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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
319 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 112.
* WHERE...Portions of south Texas.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, more racially equitable decisions.
The move comes weeks after an Associated Press review of a separate algorithmic tool in Pennsylvania that had originally inspired Oregon officials to develop their model, and was found to have flagged a disproportionate number of Black children for “mandatory” neglect investigations when it first was in place.
Oregon’s Department of Human Services announced to staff via email last month that after “extensive analysis” the agency’s hotline workers would stop using the algorithm at the end of June to reduce disparities concerning which families are investigated for child abuse and neglect by child protective services.
“We are committed to continuous quality improvement and equity,” Lacey Andresen, the agency’s deputy director, said in the May 19 email.
Jake Sunderland, a department spokesman, said the existing algorithm would “no longer be necessary,” since it can’t be used with the state’s new screening process. He declined to provide further details about why Oregon decided to replace the algorithm and would not elaborate on any related disparities that influenced the policy change.
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This story, supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, is part of an ongoing Associated Press series, “Tracked,” that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people’s everyday lives.
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Hotline workers’ decisions about reports of child abuse and neglect mark a critical moment in the investigations process, when social workers first decide if families should face state intervention. The stakes are high – not attending to an allegation could end with a child’s death, but scrutinizing a family’s life could set them up for separation.
From California to Colorado and Pennsylvania, as child welfare agencies use or consider implementing algorithms, an AP review identified concerns about transparency, reliability and racial disparities in the use of the technology, including their potential to harden bias in the child welfare system.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said he had long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state’s child welfare system and reached out to the department again following the AP story to ask questions about racial bias – a prevailing concern with the growing use of artificial intelligence tools in child protective services.
“Making decisions about what should happen to children and families is far too important a task to give untested algorithms,” Wyden said in a statement. “I’m glad the Oregon Department of Human Services is taking the concerns I raised about racial bias seriously and is pausing the use of its screening tool.”
Sunderland said Oregon child welfare officials had long been considering changing their investigations process before making the announcement last month.
He added that the state decided recently that the algorithm would be completely replaced by its new program, called the Structured Decision Making model, which aligns with many other child welfare jurisdictions across the country.
Oregon’s Safety at Screening Tool was inspired by the influential Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which is named for the county surrounding Pittsburgh, and is aimed at predicting the risk that children face of winding up in foster care or being investigated in the future. It was first implemented in 2018. Social workers view the numerical risk scores the algorithm generates – the higher the number, the greater the risk – as they decide if a different social worker should go out to investigate the family.
But Oregon officials tweaked their original algorithm to only draw from internal child welfare data in calculating a family’s risk, and tried to deliberately address racial bias in its design with a “fairness correction.”
In response to Carnegie Mellon University researchers’ findings that Allegheny County’s algorithm initially flagged a disproportionate number of Black families for “mandatory” child neglect investigations, county officials called the research “hypothetical,” and noted that social workers can always override the tool, which was never intended to be used on its own.
Wyden is a chief sponsor of a bill that seeks to establish transparency and national oversight of software, algorithms and other automated systems.
“With the livelihoods and safety of children and families at stake, technology used by the state must be equitable — and I will continue to watchdog,” Wyden said.
The second tool that Oregon developed – an algorithm to help decide when foster care children can be reunified with their families – remains on hiatus as researchers rework the model. Sunderland said the pilot was paused months ago due to inadequate data but that there is “no expectation that it will be unpaused soon.”
In recent years while under scrutiny by a crisis oversight board ordered by the governor, the state agency – currently preparing to hire its eighth new child welfare director in six years – considered three additional algorithms, including predictive models that sought to assess a child’s risk for death and severe injury, whether children should be placed in foster care, and if so, where. Sunderland said the child welfare department never built those tools, however.
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The street in front of Antonio Hueso's two-story, yellow-daisy-colored home in Pajaro, about an hour south of San Francisco, turned into a deep muddy river in the early morning hours of March 12. The waters submerged his Ford F-150 truck and his first floor flooded.
"In Pajaro, nothing is going to change because poor people live here," said Hueso, 72, a retired farmworker. He recounts more than three decades of requests from the community for local, state and federal officials to fix the aging levee on the Pajaro River, four miles upstream from his town.
The levee failure forced more than 3,000 Pajaro residents to flee in the predawn darkness. Now, Hueso is beginning the arduous task of renovating his flood-damaged home.
Hueso is just one of the thousands of people across the state reeling from this winter's string of storms that engorged rivers, breached levees and even restored a dried-up inland lake in California's Central Valley.
Climate scientists say heavy rain and snow storms brought on by atmospheric rivers that park over the state are nothing compared to what's predicted in a warmer world. With aging levees and a wetter future ahead, some Pajaro residents question whether this part of California is a viable place to call home.
Over the nearly five decades Hueso's lived in Pajaro, this is the second time he has had to renovate his home. He lived through an equally devastating flood in 1995. Officials say a significant levee update could begin as soon as late 2024. Hueso questions, though, whether such plans will account for human-caused climate change and the increased frequency and ferocity of the storms expected.
Heuso is now considering leaving. "I'm going to fix my house, and when people forget about the flooding, I will sell my house and move to Madera or Fresno," he said.
'Nowhere near' a worst-case scenario
Climate scientists warn that what Californians have lived through in recent months — atmospheric river after atmospheric river, catastrophic flooding, and one of the largest winter snowpack in years — is just a preview of what's to come, with exponentially worse flooding predicted in future years. When atmospheric rivers reach land, they act like a hose dumping heavy moisture on the land, which can cause issues like flooding, landslides and power outages.
"As disruptive as this year's events have been, we're nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California," said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
Before cities and farmland dominated valleys and flatlands across the state, much of California was perpetually wet, with a vast system of rivers and waterways running through its core. Catastrophic floods reshaped the landscape every few centuries.
Swain is unequivocal about the links between a warming climate due to the burning of fossil fuels and the significant increase in extreme flooding. A 2022 study Swain co-authored found that the warming climate has already doubled the probability of a megaflood caused by a string of extreme atmospheric rivers.
Every degree of new warming increases that likelihood even more, he said.
In other words, what was once considered unlikely to happen in our lifetimes "has become quite likely," Swain said. He wouldn't be surprised, he said, if as many as four megafloods happened in this century.
"We're not necessarily talking about 100 years from now. We're talking about the next 20 or 30 years," Swain said. "We've gotten a taste of widespread flooding, but I do think it's only a taste."
The West Coast has already been hit by more than 30 atmospheric rivers since October, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. But to be categorized as part of Swain's extreme scenario, those storms would have had to take place in rapid succession, with little or no time in between.
This year, by contrast, there were breaks of up to a month between each storm. Despite the storms' havoc, none that hit California were technically considered "extreme," Swain said.
"This winter, we've gotten lucky, believe it or not, because things could have been significantly worse than they were," he said. "It is possible to have years where there are multiple atmospheric rivers in a row that are much stronger than what we saw at any point this year."
Swain said the recent storms dropped only about half the precipitation and less than a quarter of the runoff than in the "plausible worst-case scenario" he describes in his study. The resulting "megaflood" conditions, he said, would cause widespread levee failures that would impact not just agricultural land but urban areas, too.
A KQED analysis of the National Levee Database found that only 10% of the nearly 600 levees in the greater Bay Area have a flood-risk rating. The small percentage that do have a rating includes the breached levee on the Pajaro River, which is rated "moderate." Another levee on the Salinas River failed in January also had a "moderate" rating. Other levees rated "moderate" in more urban areas like San José are also at risk of significant flooding.
"We've definitely gotten a taste in some areas of what a much lesser version of this would look like," Swain said. "But we need to be preparing for and stress-testing our infrastructure for much greater events than the ones you've seen this year."
Flood modeling
California is taking Swain's predictions seriously. Michael Anderson, the state's climatologist, is trying to convince the California Department of Water Resources to fund a flood-modeling project in partnership with Swain and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal would be to understand the impact an extended series of extreme storms would have on existing infrastructure, like levees.
"This is a flood model that would resolve the flood risk at one corner of someone's house versus another corner, for example," Swain said. "That's how detailed it would be for the whole state."
The project involves recording several factors, including soil conditions, river flows, forecasted precipitation, real-time snowmelt and runoff, in an effort to calculate the extent of flooding that could result from storms.
Such predictions could help the state understand what areas are at the greatest risk of flooding and who should evacuate, Anderson said.
"The other thing we can do is start saying, 'Wow, if that happened, how do we recover?"' Anderson said. "How do we take that really horrible situation and try and turn it into a chance to maybe rethink how we do some things?"
Once approved, the project could take up to a year to complete and cost about half a million dollars. Anderson acknowledges such modeling is coming too late for the many thousands of people already displaced by this winter's floods.
"Unfortunately, Mother Nature kind of beat us to the punch here," he said. Anderson believes such modeling, though, could help the state scale the "right level of response" for future floods.
Living in the shadow of an aging levee
The climate crisis is all too real for Armando Alvarado, who now lives in the shadow of a broken levee. A week after flood waters covered Pajaro, the 22-year-old returned home to find his garage coated with a thick layer of sticky, putrid mud. The rest of the elevated home his family rent was unscathed.
The wet mud in the garage ruined a number of family heirlooms, including his collection of red, white and black ostrich-leather ranchero boots.
"They were emotional gifts from my family in Mexico, like uncles that passed away," he said.
Alvarado said he's worried about how costs to repair the damage will affect his family's rent in an area of California where a one-bedroom apartment can cost as much as $2,800.
Denia Escutia, a high school senior who lives a few blocks away from Alvarado, woke up early in the morning on March 12 to the sound of water pouring into Escutia's purple bedroom adorned with K-pop posters.
"I touched my feet to the rug, and the rug was wet," said Escutia, who prefers not to use pronouns. Escutia's entire house was filled with a thin layer of smelly, muddy water.
"I woke up my dad, and we started unplugging a bunch of stuff," Escutia said.
Now, weeks later, the climate activist is questioning whether there's a future in Pajaro because of the familiar risks — including droughts, heat waves and flooding — that will likely only worsen with a warming climate.
Escutia, whose hometown is Pajaro, dreams of living safely on a nearby hill, surrounded by family. But Escutia fears Pajaro has no future because of climate change and the decisions made by those in power that devalue the people who live in the community.
"I think Pajaro deserves climate justice," said Escutia. "I call this my home, but is it really my home if they don't want to help us?"
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Phillies’ Bohm hits 1,000th home run in World Series history
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alec Bohm hit the 1,000th home run in World Series history Tuesday night, and the Philadelphia Phillies quickly went to work on launching the next thousand.
Bryce Harper, Bohm and Brandon Marsh teed off early against Houston starter Lance McCullers Jr. as the Phillies powered to a 4-0 lead in Game 3 of the 118th World Series.
Harper began the barrage with a two-run drive in the first inning. Bohm led off with a liner over the left-field wall in the second and Marsh hit home run No. 1,001 two batters later at Citizens Bank Park.
Cy Young himself gave up the first World Series homer, an inside-the-parker to Pittsburgh’s Jimmy Sebring against Boston in the first World Series game in 1903.
Mickey Mantle holds the record for the most World Series home runs with 18. Babe Ruth is next with 15.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Thursday handed in her resignation after a right-wing bloc that includes a nationalist, anti-immigration party won a narrow majority in Sweden’s parliament.
Andersson met with Andreas Norlen, the speaker of Sweden’s 349-seat Riksdag, to formally inform him of her departure. Andersson will continue in a caretaking capacity until a new government is formed.
Norlen is expected to ask the leader of the center-right Moderates, Ulf Kristersson, to try to form a governing coalition. Following Sunday's general elections, the right-wing bloc has 176 seats while the center-left bloc with the Social Democrats has 173.
On Wednesday, once 99.9% of votes had been counted, Andersson conceded while populist Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson declared victory for the four-party right-of-center bloc.
The Sweden Democrats won more votes than the Moderates but are not considered likely to lead the next government. The party was founded in the 1980s by far-right extremists, and while it has moved to the mainstream in recent years it has not fully shaken off that stigma.
Still, because it won more seats than any other party on the right, and is now the country's second largest party in parliament, it is expected to have significant leverage in any government.
Andersson, who heads the largest party, resigned less than a year after she became Sweden’s first female head of government. Her appointment as prime minister had marked a milestone for Sweden, viewed for decades as one of Europe’s most progressive countries when it comes to gender relations, but which had never previously had a woman in the top political post.
Andersson led Sweden’s historic bid to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
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Alaska state lawmaker censured for comments about child abuse
JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - The Alaska House of Representatives voted to censure Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman by a decisive 35-1 margin on Thursday.
The censure comes two days after Eastman made comments during the House Judiciary Committee meeting on the financial implications to society of fatal child abuse.
“It gets argued periodically it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services they might otherwise be entitled to receive, and need, based on growing up in this type of environment,” Eastman said Monday.
Eastman was the lone vote against the censure measure, and argued the motion to censure from Anchorage Rep. Andrew Gray impugned his motives and was “hateful rhetoric.”
“It is important to remember regarding that member from Wasilla that over the years he has shown Alaska who he is, posting on his website a photo of himself standing next to a quote from Adolf Hitler that calls for the extermination of people, and yet he has been reelected three times to his seat,” Gray said. “We must respond as a body. We must do something. This body must act.”
Eastman responded by noting section 121 of the rules of the house, claiming that Gray had impugned his motives.
“The outrageous accusation that somehow I and the members of my district support the extermination of people or support child abuse — when I’ve staked my entire political career arguing for the opposite — is not acceptable in this body,” Eastman said.
President and CEO of the Alaska Children’s Trust Trevor Storrs, who testified on Monday in that committee meeting, responded directly to Eastman’s comment at the time.
“I’m not even sure how to answer that, that there’s a cost saving to the death of a child. The impact that that has on a family and us as a society when a child is lost, especially to abuse and neglect, is unmeasurable.”
Storrs said he hopes the focus can remain on the issues that the Alaska Children’s Trust tackles, and still spoke favorably about his time testifying and contributing to the committee.
“Legislators are in a very key role. They’re making laws and decisions, and systems and policies and legislation can either prevent, or unfortunately maybe perpetuate, the situation that creates the environment that then leads to child abuse and neglect,” Storrs said.
Anchorage Rep. Cliff Groh attended the committee hearing on Monday as well, and retold how the meeting unfolded from his perspective.
“His statements, and his entire line of questioning — and it was, I want to stress it was just not one question, but a line of questioning — both very much bothered me not only as a parent but as a human being,” Groh said. “I just thought his comments and his line of questioning were despicable.”
Wednesday’s vote is the second time the House has moved to censure Eastman.
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Large tree down causing a road closure
Published: Apr. 15, 2023 at 8:45 PM CDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
GREENE COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - Highway 168 North in Greene County is closed until further notice.
This closure comes after a large tree fell down and power lines fell down in the road according to Greene County Sheriff Brad Snyder.
This closure is on the highway at Crowley’s Ridge State Park.
This story will be updated as information is available.
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Ahead of National Fried Chicken Day on July 6, the authentic Korean fried chicken franchise is encouraging Americans to ditch the traditional route and try something new for the food holiday
FORT LEE, N.J., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Korean fried chicken might just be the best fried chicken you've never tried, and bb.q Chicken, Korea's Finest Fried Chicken™, is looking to change that by inviting Americans to experience all of bb.q's authentic and flavorful menu choices this National Fried Chicken Day, July 6.
To celebrate the holiday, the world renowned Korean fried chicken franchise is offering free delivery on DoorDash and UberEats throughout the month of July. Fried chicken lovers nationwide can now experience the crispy, yet juicy phenomenon that is Korean Fried Chicken firsthand.
"With the recent rise of Korean culture in the United States, we believe there is no better gateway to culture than food," said bb.q Chicken U.S. CEO Joseph Kim. "This National Fried Chicken Day, we invite everyone to go expand their palettes and try bb.q Chicken's unbeatable fried chicken offerings. You will not be disappointed."
Known for its commitment to quality and authenticity, bb.q Chicken boasts lighter, crispier and more flavorful options than the regular American-style fried chicken, due to its distinct and uniquely Korean frying method. bb.q Chicken's extensive menu also includes more than 13 different flavor options delivered directly from Seoul for both boneless and bone-in options, along with other K-food offerings, such as Tteokbokki and Kimchi fried rice.
Many international food brands have "Americanized" their food selections, but that is not the case for bb.q, which strives to offer an authentic Korean culinary experience, built on the foundation of longstanding Korean recipes and tradition, at all 160+ U.S. locations.
For more information and store locations, please visit bbqchicken.com.
About bb.q Chicken
Established in 1995 as part of parent company Genesis BBQ, bb.q Chicken's mission is to always provide the most delicious premium chicken in the world, based on the belief that food is the gateway to all culture. bb.q (pronounced bee-bee-que) stands for Best of the Best Quality and serves as a promise to always make Korea's Finest Fried Chicken™ and other K-Food offerings at each location.
The brand was recently recognized by Restaurant Business Magazine as one of the fastest growing chains in the U.S. and included in The Takeout's "11 Restaurant Chains to Watch in 2023." For more information on locations and franchise opportunities, please visit bbqchicken.com.
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A list of the hot topics, teams, athletes and personalities and in high school sports this week.
1. Cameron Flukey: The Egg Harbor Township High School pitcher and pro prospect is 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA and 38 strikeouts, four walks and three hits allowed in 17 innings.
2. Leah Howard: The Millville senior has the best javelin throw in the state so far this spring with a distance of 151 feet, 10 inches.
3. Ocean City girls lacrosse: The Red Raiders (4-2 overall) are 4-0 in the Cape-Atlantic League and have outscored their CAL opponents by the combined total of 75-14.
4. Vineland baseball: The Fighting Clan (7-2) has won four straight. Xavier Cortez leads Vineland on the mound and at the plate. He is batting .462 with two home runs and 15 RBIs. He also boasts a 1.47 ERA with 24 strikeouts in 14 ⅓ innings.
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6. St. Augustine baseball: The “rebuilding” Hermits (9-1) have won nine straight, including a 4-2 win over South Jersey Group IV contender Kingsway Regional on Thursday.
7. Cole Cramer: The Southern Regional sophomore set the Ocean County 100-meter record when he ran 10.67 seconds to finish second at the Colt Team Challenge last Saturday. Xavier Donaldson of Seton Hall Prep won in 10.65 seconds — the fastest time in the state this spring.
8. Gabby Cruz: The Middle Township junior softball pitcher got career strikeout No. 200 this week. She has 97 strikeouts and a 1.71 ERA in 49 innings this season.
9. Ocean City boys lacrosse: The Red Raiders (4-2) are 2-0 against Cape-Atlantic League schools and have outscored their CAL opponents by the combined total of 31-9.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that stablecoins will need greater regulation as they become more widely used by consumers.
Powell also said, in virtual remarks to a conference on digital finance in Paris, that the Fed hasn’t yet decided on whether to proceed with a digital dollar.
The Fed’s sharp interest rate increases this year, Powell said, have contributed to the collapse of some stablecoins and big drops in the value of cryptocurrencies, a phenomenon some traders have dubbed “crypto winter.” Stablecoins are digital tokens pegged to the value of traditional financial instruments, often the dollar. In May, the stablecoin TerraUSD collapsed, wiping out $40 billion investor funds.
Powell said that higher interest rates have revealed the “significant structural issues” that exist in decentralized finance, a broad term that encompasses stablecoins, crypto currencies, and other new technologies.
Yet the crypto winter had little impact on traditional finance because for now there is not much overlap between the two, Powell said. But that may not continue.
“There’s a real need for more appropriate regulation,” Powell said, as decentralized finance “starts to touch more and more retail customers.”
Earlier this month, in an interview at the Cato Institute, Powell said that anything purporting to be money should be tightly regulated.
“If people are going to think something is money, then it needs to actually have the qualities of money,” Powell said. “If it doesn’t, then I don’t think you want to take money and make it into just another consumer product where sometimes it fails and sometimes it’s good.”
Powell also sketched out a cautious path for the United States on the creation of a so-called central bank digital currency, or digital dollar. Digital currencies differ from current forms of electronic money because they would be issued by central banks such as the Fed, rather than a bank.
More than 100 central banks around the world are considering a digital currency, but just a few have actually issued one.
Powell said the Fed is “evaluating both the policy issues and the technology issues” around a digital dollar.
“We have not decided to proceed and we don’t see ourselves as making that decision for some time,” he said. “We see this as a process of at least a couple of years where we’re doing work and building confidence in our analysis and in our ultimate conclusions.”
That would put the United States behind many other countries when it comes to a central bank digital currency. China has already tested a digital yuan in some provinces.
Powell also said the Fed would need approval from the White House and Congress to proceed with a digital dollar.
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, also spoke virtually to the conference and said the ECB plans to decide within a year whether to start developing a prototype of a digital euro.
Central banks provide key backing for currencies, and that makes them much more stable than private money, Lagarde said.
“If we are not in that game, if we are not involved in experimenting, in innovating, in terms of digital central bank money, we risk losing the role of anchor that we have played for many, many decades,” she said.
Earlier this month, the Treasury Department issued a report that recommended the U.S. work on developing a digital dollar.
Also this month, Michael Barr, the Fed’s top financial regulator, said that the central bank should work with other agencies and Congress to toughen oversight of stablecoins.
“Stablecoins, like other unregulated private money, could pose financial stability risks,” Barr said. “History shows that in the absence of appropriate regulation, private money is subject to destabilizing runs, financial instability, and the potential for widespread economic harm.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-feds-powell-urges-broader-regulation-for-stablecoins/ | 2022-09-28 09:39:00 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-feds-powell-urges-broader-regulation-for-stablecoins/ |
House Republicans introduce more articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) is the second House Republican to put forward impeachment articles this Congress against Mayorkas.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - House Republicans introduced more articles of impeachment Wednesday against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
They say the secretary he has lost “operational control” of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), flanked by more than a dozen of his caucus colleagues, held a news conference outside the Capitol after Biggs put forward the second batch of impeachment articles against Mayorkas.
“The founders said that you have impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors — that’s constitutional. They defined high crimes. They didn’t say you have to be convicted of a felony. What they said is you have a public official who has violated public trust and there is nobody who typifies that more in my opinion than Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,” said Biggs.
Republicans accuse Mayorkas of losing control of the U.S. southern border from illegal immigration to the flow of drugs like fentanyl.
“We have to do something about it and it’s Secretary Mayorkas’ responsibility to stop it from coming into our country. But I’ll go a step further. It’s also President Biden’s responsibility,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
Last month, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) introduced the first articles of impeachment against Mayorkas.
In a statement Thursday, a DHS spokesperson said, “Secretary Mayorkas is proud to advance the noble mission of this Department, support its extraordinary workforce, and serve the American people. The Department will continue our work to enforce our laws and secure our border, while building a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system. Instead of trying to point fingers and score political points, the Members of Congress recklessly and baselessly pursuing impeachment should work on legislative solutions for our broken system, which has not been updated in over 40 years.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has previously called on Mayorkas to resign or face impeachment.
It is unclear if there are 218 votes in the House to charge him. However, it is unlikely the Senate would convict Mayorkas on any charges.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The anger is still tangible to Greg Elliott and the rest of the Pittsburgh Panthers. Accessible, too.
A couple of swipes on Elliott's phone takes him back to the preseason poll that picked Pitt to finish 14th in the 15-team Atlantic Coast Conference. Four months, 19 wins and one surprising sprint to the top of the ACC later, it still makes the guard shake his head.
“I think our whole team, put together, felt disrespected,” the Marquette transfer said. “Everyone felt like they had a chip on their shoulder and had something to prove.”
The edge has not dulled even with Pitt (19-7, 12-3 ACC) inching toward its first NCAA tournament berth since 2016 — maybe because the slights continue to pile up.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim claimed earlier this month the Panthers were among the teams that “bought” players to help turn their programs around, a comment the Hall of Famer quickly walked back.
And Pitt is still waiting to return to the AP Top 25 poll, nibbling at the fringe recently but struggling to impress voters despite a resume that includes a sweep of North Carolina and home upsets over Virginia and Miami that restored some of the swagger to the Petersen Events Center.
A venue that was among the rowdiest in the nation more than a decade ago during the program's Big East power years has had more of a library-like feel in recent years. But there are signs of life: The “Oakland Zoo” student section that sits — well, OK, stands — courtside during games has been packed almost all season. The paying customers that avoided the program in droves as it plummeted to the bottom of the ACC are returning. The first sellout since 2019 watched the Panthers stun the Hurricanes in the final seconds.
Coach Jeff Capel is taking none of it for granted. Neither are his players, some of whom began their careers at higher-profile destinations before alighting to Pitt in search of opportunity.
Do-everything guard Jamarius Burton, who is mounting a serious bid for ACC Player of the Year, bounced from Wichita State to Texas Tech before landing at Pitt in 2021. Elliott made all of 11 starts in four seasons at Marquette before taking a chance on Pitt. Blake Hinson didn't play at all during two lost years at Iowa State, and now is averaging 15.9 points after being given the green light by Capel to let it fly from wherever he wants, whenever he wants.
Six of Pitt's top seven scorers have resumes with at least one other stop. The only Panther that signed here out of high school — forward John Hugley — is sitting out the rest of the season to focus on his mental health.
The pieces that look thrown together on paper seem to fit at Pitt, which Elliott ascribes to a “connectivity” that is difficult to describe but invaluable both on the floor and off. Multiple times this season Capel has attributed his team's success to a lack of ego, a humbleness that came from being spending years being humbled elsewhere.
It's not uncommon for the Panthers to gather at someone's apartment or house to watch an upcoming opponent. It's not uncommon for Capel to ask his players what they think about something, be it during practice or a timeout in the middle of a game — a courtesy he doesn't remember extending to any of his four previous teams at Pitt.
Maybe because he's never had a team that exudes maturity the way this group does, staying calm when things get tight. It's not a coincidence that Pitt is 6-1 in conference games decided by three points or less.
Another test awaits Saturday at Virginia Tech (15-11, 5-10), which has already knocked off Duke and Virginia at home. If Pitt survives, a favorable schedule down the stretch offers the possibility that the regular-season finale at Miami on March 4 could be for the ACC title.
Not bad for a team picked to finish at the other end of the spectrum, a team that knows a reminder of the program's forgettable recent past — Pitt entered the year 25-83 in ACC play since the start of the 2016-17 season — is only one or two clicks away.
It's a past the current Panthers are distancing themselves from 40 competent, cohesive minutes at a time.
“We got into every game (knowing) there was only one team (the experts) had under us (in the preseason) and that was Georgia Tech,” Elliott said. “So everybody else is ahead of us (in our minds) and we've got to get ahead of them. That's how we think about it.”
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The Iconic Hospitality and Restaurant Brand Recognized for Seventh Time Since 2015
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hard Rock International has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers for 2023, earning a ranking among other exemplary companies in the travel & leisure industry – which encompasses hotels, resorts, restaurants, and entertainment enterprises. This is the seventh time the brand has been recognized with this honor since 2015 and has placed in the travel & leisure category, making Hard Rock International the top global casino entertainment company listed within the industry.
The 2023 list of America's Best Large Employers highlights companies that continue to prioritize making their workplace a secure and thriving environment for their employees. This esteemed placement comes off the heels of Hard Rock International's $100 million investment to substantially raise the salary of their U.S. workforce, with the wage increase greatly impacting 95 job classifications.
In partnership with market research firm, Statista, Forbes compiled the 2023 list by surveying approximately 45,000 American employees working for companies that employ more than 1,000 workers in the United States. Participants in this survey were asked questions on a variety of work-related topics such as work conditions, salary, the potential for professional growth, and their views on company image regarding their current employer. The evaluation was based on direct and indirect recommendations from respondents who were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own employer to friends and family. The final list ranks the 500 large and 500 mid-size employers that received the most recommendations.
"As a global company, we deeply value the contributions made by our team members in the United States and around the world. Our recent $100 million investment into the wages and salaries of our U.S. workforce is part of our ongoing efforts to honor and appreciate our team members," said David Carroll, SVP of Human Resources at Hard Rock International. "We are honored by this recognition and will never stop working on making Hard Rock a great place to work for all."
To learn more about Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com.
For more information or to view the full list of America's Best Large Employers of 2023 from Forbes, please visit: www.forbes.com/lists/best-large-employers.
About Hard Rock®:
Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in over 70 countries spanning 265 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. In 2022, Hard Rock Hotels was honored as the number one brand in Outstanding Guest Satisfaction for the second year in a row among Upper Upscale Hotels in J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study. This designation is the fourth consecutive year the iconic brand has been among top brands in this category. HRI is the first privately-owned gaming company designated U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal for the second year. Hard Rock was also honored by Forbes among the World's Best Employers, as well as Best Employers for Women, Diversity and New Grads and a Top Large Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. In the 2022 Global Gaming Awards, Hard Rock was named Land-Based Operator of the Year for the second time in four years. In 2021, Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos received first place ranking in the Casino Gaming Executive Satisfaction Survey conducted by Bristol Associates Inc. and Spectrum Gaming Group for six of the last seven years. Hard Rock International currently holds investment grades from primary investment rating agencies: S&P Global Ratings (BBB) and Fitch Ratings (BBB). For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis homicide detectives have arrested a man for a fatal December shooting on the city’s northeast side.
Emmanuel Newman, 38, was arrested Thursday for the Dec. 28 murder of 31-year-old Joshua Hopson, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement Friday.
Early on the morning of Dec. 28, officers found Hopson shot to death outside an apartment building in the 3400 block of Alsuda Court. That’s an address within the Lodge Apartments complex just off Binford Boulevard, a few blocks north of 46th Street.
Investigators at the time said the shooting happened after an argument.
“During their investigation detectives were able to identify a person allegedly involved in this incident,” IMPD said. “Based on information gathered throughout the investigation, detectives arrested Newman for his alleged role in this homicide.”
The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office will make a final charging decision.
Online jail records show Newman was being held Friday in the Marion County Jail.
According to online court records, Marion County prosecutors charged Newman with domestic battery and intimidation in January 2022; those charges were later dismissed. In 2018, a jury found Newman not guilty of attempted murder.
Anyone with information was asked to contact Detective Kyle Hoover by calling the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or by email at Kyle.Hoover@indy.gov. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/impd-man-arrested-for-december-homicide/ | 2023-01-06 14:02:57 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/impd-man-arrested-for-december-homicide/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days early Monday, damaging buildings and wounding at least 34 people in the eastern city of Pavlohrad but failing to hit Kyiv, officials said.
Air raid sirens began blaring across the capital at about 3:45 a.m., followed by the sounds of explosions as missiles were intercepted by Ukrainian defense systems.
Eighteen cruise missiles were fired in total from the Murmansk region and the Caspian region, and 15 of them were intercepted, said Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
The head of Kyiv's city administration, Serhii Popko, said all missiles fired at the city were shot down, as well as some drones. He didn't provide further details, but said more information would be available later.
The attack follows Friday's launch of more than 20 cruise missiles and two explosive drones at Ukraine, which was the first to target Kyiv in nearly two months.
In that attack, Russian missiles hit an apartment building in Uman, a city about 215 kilometers (135 miles) south of Kyiv, killing 21 people including three children.
In Monday's attack, missiles hit Pavlohrad, in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, wounding 34 people, including five children, according to Serhii Lysak the region's top official.
Seven missiles shot at the city and “some were intercepted” but others hit an industrial facility, sparking a fire, and a residential neighborhood where 19 apartment buildings, 25 homes, six schools and five shops were damaged, he said.
Missiles also hit three other areas in the region, damaging residential buildings and a school, he said.
Moscow has frequently launched long-range missile attacks during the 14-month wa r, often indiscriminately hitting civilian areas.
Ukraine has recently taken delivery of American-made Patriot missiles, providing improved anti-missile defenses, but it was not clear whether any of them were employed in trying to stop Monday morning's attack.
Ukraine has also been building up its mechanized brigades with armor supplied by its Western allies, who have also been training Ukrainian troops and sending ammunition, as Kyiv prepares for an expected counteroffensive this spring.
On Saturday, two Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil depot in Crimea in the latest attack on the annexed peninsula as Ukraine gears up for for its counteroffensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview last week that his country would seek to reclaim the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 in the upcoming counteroffensive.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is launching a new abortion hotline offering free legal advice to callers, moving to further defend abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer and eliminated federal protections for the procedure.
The state’s Department of Justice announced the initiative Monday. It is modeled on similar hotlines launched by the attorneys general of New York and Delaware, as states where abortion remains legal have seen an increase in the number of patients traveling from areas where the procedure has been banned or restricted.
“The Hotline will fill an important need in our state for callers to understand the status of our reproductive health laws, including issues related to abortion access,” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in a news release. “This is especially important because we share a border with Idaho, which has a near-total abortion ban.”
Abortion remains legal at all stages of pregnancy in Oregon, which has worked with California and Washington to promote the West Coast as a safe haven for the procedure.
People can call the anonymous hotline from any state for free legal advice and receive a call back from a lawyer within 48 hours.
“We expect there might be calls from people from out of state asking what the legal landscape is in Oregon with respect to abortion,” said Molly Honore, a lawyer with Markowitz Herbold, a firm helping to staff the pro bono hotline. “We expect there will be questions from providers and questions from people seeking care.”
Honore also said she expects calls from people within Oregon seeking clarification about their rights in the state.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, near-total bans on abortion have been implemented in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. Legal challenges are pending against several of those bans. The lone clinic in North Dakota relocated across state lines to Minnesota.
Idaho has three separate laws banning abortion. One allows the potential family members of a fetus to sue a health care professional who performs an abortion; another makes it a crime for medical professionals to perform an abortion after electrical activity is detected; and another effectively bans all abortions but allows doctors to defend themselves in court by proving that the procedure was done to save the life of the patient.
All three bans are in effect statewide, though a federal judge put a small portion of the third law on hold while a lawsuit is underway. The federal judge said the state could not enforce the third law against health care providers who perform abortions in medical emergencies at Medicaid-funded hospitals until the lawsuit is over.
About 70 lawyers from several local law firms will be working for Oregon’s hotline, said Anna Sortun, a partner at Tonkon Torp, which will be serving as the number’s logistics backbone. She said her firm sought advice from people operating New York’s abortion hotline.
“They had a lot of logistical advice about batching out calls,” she said. “The most important thing is that we get back to people really quickly, because sometimes they need to know an answer fairly quickly.”
Calls to the hotline will first be fielded by the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service. The office will dispatch the calls or voicemails to Tonkon Torp, which will then assign them to one of the lawyers volunteering for the hotline.
While lawyers will only be sharing legal advice on the status of Oregon law, they can also provide contact information for providers and abortion funds if callers need more information on the resources available to them, according to state justice officials.
The hotline was launched the day after abortion supporters rallied across the country to mark the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade.
Anticipating a spike in out-of-state patients, Oregon lawmakers created a $15 million fund last year to increase access to abortion services. This year, Democrats in the Legislature plan to introduce a bill that would shield patients and providers from lawsuits originating in states where abortion is banned or restricted.
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Here’s what you need to know about the newest Seahawk.
Outside linebacker Derick Hall, Auburn
Drafted: Second round (37th overall)
Height: 6-3. Weight: 254.
Hometown: Gulfport, Mississippi (Gulfport High).
Three things to know
— Hall was a three-sport star at Gulfport, also running track and starting on the basketball team. He said he was on relays and sprints as well as the long jump. Asked his best long jump during a conference call with Seattle reporters Friday he laughed and said he didn’t want to lie but volunteered he’d run a 21.1 200.
— Hall, who was voted by teammates as a captain his final year at Auburn, seemed to agree with the scouts assessment that having been known mostly as a speed rusher in his career defending the run and expanding on his power-pass rush moves have been the areas where he’s had to improve the most.
“I feel like my game overall has evolved a lot in the last year,” he said. “The biggest thing for me was counters (in his pass rush) have really, really gotten better within the past year and also my run defense being a lot more stout, setting that edge. I feel like my junior year was really good but my senior year was really, really stout.”
— Hall counts as his hobbies hunting, fishing, bowling, golf and rebuilding trucks. He said he had played 18 holes with his agent before the draft Friday, shooting a 97 (he said he has a best of 92). As for the truck building, Hall said he doesn’t do the frames but likes to take off wheels, breaks and routers and install his own.
“How it moves and gets around, I take completely everything off,” he said.
Quote to note
“I play with a high motor, a great attitude. This game really means a lot to me. So just showing that love and appreciation and continue to do what got me there,’’ Hall said of his approach to football.
What the scouts say
“Hall is built like a Greek god, and he has reps that make him look like one, too. We just haven’t seen him develop a full array of pass-rushing moves just yet, as his pass-rushing grade plateaued after his sophomore year in 2020 (81.9, 82.1, 82.6).” — Pro Football Focus | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/what-to-know-about-seahawks-draft-pick-derrick-hall/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-04-29 01:11:12 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/what-to-know-about-seahawks-draft-pick-derrick-hall/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Leading industry organizations forge joint resolution to honor the worldwide positive patient outcomes delivered through safe, natural healthcare
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the value of chiropractic care, and the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC), whose mission is to advance awareness, utilization and integration of chiropractic internationally, announces a joint resolution designating October as Global Chiropractic Health Month.
According to a 2019 study, there are more than 103,000 chiropractors worldwide and chiropractic education is offered at 52 institutions around the world. Direct access to chiropractic services is estimated to be available in 90% of countries, and services are partially or fully covered by government and/or private health insurers in more than half of the countries. With this worldwide growth of the profession, the resolution supports continued efforts to advance awareness, utilization and integration of chiropractic care worldwide through collaboration and mutual support between two leading chiropractic organizations.
"Although our awareness and education efforts are currently focused on the U.S., we recognize that chiropractic care helps millions of people worldwide with the relief of neuromusculoskeletal pain and disability and to achieve their health and wellness goals," said Sherry McAllister, DC, president of F4CP. "That is why we are proud to partner with the leading global chiropractic organization, the WFC, on this important resolution so we can collectively draw further attention to the significant worldwide need for the safe, natural and effective care delivered by chiropractors in more than 90 countries."
Coinciding with World Spine Day
Globally, there were approximately 1.3 billion prevalent cases, 121,300 deaths and 138.7 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributed to musculoskeletal disorders in 2017, with low back pain cited as the most common related condition, accounting for more than one third (36.8%) of all complaints. With this upward trend, there is a greater need for chiropractic services than ever before.
The F4CP-WFC resolution recognizes that investment in knowledge, skills and effective care will help to address the worldwide burden of neuromusculoskeletal pain and disability. The resolution also recognizes that World Spine Day, coordinated by the WFC and believed to be the largest interprofessional global public health event dedicated to promoting spinal health and well-being, occurs during Global Chiropractic Health Month. Held on October 16 each year, the event raises awareness of the permeative and diverse nature of spinal pain and disability as part of the global burden of disease and addresses the need for access to evidence-based spinal healthcare and rehabilitation. The theme of this year's World Spine Day is 'Every Spine Counts.'
"For World Spine Day and throughout this dedicated month, WFC and F4CP will collaborate in building support, resources, knowledge sharing and representation of chiropractic care to promote health initiatives on global, national, regional and local platforms," said WFC president Dr. John Maltby, DC. "We will also celebrate the work of chiropractors, who adopt evidence-based, people-centered, interprofessional and collaborative approaches to health and care that optimize health and well-being globally."
Importantly, the resolution notes, promotion of the benefits of chiropractic care will emphasize diversity, equity, inclusion and knowledge translation to empower the profession for maximum impact worldwide.
About the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress
A not-for-profit organization with nearly 32,000 members, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) informs and educates the general public about the value of chiropractic care delivered by doctors of chiropractic (DC) and its role in drug-free pain management. Visit www.f4cp.org/findadoc; call 866-901-F4CP (3427).
About the World Federation of Chiropractic
The World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) is a global not-for-profit organization that exists to support, empower, promote and advance the chiropractic profession. Its national association members represent over 90 countries across 7 world regions. As a non-state actor in official relations with the World Health Organization, the WFC is committed to supporting public health initiatives and advancing the role of chiropractors in global health. Visit www.wfc.org.
Media contact:
Marcia Rhodes, Amendola Communications for F4CP
mrhodes@acmarketingpr.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Hart already has a thriving comedy and acting career, and now he’s aiming for people’s stomachs.
The prolific actor-comedian opened his first plant-based, fast-food restaurant called Hart House on Thursday in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles near the city’s airport. He wants this new venture to attract regular plant-base eaters along with those who haven’t yet been introduced to that world of healthy eating.
“Our business is in the business of feeling good. That’s what Kevin Hart is about,” he said in an interview before the restaurant’s official opening, which got off to a strong start with a long lines of customers throughout the day. While sitting alongside his wife, Eniko Hart, the actor scarfed down a plant-based crispy chick’n sandwich, chick’n nuggets and tots.
Rapper Lil Baby showed up to the preview to place an order from the fully plant-based menu that also features burgers, salads, fries, ice teas and a limeade. The restaurant’s milkshakes are made from an oat-and-soy blend.
“I say this all the time: ‘Live, love, laugh,’” Hart continued. “Here, we say ‘Eat your hart out.’ People have a curiosity about plant-based food. It’s something I eat. It’s really good. When you look at other restaurants, Hart House is just as good and maybe even better in some respects.”
Hart felt the need to create a healthy space within the fast-food spectrum that’s affordable for customers. There are several other plant-based, fast-food options located throughout Los Angeles, but Hart House’s approach is to serve quality food with sandwiches and burgers that are within the $5-$7 price range — less than competitors.
“It’s a major priority for us,” Hart said. “We want to make an environment where people feel good.”
In creating Hart House, the comedian-actor teamed up with restaurateur Andy Hooper, chef Mike Salem and businessman Michael Rubin, who was an investor.
Salem, who developed Hart House’s menu options, was the head of culinary innovation at Burger King where he helped launch the Impossible Whopper.
“One of the cool things about our leadership is that the majority of us are carnivores,” he said. “But we wanted to create this plant-base concept and bring Kevin’s vision to light. We wanted to keep this simple. This is straightforward classic American comfort food.”
Along with his flagship location, Hart wants to open six more Hart House restaurants by the end of the year. He already has two locations under construction in Los Angeles including one in the Hollywood area.
“We’re being open minded,” he said. “This is a new generation and new way of thinking when it comes to food consumption. This is the beginning stages for us. We will continue to get better over time.”
It’s a busy week for Hart, whose latest film, “Me Time” with Mark Wahlberg and Regina Hall, released on Netflix on Friday. | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-kevin-hart-opens-new-plant-based-fast-food-restaurant-in-la/ | 2022-08-26 20:51:34 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-kevin-hart-opens-new-plant-based-fast-food-restaurant-in-la/ |
‘This was intentional’: Mechanic warns of engine light tape scam on used cars
ATLANTA (CBS46/Gray News) - Wanda King-Whitby was cruising through the listings on Autotrader and Craigslist when she found the right car at the right price.
It was a 2006 Toyota Camry with just over 151,000 miles. When she stopped by the seller, AP Auto Sales, she said she liked it, and when she drove it, the salesman told her there was nothing wrong with it. She paid $4,000 and drove it home.
“He just told me that the vehicle was in good shape,” King-Whitby told WGCL. “It did not need any repairs, I did not need an emission and I shouldn’t have any problems with it.”
Like most car buyers, King-Whitby opted to skip a pre-purchase inspection. Almost immediately after the purchase, she said, the car had issues.
“It seemed like the transmission slipped or the engine slipped,” she said.
A mechanic at Theo’s Automotive in Peachtree City, Georgia, performed a post-purchase inspection and found issues that should have kept the car off the road. The car had been poorly repainted and there were signs the roof had been crushed.
But that was just the beginning.
Decades ago, the only way to reduce a car’s odometer was by removing the instrument cluster and manually rolling back the miles. But in the digital age, criminals have an easier option.
In King-Whitby’s case, the original instrument cluster had been removed and replaced with one with fewer miles on it. Samantha Stout, a service adviser at Theo’s, found the discrepancy on the vehicle’s Carfax report.
“It says that the mileage was 151,000 with a note of mileage inconsistency,” Stout said. “The mileage before that was 248,000 miles.”
By replacing the instrument cluster, someone reduced the car’s mileage by 97,000 miles.
Glen Berry, a service manager at Theo’s, showed WGCL the instrument cluster after it was removed. It looked normal, until he pulled back the semi-transparent cover covering the warning lights. Berry says when you press start or turn the ignition, cars are designed to display all warning lights as a self-check.
On King-Whitby’s Camry, everything lit except for the check engine light.
“Upon trying to see why it doesn’t work, we actually started peeling the covering back, and you can see they put a little piece of electrical tape on it to black out where that light was on,” Berry said.
By covering the check engine light, Berry said a seller could make it appear there was nothing wrong with the car and that it would easily pass emissions.
“This was intentional,” Berry said. “They knew what they were doing.”
WGCL went to AP Auto Repairs in Douglasville, Georgia, and asked the sellers for an explanation. Employees of the company claimed the car’s previous seller must have tampered with it.
King-Whitby has since received a $4,000 cash refund from AP Auto Repairs.
Whitby said the money is going into the bank, but when she buys her next used car, she will pay for a pre-purchase inspection.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — For the first time in New Zealand’s history, a majority of lawmakers are women.
Soraya Peke-Mason from the liberal Labour Party was sworn in to Parliament on Tuesday, replacing former Speaker Trevor Mallard, who left to become ambassador to Ireland. With the resignation of another male lawmaker, it has tipped the balance in Parliament to 60 women and 59 men.
“Whilst it’s a special day for me, I think it’s historic for New Zealand,” Peke-Mason told reporters.
The milestone places New Zealand among a half-dozen nations in the world that this year can claim at least 50% female representation in their parliaments, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Other nations include Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Rwanda and the United Arab Emirates.
Globally, about 26% of lawmakers are women, according to the union.
New Zealand has a history of strong female representation. In 1893, it became the first nation to allow women to vote. Current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the nation’s third female leader, and women currently also hold a number of other top roles including chief justice of New Zealand’s Supreme Court and governor-general.
“I’m just really pleased that my daughters are growing up in a country where women being equally represented in public life is just normal,” said Nicola Willis, the deputy leader of the conservative National Party.
Marama Davidson, co-leader of the liberal Green Party, was more blunt.
“About blimmin’ time,” she told reporters.
Ardern cautioned that the situation for women in many other countries was precarious.
“As we step forward, it feels as if we watch so many women experiencing a rapid slide backwards in progress,” she said.
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First-to-Market Solution Will Run Finxact on Azure to Expand Boundaries of Digital Banking
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Finxact, a Fiserv company and provider of the leading next-gen core banking platform to the US regional and super-regional banking sector, announced that it has been selected to power Zenus Bank - the US bank that enables people and businesses around the world to open a US bank account online, without needing to be a US citizen, resident, or registered company.
Finxact will join Microsoft and implementation partner HSO in helping Zenus deliver a global banking platform that supports Zenus' retail, corporate, and partnership banking operations.
Finxact is a high-performance, highly scalable, real-time position keeping platform that includes an expansive and extensible financial services model. By accessing its open APIs and extensible components, banks can invent, curate, and launch products at the speed required to meet customer expectations in today's marketplace.
Finxact will be integrated with Zenus' full Microsoft stack by global gold partner, HSO.
"It is deeply gratifying for the dedicated team of Finxact engineers to see our technology expand the horizons of banking and further the individual goals of the consumers, entrepreneurs and businesses around the world that Zenus will be helping with their first-to-market solution," said Ryan Victor, Chief Revenue Officer, Finxact.
"When we laid out our technological aspirations and existing infrastructure, Finxact stood out as the obvious choice. We're building a truly global banking platform, it needs to be secure and stable, scalable, and dexterous enough to align with our business plans," said Pedro Martinez, CIO, Zenus Bank.
"It's exciting to see our mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more come to life through organizations like Zenus. Their capabilities to build a global banking platform, along with the Microsoft technology they've already chosen, and the partnership they're establishing with Finxact, will lay the foundation for a truly world-class digital infrastructure," said Eduardo Joia, Financial Services Managing Director, Microsoft LATAM.
"HSO is proud to be part of the team helping Zenus Bank open the door to US banking for millions of customers around the world," said Tom Berger, Vice President of Financial Services, HSO. "We're excited about the opportunity to bring together the critical components that make up this innovative, cloud-native banking platform by leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Azure cloud."
Finxact's core is an open banking platform engineered to support the scale and regulatory requirements of the largest financial institutions. Its cloud-native platform provides 100% accessibility to all data and functions via a robust set of modern APIs, empowering banks, fintechs, and their partners to rapidly deliver new experiences by creating products on demand and integrating new services as needed. Learn more at www.Finxact.com.
Zenus is on a mission to take banking beyond borders. A US digital bank, using award winning technology to enable individuals and businesses in over 130 countries to open a US bank account online without the need to be a US citizen, resident or registered company, giving access to the security, freedom and convenience of US banking.
Zenus Bank will not open any account or process any transactions from countries which have been sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control 'OFAC'. Find Zenus at www.zenus.com and @ZenusBank via social channels. Download the Zenus Bank app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
HSO is a Business Transformation Partner with deep industry expertise and global reach, leveraging the full power of Microsoft technology to transform the way in which people work and how businesses operate, ultimately driving improvements in business performance for our clients.
HSO helps companies modernize business operations, adopt intelligent automation, deliver real-time performance insights and connect the enterprise – accelerating the impact of digital transformation based on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.
Founded in 1987, HSO has more than 1,400 professionals throughout Europe, North America and Asia and is one of the world's top business solution and implementation partners. To learn more, please visit www.hso.com.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fetcher, a full-service, recruiting automation platform, is happy to announce a $27M Series B investment led by Tola Capital, with participation from their existing investors G20 Ventures, KFund, and Accomplice. This brings the total capital raised by Fetcher to $40M, allowing the company to expand its efforts in creating robust, qualified candidate pipelines for talent acquisition teams, along with providing outreach & diversity analytics, CRM functionality, and global sourcing support.
Recruiting has transformed over the past few years, leaving talent acquisition teams struggling to keep up with all that is required of them.To have more bandwidth to focus on the human side of recruiting, recruiters need to automate the candidate sourcing and outreach processes.
Fetcher's full-service, recruiting automation platform does just that. Rather than using a standard database model, Fetcher's unique combination of machine learning and human intelligence creates curated batches of candidates for every open role. This sourcing model allows recruiters to spend less time in front of a computer searching or filtering for candidates, and more time connecting with candidates and hiring managers.
"The state of recruiting has changed. Remote hiring has made candidate competition global, and the pandemic has forced companies to grow their hiring efforts with smaller recruiting teams. Diversity hiring is also more front and center, as it should be," says Co-Founder and CEO, Andres Blank. "These factors have led to talent acquisition teams needing automation to build diverse talent pipelines and hire faster, ultimately leading to our revenue tripling in the last year and continuing to grow as we update the product and expand internationally."
As Tola Capital Partner, Aaron Fleishman also notes, "the ability to hire and retain top and diverse talent is critical for companies to succeed, and the challenge of building talented teams has been compounded by the fact that the average tenure in jobs has decreased materially. Fetcher's recruiting automation tool solves the candidate pipeline issue and gives recruiters time to engage and build relationships with candidates. We're proud to partner with the Fetcher team to deliver machine learning and human intelligence to change a recruiter's workflow for the better."
Fetcher's recruiting automation platform integrates with dozens of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), along with Gmail and Outlook to make the sourcing and outreach process seamless. Its one-click Chrome extension allows recruiters to manually source directly on LinkedIn, filtering qualified prospective candidates into automated email outreach sequences for engagement. Its robust analytics allows companies to track top-of-funnel performance metrics at the individual and team levels, as well as at the position and company levels. These metrics not only give teams an understanding of what is needed at each stage in the funnel in order to meet and exceed their hiring goals, but they also help build diverse candidate pipelines with strategic diversity analytics included.
"A lot of companies that have been in our situation, they're on the cusp of growth, they're battling for talent, and they just don't have the tools to automate processes or functions to help them grow," said Nihal Solomon, People Business Partner, Magnite. "Fetcher is helping us grow and adapt as we grow."
With this new investment, Fetcher is excited to continue to grow internationally and build out the most effective sourcing platform for busy talent acquisition teams. It will continue to optimize its platform to ensure recruiters and hiring managers have a steady stream of qualified, interested candidates, while also building out additional ATS integrations, CRM functionalities, and more. The team will expand across the globe, helping to provide sourcing support to talent teams worldwide.
Fetcher works with hundreds of companies, including Behr Paint, Albertson's, Foursquare, and Shutterstock. Customers save time and money, all while growing their candidate pipelines, allowing them to hire diverse, top talent faster than ever.
About Fetcher:
Fetcher is a full-service, recruiting automation platform that automates talent acquisition teams' repetitive, top-of-funnel tasks, so they can focus more on candidate engagement & team collaboration. Ditch the databases for custom, curated batches of diverse, top talent.
About Tola:
Founded in 2010 by ex-software operators, Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that believes in the power of software and data to transform businesses. They provide hands-on engagement to founders who see that future and are building solutions with the potential for long-term, transformational change. Tola Capital exclusively targets software companies with essential products for enterprise customers, led by exceptional and diverse talent. Tola Capital invests globally and across multiple stages to change how the world will work.
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Love Groomers University with Mackensie Murphy
ST. CHARLES, Mo., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Louis based professional dog grooming supplier, Love Groomers and Mackensie Murphy of Groom Team USA will be hosting a Poodle and Doodle workshop at The Academy of Pet Careers in St. Charles, MO on Sunday July 17th 2022. The event is free to attend and will run from 11 am – 4 pm. Mackensie Murphy will cover all things prep work. From products to tools, she'll demonstrate exactly what you need to know to get the best finishes and end results. She will also cover different poodle and doodle trims – from flashy to salon styles, top knots, different head styles, scissored legs, and tail ideas. The seminar will give professional groomers the opportunity to improve their grooming techniques by watching and learning from one of the top dog groomers in the country. Visit lovegroomers.com to register for the event.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets and Carlos Correa’s agent are having discussions over the infielder’s physical days after similar concerns from the San Francisco Giants led to a collapse of their agreement with All-Star.
The Mets have not yet finalized a $315 million, 12-year contract agreed to earlier in the week. Correa’s 2014 ankle injury and surgery was a subject of discussions, a person familiar with the negotiations said, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no details were announced. The discussion was first reported by The Athletic.
Correa and the Mets agreed to the deal Wednesday after the Giants wouldn’t go ahead with finalizing a $350 million, 13-year agreement over concerns about the injury, people familiar with those negotiations said.
The Giants had scheduled a Tuesday news conference to announce the deal, then decided that morning to call it off. Correa’s agent, Scott Boras, then negotiated the deal with the Mets.
New York owner Steve Cohen confirmed the agreement pending a successful physical in comments to the New York Post.
Speaking Thursday after Carlos Rodón’s news conference at Yankees Stadium, Boras said Correa was having his physical for the Mets that day. ___
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati zoo is celebrating the birth of a full-term hippopotamus that is a sibling to Fiona, who became a global celebrity when she was born prematurely in 2017.
The baby hippo was born Wednesday night.
“This new calf weighs at least twice as much as Fiona did and is already walking,” said Christina Gorsuch, Cincinnati Zoo’s director of animal care in a news release.
Staff at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden discovered the calf’s mother, 23-year-old Bibi, was pregnant around April Fool’s Day. It came as a surprise because Bibi was on birth control.
“Bibi and the baby, yet to be named, will spend the next two weeks bonding behind the scenes,” said Gorsuch. “A female would take her newborn away from the bloat for about that amount of time in the wild, and we try to give Bibi the choice to do what feels natural to her.”
Bibi’s first baby, Fiona, only weighed 29 pounds (13 kilograms) when she was born six weeks premature and wasn’t able to stand on her own. Fiona now weighs 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms), the zoo said.
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NEW YORK — Serena and Venus Williams lost in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open to the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 (5), 6-4 in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night.
Ashe had never hosted a first-round doubles match — for women or men, during the night or day — until this one featuring two American sisters who have combined to claim 14 Grand Slam titles in doubles but were partnering for the first time since the 2018 French Open.
This was their fourth first-round doubles defeat at a Slam; the most recent had been at the 2013 French Open.
As usual when playing together, they traded fist bumps or palm slaps and chatted between points; they smiled while conversing in their seats at changeovers. When the match ended, the sisters hugged each other. They left the court to a standing ovation.
An announced sellout crowd of 23,859 showed up, just like for each of Serena’s two victories in singles so far this week, although the fans were not quite as boisterous Thursday as they had been for those other night matches involving a player who has hinted that this will be the final event of her career. Venus lost in the first round of singles. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/serena-venus-williams-lose-first-round-us-open-doubles/507-b729b201-db48-4453-b589-a220b3749d81 | 2022-09-02 03:23:03 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/nation-world/serena-venus-williams-lose-first-round-us-open-doubles/507-b729b201-db48-4453-b589-a220b3749d81 |
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of three men charged in connection with a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were told Wednesday about the formation and actions of a paramilitary group the government says trained as part of the scheme.
Assistant Attorney General Bill Rollstin presented the Wolverine Watchmen as a gang and said in his opening statements in Jackson County Circuit Court that its purpose “was to target law enforcement for violent action.”
Joe Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar are not charged with directly participating in the kidnapping scheme. Instead, they are accused of assisting others who did. Each man is charged with three crimes, including providing material support for a terrorist act, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
The three were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a group that trained in Jackson County, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of Detroit.
“Everybody in the Wolverine Watchmen shared a very common ideology in that they hated our government, they wanted to kill law enforcement police officers, and that the gang gave them motive, means and opportunity to train Adam Fox knowing he was going to commit an act of terrorism,” Rollstin said.
A jury convicted Fox and Barry Croft in August of two federal counts of conspiracy related to the kidnapping scheme and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. They face up to life in prison when they’re sentenced Dec. 28.
The FBI foiled the plot in October 2020.
Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court. Two other men were acquitted.
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‘Quasi-preneurs’ see opportunity, challenges in franchising
By MAE ANDERSON
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — In 2020, Kelly Jackson and Davina Arceneaux wanted to leave their company jobs and become business owners. They were looking for something both COVID-proof and recession-resistant.
Instead of completely stepping out from under a corporate umbrella, they looked at franchising. The two worried about the notoriously tight margins for restaurants. They looked at a drug testing franchise, but the initial investment was too steep.
A franchising mentor told them about Motto Mortgage Home Services, and Jackson and Arceneaux opened one in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, in July of 2020 with an initial investment of $35,000.
“People always need new places to live and are always buying and selling houses,” Jackson said. He takes rising interest rates in stride. “Interest rates move up and down, that’s what they do, that’s part of the industry.”
Jackson and Arceneaux, who had been a senior IT program and project manager and an assistant director of catering, respectively, had no experience with mortgages, but Motto Mortgage provided training and support.
“You don’t necessarily need experience in that industry in order to go into that category, the brand will train you,” said Matt Haller, president and CEO of the International Franchise Association.
In the months after the pandemic hit, many people with corporate jobs decided to strike out on their own, in what’s referred to as the “Great Resignation.” They looked for alternatives, including opening up a franchise with an established brand.
The “quasi-preneurs” opening franchises say they like the ability to buy into a proven brand name and the access to tools and operations that you wouldn’t get if you started your own small business. But franchising has plenty of challenges, too. There are a lot of rules and regulations to abide by. Contracts are lengthy and can be difficult to terminate.
The number of U.S. franchises grew an estimated 3% in 2021 to 774,965 after a dip in 2020, according to IFA. Those include big franchises like McDonald’s or 7-Eleven, but all types of businesses can be franchised, from pool cleaners to barbershops.
There are about 3,000 franchisor brands in the U.S. The IFA predicts franchises in the U.S. will grow 2% to 792,014 this year. That’s still just a fraction of the 32.5 million total small businesses in the U.S.
Franchise owners buy in with an initial fee – anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars — to get their business, and then pay a monthly royalty percentage. In return, they get use of the brand name and marketing, and other support.
As a classically trained pastry chef, Helen Kim often dreamed of owning her own bakery. But when she decided to strike out on her own, Kim thought building a business from scratch would be “too big of a mountain for me to climb.”
While working at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Kim was a frequent customer at Paris Baguette. She was impressed, and last year bought a Paris Baguette franchise in the city with her sister.
While the financial requirements are strict — according to the company website, franchisees need a net worth of $1.5 million and $500,000 in liquid assets – Kim said it was worth it. While the money invested in a franchise is still at risk if the business fails, brand name recognition and franchisor support offer more of a safety net than establishing an unknown brand.
However, getting used to a franchise structure can be an adjustment. When Chris Dordell and his husband Jason Fenske decided to leave their jobs at Wells Fargo and Salesforce and open two Club Pilates in 2018 and a YogaSix studio in 2020, in and around Palm Springs, they appreciated the playbook provided by the franchisor, Xponential.
“It was appealing at this stage after being in corporate jobs for 20-plus years that we could plug into an existing model,” Dordell said.
But Dordell said following the corporate rule book took some adjusting to. There were some costs incurred while building the franchises that could have been cut, but “in keeping the consistency across the company, we were required to follow the model.”
If a franchisor changes corporate management or gets sold, a franchisee can be left in the lurch.
Tom Lee and his wife opened a home health care franchise, Home Care Assistance, in Burlington, Vermont, at the end of 2016, after Lee decided to leave his career in sales management for a large company. After initially investing $300,000 and spending three years living on savings and not taking a salary, the business began to take off.
Lee currently employs 65 caregivers and had double-digit profit increases in 2020 and 2021. But the franchisor changed ownership and starting buying back franchisees to operate them privately. In 2022 it rebranded to The Key, leaving the remaining 20 or so franchisees, still known as Home Care Assistance, in limbo.
Lee said he’s still paying a 5% monthly royalty fee, but is not getting the same support. The Key made one offer to buy the business back, but it was well below market value, Lee said.
The Key did not respond to a request for comment.
“They don’t have the personnel to support us anymore,” he said. “They’ve really abandoned the brand.”
As with any business venture, franchisees need to be aware of what they’re getting themselves into.
Mario Herman, a lawyer based in Washington that focuses on franchise litigation, said it’s important for potential franchisees to go over the contracts carefully to make sure nothing is being obscured like previous bankruptcies or a lack of profitability.
Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission sued Burgerim, a Calabasas, California, burger chain franchisor that it claims lured 1,500 people into paying $50,000 to $70,000 in fees to open franchises without giving them enough information about risks. Burgerim promised a refund if franchisees couldn’t open a restaurant, but did not deliver, according to the complaint. Burgerim didn’t respond to a request for comment.
“If done properly, (a franchise is) great, but you have to be extraordinarily careful,” Herman said. “There is a lot of fraud out there.” | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/06/quasi-preneurs-see-opportunity-challenges-in-franchising-3/ | 2022-08-06 16:31:20 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/06/quasi-preneurs-see-opportunity-challenges-in-franchising-3/ |
With more than 40 years of combined experience, the personal injury attorneys at Fellerman & Ciarimboli strive to provide the best service to clients in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, and throughout the Keystone State. We’re dedicated to getting our clients every dollar that they deserve and not a penny less. We do this through hard work, attention to detail, keeping our clients informed, and making sure our clients’ voices are heard. We are confident that you and your family will be compensated for your pain and suffering. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/the-law-and-you/my-grandson-is-severely-disabled-and-we-were-recently-told-that-is-could-have-been-prevented-if-the-hospital-did-some-things-differently-during-his-delivery-is-there-a-time-limit-on-long-we-have-to-b/ | 2023-03-31 14:05:53 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/the-law-and-you/my-grandson-is-severely-disabled-and-we-were-recently-told-that-is-could-have-been-prevented-if-the-hospital-did-some-things-differently-during-his-delivery-is-there-a-time-limit-on-long-we-have-to-b/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Buck, an integrated HR, pensions, and benefits consulting, technology, and administration services firm, today announced that David Scharf, a principal in the Wealth practice at Buck, has been named President-elect of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA). As President-elect, Scharf will provide direction on the CCA's strategic plan and serve as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and as a member of the Leadership Team.
Scharf, an industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience advising clients on their employee benefits programs, is a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (FCA), an Enrolled Actuary (EA), and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA). Most recently, he served as Vice President Continuing Education for the CCA and has held a variety of leadership positions within the organization since joining in 2000. Additionally, he serves on the Network of Actuarial Women and Allies (NAWA) Partnership Committee and participated in a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) research study on nonqualified deferred compensation plans.
"The CCA recognizes that advancing the actuarial profession isn't limited to maintaining the highest level of professional standards, it's also important to ensure that our membership reflects the diversity of today's workforce," said Scharf. "As President-elect, and ultimately President, I'm honored to play a role in evolving the breadth and depth of the educational opportunities available to our members and ensuring the actuarial profession is accessible to all."
Scharf is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has published numerous articles. He graduated with honors from Yeshiva University in New York with a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics. He is based in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Founded in 1950, the CCA has over 1500 members in the United States and Canada providing services in the life, health, casualty, and retirement fields. The CCA's mission is to provide quality education and facilitates networking among established and aspiring leaders in the actuarial consulting community. The CCA is dedicated to supporting the professional needs and career success of consulting actuaries. To learn more, visit: https://www.ccactuaries.org/
Buck is an integrated HR, pensions, and employee benefits consulting, technology, and administration services firm. Founded more than 100 years ago as an actuarial consultancy, we've evolved to serve organizations and trustees across the health, wealth, and career spectrum.
With the ultimate goal of securing the futures of our clients' employees and members, we develop tech-enabled programs that engage individuals and drive organizational performance. Our award-winning engagement solutions and people-first approach empower the world's most forward-thinking organizations to protect the physical and financial wellbeing of their employees and members and improve how their people work and live. For more information, visit www.buck.com.
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The Series B financing was co-led by ShangBay Capital along with Features Capital in addition to participation from Engage Venture Partners, JWC Ventures and a global strategic investor. Laplace Interventional plans to use the funds raised from this round to pursue their First-in-Human (FIH) and clinical feasibility evaluation of its transcatheter valve system.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Minnesota based Laplace Interventional, a medical device company developing a transcatheter tricuspid valve technology, announced today that it has completed its first close on its Series B financing co-led by ShangBay Capital along with Features Capital, including participation from Engage Venture Partners, JWC Ventures as well as a global strategic investor. The $12.9M Series B financing will fund Laplace Interventional towards achieving its early clinical feasibility milestones. The company also announced that Jenny Barba, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Features Capital, joined its Board of Directors and Todd Mortier, a serial MedTech entrepreneur had previously joined its Board of Directors.
Laplace Interventional's device is designed to offer an increase in life expectancy and an improvement to the quality of life to patients diagnosed with Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR). Laplace Interventional is developing a prosthetic valve that will be delivered through through patient vasculature not requiring an open-heart surgery and thereby reducing complications in patients.
"Our team at Laplace has demonstrated feasibility of our technology in a preclinical setting and we are well positioned to execute our clinical feasibility evaluation in the near future," said Ramji Iyer, Founder and CEO of Laplace Interventional. "We are grateful for the validation of our progress from our new and existing investors. We remain laser focused on our mission of improving the standard of care for patients suffering from tricuspid regurgitation."
"The Laplace team has made tremendous progress in a very short amount of time. ShangBay is thrilled to co-lead this Series B round to be used towards ultimately making their technology useful in improving the lives of patients worldwide suffering from TR," said William Dai, Founding Managing Partner at ShangBay Capital.
"Laplace has designed an ingenious medical technology and is positioned to solve one of the largest unmet clinical needs remaining in structural heart disease. Tricuspid valve patients and their physicians deserve an advanced world-class solution. Features is honored to support the remarkable Laplace team in pursuit of their goals," said Jenny Barba, Managing Partner of Features Capital. "This investment very much aligns with our focus on supporting entrepreneurs to improve clinical outcomes, increase health access, and reduce costs through novel and differentiated MedTech innovation."
Caution: Laplace Interventional's device is in the early stage of development phase and is NOT approved or cleared by the FDA or any other regulatory body in any region of the world.
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What Sixers do with first-round pick depends on Daryl Morey's off-season plan
Wednesday's news that the Nets decided they'd rather have the 76ers' first-round pick in 2023 than Philadelphia's No. 23 selection in the June 23 NBA Draft should figure prominently into the Sixers' off-season equation.
Daryl Morey needs to determine if the first-rounder benefits the Sixers most by keeping the pick or trading it, which could depend on the approach the team's president of basketball operations opts to take.
The simplest plan would be to try to use the selection to either add a player to help fill one of the Sixers' numerous needs, such as an athletic wing off the bench, or package the pick with a player for a slightly better player in a draft-night trade.
In this first scenario, Morey would only have the $6.3 million taxpayer mid-level exception, a $1.7 million from Andre Drummond's salary in the Ben Simmons/James Harden trade and minimum salaries with which to upgrade the flawed roster, as well as the first-round pick and trades. He could also trade injured veteran Danny Green and his $10 million non-guaranteed contract, which would become guaranteed July 1, with the pick and perhaps another player for a better player.
To better address the Sixers' subpar bench and increase the chances of being able to add a decent fifth starter, Morey could be more aggressive and utilize the non-taxpayer MLE of $10.3 million and the $4 million bi-annual exception. Waiving Green to subtract his $10 million from the payroll might be necessary to allow the Sixers to get under the $149 million luxury tax, setting the stage for the non-taxpayer mid-level exception.
The second scenario would also mean the Sixers could not exceed the $155.7 million luxury tax apron during the 2022-23 season, which doesn't sound like it'd be too difficult but it could be a bit challenging.
If Harden picks up his $47.4 million player option, the Sixers would have $118.6 million committed to three players next year, counting Tobias Harris' $37.6 million and Joel Embiid's $33.6 million. Add the $10.3 million non-taxpayer MLE and $4 million bi-annual exception and the Sixers would be at $132.9 million with five players, so they'd need to fill out the final 10 positions for $22.8 million.
Furkan Korkmaz ($5 million), Matisse Thybulle ($4.4 million), Georges Niang ($3.5 million), Tyrese Maxey ($2.7 million) and Jaden Springer ($2.1 million) also have guaranteed contracts in 2022-23, bringing the total to $150.4 million with five spots to go (two-way players don't factor into the salary cap and luxury tax numbers).
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The only way to fill out the roster and stay under the luxury tax apron would be to sign four guys on rookie minimums for $953,000 each and bring back one of the four young players on last year's roster — Shake Milton, Paul Reed, Isaiah Joe and Charles Bassey. That would require allowing all but one of non-guaranteed players Milton ($2 million), Reed and Joe ($1.8 million each) and Bassey ($1.6 million) to walk and either trading the pick for a future first-rounder or selecting a foreign player and have him play overseas for at least one season.
To accommodate those four young players' salaries and the $2.6 million slot of the 23rd pick in the second scenario, Morey could try to lower Harden's 2022-23 salary by giving him a longer deal if Harden declines the option. A three-year, $105 million contract at $35 million per year would fit the four young guys and the 23rd pick if Morey thinks they can find another Maxey (No. 21 in 2020) late in the first round.
The idea of three more years of Harden, based on his disappointing playoff series against the Heat and his age (he turns 33 in August), wouldn't be ideal, but it'd result in a 15-man roster with the two exceptions, the returning core guys, Milton, Reed, Joe, Bassey and the pick in the second scenario.
If Morey and Harden cannot agree on a longer contract and Harden picks up the $47.4 million option, trading Korkmaz and the first-rounder to a team under the cap for a future pick should get the Sixers just under the $155.7 million tax apron with the four young guys listed above and a minimum-salary player.
For the Sixers to avoid another disappointing second-round player exit, they'd need to rely on improvement from the current roster and the $10.3 million non-taxpayer MLE and $4 million bi-annual exception. They could also trade, say, Joe or another of the lower-salaried guys for another player making similar money.
As for future drafts, the Nets will also receive Philly's 2027 first-rounder (top-8 protected), in addition to the 2023 first-round pick from the Simmons/Harden trade. And the 2025 first-round choice (top-6 protected) is headed to the Thunder from the Al Horford deal.
In the meantime, it'll be interesting to see what Morey does this summer and how that affects the Sixers' No. 23 selection later this month.
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World No. 1 Jin Young Ko missed the cut at the final major of the women’s season on Friday, posting a 5-over 147 at the AIG Women’s Open at Muirfield.
Ko shot an even-par 71 during the second round, highlighted by an eagle and a birdie that balanced out her three back-nine bogeys, but it wasn’t enough to make up for an opening 5-over 76, which included six bogeys.
The 25-year-old becomes the first women’s reigning world No. 1 to miss the cut in a major since Sung Hyun Park at the 2018 Evian Championship, as noted by statistician Justin Ray.
Full-field scores from the AIG Women’s Open
Ko’s last win on the LPGA Tour came at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in March, with her last major win being at Evian in 2019.
The 2021 LPGA Player of the Year took some time off after winning the CME Group Tour Championship last November, putting her golf bag (mostly) away for nearly six weeks as she spent time back home in Korea before spending another month adjusting her backswing and rehabbing a lingering wrist injury.
Prior to the Women’s Open, Ko played 11 events, earned five top-10s (including the HSBC) and hadn’t missed a cut. Her best finish at a major this season was fourth at the U.S. Women’s Open. She finished T-8 at the Amundi Evian Championship two weeks ago in France.
Despite missing the cut, Ko could still lead the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings after this week. She currently sits at an average of 9.55 points. No. 2 Minjee Lee would have to win at Muirfield, earning 100 points in the process, to usurp the WWGR leader. She currently sits T-7 heading into the weekend in Scotland. | https://www.golfchannel.com/news/jin-young-ko-misses-cut-aig-womens-open-wrap-disappointing-major-season | 2022-08-05 22:33:18 | 1 | https://www.golfchannel.com/news/jin-young-ko-misses-cut-aig-womens-open-wrap-disappointing-major-season |
By SAM METZ
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republicans are coming out swinging against Wall Street’s growing efforts to consider factors like long-term environmental risk in investment decisions, the latest indication that the GOP is willing to damage its relationship with big business to score culture war points.
Many are targeting a concept known as ESG — which stands for environmental, social and governance — a sustainable investment trend sweeping the financial world. Red state officials deride it as politically correct and woke and are trying to stop investors who contract with states from adopting it on any level.
For right-wing activists who previously brought criticisms of critical race theory (CRT), diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and social emotional learning (SEL) to the forefront, it’s the latest acronym-based source of outrage to find a home at rallies, in conservative media and in legislatures.
ESG has yet to take hold as mainstream political messaging, but backlash against it is gaining steam. Last week, former Vice President Mike Pence attacked the concept during a speech in Houston. And on Wednesday, the same day he said on Twitter he planned to vote Republican, Elon Musk attacked it after Tesla lost its place on the S&P 500′s ESG Index. He called it a scam “weaponized by phony social justice warriors.”
The concept calls on investors to consider criteria such as environmental risk, pay equity or how transparent companies are in their accounting practices. Aided by recently proposed disclosure requirements and analysis from ratings agencies, they have adopted the principles to such an extent that those who use them control $16.6 trillion in investments held in the U.S.
In response, Republicans — historically known for supporting fewer regulations — are in many places attempting to impose new rules on investors. Their efforts reflect how members of the party are willing to distance themselves from big business to push back against those they see as ideological foes.
“I don’t think we’re the party of big business anymore. We’re the party of people — more specifically, we’re the party of working people. And the problem that we have is with big banks and corporations right now trying to dictate how we’re going to live our lives,” West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore said.
Opponents criticize ESG as politicized and a potentially costly diversion from purely financial investment principles, while advocates say considering the criteria more accurately accounts for risk and promises steadier returns.
“We focus on sustainability not because we’re environmentalists, but because we are capitalists and fiduciaries to our clients,” Larry Fink, CEO of investment firm BlackRock and a leading proponent, told clients in a letter this year.
But Moore and others including Utah’s Republican state treasurer Marlo Oaks argue favoring green investment over fossil fuels denies key industries access to the financial system and capital. They have targeted S&P Global Ratings for appending ESG scores to their traditional state credit ratings. They worry that without changes, their scores could make borrowing for projects like schools or roads costlier.
In an April letter, Oaks demanded S&P retract analysis that rated Utah as “moderately negative” in terms of environmental risk due to “long-term challenges regarding water supply, which could remain a constraint for its economy … given pervasive drought conditions in the western U.S.”
The letter was co-signed by the governor, legislative leaders and the state’s congressional delegation, including Sen. Mitt Romney, whose former firm Bain Capital calls ESG factors “strategic, fact-based and diligence-driven.” It said ratings system “attempts to legitimize a dubious and unproven exercise” and attacks the “unreliability and inherently political nature of ESG factors in investment decisions.”
Though he likened ESG to critical race theory, Oaks said he was mostly concerned with capital markets and what he called attempts by fossil fuel opponents to manipulate them by pressuring investors to pick businesses with high ESG scores.
“DEI, CRT, SEL. It can be hard to keep up with the acronyms,” he wrote on an economics blog last month, “but there’s a relatively new one you need to know: ESG.”
Investors making carbon neutral or net zero criteria common were, in effect, Oaks said, limiting access to capital for oil and gas businesses, hurting their returns and potentially contributing to gas price spikes.
In more than a dozen red states, officials dispute the idea that the energy transition underway could make fossil fuel-related investments riskier in the long term. They argue employing asset managers with a preference for green investments uses state funds to further agendas out of sync with constituents.
In statehouses, anti-green investing efforts are backed by conservative groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Heartland Institute, a think-tank skeptical of scientific consensus on human-caused climate change that has backed bills that either divest state funds from financial institutions that use ESG or forbid them from using it to score businesses or individuals.
In Texas, West Virginia and Kentucky, lawmakers have passed bills requiring state funds limit transactions with companies that shun fossil fuels. Wyoming considered banning “social credit scores” that evaluate businesses using criteria that differ from accounting and other financial metrics, like ESG
After conservative talk show host Glenn Beck visited the Idaho Statehouse and referred to ESG as critical race theory “on steroids,” the Legislature passed a law in March prohibiting investment of state funds in companies that prioritize commitments to ESG over returns.
The American Legislative Exchange Council recently published model policy that would subject banks managing state pensions to new regulations limiting investments driven by what it calls “social, political and ideological” goals.
Though the policy doesn’t mention it outright, Jonathan Williams, the group’s chief economist, said ESG’s mainstreaming amid broader trends of political correctness was a driving force. He said his research shows that incorporating factors beyond traditional financial metrics can lower the rate of return for already underfunded state pensions.
Sustainable investing advocates deny that charge and say considering the risks and realities of climate change amounts to responsible investing.
West Virginia and Arkansas recently divested their pension funds from BlackRock in response to the asset manager adding businesses with smaller carbon footprints to its portfolios. Moore, West Virginia’s treasurer, hopes more will follow.
Though it’s drawing enthusiasm, the green investment discourse differs from recurring debates over gender and sexuality or how history is taught. Both proponents and detractors acknowledged they’re surprised pensions, credit ratings and investment decisions have become campaign rally fodder.
Last month at the Utah state party’s convention, thousands of Republicans roared when Sen. Mike Lee described green investment in similar terms to critical race theory — another acronym-based foil: “Between CRT and ESG and MSNBC, we get way too much B.S.,” Lee said.
Bryan McGannon, a lobbyist with US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, said opponents were wrong in framing sustainable investing trends as political. If states refuse to reckon with how the future will likely rely less on fossil fuels and limit how environmental risk can be considered, he said, they’re making decisions with incomplete information.
“If a state’s not considering those risks, it may be a signal to an investor that this might not be a wise government to be putting our money with,” McGannon said. “Investors use a huge swath of information, and ESG is a piece of that mosaic.”
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Associated Press writers Stan Choe in New York and Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
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The ongoing debate surrounding Critical Race Theory, CRT for short, has only driven us further apart when it comes to those in favor of educating the youth on race relations versus those who’d rather keep children “protected” from the history of racism in America.
A Maryland educator who was offered a DEI teaching gig in Cherokee County, Georgia, found herself not only ousted by anti-CRT parents before even starting but also was targeting by the same group when she moved on to a similar position in Cobb County.
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Cecelia Lewis, who’s now back in Maryland with another position in education, spoke with ProPublica to give a detailed account of her ordeal at both institutions. Many schools across America have began developing DEI programs, which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. Lewis impressed Cherokee County district leaders so much in her initial interview that she was offered a position directly associated to the DEI initiative. Parents began meeting soon after Lewis’s new hire announcement to express their concerns over her bringing CRT to the Cherokee County School District. Truth In Education founder Rhonda Thomas said in one clubhouse gathering, “[CRT] teaches kids that whites are inherently racist and oppressive, perhaps unconsciously,” adding that it teaches, “all whites are responsible for all historical actions” and “should feel guilty.” Thomas followed up by stating, “I cannot be asked for repentance for something my grandparents did or my ancestors did, right?”
More on the unbelievable ordeal that Lewis had to go through below, via ProPublica:
“Around that same time, according to Lewis, several emails and handwritten letters were showing up at her school in Maryland, calling her a Black Yankee and saying her liberal thinking is unwanted. She saved only one, with typewriting on the envelope. The return address was just ‘A Cherokee County Citizen.’
‘They ultimately just said, you know, ‘We don’t want you here, and we don’t want you to push us to find out what will happen if you come here,’’ Lewis said.
On May 18, 2021, two days after the meeting at the clubhouse, Cherokee County’s schools communications chief and its school board members received the first of approximately 100 form letters that would flood their inboxes over a 48-hour period, demanding that Lewis be fired.
Another parent wrote to a school board member, citing Cherokee County’s recent census statistics: ‘Did you know that 77.8% of the population is considered ‘whtie [sic] alone’ 7.7% are black and 11.1% hispanic? Are we now in a county that is going to cater to a handful of people?’”
A Cherokee County School Board meeting on May 20, 2021 (seen above) not only almost led to riots but also gave Lewis confirmation that her position was being axed by Cherokee County School Board Superintendent Brian V. Hightower, who said, “While I had initially entertained and publicly spoken to the development of a diversity, equity and inclusivity, DEI plan, I recognize that our intentions have become widely misunderstood in the community and it created division. To that end, I have concluded that there will be no separate DEI plan.”
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Once Lewis moved on Cobb County for a position as supervisor of social studies, it was less than a week into the new job before she was contacted by a school district leader over “percolating” complaints out of Cherokee. Four Republican school board members in Cobb even fielded complaints about Lewis being hired. Her introduction during a training meeting with the district’s social studies teachers went from being a multi-slide presentation to her being instructed to simply “sit in the back and flip the slides for the presenter” with no introduction at all. By the end of August, she’d submitted her two-weeks notice.
Read the full report over on ProPublica for an in-depth look into the CRT plight of Cecelia Lewis, which is an eye-opening situation to say the least. Watch a preview of her critique on the experience below:
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The newly restored remains of an opulent house in Pompeii that likely belonged to two former slaves who became rich through the wine trade offer visitors an exceptional peek at details of domestic life in the doomed Roman city.
On Tuesday, the House of Vettii, Domus Vettiorum in Latin, was being formally unveiled after 20 years of restoration. Given fresh life were frescoes from the latest fashion in Pompeii wall decoration before the flourishing city was buried under the volcanic ash furiously spewing from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The unveiling of the restored home is yet another sign of the rebirth of Pompeii, which followed decades of modern bureaucratic neglect, flooding and pillaging by thieves in search of artifacts to sell.
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That is delighting tourists and rewarding experts with tantalizing fresh insights into the everyday life of what is one of the most celebrated remnants of the ancient world.
“The House of the Vetti is like the history of Pompeii and actually of Roman society within one house,” Pompeii’s director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, gushed as he showed off an area of the domus known as the Cupid Rooms last month.
“We’re seeing here the last phase of the Pompeian wall painting with incredible details, so you can stand before these images for hours and still discover new details,” the archaeological park’s energetic director told The Associated Press ahead of the public inauguration.
“So, you have this mixture: nature, architecture, art. But it is also a story about the social life of the Pompeiian society and actually the Roman world in this phase of history," Zuchtriegel added.
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Previous restoration work, which involved repeated application of paraffin over the frescoed walls in hopes of preserving them, “resulted in them becoming very blurred over time, because very thick and opaque layers formed, making it difficult to ‘read’ the fresco," said Stefania Giudice, director of fresco restoration.
But the wax did serve to preserve them remarkably.
Zuchtriegel ventured that the fresh “readings” of the revived fresco painting “reflect the dreams and imagination and anxieties of the owners because they lived between these images,’’ which include Greek mythological figures.
And who were these owners? The Vettis were two men — Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutus. In addition to having part of their names in common, they shared a common past — not as descendants of noble Roman families accustomed to opulence, but rather, Pompeii experts say, almost certainly, as once enslaved men who were later freed.
It is believed that they became wealthy through the wine trade. While some have hypothesized the two were brothers, there is no certainty about that.
In the living room, known as the Hall of Pentheus, a fresco depicts Hercules as a child, crushing two snakes, in an illustration of an episode from the Greek hero’s life. According to mythology, Hera, the goddess wife of Zeus, sent snakes to kill Hercules because she was furious that he was born from the union of Zeus with a mortal woman, Alcmena.
Might Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutus have recognized their own life story in some way in the figure of Hercules who overcame challenge after challenge in his life?
That's a question that intrigues Zuchtriegel.
After years in slavery, the men “then had an incredible career after that and reached the highest ranks of local society, at least economically,’’ judging by their upscale domus and garden, Zuchtriegel said. “They evidently tried to show their new status also through culture and through Greek mythological paintings, and it’s all about saying, ‘We’ve made it and so we are part of this elite’” of the Roman world.
Pompeii’s architect director of restoration work, Arianna Spinosa, called the restored home “one of the iconic houses of Pompeii. The residence "represents the Pompeiian domus par excellence, not only because of the frescoes of exceptional importance, but also because of its layout and architecture.”
Ornamental marble baths and tables surround the garden.
First unearthed during archaeological excavations in the late 19th century, the domus was closed in 2002 for urgent restoration work, including shoring up roofing. After a partial reopening in 2016, it was closed again in 2020 for the final phase of the work, which included restoration of the frescoes and of the floor and colonnades. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/newly-restored-house-in-pompeii-offers-glimpse-of-elite-life/3166386/ | 2023-01-10 15:04:51 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/newly-restored-house-in-pompeii-offers-glimpse-of-elite-life/3166386/ |
The GOP candidate in the newly formed House district has to live down his bumpy time in the Trump administration in order to win. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Oct. 16, 2022.)
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Global heat is just the latest 2023 extreme that shows an Earth in crisis
As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something is gravely wrong, they said.
“Heat sets the pace of our climate in so many ways … it’s never just the heat,” said Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University.
Dying coral reefs, more intense Nor’easters and the wildfire smoke that has choked much of North America this summer are among the many other signals of climate distress.
“The increasing heating of our planet caused by fossil fuel use is not unexpected, but it is dangerous for us humans and for the ecosystems we depend on. We need to stop it, fast,” said Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Some other recent “firsts” and events that indicate climate change has entered uncharted territory:
OCEAN WARMING
Most of the planet is covered by oceans, which have absorbed 90% of the recent warming caused by planet-warming gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. In April, global ocean temperature soared to 69.98 degrees Fahrenheit (21.1 degrees Celsius), which was attributed to the combination of greenhouse gas emissions and the early El Nino formation. Newly published data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service documented “exceptionally warm” ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic with “extreme” marine heat waves near Ireland, the U.K., and in the Baltic Sea.
WILDFIRE SMOKE
Several rounds of wildfire smoke originating from northern Canada brought dangerous air quality levels to eastern North America. The high levels of wildfire smoke have become familiar on the West Coast, but scientists say that climate change will make wildfires and smoke more likely and intense and that the East Coast will see more of it.
EL NINO ARRIVES EARLY
The current El Nino — a period of warming Pacific Ocean waters — formed a month or two earlier than usual, replacing a La Nina that, with its cooling of Pacific waters, served as a damper on global temperatures. That means it will have more time than usual to strengthen. The World Meteorological Organization predicts there is a 98% chance that at least one of the next five years will be the warmest on record, beating 2016 when an exceptionally strong El Nino was present.
SHRINKING ANTARCTIC SEA ICE
Scientists are watching Antarctic sea ice shrink to record lows. The 4.5 million square miles (11.7 million square kilometers) covered by the sheet on June 27 was almost 1 million square miles (2.6 million square kilometers) less than average for that date for the period from 1981-2010, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Put another way, an area nearly four times the size of Texas was gone from the ice sheet.
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Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein contributed from Washington.
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One dead, one hospitalized after deputy-involved shooting
SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - A male suspect was pronounced dead and a female victim was taken to a nearby hospital after a domestic disturbance on Leslie Drive.
The Sumter County Sheriff’s Department responded to the domestic disturbance on Leslie Drive in Rembert.
According to deputies, witnesses told them there may have been a hostage situation at the location.
Deputies say they went in to de-escalate the situation when the individual did not cooperate and the situation turned into a shooting incident. No deputies have been reported injured.
This is the second day in a row in Sumter County that a law enforcement shooting has happened.
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KANAWHA, WV (WOWK)– A Dupont City man is facing charges after allegedly attempting to break into and steal a car.
According to the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office, dispatchers received a call that a suspect was attempting to break into a vehicle around 2:47 a.m. on Monday. After arriving at the 1600 block of W. Dupont Ave. in Dupont City, West Virginia, deputies spoke to a witness who said that the suspect had run from the scene towards W. Central Ave.
The KCSO says Travis S. Farley, 31, of Dupont City, was found a block away from the incident location and was allegedly in possession of burglary tools.
Authorities arrested Farley for one count of breaking and entering into a motor vehicle, and one count of destruction of property.
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5 things to know for July 17: Air quality, Russia, Presidential race, Storms, Iran
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN
(CNN) — College tuition has increased almost 750% since 1963, and it’s only getting more expensive. At highly rated or selective schools — like Harvard — undergraduates can expect to pay more than $95,000 a year, including housing and other expenses. Price tags like this might explain why just 36% of Americans have confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll.
Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.
1. Air quality
Millions of people are under air quality alerts today as Canadian wildfire smoke billows into the US again. Several areas are seeing decreased visibility, including Chicago, Detroit, New York, St. Louis, Cedar Rapids and Cleveland. The entire state of New York is also under an air quality health advisory due to smoke from wildfires in Western Canada. Forecasts show winds will continue to push the smoke eastward, bringing a smoky haze to other parts of the Northeast early this week. Meteorologists expect parts of the US will be at risk of smoke for the foreseeable future as Canada experiences its worst fire season on record. More than 24 million acres have burned in Canada so far this year, an area that is roughly the size of Indiana.
2. Russia
The vital Crimean bridge was hit by strikes early today, halting traffic on the only link between the annexed peninsula and Russia. Two people were killed in the “emergency incident” and inspections are underway to determine the extent of the damage, the Russian Ministry of Transport said. Ukraine’s security service claimed responsibility for the attack, though Kyiv has not responded directly. Earlier this month, Ukraine made what appeared to be the clearest admission yet that its forces were behind an attack on the bridge last year that caused parts of it to collapse. Meanwhile, a crucial deal that allows Ukraine to safely export grain “has been terminated,” the Russian government said. The deal helped stabilize global food prices and brought relief to developing countries that rely on Ukrainian exports. Moscow denied the decision was related to the bridge attack.
3. Presidential race
We are still in the early stages of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but new campaign finance reports are providing a glimpse of the wide chasm between current fundraising leaders and the rest of the GOP field. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised $20 million — a strong total — but his campaign is burning through cash at a rapid rate. Former President Donald Trump, who leads the GOP field in polling, raised $17.7 million during the quarter, despite being indicted twice this year, while former Vice President Mike Pence brought in less than $1.2 million. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s campaign appears to be a bare-bones operation. Biden spent just $1.1 million in the second quarter and employed four staffers by June’s end, records show. By contrast, in the same window in 2011, President Barack Obama’s campaign had spent more than $11 million on his reelection effort.
4. Storms
Authorities in southeastern Pennsylvania are searching for two children after raging floodwaters swept them away from their family over the weekend. Five others were killed in the flooding and thousands of others were impacted by power outages. Local, state and federal authorities are assisting in search and recovery efforts in the area for victims. Over the last month, parts of New England and the Northeast have seen 200% to 300% of their average monthly rainfall, leading to last week’s disastrous flooding in parts of Vermont, New York and western Massachusetts. The storms moving across the region have also prompted ground stops at major airports across the Northeast — adding to existing airline issues, including staffing and pilot shortages.
5. Iran
Iran’s morality police will resume patrols to make women comply with strict Islamic dress codes, state media reported Sunday, 10 months after the death of a young woman in their custody triggered nationwide protests. Officers will first warn women who are not complying, while those who “insist on breaking the norms,” may face legal action, a spokesman for Iran’s enforcement body said. The morality police were cast into the international spotlight last September when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died three days after being arrested by the force for wearing her hijab, or headscarf, incorrectly and taken to a “re-education” center. Inside these facilities, detainees are given classes about Islam and the importance of the hijab and are forced to sign a pledge to abide by the state’s clothing regulations before they are released.
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A $900 million jackpot is up for grabs in today’s Powerball drawing
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The 2023 Wimbledon champions
Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic, arguably the greatest tennis player in history. And on the women’s side, Markéta Vondroušová delivered a “painful loss” to fan favorite Ons Jabeur.
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ was the movie event of the weekend
Tom Cruise is always a crowd-pleaser with his signature stunts. However, the movie’s 3-day box office showing clocked in a bit short of its predecessor.
Jason Aldean says he’s ‘feeling a lot better’ after ending concert early
The country singer said he’s on the mend after suffering a heat-related medical incident during his concert in Connecticut.
Cyclists fall ‘like skittles’ at the Tour de France competition
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IN MEMORIAM
Jane Birkin, the British singer and actress who found fame in France, has died. She was 76. While her relationship with French actor and singer Serge Gainsbourg made Birkin a household name, she became a fashion star in her own right. Notably, she was the inspiration for the famous Birkin bag by French luxury house Hermes.
TODAY’S NUMBER
128°F
That was Sunday’s high temperature in California’s Death Valley, according to the National Weather Service. While this area is commonly known as the hottest place on Earth, the region has only surpassed 130 degrees Fahrenheit a handful of times — one of which is the all-time global record high temperature of 134 degrees.
TODAY’S QUOTE
“They literally ghosted us.”
— A former Twitter Africa employee, telling CNN that several former workers who were laid off after Elon Musk’s acquisition have not received the severance pay that they are owed. Twitter agreed to pay many employees three months’ worth of severance — but seven months have passed and they have not received the money or any further communication, the former employee said.
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After a rocket attack in eastern Ukraine, half of Rambo's face was mangled and bloody. Shrapnel had ravaged the right side of his head, and it was uncertain if he would survive.
The 3-year-old German shepherd, who had accompanied Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the war, received emergency surgery that saved his life. Now, Rambo is training with the Budapest police department in neighboring Hungary and serving as a reminder that dogs — and people — with disabilities can do great things.
Recovered from his brush with death in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv province, Rambo is learning how to interact with children, older adults and disabled people at police demonstrations and rehabilitation institutions, according to Lt. Col. Maria Stein with the Budapest Metropolitan Police.
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Demonstrating the tasks performed by canine units is part of the department's crime prevention program, with a goal of teaching young people to be more tolerant and to respect one another's differences, Stein said.
“Nowadays, unfortunately, it happens that children mock each other because they wear glasses, because they have braces, because their ears look funny or whatever — because they’re different,” she said. “With Rambo, we might be able to sensitize these children a little and show them that yes, he is injured, he’s different, but he can do the same things as other dogs.”
Rambo's journey to police service didn't come easy. Last year, shrapnel from the rocket attack, which also injured some Ukrainian soldiers, blew away pieces of skull, damaging his jaw and severely mangling his right ear.
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After his initial surgery, Rambo was taken to safety in western Ukraine. Violetta Kovacs, head of a Hungarian organization dedicated to rescuing German shepherds, soon collected him and brought him to a rehabilitation center near Budapest.
“The dog needed immediate help,” Kovacs, head of the German Shepherd Breed Rescue Foundation, said. “We had to operate again here in Hungary because several of his teeth were causing him great pain because of the injury, which required immediate intervention.”
Rambo spent eight months at the center, where his jaw was reconstructed, his right ear amputated and several teeth removed. He underwent training to be socialized with other dogs, Kovacs said, but his fondness for children was clear from the start.
Gyula Desko, a lieutenant colonel with the Budapest Metropolitan Police, then adopted Rambo, providing him with further training and a home.
He called Rambo a “very friendly, good-natured dog” who is making good progress in his training and whose survival was “a miracle.”
“Working with him requires more patience and more attention, as we do not know what kind of mental problems his head injury caused him,” Desko said, but Rambo is "so open with people and accepts them, despite his injuries and the shock that befell him.”
It's those qualities, Desko said, that the police force hopes will inspire those who meet Rambo to open themselves to kindness and acceptance.
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Rays vs. Brewers Probable Starting Pitchers Today - May 20
Yandy Diaz takes a 12-game hitting streak into the Tampa Bay Rays' (33-13) game versus the Milwaukee Brewers (24-20) at 4:10 PM ET on Saturday, at Tropicana Field.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Rays will send Zach Eflin (5-1) to the mound, while Eric Lauer (4-4) will get the nod for the Brewers.
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Rays vs. Brewers Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Saturday, May 20, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
- Venue: Tropicana Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Eflin - TB (5-1, 3.38 ERA) vs Lauer - MIL (4-4, 4.54 ERA)
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Rays Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Zach Eflin
- Eflin (5-1) will take to the mound for the Rays and make his eighth start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up four earned runs in six innings pitched on Sunday in his last outing, a matchup with the New York Yankees.
- The 29-year-old has pitched in seven games this season with an ERA of 3.38, an 8.80 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.075.
- He has started seven games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in two of them.
- Eflin has pitched five or more innings in seven straight games and will look to extend that streak.
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Brewers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Eric Lauer
- The Brewers will send Lauer (4-4) out for his eighth start of the season. He is 4-4 with a 4.54 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 39 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out -- out of the bullpen on Sunday -- the left-hander threw 5 1/3 innings against the Kansas City Royals, allowing two earned runs while surrendering two hits.
- The 27-year-old has a 4.54 ERA and 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings during eight games this season, while giving up a batting average of .260 to his opponents.
- Lauer has recorded two quality starts this season.
- Lauer is looking to collect his fifth start of five or more innings this year in this game.
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Police investigating gas station robbery
Published: Apr. 8, 2023 at 10:11 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BARBOURVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - Officials with the Barbourville Police Department are investigating an armed robbery at the Bimble BP gas station just south of Barbourville.
They said the robbery happened shortly after 6 a.m. on Saturday.
After an investigation, officials said a man dressed in all black went into the store, showed a gun and took all of the money from the cash registers.
They added the man left the store and went toward KY-1304.
If you have any information, you can call the Barbourville Police Department at 606-546-3441.
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Growing up on the east coast, Maggie Rogers spent summers on the Chesapeake Bay, enthralled by the sudden drama and beauty of storms: "It's just like magic," she tells NPR Music, "and then it's gone." Her new album, Surrender, out July 29, has a similar sense of awe and danger buoyed by thick distortion and all-in emotion — it's a pop album that joyfully leaps into the chasm beyond the crush, but keeps an open space for feelings and friends.
"I think that joy and anger are really connected emotions because of the way they ask you to fully give in and fully experience them," Rogers says. "And that was the leading thought process through making the record — really just making sure that I created a body of songs that expressed that surrender to me. It was something worth chasing rather than something [worth] running away from."
Across the album's 12 tracks — culled from over a hundred written during the pandemic in coastal Maine — she mirrors an internal life with the world raging outside of her. There's deep desire felt in the teeth (the dizzying industrial-pop banger "Want Want"), hanging onto friendships that will last (the Des'ree-cool "Be Cool" and bestie anthem "I've Got a Friend" featuring Jon Batiste goofing on tack piano), rage fatigue ("Begging for Rain") and, riding the zeitgeist of unapologetic pleasure following a few years of isolation, the album's pretty horny (the belted ballad "Horses" and strutting rocker "That's Where I Am"). But most of all, there's a longing for intimacy that doesn't give up, but gives into a person, an idea or something bigger than yourself. A surrender that owns its action.
"You're not going to ever be able to take care of everyone," says Rogers, "but by really taking care of yourself, you can provide a mirror for someone for how they might be able to fully embody themselves rather than emulating something or feeling like it's beyond reach or something that's not within them." Lately, Rogers says she's been thinking deeply about "the relationship between artist and audience." She continues: "The responsibility of the artist is deeply to their own practice and to their own release. And in doing that, you actually unlock that for many other people."
Surrender feels like a quintessentially summer album. Intricately produced and played, these are pop song mosaics that sweat with sweetness — in the rising heat and volume, audio treats appear like sonic mirages, especially around the distorted edges where euphoric release lives. With that in mind, we asked Maggie Rogers, one of this year's patron saints of roséwave, to give us a summer mixtape. There are songs that proved crucial to Surrender's sound and scope, but also just jams that inspire summer vibes.
Stream Maggie Rogers' summer mixtape via Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal or YouTube. Surrender is out July 29.
Jamie xx (feat. Young Thug & Popcaan), "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)"
"The first song that comes to mind immediately for me when I think of summertime. I have so many good summertime memories [attached] to it. I love Popcaan and I always have; he has a really amazing verse on this record. It just makes me feel really free. There's something about songs that tell you it's going to be OK. I feel this way about Bill Withers' 'Lovely Day.' Like, someone being like, 'It is good.' There's a really simple way to just receive that information that can change your day."
Madonna, "Ray of Light"
"When I was 18, a friend of mine called me and was like, 'We're going skydiving.' I was like, 'OK, great.' And in the car on the way to the spot, she put on Madonna's 'Ray of Light.' And it was one of those perfect summers — the summer I was 18. I always think of that song."
Otis Redding, "Cigarettes and Coffee"
"There's a lot of different moods on this summer playlist. Jamie xx feels like, 'It's summer. I'm with my friends.' Madonna feels like we're going somewhere and it's the beach or it's an adventure. And 'Cigarettes and Coffee,' to me, feels like the end of the night. Like, you're sitting on the front porch and there's fireflies and that sort of quiet moment where everyone's still just hanging out in someone's backyard. That's one of my favorite things about summer."
John Carroll Kirby, "Rainmaker"
"I've been listening mostly to instrumental music just because I sort of feel like my feelings are enough to deal with. But I love this record and it feels like one of those everyone's-in-the-backyard, barbecue, glass-of-wine records for me."
Kendrick Lamar (feat. Blxst & Amanda Reifer), "Die Hard"
"[Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers has] been a record I've had on repeat a lot of the summer. It feels so much like an album that needs to be listened to in its entirety, which is why I love it so much. But in terms of picking a song that could come off it and go on a playlist, this was the first pick for me."
The Cardigans, "Erase / Rewind"
"Really important for Surrender. [Gran Turismo] really helped me understand a way that I could palpably integrate distortion. Because Nina Persson's voice is so sweet and the songwriting and the melodies are just so accessible and inviting, but in a lot of the record, they're over this darker distortion. And it helped me see a version of this tone or texture that I could apply into my own musical world. It very much was a doorway for me.
"I also found distortion to be so, so healing. It's not something I ever felt was super accessible to me. Growing up as a woman in a small town where there wasn't a guitar store, it just didn't feel like a color in my palette. And it was something I started playing with in the pandemic. Being able to play with distortion, being able to control the chaos, was so therapeutic."
Little Dragon, "Feather"
"I listened to it when I was driving in the dark on one summer night, and it just has such a vibe. I've loved playing festivals over the years with this band and find their synth work and their songwriting and the way they make dance music just to be really compelling."
Prince, "I Would Die 4 U"
"I love Prince. I studied him in college. He's such a pop music staple. I was thinking a lot about him when I was writing 'Want Want' for that second chorus that opens up in that big head voice world and those dreamy chords. I've been trying to just pay attention to what songs are popping into my head when I wake up in the morning and it's crazy what just comes through. And a couple of weeks ago 'I Would Die 4 U' came through really strongly."
Rosalía, "CHICKEN TERIYAKI"
"We've spent a lot of time coming up together. Not like a ton of time together, personally, but we played a lot of festivals together and I would always sort of clear my schedule to make sure I got to go see her set. She's one of the most engaging and exciting performers I've ever seen. Her voice is flawless. She's lovely as a human. Every time I've spent time with her I just find her to be such a compelling songwriter and producer. I'm just a big fan."
Beyoncé, "BREAK MY SOUL"
"I had to include this song on my playlist, if only just to quiet the people who are like, 'Poor Maggie,' or, like, 'She must be so upset' or any of that s***. [Eds note: Surrender shares a release date with Beyoncé's Renaissance.] Like, new Beyoncé is literally good for everybody in the world. I'm so excited for this record. It feels like my release gift is that I get to spend the day listening to Beyoncé. I just have loved this first single so much this summer. Release day or no release day, it had to be on the playlist."
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Wearing his dad’s cufflinks, he stepped into the birthplace of the Beatles “Abbey Road” album and let the 88 keys of the Steinway concert grand piano bring all of the melodies in his head to life.
“Music transcends language and touches our souls,” said Ed Bazel, the Huntington-born-and-raised contemporary pianist. Bazel’s music is peaceful and introspective; it’s easy to see and hear that he plays because he loves it.
His new 12-song-album “The London Sessions: Reflections From Studio 2” was recorded in June. It took more than a year for him to get a two-day booking there. He didn’t realize then, but Taylor Swift was recording in the studio beside him at the same time.
“It was prolific. Walking down those stairs to Studio 2, I thought of the many greats who have walked before me: the Beatles. Pink Floyd. Adele. Ed Sheeran. Breathing in the vibrations of this big huge studio. Seeing this Steinway concert grand piano they set up for me in the exact footprint in that back left corner of the studio where the Beatles set up for their recordings. Playing my songs and recording, I felt this is where I belong. I am beyond thankful for having this opportunity,” Bazel said.
He went to Beverly Hills Junior High and Huntington East High School before going to Marshall for business and then to the University of Kentucky for computer science.
His parents, Edward and Irene Bazel, were initially unimpressed when he told them he wanted to be a pianist.
“It was good payback for me, for all the torture of 11 years,” he said of the moment he announced his plan. “Especially, here I’m out on the street playing football with my buddies after dinner. We’re having a great time, and my mom sticks her head out the door and says ‘Eddie, time to come practice piano.’ I lost all my street credibility there, for sure.”
For the first 11 years, his mother dragged him “kicking and screaming” to lessons. He and his sister, Patti, were dropped off together so they could each get a half hour lesson from Harriet Tucker, who was the organist at the Beverly Hills United Methodist Church for more than 50 years.
“Mrs. Tucker put up with me -- and I do mean put up with me,” he said.
Though it may not have been enjoyable to learn, the ability to play the piano and his passion for it is the “greatest gift” his parents ever gave him. Even if his dream of being a pianist never took off, and he never released an album or recorded in Studio 2, it was all worth it. He says it gives him the ability to relax and express himself, which is why he plays every night.
“Every single night, when I’m done it’s dark and I’m ready to go to bed, I raise my hands above my head and thank the heavens above, and thank my mom, and dad and sister, who are up there, who have paved the way for me,” he said.
It took a lot of discipline and inspiration for Bazel to get where he is today.
His first job was a paperboy for The Herald-Dispatch. While he was in middle school during the winter, he got up at 4:30 in the mornings to deliver the paper. He also worked as a golf caddie at the Guyan Country Club, and was a busboy at the Holiday Inn on Route 60 where he watched the Philips Brothers play at the Mckeekee Club.
“It was so cool to hear their music and to be influenced by them,” he said.
He went on to be the pianist at Michael's Restaurant in Huntington for five years. One late night, 10 minutes to close, Rod Stewart and his band walked in.
Bazel lives in Nashville now, but hopes to play a concert in Huntington someday.
Besides dedicating his life to music, he’s also an endurance athlete. He hiked Mount Kilimanjaro, ran five different marathons, raced in the Tour De France twice and completed a 3,000-mile cross-country bike ride in 44 days.
His bike ride across America was in support of cancer research, in honor of his father who had leukemia, starting at the Santa Monica Pier in California and ending in St. Augustine, Florida.
He is a self-described goal-oriented person. He makes a to-do list every day and is always working toward something. His next goal is to hear his music in a movie or television show, and he is working hard toward it. He just attended a gilded music supervisors conference in Los Angeles.
“My dining room is not dining room furniture; it’s a Yamaha C7 concert grand piano, which I think it’s great furniture,” he joked.
To young musicians hoping to build a career out of their art, Bazel advises them to “show up.”
“Nobody is putting a gun to your head, nobody is forcing you,” he said.
Within his list of accomplishments, he founded The River of Calm – Music to Soothe Your Soul™, an online music channel that today reaches listeners in over 155 countries.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The patients’ eyes were painfully inflamed. They could sense light but could see almost nothing else. A doctor called one case the worst eye infection he’d ever seen.
It was the beginning of a national outbreak caused by an extremely worrisome bacteria — one that some say heralds an era in which antibiotics no longer work and seemingly routine infections get horribly out of hand.
At last count, 58 Americans in 13 states have been infected, including at least one who died and at least five who suffered permanent vision loss. All have been linked to tainted eyedrops, leading to a recall.
Experts marvel at how disease detectives pieced together the case: Patients were scattered across the country. The illnesses occurred over the span of months. The infections were found in different parts of the body — in the blood of some patients, in the lungs of others.
But scientists also shudder, because they have long worried common bacteria will evolve so that antibiotics no longer work against them.
“This really shows us that it’s not something theoretical and in the future. It’s here,” said Dr. Luis Ostrosky, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
This account is drawn from phone and email interviews with U.S. disease investigators, health officials in three states and regulators in the U.S. and India.
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The investigation started in May in Los Angeles County, California. A patient who’d recently been to an ophthalmologist came in with a bad eye infection. A month later, local health officials got a second report. Another bad eye infection, same eye doctor.
Two more cases were reported in the county before the summer was over. The patients’ eyes were inflamed with heavy yellow pus that obscured most of the pupil. Among the four, two had complete vision loss in the affected eye.
The hospital that reported the first infection determined it was caused by a bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The institution, which was equipped to do advanced genetic testing, quickly realized the bacteria had a rare gene that protected it from the effects of commonly used antibiotics.
It was an early break for investigators, said Kelsey OYong, of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
OYong and her colleagues knew they were dealing with a scary germ, and they notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pseudomonas infections are not new. Drug-resistant strains of the bacteria cause more than 30,000 infections annually among hospitalized patients in the U.S. and more than 2,500 deaths, the CDC said. It can spread through contaminated hands or medical equipment, and is particularly dangerous to fragile patients who have catheters or are on breathing machines.
But the California infections were in patients’ eyes, not more common spots like the blood and lungs. Also, the lab analysis determined the infections were caused by a Pseudomonas germ that could resist just about every antibiotic.
The only thing that worked was a newer antibiotic called cefiderocol, administered by IV.
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Over the summer, Pseudomonas outbreaks were seen at long-term care facilities in two other states.
In Connecticut, the first case was in June. Eventually, the bacteria was found in 25 patients from five nursing homes in different parts of the state, said Christopher Boyle, a spokesperson for Connecticut’s health department.
In Davis County, Utah, north of Salt Lake City, the first of six cases was reported to the CDC in August. While the patients had the bacteria, none actually got sick, said Sarah Willardson of the Davis County Health Department.
L.A. County health investigators thought the cases there might be due to some kind of equipment contamination at the eye doctor’s office.
But that suspicion faded in early October, when genetic testing showed the clusters in California, Connecticut and Utah were all caused by the same bacteria strain — a version of the germ that hadn’t been seen anywhere before.
“That made us start thinking that this was some kind of a product,” said Maroya Walters, the CDC official supervising the investigation.
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As the year went on, other reports of drug-resistant Pseudomonas came in, including a Washington man who died with a bloodstream infection.
Given the initial cluster at the California ophthalmologist’s office, investigators suspected an eye care product was the culprit, though that hypothesis was complicated by the fact that the infections at the long-term care facilities were mainly found in the lungs.
But it wasn’t impossible. Tear ducts drain into the nasal cavity, which leads to the lungs and could provide a path to deep inside the body.
In early November, investigators determined most of the infected Connecticut patients had been given artificial tears, though it wasn’t clear who had been given which brand.
Then, on Nov. 9, a Florida hospital contacted the CDC to report bad eye infections connected to an outpatient clinic. A check of artificial tears brands used in Connecticut, Florida and Utah pointed to one common product: EzriCare Artificial Tears, an over-the-counter product marketed in the U.S. by New Jersey-based EzriCare LLC and made in India by Global Pharma Healthcare.
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The Pseudomonas bacteria is “pretty much everywhere” in India and the drug-resistant germ is common in many hospitals, said Dr. Gagandeep Kang, who studies microbes in the Christian Medical College in the same state as Global Pharma’s factory.
In January, genetic sequencing confirmed the Florida cases were caused by the same bacteria strain as the clusters in California, Connecticut and Utah. On Jan. 20, the CDC urged doctors to avoid recommending the EzriCare product.
There was no recall or widespread public notice, however. Investigators had strong circumstantial evidence pointing toward the EzriCare drops, but didn’t get more conclusive proof until more than a week later after testing found the bacteria in seven open bottles of EzriCare Artificial Tears in Connecticut and New Jersey.
In early February, CDC officials issued a public health alert and the FDA recalled the EzriCare eyedrops and Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Tears, another product made by Global Pharma. Last week, the recall was expanded to include Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Eye Ointment.
Global Pharma didn’t respond to emailed requests for comment.
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A month before the first recall, the FDA blocked imports of Global Pharma products.
FDA spokesperson Audra Harrison said the U.S. import ban was “unrelated to the outbreak,” and was instead based on the company’s “inadequate response” to a records request and problems with its manufacturing procedures. She wouldn’t say what those problems were.
The subsequent recall, she said, was recommended due to lack of microbial testing and issues with the product’s formulation and packaging.
The FDA, tasked with assuring the safety of drug products shipped to the U.S., has long struggled to inspect facilities in China and India that account for the vast majority of raw materials used in American medicines. A search of FDA’s online inspection database shows no records of agency staff visiting the plant.
Indian drug inspectors visited the plant and the country’s drug controller asked Global Pharma to stop making all products related to treating eye disorders until they finish their investigation, said P.V. Vijayalakshmi, the drug controller for southern Tamil Nadu state.
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Ostrosky, the University of Texas expert, called the U.S. investigation “a public health victory” saying it shows that fighting drug-resistant bacteria requires international collaboration and investment. But he also said the case is disheartening.
An infection that’s usually easy to treat with common antibiotic eyedrops “has become an infection that can be deadly and has pretty much no treatment except one IV antibiotic,” he said.
Pseudomonas now joins a growing list of bugs — including bacteria that cause urinary tract infections — that are getting increasingly difficult to treat, Ostrosky added.
“It’s like a wave coming for us,” he said.
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AP writers Matthew Perrone in Washington and Aniruddha Ghosal in New Delhi contributed.
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A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
The space agency attempted the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.
The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand miles. It took days of telescope observations to determine how much the impact altered the path of the 525-foot asteroid around its companion, a much bigger space rock.
Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its parent asteroid. Scientists had hoped to shave off 10 minutes but NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the impact altered the asteroid's orbit by about 32 minutes.
"This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity," Nelson said during a briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington.
He added that the mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for "whatever the universe throws at us.
Neither asteroid posed a threat to Earth — and still don’t as they continue their journey around the sun. That’s why scientists picked the pair for the world’s first attempt to alter the position of a celestial body.
Launched last year, the vending machine-size Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — was destroyed when it slammed into the asteroid 7 million miles away at 14,000 mph.
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LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - Police in Texas got an interesting call Wednesday morning regarding goats running in and out of traffic in Lubbock.
The Lubbock Police Department said residents and workers from a tractor supply store helped officers capture the two animals.
KCBD reports the goats were taken to the Lubbock Animal Shelter, but it wasn’t immediately clear how they first got away from their owner.
No injuries were reported in the incident, and those missing any goats were urged to contact the animal shelter.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to all members of Congress that her family is "heartbroken" after a "violent man" attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, on early Friday morning in the couple's San Francisco residence.
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"Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul. Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop. We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving," Nancy Pelosi said in the "Dear Colleague" letter to all members of Congress on Saturday.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eager for another nude bike ride through the City of Brotherly Love? Keep your shirt on — for now.
The next Philly Naked Bike Ride is coming in August.
Organizers of the annual jaunt to promote fuel conservation and positive body image said Wednesday they are holding the Aug. 26 starting location and route under wraps and will disclose them the day before.
Previous rides have zipped past sites including Independence Hall, the U.S. Mint, the Liberty Bell and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Sylvester Stallone sprinted up the steps in “Rocky.” The 2020 ride was called off because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The 10-mile (16-kilometer) Philadelphia ride, related to the World Naked Bike Ride movement, draws about 3,000 bikers in the buff. Organizers say they hope it encourages people to bike more and to embrace nudity as a normal and enjoyable part of life.
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Former Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson will return to the site of what he calls his greatest college victory but in a very different role.
Thompson, one of masters of Barry Switzer’s wishbone offense, led the second-ranked Sooners to a 17-7 win at No. 1 Nebraska back in 1987 in what was dubbed the “Game of the Century II." He will be back at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska on Saturday to cheer as his son, Casey, plays quarterback for Nebraska against No. 6 Oklahoma.
The game has special meaning for Charles because it's a series he grew up watching. Nebraska and Oklahoma were powers in the Big 8 and Big 12 for decades before the Huskers left for the Big Ten, and the programs often played late-season games that affected the national title race.
“To be a part of it in this aspect it’s a little bit different for me," Charles said. "Obviously, my son being the quarterback for the University of Nebraska and having a chance to go play against the Sooners is one of those deals — you can never say never.”
Charles had 21 carries for 126 yards in that 1987 game, and Oklahoma clinched the Big 8 title and a chance to play for the national championship in the Orange Bowl. Some old-school Nebraska fans still remember him ruining their Thanksgiving weekend.
“A lot of the fans say, ‘Hey, man, we’re really glad Casey is here, but I got to be honest, boy, you broke our hearts on that day,’ ” Charles said.
It’s been a strange ride for Charles as a parent. Casey led Texas, Oklahoma’s most hated rival, against the Sooners last year. He passed for 388 yards and five touchdowns, but the Sooners won 55-48.
Now, Casey has transferred to Oklahoma's most historically respected rival. Charles said he wouldn’t wear Texas’ burnt orange last year, but he doesn’t mind wearing Nebraska’s scarlet and cream.
“Red has always been my favorite color anyway,” Charles said with a laugh. “I never actually wore the burnt orange. I did wear the logo, but it was either solid black or something white but never ever the burnt orange. But I don’t have a problem putting on the Nebraska red.”
While seeing a Thompson play in the game will bring back memories for some, elements of Saturday’s game will be very different. Oklahoma remains a powerhouse as it was in the 1980s, but Nebraska has struggled in recent years.
Nebraska won two national titles in the 1970s and three more in the 1990s, but the Huskers haven’t reached that level of greatness the past two decades. The program has been knocking on the door the past two years with a series of close losses, but the latest setback — a 45-42 loss to Georgia Southern — cost coach Scott Frost his job.
Now, under interim coach Mickey Joseph, Casey could help launch Nebraska’s return to glory. Charles said the Huskers aren’t that far from being successful again.
“I think they’ve played decent and I think they’re offensively playing well enough to win games,” Charles said. “It’s got to be complementary football, though. They (the offense) have to do a little bit more to help the defense and vice versa.”
Casey could have been a Sooner. Oklahoma recruited him out of high school before he chose Texas. And when Casey was in the transfer portal, new Oklahoma coach Brent Venables tried to get him.
But Oklahoma also had recruited Dillon Gabriel, who knew offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby from their time together at Central Florida. Charles said the fact that Gabriel knew Lebby’s offense already led him to go elsewhere.
Casey has fit in quickly at Nebraska. In three games, he has passed for 866 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for four scores.
“He’s a winner,” Venables said. “He’s a leader. He believes in himself, so he plays with a lot of confidence. You’d really rather have an athletic, dual-threat guy that’s a scatterbrain, you know? He’s not like that. He’s kind of that stealth bomber mindset, which I love and respect.”
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When Texas and Arizona's Republican governors began busing immigrants out of their states last year, they said it was in protest of the Democrats' federal immigration policies. At the time, Democrats railed against the practice, especially when migrants were misled about where they were going. Now NPR's Laura Benshoff reports on why some Democrats have adopted busing too.
LAURA BENSHOFF, BYLINE: It's cold, dark and very early when buses from the southern border pull up in Philadelphia. It's one of the cities led by Democrats where Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been dropping off immigrants.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Non-English language spoken).
BENSHOFF: City and nonprofit staff greet the passengers. Some shuffle on to a waiting city bus where there are blankets and hot coffee. A woman named Selena (ph) is not done traveling yet, though she already had a very long ride.
SELENA: (Non-English language spoken).
BENSHOFF: NPR has agreed not to use her full name because her immigration case is pending. She's Dominican but had been living in Chile.
SELENA: (Non-English language spoken).
BENSHOFF: Selena says she took this bus because she didn't know it otherwise would have cost her 500 bucks to get here from the border. Now she's got one more bus to catch to meet her brother-in-law in New Jersey. When these trips started last year, Republicans like Abbott said they were just responding to the, quote-unquote, "reckless border policies." Democrats criticized the tactic as dehumanizing to migrants and chaotic for the receiving cities. But Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, says people have always traveled within the U.S. once they apply for asylum at the border.
MUZAFFAR CHISHTI: People would typically move to a family connection or to a business connection, and they would send them a bus ticket from the border town to come and travel.
BENSHOFF: But in 2022, Customs and Border Protection encountered a record number of people trying to come to the U.S. While many were expelled, the nonprofits and aid groups at the border had trouble meeting basic needs for all of the arrivals. Chishti says while busing was originally viewed as a political response, that started to change.
CHISHTI: Something that looked like a punitive thing towards immigrants, done for political gains, suddenly turned itself on their head because migrants are rational people. They realized, my God, this is actually a free ticket.
BENSHOFF: Busing, it turns out, can be helpful to migrants and border communities. Cities and states led by Democrats started joining in with some tweaks. In December, thousands of people from the border started showing up in Denver.
JOSH ROSENBLUM: We had no indication this was going to happen.
BENSHOFF: Josh Rosenblum is a city spokesperson. Denver set up shelters, but that month it also bought individual bus tickets for 1,900 people, helping them get to 35 states. Here's Rosenblum again.
ROSENBLUM: It goes along with food and shelter and clothes and toiletries. Those bus tickets are part of this huge humanitarian effort.
BENSHOFF: But the politics are still tricky. Colorado's Democratic governor started chartering buses from Denver to other cities. But the mayors of Chicago and New York asked him to stop, saying they were already overburdened. In Arizona, the new Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs, says she's going to keep but update the busing program started by her Republican predecessor.
KATIE HOBBS: I think we need to look at that practice and make sure that it's effective. If we're spending the money to bus people, why not just get them to their final destination?
BENSHOFF: She may have time to work on that update. Preliminary federal data show a drop in the number of people crossing into the U.S. so far this year.
Laura Benshoff, NPR News, Philadelphia.
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UNION PARISH, La. (KTVE/KARD) — The Union Parish Sheriff’s Office is searching for 15-year-old Justin Fisher of Downsville, La. Fisher is described as a White male, standing six feet and one inch, and weighing approximately 140 pounds.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles has been preparing for the crown his entire life. Now, at age 73, that moment has finally arrived.
Charles, the oldest person to ever assume the British throne, became King Charles III on Thursday following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. No date has been set for his coronation.
After an apprenticeship that began as a child, Charles embodies the modernization of the British monarchy. He was the first heir not educated at home, the first to earn a university degree and the first to grow up in the ever-intensifying glare of the media as deference to royalty faded.
He also alienated many with his messy divorce from the much-loved Princess Diana, and by straining the rules that prohibit royals from intervening in public affairs, wading into debates on issues such as environmental protection and architectural preservation,
“He now finds himself in, if you like, the autumn of his life, having to think carefully about how he projects his image as a public figure,” said historian Ed Owens. “He’s nowhere near as popular as his mother.”
Charles must figure out how to generate the “public support, a sense of endearment” that characterized the relationship Elizabeth had with the British public, Owens said.
In other words, will Charles be as loved by his subjects? It’s a question that has overshadowed his entire life.
A shy boy with a domineering father, Charles grew into a sometimes-awkward, understated man who is nevertheless confident in his own opinions. Unlike his mother, who refused to publicly discuss her views, Charles has delivered speeches and written articles on issues close to his heart, such as climate change, green energy and alternative medicine.
His accession to the throne is likely to fuel debate about the future of Britain’s largely ceremonial monarchy, seen by some as a symbol of national unity and others as an obsolete vestige of feudal history.
“We know the monarch and certainly the monarch’s family – they’re not meant to have political voices. They’re not meant to have political opinions. And the fact that he’s been flexing, if you like, his political muscle is something that he will have to be really careful with ... lest he be seen as unconstitutional,” said Owens, who wrote “The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53.”
Charles, who will be the head of state for the U.K. and 14 other countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, has defended his actions.
“I always wonder what meddling is, I always thought it was motivating,” he said in “Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70,” a 2018 documentary. “I’ve always been intrigued if it’s meddling to worry about the inner cities, as I did 40 years ago and what was happening or not happening there, the conditions in which people were living. If that’s meddling, I’m very proud of it.”
In the same interview, however, Charles acknowledged that as king, he wouldn’t be able to speak out or interfere in politics because the role of sovereign is different from being the Prince of Wales.
Charles has said he intends to reduce the number of working royals, cut expenses and better represent modern Britain.
But tradition matters, too, for a man whose office previously described the monarchy as “the focal point for national pride, unity and allegiance.”
That has meant a life of palaces and polo, attracting criticism that Charles was out of touch with everyday life, being lampooned for having a valet who purportedly squeezed toothpaste onto his brush.
But it was the disintegration of his marriage to Diana that made many question his fitness for the throne. Then, as he aged, his handsome young sons stole the limelight from a man who had a reputation for being as gray as his Saville Row suits.
Biographer Sally Bedell Smith, author of “Prince Charles: the Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life,’’ described him as being constantly overshadowed by others in the family, despite his destiny.
“I think the frustrations are not so much that he’s had to wait for the throne,” Smith told PBS. “I think his main frustration is that he has done so much and that ... he has been sort of massively misunderstood. He’s sort of been caught between two worlds: the world of his mother, revered, now beloved; and Diana, the ghost of whom still shadows him; and then his incredibly glamorous sons.”
It took years for many in Britain to forgive Charles for his admitted infidelity to Diana before “the people’s princess” died in a Paris car crash in 1997. But the public mood softened after he married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 and she became the Duchess of Cornwall.
Although Camilla played a significant role in the breakup of Charles and Diana, her self-deprecating style and salt-of-the-earth sense of humor eventually won over many Britons.
She helped Charles smile more in public by tempering his reserve and making him appear approachable, if not happier, as he cut ribbons, visited houses of worship, unveiled plaques and waited for the crown.
Her service was rewarded last February, when Queen Elizabeth II said publicly that it was her “sincere wish” that Camilla should be known as “Queen Consort” after her son succeeded her, answering questions once and for all about her status in the Royal Family.
Prince Charles Philip Arthur George was born Nov. 14, 1948, in Buckingham Palace. When his mother acceded to the throne in 1952, the 3-year-old prince became the Duke of Cornwall. He became Prince of Wales at 20.
His school years were unhappy, with the future king being bullied by classmates at Gordonstoun, a Scottish boarding school that prides itself on building character through vigorous outdoor activities and educated his father, Philip.
Charles studied history at Cambridge University’s Trinity College, where in 1970 he became the first British royal to earn a university degree.
He then spent seven years in uniform, training as a Royal Air Force pilot before joining the Royal Navy, where he learned to fly helicopters. He ended his military career as commander of the HMS Bronington, a minesweeper, in 1976.
Charles’ relationship with Camilla began before he went to sea, but the romance foundered and she married a cavalry officer.
He met Lady Diana Spencer in 1977 when she was 16 and he was dating her older sister. Diana apparently didn’t see him again until 1980, and rumors of their engagement swirled after she was invited to spend time with Charles and the royal family.
They announced their engagement in February 1981. Some awkwardness in their relationship was immediately apparent when, during a televised interview about their betrothal, a reporter asked if they were in love. “Of course,” Diana answered immediately, while Charles said, “Whatever ‘in love’ means.”
Although Diana giggled at the response, she later said that Charles’ remark “threw me completely.”
“God, it absolutely traumatized me,” she said in a recording made by her voice coach in 1992-93 that was featured in the 2017 documentary “Diana, In Her Own Words.”
The couple married on July 29, 1981, at St. Paul’s Cathedral in a globally televised ceremony. Prince William, now heir to the throne, was born less than a year later, followed by his brother, Prince Harry, in 1984.
The public fairy tale soon crumbled. Charles admitted to adultery to a TV interviewer in 1994. In an interview of her own, Diana drew attention to her husband’s relationship with Camilla, saying: “There were three of us in this marriage.”
The revelations tarnished Charles’ reputation among many who celebrated Diana for her style as well as her charity work with AIDS patients and landmine victims.
William and Harry were caught in the middle. While the princes revered their late mother, they said Charles was a good father and praised him as an early advocate for issues like the environment.
Tensions persist inside the royal family, underscored by the decision of Harry and his wife, Meghan, to step away from their royal duties and move to California in 2020. In a televised interview, they later said a member of the royal family had raised “concerns and conversations” about the color of their baby’s skin before he was born. The explosive revelation forced William to publicly declare the family wasn’t racist.
Charles soldiered on, increasingly standing in for the queen in her twilight years. In 2018, he was named the queen’s designated successor as head of the Commonwealth, an association of 54 nations with links to the British Empire. The process accelerated after the death of her husband, Prince Philip, on April 9, 2021.
As Elizabeth declined, he sometimes stepped in at the last moment.
On the eve of the state opening of Parliament this year, on May 10, the queen asked Charles to preside, delegating one of her most important constitutional duties to him -- evidence that a transition was underway.
Camilla said in a 2018 documentary that Charles was comfortable with the prospect of being king.
“I think his destiny will come,’’ she said. “He’s always known it’s going to come, and I don’t think it does weigh heavily on his shoulders at all.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/After-a-lifetime-of-preparation-Charles-takes-17428049.php | 2022-09-08 23:49:06 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/After-a-lifetime-of-preparation-Charles-takes-17428049.php |
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National PTA announced today the recipients of over $650K in funding to help host PTA programs this school year in the areas of mental health, STEM, digital safety, literacy, tobacco use prevention and the arts. Nearly 500 PTAs from across the country have been selected to receive funding as part of the association's PTA Connected, STEM + Families, Family Reading Experience, Healthy Lifestyles and arts education initiatives. The funding is made possible by PTA Proud National Sponsors The Allstate Foundation, the New York Life Foundation, Bayer Fund, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Discord, Google and YouTube, Norton, TikTok, Office Depot and The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, as well as the family of Mary Lou Anderson, who founded National PTA's Reflections program.
"Each school year, National PTA offers funding to support PTAs in conducting PTA programs for their school communities to increase access to educational opportunities and enhance family engagement," said Anna King, president of National PTA. "We are thrilled to provide over $650K in funding this year to nearly 500 PTAs—and we are grateful to our sponsors for supporting our mission and making this funding possible, which is so needed right now."
Following are the funding recipients:
- 50 local PTAs have been selected to receive $2,500 each, sponsored by The Allstate Foundation, and 50 local PTAs have been selected to receive $2,500 each, sponsored by the New York Life Foundation, to equip families with the tools they need to build healthy minds as part of National PTA's Healthy Minds program. The goal of the program is to empower families to make mental health an everyday priority.
- 30 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each and two district/council/region PTAs have been selected to receive $5,000 each, sponsored by Bayer Fund, to engage families in science activities as part of National PTA's STEM + Families Science Festivals program. The goal of the program is to make science more accessible and less intimidating to students and their families—especially among girls and underrepresented youth.
- 35 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each, sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, to connect families with engaging, hands-on STEM activities through National PTA's STEM + Families Propelling Our World program. The goal of the program is to inspire students and families to be interested in STEM—and more specifically in the skilled trades—to eventually consider careers in these fields.
- 30 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each, sponsored by Discord, to facilitate meaningful conversations between teens and their caregivers about ways we can all work together to protect privacy, be safer and support one another online. The goal of the program is to help families explore ways to foster positive relationships, navigate digital dilemmas and build belonging in our digital world.
- 50 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each, sponsored by Google and YouTube, to host an interactive Be Internet Awesome program where families engage with one another in meaningful conversations about raising children in an online world and create a shared understanding of what it means to Be Internet Smart, Alert, Strong, Kind and Brave.
- 150 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each, sponsored by Norton, to facilitate PTA Connected The Smart Talk family conversations in their school communities. The Smart Talk is an interactive tool created by National PTA and Norton that walks families through a series of guided digital safety questions, then creates a personalized family agreement for how technology will be used at home.
- 38 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each, sponsored by TikTok, to host family-centered conversations within high school communities about digital kindness, safety and responsibility as part of National PTA's PTA Connected Create With Kindness program.
- 35 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each, sponsored by Office Depot, to implement National PTA's Family Reading Experience program, which connects families with reading resources and is designed to help expand student access to books and diversify libraries at home, in school and in the community.
- 25 local PTAs have been selected to receive $1,000 each, sponsored by The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, to help educate students and families that youth e-cigarette use remains a serious public health problem, the dangers of flavored tobacco products, and to promote tobacco use prevention, including hosting Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action anti-tobacco campaign activities.
- Two local PTAs have been selected to receive the 2022-2023 Mary Lou Anderson Reflections Arts Enhancement Grant of $1,000 each. The funding is designed to help PTAs administer student-centered programs that increase access to high quality arts learning experiences and create new pathways for students to participate in the National PTA Reflections program, with special emphasis placed on increasing access to arts education among at-risk and underrepresented students.
National PTA's programs are designed to provide access to engaging, educational and fun opportunities that inspire; recognize; and support the physical, social-emotional and learning needs of all students and their families. National PTA offers in-person and at-home programs to meet students and families where they are. While funding is being provided to support PTAs' program events in their school communities, National PTA's programs are available to all PTAs and schools.
"National PTA's programs bring knowledge, tools and resources into the lives of families to support their health, safety, well-being and success—as well as help connect families to their children's school," said Nathan R. Monell, CAE, National PTA Executive Director. "Our association remains committed to increasing family engagement in education and ensuring that families and schools have tools and information to best support students' learning, development and success, and also improve the health and safety of our communities."
Funding is not needed to run National PTA programs, and PTAs are encouraged to visit PTA.org/Programs to learn how they can implement the programs in their school communities.
National PTA® comprises millions of families, students, teachers, administrators, and business and community leaders devoted to the educational success of children and the promotion of family engagement in schools. PTA is a registered 501(c) (3) nonprofit association that prides itself on being a powerful voice for all children, a relevant resource for families and communities, and a strong advocate for public education. Membership in PTA is open to anyone who wants to be involved and make a difference for the education, health and welfare of children and youth. For more information, visit PTA.org.
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Like a lot of people, I'm a longtime iPhone user — in fact, I used an iPhone to record this very review. But I still have a lingering fondness for my very first smartphone — a BlackBerry — which I was given for work back in 2006. I loved its squat, round shape, its built-in keyboard and even its arthritis-inflaming scroll wheel.
Of course, the BlackBerry is now no more. And the story of how it became the hottest personal handheld device on the market, only to get crushed by the iPhone, is told in smartly entertaining fashion in a new movie simply titled BlackBerry.
Briskly adapted from Jacquie McNish's book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, this is the latest of a few recent movies, including Tetris and Air, that show us the origins of game-changing new products. But unlike those earlier movies, BlackBerry is as much about failure as it is about success, which makes it perhaps the most interesting one of the bunch.
It begins in 1996, when Research In Motion is just a small, scrappy company hawking modems in Waterloo, Ontario. Jay Baruchel plays Mike Lazaridis, a mild-mannered tech whiz who's the brains of the operation. His partner is a headband-wearing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-loving goofball named Douglas Fregin, played by Matt Johnson, who also co-wrote and directed the movie.
Johnson's script returns us to an era of VHS tapes and dial-up internet, when the mere idea of a phone that could handle emails — let alone games, music and other applications — was unimaginable. That's exactly the kind of product that Mike and Doug struggle to pitch to a sleazy investor named Jim Balsillie, played by a raging Glenn Howerton, from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Jim knows very little about tech but senses that the Research In Motion guys might be onto something, and he joins their ragtag operation and tries to whip their slackerish employees into shape. And so, after a crucial deal with Bell Atlantic, later to be known as Verizon, the BlackBerry is born. And it becomes such a hit, so addictive among users, that people start calling it the "CrackBerry."
The time frame shifts to the early 2000s, with Research In Motion now based in a slick new office, with a private jet at its disposal. But the mix of personalities is as volatile as ever — sometimes they gel, but more often they clash.
Mike, as sweetly played by Baruchel, is now co-CEO, and he's still the shy-yet-stubborn perfectionist, forever tinkering with new improvements to the BlackBerry, and refusing to outsource the company's manufacturing operations to China. Jim, also co-CEO, is the Machiavellian dealmaker who pulls one outrageous stunt after another, whether he's poaching top designers from places like Google or trying to buy a National Hockey League team and move it to Ontario. That leaves Doug on the outside looking in, trying to boost staff morale with Raiders of the Lost Ark movie nights and maintain the geeky good vibes of the company he started years earlier.
As a director, Johnson captures all this in-house tension with an energetic handheld camera and a jagged editing style. He also makes heavy use of a pulsing synth score that's ideally suited to a tech industry continually in flux.
The movie doesn't entirely sustain that tension or sense of surprise to the finish; even if you don't know exactly how it all went down in real life, it's not hard to see where things are headed. Jim's creative accounting lands the company in hot water right around the time Apple is prepping the 2007 launch of its much-anticipated iPhone. That marks the beginning of the end, and it's fascinating to watch as BlackBerry goes into its downward spiral. It's a stinging reminder that success and failure often go together, hand in thumb-scrolling hand.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
12-19-21-31-32
(twelve, nineteen, twenty-one, thirty-one, thirty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $298,500
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
12-19-21-31-32
(twelve, nineteen, twenty-one, thirty-one, thirty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $298,500 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17396784.php | 2022-08-25 04:57:29 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17396784.php |
LONDON (AP) — Bank of England hikes key interest rate for 9th time in row but joins US Fed in slowing pace as inflation eases slightly.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday that would allow Puerto Rico to hold the first-ever binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain some sort of independence, in a last-ditch effort that stands little chance of passing the Senate.
The bill, which passed 233-191 with some Republican support, would offer voters in the U.S. territory three options: statehood, independence or independence with free association.
“It is crucial to me that any proposal in Congress to decolonize Puerto Rico be informed and led by Puerto Ricans,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, which oversees affairs in U.S. territories.
The proposal would commit Congress to accept Puerto Rico into the United States as the 51st state if voters on the island approved it. Voters also could choose outright independence or independence with free association, whose terms would be defined following negotiations over foreign affairs, U.S. citizenship and use of the U.S. dollar.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who has worked on the issue throughout his career, said it was “a long and torturous path” to get the proposal to the House floor.
“For far too long, the people of Puerto Rico have been excluded from the full promise of American democracy and self-determination that our nation has always championed,” the Maryland Democrat said.
After passing the Democrat-controlled House, the bill now goes to a split Senate where it faces a ticking clock before the end of the year and Republican lawmakers who have long opposed statehood.
Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, traveled to Washington for the vote. “It’s going to be a historic day because it’s going to create a precedent that we hadn’t had until now,” he said.
Members of his party, including Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González, cheered the expected approval of the bill, although reaction in the U.S. territory was largely muted and tinged with frustration since it is expected to be voted down in the Senate.
The proposal of a binding referendum has exasperated many on an island that already has held seven nonbinding referendums on its political status, with no overwhelming majority emerging. The last referendum was held in November 2020, with 53% of votes for statehood and 47% against, with only a little more than half of registered voters participating.
The proposed binding referendum would be the first time that Puerto Rico’s current status as a U.S. commonwealth is not included as an option, a blow to the main opposition Popular Democratic Party, which upholds the status quo.
Pablo José Hernández Rivera, an attorney in Puerto Rico, said approval of the bill by the House would be “inconsequential” like the approval of previous bills in 1998 and 2010.
“We Puerto Ricans are tired of the fact that the New Progressive Party has spent 28 years in Washington spending resources on sterile and undemocratic status projects,” he said.
González, Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress, praised the bill and said it would provide the island with the self-determination it deserves.
“Many of us are not in agreement about how that future should be, but we all accept that the decision should belong to the people of Puerto Rico,” she said.
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Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-house-democrats-pass-referendum-to-decolonize-puerto-rico/ | 2022-12-15 18:59:08 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-house-democrats-pass-referendum-to-decolonize-puerto-rico/ |
New Members Bring Expertise in Media, Education, Neuroscience, and Technology
NEW YORK, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dana Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of two members to its board of directors: Paula A. Kerger and Husseini Manji, M.D., FRCPC.
"The Board is delighted to welcome two extremely distinguished and highly effective new directors to its ranks," said Steven E. Hyman, M.D., chairman of the Dana Foundation. "Paula Kerger and Husseini Manji each bring important experiences and background to the Foundation as it develops its timely new focus on neuroscience and society."
Paula A. Kerger is president and chief executive officer of PBS, the nation's largest non-commercial media organization representing more than 330 member stations throughout the country. She is the longest-serving president and CEO in PBS history. Over 17 years, Kerger has led the transformation of PBS from a broadcaster to a multiplatform digital media organization which delivers on public television's essential mission of education, inspiration, and service to the American public.
Kerger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Women's Forum. She is a board member of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History where she formerly served as chair. She is a director of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and was a director of the Meredith Corporation. She has received honorary doctorates from Washington University in St. Louis, Grand Valley State University, Allegheny College, Northeastern University, and the University of Miami. She received the Chancellor's Medallion from University of North Carolina Asheville.
Husseini K. Manji, M.D., FRCPC, is co-chair of the UK Government Mental Health Mission and a professor at Oxford University. He was previously the Global Therapeutic Head for Neuroscience, and Global Head, Science for Minds at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), where he helped to discover, develop, and launch several new medications for serious neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Before joining J&J, Manji was chief of the NIH Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology, and he served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, the most successful program of its kind in the world.
Manji has been inducted into the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the World Dementia Council. He is co-chair of the Board of the Healthy Brains Global Initiative and recent chair of the NAM Neuroscience, Behavior, Brain Function group. He has held numerous leadership positions within the NIH, NAM, and the FNIH Biomarkers Consortium Executive Committee.
A recipient of numerous international awards, Manji also holds a number of patents and has published extensively on the molecular and cellular neurobiology of severe neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders and the development of novel therapeutics, with more than 350 publications in leading peer-reviewed journals.
"Our newly elected board members each bring unique perspectives from different fields and organizations, which will enrich the interdisciplinary focus of the Dana Foundation," said Caroline Montojo, Ph.D., president of the Dana Foundation. "I look forward to working closely with them to advance neuroscience that benefits society and reflects the aspirations of all people."
Kerger and Manji will join the following Dana Foundation board members: Steven E. Hyman, Edward Bleier, Wallace L. Cook, Charles A. Dana III, Hildegarde E. Mahoney, and Peter A. Nadosy.
The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing neuroscience and society by supporting cross-disciplinary intersections such as neuroscience and ethics, law, policy, humanities, and arts.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium has closed several exhibits and taken other precautions after one of its pelicans died from the bird flu.
The zoo said one of its pink-backed pelicans that died on Thursday tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza. A second pelican became ill Friday and was euthanized.
As a precaution, the zoo has closed its Lied Jungle, Desert Dome and Simmons Aviary exhibits to the public for at least 10 days.
The Omaha zoo was one of many across the country that closed down its aviaries and moved birds inside whenever possible to help protect them from avian influenza that is primarily spread by the droppings of wild birds.
The zoo reopened its aviary in June after bird flu cases waned, but some cases continued to be reported across the country throughout the summer, and the outbreak has started to make a resurgence this fall.
More than 47 million chickens and turkeys have been slaughtered in 42 states to limit the spread of bird flu during this year’s outbreak. Officials order entire flocks to be killed when the virus is found on farms. More than 6 million chickens and turkeys were slaughtered last month to limit the spread of the disease.
The Omaha zoo also took precautions to protect its birds by limiting staff access to them and requiring workers to clean their shoes before entering areas where the birds are kept.
The zoo said its pelicans live outside, so they do come into contact with wild birds. But the pelicans don’t come into contact with other zoo birds and no other birds in the zoo’s collection have shown symptoms of bird flu.
“It is very important that Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium immediately tighten our protocols to protect our birds and guard against any potential spread of avian influenza,” Sarah Woodhouse, the zoo’s director of animal health, said in a statement. “This is important both to prevent infection of other zoo birds, and to prevent the virus from being dispersed off zoo grounds.”
Unlike on farms, zoos are generally allowed to isolate and treat an infected bird as long as they take precautions to protect the other birds in their collections.
Health officials emphasize that bird flu doesn’t jeopardize food safety because infected birds aren’t allowed into the food supply and properly cooking meat and eggs to 165 degrees Fahrenheit will kill any viruses. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-bird-flu-case-prompts-omaha-zoo-to-close-several-exhibits/ | 2022-10-16 23:16:25 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-bird-flu-case-prompts-omaha-zoo-to-close-several-exhibits/ |
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe's most powerful by production capacity, has completed a test phase lasting more than a year and started regular output, boosting the Nordic country’s electricity self-sufficiency significantly.
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The Olkiluoto 3 reactor, which has 1,600-megawatt capacity, was connected into the Finnish national power grid in March 2022 and kicked off regular production on Sunday. Operator Teollisuuden Voima, or TVO, tweeted that “Olkiluoto 3 is now ready" after a delay of 14 years from the original plan.
It will help Finland to achieve its carbon neutrality targets and increase energy security at a time when European countries have cut oil, gas and other power supplies from Russia, Finland’s neighbor.
“The production of Olkiluoto 3 stabilizes the price of electricity and plays an important role in the Finnish green transition,” TVO President and CEO Jarmo Tanhua said in a statement. The company added that “the electricity production volume of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant unit is a significant addition to clean, domestic production.”
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Construction of Olkiluoto 3 began in 2005 and was due to be completed four years later. However, the project was plagued by several technological problems that led to lawsuits. The last time a new nuclear reactor was commissioned in Finland was more than four decades ago.
The Olkiluoto 3 is Western Europe’s first new reactor in more than 15 years. It is the first new-generation EPR, or European Pressurized Reactor, plant to have gone online in Europe. It was developed in a joint venture between France’s Areva and Germany’s Siemens.
Primarily because of safety concerns, nuclear power remains a controversial issue in Europe. The launch of the Finnish reactor coincides with Germany’s move to shut down its last remaining three nuclear plants on Saturday.
Experts have put Olkiluoto 3’s final price tag at around 11 billion euros ($12 billion) — almost three times what was initially estimated. Finland now has five nuclear reactors in two power plants located on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Combined, they cover more than 40% of the nation's electricity demand.
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The conservative National Coalition Party, or NCP, which won Finland’s April 2 general election, wants to increase the share of energy that the country of 5.5 million gets from nuclear power still further.
NCP leader Petteri Orpo, Finland’s likely new prime minister, said during the election campaign that the new Cabinet should make nuclear power “the cornerstone of the government’s energy policy.”
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported.
Rescue teams were deployed near the epicenter, Sayeh Khosh village, which is home to around 300 people in Hormozgan province, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital, Tehran, the report said.
People went into the streets as aftershocks continued to jolt the area after the early morning quake, which also damaged buildings and infrastructure.
The earthquake was felt in many neighboring countries, the report said.
The area has seen several moderate earthquakes in recent weeks. In November, one man died following two magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 earthquakes.
Iran lies on major seismic faults and experiences one earthquake a day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. A magnitude 7 earthquake that struck western Iran in 2017 killed more than 600 people and injured more than 9,000. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Strong-earthquake-kills-5-in-southern-Iran-17280633.php | 2022-07-02 04:05:36 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Strong-earthquake-kills-5-in-southern-Iran-17280633.php |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Bills safety Micah Hyde is “doing extremely well,” coach Sean McDermott said Wednesday, following surgery on Hyde’s injured neck that will reportedly sideline him for up to nine months.
“He’s in good spirits,” McDermott said. “He certainly misses being here and we can’t wait to see him when he gets back here. But he has had that surgery and we’re looking forward to getting him back here when he’s back.”
Hyde was placed on season-ending injured reserve last month after getting hurt late in the Bills’ win against the Titans on Monday Night Football in the second week of the season. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported Wednesday that Hyde had successful surgery in Los Angeles to repair a herniated disc in his neck, and will have a recovery period of six to nine months.
Second-year pro Damar Hamlin has started the past three games for the Bills in place of Hyde, with Cam Lewis, a former University at Buffalo cornerback, listed as Hamlin’s backup.
Buffalo’s other All-Pro safety Jordan Poyer missed last week’s win against the Steelers with an injury to his ribs, and he practiced Wednesday wearing a non-contact jersey. Jaquan Johnson has started the two games Poyer has missed to injury this season.
All-Pro cornerback Tre’Davious White returned to the practice field on Wednesday but will not play in Sunday’s game against the Chiefs. Prior to practice, Sean McDermott announced the team has opened the 21-day practice window for White to be activated from the physically unable to perform list.
McDermott stressed the team will ease White back into practice by saying, “let’s crawl before we walk.”
Buffalo opened the season with two new starters at cornerback after losing Levi Wallace to free agency. Dane Jackson, who closed last season filling in for White, started on one side. The Bills went with the rookie combination of Christian Benford and Kaiir Elam to fill the other starting spot before Benford missed the past two games with a broken hand.
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Remembering September 11: The impact of Answer the Call and 9/11 philanthropies, nearly 21 years later
Answer the Call, a NYC organization that focuses on caring for September 11 first responders' families, goes beyond just providing them with a check, 9/11widow says
A grieving widow and a New York hockey legend alike are sharing the impacts of a New York City philanthropy that donated tens of millions of dollars toward families reeling from the devastation and tragedy of September 11, 2001.
On that fateful Tuesday morning nearly 21 years ago, Marcela Leahy, received a voicemail from her husband, New York City police officer James Leahy, telling her he had been working an election day detail nearby and rushed to the Twin Towers after the terrifying events began.
In a different part of the city, then-New York Rangers hockey captain Mark Messier was prepared for training camp to begin when the news broke. The team had originally been scheduled to be staying at the Marriott at the World Trade Center for training camp that morning before their plans previously changed. A now-famous picture of the hockey center in uniform and wearing the FDNY helmet of fallen Chief Ray Downey became what he told Fox News Digital was "a galvanizing moment."
Two people, living completely different lives, spoke to Fox News Digital about the impact and importance of Answer the Call – an organization originally created to benefit the families of first responders who were killed in the line of duty – and similar philanthropies.
Answer the Call, formally known as the N.Y. Police and Fire Widows’ & Children’s Benefit Fund, donated about $100,000 to each of the families of the over 400 first responders in the aftermath of 9/11.
Since its fruition, Answer the Call has contributed more than $165 million, and counting, to fallen heroes who died in 9/11 and other tragedies. A similarly noteworthy organization, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, has raised $250 million so far for American heroes.
Answer the Call was founded by New York baseball legend Daniel "Rusty" Staub to benefit families whose New York Police Department (NYPD), Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) died in the line of duty.
But the organization, which focuses on caring for the victims’ families, goes beyond just providing them with a check. For Marcela Leahy, Answer the Call provided her three sons with a sense of normalcy after their father, NYPD Officer James Leahy, was killed on September 11.
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The baseball games hosted by the organization were particularly impactful for her and her boys, who had spent their lives being coached by their eager father.
"The boys loved baseball," Leahy, now 57, told Fox News Digital. "James was actively involved with the sports, involved with baseball, took them to baseball games … I knew we were going to have a baseball game where the kids didn't feel different because everyone there, that they were going to be with, was in the same position – they lost a father."
She added: "All those little things that you take for granted when you have it. You don’t realize how much you missed out later on, how much it means."
Leahy recalled listening to her voicemail machine on September 11 to hear her husband tell her he had switched a shift to work an election day detail, which was closer to lower Manhattan than he normally would have been.
"He had left us a message on the answering machine saying that he was in the buildings with the firefighters. He didn’t know what was going on, but that he was okay," she recalled. "He was on the 20th floor and that he would call us later."
She called the police precinct, where the person who answered the phone initially did not know James was in the area.
The 9/11 attacks claimed the lives of 2,977 victims, including 343 FDNY firefighters, 23 members of the NYPD and 37 Port Authority police officers, and countless others.
More than two decades later, when asked what comes to mind most often about her fallen husband, she said, through tears, "I just think about everything that he’s missing."
"Even when the kids got married, it's just, it's so bittersweet. It's happy, but it's the saddest," she said. "He’s not here, but he’s here because they’re so much like him."
She lauded Answer the Call, not only for their financial support, but for picking up the phone and being there for her whenever she needed anything.
"I knew I could always call for anything," she said. "I would call … for stupid things, just to ask a question, and they always had an answer. So, I know that somebody always had my back."
She added: "It’s a beautiful feeling. They were really Godsends, Got sent angels to us."
Messier, a National Hockey League (NHL) Hall of Famer, became an Answer the Call board member after 9/11, upon seeing "the importance of being able to help and reach out and give support," he told Fox News Digital.
"First responders are always going to be in danger, unfortunately, with the inherent risks that the jobs come with – putting their lives in front of others to help and support and save people," he went on.
Messier became what he called a "galvanizing" figure when he wore the helmet of FDNY Chief of Special Operations Command Ray Downey, who died on 9/11, during the New York Rangers’ home opener on October 7, 2001.
"It was in support of every New Yorker who reached out and tried to help. It symbolized every FDNY and NYPD who risked their lives trying to save people," he said. "It was seen to be a galvanizing moment in so many ways for all of us who lived through the experience and, unfortunately, those who didn’t, and end up leaving the families behind."
He lauded Chief Downey, whom he learned about from Downey’s family, as an "amazing guy" and "leader."
"That incredible moment before the game started," he said, "really kind of symbolizes the galvanization that New York had in that moment."
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed to use zero-interest loans to help local governments in the arid, Southwest state repair or replace public infrastructure damaged by wildfires or subsequent flooding.
The law follows last year's historic Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon blaze that exploded into the largest wildfire in New Mexico's recorded history.
Begun in early April as a prescribed burn by the U.S. government, it grew into a monstrous blaze that blackened more than 530 square miles (1,370 square kilometers). Hundreds of homes in northern New Mexico were lost.
A subsequent report by the U.S. Forest Service said its employees made multiple miscalculations, used inaccurate models and underestimated how dry conditions were. Experts say the resulting environmental harms will endure for decades.
Congress and President Joe Biden have approved nearly $4 billion in recovery funds. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is still establishing claims offices.
The state law just signed sets aside $100 million in loans for counties, cities and municipalities to begin work on projects that could include a water treatment plant in Mora County or roads, bridges and fences in Las Vegas, where thousands of residents evacuated last spring.
“This funding will help get infrastructure rebuilt and repaired immediately, empowering our communities to continue to heal,” the governor said in a tweet on Monday.
New Mexico's Department of Finance and Administration will manage the loan program.
Supporters of the legislation said earlier that state funding would go toward projects FEMA has indicated it will cover under federal guidelines. That means FEMA funds could be used by the local governments later to repay the state loans.
The U.S. Forest Service has resumed controlled burn operations nationwide after a 90-day pause to review prescribed fire policies and procedures. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/new-mexico-law-signed-to-help-wildfire-flooding-17795406.php | 2023-02-20 23:07:44 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/new-mexico-law-signed-to-help-wildfire-flooding-17795406.php |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A woman from Greensboro is celebrating her 97th birthday in style this year.
Katy Sigmon took to the skies to fly around the city of Greensboro Wednesday.
Sigmon has lived in Greensboro since 1948 but she’s never seen it from above.
She said for her birthday she wanted to check this off her bucket list.
“When I moved to Greensboro there was only like four major highways and now the city and the county must look like a bowl of spaghetti from the sky with all of the new highways and all of the new development and everything,” Sigmon said.
She said she told her friends out at the senior living community where she lives all about how she wanted to take flight.
“My friend Nancy Howard heard me talking to a friend of mine at Whitestone where I live, and I told him this is what I would love to do,” Sigmon said. “Three minutes flat she came back and said you’re going to fly for your birthday. I could have gone into orbit right then.”
It was a flight Sigmon said that was one to remember.
“Beautiful. It’s gorgeous! I never dreamed Greensboro was so big from the air. I never knew we covered so much space,” she said.
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Samsara Luggage's Tag Smart suitcase was awarded Special Mention on TIME'S Best Inventions 2022 list. The Tag Smart suitcase offers a variety of tech and design features including, precise tracking capabilities and an ergonomic design that makes travel easier.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsara Luggage (OTCQB: SAML), maker of innovative travel products, today announced that TIME awarded its Tag Smart carry-on with Special Mention in its Best Inventions of 2022 list. The Tag Smart suitcase is combined with the Apple AirTag, allowing travelers to track their bag with precision and ease using the iPhone's Find My app. According to Air Travel Consumer Report, lost and mishandled luggage claims increased for all US Airlines between January and June 2022 compared to the previous year.
"We are thrilled to receive such a prestigious accolade from TIME," said Atara Dzikowski, Co-founder and CEO, Samsara Luggage. "Receiving this recognition from a publication with an esteemed legacy in journalism reflects the work we as a company put into bringing innovation to the world of travel. This award is a milestone that inspires us to continue to develop solutions for travelers."
TIME's Best Inventions list is curated by its editors who look for inventions across a myriad of categories including technology, entertainment, and health care. TIME selects innovations that "are solving compelling problems in creative ways."
About Samsara Luggage:
Samsara Luggage, Inc. (OTCQB: SAML) is a smart luggage brand with a deep belief in creating a world where travel isn't a hassle, but rather an effortless, smart experience. By combining smart features, including Internet of Things (IoT) technology, innovative design and high-quality materials, Samsara is transforming the travel industry with its products. The company launched its first smart carry-on in 2017 and has since expanded its product offering with travel accessories and the Tag Smart collection, equipped with precise tracking capabilities. Samsara was named "Best of" by notable press outlets including Forbes, Tom's Guide and Tech Republic. In the fall of 2022, the Tag Smart collection made its retail debut in select Tommy Bahama brick and mortar stores. To discover Samsara Luggage please visit www.samsaraluggage.com.
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Limited-edition Collection Now Available for Pre-Order with Proceeds to Benefit the Bar Community
NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of their decades-long friendship built within a bar, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day are launching a whiskey brand that pays tribute to the four walls the gang calls home.
The bar as we know it today is an offspring of the Irish Pub and the American Saloon. Its inherent Irish American spirit carries the warmth and comfort of familiar faces and repeated stories, along with the unpredictability and energy that generate the wild moments we will never forget and keep us coming back. "We wanted to create a brand celebrating the four walls that have held our favorite memories in and kept our troubles out," states Glenn Howerton. "We were shooting Season 15 when bars were shutting down all across America. So we decided to source some really great whiskeys and create something as a tribute to the bar and kick it off by giving back," adds Rob McElhenney. "We learned just how rare and how collectible old Irish Whiskey is, and we couldn't believe we got our hands on some and wanted to release it and do something for the people and places that do so much for all of us - the bars and the bartenders," says Charlie Day.
Watch their announcement video here: https://youtu.be/SBY_zKwyyMk
The limited-edition Four Walls whiskey collection will include two products - a rare Irish Whiskey with premium commemorative packaging for serious whiskey collectors and a blended Irish and Straight Pennsylvania Rye offering crafted with bartenders in mind and made to celebrate with fans, both available for purchase starting today.
The commemorative bottle is a 15+-year-old, single-barrel, cask-strength Irish Whiskey made to celebrate the record-breaking 15th season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, all episodes currently streaming on Hulu/FXX, and the success of the It's Always Sunny podcast. With premium packaging that includes signatures by Glenn, Rob, and Charlie, and a mirrored, engraved box, this package will retail for $999 and is only being released in a run of 755 bottles.
The second release is a mix of hand-selected barrels of grain and malt Irish whiskeys blended with Pennsylvania Straight Rye Whiskey for a new Irish & American tradition. Blended with bartenders in mind, it is smooth enough to be served neat but also holds up in a cocktail. This 90-proof spirit comes in a collectible premium box and retails for $89. Only a few hundred cases will be released now, with opportunities for fans to taste the spirit at special events over the coming months including the just-announced The Always Sunny Podcast live events at Bourbon & Beyond festival and at The Met Philadelphia.
All proceeds from this collection will be donated to the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association's HARP (Hospitality Assistance Response of Pennsylvania).
The liquid in both bottles, in addition to having the blessing of Master Distillers at all partner distilleries and from the gang themselves, recently received high praise during a blind tasting by members of the Barleycorn Society with co-founder John McCarthy declaring the 15-year Four Walls, "a single malt rivaling any in the world" and the blended offering a "no-brainer for high-end cocktails as well as a perfect vehicle for neat sipping armchair contemplation."
Shop the Four Walls limited-edition collection and sign-up to join the Four Walls bar family to be the first to learn about future releases at www.FourWallsWhiskey.com
Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton have always had a knack for crafting fine things together. The trio is responsible for creating It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which has now become the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history. First barreled in 2005, Sunny stars McElhenney, Day, and Howerton -- along with Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito -- as the owners of one of South Philly's most notorious Irish pubs. The show, like a fine whiskey, has only gotten richer and intensified its distinct flavor through the years. It's since become a landmark for dark comedy and American satire, uniting the most devoted of fans from all over the country and abroad, and this monumental 15th season is truly one to crack open and celebrate. Continuing to deliver some of the hardest laughs on television while tackling society's most pressing issues, Sunny turns its fearless focus both outward and inward: to a national and international level but also to a deeply personal level. In addition to writing, producing, starring in, and occasionally directing the series, Rob, Charlie & Glenn now run a podcast devoted to deep-diving into the history and lore behind the show. "The Always Sunny Podcast" debuted in November 2021 and rocketed up to the #1 comedy podcast across all platforms.
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‘He wants to go home’: Wheelchair-bound firefighter works to recover after being injured in crash
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A firefighter in Ohio is continuing to recover after police said he was hit by a drunk driver last month.
WOIO reports 44-year-old Ghadi Cole has speech, physical and occupational therapy everyday at the Metro Health Rehabilitation Institute.
Cole was riding his motorcycle the night of May 12 when he was hit by a vehicle while sitting at a red light.
Police say 52-year-old Ali Akram, who was drunk, smacked into Cole’s motorcycle. He has been charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular assault and two counts of OVI, according to officials.
After the crash, Cole had 40 staples in his head, which have since been removed. He also suffered a damaged spinal cord and double vision in his right eye.
Cole’s mother, Claudette Cole, said watching him go through therapy is “grueling” and “hard to watch.”
“He doesn’t even want to come outside because it reminds him of what he could do, he would be doing,” she said.
Claudette Cole said her son is emotionally fragile after the crash, so a family member, friend or firefighter is at his bedside 24/7.
“We try to keep his spirits up so he has the energy to fight,” Claudette Cole said.
Ghadi Cole also has not seen his 12-year-old daughter since the accident.
“He’s kind of not wanting her to be frightened by his appearance,” Claudette Cole said.
Ghadi Cole has been with the Cleveland Fire Department for more than two decades and Oakwood Fire Department for 19 years part-time.
Ghadi Cole’s coworkers are planning to prep his house for his return.
“They’re talking about looking at a ramp to get into the house and what they need to do in the house to make it ready for him,” Claudette Cole said.
Ghadi Cole is adjusting to life in a wheelchair, but his mother believes he will walk again.
“I have to believe that. Because if you won’t believe, it won’t happen,” Claudette Cole said.
Ghadi Cole wants to come home on June 30, his 45th birthday. However, doctors believe he will be ready to leave July 6.
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President Joe Biden’s student-debt plan is bad policy in too many ways to count. But is it also bad politics? Apparently he and his advisers think not, given that he announced this initiative just before the midterm elections. No disrespect to their expertise, but I wonder if they have miscalculated.
Consider the substance first. The exact cost of forgiving up to $20,000 of student debt for millions of eligible borrowers and capping monthly repayments for a different (overlapping) group is impossible to know, given that all the rules haven’t been set out. But it will likely be $500 billion or more.
Even by post-pandemic standards, that’s a lot. This avalanche of resources will be spent in a way that’s regressive, will fail to relieve the worst financial distress, and will actually aggravate the underlying problem of tuition inflation.
The administration says that almost 90% of the debt-cancellation benefits will go to borrowers earning less than $75,000. Even if current income were the right benchmark, one might ask why the income ceiling for forgiveness was set at $125,000 (for individual taxpayers), not $75,000 or $50,000. But in fact this measure makes no sense. Graduates in their 20s earning between $75,000 and $125,000 are doing well and heading for the top deciles of the income distribution. Future doctors and lawyers might be making nothing at that point. This doesn’t mean they’re poor. Measured by likely lifetime earnings — or by wealth including human capital — they can afford to be in debt.
Far too many Americans are indeed struggling with insupportable student loans. But forgiving $10,000, or $20,000 in the case of Pell Grant recipients, makes no more than a dent in their problem. Perhaps the administration would agree, pointing to its new and more generous “income-driven repayment” plan (details, again, to follow). But who will be eligible, and how many will enroll? For every debtor in a current IDR plan, two more are eligible but not enrolled — a tribute to the schemes’ arcane administrative demands. In practice, the new IDR plan might be as irrelevant to the needs of the most distressed as the promised deluge of write-offs.
In short, Biden’s $500 billion, spread across some 40 million borrowers who mostly don’t need the money, will do little to help those in real trouble. And for the economy as a whole, the plan will increase demand as the Federal Reserve struggles to control inflation. The administration says the effect of forgiveness on demand will be offset by the promised resumption of debt payments next year. It won’t. Forgiveness, unlike suspended payments, delivers a permanent increase in spending power. Other things being equal, the result will be higher interest rates and/or higher taxes and/or lower public spending in the future.
So why do Biden’s experts think all this is good politics? Their reasoning might be that it will delight the beneficiaries, while voters at large will be impressed by the scale of the achievement and unconcerned about the longer-term effects. Therefore, expect a net boost in the Democrats’ popularity. That’s half a trillion dollars well spent.
Maybe, but it’s far from certain. The Democrats have been enjoying a revival of late — an upturn based on an apparent return to pragmatic moderation (the Inflation Reduction Act) alongside reminders of Republican extremism (the response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the never-ending theatrics surrounding former President Donald Trump).
The student-debt plan upsets this framing. First, the claim that the Democrats are doing all they can to get on top on inflation now appears absurd. Second, the plan seems anything but moderate: It’s a win for progressives over Democratic centrists and looks divisive.
The U.S. is fighting a culture war that, as many Democrats see it, pits the educated and enlightened against a MAGA-loving rabble. Both camps have decided that the enemy cannot be reasoned with, only crushed. Their votes are decided, whatever happens. But swing voters will also have a say in November — and many of them still wish to see this divide mended, not deepened. The student-debt plan laughs at that idea. It might have been designed to reward one side at the expense of the other. | https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/clive-crook-biden-s-debt-relief-plan-will-make-american-politics-worse/article_627b3ef8-279d-11ed-8c9a-0b8ada7a62a9.html | 2022-08-29 15:08:09 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/clive-crook-biden-s-debt-relief-plan-will-make-american-politics-worse/article_627b3ef8-279d-11ed-8c9a-0b8ada7a62a9.html |
SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced its Board of Directors has declared an increase in the company's common stock monthly cash dividend to $0.2475 per share from $0.247 per share. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2022, to stockholders of record as of July 1, 2022. This is the 116th dividend increase since Realty Income's listing on the NYSE in 1994. The ex-dividend date for July's dividend is June 30, 2022. The new monthly dividend represents an annualized dividend amount of $2.97 per share as compared to the current annualized dividend amount of $2.964 per share.
"Realty Income is resolute in our commitment to pay stockholders a monthly dividend that increases over time," said Sumit Roy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Realty Income. "I'm pleased that our Board of Directors has determined that Realty Income can increase the amount of the dividend this month. This will be the 624th consecutive monthly dividend payment made throughout our 53-year operating history."
Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 11,200 real estate properties owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 624 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 53-year operating history and increased the dividend 116 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O). Additional information about the company can be obtained from the corporate website at www.realtyincome.com.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks LLC today announced the closing of the previously announced acquisition of RealNetworks, Inc. (the "Company", "RealNetworks" or "Real"), by the Company's founder, Rob Glaser and affiliates (the "merger"). The merger was approved by the Company's Board of Directors, based on the recommendation of a Special Committee of the Board of Directors consisting exclusively of independent directors, and by the Company's shareholders. The final shareholder voting results were reported in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 16, 2022.
"Today, a new chapter begins at RealNetworks," said Rob Glaser, "We named the entity that is acquiring Real "Greater Heights" because Real has great opportunities in front of us, which we will now work hard to unlock. I want to thank Real's outgoing board for their diligent work over the years. More importantly I want to thank Real's many partners and customers, and our outstanding team. Truly, the best is yet to come."
Each outstanding share of common stock of the Company has been converted into the right to receive cash consideration of $0.73 per share (the "merger consideration").
The Company's common stock and preferred share purchase rights will be delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Houlihan Lokey acted as independent financial advisor and King & Spalding LLP acted as independent legal counsel to the Special Committee in connection with the transaction. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P. C. acted as legal counsel to the Company.
Imperial Capital acted as financial advisor and DLA Piper LLP (US) acted as legal counsel to Mr. Glaser.
More information regarding the merger can be found in the Company's July 28, 2022, press release announcing the definitive merger agreement.
Building on a rich history of digital media expertise and innovation, RealNetworks has created a new generation of products that employ best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance and secure our daily lives. Real's portfolio includes SAFR, the world's premier computer vision platform for live video, KONTXT, an industry leading NLP (Natural Language Processing) platform for text and multi-media analysis, and leveraging its digital media expertise, a mobile games business focused on the large free-to-play segment. For information about all of our products, visit www.realnetworks.com.
RealNetworks is a registered trademark of RealNetworks LLC. All other trademarks, names of actual companies and products mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which provides a "safe harbor" for such statements in certain circumstances. The forward-looking statements include statements regarding payment of the merger consideration, delisting of the Company's securities, and expectations for RealNetworks following the closing of the Transaction. These statements are based upon current expectations, beliefs and assumptions of RealNetworks management, and there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Because forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and speak only as of the date on which they are made, actual events could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including but not limited to the logistics associated with paying merger consideration to shareholders, the Company's ability to realize operating efficiencies, growth and other benefits from business initiatives following the Closing, and other factors discussed in greater detail in RealNetworks's filings with the SEC from time to time. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements are presented as of the date made, and RealNetworks does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Q1 2022 revenues of $24.4 million, up 16.8% year-over-year
Delivers break even adjusted EBITDA of $0.1 million
Pro customer revenue increases to 76.6% of first quarter revenues, up 14.7% quarter-over-quarter
BuildDirect reports in US dollars and in accordance with IFRS
VANCOUVER, BC, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc. (TSXV: BILD) ("BuildDirect" or the "Company") a growing omnichannel building material retailer, today announced its financial results for the First Quarter 2022 ("Q1 2022").
"I am pleased to report that BuildDirect achieved the Q1 2022 guidance we outlined at the previous quarter," said David Lazar, interim CEO of BuildDirect. "Our strategic execution is delivering value with revenues reaching $24.4 million, growing by 1.6% quarter-over quarter, of which 76.6% are Pro-based. We also reached break even adjusted EBITDA, largely due to our push to reallocate resources to Pro and drive acquisition synergies. Looking forward to the second quarter, we will continue to focus our efforts on growing Pro customer market share to maximize value."
- Q1 2022 revenues reaching $24.4 million, increasing 1.6% quarter-over-quarter and 16.8% year-over-year.
- Q1 2022 Pro revenue reached $18.7 million, representing 76.6% of total revenue at the quarter end. Pro revenues grew 14.7% quarter-over-quarter due to increased strategic focus on driving Pro market share.
- Gross profit at $8.7 million in Q1 2022, an increase of 15.4% over the previous quarter, and 18.1% year-over-year
- Gross margin in Q1 2022 increased by 430bps to 35.8% compared to Q4 2021. The positive impact of price increases on margins was slightly offset due to lower margins from the Superb acquisition.
- Adjusted EBITDA in Q1 2022 reached $0.1 million. BuildDirect achieved break even adjusted EBITDA primarily by reallocating resources to the Pro market.
- In February 2022, the Company closed a secured debt financing pursuant to which it issued, via its wholly owned subsidiary BuildDirect Operations Limited, secured notes to Pelecanus Investments Ltd., Lyra Growth Partners Inc., and Beedie Investments Ltd. in an aggregated amount of US $3 million.
- On April 4, 2022, BuildDirect announced that it appointed Eyal Ofir to its Board of Directors, and that John Farlinger and Andrew Elbaz had stepped down from their roles as Directors of the Board.
Ethan Rudin, CFO of BuildDirect said, "To execute on our strategy, we will continue to invest in the Pro market, extract financial and operational synergies from our acquisitions, and leverage our heavyweight omnichannel business model to drive Pro market share. Moving forward into the remainder of 2022, we expect to maintain positive adjusted EBITDA as Pro customer sector trends look set to continue."
Actual results may differ materially from BuildDirect's financial outlook as a result of, among other things, the factors described under "Forward-Looking Statements" below.
BuildDirect's audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021 and the unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes and the Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2022 are available on the Company's website at www.BuildDirect.com. and on the Company's SEDAR profile available at www.sedar.com.
BuildDirect will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's financial results at 9:30 am EST on Monday, May 30, 2022. To access the telephonic version of the conference call, participants can dial (888) 664-6392 (North America Toll-Free) or (416) 764-8659. Upon entering the confirmation ID: 23177864, participants will be entered directly into the conference.
Alternatively, the webcast will be available live on the Investor Relations section of BuildDirect's website at https://ir.builddirect.com/events-and-presentation
Among other things, BuildDirect will discuss long-term financial outlook on the conference call and webcast, and related materials will be made available on the Company's website at https://ir.builddirect.com/events-and-presentation. Investors should carefully review the factors, assumptions, risks and uncertainties included in such related materials concerning such long-term financial outlook.
An audio replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after the completion of the live call until 8:59 pm EST on June 6, 2022. The audio replay will be accessed by dialing (888) 390-0541 (North America Toll-Free) or (416) 764-8677 (Toronto) with entry code: 177864. In addition, an archived webcast will be available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at https://ir.builddirect.com/events-and-presentation.
BuildDirect (TSXV: BILD) is an innovative technology platform for purchasing and selling building materials online. The BuildDirect platform connects homeowners and home improvement professionals in North America with suppliers and sellers of quality building materials from around the world, including flooring, tile, decking and more. BuildDirect's growth, proprietary heavyweight delivery network, and digital reach have served to solidify its role as a ground-breaking player in the home improvement industry. For more information, visit www.BuildDirect.com.
This press release contains statements which constitute "forward-looking statements" and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), including statements regarding the plans, intentions, beliefs and current expectations of the Company with respect to future business activities and operating performance. Forward-looking statements are often identified by the words "may", "would", "could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" or similar expressions. These statements reflect management's current beliefs and expectations and are based on information currently available to management as at the date hereof.
Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, without limitation, statements relating to Pro customer sector trends, BuildDirect's investment in the Pro market and growth of Pro customer market share, the impact of price increases and resource reallocation, financial and operational synergies from BuildDirect's acquisitions, BuildDirect's heavyweight omnichannel business model and the maintenance of positive adjusted EBITDA.
Forward-looking statements involve significant risk, uncertainties and assumptions. Many factors could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Among those factors are changes in consumer spending, inflation, availability of mortgage financing and consumer credit, changes in the housing market, changes in trade policies, tariffs or other applicable laws and regulations both locally and in foreign jurisdictions, availability and cost of goods from suppliers, fuel prices and other energy costs, interest rate and currency fluctuations, retention of key personnel and changes in general economic, business and political conditions and other factors referenced under the "Risks and Uncertainties" section of our MD&A. These forward-looking statements may be affected by risks and uncertainties in the business of the Company and general market conditions, including COVID-19.
These factors should be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this press release reflect the Company's expectations, estimates or projections concerning future results or events based on the opinions, assumptions and estimates of management considered reasonable at the date the statements are made, the Company cannot assure readers that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and BuildDirect assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required by law.
Reference is made in this press release to the following non-GAAP measures: Adjusted EBITDA. These non-GAAP measures are commonly used by investors and other interested parties to evaluate our financial performance and are employed by the Company to measure its operating and economic performance and to assist in business decision-making. These non-GAAP measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. These measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS measures by providing further understanding of the results of operations from management's perspective. Accordingly, these measures should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for analysis of the financial information reported under IFRS. Refer also to appendix tables, "First Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights" and "Q1 2022 Highlights" of this press release as well as our Management's Discussion and Analysis for definitions and reconciliations of non-IFRS measures to the nearest IFRS measures.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
We define EBITDA as net income or loss before interest, income taxes and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA removes fair value adjustment of convertible debt and warrants, fair value adjustment of inventory, restructuring expenses, non-recurring bad debt expense, foreign exchange gains and losses, and share-based compensation items from EBITDA. We are presenting these measures because we believe that our current and potential investors, and many analysts, use them to assess our current and future operating results and to make investment decisions. Management uses these measures in managing the business and making decisions. EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are not intended as substitutes for IFRS measures.
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Worker seriously injured after being trapped in scrap metal shredder, officials say
Published: Oct. 14, 2022 at 1:33 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
EVERETT, Mass. (WHDH) – A worker in Massachusetts suffered serious injuries when he became trapped in a metal shredder Thursday.
Emergency crews were able to free the worker from the heavy machinery after spending nearly three hours on the rescue at the Scrap-It Inc. scrap metal recycling center.
First responders said the worker was alive when he was finally extracted from the metal shredder, but he was rushed to the hospital for serious injuries.
His current condition is unknown, and further details have not been released.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
3-9-7-1
(three, nine, seven, one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
3-9-7-1
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's parliament votes against move to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Out in New Braintree, Massachusetts, nearly 50 people are in the midst of the second week of training as part of the inaugural class of the Massachusetts State Police's Cadet Program, established under the 2020 policing reform law in hopes of encouraging young people from diverse backgrounds to pursue a career in law enforcement.
The 47 cadets going through the four-week academic and physical training course at the State Police Academy have made a one-year minimum commitment and will afterwards move into a series of eight-week rotations through barracks and specialty units, where they will work administrative shifts as civilian employees. Participants who successfully complete the program and pass the Civil Service's State Trooper Exam will receive preference for appointment to the State Police Academy.
The policing reform law that Gov. Charlie Baker signed at the end of 2020 authorized the creation of the cadet program as an alternate route to the State Police Academy that his administration believes can broaden the pool of recruits. It was funded in 2021. The State Police said the program is "designed as a recruitment strategy to broaden the diversity of the applicant pool and provide hands-on training while offering a paid, benefitted, and full-time civilian position within the Department as a Cadet."
Of the 47 inaugural cadets, 25 (53%) are people of color and 13 (27%) are women, the State Police said.
"Our administration proposed the launch of a cadet program at the Massachusetts State Police several years ago, and the training of this inaugural class represents a significant step forward in implementing the Commonwealth's landmark police reform law," Baker said. "This initiative will strengthen recruitment and help build a diverse and capable next generation of law enforcement officers across the Commonwealth. We are grateful to Colonel [Christopher] Mason and the leadership team at the Massachusetts State Police for their efforts on this and many other initiatives which will improve the Department and its ability to effectively serve the Commonwealth for years to come."
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The cadet program falls under MSP's Division of Administrative Services and is led Det. Lt. Sharon Maher. | https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2022-12-07/new-cadet-class-may-diversify-massachusetts-state-police | 2022-12-07 19:04:10 | 1 | https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2022-12-07/new-cadet-class-may-diversify-massachusetts-state-police |
The oral care brand joins dentists, professionals and individuals around the world to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining good oral health at every stage of life.
NEW YORK, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitvae, a brand dedicated to making its customers' oral care routine easy and enjoyable with high-performance products, is uniting with dentists and individuals around the world on March 20 in honor of World Oral Health Day.
World Oral Health Day is the largest global awareness campaign on oral health and was created by the FDI World Dental Federation. Under the slogan "Be proud of your mouth", the 2023 celebration focuses on the importance of mouth care at every stage of life.
"Good oral health is essential to general health, well-being and quality of life", says Hugh, founder and CEO of Bitvae. "As a brand that offers oral care products for the entire family, we have a responsibility to not only offer high-quality and innovative products, but also to empower our customers with the knowledge, tools and confidence to ensure good oral health from an early age."
Last year, two of Bitvae's Electric Toothbrushes, the D2 Electric Toothbrush and the S2 Smart Electric Toothbrush, received the American Dental Association (ADA) Seal of Acceptance. With over 2,000 5-Star reviews on Amazon, these electric toothbrushes are uniquely designed to cater to their savvy customers while remaining extremely accessible.
"Bitvae receiving this coveted designation lets our customers know that the D2 Electric Toothbrush and S2 Smart Electric Toothbrush rise to the level of safety and effectiveness that dental professionals recommend", said Hugh. "As a company that has been in the oral hygiene industry for more than five years, our goal remains to deliver high-performance oral care products that are both affordable and easy to use."
Hugh's vision of providing oral care products for a complete routine guides the company's product development strategy, as seen in its recently launched the C2 Portable Water Flosser. Rising to the Amazon bestseller ranking after only a few months on the market, this oral irrigator removes up to 99.9% of food debris and dental plaque and is a perfect complement to brushing.
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During Hispanic Heritage Month, it’s so important to note that mental health resources and services have characteristically been under-resourced for the Hispanic Community.
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Mental Health resources are available without shame to all people, particularly marginalized populations and children; highlighting this during Hispanic Heritage Month.
Aledia Murcia a psychologist with Safe Harbor Counseling Institute joins Gayle Guyardo the host of the nationally syndicated health and lifestyle show Bloom with how her organization is working to bridge the divide between mental health and the hispanic community.
You can watch Bloom in the Tampa Bay Market weekdays at 2pm on WFLA News Channel 8.
Bloom also airs in 40 markets across the country, with a reach of approximately 36 million households, and in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Madison, WI. | https://www.wfla.com/bloom/the-hispanic-community-and-mental-health-stigma/ | 2022-10-07 16:10:40 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/bloom/the-hispanic-community-and-mental-health-stigma/ |
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BERLIN (AP) — King Charles III is boarding a carriage, though not the horse-drawn kind, for the final leg of his three-day visit to Germany, which will bring him and Camilla, the queen consort, by train Friday to the northern port city of Hamburg.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier plans to accompany the British royals on the two-hour high-speed journey from Berlin.
The couple arrived Wednesday in the German capital for Charles' first foreign trip as king. Steinmeier greeted them at the Brandenburg Gate with full military honors and later hosted a banquet in their honor.
On Thursday, Charles became the first monarch to address the German parliament, telling assembled lawmakers that "together we must strive for the security, prosperity and well-being that our people deserve.” He then met with Ukrainian refugees and a German-British military unit before visiting an organic farm where he tried his hand at making cheese.
Charles' trip is part of a carefully calibrated effort by the British government to mend frayed ties with its continental partners after the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union.
Charles originally planned to visit France first, but anti-government protests in the country led both governments to postpone that part of his trip. The new itinerary put the focus on Germany, where Charles has family roots and the royals have long been the subject of fascination.
In Hamburg, the royal couple are scheduled to visit a memorial to the Kindertransporte, or children’s transports, that resulted in more than 10,000 Jewish children receiving refuge from Nazi Germany in the U.K. 85 years ago.
Charles and Camilla also are set to lay a wreath at the remains of St. Nikolai church to commemorate the more than 30,000 people, mostly German civilians, who were killed in Operation Gomorrah, the Allied bombing of Hamburg in July 1943.
A boat trip and a farewell reception involving musical performances, including by a Beatles cover band and a sea shanty group, will round off the king's visit. | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/king-charles-iii-visits-hamburg-on-final-leg-of-17870647.php | 2023-03-31 09:20:46 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/king-charles-iii-visits-hamburg-on-final-leg-of-17870647.php |
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economy grew by 13.5% in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, pushed up by a boost in agriculture and manufacturing as pandemic curbs eased, official figures released Wednesday show.
The jump follows a 4.1% slump in the January-March quarter, but is lower than the 20.1% annual growth registered in the same quarter the previous year.
However, economists have cautioned that the growth this quarter may be followed by a slowdown. In July, the International Monetary Fund revised its growth forecast for India from 8.2% to 7.4% for the current fiscal year, which began in April.
Despite the revision, India would still be among the fastest-growing major economies in the world.
The double-digit growth in the April-June quarter comes at a time when the global economy is under strain, with major countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom facing high inflation. Prices have been rising as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, triggering increased prices for energy and food.
India’s economy, Asia’s third largest, had been recovering from a pandemic-induced slump when a surge in omicron-fueled coronavirus cases starting in January prompted authorities to bring back some virus-related restrictions.
Multiple waves of COVID-19 outbreaks have badly hit India’s large informal sector, with unemployment rising to nearly 8.5% in August, according to data from the think tank Center for Monitoring Indian Economy.
India’s central bank projected inflation at 6.7% this fiscal year and raised its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 5.4%, in its third such hike since May.
The economy expanded by 8.7% in the previous fiscal year after contracting by 6.6% in fiscal year 2020-21. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-india-quarterly-growth-rises-to-13-5-after-pandemic-slump/ | 2022-08-31 20:06:27 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-india-quarterly-growth-rises-to-13-5-after-pandemic-slump/ |
Miami (3-3) vs. Duke (4-3): 12:30 p.m., Hard Rock Stadium, Bally Sports Florida
Latest line: Miami is favored by 9 points.
Dave Hyde, Sports Columnist: Hurricanes 34, Duke 31
Simply put, Duke can score points. The Blue Devils, who are coming off a 38-35 loss to North Carolina, have three losses by a one-score margin. Duke almost completed the upset against the Tar Heels before coming up just short in the final seconds. So this looks to be a close game for a Miami team that seems to be finding more of its identity each week. Tyler Van Dyke has thrown five touchdowns and just one interception in two starts since being benched in the loss to Middle Tennessee State.
Adam Lichtenstein, Hurricanes Writer: Miami 28, Duke 20
The Hurricanes will try to get some momentum going and pick up their second straight win on Saturday. Tyler Van Dyke has been on a roll in Miami’s last two games, and that trend should continue against a Blue Devils defense that is second-worst in the conference in defending the pass. Duke’s offense has performed well this year, but Miami has the best defense the Blue Devils have faced so far this season. As long as the Hurricanes don’t dig themselves in a deep, early hole, they should pick up the win over an improved Duke squad.
Keven Lerner, Assistant Sports Editor: Miami 27, Duke 20
Despite being a 9-point underdog, Duke is a formidable opponent. The Blue Devils have two three-point losses and came up just short in a 38-35 loss to 22nd-ranked North Carolina last week. Duke ran for 297 yards in the loss. Hurricanes quarterback Tyler Van Dyke is coming off another strong performance. A week after throwing for 496 yards and three touchdowns in a 27-24 loss to North Carolina, he threw for 351 yards and two scores in a 20-14 win at Virginia Tech 20-14 last week. Van Dyke has thrown for more than 300 yards eight times in 15 career starts. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/miami-hurricanes/fl-sp-miami-duke-predictions-20221020-xpwsbi56lzhi3me2l63jq6iy5e-story.html | 2022-10-20 15:00:58 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/miami-hurricanes/fl-sp-miami-duke-predictions-20221020-xpwsbi56lzhi3me2l63jq6iy5e-story.html |
The U.S. announced new COVID-19 testing requirements Wednesday for all travelers from China, joining other nations imposing restrictions because of a surge of infections.
The increase in cases across China follows the rollback of the nation’s strict anti-virus controls. China’s “zero COVID” policies had kept the country’s infection rate low but fueled public frustration and crushed economic growth.
The new U.S. requirements, which start Jan. 5, apply to travelers regardless of their nationality and vaccination status.
In a statement explaining the testing, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited the surge in infections and what it said was a lack of adequate and transparent information from China, including genomic sequencing on the viral strains circulating in the country.
“These data are critical to monitor the case surge effectively and decrease the chance for entry of a novel variant of concern,” the CDC said.
Some scientists are worried the COVID-19 surge in China could unleash a new coronavirus variant on the world that may or may not be similar to the ones circulating now. That’s because every infection is another chance for the virus to mutate.
“What we want to avoid is having a variant enter into the U.S. and spread like we saw with delta or omicron,” said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
But the CDC’s action may be less about stopping a new variant from crossing U.S. borders and more about increasing pressure on China to share more information, said Dr. David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, adding he hopes the restrictions “aren’t kept in place longer than they need to be.”
“I don’t think it’s going to have a major impact in slowing the spread of COVID-19,” Dowdy said. “We have a whole lot of transmission of COVID-19 here within our borders already.”
Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University, agreed China isn’t sharing enough genomic sequencing information. But he also said the U.S. has become a little complacent about sequencing and needs to redouble its own efforts. The CDC also announced the expansion of an early warning program that tests volunteers at select airports for new and rare variants of the coronavirus. That program will expand to airports in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Under the new U.S. rules, travelers to the U.S. from China, Hong Kong and Macau, will be required to take a COVID-19 test no more than two days before travel and provide a negative test before boarding their flight. The testing applies to anyone 2 years and older, including U.S. citizens.
It will apply to people traveling from China via a third country and to people connecting through the U.S. as they go on to other destinations. Anyone testing positive more than 10 days before the flight can provide documentation showing they’ve recovered from COVID-19 instead of a negative test result.
It will be up to the airlines to confirm negative tests and documentation of recovery before passengers board.
Other countries have taken similar steps in an effort to keep infections from spreading beyond China’s borders. Japan will require a negative COVID-19 test upon arrival for travelers from China, and Malaysia announced new tracking and surveillance measures. India, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan are requiring virus tests for visitors from China.
Lunar New Year, which begins Jan. 22, is usually China’s busiest travel season, and China announced Tuesday it will resume issuing passports for tourism for the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
“We look forward to welcoming Chinese travelers back to the United States,” U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman said in a statement. He called the U.S. approach to testing inbound travelers “reasonable and appreciated.”
The U.S. action is a return to testing requirements for some international travelers. The Biden administration lifted the last of such mandates in June. At that time, the CDC continued to recommend that people boarding flights to the U.S. get tested close to departure time and not travel if they are sick.
“We’ve done this before. We can do it again,” Dowdy said.
Early in the pandemic, the U.S. barred entry to foreigners traveling from China, weeks after the virus first emerged there three years ago, and dozens of other countries were added to the list. The country started lifting travel bans late last year, but required travelers to the U.S. to be vaccinated and tested. ___
AP Science Writer Laura Ungar contributed.
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When Chad Bianco became a deputy some 30 years ago, there was a level of "respect" between suspected criminals and police.
"When they got caught, they got caught," said Bianco, now the sheriff of Riverside County, California. "They gave up and they suffered the consequences."
It's a completely different dynamic now, fueled by anti-police sentiment from the White House down to the local level, Bianco said.
PHOENIX POLICE OFFICER SHOT IN 'UNPROVOKED ATTACK'
"Criminals have become increasingly more violent and brazen," Bianco said. "It's not just one isolated place. It's across the country."
Violent crime increased about 5.6% in California from 2020 to 2021, according to state data. Attacks on police officers also appear to be on the rise.
In 2022, 64 officers across the U.S. were shot and killed in the line of duty, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. That figure is far below historic averages in the late 20th century, when shooting fatalities reached triple digits.
But yearly officer slayings had dipped to the low 50s in the 2010s, according to the nonprofit, which said the recent increase represents a "disturbing trend."
The number of officers shot surged from 237 in 2018 to 346 in 2021, according to National Fraternal Order of Police estimates. The first three weeks of 2023 saw a further 33% increase from the same period in 2021, the NFOP reported.
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While it's difficult to pinpoint a cause, Bianco places the blame on efforts to "decriminalize everything" and lower penalties for some offenses. He also criticized politicians from the federal level down, saying they demonize police.
"When they ridicule police and when they blame police for things … [criminals] get more emboldened," he said.
Suspects are now more likely to run or resist arrest, Bianco said. One of his own deputies was fatally shot during a traffic stop in late December, leading to a massive manhunt for the suspect.
"Our police and our deputies are far more likely to be involved in use-of-force situations than when I was a deputy," he said. "And it's solely because of the resistance from the people that we're trying to arrest."
Criminal suspects now "have absolutely zero respect" for people, life and law enforcement, Bianco continued.
"So we come in contact with them, the chances that they are going to fight with us in an attempt to get away are more likely to happen than not happen," he said.
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At least 120 killed and 400 injured in three-train crash in India
Originally Published: 02 JUN 23 14:18 ET
Updated: 02 JUN 23 17:38 ET
By Sahar Akbarzai, Deepak Rao and Tara John, CNN
(CNN) — More than 120 people died and hundreds were injured after three trains collided in India on Friday evening, according to a local official, in what has been described as a “violent” crash.
Two passenger trains and a goods train collided in an accident in the city of Balasore in Odisha state, according to a video statement by state chief secretary Pradeep Jena.
From the scene of the rescue operation, the Director General of the state’s fire services told Indian news agency ANI that more than “more than 120 dead bodies” had been recovered, and that he believed the death toll “might go up.”
Over 400 injured people have been taken to different hospitals, Sudhanshu Sarangi said, adding that the evacuation of the wounded had completed and they were for more dead bodies.
“The state government has provided all the resources that were needed and we have completed the evacuation of the injured,” Sarangi said, “now it’s a question of locating some more dead bodies which might trapped under these compartments.”
Friday’s rescue effort included more than 115 ambulances and several fire service units, say authorities, who have yet to look at the cause of the multi-train accident as their main priority is rescue operations, Jena told CNN affiliate News18.
“We are only working (at) sending additional doctors, ambulances, buses, so all those things we are doing so we have not thought of asking what happened, how it happened,” he said.
One of trains involved in the accident is the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel express, carrying passengers from West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of the state of West Bengal, said on Twitter. The train travels through India’s east coast, between West Bengal’s capital Kolkata to the South Indian city of Chennai.
The crash has shocked the country, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeting his condolences.
“Distressed by the train accident in Odisha. In this hour of grief, my thoughts are with the bereaved families. May the injured recover soon. Rescue ops are underway at the site of the mishap and all possible assistance is being given to those affected,” he wrote.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said he will visit the site of the accident on Saturday morning to review the situation, the department said.
India’s Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology announced that about $12,136 will be provided as compensation to victims’ families in the case of death, and $2,427 will be provided for individuals with grievous injuries, and $606 will be given to people with minor injuries from the accident.
India’s extensive rail network suffers from aging infrastructure and poor maintenance – factors that are often responsible for accidents.
In 2021, some 16,431 people were killed in nearly 18,000 railway accidents across the country. “Majority (67.7%) of railway accident cases were reported (as) ‘Fall from trains /collision with people on track,” according to a 2021 report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
One of the most deadly incidents of recent years occurred in November 2016, when more than 140 people were killed after several train cars derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
The following November, at least 39 people died and 50 others were seriously injured in a train derailment in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Indianapolis Indians to auction special camo jerseys on Memorial Day
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Baseball fans who spend Memorial Day at Victory Field with the Indianapolis Indians can bid on special camouflage jerseys to benefit a great cause.
The Indians will remember the country’s fallen heroes, recognize its veterans, and honor current servicemembers during Monday night’s game against the Toledo Mud Hens.
Indians players will wear special camouflage jerseys that will be auctioned off to benefit The American Legion’s “Be the One” initiative to combat veteran suicide.
The auction will run from the time gates open until the end of the seventh inning. Fans can bid from inside Victory Field and from home by texting VICTORY to 79230.
Monday night is also Dollar Menu Night. Fill your belly without emptying your wallet! Hot dogs, peanuts, potato chips, Cracker Jack, and popcorn are all available for $1 each.
Be sure to stick around after the game for the first spectacular fireworks show of the season.
Gates for Monday’s game open at 5 p.m. with the first pitch set for 6:05 p.m.
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Firefighter transported to hospital after battling blaze at Fairfield apartment complex
Firefighter transported to hospital after battling blaze at Fairfield apartment complex
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Firefighter transported to hospital after battling blaze at Fairfield apartment complex
Crews are battling a fire at the Chateau Glen Oaks apartment complex in Fairfield Wednesday afternoon. Get the latest details in the video above.Limited details are available at this time, but the Fairfield Fire Department responded to the complex on Fairfax Drive after residents reported they could smell smoke around 4 p.m. Wednesday.Fairfield FD told WVTM 13's Mattie Davis, who is at the scene, that it is believed no residents were injured and all have been evacuated from the building.The department said one firefighter was transported to the hospital with symptoms related to heat exhaustion. That firefighter is expected to be OK, but did need medical treatment.Grab the WVTM 13 app for the latest updates on this developing story.—WVTM 13 At The Scene
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Limited details are available at this time, but the Fairfield Fire Department responded to the complex on Fairfax Drive after residents reported they could smell smoke around 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Tuesday that he wouldn’t seek his state’s open U.S. Senate seat next year, ending weeks of speculation about whether he would enter a vicious Republican primary fight against a combative defender of former President Donald Trump.
The decision by the 73-year-old Daniels comes two weeks after U.S. Rep. Jim Banks announced he was running for the seat being vacated by GOP Sen. Mike Braun as he makes a 2024 run for governor.
“With full credit and respect for the institution and those serving in it, I conclude that it’s just not the job for me, not the town for me, and not the life I want to live at this point,” Daniels said in a statement released by a longtime adviser.
The Washington-based anti-tax Club for Growth had already endorsed Banks and criticized Daniels as an insufficiently conservative “old guard Republican,” signaling a line of attack for a nasty intraparty race in the GOP-dominated state.
Daniels, who was considered a 2012 presidential contender with a conservative fiscal reputation, ended eight years as governor in early 2013 with high approval ratings. He stayed in the public eye for the past decade as the high-profile president of Purdue University before stepping down at the end of December.
His decision leaves Banks as the only declared candidate some 15 months ahead of Indiana’s 2024 primary.
Banks, 43, was first elected to Congress from a heavily Republican district in northeastern Indiana in 2016, the year after he returned from an eight-month military deployment to Afghanistan with the Navy Reserve.
He has since become a frequent Fox News Channel guest and Trump ally who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, then the House speaker, months later rejected Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s pick of Banks as the top GOP member on the committee investigating the deadly Capitol insurrection, citing the need to protect the review’s “integrity.”
Rep. Victoria Spartz, in her second term from a central Indiana district, is another Republican who has stated interest in the Senate race. The Ukrainian-born Spartz has been critical at times of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began last February.
Banks has been eager to pull at political divides. His campaign video announcement invoked disputes over transgender girls’ sports, blamed China for COVID-19 and claimed that “anti-Americanism” is being pushed in schools and the military, criticizing both “the radical Democrats and the spineless Republicans.”
Daniels, who was President George W. Bush’s budget director and a senior executive at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co. before becoming governor, caused a stir among cultural conservatives while considering a 2012 White House run by saying the next president facing economic crisis “would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues.”
Daniels said Tuesday that he didn’t believe he “would be well-suited to legislative office, particularly where seniority remains a significant factor in one’s effectiveness.”
Daniels said the country faces critical problems with its national debt, the stability of safety-net programs, aggression from China and the need “to secure our borders without depriving the nation of the talent and energy that grateful immigrants can bring.”
“I would have tried to work on these matters in a way that might soften the harshness and personal vitriol that has infected our public square, rendering it not only repulsive to millions of Americans, but also less capable of effective action to meet our threats and seize our opportunities,” Daniels said.
Not waiting for Daniels’ decision, Donald Trump Jr. had likened Daniels to Utah Sen. Mitt Romney as a “weak RINO,” or Republican in name only. The deep-pocketed Club for Growth recently released an ad reaching back to Daniels’ time as President George W. Bush’s budget director to criticize him for increasing the federal debt and calling him an “old guard Republican clinging to the old ways of the bad old days.”
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STEELTON, Pa. — Police in Steelton are trying to find the parents or guardians of a lost boy who was found alone in the borough Friday morning.
The child, a white or Hispanic male about 3-5 years old, was discovered near the 300 block of Lincoln Street, police say.
He is wearing blue sweatpants and a blue shirt that reads "Folly Beach, SC," according to police.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Steelton Police Officer Etnoyer at aetnoyer@steeltonpa.com, Detective Dory Martin at dmartin@steeltonpa.com, or call (717) 425-0660 or (717) 558-6900. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/steelton-police-lost-child/521-7250806d-7f22-4bc4-8217-7a42721d856f | 2022-05-27 14:30:41 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/steelton-police-lost-child/521-7250806d-7f22-4bc4-8217-7a42721d856f |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-8-5-7, FIREBALL:
(nine, eight, five, seven; FIREBALL: zero)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-8-5-7, FIREBALL:
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-4-5
(zero, four, five)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-4-5
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How to Watch the Angels vs. Mariners Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 9
Shohei Ohtani takes the mound for the Los Angeles Angels on Friday against Ty France and the Seattle Mariners. First pitch is at 9:38 PM ET at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
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Angels vs. Mariners Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Friday, June 9, 2023
- Time: 9:38 PM ET
- TV Channel: Apple TV+
- Location: Anaheim, California
- Venue: Angel Stadium of Anaheim
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Angels Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Angels average 1.3 home runs per game to rank fifth in baseball with 86 total home runs.
- Los Angeles is sixth in baseball with a .428 slugging percentage.
- The Angels rank 10th in MLB with a .257 batting average.
- Los Angeles has the No. 7 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.8 runs per game (308 total runs).
- The Angels rank eighth in baseball with an on-base percentage of .330.
- The Angels strike out 8.7 times per game, the No. 20 average in baseball.
- The 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Los Angeles' pitching staff ranks 13th in the majors.
- Los Angeles' 4.24 team ERA ranks 17th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Angels combine for the 18th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.326).
Mariners Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Mariners rank 21st in Major League Baseball with 63 home runs.
- Seattle ranks 27th in MLB with a team slugging percentage of just .374 this season.
- The Mariners have a team batting average of just .226 this season, which ranks 27th among MLB teams.
- Seattle has scored the 20th-most runs in the majors this season with 265 (4.3 per game).
- The Mariners have the 24th-ranked on-base percentage in MLB this season (.306).
- The Mariners are one of the least disciplined teams at the plate this season, ranking 28th with an average of 9.7 strikeouts per game.
- Seattle averages 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, ninth-most in the majors.
- Seattle pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.04 ERA this year, 10th-best in baseball.
- Mariners pitchers have a 1.223 WHIP this season, sixth-best in the majors.
Angels Probable Starting Pitcher
- Ohtani gets the start for the Angels, his eighth of the season. He is 5-2 with a 3.30 ERA and 96 strikeouts in 71 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance -- out of the bullpen on Saturday -- the righty threw six innings against the Houston Astros, allowing five earned runs while surrendering nine hits.
- Ohtani is aiming for his sixth quality start in a row.
- Ohtani has put up 11 starts this campaign in which he pitched five or more innings.
- In three of his 12 total appearances this season he has not given up an earned run.
Mariners Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Mariners will send Luis Castillo (4-3) to the mound for his 13th start this season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday, when he gave up one earned run and allowed five hits in seven innings against the Texas Rangers.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his fourth quality start in a row.
- Castillo will look to pitch five or more innings for the 13th start in a row.
- He has five appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 12 chances this season.
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(WTVO) — A groundbreaking medical study has uncovered the possible cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
SIDS is the unexplained death of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old, usually while the baby is asleep. Its cause has long been a mystery to the medical community.
But a new study may have discovered the reason why a child suddenly dies with no obvious explanation.
The Mayo Clinic suspected that SIDS was caused by a defect in the part of the brain that controls arousal from sleep and breathing. Researchers believed that when the baby stopped breathing during sleep, the defect would prevent the child from startling or waking up.
Now, researchers at The Children’s Hospital Westmead in Sydney, Australia, reportedly confirmed the theory by analyzing dried blood samples taken from newborns who died from SIDS.
They discovered that the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) was lower in the babies who died compared to living infants. The enzyme plays a major role in the brain’s arousal pathway, researchers said, accounting for why SIDS typically occurs during sleep.
The new discovery counters decades of medical advice to parents to lay babies on their backs and to keep toys and blankets out of the crib.
“This finding represents the possibility for the identification of infants at risk for SIDS prior to death and opens new avenues for future research into specific interventions,” researchers in the study wrote.
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