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Canada knife attack: 1 stabbing spree suspect dead, police say
WELDON, Saskatchewan (AP) - One of the suspects in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been found dead, and his injuries are not self inflicted, police said Monday as they continued the search for a second suspect.
Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said Damien Sanderson, 31, has been found dead and that they believe his brother, Myles Sanderson, 30, is injured and on the run. While Damien’s body was found near the stabbing sites they believe Myles is in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan.
"His body was located outdoors in a heavily grassed area in proximity to a house that was being examined. We can confirm he has visible injuries. These injuries are not believed to be self inflicted at this point," said RCMP Commanding Officer Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore.
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The discovery of the body came on the second day of a massive manhunt for the pair, who are suspected of carrying out a series of stabbings in an Indigenous community and a nearby town, which also left 18 people injured. It was the deadliest attacks in the nation’s history.
Authorities have said some of the victims were targeted and others appeared to have been chosen at random on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the town of Weldon in Saskatchewan. They have given no motive for the crimes— but a senior Indigenous leader suggested drugs were somehow involved.
While they believe Myles is in Regina, about 335 kilometers (210 miles) south of where the stabbings happened, authorities have issued alerts in Canada’s three vast prairie provinces — which also include Manitoba and Alberta — and contacted U.S. border officials.
With one suspect still at large, fear gripped communities in the rural, working class area of Saskatchewan surrounded by farmland that were terrorized by the crimes. One witness who said he lost family members described seeing people with bloody wounds scattered throughout the Indigenous reserve.
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"No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They’re going to be terrified to open their door," said Ruby Works, who also lost someone close to her and is a resident of Weldon, which has a population of about 200 and is home to many retirees.
As the Labor Day holiday weekend drew to a close Monday, police urged Saskatchewan residents who were returning from trips away to look for suspicious activity around their homes before entering.
Arrest warrants have been issued for the pair of suspects and both men had faced at least one count each of murder and attempted murder. More charges were expected.
Police have given few details about the men. Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included Myles Sanderson, writing that he was "unlawfully at large."
While the manhunt continued, police also issued a provincewide alert for suspects in a shooting on the Witchekan Lake First Nation. Officials said the shooting was not believed to be connected to the stabbings, but such alerts are unusual and the fact that a second occurred while authorities were already scouring the Saskatchewan for the stabbing suspects was notable.
The stabbing attack was among the deadliest mass killings in Canada, where such crimes are less common than in the United States. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020, when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. In 2019, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto.
Deadly mass stabbings are rarer than mass shootings, but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
Canadian police got their first call about a stabbing at 5:40 a.m. on Sunday, and within minutes heard about several more. In all, dead or wounded people were found at 13 different locations on the sparsely populated reserve and in the town, Blackmore said. James Smith Cree Nation is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Weldon.
She couldn’t provide a motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations suggested the stabbings could be drug-related.
"This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the chiefs and councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people," said Chief Bobby Cameron.
As the manhunt stretched on, Regina Police Chief Evan Bray urged anyone with information to come forward.
Bray said they got a credible tip they were in Regina and he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that following a "very aggressive investigation" police believe they are still in the city.
The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation declared a local state of emergency.
Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson — who apparently is not related to the suspects — said everyone has been affected by the tragic events.
"They were our relatives, friends," Sanderson said of the victims. "It’s pretty horrific."
Among the 10 killed was Lana Head, who is the former partner of Michael Brett Burns and the mother of their two daughters.
"It’s sick how jail time, drugs and alcohol can destroy many lives," Burns told the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. "I’m hurt for all this loss."
Burns later posted on Facebook that there were dead and wounded people everywhere on the reserve, making it look like "a war zone."
"The look in their eyes couldn’t express the pain and suffering for all those who were assaulted," he posted.
Weldon residents have identified one of the dead as Wes Petterson, a retired widower who made he coffee every morning at the senior center. He loved gardening, picking berries, canning, and making jam and cakes, recalled William Works, 47, and his mother, Sharon Works, 64.
"He would give you the shirt off his back if he could," William Works said, describing his neighbor as a "gentle old fellow" and "community first."
Sharon Works was baffled: "I don’t understand why they would target someone like him anyway, because he was just a poor, helpless little man, 100 pounds soaking wet. And he could hardly breathe because he had asthma and emphysema and everybody cared about him because that’s the way he was. He cared about everybody else. And they cared about him."
The pair said there is hardly any crime in the rural town, except an occasional speeding ticket. They always left the door unlocked until the night of the slayings.
"Not even when I go to town, I don’t lock my door," Sharon Works said. "But now I have to find my key to my house. I never used to lock the doors and nobody around here until this happened."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the flag above Canada’s parliament building in Ottawa would be flown at half-staff to honor the victims.
"Sadly, over these past years, tragedies like these have become all too common place. Saskatchewanians and Canadians will do what we always do in times of difficulty and anguish, we will be there for each other," Trudeau said.
Gillies reported from Toronto. | https://www.fox29.com/news/canada-knife-attack-1-stabbing-spree-suspect-dead-police-say | 2022-09-06 00:16:24 | 1 | https://www.fox29.com/news/canada-knife-attack-1-stabbing-spree-suspect-dead-police-say |
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A 20-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after his 1-year-old daughter was found dead in the Los Angeles River, authorities said.
The girl's grandmother called police Sunday evening when her son who lives with her returned home with only of his two children after picking them up from their mother in Long Beach, the Inglewood Police Department said.
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Police began a search for the missing girl, Leilani Burley. The other child, a 3-year-old boy, was unharmed, KTLA-TV reported.
“During the course of the investigation, with the assistance of Long Beach Police Department, Leilani’s remains were recovered in the Los Angeles River below the Ocean Boulevard Bridge,” at the river’s southern end in Long Beach, Inglewood police said in a statement.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RNP) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on September 30, 2022 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2017, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year-end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
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Milwaukee police plan crackdown on 'M-class', homemade of explosive devices
Two police injured last year when someone threw explosive at them
Two police injured last year when someone threw explosive at them
Two police injured last year when someone threw explosive at them
Milwaukee police are issuing a loud warning ahead of the Fourth of July weekend.
The department is focusing on fireworks and homemade explosive devices.
Police held a demonstration Wednesday using illegal "M-class" explosives, homemade explosive devices police don't even call fireworks because they're so powerful.
Every year on the Fourth of July, Milwaukee's sky lights up with illegal fireworks.
"In the city of Milwaukee, just simple possession of fireworks are illegal. You can't even possess them let alone light them off," Milwaukee police bomb tech Det. Walter Cappelli said.
But Milwaukee police are more concerned about the non-commercial ones, the homemade devices known as the M-class.
They demonstrated first with an M-80 inside a grapefruit and then an M-250 inside a cantaloupe.
"(They can cause) eye damage, hearing damage, and damage to your hands," Cappelli said.
The so-called M-1000 explosives are particularly dangerous and have even been known to kill.
"These were the types of devices that were thrown at our Milwaukee police officers last Fourth of July down on Water Street that injured two officers," Cappelli said.
Five men are facing federal charges for tossing one at police last summer.
"When these things explode, a pressure wave comes off of them, and when that pressure wave hit that officer's squad car, and it actually deployed the airbags, so that's how much force is coming off these things," Cappelli said.
Milwaukee police are planning a crackdown. They said they have no tolerance for the improvised devices — the M-class explosives.
Those aren't sold commercially, but police do come across them.
As for the commercially sold fireworks, in all of 2021, they issued just seven tickets, but police said they will be writing tickets and confiscating fireworks when they see them. | https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-police-plan-crackdown-on-m-class-homemade-of-explosive-devices/40464255 | 2022-06-29 22:56:14 | 0 | https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-police-plan-crackdown-on-m-class-homemade-of-explosive-devices/40464255 |
BERLIN (AP) — Scores of environmental groups issued a joint appeal Monday for the European Union to drop carbon removal methods from its climate plans, arguing that some of them rely on untested technology while others may not absorb as many greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.
The EU's executive Commission has proposed creating a system for certifying so-called offsets — carbon absorbed through nature or with technological means — which could then be bought by polluters to reduce their emissions balance.
But some 170 groups including Friends of the Earth, Corporate Accountability and the Center for International Environmental Law argue that plans to use fields, forests or machines for future large-scale removal of carbon from the atmosphere are a “ greenwashing fantasy.”
They have instead called for the Commission to commit to real, or gross, cuts in emissions, instead of net cuts that many countries and companies are currently touting in their climate plans. The 27-nation EU aims to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.
Scientists say emissions of planet-heating gases caused by human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, need to be halved by 2030 and end completely by mid-century to keep alive the Paris climate accord's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).
The European Commission didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Groups-ask-EU-to-drop-carbon-removal-from-climate-17615955.php | 2022-11-28 19:46:21 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Groups-ask-EU-to-drop-carbon-removal-from-climate-17615955.php |
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- One swimmer has gone missing off of the waters of Coney Island Thursday afternoon, police said.
- Divers plunged into the Atlantic Ocean looking for two missing swimmers -- possibly boys -- around 12:45 p.m.
- One was ultimately rescued, while the other continues to remain missing as an active search for him is underway, police said.
One swimmer has gone missing out on Coney Island Thursday afternoon, police said.
Divers plunged into the Atlantic Ocean looking for two missing swimmers -- possibly boys -- around 12:45 p.m. One was ultimately rescued, while the other continues to remain missing as an active search for him is underway, police said.
Just moments before the swimmers disappeared in the water, Kevin, a beachgoer, told News 4 New York he was in chest deep water with them.
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Witness after witness told News 4 New York the same thing: they saw the boys and told them if they weren't strong swimmers they needed to head to shore.
However, people on the beach started to hear screams and realized the swimmers were in trouble. Beachgoers ran to the waves to try to help the struggling swimmers.
One witness said when the police and parks security arrived he saw they pulled one person out of the water and raced him to stretcher.
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As the search for the other person continues, onlookers were emotional. A woman under a green umbrella was distraught. Witnesses say she's related to the two swimmers. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/search-underway-for-missing-swimmer-off-of-coney-island/4542520/ | 2023-07-27 21:57:52 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/search-underway-for-missing-swimmer-off-of-coney-island/4542520/ |
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By ED WHITE
Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him, lawyers said Wednesday.
There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they failed to act, leaving him free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. He pleaded guilty in 2017 and is serving decades in prison.
“It is time for the FBI to be held accountable,” said Maggie Nichols, a national champion gymnast at Oklahoma in 2017-19.
Under federal law, a government agency has six months to respond to the tort claims filed Wednesday. Lawsuits could follow, depending on the FBI’s response.
The approximately 90 claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists, according to Manly, Stewart & Finaldi, a California law firm. Separately, 13 claims were filed by others in April.
“If the FBI had simply done its job, Nassar would have been stopped before he ever had the chance to abuse hundreds of girls, including me,” said former University of Michigan gymnast Samantha Roy.
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told local agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Nassar, a team doctor. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the Justice Department’s inspector general, an internal watchdog.
Los Angeles agents in 2016 began a sexual tourism investigation against Nassar and interviewed several victims but also didn’t alert Michigan authorities, the inspector general said.
Nassar wasn’t arrested until the fall of 2016 during an investigation by police at Michigan State University, where he was a doctor.
The Michigan attorney general’s office ultimately handled the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filed a child pornography case.
The FBI declined to comment Wednesday on the former gymnasts’ financial claims, referring instead to remarks last year by FBI Director Christopher Wray, who acknowledged major mistakes.
“I’m especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed. And that’s inexcusable,” Wray told victims at a Senate hearing.
At that same hearing, Biles, widely considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time, said an “entire system” enabled the abuse. Maroney recalled “dead silence” when she talked to FBI agents about Nassar.
The Justice Department in May said that it would not pursue criminal charges against former agents who were accused of giving inaccurate or incomplete responses during the inspector general’s investigation.
Failures by federal law enforcers have led to major settlements, including $127.5 million for families of those killed or injured in 2018 at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The FBI received a tip about five weeks before 17 people were killed, but the tip was never forwarded to the South Florida office.
Paul Figley, a professor at American University’s law school and a former Justice Department litigator, said the government will have defenses against claims by Nassar’s victims.
“The Tort Claims Act has worked very well for what it was intended to do: Help people hurt by run-of-the-mill accidents” involving federal employees, Figley said. “The bad act here is what the doctor did.”
Michigan State University, which was also accused of missing chances over many years to stop Nassar, agreed to pay $500 million to more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by him. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee made a $380 million settlement.
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SEOUL – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday called for officials to map out specific steps to hasten security and economic cooperation with Japan following his weekend summit in Seoul with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Kishida during Sunday’s meeting expressed sympathy toward Koreans forced into industrial slavery during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula as the leaders vowed to overcome historical grievances and strengthen cooperation in the face of the North Korean nuclear threat and other challenges.
The summit, which was the second meeting between the leaders in less than two months, drew a mixed reaction in South Korea. Critics, including Yoon’s liberal opponents who control majority in the National Assembly, said Kishida’s comments fell short of a meaningful apology and accused Yoon of letting Japan off the hook over its past aggressions while pushing to repair bilateral ties.
Others saw the summit as a sign that the two key U.S. allies are finally moving forward after years of bickering as they step up their three-way partnership with Washington.
Yoon, Kishida and President Joe Biden are expected to hold a trilateral meeting later this month on the sidelines of the Group of Seven meetings in Hiroshima to discuss North Korea and geopolitical uncertainties created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertive foreign policy. While South Korea isn’t a G-7 country, Yoon was invited as one of eight outreach nations.
Yoon during a meeting with his chief sectaries on Monday instructed them to establish follow-up measures to carry out bilateral security, economic and technology cooperation and facilitate culture and youth exchanges between the countries, which were discussed in his meeting with Kishida. Yoon’s office didn’t elaborate.
Speaking to reporters before departing Seoul, Kishida said he hoped to further strengthen his personal relationship with Yoon and “work together to carve out a new era.”
Kishida, who earlier on Monday separately met with groups of South Korean lawmakers and business leaders, stressed the need for facilitating people-to-people exchanges between the countries, which he said would “help further promote our mutual understanding and give widths and thickness to our relations.”
Kishida’s visit to Seoul reciprocated a mid-March trip to Tokyo by Yoon. It's the first exchange of visits between the leaders of the countries in 12 years.
The back-to-back summits were largely meant to resolve bitter disputes triggered by South Korean court rulings in 2018 that ordered two Japanese companies to compensate some of their former Korean employees for forced labor before the end of World War II. Those rulings irked Japan, which insists all compensation issues were settled by a 1965 treaty that normalized relations.
The wrangling led to the countries downgrading each other’s trade status and Seoul’s previous liberal government threatening to spike a bilateral military intelligence-sharing pact. Their strained ties complicated U.S. efforts to build a stronger regional alliance to better cope with challenges posed by North Korea and China.
Bilateral relations thawed after Yoon’s conservative government in March announced a domestically contentious plan to use local corporate funds to compensate the forced labor victims without demanding Japanese contributions. Yoon later that month traveled to Tokyo to meet with Kishida, and the two agreed to resume leadership-level visits and other talks. Their governments have since taken steps to withdraw their economic retaliatory steps.
Kishida’s trip to Seoul drew intense public attention in South Korea, where many people still harbor resentment over Japan’s colonial occupation.
In a news conference after Sunday’s summit, Kishida avoided a new, direct apology over the colonization but still sympathized with the Korean victims, in an apparent effort to maintain momentum for improving ties.
“Personally, I have strong pain in my heart as I think of the extreme difficulty and sorrow that many people had to suffer under the severe environment in those days,” he said.
Kishida also revealed that he and Yoon would pay respects before a memorial for Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima during the G-7 meetings. He addressed South Korean concerns about food safety following Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster, saying that Tokyo will allow South Korean experts to visit and inspect a planned release of treated radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Seoul's Foreign Ministry said the South Korean inspection team will consist of experts from related government agencies and organizations and that it will soon hold talks with Japanese officials to set up their visit planned for May 23-24.
Yoon had faced criticism at home that he had preemptively made concessions to Tokyo without getting corresponding steps in return, and opposition politicians and some newspapers described the summit as a disappointment.
“We cannot move into the future in the way of selling out on our past,” said Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost to Yoon in last year’s presidential race. “Normalizing relations between South Korea and Japan is a necessity, and I am in favor of it, but not at the cost of our national interests, national dignity, history and justice.”
The conservative Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s biggest newspaper by circulation, acknowledged that Kishida’s comments were insufficient to ease South Korean frustrations over history but also said that the summit reflected the countries' “desperate” need for cooperation.
“South Korea and Japan are in need of greater cooperation in the wake of recent events like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s maritime assertiveness that threatens its neighbors. The countries’ need to jointly respond to North Korean nuclear and missile threats is greater than ever. Moreover, the countries face similar challenges related to their slowing economies and declining populations,” the newspaper said.
“This is not the time to be stuck in the past.”
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AP writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul and Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to the report.
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See this organic farm for sale in River Hills, listed for $615,000
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The five-acre lot features farmland, a barn, a chicken coop and a small greenhouse. Frogs and turtles swim around in a pond out back, next to a man-made beach.
The farmhouse, a Victorian built in the late 1800s, was first home to a local River Hills doctor who raised cows on the land.
The home was renovated by later owners. It now includes eleven total rooms — including four bedrooms and three full bathrooms.
For several decades, the farm fell out of use. That is, until 2009, when owners Pam Percy and Marty Hintz dug up about two acres and started planting.
It wasn't easy to transform the lot into an organic farm. Percy and Hintz learned a lot along the way. The farm grows a range of produce, including tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and potatoes.
Over those years, Milwaukee-area visitors had the chance to experience farm life. At farm-to-table dinners overseen by top area chefs, guests enjoyed organic produce and one of a kind dinners. And at girls' day camps, kids could garden, pet the bunnies and create art.
Hintz died in 2020, at the age of 75. He was remembered for his creativity and generosity.
The property is selling by owner. Interested buyers can contact farmhousemke@aol.com. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/real-estate/2023/01/20/river-hills-organic-farm-for-sale-victorian-farmhouse-barn/69803810007/ | 2023-01-20 13:03:24 | 1 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/real-estate/2023/01/20/river-hills-organic-farm-for-sale-victorian-farmhouse-barn/69803810007/ |
WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan, a visit that’s angering China and could further strain U.S. relations with China.
The issue is that China sees Taiwan as its territory while Taiwan considers itself independent, and China perceives Pelosi’s trip as a provocation.
“Let me be clear the speaker’s visit is totally consistent with our long-standing One China Policy,” John Kirby with the National Security Council said.
In a Washington Post opinion piece, Pelosi said the delegation she leads is “an unequivocal statement that America stands with Taiwan” in the face of what she calls “accelerating aggression” from China.
Republicans are unusually supportive of her.
“I’m about to use four words in a row that I haven’t used in this way before. And those four words are Speaker Pelosi was right,” Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said.
“I don’t think the Chinese get to tell members of Congress where they can go,” Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell added.
In response, China says it will conduct military exercises with live ammunition in areas surrounding Taiwan.
“There’s no reason for Beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with long-standing policy, into some sort of crisis,” Kirby said.
Chinese officials say the U.S. and Taiwan are working together to provoke China and playing with fire.
The U.S. is also positioning warships near Taiwan. | https://www.ksn.com/news/washington-dc/pelosi-visits-taiwan-defying-warnings-from-china/ | 2022-08-02 23:25:48 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/washington-dc/pelosi-visits-taiwan-defying-warnings-from-china/ |
An outbreak of roaring drag racing and tire-squealing "donuts" in Baton Rouge on Sunday night defied recent efforts from city officials to crack down on dangerous stunt driving — but some leaders say their efforts are starting to make some progress.
Since the parish passed new, tougher penalties in August, the Baton Rouge Police department says it has taken action against stunt drivers, and calls about the problem have declined. Still, some officials say the state legislature may need to crack down further on the problem.
"As a local government, we almost maxed out the penalty phase with the last steps we took," Metro Councilman Rowdy Gaudet, who sponsored the tougher penalties last year, said. "The data I’ve looked at from law enforcement shows the number of incidents is down ... but when you see it’s happening in your community, it almost steals a sense of your hope for your community."
Gaudet and council member Aaron Moak urged the Louisiana Legislature to pass legislation that would build upon recent rules from the Metro Council. An ordinance approved in August expanded the definition of drag racing to include stunt activities like burnout and doughnuts, while also allowing for spectators of the stunt races to be charged with a crime.
People accused of violating the ordinance can be charged with a misdemeanor and have their vehicle impounded.
Since the beginning of the year, five people have been issued summonses for drag racing and 15 people have been issued summonses for spectating a drag race, according to data provided by BRPD. Six vehicles have been towed under a 15-day hold, according to the data.
Gaudet and Moak said they'd like to see the penalty for drag racing increased to a felony offense, something only the state legislature can do.
"I don’t know what else we can do legislatively," Moak said. "We’ve given all the tools we have available to law enforcement to use."
More on Sunday's incidents
The comments came after several people were issued court summonses following stunt racing incidents in the parish Sunday morning.
Officers responded to reports of reckless driving at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday at St. Phillip Street and South Boulevard and attempted to break up a crowd of people watching several cars stunt race in an intersection, according to BRPD spokesman L'Jean McKneely Jr.
At one point, spectators blocked the roadway and beat on a patrol unit, damaging it, McKneely said.
One stunt racer was briefly pursued by BRPD officers, but that chase was terminated before an arrest could be made because officers determined the chase posed a risk to the public, McKneely said.
The incident ended with a driver, Jatyrian Dyson, 20, being issued a summons to appear in court, and his vehicle being towed, McKneely said.
Robert Clemon, a resident of Texas, and Brody Gautreaux were arrested in connection with a separate Sunday morning racing incident in the area of Bluebonnet Boulevard and Jefferson Highway, District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Monday.
While only one person has been charged in connection with the Sunday incident at St. Phillip and South, McKneely said BRPD is investigating and expects further summons to be issued.
Balancing arrests with risks
Council members also acknowledged that a further crackdown on drag and stunt racing could increase the likelihood of high-speed police pursuits. Council and community members have voiced concern over recent deaths stemming from high-speed pursuits in the parish.
Last New Year's Eve, two Brusly High School students were killed in a crash during a police pursuit that started in Baton Rouge. On March 9, a bystander was killed when a suspect BRPD was pursuing zoomed into the intersection of North Acadian Thruway and Fairfields Avenue.
Moak suggested providing law enforcement with additional technology like cameras and license plate readers so suspects can be easily identified regardless of if they flee the scene.
"I want officers to know that if the person they’re pursuing becomes a danger to the public, they can still figure out who they are and get them later," Moak said.
Staff writers Elyse Carmosino and Ellyn Couvillion contributed to this report. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/further-crack-down-on-drag-racing-may-take-state-action/article_e365a69e-d7d7-11ed-81c0-afb79d992149.html | 2023-04-10 23:11:57 | 1 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/further-crack-down-on-drag-racing-may-take-state-action/article_e365a69e-d7d7-11ed-81c0-afb79d992149.html |
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Three girls basketball teams from Scioto County will play for a chance at state next week following their wins in district championship games on Saturday.
In Division III, the Portsmouth West Lady Senators won the program’s first ever district crown — defeating Portsmouth 51-47 in Waverly’s Downtown Arena.
The Portsmouth West Lady Senators won the program’s first ever district championship on Saturday, defeating Portsmouth 51-47 at Waverly’s Downtown Arena.
Ed Litteral | Daily Times
Highlights from West’s 51-47 win over Portsmouth in a classic Division III district final.
Lady Senators will face North Adams in a Region 11 semifinal at Logan High School on Weds., March 1 at 8 p.m. #PDTSports pic.twitter.com/X5r4NRGGZ8
— Jacob Smith (@JacobSmithPDT) February 26, 2023
West will face North Adams in a Region 11 semifinal on Wednesday, March 1 at 8 p.m. at Logan’s Jim Myers Gymnasium.
Wheelersburg won the program’s third-straight district championship — defeating Nelsonville-York 51-31 at Wellston High School.
🏆 DISTRICT CHAMPS! The Lady Pirates took down Nelsonville York today 51-31. This is the senior class's 3rd District Championship. The Lady Pirate program has now won 4 District Championships in 5 years. This group is SPECIAL!!! Now on to REGIONALS! #GoBurg pic.twitter.com/IKWKjP4f2B
— Wheelersburg Lady Pirates (@burgladypirates) February 25, 2023
Leading scorers for @burgladypirates on Saturday in win over Nelsonville-York were both seniors @MakennaWalker6 & @ruckerlj23 19 points apiece as Rucker made 2 3s while Walker was 11-of-14 at FT line including 6-of-6 in 4th QTR. Pirates 16-22 as team @ stripe. @JacobSmithPDT
— @PaulBoggsSports (@paulboggssports) February 25, 2023
The Wheelersburg Lady Pirates won the program’s third-straight Division III district title as a result of their 51-31 win over Nelsonville-York at Wellston High School.
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The Lady Pirates will face Belmont Union Local in the Region 11 semifinals on Wednesday, March 1 at 6:15 p.m.
In Division IV, the Notre Dame Lady Titans have made their way back into the Region 15 tournament following their 69-34 blowout win over Eastern Meigs at Piketon High School in the Southeast District No. 1 final.
Highlights from @GoNDTitans’s 69-34 win over Eastern Meigs in a Division IV district final.
Lady Titans face Fisher Catholic in the Region 15 semifinals on Thursday at 8 pm Pickerington North HS. #PDTSports pic.twitter.com/mdqUvlmWRd
— Jacob Smith (@JacobSmithPDT) February 26, 2023
The Notre Dame Lady Titans earned their first district championship since the ‘19-20 season thanks to their 69-34 win over Eastern Meigs in a Division IV district final at Piketon High School.
Ed Litteral | Daily Times
The Lady Titans will face Fisher Catholic in a Region 15 semifinal on Thursday, March 2 at Pickerington North High School at 8 p.m. | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/2023/02/25/three-scioto-county-girls-teams-win-district-championships/ | 2023-02-26 10:23:38 | 0 | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/2023/02/25/three-scioto-county-girls-teams-win-district-championships/ |
We've hit a major medical milestone for people living with Alzheimer's Disease.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to give full approval to a drug called Lecanemab on July 6th.
Medical centers across the nation are preparing for a large influx of calls.
Dr. Zaldy Tan is the director of the Memory and Aging Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He says Lecanemab is the first disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer's Disease.
Up until now, we only had therapies to help treat symptoms.
It's not a cure, but it does mean a bit more time with loved ones because it slows the progression of the disease.
"The estimates are still preliminary, but the estimates are that the slowing is equivalent to about six months after 18 months of therapy," Dr. Tan said. "So for some people, that six months is fairly modest and may not be noticeable. But for some people, the six months may mean being able to attend a wedding or attending a grandson's graduation or taking a trip."
It slows the progression by eating abnormal proteins called amyloid plaques that accumulate in the brain of somebody with Alzheimer's.
However, Dr. Tan says it's only been effective in patients who have mild or moderate Alzheimer's Disease.
Without insurance, the medication is estimated to cost $26,000 dollars a year. That doesn't include additional costs like follow-up testing and what it takes to administer the drug.
"The reason why the FDA announcement about this medication is so important is because the center for Medicare and Medicaid, which is the largest insurer of older Americans, have stated that if this medication receives full FDA approval, that they are planning to cover it," Dr. Tan said.
Dr. Tan says private insurers typically look to medicare when making their own decisions regarding coverage.
Even if the cost is covered, something else to consider is the commitment. Lecanemab needs to be administered every two weeks at an infusion center for 18 months.
Nonetheless, Dr. Tan says he hopes this medication will open up a pathway for more effective, safer, and less costly medications in the future. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/fda-to-grant-full-approval-for-alzheimers-medication-lecanemab | 2023-07-06 03:25:32 | 1 | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/fda-to-grant-full-approval-for-alzheimers-medication-lecanemab |
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A man walks past the old City Market building on the corner of First Street and Rood Avenue. The city of Grand Junction is interested in buying the downtown property, as well as the Glacier Ice Rink (top photo) on Riverside Parkway, says Mayor Duke Wortmann.
The final vote on a $2.4 million incentive package for the Greeley company looking to redevelop the old City Market at First Street and Rood Avenue has been delayed to Sept. 7.
Mayor Anna Stout said the matter was being continued in order for the city of Grand Junction to get its development incentives standardized so it doesn’t look like City Council is picking winners and losers.
The council first voted on adding to the consent agenda a motion to continue the Richmark issue to a later meeting.
That motion was approved 5-2, with council members Chuck McDaniel and Dennis Simpson voting against the item. The consent agenda, including the new Richmark item, then passed unanimously.
“I don’t believe I understand the reason for moving this. This has been a process and a matter that has been around for probably almost a year, and we have a number of people here, some from out of town, who have come for this hearing,” McDaniel said.
Richmark companies first approached the city in 2021 asking for Grand Junction to provide a full impact fee waiver for the development and for the city to purchase and improve the Rood Avenue right of way, which adds up to a total incentive package of about $2.4 million from the city.
Richmark will also receive about $3.5 million from the Downtown Development Authority.
Representatives from Richmark said at first the 257-unit apartment complex, called The Junction, would have some deed restricted affordable units, but later said all the units in the complex will be market rate.
The property is expected to generate about $162,000 per year in property taxes.
Council Member Randall Reitz said he would be more comfortable passing the Richmark incentive package if the city had something in place already.
“The idea is to put the cart behind the horse when it comes to discussing the city’s incentives,” Stout said.
“It’s a different cart and a different horse,” McDaniel responded.
City staff presented ideas for development incentives for infill development in the city center, and for affordable housing, to the City Council at a workshop Monday.
For infill development, staff recommended a tiered system for incentives in which developments that involve at least $51 million in private investment have all plant investment fees, impact fees, and open space fees waived, as well as a sales and use tax rebate.
Developments that include less investment get less fees waived.
For affordable housing, staff presented a system in which developments would have fees waived based on the number and percentage of affordable units in the development.
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Former Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz will be hired as the new defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, per multiple national reports.
For the past two seasons, Schwartz was a senior defensive assistant for the Tennessee Titans. This marks his fourth turn running a defense in the NFL, with previous stints as the defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills and the Titans. The Browns previously interviewed Schwartz for their head-coaching vacancy in 2020.
Schwartz led the Lions to a 29-51 record, including one postseason appearance during his five years in the big chair. He was fired after two disappointing seasons following that wild-card appearance. Schwartz won a Super Bowl title while serving as defensive coordinator of the Eagles (2016-2020).
Now, he takes over a Browns defense headlined by stars Myles Garrett and Denzel Ward, among others. Cleveland’s defense ranked 14th, allowing 6.0 net yards per passing attempt. But they struggled on the ground, allowing 4.7 yards per carry (25th). Football Outsiders ranked Cleveland’s defense 23rd in DVOA.
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DALLAS (AP) — Led by Caitlin Clark, The Associated Press women’s basketball Player of the Year, Iowa will play in its first national championship game Sunday against LSU.
That will be the Clark’s 100th game with the Hawkeyes. A look at her Iowa career so far for the 6-foot guard who will be back next season. As a 21-year-old junior, she’s not eligible for the WNBA draft.
SOME IMPRESSIVE STATS
— Averaging 27.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 8.0 assist per game in her career.
— 11 career triple-doubles, a Big Ten record and tied for the second-most in NCAA history.
— 43 career double-doubles.
— This season became the first player in Division I women’s basketball history to record more than 1,000 points and 300 assists in a single year.
— Active streak of 89 consecutive games scoring in double figures, an NCAA Division I record.
— Has made a 3-pointer in 56 consecutive games.
SOME MILESTONE MOMENTS
Nov. 25, 2020: Made her Iowa debut by scoring 27 points with eight rebounds, four assists and three steals in a win over Northern Iowa.
Dec. 2, 2020: Has first 30-point game, scoring 30 at Drake.
Dec. 22, 2020: Has first triple-double, with 13 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists in win over Western Illinois.
Jan. 2, 2022: First 40-point game, with 44 points against Evansville.
Jan. 20, 2022: Had the second of consecutive 30-point triple-doubles with 35 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists in a 105-49 win at Minnesota. Clark joined Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Luka Doncic Giannis Antetokounmpo as the only NBA, WNBA, and Division I men’s or women’s players with back-to-back 30-point triple-doubles since 2000.
Jan. 25, 2022: Broke Iowa’s single-game assist record with 18 in a win at Penn State.
Feb. 6, 2022: Scored a career-high 46 points against Michigan.
March 4, 2022: Had 19 points and six assists in a 72-59 win over Northwestern in the Big Ten Tournament opener to finish a streak of 19 games with at least 15 points and five assists. It tied Murray State’s Ja Morant for the second-longest such streak in Division I history behind Texas Tech’s Trae Young (22).
Dec. 21, 2022: Eclipsed 2,000 career points in her 75th career game, matching Elena Delle Donne as the fastest NCAA Division I women’s basketball player to reach that mark.
Feb. 26, 2023: Hits buzzer-beating 3-pointer to top Indiana in final regular season game. Clark scored 34 points and added nine rebounds and nine assists. She took the inbound pass from Kate Martin with 1.5 seconds left while coming off a screen from Monika Czinano. Her off-balance shot from the right side that rolled in as the horn sounded.
March 17, 2023-current: The first player since 2000 to average at least 30 points and 10 assists over a five-game span while also shooting at least 50% from the field.
March 26, 2023: Had the first 40-point triple-double in NCAA Tournament history, with 41 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists in a regional final win over Louisville.
March 31, 2023: Became the first player to post back-to-back 40-point performances in the women’s NCAA Tournament after her 41-point game lifted the Hawkeyes over previously unbeaten South Carolina in the Final Four.
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/sports/ap-sports/100th-game-for-caitlin-clark-at-iowa-is-for-national-title/ | 2023-04-02 21:34:00 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/sports/ap-sports/100th-game-for-caitlin-clark-at-iowa-is-for-national-title/ |
Pavin Smith Player Prop Bets: Diamondbacks vs. Phillies - June 12
Published: Jun. 12, 2023 at 4:25 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Monday, Pavin Smith (.474 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including three home runs) and the Arizona Diamondbacks play the Philadelphia Phillies, whose starting pitcher will be Matt Strahm. First pitch is at 9:40 PM ET.
He notched a home run while going 2-for-4 in his most recent game against the Tigers.
Pavin Smith Game Info & Props vs. the Phillies
- Game Day: Monday, June 12, 2023
- Game Time: 9:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Chase Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Phillies Starter: Matt Strahm
- TV Channel: BSAZ
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -154)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +225)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +165)
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Pavin Smith At The Plate
- Smith has five doubles, seven home runs and 23 walks while hitting .209.
- Smith has reached base via a hit in 23 games this year (of 47 played), and had multiple hits in eight of those games.
- Looking at the 47 games he has played this season, he's hit a long ball in seven of them (14.9%), and in 4.1% of his trips to the dish.
- In 34.0% of his games this season, Smith has driven in at least one run. In six of those games (12.8%) he recorded two or more RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- In 20 of 47 games this year, he has scored, and three of those games included multiple runs.
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Pavin Smith Home/Away Batting Splits
Phillies Pitching Rankings
- The 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Phillies pitching staff ranks eighth in the league.
- The Phillies' 4.45 team ERA ranks 20th among all league pitching staffs.
- The Phillies rank 11th in baseball in home runs surrendered (69 total, 1.1 per game).
- Strahm gets the start for the Phillies, his ninth of the season. He is 4-3 with a 3.61 ERA and 55 strikeouts through 42 1/3 innings pitched.
- His last appearance was out of the bullpen on Friday when the lefty tossed one inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers, surrendering three earned runs while allowing two hits.
- The 31-year-old has an ERA of 3.61, with 11.7 strikeouts per nine innings, in 17 games this season. Opponents are batting .211 against him.
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By MIKE FITZPATRICK
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — For the big leaguers who saw him play, Roberto Clemente was a breathtaking talent and unmistakable force on the field who made a powerful impact on young ballplayers.
His selfless humanitarianism left a lasting impression, too.
Major League Baseball celebrated its 21st annual Roberto Clemente Day on Thursday, with festivities centered in New York, where the Mets hosted the Hall of Fame outfielder’s former team, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Clemente died in a plane crash at age 38 attempting to deliver relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua on New Year’s Eve 1972. To mark the 50th anniversary year of that tragedy, more than a dozen winners of baseball’s treasured Roberto Clemente Award for philanthropy and playing excellence joined Clemente family members at Citi Field for the pregame ceremony.
“The most important trophy that I have in my house. Because it’s not just a trophy,” said former Mets slugger and 2006 winner Carlos Delgado, like Clemente a proud native of Puerto Rico.
Hall of Famers Dave Winfield and Jim Thome were among the Clemente Award winners introduced on the field before highlights of the 15-time All-Star’s life and career played on the large video board in center field.
Players and coaches from both teams — all wearing Clemente’s No. 21, as did some others around the majors — lined the baselines. Puerto Rican musician José Feliciano performed the national anthem of Puerto Rico and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and Clemente’s 4-year-old grandson threw out a first pitch in an RC III Pirates jersey.
“It is a very special energy today,” said Luis Clemente, Roberto’s son. “The energy is totally different this year.”
Clemente, a cherished icon in baseball-loving Puerto Rico, became the first Caribbean and Latin American player enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1973.
The strong-armed right fielder won 12 Gold Gloves, four batting titles and the 1966 NL MVP award. He helped lead the Pirates to a pair of championships in 18 brilliant seasons and was the 1971 World Series MVP.
“I came in the league in ’73. I knew who Roberto Clemente was and I was going to be a right fielder, so I watched the way he charged the ball, picked it up, threw people out. I wish (we) would have been able to play so we could test each other’s arms. But he was an incredible player and an even more incredible human being,” Winfield said.
“Before I go, man, that was one of the things that I wanted to do was win this Roberto Clemente Award, because it would just acknowledge some of the work that had been done throughout my career,” he added. “I missed him by a year. But his legacy continues and we’re all part of that.”
Clemente got his 3,000th hit in his final at-bat, a double off Mets left-hander Jon Matlack on Sept. 30, 1972.
“You look back through the history and some of the things he did and what he means,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said, “it’s a great thing baseball is doing.”
“I think of him catching the ball down the right field line and spinning and throwing,” Showalter added, noting he swung a Roberto Clemente model bat in high school. “I think about his reckless abandon and how loud a runner he was. Can you imagine what it was like trying to tag him at second, coming in, back when you could actually slide with your spikes and stay hooked to the bag because it wasn’t hard and plastic and slick?”
There’s been a push in recent years for MLB to retire Clemente’s No. 21 for all teams, the way the sport did in 1997 to honor Dodgers pioneer Jackie Robinson for breaking baseball’s color barrier 50 years earlier.
“It’s a situation where I think it is gaining more momentum,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. “I think today’s one of the best days of the year.”
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CA Phoenix AZ Zone Forecast for Thursday, September 15, 2022
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107 AM MST Fri Sep 16 2022
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Northwest Valley-Buckeye/Avondale-Deer Valley-Central Phoenix-
North Phoenix/Glendale-Scottsdale/Paradise Valley-East Valley-
South Mountain/Ahwatukee-Southeast Valley/Queen Creek-
Including the cities of Circle City, Surprise, Wittmann, Beardsley,
Sun City West, Avondale, Cashion, Goodyear, Liberty, Peoria, Phoenix,
Paradise Valley, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Gilbert, Sun Lakes,
and Queen Creek
107 AM MST Fri Sep 16 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 69 to 78. Southwest wind around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 98. Southeast wind around 5 mph in the
morning becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 68 to 76. West wind 5 to 10 mph in the
evening becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 76. West wind 5 to 10 mph in the
evening becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 102.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 75.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 72 to 79.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 94 to 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows 69 to 77. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then a slight chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Not as warm. Highs 90 to 95. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows 68 to 74.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs 91 to 96.
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Cave Creek/New River-Fountain Hills/East Mesa-
Apache Junction/Gold Canyon-
Including the cities of Scottsdale, Fountain Hills,
and Apache Junction
107 AM MST Fri Sep 16 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. East wind around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 98. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph in
the evening becoming east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 100. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 71. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph in
the evening becoming east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 102.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 102.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 72 to 77.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then a slight chance of afternoon showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 93 to 99. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows 70 to 75. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Not as warm. Highs near 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows 67 to 72.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower to mid 90s.
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Northwest Pinal County-West Pinal County-
Including the cities of Casa Grande, Cactus Forest, Florence,
and Coolidge
107 AM MST Fri Sep 16 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. South wind around 5 mph in the
morning becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 71. West wind 5 to 10 mph in the
evening becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 69. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph
in the evening becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 103.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows near 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs 96 to 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Not as warm. Highs in the lower to mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows 68 to 73.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower to mid 90s.
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Imperial County West-
Including the cities of Coolidge Springs, Salton City, Winona,
Coyote Wells, Ocotillo, and Plaster City
107 AM PDT Fri Sep 16 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. West wind 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 98. West wind 5 to 10 mph in the morning
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73. West wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 99. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 70. West wind 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 71.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 66 to 71.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s.
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Imperial County Southwest-
Including the city of Mountain Spring
107 AM PDT Fri Sep 16 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear and breezy. Lows 63 to 73. Southwest wind 15 to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 97. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph in the
morning becoming southeast 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear and breezy. Lows 63 to 73. Southwest wind 15 to
25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 97. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear and breezy. Lows 60 to 70. Southwest wind
10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 71.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 69.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 94.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 71.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
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Joshua Tree NP West-Joshua Tree NP East-
Including the cities of Cottonwood Visitor and Lost Horse-Keys
Village
107 AM PDT Fri Sep 16 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 69. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 93. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph in the
morning becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 69. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 93. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 55 to 65. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 92.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 65.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 92.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 51 to 66.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 91.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 48 to 64.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 88.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 50 to 65.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 90.
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Creators' Legal Announces Listing Partnership with App Sumo
OAKLAND, Calif., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creators' Legal announced today a listing partnership with App Sumo, a leading product discovery site.
App Sumo will host a discounted subscription for App Sumo users of the Creators' Legal platform. The placement of Creators' Legal on App Sumo coincides with Creators' Legal recent release of their third version of the product. The listing will go live on June 17, 2022.
The newest version of Creators' Legal includes a contract editor to allow creators the freedom to fully edit their contracts. It also includes the ability to add company logos in the contract. These new features are a step towards Creators' Legal shift to provide a fully integrated legal platform for independent production companies as well as independent creators.
"We are very happy to be on the App Sumo platform, it is a well-known brand in software and product discovery". Said Eric Farber, the Founder, and CEO of Creators' Legal.
Creators' Legal is the first and only DIY legal platform built for the Creator Economy. With close to 50 million people in the United States earning a living off content creation Creators' Legal is quickly becoming the tool of choice for the community.
Creators' Legal has over 170 contracts in more than 10 Creator categories including filmmakers, musicians, NFT creators, Podcasters, Web Series, Digital Creators, and more. The products are available on a per-use basis or through subscription. Creators' Legal boasts close to 1000 creators using the platform for their creative legal contracts. There is also an educational 2 program for students and faculty of creative schools and programs. All can be found at www.CreatorsLegal.com.
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LANGLEY, Virginia (AP) — President Joe Biden lauded the CIA as the “bedrock of our national security” during a Friday visit to the agency, which also is part of the wide-ranging intelligence effort to support Ukraine’s resistance against Russia.
Biden marked the 75th anniversary of the agency’s founding after World War II. While at the headquarters in Virginia, he thanked the CIA for its work in Ukraine and called America’s intelligence officers “the best in the world.”
Predictions that Russia would invade Ukraine in February provided a public boost for spy agencies that are often criticized and facing new pressure to deliver insights on China and Russia. Biden authorized an unprecedented campaign to declassify findings that have been credited with helping build support for severe Russia sanctions and the ramp-up of military support to Kyiv.
“It was thanks to the incredible work of our intelligence professionals that we were able to inform the world what Vladimir Putin was planning in Ukraine,” Biden told the audience while standing in front of the agency’s memorial wall.
Biden came to the White House with a long history of receiving intelligence briefings, having served eight years as vice president and 36 years as a senator from Delaware, where he led the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and served on the Intelligence Committee when it was first created in the 1970s. The thing he missed most after leaving the vice presidency, he said, was reading the President’s Daily Brief, the compilation of the intelligence community’s top collection and analysis.
“I’ve been involved with your agency for not 75 years, but — I hate to admit it — 52 years,” Biden said to laughs from the officers gathered. “It’s very hard to say.”
Biden has reestablished a more traditional relationship with the CIA and other agencies after former President Donald Trump repeatedly cast doubt on intelligence findings and attacked what he alleged was a “deep state” of opponents.
Still, there were tensions last year concerning Afghanistan, with finger-pointing across the government during the fall of the American-backed government as the Taliban overran Kabul. Current and former intelligence officials worked frantically to evacuate Afghans who had helped the U.S. during the two-decade war.
Douglas London, a former CIA officer who has criticized the agency’s direction in recent years, said the Russia-Ukraine war has shown the CIA is on its way to becoming “an elite spy service again.”
“Its path to redemption has really been facilitated by Ukraine,” said London, author of “The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence.”
Still, the U.S. intelligence community underestimated Ukraine’s ability to resist the Russian invasion and wrongly predicted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government would fall within weeks.
The agencies are reviewing how they assess a foreign government’s perceived “will to fight” — an issue the U.S. also misjudged in Afghanistan last year when it believed President Ashraf Ghani’s government would hold out for months, only for Ghani to flee and the Taliban to take Kabul as the U.S. was trying to evacuate.
Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who sits on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees, said he’s pushed intelligence officials to review why there were “two significant breakdowns in a year.”
“The quality of the intelligence pre-invasion was excellent and absolutely world-class,” King said in a recent interview. “The problem was the assessment of what would happen after the invasion.”
Most of the intelligence community’s work since the war began has been kept secret. U.S. officials have disclosed that it is providing Ukraine with information that Ukrainian forces have in turn used to hit high-value Russian targets, including the flagship Moskva.
The White House has tried to tamp down suggestions that the U.S. is directly helping Ukraine attack Russia out of concern that Putin may see those suggestions as escalations. Biden has said he wants to avoid a “third world war.”
As Ukraine repelled Russian forces in the first weeks of the war, and under pressure from lawmakers in Washington, the Biden administration loosened its rules on sharing intelligence and is now providing more information to the Ukrainians. It has also committed $7 billion in weapons systems, ammunition and other military aid since the war began.
Ukrainian officials and observers say Ukraine still is vastly outgunned by Russia in what’s become a grinding war of attrition heavily reliant on artillery fire. Putin is believed by U.S. intelligence to have not given up on his initial aims to “neutralize” Ukraine in his eyes.
The U.S. also is involved in shoring up the cyber defenses of Ukraine and other allies against Russia’s capabilities to hack and steal from digital systems. And agencies are on watch for election influence or interference from Russia amid expectations that Putin may use U.S. support for Ukraine as justification for another campaign against an American election.
“Ultimately, the U.S. calculus is this: We want to do everything we can to support the Ukrainians while avoiding a direct conflict with the Russians,” said Dale Buckner, a retired U.S. Army Green Beret who now leads the security firm Global Guardian. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-visit-cia-as-intelligence-plays-key-role-in-ukraine/ | 2022-07-09 03:35:13 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-to-visit-cia-as-intelligence-plays-key-role-in-ukraine/ |
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A judge in Argentina on Monday dismissed a long-running money laundering case against Vice President Cristina Fernández, after prosecutors and state agencies said there was no evidence she was involved in a crime.
Federal Judge Sebastian Casanello ruled that Fernández be removed from what had come to be known as the “K money trail” case because it involved alleged kickbacks and money laundering on behalf of Fernández’s family by businessman Lázaro Báez.
Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan said late last month there was no evidence that Fernández, a former president from 2007 to 2015, was involved in the corruption for which Báez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
This marks the latest instance in which the vice president has been dismissed from an ongoing corruption-related case before it reaches trial.
In contrast with the dismissals, the former president was sentenced in December of last year to six years in prison in a separate case for fraudulent administration, which included a lifetime ban on holding public office, for favoring Báez in the awarding of public works contracts. Báez was sentenced to six years in prison as part of that case which was unrelated to the “K money trail” that specifically deals with money laundering allegations.
The vice president’s conviction can still be appealed and reviewed by higher courts, a process that could take years. She remains immune from arrest in the meantime ahead of October elections.
The decision came as Argentines have a general distrust of the justice system which is often slow and takes years to resolve cases.
“The Argentine justice system is infiltrated by politics,” said Lucas Romero, the head of Synopsis, a political consulting firm. “The federal courts are absolutely influenced by political interests from both sides.”
That means supporters of the vice president are likely to see the dismissal as vindication to her long-held claims of innocence while her opponents will cite it as an example of how she got away with wrongdoing.
Báez was close associate of both Fernández and her late husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, who was president from 2003-2007. The case began with allegations that Báez was paid for public works contracts that were never completed and that he then laundered that money on behalf of Kirchner and his wife.
Argentina’s tax agency and anti-money laundering agency also agreed that Fernández, who remains politically powerful, should be removed from the case dating back to 2013.
“Without an accusation, there is no possibility of a criminal process,” Casanello wrote in his resolution.
Marijuan had said that while it is clear that there was a “close and direct personal relationship” between Báez and the vice president, that does not mean she was involved in the money laundering of an estimated 65 million dollars that led to Báez’s conviction.
To demonstrate this relationship, Marijuan detailed that an investigation had found “at least 372 telephone contacts” between Báez and Fernández and her secretaries, showing “they were more than mere acquaintances from Santa Cruz and had a close connection.”
Báez was the owner of Austral Construcciones, one of the main companies favored with public works contracts during the tenure of Fernández de Kirchner’s administration as well as that of her late husband.
In an interview late last month, Marijuan said that he didn’t find any “proof that links Cristina Fernández to this case.”
Analysts tied Marijuan’s decision to an alleged friendship with Economy Minister Sergio Massa, widely seen as a possible presidential contender for the October election, Romero said.
President Alberto Fernández and Fernández – they are not related – have already said they will not be running for the presidency again and there is general uncertainty over who will be the candidate for the ruling coalition.
Cristina Fernández, who has long criticized the country’s justice system as corrupt, once faced numerous criminal cases, but those have slowly been dissipating as judges rule there was not enough evidence to hold the former president accountable although those decisions are still subject to review by higher courts.
A court in 2021 dismissed a case against Fernández that accused her of conspiring with Iran to cover up Tehran’s alleged involvement in a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. That same year, a court dismissed a case that accused the vice president and her family of benefiting from a money laundering operation involving hotel rooms and real estate. Earlier, a case that had accused her of carrying out fraudulent operations through the dollar futures market was also dismissed.
The vice president is also facing accusations of wrongdoing in a separate case that claims she headed up a corruption network to award public works contracts during her administration. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/argentine-judge-dismisses-long-running-corruption-case-against-vice-president/ | 2023-06-06 19:38:15 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/argentine-judge-dismisses-long-running-corruption-case-against-vice-president/ |
Dibbs Recognized as a top startup in 2022 for their innovative construction app
NEWPORT, R.I., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dibbs, a construction marketplace that removes the friction out of bidding has been named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Startup of the Year category in The 20th Annual American Business Awards®.
The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.'s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leader of the Year, and App of the Year, among others. Dibbs was nominated in the Startup of the Year category for Business Products.
Dibbs was awarded in the Startup Of The Year category after showing its commitment to enhancing the construction industry with its new marketplace app. The app provides contractors, suppliers, and tradesmen, the ability to remove the current paper-heavy bidding process and save both time and money by reaching an entire network of local professionals. The success they have seen thus far in the states where they are available shows that the company will succeed nationally in each market.
"We are honored to be selected for this prestigious award for Startup of the Year. Our team has worked hard this past year and we are excited to see the hard work pay off. Congratulations to all those nominated." Shares CEO and Founder Luke Fleury.
More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners.
"We are so pleased that we will be able to stage our first ABA awards banquet since 2019 and to celebrate, in person, the achievements of such a diverse group of organizations and individuals," said Maggie Miller, president of the Stevie Awards.
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2022 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
About Dibbs
Rated a Top 10 startup company of 2021, Dibbs is designed to take the friction out of bidding, buying, and selling products and services in the construction and real estate marketplace. Based out of Newport, Rhode Island, the app has been launched to Rhode Island and Massachusetts residents. The company plans to launch nationally throughout the year to bring its new twist on bidding to the construction industry in the U.S. Dibbs was created for the trade by the trade as CEO and Founder, Luke Fleury is a General Contractor himself in Rhode Island.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Sponsors of The 2022 American Business Awards include HCL America, John Hancock Financial Services, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.
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SkillSurvey Post-Hire™ will help organizations view new hire and employee feedback through the lens of demographic subgroups to support their DEIB programs
MALVERN, Pa., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SkillSurvey, the leading provider of cloud-based reference-checking and employee feedback software, announced that it will now provide employers with greater insight into the individual experiences of the diverse demographics that make up the workplace through new Demographics Insights available in SkillSurvey Post-Hire™.
Organizations that enable 'Demographics' within their Company Settings in SkillSurvey Post-Hire are now able to collect and then organize feedback data gathered from employees and supervisors based on the various demographic values they choose, including:
- Age
- Generation
- Race/Ethnicity
- Gender
- Disability Status
- Veteran Status
"These enhanced insights will provide talent managers with a clearer view of perceptions and challenges facing specific demographics within their organization -- enabling them to create more positive and equitable experiences for their employees," said Ray Bixler, President and CEO of SkillSurvey, Inc. "Workplace diversity is a more important consideration for managers than ever before, and the implementation of demographic data into the SkillSurvey Post-Hire solution effectively amplifies everyone's voices to build a more inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong."
The modern workplace is evolving and becoming more diverse. According to U.S. Census data, the newest generation entering the workforce, Generation Z, is the most diverse yet with 48% identifying as a member of a racial or ethnic group. Research has shown many benefits of having a diverse workforce including increased profits and better retention. Forty percent of employees said they would consider leaving if they couldn't trust their company to fulfill its DEI commitments according 1,543 workers to a survey conducted by Deloitte Insights.
SkillSurvey Post-Hire is an all-in-one software solution that utilizes automated surveys developed by I/O psychologists to gain valuable insight into all stages of the employee lifecycle. Through data gathered via candid feedback and confidential data collection, managers are able to uncover new areas of opportunity and identify potential risks, reducing employee turnover and building a better organization along the way. SkillSurvey Post-Hire brings the recruiting, onboarding, engagement, and exit surveys and data all into one comprehensive platform, giving you everything you need to support more positive experiences at every stage of the employee experience. Learn more about SkillSurvey Post-Hire Demographics Insights in this video.
SkillSurvey helps organizations hire and retain great talent. Our solutions help employers save time and money, grow revenues, and bring the right employees onboard faster. SkillSurvey Reference® is proven to reduce first-year turnover for cause and uncovers candidates' soft skills; SkillSurvey Post-Hire™helps organizations get actionable insights at critical stages throughout the employee lifecycle. Visit SkillSurvey at www.skillsurvey.com, and on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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'Unexpected' twin tail created by asteroid impact mission captured by Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new snapshot of the asteroid that NASA recently slammed with a spacecraft in an attempt to knock it off course, and the image reveals the clearest look yet at some unexpected results from the mission — a twin tail of dust trailing behind the asteroid system.
The image, released Thursday, is one of 18 observations that the Hubble telescope has made of the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system since NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission crashed a probe into Dimorphos in September.
"Repeated observations from Hubble over the last several weeks have allowed scientists to present a more complete picture of how the system's debris cloud has evolved over time," according to a statement from NASA and the European Space Agency, which jointly operate Hubble.
"The observations show that the ejected material, or 'ejecta,' has expanded and faded in brightness as time went on after impact, largely as expected," the statement reads. "The twin tail is an unexpected development, although similar behavior is commonly seen in comets and active asteroids. The Hubble observations provide the best-quality image of the double-tail to date."
Scientists are working to understand the significance of the split tail. NASA noted that it's the northernmost tail that was newly created, and scientists will use data from Hubble in the coming months to examine more closely how it may have formed.
Dimorphos, the target of NASA's DART mission, is a smaller asteroid that orbits around the larger Didymos. Astronomers anticipated that the mission could be deemed a success if the impact from the DART spacecraft could shorten Dimorphos' orbit by 10 seconds. But NASA revealed this month that it was able to cut its trajectory down by 32 seconds — from an orbit of 11 hours and 55 minutes to 11 hours and 23 minutes.
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There’s nothing like Nominations Day in Freddyworld.
The announcement of the 2023 Freddy Awards nominations, the unofficial kick-off to two weeks of Freddys anticipation, aired live at noon on Thursday on WFMZ Channel 69 News. By the time the full list was read 29 schools had been sent into a frenzy at least once, some quite a few times.
Parkland High School’s production of “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!” led the way with 16 nominations.
MORE: See the full list of 2023 Freddy Award nominees
Freedom High School was among the most-nominated bunch, which notched 10 noms for its production of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” including one for Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical.
The students involved in the production, decked out in matching purple T-shirts, gathered in the school’s aerobics room to watch the broadcast.
The first cheers went up just at mentions of the Freddys as the WFMZ noon broadcast began — and as a container of cookies was opened and passed around.
The room hushed as the nominations were read. Shouts and hands filled the air each time Freedom’s name was read. The quiet disappointment was heavy when it was not.
Justin Amann, Freedom’s theater director, corralled the students when it was over, offering congratulations to his nominees and comfort to others whose names were not called. The production is the sum of all efforts, he reminded the students.
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Over in New Jersey, there was nothing mysterious or spooky going on at Phillipsburg High School — quite the opposite, in fact, as students were rapturous in their excitement as they watched the announcements live.
Four young actors, all seniors, from the school’s “The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy” production heard their names called during the broadcast. Jake Delesky (Leading Role), Tyler Borneo (Featured Performance), Jacob ten Bosch (Supporting Role) and RJ Kloecker (Male Ensemble Member) each earned an individual nomination, making up half of Phillipsburg’s eight total nominations. Delesky, Borneo and ten Bosch each won a Freddy last year for the school’s production of “Guys & Dolls.”
“To be nominated feels absolutely surreal,” said Borneo, who played Fester Addams. “I’ve been doing theater since I was six years old, so this is truly an honor.” His classmates echoed his gratitude.
Across the river, students at Easton Area High School, who produced “Once Upon A Mattress” this spring, were gathered for a watch party replete with pizza and, once the nominations came rolling in, tears of joy.
Senior Hannah Relvas said she couldn’t contain her excitement when her name was called among nominees for the Vic Kumma Award for Outstanding Solo Vocal Performance.
“We’re all so excited,” said senior Hannah Relvas. “I was also shaking when I was messaging my dad, my hands were going nonstop and I could not text at all.”
Relvas was one of a few Easton individuals nominated for their roles. Fellow senior Theo Haddock was nominated in the Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actor category. Both Relvas and Haddock will now begin preparations for the Freddy Awards group performance. It’ll be the first time both actors have performed on the State Theatre stage.
“I used to be terrified of going on stages. I had awful stage fright, but I started doing theatre and it suddenly went away. I don’t know how that works but now it’s the only thing I want to do— is perform for people,” Theo Haddock said.
One of the production’s biggest nominations is thanks to students that don’t always get their moment in the spotlight. The stage crew rarely gets the credit it’s due, because if crew members do their jobs well, their imprint on the production is essentially invisible to the untrained eye.
“Tech has always been under the radar. We don’t get as many opportunities to get recognized as the cast, so when something like this happens, it’s very exciting,” said senior Nicholas Romfo, the stage manager for Easton’s production. Romfo and the rest of the crew’s behind-the-scenes skills were evident to Freddys voters, though, because it nabbed a nomination for Outstanding Stage Crew.
Those Freddy noms are just a few of the six that Easton garnered for “Once Upon a Mattress,” each of which sent a wave of excitement throughout the room when they were announced during the broadcast.
“This program has been a huge part of my life,” Relvas said. “Having the Freddy Awards a week before graduation is like the final send off and I think I’m going to cry. That’ll probably happen, but it’s a great way to end a great four years.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday and located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday.
The president voluntarily allowed the FBI into his home, but the lack of a search warrant did not dim the extraordinary nature of the search. It compounded the embarrassment to Biden that started with the disclosure Jan. 12 that the president’s attorneys had found a “small number” of classified records at a former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington shortly before the midterm elections. Since then, attorneys found six classified documents in Biden’s Wilmington home library from his time as vice president.
Though Biden has maintained “ there’s no there there,” the discoveries have become a political liability as he prepares to launch a reelection bid, and they undercut his efforts to portray an image of propriety to the American public after the tumultuous presidency of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
During Friday’s search, which lasted nearly 13 hours, the FBI took six items that contained documents with classified markings, said Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer. The items spanned Biden’s time in the Senate and the vice presidency, while the notes dated to his time as vice president, he said. The level of classification, and whether the documents removed by the FBI remained classified, was not immediately clear as the Justice Department reviews the records.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Fitzpatrick confirmed Saturday that the FBI had executed “a planned, consensual search” of the president’s residence in Wilmington.
The president and first lady Jill Biden were not at the home when it was searched. They were spending the weekend at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Speaking to reporters during a trip to California on Thursday, Biden said he was “fully cooperating and looking forward to getting this resolved quickly.”
“We found a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place,” Biden said. “We immediately turned them over to the Archives and the Justice Department.”
It remained to be seen whether additional searches by federal officials of other locations might be conducted. Biden’s personal attorneys previously conducted a search of the Rehoboth Beach residence and said they did not find any official documents or classified records.
The Biden investigation has also complicated the Justice Department’s probe into Trump’s retention of classified documents and official records after he left office. The Justice Department says Trump took hundreds of records marked classified with him upon leaving the White House in early 2021 and resisted months of requests to return them to the government, and that it had to obtain a search warrant to retrieve them.
Bauer said the FBI requested that the White House not comment on the search before it was conducted, and that Biden’s personal and White House attorneys were present. The FBI, he added, “had full access to the President’s home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades.”
The Justice Department, he added, “took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the President’s service in the Senate and some of which were from his tenure as Vice President.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed former Maryland U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing surrounding the Biden documents. Hur is set to take over from the Trump-appointed Illinois U.S. Attorney John Lausch in overseeing the probe.
“Since the beginning, the President has been committed to handling this responsibly because he takes this seriously,” White House lawyer Richard Sauber said Saturday. “The President’s lawyers and White House Counsel’s Office will continue to cooperate with DOJ and the Special Counsel to help ensure this process is conducted swiftly and efficiently.”
The Biden document discoveries and the investigation into Trump, which is in the hands of special counsel Jack Smith, are significantly different. Biden has made a point of cooperating with the DOJ probe at every turn — and Friday’s search was voluntary — though questions about his transparency with the public remain.
For a crime to have been committed, a person would have to “knowingly remove” the documents without authority and intend to keep them at an “unauthorized location.” Biden has said he was “surprised” that classified documents were uncovered at the Penn Biden Center.
Generally, classified documents are to be declassified after a maximum of 25 years. But some records are of such value they remain classified for far longer, though specific exceptions must be granted. Biden served in the Senate from 1973 to 2009.
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Customer benefits of investments include bolstering electric grid and more clean energy
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ameren Missouri filed with the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) a request to adjust its electric base rates next year. The new rates would take effect in mid-2023 to recover the cost of major upgrades for electric system reliability and resiliency for customers, as well as investments to support the transition to cleaner energy for the benefit of customers and local communities.
The filing made today will be carefully reviewed by the PSC and many other stakeholders over the next 11 months. If the request is approved by regulators, the rate adjustment in 2023 would cost an average residential electric customer about $12 a month (based on approximately 1,017 kilowatt-hours of usage per month). Ameren Missouri's electric rates today are only slightly higher than they were five years ago and this rate adjustment request, if approved, would reflect a yearly average increase of approximately 2.3% since 2017.
"The electric system upgrades Ameren Missouri has made are crucial to ensuring our customers have safe and reliable energy during the continued transition to cleaner sources of generation," said Mark Birk, chairman and president of Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation, (NYSE: AEE). "Our customers depend on us to deliver reliable service and they're seeing fewer outages with shorter durations, delivering up to a 40% improvement in reliability on circuits with innovative technology. Thanks to these investments, our system performs better even in extreme weather events such as Winter Storm Uri last year and the intense heat we are experiencing this summer."
Even in this challenging economic climate, Ameren Missouri is working to keep electric rates as low as possible for customers by cutting its costs and making prudent investments. Residential rates for Ameren Missouri customers are more than 23% below national and Midwest averages, according to the latest Edison Electric Institute Typical Bills and Average Rates Report.
"Our goal is to keep rates as low as possible, while protecting long-term energy reliability and resiliency for our customers," said Warren Wood, vice president of regulatory and legislative affairs at Ameren Missouri. "We do this by focusing on necessary and prudent system investments our customers depend on, while also reducing our operational costs wherever possible in these uncertain economic times. We work to meet the needs of our customers today while transitioning to a stronger, smarter, cleaner, more reliable and resilient grid for future generations."
The need for reliable, resilient and affordable energy has never been greater. Ameren Missouri changed its long-term energy plan earlier this summer to address these needs while thoughtfully transitioning to cleaner sources of energy and to achieve its net-zero carbon emissions goal by 2045.
Key components of the rate review adjustment request include:
- Strengthening the grid through Ameren Missouri's Smart Energy Plan, including infrastructure upgrades bolstering reliability and resiliency, more renewable generation, installation of smart meters, and the addition of programs to stimulate economic growth for communities across the state.
- Offering rate options that fit a range of customer lifestyles, thanks to how smart meters communicate with the updated grid. Customer benefits include the opportunity to reduce costs by using information from their smart meter to help shift the timing of their energy usage. Smart meters also enable quicker restoration in the event of an outage and faster connection when moving or starting service.
- Evolving our generation plans for cleaner energy and to ensure the system remains reliable and resilient for all customers.
- Providing cleaner energy to the communities we serve through the Neighborhood Solar program by installing parking lot solar facilities in partnership with local organizations.
A slide presentation with additional details regarding Ameren Missouri's rate review adjustment request will be available at AmerenInvestors.com beginning at 4 p.m. Central time on Aug. 1, 2022.
As the communities we serve manage current economic conditions, Ameren Missouri has made even more energy assistance available. The company recently expanded its Clean Slate program by adding $1 million in additional funding to help those who may not qualify for state or federal assistance. Ameren Missouri also offers flexible payment options and connects customers with government and community assistance funding programs through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
"We want our customers to know we are here to help them," Birk said. "Any customers in need of assistance should contact us today for information regarding access to energy assistance grants with expanded eligibility requirements and to arrange flexible payment options. We also have energy efficiency programs and energy management tools to make it easier for customers to manage their energy use."
For more information about the filing, visit AmerenMissouri.com/InvestingInMissouri.
Ameren Missouri has been providing electric and gas service for more than 100 years, and the company's electric rates are among the lowest in the nation. Ameren Missouri's mission is to power the quality of life for its 1.2 million electric and 135,000 natural gas customers in central and eastern Missouri. The company's service area covers 64 counties and more than 500 communities, including the greater St. Louis area. For more information, visit Ameren.com/Missouri or follow us on Twitter at @AmerenMissouri or Facebook.com/AmerenMissouri.
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At least 21 killed as Somalia battles jihadis in remote area
By OMAR FARUK
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A top army official says Somalia’s military repulsed an attack by jihadi fighters in a remote region of the country. General Mohamed Ahmed Taredisho said Somali forces killed at least 18 al-Shabab militants early Saturday. He says at least three civilians described as “traditional elders” were killed in the fighting near Masagaway town. The town is located in the central region of Galgadud and home to a military base. A resident told The Associated Press that Al-Shabab members overran the base, confiscated weapons and burned battle wagons during the attack. Al-Shabab has ties with al-Qaida. The group intensified attacks on military bases in recent months after losing control of rural territories to government forces. | https://kion546.com/news/2023/04/22/at-least-21-killed-as-somalia-battles-jihadis-in-remote-area/ | 2023-04-22 11:39:32 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/2023/04/22/at-least-21-killed-as-somalia-battles-jihadis-in-remote-area/ |
Cleveland Browns QB Deshaun Watson’s future with NFL to be decided
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Cleveland Browns are just a few weeks away from kicking off training camp.
Now, a decision on Deshaun Watson’s future is a little bit closer.
The Browns quarterback met with NFL investigators Tuesday for a disciplinary hearing.
This hearing centers on allegations of sexual misconduct involving massage therapists.
For the NFL, this all comes down to whether Watson violated their personal conduct policy.
He could face a lengthy suspension or fines.
The quarterback was sued by 24 women who accused him of sexual misconduct during massages.
Last week, we learned confidential settlements have now been reached in 20 of those civil lawsuits.
Monday, the first lawsuit was filed against the Houston Texans, Watson’s former team.
Attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the women, told 19 News: “We believe the Texans knew or most certainly should have known of Watson’s conduct.”
Back in March, Watson spoke out against the allegations for the first time.
“I know these allegations is very, very serious. Like I mentioned before, I never assaulted any woman, I never disrespected any woman,” Watson said.
At the time, 19 Investigates pored through the civil lawsuits filed against Watson in Harris County, Texas.
Most of them were listed under “Jane Doe.”
We found in most cases, Watson reached out to these women on social media.
One woman, according to the lawsuit, said she now feels “ashamed and embarrassed” and “he manipulated the massage into sexual coercion.”
Watson faces no criminal charges after two grand juries in Texas chose not to indict him.
He continues to deny the allegations.
The NFL is reportedly seeking an “indefinite suspension” for at least one year.
CBS Sports reports Watson’s team will counter with “0″ games missed.
A decision is expected in the next couple of weeks.
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Texas kicked off Early Signing Period on Wednesday, signing blue-blood quarterback Arch Manning from Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans.
Manning is the No. 1 player in the nation, per the 247Sports composite, and broke Newman school records in 2022 held by his uncles, Eli and Peyton Manning. In four high school seasons, he passed for 8,599 yards and 115 touchdowns, plus 1,155 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns.
Texas will return Quinn Ewers at quarterback in 2023. The No. 1 player in the 2021 class, Ewers played in nine game with the Longhorns as a redshirt freshman in 2022, throwing for 1,808 yards with 14 touchdowns and six interceptions. He missed three games with a shoulder injury.
Coach Steve Sarkisian is expected to open the quarterback competition, giving the 6-foot-4, 215-pound Manning a chance to vie for the starting job.
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--Cormani McClain, the top cornerback in the class, will not sign with any program on Wednesday, his mother tweeted. McClain, from Lakeland, Fla., committed to Miami on Oct. 27, but 247Sports said Florida and Alabama have continued to pursue him. New Colorado coach Deion Sanders also reportedly is making a push.
The 247Sports composite lists him as the No. 9 overall prospect in the class.
--Oregon flipped four-star quarterback Austin Novosad, gaining his commitment a day after offering him a scholarship. Novosad, from Dripping Springs (Texas) High School, had been pledged to Baylor since December 2021. Novosad is the No. 10 quarterback in the class, per the composite.
On Monday, Dante Moore -- the No. 5 player and the No. 3 quarterback in the 2023 class -- flipped his commitment from the Ducks to UCLA, leaving Oregon in need of a quarterback in this cycle.
--The Ducks had plenty of reasons for celebration, also adding five-star edge rusher Matayo Uiagalelei from powerhouse St. John Bosco in Bellflower, Calif. Ranked No. 5 at his position and No. 31 overall by the 247Sports composite, he reportedly also was considering Ohio State and Southern California before committing to Oregon.
The younger brother of former Clemson quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei, he is one of three five-star recruits expected to sign with the Ducks. Among them is safety Peyton Bowen, who at the last minute flipped from Notre Dame to Oregon. From John Guyer High School in Denton, Texas, he had been committed to the Irish since Jan. 1.
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Police confronting strikers outside Republic Steel during what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre in37. Chicago in 19 (Photo by Chicago Daily News/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
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Chicago police shot and killed four striking steel workers in a fierce battle between 1,500 CIO Unionists and 150 police outside the gate of the Republic Steel Corporation's South Chicago plant in 1937.
The Memorial Day Massacre just outside the gates of the Republic Steel Mill on Chicago's far Southeast Side in 1937 was one of the bloodiest attacks on organized labor in history.
Ten steelworkers, three of whom hailed from East Chicago, were killed while peacefully picketing the mill during a strike. They had come out on Memorial Day to picnic with their families and marched toward the gates in a show of solidarity.
More than 100 were injured by police, often shot while fleeing or beaten while lying on the ground.
Retired steelworkers commemorate the Memorial Day Massacre every year. A new documentary hopes to make more people aware of it nationally.
"Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried" recently premiered on PBS SoCal and KCET in Los Angeles. It's being aired on PBS stations around the country and can be seen on pbs.org or the PBS app.
Filmmaker George Mitchel, an author and documentarian, made the half-hour-long film featuring archival footage. Actor Josh Charles from "Sports Night" and "Dead Poets Society" narrates the account of how police opened fire on striking steelworkers outside the mill where they were fighting for a contract. Produced by Lyn Goldfarb, it also chronicles the subsequent cover-up of the slaying that only came to light later.
The film features first-hand accounts, historic photos, an introduction by the legendary oral historian Studs Terkel and rarely-seen Paramount News footage that was initially suppressed. The director Oliver Stone said it was "doing an outstanding job in reminding us of these incidents we forget.”
"It explores the tragic 1937 incident that's largely forgotten in the rest of the country," Mitchell said. "It's quite startling."
Mitchell has written 12 books and started to make documentaries about some of the subjects he's written about. His first PBS film, "The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair," came out last year.
"I've always written nonfiction books, many of them histories," he said. "I had served as an advisor to films so I started making my own films using archival footage."
He was startled to learn about the Memorial Day Massacre after talking to someone whose uncle was shot in the leg there.
"It got me thinking it was incredible that people didn't know about this," he said. "It seemed impossible, leading you to wonder how did that happen? The footage is shocking. The film explores the incident itself and the cover-up. People were not allowed to see the film footage, which is far worse than most people imagine."
It was a major moment in labor history, he said.
"It draws attention to workers' struggles in general," he said. "It led to a big surge in workers' activities. That's a current topical trend as more workers are unionizing around the country."
Mitchell also released a companion book, "Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried," that collects an oral history of the incident, assembling what eyewitnesses and others have said over the decades.
"I thought it was incredible people didn't know about this," he said. "It was initially portrayed by the local media and national media as a riot of strikers that police broke up. The footage was suppressed."
It took a subpoena from a U.S. Senate hearing to release the footage of police firing at fleeing workers and clubbing them over the head.
"A topical connection to modern-day bodycams is that the footage led to the first calls from officials for cameras in police vans," he said. "It was visual evidence of what happened. When you see the footage, it's blatant. Clearly, police are shooting retreating people. Waves of people are hitting the ground and police are going through the crowds. No one's getting medical assistance. They're just picking up the injured they shot or beat up and threw them into the paddy wagon. It's far worse than people imagine. It's hard to see. Some of the marchers were women and kids."
Some accounts say the strikers threw rocks but the footage shows no provocation for the attack, Mitchell said.
"The media coverage made it seem like the strikers were guilty of violence and were all communists and radicals. That played into the public opinion that was against labor," he said. "The strike ended and they went back to work without a contract. They eventually did get a contract and win some concessions."
The Memorial Day Massacre had a major impact on the labor movement.
"It was the last major confrontation of its kind between labor and police with that big a death toll," he said. "After that, they kept the violence under wraps. They try to cool down the violence, which definitely has gone down since. The 10 who died were martyrs who inspire people to this day. The labor movement stands on the work of the people before us and the workers who died. It wouldn't be anywhere today without the predecessors who tried for a union."
Region native Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times of Northwest Indiana since 2013.
Police confronting strikers outside Republic Steel during what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre in37. Chicago in 19 (Photo by Chicago Daily News/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
04-11-14-20-37
(four, eleven, fourteen, twenty, thirty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $140,000
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
04-11-14-20-37
(four, eleven, fourteen, twenty, thirty-seven)
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- First ampm convenience store opens in the Bronx
- New store will be bp-owned & operated
- Supports bp's strategy of growing its convenience and mobility business
- The Bronx location is one of four scheduled store openings on the East Coast
HOUSTON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- bp opened its first ampm convenience store in New York City, expanding the seventh largest c-store chain from its West Coast roots. The store, located at 824 Allerton Avenue in the Bronx, is the first opening for the convenience brand on the East Coast.
The store will feature bp branding throughout the fuel experience and ampm's food menu, including a hot deli and grocery with fresh fruit and extensive dry goods. The entire customer-centric experience is modeled after Thorntons, the renowned Kentucky-based fuel and convenience retailer that bp took full ownership of in 2021.
"As bp transitions toward becoming a net zero company, convenience will play a huge role in delivering our integrated strategy. The experience customers feel at our retail sites will be key to attracting them in and ensuring they return. Because New Yorkers are always on the go, the Empire State is a perfect fit for this expansion," said Dave Lawler, chairman and president bp America.
"This store sets the stage for us to maximize the large bp footprint along the East Coast," said Greg Franks, senior vice president mobility and convenience, Americas. "We know that residents of The Big Apple will love the craveable food, snacks and drinks that make ampm the destination of Too Much Good Stuff. We also know our dealers will be excited to share the ampm brand with their consumers in the future."
The expansion advances bp's convenience and mobility strategy, which aims to nearly double global earnings from about $5 billion in 2019 to $9-10 billion by 2030 and deliver 15-20% returns. This strategy is supported by a commitment to putting the customer at the heart of what we do. bp aims to increase the number of strategic convenience sites in its global network from around 2,000 today to more than 3,000 by 2030.
The first ampm store opened in Southern California in 1978. Today, there are over 1,000 stores throughout the West Coast, serving more than 3,500 different products.
Notes to editors
- bp's portfolio of brands in the US services more than three million consumers daily across 35 states.
- bp's mobility and convenience brands in the US currently include bp, Amoco, ampm and Thorntons.
- bp marked its re-entry into company-owned, company operated retail story when it took full ownership of Thorntons in 2021.
- Thorntons includes more than 200 owned and operated locations across six states: Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Florida.
- bp has different retail models across the US, ranging from company-owned retail stores, strategic partnerships, brand licensing, wholesale, business-to-business, dealer-owned, and franchise-owned.
- For more information about bp's customers & products business visit bp.com.
Contact: uspress@bp.com
About bp: bp's ambition is to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero. bp is America's largest energy investor since 2005, investing more than $130 billion in the economy and supporting about 230,000 jobs. For more information on bp in the US, visit www.bp.com/us.
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Sure, Da Vinci could've painted Mona Lisa's smile a bit brighter. But why tamper with near-perfection? The same could be said with Villa Grove's performance in a 13-3 destruction of Farmer City Blue Ridge in an Illinois high school baseball matchup.
In recent action on April 11, Farmer City Blue Ridge faced off against Arthur Christian and Villa Grove took on Decatur Lutheran on April 14 at Decatur Lutheran.
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Minneapolis-based Artspace Projects on Tuesday announced a plan to build a $36 million mixed-use space for artists to live, create and display their work in east Little Rock.
The impetus for the campus's development came from the Little Rock-based Windgate Foundation's efforts alongside support from civic leaders, arts groups, local artists and creative businesses, according to an Artspace Projects news release.
"While Central Arkansas boasts a network of cultural organizations, public and private support, and enthusiastic patrons, the addition of the Artspace Windgate location will afford new opportunities to our artistic community," Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Executive Director Victor Ramirez said in the release.
"We are thrilled our city will have specially designed spaces for artists to live and work and look forward to collaboratively building a thriving cultural future," Ramirez said.
The Windgate Foundation is a Little Rock-based private family foundation that aims to advance arts and arts education in the U.S.
Construction on the Artspace Windgate Campus near the city's East Village neighborhood at 1102 E. Eighth Street is scheduled to start this summer and be completed in fall of 2024.
The location, near the Clinton Presidential Center, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and the future home of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, will serve as an anchor for the city's arts and culture scene, according to Artspace's website.
The 94,000 square foot four-story building will feature 60 apartment units for artists and their families to live in, ten working artist-in-residence studios, event and gallery space, a large outdoor courtyard and approximately 16,000 square feet of commercial space for local arts and cultural organizations.
The artist-in-residence studios are separate from the residential units and are intended to be short-term rentals for local artist in residency programs, Artspace Vice President of Communications & Community Outreach Tio Aiken said Tuesday.
Commercial spaces will have a "creative nonprofit focus," not bars or retail stores, he said.
There will be murals on the outside of the building and sculptural components in the outdoor courtyard along College Street.
There will also be a rooftop deck with views of downtown.
The housing units will be affordable for residents who earn between 30% and 60% of the area median income.
Rental rates will be set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and updated in April each year, Aiken said.
The most recent U.S. census conducted in 2020 sets the median household income for Little Rock at $53,620 and the median rent at $889 per month.
AMR Architects is designing the project.
"I am excited to have the Artspace Windgate Campus located in the East Village area of Little Rock's historic East End," Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, Jr., said. "This innovative project will bring not only bring additional affordable housing to this area, but serve as a neighborhood hub ... it will be an anchor for Little Rock's expanding arts and culture scene. When we look at what makes cities great, it is a combination of affordable housing, economic opportunity, and exciting quality of life. The Artspace Windgate Campus provides all three. The impact of this project will be felt in the immediate neighborhood and beyond our city limits."
Artspace Projects also plans to expand its footprint into Northwest Arkansas with a $16 million residential project in Bentonville called the SOMO Artspace Lofts, which will be the organization's second project in the state.
The more than 55,000 square foot Artspace Lofts project will be built on S.E. Eighth Street and feature 50 residential units and approximately 1,600 square feet of community and gallery space.
Monthly rent for the apartments at the Lofts will set to be affordable for those earning 60% of below the area median income.
Artspace Projects is partnering with The Momentary and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on the project. The architect for the Lofts project is Kevin Daly Architects and the general contractor is Flintco.
Artspace began exploring building and living and work space for artists in Little Rock in 2018.
Artspace Projects Inc. officials held a public meeting with Little Rock city leaders, local artists and entrepreneurs in 2019 to discuss whether Little Rock would be a good starting point for an Artspace development.
The group said at the time that it could take three to five years to develop a project.
Little Rock has offered living space for artists before.
Little Rock officials designated the historic Kramer School building on Sherman Street as live-work spaces for artists in 1997 but the building was sold to a private firm in 2015.
Before the sale, news coverage detailed claims tenants were living in substandard conditions.
Artspace Projects is a real estate development nonprofit organization that works to create affordable spaces for artists to live and work, as well as space for arts and cultural organizations, and arts-friendly businesses.
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A water-cooled Porsche 911 was once unimaginable, but the automaker has now been making them for 25 years.
Porsche started introducing water-cooled road cars in the 1980s in the form of the 924, 944, and 928. Yet the automaker’s flagship 911 continued with water cooling, which was considered an important part of its identity. Porsche had been making air-cooled, rear-engined sports cars from the beginning, after all, so it was hard to break with tradition.
The end of air-cooled Porsches finally came in 1997, when the 996-generation 911 was unveiled at that year’s Frankfurt auto show. The flat-6 engine was in the usual place, but this time it was air-cooled.
“We experimented with the engine because the air-cooled two-valve-per-cylinder designs were at the end of the road technologically in terms of emissions and power,” August Achleitner, then head of technical product planning, vehicle concepts, and package at Porsche, said in a statement. “And various air-cooled four-valve boxers didn’t work due to various hotspots that we couldn’t get a handle on.”
The switch was a long time coming—Porsche had experimented with a 911 V-8 in 1989, Achleitner said—but the 996 offered the perfect opportunity to implement it. This was the most thorough 911 redesign to date, bringing unorthodox styling that eliminated the classic round headlights (they came back for the 997 911) and parts sharing with the first-generation Porsche Boxster. So it was as good a time as any to make the switch to water-cooling.
Predictably, some Porsche enthusiasts were aghast, claiming they would never touch a water-cooled 911. The car was a success, however, selling 175,000 units during its run. The parts-sharing concept also allowed Porsche to develop and produce the Boxster on a relatively limited budget. No longer held captive by tradition, Porsche then launched the Cayenne, which secured its financial future. None of this would have happened without the 996 911, so it was indeed, pardon the pun, a watershed moment for Porsche.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Planet Based Foods Global Inc. (CSE: PBF) (OTCQB: PBFFF) (FRA: AZ0) ("PBFG", "Planet Based Foods" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the company has entered into distribution agreements with KeHE Distributors ("KeHE"), United Natural Foods, Inc. ("United Natural Foods, or UNFI") and DPI Specialty Foods ("DPI") (collectively known as the "Distributors") effective immediately.
The Distributors have already committed to various purchase orders in November, adding to the incredibly eventful year for the Company. KeHE and United Natural Foods are known as premiere food distributors that focus on both the Natural & Specialty Distribution Channel as well as Conventional Distribution Channels in the United States. DPI has established an efficient network of wholesale specialty food distribution centers in key geographic locations across the Western United States.
Prospective distribution locations are expected to distribute the following Planet Based Foods products:
- KeHE Romeoville, IL: Southwest Burger, Original Taquito and Southwest Taquito
- DPI Aurora, Colorado: Southwest Burger, Original Taquito and Southwest Taquito
- DPI Ontario, California: Southwest Burger, Original Taquito and Southwest Taquito
- UNFI Riverside, California: Southwest Burger, Original Burger, Mild Sausage Patty, Hot Sausage Patty, Original Crumble, Italian Crumble, Original Taquito and Southwest Taquito
- UNFI Ridgefield, Washington: Mild Sausage Patty, Original Crumble, Southwest Burger, Original Taquito and Southwest Taquito
"Partnering with these world-renowned distributors is exactly what the company needs for us to hit our aggressive growth milestones", Planet Based Foods President and Co-Founder Braelyn Davis quotes. "KeHE, United Natural Foods and DPI service the largest grocery chains in the country. We're confident that our consumers will see our products in more stores than ever in these coming weeks."
For further details about the Company, please refer to the Company's listing statement at www.thecse.com as well as the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. To view information about the Company and subscribe to automated email alerts for future news and public filings, visit the Planet Based Foods website at www.planetbasedfoods.com.
Kehe Food Distributors is a leading U.S. distributor of natural and specialty food products that fit the lifestyle of today's consumer. They distribute more than 40,000 products - including natural and organic, international, specialty, perishable, Kosher, and Latin American food items - to more than 15,000 retail outlets in 49 states, Mexico and the Caribbean.
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) is a Providence, Rhode Island–based natural and organic food company. They are the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor of health and specialty food in the United States and Canada. It is Whole Foods Market's main supplier, with their traffic making up over a third of its revenue in 2018. UNFI was founded in 1996 by the merger of two regional distributors, Mountain People's Warehouse (founded in 1976, serving the Western U.S.) and Cornucopia Natural Foods (founded in 1977, serving the Eastern U.S.), forming the first natural products distributorship with national scope. Since 1996, other regional distributors have merged with UNFI, filling in the distribution footprint and making UNFI the largest distributor of natural products. In 2007 UNFI acquired Millbrook Distribution Services. In 2011, UNFI signed a distribution agreement with Safeway Inc. for the distribution of non-proprietary natural, organic and specialty products. In 2012 UNFI partnered with Buyer's Best Friend to create a unified reordering system. In 2016, the company announced the acquisition of Nor-Cal produce, Inc. It also completed the acquisition of Haddon House Food Products, Inc. in 2016. That same year, it announced the acquisition of Gourmet Guru, Inc.On October 22, 2018, UNFI completed the acquisition of SuperValu, Inc.
DPI has established an efficient network of wholesale specialty food distribution centers in key geographic locations across the Western U.S. They're people with a passion for fine specialty foods. DPI staff works directly with customers to bring the very best in specialty food goods to their retail locations. Their strength in grocery distribution, independent retail sales and foodservice, incorporates a product mix that includes gourmet, specialty, natural, organic, gluten free, local and ethnic foods. DPI warehouses and delivers frozen, refrigerated and dry goods. Their unique combination of product knowledge and options for in-store, cross-dock and direct delivery services ensure that we will deliver sales growth for our retailer and vendor partners. Today DPI supplies over 40,000 SKUs comprised of perishable and non-perishable food items from five continents. The team at DPI brings unique market niche and retail experience to create exciting programs, tailored for each retailer's individual needs. These programs have a proven track record of delivering sales growth.
PBFG, through its wholly-owned subsidiary in San Diego, California, Planet Based Foods, is a producer of sustainable plant-based meat substitutes. Planet Based Foods was founded in 2018 in San Diego, California. With a mission to build a better food system by providing hemp-formulated superfood products to people today that support our planet tomorrow, all Planet Based Foods products are 100% vegan.
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"Braelyn Davis"
Braelyn Davis
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
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Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, announced he is running again for president in 2024
"I am announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," Trump, 76, said flanked by massive American flags, at his Mar-a-Lago club and home in Palm Beach, Fla.
Trump claimed, "Your country is being destroyed before your eyes."
The announcement — and official filing — came just a week after the 2022 midterm elections, which saw a lackluster performance from Trump-backed Republican candidates in key Senate races and competitive House elections. As a result, Democrats were able to retain control of the Senate.
Trump running sets up a potential rematch against President Joe Biden, who will turn 80 on Sunday and says he intends to run for reelection in 2024.
Exit polls showed inflation to be the top issue with midterm election voters overall. They said they trusted Republicans more on the issue than Democrats by a wide margin. And the electorate was nearly three-quarters white, reversing a decades-long trend of a decline in white voters as a share of the midterm electorate.
And yet, Republicans underachieved — and fingers are being pointed in Trump's direction, even from within his own party.
Anger over the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal in this country, buoyed Democrats in these elections. But voters also sent a message that they didn't want extremes, rejecting Trump candidates up and down the ballot, who peddled his baseless election lies.
Republicans lost in competitive Senate races in purple states, like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Arizona and Nevada. Democrats could further expand their majority with a runoff election three weeks from now in Georgia, with yet another Trump endorsee, who struggled mightily.
For the House, Republicans are on the precipice of control, but by a far smaller majority than they were hoping for, likely hampering their ability to pass legislation next year.
Of the 64 House race contests the Cook Political Report rated as toss ups or leaning toward one party or the other, Trump endorsed in 21. Only seven have won.
It was even worse for Trump candidates in the most competitive races. Of the three dozen toss-up races, Trump backed nine candidates. Only one has won.
And yet, Trump is launching another run for president, despite the evidence that his brand and his style politics have proven radioactive in competitive states and districts for multiple election cycles in a row now.
Trump's move shows a degree of vulnerability — an effort to freeze out the GOP presidential field and force Republican elected officials to get off the sidelines and endorse him.
He also doesn't want to give any oxygen to any potential rivals, who may be sensing a chance, especially someone like Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
What about "DeFuture"?
Many in the party have begun to openly question whether it's a good idea to continue to hitch their wagon to the former president, especially with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis waiting in the wings.
DeSantis easily won reelection as Florida's governor last week. He's a staunch conservative and landed in controversy for flying migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard and other liberal cities and enclaves, is widely seen as a more disciplined version of Trump.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post, which turned on Trump during the Jan. 6 congressional committee hearings' revelations, dubbed DeSantis "DeFuture" — and Trump "Trumpty Dumpty," who "couldn't build a wall" and "had a great fall."
Today's cover: Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms https://t.co/YUtDosSGfp pic.twitter.com/vpI94nKuBh
— New York Post (@nypost) November 10, 2022
Some conservative groups also released polling — very soon after the midterm results — showing DeSantis beating Trump in early presidential primary states and places like Texas.
The message was clear — it's time for someone else.
But Trump's hold on the GOP base can't be underestimated. There have been other moments when the "fever" might break, but never has — not with criticizing the late-Republican Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero, not the Access Hollywood tape in which he bragged about assaulting women, not the two dozen women who accused him of sexual misconduct or assault, not even the Jan. 6 insurrection.
But this latest setback may be threatening the thing Republican officials care about most — winning.
Their resolve will be tested, as the party is in for a reckoning over the next two years.
Digging in
Unsurprisingly, Trump seems uncowed and ready for the fight.
He recently nicknamed DeSantis Ron "DeSanctimonious" and touted polling, prior to Election Day, that he said showed him well ahead in a hypothetical GOP presidential primary.
He has taken to his own social media platform — which he formed when he was booted from mainstream platforms like Twitter and Facebook for spreading misinformation and inciting the insurrection — to blast the naysayers, the media and to spread unfounded election conspiracies.
Expect more of the same from candidate Trump once again.
But it's hard for his party to escape the reality that Trump's brand simply hasn't played well in purple states from the beginning of his time on the national stage, especially now that they've suffered because of it.
He may have won the presidential election in 2016, but several swing states were very close, and he wound up losing the popular vote by 3 million votes.
In the 2018 midterms, his party lost 40 House seats and control of the chamber.
After four years of his presidency that saw majorities of voters disapproving of the job he was doing consistently and mishandling the coronavirus pandemic, Trump lost his reelection bid in 2020.
Several swing states were close, but he lost the popular vote by an even wider 7 million votes.
Instead of conceding, and with no other off ramp to explain away his loss, Trump retrenched and cried fraud.
After recounts, audits and dozens of court cases, Biden's election was upheld, over and over again. Yet Trump continued on with lies and inspired rank-and-file Republicans to turn toward dangerous conspiracies that have eroded their faith in the electoral system.
Courts have proven the 2020 election was fair and that there was very little fraud, certainly not enough to overturn the results anywhere.
Despite that, Trump made his false narrative of a stolen election something of a litmus test for those he would endorse in these midterms. They bought in, were boosted in primaries and many lost in the general election, giving seats to Democrats that might have been won by non-election-denying Republicans.
Broadly unpopular — except with the Republican base
A majority of Americans continue to say they have an unfavorable opinion of the former president. But, at least before the midterm elections, he was by far the most popular and powerful figure within the Republican Party.
He continues to be the favorite for the GOP presidential nomination despite recent losses. It will take a lot to defeat him — time, money and fighting against, yes, the GOP establishment in many ways. The Republican National Committee and many state parties are now filled now with Trump acolytes.
Trump's grip on the party had seemed to be loosening — at least marginally — this past summer because of the Jan. 6 hearings and just sheer time and distance removed from power. But the FBI's search of Trump's Florida home ironically seemed to tighten his grip, as GOP base voters saw Trump as a victim.
And Trump has perpetually used victimhood, especially white victimhood and grievance, as fuel to his political fire.
Plenty of others waiting in the wings
It's not just DeSantis who could challenge Trump for the nomination. And it's unclear if DeSantis will. He's only 44 years old and will likely tread carefully to not upset the base of loyal — and he perhaps hopes formerly loyal — supporters of Trump.
Other Republicans have also been circling, positioning themselves and taking steps for a 2024 presidential run of their own, like Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, former Trump United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
Trump's unorthodox move to officially get in now is an effort to blunt those efforts, clear the field and refocus the attention on him, especially as he faces multiple civil and criminal investigations in multiple states. Trump also faces criminal investigations into his finances, including his tax filings and how the Trump Organization has been run, and he is fighting multiple lawsuits.
Trump vs. Biden rematch?
Trump's announcement comes as Biden is facing several political challenges. Biden's popularity has suffered, as inflation has continued to rise, gas prices went up and variants of the coronavirus pandemic have continued to pop up.
The president's approval ratings took a dive in the summer and fall of 2021 after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, initiated under the Trump administration, was widely panned for its chaotic execution under Biden.
While Trump faltered against Biden largely because he lost significant backing from the large swath of suburban and independent voters across the country, he retains significant support among Republican voters.
Biden, on the other hand, has struggled to keep his base fired up. In this age of extreme polarization, maintaining popularity with a president's own party and winning over the narrow slice of remaining swing voters in the country is the pathway to election.
As president, Trump often inflamed cultural grievance
Trump's victory in 2016 was one of the most stunning results in American history. He became an unpopular president, who made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims while in office, was impeached twice and who Americans saw as mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.
That helped lead to Trump losing his reelection bid to Biden. But now with Biden's popularity waning and the economy at an uncertain moment, Trump sees an opportunity to rise to power again.
During his time as president, Trump weaponized white cultural grievance, right-wing nationalism and, ironically, considering his status as an Ivy League-educated billionaire, an anti-elitist economic populism.
The foundation of Trump's 2016 candidacy and ensuing presidency was nativism — he campaigned on building a wall to keep Spanish-speaking immigrants out of the United States; in his early days in office, he banned people from some mostly Muslim countries from coming to the country; he inflamed racial tensions like when he said there were "very fine people" on both sides of a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., where a counter-protester was killed; and he regularly exaggerated dangers to trigger anger and fear in many Americans.
'[T]he crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential," Trump said during his 2017 inaugural address, despite the country having seen an overall downward trend in violent crime.
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now," Trump said in the enduring line from his first speech as president.
With violent crime up in big cities, Republicans have used the issue in these midterm elections to motivate their voters — and it will undoubtedly be a plank Trump uses again.
Trump pushed policies conservatives favored
Many Republicans would say privately, including on Capitol Hill, that they did not like Trump personally, but were still supporting him — despite the chaos they often saw during his presidency.
This confounded many on the left, but the reason for it was that Trump was pushing many policies conservatives agreed with.
He enacted tax cuts that mostly benefited the wealthy and corporations, installed three conservative-leaning justices on the Supreme Court and oversaw a time of economic growth — until the coronavirus pandemic swept through the world.
The appointment of those justices has borne fruit for conservatives, 50 years in the ripening. The court outright overturned Roe v. Wade, sending abortion policy back to the states and shutting off access to abortion for millions of women in this country. The court has also upheld the rights of gun owners and appears poised to further enshrine conservative social structures in coming terms that would have effects for generations to come.
Continuing lies about losing the election
After losing reelection, Trump refused to concede and did not go along with the American tradition of a peaceful transfer of power, departing Washington hours before Biden's inauguration. He remained dug in and invented fraud claims, saying the "real insurrection" came on Election Day in an effort to downplay the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol inspired in part by his own words at a rally hours earlier.
In private, he unsuccessfully pressured state and federal officials to take unprecedented and even illegal actions to overturn his defeat.
It gave him an exit ramp without ever having to admit defeat. Despite audits and reviews in many states, there has been zero evidence of widespread fraud.
Still, Trump continues the lie.
The depth of Trump's efforts have been detailed in the several Jan. 6 committee hearings, which have featured testimony from multiple witnesses who served in Trump's White House, worked on his campaign to elect him, and top DOJ and state election officials.
Even considering his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, most Republican officials, fearing his hold on the GOP base and potential retaliation, declined to stick to criticism of the 45th president. Those who did, like Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, faced his wrath from Trump-backed primary challengers. Cheney lost her reelection bid, as did other Republicans, who voted for his impeachment. In fact, just two of the 10 Trump House Republican impeachers remained on the ballot Tuesday.
Jaime Herrera Beutler, who voted for Trump's impeachment, was ousted in a GOP primary, and, ironically, a Democrat won the seat for the 3rd congressional district in Washington state.
Trump has the money to run again — amassing hundreds of millions of dollars through his political operations.
His formal announcement for president means he will consolidate Republican resources, as the former real-estate developer and reality TV star gets to reprise familiar ground — that of the outsider throwing stones, rather than the insider president responsible for the country's security and prosperity.
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If you're shopping for a new Samsung phone, you might want to hold off. Samsung's Galaxy S23 lineup is expected to launch next month, meaning the Galaxy S22 you're thinking about purchasing won't feel nearly so shiny and new in just a few weeks. Even if you just want to score a discount and don't necessarily care about having the latest phone, there are some good reasons to wait.
The biggest one, of course, is that the Galaxy S23 family is expected to arrive in February. The Galaxy S23 will likely have Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, which should bring perks like better graphics and power efficiency. Reportedly leaked images published by the blog WinFuture also indicate that a slightly different design might be in store. The most significant update, however, is expected to arrive on the Galaxy S23 Ultra, which is rumored to get a 200-megapixel camera, according to often-correct leaker Ice Universe.
Those changes might not sound like much, especially when it comes to the regular Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus. But it's still a good idea to wait if you can. You'll get more longevity out of the Galaxy S23 compared to an older phone like the Galaxy S22 for two simple reasons. One is that the processor is newer, so performance will remain speedy for a longer period of time.
But the more important point is that it'll likely get an extra year of software and security updates. Samsung committed to offering four generations of Android updates and five years of security updates for the Galaxy S22 last year, and it'll probably do the same for the Galaxy S23. The Galaxy S22 is already one year into that upgrade cycle.
You might be tempted to buy the Galaxy S22 anyway, since there are plenty of deals available through Samsung and other retailers. I'd encourage you to consider that similar discounts on the Galaxy S23 lineup may surface once the devices launch. Last year, for example, AT&T shaved $800 off the Galaxy S22 even when trading in an older, broken phone. Samsung also offered some bargains last year to promote the Galaxy S22 family at launch. Those who preordered the device before Feb. 24 were eligible to upgrade to the next storage tier and gain Samsung credit that could be applied toward the Galaxy Watch 4 or Samsung Freestyle projector.
There's also a chance that we may see some Galaxy S22 discounts after the Galaxy S23 launches. Samsung released the Galaxy S21 FE in 2022 as a slightly cheaper alternative to the Galaxy S22, targeting the audience that would typically opt to save a few bucks by going for the prior year's model. Since Samsung didn't release a Galaxy S22 FE, perhaps it'll keep a version of the Galaxy S22 around at a lower price.
Regardless, it's a good idea to wait if you're in a position to do so. Learning about what the Galaxy S23 has to offer and seeing which discounts are available will help you make a more informed decision. And of course, CNET will have plenty of advice on whether the Galaxy S23 is worth the upgrade once it launches. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/think-twice-before-buying-a-new-samsung-galaxy-s22-right-now/ | 2023-01-13 13:12:17 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/think-twice-before-buying-a-new-samsung-galaxy-s22-right-now/ |
Morning Weather at your Fingertips
East Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - Good morning, East Texas! Today looks a lot like yesterday. We’re starting out warm and muggy with mostly cloudy skies. A few sprinkles are possible. By this afternoon, we should see breaks in the clouds with breezy south and southwest winds and temperatures reaching near 80 degrees again. A weak cold front moves closer to East Texas tomorrow with a slight chance for a few light showers, especially in the northern half of the area. The chance for rain increases Saturday with some lingering showers Sunday. A much stronger cold front is on the way for early next week. Expect likely thunderstorms with this front and a much more noticeable cool down by the middle of next week.
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Gomez triumphs in California district
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez defeated rival Democrat David Kim on Saturday in a Los Angeles district after a battle on the party's progressive flank.
With nearly all the ballots counted, Gomez had 51.3% to 48.7% for Kim, or a margin of about 3,000 votes.
The race was a rematch from 2020 when Gomez defeated Kim, an immigration lawyer. Under California's primary rules, only the top two finishers advance to the November election, which set up the fight between two Democrats.
The heavily Democratic 34th District is a diverse, urban mishmash of neighborhoods that cuts across income, racial and ethnic groups. It includes downtown Los Angeles, Koreatown and heavily Latino Boyle Heights.
Fewer than 1 in 10 voters in the district are Republicans, over 60% are Democrats and most of the remainder are independents who lean Democratic.
Earlier this week, Republicans regained overall control of the House by reaching the 218 seat threshold for a majority. The outcome in the Los Angeles district doesn't sway the balance of control since both candidates were Democrats.
Counting is not yet finished in a handful of other undecided races.
Gomez's campaign touted him as "the proven progressive who delivers for us," and his website includes photographs of him with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It spotlights that he supports Medicare-for-all and Green New Deal climate change proposals.
Kim supported so-called universal basic income checks of $1,000 a month for every adult, Medicare-for-all and building 12 million publicly funded housing units over 10 years. | https://www.kcra.com/article/democratic-u-s-rep-gomez-triumphs-in-california-district/42014187 | 2022-11-20 04:42:56 | 1 | https://www.kcra.com/article/democratic-u-s-rep-gomez-triumphs-in-california-district/42014187 |
First Period_1, Boston, Clifton 2 (Lindholm, Hall), 7:17. 2, Vancouver, Miller 9 (Boeser, Hughes), 9:05 (pp). 3, Boston, Bergeron 8 (Pastrnak, Lindholm), 17:29 (pp). Penalties_Vancouver bench, served by Garland (Delay of Game), 0:44; Burroughs, VAN (Fighting), 8:23; Nosek, BOS (Misconduct), 8:23; Boston bench, served by Frederic (Instigator), 8:23; Nosek, BOS (Fighting), 8:23; Myers, VAN (Tripping), 11:10; Podkolzin, VAN (Fighting), 14:24; Greer, BOS (Fighting), 14:24; Studnicka, VAN (Tripping), 15:35.
Second Period_4, Boston, Zacha 3 (Clifton, Lindholm), 11:19. 5, Boston, Marchand 5 (McAvoy, Pastrnak), 17:23 (pp). Penalties_Frederic, BOS (Slashing), 3:58; Myers, VAN (Tripping), 9:20; Krejci, BOS (High Sticking), 9:56; Hughes, VAN (Illegal Equipment), 14:48; Myers, VAN (Delay of Game), 17:10.
Third Period_6, Vancouver, Dries 1, 4:34 (pp). 7, Boston, Nosek 1 (Coyle, Carlo), 18:02 (en). Penalties_Zboril, BOS (High Sticking), 2:35; Lindholm, BOS (Holding), 6:30; Pastrnak, BOS (Delay of Game), 16:37.
Shots on Goal_Vancouver 8-9-13_30. Boston 17-9-6_32.
Power-play opportunities_Vancouver 2 of 6; Boston 2 of 6.
Goalies_Vancouver, Demko 1-8-2 (31 shots-27 saves). Boston, Ullmark 11-1-0 (30-28).
A_17,850 (17,565). T_2:34.
Referees_Frederick L'Ecuyer, Chris Schlenker. Linesmen_Ryan Jackson, Matt MacPherson. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Boston-5-Vancouver-2-17582087.php | 2022-11-14 03:24:25 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Boston-5-Vancouver-2-17582087.php |
LOS ANGELES -- Lady Gaga will perform at the Oscars after all, according to an Associated Press report.
A person close to the production with knowledge of the performance confirmed to the AP Sunday afternoon that the pop superstar will sing "Hold My Hand," the Oscar-nominated original song from "Top Gun: Maverick."
Producers said just days before that Gaga's schedule on the "Joker" sequel would keep her from performing, but apparently a change after their remarks allowed the performance's addition to the show.
With Gaga's performance added, all the nominated original songs this year will have a showcase during the Oscars telecast. Variety first reported the change of plans.
Gaga won her first Oscar for Best Original Song in 2019 for "Shallow" from "A Star is Born."
This is Gaga's fourth Oscar nomination.
She was previously nominated for Best Actress in 2019 for "A Star is Born," and Best Original Song in 2016 for "Til it Happens to You" from the documentary "The Hunting Ground."
Rihanna will perform "Lift Me Up" from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava will sing Chandrabose and M.M. Keeravaani's "Naatu Naatu" from "RRR."
Songs from "Tell It Like a Woman" and "Everything Everywhere All At Once" will also be performed. | https://abc7ny.com/lady-gaga-oscars-2023-original-song-oscar-nominations/12946468/ | 2023-03-12 22:24:25 | 1 | https://abc7ny.com/lady-gaga-oscars-2023-original-song-oscar-nominations/12946468/ |
NCL Cup Series races to conclude in Atlanta, Georgia.
MIAMI, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The fourth NCL Cup race—originally scheduled for September 17 in Washington D.C.—has been removed from the original four-race series. The National Cycling League (NCL), the first-of-its-kind professional cycling league, has announced that the remaining two races in the NCL Cup Series will include NCL Cup Denver (August 13), with NCL Cup Atlanta (August 20) being the final event for the 2023 season.
In a statement from Andrea Pagnanelli, CEO of the National Cycling League, the NCL announced that "The National Cycling League stands to set the standard in cycling and sports. We proved that with our inaugural race in Miami Beach and are building the foundation to set us up for the future. With any startup, pivots will occur. This was a necessary change to ensure we could put our full attention into 2024 and beyond."
NCL Denver—the second race of the NCL Cup Series—will take place on Sunday, August 13 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, home to Major League Soccer's (MLS) Colorado Rapids. The third and final race of the series will conclude on Sunday, August 20 in Atlanta at the world-renowned Porsche Experience Center.
The 2023 NCL Cup Series began on April 8 in Miami Beach, Florida, with the Denver Disruptors winning the inaugural race on the streets of South Beach. It marked the first race of the professional cycling league's series, which encompasses ten co-ed teams of professional cyclists, including NCL-owned teams Denver Disruptors and Miami Nights.
Teams consist of a men's and a women's division. Those without both men's and women's divisions may merge with another men's/women's team for the purpose of competing in the NCL Cup Series. To learn more about the 2023 NCL Cup participating teams, visit nclracing.com/teams.
NCL races are sanctioned by USA Cycling and feature an innovative competition format in which men and women compete on the same team, on the same course, in a way that respects their differences yet weighs their performances and values their contributions equally. Fans also have access to real-time data and scoring through the NCL's scoreboard, a first in professional criterium racing.
In addition to being the first gender-equal professional sports league in the country, NCL is also the first majority women- and minority-owned league. Notable investors include Miami Dolphins Cornerback Jalen Ramsey, Los Angeles Chargers Safety Derwin James, Titans Safety Kevin Byard, FOX Sports' Emmanuel Acho, NBA Former Executive Director Michele Roberts, and others.
For more information on all qualifying events, pre-race festivities, and VIP tickets, visit nclracing.com.
About National Cycling League
Founded in 2022, the National Cycling League (NCL) is revolutionizing professional cycling into a world-class spectator sport. The NCL is the first majority women- and minority-owned league and the first gender-equal professional sport, where men and women compete on the same team and contribute to the scoreboard equally. The 2023 NCL Cup is a series of professional criterium races held in iconic cities across the United States. For more information, visit nclracing.com.
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SAN JACINTO, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) Community Education has partnered with Green Flower, a California-based leading cannabis education company, to offer three not-for-credit certificate courses beginning July 19.
The programs focus on various aspects of the industry, with courses centered on Advanced Cultivation Technician, Advanced Manufacturing Agent, and Advanced Dispensary Associate training. Each course will provide participants with knowledge, skills and abilities to help them excel in their chosen field of specialization.
The eight-week courses are designed for participants who prefer a flexible online format. They are offered in an asynchronous, self-paced format with lessons structured in weekly modules.
"The cannabis industry is one of the fastest-growing sources of employment in America and this includes southwest Riverside County," said Janice Mrkonjic, MSJC's Interim Director of Workforce & Economic Development. "After interviewing industry leaders, I identified their needs for a skilled workforce in the areas of cultivation, manufacturing, and dispensary."
The partnership between MSJC and Green Flower will help participants gain the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.
"MSJC's commitment to transform learners, communities, and lives is directly aligned with Green Flower's progressive and strategic approach to deliver cannabis industry-centric educational programs," Mrkonjic said.
The cannabis industry is booming. In Riverside County, taxable cannabis sales increased from $264.19 million in 2020 to $374.18 million in 2021, according to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. That's a 41.6 percent rise in just one year.
The not-for-credit courses will be offered through the MSJC Contract and Community Education department. Upon completion of each course, participants will earn a Certificate of Completion and gain access to Green Flower's career portal as well as the college's online job board, JobSpeaker, which allows local employers to post job openings.
"Green Flower is honored to be partnering with Mt. San Jacinto College to offer our three cannabis industry training courses," said Daniel Kalef, Vice President of University Partnerships. "With the cannabis industry in California continuing to grow at a record pace, while also being the largest cannabis market in the world, the ability to help people train to work in the industry continues to be vital.
"The programs we are offering in partnership with MSJC will help ensure not only the continued growth of the industry in California, but growth in great part due to a well-trained workforce. We can think of no better College or group of people with whom to partner with and are excited to begin offering them to the public," Kalef said.
For more information visit: cannabis.msjc.edu
Founded in 2014, Green Flower is the industry leader in cannabis education, empowering thousands of consumers, regulators, and professionals with the knowledge they need to succeed in the emerging cannabis industry today. Green Flower's content and technology platform powers the cannabis programs of top universities and colleges across the country, provides customized learning and compliance solutions for cannabis businesses of all sizes, and equips individuals with the skills and credentials necessary to make an impact in the modern cannabis industry.
Founded in 1963, Mt. San Jacinto College serves nearly 24,000 students annually in a district covering 1,700 square miles from the San Gorgonio Pass to Temecula, with campuses in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning and Temecula. MSJC offers numerous courses and programs that satisfy the transfer requirements of four-year colleges and universities and vocational and technical programs that prepare students for fulfilling careers. Along with the college's traditional programs, MSJC's Community Education department offers not-for-credit programs for personal and professional development.
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Tiffany Van Gordon – Mt. San Jacinto College, (951) 639-5439, tvangordon@msjc.edu
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Dove is calling on its global community to post a video to #TurnYourBack to the #BoldGlamour filter
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, March 7, Dove is calling on its global community to #TurnYourBack to the trending Bold Glamour filter. As the harmful filter sweeps social channels with content creators calling out its dangers, Dove is inviting everyone to join them to take a stand as part of its ongoing commitment to #NoDigitalDistortion in any of its advertising or marketing.
"The Bold Glamour filter has now been used over 15 million times, and its popularity certainly doesn't seem to be waning. What might seem like a harmless filter has the potential to cause damage to our mental health and affect our self-esteem," explains content creator and body confidence advocate, Alex Light. "Filters like this create a brand new and unrealistic comparison that blurs the lines of reality and sets a new standard for how we think we should look. It's vital that we push back against these increasingly toxic beauty standards and show young girls that it's OK to be their authentic, beautiful selves. I've worked with Dove for a long time, and I am so proud to work with a brand who not only pledge no digital distortion in their imagery, but continually work to dismantle beauty standards and champion self-esteem in women and girls. I am fully behind their new campaign."
While social media filters can be a source of creativity and self-expression, effects like Bold Glamour dramatically distort reality and reinforce narrow and unattainable beauty standards. Thirty-eight percent of girls say they can't live up to the beauty standards that influencers project on social media, and 80% say they have already applied a filter or used a retouching app to change the way they look in their photos by age 13.
As a result, 48% of girls who distort their photos regularly have lower body esteem compared to 28% of girls who don't.
"Academic studies find that the use of filters and selfie editing are associated with low body confidence, mood, and self-esteem," explains Dr. Phillippa Diedrichs, Research Psychologist at the Centre of Appearance Research at the University of West England and body image expert. "Research from Dove found that 24% of girls with lower body esteem feel they don't look good enough without photo editing. Moreover, filters have become part of everyday life for 52% of girls, and 77% try to change or hide at least one part of their body before posting a photo of themselves. This suggests that the cumulative effect of filters and digital distortion over time is creating appearance pressures and low self-worth among girls and young women."
For years, Dove has championed wider definitions of beauty and has taken action towards making social media a more positive place with campaigns like #SpeakBeautiful, #NoDigitalDistortion, Reverse Selfie, and #DetoxYourFeed. However, the rise of the new Bold Glamour filter effect is dangerous and reinforces the damaging beauty stereotypes Dove has been working to shatter.
"While social media filters can be a source of creativity and self-expression, Bold Glamour goes beyond 'play.' Tools once only available to professionals can now be accessed by young girls at the touch of a button and without regulation," says Firdaous El Honsali, Global Vice President, External Communications at Dove. "At Dove, we are committed to #NoDigitalDistortion in any of our marketing and advertising so that we can support a more positive environment on social media that is representative of real, authentic beauty. When young people distort their images, they distort their minds too. We are calling on our community to join us to turn their backs to the toxic Bold Glamour filter and stand up for real beauty. Because real beauty is bold!"
Dove wants to transform our too often toxic, digitally distorted feeds into a movement to keep beauty real. Take action by posting a video turning your back to the Bold Glamour filter using #TurnYourBack #BoldGlamour #NoDigitalDistortion.
Through the Dove Self-Esteem Project, Dove also offers academically validated and free tools to empower parents and caregivers to help kids navigate social media in a positive way. Created in partnership with the Centre for Appearance Research, the Confidence Kit provides tips on how to make social media a healthy place where kids can flourish and is available for download at Dove.com/selfesteem.
The Confidence Kit is part of the Dove Self-Esteem Project's mission to help 250 million kids with self-esteem education by 2030. To-date, the Dove Self-Esteem Project has reached the lives of 94.5 million young people across 150 countries.
Together, let's stop retouching apps from blurring young people's confidence and build positive body image on social media. Join us and #TurnYourBack to #BoldGlamour.
Dove Research
Research conducted by Edelman Data & Intelligence, a global, multidisciplinary research, analytics and data consultancy between November and December 2020 in US, UK, and Canada.
About Dove
Dove started its life in 1957 in the US, with launch of the Beauty Bar, with its patented blend of mild cleansers and ¼ moisturising cream. Dove's heritage is rooted in care – proof, not promises grew Dove from a Beauty Bar into one of the world's most beloved beauty brands.
Real women have always been our inspiration, and since the beginning, Dove has been wholly committed to providing superior care to all, and to championing real representations of beauty in our advertising, communications and campaigns. Dove believes that beauty is for everyone, and the Dove mission is to ensure a positive experience with beauty is universally accessible to all.
For 65 years, Dove has been committed to broadening the narrow definition of beauty in the work they do. This includes the 'Dove Real Beauty Pledge,' and commitment to:
- Portray women as they are in real life with honesty, diversity and respect. We feature women of different ages, sizes, ethnicities, hair colour, type and style.
- Represent individuals with zero digital distortion, with all images approved by the women they feature.
- Help young people build body confidence and self-esteem through the Dove Self-Esteem Project, the biggest provider of self-esteem education in the world with a goal to educate 250 million young people by 2030.
Contact: Sherria Cotton, sherria.cotton@edelman.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Friday effectively killed President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans. But he declared, “This fight is not over.”
The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, said the Biden administration overstepped its authority with the plan, and it left borrowers on the hook for repayments that are expected to resume in the fall.
The court held that the administration needed Congress’ endorsement before undertaking so costly a program. The majority rejected arguments that a bipartisan 2003 law dealing with national emergencies, known as the HEROES Act, gave Biden the power he claimed.
Biden, who once doubted his own authority to offer student loan forgiveness, said later Friday he would push ahead with a new debt relief plan while blaming Republican “hypocrisy” for the decision that wiped out his original effort.
The president said he would work toward a new path for student debt relief, using the Higher Education Act, which he called “the best path that remains to provide as many borrowers as possible with debt relief.” He also moved to create an “on ramp” that would help ease the risk of default for students who fail to make payments when the current pause ends.
The president said he would work under the authority of the Higher Education Act to begin a new program designed to ease borrowers’ threat of default if they fall behind over the next year.
The Supreme Court ruling was blunt in rejecting Biden’s first plan.
“Six States sued, arguing that the HEROES Act does not authorize the loan cancellation plan. We agree,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court.
Justice Elena Kagan, wrote in a dissent, joined by the court’s two other liberals, that the majority of the court “overrides the combined judgment of the Legislative and Executive Branches, with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million Americans.” Kagan read a summary of her dissent in court to emphasize her disagreement.
Roberts, perhaps anticipating negative public reaction and aware of declining approval of the court, added an unusual coda to his opinion, cautioning that the liberals’ dissent should not be mistaken for disparagement of the court itself. ”It is important that the public not be misled either. Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country,” the chief justice wrote.
Biden blame Republican officials for causing the dispute that led to Friday’s ruling.
They “had no problem with billions in pandemic-related loans to businesses. … And those loans were forgiven,” Biden said. “But when it came to providing relief to millions of hard-working Americans, they did everything in their power to stop it.”
Loan repayments will resume in October, although interest will begin accruing in September, the Education Department has announced. Payments have been on hold since the start of the coronavirus pandemic more than three years ago.
The forgiveness program would have canceled $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 or households with less than $250,000 in income. Pell Grant recipients, who typically demonstrate more financial need, would have had an additional $10,000 in debt forgiven.
Twenty-six million people had applied for relief and 43 million would have been eligible, the administration said. The cost was estimated at $400 billion over 30 years.
Advocacy groups supporting debt cancellation condemned the decision while demanding that Biden find another avenue to fulfill his promise of debt relief.
Natalia Abrams, president and founder of the Student Debt Crisis Center, said the responsibility for new action falls “squarely” on Biden’s shoulders. “The president possesses the power, and must summon the will, to secure the essential relief that families across the nation desperately need,” Abrams said in a statement.
The loan plan joins other pandemic-related initiatives that faltered at the Supreme Court.
Conservative majorities ended an eviction moratorium that had been imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and blocked a plan to require workers at big companies to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing and wear a mask on the job. The court upheld a plan to require vaccinations of health-care workers.
The earlier programs were billed largely as public health measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19. The loan forgiveness plan, by contrast, was aimed at countering the economic effects of the pandemic.
In more than three hours of arguments last February, conservative justices voiced their skepticism that the administration had the authority to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions.
Republican-led states arguing before the court said the plan would have amounted to a “windfall” for 20 million people who would have seen their entire student debt disappear and been better off than they were before the pandemic.
Roberts was among those on the court who questioned whether non-college workers would essentially be penalized for a break for the college educated.
In contrast, the administration grounded the need for the sweeping loan forgiveness in the COVID-19 emergency and the continuing negative impacts on people near the bottom of the economic ladder. The declared emergency ended on May 11.
Without the promised loan relief, the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer told the justices, “delinquencies and defaults will surge.”
At those arguments, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her fellow justices would be making a mistake if they took for themselves, instead of leaving it to education experts, “the right to decide how much aid to give” people who would struggle if the program were struck down.
The HEROES Act — the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act — has allowed the secretary of education to waive or modify the terms of federal student loans in connection with a national emergency. The law was primarily intended to keep service members from being hurt financially while they fought in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Biden announced the program last August and legal challenges quickly followed.
The court majority said the Republican-led states had cleared an early hurdle that required them to show they would be financially harmed if the program had been allowed to take effect.
The states did not even rely on any direct injury to themselves, but instead pointed to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, a state-created company that services student loans.
Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell, arguing before the court in February, said the Authority would lose about 40% of its revenues if the Biden plan went into effect. Independent research has cast doubt on the financial harm MOHELA would face, suggesting that the agency would still see an increase in revenue even if Biden’s cancellation went through. That information was not part of the court record.
A federal judge initially found that the states would not be harmed and dismissed their lawsuit before an appellate panel said the case could proceed.
In a second case, the justices ruled unanimously that two Texans who filed a separate challenge did not have legal standing to sue. But the outcome of that case has no bearing on the court’s decision to block the debt relief plan.
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Associated Press writers Collin Binkley, Colleen Long and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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Last year, white doves flew around Charles Edward Carroll Jr.’s grave site as close family and friends gathered on the fifth anniversary of his killing. This year, his mother says it’ll be butterflies.
It’s “just to kind of send a message to him,” Beverly Reed said.
Reed has frequently visited her son’s Glen Burnie grave in the six years since he was gunned down in Annapolis, either tidying it up or just reflecting. She likes to relax and eat lunch there and have a conversation with him at the bench.
But she hasn’t been able to sit there and tell him that someone’s been held accountable for his death.
“I want to go to my son’s grave one day and be able to say ‘I did it. I got justice,’” Reed said.
Carroll, known to his family and friends as “CJ,” was 25 years old when he shot six times on July 28, 2016 while in his car on Royal Street, in the Bywater Mutual Homes community. Although he was living in Brooklyn at the time, homicide detectives believe he was caught in a dispute between the Newtowne 20 and Bywater neighborhoods. They suspect two men who are currently in prison for a separate homicide were responsible for the shooting.
The case has been presented to prosecutors multiple times over the past six years. Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said it’s stalled due to a lack of evidence. In 2020, the Annapolis Police Department’s new cold case unit took over the case.
It was raining the night Carroll was killed, making forensic evidence collection fairly difficult. While anonymous tipsters have come forward with information, Leitess said it’ll take more than just rumors. She said solving the case is a matter of people coming forward with what they know, and she hopes as time goes on, people will be more willing to come forward as loyalties change. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information on his death.
Reed meets with police and city officials from time to time to go over the case. She speaks to other parents of homicide victims and attends talks with the Weeping Mothers, an Annapolis collective of moms who have lost their children to violence or other sudden tragedies. She’s felt supported there, as she has been able to share her experiences and advice, like keeping in touch with detectives and raising awareness to prevent her son’s case from being cast aside.
Meeting with other victims’ families has helped. It’s also brought to the surface a mutual feeling that their sons and daughters are being forgotten, Reed said.
“We have to pray and have a relationship with God,” she said. “They have no voice. We have to be their voice.”
Reed likes to write poems and letters to her son and put them under the mattress in his room, which has been almost untouched since his death. He kept it clean and orderly, unlike his friends, who would poke fun at him for neatly folding his dirty clothes.
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“He was really a nerd,” Reed said.
Carroll was a new father in 2016 and had recently completed carpentry courses at Anne Arundel Community College, where he also got his high school diploma.
People would take to CJ easily, Reed said. The day he was killed, he went to an interview with a workforce development counselor to talk about his future, planning an HVAC career that he would have started in a few months. Weeks later, Reed met with the counselor.
“She did remember him,” Reed said. “She just met him an hour of his life, and she got to know his goals and what he wanted out of life.”
Reed hasn’t heard many developments in her son’s case in recent years. As the sixth anniversary of CJ’s death approaches, Reed wrote another poem in which she reflects on her son’s future that was taken away from him.
Despite the roadblocks and feeling cast aside, she said she isn’t giving up on the pursuit of justice for her son. Justice isn’t just about locking up those responsible for her son’s death, she said, it’s about being able to find closure, and holding them accountable, by having their name attached to the homicide.
Anyone with information about Carroll.’s death is encouraged to contact Annapolis cold case detectives at 410-268-9000. If a person wishes to remain anonymous, they can call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP, where a tip that leads to an arrest or indictment could be eligible for a cash reward. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/ac-cn-carroll-homicide-case-justice-20220724-fnhvh7aq4rbx5epwo7jyv6lw6e-story.html | 2022-07-24 11:23:17 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/ac-cn-carroll-homicide-case-justice-20220724-fnhvh7aq4rbx5epwo7jyv6lw6e-story.html |
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BENSALEM, Pa., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Generac Holdings Inc. ("Generac" or the "Company") (NYSE: GNRC).
Class Period: April 29, 2021 – November 1, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 30, 2023
Investors suffering losses on their Generac investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) the full scope of the economic harm flowing from the defective SnapRS units; and (2) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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PANAMA CITY, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA) today released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for October 2022:
Given the irregular nature of the Company's operations starting in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are comparing this traffic report to 2019 statistics.
Consolidated capacity (ASMs) came in 5.2% higher than in October 2019, while passenger traffic (RPMs) increased by 10.2%. As a result, the load factor for the month was 89.0%, 4.1 percentage points higher than in October 2019.
Copa Holdings is a leading Latin American provider of passenger and cargo services. The Company, through its operating subsidiaries, provides service to countries in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. For more information visit www.copaair.com.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Arkansas women opened their postseason run with a win 69-47 over Louisiana Tech in the opening round of the WNIT.
The Hogs advance to play Stephen F. Austin the second round of the tournament. The Razorbacks improve to 9-0 all-time in the first round NIT games.
The Razorbacks defense was flying from the opening tip off. The Hogs held of Lady Techsters to just three points in the opening quarter.
Arkansas led 35-21 at halftime behind a team high nine points from Chrissy Carr.
Louisiana Tech opened the second half on a 6-0 run to cut the Hogs lead to single digits.
Arkansas would take an eleven point lead into the final frame behind 14 points from Carr and twelve from Samara Spencer. In the quarter Saylor Poffenbarger became the only Razorback to have 200 rebounds in the season.
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AMORY, Miss. (WTVA) — Tornadoes swept through Mississippi Friday evening.
Damage has been reported in Winona [Montgomery County] and Amory [Monroe County].
Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley confirmed one storm-related death in Wren.
Amory Police Lt. Detective Andy Long reported damage to houses and businesses.
The picture below shows the National Guard armory in Amory.
Long said the damage is primarily north, west and downtown.
WTVA reporter Craig Ford found damage north of Vinegar Bend in Amory, including the Piggly Wiggly and the surrounding shopping center.
Winona Mayor Aaron Dees reported major damage to homes on Highways 82, 51 and 407.
He said several homes on Highway 407, from Tom Bibbs Road to Enterprise Drive, have been heavily damaged.
The mayor said crews are working to clear power lines. The public is asked to stay away. He reported no casualties.
Montgomery County EMA Director Allan Pratt reported many homes destroyed. He said a church off of Highway 51 south of Winona has been completely destroyed. | https://www.wtva.com/news/local/1-death-reported-in-monroe-county/article_bfaeb4b6-cac6-11ed-a574-dbf4df4bc67d.html | 2023-03-25 07:02:06 | 1 | https://www.wtva.com/news/local/1-death-reported-in-monroe-county/article_bfaeb4b6-cac6-11ed-a574-dbf4df4bc67d.html |
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Airbnb, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABNB) announced today that Chief Executive Officer, Brian Chesky, will speak at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Monday, March 6, 2023 beginning at 2:40pm PT / 5:40pm ET. A live webcast of the session will be available to the public at https://cc.webcasts.com/morg007/030623a_js/?entity=93_BVGR8K3. A replay will be made available on the Investor Relations website at https://investors.airbnb.com.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — No one disputes Wendy Howard killed ex-boyfriend Kelly Rees Pitts after finding out he molested her teenage daughter.
But there remains disagreement on whether her actions were a crime or self-defense.
Last week, a jury acquitted Howard of murder but deadlocked on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. In all, the jury voted on four charges.
With the first-degree murder charge, the jury had to determine whether Howard, 53, acted with premeditation and malice aforethought – essentially the intent to kill – when she shot Pitts, 57, on June 5, 2019.
The jury found her not guilty of this charge, meaning they did not believe she made a decision to kill Pitts when she walked outside her Tehachapi home and met him in her driveway.
After acquitting her of first-degree murder, the jury then began considering lesser included offenses.
First, they deliberated on the charge of second-degree murder, which does not require premeditation but does require malice aforethought.
The jury found Howard not guilty and moved on to voluntary manslaughter. With that charge, the jury voted on two theories: imperfect self-defense and heat of passion.
In imperfect self-defense, a person believes they need to use deadly force and kills someone to stop a perceived threat, but in reality deadly force wasn’t necessary. The jury found Howard not guilty under that theory.
But jurors deadlocked 7 to 5 on the heat of passion theory, meaning seven jurors believed she unlawfully killed Pitts after being provoked to an uncontrollable rage.
Howard could be retried under that theory.
Finally, the jury rendered a not guilty verdict on involuntary manslaughter, which is charged when someone is unlawfully killed but there was not intent to kill and no conscious disregard for human life.
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BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline for the second day in a row Wednesday, creating further energy turmoil for Europe as it tries to reduce its extensive use of Russian oil and natural gas amid the war in Ukraine.
The state-owned energy giant said on Twitter that deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany would be cut again Thursday, bringing the overall reduction through the undersea pipeline to 60%.
The drop in shipments of gas used to power industry and generate electricity would amount to some 16 billion cubic meters by the end of the year, or around 10% of total European Union gas imports from Russia, according to Simone Tagliapietra, an energy policy expert at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels.
The new cut came a day after Gazprom said it would reduce flows by 40% after Canadian sanctions over the war prevented German partner Siemens Energy from delivering overhauled equipment. It blamed the same issue for the additional reduction.
But German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said Wednesday that Gazprom’s initial move appeared to be political rather than a result of technical problems. He said the new developments “clearly show the Russian side’s explanation is simply an excuse.”
“Obviously, the strategy is to unsettle people and push up prices,” Habeck said.
Gazprom also told Italian gas giant Eni that it would reduce gas through a different pipeline by roughly 15% on Wednesday. The reason for the reduction has not been made clear, and the Italian company said it was monitoring the situation.
The reduced flows to two of Europe’s biggest importers of Russian natural gas follow Russia’s previous halt of gas supplies to Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Europe is working to reduce its dependence on Russian energy as the war worsens rising oil and gas prices that are fueling record inflation. Gas demand has fallen after the end of the winter heating season, but European utilities are racing to refill storage ahead of next winte r with prices high and supplies uncertain.
While gas storage is refilling well, the cutoffs and reductions come on top of an explosion at a liquefied natural gas terminal in Texas whose exports were largely going to Europe, adding another squeeze to the tight natural gas market, energy expert Tagliapietra said. He urged Europe “not to be complacent and urgently scale-up coordination” so the continent is “prepared for a possibly difficult winter ahead.”
Tagliapietra said the Kremlin was pursuing several goals in order to undermine European unity and backing for sanctions against Russia.
One was short-term market manipulation to drive up gas prices, creating more stress on Europe and more revenue for Russia. Another goal, after the cutoffs to smaller countries, “is to remind the big countries that the gas is not to be taken for granted.”
“Russia never acts on a general level. It is always targeting individual countries, one by one, always to play this divide and rule strategy from the very beginning,” Tagliapietra. “This is a strategic game, this is not random.”
Siemens Energy said a gas turbine that powers a compressor station on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline had been in service for more than 10 years and was taken to Montreal for a scheduled overhaul. But because of sanctions imposed by Canada, the company has been unable to return the equipment to Gazprom.
Habeck, who is also Germany’s economy minister and responsible for energy, told reporters in Berlin that he had established with the EU’s executive Commission that the maintenance of Siemens compressor stations on the pipeline isn’t subject to EU sanctions.
He said officials are in contact with Canada to check what is possible under Ottawa’s sanctions. But he added that, as far as German officials know, the first “relevant” maintenance session isn’t due until the fall, and because there are several such installations, that wouldn’t explain a 40% reduction.
“So I also have the impression that what happened yesterday is a political decision, and not a decision that is technically justifiable,” Habeck said. “What effect it has on the European and German gas market, we will have to wait and see. As a rule, suppliers have always succeeded in getting hold of gas from other sources.”
He said there’s no supply problem in Germany, which gets about 35% of its natural gas from Russia, and it should be able to keep filling up reserves. Habeck said the missing gas can be obtained on the market but the price will be higher.
The EU has outlined plans to reduce its dependence on Russian gas by two-thirds by year’s end. Economists say a complete cutoff would deal a severe blow to the economy, consumers and gas-intensive industries. The 27-nation bloc is already reeling from high inflation this year.
“If you have the feeling that all your homework is done and everything is going well, you’re wrong,” Habeck said. “It isn’t over yet. It may only just be beginning … making ourselves independent from fossil energy and Russian fossil energy must be advanced at high pressure.”
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy convened House Republicans behind closed doors Tuesday to unveil his proposal to raise the nation's debt limit as part of a package to limit future federal spending increases to 1% and other policy changes in an opening bid to draw President Joe Biden into negotiations.
The typically fractured House Republican majority has appeared surprisingly open to the plan, which McCarthy outlined in a high-profile speech at the start of the week to Wall Street. But it remains a work in progress. While the Republican proposal has almost no chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate, McCarthy wants to pass the package from the House to kickstart White House talks.
"I'm confident we'll have it and comfortable we'll pass it," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., the chairman of the Rules Committee, who said the bill could come for a vote as soon as next week.
Even as some of McCarthy's most ardent skeptics from the House Freedom Caucus — including those who initially refused to back him to be speaker — seemed ready to give his debt ceiling proposal a look. But others remained deeply skeptical, showing the limits of the embattled speaker's grip on his majority.
Rep, Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a McCarthy holdout for speaker was unsold on the plan and suggested changes Tuesday.
"There is no 'this,' said Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., as he exited the session. "We're discussing what the this will be."
"I’m open to it but ... I’m still a no vote," Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett told CNN on Tuesday.
The swift turn of events shows the high stakes of the debt ceiling fight, which is expected to play out in the weeks and months ahead, as Biden confronts the new era of divided government with Republicans in charge of the House eager to flex their majority power.
The White House has refused to engage with McCarthy on the debt limit, saying he must put forward a budget proposal before any talks. Biden's senior aides are skeptical the embattled new speaker can rally his various factions behind any plan. The White House dismissed McCarthy's address Monday to the New York Stock Exchange where he unveiled the contours of his proposal saying "a speech is not a plan."
The Treasury Department has said the nation will need to raise the debt ceiling, now at $31 trillion, likely by summer. Meanwhile, Treasury is taking "extraordinary measures" to allow continued borrowing to pay off already accrued bills, but that will eventually run out.
McCarthy has been working furiously behind the scenes with his leadership team to unite the "five families" — the often warring factions of Republican caucuses including the House Freedom Caucus, the Republican Study Committee and others — to join together. He and the leadership team discussed the plan Tuesday at the House Republicans' closed door session.
The proposal the Republican speaker outlined is far-reaching, and expected to be rejected by the White House.
It would raise the debt limit into next year — putting it squarely into the 2024 presidential election in exchange for rolling back spending to fiscal 2022 levels, recouping tens of billions of dollars of unspent COVID-19 relief funds and imposing a 1% cap on future spending each year for the decade.
Additionally, McCarthy's plan would impose new work requirements on recipients of government aid, cutting billions from the federal safety net. And it would tack on H.R. 1 a sweeping energy package of oil and gas drilling and permitting reforms that would undo much of Biden's climate change agenda.
"I find all indications to be we're going to put a very serious proposal on the floor and pass it with 218 or more votes," said Freedom Caucus member Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., as lawmakers arrived at the Capitol late Monday evening, referring to the majority needed for passage.
But by Tuesday, not vote was set in stone, according to a person familiar with the closed door meeting and granted anonymity to discuss it.
In many ways, this is the easy part for McCarthy: A vote as soon as next week would not necessarily be binding since the proposal is dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
That political dynamic may make it easier for McCarthy to rally his ranks behind the plan if Republicans see if as merely a starting point in negotiations designed to push Biden to the table for talks.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., said late Monday the plan was a step in the right direction but he still needed to see the details.
"Kevin McCarthy is going to get 218 votes on this deal," said Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., a chairman of the conservative Main Street Caucus, referring to the majority needed for passage.
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HOUSTON (AP) _ APA Corporation (APA) on Wednesday reported second-quarter net income of $926 million.
On a per-share basis, the Houston-based company said it had net income of $2.71. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $2.37 per share.
The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of $2.37 per share.
The oil and natural gas producer posted revenue of $3.05 billion in the period, beating Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.77 billion.
APA shares have risen 28% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has decreased 13%. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $34.43, an increase of 83% in the last 12 months.
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Before the Tennessee Titans face a win-or-go-home game against Jacksonville next week, they host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night.
Week 17 kicks off with an interesting matchup that means much more to Dallas.
Coming off a win over the Eagles, the Cowboys (11-4) still have a shot at winning the NFC East and an outside chance to earn the No. 1 seed.
The struggling Titans (7-8) have lost five in a row and will play the Jaguars (7-8) for the AFC South in the regular-season finale regardless of the outcome against the Cowboys.
The banged-up Titans are without quarterback Ryan Tannehill and their main concern should be staying healthy.
Dallas is a 10 1/2-point favorite, per FanDuel Sportsbook. Pro Picks considers this a layup.
COWBOYS, 30-13
New York Jets (minus 2 1/2) at Seattle
Mike White returns to try to rescue the season for the Jets (7-8). The Seahawks (7-8) are still battling for a playoff spot, too. Seattle is a tough place to play for a quarterback making his seventh career start.
UPSET SPECIAL: SEAHAWKS, 20-19
Miami (plus 2 1/2) at New England
Tua Tagovailoa is back in concussion protocol and the Dolphins (8-7) have lost four straight. The Patriots (7-8) were a fumble inside the 5 away from beating the Bengals last week.
BEST BET: PATRIOTS, 23-17
Minnesota (plus 3) at Green Bay
Aaron Rodgers and the Packers (7-8) are making an improbable push for the playoffs. The Vikings (12-3) have won an NFL-record 11 games by one score. Their only double-digit victory came over the Packers in Week 1.
PACKERS, 27-23
Carolina (plus 3) at Tampa Bay
Tom Brady already lost to P.J. Walker. Now, Sam Darnold has a shot to lead the Panthers (6-9) to an NFC South title starting with a win over the Buccaneers (7-8). Tampa Bay has to stop Carolina’s run to give Brady and an underachieving offense a shot.
BUCCANEERS, 20-16
Cleveland (plus 1 1/2) at Washington
The Commanders (7-7-1) are turning to Carson Wentz to get them to the playoffs.
COMMANDERS, 23-20
New Orleans (plus 6 1/2) at Philadelphia
The banged-up Eagles (13-2) are one win away from securing the NFC’s No. 1 seed. Gardner Minshew almost beat the Cowboys, but losing Pro Bowl right tackle Lane Johnson to injury was more costly than losing that game.
EAGLES, 27-16
Arizona (plus 3 1/2) at Atlanta
J.J. Watt’s next-to-last game could be a nightmare for Atlanta QB Desmond Ridder.
FALCONS, 20-17
Jacksonville (minus 4 1/2) at Houston
Like the Titans, the Jaguars have to prioritize health over winning. Win or lose, Jacksonville plays for the AFC South next week.
JAGUARS, 23-20
Chicago (plus 5 1/2) at Detroit
The Lions (7-8) couldn’t stop the run against the Panthers and now face Justin Fields with their playoff hopes on the line.
LIONS, 30-23
Denver (plus 13 1/2) at Kansas City
The Chiefs (12-3) can slide into the No. 1 seed with help from the Bengals. The Broncos are a disaster.
CHIEFS, 31-10
Indianapolis (plus 5 1/2) at New York Giants
Nick Foles can’t play any worse this week for the Colts. The Giants (8-6-1) aim to lock up a wild-card spot.
GIANTS, 22-20
San Francisco (minus 6) at Las Vegas
Brock Purdy and the 49ers (11-4) have a shot at the No. 2 seed.
49ERS, 26-17
Los Angeles Rams (plus 6 1/2) at Los Angeles Chargers
The battle for Los Angeles with two teams headed in opposite directions.
CHARGERS, 27-17
Pittsburgh (plus 3) at Baltimore
The Ravens (10-5) need Lamar Jackson to have any chance in the playoffs. They still can win the AFC North.
RAVENS, 17-16
Buffalo (minus 1 1/2) at Cincinnati
There’s plenty at stake in a potential preview of the AFC championship game. Josh Allen and the Bills (12-3) want to hold onto the AFC’s No. 1 seed. Joe Burrow and the Bengals (11-4) have won seven in a row.
BILLS, 27-24
2022 RECORD
Last Week: Straight up: 10-6 Against spread: 6-10.
Season: Straight up: 147-92. Against spread: 119-115-5.
Thursday: Straight up: 12-6. Against spread: 8-10.
Monday: Straight up: 10-7. Against spread: 8-9.
Best Bet: Straight up: 9-7. Against spread: 9-7.
Upset Special: Straight up: 5-11. Against spread: 7-8-1.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts had one of Philadelphia's four rushing touchdowns and the Eagles soared into the Super Bowl, forcing both of San Francisco's quarterbacks out of the game with injuries and beating the wounded 49ers 31-7 in the NFC championship game on Sunday.
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The Eagles, who won the Super Bowl five years ago with a different coach and quarterback, will try to do it again behind the formidable duo of Hurts and coach Nick Sirianni. Philadelphia will play either the Cincinnati Bengals or former Eagles coach Andy Reid's Kansas City Chiefs.
“Obviously this is something you dream about as a kid. All these guys on the team have dreamt about this their entire lives, too,” Sirianni said. “Just to be able to do this together with a bunch of men that love each other, that are connected to each other, that will do anything for each other is pretty sweet.”
Miles Sanders ran for two touchdowns and linebacker Haason Reddick made the hit that forced 49ers rookie quarterback Brock Purdy out of the game with an elbow injury. Reddick also recovered a fumble by Purdy's replacement, Josh Johnson, who later suffered a concussion.
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That forced Purdy back into the game, but his injury was clearly a factor as the 49ers all but gave up on throwing the ball, even while trailing by multiple scores.
San Francisco's bad luck at quarterback was finally too much to overcome as its 12-game win streak ended. The Niners lost both Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo to season-ending injuries, and Purdy — the final pick in April's draft — lost as a starter for the first time.
Philadelphia police greased traffic and light poles in what has often proved a futile attempt to slow the revelry ahead. But a city that has been starved for a championship now has its beloved Birds in the Super Bowl just three months after the Philadelphia Phillies reached the World Series.
“You see this city and the passion they have for this team. We’re so appreciative of these fans,” Sirianni said. “Look at this place. There’s no place like this in the NFL. It’s a hard-working city, it’s a blue-collar city. We think that’s the type of team we have.”
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The game disintegrated in the waning minutes and Philadelphia’s K’Von Wallace and San Francisco’s Trent Williams were ejected for their roles in a brawl. Williams yanked Wallace from behind and slammed him to the ground.
At that point, who cared? Eagles fans waved their green towels and went wild as confetti fluttered around them. They sang the fight song — one more emphatic “E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!” — in celebration of a franchise that advanced to its fourth Super Bowl.
The Eagles broke the game open in the final two minutes of the first half, getting a rise out of a crowd that had been quiet with nervous energy since a touchdown on the opening drive.
Sanders broke free for a 13-yard run for a 14-7 lead, concluding a 14-play, 75-yard drive extended by three 49ers penalties.
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Johnson bobbled a shotgun snap and fumbled on the next drive, and Reddick — the free-agent pickup from Carolina having one of the great defensive seasons in franchise history — recovered at the San Francisco 30. Boston Scott scooted 10 yards for a touchdown and 21-7 lead.
Even with Hurts almost a non-factor — he had 97 yards passing in the first half — the Eagles were firmly in control. Hurts finished 15 of 25 for 121 yards. His 1-yard rushing touchdown on Philadelphia's signature rugby-style QB sneak made it 28-7.
“It’s been a lot. I’m not going to make this about me,” Hurts said. “This city is a special city. They deserve everything, It’s a special city. We have one more.”
Purdy left the game with an elbow injury after he was drilled in the arm by Reddick on San Francisco's first drive, leading to a fumble. The 23-year-old Purdy's improbable rise from “Mr. Irrelevant” to playoff starter ended with a whimper as he failed to become the first rookie QB to lead a team to the Super Bowl.
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He was improbably needed again in the third quarter after Johnson, a journeyman backup signed in December, was also hurt.
The Eagles used quick thinking as they scored on their opening drive for the second straight playoff game. DeVonta Smith made a sensational one-handed grab for 29 yards, but replays showed he appeared to lose control of the ball as he hit the ground. Smith popped up and frantically waved the Eagles to the line. Niners coach Kyle Shanahan did not challenge the call and the Eagles got off the next play. Sanders scored on a 6-yard run.
With little hope they could get anything going behind Johnson, the 49ers turned to Christian McCaffrey to get on the board. He broke three tackles on a 23-yard touchdown run that made it 7-7 in the second quarter.
With no quarterbacks who could throw, that was about the end for Shanahan's Niners, who managed 164 yards of offense and 11 first downs.
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First lady Jill Biden, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, actor Bradley Cooper, comedian Kevin Hart and several 76ers including Joel Embiid attended the game.
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Temp worker held on $5M bond in Illinois warehouse shooting
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a temporary worker has been charged in a shooting that killed a co-worker and wounded two others at an automotive interior products warehouse in suburban Chicago. Twenty-seven-year-old Charles McKnight Jr. was arraigned Sunday on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder and ordered held on $5 million bond. Bolingbrook Police Chief Mike Rompa says McKnight was confronted about 6:25 a.m. Saturday by employees at the WeatherTech facility in Bolingbrook who accused him of robbing two employees of a watch and wallet at gunpoint. Rompa says that led to an argument, followed by the shooting. It wasn’t clear Monday whether McKnight has an attorney. Rompa says McKnight started working at WeatherTech on June 9 through a temporary employment agency. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/27/temp-worker-held-on-5m-bond-in-illinois-warehouse-shooting/ | 2022-06-27 15:52:42 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/27/temp-worker-held-on-5m-bond-in-illinois-warehouse-shooting/ |
‘The Snowman’ children’s author Raymond Briggs dies at 88
LONDON (AP) - British children’s author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, whose creations include “The Snowman” and “Fungus the Bogeyman,” has died. He was 88.
Briggs’ family said he died Tuesday, and thanked staff at Royal Sussex County Hospital in southern England “for their kind and thoughtful care of Raymond in his final weeks.”
“We know that Raymond’s books were loved by and touched millions of people around the world, who will be sad to hear this news,” the family said in a statement released Wednesday through Publisher Penguin Random House.
Born in London in 1934, Briggs studied art and briefly worked in advertising before starting a decades-long career as a children’s illustrator. He won a Kate Greenaway Medal — considered the Oscars of children’s publishing — in 1966 for illustrating a book of nursery rhymes, “The Mother Goose Treasury.”
He tweaked a fairy-tale story with “Jim and the Beanstalk,” published in 1970, and won a second Greenaway award for “Father Christmas.” Published in 1973, it featured a grumpy but genial Santa Claus and — like many of Briggs’ books — was adapted for television.
“Fungus the Bogeyman,” which charted a day in the life of a scary subterranean monster, disgusted and delighted children in equal measure after its publication in 1977.
The next year came “The Snowman,” a bittersweet story in which a boy’s wintry creation magically comes to life. The wordless book has sold more than 5.5 million copies around the world, and a 1982 animated adaptation has been shown on British TV every Christmas since.
Far more somber was 1982′s “When the Wind Blows,” a story about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain imbued with melancholy and anger. It was adapted as an animated film in 1986, with music by David Bowie and others.
Briggs’ anti-nuclear stance made him unpopular with members of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. So did “The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman,” a picture-book satire on the Falklands War.
Later works include “Ethel & Ernest,” a poignant graphic novel based on the lives of Briggs’ parents, published in 1998.
Francesca Dow, managing director of Penguin Random House Children’s, said Briggs was “unique” and “inspired generations of creators of picture books, graphic novels and animations.”
“Raymond’s books are picture masterpieces that address some of the fundamental questions of what it is to be human, speaking to both adults and children with a remarkable economy of words and illustrations,” she said.
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By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Friday marked the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police.
Iranian state-run television aired live feeds of various counterprotests around the country, with some in Tehran waving placards of the triangle-shaped drones Russia now uses to strike targets in its war on Ukraine. But while crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic’s flag, other protests in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi also was expected to speak in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran to mark the commemoration.
The demonstrations that have convulsed Iran for more than six weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini mark one of the biggest challenges to the country’s clerical rulers since they seized power in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. At least 300 protesters have been killed and 14,000 arrested since the unrest began, according to a Human RIghts Activists in Iran, a group that’s been monitoring the crackdown on demonstrators.
The annual commemoration marks when student demonstrators climbed over the fence at the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, angered by then-President Jimmy Carter allowing the fatally ill Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to receive cancer treatment in the United States.
The students soon took over the entire, leafy compound. A few staffers fled and hid in the home of the Canadian ambassador to Iran before escaping the country with the help of the CIA, a story recounted in the 2012 film “Argo.”
The 444-day crisis transfixed America, as nightly images of blindfolded hostages played on television sets across the nation. Iran finally let all the captives go the day Carter left office on Ronald Reagan’s inauguration day in 1981.
That enmity between Iran and the U.S. has ebbed and surged over the decades since. The U.S. and world powers reached a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 that drastically curtailed its program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions. However, then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal in 2018, sparking years of tensions since.
Late Thursday in California at a rally before the U.S. midterm elections, President Joe Biden also stopped his speech to address a crowd that held up cellphones displaying the message “FREE IRAN.”
“Don’t worry, we’re gonna free Iran,” Biden said in an aside during a campaign rally for Democratic Rep. Mike Levin. He added, “They’re gonna free themselves pretty soon.”
Biden had said he was willing to have the U.S. rejoin the nuclear deal, but talks have broken down. Since the protests began in mid-September, the American position appears to have hardened with officials saying restoring the deal isn’t a priority amid the demonstrations.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Black man born during slavery is now known as the Godfather of Tennessee whiskey.
With every pour of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, a legacy comes to life.
“I am hopeful that they know the story,” said Victoria Eady Butler. “They are raising a glass to history.”
It’s history she has flowing in her veins, as an awarding winning master blender.
“I’m very fortunate to be Nearest Green’s great-great granddaughter,” she said.
Born in 1820, Uncle Nearest’s given name was Nathan Green: a slave. After abolition his family found a home in Lynchburg, Tennessee where word of his whiskey spread for miles.
“He put one more ingredient, and he filtered his whiskey through sugar maple charcoal, which is called the Lincoln County process. So, Nearest was making whiskey for a minister over in Lincoln County,” said Jason Morgan, tour guide and bourbon buff at the Nearest Green Distillery in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
“You never work a day in your life if you enjoy it, and I love telling the story,” said Morgan. “To be honest, I was working at Jack Daniels as a tour guide, and I was there when the story broke.”
The story “broke” to the rest of the country after it had been told for years by Butler’s grandmother.
“She made sure that the family knew the story of his relationship with Jack Daniel and she always said that her grandfather taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey,” she said. “The townspeople of Lynchburg knew their relationship and that Nearest was responsible for making whiskey for Jack Daniel and teaching him how to make whiskey. But when Fawn Weaver arrived in the town of Lynchburg, so much more followed.”
Fawn Weaver led a team of 20 history experts to uncover thousands of documents and renewed a legacy with the creation of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey in 2017.
“It became very clear that we don’t do Nearest Green justice, if we don’t cement his legacy,” Weaver told News 2 in a 2021 interview.
A legacy now known worldwide, but the folks in Lynchburg knew about it all along. According to the Nearest Green Foundation, “Nearest Green and his children were mentioned 50 times” in Jack Daniel’s official biography in 1967, which was “more times than nearly anyone else contained in the book.”
Though his memory is vivid to locals, there are no pictures of Nearest Green.
“For me, and probably most people that have seen that iconic picture with Nearest’s son seated to the right hand of Jack Daniel, I imagine that he looks something like that – a very strong, proud, humble Black man who worked really hard,” said Butler.
That hard work is now known by everyone who visits the distillery’s 300 acre property off Highway 231 in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
“I came over here as a kid, my dad would come over here, if you wanted to offload a horse,” said Morgan.
The property has a history of its own, as visitors can still see the stalls from when Tennessee walking horses used to be sold there.
“Nearest Green never made whiskey here, but the fact that we have a home place for the brand that honors him, it means everything,” said Butler. “I truly believe that his spirit lives on here. There is a certain feeling that I get when I drive through the gate of this property. I think he is beyond proud of what we have done, and what we are continuing to do to shine a light on his contribution to the spirits industry and ensuring that his legacy is never forgotten.”
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey was the most awarded American whiskey of 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. It surpassed $100 million in sales last year.
Butler was named Master Blender of the Year four times, and she’s the first person of color with this honor.
She previously worked as an analytical manager for the Regional Organized Crime Information Center in Nashville. After a brief retirement she went to work in administration for the Nearest Green Foundation before transitioning to master blender.
“Those awards and accolades that I have been fortunate to receive in the last few years, I’m extremely proud of that. But I’m more proud, I think, of the team that Fawn Weaver put together,” she said. “We are extremely diverse, we are inclusive, we are a family.”
That family is now working to share a story once lost in time by honoring his legacy and becoming a household name.
“What I tell people when you buy whiskey or when you drink whiskey is that it needs to be approachable. It needs to be something you do want to reach for,” said Morgan. “I think we’re producing is one of those brands that you love. In all the whiskey I have at home, and I have quite a bit of it, I want you to reach for Uncle Nearest.”
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Just in time for Christmas, New York legislators returned to the state capital Thursday to give themselves a nice holiday gift: a pay raise that would make them the nation’s best-paid state lawmakers.
Members of the state Assembly and Senate would make a base salary of $142,000 under a bill they passed during a special session, a 29% raise over their salary of $110,000.
That would send them racing ahead of state lawmakers in California, who are now the nation’s best-paid legislators with a yearly base pay of about $119,000, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
New York’s lawmakers, however, would also face restrictions for the first time on how much they can make from other jobs.
Outside income would be capped at $35,000, starting in 2025. Pay in excess of that from military service, retirement plans or investments would still be allowed.
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, said legislators work hard, year round, and deserved a raise to cover the increased cost of living.
“It’s a full time job,” she said. “Sooner or later in order to be able to afford to do the job, we have to raise pay.”
Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt said he found the raise “patently offensive to the people we represent.”
“Albany’s One Party Ruling Class continues to put their own misplaced priorities first,” Ortt said in a statement.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has said she supports the idea of a raise for the Legislature, but hasn’t said whether she would sign the bill. Email and text messages left for the governor’s office weren’t immediately returned.
Some government transparency and watchdog groups said after the bill was introduced late Monday that it doesn’t do enough for regulating outside income.
“The public really deserves to know that their elected officials are working just for them and they don’t have any other interests in mind,” said Rachael Fauss, a senior policy advisor at the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany.
Members of the U.S. Congress, for example, are excluded from making any outside income while they are in office from certain professions that could pose conflicts of interest, such as being a lawyer.
Outside income has posed ethical and legal problems for some of New York’s top lawmakers.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver died in prison after he was convicted of entering into a corrupt arrangement in which he got a pair of real estate developers to send business to a law firm paying him referral fees, and then backed legislation benefiting the developers.
Still, many states have a tradition of lawmaking being a part-time job, rather than a profession, and embraced the idea that a legislature should be made up of regular people with regular jobs outside of government.
“When I campaigned, I heard over and over again from voters that we don’t want career politicians. That’s what this is going to create,” said Assemblymember Mary Beth Walsh, a Republican who represents a district north of Albany.
Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, a Democrat, said the raise would help the Legislature retain quality members who could make more in the private sector.
“We have had an unhealthy churning and turnover particularly from downstate members,” she said.
New York’s legislators got their last pay raise in 2018. At the time, it was their first raise in 20 years.
That pay boost was made possible through a list of recommendations made by a state compensation committee, but a cap on outside earnings was never implemented.
“There’s a history in New York that looks at pay increases for legislatures, but this is the first time they are taking matters into their own hands,” Fauss said.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor sued the state Legislature on Thursday over a package of proposed constitutional amendments that Republican lawmakers are pursuing, including one that would say the state constitution does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions.
The lawmakers are attempting to circumnavigate Wolf’s power to veto legislation he does not support.
Wolf claims that bundling the abortion amendment together with four others in a bill that passed the General Assembly earlier this month as budget sessions were wrapping up runs afoul of a constitutional rule against passing legislation that addresses multiple, unrelated topics.
Wolf in a statement said the abortion-related amendment was part of GOP lawmakers’ effort to “dismantle access to abortion and implement a radical agenda.”
The other four amendments would require voter ID, have gubernatorial candidates choose their own running mates, empower lawmakers to cancel regulations without facing a governor’s veto and establish election audits. Although the House and Senate voted for them as a package, mostly along partisan lines, voters would consider the questions individually.
The lawsuit describes the bill as “a mishmash of changes to at least four different articles of the constitution,” a set of measures Wolf claims “abridges personal liberties and freedoms and alters our current balance of power and constitutional checks and balances.”
Wolf’s lawsuit says the proposed amendments “are exactly the sort of complex changes that require careful deliberation at a constitutional convention prior to a fair and accurate presentation to the electorate.”
House Republican spokesman Jason Gottesman said Wolf’s lawsuit lacked merit and was an attempt to “subvert the power of the people’s voice in the General Assembly.”
Constitutional amendments need to pass both chambers in two consecutive two-year legislative sessions before going to voters for the final say.
The package passed its first round of approvals on July 8, 28-22 in the Senate and 107-92 in the House. After the new session starts in January, lawmakers could vote to put the constitutional amendment referendums before voters as early as the spring primary on May 16, 2023.
A sixth question, which would allow civil lawsuits over child sexual abuse that would otherwise be too old to pursue, was voted separately and also awaits the second round of legislative votes starting next year.
Wolf said he took action Thursday because of a requirement that the Department of State advertise the language of proposed amendments after the first round of votes by the House and Senate and at least three months before a fall election. That advertising period starts Tuesday, he said, and is why he also included as a plaintiff his own acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman.
Republicans have increasingly turned to the constitutional amendment process to accomplish policy objectives that Wolf opposes. In 2021, they successfully got two amendments on the ballot to limit Wolf’s authority during a pandemic emergency, and voters narrowly approved them.
The questions can be teed up for consideration during the spring primary, when Republican voters are more likely to turn out than Democrats. Amendments can pass with a simple majority — not the supermajorities required to override a veto — and the amendment process makes them much harder to reverse.
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HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hailiang Education Group Inc. (Nasdaq: HLG), an education and management services provider in China ("Hailiang Education" or the "Company"), today announced that at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders held today, the Company's shareholders voted in favor of, among other things, the proposal to approve the re-election of five directors of the Company to hold office until the effective time of the Merger (as defined below), and the proposal to authorize and approve the previously announced agreement and plan of merger (the "Merger Agreement"), dated May 7, 2022, by and between the Company, Hailiang Education International Limited, an exempted company with limited liability incorporated under the law of the Cayman Islands ("Parent"), and HE Merger Sub Limited, an exempted company with limited liability incorporated under the law of the Cayman Islands and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub"), the plan of merger required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands (the "Plan of Merger") in order to give effect to the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving company and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the "Merger"), and any and all transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the Plan of Merger, including the Merger.
Approximately 88.53% of the Company's total outstanding ordinary shares, including ordinary shares represented by the Company's American Depositary Shares (the "ADSs"), voted in person or by proxy at the extraordinary general meeting. Each shareholder had one vote for each ordinary share. These shares represented approximately 88.53% of the total outstanding votes represented by the Company's total ordinary shares outstanding at the close of business in the Cayman Islands on the record date of September 1, 2022. The following is a summary of the voting results at the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders:
- The Merger Agreement, the Plan of Merger and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Merger, were approved by over 99.99% of the total votes cast at the extraordinary general meeting.
- The authorization of each of the directors of the Company to do all things necessary to give effect to the Merger Agreement, the Plan of Merger and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Merger was approved by over 99.99% of the total votes cast at the extraordinary general meeting.
- The re-election of Mr. Junwei Chen as a director of the Company to hold office until the effective time of the Merger was approved by over 99.99% of the total votes cast at the extraordinary general meeting.
- The re-election of Mr. Cuiwei Ye as a director of the Company to hold office until the effective time of the Merger was approved by over 99.99% of the total votes cast at the extraordinary general meeting.
- The re-election of Mr. Ken He as a director of the Company to hold office until the effective time of the Merger was approved by over 99.99% of the total votes cast at the extraordinary general meeting.
- The re-election of Mr. Xiaofeng Cheng as a director of the Company to hold office until the effective time of the Merger was approved by over 99.99% of the total votes cast at the extraordinary general meeting.
- The re-election of Mr. Xiaohua Gu as a director of the Company to hold office until the effective time of the Merger was approved by over 99.99% of the total votes cast at the extraordinary general meeting.
Completion of the Merger is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement. The Company will work with the other parties to the Merger Agreement towards satisfying all other conditions precedent to the Merger set forth in the Merger Agreement and completing the Merger as quickly as possible. If and when completed, the Merger would result in the Company becoming a privately held company, its ADSs will no longer be listed on the NASDAQ Global Market, and the Company's ADS program for the Company's ordinary shares will terminate.
About Hailiang Education Group Inc.
Hailiang Education Group Inc. (Nasdaq: HLG) is an education and management services provider in China. The Company primarily focuses on providing distinguished, specialized, and internationalized education. Hailiang Education is dedicated to providing students with high-quality high school curriculum education, student management services, ancillary educational services, and education and management services, and it strives to maintain the high quality of its students' life, study, and development. Hailiang Education adapts its educational services based upon its students' individual aptitudes. Hailiang Education is devoted to improving its students' academic capabilities, cultural accomplishments, and international perspectives. For more information, please visit http://ir.hailiangedu.com.
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Brightline is receiving another $20,000 in federal money to help keep people alert to the dangers of its high-speed trains that will soon zip along the railroad’s new extension between West Palm Beach and Orlando.
“The grant award dollars will be used for an online campaign,” spokesman Ben Porritt said in an email. “The targeted digital ads will reach people that live within the Zip Codes directly adjacent to the corridor and people who may be interacting with the corridor daily.”
Porritt said that outreach to the public through digital media “has been proven to connect with individuals in an impactful way because they are personalized and can reach people through platforms they already use.”
The latest safety campaign will be aimed at people in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River and Brevard counties.
The grant was awarded by Operation Lifesaver, a 50-year-old, nonprofit public safety education organization dedicated to reducing collisions, fatalities and injuries at highway-rail crossings and preventing trespassing around railroad tracks. The award was funded by the Federal Transit Administration, which provided grants totaling a combined $120,000 to seven other rail operators nationally, including SunRail in Central Florida.
Multiple initiatives
For the better part of two years, Brightline has been working with communities, government agencies and the news media in South and Central Florida to spread its safety messages over social media and through public service announcements.
Early this year, the Federal Railroad Administration, an arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation, turned its attention to rail safety in South Florida in the wake of multiple deaths involving pedestrians trespassing on private railroad property and motorists who tried and failed to beat trains across the tracks.
[ RELATED: Brightline, Broward police agencies start safety crackdown to reduce rail crossing deaths ]
During a series of town hall meetings, the FRA invited government agencies, law enforcement and rail operators including Brightline, Tri-Rail, the Florida East Coast Railway and Sun Rail in Central Florida to collaborate on upgrading safety measures and apply for available federal dollars to help pay for them.
In August, Brightline received $25 million as part of a joint federal and state initiative for safety upgrades along the Florida East Coast Railway corridor, which carries Brightline trains and FEC freight trains.
In preparation for the high-speed extension operation, Brightline says it has been making safety improvements at all 156 railroad crossings along the 129-mile portion of the extension between West Palm Beach and Cocoa, through Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River and Brevard counties.
The line installed new crossing gates, signal systems, pedestrian gates, pavement markings and roadway profiles.
“Where trains will operate at 110 mph, all crossings have quad gates or medians to prevent motorists from driving around lowered crossing gates,” Brightline said in a recent statement.
Most residents of Florida’s Treasure and Space coasts are no strangers to the idea that someday, trains exceeding 100 mph would be speeding through their towns carrying tourists and other travelers between South and Central Florida. Some local governments and others sued to stop the project. They failed.
High speed tests under way
Now, the fast trains are a reality.
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In mid-October, Brightline began testing trains at maximum speeds of 110 mph over an 11-mile section of track along the Florida East Coast Railway corridor in Martin and St. Lucie counties.
The company advised residents that they “should be alert and follow the law around active railroad tracks and railroad crossings.”
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During the testing, flaggers and law enforcement appeared at crossings and people were warned to “stay off the tracks and never go around crossing gates.”
Drivers, pedestrians and cyclists were all advised to be aware that rail traffic occurs on both tracks along the corridor in both directions.
They were warned that violators could be fined, receive points on their driver licenses, or even be killed.
“If the crossing arms are down, don’t drive around,” said Joe Meade, Brightline’s director of safety said at the time. “This testing serves as a critical reminder to the public to be safe around active railroad tracks and obey all traffic laws. Never stop on the tracks, don’t drive around crossing gates and only cross tracks at a designated railroad crossing.”
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"Why the hell would the guy who played Dwight on The Office be writing a book about spirituality?"
Emmy-nominated actor Rainn Wilson says he knows that's the question people ask when hearing about his new book Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.
In an interview for Morning Edition, Wilson tells NPR's Rachel Martin about a spiritual odyssey that began as a child, growing up in the Baha'i faith of his family. Later, he began rejecting "everything to do with religion and faith and spirituality."
Then he says, in his 20s, when he was struggling to make it as an actor in New York and suffering from acute anxiety, depression and addiction — he began looking for answers.
That set him on a journey. "The very first question that I pondered as I was on this journey was, is there a God? ... I would ask my friends, 'Hey, do you believe in God?' "
It's not easy being the "God guy"
"It's so not cool to be religious," Wilson says. "And it's so funny because I've always identified as being a dork and a misfit and an outsider. Maybe that's why I played Dwight so effectively, apparently."
He says the answers from those around him helped ignite his "spiritual quest."
Wilson, who is also a podcaster and cofounder of the media company SoulPancake, says he has now resolved any personal uncertainty about a higher power. "I know there's a God. It's not a faith thing. God is as real to me as my body is – as my rapidly decaying body," he said.
"How do I know? I know that I love. I know that I love my wife. I know that I love my son. I know that I love my father who passed away a few years back," Wilson says, tearing up.
Seeking the sacred in everyday life
While he insists he doesn't have all the answers to the big questions in life — "just a lot of questions" — Wilson does offer suggestions in his book, including an entire section dedicated to a proposal for a new religion. "We need to strive to go back to so many indigenous faiths [where] art, nature and faith were interconnected and not divergent," he says.
When talking about his own search for the spiritual, he notes a "transformative" encounter with his onetime acting teacher André Gregory, the director, writer, and actor who plays a version of himself in the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre.
"I had tea with him once and he said, 'How are you doing, Rainn?' And I said, 'You know, André, I'm just feeling so cynical. I'm feeling pessimistic.' He grabbed my arm like a vise, and he looked into my eyes and he said, 'Stop it, don't do it. Don't be cynical. If you're cynical, they win.' "
"I realized that fostering hope and joy in others is maybe our highest spiritual calling," he said. "And that is a key pillar to this spiritual revolution."
An extended version of the interview about Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution is airing on Weekend All Things Considered in early May. Wilson hosts a travel series that debuts on Peacock on May 18, Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss.
The interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.
Interview highlights
On rediscovering his spirituality
I rejected anything and everything to do with religion and faith and spirituality when I was in my twenties. And well, then things just started to break down for me and it led me back on a spiritual quest where I was like, you know, maybe I lost something by getting rid of anything and everything to do with spirituality. Maybe, maybe there's some answer there.
On seeking answers about God
Almost to a person, my artist friends would say, "Well, I certainly don't believe in an old man on a cloud, you know, with an agenda scowling down at us. But I believe that there's something more out there. There's some kind of energy." And I was with them on that, but that wasn't enough for me. I was like, wait a second. So there either is a God or there's not.
On the certainty of his own belief
The first step in knowing that there is a creative force in the universe is I know that there is love. I also know that there is beauty. I also know that there is art and there is music. And all of these things that are ineffable and transcendent are footprints. They're handholds on the path to finding the great mystery.
On finding the sacred
There has been a profound loss of the sacred in contemporary Western civilization. Nothing is sacred anymore. And I think sacredness and holiness is part of the conversation that we need to have collectively. We can certainly experience it in nature. And for religious people, we can experience it in holy sites. But how can we nurture the sacred as a condition in our hearts that we can carry with us so that a conversation like we're having can be sacred?
Lilly Quiroz produced the audio version and Miranda Kennedy edited the digital version. contributed to this story
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Around 50 mourners escorted two caskets draped in satin through a leafy cemetery in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region Thursday, family members of two soldiers killed last week on the nearby front.
One casket was opened to reveal the military fatigues-clad body of 48-year-old Oleh Panchenko, which bore visible face injuries.
“Our hero, I will be proud of you forever,” Panchenko’s mother, Lilia, said through fits of uncontrolled sobbing as she leant over her son, kissing his forehead. “God, why are you taking our boys from us?”
The funeral in Pokrovsk brought to 20 the number of Ukrainian soldiers buried there, in a newer section of the cemetery dedicated to military fatalities.
Nearly all of them were killed since Russia’s invasion began on Feb. 24, though others fell during the last eight years of fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists over control of the eastern Donbas region.
As Russian forces continue to make slow gains in the Donetsk province, which makes up half of Donbas, Ukraine’s government is providing funeral services for soldiers killed in the fighting, and benefits for family members left behind.
One such soldier, 26-year-old Serhiy Marchenko, was fighting in an artillery squad in the Donetsk region when he was killed on July 28.
At the cemetery in Pokrovsk, a small group of his relatives stood by his closed coffin, draped in a Ukrainian flag, as a priest in a blue vestment wafted the smoke of incense from a golden censer — part of an Orthodox funeral rite.
The grieving family members jumped as gunshots rang out in the cemetery — from three Ukrainian soldiers performing a three-volley salute in honor of the dead.
As the priest finished the rites, Lilia, Panchenko’s mother, brushed flies off her son’s face with an embroidered handkerchief until it was time to cover his body and lower the coffin into the grave.
“Wait, just wait!” she cried as family members pulled her away, before the coffin was finally closed.
Panchenko’s daughter, Ruslana, said he was an experienced soldier and squad commander who volunteered for the front line after hearing of alleged Russian atrocities in Irpin and Bucha, suburbs of the capital Kyiv.
He was killed on July 27 after serving nearly five months on the front, she said, and was the only survivor in his unit after heavy fighting in Zolote in the Luhansk region.
“He said it’s time to kick (the Russians) out,” she said. “He didn’t want to sit still. He wanted to defend and he was not afraid.”
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Caroline Wozniacki is returning to tennis 3 years after retiring. She will get a US Open wild card
Jun 29, 2023, 6:57 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Wozniacki, a former No. 1-ranked tennis player and the 2018 Australian Open champion, announced Thursday that she is returning to competition three years after she retired.
The U.S. Tennis Association said it will grant her a wild-card invitation to participate in the U.S. Open.
“Over these past three years away from the game I got to make up for lost time with my family, I became a mother and now have two beautiful children I am so grateful for. But I still have goals I want to accomplish. I want to show my kids that you can pursue your dreams no matter your age or role,” Wozniacki wrote on Twitter. “We decided as a family it’s time. I’m coming back to play and I can’t wait!”
Wozniacki, who turns 33 next month, has not played since the 2020 Australian Open.
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San Diego State ousts top seed Alabama from March Madness
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.
Trammell scored 21 points while Miller, whose outstanding season was marred by off-the-court complications, was held to nine points on 3-of-19 shooting and had six turnovers.
The fifth-seeded Aztecs (30-6) will face either Creighton or Princeton on Sunday in the West Region final as they seek their first Final Four in program history. Roughly 30 minutes later, the tournament’s final remaining No. 1 seed, Houston, lost 89-75 to Miami, leaving March Madness without a single top seed among its final eight teams for the first time since seeding began in 1979. The other top seeds, Purdue and Kansas, lost during the tournament’s opening weekend.
San Diego State trailed 48-39 midway through the second half before going on a 12-0 run and controlling the game from there. The Aztecs finished with eight blocked shots — five by Nathan Mensah — and forced 14 turnovers.
The March Madness run of Alabama (31-6) was clouded by its response to the Jan. 15 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman in Tuscaloosa, which led to capital murder charges against a then-Crimson Tide player, Darius Miles.
Miller was at the scene of the shooting and has not been charged, but police have said in court documents that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun. Authorities have said Miller is a cooperating witness, and he did not miss any playing time. Miller has received armed security protection during the tournament.
Mark Sears had 16 points and Jahvon Quinerly and Charles Bediako scored 10 each for Alabama, which shot 32% overall and a miserable 3 of 27 (11.1%) from 3-point range. The Crimson Tide fell short of the second Elite Eight berth in school history.
“Alabama’s a great team. They have a lot of talented players and individuals,” Trammell said. “We knew it was going to be hard. It was a dogfight. Very physical.”
Sears’ layup got Alabama within 66-64 with 46 seconds remaining, but Matt Bradley made two free throws and Micah Parrish followed by making three of four attempts, including two with 17 seconds left.
Jaedon LeDee finished with 12 points for the Aztecs.
San Diego State shot just 38% overall and was outrebounded 52-48, but made clutch shots to rally when Alabama seemed in control behind a faster pace after halftime. A technical foul on Aztecs coach Brian Dutcher also seemed to spark his seasoned team, which maintained its physical play and thwarted every attempt by the Tide to rally.
BIG PICTURE
San Diego State: The Aztecs never seemed fazed by Alabama or Miller. More impressive was their resilience when the game seemed to be slipping away.
Alabama: Other than the second-half run that put them ahead briefly, the Crimson Tide seemed out of sorts in multiple ways. The team’s reliance on 3-pointers showed its desperation.
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NEW YORK , May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Oscar Health, Inc. ("Oscar" or the "Company") (NYSE: OSCR) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Oscar investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Oscar Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's March 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
OSCR investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Oscar was experiencing growing COVID-19 testing and treatment costs; (2) Oscar was experiencing growing net COVID costs; (3) Oscar would be negatively impacted by an unfavorable prior year Risk Adjustment Data Validation result relating to 2019 and 2020; (4) Oscar was on track to be negatively impacted by significant SEP membership growth; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Oscar during the relevant time frame, you have until July 11, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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(WHNT) — If you’ve ever dreamed of wrapping yourself in Chick-fil-A sauce and shouting your love of waffle fries from the rooftop – well, you’re not alone.
Anyone who claims to be a fan of the chicken chain will now be able to satisfy their cravings in a whole new way with Chick-fil-A merch!
That’s right, the chicken chain has launched its first-ever merchandise collection, “Chick-fil-A Originals” — a limited collection that can be ‘dipped in‘ on over here.
Everything a ‘true chicken-crazed fan’ could want to flaunt their obsession: sweatshirts, t-shirts, coffee mugs and more. All things that are fun little ways to celebrate what makes the chain special, from the “I Heart Waffle Fries Hoodie and a “Sauce Blanket and Nugget Pillow Set.”
As expected with this kind of excitement, merchandise is expected to sell out extremely fast.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes emerged Wednesday as the clear favorite in what had been a crowded Democratic field seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, as his nearest rival dropped out and threw his support behind Barnes.
Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, who polls showed had been running tight with Barnes, explained his surprising move by saying Barnes had pulled ahead in recent weeks and there was no way he could catch him in the hotly contested primary for what is expected to be one of the most hard-fought Senate races this year.
“This wasn’t something where I thought we lost,” Lasry said, standing alongside Barnes outside the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee where the Bucks play. “I think Mandela won.”
The race in battleground Wisconsin, which Donald Trump narrowly won in 2016 but lost by a nearly equal number of votes in 2020, could determine which party holds majority control in the 50-50 Senate.
The move helps Democrats who want to avoid a nasty end to the primary and instead keep the focus on Johnson, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
“Circling around somebody, presumably Barnes, is one way to try to make the chances of winning in November greater,” Burden said.
Lasry said he decided to drop out after consulting on Tuesday night with Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. This week, Barnes’ campaign released an internal poll that shows Barnes ahead of Lasry by 14 points.
“Look at the data, it just wasn’t there. Over the last seven, 10 days there was just a number of data points that showed Mandela’s support continued to grow,” Lasry told The Associated Press. “When we realized there was no path forward, we wanted to make sure we did everything we could to put our party in the best position to beat Ron Johnson.”
State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski, who has trailed Barnes by double digits, vowed to remain in the contest along with other lesser-known candidates. On Monday, Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson dropped out of the race and endorsed Barnes.
Even though Lasry and Nelson are ending their campaigns this week, both of their names will remain on the primary ballot. In-person absentee voting started Tuesday.
Lasry called Barnes a friend and said he looked forward to helping him beat Johnson. Barnes thanked Lasry for not running a negative campaign and said that unity will help Democrats take on Johnson.
“I know it’s going to be tough,” Barnes said. “It’s going to be difficult, an uphill battle. But I know it’ll be that much easier because we’re in this together.”
Barnes, who is Black, was born and raised in Milwaukee. He served two terms in the state Legislature before being elected lieutenant governor in 2018. Barnes opted against seeking a second term with Gov. Tony Evers to instead run for Senate.
Barnes, 35, contrasted himself with Lasry in the primary, emphasizing his middle class upbringing as the son of a public school teacher and factory worker, both union members. Barnes paid no income tax and was on the state’s Medicaid program while running for lieutenant governor in 2018.
He has secured some big-name liberal endorsements in the primary, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Citing those endorsements, Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Mark Jefferson said that as the primary approaches “Mandela Barnes will speak out of both sides of his mouth to convince voters that he is a moderate.” But he said Barnes will have to own President Joe Biden’s agenda, which Jefferson said is to blame for high inflation, rising crime and a weakened education system.
Lasry, 35, already had spent more than $12.3 million of his own money on the race. He had spent three times as much as Barnes through June, mostly on TV ads.
Barnes reported raising $2.1 million between April and June of this year, bringing his total to date to $6.1 million. It was the most of any Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin race who wasn’t self-funding, but his three-month total paled against the $7 million Johnson reported.
Lasry was born in New York City and moved to Milwaukee in 2014 after his billionaire father was part of a team that bought the NBA’s Bucks. Lasry served as an executive vice president for the team and has touted his connection to the 2021 championship Bucks, frequently mentioning their title run and employing union workers to build the stadium where the team plays.
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‘It almost seemed impossible’: Crews rescue donkeys stranded on island
MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KOVR) – Two donkeys stranded on an island in Northern California are now safe thanks to the efforts of some wildlife experts.
Whether he had a frog in his pocket or brought a blue-bellied lizard to the dinner table, Daniel Burton always had a love for the less appreciated wildlife.
“They’re just so much more than just an animal,” he said.
Burton is now the owner of Urban Trapping Wildlife Control, rescuing nuisance animals that get a bad rap.
“Most animals we work with have some sort of taboo or bad reputation,” he said. “They get kind of a bad name because of it.”
Or bad nicknames, like the donkey.
Most recently, Burton and several agencies in Northern California rescued Jack and Jennette from an island in Lake McClure.
“It almost seemed impossible,” Burton said.
After weeks of trying, the group got the go-ahead to get the donkeys off the island and into a doctor’s care, loading them onto a barge and driving them across the water to safety.
“It was a huge relief,” Burton said.
But how did the donkeys get to the island in the first place?
Burton said drought caused low water levels on Lake McClure, which allowed the donkey herd to walk across the lake to a small island for safety.
“They were trying to get away from predators,” Burton said. “There’s a lot of mountain lions around Lake McClure.”
When water levels rose again, only the healthy donkeys could swim back. The herd waded across the water, leaving behind two of their injured own.
“They’ll go up into the foothills for food and every couple of days they come back to down to the bank,” Burton said. “Their herd never really left as long as they could hear them and see them.”
Rescuers finally stepped in to help the two donkeys, delivering them to a vet to care for them.
“Knowing the donkeys aren’t sitting on that island there, not borderline starving, they’re not going to drown … it was such a relief,” Burton said.
One of the rescued donkeys has already been reunited with her mother.
In 2019, a wild donkey was rescued from the island after being stuck there for more than two years.
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The 33rd Annual Coarsegold Peddlers’ Antique & Collectible Show and Beer Garden is happening May 27 – 29 at the Coarsegold Historic Village.
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"We will solve bee farm pests and wasp damage with SMARTHIVE products."
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Products have been released to minimize damage to domestic and foreign beekeepers, such as Varroa mite, small hive beetles, and wasps (long-lived wasps, black wasps), which caused great damage to the beekeeping industry.
Daesung SMARTHIVE, a beekeeping automation device company, announced on the 29th that it is resonating with the beekeeping industry by releasing new products such as plasma ozone storage and Hornet Trap.
The Plasma Ozone Beekeeping storeroom and Hornet trap products were installed first at beekeeping farms in Korea completing empirical tests and verifying productivity and technology.
Plasma ozone beekeeping storeroom is an eco-friendly technology that dramatically improves the effect of sterilization, disinfection, and odor removal, and can effectively remove bacteria, viruses, and harmful substances by storing contaminated objects inside the storage.
Existing beekeeping farms incinerated beehives when pests and diseases such as Varroa mite occurred in beehives, but using plasma ozone beekeeping storage, beehives can be recycled without incineration. In addition, the product is an eco-friendly product such as reducing carbon dioxide generation.
Plasma ozone technology applied to storage can continue to produce uniform effects such as odor removal and air purification as the product operates, so it can be widely used not only bee farms but also for sterilization and odor removal in livestock farms.
The hornet trap is an eco-friendly product that does not use separate incentives such as fermented liquids.
The existing wasp capture does not selectively attract wasps, and the function of attracting and killing all insects around the catcher is causing great damage to the insect ecosystem.
When installed at the entrance of the hive, the hornet trap used the habit of wasp following honeybees. Wasps that enter the trap are trapped in the capture frame due to their habits, and honeybees can enter the hive safely and freely through the honeybee passage.
It is possible to reduce the cost of labor and other pest control products because they do not have to live directly in bee farms and remove wasps one by one.
Smarthive's long-selling product, the Hive controller, is popular with Korean beekeepers. Hive Controller is a portable smart beekeeping system that safely takes out honeycombs from beehives, brushes bees and stacks honeycombs outside beehives in approximately a minute.
Meanwhile, Daesung Smarthive, signed MOUs with Spain, the UK, Uzbekistan.
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Which marble mortar and pestle is best?
You don’t have to go out to a restaurant to get the fresh, tableside guacamole that you love. With a marble mortar and pestle, this delicious snack is available anytime you want it, in the convenience of your own home. Pestles are used to press and grind herbs, spices and vegetable or fruits in a mortar — a deep bowl shaped for grinding. This ancient kitchen tool is just as useful today as it was in kitchens thousands of years ago. The best marble mortar and pestle can make kitchen tasks a breeze.
For good looks and versatility, the Mortar and Pestle Set (Double-Sided) is a good choice.
What to know before you buy a marble mortar and pestle
Size
For small-batch dips and sauces and single servings of spices, a small marble mortar and pestle will suit your needs. These smaller versions feature a mortar that is 6 inches across (and can be either shallow or deep).
For larger batches of guacamole or pesto (or for grinding large spices and herbs) a deeper, wider mortar might work better. Eight-inch mortars can handle higher volumes of herbs and spices.
You might want a larger mortar and pestle in the future, so keep that in mind when you are selecting the best marble mortar and pestle for you.
Base design
The design of the base affects how stable your mortar and pestle is. Some have wide, short bases that give the mortar weight and stability, while others are perched on three or four legs.
Marble makes both types of base substantial, but a solid base is definitely better for vigorous grinding. Some people prefer the look of a legged base for serving, but a legged base is less common in marble mortar and pestles.
Material
A marble mortar and pestle is classic, but these are available in other materials, too. Mortar and pestles can be found in a wide range of materials, including granite, wood, plastic and stainless steel.
What to look for in a quality marble mortar and pestle
An extra pestle
For the sake of convenience, an extra pestle allows you to change the grind while using the same bowl. Maybe you want to crack spices, crush garlic and mash fruit. Changing the size of the pestle can help you accomplish these actions more efficiently.
High sides
Shallow mortars are great for serving dips (easy to dip a chip into), but in terms of using your mortar and pestle to make those dips, high sides will serve you better. A deeper mortar means less chance that food will spill over the top as you cook.
Pre-seasoned
Pre-seasoning is necessary to smooth rough edges in the mortar. But some marble mortar and pestles come pre-seasoned and ready for use.
How much you can expect to spend on a marble mortar and pestle
A top-quality marble mortar and pestle can cost $50 or more. If you’re just starting out and want a more basic model, you’ll get a solid kitchen tool for right around $30.
Marble mortar and pestle FAQ
How do you season a marble mortar and pestle?
A. Seasoning a mortar and pestle before the first use is crucial. This seals the marble so that bits of food cannot get trapped.
To season, rinse and dry your mortar. Add a small handful of rice and use your pestle to grind it to a powder. Make sure that you grind up the sides, too. Dump the powder out, then repeat as necessary until the inside of the mortar is smooth. Rinse again and allow to dry. Re-season your mortar whenever you notice food stains or smells lingering.
Some marble mortar and pestles do not require seasoning before the first use. Check with the manufacturer to see if yours is pre-seasoned.
What can you make with a marble mortar and pestle?
A. A marble mortar and pestle can make everything from pesto to guacamole, but consider using it for other tasks, too. These include:
- Grinding medications (whether for people or pets, clean out completely after use)
- Grinding fresh spices for baking
- Creating fresh spice blends
- Grinding coffee
- Chopping nuts
- Making cocktail bitters
- Processing herbs for medicinal use
- Making hummus
How do you clean a marble mortar and pestle?
A. Marble is a natural stone that will, over time, absorb the flavors of the food made inside it. To avoid this, rinse your marble mortar and pestle thoroughly after each use and allow it to dry. If you notice lingering odors or food stains on either your marble mortar or pestle, re-season with dry rice as directed above.
Avoid using any type of soap in your marble mortar or pestle. Do not place it in the dishwasher.
What’s the best marble mortar and pestle to buy?
Top marble mortar and pestle
Mortar and Pestle Set (Double-Sided)
What you need to know: This mortar and pestle looks good and works even better.
What you’ll love: The highlight of this set is a double-sided pestle that can be used for different grinding. It comes with a nonskid silicone mat and a wooden spoon for serving.
What you should consider: It’s too small for a large amount of herbs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top marble mortar and pestle for the money
What you need to know: Home cooks will get a lot of use out of this entry-level set.
What you’ll love: This comes with a nonskid silicone mat and spoon. The mortar holds 1 ½ cups of food and is made of all-natural marble.
What you should consider: This marble mortar and pestle needs to be seasoned before use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Fox Run Large Marble Mortar and Pestle
What you need to know: This large-capacity mortar and pestle is perfect for both cooking and serving.
What you’ll love: The 8-inch marble bowl is unpolished inside for better grinding. The bowl is large, but the overall design is sleek and classic.
What you should consider: It’s heavy (8 pounds).
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ARLINGTON, Va., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tria Federal (Tria), the leading middle-market IT and Advisory services provider delivering future-forward digital transformation solutions to Civilian, Defense, Health, and Intelligence agencies across the federal sector, today announced that Michael (Mike) Cosgrave has been named Chief Operating Officer.
A dynamic, strategic, growth-focused leader with a history of senior executive positions in private equity‐backed, public, and investor‐owned companies, Mike brings more than 25 years of professional experience to his role leading day-to-day administrative and operational functions across the Tria enterprise. Prior to joining Tria, Mike served as President and COO of AceInfo, LLC (a Dovel Company), as well as a Partner at Guidehouse and COO of The Swift Group. He has also served in executive roles at CACI, Six3Systems and ManTech International.
A graduate of The American University with an MBA in IT Management from George Mason University, Michael is also a Veteran of the US Navy, where he served as an officer.
"I am so pleased to welcome Mike to this critical role in our organization," said Tim Borchert, Tria CEO. "As Tria's new COO, Mike will act as both a collaborative business partner and a change agent with the executive leadership team leading day‐to‐day execution, shaping and enhancing operational practices, and developing an operational cadence that will enable the business to scale quickly and improve top‐ and bottom‐line performance across the organization."
"I am truly excited to be joining Tria in this role," said Cosgrave. "I was immediately drawn to this team's passion for service, culture of innovation and continuous process improvement, and depth of experience delivering mission-elevating outcomes for its customers. I believe Tria is uniquely positioned for explosive growth across the federal sector and I look forward to being a part of the company's future trajectory."
About Tria Federal
Launched in March 2023, Tria Federal (Tria) is the premier middle-market IT and Advisory services provider delivering digital transformation solutions to federal agencies. With a future-forward vision and a mission rooted in service, Tria bridges capability gaps to transform the business of government.
Tria's core capabilities include Digital Advisory Services; Cyber, Privacy & Threat Detection; DevSecOps; Data Science, Automation & Analytics; IT Infrastructure & Modernization; Intelligence Engineering & Operations; Financial Transformation; Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integration & Implementation; and Health IT, Research, Development & Informatics.
For more information about Tria, please visit triafed.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — By the numbers, the Jan. 6 committee hearings attracted 20 million live viewers on opening night, 11 million for the first daytime session and nearly 9 million for Thursday’s third installment.
Yet those traditional Nielsen company yardsticks don’t begin to measure the true reach of what is being said there.
Memorable moments from each hearing are sliced for quick consumption on countless news programs, comedy shows and online, to the point where some have been seen more times later than when they were live.
In many respects, it’s the first congressional hearing in memory that seems specifically designed with modern media needs in mind, said Jeff Jarvis, a City University of New York journalism professor and frequent blogger on the media.
“That has already worked,” he said.
While it’s impossible to know what — if anything — covered in the initial stages of the hearing will stick much beyond the week’s news, there are already breakout moments and characters.
GIULIANI AND ALCOHOL
Receiving wide circulation: snippets where President Donald Trump’s former political director, Bill Stepien, aide Jason Miller and committee member Liz Cheney say that lawyer Rudy Giuliani had too much to drink before advising Trump on election night 2020.
Hours after the allegation had been made, the clips were featured in the monologues of top-rated late-night comics Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. The shows are typically seen by a combined audience of nearly 5 million people each night, with many more people watching online the next morning. Kimmel accompanied it with a film package of times when Giuliani acted oddly in defense of Trump.
The episode resonated in part because it was a connectable moment in an otherwise very serious story, said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.
“Having people who are major figures in a national political setting outed for being wasted is something that people can find immediately understandable,” Thompson said.
BARR’S REALITY
Former Attorney General William Barr’s recorded testimony that he found Trump “detached from reality” with some of his claims about election fraud was the lead in several news stories about Monday’s hearing. It was a vivid and disturbing image of a former president from the man who ran Trump’s Justice Department.
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts that night all featured the clip of Barr’s comment, and together the three programs typically reach more than 20 million viewers — or double the amount of people who saw the hearing live.
There’s no count of how many times it was repeated on cable news, or estimate of how many people saw it that way.
Two anecdotal examples illustrate the extent to which it was seen online. A clip of the moment posted by Reuters on Facebook was watched 928,000 times, and the clip posted on The New York Times’ Instagram account was seen 404,000 times.
DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW
Filmed testimony from Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner has been particularly potent, in large part simply because they come from the family of a man who prizes loyalty.
A clip of Ivanka Trump saying she trusted Barr’s assessment of the fraud allegations amassed more than 1.6 million views in an Instagram post published by The Shade Room, a media outlet that focuses on celebrity entertainment, and 1 million when Bloomberg shared it on Twitter. Twitter posts of the video uploaded by MSNBC and the committee itself got more than 900,000 views together.
A video of her recollection of a phone call her father made to Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021 was shown on each of the three evening newscasts on Thursday, sometimes accompanied by the colorful descriptions of his language.
Kushner’s halting response when asked about what he had said to his father-in-law about Giuliani — as if he was weighing in real time what it meant to be under oath — became fodder for jokes.
NEW STAR
Previously little-known, former White House attorney Eric Herschmann has become a breakout star this past week for his filmed testimony concerning his conversations with John Eastman, architect of Trump’s failed maneuvering to hold onto power.
Editing his own colorful language, Herschmann recalls saying “are you out of your effing mind?” when Eastman talks the day after the Capitol riot about a potential appeal of Georgia election results. Like a stern parent, he tells Eastman that the only words he wants to hear from him are “orderly transition” and advises him to “get a great f-ing criminal defense lawyer. You’re going to need it.”
Recognizing the testimony’s potential impact, Cheney released it on Twitter the day before it was prominently featured in the hearing, giving it extra attention. That also served to highlight the committee’s finding that Eastman had unsuccessfully sought a presidential pardon.
Politico even did a story on the art hanging on the wall behind Herschmann during his testimony.
CHENEY’S PREDICTION
Cheney’s prosecutor-like outline of the committee’s case at the top of its only prime-time hearing drew wide attention, along with some advice that may live longer than her political career.
“Tonight, I say this to our Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone — but your dishonor will remain,” she said.
The Associated Press’ tweet with video of Cheney making that remark has been seen more than 1 million times.
Someday, depending on how history regards the events of Jan. 6, 2021, it may wind up the moment most recalled, like when it was revealed during the Watergate hearings that John Dean has warned Richard Nixon about a “cancer on the presidency,” Thompson said.
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SpaceX has plans to knock out two major operations overnight.
By Friday morning the company looks to have welcomed home another four astronauts from the International Space Station splashing down in their Crew Dragon off the coast of Florida, and less than five hours later will attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on a Starlink mission from Kennedy Space Center.
First up is the return of Crew-3 with NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Raja Chari along with European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer of Germany. The quartet climbed about the Crew Dragon Endurance and undocked from the ISS at 1:20 a.m. Thursday with plans to splash down at 12:43 a.m. Friday.
Four hours and 59 minutes later, SpaceX has on the clock a planned Starlink launch from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A at 5:42 a.m. looking to send another 53 of its internet satellites into orbit.
The Space Launch Delta 45 weather squadron predicts 90% chance of good conditions for launch. A backup opportunity for launch is available on May 7 at 5:20 a.m. SpaceX will attempt to recover the first-stage booster being used for a record-tying 12th time on its droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.
The return of Crew-3 marks the third operation with human passengers in less than two weeks with the return of the first all-private mission to the ISS, Axiom Space’s AX-1, on April 25 aboard Crew Dragon Endeavour, the launch of Crew-4 to relieve Crew-3 on the ISS on the new Crew Dragon Freedom two days later on April 23 and now the return of Crew-4.
Left behind on the station are Crew-4′s NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins along with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev. Sergey Korsakov and Oleg Artemyev.
Marshburn, who had been commanding Expedition 67 on the station, handed over the reins to Artemyev during a ceremony Wednesday that featured all 11 of the station’s crew.
“I think the lasting legacy of the space station is very likely to be international cooperation and a place of peace, so Oleg, you’re a very strong and experienced cosmonaut, astronaut. I know we’ll be leaving the space station in good hands with you,” Marshburn said handing over an actual key to Artemyev while also speaking in Russian to his comrade in space.
“I accept command,” replied Artemyev. “Thank you for key. Thank you for friendship. It was unbelievable time together ... Brother, sister, you know — I think you know — what are more important things for us: for me, for Sergey, for Denis, for family, our children, peace between our countries, our friendship. Thank you for friendship.”
Crew-3 blasted off from KSC back on Nov. 10, 2021, and just during their stay, which lasted just shy of six months, the quartet took part in four spacewalks and hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations. That includes studying drought-resistant cotton, fire safety in microgravity, and testing a handheld bioprinter that uses skin cells to print bandages directly onto a wound.
Endurance is also bringing home some of those experiments for study back on Earth.
As it drifted away after its autonomous undocking, Marshburn wished Crew-3′s Lindgren farewell.
“Station, Endurance, thanks for the warm sendoff, good luck on Expedition 67,” Marshburn said. “It was great being up there with you guys. Can’t wait to see the awesome work you guys continue to do to on that amazing orbital laboratory up there.”
“Endurance, appreciate the kind words,” Lindgren replied. “Had a great time handing over with you all, and look forward to seeing your smiling faces on the ground.”
Crew-4 won’t return until mid-September when Crew-5 flies Endurance back up to the station.
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First, it has to get back to Earth. Its crew will be asleep until about 4:30 p.m. before prepping for a series of orbit-lowering maneuvers, after which Endurance will jettison its trunk, and re-enter the atmosphere, looking to splash down in one of seven potential sites in either the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico 23.5 hours after it departed the ISS.
It will mark the end of the third operational flight by SpaceX as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The first crewed flight to the ISS, Demo-2, flew up to the station just under two years ago when NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched from KSC on May 30, 2020 for a two-month stay on board.
That flight marked the first time since the end of the space shuttle program nearly nine years earlier that a spacecraft had taken astronauts to the ISS from U.S. soil. Since then, SpaceX has flown its Crew Dragon with passengers six more times, some on private missions such as AX-1 and the orbital trip that didn’t visit the ISS, Inspiration4, last September on Crew Dragon Resilience.
“It’s pretty wild since it just feels like yesterday that we flew Bob and Doug on the Demo-2 mission,” said Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX last month ahead of Crew-4′s launch noting it was the 31st Dragon including crew and cargo to dock with the ISS. “It’s a super busy time, really exciting. Even though it looks busy and kind of crazy, astronaut safety and mission safety is always our top priority. If we have to look at something closer and take the time to do that we will.”
NASA awarded both SpaceX and Boeing the contract to take over ferry service to the station after having had to rely on Russia for flights on their Soyuz spacecraft during the nearly decade-long span. The cost of those rides had been climbing in recent years to a reported $80 million a pop.
Boeing’s ride, the CST-100 Starliner, has yet to complete its uncrewed demonstration flight to dock with the station, which it last attempted in December 2019. The plan, though, is for Crew-4 to welcome Starliner on that missions redo — Orbital Flight Test-2 — later this month after it launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The target for that liftoff is May 19. If successful, a crewed test flight is planned for later this year.
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Innovative new features within the Casepoint platform allow legal teams to save invaluable time and reduce costs by leveraging documents and work product across multiple matters simultaneously
TYSONS, Va., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Casepoint, a leader in cloud-based Legal Hold and eDiscovery technology, today announced the immediate availability of major new features to assist legal teams in multi-matter management: Cross Matter Search and Workspace-to-Workspace Data Transfer of physical files and their metadata and work product, which includes complete work product replication. Together with Casepoint's recently introduced Portable Predictive AI Models, these innovations allow lawyers to work more efficiently and effectively – eliminating time spent re-collecting, reprocessing, and reevaluating the same documents multiple times.
The new capabilities immediately add efficiency and consistency across a client's portfolio of matters and can be applied over the same set of documents (using Workspace-to-Workspace Data Transfer) or different sets of documents (Cross Matter Search and Portable Predictive AI Models). Each feature can be used independently or in combination with others to achieve time and cost-saving goals for teams, departments, and organizations. All features are managed separately and can be permissioned based on client preference.
Cross Matter Search is a new breakthrough feature of the Casepoint platform that reduces the time and complexity of searching multiple matters to find relevant data. Attorneys holding appropriate permissions in the platform can now execute a single base search over multiple matters and workspaces. Relevant data is then surfaced and saved in each pertinent workspace and reported across the overall platform. Cross Matter Search is initiated from and reported up to the organizational level.
Workspace-to-Workspace Data Transfer enables attorneys to reuse sets of documents across multiple matters – including native images and text files, production images, document metadata, and work product such as tags and field values – and port them over to the target workspace. The transfer of selected documents is facilitated by a wizard. The Casepoint platform keeps a record of how many times the data has been copied, by whom, and its destination. The feature saves substantial time and reduces costs by eliminating the need to process the same data repeatedly. Organization-level reporting for this feature will be available in 2022. The feature also enables work product for historical matters to be transferred in its entirety, replicating not only the data but the decisions and categorizations made in other workspaces in the new matter. With this new capability organizations can achieve substantial time and cost-savings by eliminating the need to repeat the attorney-driven decision-making process.
Portable Predictive AI Models enable users to leverage artificial intelligence to apply learnings from past decisions to multiple matters. Casepoint users can now import predictive models from one workspace to another, leveraging existing work product such as AI tags to rapidly identify key information or common themes or patterns across similar matters and data sets without having to build a new model from scratch for each new matter. The models learn with each matter, increasing both review efficiency and accuracy.
"Solving the problems of managing multiple matters is a critical objective for legal professionals today," said Vishal Rajpara, Chief Technology Officer at Casepoint. "Many organizations, most notably consumer product and public utilities companies, are engaged in a constant stream of litigation that is substantially similar, and their attorneys are constantly conducting searches and transferring data across different matters. This is time-consuming and costly, especially given the huge volumes of data involved in these cases. By adding these new features to the Casepoint platform we are providing major improvements to the management of multiple matters simultaneously."
Casepoint will be showcasing these new multi-matter management capabilities – Cross Matter Searching, Workspace Data Transfer, and Portable Predictive AI Models – at Booth #335 during the 2022 International Legal Technology Association Conference (ILTACON) in National Harbor, August 21 – 25. Casepoint's Chief Revenue Officer, David Carns, will be a featured speaker at the session "AI Can See Clearly Now: Innovative Integration of Images into Your Review," discussing how collections of images can be transformed into meaningful content by leveraging AI. The session will be held in the Woodrow Wilson B Hall at 2:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, August 23, 2022.
Casepoint representatives will be available during ILTA at Booth #335, https://ilta.casepoint.com.
Trusted by leading corporations, government agencies, law firms, and legal service providers, Casepoint empowers organizations to maximize efficiency and reduce risk with its innovative legal discovery platform. Casepoint's robust, cloud-based, highly scalable, and secure legal discovery platform is designed to easily manage increasingly complex litigation, investigation, and compliance needs. Casepoint's Legal Discovery Platform offers robust capabilities including legal hold, cloud collections, data processing, advanced analytics, AI, review, production, and case summary – all in an easy-to-use web interface. Casepoint's Legal Discovery Platform is next-generation legal technology that will enable your organization to increase productivity, efficiency, and business results.
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Attorneys in Michigan argue over whether a life sentence should be an option for a teenager who killed four high school classmates and wounded seven other people during a mass shooting in 2021.
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Attorneys in Michigan argue over whether a life sentence should be an option for a teenager who killed four high school classmates and wounded seven other people during a mass shooting in 2021.
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NEW YORK (AP) — After holding “Emancipation” in limbo following Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards in March, Apple will release the actor’s next big project in December.
The fate of the $120 million runaway slave thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua had been uncertain.
One of Apple’s most high-profile productions yet, the film had once been expected to be a potential Oscar contender this year.
But an awards-season rollout of a film headlined by Smith has obvious complications as Smith is banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years.
Apple TV+ will debut “Emancipation” on Dec. 2 in theaters and stream it on Dec. 9.
In March, Smith walked onto the stage and slapped Rock after he joked about how he was looking forward to a sequel to "G.I. Jane" because of her shaved head.
Pinkett Smith suffers from alopecia, which causes hair loss.
“Jada, I love you, 'G.I. Jane 2,' can't wait to see it," Rock said.
After the joke, Smith got up out of his seat, walked up to Rock, and slapped him.
Once he sat back down, Smith shouted to Rock, “keep my wife’s name out of your (expletive) mouth.”
Smith apologized to Rock months later.
In April, the motion picture academy banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years, the Associated Press reported. | https://www.lex18.com/entertainment/will-smiths-emancipation-gets-release-date-post-slap | 2022-10-04 03:46:39 | 1 | https://www.lex18.com/entertainment/will-smiths-emancipation-gets-release-date-post-slap |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
05-08-18-19-28
(five, eight, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $90,000
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
05-08-18-19-28
(five, eight, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $90,000 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Easy-5-game-17733722.php | 2023-01-22 23:17:37 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Easy-5-game-17733722.php |
Man charged for fatal stabbing in Anderson County
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (WTVQ) — A man was arrested after police say he fatally stabbed another man on Salt River Road in Anderson County.
According to Kentucky State Police, Russell Oliver fatally stabbed Chad Ritchie on Thursday around 5:30 p.m.
Oliver is charged with murder – domestic violence and is lodged in the Shelby County Detention Center.
No other information was immediately available. | https://www.wtvq.com/man-charged-for-fatal-stabbing-in-anderson-county/ | 2023-01-13 20:52:20 | 0 | https://www.wtvq.com/man-charged-for-fatal-stabbing-in-anderson-county/ |
Is 50 Cent tour stopping in NJ? Just a lil bit
In 2003 a gallon of gasoline cost $1.83. George W. Bush was our president. Apple had just launched iTunes and sold 1 million songs its first week.
You can bet "In da Club" by 50 Cent was one of them. That's because it was the No. 1 song in the country on the day of iTunes' launch.
20 years later, 50 Cent is celebrating the anniversary of his album "Get Rich or Die Tryin" with a tour. It kicks off July 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and ends in Clarkson, Michigan, Sept. 17.
Yes, Curtis James Jackson III (aka 50 Cent) will be hitting New Jersey but only for one show. That will be Saturday night Aug. 12 at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden.
Busta Rhymes and Jeremih will be special guests on this tour dubbed the Final Lap Tour. Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster this Friday, May 12 at 10 a.m.
Speaking of special guests, remember when 50 Cent was a surprise guest at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show with Snoop Dog and Dr. Dre? He came on hanging upside down like some vampire bat from the rafters.
New Jersey's own Chelsea Handler briefly dated 50 Cent in 2010 and from what she’s said about her ex, you shouldn’t be surprised if you see her at the concert.
In a recent ET Canada interview Handler said:
Yeah, I guess he’s my favorite ex. I mean, I don’t have a favorite ex. I love 50 Cent, he was fun. He was just a sweetheart and he was fun to be around.
The Livingston, N.J.-born comic went on:
My friends loved hanging out with him. I loved hanging out with him. It was a pretty short-lived romance, it was only two months. But yeah, I mean, If I saw him I’d definitely have a drink with him.
Sounds like she misses him. Maybe just a lil bit.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art announces former CEO of Rocky Mountain Power Rich Walje as the new president of the museum's board of trustees. Former Board President Val Antczak will transition into the position of board member and continue to serve on the Executive Committee.
"It's been a pleasure to serve as President of the UMOCA Board of Trustees for the last eight years, and I'm confident that Rich's transition into this leadership role will ensure the board's continued legacy of stewarding one of the state's most integral cultural institutions," said Val Antczak. "I have known Rich for many years, and the guidance he has provided as chair of the museum's Master Planning Committee paired with his leadership experience as CEO of Rocky Mountain Power demonstrate his ability to lead UMOCA's Board into 2023 and beyond."
Walje says, "I'm excited to continue the legacy of programming, advocacy, and collaboration that UMOCA has established under the leadership of Val Antczak and Executive Director Laura Allred Hurtado. I look forward to aiding in the realization of the museum's master plan to renovate the museum to increase its visibility in Downtown Salt Lake City."
Val Antczak joined the museum's board in 2013. Antczak is a founding partner at Antczak Polich Law. In his tenure as board president Antczak has been involved in bringing several major exhibitions to the museum, including Cities of Conviction, an exhibition of contemporary art from Saudi Arabia in 2017, and Guerrilla Girls in 2020. Antczak also served an integral role in the museum being awarded a $1,000,000 legislative appropriation earlier this year.
Rich Walje is the CEO of RAW-Energy, Inc and is a passionate advocate of the arts in Utah.
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Officials: Plane fire at Miami airport, 3 minor injuries
MIAMI (AP) — A plane carrying 126 people caught fire after landing Tuesday at Miami International Airport when landing gear collapsed, though no serious injuries were reported, authorities said.
The fire was caused by the collapse of the front landing gear on a Red Air flight arriving from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesman Greg Chin said in an email to The Associated Press.
The MD-82 jetliner was carrying 126 people, and three of them were taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, he added. Other passengers were being bussed from the plane to the terminal.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue posted on Twitter that fire crews had placed the fire under control and were mitigating fuel spillage.
TV news images showed the plane appeared to have come to rest in grass beside a runway and that the aircraft and an area all around it were apparently doused with white firefighters’ chemicals. At least three firefighting vehicles were positioned nearby.
The National Transportation Safety Board posted that a team would arrive at the airport by Wednesday to investigate the fire.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wymt.com/2022/06/21/officials-plane-fire-miami-airport-3-minor-injuries/ | 2022-06-22 00:14:24 | 1 | https://www.wymt.com/2022/06/21/officials-plane-fire-miami-airport-3-minor-injuries/ |
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — A person in southwest Florida has died after being infected with an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba, health officials said.
The Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County confirmed the death Thursday. The agency had previously issued an alert last month, warning residents about the Naegleria fowleri infection.
“I can confirm the infection unfortunately resulted in a death, and any additional information on this case is confidential to protect patient privacy,” Florida Department of Health spokesman Jae Williams said in an email.
Health officials said last month that the infection might have been caused by sinus rinse practices using tap water, but an investigation is ongoing. Sinus solutions should be made using only distilled or sterile water. Tap water should be boiled for at least one minute and cooled before sinus rinsing.
“Infection with Naegleria fowleri is rare and can only happen when water contaminated with amoebae enters the body through the nose,” Williams said. “You cannot be infected by drinking tap water.”
Naegleria fowleri is a single-celled organism that lives in soil and warm fresh water, such as lakes, rivers and hot springs, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can cause a brain infection when water containing the amoeba goes up the nose. Only about three people in the United States get infected each year, but these infections are usually fatal. | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/officials-person-dies-after-brain-eating-amoeba-infection/ | 2023-03-04 17:55:08 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/officials-person-dies-after-brain-eating-amoeba-infection/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of SQZ Biotechnologies Company ("SQZ" or the "Company") (NYSE: SQZ). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether SQZ and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around October 29, 2022, SQZ conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), selling 4,411,765 shares priced at $16.00 per share. Then, on December 1, 2022, SQZ issued a press release "announc[ing] that Armon Sharei, PhD, Chief Executive Officer at SQZ Biotechnologies, will step down from his role as CEO and the Board of Directors, effective immediately," and that the Company will reduce its workforce by roughly 60% as it "pause[s] its APC, Activating Antigen Carrier (AAC) and Tolerizing Antigen Carrier (TAC) programs." On this news, SQZ's stock price fell sharply during intraday trading on December 1, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The New Orleans Saints will never miss their beloved, climate-controlled Superdome more than on Saturday.
Baby, it’s going to be cold outside.
A “bomb cyclone” event is expected to drop temperatures into single digits at kickoff in Cleveland.
With gusts exceeding 50 mph off Lake Erie, the wind chill will plunge way below zero — as the Saints (5-9) and Browns (6-8) try to keep their slim playoff hopes intact in a simultaneous test of survival.
Huddles won’t be reserved for play calls.
The frigid forecast forced the Saints to travel to Cleveland one day early, which will allow them extra time to acclimate before taking the field at FirstEnergy Stadium.
Even then, it’s going to be challenging in polar conditions.
It’s a physical game.
In the cold, it’s also a mind game.
“I’m ready for it, man,” Saints safety Tyrann Mathieu said. “It’s really all mental.”
Not entirely, but New Orleans coach Dennis Allen did his best to downplay the elements.
He doesn’t want any of his players overreacting or overdressing.
“It’s going to be cold for everybody,” he said. “Let’s don’t make too big a deal about it. Let’s go play a game and let’s go try to win, but yet there’s been a lot of advancement in warm-weather gear and the last thing I want is somebody out there looking like the damn Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.”
Even for the Browns, who have played their share of games in biting cold inside FirstEnergy Stadium, this won’t be easy.
Quarterback Deshaun Watson couldn’t pinpoint the coldest game he’s played in, assuming it may have been an Atlantic Coast Conference championship game while he was at Clemson.
He’s not going to forget his second start in Cleveland.
“This is definitely going to be the coldest for sure,” he said.
It will be Watson’s fourth start since returning from an 11-game suspension for sexual misconduct allegations.
He is 2-1 so far, and his accuracy has improved each week, along with a better grasp of coach Kevin Stefanski’s offense.
The Browns’ playoff hopes are remote — less than 1-percent — so the final three games are as much about Watson’s development and growth with Stefanski and getting ready for 2023 as a postseason push.
This also will be a chance for Watson to gain invaluable experience playing in conditions he could face down the road if the Browns, and this is their plan, become a Super Bowl contender and host playoff games.
Watson handled chilly conditions a week ago against Baltimore, but they weren’t anything like what he’ll deal with on Christmas Eve — wind, snow, finger-numbing temperatures.
Football in Cleveland.
The cold’s not for everyone, but Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett said there’s no point in complaining about it.
“Whatever we have to play in, strap up, put your extra sleeves on, wear your leggings and whatever you have to do,” he said. “We can’t be worried about that. You have an opponent ahead, and you have to go 1-0.”
LANDRY’S LEGACY
The Browns cut ties with wide receiver Jarvis Landry in the offseason.
He’s still deeply connected to Cleveland.
Now with the Saints, Landry, who will miss the game with an ankle injury, made a major impact during four seasons with the Browns.
Several of his former teammates credit him for helping transform a moribund franchise that went 0-16 before his arrival.
“He was a great player, great teammate,” said Pro Bowl running back Nick Chubb. “We all loved him. Jarvis taught me a lot. I came here as a young rookie and he was Jarvis Landry, just on the field, off the field, everything.
“He was a big part of me being who I am in football.”
YORK’S STRUGGLES
Home hasn’t been sweet for Browns rookie kicker Cade York.
The fourth-round draft pick missed two more field-goal attempts at FirstEnergy Stadium last week, making him 9 of 15 on the Browns’ field.
York made two kicks in a 13-3 win over Baltimore, but he badly pulled a 38-yarder left and pushed a 46-yarder right.
In fairness to York, the Ravens’ great kicker, Justin Tucker, missed a try and had one blocked.
Still, the Browns are expecting York to be better.
“He knows it’s time to adjust full bore now,” special teams coordinator Mike Priefer said. “We have 14 games under our belt. He has kicked enough games in our stadium and he has kicked enough games in the NFL, now it is time for him to show up for us on a more consistent basis.”
LINE ITEMS
The Saints offensive line took a big hit this week when starting right guard Cesar Ruiz was placed on injured reserve.
A 2020 first-round draft choice, Ruiz was diagnosed with a Lisfranc foot injury and may need surgery.
He hadn’t missed a snap and made 31 consecutive starts before experiencing pain in last weekend’s win over Atlanta.
With Ruiz out, the Saints are exploring some options up front, including sliding regular starting left tackle James Hurst to guard and starting rookie Trevor Penning at tackle.
GROUND DEFENSES
While stopping the run was a hallmark of Allen’s defenses during much of his six-year stint as a coordinator under now-retired coach Sean Payton, there’s been some slippage lately on that front in Allen’s first season as head coach.
The Saints have yielded at least 148 yards rushing in four of their past six games, giving up a season-worst 231 against Atlanta.
Now, as the Saints prepare to deal with Chubb, who has 1,252 yards, the run defense is “an area we’ve got to improve on,” said Allen, who had high praise for Cleveland’s Pro Bowl back.
“A very instinctive runner,” he said. “He’s a big runner, runs with power, yet he’s also got speed to break the long one. So, when he’s able to get his pads going downhill, he’s a load to have to deal with.”
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AP Sports Writer Brett Martel contributed | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/sports/83536/brrr-owns-saints-set-to-battle-each-other-frigid-elements | 2022-12-24 21:14:15 | 0 | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/sports/83536/brrr-owns-saints-set-to-battle-each-other-frigid-elements |
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