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DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sportscars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.
But as he used his final hours of freedom to tell his story to The Associated Press, Irizarry says he won’t go down for this alone, accusing some long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions of dollars from drug money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery.
The way Irizarry tells it, dozens of other federal agents, prosecutors, informants and in some cases cartel smugglers themselves were all in on the three-continent joyride known as “Team America” that chose cities for money laundering pick-ups mostly for party purposes or to coincide with Real Madrid soccer or Rafael Nadal tennis matches. That included stops along the way in VIP rooms of Caribbean strip joints, Amsterdam’s red-light district and aboard a Colombian yacht that launched with plenty of booze and more than a dozen prostitutes.
“We had free access to do whatever we wanted,” the 48-year-old Irizarry told the AP in a series of interviews before beginning a 12-year federal prison sentence. “We would generate money pick-ups in places we wanted to go. And once we got there it was about drinking and girls.”
All this revelry was rooted, Irizarry said, in a crushing realization among DEA agents around the world that there’s nothing they can do to make a dent in the drug war anyway. Only nominal concern was given to actually building cases or stemming a record flow of illegal cocaine and opioids into the United States that has driven more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths a year.
“You can’t win an unwinnable war. DEA knows this and the agents know this,” Irizarry said. “There’s so much dope leaving Colombia. And there’s so much money. We know we’re not making a difference.”
“The drug war is a game. ... It was a very fun game that we were playing.”
Irizarry’s story, which some former colleagues have attacked as a fictionalized attempt to reduce his sentence, came in days of contrite, bitter, sometimes tearful interviews with the AP in the historic quarter of his native San Juan. It was much the same account he gave the FBI in lengthy debriefings and sealed court papers obtained by the AP after he pleaded guilty in 2020 to 19 corruption counts, including money laundering and bank fraud.
But after years of portraying Irizarry as a rogue agent who acted alone, U.S. Justice Department investigators have in recent months begun closely following his confessional roadmap, questioning as many as two-dozen current and former DEA agents and prosecutors accused by Irizarry of turning a blind eye to his flagrant abuses and sometimes joining in.
With little fanfare, the inquiry has focused on a jet-setting former partner of Irizarry and several other trusted DEA colleagues assigned to international money laundering. And at least three current and former federal prosecutors have faced questioning about Irizarry’s raucous parties, including one still in a senior role in Miami, another who appeared on TV’s “The Bachelorette” and a former Ohio prosecutor who was confirmed to serve as the U.S. attorney in Cleveland this year before abruptly backing out for unspecified family reasons.
The expanding investigation comes as the nation’s premier narcotics law enforcement agency has been rattled by repeated misconduct scandals in its 4,600-agent ranks, from one who took bribes from traffickers to another accused of leaking confidential information to law enforcement targets. But by far the biggest black eye is Irizarry, whose wholesale betrayal of the badge is at the heart of an ongoing external review of the DEA’s sprawling foreign operations in 69 countries.
The once-standout agent has accused some former colleagues in the DEA’s Miami-based Group 4 of lining their pockets and falsifying records to replenish a slush fund used for foreign jaunts over the better part of a decade, until his resignation in 2018. He accused a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent of accepting a $20,000 bribe. And recently, the FBI, Office of Inspector General and a federal prosecutor interviewed Irizarry in prison about other federal employees and allegations he raised about misconduct in maritime interdictions.
“It was too outlandish for them to believe this is actually happening,” Irizarry said of investigators. “The indictment paints a picture of me, the corrupt agent that did this entire scheme. But it doesn’t talk about the rest of DEA. I wasn’t the mastermind.”
The federal judge in Tampa who sentenced Irizarry last year seemed to agree, saying other agents corrupted by the “allure of easy money” need to be investigated. “This has to stop,” Judge Charlene Honeywell told prosecutors, adding Irizarry was “the one who got caught but it is apparent to this court that there are others.”
The Justice Department declined to comment. A DEA spokesperson said: “José Irizarry is a criminal who violated his oath as a federal law enforcement officer and violated the trust of the American people. Over the past 16 months, DEA has worked vigorously to further strengthen our discipline and hiring policies to ensure the integrity and effectiveness of our essential work.”
AP was able to corroborate some, but not all, of Irizarry’s accusations through thousands of confidential law enforcement records and dozens of interviews with those familiar with his claims and the ongoing investigation, including several who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.
The probe is focused in part on George Zoumberos, one of Irizarry’s former partners who traveled overseas extensively for money laundering investigations. Irizarry told AP that Zoumberos enjoyed unfettered access to so-called commission funds and improperly tapped that money for personal purchases and unwarranted trips, using names of people that didn’t exist in DEA reports justifying the excesses.
Zoumberos remained a DEA agent even after he was arrested and briefly detained on allegations of sexual assault during a trip to Madrid in 2018. He resigned only after being stripped of his gun, badge and security clearance for invoking his Fifth Amendment rights to stay silent in late 2019, when the same prosecutor who charged Irizarry summoned him to testify before a federal grand jury in Tampa.
Authorities are so focused on Zoumberos that they also subpoenaed his brother, a Florida wedding photographer who traveled and partied around the world with DEA agents, and even granted him immunity to induce his cooperation. But Michael Zoumberos also refused to testify and has been jailed outside Tampa since March for “civil contempt” — an exceedingly rare pressure tactic that underscores the rising temperature of the investigation.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, but I’m not going to talk about my brother,” Michael Zoumberos told AP in a jailhouse interview. “I’m basically being held as a political prisoner of the FBI. They want to coerce me into cooperating.”
Some current and former DEA agents say Irizarry’s claims are overblown or flat-out fabrications. The former ICE agent scoffed at Irizarry’s accusation he took a $20,000 bribe, saying he raised early red flags about Irizarry. And the lawyer for the Zoumberos brothers says prosecutors are on a “fishing expedition” to bring more indictments because of the embarrassment of the Irizarry scandal.
“Everybody they connect to José is extraneous to his thefts,” said attorney Raymond Mansolillo. “They’re looking to find a crime to fit this case as opposed to a crime that actually took place. But no matter what happens they’re going to charge somebody with something because they don’t want to come out of all of this after five years and have only charged José.”
Making Irizarry’s allegations more egregious is that they came on the heels of a 2015 Inspector General’s report that slammed DEA agents for participating in “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by Colombian cartels. That prompted the suspension of several agents and the retirement of Michele Leonhart, the DEA’s administrator at the time.
Central to the Irizarry investigation are overly cozy relationships developed between agents and informants — strictly forbidden under federal guidelines — and loose controls on the DEA’s undercover drug money laundering operations that few Americans know exist.
Every year, the DEA launders tens of millions of dollars on behalf of the world’s most-violent drug cartels through shell companies, a tactic touted in long-running overseas investigations such as Operation White Wash that resulted in more than 100 arrests and the seizure of more than $100 million and a ton of cocaine.
But the DEA has also faced criticism for allowing huge amounts of money in the operations to go unseized, enabling cartels to continue plying their trade, and for failing to tightly monitor and track the stings, making it difficult to evaluate results.
A 2020 Justice Department Inspector General’s report faulted the DEA for failing since at least 2006 to file annual reports to Congress about these stings, known as Attorney General Exempted Operations. That rebuke, coupled with the embarrassment brought on by Irizarry’s confession, prompted DEA Administrator Anne Milgram to order an outside review of the agency’s foreign operations, which is ongoing.
“In the vast majority of these operations, nobody is watching,” said Bonnie Klapper, a former federal prosecutor in New York and outspoken critic of DEA money laundering. “In the Irizarry operation, nobody cared how much money they were laundering. Nobody cared that they weren’t making any cases. Nobody was minding the house. There were no controls.”
Rob Feitel, another former federal prosecutor, said the DEA’s lax oversight made it easy to divert funds for all kinds of unapproved purposes. And as long as money seizures kept driving stats higher — a low bar given abundant supply — few questions were asked.
“The other agents aren’t stupid. They knew there were no controls and a lot of them could have done what Irizarry did,” said Feitel, who represents a former DEA agent under scrutiny in the inquiry. “The line that separates Irizarry from the others is he did it with both hands and he did it over and over and over. He didn’t just test the waters, he took a full bath in it.”
Irizarry, who speaks in a smooth patter that seamlessly switches between English and Spanish, was a federal air marshal and Border Patrol agent before joining the DEA in 2009. He said he learned the tricks of the trade as a DEA rookie from veteran cops who came up in New York City in the 1990s when cocaine flooded American streets.
But another key part of his education came from Diego Marín, a longtime U.S. informant known to investigators as Colombia’s “Contraband King” for allegedly laundering dope money through imported appliances and other goods. Irizarry said Marín taught him better than any agent ever could the nuances of the black-market peso exchange used by narcotraffickers across the world.
Irizarry parlayed that knowledge into a life of luxury that prosecutors say was bankrolled by $9 million he and his Colombian co-conspirators diverted from money laundering investigations.
To further the scheme, Irizarry filed false reports and ordered DEA staff to wire money slated for undercover stings to international accounts he and associates controlled. Hardened informants who kept a hefty commission from every cash transfer sanctioned by the DEA also stepped in to fund some of the revelry in what amounted to illegal kickbacks.
Irizarry’s spending habits quickly began to mimic the ostentatious tastes of the narcos he was tasked with targeting, with spoils including a $30,000 Tiffany diamond ring for his wife, luxury sports cars and a $767,000 home in the Colombian resort city of Cartagena. He’d travel first class to Europe with Louis Vuitton luggage and wearing a gold Hublot watch.
“I was very good at what I did but I became somebody I wasn’t. ... I became a different man,” Irizarry said. “I got caught up in the lifestyle. I got caught up with the informants and partying.”
Irizarry contends as many as 90% of his group’s work trips were “bogus,” dictated by partying and sporting events, not real work. And he says the U.S. government money that helped pay for it was justified in reports as “case-related — but that’s a very vague term.”
Case in point: an August 2014 trip to Madrid for the Spanish Supercup soccer finals that was charged as an expense to Operation White Wash.
But Irizarry told investigators there was little actual work to be done other than courtesy calls to a few friendly Spanish cops. Instead, he said, agents spent their time dining at pricey restaurants — racking up a 1,000-euro bill at one — and enjoying field-side seats for the championship match between Real and Atletico Madrid.
Joining the posse of agents at the game was Michael J. Garofola, a then-Miami federal prosecutor and erstwhile contestant on “The Bachelorette” who posted a thumbs-up photo on Instagram standing next to Irizarry and another agent — all clad in white Real Madrid jerseys.
“Soaking up the last bit of Spanish culture before saying adios,” he posted a few days later outside a pub.
Irizarry alleged that Garofola also joined agents, cartel informants and others in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo in 2014 for a night at a strip club called Doll House. In a memo to the court seeking a reduction in his sentence, Irizarry recalled being in the VIP room with another agent and Garofola, racking up a $2,300 bill paid for by a violent emissary of Marín with a menacing nickname to match: Iguana.
Garofola said the trips included official business and he assumed everything was being paid for out of DEA funds.
“There were things about those trips that made me question why I was there,” Garofola told AP. “But Irizarry totally used me to ratify this behavior. I was brand new and green and eager to work money laundering cases. He used me just by my being there.”
When Irizarry was awarded with a transfer to Cartagena in 2015, the party followed. The agent’s rooftop pool, with sweeping ocean views, became an obligatory stop for visiting agents and prosecutors from the U.S.
One that Irizarry recalls seeing there was Marisa Darden, a prosecutor from Cleveland who he says traveled to Colombia in September 2017 and was at a gathering where he witnessed two DEA agents taking ecstasy. Irizarry says he didn’t see Darden taking drugs.
Federal authorities have taken a keen interest in that party, quizzing Irizarry about it as recently as this summer. At least one DEA agent who attended has been placed on administrative leave.
Darden went on to become a partner in a high-powered Cleveland law firm and last year was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the first Black woman U.S. attorney in northern Ohio. But soon after she was confirmed, Darden abruptly withdrew in May, citing only “the importance of prioritizing family.”
Darden refused to answer questions from AP but her attorney said in a statement that she “cooperated fully” with the federal investigation into “alleged illegal activity by federal agents,” an inquiry separate from the FBI background check she faced in the confirmation process.
“There is no evidence that she participated in any illegal activity,” Darden’s attorney, James Wooley, wrote in an email to AP.
A White House official said the allegations did not come up in the vetting process. And U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who put Darden’s name up for the post, was also unaware of the allegations in the nomination process, his office said, and had he known “would have withdrawn his support.”
Another federal prosecutor named by Irizarry and questioned by federal agents was Monique Botero, who was recently promoted to head the narcotics division at the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami. Irizarry told investigators and the AP that Botero joined a group of agents, informants, Colombian police and prostitutes for a party on a luxury yacht.
Botero’s lawyers acknowledge she was on the yacht in September 2015 for what she thought was a cruise organized by local police, but they say “categorically and unequivocally, Monique never saw or participated in anything illegal or unethical.”
“Irizarry has admitted that he lied to everyone around him for various nefarious reasons. These lies about Monique are part of a similar pattern,” said her attorney, Benjamin Greenberg. “It is appalling that Monique is being maligned and defamed by someone as disgraced as Irizarry.”
Irizarry’s downfall was as sudden as it was inevitable — the outgrowth of a lavish lifestyle that raised too many eyebrows, even among colleagues willing to bend the rules themselves. Eventually, he was betrayed by one of his closest confidants, a Venezuelan-American informant who confessed to diverting funds from the undercover stings.
“José's problem is that he took things to the point of stupidity and trashed the party for everyone else,” said one defense attorney who traveled with Irizarry and other agents. “But there’s no doubt he didn’t act alone.”
Since his arrest, Irizarry has written a self-published book titled “Getting Back on Track,” part of his attempt to own up to his mistakes and pursue a simpler path after bringing so much shame upon himself and his family.
Recently, his Colombian-born wife — who was spared jail time on a money laundering charge in exchange for Irizarry’s confession — told him she was seeking a divorce.
Adding to Irizarry’s despair is that he is still the only one to pay such a heavy price for a pattern of misconduct that he says the DEA allowed to fester. To date, prosecutors have yet to charge any other agents, and several former colleagues have quietly retired rather than endure the disgrace of possibly being fired.
“I’ve told them everything I know,” Irizarry said. “All they have to do is dig.”
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Aritz Parra in Madrid and Chris Megerian in Washington contributed to this report.
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Contact AP’s global investigative team at Investigative@ap.org. Follow the reporters on Twitter: @JimMustian and @APJoshGoodman.
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STAMFORD, Conn., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, today announced the following details for its second quarter 2022 earnings release and conference call:
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating after two people were shot on the north side of Indy.
According to IMPD, they responded to a report of a person shot at the 4100 block of Broadway St. just after midnight. Police found a man and a woman with gunshot wounds.
Police believe someone shot at the victims from outside the home.
“We are asking for anybody who has cameras, anybody who saw anything around midnight to look at those cameras, and if you see anything suspicious, anything that stands out — please contact the IMPD Aggravated Assault Office at [317] 327-3475. Or they can call Crime Stoppers at [317] 262-TIPS,” said IMPD Lt. Shane Foley.
The male victim was last said to be in critical condition. The woman was said to be stable.
Police records show IMPD has responded to the address of the shooting more than a dozen times in the past few years. The most recent instance was for a theft in progress about a year ago. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/indycrime/2-people-shot-on-the-north-side/ | 2023-03-29 09:57:28 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/indycrime/2-people-shot-on-the-north-side/ |
“Drifting Into Darkness: Murder, Madness, Suicide, and a Death ‘Under Suspicious Circumstances’”
Author: Mark I. Pinsky
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Pages: 380
Price: $24.95 (Paper)
Mental Illness Meets Manipulation, Ends In Murder
True crime books are a special genre and pose special difficulties for the writer and also for the reviewer.
Usually, as in this case, the crime has been committed and the murderer caught.
The writer’s job, then, is to tell the story of that crime, in detail, examining all the evidence, laying out the timeline, and explaining why the perpetrator committed the crime and how.
In Montgomery, Alabama, on Thanksgiving in 2004, Charlotte and Brent Springford Sr., in their Garden District home, were viciously beaten to death with an ax handle and then both their throats slashed with a knife. The suspect, their son, Brent Jr., was quickly caught and arrested.
He definitely did it, but was also clearly a very disturbed young man. Pinsky narrates the lawyers’ debate over the charges and pleas: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, perhaps.
Pinsky spends a good deal of time examining Brent Jr.’s mental health, obsessions and descent into what is diagnosed as bipolar disorder with the possibility of schizophrenia.
That drift into madness occurred over a period of years and there were contributing factors and various signs and symptoms.
Although it would be ridiculous to suggest being spoiled was a cause for parricide, Brent was famously spoiled. The family business was the Pepsi bottling franchise. Perhaps surprisingly, the two most lucrative jobs in most towns are the bottling franchise and a car dealership.
These positions, one has learned, yield almost one and a half million per year.
The Springfords were world travelers and generous philanthropists. Brent Jr. had anything he desired. There was drinking and drug use and privilege. He was, apparently, never disciplined.
But along with this privilege came a family inheritance of mental illness.
Perhaps as a reaction against the family wealth, Brent became obsessed with matters spiritual.
Pinsky traces Brent’s journey, his geographical and interior search for transcendence. Brent used alcohol, marijuana, mushrooms, hallucinogenic drugs. He travelled to holy places like Machu Pichu and read an exhausting number of books, classical and New Age: the Dharma, the Tao Te Ching, “The Celestine Prophecy,” “Siddhartha,” “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,” “The Razor’s Edge,” Madame Blavatsky, the Bhagavad Gita.
He enrolled at and then sporadically attended Vanderbilt, and later Naropa in Colorado.
He fasted, stayed at monasteries, Buddhist and Hindu retreats, shaved his head, hurt himself, had hallucinations, was possessed by a malignant spirit named Akasha, became celibate.
He was clearly in great emotional, mental trouble and as vulnerable as one could imagine.
So, with bad luck he fell into the clutches of a brilliant, merciless, shameless, unscrupulous con artist named at this time Caroline Scoutt. Scoutt had had several names over time and listed her birthday in several different years in the ’50s and ’60s. Born Carol Gonzales, she claimed at different times to have a Ph.D., to be Apache, Comanche, Oglala and Lakota Sioux. She claimed to have been abused herself and collected large sums from donors to build a retreat center for abused Native American women. Never happened.
She ran a scheme with a Dr. Billica, billing thousands of dollars for herbs, vitamins and supplements; Billica diagnosed each emotionally unstable patient with lead and mercury poisoning which needed cleansing.
Scoutt operated as a shaman, a healer and nutritionist, gave counseling and breathing lessons and “rebirthing” sessions (don’t ask).
She put Brent in a trailer on her property in Wyoming and so completely bamboozled, ensorcelled, bewitched him that he turned over his paycheck and went hungry. She was a vicious dominatrix without leather and sex. His parents sent mountains of cash to Caroline, to care for him.
But, when she feared the financial spigot was going to be turned off, did she persuade him to kill his parents?
And, perhaps not coincidentally, there was another death on her property, presumably a suicide. Had she shot that fellow herself or convinced him to kill himself?
Pinsky spent years chasing down every detail concerning this larger-than-life con artist, read every document, interviewed all the officers of the court, learned what could be known. Readers do learn what happened to Brent and Scoutt and there are surprises.
My own takeaway: it is terrifying to think that such people as Caroline Scoutt are out there, roaming the world, sniffing for victims.
Don Noble’s newest book is Alabama Noir, a collection of original stories by Winston Groom, Ace Atkins, Carolyn Haines, Brad Watson, and eleven other Alabama authors. | https://www.apr.org/show/don-nobles-book-reviews/2022-06-27/drifting-into-darkness-murder-madness-suicide-and-a-death-under-suspicious-circumstances-by-mark-i-pinsky | 2022-06-27 15:41:50 | 1 | https://www.apr.org/show/don-nobles-book-reviews/2022-06-27/drifting-into-darkness-murder-madness-suicide-and-a-death-under-suspicious-circumstances-by-mark-i-pinsky |
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When Raevahnna Richardson spotted a woman standing outside a library in Salem, Oregon, gathering signatures for a gun-safety initiative, she made a beeline to her and added her name.
“I signed it to keep our kids safe, because something needs to change. I have a kid that’s going to be in first grade this upcoming season, and I don’t want her to have to be scared at school,” Richardson said.
“To keep our kids safe.” It’s something so many parents across the United States are worried about after the horrific massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. That mass shooting has given the Oregon ballot initiative huge momentum, with the number of volunteers doubling to 1,200 and signatures increasing exponentially, organizers said.
With the U.S. Senate unlikely to pass a “red flag” bill and the majority of state legislatures having taken no action on gun safety in recent years, or moving in the opposite direction, activists see voter-driven initiatives as a viable alternative.
“To get really strong action at this moment in time, it’s going to take people in a democracy to exercise that democratic right to get on the ballot and get it voted for,” said the Rev. Mark Knutson, a chief petitioner of the Oregon initiative.
Oregon appears to be the only state in America with a gun safety initiative underway for the 2022 election, according to Sean Holihan, state legislative director for Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence.
If the initiative gets on the ballot and it passes, anyone wanting to acquire a firearm would first have to get a permit, valid for five years, from local law enforcement after completing safety training, passing a criminal background check and meeting other requirements. The measure would ban ammunition magazines over 10 rounds, except for current owners, law enforcement and the military, and the state police would create a firearms database.
The age range of those gathering signatures from registered voters runs from middle-schoolers to a 94-year-old, Knutson said. Volunteers are ensconced in a room at Augustana Lutheran Church in Portland, sorting through baskets of envelopes containing mailed-in signatures.
The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action has already come out strongly against the initiative, saying on its website that “these anti-gun citizens are coming after YOU, the law-abiding firearm owners of Oregon, and YOUR guns. They don’t care about the Constitution, your right to keep and bear arms, or your God-given right of self-defense.”
Knutson says the effort in Oregon “can start to build hope across the nation for others to do the same.”
Voters in two predominantly Democratic neighboring states have already passed gun safety ballot measures.
In 2018, Washington state voters approved restrictions on the purchase and ownership of firearms, including raising the minimum purchasing age to 21, adding background checks and increasing waiting periods. In 2016, voters there overwhelmingly approved a measure authorizing courts to issue extreme risk protection orders to remove an individual’s access to firearms.
California voters in 2016 passed a measure prohibiting the possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines and requiring certain individuals to pass a background check to buy ammunition.
The same year, voters in Maine narrowly defeated a proposal to require background checks before a gun sale.
Daniel Webster, co-director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins University, said ballot initiatives “are a great way to advance gun policies that are popular.”
“But I honestly don’t know how much one state’s ballot initiative affects the likelihood of other states taking action,” he added.
The Oregon initiative needs to deliver at least 112,080 registered voters’ signatures — verified by the secretary of state’s office — by July 8 to get on the ballot, Knutson said. By this week, more than 52,000 signatures were received by the campaign. Knutson is already planning to have teenagers travel to the secretary of state’s office in Salem aboard school buses to deliver boxes of sheets of signatures.
Meanwhile, pro-gun activists are also using ballot initiatives to protect what they see as their Second Amendment rights.
In 2020, Montana voters narrowly approved a ballot measure to remove local governments’ authority to regulate the carrying of permitted concealed weapons and to limit their authority to regulate the carrying of unconcealed weapons.
Voters in Iowa this November will decide whether to add gun rights language to their state constitution, after majority Republicans in the Legislature passed a resolution last year that got it onto the ballot, with no signature-gathering required.
Opponents said if the Iowa measure passes, courts might wind up striking down restrictions on gun background checks, permits required to carry a gun, and a ban on gun possession by people convicted of a felony.
An initiative in Nebraska, one of several there this year, would allow concealed or open-carry weapons to be carried in public places. And in Washington state, an initiative would prohibit state and local governments imposing limits on purchasing and owning firearms. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/texas-massacre-spurs-oregon-gun-safety-ballot-initiative/ | 2022-06-11 10:47:37 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/texas-massacre-spurs-oregon-gun-safety-ballot-initiative/ |
HOUSTON, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Biomaterials science innovator BUCHA BIO is announcing an oversubscribed $1.1 million Seed Round. BUCHA BIO makes biobased materials using bacterial nanocellulose and other plant-based components that replace unsustainable conventional leathers and plastics. The new funding will accelerate the company's move to market by securing co-manufacturers to scale material production for market availability in 2023. Several key hires will also join the growing team, including a new supply chain lead and technician roles. Additionally, funding will support the construction of the company's new Houston headquarters, housing a materials development laboratory, prototype manufacturing line, and offices.
Investors in the round include existing partners New Climate Ventures, Lifely VC, and Beni VC, accompanied by new partners Prithvi VC, Asymmetry VC, and investors from the Glasswall Syndicate, including Alwyn Capital, as well as Chris Zarou, CEO & Founder of Visionary Music Group and manager of multi-platinum Grammy-nominated rapper, Logic. Zarou emphasized his excitement, saying, "I'm excited to back BUCHA BIO's amazing early market traction. Their next-gen biobased materials are game-changing, and their goals align with my personal vision for a more sustainable future within the entertainment industry and beyond."
BUCHA BIO now has two biobased materials in development – SHORAI™ and HIKARI™. SHORAI™ can be used as an alternative to animal leather, plastic leather, or other types of synthetic materials. HIKARI™ is the newest offering, featuring a translucent aesthetic and unique processing capabilities to be formally introduced in November of this year. Parallel to expanding their technical team, BUCHA BIO plans to continue to unlock new form factors for their technology, including biofibers, biopackaging, and hard biocomposites. Applicable industries include fashion, automotive, home goods, electronics, and construction. BUCHA BIO's ultimate goal is to bring new material concepts from idea to finished product in-house via a library of biobased components, a prototype manufacturing line, and the company's core bacterial nanocellulose technology.
Next-gen materials, including biomaterials, have seen an increased level of interest from investors who have poured $2.3 billion into the sector since 2015, according to industry organization Material Innovation Initiative. Eric Rubenstein, Founding Managing Partner at New Climate Ventures, also recognizes the increased interest, "The time for rapid growth for biomaterials is now. BUCHA BIO's team and technical development are advancing hand in hand with the demands of brand partnerships, and we are excited to support them as they capitalize on this global opportunity."
As brands and investors push for the scaling of biomaterials, climate science also supports adopting BUCHA BIO's technology. The goal of reaching net zero emissions in industries like fashion and automotive places biomaterials in a good position as they typically have lower emissions than existing conventional materials.
"Prithvi Ventures invested in Bucha Bio to help them achieve gigaton scale GHG emissions reduction, using a price parity roadmap." says our second biggest investor, Kunal Sethi of Prithvi Ventures.
BUCHA BIO will release more detailed information on its long-term climate goals as it grows.
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San Francisco's drug, homeless crises exposed by citizen journalists
Defenders of the homeless say posting about San Francisco's substance abuse problem among the homeless population is 'shaming'
SAN FRANCISCO – The human misery and squalor on the streets of San Francisco has fed up residents taking to Twitter, posting grim and graphic images that spotlight problems they say are only getting worse.
"It's my city, my home. I love it. And to see it destroyed like this is just devastating," says Erica Sandberg, who calls herself an "SF War Correspondent" on her Twitter page.
Armed with her cell phone and a sense of purpose, she chronicles the decay and drug use along San Francisco's famed Market Street, just steps from the city-run Tenderloin Center that claims to address these very problems.
Sandberg then tweets images she says convey a reality beyond what local media show. When Fox News traveled with her Oct. 3, she was highlighting drug use and homeless tents outside a bus shelter and subway elevator.
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"Good, safe, clean public transportation is essential to a functioning city," she tweeted that day. "Inviting, isn't it?" Her post also called out the city's transportation chief and his six-figure salary.
Sandberg and others have filled Twitter with grim pictures aiming to raise awareness and pressure city officials to clean things up. Many posts show open-air drug use and drug dealing and spotlight the city's focus on harm reduction over mandated treatment programs.
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But advocates for the homeless criticize these posts. In an email to Fox News, a spokeswoman with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness said that "taking pictures of someone who likely is experiencing the worst time in their lives and then shaming them publicly can only hurt their chances of leaving it behind, as social media tends to follow people around."
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But, according to Sandberg, "The most ethical thing you can do is to shine a light on the actual situation. To turn your back and to say it's not happening, or I'm not going to take a picture of this, videos of this, I'm not going to share it … What that does, it hides it. It pushes everything under the rug. And then they don't get what they need. So it's wrong. It's wrong *not* to show it."
Another citizen journalist who has 17,000 followers doesn't plan to stop either. Her Twitter page is called "Jenny, Girl from Fourth World," because, she says, conditions in San Francisco are beyond Third World.
"Some of my Twitter posts," Jenny said, "I get a lot of angry feedback. ‘How dare you film,’ whatever, and I'm just like, 'Well, it's a public street! If they can be sleeping here, and I'm walking here, why can't I film it?'"
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The West Virginia University men’s soccer team earned a 1-0 win over Coastal Carolina in the Sun Belt Championship Quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon at the Bell Soccer Complex.
Freshman forward Marcus Caldeira scored the game-winning goal in the 70th minute to send the fourth-seeded Mountaineers (7-6-4) through to the semifinals. It also extended WVU’s unbeaten streak to eight matches.
A defensive-minded first half featured just five total shots. The No. 5-seed Chanticleers (5-5-6) hit the cross bar on a shot from distance in the 26th minute, while West Virginia’s best chance came off the foot of fifth-year senior forward Adam Burchell, who sent a hard shot wide.
The two squads remained scoreless after 45 minutes.
In the second half, junior forward Yutaro Tsukada recorded a pair of shots, including a near-goal in the 66th minute. That led to Caldeira’s tally in the 70th. The threat began when Burchell charged into the offensive zone and found Caldeira, who finished with his left foot.
The goal marked the Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, native’s fifth of the year, including his third game-winner.
WVU needed to make a final stand in the 84th minute. Luckily, junior goalkeeper Jackson Lee was there to make a diving save to keep the Mountaineers in front, the last of his three saves on the day.
West Virginia finished with a 10-7 edge in shots, including 7-5 in the second half. Tsukada had three shots to lead the team, while Caldeira and redshirt senior midfielder/defender Dyon Dromers each had two.
With the win, the Mountaineers moved to 4-1-2 all-time against Coastal. The squad also improved to 20-17-3 in program history in conference tournament action.
Additionally, the win gave coach Dan Stratford his first conference tournament victory in his head-coaching tenure at WVU.
Up next, West Virginia advances to the Sun Belt Semifinals on Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Lexington. The Mountaineers will battle the winner of a quarterfinal matchup between No. 1 Kentucky and No. 8 South Carolina. | https://www.wowktv.com/goldandbluenation/caldeiras-goal-sends-wvu-to-sbc-semifinals/ | 2022-11-07 01:17:06 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/goldandbluenation/caldeiras-goal-sends-wvu-to-sbc-semifinals/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-9-5
(zero, nine, five)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
0-9-5
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus Property is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Residences at Escaya, a 272-unit luxury Class A property in Chula Vista, California, 15 miles from Downtown San Diego.
The Residences at Escaya is situated in Chula Vista's rapidly growing Otay Ranch neighborhood, the best-selling 450-acre master planned community in San Diego. The property is located in one of the fastest growing cities in California surrounded by high-quality employment opportunities and exceptional retail and recreational amenities. Given its central San Diego location and exceptional freeway access, the property has outstanding connectivity to many of San Diego's key job centers including Downtown, Kearny Mesa, Mission Valley, and UTC. These employment hubs offer a large concentration of job opportunities in high-paying industries including cleantech, life sciences, aerospace/defense, and healthcare.
The Residences at Escaya will be an excellent addition to Olympus' growing portfolio, an experienced operator in California since 1992. "We feel fortunate to have been selected as the buyer of this top-of-the-market newly built asset," notes Chandler Wonderly, Principal of Olympus Property. "We look forward to long-term ownership and continued expansion in the market."
The Residences at Escaya is one of San Diego's most sought-after residential communities and recently won the highly coveted Pillars of the Industry award for the nation's "Best Garden Apartment Community" by NAHB. Built in 2019, The Residences at Escaya is a low-density community-centric luxury development. The property offers residents private garage and carport parking and a thoughtfully curated list of amenities including a 30,000 sq. ft. walkable retail village, a resort-style swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness center, expansive clubhouse, and outdoor lounge BBQ area. The property features well-designed spacious floor plans ranging from 784 Sq. Ft. to 1,560 Sq. Ft. and best-in-class finishes including quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, full-height tile backsplashes, wood-style plank flooring, in-unit washers/dryers, and ocean views from select units.
Established in 1992, Olympus Property is a highly experienced full-service multifamily owner and operator headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The company's portfolio is currently valued at over $6 billion and represents over 27,000 units under ownership and management. Olympus is consistently focused on high-growth markets and adding value across the portfolio. The company is currently invested in fourteen states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming and Kentucky.
To learn more about Olympus Property or for media inquiries, please contact Jeff Evans at 325-829-8844 or Jeff.Evans@OlympusProperty.com, or Braden Barr at 415-686-0232
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) _ Citi Trends Inc. (CTRN) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $30.2 million.
The Savannah, Georgia-based company said it had net income of $3.59 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 42 cents per share.
The clothing and accessories company posted revenue of $208.2 million in the period.
Citi Trends expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.25 to $2.75 per share, with revenue in the range of $860 million to $880 million.
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Coming off their best win so far in 2023, the Portland Timbers are home for their next two league matches, and next three overall.
A Saturday, May 6, visit from Austin FC kicks off a month that features four matches at Providence Park, including a May 10 U.S. Open Cup fourth-round game against Real Salt Lake.
And yes, the 2-1 road win over St. Louis CITY SC was the best victory so far this year. Sure, it wasn’t as emotional as that 4-1 win over Seattle. But, that match was controlled by the Sounders for long stretches. At St. Louis, the Timbers frustrated one of the top-scoring teams in MLS by winning a lot of possession battles.
If there can be some continuity in the lineup, the schedule should make the second third of the season a bit less daunting than the first third. Based on the standings through April 30, Portland has faced five of the top six teams in the overall MLS standings in the first 10 games.
With home matches against Austin (nine points from nine games), Vancouver (11 points from nine games) and Minnesota (12 points from nine games) this month, May certainly sets up an opportunity for Portland (3-5-2, 11 points) to move up the table.
Of course, getting and staying healthy will be a determining factor. The knee injury to David Ayala certainly dampened the celebratory mood after the win at St. Louis. The 20-year-old Argentine had only recently returned from a knee injury and was playing as if he’d have a significant role this season. As of this writing, there was no definitive word on the injury, but as Coach Giovanni Savarese noted, it didn’t look good.
Last week also included better news: Sebastian Blanco seeing 34 minutes in the 3-1 win over Orange County on April 26 in the U.S. Open Cup; Yimmi Chara returning from injury and delivering the game-winning goal off the bench at St. Louis; Evander converting a penalty and gradually starting to get comfortable with his new club and new league; and Cristhian Paredes showing maturity in playing significant minutes both in the Open Cup win and when he came on for Ayala at St. Louis.
Then there was the play of Santiago Moreno. Perhaps no other Timbers player benefits from the return of injured teammates more than the 23-year-old Colombian, who has found more space to work with and more confidence over the last two games. Moreno’s assertive dribbling run through the midfield led to his pass that set up Yimmi Chara’s goal at St. Louis. Sure, with better composure in front of goal Moreno would have scored himself at St. Louis, but as the match progressed his energy off the ball and assertiveness with it at his feet were important.
That Portland didn’t add help at center back before the transfer window closed was a disappointment, one that now can’t be addressed until the secondary transfer window (July 5 through Aug. 2). The Timbers did sign German-born rookie midfielder Noel Caliskan off of T2 to a one-year contract with team options for 2024 and 2025. Caliskan figures to play most of his soccer with T2 this season. Then again, if Ayala’s injury is as significant as it looked, Caliskan could be a useful midfield depth player.
Thorns hit road
After a home-heavy start to the season, the Portland Thorns play at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at North Carolina, then swing through Houston for a Friday, May 12, match with the Dash.
Bella Bixby left Thorns fans with a moment to savor when the Milwaukie native scored deep in stoppage time on April 26 to rescue a point from a 3-3 home draw with Angel City that kept Portland unbeaten through five NWSL matches. It’s the second time in Thorns and NWSL history that a goalkeeper has scored from a late corner kick to turn a loss into a draw. Michelle Betos did it in 2015 at home, her diving header turning a loss to Kansas City into a draw.
Bixby said she’s not comfortable heading the ball, so her approach was to stay out of the way of “teammates who actually know what they’re doing. So I just sat myself where I could hopefully pick up a rebound and luckily I did. It bounced right at me and I just kind of scooped it behind me.” | https://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/timbers-return-happy-thorns-hit-road-unbeaten/article_82f4e648-e723-11ed-adfa-831ab8444e43.html | 2023-05-01 22:03:40 | 1 | https://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/timbers-return-happy-thorns-hit-road-unbeaten/article_82f4e648-e723-11ed-adfa-831ab8444e43.html |
ATLANTA (AP) — ATLANTA (AP) — Williams Industrial Services Group Inc. (WLMS) on Wednesday reported a loss of $193,000 in its first quarter.
The Atlanta-based company said it had a loss of 1 cent per share.
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New Green Bay Packers quarterback Sean Clifford trolled for Bears tweet in 2014
Jordan Love undoubtedly will be leading the Green Bay Packers' offense this season under center.
But a bit of controversy arose involving a new Packers quarterback.
It didn't take long for the Twitter trolls to show up after Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst drafted Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford in the fifth round of the NFL draft Saturday.
As soon as Clifford was chosen, a 10-year old tweet of him rooting for the Chicago Bears was floating around cyberspace.
Clifford is from originally from Barrington, Illinois, so it's no surprise that it appears that he wasn't a exactly big fan of the green and gold prior to being selected by the Packers.
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DENVER (AP) — Mike Yastrzemski homered and John Brebbia pitched an inning in his second start of the series, helping the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 3-0 on Thursday to complete a four-game sweep.
Brebbia was followed by five relievers in the 10-hit shutout. Jharel Cotton (3-2) pitched 2 2/3 innings for the win in his first big league appearance since he was claimed off waivers from Minnesota on Sunday. Camilo Doval got three outs for his 24th save.
Brebbia also worked a scoreless inning when he got the start for Tuesday night's 6-3 victory. He became the first Giants pitcher to start twice in the same series since Dominic Leone against the San Diego Padres last September.
Before Leone, the last Giants pitcher to open twice in a series was Gaylord Perry against the Atlanta Braves on July 3 and July 6, 1969.
Joc Pederson and LaMonte Wade Jr. each hit an RBI single for San Francisco, which pulled off its first sweep of at least four games against the Rockies since July 15-17, 2019.
San Francisco went 11-5 this season against Colorado, winning its last five meetings with its NL West rival.
The Rockies lost their fifth in a row at home and were shut out for the 12th time this season. They loaded the bases with one out in the second, but Tyler Rogers got Brian Serven to ground into a double play. In all, the Giants turned four double plays.
Colorado right-hander José Ureña (3-7) was charged with two runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings. In 15 starts since joining the Rockies in early July, Ureña has received two or fewer runs in support in 12 outings, including zero runs six times.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rockies: INF Brendan Rodgers was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain. INF Ezequiel Tovar was promoted from Triple-A Albuquerque. ... 1B C.J. Cron was not in the starting lineup after leaving Wednesday night’s game with a left hand contusion. He was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the fourth inning. The team said X-rays were negative.
ROSTER MOVE
The Giants brought up right-hander Shelby Miller from Triple-A Sacramento and optioned right-hander Cole Waites to their top farm club.
UP NEXT
Giants: LHP Carlos Rodón (13-8, 2.84 ERA) takes the mound for Friday night’s series opener at Arizona. His start was pushed back three days to allow a finger blister and split nail on his pitching hand to calm down.
Rockies: RHP Ryan Feltner (3-8, 6.05 ERA) is slated to start Friday night against San Diego LHP Sean Manaea (7-9, 5.18 ERA) in the opener of Colorado’s final home series of the season.
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BALTIMORE — The homicide rate is increasing in a number of cities across the country and Baltimore is ranked number two with the highest increase.
Baltimore is second only behind New Orleans with the highest increase in homicide rates. However, Baltimore has the highest homicides per capita in the country.
Rates have risen by an average of 18% in 50 of the most populated U.S. cities according to a new study from Wallethub.
The study compared 50 of the largest cities based on per capita homicides in Q2 2022, as well as including per capita homicides in Q2 2022 vs. Q2 2021 and Q2 2020.
It also goes on to state that blue cities have a higher increase rate than red cities.
As of Saturday, Baltimore has 212 homicides.
The city is on track to beat the previous year's number which was 338. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/study-baltimore-ranked-as-a-top-city-with-increase-in-homicide-rates | 2022-07-30 20:51:21 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/study-baltimore-ranked-as-a-top-city-with-increase-in-homicide-rates |
Which Title boxing gloves are best?
Whether you box as a form of exercise or you compete, the right gloves are essential. They protect your hands, support your wrists and contribute to power and performance.
Since 1998, Title has been a reliable and respected brand in the boxing industry, known for making quality shoes, headgear and bags, but above all known for its gloves. It offers gloves in dozens of styles, sizes and weights to fit your needs, no matter your age or skill level. The best are its top-selling gloves, Title Classic Leather Elastic Training Gloves 2.0, because they’re versatile, easy to break in and made to last.
What to know before you buy Title boxing gloves
Types of boxing gloves
The type of boxing gloves you purchase depends on your skill level and how you plan to use them. Here’s a rundown:
- Training/sparring: These are good for everyday bag training or sparring with a partner. Designed for protection and to minimize injury, they’re also easy to slip on and remove.
- Bag gloves: These have less padding and are designed for hitting the heavy bag. They can help you focus on speed and form, but are better suited for more experienced boxers.
- Competition gloves: Lighter than training gloves, these are used for competitive boxing. They range from 6-10 ounces, depending on the weight division and sanctioning body holding the event. They tend to be more expensive than training gloves.
- Weighted gloves: These are made heavier to improve speed and power during training. They often have room to add additional weighted bars.
- MMA gloves: These are thinner and less heavily padded than boxing gloves. They often have open fingers, which is more conducive to grabbing and grappling. You don’t want to wear MMA gloves for boxing or vice versa.
When purchasing boxing gloves, look into hand wraps to protect your hands from injury. As you become more experienced, it’s also worth considering boxing shoes.
Weight
Title makes gloves that range from 6 to 20 ounces. Your body weight determines the weight of the boxing gloves you should purchase.
- 6-8 ounces: Under 100 pounds.
- 10 ounces: 100-125 pounds
- 12 ounces: 125-150 pounds.
- 14 ounces: 150-175 pounds.
- 16 ounces: Over 175 pounds.
As a rule, heavier gloves provide more protection for you and your opponent by absorbing more force, while lighter gloves let you deliver heavier, faster punches.
If you box competitively or in a gym, there might be specific rules about the weight of your gloves, so always double-check before purchasing.
What to look for in quality Title boxing gloves
Lace-up gloves vs. Velcro
When it comes to closing, tightening and securing boxing gloves, you have two choices:
- Lace-up gloves: These are tied using the laces along the inside of the wrist like a pair of shoes. All gloves used to be lace-up, but today only competition gloves tend to have laces. You can make them tight and secure, but they tend to be cumbersome. You also need help from another person getting them on.
- Velcro gloves: Also known as hook-and-loop gloves, these are tightened using a Velcro wrist wrap. They are easier to get on and off, and you can do so yourself. These are more common today.
Palm bar
Also known as a grip bar, this is a thin strip of dense foam that rests between the fingers and palm when making a fist. This strengthens your grip and prevents the leather on the gloves from bunching up.
Attached thumb
The thumb on many Title gloves is attached to the main portion of the glove. This keeps the thumb in place to help prevent injuries to both the boxer and the opponent.
How much you can expect to spend on Title boxing gloves
They range from $30-$200 depending on their construction, material and weight.
Title boxing gloves FAQ
What is the life expectancy of Title boxing gloves?
A. Boxing gloves have a lifespan of one to two years, depending on how much they are used. Even the best gloves wear out over time and need to be replaced. Worn-down gloves limit your power and provide less protection.
How should boxing gloves fit?
A. A boxing glove should fit snug but not too tight. You want to ensure proper circulation to your hands, while letting your wrists and fingers remain mobile. Your hands can swell when sweating, which can tighten the fit and decrease circulation.
What are the best Title boxing gloves to buy?
Top Title boxing gloves
Title Classic Leather Elastic Training Gloves 2.0
What you need to know: These have been the brand’s top-selling gloves for almost 20 years. They are continuously updated to be more comfortable and improve performance.
What you’ll love: Since they’re made from top-grain genuine leather, you don’t need to break in these gloves. They are long-lasting and resilient, packed professionally with 2 inches of custom-formed, shock-absorbing foam. They’re made with full wrap-around leather and elastic wrist straps, too, so you can ensure your hands and wrists are protected.
What you should consider: They don’t have a palm bar.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Title boxing gloves for the money
Title Classic Pro Style Training Gloves 3.0
What you need to know: These fan-favorite gloves are newly updated and come in four weights, making them suitable for youths and adults.
What you’ll love: This is a great beginner’s glove that boxers can use throughout their career for training purposes. They’re made with strong, durable synthetic leather, full wrap-around wrist straps and shock-absorbing foam on the fist and back of the hand. The nylon hand compartment liner wicks away sweat to keep your hands from slipping and can prevent moisture from building up between uses.
What you should consider: They’re designed primarily for light bag work and training.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: These exclusive gel-enforced gloves form to your hand to provide a custom fit while also providing additional impact resistance.
What you’ll love: These top-of-the-line gloves have multiple layers of foam padding to provide ultimate protection, power and performance. The all-leather outside and customized hand compartment keep your hands cool and dry during the most intense workouts and matches.
What you should consider: They’re more expensive than average boxing gloves and not ideal for beginners.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
07-15-16-20-23
(seven, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $68,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
07-15-16-20-23
(seven, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $68,000
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Billy Eppler is a busy man at this week’s GM meetings in Las Vegas, Nev.
That’s because he needs to decide how much the New York Mets are willing to spend on free agents Jacob deGrom and Brandon Nimmo.
DeGrom, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, opted out of his contract and could be in line for a massive payday (think Max Scherzer’s three-year, $130 million contract). Among the teams expected to chase the Mets ace are the Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers.
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On Tuesday, Eppler updated contract talks with deGrom. Per MLB.com:
“I think there’s a good deal of interest there on his part,” Eppler said. “That was articulated a number of times through the season and reiterated in our most recent conversation.” ... Asked specifically to gauge the chance of a reunion, Eppler replied that “it’s hard to handicap things like that,” before adding that deGrom’s interest “was articulated a number of times through the season and reiterated in our most recent conversation.”
Eppler also said the Mets will be “transparent” with deGrom “every step of the way through this.”
The New York Post’s Jon Heyman believes deGrom will land a three-year, $125 million contract. The Athletic’s Jim Bowden has deGrom pegged at two years and $90 million with an opt out after Year 1.
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As for Nimmo, Eppler said “Brandon, just like Jake, knows how we feel about him. He’s reached a point in his contract where he’s afforded the opportunity to look around, but I think there’s going to be strong communication there, as well.”
Heyman’s projected contract for the outfielder is seven years and $145 million. Bowden has Nimmo getting five years and $80 million.
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WHO: COVID-19 cases mostly drop, except for the Americas
LONDON (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January, the World Health Organization said.
In its latest weekly assessment of the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said there were more than 3.7 million new infections and 9,000 deaths in the last week, drops of 3% and 11% respectively. COVID-19 cases rose in only two regions of the world: the Americas and the Western Pacific. Deaths increased by 30% in the Middle East, but were stable or decreased everywhere else.
WHO said it is tracking all omicron subvariants as “variants of concern.” It noted that countries which had a significant wave of disease caused by the omicron subvariant BA.2 appeared to be less affected by other subvariants like BA.4 and BA.5, which were responsible for the latest surge of disease in South Africa.
Salim Abdool Karim, an infectious diseases expert at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said it appeared that South Africa had passed its most recent wave of COVID-19 caused by the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants; the country has been on the forefront of the pandemic since first detecting the omicron variant last November.
Karim predicted that another mutated version of omicron might emerge in June, explaining that the large number of mutations in the variant meant there were more opportunities for it to evolve.
Meanwhile in Beijing, authorities in the Chinese capital ordered more workers and students to stay home and implemented additional mass testing Monday as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. Numerous residential compounds in the city have restricted movement in and out, although lockdown conditions remain far less severe than in Shanghai, where millions of citizens have been under varying degrees of lockdown for two months.
China is vowing to stick to a “zero-COVID” policy despite the fact that the WHO describes the policy as “unsustainable,” given the infectious nature of omicron and its subvariants.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The National Park Service is asking summer park visitors not to touch any seemingly unattended baby deer no matter how cute they may be.
While fawns can sometimes appear abandoned, the NPS says, the mother doe is likely foraging nearby.
“Please do not approach or touch these fawns, they are very likely not abandoned,” the NPS wrote on Crater Lake National Park’s Facebook Page. Their mother has temporarily left her offspring, probably to find food, but will return. Let them be, and mother and child will soon be reunited.”
Baby deer are often found along the roadside following winters with heavy snowpack — similar to the snowpack accumulated in Oregon and around much of the western U.S. this year. While it may be tempting to approach these roadside critters, the NPS is asking the public to keep a safe distance from the local wildlife.
“Kindly, do not touch!” the NPS said. “It is at this time of year that does may give birth and temporarily leave their newborns on the side of the road on warm pavement, especially in high-snowpack years.”
According to the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), female deer hide newborn fawns and move some distance away to feed to avoid drawing predators to their offspring.
“Though it seems that they are vulnerable, these young fawns are not totally helpless. Their spotted pelts look like dappled sunlight on the forest floor and offer great camouflage. They do not have strong scent that would attract predators. Fawns are also programmed to keep totally still and quiet when hiding while their mother forages,” the NWF says.
If you do approach or touch a baby fawn, you risk leaving your scent on it, something that could lead predators to the baby, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says. You could also spook it into running away, and it won’t be there when the mother returns.
There are rare cases when it is OK to help a fawn, according to the NWF. “If you notice that a fawn is clearly injured or that it is near a dead adult doe, then it is acceptable to seek help. Start by calling your local animal control department or nature center, who can either take the animal or help locate a licensed wildlife rehabilitator who can.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/leave-the-baby-deer-alone-park-service-says/ | 2023-06-26 17:56:26 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/leave-the-baby-deer-alone-park-service-says/ |
SEOUL, South Korea, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 'iconic 4th generation performer' ONEUS will once again show why it is an irreplaceable entity in K-POP with its razor-sharp dance performances.
RBW (KRX:361570) artist ONEUS (Seoho, Leedo, Keonhee, Hwanwoong, and Xion) will release its 9th mini album 'PYGMALION' on various music streaming websites today (May 8 KST). This is the group's comeback in approximately eight months since the release of the group's 8th mini album 'MALUS' and just like the 'Pygmalion effect' that brings good results from good expectations and positive thoughts, the album's title contains the message of the group's intent to break free from the past and be reborn.
The album's title track 'ERASE ME' is an emo-pop song combined with the sounds of orchestra and EDM. The song starts off quiet in resemblance of the past with endless void and as the song progresses further, the melody surges and explodes like a supernova towards the end. The song features a strong beat that reminds the fans of the songs from the early days of ONEUS along with more mature vocals from the members of the group to make the song more addictive. This song announces the coming of the '42WORLD' which transcends across generations as the 4th generation group captures the sentimentality of the 2nd generation group.
The music video released with the song depicts the story of the members of ONEUS waking up their emotions deep inside and finding their true selves. After losing their liveliness under the pressure of conflicting emotions within, they bring warmth to each other's hands and step forward towards new hope. The detailed facial expressions and acting of the members in a minimum yet abstract space brings much immersiveness to the music video.
The 'PYGMALION' album also features five tracks in total consisting of 'Intro: LETHE', which expresses the perils of pain through a melody combining cellos and violins, 'Unforgettable,' which features a rhythmical sound that reminds us of our best days like in a movie, 'ECHO.' which features singing voices of the group's members as if they are whispering of love and 'Halley's Comet,' which expresses the faint memory of the moment when you fall in love. And Leedo was listed in the credits for the track 'ECHO' as he unveils his further developed musical talents.
'PYGMALION' is an album that shows the emotions and the process of overcoming hardships of ONEUS since making its debut five years ago. Especially, ONEUS intends to present such elements through their performance with 'ERASE ME' and to reaffirm their reputation as the 'iconic 4th generation performer.' The energetic group dance unique to ONEUS will feature a fatal and sexy choreography that will remind the fans once again why they are a group worth watching.
Meanwhile, ONEUS will release the 9th mini album 'PYGMALION' on various music streaming websites at 6PM today (May 8 KST) and begin performing live on the stage with the title track 'ERASE ME.'
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A prominent anti-abortion group is ramping up pressure on candidates in the Republican 2024 primary, using its considerable political influence to compel them to commit to a federal abortion ban.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s clout was on display last month when the group openly criticized the primary’s front-runner, former President Trump, calling on him to embrace a federal ban after he criticized GOP messaging on the issue following the party’s disappointing midterms. Recently, Trump met with the group to smooth out their differences.
But the group’s outsized influence has added further pressure to Trump and other GOP candidates as they attempt to navigate the thorny issue of abortion, which has proven a liability with Republicans since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
In a sign of the growing role SBA Pro-Life America is set to play, the group is partnering with GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway, who served as special counselor to Trump in the White House, to train candidates on articulating anti-abortion positions.
“Pro-lifers must be clear, crisp, compelling and, yes, compassionate in saving lives and appealing to hearts and minds,” Conway said in a statement to The Hill. “States’ rights are essential, but leaders in Washington also must support our first freedom, the right to life. More than 70% of the country agrees that abortion not past the first trimester, e.g., 15 weeks, is reasonable, yet 100% of Democrats insist on abortion, anytime, anywhere, anyone. They deny science, sonograms and sensibility.”
The move to partner with Conway finds high-profile Trump allies joining forces; the group’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, chaired the anti-abortion effort for Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.
Dannenfelser and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel have encouraged candidates to use the “ostrich strategy” when talking about the issue on the trail.
“The Democratic Party stance of abortion on demand, paid for by taxpayers, at any time and for any reason up until birth puts us in line with North Korea and China and is profoundly unpopular. Pro-life candidates who lean into the contrast win, while those who take the ‘ostrich strategy’ and try to run from the issue are done,” Dannenfelser said in a statement announcing the group’s partnership with Conway.
Still, various Republicans are cognizant of the issue’s political risk and how it is viewed in different parts of the country.
Earlier this month, GOP candidate Nikki Haley said it would be “unrealistic” for candidates to pledge to a federal abortion ban, noting the current divide in the Senate. SBA Pro-Life America called Haley’s remarks “unacceptable.”
The group has said its support for 2024 presidential hopefuls depends on the candidates supporting a minimum ban on abortions at 15 weeks.
It also says it has major plans to elevate the anti-abortion cause in the Republican primary and general election. The group says it will be on the ground in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Montana and Wisconsin, with a goal of knocking on 4 million doors. Anti-abortion candidates saw defeats in several of those states last year.
But anti-abortion activists largely credit SBA Pro-Life America for playing a key role in the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the election of candidates with anti-abortion views. In 2016, the group spent $18 million during the cycle and reached 1.6 million voters in five battleground states. That number jumped to $52 million in 2020, and the group says it reached 8 million voters in 10 battleground states.
“I know for a fact that senators and members of Congress and so on and so forth are willing to take Marjorie’s calls because they have evidence that SBA is willing to go to bat for them, as opposed to other groups, who will just put out an endorsement and maybe just spend some money on digital ads,” said one activist. “But door knocking is the hardest thing to do in politics because it’s the most time and money-consuming, and so it really makes a difference.”
The group has naturally drawn the ire of abortion access groups, who argue it is extreme.
“We know that Americans are with us even if they want to sort of pretend to be this kingmaker role that they can force or pressure candidates to come out and at minimum support 15-week bans,” said Taryn Abbassian, associate research director at NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Trump and SBA Pro-Life America both played a major role in setting the stage for Roe to be overturned, with Trump appointing three conservative justices who had the group’s backing to the high court.
“For 50 years, they had been trying to do it. I got it done, and now we’re in a position to make a really great deal, and a deal that people want,” Trump said in an interview with Newsmax on Tuesday.
However, Trump has not provided too many details on what would come next on abortion if he were to win another term in the White House. The former president told The Messenger in a Monday interview that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) six-week abortion ban was “too harsh” and did not say whether he would have signed the legislation himself.
That opened the door for DeSantis to swipe at Trump on the issue.
“Protecting an unborn child when there’s a detectable heartbeat is something that almost 99 percent of pro-lifers support,” DeSantis said at a Tuesday press conference. “As a Florida resident, you know, he didn’t give an answer about, ‘Would you have signed the heartbeat bill that Florida did, that had all the exceptions that people talk about?’”
When asked about a six-week ban on the procedure on Newsmax last week, Trump said “other people agree with it, and a lot of people don’t.”
“We’re in a position now, and I’m going to be leading the charge,” he said. “Where we can get something that the whole country can agree with.”
Recent polling shows the majority of Americans disagree with the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. An NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist poll released last month found roughly 60 percent of respondents said they disagree with the move to overturn the landmark case. Sixty-one percent of respondents said they “mostly support” abortion rights, while 37 percent said they’re opposed.
There is also some evidence that would suggest views on the legality of abortion are dependent on the pregnancy stage. A Pew Research survey released last year found that 56 percent of respondents said the timing of an abortion should be a factor in determining its legality.
SBA Pro-Life America and other anti-abortion activists point to the 2022 reelections of Republican governors who have implemented anti-abortion measures, like DeSantis, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R). DeSantis signed Florida’s six-week abortion ban after his reelection.
“In some ways, Republicans are doing the work for us,” Abbassian said. “They keep pushing these extreme bans and policies and we know those are unpopular.” | https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/anti-abortion-group-flexes-political-muscle-in-2024-gop-primary/ | 2023-05-23 12:27:51 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/anti-abortion-group-flexes-political-muscle-in-2024-gop-primary/ |
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight this week at a conference convened by its Republican governor, even as the state continues to embrace new fossil fuel production, including the controversial Willow oil project on the petroleum-rich North Slope.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy successfully pushed through the legislature a bill he is expected to sign Tuesday that would allow the oil-reliant state to cash in on the sale of so-called carbon credits to companies looking to offset their carbon emissions. Projects could include credits for improving a forest’s health through thinning or by allowing trees to grow bigger, thereby increasing a forest’s potential to hold carbon.
Lawmakers cast the bill as allowing Alaska to have the best of both worlds — continuing to permit oil drilling, mining and timber activities while also stepping into the potentially lucrative market for sequestering carbon dioxide. But some watching Alaska’s foray into this sector wonder if the program will gain traction as Dunleavy and lawmakers have said the aim isn’t restricting emissions but generating a new revenue stream.
“There’s kind of a field of dreams quality to this issue. ‘If you plant the trees and create credits, will anyone buy them?’” said Barry Rabe, a political scientist who studies environmental and climate politics at the University of Michigan’s Gerald Ford School of Public Policy.
“What’s just not clear is what that market would look like and whether or not purchasers … will find that an attractive investment,” he said. “That’s the leap of faith.”
Alaska has no carbon emissions reductions goals or overarching climate plan and relies heavily on oil production. It is also experiencing first-hand the impacts of the changing climate, such as coastal erosion threatening Indigenous villages, unusual wildfires and thinning sea ice.
The Willow project being developed by ConocoPhillips Alaska is the latest to draw international attention to the state’s oil reserves. The project approved by the Biden administration earlier this year could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day. It is being challenged in court by environmentalists who argue the U.S. should be moving away from new drilling in the face of climate change.
Republican Sen. Shelley Hughes said she was not fond of the carbon credit concept but was concerned that without embracing it, the state could face backlash from groups over its support for resource development projects, including its backing of Willow.
“I think that in order to get capital investment into our state, we are going to have to be perceived in a way that is trying to work through all of this,” she said during the recent legislative debate.
The bill that passed last week was one of two proposed by Dunleavy as a way to generate a new form of income for the state, which has struggled with deficits for much of the last decade. It would allow the state to set up carbon sequestration projects on forestland and sell credits to companies seeking to offset their emissions, with 20% of the revenue from such sales going to a state fund that supports renewable energy projects.
The bill also would let the state lease lands to third parties that want to manage sequestration projects of their own, such as reforesting areas burned by wildfire or growing kelp.
It could be several years before the first credit sales occur because of the time it will take to set up a program and develop or vet projects.
Another Dunleavy proposal that would have set up a regulatory system allowing for underground storage of carbon dioxide did not advance this session but remains in play for next year’s legislative session.
Dunleavy, meanwhile, is expected to tout the newly passed credit offset plan at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage this week. The governor created the conference in part “to show the world what Alaska has to offer,” spokesperson Grant Robinson said.
Some Republican lawmakers said the measure will allow Alaska to capitalize on the demand for carbon emissions offsets from companies already doing business in Alaska that might otherwise purchase carbon credits elsewhere.
“So if they’re going to do it anyways and they’re going to operate (on) Alaskan lands, then why shouldn’t we provide the service of carbon offsets to these companies?” Republican Rep. Kevin McCabe said. “At least then it stays in Alaska and we get some benefit to our state treasury for it.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-leap-of-faith-alaska-pursues-carbon-offset-market-while-embracing-oil/ | 2023-05-23 14:50:58 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-leap-of-faith-alaska-pursues-carbon-offset-market-while-embracing-oil/ |
MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez filed paperwork Wednesday to launch his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, jumping into the crowded race just a day after GOP front-runner Donald Trump appeared in court on federal charges in Suarez's city.
The 45-year-old mayor, the only Hispanic candidate in the race, declared his candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. He had teased an announcement, noting that he would be making a “big speech” Thursday at the Reagan Library in California.
“If I do decide to run," he said Tuesday before Trump's court appearance, “it’s starting a new chapter, a new conversation of a new kind of leader who maybe looks a little different, speaks a little different, had a little bit of a different experience, but can inspire people.”
Suarez, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is the son of Miami's first Cuban-born mayor. He has gained national attention in recent years for his efforts to lure companies to Miami, with an eye toward turning the city into a crypto hub and the next Silicon Valley.
Suarez, who is vying to become the first sitting mayor elected president, joins a GOP primary fight that includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Despite having a candidate field in the double digits, the race is largely seen as a two-person contest between Trump and DeSantis.
But the other competitors are hoping for an opening, which Trump has provided with his myriad legal vulnerabilities — none more serious than his federal indictment on charges of mishandling sensitive documents and refusing to give them back. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Miami federal court to 37 felony counts.
Suarez has said he didn't support Trump in either the 2016 or 2020 presidential elections, instead writing in the names of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and then-Vice President Pence. In 2018, Suarez publicly condemned Trump after reports came out that he had questioned why the United States would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa.
But times have changed, with Trump advisers now praising Suarez’s work and helping him promote what he calls “the Miami success story.” Trump’s former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has even floated Suarez’s name as a possible vice presidential pick.
Suarez, who is married with two young children, is a corporate and real estate attorney who previously served as a city of Miami commissioner. He has also positioned himself as someone who can help the party further connect with Hispanics. In recent months, he has made visits to early GOP voting states as he weighed a possible 2024 campaign.
He is more moderate than DeSantis and Trump, but has threaded the needle carefully on cultural issues that have become popular among GOP politicians.
Suarez has been critical of DeSantis, dismissing some of the state laws he has signed on immigration as “headline grabbers” lacking in substance. He has said immigration is an issue that “screams for a national solution” at a time when many Republicans back hard-line policies.
The two-term mayor previously expressed support for a Florida law championed by DeSantis and dubbed "Don't Say Gay" that bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, but he has not specified whether he supported the expansion of the policy to all grades. Like other Republicans, Suarez has criticized DeSantis' feud with Disney over the same law, saying it looks like a "personal vendetta."
Further ingratiating himself with the Trump team, Suarez has echoed Trump’s attacks on DeSantis’ demeanor, saying the governor doesn’t make eye contact and struggles with personal relationships with other politicians.
In 2020, the mayor made a play to attract tech companies to Florida after the state relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions. He met with Big Tech players and investors such as PayPal founder Peter Thiel and tech magnate Marcelo Claure, began appearing on national television and was profiled by magazines.
Suarez, who has said he takes his salary in Bitcoin, has also hosted Bitcoin conferences and started heavily promoting a cryptocurrency project named Miami Coin, created by a group called City Coins.
But the hype dissipated as virus restrictions eased elsewhere, eliminating Miami’s advantage on the COVID-19 front. Suarez’s vision also hit roadblocks with the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which was set to move its U.S. headquarters to Miami’s financial district before its founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas last December.
The only cryptocurrency exchange that traded Miami Coin suspended its trading, citing liquidity problems, not living up to its promise to generate enough money to eliminate city taxes.
Miami also ranks as one of the worst big U.S. cities for income inequality and is one of the country’s most unaffordable cities for housing. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/miami-mayor-francis-suarez-enters-crowded-gop-presidential-race-days-after-trumps-indictment/MDYJS5XIFVCQ5B2S7T5YXIXV7E/ | 2023-06-14 21:36:54 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/miami-mayor-francis-suarez-enters-crowded-gop-presidential-race-days-after-trumps-indictment/MDYJS5XIFVCQ5B2S7T5YXIXV7E/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — At the Toronto International Film Festival world premiere of “Bros,” Billy Eichner exhorted the crowd to keep cheering.
“Keep it going!” implored Eichner. “I want a longer ovation than ‘The Whale! ’”
In the whistle-stop lead-up to the release of “Bros,” Eichner has worked tirelessly to whip audiences into a frenzy for a film unlike any Hollywood has before produced. A lot is riding on the movie, and not just because Eichner, the 44-year-old “Billy on the Street ” comedian, has been working five years on what is his big-screen breakthrough. “Bros” is the first major-studio gay rom-com and the first studio movie starring and co-written by an openly gay man.
In drumming up excitement, Eichner has promoted these distinctions, lamented that they’ve lasted this long, and parodied his role in trying to pitch his movie to America. Revisiting his “Billy on the Street” persona, Eichner has run through Hollywood with Jack Black shouting, “I need allies!” Sprinting around New York’s Flat Iron Building with Paul Rudd, he exclaimed, “I’ve been working 20 years for this! I need a straight person to go see ‘Bros!’”
At the MTV VMAs, Eichner put the stakes in more dramatic terms, urging people to see “Bros” because “we need to show all the homophobes like Clarence Thomas and all the homophobes on the Supreme Court that we want gay love stories and we support LGBTQ people and we are not letting them drag us back into the last century because they are past and ‘Bros’ is the future.”
“Bros,” directed by Nicholas Stoller and produced by Judd Apatow, is a bid to challenge a Hollywood status quo that’s been more comfortable making gay characters sidekicks, roommates or fodder for straight-actor transformation than protagonists in love stories. And by all accounts — a celebrated reception at TIFF, glowing reviews ( 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoe s) and even the endorsement of hard-to-impress “Billy on Street” regular Elena — Eichner has made the movie of the moment. Now, it’s the audience’s turn to prove Eichner’s prediction of a “Bros” future correct.
In a recent interview while the “Bros-Mobile,” a 44-seat mobile theater, was passing through Philadelphia on a national tour, Eichner said he’d like everyone to see “Bros.” Sylvester Stallone? “I think Sylvester Stallone would love ‘Bros.’” Meryl Streep? “My God. She’s number one on my list.”
Made with an almost entirely LGBTQ cast, “Bros,” which stars Eichner and Hallmark Channel veteran Luke Macfarlane, is an uncommonly intimate, R-rated view of gay life that’s funny, moving and a little furious about how LGBTQ characters have usually been portrayed in studio films.
“We’re so often depicted as something so over-simplified and I think it’s because that’s what audiences have gotten used to, it’s what Hollywood’s gotten used to, and that’s what everyone decided people were comfortable with, that version of us,” says Eichner. “You didn’t really have to deal with us as actual, complicated human beings.”
“What I said to Judd and Nick was: I grew up with all those great romantic comedies, like ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘Working Girl’ and ‘Broadcast News,’ which is my favorite movie of all time. These movies were about adults,” adds Eichner. “We have no gay equivalent of that. And they barely make straight movies like that anymore.”
Even the broadest comedies have struggled to find a foothold in theaters in recent years. Stoller, the director of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Neighbors,” has been mystified by that trend, and by the sluggish pace of inclusion in big-screen comedies.
“Before ‘Bridesmaids’ came out, the whole industry was saying: ‘A comedy? Starring women? That’s not going to work,’” says Stoller. “Of course it worked! Half the people are women!”
Stoller initially reached out to Eichner about collaborating after being impressed by his performance on “Friends From College,” a sitcom Stoller created with his wife, Francesca Delbanco. The two worked on a screenplay for two years, beginning with conversations Stoller compares to therapy sessions. As he did with Jason Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and Russell Brand for “Get Him to the Greek,” Stoller peppered Eichner with questions about his life.
“He really wanted to do these monologues, which I thought was risky but also really interesting,” says Stoller. “He comes from a kind of quasi-stand-up. Before ‘Billy on the Street’ he was doing off-Broadway stuff. So he’d write these monologues that were self-aware and kind of explaining to the audience. I think it’s based on him having to explain over and over again to Hollywood who he is and what makes him funny.”
In the five seasons of “Billy on the Street,” in which Eichner quizzed and chastised New York passersby on their pop culture knowledge, the Queens native channeled his love-hate relationship with Hollywood into hysterical, rage-fueled encounters. But in writing “Bros” with Stoller, he wanted to make something more sincere.
“When I thought about what I wanted the movie to be, I realized it was a huge and unique opportunity for me and for LGBTQ folks and also for straight audiences to get a sense of who we really are,” says Eichner. “Because it’s a Judd Apatow movie, and straight people love Judd Apatow movies.”
Eichner and Stoller aimed for something that would navigate the love life of a commitment-phobic New Yorker (not unlike Eichner, himself) while honoring the unique complexities of gay love and commenting on its usual media portrayals. The result is a movie with a lot on its mind that still seeks to be a crowd-pleaser.
“This movie tested higher than any movie I’ve worked on in its first test screenings,” says Stoller. “Immediately, the audience loved it. It was interesting because you feel like the gay audience will laugh at certain jokes that the straight audience doesn’t get, but then everyone’s laughing at certain things together.”
Stoller recalls some of his favorite test-audience comments. A gay man responded: “I don’t know if I want our secrets getting out.” A straight guy said on the film’s sex scenes: “It made me uncomfortable, but I liked it.”
Some have suggested Eichner has overplayed the historical nature of “Bros.” A Gawker headline read: “Billy Eichner is the first gay man ever.” There have been some recent films that centered on gay romance, like the more dramatic “Love, Simon” (2018), and streaming releases like Netflix’s “Happiest Season” (2020) and Hulu’s “Fire Island” from earlier this year.
But “Bros” is trying to reach mainstream audiences in theaters within the very recognizable vehicle of an Apatow-produced comedy — to be 2022’s answer to “Knocked Up.” There’s already been some evidence of trolling on the film. IMDB this week removed hundreds of one-star reviews for “Bros” in an apparent bid to review-bomb the film before it was released.
To Jim Rash, the “Descendants” writer and “Community” actor who plays a colleague of Eichner’s in the movie, the set of “Bros” was unlike any he had been on before.
“I’ve played characters that were straight. I’ve played gay. I’ve played in the closet. I’ve played might-be-gay. But ‘Bros’ was a movie where what you see on the screen is the entire representation of it,” says Rash. “There’s a safe space that comes with knowing that at the helm is someone who’s very much focused on the diversity of the environment that he was creating. It inherently had that because you were with your community.”
There are raunchy comic scenes in “Bros” and some of the genre’s tried-and-true romantic moments. But one thing that may surprise fans of “Billy on the Street” is how earnest it can be. One scene is set on a beach in Provincetown, Mass., in which Eichner performs a tender monologue about opening himself up to love is part of the “Bros” revolution, too.
“Just as much of an influence on ‘Bros’ as ‘Bridesmaids’ was was ‘The Way We Were.’ I miss that about movies,” says Eichner. “For gay men, especially, the romance of our lives is just nowhere to be found. There’s a lot to be cynical about in the world. But I think this is an opportunity for people to stop and say: Let’s take love stories and great comedies about life and the human condition as seriously as we take stories about a man dressed up as a bat saving Gotham City.”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Memphis Police released surveillance video Tuesday after more than 20 shoplifters stormed Walmart and got away with some expensive items.
Surveillance video shows the suspects pulling into the parking lot of the business around 8:50 p.m. Sunday.
According to police, the armed shoplifters entered the store through the automotive section after allegedly throwing a four-way tire iron through a window in the section.
In the video that was released Tuesday, you can see dozens of people running into the store and leaving with their arms full of various items.
Records show the 22 suspects took off with items including speakers, two flat-screen TVs, shop vacuums, car batteries, and two Black Panther scooters. Investigators say stolen items were worth a total of $7,715.80.
Over a dozen officers responded, but the suspects were gone before they arrived. Police said the suspects left the store through the same broken window. Another surveillance video showed the group arriving in over 20 vehicles, including Infinitis, Dodges, Chryslers, and Kias.
Stephanie Sharp, of Walmart Media Relations, issued the following statement:
“We are troubled by what happened in our store Sunday evening and are glad no customers or associates were injured. We’ll continue working closely with local law enforcement on their investigation.”
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PARIS (AP) — In a show of France’s military prowess, President Emmanuel Macron visited a Caesar cannon firing range and missile testing facility Thursday.
The Elysee presidential palace said the presidential visit to the test center of the General Directorate of Armaments and to see ammunition manufacturing activities on the Nexter Arrowtech site -- both in the Cher region of central France -- is aimed to remind military “manufacturers of the objective of producing enough, more quickly and at controlled prices.”
He also visited the Bourges military preparatory school alongside Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
It comes four months after Macron set out the need to adapt the French military to new conditions amid war in Europe.
In June, the French leader ordered his armed forces ministers to reassess military strategy and weapon manufacturing because of “this high-intensity war that has returned to European soil.” He said that France must increase its military capacity and speed.
Macron’s rhetoric and visit in Cher highlights the dilemma of many NATO members, who have sent billions of dollars worth of arms to Ukraine to help the war effort -- yet are well-aware the need to be prepared themselves if Russia targets them next.
Weapons shortages across Europe, including in France, could force hard choices for Ukraine’s allies.
Earlier this month, France pledged air defense systems to protect Ukrainian cities against drone strikes, as well as an expanded training program for Ukrainian soldiers, as it seeks to puncture perceptions that Macron’s centrist government has lagged in supporting Ukraine militarily against the Russian invasion.
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FAIRFIELD, Calif. (KRON) – A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by Fairfield police for shooting a 33-year-old Fairfield resident Tuesday morning, FPD announced in a statement Friday.
The shooting took place just after midnight in the 800 block of East Tabor Avenue. Police say the victim was walking in his apartment complex’s parking lot and exchanged words with two men who walked by him before one opened fire.
The victim sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital, where FPD say he remains at the time of publication. The 16-year-old was booked into juvenile hall for attempted murder.
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COLUMBUS, Ga., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated today announced that Eric Kirsch, executive vice president and global chief investment officer; president of Aflac Global Investments, will retire from Aflac, effective March 31, 2023. Kirsch will be succeeded by Bradley Dyslin, deputy global chief investment officer; senior managing director; global head of credit and strategic investment opportunities. Dyslin will officially start his new role on January 1, 2023, with Kirsch serving as executive vice president in transition before retiring effective March 31, 2023.
Kirsch joined Aflac 11 years ago with a mandate to build a world-class global investment team. Leveraging his more than 30 years of asset management experience at the time, he was responsible for building a brand new investment platform in New York City that was globally integrated with a Tokyo-based investments team. Kirsch oversaw the design and growth of Aflac Global Investments, including hiring a high-quality leadership team and creating a disciplined approach to managing the general account emphasizing asset allocation, diversification, liquidity and risk management. Over his tenure, he was responsible for applying these practices to more than $120 billion of assets under management (AUM), consistently outperforming investment performance targets, while structuring a high-quality portfolio with a distinguished credit track record. Under Kirsch's leadership, Aflac Global Investments has established itself as a leading insurance asset manager across public and private assets, currency strategies, and alternatives, while incorporating ESG principles of investing. More recently under his leadership, Aflac Global Investments has established itself as a strategic partner to third-party asset managers through joint ventures and minority equity stakes, gaining access to specialty asset classes and business growth opportunities. He was named a Top 30 Chief Investment Officer by Trusted Insight in 2014 and a Top Power 100 Power Player in Investment Management in 2015, 2016 and 2019 by Chief Investment Officer Magazine.
Dyslin, one of the original executives Kirsch hired when building out the investment platform, has more than 30 years of investment experience in insurance asset management. In early 2021, Dyslin was promoted to deputy global chief investment officer, recognizing his contributions to the platform and his leadership capabilities. He joined Aflac Global Investments in 2012 as managing director and global head of credit, responsible for over $93 billion of credit AUM globally. He implemented a new credit function with rigorous underwriting standards that led to significant improvement in portfolio quality, while becoming a core investment strength. In 2017, he expanded his role to co-lead the external management platform responsible for asset outsourcing and overseeing third-party managers. While in this role, assets managed by third parties increased to $12 billion, with a specialty focus on corporate and real estate loans that helped improve portfolio diversification and risk-adjusted new money yields. Under Dyslin's leadership, Aflac Global Investments has developed strategic partnerships with third-party asset managers, including joint ventures and equity ownership stakes. Prior to joining Aflac, he served in a variety of investment management roles at Principal Financial Group, Deutsche Asset Management and Hartford Investment Management.
Commenting on the announcement, Daniel P. Amos, Aflac Incorporated chairman and chief executive officer, said: "I am grateful for Eric's leadership, dedication, and contributions to Aflac over the last 11 years. Eric has successfully built a leading global investment team while managing a well-diversified portfolio that has mitigated risk and added substantial income resulting in substantial value for Aflac and its shareholders. At the same time, Eric has developed a superior leadership team, including Brad, who has done an equally remarkable job enhancing our investment function. I am especially pleased to have someone with Brad's expertise, experience, and leadership assume responsibility for Aflac Global Investments."
Also commenting on the announcement, Frederick J. Crawford, Aflac Incorporated president and chief operating officer, said: "Eric has distinguished himself as an outstanding partner and accomplished leader who has grounded our portfolio with a robust strategic asset allocation process. His ability to drive strong investment results and financial strategy has become the bedrock of our investment approach, garnering a strong reputation for excellence both as an individual and on behalf of Aflac. As part of his decade-long legacy, Eric leaves us with an excellent successor in Brad. Their collaboration over the years will ensure continuity and will result in a seamless transition, as Brad is the right person to lead Aflac Global Investment's teams and investment strategy into the future."
About his upcoming retirement, Kirsch added: "The opportunity to join Aflac 11 years ago with a mission to build out a global investments business has been one of the greatest and most rewarding challenges of my career. It has been my privilege to serve Aflac and its shareholders, and to have the opportunity to fulfill the mission with which Dan originally charged me. I am grateful for the extraordinary opportunity to lead such an accomplished, dedicated team of international colleagues who are as passionate as I am about finding investments that not only meet our objectives, but that represent our values. Brad's strong investment ability and leadership have made him an invaluable partner who I know will continue growing the success of Aflac Global Investments."
About his new role, Dyslin added: "I am grateful for the opportunity from Dan, Fred, and the Board to lead Aflac Global Investments. Working closely with Eric over the last 11 years has been a very rewarding experience. I am fortunate to be part of a talented team of global investment professionals committed to maintaining our legacy of strong performance, and I am confident Aflac Global Investments will continue growing our contribution to Aflac's overall success."
ABOUT AFLAC INCORPORATED
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products.1 Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year. Also in 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was included on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/espanol. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
1 LIMRA 2021 U.S. Supplemental Health Insurance Total Market Report
ABOUT AFLAC GLOBAL INVESTMENTS
Aflac Global Investments refers to Aflac Asset Management LLC and Aflac Asset Management Japan Ltd., which are the asset management subsidiaries of Aflac Incorporated. Aflac Global Investments is responsible for managing the invested assets of Aflac Incorporated's insurance subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S. As of December 31, 2021, Aflac Global Investments managed more than $122 billion in general account assets and had 121 investment and support professionals who work at its offices in New York and Tokyo.
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" to encourage companies to provide prospective information, so long as those informational statements are identified as forward-looking and are accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements. The company desires to take advantage of these provisions. This document contains cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected herein, and in any other statements made by company officials in communications with the financial community and contained in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Forward-looking statements are not based on historical information and relate to future operations, strategies, financial results or other developments. Furthermore, forward-looking information is subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties. In particular, statements containing words such as "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "goal," "objective," "may," "should," "estimate," "intends," "projects," "will," "assumes," "potential," "target," "outlook" or similar words as well as specific projections of future results, generally qualify as forward-looking. Aflac undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements.
The company cautions readers that the following factors, in addition to other factors mentioned from time to time, could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements:
- difficult conditions in global capital markets and the economy, including those caused by COVID-19
- defaults and credit downgrades of investments
- exposure to significant interest rate risk
- concentration of business in Japan
- limited availability of acceptable yen-denominated investments
- foreign currency fluctuations in the yen/dollar exchange rate
- differing judgments applied to investment valuations
- significant valuation judgments in determination of expected credit losses recorded on the Company's investments
- decreases in the Company's financial strength or debt ratings
- decline in creditworthiness of other financial institutions
- concentration of the Company's investments in any particular single-issuer or sector
- the effects of COVID-19 and its variants (both known and emerging), and any resulting economic effects and government interventions, on the Company's business and financial results
- the Company's ability to attract and retain qualified sales associates, brokers, employees, and distribution partners
- deviations in actual experience from pricing and reserving assumptions
- ability to continue to develop and implement improvements in information technology systems
- interruption in telecommunication, information technology and other operational systems, or a failure to maintain the security, confidentiality or privacy of sensitive data residing on such systems
- subsidiaries' ability to pay dividends to the Parent Company
- inherent limitations to risk management policies and procedures
- the operational risks of third party vendors
- tax rates applicable to the Company may change
- failure to comply with restrictions on policyholder privacy and information security
- extensive regulation and changes in law or regulation by governmental authorities
- competitive environment and ability to anticipate and respond to market trends
- catastrophic events, including, but not limited to, as a result of climate change, epidemics, pandemics (such as the coronavirus COVID-19), tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, war or other military action, terrorism or other acts of violence, and damage incidental to such events
- ability to protect the Aflac brand and the Company's reputation
- ability to effectively manage key executive succession
- changes in accounting standards
- level and outcome of litigation
- allegations or determinations of worker misclassification in the United States
Analyst and investor contact - David A. Young, 706.596.3264 or 800.235.2667 or dyoung@aflac.com
Media contact - Ines Gutzmer, 762.207.7601 or igutzmer@aflac.com
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Phone numbers generated in area code 707, which serves nine counties, eighteen major cities and almost the entire Northern California coast, will have a new code, 369, starting February 1, 2023.
The move is called an "overlay" by industry professionals, and it's meant to provide relief to the exhausted list of potential number combinations in a zone, said Christopher Chow, public information officer for the California Public Utility Commission.
Everyone in the area who likes their current number has nothing to worry about, he added.
"Multiple area codes co-exist within the same geographic region. Existing 707 customers will retain their area code and specific telephone numbers."
The 707 area code was created in 1959, when growing regional populations required area code 415 to be divided into three chunks: 707 for the North Bay; 415 for SF, Marin and the Peninsula; and 408 for San Jose and the South Bay. At the time, there were only six area codes in all of California; today, there are 38.
A Swedish company wants to bring the world's fastest electric passenger vehicle to S.F.
Regionally, code 707 is a major source of pride and unity for NorCal residents. Rapper E-40, originally from Vallejo, released a hit in 2014 titled "707" with Willie Joe and Nef the Pharaoh that cites various local landmarks and niche knowledge about the history of the city, as a way to shout out the rappers' hometown.
An exerpt from Nef's verse captures the crew's vision:
"Times Herald taking pictures for so I'm striking for the pose /
My [expletive] on Alhambra still be playing with their nose /
[...] You want a verse from Lil Neffy then start cashing me /
[expletive] I'm from Vallejo mutha [expletive], stop asking me"
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(NEXSTAR) – El Niño has arrived.
The Climate Prediction Center announced Thursday that El Niño conditions were present and expected to grow stronger in the coming months. Forecasters give it a 56% chance of developing into a strong El Niño, and an 84% chance of topping “moderate” strength.
This year’s El Niño has shown up ahead of the typical schedule. In the past decade, El Niños have started in late summer or early fall. Its early appearance “gives it room to grow,” Climate Prediction Center meteorologist Michelle L’Heureux, told the Associated Press.
This year’s El Niño is expected to keep building and remain strong through the 2023-2024 winter.
This year is predicted to be the inverse of what we’ve seen the last three years, in which we have had back-to-back La Niña seasons.
El Niño typically brings cold, wet winters to the Southern U.S. A strong El Niño, in particular, is associated with lots of rain for the Southwest and California — though California already saw a cold, wet winter this year, even without El Niño in control.
On the other hand, El Niño usually means a warm, dry winter for the Pacific Northwest, Ohio Valley, northern Rockies, and parts of the Midwest. Hawaii also often sees below-average rain during an El Niño fall, winter, and spring season.
While El Niño can strengthen hurricane season in the central and eastern Pacific, it tends to contribute to weaker hurricanes forming in the Atlantic basin.
Even a strong El Niño isn’t a guarantee those exact scenarios will play out, NOAA warns.
“‘Associated with’ doesn’t mean that all of these impacts happen during every El Niño episode. However, they happen more often during El Niño than you’d expect by chance, and many of them have occurred during many El Niño events,” the agency writes.
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BEIJING, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- By Staff Reporters from Science and Technology Daily
China has made remarkable achievements in the past decade and provided broad opportunities for global professionals and multinational companies with new development concepts.
In recent years, China's open and inclusive scientific research environment has attracted many foreigners to study and work in China.
In 2018, Malaysian scientist Goh Hui-Hwang switched his career focus to China and was hired by the School of Electrical Engineering at Guangxi University.
As a foreign expert living in China, Goh is profoundly impacted by implementing a more proactive strategy of opening up and the comprehensive promotion of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, as Xi Jinping proposed in his report to the 20th National Congress of Communist Party of China (CPC) . "China is a significant contributor to the growth of the global economy. Eventually, the peaceful growth of the globe will be realized through establishing a community with a shared future for mankind," he noted.
In addition, as a university researcher, he is delighted to see that the report's emphasis on education, technology, talent, and innovation, as well as youth work. According to Goh, the century-old plan is founded on education, and the development of the young is essential to the country's future. He is confident that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be achieved through the unceasing efforts of generations of aspirant youths.
British professor Peter Taylor, working at the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (SPST), Tianjin University, came to China on the occasion of the 19th National Congress of the CPC in 2017.
For the past five years, he has witnessed the country reach new heights in terms of economic development, scientific and technological capabilities, and comprehensive national power. He applauded the pivotal role of the CPC in leading Chinese people to overcome numerous difficulties through hard work.
Taylor is pretty optimistic about the future of China and his university. "I firmly believe that under the leadership of the CPC, Chinese people will surely achieve all the goals and targets for prosperity," he said, adding that SPST will make breakthroughs in talent cultivation, internationalization reform, social contributions and other aspects led by the spirit of the 20th National Congress.
Kashan Khan is a Pakistani Ph.D. candidate studying at Tianjin University. Khan felt honored to watch the opening ceremony of this "history-making" 20th CPC Nation Congress that bears "world significance."
According to Khan, human society has reached a crossroads and faces unprecedented challenges. Nevertheless, China has made "outstanding achievements in the past five years and has experienced remarkable changes" in the past ten years. From his perspective, all these have created opportunities for the development of countries worldwide and blazed a new path to modernization for China.
With ample opportunities in green development, carbon neutrality, and innovation-driven development, foreign companies increasingly value China's multiple roles as a vast market and pioneering R&D center. China's latest commitment to high-standard opening-up and high-quality economic development has caught global spotlight, and been echoed by multinational enterprises.
Arthur Xu, president of Danfoss China, said that the report highlights "green development and the harmonious coexistence of human and nature", demonstrating the unprecedented focus on green development by the Chinese government.
"China is a global leader in solar, wind and hydro-power generation. We are confident that we will witness striding development in the green sectors in China, who will play a more important role in global governance of climate change," said Xu, in an interview with S&T Daily. "We will be happy to see that cooperations between China and EU will go deeper and deeper, especially in the area of technology and market, so as to play a more important role in green transition and tackling climate change."
"We are excited to see that China has again solemnly pledged to continue its opening-up policy and help build a world economy of openness and cooperation, contributing to well-being of the people of all countries. This demonstrates China's strong commitment as a great nation to advocating win-win partnerships and promoting common development around the world," said John Williams, managing director of International SOS China.
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VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Aidan Bouman’s two touchdown passes staked South Dakota to a 17-point lead to start the fourth quarter and the Coyotes held off a Missouri State rally to take a 20-13 Missouri Valley Conference victory on Saturday.
Bouman’s 44-yard touchdown pass to Wesley Eliodor put South Dakota up, 13-7 heading into intermission, and his 23-yard strike to Carter Bell made it a 20-3 lead with 2:19 left in the third quarter.
Jason Shelley led the Bears (3-6, 1-5) on a 13-play, 67 yard drive capped by his short pass to Naveon Mitchell with 11:01 left, but they could only managed a Jose Pizano 37-yard field goal late to cut into the South Dakota lead.
Bouman completed 17 of 25 passes for 235 yards. Eliodor caught six passes for 97 yards for South Dakota (3-6, 2-4).
Shelley was 23 of 38 passing for 233 yards.
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How to Watch the Brewers vs. Pirates Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 16
The Pittsburgh Pirates and Bryan Reynolds hit the field at American Family Field against Victor Caratini and the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday.
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- Date: Friday, June 16, 2023
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Brewers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Brewers rank 15th in MLB play with 78 home runs. They average 1.1 per game.
- Milwaukee is slugging .377, the fourth-lowest average in MLB.
- The Brewers' .229 batting average ranks 26th in the majors.
- Milwaukee is the 25th-highest scoring team in MLB play, averaging four runs per game (274 total).
- The Brewers rank 25th in baseball with a .306 on-base percentage.
- Brewers hitters strike out 9.5 times per game, the 26th-most in baseball.
- The 8.2 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Milwaukee's pitching staff ranks 25th in the majors.
- Milwaukee's 4.12 team ERA ranks 13th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Brewers have the 15th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.283).
Pirates Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Pirates have hit 65 homers this season, which ranks 24th in the league.
- Pittsburgh is 14th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .406 this season.
- The Pirates have a team batting average of .248 this season, which ranks 16th among MLB teams.
- Pittsburgh has scored 294 runs (4.4 per game) this season, which ranks 21st in MLB.
- The Pirates have an OBP of .326 this season, which ranks 12th in MLB.
- The Pirates have shown patience at the plate this season with the seventh-best rate of strikeouts per game (8.3) among MLB offenses.
- Pittsburgh strikes out 8.8 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 12th in MLB.
- Pittsburgh pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.32 ERA this year, which ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Pirates have a combined WHIP of 1.395 as a pitching staff, which ranks 24th in MLB.
Brewers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Julio Teheran makes the start for the Brewers, his fifth of the season. He is 1-2 with a 1.48 ERA and 16 strikeouts through 24 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Saturday against the Oakland Athletics, the right-hander went seven innings, allowing one earned run while surrendering six hits.
- Teheran is seeking his fourth straight quality start.
- Teheran will try to build upon a five-game streak of going five or more innings (he's averaging six frames per appearance).
Pirates Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Pirates will hand the ball to Rich Hill (6-5) for his 14th start of the season.
- The left-hander gave up two earned runs in seven innings pitched on Friday in his last outing, a matchup with the New York Mets.
- He's looking to extend his two-game quality start streak.
- Hill has pitched five or more innings in five straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has one appearance this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 13 chances this season.
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Russell Report: Does LeBron James get enough credit?
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - So much to talk with you about today. Let’s get right to it.
Florida Men’s Basketball faces another tough test Wednesday when it travels to face Alabama, the top team in the SEC. I don’t know if Florida will make the NCAA Tournament this year or not, but one thing I can see is good coaching and team improvement. Sure, they have trouble scoring the ball at times, but a lot of teams have that problem in today’s college basketball world. Florida will likely be a bubble team all year so get ready for a ride to the finish but don’t forget to enjoy watching this team continue to improve and Coach Todd Golden continue to look like a really nice hire for the Gators.
Speaking of having trouble scoring, did you see that Auburn-Tennessee game last Saturday? Final score 46 to 43. Man, that game was just a bruising defensive struggle and in fact, it was the fourth lowest scoring game between two ranked teams in the shot clock era according to ESPN stats and information. There were enough bricks in that game to build a skyscraper but if you notice, the sec has really become a defensive, grind it out kind of league. Alabama may be the exception but next time you watch a league game, check out the pace of the game and how good teams are on defense. Most games are played in the 60′s or low 70′s and we’ll see if the trend continues.
Florida Softball starts its season this weekend, once again highly ranked and the pick by league coaches to win the SEC. You will see an interview with Coach Tim Walton here tomorrow and when you see it, reflect on just how good he has been in his tenure at Florida. It just seems every year he ends up in the college world series and he got there last year with perhaps the least talented team of all of them he has sent there. They are fun to watch, they’re good, and you just might see them back in Oklahoma City again this year.
Lebron James is now just 36 points away from breaking the all-time NBA scoring record held by Kareem Abdul Jabbar and there’s a chance James could break the record tomorrow in a game at home in LA. Somehow, great as he is, I don’t think he gets the respect or credit he deserves. On the court, he has won championships for different franchises, and he has performed at a superstar level while logging insane amounts of minutes throughout his career. And he’s never had issues off the court either. Sure, he whines sometimes when he doesn’t get a call, but a lot of players do that. So why no love? Hard to figure, but rather than be compared to Michael Jordan, or Kobe, or Magic and how he is not them, how about just sitting back and giving the man his due for breaking the record and for being who he is. One of the best to ever play the game.
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– Outsourcing distribution enables the Company to reduce costs and focus on optimizing retail and wholesale operations –
SAN DIEGO and TORONTO, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - StateHouse Holdings Inc. ("StateHouse" or the "Company") (CSE: STHZ) (OTCQX: STHZF), a California-focused, vertically integrated cannabis enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership (the "Partnership") with Nabis, California's largest cannabis distributor, under which the Company is outsourcing all of its cannabis distribution.
Under the terms of the Partnership, Nabis has assumed all of StateHouse's distribution obligations effective today. Nabis has a leading cannabis wholesale platform in California and is the state's single largest distributor of cannabis. It is the ideal partner to ensure broad and efficient distribution of StateHouse's products. Given the scale of the Nabis platform, StateHouse expects the Partnership to expand the reach of its brands across the state(1).
The Partnership is expected to create millions of dollars of cost savings(1) for Statehouse. Savings are expected to be achieved through lower headcount and through reduced costs related to insurance, fuel, truck leasing, banking fees and overtime pay.
Outsourcing distribution also enables the Company to put greater focus on optimizing its leading retail and wholesale operations in California to further expand margins and market share.
"We are very pleased to enter this strategic partnership with Nabis, a strong and reliable distribution partner that has extensive reach across California," said Ed Schmults, Chief Executive Officer. "The cost reductions and expanded distribution footprint that we anticipate(1) from this partnership will be highly beneficial as we work to build a business that we expect will be EBITDA(2) positive next year."
(1) This is forward-looking information and based on a number of assumptions. See "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information" below.
(2) This is a non-IFRS reporting measure. For a reconciliation of this to the nearest IFRS measure, see "Use of Non-IFRS Measures" and "Non-IFRS Measures" in the Company's management discussion and analysis for the period ended June 30, 2022. See "Non-IFRS Measures, Reconciliation and Discussion".
StateHouse, a vertically integrated enterprise with cannabis licenses covering retail, major brands, distribution, cultivation, nursery and manufacturing, is one of the oldest and most respected cannabis companies in California. Founded in 2006, its predecessor company Harborside was awarded one of the first six medical cannabis licenses granted in the United States. Today, the Company operates 13 dispensaries covering Northern and Southern California and one in Oregon, distribution facilities in San Jose and Los Angeles, California and integrated cultivation/production facilities in Salinas and Greenfield, California. StateHouse is a publicly listed company, currently trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange ("CSE") under the ticker symbol "STHZ" and the OTCQX under the ticker symbol "STHZF". The Company continues to play an instrumental role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California and Oregon consumers.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation. To the extent any forward-looking information in this news release constitutes "financial outlooks" or "future-oriented financial information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates, and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to the ability of Nabis to manage the Company's distribution, and achieving cost reductions due to the outsourcing of distribution operations.
These forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; expectations regarding the size of the cannabis markets where the Company operates; changing consumer habits; the ability of the Company to successfully achieve its business objectives; plans for expansion and acquisitions; political and social uncertainties; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; employee relations; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on cultivation, production, distribution, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-related products in the markets where the Company operates; and the risk factors set out in the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the period ended March 31, 2022 and the Company's listing statement dated May 30, 2019, which are available under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
The Company, through several of its subsidiaries, is directly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States. Local state laws where the Company operates permit such activities however, investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the United States Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable United States federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with recreational and medicinal cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under United States federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of the Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in the United States. The Company's securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. Neither the CSE nor its Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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BERLIN, Germany — The European Space Agency released a trove of data Monday on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia space observatory in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our galaxy.
Astronomers hope to use the data to understand better how stars are born and die, and how the Milky Way evolved over billions of years.
Gaia was also able to detect more than 100,000 starquakes, which the ESA likened to large tsunamis that ripple across stars. They appear to make the stars blink and allow scientists to deduce their density, interior rotation and inside temperature, astrophysicist Conny Aerts said.
The agency said Gaia was not built to detect starquakes, making this "one of the most surprising discoveries" from the new data.
“Starquakes teach us a lot about stars, notably their internal workings," Aerts said in a release. "Gaia is opening a goldmine for ‘asteroseismology' of massive stars."
The new data includes new information such as the age, mass, temperature and chemical composition of stars. This can be used, for example, to determine which stars were born in another galaxy and then migrated to the Milky Way.
"This is an incredible gold mine for astronomy,” said Antonella Vallenari, who helped lead a consortium of 450 scientists and engineers who spent years turning the measurements collected by the space probe into usable data.
Although it has only collected information on about 1% of the Milky Way's stars, the Gaia mission is already providing the basis for around 1,600 scientific publications a year.
Project scientist Timo Prusti said the sheer number of stars observed makes it more likely that scientists will make very rare discoveries.
“You have to observe a lot of objects in order to get the needle in the haystack,” he said.
ESA chief Josef Aschbacher said having more data also allows astronomers to understand some of the forces at play in the galaxy, such as the way our own solar system is being thrown about inside the Milky Way.
“It is enabling things that would never be possible without this large number of data,” he said.
The Gaia data now being released also includes information on 800,000 binaries — stars that move in tandem with each other — as well as several new exoplanets, hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the solar system and millions of objects beyond our galaxy.
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ROME — Iga Swiatek is going into the French Open on quite a run.
Swiatek has won five straight titles during her run.
Jabeur was on a streak of her own with 11 consecutive wins entering the final after her Madrid Open title last week but the Tunisian’s crafty game of drop shots and spins proved no match for Swiatek’s swift movement and accurate groundstrokes.
Swiatek took control right from the start, breaking Jabeur’s serve in the second game of the match with a mix of finesse and power.
Swiatek won one point in that second game with a forehand lob winner after drawing Jabeur forward with a well-placed drop shot, then on her first break point she took a huge swipe at a second serve that Jabeur couldn’t control.
Swiatek also kept her composure when she saved four break points at a crucial point late in the second set, sliding in to reach a drop shot then responding with a splendid backhand volley drop winner on the final break point after a 19-shot rally.
When a backhand from Jabeur landed in the net to end it, Swiatek sunk down to the clay and covered her face with her hands as she bent over toward the clay court.
The last player to win more consecutive matches was Justine Henin, who won 32 straight over 2007 and 2008. The all-time longest streak belongs to Martina Navratilova, who had a run of 74 in 1984.
Swiatek last defeat came in mid-February in Dubai to Jelena Ostapenko in a third-set tiebreaker. She has won 42 of the last 43 sets she’s contested.
Later on the red clay court at the Foro Italico, Novak Djokovic was playing Stefanos Tsitsipas in the men’s final.
During the women’s final, a fan held up a sign that read, “Kick politics out of tennis,” — an apparent reference to Wimbledon’s decision to ban players from Russia and Belarus because of the war in Ukraine.
Swiatek played with a ribbon attached to her hat featuring the colors of Ukraine’s flag.
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INDIANA — Every Thursday the Drought Monitor is updated and this week our drought conditions have improved! Indianapolis has picked up 1.45″ as of February 15, 2023, 0.24″ above where we should be for this time of the month!
Currently, 77.27% of the state is drought-free! 22.73% is currently under abnormally dry conditions with 0% under moderate drought conditions! Marion County is currently drought-free!
What does this mean? Each category means there will likely be different impacts from different factors around the state. “Abnormally dry” usually means the grass will turn brown, gardens will need to be watered more frequently, and crops are stressed. Once we hit the “Moderate” drought stage, there are more noticeable changes. Crops become more stressed, your lawn needs to be watered more often, and water levels begin to decrease.
The higher up the scale the drought goes, the more severe the impacts will be to crops, your lawn, and water levels. As we continue to climb the scale on the drought monitor, more dangerous conditions also begin to set up, causing concern for fire.
Looking ahead to next week
Over the next 6-10 days, there is an above-average chance of precipitation across the state and the region. Some good news for our drought conditions! | https://fox59.com/weather/indiana-drought-conditions-still-improving/ | 2023-02-16 16:42:44 | 1 | https://fox59.com/weather/indiana-drought-conditions-still-improving/ |
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SAN ANTONIO, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., (NYSE:CCO) announced today that Brian Coleman, CFO of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., is scheduled to participate in a question and answer session at the Barclays Leveraged Finance Conference on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 10:30 a.m., Eastern Time. A live audio webcast of the question and answer session will be available on Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings' investor website at www.investor.clearchannel.com and will be available for replay on the website for 30 days.
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Ukraine strikes deal to evacuate around 50 wounded fighters from Mariupol Azovstal factory
Ukraine soldiers are being taken to Russian-controlled territories, official says
A senior Ukrainian official tells Fox News Monday that an agreement has been reached to evacuate around 50 wounded soldiers from the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol to Russian-controlled territories.
The official did not reveal where the fighters are heading, only saying they are not going to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
But Russia’s Defense Ministry said "a humanitarian corridor has been opened through which wounded Ukrainian servicemen are being taken to a medical facility in Novoazovsk," according to Reuters.
RUSSIA IS ‘BANKRUPT,’ UNABLE TO WIN AND FACING A ‘DEAD END’ IN THE WAR, ZELENSKYY SAYS
"An agreement has been reached on the removal of the wounded," it added.
On Sunday, Natalia Zaritskaya, the wife of a member of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion – which is defending the steel factory – said the soldiers "are in hell" and that "they receive new wounds every day."
"They are without legs or arms, exhausted, without medicines," she also said, according to Reuters.
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Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said earlier this month that the humanitarian mission in Mariupol had been "completed" and that all women, children and elderly civilians had been pulled from the Azovstal steel plant.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has lasted 82 days.
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Drowning, Extreme Heat Deaths, Barbecue Burns and Firework Injuries are Increasing, According to ValuePenguin.com Research
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the July Fourth holiday weekend approaching, millions of Americans plan to barbecue, swim and set off fireworks to ring in America's independence, but are they celebrating safely? New research from ValuePenguin shows that holiday-related injuries are on the rise.
- Heat-related deaths increased by 56% between 2018 and 2021. Americans aged 85 and older and babies are the most at-risk age groups for heat injury and death.
- Firework injuries increased by 32% from 2012-2021. Teens aged 15 to 19 had the highest percentage of firework injuries (12.4%) in 2021. Despite this, 82% of parents with children younger than 18 say they think it's OK for kids to play with fireworks.
- Grill injuries requiring an emergency room visit rose by 18% from 2012-2021. Children younger than 10 accounted for 21% of emergency room visits for grill injuries in the 10 years examined — the highest percentage among age groups.
- A lack of pool safety awareness puts Americans at greater risk of drowning. 39% say they wouldn't be comfortable saving someone struggling in the water, and 17% of Americans say they don't know how to swim.
For Americans planning to host a July Fourth party, celebratory injuries shouldn't be their only worry. ValuePenguin Insurance spokesperson, Divya Sangameshwar, encourages party hosts to include an insurance review and safety checklist as part of their planning. "Taking safety precautions is important because you may be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars if you are a negligent host. Your home or renters insurance will offer some liability protection if an injured guest decides to sue, but it might not be enough." Sangameshwar says as a rule of thumb, if your net worth exceeds the level of liability coverage offered, you need to get more liability coverage or an umbrella policy to protect yourself.
Consumer Tips For A Safe July Fourth:
- Stay hydrated and avoid binge drinking to prevent serious heat injury. Recognize the signs of heat injury and seek prompt medical help.
- Be careful when handling a hot grill. Do not allow children or pets near the grill.
- Don't allow anyone in a pool unsupervised. Ensure pool areas are kept dry and clean to prevent slip and fall injuries.
- Leave the fireworks to the professionals. Even "safe" at-home fireworks like sparklers get as hot as 2000 F and can cause serious burns.
- Serve alcohol responsibly and call for rides for guests who overindulged. If a guest drives home drunk and gets into an accident, you could be liable.
ValuePenguin July Fourth Safety Studies:
HEAT INJURIES & DEATHS: https://www.valuepenguin.com/heat-related-deaths-study
FIREWORK INJURIES: https://www.valuepenguin.com/fireworks-injuries-study
GRILLING INJURIES: https://www.valuepenguin.com/grilling-injuries-study
POOL SAFETY: https://www.valuepenguin.com/swimming-safety-survey
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Todd Downing is free on bond after he was arrested on charges of speeding and driving under the influence early Friday morning.
Downing was released from the Williamson County Jail just before 7 a.m. CST on $2,500 bond after being booked into the jail at 4:39 a.m.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol pulled over Downing hours after the Titans beat the Packers 27-17 in Green Bay on Thursday night. Downing’s offense turned in its best performance this season as Tennessee (7-3) won for the seventh time in eight games.
“We are aware of the reports regarding Todd Downing and are in the process of gathering additional information,” the Titans said in a statement.
Titans coach Mike Vrabel is scheduled to talk to reporters later Friday.
Titaninsider.com first reported the arrest.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Marjorie Taylor Greene took her seat directly behind Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, a proximity to power for the firebrand congresswoman that did not go unnoticed, as he unveiled the House GOP’s midterm election agenda in Pennsylvania.
Days later, she appeared on stage warming up the crowd for Donald Trump, when the former president rallied voters in Michigan to cast ballots for Republicans, including for control of Congress.
Once shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric, the Georgia congresswoman who spent her first term in the House stripped of institutional power by Democrats is being celebrated by Republicans and welcomed into the GOP fold. If Republicans win the House majority in the November election, Greene is poised to become an influential player shaping the GOP agenda, an agitator with clout.
“No. 1, we need to impeach Joe Biden. No. 2, We need to impeach Secretary Mayorkas. And No. 3, we should impeach Merrick Garland,” Greene told The Associated Press outside the U.S. Capitol. Alejandro Mayorkas is the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Garland the attorney general.
Scolding the media for having been “wrong about me” from the start, she said those who know better “take me very seriously.”
“I’m going to be a strong legislator and I’ll be a very involved member of Congress,” she predicted. “I know how to work inside, and I know how to work outside. And I’m looking forward to doing that.”
This is the outlook for the Republican Party in the Trump era, the normalizing of once fringe figures into the highest ranks of political power. It’s a sign of the GOP’s rightward drift that Greene’s association with extremists and nationalists, violent rhetoric and remarks about Jewish people have found a home in elected office. Her ascent brings into focus the challenge ahead for McCarthy, whose GOP ranks are filling with far-right political stars with the potential to play an oversized role in setting the policies, priorities and tone of the new Congress.
“I’ve said for a long time there’s a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, at a briefing ahead of the midterm elections.
When the congresswoman says outlandish things — as she did at the Trump rally earlier this month claiming “Democrats want Republicans dead, and they’ve already started the killings” — few Republican leaders dare a public or private rebuke of such incendiary language. In this case, she was exaggerating two local incidents involving politics, one that ended tragically in a fatality.
Greene’s political currency stretches beyond her massive social media following and her ability to rake in sizable sums from donors. Her proximity to Trump makes her a force that cannot be ignored by what’s left of her mainstream GOP colleagues.
McCarthy’s allowance for Greene to sit front and center with leadership for the campaign rollout was not by accident but design. The Republican lawmakers in attendance celebrated her presence, calling it a sign of the GOP’s “big tent” that welcomes all comers. But Greene’s arrival also signaled a stark normalizing of the most extreme elements in the Republican Party.
Longtime political strategist Rick Wilson, a former Republican who left the party in the Trump era, calls Greene’s brand of politics “government by trolling” that marks a dangerous new era for the GOP and will make it difficult to govern. McCarthy is in line to become House speaker if Republicans regain the majority.
“No matter what the trolling part of the Republican caucus does, you can’t ever satisfy them,” said Wilson, now at the Lincoln Project.
With the departure of the last vestiges of the anti-Trump wing of the House GOP — Liz Cheney defeated by a primary opponent and Adam Kinzinger deciding to step down rather than seek reelection — “that’s it,” Wilson said.
Greene swept onto the national stage in the 2020 election, catapulted forward even before she took office. As the lawmaker-elect from northwest Georgia, she attended a key organizing meeting at the Trump White House as lawmakers laid plans to object to the certification of Joe Biden’s election on Jan. 6, 2021. When she arrived to be sworn into Congress, she wore a “Trump Won” face mask.
Democrats moved swiftly and unequivocally to reprimand Greene, voting to strip her of congressional committee assignments over her incendiary rhetoric, including trafficking in volatile conspiracy theories. Greene drew rebuke from her own party a few months later for comparing mandatory COVID-19 face masks to the treatment of Jewish people by Nazi Germany.
While some have tried to compare Greene to outspoken far-left lawmakers, it became clear even to Republican leaders that Greene stood in a category of her own.
At that time, McCarthy called her comments about the Holocaust “wrong” and “appalling.” Greene later apologized.
In many ways, Greene’s arrival in the House traces the arc of the Republican Party’s rightward evolution from the Newt Gingrich revolution that brought conservatives to power in the 1994 election, to the “tea party” Republicans that regained the House majority in 2010.
Jack Kingston, a former Republican congressman who rose during those earlier eras, said McCarthy was smart in welcoming Greene to unfurl the House GOP’s “Commitment to America” last month.
“He’s got to work with her, and he knows that,” Kingston said.
“Getting Marjorie Taylor Greene on board is very important,” he said. “If you don’t bring everybody in the tent, they’re going to find their own niche.”
In the interview, Greene said she is certain she will be reinstated on her congressional committees if Republicans win the majority, eyeing the House Oversight panel, and is talking to leadership about other opportunities in the new Congress.
Not only does Greene want to impeach Biden and Cabinet officials, she is eager to conduct investigations, including into the origins of COVID-19.
Last month, Greene unveiled legislation that is another priority — her bill to prohibit some gender reassignment procedures on minors — flanked by a dozen Republican lawmakers and leaders in the conservative movement. Many of them praised the congresswoman for her work.
“I want to thank Marjorie Taylor Greene — who is soon to get her full legislative powers back, by the way,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Committee, who hugged her afterward.
“If this is the type of thing that you’re going to have the courage to do, I think that’s something everybody needs to understand,” Schlapp said.
McCarthy and Greene appear to have come to an understanding that they need each other. The leader needs Greene to come into the GOP fold rather than throw rocks from outside. She needs McCarthy’s blessing to regain committee assignments, enabling her to participate more fully in Congress and put her imprint on legislation.
At the Pennsylvania event McCarthy batted away questions about his ability to govern if Republicans win the majority.
“Name me one person in the conference that is opposed to this,” he said afterward of their platform. “Is that a difference? Yes.”
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As fears of the COVID-19 pandemic subside and we’re back to a somewhat normal way of life, the reality of people going back to an office has resurfaced. I am hearing from more and more people that their company has mandated they return to the office for at least a few days a week.
While that doesn’t sound like an unreasonable expectation, there is definitely dismay among many people whose way of life has once again been disrupted.
Like many people in business, I have worked 100% remote since the pandemic caused a mass closure of offices. I have gotten used to working from home, and the thought of being forced into working in an office on a set schedule makes me cringe. When the pandemic hit, I was commuting over two hours a day and working in an office five days a week. Since then, I started in a new role that is 100% remote. I do have to travel occasionally, but that’s to be expected. I don’t think I could or would ever go back to a role where time in an office was a requirement.
There are many things I do miss about being in an office setting. I miss the collaboration and in person work with members of my team. I miss the camaraderie. I miss the BBQs, happy hours and fun events we used to have when everyone was in the office together. When you’re working remotely, it’s just not the same. Unfortunately, I think the benefits of working remotely far outweigh the benefits of working in an office on a daily basis.
The pandemic changed the way we work. It also changed the perception of the naysayers who were against working remotely. We proved that we could be equally, if not more, productive working from home. Those who continue to believe that a 100% office work environment is necessary are dinosaurs and really need to get over it.
People cite productivity as a benefit of working in an office. They claim you’re more productive in an office than working from home. I strongly disagree with that, and most people I know who work remotely feel the same. Since I started working from home, I know for a fact that I am putting in more hours. I rarely shut down and disconnect. If it’s late in the evening and I get an email on my phone, I typically head into my office and do more work. I wasn’t doing that when I went into the office every day. When I left, I wasn’t glued to my computer when I got home, unless there was something major happening.
I certainly recognize working remotely doesn’t work for every role. Companies need to decide what works best for them and their customers. I strongly believe there is a balance and that the days of needing to be in the office five days a week are over. It’s simply unnecessary for the majority of knowledge worker roles.
It’s also important for companies to recognize the disruption that comes with forcing workers who are used to working remotely to come back into the office. There’s a risk of losing talent if the request seems unnecessary or extreme to people. And it goes without saying that there are a lot of companies out there who will not require you to come to the office. Be careful with what you force your team to do.
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Mo Brooks asks Trump to re-endorse him as U.S. Senate candidate
Mo Brooks asks Trump to re-endorse him as U.S. Senate candidate
AND RAIN CHANCES DECLINE. -- START TO CLIMB. RICK: THE COUNTDOWN IS ON TO THE RUNOFF ELECTION. WE’RE NOW A LITTLE OVER TWO WEEKS AWAY. NEW THIS MORNING, CONGRESSMAN MO BROOKS OFFICIALLY ASKING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TO REJOIN HIS TEAM. CARLA: IT COMES AFTER ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT BROOKS WAS HOPGIN FOR DID NOT COME THROUGH. BLACK HAWK DOWN PILOT MIKE DURANT WILL NOT MAKE AN ENDORSEMENT. DURANT FINISHED 3RD IN THE RACE BEHIND KATIE BRITT AND MO BROOKS. HE TOLD THE AP THERE’S "NOT A GREAT OPTION." AND IN AN INTERVIEW WITH 1981 NEWS, HE SAID BROOKS HAS "BEEN IN THE PUBLIC OFFICE FOR 40 YEARS AND ALL HE DOES IS RUN HIS MOUTH." ON BRITT, HE SAID SHE "DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE A SENATOR," AND HE WILL NOTOT VE. BROOKS HAD BEEN PUSHING FOR THE DURANT ENDORSEMENT AND TOLD ME THAT DURANT VOTERS WERE A HUGE PART IN HIS PATH TO VICTORY ON JUNE 21. >> I THINK WE ARE IN REAL GOOD SHAPE, IF YOU PUT MY VOTERS WITH THE RANT, THAT IS TO52 KATIE’S 44. CARLA: WITH DURANT NOW OFFHE T BOARD, BROOKS PLEADING FOR TRUMP TO RE-ENDORSE HIM. BROOKS BLAMED SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL FOR LOSING HIS TRUMP ENDORSEMENT, SAYING THE KENTUCKY SENATOR SPENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AGAINST HIM IN ATTACK ADS. NOW, BROOKS SAID "TRUMP KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING," COMPARING TH E FORMER PRESIDENT TO A FOOTBALL COACH GRABBING HIM BY THE FACEMASK. AND THAT PULLING THE ENDORSEMENT WOULD BAIT MCCONNELL I
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Mo Brooks asks Trump to re-endorse him as U.S. Senate candidate
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks is asking former President Donald Trump to back him once again in Alabama’s Senate race, a request that comes two months after a feud caused Trump to revoke his endorsement of the congressman. Brooks on Sunday released a statement on Twitter asking “MAGA Nation” to help plead his case for a Trump’s endorsement, calling himself the “Trump candidate” in the race. Trump had initially endorsed Brooks last year, but revoked that endorsement in March. Brooks faces Katie Britt in the June 21 runoff that will decide the GOP nomination for the seat being vacating by retiring Sen. Richard Shelby.Read Brooks' full statement below:
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U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks is asking former President Donald Trump to back him once again in Alabama’s Senate race, a request that comes two months after a feud caused Trump to revoke his endorsement of the congressman.
Brooks on Sunday released a statement on Twitter asking “MAGA Nation” to help plead his case for a Trump’s endorsement, calling himself the “Trump candidate” in the race.
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Trump had initially endorsed Brooks last year, but revoked that endorsement in March.
Brooks faces Katie Britt in the June 21 runoff that will decide the GOP nomination for the seat being vacating by retiring Sen. Richard Shelby.
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A financial ratings agency said Thursday that an initial analysis indicates insured losses from Hurricane Ian could range from $25 billion to $40 billion, putting additional pressure on Florida’s troubled property-insurance market.
Fitch Ratings released the estimate a day after the Category 4 hurricane slammed into Southwest Florida and then barreled across Central Florida before exiting over the Atlantic Ocean.
Fitch said many large national insurers do not have “substantial market share” in Florida. But it pointed to potential problems for smaller insurers that focus on providing property insurance in Florida and rely heavily on purchasing reinsurance, which is essentially backup coverage.
“Many insurers providing property coverage in the state experienced severe downturns in underwriting performance and capitalization levels in recent years despite no hurricane hitting the state since 2018,” Fitch said on its website. “This trend has forced a number of smaller insurers into liquidation, exacerbating the challenges for policyholders of finding private market homeowners insurance coverage. The hurricane is expected to worsen the reinsurance capacity crisis for insurers, potentially causing the exit of more Florida specialist companies.”
With private insurers shedding policies to reduce financial risks, the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has seen its number of customers more than double during the past two years. Citizens, which was created as an insurer of last resort, is approaching 1.1 million policies.
Fitch said Citizens appears to have the wherewithal to handle claims from Hurricane Ian but warned about longer-term financial effects.
“Despite having the capacity to absorb losses from this event, strain on Citizens and its continued growth adds to the vulnerability of the insurance market to the next catastrophic event,” the ratings agency said.
Gov. Ron DeSantis called a special legislative session in May to try to shore up the property-insurance system. Lawmakers, in part, agreed to spend $2 billion to provide what is known as a “layer” of reinsurance to property insurers.
The $2 billion added to reinsurance that carriers bought from reinsurance companies and from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, a state-run program.
A commentary released Tuesday night by the AM Best financial-ratings agency said Hurricane Ian would be the “first test” for the $2 billion in reinsurance. But like Fitch, the AM Best commentary pointed to the hurricane potentially affecting the broader reinsurance market.
“Property insurance in Florida is already a tough market, and this impending hurricane looks to make conditions only more demanding,” Christopher Graham, a senior industry analyst for AM Best, said in a prepared statement Tuesday. “Reinsurance rates are already increasing, and a catastrophic hurricane will likely put more pressure on reinsurers to raise rates.”
DeSantis has repeatedly said that large amounts of the damage from Ian would involve flooding and storm surge. Many homeowners buy flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program, rather than through private insurers.
Fitch said Florida has the most National Flood Insurance Program policies in the country. It said lenders require flood insurance if homeowners have federally backed mortgages and live in high-risk flood zones as designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But many other homeowners do not buy flood insurance.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans who say the Federal Trade Commission has been overzealous and politicized under President Joe Biden are set to interrogate agency head Lina Khan on Thursday, bringing her before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time amid her court battles with big technology companies.
Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has criticized Khan in recent months on a multitude of issues, including what he says are politically motivated actions directed at Elon Musk after he acquired Twitter last year, questions about whether she should have recused herself from certain cases and her legal actions against tech giants on antitrust issues. In April, the committee subpoenaed Khan after an investigation by the panel that concluded the FTC “harassed” Twitter in the wake of Musk’s acquisition.
The hearing will examine “mismanagement of the FTC and its disregard for ethics and congressional oversight under Chair Lina Khan,” the Judiciary panel’s website says.
The hearing comes as the agency has been embroiled in several legal cases against technology companies and as Khan — an outspoken critic of Big Tech before becoming the agency’s head — has tried, not always successfully, to toughen government regulation of those companies.
Khan and the agency suffered a major defeat Tuesday when a federal judge declined to block Microsoft’s looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. The FTC had sought to ax the deal, saying it will hurt competition.
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said the deal — the largest in the history of the tech industry — deserved scrutiny but the FTC hadn’t shown that it would cause serious harm. The FTC is now appealing her ruling.
Another judge rebuffed the FTC’s attempt earlier this year to stop Meta from taking over the virtual reality fitness company Within Unlimited.
The FTC has also sued Amazon for allegedly engaging in a yearslong effort to enroll consumers without consent into Amazon Prime and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. In a complaint filed in federal court last month, the agency accused Amazon of using deceptive designs, known as “dark patterns,” to deceive consumers into enrolling in the service.
The FTC has been investigating Twitter, including efforts this spring to obtain owner Elon Musk’s internal communications, as part of ongoing oversight into the social media company’s privacy and cybersecurity practices.
The agency has been watching the company for years since Twitter agreed to a 2011 consent order alleging serious data security lapses. But the agency’s concerns spiked with the tumult that followed Musk’s October takeover of the company and mass layoffs that followed.
Khan, a legal scholar, was a known tech critic when she took over the agency in 2021 and her nomination was seen as a signal from the Biden administration that it would be tough on technology companies as they have been under intense pressure from other regulators and state attorneys general.
She was a professor at Columbia University Law School and became known for her scholarly work in 2017 as a Yale law student, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.” That work helped lay the foundation for a new way of looking at antitrust law beyond the impact of big-company market dominance on consumer prices.
And she has experience with the Judiciary committee, having served as counsel to the panel’s antitrust subcommittee in 2019 and 2020. In that role she played a key role in a sweeping bipartisan investigation of the market power of the tech giants.
Jordan’s House Judiciary panel has also gone after the tech companies for what Republicans say is censorship of conservatives. The committee subpoenaed the chief executives of the five largest tech companies in February as part of an effort to investigate Big Tech’s moderation of content.
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) announced today that it has completed the sale of its Textile Effects division to Archroma, a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners. The agreed purchase price was $593 million in cash plus assumed pension liabilities, and Huntsman expects the net after tax cash proceeds to be approximately $540 million before customary post-closing adjustments.
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MIAMI — Kobe Bryant. Dirk Nowitzki. And now, Udonis Haslem.
Miami’s captain is returning to the Heat for a 20th season, he announced Sunday. It’s a one-year deal worth $2.9 million; Miami extended the offer nearly two months ago, then waited for Haslem to decide between retiring and returning.
Nowitzki played all 21 of his NBA seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, Bryant spent all 20 of his seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and when he appears in his next game, Haslem will join them as a player spending at least two decades in the league and all with one franchise.
“I have decided to follow through with what me and my father had talked about, and I will finish what I started and I will play 20 years," Haslem said, seated at midcourt at Miami High, his alma mater. “I will play this year, because I talked about that with my father and that’s what we said we would do. It won’t be the same. Won’t be as easy. But the goal still remains the same. Win. Win a championship. Leave it on the line and hold your head high when it's all over."
Tim Duncan spent 19 seasons with San Antonio and John Stockton spent 19 with Utah.
The 42-year-old Haslem is by far the longest-tenured player in Heat history. He is a three-time NBA champion with Miami and is the franchise’s all-time leader in rebounds. This contract is the 11th he has signed with the Heat, and this marks the seventh consecutive summer in which he has signed a deal with the team.
His father, Johnnie Haslem, died Aug. 30, 2021. Udonis Haslem spent about two weeks away from the Heat at the start of camp and the preseason last year while grieving, and he said not having either of his parents still alive forced him to reevaluate many things in the past year.
“Even at 42, you look around and you don't have both of your parents, you can be confused," Haslem said. “It can be confusing. ... But never have I been more clear than I am now. I just had to clear the cobwebs out."
Haslem was the oldest player to appear in each of the last two NBA seasons. He got into 13 games with Miami last season, averaging 2.5 points and 1.9 rebounds.
He has had 162 different teammates during his Heat career. And this season the NBA might include players who weren’t even born when Haslem entered the league. Haslem made his NBA debut on Oct. 28, 2003 — three weeks before Jalen Duren, the No. 13 pick in this year’s NBA draft, was born.
Haslem has averaged 7.5 points and 6.6 rebounds in his first 19 seasons, playing sparingly the last six years. But the Heat have insisted his role remains vital in practice and in the locker room, annually finding ways to keep luring Haslem back.
This contract will take Haslem past the $70 million mark in on-court earnings. After the coming season, Haslem said he hopes to join the Heat's front office and has mentioned his desire to possibly join the ownership group in the years to come.
“This ain't no (expletive) charity case. This is a sacrifice, sacrificing for the next generation," Haslem said. “As the bearer of Heat culture, I take it serious. It's not a game. It's not a joke. I know people talk about it. People, they may have this stigma of what it is and what it's not. But it's real. It is real. The culture is real. The culture has saved very many guys, not just me."
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Cuba's Cimafunk to Headline Free, Outdoor Music Festival at Gateway Park in Rosslyn, Virginia
ARLINGTON, Va., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rosslyn Business Improvement District (BID) today announced its lineup for the 30th annual Rosslyn Jazz Fest led by Cuba's Cimafunk ("Top 10 Latin Artist to Watch," Billboard). Other performers will include Mwenso & The Shakes, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, and Groove Orchestra. In partnership with the Rosslyn BID and Arlington Arts, this free festival will take place on Saturday, September 10, from 1 to 7 p.m. in Gateway Park (1300 Lee Highway, Rosslyn, Va.).
"Over the last three decades, Rosslyn Jazz Fest's music and amenities have evolved and grown, making us the largest outdoor music festival in Arlington," said Mary-Claire Burick, president of the Rosslyn BID. "Back and bigger than ever, we're thrilled to host this year's diverse lineup of artists, headlined by Cuba's Cimafunk. We can't wait to throw this party, connect the community through music, and celebrate in ways we haven't been able to in the last few years."
Both veteran festival fans and curious newcomers are welcome for this upbeat celebration of contemporary jazz in the heart of cosmopolitan Arlington. With an emphasis on international influences, the artists for this 30th year milestone blend African, Afro-American, and Latino traditions, rhythm, and movement with conventional jazz expression.
"This festival represents the breakdown of long-established, rigid barriers between genres and highlights the contemporary direction of jazz festivals," said Josh Stoltzfus, deputy director of Arlington County's Cultural Affairs Division. "These bands bring eclectic styles, high level musicianship, and dynamic stage shows that will be the soundtrack for the summer's best party."
Attendees can experience the music alongside food trucks and fun programming for all ages. Stay tuned throughout the summer as we announce what you can expect to see there! Gateway Park is a 5-minute walk from the Rosslyn Metro station (Blue, Silver, and Orange lines) and several Metrobus stations. Bike and scooter parking is available onsite, and several Capital Bike Share stations are conveniently located nearby.
Cimafunk: Named by Billboard as a "Top 10 Latin Artist to Watch," Cimafunk is by far one of the most exciting new faces in the Latin music space. As a singer, composer, and producer, this young Cuban sensation, backed by a seven-piece band, offers a bold mix of funk with Cuban music and African rhythms. By bringing out the best in Cuban rhythms and traditions and infusing sounds and styles from Africa and the U.S., Cimafunk is redefining contemporary Cuban music as well as Afro-Latin identity and the fusion of Black cultures. This year alone, Cimafunk performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and will be participating in the Glastonbury Music Festival in June. Check out Cimafunk's recent NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert here.
Mwenso & The Shakes: Mwenso and the Shakes are a unique troupe of global artists based in Harlem. Made up of immigrants from Sierra Leone, London, South Africa, Madagascar, France, Jamaica and New York City, they take their cues from the stylings of Fats Waller, Muddy Waters, James Brown, and many other American musical legends. Michael Mwenso leads an electrifying show The New York Times calls "intense, prowling, and ebullient."
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio: Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio — or as they are sometimes referred to, DLO3 — specializes in the lost art of "feel good music." The ingredients of this intoxicating cocktail include a big helping of the 1960s organ jazz stylings of Jimmy Smith and Baby Face Willette; a pinch of the snappy soul strut of Booker T. & The M.G.'s and The Meters; and sprinkles of Motown, Stax Records, blues, and cosmic Jimi Hendrix-style guitar. It's a soul-jazz concoction that goes straight to the heart and makes the body break out in a sweat. The trio is currently opening for Jack White and The Black Crowes as part of their summer tour.
Groove Orchestra: Groove Orchestra is led by multi-instrumentalist Samuel Prather who was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He has developed a reputation for performing with and producing all types of acts including Jazz, Funk, Gospel, Brazilian, Latin, Soul, and R&B. He has worked with Raul Midon, Fred Yonnet, Hugh Masekela, Cyrus Chestnut, Pharoh Saunders, and Bennie Maupin to name a few.
For more information and to plan your festival experience visit www.rosslynva.org/jazzfest.
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MILL HOLLOW, Utah (KTVX) – Professional rally driver Ken Block died in a snowmobiling accident in Utah, local officials announced Monday.
Hoonigan Industries, a media production and sports-inspired clothing company Block co-founded, also confirmed the news.
Block was 55 years old.
The Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office, along with officials from Utah State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service, responded to reports of an accident in the Mill Hollow area.
Block was driving a snowmobile on a steep slope when “the snowmobile upended, landing on top of him,” the sheriff’s office wrote.
“He was pronounced deceased at the scene from injuries sustained in the accident,” officials said.
The sheriff’s office noted that Block was riding with a group, but was alone when the accident occurred.
A legend in the racing world, Block began his career in 2005 with the Vermont SportsCar team. He formed the Monster World Rally Team in 2010, becoming the first-ever American to compete at the World Rally Championship. Block later competed in the Global RallyCross Championship from 2011 to 2015.
Outside of racing, Block co-founded DC Shoes and Hoonigan Industries. He reportedly lived in Park City, Utah, with his family.
“It’s with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in a snowmobile accident today,” reads a statement released by Hoonigan Industries on Monday. “Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And most importantly, a father and husband. He will be incredibly missed.”
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Man who plotted to blow up Democratic HQ to be sentenced
San Francisco – A California man who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters and other buildings in Northern California after the defeat of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge.
Ian Benjamin Rogers, of Napa, pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to destroy the building in Sacramento by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun as part of an agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.
“Mr. Rogers feels awful for letting anybody down. He’s been in custody for a year and a half. He’s never been in trouble before. Every single day he expresses regret and remorse for any involvement he’s had in anything and all he’s asking for now is for people to give him a chance to prove that he has redemptive qualities,” Rogers’ attorney, Colin Cooper, said before the sentencing.
U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco charged Rogers and Jarrod Copeland with conspiring to attack targets they associated with Democrats after Trump’s defeat in the November 2020 presidential election.
Prosecutors say Rogers, 51, used an encrypted messaging application to tell Copeland he would “hit the enemy in the mouth” by using Molotov cocktails and gasoline to attack targets including the Democratic Party headquarters, the Governor’s Mansion and buildings for social media companies Facebook and Twitter.
“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Rogers wrote in one of the messaging apps he used to communicate with Copeland, according to the indictment. In a different message, he said that after Democratic President Joe Biden was inaugurated, “we go to war.”
The pair “hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” prosecutors said when they announced the charges last July.
Napa County Sheriff’s Office deputies secured search warrants after receiving an anonymous tip that Rogers possessed illegal guns and, after searching his home and auto repair shop in January 2021, seized nearly 50 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs, prosecutors said.
Agents also seized a “white privilege card” that looks like a credit card. “Trumps Everything” it says beneath the label, with the number 0045 repeated as a credit card number signaling the 45th U.S. president. “Scott Free” is listed as the cardholder, a member from “birth” through “death.”
Investigators also pointed to the “Three Percenters” bumper sticker on Rogers’s vehicle, signaling support for an anti-government movement named after the belief that just 3% of American colonists defeated the British during the American Revolution.
Prosecutors say that in late December 2020, Copeland told Rogers he contacted an anti-government militia group to gather support for their movement. After Rogers’s arrest in January 2021, they say Copeland communicated with a leader of a militia group who advised Copeland to delete his old messages and switch to a new communication platform.
Copeland previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and destruction of records. His sentencing has not yet been scheduled.
Rogers also faces possession of illegal firearms and bombs charges in Napa County. Under a universal agreement, the federal sentence will be served concurrently with a state sentence on similar Napa County charges of possessing fully automatic weapons and explosive devices. His next court hearing on the Napa County charges is scheduled for Oct. 4, his attorney said. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/28/man-who-plotted-to-blow-up-democratic-hq-to-be-sentenced/69525247007/ | 2022-09-28 19:49:38 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/28/man-who-plotted-to-blow-up-democratic-hq-to-be-sentenced/69525247007/ |
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For those battling credit card debt, a call to your credit company could help lower your bills
Typical U.S. household pays $1K per year in credit card interest and fees
InvestigateTV - Americans pay $120 billion in credit card interest and fees each year according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is roughly $1,000 per year for every American household.
Ted Rossman, Bankrate’s senior industry analyst, said you should look at your statement each month, and see how much interest you are paying. If your APR is 17% or more, call your credit card company and ask for it to be lowered.
”It never hurts to ask for help, the worst they can do is say ‘no’,” said Rossman. “A lot of times lenders will work with you. I think a lot of people are reluctant to ask for help because they think it shows weakness and the card companies are going to be mad at them. They would rather get some of your money than none of it.”
Credit card debt is unsecured debt, meaning there are no assets used as collateral. Rossman said because of this, your credit company might be willing to work with you, especially if you have a history of paying on time.
Some companies may rearrange your due date or let you skip a few payments with or without interest.Another option is hardship programs. While popularized at the start of the pandemic, they have always been available for those in need.
If you need help managing your debt, USA.gov has free resources available to you.
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1. Officials struggle with timeline in Texas school shooting
It took over an hour for officers to reach the gunman responsible for killing 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school on Tuesday, officials said.
Social media videos circulated the internet on Thursday showing parents begging officers to let them in the school so they could attempt to stop the shooter.
The amount of time that elapsed has stirred anger and questions among family members, who demanded to know why authorities did not storm the place and put a stop to the rampage more quickly.
2. 'Goodfellas' actor Ray Liotta, voice of Palm Beach County tourism video, has died
"Goodfellas" actor Ray Liotta, who once lent his voice to a Palm Beach County tourism video, has died at the age of 67.
His publicist, Jen Allen, told The Associated Press that he was in the Dominican Republic making a new movie and didn't wake up Thursday morning.
The New Jersey-born actor, perhaps best known for his role as Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob drama "Goodfellas," graduated from the University of Miami and went on to appear in several movies filmed in the Sunshine State.
3. Students involved in racist photo issue apology
More than a week after a racist photo surfaced on social media involving six students at a Martin County middle school, the children in the picture have issued an apology.
The statement was released Thursday and said it was addressed to the community and everyone that was hurt by the picture.
The children said they have started taking action to apologize in person to many of the people that they hurt.
The school district has not released the names of the students involved in the incident or what discipline was imposed, saying state and federal law prohibits disclosing student education records.
4. Palm Beach County remains in 'high' COVID-19 community category
Three South Florida Counties — Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade — remain in the highest of three COVID-19 community levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its weekly update posted Thursday.
Also staying at "medium" are Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee with Indian River moving from "low" to the middle category.
Cases statewide are at the highest level since mid-February (60,204 past week), the positivity rate of 13.4% is greatest since early February, hospitalizations (2,3521 are the most since mid-March and deaths' increase (270 for 14 days) is up from 230 two weeks ago.
5. YOUR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: Dave Matthews, Bryan Callen, ceremonies and more
Memorial Day weekend's events include moments to remember those that have fallen for our freedoms, plus Dave Matthew's two-day concert returns, comedy, a Jazz & Soul Festival, and a craft festival.
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A boat carrying 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution is turned away from Havana, Cuba, on May 27, 1939. Only 28 immigrants are admitted into the country. After appeals to the United States and Canada for entry are denied, the rest are forced to sail back to Europe, where they’re distributed among several countries including Great Britain and France.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Network TV’s fondness for reality fare and reboots combine in “The Real Love Boat,” a sea-going dating show that’s part of the CBS fall schedule announced Wednesday.
Described as a “romance adventure competition,” the series credits as its inspiration the popular and kitschy comedy-drama “The Love Boat,” which aired from 1977-86 on ABC. “The Real Love Boat” will follow returning shows “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race” on Wednesday, a rare all-reality night for CBS.
With so much programming available to viewers, “flow is important, lead-ins are important, compatible programming is important,” said Kelly Kahl, CBS Entertainment president. “This looked like a real good bet to us. It also looks like a real competitive kind of counter-programming move.”
By contrast, network rivals NBC and ABC have stocked their Wednesday lineups with comedies and dramas. There's more to guard against than just other broadcasters, given the rise of streaming services with splashy shows and on-demand convenience.
That's prompted growing broadcast reliance on fare known to viewers, including spinoffs and reboots. But CBS, which leans on the scripted "NCIS" and "FBI" franchises, is also placing bets on a trio of unpedigreed dramas this fall.
“East New York” stars Amanda Warren as the newly promoted head of a police precinct in the working-class neighborhood where she has roots. Jimmy Smits co-stars. “Fire Country” follows young convict (Max Thieriot, “Seal Team”) who joins a California prison-release firefighting program for a second chance.
The other scripted addition, “So Help Me Todd,” is described as a “humorous legal drama.” Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock") stars as a successful attorney who hires her less-driven son, a private detective played by Skylar Astin, to work for her law firm.
The shows canceled by CBS are “Magnum P.I.”; “United States of Al”; “B Positive”; “Good Sam” and “How We Roll.”
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Last week, the people who bring us the music with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic announced a strike against philharmonic management.
In a release, members of the musicians’ union said “management has yet to propose pay that allows us to afford basic needs and is married to the elimination of full-time positions”.
Monday afternoon, members of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Players’ Association met again to try and agree on terms.
“Musicians and management of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic met for a little under 5 hours,” Campbell MacDonald, chair of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Players’ Association, said. “We were unable to come to an agreement. Philharmonic management made no significant movement in terms of their wage proposal to musicians.”
Leaders from the Philharmonic management told me they’re disappointed to not come to an agreement but are “deeply committed to our work toward an agreement”.
The strike by musicians resulted in the ‘Holiday Pops’ concerts to be cancelled.
MacDonald says even with the strike going on, musicians still wanted to put on a special concert.
“Once the philharmonic canceled the ‘Holiday Pops’ we felt an obligation to provide our community with a gift of music that they otherwise would have been enjoying with us at the Embassy Theatre,” MacDonald said.
He says the free holiday concert was also an opportunity for musicians to give back to those who always support them.
“Our strike is our central focus at this moment, but knowing how important the holiday season is, it was necessary for us to give back to our audience,” MacDonald said.
Peg Maginn attended this weekend’s free concert and says she feels most people in the public support the musicians.
“I hope it helped the musicians to understand how much we the public value them and appreciate them and support them,” Maginn said.
Maginn says she often attends philharmonic events, and this weekend’s last-minute concert didn’t disappoint.
“I just wanted to show the support that I could, and I was rewarded by a phenomenal concert,” Maginn said. “So, it was not a disappointment. They shined like they always do.”
Philharmonic management told me they increased their wage offer to 12% for a 3-year contract.
MacDonald has told us the musicians want a 46% increase. He says salaries were cut to about $22,000 during the pandemic and haven’t gone up since.
MacDonald also tells me the next meeting between the two sides is December 27.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The kids are all right.
Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh won the women’s 200 butterfly for her first title at the world swimming championships on Wednesday before 17-year-old Romanian David Popovici claimed his second.
They still have some way to go to match Katie Ledecky, who claimed her 18th gold at a worlds by helping the United States win the women’s 4×200 freestyle. The 25-year-old Ledecky now has 21 medals, extending her record for the most among female swimmers in the competition.
Popovici won the men‘s 100 freestyle to add to the 200 freestyle he won on Monday. He is just the second man to achieve the double at a worlds, after American swimmer Jim Montgomery in 1973, and he’s the first Romanian swimmer to win two golds at a worlds.
“The airport is going to be chaotic but I am ready for it,” Popovici said of his return to Bucharest. “For Romania it means a lot and I love the feelings, even though I cannot explain it really well, I am very happy.”
The 15-year-old McIntosh clocked 2:05.20 – a world junior record – in the 200 butterfly to pip the three Olympic medalists to the title.
“It’s one of my biggest dreams in the swimming world to become world champion, and especially to do it in 200 fly is something I have always wanted to do because this is one of my favorite events,” said McIntosh, who finished 0.88 seconds ahead of American Hali Flickinger and 1.12 ahead of China’s Zhang Yufei. American Regan Smith was 1.59 behind in fourth.
Popovici, who set a world junior record of 47.13 in qualifying for the 100, had to fight hard to edge France’s Maxime Grousset by 0.06 seconds in the final with a time of 47.58.
Canada’s Joshua Liendo Edwards, who was leading at the halfway stage, took the bronze.
Two-time defending champion Caeleb Dressel didn’t race after withdrawing from the rest of the competition with an unspecified medical condition earlier Wednesday.
The Americans had to wait until the women’s 4×200 freestyle for their 11th gold of the championships as Claire Weinstein, Leah Smith, Ledecky and Bella Sims finished 2.41 seconds ahead of the Australian team and 3.31 ahead of the Canadians.
McIntosh showed no ill effects from the 200 butterfly earlier as she set a junior record of 1:54.79 over her 200 meters. Only Ledecky and Sims were faster on the night.
“I am so proud,” Ledecky said. “I think I realized when we were on the medal podium it had been a while since we had all been up there singing the national anthem together; trying to hit those high-pitched notes together. So that was a lot of fun.”
Alex Walsh and Flickinger will also get gold medals for their swims on the relay during prelims.
Only the U.S. (11 gold, six silver, nine bronze) and Australia (two gold, five silver, one bronze) have won at least one medal on each of the five nights of the swimming competition.
Kylie Masse claimed Canada’s second gold of the night by winning the women’s 50 backstroke in 27.31 – 0.08 ahead of American Katharine Berkoff and 0.09 ahead of French swimmer Analia Pigree.
Masse became the first swimmer from Canada, male or female, to win three golds at a worlds.
The 20-year-old Léon Marchand then continued his remarkable competition by winning the men’s 200 individual medley in 1:55.22, lowering the French record he set in the semifinals.
Marchand finished 0.49 ahead of American Carson Foster, 1.00 ahead of Japan’s Daiya Seto and 1.21 ahead of Chase Kalisz.
It was Marchand’s second gold at this worlds after the men’s 400 medley on Saturday, when he almost took Michael Phelps’ world record, and his third medal after silver in the 200 butterfly on Tuesday.
“I was a little tired this morning,” Marchand told journalists.
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The Dodge Challenger and Charger muscle cars are on their way out after 2023, and they’re taking their gas engines along with them, including the line of Hemi V-8s, Hellcat included.
If you’ve been dreaming of ordering one and haven’t pulled the trigger yet, there’s still some time, but not a lot.
Dodge on Monday announced that it is directing dealers to submit final orders for the 2023 Challenger and Charger by the end of July.
Production of the two cars will cease by the end of this year, after which the plant in Brampton, Canada, where they are built will undergo a major upgrade to prepare it for electric vehicles. The upgrade is scheduled to be completed by 2025.
Dodge hasn’t announced the end of the Challenger and Charger; just the end of the vehicles in their current form. You can count on successors being offered, though these will be EVs. Dodge has already previewed an electric muscle car due in 2024 with its Charger Daytona concept.
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The build slot for the final Challenger SRT Demon 170 sold last month for $700,000 at a Las Vegas auction.
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Ways to lower your food bill
At the end of 2022, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to try to slow inflation. The theory behind this practice is the more expensive it is to borrow money, the less consumers will spend. When demand falls, prices will follow. But (hopefully) people aren’t taking a loan out to pay their grocery bills, so that strategy provides no relief. As the price of food continues to rise, here are some ways you can fight inflation and continue to feed your family.
In this article: Geryon Vacuum Sealer, AeroGarden Harvest with Gourmet Herb Seed Pod Kit and Vitamix FoodCycler FC-50.
How to save on groceries
The best way to save money on your grocery bill is to pay less for food. You can accomplish this by shopping at wholesale stores like Sam’s Club or Costco and buying in bulk. You also need to check weekly ads and strategize your meals by purchasing the best value instead of what you are craving at the moment. Also, never shop for food when you are hungry.
Get the most out of the food you buy
Food is perishable. When buying in bulk, you need to keep your food fresh so it doesn’t go to waste. This can be as simple as buying a tupperware set to prevent spills and keep food fresh to purchasing a chest freezer for storage. You could also consider buying a vacuum sealer to reduce food waste.
Best products to help keep grocery costs down
Tupperware Fridgesmart Container 4-Piece Set
This set of Fridgesmart Tupperware can help you organize and preserve food so it stays fresh and tasty longer. It’s a small step, but it reduces waste and helps you get the most out of your food.
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With this vacuum sealer, you never have to worry about wasting food again. Sealed food can last up to three years in the freezer. If you can’t finish it this week, save it for next month or later.
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Whynter Energy Star Upright Freezer
Even if you don’t get a vacuum sealer, an extra freezer gives you space that you need to keep food longer. Buy that protein in bulk while the price is low and store it in your chest freezer until it’s time to cook.
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AeroGarden Harvest with Gourmet Herb Seed Pod Kit
The Aerogarden Harvest is a fun hobby that doubles as a way to live a more sustainable life. You can grow herbs and vegetables that you pick fresh and eat, right in your own home. Growing your own food also means you can save money because you don’t have to buy it.
Slow cooking methods tend to use less energy. By choosing a Crock-Pot over a conventional oven, you may be able to save up to 50% per meal.
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West Bend Stir Crazy Popcorn Machine
Snacks get expensive. If you like to munch, consider making your own. Popcorn is one of the cheapest snacks you can make. Depending on the serving size you prefer, one jar of kernels could last for over 20 days.
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Hamilton Beach Digital Food Dehydrator
Using a food dehydrator can save you money by reducing waste and increasing the shelf life of your food. It is also another convenient and healthy way to make snacks.
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The Vitamix FoodCycler FC-50 can turn your food scraps into fertilizer in hours. It works with most food items, including chicken bones. It is compact enough to fit in nearly any kitchen.
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Landlords accused of stealing woman’s dog; 2 charged
BRISTOL, Wis. (WKOW) - A Wisconsin dog owner whose beloved pet was allegedly stolen more than two months ago continues to search for him, amid both frustration and hope.
Linnea Sandlin last saw Simon, the rat terrier she’s had for six years, on Halloween. She says last fall, her lease terms changed to ban pets, so she temporarily gave Simon to a friend to take care of him.
“My night is the hardest time because I’m just so used to Simon sleeping with me, being there with me, playing, you know,” Sandlin said.
Authorities say Sandlin’s landlords, 61-year-old Sarah Engeseth and 63-year-old Susan Haas, went to the friend’s business and demanded the dog be turned over to them. Haas says she took Simon to the Dane County Humane Society, where he jumped out of her car and ran off.
But Sandlin doesn’t fully believe Haas’ story.
“I think something else happened, and they’re not telling me honestly. That’s just my gut feeling,” Sandlin said.
The landlords are now charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing Simon.
Since she lost Simon, Sandlin has put his photos on social media and websites devoted to lost pets, hoping against hope to see him again.
“There’s so much about him that’s just – you can’t replace him,” she said. “As day and day goes by, your hope gets smaller and smaller, but I do pray he’s OK, at least.”
Even if Sandlin is not reunited with Simon, she still hopes to learn what’s become of her beloved dog.
Engeseth and Haas have bail conditions that bar them from any contact with Sandlin. Their next scheduled court appearance is Jan. 30.
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MVP Quarterback and TravisMathew Ambassador Matt Ryan to visit brand's flagship store
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Premium men's golf and lifestyle brand, TravisMathew announced today its full redesign and renovation of its flagship storefront location at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. The revamped store features a wider selection of the brand's lifestyle, activewear, and outerwear apparel and footwear, including the recently announced TravisMathew Women's collection.
TravisMathew opened the Fashion Island location in 2014, marking the apparel brand's first physical storefront but prides itself on being more than just an apparel store. The location boasts games including a custom TravisMathew branded shuffleboard and elevated glass ping pong table.
"Fashion Island was our first retail location and since inception we have had such a strong presence with both the local community and visitors of their outdoor dining and shopping experience. The location truly matches our brand values that are premium and aspirational yet approachable and fun," said Ryan Ellis, CEO of TravisMathew. "Our goal with redesigning this location is to provide our customers with a reimagined, elevated shopping experience and a dedicated space to our new women's line. In addition to new product offerings, we have created an entertainment space for all."
On Saturday, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., quarterback and TravisMathew Ambassador, Matt Ryan will be stopping by the store to mingle with media and customers as they get their first look at the redesigned and renovated storefront. Ryan has been a fan of the brand since day-one and officially became an ambassador in 2021, a natural fit for the avid golfer.
TravisMathew invites the community to join them in celebrating the expansion and renovation as well as its 15-year anniversary Friday, July 15 – Sunday, July 17, where customers can enter a raffle for a chance to win $1,000 worth of TravisMathew merchandise and enjoy discounts up to 50% off.
Since the opening of the Fashion Island storefront, the brand has launched 30 more domestic locations, including eight in its home-state of California stretching from Roseville to San Diego. For more information on TravisMathew's California storefront locations, inclusive of hours of operation, contacts and addresses, please visit travismathew.com/stores and follow along on social @travismathew.
About TravisMathew: TravisMathew is a leading innovator in lifestyle & performance apparel. Using best-in-class fabrications and designs, we are pushing forward a growing market trend toward casualization. For us, comfort comes first. Every TravisMathew product is created with attention to detail, designed to deliver the perfect fit and a soft, lightweight feel. By offering hundreds of varied, unique designs across monthly new product releases, we are establishing a new standard for the young professional. We want to elevate your look with details, subtleties, and craftsmanship that will get you noticed...but without flash or pretension. As an aspirational brand, TravisMathew prides itself on being approachable. Anyone and everyone can look great—and feel great—in TravisMathew. For more information, please visit http://www.travismathew.com/.
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- Intrusion attempts climb (+21%), with a record surge in cryptojacking volume (+399%)
- Cryptojacking volume in North America and Europe jumps (+345%) and (+788%) respectively
- IoT malware (+37%) and encrypted threats (+22%) also on the rise
- Opportunistic threat actors target education and government verticals with digital barrage
- SonicWall discovered 172,146 'never-before-seen' malware variants
- Lowest first half totals on ransomware attempts (-41%) since 2020, despite big Q2 jump – suggesting a likely rebound over the next 6 months
MILPITAS, Calif., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SonicWall, publisher of trusted cyberattack intelligence and leader of ransomware data, today released the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report. The bi-annual report uncovers evolving tactical behaviors from digital threat actors as they opt for different types of malicious attacks compared to years past.
Overall intrusion attempts were up, led by the highest year on record for global cryptojacking volume recorded by SonicWall, as threat actors shifted away from traditional ransomware attacks in favor of a stealthier means of malicious activities. The data suggests increased law enforcement activity, heavy sanctions and victims' refusal to pay ransom demands have altered criminal conduct, and threat actors are targeting other means of revenue.
"The seemingly endless digital assault on enterprises, governments and global citizens is intensifying, and the threat landscape continues to expand," said SonicWall President and CEO Bob VanKirk. "Threat actors are relentless, and our data indicates they are more opportunistic than ever, targeting schools, state and local governments, and retail organizations at unprecedented rates. The 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report helps us better understand the mindset and criminal behavior that will in turn help SonicWall create the right countermeasures, and help organizations protect themselves by being better prepared and build stronger defenses against malicious activities."
Rise of Cryptojacking; Evolution of Ransomware
Cybercriminals are diversifying and expanding their skill sets to attack critical infrastructure, making the threat landscape even more complex and forcing organizations to reconsider their security needs. Despite the decline in global ransomware attempts (-41%), a variety of other attacks have trended up globally, including cryptojacking (+399%), IoT malware (+37%) and encrypted threats (+22%).
"SonicWall intelligence suggests that bad actors are pivoting to lower-cost, less risky attack methods with potentially high returns, like cryptojacking," said SonicWall Vice President of Product Security Bobby Cornwell. "It also explains the reason we're seeing higher levels of cybercrime in regions like Latin America and Asia. Hackers search for the weakest points of entry, with the lightest possible repercussions, limiting their risk and maximizing their potential profits."
Financially motivated threat actors continue to be successful despite challenges. They have pivoted to crimes with greater certainty of success but they will not abandon proven tactics like ransomware; they are simply shifting strategy by target rather than exiting altogether.
Prominent attacks continued to plague enterprises, cities, airlines, and even K-12 schools, causing widespread system downtime, economic loss and reputational damage. While several industries followed the global trend of ransomware volume decline, they saw a huge growth in cryptojacking attacks: education (+320X), government (+89X) and healthcare (+69X).
Threat Actors Diversify Cyberattack Strategies
Cybercriminals are using increasingly advanced tools and tactics to exploit and extort victims. While ransomware continues to be a threat, SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers expect more state-sponsored activity targeting a broader set of victims in 2023, including SMBs, government entities and enterprises.
The 2023 Mid-Year SonicWall Cyber Threat Report provides insight on a range of cyber threats, including:
- Malware – Total global malware volume dipped slightly (-2%), in the first half of 2023, with the U.S. and U.K. logging the biggest dips – (-14%) and (-7%) respectively. Surprisingly, malware numbers climbed in every other tracked region. Europe saw an (+11%) increase, while Latin America malware jumped (+19%) – suggesting a geo-migration of threat actor behavior as they move from targeting traditional hotspots to more opportunistic locations.
- Ransomware – Although overall ransomware numbers saw a -41% decline globally, Q2 suggests a potential rebound, as it spiked 73.7% when compared to Q1. Some countries still felt the sting of ransomware attacks as Germany increased (+52%) and India spiked a whopping (+133%).
- IoT Malware – Global volume rose 37%, totaling almost 78 million hits by the end of June. As connected devices continue to rapidly multiply, bad actors are targeting weak points of entry as potential attack vectors into organizations.
- Encrypted Threats – Yet another quieter approach embraced by bad actors in the last six months was encrypted threats, which climbed (+22%) globally.
"Every year we see cybercrime increase at a staggering and unprecedented rate, and our customers depend on us protect their most valuable digital assets," said President and CEO of LAN Infotech Michael Goldstein. "That is why we have partnered with SonicWall for the past 15 years, knowing that they will always deliver cutting-edge products and timely research to provide us with the support we need to keep our customers safe. Reports like the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report arm the channel with the latest cyber trends and help us become trusted advisors to provide sound security measures to our customers."
Patented RTDMI Discovered more than 172,000 'Never-Before-Seen' Malware Variants
SonicWall's patented Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection™ (RTDMI™) technology identified a total of 172,146 never-before-seen malware variants in the first half of 2023, which is down (-36%) year-over-year, suggesting bad actors are spending less time on research and development, and more time on volume-based attacks – utilizing open-source tools that may be less likely to be intercepted. In addition, threat actors appear to be leverage existing tools – leaning on tools they know will help them be successful.
Despite the dip in never-before-seen malware variants, the threat landscape remains complex, with almost 1,000 strains of new variants discovered each day.
To learn more about SonicWall and get the complete 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report, please visit www.sonicwall.com/threatreport.
About SonicWall Capture Labs
SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers gather, analyze and vet cross-vector threat information from the SonicWall Capture Threat network, consisting of global devices and resources, including more than 1 million security sensors in nearly 215 countries and territories. SonicWall Capture Labs, which pioneered the use of artificial intelligence for threat research and protection over a decade ago, performs rigorous testing and evaluation on this data, establishes reputation scores for email senders and content, and identifies new threats in real-time.
About SonicWall
SonicWall delivers Boundless Cybersecurity for the hyper-distributed era in a work reality where everyone is remote, mobile and unsecure. SonicWall safeguards organizations mobilizing for their new business normal with seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyberattacks across boundless exposure points and increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled workforces. By knowing the unknown, providing real-time visibility and enabling breakthrough economics, SonicWall closes the cybersecurity business gap for enterprises, governments and SMBs worldwide. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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2 inmates escaped prison after hiding in dumpster, officials say
LIMA, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A pair of inmates who escaped an Ohio prison did so after hiding in a dumpster, according to state authorities.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) released details on Friday in the investigation into 50-year-old Bradley Gillespie and 46-year-old James Lee. The two escaped from the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima last week.
WOIO reported the inmates escaped last Tuesday.
Police said they arrested Lee in a stolen car on Wednesday.
Lee was convicted of burglary, breaking and entering, and safecracking in Allen and Auglaize Counties.
Gillespie was convicted for murder in Paulding County. Officials said he remains on the loose.
Prison officials said Gillespie should be considered dangerous and anyone who sees him should call 911.
Officials also confirmed they have placed four employees, three corrections officers and a major, on paid administrative leave while the department’s internal investigation continues.
Meanwhile, Gillespie’s daughter posted a video begging for her father to turn himself in.
A reward of more than $20,000 is being offered by the U.S. Marshals and the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
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AKRON, Ohio, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Manufacturing Institute (MI) - the workforce development and education partner of the National Association of Manufacturers - will celebrate The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's (NASDAQ: GT) Jenny Paige at the 2023 Women MAKE America Awards gala in Washington, D.C. on April 20.
The Women MAKE America Awards recognize women in manufacturing who demonstrate excellence in their careers and communities. Each year, 130 winners are chosen by an external panel of industry leaders based on the criteria of innovation, leadership, mentorship and community engagement. Paige, a senior product marketing manager in Goodyear's North America Consumer business, joins the 2023 class as an honoree.
"Jenny has the ability to navigate teams through highly complex projects and she's committed to supporting young women in her community," said Michiel Kramer, director, consumer product marketing, Goodyear. "She's a natural role model for our industry's next generation of talent."
The Women MAKE Awards are part of the MI's Women MAKE America initiative, which is the nation's marquee program to close the gender gap in manufacturing. Women account for about half of the U.S. labor force but represent less than a third of the manufacturing workforce. Women MAKE America aims to create a 21st-century manufacturing workforce by empowering and inspiring women in the industry.
"This award is a testament to the impact Jenny has made on our industry, and we deeply appreciate all of her contributions," said Steve McClellan, president, Goodyear Americas, and National Association of Manufacturers board member. "I am extremely proud of our Goodyear team, and it's very rewarding to see one of our colleagues recognized by the Manufacturing Institute."
About The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 74,000 people and manufactures its products in 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.
About the Manufacturing Institute
The Manufacturing Institute builds, diversifies and strengthens the modern manufacturing workforce, with the goal of furthering individual opportunity, community prosperity and a more competitive manufacturing industry. The MI engages underrepresented communities and shifts perceptions about careers in modern manufacturing, leads skilled training and career development programs, provides thought leadership and research on the changing state of the workforce and builds partnerships to scale up its impact on manufacturing in the United States. As the 501(c)3 nonprofit workforce development and education partner of the National Association of Manufacturers, the MI is a trusted adviser to manufacturers, equipping them with solutions for the industry's toughest challenges. For more information, please visit www.themanufacturinginstitute.org.
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Through August 4, Jeep, RAM, FIAT, KISS, Barefoot Dreams and The Ridge, among many more, turn the summer (RED)
Tune into (RED) TALKS, supported by ViiV Healthcare, a series of frank conversations exploring the current state of the AIDS fight
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, (RED), the organization co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver, is launching '(LIVE SUMMER)', a campaign to fight AIDS and COVID-19. There are many ways to be (RED) - from what's in your makeup kit to cooking-up a storm in the kitchen or hitting the road for a summer drive - and, through August 4, (RED) alongside its partner brands will present a variety of activations that raise money and awareness to ensure testing, treatment, and vaccines are available to everyone, everywhere.
Starting today, June 29th, fans can virtually visit the brand new (LIVE SUMMER) Game Room through an augmented reality lens on Snapchat. The lens is available free for everyone and showcases all the ways you can support (RED), including products shoppable at Amazon.com/RED. See what you can grab on a custom (RED) claw machine game, try on fan-favorite (RED) summer styles in 3D, and much more.
Fans can also check out summer.red.org to stay up to date on all the ways you can (LIVE SUMMER) with (RED), which include:
SHOP THIS SEASON'S SUMMER-ESSENTIAL (RED) PRODUCTS AT AMAZON.COM/RED, AND ACROSS (RED) PARTNER STOREFRONTS
Just in time for warmer days, SHOP (RED) and check out a curated selection of (PRODUCT)RED items available at Amazon.com/RED and within (RED) partner storefronts. Every purchase generates funding for the Global Fund to help strengthen healthcare systems and support equitable access to testing and treatment.
New and noteworthy products to help everyone (LIVE SUMMER) to the fullest extent include:
- iPhone SE (PRODUCT)RED
- Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones (PRODUCT)RED
- (EARTH RATED)RED Collection
- (BAREFOOT DREAMS)RED Blanket
- (PRODUCT)RED Theragun and Theraone Collections
- (AM)RED Collection
- The Ridge (PRODUCT)RED Wallet
- (MOREL)RED Collection
- (SALESFORCE)RED Collection
- (THE HONEY POT CO.)RED Collection
DRIVE (RED) AND FIND SUMMER ROAD ADVENTURES WITH JEEP, RAM, FIAT & VESPA THIS SUMMER
Celebrating (RED)'s multi-year partnership with Jeep®, RAM and Fiat to deliver a minimum of $4 million to fight pandemics, a variety of DRIVE (RED) activations will give driving fans fun ways to engage this summer. Check out unique summer content made for the open road, with something for everyone, everywhere.
Just in time for summer holidays is the (VESPA ELETTRICA)RED – the Vespa Elettrica version dressed entirely in striking red color. Launching this July, for every vehicle sold, $100 USD will be donated to the Global Fund to support life-saving programs where they are most needed.
TREND (RED) WITH REFRESHED BEAUTY, STYLE AND WELLNESS TIPS & TRICKS
Barefoot Dreams announces the newly launched custom CozyChic INSPI(RED) Stripe Throw where 15% of the retail price from every (BAREFOOT DREAMS)RED blanket purchased will go to the Global Fund to help strengthen healthcare systems. The INSPI(RED) Throw is available for purchase on barefootdreams.com.
As part of the launch, Barefoot Dreams and (RED) will share the best ways to RELAX (RED) this summer. Follow @RED and @barefootdreams to learn more.
For those looking to revamp their favorite summer looks, (RED) has your perfect warm weather fit. From (KISS)RED lashes and nails to (MOREL)RED sunglasses, Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones (PRODUCT)RED and more, find your summer style essentials at summer.red.org.
To celebrate the launch of the new The Ridge (PRODUCT)RED wallet, The Ridge will engage fans and followers with an exciting Twitter campaign. For every retweet of a designated post, The Ridge will make a donation to support (RED) in the fight against global health emergencies. What's more, every retweet will also enter you to win your very own The Ridge (PRODUCT)RED wallet and additional (RED) surprises.
CALLING ALL FOOD FANS TO EAT (RED) AND SAVE LIVES
Looking to expand your portfolio of cooking expertise? Anova and (RED) have created the perfect tips and tricks on best ways to use your (ANOVA)RED Precision® Cooker. Discover all the things you can do this summer while you sit back and let your food cook to perfection every time at summer.red.org.
Things are heating up with the beloved (TRUFF)RED Hotter Sauce, offering a myriad of ways to spice up summer meals for every occasion. Available for purchase at amazon.com/RED.
(RED) TALKS RETURNS FOR SECOND SEASON
With support from ViiV Healthcare, (RED) will host the second season of its multi-part series of frank conversations, titled "(RED) TALKS," exploring the current state of the AIDS fight, its impact on marginalized communities - especially women and girls - and present opportunities to shine a spotlight on the need for investments in the fight ahead of the Global Fund's upcoming fall Replenishment. The panels will feature government, private sector, advocacy and impact leaders from around the world, including, Deborah Waterhouse, CEO ViiV Healthcare, Matthew Kavanagh, Deputy Executive Director, a.i., Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge, UNAIDS, and Siobhan Crowley, Head of HIV, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, will raise awareness for the fight against AIDS and the importance of stronger global health systems. Beginning July 13th, new episodes will be released every Wednesday across (RED)'s social media channels, including YouTube.
"COVID-19 has threatened not just lives and livelihoods, but our hard-fought progress against preventable diseases, like AIDS," said Deborah Waterhouse, CEO of ViiV Healthcare. "ViiV Healthcare and (RED) are committed to delivering impactful programs that leave no person living with HIV behind. We're delighted to support (RED) Talks and help draw attention to the steps that are needed to bring an end to the epidemic."
MANY WAYS TO GIVE (RED) THIS SUMMER
(RED)'s coalition of financial institutions, including long-standing partner Bank of America, along with American Express®, Chase, Citi, PayPal and Wells Fargo are helping raise money to support stronger global health systems through entities like the Global Fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism and the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC).
"The fight to end AIDS and COVID-19 will not be won without continued support from the private sector, to further bolster public sector efforts. And it's not just money - the awareness these companies can bring is invaluable to keep these pandemics and the communities they hit hardest, front of mind," said Jennifer Lotito, President and COO of (RED). "This summer, (RED) is making it easier than ever to turn up the heat against pandemics by funding global health programs that save lives. We're so grateful to all of our (RED) partners for stepping up and helping us deliver testing, treatment, and vaccines to those most in need."
ABOUT (RED)
(RED), named for the color of emergency, was founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver in 2006 to turn companies into a cavalry to fight the AIDS pandemic. Today, that cavalry is also fighting the urgent threat of COVID and its devastating impact on the world's most vulnerable communities, answering the need for a truly global response.
(RED) partners with the most iconic brands and people to create (RED) products and experiences — all of which raise money for the Global Fund, one of the world's largest funders of global health. (RED) partners include AM Denmark, Amazon, Anova Culinary, Apple, Balmain, Bank of America, Barefoot Dreams, Beats by Dr. Dre, Earth Rated, eos, Fiat, Girl Skateboards, The Honey Pot Co., Jeep, KISS Products, Louis Vuitton, Mavin Records, Morel Eyewear, Primark, RAM, The Ridge, Salesforce, Starbucks, Therabody, TRUFF, U-Mask, Vahdam India and Vespa. (RED) supporters include Merck and Roche.
To date, (RED) has generated $700 million for the Global Fund, helping more than 245 million people. The money raised by (RED)'s partners and campaigns goes directly to strengthen health systems and support life-saving programs in the communities where pandemics hit hardest.
CONTACT: Sean Simons, sean.simons@red.org
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The state of Minnesota on Tuesday sold $587.6 million in general obligation bonds to fund a wide range of mostly construction projects, the Minnesota Management and Budget agency reported.
The four series of bonds sold for interest rates ranging from 2.1 percent to 3.5 percent. The 2022 Legislature did not pass a public works funding bill this year, so these bonds were authorized by previous legislatures.
The sale marked the first time since 2003 that all three major rating agencies — Moody’s, Fitch and S&P Global — gave Minnesota their top AAA bond ratings.
The sale will support programs and capital improvements for such projects as educational facilities, parks, pollution control facilities, transportation, natural resources and agricultural enterprises.
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Hydrogen Customers to Benefit from the Highest Standards of Cybersecurity Excellence
BOSTON, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LIFTE H2, an industry leader in hydrogen infrastructure development, takes threats to the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of our customers' information seriously. We are pleased to announce that LIFTE H2 has received ISO 27001:2013 and SOC 2 Type 1 certifications.
As the hydrogen industry grows, so do the threats against it. Hackers, terrorists, corporate spies, and other malicious actors are using increasingly sophisticated tools to disrupt supply chains and energy infrastructure around the world. To combat this, LIFTE H2 is working to build reliable, secure, and safe methodologies, always treating cybersecurity as a top priority. By complying with standards established by globally recognized parties, our customers can be certain that LIFTE H2 is following best practices as we move forward in every aspect of our hydrogen operations. Adherence to the standards set by ISO and SOC will help us ensure the consistency of our reportage, the integrity of our platforms, the soundness of our safety protocols, and the security of our clients' data.
"This certification demonstrates LIFTE H2's continued commitment to information security at every level," says CEO Matthew Blieske. "Ongoing and unwavering compliance with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 standards is a demanding process, but one we believe to be essential to our customers' success."
ISO 27001:2013 is an information security standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). System of Organizational Controls (SOC) is a suite of reports generated during an audit; the second tier of examination, SOC 2, attests to the effectiveness of an organization's security processes, oversight, vendor management, and risk mitigation.
LIFTE H2's certifications were issued by A-LIGN, an independent and accredited certification body, based on successful completion of a formal audit process. These certifications are evidence that LIFTE H2 is ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of our customers' information.
About LIFTE H2
LIFTE H2® is a hydrogen infrastructure development company that designs comprehensive operational solutions for customers in Europe and North America. With its expertise in, product development, system engineering, integrated supply chain development, reliability and commercial analysis, operations and maintenance, asset performance management and digital platforms, the LIFTE H2 team can bring unparalleled capability to your next-generation infrastructure projects.
For more information about LIFTE H2, visit https://www.lifteh2.com/.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
05-08-12-19-23
(five, eight, twelve, nineteen, twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $105,000
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
05-08-12-19-23
(five, eight, twelve, nineteen, twenty-three)
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SALEM, N.H., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eric Spofford, a businessman and leader in the substance use disorder recovery industry, has filed a defamation complaint against New Hampshire Public Radio, Inc., its News Director Dan Barrick, and two senior reporters, Lauren Chooljian and Jason Moon.
According to the complaint, Spofford brought the "defamation action against the Defendants to hold them accountable for their baseless assassination of his character."
The suit was filed in Rockingham County Superior Court by Spofford's legal team, which includes Boston-based libel lawyer Howard Cooper of Todd & Weld LLP and Spofford Enterprises General Counsel Michael Strauss. The complaint is based on a series of NHPR stories about Spofford, including a March 2022 piece titled: "He built New Hampshire's largest addiction treatment network. Now, he faces accusations of sexual misconduct."
The articles and an accompanying podcast, the complaint alleges, made false and defamatory accusations about Eric and his relationship with a former client of Granite Recovery Centers, the substance use disorder treatment network he founded, and two former employees. The articles were based on two anonymized accusers who made allegations to NHPR about Spofford's conduct that was said to have occurred several years ago, the complaint alleges.
Spofford denies the allegations.
"Eric has not sexually assaulted anyone. Nor has any law enforcement agency ever accused him of doing so. Only NHPR has," the suit states.
The case is Spofford v. New Hampshire Public Radio et al., No. 218-2022- CV-00803.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "Lucky Day Lotto" game were:
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(five, eleven, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Relatives of a family kidnapped at gunpoint from their trucking business in central California pleaded for help Wednesday in the search for an 8-month-old girl, her mother, father and uncle, who authorities say were taken by a convicted robber who tried to kill himself a day after the kidnappings.
Authorities at a news conference Wednesday showed surveillance video of a man kidnapping the baby, Aroohi Dheri; the child’s mother, Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; and uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, from their business in Merced, a city of 86,000 people about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco in the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland.
The video showed the suspect first walking by the property before talking to one of the men. Later, it shows him leading the men, who had their hands zip-tied behind their backs, into the back seat of Amandeep Singh's pickup truck. The suspect then went back to the trailer that served as the business office and led Jasdeep Singh, who was carrying her baby in her arms, out and into the truck before the suspect then drove away.
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Family members said nothing was stolen from the trucking company but that their relatives were all wearing jewelry. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said that after the kidnappings, an ATM card belonging to one of the victims was used in Atwater, a city about 9 miles (14 kilometers) north of Merced.
Warnke said the kidnapper made no ransom demands in what he believes was a financially motivated crime.
Relatives of the victims asked anyone who owns a convenience store or gas station in the area to check their surveillance cameras for images of the suspect or the family. They said they were worried the baby wasn’t being fed because the family didn’t have any baby food with them at the time of the kidnapping.
“Please help us out, come forward, so my family comes home safe,” Sukhdeep Singh, a brother of the victims, said, his voice breaking.
Relatives of Jesus Salgado, 48, contacted authorities reporting that he had admitted to them he was involved with the kidnapping, Warnke told KFSN-TV on Tuesday. Salgado tried to take his own life before police arrived at a home in Atwater, and he has since been hospitalized, he said.
Efforts to reach Salgado’s family were unsuccessful Wednesday.
Warnke said detectives have not been able to speak to Salgado, who has been under medical sedation in the hospital, but they are hoping to do so Wednesday with the help of doctors.
“I can tell you that every time he has even come near consciousness he has been violent,” Warnke said.
Warnke said he hopes Salgado decides to cooperate with law enforcement and lead them to the family.
“First and foremost, we want the family back,” he said. “I’m not worried about court right now, we’ll deal with court later.”
Salgado was previously convicted of first-degree robbery with the use of a firearm in Merced County, as well as attempted false imprisonment and an attempt to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness. He was sentenced to 11 years in state prison in that case, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He was released from prison in 2015 and discharged from parole three years later. He also has a conviction for possession of a controlled substance, the corrections agency said.
Investigators have not found a link between Salgado and the family to show they knew each other before the kidnapping.
“As of right now, we believe it was random,” Deputy Alexandra Britton said. “We don’t have evidence to prove otherwise.”
Family members told KXTV-TV that the office for Unison Trucking Inc., the family's business, had only opened about a week earlier.
“My husband is very peaceful and calm person. We don’t have any clue why they kidnapped them,” said Jaspreet Caur, wife of the kidnapped uncle.
The sheriff said detectives believe the kidnapper destroyed unspecified evidence in an attempt to cover his tracks.
The sheriff's office said that firefighters on Monday found Amandeep Singh's truck on fire. Merced Police Department officers went to Amandeep Singh's home, where a family member tried to reach him and the couple. When they were not able to reach their family members, they called the Merced County Sheriff’s office to report them missing, the office said.
Merced County Undersheriff Corey Gibson said a farmer found a phone belonging to one of the victims on a street in Dos Palos, a town 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Merced, and answered it when the family called it.
Warnke said that while detectives have not established any motive or determined whether Salgado worked with any accomplices, he believes the suspect was driven by money and colluded with someone else.
“I fully believe that there was at least one other person involved,” the sheriff said, noting that he does not have any evidence to back that up.
He added: “My speculation is that it’s financial.”
The sheriff's office said the FBI, the California Department of Justice, and other local law enforcement agencies are helping with the investigation.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two former Black Democratic lawmakers who were expelled by Republican colleagues in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats, following their ouster for a protest on the House floor urging passage of gun-control measures in the wake of a deadly school shooting.
Nashville’s metro council is likely to reappoint Justin Jones to the seat during a specially called Monday meeting. Mickell Lowery, the chairman of the Shelby County Commission, said in a statement Sunday that the panel will consider at a meeting Wednesday whether to reappoint Justin Pearson, who is from Memphis, to his seat.
Lowery said he understands the need to respond to those who “transgressed the rules” of the state House of Representatives.
“However, I believe the expulsion of State Representative Justin Pearson was conducted in a hasty manner without consideration of other corrective action methods. I also believe that the ramifications for our great State are still yet to be seen,” he said.
Both former lawmakers told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that they want to return to their positions as lawmakers. Special elections for the seats, which have yet to be set, will follow in the coming months.
The expulsions have made Tennessee a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy. The former lawmakers have quickly drawn prominent supporters. President Joe Biden spoke with them and Vice President Kamala Harris visited them in Nashville.
“You know, we will continue to fight for our constituents,” Jones said. “And one thing I just want to say … is that this attack against us is hurting all people in our state. You know, even though it is disproportionately impacting Black and Brown communities, this is hurting poor white people. Their attack on democracy hurts all of us.”
In separate votes on Thursday, the GOP supermajority expelled Jones and Pearson, a move leaving about 140,000 voters in primarily Black districts in Nashville and Memphis with no representation in the House.
Pearson and Jones were expelled in retaliation for their role in the protest the week before, which unfolded in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville that killed six people, including three young students and three adults working at the school. The shooter was killed by police.
A third Democrat, Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, was spared expulsion by a one-vote margin. Johnson is white, spurring outcry at the differing outcomes for the two young, Black lawmakers. Republican lawmakers who split their votes have cited Johnson’s points on the floor that her role in the protest was lesser — she didn’t speak into the megaphone, for example.
Johnson has also suggested race was likely a factor on why Jones and Pearson were ousted but not her, telling reporters it “might have to do with the color of our skin.”
Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton said that’s a “false narrative.”
“It’s unfortunate, she’s trying to put political racism in this, which there was nothing on this,” Sexton told Fox News on Friday.
GOP leaders said the expulsion actions — used only a handful times since the Civil War — were necessary to avoid setting a precedent that lawmakers’ disruptions of House proceedings through protest would be tolerated.
Pearson said the statehouse has been a “toxic work environment.” He noted the scrutiny he received for wearing a black dashiki — a tunic-like garment that originated in west Africa — for session, rather than a suit and tie.
“It’s about us not belonging in the institution because they are afraid of the changes that are happening in our society, and the voices that are being elevated,” Pearson said on Meet the Press. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/expelled-tennessee-lawmakers-both-seeking-seats-again/ | 2023-04-10 03:30:25 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/expelled-tennessee-lawmakers-both-seeking-seats-again/ |
Taco Bell unveils new Knoxville-exclusive menu item
Taco Bell is unveiling a new menu item – and it's only available in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Marble City customers will be the first to try the new Cheesy Chicken Crispanada.
The fast food giant's take on a chicken and cheese empanada will be served with spicy ranch sauce for "extra craveable dipping," Taco Bell said.
The announcement comes as Taco Bell announced that they are removing the beloved Quesarito from their menu. The quesadilla-wrapped burrito was a fan favorite.
But the Quesarito's exit comes with the return of the Bacon Club Chalupa and the Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito.
Bacon Club Chalupa (Credit: Taco Bell)
The Bacon Club Chalupa – which has been on and off menus since 1999 – is the chain's take on a club sandwich.
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The Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito features a double serving of steak with a layer of cheese on the exterior. It was last available in winter 2021.
Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito (Credit: Taco Bell)
The Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito will sell in stores for $4.99, whereas the Bacon Club Chalupa will cost $3.49.
There is a possibility that the Quesarito will be back on menus in the future. Taco Bell is known for bringing back past menu items for temporary periods.
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Schumer woos India as ‘counterweight’ in Asia as US-China relations sour
Schumer said close US-India ties are a 'crucial counterweight to outcompete China'
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday called for stronger U.S.-India relations as a way of countering China's growing authoritarian presence in Asia and around the world.
"We need nations such as India, the world’s largest democracy, to work with us to strengthen democracies in Asia and around the globe," Schumer said Monday after an hour-long meeting with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Senate Democrats in New Delhi, India.
"In our meeting with Prime Minister Modi, we stressed that close ties between our two countries would be a crucial counterweight to outcompete China and responding to its authoritarianism," Schumer said. "India is one of the leading powers of the world and a strong U.S.-India relationship is a must for democracy, technology advancement, and a strong world economy."
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Schumer was joined by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Mark Warner, D-Va., Gary Peters, D-Mich., Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., and Peter Welch, D-Vt.
"Wonderful to interact with US Congressional delegation led by Senate Majority Leader @SenSchumer," Modi stated in a tweet Monday.
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"Appreciate the strong bipartisan support from the US Congress for deepening India-US ties anchored in shared democratic values and strong people-to-people ties," he said.
The India trip marks Schumer's second overseas travel in his 24-year career, and his first since taking over as Senate majority leader in 2021. The meetings, with a focus on competition with China, come just days after U.S. missiles took out a Chinese surveillance balloon carrying sensors and surveillance equipment off the Atlantic coast earlier this month after allowing it to drift over the continental U.S.
That incident has strained U.S.-China relations and has prompted Chinese officials to argue the U.S. soured relations by deciding to shoot down what China insists was a weather research balloon.
During an appearance on ABC’s "This Week," Schumer said he was confident with the Biden administration’s response to the Chinese spy flight program.
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"Look, I think the Chinese were humiliated," he said. "I think the Chinese were caught lying, and I think it's a real, it's a real setback for them."
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TAIPEI, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2022: consolidated revenues were NT$72.32 billion; gross profits were NT$8.0 billion with 11.1% margin; operating income was NT$2.17 billion with 3.0% margin; and net income [1] was NT$1.72 billion with 2.4% margin and earnings per share of NT$0.58.
Since the first quarter, Acer has focused on enhancing its supply chain management and product sell out. The second quarter ended with inventory value at NT$63.44 million, marking a slight decline from the first quarter. In addition, Acer's Vero line of eco-conscious devices and glasses-free stereoscopic 3D SpatialLabs products have sold well worldwide.
This year, Acer expects revenues from its PC business in the second half to be lower than the previous year. However, its strategy to build multiple business engines continues to gain momentum, and the second quarter revenues of businesses other than PCs and displays contributed to 21.1% of the total revenue, compared to 16.2% a year earlier. Acer e-Enabling Business (6811.TW) will be listed on the Mainboard of the Taipei Exchange this month, while Acer Gaming Inc. (6908.TW) plans to file for listing on the emerging market during the third quarter.
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Founded in 1976, Acer is one of the world's top ICT companies with a presence in more than 160 countries. As Acer evolves with the industry and changing lifestyles, it is focused on enabling a world where hardware, software and services will fuse with one another, creating ecosystems and opening up new possibilities for consumers and businesses alike. Acer's 7,500 employees are dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of products and solutions that break barriers between people and technology. Please visit www.acer.com for more information.
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala sank deeper into political turmoil Thursday as prosecutors targeted a progressive presidential candidate who proved to be surprisingly popular, prompting his opponent to suspend her campaign, saying the playing field was no longer even.
The government’s actions against candidate Bernardo Arévalo — first suspending his Seed Movement party, then raiding the country’s election tribunal offices after it certified election results — sparked other objections as well, from within and outside Guatemala. U.S. officials called them a threat to the country’s democracy.
By Thursday afternoon, those actions appeared to have backfired. Candidates left and right warned the government to let the voters’ prevail — not likely what President Alejandro Giammattei expected when his administration decided to intervene in the June 25 election, which ended with Arévalo and conservative candidate Sandra Torres moving on to an Aug. 20 presidential runoff.
Arévalo dismissed the government’s actions as illegal.
“What they are trying to do is simply plant doubt about our honesty,” he told a news conference Thursday, adding that the raid and party’s suspension had a “clear political purpose.”
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal issued an angry statement declaring that it would safeguard Guatemala’s democracy in the face of “any attempt to interfere with the electoral process.”
Torres, whose UNE party has been a key force in allowing Giammattei to advance his legislative agenda, said she was halting her campaign activities to protest the government’s actions. It was likely that she realized Giammattei’s missteps could sink her own candidacy.
“We want to demonstrate our solidarity with the voters of the Seed party and also with those who came out to vote,” she said. “As a candidate, I want to compete under equal conditions.”
She called on the president to show his face.
Giammattei’s office issued a statement saying that it respects the separation of powers and would not be involved in any judicial processes. It also said that in line with the law, it would make presidential security available to the presidential and vice presidential candidates participating in the runoff.
Arévalo was a surprise winner in the June 25 election, garnering 11.7% of the votes. In the days before the vote, he had polled below 3% and was not among the top six or seven candidates, all of whom were considered to be on the conservative end of the political spectrum. Torres obtained 15.8% of the vote. No candidate came close to exceeding the 50% threshold necessary to win outright, necessitating the August runoff.
A former diplomat and academic, Arévalo has framed himself as the candidate who would bring change to the country, while portraying Torres as someone who would likely maintain the status quo.
Arévalo also promised to bring back prosecutors and judges who were critical to the nation’s fight against corruption but were forced out of the country under Giammattei’s administration.
As the wait dragged on for certification of the election, anxiety grew that the government was looking for a way to change the results. First, several losing parties waged a legal challenge, leading Guatemala’s highest court to suspend the certification and order a review of hundreds of challenged polling place tallies. The review concluded with no change in the results.
Then late Wednesday, Curruchiche announced the Seed Movement’s suspension, an action that appeared to violate Guatemala’s election laws, which prohibit suspending parties during an ongoing election. Curruchiche said the party allegedly violated the law while gathering the signatures it needed to form.
The day began Thursday with prosecutors raiding the offices of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal just hours after it certified the election results.
The Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that the purpose of the raid was to seize evidence from the office responsible for voter rolls and party registration. A raid was also expected to take place at the Seed Movement’s party headquarters Thursday.
The U.S. State Department had already accused Curruchiche and his boss, Attorney General Consuelo Porras, of obstructing corruption investigations in Guatemala, and put them both on its list of undemocratic actors.
Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Thursday that the U.S. government was “deeply concerned” by the actions of the Attorney General’s Office, which he said threatened the legitimacy of the electoral process. “The will of the Guatemalan people, as expressed through the June 25 elections results, must be respected,” he said. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-top-vote-getter-in-guatemalas-presidential-election-suspends-campaign-in-solidarity-with-opponent/ | 2023-07-14 19:03:14 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-top-vote-getter-in-guatemalas-presidential-election-suspends-campaign-in-solidarity-with-opponent/ |
Recognized among industry leaders in the THQ Computers & Peripherals and Office Electronics category at No. 2
TAIPEI, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) announced that it has been listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Emerging Markets Index in 2022 for the ninth straight year, and achieved its best ranking at No. 2 in THQ Computers & Peripherals and Office Electronics category. Acer achieved full marks of 100 as well as scored in the top 100th percentile across various components: Materiality, Risk and Crisis Management, Innovation Management, Environmental Reporting, Social Reporting, Human Capital Development, Customer Relationship Management.
In 2022, Acer has won several accolades for its efforts in environmental, social, and governance (ESG). The company's responsibility efforts continue to gain recognition from global sustainability indices and win industry accolades:
- Acer was listed in the MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes for the ninth year, garnering the best rating of "AAA" [1] that represents the top 4% in the category of technology hardware, storage and peripherals industry.
- For the first time, Acer was awarded the Platinum medal, EcoVadis Sustainability Rating's highest recognition. The Platinum status represents the top 1% of the rated companies, for which Acer was evaluated among 90,000+ companies from 200+ sectors in 160+ countries.
- Acer was selected as a constituent of the FTSE4Good Emerging Index for the seventh consecutive year and in the subcategory FTSE4Good TIP Taiwan ESG Index [2] supported by the Taiwan Stock Exchange, which integrates ESG management practices and financial performances of companies, for the fifth year.
In the area of environment, as an advocate for circular economies Acer launched the Vero line of eco-conscious devices built with recycled materials in 2021, which has now expanded to include laptops, desktops, displays, all-in-ones, Chromebooks, and accessories.
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Brazil prepares to bury Pelé in city he made soccer mecca
SANTOS, Brazil (AP) — Forty-five years after Pelé played his last game, it’s hard to imagine modern soccer, or Brazil, without him.
Geovana Sarmento, 17, waited in the three-hour line to view his body as it lay in repose at the stadium where he played for most of his career. She came with her father, who was wearing a Brazil shirt with Pelé's name.
“I am not a Santos fan, neither is my father. But this guy invented Brazil’s national team. He made Santos stronger, he made it big, how could you not respect him? He is one of the greatest people ever, we needed to honor him,” she said.
Pelé will be buried Tuesday in the city where he grew up, became famous, and helped make into a global capital of soccer. A Catholic Mass will be celebrated at the Vila Belmiro stadium before his casket is ushered through the streets of Santos to a nearby cemetery.
Brazil’s newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was sworn in for a third term Sunday after a comeback victory, paid his respects at Vila Belmiro.
The soccer great died Thursday at age 82 after a battle with cancer. He was the only player ever to win three World Cups.
Thousands of mourners, including high school students and supreme court justices, filed Monday past the body of Pelé on the century-old field where he made his hometown team one of Brazil’s best. Pelé's coffin, draped in the flags of Brazil and the Santos FC football club, was placed on the midfield area of Vila Belmiro.
Lula arrived at 9 a.m. and took part in a Catholic Mass as fans continued to walk past the coffin, and expressed his condolences to Pelé's widow, Marcia Aoki, holding her head between his hands. He left 30 minutes later.
The storied 16,000-seat stadium was surrounded by mourning fans, and covered with Pelé-themed decorations inside. Fans coming out of the stadium said they’d waited three hours in line, standing under a blazing sun.
Caio Zalke, 35, an engineer, wore a Brazil shirt as he waited in line. “Pelé is the most important Brazilian of all time. He made soccer important for Brazil and he made Brazil important for the world,” he said.
In the 1960s and 70s, Pelé was perhaps the world’s most famous athlete. He met presidents and queens, and in Nigeria a civil war was put on hold to watch him play. Many Brazilians credit him with putting the country on the world stage for the first time.
Rows of shirts with Pelé's number 10 were placed behind one of the goals, waving in the city’s summer winds. A section of the stands was filling up with bouquets of flowers placed by mourners and sent by clubs and star players — Neymar and Ronaldo among them — from around the world as loudspeakers played a song named “Eu sou Pelé” (“I am Pelé”) that was recorded by the Brazilian himself.
The crowd was mostly local, although some came from far away. Many mourners were too young ever to have seen Pelé play. The mood was light, as people filtered out of the stadium to local bars, wearing Santos FC and Brazil shirts.
Claudio Carrança, 32, a salesman, said: “I never saw him play, but loving Pelé is a tradition that goes from father to son in Santos. I learned his history, saw his goals, and I see how Santos FC is important because he is important. I know some Santos fans have children supporting other teams. But that’s just because they never saw Pelé in action. If they had, they would feel this gratitude I feel now.”
Among those at the stadium was Pelé's best friend Manoel Maria, also a former Santos player.
“If I had all the wealth in the world I would never be able to repay what this man did for me and my family,” Maria said. “He was as great a man as he was as a player; the best of all time. His legacy will outlive us all. And that can be seen in this long line with people of all ages here.”
FIFA President Gianni Infantino told journalists that every country should name a stadium after Pelé.
“I am here with a lot of emotion, sadness, but also with a smile because he gave us so many smiles,” Infantino said. “As FIFA, we will pay a tribute to the ‘King’ and we ask the whole world to observe a minute of silence.”
Another fan and friend in line was Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes.
“It is a very sad moment, but we are now seeing the real meaning of this legendary player to our country,” Mendes told journalists. “My office has shirts signed by Pelé, a picture of him as a goalkeeper, also signed by him. DVDs, photos, a big collection of him.”
Pelé had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. The medical center where he had been hospitalized said he died of multiple organ failure as a result of the cancer.
Pelé led Brazil to World Cup titles in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and remains one of the team’s all-time leading scorers with 77 goals. Neymar tied Pelé's record during this year’s World Cup in Qatar.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Gerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, has died. He was 97.
Stern, New Jersey’s first poet laureate, died Thursday at Calvary Hospice in New York City, according to his longtime partner, Anne Marie Macari. A statement from Macari, released Saturday by publisher WW Norton, didn’t include the cause of death.
Winner of the National Book Award in 1998 for the anthology “This Time,” the balding, round-eyed Stern was sometimes mistaken in person for Allen Ginsberg and often compared to Walt Whitman because of his lyrical and sensual style, and his gift for wedding the physical world to the greater cosmos.
Stern was shaped by the rough, urban surroundings of his native Pittsburgh, but he also identified strongly with nature and animals, marveling at the “power” of a maple tree, likening himself to a hummingbird or a squirrel, or finding the “secret of life” in a dead animal on the road.
A lifelong agnostic who also fiercely believed in “the idea of the Jew,” the poet wrote more than a dozen books and described himself as “part comedic, part idealistic, colored in irony, smeared with mockery and sarcasm.” In poems and essays, he wrote with special intensity about the past — his immigrant parents, long-lost friends and lovers, and the striking divisions between rich and poor and Jews and non-Jews in Pittsburgh. He regarded “The One Thing in Life,” from the 1977 collection “Lucky Life,” as the poem that best defined him.
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There is a sweetness buried in my mind
there is water with a small cave behind it
there’s a mouth speaking Greek
It is what I keep to myself; what I return to;
the one thing that no one else wanted
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He was past 50 before he won any major awards, but was cited often over the second half of his life. Besides his National Book Award, his honors included being a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1991 for “Leaving Another Kingdom” and receiving such lifetime achievement awards as the Ruth Lilly Prize and the Wallace Stevens Award. In 2013, the Library of Congress gave him the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for “Early Collected Poems” and praised him as “one of America’s great poet-proclaimers in the Whitmanic tradition: With moments of humor and whimsy, and an enduring generosity, his work celebrates the mythologizing power of the art.”
Meanwhile, he was named New Jersey’s first poet laureate, in 2000, and inadvertently helped bring about the position’s speedy demise. After serving his two-year term, he recommended Amiri Baraka as his successor. Baraka would set off a fierce outcry with his 2002 poem “Somebody Blew Up America,” which alleged that Israel had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks the year before. Baraka refused to step down, so the state decided to no longer have a laureate.
Stern, born in 1925, remembered no major literary influences as a child, but did speak of the lasting trauma of the death of his older sister, Sylvia, when he was 8. He would describe himself as “a thug who hung out in pool halls and got into fights.” But, he told The New York Times in 1999, he was a well-read thug who excelled in college. Stern studied political science at the University of Pittsburgh and received a master’s in comparative literature from Columbia University. Ezra Pound and W.B Yeats were among the first poets he read closely.
Stern lived in Europe and New York during the 1950s and eventually settled in a 19th century home near the Delaware River in Lambertville. His creative development came slowly. Only during free moments in the Army, in which he served for a brief time after World War II, did he conceive the “sweet idea” of writing for a living. He spent much of his 30s working on a poem about the American presidency, “The Pineys,” but despaired that it was “indulgent” and “tedious.” As he approached age 40, he worried that he had become “an eternally old student” and “eternally young instructor.” Through his midlife crisis, he finally found his voice as a poet, discovering that he had been “taking an easier way” than he should have.
“It also had to do with a realization that my protracted youth was over, that I wouldn’t live forever, that death was not just a literary event but very real and very personal,” he wrote in the essay “Some Secrets,” published in 1983. “I was able to let go and finally become myself and lose my shame and pride.”
His marriage to Patricia Miller ended in divorce. They had two children, Rachael Stern Martin and David Stern.
Stern mostly avoided topical poems, but he was a longtime political activist whose causes included desegregating a swimming pool in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and organizing an anti-apartheid reading at the University of Iowa. He taught at several schools, but had great skepticism about writing programs and the academic life. At Temple University, he was so enraged by the school’s decision in the 1950s to build a 6-foot brick wall separating the campus from the nearby Black neighborhoods of Philadelphia that he made a point of climbing the wall on the way to class.
“The institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant,” he told the online publication The Rumpus in 2010. “Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that plagued him.
They weren’t able to crack the case of the German composer’s deafness or severe stomach ailments. But they did find a genetic risk for liver disease, plus a liver-damaging hepatitis B infection in the last months of his life.
These factors, along with his chronic drinking, were probably enough to cause the liver failure that is widely believed to have killed him, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology.
This Sunday marks the 196th anniversary of Beethoven’s death in Vienna on March 26, 1827, at the age of 56. The composer himself wrote that he wanted doctors to study his health problems after he died.
“With Beethoven in particular, it is the case that illnesses sometimes very much limited his creative work,” said study author Axel Schmidt, a geneticist at University Hospital Bonn in Germany. “And for physicians, it has always been a mystery what was really behind it.”
Since his death, scientists have long tried to piece together Beethoven’s medical history and have offered a variety of possible explanations for his many maladies.
Now, with advances in ancient DNA technology, researchers have been able to pull genetic clues from locks of Beethoven’s hair that had been snipped off and preserved as keepsakes. They focused on five locks that are “almost certainly authentic,” coming from the same European male, according to the study.
They also looked at three other historical locks, but weren’t able to confirm those were actually Beethoven’s. Previous tests on one of those locks suggested Beethoven had lead poisoning, but researchers concluded that sample was actually from a woman.
After cleaning Beethoven’s hair one strand at a time, scientists dissolved the pieces into a solution and fished out chunks of DNA, said study author Tristan James Alexander Begg, a biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge.
Getting genes out was a challenge, since DNA in hair gets chopped up into tiny fragments, explained author Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
But eventually, after using up almost 10 feet (3 meters) of Beethoven’s hair, they were able to piece together a genome that they could “quiz” for signs of genetic disease, Krause said.
While researchers didn’t find any clear genetic signs of what caused Beethoven’s gastrointestinal issues, they found that celiac disease and lactose intolerance were unlikely causes. In the future, the genome may offer more clues as we learn more about how genes influence health, Begg said.
The research also led to a surprising discovery: When they tested DNA from living members of the extended Beethoven family, scientists found a discrepancy in the Y chromosomes that get passed down on the father’s side. The Y chromosomes from the five men matched each other — but they didn’t match the composer’s.
This suggests there was an “extra-pair paternity event” somewhere in the generations before Beethoven was born, Begg said. In other words, a child born from an extramarital relationship in the composer’s family tree.
The key question of what caused Beethoven’s hearing loss is still unanswered, said Ohio State University’s Dr. Avraham Z. Cooper, who was not involved in the study. And it may be a difficult one to figure out, because genetics can only show us half of the “nature and nurture” equation that makes up our health.
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In the biggest shift since the speaker nominations started, a total of 14 Republicans who previously voted against Kevin McCarthy backed the embattled Californian in a 12th vote.
It's the first time McCarthy has earned more votes than the Democratic nominee, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. But McCarthy appears still shy of the needed majority, earning 213 of the 431 votes cast in the latest round of voting.
These are the former holdouts who switched votes:
Dan Bishop, R-N.C.
Josh Brecheen, R-Okla.
Michael Cloud, R-Texas
Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.
Mary Miller, R-Ill.
Ralph Norman, R-S.C.
Andrew Ogles, R-Tenn.
Scott Perry, R-Pa.
Chip Roy, R-Texas
Keith Self, R-Texas
Victoria Spartz, R-Ind.
All 14 had voted against McCarthy on every ballot (Spartz had been voting present). Donalds was the non-McCarthy Republican speaker nominee on Thursday.
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DeVonta Smith has come up huge for the Eagles as they made their impressive run toward Super Bowl 57 against the Chiefs. We’ve curated some Super Bowl DeVonta Smith player props for you to check out as the former University of Alabama Heisman Trophy winner seeks to help his team snag the Lombardi Trophy.
Super Bowl 2023 prop odds: DeVonta Smith player props for Eagles vs. Chiefs on Sunday
DeVonta Smith props: Over 62.5 receiving yards (-115 or better)
Smith is the number-two wide receiver in the Eagles’ offense behind A.J. Brown, but he has had his share of time in the limelight.
Brown has also been fairly quiet in recent weeks (and has been vocal about it), which means Smith could be in for a big day.
The Chiefs were one of the worst teams in the NFL at defending the pass, and cornerback L’Jarius Sneed is questionable with an injury.
If he cannot suit up, that will give him an even easier time against an already-easy matchup.
DeVonta Smith props: Over 5.5 receptions (+110 or better)
Smith recorded six or more receptions in five of the last six weeks, including his first game of the playoffs against the New York Giants.
Granted, he only caught two passes in the NFC Championship Game, but the Eagles had no reason to throw the ball after the San Francisco 49ers ran out of quarterbacks to throw the ball.
We expect the Chiefs to pay special attention to Brown, who is the team’s obvious deep-ball threat, leaving Smith open in the short and intermediate game.
However, the former Heisman winner can get down the field in a hurry if teams aren’t careful, so they still have to be mindful of that.
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DeVonta Smith props: Anytime touchdown scorer (+190 or better)
The Eagles are spoiled for choice at wideout with both Brown and Smith in the lineup.
While Brown might be the more dominant player at the position, Smith has been able to break games wide open with key plays, including touchdowns, throughout the entire season.
The Crimson Tide product has scored in four of his last games and had two touchdown catches in one of those. He also scored in the divisional round against the Giants and has the profile to be used in trick plays coaches save for big games like the Super Bowl.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The candidates vying against former President Donald Trump for the White House in 2024 have found themselves battling for air time and media attention this week as the GOP front-runner’s indictment and arraignment dominate headlines.
The task of breaking through Trump’s general command of any news cycle was already daunting. But the media coverage surrounding Trump becoming the first former U.S. president charged with a crime made the challenge for Republican presidential hopefuls even greater.
Still, some tried. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson used the historic moment to announce his own 2024 Republican presidential campaign. Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley made a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to highlight the need for immigration reform. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a trip to Ukraine to underline the importance of support for the U.S. ally.
Even President Joe Biden was largely drowned out by news of Trump’s indictment. As news coverage played on screens in the White House briefing room on Tuesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the case “is not something that is a focus for” Biden, who is expected to run for reelection in 2024.
Notably, most of the declared and potential 2024 GOP candidates did not take the opportunity to criticize Trump. In fact, most voiced support for the former president, characterizing the New York case as political persecution and saying the charges were bad for the country.
They also carried on with schedules that had been laid out before news outlets began reporting last Thursday that a Manhattan grand jury had indicted Trump.
Haley, who announced her campaign in February, met with farmers in a Texas border city on Monday, rode along with federal agents and held a news conference aimed at drawing attention to what Republicans have called a border crisis. She complained that the criminal case against Trump was diverting attention from issues like immigration.
“I’m sitting in Del Rio, Texas, where we have 4.8 million illegal immigrants crossing the border, and no one is talking about that,” Haley said on Fox News. “We’re dealing with a lot of political drama that’s unnecessary because you’ve got political vengeful people out there.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has not yet announced a 2024 campaign, kept up a brisk weekend travel schedule, taking his “Florida Blueprint” book tour to Pennsylvania and New York. Before a gathering of conservatives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, on Saturday DeSantis accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of weaponizing the law “for political purposes” in bringing a case against “a former president,” never mentioning Trump by name.
On Tuesday, he signed a bill into law that will allow Floridians to be able to carry concealed guns without a permit. Expanding gun rights has been a top priority for Republicans, who argue that law-abiding citizens have a right to carry guns and protect themselves.
Biotech investor and “anti-woke” activist Vivek Ramaswamy, who launched his 2024 bid in February, launched a new podcast this week that he says will pull back ”the curtain on the entire campaign process.” Across the world, Pompeo made an unannounced trip to Kiev as he considers a presidential challenge to his former boss, Trump, and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Hutchinson, who has been critical of the former president, announced his run for president three days after news of Trump’s indictment broke. He argued that Trump should drop out and focus on his legal troubles, which he called “too much of a sideshow and a distraction.”
“I’m convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America and not simply appeal to our worst instincts,” Hutchinson said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
A day later, Hutchinson said Trump’s indictment “is not a good thing for America” or for the GOP, noting the difficulties it poses for those seeking the nomination.
“As candidates that are running for president, we’ve got to navigate around this,” Hutchinson said Monday on MSNBC, urging a shift back toward issues confronting voters. “We’re going to have to compete with this, and it’s going to be challenging.”
With a hearing scheduled in the New York case for December, and a possible trial date in January — just as GOP primary votes begin to get underway in early states — the competition for campaign trail attention and donor dollars will continue alongside the former president’s legal cases. As of Tuesday night, Trump’s camp also claimed to raise more than $10 million dollars since his indictment.
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Associated Press writers Michelle L. Price and Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tua Tagovailoa didn’t seem to celebrate this stat. Bill Belichick certainly isn’t, either.
Tagovailoa hears all the time about the things he supposedly can’t do — can’t throw the deep ball, can’t stay healthy, can’t get to the playoffs, things of that nature.
So far, when playing the New England Patriots, he also can’t lose.
Tagovailoa is 3-0 in his first three starts against the Patriots, and he and the Miami Dolphins will look to make that 4-0 when they play host to Mac Jones — Tagovailoa’s former Alabama teammate — and New England in Week 1 of the NFL regular season on Sunday.
“I wouldn’t attest that I’m 3-0,” Tagovailoa said. “I would attest that we’re 3-0 as a team. It takes all of us. I’m just the distributor. I’ve just got to get it to our playmakers. They make the plays. Our defense gets us the ball back and the defense makes stops. Special teams, they do their part. And that’s how you win games.”
According to SportRadar, the only other quarterbacks to win their first three starts against the Patriots in the Belichick coaching era there, which goes back to 2000, were Jake Plummer, Vinny Testaverde, Jay Fiedler and Drew Brees.
Nobody has won his first four starts against New England since Belichick took over there; Testaverde, Fiedler and Brees all lost in No. 4, and Plummer made just the three starts.
Tagovailoa has that 4-0 opportunity, though insists his lone priority is getting the Dolphins to 1-0.
“Productive player, knows how to use his weapons, receivers, backs,” Belichick said Wednesday before the Patriots started their game-week practices in West Palm Beach, Florida, trying to acclimate to the heat and humidity that awaits them on Sunday. “Makes a lot of good critical plays, goal line, third-and-1, fourth-and-1. Couple plays that formatted against us last year. Smart football player.”
The Dolphins were the only AFC East team that Jones didn’t lead New England to victory against last season, his rookie campaign.
Tagovailoa and Jones are going to be linked forever, for a lot of reasons. Both were Alabama quarterbacks. Both won national championships there. Jones was the player who came into the game when Tagovailoa hurt his hip at Mississippi State in 2019, on what became his final collegiate play.
And for the second straight year, in Week 1, it’s Tua vs. Mac. Last year’s opener was at New England; this year, it’s at Miami.
“I think sometimes, Game 1, there’s a lot of emotional stuff,” Jones said. “You want to focus more on the details of the plays and everything like that and let the emotions come and go. That’s how emotions are, they come and go. Energy and all that will be there. At the end of the day, it’s just the start of something. You have to learn from it and grow regardless of the results. So, we’re going to go out there and compete and see how it goes.”
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, who’ll be making his debut as a head coach Sunday, got to know Jones during the draft process when he was with the San Francisco 49ers and evaluating quarterbacks such as Jones.
He raved about him then, and still does.
“I really like his play and I think the best is right in front of him for his career,” McDaniel said. “And I look forward to watching it 15 out of the 17 games of the NFL season.”
NOTES: The Patriots said OT Isaiah Wynn (back), WR Jakobi Meyers (knee) and RB Ty Montgomery (knee) were limited in practice. … Among those limited for the Dolphins was WR Jaylen Waddle — who caught passes from both Tagovailoa and Jones at Alabama. Tagovailoa said he’s hopeful that Waddle (quad) can go Sunday.
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From herding supplies to managing students, keeping a classroom organized can be daunting for teachers. Fortunately, there are many brilliant tricks and tools available that can help create an efficient and well-organized learning environment.
Whether you’re using color coding for supplies, or investing in the best stapler to keep packets together, these tips can help teachers create a more organized classroom and maximize the learning experience — and knowing these hacks might help you stay more organized at home, too.
Buy Bins and Baskets
Bins and baskets can be efficient and cost-effective for organizing many classroom items. For instance, you can label each container or basket with a subject, genre or topic and put books in them so that students know where to find relevant materials quickly.
Transparent bins allow students to see what’s inside without having to dig through them. Place bins and baskets on shelves, or hang them on the walls at different heights to make them easily accessible for all students.
Incorporate Color Coding
Color coding can be an excellent way for teachers to organize their classrooms, helping them quickly identify and locate materials without spending extra time looking through multiple documents or containers.
For example, create a schedule with different colors for each day of the week to track assignments, due dates and special events. Or use colored filing folders for sorting papers according to the subject, topic, grade level or any other criteria you may choose, to make locating important documents simpler and quicker.
Utilize Adjustable Shelving
One way to maximize storage is with furniture that has adjustable shelving and drawers. You can use these items to store materials including your best stapler, paper, art supplies and other classroom items.
Adjustable shelves are perfect for storing items at different heights and widths, while drawers offer a discreet hidden way to keep things tucked away neatly. This allows you to better organize your classroom according to your needs, whether you require more vertical or horizontal space.
Hang Pegboards
Pegboards are a great way to store markers and other art supplies, books, paper bins, pocket charts, bulletin boards and other classroom essentials. They can also be used for hanging activity centers such as magnetic boards or whiteboards.
Teachers can also use pegboard to store posters, charts and other visuals that can easily be seen from around the room. This allows students to reference material quickly without searching through stacks of papers or folders.
Label Everything
Labels make it easy to keep track of materials and designate areas within the classroom for specific activities. In addition, labels can be used to organize books, folders, desks, lockers and other supplies.
Teachers can also use labels to provide visual cues around the classroom. For example, labels can be used on doors or walls to help students identify different spaces or learning centers within the room. Labels can also be placed around shelves and drawers so students know where to find the supplies they need for their assignments.
Assign Jobs
Assigning jobs to students is an effective way for teachers to keep their classrooms organized and running smoothly. Jobs can include anything from sorting materials, to cleaning up after activities, managing resources and keeping track of attendance.
Of course, when assigning tasks it’s essential to consider the age and developmental level of the students. It’s also important to make sure all students understand their responsibilities. Finally, it’s a good idea to recognize students who do a good job or go above and beyond with their assignments.
Assigning jobs is an excellent way for teachers to ensure that their classroom stays neat and organized and runs efficiently throughout the school year.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and Ukraine government officials say they plan to put on public display in Warsaw damaged or burnt-out Russian tanks and armored vehicles captured by Ukrainian forces during the war.
The head of the Polish prime minister’s office, Michal Dworczyk, said the idea is to highlight Russian “atrocities” and the Ukrainian response.
“On one hand we are showing the atrocities that the Russian army is carrying out in Ukraine, (and) on the other hand we are showing the heroic defense of Ukraine’s armed forces and the results of these fights,” Dworczyk said.
The ironically-named “Invincible Army” open-air exhibition will be staged in the Castle Square in Warsaw’s Old Town, that was painstakingly rebuilt after being razed during fighting in World War II.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said this week that there are plans for similar exhibits in other European capitals such as Berlin, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon.
“We will help ensure that Russian tanks end up in Europe, but in the form of wreckage,” Reznikov told Polish Polsat TV News Sunday.
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center North squad faces Geisinger South in the 2023 District IV All-Star Football game Friday night at Williamsport Area High-School. Mike Pearson the Millionaires Head Football Coach guides the North.
“There is a lot of great football players here, and it's real humbling to walk out and see them. The chemistry is what we are all working on. Chemistry in like 5 or 6 days how do you get that, but in terms of playing football these kids we're well coached at their high-school by their high-school coaches,” said Mike.
His quarterbacks include Brady Jordan from Jersey Shore and Weston Bellows from Canton.
“It's exciting you know. I must go out there and have fun. Coach Pearson has you at quarterback. Are you comfortable back there? I think that I will be fine. I have a lot of good teammates that can make me look good,” said Weston.
And plenty of targets to spread the ball around. Riley Parker has one more crack at high-school football before he leaves Canton and heads to Bloomsburg University to play football for the Huskies.
“Oh you know it's fun to come out here and practicing with these guys. It made me realize how much I did miss it. And you know we are going to be really excited to play Friday,” said Riley.
Coach Pearson is super excited to have this District IV All-Star Football Game here at Williamsport Area High-School. He is expecting a big crowd here on Friday night and lots of food trucks lined up for folks to get a bite to eat.
“The chance to get to host this. After Max Dell and his buddies did it forever at South Williamsport. The chance for Williamsport to host this we are really hoping for a good night, and I am kind of psyched because our booster club is bringing in food trucks and dude everybody loves food trucks,” again said Mike.
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Same-sex marriage fight continues Monday at the Supreme Court with challenge from website designer
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
The Supreme Court will revisit the intersection of LGBTQ rights and religious liberty on Monday, when it takes up the case of a graphic designer who seeks to start a website business to celebrate weddings — but does not want to work with same-sex couples.
The case comes as supporters of LGBTQ rights fear the 6-3 conservative majority — fresh off its decision to reverse a near 50-year-old abortion precedent — may be setting its sights on ultimately reversing a landmark 2015 opinion called Obergefell v. Hodges that cleared the way for same-sex marriage nationwide.
The House this week is expected to pass a bill that requires states to recognize another state’s legal marriage if Obergefell were ever overturned. The bill would then go to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature.
“I am concerned,” Mary Bonauto, senior attorney of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told CNN in an interview. “I am concerned only because the Court seems to be reaching for cases and literally changing settled law time and again.”
Justice Clarence Thomas, for instance, when Roe v. Wade was overturned, explicitly called on the court to revisit Obergefell.
On one side of the dispute is the designer, Lorie Smith, whose business is called 303 Creative. She says she has not yet moved forward with an expansion into wedding websites because she is worried about violating a Colorado public accommodations law. She says the law compels her to express messages that are inconsistent with her beliefs. The state and supporters of LGBTQ rights respond that Smith is simply seeking a license to discriminate in the marketplace.
Four years ago, the court considered a similar case involving a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, citing religious objections.
That 7-2 ruling favoring the baker, however, was tied to specific circumstances in that case and did not apply broadly to similar disputes nationwide. Now, the justices are taking a fresh look at the same state Anti-Discrimination Act. Under the law, a business may not refuse to serve individuals because of their sexual orientation.
Smith says that she is willing to work with all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, but she refuses to create websites that celebrate same-sex marriage.
“The state of Colorado is forcing me to create custom, unique artwork communicating and celebrating a different view of marriage, a view of marriage that goes against my deeply held beliefs,” Smith told CNN in an interview.
When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in February, the justices sidestepped whether the law violated Smith’s free exercise of religion. Instead, the court said it would look at the dispute through the lens of free speech and decide whether applying the public accommodations law “to compel an artist to speak or stay silent” violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.
In court papers, Smith’s lawyer, Kristen K. Waggoner, said that the law works to “compel speech the government favors and silence speech the government dislikes” in violation of the First Amendment. She said the state could interpret its law to allow speakers “who serve all people to decline specific projects based on their message” such a move, she contended, would stop status discrimination “without coercing or suppressing speech.”
Twenty states have weighed in in favor of Smith in friend of the court briefs. They say that they have public accommodation laws on the books, but their laws exempt those businesspeople who make their living creating custom art.
Smith says she has written a webpage explaining that her decision is based on her belief that marriage should be between one man and one woman. But she has not yet published the statement because she is in fear of violating the “publication clause” of the law that bars a company from publishing any communication that indicates that a public accommodation service will be refused based on sexual orientation, Waggoner claims in court papers.
Smith lost her case at the lower court. The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals held that while a diversity of faiths and religious exercises “enriches our society,” the state has a compelling interest in “protecting its citizens from the harms of discrimination.”
Conservatives on the current court are sure to study the dissent penned by Judge Timothy Tymovich.
“The majority,” he wrote, “takes the remarkable — and novel stance that the government may force Ms. Smith to produce messages that violate her conscience.”
“Taken to its logical end,” he concluded, “the government could regulate the messages communicated by all artists.”
Colorado Solicitor General Eric Olson argued in court papers that the law does not regulate or compel speech. Instead, he said, it regulates commercial conduct to ensure all customers have the ability to participate in everyday commercial exchanges regardless of their religion, race, disability, or other characteristics.
He said that the law protects customers’ “equal access and equal dignity” and that when Smith seeks to issue a statement announcing why she would not create wedding websites for same sex couples, that is akin to a “white applicants only” sign.
He added that the law does not aim to suppress any message that Smith may want to express. Instead, 303 Creative is free to decide what design services to offer and whether to communicate its vision of marriage through biblical quotes on its wedding websites. But critically, the law requires the company to sell whatever product or service it offers to all.
Bonauto also warned of a slippery slope.
“Are you going to have the Protestant baker who doesn’t want to make the First Communion cake?” Bonauto said. “Do you want to have the school photographer who has their business but they don’t want to take pictures of certain kids?”
Twenty-two other states support Colorado and have similar laws.
The Biden Justice Department, which will participate in oral arguments, supports Colorado, stressing that public accommodations laws “guarantee equal access to the Nation’s commercial life by ensuring that all Americans can acquire whatever products and services they choose on the same terms and conditions as are offered to other members of the public.”
A decision in the case is expected by July.
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