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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Montana State rotated a defender down to take away Arizona’s high-low game and packed the post with double-teams, all but daring the Wildcats to shoot from the 3-point arc.
Arizona did, showing off yet another dimension to one of the nation’s best offensive teams.
Kerr Kriisa scored 18 points and hit six of Arizona’s 10 3-pointers, helping the fifth-ranked Wildcats pull away in the second half to beat Montana State 85-64 on Tuesday night.
“We made it hard, but they went 10 for 25 from 3,” Montana State coach Danny Sprinkle said. “If they do that, it’s going to be tough for anyone to beat them.”
The Wildcats (11-1) earned a hard-fought win over No. 8 Tennessee on Saturday and faced another fight against the scrappy Bobcats (7-6).
Arizona had some disjointed offensive stretches but wore down Montana State and spread the scoring around for its 26th straight home win. Oumar Ballo had 11 points and 10 rebounds, Cedric Henderson Jr. added 16 points and Kriisa went 6 of 9 from 3.
“We won by 20, but you still have standards you’ve got to hit,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said. “I want those standards hit more often because I want this team to be really successful.”
Montana State kept it close in the first half and made Arizona hit a rough patch with its defense in the second. The Bobcats faded with a slew of second-half fouls and 20 turnovers overall that led to 20 Arizona points.
Jubrile Belo had 18 points and RaeQuan Battle added 17 for Montana Sate, which shot 3 for 24 from the 3-point arc.
“They weren’t really forcing into many turnovers, it was just us not being ready to counter what they had going on,” Battle said. “We were practicing, we had our scout details, it was just us messing some things up.”
The Wildcats were forced to get physical instead of playing their usual free-flowing style against Tennessee and pulled it off for a 75-70 win.
The Bobcats didn’t make it easy on Arizona, either.
The favorite to win the Big Sky Conference after going to the NCAA Tournament a year ago, Montana State made the Wildcats work for shots and limited their transition opportunities — outside of a couple of Azuolas Tubelis breakouts.
Arizona looked like it was going to pull away midway through the first half, going on a 15-4 run to go up 31-19. The Bobcats clawed their way back behind their defense, using an 11-1 run to cut the Wildcats’ lead to four.
Arizona led 44-37 at halftime thanks to a long 3-pointer by Kriisa — his fourth of the half — that had Sprinkle waving his arms in disgust at the defensive breakdown.
“Worst case, you’ve just got to give up a tough 2 in that situation because that’s just a momentum play going into the half,” Sprinkle said.
The Wildcats carried the momentum into a 9-0 run to go up 53-39, but Montana State kept the Wildcats in reach by reaching.
The Wildcats had a 1-for-11 stretch midway through the second half, but maintained their lead from the free throw line as the Bobcats racked up the fouls.
Arizona started hitting shots again after that, using an 11-2 run to go up 71-54. Montana State got no closer than 16 points from there. The Wildcats went 21 for 29 on free throws to kept the Bobcats at bay.
BIG PICTURE
Montana State held the nation’s highest-scoring team in check for stretches of the game, but was doomed by turnovers and poor perimeter shooting.
Arizona had to work for the second straight game and again found a way to win against a quality opponent to extend the nation’s third-longest home winning streak.
LARSSON’S DRAMA
Lloyd has been after Pelle Larsson to be more aggressive offensively.
After a couple of angry reactions to non-foul calls, Lloyd has another area he’d like the Swedish guard to address.
“Pelle is a heck of ball player. You’ve just got to tone down the drama, like trying to accentuate every foul,” Lloyd said. “Just score the basket. The bank before, he thinks he gets fouled and it looks like somebody shot him. He’s too good of a player to be doing that.”
UP NEXT
Montana State: Hosts Idaho on Dec. 29 to kick off its Big Sky schedule.
Arizona: Hosts Morgan State on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. military aid package for Ukraine that is expected to be announced this week will total up to $300 million and will include additional munitions for drones, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The drone ammunition comes after new attacks by unmanned aircraft targeted Moscow.
There has been no suggestion that U.S.-made drones or munitions were used in the recent attacks on Moscow, and U.S. officials have repeatedly said that Ukraine has agreed not to use any American-provided weapons for attacks on Russian soil. The Kremlin blamed Kyiv for Tuesday’s attack, but Ukrainian officials had no direct comment.
But the new aid package comes at a tense moment in the war. The latest drone attack on Moscow follows Russia’s seizure of the eastern Ukrainian city Bakhmut after a nine-month battle that killed tens of thousands of people. Ukraine is also showing signs that its long-awaited spring counteroffensive may already be underway.
The Russian Defense Ministry said five drones were shot down in Moscow and the systems of three others were jammed, causing them to veer off course. President Vladimir Putin called it a “terrorist” act by Kyiv.
A U.S. defense official said the drone strikes would not affect the weapons aid packages the U.S. is providing Ukraine, to include drone ammunition. The official said the U.S. has committed to supporting Ukraine in its effort to defend the country and Ukraine had committed to not using the systems inside Russia, so the aid would likely continue unchanged.
All of the U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the latest aid package has not yet been publicly announced.
U.S. officials did not provide details on the drone munitions in the new aid package or specify which unmanned aircraft would use them. The Defense Department has given Ukraine a variety of unmanned aircraft over the last year, for both surveillance and attacks, including at least two versions of the Switchblade, a so-called kamikaze drone that can loiter in the air and then explode into a target.
Other more sophisticated drones can drop munitions, but the U.S. has been reluctant to publicly share details about those.
Also included in the newest package will be munitions for Patriot missile batteries and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), Stinger missiles for the Avenger system, mine-clearing equipment, anti-armor rounds, unguided Zuni aircraft rockets, night vision goggles, and about 30 million rounds of small arms ammunition, said the U.S. officials.
The aid greatly resembles other recent U.S. packages, which have focused on providing Ukraine more ammunition for the weapons systems it has and helping it prepare for a counteroffensive to push back against Russian gains over the past year. Ukrainian officials have not formally announced the launch of their much-anticipated counteroffensive, although some say it has already begun and the pace of attacks suggests that it’s underway.
Including the latest aid, the U.S. has committed more than $37.6 billion in weapons and other equipment to Ukraine since Russia attacked on Feb. 24, 2022. This latest package will be done under presidential drawdown authority, which allows the Pentagon to take weapons from its own stocks and quickly ship them to Ukraine, officials said.
Officials said the U.S. is expected to announce the aid as soon as Wednesday.
Tuesday’s strikes on Moscow were the second drone strikes on the city since May 3, when Russian officials said two drones targeted the Kremlin in what they portrayed as an attempt on Putin’s life. Ukraine denied it was behind that attack.
U.S. intelligence officials were still trying to ascertain if Ukraine had any involvement in or prior knowledge of Tuesday’s drone attack in Moscow, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Last week, the Russian border region of Belgorod was the target of one of the most serious cross-border raids since the war began, with two far-right pro-Ukrainian paramilitary groups claiming responsibility.
The U.S. conveyed after that incident that American-made weaponry must not be used inside Russia, according to a U.S. official familiar with the sensitive communications. The message was “very clearly understood,” according to the official.
Officials in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, near annexed Crimea, said two drones struck there on Friday, damaging residential buildings. Other drones have reportedly flown deep into Russia multiple times.
Ukrainian military analysts, though unable to confirm Kyiv had launched the drones against Moscow, said the attack may have involved UJ-22 drones, which are produced in Ukraine and have a maximum range of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles).
U.S. officials struck a delicate balance in responding to the drone strikes, reiterating support for Ukraine while stressing that the U.S. opposes Ukrainians using American weapons in Russia. They noted that Russia’s bombardment of Kyiv on Tuesday was the 17th round of attacks this month, “many of which have devastated civilian areas.”
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Lee reported from Oslo. Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani and Tara Copp contributed to this report. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-new-us-aid-package-for-ukraine-will-total-about-300-million-and-include-munitions-for-drones/ | 2023-05-31 04:06:54 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-new-us-aid-package-for-ukraine-will-total-about-300-million-and-include-munitions-for-drones/ |
Self-driving car pioneer Waymo is teaming up with ride-hailing leader Uber in the Phoenix area to transport passengers and deliver food in robotic cars that triggered a bitter technological dispute between the two companies.
The partnership announced Tuesday provides Waymo with another avenue to expand a robotaxi service that it has been running in the Phoenix area since late 2020 while competing to attract passengers from Uber cars that still depend on humans who receive portion of the fares.
Phoenix so far is the only major metropolitan area where a robotaxi operates throughout most of the city, although Waymo and General Motors subsidiary Cruise are vying to run similar autonomous services in San Francisco.
Waymo is making its driverless vehicles available to Uber in Phoenix five years after the two companies spent millions of dollars battling each other in court. The showdown culminated in Uber agreeing to a $245 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit alleging former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick conspired with former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to steal Waymo’s self-driving car technology.
After inheriting the technology from Google in a spin-off, Waymo sued Uber in 2017. That led to a high-profile trial that brought Kalanick into court to testify before the two sides negotiated a surprise settlement in February 2018.
Levandowski later pled guilty to criminal charges that arose from the civil lawsuit, but avoided a 18-month prison sentence in January 2021 when he was pardoned by President Donald Trump just before he left office.
Uber subsequently sold the self-driving car division that triggered the theft allegations and also provided the technology in a robotic vehicle that killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, in March 2018.
But Uber has remained interested in driverless technology as a potential way to boost its profits by reducing the need for humans behind the wheel. The new alliance in Phoenix will involve Waymo dispatching some of its driverless vehicles to pick up passengers and deliver food when summoned through the Uber app at some point later this year.
The two companies didn’t disclose how many of Waymo’s robotaxis will be used to pick up Uber passengers and deliver food.
The addition of Waymo’s robotaxis figures to help Uber build on the momentum that it has been gaining during the past year as the easing pandemic encouraged more passengers to begin summoning rides again while its food delivery service has retained many of the customers who began using during home lockdowns.
Supporting Uber’s services also works to the advantage of Waymo by introducing its autonomous vehicles to a wider segment of the population in the Phoenix area. Earlier this month, Waymo extended the reach of its robotaxis to cover most of that region as it gears up to begin charging passengers for a similar service in San Francisco.
Both Waymo and Cruise are hoping to win approval to begin charging for around-the-clock driverless rides throughout San Francisco from California regulators during a hearing scheduled for June 29. | https://who13.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-waymo-uber-set-aside-past-rift-over-self-driving-car-technology-to-team-up-on-robotaxis-in-phoenix/ | 2023-05-23 20:06:16 | 0 | https://who13.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-waymo-uber-set-aside-past-rift-over-self-driving-car-technology-to-team-up-on-robotaxis-in-phoenix/ |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — H. Lee Sarokin, the federal judge who freed boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and in a landmark case famously said tobacco companies engaged in a “vast” conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking, has died in California, news outlets reported Friday. He was 94.
Sarokin died Tuesday in La Jolla, a seaside community in San Diego where he and his wife lived in retirement, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Sarokin had pulmonary fibrosis and other ailments, his wife, Margie Sarokin, told the paper.
Haddon Lee Sarokin was a New Jersey-born graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. He was nominated to a federal judgeship by former President Jimmy Carter and served on the district court in New Jersey from 1979 to 1994 and the appeals court from 1994 to 1996.
In 1985, Sarokin threw out the convictions of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and John Artis, two Black men who were wrongfully convicted of killing three white men. Sarokin ruled that their prosecution was based “upon an appeal to racism rather than reason, concealment rather than disclosure.”
The ruling stood after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal.
Carter’s innocence had been championed by celebrities and was the basis of a 1975 song by Bob Dylan.
Sarokin told the Union-Tribune in 2014 that Carter called him every year on Nov. 7, the anniversary of the ruling.
In 1988, Sarokin also presided over a landmark liability case against tobacco companies. Sarokin’s pre-trial rulings opened the way for corporate records to be submitted as evidence. When lawyers for the company asked Sarokin to dismiss the case in their favor, he refused, saying famously that evidence showed the tobacco industry engaged in a conspiracy “vast in its scope, devious in its purpose and devastating in its results.”
The case resulted in a jury awarding $400,000 to the estate of Rose Cipollone, who had died after decades of smoking.
An appeals court overturned the verdict and removed Sarokin from a second similar case, saying some of Sarokin’s comments suggested bias against the tobacco makers, which he denied. However, documents in the case helped pave the way for a wave of similar lawsuits brought by state attorneys general in 1998.
Sarokin issued some 2,500 rulings over his career, among them deciding that a homeless man couldn’t be barred from a public library because of his smell.
“He was never afraid to say what he thought,” his wife said.
In retirement, Sarokin was a regular contributor to HuffPost and wrote a dozen plays with themes of social justice and civil rights that were staged by the regional North Coast Repertory Theater.
In addition to his wife, Sarokin is survived by five children and 11 grandchildren. | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/h-lee-sarokin-judge-who-freed-hurricane-carter-dies-at-94/ | 2023-06-24 19:16:46 | 1 | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/h-lee-sarokin-judge-who-freed-hurricane-carter-dies-at-94/ |
Man caught trying to break into same car twice in one morning, police say
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – A man in Tulsa was caught trying to break into the same car twice in one morning, police said.
The Tulsa Police Department arrested Andrew Thomas on Wednesday.
Police said they received a call around 1:15 a.m. about a man, later identified as Thomas, trying to break into a vehicle at an apartment complex.
Though unsuccessful, Thomas caused damage to the car’s door before taking off, police said.
Just over three hours later, Tulsa officers were called out to the same location for a report of Thomas trying to break into the same car again. This time, police said they found Thomas inside the vehicle and took him into custody.
Thomas is facing charges of burglary from a vehicle and possession of marijuana. Police said he is a convicted felon.
According to jail records, his bond was set at $4,250, and he is expected in court Tuesday.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A person familiar with the situation says that the Tennessee Titans will start Joshua Dobbs at quarterback Thursday night against the Dallas Cowboys instead of rookie Malik Willis.
The Titans' third-round pick out of Liberty, WIllis had been expected to make his fourth start with veteran Ryan Tannehill among eight declared out for this game.
Instead, the Titans will start Dobbs, whom they signed off Detroit's practice squad Dec. 21, the person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the move has not been announced.
Whether the Titans (7-8) win or lose Thursday night's home finale has no bearing on their playoff hopes. The AFC South title will be decided in Jacksonville in the regular-season finale.
Dobbs will make his first NFL start after entering the league as a fourth-round pick by Pittsburgh in 2017 out of the University of Tennessee. He has appeared in six games in his career, playing in five with the Steelers in 2018 and one in 2020.
He spent the 2019 season with Jacksonville after being traded by Pittsburgh for a fifth-round pick. He is 10 of 17 for 45 yards in his career with no touchdowns and one interception. He has run six times for 31 yards.
Willis has appeared in eight games this season and is 1-2 as a starter. He is 31 of 61 for 276 yards with three interceptions. Willis just ran for his first NFL touchdown in last week's loss to Houston.
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MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A helicopter crashed Monday morning in a desert area near Phoenix but authorities said there was no immediate word on the condition of the two people aboard.
Federal Aviation Administration officials said the Robinson R22 helicopter went down around 9:15 a.m. some 4 ½ miles (7.2 kilometers) north of the Falcon Field Airport in Mesa and on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
Aerial video of the crash site showed a heavily damaged helicopter with smoke coming out of the scattered debris.
FAA officials did not release any information on the pilot and passenger or the helicopter's flight plan.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.
The airport is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Phoenix. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Helicopter-crashes-in-Arizona-desert-no-word-on-17467685.php | 2022-09-26 18:38:28 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Helicopter-crashes-in-Arizona-desert-no-word-on-17467685.php |
Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday denied an emergency bid by a group of Wisconsin taxpayers to block the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program.
Barrett, who handles emergency matters arising from Wisconsin, acted alone in denying the request, rather than refer the matter to the full court.
The brief, one-line order comes after the Brown County Taxpayers Association on Wednesday urged the court to rule that the president’s nationwide debt cancellation plan illegally encroaches on Congress’s exclusive spending power.
The move leaves intact a judge’s finding that the group lacked standing to sue, a ruling that is being appealed in a lower court.
President Biden announced in August that his administration planned to forgive $10,000 in federal student loan debt for those making under $125,000 annually and $20,000 for recipients of Pell grants, which assist students from lower-income families.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month, the Wisconsin taxpayers argued that the White House lacks the constitutional power or clear authorization from Congress to enact Biden’s debt cancellation policy, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost about $400 billion over 30 years.
A U.S. District judge in Wisconsin dismissed the suit for lack of standing. An intermediate appeals court declined to halt that ruling while a formal appeal plays out, prompting the group’s unsuccessful request to the Supreme Court.
The Biden administration says its policy is authorized by the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, which the Trump administration also drew upon to provide relief to student borrowers during the pandemic.
Updated at 5:25 p.m. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/barrett-denies-emergency-bid-to-block-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan/ | 2022-10-20 22:13:31 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/barrett-denies-emergency-bid-to-block-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness-plan/ |
TEXAS (KIAH) – If you’re in the mood for a delicious bite in Texas, you’re in luck. Eight restaurants in the state made Yelp’s annual list of the “Top 100 Places to Eat” in the country.
The rankings — determined by Yelp with input from its community of online reviewers — highlight a diverse selection of U.S. restaurants, including well-reviewed burger joints, highly-rated ramen shops, top-tier taquerías and even a couple of hole-in-the-wall Hawaiian spots. This year, eateries across dozens of states and Washington, D.C. made the list.
Yelp’s 2023 rankings aren’t necessarily a reflection of the best-reviewed restaurants on its entire platform. In compiling this year’s list, Yelp solicited submissions and suggestions from users, and then compared those suggestions against each business’s reviews. Additionally, Yelp allowed its internal community managers to further curate the rankings based on their “expertise” in each region.
“The resulting list is collaborative and passion driven — an accurate reflection of the Yelp Community itself,” Yelp claims.
So while these restaurants may not be the absolute best-reviewed across Yelp’s entire platform, you could probably do a lot worse: The average honoree on Yelp’s 2023 list boasts hundreds of favorable user reviews, and all are currently rated as 4.5- or 5-star businesses.
Texas restaurants earned eight spots on Yelp’s round-up, making it the third-best represented state after California and Florida. (See the top spots in other states here.)
#15: Vietwich
Vietwich in Stafford is a small and casual restaurant for anyone looking to dine on Vietnamese cuisine or grab a sandwich and a bubble tea. The Houston-area restaurant also offers vegan options.
With a 4.8-star rating and more than 470 reviews on Yelp, Vietwich secured the 15th spot on Yelp’s Top 100 Restaurants of 2023. Some of the restaurant’s most popular dishes include bánh mì, the enoki tofu sandwich, egg rolls, and more.
Customer reviews praise the restaurant’s service and tasty meals, among other things. One reviewer described the restaurant’s grilled pork bánh mi as “delicious.” Another reviewer described the service as “top-notch.”
#16: Crumbville
Another Texas spot that made the list was Houston’s Crumbville, a bakery that offers cookies, stuffed cupcakes, called “stuffed cakes,” and brownies. One of the main appeals here are the vegan options.
With a 5-star rating and more than 220 reviews on Yelp, Crumbville ranked 16th on the Top 100 Restaurants of 2023. One reviewer reviewer called the bakery “a hidden gem.”
#22: 1618 Asian Fusion
If you don’t want to choose between Vietnamese or Thai, then Austin’s 1618 Asian Fusion is the place for you. There’s something for everyone at this restaurant
With 4.5 stars and more than 2,360 reviews on Yelp, 1618 Asian Fusion ranked 22nd on the Top 100 Restaurants of 2023. Popular dishes from the restaurant include pad Thai, pineapple fried rice, calamari and more.
Customer reviews praised the restaurant’s service, ambiance, and food. One reviewer described the restaurant’s high reputation as “well deserved,” and said the food was “amazing.” Another reviewer ordered the scallion pancakes and described them as “pillowy-soft, dimensional, and oh-so divine.”
#47: burger-chan
Coming in at No. 47 on Yelp’s list is Houston’s burger-chan, a restaurant that brings everything you love about American burgers to the next level.
The burger joint boasted a 5-star rating and more than 120 reviews on Yelp. Popular dishes from the restaurant include the sweet sourdough burger, taro chips, hot dogs, and more.
One reviewer said his daughter called her food “the best burger I’ve ever eaten.” Another customer said, “The owners are super friendly and accommodating. Makes it very easy to support them and their delicious food.”
#58: Sunny Thai
Another Texas restaurant that made Yelp’s Top 100 list is Arlington’s Sunny Thai, a place offering authentic comfort Thai and Lao food. The restaurant also offers vegan and vegetarian options, as well as delivery and takeout.
Popular dishes from the restaurant include pad Thai, pad kee mow, pad see ew, and more.
With a rating of 4.5 stars and more than 340 reviews on Yelp, reviewers praised the service, food, and ambiance of the restaurant, often saying they’d be returning for a second bite. One customer described their order as “fantastic, fresh, tasty and flavorful.” Another said the food was “exceptional” and the staff and owner made the spot “a gem” for them.
#62: Fattoush Mediterranean Kitchen
Those looking for a Mediterranean dish are in luck, as Yelp’s 62nd pick for their Top 100 list is Fattoush Mediterranean Kitchen. Located in Pantego, between Dallas and Fort Worth, the restaurant’s popular dishes include chicken shawarma, gyro, chicken lemon soup, and more.
One Yelp reviewer recommended ordering the kebab and said, “You will not be disappointed.” Another customer called the restaurant “next-level delicious.”
Fattoush Mediterranean Kitchen also offers delivery, takeout, and vegan/vegetarian options.
#86: Ricky’s Hot Chicken
In the mood for some halal chicken? Yelp’s 86th pick on their list is waiting for you. Ricky’s Hot Chicken, located north of Dallas in Richardson, offers dishes like chicken wings, its signature hot chicken sandwich, chicken tenders, and much more.
With 4.5 stars and more than 660 reviews on Yelp, customers praised this as a “must-try” location. One customer praised the quality of the food and the service, describing the chicken as the “best Nashville hot chicken in the area.” Another customer said the chicken is “moist, crispy, spicy, and dangerously addicting.”
#99: Kiin Di
Nearing the end of Yelp’s Top 100 Restaurants list is a Thai food truck parked in Austin called Kiin Di. This food truck ranked 99 on the list, and its most popular dishes include pad Thai, fried chicken, killer noodles, ka pow, and more.
The food truck has a 4.5 rating and 120 reviews on Yelp, and customers say the hype is to be believed. One customer called the killer noodles “the star of the show” while another said this is one of the best food trucks they’ve eaten from.
Kiin Di offers takeout and delivery. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/these-texas-restaurants-ranked-among-yelps-top-100-of-2023/ | 2023-05-07 17:26:13 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/these-texas-restaurants-ranked-among-yelps-top-100-of-2023/ |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Quarterback Daniel Jones isn't thinking about asking the New York Giants for a new contract despite having a good start to the season in what is a make-or-break year for him.
The Giants (4-1) didn't pick up the fifth-year option on Jones' rookie contract earlier this year so there is a chance this could be his final season with the team unless he gets a new deal or the team franchises him.
“It’s certainly not my focus," said the 25-year-old who was the No. 6 pick overall in the 2019 draft said of a new contract. “I think we’re all focused on whatever the next opponent is and making sure we go 1-0 that week. That’s been my focus and that doesn’t change. I think that’s consistent across the locker room.”
While Jones doesn't have overly impressive statistics, he has made the plays that have the Giants off to their best start since going 5-0 in 2009. He has also shown toughness, leadership and a competitive nature.
“I don’t think it was ever really my focus to prove to people one way or the other,” Jones said. “My focus was to play as well as I thought I could play and put the team in a position to win. That doesn’t change for me. Each week, you try to get better, you try to improve and play the best football you can.”
This past week in a 27-22 win over the Green Bay Packers in London, Jones played on a sprained left ankle and led New York on five straight scoring drives.
“He’s been steady,” said wide receiver Darius Slayton, who was part of the Giants' 2019 draft class. “He hasn’t flinched at any point during the year no matter what’s being said on the outside or maybe what has or hasn’t gone his way. He’s been steady, he’s showed up to work, and he’s been a great leader for us. I think it’s shown on the field so far this year.”
Slayton caught six of Jones' 21 completions on Sunday for 79 yards.
“Obviously he’s playing some great ball right now,” Slayton added. “It’s pretty easy to be a receiver for us at the moment.”
Jones said his ankle was fine after the Packers' game and he expects it to be better Sunday when the Giants play host to the Baltimore Ravens (3-2).
The Ravens have eight interceptions, tied for the league lead with Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
Jones has done a good job of protecting the ball while under pressure. He has been sacked 15 times. He is 88 of 132 for 848 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. He has also rushed for 230 yards on 41 carries and scored two touchdowns.
Coach Brian Daboll said the Giants have been evaluating Jones' performance all season. He early analysis is he works hard and works well with his teammates.
“Each week, I think you get a little more comfortable,” Daboll said. “Again, we’re five weeks into, really, live competition. So, I think you learn a lot about players — not just Daniel, but everybody. And he’s done a good job for us.”
NOTES: Former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder watched practice. He is scheduled to fight Robert Helenius on Saturday night in Barclays Center in Brooklyn. “Growing up, I played football, basketball, baseball and if I had time for soccer, I would have played that as well. But once I got into boxing, it just took over my life.” ... WRs Kadarius Toney (hamstring) and Kenny Golladay (knee) and DBs Tony Jefferson (foot) and Cor'Dale Flott (calf) did not practice Wednesday.
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- Car shopping gained share among both luxury and non-luxury shoppers in Q2 amid high gas prices, increased average transaction prices and ongoing vehicle supply challenges.
- Consideration for electrified vehicles rebounded, with Tesla and Toyota leading as the most-considered electrified vehicle brands in Q2, while Rivian gained traction surpassing other EV startups.
- Cadillac pulled marginally ahead of Lexus to become the second most-shopped luxury brand behind leader BMW for the second consecutive quarter.
ATLANTA, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vehicle shopper interest in cars and electrified vehicles increased amid high gas prices and record-breaking transaction prices, while BMW and Toyota maintained their spots as America's most-shopped vehicle brands in their respective segments, according to the Q2 2022 Kelley Blue Book Brand Watch™ reports.
Kelley Blue Book Brand Watch is a consumer perception survey of new-car considerers intending to purchase within 12 months that also weaves in shopping behavior to determine how vehicle brands and models stack up with segment competitors. Kelley Blue Book produces separate Brand Watch reports for non-luxury and luxury brands each quarter. A special look at electrified vehicle shopping also is included. The latest Brand Watch report included surveying both mobile and desktop users to provide an even broader view of vehicle shopping (prior to Q1 2022, the survey included results only from desktop users).
"The record-high gas prices Americans experienced in the second quarter of this year undoubtedly affected their vehicle purchase considerations," said Vanessa Ton, senior research and market intelligence manager at Cox Automotive. "When you couple that with ongoing new-vehicle supply shortages and resulting sky-high transaction prices, it's no wonder people are viewing their car shopping more through the lens of affordability and giving increased consideration to the fuel efficiency benefits of traditional cars and electrified vehicles."
With the highest average gas price on record occurring in mid-June and new-vehicle affordability worsening, many shoppers in Q2 looked for more efficient, more affordable sedans. Of non-luxury shoppers, a notable 40% considered cars in the second quarter, up from 37% in Q1 2022 when gas prices started to take off, and up significantly from 33% one year ago in Q2 2021. Even on the luxury side, fuel efficiency increased in importance, climbing quarter-over-quarter to No. 6 in the factors most important to shoppers. While non-luxury car shoppers likely were disappointed in the low supply offerings in Q2, luxury shoppers benefited from a more abundant supply of luxury cars than luxury SUVs.
High fuel prices likely helped drive increased interest in electrified vehicles, as well. Consideration for electrified models rebounded after a decline in Q1, returning almost to record levels, due to high gas prices and also more selection of vehicles. Of all shoppers, 27% considered an electrified vehicle – 19% considered a hybrid/plug-in and 12% considered an electric vehicle (EV). The top 10 most-shopped electrified vehicles included six hybrids and four EVs. The segment breakdown included four SUVs, four cars and two trucks. Toyota and Tesla each had three models on the list, while Honda and Ford each had two.
BMW kept its spot as the most-shopped luxury brand in the second quarter of 2022, a position it occupied for three years until the end of 2021 when Lexus briefly overtook the top spot. BMW's strength in Q2 came from increased shopping for its cars.
Cadillac pulled marginally ahead of Lexus for the second most-shopped luxury brand, and the Cadillac Escalade was the most-shopped luxury vehicle for the second consecutive quarter. Cadillac benefited from healthy inventory in Q2 while Lexus continued to suffer a supply drought. In addition, Cadillac likely was aided by increased interest in the brand during Q2, stemming from the launch of its first EV, the Cadillac Lyriq, and doling out intriguing hints about the upcoming flagship Cadillac Celestiq EV.
Fuel efficiency and affordability gained importance among luxury shoppers in Q2. Tesla, Rivian and Lexus, respectively, were perceived as tops in fuel efficiency among luxury shoppers. Buick, Genesis and Lincoln, respectively, were seen as the top luxury brands for affordability.
Notably, EV startup Rivian is surpassing other EV startups like Lucid and Polestar, doubling its shopping consideration from Q1 to Q2 2022. While only 2% of luxury shoppers considered the brand that only started selling vehicles last year, Rivian had the same percentage of shoppers as Alfa Romeo, a longtime established luxury brand. Rivian also has attracted attention on the list of factors important to luxury shoppers, ranking second to Tesla in fuel efficiency and second to Land Rover in ruggedness.
Mercedes-Benz saw a two-percentage-point decline in shopping in Q2, the most significant drop of any luxury brand. However, Mercedes benefited from having more inventory in stock and beat BMW in sales for the second quarter. Despite ranking fifth in shopping for Q2, Tesla was the top-selling luxury brand again in the U.S., and the Tesla Model 3 remained the most-shopped luxury car.
Toyota retained the top spot as the most-shopped non-luxury brand, with 35% of all non-luxury shoppers considering a Toyota in Q2 2022. Toyota held its top position for four years until Ford's brief occupation as No. 1 in the final quarter of 2021. However, Toyota quickly grabbed it back in Q1 2022 and widened the gap in Q2, with Ford coming in second place. Chevrolet is hot on Ford's heels, taking the third spot.
Affordability is now among the top three most important factors for non-luxury car shoppers, and fuel efficiency is not far behind at No. 6. Honda, Mazda, Kia and Hyundai, respectively, were seen as the top non-luxury brands for affordability. Honda, Hyundai and Toyota, respectively, were perceived as tops in fuel efficiency among non-luxury shoppers.
Honda's Accord and Civic, along with the Toyota Camry, remained on the most-shopped list for the second consecutive quarter – this after no traditional cars were among the top 10 most-shopped vehicles in the final quarter of 2021.
Q2 2022 Kelley Blue Book Brand Watch Report: Non-Luxury
Q2 2022 Kelley Blue Book Brand Watch Report: Luxury
Q2 2022 Kelley Blue Book Brand Watch Report: Electrified
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
09-17-27-42-48, Lucky Ball: 14
(nine, seventeen, twenty-seven, forty-two, forty-eight; Lucky Ball: fourteen)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
09-17-27-42-48, Lucky Ball: 14
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Curtis L. “Curt” Meinert, a woodworker and hiker who was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Trials, died of sepsis and kidney failure June 13 at his home in Towson. He was 88.
“My dad would always rather be eating lunch on a rock by a creek,” a daughter, Nancy Courduff, said. “We grew up camping listening to him tell stories.”
Mr. Meinert was born on his family’s farm in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, to Arthur Meinert and Mabel Christensen. Along with his four siblings, the family raised corn, peas, soybeans, horses and chickens.
Mr. Meinert graduated from Sleepy Eye High School in 1952 and attended the University of Minnesota as the first college student in his family. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1956.
The next year he married Susan Matson, who he met at a house party, in her hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Mr. Meinert, who also earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Minnesota, followed the University Group Diabetes Program where he worked as part of his Ph.D. training, when it moved from the University of Minnesota to the University of Maryland in 1962.
The couple bought a house in West Towson in 1965, where they raised children, returning to Minnesota every summer.
“They didn’t have running water on the farm. You had to draw it from a well, and then they had an outhouse. It was a bit of a shock,” a daughter, Jill Meinert, said.
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Mr. Meinert was a member of the medical faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in the Institute of International Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from 1962 to 1978. In 1979 he moved to Johns Hopkins, where he taught for 40 years and was the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Trials and was director from its inception in 1990 until 2005. He retired in 2019 at 85.
In the field, Mr. Meinert developed organizational methods for clinical trials on treatments, drugs and medical devices.
“Clinical trials often involve multiple sites, sometimes 25, even 50, different clinics that contribute to the data. He sort of pioneered the way to organize them. It’s like running a medium-sized business, and he figured out how to do that at a time when communications were much more difficult,” James Tonascia, a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, who first met Mr. Meinert in 1966 on a hiking trip near Frederick that was rained out, said.
“He often said he did half science and the other half was political science. There is a whole network of control structures and voting.”
In his office at Hopkins, Mr. Meinert had figurines of pigs with wings.
“The flying pigs noted impossibility. He inspired students to believe in achieving seemingly impossible things,” Pamela Scott, his former Ph.D. student and retired director of research and development at the Food and Drug Administration, said. “He wrote a lot, and I learned a lot from his storytelling. You would learn more from sitting in his office talking to him than you would ever learn from a text book.”
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Mr. Meinert was a prolific writer, authoring six textbooks and a blog about clinical trials, TrialsMeinertsWay.com. He also wrote “Clinical Trial Dictionary: Terminology and Usage Recommendations,” which was published in 2013.
Mr. Tonascia said: “He was funny. He had a thing for being precise. He wrote a dictionary. I mean, who does that?”
Mr. Meinert often took his family hiking and camping in the Appalachia areas of Maryland. At 6 feet 6, he could often reach places others could not.
“I can’t count how many times somebody ended up with a wet foot trying to step over a rock in a creek following him,” another daughter, Nancy Courduff, said.
Mr. Meinert left family and friends with dozens of chairs, desks, bookshelves and tables. He would always date and sign his work.
“He built a lot of furniture,” Jill Meinert said. “We all have something.”
Mr. Meinert is survived by three daughters, Julie Smith of Manassas, Virginia, Nancy Courduff of Towson and Jill Meinert of Timonium. His wife, Susan, died in 2015. His four siblings, Maynard, Bonnie, Carol and Dean, are also deceased. Services are private. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-curtis-meinert-obit-20230703-cm427w3qyfc3toz2nqid52bp7m-story.html | 2023-07-03 10:23:16 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-curtis-meinert-obit-20230703-cm427w3qyfc3toz2nqid52bp7m-story.html |
Should Louisiana offer incentives for people to move back from out of state?
RUSTON La. (KNOE) - Should Louisiana offer incentives for former residents to move back from out of state?
The West Virginia State Senate approved a plan for the state to offer qualified former residents $25,000 in tax credits to move back to the state.
In Louisiana, State Representative Michael Echols (R-14) says he does not support a similar plan, instead saying the state needs to become more business and worker-friendly.
“Most states that are successful right now, like Florida, like Texas, like Tennessee, no personal income taxes,” Echols told KNOE. “That’s one tool we need to look at. We are studying it right now.”
Echols says states that have eliminated the income tax are experiencing a population boom.
According to the 2020 census, states like Florida (15.9%) and Texas (14.6%) have experienced double-digit population increases since 2010. Louisiana experienced a 2.7% increase.
In addition, Echols says lawmakers need to make it harder for businesses to be held civilly liable in case of accidents.
“I think a better business climate is something we have to work to achieve,” Echols explained. “We have tackled some small portions of torn reform, but it has to be bigger going forward to make it a less litigious climate in Louisiana.”
In 2021, Ruston launched a $10,000 incentive program to recruit Louisiana Tech and Grambling State University back to Lincoln Parish. The city has enough money for 25 participants, but they have received 211 applications.
“It’s our opportunity to draw back the knowledge-based workforce that was cultivated at our two universities,” said Andrew Halbrook, Ruston’s Public Works Manager.
The program in Ruston is only open to people who work remote jobs.
“25 high paying typically technology-centered jobs that would otherwise not be in Ruston,” Halbrook told KNOE. “These are sales tax dollars. These are property tax dollars. These are income tax dollars for the state of Louisiana.”
Halbrook says the success of Ruston’s program should serve as a blueprint for other cities and the state.
“We wanted to give other individuals an opportunity, an incentive to come back,” said Halbrook. “We think it’s just a little push, a little nudge in the right direction, that gets the ball rolling for them.
Echols adds centralizing the state’s sales tax structure would make Louisiana more business-friendly.
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You may have come across news headlines about coffee this week, like this one from the BBC: "Coffee pod carbon footprint better for planet than filtered brew."
The stories are about a short article published earlier this month that says single-use coffee pods may be better for the climate than other forms of coffee preparation.
The coverage by social media and news outlets came as good news to lots of people who have single-use coffee makers, since they've heard for years that the disposable metal and plastic capsules in their machines harm the environment. Columnist Matthew Yglesias tweeted out: "Vindication".
The problem is, the positive take on coffee pods and the climate might not be true.
Despite the hype, it's hard to know how solid the conclusions are in the article that blew up online this week. That's in part because the article isn't a formal study that has been peer-reviewed, which means it hasn't been vetted yet by other experts in the field. The article's lead author, Luciano Rodrigues Viana, a doctoral student at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, said in an email to NPR that he hopes to release a peer-reviewed study soon.
And research into the climate impact of coffee pods isn't settled. Viana's article says that coffee pods may have less emissions than other forms of coffee preparation. But a peer-reviewed paper from 2021 found the complete opposite: that coffee pods account for more emissions than other ways of making coffee, because of greenhouse gases from producing the pods' packaging and dealing with the waste.
Media scholars who study climate change aren't surprised by the hot takes on the article.
Headlines that say single-use coffee pods may be "environmentally friendly" have a lot of allure, says Max Boykoff, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
"Novelty can really drive a news story," Boykoff says. "Something that could be seen as counterintuitive, that would grab people's attention."
The issue is that these kind of media stories can sidetrack us from the big picture of planet-heating emissions, and the much bigger sources of pollution than your coffee cup, Boykoff says.
"Shaming one another about the ways in which we brew coffee or whether we drink coffee at all, I think, actually, really does some damage and distracts us from some real challenges at hand, some real work that ought to be done."
This all started with one short article
Viana, the lead author, says he didn't expect this media attention. Earlier this month, he and his colleagues published their analysis comparing filtered coffee, French press coffee, instant coffee and coffee in single-use pods. They found that coffee pods may have less of an environmental impact than the other methods, because they may waste less water and coffee, and the machines may also use less electricity. Viana notes similar findings have also been published by a few other researchers.
But now the article has taken on a life of its own – it's even spawned at least one popular TikTok.
"I would like to clarify something," Viana writes in an email. "We did not write this article to encourage people to use pods/capsules (we even suggest using reusable capsules) or to stop drinking coffee. The goal was to focus on the major problems with coffee consumption at the consumer level."
But emissions in coffee consumption don't just come down to the consumer, Boykoff says. He says media coverage of what's driving emissions also has to take into account the role of larger companies. When it comes to single-use coffee, that means companies like Keurig Dr Pepper or Nespresso, corporations that make many of the plastic and metal pods consumers use.
Coffee pod manufacturers also have a role to play in emissions
Keurig Dr Pepper uses plastic to produce their pods. In addition to being difficult to recycle, plastic is derived from fossil fuels. A Keurig Dr Pepper spokesperson said data on the greenhouse gas emissions of their pods is proprietary information, and said in an email that they "remain focused on improving the sustainability attributes of our Keurig brewing system."
Nespresso, owned by Nestle, makes coffee pods primarily from aluminum, says Anna Marciano, head of sustainability and general counsel for Nespresso USA. She says the company works with municipalities like New York City on its recycling infrastructure for the aluminum pods and is also piloting a program for compostable coffee pods in Europe.
Nespresso spends more than $35 million annually on a coffee pod recycling program, according to Marciano. "It's not something that we're not investing in," she says.
And how much actually gets recycled in the U.S.? "We could be anywhere from 36% to 37% on a national basis," Marciano says.
When it comes to emissions, media scholars say keep your eye on the ball
Ultimately, climate media scholars worry that too much attention over individual actions like using coffee pods can distract us from climate solutions that can have a greater impact, like regulating the wider plastic or fossil fuel industries, says Jill Hopke, associate professor of journalism at DePaul University.
"And we can just get so mired up in this kind of accounting, right?" Hopke says. "Losing the bigger picture of what kind of societal changes do we need to make."
Boykoff, whose research has looked at the impact of media on climate action, says in the grand scheme of individual actions we can take on climate, reducing coffee intake isn't at the top of his list.
"Would my environmental impact be greater if I stopped eating meat today or if I stopped drinking coffee?" he asks. "I think the answer is clearly whether one chooses to eat meat or not."
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
626 AM EST Wed Nov 16 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Temperatures have risen above freezing across southern portions
of the Mid-Hudson Valley, the southeastern Catskills, and
northwestern Connecticut. Additional precipitation today will
mostly be rain with only brief isolated pockets of freezing rain
where below freezing temperatures persist.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation transitioning to rain. Little
additional snow and sleet accumulations. Total snow
accumulations of 1 to 3 inches and ice accumulations of mainly
up to one tenth of an inch, with up to two tenths of an inch in
the mountains.
* WHERE...The southern Berkshires, northern portions of the Mid
Hudson Valley, and portions of the eastern Catskills.
* WHEN...Through 10 AM EST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Wintry mix including freezing rain will
transition to all rain this morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation including freezing rain will
transition to all rain. Little additional snow and sleet
accumulation outside of the southern Adirondacks, and up to 2
inches of additional snow accumulation in the southern
Adirondacks. Total snow accumulations of 1 to 3 inches in the
valleys with 3 to 6 inches in the mountains. Ice accumulations
mainly less than one tenth of an inch, with up to two tenths of
an inch in the mountains east and west of the Capital District.
* WHERE...The Capital District, Schoharie Valley, Mohawk Valley,
Saratoga Lake George region, southern Adirondacks, southern
Vermont, and the northern Berkshires.
* WHEN...Through 7 PM EST Wednesday.
transition to all rain this morning. Snow showers will
transition to mixed rain/snow showers today in the southern
Adirondacks. Precipitation tapers off late this morning into
the afternoon.
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We're always excited when a new collab drops, especially when it's at Target. But this new collection is one we're particularly excited about, and after just one look at the fab offerings you can shop, we guarantee that you will be too.
Target just dropped the second Tabitha Brown for Target collection and every single piece is stylish, bold and truly obsession-worthy. While the first collection featured all kinds of cute dresses and more, this time around, the new collection features must-have pieces for your home.
"As a small-town girl, I grew up with big dreams and now, those dreams have become a reality," Tabitha Brown said in a release. "Target made me feel seen and created a safe space where I could be my authentic self. To me, joy comes from freedom, and I was free to be myself during this entire design process, which is reflected in the assortment. I hope my collections bring Target guests joy, love and optimism to their everyday lives."
In our opinion, the new home collection really does put a smile on your face. There's home decor, furniture (a must-see!), stationery, and items for pets. Everything is super colorful and so well-designed, you'll want it all.
Best part is, most items are under $20! With a collection this cute and prices so good, it's guaranteed to sell out of items fast.
We've rounded up some of our favorite affordable pieces from the new Tabitha Brown for Target home collection. Check those out below.
Our Top Picks From the Tabitha Brown for Target Home Collection
Tabitha Brown for Target Lemon Reusable Packable Tote
This packable tote featuring the colorful bold print you'll see on several pieces in the collection, is lightweight and perfect for shopping trips. It even has an interior pocket that you can use to hold your wallet or other small items. The tote was made to collapse and fold into the interior pocket to save space in your purse. You can get it today for $5.
Tabitha Brown for Target Lemon Paperweight Gold
Keep your papers from going everywhere with this glam golden paperweight from the Tabitha Brown for Target collection. Like many other pieces in the collection, it's a lot more affordable than it looks!
Tabitha Brown for Target Textured Embossed Round Mirror Pink
When we first laid eyes on this gorgeous textured pink mirror, we knew we just had to have it. The dimensions are 24" H x 24" W x 0.59" D, and it's $40. It's noted as one of the styles that's sure to sell out fast. Don't hesitate to get your hands on it!
Tabitha Brown for Target 12oz Textured Lines 'Very Good' Mug
The Tabitha Brown for Target collection has a lot of really cute mugs worth adding to your cart. One we're loving is this cool textured lines mug which features a message along the inner rim.
Tabitha Brown for Target 24-inches x 36-inches Reversible Floral & Dot Accent Rug
This gorgeous accent rug features a cool floral design on one side and large polka dots on the other. It's even accented by a bright pink trim. So cute! It's also affordable at $15.
Tabitha Brown for Target Ceramic Vase Blue
This gorgeous ceramic blue vase would make a stunning accent piece to your living space. The shape is unique, the dimensions are 9.72" H x 5.51", and it's $15.
Tabitha Brown for Target Ceramic Vase Gold
This super chic gold vase perfectly complements the blue vase above. Plus, it's only $10! Such a great buy.
Tabitha Brown for Target Plush Dog and Striped Decorative Pillow
How adorable is this plush decorative pillow? We love the design and the colors. If you turn it around, it's all stripes so you're basically getting two pillows in one. It's for indoor use only and it's $10.
Tabitha Brown for Target Footed Ceramic Pink Candle Salted Jasmine
These candles can totally double as decorative pieces, which we absolutely love. The scent of the pink candle in particular is salted jasmine. As must-have for $12.
Tabitha Brown for Target Metal with Brushed Gold Lid Candle Lemon/Sugared Acai
Like the above, these candles will add a nice pop of color to your home. They're infused with essential oils and the wick burns for about 50 hours. These are $10 a piece.
Tabitha Brown for Target 15oz 'Hello There' Mug
Hello there! This cute mug features a circular pink handle, designed for easy pick up. We're obsessed! Plus, it's just $7.
Tabitha Brown for Target Baskets
These versatile baskets are both decorative and functional. You can use these to store books, blankets, or throw pillows. You can even use the smaller basket as a planter. The smaller basket is $20, while the large palm design is $40, both of which are reasonably priced.
Tabitha Brown for Target Lemon Decorative Lumbar Pillow
We are so obsessed with the design and bold colors of this decorative pillow. You can add it to your couch or lounge chair for just $15.
Tabitha Brown for Target Abstract Decorative Square Pillow
This vibrant throw pillow is the perfect match to the lumbar pillow above. It's about 18" x 18", and it's $15.
Tabitha Brown for Target Ceramic Bowl Green
Take your table setting to the next level with this gorgeous green ceramic bowl. It's both microwave and dishwasher safe, and it's $20.
Tabitha Brown for Target Small/Medium/Large Set Lemon Soft Cover Journals - 3 Pack
Jot down your thoughts or notes in these stylish soft cover journals. You get three in a pack and each notebook is a different size. Best part is, it's just $5!
Tabitha Brown for Target 16'' x 20'' Framed Dog Wall Art
This super stylish art piece is a must-have for your wall. It features a digital illustration of a Russian terrier in cool bright colors, and it comes with the frame. You can add it to your home for $20.
Tabitha Brown for Target 16'' x 20'' 'You are Seen' Framed Wall Art
This stunning wall art features abstract typography and embossed texture, giving it a cool unique vibe. You can get it today for $20.
Tabitha Brown for Target Set Avocado Accessory Bags - 2 Pack
These versatile bags feature cool avocado-inspired designs, they're highly versatile and you get two for just $8. That price just can't be beat!
Tabitha Brown for Target 18'' x 18'' Decorative Square Pillow Pink
Out of all the decorative pillows we've seen so far, this one has to be our fave!
Tabitha Brown for Target Recycled Glass Tumblers
Enjoy your favorite summertime beverage in these sleek glass tumblers from the Tabitha Brown for Target collection. You can choose between the allover palm leaves design or the "Hello There."
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CHELSEA — At a contaminated, overgrown industrial site where the Mill and Chelsea creeks meet, something is taking shape that is almost too spectacular to hope for. Almost.
“My first memory of the creek is coming down here and fishing for hours with my father and brother,” said Roseann Bongiovanni, who lived nearby as a kid, in the house her great-grandparents settled in when they first came from Italy. “We caught nothing.”
She was standing at the water’s edge at her childhood stamping grounds — a 17-acre property that was once the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company — amid the buddleia, goldenrod, and chicory that have claimed the site over the last decade. Bounded by the two creeks and the MBTA commuter rail, the property faces Revere, Orient Heights, and the Boston skyline.
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Bongiovanni wants it.
She and her community partners are racing to put together a bid for this property, which will be auctioned on Friday. They want to claim it for Chelsea, a community that has been battered for decades by a state that used its neighborhoods as dumping grounds, and whose residents have been pounded by all of our failures: poverty, overcrowding, and poor health, including the pandemic that swept more ferociously through here than just about anywhere in the country.
The kid who dropped her line in these waters never went far. Bongiovanni has spent her career as a community and environmental advocate in Chelsea, and heads GreenRoots, the environmental justice group that punches way above its weight in a city that, out of necessity, has a habit of producing spectacular champions for working people. Now, in addition to fighting for the struggling immigrants and others who have called the city home for generations, they’re trying to hold back the market forces that would squeeze those residents out.
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The Forbes site has all kinds of problems. The ground is loaded with ink, heavy metals, and petroleum products, all of which must be cleaned up. A chunk of the site is vulnerable to sea level rise, and the flooding that will come with it, so it can’t be built upon. There is only one way into the property, over a bridge that must be entirely rebuilt.
Two developers have tried to remake the place over the last 20 years. One visionary company started to build a sustainable community where the housing would be largely off-the-grid, but a recession derailed the project. Its first, incomplete, building is now a mess of graffiti and smashed glass.
A few years ago, a China-based developer bought the property for $11.5 million and proposed a massive development there with mostly market-rate housing and commercial space. GreenRoots was among the groups pushing for the project to be scaled back and for the site to be more accessible to the community. After the pandemic hit, that developer, too, hit trouble, and the property was foreclosed upon.
Bongiovanni, GreenRoots, and other environmental justice groups have been eyeing the property for a year, certain they can succeed where others have failed. They want to build affordable housing, and office and community use spaces, including a new headquarters for GreenRoots. They want to include accessible open space, so that everybody can enjoy the waterfront. And they want to create a nature preserve that would restore the salt marsh and make the site more resilient as seas rise.
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“Wouldn’t it be amazing if the community had 17 acres in their control, to determine how they use it, and to be able to really say, ‘This is our neighborhood, this is our city,’” Bongiovanni said.
The project would transform this part of Chelsea, and the lives of many of its residents, squeezed into homes too small to hold them, or being squeezed out of the city as others see its potential and price them out.
“This community that for such a long time has served waves of immigrants is really at risk right now,” said Rafael Mares, executive director of The Neighborhood Developers, which builds affordable housing in Chelsea, Revere, and Everett, and is partnering with GreenRoots to win the site. “What happens at that Forbes site matters. Is it going to be used for people currently in Chelsea, or for people from outside who are wealthier and whiter than Chelsea is?”
The Mass Audubon Society and the Mystic River Watershed Association are also on board, providing analysis and advice. City and state environmental officials are intrigued, and know how rare such an opportunity is.
“You just don’t get a 17-acre canvas ... to create a model for climate resiliency for the Commonwealth,” said David O’Neill, Mass Audubon’s president.
On Sept. 16, a plan that was coming together slowly and methodically suddenly became extremely urgent: Bongiovanni learned the auction date had been set, and she and her partners are now racing to raise the millions it will take to make a credible bid for the land. They have been working around the clock to put together donors and financing for a deal that must close in just over a month.
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“This is the opportunity of a lifetime,” she said. “This is the craziest thing I have ever done, but is it worth it? Absolutely. ... If we don’t give it a go every minute of every day for two weeks, then why does GreenRoots exist?”
This is about winning climate justice and community power in a city that, for all of its disadvantages, has been giving master classes in resilience and self-advocacy for years.
What these groups are proposing is the best possible use for this site. More importantly, it is the most just vision for this place.
On Friday morning, that vision will go up against those of developers whose plans for housing may put these 17 acres beyond the reach of the community for good.
If there is any justice in this world, Chelsea will prevail.
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ROANOKE, Va. – The Roanoke City Sheriff’s Office is working to form stronger connections with the community.
On Friday, authorities announced the Community Engagement Team, which will consist of ten local volunteers.
Volunteers will work with the Community Engagement Sergeant, Community Relations Specialist, and community-assigned deputies when they’re attending events, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Authorities said the volunteers will be required to represent the Sheriff’s Office at community outreach events, coordinate with local schools, churches, organizations, and other businesses, foster a positive relationship between law enforcement and the Roanoke City residents, help maintain a good relationship with community-based organizations, and finally, participate in public safety campaigns for kids.
We’re told anyone over the age of 18 with good character is eligible to become a volunteer,
If you’re interested in learning more about the Roanoke City Sheriff’s Office Community Engagement Team or volunteering, contact Tameka Paige, at 540-853-1761 or by email at Tameka.Paige@roanokeva.gov. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/10/28/roanoke-officials-looking-for-community-engagement-team-volunteers/ | 2022-10-28 20:37:58 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/10/28/roanoke-officials-looking-for-community-engagement-team-volunteers/ |
(WFRV) – Paint and Pour is a really trendy way to create some unique items. During an upcoming class at Valley Stamp and Scrap in Neenah, you’ll be able to make two projects in one. Owner, Linda Wiese shows us the process and the beautiful, finished products.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Monty Williams now has the honor that his Phoenix Suns players have been clamoring that he receive for two years: NBA’s Coach of the Year.
Good luck getting him to take credit.
“I’ve often said about my life that God knocks the ball out of the park and I get to run the bases,” Williams said. “Yeah, my name goes on the plaque, but my name represents a lot of names.”
The 50-year-old Williams won the award on Monday after leading the Suns to a franchise-record 64 wins during the regular season. They were NBA’s best team by far, finishing with eight more wins than any other team.
Williams joins Cotton Fitzsimmons (1988-89) and Mike D’Antoni (2004-05) as coaches who have won the award with the Suns.
The runner-up to New York’s Tom Thibodeau last season, Williams was the runaway winner this time. He received 81 of 100 first-place votes from a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters, finishing with 458 points.
Memphis’ Taylor Jenkins was second with 17 first-place votes and 270 points. Miami’s Erik Spoelstra and Boston’s Ime Udoka also received a first-place vote.
Williams is known for his calming presence on the sideline and tight relationships with players. He was brought to Phoenix in 2019 to rebuild a franchise that had been among the worst in the NBA over the previous decade and quickly delivered, especially once 12-time All-Star point guard Chris Paul signed with the Suns in 2020.
Williams said bonding with his players and their families has been rewarding.
“It’s probably more important than everything that we do, from the X’s and O’s to the drills, to even playing games,” Williams said. “I’ve probably lost out on jobs because people thought I was more interested in the relationship piece than the competition piece. I think they both go hand in hand.”
Paul and fellow All-Star guard Devin Booker both posted on social media earlier Monday that Williams had won the award, even though no official announcement has been made.
Said Booker on Twitter: “Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams has been voted the NBA’s COY, book tells sources. A formal announcement is expected later today.”
Paul added: “WD WS…Congrats Coach Mont on Coach of the Year!!” The WD WS reference is a motto for the Suns, which means well done is better than well said.
Phoenix won a franchise-record 18 consecutive games from Oct. 30 to Dec. 2, including a 16-0 record in November. That was tied for the second-most wins in a month without a loss in NBA history, trailing Atlanta’s 17-0 record in January 2015.
Williams led the Suns to the NBA Finals last season, where they lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in six games. They are currently tied 2-2 with the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference semifinals.
This is Williams’ second head coaching job in the NBA. He led the New Orleans Pelicans for five seasons from 2010 to 2015, making the playoffs twice, but was fired after being swept in the first round of the playoffs in 2015.
Paul played for Williams during part of his tenure in New Orleans. The two reunited in the desert and have had considerable success.
Both are still searching for a title, but have learned to enjoy the smaller victories along the way.
“We all want to win a championship, and yet there are some things we do along the way that you can try to enjoy to the best of your ability,” Williams said. “But you’re still focused on how you get there. It’s these opposing deals at times. You want to enjoy it, but you’re pounding the rock.”
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DENVER, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEC), one of the largest global customer experience (CX) technology and services innovators for end-to-end digital CX solutions, in partnership with the Customer Strategist Journal, today announced the launch of the inaugural CXcellence Awards.
This new awards program (pronounced SEE-EXCELLENCE) will recognize the brands and individuals delivering amazing customer and employee experiences, while demonstrating technology and business innovation and thought leadership.
"We are thrilled to kick off the CXcellence Awards and acknowledge the great work brands are doing to push the boundaries of what it means to deliver great CX," said Nick Cerise, Chief Marketing Officer, TTEC. "We know delivering exceptional CX is critical to winning and growing customer relationships in today's intensely competitive environment. It's important to recognize the inspiring brands leading this charge."
The awards will recognize accomplishments in the following categories:
Nominations opened to the public on Sept. 26. Interested companies can find more information and submit nominations at ttec.com/CXcellence-awards-2022. Nominations will be accepted through Oct. 24. Judges will award brands that demonstrate outstanding innovation, humanity, and impact in the chosen category. Winners will be featured in the February 2023 issue of the Customer Strategist Journal.
"Customers are the lifeblood of any business. In the rapidly evolving CX market, building valuable, emotional connections is vital. The CXcellence Awards celebrate this pursuit," said Liz Glagowski, Editor-in-Chief, Customer Strategist Journal.
For nearly two decades, the Customer Strategist Journal has provided executives with insight they can use to build more profitable customer relationships. The journal facilitates learning and action by presenting progressive thought leadership, consulting methodologies, and in-depth research on customer issues.
About TTEC
TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEC) is one of the largest, global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovators for end-to-end, digital CX solutions. The Company delivers leading CX technology and operational CX orchestration at scale through its proprietary cloud-based CXaaS (Customer Experience as a Service) platform. Serving iconic and disruptive brands, TTEC's outcome-based solutions span the entire enterprise, touch every virtual interaction channel, and improve each step of the customer journey. Leveraging next-gen digital and cognitive technology, the Company's Digital business designs, builds, and operates omnichannel contact center technology, conversational messaging, CRM, automation (AI/ML and RPA), and analytics solutions. The Company's Engage business delivers digital customer engagement, customer acquisition & growth, content moderation, fraud prevention, and data annotation solutions. Founded in 1982, the Company's singular obsession with CX excellence has earned it leading client NPS scores across the globe. The company's nearly 60,000 employees operate on six continents and bring technology and humanity together to deliver happy customers and differentiated business results.
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NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. f/k/a Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: LICY) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: February 16, 2021 to March 23, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 20, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. f/k/a Peridot Acquisition Corp. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Li-Cycle's largest customer, Traxys, is not actually a customer, but merely a broker providing working capital financial to the Company while Traxys tries to sell Li-Cycle's product to end customers; (2) the Company engaged in highly questionable related party transactions; (3) the Company's mark-to-model accounting is vulnerable to abuse and gave a false impression of growth; (4) a significant portion of the Company's reported revenues were derived from simply marking up receivables on products that had not been sold; (5) the Company's gross margins have likely been negative since inception; (6) the Company will require an additional $1 billion of funding to support its planned growth (which is a figure greater than the Company raised via the merger); and (7) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Li-Cycle you have until June 20, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Li-Cycle securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the LICY lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/li-cycle-holdings-corp-loss-submission-form?id=27807&from=4.
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VIDEO: Former students share memories of St. Albans Junior High School through VHS tape
ST. ALBANS, WV (WOWK) — The Lee Street entrance off Kanawha Terrace will be closed due to the demolition of the St. Albans Junior High building, according to the city.
They say this will start Tuesday and the closures will be from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, until the end of phase one.
The St. Albans City Council voted to approve the demolition of the abandoned building on May 1. The school has been closed for over 25 years but caught fire in 2018.
Neighbors say the building can’t be torn down soon enough. Kiersten Helle, who lives right next door says the school is not just an eyesore but also presents safety concerns to the whole neighborhood.
“It was very scary living here for a while, just cause you can come here and you never know who’s in the building,” Helle said. “It could be a bunch of kids running around causing trouble, or it could be some drug addict running in and out doing a really or doing the drugs in there.”
Helle adds, “We really are in danger being here beside it for this many years.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/kanawha-county-wv/st-albans-junior-high-demolition-to-close-roads/ | 2023-06-12 20:51:13 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/kanawha-county-wv/st-albans-junior-high-demolition-to-close-roads/ |
DAMARISCOTTA, Maine — A Maine game warden and his warden K-9 found a missing 11-year-old girl from Damariscotta Monday morning who did not want to go to school.
The girl, who left her home around 8:15 a.m., reportedly hid 20 feet up in a tree after becoming upset with her mother about having to attend school, a news release from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife said.
"The mom thought her daughter had headed out to the car, but when the mom went out to the car, the girl was gone," the release said Monday evening.
According to the release, friends and family members of the girl searched for her but did not find her. Shortly after 9 a.m., they notified the Damariscotta police.
Damariscotta police officers, as well as a K-9 unit from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, also searched and were unable to find the girl, the release stated. The Maine Warden Service was called in to assist.
Around 11:25 a.m., Maine wardens searched the ground area while a Maine State Police pilot searched from the air in a plane, according to the release Monday. A drone from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office was also used during the search.
Then, around 12:25 a.m., Warden Jake Voter and Warden K-9 Koda headed to the right side of the girl's home to search the woods.
"Approximately 200' from Voter’s truck, K-9 Koda started circling around a pine tree, and wouldn’t leave the tree," the release said. "Voter didn’t see anything at first, but upon circling the tree, he noticed the young girl on the backside of the tree, about 20 feet from the ground."
The 11-year-old asked Voter was his dog's name was, and after Voter told her Koda's name, he asked if she needed help. The girl was already on her way down the tree, though, to see Koda, according to the release.
"When she got down from the tree, she threw Koda’s ball for her, and then Warden Voter, Koda and the young girl walked out of the woods and the girl was reunited with her family," the release said. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/game-warden-k-9-find-missing-11-year-old-girl-who-hid-from-going-to-school-damariscotta-maine/97-8d4edf45-076c-4293-b23c-6fcf862f934c | 2023-04-11 00:54:57 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/game-warden-k-9-find-missing-11-year-old-girl-who-hid-from-going-to-school-damariscotta-maine/97-8d4edf45-076c-4293-b23c-6fcf862f934c |
DEAR ANNIE: A longtime friend of mine, “Emily,” was served divorce papers right after the holidays by her husband, “Matt,” after a fairly short and seemingly rocky marriage. I don’t think this came as much of a surprise to her, but I know that she is still taking it very hard, especially considering the time of year this all fell apart. She seems embarrassed by the situation and stressed about having to find a lawyer and go to court.
I’m trying my best to provide emotional support and help her out, but I also feel lost when it comes to divorce options and the whole process. I really want her to find peace and reach out to a counselor or mediator or other professional, but I don’t necessarily know how to push her in that direction. How can I comfort Emily through this and help her avoid a stressful court battle? -- Shoulder To Cry On
DEAR SHOULDER TO CRY ON: Healing comes in many forms. Unfortunately for all of us, the most effective “treatment” is time. It will get better, but not immediately. Remind her of that. As long as she maintains her faith in the future, she will be able to get through “the now.”
At the end of the day, you cannot weather this storm for her, though it is admirable that you want to try. It is hard to feel powerless when our loved ones are going through times of hardness. The best you can do is be there -- physically, emotionally, spiritually. Help her in the capacity that you are able to. Cook her dinner one night. Take her out for a movie. Call her more frequently. Eventually, with the support of friends, with the help of a lawyer and with the passage of time -- she will heal.
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DEAR ANNIE: I need your advice. I have a grown son who is 33 years old. He has been in and out of prison since he was 18. He has drug, domestic violence and weapon charges. Each time he was released, I welcomed him back into my home. He would work, but not for very long, and then he would continue back down the old path again.
The last time he came home, he started bringing a girl into my house, and they were drinking and getting high. I told him several times that I do not want anyone coming in and out of my house besides him. He agreed but continued bringing her in. One morning, when I woke up, she was here. I woke him up and told him she needed to leave. He became physically and verbally violent with me. My neighbors heard me screaming, and they called the police. I pressed charges against him, and he is now back in prison for the attack on me. He has made it clear that he hates me, but I had to draw a line in the sand. Was I wrong for pressing charges, and should I reach out to him? -- Heartbroken
DEAR HEARTBROKEN: Were you wrong for pressing charges? Of course not. A man attacked you in your home. It is heartbreaking that that man is your son, but your safety needs to be your first priority.
As for whether you should reach out to him, follow your intuition. But if you do talk to him, don’t expect him to change or to receive your outreach with any warm feelings. If you don’t want to reach out, well, nobody can fault you for that either. If and when he decides to apologize and change his ways, you can reassess.
“How Can I Forgive My Cheating Partner?” is out now! Annie Lane’s second anthology -- featuring favorite columns on marriage, infidelity, communication and reconciliation -- is available as a paperback and e-book. Visit http://www.creatorspublishing.com for more information. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.
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(The Hill) – Twitter sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, threatening to sue the social media giant over its launch of rival platform Threads on Thursday.
The letter alleges that Twitter has “serious concerns” that Meta gained access to and abused the company’s trade secrets and intellectual property. The platform also alleged that Meta poached its workforce to build Threads, branded as a Twitter alternative platform.
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or highly confidential information,” the letter states.
Threads was marketed by Meta leadership as “our response to Twitter,” as user backlash grows against Twitter owner Elon Musk, who has made numerous changes to platform policies since taking over the site last year.
Most recently, Musk placed limits on how many posts a user could view in a day, encouraging free users to pay for the Blue service to view more.
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, who replaced Musk as the top executive last month, downplayed the Threads launch on Thursday without naming it directly.
“This is your public square. We’re often imitated — but the Twitter community can never be duplicated,” she said.
Meta Communications Director Andy Stone pushed back on the allegations.
“No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” he posted on Threads.
Tens of millions of people signed up for Threads on its first day, including at least 30 million by Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. New users link their Instagram accounts to start on the service.
The app has been criticized for missing features, but leadership is optimistic about the platform’s future.
“The real test is not if we can build up a lot of hype, but if you all find enough value in the app to keep using it over time,” Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said.
“And there are tons of basics that are missing: search, hashtags, a following feed” and direct messaging, he said, adding “We’re on it,” but ”it’ll take time.”
Threads will not be available in Europe for now, after European Union officials prevented the app’s launch due to privacy concerns. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/twitter-threatens-meta-with-lawsuit-over-rival-threads-app/ | 2023-07-06 23:09:30 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/twitter-threatens-meta-with-lawsuit-over-rival-threads-app/ |
BEIJING, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- April 11th to 14th, Foton Global Partners Conference 2023 with the theme "TOGETHER WIN FUTURE" was held in Beijing China. More than 110 core distributors from 23 countries attended the event. At the main conference on the 13th, FOTON held the delivery ceremony of the global 11 millionth vehicle.
In fact, FOTON surpassed 10 million global sales in 2021, becoming the first to reach this mark in the shortest time, only 25 years. In the past two years, amid a global economic downturn, FOTON "ICE+BEV" dual-line strategy has begun to show results.
FOTON's new energy technology reserve is powering the enhancement of its entire product line as demonstrated by the release of its new product. TUNLAND V's power system includes hybrid, electric, and extended-range electric systems, with a chassis structure that adopts a front double-wishbone and a rear multi-link high-performance chassis, TUNLAND V can meet demands of strong off-road, high load-carrying, intelligence, and luxury car-level comfort.
Regarding fuel-powered vehicles by a competitive advantage of "SuperPowerTrain" core power chain with Foton Cummins, Foton ZF and leading global component suppliers, FOTON has achieved overall surpassing and leading in Southeast Asia and Latin America. In Colombia, FOTON has ranked second in the truck market for 3 consecutive years and has the highest market share for heavy-duty AMT products, while in the Philippines, FOTON has been the top-selling 7.5-ton light truck model for three consecutive years.
In terms of new energy, FOTON is the first company to commercialize hydrogen fuel cell and electric products since 2003. It successfully served the 2008 and 2022 Olympic Games. Now FOTON new energy products have passed the EU WVTA certification and are fully entering Italy, Poland, Spain, and other European countries.
In 2022, FOTON had delivered more than 1,400 electric buses in Latin America, becoming the brand with the highest market share of e-buses in the region. In markets such as Malta, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Egypt, FOTON have also achieved commercial operations.
FOTON's overseas IOV system was officially launched, providing functions of fleet management, location services, fuel consumption analysis, three-electricity analysis and TCO management for both fuel new energy products. The system will be first applied in Singapore, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand. With over 2.26 million connected vehicles, FOTON will empower global users' business value.
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The nonprofit group aims to eliminate the prevalence of corruption, backroom deals, and waste of the public's funds by the City of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- StopTheWaste.us, a nonprofit group, holds its inaugural event on Thursday, June 16th, 2022, to protest the increasing challenge of corruption in local Los Angeles government institutions. The event is a demonstration involving several dozen protesters raising awareness to what they contend are unscrupulous backroom deals made by LA politicians, well-connected attorneys, and others. These decisions, they say, have cost, and will cost, if not stopped, ratepayers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ("DWP") millions of dollars in waste and increased rates.
Many details of the concerns expressed by StopTheWaste.us are raised in a recent federal lawsuit filed by attorney Michael J. Libman in federal court in the Central District of California. The lawsuit alleges troubling conspiracies, coverups, and coverups of coverups on the part of LA public officials, high-flying lawyers, white-shoe law firms, and even a judge.
Some of the more striking allegations raised in the complaint include:
-Allegations that well-connected LA lawyer Brian S. Kabateck, Judge Elihu M. Berle, and Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer concealed significant conflicts of interest that raise questions about their true motivation in handling ratepayer settlements that require all three to be unburdened by concealed conflicts of interest or the appearance thereof. Mr. Kabateck is a well-known big-ticket donor to City Attorney Feuer and a longtime friend of Judge Berle, and former co-counsel of his opposing counsel Mr. Eric George.
-Allegations that documents allegedly from Mr. Libman were in fact from unknown person(s) but attributed to Mr. Libman, among other "evidence" manufactured against Mr. Libman. Mr. Libman contends these were part of a clandestine conspiracy to force him to falsely implicate others, and himself. Mr. Libman refused to go along with their overtures and intimidation and maintains they sought, and seek, retribution and retaliation as a result of him not "playing ball" and exposing them instead.
-Allegations and photographic evidence of FBI agents executing a search warrant at Mr. Libman's residence under false pretenses and in fact violating the limitations of the warrant, and the US Constitution when the FBI smashed Mr. Libman's security cameras and pointed a weapon at his young sleeping child---all under trumped up insinuations and allegations to intimidate.
-The purpose of this conspiracy, of which Mr. Libman is a victim, was for high powered lawyers, including Brian Kabateck, to "justify" high attorney fees ultimately paid by the taxpayers/ratepayers under the pretense that their services were "adding value" when in fact these attorneys may have cost taxpayers nearly a billion dollars in unrealized settlements, in addition to millions of dollars in legal fees being requested already.
The complaint can be found at www.StopTheWaste.us.
The case number is CASE NO. 2:21-CV-09455-FMO(MAAx).
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NANTERRE, France (AP) — The race of the police officer who fatally shot a French teenager during a traffic stop last week hasn’t been disclosed, and there’s no reason why it would be. Officially, race doesn’t exist in France.
But the death of the French-born 17-year-old with North African roots, which sent rioters into the streets, has again exposed deep feelings about systemic racism under the surface of the country’s ideal of colorblind equality.
With his killing captured on video, what could be seen as France’s George Floyd moment has produced a very French national discussion that leaves out what many Americans would consider the essential point: color.
One can’t address race, much less racism, if it doesn’t exist, according to French policy. The Paris police chief, Laurent Nunez, said Sunday he was shocked by the U.N. human rights office’s use of the term “racism” in its criticism of French law enforcement. The police have none of it, he said.
France, especially white France, doesn’t tend to frame discussion of discrimination and inequality in black-and-white terms. Some French consider it racist to even discuss skin color. No one knows how many people of various races live in the country, as such data is not recorded.
“They say we are all French … so for them, it’s racist to do something like that,” said Iman Essaifi, a 25-year-old resident of Nanterre, the Paris suburb where the teen, Nahel Merzouk, was killed.
While the subject of race remains taboo, Essaifi believes the events of the past week were a step toward speaking more openly about it. She noted that the people who marched in the streets of Nanterre after Nahel’s death were “not necessarily Arabs, not necessarily Blacks. There were whites, there were the ‘vrai Francais,’” – the “real French.”
France’s Constitution says the French Republic and its values are considered universal, meaning that all citizens have the same rights regardless of origin, race or religion.
Trying to discuss racial inequality without mentioning race leads to some linguistic gymnastics. Instead of terms like Black or mixed-race neighborhoods, French people instead often speak of “communities” or “banlieues” (suburbs) and “quartiers” (neighborhoods). They’re widely understood to mean often disadvantaged urban areas of housing projects and large immigrant populations.
Amid the unrest after Nahel’s death, such nonspecific language has ranged from supportive to insulting. Nanterre’s mayor, Patrick Jarry, spoke on Monday of the suburb “in all its diversity.” A statement last week by a large police union, the Alliance Police Nationale, described the rioters as “vermin.”
Of course there’s racism in France, some people said.
“For example, if your parents come from another country, even you are poorly accepted,” said Stella Assi, a 17-year-old born in Paris who was passing by the city hall in Nanterre. “If I were white, that wouldn’t happen.”
France’s legacy of colonialism, largely in Africa and the Caribbean, plays out in some attitudes that continue generations later. More recently, migration has caused debate and division. The result is a government that openly addresses certain issues around race, but not necessarily in relation to its citizens’ daily lives.
On Wednesday, for example, a court in France is scheduled to review a request for reparations for the descendants of enslaved people. And on a notice board in Nanterre, now scrawled with graffiti saying “Cops, get out of our lives,” a city hall announcement from May advertised a ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery.
Ahmed Djamai, 58, the president of an organization in Nanterre that connects youth with work opportunities, recalled being stopped by police recently and asked for his residence permit. He was born in France.
“Our second-, third- and fourth-generation children face the same problem when they go out to get a job,” he said. “People lump them together with things that happen in the suburbs. They’re not accepted. So, to date, the problem is social, but it’s also one of identity.”
The stunning procession of hundreds of men who walked from a mosque in Nanterre to the cemetery for Nahel’s burial stood out in France not only because many were Black or Arab, but because even the demonstration of religious identity can be sensitive. In addition to being officially colorblind, France is officially secular, too.
Some people with immigrant roots fear that France’s success stories of generations of assimilation under that policy are being lost amid the rioting and criticism.
Gilles Djeyaramane is a municipal councilor in Poissy, a town west of Paris. His French-born wife is of Madagascan origin. He was born in French Guiana, of parents from India, and moved to France when he was 18.
“I’m always saying to my children, ‘Your mom and dad would never have met if France didn’t exist,” he said. “I’m not at all utopian. I know there’s work to do in some areas. But we are on the right path.”
Those who knew Nahel, and some who identify with him, said it’s not fair to pretend that differences, and discrimination, don’t exist. With anger, some pointed out that a funding campaign for the family of the police officer accused of shooting Nahel already topped 1 million euros ($1.09 million).
The frustration and violence in many communities come from other issues as well, including the rising cost of living and policing in general. In 2021, Amnesty International and five other rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit against the French state alleging ethnic profiling by police during ID checks.
Dozens of organizations and political parties are calling for “citizens’ marches” on Saturday across France to call for police reforms, saying that long-running tensions between officers and the people are part of a history of “systematic racism that runs through society at large.”
Police officers reject accusations that some single out people because of their color. Officer Walid Hrar, who is of Moroccan descent and Muslim, said that if it sometimes seems that people of color are stopped more than others, it’s a reflection of the mixed-race density of populations in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods.
In rural France, with fewer people with immigrant backgrounds, police also stop people but “they are called François, Paul and Pierre and Jacques,” Hrar said.
But Mariam Lambert, a 39-year-old who said Nahel was a friend of her son, stressed the pressure of feeling that she and others, including fellow Muslims, had to muffle their identity.
“If I put a scarf on my head … they would see me as from another world, and everything would change for me,” said Lambert, who thinks she would be insulted in the streets. She spoke on the margins of a gathering at Nanterre city hall as events were held there and across France on Monday in support of authorities and a return to calm.
Lambert mused about moving to Morocco if France doesn’t change. “There are plenty of people leaving,” she said. “Because who protects us from the police?”
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The move enlarges the firm's footprint in Northeast Florida, welcomes over 400 agents to the United network and accelerates national growth
DALLAS, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United® Real Estate (United) announced today that a Jacksonville-based brokerage has joined United's national network in a merger. The firm (formerly affiliated with a different national brokerage) will operate as United Real Estate Gallery moving forward and retain all leadership.
The partnership brings together the seventh largest national real estate brokerage operation in the U.S. and a prominent brokerage celebrating fifteen years in business. United Real Estate Gallery is currently a top 10 market share leader with 400 agents and eight locations throughout Northeast Florida.
Through this new alliance, United Real Estate Gallery agents have access to a suite of innovative marketing tools, 100% agent compensation, virtual client services and a proprietary, cloud-based productivity platform – Bullseye™ – at no additional cost to them or their clients. Agents also receive a financial gain in compensation and opportunities to grow their income with other financial incentives with the merger.
"We wanted to grow faster and provide resources for our agents to compete in any market. After an extensive period of due diligence considering many paths forward, we determined United is THE forward-thinking partner who will help us achieve our goals. They are high-energy, quick-moving and sharp. They recognize our team's talent, have the resources required to make the investments in our business to drive agent outcomes and are eager to help," stated United Real Estate Gallery Chief Executive Officer, Raymond Rivera. "Our industry is changing, and United has the solution to allow agents to keep more earnings, gain more control over their expenses and compete more effectively in any market."
United's fifth merger of 2022 is a catalyst for its expansion throughout Florida and the U.S. The global network now includes more than 21,000 agents and 630 offices. United® Real Estate Group is a six-time Inc. 5000 company, among the top 0.01% of America's private companies. It is nationally recognized for its influential leaders, growth and technology innovation.
In the new release of its proprietary cloud-based Agent Productivity Platform - Bullseye™ this year, United gained the ability to deploy its entire suite of agent tools, technology, resources and training to companies merging or affiliating with its national network instantly.
"The entire United team has worked diligently for over a decade to build a program that now attracts top operators like Ray, Sonny, Nanci and their team of professional agents as they look to build on their past successes and capture future opportunities. Being selected as their 'go forward' partner is humbling, especially after we discovered how many options they considered when evaluating potential partners and paths," stated United Real Estate Group Chief Executive Officer, Dan Duffy. "We are super excited and energized about our collective opportunity and are really enjoying working with the Gallery Team."
"Ray, Sonny and Nanci have built a great company, and we are so pleased to be chosen to help their firm reach new heights. The additional brokerage, agent and consumer-facing services, to which they now have access, amplify their value proposition tremendously and create a net financial gain for their 400 agents," stated United Real Estate President, Rick Haase. "Best of all, this leadership team will continue to drive all local decisions and influence our company at a national level. We will learn as much from them as they will from us, and that's essential to our strategy for smart growth."
The alliance complements United's existing offices in Jacksonville, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers and Orlando, and follows mergers with Pearson Smith Realty, Platinum Realty, Leading Edge Real Estate Group, Texas United Realty, Virtual Properties Realty, Benchmark Realty, Charles Rutenberg Realty Fort Lauderdale and others yet to be announced.
To learn more about United Real Estate, brokerage succession planning, brokerage valuation and sale or franchising opportunities, visit GrowWithUnited.com or call 888-960-0606. Agents interested in learning about career opportunities with United Real Estate can visit JoinUnitedRealEstate.com or call 888-960-0606.
Agents interested in Joining United Real Estate Gallery can visit JoinUnitedGallery.com or email RelationshipCoordinator@UnitedRealEstate.com.
About United Real Estate
United Real Estate (United) – a division of United Real Estate Group – was founded with the purpose of offering solutions to real estate brokers and agents in the rapidly changing real estate brokerage industry. United provides the latest training, marketing and technology tools to agents and brokers under a flat-fee, transaction-based agent commission model. By leveraging the company's proprietary cloud-based Bullseye™ Agent & Broker Productivity Platform, United delivers a more profitable outcome for agents and brokers. United Real Estate operates in 32 states with 140 offices and more than 17,500 agents. The company produced over $21.5 billion in sales volume in 2021.
About United Real Estate | Gallery
United Real Estate Gallery was founded in 2007 by Chief Executive Officer, Raymond Rivera; President, Sonny Downey; and Vice President of Operations, Nanci Soriano. The firm is a full-service brokerage serving Jacksonville and Northeast Florida with 400 agents and eight locations. United Real Estate Gallery provides professional representation for buyers and sellers of residential properties with the goal of achieving excellence in client service and sales results.
About United Real Estate Group
United Real Estate Group (UREG) operates United Real Estate and United Country Real Estate, addressing the unique market needs of suburban, major metropolitan urban and rural markets. Utilizing the cloud-based Bullseye™ Agent & Broker Productivity Platform, UREG offers the latest training, marketing and technology tools producing a significant competitive advantage. The platform realizes a decade-long investment in virtual agent and brokerage technology services and is powered by a 2.1 million listings data warehouse generating over 3 million monthly visitors and 30,000 leads per year. Together, the United Real Estate Group supports more than 630 offices and over 21,000 real estate and auction professionals across four continents. United Real Estate Group produced over $27.1 billion in 2021. Through its in-house advertising agency, UREG offers differentiating marketing support and collateral for specialized lifestyle property websites as well as access to a 650,000+ opt-in buyer database. For more information about United Real Estate or United Country Real Estate, please visit UnitedRealEstate.com or UnitedCountry.com.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — In a press conference held Friday afternoon, the Hoover Police Department announced that Carlee Russell had been charged with filing a false police report and filing a false statement to law enforcement authorities, a Class A misdemeanor.
The Hoover Police Department (HPD) revealed that Carlee had turned herself in Friday to the Hoover City Police and was released on a $2,000 bond – $1,000 per charge.
“Judging from the amount of phone calls and emails that we have received from all over the country, I know that many are shocked and appalled that Miss Russell is only being charged with two misdemeanors, despite all the panic and disruption her actions caused,” Derzis said. “Let me assure you, I, too, share the same frustration, but existing laws only allow the charges that were filed to be filed.”
Derzis said he will be contacting Alabama legislatures and asking them to look at this law and “urge them to add enhancement to current legislation” for when an individual falsely reports kidnapping or a violent crime.
During the press conference, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said HPD have not uncovered anything about her whereabouts during the 49 hours she was missing, and they have not been able to confirm that she acted alone.
“This story opened wounds for families whose loved ones really were victims of kidnappings, some of which even helped organize searches in hopes that they could find Carlee alive so that her family would not experience the pain and suffering that they felt when their loved ones never returned home,” Derzis said.
This press conference comes days after Russell, 25, admitted to lying about being kidnapped earlier this month. Between July 13 and July 15, the Hoover native was missing.
On Monday, July 24, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis addressed the public in what was HPD’s second press conference since Carlee’s disappearance. There, he read a statement from Russell that had been prepared by her attorney, Emory Anthony, where she admitted that she was not adducted the night of July 13 and that she had not seen a child on I-459.
At 9:30 p.m. July 13, Russell called 911 to report that she saw a toddler on the side of I-459 near Exit 10. When police arrived, she was nowhere to be found. This launched a 49-hour search for Carlee that gained nationwide attention. On July 15, Russell was reported by the Hoover police as having safely returned home.
Four days after her return, parents Talitha Robinson-Russell and Carlos Russell went on the “Today” show where they said they believed their daughter had been kidnapped. That same day, HPD had held a press conference where Derzis recounted what Russell had told police happened to her.
During his recounting, Derzis said Russell reported being kidnapped while she was checking on the child; being made to climb a fence; being kept in a tractor-trailer; being recaptured after an attempted escape; being forced to strip naked; and being fed cheese crackers.
Russell’s search history was also combed through, which a search for the movie “Taken,” a question about Amber alerts and how to take money from a register.
Prior to any charges being brought against her, speculations had circulated on how much money it would cost to cover the efforts that were put into the search for Carlee.
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The newly minted partnership is fundamental to the açaí brand's US growth strategy and to capture a new, young and diverse consumer base.
MIAMI, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OAKBERRY, purveyors of 100% natural and always fresh açaí bowls and smoothies, is partnering with the MoneyGram Haas F1 team, to bring the fresh flavors of its açaí menu and the brand's Brazilian roots to the track as the team's first official açaí partner.
Founded in 2016, OAKBERRY currently has a global footprint of over 600 locations, and is poised for significant growth – with the açaí market expected to experience explosive growth in the coming years and the brand opening several locations this year alone. The newly minted partnership with the American-owned MoneyGram Haas F1 team is part of the brand's growth strategy – introducing OAKBERRY to a rapidly growing US fan base of millennial and Gen Z enthusiasts.
The partnership will include OAKBERRY branding on both wings of MoneyGram Haas' car, the VF-23, the race suit of Brazilian Test and Reserve Driver, Pietro Fittipaldi, the team's drinking bottles and additional branded merchandise. Additionally, OAKBERRY is planning experiential events for fans at one of the upcoming US races. As the Official Açaí Partner, OAKBERRY builds on the brand's sponsorship of the team for the final three races of the 2022 season.
"With the US experiencing massive Formula 1 fan growth, especially among young and diverse audiences, this partnership isn't just about brand visibility, it's about aligning our target consumers' interests and passions with our brand," says Georgios Frangulis, Founder and CEO of OAKBERRY. "And it's an authentic fit for OAKBERRY, which is deeply rooted in our Brazilian heritage and passion for Formula 1 racing."
As a disruptive brand in the U.S. healthy QSR market, this isn't OAKBERRY's first lifestyle-centric partnership. Over the past six years, the brand has partnered with events including the World Surf League (WSL) and Lollapalooza to drive mindshare among a younger audience while driving growth in key markets including Miami, New York and Los Angeles. And with a record three races on US soil in 2023, OAKBERRY's partnership with the MoneyGram Haas F1 team will provide sustained brand visibility and relevancy.
"We're delighted to continue our relationship with OAKBERRY after a successful first venture last season," stated Guenther Steiner, Team Principal of MoneyGram Haas F1 team. "OAKBERRY was on the car at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix last year and we enjoyed being a part of their activations locally that weekend celebrating their Brazilian origins. To have their continued support moving forward in 2023 shows the strength of our relationship and obviously there are a great many opportunities ahead to promote OAKBERRY as they continue to grow internationally."
About OAKBERRY
Created in 2016, OAKBERRY is a superfood hub, focused on açaí. With around 600 stores, the chain works within the franchise model and is present in more than 30 countries such as the United States, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China, Australia, Peru, Spain, Portugal and Malta.
About MoneyGram Haas F1 Team
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team debuted in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in 2016, becoming the first American Formula 1 team since 1986. Founded by industrialist Gene Haas, MoneyGram Haas F1 Team is based in the United States on the same Kannapolis, North Carolina, campus as his championship-winning NASCAR team, Stewart-Haas Racing. Haas is the founder of Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in North America, and he is chairman of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team.
Info – www.haasf1team.com
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Ravens linebacker Jaylon Ferguson dies at age 26
(AP) - Baltimore Ravens linebacker Jaylon Ferguson has died at age 26.
Ferguson, nicknamed “Sack Daddy,” played three NFL seasons, all with Baltimore. He set the career sacks record in the college Football Bowl Subdivision (45) when he played at Louisiana Tech.
Police said the cause of death is still to be determined.
“On June 21, 2022, at approximately 11:25 p.m., Northern District patrol officers responded to a home in the 400 block of Ilchester Avenue for a report of a questionable death,” Baltimore police said. “Once there, officers located 26-year-old Jaylon Ferguson, unresponsive, being treated by medics. Ferguson never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead on the scene by medics. No signs of trauma was found or foul play suspected at this time.”
Ferguson was drafted by the Ravens in the third round in 2019, and played in 38 games as a pro with 4 1/2 sacks.
“We are profoundly saddened by the tragic passing of Jaylon Ferguson,” the Ravens said in a statement. “He was a kind, respectful young man with a big smile and infectious personality. We express our heartfelt condolences to Jaylon’s family and friends as we mourn a life lost much too soon.”
Born Dec. 14, 1995, in St. Francisville, Louisiana, Ferguson played high school football and basketball at West Feliciana. At Louisiana Tech, his 45 sacks were one better than another Ravens linebacker, Terrell Suggs, achieved at Arizona State.
Ferguson was a third-team AP All-American in 2018.
“The LA Tech Family mourns this morning’s tragic news of the sudden death of former Bulldog great, Jaylon Ferguson,” the Louisiana Tech football program tweeted. “We will remember his God-given talents on the field and his infectious personality off of it. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.”
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Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian has announced he will not seek re-election next year when his term ends next year.
Antaramian, who turns 69 this year, spoke with the Kenosha News about his decision in his third-floor office in the Municipal Building about his legacy, regrets and advice for whoever becomes the mayor of the state’s fourth-largest city.
A Kenosha native, he was first elected to the position in 1992 and served for 16 years before stepping down. Following eight years in the private sector, Antaramian was elected mayor again in 2016 and won re-election in 2020. His current term will expire in April 2024. Before becoming mayor in 1992 he served about a decade in the State Assembly representing the area.
“Communities only have two ways to go, forward and backward,” Antaramian said. “We’ve been moving forward and we have a lot of opportunity ahead of us.”
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When did you decide not to seek re-election?I’ve known for quite a while that I more than likely wasn’t going to run.
As much as I’ve enjoyed this — and there are so many neat things going on in this community and you would like to always be there when more things happen — you also have to come to a point in time where it’s time for someone else to take over. It’s time for someone else to see what they can do. I believe I have left the community in a better way than when I found it. The community will still move forward and we have a lot of opportunity in front of us.
Some politicians continue serving in their 70s and 80s. Why not you? My intention is to spend more time with (my wife) Linda and do some things that we always wanted to do together. And with this job it doesn’t give you the ability to all of a sudden just go and take large periods of time off. There are things we want to go off and do together. That played a major role.
In the last year I pretty much made the decision that I was not going to run. Still, there’s always a part of you that wants to see things finished and we have so many things started. But you know that that’s always the way it’s going to be no matter if I decided to leave now or if I left in four years from now. There would still be things that I would want to see happening. It’s just the nature of what we do.
Would you ever leave Kenosha?
Kenosha is home.
This is where my friends are, this is where I’ve grown up, this is where my family is. Everything that’s important to me is in this town which is one of the reasons that I became mayor.
What are you most proud of from your time as mayor?
That’s an interesting question.
At different times I would tell you different things that I’ve been proud of.
I will tell you, one of the areas I’m most proud of right now is the Chrysler site and the innovation center we’re going to move forward with.
And I’ll tell you why that becomes so important to me. When I came back in 2016 and ran for mayor one of the reasons I ran was because we were losing our young people. Our young people weren’t staying in Kenosha.
We looked at what we needed to do to make it so that young people stay here, and the innovation center is one of those key elements that I believe is going to make it so that young people stay in Kenosha, start their own businesses in Kenosha, (and) get satisfaction from different types of jobs that we are now starting to bring into the community.
All of that, to me, is probably the most important thing that we can accomplish. So getting the innovation center off the ground, getting young people and individuals to start their own companies, those type of renovations in the Uptown area, with the Chrysler site being a focus, to me is one of the most important things that we can accomplish.
Any regrets?
Oh, there are always regrets.
I’ve always regretted that I never was able to get a Revolutionary War museum in Kenosha. I’m disappointed that I haven’t been able to succeed in getting the performing arts center in Kenosha. Those are things that I think would have been very, very positive things.
I think, though, when you look at regrets, it’s not so much a regret of what we couldn’t do. It’s a regret of what occurred. And that deals with the riots in 2020.
What do you feel looking back at that time?
It is a point in time that was a dark point for our community and we responded. We responded in a positive way to move forward. And that’s what you need to do.
There’s nothing I can do to fix what occurred, or change what occurred, but it doesn’t mean we can’t make things so that we do a better job in the future as to those types of things are not happening. Again, a lot of that occurred because of other factors, not necessarily factors from the city itself.
Will you endorse anyone for mayor?
We’ll see what happens later on. At this point in time, my intention is to allow the candidates to come out and see who runs and see what happens.
If you’re going to run for mayor have a vision. What is it you want your community to be? Because, as I said before, there’s only two directions that you go — forward and backward. There is no, ‘”Well, if we leave it the way it is, we’ll be fine.” No, if you leave it the way you fall back. You need to constantly be moving forward.
You have set a lot of projects in motion. Are you concerned that the next mayor may not be so passionate about them?
That’s always a possibility. I’d like to think, though, that we have set these projects up in a way that they’re going to move forward. I am confident with the agreement with the Downtown plan that’s going to move forward. I have every faith in the project at the Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood at the Chrysler site.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — In a country known more for its love of rugby than women’s soccer, New Zealand is aiming to win fans as well as matches.
The Football Ferns kick off the Women’s World Cup on Thursday night with a Group A match against Norway. The Ferns got the nod for the tournament opener and will be followed by co-host Australia’s match against Ireland in Sydney.
“I hope there will be a lot of people here for not just our games, but all of the games. It’s a world tournament and something we’ve been so excited to have here now. I’ve been looking forward to this for three years,” defender Ali Riley said. “So I hope the excitement is there and I hope we do well, so that maybe the people who didn’t know about it will hear about it and will want to come to see us make history.”
New Zealand Football announced that the opener at Auckland’s Eden Park will have the biggest crowd for a soccer match in the country’s history, estimated to be at least 50,000.
“I was at the 1999 World Cup final in Los Angeles and I know what that did for me as a young girl. And so to have people here, that noise will give us energy,” said Riley, who grew up in California and plays professionally for Angel City in the National Women’s Soccer League.
“But also I know what that can do for any little girls seeing these players, these awesome, confident empowered, women and athletes just living their dreams.”
While the Ferns are trying to capture hearts, the demand for tickets to Australia’s opener was so high that the match was moved to Stadium Australia, which was built for the 2000 Olympics and can seat more than 82,000.
The Ferns have never won a World Cup match in five previous appearances in soccer’s biggest tournament. And they have struggled this year, with losses in seven of the nine games they’ve played.
While it’s hoped that New Zealand will rally as hosts, the team faces a significant challenge in Norway, which won the World Cup in 1995. Considered the favorites in Group A, the Norwegians are 5-1-1 all-time against New Zealand, with the only loss coming in a 2019 exhibition match.
“There will be a lot of pressure, both on the home team but also on us, for the opening game, but we feel like we know what to expect,” Norway coach Hege Riise said. “Again, in opening game, everything can happen. But our preparation has been good on New Zealand, defensively and offensively, attacking, so we feel like we are prepared.”
Ada Hegerberg returns to Norway’s World Cup squad after the striker’s self-imposed hiatus from 2017 to 2022 in protest of what she believed was lack of respect for the women’s national team.
The first woman to win the prestigious Ballon d’Or award, Hegerberg scored 43 goals in 76 international appearances. Currently playing for Lyon, she has scored a record 59 goals in the Champions League.
Like Hegerberg, Australia star Sam Kerr is one of the game’s top players.
Kerr is Australia’s all-time leading international scorer — among men and women — with 63 goals. She recently helped Chelsea clinch a fourth consecutive Women’s Super League title and third straight FA Cup.
“For me the expectation has kind of been growing over the four years so it’s been something I’ve learned to deal with,” she said. “Of course everyone in Australia has a lot of expectations, but it is something I take in my stride and I try to just enjoy it and I think back at Chelsea I’ve done that too. I’ve just enjoyed it and I think that’s when I’m my best me.”
Australia is well primed as co-hosts of the tournament. The team went undefeated in February’s Cup of Nations, beating Jamaica, Spain and the Czech Republic. In April, the Matilda’s ended England’s 30-game unbeaten streak with a 2-0 win.
But, a note of caution for the Matildas: they dropped a 3-2 match against Ireland in Dublin in late 2021.
Ireland is playing in its first World Cup and it has been a bumpy road to get here. A warm-up match against Colombia in Brisbane was called after 20 minutes because of what the Irish said was rough play.
Denise O’Sullivan was taken to the hospital with a shin injury the midfielder sustained during the behind-closed-doors match. Two Colombia players received yellow cards in the opening 19 minutes.
The injury wasn’t serious and O’Sullivan, who plays for the NWSL’s North Carolina Courage, was expected to play in the opener.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Democrat vying to oust Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is facing calls from within her own party to fold her campaign, following the publication of additional leaked audio in which she appears to make disparaging remarks about her constituents.
The calls for state Rep. Krystle Matthews to withdraw just two months ahead of the general election came Thursday in reaction to leaked audio published by conservative activist group Project Veritas of Matthews speaking to one of its members, without her knowledge.
Sitting in a restaurant, Matthews, who is Black, is heard saying that she represents a “mostly white” district, adding, of white voters: “I keep them right here — like under my thumbs. … Otherwise, they get out of control — like kids.”
“You ought to know who you’re dealing with,” Matthews goes on to say. “You’ve got to treat them like s—-. That’s the only way they’ll respect you.”
In a statement, Matthews acknowledged her voice on the recording, calling Project Veritas a “satirical MAGA Powered news outlet.”
The compilation also features more of Matthews’ conversation, parts of which were previously published by Project Veritas, in which she spoke to an inmate about funding her campaign with “dope boy money” and having Democrats run as Republicans, saying “secret sleepers” represent “the only way you’re gonna change the dynamics in South Carolina.”
At the time of the earlier release, ahead of South Carolina’s June primary runoff, Matthews confirmed to The Associated Press that it was her voice on the tape but said the edited audio of a “tongue-in-cheek” exchange didn’t reflect the full picture.
Matthews won the runoff to face Scott, who is seeking what he’s said will be his final Senate term and is among South Carolina’s most popular politicians. The Black Republican is widely expected to win the general election in South Carolina, where no Democrat has won a statewide race in more than 15 years.
On Thursday, Democrats including gubernatorial nominee Joe Cunningham said he concurred with state Rep. Justin Bamberg, who in an op-ed published online called Matthews “toxic.”
“If any of our white counterparts had said the same thing with regards to blacks, the minority community, including myself, would be up in arms calling for that member’s immediate resignation,” Bamberg added.
In a statement provided to AP, Cunningham said that “there is absolutely no place in our political discourse” for Matthews’ comments, adding that “the Democratic Party cannot and should not tolerate such behavior from our elected officials and candidates.”
State Sen. Brad Hutto, Democrats’ leader in that chamber — who was also his party’s nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2014 — echoed Cunningham’s comments about Matthews’ Senate bid, telling AP, “When candidates of either party start making irresponsible statements, beyond what party they’re from, they need to reevaluate their candidacy, and that’s what needs to happen here.”
One of the fellow Democrats Matthews defeated, Catherine Fleming Bruce, told AP she agreed with the calls for Matthews to step aside, saying the nominee “has made it impossible for her to be that standard bearer, representing our state’s diverse population.”
Trav Robertson, chairman of the state’s Democrats, emphasized on Thursday that Matthews didn’t represent the party’s perspective but stopped short of urging her to quit her campaign, which he said was “becoming a distraction to other Democrats on the ballot.”
“If I were advising her campaign, I would focus on her getting reelected to the (state) House of Representatives,” Robertson told AP.
Were Matthews to suspend her campaign, her name would likely still remain on ballots, which party officials said were already being produced for overseas voters. With no third-party candidate in the race, Scott’s name is the only other that would appear.
“Regardless of race, I love everyone,” Matthews said in her statement. “One thing you can learn from Project Veritas’s first audio attack on me, is obviously I have no biases toward a certain ethnic group.”
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James Pollard contributed to this report.
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What’s easier to learn, knitting or crocheting?
Both knitting and crocheting are skills that use balls of yarn to craft items by hand. Some beginners enjoy the greater control they have when knitting with two needles, while others prefer the greater freedom that comes from crocheting. Many knitters also learn to crochet because the crochet stitches make neater edges on knitted clothing.
What is knitting?
Knitting is done with two active hands and two long, slender needles. You use one needle to scoop out loops and another to store them.
Knitting tools
Knitting needles are long, slender pointed rods that may be made of many different materials and come in many styles, lengths and diameters. They have three parts:
- The point is the tapered tip you use to make stitches.
- The knob is at the other end and prevents the stitches from sliding off.
- The shaft connects the point and the knob, and is where you grasp the needle.
The most common knitting needles are made of plastic, metal and bamboo.
- Plastic needles are the most affordable. They’re less sticky than bamboo and less slippery than metal, but their smooth surface lets your yarn glide easily. Some larger ones are hollow inside to keep the weight down and make them more manageable.
- Metal needles are usually made of lightweight aluminum, but you can also find them made from steel, brass and other metals. These are the strongest, most durable needles, and their strength allows them to be made in thinner versions than other materials. Their slick surface lets talented knitters work faster.
- Bamboo needles are easy to work with because they have a surface that grips the yarn, keeping your stitches from sliding off the needle. They are soft enough that they are gentle on your hands and joints. They’re strong, inexpensive and environmentally friendly.
What is crocheting?
Crocheting is done with one active hand and uses a special hook instead of needles.
Crocheting tools
Crochet hooks have parts:
- The shaft is also called the shank, and its diameter determines the size of your stitch.
- The grip is where your thumb rests.
- The handle is where the rest of your hand rests.
- The head is the part you push into existing stitches to retrieve the yarn and pull it through.
- The throat is where the yarn is caught when you pull it through the hook.
There are three basic types of crochet hooks. Like knitting needles, they come in different sizes.
- Inline crochet hooks are shaped so the hook is carved directly into the shaft, like a notch. They usually have a point at the top to make them easy to insert between tight stitches.
- Tapered crochet hooks narrow as the shaft approaches the hook’s head and throat. The heads are rounded rather than pointed and are difficult for beginners to work with.
- Hybrid crochet hooks combine the best attributes of inline and tapered hooks. The shaft tapers, the throat is deep and the head is pointy.
What kind of things do you like to make?
- Are they simple? If you aim to make simple things such as doilies and potholders, you want to crochet. If you plan to make more complex things, you want to knit, because knitters have more techniques and tools to call upon and the stitches are more versatile.
- Do they stretch? If you want to make items that stretch, such as sweaters and socks, knitting is for you. If you like to make things that don’t stretch, like blankets, crocheting is your best choice.
The bottom line
Most find it easier to learn to crochet than knit, for several reasons.
- Tools: Crochet hooks are shorter than knitting needles and easier to handle.
- Dexterity: Crocheting requires the use of one active hand while knitting requires the use of two.
- Stitches: You need to learn only a few simple stitches to crochet, but must learn far more to knit.
- Dropped stitches: Dropped stitches are easily recovered when crocheting and hard to fix when knitting.
- Detail: Knitting requires greater detail to produce finished projects, in part because knitting is used to make more complex things.
What you need to buy for knitting
Craftlab Knitting Kit for Beginners
Everything you need to get started is here in this kit. You get wooden needles, four skeins of wool yarn, a tapestry needle and an easy-to-follow instruction book. There is enough here to make a scarf, fingerless gloves and a bunny.
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Lihao 36-Piece Bamboo Knitting Needles
You get 18 sizes from 2 to 10 millimeters in diameter, bleached to make the needles stronger, smoother and mildew-proof. This is a great starter set for beginners.
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Bcmrun 22-Piece Stainless Steel Knitting Needles
Each of these 11 pairs has a different diameter, the size clearly marked on the knob. These smooth needles let you knit quickly with no snagging or catching.
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Ruidi 26-Piece Interchangeable Circular Knitting Needles Set
You get 13 sizes of aluminum needles with four tubes that can be connected to any size pair. You also get stitch markers, positioning buttons, a posting tool and a leather bag to carry everything in.
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What you need to buy for crocheting
Jmark Crochet Kit for Beginners Premium Bundle
You get nine crochet hooks, six needles and 24 acrylic balls of crochet yarn, each 55 yards long. This starter pack comes with one bag for yarn, a second for your crochet hooks and a third to hold everything.
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Inscraft 113-Piece Crochet Kit for Beginners
This kit has 40 colors of yarn and a 73-piece crochet hook kit that includes everything you need to crochet, including hooks, needles, scissors, stitch markers and a measuring tape.
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Lewhoo Ergonomic Crochet Hooks Set for Arthritic Hands
These hooks come in a soft felt roll-up bag and are made with longer, wider handles that are easy to grip. The soft silicone non-slip design is perfect for those with arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Nulink 22-Piece Crochet Hook and Knitting Needle Set
You get 10 aluminum crochet hooks and a dozen knitting needles, all in different sizes and all fitting nicely in a 5- by 7-inch zippered bag.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Republican subpoenaed FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday for what he claimed are bureau records related to President Joe Biden and his family, basing the demand on newly surfaced allegations he said an unnamed whistleblower made to Congress.
The White House said it was the latest example in the yearslong series of “unfounded, unproven” political attacks against Biden by Republicans ”floating anonymous innuendo.”
Kentucky Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee and Accountability, is seeking a specific FBI form from June 2020 that is a report of conversations or interactions with a confidential source. Comer, in a letter to Wray with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said that “it has come to our attention” that the bureau has such a document that “describes an alleged criminal scheme” involving Biden and a foreign national “relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions” when Biden was vice president and includes “a precise description” about it.
The subpoena seeks all so-called FD-1023 forms and accompanying attachments and documents.
The lawmakers used the word “alleged” three times in the opening paragraph of the letter and offered no evidence of the veracity of the accusations or any details about what they contend are “highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures.”
Comer and Grassley said those “disclosures” demand further investigation, and they want to know whether the FBI investigated and, if so, what agents found.
To the White House, the subpoena is further evidence of how congressional Republicans long “have been lobbing unfounded, unproven, politically motivated attacks” against the Bidens “without offering evidence for their claims or evidence of decisions influenced by anything other than U.S. interests.”
A White House spokesperson, Ian Sams, said Biden “has offered an unprecedented level of transparency” about his personal finances with the public release of a total of 25 years of tax returns.
The FBI and Justice Department confirmed receiving the subpoena but declined to comment further. The president’s personal lawyers had no comment.
Republicans claim they have amassed evidence in recent years that raise questions about whether Biden and his family have used their public positions for private gain.
House Republicans have used the power of their new majority to aggressively investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden’s business dealings, including examining foreign payments and other aspects of the family’s finances. Comer has obtained thousands of pages of the Biden family’s financial records through subpoenas to the Treasury Department and various financial institutions since January.
Comer has not revealed much about the findings of his investigation so far. Most recently, Comer claimed one deal involving the Biden family resulted in a profit of over $1 million in more than 15 incremental payments from a Chinese company through a third party.
Both Comer and Grassley have accused both the FBI and Justice Department of stonewalling their investigations and politicizing the agency’s yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes.
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A New York grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump after hearing testimony related to hush money payments made to cover up an alleged affair. He appears before a judge Tuesday.
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(RNS) — Carl Lentz, the ousted pastor of Hillsong New York City, has landed on staff at Transformation Church, a predominantly Black, nondenominational megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is led by pastor, author and popular YouTuber Michael Todd.
Transformation, a juggernaut in a town replete with megachurches, has confirmed that Lentz, who was fired from Hillsong in 2020 when an extramarital affair came to light, has joined its staff.
“We gladly welcome Carl Lentz to our Transformation Church staff, helping TC with strategy as we continue to move forward in our vast vision,” Tammy McQuarters, the church’s executive pastor of operations, told Religion News Service in an email Monday (March 27).
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Lentz, 44, once labeled a “hypepriest” by GQ Magazine for his fashionable attire and ministry to NBA players and celebrities such as Justin Bieber, has been mostly silent since his firing, even as rumors and ongoing accusations have dogged him and his former church.
(That silence will end May 19, with the release of an FX docuseries covering the Hillsong scandals and, it was announced Tuesday, featuring the first interviews from Carl Lentz and his wife, Laura, since his firing.)
“After two years of Carl being in his own discovery and healing process, he has shown readiness to use his God-given gifts towards the local church again. We believe in Carl, his marriage, his skill set, and his restoration,” McQuarters said.
McQuarters said the church’s vision to “re-present God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ” includes restoration. The two go “hand-in-hand,” she said, pointing to Scripture from the Book of Galatians that includes a message to “restore one another” after sin, mistakes and repentance.
“We are called to be a safe environment for people to evolve and transform,” she added.
Transformation Church, founded in 1999 in the historically Black Greenwood District of Tulsa, home to the city’s 1921 race massacre, now meets in the nearby suburb of Bixby, at the 4,500-seat SpiritBank Event Center, which the church owns. The arena, purchased by Transformation in 2019 for $10.5 million, was among the nearly $67 million in real estate properties the church has bought in the area in the past four years.
Todd and Transformation Church have become known in Tulsa for their community donations, including $200,000 to each of the three living survivors of the race massacre, part of a $1 million donation given by the church to commemorate the tragedy at its centennial.
Lentz, a native of North Carolina, was trained at Hillsong College in Sydney, Australia, before being sent to by the Pentecostal powerhouse to plant a Hillsong outpost in Manhattan in 2010. Dubbed Hillsong NYC, the church drew as many as 10,000 mostly young New Yorkers to its services at its height. But since Lentz’s firing in November 2020, the NYC branch and Hillsong Global have been embroiled in parallel scandals, with revelations of indiscretions with women resulting in the resignation of Hillsong’s founding pastor Brian Houston last year, as well as ongoing allegations of financial misconduct by the church.
Soon after Lentz’s ouster, Ranin Karim, a Brooklyn jewelry designer, discussed her relationship with Lentz on “Good Morning America.” A few months later, Lentz’s former nanny, Leona Kimes, came forward with allegations that Lentz had subjected her to “bullying, abuse of power and sexual abuse,” which a legal representative for Lentz denied at the time. A leaked report, commissioned by Hillsong Global to look into the leadership of Hillsong East Coast, painted a picture of a church leadership rife with abuse, sexual misconduct and secrecy.
At Transformation Church, McQuarters said they are praying for Lentz and his family to experience restoration and to, in turn, help others do the same, “by using their triumphs and failures to create resources for the body of Christ at large.”
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New Mexico FBI, police investigating if shooting deaths of 3 Muslim men are connected
New Mexico police working to determine motive in trio of possibly-connected shootings of Muslim men
Local and federal law enforcement agencies in New Mexico are investigating whether the murders of three Muslim victims over the past several months are connected, according to a local affiliate report.
The Albuquerque Police Department and the local Field Office of the FBI announced Thursday that three murders, including one dating back to November 2021, are possibly connected, noting "one strong commonality with the victims: the race and religion," said Kyle Hartsock, deputy commander of the Albuquerque Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, according to KRQE News 13.
The first incident was reported in early November 2021, when 62-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi was discovered shot and killed in the rear parking lot of a halal café located at the corner of Mountain Road and San Mateo Boulevard in Albuquerque, KRQE reported.
Then, Aftab Hussein was fatally wounded at the end of July 2022, in the area of Copper Avenue and Rhode Island Street, KRQE reported. And on Monday, the third victim, local city planner Muhammed Afzaal was reportedly gunned down while walking in the area of Cornell Drive and Coal Avenue.
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Harstock said police have so far not found any link between the trio of shootings and called it too soon to say if the men were victims of hate crimes, the report states. No motive has been identified.
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(NewsNation) — Most people are without electricity or running water in Puerto Rico as it was devastated by Hurricane Fiona.
The category 3 storm made landfall on Sunday, causing an island-wide power blackout and dumping “historic” levels of rain.
“The damages that we are seeing are catastrophic,” Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said.
Puerto Rico has still not recovered from Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 Storm that killed 3,000 people in 2017, before Hurricane Fiona hit. Tarps still cover some homes on the island that were damaged by Hurricane Maria, even after five years.
Dr. Michelle Carlo, medical adviser for Direct Relief, one of the organizations helping Puerto Rico, said rivers are flowing through towns, and bridges are being destroyed by the current.
“It is creating havoc, especially in the center and southern part of the island,” she said on NewsNation’s “Morning in America” Tuesday.
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Right now, Direct Relief is in the “immediate and urgent aid” stage of this emergency, Carlo said. The organization communicates with local health providers to get them medical supplies, its website said, and it has emergency staff stationed in Puerto Rico.
As of Tuesday, Carlo said, Direct Relief has a team headed to a town in Puerto Rico to deliver a generator to a family whose daughter is depending on a tracheostomy to live.
“Our help is very broad, from individual families to nonprofit organizations, and we collaborate as well with government agencies to ensure that call chain is preserved, and infrastructures remain operational,” Carlo said.
Hispanic Federation is providing emergency relief services and supplies to communities affected by Hurricane Fiona.
“Because Puerto Rico is still rebuilding from the damage of Maria, the flooding and power outages caused by Fiona are already far more severe and life threatening than they should be,” the Hispanic Federation says on its donation page. “The next few days are essential to get emergency services and supplies to those who need it most.”
The Hispanic Federation, which was founded in 1990, has a “strong presence” in New York, Florida, North Carolina, Puerto Rico and other states, per its website. Its goal is to “empower and advance” the Hispanic community and Latino institutions in education, health, immigration, the environment and other areas.
People can donate money through PayPal, or also donate by mail non-perishable food items, toiletries, solar lanterns, gallons of water and water filters, among other items. Taller Salud is a feminist organization dedicated to “improving women’s access to health care,” as well as reducing violence and encouraging economic growth “through education and activism.”
Puerto Rico Community Foundation
A Community Recovery Fund for Puerto Rico was activated by the Puerto Rico Community Foundation so it can support the work of non-profit organizations giving aid.
The Puerto Rico Community Foundation began in a forum sponsored by the National Puerto Rican Coalition. It promotes access to renewable energy, drinking water, housing, community economic development and education in the U.S. territory, and partners with different philanthropic individuals, families and corporations.
A social organization for those who want to learn about Puerto Rican culture, the Puerto Rican Civic Club, based in San Jose, California, is taking Paypal donations for items such as solar generators, lanterns and emergency radios. People can also buy the items from Amazon and send them to Puerto Rico via the address on their website.
According to CharityNavigator.com, SBP is a nationally-recognized organization focused on disaster resilience and affordable housing. In the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, SBP Puerto Rico’s disaster response team has been on the ground, assessing damage and helping affected people. It also plans to assist communities with debris cleaning, mold remediation and distributing recovery resources.
“SBP has rebuilt more homes than any other organization on the island. Given the resources, we are positioned to rebuild hundreds more,” the organization said on its website.
PRxPR Relief and Rebuild Fund was started by Puerto Rican business leaders living in the U.S. after Hurricane Maria, NPR reported. It focuses on giving food, clean water and renewable energy to “some of the most devastated communities in Puerto Rico.”
PRxPR’s website says it is a “no-overhead fund,” meaning 100% of donations go to the “most critically affected communities.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The two leading GOP presidential contenders had very different interview experiences with Fox News in the past week — each an illustration of the influence that even a damaged Fox has over the Republican nominating process.
Donald Trump’s interview with Bret Baier, which aired in two parts Monday and Tuesday, was meaty and newsworthy. Baier pressed the former president about his indictment on hoarding confidential documents and pushed back on Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
Ron DeSantis’ session with Trump’s former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, on Wednesday was far softer.
Their appearances alone are evidence that Fox, weakened financially by the $787 million settlement over defamation charges reached with Dominion Voting Systems and suffering in the ratings following Tucker Carlson’s firing, remains the media kingmaker for Republicans who want to be president.
After the first part of his Trump interview aired, Fox announced that Baier and Martha MacCallum will moderate the first Republican presidential primary debate on Aug. 23.
Baier, in bringing up the documents charges with Trump, asked him simply: “Why not just hand them over?”
When the former president talked about being busy, Baier brought up the indictment’s charge that he told an aide to move documents to other locations in his Mar-a-Lago estate after telling lawyers to say he had fully complied with a subpoena, “when you hadn’t.”
He was specific in asking about a recording where Trump told someone about documents he could have declassified as president, while also keeping sight of the big picture. “Why do you want to hold on to these documents after you’re president?” he asked.
“I don’t say I do,” Trump replied.
Afterward, Baier received praise in places where Fox figures don’t normally hear it, like MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“In many ways, Baier was the big winner of the interview, repeatedly pressing Trump on multiple hot topics and challenging the former president on his lies and questionable praise,” Politico’s Playbook said.
It was important for Baier, whose reputation took a hit when some Fox communications were revealed through the Dominion lawsuit. Baier had complained internally following the 2020 election that he had become uncomfortable defending the network’s controversial — but correct — election night declaration that Biden had won in Arizona, and suggested awarding the state to Trump instead.
He’s interviewed other 2024 GOP contenders Nikki Haley and Chris Christie recently, but not DeSantis, who instead talked with McEnany, a non-journalist.
McEnany primarily teed up DeSantis to talk about Florida’s economy, “culture war” issues and his stance on pandemic-era lockdowns. When DeSantis said that “(Dr. Anthony) Fauci was attacking everything Florida did,” she agreed.
“I came to Florida a lot on the weekends,” McEnany said. “People don’t know that. I left the swamp, and it was pretty joyful to be in Florida.”
McEnany also brought up a lengthy Washington Post profile on DeSantis’ wife Casey, who she called “a real rock star.”
“The best they could come up with in the liberal Washington Post, there are three things Ron DeSantis likes to talk about, the Constitution, baseball, and golf,” she said. “I think that’s most men in this country.”
Another Post article, about DeSantis donors lending him a golf simulator and providing flights to political events, moved on the newspaper’s website more than seven hours before the interview and was not brought up.
To be fair, Trump has faced his share of friendly interviewers on Fox, including Carlson and Mark Levin. Sean Hannity, who offered Trump advice when he was in the White House, hosted the former president for a town hall on June 1. DeSantis has also appeared on “Fox & Friends” and was interviewed by former GOP congressman Trey Gowdy the night he announced his candidacy.
Fox has had a rough two months since the Dominion settlement. Carlson’s firing, for reasons never publicly unexplained, cut sharply into the network’s audience, some of which decamped to rival Newsmax. Carlson reached an average of 3.25 million viewers in his time slot from January through March, and subsequent substitute hosts are far below that.
Brian Kilmeade reached 2.41 million when Trump’s post-indictment speech was carried live on June 13, but averaged only 1.57 million viewers in Carlson’s old time slot the next three nights, the Nielsen company said.
That same night, a message referring to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” appeared on Fox’s screen, costing two of Carlson’s former producers their jobs. This week, Geraldo Rivera quit as a panelist on the popular show “The Five,” saying he was tired of the political combat.
Still, Republican candidates have appeared for interviews on Fox a staggering 160 times this year, 15 already this week, the network said. The most frequent is entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been on 76 times. Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson have been on 18 times. And in Carlson’s former timeslot, Fox remains the No. 1 cable news show despite the ratings decline.
There are more media outlets appealing to Republicans than ever, said talk show host Erick Erickson. Ben Shapiro’s “Daily Wire” has been successful in reaching young people who don’t watch television as much as their elders, and the rapid increase in cable cord-cutters is ominous for media executives.
Fox still reaches the most conservatives in the country, he said.
“They’re not as dominant as they once were but that doesn’t mean that they’re not dominant,” Erickson said.
Despite its troubles, Fox retains a powerful agenda-setting role. It is particularly visible in the wake of Trump’s indictment with the number of commentators who have been attacking the U.S. justice system, noted CNN media writer Oliver Darcy.
“Newsrooms often focus on what lawmakers are saying, but the popular talk show hosts have far more influence over the GOP base,” Darcy wrote. “And they’re priming a large portion of the country to believe the government is being run by a menacing anti-democratic force and that law and order no longer exists.”
Many in conservative media are watching closely to see if it becomes clear that a majority of Fox personalities are favoring one candidate or another, in large part to attract attention by going in another direction, Erickson said.
“People feel there is chum in the water and the sharks are circling,” he said. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/business/trump-desantis-interviews-show-fox-influence-on-gop-field-still-strong-despite-troubled-year/ | 2023-06-23 18:19:58 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/business/trump-desantis-interviews-show-fox-influence-on-gop-field-still-strong-despite-troubled-year/ |
Bills’ Hamlin faces long recovery, family spokesman tells AP
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Remarkable as Damar Hamlin’s recovery has been, the Buffalo Bills safety still faces a lengthy rehabilitation some three weeks after going into cardiac arrest and needing to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati, his marketing representative told The Associated Press on Thursday night.
“Damar still requires oxygen and is having his heart monitored regularly to ensure there are no setbacks or after effects,” Jordon Rooney said. “Though he is able to visit the team’s facility, Damar is not in position to travel often, and requires additional rest to help his body heal.”
Rooney provided the update to emphasize Hamlin still faces hurdles since being discharged from Buffalo General Medical Center on Jan. 11. Hamlin’s release came five days after his doctors said the player was breathing on his own, walking, talking and showing no signs of neurological damage.
Rooney’s update also gave perspective to comments made by Bills coach Sean McDermott, who on Wednesday said Hamlin has begun making regular visits to the team’s facility. McDermott, however, stressed the 24-year-old was taking “a baby step at a time,” while adding, Hamlin is “dipping his toe back in here and getting on the road to just getting back to himself.”
Hamlin has not yet made a public appearance except for a photograph linebacker Matt Milano posted on his Instagram account of his teammate at the Bills facility on Saturday. And he’s not yet spoken publicly except for posting messages on his social media accounts.
Rooney said Hamlin is being watched over by his parents and “remains very upbeat and grateful for the support he’s received from his teammates and coaches, Bills Mafia and people from around the world.” That outpouring of support has led to Hamlin’s charitable foundation, Chasing M’s, raising nearly $9 million in donations.
Without saying from where, he added, Hamlin will be cheering for the Bills on Sunday, when Buffalo hosts Cincinnati in an AFC divisional playoff.
Hamlin live-tweeted while watching Buffalo’s 35-23 season-ending win over New England from his hospital bed at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center on Jan. 8. Last weekend, he live-tweeted while watching from home the Bills’ 34-31 win over Miami in a wild-card playoff.
The game against Cincinnati carries additional significance. It marks the first meeting between the two teams since their game was canceled on Jan. 2, when Hamlin collapsed after being struck squarely in the chest while making what appeared to be a routine tackle of Bengals receiver Tee Higgins.
Hamlin’s family and Bills quarterback Josh Allen have defended Higgins in saying he shouldn’t be blamed for what happened.
On Thursday, Higgins said he couldn’t be more appreciative of the family’s support, while expressing hope Hamlin could attend the game so the two could meet.
“Just be happy to see him,” Higgins said. “I haven’t really spoken to him. Just letting his family do what he needs to do with all his loved ones.”
Also on Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul extended her support to Hamlin during a phone call with the player. In a message posted on her Twitter account, Hochul referred to Hamlin as “an inspiration,” and let him know “the hopes and prayers of 20 million New Yorkers have been with him throughout his recovery.”
Hamlin, who is from the Pittsburgh area, replied by writing it was good meeting Hochul and he was “excited to see how our collaborations in the future will help and affect so many.”
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AP Sports Writer Mitch Stacy in Cincinnati contributed to this report.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Today's Why Guy question from Timmy Stevens: "Why does the U.S. export so much oil when we need it at home?"
When it comes to gasoline, the United States is like a busy intersection. Crude oil comes in and crude oil goes out. Some of it is refined and burned as gasoline here. The U.S. also ships some of its petroleum to as many as 180 other countries, primarily Mexico and Canada.
At the same time, Mexico and Canada, and in a typical year, Russia, will be shipping their petroleum here.
Andrew Lipow is a petroleum energy consultant.
"We import a lot, we export a lot, but we also produce domestically a lot," Lipow said.
Let's explore why the U.S. is importing and exporting so much of the product we need to run our own vehicles.
According to U.S. energy experts, large oil companies sell their products to a worldwide market. Most of what the U.S. produces comes from our gulf coast.
It often makes more sense for the refineries in the gulf to export some of their gasoline to Mexico, rather than expensively ship their product all the way to the east coast of the U.S., which gets cheaper gasoline from Europe.
So, in the big picture, the U.S. does sell its own oil overseas to the highest bidders — like an E-Bay auction — the net result is to keep global
oil prices down which keeps prices in the U.S. lower.
Watch more on ABC10 | https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/why-guy-question/us-export-oil-demand-why-guy/103-f88f9eee-53b5-499b-8cd4-7d3eff71dc32 | 2022-10-19 21:39:00 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/why-guy-question/us-export-oil-demand-why-guy/103-f88f9eee-53b5-499b-8cd4-7d3eff71dc32 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting out the word in advance that an expected unofficial stopover in the United States by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen would fall in line with recent precedent and should not be used as a pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait.
In recent weeks, senior U.S. officials in Washington and Beijing have underscored to their Chinese counterparts that transit visits through the United States during broader international travel by the Taiwanese president have been routine in recent years, according to a senior administration official. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
In such visits in recent years, Tsai has met with members of Congress and the Taiwanese diaspora and has been welcomed by the chairperson of the American Institute in Taiwan, the U.S. government-run nonprofit that carries out unofficial relations with Taiwan.
Tsai transited through the United States six times between 2016 and 2019 before slowing international travel with the coronavirus pandemic. In reaction to those visits, China rhetorically lashed out against China and Taiwan.
The Biden administration is trying to avoid a replay of the heavy-handed response by China that came after then- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., visited Taiwan last year.
Following Pelosi's August visit, Beijing launched missiles over Taiwan, deployed warships across the median line of the Taiwan Strait and carried out military exercises near the island. Beijing also suspended climate talks with the U.S. and restricted military-to-military communication with the Pentagon.
Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent, a step U.S. leaders say they don’t support. Pelosi was the highest-ranking elected American official to visit the island since Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997. Under the “one China” policy, the U.S. recognizes Beijing as the government of China and doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan but has maintained that Taipei is an important partner in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. officials are increasingly worried about China’s long-stated goals of unifying Taiwan with the mainland and the possibility of war over Taiwan. The self-ruled island democracy is claimed by Beijing as part of its territory. The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which has governed U.S. relations with the island, does not require the U.S. to step in militarily if China invades, but makes it American policy to ensure Taiwan has the resources to defend itself and to prevent any unilateral change of status by Beijing.
The difficult U.S.-China relationship has only become more complicated since Pelosi's visit.
Last month, President Joe Biden ordered a Chinese spy balloon shot out of the sky after it traversed the continental United States. And the Biden administration in recent weeks has said that U.S. intelligence findings show that China is weighing sending arms to Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine, but it does not have evidence that suggests Beijing has decided to follow through on supplying Moscow.
The Biden administration postponed a planned visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken following the balloon controversy, but has signaled it would like to get such a visit back on track.
The White House on Monday also said officials are in talks with China about possible visits by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo focused on economic matters. Biden has also said he expects to soon hold a call with China's Xi Jinping.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said “keeping those lines of communication open” is still valuable.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi met in Moscow on Monday, the first face-to-face meeting between the allies since before Russia launched its invasion more than a year ago.
The Taiwanese government earlier this month said that Tsai planned stops in New York and Southern California during an upcoming broader international trip but has yet to announce details about when she'll travel.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, has said he would meet with Tsai when she is in the U.S. and has not ruled out the possibility of traveling to Taiwan in a show of support. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/us-tells-china-not-to-overread-likely-taiwan-17850906.php | 2023-03-21 06:19:25 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/us-tells-china-not-to-overread-likely-taiwan-17850906.php |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is considering cutting short his upcoming foreign trip because of the looming debt ceiling crisis, adding urgency to talks Tuesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders at the White House.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters the administration is evaluating whether it makes sense for the president to continue on with the rest of the trip after attending a Group of Seven summit in Japan. Biden was scheduled to leave Wednesday for the summit, followed by stops in Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Kirby blamed congressional Republicans.
"We wouldn’t even be having this discussion about the effect of the debt ceiling debate on the trip, if Congress would do its job, raise the debt ceiling the way they’ve always done,” Kirby said.
Biden is discussing the debt ceiling with congressional leaders at the White House with reverberations across the globe as early outlines of a potential deal begin to emerge from painstakingly slow negotiations.
Raising the stakes, the Tuesday afternoon session comes as Biden departs for the summit where the U.S. leadership will be on the world stage. The president and House Speaker McCarthy are trying to strike a budget deal before the U.S. Treasury runs out of cash to keep paying the nation's bills, which could occur as soon as June 1.
While Biden has remained upbeat that “we'll be able to do this,” McCarthy is prodding the president to move faster. The Republican speaker says they need an agreement soon to avoid default. Expectations are low that a deal is imminent. It is more likely that staff talks will continue while the president is overseas.
“How much is too much?" McCarthy said Tuesday about the nation's $31 trillion debt load, as he pushed for stricter work requirements on government aid recipients as a way to cut spending.
McCarthy stopped short of suggesting Biden cancel his trip abroad. But he said at the Capitol, “We've got 16 more days to go, I don't think I'd spend eight days out of the country."
It's the second time in a week that Biden has met with McCarthy of California and other congressional leaders at the White House. Biden is confronting a politically divided Congress for the first time on the debt ceiling, a test for both the president and McCarthy, the new speaker, as they work to stave off an economic crisis that could come from a federal default. The meeting will also include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.
Even as the Democratic president and the Republican speaker box around the politics of the issue — with Biden insisting he’s not negotiating over the debt ceiling and McCarthy working to extract spending cuts — various areas of possible agreement appear to be emerging.
Talks have been under way at the Capitol for much of the past week, closed-door discussions where White House and congressional staff are discussing what it would take to craft a budget deal that would unlock a separate vote to lift the nation’s borrowing capacity to avoid a devastating default.
Among the items on the table: clawing back some $30 billion in untapped COVID-19 money, imposing future budget caps, changing permit regulations to ease energy development and putting bolstered work requirements on recipients of government aid, according to those familiar with the talks.
Democrats are growing concerned about the idea of putting new work requirements for government aid recipients on the table after Biden suggested he may be open to such changes.
The idea of imposing more work requirements was “resoundingly” rejected by House Democrats at a morning caucus meeting, according to one Democrat at the private meeting and granted anonymity to discuss it.
Progressive lawmakers in particular have raised the issue. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus has raised concerns but not yet spoken directly to Biden about the issue.
We want to make sure that these negotiations do not include spending cuts, do not include work requirements, things that would harm people, people in rural areas, black, brown, indigenous folks,” Jayapal said Tuesday.
Democratic leader Jeffries' staff sought to reassure them in talks late Monday, while a separate group of more centrist Democrats have signaled to their moderate Republican colleagues they are prepared to work something out to reach a debt ceiling deal, aides said Tuesday.
While McCarthy McCarthy has complained the talks are slow-going, saying he first met with Biden more than 100 days ago Biden has said it took McCarthy all this time to put forward his own proposal after Republicans failed to produce their own budget this year.
Biden has insisted Republicans must rule out default and consider budget issues separate from the need to raise the nation’s debt limit.
Though Biden did signal over the weekend that he could be open to tougher work requirements for certain government aid programs, the White House has indicated he is only referring to cash assistance programs and not food stamps or anything like Medicaid that would take away people’s health care coverage.
The debt limit must be lifted, as has been done countless times before, to allow continued borrowing to pay already accrued bills.
Compounding pressure on Washington to strike a deal, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday that agency estimates are unchanged on the possible X-date when the U.S. could run out of cash — perhaps as early as June 1.
But Yellen, in a letter to the House and Senate, left some opening for a possible time extension on a national default, stating that “the actual date Treasury exhausts extraordinary measures could be a number of days or weeks later than these estimates.”
“It is essential that Congress act as soon as possible,” Yellen said Tuesday in remarks before the Independent Community Bankers of America.
In my assessment – and that of economists across the board – a U.S. default would generate an economic and financial catastrophe," she said.
Time is dwindling. Congress has just a few days when both the House and Senate are in session to pass legislation.
“It’s time for the principals to get more engaged, get their closers out there,” said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the Republican whip.
Details of a potential budget deal remain politically daunting, and it’s not at all clear they go far enough to satisfy McCarthy’s hard-right faction in the House or would be acceptable to a sizable number of Democrats whose votes would almost certainly be needed to secure any final deal.
Republicans led by McCarthy want Biden to accept their proposal to roll back spending, cap future outlays and make other policy changes in the package passed last month by House Republicans. McCarthy says the House is the only chamber that has taken action to raise the debt ceiling. But the House bill is almost certain to fail in the Senate, controlled by Democrats, and Biden has said he would veto it.
An increase in the debt limit would not authorize new federal spending. It would only allow for borrowing to pay for what Congress has already approved.
___ Associated Press writer Kevin Freking contributed to this report. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/debt-ceiling-showdown-biden-congressional-leaders-to-meet/507-b5432573-2025-408f-bbb7-184fc5765306 | 2023-05-16 19:22:08 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/nation-world/debt-ceiling-showdown-biden-congressional-leaders-to-meet/507-b5432573-2025-408f-bbb7-184fc5765306 |
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(Green Car Reports) — A former Audi CEO pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges connected to the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal, in which Audi parent VW cheated on emissions tests with illegal software.
Rupert Stadler admitted culpability in keeping affected cars on sale after news of the scandal broke in late 2015, the Associated Press reported. He entered this guilty plea under an agreement with the judge and prosecutors that allows for probation instead of jail time, and requires Stadler to pay a 1.1 million euro ($1.2 million) fine.
Stadler was charged with fraud and false certification by prosecutors, who accused him of overseeing the sale of cars with emissions-cheating software after September 2015, when the EPA issued a formal notice accusing VW of violating the Clean Air Act.
The former top Audi executive was arrested in 2019 over allegations related to the diesel scandal. The launch of the Audi E-Tron SUV, the automaker’s first mass-market EV, was delayed when he was being held by officials.
After the diesel scandal broke, Stadler pushed ahead with plans to electrify Audi, with the arrival of one electrified model each year. Audi has more or less stuck to that, while parent VW has issued the mother of all mea culpas in the form of its MEB platform for high-volume EVs.
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Stadler’s $1.2M personal fine measures up as just a very tiny percentage of the cost of the VW diesel scandal in total; in 2020 it was summed at nearly $35 billion. That includes a $1.2 billion fine issued by German authorities in 2018, which was one of the largest penalties ever levied in Germany. The German government has also charged former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, but proceedings have stalled due to his poor health, the AP reported. | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/former-audi-ceo-admits-guilt-in-diesel-scandal-pays-1-2m-fine/ | 2023-05-17 20:50:49 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/automotive/former-audi-ceo-admits-guilt-in-diesel-scandal-pays-1-2m-fine/ |
There’s nothing quite like that first sip of an Icee on a hot summer day — and now you can get a taste as soon as you wake up.
New Kellogg’s Icee Cereal not only tastes like an Icee mixed with both cherry and blue raspberry flavors, but it also “cools” your mouth as you’re eating. Kellogg’s says the cereal, which has “crunchy red and blue spheres,” even transforms your milk into a treat worthy of drinking.
“Inspired by ICEE’s best-selling Cherry and Blue Raspberry flavors, the new cereal utilizes an innovative ingredient that cools your mouth as you eat, imitating that familiar and refreshing first sip of an ICEE,” the press release says.
There’s no word on what, exactly, that cooling ingredient is, but Kellogg’s representative tells Simplemost that this feeling comes from the addition of “a flavor that is added to the cereal coating.” The companies also say to rest assured that it won’t be as cold as drinking an actual Icee, but it will just provide a similar sensation.
New Kellogg’s Icee Cereal will be available at retailers nationwide beginning in April for around $5.29 for an 8.3-ounce box and $6.49 for a 13.2-ounce box.
The Icee brand began in 1967 as Western Icee, eventually changing to Icee USA and finally, as it’s known today, The Icee Company. It is currently part of J&J Snack Foods.
Icee has products available across the globe. In fact, there are around 42 drink flavors, ranging from classics like the Cherry and Blue Raspberry featured in the cereal to Cotton Candy, Boysenberry, Peach, Melon Berry Bliss and Mermaid.
While this is the first Icee breakfast treat, it’s actually the second “cooling'”cereal from Kellogg’s — but the first one made for warmer weather.
The brand’s first cereal with a cooling effect was Elf on the Shelf for the 2022 holiday season. The Elf on the Shelf cereal was made with sugar alcohols to induce the cooling effect, which is distinctly different than the cooling flavor of the Icee cereal.
With star-shaped cereal pieces and marshmallows, it was not made to cool you down on a hot summer day. Instead, according to the brand, it was meant to feel “like biting into a snowball.”
Will you be trying Kellogg’s new ICEE cereal?
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Which holiday gift sets of high-end beauty essentials are best?
Whether you have a beauty junkie on your list or you need to stock up on your own cosmetics, the holidays are the best time to buy prestige beauty products like makeup, haircare, perfume, and skincare.
Why? Because just about every high-end brand offers value sets of their most popular products. You can save anywhere from a few dollars to well over 50% if you buy a holiday gift set. Here are some of our favorites. Remember to look for add-on values like free gifts with purchase or additional coupon codes that will save you even more.
Top skincare sets to buy
Sunday Riley Pro Vitamins Vol. 1
Want brighter, more youthful-looking skin? This kit contains four products to round out a simple yet effective skincare regimen: C.E.O. Glow, C.E.O. Serum, C.E.O Cream, and AutoCorrect.
Sold by Amazon
ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Anti-Aging Trio
Collagen is an “it” ingredient right now for its anti-aging and hydrating capabilities. This set saves you more than $50 compared to buying each item separately. You get a cleanser, moisturizer, and eye treatment in this simple but solid trio.
Sold by Ulta
PERRICONE MD Essential Fx Starter Collection
When your skin is really acting up, this kit steps up to the challenge. And buying as a set saves you nearly half the price of buying each product on its own. The kit delivers powerful moisture, smoothing out wrinkles and lifting saggy, tired skin.
Sold by Ulta
Top makeup sets to buy
Too Faced Christmas Star Makeup Collection
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Dawn Staley and South Carolina picked up right where they left off: No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll.
The defending national champion Gamecocks were the unanimous choice of the 30-member national media panel in the presason poll released Tuesday. It's the third consecutive season South Carolina is the preseason favorite.
“This is where we wanted to be and envisioned for our program,” Staley said. “I got to give it to our players. We constantly get some of the best players in the country. They put us in this position as they work extremely hard. I don’t know if they come in and say i want to be the No. 1 team in the country, but they do say they want to be national champions. This is a step to being a national champion.”
Stanford, Texas, Iowa and Tennessee round out the top five teams in the preseason poll. It is Iowa's best ranking since 1994 when the Hawkeyes were also fourth in midseason.
“It makes no difference in March what we're ranked in October, but certainly I want my team to have confidence and be proud of what they've accomplished. Iowa is on the map," coach Lisa Bluder said. "We'll celebrate it and then forgot about it.”
South Carolina went wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team last year and have been the top team for 20 straight weeks. Only UConn (four times) and Baylor (once) have had longer streaks at No. 1 since the 1994-95 season when the Top 25 became a writers’ poll.
The Huskies are ranked No. 6, the first time since 2006 that they weren't in the first five in the preseason poll. Louisville, Iowa State, Notre Dame and N.C. State finish off the top 10.
HOLD THAT TIGER
Princeton has its first preseason ranking, coming in at No. 24.
The Tigers were ranked for the final two weeks of last season and return four starters from the team that pulled off one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament, upending Kentucky in the first round before falling to Indiana by a point in the next game.
"It's great for our program and for the Ivy League and putting some respect on what we've done in the past," coach Carla Berube said. "I think it's tremendous for our team and for us to live up to the standards we've set, we've got lofty goals. To be ranked in the preseason means a lot, but there's a lot of work to be done.”
Berube has upped the Tigers schedule to challenge them with games at Texas and at UConn, her alma mater.
“We've learned that if you have a tough non-conference schedule it can get you ready for the Ivy League and beyond that," she said.
CORNHUSKER RUN
There are high expectations in the state of Nebraska. No. 21 Creighton has its first preseason ranking while No. 22 Nebraska was its first ranking since 2015. It's the first time in the history of the poll that both teams have been ranked in the same week.
“It’s good to have Creighton and Nebraska in Top 25. It's good for the state,” Creighton coach Jim Flanery said.
The Bluejays are coming off a great season when they advanced to the first Elite Eight in school history by knocking off No. 2 seed Iowa at home in the second round and Iowa State in the regional semifinals. Expectations are high this year.
“It says to our players that they put the program in a better position than we've ever been in,” Flanery said. “That's good for them. I think they deserve it. They worked to get us to this point. I don't think it changes their approach.”
TIP-INS
No. 13 Virginia Tech has its best ranking since the final poll of 1999 when the school was also 13th. ... No. 23 South Dakota State is ranked in the preseason for the first time in school history.
CONFERENCE WATCH
The Big Ten is tops in the nation with six ranked teams. Joining No. 4 Iowa are No. 11 Indiana, No. 14 Ohio State, No. 17 Maryland, No. 22 Nebraska and No. 25 Michigan.
The ACC has five teams in the poll, including three in the top 10. Joining Louisville, Notre Dame and N.C. State are No. 12 North Carolina and No. 13 Virginia Tech.
The Big 12 has four programs ranked, led by No. 3 Texas and No. 8 Iowa State. No. 15 Oklahoma and No. 18 Baylor are also ranked.
The SEC and Pac-12 each have three teams in the poll. No. 16 LSU joins top-ranked South Carolina and No. 5 Tennessee for the SEC. No. 19 Arizona and No. 20 Oregon join No. 2 Stanford for the Pac-12.
No. 21 Creighton and UConn represent the Big East while No. 24 Princeton is the lone school from the Ivy League and No. 23 South Dakota State the only Summit League team in the rankings.
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BOSTON (AP) — Vivian Kargbo thought her daughter’s Boston school district was doing the right thing when officials kept classrooms closed for most students for more than a year.
Kargbo, a caregiver for hospice patients, didn’t want to risk them getting COVID-19. And extending pandemic school closures through the spring of 2021 is what many in her community said was best to keep kids and adults safe.
But her daughter became depressed and stopped doing school work or paying attention to online classes. The former honor-roll student failed nearly all of her eighth grade courses.
“She’s behind,” said Kargbo, whose daughter is now in tenth grade. “It didn’t work at all. Knowing what I know now, I would say they should have put them in school.”
Preliminary test scores around the country confirm what Kargbo witnessed: The longer many students studied remotely, the less they learned. Some educators and parents are questioning decisions in cities from Boston to Chicago to Los Angeles to remain online long after clear evidence emerged that schools weren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders — and months after life-saving adult vaccines became widely available.
There are fears for the futures of students who don’t catch up. They run the risk of never learning to read, long a precursor for dropping out of school. They might never master simple algebra, putting science and tech fields out of reach. The pandemic decline in college attendance could continue to accelerate, crippling the U.S. economy.
In a sign of how inflammatory the debate has become, there’s sharp disagreement among educators, school leaders and parents even about how to label the problems created by online school. “Learning loss” has become a lightning rod. Some fear the term might brand struggling students or cast blame on teachers, and they say it overlooks the need to save lives during a pandemic.
Regardless of what it’s called, the casualties of Zoom school are real.
The scale of the problem and the challenges in addressing it were apparent in Associated Press interviews with nearly 50 school leaders, teachers, parents and health officials, who struggled to agree on a way forward.
Some public health officials and educators warned against second-guessing the school closures for a virus that killed over a million people in the U.S. More than 200,000 children lost at least one parent.
“It is very easy with hindsight to say, ‘Oh, learning loss, we should have opened.’ People forget how many people died,” said Austin Beutner, former superintendent in Los Angeles, where students were online from mid-March 2020 until the start of hybrid instruction in April 2021.
The question isn’t merely academic.
School closures continued last year because of teacher shortages and COVID-19 spread. It’s conceivable another pandemic might emerge — or a different crisis.
But there’s another reason for asking what lessons have been learned: the kids who have fallen behind. Some third graders struggle to sound out words. Some ninth graders have given up on school because they feel so behind they can’t catch up. The future of American children hangs in the balance.
Many adults are pushing to move on, to stop talking about the impact of the pandemic — especially learning loss.
“As crazy as this sounds now, I’m afraid people are going to forget about the pandemic,” said Jason Kamras, superintendent in Richmond, Virginia. “People will say, ‘That was two years ago. Get over it.’”
When COVID-19 first reached the U.S., scientists didn’t fully understand how it spread or whether it was harmful to children. American schools, like most around the world, understandably shuttered in March 2020.
That summer, scientists learned kids didn’t face the same risks as adults, but experts couldn’t decide how to operate schools safely — or whether it was even possible.
It was already clear that remote learning was devastating for many young people. But did the risks of social isolation and falling behind outweigh the risks of children, school staff and families catching the virus?
The tradeoffs differed depending on how vulnerable a community felt. Black and Latino people, who historically had less access to health care, remain nearly twice as likely to die of COVID-19 than white people. Parents in those communities often had deep-rooted doubts about whether schools could keep their children safe.
Politics was a factor, too. Districts that reopened in person tended to be in areas that voted for President Donald Trump or had largely white populations.
By winter, studiesshowedschools weren’t contributing to increased COVID-19 spread in the community. Classes with masked students and distancing could be conducted safely, growing evidence said. President Joe Biden prioritized reopening schools when he took office in January 2021, and once the COVID-19 vaccine was available, some Democratic-leaning districts started to reopen.
Yet many schools stayed closed well into the spring, including in California, where the state’s powerful teachers unions fought returning to classrooms, citing lack of safety protocols.
In Chicago, after a six-week standoff with the teachers union, the district started bringing students back on a hybrid schedule just before spring 2021. It wasn’t until the fall that students were back in school full time.
Marla Williams initially supported Chicago Public Schools’ decision to instruct students online during the fall of 2020. Williams, a single mother, has asthma, as do her two children. While she was working, she enlisted her father, a retired teacher, to supervise her children’s studies.
Her father would log into his grandson’s classes from his suburban home and try to monitor what was happening. But it didn’t work.
Her son lost motivation and wouldn’t do his assignments. Once he went back on a hybrid schedule in spring 2021, he started doing well again, Williams said.
“I wish we’d been in person earlier,” she said. “Other schools seemed to be doing it successfully.”
Officials were divided in Chicago. The city Department of Public Health advocated reopening schools months earlier, in the fall of 2020. The commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, said they felt the risk of missing education was higher than the risk of COVID-19. Others, such as the director of the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University, advocated for staying remote.
“I think the answer on that has been settled fairly clearly, especially once we had vaccines available,” Arwady said. “I’m concerned about the loss that has occurred.”
From March 2020 to June 2021, the average student in Chicago lost 21 weeks of learning in reading and 20 weeks in math, equivalent to missing half a year of school, according to Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab, which analyzed data from a widely used test called MAP to estimate learning loss for every U.S. school district.
Nationally, kids whose schools met mostly online in the 2020-2021 school year performed 13 percentage points lower in math and 8 percentage points lower in reading compared with schools meeting mostly in person, according to a 2022 study by Brown University economist Emily Oster.
The setbacks have some grappling with regret.
“I can’t imagine a situation where we would close schools again, unless there’s a virus attacking kids,” said Eric Conti, superintendent for Burlington, Massachusetts, a 3,400-student district outside Boston. His students alternated between online and in-person learning from the fall of 2020 until the next spring. “It’s going to be a very high bar.”
Dallas Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde initially disagreed with the Texas governor’s push to reopen schools in the fall of 2020. “But it was absolutely the right thing to do,” she said.
Some school officials said they lacked the expertise to decide whether it was safe to open schools.
“Schools should never have been placed in a situation where we have choice,” said Tony Wold, former associate superintendent of West Contra Costa Unified School District, east of San Francisco. “With lessons learned, when you have a public health pandemic, there needs to be a single voice.”
Still, many school officials said with hindsight they’d make the same decision to keep schools online well into 2021. Only two superintendents said they’d likely make a different decision if there were another pandemic that was not particularly dangerous to children.
In some communities, demographics and the historic underinvestment in schools loomed large, superintendents said. In the South, Black Americans’ fear of the virus was sometimes coupled with mistrust of schools rooted in segregation. Cities from Atlanta to Nashville to Jackson, Mississippi, shuttered schools — in some cases, for nearly all of the 2020-2021 school year.
In Clayton County, Georgia, home to the state’s highest percentage of Black residents, schools chief Morcease Beasley said he knew closing schools would have a devastating impact, but the fear in his community was overwhelming.
“I knew teachers couldn’t teach if they were that scared, and students couldn’t learn,” he said.
Rhode Island was an outlier among liberal-leaning coastal states when it ordered schools to reopen in person in the fall of 2020. “We can’t do this to our kids,” state education chief Angélica Infante-Green remembers thinking after watching students turn off cameras or log in from under blankets in bed. “This is not OK.”
But in the predominantly Latino and Black Rhode Island community of Central Falls, more than three-quarters of students stayed home to study remotely.
To address parent distrust, officials tracked COVID-19 cases among school-aged Central Falls residents. They met with families to show them the kids catching the virus were in remote learning — and they weren’t learning as much as students in school. It worked.
Among teachers, there’s some dispute about online learning’s impact on children. But many fear some students will be scarred for years.
“Should we have reopened earlier? Absolutely,” said California teacher Sarah Curry. She initially favored school closings in her rural Central Valley district, but grew frustrated with the duration of distance learning. She taught pre-kindergarten and found it impossible to maintain attention spans online.
One of her biggest regrets: that teachers who wanted to return to classrooms had little choice in the matter.
But the nation’s 3 million public school teachers are far from a monolith. Many lost loved ones to COVID-19, battled mental health challenges of their own or feared catching the virus.
Jessica Cross, who taught ninth grade math on Chicago’s west side at Phoenix Military Academy, feels her school reopened too soon.
“I didn’t feel entirely safe,” she said. Mask rules were good in theory, but not all students wore them properly. She said safety should come before academics.
“Ultimately, I still feel that remote learning was really the only thing to do,” Cross said.
A representative from the American Federation of Teachers declined in an interview to say whether the national union regrets the positions it took against reopening schools.
“If we start to play the blame game,” said Fedrick Ingram, AFT’s secretary-treasurer, “we get into the political fray of trying to determine if teachers did a good job or not. And I don’t think that’s fair.”
Regrets or no, experts agree: America’s kids need more from adults if they’re going to be made whole.
The country needs “ideally, a reinvention of public education as we know it,” Los Angeles Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said. Students need more days in school and smaller classes.
Short of extending the school year, experts say intensive tutoring is the most efficient way to help students catch up. Saturday school or doubling up on math or reading during a regular school day would also help.
Too few school districts have made those investments, Harvard economist Tom Kane said. Summer school is insufficient, Kane says — it’s voluntary, and many parents don’t sign up.
Adding school time for students is politically impossible in many cities. In Los Angeles, the teachers union filed a complaint after the district scheduled four optional school days for students to recoup learning. The school board in Richmond rejected a move to an all-year school calendar.
There are exceptions: Atlanta extended the school day 30 minutes for three years. Hopewell Schools in Virginia moved to year-round schooling last year.
Even the federal government’s record education spending isn’t enough for the scope of kids’ academic setbacks, according to the American Educational Research Association. Researchers there estimate it will cost $700 billion to offset learning loss for America’s schoolchildren – more than three times the $190 billion allocated to schools.
“We need something on the scale of the Marshall Plan for education,” said Kamras, the Richmond superintendent. “Anything short of that and we’re going to see this blip in outcomes become permanent for a generation of children — and that would be criminal.”
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Gecker reported from San Francisco. Collin Binkley in Washington, D.C., Sharon Lurye in New Orleans, Arleigh Rodgers in Indianapolis, Claire Savage in Chicago and Brooke Schultz in Harrisburg, Pa., contributed to this report.
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4 people arrested on suspicion of hanging Vinícius Junior effigy off bridge
MADRID (AP) — Four people suspected of hanging an effigy of Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior off a highway bridge in Madrid in January have been arrested, Spanish police said Tuesday.
The arrests come two days after the latest case of racial abuse against the Brazil forward in a Spanish league game against Valencia.
The effigy was hanged by the neck the morning of a derby between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Along with it was a banner with the words “Madrid hates Real.”
The perpetrators used a black figure with Vinícius’ name on it, tied a rope around its neck and hanged it from an overpass while still dark in the Spanish capital.
The hate message on the banner is often used by one of Atletico’s ultra fan groups, though at the time it denied being responsible for the display.
Police said the four people arrested are between the ages of 19 and 24. Authorities said some were identified during matches considered at high risk of violence.
Police showed images of them arriving in handcuffs and escorted by agents on Tuesday.
Spanish media said some belonged to Atletico’s ultras.
Police had used security cameras to identify the perpetrators but no action had been taken until now.
Vinícius, who is Black, has been subjected to repeated racist taunts in Spain, especially this season after he began celebrating his goals by dancing.
The match against Valencia was temporarily stopped after Vinícius said a fan behind one of the goals called him a monkey and made monkey gestures toward him. Vinícius considered leaving the field but eventually continued playing.
The Brazilian received support from officials and athletes around the world and heavily criticized Spanish soccer for not doing more to stop racism.
Valencia banned for life a fan identified of insulting Vinícius during the game. Real Madrid took the case to prosecutors as a hate crime.
The Spanish league has filed nine criminal complaints of cases of racial abuse against Vinícius in the last two seasons, with most of them being shelved by prosecutors.
The league said Tuesday it will seek to increase its authority to issue sanctions in cases of hate crimes during games. It had been saying it can only detect and denounce incidents to authorities and the country’s soccer federation.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Visitors used to browse through Bakhmut’s late 19th century buildings, enjoy walks in its rose-lined lakeside park and revel in the sparkling wines produced in historic underground caves. That was when the city in eastern Ukraine was a popular tourist destination.
No more. The longest battle of Russia’s war has turned this city of salt and gypsum mines into a ghost town. Despite bombing, shelling and attempts to encircle Bakhmut for six months, Russia’s forces have not conquered it.
But their scorched-earth tactics have made it impossible for civilians to have any semblance of a life there.
“It’s hell on earth right now; I can’t find enough words to describe it,” said Ukrainian soldier Petro Voloschenko, who is known on the battlefield as Stone, his voice rising with emotion and resentment.
Voloschenko, who is originally from Kyiv, arrived in the area in August when the Russian assault started and has since celebrated his birthday, Christmas and New Year’s there.
The 44-year-old saw the city, located around 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Russia’s border, gradually turned into a wasteland of ruins. Most of the houses are crushed, without roofs, ceilings, windows or doors, making them uninhabitable, he said.
Out of a prewar population of 80,000, a few thousand residents remain. They rarely see daylight because they spend most of their time in basements sheltering from the ferocious fighting around and above them. The city constantly shudders with the muffled sound of explosions, the whizzing of mortars and a constant soundtrack of artillery. Anywhere is a potential target.
Bakhmut lies in Donetsk province, one of four that Russia illegally annexed in the fall — but Moscow only controls about half of it. To take the remaining half, Russian forces have no choice but to go through Bakhmut, which offers the only approach to bigger Ukrainian-held cities since Ukrainian troops took back Izium in Kharkiv province in September, according to Mykola Bielieskov, a research fellow at Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies.
“Without seizure of these cities, the Russian army won’t be able to accomplish the political task it was given,” Bielieskov said.
The deterioration in Bakhmut started during the summer after Russia took the last major city in neighboring Luhansk province. It then poured troops and equipment into capturing Bakhmut, and Ukraine did the same to defend it. For Russia, the city was one stepping stone toward its goal of seizing the remaining Ukrainian-held territory in Donetsk.
From trenches outside the city, the two sides dug in for what turned into an exhausting standoff as Ukraine clawed back territory to the north and south and Russian airstrikes across the country targeted power plants and other infrastructure.
The months of battle exhausted both armies. In the fall, Russia changed tactics and sent in foot soldiers instead of probing the front line mainly with artillery, according to Voloschenko.
Bielieskov, the research fellow, said the least-trained Russians go first to force the Ukrainians to open fire and expose the strengths and weaknesses of their defense.
More trained units or mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a private Russian military company led by a rogue millionaire and known for its brutality, make up the rear guard, Bielieskov said.
Bielieskov said that Ukraine compensates for its lack of heavy equipment with people who are ready to stand to the last.
“Lightly armed, without sufficient artillery support, which they cannot always be provided, they stand and hold off attacks as long as possible,” he said.
The result is that the battle is believed to have produced horrific troop losses for both Ukraine and Russia. Quite how deadly isn’t known: Neither side is saying.
“Manpower is less of a Russian problem and, in some ways, more of a Ukrainian problem, not only because the casualties are painful, but they’re often … Ukraine’s best troops,” said Lawrence Freedman, a professor emeritus of war studies at King’s College London.
The Institute for the Study of War recently reported that Wagner forces have seen more than 4,100 die and 10,000 wounded, including over 1,000 killed between late November and early December near Bakhmut. The numbers are impossible to verify.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a recent address, described the situation in Bakhmut as “very tough.”
“These are constant Russian assaults. Constant attempts to break through our defenses” he said,
Like Mariupol — the port city in the same province that Russia eventually captured after an 82-day siege that eventually came down to a mammoth steel mill where determined Ukrainian fighters held out along with civilians — Bakhmut has taken on almost mythic importance to its defenders.
“Bakhmut has already become a symbol of Ukrainian invincibility,” Voloschenko said. “Bakhmut is the heart of Ukraine, and the future peace of those cities that are no longer under occupation depends on the rhythm with which it beats.”
For now, Bakhmut remains completely under the control of the Ukrainian army, albeit more as a fortress than a place where people would visit, work or play. In January, the Russians seized the town of Soledar, located less than 20 kilometers (some 12 miles) away, but their advance is very slow, according to military analysts.
“These are rates of advancement that do not allow us to talk about serious offensive actions. It’s a slow pushing out at a very high price,” Bielieskov said.
Along the front line on the Ukrainian side, emergency medical units provide urgent care to battlefield casualties. From 50 to 170 wounded Ukrainian soldiers pass daily through just one of the several stabilization points along the Donetsk front line, according to Tetiana Ivanchenko, who has volunteered in eastern Ukraine since a Russia-backed separatist conflict started there in 2014.
After its setbacks in Kharkiv in the northeast and Kherson province in the south, the Kremlin is hungry for any success, even if it is just seizing a town or two that have been pounded into rubble. Freedman, the King’s College London professor emeritus, said the loss of Bakhmut would be a blow for Ukraine and offer tactical advantages to Russian forces, but wouldn’t prove decisive to the outcome of the war.
There would have been more value for Russia if it could have captured a populated and intact Bakhmut early on in the war, but now the capture would just give its forces options on how to seize more of Donetsk, said Freedman.
A 22-year-old Ukrainian soldier who is known as Desiatyi, or Tenth, joined the army on the day that Russia started the full-scale war in Ukraine. After months spent defending the Bakhmut area, losing many comrades, he said he has no regrets.
“It is not about comparing the price and losses on both sides. It’s about the fact that, yes, Ukrainians are dying, but they are dying because of a specific goal,” said Desiatyi, who did not give his real name for security reasons.
“Ukraine has no choice but to defend every inch of its land. The country must defend itself, especially now, so zealously, so firmly, and desperately. This is what will help us liberate our occupied territories in the future.”
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mark Appel is a big league ballplayer nine years after he was selected No. 1 overall in the amateur draft.
Appel has been promoted by the Philadelphia Phillies. The right-hander, who turns 31 on July 15, went 5-0 with a 1.61 ERA in 19 appearances for Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
"Completely overwhelmed. I have so many thoughts I want to share but can't find the words, so I'll just say this: I'm thankful," Appel posted on Twitter on Saturday.
“Today, I get to play a game I love as a Major League Baseball player.”
Appel is stepping in for right-hander Connor Brogdon, who has been placed on the COVID-19-related injury list.
Appel was selected by Houston with the No. 1 pick in the 2013 draft after a standout college career at Stanford. He was an Astros fan growing up in West Houston and received a $6.35 million signing bonus from the team.
He went 10-3 with a 4.37 ERA while making a total of 25 starts at Double-A and Triple-A in 2015, and then was traded to Philadelphia in a multiplayer deal. But he announced in early 2018 that he was quitting the game, saying he was at peace with the decision.
Appel rejoined the Phillies organization before last season, and he went 3-6 with a 6.06 ERA in 23 appearances with Double-A Reading and Lehigh Valley.
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No scoring allowed. That was the mantra San Tan Valley San Tan Foothills followed in snuffing Tucson Palo Verde Magnet's offense 48-0 on August 19 in Arizona football.
San Tan Valley San Tan Foothills jumped in front of Tucson Palo Verde Magnet 7-0 to begin the second quarter.
The Sabercats' offense pulled in front for a 35-0 lead over the Titans at the intermission.
San Tan Valley San Tan Foothills pulled to a 48-0 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Neither squad scored in the final quarter.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Iris Energy Ltd. (NASDAQ: IREN): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the Offering Documents issued in connection with the Company's 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO" or "Offering"); and/or (ii) between November 17, 2021 and November 1, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 13, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
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Los Angeles nonprofits assist as Texas sends dozens of migrants to California by bus
Originally Published: 15 JUN 23 03:20 ET
Updated: 15 JUN 23 17:30 ET
By Rosa Flores, Sara Weisfeldt, Taylor Romine, Elizabeth Joseph and Aya Elamroussi, CNN
(CNN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that some migrants in the state have been sent by bus to Los Angeles and arrived on Wednesday evening, marking the state’s latest push against federal border immigration policies that has been decried by critics as a stunt.
When the group of 42 migrants arrived in Los Angeles after leaving the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas on Tuesday, several nonprofit organizations ensured volunteers were present.
The migrants, whose bus trip was some 1,500 miles, included 13 children as passengers, according to the nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.
“All of these individuals have arrived to Los Angeles from Texas. I also want to note that it’s adults, but it’s a lot of children, too,” said Angelica Salas, who heads the coalition. “We always have to understand the vulnerability of these individuals, these persons as human beings, who many times have gone through many, many countries to finally get here and who also have dealt with severe trauma. So, we want to be respectful of their individual situation.”
Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesperson for the coalition, said the children’s ages could be between 2 and 9.
“People told me they have been on the bus for 23 hours without food or water – that’s how horrible this is,” Cabrera said.
The migrants’ arrival was announced by Abbott on Wednesday.
“Texas’ small border towns remain overwhelmed and overrun by the thousands of people illegally crossing into Texas from Mexico because of President Biden’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said. “Our border communities are on the frontlines of President Biden’s border crisis, and Texas will continue providing this much-needed relief until he steps up to do his job and secure the border.”
The city of Los Angeles learned of the group’s trip while the bus was en route, and nonprofit groups met them at the station, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said. The city plans to continue collaborating with nonprofits as well as their county, state and federal partners on helping the group.
“It is abhorrent that an American elected official is using human beings as pawns in his cheap political games,” she said. “This did not catch us off guard, nor will it intimidate us.”
The migrants arrived less than a week after the Los Angeles City Council voted June 9 to draft a “sanctuary city” policy, which could eventually become municipal law. The term “sanctuary city” often refers to areas in the US that have policies or protocols to limit cooperation with or involvement in federal immigration enforcement actions.
Daniel Lopez, who serves as a spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, echoed that local officials and community partners are working to ensure the migrants’ safety.
“Contrary to what some may want to think – California is also a border state but instead of demonizing asylum seekers, we focus on working with local communities to support and humanely welcome people,” Lopez told CNN.
Last year, Abbott had officials send migrants on two buses to Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve in frigid temperatures.
And since last spring, more than 50,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City, some of them bused to New York and other more liberal northeastern towns and cities by Republican governors and local officials from southern states.
Nonprofits respond to migrants’ arrival
Immigration lawyers in Los Angeles have been meeting with migrants individually to discuss their asylum process, while others are being reunited with their families, according to Jorge Mario Cabrera, director of communications with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
“The initial effort was to make sure that they rested, that they ate a bit, that they took showers and that they initially met with an attorney to show them what kind of papers they were carrying,” Cabrera said.
One migrant who Cabrera said he personally spoke with has an immigration interview in New York and needed to be in that state soon.
“He said, ‘I don’t know how to read. I don’t know what this paper says. All I know is that they told me I need to be somewhere in New York. Is that nearby?’ And I said no,” Cabrera said.
The non-profit has already helped some get on their way to other states to continue their immigration process.
The Haitian Bridge Alliance was one of the nonprofits present when the migrants arrived to Los Angeles, according to Daniel Tse, who serves as the group’s asylum taskforce coordinator.
“We coordinated with the city (of Los Angeles) and the mayor’s office to make sure these individuals were greeted with dignity and to make sure they received the assistance that they needed,” Tse said.
HBA is currently assisting six Haitians, including a family of three, two adult cousins and one single adult, who are exhausted from the long journey by bus, Tse said.
The group is trying to provide transportation and transitional assistance while the migrants meet up with their sponsors, Tse said.
“We are not driven by or aligned with the political motives behind Abbott’s busing campaign,” Tse said. “However, we and our partners, along with other migrant advocates, acknowledge the practicality and importance of providing transportation to those in need, including the use of buses. Our goal is to ensure that these initiatives are carried out in a more coordinated and compassionate manner, avoiding the dehumanization of individuals for political gain.”
Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director at Immigrant Defenders Law Center, told reporters of asylum seekers, “They’re coming with the hope that they can keep themselves and their children safe. And so instead of treating them as political props, here in Los Angeles, we will treat them with the dignity that they deserve as human beings.”
Another group that assisted is the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.
“The State of Texas offered transportation to Los Angeles. Through coordination, we made sure that the families wanting to go to Los Angeles would have someone that would meet them and provide a place to stay,” said Sister Norma Pimentel, who heads the nonprofit.
CHIRLA is still trying to figure out if all the migrants knew that they were going to Los Angeles.
The non-profit found out about the bus traveling from Texas to California on Tuesday night and said that while they only had a 24-hour notice, they had been preparing for a scenario like this one for months.
“We’ve been ready,” Cabrera said. “Every time someone tells us, every time we hear a rumor that there will be a bus, we mobilize.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in more than two years and a sign that some of the U.S. economy’s inflationary pressures cooled last month.
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.5% in July. It was the first monthly drop since April 2020 and was down from a sharp 1% increase from May to June.
The easing of wholesale inflation suggests that consumers could get some relief from relentless inflation in the coming months. The wholesale report follows government data Wednesday that showed that consumer inflation was unchanged from June to July — the first flat figure after 25 straight months of increases.
Yet economists caution that it’s still too early to say that inflation is headed steadily lower.
“The July deceleration … is a move in the right direction,” said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. “But producer costs continue to rise at a rapid pace, well above target.”
Wholesale food prices rose 1% from June to July, a sign that grocery prices will likely keep rising in the coming months. The wholesale costs of eggs, beef and vegetables all jumped.
Trucking freight costs, though, fell 0.3%, evidence that some supply chain snarls are easing.
Inflation at the wholesale level still jumped 9.8% in July compared with a year earlier, suggesting that inflation will remain at painful levels for months to come. That was down from a year-over-year surge of 11.3% in June — near a four-decade high — and was the smallest annual rise in eight months.
Thursday’s report showed that wholesale gas prices tumbled 16.7% from June to July, a sign that retail prices at the pump will continue to decline this month and likely into September. Consumers are already seeing steady reductions: Gas prices fell below $4 a gallon, on average, on Thursday for the first time in five months.
The milder inflation data, and last month’s unexpectedly robust hiring that helped lower the unemployment rate to a half-century low of 3.5%, have provided President Joe Biden with some positive economic news after months of accelerating price spikes hammered his approval ratings. Congressional Republicans have made rising inflation a major line of attack in the upcoming midterm elections.
And the Federal Reserve has embarked on its fastest pace of interest rate hikes since the early 1980s in an effort to quell inflation, and will likely keep raising borrowing costs for the rest of this year. Its short-term rate is currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, the highest since 2018.
Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed would need to see a series of declining inflation readings before it would consider pausing its rate increases. The Fed could announce a third straight three-quarter point rate hike when it next meets in late September or instead carry out a less drastic half-point hike.
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(NEXSTAR) — Even though data shows that year-over-year rent increases are slowing, rent in most U.S. cities is still far from cheap.
As reported by Rent.com in March, median national rent in February 2023 was $1,937, which was the lowest price seen in a year. Rent in February 2022, for example, was 16.5% higher than just one year earlier.
“Monthly rent changes fell for the fifth time in the last six months, dropping -0.25% from January to February. The dip was the smallest decrease over that span, representing only a $5 shift in the price level,” Rent.com’s Jon Leckie writes.
So while this is is more “good” news than “bad,” many renters could still be hit with a proposed rent increase when their lease is up for renewal. But did you know you can negotiate — or even dispute — a rent increase?
Real estate company Redfin shared has a few tips for negotiating rent with your landlord.
Research the market
What are your neighbors paying?
“Getting to know the surrounding rental prices for apartments and homes with similar amenities can help you to negotiate your rent. Similarly, if you’re renewing your lease in the same apartment, check the current rent prices of other units in your building,” Redfin representative Allison Braun told Nexstar.
Negotiate during the off-season
Most renters are moving during the summer and spring — can you use that to your advantage?
“Negotiating your rent may work, but the landlord has less incentive to agree to a lower price during the busy time of year,” Braun continued. “In the off-season, typically fall and winter, renters are not moving quite as readily, and vacant units may not fill as fast. During this time, landlords are more likely to negotiate to avoid too many vacancies.”
Consider adjusting lease terms
While most housing leases are 12-month leases, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s not necessarily always the case. The bureau reports that while 59.6% of leases between January and June 2022 were for 12 months, about 8.6% were for other lengths. (In case you’re wondering, 31.8% of other leases were month-to-month, wherein tenants have even less bargaining leverage, so disregard.)
But Redfin says there is potential wiggle room within the timeframe on a lease, in addition to other details.
“You could effectively prevent a rent increase by considering different lease terms, such as a longer lease,” Braun said. “Your landlord may also benefit from changing your move out date to a better time of the year, one where they can fill the unit faster than your original lease term.”
BLS also reports that 24-month leases are the most common among atypical lease durations (29.9% of the aforementioned 8.6% of tenants). Thirteen-month leases were second most common.
How do I do it?
Zumper, a rental resource and news outlet, recently published a sample letter for negotiating rent. In addition to some of the previously mentioned pointers, Zumper’s template structures a potential letter around emphasizing your value as a tenant (a history of timely payments, for instance) and personal pleas (sharing any financial difficulties you may be experiencing).
It’s also recommended that tenants offer solutions and display a willingness to compromise.
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CALGARY, AB, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enbridge Inc. (Enbridge or the Company) (TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB) announced today that Al Monaco, President and Chief Executive Officer of Enbridge, participated in a fireside chat at the J.P. Morgan 2022 Energy, Power & Renewables Conference in New York City on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.
A replay of that conversation has been posted to the Enbridge website at Events and Presentations.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The first alarm bells are starting to go off on Wall Street as brinkmanship over raising the U.S. government's $31.4 trillion debt limit raises worries in financial markets.
The stakes are immense. Democrats and Republicans are arguing over whether to raise the cap that's been set for the U.S. government's borrowing. It's a debate that's happened many times before, each time ending with a default-defying increase.
Failure to find a fix would spell disaster for many, not least holders of U.S. debt who wouldn't get promised payments on time. Economists widely expect a recession to follow and potential chaos in markets. U.S. Treasurys are the foundation of financial markets around the world, on top of which all kinds of other investments set their prices, from stocks to foreign currencies.
While U.S. stocks have remained mostly calm through the latest debt-ceiling drama, volatility strategists at Barclays Capital point to another corner of the market where fear is popping up: short-term Treasury yields.
A Treasury maturing in one month yielded 3.68% Tuesday, for example. But for investors willing to wait just two months more, a three-month Treasury yielded a much fatter 5.03%.
That gap between the one-month and three-month Treasury yields has gotten close to 1.80 percentage points recently as investors herd into one-month Treasurys, which look likely to mature before any mayhem occurs.
For context, the gap between one- and three-month Treasurys was typically under 0.03 percentage points over the last decade.
The moves may be exacerbated by a flood of cash looking for new homes recently. Households and companies yanked deposits out of banks last month when fears rose following two of the largest U.S. bank failures in history. Much of that cash ended up in short-term Treasurys.
Nervousness is rising as the so-called “X-date” that investors expect the U.S. to potentially default creeps forward. Some are talking about the possibility of hitting the date by early June.
Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at BTIG, said he's seen a marked increase in questions from clients about the debt ceiling, but “the conventional wisdom among both clients and contacts is that there will be a resolution before the unthinkable becomes reality.”
The X-date is coming no matter what happens because the U.S. government needs to pay off what it’s borrowed already, regardless of how much it spends in the future. Most economists also say the U.S. is on an unsustainable path and will need to make big changes when it comes to debt.
“The debt ceiling battle has two components that may impact investors: the battle itself, which is political, and the underlying economic issue of debt sustainability," said Lauren Goodwin, economist and portfolio strategist at New York Life Investments. "There are real costs to brinkmanship, even if an outright disaster is avoided.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/wall-street-stirs-as-debt-ceiling-brinksmanship-17922104.php | 2023-04-27 12:55:29 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/wall-street-stirs-as-debt-ceiling-brinksmanship-17922104.php |
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesman told the news agency dpa on Monday.
Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said Scholz has mild symptoms and immediately entered isolation. He has canceled all public appearances this week but plans to take part virtually in internal government meetings, Hebestreit said.
Scholz returned from a two-day official trip to the Gulf States on Sunday and before that was at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Scholz was not the only government official to contract the virus this week: Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced on Twitter Monday morning that she had also tested positive.
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Community Milestones Include $4 Million Total Staked and 15 NFTs Reach Top Level
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, VIMworld announces and celebrates one of its most dedicated community members who has achieved a remarkable milestone. This community member has fed over 200 million VEED (almost $450K USD or 245 ETH) into their SmartNFT VIMs. As a platform that rewards and encourages user engagement, VIMworld believes in recognizing the contributions of its community members.
In response to this achievement, VIMworld CEO, Lila Xu, shared, "This is an astounding milestone that speaks to the dedication and commitment of our VIMworld extended family. We want to thank you for your trust and unwavering support."
To date, users have staked more than $4,000,000 across SmartNFTs which places VIMworld as the Top Collectibles Decentralized Application (Dapp) by total value over the last 30 days on BNB Smart Chain according to DappRadar.
VIMworld has also recently seen five new VIMs achieve the Ultimate VIM status by reaching the SX-tier, bringing the total to 15. This milestone for an individual VIM requires staking approximately $65,000 USD.
VIMworld is proud to recognize and celebrate the contributions of our community members. The amount of staking is a testament to the platform's focus on utility that rewards user engagement. The goal is to continue supporting and rewarding community members as we build a thriving and exciting platform for all.
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To get started, users can purchase a new SmartNFT in the Arcade or a pre-owned one from the Marketplace, with a variety of tiers and treasures. With a VIM in hand, users can expand their opportunities to play and earn further by purchasing Boxes in the Store, which contain unique and rare EGGs. Purchase an Incubator and a C-tier or higher VIM to match to start the hatching process which is now available for all users to enjoy.
VIMworld's new upgrades add more ways to have fun and earn rewards, making it one of the most exciting platforms out there! Interested users can visit VIMworld, join the Discord or check out the Vision Video to learn more. VIMworld's upcoming releases, which include games, decentralized finance (DeFi) features and greater multi-chain compatibility are just around the corner.
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To connect to VIMworld and explore all features, download our purpose built crypto and NFT wallet, Nufinetes compatible with Apple and Android devices or desktop of choice. This comprehensive multi-chain wallet can be used across multiple popular blockchains, allowing users to interact with dApps, view NFT collections and store tokens in a secure, slick environment.
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Report outlines company's business and brand-aligned environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy and highlights progress in 2022
OAKLAND, Calif., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- thredUP (NASDAQ: TDUP, LTSE: TDUP), one of the largest online resale platforms for apparel, shoes, and accessories, today released its second annual Impact Report. Through transparent reporting and disclosures, the report provides a comprehensive view of thredUP's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) profile, outlining the company's business and brand-aligned ESG strategy and detailing the progress the company made across ESG initiatives in 2022.
"As we further our mission to inspire a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first, our commitment to our people, our communities, and the planet are the driving force behind everything we do," said James Reinhart, CEO of thredUP. "Our second annual Impact Report details the progress we've made as we continue to build a purpose-led and sustainability-minded company that our stakeholders can be proud of. While we work to create a more circular fashion future, we are committed to pushing ourselves to improve our business practices and expand our impact in the future."
thredUP's 2022 Impact Report includes activities undertaken during the reporting period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The company's ESG strategy focuses on 12 key areas where they can have the most impact as identified through a materiality assessment. Highlights from 2022 include:
- Dual-listed on the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), affirming our strategic alignment with long-term shareholders.
- Listed 7.8 million items through thredUP's Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) and closed 2022 with 42 brand clients, including Tommy Hilfiger, Athleta, and Torrid – the first plus-sized brand.
- Donated $61,000 on behalf of the Future Fund, thredUP's employee-led social impact organization.
- Sold 1.5 million items through our Rescues program, diverting over half a million pounds of clothing from third-party aftermarket channels.
- Partnered with The Azek Company to transform 100 percent of our returned Clean Out bags into long-lasting, low maintenance outdoor living products.
- Seventy-two percent of our workforce identified as a minority, with 66 percent identifying as female, and 58 percent identifying as Black or Latinx.
- Pledged $298,000 to the Oakland Roots, a professional men's soccer team dedicated to bettering the Oakland community.
- Thirty-eight percent of leaders at our distribution centers were promoted from within the organization due to thredUP's investment in the Employee Navigation program.
- Fifty percent of our Board of Directors identified as female, while 20 percent identified as a racial minority.
The report has been guided by leading sustainability reporting frameworks including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards. thredUP is committed to releasing an annual Impact Report to provide transparency into its business operations and hold itself accountable to continually measure and advance its progress.
About thredUP
thredUP is transforming resale with technology and a mission to inspire a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first. By making it easy to buy and sell secondhand, thredUP has become one of the world's largest online resale platforms for apparel, shoes and accessories. Sellers love thredUP because we make it easy to clean out their closets and unlock value for themselves or for the charity of their choice while doing good for the planet. Buyers love shopping value, premium and luxury brands all in one place, at up to 90% off estimated retail price. Our proprietary operating platform is the foundation for our managed marketplace and consists of distributed processing infrastructure, proprietary software and systems and data science expertise. With thredUP's Resale-as-a-Service, some of the world's leading brands and retailers are leveraging our platform to deliver customizable, scalable resale experiences to their customers. thredUP has processed over 172 million unique secondhand items from 55,000 brands across 100 categories. By extending the life cycle of clothing, thredUP is changing the way consumers shop and ushering in a more sustainable future for the fashion industry.
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White House: No more TikTok on government devices within 30 days
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is giving all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices, as the Chinese-owned social media app comes under increasing scrutiny in Washington over security concerns.
The Office of Management and Budget calls the guidance, issued Monday, a “critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data.” Some agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and State, already have restrictions in place; the guidance calls on the rest of the federal government to follow suit within 30 days.
The White House already does not allow TikTok on its devices.
“The Biden-Harris Administration has invested heavily in defending our nation’s digital infrastructure and curbing foreign adversaries’ access to Americans’ data,” said Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer. “This guidance is part of the Administration’s ongoing commitment to securing our digital infrastructure and protecting the American people’s security and privacy.”
The guidance was first reported by Reuters.
Congress passed the “No TikTok on Government Devices Act” in December as part of a sweeping government funding package. The legislation does allow for TikTok use in certain cases, including for national security, law enforcement and research purposes.
TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter said Monday: “The ban of TikTok on federal devices passed in December without any deliberation, and unfortunately that approach has served as a blueprint for other world governments. These bans are little more than political theater.”
House Republicans are expected to move forward Tuesday with a bill that would give Biden the power to ban TikTok nationwide. The legislation, proposed by Rep. Mike McCaul, looks to circumvent the challenges the administration would face in court if it moved forward with sanctions against the social media company.
If passed, the proposal would allow the administration to ban not only TikTok but any software applications that threaten national security. McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal critic of the app, saying it is being used by the Chinese Communist Party to “manipulate and monitor its users while it gobbles up Americans’ data to be used for their malign activities.”
“Anyone with TikTok downloaded on their device has given the CCP a backdoor to all their personal information. It’s a spy balloon into your phone,” the Texas Republican said in a statement Monday.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., his counterpart in the Senate, did not shut down the idea of the chamber taking up a proposal that would empower Biden to take action against TikTok, saying it was “certainly something to consider.”
Oberwetter said: “We hope that when it comes to addressing national security concerns about TikTok beyond government devices, Congress will explore solutions that won’t have the effect of censoring the voices of millions of Americans.”
TikTok, owned by ByteDance Ltd., remains extremely popular and is used by two-thirds of teens in the U.S. But there is increasing concern that Beijing could obtain control of American user data that the app has obtained.
The company has been dismissive of the ban for federal devices and has noted that it is developing security and data privacy plans as part of the Biden administration’s ongoing national security review.
Canada also announced Monday that it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices. The European Union’s executive branch said last week it has temporarily banned TikTok from phones used by employees as a cybersecurity measure.
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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When Nikki Haley announced her candidacy for president, she made sure to highlight her Indian heritage in her announcement video. But immediately after, she laid emphasis on the rejection of what she referred to as “identity politics” that she said was dividing the nation.
“I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. Not Black, not white. I was different,” Haley, born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa to Sikh immigrants, said in her video. “My mom would always say, ‘Your job is not to focus on the differences but the similarities.’ “
Haley has a tricky balancing act ahead of her — one where she highlights the importance of her heritage, a tactic Democrats are known for employing as they push their party’s diversity, without overplaying her hand at what Republicans will often label as “identity politics.”
“Nikki is proud of her heritage and her parents are at events and she talks about her heritage … and being raised the only brown child in a Black and white world, and so she absolutely speaks to that and that’s obviously an important part of what made Nikki Haley into what she is,” said Alex Stroman, former executive director of the South Carolina GOP.
“Her heritage — just like anybody’s heritage and upbringing and life experience and experience of their parents — is important but I’m not sure that it’s something that really has to be overplayed,” he added.
Still, Haley’s Indian heritage has already come under the spotlight.
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter spewed a racist tirade aimed at Haley during her appearance on “The Mark Simone Show” over the weekend.
Coulter told Haley to “go back to your own country,” and called her a “creature,” before she attacked religions like Hinduism, one of the most practiced religions in Asia.
“This is devastating, especially for the Asian conservatives,” said Cliff Zhonggang Li, executive director for the National Committee of Asian American Republicans.
“We were stepped on by the same party, same members … more than by the other side, unfortunately,” he added. “This is something I think the Republicans really need to look into. Otherwise, you can keep wondering why East Asian or South Asians are so Democratic.”
In an August 2022 Pew Research Center survey, 57 percent of English-speaking Asian registered voters said they would likely back the Democratic candidate in their U.S. House of Representatives district race, while 26 percent said they would likely support the Republican candidate.
In 2022, only about half of all registered Asian American voters said they were contacted by either of the major parties, according to data from Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote.
Among national origin groups, Indian Americans were also the most likely to say they would vote for Democratic candidates.
But Haley, the first woman and first person of color elected as governor of South Carolina, has spent much of her political career distancing herself from her Indian heritage — including registering as white on her voter registration card, according to The Post and Courier, and converting from Sikhism to Christianity long before she began her career in politics.
Haley, not for the first time, is coming under scrutiny by some observers who criticize her handling of her Indian heritage.
“By using her identity to claim she is evidence of the ‘American Dream,’ Haley perpetuates both the ‘model minority’ myth and the myth of meritocracy, where she effectively gaslights and delegitimizes the oppression of Black and Brown Americans,” said Hajar Yazdiha, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. “As a public, we should be skeptical of politicians across the board who build their power by maintaining white supremacy.”
Critics say Haley’s use of her Indian American identity is a clear case of strategic identity deployment, where she deploys a very selective, symbolic version of her ethnic identity to reach wider audiences.
Neil Makhija, executive director of Indian American Impact, a South Asian civic organization, said that Haley’s comments in her speech were aimed at “the overwhelming base of Republicans right now” who he said are the working class.
“She’s not really speaking to people of color communities that have been historically excluded,” Makhija said.
“I think Indian Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic and in their views and inclusive on issues like immigration and civil rights,” he added. “While I think there are parts of Nikki Haley’s personal story that could initially be relatable … I think she will have a hard time reaching the masses of Indian Americans, although, you know, I’m sure there will be some supporters here and there.”
Even before her 2024 announcement, Haley had to contend with critics who accused her of hiding or downplaying her heritage. In September, “The View’s” Sunny Hostin questioned why Haley went by her middle name, Nikki, instead of Nimrata.
“There are some of us that can be chameleons and decide not to embrace our ethnicities so that we can pass, so that we don’t have to go by,” Hostin, who is Black and Latina, said on the popular talk show.
Haley promptly fired back.
“It’s racist of you to judge my name,” the ex-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican governor of South Carolina said, tagging Hostin. “Nikki is an Indian name and is on my birth certificate—and I’m proud of that. What’s sad is the left’s hypocrisy towards conservative minorities. By the way, last I checked Sunny isn’t your birth name.”
Haley’s campaign did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.
Haley also joins another prominent female politician of South Asian heritage on the political stage: Vice President Harris.
Like Haley, Harris doesn’t often speak to her heritage, focusing more on her identity as a Black woman. Yazdiha, the assistant professor at USC, said unlike Harris, a “racialized” individual in American politics, Haley is able “to pick and choose when she wants to claim her ethnic identity.”
“The reality is that studies show how white supremacy and anti-Blackness shape every domain in our society, particularly our political system and how nonwhite people maneuver within it. In this way, Haley is not rejecting identity politics. She is simply claiming her side within it, and she has chosen the side whose politics preserves white supremacy,” she said.
Putting partisan politics aside, Li, of the National Committee of Asian American Republicans, said many Asian Americans would like to see both Haley and Harris speak to their Indian heritage more often.
“They need to emphasize that … to certainly help more Asian Americans get more into politics, because we are not as active as in other communities,” Li said. “We would like to see them come to the community more, be a better role model.”
Regardless of their commitment to their identities, Li said, strong Asian American candidates have a “tremendous impact” on those communities.
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TOKYO, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Government of Japan publishes new articles every month in an official e-magazine, "KIZUNA." The latest issue features Japan's actions to realize gender equality and empower women, as well as new female pioneers in aerospace development and the femtech business.
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- Improving Women's Status Creates an Empowered Society Japan is promoting policy measures focused on women's economic independence and men's taking childcare leave.
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- One Woman Launches Herself into Space Exploration in the New Era
A Paris Observatory researcher exploring the universe reflects on the appeal of lunar exploration and her new challenge.
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- Finding New Value in Fukushima's Dormant Resources
A female entrepreneur is making use of discarded local agricultural produce through efforts such as developing femtech products.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden said Tuesday that the consequences for women of losing the constitutional right to an abortion “go far beyond the right to choose” as she hosted a conversation with four women, including a Texas doctor, who shared emotional stories of being denied necessary reproductive care.
The first lady invited the women from Texas, Florida and Louisiana to the White House to help highlight the anniversary Saturday of the Supreme Court decision overturning its 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to an abortion.
The ruling last June left it up to individual states to set their own abortion policies, and 18 of them — including the home states of Biden’s guests — have put abortion bans in place.
“The consequences of these bans go far beyond the right to choose,” the first lady told the women, as she detailed examples of women being denied access to medication or are being forced to go to other states for care. And some doctors, she added, are withholding treatment “because they don’t know which procedures are legal.”
“And like those who are with us today, far, far too many women are experiencing devastating consequences to their health, their fertility and their lives,” said Biden, who came of age when abortion was illegal before it was became the law of the land in 1973.
One of the women in conversation, Anya Cook of Florida, told the group that a 15-week abortion ban that was in effect in her state last year “very, nearly killed me.”
She had suffered multiple miscarriages, but was on her 18th pregnancy when her water broke early, at 16 weeks. Doctors said her baby wouldn’t survive without amniotic fluid and would die within days.
“Because she was beyond 15 weeks and there was still a heartbeat, they couldn’t touch me or treat me or admit me,” Cook said. “They sent us home to deal with it ourselves.”
She said she became convinced that she wouldn’t survive and went to a “really dark place.” Within days, her daughter was stillborn in the bathroom of a beauty salon. She had lost half the blood in her body, was weak and underwent multiple follow-up surgeries that left her fertility in doubt.
“We don’t know if I can get pregnant now or carry to birth, but the target of our wrath is very well-known: It’s the people who have taken our human rights to health and liberty and personal autonomy,” Cook said. “Someone needs to fight back against these insidious laws in states across the country.”
Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN in Dallas, decided to have an abortion after an ultrasound showed that her fetus’ brain and skull had not developed. She had to end an earlier pregnancy by an abortion she obtained in Texas, but “this time I would have to flee my own state,” she said.
Dennard worried that the trip for an out-of-state abortion could jeopardize her medical license or invite harassment against herself and her husband, also an obstetrician-gynecologist.
She recently joined a lawsuit filed by other Texas women who were denied abortions, despite pregnancies that they say endangered their health or lives. The women are asking the court to put an emergency hold on some abortion restrictions.
“The state of Texas should not be making these decisions for me, let alone anybody else,” Dennard said at the White House.
Jill Biden said her husband, President Joe Biden, “is doing everything he can to fight back” but that he needs Congress to send him legislation that will “make the protections of Roe v. Wade the law of the land once again.”
Meanwhile, Democrats and the White House see the rollback of abortion rights as an issue that will play in their favor in the 2024 elections.
“I know that it isn’t easy to relive what you’ve already gone through, but stories like yours are how we shed light on the cruel and devastating consequences of those bans,” she told the women.
The first lady’s event is among several events the administration is planning this week to mark one year after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The president, Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the administration’s point-person on the issue, the first lady and Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, are slated to appear at event on Friday in Washington with several women’s and pro-choice groups.
Harris is also scheduled to deliver what the White House says will be a major speech on Saturday in North Carolina on the Biden administration’s efforts to safeguard reproductive freedom.
The Republican-controlled General Assembly in North Carolina recently overturned Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation banning abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The law is set to go into effect on July 1, and is being challenged in federal court by abortion providers in the state. | https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/jill-biden-consequences-of-overturning-roe-v-wade-go-far-beyond-the-right-to-choose/ | 2023-06-21 12:09:27 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/jill-biden-consequences-of-overturning-roe-v-wade-go-far-beyond-the-right-to-choose/ |
ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 20-year-old man was arrested after stealing food while carrying a handgun and a semi-automatic rifle at a Southern California pizza restaurant.
Police in Ontario, Calif. said in a statement that officers received a call Sunday about a man at a Little Caesars location displaying a firearm in the waistband of his pants.
Once officers arrived at the restaurant, the man went outside with stolen food and a large rifle seen under his shirt, the statement said.
Officers used a stun gun on the man after he refused to put his hands up, and arrested him, police said.
He was found carrying an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun and is being investigated for robbery and weapons charges, the police statement said.
Ontario is 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Police-Man-arrested-with-semi-automatic-rifle-at-17268590.php | 2022-06-27 19:02:06 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Police-Man-arrested-with-semi-automatic-rifle-at-17268590.php |
It has been a tough year for a lot of families. Some are still dealing with pandemic stresses, and many are still feeling the financial pinch of inflation.
But for Scott Cannon, 2022 has been particularly difficult as he has battled the aforementioned, while also battling for his life.
In December, he was admitted to North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Colorado with a traumatic brain injury. He does not remember how it happened, but it put this once active, outdoorsy father and information technician in a coma until he woke up in February, unable to speak well and unable to recall much.
“It was very scary,” he said. “I remember a bunch of other people were like, 'Scott’s back! We were not sure if you were going to come back or not,' because I was out of it.”
“He had very severe head injuries and they actually had to remove part of his skull,” said Amanda Morian, an occupational therapist at the hospital who was tasked with helping Scott redevelop his speech and motor function.
At first, it was slow and frustrating. Cannon could not walk well, and he had trouble formulating his thoughts into words, but knowing his background in IT, Morian reached out to the hospital’s senior technical analyst, Darien Huffman, and they decided to give Cannon a computer infected with viruses to see what he could do with it to spur his growth. Suddenly, Cannon started making strides where has was previously stymied.
“It’s a familiar task so it’s kind of already set up in the brain’s pathways to make it a little bit easier for healing,” explained Morian.
“It was really challenging because I had to figure out what I’m trying to say and then figure out how to fix it,” said Cannon. “It was really nice because when I was actually in a job it was the same kind of thing. Like, 'OK, figure it out, Scott. Let’s go. We don’t know exactly what’s going on, so you got to fix it.'”
Cannon still has some speech difficulties as he struggles to find certain words, but for the most part, he is leagues above where he was only a few months ago.
He was released from the hospital in July and moved to a recovery center where he receives help, but he still returns to North Suburban Medical Center weekly to volunteer and do for other patients what the staff did for him.
“I’m needed,” he said. “And it’s really a good thing because it doesn’t matter if I’m putting in gloves. Just doing that it’s like I have a purpose now.” | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/after-recovering-from-coma-man-goes-above-and-beyond-to-give-back | 2022-10-07 20:51:38 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/after-recovering-from-coma-man-goes-above-and-beyond-to-give-back |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The music from “Madame Butterfly” and other major operas is known to Greek audiences largely through the recorded performances of Maria Callas, the U.S.-born Greek artist who died in 1977 and is still revered here.
For theatergoers in Athens, watching the tragic story of the young geisha Cio-Cio-San unfold in Puccini’s emotionally charged classic has become a familiar favorite at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the stone theater the Romans built at the foot of the Acropolis more than 1,800 years ago.
Late Thursday, it hosted an open-air performance of “Madame Butterfly” to launch Greece’s main summer theater and arts festival, dedicated this year to Callas and the century since her birth in Manhattan on Dec. 2, 1923. She died of a heart attack at her home in Paris at age 53.
Officially known as the Athens-Epidaurus Festival, the summer concerts and plays are also held at the ancient theater of Epidaurus, the UNESCO world heritage site in southern Greece. Much of the program was chosen to complement the centenary celebrations.
Ticket sales from June performances by an opera world power couple, French tenor Roberto Alagna and Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, will help fund the planned summer opening of a Callas Museum in central Athens, according to festival artistic director Katerina Evangelatos.
“It’s all part of the year’s celebrations marking the 100 years … since the birth of the great diva of opera,” Evangelatos said.
Finally free of constraints imposed by the pandemic, the festival has been expanded this year to include new venues and additional collaboration with overseas artists, festivals and theater companies. Organizers also created a new online platform to help Greek performers seek opportunities abroad.
“One of the main objectives of the festival has always been to be outward-looking,” Evangelatos told reporters during a recent presentation of this year’s festival. “We don’t want to just bring artists from abroad, we want to build collaboration and relationships.”
The lineup this year includes the superstar Chinese pianist Lang Lang, the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, classical pianist and conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the pioneering German electronic band Kraftwerk, as well as a performance by Icelandic band Sigur Ros with the London Contemporary Orchestra.
The Greek National Opera produced “Madame Butterfly,” choosing French director Olivier Py and the Italian choreographer Daniel Izzo. The title role was given to soprano Anna Sohn, who on Thursday gave the first of four scheduled performances.
Sohn partnered with Italian tenor Andrea Carè for a sparse interpretation of the Italian classic, featuring giant helium-filled balloons, dancers in head-to-toe white makeup and time-bending backdrops that included scenes of Japan’s World War II nuclear devastation and modern banner ads for major U.S. commercial brands.
Publicist Constance Shuman, who promotes the work of the Greek National Opera in the United States, said a performance by the company was a fitting start for the festival in the year marking what would have been Callas’ 100th birthday.
Born Maria Kalogeropoulos, the singer made her professional debut with the GNO in Athens as an 18-year-old student.
“When she became internationally known, she always came back here, and she really is emblematic of what this opera company is about,” Shuman said.
“This is the opening of the Maria Callas year, but her early years are not known about by a lot of people,” she said. “So this is a chance to tell people about how Greece and the Greek National Opera contributed to her becoming Maria Callas.” | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/festival-at-greeces-ancient-theaters-dedicated-to-maria-callas-and-century-since-her-birth/ | 2023-06-03 03:14:04 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/festival-at-greeces-ancient-theaters-dedicated-to-maria-callas-and-century-since-her-birth/ |
A potential battle for the Russian-occupied city of Kherson could change the trajectory of the Ukrainian war. For those stuck there, life is hard and dangerous.
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ST. GEORGEN, Austria (AP) — In a standoff over the rising number of asylum-seekers in Austria, the mayor of a small village has defied the federal government and ordered tents housing the migrants to be dismantled.
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After a weeks-long conflict, St. Georgen Mayor Ferdinand Aigner had more than a dozen tents removed that were set up in his village last month. Workers started taking down the 17 white tents Monday after the mayor ruled they were unsafe, “inhumane” and wouldn’t survive the next storm.
“It’s very clear, this method of just putting up tents — I’m still convinced it’s the most stupid solution — putting up these tents in municipalities which are already doing enough — I won't allow that,” Aigner told The Associated Press. He claimed some residents were feeling threatened by the presence of asylum-seekers, many of whom are young men.
The Austrian government has repeatedly criticized the village's resistance toward housing asylum-seekers in tents, saying that most Austrian regions, including the state of Upper Austria where St. Georgen is based, did not fulfill their required quotas of taking in asylum-seekers.
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Across Europe, the number of people applying for international protection has reached highs not seen since well over 1 million people sought refuge on the continent seven years ago. That has placed strains on national asylum systems, especially when it comes to housing.
In Germany, officials in Berlin have turned a former airport into a temporary refugee shelter for up to 3,600 migrants as regular shelters became overcrowded.
In Austria, even the U.N. refugee agency got involved, urging the federal government and St. Georgen to find a compromise so the migrants will not end up homeless during the winter cold.
“Despite all the challenges Austria is currently facing due to the high number of asylum applications, it would be a concession of failure for Austria if people, many of whom had to flee war and terror, were to end up on the streets," said Christoph Pinter, the head of UNHCR Austria.
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The UNHCR noted that many communities in Austria have already taken in people seeking protection, and that only about 5,000 more places were needed.
“If every municipality would take a heart and create a few places, the problem would quickly be solved,” Pinter said.
However, Aigner doesn't see it this way.
“It’s just too many,” he said, referring to the number of the asylum-seekers his village is supposed to shelter.
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Austria's Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said the tents make young asylum-seekers less threatening, not more.
“Our task is to prevent young men who have practically no chance of asylum from sitting around in front of schools, in front of kindergartens, in our main squares, in village squares, in train stations," Karner said, according to Austrian daily Der Standard.
It was not immediately clear how Austria's federal government would react to the dismantling of the tents, but as of late Monday, the interior ministry had not filed an appeal in court to keep the tents in place. The more than 100 asylum-seekers living in the tents were distributed to other shelters.
More than 70,000 people applied for asylum in Austria between January and September. In comparison, only around 40,000 people applied for asylum in all of 2021.
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Austria is also hosting more than 85,000 Ukrainian refugees who have fled Russia's brutal war.
Many recent asylum-seekers come from countries like India, Syria, Afghanistan or from northern Africa but most do not intend to stay in Austria. Often these migrants, who have been trekking up the Balkan route, pay human traffickers thousands of euros (dollars) trying to reach countries like Germany, Spain or Italy in hopes of finding work.
Since they are legally not allowed to pass through Austria, they apply for asylum if they get detained to avoid immediate deportation. Often they continue their journey west after a couple of days in the Austrian asylum system, seeking to reach their desired destinations.
According to the UNHCR, this means that despite rising asylum numbers, the actual number of asylum applicants in Austria is “only just about the level of last year."
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A young asylum-seeker from Somalia, interviewed Monday in St. Georgen, said he was getting increasingly desperate about his situation.
“I don’t know how I can live in Europe,” 27-year-old Bashir Hassan Jabart said. “Everywhere you go, they return you back.”
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Kirsten Grieshaber reported from Berlin.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A man who was charged with strangulation and aggravated assault has had his charges dismissed.
Ladell Holmes, 23, had previously been charged with strangulation, aggravated assault and attempted murder in connection with an incident that had occurred in Shockoe Bottom in March.
According to Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette McEachin, the charges against Holmes were dropped due to “evidentiary issues.” The Virginia Judiciary Database shows the charges were dropped during a hearing on May 5 in Richmond Circuit Court.
The incident in question occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 26, when officers with the Richmond Police Department were called to the 00 block of North 19th Street. Upon their arrival, they found an injured woman who — according to police — had been assaulted by an unknown man in an alley off of North 19th Street.
“During the course of the investigation, detectives received important tips from the public and, thanks to that information, have determined the suspect is Holmes,” said James Mercante, a Richmond Police spokesperson in April.
Sgt. Anthony Catoggio with the department also said surveillance cameras nearby caught the assault on video.
“The victim was walking down the alley and you just see the suspect come out from the shadows and just come up behind her, and I mean before she even knew what was going on the suspect was on top of her,” Catoggio said.
McEachin did elaborate further on the “evidentiary issues” of the case. However, when asked if the videos were considered conclusive, she said, “No, they were not.” When asked for further clarification, McEachin said she was unable to comment any further.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Benjamin Franklin was so busy as an inventor, publisher, diplomat and U.S. founding father that it’s easy to lose track of his accomplishments.
Add one more to the roster: his early work in printing colonial paper currency designed to counter a constant threat of counterfeiting.
Franklin was an early innovator of printing techniques that used colored threads, watermarks and imprints of natural objects such as leaves to make it far harder for others to create knockoffs of the paper bills he printed. A team at Notre Dame University has shed new light on his methods via advanced scanning techniques that reveal some of Franklin’s methods in greater detail — along the way, also providing one more reason Franklin appears on the $100 bill.
The new research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes data gathered with techniques such as spectroscopy, which uses laser light to identify particular elements in test samples, and electron microscopy for imaging fine details. The intent, said lead author Khachatur Manukyan, a Notre Dame associate professor of physics, was to learn more about the materials used by Franklin and his network of affiliated printers and how they served to distinguish their bills from cheaper knockoffs.
The work examined Franklin's penchant for including watermarks, tiny indigo-dyed threads and “fillers” of special crystal in printed bills to create barriers to copycats. It also highlighted Franklin's use of “nature printing,” a technique by which he transferred the detailed vein patterns of tree leaves to printing plates.
These techniques raised numerous barriers to would-be copycats. Counterfeiters naturally sought to keep their costs low, and thus were loath to invest in improving their own printing techniques. Franklin's fillers served to make bills hardier and thus extend their life considerably over the cheaper paper preferred by criminals, while his indigo-dyed threads added another production barrier.
Similarly, Franklin's nature-printed images involved such detail that it was particularly difficult for less skilled printers to duplicate.
The Revolutionary War, however, brought on such a surge of counterfeiting — much of it provided by the British army — that the new United States government shunned paper bills in favor of coinage for decades. It didn't reconsider until the onset of the Civil War in 1861, when the federal government first authorized the printing of dollar bills called “greenbacks.”
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(WTRF) – A Pennsylvania school is apologizing after accidentally selling faux flowers that contained thong underwear to students.
St. Anselm’s Catholic School in Philadelphia had organized a Mother’s Day plant sale ahead of the holiday, offering students the opportunity to buy flowers for their loved ones. But some parents soon discovered their faux roses contained a hidden undergarment folded up in the petals.
“Thank you, St. Anselm’s!” one mother joked upon finding a thong in her rose, as seen in a viral video shared to Facebook.
A representative for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia told Nexstar the incident was the result of a mix-up for which they “apologize deeply.”
“Saint Anselm Parish School took immediate steps to remediate this issue when it became known inclusive of broad communication with school families,” said Ken Gavin, the chief communication officer for the archdiocese. “The situation represents an unfortunate mistake and we apologize deeply.”
Gavin said only a “very limited number” of the roses were sold before sales were halted. The school is still investigating the incident, but has found no evidence that the thong-filled roses were intentionally put out for sale.
“We sincerely regret any embarrassment and discomfort that was caused and wish all mothers in the community a Happy and Blessed Mother’s Day with hearts full of gratitude,” Gavin added.
Parents were also sent an email from St. Anselm’s, explaining the situation and again promising to determine how the faux roses made their way into the plant sale. | https://www.wfla.com/news/school-accidentally-sells-mothers-day-roses-with-thong-inside-unfortunate-mistake/ | 2022-05-12 18:48:00 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/school-accidentally-sells-mothers-day-roses-with-thong-inside-unfortunate-mistake/ |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
716 PM EDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Suffolk
County through 800 PM EDT...
At 716 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Yaphank, or over Middle Island, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Riverhead, Manorville, Wading River, Center Moriches, Westhampton,
Mastic, Mastic Beach, Calverton, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Hampton Bays, East Moriches, East Quogue, Flanders, Remsenburg-Speonk
and Aquebogue.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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4089 7288 4095 7288 4099 7270 4100 7264
4102 7260 4103 7256 4095 7254 4093 7256
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TIME...MOT...LOC 2316Z 258DEG 17KT 4085 7293
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BOISE, Idaho — The next generation of Idaho cyclists have been making a splash across the pond lately on the world's biggest stage.
On July 25, Boise High School graduate Matteo Jorgensen capped off his Tour de France debut with an impressive 21st-place finish out of more than 130 riders. Then on Monday, the Gem State had a woman finish in the top 10.
Veronica Ewers, a 2012 graduate of Moscow High School, finished 9th in the Tour de France Femmes. Ewers turned pro less than one year ago, but still lead U.S. women with her top-10 finish.
Ewers turned in a 7th-place ride in the race's final stage and even had a top-five finish in stage four.
As the 208 was keeping tabs on Ewers' standing last week, Michelle reached out with this question about the race:
"Why is this the first woman's Tour de France held in 30 years?"
The last Tour de France Femmes was held in 1989, a big year for rock ballads, Batman and New Kids on the Block, but the last year for the women's Tour de France. You could have been born and have your own kids in elementary school in that amount of time.
In fact, most of this year's riders were under the age of 35. So, why was 1989 the last year the race was held? Well, a lack of money and limited media coverage, which has been a long-time problem for women's cycling.
For comparison, in the men's race, riders are competing for a $2.3 million euro purse, with the winner taking home $500,000 euros. For this year's Tour de France Femmes, the winner earned $50,000 euros, with total prize money of only $250,000.
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Hancock County supervisors reported at their Oct. 10 meeting that they are investigating the possibility of developing a county ordinance for the purpose of regulating and restricting the use of land for the transport of hazardous liquid via pipeline.
It comes on the heels of Shelby County supervisors recently scheduling public hearings on a similar ordinance, referred by its planning and zoning commission. That ordinance includes requirements for conditional use permits, separation distances, and application requirements, and emergency response and hazard mitigation plans. With the proposed Summit Carbon solutions pipeline set to cross drainage-rich farmland in Hancock County, the Hancock County board expressed it is something worth considering, among other options to address concerns about the proposed project on the front side. It would take capture carbon dioxide from ethanol plants, liquify, and transport it to North Dakota for underground storage.
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Supervisor Sis Greiman said that the board of supervisors provided the Shelby County ordinance to the county’s inspection and engineering firm of Snyder & Associates in addition to Hancock County Attorney Blake Norman. She said the board is working closely with Kristina Paradise of Snyder & Associates on all options to help address a number of concerns about the proposed pipeline.
“We are definitely reviewing what we could do,” Greiman said. “Maybe we can negotiate with Summit or become an intervenor to get an opportunity to speak before the Iowa Utilities Board. Right now, we haven’t done anything, but start asking a lot of questions.”
Greiman said the board’s biggest concerns for Hancock County are disruption of drainage districts, EMS and hazardous response planning for potential incidents associated with any such future pipeline, county road crossings, and unforeseen long-term implications associated with a hazardous liquid pipeline.
“Should we do an ordinance, should we visit with Summit Carbon Solutions and try to negotiate easements and such or should we have someone speak before the Iowa Utilities Board, these are all some of the things we’re considering,” Greiman said. “This kind of pipeline is all new to us. We really would like to be visionaries and have all I’s dotted and T’s crossed when it comes to this.”
Shelby County is just the first of a number of Iowa counties working to adopt ordinances for carbon pipelines, according to the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter.
During Monday’s meeting, Greiman and Supervisor Chair Jerry Tlach raised questions about the legality of such an ordinance and whether it could be enforceable in regards to the proposed carbon pipeline. The draft ordinance being proposed in Shelby County creates an article for the regulation of a hazardous liquid pipeline in that county. There are about a half dozen subsections. One cites a need to lawfully regulate and restrict use of county land for hazardous liquid transport in accordance with the county’s comprehensive plan to protect public safety, health, well-being, and various necessary infrastructure. Another cites the county’s legal obligation to provide emergency response and hazard mitigation planning.
The Shelby County ordinance advocates a process in which pipeline operators would work with county officials to obtain all local permits or approvals prior to construction based upon terms, conditions, and restrictions for “just and proper” route location. There is also language for more community involvement regarding planning and development around cities, working collaboratively with the county to assure development standards, service provisions, potential growth patterns, and more.
“If we do this, what happens, do we get sued?” Greiman said. “We could possibly try to work with the company as a first option. Maybe Jake Ketzner of Summit Carbon Solutions should come back and meet with us again to discuss all this.”
Summit filed its application for pipeline permit in Iowa with the Iowa Utilities Board in January and said in its last quarterly update that it anticipates an IUB decision on the application by June 2023. Construction of the pipeline in Iowa could begin shortly after the company obtaining a permit.
“These pipelines could devastate the land at the very least,” Greiman said. “The drainage and the crops are never the same. As for the eminent domain part, I’m still trying to figure out what the benefit of this is, unlike oil or natural gas.”
Maintenance and cleaning
With Jacob Schreur having adjusted to his new job responsibilities as interim maintenance director, supervisors approved the termination of an independent contractor agreement with Jason Lackore. He has provided cleaning services since Aug. 25 for the Hancock County Courthouse and Law Enforcement Center. The contract allowed for either party to terminate the agreement early, according to Greiman.
Supervisors also approved adding a maintenance person to assist Schreur. Notice of that position was to be posted in-house for five days and then published. Schreur and Greiman will interview candidates and bring their recommendation to the board. Applications will be accepted until Oct 28.
“We were so thankful for Jason stepping up and helping,” Greiman said. “We’re not going to dawdle. Hopefully, we can get somebody else here as soon as possible.”
In other business, the board approved of waiving a 14-day waiting period for construction of the hog building by Summit Pork IV, LLP in section 23 of Ellington Township. There were no public objections to the request brought by Brian Ritland of Pinnacle, on behalf of Summit Pork.
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Which press-on nails are best?
Press-on nails are a creative way to add flair to your style without committing to a long-term option, such as dip nails or acrylic nail extensions. They come in many colors, shapes and patterns. And, since they’re temporary, you can easily swap them out with another set for any occasion.
How to apply press-on nails
False nails, including press-on nails, usually use an adhesive to stick to the top of your natural fingernails. To apply these nails, follow these steps:
- Remove any nail polish.
- Wash and dry your hands with soap and water to remove any dirt or excess oils.
- Let your hands and nails dry completely.
- File, buff and clean underneath your fingernails to help the adhesive stick.
- Prepare and position the press-on nails. Some come with adhesive glue, while others are peel-and-stick. Position them over your fingernails to find the right fit.
- Apply the nails one at a time. Once positioned, press down for around 30 seconds so the nail can adhere properly.
How to remove press-on nails
Press-on fingernails can last up to two weeks when applied correctly. If you want to remove them early, do so carefully, so you don’t damage your real nails.
Start by soaking your hands and fingernails in warm soapy water for 15 to 20 minutes. Use a cuticle pusher to lift the press-on nail from the base, which should be on or around the nail bed.
If the nails aren’t coming off, leave your hands in the water for another 10 to 15 minutes and try again. Once removed, use a nail strengthener to improve the quality of your natural nails and reduce brittleness.
Some higher-quality press-on nails are reusable. If you have these, clean them after use and store them somewhere safe until you’re ready to wear them again.
Style and length
Press-on fingernails come in many different styles and lengths, including:
- Stiletto nails: These are long and have a sharp or spiky point.
- Coffin nails: Coffin nails are long, similar to stiletto ones, but they square off at the ends. They also have a larger surface area, making them easy to decorate or paint.
- Almond nails: This type of nail has a soft point and is usually medium-length.
- Oval nails: This style has a classic appearance and comes in different lengths. There’s also a round variant, which is similar in shape but shorter.
- Square nails: As the name suggests, square fingernails have a squared-off point.
Most manufacturers include a sizing chart indicating the length of the nails. Sets generally come in extra-small, small, medium and large.
Each size corresponds to the width of your natural nails in millimeters. To determine the right size, position a flexible tape measure horizontally across each of your natural nails at the widest point.
Some false nails can be filed or trimmed to your desired length. To do this, simply use nail clippers and cut as you would your real fingernails.
Design
When it comes to design, press-on nails come in many colors, patterns and finishes, including:
- Clear or translucent: a blank slate for painting or decorating them as desired.
- Classic colors: pink and nude are common as are ones with white tips.
- Fun colors: pastels, dark or light hues, etc.
- Patterns: ombre, stripes, swirls, etc.
Some have special designs, such as butterflies, stars or flowers. These themed nails are a great way of making a statement without needing to use nail polish.
Material
Usually, press-on nails are made from hard plastic, acrylic resin or a combination of both. These materials are durable, though they can still chip. They can also be painted with ease.
8 best press-on nails
Morily 24-Piece Press-On Nails
Available in eight colors, including wine red, black, dark pink and white, these glossy acrylic nails come in 12 sizes. Each kit includes 24 nails and comes with a single sheet of glue stickers, a small nail file and a wood stick to press them down. The adhesive lasts up to one week.
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These acrylic and soft gel nails come in a set of 30. They come with a storage box, adhesive tabs, nail glue and a nail file with a cuticle stick. There are 27 patterns, colors and styles to choose from, including white or black coffin nails. They’re resistant to chipping and fading.
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Glamermaid Press-On Nails Medium Coffin
This set includes press-on fingernails and toenails. They come in 29 different patterns and styles, including ocean marble, heart lock and purple tulips. Each kit has 24 nails, 48 adhesive tabs, a cuticle stick, a mini file and a prep pad. The nails are made of strong plastic and acrylic, making them durable and chip-resistant.
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Dashing Diva Magicpress Press-On Gel Nails Homecoming
These press-on nails have waterproof staying power and stay on for up to seven days with active use. They have a classic French manicure style and come pre-glued, making the application process easy.
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Coolnail Gradient Ombre Pink French False Nails
Available in a 26-piece set, these nails come in different styles, including stiletto, oval and round. The set includes a small nail file and a sheet of double-sided glue for easy application.
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With four colors to choose from, such as marshmallow swirl and caviar, these press-on almond nails are bright and vibrant. They are resistant to fading and cracking. They can also be filed and shaped to your preference. The set includes 30 fingernails, 2 milliliters of nail glue, a nail file and a cuticle stick.
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Glamnetic Wild Card Press-On Nails
These durable, reusable nails can last up to two weeks with everyday use. The set comes with 24 glossy nails, nail glue, a cuticle stick and a nail file. The nails have creative, bright patterns, making them quite decorative.
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Kiss Impress Color Press-On Manicure
Each of these 33 pink false nails has an adhesive tab that makes them easy to attach to your natural nail. They are durable, chip-resistant and smudge-proof.
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Including Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) in areas within Berks County, PA
READING, Pa., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FastBridge Fiber announces the launch of its company which will provide what has become America's newest essential utility; ultra-fast internet to support remote working, distance learning, streaming, gaming, cloud connectivity, and the IoT (Internet of Things). Construction of the new all-fiber network is planned to begin in Fall of 2022.
"FastBridge Fiber serves a powerful purpose; enriching the communities in which we serve by connecting people. We are excited to provide a brand-new, very fast, fiber internet option to residents and businesses in the area who have not had many choices for broadband," states FastBridge Fiber CEO Eric Warren.
"We welcome the opportunity for the residents and businesses in Berks County to have a new option for broadband services. FastBridge Fiber building infrastructure in our county to bring fiber-optic internet to our community is very exciting," states Christian Leinbach, Berks County Commissioner.
In addition to ultra-fast reliable service, FastBridge Fiber features no data caps, free professional installation and simple month-to-month pricing plans. FastBridge Fiber internet and transport data services will become available in identified areas beginning in late 2022. Prospective customers can visit the FastBridge Fiber Check Availability webpage to find additional information, check for service availability and register their address to be alerted with construction and service updates.
FastBridge Fiber is a modern fiber-optic internet service company providing ultra-fast and highly reliable service to homes and businesses over their newly constructed all-fiber network. FastBridge Fiber's network is built with today's customers in mind; customers with multiple connected devices demanding the fastest speed and highest reliability. Customers enjoy hassle-free pricing plans and attentive customer service with FastBridge Fiber. FastBridge Fiber is committed to hiring and investing in the local communities they serve.
FastBridge Fiber is supported by equity financing from certain client accounts of Guggenheim Investments.
Guggenheim Investments is the global asset management and investment advisory division of Guggenheim Partners with more than $252 billion* in total assets across fixed income, equity, and alternative strategies. We focus on the return and risk needs of insurance companies, corporate and public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, wealth managers, and high-net-worth investors.
*Guggenheim Investments AUM (assets under management) as of 03/31/2022. The assets include leverage of $20.0 billion. Guggenheim Investments represents the following affiliated investment management businesses of Guggenheim Partners, LLC: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC, Security Investors, LLC, Guggenheim Funds Distributors, LLC, Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, Guggenheim Partners Advisors, LLC, Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC, Guggenheim Partners Europe Limited, Guggenheim Partners Fund Management (Europe) Limited, Guggenheim Partners Japan Limited, GS GAMMA Advisors, LLC, and Guggenheim Partners India Management. Guggenheim Partners Europe Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
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Longtime community advocate joins the South LA organization
LOS ANGELES, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation (VSEDC) has approved an 8th member to the non-profit's Board, Quentin D. Strode.
Quentin's background in executive leadership and small business development brings a valuable perspective for the organization, which offers business assistance to primarily minority entrepreneurs and small businesses in the South Los Angeles region. "His experience working with technical assistance groups supporting small and women-owned businesses was also a factor in inviting him to the Board," emphasized Kecia Washington, VSEDC Board Chair.
"We are so pleased to have Quentin Strode join the Vermont Slauson EDC Board of Directors", added Kecia. "Mr. Strode has over 30 years of executive banking and finance experience, which will help VSEDC continue its mission of serving South LA businesses and continue to grow the CDFI program."
Since 2013, Mr. Strode has been a Managing Director and Principal for ARTIFEX CAPITAL & ADVISORY, where he serves as an owner, using his knowledge to create innovative business solutions and growth initiatives for boutique agriculture companies.
Before his current post at ARTIFEX, Strode built a distinguished career as Senior Vice President and Regional Manager for U.S. Bank, and as Senior Vice President and Regional Executive for Bank of America.
Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation (VSEDC) is a community-based nonprofit and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) recognized for its decades of technical and entrepreneurial assistance to South LA small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs. The service VSEDC provides serves to drive community self-sufficiency, facilitating business growth, access to affordable housing, goods and services, and job creation. Together, let us enhance South LA—become involved with VSEDC youth education and entrepreneurial projects, CDFI programs, and fundraising efforts. Your support makes the development and progression of South LA possible. Find out more about VSEDC at vsedc.org, Facebook and Twitter.
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NEW YORK — Joe Torre has won the third Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Baseball Digest.
Willie Mays won the inaugural award in 2021, followed by Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully last year.
“It is truly an honor to receive Baseball Digest’s Lifetime Achievement Award and I am grateful to my family and the countless people who have been a part of my time in baseball,” Torre said in a news release. “This is even more special because I am following in the footsteps of two of my childhood idols who became dear friends, Willie Mays and Vin Scully.”
The 82-year-old Torre, who grew up in Brooklyn, won four World Series championships and six AL pennants as manager of the Yankees from 1996-2007. He also skippered the New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers, winning 13 division titles in 29 years on the bench. His 2,326 regular-season wins as a manager rank fifth in major league history.
As a player, Torre broke into the big leagues in 1960 with the Milwaukee Braves and batted .297 with 252 home runs and 1,185 RBIs overall. He made nine All-Star teams and was the 1971 NL MVP with the Cardinals.
Primarily a catcher, first baseman and third baseman, Torre finished with 2,342 hits and an .817 OPS for the Braves, Cardinals and Mets.
After retiring as a manager following the 2010 season, Torre joined MLB as executive vice president for baseball operations. He became a special assistant to Commissioner Rob Manfred in 2020.
In 2002, Torre and his wife, Ali, established the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation. The organization provides school services to children exposed to violence, helping them heal from trauma.
His career in Major League Baseball has spanned seven decades as a player, manager, broadcaster, executive and philanthropist.
“Joe Torre has led a remarkable baseball life,” Baseball Digest publisher David Fagley said. “Whether as a player, a Hall of Fame manager, broadcaster or executive, he handled each role with dignity and class and, of course, great success. Joe has been a wonderful ambassador for our national pastime for more than 60 years and we are honored to recognize him.”
Torre was selected in voting by an 18-member panel from a list of candidates that also included Dusty Baker, Bob Costas, Sandy Koufax, Tony La Russa, Rachel Robinson, Bud Selig, Bob Uecker and Bill White, among others.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
0-4-2-3
(zero, four, two, three)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17561775.php | 2022-11-06 02:22:49 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17561775.php |
Denise Austin has been doing 30-minute workouts for 40 years – and the 66-year-old said it’s the secret behind her youthful appearance.
The fitness instructor has had a decades-long career helping people lose weight at home, selling more than 24 million exercise videos and DVDs. She also authored 12 books and starred in a longtime TV show on fitness.
Austin told Fox News Digital that being a busy mom of two daughters inspired her over the years to come up with half-hour routines that can be done without heading to a gym. Most recently, the star went viral after modeling the same pink swimsuit she wore in the ‘90s.
"That’s right – I have been doing 30-minute workouts for 40 years," she said. "I truly believe that in 30 minutes you can get in everything. So some days of the week, I do 30 minutes worth of cardio to burn fat, to work on [my heart] – it is a muscle. And then on the other three days, I do 30-minutes of toning and stretching to keep [my] abs strong… to keep the body strong, toned and firmed up."
"We have found through research [that] shows 30 minutes most days of the week is a great amount of time to get a great workout," she shared. "It could be 30 minutes of outdoor walking… So there’s no excuse. When the kids were little, I used to wake up before [they] got up. Before I cooked them breakfast and sent them off to school, I’d get it done… Sometimes I’d get it done in the morning or, throughout the day I’d do 10 minutes. You could do three 10-minute workouts. You could [do] an accumulation of 30 minutes in a day and that’s great too."
"Whatever you can do, just try it," she said. "Just starting with 10 minutes of walking is fabulous. You’ll feel so much better."
DENISE AUSTIN'S SI SWIMSUIT MODEL DAUGHTER SAYS 66-YEAR-OLD MOM IS 'ALL-NATURAL'
Austin has her own app, which features hundreds of 30-minute workouts, but she said just setting aside a yoga mat, light weights and a resistance band are all you need to get started with any routine.
"You could do yoga, you could do Pilates, you be weight training, you could be walking, you could do a little kickboxing, you could even do my old-fashioned retro aerobics that I still love," she explained. "There’s something out there for everyone. And 30 minutes is all you need to feel so good. It’s a wonderful feeling of self-accomplishment. You overcame procrastination… Even some nice outdoor stretching on a beautiful day could be great to get moving. I exercise because I want to feel good and I find that 30 minutes is a perfect amount of time to feel energized and get that metabolism revved up."
Austin admitted she was stunned that her favorite bubblegum pink one-piece still fits decades later.
"I’ve had it from back in the day when I filmed my exercise TV show," she said. "I’ve been opening up different boxes and finding all these great retro workout clothes that I used to wear. My daughters love them because it’s in right now."
"I started to put them on, and I was like, ‘Yay, they still fit!’" she gushed. "So I said, ‘What the heck?’… We took a picture at the beach just for fun and I did a then and now [on social media]."
While summer is nearly here, Austin insisted it’s never too late to kick off new health goals to look and feel better. She described how it’s the perfect time to stock up on "the rainbow of beautiful fruits and vegetables" that are in season.
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"You’ve got to have good nutrition, good exercise and a good attitude," said Austin. "… I eat well 80% of the time and I have my treats 20% of the time… Even if you haven’t exercised in years, that’s OK. Start small with just 10 minutes – you’ll feel a big difference. The energy will start to flow, and you’ll start to have a good mindset… For the summer, I love to do exercises that target the triceps [to wear] sleeveless blouses… My other favorite is a mini-squat. A lot of people… 50 and older, have knee and hip issues. So a mini-squat is great for your behind and your legs."
"If you rest, you’ll rust," she added.
Austin noted that on Sundays, she likes to dedicate herself to walking. She’ll call her sisters, girlfriends or daughters to see who will join her. And through catching up, the time passes quickly, she insisted.
"Walking works your whole body," she said. "I tell people to pump those arms, really get the most out of your walk. You can also walk as fast as you can. It’s much easier on the body than running, so it’s a great way to get in shape. I think walking is one of the easiest ways to just get out there and that’s what summer is all about. Find a friend or grab your honey bunny like I do… It’s a wonderful way to get more spirit in your body. And it’s so important to feel good both mentally and physically."
Austin said those 50 and older should start small and work their way up to avoid hurting any joints. She noted walking is the easiest way to jumpstart any health goals. And low-impact routines are just as effective.
"Each time you can go a couple of minutes longer," she said. "So there’s always something you can do to improve. But honestly, if you can work out at least three days a week, that’s awesome. I try to work out most days of the week. I get in about six days now. I like to use Sundays for more fun things like pickleball with my family or things like that."
To start, Austin recommended creating a workout schedule and setting reminders to keep yourself in check. Exploring various fitness apps and free YouTube interviews also makes it easy to explore different classes without breaking the bank. She also recommended calling up a friend to join you to make it extra fun.
"If you get your friends to come over and help get you going, it will get you more motivated, I promise," she said. "That’s what I love to do – motivate people to get off the couch and do something healthy for themselves… I’m also a big believer in balance. I don’t overdo anything. To me, 30 minutes is moderation. And I try to do different types of workouts to get my muscles to be surprised and not on a plateau. I truly believe in a little bit of three things: some cardio, some toning and some flexibility. All three are important in keeping your body well-balanced. And I think that has helped me through the years."
Currently, Austin has a new magazine available on newsstands called "Fit Over 50," which features her favorite tips and tricks.
"I do cheat a little every day," she chuckled. "I’m a big believer in eating well 80% of the time and having your treats 20% of the time. I don’t wait for one day to blow it all…. Over the weekend, of course, I love ice cream… I will treat myself to a little something, but I do like healthy foods… And as I age, I eat a little differently too. I add more salmon… some avocados and olive oil for your hair and skin. And eating healthier helps you sleep better, which is important for your exercise… I believe in balance and moderation. I just don’t overeat."
Austin insisted that like everyone else, there are days when she doesn’t feel like moving – and that’s also OK.
"I’m not a fitness nut," she laughed. "I don’t beat myself up. I do enjoy some days just lying on the couch and watching Netflix. But the next day, I will go for my walk and get back on track. Don’t get upset – just do something the next day to feel ready again… Get back up again – you can do it." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/denise-austin-66-says-she-s-been-doing-30-minute-workouts-for-40-years-if/article_eb96fb48-634f-5eec-91d5-7c439b3b6dc0.html | 2023-05-28 14:41:18 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/denise-austin-66-says-she-s-been-doing-30-minute-workouts-for-40-years-if/article_eb96fb48-634f-5eec-91d5-7c439b3b6dc0.html |
MILAN (AP) — Police in Italy arrested an Italian man in the slaying of a Nigerian vendor whose brutal beating death on a busy beach town thoroughfare was filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically.
Video footage of the attack has circulated widely on Italian news websites and social media, eliciting outrage as Italy enters a parliamentary election campaign in which the right-wing coalition has already made immigration an issue.
“The murder of Alika Ogorchukwu is dismaying,’’ Enrico Letta, a former premier and the head of the left-wing Democratic Party, wrote Saturday on Twitter, naming the vendor who died Friday. “Unheard of ferocity. Widespread indifference. There can be no justification.”
Right-wing leader Matteo Salvini, who is making security a plank of his campaign, also expressed outrage over the death, saying “security has no color and … needs to return to being a right.”
Ogorchukwu, 39, was selling goods Friday on the main street of Civitanova Marche, a beach town on the Adriatic Sea, when his attacker grabbed the vendor’s crutch and struck him down, according to police. Video shows the assailant wrestling the victim onto his back on the pavement as he fought back, eventually subduing Ogorchukwu with the weight of his body.
“The aggressor went after the victim, first hitting him with a crutch. He made him fall to the ground, then he finished, causing the death, striking repeatedly with his bare hands,” police investigator Matteo Luconi told a press conference.
He later told Italian news channel Sky TG24 that onlookers called police, who responded after the suspect had fled and attempted to administer aid to the victim. An autopsy will determine if the death was provoked by blows, suffocation or another cause.
Police used street cameras to track the assailant’s movements and detained a man identified as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32. He was being held on suspicion of murder and theft for allegedly taking the victim’s phone.
Luconi said the assailant lashed out after the vendor made “insistent” requests for pocket change. Police were questioning witnesses and viewing videos of the attack. They said the suspect has made no statement.
Ogorchukwu, who was married with two children, resorted to selling goods on the street after he was struck by a car and lost his job as a laborer due to his injuries, said Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM association for immigrants in the Marche region’s Macerata province.
Amanza gave a different version of what happened, saying the attacker became infuriated when Ogorchukwu told the man’s companion she was beautiful.
“This compliment killed him,’’ Amanza told The Associated Press.
“The tragic fact is that there were many people nearby. They filmed, saying ‘Stop,’ but no one moved to separate them,’’ Amanza said.
Macerata was the site of a 2018 shooting spree targeting African immigrants that wounded six people. Luca Traini, 31, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the shootings, which Italy’s highest court confirmed qualified as a hate crime.
Civitanova Marche’s mayor, Fabrizio Ciarapica, met with members of the Nigerian community after hundreds demonstrated on Saturday.
“My condemnation is not only for the (crime) but it is also for the indifference,” Ciarapica told Sky. ”This is something that has shocked citizens.”
Former Premier Matteo Renzi, who heads his own small party, called out political leaders for “instrumentalizing” the attack.
“I am horrified by this electoral climate,″ he said on social media. ”A fther was killed in an atrocious and racist way while passersby took video without stopping the aggressor. And instead of reflecting on what we are becoming, politicians argue and instrumentalize.” | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/video-of-fatal-attack-on-african-immigrant-shocks-italy/ | 2022-07-31 00:51:44 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/video-of-fatal-attack-on-african-immigrant-shocks-italy/ |
CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading supply chain & management advisement firm TSOR Group and verified carbon dioxide removal company Eion Corp have announced today a new partnership expansion to enable large-scale Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).
Also widely referred to as negative emissions, or carbon drawdown, CDR is a key element to fighting climate change, and this brand-new partnership expansion between two global leaders is expected to make waves in the industry by helping to reduce the impact of human climate change.
Eion uses proven CarbonLock™ technology - which is designed to accelerate natural geological processes to remove atmospheric carbon permanently on mass scale, solving a global need for carbon drawdown. TSOR Group, a management advisement company founded to help organizations impact the world for future generations and overcome barriers to change, is proud to announce this new expansion with Eion.
The new technology, supply chain, and infrastructure partnership is set to operationalize Eion's go to market strategy, enabling large scale Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), while increasing soil health, improving ocean alkalinity, and strengthening rural communities.
"Eion first partnered with TSOR Group in 2021 to address logistics and operational feasibility for Eion's CarbonLock™ technology," says TSOR's CEO, Ryan Molinaro. "Together, we are developing a technology and supply chain partnership to address carbon dioxide drawdown that will simplify the process for customers to reach their net zero corporate goals. We are really excited to continue this journey and stand with Eion to become the global leader in verified CDR."
"Our values and purpose are very aligned and committed to permanently drawing down carbon and enabling sustainable agricultural practices" said Molinaro. "We are pleased that TSOR Group's expertise allows us to act as a strategic enabler for such an important and needed organization like Eion as we are jointly working to create a better future for our children's generations."
As part of this new partnership, TSOR Group will provide expert guidance around Eion's supply chain network, information systems, sustainable energy assets, and infrastructure investments.
After TSOR supported Eion to fulfill a purchase by Stripe this summer, Eion completed its Series A funding round and is set to execute a new growth strategy. The companies are now proud to launch this expanded partnership, and plan to bring on logistics and operations providers in the Gulf and Mid-South to deliver Eion's ambition to become the largest provider of permanent & verified CDR in the world.
Eion's CEO, Adam Wolf, said:
"TSOR really helped us understand how much human factors are often the most important piece of the supply chain. Without meaningful engagement with professionals, even the best infrastructure in the world can't solve your problems completely. With TSOR, we have activated all the partners in our supply chain from quarry to field to deliver a solution we all feel good about. We are delighted to announce the expansion of our current partnership, and know we can't solve complex challenges such as decarbonization if we're not on board – TSOR really has been essential to bringing that vision of the future to some of our oldest industries."
TSOR Group has been instrumental in helping create a scalable path for the largest corporations to address carbon drawdown and meet their net zero commitments. Through this expanded partnership, TSOR Group and Eion Corp are on a mission to increase the world's capacity for this technology that can permanently address climate change, by integrating it into the world's supply chain and agricultural hubs.
For further information about Eion's CarbonLock™ technology, visit: https://eioncarbon.com. Learn more about TSOR Group at https://tsorgroup.com.
TSOR Group is a leading management advisement firm dedicated to building the supply chains, infrastructure, and teams of the future.
With more than 50 years of combined experience in enabling innovative ideas to succeed, our team helps clients in private, public, and social impact sectors overcome the obstacles preventing the needed change for future generations to flourish.
Media contact: Garrett Laudenback
Email: media@tsor.team
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As we kick off the month of May, another day of a high end severe weather risk plagues parts of the Great Plains with the possibility of tornadoes, hail and strong winds.
While the idea of severe weather is not one many hope for, the spring time months are peak season for this type of activity across the Plains, Deep South and Midwest.
This is due to the dynamic setup of the jet stream during the Spring and late Winter months. As troughs deepen across the the CONUS, strong low pressure systems develop as a cooler airmass develop higher in the atmosphere. The southerly winds associated with these lows will surge warm air and an abundance of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico northward setting up an active environment for severe storms.
During the month of May the tornado risk is generally located across the Plains, stretching north into the Upper Midwest. These are the primary locations for severe weather setups across the lower 48.
While tornadic activity is possible across the lower 48 at all times, the springtime months, especially April and May, are when we can see the greatest risks for strong to severe storms across the country.
Locally, while we are not in the highest risk, but as we have already seen this year we can see our fair share of severe activity during the Spring. | https://www.kimt.com/weather/weather-blog-how-does-severe-weather-evolve-in-the-month-of-may/article_22ffd5a8-ca2e-11ec-81e5-23cb133637c6.html | 2022-05-02 21:59:53 | 1 | https://www.kimt.com/weather/weather-blog-how-does-severe-weather-evolve-in-the-month-of-may/article_22ffd5a8-ca2e-11ec-81e5-23cb133637c6.html |
PHOENIX (AP) — The NBA’s long regular season can be tedious, but make no mistake, it matters.
Just ask the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns — two teams who have home-court advantage in Game 7 of their respective second-round NBA playoff series on Sunday thanks to superior regular-season records.
The Celtics host the Milwaukee Bucks a few hours before the Suns host the Dallas Mavericks in what could be a drama-filled day.
“It means everything,” Celtics forward Jayson Tatum said of getting Game 7 in Boston. “The best atmosphere in the NBA. Game 7s are the biggest and best games. Looking forward to it, truly.
“It’s basketball – biggest moments, biggest stage. What it boils down to is now go out there and just have fun.”
Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker echoed those sentiments.
“We worked all season to have home-court advantage and get the last game in our house,” Booker said. “It’s exciting. It’s Game 7. I’ve never been in a Game 7, so this will be fun.”
The Mavericks have a particularly difficult task in their game against the Suns. The home team has won each of the first six games of the series, and many of those games have been blowouts.
“Our fan base is great for us, their fan base is great for them,” Mavericks guard Jalen Brunson said. “Home-court advantage is a real thing. Respect to both fan bases making it difficult for the away team.”
It’s the second consecutive year the Mavericks have played a Game 7. Dallas lost to the Clippers in Los Angeles in last year’s contest after the visiting team won the first six games of the series.
The Celtics and Bucks have alternated victories throughout their series. By that pattern, it should be the Bucks’ turn to get the win. But there’s little doubt Boston’s home court will be loud and hostile on Sunday.
“For me, I’ve just got to go play,” Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo said. “I want my teammates to enjoy the moment.”
BUCKS AT CELTICS
Series tied 3-3. Game 7, 3:30 p.m. EDT, ABC
—NEED TO KNOW: These teams have alternated victories throughout the series, with the Bucks winning the odd-numbered games and the Celtics taking the even-numbered ones. The road teams are 4-2 and have won each of the last three games. Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo have been spectacular. Antetokounmpo is averaging 35.3 points, 13.8 rebounds and 6.8 assists in this series, while Tatum is averaging 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5 assists. Tatum had 46 points and Antetokounmpo 44 in the Celtics’ 108-95 Game 6 victory in Milwaukee, marking just the fifth time opponents have scored at least 44 points in the same playoff game. The Celtics are 24-9 all-time in Game 7s, compared to 3-8 for the Bucks.
—KEEP AN EYE ON: The 3-point comparison. In Boston’s three victories, the Celtics have shot 41.5% from 3-point range and have outscored the Bucks 153-57 from beyond the arc. In the Celtics’ three losses, they have a much narrower 111-102 advantage from 3-point range and have made just 32.5% of their attempts.
—INJURY WATCH: Bucks F Khris Middleton has missed nine straight playoff game with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Celtics F/C Robert Williams III has missed three straight games with soreness in his surgically repaired left knee and is questionable for Game 7. “It’s a pain-tolerance thing,” Boston coach Ime Udoka said. “Soreness, swelling is down. It’s just a matter of extension, inflexion and if the pain is gone basically with the bone bruise. Nothing structural. It’s legitimately day to day.”
—PRESSURE IS ON: Bucks G Grayson Allen: After delivering a 22-point outburst and a 27-point performance in back-to-back games when the Bucks beat the Chicago Bulls in the first round, Allen hasn’t been nearly as effective in this series despite moving into a starting role in Game 3. He has scored a total of 23 points over his last five games and has shot 2 of 14 from 3-point range during that stretch. Allen shot 1 of 7 overall and scored three points in Game 6.
MAVERICKS AT SUNS
Series tied 3-3. Game 7, 8 p.m. EDT, TNT
—NEED TO KNOW: The home team has won each of the first six games in this series, which now moves back to Phoenix for the final game. Though the series has been close, the individual games often have been blowouts: Three of the six have been decided by at least 20 points. Mavs star Luka Doncic has averaged more than 32 points per game in the series despite shooting just 29.6% from 3-point range. Doncic has been productive, but his supporting cast has struggled on the road against the Suns. Phoenix is shooting nearly 50% for the series but has struggled with turnovers. Devin Booker leads the Suns with 25.5 points per game.
—KEEP AN EYE ON: Suns PG Chris Paul. The 12-time All-Star is having a difficult series, averaging just 6.5 assists, which is well below his regular-season average. The 37-year-old has had a handful of spectacular performances in the postseason over the past two years and the Suns might need another one on Sunday.
—INJURY WATCH: Doncic appears to have a left thigh injury but he has downplayed the severity. It’s something that bears watching in Game 7. Said Doncic: “I just felt like a little pop in the beginning and then when I was warming up it was kind of OK. Now it’s a little bit worse. But it’s nothing serious.”
—PRESSURE IS ON: Suns. Phoenix is trying to make it back to the NBA Finals for a second straight season and had the league’s best regular-season record. Losing in the second round of the playoffs would be a major disappointment. Dallas doesn’t have nearly as great expectations.
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AP Sports Writers Schuyler Dixon, Steve Megargee and Kyle Hightower contributed to this story.
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AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) — Qatar’s first ever World Cup match ended in dismay for an overmatched team and with a place in unwanted soccer history.
The controversy-laced tournament opened Sunday with Qatar getting outplayed and embarrassed in a 2-0 loss to Ecuador in front of 67,372 fans at Al Bayt Stadium.
In 92 years of soccer’s biggest event, a host team had never lost its opening game.
The first World Cup in the Middle East is a chance for Qatar, a tiny Arab country jutting out into the Persian Gulf, to showcase itself to the wider world. Its soccer team, playing at this level for the first time by virtue of hosting the tournament, couldn't live up to the moment as Ecuador captain Enner Valencia scored both goals in the first half.
The match took place after a colorful 30-minute opening ceremony — fronted by Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman and attended by powerful dignitaries including Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — that promoted inclusivity and mankind living “under one tent.”
For many, that would jar with this World Cup being hosting by an emirate where homosexual acts are illegal, one that has come under strong criticism for how migrant workers have been treated building stadiums and tournament infrastructure since Qatar won the scandal-shrouded vote in 2010.
The yearslong scrutiny was never going to stop just because play on the field finally entered the narrative of a tournament dogged by human rights controversies, yet a win for the host nation would have at least put a favorable light on Qatar, soccer-wise.
Instead, Qatar’s players, fresh from spending seven months together in a pre-tournament training camp under Spanish coach Felix Sanchez, froze in front of an expectant crowd and a disciplined Ecuador team that might just pose a danger to more high-profile opponents over the next few weeks.
Valencia thought he had scored in the third minute when he headed in from close range following an acrobatic cross from Felix Torres. After a video review of about two minutes, Ecuadorian celebrations were cut short when the goal was ruled out for what appeared to be a marginal offside.
Ecuador did take the lead, however, in the 16th minute when Valencia was tripped by Saad Alsheeb after rounding the goalkeeper, who was booked for the challenge. Valencia was nonchalant as he trotted up and converted the spot kick into the bottom corner.
The 33-year-old striker added his second in the 33rd by heading in a right-wing cross from Angelo Preciado.
With Qatar’s passes often going astray and its defensive raggedness repeatedly exposed, Ecuador had no problem holding onto its lead as Sanchez stood helpless in his technical area and the home fans fell quiet.
There were lots of empty seats for a second half that was almost a damage-limitation exercise for Qatar on one of the biggest nights in the nation’s history.
Camels and Arabian horses lined the entrance to the stadium, a Bedouin tent-inspired venue located in the rather isolated surrounds of the rural town of Al Khor, north of Doha.
And the atmospheric, seven-act opening ceremony lived up to its billing, the highlight being when Freeman extended one yellow-gloved hand to a FIFA World Cup ambassador suffering from a rare spinal disorder in an image representing inclusion in a country facing international criticism over its human-rights record.
Looking on from the luxury seats were FIFA president Gianni Infantino alongside leaders from the Middle East and Africa. Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, drew a thunderous applause in a short speech delivered in Arabic from the suite, with Infantino and the monarch’s father, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, on either side of him.
“I welcome you and good luck to all,” the emir said in his only words spoken in English.
After this display, Qatar will need more than just luck to avoid joining South Africa as being the only host nation to fail to get out of the group stage at the World Cup.
BEER CHANT
The first half was winding down when a chant came from a large section of vocal, yellow-clad Ecuador fans: “We want beer.” It was a humorous intervention two days after Qatar decided to ban beer sales at the stadiums during the World Cup. It was a late change by the conservative Islamic nation where access to alcohol is strictly limited. Only alcohol-free Bud Zero was sold at the game.
NO THREAT
In what will go down as one of the worst displays by a host nation to open a tournament, Qatar had five shots in the match and none of them were on target. The team had only two touches inside the opposition penalty area.
UP NEXT
Qatar will look to bounce back against Senegal in Group A on Friday, on the same day Ecuador takes on the Netherlands.
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PITTSBURGH — A Code Orange Air Quality Alert has also been issued for Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties today where air quality could be dangerous for sensitive groups suffering from breathing problems.
You might need a light jacket or sweatshirt as you head out early Wednesday morning. Temperatures will dip into the 40s then slowly climb back into the low 70s.
Wildfire smoke from Canada will bring another day of hazy sunshine and create unhealthy breathing conditions for sensitive groups. A Code Orange Air Quality Alert continues for Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties.
A few isolated showers or a stray storm will be possible Thursday with a better chance for wet weather moving in late Sunday and Monday.
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At least 45% of the nation's tap water could be contaminated with at least one form of PFAS known as "forever chemicals," according to a newly released study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The man-made chemicals — of which there are thousands — are found in all sorts of places, from nonstick cookware to stain-resistant carpets to contaminated sources of food and water. They break down very slowly, building up in people, animals and the environment over time.
Research has linked exposure to certain PFAS to adverse health effects in humans, from an increased risk of certain cancers, increased obesity and high cholesterol risk, decreased fertility and developmental effects like low birth weight in children.
"This USGS study can help members of the public to understand their risk of exposure and inform policy and management decisions regarding testing and treatment options for drinking water," Kelly Smalling, a USGS research chemist who is the lead author of the new study released Wednesday, told NPR over email.
This study is the first to compare PFAS in tap water from both public and private supplies on a broad scale throughout the country, Smalling said.
It involved testing water samples from more than 700 locations across the country during a five-year period, and using that data to model and estimate PFAS contamination nationwide.
And it comes as the federal government is looking to create new regulations for toxins in drinking water.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued drinking water health advisories for two of the most prevalent compounds — PFOA and PFOS — in June 2022, warning that they pose health risks even at levels so low that the government can't detect them.
USGS tested for 32 individual PFAS compounds, and said in a release that the EPA's recent advisories for PFOS and PFOA "were exceeded in every sample in which they were detected in this study."
While the USGS — which describes itself as an unbiased and impartial science organization — doesn't offer policy recommendations in its report, Smalling points to several key takeaways.
For one, she said, it highlights the importance of collecting PFAS data from private wells, which are monitored at homeowners' discretion and not regulated by the EPA the way that public sources are.
It also has implications for the general population.
What the study found
Most state and federal monitoring programs typically measure exposure to PFAS and other pollutants at the water treatment plants or groundwater wells that supply them, Smalling said. Her team took a different approach.
"The USGS study specifically focused on collecting water directly from a homeowners tap where exposure actually occurs," she explained.
Between 2016 and 2021, scientists collected samples from 716 residences, businesses and drinking-water treatment plants from a range of protected, rural and urban areas across the U.S.
Of those, 447 rely on public supplies and 269 on private wells. The researchers found that PFAS concentrations were similar between the two.
Smalling said they observed the chemicals more frequently in samples collected near urban areas and potential PFAS sources like airports and wastewater treatment plants, which is in line with previous research.
USGS scientists estimate there's a 75% chance that PFAS will be found in urban areas and a 25% chance in rural areas. And the study suggests that exposure may be more common in certain geographical regions.
"Results from this study indicate potential hotspots include the Great Plains, Great Lakes, Eastern Seaboard, and Central/Southern California regions," Smalling said.
The study says its findings support the need for further assessments of the health risks of PFAS both as a class and in combination with other contaminants, "particularly in unmonitored private-wells where information is limited or not available."
What can be done
Smalling says that USGS tap water research is continuing, with an emphasis on private well users and rural communities.
"If the average American is worried about the quality of their drinking water, they can use this and other studies to get informed, evaluate their own [personal] risk and reach out to their local health officials about testing or treatment," she added.
The EPA recommends finding out whether PFAS chemicals are in your drinking water, either by calling your local water utility or conducting regular well testing, depending on your source. Then you can compare those numbers to your state's standards for safe levels of PFAS in drinking water (or those in the EPA advisories).
If you're concerned, the EPA recommends contacting your state environmental protection agency or health department and your local water utility to find out what actions they suggest.
You could also install specific kinds of water filters that are certified to lower the levels of PFAS in water, using technologies like activated carbon treatment and reverse osmosis.
Meanwhile, there are federal efforts underway to limit forever chemicals in drinking water.
In March, the EPA proposed the first federal drinking water limits on six forms of PFAS, which it estimates could reduce PFAS exposure for nearly 100 million Americans.
The proposed regulations would require water systems to do costly testing and mitigation work and be transparent with their results, as WBUR's Gabrielle Emanuel told NPR at the time.
And they don't cover the 1 in 8 Americans who get their water from private wells and would generally be responsible for their own testing and filtration, she added.
Plus, many activists and scientists would like to see regulations that cover more types of PFAS and limit them at the source, rather than clean it them up after the fact.
The agency can make changes to its proposal based on public comments before issuing a final rule, which it aims to do by the end of the year.
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PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a more convenient way for a drywall worker to reach and remove mud from a drywall bucket," said an inventor, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the BUCKET HANGER. My design would support the drywall mud bucket in the best possible manner for a busy worker."
The patent-granted invention provides an effective way to support and position a mud bucket during the drywall taping process. In doing so, it eliminates the need to use a table or bench to hold the bucket. As a result, it saves time and effort and it increases convenience and efficiency. The invention features an adjustable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for drywallers, contractors and construction companies. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TRO-572, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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BERLIN (AP) — German police say a 51-year-old man who was left tied up in the woods when a sex game went awry had a lucky escape after a cyclist and a hunter heard his screams for help.
Police said the man was discovered fully dressed but firmly bound with ropes and a pantyhose over his head atop a deer-hunting platform near the town of Bueckburg late Wednesday.
In a statement Friday, police said the man appeared to have been tied up by a woman he met online. After she had done so, the woman received a phone call and fled the woods suddenly, leaving the man behind in a helpless state.
“The 51-year-old told officers that that he had a box cutter on him ‘for such situations’ but seemed to have underestimated the (woman’s) bondage skills because he was unable to reach the knife,” police said.
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