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Where: State Farm Center, Champaign, Illinois
Records: Illinois 13-6, 4-4 Big Ten; Ohio State 11-8, 3-5
Series; Last meeting: Illinois leads 109-81; Ohio State won 86-83 last season (Feb. 24, 2022)
TV; radio: ESPN; WSOY 1340 AM (Decatur), KFNS 590 AM (St. Louis), WJBC 93.7 FM (Bloomington-Normal), WCRC 95.7 FM (Effingham)
About Illinois: Illini had a four-game win streak snapped in a loss to Indiana on Thursday. ... Terrence Shannon Jr. had 26 points and leads the team in scoring with 18.1 points per game. ... Dain Dainja averages 10.1 points and 5.9 rebounds while Matthew Mayer averages 10.7 points and is shooting 37% from 3.
About Ohio State: Buckeyes snapped a five-game losing streak with a win over Iowa on Saturday. ... Freshman Brice Sensabaugh leads the team in scoring at 17.5 points per game. ... Center Zed Key left the game against Iowa with a knee injury and its not certain if he'll play.
PHOTOS: Illinois loses to Indiana
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Illinois' Terrence Shannon Jr. (0) and Indiana's Trey Galloway vie for a loose ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois' Sencire Harris (1) lays the ball up during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois' Terrence Shannon Jr. (0) passes as Indiana's Trey Galloway (32) defends during a Jan. 19 game in Champaign, Ill. Shannon had 26 points.
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Illinois' Dain Dainja (42) works the ball inside against Indiana's Trayce Jackson-Davis, left, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois' Jayden Epps (3) dribbles during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois coach Brad Underwood pumps up the student section before an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois' Coleman Hawkins (33) reacts to an official's call during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Indiana's Jalen Hood-Schifino (1) passes as Illinois' Sencire Harris (1) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois' Dain Dainja (42) shoots as Indiana's Trayce Jackson-Davis (23) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois coach Brad Underwood argues a call with an official during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Indiana's Jordan Geronimo (22) rebounds during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Illinois, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Illinois' Jayden Epps (3) sets up a play during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Indiana's Trayce Jackson-Davis (23) passes as Illinois' Jayden Epps (3) and Coleman Hawkins (33) defend during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Indiana's Tamar Bates (53) and Illinois' RJ Melendez (15) vie for a loose ball a Jan. 19 game in Champaign, Ill. Melendez had 10 points and shot well after fighting a slump over the past few weeks.
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Illinois' Terrence Shannon Jr. (0) shoots as Indiana's Malik Reneau, right, defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Indiana's Trey Galloway (32) dribbles during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Illinois, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Michael Allio)
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Twins vs. Padres Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - May 10
Wednesday's game features the Minnesota Twins (19-17) and the San Diego Padres (19-17) matching up at Target Field in what is expected to be a competitive matchup, with a projected 5-3 win for the Twins according to our computer prediction. First pitch is at 7:40 PM ET on May 10.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Twins will send Pablo Lopez (2-2) to the mound, while Seth Lugo (3-2) will take the ball for the Padres.
Twins vs. Padres Game Info & Odds
- When: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 7:40 PM ET
- Where: Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- How to Watch on TV: BSN
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Twins vs. Padres Score Prediction
Our pick for this matchup is Twins 5, Padres 4.
Total Prediction for Twins vs. Padres
- Total Prediction: Under 8.5 runs
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Twins Performance Insights
- In eight games over the last 10 matchups when favored by oddsmakers, the Twins have a record of 4-4.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Minnesota and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Twins' last 10 games.
- This season, the Twins have won 17 out of the 24 games, or 70.8%, in which they've been favored.
- Minnesota has a record of 13-5 in games when oddsmakers favor them by at least -130 on the moneyline.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Twins have a 56.5% chance to win.
- Minnesota ranks 21st in the majors with 153 total runs scored this season.
- The Twins have the fourth-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (3.36).
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NEW YORK (AP)The NFL in partnership with the Black College Football Hall of Fame will hold its second annual Ozzie Newsome General Manager Forum and fifth annual Quarterback Coaching Summit next week.
The three-day event begins Tuesday with programs in the league’s Los Angeles office and virtually.
”The Ozzie Newsome General Manager Forum and Quarterback Coaching Summit are part of our ongoing efforts to establish a cultural norm of opportunity for all, and a steadfast commitment to developing a diverse and inclusive workforce,” said Troy Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of football operations.
”With the in-person engagement participants will be exposed to the experienced coach and seasoned football personnel. They will have the opportunity to gain insight from these leaders in the football community.”
Front office personnel and coaches around the league have an opportunity to experience professional development and networking opportunities with NFL club executives.
The GM Forum will feature sessions and panels led by NFL owners and front office personnel including: Tampa Bay Buccaneers senior director of football research Jacqueline Davidson; Black College Football Hall of Fame co-founder James ”Shack” Harris; San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch; Dallas Cowboys vice president of player personnel Will McClay and Newsome, executive vice president of the Baltimore Ravens.
”We want to continue to create opportunities for some of the best and brightest football minds around the country to display their knowledge to NFL club leadership and media,” Black College Football Hall of Fame co-founder Doug Williams said. ”There are many quality diverse coaching candidates and front office executives that deserve to be considered for open positions in the league.”
The two-day QB Coaching Summit will feature sessions and panels led by NFL owners, current and former coaches, and front office personnel including: Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Marcus Brady; Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier; Houston Texans offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton; Pittsburgh Steelers President and NFL Workplace Diversity Committee Chair Art Rooney II and San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans.
The purpose of the programming is to provide a platform to help prepare, educate, and identify quality minority candidates across the league.
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GALESVILLE, Wis., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BCS Automotive, a leading manufacturer of automotive parts, has announced that it will be auctioning the contents of its Galesville Injection Mold Shop. The auction will be conducted by Cincinnati Industrial Auctioneers, a well-respected auction company with a long history of conducting successful industrial auctions in partnership with Silicon Valley Disposition.
The Galesville Injection Mold Shop has been an important part of BCS Automotive's operations for many years. The shop has been used to produce high-quality automotive parts, and it is now being decommissioned due to BCS Automotive's plans to modernize its operations. The auction will include a wide range of equipment, including (35) Injection Molders (New as 2016), (25+) Robots & Pickers (New as 2016), Wittmann Central Drying System, Auxiliary Equipment, Complete Toolroom/Maintenance, Air Compressors, Chillers & More – Over 800 Lots.
"We are excited to partner with Cincinnati Industrial Auctioneers to conduct this auction," said Tim Spalding, HSE & Facilities Manager. "They have a proven track record of conducting successful industrial auctions, and we are confident that they will help us achieve our goals for this auction."
The auction will take place on February 22nd at 9:00AM CT and interested bidders can register online at www.cia-auction.com. Bidders are encouraged to inspect the equipment in advance of the auction. For more information, please contact Ryan Luggen at ryan@cia-auction.com or (513)241-9701.
BCS Automotive is a leading manufacturer of automotive parts, specializing in the production of high-quality injection-molded parts. With a commitment to quality and customer satisfaction, BCS Automotive is dedicated to providing its customers with the best possible products and services.
Cincinnati Industrial Auctioneers is a leading auction company specializing in the sale of industrial equipment. With a team of experienced auctioneers and a commitment to providing top-quality services, Cincinnati Industrial Auctioneers is one of the most trusted names in the auction industry.
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Endangered African penguin chicks hatch at Arizona aquarium
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona aquarium is celebrating the hatching of three endangered African penguin chicks, saying the tiny additions are genetically valuable as zoos and aquariums around the world work to ensure the species’ survival through breeding programs and conservation efforts.
Officials at OdySea Aquarium made the announcement Friday, posting video of the fuzzy birds on social media. They hatched a few weeks ago and will remain behind the scenes with their parents until they’re ready for a public appearance.
African penguins have suffered a massive population decline over the decades and are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
So any successful hatching is cause for celebration, said Jess Peranteau, director of animal care and education at the aquarium.
“As the population of the African penguin continues to rapidly decline — down 23% in the past two years alone — OdySea Aquarium remains committed to the survival of the species in partnership with other Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ accredited facilities,” Peranteau said in a statement.
The breeding program established by the association aims to build up a viable genetic pool for the species.
Officials say two of the three new chicks in Scottsdale are clutch-mates, born to parents Mojo and Lemieux — a power couple of sorts that was selected for pairing as part of the breeding program. The third chick was born to first-time parents Bubbles and Weasley.
Aquarium workers will regularly conduct “chick checks,” brief exams to monitor their growth and development and ensure they are hitting all necessary milestones.
The three chicks have yet to be named, and their sex has not yet been determined. For now they’re known by their numbers, 42, 43 and 44.
In all, OdySea Aquarium now has 40 African penguins and has recorded 13 successful hatchings.
The aquarium bills itself as the largest in the Southwest.
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- Don't fear the tiers: major formerly ad-free streaming services will offer cheaper or free options with advertising
- Streamers are getting in the game with live sports, in a bid to turn fans into subscribers
- Chips are getting more complicated and design talent is scarce: AI tools could come to their rescue
- Five thousand satellites in orbit could connect the world with data, but managing traffic in space is challenging
NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte today released its Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) 2023 Predictions report, which highlights the biggest global trends in TMT and how they could impact businesses and consumers. The report focuses on the crucial roles artificial intelligence (AI), advertising video on demand (AVOD), 5G and chips could play in our hyperconnected world.
"This year's TMT predictions underscore a common theme, both with consumers and businesses-to do more with less- as inflationary pressures, supply chain issues and other world events continue to cause uncertainty," said Kevin Westcott, vice chair, Deloitte LLP, U.S. TMT and global Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment (TME) practice leader. "Given this, consumers are looking for more cost-effective ways to communicate, to be entertained, and to be productive, while businesses are looking for efficient ways to innovate in order to compete, differentiate and grow revenue. Our thinking on these emerging trends should help guide TMT organizations as they plan for the future and strive to meet their customers' needs."
Don't fear the tiers: Global growth in streaming services includes AVOD increase
Deloitte predicts that major streaming services that have been ad-free will add AVOD (advertising video on demand) options. While ad-free subscriptions aren't going away, Deloitte anticipates that by the end of 2023, major subscription video-on-demand services in developed markets will likely launch new ad-funded tiers. By the end of 2024, half of these providers will likely also have launched a free ad-supported streaming TV service (FAST). And by 2030, Deloitte expects that most online video service subscriptions will be partially or wholly ad funded.
"Our recent research showed the churn rate for streaming services in the U.S. was 37%. This means media and entertainment companies should continuously look for ways to generate new revenue while appealing to cost-conscious consumers who have a growing appetite for more compelling and diverse content," said Jana Arbanas, vice chair, Deloitte LLP and U.S. telecom, media and entertainment sector leader. "Advertising video on demand, for example, can satisfy both objectives by giving consumers more options that work within their budget and streaming companies more opportunity for growth by working with eager advertisers, not to mention more lasting relationship with consumers."
The next arena for the streaming wars: live sports
Streaming providers are spending billions of dollars on live sports. They have purchased rights across the spectrum of sporting events in a bid to attract, retain, and monetize their audiences via this popular content. Deloitte predicts that in 2023, streamers could spend more than US$6 billion1 on major sports rights in the largest global markets.
Semiconductor companies turn to AI and high-power materials to design future chips
Chip companies are using AI to help design chips faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. Deloitte predicts that the world's leading semiconductor companies could spend US$300 million on internal and third-party AI tools for designing chips in 2023, and that number may grow by 20% annually for the next four years to surpass US$500 million in 2026. The impact of AI will likely go far beyond the money spent on AI design tools. They can enable chipmakers to push the boundaries of Moore's Law, save time and money, and even drag older chip designs into the modern era.
"The semiconductor shortage has demonstrated the need for faster, more efficient manufacturing of chips in order to meet demand," said Paul Silverglate, vice chair, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology sector leader. "Artificial intelligence aided design can be used to address this need and can also make older chips better by moving to more advanced process nodes, and even help close the chip talent gap. By making chip design exponentially faster with AI, semiconductor companies can move beyond the current market challenges and focus more on what's next."
Supercharged semiconductors made of high-power materials are taking chip development to a new level. Replacing silicon, these materials—primarily gallium nitride and silicon carbide—are suited for the higher voltages, power levels, and resilience needed for increasingly common applications such as EV batteries, super-efficient consumer electronics chargers, powerful solar panels, advanced military applications, space technology and nuclear energy. Deloitte predicts that chips made of high-power semiconducting materials could sell a combined US$3.3 billion in 2023, up almost 40% from 2022. Growth in these types of chips, collectively known as power compound semiconductors, is expected to accelerate to nearly 60% in 2024, possibly generating revenue of more than US$5 billion.
Broadband satellites will need to navigate a crowded sky
Deloitte predicts that more than 5,000 broadband satellites could be in low-Earth orbit (LEO) by the end of 2023, because of growth in commercial data satellite deployments to provide high-speed internet to every corner of the world. They could make up two working constellations providing high-speed internet to nearly a million subscribers on all parts of the planet, no matter how remote.
If every organization currently planning to build an LEO constellation succeeds, seven to 10 competing networks could be operational by 2030, with a total of 40,000 to 50,000 satellites serving more than 10 million end users. This growth would likely require more to protect the commons of space including increased industry collaboration and new capabilities for space situational awareness, in-orbit satellite servicing, and space debris removal.
Additional Deloitte 2023 TMT Predictions:
- Tech's commitment to faster climate action
Many organizations want to reach net zero and the technology industry is making a strong commitment. According to an analysis of the Deloitte CxO sustainability survey, tech companies are working harder and faster to impact climate change and are 13% more likely than non-tech companies to target net zero by 2030. - 5G networks to transform enterprise connectivity
By introducing virtualized, cloud-centric capabilities, 5G standalone (SA) networks are poised to drive disruptive change that could make previous advances in wireless technology (2G/3G/4G) appear incremental. Deloitte expects the number of mobile network operators (MNOs) investing in 5G standalone networks—with trials, planned deployments, or actual rollouts—to double from more than 100 operators in 2022 to at least 200 by the end of 2023. - Virtual production gets real: bringing real-time visual effects onto the set
The tools and techniques of virtual production are transforming film and cinema, increasing flexibility, shortening production times, and bringing real-time computer-generated imagery and visual effects out of post-production and onto real-life sets. Deloitte predicts that the market for virtual production tools will grow to US$2.2 billion in 2023—up 20% from an estimated US$1.8 billion in 2022. - Gaming M&A is growing on the back of consolidation, portfolio plays, and game tech
Deloitte predicts that in 2023, the number of video game company mergers and acquisitions will continue to increase by around 25%, slightly slower than the estimated 30% quarterly growth of 2022. Video game services, experiences, and business models are innovating, console supply chains are loosening up to meet pent-up demand for next-gen experiences, and many anticipated games that were delayed in 2022 are now set to reach players in the coming year. - VR market gaining momentum
Deloitte predicts that the VR market will generate US$7 billion in revenue globally in 2023, a 50% increase over 2022's US$4.7 billion. As VR grows in popularity, 90% of that revenue will likely come from headset kit sales, with 14 million units averaging US$450 each expected to sell in 2023. The remainder should comprise mostly of VR content—principally games, but also some enterprise applications—which could see revenues of just over US$1 billion. Improvements in the underlying technology, including power, screens, and audio should fuel this growth. Next year, headsets should offer higher frame rates, higher-resolution displays, and enhanced spatial audio, enabling a realistic, immersive experience. - Shopping goes social, trending past US$1 trillion annually
Deloitte predicts spending for goods and services on social media will surpass US$1 trillion globally in 2023, growing 25% annually with more than two billion people shopping this way in the last year. The social commerce market is outgrowing traditional e-commerce. In a Deloitte survey, Generation Z and Millennials are more likely than Gen X respondents to say that social media influencers affect their buying decisions. - Growth in the emerging enterprise edge computing market
Cloud, telco, equipment, and platform companies are vying for a share of enterprise investments in edge services and products that make computing faster, safer, and cheaper. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will grow at 22% in 2023, compared to 4% growth in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6% on overall enterprise IT for the same year. Most of this growth will likely come from expenditures on hardware initially but should migrate toward software and services as the market matures.
About this report
Deloitte's annual TMT Predictions report provides an outlook on technology, media and telecommunications trends that may disrupt and transform the business and consumer ecosystems worldwide. Visit www.deloitte.com/predictions.
About Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 7,000 private companies. Our people come together for the greater good and work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today's marketplace — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthier society. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them. Building on more than 175 years of service, our network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte's approximately 415,000 people worldwide connect for impact at www.deloitte.com.
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Lawmakers are seeking a long shot legislative replacement for Title 42 ahead of its expiration on Thursday, which many worry will lead to a surge of migrants at the border.
Republicans in both chambers are offering proposals on the immigration front, and last week Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) rolled out a bill that would effectively extend Title 42 protections — which allow migrants to be expelled at the border — for two more years.
The proposals are also giving the Senate’s most vulnerable Democrats the chance to stand firm on a border issue.
Meanwhile, the number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is expected to grow — at least temporarily — once the pandemic emergency expires, marking the end of Title 42. Even in the days leading up to Thursday’s deadline, there’s been an apparent surge as more than 10,000 migrants were apprehended at the border on both Monday and Tuesday, a sign that migrant attitudes at the border are shifting ahead of the policy change.
Administration officials and congressional Democrats have spent weeks fretting over the political consequences of a migration surge, with some Democrats even calling for extensions to the Trump-era policy.
“The problem is, if you want to go down the rabbit hole following the Republicans on ‘let’s be tougher on the border than them,’ you’re never going to win. It’s a political loser and, most importantly, it doesn’t solve the problem at the border. That’s why in the height of all the Trump enforcement provisions, people still flocked to the border,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) told reporters last week.
Still, some in the Senate are pursuing patchwork legislation to replace Title 42 with similar authorities for border officials.
“There are a lot of discussions around it. Obviously, the deadline is tomorrow and the administration was asleep at the switch. So this havoc is going to be wreaked on the communities at the border,” said Tillis.
His and Sinema’s proposal, unveiled after months of back-and-forth talks, would also hand protections to migrants who could face life-threatening circumstances upon return to their home country and those with acute medical needs.
“Clearly we would like to do more, but I don’t know what in the short amount of time we have before Title 42 gets lifted that we can get done,” Tillis added. “The chance we can move something through regular order on the short timeline we have to work with here is pretty unrealistic.”
Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) were the two lone cosponsors when the legislation was unveiled, but it gained more support from GOP leadership as Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) threw her weight behind it.
“For over two years, the Biden administration has failed to grasp the ongoing crisis at our southern border. Now, as we approach the end of Title 42 authority, which has been a useful tool in trying to stem this flow, I fear the Biden administration has failed to adequately prepare for when the authority expires,” said Capito, the No. 5 Senate Republican.
The bill also won support from the moderate Democratic wing as Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) told The Hill they are supportive of the two-year addendum.
“I’m on it. For right now, it’s something that needs to happen to give them the tools to manage the situation,” Tester said.
“I think presidents of both parties have essentially failed on this. We’re not ready. We should extend it. We need to bring more doctors in and more court people to process these,” Brown told reporters. “We’ve got a lot to do still.”
Tester, Brown and Manchin all occupy seats Republicans are targeting in 2024 and are considered among the most vulnerable Democrats in the Senate.
Outside of moderates, Democrats have shown little willingness to support Sinema and Tillis’s effort. Menendez told reporters he still is behind his plan that calls for a pathway to citizenship for migrants and boosting humanitarian aid to some countries in the Americas.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) was noncommittal about the two-year patch, saying she had to look at the “specifics” of the proposal. She noted that she backed Sinema and Tillis’s more expansive immigration bill that was rolled out late last year.
More proposals are expected to arrive around the deadline as pressure increases. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is expected to roll out a new bill on Thursday, telling reporters it will focus on “the request that we received from the people on the border about enhancing and increasing their capacity.”
He added he is hopeful talks can begin soon now that the House is expected to pass its border package on Thursday.
“I hope we can sit down and start working on it, see if there’s any common ground,” Durbin said.
Still, with no other game in town, the Sinema-Tillis bill could pick up steam if predictions of post-Title 42 chaos come true, a scenario Democrats increasingly fear as migrant encounters rise ahead of the policy’s end.
Although the political extremes in the Capitol disagree on almost everything border-related, legislators across the spectrum seem to agree the administration failed to prepare for the end of Title 42.
Along with Capito, Menendez has made a similar claim, as has Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who is running for Sinema’s seat.
But there is no certainty on what will happen when Title 42 ends, other than most experts expect a significant — but likely temporary — uptick in border crossings.
That puts a damper on the urgency to legislate a fast Title 42 replacement in the Senate, where Democrats have little choice but to hold their breath and hope the administration makes the best of a difficult situation.
Still, immigrant advocates and border experts say there’s little need to replace Title 42, a policy many say was an undue politicization of pandemic fears.
“We have forgotten how we got here; this was never about public health, but rather a political response and a way for [Stephen] Miller to implement a policy that would stop people from seeking refuge in the U.S.,” said Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of America’s Voice, a progressive immigration advocacy group.
“In doing so, not only have we turned back people who have a right to ask for asylum, but in the process, we have created a massive bottleneck at the border which has festered the last three years with devastating consequences to communities on both sides of the border.”
And many Democrats see a bill extending Title 42 as an unnecessary patch that would just extend the administration’s headaches at the border.
“The overall posture is that Title 42 was a temporary public health measure. We can’t keep putting things off — kicking the can is why we haven’t really been able to pass real immigration reform in 30 years. A two-year delay is not a permanent or comprehensive solution,” a Democratic aide told The Hill.
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District attorney: Ala. high school student’s death likely linked to fentanyl
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - An Alabama community is grieving the loss of a 16-year-old high school student as investigators work to determine his cause of death. Police say several other students were hospitalized.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency was among those investigating Wednesday at Selma High School, a day after the male student died during school hours. Selma Police Capt. Natasha Fowlkes confirmed Tuesday that a 16-year-old student died and at least three others needed emergency care.
Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson has indicated that the death is likely linked to fentanyl, but Fowlkes has noted that investigators are awaiting a toxicology report to determine the exact cause of death.
WSFA reports that one parent said the student fell unconscious in the cafeteria. He was administered Narcan in an attempt to revive him, but it was unsuccessful. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
“Truly, yesterday was a tragic day in Selma,” said Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. in a statement. “We lost another child, and several children needed emergency care at the hospital.”
Perkins did not identify the deceased because he was a juvenile but said he knew him, writing “his death is very close to me. I considered him a son.”
“There is nothing easy about losing a child and the agony of sitting in an ER waiting to find out whether your child will be OK is a pain no parent should endure,” he said. “To the family, schoolmates and friends of the deceased, know that your mayor has a heavy heart and grieves with you.”
Perkins said the city school system is working with the police department, State Bureau of Investigation and the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department to solve the case.
“Be assured that as soon as I receive facts that can be shared with the public, that information will be officially shared with you by law enforcement, school system officials and me,” Perkins said.
He cautioned that “jumping to conclusions or making unproven statements” would only interfere with the investigation.
“I ask that we not do that. In the meantime, let us continue in prayer for the family, all of our children and the entire community,” the mayor said
In a letter sent out to parents, Selma City Schools Superintendent Zickeyous Byrd said grief counselors would be made available for students and staff Wednesday.
“When an event of this magnitude touches one family, it affects us all,” Byrd’s letter said. “Selma High is an essential part of this district, and we jointly share the responsibility of developing our vital resource - our children.”
Byrd’s letter was shared by Alabama State Superintendent of Schools Eric Mackey, who said, “We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of the Selma High School student. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, classmates, teachers, administrators and all those impacted.”
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Ron Caetano is packed and ready to go. His family photos and valuables are in the trailer and he’s put food in carry totes. He moved the rabbits and chickens and their automatic feeders to higher ground.
He and his family and dogs could get out in less than an hour, they figure, should more heavy rain or hot weather melt so much mountain snow that gushing water overwhelms the rivers and channel that surround their tight-knit, rural Central California community and give it its name, the Island District.
“The water is coming this way,” said Caetano, who started a Facebook group to help organize his neighbors. “I am preparing for the worst and praying for the best and that’s all we can do.”
After more than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped record rain and epic snowfall on California, a reservoir that typically stores water upstream is expected to receive three times its capacity. Caetano and his neighbors in the tree-lined Island District, home to a school, pistachio orchards and horse ranches about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, could soon marooned by rising rivers or flooded out.
Water managers are concerned that the spring snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada will be so massive, the north fork of the Kings River won’t be able to contain it and carry it toward the Pacific Ocean. Much of the water is being channeled into the river’s south fork, which winds through the area to fill a vast basin.
More than a century ago, that basin was an enormous body of freshwater, the largest west of the Mississippi River, known as Tulare Lake, that would grow in winter as snowmelt streamed down from the mountains. But over time, settlers dammed and diverted waterways to irrigate crops, and the lake went dry. Now, Tulare Lake reappears only during the rainiest years, like this one, covering what is now a vast swath of farmland with water.
Today, paved roads vanish beneath the lake’s lapping waves and utility poles and trees jut out above the water, vestiges of land-living put on hold. Fields that typically grow wheat, tomatoes, and other crops lie underneath.
David Merritt, general manager for the Kings River Conservation District, said the Pine Flat Reservoir about 50 miles (80 kilometers) upstream can hold up to 1 million acre feet of water, but is expected to receive more than 3 million acre feet this spring from the melting snow. Officials have been forced to increase the flow of water out of the reservoir to make space for more, Merritt said.
“Once we’re at capacity, now you’re putting a lot of stress on those conveyance channels,” Merritt said. “It’s a very fast moving stream and it’s very deep right now.”
Island District residents have revived a decades-old network of neighbors for the first time since 1983 to assist each other in the event of a crisis. The last time the Island Property Protection Association activated, there was no such thing as text messages or even emails to quickly spread the word, said Tony Oliveira, a former county supervisor and the network’s administrator.
In a week, more than 200 people volunteered to help neighbors through the network, and the group’s website received more than 4,000 hits.
“It’s going to be four months of holding our breath,” Oliveira said.
The winter rains were welcomed by California’s parched cities and desperate growers, who have been grappling with intense drought for the past several years. The state has long tended toward wet and dry periods, but scientists at University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have said they expect climate change will lead to drier dry years and wetter wet years.
What will determine how communities fare now is how quickly the weather heats up. If temperatures remain cool, snow will melt slowly, with water gradually flowing from the mountains. But a hot spell could send massive amounts of water churning through rivers that could potentially overflow, officials said. A beaver or a squirrel that tears a hole in a levee could also bring trouble.
It isn’t the first time Kings County, home to 150,000 people in the fertile San Joaquin Valley, has faced these challenges.
Many long-time residents recall when Tulare Lake reappeared 40 years ago. Officials believe crops will remain under water much longer this time due to the massive snowpack, said Dusty Ference, executive director of the Kings County Farm Bureau. To date, more than 60,000 acres of farmland (242 square kilometers) have flooded, he said.
It also returned on a smaller scale in 1997, said Nicholas Pinter, associate director of the University of California, Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. He said the lake has always fluctuated in size due to California’s highly-variable water cycle, and farmers have long known there would be periods like this.
“It has been an engineering problem all along,” he said. “This is a bathtub with no drain.”
Near the lake, the city of Corcoran, which is home to 22,000 people including 8,000 state prisoners, began emergency construction to raise a levee that protects the community. The water behind the levee is already at 178 feet (54 meters), just 10 feet (3 meters) below the top. Officials want to raise the levee another 3.5 feet (1 meter), city officials said.
“If that water rises above that amount, we will have water coming into our city and we will be in a critical situation,” said Greg Gatzka, Corcoran’s city manager.
In the Island District, residents don’t have a levee to protect them. They snap photos of wooden sticks placed near waterways to gauge water levels and banks and post them online to keep others informed. They’re helping place sandbags on elderly neighbors’ property and paying close attention to reports from water and county officials, and from each other.
Oliveira, whose family has lived in the area for generations, said he remembers moving cattle and horses when the rains came in 1983, and will do the same this time, if necessary.
“We’re farmers. We have bulldozers and backhoes, we have trailers. We can bring things to bear sometimes faster than the public agencies can,” Oliveira said. “The people who live in the Island are just kind of those neighbors taking care of neighbors.”
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Is This Really The Most Beautiful Place In New Jersey?
If you are a New Jersey resident who thinks there is no way to pick just one place in New Jersey as the most beautiful, you're not alone. One major publication, however, has chosen what they think is the prettiest place in the Garden State.
It doesn't matter how long you've been here, you're sure to have visited some amazingly beautiful places in New Jersey.
Just the existence of the Jersey Shore alone makes it nearly impossible to choose just one Garden State place as the single most beautiful one in the state.
How can you choose between Spring Lake, Avon-by-the-Sea, Seaside Height, Point Pleasant Beach, Cape May, LBI, or Atlantic City, to name a few?
And it's not just the Jersey Shore towns that make up the beauty of the state. Some of our downtowns are among the most beautiful in America.
Have you been to Freehold, Toms River, Princeton, Newark, Manasquan, Red Bank, or Cape May? Good luck choosing between those great towns as the most beautiful.
It's clearly a daunting task to narrow this down to one, but the very qualified folks at Travel & Leisure have made their decision, and their choice is actually a really good one.
They have gone with a gorgeous town rich in history, amazing buildings and homes, and a gorgeous beach and boardwalk for good measure.
They have named the Victorian town of Cape May the most beautiful place in all of New Jersey, and that's hard to argue with.
But just so many other great New Jersey places get the attention they deserve as well, we put together a list of many other beautiful places in New Jersey that easily could have been the choice. Let us know what you think.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. – In Coach Kim Mulkey’s second season in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana native has the Tigers on the doorstep of reaching the Final Four as LSU will face Miami Sunday at 6:10 p.m. CT on ESPN in the Elite Eight at Bon Secours Arena.
Alexis Morris, who made the game-clinching free throws late Friday against Utah, is the only returning contributor from last year’s team that went 26-6 and reached the second-round of the NCAA Tournament when Coach Mulkey was named AP National Coach of the Year. The Tigers added four freshmen and five transfers – nine new players – heading into her second season leading the program and the team has pieced it together to go further than any other LSU team throughout the past 15 years.
“They allow me to coach them, and I’ve got some strong personalities on this team,” Coach Mulkey said. “I’ve said it all along; I don’t care, just bring me a competitor. I can handle a strong personality. A lot of coaches don’t want to coach strong personalities. They don’t want to deal with things. I’ve been doing it long enough; I’ve seen it all. If they love basketball and they’re a competitor, I can coach them. We’ve got some competitors.”
ESPN will broadcast the game with Courtney Lyle, Carolyn Peck and Brooke Weisbrod. Patrick Wright and Shaeeta Williams will call the game on the LSU Sports Radio Network, 100.7 FM in Baton Rouge.
In addition to Morris, the freshmen and transfers have come together to form a team that is athletic, quick, skilled and physical. Angel Reese has been the star in her first season at LSU. In the Sweet Sixteen she recorded her 31st double-double of the season the tie the SEC record. With massive games also in the first two round of the tournament, Reese now has 76 points, 51 rebounds, 12 blocks and 7 steals in the NCAA Tournament – the only NBA, WNBA, men’s or women’s DI player to do such a thing in a three game stretch over the past 20 seasons.
“We keep believing and keep believing,” said Reese who was the top ranked transfer last offseason. “We’ve been through so much throughout the season and just being able to be in this moment right now, I’m having so much excitement, but knowing that there’s more. There’s more that can be done.”
LaDazhia Williams, also in her first year at LSU, played her best game at LSU on Friday in the Sweet Sixteen against Utah. She had 24 points on 11-14 shooting to guide the Tigers into the Elite Eight.
Miami, a nine-seed, is the lowest seeded team left in the tournament. The Hurricanes knocked off the No. 1 seed in the Greenville 1 region in round two, sending Indiana home. Now they are in the Elite Eight for the first time in program history.
“I don’t like to use the word Cinderella because Katie (Meier) has been there a long time and has had good teams,” Coach Mulkey said. “But when you beat the No. 1 team on their floor like they did against Indiana, that grabs your attention. You’ve just got to prepare for a lot of things because of athleticism and quickness.”
The Hurricanes have a good defense that plays a full-court press most of the game. That press helped them move past Villanova on Friday in the Sweet Sixteen. Jasmyne Roberts had 26 points during Friday’s win and Destiny Harden, who made a last-second shot to defeat Indiana, had 15 points and nine rebounds on Friday.
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LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández, chosen by Pope Francis to head the Vatican office that ensures doctrinal orthodoxy, conceded Sunday he made mistakes in handling a 2019 case of a priest accused of sexual abuse of minors.
The case has drawn allegations by critics that Fernández tried to protect the priest, a charge that he has denied.
“Today I would certainly act very differently and certainly my performance was insufficient,” he told The Associated Press during an interview after celebrating Mass in La Plata, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) south of Buenos Aires.
Pope Francis appointed Fernández on July 1 to head the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which guarantees doctrinal orthodoxy and one of whose areas involves handling sexual abuse allegations brought against clergy. He was also named a cardinal Sunday along with about two dozen religious.
BishopAccountability.org, a U.S. group that maintains an online archive on abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, has questioned the archbishop’s appointment as head of the dicastery. It said Fernández refused to believe allegations by minors who accused Eduardo Lorenzo, a priest in the archdiocese of La Plata, of abusing them.
At the end of 2019, hours after learning that an Argentine judge had ordered his arrest for the alleged sexual abuse of five children, Lorenzo was found dead in what was ruled a suicide.
In response to the U.S. organization’s criticism, Fernández told AP in a statement Monday that he had never said he did not believe the allegations and that he took steps to distance the priest from the alleged victims.
On Sunday, though, he was more self-critical of his actions, which he attributed to arriving in 2018 as archbishop of La Plata “without any experience in another diocese.” He said church procedures for dealing with allegations of abuse committed by clerics “were less clear” at that time.
“I cannot say that I have committed a crime or something against what was established at that time, but that I could have been a much better father, much better pastor and much more efficient. That, of course, I recognize,” he told AP.
“With everything I say it is clear that I did not act in the best way,” he said.
Fernández said he should have “treated the victims more closely” and acted “a little earlier” in removing Lorenzo from his duties as a priest while he was being investigated.
“I was waiting to see how justice acted, what the prosecutor did, what objective elements came to us,” he said.
Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, expressed disbelief at the archbishop’s words.
“He declares himself bewildered, but he is a sophisticated and educated man,” she said, adding that “claims of ignorance are not credible.”
Barrett Doyle said Fernández “repeatedly” demonstrated support for the priest.
“If Archbishop Fernández finally regretted his handling of this case, why did he never reach out to Lorenzo’s victims?” she said.
A close adviser to the Argentine-born pontiff, Fernández has been nicknamed the “pope’s theologian″ because he is widely believed to have helped author some of Francis’ most important documents. Francis named him to head the La Plata archdiocese in 2018.
Fernández said he had spoken to the pope about the criticism received about Lorenzo’s case and was told: “You explain reality as it was.”
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "It is difficult for food business to find ways to label their food professionally and without having issues from adhesives," said inventor from Sonoma, Calif. "I thought of this idea to help provide an inexpensive way to label catered and to go meals for food industry."
He created the TOGO TAB that provides a versatile and affordable labeling system for to-go meal boxes. This would help employees and business owners organize and identify their boxed meals to expedite hospitality service and perhaps exceed customers' expectations. It would be ideal for boxed-up catering meals and would be easy to tuck-in through most to-go boxes. Additionally, this could serve as a viable alternative to stickers and other adhesive labels.
The original design was submitted to the San Diego sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-SDW-123, 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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CHICAGO (AP) — Emboldened anti-abortion activists are looking to the 2024 presidential election as an opportunity to solidify their influence over the Republican Party.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the most influential group in the anti-abortion movement, is telling each potential GOP presidential hopeful that to win its backing — or avoid being a target of its opposition — they must support national restrictions on the procedure. Exceptions in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother are acceptable, the activists say, but leaving the question for states to decide is not.
“It is a level of protection that goes to every single state. That’s the baseline of what we’re looking to do,” said Frank Cannon, Susan B. Anthony’s chief political strategist. “Anything less than that will not be acceptable and will not be somebody that SBA can support. So, it’s that simple.”
That directive is creating an early litmus test for Republicans considering entering the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that enshrined federal protections for abortion for roughly 50 years. While the hard-line stance could please anti-abortion activists who hold sway in GOP primaries, it could create problems for the party’s eventual nominee in the general election.
Voters protected abortion rights via ballot measures in six states in 2022, including Kansas, a state former President Donald Trump twice won by double-digit margins. AP VoteCast, a survey of the midterm electorate, showed the Supreme Court’s decision was broadly unpopular. About 6 in 10 said they were angry or dissatisfied by it, and roughly the same percentage said they favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.
Supporters of abortion rights say the issue was a “game changer” that helped Democrats last year and that will motivate voters even more in 2024, after two years of seeing the effects of restrictions.
“We’re in a nation where 18 states have no access to abortion, and that number is not going down. It’s going to go up as additional court cases get decided,” said Jenny Lawson, vice president of organizing and engagement campaigns at Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She predicted people will see headlines “over and over again” about pregnant children forced to travel out of state for abortions or people unable to get proper miscarriage care because doctors are afraid of liability.
Pressure from the anti-abortion movement has put Trump, who announced his third run for the presidency last year, in perhaps the most complicated position.
He is arguably more responsible for the overturning of Roe than anyone else, having appointed three anti-abortion Supreme Court justices who backed last year’s ruling. But he has also made clear that he believes pushing any further will hurt Republicans, and he accused anti-abortion leaders of failing to do enough to help GOP candidates in the midterms.
“I just didn’t see them fighting during this last election, fighting for victory,” Trump said in an interview with David Brody, a longtime commentator for the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Trump, who described himself as “very pro-choice” before entering politics, stressed that objecting to exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother makes it “much harder to win elections.” He has criticized evangelical leaders who have been slow to endorse his latest run, blasting decisions by pastors like Robert Jeffress to wait to assess the rest of the field as “a sign of disloyalty.”
Cannon called the notion that opposing abortion hurt the GOP last year “absolutely absurd,” pointing to candidates like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — a top potential GOP presidential candidate — who easily won reelection. DeSantis signed into law last year a ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The Republican candidates who got “clobbered,” Cannon said, were those who tried to avoid the topic.
“What you have to do is argue for protections that the American people see as reasonable versus the extremism of no exceptions, even late-term abortion,” Cannon said. “And if you do that, it’s a winning combination.”
SBA Pro-Life America, which raised over $60 million for 2020 campaigns along with its affiliated super PAC, is talking with each potential candidate, Cannon said. While records are being discussed, what matters in 2024 is what policies the candidates prioritize when they announce their bids. SBA’s specific request is to support “at a minimum” a “heartbeat bill” or “pain-capable” bill, he said.
The heartbeat bill would make abortion illegal after cardiac activity is detected, which occurs at roughly six weeks of pregnancy — before some women know they’re pregnant. Legislation that references the fetus feeling pain, such as a measure introduced last year by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., would ban the procedure at around 15 weeks. Graham’s bill didn’t advance in the Democratic-controlled chamber, and even some fellow Republicans distanced themselves from it ahead of the midterms.
Trump’s stance has provided an opening on the right for potential rivals like former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, both of whom are evangelical Christians with long-held anti-abortion stances.
Pence has spent months visiting so-called crisis pregnancy centers that counsel women against abortions. And he has embarked on a tour of megachurches, including Jeffress’ First Baptist Church in Dallas, and spoken before major anti-abortion groups.
His advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom, has pushed for Congress to pass legislation including a national abortion ban beginning around six weeks of pregnancy and a bill that would establish legal personhood at conception. Marc Short, Pence’s former chief of staff and longtime adviser, said that when it comes to declared and potential 2024 candidates, “I see him as the most comfortable explaining his pro-life convictions and the basis for them.”
For Pence, he said, the issue is about much more than politics.
“Mike does it because this is core to the reason that he ran for office and won for the first time. It’s always been for him a top issue and it’s a priority,” he said.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, is another potential candidate who signed abortion prohibitions into law in her state. The 2016 law bans abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy and includes an exception if the mother’s life is in jeopardy but not for cases of rape or incest.
After the Supreme Court’s decision, Haley said states, and not “unelected justices,” should control abortion policy. That position puts her at odds with SBA and other anti-abortion groups.
Others see abortion as a potential vulnerability for DeSantis. A spokesperson for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who is also exploring a potential run, recently unloaded on DeSantis, questioning where he stands on the issue.
“Governor Noem was the only Governor in America on national television defending the Dobbs decision,” Ian Fury wrote in an email to the National Review. “Where was Governor DeSantis? Hiding behind a 15-week ban. Does he believe that 14-week-old babies don’t have a right to live?”
Cannon stressed that those in the anti-abortion movement are the “foot soldiers” of the Republican Party during elections and comprise a huge percentage of primary voters.
“No Republican candidate can win the presidency without the backing of the pro-life movement,” he said.
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FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. – Drivers on Route 640 in Franklin County can expect delays due to a multi-vehicle crash, according to VDOT.
Crews say the crash happened near Waid Park Road.
As of 9:06 p.m., all eastbound and westbound lanes were closed in the area, and traffic was being detoured onto Waid Park Road, then onto Pepper Road, before going back onto 6 Mile Post Road (Route 640).
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Session will cover how to address labor market challenges while balancing internal equity
WALTHAM, Mass., June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Compensation practitioners Shaun Drawdy of Saia LTL Freight and Neil Sandefur of Salary.com will deliver a session "Striking a Balance with Salary Structures: Internal Equity vs. External Competition" at WorldatWork's Total Rewards '23 conference in San Diego on Wednesday, June 14 at 10am. The theme of Total Rewards '23, taking place from June 12-June 14 is Advancing the Art and Science of Total Rewards.
In the presentation Shaun Drawdy, Senior Manager of Compensation at Saia, and Neil Sandefur, Director, Compensation Professional Services at Salary.com, will walk the audience through Drawdy's salary structure journeys as he has worked throughout his career to address labor market challenges while balancing internal equity. The presentation will cover:
- Building salary structures that support organizational goals.
- Designing a structure in a challenging labor market.
- Maintaining structures to reflect current market data.
- Communication of salary ranges for recruiting or ongoing pay decisions.
- Using salary structures for pay transparency initiatives.
A sponsor of Total Rewards '23, Salary.com is also welcoming Expo attendees to Booth #313 to price jobs on the spot and learn how Salary.com solutions are helping organizations achieve pay equity. All booth visitors who demo a Salary.com product will receive a $15 Starbucks gift card and a chance to win items from Apple, Bose, Delta and more.
Salary.com's Vice President of Consulting David Turetsky is also on the Total Rewards speaking agenda. He and Steve Brink, President of uFlexReward, will speak on Monday, June 12 at 10:30am in a session titled "True Confessions of Compensation Consultants: Myths, Mistakes and Misconceptions."
WorldatWork is committed to those responsible for cultivating inspired, engaged, productive and committed employees in effective and rewarding workplaces. The organization serves rewards and HR professionals working throughout the world, in organizations of all sizes and in every industry.
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PRESIDENT: Aubrey King was recently installed as president of the Rotary Club of Huntington for the July 2022-June 2023 year. He is a native West Virginian, born and raised in Iaeger in McDowell County. Following graduation from Marshall University with a B.A. degree magna cum laude in political science and economics, he spent a year in India on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship. After earning his master’s degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University, he taught government and politics at the University of Maryland at College Park before working as a national government affairs lobbyist and trade association executive in Washington for more than 40 years. He and his wife, Mary Margaret, are now happily retired in Huntington, and he has resumed his connection with Rotary. They are the proud parents of two and grandparents of three.
100TH: Members of Baptist Temple, on the corner of 9th Avenue and 21st Street in Huntington, are celebrating the church’s 100th anniversary this weekend with special activities. On Saturday, Aug. 6, a meet and greet will be held at 6 p.m. at the church. On Sunday at 10:30 a.m., a special service will be held with Dr. Jill Adkins Jenkins as guest speaker and the Jason Lovins Band providing special music. Everyone who ever sang or played special music at Baptist Temple is asked to come to the sanctuary at 9 a.m. Sunday to participate in a reunion choir that will sing at the beginning of the service. A catered luncheon by Rebel Barn will be served immediately following the morning service. Reunion committee members are Pattie Saunders, April Saunders, Mandy Saunders Null, Ashley Sharp, Jake Sharp, Michael Anthony Null, Barbara Bartlett Davis, Lori Magnusson, Julia Hutchison, Jeff Riley, Nancy Barbour-Riley, Barbara Harshbarger and Debbie Hinkle Swepston.
GRANDPARENTS: Congratulations to proud grandparents Buck and Cathy Conard, whose granddaughter, Olivia Elaine Jenkins, was born July 11. Olivia’s parents are Matthew and Elayna Jenkins, of Bridgeport, West Virginia. Olivia also has a proud big sister, Sophia.
BELATED: Belated congratulations to Ron and Brenda Sizemore, who celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary July 17. They were married July 17, 1966, at Coldwater Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
MEETING: The Westmoreland Neighborhood Association will meet Aug. 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Westmoreland Woman’s Club, 2962 Bradley Road, Huntington. Sgt. Eddie Prichard with the Huntington Police Department will give an updated report on crime in the Westmoreland area. Guest speaker will be Cpl. Jamie Harris, who is with the special response team at the West Virginia State Police training academy in Winfield. For additional information, contact Cindy Chandler at 304-544-1469.
LANTERN: The Barboursville Water Lantern Festival will be held Saturday, Aug. 6, at 6 p.m. at Lake William in Barboursville Park. This is an opportunity for members of the community to celebrate, to honor, to remember or to support whatever means the most to them. You may decorate your lantern as you choose. Proceeds from lantern sales will go toward funding a medical research grant.
TRACTORS: The 14th annual Antique Tractor and Engine show is offered Saturday, Aug. 6, at Sadler Field, 6501 Farmdale Road, Barboursville. This event will show antique cars and trucks, hit-miss engines and farm machinery, and will offer a swap meet, arts and crafts, food concessions and a tractor parade at 4 p.m. Admission and parking are free. For more information, contact Jim Edmonds, 304-634-7006; Glenn Harden, 304-634-8383; or Tony Woodrum, 304-308-0672.
BIRTHDAYS: Happy birthday this week to Ruth Long, Jeanetta Ray, Amy Hall, Justin Minsker, Kelly Bragg, Douglas George, Evan Conard, Brenda Morning, Debbie Rayburn, J.D. McComas, Shannan Blankenship Powell, Helen Lewis, Vicki Archer, Megan Grant, James Journell, Kenny Sergent, Teresa Dial, Penny Markham, Susan Fleshman, Morgan Hill, Michael Wentz, Ronnie Lee Lewis, Brice Christopher McComas, Patty Bias, Ronnie Adams and Beve Adkins.
SPECIAL WISHES: Special birthday wishes to Liam James Adkins, who celebrated his eighth birthday Monday; to Paisley Marie Ratliff, who blew out five candles Tuesday; to Judy Powers Dallis, who celebrated her 78th birthday Wednesday; to George Arthur, whose 76th birthday was Thursday; to Elanda Lou Conner, who celebrates her 45th birthday Saturday; and to my great-grandson, Brody Watson, who blows out five candles Saturday.
ANNIVERSARIES: Couples celebrating wedding anniversaries this week are Rick and Patty Hannan, Chris and Marsha True, Bob and Sylvia Fortner, and Dr. David and Sherry Patick, who celebrate their 40th anniversary Sunday, Aug. 7.
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A bill that would allow a driver to have a notation on their license that they’ve been diagnosed with autism unanimously passed the state assembly Thursday and now goes to Gov. Phil Murphy for a final decision.
The vote on a bill that previously passed the state senate unanimously on Feb. 2 and was substituted for a similar assembly bill, was approved by a 71-0 vote Thursday.
Autism advocates said the law is needed to avoid complications and misunderstandings when a driver with autism is stopped by police.
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Researchers have found long-term evidence that actively monitoring localized prostate cancer is a safe alternative to immediate surgery or radiation.
The results, released Saturday, are encouraging for men who want to avoid treatment-related sexual and incontinence problems, said Dr. Stacy Loeb, a prostate cancer specialist at NYU Langone Health who was not involved in the research.
The study directly compared the three approaches — surgery to remove tumors, radiation treatment and monitoring. Most prostate cancer grows slowly, so it takes many years to look at the disease’s outcomes.
“There was no difference in prostate cancer mortality at 15 years between the groups,” Loeb said. And prostate cancer survival for all three groups was high — 97% regardless of treatment approach. “That’s also very good news.”
The results were published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at a European Association of Urology conference in Milan, Italy. Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Research paid for the research.
Men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer shouldn’t panic or rush treatment decisions, said lead author Dr. Freddie Hamdy of the University of Oxford. Instead, they should “consider carefully the possible benefits and harms caused by the treatment options.”
A small number of men with high-risk or more advanced disease do need urgent treatments, he added.
Researchers followed more than 1,600 U.K. men who agreed to be randomly assigned to get surgery, radiation or active monitoring. The patients’ cancer was confined to the prostate, a walnut-sized gland that’s part of the reproductive system. Men in the monitoring group had regular blood tests and some went on to have surgery or radiation.
Death from prostate cancer occurred in 3.1% of the active-monitoring group, 2.2% in the surgery group, and 2.9% in the radiation group, differences considered statistically insignificant.
At 15 years, cancer had spread in 9.4% of the active-monitoring group, 4.7% of the surgery group and 5% of the radiation group. The study was started in 1999, and experts said today’s monitoring practices are better, with MRI imaging and gene tests guiding decisions.
“We have more ways now to help catch that the disease is progressing before it spreads,” Loeb said. In the U.S., about 60% of low-risk patients choose monitoring, now called active surveillance.
Hamdy said the researchers had seen the difference in cancer spread at 10 years and expected it to make a difference in survival at 15 years, “but it did not.” He said spread alone doesn’t predict prostate cancer death.
“This is a new and interesting finding, useful for men when they make decisions about treatments,” he said.
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TAMPA, Fla. — The production of oranges in Florida has taken another dive, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In its December forecast report released Friday afternoon, the USDA said all orange production in the state has decreased by 29%, compared to its forecast released in October.
Even with this bleak report, some citrus farmers are saying their businesses are doing just fine.
The intoxicating aroma of citrus is prevalent in Archie Ritch's grove.
“I never get tired of eating oranges,” said Ritch, the president of Ridge Island Groves. “I can’t tell you how many oranges I eat every day.”
He’s been in the citrus business since 1992 and says recent storms have caused some disinformation to pop up.
“We get people that are surprised, ‘Oh, you still have oranges,’ because they thought the whole crop was destroyed from the hurricane,” Ritch said.
While farms down south dealt with a major loss from Hurricane Ian, Ridge Island only saw about a 15 to 20% loss, and were able to rebound quickly.
“You can’t beat them,” Ritch said. “You can’t beat Florida oranges.”
But what’s tougher to beat is the idea that production at his groves are slowing down. Ritch says he has to inform people that his place is doing just fine, despite Friday’s USDA report.
“It’s very difficult,” Ritch said.
Because he says it doesn’t necessarily affect places like Ridge Island.
“Ninety-five percent of the citrus grown in the state of Florida is grown for juice,” Ritch said. “The reason being is the fruit has more juice, so it's more economical to grow the fruit for juice.”
But at his grove, he only sells fresh table fruits, which, he says, only represents about 5% of the citrus grown in Florida.
“So, 5% of the crop is a very small percentage,” Ritch said. “And we still have plenty — plenty of fresh citrus for the table fruit to go around in Florida.”
Right now, he has about 50 acres growing citrus and said much of the fruit should be ready for sale next month. In the meantime, he’s focused on fulfilling orders to ship oranges and tangerines to people across the country wanting a bit of citrusy sweetness for the holidays.
“There’s going to be some happy people over the next few days,” Ritch said.
The USDA citrus report also says grapefruit and tangerine production is down in Florida, though only by 10% and 14% respectively.
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Weird West Texas: Revisiting Amarillo Zoo's mystery creature a year later
It's been just over a year since a security camera at the Amarillo Zoo recorded a mystery creature standing just outside the fence.
The creature, dubbed the "Unidentified Amarillo Object," quickly spread, claiming stake in national news time and stories. Now, a year later, we've learned very little about the situation -- but it has sparked several conspiracies.
As part of our Weird West Texas series, we explore some of the most odd, eccentric and just plain weird things in our region — from the state's northernmost town of Hitchland down into the Big Country, westward to the Permian Basin and all the way into the Rolling Plains.
This week, we’re exploring the mystery creature outside the Amarillo Zoo.
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Unidentified Amarillo Object
The Unidentified Amarillo Object was spotted outside the Amarillo Zoo on May 21, but it didn't make its news debut until early June when the city published a news release asking for the public's health.
"For now, the strange visitor is a UAO – Unidentified Amarillo Object. However, perhaps Amarillo has a better explanation," the city wrote. "However, perhaps Amarillo has a better explanation. In the spirit of fun if not curiosity, the City of Amarillo is letting the public offer ideas on the identity of the UAO."
Of course, that invited tens of thousands of comments on social media and news stories. The City suggested it could be a "person with a strange hat who likes to walk at night" or "a large coyote on its hind legs." It reassured that there were no signs of attempted entry into the zoo; no animals or individuals were harmed; and there were no signs of criminal activity or vandalism.
Many speculated it was the Chupacabra, which is essentially the southern version of Sasquatch, whose name translates to "goat sucker," because it likes to feast on livestock. (Let's not forget about the recent dead cows found near College Station with their blood drained and tongues and genitalia removed.)
What's killing Texas cows, removing their tongues and sex organs? Officials don't know.
To help get to the bottom of it, Wyze, a Seattle-based company specializing in smart home products and wireless cameras, even offered to donate80 Wyze Cam v3 cameras to the zoo.
“Like many on social media, we saw the picture of the Unidentified Amarillo Object that was recently near the Amarillo Zoo,” said Dave Crosby, cofounder and chief marketing officer for Wyze. “Was it an alien? An animal? A human with a costume? The world is curious."
But Rob Breaux with Talk 1340 KKAM theorizes that it was just a hoax that showered the city with attention.
"Amarillo has hoaxed the nation," Breaux wrote. "Congratulations on your 15 minutes of fame, Amarillo Zoo. You can't fool me. They just want you to comment on their social media posts."
As he noted, the post reached 20 shares and more than 30 comments within 19 minutes of being published.
"People love aliens and UFOs, why wouldn't they love a UAO? The Chupacabra, jackalope and other animals already prove West Texans like mythical beasts," he added. "Come to think of it, this is brilliant. Kudos, Amarillo. They'll announce the tours to hunt the creature next. Then, they'll create a festival in its honor. The UAO is the new Bigfoot."
Regardless of its origin, there's been little talk about the mystery creature since it went viral last June. Neither the city, nor the zoo, have offered any further comment since the event.
As Amarillo's Director of Parks and Recreation Michael Kashuba said: "It is definitely a strange and interesting image."
More:Weird West Texas: Why are there so many UFO sightings reported in our region?
Heard a different tale about this topic? Send it our way — we'd love to hear it! Or if you're curious about one of our region's many oddities, submit your question via email to BAddison@gannett.com with "Weird West Texas" in the subject line or via text at 806.496.4073.
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Ranking Suns' 5 most important players after Devin Booker, Chris Paul, Deandre Ayton
The Suns have several new roster additions this season without their starter Jae Crowder and former backup center JaVale McGee.
Following their landmark 64-win regular season, they still have a stellar supporting cast for their top trio in All-Stars Devin Booker and Chris Paul, as well as their max-paid center Deandre Ayton.
Here is The Republic's breakdown of the next five most important Suns players.
Mikal Bridges
The most versatile player for the Suns on both sides of the ball. As the league's Defensive Player of the Year runner-up last season, the 6-foot-8 wing was fourth in scoring (14.2 points per game), third-best in steals and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.2, 2.7). He shot 53.4%, the best field goal percentage among their non-bigs, and was fourth in assists (2.3) in at least 40 games played behind the league's leader Paul, backup point guard Cameron Payne, and Booker.
Bridges hasn't missed a game since he was drafted in 2018, averaged the most minutes per game on the team last season (34.8), and his 33.7 in that category is second to Booker's 34.2 over the past two years. The Suns have the most regular season wins in the league in that time span.
Bridges has Plastic Man length to block shots, grab rebounds (3.9 for his career), hits 3s at a 37.4% clip, can defend all positions one through five well, and is a solid finisher (his 29 and-ones behind Booker's 39 and-ones, 54 dunks were third-most behind Ayton and McGee last season,). In addition, Chris Paul will have his ball-handling duties to initiate the offense managed with Bridges and Johnson in the starting lineup.
Cameron Johnson
The Suns' front office truly believes in Johnson's pedigree as it allegedly refused to add him in a package during the Kevin Durant trade talks this offseason.
Bridges' 6-foot-8 "twin" Johnson emerged as a Sixth Man of the Year finalist in his third year last season and is moving into a starting power forward role in place of Jae Crowder, who appears on the way out as he remains on the trading block. Johnson's career production is 10.5 points on 44% shooting, 3.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists in 24.2 minutes per game, and his 39% from deep is 3.3 higher than Booker.
Shooting from the perimeter is the area the Suns need to improve the most after finishing 21st in the league in 3s made last season. That hurt them as they were the fourth-worst in that stat last postseason. Johnson was their most consistent shooter from anywhere besides Booker, particularly from the perimeter as Johnson hit 166 to Booker's 183. Last season, Johnson's shooting splits were 46/42.5/86 in 26.2 off the bench. Plus, he's a high leaper who can bang on anyone in transition.
Cameron Payne
Payne is an eight-year veteran who's played the best years in Phoenix among the four teams he's played for. He's averaged 9.7 points, 4.2 assists, 0.7 steals, has 44.2/39.2/86.2 shooting splits in 20.2 minutes per game off the bench since he joined in the Suns during their 8-0 run in the 2020 Orlando bubble.
Last season, Payne nearly matched his career high 10.8 points on 40.9% shooting and 22.0 minutes, 3.2 assists and his 2.7 assist-to-turnover ratio was second to Paul's 4.6. He's got a crafty lefty with a breezy first step, known for his hesitation dribble to stop and burst for bank shot floaters on his penetrations, and had 15 games last season in which he scored in double figures and shot nearly or better than 50%.
Despite his underwhelming production last postseason, and missing 24 games from injuries last year, Payne proved his ability to step up big as Paul's backup during the Suns' 2021 finals run. Payne will need to provide that again this year for the 37-year-old.
Torrey Craig
Now in his ninth year, the 6-foot-7 Craig could be the Suns' second unit's answer to replace Jae Crowder's physicality. He's a wild card who doesn't need to score a bunch to impact the game, but finds ways to strike in key moments.
Craig brings strength, and athleticism to slash through the middle get dunks in transition and half-court sets, hit shots from midrange and occasionally deep (45.6% and 33%, respectively), and blue-collar scrappiness and strength to grab rebounds and finish putbacks in traffic.
Among the four teams he's played on, Craig's career-best averages are in Phoenix (7.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 0.7 steals in 19.7 minutes). Last season, after he was traded back to Phoenix from Indiana in February for his second stint with the Suns, he produced his second-best career scoring marks 6.9 points and 4.3 rebounds in 20.8 minutes. He's the second in line behind Johnson to play between three and four spots.
Jock Landale
The Suns' fifth-most important player is a toss-up between backup shooting guards Landry Shamet, the return of Dario Saric, and their new backup center Jock Landale. Even though the preseason doesn't count, Suns coach Monty Williams has been impressed with the early showings of second-year big Landale. He's also a product of legendary San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich's system, where Landale played as a rookie, and Williams comes from his coaching tree.
The 6-foot-11 Landale is more versatile as a shooter and can square up to the hoop better than his predecessor McGee. Landale will need to help give Ayton breathers and keep him out of foul trouble like McGee did last year. Landale fits the Suns' point-five offense well and isn't afraid to let it fly from the 3 (shot 32.6% last season). He averaged the second unit's best 13 points and 6.7 rebounds off the bench, can block shots well and moves like a wing player without the ball.
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‘Precious individuals’ taken in Texas school shooting
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — One student was an avid runner, so fast she swept the races at field day. Another was learning football plays from his grandfather. One girl sensed something was wrong and wanted to skip school.
On Wednesday, stories began to emerge about the lives of the 19 children — “precious individuals” according to the school district superintendent — and their two teachers who were gunned down behind a barricaded door at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde.
Vincent Salazar said his 10-year-old daughter, Layla, loved to swim and dance to Tik Tok videos. She was fast — she won six races at the school’s field day, and Salazar proudly posted a photo of Layla showing off two of her ribbons on Facebook.
Each morning as he drove her to school in his pickup, Salazar would play “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” by Guns N’ Roses and they’d sing along, he said.
“She was just a whole lot of fun,” he said.
Manny Renfro lost his 8-year-old grandson, Uziyah Garcia, in the shooting.
“The sweetest little boy that I’ve ever known,” Renfro said. “I’m not just saying that because he was my grandkid.”
Renfro said Uziyah last visited him in San Angelo during spring break. “We started throwing the football together and I was teaching him pass patterns. Such a fast little boy and he could catch a ball so good,” Renfro said. “There were certain plays that I would call that he would remember and he would do it exactly like we practiced.”
Javier Cazares said he found out Tuesday afternoon that his 9-year-old daughter Jacklyn Cazares was killed in her classroom. She was with a group of five girls, including her second cousin, Annabelle Rodriguez, who formed a tight group of friends.
“They are all gone now,” Cazares said.
The extended families of the slain cousins gathered Wednesday to mourn and comfort each other over barbecue.
Cazares described his daughter as a “firecracker” who “had a voice, she didn’t like bullies, she didn’t like kids being picked on.”
“All in all, full of love. She had a big heart,” he said.
Veronica Luevanos, whose 10-year-old daughter, Jailah Nicole Silguero, was among the victims, tearfully told Univision that her daughter did not want to go to school Tuesday and seemed to sense something bad was going to happen. Jailah’s cousin also died in the shooting.
All of the dead were in the same fourth-grade classroom, where the shooter barricaded himself Tuesday and opened fire on the children and their teachers, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told a news conference Wednesday. He said the gunman used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle in the attack and posted on Facebook shortly before the shooting: “I’m going to shoot an elementary school.”
Schools Superintendent Hal Harrell fought back tears as he spoke of the children and their teachers.
“You can just tell by their angelic smiles that they were loved,” Harrell said of the children. “That they loved coming to school, that they were just precious individuals.”
The two teachers “poured their heart and soul” into their work, Harrell said.
Teacher Eva Mireles, 44, was remembered as a loving mother and wife. “She was adventurous. ... She is definitely going to be very missed,” said 34-year-old relative Amber Ybarra, of San Antonio.
In a post on the school’s website at the start of the school year, Mireles introduced herself to her new students.
“Welcome to the 4th grade! We have a wonderful year ahead of us!” she wrote, noting she had been teaching 17 years, loved running and hiking, and had a “supportive, fun, and loving family.” She mentioned that her husband was a school district police officer, and they had a grown daughter and three “furry friends.”
The other slain teacher, Irma Garcia, wrote about her four children, including one who was in the Marines, in a letter introducing herself to the class. Garcia’s 21-year-old nephew, John Martinez, told the Detroit Free Press the family was struggling to grasp that while Garcia’s son trained for combat, it was his mother who was shot to death.
Angel Garza, a medical assistant with a step daughter at the school, arrived soon after the shooting and found himself aiding students streaming out injured and shaken up.
One girl was covered in blood and he asked if she had been shot.
“I’m not hurt. He shot my best friend,” the girl said. “She’s not breathing. She was just trying to call the cops.”
And then she named the friend, Amerie Jo Garza, his stepdaughter.
Amerie was happy child who had just gotten her first cell phone for turning 10 and had just gotten a certificate the morning of the shooting for making the honor roll. She also loved to paint and draw and work in clay.
Garza said that in his grief he wonders what happened in those brief moments before Amerie was killed, if she said anything to the shooter, if he had seen her reach for her phone. And then he remembered the moment she got the phone for her birthday, and her face.
“It just lit up with the happiest expression,” said Garza. “She was so sweet.”
Relatives of 10-year-old Eliahna Garcia recalled her love of family.
“She was very happy and very outgoing,” said Eliahna’s aunt, Siria Arizmendi, a fifth-grade teacher at Flores Elementary School in the same district. “She loved to dance and play sports. She was big into family, enjoyed being with the family.”
Lisa Garza, 54, of Arlington, Texas, mourned the death of her 10-year-old cousin, Xavier Javier Lopez, who had been eagerly awaiting a summer of swimming.
“He was just a loving ... little boy, just enjoying life, not knowing that this tragedy was going to happen,” she said. “He was very bubbly, loved to dance with his brothers, his mom. This has just taken a toll on all of us.”
She lamented what she described as lax gun laws.
“We should have more restrictions, especially if these kids are not in their right state of mind and all they want to do is just hurt people, especially innocent children going to the schools,” Garza said.
Arizmendi also spoke angrily, through tears, about how the shooter managed to get a gun.
“It’s just difficult to understand or to put into words,” she said. “I just don’t know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old. What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?”
As Ybarra prepared to give blood for the wounded, she wondered how no one noticed trouble with the shooter in time to stop him.
“To me, it’s more about raising mental health awareness,” said Ybarra, a wellness coach who attended Robb Elementary herself. “Someone could possibly have seen a dramatic change before something like this happened.”
Even for the survivors, there was grief.
Lorena Auguste was substitute teaching at Uvalde High School when she heard about the shooting. She began frantically texting her niece, a fourth-grader at Robb Elementary, until Auguste heard from her sister that the child was OK.
Auguste said her niece asked her that night, “Tia, why did they do this to us? We’re good kids, we didn’t do anything wrong.”
Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home, which is located across the street from Robb Elementary School, said in a Facebook post that it would be assisting families of the shooting victims with no cost for funerals. GoFundMe pages were set up for many of the victims, including one on behalf of all victims that has raised more than $1.5 million.
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Associated Press writers Jim Vertuno in Uvalde, Texas; Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas; Jamie Stengle in Dallas; Don Babwin in Chicago; Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Roxana Hegeman in Wichita, Kansas; John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas; Jill Zeman Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas; Bernard Condon in New York; and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Ben Finley threw for 271 yards and two touchdowns in his first career start, and North Carolina State held on to beat Drake Maye and No. 17 North Carolina 30-27 on Friday when Noah Burnette duck-hooked a 35-yard field goal try in the second overtime.
Maye connected with Antoine Green from 4 yards out on the final play of regulation to tie the game at 24-all, but N.C. State (8-4, 4-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) kept the ACC Coastal Division champion Tar Heels (9-3, 6-2) out of the end zone in the first overtime.
Burnette — who also missed from 27 yards in the fourth quarter — made a 26-yarder in the first OT and the Wolfpack tied it on Christopher Dunn’s 31-yarder. Dunn was good from 21 yards in the second overtime and N.C. State, which never trailed, held on to hand North Carolina its second straight loss.
Devin Carter had six receptions for 130 yards and a touchdown for the Wolfpack, who snapped a two-game skid and pulled out a thrilling victory over their in-state rival for the second straight year.
Carter caught Finley's back-shoulder pass just outside the end zone and backed in for a 26-yard touchdown with 3:54 remaining in regulation for the Wolfpack’s first points of the second half.
Finley became N.C. State’s fourth starting quarterback in a seven-game span. He completed 27 of 40 passes for 271 yards.
The Tar Heels and freshman sensation Maye closed the regular season with dispiriting one-score losses to Georgia Tech and the Wolfpack ahead of the ACC title game clash with No. 8 Clemson next Saturday.
Maye finished 29 of 49 for 233 yards, one interception and the tying TD toss on fourth-and-goal to Green, which followed an apparent touchdown catch by John Copenhaver that was overturned on a replay review.
Maye’s 14-yard, third-down scramble with 7:53 to play allowed the Tar Heels to pull even for the first time since early in the first quarter.
N.C. State got off to a strong start. After forcing a North Carolina punt, the Wolfpack needed three plays to score on Jack Chambers’ 2-yard quarterback keeper.
Finley hooked up with a diving Terrell Timmons Jr. in the end zone from 28 yards out, giving Timmons his first career touchdown early in the second quarter.
Elijah Green’s 9-yard run gave the Tar Heels a boost with 5:03 left in the half. Dunn’s 29-yard field goal on the last play of the half pushed N.C. State’s edge to 17-10.
RECORD DAY
Dunn broke the ACC scoring record in the first half with his second extra point. In the second half, his 43-yard field goal attempt was wide left, his first miss in 23 chances this season.
SECONDARY ISSUES
North Carolina was without starting cornerback Tony Grimes because of an injury. The Tar Heels lost starting safety Cam’Ron Kelly in the first half and starting cornerback Storm Duck in the second half to game-ending injuries.
THE TAKEAWAY
N.C. State: The Wolfpack relied on their defense to contain one of the country’s most explosive offenses. The win was a nice consolation prize for a team that started the season 5-1 and looked like a contender in the Atlantic Division.
North Carolina: The Tar Heels weren’t crisp for most of the game and still nearly pulled off a comeback for the ages. This will sting, particularly given the failure to score a touchdown in OT.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
North Carolina could drop out of the AP Top 25, though losing in two overtimes might temper the damage.
UP NEXT
N.C. State: Awaits a bowl invitation.
North Carolina: Prepares to face Clemson for the ACC title in Charlotte.
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MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Merced County Fair has unveiled its "All Star" entertainment line-up for this year.
Along with the band Smash Mouth, you can enjoy George Michael Reborn, Lonestar and The Purple Madness - A Tribute to Prince and Banda Machos.
The concerts start at 8:30 pm each night and are free with your fair ticket.
There are also grandstand events like auto racing and go-cart racing.
The fair is happening June 7 to the 11th.
Advanced tickets go on sale May 1.
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Conference Call Scheduled for Wednesday, October 26 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viking Therapeutics, Inc. ("Viking") (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders, announced today that the company will release financial results for the third quarter 2022, after the market close on Wednesday, October 26, 2022.
The company will host a conference call to discuss financial results and general corporate updates beginning at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. To participate on the conference call, please dial (844) 850-0543 from the U.S. or (412) 317-5199 from outside the U.S. In addition, following the completion of the call, a telephone replay will be accessible until November 2, 2022 by dialing (877) 344-7529 from the U.S. or (412) 317-0088 from outside the U.S. and entering replay access code #8398407. Those interested in listening to the conference call live via the internet may do so by visiting the Webcasts page of Viking's website at http://ir.vikingtherapeutics.com/webcasts. An archive of the webcast will also be available on the Webcasts page of the company's website for 30 days.
About Viking Therapeutics, Inc.
Viking Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel first-in-class or best-in-class therapies for the treatment of metabolic and endocrine disorders. Viking's research and development activities leverage its expertise in metabolism to develop innovative therapeutics designed to improve patients' lives. The company's clinical programs include VK2809, a novel, orally available, small molecule selective thyroid hormone receptor beta agonist for the potential treatment of lipid and metabolic disorders, which is currently being evaluated in a Phase 2b study for the treatment of biopsy-confirmed non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and fibrosis. In a Phase 2a trial for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and elevated low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), patients who received VK2809 demonstrated statistically significant reductions in LDL-C and liver fat content compared with patients who received placebo. The company is also developing VK2735, a novel dual agonist of the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) receptors for the potential treatment of various metabolic disorders. VK2735 is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial. In the rare disease space, the company is developing VK0214, a novel, orally available, small molecule selective thyroid hormone receptor beta agonist for the potential treatment of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). VK0214 is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1b clinical trial in patients with the adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) form of X-ALD.
For more information about Viking Therapeutics, please visit www.vikingtherapeutics.com. Follow Viking on Twitter @Viking_VKTX.
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ATLANTA -- The state Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the power of local referendums to change county government decisions -- such as Camden County’s decision to purchase property to build a long-planned spaceport -- under the Georgia Constitution.
The case pits Camden County voters opposed to the spaceport against their own county government in a case that could influence both the future of the plan and voter oversight of local elected officials in Georgia.
Camden County leaders have sought to build a spaceport in Camden County for years, claiming it will bring jobs and economic development to the southeast Georgia region. The Camden County Commission agreed to an options contract to purchase the land needed for the space-launch facility from Union Carbide Corporation back in 2015.
Earlier this year, local opponents successfully led a petition drive asking for a referendum on whether the county’s approval of the land purchase should be repealed.
In a March special election, about 4,100 people voted against the county’s plan to purchase the land for the spaceport and around 1,600 voted in favor. The county appealed a Superior Court’s ruling that the referendum could proceed, giving rise to the Supreme Court case considered Thursday.
Lawyers for Camden County argued the Georgia Constitution limits the authority of such local referendums. That authority does not extend to allowing voters to veto a county commission’s resolution.
“[The] referendum in Camden County was a legal nullity … the constitution did not authorize it,” Pearson Cunningham, one of the attorneys for Camden County, said.
In contrast, lawyers for the petitioners who pushed for the referendum argued the vote was valid under a plain reading of the state constitution.
“The Georgia Constitution says what it says: "The right to repeal a county ordinance is explicit … [Camden County] wants the court to determine that the Constitution does not mean what it says,” Phillip Thompson, one of the lawyers for the people who led the petition drive to hold the referendum, said.
Earlier this summer, Union Carbide, the land’s current owner, said it no longer intends to sell to Camden County and noted the referendum results invalidated the previous options contract the county held to purchase the property. Camden County is suing Union Carbide about its decision to back out of the property deal in a separate lawsuit in state courts.
Camden County has spent $11 million pursuing the proposed commercial spaceport on a 4,000-acre tract of land in southeast Georgia, which officials say will drive economic development in the region. The County Commission approved an options contract to purchase the land from current owner Union Carbide Corporation in 2015.
But opponents say firing small rockets from Spaceport Camden over populated areas of Little Cumberland Island, just off the coast, would pose a major safety risk. Earlier this summer, an independent consultant found the project would pose a low safety risk.
The National Park Service -- which operates the Cumberland Island National Seashore -- and environmental organizations worried about the spaceport’s impact on a fragile coastal ecosystem also have expressed reservations about the project.
The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision within the next six months.
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MONONGAHELA, Pa. (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is heading to Pennsylvania on Friday to directly confront President Joe Biden and the party in power, unveiling a midterm election agenda with sweeping Trump-like promises despite the House GOP’s sometimes spotty record of delivering and governing in Congress.
McCarthy, who is poised to seize the speaker’s gavel if Republicans win control of the House in the fall, hopes to replicate the strategy former Speaker Newt Gingrich used to spark voter enthusiasm and sweep House control in a 1994 landslide.
The House GOP’s “Commitment to America” gives a nod to that earlier era but updates it for Trump, with economic, border security and social policies to rouse the former president’s deep well of supporters in often-forgotten regions like this rusty landscape outside Pittsburgh.
“We have a plan for a new direction for America,” McCarthy told The Associated Press.
On Friday, the House Republican leader will stand with other lawmakers to roll out the GOP agenda, offering a portrait of party unity despite the uneasy coalition that makes up the House minority — and the Republican Party itself. The GOP has shifted from its focus on small government, low taxes and individual freedoms to a more populist, nationalist and, at times, far-right party, essentially still led by Donald Trump, who remains popular despite the deepening state and federal investigations against him.
Propelled by Trump’s “Make America Great Again” voters, the Republicans need to pick up just a few seats to win back control of the narrowly-split House, and replace Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But even so, McCarthy’s ability to lead the House is far from guaranteed.
While Republicans and Trump did pass tax cuts into law, the GOP’s last big campaign promise, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, collapsed in failure. A long line of Republican speakers, including Gingrich, John Boehner and Paul Ryan, have been forced from office or chose early retirement, often ground down by party infighting.
“House Republicans are really good at running people out of town,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition, or CPAC.
McCarthy, first elected to office in 2006, is among the remaining political survivors of those House Republican battles, and he’s a new style of leader who has shown more ability to communicate than to legislate.
A key architect of the Republican “tea party” takeover in 2010, the California Republican personally recruited the newcomers to Congress — many who had never served in public office and are long gone. McCarthy was an early Trump endorser, and has remained close to the former president, relying on his high-profile endorsements to propel GOP candidates for Congress. He abandoned an earlier bid to become speaker when support from his colleagues drifted.
The “Commitment to America” reflects the strength of McCarthy’s abilities, but also his weaknesses. He spent more than a year pulling together the House GOP’s often warring factions — from the far-right MAGA to what’s left of the more centrist ranks — to produce a mostly agreed upon agenda.
But the one-page “commitment” preamble is succinct, essentially a pocket card, though it is expected to be filled in with the kind of detail that is needed to make laws.
“They talk about a lot of problems,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. “They don’t have a lot of solutions.”
In traveling to battleground Pennsylvania, a state where Biden holds emotional ties from his early childhood, McCarthy intends to counter the president’s fiery Labor Day weekend speech, in which he warned of rising GOP extremism after the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, with a more upbeat message.
The event is billed as more of a conversation with the GOP leader and lawmakers rather than stirring address in a uniquely contested state.
Along with many as five House seats Republicans believe they can pick up in Pennsylvania in November, the state has one of the most watched Senate races, between Democrat John Fetterman and Trump-backed Mehmet Oz, that will help determine control of Congress. Top of the ticket is the seismic governor’s matchup between the GOP’s Doug Mastriano, who was seen outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, and Democrat Josh Shapiro.
“If you are a hardline, populist, and you really want anger, Kevin’s a little frustrating because he’s not going to be angry enough for you,” Gingrich said. “On the other hand, if what you want is to have your values implemented and passed in the legislation, he is a really good leader and organizer.”
Gingrich has been working with McCarthy and his team to craft the style and substance of the proposal. The former speaker, who has been asked by the Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack for an interview, was on hand Thursday in Washington, joining McCarthy as he unveiled the plans privately to House Republicans, who have been mixed on the approach.
Mostly, the GOP pocket card hits broad strokes — energy independence, security and an end to liberal social policies, particularly in schooling.
Conservative Republicans complain privately that McCarthy isn’t leaning hard enough into their priorities, as he tries to appeal to a broader swath of voters and hold the party together.
Many are eager to launch investigations into the Biden administration and the president’s family, with some calling for impeachment. Legislatively, some House Republicans want to fulfill the party’s commitment to banning abortion, supporting Sen. Lindsey Graham’s bill prohibiting the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
In a sign of the pressures ahead for McCarthy, dozens of House GOP lawmakers signed on to plans from Trump-aligned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to prevent many gender reassignment procedures for minors, celebrating the Georgian as courageous for taking such a hardline approach.
She and others were invited to join Friday’s event, as McCarthy seeks their backing.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, has advocated for withholding federal funds as leverage for policy priorities, the tactic that engineered past government shutdowns.
“Putting out like, you know, principles about, ‘Well, we’ll secure the border.’ I mean, okay, but what are we gonna do about it?” Roy said. “The end of the day, I want specific actionable items that’s going to show that we’re going to fight for the American people.”
It’s notable that McCarthy alone has proposed a plan if Republicans win control of the House chamber. In the Senate, Republican leader Mitch McConnell has declined to put forward an agenda, preferring to simply run against Biden and Democrats in the midterm election.
“Kevin’s done a very good job of being in position to become the speaker. And then the question is, what do you do with that? Schlapp said. “This helps as a road map.”
__ Associated Press writer Kevin Freking contributed to this report.
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Report: National Archives asked for Trump records in 2021
(CNN) - Records from the Trump era in the White House were not returned to the government during the final days of the administration despite a determination that they should be, according to an email that National Archives and Records Administration sent to President Donald Trump’s lawyers in May 2021.
The contents of the email were first reported by The Washington Post.
The FBI executed a search warrant earlier this month at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents.
On Thursday, lawyers from the Department of Justice are expected to submit their recommended redactions to the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search Trump’s residence.
The affidavit describes why investigators believed they had probable cause that a crime was committed.
President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday that he had no advance warning about the search of Trump’s home.
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BATTLE GROUND — Larch Corrections Center staff highlighted the facility’s education and work programs — most notably, its partnership with the Department of Natural Resources to fight wildfires — during a town hall organized to keep the facility open.
It was standing-room only Thursday inside the Battle Ground Community Library’s meeting room, with the more than 100 people spilling into the hall and outside onto the sidewalk. Elected officials there included state Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz; state Reps. Stephanie McClintock, R-Vancouver, and Greg Cheney, R-Battle Ground; and Sen. Lynda Wilson, R-Vancouver.
The Washington Department of Corrections announced June 26 it plans to close Larch in October, citing declining incarceration trends. Staff were notified by email and human resources, and an email was sent to all 8,500 DOC employees, according to staff and the department.
The minimum-security prison near Yacolt, Clark County, which opened in 1956, can currently house 240 men. Larch’s average daily population has hovered around 230 since the beginning of the year, according to DOC data.
DOC said Larch is being “warm closed,” meaning it could reopen in the future if the need arises. The department previously warm closed Larch’s Elkhorn unit, halving the facility’s capacity.
An agency spokesperson previously told The Columbian that officials chose that time frame to provide everyone with enough time to move incarcerated individuals to other facilities and help Larch’s 115 staff members find other jobs. It also allows crews of incarcerated people to assist DNR with fire season.
Franz, who oversees DNR, said the agency has been working with DOC at Larch since the 1950s. She told the crowd she had just come from the Tunnel Five fire burning in the Columbia River Gorge.
“This year is going to be one of our most challenging fire seasons ever,” Franz said.
There are currently 40 people from Larch on the Tunnel Five fire, she said, about 10% of the firefighters. She said 80 are coming up this year alone.
“They are saving lives. They are more necessary than ever before as we are seeing more and more fires on our landscape,” Franz said. “But they are also the ones who are restoring the health of your forests. They are building the trails. They are helping in this community. … They are learning skills. They are learning discipline. They are learning leadership. They are learning teamwork, all the kinds of critical skills so that when they are released, they can go out and have amazing jobs.”
Franz said DNR needs these crews more than ever before. “I know our firefighters do, as well,” she added.
“Not just a fire camp”
Among Thursday’s speakers, community members heard from corrections counselors, educators and medical staff from Larch. Staff members said they were speaking as concerned citizens and stressed their opinions don’t reflect their respective agencies, including DOC, Clark College and the State Board for Community & Technical Colleges.
Corrections staff member Shawn Piliponis spoke of the importance of Larch’s education and work programs, as well as its medical, dental and mental health services.
“They actually enjoy doing this work. They are picking up a skill through our education programs. … They’ve actually found new and innovative ways to make sure they are getting that connection with these community stakeholders to develop those credits that they need to earn an actual high school diploma.”
Corrections educator Lauren Zavrel told the crowd, “Larch is not just a fire camp. It’s not just a little prison over the hill, and closing it is not just a state issue or a county issue.”
Zavrel said DOC leadership is looking at numbers that show the money spent on Larch don’t have an ideal return on investment when compared with other camps tied to bigger facilities. But that’s not the whole picture, she said.
In 2016, before Larch introduced some of its education programs, such as peer tutoring, its graduation rate was about 15%. Now, it’s about 85%. In that same time frame, education staff wrote about 20 infractions, now they average about one to two per year, Zavrel said.
When COVID-19 lockdowns forced the suspension of classes, graduation rates held steady, she said, because sergeants closed day rooms for peer tutoring and homework. Corrections officers also helped collect homework packets and distribute calculators.
Larch’s educational program has certified 33 tutors since 2019, Zavrel said, and four are in training.
“If we as a state really value the obvious connections between education and reductions in recidivism, Larch would be the last place we would talk about closing, and instead, it would be a household name as a national beacon for what corrections education can look like,” said Justin Allen, a corrections educator.
“Huge step in the wrong direction”
Staff members also read letters from incarcerated individuals who object to Larch’s closure.
Matthew Tobin, 28, said he’s been incarcerated since 2014. He was first housed at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, he said, and spent most of the day locked in a cell.
“When I look back on it now, there is nothing there to rehabilitate someone or help them to prepare for a life after prison. At that time, I had only heard stories about DNR and inmate wildland firefighting crews. It became one of my biggest goals while in prison,” he said.
Tobin said getting the opportunity to work for DNR has been the most beneficial experience he’s had while in prison.
“I have learned a lot about leadership and being part of a team on top of so many other things. From fighting wildfires to planting trees and even picking up trash piles that have been dumped in recreation areas, all of these things are a valuable service to all the people of Washington,” Tobin wrote.
Tobin said working for DNR also provides incarcerated individuals with the chance to earn money to start their lives after prison.
“DOC says they want to provide programs to help inmates better themselves, but closing Larch Mountain is a huge step in the wrong direction,” he wrote. Please don’t take this amazing opportunity that working DNR provides me and so many others away from us, and keep Larch Mountain open.”
Call to action
As the town hall concluded, Sherri Hinzmann, of Vancouver, asked about next steps.
“I’d like to know when we’re going to go to Olympia to have a talk with this DOC secretary?” asked Hinzmann, 61. “That’s what we did last time.” (Larch previously faced closure in 2011, but the decision was later reversed.)
In addition to taking their fight to Olympia, corrections counselor Sid Clark said staff members are calling on elected officials to hold town halls about the proposed closure for their constituents.
A change.org petition created June 29 to keep Larch open has garnered more than 1,400 signatures. For more information about what staff are doing to keep Larch open, visit the Facebook page Keep Larch Corrections Center Open.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County says a 911 dispatcher has been fired after hanging up on a call coming from inside the Tops store in Buffalo where prosecutors say a white gunman killed 10 Black people in a hate-based domestic terror attack.
The dispatcher had been placed on administrative leave, but the county was pushing for her firing. Last month, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said her actions were “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.”
According to a report by The Buffalo News, the dispatcher asked why the caller, a Tops employee, was whispering, before hanging up on her.
The dispatcher’s union, the Civil Service Employees Association, said Thursday it had ensured that disciplinary due process provisions were “followed fairly and appropriately here.”
The dispatcher told The Buffalo News late last month she was sorry about what the caller went through during the shooting, adding that more facts would come out at the hearing. A message was left Thursday at a possible phone number for her.
The 18-year-old white gunman accused in the mass killing pleaded not guilty Thursday to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges. A prosecutor called the evidence against him overwhelming.
A lawyer entered the plea for Payton Gendron, 18, in the first case to make use of New York’s domestic terrorism hate crime law. Gendron didn’t speak during the brief hearing with a heavy security presence.
Witnesses, police and Gendron’s own writings and livestreamed video have incriminated him as the gunman who used an AR-style semi-automatic rifle on May 14 to target shoppers and employees of a Tops Friendly Market, and he surrendered at the crime scene after putting his rifle to his neck. Authorities said he chose the store because of its location in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
“There is overwhelming proof of the defendant’s guilt,” Assistant District Attorney John Fereleto said. “The defendant was caught at the scene of the crime with the weapon in his hands.”
Gendron has been held without bail since the shooting and is due back in court July 7.
He was charged with murder shortly after the attack. On Wednesday, a new indictment expanded the case to include the domestic terrorism charge, along with 10 counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of second-degree murder as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime.
“When you hear the phrase ‘throw the book at’ someone, well, in this case right here, the defendant just got ‘War and Peace,’” District Attorney John Flynn said at a news conference after the arraignment.
The domestic terrorism hate crime charge — officially, domestic acts of terrorism motivated by hate in the first degree — was added to state law just two years ago, after a mass shooting targeting Mexicans at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. The offense carries an automatic life sentence upon conviction.
Until now, no arrests or arraignments or arraignments under the law have been reported to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, spokesperson Janine Kava said.
In Gendron’s case, the charge accuses him of killing at least five people “because of the perceived race and/or color” of his victims.
Outside court, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown called Gendron “a racist, hate-filled outsider who came to our community with the stated intent to kill as many Black people as possible.”
Prosecutors said Gendron drove about three hours to Buffalo from his home in Conklin, New York, to target African Americans. Shortly before opening fire, he posted documents that outlined his white supremacist views and revealed he had been planning the attack for months.
Federal authorities also are investigating the possibility of hate crime charges against Gendron.
The slain victims ranged in age from 32 to 86. Three other people were wounded.
The bloodshed, followed 10 days later by a mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, has renewed a national debate about gun control.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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AMECAMECA, Mexico (AP) — Concern about the Popocatepetl volcano changes with the wind. While east of the mountain residents swept streets and didn’t remove their masks on Tuesday, here to the west, they casually watched the gas and ash plume emerging from its crater.
The 17,797-foot (5,425-meter) mountain just 45 miles (about 70 kilometers) southeast of Mexico City and known affectionately as “El Popo,” has been belching for days, dusting towns and crops in Puebla in a super-fine ash.
“When nothing is happening we worry,” said a cheerful Viridiana Alba, who has been selling flowers in Amecameca’s central plaza for 25 years. “El Popo,” as the volcano is affectionately known, rises directly across from her stand.
“We know that right now it’s releasing smoke, that’s freeing the energy that it holds,” she said. Ash still rests on the awning that shades her plants from when the wind blew her way last weekend. The town was shaken by the volcano’s tremors, but as long as the ash remains light she believes it will help her plants.
Winds have blown a large plume of ash east over Puebla and Veracruz states and eventually the Bay of Campeche and beyond.
Mexico’s National Center for Prevention of Disasters said in its report Tuesday that small domes of lava continued forming inside the crater that were then being destroyed by small and moderate explosions. It advised that people living in communities near the volcano would likely continue those explosions over the coming days and weeks.
Three days ago “my house shook almost all night, it was amazing,” said Arturo Benítez, a former local official. “The sound of the volcano was strong, it resembled a lit boiler and a lot of ash fell, but then suddenly on this side it settled down.”
That was Sunday, when authorities raised the alert level, while maintaining there is not current risk to the population.
No evacuations have been ordered, but authorities have been driving evacuation routes, preparing some shelters and doing simulation drills.
On Cortes Pass, a small highway that crosses a saddle between Popocatepetl and the inactive Iztaccihuatl volcano, a couple dozen civil defense vehicles and soldiers blocked the way Tuesday.
The road was closed to traffic and most of the cabins that draw tourists were empty.
Cástula Sánchez, 75, who sells food to tourists on the weekends, was confident Popocatepetl would settle down again and the tourists would return. She lives in nearby San Pedro Nexapa where three decades ago lava arrived close to her home before they could evacuate, but they were spared.
Now she runs a local information service from the back of her shop. Residents bring her short messages scribbled on a piece of paper that she then reads over a loudspeaker the whole community can hear. So far authorities have asked nothing of her, just to keep an eye out.
In Amecameca, police handed out pamphlets with tips on being prepared in case the volcano’s activity increased. The pamphlet recommended having important documents at hand, a full gas tank, masks and towels to dampen if residents had to leave in a hurry.
Most residents already know, especially those who remember an eruption in 1997 that “darkened the sky, thundered … and a muddy rain fell,” Benítez said.
“The pyroclastic cloud came to Amecameca and it was chaos, everyone wanted to leave then and it was tremendous,” he said.
The only time Popocatepetl triggered a red alert on the government’s stoplight-style system since emerging from decades of dormancy in 1994 was in 2000. The volcano’s last major eruption was more than 1,000 years ago.
The activity this time has so far not been significant for locals, but the localized impacts could be real for residents on one side of the volcano while everything is normal on the other.
Benítez who worked years ago as a photographer with federal authorities monitoring the volcano said he thought coverage in recent days had been a bit exaggerated. “It’s not that bad, except if they know something we don’t know, because the activity has lessened.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador too downplayed the situation Tuesday.
“We are going to be watching and if there’s anything we’re going to inform,” he said. “But we feel like there isn’t going to be a problem.”
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Through April 3
- 4 found dead in hotel area of Mexico's Cancun beach resort
- An 89-year-old SF time capsule reveals more than expected
- After mass layoffs, Meta is pulling remote work back in a big way
- Inside California’s historic wolf capture
- Brad Pitt reportedly moving to clifftop Calif. castle permanently
- San Francisco drag legend Heklina dies
- Three Bay Area teenagers arrested after high-speed pursuit
- This San Francisco cafe turned into a tech worker 'zombieland'
- 'Extraordinary moment': Sierra snowpack among largest on record
- Another home explodes in California town
- Kimberly Guilfoyle's revealing take on the Trump indictment
- 'It breaks our hearts': Decades-old SF Mexican restaurant closes
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Updated March 14, 2023 at 1:51 PM ET
Heavy, wet snow is expected to bring power outages and make travel "dangerous to impossible" in the Northeast, as the first nor'easter storm of the season hits the region.
Shortly before 11 a.m. ET, Windsor, Mass., reported 28 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service office in Albany, N.Y.
By 1:3o p.m. ET, a total of nearly 250,000 electricity customers were without power in New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts, according to the tracking site Poweroutage.us.
"Snowfall totals 12 inches or higher are forecast over large portions of New England and Upstate New York," the National Weather Service says, adding that 24-30 inches of snow are possible in some areas.
The winter storm's effects are being made worse by 55-mph wind gusts, coastal flooding and the wet, dense snow it's bringing, forecasters say.
Snow is piling up in the Northeast
"The storm may even be too much of a good thing for skiers," NPR's Tovia Smith reports. "Mount Snow in Vermont got nearly 2 feet, but wind is blowing it around, and keeping some chair lifts from operating."
Precipitation has grown intense since it started arriving late Monday. By early Tuesday, many areas were seeing rain transitioning into snow, creating slippery, treacherous road conditions.
More than a foot of snow was reported in New Hampshire's Hillsborough County, with 16 inches measured near Francestown, according to the NWS office in Portland, Maine.
Through Tuesday night, the NWS says, snow is expected to fall at rates of 2 to 3 inches or more each hour, driven by strong winds.
In Massachusetts, the state lowered the speed limit to 40 mph on a stretch of Interstate 90, as it deployed more than 900 pieces of equipment to clear snow and ice.
States warn of a long-lasting storm and disruptions
Heavy snow could bring "significant power outages" that last for days, reports Maine Public Radio, citing John Palmer of the National Weather Service office in Gray.
"It's going to be very easy for these tree limbs to fall down from the amount of weight, and then also the strong winds," Palmer said.
People who might be affected by power and water outages should take precautions such as filling bathtubs to provide water for flushing toilets and filling containers with drinking water, reports Connecticut Public Radio. People should also make sure to have batteries, candles and matches on hand, along with flashlights and a radio.
Here's a plot of snowfall reports over the last 6 hours. Huge amounts across higher elevations. Please keep sending us those reports, they are very helpful. Link to see the reports: https://t.co/nVGeSlOME0 pic.twitter.com/to3afi4JBn
— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) March 14, 2023
New York is under a state of emergency, as Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered emergency teams into place ahead of the storm. She also activated the National Guard to help with aid and recovery, warning New Yorkers of "a significant and long-duration Nor'easter."
In Syracuse, a Delta jet that was attempting to take off from Syracuse Hancock International Airport around 7:30 a.m. ET for a flight to La Guardia instead "exited" the taxiway, winding up on the unpaved ground, member station WRVO reports. The plane's 61 passengers and their luggage were ferried back to the terminal. The airport remains open, but a dozen flights have been canceled.
What's a Nor'easter?
It's basically what happens when two fire hoses — the polar jet stream, and the Gulf Stream — hit each other, splattering the Northeast coast with snow, rain and wind.
"During winter, the polar jet stream transports cold Arctic air southward" into the central U.S., and then toward the Atlantic Ocean, the NWS says. But another force is directing energy toward that same area, as the Gulf Stream flows northward along the coast, warming the air and keeping water temperatures relatively mild.
"This difference in temperature between the warm air over the water and cold Arctic air over the land is the fuel that feeds Nor'easters," according to the NWS, which says the storms often first develop "between Georgia and New Jersey, within 100 miles east or west of the East Coast." They grow to "maximum intensity" as they approach New England.
In the current storm, a surface low-pressure system that had been off the North Carolina coast rapidly intensified Monday night into early Tuesday, as it pushed northward into southeast New England.
A Nor'easter can happen anytime between September and April. Some of the worst storms have struck in March, from the Ash Wednesday storm of March 1962 to the March 1993 "Storm of the Century." They've caused billions of dollars in damages and dozens of deaths.
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WACO, Texas — The City of Waco has cancelled the 2022 Veterans Day Parade due to inclement weather on Friday, Nov. 11.
The event was set to start at 11 a.m.
This decision comes after a heavy downpour of rain and hail hit the central Texas area Friday morning.
Killeen and Belton have also cancelled their parades for the same reasons.
For more information on Veterans Day events and deals, visit here.
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(NEXSTAR) – As Florida braces for Hurricane Ian’s impact on the ground, astronauts on the International Space Station got a view of the huge storm from up above.
The space station recorded video Monday showing the dense, spinning clouds over the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. The hurricane covers so much ground, parts of it disappear from view due to the curvature of the Earth.
Another view from space, taken from a satellite, shows the storm barreling toward Cuba. An outer ring of clouds already obscures the view of southern Florida.
Hurricane Ian, currently a Category 3 storm, hit Cuba’s Pinar del Rio province early Tuesday morning. It is expected to strengthen even more after it passes over the country and the Gulf of Mexico.
Ian is expected to make landfall on Florida’s west coast as a Category 4 as early as Wednesday.
The effects of the storm could be felt even sooner, with tropical storm-force winds forecast to reach the tip of Florida by 8 p.m. Tuesday night.
It’s not just winds that are a concern – the NHC warned “life-threatening storm surge” was possible along Florida’s west coast, especially between Fort Myers and Tampa. A surge of up to 10 feet of ocean water and 10 inches of rain was predicted across the Tampa Bay area, with as much as 15 inches in isolated areas. That’s enough water to inundate coastal communities.
Tampa and St. Petersburg appeared to be among the most likely targets for their first direct hit by a major hurricane since 1921.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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If you haven't tried ChatGPT, you're going to be surprised to see what it can do. It writes, creates, and answers questions like a human. It's a website, but as with any new and trendy technology, there are people looking to take advantage and make a lot of money.
In both Apple and Google app stores, there are dozens of ChatGPT apps that charge a subscription. The official ChatGPT does not require nor does it have an app. But you can basically create your own.
Here's how: First, on your phone or tablet go to the website, chat.openai.com, and sign up for an account.
The website is very basic. You'll want to add the website to your phone's home screen. It's a bookmark, really.
On an iPhone, you'll want to open the website in Safari. Tap the share icon and choose to add to home screen. The website will appear just like it's an app. You may need to rename it.
On Android devices, using Google Chrome, tap the three dots, share, and add to home screen. When you tap the home screen icons, it'll open the website. It's just like having an app, and it's free.
Don't spend any money on a Chat GPT app. Save your money and add the website to your screen.
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SHANGHAI, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 19, CATL launched condensed battery, a cutting-edge battery technology at Auto Shanghai. With an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg, it can achieve high energy density and high level of safety at the same time in a creative manner, opening up a brand-new electrification scenario of passenger aircrafts. CATL can achieve mass production of condensed battery in a short period of time.
To address the changes of the super high energy density materials resulting from electrochemical reactions, CATL's condensed battery leverages highly conductive biomimetic condensed state electrolytes to construct a micron-level self-adaptive net structure that can adjust the interactive forces among the chains, thus improving the conductive performance of the cells and in turn the efficiency of lithium ion transporting while boosting stability of the microstructure.
What is more, condensed battery integrates a range of innovative technologies, including the ultra-high energy density cathode materials, innovative anode materials, separators, and manufacturing processes, offering excellent charge and discharge performance as well as good safety performance.
The launch of this cutting-edge technology breaks the limits that have long restricted the development of the battery sector and will open up a new scenario of electrification centering on high level of safety and light weight. At present, CATL is cooperating with partners in the development of electric passenger aircrafts and practicing aviation-level standards and testing in accordance with aviation-grade safety and quality requirements. In addition, we will also launch the automotive-grade version of condensed batteries, which are expected to be put into mass production within this year.
"Meeting customers' requirements is the core driving force that drives technological innovation for CATL," said Wu Kai, chief scientist of CATL. Currently CATL has the world's most extensive technology roadmap for batteries, and has developed the capability to turn fundamental research to industrial application, and then to large-scale commercial applications. For example, in 2021, CATL rolled out the first generation of sodium-ion battery with an energy density of 160 Wh/kg, which has been launched on Chery Automobile during this exhibition. In 2022, CATL unveiled Qilin battery with the highest integration efficiency in the world, and it has started mass production this March. They have been used on multiple high-end BEVs such as ZEEKR, AITO and Li Auto.
As electrification extends from the land to the sky, aircrafts will become cleaner and smarter. The launch of condensed batteries will usher in an era of universal electrification of sea, land and air transportation, open up more possibilities of the development of the industry, and promote the achieving of the global carbon neutrality goals at an earlier date.
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Faith communities aid in helping smokers quit
The Center for Black Health & Equity’s No Menthol Sunday (May 21) is an annual opportunity for faith communities to address the detrimental effect tobacco has on Black communities. Each year, faith leaders are encouraged to dedicate this day to educating congregations about smoking, vaping and the role of menthol and other flavors.
The pandemic has increased the risk of smoking-related deaths in the Black community, but there is so much that can be done to focus on victory. This year’s theme, “Focus on Victory, Go Against the Grain,” encourages us to stand up against the tobacco industry and create healthy, tobacco-free communities.
It’s been two years since the Food and Drug Administration announced the process to prohibit the sale of tobacco products with any characterizing flavors, such as menthol. That is a historic win! As the FDA continues its process, we must continue to uplift one another and advocate for a healthier future.
No Menthol Sunday is an excellent time for people who smoke to begin a new quit journey. Faith communities can commit to creating comfortable, safe spaces for those who struggle with nicotine addiction.
No Menthol Sunday serves to raise our consciousness about important issues in Black health. When people of faith remain vigilant, educate youth and inspire community action, we will begin to move toward total health justice.
For more information about No Menthol Sunday efforts or for local resources to help quit using tobacco products, please contact me at pturner@ tobaccofree02.org.
Pat Turner
Tobacco education coordinator
Tobacco Free Allen County
Shift in identity could be worth millions
While observing current social and moral trends, the left’s “woke” agenda and today’s headlines, I’ve come up with a plan that might just make me rich.
It seems that today, a person can wake up one morning and “identify” as something other than what they were the night before. Combine this with California’s percolating plan to give millions in reparations to Black citizens and bingo!
Tomorrow, while still being white, I shall wake up and identify as an elderly Black man, and although I live in Indiana, I will further identify as living in California. Then just sit back and wait for the checks to start rolling in.
Identity … ain’t it great?
Bruce Cynar
Leo-Cedarville
GOP can gain credibility with pay-cut proposal
I can respect that Republicans don’t want to raise the debt ceiling. I have a solution.
Instead of cutting from services for the aging and poor, a great way to attempt to repair their party’s reputation is to propose a congressional pay cut. All of them are so overpaid, they will not be struggling to survive like the rest of us.
Jane Vorndran
Fort Wayne
Service memories
With the approach of Memorial Day, we’re soliciting the thoughts of area veterans and their families on their time of service and those who never made it home. Responses should be in the 150-word range and can be sent to letters@jg.net or 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802 no later than noon on Tuesday.
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Bond Issuance is PG&E's First Under New Sustainable Finance Framework Focused on Green and Social Projects
OAKLAND, Calif., March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of its commitment to healing the planet and keeping costs as low as possible for customers, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (the Utility and together with PG&E Corporation, PG&E) recently finalized a $750 million sustainability bond issuance. An amount equal to net proceeds of the bonds will finance or refinance projects designed to support PG&E's carbon reduction and sustainability goals.
The bonds were designated as sustainability bonds consistent with PG&E's recently published Sustainable Finance Framework, which was reviewed by S&P Global Ratings. Sustainability bonds are a designation for capital raises to finance investments with intended environmental and social benefits. The sustainability bond offering follows two green bond offerings in November 2021 and November 2022 by PG&E Recovery Funding LLC and sponsored by PG&E, and is the first under PG&E's recently published Sustainable Finance Framework.
"As recent powerful storms have once again made clear, California is on the front line of the climate crisis. These sustainability bonds will help build climate resilience into our electric system to make it safer and enable further carbon reductions as we work to deliver a greater proportion of renewably generated power to our customers while also helping to keep bills affordable," said Carolyn Burke, PG&E Corporation Executive Vice President, Finance.
PG&E Sustainable Finance Framework
PG&E released its new Sustainable Finance Framework earlier this month, under which PG&E and its subsidiaries may issue Sustainable Finance Instruments including green and sustainability bonds.
Eligible green and social project categories under the Framework include climate change adaptation, renewable energy, clean transportation, energy efficiency, pollution prevention and control, and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment.
In its analysis of the Framework, S&P Global Ratings noted: "each of the eligible projects will contribute to beneficial environmental or social outcomes …and clearly align with [PG&E's] enterprise-wide sustainability strategy of achieving carbon-neutral emissions, maintaining the affordability and safety of its services for customers, and empowering local communities."
The Framework is intended to inform investors of how financings support PG&E's sustainability strategy. PG&E released its Climate Strategy Report last year, outlining its breakthrough commitments to reduce carbon emissions, help reverse the impacts of climate change and begin to heal the planet. These commitments include becoming "climate positive" by 2050—going beyond net zero emissions and actively reducing and removing more greenhouse gases from the environment than it emits.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit www.pge.com/ and http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the beliefs, expectations, estimates, future plans and strategies of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, including but not limited to the sustainability bond issuance, its environmental impacts, and customer affordability. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, which management believes are reasonable, and on information currently available to management, but are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties. In addition to the risk that these assumptions prove to be inaccurate, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements include factors disclosed in PG&E Corporation and the Utility's joint annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and other reports filed with the SEC, which are available on PG&E Corporation's website at www.pgecorp.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. PG&E Corporation and the Utility undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether due to new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by law.
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) -- The Henderson, Nevada, Police Department has confirmed that a newborn baby was safely surrendered at a fire station on Monday.
Officers responded to a fire station in Henderson at about 2 p.m. on Monday in response to the surrender of a newborn baby. The surrender was consistent with Nevada's Safe Haven Law, Henderson police say.
According to authorities, the newborn baby girl was in good health.
Henderson police say the Safe Haven Law allows for unconditional acceptance of an abandoned newborn infant, which “encourages parents who decide to abandon their newborns to do so in a safe manner and remain anonymous.”
“Proper protocols were followed by law enforcement and medical personnel, and no laws were violated in reference to the surrendering of the infant,” Henderson police said.
No additional information was provided.
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Through the 2010s, Buzzfeed News was a force on the internet that produced journalism with real impact. The newsroom won a Pulitzer Prize in 2021. But after more than a decade, Buzzfeed News is closing its doors.
Femi Oke, host of Al Jazeera English’s “The Stream,” reflects on the outlet’s legacy.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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There’s something afoot in the newspaper landscape of New Mexico — a change few of us in the business anticipated amidst the corporate acquisitions, downsizing, consolidations and newsroom layoffs.
Yet, several small, locally owned newspapers here in the Land of Enchantment are finding new life, due in part to journalists and others committed to keeping local journalism alive.
Daniel Russell, publisher of the Hobbs News-Sun, this year bought the newspaper from Lake Charles, Louisiana-based Shearman Media, which had owned the News-Sun for decades. Russell and his wife brought in partners Wade Cavitt and Mark Veteto in June, and kept all of the newspaper’s 28 employees.
“As a group, we just felt it was important to keep the newspaper locally owned and locally operated,” said Russell, who’s worked at the newspaper since 1995 as everything from reporter to advertising director to publisher. “I think the News-Sun plays a valuable role in that we understand the local economy, our local culture and history, and what’s important to people.”
Others have single-handedly kept newspapers in business.
Silver City native Nickolas Seibel in 2014 rescued the Silver City Daily Press the day before it was set to shut down. Seibel’s company, Silver City Independent Publishing Co., recently also acquired the Deming Headlight, also to keep it in business. Seibel is president of the New Mexico Press Association, another sign of his dedication to the role of local journalism.
Closer to Albuquerque, the Edgewood Independent is getting new life. It was on its last legs, unable to publish for several months this year while editor and former owner Leota Harriman was out due to illness. One prolonged illness can bring down many mom-and-pop papers.
After recovering, Harriman wanted to focus more on local journalism and less on the business side, so she reached out to Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis, who took out a loan to buy the paper and avoid an “emergency” closure.
“We sort of set off on this plan to find a way to avoid closure and give them a rescue lifeline a little bit,” Davis said.
The Independent will start printing under its new ownership in January. Harriman, who’s held almost every job in the newsroom in the past two decades, will remain editor, and Davis has made an employment offer to the newspaper’s other paid employee — its sports editor.
“There’s a ridiculous amount of news in Edgewood,” Harriman said. “… You know it comes down to not wanting to have a news desert out here.”
The purchase of the Independent was Davis’ third newspaper buy this year. He and his publishing company, CTRL+P, bought the Sandoval Signpost in Placitas in October and the Corrales Comment in June after Corrales journalistic icon Jeff Radford retired after 40 years. The Signpost’s news editor stayed on as editor and chief reporter to cover Placitas and South Sandoval County, and the Comment kept all three of its key staffers and continues to be published under its slogan, “Reporting As If Democracy Matters. Since 1982.” In 2020, Davis co-founded The Paper as a replacement for the Albuquerque-based Weekly Alibi, which went under earlier in 2020, and hired many of the Alibi’s employees.
New Mexico is lucky to have a far greater share of independent, locally owned news organizations than other states — among them yours truly, the Albuquerque Journal, The Santa Fe New Mexican and Taos News, the Roswell Daily Record, the Rio Grande Sun, the Guadalupe County Communicator bought by veteran newspaperman Tom McDonald in December 2017, The Gallup Independent, the Gallup Sun, and others.
There is no doubt that the news provided by many of these publications will increasingly be delivered digitally.
But it’s imperative New Mexicans have access to news about those city council, county commission and school board meetings that take place every week in every part of New Mexico.
And those individuals who have stepped up to make that happen deserve our thanks.
This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Mariah Carey is once again #1 on Billboard Magazine’s worldwide charts for her song, which has become, for better or worse depending on your personal tastes, a Christmas classic.
“All I Want For Christmas Is You” is now #1 globally, according to Billboard. Last week the song was in the #5 position.
The song was released on her 1994 album “Merry Christmas.” It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary and #12 on the Hot 100 Airplay.
It has achieved the status of the best-selling digital single by a woman and overall best-selling holiday digital single. It is also the first Christmas song to receive Diamond status from the Recording Industry Association of America, selling over 10 million copies. Love it or hate it, the song has played over 4 billion times on the radio, has been streamed nearly 1 and a half billion times, and has almost 4 million download sales.
Right now, the song is #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, just behind Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero.” However, it’s not the only Christmas song in the top 10. Brenda Lee’s classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is #3, Bobby Helm’s “Jingle Bell Rock” is #5, Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” is #6, Andy Williams’ “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is #9, and Wham’s “Last Christmas” comes in at #10.
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Business owner Angela Wilson hopes to add a stipend in her company’s employee benefits to pay for out-of-state abortion. She calls the benefit an addition to the family-friendly core values of her company that may entice workers to join her at Exploryst.
Wilson founded the Thornton company as a resource guide for those with disabilities planning adventures domestically and around the world. She started the company after feeling continually frustrated by the sparse or incorrect information about accommodations, restaurants or fun stuff for her son, who uses a wheelchair because of his intellectual and physical disabilities.
She has big plans. When she’s asked how big, she answers, “How big is Trip Advisor?” Right now she’s a staff of one based in Thornton, but she hopes to add employees by the end of the year. Her views on political and social issues mirror the struggles she’s experienced as a member of the disabled community, to the point where potential employees have given her a hard time, accusing her of being woke, for using the words “inclusion,” “respect” and “dignity,” knowing that, for her, that means everybody and everything.
“Respecting people’s fundamental dignity, that’s important not only for the disabled community but for humanity,” she said. “We want to allow people to live their lives as they see fit.”
That also means the right to individual and protective health care; she has goals of offering 12 weeks of parental leave and other policies that she believes are “pro people and pro family and pro work-life balance.”
That’s relevant to Colorado, as it was the first state to approve legislation that protects abortion rights, and it’s got John Tayer, president and CEO of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce, thinking about what the future could bring. Could the right to abortion be a way for companies in the Boulder area to recruit top talent? He even wonders if businesses may migrate out of states that ban abortion, though he hasn’t heard of a specific one ready to come to Colorado. He’s also not recruiting using that as a carrot.
Maybe he should. John Boyd Jr., a principal of the Boyd Co., a New Jersey consulting firm that helps corporations select sites for their headquarters, including Honda, PepsiCo and Hewlett-Packard, said states banning abortion present what he called “an opening wedge” for blue-state governors to create a relationship with a company: That opening may not have existed without this issue.
“It’s unclear to the degree in which the (Supreme Court) decision will have on the site selection process,” Boyd Jr. said in an interview. “But this presents a new economic development narrative for blue-state governors.”
Tough competition for top talent
Acquiring top talent is probably the most important problem companies face right now, and they’re competing with each other to get it, Boyd Jr. said, particularly young talent. Polls suggest that those workers, by an overwhelming margin, prefer to live and work in states where abortion is legal. He said Colorado and a few other states such as New Jersey or California (which was losing workers and companies because of high taxes and strict regulations as well as overcrowding) now have an advantage over areas that were flourishing, including Atlanta, Houston and Salt Lake City.
“Developers in those markets are going to have to deal with this new obstacle now,” he said. “Every company has different priorities, and every site selection process has unique drivers, but the big picture in the battle for talent is paramount. This is an era of unprecedented mobility.”
Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, in fact, sent a letter to dozens of businesses touting the state’s move to legislate and expand abortion rights even before the Supreme Court’s decision was released, but after it was leaked. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California aired a commercial in Florida urging residents to “fight for freedom” or move to his state.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office downplayed Murphy’s outreach, stating “business was booming” and called Murphy’s outreach “desperate.” Georgia recently banned abortion.
Colorado, however, so far mostly seems to prefer to let the legislation speak for it, and many other officials and businesses seem to prefer that as well. More than a dozen businesses didn’t return messages seeking comment, even after Tayer reached out. Attorneys didn’t want to talk either. Organizations that fight for the right to abortion didn’t want to talk, and Cobalt, a state organization that provides financial assistance to those seeking abortion care, didn’t return messages either. Even the state’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade answered the question with a statement that…doesn’t answer it (but here it is anyway).
“Colorado is known across the nation as a great state to work, play and live,” it read. “Businesses know that and continue to consider our great state.”
Boyd Jr. understands the reticence — bragging about abortion access could seem crass — but the competition is strong enough that they should look for any edge.
“Some companies will want to avoid this altogether, but some, I suspect, will view this as a fundamental business climate issue,” he said.
Many already have, including national businesses with a large presence in the state as well as Boulder and the area have issued statements saying they would cover travel expenses. Vail Resorts Inc. announced it would cover up to $4,000 in travel expenses if services aren’t available in their state. This is significant since Vail employs workers in conservative Utah, which has already moved to ban abortion. The company, in fact, said it has tens of thousands of workers spread across 16 states who will have varying access to reproductive health care.
“We believe everyone is entitled to make choices about their own reproductive health, no matter where they live,” the Broomfield-based Vail Resorts posted on Twitter on June 29.
There’s no doubt in Tayer’s mind that Boulder companies are moving to be among the nation’s leaders in protecting abortion rights for their employees. Boulder is home to many tech companies, and they tend to be progressive, Tayer said, Boulder itself is progressive — other states or those from eastern Colorado might say “extremely liberal” but you get the idea — and tends to attract progressive businesses as a result. “There are going to be businesses that will adopt policies characteristic of the values of Boulder,” Tayer said. “They want to make it clear that they are a difference-maker for the workforce, and that includes coverage of reproductive rights. They recognize that they need to be attractive to the full diversity of the workforce, and that includes gender.”
Dire consequences
Consequences for states that make moves seen as infringements on human rights can be significant, as many businesses don’t want to be associated with them, even if they remain relatively quiet about them. Colorado got Major League Baseball’s All-Star game last year when MLB pulled out of Atlanta because of Georgia’s new restrictive voting laws. North Carolina’s Transgender Bathroom Ban cost the state nearly $4 billion in lost business. Boyd said the numbers don’t show opportunities lost, such as conventions that eliminate states outright or artists who don’t tour in a state.
“When you look at how important women are in the workplace,” Boyd Jr. said, “it’s certainly reasonable for some companies to make location decisions based on reproductive rights alone. Look at what happened after the bathroom bill.”
A recent study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimated that if all state-level abortion restrictions were eliminated, 505,000 more women aged 15-44 would be in the labor force and that they would earn more than $3 billion annually.
Companies that have stated they would protect abortion rights include Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Airbnb, Netflix, Alphabet, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Kroger, Target, Patagonia, Starbucks, Wells Fargo and Yahoo. Dick’s said it would cover the same $4,000 for employees and so did Amazon.
Patagonia even said it would bail out both part-time and full-time workers who peacefully protest for “reproductive justice” and are arrested as a result in addition to travel expenses.
“Caring for employees extends beyond basic health insurance,” Patagonia said on LinkedIn. “That means offering employees the dignity of access to reproductive health care.”
It’s unclear what this means legally, and the regulations surrounding it are shifting all the time, said Steve Busch, president of the Boulder chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management, what Busch calls the “gold standard” for data and information regarding employee issues. Busch owns his own consulting company, Human Resources Strategy, and has 30 years of HR experience with Fortune 500 companies. The issue has been challenging for HR managers: When he’s called for consultation, he refers people to insurance brokers and attorneys who are more versed in what companies’ legal responsibilities are to their employees.
“It’s changing quickly,” Busch said. “It feels like it’s still changing as we go. It’s such a complex and changing issue. Employees in HR development should exercise prudence in answering such a question to employees.”
Busch put abortion in perspective, as COVID-19 remains “fresh on our minds,” he said, an issue that probably caused more than a few HR employees to resign. Still, this issue “is a challenging one,” he said, especially because of privacy concerns.
SHRM articles say that travel benefits for health care are nothing new, and the Supreme Court may have provided some guidance in its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurrence said a state may not bar one of its residents from traveling to another state for an abortion, which could offer legal protection for companies.
Even if Colorado fails to attract companies because of this issue, it will likely attract some workers, and that’s significant in today’s remote environment, Boyd said, including likely workers in tech and innovation. These are the people who eventually start their own companies.
People such as Wilson, who hopes to attract a talented workforce of her own with her inclusive work values.
“That’s my intention,” she said. “I know people myself who just weren’t ready or in a bad situation, and it saved their lives. Maybe not medically, but I can’t tell someone what to do with her life.”
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump joked about his legal challenges while campaigning in eastern Iowa on Tuesday night, just hours after announcing he’d received a target letter in the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Headlining a Republican county meeting, Trump attacked investigators while trying to make light of what could be his third criminal indictment since March.
“I didn’t know practically what a subpoena was and grand juries. Now I’m becoming an expert,” he told the audience at an Elks Lodge in Cedar Rapids.
Trump also taped an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity in front of a live audience, where he vented his frustrations. “It bothers me,” he said as he continued to cast the cases as politically motivated. “It’s a disgrace what’s happening to our country.”
The trip to the leadoff GOP voting state was yet another indication that, when it comes to Trump, none of the rules of politics ever apply. Trump did not cancel the trip to huddle with advisers, and he was not disinvited by organizers. Instead, he carried on as he has for months, incorporating his latest legal woes into his usual stump speech mixture of grievance, lies about the 2020 election, criticism of President Joe Biden and his agenda for a second term. For Trump, indictment news is now routine.
Iowa, with its caucuses just six months away, is a critical state for Trump, his party’s decisive early front-runner, and his rivals.
He set off for his latest trip just hours after announcing on his Truth Social platform that he had received a letter Sunday informing him that is the target of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election and the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Such letters often precede indictments and are used to inform individuals under investigation that prosecutors have gathered evidence linking them to a crime.
Trump has already been indicted twice — once in New York and once in Florida — and also faces potential charges in a separate election interference investigation nearing its conclusion in Georgia, a stunning and unprecedented legal onslaught as he runs for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
But the indictments have yet to damage Trump’s standing. Instead, early polling shows Trump ahead of his closest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, by 20 to 30 points, or more.
The monthly meetings of the Linn County GOP, typically lightly attended affairs, have become somewhat more popular in recent months as representatives from various Republican presidential candidates’ campaigns have paid visits to build goodwill with party regulars.
But Tuesday’s gathering was far from ordinary. More than 150 people — many wearing Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” red hats — squeezed into the hall of the Elks Lodge on the city’s southwest side. Press covering the stop were cordoned behind the bar typically used for weddings and anniversaries.
At least as many Trump supporters remained outside the event, unable to get in, and were left on the sidewalk to greet the former president as he arrived and departed.
News of the target letter, said Linn County, Iowa, GOP chair Bernie Hayes, only emboldens the former president’s supporters.
“Does something like that engender sympathy? I think certainly it does,” Hayes said, as the small event room filled beyond the number of chairs set. “The man’s being persecuted, so they are just thinking of another way to persecute him.”
Some Iowa Republicans have said in interviews that the mounting legal battles Trump faces could make it difficult for him to govern if elected and that they have begun looking to alternatives. But Hayes said the developments have only strengthened the resolve of Trump supporters he talks to.
“If anything, people see President Trump is actually hardened by the trials he’s gone through and knows what he’s up against,” Hayes said.
Teresa Horton-Bumgarner from small-town Solon, east of Cedar Rapids, echoed that she and Republicans in her circle believe strongly the Biden administration is “using the judicial system as a political weapon.”
“Nothing that (Trump) did on Jan. 6, that I’ve ever seen that incited violence. He said to peacefully protest, and lawfully,” said Horton-Bumgarner, 56, who described the indictments against Trump as so “egregious” that Republicans “tend to rally behind him.”
Before his speech, Trump was interviewed on local radio, and railed against the investigations while dismissing potential negative fallout.
“The people of our great country, they fully understand what’s going (on). It’s election interference. It’s a weaponization of justice,” he said.
Speaking of his supporters, he said: “They are never leaving us because they want to make America great again. They’re with us. They have a passion like nobody’s ever had.”
The Jan. 6 probe has centered on a broad range of efforts by Trump and allies to keep him in office, including plans for slates of fake electors in multiple battleground states won by Biden to submit false electoral certificates to Congress.
Legal experts have said potential charges could include conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding, in this case Congress’ certification of Biden’s electoral victory.
In Washington, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said Trump’s supporters would not be turned off by the developments.
“We’ll see what they come up with …. but I tell you, the more they target Donald Trump? I mean, boy, the base, they just eat it up,” she said. “They see two systems of justice, one for Donald Trump and one for everybody else.”
Trump called a top GOP ally in the House, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, to rally Republicans against the investigation and discuss their strategy for going on offense, according to a person familiar with the conversation and granted anonymity to discuss it. Trump also spoke with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the person said. McCarthy once criticized Trump over Jan. 6 but on Tuesday accused Democrats of trying to “weaponize government to go after their number one opponent.”
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the Senate minority whip, said that, with one indictment after the next, voters eventually “tune it out. It doesn’t have the weight or the meaning that it does when you’ve got this many things coming at you.”
“Now, on the other hand,” he added, “it also creates, I think, kind of a lot of noise and distraction that always seem to surround the former president. At what point does that have some effect on people’s opinions? I don’t know.“
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report from Washington.
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BUT GOP HAS NOT CLOSED THE DEAL WITH VOTERS FOR 2022 MIDTERMS
INFLATION AND AFFORDABILITY IS THE TOP ISSUE ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM
ROE V. WADE IS ONLY SLIGHTLY IMPACTING DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK IN MIDTERMS
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today released the results of the July Harvard-CAPS Harris Poll, a monthly collaboration between the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS) and the Harris Poll, a Stagwell research and insights firm.
Four in ten voters report feeling pessimistic about their lives over the next year in the face of historic inflation levels and data suggest we are looking at another hyper-partisan election cycle. The topics surveyed in this month's poll include the political impact of Roe vs. Wade, voter views on the Biden administration energy policy, the January 6 hearings, and the 2024 presidential election. Download key results here.
"Democrats can still hold onto hope ahead of the midterms, with the race a dead heat despite President Biden's approval rating being at a historic low and nearly half of Americans believing the country is currently in a recession," said Mark Penn, Co-Director of the Harvard-CAPS Harris Poll. "Looking to 2024, most voters are still open to a moderate independent candidate, but among Republicans, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is solidifying his status as the second choice. In these divided times, voters themselves seem to be holding contradictory opinions on issues such as energy policy and Trump's legal culpability in the January 6 riots."
- Biden's approval remains at a historic low of 38%.
- 84% think the economy is either in recession or will be within the next year.
- Perceptions on inflation seem to have peaked slightly: 33% of voters, up from 28% last month, think the U.S. economy is strong today, and inflation – while still the number one issue facing the country – fell 6 points.
- Approval rating of the Republican Party neared 50 percent for the first time since February 2022 in our poll – now 5 points higher than the Democratic party approval rating.
- The generic Congressional ballot is split 50-50, with Democrats and Republicans voting along party lines; Independents lean with Republicans 54-46
- Inflation and affordability is overwhelmingly the biggest concerns for both Democrats and Republicans, followed by Abortion Rights for Democrats and Immigration for Republicans
- Democrats have made little progress mobilizing on abortion so far: 39% of voters, up from 36% in June, say the Supreme Court's decision has made them more likely to vote for a Democrat in the midterms
- Voters are tired of hyper-partisanship: Strong majorities of over 6 in 10 voters don't want either Joe Biden on Donald Trump to run in 2024
- A majority open to considering a "moderate independent candidate" in case the choice is between Trump or Biden.
- 59% of voters oppose the Biden administration's energy and gas policies, and 63% think they are responsible for most of the increase in gas prices
- 45% think climate change is an immediate threat, including 66% of Democrats and 41% of independents. Voters want the administration to emphasize lower prices and energy independence over climate change.
- Climate change is an immediate threat to 45% of voters, including 66% of Democrats and 41% of independents
- Voters are wary of the climate issue being politicized: Only four in ten say that an emergency climate declaration by the Biden administration would be legitimate
- Voters are split on how and whether Trump should be held responsible: 53% of voters think Trump should face criminal indictment for his actions on January 6, but 54% think he should be allowed to run for president again.
- Nevertheless, 69% think it is time to unite the country and heal.
- Voters are split 50-50 on whether Congress should be involved in certifying presidential elections instead of the courts. Still, clear majorities believe the role of the Vice President and state governors should be purely ceremonial.
- 48% of voters think Taiwan is neutral towards the U.S., 36% think it is an ally, and 16% think it is an enemy
- 52% of voters support senior U.S. government officials visiting Taiwan even if China has signaled it might act military to prevent them from doing so—surprisingly, 59% of Democrats support it, over 10 points higher than Republicans and Independents.
The July Harvard-CAPS Harris Poll survey was conducted online within the United States from July 27-28, 2022, among 1,885 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX. Follow the Harvard CAPS Harris Poll podcast at https://www.markpennpolls.com/ or on iHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.
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DPS: Man dead after impaired, unlicensed driver causes crash on Highway 87 in Mesa
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A man is dead after DPS says an unlicensed, impaired driver caused a two-car crash earlier in April on Highway 87 in Mesa.
Around 8 p.m. on April 8, Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers responded to reports of a crash on State Route 87, near McDowell Road and Gilbert Road. Investigators say 26-year-old Hilario Ortiz Cruz was driving a Ford F-150 southbound while unlicensed and impaired under the influence of both alcohol and drugs.
He allegedly lost control of the truck, crossed lanes, and hit a Honda Accord driven by 29-year-old Harley Sellers. Both drivers were taken to a hospital where Sellers later died from his injuries. Ortiz Cruz was treated for his injuries and taken into federal custody. He faces various charges including manslaughter, DUI and extreme DUI.
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TOKYO (AP) — South Korean and Japanese leaders will meet in Tokyo this week, hoping to resume regular visits after a gap of over a decade and overcome resentments that date back more than 100 years. The two major Asian economies and United States allies face increasing need to cooperate on challenges posed by China and North Korea, but previous rounds of diplomacy have foundered on unresolved issues from Japan’s 35-year occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul has offered Tokyo concessions on South Korean court orders for compensation over wartime forced labor, but it remains to be seen whether the South Korean public will accept reconciliation.
The AP explains what’s kept the two neighbors apart, what they’re expected to talk about, and why it matters for the region.
WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?
Japan effectively colonized the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945, in a regime that imposed Japanese names and language on Koreans and conscripted many into forced labor or forced prostitution in military brothels before and during World War II. Japan gave $800 million to South Korea’s military-backed government under a 1965 accord to normalize relations, which were mainly used on economic development projects driven by major South Korean companies. A semi-government fund set up by Tokyo offered compensation to former “comfort women” when the government apologized in 1995, but many South Koreans believe that the Japanese government must take more direct responsibility for the occupation.
The two sides also have a longstanding territorial dispute over a group of islands controlled by South Korea but claimed by Japan.
Seoul and Tokyo have attempted to establish better ties before. In 2004, leaders began regular visits, but these ended in 2012 after then-South Korean President Lee Myung-bak visited the disputed islands. Tensions escalated over the past 10 years as conservative Japanese governments moved to rearm the country while stepping up attempts to whitewash Japan’s wartime atrocities, and in 2018 South Korea’s Supreme Court ordered Japan’s Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate forced labor victims. In 2019, Japan, in apparent retaliation, placed export controls against South Korea on chemicals used to make semiconductors and displays used in smartphones and other high-tech devices.
WHAT’S EXPECTED AT THE SUMMIT?
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are to hold a summit and have dinner together during Yoon’s March 16-17 visit. Though leaders have met in multilateral settings, including on the sidelines of a United Nations meeting in New York in September, this is the first formal bilateral summit since a meeting in Seoul in 2015.
Kishida is expected to reaffirm Japan’s past expressions of remorse over its wartime actions.
Both sides have signaled hopes that this summit will lead to a resumption of regular bilateral visits, although Kishida hasn’t yet announced plans for a visit to South Korea. Tokyo is also considering an invitation to Yoon to return to Japan as an observer at the Group of Seven summit Kishida will host in Hiroshima in May.
Yoon will be accompanied by high-profile business leaders who are expected to meet their Japanese counterparts. Masakazu Tokura, chair of the Japan Business Federation, said the two sides are considering establishing a separate, private fund to promote bilateral economy, culture and other key areas of cooperation.
WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE REGION?
Improved ties between South Korea and Japan could pave the way for the two U.S. allies to cooperate more closely on shared concerns related to China and North Korea.
Washington is eager to get its allies on the same page, and appears to have worked intensively to bring about the summit. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said his country and its two allies had about 40 trilateral meetings and he thinks cooperation in the process helped to build up trust. While Japan increasingly bolstered defense ties with the U.K., Australia, India and the Philippines, challenges in Japan-South Korea relations were obvious and their closer relationship “in the larger context of our strategic alignment … is a very big deal.”
South Korean officials have denied direct pressure from the Biden administration to resolve the historical discord with Tokyo, but the plan is apparently part of South Korean efforts to strengthen security partnerships to counter North Korea, which has been expanding nuclear-capable missiles and issuing threats of preemptive nuclear strikes.
While pushing to expand U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises, the Yoon government has sought Washington’s stronger reassurances to swiftly and decisively use its nuclear weapons to protect its ally from North Korea.
Seoul and Tokyo last week also announced plans for talks to restore the country’s trade relations, which could relieve pressure from global high-tech supply chains. South Korean officials say stronger economic cooperation with Tokyo has become more crucial in the face of industrial supply chain disruptions and other global challenges.
“The need to strengthen South Korea-Japan cooperation has never been greater in the era of complex crises, brought by uncertainties in global geopolitics, North Korea’s continued nuclear and missile testing activity and the disruption in industrial supply chains,” South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyundong said last week.
HOW ARE JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA ADDRESSING HISTORY?
Experts say that the two countries will have to find an accommodation on history if this round of diplomacy is to achieve lasting results.
Choi Eun-mi, an analyst at South Korea’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies, said the summit wouldn’t change South Korean public opinion if it’s all about security and economic matters. “There must be some sort of expression of apologies and self-reflection by Japan, in particular by the Japanese government and the defendant companies,” she said.
Seoul made a significant concession prior to the summit, announcing plans to use local funds to pay out compensation from the 2018 court order. South Korea will offer reparations to the plaintiffs through an existing state-run foundation that will raise the money from South Korean companies that benefited from the 1965 accord. It’s a major relief for Tokyo, which fears that further South Korean court orders could impose massive compensation demands on hundreds of other Japanese companies that used wartime forced labor.
The plan has met fierce opposition from surviving forced labor victims, their supporters, and opposition politicians, who have demanded compensation directly from Japanese companies and a fresh apology from Tokyo. Only three of 15 forced labor victims who won damages in 2018 are still alive, and all three refused to accept South Korean payments in written notes submitted to the foundation, said their lawyer, Lim Jae-sung.
South Korean officials say the country’s law allows for third-party reimbursements, and that they will do their best to persuade the victims to accept the payments.
South Korean officials say they do not expect Nippon Steel or Mitsubishi to immediately contribute to funds for the forced labor victims, and Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said it’s up to Japanese companies to decide whether to contribute to the funds voluntarily.
The future of the deal may also rest on whether Kishida’s government can win over South Korean public opinion. South Korean officials express hope that Yoon brings back a “sincere response” from Tokyo as bilateral relations improve.
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Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea.
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A fire at a military base in Armenia early Thursday killed 15 soldiers after they used gasoline for heating, the Defense Ministry said.
The blaze quickly swept through a military barrack in the village of Azat, in Gegharkunik province, eastern Armenia.
Authorities said that seven soldiers were injured, and three of them remained in grave condition.
Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan said at a Cabinet meeting that the fire erupted because soldiers used gasoline to fuel a stove in violation of fire safety rules. He said that the unit’s commander and about a dozen other officers were also fired.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan also fired Gen. Vagram Grigoryan, who was in charge of a group of forces in the region that includes the unit where the fire occurred.
Prosecutors opened a probe into the fire.
The Gegharkunik region borders Azerbaijan, which has been locked in a decades-long conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
In six weeks of heavy fighting that began in September 2020, the Azerbaijani military routed Armenian forces and moved deep into Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing Armenia to accept a Russia-brokered peace deal in November that year. Another flare-up of fighting last September killed 155 soldiers from both sides.
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Microsoft will fight US over $68.7B Activision Blizzard deal
By MATT O’BRIEN
AP Technology Writer
Microsoft is headed for a battle with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the U.S. will block the tech giant’s planned takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard.
Microsoft on Thursday filed a formal challenge to the FTC lawsuit’s declaring the $68.7 billion deal an illegal acquisition that should be stopped.
After years of avoiding the political backlash that has been directed at big tech peers such as Amazon and Google, the software giant now appears to be on a collision course with U.S. regulators emboldened by President Joe Biden’s push to get tough on anti-competitive behavior.
The FTC claims the merger could violate antitrust laws by suppressing competitors to Microsoft’s Xbox game console and its growing Xbox Game Pass subscription business.
At the center of the dispute is Microsoft’s rivalry with PlayStation-maker Sony to secure popular Activision Blizzard franchises like the military shooter game Call of Duty.
Microsoft’s response to the FTC tries to downplay Xbox’s role in the industry, describing itself as the “third-place manufacturer of gaming consoles” behind Sony and Nintendo, and one of just many publishers of popular video games with “next to no presence in mobile gaming,” where it is trying to make gains.
The dispute could be a difficult test case for Biden-appointed FTC Chair Lina Khan, who has sought to strengthen enforcement of antitrust rules. The FTC voted 3-1 earlier in December to issue the complaint seeking to block the deal, with Khan and the two other Democratic commissioners voting in favor and the sole Republican voting against.
The deal is also under close scrutiny in the European Union and the United Kingdom, where investigations aren’t due to be completed until next year.
The FTC’s complaint points to Microsoft’s 2021 acquisition of well-known game developer Bethesda Softworks and its parent company ZeniMax, as an example of where Microsoft is making some upcoming game titles exclusive to Xbox despite assuring European regulators it had no intention to do so.
Microsoft on Thursday objected to the FTC’s characterization, saying it made clear to European regulators it would “approach exclusivity for future game titles on a case-by-case basis, which is exactly what it has done.”
The FTC’s suit describes top-selling franchises like Call of Duty as important because they develop a base of loyal users attached to their preferred console or streaming service.
“With control of Activision’s content, Microsoft would have the ability and increased incentive to withhold or degrade Activision’s content in ways that substantially lessen competition — including competition on product quality, price, and innovation,” the FTC lawsuit says. “This loss of competition would likely result in significant harm to consumers in multiple markets at a pivotal time for the industry.”
Microsoft signaled that it will vigorously fight the case in court with a team led by high-profile corporate attorney Beth Wilkinson, while also leaving open the possibility of a settlement.
“Even with confidence in our case, we remain committed to creative solutions with regulators that will protect competition, consumers, and workers in the tech sector,” said Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, in a statement Thursday. “As we’ve learned from our lawsuits in the past, the door never closes on the opportunity to find an agreement that can benefit everyone.”
Microsoft’s last big antitrust battle occurred more than two decades ago when a federal judge ordered its breakup following the company’s anticompetitive actions related to its dominant Windows software. That verdict was overturned on appeal, although the court imposed other penalties on the company.
The FTC’s decision to send the complaint to its in-house Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell instead of seeking an urgent federal court injunction to halt the merger could drag the case out at least until August, when the first evidence hearing is scheduled. Microsoft’s agreement with Activision Blizzard requires it to pay the video game company a breakup fee of up to $3 billion if it can’t close the deal before July 18.
The timing and trajectory of the case could change depending on how regulators in the U.K. and Europe rule on the merger next year. If Microsoft wins approval in Europe, it could use that to try to expedite the process in U.S. courts.
The merger faced yet another challenge this week from a group of individual video game players who sued in a San Francisco federal court to stop the deal on antitrust grounds.
The plaintiffs, all fans of Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty franchise and other popular titles such as World of Warcraft, Overwatch and Diablo, are particularly concerned about how the consolidation would affect future game quality, innovation and output, said their attorney Joseph Alioto.
“When there’s a lack of competition, the quality necessarily goes down,” Alioto said. “By eliminating Activision, it gives such a strong position to Microsoft that they can do whatever they want.”
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WEIHAI, China, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from CRI Online:
Recently, the Watching New Development in Lingang, 2022 China Mainstream Media Tour took place in Lingang District, Weihai City, Shandong Province. Nearly 30 journalists joined the event and toured Lingang District where they discovered the area's many achievements and felt its vitality as a result of the completion of several real estate projects, the addition of new cultural and leisure venues and the roll out of policies to support further opening up to the outside world.
During the tour, the group visited Weihai Modern Agricultural Industry College (Hengxing), Weihai Gaosai Huayun Automobile Refitting, Weihai Taiji Intelligent Technology, SF Intelligent Sorting and Distribution Center, Sino-Japanese (Weihai) Cooperation Industrial Park and other companies where they interviewed several of the executives and employees working there. The combination of articles, photos and video shots put together by the journalists and made available online tell Lingang's story: the district has developed into one which is a perfect blend of high-end industries and a beautifully constructed city noted for its own unique charm.
The district has more than adhered to the original aspiration of developing an urban area characterized by a cluster of advanced manufacturing industries – Lingang has realized the upgrade from a single industrial park to a district that is in all ways a modern industrial city.
Three industry clusters now call Lingang home: new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing and pharmaceuticals/medical devices. The presence of the clusters has accelerated the creation of a modern industrial ecosystem with local characteristics.
By embracing policies that support opening up, the district's government focused on bringing in quality investment and speeding up the construction of a strong industrial development platform. In 2018, the district received the approval to build the Sino-Europe (Weihai) SME Cooperation Zone. In 2021, the district took the lead in building the Sino-Japanese (Weihai) Cooperation Industrial Park, a move that quickly led to collaborations with foreign companies to build production capacity for both domestic and international markets and to create industry clusters supported by foreign investment.
In terms of scientific and technological innovation, Lingang District is home to more than 50 national- and provincial-level innovation platforms. For 2022, the district has set as a goal the raising of 8.7 million yuan (approx. US$1.5 million) to support development in the new materials, electronic information and biomedicine sectors and the bringing in of 46 million yuan (approx. US6.7 million) in R&D investment from the private sector.
As for the enhancement of public facilities and networks, Lingang is undertaking 37 key municipal projects across six categories and has already completed several projects that make the district a much better place for its residents including the creation of several small neighborhood parks throughout the district, the addition of entertainment and leisure venues such as Weihai's Ice Hockey Hall, the building of better public transport connections with Weihai's city center as well as the expansion of the regional bus network.
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Expedition and Prudential Lead Cox Recapitalization
CHICAGO, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cox Transportation Services ("Cox" or the "Company") today announced the acquisition of Outwest Express, a leading provider of truckload freight services across the Southwestern United States with a strong expertise in Mexican cross-border logistics. The acquisition is consistent with Cox's strategy of building a premier truckload carrier through organic growth and by acquiring attractive businesses in the fastest-growing transportation sectors in the United States. Expedition Capital Partners and Prudential Private Capital ("Prudential") led a concurrent majority recapitalization of Cox in support of the Outwest acquisition and the Company's continued strategic growth plans. Truist served as the lead senior debt financing partner across a five bank syndicated deal.
Established in 2010 by Michael Puzio and Zachary Chilson, Outwest operates a fleet of more than 400 tractors and 1,200 trailers serving a diversified group of more than 300 customers across the retail, medical, manufacturing, automotive and electronics industries. Based in El Paso, TX, with terminals in Kansas City, MO and McAllen, TX, Outwest specializes in managing complex Mexican cross-border logistics, which is one of the fastest-growing transportation marketplaces in North America. Outwest has capitalized on the strong tailwinds in near-shoring by manufacturers, driven by the relatively lower cost of shipping finished goods from Mexico versus overseas locales such as China, faster speed-to-market, a compelling cost of labor and a business-friendly environment. Puzio and Chilson will continue to lead the Outwest business, reporting to Cox CEO Jay Smith, and will retain significant ownership stakes in the combined company. The acquired business will continue to operate under the Outwest brand.
Jay Smith, CEO of Cox, stated, "I am delighted to join forces with Michael, Zach and the entire Outwest team. We admire the business they built and view it as a perfect complement to ours. By combining Outwest's capacity and expertise with Cox's, we can better serve our customers and enhance our role as a trusted and critical supply chain partner. This acquisition represents an important first step in our ongoing efforts to broaden and deepen our ability to serve our customers across truckload transportation and brokerage."
Mike Hendrie, Founder and Managing Director of Expedition Capital Partners, added "We had a well aligned strategy when partnering with Jay and team two years ago – find other best of breed companies with blue chip customers that share the culture and values of Cox in order to build a much larger, world-class transportation company with enhanced offerings for our customers. We are very proud that we have been able to accomplish this goal in our combination with Outwest, Michael Puzio and Zach Chilson, and we look forward to working closely with them as we continue to grow the platform."
Michael Puzio, co-founder of Outwest, added, "Zach and I felt strongly that it was the right time to align Outwest with a strong truckload carrier like Cox with a clear and demonstrated plan for success in today's transportation marketplace. Cox and Outwest have similar customer- and driver-centric cultures that inspire world-class service. Both companies have proven teams of experienced employees who can benefit from the enhanced career prospects of a larger organization. Zach and I will continue to be deeply invested and focused on ensuring great outcomes for all our employees and customers."
Jay Smith added, "I am humbled to count Prudential as a partner in completing the Outwest acquisition and building Cox for long-term success. In combination with our current sponsor at Expedition Capital Partners, we have truly built a deep and sophisticated team that will prove invaluable as we execute our strategic plan."
John Gamero of FV Advisory Group served as financial advisor to Outwest, and Scudder Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O. acted as legal advisor. Williams Mullen and Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, P.C. acted as legal advisors to Cox with respect to the Outwest acquisition. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP acted as legal advisors to Cox with respect to the recapitalization transaction.
Established in 1982, Cox provides freight hauling and brokerage services to customers in a diversified group of industries across the U.S. The Company specializes in transporting time-sensitive full truckload freight on a local, regional and national basis. Cox also operates a brokerage division that serves carriers and freight customers with logistics optimization services. The Company is based in Ashland, VA. Adding additional assets to support growth with both existing and new customers, as well as acquiring attractive businesses with complementary routes and customer bases, represent the core of Cox's strategic growth plans.
Expedition Capital Partners ("ECP") is an independent sponsor private equity firm focused on partnering with experienced operators to acquire and grow businesses in the middle and lower-middle markets. Since inception, ECP has acquired 38 companies across six core platform investments. For more information, please visit www.expedition-partners.com.
For nearly 100 years, Prudential Private Capital has been partnering with a wide range of corporations, sponsors, and institutions to provide valuable insights and customized capital solutions that enable them to achieve their growth and funding goals. In an industry where capital can seem like a commodity and relationships are often fleeting and transactional, we are known for building enduring local partnerships based on a steady and patient commitment to our partners' long-term capital needs. With regional teams in 15 offices around the world, we manage a portfolio of over $92.7 billion for our partners (as of September 30, 2022). For more information, please visit www.prudentialprivatecapital.com.
CONTACT:
Mr. Michael Hendrie
Expedition Capital Partners LLC
(773) 857-0210
mike@expedition-partners.com
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BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government on Wednesday announced plans for a power price cap to curb the rise in energy costs tied to Russia's war in Ukraine.
Chancellor Karl Nehammer said the cap should ease costs for an average household of three by about 500 euros ($494) per year. The government will provide around 3-4 billion euros to finance the measure, which will come into effect in December and last through the end of June 2024.
“No one in Austria should be unable to afford their basic electricity needs," the chancellor told reporters in Vienna.
“This is about quick and unbureaucratic help, which is why no one needs to apply for it,” he added. “The electricity price cap is handled automatically for every household. It is another building block in the relief of people in a difficult time.”
Nehammer added that low-income households can apply for additional financial support.
The cost-relief plan comes at a time when Austria and other European countries are struggling to contain an energy crisis and rising prices as Russia has throttled back supplies of natural gas.
European officials have said it’s energy blackmail, aimed at pressuring and dividing the European Union as it supports Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.
The 27-nation EU should set a price cap on Russian natural gas and pass other measures to ease the energy crisis, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday.
Individual governments across Europe have passed relief for households as high energy prices drive up utility bills and fuel inflation.
Austria's government announced other financial aid earlier this year, including extra payments of child bonuses and financial aid for retirees on low pensions.
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AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, marking the first time the Infowars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was a hoax.
The Austin jury must still decide how much the Infowars host must pay in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators who were killed in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Conn.
The parents had sought at least $150 million in compensation for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Jones' attorney asked the jury to limit damages to $8 -- one dollar for each of the compensation charges they are considering -- and Jones himself said any award over $2 million "would sink us."
It likely won't be the last judgment against Jones -- who was not in the courtroom -- over his claims that the attack was staged in the interests of increasing gun controls. A Connecticut judge has ruled against him in a similar lawsuit brought by other victims' families and an FBI agent who worked on the case.
Jones' lead attorney, Andino Reynal, winked at his co-counsel before leaving the courtroom. He declined to comment on the verdict.
Outside the courthouse, the plaintiffs' attorney Mark Bankston insisted that the $4.11 million amount wasn't a disappointment, noting it was only part of the damages Jones will have to pay.
The jury returns today to hear more evidence about Jones and his company's finances.
"We aren't done, folks," Bankston said. "We knew coming into this case it was necessary to shoot for the moon to get the jury to understand we were serious and passionate. After tomorrow, he's going to owe a lot more."
The total amount awarded in this case could set a marker for the other lawsuits against Jones and underlines the financial threat he's facing. It also raises new questions about the ability of Infowars -- which has been banned from YouTube, Spotify and Twitter for hate speech -- to continue operating, although the company's finances remain unclear.
Jones, who has portrayed the lawsuit as an attack on his First Amendment rights, conceded during the trial that the attack was "100% real" and that he was wrong to have lied about it. But Heslin and Lewis told jurors that an apology wouldn't suffice and called on them to make Jones pay for the years of suffering he has put them and other Sandy Hook families through.
The parents testified Tuesday about how they've endured a decade of trauma, inflicted first by the murder of their son and what followed: gunshots fired at a home, online and phone threats, and harassment on the street by strangers. They said the threats and harassment were all fueled by Jones and his conspiracy theory spread to his followers via his website Infowars.
A forensic psychiatrist testified that the parents suffer from "complex post-traumatic stress disorder" inflicted by ongoing trauma, similar to what might be experienced by a soldier at war or a child abuse victim.
At one point in her testimony, Lewis looked directly at Jones, who was sitting barely 10 feet away.
"It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this -- that we have to implore you, to punish you -- to get you to stop lying," Lewis told Jones.
Barry Covert, a Buffalo, N.Y., First Amendment lawyer, said the $4 million in compensatory damages was lower than he would have expected given the evidence and testimony.
"But I don't think Jones can take this as a victory," he added. "The fact is, $4 million is significant even if we might have thought it would be a little higher."
Jones was the only witness to testify in his defense. And he came under withering attack from the plaintiffs' attorneys under cross-examination, as they reviewed Jones' own video claims about Sandy Hook over the years, and accused him of lying and trying to hide evidence, including text messages and emails about the attack. It also included internal emails sent by an Infowars employee that said "this Sandy Hook stuff is killing us."
At one point, Jones was told that his attorneys had mistakenly sent Bankston the last two years' worth of texts from Jones' cellphone. Bankston said in court Thursday that the U.S. House Jan. 6 committee investigating the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has requested the records and that he intends to comply.
And shortly after Jones declared "I don't use email," Jones was shown one that came from his address, and another one from an Infowars business officer telling Jones that the company had earned $800,000 gross in selling its products in a single day, which would amount to nearly $300 million in a year.
Information for this article was contributed by Michael Tarm of The Associated Press.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mediso has announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the InterView™ FUSION and InterView™ XP multimodality (PET/SPECT/MRI/CT) image processing and reporting software which is specifically adapted for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging workflows.
The vendor independent InterView™ software offers a complete solution for image visualization, post-processing and reporting specifically adapted for the routine nuclear medicine and molecular imaging workflow. Workflows and specialized tools cover the most common nuclear medicine studies including bone, cardiac, central nervous system, thyroid, parathyroid, kidney, liver, digestive system and lung. Fast and standardized reporting is available for all nuclear medicine procedures. The software improves SPECT image quality with iterative reconstruction and reach absolute quantitation with Tera-Tomo™ SPECT reconstruction engine, making fast and accurate personalized dosimetry possible. It also features a variety of state-of-the-art modules to enhance clinical and preclinical research work such as automatic lesion detection, and automatic segmentation and image denoising. The InterView™ software seamlessly integrates to any hospital information system either running on stand-alone workstation, or on physical or virtualized server.
"Receiving the FDA nod for our image processing software marks the next step in marketing our clinical products in the USA," said Istvan Bagamery, founder and CEO of Mediso. "The InterView™ software together with the AnyScan SPECT and SPECT/CT clinical systems provide a complete solution for all nuclear medicine routine and research application and they demonstrate our continuous commitment to the molecular imaging market."
Mediso, works in the field of medical imaging for 30+ years with a profile of development, manufacturing, selling and servicing standalone and multi-modality imaging devices. The company offers complete solutions from hardware design to evaluation and quantification software for clinical patient care and preclinical research.
Mediso has a leader position in the clinical nuclear medicine market with over 1500 commissioned systems around the world. Beyond the market leading AnyScan TRIO SPECT/CT, Mediso also offers an integrated SPECT/PET/CT triple modality system that is unique on the market.
Products are sold directly or through a distribution network in 100+ countries worldwide.
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Indictments requested for Agnelli and others in Juve scandal
TURIN, Italy (AP) — The Turin prosecutor’s office has requested indictments of former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, 10 other former board members, and the club following an investigation into alleged false accounting. A date for the preliminary hearing to decide whether to indict and proceed to trial is expected to be announced in the next week. Juventus maintains “the accounting treatment adopted in the contested financial statements falls within those allowed by applicable accounting principles.” Prosecutors have been investigating since last year whether Juventus cashed in on illegal commissions from transfers and loans of players. They are also looking into alleged hidden payments to players.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four firms and one individual connected to the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenaries that led a brief revolt against the Kremlin last week.
The sanctions from Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted entities in the Central African Republic, the United Arab Emirates and Russia that were connected to the Wagner Group and its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The sanctions are not directly related to last week's uprising. The U.S. has previously issued sanctions against Prigozhin and the Wagner Group multiple times, including alleging that he tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election.
Diamville SAU and Midas Ressources SARLU, two mining firms based in the Central African Republic and connected to Prigozhin, were targeted for sanctions, along with Russia-based Limited Liability Company DM, which conducted gold sales, and Dubai-based Industrial Resources General Trading, which provided support to Diamville.
The U.S. also sanctioned Andrei Ivanov, a Russian executive in the Wagner Group. Treasury says Ivanov worked with Malian government officials on weapons deals, mining projects, and other Wagner Group activities in Mali.
Treasury says the sanctioned firms engaged in illicit gold deals to fund the Wagner Group so it could sustain and expand its armed forces in Ukraine and Africa.
“The Wagner Group funds its brutal operations in part by exploiting natural resources in countries like the Central African Republic and Mali," said Brian E. Nelson, Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and financial Intelligence. "The United States will continue to target the Wagner Group’s revenue streams to degrade its expansion and violence in Africa, Ukraine, and anywhere else.”
Several other U.S. government agencies issued new advisories Tuesday focused on the gold trade across sub-Saharan Africa.
The Wagner Group mounted a short-lived armed rebellion against the Russian government, before Progozhin agreed to flee to neighboring Belarus, which has supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities said Tuesday they have closed a criminal investigation into the uprising and are not pressing an armed rebellion charge against Prigozhin.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
806 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central
Nacogdoches County through 830 PM CDT...
At 806 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Douglass, or 11 miles west of Nacogdoches, moving southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Nacogdoches.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
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- Bilibili held its annual ANIME MADE BY BILIBILI 2022-2023 and announced 49 Chinese anime series lineups
- Bilibili released its new trailer for The Three-Body Problem animated series
- Bilibili embraces a "MADE FOR GLOBAL" vision and continues to expand its global animation production capacity
SHANGHAI, Oct. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bilibili Inc. ("Bilibili" or the "Company"), an iconic brand and a leading video community for the young generation in China, announced 49 Chinese anime series lineups at its annual ANIME MADE BY BILIBILI 2022-2023, showcasing Bilibili's new initiatives in the Chinese animation sector.
As its principal producer and financier, Bilibili also announced the latest progress in producing The Three-Body Problem animated series, which is an adaptation of Liu Cixin's titular Hugo Award-winning sci-fi trilogy. The series is co-presented by China's top sci-fi company The Three-Body Universe, and China's top animation studio YHKT Entertainment.
Since the project was announced in 2019, The Three-Body Problem's trailer on Bilibili has attracted 3 million followers and 40 million views. Bilibili has officially announced that the series is scheduled to debut on December 3rd. It will also be shown on satellite TV channels and overseas video platforms for both Chinese and overseas audiences to enjoy.
As one of the most popular sci-fi novel series of the past twenty years, The Three-Body Problem trilogy broke language and cultural barriers and has inspired millions of readers globally. Preceding the launch of The Three-Body Problem animated series, there have been many excellent fan creations. At this year's ANIME MADE BY BILIBILI, the company also collaborated with The Three-Body Universe, the rightsholder of the Three-Body IP, to launch the Three-Body Global Creator Project. The Project invites top animation creators across the world to explore the IP in their own unique vision and aims at presenting to global audience a wide variety of art styles and the infinite potential of Three-Body animation.
"I am excited to announce that The Three-Body Problem animated series will debut on Bilibili," said Liu Cixin. "Animation, like science fiction, is the art of imagination. Imagination is humanity's most powerful force. I believe in the world of animation, a sci-fi story like The Three-Body Problem can really come alive."
Other anime series lineups announced at the event include Link Click Season 2, a story of two friends using extraordinary powers to grant people's wishes that has proven popular among overseas audiences. Link Click achieved a ranking of #20 on MyAnimeList, the world's top online anime community and database. The new season of Fog Hill of Five Elements involving cultural elements taken from Classic of Mountains and Seas will soon launch on Bilibili, as well as other Chinese culture-oriented anime series such as the new season of the Fairies Albums. The event also introduced To Be Hero X, a new season of a Bilibili made anime series, whose impressive visual effects showcases Bilibili's strong production capabilities.
This year, ANIME MADE BY BILIBLI was held amidst a boom in Chinese animation. Data from market analysis firm iResearch shows that the total production value of the industry exceeded RMB221.2 billion as of 2021. Carly Lee, Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and Chief Operating Officer of Bilibili, stated that the audience for Chinese animation has grown substantially in the past years.
Bilibili is the leading platform for Chinese anime series and a record of over 96 million people watched Chinese anime series on Bilibili in August 2022, double the audience size of just two years ago. Among the viewers on Bilibili, more than 40% come from second or lower-tier cities, and the number of users over 25 years old has increased by 7 million within one year.
"Revenues generated from Chinese anime on Bilibili are estimated to exceed RMB 2 billion in 2022. Anime has become a popular way for the young generation to express themselves," said Lee. "Anime is also more than just a form of expression. It has become an infrastructure capability for the digital world with wide application in films, games and virtual creator livestreaming. In the future, anime may have the potential to replace other content forms. Bilibili is actively working with leading production companies in the industry to bring more premium quality animation to global audiences."
Chinese animation has achieved a high level of recognition in the international arena. On overseas social media, #DongHua, the Chinese word for anime, has begun to distinguish itself from #Anime and is starting to become a popular hashtag that global audiences are following and discussing. Global platforms are actively introducing Chinese anime titles and 24 series from Bilibili are already available to audiences around the world.
As a platform with a global perspective, Bilibili is also promoting its overseas production capacity by cooperating with overseas production companies on animation projects. Outstanding overseas animation production companies such as RED DOG CULTURE HOUSE and CMC MEDIA have participated in the production of Bilibili's anime title Fairies Albums and other original productions. The Bilibili-made Face on Lie Season 1, based on a South Korean comic, was launched this April and is an example of Bilibili's IP expansion capability in overseas markets.
"We have always embraced 'MADE FOR GLOBAL' as part of our vision," said Leo Zhang, Vice President of Bilibili. "We are committed to making more original animation with global influence, and we also hope to keep discovering outstanding creators from all over the world to develop diversified cooperation models."
Bilibili continued to promote its Light Catcher Initiative to further support animators, students and passionate anime lovers who want to work in the industry. 14 pioneering animated short films supported by Bilibili have been available on the platform since September this year.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A man was detained Thursday night after he reportedly aimed a handgun at point-blank range toward Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández in what government ministers characterized as an assassination attempt.
The man, who had not been identified, was detained seconds into the incident.
Video from the scene broadcast on local television channels shows Fernández exiting her vehicle surrounded by supporters outside her home when a man can be seen extending his hand with what looks like a pistol and the vice president ducks.
Supporters surrounding the person appear shocked at what is happening amid the commotion in the Recoleta neighborhood of Argentina’s capital.
"A person who was identified by those who were close to him who had a gun was detained by (the vice president’s) security personnel. They set him aside, found the weapon, and now it must be analyzed,” Security Minister Aníbal Fernández told local cable news channel C5N.
The minister said he wanted to be careful in providing details until the investigation learned more. There was no official comment on whether the gun was real.
Unverified video posted on social media shows the pistol almost touched Fernández’s face.
Despite the open questions, government officials were quick to describe the incident as an assassination attempt.
“When hate and violence are imposed over the debate of ideas, societies are destroyed and generate situations like the one seen today: an assassination attempt,” Economy Minister Sergio Massa said.
Ministers in President Alberto Fernández's government issued a news release saying they “energetically condemn the attempted homicide" of the vice president. “What happened tonight is of extreme gravity and threatens democracy, institutions and the rule of law,” reads the release.
Former President Mauricio Macri also repudiated the attack. “This very serious event demands an immediate and profound clarification by the judiciary and security forces,” Macri wrote on Twitter.
Supporters of the vice president have been gathering in the streets surrounding her home since last week, when a prosecutor called for a 12-year sentence for Fernández in a case involving alleged corruption in public works.
Tensions have been running high in the upper class Recoleta neighborhood since the weekend, when the vice president's supporters clashed with police in the streets surrounding her apartment amid an effort by law enforcement officers to clear the area.
Fernández, who is not related to the current president, served as president herself in 2007-2015.
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Sub-state basketball results: March 1
Published: Mar. 1, 2023 at 11:03 PM CST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - It was another day to see what teams will be moving on in the playoff race across Northeast Kansas and beyond.
(G) Iola: 17, Wamego: 73.
(G) Atchison: 35, Hayden: 55.
(G) Garden City: 44, Topeka High: 68.
(G) Manhattan: 30, Washburn Rural: 43.
(G) Junction City: 16, Liberal: 46.
(B) Lansing: 26, Highland Park: 90.
(B) St. James Academy: 51, Seaman: 41.
(B) Bishop Carroll: 53, Emporia: 56.
(B) Ark City: 51, Topeka West: 61.
(G) Holton: 54, Parsons: 63.
(G) Pratt: 51, Rock Creek: 62.
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June Temperatures Briefly Pass Key Climate Threshold
BERLIN (AP) — Worldwide temperatures briefly exceeded a key warming threshold earlier this month, drawing notice in the scientific community and prompting public chatter that climate change might be accelerating.
The mercury has since dipped again, but experts say the brief surge marked a new global heat record for June and indicates more extremes ahead.
European researchers said Thursday that the the start of June saw global surface air temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time.
That is the limit governments said they would try to limit global warming to at a 2015 summit in Paris.
Scientists say the eleven-day global anomaly shows how important it is to keep a close watch on the planet’s health as the planet enters an El Niuhase.
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MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Boats maneuvered to where workers lifted the last of nearly 300 creosote-soaked pilings Friday, completing a portion of a broader project to restore salmon in the Snohomish River.
"This is an area we've been partnering with Tulalip [Tribes] for a long time to restore this estuary, up and down from the mouth of the Puget Sound, tributaries to the forest," Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz said. "If we can put forth a concentrated effort- our agency, Tulalip, Snohomish County, and other property owners- we will actually be able to turn the tide on this watershed, and with that concentrated focus, restore salmon and move on to other watersheds."
The Washington Department of Natural Resources said the 80-100-year-old pilings were soaked in a preservative that leaked out into the water, causing harm to salmon and forage fish and traveling up the food web.
"Once they get exposed to the creosote it goes into the food chain, through that avenue it makes its way all the way up to our whales," DNR Aquatics Restoration Manager Christopher Robertson said. "When they do look at the toxins that are inside of whale blubber, PAH which is the primary toxin from creosote, is one of the primary ones that's found there, so it really does impact the whole food web, from the base up."
Robertson notes that the pollution is pretty localized, meaning a difference can be made soon after the pilings are removed.
"We're taking a new approach at DNR, working on 2.4 million acres of watershed trying to restore this habitat to ensure we're doing better for our salmon," Commissioner Franz said. "To restore this watershed from the trees up in the mountains we see in the background all the way to the seas and oceans of Puget Sound."
To learn more about ongoing work to restore salmon in the Snohomish River Watershed, click here.
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HAMMOND — Weeks after a handgun was found on a School City of Hammond bus, the district has changed its procedures to require that drivers inspect their buses.
"That is being instituted immediately," Superintendent Scott Miller said.
A group of elementary school students found a handgun March 28 on their bus. The students immediately gave it to the driver, who secured it and in turn gave it to police, who began an investigation. Police determined that the gun was left by a high school student who had ridden that bus on a previous route.
While it wasn't an official policy before, Miller said, it was "an expectation" that drivers would walk their buses after the morning and afternoon routes but not between every route.
The district made it official policy Friday.
"If you think about it, we've conducted millions of bus rides without incident over 50 years," he said. "We're not going to call it a weapons check or anything like that. It's a bus check."
As to whether any drivers were reprimanded over the incident, Miller said there was no violation because inspecting the bus was not yet official procedure.
This at least the second time a firearm has been brought onto SCH property this year.
In January, a trespassing student reportedly brought a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine, 30 rounds of ammunition and a laser-pointer attachment into Hammond Central High School. That student was charged with unlawful carrying of a handgun, a Level 5 felony, and his criminal case is ongoing. The student isn't being identified because he is a minor.
"We are always in the process of trying to evaluate the safety and security of our schools," Miller said. "It is absolutely a concern. We live in a state that continues to make it easier and easier for people to acquire weapons and guns. If you're 18, you can pretty much get it in multiple formats. That's the reality we live in."
Miller said that given the resistance of state lawmakers to curtail the proliferation of guns in Indiana communities, he wishes that they would at least give more resources to schools to protect themselves from gun violence. For example, funding school resource officers in every Indiana school.
"That would be an amazing gesture on the part of the state Legislature to take this seriously, and say, 'If guns are going to be a reality, we're going to make sure we have a police officer in every school, and we know most schools are strapped so we're going to provide the funding source for that.' But you don't hear talk like that. The Indiana Legislature doesn't want to take steps to do things right now."
He explained how difficult it is for a district like SCH, which has 19 buildings, to achieve this without money from the state.
"Our gold standard would be to have a police officer in every building," he said. "But it's just not feasible."
Miller declined to say whether stricter gun regulations would improve school safety at districts like SCH.
"I am not an expert in gun control or what is effective," he said. "I would just like to see some more serious conversation about, if guns are going to be a reality in Indiana, what can we do to better protect our schools from the legislators who have made it easier for everyone to have guns. That's what I don't hear enough conversation about."
However, Miller opposes proposals to put guns in the hands of teachers.
"And the average teacher does not have the training, the expertise to carry a firearms with them at all times like a trained officer would. They're not the same thing, and I think it's a slap in the face to many educators that legislators' solution to making our schools safer is to just put gun into the hands of teachers."
Miller hasn't heard one educator tell him this would be a good idea.
These incidents come amid an epidemic of school shootings in the U.S. As of Friday, at least 42 incidents of gunfire were reported on school properties this year, resulting in 17 deaths and 32 injuries, according to Everytown Research.
Since 2013, there have been at least 1,067 gunfire incidents, with 355 deaths and 756 injuries on school grounds.
While he is concerned about the gun being found on the school bus, Miller doesn't think the student who brought the gun onto campus fits the profile of a typical school shooter.
"All the evidence we have," he said, "this was not a disturbed kid who was planning to come in and just shoot anyone he could."
Miller said the boy gained access to the school and was surrounded by students but didn't shoot. He suspects it was gang-related.
"I'm not naïve to the fact that in an urban environment there are things that happen outside the school day that we're not always privy to," he said. "And young people make tough choices sometimes. I don't have evidence it was gang-affiliated, but those are things that are a reality."
He pointed out that Hammond Police Department has a gang task force.
"There are things that are a reality in some of our kids' lives," he said.
Photos: Scenes from the mass shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
8-7-9-0
(eight, seven, nine, zero)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
8-7-9-0
(eight, seven, nine, zero)
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A major spending initiative aimed at infrastructure projects outside North Dakota’s oil patch is on pace to be fully funded for the first time since the Legislature approved it three years ago, due to strong oil prices and steady production.
“Operation Prairie Dog” is supposed to provide $250 million in every two-year budget cycle for infrastructure spending in non-oil producing areas.
The Legislature assumed oil production and prices would hold after passing the bill, but they slipped due to the pandemic and only about $30 million was distributed in the last budget cycle.
Joe Morrissette, the state’s top budget writer, said Wednesday that if oil revenue continues at the current rate, Prairie Dog will be fully funded this current budget cycle.
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KENDALLVILLE — William Lee “Bill” Gehring, 83, of Kendallville, Indiana, died on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at Parkview Noble Hospital in Kendallville.
He was born on April 13, 1939, in Noble County, Indiana, to Kenneth and Flora (Hasselman) Gehring.
On June 14, 1959, at St. John Lutheran Church in Kendallville, he married Frances Nemes.
He was a lifetime area resident, having attended Kendallville High School.
He had honorably served in the Army National Guard.
Mr. Gehring retired after 33 years as a supervisor with Supervalu in Fort Wayne. He had also worked at Steckley’s Hatchery and Puritan Ice Cream Company, both in Kendallville.
He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Kendallville.
Bill loved volunteering with the blood bank every time they were in the area and also at the Friendship Food Pantry in Kendallville. He thoroughly enjoyed fishing, spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren and seeing his friends at the YMCA and for coffee.
Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Frances “Fran” Gehring, of Kendallville; a daughter Kimberly (Robert) Ley, of Avilla; a son, Jeffrey (Leasha) Gehring, of Westland, Michigan; two grandchildren, Jessica (Daniel) Pierce, of Kendallville and Zachary (Stefan VanElsacker) VanWinkle, of Paris, France; two great-grandchildren, Damon Pierce and Jayden Pierce; a brother, Ken (Bonnie) Gehring, of Kendallville; a nephew, Brad Gehring; and five nieces, Sally McCarty, Luanne Kammerer, Brenda Ulch, Karla Kline and Donna Winebrenner.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Esther Gehring, Phyllis McCarty, and Evelyn Shumaker; and a niece, Shirley McKinley.
The family will have a private celebration of Bill’s life at a later date.
Preferred memorials are to St. John Lutheran Church, 301 S. Oak St., Kendallville, IN 46755.
Young Family Funeral Home, Kendallville Chapel, 222 S. State St., Kendallville, is assisting the family with arrangements.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.youngfamilyfuneralhome.com.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern expects February's fiery Ohio derailment to cost it $387 million, but that total will likely increase over time and that doesn't reflect how much the railroad's insurance companies will eventually cover.
The railroad provided a detailed estimate of the cost of Feb. 3 derailment outside East Palestine, Ohio, Wednesday when it released its first-quarter earnings report. That derailment, combined with others since then, sparked a nationwide focus on railroad safety and prompted regulators and members of Congress to propose reforms like capping the length of freight trains and setting standards for the trackside detectors railroads use to spot equipment problems.
Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw has said during testimony in Congress that he'll support some of the proposals like enhanced standards for tank cars, but he thinks the data doesn't support some of the other ideas like requiring railroads to maintain two-person crews. Shaw reiterated his often-stated promise Wednesday to “do whatever it takes to make it right for East Palestine and the surrounding areas.”
The $387 million estimate includes the $30.9 million to helping residents and the community around East Palestine recover from the derailment and spent millions more on the cleanup at the site where it has dug up and removed nearly 39,000 tons of contaminated soil and trucked away another 14.8 million gallons of tainted water. But many people who live near where the train derailed remain worried about possible long term health impacts and they aren't sure how to move forward even though officials say that repeated testing hasn't shown harmful levels of chemicals in the air or drinking water.
That estimate doesn't include the amounts Norfolk Southern, based in Atlanta, will put into funds to help cover any long-term health issues and compensate residents for the loss in their property values because the details of those funds are still being worked out with Ohio's attorney general.
The railroad does have insurance coverage that will kick in after the first $75 million it spends on damage to other people's property and after the first $75 million of damage to its own property. So Norfolk Southern will be responsible for at least $150 million of the cleanup costs, but the details of how much insurance will actually cover will be worked out over time.
Norfolk Southern and the other major freight railroads have all announced changes they will make to improve safety, including installing more than 1,000 more trackside detectors to help catch problems before they can cause derailments. But the railroads aren't likely to abandon the lean operating model they've adopted over the past six years that labor unions say has made the industry riskier because so many jobs have been cut, leaving workers spread thin and forcing inspections to be rushed.
The railroads have said they don't believe the changes they've made have created safety problems and they defend their record as the safest way to transport hazardous chemicals over land.
Norfolk Southern said its overall safety record is improving even with the derailment. The railroad reported 3.77 train accidents per every million miles during the quarter, which is lower than the previous two years. And Shaw pledged to continue working to improve that record as the railroad applies the lessons from East Palestine.
“Moving forward, Norfolk southern will be known for safe operations,” Shaw said, and he believes the railroad will be able to be proud of its response to the derailment.
But right now, both the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Railroad Administration have said they are investigating the railroad's safety culture to look for places where it could improve.
Norfolk Southern said Wednesday that its first quarter profit fell 34% to $466 million, or $2.04 per share, because of the derailment costs. That's down from $703 million, or $2.93 per share, a year ago.
Without the derailment costs, the railroad estimated that it would have made $1.1 billion, or $3.32 per share. That number exceeded the $3.15 per share that eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research expected.
The railroad's expenses jumped 32% to $2.4 billion in the quarter as wages rose in the wake of significant hiring over the past year and a new contract for employees and the railroad paid more for purchased services and materials.
Revenue grew 7% to $3.13 billion as it increased rates for most of the cargo it delivered. Volume was flat overall. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.1 billion.
The railroad said the average train speed across its network in the Eastern United States fell to 19.5 mph on average in March because it made changes to the way it assembles its trains after the derailment. Initially, that meant shorter trains that delayed some shipments, but as it adjusts to those new rules that dictate where empty cars are placed on a train and how the weight of cargo is distributed train speed should recover. At the end of last year, Norfolk Southern's trains were averaging 20.7 mph in the fourth quarter.
The derailment cleanup has slowed traffic on a busy east-west corridor for the railroad because it has only had one of its two tracks in service since the crash while it is digging up contaminated soil. That work is expected to wrap up in early June, which will boost traffic in the area.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKBN) – Teens wanting to learn how to drive in Ohio now have the chance to do it for little or no cost.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced Wednesday expanded access to the “Drive to Succeed” Scholarship program for low-income families.
Teens selected for the scholarship can attend an eligible Ohio-approved driving school in their area for free or at little cost.
Local government agencies such as police departments, sheriff’s offices, health departments and others can apply for funding to then award the scholarship to a teen.
According to the governor’s office, recent research has shown that new drivers under age 18 who complete the mandatory driver education under Ohio’s Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) restrictions were less likely to crash than drivers licensed at age 18 who are exempt from these requirements.
Agencies that wish to receive a grant must submit their proposals before Jan. 21, 2023. The complete grant proposal and guidelines can be found online at Grants/Federal Programs | Ohio Traffic Safety Office.
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PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of people packed the town hall square in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona on Thursday to celebrate the traditional “chupinazo” firework blast that starts the San Fermín bull-running festival.
Nearly everyone, including many tourists, was dressed in the traditional garb of white trousers and shirt with red sash and neckerchief as they sang and shouted.
As the rocket was fired, many doused each other with red or sparkling wine.
The highlight of the nine-day festival is the early morning “encierros,” or bull runs, starting on Friday, when thousands of daredevils race to avoid six bulls charging along a winding cobblestoned route to the city’s bullring.
Spectators watch from balconies and wooden barricades set up along the course. The spectacle is televised nationally.
The rest of each day is for eating, drinking, dancing and cultural entertainment.
The festival was made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises.”
The bulls used in the runs are killed by professional matadors in bullfights each afternoon in the city ring.
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New Jersey dad fights to have daughter returned to the U.S.
New Jersey dad Matt Scibekg is in the fight of his life.
After being awarded full custody of his daughter Penelope by Judge Nieves in Union County, Matt has only seen his daughter for a brief period since 2021.
According to him, his daughter's mom lost custody when the courts in NJ deemed her "unfit." She resides in England and so far has refused to return or to send Penelope to the U.S. to see her father.
Matt is currently fighting through his attorneys to have his daughter returned to the United States.
His attorneys have brought the case to the Union County prosecutor and the Rahway police have taken Matt's sworn statement.
Since Penelope's mom is not a United States citizen, the case is currently tied up in the British court system.
Matt joined me on the air to make his plea in the hopes that elected officials in New Jersey might be able to weigh in and help.
If you are connected to a legal team or political office holder who might be able to help this NJ dad, please call the morning show and we'll get you in touch with Matt.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge has barred enforcement of an executive order signed by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney last week banning guns and deadly weapons from the city’s indoor and outdoor recreation spaces, including parks, basketball courts and pools.
Common Pleas Judge Joshua Roberts on Monday ordered Philadelphia "permanently enjoined" from enforcing the order after a legal challenge, citing Pennsylvania state law that prohibits any city or county from passing gun-control measures, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The Gun Owners of America, on behalf of several state residents, filed a lawsuit immediately after Kenny's order, the latest attempt by Philadelphia officials to regulate guns inside city limits. Attorneys for the city had cited its role as a property owner managing its facilities, saying that distinguished the order from previous legislation passed by the city council and struck down in court.
Andrew Austin, who represents the plaintiffs, said in a statement that he was gratified by the court's quick action. But he said it was “in large part because the law is so explicit: The city is not allowed to regulate possession of firearms in any manner.”
“It is unfortunate that the mayor and city are willing to waste their time and taxpayer money on these type of ‘feel-good’ measures," Austin said. “This was nothing more than a press release, and would not have — in any way — addressed the crisis of crime in our city.”
Kenny spokesperson Kevin Lessard said officials were reviewing the decision and were disappointed by the outcome that “prevents city employees from making the reasonable request that anyone with a firearm or deadly weapon leave a recreation facility."
“The mayor’s executive order was intended to prevent the senseless violence that is interfering with the safety of children, families and staff in what must be safe places,” he said.
Roberts said his ruling was based “purely on legal questions.” But he also quoted two opinions strongly suggesting a need to revisit a 1996 state Supreme Court decision that state lawmakers have the authority to preempt local gun-control laws. Roberts said he “shares, echoes, and amplifies" the sentiments of those opinions.
The ceremonial signing came a day after Kenney spoke at the funeral for Tiffany Fletcher, a 41-year-old mother of three shot and killed earlier in the month outside of the city recreation center where she worked. A 14-year-old, who was firing at another group of teens, has since been charged in Fletcher’s shooting death.
Hours after the signing, five shooters ambushed a group of teenagers outside a northwest Philadelphia high school after a football scrimmage, killing a 14-year-old and wounding four others.
The city had just passed 400 homicides for the year, only slightly behind the pace of last year’s toll that ended up being the highest in at least six decades.
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Asian characters have a long history in video games, thanks to Japanese giants like Nintendo and Sony. Now, US-based Microsoft is taking pains to acquire, promote, and create more games with Asian characters — as the industry responds to increased calls for diverse representation.
The move fits in with Microsoft's larger strategy to acquire new content and expand their global reach. The company has been on a spending spree, buying up game companies to broaden their roster on services like the subscription-based Xbox Game Pass. Earlier this year, Microsoft purchased the beleaguered Activision Blizzard. Back in 2020, it absorbed Skyrim publisher Bethesda. The Xbox brand now boasts a more diverse lineup of games than ever before, both in terms of genre as well as representation.
Microsoft wants its customers to know this. Throughout Asian Pacific American Heritage month this May, they promoted banner ads on Xbox Game Pass with Asian game characters and creators. This includes 2017's Prey, which features an Asian-American protagonist named Morgan Yu and a space station infested by a hostile alien force. Five years on, reviewers are still applauding the sci-fi thriller for its unique gameplay, story, and its thoughtful approach to race.
Asian representation at one Microsoft studio
In an interview with VentureBeat, Arkane co-director Ricardo Bare said, "[Making the character Asian] makes as much sense as having any other kind of character. It doesn't make more or less sense. We just thought it was interesting.." Morgan's gender-neutral name also fits a player's choice to play with either a male or female character model.
We continue to champion greater diversity in the games we make... as we look to reach the 3 billion gamers on the planet.
Bare also says that Arkane wanted to explore new ideas and more diverse backgrounds in how they characterized their heroes. The studio's previous franchise, Dishonored, mostly featured white characters. In contrast, Morgan Yu is mixed-race, the child of a Chinese father and a German mother. "Maybe it's because I have a similar background, but characters of mixed heritage are always interesting to me because they have to blend two different worlds together," Bare tells NPR.
In Morgan's apartment, players can see how identity converges in everyday possessions. These include items like a wok cookbook, a book of T'ang Dynasty poetry, and even a bamboo steamer. While these items reflect Morgan's culture, Arkane also took care in arranging their position in the game world. For example, the T'ang Dynasty book is interspersed with others on subjects ranging from space to electronics. That subtle environmental storytelling shows that heritage is just one facet to who Morgan is, Bare says.
"For Morgan, it was important to us to convey that he grew up Asian American, specifically. In some cases these details allow you to be specific instead of abstract," Bare continues. "Being specific and concrete is always more interesting than being generic."
After Prey, Arkane went on to make 2021's Deathloop, which featured two Black protagonists. They're now working on Redfall, which has four playable characters — including one who is South Asian, a population rarely represented in video games.
Bare says developing more diverse characters takes careful research and invitations to experts from similar backgrounds to act as either fellow creators or consultants. Then, during the final stage of the process, Arkane makes sure to cast voice actors that match a character's ethnicity as closely as possible.
Expanding diversity and competing in the Asian market
Ada Duan, Xbox's general manager of social impact and partnerships, is at the forefront of the gaming industry's efforts to bring more authentic representation to the medium. "Having been in the gaming industry for over 15 years, it is exciting for me to see the increasing diversity of Asian and Pacific Islander creators and the breadth of cultural influences that they bring to the games they make," Duan explains.
All of Xbox's first-party titles, including Prey and the upcoming Redfall, are included in Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft's gaming subscription service, which also curates titles from third-party publishers like Life is Strange: True Colors. That game follows empath Alex Chen, the first Asian American to headline the franchise. Xbox has also given a bigger platform to indie games with diverse settings as well, from the Singapore-based Chinatown Detective Agency to the Kurosawa-inspired Trek to Yomi.
For Xbox, expanding representation makes business sense, Duan says. "Our catalog will continue to grow with all the needs of our global gamers in mind," she says. "Taking into account local language needs, game style preferences and cultural considerations."
That includes breaking into Asian gaming markets, particularly in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Just this month, they even made significant inroads in Japan, the home of rivals Nintendo and Sony. Xbox has been partnering with developers through local gaming events and workshops in order to get their games in front of more players, and into the Microsoft corporate fold.
For Microsoft, growing an Asian presence on-screen and behind the scenes is both a matter of representation and part of their effort to capture more of the gaming market. As Duan put it: "We continue to champion greater diversity in the games we make, including characters and storylines, as we look to reach the 3 billion gamers on the planet."
George Yang is a columnist for Join the Game and a freelance writer specializing in video games and culture. Find him on Twitter: @yinyangfooey
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NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI") will make the following changes to the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices:
- S&P SmallCap 600 constituent Omnicell Inc (NASD: OMCL) will replace Coherent Inc. (NASD: COHR) in the S&P MidCap 400, and Stride Inc (NYSE: LRN) will replace Omnicell in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Tuesday, July 5. S&P MidCap 400 constituent II-VI Inc. (NASD: IIVI) is acquiring Coherent in a deal expected to be completed on July 1, pending final closing conditions.
- S&P SmallCap 600 constituent Southwestern Energy Co. (NYSE:SWN) will replace CDK Global Inc. (NASD:CDK) in the S&P MidCap 400, and Frontdoor Inc. (NASD:FTDR) will replace Southwestern Energy in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, July 6. Brookfield Business Partners LP (TSX: BBU.UN) is acquiring CDK Global in a tender offer expected to be completed on July 5.
- Ormat Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ORA) will replace CMC Materials Inc. (NASD:CCMP) in the S&P MidCap 400 effective prior to the opening of trading on Thursday, July 7. Entegris Inc. (NASD: ENTG) is acquiring CMC Materials in a transaction expected to be completed on July 6.
- Enhabit Inc. (NYSE:EHAB) will replace Loyalty Ventures Inc. (NASD:LYLT) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Tuesday, July 5. S&P MidCap 400 constituent Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC) is spinning off Enhabit in a transaction expected to be completed prior to the open on Friday, July 1, pending final conditions. Loyalty Ventures is no longer representative of the small-cap market space.
- Sun Country Airlines Holdings Inc. (NASD:SNCY) will replace Neenah Inc. (NYSE:NP) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Tuesday, July 5. Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. (NYSE: SWM) is acquiring Neenah in a transaction expected to be completed on July 1.
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NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Bakkt Holdings, Inc. f/k/a VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings (NYSE: BKKT, BKKT-WT) (NASDAQ: VIHAU, VIH, VIHAW) (a) between May 7, 2021 and February 25, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (b) pursuant and/or traceable to the Offering Documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC ("Legacy Bakkt") completed on or about October 15, 2021 (the "Business Combination") of the important June 21, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Bakkt securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Bakkt class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5546 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 21, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Offering Documents were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation, and that throughout the Class Period defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, the Offering Documents and defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Bakkt had defective financial controls; (2) as a result, there were errors in the Company's financial statements related to the misclassification of certain shares issued prior to the Business Combination; (3) accordingly, Bakkt would need to restate certain of its financial statements; (4) Bakkt downplayed the true scope and severity of these issues; (5) Bakkt overstated its remediation of its defective financial controls; and (6) as a result, the Offering Documents and defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected.
At a campaign rally Monday night in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Haley promised not to touch the benefits of older people who retired with certain guarantees of a financial future.
“We’re not taking it from seniors,” Haley said. “We’re not taking it to anyone who’s been promised anything. My parents are in their 80s. I don’t want anybody touching theirs.”
But Haley, making her first campaign stop in South Carolina since launching her campaign last month, said her children, both of whom are in their 20s, are part of the generation for whom the benefits should be altered.
“Those are the ones we tell the rules have changed — anyone new coming in this system,” said Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “That’s how you do entitlement reform. You let them know, it’s not going to be there for you anyway, because Social Security goes bankrupt in 10 years, Medicare goes bankrupt in five. We have to do something.”
Most leading Republicans have recently sought to signal their unwillingness to touch entitlement programs, though the GOP has a long history of threatening to slash the benefits. President Joe Biden, who has promised to “defend and strengthen” the programs, was met with boos from congressional Republicans when he said during his State of the Union address that “some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset.”
Democrats have pointed to a plan by Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, introduced last year, that called for all federal spending legislation to sunset in five years, subject to votes in Congress that could preserve programs. After Biden’s speech, Scott amended the plan to exempt Social Security, Medicare, national security, veterans benefits, and other essential services.
The programs are coming up against insolvency deadlines. Forecasters say Social Security won’t be able to pay out its promised benefits in about a dozen years, and Medicare won’t be able to do so in just five years. Economists say both programs will drive the national debt higher in the decades to come, forcing teeth-gritting choices for the next generation of lawmakers.
Others in the presidential field have taken the issue head on. On Monday in Davenport, Iowa, former President Donald Trump pledged to keep the programs as they are. “I will not be cutting Medicare, and I will not be cutting Social Security,” he declared.
Speaking Sunday on Fox News, Haley proposed elevating the retirement age “so that it matches life expectancy,” an idea she has mentioned during other campaign stops without delineating a specific age.
To Haley, entitlement reform should also include a move “to limit the benefits for the wealthy,” as well as an expansion of Medicare Advantage, in which private companies offer plans that are reimbursed by the government for care.
“Let’s create the competition,” Haley said. “There are great programs — it will cause health care costs to go down. That’s how you deal with the budget. That’s what we’ll do.”
For the age limits, as well as the proposals for wealthier Americans, Haley has not specified details on what she has in mind.
Since opening her campaign Feb. 15, Haley has made stops in Iowa and New Hampshire, given speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference and Americans for Prosperity gatherings and raised money in New York — although the campaign has said it won’t release fundraising figures until the end of the first quarter.
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SALISBURY, Md., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In advance of the official groundbreaking of the Food Bank of Delaware's new 67,000-square-foot Milford facility on Sept. 29, Perdue Farms jump started the Building Hope in Milford capital campaign by presenting a $250,000 donation.
The gift from the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the company's charitable giving arm, is part of Perdue's Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors® outreach focused on improving quality of life and building strong communities.
With more than 50,000 residents of Kent and Sussex counties struggling to afford food, food insecurity in the First State has been exasperated by the pandemic and inflation.
"What a wonderful way to head into our groundbreaking festivities with this incredibly generous gift," said Food Bank of Delaware President and CEO Cathy Kanefsky. "Perdue has been a long-standing partner of the Food Bank of Delaware, donating more than 17.2 million pounds of protein products and $560,000 since the start of our partnership. This new facility is a huge undertaking, but it is greatly needed so we can serve the residents of Kent and Sussex counties who need us. Together, with our community partners, we will raise the needed money so we can build hope here in Milford."
With the current Milford branch located at 1040 Mattlind Way operating at more than 163 percent capacity, the Food Bank of Delaware determined in 2020 that a new facility was needed. Last summer, the hunger-relief organization purchased an 11.5-acre parcel of land from the City of Milford and has spent the past year designing the new facility. An official groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 29.
"At Perdue Farms, we believe we have a responsibility to help individuals and families in need in the communities we call home, including here in the First State. We employ more than 2,800 people in Delaware, many of them right here in Milford," said Kim Nechay, executive director of the Perdue Foundation. "We have long recognized the valuable role the Food Bank of Delaware plays in our communities and share a common mission to deliver hope to our neighbors who struggle to put a meal on the table. We see this as not only an investment in the food bank, but an investment in the well-being of our neighbors. We're proud to lend our support and hope it inspires others to do the same."
The Food Bank of Delaware distribute millions of pounds of food each year to the community through on-site food pantries, mobile food pantries and a network of hunger-relief partners throughout the state. Its five-acre farm in Newark provides a supply of fresh local produce for members of the community. In addition to immediate food assistance, the Food Bank of Delaware also provides hope for a better tomorrow through workforce and community development programming. It offers job training in the areas of food service and warehousing/logistics, nutrition education, financial coaching through Stand By Me and benefits outreach.
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, was established in 1957 by company founder Arthur W. Perdue and is funded through the estates of Arthur W. Perdue and Frank Perdue. As part of our belief in supporting the communities where and with whom we do business, the Foundation provides grants on behalf of Perdue Farms in communities where large numbers of our associates live and work. At Perdue Farms, we believe in responsible food and agriculture®.
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The premium protein portfolio within our Perdue Foods business, including our flagship PERDUE® brand, Niman Ranch®, Panorama Organic Grass-Fed Meats®, Coleman Natural®, and Yummy®, as well as our pet brands, Spot Farms® and Full Moon®, is available through various channels including retail, foodservice, club stores and our direct-to-consumer website, PerdueFarms.com.
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1 dead after shooting at medical center in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - One person is dead and a suspect is in custody after a shooting at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center North Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, WWBT reported.
Police were called to the hospital just after midnight Wednesday for reports of an active threat.
Officers quickly responded and found a man shot in the stairwell.
The victim died shortly after the shooting.
Police said a male suspect was quickly taken into custody.
The shooting happened after the two men got into a fight, according to authorities.
Authorities said they believe the suspect and the victim knew each other, but their exact relationship is under investigation.
Police say no patients at the hospital were involved in the shooting, and there is no active threat.
A joint investigation between VCU Police and the Richmond Police Department into the incident is ongoing.
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According to NBCDFW, Iman Shumpert was arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport over the weekend after airport police found six ounces of marijuana and a gun magazine in his bookbag.
The police report states they found the former NBA player with “a Glock magazine containing 14 nine-millimeter rounds was also found in the backpack along with 6.12 ounces of marijuana. No weapon was located.”
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He says he was flying from DFW to Los Angeles to pick up his daughter and asked police officers “asked if there was any way he could make his flight” before handcuffing him and taking him to airport jail. Reports say Shumpert was arrested and charged with a felony and could face up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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NEW YORK — Eloy Jiménez hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning off Michael King, and the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-5 in the opener of a doubleheader Thursday to extend their winning streak to a season-high five games.
Jake Burger hit a two-run homer off Yankees starter Luis Severino before Luis Robert Jr. and Yoán Moncada also went deep against the right-hander.
Robert, who entered in an 8-for-40 skid, had three hits. He doubled in the seventh before Jiménez drove the next pitch from King (1-2) into the New York bullpen in right-center for a two-run shot that gave Chicago a 6-5 lead.
Willie Calhoun drove in three runs for the Yankees, who played their first game since putting slugger Aaron Judge on the 10-day injured list with a sprained and bruised right big toe. Calhoun hit an RBI single and a two-run homer off starter Lance Lynn.
Kyle Higashioka had an RBI double, and Oswaldo Cabrera hit an RBI single that gave the Yankees a 5-4 lead in the fifth.
Severino tied a career high by serving up three homers for the fourth time overall and second consecutive start. He allowed four runs and six hits in five innings.
Lynn permitted five runs and eight hits in five innings. Gregory Santos (2-0) pitched a 1-2-3 sixth for the win.
Joe Kelly and Reynaldo López tossed a hitless inning apiece. Kendall Graveman earned his sixth save by getting Anthony Rizzo to ground into a game-ending double play with two on.
Burger hit a 421-foot homer in the second into the Chicago bullpen in left-center for a 2-0 lead. After the Yankees tied it on Higashioka’s RBI double and Calhoun’s run-scoring single, the White Sox regained the lead in the third.
Robert opened the inning by hitting a fastball onto the netting above Monument Park behind the center-field fence, and Moncada reached the right-field seats two batters later. Chicago held the lead until Calhoun launched a two-run homer in the fourth.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Judge said the swelling in his toe is decreasing and he opted against using a walking boot. … LHP Nestor Cortes (rotator cuff strain) was placed on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to June 5. LHP Matt Krook was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. ... LHP Carlos Rodón (back) is expected to throw two more simulated games before going on a minor league rehab assignment. He threw 20 pitches against hitters Wednesday.
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Chicago RHP Mike Clevinger (3-3, 4.13 ERA) opposes New York rookie right-hander Randy Vásquez (0-1, 3.86) in the second game. Vásquez was set to make his second major league start.
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A U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of an armed protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday morning.
Daniel Perry faced up to life in prison for fatally shooting 28-year-old Garrett Foster nearly three years ago. Perry was working as a ride-share driver in downtown Austin on the summer night in 2020 when he killed Foster, a white Air Force veteran.
Foster was legally carrying an AK-47 rifle as he participated in the demonstration against police killings and racial injustice in downtown Austin when he was fatally shot.
Perry, who is also white, was convicted of Foster's murder in April. On Wednesday morning, a Travis County judge announced his 25-year sentence with credit for time served, according to KXAN-TV in Austin. Prosecutors asked for a minimum sentence of 25 years, while the defense pushed for just 10.
Shortly after Perry's conviction, Gov. Greg Abbott pushed for the chance to pardon him by requesting an expedited review of the case by the state's Board of Pardon and Paroles. The board, which is stacked with Abbott appointees, has already begun though it's not clear specifically what action they've taken on the case and it's also not clear when the parole board will reach a decision. The governor has not said publicly how he came to his conclusion about seeking the pardon.
Judge Clifford A. Brown delivered a statement during sentencing Wednesday that didn't address the potential pardon directly. But he insisted that Perry had a "fair and impartial trial" and that the jury's decision "deserves our honor and it deserves to be respected."
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Perry's two-day sentencing hearing began Tuesday with the state presenting dozens of pages of text messages and social media posts that they said demonstrated his hostile views of the Black Lives Matter protests following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer.
According to evidence presented by prosecutors Tuesday, Perry wrote on Facebook a month before the shooting: "It is official I am a racist because I do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo."
Perry's attorneys objected to the statements as taken out of context and said Perry had a right to free speech.
Brown said although excluded at trial, the messages may be considered relevant in the punishment phase.
Forensic psychologist Greg Hupp testified that he believed Perry has post-traumatic stress disorder from his deployment to Afghanistan and being bullied as a child, and that he may also be on the autism spectrum disorder. Perry did not see combat but was near a soldier who shot themself in the head, Hupp said.
Foster's girlfriend, Whitney Mitchell, described how she and Foster started dating shortly after high school. She described a devoted partner who took care of her everyday needs after an infection led to the amputation of her hands and feet when she was 18.
Foster joined the Air Force in 2011 but left in 2013 to be with her.
"He took care of me," Mitchell said through tears. "That's why he wanted to come back, to take care of me. He would wash my face, do my hair, he helped me put my clothing on, he helped put on my makeup ... He helped me when I couldn't do anything."
Perry said he was trying to get past the crowd and fired his pistol when Foster pointed a rifle at him. Witnesses testified that they did not see Foster raise his weapon, and prosecutors argued that Perry could have driven away without shooting.
Perry said he acted in self-defense. His lawyers asked the judge to consider his more than decadelong military career and hand down a sentence of no more than 10 years. He has been classified as in "civilian confinement" and is ending separation from the military, Army spokesman Bryce Dubee said.
Prosecutor Guillermo Gonzalez had urged Brown to issue a sentence of at least 25 years. The sentencing range for a murder conviction is five years to life in prison.
"This man is a loaded gun, ready to go off at any perceived threat," Gonzalez said. "He's going to do it again."
Perry's conviction prompted outrage from prominent conservatives including former Fox News star Tucker Carlson, who called the shooting an act of self-defense and criticized Abbott for not coming on his show.
Abbott, a former judge who has not ruled out a 2024 presidential run, tweeted the next day that "Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground' laws" and that he looked forward to signing a pardon once a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles hits his desk.
Perry served in the military for more than a decade and was stationed at Fort Hood, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Austin. He had just dropped off a ride-share customer on July 25, 2020, when he turned onto a street filled with protesters.
Perry said he was trying to get past the crowd blocking the street when Foster pointed a rifle at him. Perry said he fired at Foster in self-defense. Witnesses testified that they did not see Foster raise his weapon, and prosecutors argued that Perry could have driven away without shooting.
Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020. A few days later, according to court documents, Perry sent a text message to an acquaintance as protests over Floyd's death got underway.
"I might go to Dallas to shoot looters," Perry wrote.
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Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening’s supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this ... hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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How to Watch the Texas vs. Iowa State Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the Big 12 Tournament Championship
Published: Mar. 12, 2023 at 7:11 AM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Big 12 conference champion will be named on Sunday when the No. 1 seed Texas Longhorns (25-8) and the No. 3 Iowa State Cyclones (21-9) meet at 2:00 PM.
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Texas Women's Basketball Game Live Stream & TV Channel Info
- When: Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
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Texas vs. Iowa State Scoring Comparison
- The Cyclones put up 18.6 more points per game (76) than the Longhorns give up to opponents (57.4).
- Iowa State is 19-7 when it scores more than 57.4 points.
- Texas is 23-6 when it allows fewer than 76 points.
- The 74 points per game the Longhorns score are 9.4 more points than the Cyclones give up (64.6).
- Texas is 22-3 when scoring more than 64.6 points.
- Iowa State is 15-5 when giving up fewer than 74 points.
- The Longhorns shoot 44.4% from the field, 6.3% higher than the Cyclones concede defensively.
- The Cyclones make 42.8% of their shots from the field, just 4.9% more than the Longhorns' defensive field-goal percentage.
Texas Schedule
Iowa State Schedule
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PARADISE, Texas (AP) — A 7-year-old Texas girl has been found dead, two days after being reported missing, and a FedEx delivery driver arrested in her death, authorities said.
The body of Athena Strand was found Friday and Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, was arrested on kidnapping and murder charges after confessing to killing the girl and telling authorities where to find her body, according to Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin.
Horner remained jailed Saturday on $1.5 million bond. Jail records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Akin said during a late Friday news conference that a tip led authorities to Horner, who the sheriff said had made a delivery to the girl’s home shortly before she disappeared.
Horner did not know the girl’s family, according to Akin, who declined to discuss a motive for the crime.
“We really can’t get into the content of the confession, but I will say we have a confession” from Horner, Akin said.
The girl’s stepmother had reported her missing on Wednesday from the family home near Paradise on the northwestern outskirts of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Her body was found near the town of Boyd, about 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) southeast of Paradise, a town of about 475 people, Akin said.
James Dwyer, acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas field office, said FedEx cooperated with investigators.
FedEx said in a statement that it is working with law enforcement agencies investigating the case.
“Our thoughts are with the family of Athena Strand during this most difficult time,” according to the statement. “Words cannot describe our shock and sorrow surrounding this tragic event.”
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Subsidiary Sands China Ltd. joins the DJSI World Index
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) has once again been recognized on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), with placement on DJSI World Index for the third consecutive year and on the DJSI North America Index for the seventh time. Sands' Asia subsidiary, Sands China Ltd., was named to the DJSI World Index for the first time, along with a repeat appearance on the DJSI Asia Pacific Index.
The Dow Jones Sustainability™ World Index comprises global sustainability leaders as identified by S&P Global through the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). It represents the top 10% of the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P Global BMI based on long-term economic, environmental and social criteria.
Sands was one of only three companies in the Casino & Gaming industry category to be included on the DJSI World Index, and it is the only company in the group to be included on the DJSI North America Index. Sands China is one of only two companies in the category to be included on the DJSI Asia Pacific Index.
"Our continued recognition on this premier global sustainability benchmark is a testament to our multi-faceted and long-standing commitment to environmental and social leadership," said Patrick Dumont, president and chief operating officer. "This focus further extends the value our world-class integrated resorts contribute to local economies and quality of life. Inclusion on the 2022 Indices was driven by our emphasis on being the employer and partner of choice in the regions we call home, the strategic investments we make to ensure our communities' strength and resiliency, and our leadership in delivering comprehensive initiatives to minimize environmental impact."
Earlier this year, Sands announced its 2025 ambitions in the areas of workforce development, Team Member volunteerism, and carbon emission reduction, aiming to continuously evolve and expand its impact within the company's corporate responsibility pillars of People, Communities and Planet.
Under the People pillar, Sands aims to invest $200 million in workforce development by 2025. The company is focused on building the workforce of the future, through professional growth and advancement for Team Members and the local labor pool, especially small and medium enterprises; health, safety and wellbeing; diversity, equity and inclusion; protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms; and responsible gaming and business practices.
The global Sands Cares community engagement program leads Sands' Community pillar and drives efforts to address hardship relief, promote educational opportunities and learning resources especially for underserved groups, advance local business and nonprofit partners, provide disaster relief and preparedness support, and preserve and protect the cultural and natural heritage of host communities.
Finally, Sands works to ensure the long-term environmental health of its regions through the Planet pillar, led by the Sands ECO360 global sustainability program, which drives initiatives addressing low-carbon transition, water stewardship, waste, plastic and packaging, and responsible sourcing.
The DJSI was launched in 1999 as the pioneering series of global sustainability benchmarks available in the market. The index family is comprised of global, regional and country benchmarks. The S&P Global CSA is an annual evaluation of company sustainability practices, covering more than 10,000 companies from around the world.
Sands is the world's preeminent developer and operator of world-class Integrated Resorts.
Our iconic properties drive valuable leisure and business tourism and deliver significant economic benefits, sustained job creation, financial opportunities for local businesses and community investment to help make our host regions ideal places to live, work and visit.
Sands' portfolio of properties includes Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and The Venetian Macao, The Plaza and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao and Sands Macao in Macao SAR, China, through majority ownership in Sands China Ltd.
Sands is dedicated to being a leader in corporate responsibility, anchored by our core tenets of serving people, planet and communities. Our ESG leadership has led to inclusion on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for World and North America and recognition as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies. To learn more, visit www.sands.com.
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Marler Clark Retained by Families of Deceased Listeria Victims
SEATTLE, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington State Health Department announced a Listeria outbreak in Western Washington which resulted in three deaths from an unknown source. Marler Clark, a law firm specializing in foodborne illness litigation, is representing families of victims in this tragic outbreak.
"Listeria is a deadly bacterium causing over 300 deaths in the United States every year," said Bill Marler of Marler Clark Inc., PS., "It hospitalizes nearly 100% of people linked to an outbreak," added Marler.
In 2011, Marler Clark represented over 30 families of people nationwide who died from Listeriosis linked to cantaloupes grown in Colorado. The outbreak led to criminal prosecutions of the grower/processor.
Four of those sickened by the recent Listeria outbreak were living in Pierce County, with one residing in Thurston County. Victims of this outbreak, two women and three men, were reported to be in their 60's and 70's. Of the Listeria victims that are known, 5 were hospitalized, and 3 died. Genetic fingerprinting results indicate that these patients likely have the same source of infection. Patients became ill between February 27 and June 30, 2023.
Bill Marler's work as a food safety advocate is highlighted in the Netflix Documentary "Poisoned" streaming August 2. See, "Poisoned": The Dirty Truth About Your Food | Official Trailer | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZcyMgdWmPg.
What is Listeria?
Listeriosis is an infection caused by the bacteria called Listeria. The consumption of Listeria contaminated food is the most common way people contract listeriosis. Following exposure, symptoms may develop within 3-70 days. Of those exposed, half will experience symptoms within 3 weeks.
Symptoms of Listeria include fever, muscle aches, nausea, and diarrhea. If the infection spreads to the central nervous system, symptoms can include headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions.
Who is most likely to get seriously ill from Listeria?
- Pregnant women and Newborns – Pregnant women are 20 times more likely to get listeriosis than the average healthy adult.
- People with cancer, diabetes, or kidney disease.
- People with AIDS – People with AIDS are 300 times more likely to get sick from Listeria than people with normal immune systems.
- People who take steroids.
- The elderly.
How to avoid exposure to Listeria if you are at risk.
- Wash raw vegetables well before consuming.
- Cook meat thoroughly.
- Separate uncooked meat from vegetables and cooked foods.
- Wash hands, knives and cutting boards after exposure to uncooked food.
- Eat perishable and ready-to-eat foods as soon as possible.
- Do not eat hot dogs or lunch meats unless they are heated to a temperature sufficient to kill Listeria.
- Avoid getting liquid from hot dog packages on other food.
- Wash hands after handling hot dogs and lunch and deli meats.
- Do not eat soft cheeses (e.g., feta, Brie, Camembert, blue cheese, and queso blanco) unless the label clearly states that they are pasteurized.
- Do not eat refrigerated pâté or meat spread, only canned or shelf-stable ones.
- Do not eat refrigerated smoked seafood, sometimes labeled as "nova-style," "lox," "kippered," or "jerky."
Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, is the nation's leading law firm representing victims of Listeria outbreaks. The Listeria lawyers of Marler Clark have represented thousands of victims of Listeria and other foodborne illness outbreaks for 30 years and have recovered over $850 million for clients. Marler Clark is the only law firm in the nation with a practice focused exclusively on foodborne illness litigation. Our Listeria lawyers have litigated Listeria cases stemming from outbreaks traced to a variety of foods, such as lettuce, polony, deli meat, cantaloupe, cheese, celery, and milk.
Additional Resources:
- About Listeria - a complete online resource for Listeria information
- Family Health Guide About Listeria infection, or Listeriosis (pdf)
- Listeria News
- Video: Bill Marler on Listeria
- Video: What to know about Listeria during an Outbreak
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Timothy James Kisner
September 20, 1959-November 10, 2022
BROOKLYN PARK-Timothy James Kisner, 63, of Brooklyn Park, MN died Thursday (November 10, 2022).
A memorial Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, December 10 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage with the Rev. Burkle officiating. Inurnment will be at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery.
There will be a gathering of family and friends on Friday, December 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage.
Tim was born September 20, 1959, in Osage, the son of Oliver (“Tim”) and Marcellene (Mullenbach) Kisner. He graduated from Osage High School.
Tim was united in marriage to Joan Amato on October 22, 2011 in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. He owned and operated "Tim's Town Pump" in Mitchell, was a stockbroker in Minneapolis for many years, and last worked as a Finance Operations Specialist for SAP/ Concur.
Tim is survived by his wife: Joan (Amato) Kisner, of Brooklyn Park, MN.; his daughter Britney Kisner, her husband Cory Johnson, and two grandchildren: Caden, and Able Johnson, of Coon Rapids, MN.; two brothers: Steven P. Kisner, his wife, Kirsi, and son, Onni Oliver, of Fridley, MN, and Rodney R. Kisner, and his wife, Ronda of Coon Rapids, MN.
He was preceded in death by his parents; Oliver “Tim” and Marcellene.
Champion Funeral Home, Osage, (641) 732-3706.
In Lieu of flowers, the family would welcome donations toward the funeral costs.
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Researchers scouring decades-old spacecraft data have found clear signs of recent volcanic activity on Venus. The findings, published in the journal Science, reveal not only that the planet's surface is currently a turbulent place, but offer insights into its geological past and future.
By any measure, Venus is a hellscape: crushing pressures, a toxic atmosphere, and surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. It's like a scene lifted straight from Dante's Inferno.
It's "my favorite planet," says Robert Herrick, a planetary scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Despite all its hostility, Venus — our nearest planetary neighbor — is actually pretty similar to Earth. So much so that Herrick calls it our "true sibling" in the solar system. The resemblance is "driven by what's going on in their interior," he says.
"Aside from Earth," Herrick says, "it's the only planet that has true mountain ranges and a huge variety of volcanic features." These features include lava fields, canals carved by molten rock, and hundreds, if not thousands of volcanoes.
So it's clear that Venus is volcanically active, giving it a youthful (in geological terms) appearance. But it's not clear exactly how active.
"That could still mean that the time between eruptions could be months, years, or tens of thousands of years," says Herrick.
So he set out to try to narrow down that time window by searching for evidence of recent volcanic activity. He turned to radar surface imagery collected by the Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990's.
"Thirty years ago," he says, "it was just not feasible to pan around and zoom in and out and flip back and forth between different global mosaics." But computer hardware and software have improved substantially, and so Herrick was able to pore over the imagery.
"It's a needle in a haystack search without any guarantee that there's a needle," he admits.
Herrick focused his search around the highest volcano on Venus called Maat Mons, named after the ancient Egyptian goddess of truth and justice. And after a couple months of looking across an area about the size of Australia, he found something.
It's evident in two side-by-side black-and-white images taken eight months apart of the same spot on the north side of the volcano. Each one is about 15 or 20 miles across. Herrick points out a pockmark towards the bottom. It's a vent — the area where a volcano erupts, discharging its lava, ash, and rock. But the shape of that vent differs between the two images.
"The outline has changed, and the thing's actually gotten larger, and looks shallower as well," he says. That is, within a mere eight months in 1991 (the same year that President George H. W. Bush declared victory over Iraq and Clarence Thomas was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice), Herrick speculates the volcano erupted, forming a lava lake within the vent.
"Of course, I could have gotten very lucky and seen the only thing that happened in the last million years on Venus," Herrick says. "But I think the reasonable interpretation suggests that Venus is relatively Earth-like in the frequency of volcanic eruptions," similar to the likes of Hawaii and Iceland.
Unlike Earth, Venus doesn't have plate tectonics. So researchers have been trying to work out how the planet has evolved geologically over the last four-and-a-half billion years and where it might be headed. Herrick and his colleague Scott Hensley hope their findings will help do just that.
"It is nice to have a visual confirmation of the volcanic activity on Venus," says Clara Sousa-Silva, a quantum astrochemist at Bard College who wasn't involved in the research. "But given that this was something we had speculated, it's not shocking to have this paper come out."
Still, Sousa-Silva says this confirmation of activity on Venus's surface does help us better understand what to expect in Venus' atmosphere.
"A planet that has a lot of volcanic activity," she says, "has access to these extreme pressures and temperatures below the surface that can produce molecules that are really unusual and otherwise really hard to make."
Much of NASA's (and the public's) recent attention has been drawn to Mars; the space agency has landed five rovers on the Red Planet's dusty surface since 1997.
But Herrick says that Earth's similarity to Mars is somewhat superficial, being pretty much limited to surface features like sand blowing around, desert landscapes, and signs of what may have once been lakes and rivers.
The winds of interest have shifted, though. "Maybe it's cycling back like bell bottoms," Herrick says with a chuckle.
That's because NASA currently has two missions to Venus in the works, which will now be informed by Herrick's findings. "We don't just think it's an active planet," he says. "We know it's an active planet — right now."
Herrick is working with NASA to develop an instrument for those upcoming missions to monitor volcanic activity on Venus. He's pretty confident now that the seismometer will register something once it's deployed — as long as it can survive the infernal planet long enough to make its measurements.
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Sponsored by Illinois Cares For Kids
The cost of childcare these days can feel too enormous to bare so Illinois Cares For Kids and Illinois Action For Children are teaming up to let Illinois residents know they may be able to get the help they need without the large cost. Vice President of Family and Provider Resources, Chris Tokarski shared with me how families can take advantage of this assistance program.
actforchildren.org/child-care/pay-child-care
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China International Import Expo (CIIE),as a major platform for international procurement, investment promotion, cultural exchanges and open cooperation, has been held successfully for four consecutive years and is widely regarded as an international public good and the multinational trading system, as well as a pivotal carrier for building an open world economy and a community with a shared future for mankind.
Since its inception in 2018, the CIIE has been growing in scale and influence. The area of its business exhibition increased from 270,000 square meters in 2018 to 366,000 square meters in 2021. Exhibitors at the past four CIIEs launched more than 1,500 new products, technologies and services and clinched tentative deals worth over $270 billion.
As the CIIE enters its fifth year, more and more countries along the Belt and Road have begun to cast their sights on the Chinese market and export their products to China.
At the first CIIE, Ma Yuxia, a Chinese businesswoman based in South America, introduced alpaca plush toys to the Chinese market.
Ma and her Peruvian partners rented a small 9-square-meter booth to display and promote these toys and other traditional hand-made crafts in Peru. They also established their own brand called Warmpaca.
That outing to the expo proved to be incredibly fruitful. After participating in the CIIE for four consecutive years, Warmpaca can now be found in more than 20 malls in China.
To date, more than 80 percent of the planned business exhibition area for the fifth CIIE has been reserved. More than 260 Fortune Global 500 companies and industry leaders will attend the expo this year.
Many countries have confirmed their participation in the country exhibition, while a new World Openness Report and World Openness Index will be released at the Hongqiao International Economic Forum, a major part of the expo.
With so many showing their interest, space will be filling up fast. Be sure to sign up for the fifth edition before time runs out! Click here to register: https://www.ciie.org/exhibition/f/book/register?locale=en.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — New York Yankees right-hander Luis Severino pitched seven no-hit innings against the Texas on Monday night, and rookie Josh Jung got the Rangers’ first hit with a one-out single in the eighth off Miguel Castro.
In the same game slugging teammate Aaron Judge is looking for his 62nd homer, Severino faced the minimum 21 batters through seven innings in only his thrd start since missing two months with a right lat strain.
Manager Aaron Boone had a discussion with Severino in the dugout after the seventh inning, and Severino appeared to try to talk Boone into letting him continue.
Castro made his first appearance since July 10 after recovering from a strained shoulder. With the Yankees ahead 3-0, he allowed a clean single to left by Jung, who is hitting just .195.
Severino had seven strikeouts, including striking out the side in the fifth inning. He has thrown 63 of 94 pitches for strikes, averaging 97.9 mph for 47 fastballs and reaching a top velocity of 100.3 mph.
He threw 17 changeups, 16 sliders, 11 sinkers and three cutters.
Texas’ only runner was Josh Smith, who walked in the third and was immediately erased when No. 9 batter Bubba Thompson grounded into an inning-ending double play.
The no-hit bid by Severino comes two days after José Suarez of the Los Angeles Angels lost a perfect game in the seventh inning against the Rangers when Marcus Semien led off with a single.
Texas was last no-hit in 2021, when Joe Musgrove of the San Diego Padres and Corey Kluber, then with the Yankees, both threw no-hitters at Globe Life Field about six weeks apart.
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$1,000,000 donation continues to move 22-year collaboration forward
CASCO, Maine, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Camp Sunshine is pleased to announce a $1,000,000 gift from the New Balance Foundation. This donation will endow one entire session at Camp Sunshine in perpetuity. The funds will forever provide families with the opportunity to meet others on similar journeys and to re-group, re-energize and restore hope for the future. Camp Sunshine is a free, year-round retreat in Casco, Maine for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Each New Balance Foundation session will host as many as 40 families, which equates to approximately 80-100 children and 150-170 total family members. This year's New Balance Foundation session at Camp Sunshine was hosted September 2-5.
This generous gift is the latest in what has been a longstanding relationship between Camp Sunshine and the New Balance Foundation that began two decades ago. "This is one of Camp Sunshine's longest-standing collaborative efforts and it continues to be a motivator for all of us here at Camp to be aligned with a corporate foundation that is so invested in giving back," said Anna Gould, Camp Sunshine's Founder & Board Chair.
The Foundation's support of Camp Sunshine began in 2000 when it sponsored two families to attend the program as part of the Miracle Marathon and grand opening of Camp Sunshine's Anna & Larry Gould Campus. Soon after, factory and outlet store associates began to volunteer at Camp on an annual basis. In 2006, the Foundation committed $250,000 to Camp Sunshine's Endowment and in 2009, an additional $250,000 Brick Walkway Matching Challenge was completed, and the walkway named in the New Balance Foundation's honor. The New Balance Foundation later matched donations up to $300,000 to celebrate Camp Sunshine's 30th Anniversary in 2014. To date, the New Balance Foundation has donated nearly $2,000,000 to Camp Sunshine.
"Our goal at Camp Sunshine is to create communities of support for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, and the continued support of the New Balance Foundation ensures that families will be able to experience the magic of Camp Sunshine for years to come," said Michael Katz, Camp Sunshine's Executive Director.
"Camp Sunshine is a pillar of strength in our Maine communities. The Camp's commitment to families, patients and communities is unprecedented and New Balance and New Balance Foundation is proud to stand by Camp Sunshine's vision. The Camp's programs continue to grow, and their ability to host families facing a wide range of serious illnesses is tremendous. New Balance Foundation is proud to invest in Camp Sunshine's future with a meaningful gift that will benefit families for years to come," said Anne Davis, managing trustee, New Balance Foundation.
Founded in 1984, Camp Sunshine provides retreats combining respite, recreation and support, while enabling hope and promoting joy, for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families through the various stages of a child's illness. www.campsunshine.org
The New Balance Foundation mission is to drive change in our global communities with an enduring commitment to preventing childhood obesity and championing the future success of today's youth. Since 1981, New Balance Foundation has granted more than $120M to charity, investing in research, and clinical, educational and community programs that promote healthy lifestyles, children's fitness and nutrition, and overall community wellness. www.newbalancefoundation.org
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Twitter has threatened to take legal action against Threads, a new rival app from Meta that has gained tens of millions of users since its release on Wednesday.
On the same day, an attorney representing Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing Threads of engaging in "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property."
The letter, which was first reported by Semafor , accuses Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees with the intention of creating a "copycat" platform.
"Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information," Spiro wrote. "Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice."
Meta Communications Director Andy Stone dismissed the accusations in a Threads post on Thursday.
"No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that's just not a thing," he wrote.
Over on Twitter, owner Elon Musk replied to a post reporting the letter by writing, "Competition is fine, cheating is not."
Twitter has seen a host of challenges from similar microblogging platforms since Musk first acquired the platform for $44 billion last year. But none have grown as quickly as Threads, where, Zuckerberg reports, more than 70 million users had signed up by Friday morning.
The app's user interface looks and operates much like Twitter, with buttons to like, reply, repost or quote a thread. But users have bemoaned the lack of some classic Twitter features, like hashtags and direct messaging.
Meta responded to NPR's request for more information by pointing to Stone's response on Threads.
Since March, Twitter's communications team has sent a standard automatic response to emails from the press, containing nothing but a poop emoji.
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WOODLAND, Wash. (AP) — A landslide in southwest Washington state Monday afternoon blocked and closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 5.
At least two vehicles were stuck in debris that slid down onto the freeway Monday afternoon near Woodland, Washington State Patrol Trooper Will Finn said on Twitter.
Photos posted on Twitter by Finn appeared to show a pickup truck’s front end damaged and caught in the slide. Tree branches, mud and other debris appears to have slid down from a hill above. No injuries were reported.
The state Department of Transportation said drivers were being diverted at milepost 22, or the Woodland exit.
As of about 4:30 p.m., there was no estimated time for the lanes to reopen and officials asked people to avoid the area.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Barclays PLC ("Barclays" or the "Company") (NYSE: BCS).
Class Period: February 18, 2021 – March 25, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 22, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Barclays investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Barclays had a material weakness in its internal control environment due to the fact that the over-issuance had occurred and was not immediately identified; (2) BBPLC had and was selling unregistered securities in excess of the amounts registered by the August 2019 Shelf Registration Statement, (3) BBPLC was required to conduct a recission offer for those unregistered securities, and (4) BBPLC was violating U.S. securities laws and/or SEC regulations, subjecting Barclays to legal liability; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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The 6 God feels remorseful about rapping about his former love interests in his songs.
Speaking with Lil Yachty for the premiere episode of his FUTUREMOOD’s A Moody Conversation series, the 36-year-old Canadian Hip-Hop star had a moment of self-reflection.
“Maybe I coulda done without, like, s—ting on people for age or disrupting somebody’s life,” the “God’s Plan” crafter said speaking about his exes.
“The lyrics are never with ill intent, but I had somebody tell me one time, ‘You know, it’s not necessarily what you’re saying about me, it’s the fact that you said it,” Drizzy told Lil Yachty.
Drake went even deeper talking about a conversation with an ex about him name-dropping her in a song.
She told the OVO general, “You don’t know who my boyfriend is at the time, or you don’t know what my family knows or doesn’t know. And if you express any form of discontent for me and call me by name in a song, then all of a sudden I’m left to pick up the pieces of my own life that I’ve tried to build up for myself.”
“So I’ve tried my best to stop doing that,” Drake continued. “But I like to be honest in music too, so that one’s a push and pull.”
We guess that is a sign of growth.
Drake has gone on to boastfully rap on songs about hooking up with Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, and SZA. He brought up the singer’s name on his track “Mr. Right Now.”
“Yeah, said she wanna f— to some SZA, wait / ‘Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08,” he rapped.
You can watch the entire convo below.
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