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MARLTON, N.J., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 2,630,717 consumers are being notified that their Social Security numbers were compromised when a vulnerability in software used by one of TIAA's vendors allowed hackers to access their confidential data. The data breach lawyers at Console & Associates, P.C. are investigating claims on behalf of anyone affected by the TIAA incident, hoping to fully inform them of the risks they face in the wake of the breach as well as their legal rights.
The sensitive personal data of 2,630,717 individuals has been compromised. Now, consumers' full names and Social Security numbers may be in the hands of criminals, putting victims at a greater risk of identity theft and other frauds.
On July 14, 2023, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America ("TIAA") filed notice with the Attorney General of Maine describing a third-party data breach at Pension Benefit Information, LLC ("PBI") affecting consumers nationwide. Evidently, the incident stemmed from a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer program, which was used by PBI to transmit information provided to PBI by TIAA. According to the notice, the data breach affected an estimated 2,630,717.
The list of sensitive information that was exposed includes:
- Names, and
- Social Security numbers.
TIAA provides financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and governmental fields, so many victims of the breach are employees of organizations in these industries. For example, dozens of colleges and universities have been notified of the PBI data breach by TIAA. While these colleges and universities may provide notice of the incident because the breach involved information that consumers provided to TIAA, TIAA is providing notice of the incident as well. PBI may also send out data breach letters.
If you receive a data breach notice from TIAA or PBI, you could now be at risk of identity theft—and the devastating financial and legal consequences that go along with it.
What Should You Do if You Receive a Data Breach Letter from PBI or TIAA?
Individuals who receive a data breach letter from TIAA or PBI should take steps to protect themselves. (See our Guide for Victims of Data Breach for more details at https://www.myinjuryattorney.com/consumer-privacy-data-breach-lawyers/if-your-information-has-been-compromised-in-a-data-breach/.)
Additionally, victims should consider contacting a data breach attorney immediately, as anyone who receives a data breach letter from PBI or TIAA may be entitled to financial compensation.
If you wish to discuss this data security incident, or if you have any questions regarding your rights following the TIAA data breach, please contact Console & Associates, P.C. at (866) 778-5500. Interested parties and potential plaintiffs can also learn more about this data breach and potential lawsuit at https://www.myinjuryattorney.com/teachers-insurance-and-annuity-association-of-america-tiaa-data-breach-investigation/.
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Sunday, Dec. 18
2022 FIFA World Cup: Final
FOX, 9:45am Live
The 2022 FIFA World Cup champion is crowned today with the final match at Qatar’s Lusail Iconic Stadium.
Magnolia Workshops
Magnolia Network, 11am; also streams on discovery+
Just in time for the holidays, learn to make brownie cookies and steak tamales for the whole family. Plus, step-by-step tutorials show how to decorate your home inside and out, from the front porch winter planter to the holiday mantel.
A Very Merry MeTV Marathon
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MeTV, beginning at 12pm
Enjoy five hours of Christmas TV past: The Beverly Hillbillies (“Home for Christmas” and “No Place Like Home” episodes); The Love Boat (“The Christmas Presence”); The Brady Bunch (“The Voice of Christmas”); and the 1988 TV movie A Very Brady Christmas.
The Sound of Music
ABC, 7pm
Catch a Classic!
Based on the great 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name, this 1965 big-screen adaptation of The Sound of Music is a stand-alone classic in its own right. One of the finest movie musical dramas ever produced, the hugely entertaining and practically flawless film won five of the 10 Oscars for which it was nominated, including Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Wise). It’s filled with a nonstop string of iconic and hummable tunes like “Edelweiss,” “My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” “The Lonely Goatherd” and “The Sound of Music,” and these songs are all big parts of why audiences made the movie a blockbuster that was, for a few years, the highest-grossing film of all time. The other big reasons The Sound of Music succeeds so effectively are the engaging performances from its terrific cast members, led by Best Actress Oscar nominee Julie Andrews, who plays Maria von Trapp in a story based on von Trapp’s memoir. In the late 1930s, Maria, a young novitiate, is sent by her convent to Austria to become a governess to the seven children of widowed naval officer Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer in the role that made him a film star). Maria brings love and music into the lives of the von Trapp family, even as the rise of Nazism in neighboring Germany begins to cast an ominous shadow.
An Eclectic Christmas
UPtv, 7pm
Original Film!
When a small-town vintage store owner leaves instructions in her will for inventory to be distributed as Christmas gifts, her out-of-town niece (Hannah Galway) seeks help from a handsome local (Jeremy Walmsley) in identifying recipients from the clues provided.
O Holy Night: Christmas With the Tabernacle Choir
BYUtv, 8pm
Tony Award nominee Megan Hilty and actor Neal McDonough join the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for an Irish-inspired edition of this heartwarming annual celebration of music and holiday traditions.
Coroner
The CW, 8pm
Season Finale!
In this back-to-back two-hour season finale, Jenny (Serinda Swan) and Donovan (Roger Cross) set out to find out where Peggy (Jennifer Dale) is and who is responsible for the explosion.
Hanukkah on Rye
Hallmark Channel, 8pm
Original Film!
A fresh romance is put to the test when Molly (Yael Grobglas) and Jacob (Jeremy Jordan) discover that they are competing deli owners. Could a Hanukkah miracle sa
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – For the first time since 2000, Wayne has earned an SAC championship after topping Concordia, 55-51, in your Highlight Zone Game of the Week!
The Generals’ conference crown is also their first outright title since 1976.
Both teams traded blows in the first half, but Wayne held onto a one point lead heading into halftime.
The momentum of Friday’s game shifted after Wayne sophomore Chase Barnes left the game with an apparent leg injury in the second half. Concordia’s Ajani Washington jammed home two of his 15 points to give the Cadets a 40-38 lead heading into the final quarter.
Wayne answered back the fourth quarter, tying the game at 48 thanks to a pair of 3-pointers from Jevon Lewis Jr. and Monte Smith. HJ Dillard snatched an and-one in the final minutes to give Wayne enough cushion over Concordia.
Dillard led the Generals with 15 points and 15 rebounds. Barnes added a dozen points before exiting the game with an injury. Cole Hayworth led Concordia with 16 points, Ajani Washington scored 15 and David Speckhard added 11.
Wayne wraps up the regular season on Thursday against Canterbury, while Concordia wraps up the regular season against Norwell, Homestead and Columbia City. | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/gotw-extended-highlights-interviews-concordia-vs-wayne/ | 2023-02-18 05:47:56 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/high-school-sports/gotw-extended-highlights-interviews-concordia-vs-wayne/ |
MACHIPONGO, Va., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The so-called "sport" of chicken roping consists of bullying defenseless hens and roosters for rodeo-style entertainment in some Wyoming towns.
According to a January 21 article in Wyoming Life/News, "It's exactly like calf roping. . . . They run a chicken out of a little pen and they rope it. . . . Someone throws a cord around the neck and someone [else] tries to get one of the feet."
This article features a bar called Dewey's Place in Moorcroft, Wyoming where chicken "roping" is said to be in its 9th year. This year's event is scheduled for Saturday, February 18.
Picture big men in cowboy dress harrying and tying cords around the necks and legs of small, fearful and bewildered birds overpowered amid the yelping of a bar crowd.
To our inquiry about the "headers" and "heelers" cited in the article, Eric Mills of Action for Animals, an Oakland, CA-based organization that focuses on rodeo reforms, explained: "That's rodeo talk for the team roping event involving a steer and two mounted cowboys. The 'header' ropes the head/horns of the steer; the 'heeler' ropes the steer's hind legs. Then they pull in opposite directions, stretching the steer out. Chickens are clearly not built for this inane activity."
While no animal of any size is built to be pulled "in opposite directions," it is particularly obscene to pull in "opposite directions" a small creature weighing just a few pounds.
"To the chickens at boot level of these 'ropers,' it's like one of us being towered over by a tall tree or building in terms of proportionate sizes," says Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns. "Imagine how scared and defenseless we would be and feel in similar circumstances."
"Chicken roping," Davis says, "is an act of pure bullying, with the inevitability of injury and death to the victims built innately into the activity. The trauma inflicted on the chicken may not even manifest itself until after the event. A hen or rooster stands no chance against a towering, controlling human being bent on subjugation."
United Poultry Concerns is calling for an end to chicken "roping." The activity by its very nature is inhumane and mean. Any self-respecting community will develop better ways to entertain itself than by roping chickens.
United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of chickens and other domesticated birds. For more information, visit http://www.upc-online.org.
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Mandan Firefighter Patrick Martin is taking every precaution to be prepared for any circumstance by exercising a real-world simulation during a pre-planning exercise.
“Basically, why we do that is just to have an idea of how we would attack a fire at different locations within that building,” Mandan Fire Department Captain Patrick Martin said.
Captain Martin said it first starts with a plan; learning about the building, what it has and doesn’t have, and then pulling out the needed gear to get the job done.
“How much hose will it take to stretch, do we have enough on our truck, on our reconnects or do we have to come up with some other options,” Martin said.
A pre-planning exercise, which Martin said takes anywhere from 45 minutes to even an hour, it’s done annually.
“When the weather’s nice, it’s nicer on us and we’re in and out of a building and got doors open; so obviously we don’t want to do it in the wintertime and create that problem for the residents,” Martin said.
Martin said being familiar with the building makes all the difference when arriving on the scene, like in the case of an apartment building that caught on fire twice in 2020.
“Just taking a look at the buildings and seeing what our obstacles may be and things like that so in the event that we do have to respond to a fire, it’s not our first time at that location.“ Martin said.
If a firefighter is seen outside an apartment building, and there are no flames in the air, they may be there inspecting and learning how to respond and keep you safe.
Martin also said they have a mobile device with information about your apartment. Everything from sprinkler systems to fire systems is all in there.
He said this makes a huge difference now compared to over a decade ago. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-firefighters-create-plans-in-case-of-emergency/ | 2022-08-17 12:52:17 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-firefighters-create-plans-in-case-of-emergency/ |
Rescuers found a "hungry, thirsty" and cold little boy Sunday after he had gone missing two days earlier near his home in Montana, authorities said.
Ryker Webb, 4, though, was in otherwise good shape after his harrowing adventure in far northwest Montana, officials said.
The boy was reported missing Friday afternoon near mile marker 18 of state Highway 56, south of Troy and east of Bull Lake, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office. He had been playing with the family dog in the yard outside the home.
The sheriff's office said search efforts using helicopters and drones were hampered over the weekend by "very poor weather conditions which consisted of rain, low visibility, and low ceiling."
The little boy "was in good spirits and apparently healthy, although hungry, thirsty, and cold," according to the sheriff's statement.
Read the full story here on NBCNews.com | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/rescuers-find-missing-4-year-old-safe-in-montana-after-two-days-on-his-own-outdoors/3722427/ | 2022-06-06 21:14:06 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/rescuers-find-missing-4-year-old-safe-in-montana-after-two-days-on-his-own-outdoors/3722427/ |
Twitter will no longer enforce its policy against COVID-19 misinformation, raising concerns among public health experts and social media researchers that the change could have serious consequences if it discourages vaccination and other efforts to combat the still-spreading virus.
Eagle-eyed users spotted the change Monday night, noting that a one-sentence update had been made to Twitter's online rules: "Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy."
By Tuesday, some Twitter accounts were testing the new boundaries and celebrating the platform's hands-off approach, which comes after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk.
"This policy was used to silence people across the world who questioned the media narrative surrounding the virus and treatment options," tweeted Dr. Simone Gold, a physician and leading purveyor of COVID-19 misinformation. "A win for free speech and medical freedom!"
Twitter's decision to no longer remove false claims about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines disappointed public health officials, however, who said it could lead to more false claims about the virus, or the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
"Bad news," tweeted epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, who urged people not to flee Twitter but to keep up the fight against bad information about the virus. "Stay folks — do NOT cede the town square to them!"
While Twitter's efforts to stop false claims about COVID weren't perfect, the company's decision to reverse course is an abdication of its duty to its users, said Paul Russo, a social media researcher and dean of the Katz School of Science and Health at Yeshiva University in New York.
Russo added that it's the latest of several recent moves by Twitter that could ultimately scare away some users and even advertisers. Some big names in business have already paused their ads on Twitter over questions about its direction under Musk.
"It is 100% the responsibility of the platform to protect its users from harmful content," Russo said. "This is absolutely unacceptable."
The virus, meanwhile, continues to spread. Nationally, new COVID cases averaged nearly 38,800 a day as of Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University — far lower than last winter but a vast undercount because of reduced testing and reporting. About 28,100 people with COVID were hospitalized daily and about 313 died, according to the most recent federal daily averages.
Cases and deaths were up from two weeks earlier. Yet a fifth of the U.S. population hasn't been vaccinated, most Americans haven't gotten the latest boosters, and many have stopped wearing masks.
Musk, who has himself spread COVID misinformation on Twitter, has signaled an interest in rolling back many of the platform's previous rules meant to combat misinformation.
Last week, Musk said he would grant "amnesty" to account holders who had been kicked off Twitter. He's also reinstated the accounts for several people who spread COVID misinformation, including that of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose personal account was suspended this year for repeatedly violating Twitter's COVID rules.
Greene's most recent tweets include ones questioning the effectiveness of masks and making baseless claims about the safety of COVID vaccines.
Since the pandemic began, platforms like Twitter and Facebook have struggled to respond to a torrent of misinformation about the virus, its origins and the response to it.
Under the policy enacted in January 2020, Twitter prohibited false claims about COVID-19 that the platform determined could lead to real-world harms. More than 11,000 accounts were suspended for violating the rules, and nearly 100,000 pieces of content were removed from the platform, according to Twitter's latest numbers.
Despite its rules prohibiting COVID misinformation, Twitter has struggled with enforcement. Posts making bogus claims about home remedies or vaccines could still be found, and it was difficult on Tuesday to identify exactly how the platform's rules may have changed.
Messages left with San Francisco-based Twitter seeking more information about its policy on COVID-19 misinformation were not immediately returned Tuesday.
A search for common terms associated with COVID misinformation on Tuesday yielded lots of misleading content, but also automatic links to helpful resources about the virus as well as authoritative sources like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 coordinator, said Tuesday that the problem of COVID-19 misinformation is far larger than one platform, and that policies prohibiting COVID misinformation weren't the best solution anyway.
Speaking at a Knight Foundation forum Tuesday, Jha said misinformation about the virus spread for a number of reasons, including legitimate uncertainty about a deadly illness. Simply prohibiting certain kinds of content isn't going to help people find good information, or make them feel more confident about what they're hearing from their medical providers, he said.
"I think we all have a collective responsibility," Jha said of combating misinformation about COVID. "The consequences of not getting this right — of spreading that misinformation — is literally tens of thousands of people dying unnecessarily."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wunc.org/2022-11-29/twitter-will-no-longer-enforce-its-covid-misinformation-policy | 2022-11-30 06:16:11 | 1 | https://www.wunc.org/2022-11-29/twitter-will-no-longer-enforce-its-covid-misinformation-policy |
Legislation sponsored by State Rep. Dane Watro, R-116, Kline Twp., Schuylkill County, that would streamline the professional licensing process for veterans seeking a civilian career as an emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic passed unanimously in the House of Representatives.
House Bill 404 will next be considered by the Senate.
“My bill would enable our veterans who wish to continue their medic specialty after their military service is over to do so more easily,” said Watro, who is also a veteran. “We want to prevent the duplication of education and training to help make their transition to civilian life as seamless as possible.”
Watro’s proposal would ensure that a service member’s military education and training are taken into consideration for the purpose of fulfilling requirements for professional credentials related to emergency medical services providers.
Current state law requires certain Commonwealth agencies to strongly consider a veteran’s military education, training and experience for the purpose of fulfilling requirements for professional credentials.
Under Watro’s bill, the Department of Health, which certifies EMTs and paramedics throughout the Commonwealth, would be added to the list. The Department of Agriculture would also be included.
Pashinski comments on minimum wage bill
State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-121, Wilkes-Barre released a statement on the passage of H.B. 1500 — the minimum wage bill.
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“It’s been 16 years since the last minimum wage increase in Pennsylvania. Furthermore, 30 states, including all that border Pennsylvania, have raised their minimum wage. We even had bipartisan support on this bill. Our workers have called on us as lawmakers time and time again to provide them a livable wage and I was proud to vote in alignment with that.”
The legislation would increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania to: $11 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2024; $13 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2025 and $15 per hour effective Jan. 1, 2026.
Fetterman introduces bill for safer streets
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. (Braddock) introduced the Shovel-Ready Streets Act, a bill to fund street safety improvements and make roads safer for pedestrians in Pennsylvania and across the country.
The Shovel-Ready Streets Act will help communities in Pennsylvania and across the country address chronically unsafe streets that lead to thousands of deaths by freeing up funding for construction of safer street designs.
The bill will amend the Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant Program, a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law discretionary program that provides grants for the planning and construction of street redesigns and safety improvements on dangerous roads. Currently, this program requires at least 40% of funding to go towards the planning process of street redesigns, but many cities have been planning for these kinds of investments for years and have already completed this step.
CAPITOL DIGEST runs periodically in The Citizens’ Voice and features news about local lawmakers in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A church in Fort Wayne has an entertaining and educational event Saturday to provide resources for health and wellbeing in the community.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church & Preschool is holding a health fair and carnival with giveaways like free lunch, diapers, school supplies and more.
Organizers said social agencies from around the region are there providing resources and health education. There’s also an open house for the preschool associated with the church.
Two pickleball courts are open, as well as a bounce house and games for kids.
It’s all happening from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is indoors as storms move through the area.
Details are on the church’s Facebook page. | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/church-in-fort-wayne-holds-health-fair-with-free-resources-for-families/ | 2022-07-23 15:59:54 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/church-in-fort-wayne-holds-health-fair-with-free-resources-for-families/ |
FDA proposes new levels for lead in baby food
(CNN) - The Food and Drug Administration is weighing in on allowable amounts of lead in baby food.
According to new draft guidance by the FDA, it is suggesting lead levels in certain baby and toddler foods be set at 20 parts per billion or less.
Lead occurs naturally in the soil so it reportedly can’t be avoided completely in plants. But the new FDA guidance suggests a lower limit of ten parts per billion on baby food custards, fruits meats and food blends.
However, critics said the new guidance isn’t enough.
The group Healthy Babies Bright Futures said while any action on the part of the FDA is welcome, the suggested levels of lead are not low enough to move the needle.
A 2019 report found dangerous levels of lead and other heavy metals in 95% of manufactured baby food.
That report triggered a 2021 congressional investigation that found leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold products with high levels of toxic metals.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2023/01/26/fda-proposes-new-levels-lead-baby-food/ | 2023-01-26 22:27:27 | 1 | https://www.wibw.com/2023/01/26/fda-proposes-new-levels-lead-baby-food/ |
Missing 16-year-old girl found dead in California woods
Officials do not suspect foul play in death of CA 16-year-old
Authorities say a missing 16-year-old California girl has been found dead in a wooded area less than a mile from the where she was last seen.
The Sacramento Bee reports that her body was found Friday afternoon and identified by the sheriff's office in Nevada County northeast of Sacramento.
The cause of death was not immediately known. Foul play was not suspected, sheriff's officials said on social media.
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More than a dozen law enforcement agencies helped search for the girl since she walked away late Wednesday from a home in a rural area 10 miles (16 kilometers) northwest of Grass Valley where temperatures were near-freezing.
Her body was found about a half-mile (0.8 kilometer) from the home. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/missing-16-year-old-girl-found-dead-california-woods | 2022-11-14 21:20:45 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/missing-16-year-old-girl-found-dead-california-woods |
On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines.
The virus appears here to stay, along with the threat of a more dangerous version sweeping the planet.
“New variants emerging anywhere threaten us everywhere,” said virus researcher Thomas Friedrich of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Maybe that will help people to understand how connected we are.”
With information sources drying up, it has become harder to keep tabs on the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University on Friday shut down its trusted tracker, which it started soon after the virus emerged in China and spread worldwide.
Saturday marks three years since the World Health Organization first called the outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and the United Nation’s health organization says it’s not yet ready to say the emergency has ended.
A look at where we stand:
THE VIRUS ENDURES
With the pandemic still killing 900 to 1,000 people a day worldwide, the stealthy virus behind COVID-19 hasn’t lost its punch. It spreads easily from person to person, riding respiratory droplets in the air, killing some victims but leaving most to bounce back without much harm.
“Whatever the virus is doing today, it’s still working on finding another winning path,” said Dr. Eric Topol, head of Scripps Research Translational Institute in California.
We’ve become numb to the daily death toll, Topol says, but we should view it as too high. Consider that in the United States, daily hospitalizations and deaths, while lower than at the worst peaks, have not yet dropped to the low levels reached during summer 2021 before the delta variant wave.
At any moment, the virus could change to become more transmissible, more able to sidestep the immune system or more deadly. Topol said we’re not ready for that. Trust has eroded in public health agencies, furthering an exodus of public health workers. Resistance to stay-at-home orders and vaccine mandates may be the pandemic’s legacy.
“I wish we united against the enemy — the virus — instead of against each other,” Topol said.
FIGHTING BACK
There’s another way to look at it. Humans unlocked the virus’ genetic code and rapidly developed vaccines that work remarkably well. We built mathematical models to get ready for worst-case scenarios. We continue to monitor how the virus is changing by looking for it in wastewater.
“The pandemic really catalyzed some amazing science,” said Friedrich.
The achievements add up to a new normal where COVID-19 “doesn’t need to be at the forefront of people’s minds,” said Natalie Dean, an assistant professor of biostatistics at Emory University. “That, at least, is a victory.”
Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, said the current omicron variants have about 100 genetic differences from the original coronavirus strain. That means about 1% of the virus’ genome is different from its starting point. Many of those changes have made it more contagious, but the worst is likely over because of population immunity.
Matthew Binnicker, an expert in viral infections at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said the world is in “a very different situation today than we were three years ago — where there was, in essence, zero existing immunity to the original virus.”
That extreme vulnerability forced measures aimed at “flattening the curve.” Businesses and schools closed, weddings and funerals were postponed. Masks and “social distancing” later gave way to showing proof of vaccination. Now, such precautions are rare.
“We’re not likely to go back to where we were because there’s so much of the virus that our immune systems can recognize,” Ray said. Our immunity should protect us “from the worst of what we saw before.”
REAL-TIME DATA LACKING
On Friday, Johns Hopkins did its final update to its free coronavirus dashboard and hot-spot map with the death count standing at more than 6.8 million worldwide. Its government sources for real-time tallies had drastically declined. In the U.S., only New York, Arkansas and Puerto Rico still publish case and death counts daily.
“We rely so heavily on public data and it’s just not there,” said Beth Blauer, data lead for the project.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still collects a variety of information from states, hospitals and testing labs, including cases, hospitalizations, deaths and what strains of the coronavirus are being detected. But for many counts, there’s less data available now and it’s been less timely.
“People have expected to receive data from us that we will no longer be able to produce,” said the CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
Internationally, the WHO’s tracking of COVID-19 relies on individual countries reporting. Global health officials have been voicing concern that their numbers severely underestimate what’s actually happening and they do not have a true picture of the outbreak.
For more than year, CDC has been moving away from case counts and testing results, partly because of the rise in home tests that aren’t reported. The agency focuses on hospitalizations, which are still reported daily, although that may change. Death reporting continues, though it has become less reliant on daily reports and more on death certificates — which can take days or weeks to come in.
U.S. officials say they are adjusting to the circumstances, and trying to move to a tracking system somewhat akin to how CDC monitors the flu.
THEN AND NOW
“I wish we could go back to before COVID,” said Kelly Forrester, 52, of Shakopee, Minnesota, who lost her father to the disease in May 2020, survived her own bout in December and blames misinformation for ruining a longtime friendship. “I hate it. I actually hate it.”
The disease feels random to her. “You don’t know who will survive, who will have long COVID or a mild cold. And then other people, they’ll end up in the hospital dying.”
Forrester’s father, 80-year-old Virgil Michlitsch, a retired meat packer, deliveryman and elementary school custodian, died in a nursing home with his wife, daughters and granddaughters keeping vigil outside the building in lawn chairs.
Not being at his bedside “was the hardest thing,” Forrester said.
Inspired by the pandemic’s toll, her 24-year-old daughter is now getting a master’s in public health.
“My dad would have been really proud of her,” Forrester said. “I’m so glad that she believed in it, that she wanted to do that and make things better for people.”
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Woman attacks attorney at hearing in murder and dismemberment case
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Green Bay woman charged in a murder and dismemberment case attacked her attorney in Brown County Court Tuesday.
Taylor Schabusiness lunged at attorney Quinn Jolly and was pinned to the ground by a deputy. Schabusiness struggled with a deputy who attempted to subdue her.
Additional deputies were called to the courtroom.
The call was heard over the scanner: “They need a code three in branch two, wrestling with Schabusiness.”
Jolly asked the judge to withdraw from the case. He will have to file with the court.
After the attack, Schabusiness was heard asking deputies what happened.
“You went off on your attorney, Taylor, you went crazy on your attorney,” they responded.
Schabusiness, 25, was in court for a competency hearing. She’s charged with the February 2022 killing and dismemberment of Shad Thyrion. Jolly started off the hearing by asking the court for two more weeks so the defense expert could testify on Schabusiness’s competency. The judge agreed to push back the trial to May. That appeared to have set Schabusiness off.
That competency hearing has been adjourned to March 6. That’s when Schabusiness was originally scheduled to stand trial.
Schabusiness has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to charges of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide, Mutilating a Corpse, and 3rd Degree Sexual Assault.
An “NGI” plea comes with a mental competency examination.
During a hearing earlier this month, attorney Quinn Jolly requested the trial be pushed back so he could prepare for the “voluminous” amount of evidence to be presented by the state. A judge refused the request.
The prosecution is expected to call up to 37 witnesses.
Last February, Green Bay police were called to a home on Stony Brook Lane. The caller reported finding her son’s severed head in a bucket.
Police learned that Taylor Schabusiness may have been the last person to be seen with the victim, Shad Thyrion. They found Schabusiness at a home on Eastman Avenue. She had dried blood on her clothing.
Police searched Schabusiness’s van and the rear passenger seat. They found a crock pot box with “additional human body parts including legs,” according to the criminal complaint.
Police obtained a search warrant for the home on Stony Brook Lane, which belonged to the victim’s mother. In addition to the human head, they found a “male organ” in the bucket. They found “body fluid” and knives.
In a storage tote, they found an upper torso.
Police interviewed Schabusiness and asked her what happened. She replied, “That is a good question.” Schabusiness said she and the victim were together all day Tuesday and had been smoking meth. After they arrived at the Stony Brook home, they were having sex and incorporated chains. Schabusiness said she blacked out during part of it but just went “crazy” and started strangling the victim.
Schabusiness told investigators she did not mean to kill the victim but she enjoyed choking him and continued to do it. Prosecutors say the sexual assault charge is for acts that happened after the victim died.
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Railroad unions push back threatened strike date
By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business
The threat of a freight railroad strike has been pushed back to early December, as four major unions have agreed to coordinate the date on which they could potentially go on strike.
The third-largest railroad union, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employe Division, had been prepared to strike as soon as November 20, the Sunday before Thanksgiving. But the group announced Wednesday that is has agreed to extend negotiations with the railroads until at least December 4, the deadline set by another union, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen. The rank and file members of both unions have rejected the tentative agreements reached with the railroads in September, mostly over the lack of sick pay in the contracts.
A strike by any one rail union would lead to a shutdown of America’s major freight railroads, as all the other unions, even those that have ratified contracts, would honor the picket lines. That could cause severe economic problems, as 30% of America’s freight moves by rail, when measured by weight and distance traveled.
The two largest rail unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation union, which represents conductors, are holding their own ratification votes, the results of which are due November 21. If one or both of those unions reject the deals, they would be prepared to strike December 9. If those contracts are voted down, the BMWED and Signalmen have agreed to further push back their strike deadline to that date.
The BMWED and Signalmen are engaged in negotiations with railroad management seeking deals that union leaders believe their members would ratify. The unions hope the extension will prevent Congress from imposing a contract or order them to keep working into the new year, when Republicans might be in control of one or both houses of Congress.
The unions want to maintain their ability to strike in order to increase their leverage with the railroads. Congress is due to return from recess next week.
Delaying the date of a threatened strike will “provide an opportunity to increasingly educate members of Congress — who have been out of session and consumed by the mid-term elections — about the railroad workers’ state of despair that management has created, and the railroad workers’ need for paid sick time off,” said the BMWED in a statement.
The unions are concerned that the November 20 strike threat would prompt the railroads to curtail services as soon as next week. The railroads did just that in the days before a marathon negotiating session averted a scheduled September 16 strike. The unions were also concerned that cutting service could prompt Congress, under pressure from freight rail customers, to rush through legislation to keep them on the job.
“With this extension, there is absolutely no reason for the railroads to discontinue services or threaten to discontinue their services,” the BMWED statement said. “There is now more than adequate time for the railroads to come to the bargaining table, engage in good-faith negotiations with us and reach a voluntary Agreement to provide all railroad workers with paid sick leave.”
But so far railroad management has rejected proposals by the rail unions for paid sick time out of hand.
The National Carriers’ Conference Committee, which negotiates with the unions on behalf of the major freight railroads, said it will “remain engaged with BMWED throughout the extended cooling off period.” But added that it will seek an agreement based on the framework of deals already ratified by the other unions.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Farhan Zaidi got a text message from Aaron Judge’s representatives early Wednesday morning. And just like that, it was over.
It was time to move on.
With Judge returning to the New York Yankees on a $360 million, nine-year contract, the San Francisco Giants are mulling over their next move after they missed the playoffs this year.
“We always knew this was a possible outcome, and so we’ve done a lot of work on our other options,” said Zaidi, the team’s president of baseball operations.
“We’ll kind of re-evaluate our board and still looking for ways to improve the next team.”
San Diego also met with Judge before he went back to New York, and the Padres quickly jumped on another bat — reeling in All-Star shortstop Xander Bogaerts with a blockbuster $280 million, 11-year contract.
Zaidi is keeping his cards close to his vest, but there remained plenty of intriguing possibilities on the market as baseball’s winter meetings concluded on Wednesday.
All-Star shortstops Carlos Correa and Dansby Swanson are free agents, along with left-hander Carlos Rodón after his terrific year for Giants. Speedy center fielder Brandon Nimmo could be a nice fit for San Francisco’s expansive outfield at Oracle Park.
“We have the support of ownership, but we’re not being mandated to get to a certain level payroll-wise,” Zaidi said. “We have the flexibility to do that if the opportunities are right.”
Judge’s contract — baseball’s biggest free agent deal ever — dominated the conversation at the winter meetings Wednesday, but catcher Willson Contreras and pitchers Jameson Taillon, José Quintana and Kenley Jansen all joined new teams, and the Philadelphia Phillies took U.S. Navy aviator Noah Song in the Rule 5 draft.
Taillon joined the Chicago Cubs, agreeing to a four-year contract that is worth roughly $68 million. A person familiar with the negotiations confirmed the deal to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because it was pending a physical.
The Cubs haven’t formally announced the move, but President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer said the team has been looking at Taillon for a long time.
“I think he’s a really good starting pitcher,” Hoyer said. “He’s been really consistent.”
Contreras left the Cubs for NL Central rival St. Louis, which had a need at catcher after Yadier Molina retired. A person familiar with Contreras’ $87.5 million, five-year contract confirmed the move to The AP on condition of anonymity because the deal was pending a physical.
Quintana agreed to a $26 million, two-year contract with the New York Mets, adding another veteran arm to the team’s rotation. Another person familiar with the negotiations confirmed the move to The AP on condition of anonymity because the deal was pending a physical.
The Mets also finalized its two-year contract with ace right-hander Justin Verlander, worth $86.7 million. There also is a vesting option for 2025.
“Justin Verlander is, by every standard, one of the game’s most accomplished players,” general manager Billy Eppler said.
Jansen left Atlanta for Boston, agreeing to a $32 million, two-year deal with the Red Sox. A person familiar with the deal confirmed the move to The AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement was pending a physical.
Jansen led the National League with 41 saves this season. The Braves then shored up their bullpen by acquiring Joe Jiménez in a trade with the Detroit Tigers.
Judge, who hit an AL-record 62 homers for the Yankees last season, will earn $40 million per year, the highest average annual payout for a position player. A person familiar with the deal confirmed the move to The AP on condition of anonymity because the AL MVP’s contract had not been publicly announced.
The Northern California native visited with the Giants last month, and he also met with the Padres in the last few days.
“From an organizational standpoint, we’re disappointed,” Zaidi said. “But I think from the standpoint of the industry, you’ve got a great player and a great franchise who’s got a chance to be there his entire career, and I think there’s a lot of good in that for the game.
“That was a pretty strong force that we were up against.”
San Diego remains one of baseball’s biggest wild cards, also meeting with Trea Turner before the All-Star shortstop agreed to a $300 million, 11-year contract with Philadelphia. The Padres reached the NL Championship Series this year before losing to the Phillies.
A person familiar with the Bogaerts negotiations confirmed the contract to The AP on condition of anonymity because it was pending a physical.
The Padres already had Fernando Tatis Jr. at shortstop, but he missed the entire season because of injuries and an 80-game suspension for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
“From our standpoint, you want to explore and make sure we’re looking at every possible opportunity to get better,” general manager A.J. Preller said before the Bogaerts deal surfaced. “We’ve got a real desire to win and do it for a long time.”
Judge was selected by New York in the first round of the 2013 amateur draft and made his big league debut in 2016, homering in his first at-bat. The four-time All-Star has 220 homers and 497 RBIs in seven big league seasons.
New York general manager Brian Cashman declined to confirm the agreement. But he said he was “optimistic that we’re in a good place,” and he credited Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner for the team’s position.
“The hope is that (Steinbrenner) is the Mariano Rivera of these negotiations and was able to close something out, put us in a great position,” Cashman said. “But I can’t officially say that’s happened just yet.”
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Northeastern Local School District has started its online auction for items from inside two of the district’s former schools.
The auction includes items from inside Northridge Middle and Elementary School, and Rolling Hills Elementary School such as cooking and kitchen items, furniture, classroom items and more.
The auction is being held on www.govdeals.com, and by searching “Northeastern.”
According to the site, there are 147 total listings of items from inside the two schools so far, but new items are being added each day. The auctions end between now and Aug. 9.
As of Thursday, the highest bid for an item was $135.
Items inside the old Kenton Ridge High School, and the Northridge and Rolling Hills buildings, will be auctioned off at a later date.
The district combined several school buildings into the two new buildings, moving from Northeastern High and Middle School, Kenton Ridge High School, Northridge Middle and Elementary School, Rolling Hills Elementary and South Vienna into just two buildings going forward.
The Kenton Ridge building will open this fall on the property near the current Kenton Ridge High School, and the Northeastern site opened last fall on the northeastern side of the district, adjacent to former South Vienna school.
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TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Thursday, November 17, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
245 AM CST Wed Nov 16 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM
CST THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 25 knots with gusts up to 30
knots and seas 5 to 8 feet expected.
* WHERE...Coastal waters from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas out 20
NM, Coastal waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship Channel
out 20 NM, Waters from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas from 20 to
60 NM and Waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship Channel
from 20 to 60 NM.
* WHEN...From 6 AM this morning to 6 PM CST Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Strong to very strong winds and/or increased seas
will result in hazardous marine conditions especially for
inexperienced mariners with smaller vessels.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The Small Craft Advisory will likely be
extended beyond Thursday afternoon.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
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Stellantis on Tuesday announced a $155 million investment in three Kokomo, Indiana, plants to produce drive modules for future electric vehicles beginning in 2024.
Consisting of an electric motor, power electronics, and transmission assembled as one unit, these modules will be used in vehicles based on the STLA Frame and STLA Large platforms, which will underpin an upcoming Ram 1500 REV pickup truck and Dodge electric muscle car, respectively. While the company didn’t name specific products, it’s very likely these models will be powered by U.S.-built drive modules from this facility.
The company has noted before that these drive modules are a key to hitting a maximum range target of 500 miles for these platforms, along with 2.0-second 0-60 mph acceleration for the sportiest models. Stellantis reiterated the 500-mile claim in a press release announcing the Indiana investments, which the automaker noted follow $3.3 billion invested in Indiana since 2020 to support electrification.
The latest investment will be split between Stellantis’ Indiana Transmission, Kokomo Transmission, and Kokomo Casting plants, reflecting a division of labor between them, the release said. Gearbox covers for the drive modules will be cast at Kokomo Casting and machined at Kokomo Transmission, while gear machining and final assembly will be handled at Indiana Transmission, according to Stellantis.
Kokomo is also where Stellantis has announced a $2.5 billion battery factory under a joint venture with battery supplier Samsung SDI. It’s quite a leap from just over a decade ago, when Stellantis predecessor Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was touting a $300 million investment in the Kokomo Transmission plant to build more fuel-efficient units for internal-combustion vehicles.
Stellantis plans to spend $35.5 billion globally over five years to help electrify 14 brands. That includes a goal of 50% battery-electric vehicle sales in the U.S. by 2030.
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(KTLA) — Pop star Pink is the latest singer to have a fan throw an object on stage during her performance.
Over the weekend, Pink headlined the British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival.
During her performance of “Just Like a Pill,” a fan tossed a baggie with a note that indicated the contents inside were of the person’s dead mother.
A video of the interaction was posted to Twitter, with the caption that read “Someone gave their mother’s ashes to Pink. I need y’all to have boundaries, like girl what?”
In the video, you can see the singer squatting down to pick up the baggie and holding it up asking “Is this your mom?” With a shocked look on her face, she quickly responded by saying “I don’t know how I feel about this!”
She then slowly walks the bag to the front of the stage, behind the speakers, as an uneasy look washes over her face. The “So What” singer is seen shaking out her fingers to clean her hands discreetly.
People on social media immediately weighed in.
“She handled it well cause I’d definitely be mad that someone handed me their mom’s ashes,” one user tweeted. “I just saw another video of a guy coming out to his mom in front of Bebe Rexha so yes boundaries! I understand why some celebrities are standoffish now.”
“Maybe that was her mom’s request, mom probably was a die-hard fan,” tweeted another user.
The incident comes a week after singer Bebe Rexha received a black eye after a fan threw a cell phone at her while performing in New York City. A day later, pop star Ava Max was slapped by a stage-jumping fan during a Los Angeles show. Max said via Twitter “he slapped me so hard that he scratched the inside of my eye.”
Less-threatening artist-audience interaction has become increasingly common, with artists like Harry Styles and Beyoncé helping fans make baby announcements during their current tours.
As of Tuesday, Pink had not discussed the ashes incident, though she tweeted favorably about the outcome of the Hyde Park show, saying, “These reviews are crazy. I don’t even know what to say other than I am humbled and grateful. I love doing this with all of you. It is my life and my love and I am grateful beyond belief.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/fan-throws-moms-ashes-at-pink-onstage-i-dont-know-how-i-feel-about-this/ | 2023-06-27 19:05:47 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/fan-throws-moms-ashes-at-pink-onstage-i-dont-know-how-i-feel-about-this/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Looking to replicate the deals that helped carry them to a World Series title in 2021, the Atlanta Braves added another starting pitcher, bolstered their bullpen and bulked up the outfield ahead of the trade deadline Tuesday.
After acquiring corner outfielder Robbie Grossman from the Detroit Tigers late Monday, general manager Alex Anthopoulos started the day finalizing a deal that brought right-hander Jake Odorizzi from the Houston Astros in exchange for former Atlanta closer Will Smith.
Then, barely beating the clock before the 6 p.m. EST deadline, the Braves landed Los Angels Angels closer Raisel Iglesias for reliever Jesse Chavez and pitching prospect Tucker Davidson.
The flurry of trades, which also included Monday’s less-prominent deal that brought Washington infielder Ehire Adrianza back to Atlanta to help fill in while Ozzie Albies recovers from a broken foot, was reminiscent of the moves Anthopoulos pulled off at the 2021 deadline.
The Braves can only hope they lead to the same result.
A year ago, with the outfield plagued by injuries, off-field issues and failed expectations, Anthopoulos was able to assemble a whole new unit with deadline trades for Jorge Soler, Eddie Rosario and Adam Duvall, combined with the acquisition two weeks earlier of Joc Pederson.
All four played major roles in the Braves capturing their first World Series title since 1995. Rosario was MVP of the NL Championship Series, while Soler claimed the honor in a World Series victory over the Astros.
The deal for Odorizzi cost the Braves another big part of their championship team.
Smith had 37 saves for the Braves during the 2021 regular season and a dominant postseason, tossing 11 scoreless innings with six saves over 11 appearances.
But Smith willingly gave up the ninth-inning slot when the Braves signed longtime Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen during the offseason, and the lefty faltered in a less-prominent role.
In 41 appearances, Smith was 0-1 with a 4.38 ERA and five saves, giving up 35 hits — including seven homers — and 21 walks over 37 innings for a WHIP of 1.514.
In his last four appearances with the Braves, Smith surrendered six runs in three innings. He is making $13 million in what is likely the final year of his contract, which includes a $13 million club option for 2023 with a $1 million buyout.
Despite his struggles, it was hard for manager Brian Snitker and the rest of the bullpen to see Smith go.
“He was a big part of this team,” Snitker said. “When you go through what we went through last year all together and come out on top, there’s a bond there. There’s a spot in your heart for guys like that.”
Atlanta, with the third-best record in the NL and going into Tuesday trailing the East-leading New York Mets by 3 1/2 games, was willing to give up Smith to provide another option for the rotation.
Ian Anderson has struggled and former All-Star Mike Soroka appears unlikely to contribute much this season after two major Achilles’ tendon injuries. Also, there are concerns that 13-game winner Kyle Wright, in his first full big league season, and rookie sensation Spencer Strider could tire down the stretch.
Smith was expendable with three more effective lefties — A.J. Minter, Tyler Matzek and Dylan Lee — in a bullpen that could receive a further boost from former Padres closer Kirby Yates, who is closing in on his return to the big leagues after Tommy John surgery.
It seemed the Braves were done dealing, but Anthopoulos pulled off a last-minute trade for another reliever with extensive experience as a closer.
The 32-year-old Iglesias held that role over four seasons in Cincinnati before moving to the Angels in 2021. The right-hander matched his career high with 34 saves, and added 16 more this season despite some struggles. He has a 4.04 ERA, a WHIP of 1.065 and 48 strikeouts in 35 2/3 innings.
“It came together late, with like two minutes to go,” Anthopoulos said. “We were afraid it wasn’t going to get done.”
The Braves pulled off the deal with a team mired in a dismal season, even though it meant picking up the bulk of the $58 million, four-year contract Iglesias signed before the season. He is set to make $16 million each of the next three seasons.
“It surprised me,” Iglesias said of the trade. “I wish we could be in a better place right now. Hopefully I can help the Braves win. I will prepare. It will be great being with that team and to compete.”
The 38-year-old Chavez pitched effectively for the Braves after being acquired from the Cubs in April, going 1-1 with a 2.11 ERA in 31 appearances. Now he’s moving on to his third team of the season, paired in a deal with a 26-year-old lefty whose biggest claim to fame was getting a surprise start in last year’s World Series.
Davidson lasted only two innings against the Astros, and he’s spent most of this season in Triple-A. In four appearances with the Braves, he was 1-2 with a 6.46 ERA.
The 32-year-old Odorizzi was an All-Star with Minnesota in 2019, when he had a career-best 15 wins. He went 4-3 with a 3.75 ERA in 12 starts for the Astros this season, missing extensive time with a lower left leg injury.
In his latest outing, Odorizzi surrendered two hits in seven scoreless innings against Seattle.
The Braves could use six starters on an upcoming three-city road trip that includes a pair of doubleheaders. After that, Odorizzi might become a spot starter to give everyone additional rest ahead of the postseason, or step into a regular spot if someone falters.
The 24-year-old Anderson is 9-6 with a 4.99 ERA, though he did bolster his chances of staying in the rotation by giving up only one hit over six scoreless innings against the Nationals in his last start.
Odorizzi has a $6.5 million player option for 2023 and minimum buyout of $3.25 million that could grow based on innings pitched over 2021-22.
Grossman, a switch-hitter who has been much more effective against left-handers, gives the Braves an outfielder who can platoon with the lefty-hitting Rosario and serve as a replacement for Duvall, who recently underwent season-ending wrist surgery.
“What a team they have here, and I’m lucky enough to be a part of it,” Grossman said before a game against the Phillies. “I’m just going to come in here and be me and do whatever I can to help this team win.”
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) today announced that management will present at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference on Tuesday, December 6th at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time at the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel in New York City.
The presentation will be webcast and can be accessed live or as an archived replay from the link on the DICK'S Sporting Goods' Investor Relations website at investors.DICKS.com.
About DICK'S Sporting Goods
DICK'S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) creates confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. Founded in 1948 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, the leading omnichannel retailer serves athletes and outdoor enthusiasts in more than 850 DICK'S Sporting Goods, Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream, Public Lands, Going Going Gone! and Warehouse Sale stores, online, and through the DICK'S mobile app. DICK'S also owns and operates DICK'S House of Sport and Golf Galaxy Performance Center, as well as GameChanger, a youth sports mobile app for scheduling, communications, live scorekeeping and video streaming.
Driven by its belief that sports make people better, DICK'S has been a longtime champion for youth sports and, together with its Foundation, has donated millions of dollars to support under-resourced teams and athletes through the Sports Matter program and other community-based initiatives. Additional information about DICK'S business, corporate giving, sustainability efforts and employment opportunities can be found on dicks.com, investors.dicks.com, sportsmatter.org, dickssportinggoods.jobs and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc.
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Lawmakers are keeping a close eye on a writers’ strike in the entertainment industry that is showing no signs of reaching a resolution over the summer.
The standoff between writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and studio chiefs represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) started in May, and hinges on profit sharing in the form of residual rates and writers’ getting paid for their time as opposed to simply for their product.
For now, it is in a holding pattern, with executives on vacation and studios still accessing a backlog of already produced material.
The role of algorithms – referred to increasingly as artificial intelligence – in the writing process is also a point of contention.
AI can now pull language from a training data sets and fit it into the narrative formulas of commercial television, which have been highly regimented by advertising and subscription-based business models for decades.
But with a surge in the amount of produced television content in recent years along with increasing access to international media markets by streamers, the incentives to wrap the strike up quickly and get back to making films and TV shows may be lacking.
“The vice president of the [WGA] East, she assured me the other day that she had it on good authority that all of the rental yachts from Santa Barbara down to San Diego had been rented through the end of summer,” veteran TV writer and journalist David Simon said on a podcast episode released Friday.
“All the execs are gone for the summer, I don’t know if that’s true or not. What I do feel is that this is being dictated by Wall Street and by the people who answer to Wall Street,” Simon said.
“Their metrics are ambitious in the sense of preserving A.I. and eliminating term employment for film and TV writers. They have a ways to go before they give up on that notion. And they’re going to spend the summer, at least, inflicting pain on us as we walk the line,” he said.
Members of the Writers Guild of America, WGA picket outside CBS Television City in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles Tuesday, May 2, 2023. The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that already is leading most late-night shows to air reruns. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Dems rush to back up striking writers
Many Democrats in Congress have been sounding notes of solidarity with writers.
“With the era of streaming content upon us, the WGA’s fight for better pay and wages is critical for those who work hard to make the entertainment industry the creative powerhouse that it is today,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), who sits on the House Financial Services Committee and represents segments of Los Angeles where many people in the entertainment industry work and reside, told The Hill in a statement.
“I stand shoulder to shoulder with the WGA in their quest to ensure a better livelihood in a changing economy. I urge both sides to come to a swift and equitable understanding,” he added.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) asks a question during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 to discuss the recent bank failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank along the federal response. (Greg Nash)
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined picket lines in May in support of the WGA West, brandishing a placard that evoked the Star Wars film series with the slogan “Unions Strike Back” and referencing the Star Trek television franchise with the tweaked motto, “Live long and pay up.”
“All workers should be compensated fairly, including in a changing economy. I join the chorus of Americans supporting WGA West [and] WGA East and urge both sides to come to a swift agreement that honors the hard work and dedication of writers,” Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) said in May.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) office told The Hill that he is also monitoring the situation given the entertainment industry’s large impact on California’s economy.
Streaming and online profits remain key issues for WGA
The WGA did not respond to a request for comment on the status of negotiations.
The AMPTP said their member companies “remain united in their desire to reach a deal that is mutually beneficial to writers and the health and longevity of the industry, and to avoid hardship to the thousands of employees who depend upon the industry for their livelihoods.”
Experts in organized labor say that what’s fundamentally at issue in the current dispute is the same thing that prompted the last writers’ strike in 2007 and 2008: The portion of profits from streaming and online distribution that writers can have as opposed to the studios and their investors, who get paid in the form of returns to their ownership shares.
“Just look at Scarlett Johansson and the lawsuit she had with Disney,” Arthur Wheaton, director of labor studies at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, said in an interview, referring to a dispute over a payout for the movie “Black Widow” settled in 2021.
“[Johansson’s] revenue was based on how much [the movie made] at the box office. And then Disney decided to release it to the Disney [streaming] channel to get more people to subscribe, which dramatically altered her anticipated payout by the tens of millions of dollars. And the same thing is true for all of the writers if they were expecting to get a box office percentage and then [there’s a decision] to stream it on Netflix,” he said.
Data from the Nielsen media ratings agency shows that streaming overtook cable in popularity as a method of content distribution for the first time in July of 2022.
The gap has since widened with streaming now accounting for 36.4 percent of all TV viewing, cable accounting for 31.1 percent, and broadcast making up 22.8 percent. The top five streaming brands are now Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus, according to Nielsen.
Union flexes muscle across business landscape
The writers’ strike, which affects more than 11,000 WGA members and was authorized by 97 percent of the voting membership, comes after a spike in the number of strikes and work stoppages in 2022 and a wider period of more intense labor activity.
Logistics and transportation services have been a hotspot of organizing after the supply chain disruptions in the early part of the pandemic, with dock workers and longshoremen stopping work to secure a better contract earlier this year and railroad workers threatening a major strike last year in which the White House intervened.
A potential strike by Teamsters working for shipping giant UPS could come to fruition later this month if a new contract isn’t agreed upon before a July 31 deadline. | https://www.koin.com/hill-politics/lawmakers-keep-a-close-eye-on-writers-strike-with-no-end-in-sight/ | 2023-07-11 10:22:04 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/hill-politics/lawmakers-keep-a-close-eye-on-writers-strike-with-no-end-in-sight/ |
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man accused of torturing a woman he held captive in Oregon, and who was convicted in Nevada of keeping another woman in captivity, is using dating apps to find people who can help him avoid the police or to find new victims, authorities said Friday.
Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, is the subject of an intensive, round-the-clock search by police after a woman was found unconscious, bound and near death in Grants Pass, Oregon, on Tuesday. She was hospitalized in critical condition.
On Thursday night, Grants Pass police, sheriff’s deputies, an Oregon State Police SWAT team and federal agents raided a property in the unincorporated community of Wolf Creek, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Grants Pass, where they seized Foster’s car and arrested a 68-year-old woman for hindering prosecution.
Foster managed to escape. Authorities provided no other details, but the area, right off Interstate 5, is thickly forested and mountainous.
The arrested woman, Tina Marie Jones, had followed Foster in a vehicle earlier Thursday as he drove to a remote location in Wolf Creek then intentionally drove his 2008 Nissan Sentra over an embankment, according to court documents. Jones then gave Foster a ride to the property that was raided Thursday night and where Foster had been hiding while police searched for him, according to Josephine County Circuit Court records.
Grants Pass police said Foster “is actively using online dating applications to contact unsuspecting individuals who may be lured into assisting with the suspect’s escape or potentially as additional victims.”
Police offered a $2,500 reward on Friday for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Foster, who is charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and assault in the attack on the Grants Pass woman.
Foster’s public defender in the Las Vegas case did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking comment on Foster’s behalf.
Grants Pass Police Chief Warren Hensman told AP on Thursday that it is “extremely troubling” that Foster was out and able to prey on other women instead of still being behind bars for the Nevada crimes.
In 2019, before moving to Oregon, Foster held his then-girlfriend captive inside her Las Vegas apartment for two weeks. He initially was charged with five felonies, including assault and battery, and faced decades in prison upon conviction. But in August 2021, Foster reached a deal with Clark County prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty to one felony count of battery and a misdemeanor count of battery constituting domestic violence.
A judge sentenced him to up to 2 1/2 years in a Nevada prison. The 729 days he had spent in jail awaiting trial were factored into his punishment, leaving Foster with fewer than 200 days to serve in state custody.
Foster’s girlfriend suffered seven broken ribs, two black eyes and injuries from being bound at the wrists and ankles with zip ties and duct tape during her two-week captivity, according to a Las Vegas police report.
The woman also told police she was forced to eat lye and was choked to the point of unconsciousness.
She escaped when Foster let her out of his sight during a trip together to a grocery store and gas station.
Court records show, Foster was out of custody at the time on a suspended jail sentence for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. He also was awaiting trial in another 2018 case involving domestic violence. But Foster’s plea deal with prosecutors in 2021 settled the domestic violence case, a copy of the agreement shows, and he was “sentenced to credit for time served.”
Police in Grants Pass, a town of some 40,000 in southwest Oregon, said Foster is believed to be armed and “extremely dangerous.”
“We are using every piece of technology available to locate this man,” said Hensman, the police chief.
Hensman said he didn’t have time to think about how authorities in Nevada handled Foster’s crimes there.
“Whatever happened in the past,” he said, “we can talk about those situations later.”
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Yamat reported from Las Vegas. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-police-warn-that-oregon-torture-suspect-is-using-dating-apps/ | 2023-01-28 22:18:04 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-police-warn-that-oregon-torture-suspect-is-using-dating-apps/ |
North Pocono's Ella Salak pitches against Valley View during a softball game on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The game was suspended in the top of the first inning due to rain.
Valley View's Zoie Krupovitch rounds third past North Pocono's Amanda Burch during a softball game on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The game was suspended in the top of the first inning due to rain.
North Pocono’s Alexis Charles makes a catch near the outfield wall during a game against Valley View on Wednesday. The game was suspended in the top of the first inning because of rain, though Valley View already had a 4-0 lead thanks to a solo homer by Kalli Karwoski, two singles, two walks, two hit batters and a wild pitch.
North Pocono's Ella Salak pitches against Valley View during a softball game on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The game was suspended in the top of the first inning due to rain.
Valley View's Zoie Krupovitch rounds third past North Pocono's Amanda Burch during a softball game on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The game was suspended in the top of the first inning due to rain.
North Pocono’s Alexis Charles makes a catch near the outfield wall during a game against Valley View on Wednesday. The game was suspended in the top of the first inning because of rain, though Valley View already had a 4-0 lead thanks to a solo homer by Kalli Karwoski, two singles, two walks, two hit batters and a wild pitch.
Mid Valley hit three home runs in the fourth inning to break away for a 12-2 win over Old Forge in a Lackawanna League Division II softball game Wednesday.
Maranda Runco started the home run barrage and, after Courtney Rebar singled, Madison Kizer and Krista Cortazar hit back-to-back homers as the Spartanettes would score six runs in the inning.
Runco finished with two hits, three runs and three RBIs for Mid Valley.
Emma Aversa singled, scored a run and drove in one for Old Forge.
Holy Cross 12, Lakeland 3
At Lakeland, Ava Schmidt had two hits, including a double, a run and three RBIs to lead Holy Cross.
Katie Wywoda went 4 for 5 with a double and three runs for the Lady Crusaders and Alison Ross went 3 for 3 with three runs.
Riley Arzie had a single and a double and two RBIs for Lakeland.
Scranton Prep 11, Delaware Valley 1
At Connell Park, Grace McCormack had three hits, including a double, and a walk-off two-run home run, to give Scranton Prep a Division I win.
Alexa Mulrooney had a grand slam for the Classics and Nina Barrouk threw a one-hitter with 13 strikeouts.
Emily Henn had the hit for Delaware Valley.
Abington Heights 16, Scranton 2
At Scranton, Lindsey Tasker and Isabelle Wilmont each had two hits, two runs and three RBIs to lead Abington Heights.
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Paige Moran homered and drove in three for the Lady Comets.
Finley Bittenbender had two hits and scored a run for Scranton.
Forest City 15, Montrose 4
At Montrose, Lily Zukosky had two hits, a run and four RBIs to lead Forest City to a Division III win.
Ashley Bossick had three hits, including a triple, four runs and two RBIs for the Lady Foresters and Haylee Herrmann also tripled, scored once and drove in three.
Jessica Carey had a single and a triple, a run and three RBIs for Montrose.
Mountain View 19, Susquehanna 0
At Susquehanna, winning pitcher Lily Sedlak threw three perfect innings with six strikeouts and also hit two home runs and drove in six to lead Mountain View.
Addison Kilmer had three hits, including a double, a run and two RBIs for the Lady Eagles.
Lackawanna Trail 12, Carbondale Area 10
At Lackawanna Trail, Gretchen Rejrat went 4 for 4 with two runs and three RBIs to lead the Lady Lions.
Carolena Ryon had a single and a double and scored four runs for the winners.
Riley Pietrowski hit a three-run homer for Carbondale Area. | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/sports/high-school/hs-softball-mid-valley-uses-long-ball-to-top-old-forge/article_e3fdbc94-f89d-5f6e-9d63-00b2c2021787.html | 2023-04-27 05:41:07 | 1 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/sports/high-school/hs-softball-mid-valley-uses-long-ball-to-top-old-forge/article_e3fdbc94-f89d-5f6e-9d63-00b2c2021787.html |
Two mothers, two views: the fight over Roe v. Wade
Mothers debate the future of abortion in the United States
NEW YORK CITY – Two mothers, each on different sides of the debate over Roe v. Wade, spoke to Fox News Digital as America awaits a Supreme Court decision on the fate of abortion laws.
Last month, Politico published a leaked draft opinion that indicated the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established a federal right to an abortion. The case before the Supreme Court, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, stems from a dispute over a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.
Melissa Manion, a mother from Connecticut, told Fox News, "There would be no difference between ending the life of the 1-year-old or ending the life of the 15-week-old or 20-week-old or 24-week-old."
"I still see it as a child," she said.
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Nadia Hussain, a mother from New Jersey, said, "The worst racism issue in this country is going to be exacerbated by taking away abortion care."
"I don't want to see Black people suffer, Brown people suffer … poor people suffer and just continue cycles of poverty," Hussain said. "I don't want to see that, but unfortunately, if Roe v. Wade falls that's what's going to happen."
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The Roe v. Wade decision "never should have been made in the first place," said Manion.
Hussain told Fox News that if Roe v. Wade does get overturned "It's going to kill women."
"It's going to also lead to another point where we say, 'Well, you can't even have plan B, you can't have contraceptive,'" she continued.
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As the Supreme Court continues to finalize its ruling in Dobbs and several other cases before its summer recess, the investigation into who leaked the draft opinion by court officials is ongoing.
There are less than 10 cases left to be decided before the Supreme Court's term ends.
Kelly Laco and Tyler Olson contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/two-mothers-two-views-fight-over-roe-v-wade | 2022-06-24 14:24:04 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/two-mothers-two-views-fight-over-roe-v-wade |
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, wielding the power of their new majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former Twitter executives as they laid the groundwork for public hearings.
“Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming,” Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement.
The Republican-led committee sent a series of letters requesting financial information from the Treasury Department about financial transactions by members of the Biden family that were flagged as suspicious activity. Those reports are routine, with larger financial transactions automatically flagged to the government, and are not evidence on their own of misconduct.
Lawmakers also requested testimony from multiple former Twitter executives who were involved in the company’s handling of an October 2020 story from the New York Post about Hunter Biden, the president’s younger son. Republicans say that story was suppressed for political reasons.
Moving quickly after taking control of the House, Republicans are setting up a messy, politically explosive showdown with the White House that could delve deeply into the affairs of the president’s family and shape the contours of the 2024 race for the White House.
“In their first week as a governing majority, House Republicans have not taken any meaningful action to address inflation and lower Americans’ costs, yet they’re jumping out of the gate with political stunts driven by the most extreme MAGA members of their caucus in an effort to get attention on Fox News,” Ian Sams, a White House spokesman, said in a statement, referring to former President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.
In a statement, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the senior Democrat on Oversight, echoed the White House sentiment, saying Democrats will work with Republicans “when they get serious about tackling problems that affect the American people.”
The Treasury Department declined to comment.
Comer and other Republicans set out their plan for probing the Biden family the day after clinching a slim majority in the November midterm elections. The Kentucky Republican told reporters there are “troubling questions,” specifically about the business dealings of Hunter Biden and one of the president’s brothers, James Biden, that require deeper investigation.
GOP investigations into the Biden family are nothing new. Republican lawmakers and their staff have been analyzing messages and financial transactions found on a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden for the past year. But Republicans now have subpoena power in the House, giving them the authority to compel testimony and conduct a far more aggressive investigation.
Republicans have discussed issuing congressional subpoenas to foreign entities that did business with Hunter Biden, and they recently brought on James Mandolfo, a former federal prosecutor, to assist with the investigation as general counsel for the Oversight panel.
Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work are already under federal investigation, with a grand jury in Delaware hearing testimony in recent months. While he never held a position on the presidential campaign or in the White House, his membership on the board of a Ukrainian energy company and his efforts to strike deals in China have long raised questions about whether he traded on his father’s public service, including reported references in his emails to the “big guy.”
Joe Biden has said he’s never spoken to his son about his foreign business. And there are no indications that the federal investigation involves the president in any way.
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Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Fatima Hussein contributed to this report. | https://phl17.com/national-news/ap-gop-opens-long-promised-investigation-into-biden-family/ | 2023-01-11 21:03:43 | 0 | https://phl17.com/national-news/ap-gop-opens-long-promised-investigation-into-biden-family/ |
SEBASTIAN, Fla. — A Sebastian woman is celebrating her 100th birthday by skydiving.
Raymonde Sullivan jumped out of a plane Monday at Sky Dive Sebastian.
She was a nurse in World War II who served on the front lines.
“I had never done it, and I’ve done a lot of things in 100 years so I thought I must do it while I can," said Raymonde. "It’s scary, I would say it is."
Once asked if she would do it again, Raymonde said, no.
After her successful skydiving, she celebrated her birthday at The Castle in Fort Pierce with friends and family. | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-indian-river-county/sebastian/sebastian-woman-celebrates-100th-birthday-by-skydiving | 2022-05-03 05:17:26 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-indian-river-county/sebastian/sebastian-woman-celebrates-100th-birthday-by-skydiving |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation briefly displayed Iran’s national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, saying the move supported protesters in Iran ahead of the two nations’ World Cup match Tuesday.
Iran’s government reacted by accusing America of removing the name of God from its national flag.
The USSF decision added yet-another political firestorm to the Middle East’s first World Cup, one organizers had hoped would be spared of off-the-field controversies.
It occurred as the U.S. prepared to face Iran in a decisive World Cup match already freighted by the decades of enmity between the countries and the nationwide protests challenging Tehran’s theocratic government.
The USSF said in a statement Sunday morning it decided to forego the official flag on social media accounts to show “support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights.”
The Twitter account of the U.S. men’s team displayed a banner with the squad’s matches in the group stage, with the Iranian flag only bearing its green, white and red colors. The same was seen in a post on its Facebook and Instagram accounts laying out the point totals so far in its group.
By Sunday afternoon, the normal flag with the emblem had been restored in the Twitter banner and the Facebook and Instagram posts with the altered flag had been removed.
“We wanted to show our support for the women in Iran with our graphic for 24 hours,” the federation said.
Federation spokesman Neil Buethe would not say whether the original decision had been cleared by USSF President Cindy Parlow Cone, a former national team player. Buethe said Parlow Cone was not available to discuss the matter.
“This was a decision within the federation,” he said. “I’m not going to get into who knew and who didn’t.”
Asked whether there had been discussions with diplomatic entities, Buethe said: “There have been at certain times. I’m not going to talk about those, but, again, this is our decision not anyone else’s or pressure from anyone else.”
The USSF displayed the official Iranian flag in a graphic showing Group B standings on its website.
Defender Walker Zimmerman said the U.S. players were unaware of the posts.
“We didn’t know anything about the posts but we are supporters of women’s rights,” he said. “We’re focused a lot on Tuesday, on the sporting side, as well. … I think it’s such a focused group on the task but at the same time we empathize and we are firm believers in women’s rights and support them.”
The brief absence of the emblem came as monthslong demonstrations challenged Iran’s government following the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country’s morality police.
The protests have seen at least 450 people killed since they started, as well as over 18,000 arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, an advocacy group following the demonstrations.
Iran has not released casualty or arrest figures for months and alleges without providing evidence that the protests have been fomented by its enemies abroad, including the U.S.
Tehran also restricts media access and has detained over 63 reporters and photographers since the demonstrations began, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, making covering the unrest that much more difficult.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations and its soccer federation did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. As comments raged online, Iranian state television described the U.S. federation as “removing the symbol of Allah” from the Iranian flag.
Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted Safiollah Fagahanpour, an adviser to the Iranian Football Federation, saying that the “measures taken regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran flag are against the law” of FIFA competitions.
“They must be held responsible,” Fagahanpour said. “Obviously they want to affect Iran’s performance against the U.S by doing this.”
The Islamic Republic emblem, designed in 1980, is four curves with a sword between them. It represents the Islamic saying: “There is no god but God.” It also resembles a tulip or lotus.
At the top and the bottom of the flag, there are 22 inscriptions of “God is Great” as well, which honors the date on the Persian calendar when the Islamic Revolution took hold.
The flag has become a point of contention at the World Cup. Apparent pro-government supporters have waved it, shouting at those demonstrating over Amini’s death. Others at matches have waved Iran’s lion and sun flag, an emblem of its former ruler, the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
More security forces could be seen at Iran’s last match against Wales. In the capital Tehran, anti-riot police — the same ones cracking down on protests — waved the Iranian flag after the Wales win, angering demonstrators.
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AP Sports Writer Ronald Blum contributed to this report.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
1-9-7
(one, nine, seven)
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(one, nine, seven) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17288398.php | 2022-07-06 21:21:24 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17288398.php |
BOSTON — Cal Calamia waited extra long to run the Boston Marathon. Being able to enter as a nonbinary athlete made it worth the delay.
“To be able to do it in this way, in this category, makes it so much more special,” said Calamia, who had hoped to run in 2020, when the race was canceled because of COVID-19, and in 2021, when Calamia was sidelined by a soccer injury. “Knowing how much work has gone into getting this category – in a way, that was already a win.”
Calamia, 26, of San Francisco, advocated for the new division and ran with a transgender flag patch on their singlet. Twenty-seven runners registered as nonbinary; Calamia was second to Kae Ravichandran of Vermont, who finished in 02:38:57.
Spectators who recognized Calamia from pre-race news coverage shouted encouragement.
“All over the place," they said. "I heard people shouting my name and I didn’t even know who they were.”
The next goal, Calamia said: prize money for the nonbinary division. The men's and women's winners — Evans Chebet and Hellen Obiri — received $150,000 apiece; wheelchair, masters and para divisions also receive payouts.
“It doesn’t have to be, like, Evans Chebet money,” they said.
The Chicago Marathon added a nonbinary division in the fall. So has the London Marathon, which is Sunday.
“I just hope it grows,” Calamia said. “We’re here. Trans people are here. We’re not going anywhere. I hope other races continue to add this category.” | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/entertainment/events/boston-marathon-debuts-nonbinary-gender-nonconforming-division/97-a8611665-7cd5-4892-be8e-bd0c936f1c19 | 2023-04-17 21:12:54 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/entertainment/events/boston-marathon-debuts-nonbinary-gender-nonconforming-division/97-a8611665-7cd5-4892-be8e-bd0c936f1c19 |
USC announces yearlong tribute to the late John Singleton
Posted/updated on: August 31, 2022 at 4:30 pmThe trailblazing film and television career of the late John Singleton will be celebrated at his alma mater, the University of Southern California.
The USC School of Cinematic Arts announced Tuesday that it is hosting “John Singleton: A Celebration,” a yearlong tribute to the filmmaker, who passed away in April 2019 at age 51.
The events will include a special screening series of his most notable films, featuring conversations with cast and crew members. Screenings will take place on the USC Campus, and are free and open to the public, with RSVP required on the USC School of Cinematic Arts website.
Singleton made history with his 1991 debut film, Boyz N the Hood. At age 24, he became the youngest person, and the first African American, to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Singleton was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
A screening of Boyz N the Hood will kick off the tribute on Friday, September 9. Director Robert Townsend will moderate a conversation with selected stars from the film.
The cast included Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Angela Bassett, Regina King and Laurence Fishburne.
The next movie in the series will be Poetic Justice on September 21, followed by Higher Learning on October 12, Rosewood on November 9 and Shaft starring Samuel L. Jackson on November 30.
The celebration will continue into 2023 on January 25 with Baby Boy, 2 Fast 2 Furious in February and concludes with Four Brothers on March 22.
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is preparing to launch his third campaign for the White House on Tuesday, looking to move on from disappointing midterm defeats and defy history amid signs that his grip on the Republican Party is waning.
Trump had hoped to use the GOP's expected gains in last week's elections as a springboard to vault himself to his party's nomination by locking in early support to keep potential challengers at bay. Instead, he now finds himself being blamed for backing a series of losing candidates after disappointing results in which Democrats retained control of the Senate and House control remains too early to call.
"Hopefully, tomorrow will turn out to be one of the most important days in the history of our Country!" Trump wrote on his social media network on Monday. An announcement was expected at 9 p.m. EST Tuesday from his club in Palm Beach.
Another campaign is a remarkable turn for any former president, much less one who made history as the first to be impeached twice and whose term ended with his supporters violently storming the U.S. Capitol in a deadly bid to halt the peaceful transition of power on Jan. 6, 2021. Just one president in U.S. history has been elected to two nonconsecutive terms: Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892.
Trump is also facing a series of intensifying criminal investigations, including a Justice Department probe into the hundreds of documents with classified markings that were discovered in boxes and drawers at his Mar-a-Lago club.
Aides and allies had urged Trump to wait until after the midterms were over — and then until after a Dec. 6 Senate runoff election in Georgia — to announce his plans. But Trump, eager to return to the spotlight, is also hoping to stave off a long list of potential challengers, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who cruised to reelection last week and is now being urged by many in his party to run for president a well.
Trump has tried to blame Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for the GOP's performance — and McConnell allies have criticized Rick Scott, the Florida senator who heads the Senate Republicans' campaign committee.
However, Trump has received the brunt of criticism for elevating candidates in states like Pennsylvania and Arizona who were unappealing to general election voters because they embraced his lies about 2020 election or held hard-line views on issues like abortion that were out of step with the mainstream.
While Trump has the backing of the No. 3 House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik, others were already moving on.
Asked whether she would endorse Trump in 2024, Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming told reporters Monday: "I don't think that's the right question. I think the question is, who is the current leader of the Republican Party?"
Asked who that was, she replied: "Ron DeSantis."
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, a longtime Trump critic, compared Trump to a pitcher who keeps losing after GOP disappointments in 2018, 2020 and now 2022.
"He's been on the mound and lost three straight games. If we want to start winning, we need someone else on the mound. And we've got a very strong bench that can come out," Romney said. "I know, there's some fans that love him. Just like, you know, an aging pitcher, they're always fans that want to keep them there forever. But if you keep losing games, try to put some new players on the field."
Others expressed concern that Trump's announcement would be a distraction from the Georgia race and urged potential candidates to focus there.
"What's really important for anybody who wants to be a 2024 candidate is to help us right now in 2020 to finish the cycle by winning the state of Georgia," said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.
"We obviously had higher expectation in the Senate, which didn't pan out. I think there are a lot of different things that contribute to that," Thune added. "But I do think that, you know, folks who were unduly focused on the 2020 election, that's not a winning strategy with independent voices."
Even the former president's right-flank allies in the House Freedom Caucus kept their distance ahead of Trump's announcement.
"I am focused on what's happening here," said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., the Freedom Caucus chairman, as lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill on Monday. "I'm just not paying attention to any of those things, so I don't want to comment on that."
Meanwhile, in Utah, 86 Republican lawmakers on Monday sent out a news release urging DeSantis to run, reflecting dissatisfaction with having Trump as their party's standard-bearer. The state's Mormon majority has long been skeptical of Trump's isolationism and foul language.
And in Michigan, Paul Cordes, chief of staff of the Michigan Republican Party, penned a four-page internal memo that criticized Trump-backed candidates for "statewide sweeps" that will give Democrats full control of the state's government for the first time in 40 years. That includes Tudor Dixon, who lost the governor's race to Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer by double digits.
Trump, Cordes wrote, was "popular amongst our grassroots and a motivating factor for his supporters, but provided challenges on a statewide ballot, especially with independents and women in the midterm election."
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With 2023 upon us, health and nutrition have never been more important; Life Time health and wellness programs and services provide customized solutions to healthy, happy lifestyles
CHANHASSEN, Minn., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jan. 1 marks the first in two years where people can focus on their health and wellness without the pandemic front and center. With this in mind, Life Time (NYSE: LTH), the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brand, has launched a new online survey to capture people's views of their health and what motivates them most.
Open through December 23, the anonymous,12-question survey covers aspects of physical fitness, mental health, exercise trends and overall well-being.
"Whether or not it begins as a New Year's Resolution, people tend to think most about their health at the start of each year. We want to know what's on everyone's minds – about their health, what motivates them, their apprehensions in trying new things and more," said Amber McMillan, Life Time's Senior Vice President of Fitness and Weight Loss. "Life Time is here to help everyone in the year ahead, no matter where they are on their health journey."
The Company conducts a new survey annually to gauge the pulse on wellness trends. Results from Life Time's health and wellness survey last year can be found here.
Life Time now operates more than 160 luxury athletic country clubs in 29 states, one Canadian province and 41 major markets – each with a breadth of unique programming to serve members from 90 days to 90+ years old. So much more than a typical gym or fitness center, Life Time clubs average more than 100,000 square feet – with expansive exercise floors, best-in-class Dynamic Personal Training and group studio classes, luxurious pools, pickleball, Signature Group Training, Kids Academy programming and more.
For more information about Life Time, visit www.lifetime.life
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Life Time (NYSE: LTH) empowers people to live healthy, happy lives through its portfolio of more than 160 athletic country clubs across the United States and Canada. The company's healthy way of life communities and ecosystem address all aspects of healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment for people 90 days to 90+ years old. Supported by a team of more than 30,000 dedicated professionals, Life Time is committed to providing the best programs and experiences through its clubs, iconic athletic events and comprehensive digital platform.
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Asurion® Repair Experts Provide Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
WOODLANDS, Texas, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new electronics repair shop, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, has opened in Woodlands at 3026 College Park Drive, Suite B. The store offers professional fixes for most consumer electronics, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, drones, and more. The store will host a grand opening celebration on June 18 from 12 to 2 p.m., featuring discounts, giveaways, refreshments, and more.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, the company's repair experts have fixed millions of devices and can help with most any tech mishap, and many basic repairs can be completed in two hours or less.
"There's no repair that's too difficult for our team to handle," said Jill Phillips, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions District Manager. "We understand the importance of customer service. Not only do we provide expert repairs on devices with the highest quality parts available, but we value each customer relationship and respect their time by offering convenient and affordable fixes in a matter of hours."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online or stop by the store for walk-in service. The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 90-day limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 800 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to serve people in Woodlands with fast and affordable tech repair," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
The new store is located at:
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions
3026 College Park Dr B, The Woodlands, TX 77384
(936) 703-1338
About Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 700 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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Rent increases in Palm Beach County hit nearly 40% last year as demand outstrips housing inventory and the influx of new residents shoot up prices.
Nearly 100 residents in Lake Worth Beach have signed a petition to request a housing state of emergency declaration from the city. This is in response to rising rents and a lack of affordable housing.
The Guatemalan-Maya Center in Lake Worth Beach is urging city officials to enact rent stabilization policies that could slow rental rate increases and evictions.
Lindsay McElroy, a spokesperson for the center, says advocacy groups are rallying for long-term measures, such as expanding the housing supply.
"We are calling for a tenant's bill of rights, so that all the people can have a right to council, can have certain rights that they can't just be displaced from one day to the next," McElroy said. "We’ve some families have their rents doubled. They might sign a week-to-week lease and one week their rent is 800 dollars, the next week, it’s 1600 dollars."
The Guatemalan-Maya Center is a non-profit that serves more than a thousand working-class people each month, particularly in immigrant communities. They've noticed an increasing trend of people staying in abusive relationships for financial reasons, children and young adults forced to work to help their families, an increase in homelessness, and seniors being priced out of their homes.
In response, advocacy groups in Lake Worth Beach are urging the mayor and city commissioners to mirror Miami-Dade's first “Tenant’s Bill of Rights,” a county-wide law passed in May that provides more legal protections for renters. The measure doesn't lower rent or prevent the increase of rent — that's the limit of local governments, but the measure includes an extra layer of protection for tenants with past evictions on their record, and it makes billing property owners for repairs an easier process.
Lake Worth Beach passed a city ordinance in April that says for any rate hikes that exceed 5%, a landlord is required to give a 60-day written notice. That bill, passed unanimously, aimed to ease the burden on renters.
McElroy says a housing state of emergency would also encourage city officials to enact stronger solutions, such as addressing "missing-middle housing," a term used to describe mother-in-law flats, duplexes, triplexes and cottage court apartments that are less common or missing from walkable neighborhoods.
Infill development laws, which could add extra housing supplies in a city, would "gently upzone residential areas to allow more multi-family properties to organically grow, not have them be exclusively single family properties," McElroy says.
The center in Lake Worth Beach is spreading its message at a rally Saturday morning outside city hall.
"A lot of our families we serve are actually essential workers who are laboring throughout the pandemic. They’re the people who pick the food that we eat. They’re the people who are working in the grocery stores," McElroy said.
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Key tools to make delicious cider at home
There’s something cozy about enjoying a cup of hot cider in chilly fall and winter weather. So if you want your family and friends to feel welcome at your holiday dinners and parties this year, you may want to consider making homemade apple cider to serve your guests. Fortunately, making apple cider at home isn’t difficult if you have the right tools and supplies.
Are you interested in making homemade apple cider? Here are the basics you need to whip up a warm, comforting batch for all your cold-weather gatherings.
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How to make homemade apple cider
Making apple cider isn’t difficult, though it does take some time. Start by cutting up a bunch of your favorite apples and adding them to a stock pot or a slow cooker with sliced oranges, spices and brown sugar. Next, cover all the ingredients with at least 2 inches of water, and bring them to a boil. Reduce the heat, and cover the mixture to simmer for two to three hours.
When the apples are soft, use a wooden spoon or potato masher to mash them and release all the fruits’ flavor. Then, return the mixture to a simmer for another hour.
When the cider is fully cooked, press the mixture through a piece of cheesecloth or a fine mesh strainer to separate the juice from the solids. Throw away the pulp, and serve the cider while it’s still warm. For the most impressive presentation, garnish each cup with an orange slice and a cinnamon stick.
What you need to make homemade apple cider
Kitchen tools for making apple cider
This high-quality paring knife makes it easy to slice the apples and oranges for your cider. It has a precision-forged high-carbon stainless steel blade and a comfortable handle that provides good control when cutting. Sold by Amazon
OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Potato Masher
This sturdy stainless steel potato masher makes it easy to mash the apples and oranges to extract all the juice for your cider. It has a comfortable, nonslip handle that helps absorb pressure and is dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning. Sold by Amazon
Le Creuset Revolution Solid Spoon
This solid wooden spoon can effectively mash your apples and oranges in your cider to get all the flavor from them. It’s made of durable beech wood and features grip rings on the handles to give you better control. Sold by Amazon
Cuisinart Fine Mesh Strainer Set
This set of three fine mesh strainers lets you separate the liquid cider from the solids without any fuss. It includes three sizes, which are all made of durable stainless steel. The strainers are all dishwasher-safe, too. Sold by Amazon and Kohl’s
This food-grade cheesecloth features a dense cotton weave that can help separate the liquid from the solids for your cider. The cotton is 100% natural and unbleached, so it’s ideal for use in the kitchen. It’s also washable so that you can reuse the cloth for multiple batches of cider. Sold by Amazon
Cooking vessels for making apple cider
Cooks Standard 30-quart Stainless Steel Stockpot
This durable stock pot is made of brushed 18/10 stainless steel on the interior and exterior. It features an aluminum disc in the bottom to ensure even heating. It can hold up to 30 quarts, so it’s ideal for large batches of apple cider. Sold by Amazon
All-Clad Programmable Oval-Shaped Slow Cooker
This versatile slow cooker can prepare many recipes, but it’s ideal for whipping up apple cider. It has a large, easy-to-read digital display and a timer that can go for 4 to 20 hours. The insert is also dishwasher-safe. Sold by Amazon
Farberware Classic Stainless Steel Stock Pot
This 16-quart stock pot is made of heavy-duty stainless steel that heats quickly and evenly. It has sturdy handles that make it easy to move around the kitchen. In addition to apple cider, it’s perfect for making chili, soups, stews and other one-pot meals. Sold by Amazon
Elite Gourmet Electric Slow Cooker
This compact slow cooker works well for preparing smaller batches of apple cider. It has user-friendly dial controls and stay-cool handles that allow you to move the cooker safely. Both the lid and stoneware insert are dishwasher-safe, too. Sold by Amazon
Spices for making apple cider
FGO Organic Korintje Cinnamon Sticks
Cinnamon is an essential spice for homemade apple cider, and these sticks are USDA-certified organic. They are 100% natural with no additives and come in a resealable bag perfect for storage. Sold by Amazon
Ceylon Flavors Organic Whole Cloves
These handpicked whole cloves are perfect for adding warm spiciness to your apple cider. They’re sun-dried to help maintain their oil level, so they have a stronger flavor and aroma. They’re non-GMO and USDA-certified organic. Sold by Amazon
Spicy World Whole Allspice Berries
These whole allspice berries add wonderful warmth and spice to apple cider. Each package contains a pound of berries, which are 100% natural and don’t contain any additives. They’re packaged in the United States. Sold by Amazon
Add a warm, nutty flavor to your apple cider with this premium nutmeg. It’s handpicked and packaged in the United States to ensure it’s as fresh as possible. It doesn’t contain preservatives, additives, MSG or fillers, either. Sold by Amazon
Serving supplies for apple cider
Purefold 100-ounce Glass Pitcher
This pitcher is made of borosilicate glass and is heat-safe up to 300 degrees, so it can hold hot apple cider for serving. It has a stainless steel filter to remove any pulp that might wind up in your cider. It’s dishwasher-safe, too. Sold by Amazon
These lovely glass cups are perfect for serving hot cider to your guests. The set contains four cups with lovely etched designs at the bottom. Each cup can hold 10 ounces and is dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning. Sold by Amazon
Kook Glass Coffee Mugs with Handles
These simple glass mugs are safe for all hot beverages, including apple cider. Each cup holds 15 ounces and has a thick handle and a footed base. The set is highly durable, but it still feels lightweight in your hand. Sold by Amazon
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The latest northeast Wisconsin weather forecast from Storm Team 5…
Tuesday: Quiet and cool conditions are in the forecast today as we see a mix of sun and clouds. Highs will generally be in the low to middle 60s with a light east wind.
Tonight: Skies will turn cloudy through the night as our next storm system approaches. Most areas will remain dry, but a spotty rain shower is possible well after midnight. Lows will not be nearly as cold as the last couple of nights.
A widespread soaking rain is expected on Wednesday. It’ll be a cool and blustery day with highs in the 50s to low 60s. Rain showers will start to wrap up Thursday before we get a dry day back into the forecast on Friday. Warmer air arrives just in time for the weekend with small rain chances Saturday through Memorial Day.
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SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia.
Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States. But the movement has been getting pushback from some Hindu Americans who argue that such legislation maligns a specific community.
Tensions within the community were visible at Seattle City Hall on Tuesday as a noisy hearing culminated with a 6-1 vote with a majority of the council agreeing that caste discrimination crosses national and religious boundaries and that without such laws, those facing caste discrimination in the U.S. will have no protections.
The packed room, which overflowed with activists from both sides bearing banners, chanting slogans, challenging speakers and city officials as they made their comments, laid bare stark divisions over this issue within the South Asian diaspora. A majority of those present in council chambers were supporters of the ordinance and those opposed were a vocal minority.
As council members voted in favor of the ordinance, the chamber erupted into cheers of "Jai Bhim," which means "victory for Bhim" a rallying cry adopted by followers of B.R. Ambedkar, an Indian Dalit rights icon whose given name was Bhimrao. Dalit groups and their supporters say caste discrimination is prevalent in U.S. diaspora communities, manifesting itself in the form of social alienation and discrimination in housing, education and the tech sector where South Asians hold key roles.
Yogesh Mane, a Seattle resident who grew up as an untouchable in India, broke into tears as he heard the council's decision.
"I'm emotional because this is the first time such an ordinance has been passed anywhere in the world outside of South Asia," he said. "It's a historic moment."
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, executive director of Oakland, California-based Equality Labs, whose advocacy work along with community partners continues to push caste discrimination laws forward, called the council vote "a culture war that has been won."
"We got the support of over 200 organizations from Seattle and around the country," she said. "It's a powerful message that Dalit people are not alone. The South Asian community has united to say we want to heal from the trauma of caste."
Council Member Kshama Sawant, a socialist and the only Indian American on the City Council, said the ordinance, which she proposed, does not single out one community, but it accounts for how caste discrimination crosses national and religious boundaries. Sawant said the council received over 4,000 emails in support of the ordinance.
"We've heard hundreds of gut-wrenching stories over the last few weeks showing us that caste discrimination is very real in Seattle," she said.
Council Member Sara Nelson who cast the lone dissenting vote agreed with opponents calling the ordinance "a reckless, harmful solution to a problem for which we have no data or research."
"This could generate more anti-Hindu discrimination and could dissuade employers from hiring South Asians," she said. "The community that is being impacted is deeply divided on this issue."
Nelson also said the ordinance would also get the city entangled in legal battles to which Sawant responded: "Bring it on." Sawant said being fearful of lawsuits is not the way to effect progress or change.
Council Member Lisa Herbold questioned opponents' logic that the law singles out Hindus and people of Indian descent.
"That's like saying gender discrimination laws single out all men," she said. "And just because we have a small population that is experiencing (caste discrimination) that doesn't make it any less important."
Shobha Swamy, a representative of the Coalition of Hindus of North America said she was disappointed by the council deliberations and line of questioning. The group said they received a show of support from over 100 organizations.
"Due diligence wasn't done," said Swami, who flew in from Atlanta.
C.H. Srikrishna, a San Francisco Bay Area-based tech worker, said he is worried about the ramifications this ordinance might have for the South Asian community.
"I too want discrimination to end," he said. "But we need to first determine that widespread discrimination exists."
Srikrishna, who is Hindu, believes the ordinance does target his religion.
"When you say it originated 2,000 years ago, that is implicitly blaming Hinduism," he said. "That bothers me. I feel betrayed."
Sanjay Patel, a tech company owner from the Seattle area, said he never felt discriminated against in the U.S. as a member of a lower caste and that the ordinance pained him because it reminded him of a caste identity, which he thought had become obsolete.
"I fear with this law, businesses will be afraid to hire South Asians," he said.
Earlier Tuesday morning, several activists braved cold temperatures and wind gusts to line up outside City Hall so they would get a chance to speak to the council before the vote. But the council restricted public comment at the meeting where more than 300 people had requested to speak virtually and in person. They heard about half of the comments before moving on to deliberations and the vote.
The origins of the caste system in India can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one's occupation and birth. It is a system that has evolved over the centuries under Muslim and British rule. The suffering of those who are at the bottom of the caste pyramid — known as Dalits — has continued. Caste discrimination has been prohibited in India since 1948, a year after the nation's independence from British rule.
The U.S. is the second most popular destination for Indians living abroad, according to the Migration Policy Institute, which estimates the U.S. diaspora grew from about 206,000 in 1980 to about 2.7 million in 2021. The group South Asian Americans Leading Together reports that nearly 5.4 million South Asians live in the U.S. — up from the 3.5 million counted in the 2010 census. Most trace their roots to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Over the past three years, several colleges and university systems have moved to prohibit caste discrimination.
In December 2019, Brandeis University near Boston became the first U.S. college to include caste in its nondiscrimination policy. The California State University System, Colby College, Brown University and the University of California, Davis have all adopted similar measures. Harvard University instituted caste protections for student workers in 2021 as part of its contract with its graduate student union.
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A U.S. soldier who crossed into North Korea on Tuesday did so "willfully and without authorization," according to U.S. and international officials. He's now believed to be in custody of North Korean armed forces.
The man, whom a U.S. Army spokesperson identified as Travis King, was a private second class who'd been released recently from a detention center in South Korea.
He was scheduled to be flown home to the U.S. when he somehow returned to South Korea, joined a tour group to the Demilitarized Zone and ran across the heavily fortified border into North Korea.
Here's an overview of what we know.
Who is Travis King?
Officials say Pvt. 2nd Class King has been a cavalry scout with the U.S. Army since January 2021.
The 23-year-old had been stationed in South Korea, but had recently served two months in a prison there on charges of assault, the Associated Press reported.
Several South Korean media outlets report that King had punched a South Korean national in a club last September. He had also been fined 5 million won ($3,942) for causing public damage and being uncooperative with police during his arrest.
According to an account from the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, citing legal sources, King yelled obscenities at South Korean police as he kicked the doors and interior of a police vehicle.
CBS News reports that King was released to U.S. officials at the military hub in the country about a week ago.
Before bolting into North Korea, King was being escorted to an airport outside of Seoul where he was expected to board a plane bound for Fort Bliss, Texas, to face military disciplinary action.
Officials escorted him through airport security, but King somehow managed to ditch the escort and make his way out of the terminal and back to the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
That is where officials said King, who was dressed in civilian clothes, joined a tour of the Korean border village of Panmunjom.
What happened when King crossed the border?
One member of the tour group described the incident on a now-deleted Facebook post, saying the King laughed loudly, then ran between two buildings and eventually into North Korea.
Another told the AP that King was one of 43 tourists in the group and appeared to be traveling alone, dressed casually in jeans and a T-shirt.
He made his move at the end of the tour, disappearing down a narrow passageway between the DMZ's famous blue buildings before the soldiers standing guard on the South Korean side had time to respond, said the woman, Sarah Leslie.
Leslie said she didn't see any guards on the North Korean side and was told by her tour guides that the army there had decreased its presence at the DMZ since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It's still unclear whether King planned his escape into North Korea or whether it was something he did on a whim. Some experts say that the trip just to the Demilitarized Zone takes days of planning.
Leslie said she had been required to submit her passport in order to receive a permit in advance of the tour.
Where is King now?
During a Tuesday press conference, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said officials believe King is in the custody of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"I'm absolutely foremost concerned about the welfare of our troop," Austin said.
So far, there has been no official word from North Korea.
King's mother, Claudine Gates who lives in Racine, Wis., told ABC News that she was shocked when Army officials told her on Tuesday that her son had fled.
"I can't see Travis doing anything like that," Gates said.
She added that the last time she heard from her son was a few days ago when he called to tell her he was headed back to his base in Fort Bliss, according to the outlet.
"I'm so proud of him. I just want him to come home, come back to America," Gates said.
Can U.S. officials bring King home?
The soldier's detention poses a fresh diplomatic challenge for Washington's wary relationship with North Korea; the U.S. does not have formal diplomatic relations with Pyongyang.
NPR's Greg Myre said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may endeavor to leverage the incident for political gain.
"It certainly wouldn't be surprising if North Korea tries to score some propaganda points or makes demands in exchange for handing over the soldier," Myre told All Things Considered.
Many U.S. citizens have been detained by North Korea over the years.
The last time was in 2018 when Bruce Byron Lowrance illegally entered the country from China. Lowrance was held in custody for a month before his release.
Before that, Tony Kim, a Korean-American professor, and Kim Hack Song, a former South Korean politician who also held U.S. citizenship, were both detained in 2017 and then released over a year later.
Their release came on the same day as another American Kim Dong Chul, who had been held since 2015. The three were set free during a visit North Korea by then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and ahead of the much anticipated summit between then-President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore later that year.
One of the more high-profile detainments was that of Otto Warmbier in 2016, a U.S. college student who was on a tour of the country before he was detained.
Warmbier was accused of taking a poster from his hotel and held for more than a year. He was eventually released to U.S. officials while he was in a coma and then died just days after returning to the U.S.
NPR's Se Eun Gong contributed reporting from Seoul.
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Man, 25, accused of shooting his own parents while drunk
CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX) - Police say an Ohio Department of Natural Resources officer is behind bars after he allegedly shot both his parents, injuring them, during a domestic dispute.
The shooting happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. last Friday at a home in Batavia, Ohio, according to the Union Township Police incident report. The suspect, 25-year-old Austin Snyder, was off duty at the time, an ODNR spokesperson said.
Officers responded to a call from someone inside the home about a man being drunk and locked out, WXIX reports. As officers were heading there, the man made it back into the house, went to a room where guns were stored and shot two people inside a bedroom, according to the police incident report.
The officers found a man matching the clothing description of the shooter at the edge of the driveway, the report reads. Police say the officers ordered him to the ground at gunpoint, and he complied, after which they handcuffed him and put him in the cruiser.
One of the officers says the man, who allegedly identified himself as Snyder, smelled strongly of alcohol and was slurring his words.
The officer says the man had someone else’s blood on his hand. Asked what had happened, the man replied that he didn’t know, according to the report.
The shooting victims identified themselves as Snyder’s parents. His 51-year-old mother was shot in the wrist and shoulder, the report reads. His 53-year-old father was shot in the forearm.
Snyder’s parents allegedly told officers they had picked Snyder up because he was too drunk to drive and that at some point he “just went berserk.”
The couple were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say Snyder’s 22-year-old sister was also home at the time of the incident.
Snyder faces charges of domestic violence, felonious assault and using weapons while intoxicated. The investigation is ongoing.
An ODNR spokesperson said that if Snyder is released from jail during the investigation, he will not be allowed to go back to work. The department is still evaluating the situation before making a final decision on Snyder’s employment.
Snyder is due back in court March 13.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Paolo Banchero had 29 points and 10 rebounds as the Orlando Magic stormed back from a 21-point first-quarter deficit to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 119-109 on Monday night.
Mo Wagner scored 22 points and his younger brother Franz Wagner scored 19 for the Magic, who stopped a three-game skid and ended the Sixers' seven-game winning streak.
It was the latest win over one of the NBA's top teams for the Magic, who improved to 15-11 since their 6-20 start.
“They are learning from experiences,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said. “They are finding ways to bounce back and believe in each other and understand that it’s got to start on the defensive side of the ball.”
Orlando has beaten Boston three times, Golden State twice, Dallas, Phoenix and now Philadelphia.
“We are a very good team,” Banchero said. “We just have to learn how to put this effort out every night. We have to be able to take this game and take it to the next game and the game after that no matter who the opponent is.”
Joel Embiid had 30 points and 11 rebounds for Philadelphia, his 27th game this season scoring 30 or more and his ninth in the past 10. But he also led the Sixers in turnovers with six, got into foul trouble in the fourth quarter and was visibly frustrated by Orlando's physical defense.
The Magic forced 19 turnovers and held Philly to 19 points in the fourth quarter. The 21-point deficit was the largest Orlando has overcome this season and the sixth-largest in franchise history.
The Magic methodically worked their way back from the early hole, trimming the Sixers' lead to 10 points at halftime. Orlando went ahead for the first time on a 3-pointer by Gary Harris in the third quarter.
“We just wanted to challenge them and turn the heat up,” Banchero said. “We weren’t doing that in the first half and gave them too many easy buckets. You’re not going to stop Embiid, you just have to challenge him and make it difficult on him and we did a good job.”
The Magic took the lead for good with 7:03 to play when Mo Wagner made a reverse layup, was fouled and converted the free throw. Wagner converted another three-point play 19 seconds later when he was fouled by Embiid on a driving layup.
Sixers coach Doc Rivers unsuccessfully challenged the foul call on Embiid, insisting his big man had established defensive position.
Cole Anthony followed with a 3-pointer to complete a 9-0 Orlando run, and the Sixers got no closer than six points the rest of the way.
“I don’t think we played with any pace,” Rivers said. “Their pressure, their physicality ... they got into us. We turned the ball over. We were flopping to try to draw fouls. We just turned it off and couldn’t get it back.”
Tobias Harris and James Harden scored 17 points apiece for the Sixers.
TIP-INS
Magic: Almost four years after the Sixers traded him to Orlando, Markelle Fultz played his first game in Philadelphia as a visitor. The former No. 1 overall draft pick has been injured each time the Magic played in Philly since the trade, although he played a road game against the Sixers in 2020 during the pandemic bubble in Florida. Fultz finished with 12 points and 10 assists and said the experience was “amazing.”
76ers: Philadelphia has been the hottest team in the NBA for nearly two months but has benefited from playing the league's third-easiest schedule entering Monday night's game. The Sixers have the second-toughest remaining schedule and will play 17 games in March, including 11 on the road.
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The teams play again at Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
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Tastefully Simple of Alexandria Wins 2023 Product Innovation Award
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (AP) — Tastefully Simple is named the winner of the 2023 Product Innovation Award through the Direct Selling Association.
The Alexandria-based company won for its 12 Days of Dips to Dinner.
It features 12 individual product packets featuring recipes that enable a prepare to prepare it as either a Dip or a Dinner.
This innovative product exceeded the sales forecast by 208% and ranked as the fourth best seller of the season, the first time ever being held by a new seasonal product.
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Two teenagers in love. A retiree who would “give you the shirt off his back.” A woman with a fondness for her dog, and pigs. A young man who was the “life of the party.”
Those were the lives lost in the early-morning darkness Wednesday when a killer tornado tore through a remote village in a hilly area of southeastern Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Thursday that all five victims were either in the same mobile home, or divided between the trailer and a small camper parked next to it.
“My baby,” Stormiee Mayberry, in a direct Facebook message, said of her 18-year-old son, Michael McCoy, one of the victims. “He was such a strong wonderful young man he was my everything.”
“I truly cannot talk right now,” she added. “It’s too much. Too much hurt.”
The tornado strafed a 22-mile (35-kilometer) stretch of land and destroyed much of the tiny rural village of Glenallen shortly after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. It came during a week of violent storms and tornadoes, and another twister Wednesday night claimed a life in Kentucky, where three tornadoes touched down.
The Missouri victims were: Glenn Burcks, 62, who lived in the mobile home in Glenallen. Susan Sullivan, 57, also lived there, along with her 37-year-old nephew, James Skaggs. Also killed were Sullivan’s 16-year-old granddaughter, Destinee Nicole Koenig of Sikeston, Missouri, and McCoy, her boyfriend.
Highway Patrol Sgt. Clark Parrott said investigators aren’t sure if any of the victims were in the camper when the tornado hit.
The mobile home essentially exploded, leaving only scattered debris and a rusted metal chassis. Some shards of metal stuck to tree limbs. Tattered remains of furniture sat in a field. A few old photos, videotapes and even baseball cards dotted the mud near the home’s concrete pad.
McCoy’s uncle, Rustin Kinder, said the teenager’s dad and another uncle hurried to the trailer once they heard about the tornado. The uncle found McCoy badly injured in a field. Kinder said his nephew was rushed to a hospital but “just couldn’t hang on.”
Kinder described McCoy as charismatic and funny and said he was “young and in love” with Koenig, calling her McCoy’s “whole world.”
“He basically had a bright future, you know, but he didn’t even get a chance to have a family,” Kinder said. “And, you know, it’s just sad, really.”
Koenig was a sophomore at New Madrid High School and loved animals, especially cats and dogs. Principal Justin Poley said the school is offering help for students dealing with the loss of their classmate.
“She did have quite a few friends that are having a difficult time right now,” Poley said.
Burcks was “a sweet and giving man, and he’d give the shirt off his back for you,” his sister-in-law, Dorothy Burcks, said. Glenn Burcks considered Sullivan and her relatives family.
Burcks had worked at a saw mill but was in ill health and was retired, Dorothy Burcks said.
“He lived out in the country all his life,” she said. “He loved country. He didn’t like the town life or the city life.”
Sullivan worked as a teacher for Head Start for about 15 years, according to her obituary. She had a fondness for her dog, “Baby,” and for pigs.
Skaggs “loved to take pictures, have fun and be the life of the party,” his obituary stated. His cousin, Joseph Skaggs, described him as “good to be around.”
“He had a good heart. I mean, he loved everybody,” he said. “All the time make you laugh.”
Joseph Skaggs said his sister’s home also was destroyed. “You really can’t do anything but try to pick up the pieces and keep going,” he said.
A funeral service for Koenig, and memorial services for Sullivan and Skaggs, will be Monday in nearby Marble Hill. Arrangements were incomplete for Burcks and McCoy.
In Kentucky, Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Steve Moran identified the victim as Billy Corum, 30, of Louisville. Moran said Corum was walking his dog near his home Wednesday when high winds knocked over a tree that struck Corum in the head.
Preliminary findings on Thursday indicated that the tornadoes struck two areas of Louisville, meteorologist Brian Neudorff said. The storm toppled trees and power lines and tore the roof off an apartment building.
A separate tornado with maximum winds of 110 mph (177 kph) touched down in the Brandonburg area of Mead County, less than an hour southwest of Louisville, Neudorff said.
Bob Oravec, a lead weather service forecaster, said more severe weather was possible Thursday in an area stretching from eastern Texas to the mid-Atlantic states.
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Salter reported from O’Fallon, Missouri, and Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. Jennifer Garske and Nancy Benac in Washington, D.C., and John Raby in Charleston, West Virginia, contributed to this report.
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Manatee County Schools hosting public survey on superintendent candidates
Published: May. 12, 2023 at 10:59 AM EDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - After the three candidates for Manatee County Schools superintendent got to interact with the public at a community event earlier this week.
The School Board is scheduled to hold a special meeting on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 10 a.m. at the Walter E. Miller School Support Center to select the new superintendent. In the meantime, there is a community survey available from Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 9 a.m. through Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 9 p.m.
You can look at the candidates’ bios below!
Scott J. Schneider
Dr. Jason C. Wysong
Doug Wagner
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Check out New Jersey’s best seafood restaurants (Opinion)
This is the time of year in New Jersey when thoughts turn to the Jersey Shore. If you're lucky enough to be down there for any length of time, and you're looking for a great meal, thoughts will invariably turn to the many excellent seafood restaurants we have here in the great Garden State.
The Jersey Shore has some of the best seafood restaurants anywhere, I tell myself while waiting hours to get a table at most of them.
Some think it would be sacrilegious to go to a steak house while at the shore. You would almost think that the chef, upon hearing your order, takes a fishing pole and heads to the ocean or bay trying to catch your order. Sometimes I think that myself while I'm waiting hours to finally eat.
But in the end, it's worth it because we seriously do have some of the best seafood restaurants, as told by my Facebook and Twitter followers. I have personally been to many of these places and can back them up.
If you want great seafood in New Jersey, these are the restaurants you need to visit.
Joanne Ginn Glassoff:
The Captains Inn in Forked River....food, ambiance and service
Monica Bansky:
Crab Trap, Somers Point.
Michael Beifeld:
Docks in Atlantic City
Domenick Stellato:
The Lobster House in Cape May
R Dennis Steele:
Marie’s in Sea Isle. Crab Marie.
Mike Brandolino:
Malaga. Hamilton Township. Mariscada and paella... excellent!
Christine Martucci:
Oyster Creek restaurant and boathouse
Mike Darkwater:
The Columns (Avon-by-the-Sea), rock lobster dinner. I also hit Klein’s and Spikes' (Point Pleasant Beach) seafoods.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled government announced Thursday it was releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty marking the country’s National Victory Day.
Australian Sean Turnell, Japan’s Toru Kubota, Briton Vicky Bowman, and American Kyaw Htay Oo, as well as 11 local Myanmar celebrities, were among a total of 5,774 prisoners who were being released, Myanmar’s state-run MRTV reported.
The imprisonment of the foreign nationals had been a source of friction between Myanmar’s leaders and their home governments, which had been lobbying for their release.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a rights monitoring organization, 16,232 people have been detained on political charges in Myanmar since the army ousted the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February last year.
Of those arrested, 13,015 were still in detention as of Wednesday, AAPP reported. At least 2,465 civilians have been killed by security forces in the same period, the group says, though the number is thought to be far higher.
Amnesty International Australia’s Tim O’Connor welcomed the decision to release Turnell, saying like many others, he should never have been arrested or jailed.
“Amnesty continues to call for the release of all those arbitrarily detained for peacefully exercising their human rights,” he said. “Thousands of people jailed since the coup in Myanmar have done nothing wrong.”
Japan’s government spokesperson, Hirokazu Matsuno, said officials have been in touch with Kubota, and the 26-year-old Tokyo-based documentary filmmaker was believed to be in good health. He left Myanmar on a flight to Bangkok on Thursday and was due back in Japan on Friday morning, the Japanese Embassy in Yangon said.
Bowman, Turnell and Kyaw Htay Oo were also expected to fly out of Myanmar on Thursday.
Turnell, 58, an associate professor of economics at Sydney’s Macquarie University who had been serving as an adviser to Suu Kyi, was arrested by security forces in Yangon just days after last year’s military takeover. He was sentenced in September to three years in prison on charges of violating the country’s official secrets law and immigration law. Suu Kyi and three of her former Cabinet members were convicted in the same trial, which was held in a closed court, with their lawyers barred by a gag order from talking about the proceedings.
Fellow Australian economist Tim Harcourt said in an email that he was delighted to hear of his longtime friend Sean Turnell’s release.
He thanked the Australian government, activists and Turnell’s friends and colleagues who had lobbied for his release.
“Sean’s heart was with the people of Myanmar to help lift them out of poverty and help Myanmar reach its economic potential. He should never have been imprisoned for doing his professional duty as an economist involved in development economics,” he said.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the takeover, which led to nationwide protests that the military government quashed with deadly force, triggering armed resistance that some U.N. experts now characterize as civil war.
Kubota was arrested July 30 by plainclothes police in Yangon after taking images and videos of a small flash protest against the military. He was convicted last month by the prison court on incitement and other charges and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Since seizing power, the military has cracked down on the coverage of protests, raided media companies, detained dozens of journalists and revoked the licenses of at least a dozen outlets.
Most of those detained are being held on the incitement charge for allegedly causing fear, spreading false news, or agitating against a government employee.
Some of the closed media outlets have continued operating without licenses and many Myanmar journalists are working underground, moving from one safe house to another, hiding in remote border regions, or basing themselves in exile.
Kubota was the fifth foreign journalist detained in Myanmar, also called Burma, since the military seized power. U.S. citizens Nathan Maung and Danny Fenster, who worked for local publications, and freelancers Robert Bociaga of Poland and Yuki Kitazumi of Japan were deported before serving their full prison sentences.
Bowman, 56, a former British ambassador to Myanmar who was running a business consultancy, was arrested with her husband, a Myanmar national, in Yangon in August. She was given a one-year prison term in September by the prison count for failing to register her residence.
Kyaw Htay Oo, a naturalized American, returned to Myanmar, the country of his birth, in 2017, according to media reports. He was arrested in September 2021 on terrorism charges and had been in custody since then.
U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Bangkok, welcomed the release of the prisoners, calling it “one bright spot in what is otherwise an incredibly dark time where we see things going from bad to worse in Burma, including terrible violence that’s being done to innocent Burmese.”
Myanmar did not release many details of the other prisoners who were being freed, but many were held on charges related to the protests, including Section 505(A) of Myanmar’s penal code, which makes it a crime to spread comments that create public unrest or fear or spread false news, and carries a penalty of up to three years in prison.
Those being released included Kyaw Tint Swe, a former minister for the office of the State Counsellor, Than Htay, a former member of the Union Election Commission, and Lae Lae Maw, a former chief minister of Tanintharyi region who was sentenced to 30 years for alleged corruption under Suu Kyi’s government, MRTV announced.
Among the first set free from Yangon’s Insein prison were prominent author Maung Thar Cho, pro-democracy activist Mya Aye and Myo Nyunt, the spokesperson of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, all of whom were arrested on Feb. 1, 2021, the day the military seized power.
“I will always stand together with the people of Myanmar,” Mya Aye defiantly told the crowd outside the prison after he was released.
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A Texas man who threatened U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter after he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced on Wednesday to more than three years in prison.
Garret Miller was wearing a shirt that read “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021” with a picture on President Donald Trump on it when law enforcement officers showed up at his Dallas-area home to arrest him two weeks after the riot. Miller has already spent more than two years behind bars since his arrest, and with credit for good behavior, he’s expected to serve another eight months, according to his lawyer, F. Clinton Broden.
Miller, a 36-year-old from Richardson, was among the many rioters who thoroughly documented their actions that day in a flurry of social media posts. After Miller posted a selfie showing himself inside the Capitol, a friend wrote, “bro you got in?! Nice!” Miller replied, “just wanted to incriminate myself a little lol,” according to court papers.
On Jan. 6, he helped lead the charge as rioters removed barriers and swarmed the east front of the Capitol, prosecutors said. He was twice briefly detained by police but released and told to leave as overwhelmed officers struggled to beat back the mob, prosecutors said.
Instead of leaving, Miller went inside the Capitol, where authorities say he was aggressive toward police and ignored their commands as they tried to force him to exit. He grabbed at one officer’s baton and put his hand on another as he resisted being pushed out of the Rotunda, according to prosecutors.
The night of Jan. 6, Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat who represents parts of New York City, tweeted the word “Impeach.” Miller responded to her on Twitter with: “Assassinate AOC.” The next day, he bragged to a friend in a message that the rioters “terrified congress,” prosecutors say.
Shortly after the 2020 election, he also sent a threatening message to the Instagram account of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, writing “we are coming for you,” according to prosecutors. U.S. Capitol Police referred the threat to the FBI, who at that point were already investigating Miller for his Jan. 6 actions, prosecutors say. He was not charged with threatening Schumer.
Days after the riot, Miller was sharing photos of the officer he believed fatally shot Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol, prosecutors say. In a Facebook message on Jan. 10, Miller said he and others were going to get a hold of the officer and “hug his neck with a nice rope,” according to court papers.
Miller’s attorney had asked the judge to impose time served, while prosecutors had sought four years in prison.
Miller’s attorney said in court documents that despite his client’s tweet about Ocasio-Cortez and messages about the officer, “there is no indication that he made any effort whatsoever to actually harm anybody.”
“It should be always be remembered that, although Garret is fully responsible for his individual actions that day, his actions and the actions of many others were a product of rhetoric from a cult leader that has yet to be brought to justice,” Broden said in an email Wednesday. “Garret Miller was not the name on the flag carried by those who invaded our Capitol on this dark day in our nation’s history. “
In a letter to the judge, Miller called his social media posts “disgusting and a complete embarrassment” and apologized to Ocasio-Cortez, Schumer, the officer who shot Babbitt and the other officers Miller interacted with on Jan. 6.
“I feel a deep remorse for not being helpful to police that day and aiding in destruction and pain. It was unnecessary, barbaric, and disrespectful. I was proud, arrogant, and acted in anger. I needed to be humbled” he wrote.
Miller pleaded guilty in December to charges including interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder, assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and threatening Ocasio-Cortez.
Miller was charged separately this month in Texas federal court with one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, according to court documents. When he was arrested on the Jan. 6 charges, authorities found an AR-style rifle at his home that had been configured to fire like a machine gun.
He’s among nearly 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 riot and more than 500 who have pleaded guilty. About 400 rioters have been sentenced, with over half getting terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years.
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Richer reported from Boston. Associated Press reporter Lindsay Whitehurst contributed from Washington.
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BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it structured $57.2 million in financing for three skilled nursing facilities located in Illinois. Walker & Dunlop Senior Managing Director, Joshua Rosen led the origination team, which has considerable experience with seniors housing and healthcare facilities across the country. Leveraging their extensive knowledge of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) financing products, the team utilized the LEAN 232/223(f) for the refinance of two properties and the 232/223(a)(7) program for the other. Both programs provide long-term financing for skilled healthcare facilities. The deals reaffirm the post pandemic upward momentum in the seniors housing market.
The collection of properties includes:
- Avantara Park Ridge – Walker & Dunlop structured a $15.6 million loan through HUD's LEAN refinance program for Avantara Park Ridge, a 154-bed skilled nursing facility in Park Ridge, Illinois.
- Moraine Court Supportive Living – Walker & Dunlop secured a $28.7 million loan through HUD's LEAN refinance program for Moraine Court Supportive Living, a 185-bed Supportive Living Facility located in Bridgeview, Illinois. W&D assisted in structuring and obtaining HUD approval on a surplus cash note prior to application and refinanced the current HUD insured debt and surplus cash note.
- Aperion Care Elgin – Walker & Dunlop secured a $13.3 million loan through HUD's LEAN refinance program for Aperion Care Elgin, a 101-bed skilled nursing facility in Elgin, Illinois.
"Walker & Dunlop's ability to seamlessly navigate the HUD process helps our clients to successfully close on transactions," said Mr. Rosen. "Our team continues to enable our clients to carry out new business ideas and improve existing skilled nursing properties, keeping vulnerable populations safe."
Walker & Dunlop is a leader in seniors housing property sales and financing; the firm has completed more than 850 unique seniors housing and healthcare transactions worth over $9 billion since 2009. For more information about Walker & Dunlop's seniors housing team, visit our website.
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry in the United States, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. Our people, brand and technology make W&D one of the most insightful and customer-focused firms in our industry. With more than 1,400 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Infrastructure Engineering Inc. and Affiliates (IEI) is pleased to share that Mr. Paul Ajegba, PE, has joined IEI as a Senior Vice President to oversee planning of the firm's national, corporate growth strategy and lead operations and business development in our Detroit, Michigan office.
"Paul brings a level of leadership and industry experience that is an invaluable resource to our firm and our clients," offered Michael Sutton, PE, IEI's CEO. "His skilled management of the investments made to grow Michigan's infrastructure, and his ideation of the barrier-shattering Chief Officer of Culture, Equity, and Inclusion position at MDOT are great examples of the vision and action Paul will bring to IEI. We are honored that he has joined the IEI team and excited for the future of our firm under his leadership."
Paul's illustrious engineering career started in the private sector of the infrastructure industry and was followed by more than 32 years with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). He has successfully managed and delivered the design and construction of complex projects pertaining to highways, bridges, transit, aviation, and marine and port activities. In January 2019, Michigan's Governor, Gretchen Whitmer, appointed Paul as Director of MDOT, where he provided leadership, strategy, and direction of the Department's $5 billion transportation program.
"IEI's Detroit office opened less than two years ago. In that short time, the firm has demonstrated their capacity for solving engineering challenges and their commitment to supporting the growth of Michigan's vital infrastructure. IEI has been steadily growing their presence in Detroit and the surrounding communities by delivering infrastructure projects that align with the firm's values and support local vibrancy. I am confident with this team that in a couple of years, we will look back and see that much has been done. We aim to be one of the leading firms in Michigan." Paul is known for regularly sharing one of his favorite quotes - "The cynics may be the loudest voices - but I promise you, they will accomplish the least." (Barack Obama)
Both nationally, and locally, Paul is active in many professional organizations that demonstrate his dedication to the civil engineering profession and his commitment to creating impactful infrastructure. He has served as Chair of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Council of Public Transportation, as well as the Civil and Environmental Engineering Friends Association with Michigan University. He is also a proud member of the Engineering Society of Detroit, National Academy of Construction, and The Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), to name a few.
Paul's career trajectory has been recognized throughout the industry. In 2017 he received the Conference of Minority Transportation Official Public Agency Executive of the Year Award, and in 2010 he received the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority Leadership Award (AAATA). He also received the Woodward Avenue Action Association Board Leadership Award and MDOT Director's Award in the Professional Supervisory Category.
Paul is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Michigan and has received his Master of Science in Construction Engineering from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Prairie View A&M University.
About IEI: Infrastructure Engineering Inc. and Affiliates (IEI) is a multi-disciplinary civil engineering consulting firm that focuses on the delivery of design engineering, program management, and construction engineering and inspection services. IEI cultivates various types of engineering projects from conception and planning through implementation. The firm aims to create sustainable infrastructure necessary to build and connect communities, improve quality of life, and encourage economic development. IEI is a DBE/MBE certified firm. Visit IEI's website at www.infrastructure-eng.com for more information.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system more time to carry out executions — a move that comes after a string of troubled lethal injections in the state — and also eliminated an automatic review for trial errors in death penalty cases.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's office called the time window change a “win for justice” and supporters said the appeal change would ease the burden on the court system. But a noted death penalty lawyer said the changes end a crucial avenue of review and increase the likelihood of “more cruelty and potential torture.”
The Alabama Supreme Court announced the changes to appellate procedure last Friday. At Ivey's request, the court abolished the previous one-day time frame to carry out a death sentence. Instead, the governor will set a window of time for the execution. A divided court in a 6-3 decision also eliminated an automatic “plain error review” where the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals automatically reviews death penalty cases for a clear error at trial even though the defense lawyer did not object. Justices said judges on the appeals court may undertake the review, but are no longer required to do so.
“I think the combination of these two rules increases the likelihood that we’re going to see more wrongful convictions, more unjust sentences and more cruelty and potential torture,” said Bryan Stevenson, founder of the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative.
Stevenson said that nearly 40% of the reversals in Alabama death penalty cases have come under the plain error review. He said the rule has been in place since the death penalty was reinstated in Alabama in 1976, and its repeal is “shocking.”
Justice Jay Mitchell wrote in a concurring opinion that the change will relieve the court's burden so they are no longer required to “scour the record in search of such errors, nor will it be compelled to analyze claims of error." He said lawyers for death row inmates can present the issues in other appeals.
“Plain-error review requires already overloaded appellate courts to spend hundreds, if not thousands, of hours per case scrutinizing trial-court records for possible errors and then explaining why those errors are (or are not) reversible,” Mitchell wrote.
However, two justices who are former members of the Court of Criminal Appeals dissented in the decision.
Justice Kelli Wise wrote that she could not support a complete repeal despite the time required. "In these cases, the defendants’ very lives are at stake, and I believe that such cases are entitled to heightened review on direct appeal," Wise wrote.
The court also granted Ivey's request to expand the amount of time that Alabama has to carry out an execution. Ivey asked for the change after announcing a “top-to-bottom” review of execution procedures. The review came after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection in the state following problems with intravenous lines and late-running appeals.
Death warrants issued by the Supreme Court had been limited to a single day, resulting in a midnight deadline to get the execution underway. Now, after the court issues a death warrant, the governor will set a time window to carry out the execution. Justices left it up to the governor to decide how long that time window will be.
“I view this as a win for justice. As we initially interpret the order, it secures an extended time frame, which was a primary request of the governor’s," Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola said in an email. She said the governor's staff will review the order with the prison system.
Stevenson says while other states give longer than a day, no state allows a governor that kind of power. He said it would allow already problematic executions to go on for longer.
The state in November called off the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, which was the state’s second such instance of being unable to put an inmate to death in the preceding two months and its third since 2018. The state completed an execution in July, but only after a three-hour delay caused at least partly by the same problem with starting an IV line. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Alabama-extends-time-for-executions-ends-17726600.php | 2023-01-19 00:09:06 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Alabama-extends-time-for-executions-ends-17726600.php |
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As workers at major companies increasingly move to unionize, the political environment for labor couldn’t be more ripe.
Perhaps nowhere is that more accurate than at the National Labor Relations Board, the agency that enforces the country’s labor laws and oversees union elections.
In the past year, the Biden-appointed top prosecutor Jennifer Abruzzo has been seeking to overturn precedent and revive decades-old labor policies that supporters say would make it easier for workers to form a union. To get her wish, Abruzzo must have buy-in from the five-member board, whose Democratic majority is expected to be sympathetic to her proposed changes. As for President Joe Biden, he has vowed to be ”the most pro-union president” in American history.
“In the past, there has been a focus on employer rights or employer interests. And I do not believe that comports with our congressional mandate,” Abruzzo said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The changes Abruzzo seeks come as workers at major companies, including Starbucks, Amazon and most recently, Apple, clinch union victories. But any shifts in the agency’s enforcement of labor law are likely to be reversed under a Republican administration and met with fierce resistance from employers in the federal courts.
Currently, the agency is in the crosshairs of Amazon, which has been arguing in an NLRB hearing that began last week that the union victory at one of its warehouses on Staten Island, New York, should be tossed out. The e-commerce giant claims labor organizers and the agency acted in a way that tainted the vote. In one of its 25 objections, the company zeros in on a lawsuit filed in March by the NLRB's Brooklyn office seeking to reinstate a fired Amazon worker who was involved in the union drive.
Abruzzo has said she would “aggressively” seek such remedies during her tenure, and could even pursue cases when an employer has only levied threats against workers. The agency has repeatedly taken Starbucks to federal court since December, most recently on Tuesday when it asked a court to reinstate seven employees in Buffalo, New York that it says were illegally fired for trying to form a union. Abruzzo says she’s also been asking field offices to be on the lookout for other threats to workers.
John Logan, the director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University, said some of the changes Abruzzo is seeking include policy shifts labor scholars have wanted for years.
“We have a general counsel prepared to do things that have not been done in the past,” Logan said. “And also doing it in the context of a period of labor organizing that we haven’t seen for decades and decades.”
A career NLRB attorney for more than two decades, Abruzzo rose through the ranks of the agency to serve as deputy general counsel under former President Barack Obama. She briefly served as the acting general counsel and left the agency during the Trump administration for a stint at Communications Workers of America, one of the largest labor unions in the U.S. Last year, she was confirmed to her current role in the U.S. Senate along party lines.
Arguably, her most significant move since then has come in an NLRB case filed in April, where she asked the labor board to reinstate Joy Silk, an arcane legal doctrine that could dramatically change how unions typically form in the U.S.
Joy Silk, which was abandoned nearly 50 years ago, would compel companies to bargain with a union that secures majority support from workers through authorization cards rather than going through a protracted election process. Logan noted that Joy Silk essentially curtails an employers' ability to wage long anti-union campaigns in the leadup to an election, when unions tend to lose support from workers.
A formal move towards Joy Silk is expected to be hotly contested by businesses and right-to-work groups who want private-ballot elections. Some experts say elections better capture how workers feel about a union. And the leadup to a vote typically gives companies time to make their case to workers as to why they should reject unionization, which is legal as long as employers follow labor law.
However, labor activists and pro-union experts argue some employers use the time to fend off organizing by any means necessary, including mandatory meetings in which they lay out all the reasons why workers should reject unionization.
Though the labor board has allowed employers to mandate such meetings for decades, Abruzzo argued in an April memo that it was based on a misunderstanding of employers’ speech rights and should be outlawed. She's seeking to make the meetings voluntary for workers.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican leader of the House Committee on Education and Labor, slammed Abruzzo's memo soon after it was released, calling it “a hyper-partisan love letter to unions.”
“Should the NLRB choose to overturn decades of precedent and silence job creators, the consequences will be disastrous,” Foxx said in a statement at the time.
But field offices are following suit. About a month after Abruzzo’s memo was issued, the NLRB office in Brooklyn said it found merit in a charge filed by the Amazon Labor Union that accused Amazon of violating labor law at one of its warehouses on Staten Island, New York, by holding mandatory meetings to persuade workers to reject the union, adding further bad blood between the company and the agency.
Mark Nix, the president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, said it’s difficult to take Abruzzo’s quest for more workers' rights seriously because she's attempting to overturn a Trump labor board decision that made it easier for employers to suspend bargaining on a future contract when they know a union no longer has majority support.
Abruzzo has signaled it’s one of the many decisions she intends to undo from the Trump era, when cases were spearheaded by her predecessor Peter Robb, who was widely seen by organized labor and Democrats as favoring employers. Biden later fired Robb.
“The hypocrisy is off the charts when you think about the employee rights,” Nix said. “When she gets done with the job, she ought to apply for the lobbyist job at the AFL-CIO, because she’s going even farther than union officials have even imagined.”
Experts say it’s too early to know how successful Abruzzo might be in her efforts because the changes she’s seeking are still winding their way through the NLRB’s process. Logan, the labor expert, said she's has been more aggressive than her Democrat-appointed predecessors, but still faces a steep challenge since changes she’s seeking are likely to be heavily litigated.
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MONTVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s first round of recreational cannabis sales for adults 21 and older began Tuesday at seven existing medical marijuana establishments across the state, less than two years after Gov. Ned Lamont signed legislation making Connecticut the latest state to legalize retail sales.
As many as 40 dispensaries, along with dozens of other cannabis-related businesses, are expected to eventually open in Connecticut by the end of this year.
“Today is historic, but the real story is about the benefits to come that will transform lives and communities,” Adam Wood, president of the Connecticut Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement. He estimates the new industry will create more than 10,000 jobs over the next couple of years and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue that will help benefit communities most impacted by the war on drugs.
Lamont, a Democrat, said Tuesday that one of the goals of the legislation that legalized recreational marijuana was to create a regulated, safer product for consumers. Another part of the law allows convictions for low-level marijuana crimes to be erased, many automatically. Nearly 44,000 such convictions have been erased since the start of the new year, officials said.
“Today marks a turning point in the injustices caused by the war on drugs, most notably now that there is a legal alternative to the dangerous, unregulated, underground market for cannabis sales,” Lamont said in a statement.
Recreational sales were allowed to begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. State-approved shops in Branford, Meriden, Montville, New Haven, Newington, Stamford and Willimantic were expected to open their doors to the general public on the first day. Two other approved dispensaries, in Danbury and Torrington, will open at a later date.
In Montville, local state lawmakers and the mayor turned out for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at The Botanist. A steady stream of medical marijuana patients stopped by to pick up their items before recreational sales began. Workers inside a heated tent folded free T-shirts and prepared to help customers place orders in kiosks.
Laura Bass-Wright, 60, of Norwich, was the first customer in line in Montville. She said she has suffered with chronic pain since 2011 and has been a medical marijuana customer. She said she was glad recreational sales are now legal, but had some concerns.
“I do worry about the young people because they don’t know how to handle it and they will be driving stoned, and it’s going to be very hard for police to figure out what’s what,” she said.
Bass-Wright added that she didn’t intend on being the first in line but was happy that she was. She was given a bag of goodies, including a $250 vaporizer.
It’s unclear whether the novelty of legalized marijuana has worn off a bit for Connecticut consumers, considering retail sales began in 2018 in neighboring Massachusetts and last month in neighboring Rhode Island and New York.
Twenty-one states have legalized recreational marijuana for adults over the past decade, even though it remains illegal under federal law. Since voters approved legalization in Maryland and Missouri in November, marijuana advocates have pressed forward with similar efforts elsewhere in the U.S., including in Ohio and Oklahoma.
As of Feb. 3, 2022, 37 states, three territories and the District of Columbia allow the medical use of cannabis products, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Connecticut’s “hybrid” medical and recreational cannabis retail shops prepared for large crowds Tuesday. At The Botanist in Montville, extra staff will be in place and a shuttle service will bring customers from satellite parking lots.
Kate Nelson, senior vice president of the Midwest and Northwest regions for Acreage Holdings, which owns The Botanist brand, said the Montville location sees about 200 to 300 medical marijuana customers daily. She predicted there will be a 150% uptick in sales during the first week of recreational sales, but acknowledged that will likely level off.
The company’s second location in Connecticut, located in Danbury, is expected to open in the next few weeks after local approvals are finalized.
“I think even before the 40 operators come online, you’ll start to see less of that excitement of something new and more so of kind of what the status quo will become,” Nelson said. “We’re in an area now in the country where there’s other adult-use states nearby. So it’s really going to be a focus of ours, in the state of Connecticut specifically, to make sure that this adult-use program has the product that it needs to have and we can support the industry … to make sure Connecticut sets themselves apart from other competing markets.”
Initial sales in Connecticut will be limited to one-quarter of an ounce (7 grams) of cannabis flower or its equivalent, in an effort to ensure there will be enough supply for medical marijuana patients. Different items can be purchased together to make up the one-quarter ounce. The state’s Department of Consumer Protection plans to watch retail sales and manufacturing supplies closely to determine when that amount can eventually be increased. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-legal-recreational-marijuana-sales-starting-in-connecticut/ | 2023-01-11 11:22:36 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-legal-recreational-marijuana-sales-starting-in-connecticut/ |
40% of creators saw increased brand deals and income over the last year; more than 50% are using AI tools to enhance their content.
JERUSALEM and CHICAGO, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightricks released the results of a US-based study conducted by YouGov, revealing the latest trends among creators that continue to move the industry forward. Lightricks is a leading maker of advanced mobile photo and video editing tools including Facetune, Videoleap and Photoleap, and also the creator marketing platform Popular Pays. The Creator Economy: Building Business Through Technology and Brand Deals report found that creators are increasingly using new tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and editing tools to produce high-quality content that engages with brands. The survey found that creators ultimately desire to focus on moving their content beyond just "influencing" to making content creation their full-time job and build the necessary relationships with brands to generate fair compensation for their creativity.
Key findings include:
- More than 50% of all respondents are in favor of using AI to enhance their content
- According to creators, 56% of brands are already specifically asking for AI generated content for their partnerships, and 56% of respondents working with brands have been asked to use AI within the last two years
- 55% think of themselves as a "creator", while just 7% prefer the term "influencer"
- 39% of creators say that despite current economic conditions, they actually have landed more brand deals, and 40% of creators say they've earned more from brand deals in the past year
"The power of generative AI will energize the Creator Economy, with AI-based tools and platforms accelerating a creator's ability to unlock their full potential," said Zeev Farbman, CEO and Co-Founder of Lightricks. "These new tools will streamline workflows, enhance skills, and create more effective money making opportunities. It's a technological revolution that will not only change the way we create and consume content, but enable an entire new generation of entrepreneurs to thrive in the digital age."
The report surveyed more than 1,000 current content creators (those monetizing their work) and aspiring content creators (those aspiring to monetize their work) to assess their thoughts, feelings and experiences around the creator economy and current trends among the industry including AI generative imaging tools, creator monetization and content creation tools.
Creators and AI
Lightricks was among the first companies to offer generative AI features for content creation using mobile technology. Creators found that AI helped them produce stronger content for brands while able to keep their own unique style and voice, with 71% of creators saying that their followers responded positively to AI-generated content.
Not Just Influencers Anymore
The ability to tap into creativity while working on one's own schedule AND the potential of adding revenue has driven a rise in the number of people wanting to become full-time creators. More than 57% of creators say they don't care as much about influencing people, they just want to create content, and 47% say that the term "creator" feels more authentic.
"In recent years people have gravitated toward "creator" versus "influencer" because it sounds more authentic, whereas "influencer" can diminish the effort needed to craft quality content," said Corbett Drummey, Vice President, Brand Collaborations at Lightricks. "For many creators, it's less about influencing their audience and more about resonating with their followers. Over time, the best creators build large, loyal audiences, which brands love to reach. Creators are also producing content for brands for channels other than their own. It's important for creators to push their imagination with new tools and platforms, such as AI and other tech, which is reflected in the results of our survey."
Standing Out in a Crowded Market
With the market for creative content becoming increasingly more competitive, both current and aspiring creators are finding ways to work with brands by leveraging their hobbies, mastering AI and new editing tools and creating unique content that is more valuable to brands.
The study found that creators contribute the most content to the travel and lifestyle categories, which matched internal Lightricks data about creators accessing the Popular Pays platform. Additionally, 55% of content creators report User-Generated Content (UGC) as their main source of income. This is content that they produce in the context of their daily lives, and brands can use as authentic representations of their products. While creators are leaning into their hobbies, brands can leverage platforms like Popular Pays to understand these trends in the space and how to engage with creators.
Creators and Compensation
Creators are not exempt from the effects of the current macroeconomic climate. Though creators are still thinking about content creation as a tool in their overall creative toolkit, 42% of them say even though they are not full-time creators right now, that is their ultimate goal. Many are still concerned about taking the leap into being a full-time creator, with 42% of creators saying that content creation makes up less than 25% of their monthly income.
"The emergence of AI, more sophisticated tools, and increased creative economic opportunities signals a new era of unlimited possibilities," said Farbman. "With innovative technologies and the boundless imagination of creators, the future is bright and full of potential for those who are willing to embrace it."
To access the full report, visit http://www.lightricks.com/creators-survey.
About Lightricks
Lightricks is a pioneer in innovative technology that bridges the gap between imagination and creation. With a mission to push the limits of technology to reimagine the way creators and brands express themselves, the company brings a unique blend of cutting-edge academic research and design to every user experience.
Lightricks' photo and video editing tools offer endless possibilities and inspiration, while the company's creator services provide content creators the ability to monetize their work and offer brands opportunities to scale their content through tailored creator partnerships. Lightricks' suite of content creation apps has more than 680 million downloads worldwide.
With four international offices, and backers including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Insight Partners, Greycroft, ClalTech, and Viola Ventures, Lightricks continues to empower creators from the moment inspiration strikes.
About the Survey
This data was compiled via a survey with YouGov for people in the United States, age 18+ who regularly edit/enhance digital photos and/or videos and share them online via social media (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, etc.) for money or aspire to create such content for money The online survey was fielded in February - March 2023.
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Donald Trump will join Fox News anchor Sean Hannity for a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on July 18, amid tensions between the former president and some Republicans in the state.
The town hall, which will air on Fox News Channel from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET, will be pre-taped earlier in the day at the Alliant Energy Powerhouse Arena, the network announced Tuesday.
Hannity will “take questions from the audience while discussing the 2024 presidential race, immigration, the economy and the overall state of the country with the former president,” according to a press release.
The news comes as Trump risks a growing rift with Republicans in the Hawkeye State. The former president declined to take part in a forum being hosted by Tucker Carlson — himself a former Fox News personality — in Iowa this Friday, even though some of his top Republican rivals, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), will be participating.
The Friday forum, which is being run by the conservative group The Family Leader alongside Blaze Media, comes days after Trump drew headlines for attacking Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) over her approach to the 2024 race.
“I opened up the Governor position for Kim Reynolds, & when she fell behind, I ENDORSED her, did big Rallies, & she won,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday. “Now, she wants to remain ‘NEUTRAL.’ I don’t invite her to events! DeSanctus down 45 points!”
Reynolds had appeared alongside DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, at an event days earlier. There have also been reports that Trump’s team has been frustrated by her relationship with the DeSantis campaign.
DeSantis and other 2024 Republicans were quick to rally around Reynolds following Trump’s comments. And some Iowa Republicans, including veteran strategist David Kochel, openly expressed their frustration with the former president.
Still, most polls show Trump with a commanding lead over the GOP primary field, including one survey of Iowa voters taken in May that showed him with an overwhelming 42-point lead.
Meanwhile, Trump has joined several interviews with Fox News hosts, including Hannity and Bret Baier. Fox News announced Sunday that the former president will join anchor Maria Bartiromo for a pre-taped interview on her show “Sunday Morning Futures” on July 16 at 10 a.m.
His media engagements come as his relationship with Fox News has grown increasingly unpredictable and, often, contentious. Trump has railed on the network for focusing too much on DeSantis and has labeled Fox the “DeSanctimonious Network,” a nod to Trump’s nickname for the governor.
Trump also called Baier’s line of questioning “hostile,” during Baier’s recent one-on-one interview with the former president. | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/trump-to-sit-with-hannity-for-town-hall-in-iowa-after-criticizing-governor/ | 2023-07-12 05:40:36 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/trump-to-sit-with-hannity-for-town-hall-in-iowa-after-criticizing-governor/ |
LANSING, MI – The Michigan Supreme Court is delaying its decision on whether to hear an appeal from a Flint man who believes the prison sentence he received for the fatal hit-and-run of a Nation of Islam member in September 2020 was unfair.
Ramon Sentell Bishop, 39, is serving an 88-month to 22-year prison sentence for the killing of 64-year-old Roy A. Welch, who was also known as Roy Muhammad.
Bishop, who is currently incarcerated at the Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, previously appealed his sentence to the Michigan Court of Appeals on the grounds that the sentence was not proportional to the crime.
The court of appeals denied hearing the appeal, prompting Bishop to appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court. However, the higher court is delaying its decision on whether to take up the appeal until two other cases are resolved, according to the court’s response to the appeal dated earlier this week.
“On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the February 28, 2022 order of the Court of Appeals is considered and, it appearing to this Court that the cases of People v Posey (Docket No. 162373) and People v Stewart (Docket No. 162497) are pending on appeal before this Court and that the decisions in those cases may resolve an issue raised in the present application for leave to appeal, we ORDER that the application be held in ABEYANCE pending the decisions in those cases,” the court wrote in a Tuesday, Sept. 6, response to Bishop’s appeal.
Bishop’s conviction dates to the afternoon of Sept. 13, 2020.
About 3:30 p.m. that day, Flint Township police officers responded to Ballenger Highway south of Flushing Road for a vehicle-pedestrian collision. They arrived to find Welch had been struck.
Police at the time said two vehicles, a gray 2008-2012 Chevrolet Malibu and a black 2005-2010 Chrysler 300, were headed north on Ballenger Highway at high rates of speed. The Chrysler 300 hit Welch in the roadway as it was approaching Flushing Road.
The drivers of both vehicles left the scene, police said.
At the time, Welch and another Nation of Islam member were distributing literature in the roadway.
Nation of Islam members previously said tips they received led them to the Chrysler 300, which was driven by Bishop. Tips were passed on to the police.
Bishop was ultimately arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter, failing to stop at the scene of a crash causing death as the at-fault driver and tampering with evidence.
He’d eventually plead no contest to failing to stop at the scene of a crash causing death as the at-fault driver, and the other charges were dismissed.
In June 2021, Judge Elizabeth A. Kelly of the 7th Circuit Court sentenced Bishop to 88 months to 22 years, six months.
Read more at The Flint Journal:
Police seek driver in Flint Township hit-and-run that left pedestrian seriously injured
Suspect arraigned in Flint Township hit-and-run crash that killed Nation of Islam member
‘Dean of the Fruit of Islam’ dies days after hit-and-run crash in Flint Township | https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/09/flint-man-appeals-prison-sentence-in-fatal-hit-and-run-crash.html | 2022-09-09 17:38:31 | 1 | https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/09/flint-man-appeals-prison-sentence-in-fatal-hit-and-run-crash.html |
CHICAGO, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To boost their efforts in the retail space, Barcodes Group is hosting an exhibitor booth which will feature their latest software partner Tag Retail Systems at NRF - Retail's Big Show, January 15-17, 2023. The strategic partnership synergizes hardware and software capabilities, providing a unified solution for retail businesses. The NRF event presents clients with the unique opportunity to witness the solution in a live retail environment.
Tag Retail Systems is a leader in developing innovative technologies for digital and brick & mortar retailing. Their application platform connects critical retail operations from supply to shop floor, suitable for any ruggedized mobile computer. The partnership adds additional value to Barcodes Group's robust inventory and point-of-sale solutions and allows clientele to digitize their retail operations.
"Efficient retail operations require the seamless union of hardware and software, connecting critical workflows from supply to shop floor. Our partnership enables that value for our customers. Together, we present a streamlined approach to the implementation process, providing state-of-the-art, cost-reducing technology that improves daily routines," says Will Barnett, Director of ISV Business Development.
The Barcodes exhibitor booth (#3942) hosts several other end-to-end technology solutions that improve mobility, visibility, and automation, including:
- Barcodes Group proprietary SLS RFID enabled supply chain solution
- Autonomous Mobile Robot solutions – including robots from Fetch and Locus Robotics
- The latest rugged scanners and mobile computers designed for retail operations
"We are excited to attend Retail's Big Show with our new partner Tag Retail Systems," said Barcodes Group CEO Dan Nettesheim. "They bring to the table unique software capabilities that elevate customer experiences and assist in our mission to provide clients with world-class, comprehensive solutions."
At NRF, Barcodes Group is located at Booth #3942. To schedule a free consultation at the event, book an appointment here.
Barcodes Group provides end-to-end technology solutions that improve mobility, visibility, and automation for organizations across the globe. With 25+ years of experience and partnerships with leading technology manufacturers, Barcodes Group delivers exceptional products, software, and services to help businesses navigate a world in motion. Key technology platforms include Enterprise Mobility, Secure ID & Access Control, RFID Enabled Supply Chain, and Automation with Robotics. For more information, please visit https://www.barcodesinc.com/solutions.
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Todd Muscato, Chief Digital Officer
Barcodes Group
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When Leo Chisholm opened his mailbox earlier this year, he found an envelope he believed was junk mail. But what was inside surprised him.
It was a letter from Marquis Who’s Who in America. Chisholm was to be included in its pages profiling entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals.
Marquis Who’s Who is self-described as the world’s preeminent biographer since 1899. Its mission “is to profile those individuals who have made a difference by virtue of the positions of responsibility they hold and/or due to noteworthy accomplishments they have made.”
Chisholm is not short on accomplishments. They range from winning a free throw competition to a governor’s award for saving a woman from a burning vehicle to being entered into the Knights of Columbus Hall of Fame.
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Chisholm grew up on a farm near Osage, attended school in Mason City, and owned a funeral home in Riceville before entering the insurance business.
A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he was in the service during the years after World War II, ending in 1951, as America became involved in the Korean War. It was a time of nuclear experimentation in the Pacific Ocean.
“It was the atomic atoll,” Chisholm said of being stationed at Enewetak Atoll, when decommissioned naval ships in the Marshall Islands were subjected to nuclear detonations. Chisholm studied the vessels’ levels of radiation.
Afterward, Chisholm became a member of the American Legion — 2022 marks his 72nd consecutive year with the organization.
Sometimes Chisholm is just in the right place at the right time. In 1985, driving home in the dark with another couple north of St. Ansgar one night, he and his wife came upon a vehicle in a ditch. It was on fire. Seeing a woman pinned inside, Chisholm helped pull her from the car.
“Moments later, that car exploded,” Chisholm said.
According to Chisholm, the Iowa State Patrol awarded him a governor’s award for valor. It would not be his last recognition from the state. Later, he received two more governor’s awards for volunteerism. He was inducted into the Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame in 2013.
He served for six years on the Advisory and Leadership Council for the American Cancer Society for Iowa and the Midwest region. He was named a Longtime Friend and Champion for the American Cancer Society in 2019. After being with the American Cancer Society for more than 30 years, the issue hit home, as he was diagnosed with cancer. It did not stop him.
At 91 years old, he says he still has the energy of a young man, and the determination to give back.
Besides being named to their Hall of Fame, Chisholm has received numerous awards from the Knights of Columbus, including winning their Iowa free-throw contest at age 57. During his time as Iowa membership director, the Knights of Columbus grew to more than 30,000 members in Iowa. He started five new Knights of Columbus councils.
He could not have done it without his family. In the 1970s, the Knights of Columbus named them as Family of the Year.
“All of Leo’s children are proud of their father’s accomplishments and his dedication to the organizations he is involved in,” his son Jon Chisholm said in 2021. “He is always up for a challenge and rarely says no when asked. I think his involvement in the different areas keeps him going and gives him energy for the next thing he may encounter.”
After being named Iowan of the Day at the Iowa State Fair in 2011, he rubbed shoulders with the ubiquitous Bill Riley.
He has been a Eucharist minister at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage for over 30 years.
Marquis used the words “compassion” and “empathy” to describe Chisholm, noting his dedication to charitable projects.
In the end, Chisholm says, his greatest accomplishment was being married for 67-and-a-half years to his late wife, Elsie, who passed away earlier this year, and raising a wonderful family of three children, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
National Geographic
Chisholm was involved with a visit from National Geographic for a July 2014 article with Tracie McMillan, with photographs by Amy Toensing, titled “The New Face of Hunger.” McMillan and Toensing were documenting food insecurity in America, and as a town surrounded by farmers growing crops and raising livestock, Mitchell County seemed appropriate.
Toensing used her camera to document people in need, and Chisholm is all about people in need, from cancer victims to the hungry of America’s breadbasket.
It is not often National Geographic, a magazine known for documenting some of the most exotic, foreboding and wonderful locales, comes to small-town Iowa. For Chisholm it was an honor.
“I chose to spend time with three different families, and I had the help of a gentleman named Leo Chisholm, who started the local food bank in Osage,” Toensing wrote. “Leo represents a very important part of this whole story, because the federal government and state governments are slowly cutting things like the food-stamp program, which is now called SNAP, and they’re cutting tax-based food aid, and they’re pushing that responsibility on the private sector. So I went to Leo, and he directed me to families that he knew and was assisting through the food bank.”
Chisholm guided Toensing in what she described as the tricky issue of finding families willing to share their stories. He helped find families brave enough.
“Why would any of us want a reporter, photographer, writer, whomever, come into their lives and document something that can be shameful?” Toensing asked hypothetically.
In Chisholm’s eyes, there was no shame, just hardworking folk, and he found the right families for Toensing. His expertise came from serving as director of the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, which he founded in 1985.
Mitchell County Press News, in turn, documented National Geographic’s documentation: “Some Americans may still connect hunger with images of food lines from the 1930s, or the Life Magazine photos of Appalachian children in the 1960s.
“‘That’s not what contemporary hunger looks like today,’ said McMillan.”
Toensing added that wages had not kept up with the cost of food, something Chisholm was keenly aware of and one reason he did not relinquish directorship of the food bank until a few years ago. Families in McMillan’s article praised the help they received from organizations such as the Northeast Iowa Food Bank. In the span of 35 years, Chisholm and the food bank provided over 1 million meals to needy families in Mitchell County.
In addition, Chisholm also appeared in a September 1985 issue of Columbia Magazine, where Father Thomas Carpenter covered the annual Thanksgiving meal in Osage, when Chisholm would help feed the public for the Holidays.
“I’ve been given so much in my life,” Chisholm said. “That’s why I give back.”
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For the second consecutive year, Columbia Gorge Community College will participate in the Metallica Scholars program, receiving $50,000 to help transform the future of Mid-Columbia students. Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation matched the award to offer $100,000 in scholarships for students enrolled in career-technology training. Funds are also used to purchase toolkits for students in construction trades and advanced manufacturing.
Funded by Metallica’s All Within My Hands (AWMH) foundation and led by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the Metallica Scholars Initiative directly supports students while elevating the importance of career and technical education.
Metallica continues to use its global platform to speak out on the dignity of professional trades and community colleges that prepare students, said a CGCC press release.
Since establishing the Metallica Scholars Initiative in 2019, AWMH has been working with AACC to foster career and technical education across the United States. Having grown from a concept to a thriving strategy for students entering a traditional trade or other applied learning program, Metallica Scholars Initiative has a proven, measurable impact, said the press release. This year AWMH will add 10 more colleges, investing $1.8 million.
“Our goal for the Metallica Scholars Initiative is to shine a light on workforce education and support the next generation of tradespeople,” said Pete Delgrosso, AWMH executive director. “With the addition of the 2022-23 Metallica Scholars program, our grants will reach more than 2,000 students in 32 community colleges across 27 states.”
Job and wage growth drives the Metallica Scholars Initiative. On average, students who complete their studies see new job opportunities and up to three-fold potential salary gain.
“The Metallica Scholars program offers a crucial financial bridge to skills training at Columbia Gorge Community College,” said Wendy Patton, executive director of the CGCC Foundation. “Not only do students receive essential scholarship support, but they even emerge from our programs literally with the toolkits they’ll use on the job. They’re prepared in every way, thanks to Metallica Scholars and our dynamic instructors at CGCC.”
“The Metallica Scholars program has proven to provide significant resources for students learning the skills needed for today’s workforce,” said Walter G. Bumphus, AACC’s president and CEO. “We are honored to partner with All Within My Hands Foundation to continue to expand this opportunity for community colleges and their students.”
Established by the members and management of Metallica in 2017 as a means to invest in the people and places that have supported the band, AWMH is focused on supporting sustainable communities through workforce education, the fight against hunger, and other critical local services. All AWMH expenses are covered by the band, board, and special friends so that all donations go to direct support. All Within My Hands is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization.
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Rapper Kodak Black is arrested on drug charges in Florida
MIAMI (AP) — Rapper Kodak Black was arrested in South Florida on charges of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance.
The rapper, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was booked Friday into jail in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he awaits a bond hearing.
The Florida Highway Patrol said in a release that troopers pulled Black over because he was driving a purple SUV with window tints that appeared darker than the legal limit.
They detected a marijuana smell and then searched the SUV and found a small clear bag with 31 white tablets and almost $75,000 in cash. The tablets were later identified as oxycodone.
The agency says record checks also revealed that Black’s vehicle tag and driver’s license were both expired.
Black’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, said on Twitter that “there are always additional facts and circumstances that give rise to a defense, especially in this case.”
“We will get him a bond today and move forward with resolving the matter quickly,” he said.
Black was also arrested earlier this year in South Florida on trespassing charges. Prosecutors later declined to proceed with the case.
In January 2020, then-President Donald Trump commuted a three-year federal prison sentence the rapper had for falsifying documents used to buy weapons. Black had served about half his sentence.
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Ocean temperatures reach another record high, report says
(AP) - It’s another troubling sign of climate change, scientists said.
A new study shows ocean temperatures hit their highest levels on record for the fourth straight year in 2022.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, found the five hottest years for the world’s oceans all happened in the past six years, and oceans are warming at a faster rate.
The researchers have examined temperatures from the ocean surface to about 6,500 feet deep going back to the 1950s.
Oceans are a good indicator of the impact of climate change because they are less affected by seasonal changes and day-to-day weather cycles than air temperatures.
They also absorb most of the world’s heat.
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The next wave of realignment won’t include a merger between the Pac-12 and Big 12.
ESPN reported Monday the two conferences reached an impasse “for a multitude of reasons,” but officials were largely unconvinced a merger would increase revenue for either side.
“It just didn’t work,” a Big 12 source told ESPN.
Discussions ended after officials met at least three times virtually, according to ESPN.
Sources said Pac-12 leadership was skeptical about a full merger because the leagues’ media rights deals expire at different times. The Pac-12 is in the midst of negotiating a new deal, but the Big 12′s contract can’t be negotiated until 2024.
The news comes nearly a month after USC and UCLA reignited conference alignment by leaving the PAC-12 in favor of the Big Ten. The two Los Angeles schools will join their new conference in 2024.
As for Rutgers, specifically, the Scarlet Knights find themselves safely positioned. The Big Ten has established itself as one of the two power players in college athletics, and that’s just one of the “overwhelmingly positive” takeaways for Rutgers in the latest sweep of realignment, athletic director Pat Hobbs said earlier this month.
“Anything that strengthens the conference helps Rutgers,” Hobbs said.
The future of the conference and what it means financially should be major topics discussed by Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren next week when the conference hosts its media day event in Indianapolis.
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BOSTON (AP) — Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another.
The platform’s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names — not their account names — and tweeted as “Elon Musk” in reaction to the billionaire’s decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 month as he simultaneously laid off a big chunk of the workforce.
“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk wrote. While Twitter previously issued warnings before suspensions, now that it is rolling out “widespread verification, there will be no warning.”
In fact, “any name change at all” would compel the temporary loss of a verified checkmark, the world’s richest man said.
Comedian Kathy Griffin had her account suspended Sunday after she switched her screen name to Musk. She told a Bloomberg reporter that she had also used his profile photo.
“I guess not ALL the content moderators were let go? Lol,” Griffin joked afterward on Mastodon, an alternative social media platform where she set up an account last week.
Actor Valerie Bertinelli had similarly appropriated Musk’s screen name — posting a series of tweets in support of Democratic candidates on Saturday before switching back to her true name. “Okey-dokey. I’ve had fun and I think I made my point,” she tweeted afterwards.
Before the stunt, Bertinelli noted the original purpose of the blue verification checkmark. It was granted free of charge to people whose identity Twitter employees had confirmed; with journalists accounting for a big portion of recipients. “It simply meant your identity was verified. Scammers would have a harder time impersonating you,” Bertinelli noted.
“That no longer applies. Good luck out there!” she added.
The $8 verified accounts are Musk’s way of democratizing the service, he claims. On Saturday, a Twitter update for iOS devices listed on Apple’s app store said users who “sign up now” for the new “Twitter Blue with verification” can get the blue check next to their names “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.”
It said the service would first be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. However, it was not available Sunday and there was no indication when it would go live. A Twitter employee, Esther Crawford, told The Associated Press it is coming “soon but it hasn’t launched yet.”
Twitter did not respond on Sunday to an email seeking comment on the verified accounts issue and Griffin’s suspension.
Musk later tweeted, “Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That’s our mission.”
If the company were to strip current verified users of blue checks — something that hasn’t happened — that could exacerbate disinformation on the platform during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Like Griffin, some Twitter users have already begun migrating from the platform — Counter Social is another popular alternative — following layoffs that began Friday that reportedly affected about half of Twitter’s 7,500-employee workforce. They fear a breakdown of moderation and verification could create a disinformation free-for-all on what has been the internet’s main conduit for reliable communications from public agencies and other institutions.
Many companies have paused advertising on the platform out of concern it could become more unruly under Musk.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, sought to assuage such concerns in a tweet Friday. He said the company’s front-line content moderation staff was the group least affected by the job cuts.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curi Capital, the registered investment advisor and full-service financial advisory business unit within Curi, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Park Ridge Asset Management's investment advisory business. The acquisition marks the second such transaction for Curi Capital in less than a year, accelerating the firm's strategic growth plans and further strengthening its roster of credentialed, client-focused talent.
Park Ridge Asset Management was founded in 2008 by partners David Arthur and Keith Karlawish to provide individuals and institutions with customized planning and high-quality investment solutions.
"We are on a mission to create a world-class financial advisory firm that helps our clients build true wealth, and adding the experience and expertise of the Park Ridge team is another important milestone in that journey," said Dimitri Eliopoulos, Curi Capital's CEO. "Curi Capital is proud to be moving forward with our plans to bring our high-touch, personalized approach to even more clients as we head into the final months of 2022. This acquisition is a great complement to the strong organic client growth our team has achieved in the first half of the year."
The entire Park Ridge team has transitioned to be part of Curi Capital with this transaction, including Arthur and Karlawish, who will continue to serve as Senior Directors in the wealth advisory space. Katie Strother will join as a Wealth Advisor.
"We have a working history with members of the Curi Capital team and knew our two firms would be a great match from our very first conversations," said Arthur. "Our team is excited to join and serve Curi Capital's growing client base with the customized planning and disciplined approach to investing that we've offered our clients since day one."
"The Park Ridge team will continue to enhance the exceptional talent and personalized client service that our Curi Capital team is known for," said Jason Sandner, Curi's CEO. "We are proud to welcome them to the broader Curi team and look forward to the continued growth of our Curi Capital business."
The acquisition of Park Ridge Asset Management's investment advisory business closed on Aug. 31, 2022, and brings Curi Capital's assets under advisement to more than $1.5 billion. Curi Capital also announced the acquisition of KDI Capital Partners' investment advisory business earlier this year.
For more information on Curi Capital, visit curicapital.com.
Curi Wealth Management, LLC, dba Curi Capital (curicapital.com) is a registered investment advisor, headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., that provides full-service financial advisory solutions, including personalized wealth management, retirement plan solutions, and investment guidance to high-net-worth individuals, ultra-high-net worth families, and businesses. Experienced and accessible, Curi Capital's advisors actively listen and proactively create tailored solutions that help clients build true wealth, however they define it. Curi Capital is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Registration of an investment advisor does not imply any specific level of skill or training and does not constitute an endorsement of the firm by the SEC. A copy of Curi Capital's current written disclosure brochures, filed with the SEC, which discuss, among other things, Curi Capital's business practices, services and fees, are available through the SEC's website at: www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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SKYLIGHT 4™ study results demonstrate the 52-week safety and tolerability of fezolinetant 30 mg and 45 mg once daily
Pooled analyses will also be presented from SKYLIGHT 1™ and SKYLIGHT 2™ studies of fezolinetant, Astellas' investigational nonhormonal treatment for vasomotor symptoms (VMS) associated with menopause
TOKYO, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., "Astellas") will present 52-week results from the Phase 3 SKYLIGHT 4™ clinical study evaluating the safety and tolerability of fezolinetant, an investigational oral, nonhormonal compound being studied for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS) associated with menopause. The results will be featured in an oral presentation October 13 at The North American Menopause Society Annual Meeting. VMS, characterized by hot flashes and/or night sweats, are common symptoms of menopause.1,2
SKYLIGHT 4 results demonstrate the 52-week safety and tolerability of fezolinetant 30 mg and 45 mg once daily. Safety analyses demonstrated that both endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial malignancy were within pre-specified limits for fezolinetant-treated patients; reported treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were generally mild or moderate in severity; and headache and COVID-19 were the most common TEAEs, with similar incidences for fezolinetant and placebo. The frequency of elevated liver enzymes was low across groups, and elevations were generally asymptomatic, isolated, transient and resolved on treatment or soon after study drug discontinuation.
"There is an unmet need for safe and effective nonhormonal treatment options for VMS associated with menopause, which can adversely impact daily quality of life," said Genevieve Neal-Perry, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, UNC School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. "The SKYLIGHT 4 study results demonstrate the long-term safety and tolerability of fezolinetant, providing further support for its potential use as a treatment for VMS."
In addition, pooled efficacy data from SKYLIGHT 1™ and SKYLIGHT 2™ evaluating early response to fezolinetant, its impact on sleep and treatment response analyzed by race will be presented.
"Results of the SKYLIGHT 4 study and the pooled analyses from the SKYLIGHT 1 and 2 studies provide further insights into the safety and effectiveness of fezolinetant," said Ahsan Arozullah, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President and Head of Development Therapeutic Areas, Astellas. "Through our clinical development program, we are excited to further characterize the clinical profile of fezolinetant for women who experience hot flashes as part of menopause."
Fezolinetant is an investigational selective neurokinin 3 (NK3) receptor antagonist and is not approved for use anywhere in the world. New Drug and Marketing Authorization applications for fezolinetant are under review in the U.S. and Europe, respectively. If approved, fezolinetant would be a first-in-class, nonhormonal treatment option to reduce the frequency and severity of moderate to severe VMS associated with menopause.
Astellas will also present three abstracts examining the association between VMS and weight gain, sleep quality and work productivity.
Following are all of Astellas' presentations at NAMS 2022:
SKYLIGHT Data at NAMS
Astellas VMS Data at NAMS
About the BRIGHT SKY™ Phase 3 Program
The BRIGHT SKY pivotal trials, SKYLIGHT 1™ (NCT04003155) and SKYLIGHT 2™ (NCT04003142), enrolled over 1,000 women with moderate to severe VMS. The trials are double-blinded, placebo-controlled for the first 12 weeks followed by a 40-week treatment extension period. Women were enrolled at over 180 sites within the U.S., Canada and Europe. SKYLIGHT 4™ (NCT04003389) is a 52-week double-blinded, placebo-controlled study designed to investigate the long-term safety of fezolinetant. For SKYLIGHT 4, over 1,800 women with VMS were enrolled at over 180 sites within the U.S., Canada and Europe.
About VMS Associated with Menopause
VMS, characterized by hot flashes (also called hot flushes) and/or night sweats, are common symptoms of menopause.1,2 In the U.S., about 60% to 80% of women experience these symptoms during or after the menopausal transition and, worldwide, more than half of women 40 to 64 years of age experience VMS.3,4,5,6 VMS can have a disruptive impact on women's daily activities and overall quality of life.1
About Fezolinetant
Fezolinetant is an investigational oral, nonhormonal therapy in clinical development for the treatment of moderate to severe VMS associated with menopause. Fezolinetant works by blocking neurokinin B (NKB) binding on the kisspeptin/neurokinin/dynorphin (KNDy) neuron to moderate neuronal activity in the thermoregulatory center of the brain (the hypothalamus) to reduce the frequency and severity of moderate to severe VMS associated with menopause.7,8,9 The safety and efficacy of fezolinetant are under investigation and have not been established. There is no guarantee the agent will receive regulatory approval or become commercially available for the uses being investigated.
About Astellas
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are promoting the Focus Area Approach that is designed to identify opportunities for the continuous creation of new drugs to address diseases with high unmet medical needs by focusing on Biology and Modality. Furthermore, we are also looking beyond our foundational Rx focus to create Rx+® healthcare solutions that combine our expertise and knowledge with cutting-edge technology in different fields of external partners. Through these efforts, Astellas stands on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into value for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
Cautionary Notes
In this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas' intellectual property rights by third parties. Information about pharmaceutical products (including products currently in development) which is included in this press release is not intended to constitute an advertisement or medical advice.
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3 Makara-Studzinska MT, Krys-Noszczyk KM, Jakiel G. Epidemiology of the symptoms of menopause - an intercontinental review. Przegl Menopauzalny [Menopause Rev]. 2014;13:203-211.
4 Gold EB, Colvin A, Avis N, et al. Longitudinal analysis of the association between vasomotor symptoms and race/ethnicity across the menopausal transition: study of women's health across the nation. Am J Public Health. 2006;96:1226-1235.
5 Freeman EW, Sammel MD, Sanders RJ. Risk of long-term hot flashes after natural menopause: evidence from the Penn Ovarian Aging Study cohort. Menopause. 2014;21:924-932.
6 Williams RE, Kalilani L, DiBenedetti DB, et al. Frequency and severity of vasomotor symptoms among peri- and postmenopausal women in the United States. Climacteric. 2008;11:32-43.
7 Depypere H, Timmerman D, Donders G, et al. Treatment of menopausal vasomotor symptoms with fezolinetant, a neurokinin 3 receptor antagonist: a phase 2a trial. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019;104:5893-5905.
8 Fraser GL, Lederman S, Waldbaum A, et al. A phase 2b, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, dose-ranging study of the neurokinin 3 receptor antagonist fezolinetant for vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause. Menopause. 2020;27:382-392.
9 Fraser GL, Hoveyda HR, Clarke IJ, et al. The NK3 receptor antagonist ESN364 interrupts pulsatile LH secretion and moderate levels of ovarian hormones throughout the menstrual cycle. Endocrinology. 2015;156:4214-4225.
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Foursome after foursome, Orioles pitchers made their way to the backfield mounds at Ed Smith Stadium on Friday, throwing their first bullpen sessions with official workouts underway. At the end, one right-hander stood alone on the slope.
After what he said Saturday morning was his fourth bullpen since arriving in Sarasota last month, Félix Bautista said he felt “rejuvenated” as he continued his progress toward opening the year as Baltimore’s closer after ending last season with a left knee sprain and undergoing a shoulder strengthening program this winter. After emerging as a late-inning weapon in 2022, Bautista is perhaps the most important figure in the Orioles’ bullpen as they pursue a playoff spot in 2023.
“I feel really good,” Bautista said through team interpreter Brandon Quinones. “I don’t feel like I have any setbacks. I don’t feel any discomfort or pain in my shoulder or knee, so as of right now, I hope that I’ll be ready for opening day.”
Both Bautista and manager Brandon Hyde said, ideally, Bautista will begin pitching in spring training games in mid-March and need to appear in four or five of them to be available for the Orioles’ March 30 opener in Boston. He said he threw with about 70% intensity in Friday’s bullpen, upping the effort by 5% with each session. He wasn’t on a throwing program this offseason, part of an effort to rest his arm, until he came to Sarasota last month.
“I think the most important thing obviously is staying healthy, right?” Bautista said of his goals for 2023. “That’s the most important thing for me. And then after that, it’s trying to help the team win, trying to help the team with whatever I can do to get to where we want to be at the end of the year.”
In 2022, Bautista, 27, became Baltimore’s closer after All-Star Jorge López was traded to Minnesota, finishing the year with a 2.19 ERA, 15 saves and a 34.8% strikeout rate. He is one of only four rookies in Orioles history to make at least 65 appearances, with Bryan Baker also reaching that mark in 2022, though he missed time with arm fatigue late in the year before the knee injury ended his season.
Hyde said it will be important for the Orioles to not overwork their key relievers this year. Baltimore brought back Mychal Givens to add a veteran presence to its bullpen, but the team will be without Dillon Tate, who led the Orioles in games pitched each of the past two seasons, for at least April because of a forearm strain. Hyde emphasized bullpen health in 2022; he didn’t allow a reliever to appear in three straight games until rookie Nick Vespi did so in September.
“A lot of those guys threw a lot of innings last year, more than they’ve ever have,” Hyde said. “We’re just gonna kind of monitor throughout spring, but I’d love to stay as healthy as we did last year, honestly, in the bullpen. We had a couple things, but I felt like we did a good job with keeping guys as healthy as possible, and we’ll continue to monitor that and make that important.”
Live BP before the WBC
Three significant Orioles will be leaving camp early next month to participate in the World Baseball Classic, and Saturday offered a preview of what it might look like if their teams face off.
Outfielders Cedric Mullins and Anthony Santander, who will respectively play for the United States and Venezuela in the tournament, took live batting practice off right-hander Dean Kremer, who will pitch for Israel. Hyde said Kremer wants to be ready to pitch in Israel’s opening game March 12 against Nicaragua, and the Orioles are working to get him, Mullins, Santander and Venezuelan left-hander Darwinzon Hernandez in shape for the intensity the event will bring with it. Kremer led returning Baltimore starters in innings last season and is seen as a frontrunner in the club’s rotation competition.
“With Dean, you hope he has a great experience and pitches well there, and you hope that everything goes well and then he comes back healthy,” Hyde said. “It’s a different schedule for those guys, especially for Dean.”
Pitching opposite Kremer against Mullins and Santander was left-handed pitching prospect Drew Rom. A field over, catcher Adley Rutschman and shortstop Jorge Mateo faced right-hander Chris Vallimont and left-hander Cade Povich. ESPN’s No. 54 prospect in baseball and the centerpiece of the trade package Baltimore received for López, Povich threw several fastballs past Mateo and got Rutschman to chase a breaking ball in the dirt. Vallimont, who ranked among the Orioles’ top 30 prospects late last year but was removed from the 40-man roster this offseason, also generated some whiffs.
No paradox with Politi
Tate’s injury and Bautista’s uncertain status could open a spot in the Orioles’ bullpen for right-hander Andrew Politi, who Baltimore selected from the Boston Red Sox in December’s Rule 5 draft.
Politi must remain in the majors all year or be offered back to Boston. But Hyde said the possibility Politi could return to an American League East opponent isn’t affecting how they’re treating him this spring.
“We’re gonna do everything we can for him,” Hyde said. “Regardless of the team he goes back to, we’re gonna try to get him every opportunity. He’s going to have all the resources available to try to get better, and I’d like to see him make the club, if possible.”
Politi, 26, had a 2.34 ERA and 30.2% strikeout rate in 50 outings in the upper minors of Boston’s system last year. He described himself as “a guy that spins the ball pretty well” and said the Orioles thus far have emphasized “playing to your strengths.”
“It’s mostly just been like, do what you do best and don’t try to change it,” Politi said. “Don’t try to like nitpick locations and stuff. Just go out there and spin the ball well.”
Politi said he plays a cutter, curveball and nascent slider off his four-seam fastball; he worked in the slider at times last year, enough that it intrigued the Orioles when they saw it on video, and he’s made the pitch a more prominent part of his repertoire this spring.
He hopes his mix will keep the Orioles interested through spring and land him one of Baltimore’s eight bullpen spots. He’s grateful for the opportunity they’ve provided, regardless.
“I think after what I did last year and what I’ve proved, it’s nice to see another team value what I did last year and see what I can possibly do,” Politi said. “Just means a lot.”
Spring training
First full-squad workout: Tuesday
Grapefruit League opener: Feb. 25 vs. Twins
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STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former NBA guard Ben Gordon was arrested on weapons and threatening charges after he began behaving erratically in a Connecticut juice shop, police said.
The episode started just before 10 a.m. Tuesday when several 911 callers reported “a male acting aggressively and in a bizarre manner” inside a juice shop in Stamford, the city’s assistant police chief, Richard Conklin, said Thursday.
The man, identified as Gordon, continued to act erratically when officers arrived and tried to take him into custody, Conklin said.
The officers eventually subdued Gordon and placed him under arrest. They found a folding knife clipped to Gordon’s pocket, and a stun gun and brass knuckles in his backpack, Conklin said.
Gordon was arrested on charges including carrying a dangerous weapon, second-degree threatening and interfering with an officer.
The former basketball star, who played for the University of Connecticut before a decade-long NBA career that ended with the 2014-2015 Orlando Magic, was taken to the police detention center and then to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, Conklin said.
Gordon was released late Tuesday on $10,000 bond, he said. A message seeking comment was left with Gordon’s attorney.
It’s not Gordon’s first brush with the law. Last October, he was charged with punching his son at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. And in November, he was charged with a misdemeanor in Chicago for allegedly punching a McDonald’s security guard.
This week’s arrest came hours after Gordon’s alma mater, UConn, defeated San Diego State University 76-59 to win the school’s fifth NCAA championship. Gordon was on the UConn team that won the championship in 2004.
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NEW YORK, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Golub Capital BDC, Inc. ("GBDC") (Nasdaq: GBDC, www.golubcapitalbdc.com), a business development company, today announced that it originated $110.7 million in new middle-market investment commitments during the three months ended June 30, 2023. Approximately 99% of the new middle-market investment commitments were one stop loans and 1% were senior secured loans. Equity and other securities represented an amount less than 1%. Of the new middle-market investment commitments, $105.9 million funded at close.
Total investments at fair value are estimated to have increased by approximately 0.7%, or $38.6 million, during the three months ended June 30, 2023 after factoring in debt repayments, sales of securities, net fundings on revolvers and net change in unrealized gains (losses).
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, INC.
Golub Capital BDC, Inc. ("GBDC") is an externally-managed, non-diversified closed-end management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. GBDC invests primarily in one stop and other senior secured loans to middle market companies that are often sponsored by private equity investors. GBDC's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, GC Advisors LLC, an affiliate of the Golub Capital LLC group of companies ("Golub Capital").
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced credit asset manager. The firm specializes in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to companies backed by private equity sponsors. Golub Capital's sponsor finance expertise also forms the foundation of its Broadly Syndicated Loan and Credit Opportunities investment programs. Golub Capital nurtures long-term, win-win partnerships that inspire repeat business from private equity sponsors and investors.
As of April 1, 2023, Golub Capital had over 800 employees and over $60 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has lending offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and London. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, November 7, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
246 PM PDT Fri Nov 4 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM SUNDAY TO 10 AM PST
MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations below 3000
feet will see between 6 and 12 inches. Above 3000 feet will see
accumulations between 10 to 20 inches. Winds gusting as high as 35
mph.
* WHERE...Kettle Falls, Badger Mountain Road, Loup Loup Pass,
Sherman Pass, Methow, Okanogan, Twisp, Chewelah, Waterville,
Boulder Creek Road, Wauconda, Chesaw Road, Brewster, Newport,
Disautel Pass, Omak, Winthrop, Flowery Trail Road, Republic,
Springdale-Hunters Road, Colville, Northport, Bridgeport, Deer
Park, Orin-Rice Road, Nespelem, Oroville, Mansfield, Mazama,
Conconully, Inchelium, and Highway 20 Wauconda Summit.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Sunday to 10 AM PST Monday.
* IMPACTS...The strong winds and weight of snow on tree limbs may
down power lines and could cause sporadic power outages. Travel
could be very difficult.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow levels will increase to 1500 to 2000
feet Sunday afternoon with snow transitioning to a rain/snow mix
before transitioning back to snow Sunday evening and overnight.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency. The latest road conditions for
the state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
Do not touch downed lines and report any power outages to your
electric company.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM PDT SATURDAY TO 10
PM PST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 6
inches below 2500 feet. Above 2500 feet will see snow
accumulations between 7 to 13 inches.
* WHERE...Number 2 Canyon, Pangborn Airport, Wenatchee, Chelan,
Cashmere, Leavenworth, Plain, Entiat, and Number 1 Canyon.
* WHEN...From 11 PM PDT Saturday to 10 PM PST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow levels will increase to around 1500 to
2000 feet Sunday afternoon with a transition to a rain/snow mix or
all rain for elevations below. Precipitation will remain all snow
above 2000 feet.
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road
conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by
calling 5 1 1.
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 5 and 10
inches.
* WHERE...Stevens Pass, Holden Village, and Stehekin.
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Finding the right style of eyeglasses just got easier with a virtual try-on studio.
LAS VEGAS, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Purchasing glasses from home just got a whole lot easier. Classic Specs, an affordable, retro-inspired eyewear retailer, announced it launched a virtual try-on studio for its entire line of eyeglasses, sunglasses, men's glasses, and women's glasses. Now you can try on their glasses at home.
The virtual try-on studio is available when viewing the website on a mobile device or computer with a camera and does not require downloading any software. The studio's face-scanning technology will analyze the shopper's facial features to determine their precise measurements. Shoppers will learn their face shape, fit type, and which styles typically look best on consumers like them.
The virtual try-on studio allows shoppers to immediately see how they will look with different styles of frames and even change the lens to sunglasses. The precise facial measurements are translated into product dimensions giving shoppers peace of mind when placing their orders. This method is surprisingly accurate, and most shoppers can make a purchase based on how their virtual glasses look.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Third-ranked TCU has a definite route to the playoff after another regular season-ending rout of Iowa State. That is much different from 2014, when the Horned Frogs got left out.
“I know the history with TCU and Iowa State, and big victories, and it didn’t work out particularly well in 2014,” first-year Frogs coach Sonny Dykes after their 62-14 win over Iowa State on Saturday.
A day after a 55-3 win over the Cyclones eight years ago, TCU was left out of the inaugural four-team College Football Playoff even after going into that game ranked in the top four.
TCU (12-0, 9-0 Big 12, No. 4 CFP), which moved up a spot from fourth in the new AP Top 25 released Sunday and likely will do the same Tuesday night in the next CFP rankings, is in a much better situation this time.
The Frogs are one of only three remaining undefeated teams, with No. 1 Georgia and No. 2 Michigan, after being the first Big 12 team since Texas in 2009 to finish the regular season without a loss. And they still have the Big 12 championship game next Saturday against No. 13 Kansas State (9-3, 7-2, No. 12 CFP).
Dykes believes so much is different since 2014 in college football, the CFP selection committee and how people view the Big 12.
“It’s a gauntlet. I think people that know, really study the game, know how good the league is,” Dykes said. “So to be able to go through this thing undefeated, to be able to win the road games that we did, to grind through some of the tough ones we had to grind through, I think shows that we have a good football team.”
Before the lopsided finish, none of TCU’s previous seven wins had been by more than 10 points. The Frogs had to overcome double-digit deficits after halftime in back-to-back games in October, including a 38-28 win over Kansas State after being down 28-10 in the second quarter.
Another win over K-State next Saturday will leave no questions about TCU becoming the first Big 12 team other than Oklahoma to make the four-team playoff.
But the Frogs might not even have to win that rematch to get into one of the national semifinal games after everything else that happened on the final day of this regular season. Previously undefeated Ohio State (No. 2 CFP) lost 45-23 at home to Michigan, and Clemson (No. 8) also lost before TCU had even kicked off Saturday. LSU, fifth in the CFP rankings even with two losses already, lost again Saturday night, as did Oregon (No. 9).
There was no Big 12 championship game in 2014, when TCU was third in the CFP rankings going into what was the final weekend of its conference’s regular season while other leagues played title games.
So a day after overwhelming Iowa State at home, the Frogs dropped to sixth in the final CFP rankings, a spot behind one-loss Baylor, the only team to beat them that season in a 61-58 thriller. Ohio State, after a 59-0 win in the Big Ten championship game, moved up to fourth and went on to win the national title — a final game played at AT&T Stadium, only about 20 miles from the TCU campus.
The Cyclones were a two-win team that season, with that finale being their fifth loss by at least 20 points.
Iowa State (4-8, 1-8) entered Saturday’s game with the Big 12’s best defense, allowing 16.5 points a game. Only two opponents had scored more than 24 points, the most being 31, and its seven losses had been by a combined 38 points — or less than 5 1/2 points per game.
TCU had 17 points on its first three drives and led 24-0 at the end of the first quarter after the first of two interception returns for touchdowns. Max Duggan threw TDs to three different receivers and Kendre Miller ran for two scores, his 13th consecutive game with a rushing touchdown.
“We showed the true team that we really have,” said fourth-year cornerback Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson.
Duggan said, “It was probably our most complete game.”
At the perfect time in the season to make a strong statement.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Correa homered for the second straight game and hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the eighth inning off Clay Holmes as the Minnesota Twins rallied to beat the New York Yankees 4-3 on Friday night.
Correa homered in the sixth off Nestor Cortes and helped the Twins overcome a 3-2 deficit in the eighth, dealing the Yankees their first consecutive losses this season. After winning its first four series, New York can at best split four games against the Twins.
Anthony Volpe led off of the game with his first big league homer and Aaron Judge hit his fifth of the season on the next pitch. Giancarlo Stanton homered for a 3-1 lead in the sixth, but the Yankees lost for just the third time when Judge and Stanton homered together.
Michael A. Taylor singled to start the eighth off Holmes (0-1), brought in to pitch the eighth against right-handed batters at the top of the order rather than in the ninth. Byron Buxton walked, and Correa followed by lining a sinker down the right-field line.
Correa had his second multi-RBI game since returning to the Twins during the offseason after failing physicals with the New York Mets and San Francisco.
Emilio Pagán (1-0) pitched a perfect seventh, who romped 11-2 Thursday, and Jhoan Duran got his fourth save. The Yankees' previous losses when Judge and Stanton homered were in the 2021 Field of Dreams game and last Oct. 4, when Judge hit his 62d homer.
On the second straight warm night that felt more like midsummer than April, Volpe at 21 years, 351 days became the third-youngest Yankee to hit a leadoff home run, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Volpe also became the first Yankee whose first career homer came leading off since Bobby Richardson on July 25, 1959 at Detroit.
Judge followed with a 404-foot drive into New York’s bullpen. Judge has five homers in his first 14 games after hitting three in his first 14 games during his record-breaking 62-homer season.
It was the 12th time the Yankees opened with consecutive homers, the first since DJ LeMahieu and Judge at Toronto on June 25, 2019.
Kyle Garlick homered in the seventh inning for the Twins, who won for the fourth time in the last 20 regular-season games in the Bronx.
Cortes allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. Pitching with bubble gum images on his cleats, Cortes allowed two runs or fewer for the ninth straight start, matching the longest streak by a Yankees starter.
Louie Varland, who allowed Judge’s 55th homer in his major league debut Sept. 7 in New York, pitched in place of a fatigued Kenta Maeda. Varland encountered flight difficulties in getting from Indianapolis where Triple-A St. Paul played Thursday. The Minnesota native allowed three runs and six hits in six innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: RHP Cole Sands was optioned to St. Paul to make room for Varland.
Yankees: LeMahieu (quadroceps), who last played Tuesday in Cleveland, was in the on-deck circle in the ninth and could return Saturday. ... RHP Carlos Rodón (forearm strain) threw again at the minor league facility in Tampa, Florida. He will throw a two-inning bullpen Sunday or Monday and could progress to facing hitters. … RHP Greg Weissert was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre and RHP Colten Brewer was designated for assignment.
UP NEXT
Minnesota RHP Tyler Mahle (1-1, 4.09 ERA) opposes New York RHP Domingo Germán (0-1, 5.87) Saturday.
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Which black-and-white throw blanket is best?
There can never be enough blankets in the house. Throw blankets have a lot of uses and are cozy to have around. If you want one that goes well with your decor, a black-and-white option is a versatile choice. Keep a throw in your guest room, on your couch, in your office or just about anywhere else you spend time. If you have kids or pets, it’s nice to have something soft for them to cuddle with.
If you need a quality, all-purpose blanket for your living room or bedroom, the top pick is the soft, stylish Judybridal Plaid Chenille Throw.
What to know before you buy a black-and-white throw blanket
Use
Before you purchase a throw, deciding what its use will be can help you choose the right one. A more decorative throw may be needed for an office. A thin cotton throw may be more useful for a bed in the winter. Or, if you have guests over, you may want to have a spare blanket to offer them.
Size
Another important thing to consider when buying a throw is the size. You will likely want to get a smaller blanket for a couch or an office chair. Around 65 by 70 inches is appropriate. If you use the throw for bedding, you can size it according to the mattress and sheets. The price will increase with the size of the blanket.
Style
If your plan for the blanket is to drape it over a bed in the summer, you may want a thinner option with a nice black-and-white print. However, if you intend to use your new throw to cuddle on your couch, a thicker one may be better. There are throws with or without fringe on the ends, and some come in multiple patterns like plaid, checkerboard or striped. Adventurous options include zebra or white-tiger stripes. There are also beautiful boho styles that blend the use of black and white in unique ways.
What to look for in a quality black-and-white throw blanket
Material
Throws are typically used to create a sense of warmth and coziness in your home. You want to find black-and-white throws made from quality materials and can be washed easily. Cotton is a breathable, natural option, and chenille is lush. However, materials like polyester create an incredible softness that also feels great. Whether your choice is based on sustainability or comfort, there is a quality blanket for you.
Density
When searching for the right blanket, density can make the difference between a blanket serving its purpose and not. You may want a thicker or thinner blanket, depending on how you use it. Maybe your throw is meant to cover your bed in the summer. In this case, you might want a lighter cotton black-and-white throw for your queen bed. However, if you are looking for a warm throw for your couch in December, softer, thicker options are available.
Texture
Arguably one of the most essential features of throws is how it feels to the touch. Some stitching styles offer a smooth, soft feel to the blanket, while others may feel thicker and more coarse. The stitching can also make a difference in how you wash the blanket. Certain textured or patterned blankets may have a specific care style to protect the feel of the blanket from changing after being washed.
How much you can expect to spend on a black-and-white throw blanket
Depending on the brand and quality of the fabric, an average throw costs $30-$130.
Black-and-white throw blanket FAQ
What is a good material for a throw blanket?
A. Cotton, polyester blends, and chenille are all soft, comfortable, quality materials for a throw blanket. They also tend to wear well.
How do you wash a black-and-white blanket?
A. Wash your throw in a washing machine with a mild detergent and cold water. If possible, use a front-loading machine to allow the blanket to wash and spin evenly throughout the cycle. Certain delicate materials may require hand-washing or air-drying. They also may have other specific care instructions.
What’s the best black-and-white throw blanket to buy?
Top black-and-white throw blanket
Judybridal Plaid Chenille Throw
What you need to know: This is a soft, well-made chenille throw blanket for any room in the house.
What you’ll love: The blanket has a black-and-white plaid design and fringe borders on each end. There are other colors to choose from in this style as well. All are soft to the touch.
What you should consider: It is a thinner throw blanket. It is also pricey due to the materials it’s made of.
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Top black-and-white throw blanket for the money
What you need to know: This is a warm, cozy all-purpose throw blanket you can travel with.
What you’ll love: This brand has several styles to choose from. They are easy to wash, dry and throw in any room of the house. The blankets are light enough for summer but thick enough for winter months, making them useful year-round.
What you should consider: This blanket is thin, and after many washings, it tends to have tears in the stitching.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What you need to know: This black-and-white striped blanket is velvety soft and warm.
What you’ll love: The black-and-white option looks great, but you can also get this style in other colors. It’s a lightweight fleece throw that’s heavy enough for colder months and breathable in hotter seasons.
What you should consider: Snags or shedding can happen when this blanket is washed in a machine.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The Flying Fish Farm has nothing to do with fish, though Salt Creek winds its way through the nearby wilderness, below a steep embankment that marks the eastern line of the property.
It has everything to do with a large windsock that flew on the land in the mid-'70s, a free-spirited namesake hinting at the heart of the property, which has become the focal point of a controversial housing development planned across the street.
Kathleen Danker, an English scholar and retired professor who goes by K.D., has owned the property since 1980, when she and a friend who rented rooms in the large old house on the land put down $20,000 to buy it and the little more than 2 acres of wooded land on which it sits.
“She and I bought it so we all didn’t have to move out,” Danker said.
The property is an anomaly: a piece of private land surrounded on three sides by Wilderness Park on what — until last week — was just outside the city limits, across the street from a swatch of open land owned by the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln.
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At the moment, that land is also the site of a prayer camp set up by a group of Native leaders who oppose the City Council’s May 2 approval of zoning and annexation ordinances that will allow Sam Manzitto Jr. to proceed with plans to build more than 500 single-family homes, townhouses and apartments on about 75 acres.
They fear the development, called Wilderness Crossing, will destroy the sanctity of a Native sweat lodge located nearby — across First Street, down a gravel driveway, past a house dating to the 1900s, in a clearing on land known these days simply as the Fish Farm.
Years ago — before Danker bought it — a colorful University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor who owned the land had his own issues with the city and wanted to protect the 1,475-acre park that was his neighbor.
David Hibler — who made news in the 1990s for various controversies, one of which ended with him being fired from UNL — also made news in the 1970s for, among other things, his objections to construction of the West Bypass.
What was then a proposed thoroughfare now known as U.S. 77 that runs along the western edge of Wilderness Park prompted Hibler to make an unsuccessful bid for Lancaster County commissioner in 1974, largely because of the damage he feared the expressway would do to the park.
A year later, he made news again for refusing to appear in court on charges that he let his goats graze in Wilderness Park, a charge that appeared to have as much to do with a disagreement with a park ranger as with the goats.
Hibler moved in 1976 — before the sweat lodge arrived — and began renting rooms in the house, which dates to the early 1900s. Danker moved there in 1979, and remembers the sweat lodge always being there, a part of the place where people have gravitated to for years.
Danker estimates that about 150 people have stayed at the house over the past 46 years, with the Fish Farm a refuge of sorts for those needing a place to stay till they figured out what was next for them. Some stayed just a short time, others for decades.
“It was a good place for people who were transitioning,” she said. “How long they would stay kind of depended on if they fell in love with the place — the land.”
Residents have ranged from people in their 20s — like Danker was when she first arrived — to parents with children to those in their 80s. They’ve come because it’s affordable, they’ve come to spend time in Wilderness Park, and they’ve come because of the people and community there.
“When you get here, some people really take to the place,” she said.
Danker was one of them.
About a year after she moved there, she and her friend bought it, and in 1985, she and her husband bought out her friend’s interest in the property, after the friend moved out of state.
She’d likely still live there, had South Dakota State University not offered her a job in the department of English and interdisciplinary studies.
Danker, who’d earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s and doctorate in English at the University of Nebraska, decided to take the job in 1990, though she and her husband kept the land, turning the collection of the still-modest rent and maintenance of the place over to longtime residents.
Now retired and widowed, Danker still comes back to visit regularly.
“I still think of it as my home,” she said.
The land is littered with evidence of its residents over the years: a ceramic face placed in a tree stump, an old bicycle, an outdoor space created by a longtime resident who had an affinity for art and collectibles, the remnants of what was once a large garden.
Inside the house, now cluttered with boxes and years' worth of belongings, the walls are adorned with oil canvases painted by a resident’s brother — including a landscape of the back garden of the property — and brightly-colored fish adorn the walls.
Outside, there’s old lawn furniture, a shed, an old pole barn, and a horse barn where Hibler once kept his horses.
And the sweat lodge.
Danker said she didn’t know, until recently, that Native spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog helped establish the sweat lodge years ago, nor did she realize just how important it was to Native people here — and others who have found it a place for recovery and renewal.
Danker stands firmly behind those who hope to convince either city officials or the developer to make additional concessions to protect the sanctity of the sweat lodge and the peacefulness of the Fish Farm — and to include Native voices in city government.
“I am thoroughly aligned with the Native people,” she said.
Just what will happen with the prayer camp remains to be seen. Amy Olson, a spokeswoman for Manzitto Construction, said the company isn’t willing to consider additional changes to the development — other than those agreed to as part of the plan approved by the City Council.
Kevin Abourezk, one of the leaders of the prayer camp, said leaders have met with Manzitto and the mayor, as well as the police chief. The open lines of communication are good, but Abourezk said they need to see some tangible change.
“If it’s just a promise of a meeting, it’s not enough,” he said. “Native people have been given so many promises and they just never, ever hold true.”
When the City Council approved the zoning and annexation ordinances May 2, the annexation included land surrounding the development, including the Fish Farm.
The privately-owned land wasn’t made part of Wilderness Park years ago because it wasn’t in the flood plain, said both Danker and Lincoln Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson.
The site is on a hillside that runs from the land across the street, Danker said. At the top — near where the tipis now sit — the view reaches Saltillo Road to the south and the state Capital to the north, she said.
Wilderness Park was established in 1972 as both flood protection and to preserve a natural area for the public to use. The city planted many of the trees, Johnson said, to help slow the flow of stormwater.
The disputed land wasn’t identified in a 1999 study about the need to acquire land around the park to create a buffer. But in a portion of the park just north of the Fish Farm, the city has been taking out trees and replacing them with native grasses in an effort to protect a sandstone outcropping and the prickly pear cactus that grows there, Johnson said.
The city has suggested creating a neighborhood park in the development to protect the sandstone hill, though Johnson said it could also be created at a lower point nearer First Street — and the Fish Farm — though the developer has yet to agree to a park.
The annexation means Danker will eventually have to hook up to city sewer and electricity, a concern for her, and she worries that city regulations might impact the sweat lodge.
City Planning Director David Cary said he doesn’t think that’s an issue.
“It’s an activity on a piece of private property that’s there,” he said. “There’s no concern.”
Danker also worries about how the development will change her land — and has the same flooding concerns of other opponents of the development, who also worry about how traffic, light and noise pollution will affect the park.
‘It will change the nature of the place,” she said. “It’s so quiet and secluded.”
She doesn’t know what will happen in the future, but said the Fish Farm is dear to her — her husband’s ashes and those of a longtime resident are scattered there — and for others who’ve made their home there.
“I’ve always felt the place was important, not just for the land itself — it was important for the people who lived here and for those who use the sweat lodge.”
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Two-thirds of California voters say Dianne Feinstein no longer fit for office: Poll
Feinstein, 89, was crippled by a recent bout with shingles
Two-thirds of California voters say Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is no longer fit to serve in her role, according to a Thursday poll.
The poll, conducted by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, found that 67% of California registered voters believe that Feinstein's latest illness has rendered her unfit for office. That opinion does not universally translate into support for her resignation, however, with only 42% saying she should step down.
Another 27% stated that Feinstein should continue to serve in the Senate until the end of her term, while 31% said they were undecided.
The 67% of voters reported that they agreed with the statement, "Feinstein’s latest illness underlines the fact that she is no longer fit to continue serving in the U.S. Senate."
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UC Berkeley conducted the poll from May 17 to 22, surveying 7,465 California registered voters. Emails were sent out randomly to the state's voter list containing an invitation to take a non-partisan online survey. The emails and survey were available in both English and Spanish.
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Feinstein's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Feinstein has faced widespread scrutiny with her return to Washington, D.C., earlier this month. The long-serving Democrat had been forced to stay in California for more than a month due to health complications related to a shingles infection.
Feinstein's office confirmed earlier this week that the 89-year-old senator had been more seriously ill than they initially let on.
"While the encephalitis resolved itself shortly after she was released from the hospital in March, she continues to have complications from Ramsay Hunt syndrome," a spokesperson for Feinstein said.
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Feinstein had previously claimed that she did not have encephalitis, noting, "It really has never been diagnosed properly."
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On most weekends, Tyre Nichols would head to the city park, train his camera on the sky and wait for the sun to set.
“Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,” he wrote on his website. He preferred landscapes and loved the glow of sunsets most, his family has said.
“My vision is to bring my viewers deep into what I am seeing through my eye and out through my lens,” Nichols wrote. “People have a story to tell, why not capture it.”
Nichols, a 29-year-old father, was on his way home from taking pictures of the sky on Jan. 7, when police pulled him over. He was just a few minutes from the home he shared with his mother and stepfather, when he was killed in what authorities have described as a brutal attack by five Memphis police officers, who have since been charged with second-degree murder and other offenses.
“Nobody’s perfect, nobody. But he was damn near,” his mother, RowVaughn Wells, said at a news conference this week, moments after she watched the video of her son being beaten to death. “He was damn near perfect.”
He was the baby of their family, born 12 years after his closest siblings. He had a 4-year-old son and worked hard to better himself as a father, his family said. He was an avid skateboarder from Sacramento, California, and came to Memphis just before the pandemic and got stuck. But he was fine with it because he was with his mother, and they were incredibly close, Wells said. He had her name tattooed on his arm.
Friends at a memorial service this week described him as joyful and lovable.
“This man walked into a room, and everyone loved him,” said Angelina Paxton, a friend who traveled to Memphis from California for the service.
Growing up in Sacramento, Nichols spent much of his time at a skate park on the outskirts of the city. It could be a rough place sometimes for younger kids. But when Niko Chapman was 10-years-old, his parents would let him walk to the park alone as long as they knew Nichols was there.
“You remember people that are really kind to you, and Tyre was just a really kind person,” Chapman said. “He just always made me feel really welcome.”
Chapman's dad, Curtis Chapman, ran a youth group at a local church that would often meet at the skate park for pizza. Nichols quickly became a regular, bringing his energetic spirit and quick wit. But away from the group, Nichols would often show up at the Chapman's house to talk about life — including coming to grips with being a young parent.
“What drew me to Tyre was just – he’s real,” Curtis Chapman said. “He would talk about being a dad and wanting to be a good dad and seeking advice.”
There was a Bible study on Thursdays that Nichols would attend with his friend Brian Jang. One day, the group watched a sermon about how the world is filled with distractions. Jang said Nichols was so moved by it that he pulled out his flip phone and dropped it in a cup of water.
“I thought it was awesome, just seeing his growth and his commitment,” Jang said.
The last time Jang saw Nichols was in 2018 at the food court in a local mall. The two hadn't seen each other in awhile, but Jang said Nichols came up behind him and gave him a big hug as the two caught up.
“It's honestly pretty devastating to see such a good human go through such unnecessary brutality, such unnecessary death,” Jang said.
His mother said she raised him to love everyone openly — until they give you a reason not to. So Nichols was quick to make friends.
In Memphis, Nichols went to Starbucks every morning, and Nate Spates Jr. would hang out with him there. They chatted about sports or life. Spates was with his wife once when they ran into Nichols there, and they all talked for a couple of hours. Afterwards, Spates said his wife commented, “He’s got such a good spirit and soul and calm presence.”
Nichols worked second shift at FedEx with his stepfather. Every day, they’d come home together on their break at 7 p.m., and his mother would have a meal waiting for them.
Wells said she'd offered to buy her son Jordans, the popular athletic shoes, but he didn’t want them.
“He was just his own person,” she said. “He didn’t follow what anyone else was doing.”
When he wasn’t working, he went to the park to skateboard and take pictures. His website, called This California Kid, starts with an invitation: “Welcome to the world through my eyes.”
He included a gallery of what he considered his masterpieces: bridges and railroad tracks rendered in black and white, the neon lights of Beale Street at night. He took pictures of pink flowers, sunsets over the Mississippi River, fields of grass, statues of Elvis. He highlights a quote from another photographer: “A good photographer must love life,” it begins.
After she watched the video of her son’s death, she stood with her family and their lawyers at a lectern, shaking, to convey what the world lost.
A lawyer described the beating shown in the video — “he was a human pinata” — and Wells turned her head away, burying her face into her hands.
In the video, which will be released Friday to the public, Nichols is heard saying he just wants to go home, family lawyers said. He was less than 100 yards from his mother’s house.
Lawyers described the last words Nichols is heard saying — calling for his mom, three times.
“Oh my God,” she wailed as they spoke. “Oh my God.”
She still finds herself waiting for him to walk in the door every day at 7 p.m.
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Cocoa to list 42 lots for affordable housing as part of state initiative
As housing costs continue to rise beyond what the average family can afford, many are left with fewer options for buying a home.
Tearing down even a few obstacles for builders to construct affordable homes can increase the supply of entry-level housing, something Cocoa initiated last month when they put dozens of properties on a list slated for potential new homes.Housing costs in Brevard County alone went up over 14% last year from the year before, according to federal housing data. Meanwhile wages have increased only around 10% in that same time frame, according to Zippia, a company that conducts career research.
Under state statute, cities in Florida are legally required to identify properties that could be eligible for affordable housing. Those properties can then be sold to developers seeking to put affordable housing on the lots or to raise money for affordable housing projects within the municipality.
Public parcels currently being proposed for sale are spread throughout the city with a concentration of lots in the neighborhood just southeast of the Fiske Boulevard and State Road 520.
In January, the city of Cocoa put 42 properties on a list of those deemed suitable for affordable housing. In doing so, the city and state hope to lift some of the burden on developers and fast-track building.
“Every three years we’re required to put out a list of the properties that we have available,” City of Cocoa spokeswoman Samantha Senger said.
Developers looking to get involved with affordable housing in Cocoa will have the opportunity to propose their ideas for each individual parcel, according to Charlene Neuterman, community services director for the city.
"It'll be a request for proposal that we will put the properties out. Other than that, we'll be listing the properties and the interested parties will have an opportunity to bid on them," Neuterman said. Housing non-profits such as Housing for Humanity and Community Housing Initiative — with which the city has worked before — could receive the lots for free based on their applications. Developers who want to build on the lots would purchase them from the city, both with the stipulation that they build affordable homes and that the proceeds go into a fund for affordable housing initiatives in the city, Neuterman added.
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Those initiatives include two main programs: One that gives first-time homebuyers a financial leg-up when purchasing a home and another that goes toward rehabilitating older homes owned by residents who are unable to afford renovations on their own.
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Dr. Ned Murray, associate director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University in Miami, is an expert on economic and housing market issues said it's imperative for local governments to sell their surplus land to help with the cost of homeownership.
He also said people are often less knowledgeable about those opportunities and they may go underutilized.
"Everybody's looking every day for land, both private and public land. Developers know it's there if they want to take advantage of it," Murray said.
"The most important point of this is just how much local governments are publicizing it and using it as part of their affordable housing policies and strategies that they're putting forward," he added.
"It's a tool for any municipality. Maybe a smaller city even has more public land than even a larger city. It's really important for local governments to do inventory of public land and buildings that are underutilized or not used at all," Murray continued.
David Armstrong, a former Republican candidate for County Commission and long-time developer in Brevard County, said initiatives like this can clear away some of the hurdles the industry faces when working to meet the demand for affordable housing.
Fees from both the public and private sectors rack up quickly, making it nearly impossible for the market to meet the needs of those searching for a house. The cost of labor, materials and land for building a home alone is more than many families can afford, Armstrong added.
Those fees that can build up and encumber developers and prevent affordable housing can be waived as part of purchase agreements under the law on a case-by-case basis, Neuterman said.
“Right now, the blue collar, hard-working folks don’t have a chance of owning a house,” Armstrong said. “I know for a fact that cities and counties in this state own properties that they should disclose and that they could afford to use for affordable housing.”
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Jurors wrapped up a day of deliberations Wednesday in the murder case against a former Texas police officer charged with fatally shooting a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019.
The jury took up the case after six days of testimony and argument in Aaron Dean’s long-delayed trial for killing 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson while the white Fort Worth officer was responding to a call about an open front door. The jury deliberated for about eight hours Wednesday without reaching a verdict and was scheduled to resume deliberations Thursday morning.
The judge told the Tarrant County jurors on Wednesday that they can also consider a charge of manslaughter. Dean shot Jefferson after a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that the front door to Jefferson’s home was open. She had been playing video games that night with her nephew and it emerged at trial that they left the doors open to vent smoke from hamburgers the boy burnt.
The case has focused on competing claims of whether Dean, now 38, knew Jefferson was armed when he shot her. Prosecutors alleged the evidence showed he never saw her gun, but Dean testified that he opened fire after seeing the barrel of Jefferson’s weapon pointed at him.
Defense attorney Bob Gill said in closing arguments that Dean had a right to self defense once a gun was pointed at him.
“He saw a firearm pointed at him and based upon his training, he reacted,” Gill said. “He reacted tragically, but he reacted correctly under the law.”
But prosecutor Dale Smith described Dean as a “gung-ho, hard-charger” who gave Jefferson no chance to comply with his command to put her hands up. Smith also told jurors there’s no evidence that Dean saw a gun.
“He didn’t know what he saw, he just shot,” Smith said.
The case was unusual for the relative speed with which, amid public outrage, the Fort Worth Police Department released video of the Oct. 12, 2019, shooting and arrested Dean. He’d completed the police academy the year before and quit the force without speaking to investigators.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — If the goal of swinging a bat is to hit the ball hard, then Oneil Cruz did it better than anyone.
The Pittsburgh Pirates rookie recorded the hardest-hit ball in the seven years that Major League Baseball has measured exit velocity, lashing a single that came off the bat at 122.4 mph in a 14-2 loss to Atlanta on Wednesday.
Cruz stepped in to face Braves starter Kyle Wright with one on and two outs in the third when he turned on a 91 mph fastball and smashed it off the 21-foot high Clemente Wall in right field.
New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton previously had the record for the hardest-hit ball, reaching 122.2 mph in 2017 and again last year. MLB began tracking the metric in 2015.
“At the moment, I didn’t even think I hit the ball that hard,” said the 23-year-old Cruz. “When I came into the dugout, some of my teammates shared with me that I hit it 122 (mph). I smiled but deep down inside I was like, ‘Wow, I really hit that ball hard.’ Now, finding out that I broke a record, it means a lot to me. That’s something positive to take away from today’s game.”
Cruz initially thought the ball would clear the fence. Instead, it caromed to Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. and Cruz had no shot at extra bases. Acuña might have had an outside shot to get Cruz at first if first baseman Matt Olson had been covering the bag.
“To be honest with you, I did think it was going to go out but I did notice that it was starting to go down and about to hit the fence, that’s when I started running even harder,” Cruz said. “But I did expect it to go out. I didn’t expect it to hit the wall and come right back.”
The Pirates are in the midst of a massive overhaul, one that is relying on the 6-foot-6 Cruz. He made a brief cameo at the end of last season before arriving in the majors to stay on June 20. He’s batting .199 with 10 homers and 30 RBIs.
Despite his early struggles, Cruz’s tools have impressed Atlanta manager Brian Snitker, who said he’s glad the ball hit the wall instead of going over it, where it might have hurt someone.
Cruz has been a StatCast darling since his debut. The shortstop made the hardest recorded assist by an infielder on July 14 when he fired the ball across the diamond at 97.8 mph.
“He’s got skills, my God,” Snitker said. “You start grading tools and it’s off the charts, you know, for a big guy. I mean, that’s going to be fun to watch.”
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT (Associated Press)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — By this time four years ago, at least a dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls eager to make their case against Donald Trump had either visited Iowa or announced plans to soon visit the leadoff voting state ahead of the 2020 election.
Iowa’s campaign landscape is markedly different this year, with a Republican field seemingly frozen by Trump’s early announcement of a 2024 campaign. So far, only former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has visited this year, and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is making plans to stop by in the next few weeks.
Even Trump, the only declared candidate in the 2024 race right now, has been absent from Iowa, choosing instead to kickstart his campaign last weekend in New Hampshire and South Carolina, two other early voting states.
With Iowa’s first-in-the-nation GOP caucuses just a year off, the field of would-be White House candidates has largely been content to steer clear of bone-chilling Iowa — and, perhaps more importantly, avoid being the first candidate to announce a bid against the former president.
“No one wants to be on a limb by themselves against Trump,” said Alan Ostergren, a Republican lawyer in Des Moines who is involved in GOP politics. “They’ll all break at some point. But no one wants to go first.”
For now, the quiet in Iowa gives other contenders weighing campaigns — among them former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, all of whom campaigned in Iowa last year for GOP candidates — time to talk to potential donors, promote their new books and summon the mettle to take on Trump.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading GOP presidential prospect coming off a blowout reelection victory, is not expected to make any 2024 moves until the spring, after the Florida Legislature adjourns and he completes a national book tour.
As a warning to other potential competitors, Trump and his team have been lashing out at would-be rivals. The former president has dubbed DeSantis “Ron DeSanctimonious” and said that a DeSantis challenge for the 2024 GOP nomination would be “a great act of disloyalty.”
Trump’s universal name recognition gives him space to stay away from Iowa for now, GOP operatives say, as his team charts a strategy that’s expected to be more organized than his freewheeling 2016 campaign, which resulted in a second-place finish in the state’s caucuses.
Although he remains deeply popular within a core of the Republican Party, Trump is facing a number of investigations that could complicate his third bid for the White House. Among them are a criminal investigation over top-secret documents found at his Florida estate, a probe in Washington into his efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, an investigation in Georgia into his efforts to remain in the presidency after losing reelection, and more probes in New York.
“He’s not looked at as someone who should automatically get the nomination. He’s no longer in office, and two years have gone by,” said Steve Scheffler, Iowa’s Republican National committeeman, who has pledged to remain publicly neutral. “Even though the base loves him and his policies, he may have to do more of what others have to do. I definitely think he’s more vulnerable.”
So far, Trump is the lone 2024 Republican with a paid presence in Iowa. Alex Latcham, the former regional political director for the Iowa Republican Party, now works for Trump’s national team but still lives in Iowa. He is helping recruit an Iowa campaign director for Trump.
Unlike four years ago, around the time then-California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and then-South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, among others, were visiting Iowa, Democrats this year are standing to the side with the expectation that President Joe Biden will seek a second term. In any case, the Democratic National Committee is expected to strip Iowa of its leadoff voting status for the 2024 presidential nominating calendar, though Republicans plan to keep Iowa as its first-voting state.
Despite the relative quiet in Iowa so far this year, potential Republican candidates are still finding ways to make inroads with GOP activists in the state without setting foot there.
At the GOP legislative breakfast on Jan. 9, legislators and party officials flipped through a printed program that included full-page ads from Trump, Pompeo and Scott.
That’s in addition to the tens of thousands of dollars that they and others, including Haley and Pence, contributed to Iowa Republican candidates from their political fundraising organizations for their 2022 midterm election campaigns.
Without setting foot in Iowa, DeSantis, too, worked to sow goodwill last year with Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds by inviting her to meet in Florida.
Several would-be presidential candidates are expected to attend an annual spring fundraiser for the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, a Christian conservative group, on April 22.
Hutchinson, the only 2024 GOP candidate to visit Iowa this year, made a low-profile visit to Iowa early this month, holding private meetings and speaking to a GOP state legislative breakfast. Scott is scheduled to speak at the Polk County GOP annual fundraising dinner on Feb. 22.
Gloria Mazza, chair of the Polk County Republican Party, said it’s only a matter of time before the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by potential GOP Trump rivals spills out into the open.
“It’s going to pop, but it’s hard to tell when. It’s like a game of chess,” Mazza said. “Who is going to make the first move on him?”
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PORTLAND, Ore. — If you've been anywhere near Providence Park or Goose Hollow in Southwest Portland, it's hard to miss the new, six-story tall Lincoln High School towering over the old building. It’s the only high rise in the Portland Public School District. Right now, it’s getting its finishing touches for the fall.
This week, KGW got a sneak peek inside the brand new building.
“I think the first thing you notice is how open this space is, if you look up at the ceilings, how just modern and industrial this feels. It makes you want to be here. It makes you want to study and learn more,” said Alexander Levine, a senior at Lincoln High School.
Levine, who was a part of the construction management class at Lincoln, had chances to see the building in various stages. But on Wednesday, he saw the building in its nearly complete state.
“The first thing that I noticed is how modern looking it is," Levine said. "I mean, we're coming from a building that's like 70 years old and we have water falling from our ceilings. The bathrooms stink and it's not a great learning environment. While it feels old and historic, this just brings in some new energy."
That energy translates to those who worked hard on the project, like Lincoln High School principal Peyton Chapman.
“I just have so much excitement and honestly pride. The whole project exceeds my expectations,” said Chapman.
PHOTOS: Inside the new Lincoln High School building
She said the old building is the smallest high school in the district but handles one of the largest student populations. Chapman said when she arrived at Lincoln in 2006, there wasn’t enough space then and it’s been the case for years.
“We had one class at one point called ‘Urban Exploration’ where they meet on the patio and walk around downtown and talk about the history of Portland because we just didn’t have enough classroom space,” said Chapman.
Additionally, the old high school made it difficult on families with students who played sports.
“We have had 6 a.m. boys basketball practices for ninth graders and closed our day at 10 at night with dance team practices,” Chapman said. She said the new school will have a "mega gym" with three full courts, adding that it's going to be "life changing.”
Chapman said the new building is at least 120,000 square feet larger than the old high school.
In addition to the gym space, there's a dedicated wrestling room. There are also all kinds of state-of-the-art classrooms and spaces as well as areas for students to hang out.
“I think one of the most unique pieces about this project has been student involvement,” said Chapman.
From the beginning, Chapman said there has been an emphasis on student input. Students were part of a design group that was consulted, they testified in front of the school board and also went door-to-door talking to voters prior to the bond vote. Levine was part of the student design group that contributed ideas.
“We gave a lot of input on say color schemes and the feel for when you're in the building. Even the wood paneling and the atmosphere that creates within the cafeteria while you're eating, this was all part of our conversations that we were having with building designers,” said Levine, referring to the repurposed wood that accents some of the walls on the ground floor.
Raja Moreno was also involved in the design process and appreciated being given the opportunity to help in the design process. Moreno is a 2019 Lincoln High graduate and current student at Yale University.
“It indicated a lot of respect for the student viewpoint,” said Moreno. “So I felt very heard and very respected through that whole process, which was really special, and again, sort of above and beyond I think what they really had to do.”
Moreno was one of a handful of students who fundraised to go to Finland to research and learn about school designs.
“Their schools are widely regarded as some of the best in the world,” Moreno said. “I still can't believe that happened.”
Chapman said other students also fundraised to go to China for the same reason. As he looked around, he saw some elements inspired by that trip that made it into Lincoln High School’s new design, such as the use of natural light.
Erik Gerding, senior project manager for the Office of School Modernization for Portland Public Schools, said the project is being completed in budget and on time. He pointed out some of the other features in the new building as well.
“We have security cameras all around the building and outside. We have a secure entrance at the front of the schools so we can lock the vestibule so when people are coming in after the bell rings, they have to go through the office."
The building is also energy efficient with solar panels on the roof, greenery to reduce heat and huge windows that allow in a lot of natural light.
“We have systems that will automatically dim the lighting based on the amount of daylight that comes into the building. So that's also big energy savings,” Gerding said.
Additionally, Gerding said the building is LEED Gold certified, meaning it's energy efficient and easier on the environment.
The old high school will be demolished to make way for a new track and field once the new high school building opens next fall. The track and field is expected to be done by fall of 2023.
Gerding said there are plans to cut pieces from the old gym floor with the logo and apply it to a wall at the entrance of the locker rooms.
“It's just kind of honoring the history of Lincoln. This community at Lincoln has been here for 70 years in this location, but in Portland for over 100 years. It's the oldest high school on the West Coast. So we’re going to tear down the old building, but we don't want its memory to disappear,” said Gerding.
Both students and district employees said they were grateful to voters for having approved the bond measure in 2017 that funded the $242 million Lincoln High School project. The bond also covered improvements at Kellogg Middle school, McDaniel High School and Benson High School and funded a number of other projects. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/sneak-peek-new-lincoln-high-school/283-b6dbb230-7ecd-47cb-a5e7-e0501408ecf4 | 2022-05-27 04:41:51 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/sneak-peek-new-lincoln-high-school/283-b6dbb230-7ecd-47cb-a5e7-e0501408ecf4 |
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WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — The family of a woman killed by gunfire last year as Georgia sheriff's deputies executed a drug warrant at her cousin's home announced a federal lawsuit Monday against the sheriff and others, claiming the deadly raid violated the slain woman's civil rights.
Attorneys for the family of 37-year-old Latoya James have argued her death echoes the fatal shooting in 2020 of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Both cases involved Black women killed in shootouts after law officers forced their way into darkened homes with little to no warning.
The civil lawsuit filed Sunday in the Georgia case comes after the district attorney for coastal Camden County decided in April not to bring criminal charges against deputies in James' death after concluding they were justified in using deadly force.
“I can never get her back,” the slain woman's mother, Betty James, said through tears at a news conference Monday. "I got to hear her tell me `I love you, mommy’ for the last time the night before they took her life. And I can never hear that again. My family wants justice. We deserve justice.”
The lawsuit names Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor as a defendant as well as several deputies who took part in the fatal raid May 4, 2021. Filed on behalf of James' 9-year-old daughter, the lawsuit seeks at least $25 million in damages. It argues deputies violated James' rights by forcing entry without giving the home's occupants time to answer their knock.
James was spending the night at the home of her cousin, Varshan Brown, when deputies with a warrant to search for drugs knocked down the door of the darkened house at about 5 a.m. in Woodbine, located in Georgia's coastal southeastern corner near the Florida line.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released body camera video that showed deputies announcing themselves, then immediately forcing their way inside. Multiple gunshots were fired within seconds.
The deputy wearing the body camera was carrying a shield that obstructed much of the video. It doesn’t show who opened fire, and neither James nor Brown can be seen in the three-minute clip.
The lawsuit says James was killed by bullets striking her in the shoulder and back as deputies and Brown fired guns at each other. Brown was wounded and later charged with crimes. Attorneys for the family said he opened fire not knowing that it was law enforcement officers entering his home.
“It was under the dark of night, it was unexpected," said Reginald Greene, an attorney for James' family. "It was unlawful, it was unjustified.”
Capt. Larry Bruce, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, did not immediately return phone and email messages Monday. Messages were also left with John Myers, the attorney for Camden County.
District Attorney Keith Higgins’ office and the GBI have declined to say whether it was the deputies or Brown who fired the shots that killed James. Attorneys for James' relatives said prosecutors have told the family that she was shot by deputies.
Regardless, Higgins’ office persuaded a grand jury to indict Brown on a charge of felony murder, arguing that he was responsible for the death of his cousin, James, by firing a gun at deputies.
Under Georgia law, someone can be convicted of felony murder if they commit a felony that results in a death, regardless of intent. Brown is also charged with felony counts of aggravated assault against peace officers, possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Brown has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He remains jailed in Camden County. Attorneys for James’ family have called on prosecutors to drop the murder charge against him.
James' family last week asked the Justice Department to investigate her death, saying there are striking parallels between the Georgia case and the 2020 raid by police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, that left Taylor dead. The Justice Department filed federal civil rights charges against four Louisville officers earlier this month in connection to Taylor’s death. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Family-sues-Georgia-sheriff-over-drug-raid-that-17389694.php | 2022-08-22 17:36:05 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Family-sues-Georgia-sheriff-over-drug-raid-that-17389694.php |
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas, US authorities say
NEW YORK (AP) — The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities said Monday.
Bankman-Fried had been under criminal investigation by U.S. and Bahamian authorities following the collapse last month of FTX. The firm filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run.
“Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.”
Bankman-Fried’s arrest comes just a day before he was due to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee, along with the company’s current CEO, John Ray III.
Bahamian Attorney General Ryan Pinder said the Bahamas would “promptly” extradite Bankman-Fried to the U.S. once the indictment is unsealed and U.S. authorities make a formal request. Meanwhile, Bahamian authorities plan to continue their own investigation into Bankman-Fried.
“The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law,” said Bahamian Prime Minister Phillip Davis in a statement.
Bankman-Fried said recently that he did not “knowingly” misuse customers’ funds, and said he believes his millions of angry customers will eventually be made whole.
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PARIS (AP) —
Paris is the center of the world’s globalized luxury industry this week, and Tuesday marks the first major day of ready-to-wear shows at Paris Fashion Week, including Saint Laurent and Dior. These Parisian powerhouses are among the 107 brands showcasing spring-summer 2023 collections. Here are some highlights:
BOTTER
Sartorial met the aquatic on Tuesday at Botter’s co-ed show of crisp lapels, boxy jackets and poetical cutaways. They graced brightly colored suits.
Statement stomping sneakers — again, in vivid colors — provided contrasts with trendy suit-ware sometimes sporting marbled lines to evoke sea creature tentacles.
Distressed double denim continued the underwater vibe on one male model who plodded down the runway with a blue knitted mask over his entire face, and transparent globules over his hands. It made him look like he had been attacked by a jellyfish. Or was Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh’s show another dig at the coronavirus pandemic?
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VAQUERA BRINGS STARS AND STRIPES TO PARIS
A flash of American funk graced Paris for Monday’s installment of fashion week — a day reserved for up-and-comers. Vaquera, who came to prominence five years ago in New York with a U.S. flag gown with massive train, moved this season across the pond and was a highlight.
Designers Patric DiCaprio and Bryn Taubensee mixed their edgy styles with looks that moved in a more commercial direction for spring-summer. Distressed denim, the punk exuberance and corsetry of Vivienne Westwood’s heyday and lashings of Americana references — like a loose sheeny biker jacket — defined the often-saleable 31-look display.
The U.S. flag made its runway return, here as a sheer shawl that led down to a fabulous ballooning parachute skirt.
LANCOME’S LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
The first major party of the season celebrated one of Paris’ most iconic perfume and cosmetic brands: Lancome.
A stone staircase dappled in colored light led VIP guests including model Noemie Lenoir into the palatial Petit Palais venue by the banks of the Seine River Monday night.
This season Lancome, owned by L’Oreal, celebrated the 10th anniversary of its best-selling French perfume “La Vie Est Belle” — or “life is beautiful.” Victoria’s Secret model Sara Sampaio also made the party in the famous art museum in a black mini with frills. | https://www.wric.com/entertainment-news/ap-paris-fashion-week-is-showcasing-107-houses-over-9-days/ | 2022-09-27 14:40:52 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/entertainment-news/ap-paris-fashion-week-is-showcasing-107-houses-over-9-days/ |
NEW YORK (AP) _ Paramount Global (PARAA) on Thursday reported profit of $419 million in its second quarter.
The New York-based company said it had net income of 62 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 64 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $7.78 billion in the period.
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Woman brings home baby fox, mistaking it for kitten
ROCKLIN, Calif. (CNN) - A woman in California recently took in a baby fox that she thought was a needy kitten.
Police say they got a call from a concerned family member. Animal control responded to the call and confirmed it was a baby fox, also known as a kit.
They took it to Gold Country Wildlife Rescue where it can be properly cared for.
Rocklin police posted a photo of the kit on their Facebook page and gave instructions on what to do if you come across orphaned or injured wildlife.
They said to check for wildlife rehabilitation resources on your local humane society’s website. You should also keep the animal in a dark, quiet, mildly warm place away from other animals and children before getting it to a rehab center.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California braced Thursday for the arrival of another atmospheric river that forecasters warned will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding to a state still digging out from earlier storms.
The flood threat will come from the combination of rain and melting of parts of the huge snowpack built in California’s mountains by nine atmospheric rivers early in the winter and later storms fueled by a blast of arctic air.
The new atmospheric river is a type known as a “Pineapple Express” because it is a deep tap of warm subtropical moisture stretching over the Pacific to Hawaii. Its greatest impacts were expected in northern and central California.
The snowpack at high elevations is so massive it should be able absorb the rain, forecasters said. But elevations below 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) will see melting and runoff. The National Weather Service characterized the flood threat as “moderate.”
At high elevations the storm was predicted to dump heavy snow, as much as 8 feet (2.4 meters) in some locations.
California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides about a third of the state’s water supply, is more than 180% of the average on April 1, when it is historically at its peak.
So much snow has fallen in the Sierra and other mountain ranges that residents are still struggling to dig out days after earlier storms.
Roofs collapsed, cars were buried and roads were blocked. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared emergencies in 13 of California’s 58 counties beginning March 1.
In the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles a late February storm reached blizzard status. Mountain towns like Lake Arrowhead were buried.
“We’ve been through many a snowstorm but nothing of this amount, that’s for sure,” resident Alan Zagorsky, 79, said Wednesday as a crew shoveled his driveway. “Right now, they’re trying to find a place they can put this stuff.”
In nearby Crestline, Don Black watched as a team wielding shovels cleared his neighbor’s property.
“This is the worst storm I’ve seen in 34 winters,” Black said.
On the state’s far north coast, Humboldt County authorities have organized an emergency response to feed starving cattle stranded by snow.
Cal Fire and U.S. Coast Guard helicopters began dropping hay bales to cattle in remote mountain fields last weekend and then the California National Guard was called in to expand the effort.
Requests for help came from about 30 ranchers, according to Diana Totten, an area fire chief. The hay is being paid for by the ranchers, who provide information on how many head of cattle need to be fed and where they were expected to be located.
“We won’t know until the snow melts how many cattle have died due to these conditions,” Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said in a statement. “But I know this for certain, if we don’t act, there’s going to be way more that do die and it will be a catastrophe for our county.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/new-atmospheric-river-storm-barrels-toward-california/ | 2023-03-09 16:45:51 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/new-atmospheric-river-storm-barrels-toward-california/ |
Biden’s handwritten notes part of classified docs probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. And some of those handwritten musings over his decades of public service are now a part of a special counsel’s investigation into the handling of classified documents.
It isn’t clear yet what the investigators are looking for by taking custody of notes from his time as vice president and his decades in the Senate that were found in his Delaware homes in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington.
Biden’s attorneys did not say whether the notes were considered to be classified, only that they were removed. But over his 36 years in the Senate and eight as vice president, Biden had a front-row seat to a lot of highly sensitive moments in U.S. history, including the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the 2011 death of Osama bin Laden and unfolding political turmoil in Ukraine.
The special counsel is working to determine how classified information from Biden’s time as senator and vice president came to wind up in his home and former office — and whether any mishandling involved criminal intent or was unintentional. But they’ll also have to determine whether the notes they took are considered personal and therefore belong to Biden, and would then likely be returned to him.
Under the Presidential Records Act, records of a presidential administration generally belong with the National Archives, especially classified items. There are some exceptions, including when records are determined to be purely personal.
But even a handwritten note can be considered classified if someone is recording observations related to a classified document or briefing. Such notes can be deemed classified even if not marked as such.
Larry Pfeiffer, a former senior director of the White House situation room and chief of staff to retired CIA Director Michael Hayden, said that when he took notes during secret or top-secret meetings, he would mark each page by specific levels of classification.
“It’s pretty clear in those meetings when they’re hearing classified information,” he said. When Pfeiffer left the CIA, he submitted his notebooks to the agency archives.
Longtime aides say they believe Biden has been keeping personal diaries for decades, though the only public glimpse of them so far has come in Biden’s book “Promise Me, Dad,” which chronicled the then-vice president’s heartache and grief over his son Beau’s fatal cancer diagnosis.
In the book, Biden quotes passages written in his diary about Beau’s condition and death that were written on Air Force Two, in the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, and at his Wilmington home, as well as one jotted down as he weighed whether to run for president in 2016. In the book, Biden describes taking the notes as he navigated being a supportive parent for an ailing family member and largely maintaining his official schedule of meetings and calls.
He details how he had a secure phone installed at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston so he could work while he was there with his son as Beau underwent treatment. But he also wrote about his debate over whether he’d run for office in 2016:
“‘A lot happening,’ I wrote in my diary when I finally got some downtime in Wilmington the next weekend. ‘Need to be careful it doesn’t get away from me. I need to slow down, ramp down my schedule.’”
It’s unknown whether handwritten notes may have been turned over to the Department of Justice by former Vice President Mike Pence or whether any of former President Donald Trump’s writings from his time in office was found during the FBI’s search of his Florida estate last year.
It was also unclear whether recent former presidents and vice presidents would make any of their personal notes written during their time in office available for review to determine whether they contained any potential federal records or information that should be classified.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines have declined to discuss their investigations or brief members of Congress.
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a third letter Thursday urging Garland and Haines to allow the panel to view the papers in secret and be briefed on their potential risk to national security.
Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia and Marco Rubio of Florida wrote that without access to the documents, “we cannot effectively oversee the efforts of the Intelligence Community to address potential risks to national security arising from the mishandling of this classified information.”
There’s a precedent in keeping personal records personal: Access to Ronald Reagan’s personal diaries was sought after he left office by his former national security adviser John Poindexter as he faced trial for his role in the Iran-Contra affair. A federal judge accepted Reagan’s invocation of executive privilege to shield the diaries from disclosure.
Reagan frequently wrote about the substance of his official meetings — including details on classified sessions — and impressions of world leaders, often commingled with mundane details about his life like his dinner companions and personal calls. But it wasn’t until after Reagan’s death and with the consent of his widow, Nancy Reagan, that they were published.
There have been multiple cases in recent years of high-level officials mishandling notes about classified operations. Former CIA Director David Petraeus was prosecuted for his handling of eight notebooks of classified and unclassified notes he collected during his time leading U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan. According to a plea agreement, Petraeus kept the notebooks in his private possession and allowed his biographer, with whom he was having an affair, to review them.
He pleaded guilty in 2015 to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material and received probation.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was found by the FBI to have discussed classified material in emails kept on her private server. Some of those emails had classified information at the time they were sent, while others were subsequently classified during the FBI’s investigation of her use of the server.
Then-FBI Director James Comey recommended against charging Clinton in 2016 because he said there was not clear evidence Clinton or her subordinates intended to violate laws about classified information.
Biden’s lawyers were closing up his office at the Penn Biden Center think tank last November when they came across classified documents in a locked closet. The records were turned over to the Justice Department. But after Biden’s lawyers searched his Wilmington home and found additional classified items, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate. Biden has said he was surprised the documents were there, and has cooperated with investigators, including voluntarily consenting to the FBI searches.
When FBI agents searched Biden’s Wilmington home last month, they “also took for further review personally handwritten notes from the vice-presidential years,” according to his lawyer, Bob Bauer. When the FBI searched Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home on Wednesday, they took “some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President” but found no other classified documents, according to Bauer.
The White House has refused to comment on what was in Biden’s notes, other than to say some of the writing pertained to his time as vice president.
“I think that they want to make sure that the Justice Department has access to the information that they need to sift through materials as a part of this ongoing investigation,” White House spokesman Ian Sams said Wednesday. “And so I’m not going to characterize too much of the underlying contents.”
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• First-of-its-kind, portable, IP69K-rated product safeguards at-risk personnel and equipment operating in harsh environments
• Features superior sealing properties and vulcanized rubber resistant to high-pressure washdowns typically found in food processing
• Available in various voltages on 20A circuit with multiple cord lengths, including an overhead configuration for greater convenience and safer installation
LISLE, Ill., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Molex, a global electronics leader and connectivity innovator, today introduced the Super-Safeway™ Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) industrial-duty product at the 2023 International Production & Processing Expo (booth C13103). The new GFCI offering is the first portable 20A device to earn the IP69K rating, which is the highest level of industrial protection against the penetration of high-pressure, high-temperature water and dust. This latest addition to Molex's Woodhead® line of permanent-mount and portable GFCI solutions is ideally suited for the food-processing industry as well as other applications where sanitizing equipment continually creates excessive moisture and humidity conditions.
"Molex's industrial customers operate highly complex processing equipment in some of the harshest and wettest environments, so addressing their safety concerns is a critical business priority," said Tony Quebbemann, product marketing manager at Molex. "We developed the portable, IP69K-rated, 20A GFCI product to give our customers the highest levels of protection possible to safeguard them from the dangers of electrical failure or electrocution."
A multitude of industrial and electrical challenges exist in food processing, petrochemical processing and mining plants where excessive water, moisture and humidity can create hazardous conditions. Similar risks occur in temporary outdoor environments where exposure to the elements can damage electrical equipment. For that reason, among others, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provides stringent guidelines on the use of GFCI solutions to protect employees from electrical shock.
Molex's new double-insulated GFCI meets industry standards while offering extra measures of protection to keep workers safe. The product's open-neutral sensing relay stops power flow under threatening conditions in accordance with OSHA requirements. Additionally, the product meets both UL-listed and CSA-certified regulations.
The IP69K-rated Super-Safeway GFCI Industrial-Duty product also features superior sealing properties, impact-resistant housing, chemical/UV-resistant enclosure and vulcanized rubber for long-lasting, reliable operation. Nuisance tripping is minimized by the inclusion of an electronically enhanced filter while various product options, including automatic and manual resets as well as different outlet-box configurations, are designed to accommodate a variety of worksites.
As part of Molex's continued commitment to industrial-product innovation, the cable drops on the Super-Safeway GFCI feature a primary cord that can accommodate an overhead configuration for more convenient and safer installation. Moreover, the device can be coupled with cable drops using Molex Watertite® wiring devices with IP67, IP69K, NEMA Type 4X and 6P ratings.
For more than two decades, Molex has combined product innovations and industrial experience to support more than half of the largest food-processing companies nationwide. The company's overarching commitment to safety, reliability and performance has driven the ongoing expansion of Molex's extensive lineup of industrial power and connectivity solutions, encompassing ArcArrest, Safeway, Super-Safeway, Watertite and Woodhead products. Molex's industrial-power portfolio is designed to support optimal worker safety and reliable performance in the most demanding environments, including the food and beverage, commercial construction, utility, and petrochemical industries.
The Molex IP69K-rated Super-Safeway Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter Woodhead product currently is available through Molex's North American distribution partners.
Molex is a global electronics leader committed to making the world a better, more-connected place. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex enables transformative technology innovation in the automotive, data center, industrial automation, healthcare, 5G, cloud and consumer device industries. Through trusted customer and industry relationships, unrivaled engineering expertise, and product quality and reliability, Molex realizes the infinite potential of Creating Connections for Life. For more information, visit www.molex.com.
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Majority of Americans say they're worried about being able to pay for housing
If you are feeling the pinch of higher rents, you're not alone.
Nearly 60% of renters saw a rent increase during the past year, while just 38% said they saw their income increase, according to a study from Freddie Mac. And renters were less likely than all employed respondents to have gotten a raise. As a result, nearly 1 in 5 who experienced a rent increase said they are now "extremely likely" to miss a payment.
"The surge in rents that took place over the last 12 months has created even greater housing uncertainty for the most vulnerable renters," said Kevin Palmer, head of Freddie Mac Multifamily. "Our survey shows that the national housing affordability crisis is worsening, and that inflation is a key driver."
Of those who saw a rent increase, 15% said it was a hike of more than 10%.
Higher housing costs and inflation have altered the plans for many potential homebuyers as well, according to the study.
Nearly three-quarters of renter households who were planning to buy a home said they've become less likely to over the past year. Among those less likely to buy, half said it was because of high home prices, while 39% pointed to difficulty coming up with a down payment and 34% blamed increased interest rates.
While 48% of respondents said they have cut nonessential items like entertainment because of rising prices, 44% said they have put less money toward their savings.
The higher costs are translating into real pocketbook concerns for households.
A majority of survey respondents, 62%, said they were concerned about not being able to pay for their housing in the next year. An even greater share, 84%, said they are concerned about an economic recession and half are concerned about losing their job.
While 39% of respondents reported having enough money for the things they want to spend money on in addition to what they need, 41% said they live paycheck to paycheck with just enough money coming in to get by. Roughly 20% of people reported they sometimes don't have enough money for basics like food and housing until the next payday.
Conducted in early June among a representative sample of 2,000 American consumers, the survey found that nearly all surveyed households were affected by higher prices during the prior year. Increases in the cost of groceries and household items impacted 66% of people in the survey. Among the other most cited areas for cost increases were transportation, eating out and utilities. | https://www.wgal.com/article/americans-worried-housing-affordability/40901647 | 2022-08-16 14:43:28 | 1 | https://www.wgal.com/article/americans-worried-housing-affordability/40901647 |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-6-9-4
(three, six, nine, four)
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3 teens found dead in garage likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, police say
EDGEWOOD, N.M. (Gray News) – Three teenagers found dead in a New Mexico garage likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said.
According to the Edgewood Police Department, the teens were found dead in the garage Sunday.
Police said a propane heater was found to be in use inside the garage.
Details about the victims are not yet being released, as police are still working to notify families.
The Edgewood Police Department would like to stress to the community the dangers of carbon monoxide and the importance of having carbon monoxide detectors in homes and workspaces where heaters and appliances are in use.
Carbon monoxide is extremely dangerous, as it cannot be seen, smelled, or heard.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Flanked by cranes and shipyard workers, President Joe Biden made the pitch Thursday that unions will be building America’s renewable energy future — a courtship of organized labor at a moment when some major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth he wants to campaign on in 2024.
The president toured the Philly Shipyard, where there was a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel that will help to build offshore wind farms. Biden ticked through the various union jobs being created by the project, promoting a message he has started to amplify as he seeks a second term.
“A lot of my friends in organized labor know, when I think climate, I think jobs,” the president said. “Union workers are the best in the world.”
But tensions are rising between unions and companies about a rapidly evolving economy in which artificial intelligence, clean energy and e-commerce are rewriting some of the basic rules of work. Biden is trying to allay those concerns by saying unions should be a part of the way ahead. But the Democratic president also knows from past experience that a strike could harm his reelection chances.
Biden has long called on businesses to hire unionized workers, saying that the premium paid will lead to higher quality work. Companies, however, seem reluctant to meet unions’ terms in separate contract talks with script writers, actors, autoworkers and UPS employees.
Hollywood production is shut down as the Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild are striking, partially over concerns about streaming revenues as well as AI taking away jobs from creative workers. The strike has put TV shows and movies in limbo.
The United Auto Workers are starting contract talks, and members say they expect a possible strike. They want to ensure there are union protections at new battery plants for electric vehicles. The union contract expires before midnight on Sept. 14.
The Teamsters are threatening a strike by 340,000 UPS workers if a deal is not reached with the delivery company by July 31. As more Americans shop online, UPS drivers say they need air conditioning in more trucks and equal pay for weekend shifts. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has asked Biden not to get in the middle of negotiations.
Biden administration officials say that unions are empowered to press for more benefits and better pay because of the strong job market. Unemployment is a low 3.6%, and job openings are relatively high. The White House says that Biden’s policies have created these conditions.
But a series of strikes could also sink the U.S. economy and Biden’s message to voters.
Last year, the administration hustled to forge a tentative agreement between rail companies and their unionized workers to avoid a strike that could have injured the economy before the midterm elections. The tentative deal prevented a strike, but it failed to appease workers, and Congress ultimately had to intervene by imposing an agreement.
When asked if an autoworkers or Teamsters strike could similarly threaten growth, administration officials declined to speculate and said only that the president believes in the right of collective bargaining for workers.
Biden spent part of this week focused on efforts to expand unionization into new industries. On Monday, he met with younger workers trying to unionize at Starbucks, minor league baseball, bus-maker Blue Bird and Sega. Labor Department data shows that workers under age 35 are much less likely to belong to a union than their older peers, meaning that the future of the union movement might depend on bringing in younger generations.
Unions also aided Biden’s election victory over President Donald Trump in 2020. Just 16% of voters in 2020 lived in a union household. But 56% of people in union households backed Biden for president against Trump, a Republican, according to AP VoteCast.
Union votes generally matter more in Northern states with an industrial legacy such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, key states for a Democrat seeking to win the electoral college. But there are few union votes in sunbelt states such as Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, where Biden hopes to compete in 2024 and where many of the investments in new computer chip and battery plants are being made.
Samantha Smith, strategic adviser for clean energy jobs at the AFL-CIO, said it’s important for the shift away from fossil fuels to not come at the expense of workers, arguing the goals of renewable energy and higher pay need to be complementary goals, not competing ones. Smith said unions have confidence that the manufacturing, infrastructure and energy investments under Biden will lead to more union jobs.
“First of all, we do have the most union-friendly president that anyone can remember — that’s why we endorsed him early,” Smith said. “We have a lot of confidence in this president and his ability to turn more than $1 trillion of investments — including in clean energy — into union jobs.” | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-biden-pushes-a-strong-role-for-unions-in-tech-jobs-even-as-potential-strikes-are-on-the-horizon/ | 2023-07-21 01:03:43 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-biden-pushes-a-strong-role-for-unions-in-tech-jobs-even-as-potential-strikes-are-on-the-horizon/ |
Which OBDII scanners are best?
Those annoying dashboard warning lights only tell you that something is wrong. They don’t tell you that the problem could be anything from a loose gas filler cap to a serious engine problem ready to cause great damage.
OBDII scanners plug into a port under your vehicle’s dashboard, “talk” to your car’s sensors, diagnose the problem and show you error codes on a screen. They work with all newer vehicles and allow you to diagnose problems on your own. If you’re interested in a large-screen OBDII scanner that displays severity alerts that tell you when your car needs immediate attention, try the INNOVA 6030P Code Reader and Scanner, which also tests your battery and alternator.
What to know before you buy an OBDII scanner
Types of scanners and how they work
OBD stands for on-board diagnostics. Since 1996, OBDII scanners are compatible with all cars, trucks and SUVs through an industry-standard port. Most scanners connect by a 16-pin plug to the OBDII port in your car. More sophisticated models connect to your smartphone, tablet or laptop via Bluetooth or other wireless connection to download data.
Error codes
All OBDII scanners generate error codes. Basic OBDII scanners stop there, but high-quality models go a step further by displaying troubleshooting information. This adds value and saves time, too.
To learn even more about OBDII scanners, take a look at the full OBDII scanner buying guide from BestReviews.com.
What to look for in a quality OBDII scanner
VIN retrieval
A scanner can retrieve your vehicle information number, which is a 17-digit code assigned when the vehicle is built. It’s visible on the dashboard in front of the steering wheel. The VIN uses a unique series of numbers and letters to identify your exact car’s make, model, year, engine size and where the vehicle was made. Think of it as your car’s fingerprint.
Display
Look for an OBDII scanner that has a screen large enough to show more information than bare-bones models that show only an error code. OBDII scanners that show troubleshooting information use larger screens to do so.
Apps
Some companies that make and sell OBDII scanners have created companion apps that allow your vehicle data to be stored on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. Look for apps that allow you to access detailed diagnostic and troubleshooting information from the cloud.
Live data
Most scanners only work when your vehicle is turned off. Some OBDII scanners can read and measure live data while you drive. This is real-time performance data that you can download to your computer or smartphone.
Inspection and maintenance readiness
Many states require regular vehicle inspections of some kind. These almost always include safety and emissions. The number and type of required inspections fluctuate according to state and municipal laws and regulations. OBDII scanners with inspection and maintenance features allow you to pretest your car so you can fix problems before your inspection and pass your tests with flying colors.
How much you can expect to spend on an OBDII scanner
Basic handheld OBDII scanners that check for only the most basic problems and provide no troubleshooting information cost between $20 and $50. Scanners costing anywhere from $50 to $150 can diagnose more problems and are ideal for hands-on amateur mechanics and troubleshooters. Handheld OBDII scanners from $150 up to $1,000 have all the bells and whistles.
OBDII scanner FAQ
How do I find my car’s scanner port?
A. Like your VIN, your scanner port is to the left of the steering column. Unlike your VIN that’s located on the top of your dashboard, your car’s scanner port is beneath the dashboard and requires you to get down low to see it. When in doubt, check your vehicle owner’s manual.
I’m no mechanic, so why would I want an OBDII scanner?
A. If you have ever taken your car in for service due to a warning light, only to find nothing more was wrong than your gas cap wasn’t properly tightened, you were probably frustrated by having to go to a lot of trouble over nothing. With an OBDII scanner, you can see that all you need to clear your warning light is to give your gas cap another twist.
What are the best OBDII scanners to buy?
Top OBDII scanner
INNOVA 6030P Code Reader and Scanner
What you need to know: Use this large-screen OBDII scanner to check out what your dashboard lights aren’t telling you.
What you’ll love: This OBDII scanner is 10 by 7 by 2 inches and not only tells you the error code but also displays severity alerts that tell you in real-time when your car needs immediate attention. Another great feature of this 12-ounce OBDII scanner is that it tests your battery, alternator and charging system.
What you should consider: If you have a large truck, you should check to see if it’s compatible. Otherwise, this OBDII scanner works with most 1996 and newer cars and light trucks.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top OBDII scanner for the money
Bosch Automotive Tools OBD 1000 Diagnostic Vehicle Scanner
What you need to know: This affordable OBDII scanner has readings that are easy for non-mechanics to understand.
What you’ll love: This scanner gives you the ability to quickly determine the cause of your dashboard Check Engine light coming on. There’s no longer the need to go to the dealership for a minor problem that’s easy to correct. The scanner works with OBDII-compliant vehicles as old as 1994 models and reports on their emissions status.
What you should consider: The menus and features are what you would expect from a budget OBDII scanner.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Actron CP91245 C PocketScan Code Reader
What you need to know: This backlit OBDII scanner is an inexpensive model with an easy-to-understand interface.
What you’ll love: The scanner displays a wealth of data, including emissions status, fluid temperatures, intake air, voltages and engine load and RPM. This compact unit fits in your hand and connects quickly and easily to determine the causes of engine warning lights.
What you should consider: It’s bigger and heavier than most other scanners.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Studies highlight importance of comprehensive genomic profiling to better treat breast cancer
IRVING, Texas, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), the leading molecular science and technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, announced today that it will present findings at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) that illustrate the potential impact of molecular profiling on the treatment of breast cancer. SABCS is being held December 6-10, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas.
Presentations and posters from Caris include:
- George W. Sledge, Jr., M.D., one of the most influential figures in breast cancer research who recently joined Caris as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, will participate in a Clinical Case Discussion Session from 1:00 -2:00 p.m. CT on Wednesday, December 7 in the Stars at Night Ballroom 1&2.
"Our data at SABCS 2022 emphasizes Caris Life Sciences' contributions to increasing our understanding of the rapidly-emerging area of HER2-low as a target for antibody-drug conjugates," said Dr. Sledge. "As precision oncology continues to evolve, our cutting-edge work on tumor biology and molecular biomarkers will have broad implications in helping to guide treatment decisions and the development of novel therapeutic options for patients across a range of tumor types, including breast cancer." - A special session titled "HER2-Low: A Separate Entity?" on Wednesday, December 7, from 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. CT at the 2022 SABCS in San Antonio, Texas (Presentation #HER2-12). The poster is titled "Genomic and transcriptomic landscape of HER2-low breast cancer." The studies were performed in collaboration with Duke Cancer Institute and Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, both members of Caris' Precision Oncology Alliance™ (POA).
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-low is a newly defined subset of HER2-negative breast cancer that has been reported to account for up to half of all breast cancer cases. The molecular landscape of HER2-low compared to historical subtypes was investigated across 19,789 breast cancer samples using Caris' Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology.
Study results demonstrate that when HER2-low breast cancer is stratified by hormone receptor (HR) status, it shares common genomic features with classically defined subsets of HR+ or HRneg disease. When HR+/Her2-low tumors were compared with triple negative breast cancer, significant differences were observed in PIK3CA (an actionable mutation) and TP53 (a prognostic alteration) and warrant further assessment. These findings advance understanding of the molecular landscape of HER2-low breast cancer which has recently become a new entity for treatment. This knowledge is key to understanding the clinical and biological factors driving treatment resistance and how these factors can impact post-progression treatment options in HER2-low breast cancer.
"Caris' Precision Oncology Alliance (POA) continues its contribution to advancing breast cancer research by presenting novel findings on the molecular features of HER2-low breast cancer at this year's SABCS," said Chadi Nabhan, M.D., MBA, FACP, Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance. "By leveraging Caris' expansive real-world clinico-genomic database, our partner academic institutions are able to uncover new insights into the underpinnings of breast cancer biology and clinical outcomes."
The POA includes 75 cancer centers and academic institutions, including 34 NCI-designated cancer centers, collaborating to advance precision oncology and biomarker-driven research. POA members work together to establish and optimize standards of care for molecular testing through innovative research focused on predictive and prognostic markers that improve the clinical outcomes for cancer patients.
Additional Presentations Reveal Potential Impact of Comprehensive Molecular Profiling
Caris will present additional data from studies demonstrating the critical role of precision medicine and molecular profiling in the treatment of breast cancer. All presentations will be made available online through Caris' website beginning December 7.
- Prevalence and prognosis of ER-loss in advanced invasive lobular carcinoma (Presentation Number: P3-05-08)
This retrospective study aimed to use real-world data to determine the prevalence and clinical significance of estrogen receptor (ER) loss in invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC). Results demonstrate that, based on analysis of a large real-world dataset of over 20,000 patients with advanced breast cancer, ER-loss occurs in around one in ten ILC patients and has poor prognostic implications compared to ILC without ER loss or invasive ductal carcinoma with ER-loss. Genomic analysis also revealed significant differences between breast cancer patients with ER-loss who responded to treatment and those who did not. Further investigation is needed to build on these findings and potentially identify new therapeutic targets for patients with ILC and ER-loss. - Clock genes in breast cancer (Presentation Number: P4-08-06)
This study aimed to investigate the molecular and clinical associations of genes controlling circadian rhythms (clock genes) in breast cancer. Results of this molecular profiling study demonstrate that altered expression of clock genes is strongly associated with breast cancer subtype and survival. Clock gene expression also has therapeutic implications; higher clock gene scores are associated with high PD-L1 expression and triple negative breast and therefore support the use of checkpoint inhibitors. These findings show that clock genes are novel predictive and prognostic biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets in breast cancer.
About Caris Life Sciences
Caris Life Sciences® (Caris) is the leading molecular science and technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare and improve patient outcomes. Through comprehensive molecular profiling (Whole Exome and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing) and the application of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, Caris has created the large-scale clinico-genomic database and cognitive computing needed to analyze and unravel the molecular complexity of disease. This information provides an unmatched resource and the ideal path forward to conduct the basic, fundamental research to accelerate discovery for detection, diagnosis, monitoring, therapy selection and drug development to improve the human condition.
With a primary focus on cancer, Caris' suite of market-leading molecular profiling offerings assesses DNA, RNA and proteins to reveal a molecular blueprint that helps patients, physicians and researchers better detect, diagnose and treat patients. Caris' latest advancement, which is currently available within its Precision Oncology Alliance, is a blood-based, circulating nucleic acids sequencing (cNAS) assay that combines comprehensive molecular analysis (Whole Exome and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing from blood) and serial monitoring – making it the most powerful liquid biopsy assay ever developed.
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Caris has offices in Phoenix, New York, Denver, Tokyo, Japan and Basel, Switzerland. Caris provides services throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and other international markets. To learn more, please visit CarisLifeSciences.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
Caris Life Sciences Media Contact:
Lisa Burgner
CorpComm@carisls.com
214.294.5606
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Scaffolding is normally an eyesore, but one public initiative has transformed it into an art installation. The initiative, ArtBridge, is on display now.
It’s one of New York City’s largest public art initiatives, and NYCHA residents were involved in the process. Over the course of 10 months, ArtBridge commissioned 59 local artists through a city-wide open call. Many of those artists have direct relationships with the art sites.
Over 50 new, original and site-specific works span nearly two miles. The artwork is derived from hundreds of art-making workshops and community events with NYCHA residents.
Partnered NYCHA sites include: Baruch, Polo Grounds, Taft and Lillian Wald in Manhattan; Brownsville, Howard, Ingersoll, Red Hook East and Red Hook West in Brooklyn; Adams and Mitchel in the Bronx; Astoria, Pomonok and Woodside in Queens; and South Beach and Todt Hill in Staten Island
The public artworks were printed and installed on vinyl across the city, including on scaffolding and construction fencing.
The program is a partnership by the City Artist Corps, NYCHA, and the City Canvas program, an initiative of the mayor’s office and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The exhibition is open to the public through July 23, and the artwork will hang in NYCHA buildings through the fall.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, September 24, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Diego CA
333 PM PDT Sat Sep 24 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Southwest California, including the following
county, San Bernardino.
* WHEN...Until 530 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 333 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain
has fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 0.75 inches are
expected over the area. This additional rain will result in
minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of San Bernardino County
- https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Riverside County
through 415 PM PDT...
At 334 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles northwest of Nicholls Warm Springs, or 31 miles east of Desert
Center. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of Riverside County.
This includes CA Interstate 10 between mile markers 135 and 141.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3371 11502 3382 11484 3368 11467 3356 11487
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 322DEG 4KT 3370 11486
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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