnessed the forward’s finishing prowess.
Just before the players finish their warmups, strikers often take 10 minutes to practice their shooting against the goalkeeper — and Mbappé always looked more eager than most.
While his teammates saw attempts saved or miss the target,time and time again, his efforts whistled into the top corner of the net with the crowd, many for the first time, witnessing what world-class finishing looks like up close.
Once the match starts, those same fans wait eagerly for the ball to land at Mbappé’s feet, knowing exactly what he’ll do when he gets it.
The Frenchman doesn’t complicate the game and relies heavily on his speed. His pace looks superhuman live, with the attacker breezing past even the quickest opposition with ease.
At every opportunity, Mbappé looks to square up his defender and knock the ball past him. Once he’s free, there is simply no stopping him.
According to FIFA, Mbappé hit a top speed of 35.3 kilometers per hour (about 22 miles per hour) during his team’s round of 16 win against Poland — among the fastest speeds recorded at the tournament.
Defenders often can’t cope with the acceleration and, when combined with his precise shooting, the youngster has won games in a blink of an eye.
It’s a trick that never gets old and there is a rumble of excitement around the stadium whenever Mbappé looks like he’ll get a chance to demonstrate that raw speed.
Like Messi, Mbappé is not too interested in defending and seeing him strut around the pitch before bursting into action is like watching the Argentine icon.
But he seems to always be scanning his surroundings, taking a mental picture of the pitch and identifying when and where he’ll terrorize next.
In a desperate attempt to stop him, teams often task at least two defenders to pay close attention to the Frenchman’s movements — but Mbappé seems to relish the challenge and seems to enjoy making the opposition look foolish.
Managers and coaching staff on the touchline scream instructions to remind their players of exactly where Mbappé is. They know, given even half a yard of space, that Mbappé has the ability to change a game.
French fans in Qatar have been particularly confident throughout the tournament and, when asked why, they often all have the same answer — it’s because they have Mbappé in their team.
All eyes will now be on Sunday to see which superstar can get the last laugh at Qatar 2022.
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Published: Apr. 15, 2023 at 10:26 AM CDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
After going 0-for-4 in his last game, Kevin Pillar and the Atlanta Braves take on the Kansas City Royals (who will start Kris Bubic) at 4:10 PM ET on Saturday.
He had a hitless performance in his most recent game (0-for-4) against the Royals.
Kevin Pillar Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
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- Royals Starter: Kris Bubic
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +170)
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- Pillar hit .083 with a double and a walk.
- Pillar got a hit in one of four games last season.
- He did not homer last year in the four games he logged a plate appearance in.
- Pillar didn't have an RBI in four games played last year.
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A New York man was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison for the fatal beating of a 61-year-old Chinese immigrant who was collecting cans for money.
Jarrod Powell, 51, pleaded guilty in January to manslaughter as a hate crime in the 2021 death of Yao Pan Ma, part of a wave of crimes targeting people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in New York and around the country.
Ma, who came to the United States with his wife in 2018, was attacked from behind as he was collecting cans in East Harlem on April 23, 2021. He was knocked to the ground, kicked, stomped on and left unconscious, authorities said.
Ma suffered a traumatic brain injury and died in a hospital eight months later without ever regaining consciousness.
Powell was arrested four days after the assault. He acknowledged in his plea agreement that he had targeted Ma because the victim was Asian, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.
Bragg called Ma's death “the result of a despicable racially motivated attack.”
The victim's family "endured an agonizing eight months in the hospital while the devoted husband and father of two remained in a vegetative state, before succumbing to his injuries on December 31, 2021,” Bragg said in a statement.
In addition to his 22-year prison term, Powell was sentenced to five years of supervised release. Powell did not speak at his sentencing in Manhattan state Supreme Court. His attorney declined to comment.
Karlin Chan, a spokesperson for Ma's family, said that while Powell's sentence “represents closure and a measure of justice, there a lot more hate crimes that deserve justice.”
Elaine Chiu, a law professor at St. John’s University who heads the Asian American Bar Association of New York's task force on anti-Asian hate, hailed the prosecution of Powell as a breakthrough in efforts to get hate crimes against people of Asian descent taken seriously.
Chiu said Ma's death “was probably one of the worst ways to die because he was pummeled to death with the fists and hands and feet of another human being.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/ny-man-gets-22-years-for-asian-immigrant-s-hate-17871884.php | 2023-03-31 20:19:48 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/ny-man-gets-22-years-for-asian-immigrant-s-hate-17871884.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent group that represents LGBT conservatives says a video shared by Ron DeSantis ′ presidential campaign that slams rival Donald Trump for his past support of gay and transgender people “ventured into homophobic territory.”
The “DeSantis War Room” Twitter account shared the video on Friday — the last day of June’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month — that features footage of Trump at the Republican National Convention in 2016 saying he would “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.” Trump had been pledging protection from terrorist attacks weeks after the shootings at the Pulse Nightclub, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at that time.
The video also highlights “LGBTQ for Trump” T-shirts sold by the former president’s campaign and his past comments saying he would be comfortable with Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic decathlete who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, using any bathroom at Trump Tower and OK with transgender women competing one day in the Miss Universe pageant, which Trump owned at the time of those remarks.
The video then suddenly veers in a different direction, accompanied by dark, thumping music and images of DeSantis, the Florida governor who is trailing Trump by wide margins in the polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
It promotes headlines that DeSantis signed “the most extreme slate of anti-trans laws in modern history” and a “draconian anti-trans bathroom bill.” The images are spliced together with footage of muscular, shirtless men and several Hollywood actors, including Brad Pitt, seen wearing a leather mask from the movie “Troy.”
“To wrap up ‘Pride Month,’ let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it,” the DeSantis campaign tweeted.
The video drew immediate criticism from prominent LGBTQ+ Republicans, including the Log Cabin Republicans, which bills itself as the nation’s “largest Republican organization dedicated to representing LGBT conservatives.”
“Today’s message from the DeSantis campaign War Room is divisive and desperate. Republicans and other commonsense conservatives know Ron Desantis has alienated swing-state and younger voters,” the group said in a tweet, adding that DeSantis’ “extreme rhetoric goes has just ventured into homophobic territory.”
The group said his “rhetoric will lose hard-fought gains in critical races across the nation. This old playbook has been tried in the past and has failed — repeatedly.” The post said DeSantis’ “naive policy positions are dangerous and politically stupid.”
Jenner accused DeSantis’ campaign of using “horribly divisive tactics!”
“DeSantis has hit a new low,” Jenner wrote on Twitter.
Representatives of the DeSantis campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.
But Christina Pushaw, the campaign’s rapid response director, said in a tweet Friday night that, “Opposing the federal recognition of ‘Pride Month’ isn’t ‘homophobic.’ We wouldn’t support a month to celebrate straight people for sexual orientation, either… It’s unnecessary, divisive, pandering.“
The video comes as Republicans have been wading into increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ+ territory, attacking Pride month celebrations, trying to ban displays of rainbow Pride flags and passing legislation to limit drag shows, along with broad attacks on transgender rights.
That rhetoric has seeped into the GOP presidential campaign, taking a prominent role that had been absent during recent past competitive primaries, including in 2016, when Trump, a New York reality TV star, generally presented himself as a supporter of LGBT rights.
DeSantis leaned in on anti-LGBTQ+ legislation as he prepared to jump into the 2024 White House race. He signed legislation banning classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, banned gender-affirming care for minors, targeted drag shows, restricted discussion of personal pronouns in schools and forced people to use bathrooms that align with the sex assigned at birth. DeSantis also went after President Joe Biden for prominently displaying the Pride flag at the White House last month.
Trump himself pledged in a speech Friday that if elected, he would sign executive orders on his first day in office to cut federal money for any school pushing “transgender insanity” and to instruct federal agencies “to cease the promotion of sex or gender transition at any age.” Hospitals and health care providers offering gender-affirming care for minors should be deemed in violation of federal health and safety standards and lose federal funding, he said.
Both Trump and DeSantis have also railed against transgender women participating in women’s sports and have referred to gender-affirming care for minors as “mutilation.”
At Trump’s rally in Pickens, South Carolina, on Saturday, the crowd booed when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., referenced to Pride month.
“The rainbow belongs to God,” she said.
While such rhetoric appeals to the party’s conservative base, it risks alienating the more moderate and swing voters who generally decide the outcomes of general elections.
The video, originally posted by the pro-DeSantis “@ProudElephantUS” account, was shared hours after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ken.) blocked a move Wednesday by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to pass his bill that would ban the embattled social media platform TikTok in the U.S., saying the legislation violated First Amendment rights.
“The company has bent over backwards to work with our government,” Paul said on the Senate floor.
“I will continue to defend the First Amendment, and those who believe that the First Amendment doesn’t protect this speech are in the wrong,” he said.
Paul objected to Hawley’s motion to have the bill pass the Senate by unanimous consent and also objected to scheduling a roll call vote for the legislation.
Hawley vowed to continue to try and get a TikTok ban passed.
“The truth will carry the day and we will continue the fight,” Hawley said in response to Paul’s objections.
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The debate over whether to ban TikTok has waged on for months and picked up new steam when the company’s CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in front of Congress last week.
Officials have flagged concerns over the connection of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, with the Chinese government.
Lawmakers say the dynamic between ByteDance, which is owned in part by Chinese founders, and the Chinese government, put U.S. user data at risk.
TikTok has maintained that it has never handed over data to the Chinese government and has pledged that it never will. But the testimony from Chew last week did little to settle the angst in Congress.
‘We’re not trying to ban booty videos’
The debate Wednesday often veered into a lively exchange of views.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) came to the defense of Hawley, pushing back against Paul’s argument that the bill would violate free speech.
“This is not a First Amendment issue, because we’re not trying to ban booty videos,” Rubio said. “This is not about the content of the videos that are online. It is about the dangers to the national security that are presented by the way that this company functions.”
Rubio argued that ByteDance’s connection to China means the data of users is at the hands of the Chinese government.
“I don’t care who owns ByteDance … ByteDance operates out of China,” Rubio said. “There are no such things as private companies in China. They do not exist.”
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Paul fired back at both Harley and Rubio, saying he was “unlikely to take First Amendment advice from someone who believes that the First Amendment doesn’t protect the communist party.”
“Everything that’s been said about, oh this is a channel and a funnel to the Chinese government, these are all conjecture,” Paul said.
A bipartisan bill to allow the Commerce Department to regulate and ultimately ban foreign technologies such as TikTok has also been introduced, and picked up the support of the White House, according to the bill’s co-sponsor Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.).
First Amendment concerns enter TikTok debate
Paul said giving the government the power to ban speech sets a precedent that is even more dangerous than the potential threat posed by TikTok.
Check your phone: How could a TikTok ban be enforced?
“Which is more dangerous: Videos of teenagers dancing or the precedent of the U.S. government banning speech?” Paul saud. “For me it’s an easy answer. I will defend the Bill of Rights against all comers, even if, need be, from members of my own party.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/not-trying-to-ban-booty-videos-paul-blocks-hawleys-tiktok-bill-as-rubio-weighs-in/ | 2023-03-30 00:46:17 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/not-trying-to-ban-booty-videos-paul-blocks-hawleys-tiktok-bill-as-rubio-weighs-in/ |
There is a long tradition of authoritarian states using soccer’s World Cup to distract attention — domestic and foreign alike — from their tyranny. The Islamic Republic has milked buckets of self-serving propaganda out of the national team’s participation in the quadrennial competition, never more than in 1998 when Iran beat the “Great Satan” in Lyon, France.
Iranians, like much of the rest of the world, are soccer mad; the country comes to a halt when Team Melli, as the national squad is known, plays in the World Cup. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself stayed up late to watch the famous win in Lyon. When the team returned home, he reportedly invited Hamid Estili, who scored the first of two goals against the U.S., to his residence and kissed him on the forehead.
The regime played up the win as a symbol of its resistance against American perfidy and the wild celebrations across Iran as proof that the nation was united, not just behind Team Melli but also the government.
That won’t work this time, no matter how the Iranian team fares against the U.S. when they clash in Doha next Tuesday in the latest iteration of the tournament. For one thing, the streets are now a stage for protest, not celebration. For more than two months, Iranians have been calling for the regime’s downfall. It would be hard for the regime to boast of resistance against the West when even on the day of the first game, security forces were intensifying their violent crackdown on protesters, especially in the northwestern city of Mahabad.
For another, Team Melli isn’t playing along with the propaganda this time. Any hope the regime in Tehran may have harbored of using the World Cup to distract attention from its brutal attempts to put down a sustained protest movement were dashed when Iran’s players refused to sing the national anthem before their opening game against England, the theocrats’ second-choice Western bugaboo.
The team thus joined other Iranian sports teams and athletes who have either remained mute during the playing of the anthem or have used other gestures to express solidarity with the protesters. Afterward, soccer captain Ehsan Hajsafi was blunt: “We have to accept the conditions in our country are not right and our people are not happy,” he said. “We are here but it does not mean we should not be their voice or we should not respect them.”
Team Melli’s defiance is doubly remarkable because officials had warned the players not to express solidarity with the protests. Khamenei himself had admonished them not to “disrespect” the country. Ahead of the tournament, the team met with President Ebrahim Raisi and gave him the No. 12 jersey.
This had earned them the scorn of the protesters, some of whom took to calling them “Team Mullah” in street chants and on social media. Some Iranian fans at the stadium in Doha were heard to shout “Shameless! Shameless!” at the players.
Since Iranian state TV didn’t show the team’s mute protest, their solidarity with the protesters didn’t immediately register back home. After the game, videos posted on social media platforms showed some Iranians celebrating the national team’s defeat by honking car horns. In one especially remarkable video, a couple is seen waving the Union Jack.
Has Team Melli redeemed itself in the eyes of the protesters by refusing to sing the anthem? The behavior of the players and the fans before their next game, against Wales on Friday, will be instructive.
Meanwhile, you can bet that Iranian officials will be putting enormous pressure on players to sing lustily before their game against the Americans — if nothing else, then to push the narrative that Iranians hate the U.S. more than they despise their own rulers. But the World Cup’s propaganda value to the regime will have already been drained.
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Sell-side programmatic ad ops and customer success leader accelerates data software solutions
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ArcSpan Technologies (www.arcspan.com), a New York-based, real-time audience data monetization and optimization company announced it has named Michael Gashonia as Senior Director, Platform Operations. Michael brings a wealth of publisher revenue operations and CTV experience as ArcSpan continues its focus on boosting addressable audience revenue success for leading publishers and the emerging category of retail media customers.
Gashonia is tasked with facilitating how ArcSpan's "audience engine" platform technology captures, segments, and enhances customers' audience data that is transacted and optimized across various SSP and DSP technology partners. With sixteen years' adtech data ops experience honed at Kubient, AdColony, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com and NBA.com, Gashonia is a respected adtech veteran who is passionate about helping the sell-side navigate a rapidly evolving, data-driven media marketplace. Gashonia reports directly to Chris Guenther, ArcSpan's Chief Operating Officer.
"We are thrilled and fortunate to have Michael at ArcSpan. His depth and breadth of revenue ops processes and the evolving industry landscape strengthens our product solutions and overall customer success," said Chris Guenther. "I look forward to working closely with Michael as ArcSpan introduces efficient and effective audience data solutions and generates incremental revenue for publishers."
Michael Gashonia commented, "The digital advertising industry is rapidly evolving. Publishers can't rely on legacy tech systems in a first-party, data privacy-centric audience monetization environment. I see how publishers and retailers must retool their revenue operations technologies and processes as new, cutting-edge platforms like ArcSpan's purpose-built tech will inevitably outperform legacy solutions and data decisioning. I'm excited to be working on cutting-edge solutions and look forward to helping publishers and retailers recapture control of their data and maximize their earnings."
Founded in 2020, ArcSpan helps leading digital publishers and retail brands take control of their audience monetization operations and leverage the advantages of utilizing first-party data. ArcSpan's enterprise software is designed to integrate addressable audience data management solutions with digital sales tracking and optimization tools to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and scale of digital advertising success.
ArcSpan Technologies offers a best-in-class addressable audience segmentation and revenue optimization platform for leading digital publishers and brands to navigate the "Identity Revolution." As publishers seek to adapt to a first-party addressable audience marketplace, ArcSpan's Audience Engine boosts customer revenue by enhancing the quality and quantity of real-time targetable audiences while tracking and optimizing to sales KPIs across digital channels. ArcSpan's enterprise technology product suite and data solutions drive on-site and off-site monetization success.
Established by digital industry leaders from Accordant Media, dentsu, NewsCorp, OpenSlate and Beeswax, ArcSpan prioritizes consumer data privacy and fosters industry transparency. The company is headquartered in New York City. www.arcspan.com
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The final defendant in a 17-person drug indictment was sentenced in federal court to a lengthy prison sentence Tuesday.
The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced today that Darrell “Shawn” Walls of Little Rock was sentenced to 233 months, followed by five years supervised release in a Tuesday hearing in federal court.
The conviction of the 35-year-old Walls was the final step in a large-scale central Arkansas fentanyl drug ring investigation and series of trials. The Eastern District announced indictments against Walls and 16 others in 2019.
Walls pleaded guilty in August 2021 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute between 1.2 and 4 kilograms of fentanyl. Walls admitted in his pleading that he was part of a conspiracy along with other large-scale narcotics dealers like co-defendants Desmond Kelley, Javion Robinson, and Jaylon Livingston to distribute fentanyl in the greater Little Rock area.
Every defendant in the case pleaded guilty, with sentences ranging from probation to more than 18 years in prison. In addition to Walls’ 223-month sentence, other sentences of key members of the conspiracy include Kelley receiving 211 months, Livingston 151 months, Robinson 120 months, Dewon Williams 130 months, Ricky Hinton 110 months, and Robert Johnson 90 months.
There is no parole in the federal system.
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Tamara Zidansek 2023 Ladies Open Lausanne Odds
As play in the Ladies Open Lausanne nears its conclusion, a quarterfinal is coming up for Tamara Zidansek versus Anna Bondar. Zidansek's odds are +1400 to win this event at Tennis Club du Stade-Lausanne.
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Zidansek at the 2023 Ladies Open Lausanne
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: July 23-30
- Venue: Tennis Club du Stade-Lausanne
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Zidansek's Next Match
Zidansek will face Bondar in the quarterfinals on Friday, July 28 at 4:00 AM ET, after defeating Sara Sorribes Tormo in the last round 6-3, 7-5.
Zidansek is listed at -135 to win her next match against Bondar. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
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Zidansek Stats
- In the Round of 16 on Thursday, Zidansek beat No. 87-ranked Sorribes Tormo, 6-3, 7-5.
- Through 11 tournaments over the past year, Zidansek is 13-11 and has not won a title.
- In two tournaments on clay over the past year, Zidansek has gone 5-2.
- Through 24 matches over the past year (across all court types), Zidansek has played 23.2 games per match. She won 51.2% of them.
- On clay, Zidansek has played seven matches over the past year, and she has totaled 22.4 games per match while winning 54.8% of games.
- Over the past 12 months, Zidansek has been victorious in 42.8% of her return games and 55.3% of her service games.
- Zidansek has been victorious in 50.7% of her service games on clay over the past year and 58.5% of her return games.
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DALLAS, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mohr Partners, Inc., a leading global full-service end-to-end corporate real estate services firm, is pleased to announce that Ben Fujihara, a seasoned veteran of the financial services and commercial real estate industries, has joined Mohr Partners in its Dallas headquarters.
In his new role, Fujihara will lead the firm's national brokerage recruiting program with the goal of doubling the U.S. brokerage headcount over the next five years as part of the firm's long-term growth plan.
"I am excited and confident in taking on my new role given Mohr Partners' top-three market position in global corporate real estate services," Fujihara said.
Added Mohr Partners Chairman & CEO Robert Shibuya, "Ben's strong track record of recruiting over 100 brokers at Morgan Stanley has prepared him for his new role with us."
Ben most recently served as the Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Fischer Solutions, Inc., a Dallas-based U.S. national corporate real estate advisory firm. In that role, he streamlined business operations and boosted revenue by hiring, coaching and leading a team of experienced sales professionals.
Previously, Ben spent over 20 years with Morgan Stanley where he acted as an executive leader with full financial responsibility for the North Texas complex. Within that region, he oversaw over 435 employees in 14 offices.
Ben earned his Bachelor of Arts in Organization Leadership from Pennsylvania State University. He participated in the Executive Leadership Development Program at the Wharton School of Business and the Thayer Leadership Development Group at the United States Military Academy.
About Mohr Partners, Inc.:
Mohr Partners, Inc. is a global corporate real estate advisor, providing corporate tenants with an integrated set of portfolio services including strategic planning, business intelligence, lease administration/accounting & FASB ASC 842 compliance, research and site selection, labor analytics, project and construction management, comprehensive demographics analysis, economic incentives negotiations and transaction management. Since 1986, Mohr has been managing real estate portfolios for corporations, and each year completes transactions for its clients in all 50 U.S. states, all provinces of Canada and locations around the world. Mohr seamlessly provides corporate real estate services globally through its strategic alliance partners in Canada, Mexico/Latin America, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information on Mohr, please visit www.mohrpartners.com.
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The 2023 The Open Championship Odds & Preview: Ryan Fox
The field for the 2023 The Open Championship in Hoylake, United Kingdom at Royal Liverpool Golf Club will include Ryan Fox. The tournament is from July 20-23.
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Ryan Fox Insights
- Over his last 20 rounds, Fox has shot better than par 10 times, while also carding 12 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has registered a top-five score once and a top-10 score four times in his last 20 rounds.
- Over his last 20 rounds, Fox has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 10 occasions.
- In his past five appearances, Fox has finished in the top 20 once.
- In his past five appearances, Fox has posted a score better than average in four of them.
- Fox hopes to qualify for the weekend for the sixth straight time.
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The Open Championship Insights and Stats
- In Fox's past six appearances at this event, he has finished among the top 20 once, and his average finish has been 43rd.
- Fox has made the cut in four of his past six appearances at this tournament.
- The par-71 course measures 7,383 yards this week, 378 yards longer than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Royal Liverpool Golf Club has a recent scoring average of -3.
- The average course Fox has played in the past year has been 14 yards shorter than the 7,383 yards Royal Liverpool Golf Club will be at for this event.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -1 among finishers, higher than the -3 average at this course.
Fox's Last Time Out
- Fox was somewhat mediocre on the 20 par-3 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open, averaging 3.05 strokes to finish in the 43rd percentile of the field.
- His 4.00-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the Genesis Scottish Open placed him in the 64th percentile.
- Fox was better than 90% of the competitors at the Genesis Scottish Open on par-5 holes, averaging 4.33 strokes per hole, compared to the field average of 4.64.
- Fox recorded a birdie or better on two of 20 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open (the tournament average was 1.8).
- On the 20 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open, Fox carded three bogeys or worse (more than the tournament average of 2.4).
- Fox's nine birdies or better on the 40 par-4s at the Genesis Scottish Open were more than the field average (4.9).
- In that last tournament, Fox's par-4 showing (on 40 holes) included a bogey or worse nine times (worse than the field average, 5.6).
- Fox ended the Genesis Scottish Open with a birdie or better on eight of the 12 par-5s, bettering the tournament average of 3.6.
- The field at the Genesis Scottish Open averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Fox finished without one.
The Open Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 20-23, 2023
- Course: Royal Liverpool Golf Club
- Location: Hoylake, United Kingdom
- Par: 71 / 7,383 yards
- Fox Odds to Win: +10000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Weber Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of WEBR during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Weber Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's August 2021 initial public offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: September 27, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/weber-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31254&from=4
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BANGKOK (AP) — Threats to peace and stability burst onto the agenda at a summit of Pacific Rim leaders in Bangkok on Friday after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese territorial waters.
The missile test was a stark reminder of persisting risks of conflict in the region and beyond, on top of frictions between the big powers that threaten to unravel the global order.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia and New Zealand convened an emergency meeting on the missile launch.
“This conduct by North Korea most recently is a brazen violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions. It destabilizes security in the region, and unnecessarily raises tensions,” Harris said in remarks as the meeting started.
“We strongly condemn these actions and we again call for North Korea to stop further unlawful, destabilizing acts,” she said.
North Korea is under United Nations sanctions for past weapons tests but has not faced new sanctions this year because U.S. attempts were opposed by China and Russia in the Security Council.
A Thai government spokesperson said leaders also expressed concern about the missile launch in closed-door meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on Friday
The 21-member APEC’s long-term mission is promoting closer economic ties but its summits often are sidetracked by other more urgent issues.
APEC leaders appeared likely to issue a joint declaration condemning the war in Ukraine after their foreign ministers agreed on a statement that “deplores in the strongest terms” the invasion by Moscow.
The statement followed a similar approach as that adopted at a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies earlier this week, where leaders endorsed a statement saying that “most” — not all — had agreed and that there were differing opinions. Russia’s foreign minister attended the G-20.
The strategy is a shift from the past, when rules requiring a consensus prevented such gatherings from issuing declarations on such divisive issues. None of the earlier APEC preparatory meetings this year issued statements due to disagreements over whether to mention the conflict in Ukraine.
Both at APEC in Thailand and at the G-20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, officials appear to have chosen to agree to disagree. In Bali, China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not block the release of a statement that harshly criticized Moscow.
“Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy –- constraining growth, increasing inflation, disrupting supply chains, heightening energy and food insecurity, and elevating financial stability risks,” said the statement issued Friday. “There were other views and different assessments of the situation and sanctions.”
It noted that APEC ”is not the forum to resolve security issues,” but acknowledged “security issues can have significant consequences for the global economy.”
It’s a message that has been voiced by many during this week heavy in summitry.
“Geopolitical tensions are detracting from peace and stability and undermining the rules-based international order, which we all agree are essential,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the opening session of the two-day APEC leaders meeting, which ends Saturday.
At the meeting, leaders appealed for an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine and considered strategies for nursing along economic recoveries from the coronavirus pandemic while contending with food and energy crises, the need to cut the carbon emissions that cause climate change and other urgent tasks.
At a business conference on the sidelines of APEC, French President Emmanuel Macron called for an end to confrontation, both in Ukraine and also in Asia, where he said friction between the biggest economies, the U.S. and China, was forcing countries to take sides.
“There is no stability or peace except one based on international order and respect,” said Macron, who was invited to the APEC summit as a guest by the host country, Thailand.
In her remarks to the business conference, Harris assured Asian leaders “the United States is here to stay” as she pitched Washington as a reliable economic partner committed to the region and its prosperity.
“And there is no better economic partner for this region than the United States of America,” Harris said.
APEC members account for nearly four of every 10 people and almost half of world trade. Much of APEC’s work is technical and incremental, carried out by senior officials and ministers, covering areas such as trade, forestry, health, food, security, small and medium-size enterprises and women’s empowerment.
Other APEC members include Brunei, Chile, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Apart from the French president, Thailand also invited Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the prime minister of Saudi Arabia; and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was to represent ASEAN but is not attending after getting COVID-19.
The summit venue, at Bangkok’s main convention center, was cordoned off with some streets closed to traffic. Riot police stood guard behind barricades at a major intersection.
Police clashed in another area of Bangkok with protesters who took the opportunity of the APEC meeting to renew calls for democratic reforms in Thailand and accuse the government of promoting policies to APEC that favor big business over ordinary people.
Several hundred protesters gathered about 7 kilometers (4 miles) from the APEC meeting site, hoping to march to the venue and hand over a letter stating their concerns.
Police blocked them, sparking a violent confrontation with some protesters tossing debris and other items at police, who then charged the crowd, shooting rubber bullets. Several people were injured and a number of arrests were made in the standoff, which lasted several hours.
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Associated Press journalists Grant Peck, Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul, Tian McLeod Ji, David Rising, Chisato Tanaka, Jerry Harmer and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.
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SHANGHAI, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulnovo Medical Limited, a globally recognized OTM innovation platform, recently announced that Dr. Krishna Sudhir has officially joined the Pulnovo Medical Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Krishna Sudhir will provide scientific guidance and take an important part in the innovation and internationalization of Pulnovo Medical's technology platforms and R&D portfolio.
Dr. Sudhir is a distinguished expert in the cardiovascular field with over 20 years of international leadership experience in technology development, medical discovery, and commercialization in the medical device field. He is currently serving as a Consulting Professor of Medicine at the Center for Cardiovascular Technology at Stanford University . Prior to that, Dr. Sudhir was the Global Vice President of Medical Affairs for Abbott's Global Cardiovascular Division and lead the medical research and development departments at Abbott Vascular for more than 15 years. Dr Sudhir has also worked with the University of California, San Francisco, Alfred Heart Center, and Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, where he focused on cardiac disease research. In addition, Dr. Sudhir also worked on clinical research and medical affairs at various pharmaceutical companies, including Pharmacyclics, Millennium, diaDexus, and Johnson & Johnson, where he served as the director of Macroflux Internal Venture.
Dr. Sudhir received his MD from Madras Medical College and his Ph.D. from Monash University in Australia; he has received numerous honors for his academic excellence. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, a member of the American College of Cardiology, and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention.
Regarding the board position with Pulnovo Medical, Dr. Sudhir said, "I am proud to be joining as a member of the SAB to contribute to the technology development, commercialization, and research innovation of Pulnovo Medical. With a holistic approach to medical research, industry, research, production, and business management, Pulnovo Medical is at the forefront of medical research that will lead to innovative treatments for unmet clinical needs around the world. For patients with limited access to current therapies, these innovative treatments will certainly improve their health resilience. It is my privilege to be working with the Pulnovo Medical team to develop and explore new treatments to meet the urgent needs of patients and to create innovative and differentiated medical technologies together."
Pulnovo Medical, said, "On behalf of Pulnovo Medical and the Board of Directors, I welcome Dr. Krishna Sudhir in joining our Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Sudhir is an outstanding scientist and industry leader. His excellent scientific foundation, strategic thinking, and business acumen will greatly enhance the innovation capabilities of Pulnovo Medical and will play a positive role in promoting the strategic layout of product pipelines and international collaboration to help take Pulnovo Medical to the next level.
About Pulnovo Medical
Since its inception in 2013, Pulnovo Medical has insisted on the importance of clinical value and has been committed to creating a global OTM innovation platform with its globally leading original technology. With more than 45 Chinese and international invention patents, we have developed a range of world-first products, entered the Green Channel of CFDA for innovative medical devices, and obtained CE quality system certification. In February 2021, we were granted the FDA breakthrough device designation for our original product — a radiofrequency ablation catheter. Insisting on innovation and aiming to improve patient recovery, we have, in a short time, become a leader in the interventional therapy of pulmonary arterial hypertension and will walk together with patients toward a better future with the support of our strong research and development capabilities.
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Justice Jackson writes 1st Supreme Court majority opinion
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.
The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the court finishes its work for the summer, usually in late June. The decision was unanimous, though all the justices didn’t join the whole opinion.
Each justice typically writes at least one opinion from the seven separate two-week arguments sessions the court holds from early October to late April. But in January and February, for example, the court has only seven argued cases each month, meaning there are not enough to go around.
Jackson joined the high court on June 30, following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.
Jackson, 52, is the first Black woman to serve as a justice and just the third Black person on the court. The others are Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving among the nine justices, and the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Jackson wrote her first dissenting opinion in November, in support of a death row inmate from Ohio who failed to win Supreme Court review of his case.
Lawyers for the inmate, Davel Chinn, argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial.
Jackson wrote that she would have ordered lower courts to take another look at the case. Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined Jackson’s opinion.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Desperation turned to heart-wrenching sorrow for families of the grade-schoolers killed after an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in their Texas classroom and began shooting, killing at least 19 fourth-graders and their two teachers.
Relatives who gathered at a civic center following the shooting on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde pleaded for information and turned to social media for help.
By Wednesday morning, many were left with the grim reality of unimaginable horror.
One man cried into his phone, “she is gone,” as he walked away from the civic center. A woman standing alone behind the building sobbed and yelled into her phone.
Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Christopher Olivarez told CNN that all those who died Tuesday were in the same fourth-grade classroom.
Among those killed was fourth-grade teacher Eva Mireles.
Relative Amber Ybarra, of San Antonio, was preparing to give blood for the wounded and remembered Mireles as a loving mother and wife who also was "adventurous."
One of the children who died was 8-year-old Uziyah Garcia. His grandfather Manny Renfro got word Tuesday that Garcia was one of the victims in the shooting.
Renfro remembered Garcia as the sweetest little boy he ever knew.
Another victim was identified as Xavier Javier Lopez. His cousin, Lisa Garza, 54, of Arlington, Texas, saying he was "a loving 10-year-old little boy."
The funeral home that is located directly across from the school, Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home, posted on its Facebook page that it would assist victims' families at no cost for funeral arrangements. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/desperation-becomes-sorrow-after-elementary-school-shooting | 2022-05-25 16:54:37 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/desperation-becomes-sorrow-after-elementary-school-shooting |
Which nail gun is best?
While a hammer and nails works great for small projects, when it comes to large jobs, nothing beats a nail gun for precision and speed. Nail guns neatly fire up to 10 nails per second – that’s faster than your hand could grasp a nail to position it.
Specific nail guns are designed for a variety of jobs, but if you’re looking for one versatile tool that can handle both finish work and larger fastening, the Dewalt 20V Max Cordless Brad Nailer is a good choice.
What to know before you buy a nail gun
Nail gun power source
Nail guns use one of three potential sources of power:
- Pneumatic: Pneumatic nail guns use compressed air to drive nails. This is the most common power source, but it is not without its challenges. The length of the air compressor hose and the power cord to the air compressor itself limits the distance you can work, as does the pressure created by the air compressor.
- Battery-powered: Battery-powered nail guns may use a compressor built into the gun, but they also may use a spring system with a motor. Although you have more flexibility in where you can work, you are limited by the life of the battery.
- Electric: Electric nail guns have the same options for driving nails as both pneumatic and battery-powered, but you are tethered to an outlet.
Even with its limitations, the most powerful and consistent choice is a pneumatic nail gun.
Nail loading
Nails advance automatically in the firing position in one of two ways:
- Coil: A coil of nails loads into a circular nail gun. These can hold larger nails than a strip style nail loader.
- Strip: Strip nails can be either angled or straight. They are usually linked by wax that is driven into the wood as they fire. These smaller nails are more likely to be used in battery-powered nail guns, but some heavy-duty framing nailers can use strips.
Types of nail guns
Depending on the job, there are different types of nail guns to choose from:
- Finish: For trim work and adding baseboards and molding, a finish nailer is the best choice. They cannot be used for framing but can work for small assemblies. Most finish nail guns cannot handle nails longer than 2.5 inches.
- Framing: Framing nailers are heavy and heavy-duty. They are used for building walls and framing decks.
- Roofing: Roofing nailers are perfect for attaching shingles and underlayment to a roof. This type of nailer accepts nails with larger heads but no longer than 1.75 inches.
- Brad: For other finish work and trim, a brad nailer is a good choice. They are often battery-powered and can even be used to attach some types of siding to a house.
- Specialty: Specialty nailers for upholstery and flooring are less common and generally used by professionals who specialize in the trade for which they are designed.
What to look for in a quality nail gun
Comfortable to use
Comfort is especially important for heavier nail guns. Framing nailers can weigh almost 15 pounds, so you’ll want one that has a comfortable grip and feels balanced.
Firing safety
This important safety feature means that the nail gun will not fire unless the head is depressed and the trigger is pulled. This protects against accidental firing and injury.
Case included
Brad and finish nailers are more compact. These can be stored safely in a carrying case that often has room for nails, too.
How much you can expect to spend on a nail gun
The price of nail guns varies depending on the type of nailer and the power source. Expect to spend $170 to $400, with more value when you bundle multiple nailers or buy battery-powered nailers without the battery.
Nail gun FAQ
How do you safely operate a nail gun?
A. Even with safety features, nail guns are power tools that require careful use.
- Wear eye protection no matter the size of the job or how long you’ll be using the nail gun.
- Keep hands and feet clear of the work area.
- Unplug the nailer when clearing a jam or adding nails.
- Consult your manufacturer’s directions for maintenance to keep your nail gun in safe working order.
Can you use any type of nail in a nail gun?
A. No. Each type of nail gun is designed to accept specific nails. If nails are too large, they will jam. Nails that are too small won’t drive in properly. You’re looking for the Goldilocks “just right” size. To find that, consult your owner’s manual.
What’s the best nail gun to buy?
Top nail gun
Dewalt 20V Max Cordless Brad Nailer
What you need to know: This is a good all-around nail gun for projects both large and small.
What you’ll love: The rechargeable battery has a long run time that drives 18 gauge nails. Adjust the depth and accuracy without tools. LED lights illuminate where nails are being driven.
What you should consider: This nail gun is fairly heavy and challenging to operate overhead.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top nail gun for the money
Freeman Pneumatic Framing and Finishing Combo Kit
What you need to know: This is an affordable starter kit that comes with four nail guns.
What you’ll love: This kit includes a framing nailer, a finish nailer, a straight brad nailer and a narrow crown stapler. All nailers are stored conveniently in a canvas carrying bag and also come with wrenches and oil. The quick jam release clears any stuck nails quickly.
What you should consider: While most users found this kit to work well, some noted that the framing nailer did not have enough power to drive nails into heavier wood.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Ryobi Airstrike 18 Volt One+ Lithium Ion Cordless Brad Nailer
What you need to know: This nailer consistently drives nails to a set depth to reduce your workload.
What you’ll love: This drives 60 nails per minute and has a low nail indicator. It comes with a belt clip and nails to get you started. Adjust the air pressure and depth of drive without any additional tools, and it can drive up to 1700 nails per charge.
What you should consider: This is the tool only. You’ll need to buy the battery separately.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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FIRST ALERT: Scattered storms continue through next week
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - As a front sags slowly south, we are expecting a chance for showers and thunderstorms again today especially in areas to the south where there could still be a threat for damaging winds and localized flooding, but there will be some relief from the heat as highs top out around 90.
Areas to the north will see only isolated showers and thunderstorms through tomorrow but with an increasingly southerly wind flow returning more moisture by Tuesday effectively increasing rain chances especially during the afternoon and early evening hours. A weather disturbance to the south and west will move northeast by Wednesday bringing a higher chance for rain and thunderstorms Wednesday, some of which could be severe as the system moves through the region.
By Thursday, this system will move north of our area with rain chances diminishing from northwest to east. Still there may be a few isolated showers lingering Thursday and Friday afternoons with the better chance for rain to the south where more moisture is still in place. Afternoon highs will return to more nearly normal levels, around 90, with overnight lows near 70.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QUE Oncology announces the results of its Phase II trial of Q-122, a novel non-hormonal oral therapy for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms (commonly known as hot flashes/flushes and night sweats) in women taking endocrine therapy for breast cancer, have been published in The Lancet.
The Phase II study was a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-control trial involving 131 women taking endocrine therapy (tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor) following breast cancer.
Q-122 therapy significantly reduced the frequency and severity of moderate and severe vasomotor symptoms, with associated improvement in quality of life, compared with placebo. Q-122 was well tolerated with no serious adverse effects. These results demonstrate the promise of Q-122 as a novel and differentiated, non-hormonal treatment of vasomotor symptoms for women with breast cancer taking endocrine therapy, and the potential for its use in post-menopausal women experiencing similar symptoms.
"Our research findings published in The Lancet demonstrate efficacy of Q-122 as a non-hormonal oral treatment for vasomotor symptoms in women taking oral adjuvant endocrine therapy after breast cancer, with no evidence of treatment side effects," explains Principal Investigator and Senior Author, Professor Susan Davis Director, of the Monash University Women's Health Research Program.
"In addition to a reduction in flushes and sweats, women who received Q-122 in the study reported a significantly lower likelihood of their hot flushes and sweats interfering with their sleep, and social and leisure activities, compared with placebo. If Q-122 can provide relief from these symptoms, it holds great potential for reducing discontinuation of endocrine therapy, enabling ongoing protection against breast cancer recurrence. This is an extremely important potential benefit of Q-122 beyond symptom relief alone," Professor Davis added.
QUE Oncology was formed through a joint venture between Emory University in Atlanta and the University of Queensland (UQ) research commercialisation company, UniQuest. The company has been supported by leading life science investors, including the Brandon Capital-managed Brandon BioCatalyst and Uniseed.
"It's great to see extremely positive results from QUE Oncology's Phase II trials published in the world's leading independent general medical journal. The research highlights the need for a therapy for patients undergoing endocrine therapy for breast cancer who are experiencing vasomotor symptoms, but also the broader potential for Q-122 beyond this patient group, including postmenopausal women, of which 70-80 per cent experience vasomotor symptoms," says Dr Chris Nave, Chairman of QUE Oncology and CEO of Brandon BioCatalyst.
The results of QUE Oncology's Phase II study support the conduct of larger and longer studies of Q-122, with potential use extending to postmenopausal women who require an alternative to oestrogen therapy for vasomotor symptoms.
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Q-122 Phase 2 study:
Eligible participants were women, aged 18–70 years, taking a stable dose of tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor following breast cancer and experiencing at least 50 self-reported moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms per week.
Participants were randomly assigned (1:1) using an interactive web response system to oral Q-122 100 mg or identical placebo, twice daily for 28 days. Randomisation was stratified by BMI (≤30 kg/m² or >30 kg/m²) and use of any of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, gabapentin, or pregabalin.
Between Oct 24, 2018, and Sept 9, 2020, 243 patients were screened, 131 of whom were randomly assigned and received treatment (Q-122 n=65 and placebo n=66).
- Q-122 resulted in a significantly greater mean percentage change in msVMS-SS from baseline over 28 days of treatment compared with placebo (least squares mean: Q-122, –39% [95% CI –46 to –31] vs placebo –26% [–33 to –18]; p=0・018).
- Treatment-emergent adverse events were generally mild to moderate and similar between the two groups (treatment-related treatment-emergent adverse events in 11 [17%] of 65 patients in the Q-122 group vs nine [14%] of 66 in the placebo group); zero patients in the Q-122 group and two (3%) patients in the placebo group had serious adverse events.
About QUE Oncology
QUE Oncology is a clinical stage company developing drugs for unmet medical needs. The lead program, Q-122 is in development as a novel non-hormonal treatment for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) in postmenopausal women, and in cancer patients receiving hormone therapy. The clinical results of Q-122, as an effective and well tolerated non-hormonal oral treatment for vasomotor symptoms, warrant its further development in larger and longer studies.
QUE Oncology was formed through a joint venture between Emory University in Atlanta and the University of Queensland research commercialization company, UniQuest. QUE Oncology is backed by venture capital groups, led by Brandon Capital-managed Brandon BioCatalyst and Uniseed.
About Q-122
Q-122 is an orally bioavailable, non-hormonal, small molecule that is being developed as a treatment for vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women, and in cancer patients receiving hormone therapy. Promising clinical activity and an excellent safety profile of Q-122 has been demonstrated in early clinical trials of healthy volunteers, cancer patients, and breast cancer survivors taking endocrine therapy who were experiencing vasomotor symptoms (over 125 total subjects). Functionally in preclinical studies, Q-122 exhibits a novel mechanism of action, which is not an NK3 receptor antagonist.
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New Resort Welcomes Guests To A Haven Of Modern Luxury With Sophisticated Design, Curated Dining And Thoughtful Service
PANAJI, India, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- JW Marriott, part of Marriott Bonvoy's global portfolio of 30 extraordinary hotel brands, made its debut in Goa, India today with the opening of JW Marriott Goa. Set in an unparalleled location along the golden Goan coastline and close to landmark attractions, historic forts, churches, and pristine beaches, JW Marriott Goa is the perfect getaway and an embodiment of the JW Marriott principle of mindfulness. With thoughtfully crafted spaces, transformative experiences and sophisticated style, the new hotel is poised to be an oasis of luxury and warm hospitality, empowering guests to focus on feeling revitalized in mind, body and spirit.
"JW Marriott is at the forefront of the evolution of luxury, blending a legacy of extraordinary hospitality with a contemporary commitment to mindfulness and well-being that continues to be a priority for today's luxury traveler," said Bruce Rohr, Global Brand Leader, JW Marriott. "JW Marriott Goa embodies this modern approach to luxury through its thoughtful design, emphasis on serene spaces and connection to the natural world."
"We are delighted to announce the opening of JW Marriott Goa. This opening marks a milestone for Marriott International's 150th opening in South Asia. It solidifies our commitment in the region and signifies the trust our owners have in us," said Ranju Alex, Area Vice President, South Asia, Marriott International. "We remain confident in the strength of our brands, our team, and we shall continue to pave the way for aggressive expansion with our strong pipeline of hotels."
The new hotel is located along the picturesque coastline of Vagator, Goa, minutes from historic Chapora Fort and Chapora and Vagator beaches, famous for their dramatic cliffs and breathtaking sunset views. This popular travel destination is approximately 27 kilometers from the new Mopa Airport in North Goa and 43 kilometers from Goa International Airport.
Thoughtful Design
Inspired by the rich culture and traditions of Goa, the 151-room JW Marriott Goa reflects the tranquility and beauty of its surroundings, with an architectural narrative featuring local artifacts such as wooden paneling, mother-of-pearl detailing, intricate glassware chandeliers and water fountains that accentuate the natural marble and stone throughout its serene spaces. The use of neutral color palettes of gray and light sand, along with soft ambient lighting, complements the abundant greenery of its natural surroundings. Goan cultural references and elements of modern design interweave to create a sense of place in a peaceful sanctuary. Guestrooms feature balconies that open to breathtaking ocean views, and luxurious suites offer private plunge pools.
Inspired Culinary Creations
JW Marriott Goa features four inviting dining venues to suit all occasions. JW Kitchen is the hotel's all-day restaurant with a theater-style open kitchen, serving globally-inspired cuisine and exquisite local dishes, along with indulgent Sunday brunches and a special children's selection. Pérola is an impeccably-appointed French-style lobby bar with a daily Afternoon Tea service, ideal for casual meetings and get-togethers over a glass of wine, signature coffee or tea, and light snacks. Guests can savor Mediterranean cuisine and exotic cocktails at the hotel's sky-dining Água Bar and Café, perched atop the hotel overlooking the infinity pool and spectacular views of the Goan coast. The luxurious Heliconia serves modern Asian fine dining along with handcrafted cocktails amidst lush natural surroundings. Complementing the resort's commitment to healthy dining, many of the seasonal vegetables and fresh herbs featured on the menus are grown in the hotel's signature JW Garden. Guests can also harvest the fresh produce within the garden's calming spaces as they reconnect with their loved ones in natural surroundings.
Serene Spaces
For guests seeking relaxation and rejuvenation, the hotel offers holistic treatments at Spa by JW, which features Goa's first and only Turkish and Moroccan hammams, or steam rooms. The hotel's modern gym, JW Fitness, showcases the latest cardio and weight equipment, and a stunning outdoor infinity pool with poolside cabanas where guests can enjoy a relaxing swim and lounge in the warm tropical sunshine.
The Family by JW program puts families first, offering an entertainment center with virtual reality games, a bowling alley and a children's play area for quality family time together. Kids can learn the art of candle making, create pasta necklaces, enjoy board game competitions, and more, while adults can join Zumba classes, chakra healing sessions, and Gua Sha workshops. Fun-filled activities for all ages, such as water polo and pot painting, allow families to create unforgettable holiday memories.
Spaces For Connection
The hotel offers a total of 18,752 square feet of indoor and outdoor event spaces, including two well-appointed meeting rooms as well as the splendid 4,607-square-feet Grande Salão, an elegant ballroom with an outdoor terrace, complete with the latest audio-visual technology, Wi-Fi and a dedicated events team for seamless and memorable meetings, weddings and celebrations.
"Guests arriving at JW Marriott Goa step into a luxury oasis, set like a rare jewel in one of India's finest tropical beach destinations. Our hotel is a haven of tranquility inspired by its natural surroundings where guests can seek well-being as well as explore all the vibrant attractions of Goa and the genuine hospitality of its people. We look forward to welcoming travelers to discover all that beautiful Goa has to offer," said Manav Malhotra, General Manager, JW Marriott Goa.
For more information or to make a reservations, please visit JW Marriott Goa.
ABOUT JW MARRIOTT
JW Marriott is part of Marriott International's luxury portfolio of brands and consists of beautiful properties and distinctive resort locations around the world. JW Marriott is a tribute to the founder of Marriott International, J. Willard "J.W." Marriott, who prioritized his own well-being so that he could take better care of others. Inspired by his approach to life and rooted in holistic well-being, JW Marriott properties offer a haven designed to allow guests to focus on feeling whole – present in mind, nourished in body, and revitalized in spirit – through programs and offerings that encourage them to come together and experience every moment to the fullest. Today there are more than 100 JW Marriott hotels in more than 35 countries and territories worldwide that cater to sophisticated, mindful travelers who come seeking experiences that help them be fully present, foster meaningful connections and feed the soul. Visit JW Marriott online, and on Instagram and Facebook. JW Marriott is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy®, the global travel program from Marriott International. The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, exclusive experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments and unparalleled benefits including complimentary nights and Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit marriottbonvoy.com
ABOUT MARRIOTT BONVOY®.
Marriott Bonvoy's extraordinary portfolio offers renowned hospitality in the most memorable destinations in the world, with 30 brands that are tailored to every type of journey. From The Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis to W Hotels and more, Marriott Bonvoy has more luxury offerings than any other travel program. Members can earn points for stays at hotels and resorts, including all-inclusive resorts and premium home rentals, and through everyday purchases with co-branded credit cards. Members can redeem their points for experiences including future stays, Marriott Bonvoy Moments, or through partners for luxurious products from Marriott Bonvoy Boutiques. To enroll for free or for more information about Marriott Bonvoy, visit marriottbonvoy.com.
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Can the extinct Tasmanian tiger return? Genetic engineers hope so
DALLAS - A team of scientists said it has started the de-extinction process of the thylacine, or the Tasmanian tiger, after it was eradicated by human hunting nearly 100 years ago.
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences, a genetic engineering and de-extinction company, said the animal was native to Australia and had roamed the Earth for millions of years.
The Tasmanian tiger, a striped marsupial carnivore, was thought to have gone extinct after Benjamin, believed to be the last member of the species, died in captivity in the Hobart Zoo in Australia in September 1936.
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The company said it will use gene editing— changing the DNA of a living organism— to bring the Tasmanian tiger back to life. They further hope to use advanced technology to preserve the species.
The company said bringing the thylacine will help re-balance the Tasmanian and broader Australian ecosystems. Scientists said the ecosystems have degraded since the tiger went extinct, which led to the spreading of diseases and an increase in wildfires and invasive species. They claim the thylacine hunted and killed non-native predators that fed off of plants and trees critically needed to sustain natural vegetation.
Colossal is working with multiple universities to help bring back the Tasmanian tiger.
"We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Andrew Pask and the University of Melbourne to restore this amazing animal to Earth while also further developing gestational and genetic rescue technologies for future marsupial conservation efforts," Ben Lamm, Colossal Co-Founder and CEO, said in a news release.
Colossal said its global conservation efforts have also received support from the famous Hemsworth brothers: Chris, Luke, and Liam.
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"Our family remains dedicated to supporting conservationist efforts around the world and protecting Australia's biodiversity is a high priority. The Tassie Tiger’s extinction had a devastating effect on our ecosystem and we are thrilled to support the revolutionary conservation efforts that are being made by Dr. Pask and the entire Colossal team," Chris Hemsworth said.
The Colossal team is also working to de-extinct the woolly mammoth and restore the species to the Arctic Tundra.
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(WXIN) – “Halloween Ends” is not only the final film in David Gordon Green’s trilogy reboot of the “Halloween” series; it’s likely the final time audiences see Jamie Lee Curtis play final girl turned final woman Laurie Strode.
Curtis, who is now 63, was 19 when she starred in John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978). Her character, Laurie Strode, proved a worthy adversary for boogeyman Michael Myers, as she returned to play the role an additional six times over the next 44 years.
But in an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Tuesday, the Golden Globe-winning actress signed a document, signaling the end of her time as Strode.
“I, Jamie Lee Curtis, Queen of scream, daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, mother of Lindsey Lohan…hereby sweareth under penalty of perjury that ‘Halloween Ends’ (2022) will be the last Halloween movie I will ever be in,” read the document Kimmel presented to Curtis.
“I should call my lawyer first before I sign anything,” said Curtis as she inked her name while several in the studio audience yelled, “No!”
After being (SPOILER) killed off in 2002’s “Halloween Resurrection,” Curtis gained a following with younger audiences with the body swapping comedy “Freaky Friday” with Lindsay Lohan in 2003.
Fifteen years later, she once again filled the shoes of the role that made her a scream queen in 2018’s “Halloween.”
The 2018 “Halloween” was the first of a trilogy and was followed by “Halloween Kills” and the new”Halloween Ends”.
David Gordon Green directed all three and agreed he felt “Halloween Ends” was the end of the road for Curtis’ Strode.
“I do feel confident that we are saying goodbye to Jamie playing Laurie in the universe. At some point someone will maybe bring a new Laurie into something, some twist will happen, and the mythology will continue, but I do feel like this is the last time we’re going to see her nervous smile and those fun enlightening attributes of Laurie Strode,” Green told Entertainment Weekly.
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WA Portland OR Zone Forecast for Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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National Weather Service Portland OR
418 AM PDT Wed Nov 2 2022
Spot Temperatures are for Today, Tonight, and Thursday.
WAZ021-022330-
South Washington Coast-
Including the cities of Raymond, Long Beach, Ocean Park, Naselle,
Cathlamet, and Cape Disappointment
418 AM PDT Wed Nov 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance
of thunderstorms this morning, then a slight chance of showers
this afternoon. Highs around 50. Light wind. Chance of rain
50 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch, except
higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Near beaches and
headlands, gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts
less than a tenth of an inch.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. South wind 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the upper 50s. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph
with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain, mainly in the evening. Rain may be heavy at
times in the evening. Breezy with lows in the lower 40s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.MONDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then showers likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Showers likely. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance of rain
70 percent.
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WAZ020-022330-
Willapa Hills-
Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,
and Ryderwood
418 AM PDT Wed Nov 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. Snow level 2000
feet. No snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 40s. Light wind.
Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows in the lower 30s.
Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
40 percent chance of rain. Snow level 1500 feet. Highs in the mid
40s. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth
of an inch.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows around 40. South wind 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Breezy with highs in the mid 50s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph,
increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain, mainly in the evening. Rain may be heavy at
times in the evening. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of rain near
100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Snow level 2500 feet. Highs in the mid 40s.
Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Snow level 2500 feet. Lows in the mid
30s. Chance of rain 90 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level 2000 feet. Highs in the lower
40s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level 2000 feet. Lows in the
mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.MONDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow
showers likely in the afternoon. Snow level 2000 feet. Highs in
the mid 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Showers likely. Snow showers likely after
midnight. Snow level 2000 feet. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning. Showers likely.
Snow level 2500 feet. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
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WAZ040-022330-
South Washington Cascade Foothills-
Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,
and Cougar
418 AM PDT Wed Nov 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely this
morning, then a chance of showers this afternoon. Snow level
2000 feet. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 40s.
Light wind. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost. Patchy fog after
midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely in the afternoon. Snow
level 1500 feet. Highs in the mid 40s. Light wind. Chance of rain
70 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain. Snow level 2500 feet in the evening. Lows
in the upper 30s. South wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest wind 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the evening.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of rain
90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Snow, rain. Snow level 2500 feet. Lows in the
mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY...Rain, snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the morning.
Snow level 2000 feet. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level 2000 feet. Lows in the
mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.MONDAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then rain and snow
showers likely in the afternoon. Snow level 2000 feet. Highs in
the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers likely. Snow level
1500 feet. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Rain and snow showers likely. Snow level 2000 feet.
Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers likely, mainly this morning.
Snow level 2500 feet. Total snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches.
West wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Free air freezing
level at the surface. Light wind.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost. A slight chance of
snow in the afternoon. Free air freezing level at the surface in
the morning. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow. Rain after midnight. Snow level
2500 feet. Southwest wind 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the afternoon. Snow
level 6500 feet. Breezy. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts
up to 35 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain. Rain may be heavy at times in the evening.
Snow level 6500 feet. Breezy. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow and rain. Snow level 3000 feet. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Snow likely in the evening, then snow after
midnight. Snow may be heavy at times after midnight. Snow level
2500 feet. Chance of snow 90 percent.
.SUNDAY...Snow. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow level 2000 feet.
Chance of snow 90 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Snow likely, mainly in the evening. Snow level
2000 feet. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Snow likely in the morning, then snow showers likely in
the afternoon. Snow level 2000 feet. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely. Chance of snow 60 percent.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has subpoenaed his friend and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as part of an effort to back out of his $44 billion agreement to acquire the company Dorsey helped found, according to court documents.
Twitter and Musk are headed for an Oct. 17 trial in Delaware that should determine whether or not Twitter can force the billionaire to go through with the acquisition.
Twitter has subpoenaed a host of tech investors and entrepreneurs connected to Musk, including prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and David Sacks, the founding chief operating officer of PayPal.
Musk has claimed that Twitter failed to provide adequate information about the number of fake, or “spam bot,” Twitter accounts, and that it has breached its obligations under the deal by firing top managers and laying off a significant number of employees. Musk’s team expects more information about the bot numbers to be revealed in the trial court discovery process, when both sides must hand over evidence.
Twitter argues that Musk’s reasons for backing out are just a cover for buyer’s remorse. Shortly after Musk agreed to pay 38% above Twitter’s stock price, the stock market stumbled and shares of the electric-car maker Tesla, where most of Musk’s personal wealth resides, lost more than $100 billion of their value.
The subpoena was served last week. It asks Dorsey for documents and communications related to the acquisition, as well as information on the effect of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s business and its measurement of daily active users.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The visionaries behind the Indy Eleven stadium coming to downtown Indy are giving a first glimpse of the $1 billion dollar development.
Plans to begin site work at the future “Eleven Park” are set for May, and the hope is for the first games for the Indy Eleven team to roll out in summer of 2025, according to Indy Eleven and Keystone Group.
The main component of the future permanent home for Indianapolis’ USL Championship soccer team is a 20,000-seat multipurpose stadium.
But that is far from all.
There will also be:
- 600+ apartments
- 4,000-seat music and entertainment venue
- 205,000 square feet of office space
- 197,000 square feet for retail space and restaurants including rooftop bars
- public plazas with green space including outdoor stage, kids play zone, water features, dog park
- public parking garages
Eleven Park will be built where industrial manufacturer Diamond Chain currently stands at 402 Kentucky Ave. The company is due to vacate the property by the end of April and has already ceased production.
“Eleven Park will not only change the skyline of Indianapolis, but will add over a thousand jobs, have a huge economic impact, create quality of life benefits and attract talent and opportunities to our city and state,” said Ersal Ozdemir, Chairman and Founder of Keystone Group & Indy Eleven.
Organizers hope the public plaza will be used for community events year round including farmers’ markets.
AECOM Hunt will be the construction manager for the project. It’s the same company that constructed Lucas Oil Stadium and Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, as well as SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
For more information on the project, follow the @ElevenParkIndy and @IndyEleven channels on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and visit elevenpark.com. | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/eleven-park-renderings-released-what-the-future-home-of-indy-eleven-apartments-retail-space-will-look-like/ | 2023-02-17 14:49:21 | 1 | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/eleven-park-renderings-released-what-the-future-home-of-indy-eleven-apartments-retail-space-will-look-like/ |
Which earbuds are better, Beats Studio Buds or Apple AirPods Pro?
Earbuds are a must for anybody who wants to listen to their favorite tunes on the go. Whether you wear them while commuting to work or at the gym, there are two high-quality earbuds worth your attention.
The AirPods Pro are Apple’s flagship earbuds known for their high-quality build and premium features. However, the Beats Studio Buds are also excellent, giving the Apple AirPods Pro a run for their money. It depends on what you want out of your earbuds, but there are some key differences to consider, primarily in price and design.
Beats Studio Buds
The Beats Studio Buds have only been around for a year but are already among the most popular earbuds, along with other Beats headphones, such as the PowerBeats Pro and Beats Fit Pro earbuds. They’re a great bargain pick, as they retail for $150 and deliver excellent audio quality and features comparable to the best earbuds by other industry-leading brands.
Beats Studio Buds pros
The Beats Studio Buds have a minimalist, lightweight design and come in a compact case that’s easy to carry around in your pocket. Each earbud has three built-in microphones for active noise-canceling and transparency modes that let wearers tune out external ambient noise or enhance it. They have an IPX4 protection rating, meaning they’re sweat-resistant and suitable for working out, but they shouldn’t be submerged in water.
They sync well with iOS devices, supporting Bluetooth 5.0 for a stable connection and spatial audio for an immersive listening experience when using Apple Music. The top of each earbud has a physical button for managing phone calls, music playback, accessing Siri and adjusting noise-canceling levels.
As with other Beats headphones, the bass is pronounced, making them ideal for listening to music genres such as hip hop, reggae and jazz. However, the sound is more balanced than other bass-heavy earbuds.
They come in red, black or white and come with three ear tips for adjusting the comfort and fit based on preference and the shape of your ear. Also, they offer up to 24 hours of total battery life.
Beats Studio Buds cons
From the outside, Beats Studio Buds look flawless, and while their compact design is appealing for some people, others might find the lack of a stem awkward. They also don’t have an auto-detection feature, so music playback continues when you remove them.
They don’t support wireless charging, and unlike other Apple and Beats earbuds, they don’t have a W1 or H1 chip for seamlessly transferring connections across devices. That means it’s necessary to pair one device at a time. Also, they charge with a USB-C cable, which can be inconvenient for those with several Apple devices that use Lightning-based connections.
AirPods Pro
The AirPods Pro are essentially an upgraded version of the original AirPods. Although their cost is steep, retailing at $250, they have a design and several features many users find worth the money.
AirPods Pro pros
The AirPods Pro boast a clean, sophisticated aesthetic design that’s considered an upgrade over the original AirPods. They have a more compact shape and a sealed-off ear tip design, which allows for true noise-cancelation. Also, the charging case is smaller than the one included with the Beats Studio Buds.
They have many of the same features as the Beats Studio Buds, including Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, an IPx4 protection rating and 24 hours of battery life. However, there are a handful of features you won’t get with the Beats Studio Buds.
The AirPods Pro have a high-end H1 chip that lets you pair them with multiple devices simultaneously and seamlessly switch connections. It also allows users to access Siri simply by using the ‘Hey Siri’ activation phrase without pressing any buttons.
The audio quality is slightly clearer, and separation between highs and lows is more evident than on the Beats Studio Buds. However, unless you consider yourself an audiophile, you likely wouldn’t notice a significant difference.
Auto-detecting is built into the AirPods Pro, so music playback stops as soon as you take them off. The adaptive equalizer feature automatically optimizes sound based on what’s playing, and the force sensors on the button controls let you manage calls and music playback. Fast Fuel charging quickly juices the AirPods Pro battery, and unlike the Beats Studio Buds, the case supports wireless charging.
AirPods Pro cons
The AirPods Pro are expensive for earbuds and cost $100 more than the Beats Studio Buds. Unlike the original AirPods, there’s only one model of AirPods Pro, so you don’t have the option of choosing between current and previous generations if you’re looking to save a few bucks.
For example, although the 3rd Gen AirPods are the current model, the 2nd Gen AirPods are similar and cost less, making them ideal for those who want high-end earbuds, albeit with a few downgrades in features and functionality.
Although the AirPods Pro offer up to 24 hours of battery life, the Beats Studio Buds last longer with active noise-canceling enabled, making them suitable for long conference calls or video calling. Also, AirPods Pro are designed to integrate and function effortlessly with other iOS devices, so you wouldn’t use them to their full potential if you have an Android smartphone and other non-iOS devices.
Should you get Beats Studio Buds or AirPods Pro?
The Beats Studio Buds are excellent if you’re working with a budget. They deliver fantastic sound, work great with Android and iOS devices and offer slightly better battery life than the AirPods Pro.
However, if you don’t mind spending the money and already own other iOS devices, the AirPods Pro are the way to go. The active noise-canceling is slightly better, and additional features such as auto-detection, an H1 chip, force sensors and wireless charging enhance their functionality and ease of use, making them superior to the Beats Studio Buds.
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Chris Partridge returns to Michigan football staff, though role is unclear
Chris Partridge, a high-energy recruiter who spent the last three seasons at Ole Miss as co-defensive coordinator and the primary play-caller last season, has returned to Michigan, but it’s unclear in what role.
Michigan made the announcement on Wednesday.
Partridge spent five seasons on Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan staff before heading to Ole Miss. In 2015, he was Michigan’s director of player personnel, then became an on-field coach, including four seasons as a special-teams coordinator. He coached safeties for two seasons and linebackers for two seasons.
Michigan currently has the full allotment of 10 assistant coaches, so this may mean a current coach is leaving or there will be assignment shifts.
“He is a phenomenal teacher and coach and will be a major asset to our team, program, and university community,” Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said in a statement.
Partridge, who parted ways with Ole Miss last month, was National Recruiter of the Year by Scout in 2016 and by 247Sports in 2017. He was ranked a top-five recruiter in 2019 by 247Sports.
“My family and I could not be more excited to be back in Ann Arbor,” Partridge said in a statement. “Michigan has always remained a huge part of us. I look forward to working with the staff to recruit, mentor and coach the incredible young men that make Michigan the best football program on and off the field in the world.” | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2023/02/08/chris-partridge-returns-to-michigan-football-staff-though-role-is-unclear/69885683007/ | 2023-02-08 20:33:36 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2023/02/08/chris-partridge-returns-to-michigan-football-staff-though-role-is-unclear/69885683007/ |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Margo Caribe, Inc. (OTC SYMBOL: MRGO) (Margo), a market leader in the home and garden segment, today announced operating results of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Margo Outdoor Living, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2022 and the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
The Company reported audited results for the twelve-month fiscal year period ended December 31, 2022 that included net sales of $47.7 million, down 8.0 percent from the prior year and net income of approximately $4.4 million compared to $5.8 million for the prior year. The Company also released unaudited results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2023, including net sales of $12.4 million, down 9.3% and pre-tax income of $2.6 million, declining 9.0% compared to the same period last year.
Michael Spector, CEO, commented that "sales for 2022 were impacted by a single customer electing to discontinue a test pebble program, accounting for 62 percent of the total year-over-year decline. Excluding this customer, total sales declined approximately 2.3 percent on a year-over-year basis, which is consistent with industry segment performance. Sales to our large "big-box" customers continue to be impacted by high inventory levels and a slowdown in customer discretionary spending".
Mr. Spector added, "our operating results will be positively impacted as sea freight rates return to pre-pandemic norms, lowering landed costs and improving product margins". We continue to execute on our primary operating objective of expanding and diversifying our product offering and supplier distribution network. We see substantial growth opportunity in the pottery segment by leveraging newly secured production commitments from South American and European suppliers that will position us to effectively backfill gaps in inventory supply experienced by our customers post-pandemic".
Highlights for the Year Ended December 31, 2022 and Quarter Ended March 31, 2023
- Revenue was $47.7 million for the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2022, down 8.0% from the same period in the prior year.
- The Company's longer-term sales growth profile remains strong, up 30% over 2019 pre-pandemic sales levels.
- Revenue for the three-month period ended March 31, 2023, totaled $12.4 million, down 9.3% from the same period last year.
- Full year 2022 net income was $4.4 million, down $1.1 million or 20 percent from the prior year, excluding the gain on PPP loan forgiveness in 2021. Lower revenue was the primary cause for the year-over-year decline in income: operating expenses increased 8.0 percent or $627 thousand and gross margins improved by 62 basis points contributing approximately $300 thousand to pre-tax income.
- Pre-tax income for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, totaled $2.6 million, down $264 thousand or 9 percent from the same period prior year. Lower sales caused the pre-tax decline as the Company posted a gross margin improvement of 2.8 percentage points with operating expense growth contained at 5.0 percent compared to the prior year.
- Cash flow remained strong in 2022, cash balances ended the year at $5.4 million, up 18 percent from the prior year and debt at year-end totaled $5.1 million, down $2.0 million or 28% compared to prior year-end.
- Cash balances ended March 31, 2023, at $5.6 million, $4.1 million higher than the same period last year. Total debt ended the first quarter at $4.7 million, down 31 percent from the prior year.
- The Company ended 2022 with access to approximately $10.7 million in liquidity consisting of $6.5 million in asset-based lending availability, based on advance rates on accounts receivable and inventory and $4.2 million in free cash.
About Margo Caribe, Inc.
Margo Caribe, Inc. through its subsidiary Margo Outdoor Living, Inc. (MOL). has benefited by building key relationships with the largest big-box retailers in its industry segment. Its focus on product development, world-wide supplier sourcing, cost-effective logistics and state-of-the-art automation has contributed to its success in growing both top and bottom-line results. MOL offers a wide range of products in the lawn and garden segment. This includes sales of landscaping pebbles, mulch, glass, pottery and tile products. The Company's customer base is predominantly big-box retailers but also sells products directly to consumers through the eCommerce sales channel.
MOL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Margo Caribe, Inc., a Puerto Rico entity. Effective December 22, 2020, MOL converted from a Florida corporation to a Delaware corporation and changed its name from Margo State Line, Inc. to Margo Outdoor Living, Inc.
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Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) personal Twitter account was suspended on Wednesday.
Users were unable to see Tweets from his @BasedMikeLee account, with his feed only reading “Account suspended,” and that “Twitter suspends accounts that violate Twitter rules.”
After leaving a Senate GOP lunch, Lee told The Hill that he wasn’t sure why the account got suspended.
“Yeah, I just noticed that,” he said. “No idea why. I checked my email and I checked my direct mentioning function on the Twitter app and I haven’t received anything. Weird.”
Lee later Tweeted from his official account that, “My personal Twitter account – @BasedMikeLee – has been suspended. Twitter did not alert me ahead of time, nor have they yet offered an explanation for the suspension. My team and I are seeking answers.”
Reporters noted that Lee on Wednesday morning tweeted at Japanese Prime Minister calling for the return of imprisoned Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis, who is serving prison time for his role in a deadly car crash.
“I didn’t say anything that’s worthy of suspension, so I don’t know,” Lee added about the tweet in question.
The Hill reached out to Twitter for comment.
Twitter last month briefly suspended the account of Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) after Daines’s account displayed an image of him and his wife hunting as the profile picture. The suspension prompted an outcry from Republicans and the account was reinstated later the same day.
On Wednesday, Daines Tweeted, “Here we go again…@Twitter, why is my colleague @BasedMikeLee locked out of his account? #FreeLee“ | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/twitter-suspends-mike-lees-personal-account/ | 2023-03-01 19:33:06 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/twitter-suspends-mike-lees-personal-account/ |
- EQONEX will streamline to focus on Asset Management and Custody
- EQONEX to proactively exit the crowded crypto exchange space, closing its crypto Exchange on August 22, 2022
- Exchange clients will have sufficient time to manage and close their trading positions and withdraw their assets off the exchange
- The Exchange closure will materially reduce the Company's cost structure and position the Company for sustainable growth.
SINGAPORE, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EQONEX Limited (NASDAQ: EQOS) ("EQONEX" or the "Company"), a digital assets financial services company, today announced that it is taking decisive action to streamline its operations and focus resources primarily on the businesses that offer the most potential for revenue growth and long-term financial sustainability: Asset Management and Custody. The Company will proactively exit the crowded crypto exchange space by closing the Exchange.
EQONEX Chairman Chi-Won Yoon recently outlined the Company's strategic priorities and intention to focus its resources on businesses where it has significant competitive strengths and can leverage its traditional finance expertise and experience. The decision by the EQONEX Board of Directors to accelerate its strategic plan and close the Exchange is in alignment with this strategic framework.
Closing the Exchange will improve the Company's financial position by materially reducing the high-cost structure associated with operating the Exchange, and free up resources to drive growth in the segments where it has significant competitive strengths.
The Exchange was launched during a period of rapid growth and competition within the crypto industry, and the market is now comprised of close to 300 spot exchanges, many of which share comparable features. Intense market competition and low margins, combined with the significant technological load required to ensure optimal performance has made running a profitable exchange increasingly challenging, especially in the current environment where crypto exchange volumes have fallen.
EQONEX's Asset Management business encompasses Investment Products and Bletchley Park, a fund of crypto hedge funds. The Investment Products business recently received approval from Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for the issuance of an exchange-traded products, which resulted in the launch of the EQONEX Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) on the Deutsche Börse XETRA Exchange in July 2022.
In addition, EQONEX will be launching a Structured Products business in the near future that will offer professional investors and institutions exposure to bespoke crypto investments. The Company also recently announced several high-caliber, senior appointments to the Asset Management team to drive growth in Asia and Europe.
Digivault, the group's digital asset custody business, is in the unique position of being one of only a few digital asset custody providers to be registered with the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom. Digivault is a provider of choice for law enforcement agencies and recently became the first custody partner of poundtoken.io, the first British-Isles regulated and 100% backed GBP stablecoin.
The Company's focus on regulation and governance has also been a driving feature since its inception, and it plans to continue its efforts to secure regulatory licenses for its on-going businesses with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.
EQONEX CEO Jonathan Farnell said, "We are focused on opportunities that will drive revenue growth and position us for long-term success. Closing the Exchange will significantly simplify our business, narrow our focus, free up resources, and allow us to operate as a more efficient organization with capacity to aggressively go after market segments that offer the most potential."
"The recent extreme market volatility and declining trading volumes have added to the headwinds being felt by exchange operators. We take a realistic view that our exchange will not move the needle for us financially over the near-to-medium term. We don't see value in continuing to bear the costs of operating an exchange during what may be a prolonged market downturn. We have conviction that proactively exiting the crowded exchange space is the right decision to deliver shareholder value."
"Our Asset Management and Custody business, Digivault, have already made solid progress with the additional resources that we have allocated to them recently, and we are bullish about their prospects as we become an organization focused on these high-potential business areas".
EQONEX Chairman Chi-Won Yoon said, "Nimble and resilient companies can adapt and evolve to navigate market conditions and exploit opportunities. We are now firmly committed to the areas where we have the expertise and experience to serve a growing customer segment, and where we can ultimately deliver the most investor value."
"Digital asset custody and asset management businesses have high barriers to entry given their unique security, technology and regulatory specifications. We have already laid solid foundations for our businesses to thrive, and with increased focus and resources, we are well positioned to harness our competitive advantages and capitalize on market opportunities."
EQONEX's principal place of business will move from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom given Asset Management and Custody operations are predominantly UK-based, together with the majority of the Executive Management team.
Timeline for Exchange customers:
EQONEX aims to provide customers with sufficient time to trade out of existing derivative positions and withdraw assets from the exchange before it ceases operations.
- The Exchange will close for trading at 08.00 AM UTC on 22 August 2022. Clients should aim to close out their derivative trading positions during this seven-day window.
- Customers will then have between 15 August and 8.00 AM UTC on 14 September (30 days from this announcement) to withdraw their assets into another wallet. Withdrawal fees will be waived.
- The EQO token, being an exchange-only token that cannot be withdrawn, will cease trading with immediate effect. EQONEX will communicate with holders directly regarding their EQO balance.
- More detailed customer information is available at www.eqonex.com
About EQONEX
EQONEX Limited (NASDAQ: EQOS) is a technology driven digital assets financial services group that provides institutional grade infrastructure and a full suite of trading, custody and asset management solutions to clients. The Group's digital assets ecosystem has been designed to accommodate the needs of institutions and individuals with the same degree of regulatory oversight and security they are accustomed to in traditional financial markets. EQONEX's ecosystem primarily encompasses Digivault, a FCA- registered custodian, Asset Management which encompasses investment products, and Bletchley Park, a fund of crypto-hedge funds, and Brokerage which includes Structured Products, OTC and lending services.
For more information visit: https://group.eqonex.com/
Follow EQONEX on social media on Twitter @eqonex, on Facebook @eqonex, and on LinkedIn.
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Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on available current market material and management's expectations, beliefs and forecasts concerning future events impacting EQONEX. You are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions, which, if they were to ever materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of EQONEX to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements made in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and we disclaim any obligation, except as required by law, to provide updates, revisions or amendments to any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in our expectations or future events.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mitch Trubisky, Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph all impressed Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin during the preseason with their respective accuracy.
If only the same could be said for whoever put together the team’s initial depth chart for the 2022 season.
While Tomlin announced Trubisky as the starter on Tuesday — a move telegraphed a day prior when Trubisky’s teammates voted him one of five captains for 2022 and the depth chart placed Trubisky’s name at the top — it will be Pickett and not Rudolph who will serve as Trubisky’s backup on Sunday when the Steelers open at defending AFC champion Cincinnati.
The chart released on Monday had Rudolph listed as the No. 2 before being corrected shortly before Tomlin spoke on Tuesday. Entering his 16th season, Tomlin laughed off the mix-up as a clerical error.
“The cut-and-paste component was the cut-and-paste component,” Tomlin said with a smile. “ I know you were hoping for a little bit more colorful explanation, but it is what it is.”
Tomlin and the Steelers are optimistic the depth chart won’t require much editing in the coming weeks following a solid preseason by Trubisky in which the 28-year-old gave the coaching staff little reason to consider turning to Pickett, the 20th overall pick in the draft, or Rudolph, who is now in his fifth season with the club.
“We’re just really comfortable with what Mitch has shown us,” Tomlin said. “He’s a guy that came to us with franchise quarterback experience if you will. He’s comfortable in those shoes.”
Trubisky has certainly acted the part over the past six months, immediately embracing his fresh start after spending 2021 backing up Josh Allen in Buffalo following four turbulent seasons in Chicago. He reached out to his new teammates shortly after signing an incentive-laden two-year contract in March, hosted skill position players at his house in Miami and hardly seemed bothered by the team’s decision to draft Pickett in late April.
And for all of the issues that cropped up during Trubisky’s tenure in Chicago — some of them well out of his control — he had a 29-21 record as a starter and twice led the Bears to the playoffs, all things that made Trubisky “very attractive” to a team that has been a postseason fixture for the majority of the past 50 years.
Pickett did his best to apply pressure, playing well during the preseason on his way to supplanting Rudolph as the No. 2.
Tomlin said Pickett’s learning curve accelerated during exhibition games, where he passed for 261 yards and three touchdowns without throwing an interception.
“I thought that he grew and grew at a really fast pace once we got in the stadiums,” Tomlin said. “And I also think it’s reasonable to expect that growth and development to continue as we push into the regular season.”
That development won’t include — at least at the moment — having Pickett on the field in certain packages, something other teams like San Francisco have done with rookie first-round quarterbacks.
At least Pickett will be in uniform. Rudolph — who is 8-5 as a starter — will be inactive after Tomlin said the team will not dress a third quarterback. Tomlin made it a point to praise Rudolph’s professionalism during the process and said the play of Rudolph, Pickett and Trubisky over the past six weeks helped a young offense get up to speed quickly.
“I thought all three of our quarterbacks represented themselves, us really, well through this process,” he said. “I thought they made plays. I thought they moved their units. I thought they took care of the football. So that made the (final decision) a challenging one.”
NOTE: Tomlin declined to offer specifics when asked if Pro Bowl WR Diontae Johnson (left shoulder) would be available for the opener. Johnson injured the shoulder while making a catch in the preseason finale against Detroit on Aug. 28.
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MIAMI (AP) —
Constant fear. Screams and the sounds of torture. Darkness in a small cell with just a hole in the floor for a toilet.
Opposition prisoners from Nicaragua are recounting the months — and sometimes years — they spent in the notorious prisons run by the regime of President Daniel Ortega.
“Those were three terrible years. There were threats, and I thought they might kill us at any moment,” recalled Victor Manuel Sosa Herrera, who was held in three separate prisons. He said water was in short supply, and what little food there was, was often rotten beans.
Sosa Herrera was among 222 opposition figures recently released by Ortega, as had long been sought by his critics. However, Ortega’s government went a few steps further, deporting them and saying their Nicaraguan citizenship would be revoked and their property confiscated — drawing fire as an example of banishment, in violation of international norms.
On Feb. 9, they were flown to the U.S., where they have begun telling stories of the harsh conditions in prison, where visits were strictly limited, or prohibited entirely.
Sosa Herrera, 60, ran a grain and feed business in the northern Nicaragua city of Matagalpa, when he was arrested in early 2020 and sentenced to 110 years in prison for treason and destabilizing the government.
He says he wasn’t an activist in the massive 2018 protests that shook Ortega’s government, but suspects he was arrested for his refusal to join government paramilitary squads that violently put down the protests.
At one prison, the Modelo penitentiary, he was locked up alone in a sunless cell measuring six feet by nine (2 by 3 meters), in the maximum security section known as “El Infiernillo,” or Little Hell. He says that another prisoner in a similar cell believed he had gone blind from years of living in the dark.
Sosa Herrera said he was held in isolation with only a concrete platform to sleep on. Water was turned on for an hour at a time, twice a day. The metal cell door had a steel window that opened just three times a day to pass him a ‘meal’: a spoonful of rice and rotted beans. That was his only daily contact.
His wife could visit him for only 15 minutes each month, and they saw each other through a glass partition.
At night, he said, he could hear other prisoners being tortured.
“The guards put them into handcuffs and shackles, and then beat them and dragged them,” Sosa Herrera recalled. “We heard them screaming.”
The Nicaraguan government did not respond to requests for comment on the prisoners’ accounts.
Ortega has maintained that his imprisoned opponents and others were behind 2018 street protests that he claims were a foreign plot to overthrow him. Tens of thousands have fled into exile since Nicaraguan security forces violently put down those protests.
In some ways, those held in solitary confinement may have been lucky.
Isaías Martínez Rivas, a milk delivery worker, ran an independent online media outlet, of the kind Ortega’s government hates.
Martínez Rivas was arrested in late 2021 in front of his wife, their baby and the couple’s adolescent son. He was dragged off to a maximum security prison without an explanation or a warrant. Six months later he was sentenced to ten years in prison for supposed antigovernment activity.
Martínez Rivas, 38, was held at the prison in Chontales, 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Managua and two hours by car from his home.
He was tossed into a cell with 13 other inmates, all but one of whom were common criminals.
“It was terror, we lived in fear,” he said. The other inmates threatened the opposition prisoners, and stole their food, clothing and shoes.
“In prison I was subjected to psychological torture,” he recalled. “They never let me see my family.”
He has only been able to see his youngest, now 2, on video calls from Miami.
Another prisoner who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals against her family, said she still doesn’t know why riot police burst into her home in November 2021, and pulled her away from her family as they were about to sit down to dinner.
A perfume distributor, the 43-year-old woman said she wasn’t a political activist. But she was sentenced to 10 years in prison after prosecutors accused her of plotting to burn ballot boxes and receiving funds from abroad.
She spent 15 months locked in a cell with nine other female inmates, all of them — except her— were in for homicide or drug trafficking. The guards would subject the opposition prisoners to psychological abuse, she said.
“They would try to get at us by telling us we were going to rot in prison, to be eaten by worms,” she said.
Indeed, some prisoners didn’t make it out.
Hugo Torres, a former Sandinista guerrilla leader who once led a raid that helped free then rebel Ortega from prison in the 1970s but who later broke with Ortega, died while awaiting trial. He was 73.
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Providing individuals with insights into the relationship between food and glucose levels allows them to take more control of their diabetes and health
NEW YORK, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MyFitnessPal, the No. 1 global nutrition and fitness tracking app, and Google Health Connect today announced an integration between the two platforms at this year's Google I/O developer conference. Individuals diagnosed with Type 1 and 2 diabetes who use select continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) tools integrated with Google's Health Connect can now see their glucose data directly within the MyFitnessPal app.
"Our community will now have the critical capability to understand and visualize how the foods they eat affect their blood glucose levels throughout the day," said Tricia Han, CEO of MyFitnessPal. "Prior to this, someone could see spikes in their glucose, but not make the connection to what caused them. Our collaboration with Google builds on our innovation and commitment to bringing the latest technologies to consumers as they navigate their health and wellness journeys, particularly those with diet-related diseases."
MyFitnessPal Android users with select glucose monitors now have the ability to see the latest glucose level logged and distinguish which foods increase, decrease, or keep glucose levels stable. By simply enabling glucose monitoring in Google Health Connect, members can track correlations to the food they're eating in the MyFitnessPal app and modify their diets accordingly, ultimately making better food decisions to keep glucose levels within range. Premium users who enabled the timestamp function in their diary will be able to see glucose levels graphed against time on their food diary items.
"After integrating with Health Connect last year, MyFitnessPal has allowed users to share nutrition information from their database of foods and track workout data from other apps. Today's announcement is a great way for MyFitnessPal to help users understand how the foods that they eat can impact their glucose levels," said Chris Wilk, Senior Product Manager for Health Connect by Android.
While this feature will only be available to Android users currently, MyFitnessPal is committed to enhancing collaborations to ensure members have the data they need to make decisions about their health. For more information on MyFitnessPal, visit www.myfitnesspal.com or download for free via App Store and Google Play.
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WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) _ SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc. (SSNC) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $172.1 million.
The Windsor, Connecticut-based company said it had profit of 64 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.25 per share.
The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of $1.25 per share.
The financial services software maker posted revenue of $1.3 billion in the period, exceeding Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.28 billion.
For the current quarter ending in July, SS&C Technologies expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.13 to $1.19.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $1.33 billion to $1.37 billion for the fiscal second quarter.
SS&C Technologies expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.99 to $5.21 per share, with revenue ranging from $5.35 billion to $5.51 billion.
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Royals second. Edward Olivares singles to shortstop. Michael Massey singles to right field. Edward Olivares to third. Hunter Dozier pops out to shallow infield to Owen Miller. Michael A. Taylor out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Triston McKenzie to Owen Miller. Michael Massey to second. Drew Waters singles to shallow infield. Michael Massey to third. Edward Olivares scores. Kyle Isbel flies out to right field to Will Brennan.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Royals 1, Guardians 0.
Guardians third. Gabriel Arias singles to right center field. Austin Hedges flies out to shallow center field to Drew Waters. Myles Straw singles to right field. Gabriel Arias to third. Steven Kwan reaches on a fielder's choice to first base. Myles Straw out at second. Gabriel Arias scores. Will Brennan singles to shallow right field, advances to 2nd. Steven Kwan to third. Throwing error by Michael Massey. Jose Ramirez walks. Oscar Gonzalez strikes out swinging.
1 run, 3 hits, 1 error, 3 left on. Royals 1, Guardians 1.
Royals sixth. Bobby Witt Jr. singles to center field. Vinnie Pasquantino walks. Edward Olivares flies out to deep center field to Myles Straw. Bobby Witt Jr. to third. Michael Massey out on a sacrifice fly to right field to Will Brennan. Bobby Witt Jr. scores. Hunter Dozier strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Royals 2, Guardians 1.
Guardians sixth. Oscar Gonzalez doubles to deep right field. Andres Gimenez grounds out to first base to Vinnie Pasquantino. Oscar Gonzalez to third. Owen Miller lines out to shallow infield to Zack Greinke. Gabriel Arias reaches on error. Oscar Gonzalez scores. Fielding error by Bobby Witt Jr.. Bo Naylor flies out to shallow center field to Michael A. Taylor.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on. Royals 2, Guardians 2.
Royals tenth. Michael A. Taylor reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Nicky Lopez to third. Throwing error by Gabriel Arias. Drew Waters homers to left field. Michael A. Taylor scores. Nicky Lopez scores. Kyle Isbel pops out to Andres Gimenez. MJ Melendez flies out to right field to Will Brennan. Bobby Witt Jr. flies out to shallow center field to Myles Straw.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Kevin Harvick was on his annual family beach vacation when he was forced to cut it short early by three days to return to work for the first time in his career on Easter Sunday.
NASCAR since its 1949 inaugural season deliberately used Easter as an off weekend — often the first natural break in a 38-race season — and industry personnel slotted that week for a rare vacation. Weather-related rescheduling actually led to 10 races on Easter Sunday over the years, most recently in 1989 when a snowstorm forced a scheduling change, but NASCAR never deliberately chose the date.
Until this year.
NASCAR executive Ben Kennedy, great-grandson of NASCAR’s founder, worked with Fox to schedule the second Cup Series race on dirt-covered Bristol Motor Speedway for Sunday night under the lights in a bid to attract a larger television audience.
“When you think about all the other sports leagues with NFL on Thanksgiving, NBA on Christmas, this is our opportunity to run on Easter Sunday and drive a lot of momentum for our fans that are watching at home,” Kennedy said when the race was announced. “We put a lot of consideration into family time. Having it later in the day, and on primetime on Sunday, we want to make sure that for fans, families, team members, drivers, that they have the opportunity to celebrate earlier on in the day.”
But as Harvick returned from the beach earlier than planned, he warned the decision to race Sunday night better have a monstrous payoff. In scheduling Bristol for Easter, NASCAR stripped the premier Cup Series of all but one off weekend spanning from February until November.
“The only way it’s successful is if the TV ratings are through the roof. That’s the only way that having it on Easter night is successful,” Harvick said. “That’s the only reason it is where it is is for a TV rating, so if it doesn’t have a TV rating, you should never do it again.
“It’s an experiment, which I’m fine with experiments if it’s beneficial. If it’s beneficial for this sport and beneficial for TV ratings and beneficial for a number of things, then I’m all in. But that will be the real tell of success if that rating is way up compared to what it was.”
But not everyone is onboard as deliberately racing on Easter is unheard of in a sport that begins each event with an invocation and an optional Sunday pre-race church service. Bristol Motor Speedway has scheduled a live Easter Celebration Worship Service at the track to be held three hours before the green flag.
“Not a big fan of racing on Easter. I feel like that’s a very special day, a day that’s equally as big as Christmas, if not bigger, so I’m not crazy about it,” said defending race winner Joey Logano. “I also understand where it makes a lot of sense for a sport to do it. But it’s different than other sports. When other sports compete on holidays, it’s a couple teams here and a couple teams there. This is 40 teams.
“Maybe, it’s going to be fantastic. I’ll have my family with me so that’s good, but it’s going to be a lot different Easter than what we’re used to. Having a church service for industry, I think that that part is good.”
Marcus Smith, President and CEO of track ownership group Speedway Motorsports, said holding the Easter pre-race service was “essential” to staging the event Sunday.
“I think Easter night works really well into the schedule for people at home, they can go to church, go to lunch and Easter night you can watch a race,” Smith said. “And Easter for a lot of people is a travel weekend and we’re giving everybody a place to travel to right here — enjoy a NASCAR weekend and enjoy Easter and we’re going to have a really fantastic service.”
ODDS AND ENDS
Kyle Larson is the FanDuel favorite at 9-2. … The conversion of Bristol to a dirt track last year was the first Cup race on dirt in 50 years. But NASCAR had early experience on the surface prior to the Modern Era with 501 races on dirt from 1949 to 1970. Jim Roper in a Lincoln won the first Cup Series race on dirt in 1948 on 0.75-mile Charlotte (Old) Speedway. … NASCAR has had 77 different drivers win on dirt, led by Hall of Famer Lee Petty with 46 victories. …. Chris Tomlin, a Grammy Award-winning worship leader, and pastor Max Lucado will headline a live pre-race Easter celebration service. Rascal Flatts lead singer Gary LeVox will perform.
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Eric Valentine, 80, a retired judge, needed a rescue when he fell 60 feet down a slope and broke some bones while hiking along Hells Canyon, and Boy Scout Troop 77 of Eagle, Idaho, came through, though the former Scoutmaster had "asked God to send angels."
Kami Rita, considered one of the greatest mountain guides, regained his title for the most climbs of Mount Everest after scaling it for the 27th time, just three days after a fellow Sherpa had equaled his record.
Matt Harvill of Mobile, Ala., exclaimed that he "didn't want to step foot in the water" after spotting an alligator bobbing near bathers at Dauphin Island where he had gone to take pregnancy announcement photos with his girlfriend.
Anthony Saad, police chief of Oxford, Mass., said a 23-year-old man faces attempted murder and other charges after he was shot while holding a sword over his head and running at an officer at a "full sprint."
Ryan Railsback of the Riverside Police Department in California said a victim in his 60s who's believed to be homeless is expected to survive after a sword-wielding assailant chopped off his hand in what police think was not a random attack.
River Smith, 21, of Savage, Minn., could get 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally possessing a machine gun, having been tripped up when he told an FBI informant that he was building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against police and that he admired mass shooters.
Nihar Malaviya of Penguin Random House said censorship in the form of book bans is "a direct threat to democracy and our constitutional rights" as the publisher teamed with PEN America to sue Florida's Escambia County School District for removing books about race and LGBTQ+ issues.
Chris Sells of the Alabama House coaxed his colleagues to vote 70-8 in favor of a bill to protect children by requiring phone and tablet manufacturers to filter pornography and sexually explicit content by default, and the bill moved to the Senate.
Chris England of the Alabama House won 64-37 approval of legislation to establish a review process for eligible inmates serving life sentences as habitual offenders, and he said, "My hope is that we find a bunch of individuals who are more than their worst moment." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/18/in-the-news/ | 2023-05-18 10:44:15 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/may/18/in-the-news/ |
Disney parks’ fan-favorite Dole Whip is coming to grocery stores
Published: Mar. 9, 2023 at 10:55 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - Disney fans know there’s nothing better than enjoying an ice-cold sweet treat during a hot day at the parks.
But soon, you won’t have to wait for your next visit to Disney, because the famous Dole Whip is coming to grocery stores.
The tropical soft serve has been a staple at Disney parks since it was introduced at Magic Kingdom in 1984.
Dole has announced that Dole Whip will soon be sold in stores nationwide.
The dairy-free frozen treat will be available in three flavors: pineapple, mango and strawberry.
Look for it in your local freezer aisle.
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(The Hill) – The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation expanding care for veterans who suffer from illnesses because of exposure to toxins during their military service, ending a standoff after Republicans blocked the bill last week.
The Sgt. First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act passed with a vote of voted 86-11 and aims to expand benefits from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to 3.5 million veterans.
The bill now heads to President Biden’s desk and he is expected to sign it.
Tuesday’s vote comes after Senate Republicans unexpectedly blocked the bill during a procedural vote last week. The upper chamber on Wednesday voted 55-42 in favor of the bill, failing to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster. Twenty-five Republicans who initially voted to advance the bill in June changed their votes.
The upper chamber previously passed the bill in June by a vote of 84-14, and the House passed the bill in July on a bipartisan 342-88 vote. The measure had to go back to the Senate, as the House version included changes.
Republicans have argued that the bill would create a “budgetary gimmick” by moving $400 billion spent by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to mandatory spending, where it wouldn’t be subject to annual appropriations like discretionary spending would.
Earlier on Tuesday, GOP Senators reached a deal for votes on three amendments, with 60 votes needing to pass the measures, followed by a vote on final passage of the bill.
Veterans’ groups have been camping outside the Capitol since last Thursday in a bid to pressure the Senate to pass the bill. Those same veterans, joined by comedian Jon Stewart, sat in the Senate Gallery to observe the vote.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) thanked the advocates for their efforts, saying they could “go home knowing the good and great things you’ve done for America.”
In addition to expanding VA eligibility for toxic exposed-veterans, the legislation also adds 23 burn pit and toxic-exposure-related connections to the agency’s list of presumptive service connections.
The bill also expands presumptions related to exposures to Vietnam War-era Agent Orange to veterans who served in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Guam. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/senate-sends-veterans-toxic-exposure-bill-to-bidens-desk/ | 2022-08-03 01:39:50 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/senate-sends-veterans-toxic-exposure-bill-to-bidens-desk/ |
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Yarden Garzon scored 19 points in her freshman debut, Mackenzie Holmes added 16 points and No. 11 Indiana rolled to an 86-49 victory over Vermont on Tuesday night in a season opener.
Garzon, a 6-foot-3 guard from Ra'Anana, Isreal, was 7 of 12 from the floor and 5 of 8 from 3-point range. Holmes made 7 of 9 field goals. Grace Berger, who led the Hoosiers in scoring last season averaging 16.2 points, added 14 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.
Sara Scalia chipped in 11 points and made three 3s for Indiana, which shot 49% overall and hit 12 of 25 from beyond the arc.
Berger made her first three shots with a 3-pointer, and Scalia and Parrish each hit a 3 as the Hoosiers jumped out to a 20-12 lead in the first quarter and stretched it to 42-27 heading into the break. The Hoosiers shot 51.5% in the first half that included 6 of 14 3-pointers.
Emma Utterback scored 19 points to lead Vermont. Catherine Gilweeto made three 3s and finished with 11 points.
It was the 11th straight season-opening win for the Hoosiers.
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The House voted overwhelmingly to approve a resolution Tuesday backing Israel and condemning antisemitism, a move sparked by recent comments from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) that ignited a firestorm on Capitol Hill and highlighted Democratic divisions on the highly delicate topic of Israel-Palestine relations.
The vote was 412-9-1 to endorse the symbolic measure, which says Israel “is not a racist or apartheid state,” rejects antisemitism and xenophobia in all forms and declares that the U.S. “will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.”
The lone opponents were liberal Democrats — most of them members of the far-left Squad — who have been highly critical of Israel’s human rights record toward Palestinians, particularly under the conservative administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jayapal is among those Netanyahu critics, but her comments Saturday went further, denouncing Israel more broadly as a “racist state.” The remarks prompted widespread condemnation from members of both parties and led Jayapal to issue a clarification — and an apology — a day later.
The reversal did nothing to satisfy her Republican critics, however, and GOP leaders fast-tracked Tuesday’s vote to come just before Congress welcomes Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the Capitol Wednesday for a visit reaffirming the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem — a speech that several progressives have said they will boycott.
“We’ve heard disgusting statements from other members of the aisle against Israel,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), the sponsor of the resolution, said on the House floor.
“From my standpoint, we look at Israel as the most important partner in the Middle East,” he later added. “And tomorrow, in fact, as we welcome President Herzog to this very body, to the United States, to a joint address of Congress, it’s critical for the U.S. Congress to send a unified message that we stand with Israel and that we unequivocally support our Jewish communities. There is no place for hate, for hateful words.”
But the vote also represented an opportunity for Republicans to splinter Democrats on the sensitive matter of Israel which, for years, has been a political lightning rod, pitting liberals concerned with human rights issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict against party leaders leery of upsetting diplomatic relations with America’s closest Middle Eastern ally.
That dynamic was on full display Tuesday, when nine Democrats opposed the resolution, some taking issue with the inclusion of the phrase “apartheid state” in the measure.
Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Summer Lee (Pa.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Cori Bush (Mo.), André Carson (Ind.), Delia Ramirez (Ill.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) voted “no,” while Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) voted “present.”
In an impassioned speech during debate on the House floor, Tlaib, Congress’s only Palestinian American, argued that Israel is an apartheid state, pointing to nongovernment organizations that she said have come to that determination and quoting members of the Israeli government who have made comments targeting Palestinians.
“Israel is an apartheid state,” Tlaib said. “The government is deeply problematic in the way that they are proceeding in the structure of oppression.”
Tlaib is one of several liberals planning to skip Herzog’s speech Wednesday.
One of the most notable supporters was Jayapal herself, who told reporters after the vote that the resolution was “a political ploy by Republicans to target Democrats and try to divide us.”
“Instead of calling attention to the fact that they refuse to do the work of the American people, they’re trying to strip our freedoms away from us,” Jayapal said. “But I am not gonna be bullied by their political games and I’m not gonna let them, you know, try to continue this debate, so I voted yes on the resolution and I stand by my statement and I’m gonna continue to speak out in the way that I have.”
Republicans, for their part, were quick to point out the Democratic opposition to the resolution, painting those lawmakers as anti-Israel.
“I hope we have 435 ‘yes’ votes and no ‘no’ votes,” Pfluger said in a video on Twitter shortly before the vote. “Unfortunately, it appears that some Democrats will not side with Israel.”
Democrats dismissed those criticisms as a case of petty politics, accusing Republicans of purposefully ignoring the sharp distinction between condemning a government’s policies and denouncing that country’s right to sovereignty.
“There is a difference between criticizing the right of Israel to exist, which is beyond the pale, and criticizing the conduct of the Israeli government, which I think is horrible,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), a progressive Jewish lawmaker, said Tuesday morning.
“And obviously, we all talk about the need for a two-state solution because there are two peoples that have to share that land. And the government of Israel is making it as impossible as they can, as rapidly as they can, for that to happen,” he added.
Tuesday’s vote came as Republicans are grappling with their own scandals involving race and ethnicity, after a pair of lawmakers last week made racially explosive remarks about African Americans.
GOP leaders have also been on the defensive this week for staging a hearing featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a key witness. Kennedy has been under fire for saying the COVID-19 virus spared certain Jewish populations, putting Republicans into the tough spot of condemning antisemitism while providing a platform for a figure accused of being antisemitic.
The high-profile vote came days after Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, declared at a progressive conference in Chicago that “Israel is a racist state” as Palestinian protesters disrupted a panel discussion with three Congressional lawmakers.
“I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy,” she said Saturday.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a Jewish lawmaker who was also sitting on the panel, said Monday that the activist group protesting at the conference has gone after her for years — picketing at her house and refusing to leave her district office — and that Jayapal was opposing “an attack on me.”
Jayapal issued a lengthy statement one day later that said, “I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist,” and she apologized “to those who I have hurt with my words” while also sharply criticizing the conservative government led by Netanyahu.
The backtrack, however, was not enough to quell the criticism, even within Jayapal’s party. Democratic leadership issued a rare joint statement that, without naming Jayapal, pushed back on her comments — ”Israel is not a racist state” — and a separate statement from 43 House Democrats said they were “deeply concerned” about her “unacceptable comments.”
“We will never allow anti-Zionist voices that embolden antisemitism to undermine and disrupt the strongly bipartisan consensus supporting the U.S.-Israel relationship that has existed for decades,” the group of 43 wrote.
Tuesday was not the first time the House has taken action in response to comments made by Democrats that were panned as antisemitic.
The House in 2019 approved a resolution condemning “anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry” in a 407-23 vote, which was staged after Omar drew criticism for saying that pro-Israel advocates are pushing “allegiance to a foreign country,” which she later apologized for.
And in February, House Republicans voted to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee as a rebuke for those, and other, remarks Republicans have labeled antisemitic.
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BARTOW, Fla., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunbelt Forest Products unveiled a new logo and redesigned website this week, reflecting the company's enhanced offerings in the wake of two years of unprecedented company expansion.
In 2021, Sunbelt Forest Products acquired Spartanburg Forest Products to become the leading supplier of pressure treated lumber and wood fencing to Lowe's and independent lumber yards throughout the Eastern United States. With the Spartanburg acquisition, Sunbelt Forest Products has grown to 12 locations with a service area stretching from Florida to Maine.
In addition to the northward expansion, Sunbelt has been diversifying its product offerings. The Deckorators® brand of designer decking and accessories, the DIY-friendly Outdoor Essentials® fence, lawn, and garden products, and the stylish UFP Edge line of siding, pattern and trim, highlight the expanded slate while an expansion into non-lumber products is being piloted in select markets.
"With our new products, we are prepared to provide optimized personal service to our customers of all sizes," says Sunbelt Forest Products President Ken DelleDonne. "Our goal is that every truckload from Sunbelt Forest Products will deliver a wide variety of building materials designed to meet each customers' needs."
The new website will highlight the augmented product selection while effectively directing customers – contractors and consumers alike – to the entire line of premium quality pressure treated fencing and decking products. The redesigned website will also contain a new blog and a wide variety of collaborative and knowledge-based service programs designed to promote growth for our customers.
"The new logo and website signal to the industry that Sunbelt Forest Products is bigger, better, and ready to serve our customers in more ways than ever," said DelleDonne. "Sunbelt is proud to offer independent dealers the perfect partnership for success. With our extensive selection of building material products, fast and efficient service, and long-standing history of exceptional customer experience - this opportunity assures mutual growth in profitability."
With a pressure treating production capacity of more than 1.2 billion board feet and over 65,000 outbound loads shipped annually, the new Sunbelt Forest Products is positioned to provide full-service solutions for decking, fencing, and expanded catalog to more clients than ever before.
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Based in Bartow, Florida, Sunbelt Forest Products is a leading producer of pressure treated lumber and residential wooden fencing in the Eastern U.S., with over 450 employees. The company is an affiliate of UFP Retail Solutions, a subsidiary of UFP Industries.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
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(The Hill) — The Emmy Awards are reportedly getting pushed back and won’t air on Sep. 18 due to a pair of high-profile entertainment industry labor strikes.
The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards was poised to air on Fox but has been postponed from its original mid-September airdate, according to multiple reports.
The delay is due to strikes by both SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ guild, began a strike for higher wages and better compensation for streaming productions, among other issues, earlier this month. The WGA has been on strike over similar demands since May.
It’s the first time in more than two decades that the Emmys have been postponed, according to Variety, which was the first to report the awards show’s delay on Thursday. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the United States invasion of Afghanistan two months later delayed the Emmys that year until November.
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HANGZHOU, China, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 29, 2023, Zylox-Tonbridge Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (2190. HK, hereinafter referred to as the "Company") released its annual financial results for 2022. During the reporting period, the Company's operating revenue increased by 87.8% YOY to RMB 334 million. In particular, the neurovascular intervention business maintained rapid growth, with revenue rising 107.9% YOY to RMB 233 million. Revenue from the peripheral-vascular intervention business also showed a YOY gain of 53.4% to RMB 101 million.
In 2022, the gross profit margin climbed to 75.6%. Gross profit for the year rose to RMB 253 million, representing a YOY rise of 91.6%. The substantial increases in both operating revenue and gross profit have driven a YOY drop of 43.1% in net loss besides the continued investment in R&D activities. As of the end of 2022, the Company's capital reserve stood at RMB 2.69 billion.
Zylox-Tonbridge also delivered an outstanding performance in terms of R&D and commercialization. As of the date of the results announcement, the Company owned a portfolio of 57 products and product candidates, of which 25 had received marketing approval from the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), an increase of 11 from the end of 2021. By actively participating in the volume-based procurement (VBP) bidding, the Company has rapidly increased its market penetration by covering over 3,300 hospitals in 31 provinces and municipalities across China. At the same time, the medical device provider has established a sales and marketing team in Europe, with revenue from ex-China markets growing by 125.2% YOY in 2022.
"2022 was a challenging year. With efficient product development, strong team execution, and improving operational capabilities, the Company has achieved substantial growth in financial performance by leveraging market opportunities," said Dr. Jonathon Zhong Zhao, Chairman and CEO of Zylox-Tonbridge. "We plan to continue developing innovative products with significant clinical value while, at the same time, enhancing our efficiency in all aspects of the business, to provide patients with high-quality and affordable solutions."
Strong R&D capabilities lead to the expansion of new therapeutic areas
With the launch and commercialization of several new products in 2022, Zylox-Tonbridge once again made great progress in R&D, driving its expansion into new therapeutic areas and positioning the firm to become a leading vascular interventional medical devices platform in China.
Zylox-Tonbridge's self-developed Carotid Rx PTA Balloon Catheter is the first in its Carotid Artery Stenosis product line to receive marketing approval from NMPA. Relying on the firm's leading balloon forming and manufacturing platform for its development, the solution received significant attention in the marketplace as soon as it was launched. Marketing approval for the Endovenous Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) System as well as ZYLOX Octoplus® Vena Cava Filter is a testament to the success of the Company's expansion into the domain of peripheral venous vascular diseases treatment.
The results announcement shows that Zylox-Tonbridge completed patient enrollment for clinical trials of 5 products in 2022, including the Flow Diverter and Peripheral Detachable Embolization Coils. Currently, the Company has 13 products in the clinical stage and 11 in the registration stage. With the coming launch of several core products in the future one or two years, including Flow Diverter, Peripheral Venous Stent System, and Vascular Closure, the Company is accelerating sustainable growth driven by its strong R&D capability.
Increasing penetration in the domestic market while accelerating global expansion
Last year, with a flexible, effective market strategy alongside the team's efficient execution, Zylox-Tonbridge further grew its sales network in tandem with an expansion of its market penetration.
To date, Zylox-Tonbridge has established an extensive distribution network covering over 3,300 hospitals in 31 provinces and municipalities across China. The firm has increased its market share in third- and fourth-tier cities by actively participating in the national and provincial VBP programs which ensure faster availability and sales of its products. Most notably, the Company's neurovascular embolization coils won the bid as first place in the competing group during the provincial VBPs in Jiangsu, Fujian, and 21-province alliance last year. In the future, the medical device supplier plans to rapidly increase its market share and grow its influence by further leveraging the opportunities presented by the VBP programs.
With a deep commitment to Europe, Zylox-Tonbridge has established a sales and marketing team in Europe during the third quarter of 2022, to better serve local customers and increase brand awareness across the region. During the reporting period, the Company's neurovascular embolization coils product has submitted applications for the CE Mark and FDA 510K registration. With innovative product design and comprehensive solutions, Zylox-Tonbridge is gaining increasing recognition among customers outside of its home market of China, with revenue from ex-China markets gaining 125.2%YOY in 2022.
Focus on long-term growth strategy with improving efficiency
In 2022, Zylox-Tonbridge further enhanced its efficiency in R&D, manufacturing, and commercialization with an ongoing commitment to achieving long-term, quality-driven growth.
Relying on multiple innovative technology platforms across business units as well as integrated R&D and manufacturing processes, Zylox-Tonbridge has improved cost efficiency and product quality while maintaining its strong R&D capability. To better respond to increasing market demand, the Company is expanding larger-scale manufacturing facilities in Hangzhou and Zhuhai. In November 2022, the firm held an inauguration ceremony for its new research and manufacturing base in Zhuhai. The 58,000 square meter facility will include multiple production lines, with substantial capacity for intracranial stent systems and embolization coils.
Following the launch and commercialization of several new medical devices in 2022, Zylox-Tonbridge is enhancing its competence in offering a comprehensive range of medical device solutions and is well on track to becoming a leading vascular interventional medical device platform. The firm plans to continue expanding its innovative product portfolio as well as improving R&D and manufacturing capabilities as part of its efforts to benefit patients by providing them with high-quality and affordable solutions.
About Zylox-Tonbridge:
Zylox-Tonbridge is one of the leading players in the neuro- and peripheral-vascular interventional medical device market in China. The Company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.
As an integrated medical device company supported by our in-house R&D and manufacturing capabilities, proprietary technological platforms, and commercialization capabilities, we strive to provide patients with high-quality and affordable medical devices and services, so that everyone has access to the high-quality life brought by advanced medical technology.
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READING, Mass., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eliassen Group, a strategic consulting company, announced today the appointment of Rob Waddell as the company's first Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer.
Rob has been a driving force for innovation through his leadership, creating value through the thoughtful adoption of technology, building strong leadership teams, and developing strategic relationships to ensure mutual success. As a leader in providing global talent solutions, he is committed to leveraging technology to transform how companies and individuals manage the rapidly shifting workforce demands and complexities of the global talent marketplace.
Rob brings demonstrated leadership and team-building strengths that generated optimum productivity and performance excellence in his prior position. Over the last 16 years, he has established a strong track record for achieving corporate objectives, exceptional P&L results, organizational restructuring, effective team building, and supplier management to facilitate corporate growth of $2 billion in annual revenue.
As Chief Information Officer of Eliassen Group, Rob will establish the office of the CIO, increasing the IT department's depth in technological capabilities and overseeing capital projects related to advanced digital solutions and technologies. Not only will he evaluate and oversee strategic platform direction, but he will lead Eliassen Group's global business and technology strategy, digital disruption, technology-enabled services — championing the technological innovation that keeps Eliassen in pace to continue to be exceptional.
"We're thrilled to welcome Rob to the team," said Dave MacKeen, CEO of Eliassen Group. "His experience and deep understanding of our business and industry will bring visionary leadership and bolster our IT strategy execution."
Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company that provides business and IT services for our clients as they seek to transform and execute strategies that will drive exceptional outcomes. Leveraging over 30 years of success, we focus on professional services, talent solutions, and life sciences. Eliassen Group offers local community presence and deep networks. We are committed to positively impacting the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which we operate.
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(NEXSTAR) – Ahead of Tuesday night’s drawing, the Mega Millions jackpot has reached an estimated $1.1 billion, the third-largest jackpot ever in the game’s history. If you want to test your luck at starting the year as a billionaire, you may need to hurry up and buy your ticket.
While Mega Millions drawings are held at 11 p.m. ET on Tuesdays and Fridays, depending on where you live, you may have to have your ticket hours beforehand.
For many states, ticket sales are stopped 15 minutes before the drawing time. Those states are Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina (unless you’re buying online), Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia.
In other states, you need to have your ticket one hour before the drawing. That includes Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Lotteries in these states suspend ticket sales on drawing nights at 8:59 CT/9:59 ET: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Three states – Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont – stop ticket sales at 9:50 p.m. ET.
Here’s when Mega Millions ticket sales end on drawing nights in other states:
- Arizona: 7:59 p.m. local time from November to March.
- Colorado: 7:30 p.m. local time
- Delaware: 9:45 p.m. local time
- Idaho: 1 hour and five minutes before the drawing
- Indiana: 10:44 p.m. local time
- New Hampshire: 9:48 p.m. local time online, 9:50 p.m. in stores
- North Dakota: 8:58 p.m. CT
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Wednesday marks the tenth anniversary of the creation of a program that lets undocumented children stay in the United States. Immigrants who came of age under DACA share their stories.
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Company Receives "Prime" ISS ESG Corporate Rating And Inclusion In The "2022 Verité 40" Carbon Score Index By Axylia
CLICHY, France, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIC announces it has been recognized with two new distinctions for its corporate ESG initiatives and sustainable business development.
Specifically, BIC achieved the "Prime" ISS ESG Corporate rating, fulfilling the holistic sustainability performance requirements based on an analysis of more than 100 sector-specific ESG factors, judged against industry peers. In addition, BIC has been included on Axylia's 2022 Verité 40*1 (Truth Index 40), affirming the Company's ability to cover its "CO2 bill" and continue to create sustainable value.
"We are honored to have such respected institutions acknowledge our advancements as we continue to innovate long-lasting products for our consumers with the planet, society and future generations in mind." said Gonzalve Bich, BIC Chief Executive Officer. "These distinctions give us further confidence we are on the right path and empower us to go even further in fulfilling our mission to bring simplicity and joy to everyday life, responsibly and sustainably."
BIC's approach to sustainability is deeply rooted in the Company's values and has been a cornerstone of day-to-day operations for over 70 years. In 2018, the Company reinforced its commitment to sustainable development by establishing Writing The Future, Together, a forward looking, global program underpinned by five major commitments. These commitments that guide corporate decision making were recently strengthened by the Company's GHG emission reduction targets, membership in the United Nations Global Compact, and ESG share buyback program.
A world leader in stationery, lighters and shavers, BIC brings simplicity and joy to everyday Life. For more than 75 years, the Company has honored the tradition of providing high-quality, affordable, essential products to consumers everywhere. Through this unwavering dedication, BIC has become one of the most recognized brands and is a trademark registered worldwide. Today, BIC products are sold in more than 160 countries around the world and feature iconic brands such as BIC Kids™, BIC Flex™, BodyMark by BIC™, Cello®, Djeep, Lucky Stationery, Rocketbook, Soleil®, Tipp-Ex®, Us. ™, Wite-Out®, Inkbox and more. In 2021, BIC Net Sales were 1,831.9 million euros. The Company is listed on "Euronext Paris"," is part of the SBF120 and CAC Mid 60 indexes and is recognized for its commitment to sustainable development and education. It received an A- Leadership score from CDP. For more, visit www.bic.com.
1*The Axylia Carbon® Score assesses a company's ability to pay its theoretical Carbon bill. The Carbon bill (CO2 emissions x Carbon cost) is deducted from the company's EBITDA, leading to a "Carbon-adjusted" EBITDA, which measures the ability of the company to remain profitable (A, B, C) or not (D, E, F) once its theoretical Carbon bill is deducted. BIC was awarded a B score in 2022 and included into to the "2022 Verité 40" Carbon Score Index.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, June 18, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
402 AM EDT Fri Jun 17 2022
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Strong currents and dangerous swimming conditions.
* WHERE...Beaches of Southern Erie county.
* WHEN...Through late tonight.
* IMPACTS...Strong currents and dangerous swimming conditions.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Stay out of the water to avoid dangerous swimming conditions.
* WHERE...Beaches of Jefferson county.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHERE...Beaches of Chautauqua county.
* WHEN...Through Saturday afternoon.
* WHERE...Beaches of Northern Cayuga and Oswego counties.
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This story was originally published on Sept. 11, 2021.
We will never forget.
Below are the names of 140 soldiers with Alabama ties who died on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the war on terror since that fateful Tuesday 20 years ago, according to names compiled by the Alabama Veterans Affairs Office and U.S. Department of Defense.
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. military, along with a coalition of allied forces, began Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan to weed out al Qaeda and the Taliban regime. The operation was later renamed Operation Freedom’s Sentinel after U.S. combat operations ended Dec. 31, 2014.
Operation Iraqi Freedom includes casualties that occurred between March 19, 2003, and Aug. 31, 2010, in the Arabian Sea, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Casualties in these countries before March 19, 2003, were considered Operation Enduring Freedom, according to the Department of Defense.
Along with the nearly 3,000 civilians, police, fire and soldiers killed on Sept. 11, 2001, more than 7,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in the war on terror in the 20 years after that day, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. The numbers do not include contractors.
Here are the 140 fallen soldiers with Alabama ties (name and rank, age, Alabama hometown, location of death, and date of death):
- Army SGT Tamara C. Thurman, Brewton - Pentagon, Sept. 11, 2001
- Army MAJ Dwayne Williams, Jacksonville - Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001
- Navy OS2 Nehamon Lyons, IV, Mobile - Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001
- Navy IT1 Marsha Dianah Ratchford, Prichard - Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001
- CIA Agent Johnny M. Spann, 32 Winfield - Afghanistan Nov. 25, 2001
- Marine GySgt Stephen L. Bryson, 36, Montgomery - Pakistan, Jan. 9, 2002
- Army SGT Jeremy D. Foshee, 25, Pisgah - Philippines, Feb. 22, 2002
- Army CW3 Mark S. O’Steen, 43, Ozark - Afghanistan Jan. 30, 2003
- Army PFC Howard P. Johnson, 21, Mobile - Iraq, March 23, 2003
- Army SSG Nino D. Livaudais, 23, Ft. Mitchell - Iraq, April 3, 2003
- Army PV2 Kelley S. Prewitt, 24, Birmingham - Iraq, April 6, 2003
- Army PFC John E. Brown, 21, Troy – Iraq, April 14, 2003
- Marine CWO Robert W. Channell, 36, Tuscaloosa - Iraq, April 22, 2003
- Army SGT Troy D. Jenkins, 25, Evergreen - Iraq April 24, 2003
- Army SPC Cedric L. Lennon, 32, West Blocton - Iraq, June 24, 2003
- Army SPC Andrew F. Chris, 25, Huntsville - Iraq, June 25, 2003
- Army SGT Timothy M. Conneway, 22, Enterprise - Iraq, June 28, 2003
- Army SGT Jason D. Jordan, 24, Elba – Iraq July 20, 2003
- Army SFC Christopher R. Willoughby, 29, Phenix City - Iraq, July 20, 2003
- Air Force TSgt Bruce E. Brown, 32, Coatopa – Qatar, Sept. 4, 2003
- ARNG SPC Paul J. Bueche, 19, Daphne – Iraq, Oct. 21, 2003
- ARNG SGT Aubrey D. Bell, 33, Tuskegee – Iraq, Oct. 27, 2003
- Army SGT Michael E. Yashinski, 24, Irondale – Iraq, Dec. 24, 2003
- Army SPC Charles G. Haight, 23, Jacksonville – Iraq Dec. 26, 2003
- Army CWO Philip A. Johnson Jr., 31, Mobile – Iraq Jan. 8, 2004
- Army CW2 Brian D. Hazelgrove, 29, Ft. Rucker – Iraq, Jan. 23, 2004
- ARNG SPC Christopher M. Taylor, 25, Daphne – Iraq, Feb. 16, 2004
- Army SPC Stephen D. Hiller, 25, Opelika – Iraq, April 4, 2004
- Army SPC Ahmed A. Cason, 24, McCalla – Iraq, April 7, 2004
- Marine LCpl John T. Sims Jr., 21, Alexander City – Iraq, April 10, 2004
- ARNG 1SG Herbert Ronald Claunch, 58, Alexander City – GB Cuba, April 18, 2004
- Army CPT Robert C. Scheetz Jr., 31, Dothan – Iraq, May 30, 2004
- Army SSG Robert C. Thornton, 35, Rainbow City – Iraq, Aug. 23, 2004
- Marine Sgt. Foster L. Harrington, 31, Mobile – Iraq, Sept. 20, 2004
- Army SGT Charles J. Webb, 22, Alexandria – Iraq, Nov. 3, 2004
- Army PVT Justin R. Yoemans, 20, Eufaula – Iraq, Nov. 6, 2004
- Marine LCpl Bradley M. Faircloth, 20, Mobile – Iraq, Nov. 26, 2004
- Marine WO Charles G. Wells Jr., 32, Montgomery – Iraq, March 30, 2005
- Army SGM Barbaralien Banks, 41, Camden – Iraq, April 6, 2005
- Army SGT Kenya A. Parker, 26, Fairfield – Iraq, April 30, 2005
- Army SSG Tommy S. Little, 47, Aliceville – Iraq, May 2, 2005
- ARNG SSG John E. McGee, 36, Camden – Iraq, May 2, 2005
- Army SSG William J. Brooks, 30, Birmingham -Iraq, May 3, 2005
- Army SPC Steven R. Givens, 26, Mobile – Iraq, May 8, 2005
- Marine LCpl Jonathan L. Smith, 22, Eva – Iraq, June 6, 2005
- Army SPC Brian A. Vaughn, 23, Pell City – Iraq, June 21, 2005
- Army SSG Scottie L. Bright, 26, Montgomery – Iraq July 5, 2005
- Marine Cpl. Christopher D. Winchester, 23, Flomaton – Iraq, July 14, 2005
- Army SSG Jefferey J. Farrow, 28, Birmingham – Iraq July 19, 2005
- Army SGT Christopher J. Taylor, 22, Opelika – Iraq, July 24, 2005
- Army SFC Lonnie J. Parson, 39, Bay Minette – Iraq, Sept. 2, 2005
- Marine LCpl Carl L. Raines II, 20, Enterprise – Iraq, Oct. 6, 2005
- Marine MSgt Kenneth E. Hunt Jr., 40, Eufaula – Iraq, Oct. 12, 2005
- Army SSG George T. Alexander Jr., 34, Clanton - Iraq, Oct. 22, 2005
- Army SSG Phillip L. Travis, 41, Brewton - Iraq, Dec. 2, 2005
- Army SSG Travis L. Nelson, 41, Anniston – Iraq, Dec. 10, 2005
- Marine Cpl Adam R. Fales, 21, Cullman – Iraq, Dec. 16, 2005
- Army SFC Stephen J. White, 39, Talladega – Iraq, Jan. 5, 2006
- Army 1LT Joseph D. DeMoors, 36, Birmingham - Iraq, Jan. 7, 2006
- Marine Cpl Matthew D. Conley, 21, Killen – Iraq, Feb. 18, 2006
- Army SSG Christopher J. Schornak, 28, Hoover – Iraq, Feb. 26, 2006
- Marine PFC Ryan G. Winslow, 19, Hoover – Iraq, April 15, 2006
- Army CW5 Jamie D. Weeks, 47, Daleville – Iraq, May 14, 2006
- Army SGT Carlos E. Pernell, 25, Munford – Iraq, June 6, 2006
- Army 1LT Scott M. Love, 32, Huntsville – Iraq, June 7, 2006
- Army SGT Marquees A. Quick, 28, Hoover – Iraq, Aug. 19, 2006
- Marine Cpl Bradford H. Payne, 24, Montgomery – Iraq, Oct. 6, 2006
- Army 1SG Charles M. King, 48, Mobile – Iraq, Oct. 14, 2006
- Army PFC Stephen D. Bicknell, 19, Prattville – Iraq, Oct. 15, 2006
- Army PVT Michael P. Bridges, 23, Oxford – Iraq, Nov. 2, 2006
- Army CPL Jon-Erik Loney, 21, Hartselle - Iraq, Nov. 28, 2006
- Army CPL Christopher E. Mason, 32, W. Mobile County – Iraq, Nov. 28, 2006
- Army SSG Robert L. Love Jr., 28, Livingston – Iraq, Dec. 1, 2006
- Marine LCpl Cody G. Watson, 21, Oxford – Iraq, Dec. 6, 2006
- Army PVT Johnathon M. Millican, 20, Trafford – Iraq, Jan. 20, 2007
- Army CW4 Keith Yoakum, 41, Coffee Springs – Iraq, Feb. 2, 2007
- Army CPT Donnie R. Belser Jr., 28, Anniston – Iraq, Feb. 10, 2007
- Army SPC Curtis E. Glawson, 24, Daleville – Iraq, March 20, 2007
- Army SSG Harrison Brown, 31, Prichard – Iraq, April 8, 2007
- Army CPL James T. Lindsey, 20, Florence – Iraq, April 12, 2007
- Marine LCpl Adam E. Loggins, 27, Athens – Iraq, April 26, 2007
- Army SPC Matthew T. Bolar, 24, Montgomery – Iraq, May 3, 2007
- Army SPC Joseph A. Gilmore, 26, Hartford – Iraq, May 19, 2007
- Army SGT Jean P. Medlin, 27, Pelham – Iraq, May 19, 2007
- Marine Sgt. Nicholas R. Walsh, 27, Birmingham – Iraq, May 26, 2007
- Army SGT Brandon E. Hadaway, 25, Valley – Afghanistan, May 30, 2007
- Marine LTC Michael A. Robinson, 42, Sylacauga – Afghanistan, June 1, 2007
- Army SGT William E. Brown, 25, Phil Campbell – Iraq, June 23, 2007
- Army PFC James J. Harrelson, 19, Dadeville – Iraq. July 17, 2007
- Army SPC Richard Gilmore III, 22, Jasper – Iraq July 18, 2007
- Army SSG Eric Cottrell, 39, Pittsview – Iraq, Aug. 13, 2007
- Army SSG Clifton D. Johnson, 24, Ethelsville – Israel, Aug. 14, 2007
- Army SGT Edmund J. Jeffers, 23, Daleville – Iraq, Sept. 19, 2007
- Army CSM Jonathan M. Lankford, 42, Scottsboro – Iraq, Sept. 22, 2007
- Marine GySgt Herman Jerome Murkerson Jr., 35, Adger – Iraq, Oct. 1, 2007
- Army CPT Torre R. Mallard, 27, Anniston – Iraq, March 10, 2008
- Army COL Stephen K. Scott, 54, New Market – Iraq, April 6, 2008
- Army CW4 James Carter, 42, Montgomery – Afghanistan, June 5, 2008
- Army SPC Seteria L. Brown, 22, Aliceville – Afghanistan, July 25, 2008
- Army SPC Marques I. Knight, 24, Dothan – Afghanistan, Sept. 6, 2008
- Navy CT3 Matthew J. O’Bryant, 22, Theodore – Pakistan, Sept. 20, 2008
- Army CW3 Donald V. Clark, 37, Newton – Iraq, Nov. 15, 2008
- Army SGT Joshua L. Rath, 22, Decatur – Afghanistan, Jan. 8, 2009
- Army PVT Sean P. McCune, 20, Nauvoo – Iraq, Jan. 11, 2009
- Army PFC Ricky Lee Turner, 20, Hazel Green – Iraq, Jan. 16, 2009
- Army SGT Carlie M. Lee III, 23, Birmingham – Afghanistan, May 15, 2009
- Air Force Lt. Col. Mark E. Stratton II, 39, Foley – Afghanistan, May 26, 2009
- Army SSG Jeffrey A. Hall, 28, Huntsville – Afghanistan, June 1, 2009
- Army MAJ Kevin M. Jenrette, 37, Auburn – Afghanistan, June 4, 2009
- Army SPC Charles D. Parrish, 23, Jasper – Iraq, June 4, 2009
- Army SGT Ricky D. Jones, 26, Plantersville – Afghanistan, June 21, 2009
- Army CPT Ronald G. Luce Jr., 27, Birmingham – Afghanistan, Aug. 2, 2009
- Army SGT Jerry R. Evans Jr., 23, Eufaula – Afghanistan, Aug. 7, 2009
- Marine LCpl Bruce E. Ferrell Jr., 21, Perdido – Afghanistan, Aug. 10, 2009
- Army SPC William Z. VanOsdol, 23, Pinson – Iraq, Aug. 19, 2009
- Army SGT Robert D. Gordon II, 22, River Falls – Afghanistan, Sept. 16, 2009
- Army SPC Michael S. Cote Jr., 20, Mobile – Iraq, Sept. 19, 2009
- ARNG SPC Adrian L. Avila, 19, Opelika – Kuwait, Oct. 29, 2009
- Army SGT Lakeshia M. Bailey, 23, Ft. Mitchell – Iraq, March 8, 2010
- Marine LCpl Thomas E. Rivers Jr., 22, Hoover – Afghanistan, April 28, 2010
- Army CPT Kyle A. Comfort, 27, Jacksonville – Afghanistan, May 8, 2010
- Army SPC Brendan P. Neenan, 21, Enterprise – Afghanistan, June 7, 2010
- Air Force SSG David C. Smith, 26, Eight Mile – Afghanistan, June 9, 2010
- Army SPC Andrew L. Hand, 25, Enterprise – Afghanistan, July 24, 2010
- Air Force Sr. Airman Mark A. Forester, 29, Haleyville – Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2010
- Marine SSG Stacy A. Green, 34, Alexander City – Afghanistan, Dec. 10, 2010
- Marine Cpl. Joseph C. Whitehead, 22, Axis – Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2011
- Army Spc. Joshua T. Lancaster, 22, Millbrook – Afghanistan, Jan. 19, 2011
- Air Force Major Jeffrey O. Ausborn, 41, Hokes Bluff – Afghanistan, April 27, 2011
- Army Sgt. Christopher R. Bell, 21, Red Bay – Afghanistan, June 4, 2011
- Army Spc. Nicholas Hensley, 28, Prattville – Afghanistan, June 24, 2011
- ALARNG Capt. Waid C. Ramsey, 41, Red Bay – Afghanistan, Aug. 4, 2011
- Army SSG Michael W. Hosey, 27, Trussville – Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2011
- Marine LCpl Jason N. Barfield, 22, Ashford – Afghanistan, Oct. 24, 2011
- Army SGT James L. Skalberg, 25, Cullman – Afghanistan, June 27, 2012
- Army PFC Julian L. Colvin, 21, Birmingham – Afghanistan, July 22, 2012
- Army PFC Errol D.A. Milliard, 18, Birmingham – Afghanistan, July 4, 2013
- Army 1LT Timothy G. Santos Jr., 29, Helena - Fort Bliss, Aug. 18, 2013
- Army SSG Forrest B. Sibley, 31, Oneonta – Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2015
- Marine SGT Amanda N. Brazeal, 26, Chunchula – Iraq April 22, 2021
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FAIRFIELD, N.J., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To showcase the impactful commitment and outcomes of equitable practices for women in the workplace, the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) recognizes Delix Therapeutics and Pfizer UK Ltd., for game-changing initiatives working to close the gender gap in the healthcare and life science industries. The awards will be presented on Thursday, 3 November, in conjunction with HBA's Annual Conference in Philadelphia.
HBA's Advancement. Commitment. Engagement (ACE) Awards recognize companies committed to ensuring that gender diversity and leadership opportunities for women are part of their organizational DNA. An independent panel of healthcare industry leaders selects ACE Award recipients for their excellence in advancing their female talent and removing the systemic barriers preventing timely progress to parity. Award criteria include measurable results, business performance, stewardship, execution, and sustainability.
"The HBA is honored to celebrate two global industry champions for their conviction and progressive approach to helping women reach their full potential through their respective workplace initiatives," said Wendy White, Interim CEO, HBA. "These programs align with HBA's vision of advancing women into positions of influence and decision-making that ultimately will help improve health equity and outcomes for women around the world."
Like their drive to push the frontiers of neuroplasticity research, Delix Therapeutics is also pushing the standards of gender representation in the workplace. Based in Massachusetts, Delix Therapeutics is a pioneering neuroscience company developing novel neuroplasticity-promoting therapeutics for serious psychiatric and neurological conditions. The company is advancing a platform of non-hallucinogenic psychoplastogens and aims to broaden patient access to safe, fast-acting, and long-lasting treatments for a range of brain disorders worldwide.
Delix has worked to build an intentional, inclusive culture aligned with its mission to "rewire the brain to heal the mind." The company's executive team is equal in its gender representation and two-thirds of its hires company-wide so far this year identify as women. Delix credits its focus on "Culture from the Start" as being instrumental in fostering an environment where the team is encouraged to be their authentic selves and each member has a voice in all the company does. As Delix is advancing the first of these novel therapeutics to the clinic in H1 2023, the team is rapidly growing and Delix has been able to attract, retain, and engage a world-class team that is talented, diverse, and focused on transforming how mental health is treated.
The gender pay gap is a frequent topic of conversation related to inequities women face in the workplace. This year, the HBA is recognizing efforts to close the gap by one of our veteran Corporate Partners, Pfizer. Pfizer's purpose globally is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives. To support that, Pfizer UK has pledged to become as diverse as the patients and communities it serves, addressing the issues that stand in the way of their purpose. In the third quarter of 2019, Pfizer UK finalized its Closing the Gender Pay Gap strategy which consists of five impactful initiatives to achieve gender balance, recalibrating the gender distribution across the different levels of business.
The strategy's impact can already be measured in the marked reduction of Pfizer UK's gender pay gap, which dropped from 15.9 percent in 2018 to 7.5 percent in 2021. Since the strategy was introduced, female applications for senior roles and the number of women holding senior roles have risen by double digit figures.
The Closing the Gender Pay Gap strategy is recognized as a best practice within Pfizer, winning the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei) award in October 2021. It has also won accolades from the Top Employers Institute, which recognized Pfizer, with a DEI score of 100 percent, among its top five positions in the UK in 2022.
The 2022 ACE Awards honorees will join an elite group of organizations committed to fostering programs that deliver impactful and measurable results for industry women. Throughout the year, the award-winning initiatives are highlighted across HBA's extensive network. A list of previous ACE awards recipients can be found here.
The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to furthering the advancement and impact of women in the business of healthcare. With representation in countries across the globe, the HBA serves a community of nearly 70,000 individuals and 180 Corporate Partners. The HBA provides networking forums to build relationships; knowledge sharing and access to thought leaders to broaden perspective; educational programs to develop leadership skills; and high-profile industry recognition of outstanding women and companies to promote visibility of their achievements.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was killed Wednesday in a car accident in her northern Indiana District, according to her office.
“Jackie’s husband, was just informed by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s office that Jackie was killed in a car accident this afternoon. She has returned home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers. We will have no further comment at this time,” her office said in a statement.
Walorksi, who served on the House Ways and Means Committee, was first elected to represent Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District in 2012. She previously served three terms in the state’s legislature.
Walorski, 58, was born in South Bend and lived near Elkhart, Indiana. She and her husband were previously missionaries in Romania, where they established a foundation that provided food and medical supplies to impoverished children. She worked as a television news reporter in South Bend before her turn to politics. | https://www.localsyr.com/local-news/indiana-rep-walorski-killed-in-car-crash-her-office-says/ | 2022-08-04 05:07:17 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/local-news/indiana-rep-walorski-killed-in-car-crash-her-office-says/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two suspects are facing federal charges in an armed robbery spree in Ohio that ended with a police shootout that left a third suspect dead and an officer critically wounded.
Aden Abdullahi Jama, 20, of Reynoldsburg and Fazsal M. Darod, 23, of Columbus face charges of aiding and abetting a bank robbery and the use of a firearm during a violent crime, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker of the Southern District of Ohio told reporters Saturday evening.
Federal marshals arrested Jama on Saturday afternoon trying to board a flight to Turkey at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Parker said. Darod had been arrested early Friday outside his home by a federal marshals' fugitive apprehension strike team.
Jama's extradition from Illinois was being sought, officials said.
The spree began around 2:15 p.m. Thursday, when a man stole the keys to an SUV at gunpoint from a worker at a Porsche dealership in Whitehall, according to Whitehall Deputy Police Chief Dan Kelso. That suspect and two other men then robbed a bank in Columbus but were confronted by police.
The trio fled in the SUV and the police pursuit began, eventually winding up on Interstate 70 in Columbus. Greg Bodker, the city’s assistant police chief, said the suspects then began shooting at officers, who returned fire. One suspect wounded in the shootout was pronounced dead at the scene and two suspects fled on foot.
The wounded officer’s partner took him to a hospital, where he underwent surgery and was later upgraded as in stable condition. Parker said Saturday he was “doing well" and was thankful for the community's support and prayers. Authorities didn't immediately release his name but said he has served on the Columbus force for less than five years.
Parker said investigators do not know at this time which of the suspects was responsible for the gunfire that wounded the officer. Officials are looking at the possibility of filing state charges against the defendants as well, he said.
It's unclear whether the defendants have attorneys; listed numbers for them couldn't be found Saturday. Aden Jama of Columbus, who said he was Jama's uncle, expressed shock about the accusations about his nephew and the allegation that he had been trying to leave the country.
“It's the saddest thing,” he said. "I was looking for him, trying to tell him to turn himself in.” | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/2-face-federal-charges-in-ohio-robbery-spree-shootout-that-critically-wounded-officer/A5IQU4P4PBDQTA3AJJYAYL7JEA/ | 2023-07-09 00:11:21 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/2-face-federal-charges-in-ohio-robbery-spree-shootout-that-critically-wounded-officer/A5IQU4P4PBDQTA3AJJYAYL7JEA/ |
KYIV, Ukraine — For months Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have waged a brutal war across a 1,500-mile front line, inflicting casualties, fighting to the point of exhaustion and making slow gains in territory when they were not suffering costly setbacks.
After beginning with the Russian seizure of part of southern Ukraine and a failed strike at the capital, Kyiv, and then pivoting to a bloody artillery battle in the country’s east, the war is entering a third chapter. A battlefield stalemate prevails, with hostilities at a simmer, amid anxious uncertainty over whether — and when — Ukraine will launch a counteroffensive to try to break the deadlock.
The timing for any such attack has emerged as a pivotal strategic decision for Ukraine’s government. Both sides are preparing for a protracted war, but Ukraine has greater incentive to try to avoid it with potentially risky maneuvers as early as this fall — before the rainy season turns the countryside into impassable bogs, or energy shortages and soaring costs undermine European support.
“An offensive is risky,” said Michael Kofman, the director of Russian studies at CNA, a research institute in Arlington, Virginia, assessing Ukraine’s options.
“If it fails, the outcome could affect external support,’’ he said. “On the other hand, Kyiv likely sees this as a window of opportunity, beyond which lies the uncertainty of a protracted war against a Russian army that has had time to entrench.”
From the Ukrainian perspective, the mostly static trench fighting cannot go on indefinitely. Leaving Russia in control of much of the southern coastline would cripple Ukraine’s economy, already cratering from the war and propped up by Western aid. It would also give space to Russia to solidify control in areas it has captured, blanketing news media and school curriculum with its propaganda, arresting or driving out opponents, and potentially declaring the land part of Russia after staging sham referendums.
President Vladimir Putin is also facing some political pressure to secure a battlefield breakthrough — especially after Ukraine’s attacks on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, and the car bombing that killed an ultranationalist commentator last weekend. The attacks had Russia’s pro-war hawks calling for revenge.
But numerous signs suggest that Putin will ignore those calls and settle instead on a strategy of plodding offense designed to exhaust and kill Ukrainian forces. The latest evidence came on Thursday, when the Kremlin published Putin’s order increasing the target size of the armed forces by 137,000, to 1.15 million.
Analysts said the decree hinted that Putin was preparing for a long and grinding war, but not necessarily a large-scale draft that would mark a major escalation and perhaps prompt a domestic backlash.
“Expectations that this will end by Christmas or that this will end by next spring” are misguided, said Ruslan Pukhov, a defense analyst who runs the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, a privately owned think tank in Moscow. “I think this will last a very long time.”
Ukraine was bolstered this week by the promise of a $3 billion military aid package from the United States. Biden administration officials said the aid was as much a message to Putin that the United States is in this for the long haul, as it was to Ukraine that America will continue to try to hold the NATO alliance together in backing Kyiv indefinitely.
Administration officials insist that President Joe Biden is committed to helping Ukraine win, even in a war of attrition, if it comes to that. Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, said at a news conference this week that Putin’s assumption that he can “win the long game’’ was “yet another Russian miscalculation.”
In Russian state media, the message that Russia might be only at the start of a long and existential war against the West — now being fought, by proxy, in Ukraine — is sounding with increasing clarity. It is a sharp shift from six months ago, when Ukrainians were depicted as lacking the will to fight and eagerly awaiting Russian “liberation.”
“We will have fewer Russian tourists in Europe, but the size of the Russian army will increase by 140,000 regular servicemen,” Igor Korotchenko, editor of a Russian military journal, said on a state television talk show. “I expect that this is just the beginning.”
While Putin may be content with a protracted standoff, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is in some ways fighting against the clock.
“The very difficult state of our economy, the constant risks of air and missile attacks and the general fatigue of the population from the difficulties of war will work against Ukraine” over time, Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former defense minister, wrote in the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. He said the military should be prepared to advance, rather than defend.
“It makes no sense to drag out the war for years and compete to see who will run out of resources first,” he wrote.
Stage-managed elections to justify annexation could come as early as next month, Western officials say, putting additional time pressure on Zelenskyy to launch an offensive.
But several military analysts say there is a disconnect between Ukrainian civilian leaders, pressing for a major victory, and military leaders who want to ensure they have sufficient troops and combat power before conducting a major offensive.
Over the last month, the Ukrainians have pivoted to the new strategy of so-called “deep war” — hitting targets far behind the front — after months of grim artillery duels and street fighting in the eastern region of Luhansk, which ultimately fell under Russian control by early July.
Using long-range, precision guided rockets provided by the United States and others, the Ukrainian military has been striking Russian weapons depots, bases, command centers and troop positions deep into occupied territory, including Crimea, the peninsula Putin seized in 2014.
Ukraine has for months been telegraphing plans for the major battle in the south; the types of weapons it has requested from Western allies and the tactics it pursues on the battlefield offering clues to its strategy.
Tellingly, a recent U.S. military assistance package included armored vehicles with mine-clearing attachments that would be used in a ground advance, suggesting preparations for the opening of what would be a new, ground attack phase of the war. Ukraine pushed back Russian forces that were in disarray in the battle for Kyiv last winter, but has yet to demonstrate it can overrun well-fortified Russian defenses.
With the decision on an attack in the south looming, Zelenskyy has taken pains to show unity with his generals. At a news conference this week, he praised the commander, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, and denied rumors he intended to dismiss the general.
“We work as a team,” Zelenskyy said. Asked to assess the general’s performance, he said, “The most important assessment is we are holding on. That means the assessment is high. When we win, it will be the highest assessment.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ukraine-weighs-a-risky-offensive-to-break-out-of-a-stalemate/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-27 04:56:55 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ukraine-weighs-a-risky-offensive-to-break-out-of-a-stalemate/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
NEW YORK (AP) — To Sigourney Weaver, her friendship with James Cameron didn’t really start on “Aliens,” the 1986 film Cameron directed her in. It started after.
“He was quite serious most of the time. He had a lot riding on that. England was all about Ridley Scott (the original’s director) doing the next one,” Weaver recalls. “It wasn’t until we got to the Venice Film Festival where ‘Aliens’ was part of some program. We were having dinner afterward and I’m listening to Jim and I went, ‘Wait a minute. You’re funny? Where was this person all through those difficult months?’”
That their first movie — as fruitful as the final product was — wasn’t the smoothest experience may have been partly due to Cameron’s unconventional courtship of Weaver. When she wavered on returning as Ripley in the sequel, Cameron approached Arnold Schwarzenegger’s agent, who also represented Weaver, with the idea of Schwarzenegger taking over the film series. It was a way, once word filtered back to her, to coax Weaver into signing on. The gambit worked.
“The first few weeks on ‘Aliens’ was a bit rocky while we tested each other,” Cameron says. “After that, we’ve been fast friends forever.”
That long-running friendship and collaboration reaches an unlikely pinnacle in “Avatar: The Way of the Water,” Cameron’s long-awaited oceanic opus. Though Weaver co-starred in Cameron’s original 2009 “Avatar,” her character, Dr. Grace Augustine was shot and killed by the end of the film. In 2010, while Cameron was sketching out what would eventually become plans for four more “Avatar” films, he met with Weaver to suggest a novel idea of how she might be reborn on Pandora.
Weaver would come back in an entirely new role: Kiri, the 14-year-old biological daughter of Grace’s avatar. In the film, which opens in theaters Thursday, Weaver plays the Na’vi character, adopted by Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña). It’s not easy logic to parse out. What, exactly, are the reproductive capacities of avatars?
“I had to jump through a few fiery hoops to get her on this movie. Not that she was unwilling, but in terms of narrative logic,” says Cameron. “OK, she’s the daughter of the avatar of Grace Augustine, you know what I mean? So of course she looks like Grace. Makes sense, right? Oh, by the way, you’ve got to be 14 years old.”
But the end result of Cameron’s narrative logic is simple enough: Sigourney Weaver is back in the “Avatar” fold. And not only that, through performance capture she’s playing a wide-eyed teenage Na’vi who looks a little like an alien Winona Ryder. As Weaver likes to say, in science fiction, “Everything is possible.”
“I know that no one but Jim would have cast me as a 14-year-old. As he said, people think I’m kind of serious and strong and all those things. He knows that that’s just malarkey,” says Weaver, smiling. “He said, ‘This will be easy for you.’”
It required a bit more work than Cameron made out. Like the rest of the cast, to film the movie’s extensive underwater scenes, Weaver trained for the underwater performance capture work by learning how to hold her breath underwater for six minutes. “Six and a half,” Weaver corrects. Getting back into the headspace of a teenager also demanded some immersion. She spent time in high schools, she says. “I needed time to unearth my 14 year old.”
“I was this tall when I was 11, which was excruciating,” says the 5-foot-10 Weaver, the daughter of pioneering TV executive Pat Weaver and the British actress Elizabeth Inglis. “I still, at 14, spent half my time wanting to disappear. I think Kiri has some issues that are difficult for her. She’s the adoptive daughter. She’s very much part of the family, but she also has these things going on that she doesn’t quite understand.”
It’s not a one-off performance, either. Cameron envisions big things for Kiri in future “Avatar” installments. He’s already filmed the third film, begun shooting the fourth and developed the fifth. Fans of Weaver from “Ghostbusters,” “Working Girl” and “Galaxy Quest” will get one more chance to grow older, again, with the 73-year-old actress.
“She’s a very, very important character,” Cameron says. “If we’re lucky enough, in terms of enough financial success on the movie to break even and make it a proper business case going forward and we get to do 3’’ — we’ve already captured everything with Sigourney for ‘3’ — and then ‘4’ and ‘5.’ Her character has increasing importance across the greater saga. Both of us are looking forward to that exploration.”
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MIAMI, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquila, a leading provider of on-site fitness and well-being management services, has announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022. The company reported a 26% increase in revenue, reflecting its strong performance in the US market overall.
Aquila's success comes as the health and fitness industry continues to rebound from the pandemic, and the company has positioned itself as a leader in the space. In 2022, Aquila added new customers in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Massachusetts, and Illinois, expanding its client base across real estate, corporate, and government sectors. The company was also named a Top 10 Corporate Services Wellness Company by Manage HR Magazine, recognizing its commitment to delivering exceptional service to its clients.
"We're thrilled with our performance in 2022, and it's a testament to the hard work and dedication of our team," said I. Yvan Miklin, Aquila's President & CEO. "Our success is driven by our unique business model, which combines on-site fitness and wellness services with cutting-edge technology and innovative programming. We're confident that our approach will continue to resonate with clients and drive growth in the years ahead."
Miklin added that Aquila is committed to staying at the forefront of the industry and anticipating the needs of its clients. The company has invested in new technologies to enhance the member experience through its digital solutions and expanded its services to include health support, nutrition counseling, and other holistic wellness offerings.
"We're proud to be a leader in the health and fitness industry, and we're excited about the opportunities ahead," said Miklin. "As more people prioritize their health and wellness, we're confident that Aquila will continue to play a vital role in helping them achieve their goals."
To share its insights and expertise with clients and the wider business community, Aquila has released its 2023 Annual Client Forecast Report, "Heart Rate Rising: Wellness Continues Upward Trajectory in 2023." The report offers in-depth analysis of industry trends and predictions for the year ahead, highlighting the importance of technology, workplace wellness, and member engagement. The report is available for download on the Aquila website.
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Collaboration between industry leaders brings innovative sports betting and iGaming experiences to cruise ship guests
JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BetMGM, a leading sports betting and iGaming operator, announced today a new partnership with Carnival Corporation to deliver world-class retail and mobile sports betting and iGaming experiences to cruise ship guests. Through this partnership, gaming will be available on more than 50 ships ported in the U.S. spanning Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises. BetMGM's platform will roll out in phases over the coming months.
"We've found an ideal partner in Carnival Corporation and look forward to providing our sports betting and iGaming products to its millions of passengers," said BetMGM CEO Adam Greenblatt. "This is another great opportunity for us to further expand BetMGM's footprint."
Under the agreement, Carnival Corporation will offer BetMGM-branded digital and cash-based sports betting, as well as digital real-money gaming products on-board Carnival's U.S.-branded ships in international waters. Additionally, BetMGM and Carnival Corporation will collaborate on co-marketing and promotional activations.
Marty Goldman, SVP Global Casino Operations for Carnival Corporation, said, "We're very proud to be able to deliver the excitement and engagement of sports betting and iGaming to our guests through our partnership with BetMGM. Our two leading global hospitality organizations will provide a wide array of immersive digital content as a complement to our exceptional shipboard casinos."
As BetMGM continues to expand into new markets, responsible gaming education remains a key focus. BetMGM is proud to provide resources to help customers play responsibly including GameSense, an industry leading program, developed and licensed to MGM Resorts by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. Through the GameSense integration within BetMGM's mobile and desktop platforms, customers can directly access responsible gaming tools.
The BetMGM app is available for download on both iOS and Android, and is accessible via desktop at www.betmgm.com. For more information, follow @BetMGM on Twitter.
BetMGM is a market-leading sports betting and gaming entertainment company, pioneering the online gaming industry. Born out of a partnership between MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) and Entain Plc (LSE: ENT), BetMGM has exclusive access to all of MGM's U.S. land-based and online sports betting, major tournament poker, and online gaming businesses. Utilizing Entain's U.S. licensed, state of the art technology, BetMGM offers sports betting and online gaming via market-leading brands including BetMGM, Borgata Casino, Party Casino and Party Poker. Founded in 2018, BetMGM is headquartered in New Jersey. For more information, visit http://www.betmgminc.com/.
Carnival Corporation & plc is one of the world's largest leisure travel companies with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise lines. With operations in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
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Two children killed after being trapped in house fire, authorities say
HOUSTON (KPRC) – Two children were killed in a horrific house fire in Texas early Sunday.
Neighbors in Galveston said they tried to save the children, but police told them to stop because it was too dangerous.
Cellphone video shows the flames bursting from an upstairs window.
Firefighters on the ground were seen battling the blaze.
James Rodgers’ house is connected to the burning home. He said the children inside were family members.
“They were my cousin and niece,” he said. “Logan and Jade.”
Fire officials say calls for the fire came in at about 2:30 a.m.
The children and their father were inside the home at the time. The dad was able to get out, but the children were stuck inside.
A neighbor who asked to be left anonymous said they scrambled to get the word out.
“One of my friends went and tried to crawl up there to get into the window,” they said. “The police told him to get down and he got down.”
Their worst fear was confirmed when they say the mom made it back home a short time later.
“She made it about 20 minutes later and I could just tell the way she was screaming, it wasn’t good news,” the neighbor said.
Veronica von Blon, a nearby neighbor, said the entire community is heartbroken, with the family in everyone’s thoughts and prayers.
“You see something like this and it’s just so sad,” von Blon said. “It really is sad.”
It is unclear right now what ignited the fire.
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(The Hill) – Club for Growth Action is endorsing Kathy Barnette in Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary and providing air support for her in the final days before the May 17 nominating contest.
The super PAC, one of the most influential outside players in Republican primaries, announced its support for Barnette, a conservative commentator and former House candidate, on Wednesday as it launched a new television ad highlighting her biography. The buy is worth some $2 million, according to AdImpact, which tracks and analyzes political ad spending.
“Democrats are serious when they say ‘fundamentally change this country,’ and by ‘fundamentally change’ they mean screw it up real good,” Barnette says in the ad. “This is about the survival of our nation and we need people who understand that.”
Club for Growth Action’s decision to wade into the Pennsylvania Senate race for Barnette marks the latest high-profile instance of the group breaking with former President Trump, who has already endorsed celebrity physician Mehmet Oz in the GOP primary.
The group once opposed Trump only to closely align itself with him during his presidency. And while Trump and the Club for Growth are still on the same page in places like North Carolina, where both are supporting Rep. Ted Budd’s (R-N.C.) bid for the Republican Senate nomination, there have been other instances of tension.
Club for Growth Action was a major backer of former Ohio state Treasurer Josh Mandel’s Senate campaign, putting it at odds with Trump, who endorsed author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance in the race. Vance won the GOP nomination last week.
The group’s support for Barnette, however, also comes as Barnette makes a last-minute surge in the polls, despite being heavily outspent in the primary.
Recent polls show Barnette surpassing former hedge fund CEO David McCormick in the Senate primary and only narrowly trailing Oz.
A Fox News poll of 1,001 Pennsylvania Republican voters found Oz with 22%, McCormick with 20%, and Barnette with 19% support in the May 17 primary.
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DETROIT (AP) — A northern Michigan man was arrested Thursday and charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, prosecutors said.
Luke Michael Lints, 27, of Traverse City was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with civil disorder, a felony, and related misdemeanor offenses, prosecutors said.
Lints was among rioters who repeatedly engaged in violence against law enforcement officers guarding the Capitol, court documents said. He confronted officers in the Lower West Terrace and tunnel areas of the Capitol and entered the tunnel there, making his way towards the front of the police line.
Lints held a police shield and pushed back against officers, at one point using a police shield to prevent an officer from closing a door to protect himself from the rioters, documents said. Lints also was part of a crowd directly outside the tunnel as a Metropolitan Police Department officer was assaulted by rioters.
It wasn't clear whether Lints has an attorney who might comment on his behalf.
His arrest follows that of Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for Michigan governor and ardent defender of former President Donald Trump, on misdemeanor charges June 10 for his role in the riot. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Northern-Michigan-man-charged-for-role-in-Capitol-17277877.php | 2022-06-30 23:08:12 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Northern-Michigan-man-charged-for-role-in-Capitol-17277877.php |
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since the weekend, the latest in a large and increasing number who are fleeing the communist island and stretching thin U.S. border agencies both on land and at sea.
It is a dangerous 100-mile (160-kilometer) trip in often rickety boats — unknown thousands having perished over the years — but more Cubans are taking the risk amid deepening and compounding political and economic crises at home. A smaller number of Haitians are also fleeing their country’s economic and political woes and arriving by boat in Florida.
The Coast Guard tries to interdict Cuban migrants at sea and return them. Since the U.S. government’s new fiscal year began Oct. 1, about 4,200 have been stopped at sea — or about 43 a day. That was up from 17 per day in the previous fiscal year and just two per day during the 2020-21 fiscal year.
But an unknown number have made it to land and will likely get to stay.
“I would prefer to die to reach my dream and help my family. The situation in Cuba is not very good,” Jeiler del Toro Diaz told The Miami Herald shortly after coming ashore Tuesday in Key Largo.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said it would be issuing a statement Wednesday, but had not yet done so.
Dry Tortugas National Park, a group of seven islands 70 miles (110 kilometers) west of Key West, remained closed to visitors Wednesday as the U.S. evacuated migrants who came ashore there earlier in the week. Normally, about 255 tourists a day arrive by boat and seaplane to tour the islands and Fort Jefferson, which was built 160 years ago. Officials did not know when it would reopen.
In Marathon, some 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Key West, about two dozen migrants were being held in a fenced-in area outside a Customs and Border Protection station where tents had been erected to provide shade. When Associated Press journalists tried to speak with the migrants through the fence, Border Patrol employees told them to leave.
Ramón Raul Sanchez with the Cuban-American group Movimiento Democracia went to the Keys to check on the situation. He told the AP that he met a group of 22 Cubans who had just arrived. They were standing along the main road, waiting for U.S. authorities to pick them up. Sanchez and Keys officials said the Biden administration needs a more coordinated response.
“There is a migration and humanitarian crisis, and it is necessary for the president to respond by helping local authorities,” Sanchez said.
Cubans are willing to take the risk because those who make it to U.S. soil almost always get to stay, even if their legal status is murky. They also arrive by land, flying to Nicaragua, then traveling north through Honduras and Guatemala into Mexico. In the 2021-22 fiscal year, 220,000 Cubans were stopped at the U.S.-Mexican border, almost six times as many as the previous year.
Callan Garcia, a Florida immigration attorney, said most Cubans who reach U.S. soil tell Border Patrol agents they can’t find adequate work at home. They are then flagged “expedited for removal” as having entered the country illegally. But that does not mean the actually will be removed quickly — or at all.
Because the U.S. and Cuba do not have formal diplomatic relations, the American government has no way to repatriate them. Cubans are released but given an order that requires them to contact federal immigration authorities periodically to confirm their address and status. They are allowed to get work permits, driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers, but cannot apply for permanent residency or citizenship.
Garcia said that can last for the rest of their lives; some Cubans who came in the 1980 Mariel boatlift still are designated “expedited for removal.”
“They’re just sort of here with a floating order for removal that can’t be executed,” Garcia said.
A small percentage of Cuban immigrants tell Border Patrol agents they are fleeing political persecution and are “paroled,” Garcia said. Under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, they are released until they can appear before an immigration judge to make their case. If approved, they can receive permanent residency and later apply for citizenship.
On the other hand, Haitian immigrants almost always get sent back, even though political persecution and violence is rife there, along with severe economic hardship.
“That inconsistency has something that immigrant rights advocates have always pointed to,” Garcia said.
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SHIPPENSBURG — Nathan Oliphant and Chloe Diaz each recovered from a mishap to return to the medal stand.
Oliphant, a Riverside senior, earned a fifth-place medal in the Class 2A 110-meter hurdles, and Diaz, a Montrose junior, grabbed fifth in the Class 2A 100 hurdles at the PIAA Track and Field Championships on Saturday morning at Shippensburg University’s Seth Grove Stadium.
Oliphant, who is headed to Lehigh University, ran a personal-best time of 14.66 seconds. Our Lady of Sacred Heart senior Antonio Votour won gold in 14.28.
“I had a lot of goals, and one of them was to get back on the medal stand, and the other was to break 15 seconds,” Oliphant said. “My last goal was to make New Balance nationals. I couldn’t be happier.
“As a senior, I am speechless.”
Diaz ran a time of 15.46. West Catholic’s Taleea Buxton set a meet record with a winning time of 13.80.
“I am happy,” Diaz said. “I do wish I got a higher place than last year, but I am so glad to be here and to win another medal.”
Oliphant won the second state medal of his career after taking seventh place as a sophomore. He failed to reach the final as a junior, finishing ninth. In addition, he hit the qualifying standard for the New Balance National Championship meet of 14.80 for the Boy Rising Stars division.
His journey to the medal stand hit a road bump at the Robert Spagna Championship meet.
Because of some technique issues, Oliphant started clipping hurdles, causing them to fly all around the track. In the final, he suffered his first loss when West Scranton’s Colin Manley earned the win in 14.66 seconds. His second-place time, however, was a personal best of 14.88. Oliphant got back on track at the District 2 Class 2A Championships, winning gold in 15.55 while running into a 15-mph headwind.
That set the stage for the weekend. He ran a 14.96 to reach the final with the eighth-best time. In the final, Oliphant posted his best time of 14.66 and moved up three places to fifth.
“I put more work in,” Oliphant said. “Losing at the Spagna meet really focused me on myself. I watched videos, and with the competition in District 2, that good competition really helped me.
“After the prelims on Friday, I just felt a lot less stressed. I went in thinking this might be my last race, so I left it all out on the track.”
Diaz, like Oliphant, was seeded first for the 100 hurdles at the Spagna meet. She false-started and didn’t get to race.
At the District 2 Class 2A Championships, Diaz won the gold at 16.09. At the state meet, she posted a time of 15.46 in both the preliminary and final to earn her second medal of her career. Last season, she placed fifth with a 15.48.
“I am really glad to get over that false start and get back to states,” Diaz said. “I wasn’t sure after that false start, and I worked hard after that.”
Zalewski hits career best
Abington Heights junior Madison Zalewski only began throwing the javelin in March.
Her journey to Shippensburg started with a throw of 67 feet. Weeks later, Zalewski reached the medal stand with a personal-best distance of 131-1, which beat her school record by nearly 11 feet to earn a sixth-place medal in the Class 3A meet.
Blue Mountain junior Rosalind Gergely won the gold at 150-8.
Zalewski reached the final as the ninth qualifier with a best toss of 118-2. On her first throw of the final, she launched her medal-winning throw.
“In the beginning, I did not throw very well, and I wasn’t satisfied with that,” Zalewski said. “I talked to my coach (Bill Lezinski), and he said to give it my all. I had nothing to lose, so I went out and just performed. I was really happy. We have been working on everything for the last nine weeks, and it just all came together.”
Pacyna breaks record again
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Mid Valley senior Gabe Pacyna closed out his career on the medal stand and took one more swipe at the school record.
Determined to climb the five spots that stood in his way last year, he ran a personal-best time of 1:57.25 in the 800 to finish sixth in Class 2A. He shot out with a 57.70 in his first 400 and closed with a 59.56.
Riverview senior Amberson Bauer won the event at 1:54.93.
“Hard work pays off,” said Pacyna, who beat his time from last week’s District 2 Class 2A Championship Meet. “I went through this season expecting a medal. Coming here, even though I had two bad nights of sleep on the beds, I wanted to stand out and prove that I deserved to be here.
“I got the result that I wanted.”
Danilovitz earns second medal
Riverside senior Lacey Danilovitz earned a sixth-place medal in the girls Class 2A meet in the 3,200-meter race with a time of 11:01.02. Brownsville Area’s Jolena Quarzo defended her state title with a time of 10:21.29.
Danilovitz, a senior who is headed to the University at Buffalo, found herself in a pack of runners as Quarzo and Forest Hills senior Delaney Dumm got out in front and established a fast pace. As the pack started to extend, Danilovitz kept trying to accelerate past runners but couldn’t, and she held on at sixth place, improving from her seed of eighth.
Last season, Danilovitz won her first state medal when she finished fourth with a time of 11:01.68.
“Honestly, that wasn’t my best race,” Danilovitz said. “I wasn’t feeling too good. I went out and did the best I could, and to come away with another medal for Riverside is still pretty good.”
Nielsen lands eighth
Valley View senior Jacob Nielsen started his senior year chasing school history.
During the regular season, he broke a school record with a mark of 22-10, beating the distance of 22-6.5 set in 1986 by Rich Sparks. He won the Lackawanna Track Conference title with a mark of 22-6.5 at the Spagna meet and won District 2 Class 3A gold with a distance of 22-1.25, which sent him to the state meet.
In the long jump Saturday morning, Nielsen hit a best distance of 21-7.50 to earn an eighth-place medal. Emmaus junior Kyle Moore won the gold with a leap of 24-5.25.
“It feels amazing,” said Nielsen, who has received a preferred walk-on opportunity at Penn State University. “I truly have wanted this since seventh grade. Obviously, I wanted to do better, but I won a state medal, and that is amazing. I met a lot of people and made a lot of new friends. It is so cool to be here.
“The wind did pick up on my last three jumps. I got a medal, and that is what I wanted most.”
Franceschelli eighth
North Pocono’s Nicholas Franceschelli won an eighth-place medal in the Class 3A javelin with a distance of 177-1 in the best event for District 2 athletes at this year’s meet.
Wyoming Area senior Drew Mruk won the silver with a distance of 208-3, while Hazleton Area’s Samuell Guzman finished fifth with a throw of 186-3.
Jersey Shore senior Peter Bellomo won gold at 214-3.
Franceschelli started the event with a mark of 164-10, but he followed that with a 141-8. On his third attempt, he threw 175-3 and then had his best distance of 175-6 on his fourth attempt, which secured him a medal.
“I was getting a little nervous after my first couple of throws,” Franceschelli said. “I was trying to take it all in and get all the nerves out. I finally got one out there, and I am happy. I made states, I made the final, and I won a medal. That’s pretty good.”
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(NewsNation) — Teachers in 2021 earned 23.5% less than comparable college graduates, a new record, according to new data.
The Economic Policy Institute, or EPI, has been tracking teacher wage trends over the past 18 years, and its analysis of 2021 data concludes that teacher pay has remained relatively flat since 1996. Moreover, teachers make considerably less than peers working in other industries.
The report released this month further adds to conversations surrounding teacher pay and overall classroom funding. Just this week, educators in the largest school district in Ohio went on strike over disagreements about pay and learning conditions.
The EPI data, pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that the average weekly wages of public school teachers was $1,348 in 2021, slightly higher than $1,319 in 1996. By comparison, other college graduates brought in, on average, $2,009 a week in 2021.
The report’s author, Sylvia Allegretto, wrote that the disparity highlights the stagnation of teacher pay over the last quarter-century.
“The wages of nonteacher college graduates jumped by 13.5% from 1996 to 2002 during an unusual time of exceptional wage growth among low-, middle-, and high-wage earners,” Allegretto said. “But inflation-adjusted wages of teachers did not grow strongly during this period, in part because teacher pay is often set by long-term contracts, and public-sector wages are not as volatile as private-sector wages.”
The Institute also analyzed what it calls a teacher “wage penalty,” which measures how much less teachers are paid relative to other college graduates. In 2021, the penalty hit a record-high 23.5%, meaning that on average, teachers earned 76.5 cents on the dollar compared with other college grads working in other professions.
“Generally, the teacher wage penalty has been on a worsening trajectory since the mid-1990s,” Allegretto wrote.
In 1979, women teachers actually earned a “premium,” making on average 6.5% more in weekly wages than their nonteacher peers. The wage penalty is worst among men, who made 35% less than their nonteacher peers in 2021.
The disparities exists nationwide. A teacher wage penalty is present in each state, with the largest gap in Colorado, where teachers make 35.9% less than nonteachers. The smallest wage penalty is in Rhode Island at 3.4%.
“The picture that continues to emerge is one of a long-steep relative erosion of teacher wages,” Allegretto wrote. “Among those students who would like to dedicate their careers to teaching, many are undoubtedly choosing to forgo a public school teaching career in lieu of a better-paying career choice.” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/teacher-pay-stuck-in-the-1990s-analysis-finds/ | 2022-08-26 16:45:48 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/teacher-pay-stuck-in-the-1990s-analysis-finds/ |
Lest anyone think the Chico City Council got nothing out of its training session three Fridays ago, Mayor Andrew Coolidge noted a change to the most recent meeting’s agenda that traces to advice from the municipal law experts.
What had been called “business from the floor” is now called “public comment.”
So, don’t say this council hasn’t done anything. See — progress!
But, seriously … the change makes sense. The trainers noted that business from the floor implies comments related to the meeting’s business, which is exactly the opposite of this comment period’s parameters. As the agenda and the mayor always note, “Members of the public may address the council at this time on any matter not already listed on the agenda” — and, “the council cannot take any action at this meeting on requests made under this section of the agenda.”
Is this a distinction without a difference? That remains to be seen. For the most part, the open comment period is the most unpredictable part of unpredictable meetings; that held last Wednesday, in the post-holiday July 5 session, when four regular commenters went far afield of the agenda.
Fentanyl. Diesel smoke. Racism. Human trafficking. Those were among the subjects raised. The only comment directly tied to an item of city business was a thank you to Coolidge for issuing a proclamation declaring June as Pride Month.
Gadflies are part and parcel of council meetings. (Lest I get blowback for using that term, a gadfly is, per Merriam-Webster, “a person who stimulates or annoys other people especially by persistent criticism.” It’s the definition, not an insult.) Their ranks have thinned recently, but they’re still leaving their mark.
Case in point: 91-year-old Ruth Sarnoff, who came last week after a long absence.
“Welcome back, Ruth — we’ve missed you,” Coolidge said as she made her way to the lectern, assisted by her daughter, Sacha Anya.
“Well, you don’t read my emails,” Sarnoff replied, before launching into a stream of comments (environmental and societal) that extended well beyond the three-minute time limit. Coolidge gave her a grace period but ultimately had the microphone muted.
“And I was so happy to have you back,” the mayor said as Anya guided her back to her seat. Sarnoff continued to bellow at him, even as Anya started her own remarks.
Other notables include James Hutchinson; he frequently speaks to the fentanyl crisis and its handling by the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force, but also decries conditions in his part of town and how redistricting kept him and his neighbors from voting for council in both the 2020 and 2022 elections. Jesica Giannola addresses homelessness and housing. Rob Berry and Nichole Nava advocate quality-of-life issues. Threet rails against COVID vaccines and other things she deems dangerous, particularly to school-age children.
As I said, sometimes open comments hit on topics under the council’s purview. Often, not. That’s the unpredictability of public comment, formerly known as business from the floor.
If anything, the new name may invite more monologues, should “public comment” allay any notion that comments to the council should relate to council business. Fifteen minutes of fame? Here, it’s three minutes.
Evan Tuchinsky is weekend editor of the Enterprise-Record. You can reach him at etuchinsky@chicoer.com. | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/14/a-gadfly-by-any-other-name-city-insider/ | 2023-07-14 10:55:34 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/14/a-gadfly-by-any-other-name-city-insider/ |
GREAT NECK, N.Y. (AP) — GREAT NECK, N.Y. (AP) — One Liberty Properties Inc. (OLP) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter.
The real estate investment trust, based in Great Neck, New York, said it had funds from operations of $10.8 million, or 50 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $5.4 million, or 25 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust, based in Great Neck, New York, posted revenue of $23 million in the period.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — This year’s CMT Music Awards will merge country, rock and blues straight from the heart of Texas, featuring performances including collaborations with Alanis Morissette, The Black Crowes, Gwen Stefani and Gary Clark Jr. and tributes to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
The annual fan-voted awards show in Austin, Texas, on Sunday also will honor country superstar and five-time Grammy winner Shania Twain with the Equal Play Award, recognizing her for being a “visible and vocal advocate” for diverse voices in country music.
Hosted by Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini, fan-favorite and scheduled performer Lainey Wilson leads the nominations with four chances to win.
The show airs live on CBS at 8 p.m. EST.
Carrie Underwood has a chance to extend her record as the most awarded artist in CMT history with 25 awards. Underwood, who also will perform, was nominated again for video of the year for “Hate My Heart.”
Other performers include Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Wynonna Judd with Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Jelly Roll, Tyler Hubbard and Brown with his wife Katelyn.
Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd will be honored with a tribute performance following the death in March of the last original member, Gary Rossington. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Slash of Guns N’ Roses and the Allman Brothers’ Warren Haynes and Chuck Leavell are slated to perform with singers Paul Rodgers and Cody Johnson with backup vocals from LeAnn Rimes and Judd.
Four-time Grammy winner Clark Jr. will perform a tribute to the late Texas guitarist Vaughn.
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DENVER, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MDC), one of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of fifty cents ($0.50) per share on the Company's common stock. The dividend will be paid on Wednesday, November 23, 2022 to shareholders of record on Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
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M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1972. MDC's homebuilding subsidiaries, which operate under the name Richmond American Homes, have built and financed the American Dream for more than 230,000 homebuyers since 1977. MDC's commitment to customer satisfaction, quality and value is reflected in each home its subsidiaries build. MDC is one of the largest homebuilders in the United States. Its subsidiaries have homebuilding operations across the country, including the metropolitan areas of Denver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Riverside-San Bernardino, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Orlando, Jacksonville, Seattle, Portland, Boise, Nashville, Austin, Albuquerque and Huntsville. MDC's subsidiaries also provide mortgage financing, insurance and title services, primarily for Richmond American homebuyers, through HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency, Inc. and American Home Title and Escrow Company, respectively. M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MDC." For more information, visit www.mdcholdings.com.
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Theater workers in New Mexico take down man with assault rifle, police say
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KOAT) – A man decided to go to the Flix Brewhouse armed with an AR-15 style rifle on Friday, authorities said.
The police report said Darnell Devon Hill went into the kitchen, where he confronted multiple employees.
Officials arrived at the scene within the hour to see what happened.
“When we respond to situations like this, it is very high-stress just because you don’t necessarily know what you are getting into,” said Angelina Navarro with Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.
When they arrived, police found out employees took down the 26-year-old and kept him down until police arrived.
Navarro said employees took matters into their own hands.
“One of the female managers at that time was able to disarm Mr. Hill,” she said.
Sunday afternoon, cars could be seen packing the lot with patrons more than happy to see a movie.
Flix Brewhouse sent KOAT a statement saying, “While the emotional trauma of the incident cannot be erased, we’re thankful our energy is focused on healing and supporting those involved as things could have been so much worse.”
“We want to give kudos to those employees that were extremely brave to intervene because it takes a lot of guts and a lot of courage for someone to intervene before deputies arrive on scene,” Navarro said.
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BERLIN (AP) — Lore Mayerfeld was 4 years old when she escaped from the Nazis in 1941. Together with her mother, the little Jewish girl ran away from her German hometown of Kassel with nothing but the clothes she wore and her beloved doll, Inge.
Mayerfeld found a safe haven in the United States and later immigrated to Israel. Her doll, a present from her grandparents who were killed in the Holocaust, was always at her side until 2018 when she donated it to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
More than 80 years later, the doll has returned to Germany. It will be at parliament in Berlin as part of an exhibition slated to open Tuesday evening just days before the country marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on Jan. 27, 1945.
The exhibition, Sixteen Objects, also marks the 70th anniversary of the Yad Vashem memorial, bringing back to Germany an array of items Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis. There’s a black piano, a diary, a red-and-white-patterned towel, a stethoscope, a glitzy evening purse and a menorah among the exhibit’s objects.
They were chosen from more than 50,000 items at Yad Vashem that are connected to the Holocaust. The exhibit’s items represent Germany’s 16 states with one coming from each region. They all tell a unique story but share themes of love, attachment, pain and loss.
“These are all absolutely familiar German objects, and they would have stayed that way had the Holocaust not happened,” said Ruth Ur, the curator of the exhibition and Yad Vashem’s representative in Germany.
“The idea of this exhibition is to return these objects back to Germany for a short while, to bring a new energy to the objects themselves, and also to the gaps they have left behind.”
In one of the showcases, there’s a nondescript piece of cloth. It’s part of a flag that once belonged to Anneliese Borinski, who was part of a Jewish youth group in Ahrensdorf outside Berlin. She helped her group prepare for emigration and life in what would later become the state of Israel.
After the Nazis issued deportation orders, the 12 members decided to cut up their “Maccabi Hatzair” youth group flag into 12 pieces, and promised each other that after the war they would meet again in Israel to reassemble the flag.
Only three survived the Holocaust, and Borinski was the lone member who managed to take her piece of the flag to Israel. In 2007, her son donated it to Yad Vashem.
Another item is a brown leather suitcase. On one side, “Selma Sara Vellemann from Bremen” is written in bold white letters.
This suitcase was found in Berlin several years after the war. Yad Vashem researchers were unable to determine how the suitcase got to the German capital, but they discovered that a woman with the same name from the northern city of Bremen had lived in the retirement home in Berlin. In 1942, at the age of 66, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, and two months later sent to her death in the Treblinka extermination camp.
Beside each of the exibition objects, Ur and her team put up life-size photos of buildings and street corners where the items’ owners lived before the Nazis came to power. The images show modern-day scenes instead of historic ones, a stark contrast to the devastation the Third Reich caused decades ago.
Six million European Jews were killed by the Nazis and their henchmen during the Holocaust. Some survivors are still alive today, but their numbers are dwindling due to sickness and old age.
Mayerfeld, the little girl who fled with her doll Inge in 1941, is one of them. She returned to Germany this week to attend the opening of the exhibition.
Looking at her blond, blue-eyed doll, the now 85-year-old woman pointed out that the doll was wearing the pajamas she wore as a barely 2-year-old toddler on Nov. 9, 1938. On that date, she was hiding with her mother during Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazis — several ordinary Germans among them — terrorized Jews, vandalized their businesses and burned more than 1,400 synagogues.
“It’s not a doll that you play so easily with because she’s breakable. So my own children, I didn’t allow them to play with her,” Mayerfeld said. “She sat up on a shelf in my home and they would look at her and I explained, she’s going to break, you know, just look and enjoy her.”
Mayerfeld said it was important for her to come back to Germany and let the public know about her doll, her life and also what happened during the Holocaust.
“The world hasn’t learned anything from this past war,” she said. “There’s so many people who say it never even happened. They can’t tell me that. I was there. I lived it.”
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Ajay Mitchell and Andre Kelly posted double-doubles to help UC Santa Barbara hold off Long Beach State 75-72 on Thursday night.
Mitchell finished with 17 points and 10 assists for the Gauchos (19-4, 10-2 Big West Conference).Kelly added 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting and 10 rebounds. Josh Pierre-Louis pitched in with 13 points and eight boards.
The Beach (14-11, 8-5), who saw a six-game win streak end, were led by Aboubacar Traore with 18 points, 10 rebounds and six assists. Lassina Traore added 16 points and nine rebounds. Jadon Jones finished with 12 points.
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Both teams next play Saturday. UC Santa Barbara hosts UC Davis, while Long Beach State visits Cal State Bakersfield.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year.
In a series of posts on his Twitter account starting just after 12 a.m. ET, Twitter’s owner said that he’s looking to make the change worldwide as soon as Monday.
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk wrote on his account.
Earlier this month, the billionaire Tesla CEO put new curfews on his digital town square, a move that met with sharp criticism that it could drive away more advertisers and undermine its cultural influence as a trendsetter.
The higher tweet-viewing threshold is part of an $8-per-month subscription service that Musk rolled out earlier this year in an attempt to boost Twitter revenue. Revenue has dropped sharply since Musk took over the company and laid off roughly three-fourths of the workforce to slash costs and avoid bankruptcy.
In May, Musk hired longtime NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s CEO.
Luring advertisers is essential for Musk and Twitter after many fled in the early months after his takeover of the social media platform, fearing damage to their brands in the enveloping chaos. Advertisers have cut back on spending partly because of changes Musk has made that has allowed for more hateful content to flourish and that has offended a wider part of the platform’s audience.
Musk said in late April that advertisers had returned, but provided no specifics.
Musk’s move to change Twitter’s logo to an “X” also comes as Twitter faces new competition from Meta’s new app, Threads, launched earlier this month. It has been seen as an alternative for those who have been souring on Twitter.
Threads is being billed as a text-based version of Meta’s photo-sharing app Instagram that the company has said offers “a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations.”
In the first five days of its launch, 100 million people had signed up for Threads, according to a post on Threads by Instagram head Adam Mosseri. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/twitter-dropping-the-bird-logo-musk-says/ | 2023-07-23 14:17:28 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/twitter-dropping-the-bird-logo-musk-says/ |
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Steve Shurtleff was at Joe Biden’s side in 2019 when he filed papers in the New Hampshire State House to run for president.
He repeatedly trekked across the state with Biden to court primary voters. And when Biden ultimately won the presidency, it was Shurtleff, then the Democratic state House speaker, who proudly sealed the envelope that carried New Hampshire’s four electoral votes — including his own name — to the U.S. Senate.
But on the eve of a new election season, Shurtleff, like a majority of Democrats across the country, feels that one term is enough.
“In my heart of hearts, no,” Shurtleff said when asked if he wants Biden to run again. “I think a lot of people just don’t want to say it.”
Democrats across New Hampshire are upset with the Democratic president for trying to end the state’s status as home to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. But their concerns about Biden run much deeper, in line with a majority of Democratic voters nationwide, who question the 80-year-old president’s plans to soon launch his reelection campaign.
Just 37% of Democrats nationwide want the president to seek a second term, according to a poll released last month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That was down from 52% in the weeks before last year’s midterm elections.
Many worry about Biden’s age. Others, like Shurtleff, are upset about the administration’s messy withdrawal from Afghanistan. And the party’s progressive wing has never been enthusiastic about Biden, who is perceived as a moderate, despite his lengthy list of achievements.
The White House cast Biden’s perceived weakness within his own party as an exaggerated narrative that he has repeatedly proven wrong.
“We’re aware pundits’ attitude toward President Biden is unchanged from before he earned the nomination faster than anyone since 2004, won the most votes in American history, built the strongest legislative record in generations and led the best midterm outcome for a new Democratic president in 60 years,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said. “Based on comparing the accuracy of our predictions versus theirs, we are happy for this dynamic to continue.”
Still, there’s a risk of a disconnect between rank-and-file Democrats and the party’s establishment. While voters are signaling unease about the prospect of another Biden campaign, Democratic governors, senators and congressional representatives are virtually unanimous in supporting Biden’s reelection.
One exception may be New Hampshire, a small swing state whose electoral votes could be critical in a tight general election. The state has challenged Biden before.
Voters here served Biden an embarrassing fifth-place finish in the 2020 Democratic primary. New Hampshire polls were still open when he decamped to South Carolina, where his presidential ambitions were revived by a decisive win. That state is now Biden’s pick to lead the 2024 presidential primary calendar.
Interviews with angry New Hampshire Democrats across state government and local Democratic committees suggest there is some appetite for a serious primary challenger in 2024. But top-tier prospects don’t seem to be interested.
So far, only Democratic activist and author Marianne Williamson has entered the 2024 primary field. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late New York senator and known for railing against vaccines, met with New Hampshire voters on Friday. He’s also leaning toward a bid.
But the likes of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Biden’s fiercest primary challenger in 2020, has vowed to back the president in 2024. So has Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whose appearance at last year’s New Hampshire’s Democratic convention still comes up in conversation. California Rep. Ro Khanna, a progressive favorite, has also said he would not challenge Biden, although he has been a vocal advocate for New Hampshire’s place atop the primary calendar.
In an interview, Khanna said it was “political malpractice” for the Democratic National Committee, under Biden’s direction, to threaten New Hampshire’s status.
“New Hampshire is a state where retail politics still matter and where voters have an independence that can’t be controlled by the party establishment in DC,” Khanna said. The primary shakeup “could cost us four electoral votes and hurt our chances to win in the 2024 election.”
Meanwhile, Biden’s allies privately believe the primary dispute will be long forgotten by the time voters cast ballots in November 2024, especially with former President Donald Trump or one of his Republican acolytes on the ballot.
Biden supporters also note that some of the nation’s most popular two-term presidents confronted opposition from within their own parties ahead of their reelection.
President Ronald Reagan faced grumbling from dissatisfied Republicans leading up to the 1984 contest, which turned out to be the most lopsided general election victory in U.S. history. Democrats openly encouraged a primary challenge against President Bill Clinton after the disastrous 1994 midterms. He went on to a commanding reelection win in 1996. And President Barack Obama’s campaign worried about losing support from his political base — especially Black voters — before he cruised to victory in 2012.
“We had a lot of work to do, but the fundamentals were there,” said Stephanie Cutter, who helped managed Obama’s 2012 reelection.
Obama’s outlook changed as his team worked to remind voters what they liked best about him compared to a Republican opponent.
“Elections are about two people,” Cutter said. “Once Republicans start hitting the campaign trail and that craziness begins, the contrast between that crazy train and Joe Biden’s steady leadership and even hand fixing some of the nation’s biggest problems become clear as day.”
Biden has presided over significant accomplishments that could boost a reelection campaign.
He signed into law a sweeping pandemic relief bill, a massive infrastructure package, the first new federal gun safety law in decades and a comprehensive health and environmental plan that allowed Medicare to lower prescription drug prices and dedicated billions of dollars to combating climate change. Job growth and unemployment have also improved during his administration.
But he is grappling with acute challenges related to inflation, illegal immigration, crime and foreign affairs.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, attributed Biden’s political challenges to Democratic leaders who haven’t done enough to promote his accomplishments.
“The real disconnect right now is communication,” Cooper said in an interview. “President Biden has accomplished in two years what many presidents would only hope to do in eight. His success has meant real wins for working families. People are going to begin to see real improvement in their lives. It’s our job to make sure that they know it was President Biden who got it done.”
“Democrats came together once before in 2020 to ask him to do a job, and he accomplished it — he beat President Trump,” Cooper added. “And now he’s gonna do it again.”
Despite such optimism, Democrats across New Hampshire believe it will be difficult for Biden to match his 2020 victory of 7 percentage points in the state in 2024. Former Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, declined to say whether he wanted Biden to seek reelection when asked directly.
Biden’s push to change the primary calendar, Lynch said, has created such anti-Biden furor that it puts New Hampshire’s four electoral votes at risk in the 2024 general election. He was quick to note that four electoral votes would have tipped the 2000 presidential election in Al Gore’s favor.
“It could cost Democrats the presidency,” Lynch said. “Republicans won’t let voters forget. They’ll hammer the Democrats on this.”
Indeed, New Hampshire’s current governor, Republican Chris Sununu, called the primary calendar shift “a horrible miscalculation” for Biden that exposes him to a legitimate primary challenge.
“He’s made it harder to win in November ’24 — if he’s the nominee,” Sununu said in an interview. “But because of what he did here, he very well may not be the nominee.”
The Democratic concerns were easy to see inside the monthly meeting of Laconia Democrats on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee late last week, where just a half-dozen people gathered to discuss party business. Most of the participants, especially older ones, said they favored Biden’s reelection, even if they weren’t passionate about it.
Lois Kessin, a 73-year-old Laconia resident, has been volunteering for Biden in New Hampshire since Obama first tapped him as his running mate. She has a picture of herself and Biden hanging in her hallway.
“I am very happy with Joe Biden,” she said, acknowledging that some Democrats are worried about his age — a concern she said was offensive. “Perhaps there’s somebody as brilliant as he and as compassionate and as knowledgeable out there. But until that person shows up, I’m happy with Joe Biden.”
The Laconia committee chairman, 43-year-old Eric Hoffman, was less enthusiastic.
“The party kind of lined up because he was the nominee, but he obviously wasn’t our first four choices,” Hoffman said, referring to Biden’s finish in the 2020 primary. “People would prefer to see a change.”
But like many Democrats, he said he would vote for Biden in the 2024 general election to ensure Republicans don’t retake the White House.
Just don’t expect him to be excited about it.
“I wasn’t a big fan of his, but I’ve been pretty impressed with his abilities and the things he’s gotten accomplished,” Hoffman said. “So, it’s not the worst thing in the world.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/biden-reelection-bid-faces-resistance-from-some-democrats/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-03-06 05:51:58 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/biden-reelection-bid-faces-resistance-from-some-democrats/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
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