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With school starting in less than two weeks, some of the largest and highest-paying North Carolina school districts are reporting they still have hundreds of unfilled teaching and staff positions.
Wake County Public School System held a press event this week where administrators released the district’s vacancies as of last week: 401 teachers, 192 instructional assistants, 266 bus drivers and 99 child nutrition staff.
While those figures may sound high, Wake County Schools has filled almost 97% of its teaching positions, said the district’s assistant superintendent for human resources A.J. Muttillo.
The district’s vacancy rate is less than 1 percentage point higher than the previous year.
“We know for us even one vacancy means a classroom without a teacher or critical support staff,” Muttillo said.
Muttillo says that’s why Wake County Schools is still working to hire teachers, and is acting on about 50 hiring recommendations each day as the school year rapidly approaches.
“While we're still hiring folks, it is more challenging to hire these days than it has been in prior years,” Muttillo said.
He said the burden on the district’s human resources department has changed “drastically” because of an increase in resignations during the pandemic.
Wake County Schools has not released its teacher turnover rate, but administrators at Durham Public Schools and Cumberland County Schools estimate those districts lost about 1 in 5 teachers last school year.
In the race to fill so many empty teachers' desks across the state, other schools may simply be out of qualified candidates. Superintendent Michael Sasscer of rural Edenton-Chowan Schools told WUNC earlier this month that the district no longer has any candidates for its six vacancies due to competition with larger, wealthier districts.
The National Education Association, the largest teachers' union in the country, announced this week that U.S. schools have an estimated 300,000 teaching and staff vacancies.
What vacancies mean for students and teachers left behind
Schools without qualified teachers in classroom positions might rely on long-term substitutes or candidates who are still fulfilling their licensing requirements to lead classrooms.
“But [schools] can only pull out so many band-aids before it really is a detriment to our students in our classrooms across the state,” said the North Carolina Association of Educators’ President Tamika Walker Kelly.
Walker Kelly says schools managed vacancies last year by increasing class sizes, asking teachers to sacrifice planning time to cover classes, and in some cases, by having teachers remotely teach classes in other schools that lacked a certified teacher.
“When teachers are normally meeting in their classroom, but now they're having classes in an auditorium or a gym, because their class sizes have ballooned from 20 plus to even 40 plus — those are real things,” Walker Kelly said. “Those are real challenges that keep us from giving our students the top-tier instruction that they deserve.”
“Our teacher vacancies show us that many of our teachers have been forced out of the profession because of the conditions,” Walker Kelly said.
Teaching vacancies are typical in NC, but appear to be rising
Teaching vacancies are not unusual in North Carolina. Last school year, the Department of Public Instruction counted 3,218 teaching vacancies across public schools in the state on the 40th day of school.
What appears to be changing, is that an ongoing teacher shortage is hitting some higher-paying school districts harder than usual. That does not bode well for less wealthy school districts that regularly go without the number of qualified teachers they are allotted in the state budget.
Rural and less wealthy school districts compete with higher-paying districts for teachers — now from a dwindling pool of candidates.
The North Carolina School Superintendents Association is currently collecting data on teacher and staff vacancies from its members. NCSSA’s executive director Jack Hoke is in touch with superintendents across the state.
“In the process of collecting that [data] in the early trends, it certainly looks like there's going to be a significant number of more vacancies than we had last year,” Hoke said.
Last school year, Anson, Bladen, Person and Vance County Schools, and Thomasville City Schools, had the highest vacancy rates in the state. Each district was above a 12% vacancy rate, meaning more than 1 in 10 teaching positions did not have a certified teacher well into the school year.
North Carolina school districts are not required to report vacancies to state education officials until several months into the school year. But with talk of a looming teacher shortage heavy in the air, some districts have shared their current vacancy counts with reporters.
WFAE reports Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has 341 teacher vacancies. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has 99 vacancies for certified positions, including teachers, librarians and counselors. Durham Public Schools has 270 vacancies for certified positions and 73 for support staff. Johnston County Schools has 115 vacancies for certified positions, and 199 for support staff.
Along with Wake County Schools, those are among the 11 highest-paying school districts in the state. All paid a higher local salary supplement than the state average in 2021. That local contribution is in addition to the base salary teachers receive from the state that makes up the majority of their pay.
“If you're talking about Chapel Hill, and you're talking about Wake County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg, and their vacancies are high, higher than they have been, and the supplements that are offered are much higher than our rural districts, then the trend would seem to me that the vacancies in the rural districts will also trend very high,” Hoke said.
The Wake County School board voted this week to raise its local pay for teachers again by an average of 4% and increased its minimum pay for staff to $16 an hour. Last year, the district had the second highest local salary supplement in the state, only trailing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools by an average of $8 per teacher.
“Raises are continuing to increase for staff and it's a good next step,” Muttillo said.
Two weeks from now, the state Supreme Court will hear the Leandro case — a landmark education funding case — to decide whether it can order the North Carolina General Assembly to increase funding to support public schools.
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Female-owned fashion brand, Love, Bonito, aims to embrace Women's mental health through art and reflection
NEW YORK, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This International Women's Day, Love, Bonito, a female-founded fashion brand, inspires women to embrace self-love and reflection by placing 20 mirrors throughout Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood. Each mirror carries a message of empowerment written across the reflective surface to encourage commuters to embrace their own journeys of self-love.
According to the Women's Confidence Report, three out of four women in the U.S. lack self-confidence. Furthermore, Women in diverse communities such as Asian American, Black, Hispanic and LGBTQ+, scored the lowest in self-love. Love, Bonito aims to help increase awareness of these critical mental health issues by inspiring women all over New York City to reflect and spread joy in their everyday journeys.
"We believe that community can be embraced through fashion and that there is a direct connection to looking good and feeling confident," says Stephanie Seow, the Head of North America, Love, Bonito. "Our installation aims to spread self-love in everyday moments and remind ourselves that, even on our best days, sometimes we all need a little extra self-care."
The mirror installation takes place for only 24 hours, but that does not mean the impact will be short lived. As Love, Bonito makes plans to expand their U.S. footprint, initiatives such as LBCreate, a global social impact program focused on bringing Women's issues to the forefront will remain an accessible resource for diverse women in the U.S. This installation also foreshadows Love, Bonito's first pop-up store to come to the U.S. this summer.
More information about Love, Bonito can be found in the fact sheet linked HERE. Installation photos will be available the morning of March 8, 2023.
About Love, Bonito
Designing for the key moments and milestones of a woman's life, Love, Bonito's comprehensive assortment features stylish and comfortable pieces for the modern Asian woman at home, work and play. Love, Bonito is the largest vertically integrated, omnichannel womenswear brand in Southeast Asia today. They remain committed to relationship building and nurturance, imbuing soul into innovation with thoughtful design and dedicated community outreach.
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LAS VEGAS, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmoprof North America, the beauty industry's leading B2B exhibition, wrapped up an exceptional 20th anniversary edition at the Las Vegas Convention Center from July 11–13, 2023. The show attendance grew 20% over last year, welcoming thousands of retailers, distributors, investors and media, and more than 1,100 exhibiting beauty brands, all brought together to learn about exciting product launches and industry trends, build their business networks and strengthen collaboration opportunities. The 20th edition underscores that Cosmoprof North America is the premier launching pad for beauty industry news and innovation around the world, attracting visitors and exhibitors from 108 countries to the three-day event.
As the beauty space continues to reach new heights, Cosmoprof North America is at the very center of this dynamic industry, bringing all the major players together in one place. The 20th edition had an unprecedented number of US and international retailers, buyers, distributors and brands such as Walmart, Nordstrom, Costco, Neiman Marcus, Macy's, Target, The Detox Market, Belk, Thirteen Lune, Sally Beauty, Unilever, Estée Companies, E.L.F. Beauty, Too Faced, Revlon and L'Oréal, just to name just a few. The show focused on many different beauty product categories, such as Hair Care, Skin Care, Makeup and Nails, and also spotlighted the Country Pavilions, an exclusive, continuing program that introduces emerging global beauty brands to the US market. Mariette Van Rooyen, Export Council Manager for Cosmetic Export Council of South Africa (CECOSA) said, "Our participation at Cosmoprof North America, Las Vegas was a success for 10 South African companies, generating excitement and interest. This provided fruitful discussions, potential collaborations, and increased brand visibility, strengthening our presence in the US market. We are excited to leverage the momentum gained from this exhibition and look forward to our participation at the Miami Edition of Cosmoprof North America, scheduled for January 2024." Other curated areas were Discover Beauty, Discover Beauty Spotlights, Discover Black-Owned Beauty, Discover Green, and The Beauty Vanities.
"This year's Cosmoprof was the busiest we have been in many years. Not only was our domestic sales team overbooked with appointments, but our teams in Canada, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin America were very busy and held amazing meetings with our brands exhibiting," stated Harlan Kirschner, CEO of the Kirschner Group, Inc. "Every brand was pleased with the success of the show and the quality of customers who attended."
Cosmopack also continued to be a major draw as demand soars for supply chain solutions. This singular event addresses all aspects of product production, including raw materials and ingredients, private label and contract manufacturing, primary and secondary packaging, machinery innovations, etc.
Education is an integral part of Cosmoprof North America's focus. This year's attendees gained a wealth of knowledge and insight at 20th edition CosmoTalks seminars and panels, including "Disrupted Beauty Retail," moderated by WSL Strategic Retail's Wendy Liebmann. The Entrepreneur Academy presented workshops centered around product creation, marketing strategies, and winning approaches for budding beauty entrepreneurs, while Cosmopack Education offered complimentary sessions exclusively on the beauty supply chain.
The annual CosmoTrends report, curated by BEAUTYSTREAMS, featuring the latest trends and cutting-edge innovations, was supported through another exciting CosmoTalks session and featured the trends: NIP-TUCK RELIEF, SKIN SHRINK, FUNCTION UP!, FRUITOPIA and HIGH-SCI.
The Cosmoprof North America 20th Anniversary Soiree concluded this year's incredible event, with a thrilling celebration of two decades of bringing the beauty industry together! The event included a special presentation of the Cosmoprof North America & Cosmopack North America Award winners. For the first time, this year's winners along with all global winners will be presented and displayed at Cosmoprof Bologna in March 2024.
Cosmoprof North America is happy to renew its partnership with City of Hope, one of the country's top ten comprehensive cancer centers, ranked by U.S News & World Reports. City of Hope's renowned Beauty Industry Spirit of Life Celebration kicked off the biggest week in beauty at Resort's World on July 10 and honored longtime CPNA partner, Dr. Farouk Shami, Chairman & Founder of Farouk Systems, Inc.
Cosmoprof North America returns to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, July 23–25 2024. Cosmoprof North America Miami, the B2B gateway to the Latin American beauty market, debuts in Miami, Florida January 23–25, 2024.
Informa Markets creates platforms for industries and specialist markets to trade, innovate and grow. We provide marketplace participants around the globe with opportunities to engage, experience and do business through face-to-face exhibitions, targeted digital services, and actionable data solutions. We connect buyers and sellers across more than a dozen global verticals, including Boating, Pharmaceuticals, Food, Fashion and Infrastructure. As the world's leading market-making company, we bring a diverse range of specialist markets to life, unlocking opportunities and helping them to thrive 365 days of the year. For more information, please visit: WWW.INFORMAMARKETS.COM.
BolognaFiere Group is the world's leading trade show organizer in cosmetics, fashion, architecture, building, art, and culture. The Group has more than 80 international exhibitions within its portfolio, notably Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, the most important meeting point in the world for beauty professionals, established in 1967 and held in Bologna, Italy. For the 2023 edition, Cosmoprof registered more than 250.000 attendees from 153 countries in the world, and 2,984 exhibitors from 64 countries. Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2024 is scheduled from March 21 to 24, 2024, in Bologna – Italy. Cosmoprof B2B format is constantly able to support companies and stakeholders in their business all over the world with specific tools and initiatives adapting to each market. The Cosmoprof platform extends throughout the entire world, with Cosmoprof North America, Cosmoprof CBE ASEAN, Cosmoprof India, and Cosmoprof Asia. For more information, please visit: WWW.COSMOPROF.COM.
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) is dedicated to advocating and fighting for the rights and professionalism of the beauty industry, and is committed to the long-term success of beauty professionals and the businesses that employ and support them. As the largest and most inclusive trade organization representing the entire beauty industry, PBA advocates for legislation on behalf of the industry, including such things as fighting against deregulation. PBA also provides curated resources to empower members, including education, business tools and resources, curated healthcare and insurance options, exclusive events, charitable initiatives, scholarships, networking opportunities and proprietary reports and data. Members include manufacturers, distributors, salons, spas, schools, independent practitioners, students, and industry suppliers. For more information on membership, please visit: WWW.PROBEAUTY.ORG/JOIN.
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- Data follow the historic approval of the first gene therapy for hemophilia B, which reduces the rate of annual bleeds, reduces or eliminates the need for prophylactic therapy and generates elevated and sustained factor IX levels for years after a one-time infusion
- 18-month data support the efficacy and safety of HEMGENIX® and the ongoing benefit of this treatment
- HEMGENIX® is approved for adults with hemophilia B in the United States, European Union and European Economic Area
KING OF PRUSSIA, Penn., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global biotechnology leader CSL (ASX: CSL) today announced the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) (Vol. 388 No. 8) results from the pivotal HOPE-B clinical study evaluating the efficacy, durability and safety of HEMGENIX® (etranacogene dezaparvovec-drlb). HEMGENIX® is the first and only gene therapy approved for the treatment of adults with hemophilia B who currently use factor IX prophylaxis therapy, or have current or historical life-threatening bleeding, or have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.
Results from the HOPE-B trial, the largest gene therapy study in hemophilia B to date, were considered by the authors to demonstrate that HEMGENIX® is superior to routine factor IX prophylaxis in Annualized Bleeding Rate (ABR), and demonstrated significant improvements in factor IX activity, factor IX therapy consumption, factor IX infusion rate, and spontaneous and joint bleeding ABR. Increased factor IX activity was also apparent from week 3 and maintained over 18 months. There were no serious treatment-related adverse events.
Notably, the results published in NEJM show the ABR of spontaneous bleeding episodes and all joint bleeding episodes decreased by 71% (95% CI: 0.12, 0.71) and 78% (95% CI: 0.10, 0.46), respectively, from lead-in period to post-treatment. Further, the authors found 96.3% of patients discontinued factor IX prophylaxis from day 21 through month 18 post-treatment (the discontinuation rate in the approved U.S. HEMGENIX® product label is 94%). Annualized factor IX infusions also significantly decreased from 72.5 infusions per participant during lead-in period (95% CI: 63.6, 82.7) to 2.5 infusions (95% CI: 0.92, 6.96) post-treatment.
In clinical trials for HEMGENIX®, the most common side effects reported in more than 5% of patients were liver enzyme elevations, headache, elevated levels of a certain blood enzyme, flu-like symptoms, infusion-related reactions, fatigue, nausea and feeling unwell.
"The results published in NEJM add to the established body of evidence demonstrating the long-term efficacy and safety of HEMGENIX® and confirm that this innovative new medicine not only restores blood clotting factor to near normal levels and significantly reduces factor use, but also that gene therapy may reduce the burden of care and improve quality of life for people living with this life-long condition," said Dr. Steven Pipe, Professor and the Laurence A. Boxer Research Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan and lead investigator of the HOPE-B study. "HOPE-B was also the first and only phase 3 study to demonstrate efficacy of a gene therapy for hemophilia B in individuals with circulating neutralizing antibodies that have the potential to interfere with the effects of treatment. Results from HOPE-B suggest that HEMGENIX® may be effective in a broad range of hemophilia B patients, regardless of prior exposure to common adeno-associated viruses."
The multi-year clinical development of HEMGENIX® was led by uniQure (Nasdaq: QURE) and sponsorship of the clinical trials transitioned to CSL after it licensed global rights to commercialize the treatment. HEMGENIX® was approved in November 2022 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and in February 2023 by the European Commission (EC) for the European Union and European Economic Area.
"We are proud to showcase the HOPE-B trial data in such a prestigious publication," said Brahm Goldstein, MD, Vice President, Research and Development, Hematology at CSL. "These results underscore the benefits of this novel approach and reinforce that those treated with HEMGENIX® will likely achieve durable factor IX activity levels and remain free of prophylactic factor IX replacement for years following a single administration. CSL remains steadfast in our commitment to deliver on our promise of innovation for people living with rare bleeding disorders."
About Hemophilia B
Hemophilia B is a life-threatening rare disease. People with the condition are particularly vulnerable to bleeds in their joints, muscles, and internal organs, leading to pain, swelling, and joint damage. Current treatments for moderate to severe hemophilia B include life-long prophylactic infusions of factor IX to temporarily replace or supplement low levels of the blood-clotting factor.
About HEMGENIX®
HEMGENIX® is a gene therapy that reduces the rate of abnormal bleeding in eligible people with hemophilia B by enabling the body to continuously produce factor IX, the deficient protein in hemophilia B. It uses AAV5, a non-infectious viral vector, called an adeno-associated virus (AAV). The AAV5 vector carries the Padua gene variant of Factor IX (FIX-Padua) to the target cells in the liver, generating factor IX proteins that are 5x-8x more active than normal. These genetic instructions remain in the target cells, but generally do not become a part of a person's own DNA. Once delivered, the new genetic instructions allow the cellular machinery to produce stable levels of factor IX.
About the Pivotal HOPE-B Trial
The pivotal Phase III HOPE-B trial is an ongoing, multinational, open-label, single-arm study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of HEMGENIX®. Fifty-four adult hemophilia B patients classified as having moderately severe to severe hemophilia B and requiring prophylactic factor IX replacement therapy were enrolled in a prospective, six-month or longer observational period during which time they continued to use their current standard of care therapy to establish a baseline Annual Bleeding Rate (ABR). After the six-month lead-in period, patients received a single intravenous administration of HEMGENIX® at the 2x10^13 gc/kg dose. Patients were not excluded from the trial based on pre-existing neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) to AAV5.
A total of 54 patients received a single dose of HEMGENIX® in the pivotal trial, with 53 patients completing at least 18 months of follow-up. The primary endpoint in the pivotal HOPE-B study was ABR 52 weeks after achievement of stable factor IX expression (months 7 to 18) compared with the six-month lead-in period. For this endpoint, ABR was measured from month seven to month 18 after infusion, ensuring the observation period represented a steady-state factor IX transgene expression. Secondary endpoints included assessment of factor IX activity.
No serious treatment-related adverse reactions were reported. One death resulting from urosepsis and cardiogenic shock in a 77-year-old patient at 65 weeks following dosing was considered unrelated to treatment by investigators and the company sponsor. A serious adverse event of hepatocellular carcinoma was determined to be unrelated to treatment with HEMGENIX® by independent molecular tumor characterization and vector integration analysis. No inhibitors to factor IX were reported.
Long-term 24-month data presented at the 54th American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2022 Annual Meeting and Exposition and at The European Association for Haemophilia and Allied Disorders (EAHAD) 2023 Annual Meeting continue to reinforce the potential long-lasting efficacy and safety of HEMGENIX® and the ongoing benefit of this treatment for people living with hemophilia B.
Important Safety Information (ISI)
What is HEMGENIX®?
HEMGENIX®, etranacogene dezaparvovec-drlb, is a one-time gene therapy for the treatment of adults with hemophilia B who:
- Currently use Factor IX prophylaxis therapy, or
- Have current or historical life-threatening bleeding, or
- Have repeated, serious spontaneous bleeding episodes.
HEMGENIX® is administered as a single intravenous infusion and can be administered only once.
What medical testing can I expect to be given before and after administration of HEMGENIX®?
To determine your eligibility to receive HEMGENIX®, you will be tested for Factor IX inhibitors. If this test result is positive, a retest will be performed 2 weeks later. If both tests are positive for Factor IX inhibitors, your doctor will not administer HEMGENIX® to you. If, after administration of HEMGENIX®, increased Factor IX activity is not achieved, or bleeding is not controlled, a post-dose test for Factor IX inhibitors will be performed.
HEMGENIX® may lead to elevations of liver enzymes in the blood; therefore, ultrasound and other testing will be performed to check on liver health before HEMGENIX® can be administered. Following administration of HEMGENIX®, your doctor will monitor your liver enzyme levels weekly for at least 3 months. If you have preexisting risk factors for liver cancer, regular liver health testing will continue for 5 years post-administration. Treatment for elevated liver enzymes could include corticosteroids.
What were the most common side effects of HEMGENIX® in clinical trials?
In clinical trials for HEMGENIX®, the most common side effects reported in more than 5% of patients were liver enzyme elevations, headache, elevated levels of a certain blood enzyme, flu-like symptoms, infusion-related reactions, fatigue, nausea, and feeling unwell. These are not the only side effects possible. Tell your healthcare provider about any side effect you may experience.
What should I watch for during infusion with HEMGENIX®?
Your doctor will monitor you for infusion-related reactions during administration of HEMGENIX®, as well as for at least 3 hours after the infusion is complete. Symptoms may include chest tightness, headaches, abdominal pain, lightheadedness, flu-like symptoms, shivering, flushing, rash, and elevated blood pressure. If an infusion-related reaction occurs, the doctor may slow or stop the HEMGENIX® infusion, resuming at a lower infusion rate once symptoms resolve.
What should I avoid after receiving HEMGENIX®?
Small amounts of HEMGENIX® may be present in your blood, semen, and other excreted/secreted materials, and it is not known how long this continues. You should not donate blood, organs, tissues, or cells for transplantation after receiving HEMGENIX®.
Please see full prescribing information for HEMGENIX®.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
You can also report side effects to CSL Behring's Pharmacovigilance Department at 1-866-915-6958.
About CSL
CSL (ASX:CSL; USOTC:CSLLY) is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of lifesaving medicines, including those that treat hemophilia and immune deficiencies, vaccines to prevent influenza, and therapies in iron deficiency, dialysis and nephrology. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives using the latest technologies. Today, CSL – including our three businesses, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor – provides lifesaving products to patients in more than 100 countries and employs 30,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial strength, R&D focus and operational excellence enables us to identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live life to the fullest. For inspiring stories about the promise of biotechnology, visit CSLBehring.com/Vita and follow us on Twitter.com/CSL.
For more information about CSL, visit CSL.com.
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Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered, where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in to the week's news. Outside the studio, she has also hosted "Michel Martin: Going There," an ambitious live event series in collaboration with Member Stations.
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Houston Dynamo (9-16-6, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles FC (19-8-4, first in the Western Conference)
Los Angeles; Sunday, 10:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: LAFC -402, Houston +879, Draw +517; over/under is 3.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Fafa Picault leads the Houston Dynamo into a matchup with Los Angeles FC after a two-goal showing against the New England Revolution.
LAFC is 12-8-3 against Western Conference teams. LAFC has a 1-6-3 record in games it scores a single goal.
The Dynamo are 6-11-6 against Western Conference opponents. The Dynamo are 10th in the Western Conference allowing only 49 goals.
The teams meet Sunday for the second time this season. The Dynamo won the last meeting 2-1.
TOP PERFORMERS: Christian Arango has 15 goals and four assists for LAFC. Kwadwo Opoku has three goals and one assist over the past 10 games.
Darwin Quintero has scored eight goals with two assists for the Dynamo. Picault has four goals over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: LAFC: 5-4-1, averaging 1.9 goals, 5.3 shots on goal and 6.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.3 goals per game.
Dynamo: 2-6-2, averaging 1.2 goals, 3.9 shots on goal and 5.2 corner kicks per game while allowing two goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: LAFC: Franco Escobar (injured).
Dynamo: Ethan Bartlow (injured), Daniel Steres (injured), Memo Rodriguez (injured), Hector Herrera (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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BMW redesigned the X1 for 2023, and for its second year on the market the new generation of the compact crossover has spawned a performance variant called the X1 M35i.
It starts sales in the U.S. in October and will carry a starting price of $50,895, including a $995 destination charge.
Similar to M35i versions of other BMW compacts, including the M235i Gran Coupe and X2 M35i, the new 2024 X1 M35i falls under BMW’s M Performance range. The range is a step below BMW’s M car lineup and offers a good compromise between comfort and performance.
In the case of the X1 M35i, BMW has installed a 2.0-liter turbo-4 rated at 312 hp. That’s the highest output for a production BMW 4-cylinder engine, and it means the X1 M35i can sprint to 60 mph from rest in 5.2 seconds and reach a governed top speed of 155 mph. The regular X1 tops out at 241 hp in internal-combustion guise and 308 hp in electric iX1 form.
The X1 M35i’s engine is married to a 7-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and all-wheel-drive system. The transmission features paddle shifters for manual control, and holding the left paddle for at least one second switches all of the vehicle’s chassis systems to their sportiest setting. The transmission also has a built-in mechanical limited-slip differential for the front axle to help aid handling during hard cornering.
Also for the chassis, BMW uses adaptive dampers and brake rotors measuring up to 15.2 inches at the front and 13.0 inches at the rear. The brake calipers, which are painted gray and bear the “M” logo, are four-piston units. The standard wheels measure 19 inches in diameter but 20-inch wheels are available.
A number of styling tweaks also set the X1 M35i apart from the regular X1 fleet. These include a unique M version of the front grille sporting vertical double bars, a quartet of exhaust tips (each with a diameter of 3.1 inches), and aerodynamic elements including front and rear spoilers, new side skirts, and low-drag side mirror caps.
For the interior, the X1 M35i comes with Alcantara trim, an M-branded steering wheel, M-branded treadplates and pedals, and custom graphics for the digital instrument cluster and infotainment system. M-branded front seats with extra bolstering can also be added.
The X1 M35i is also among the first BMWs to feature version 9.0 of the automaker’s iDrive infotainment system. This new version, which is powered by Google’s Android operating system (the current iDrive uses Linux), is claimed by the automaker to be easier to use thanks to a QuickSelect feature that provides quick access to frequently used functions on the current screen. BMW said the new iDrive system also makes it possible to display individually configurable graphics on the infotainment screen as an alternative to the standard navigation map view.
Production of the X1 M35i is handled at BMW’s plant in Regensburg, Germany.
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By COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Joe Biden strode into the telephone bank at a crowded union hall and eagerly began making calls and eating doughnuts — one frosted, one glazed — as he tries every page in the political playbook to deliver votes for Democrats.
“What a governor does matters,” Biden said in a pep talk to volunteers who were making Friday night calls for Oregon gubernatorial hopeful Tina Kotek and other candidates. “It matters! It matters, it matters, it matters!”
Before leaving Portland on Saturday, the president attended a union hall reception for Kotek as he tried to boost her chances in a three-way race that could cost Democrats a reliably blue governor’s seat. He also gave a speech at a community center, warning that his administration’s progress “goes away, gone” if Republicans take control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Portland was the final stop on a four-day swing through Oregon, California and Colorado that has encapsulated Biden’s strategy for turning out voters on Election Day, Nov. 8: flex the levers of government to help boost candidates, promote an agenda aimed at strengthening an uncertain economy and haul in campaign cash.
And this: show up for candidates when Biden can be helpful, steer clear of places where a visit from a president with approval ratings under 50% isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Throughout the trip, Biden had to compete for the spotlight and contend with a troubling new inflation report and rising gas prices.
“Folks are still struggling. We can’t kid ourselves about that,” Biden said Saturday.
He touted Democratic legislation that he says will fight climate change with clean energy incentives and limit the cost of prescription drugs, saying that “we’re fighting for folks who need our help.”
In Oregon, Democratic officials hope that Biden can help consolidate the party’s support behind Kotek. The party is in danger of losing the governor’s race in the traditional Democratic stronghold as Betsy Johnson — who has quit both the Democratic and Republican parties — has run a well-financed race against Kotek and the GOP nominee Christine Drazan.
Biden said Kotek has the “heart of a lion,” and he described her as “an articulate, tough, committed woman.”
The settings throughout the president’s trip were tailor-made for him.
In Los Angeles on Thursday, at a construction site for an extension on the city’s subway line, he spoke about his massive infrastructure law. Giant cranes rose up behind him as he stood before bulldozers and excavators. Many on hand were hard-hat workers in construction orange.
The stop neatly combined many of Biden’s agenda’s successes: investments in infrastructure, job creation, fighting climate change by promoting mass transit.
“When you see these projects in your neighborhood — cranes going up, shovels in the ground, lives being changed — I want you to feel the way I do: pride,” Biden said. “Pride in what we can do when we do it together. This is what I mean when I say we’re building a better America.”
But his remarks came as the government reported that consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, jumped 6.6% in September from a year ago — the fastest such pace in four decades. Biden acknowledged that people were being “squeezed by the cost of living. It’s been true for years, and folks don’t need a report to tell them they’re being squeezed.”
Democratic candidates have been far more likely to appear with Biden at official White House events underscoring their achievements than at overt campaign events. In California, Biden was joined by state lawmakers and the city’s mayor, and he called them out individually. Rep. Karen Bass, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, made a takeout run with Biden to a taco shop.
Biden raised $5 million at a fundraiser in the Brentwood backyard of TV producer Marcy Carsey. Guests included fashion designer Tom Ford and actor-filmmaker Rob Reiner.
In Colorado, the president designated the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II-era training site, with a group of Democrats by his side. His audience in a canyon of stunning views, tall pines and bright yellow aspens included Sen. Michael Bennet, who is facing a tough reelection campaign and had worked for the new monument. Democrats hope the designation, popular in the state, will boost Bennet’s numbers.
Early voting is underway in California and begins next week in Oregon and Colorado. The president notably stayed away from states where his presence could hurt Democrats, so far skipping Nevada and Arizona, where Democratic senators are tough races.
Democrats are trying to retain power in the face of widespread economic uncertainty and the traditional midterm headwinds against the party in power. Republicans, aiming to regain the House and Senate, think they can capitalize on gas prices, inflation and the economy.
During his taco stop, Biden’s chicken quesadilla order ran to $16.45, but he handed the clerk $60 and asked him to use the change to pay the next patron’s bill.
It was the kind of personal connection Biden loves. But while the moment was unfolding, the headlines in Los Angeles focused on a bitter City Council clash over racist remarks, while in Washington, it was all about how the House voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump on his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Icahn Enterprises L.P. (Nasdaq:IEP) announced today that it will discuss its first quarter 2023 results on a conference call and webcast on Friday, May 5, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. To access the webcast, participants should go to this link (webcast). To access the call by phone, participants should go to this link (registration link), and you will be provided with the dial in details. To avoid delays, we encourage participants to dial into the conference call 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled start time. A replay of the webcast will also be available for at least twelve months at Icahn events and presentations.
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GURGAON, India (AP) — GURGAON, India (AP) — MakeMyTrip Ltd. (MMYT) on Tuesday reported profit of $5.7 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
The Gurgaon, India-based company said it had profit of 5 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 21 cents per share.
The online travel company posted revenue of $148.5 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $11.3 million, or 10 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $593 million.
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CHELSEA – One of Michigan’s most accomplished high school baseball coaches is now being recognized on a national stage.
Former Chelsea head coach Wayne Welton will be inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. The ABCA made the announcement on Wednesday.
Welton spent more than 30 years coaching the Bulldogs and became the Ann Arbor-area’s winningest coach with 767 wins, including a Class B state title in 1991. Welton also earned 13 Southeastern Conference titles and eight regional championships during his tenure.
The Chelsea native also served as the school’s athletic director for more than two decades and spent 10 years as the director of baseball at the University of Michigan. Welton returned to Chelsea to serve as the interim athletic director earlier this year.
Welton also won the MHSAA Allen Bush Award for contributions to high school athletics in 2006 and earned the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Jack Johnson Award for distinguished service in 2017.
Chelsea named its baseball field the Wayne R. Welton Field in 2018.
Welton was inducted into the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association in 2003 and will now join nine other inductees from across the nation in the ABCA class of 2024.
The new class will be inducted in January of 2024.
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Roughly a decade after opening its first company-owned stores, Tesla is still fighting direct-sales bans in some states. In Connecticut, it’s skirting one such ban by locating a store in a Native American casino.
The Mohegan Sun casino on Wednesday announced that Tesla will open a “sales and delivery center” at the casino’s mall, with customers able to buy or pickup Tesla electric cars as early as this fall, as well as test drive vehicles, according to a Connecticut Mirror report.
Tesla does have a showroom in Milford, Connecticut, that allows leasing, but the casino location allows the automaker to do more without butting up against state laws.
Connecticut is one of several states with franchise laws that prevent automakers from selling cars directly to customers. But Mohegan Sun, located in the village of Uncasville in the southeastern corner of the state, is on Mohegan tribal land. Tribes have leeway to set different policies to boost economic development, the report noted.
Tesla has used this strategy at least one other time. In 2021 the automaker opened a store on tribal land in Nambé Pueblo, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, avoiding conflict with that state’s franchise laws. It also provides an option for Lucid and Rivian as those automakers look to set up their own direct-sales retail networks.
In Connecticut, Tesla has been fighting franchise laws for a long time, with multiple bills being presented in the state legislature to open up direct sales. Last year one bill failed to come up for a vote in either chamber of the legislature, and this year another bill didn’t get a hearing before the transportation committee, the Connecticut Mirror noted.
Franchise laws have created a more awkward situation in another state. Tesla still can’t directly sell the cars it makes in Texas in Texas—even though it’s the only Texas-based automaker.
This complicated landscape is probably one of the reasons why Volvo opted not to embrace direct sales as soon as it originally planned to, and why Polestar sticks to direct sales but depends on Volvo stores for much of its service network. And why Ford went for a hybrid approach—requiring no-haggle EV pricing at dealerships.
The controversy over direct sales has led to a strange division by political party, with Democratic leaning states generally allowing more flexibility and Republican leaning states tending to be more protectionist and anti-free-market about direct sales.
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ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — When fighting in Sudan erupted in mid-April, Abdel-Rahman Sayyed and his family tried to hold out hiding in their home in the capital, Khartoum, as the sounds of explosions, gunfights and the roar of warplanes echoed across the city of 6 million people.
They lived right by one of the fiercest front lines, near the military’s headquarters in central Khartoum, where the army and a rival paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces, battled for control. Three days into the conflict, a shell hit their two-story home, reducing much of it to rubble.
Luckily, Sayyed, his wife and three children survived, and they immediately fled the war-torn city. The problem was, their passports were buried under the wreckage of their home.
Now they are among tens of thousands of people without travel documents trapped at the border with Egypt, unable to cross into Sudan’s northern neighbor.
“We narrowly escaped with our lives,” the 38-year-old Sayyed said in a recent phone interview from Wadi Halfa, the closest Sudanese city to the border. He said he was stunned that Egyptian authorities wouldn’t let his family in. “I thought we would be allowed in as refugees,” he said.
Two months in, clashes continue to rage between the two rival forces in Khartoum and around Sudan, with hundreds dead and no sign of stopping after talks on a resolution collapsed. People continue to flee their homes in droves: This week the total number of people displaced since fighting began April 15 rose to around 2.2 million, up from 1.9 million just a week earlier, according to U.N. figures. Of the total displaced, more than 500,000 have crossed into neighboring countries, while the rest took refuge in quieter parts of Sudan, according to the U.N.
More than 120,000 Sudanese without travel documents are trapped in Wadi Halfa and surrounding areas, according to a Sudanese migration official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to brief media. Among them are those who never had a passport or whose passport expired or was lost during the rush to escape.
Wadi Halfa, which normally has a population of few tens of thousands, is also flooded by huge crowds of Sudanese men, women and children who do have their passports but must apply for visas at the Egyptian Consulate in the town to cross the border. Getting a visa can take days or even longer, leaving families scrambling for accommodation and food, with many sleeping in the streets.
Calls are growing for Egypt to waive entry requirements. The Sudanese American Physician Association, a U.S.-based NGO, called on the Egyptian government to allow those fleeing the war to apply for asylum at the borders.
Instead, the Egyptian government last week stiffened entry requirements. Previously, only Sudanese men aged 16-45 needed visas to enter Egypt. But on June 10, new rules require all Sudanese to get electronic visas. Ahmed Abu Zaid, a spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, said the measures are aimed at fighting visa forgery by groups on the Sudanese side of the borders.
Sayyed described the June 10 decision as a “stab on the back” to all those trapped at the border. He was one of 14 Sudanese who fled Khartoum without passports and spoke to The Associated Press. All said they had thought that Egypt would ease the entry requirement for the fleeing Sudanese.
“We’re forced to leave our homes,” Sayyed said. “It’s a war.”
The passports of others were trapped in foreign embassies because they were applying for visas before fighting erupted. Embassies in Khartoum have almost all been evacuated, in which case procedures often require those passports be destroyed so they don’t fall into wrong hands. The U.S. State Department said in a statement that it had destroyed passports left there “rather than leave them behind unsecured.”
“We recognize that the lack of travel documentation is a burden for those seeking to depart Sudan,” it said. “We have and will continue to pursue diplomatic efforts with partner countries to identify a solution.”
Sayyed and his family arrived in Wadi Halfa after a two-day journey from Khartoum. He took refuge in a school along with over 50 other families, all depending on humanitarian assistance from charities and the local community to survive, he said.
Every day for the past five weeks, Sayyed visited the Sudanese immigration authority offices and Egyptian Consulate in Wadi Halfa, a ritual many others followed as well in hopes of getting travel documents or visas.
But Sayyed has little chance, unless Egypt opens the border. New Sudanese passports are usually issued from the main immigration office in Khartoum, which stopped functioning since the onset of the war. The branch in Wadi Halfa doesn’t have access to computer records, so it can only renew expired passports manually, not issue new ones or replace lost ones, the migration official said.
Al-Samaul Hussein Mansour, a Sudanese-British national, left his travel documents at his home amid his chaotic escape from the fighting in Khartoum, according to his younger brother, Ibn Sina Mansour.
Al-Samaul, a 63-year-old pediatrician-turned-politician, didn’t get to the British Embassy in Khartoum to be evacuated with other British citizens. He thought that the clashes would stop “within a couple of days,” Ibn Sina said.
He first went to the western Darfur region, where he stayed with a relative for about a week. But as fighting continued, he headed toward the Egyptian border. Unable to find a place to stay in Wadi Halfa, he went to the nearby town of Shandi.
It was too dangerous to return to Khartoum and retrieve his documents, with continued street fighting and stray bombs and bullets hitting houses, said Ibn Sina, who is also a British citizen.
“Returning to Khartoum means death for Samaul,” he said in a recent interview in Aswan, the closest Egyptian city to the border with Sudan. Ibn Sina, a retired aviation engineer, came to Aswan from London to be closer to his older brother.
Also among those trapped were three brothers from Khartoum’s neighboring city of Omdurman, who either lost their passports or never had one. The three — ages 26, 21 and 18 years old – were separated from their parents and five sisters, who were all able to enter Egypt in early May.
“This war displaced and separated many families like us,” their father, Salah al-Din al-Nour, said. “We have nothing to do with their struggle for power. They destroyed Sudan and the Sudanese people.”
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What are must-have kitchen appliances?
From a house to an apartment to somewhere in between, the kitchen is often the heart of any gathering. On weeknights, kids do their homework on the counter while you’re preparing dinner, and there’s just something about a warm kitchen that makes party guests feel comfortable while snacking and conversing.
However, if you don’t have the right kitchen appliances to prepare dinner or appetizers, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or trapped by extra tasks. The right kitchen gadgets can also take your cooking to the next level. So, whether you’re looking to expand your culinary skills or want to spend more time relaxing and less time cooking, here are some incredible kitchen appliances you’ll never cook without again.
How to choose kitchen appliances for your home
Determine your needs
While a few kitchen appliances are a must-have for every kitchen, you should stock your kitchen with gadgets that are most useful for your needs and cooking skill set. Determining your needs will also help determine where you should spend the most money. For example, if you often make smoothies, invest in a quality blender that will last. Or, if you bake bread or make cookies every day, a KitchenAid mixer will save you a lot of time.
Be mindful of your space
Whether you have an apartment kitchen or a large cooking area, you need to be mindful of your space. If you have a tiny kitchen, you may want to opt for multi-purpose cookers like an Instant Pot or air fryer. However, if you have ample room, be mindful that some large appliances may not fit in standard cupboards.
Consider how easy it is to use
Even if you find an appliance useful, you may not reach for it often if it requires a lengthy clean-up process or needs to be put in storage because of its large size. Consider all aspects, including how to clean your kitchen appliances, where you need to store them and if it makes your life easier.
Must-have kitchen appliances
Affordable kitchen appliances
Presto 22-inch Electric Griddle With Removable Handles
Instead of using several pans or cooking your meal in batches, this electric griddle will help you get out of the kitchen faster. Its 22- by 11-inch cooking surface is ideal for making a large batch of pancakes, several quesadillas, grilled cheese sandwiches or eggs for the entire family. With removable handles, it’s also convenient to store and fits in most kitchen cabinets.
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Hamilton Beach Electric Tea Kettle
If you fancy a cup of tea in the morning, or anytime at all for that matter, here’s something to help you get that cozy cup in quickly. This cordless, stainless steel electric tea kettle boils water in no time at all and has an auto-shutoff feature. Think of this for college dorms as well.
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Mueller Ultra-Stick 9-Speed Immersion Hand Blender
Once you have an immersion blender, you’ll never want to go without it ever again. From pureeing soups to beating eggs to making whipped cream, this versatile immersion blender has a ton of uses. In addition to the motor body, it comes with several attachment heads, including a blender, egg whisk and milk frother.
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Hamilton Beach Electric Indoor Searing Grill
Using a large outdoor grill every day can be time-consuming and impractical for apartment living or bad weather. This compact indoor grill delivers consistent results on your favorite foods and provides those signature grill marks. Since the grill plate, hood and drip tray are all removable and dishwasher-safe, you’ll spend less time cleaning.
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Midrange kitchen appliances
COSORI Air Fryer Oven Combo 5.8QT Max XL
Whether you need to heat up french fries, make healthier chicken wings or cook veggies, this air fryer can do it all. With a 5.8-quart basket, it’s big enough to fit an entire 5-pound chicken or enough for three to five people. As a bonus, the basket has a nonstick coating and is dishwasher-safe.
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Anova Culinary Nano Sous Vide Precision Cooker
While most people are unfamiliar with a precision cooker, it’s a must-have appliance for cooking meat, eggs or vegetables. Because it circulates water at a precise temperature, your food cooks perfectly every single time. Plus, it’s small enough to keep in a drawer.
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Instant Pot Duo Plus 9-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker
This versatile appliance can replace your slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, saute pan and more, making it ideal for small kitchens or anyone looking to streamline their cooking. It features quick one-touch programs and cooks your favorite meals up to 70% faster than traditional methods.
Instead of having a single-serve Keurig and a pot coffee maker, this model combines the best of both to make coffee for your whole family or just yourself. Whether you’re making a single cup or an entire carafe, there are several options to choose from. Plus, the drip cover can be removed to allow for large travel cups.
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High-end kitchen appliances
Breville Smart Oven Pro Countertop Convection Oven
Whether your regular oven is full or you want to toast up to six pieces of bread quickly, this convection oven is ideal. It has 10 cooking functions, including toast, bagel, bake, roast, broil, pizza and more. You can also slow cook a meal for up to 10 hours before switching to a warm setting.
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KitchenAid Tilt-Head 5-Quart Artisan Stand Mixer
One of the most coveted and long-lasting kitchen appliances is the KitchenAid Stand Mixer. This 5-quart model can mix up to nine dozen cookies or four loaves of bread at once. Plus, there are separate attachments available to make pasta, spiralize or grind meat.
Ninja BL770 Mega Kitchen System
This Ninja Mega Kitchen System includes a 1500-watt motor base, 72-ounce powerful crushing pitcher, 64-ounce food processor, two 16-ounce ninja cups with to-go lids and several blades. Plus, all the parts are BPA-free and dishwasher-safe.
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New LendingTree Survey Finds Inflation Impact and "YOLO" Mentality Leads to Full Hearts and Empty Wallets
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Concert and festival season is among us and many Americans are ready for a music-filled summer of limited restrictions and a pre-pandemic feeling. According to a new report from LendingTree, attendance is expected to return to pre-pandemic averages this year, with many concertgoers ready to shell out big bucks to make up for lost time.
- Americans with concert plans expect to attend an average of four shows, up from three last year and in line with pre-pandemic averages.
- But it will cost them: 47% of concert attendees expect to spend between $100 and $499, while more than a quarter say they'll likely take on debt.
- Music fans are using plastic to their advantage, as more than 4 in 10 (44%) attendees will cash in on rewards or points to attend festivals or concerts.
In the era of "You Only Live Once (YOLO)," millennials (48%) and Gen Zers (41%) are more likely to splurge on nicer concert seats than they would in the past. Despite skyrocketing inflation and higher credit card bills, our survey found that Gen Zers are willing to shell out an average of $398 for their favorite artists, while millennials say they'd pay up to $383 per ticket. Gen Zers are also most likely to purchase VIP/All Access passes (18%).
While 60% of concertgoers plan to spend a chunk of their money on food and drinks, millennials are more likely to buy a new outfit for the show (41% versus 32% overall).
"Plenty of Americans have been longing for concert season to feel normal again," says LendingTree's Chief Credit Analyst, Matt Schulz. "Our survey shows that music fans are more than willing to shell out top dollars to see their favorite musical acts, regardless of the impact of inflation. Coming off a pandemic, going over budget or taking on debt seems worth the experience."
With ticket prices on the rise, don't be afraid to use your reward points or travel miles to help offset the costs; signing up early can also save big in the long run. One in 5 (20%) consumers have purchased an "early bird special" ticket for a music festival, which will typically offer lower prices before full lineups are announced.
If concertgoers are looking to spend more on concerts this year but don't want to blow their budget, they should consider these tips to keep costs low:
- Budget for inflation. If they know they're going to be spending big on concerts this year, incorporating them into their budget ahead of time will allow them to plan properly and enjoy a stress-free experience.
- Compare popular credit cards for travel and airline rewards. Sign-up bonuses can give concert attendees the extra cash to splurge on their favorite show.
- Get creative and cooperative. Sharing hotel rooms with friends, splitting gas or opting for general admission seating are all creative ways to combat overspending.
To view the full report, please visit: https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/concert-plans-budgets/.
LendingTree commissioned Qualtrics to conduct an online survey of 2,072 U.S. consumers, fielded May 6-10, 2022. The survey was administered using a nonprobability-based sample, and quotas were used to ensure the sample base represented the overall population. All responses were reviewed by researchers for quality control.
We defined generations as the following ages in 2022:
- Generation Z: 18 to 25
- Millennial: 26 to 41
- Generation X: 42 to 56
- Baby boomer: 57 to 76
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For the most part, Ron Funches is just being himself in Loot. But for the scenes where his character Howard is giving it to Molly (Maya Rudolph) straight, he's being his mom.
"My mom is just a good friend to have; a good person to have in your life and the fact that she is there for you," the comedian told E! News. "She always has your back and she's a positive for you."
And this is exactly the type of friend Molly—and even her assistant Nicholas (Joel Kim Booster)—needs after her tech CEO husband, played by Adam Scott, cheats on her with a woman half her age. More than that, she needs someone who isn't scared to call her out on her B.S., which Ron's mom also happens to be good at.
"If there's something going on in your life and she sees it," Ron said, "she'll be upfront about it."
And yes, this sounds bad, because no one likes criticism, but as Ron said, "She's willing to risk a friendship to tell you the truth."
In episode four of Loot, Molly learns that there are real consequences to surrounding herself with a bunch of yes-men. Namely, she's out of touch with the real world, having put her husband's wants and needs above her own—and everyone else's—for most of her life. (There's also the small matter of her unknowingly owning a totally unsafe amusement park in the Philippines, but that's for another day.)
And even the yes-men are learning that it's good to be honest with themselves and others. Take Joel's Nicholas, for example: As Molly's assistant, he devoted all his time and energy to her, leaving little else for his own ambitions. And now that Molly is becoming more independent, Nicholas is realizing that he missed out on a lot of opportunities for self-growth.
"I think my character comes into it a little resistant to the changes Molly wants to make in her own life, and it's people like Howard on the show that really pull me into the world a little bit more and sort of open me up," Joel told E! "Opening yourself up to experiences that you might not initially think are for you can be really transformative."
To see how Nicholas and Molly grow throughout season one, tune in to Loot Fridays on Apple TV+.
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ROME, N.Y. – The Rome Police Department made two arrests on May 16 following a lengthy narcotics investigation.
Around 6 a.m. that day, the special response team executed a search warrant at 229 Ridge St. where narcotics were allegedly being sold.
Investigators found more than 10 grams of methamphetamine, along with packaging materials, scales and other drug paraphernalia.
Based on the evidence, police arrested 51-year-old Cory Tennant and 34-year-old Kara Tennant, both of Rome. The two were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
The Oneida County Sheriff’s Office and Utica Police Department assisted with the investigation.
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Caught on camera: Pride flags stolen from Bucks County business two nights in a row
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - Pride flags were ripped from a business in Bucks County at least twice - and both moments were captured on surveillance footage.
Police say a flag was stolen from a business on East State Street in Doylestown overnight on June 3, then again on June 4.
Video shows the suspect reaching up, ripping the flags from the business, and walking away flag-in-hand both times.
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Police have yet to say if they believe it is the same suspect, or provide a description.
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Happy Wednesday! I can’t get enough of this story about Brazil’s Outback obsession. Send news and dining tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.
The AI debate is sweeping through the federal government
A growing segment of the federal government is stepping up efforts to grapple with artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, with telecommunications regulators, election officials and others increasingly joining the debate around AI policy.
The moves underscore the rising level of both fascination and trepidation about the technology in Washington as AI investment skyrockets in Silicon Valley.
In April, a slew of agencies that traditionally have played a bigger role in overseeing AI deployment announced steps to keep the technology in check, including the Commerce Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department. Several emphasized the need to uphold the rules on the books to prevent AI from supercharging discrimination.
As scrutiny over how AI has and will impact industries across the economy continues to soar, more federal agencies are entering the fray.
The Federal Communications Commission and the National Science Foundation on Tuesday announced plans to hold a workshop next month on the “opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence for communications networks and consumers.”
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement that AI offers “a real opportunity for communications to become more efficient, more impactful, and more resilient” but could pose “challenges” for the telecom sector as well.
As David DiMolfetta reported for The Technology 202 last month, the rise of generative AI tools could soon force the telecommunications regulator “to tackle artificial intelligence, an area that’s beginning to intersect with communications infrastructure and airwaves.”
The Federal Election Commission, meanwhile, announced that on Thursday it will consider crafting rules to govern the use of AI in campaign ads, such as the use of deepfakes. One Democratic lawmaker has proposed legislation requiring the disclosure of AI in political ads.
Other agencies have also dialed up their own AI discussions in recent weeks, including whether to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT internally:
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, led by former FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra, released a report this month detailing how financial institutions using chatbots “can impede customers from resolving problems” if deployed poorly.
- The State Department announced it is seeking industry feedback about the possibility of using generative AI tools to help write contracts, as FedScoop reported. The agency is also exploring “hurdles and security considerations to introducing generative and natural language processing AI onto the Department’s network.”
The moves arrive as President Biden urges officials across his administration to increase their focus on benefits and risks posed by AI.
Ahead of a meeting on AI with advocacy leaders and other officials in San Francisco on Tuesday, Biden forecast that the recent explosion of investment in AI would lead to “more technological change in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 50 years.” “My administration is committed … to safeguarding Americans’ rights and safety, from protecting privacy to addressing bias and disinformation to making sure AI systems are safe before they are released,” Biden said during the event. (More from Gerrit De Vynck and I here.)
Participants included Center for Humane Technology executive director and co-founder Tristan Harris, Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer, Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini and Khan Academy CEO and founder Sal Khan.
A White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details about Tuesday’s meeting, said that Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients is looking into additional actions the administration could take in the coming weeks, and that White House officials have been meeting to discuss the topic, in addition to the work happening at the agency level.
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Bernie Sanders launches investigation into Amazon labor practices
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, launched an investigation this week into Amazon’s working conditions, our colleagues Lauren Kaori Gurley and Caroline O'Donovan report.
“In a letter to Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy, Sanders demanded information about the company’s ‘systematically underreported’ injury rates, employee turnover, productivity targets and adherence to federal and state safety recommendations,” they write.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. Interim Post chief executive Patty Stonesifer sits on Amazon’s board.
“What Amazon does, their attitude, their lack of respect for workers, permeates the American corporate world,” Sanders told our colleagues in an interview. He later added that it’s an “absolute possibility” he would call on Jassy or Bezos to testify in a hearing.
Amazon spokesperson Steve Kelly said the company “received Chairman Sanders’s letter this evening and are in the early stages of reviewing it” and added that Sanders had an open invitation to tour an Amazon warehouse.
Microsoft, Activision CEOs to testify in hearing over FTC bid to block purchase
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will testify in an evidentiary hearing beginning this week on the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to block the tech giant’s purchase of the video game company, David Shepardson reports for Reuters.
Shepardson writes: “The FTC is seeking a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft from completing its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft has argued that if the court grants an injunction it would effectively kill the deal, which has a termination date of July 18 and contains a $3 billion termination fee that Microsoft would have to pay.” The hearing will run June 22-29.
The development is Microsoft’s latest obstacle in gaining global regulator approval to close the transaction, announced in January 2022. “The FTC has argued the transaction would give Microsoft’s video game console Xbox exclusive access to Activision games, leaving Nintendo consoles and Sony Group Corp’s PlayStation out in the cold,” Shepardson writes. New Zealand regulators this week said they share those concerns.
Overseas, E.U. antitrust enforcers recently approved the transaction, while the U.K. has blocked it. Both companies are expected to make their case to Britain next month.
Gannett sues Google over alleged digital ad dominance
Major U.S. newspaper chain Gannett sued Google on Tuesday, alleging the search giant’s dominance in the digital ad space stifles the local news industry, our colleagues Herb Scribner and Gerrit De Vynck report.
They write: “The complaint from Gannett, filed in federal court in New York, alleges violations of antitrust and consumer protection laws. It’s just the latest challenge to Google and parent company Alphabet on this front, following actions from the U.S. Justice Department, the government of Australia and even a group of small West Virginia weekly papers.”
Gannett CEO Mike Reed in an op-ed published in the company’s national outlet USA Today said Google “has monopolized the markets for important software and technology products that publishers and advertisers use to buy and sell ad space” and that newspapers are gaining little in the $200 billion online ad market.
Google strongly denied the claims. “Publishers have many options to choose from when it comes to using advertising technology to monetize,” said company advertising VP Dan Taylor.
Rant and rave
Documents show that OpenAI lobbied the E.U. to taper back parts of its AI Act. Bentley University math professor Noah Giansiracusa:
I suspect this is going to be one of the biggest tech stories of 2023—it confirms what many of us have been suspecting all along and shows how the sausage is really made. https://t.co/6kNwYhuMOu
— Noah Giansiracusa (@ProfNoahGian) June 20, 2023
Mozilla trustworthy AI fellow Abeba Birhane:
people like @sama ask to be regulated in public. behind doors, they lobby for the opposite.
— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) June 20, 2023
watch what these folks do not what they say https://t.co/wjkeLkfH5r
Soccer analytics podcaster Michael Caley:
good concrete reminder that everyone in AI talking about the existential risk to humankind is just making a big smokescreen to prevent normal regulation of their actual business https://t.co/nOUwhPgfjJ
— Michael Caley (@MC_of_A) June 20, 2023
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- Cyberspace and Digital Policy Ambassador Nathaniel Fick speaks at a Hudson Institute event on U.S. tech diplomacy at 9:30 a.m.
- FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel and fellow commissioners testify at a House Energy and Commerce oversight hearing at 10:30 a.m.
- The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Center for Data Innovation holds a discussion on how AI will impact the global south at 11 a.m.
- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer unveils his AI regulation framework at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event at 11:15 a.m.
- FTC Chair Lina Khan speaks with the Public Private Strategies Institute at 2 p.m.
- The Brookings Institution holds a discussion on online speech after the SCOTUS Gonzalez vs. Google decision at 2 p.m.
- The Atlantic Council holds an event on trust and safety on the web at 3 p.m.
- The Senate Commerce Committee holds an FCC nomination hearing for commission nominee Anna Gomez and others tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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Using a game controller on vehicles like submarines is normal. But the wireless nature of the one used on the Titanic vessel isn't. Some Amazon customer reviews state disconnection issues. My explainer for today: https://t.co/fE34dcchMu
— Gene Park (@GenePark) June 20, 2023
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NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — A 6-year-old child and two adults were injured in a shooting in Newark Tuesday evening, police said.
The shooting was reported in the 300 block of South Orange Avenue. The child was rushed to a hospital around 7 p.m. with a punctured lung and is expected to survive, officials said.
The conditions of the two adults who were shot are unknown at this time.
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Monday, Nov. 14
• Prairie Heights Board of Education, Administration Office, 305 S. C.R. 1150E, LaGrange, 7 a.m.
• Angola Plan Commission, City Hall, 210 N. Public Square, Angola, 5 p.m.
• Orland Town Council, Community Center, 9535 W. S.R. 120, 6:30 p.m.
• Steuben County Board of Zoning Appeals, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 15
• Fremont Town Council, Town Hall, 205 N. Tolford St., Fremont, 6 p.m.
• Lake George Regional Sewage District, District Offices, 1040 Angola Road, Coldwater, Michigan, 6:30 p.m.
• Clear Lake Town Council, Town Hall, 111 Gecowets Drive, Fremont, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 16
• Steuben County Design Review Committee, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 8:30 a.m.
• Steuben County Park Committee, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m.
Monday, Nov. 21
• Steuben County Board of Commissioners, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m.
• Steuben County Drainage Board, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 2 p.m.
• Fremont Community Schools Board of Trustees, Superintendent’s Office, 1100 W. Toledo St., Fremont, 6 p.m.
• Hamilton Community Schools Board of Trustees, School Library, 903 S. Wayne St., Hamilton, 6:30 p.m.
• Angola Services and Budget Committee, City Hall, 210 N. Public Square, Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Angola Common Council, City Hall, 210 N. Public Square, Angola, 7 p.m.
• Steuben County Board of Zoning Appeals, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
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Switzerland vs. New Zealand: Women’s World Cup Group A Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 30
Switzerland will meet New Zealand in the final round of the 2023 Women's World Cup group stage, on July 30 at 3:00 AM ET. In their first two matches, Switzerland has picked up four points, and New Zealand three points.
The three-way moneyline odds for this game are: Switzerland (+108), draw (+208), New Zealand (+283). The over/under for this match is 2.5 goals, with the over at +125 and the under at -172.
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Switzerland vs. New Zealand Game Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 3:00 AM ET
- Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
- Venue: Forsyth Barr Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US,Fox Sports 2
- Total: 2.5
- Switzerland Moneyline: +108
- New Zealand Moneyline: +283
Switzerland vs. New Zealand World Cup Betting Insights
- The teams combine to score 1.5 goals per game, one fewer than this match's over/under.
- Opponents of these teams average 0.5 goals per game combined, two fewer than this match's total.
- Switzerland has been a moneyline favorite only one other time so far this tournament, and won.
- Switzerland has played as a moneyline favorite of +108 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- New Zealand won the only game it has played as an underdog this tournament.
- New Zealand has played as an underdog of +283 or more once this tournament and won that game.
Switzerland World Cup Stats
New Zealand World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for New Zealand, Jacqui Hand has not scored a goal but does have one assist (third in Women's World Cup play).
- Hannah Wilkinson has netted one goal for New Zealand in Women's World Cup.
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Switzerland vs. New Zealand Recent Performance
- So far this year, Switzerland is 1-4-0 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup participants, with a goal differential of +2. In 2022, it went 0-1-5 in such matches (-16 goal differential).
- Switzerland ended up with a draw in its last match, 0-0, against Norway on July 25. outshot Switzerland by a margin of nine to seven.
- Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic took one shot for the goalless Switzerland side in its match against .
- So far this year, New Zealand is 2-0-7 against fellow 2023 Women's World Cup participants, with a goal differential of -18. In 2022, it went 1-1-6 in such matches (-12 goal differential).
- New Zealand was defeated by the Philippines 1-0 in its last game on July 25, even though it outshot the Philippines 14 to four.
- While New Zealand failed to manage a goal versus , Wilkinson had four shots to lead the team.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Here are some of the women to watch at Wimbledon, which begins at the All England Club on Monday:
Seeded: 1
Career-Best Ranking: 1
Country: Poland
Age: 22
2023 Record: 37-6 (Playing at Bad Homburg Open this week)
2023 Titles: 3
Career Titles: 14
Grand Slam Titles: 4 — French Open (3: 2020, 2022, 2023), U.S. Open (1: 2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Lost in 3rd Round, 2021-4th, 2019-1st, 2018-Did Not Play, 2017-DNP
Aces: Coming off a title at the French Open. … Career mark of 5-3 at Wimbledon is by far her worst at a major. … Only Grand Slam tournament where she has not at least reached the semifinals. … A year ago, her 37-match unbeaten streak, which included six tournament titles, ended with a third-round loss to Alize Cornet at Wimbledon. … Took over at No. 1 in the rankings in April 2022 after Ash Barty retired.
She Said It: “I’m 22, so I literally don’t know what my limits are.”
Seeded: 2
Career-Best Ranking: 2
Country: Belarus
Age: 25
2023 Record: 35-7
2023 Titles: 3
Career Titles: 13
Grand Slam Titles: 1 — Australian Open (2023)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Barred, 2021-SF, 2019-1st, 2018-1st, 2017-2nd
Aces: Like other players from Russia and Belarus, was not allowed to compete at Wimbledon in 2022 because of the invasion of Ukraine. That ban was lifted by the All England Club this year. … Faced two opponents from Ukraine at this year’s French Open; stayed away from news conferences after two other matches when she said she was uncomfortable with questions being asked about the war. … First career Grand Slam title came in January at Melbourne Park. She credited both an improved serve — she worked with a biomechanics expert to retool the motion — and improved outlook. … Only woman to reach at least the semifinals at the past three majors.
She Said It: “I felt disrespected. I felt like a journalist (tried) to put the words in my mouth. I didn’t feel comfortable. This is just the way I felt.”
Seeded: 3
Career-Best Ranking: 3
Country: Kazakhstan
Age: 24
2023 Record: 31-8
2023 Titles: 2
Career Titles: 5
Grand Slam Titles: 1 — Wimbledon (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Won Championship, 2021-4th, 2019-DNP, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Defending champion at Wimbledon. … Withdrew before the third round of the French Open and before her opening match at a grass-court tune-up tournament in England because of a viral illness. … Was the runner-up at the Australian Open in January. … Nearly completed the so-called Sunshine Double on hard courts this season, winning title at Indian Wells, California, in March, then reaching final at Miami in April. … Big serve is as dangerous as any on tour; has 316 aces this season, 50 more than anyone else.
She Said It: “For sure, that’s the goal, to be in the second week of all the Grand Slam, to play finals.”
Seeded: 4
Career-Best Ranking: 3
Country: United States
Age: 29
2023 Record: 27-10
2023 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 2
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Quarterfinals, French Open (2021, 2022, 2023), Australian Open (2022), U.S. Open (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-3rd, 2021-2nd, 2019-1st, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Reached the WTA Finals for the first time last season after cracking the Top 10 for the first time. … Breakthrough season included three Slam quarterfinals before a loss to the No. 1 seed and eventual champion each time: Ash Barty at Australian Open; Iga Swiatek at French Open and U.S. Open. … Coached by David Witt, who used to work with Venus Williams. … Parents own NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
She Said It: “I’m good with being under the radar; I’m good with not being under the radar. I mean, whatever. It doesn’t really matter.”
Seeded: 6
Career-Best Ranking: 2
Country: Tunisia
Age: 28
2023 Record: 16-9
2023 Titles: 1
Career Titles: 4
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Runner-Up, Wimbledon (2022), U.S. Open (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-Runner-Up, 2021-QF, 2019-1st, 2018-2nd, 2017-1st
Aces: Breakthrough 2022 included runs to the finals at Wimbledon and U.S. Open. … First woman from North Africa and first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam final. … Half of her four career titles were earned on grass courts. … Represented by management company founded by Naomi Osaka and her agent. … Husband is her fitness trainer.
She Said It: “We always want to do better, unless we win the title.”
Seeded: 7
Career-Best Ranking: 4
Country: United States
Age: 19
2023 Record: 27-10 (Playing at Eastbourne this week)
2023 Titles: 1
Career Titles: 3
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Runner-Up, French Open (2022)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-3rd, 2021-4th, 2019-4th, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Became a star at age 15 at Wimbledon, when she was the youngest qualifier in tournament history and beat Venus Williams in the first round before making it all the way to the fourth round. … Made the final at the French Open last year in singles and doubles. … Has been ranked No. 1 in doubles. … In 2022, became youngest American woman since 1994 to qualify for the WTA Finals in singles. Also earned doubles berth.
She Said It: “Every time I go back to Wimbledon, I get those memories of that run. I feel it’s just going to be like that for the rest of my career.”
Seeded: 16
Career-Best Ranking: 16
Country: Czech Republic
Age: 26
2023 Record: 25-8
2023 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 1
Grand Slam Titles: None — Best: Runner-Up, French Open (2023)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-1st, 2021-QF, 2019-QF, 2018-DNP, 2017-DNP
Aces: Reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open by saving a match point and winning the last five games against Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals. … Plays a varied game that includes plenty of spins and angles but also forays to the net. … Ranks 10th on tour among players with more than 25 matches this season by winning 75% of her service games. … Wimbledon is the only major where she has reached the quarterfinals twice.
She Said It: “To call myself a Grand Slam finalist, it’s an amazing achievement and, for sure, big motivation for me to work in the future and to get a chance again to play for these big titles.”
Seeded: N/A
Career-Best Ranking: 1
Country: United States
Age: 43
2023 Record: 2-3
2023 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 49
Grand Slam Titles: 7 — Wimbledon (5: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008), U.S. Open (2: 2000, 2001)
Last 5 Wimbledons: 2022-DNP, 2021-2nd, 2019-1st, 2018-3rd, 2017-RU
Aces: Making her 24th appearance in singles at the All England Club after receiving a wild-card invitation. … Hadn’t played since early January until returning to action at a grass-court event in the Netherlands in June. … In addition to her five singles championships at Wimbledon, she was the runner-up four times, including three to her now-retired younger sister, Serena.
She Said It: “I’m trying to get better every day. I think that, no matter what happens to you in life, you always hold your head up high. You give a hundred, million percent. That’s what I do every single day. That’s something that I can be proud of.”
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HowardFendrich
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BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — Authorities on Friday found a 2-year-old boy who wandered away from his home in a rural area of Hernando County, Florida.
A Missing Child Alert was issued for Joshua “J.J.” Rowland shortly before sundown on Thursday, several hours after the search began.
Hernando County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a home in North Brooksville about an hour after J.J.’s mother realized he was missing.
In a news conference Friday morning, Sheriff Al Nienhuis said the boy left the home while his mother was sleeping.
Nearly 100 law enforcement officials from neighboring counties and the U.S. Marshals traveled to the area to assist with the second day of the search, Nienhuis said. Volunteers also helped.
Just before 11 a.m. Friday, the sheriff’s office confirmed that a volunteer had found J.J. alive and safe. According to the sheriff, the 2-year-old was smiling and fine despite being out in the wild overnight.
“He’s definitely gonna have something to tell his kids and grandkids about,” Nienhuis said.
The sheriff praised the local community for volunteering to help find J.J., saying the vast majority of people in his county are good-hearted citizens.
“I think a lot of people were praying, and prayer works,” Nienhuis said to a cheering crowd.
The volunteer who found J.J., U.S. Marine Corps veteran Roy Link, said he originally planned on going on a fishing trip Friday morning, but something told him to join the search for the toddler instead.
According to Link, he heard J.J. making whimpering noises and found him in the woods in north Brooksville.
“He was real happy, and he wanted mom,” Link said. “Deputies showed up. I guess I made a friend real quick ’cause he hung onto me, and he didn’t want to go to anybody until his parents showed up.”
Aside from some scratches, J.J. was in pretty good shape and seemed happy to be found, according to Link.
Christina Sowers, one of J.J.’s cousins, said she was ecstatic that the little boy was found alive.
“I am so excited they found that baby,” she said.
Sowers said she had great respect for the volunteers who worked to find J.J.
“There was a mom I talked to here today who lost her son in a drowning 23 years ago, and she was here today looking for this baby,” she said. “It’s incredible.”
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Jim Hines, first to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds, dies
US sprinter Jim Hines, the first man to break the 10-second barrier for 100 meters, died at the age of 76, the association World Athletics said on Monday.
"World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that legendary US sprinter Jim hines died on Saturday," the governing body said in a statement.
At the 1968 US Championships in Sacramento, Hines became the first man to officially go below 10 seconds for 100 meters, running a hand-timed 9.9 seconds.
Record that lasted 15 years
Later that year, in winning the 1968 Olympic 100 meters gold medal at altitude in Mexico City, Hines lowered the world record to an electronic-timed run of 9.95 seconds.
His record stood for 15 years, until it was finally broken by another American, Calvin Smith, in 1983 with 9.93 seconds.
Hines also won another Olympic gold medal — and world record — when he anchored the USA to gold in the 4x100 meter relay.
Soon after the Olympics, burglars broke into his home in Houston and stole his gold medals. But after placing an advert in his local newspaper appealing for the medals to be returned, they were posted back to him in a plain brown envelope.
From sprinter to footballer
Hines, the son of a construction worker, was born in Dumas, Arkansas, in September 1946, but was raised in Oakland, California.
His early passion was for baseball but athletics coach Jim Coleman spotted his talent for sprinting and by the time Hines was 17, he already ranked among the top 20 in the world over 100 yards.
Shortly after 1968 Olympics, however, Hines ended his sprint career to try his hand at the NFL professional football league. There Hines played for the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs. However, he could not translate his speed into success in a new discipline, and only had the ball in his hands a few times in his brief NFL career, earning the locker room nickname "Oops" during his year with the Dolphins.
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MOSES LAKE, Wash., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mississippi Silicon LLC, a leading global producer of silicon metal, announced plans to work with REC Silicon to help establish a low-carbon and fully traceable U.S.-based solar supply chain. The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) committing them to negotiate a raw material supply agreement.
Recent investment by the Hanwha Group into REC Silicon, in conjunction with Hanwha's subsidiary Qcells, moves REC to expand its relationship with Mississippi Silicon to support the development of an end-to-end U.S. solar supply chain from silicon metal and polysilicon to fully assembled solar modules. The plan follows the August 18 passage of the Solar Energy Manufacturing for America Act (SEMA) as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, expanding U.S. production of polysilicon and metallurgical grade silicon.
Mississippi Silicon is the first new silicon metal facility in North America in forty years. Located in the northeast corner of Mississippi State, the plant is strategically placed to take advantage of a growing domestic customer base, stable low-cost electricity, and a regional supply chain. This facility has the highest quality process and environmental controls available, which allows it to operate one of the most efficient and cleanest silicon meal plants in the world.
As a leading producer of high-purity electronics and solar grade polysilicon with assets in Moses Lake, Washington and Butte, Montana, REC is positioned to help lead the U.S. clean energy transition. The recent Hanwha investment will enable a re-start of the currently idle Moses Lake plant in 2023 and make available high volumes of cost competitive, high quality, and low-carbon solar grade polysilicon. REC shut down the Moses Lake plant in 2019 due to unfavorable global market conditions.
Eddie Boardwine, CEO of Mississippi Silicon, noted "Mississippi Silicon was founded nearly ten years ago to be a domestic source of high-quality silicon metal to the U.S. solar, electronics and chemical industries. We are pleased by the growing recognition of the importance of a strong end-to-end US supply chain for these materials. Passage of the SEMA Act is critical to bringing that supply chain to reality. We look forward to working with REC Silicon to strengthen our existing relationship and build out that vital supply chain."
"A robust solar energy industry in the U.S. is crucial to our national security and clean energy goals," said James A. May II, CEO of REC Silicon. "Now that SEMA has passed as part of a broad clean energy incentive package, the solar manufacturing industry is in a position to make long-term investments that create millions of new career opportunities in cities and towns across the country and accelerate the transition to clean energy."
For more information on REC and Mississippi Silicon, please visit www.recsilicon.com and www.missilicon.com/.
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Entrepreneur Joel Adelman has dedicated his career to helping staffing entrepreneurs
grow their businesses with non-traditional paths to capital.
CLEVELAND, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Encore Funding leadership team is proud to celebrate 25 years of excellence in the staffing industry. Joel Adelman, an entrepreneur serving entrepreneurs, founded Advance Partners in 1998 with a vision to help staffing entrepreneurs grow their businesses. During Adelman's time as CEO, Advance Partners lent over $20 billion in working capital to thousands of staffing agencies, many of which were minority-owned businesses.
In 2021, Adelman created Encore Funding, fueled by demand from past clients and colleagues, to continue his legacy of entrepreneurship in the staffing industry. He assembled Encore Funding's leadership from the team who helped build Advance Partners' legacy. With the five original founders and many senior leaders of Advance Partners now at Encore Funding, Adelman and team continue to build the brand as entrepreneurs serving entrepreneurs.
"We've started our 'encore' by bringing this talented team back together," states Adelman. "I'm incredibly proud of all that we've accomplished over the past 25 years together. This team has always been driven to provide the highest level of service to clients and help them achieve success. Through our funding and services, staffing entrepreneurs can make it their encore, too."
Crain's Cleveland regarded Adelman and team in early 2022, saying, "The entrepreneurs behind Encore Funding are taking the first steps toward growing the Cleveland-based lending business into Advance Partners 2.0."
In addition to customized, alternative lending solutions, Encore Funding offers clients strategic consulting, resources and networking support. Clients also receive access to the tenured executive team, including Adelman and the original Advance leadership team, that has delivered more than $20 billion in funding to entrepreneurs. Adelman is proud and humbled to support staffing agencies owned by entrepreneurs who have been historically disadvantaged and underfunded.
Adelman and the leadership team have achieved numerous milestones over the last quarter century.
- Adelman and leadership team found Advance Payroll Funding – March 1998
- Leadership & clients weather economic crisis – 2008-2009
- Adelman supports Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill clean-up – April 2010
- Advance Partners achieves $1 billion in funding – 2012
- Adelman is named Entrepreneur of the Year® US by Ernst & Young – 2013
- Advance Partners is included in the Inc 500 List – 2014
- Advance Partners is acquired by Paychex – 2015
- Adelman supports entrepreneurs beyond the staffing industry via AdCap Management – 2016-2020
- Adelman and leadership team found Encore Funding – 2021
- Encore Funding achieves major milestones – 2022
About Encore Funding
Encore Funding is an alternative lender, founded by entrepreneur Joel Adelman, that delivers working capital, consulting and software to growth-minded staffing entrepreneurs. Beyond receivables financing, the firm offers advisory support and resources needed to drive solutions and positive returns. Encore invests in staffing agencies and entrepreneurs seeking to drive business, economic and community impact. For more information, visit encore-funding.com.
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United Community Bank Athlete of the Week: Minot Minotauros’ Colby Joseph
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – Colby Joseph isn’t from around here.
But he still calls Minot home.
“It’s like a second home,” said Joseph.
After a year and a half in a Minotauros sweater, Colby has become a fan favorite.
“(He’s) just a blue-collar kid. He’s a farmer, he’s just very relatable, I think he just embodies a lot of the qualities that Minot as a whole embodies,” said Minotauros Head Coach Cody Campbell.
The Tauros forward splits time between the rink and the barn.
“In the summer, it’s good to go to the farm and appreciate the little things more. Horses are therapeutic for me. I tell people that if you need to chill out and wind down, just go spend time with horses,” said Joseph.
Colby grew up in Elkhorn, MB, and played his first year of junior hockey in Victoria, BC.
He decided to move to the Magic City, just two hours from home.
“It’s been a perfect fit,” said Joseph.
Moving to Minot turned into a blessing when tragedy struck Colby’s family this year.
“It was probably the best place for it to happen,” said Joseph.
Colby’s grandfather passed away during the first week of the season.
“It was a tough showcase, but life goes on, right? He wouldn’t have wanted me to quit for him. He’s here,” said Joseph.
Just a few minutes before leaving the hotel, Colby told his coach.
“It’s so hard what to know to say in those situations… the team picked him up. Everybody was checking on him, encouraging him that day, that week and the weeks after,” said Campbell.
He kept his infectiously positive attitude.
“Whatever school he goes to, he’s going to improve their culture the minute he steps on campus with how genuine and caring of a person he is,” said Campbell.
And is happy, in his second home.
The Minotauros play the Bismarck Bobcats Wednesday night in Bismarck and Friday night in Minot. For more information, visit the team’s website.
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To quote Judge Smails: “Well, we’re waiting!”
Any day now, we’re told, the Green Bay Packers and the New York Jets will shake hands on the trade that will bring quarterback Aaron Rodgers to Florham Park. Rodgers wants to come. The Jets want him to end years of QB misery. All that remains are the terms of the deal, which might not be worked out until after the first round of the NFL Draft at the end of the month.
But the deal will happen. At least that’s the promise Jets general manager Joe Douglas made to a crowd at an event on Friday night hosted by WFAN. When asked by host Boomer Esiason about Rodgers, Douglas brought down the house:
“He’s gonna be here,” he said.
That means we won’t have to listen to Joe Benigno whine ... or Mike Greenberg swear on the air.
Mike Greenberg will not be happy if the Jets don’t get the Aaron Rodgers deal done. While Greenberg, a proud Jets fan, awaits the impending deal, he made a promise on the Pat McAfee Show.
Per Awful Announcing: “I actually thought of this when I was getting set to come on. I’ve never cursed on the air in my life. In my entire life! I’ve been a professional broadcaster since 1990, and I’ve never cursed on the air. If the Jets don’t get Aaron Rodgers, if somehow this thing winds up that he either retires or plays on another team, I will come on this show and I will say the f-word out loud.”
Rodgers shared his intention to play for the Jets on the Pat McAfee Show last month:
“I still have that fire and I want to play and I would like to play in New York, it’s just a matter of getting that done at this point.”
Peter King of NBC Sports predicts that a deal between the Jets and Packers will be finalized on the 28th:
Since Rodgers would be unlikely to be at the dawn of the Jets offseason program April 17, the big date is the 28th because that’s when it’s most realistic the first draft choice would be exchanged between the teams.
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14-year-old with rare condition hopes for lung transplant so she can continue singing
SOLDIER, Iowa (KETV) – After a health crisis fully surfaced, a teen in Iowa is hoping she can get a lung transplant so she can continue doing what she loves most: singing.
The sound of Katie Hoskins’ voice is music to her parents’ ears. However, about six months ago, her parents started noticing changes in her daughter.
Her mother, Vera Hoskins, said Katie would get tired easily and started having panic attacks.
“We could tell something was wrong,” Vera Hoskins said. “We weren’t sure what.”
Recently, Katies’ symptoms took a turn for the worst.
“When she came in the kitchen, she walked to the pantry and she had to rest,” Vera Hoskins said. “And then she walked to the counter, and then she had to rest.”
Moments later, Katie’s mother said it looked like she was about to pass out.
“Grabbed her shoulders and I said ‘Look at me,’ and when she picked her head up and looked at me, her face was completely white, her lips were completely white and her pupils instantly flashed, dilated,” Vera Hoskins said.
She said she told Katie to keep breathing through her nose and out her mouth as she dialed 911.
“She’s trying, she’s trying but I can tell something was just not right,” Vera Hoskins said. “She’s looking worse.”
The teen from Soldier, Iowa, then went to a local hospital before being transferred to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Nurse practitioner Venus Anderson said Katie seemed to have Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease (PVOD).
“What we believe for Katie to have is PVOD, is what’s caused her pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare,” Anderson said. “And so this is the rarest of the rare ... ideologies of pulmonary hypertension.”
Anderson said Katie’s heart failed the night she went to the hospital.
“When the lungs are ill and sick with high resistance, the heart can only overcome that for so long,” Anderson said.
Katie now has to get a lung transplant.
“I don’t know, I’m alive right now. So that’s good,” she said.
Katie’s parents were told the life expectancy after a lung transplant is six to seven years, but getting it would improve her quality of life.
“We want to give her as much as we possibly can, as many experiences as we possibly can while she’s here,” Katie’s father, Adam Hoskins, said.
Because there is nowhere to get a pediatric lung transplant in Omaha, Katie was flown to Texas for evaluation, where she was approved for a lung transplant and will soon be on the list for a donor.
“There will be multiple medications for her to take, frequent follow up appointments, things like that to make sure that she can stay infection free, specifically in the first year after transplant,” Anderson said.
In the meantime, Katie’s voice has been filling her hospital room.
“She’s been singing to us, and playing her ukulele when she feels good,” Anderson said.
Katie’s parents are hopeful she can get the transplant so they can continue to hear the sweet sounds of Katie for as long as possible.
“I want to do things that I want to do because I don’t want to look back on my life and regret things that I didn’t do,” Katie said.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction, but board members have asked them to reconsider the phrasing, according to the state board’s chair.
“The board -- with unanimous consent -- directed the work group to revisit that specific language,” Keven Ellis, chair of the Texas State Board of Education said in a statement issued late Thursday.
The working group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board to make curriculum changes. This summer, the board will consider updates to social studies instruction a year after lawmakers passed a law to keep topics that make students “feel discomfort” out of Texas classrooms. The board will have a final vote on the curriculum in November.
The suggested change surfaced late during its June 15 meeting that lasted more than 12 hours. Board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents Dallas and Fort Worth, brought up concerns to the board saying that wording is not a “fair representation” of the slave trade. The board, upon reading the language in the suggested curriculum, sent the working draft back for revision.
“For K-2, carefully examine the language used to describe events, specifically the term ‘involuntary relocation,’” the state board wrote in its guidance to the work group.
“I can’t say what their intention was, but that’s not going to be acceptable,” Davis told The Texas Tribune on Thursday. In 2015, Texas attracted attention when it was discovered a social studies textbook approved for use in the state called African slaves who were brought to the United States, “workers”
In this case, the group proposing these second grade curriculum revisions was given a copy of Senate Bill 3, Texas’ law that dictates how slavery and issues of race are taught in Texas. The law states that slavery can’t be taught as part of the true founding of the United States and that slavery was nothing more than a deviation from American values.
“They were given Senate Bill 3, so that had to have influenced their mind with that being a document given to them right before they had to perform this review,” Davis said.
Ellis’ statement pointed out that slavery is currently not included in social studies instruction to second graders.
“The topic of slavery is not currently addressed in the 2nd Grade curriculum; this work is meant to address that deficiency,” he said.
Stephanie Alvarez, a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a member of the group, said she was did not attend the meetings when the language was crafted because of personal issues, but that the language was “extremely disturbing.” She would not comment any further because of her role in the work group, she said.
Part of the proposed social studies curriculum standards outlines that students should “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”
Annette Gordon-Reed, a history professor at Harvard University, said using “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery threatens to blur out what actually occurred during that time in history. There is no reason to use the proposed language, she said.
“Young kids can grasp the concept of slavery and being kidnapped into it,” Gordon-Reed said. “The African slave trade is unlike anything that had or has happened, the numbers and distance.”
If language like what the group of Texas educators propose is accepted and taught to children, it means the country is moving in the wrong direction, she said.
“Tell children the truth. They can handle it,” she said.
Texas is in the process of developing a new curriculum for social studies, a process that happens about every decade to update what children should be learning in Texas’ 8,866 public schools.
This process comes as the state’s public education system has become heavily politicized, from lawmakers passing legislation on how race and slavery should be taught in schools to conservative political action committees pouring large amounts of money to put more conservatives on school boards who promise to get rid of curriculum and programs they consider divisive and make white children feel bad.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have made parental rights a priority as they both seek reelection in November. Patrick has also vowed to push for a “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Texas, mirroring Florida’s conservative push to limit classroom discussions about LGBTQ people.
Last year’s SB 3 doesn’t mention critical race theory by name, but the bill was designed to keep the teaching out of secondary schools — even though it is not taught in K-12 Texas public schools. Critical race theory is a university-level field of study based on the idea that racism is embedded in legal systems and not limited to individuals. It has become a common phrase used by conservatives to include anything about race taught or discussed in public secondary schools.
The work group that proposed the language change in referring to slavery is one of several groups presenting their drafts to the state education board, which has the final say on whether to accept or reject them.
Some drafts of new curriculum standards are published on the agency’s website, but this was not, Davis said.
“I don’t like it because it’s a personal belief. I don’t like it because it’s not rooted in truth,” she said. “We can have all the discussions we want, but we have to adopt the truth for our students.”
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This story is part of Home Tips, CNET's collection of practical advice for getting the most out of your home, inside and out.
There are a number of things that need to be budgeted for each month, from groceries to gas for your car. But there's one expense that's an ongoing -- and major -- part of your monthly budget, no matter if you're a homeowner or a renter. It's your electric bill.
The cost of energy bills are on the rise, and it's likely to take up an even bigger piece of your budget. However, there are several ways to reduce your energy bill with just a few simple lifestyle changes. We recommend unplugging these household devices and adjusting the temperature of your thermostat, but one of the most effective changes that can help you save money on electricity -- while also having the added benefit of helping the environment -- is simply turning off your lights when you aren't using them.
Keep reading to learn why it's important to turn off your lights and how much money you can save by turning off your lights.
Read more: You Can Actually Save Money By Using Electricity at These Specific Times
Yes, you should turn off your lights
You've probably been told time and time again the importance of conserving energy, but you might be wondering why it's important.
First, reducing your energy usage by turning off your lights is an excellent way to reduce your carbon footprint. Electricity generation is one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. By turning off your lights when you aren't using them, you can do your part to reduce carbon emissions and therefore help the environment.
And reducing your home's energy usage doesn't just help the environment -- it also helps your wallet. Turning off lights when you don't need them can help to reduce your electricity bills. You'll also extend the life of your light bulbs, which will save you money as well.
Here's how much money you can save by turning off the lights
The amount you can save on your electricity bill by turning off your lights depends on the type of light bulb you use. You can figure your potential savings using the light bulb's wattage.
Let's say you have a light bulb that's 40 watts, meaning that in one hour, the bulb will use 0.04 kWh. Then, you can use your electricity price -- which you can find on your most recent utility bill -- to figure out how much you'll save for that hour. In the case of the 40-watt bulb, if you pay an electricity rate of 10 cents per kWh, your savings by turning that bulb off for one hour would be 0.4 cents.
Now, it's easy to see that number and think it's simply not worth it to turn off your lights more often. After all, what difference does 0.4 cents make?
First, remember that estimate is for a 40-watt bulb. If you have higher-wattage light bulbs, then the savings will be greater. Next, that estimate uses an energy price of 10 cents per kWh, but in many areas, the price of electricity may be higher than that.
Finally, our estimate looked at the savings of turning off one bulb for one hour. You likely have many light bulbs in your house, and there are far more than just one hour in a month. So when you calculate the savings of turning off all of your light bulbs for many more hours per month, your savings will increase significantly.
This small change means big savings in the long run
Turning off your lights when you aren't using them is one of the most basic steps you can take to reduce your energy usage and save money on your electricity bill. Just remember that even a small change can add up to big energy savings for you and also help reduce your carbon footprint.
More money saving tips for you
- Energy Vampires: What They Are and Why Unplugging Them Can Save You Money
- The Best Energy-Saving Smart Home Devices to Help You Save on Utility Bills
- Change Your Water Heater's Set Temperature and Save Money
- Can You Actually Save Money By Showering Instead of Taking a Bath?
- Energy Star Appliances: Can They Really Save You Money?
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Some people may be able to stretch out the time between colonoscopies, study suggests
By Janelle Chavez, CNN
A new study raises the question whether some people can wait longer than the recommended 10years to repeat a colonoscopy after a negative initial screening for colorectal cancer.
The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, looked at 120,000 people 65 and older in Germany from 2013 to 2019 who had a colonoscopy 10 or more years after an initial negative screening, and it compared them with all colonoscopy screenings conducted on people 65 or older in that time period — most of whom were being screened for the first time.
It found the presence of precancerous or cancerous growths was 40% to 50% lower among the repeat screeners, finding advanced growths or cancers in only 4% to 5% of women and 5% to 7% of men 10 or more years after a negative colonoscopy.
The researchers also evaluated whether the number of abnormal growths differed between men and women, finding the prevalence 40% higher in men.
When looking by age, detection rates were highest among individuals 75 years or older.
The authors conclude that the current 10-year screening intervals for colonoscopies are safe, and they also suggest that extending the intervals may be warranted in some instances, especially for females and younger people without gastrointestinal symptoms.
“For instance, women at younger screening ages with no finding at index colonoscopy could possibly be screened at prolonged intervals or, alternatively, be offered less invasive methods, such as stool tests, while maintaining the 10-year interval for men and women at older ages,” the study authors wrote.
Current colonoscopy recommendations
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. It is also one of the most preventable cancers with effective screening tests like colonoscopies that can detect early disease.
Death rates from colorectal cancer have decreased over recent decades, largely due to colonoscopies.
Current guidelines recommend screening for colorectal cancer in all adults 45 to 75 years old. The recommendations were recently changed to start screening at 45 instead of 50 years of age in response to more cancer being diagnosed at younger ages. If the screening is negative, patients don’t need another one for 10 years.
Dr. Douglas Owens, a health policy professor at Stanford University and a former chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, which makes US cancer screening recommendations, said there is promise to the findings.
“(Colorectal cancer) is not like other cancers where there are big harms from over screening potentially. Here they are small, but they’re not zero, and it comes from the colonoscopy. So, if you could get the same benefit at a lower number of colonoscopies, that would be a win,” Owens said.
Owens would like to see more research on extending the screening intervals, as would Dr. Robert Bresalier, a professor of gastrointestinal oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
“There’s good evidence that screening colonoscopy in asymptomatic individuals at 10-year intervals is effective and cost effective. And I think I’m not ready to change. I would not be ready to change practice in terms of extending the interval based on the study, but it is comforting and provides additional data to strengthen the concept of adhering to these guidelines,” Bresalier said. “The overall message from this study is we can feel comfortable with the current guidelines.”
The study authors note the study’s finding don’t extend to individuals who might need to undergo a colonoscopy at earlier intervals to assess symptoms they might be having, such as rectal bleeding, or individuals who are at higher risk of colorectal cancer. They say generalizing their findings should be done cautiously.
Experts maintain that colonoscopies are one of the most important preventive services and for all eligible groups to get tested.
“(This study) supports the importance of screening for colon cancer and that there are many ways, many effective ways to do that,” Owens said.
Although colonoscopy is considered the gold standard for colon cancer screening, there are alternatives. Other screening options include annual fecal occult blood tests which look for blood in the stool.
“The main thing is to get screened. It doesn’t matter if you use a stool test or you get a colonoscopy, pick one. Pick whichever one suits your preferences, but do it,” Owens said.
More than a quarter of eligible Americans don’t get screened for colorectal cancer, and public health advocates urge Americans to get screened.
“Right now, the biggest impact we can have — and relevant to this discussion — is screening. So if you haven’t been screened and you’re in that age relevant group, you should get screened. And that clearly has a larger impact, and the biggest impact we can do right now in terms of influencing death of colorectal cancer,” Bresalier said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street led by a steep drop for Norwegian Cruise Line. The S&P 500 is off 0.2% just after the opening bell Tuesday and the Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average are also falling. Norwegian plunged after it reported disappointing second-quarter results. Investors are keen for two reports on prices due later this week, which could signal whether the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes this year have brought inflation under control. Audience rating company Nielsen is surging after it announced progress on a deal to be acquired by private equity firms.
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Wall Street is mixed Tuesday as more corporate earnings trickle in ahead of highly-anticipated inflation data from the government.
Futures for the benchmark S&P 500 lost 0.3% while futures for the Dow industrials rose about 0.2% with less than an hour before the opening bell.
The U.S. Labor Department will release its July report for consumer prices Wednesday, followed by its producer prices report on Thursday. Investors and economists will look for any signs that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes the past few months have helped to bring four-decade-high inflation under control.
Last week’s strong July jobs report has most economists predicting the Fed will jack up rates again — possibly by as much as another three-quarters of a point — at its September meeting. Investors fear the Fed’s actions could lead to a recession, as the U.S. economy has contracted the last two quarters.
The Fed has raised rates four times this year, twice by three-quarters of a point.
The earnings season is beginning to wind down and Disney, Wendy’s and Wynn Resorts will be reporting quarterly results this week.
Norwegian Cruise Lines fell 8.5% in premarket, dragging other cruise companies with it, after reporting a much wider loss than expected and it warned that negative trends will continue. . Norwegian lost $509.3 million in its second quarter as sales also fell short of expectations.
Fighting in the Ukraine and attacks on Europe’s biggest nuclear plant are other factors hanging over markets.
Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling a nuclear power plant in Russia-occupied southeastern Ukraine, attacks that have fueled international concerns. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has six nuclear reactors, and the fighting around it has raised the danger of a nuclear accident.
France’s CAC 40 fell 0.5%, while Germany’s DAX tumbled 1.2%. Britain’s FTSE 100 was essentially unchanged.
In Asian trading, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped nearly 0.9% to finish at 27,999.96.
Japan’s technology investor SoftBank Group Corp. dropped more than 7%. On Monday it reported a record quarterly loss of $23 billion. A global nose-dive of technology-related issues, such as Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has weighed on its sprawling portfolio of investments.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.1% to 7,029.80. South Korea’s Kospi edged 0.4% higher to 2,503.46.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng erased earlier gains, falling 0.2% to 20,003.44, while the Shanghai Composite edged up 0.3% to 3,247.43.
Analysts monitoring Asian markets said regional tensions remain a risk because of the flareup between China and Taiwan after the recent visit of U.S. House Speak Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
China has said it’s extending threatening military exercises surrounding Taiwan, disrupting shipping and air traffic and raising up a notch worries about trade.
“It is worth keeping track of the geopolitical landscape as any major developments on the China/Taiwan front could impact overall risk demand. China confirmed it would extend military drills around Taiwan, and the military will conduct ‘regular’ exercises on the eastern side of the median line of the Taiwan Strait,” said Anderson Alves at ActivTrades.
Also of concern are the rising cases of COVID-19 in China, Japan and some other Asian nations, and their potential impact on supply chains that are a lifeline to some of the region’s biggest manufacturers.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.09 to $91.85 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It added $1.89 to $90.76 a barrel on Monday.
Brent crude, the international standard for pricing crude, gained $1.25 to $97.90 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar inched up to 135.02 Japanese yen from 134.98 yen. The euro cost $1.0238, up slightly from $1.0193.
Technology stocks were the biggest drag Monday on Wall Street. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% to 4,140.06 and the Nasdaq shed 0.1% to 12,644.46. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.1% higher, at 32,832.54. The Russell 2000 rose 1% to 1,941.21.
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WATCH LIVE: Funerals for fallen officers Saturday in Cameron
CAMERON, Wis. (WEAU) -The funerals for Chetek Police Officer Emily Breidenbach and Cameron Police Officer Hunter Scheel are being held together in Cameron on Saturday, April 15.
WEAU will be live streaming the funeral. You can watch it live on 13.1 and online by clicking here starting at 1 p.m. We will also stream it live to our WEAU Facebook page.
According to information from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department, Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Cameron High School, located at 750 South First St. in Cameron.
The Sheriff says the Funeral Service will occur at 1:00 p.m., with police honors to be conducted following the ceremony outside of the school. The procession will commence after police honors from the Cameron High School and the route is to be determined.
A memorial fund has also been set up for the two officers. You can donate at Sterling Bank under City of Chetek Emily Breidenbach Memorial Fund. All monetary donations can either be dropped off at any Sterling bank location or by mailing a check payable to City of Chetek with Emily Breidenbach Memorial fund in the memo line to Sterling Bank 427 Second Street PO Box 106 Chetek, WI 54728.
All monetary donations for Officer Hunter Scheel can be sent to Community Bank of Cameron. That information is below.
The Hunter Scheel Memorial Fund
Community Bank of Cameron
PO Box 457
101 W Main Street
Cameron WI 54822
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Friday to lift a judge’s order that temporarily barred it from reviewing a batch of classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month.
The department told the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta that the judge’s hold, imposed last week, had impeded the “government’s efforts to protect the nation’s security” and interfered with its investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago. It asked the court to remove that order so work could resume, and to overturn a judge’s directive forcing the department to provide the seized classified documents to an independent arbiter for his review.
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“The government and the public would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay,” department lawyers wrote in their brief to the appeals court.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s appointment of a so-called special master to review the documents, and the resulting legal tussle it has caused, appear certain to slow by weeks the department’s investigation into the holding of classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. It remains unclear whether Trump, who has been laying the groundwork for a potential presidential run, or anyone else might be charged.
The FBI says it took about 11,000 documents, including roughly 100 with classification markings found in a storage room and an office, while serving a court-authorized search warrant at the home on Aug. 8. Weeks after the search, Trump lawyers asked a judge to appoint a special master to perfrom an independent review of the records.
Cannon last week directed the department to halt its use of the records until further court order, or until the completion of a report of an independent arbiter who is to do his own inspection of the documents and weed out any covered by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
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On Thursday night, she assigned Raymond Dearie, the former chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, to serve as the arbiter — also known as a special master. She also declined to lift an order that prevented the department from using for its investigation about 100 seized documents marked as classified, citing ongoing disputes about the nature of the documents that she said merited a neutral review.
“The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government’s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion,” she wrote.
The Justice Department on Friday night told the appeals court that Cannon’s injunction “unduly interferes with the criminal investigation,” prohibiting investigators from “accessing the seized records to evaluate whether charges are appropriate.”
Cannon has said investigators were free to do other investigative work that did not involve a review of the documents, but the department said Friday that was largely impractical. Noting the discovery of dozens of empty folders at Mar-a-Lago marked classified, it said the judge’s hold appeared to bar it from “further reviewing the records to discern any patterns in the types of records that were retained, which could lead to identification of other records still missing.”
The department also asked the appeals court to reject Cannon’s order that it provide the newly appointed special master with the classified documents, suggesting there was no reason for the arbiter to review highly sensitive records that did not raise questions of legal privilege.
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“Plaintiff has no claim for the return of those records, which belong to the government and were seized in a court-authorized search,” department lawyers wrote. “The records are not subject to any possible claim of personal attorney-client privilege. And neither Plaintiff nor the court has cited any authority suggesting that a former President could successfully invoke executive privilege to prevent the Executive Branch from reviewing its own records.”
Cannon has directed Dearie to complete his work by Nov. 30 and to prioritize the review of classified documents. She directed the Justice Department to permit the Trump legal team to inspect classified records with “controlled access conditions” — something government lawyers said Friday was needless and harmful.
On Friday, Dearie, a former federal prosecutor, scheduled a preliminary conference with Trump lawyers and Justice Department lawyers for Tuesday afternoon.
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Netflix’s ‘I Am Vanessa Guillen’ sheds light on Army specialist’s murder, sisters say: ‘Horrifying injustice’
Guillen was killed in 2020 at age 20. Her murder is the subject of a new documentary available for streaming directed by Christy Wegener.
WARNING: This story contains graphic content.
It’s been more than two years since U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen was murdered at age 20 – and now a new documentary is shedding light on her family’s fight for answers.
On Nov. 17, Netflix released a film titled "I Am Vanessa Guillen," which details how the Texan’s disappearance and death resulted in hundreds of service members from across the country revealing their experiences with sexual trauma within the military. It features new interviews with Guillen’s mother, sisters, close friends and her boyfriend, as well as U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, among others.
"This issue of sexual misconduct within the military has been going on for quite some time," director Christy Wegener told Fox News Digital. "I wanted to put a spotlight on the issue in the biggest way possible to make a change. And because there are still so many victims suffering in silence."
Guillen’s sister, Lupe Guillen, told Fox News Digital that her beloved sibling, who was born and raised in Houston, had big dreams of joining the military since childhood, and despite her mother’s reservations, she enlisted at age 18.
"She was very strong, not only in her physical state and in playing sports, but in her mentality," said Lupe. "She always went for what she wanted and never gave up. She just kept going and going. The remembrance of her laughter reminds me just how happy she was here in our hometown. When she first enlisted in the military, I felt she was one of the bravest souls, one of the happiest and most respectful people out there."
The specialist was last seen around noon on April 22, 2020, in the parking lot of her squadron’s headquarters in Fort Hood, the Texas military installation where she was stationed. Her sister Mayra Guillen told Fox News Digital it was unusual for her sibling not to be in touch with the family.
"I immediately texted her and the message did not get delivered," she recalled. "That raised some concern. My first thought was maybe she might be underground [training] where there’s no signal. Periodically throughout the day, I would call and text. Nothing went through. I was worried, but I kept thinking maybe she was in the middle of a training exercise. Maybe she’s too focused. But then it had been over eight hours of not hearing from her.
"I remember the initial conversation that I had with a staff sergeant," she continued. "He had no clue that she was missing. It was very ironic how he was in charge of taking attendance, but had no idea she was missing… It was very frustrating that no one had any clue of where my sister was and what they were supposed to do to find her… It was a complete joke."
Investigators searched Guillen’s phone and discovered that the last person she texted was Army Specialist Aaron Robinson. Special Agent Damon Phelps of the Criminal Investigation Command noted that the 20-year-old worked in a building at Fort Hood that was adjacent to where Guillen worked. Robinson controlled an arms room Guillen was heading to from her workplace.
In the documentary, Guillen’s family described how they felt Fort Hood personnel failed to give them answers about her disappearance. It would not be until July that her remains were found. Investigators were unable to use dental records to identify her because of the state of the remains. Instead, they used DNA from bone and hair samples. The family received the information in the company of their priest.
According to Justice Department officials, Robinson told his girlfriend Cecily Aguilar, a 22-year-old civilian from a community near Fort Hood, that he repeatedly struck Guillen on the head with a hammer, killing her. He then hid her body in a large box. According to a federal complaint, he enlisted Aguilar to help him dispose of Guillen’s body.
Attorney Natalie Khawam said the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Division told her Robinson cleaned up the area where Guillen was killed, placed her body in a container and wheeled her out to his car. After driving to pick up Aguilar, Khawam said the pair drove to a nearby river and tried to burn Guillen’s body, but later chopped it up with a machete. Then, they put cement on the body and buried the remains.
A few days before a charge was announced, Robinson pulled a gun and shot himself as police were trying to make contact with him.
Aguilar was indicted by a grand jury on 11 charges. Her trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 23, 2023. She is pleading not guilty.
While it is unknown if Robinson made unwanted sexual advances on Guillen, her loved ones suspected she was sexually assaulted before her murder.
Mayra said her sister had spoken with their mother about experiencing sexual harassment. From their text conversations, Mayra said she believed her sister was afraid during her time at Fort Hood.
In April 2021, the Army said it took disciplinary action against 21 officers and non-commissioned officers at Fort Hood. The punishments included firing eight senior commanders. An Army report blamed the military for allowing Guillen’s killer to escape from custody and ultimately kill himself. It found that "poor communication" between soldiers keeping watch on Robinson failed to note that he was a soldier of "heightened interest," contributing to his ability to flee.
In August of this year, Guillen's family filed a lawsuit. They are seeking $35 million in damages from the U.S. government. The family is seeking damages on the basis of sexual harassment, abuse, assault, rape, sodomy and wrongful death.
An investigation by military officials into the death of Guillen found that she was sexually harassed, and leaders failed to take appropriate action. The lawsuit describes two instances in which Guillen was harassed during her time as a soldier, and Guillen’s suicidal thoughts as a result of coping with the harassment, which she told the family that she did not report for fear of retaliation.
Guillen’s death and claims by her family that she was harassed and assaulted at the Texas base sparked a social media movement. It included former and active service members who came forward about their own experiences in the military with the hashtag #IAmVaessaGuillen.
Lupe said staying silent was not an option.
"I believe that it’s a fundamental right to raise your voice, no matter your age, especially when there’s a horrifying injustice in the public eye," she explained. "… I would stand out in the sun, under the tremendous heat, losing my voice, because of all the yelling and demanding [of justice]. It was very sad and frustrating for me. But I realized that sexual violence is everyone’s issue. It’s an unbiased issue. It’s not a political play for any party… We met with Congress repeatedly. We raised our voices repeatedly. And that led us to the Oval Office. So for change to be established, you have to use your voice. I just couldn’t sit behind and do nothing."
Parts of the "I Am Vanessa Guillen Act" went into effect in early 2022. It addresses "the response of the Department of Defense to sex-related offenses committed against members of the Armed Forces, including allowing a member to confidentially allege a complaint of sexual harassment to an individual outside the immediate chain of command of that member."
According to the film, the Army asserts that "their initial investigation did not uncover evidence that Vanessa Guillen was sexually harassed and maintains they have no evidence that Aaron Robinson sexually assaulted her."
The family said their work is far from over. They have since launched a non-profit organization for military sexual violence survivors.
"Justice to me is change happening," said Lupe. "… Justice is lifting up my sister’s name where people can see and hear it, reminding others that when there's injustice, you demand for that's right. You demand for justice. It’s as simple as that."
If you or someone you know is suffering from abuse, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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OLOL Cancer Institiute performs first HIPEC surgery, treating cancers in the abdomen
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is now performing HIPEC, a surgery treating patients with cancers in the abdomen.
“Unfortunately, this is very common,” said Dr. Mohammad Al Efishat, a surgical oncologist Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute. “This includes cancers of the appendix that has spread into the lining of the abdomen.
He said colon cancer is also common in Baton Rouge. Al Efishat said he performed the first HIPEC (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy) surgery in the region.
“This is usually done for cancers that have spread into the inside of the abdomen or the lining of the abdomen but have not spread elsewhere,” said Al Efishat.
They remove the old visible tumor and treat the abdomen with heated chemotherapy.
“It serves patient population who otherwise have options or sometimes get sent to hospice care,” said Al Efishat.
The surgery takes 10 to 15 hours. A team works together to determine the best candidate for the surgery. Al Efishat said many factors contribute to the number of abdomen cancers in Baton Rouge.
“It’s usually a combination of environmental factors that includes the diet, the chemicals that we are exposed to in the environment as well as genetic factors,” said Al Efishat.
He has performed this surgery on one patient in the capital city so far. They are expected to be fully recovered by the end of the month.
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Hicks: What's the 2023 economic outlook?
n the past couple weeks I’ve presented my 2023 economic forecast to groups here in Indiana and Ohio. My short-term economic forecast through 2023 and into 2024 is similar to that of the Federal Reserve. I’m predicting the U.S. dodges a recession in 2023 and faces instead what is often called a "soft landing."
There are good reasons why this forecast will be right and, of course, many reasons why it will be wrong. My forecast uses a series of equations that attempt to capture economic relationships over time. For example, I have an equation that predicts new home construction given population growth and mortgage rates. Another predicts sales of consumer durables given personal income growth and credit card rates.
These equations work well when the underlying relationships don’t change very much. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case, especially in the wake of the huge post-COVID economic swings. However, forecasting this way is helpful because it allows us to really focus on those areas that have the most uncertainty or change.
The forecast of continued growth comes from these models, not a hunch or feeling. There are a few good data points that help explain why these sorts of models would suggest we’ll dodge a recession. To begin with, the economy is currently growing well. GDP growth in the third quarter was at 3.2 percent, and the slowdown in the first half of last year was largely due to inventory adjustments. There’s nothing happening right now that would suggest an immediate slowdown.
Following some huge swings during COVID, inflation-adjusted personal income, measured on a per person basis, has been rising since June. The personal savings rate has dipped, but much of that is probably due to consumers paying off credit card debt as rates rise. Household spending on goods and services remains relatively strong. All this is encouraging news that signals a downturn is not imminent.
The reason for worry about a recession is the Federal Reserve’s response to high inflation. The tightening of the money supply, most obviously through higher interest rates, is designed to slow demand for goods. This would bring inflation back to the targeted level of between 2.0 and 2.5 percent.
The good news is that when measured from month to month, inflation has stopped. By some measure it has even slipped into deflation. While the year-to-year inflation is still high, the end of monthly inflation means that the rate should fall back to the targeted range by late spring or summer. This means the Federal Reserve can slow their efforts to stop inflation, as they seem likely to do in the coming months.
The Fed always tries to achieve a soft landing, but labor market conditions today make it easier to do so for several reasons. First, the unemployment rate remains at her historic lows. Second, the excess demand for labor, as measured by job openings, is unusually large. It is larger than at any time for which we’ve had data, and probably larger than at any time in history. While this is uncomfortable for businesses, it makes a soft landing more likely.
The Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes have stopped inflation, without thus far increasing unemployment. The hope is that the Fed can continue to reduce the excess demand, but that reduction will be felt in the help wanted advertisements, not in actual hiring. That is the ‘soft landing.’
Even with a soft landing, there will be some labor market effects. The past few months have seen significant wage growth for workers with the lowest income. Much of this is fueled by workers changing jobs, not by general wage increases. In many industries, the only way to experience wage growth is through ‘job hopping.’ That opportunity may be coming to an end. Slack labor markets may slow the growth of remote work in some sectors, but it may grow opportunities in others. And, the end of tight labor markets might slow the pace of automation in the service sector. We won’t know how these shake out for many months.
My prediction of a soft landing is shared by the Federal Reserve forecasters, as well as many academic and commercial forecasts. Still, there are model-based forecasts of a recession in the first half of 2023, and there are several reasons why a recession could still occur.
The economy is always plagued by short-term measurement error. In fact, the initial hesitance to believe the growing risk of inflation was because of significant underestimates of labor market strength in 2021. Today, we could be underestimating inflation or overestimating the strength of labor markets. If so, both the predictions of a soft landing and an end of inflation could be mistaken. But, the risk of measurement error is symmetrical. Labor markets could be stronger, and underlying inflation could be less than we now observe in the preliminary data releases.
China has reversed course on COVID policies, and reopened their economy. This will have uncertain effects ranging from lower prices for many of their exports, to higher global mend for energy and raw materials. It is best to view this volatility from China as an uncertain global shock to supply and demand. China’s economy is troubled, and their political regime bizarrely uncertain. It is most likely that the world is turning away from that uncertainty, but the short-run effects of their reversal of their COVID policy is very uncertain.
The U.S. Congress seems poised for a showdown on the debt ceiling. Typically, these are political theater with little effect, but this time could always be different. Also, the Russo-Ukrainian war remains an uncertain cloud on the global economy. Russia is losing, badly. A loss should end the Putin regime, so the end will be risky. At the very least, we should anticipate continued volatility in energy prices. Any of these factors could push a soft landing into a full-blown recession.
Finally, even a soft landing will see substantial slowing of demand for some products. This will be concentrated in manufactured items, from RVs to appliances. Thus, some parts of the country will feel as if they are in recession. Other places will be largely untouched. If my forecast is correct, the Federal Reserve will have negotiated a difficult soft landing in the wake of difficult post-COVID volatility and inflation.
Michael J. Hicks, PhD, is the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and the George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University.
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SAN DIEGO — This is quite a time to be a season ticket holder for the San Diego Padres.
Great weather, a jewel of a ballpark — and perhaps the most exciting lineup in baseball for the near future.
The Padres landed the biggest prize of this year's trade deadline — and maybe at any year's deadline — when they acquired outfielder Juan Soto, a 23-year-old superstar who isn't due to become a free agent until after the 2024 season. To get him, they had to send six players to Washington, including several of their top recent prospects.
It's a massive move for an organization that has never won a World Series — but now adds Soto to a team that has Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Yu Darvish. San Diego also traded for closer Josh Hader this week.
Here's a look at the biggest buyers and sellers at this year's deadline, and how they've reshaped their futures.
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San Diego Padres (60-46, second NL wild card)
Acquired: OF Juan Soto, 1B Josh Bell, LHP Josh Hader, 2B Brandon Drury, C Cam Gallagher, LHP Jay Groome.
Traded: LHP MacKenzie Gore, SS C.J. Abrams, OF Robert Hassell III, OF James Wood, RHP Jarlin Susana, 1B Luke Voit, LHP Taylor Rogers, RHP Dinelson Lamet, 2B Esteury Ruiz, LHP Robert Gasser, SS Victor Acosta, OF Brent Rooker, 1B Eric Hosmer, 2B Max Ferguson, OF Corey Rosier.
Analysis: It was going to take a big offer to pry Soto loose from the Nationals, and the Padres always made some sense as a destination. They had enough attractive prospects to make the deal happen — and because they were already postseason contenders, adding Soto can benefit them even if he only stays through 2024. Bell brings power to the lineup as well.
Philadelphia Phillies (55-48, third NL wild card)
Acquired: RHP Noah Syndergaard, RHP David Robertson, OF Brandon Marsh, 2B Edmundo Sosa.
Traded: C Logan O'Hoppe, LHP JoJo Romero, OF Mickey Moniak, OF Jadiel Sanchez, RHP Ben Brown.
Analysis: Chasing their first postseason berth since 2011, the Phillies added help in the rotation, the bullpen, the infield and the outfield. Philadelphia moved on from Moniak, the top pick in the 2016 draft.
Seattle Mariners (56-49, second AL wild card)
Acquired: RHP Luis Castillo, LHP Matthew Boyd, C Curt Casali.
Traded: SS Noelvi Marte, SS Edwin Arroyo, RHP Levi Stoudt, RHP Andrew Moore, LHP Anthony Misiewicz, RHP Michael Stryffeler, C Andy Thomas.
Analysis: Speaking of postseason droughts, the Mariners haven't qualified since 2001, and they approached this deadline with a sense of urgency, sending three of their top prospects to Cincinnati for Castillo. Boyd had some good moments in Detroit but didn't pitch at all this year for San Francisco because of elbow problems.
New York Yankees (70-35, first place in AL East)
Acquired: RHP Frankie Montas, RHP Lou Trivino, OF Andrew Benintendi, OF Harrison Bader, RHP Scott Effross, RHP Clayton Beeter.
Traded: OF Joey Gallo, LHP Jordan Montgomery, LHP Ken Waldichuk, LHP JP Sears, RHP Luis Medina, 2B Cooper Bowman, RHP Chandler Champlain, LHP T.J. Sikkema, RHP Beck Way, RHP Hayden Wesneski.
Analysis: Considering what Seattle gave up for Castillo, the Yankees probably feel pretty good about landing Montas, who had a 3.18 ERA in 19 starts this year for Oakland. Benintendi and Bader give New York more outfield options, although the latter has been dealing with foot problems.
Minnesota Twins (54-49, first place in AL Central)
Acquired: RHP Jorge Lopez, RHP Tyler Mahle, RHP Michael Fulmer, C Sandy Leon.
Traded: RHP Yennier Cano, LHP Cade Povich, LHP Juan Rojas, RHP Juan Nunez, RHP Ian Hamilton, SS Spencer Steer, 3B Christian Encarnacion-Strand, LHP Steve Hajjar, RHP Sawyer Gipson-Long.
Analysis: Lopez and Fulmer can help Minnesota's bullpen, and Mahle has been solid over the past couple months for the Reds. And none of the Twins' top AL Central rivals did anything all that special at the deadline.
SELLERS
Washington Nationals (36-69, last place in NL East)
Traded: OF Juan Soto, 1B Josh Bell, SS Ehire Adrianza.
Acquired: SS C.J. Abrams, OF Robert Hassell III, LHP MacKenzie Gore, OF James Wood, 1B Luke Voit, RHP Jarlin Susana, 2B Trey Harris.
Analysis: It's one thing to trade a star for prospects. It's another to give up a generational talent who was under team control for another couple years. If Soto's career proceeds as expected, there may always be questions about whether the Nationals tried hard enough to keep him. That said, Washington received plenty in return. Hassell immediately becomes the team's top prospect, according to MLB Pipeline. Abrams and Gore are both top-six draft picks who made their big league debuts this year.
Cincinnati Reds (42-61, third place in NL Central)
Traded: RHP Luis Castillo, RHP Tyler Mahle, OF Tommy Pham, 2B Brandon Drury, OF Tyler Naquin, LHP Phillip Diehl.
Acquired: SS Noelvi Marte, SS Edwin Arroyo, RHP Levi Stoudt, RHP Andrew Moore, 2B Hector Rodriguez, RHP Jose Acuna, SS Spencer Steer, 3B Christian Encarnacion-Strand, LHP Steve Hajjar, SS Victor Acosta, C Austin Romine.
Analysis: The Reds cashed out with Castillo, acquiring Marte and Arroyo, who are ranked as the No. 17 and No. 92 prospects by MLB Pipeline. Cincinnati now has six of the top 100.
Oakland Athletics (39-66, last place in AL West)
Traded: RHP Frankie Montas, RHP Lou Trivino, C Austin Allen.
Acquired: LHP Ken Waldichuk, LHP JP Sears, RHP Luis Medina, 2B Cooper Bowman, RHP Carlos Guarate.
Analysis: The 24-year-old Waldichuk was the top prospect the A's received. He was excellent at Double-A this year and has posted a 3.59 ERA in 11 starts at Triple-A.
Baltimore Orioles (53-51, 1 1/2 games behind third AL wild card)
Traded: 1B Trey Mancini, RHP Jorge Lopez.
Acquired: RHP Seth Johnson, RHP Chayce McDermott, RHP Yennier Cano, LHP Cade Povich, LHP Juan Rojas, RHP Juan Nunez, OF Brett Phillips.
Analysis: The Orioles were in a tricky spot, because although they've been rebuilding, they're also surprisingly in contention for a wild card after two good months. Trading Mancini wasn't the sentimental move, but he can become a free agent after this season, so a breakup might have come soon anyway. Lopez was Baltimore's closer, but its bullpen has been very good this year and may be able to withstand his departure.
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FIRST 20 STOPS OF TOUR ANNOUNCED TODAY INCLUDING BALTIMORE,
FT. LAUDERDALE, ATLANTA, MEMPHIS, AUSTIN, SAN DIEGO, LOS ANGELES AND LAS VEGAS, WITH MORE CITIES TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE COMING WEEKS
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoComelon Live! JJ's Journey is ready to hit the road! Today Michael Cohl's powerhouse production company EMC Presents and Moonbug Entertainment announced the next leg of a massive 65+ city, North American tour kicking off in Baltimore, MD on September 16. The first set of dates will include Ft. Lauderdale (9/20), Atlanta (9/24), Memphis (9/26), Austin (10/2), San Diego (10/8), Los Angeles (10/9) and Las Vegas (10/10) with more dates to be announced (current schedule below). Tickets and VIP packages go on sale Friday, July 29. For complete tour, ticket, and official VIP package information please go to CoComelonLive.com.
Inspired by CoComelon, the #1 most watched entertainment brand on YouTube, fans and press have been raving about the first leg of the tour, saying "The visuals and choreography were nothing short of amazing!" and "So much fun for the kids and even the adults!" The Macaroni Kid blog writer added, "My kids were so excited to dance and sing along to some of their favorite songs along the way but also learn some new ones that had them equally excited to join in."
CoComelon LIVE! JJ's Journey is a Broadway-style musical production and an unforgettable adventure, encouraging parents and kids alike to get out of their seats and sing and dance along. Each stop will be a fun-filled, interactive musical romp with magical special effects. JJ and his family are putting on a show where JJ is writing his own song and he needs a little help. In the end, JJ learns that by using his imagination, he can create, solve problems and can have wonderful adventures, proving that with a little help from your family and friends, you can make your dreams come true. With all the favorite characters and over 20 songs, including new original music, the show is a terrific journey through the world of CoComelon.
"We're so glad JJ and his family are back and can share their exciting journey with other families around the country," said Michael Cohl. "The response we received from the first leg of the tour was extraordinary and I have heard from parents that this is a perfect live event to bond with their child."
"If you know kids who are obsessed with CoComelon and parents or family members who catch themselves singing along, this show is the perfect combination of a high-quality production for adults and consistent audience engagement to keep the kids entertained, "said producer Glenn Osher.
CoComelon has become a perennial leader on major streaming platforms like Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, Roku and Netflix, where it set the record for consecutive days in the Top 10 'Most Watched TV Show.' As the #1 most-watched entertainment brand on YouTube, CoComelon generates billions of monthly views and has over 139 million subscribers.
CoComelon Live is produced and promoted globally by EMC Presents. The North American tour is presented in association with Premier Productions and S2BN Entertainment.
CoComelon Live! JJ Journey's Tour Schedule
Fri, Sept 16 Baltimore, MD - Lyric Theatre
Sat, Sept 17 Raleigh, NC - Memorial Auditorium
Sun, Sept. 18 Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium
Tue, Sept. 20 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Broward Center
Wed. Sept. 21 Tampa, FL - Straz Center
Thu. Sept. 22 Jacksonville, FL - Moran Theater
Sat. Sept. 24 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre
Sun. Sept. 25 Montgomery, AL - Montgomery Performing Arts Centre
Mon. Sept. 26 Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theatre
Wed. Sept 28 Grand Prairie, TX - Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie
Thu., Sept. 29 Sugar Land, TX – Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
Sat. Oct. 1 San Antonio, TX - Tobin Center
Sun. Oct. 2 Austin, TX - Bass Hall
Tue. Oct. 4 Lubbock, TX - Buddy Holly Hall
Wed. Oct. 5 Midland, TX - Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center
Thu. Oct. 6 El Paso, TX - Abraham Chavez Theatre
Sat. Oct. 8 San Diego, CA - Civic Theatre
Sun. Oct. 9 Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Theater
Mon. Oct. 10 Las Vegas, NV - Orleans Arena
Sat. Oct. 15 Long Beach, CA – Terrace Theater
EMC Presents is a partnership between CTS Eventim, one of the leading international providers of ticketing services and live entertainment, and award-winning tour promoter and producer Michael Cohl, creating one of the strongest global networks of promoters and venues. The partnership provides a comprehensive worldwide live entertainment platform, creating extraordinary shows and experiences, from concept creation to production and promotion."
Moonbug Entertainment is an award-winning global entertainment company behind some of the most popular kids' titles in the world. Moonbug's line-up includes global sensations CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Little Angel, My Magic Pet Morphle, Supa Strikas, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Gecko's Garage, ARPO and many more.
Moonbug's shows are on more than 150 platforms globally, including YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sky, Super RTL, BBC iPlayer, HBO Max, Tencent, Youku and Roku. The company's portfolio currently stands at 29 IPs and 100+ brand partners. Moonbug content is currently available in 32 languages.
Moonbug is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. By bringing together elite talent operating at the intersection of content, community, and commerce, it helps to position leading entertainment businesses for accelerated, sustainable growth in the current market and beyond. Candle is run by its Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs, leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone's flagship private equity business.
Contacts:
UK media contacts:
Monika Fried: monika.fried@moonbug.com
Louise Webster: louise.webster@moonbug.com
US Contacts:
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CoComelonlive@sunshinesachs.com
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Mudslide in northeast India leaves 14 dead, more than 30 missing
Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours triggered a mudslide in northeast India that killed at least 14 people and left more than 30 others missing, authorities said Thursday.
Disaster response workers, police and local villagers were trying to rescue those buried under the debris in Noney, a town near Imphal, the capital of Manipur state.
Seven of the confirmed dead were members of the Territorial Army, state chief minister N. Biren Singh said. He said five Indian Railway officials were among those feared missing.
A railway project is being constructed in the area, where there is a rebel insurgency, and the army personnel were providing security for railway officials overseeing the project. The state’s decades-old insurgency seeks a separate homeland for ethnic and tribal groups.
Continuous rainfall over the last three weeks has wreaked havoc across India’s northeast, which has eight states and 45 million people, and in neighboring Bangladesh.
An estimated 200 people have been killed in heavy downpours and mudslides in states including Assam, Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim, while 42 people have died in Bangladesh since May 17. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced.
Scientists say climate change is a factor behind the erratic, early rains that triggered the unprecedented floods. Monsoon rains in South Asia typically begin in June, but torrential rain lashed northeastern India and Bangladesh as early as March this year.
With rising global temperatures due to climate change, experts say the monsoon season is becoming more variable, meaning that much of the rain that would typically fall throughout the season arrives in a shorter period.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego police killed an apparently suicidal man Thursday when he refused to drop a gun he was holding, authorities said.
Officers were dispatched to Central Avenue just before 1 p.m. by a report of a man holding a handgun to his head, according to a statement from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
As officers arrived, the man fled through an alley.
“Officers confronted the man and he asked them to shoot him" before running off again, the Sheriff's Department statement said.
Other officers confronted the man in the driveway of a nearby home.
When he refused to drop the gun, they fired bean bag weapons and the man fell down but he was holding the gun when he got up and three officers opened fire, according to the Sheriff's Department.
The man died at the scene. He was described as 25 to 35 years old but his name wasn't immediately released.
No officers were injured.
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At least 3 injured in 3 separate shootings in West Palm Beach
Police are actively investigating three separate shootings that left at least two minors and an adult injured in West Palm Beach Monday afternoon.
According to West Palm Beach police, the first shooting occurred around 3:30 p.m. in the 800 block of 5th Street. Police said a teenager was shot and suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
A second shooting occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of 13th Street and Tamarind Avenue where officials said a younger child was shot. The child also suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said a third shooting occurred a block away, at 15th Street and Windsor Avenue. According to police, an adult was shot at this location and taken to a hospital. Their condition is unknown.
Several police cruisers are seen at these locations and a crime scene tape is blocking off part of 5th Street. A convenience store near 13th Street is also blocked off with police tape.
It's still unknown if the three shootings are connected.
WPTV has a crew at the scene and will update this story as more information becomes available.
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The voting was over and almost all ballots were counted. News outlets on Nov. 7, 2020, had called the presidential race for Democrat Joe Biden. But the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group was just beginning to fight.
Convinced the White House had been stolen from Republican Donald Trump, Stewart Rhodes exhorted his followers to action, suggesting they emulate a popular uprising that brought down Yugoslavia’s president two decades earlier. He published a version of his appeal online, headlined, “What We The People Must Do.”
“We must now … refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol,” Rhodes declared to fellow Oath Keepers.
Authorities allege that Rhodes and his band of extremists would spend the next several weeks amassing weapons, organizing paramilitary training and readying armed teams outside Washington with a singular goal: stopping Joe Biden from becoming president.
Their plot would come to a head on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors say, when Oath Keepers wearing helmets and other battle gear were captured on camera shouldering their way through the crowd of angry Trump supporters and storming the Capitol in military-style stack formation.
Hundreds of pages of court documents in the case against Rhodes and four co-defendants — whose trial opens with jury selection Tuesday in Washington’s federal court — paint a picture of a group so determined to overturn Biden’s election that some members were prepared to lose their lives to do so.
The trial is the biggest test so far for the Justice Department’s efforts to hold accountable those responsible for the attack on the Capitol, a violent assault that challenged the foundations of American democracy. Rioters temporarily halted the certification of Biden’s victory by sheer force, pummeling police officers in hand-to-hand fighting as they rammed their way into the building, forcing Congress to adjourn as lawmakers and staff hid from the mob.
Despite nearly 900 arrests and hundreds of convictions in the riot, Rhodes and four Oath Keeper associates — Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson and Thomas Caldwell — are the first to stand trial on the rare and difficult-to-prove charge of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors will try to show that the insurrection for the Oath Keepers was not a spur-of-the-moment protest but part of a serious, weekslong plot to stop the transfer of power.
The trial could shed new light on Trump’s attempts to cling to power. It comes amid growing legal peril for the former president, who faces multiple investigations, including one by the Justice Department into his handling of sensitive government documents.
Defense lawyers for the Oath Keepers will tell jurors the government case is all a lie.
The Oath Keepers accuse prosecutors of twisting their words and insist there was never any plan to attack the Capitol. They say they were in Washington to provide security at events for figures such as Trump ally Roger Stone before the president’s big outdoor rally behind the White House. Their preparations, training, gear and weapons were to protect themselves against potential violence from left-wing antifa activists or to be ready if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act to call up a militia.
Rhodes’ lawyers have signaled that their defense will focus on his belief that Trump would take that action.
“When he believed that the President would issue an order invoking the Insurrection Act, he was prepared to follow it. When that invocation did not come, he did precisely nothing,” Rhodes lawyers wrote in court documents.
“The Government would like this Court to believe that is sedition, when in fact, it is the opposite. It is loyalty to an oath taken in defense of the Country.”
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Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers in 2009 and it has grown into one of the largest anti-government groups in U.S. history. It recruits past and present members of the military, first responders and police officers, and promotes the belief that the federal government is out to strip citizens of their civil liberties. It portrays its followers as defenders against tyranny.
On Nov. 9, 2020, less than a week after Election Day, Rhodes held a conference call and rallied the Oath Keepers to go to Washington and fight. He expressed hope that antifa (anti-fascist) activists would start clashes because that would give Trump the “reason and rationale for dropping the Insurrection Act.”
”You’ve got to go there and you’ve got to make sure that he knows that you are willing to die to fight for this country,” Rhodes told his people, according to a transcript filed in court. He urged those on their way to Washington to stop at Arlington National Cemetery to see the graves of thousands of people who died fighting for the United States.
“They were willing to give up their entire life,” Rhodes told them. “Most of us are in our 50s or 60s or older. You’ve lived a good life. You’ve lived way past the age of these young men. … And if you don’t stand up now, everything they fought for and died for will be fought for nothing.“
Some Oath Keepers would stay outside Washington but be “prepared to go in armed if they have to,” Rhodes said on the call. If they failed to “save” the country, Rhodes predicted there would be “a bloody, bloody civil war.”
After the call, another Oath Keeper, Watkins, told people who expressed interest in joining her Ohio militia group about “military-style basic” training planned for early January, prosecutors say. The Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers held training in “unconventional warfare.”
Watkins told one recruit, “I need you fighting fit” by the inauguration, which was Jan. 20, 2021. Watkins later predicted their “way of life” would be over if Biden became president.
“Our Republic would be over. Then it is our duty as Americans to fight, kill and die for our rights,” she wrote in another message.
By December, Rhodes and the Oath Keepers had set their sights on Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, prosecutors say.
Trump’s Dec. 19 tweet about a “big protest in D.C. on January 6th” that he predicted would “be wild” seemed to energize the Oath Keepers.
Days later, Meggs — the leader of the Florida chapter— wrote in a Facebook message: “Trump said It’s gonna be wild!!!!!!! It’s gonna be wild!!!!!!! He wants us to make it WILD that’s what he’s saying. He called us all to the Capitol and wants us to make it wild!!!”
During an interview Dec. 22 with a regional Oath Keepers leader, Rhodes described Jan. 6 as “hard constitutional deadline” for stopping Biden from becoming president.
On Dec. 23, Rhodes published an open letter on the Oath Keepers website declaring that “tens of thousands of patriot Americans, both veterans and nonveterans” would be in Washington. Many would have their “mission-critical gear stowed nearby just outside D.C,” he wrote, warning that they might have to “take to arms in defense of our God given liberty.”
In late December, the Oath Keepers were making plans for “quick reaction force” teams to be stationed at a Virginia hotel in order to shepherd weapons into the city quickly if needed, prosecutors say. In one message days before the Capitol attack, Caldwell suggested getting a boat to ferry “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River into the Oath Keepers’ “waiting arms.”
As 2021 approached, Rhodes spent $7,000 on two night-vision devices and a weapon sight and sent them to someone outside Washington, authorities say. Over several days in early January, he would spend an additional $15,500 on guns, including an AR-platform rifle, magazines, mounts, sights and other equipment, according to court documents.
“There is no standard political or legal way out of this,” Rhodes wrote in a message on New Year’s Eve.
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Oath Keepers from across the country began traveling to the Washington area.
Rhodes had instructed them to be ready, if asked, to secure the White House perimeter and “use lethal force if necessary” against anyone, including the National Guard, who might try to remove Trump from the White House, according to court documents in the case of one member who has pleaded guilty.
On Jan. 5, Meggs and the Florida Oath Keepers brought gun boxes, rifle cases and suitcases filled with ammunition to the Virginia hotel where the “quick reaction force” teams would be on standby, according to prosecutors. A team from Arizona brought weapons, ammunition, and supplies to last 30 days, according to court papers. A team from North Carolina had rifles in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot, prosecutors have said. Surveillance footage shows Oath Keepers rolling bags, large bins and what appears to be at least one rifle case into the hotel.
On the morning of the riot, one of the quick reaction force team members warned on a podcast about the prospect of violence: “We are applying as much pressure as we can. The only and obvious next step is to go into armed conflict but hoping very much that that doesn’t happen.”
Trump delivered his speech at the Ellipse behind the White House, repeating his false claims about a rigged election and urging his supporters to “fight like hell.” The crowd started marching to the Capitol, eventually fighting past police barricades.
As word began spreading that people were storming the Capitol, Rhodes wrote: “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no attempt by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it in their own hands. They’ve had enough.”
At the Capitol, the Oath Keepers formed two teams, military “stacks,” prosecutors say.
The first stack, with members wearing protective vests, helmets and communication devices, pushed through the crowd and up the Capitol steps. Over a channel called “Stop the Steal J6” on the walkie-talkie app Zello, Watkins said they were inside.
“Get it, Jess. … Everything we (expletive) trained for,” someone responded.
Some members of the first stack headed toward the House of Representatives searching for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., but couldn’t find her, according to court documents. Members of the second stack confronted officers inside the Capitol Rotunda, prosecutors allege.
Rhodes isn’t accused of going inside the Capitol but was seen huddled with members outside after the riot. Rhodes and others then walked to the nearby Phoenix Park Hotel, prosecutors say.
Inside a private suite there, Rhodes called someone on the phone with an urgent message for Trump, according to an Oath Keeper who says he was there. Rhodes repeatedly urged the person on the phone to tell Trump to call upon militia groups to fight to keep the president in power, court papers say. The person denied Rhodes’ request to speak directly to Trump.
“I just want to fight,” Rhodes said after hanging up, according to court papers. Authorities have not disclosed the name of the person they believe Rhodes was speaking to on the call. Rhodes’ lawyer has said the call never happened.
That night, Rhodes and other Oath Keepers went to dinner at an Olive Garden restaurant in Virginia. In messages over the course of the evening, they indicated their fight was far from over.
“We aren’t quitting!! We are reloading!!” Meggs wrote in one message.
“Patriots entering their own Capitol to send a message to the traitors is NOTHING compared to what’s coming,” Rhodes wrote in another.
In the days between the riot and Biden’s inauguration, Rhodes spent more than $17,000 on firearm parts, magazines, ammunition and other items, prosecutors say.
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Rhodes returned to his home state of Texas after the Jan. 6 attack and remained free for a year before his arrest in January 2022.
In interviews before he was jailed, he sought to distance himself from those Oath Keepers who went inside the Capitol, saying it was a mistake to do so. But he also continued to push the lie that the election was stolen from Trump and painted the investigation of the Jan. 6 events as politically motivated.
The Oath Keepers’ “team leader on the ground that day was an experienced combat vet. … If he had actually intended for anyone to go into the Capitol and commit an insurrection, it would have looked very, very different from what we saw,” Rhodes said in a March 2021 interview with the website Gateway Pundit.
“The idea that that was somehow an insurrection, with no guns no actual, obvious intent to do anything is just ridiculous, a complete joke,” he said.
A lawyer for Caldwell wrote in a recent filing: “Defense counsel have reviewed thousands of text messages, Signal messages, emails, Facebook Messenger messages, social media posts, etc. and have found no evidence that the Rhodes defendants planned any specific acts of civil disobedience or violence on J6.”
The lawyer added: “If Caldwell or the Oath Keepers or both had a plan to forcibly, corruptly, illegally, or violently stop the Electoral College certification on J6, it was the best kept secret in the annals of American history.”
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LONDON (AP) — UK leader Liz Truss pledges to press on with economic reforms despite U-turn on major tax cut.
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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday he will keep senators working in Washington until they pass legislation to avoid a nationwide rail strike, which he warned could begin disrupting the nation’s supply chain as soon as next week.
“The Senate cannot leave until we get the job done and Democrats will keep working with Republicans to find a path forward that everyone can support,” he announced on the Senate floor.
The Democratic leader began the so-called Rule 14 process on Wednesday evening to put a House-passed bill to avert the rail strike on the Senate calendar.
The legislation passed the House earlier in the day 290-137 to impose a labor deal on freight rail carriers and workers that would keep the rail lines running ahead of Christmas. Seventy-nine House Republicans voted for the bill and eight Democrats voted against it.
President Biden called on congressional leaders to impose the labor deal on railroad companies and workers after four of 12 unions voted down a tentative deal brokered by Biden’s emergency board that would have given workers a 24 percent raise by 2024 but little flexibility on taking sick days.
A companion House bill giving workers an additional seven sick days passed the chamber by a much narrower margin, 221 to 207, with only three Democrats voting for it.
Schumer only put the bill averting the potential strike on the calendar, not the legislation adding more sick days to the deal — indicating that additional sick leave will be voted on as an amendment to the base bill imposing a labor contract on the industry.
“Senators are working morning, noon and night to enact this measure ASAP,” Schumer said.
Republicans want to pass an amendment sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) that would postpone a strike for 60 days, giving freight rail carriers and unions more time to negotiate a settlement.
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said leaders are negotiating whether to allow the amendments on extra sick leave and more time for negotiations at 51- or 60-vote thresholds. If the amendments need 60 votes to pass, then neither one is likely to be adopted.
“Right now they’re working out the path forward on amendments,” Thune said. “The question … is going to be what is the threshold for amendment votes. That affects both sides.”
Thune said Sullivan’s proposal to postpone a strike for two months and send the parties back to the negotiating table has broad support in the GOP conference.
“There is a lot of support on the GOP side. Whether there’s full support is another issue,” he said.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki flew Tuesday to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense cooperation of the two nations.
Morawiecki is due to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday at the White House. He is also scheduled to have meetings with the representatives of American defense companies during his three-day visit.
“I am flying to the United States to strengthen the alliance with our most powerful ally, with a country that guarantees security in Europe, that especially guarantees security in our part of Europe,” Morawiecki said.
Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, the United States increased its military presence in Poland — a nation on NATO's eastern flank that borders Ukraine — and has used Poland as a transit country for military and humanitarian aid going into Ukraine.
Poland is also a major donor of aid to Ukraine, and has been ordering tanks and other modern military equipment, mostly from U.S. and South Korean producers, to strengthen its own forces and replace some older equipment sent to Ukraine.
As Europe seeks to gain energy independence, Poland is also planning to build nuclear power plants, and has chosen the U.S. government and Westinghouse as its partners for its first plant.
Before departing Warsaw early Tuesday, Morawiecki told reporters at the airport that Polish-American relations “have not been so good for a long time, and perhaps they have never been so strong.”
Morawiecki's visit follows two visits to Poland by U.S. President Joe Biden since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
The prime minister said Poland’s alliance with the U.S. is “an absolute foundation of our security.”
“It is based on two pillars: economic and defense cooperation. I am going to the U.S. to strengthen both of these pillars,” he said.
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Barbie Ferreira has joined the cast of the upcoming psychological thriller House of Spoils, Amazon Prime Video and Blumhouse Television announced on Monday. The casting news comes less than a week after Ferreira said she would not be returning for Euphoria's third season.
House of Spoils also stars Ariana DeBose, who plays an ambitious chef who "battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor, crushing self doubts… and the powerful spirit of the estate's previous owner who threatens to sabotage her at every turn," the film's press release reads. Ferreira's specific role has not yet been announced, and production for the film will not begin until this fall.
Ferreira is best known for her role as Kat Hernandez on HBO's Euphoria. In the show's first season, the character explored her sexuality by starring in her own online videos and eventually starting to date classmate Ethan Daley. Kat had less screen time in season 2, but much of it focused on her struggles with body image that eventually resulted in a breakup with Ethan.
"After four years of getting to embody the most special and enigmatic character Kat, I'm having to say a very teary-eyed goodbye," Ferreira wrote on Instagram last week. "I hope many of you could see yourself in her like I did and that she brought you joy to see her journey into the character she is today."
"I put all my care and love into her and I hope you guys could feel it," she continued. "Love you Katherine Hernandez."
Prior to the announcement, The Daily Beast had reported on speculation that Ferreira and series creator Sam Levinson had a falling out on set.
Ferreira addressed the rumors head-on in an interview following the end of season 2. "I've seen so many different things and a lot of it is untrue and some of it's kind of like mundane little things," she told Insider.
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Singer DaniLeigh arrested in DUI hit-and-run crash in Florida: TMZ
Singer DaniLeigh is accused of being involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a moped rider with a fractured spine, TMZ reports.
According to TMZ, the singer – whose real name is Danielle Curiel was arrested Tuesday after she was accused of being involved in a crash in Florida. The crash allegedly left a moped rider with serious back injuries, TMZ reports.
TMZ also reported Curiel may have been speeding in the Miami Beach crash and dragged the moped rider she hit "for about a block." Curiel is also accused of blowing just over 0.145, TMZ said in its report.
Curiel is charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury and DUI damage to property, TMZ reports.
Curiel is known by fans for her 2018 hit single "Easy" with Chris Brown. She also has a massive following on social media, having more than 4.5 million followers on Instagram.
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Friday's results
Moose Jaw 5 Brandon 1
Winnipeg at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Portland at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Medicine Hat at Regina, 4 p.m.
Lethbridge at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Winnipeg at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 4:05 p.m.
Spokane at Portland, 5 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Saskatoon at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Saskatoon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Regina at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Portland at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
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Climate change attacked crucial Arctic sea ice thickness in two sudden big gobbles instead of steady nibbling, a new study says.
A little more than 15 years ago, sea ice quickly lost more than half its thickness, becoming weaker, more prone to melting and less likely to recover, according to the study that emphasizes the importance of two big “regime shifts” that changed the complexion of the Arctic.
Those big bites came in 2005 and 2007. Before then, Arctic sea ice was older and misshapen in a way that made it difficult to move out of the region. That helped the polar area act as the globe’s air conditioner even in warmer summers. But now the ice is thinner, younger and easier to push out of the Arctic, putting that crucial cooling system at more risk, the study’s lead author said.
Before 2007, 19% of the sea ice in the Arctic was at least 13 feet thick (4 meters) — taller than most elephants — but now only about 9.3% of ice is at least that thick. And the age of the ice has dropped by more than a third, from an average of 4.3 years to 2.7 years, according to the study in Wednesday’s journal Nature.
It cited “the long-lasting impact of climate change on the Arctic sea ice.”
“Ice is much more vulnerable than before because it’s thinner, it can easily melt,” said study lead author Hiroshi Sumata, a sea ice scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute. Thicker sea ice is crucial to all sorts of life in the Arctic, he said.
The study shows “how the Arctic sea ice environment has undergone a fundamental shift,” said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who wasn’t part of the research. “This paper helps explain why the sea ice has not recovered from those big drops.”
Past studies concentrated more on the extent of Arctic sea ice, or how widespread it is, because that’s easily measured by satellites, which don’t observe volume well. But 90% of the sea ice eventually is pushed out of the Arctic through the Fram Strait by Greenland, so Sumata overcame the challenges of measuring from space by focusing his observations on that ground-based choke point.
He found that first ice was getting younger, which made it thinner and more uniform, and easier to push out through the Fram Strait. Thicker ice has all sorts of edges and weird shapes that make it harder to force out of the Arctic because of aerodynamics, but that’s not the case for sleeker, younger ice, Sumata said.
Scientists had known before that sea ice was shrinking in extent and getting thinner, but this “flushing” is key, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who wasn’t part of the study.
“Such flushing episodes have reduced the residence time of ice in the Arctic Ocean by more than a year so there’s less time for it to thicken and it’s the thick ice that’s resistant to melting out,” Serreze said in an email. “But since the Arctic is quickly warming up, we’re probably past the point of hoping the Arctic Ocean can recover.”
What likely happened in 2005 and 2007 were periods with warm, large, ice-free open water in the Arctic that exceeded periods of previous summers, Sumata said. White ice reflects the sun’s rays, but the dark ocean absorbs it and warms up — something called ice albedo feedback. This cycle of warmer water made it harder for ice to form, survive and get thicker, he said.
Once the ocean has accumulated that heat, it can’t go back easily. So in the future more big warmer shifts can happen to make ice thinner and weaker, but don’t count on sudden, healing cooling changes, scientists said.
Sumata and Serreze think those sudden warm jumps will happen soon and are surprised they haven’t quite happened yet. Recent projections predict the Arctic ocean will be ice free in parts of summer in 20 to 30 years.
Sea ice thickness and overall Arctic health is crucial even to areas thousands of miles away that don’t freeze up, Sumata said.
“It will affect the entire Earth because the north and south pole is something like a radiator of the Earth, the air conditioning system of the Earth,” Sumata said. “And the situation we observed indicates the air conditioner is not working well.”
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Top Players to Watch: Alabama vs. San Diego State - Sweet 16
On Friday at KFC Yum! Center, the Alabama Crimson Tide (31-5) and the San Diego State Aztecs (29-6) collide at 6:30 PM ET for their Sweet 16 matchup. The Crimson Tide's Brandon Miller and the Aztecs' Matt Bradley are two players to watch in this contest.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to look out for in this matchup on TBS.
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How to Watch Alabama vs. San Diego State
- Game Day: Friday, March 24
- Game Time: 6:30 PM ET
- Arena: KFC Yum! Center
- Location: Louisville, Kentucky
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Alabama's Last Game
Alabama won its previous game versus Maryland, 73-51, on Saturday. Jahvon Quinerly was its top scorer with 22 points.
San Diego State's Last Game
San Diego State won its most recent game versus Furman, 75-52, on Saturday. Micah Parrish was its leading scorer with 16 points.
Alabama Players to Watch
Miller averages 19.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game -- both team highs. He is also putting up 2 assists, shooting 44.1% from the field and 39.5% from beyond the arc with 2.9 made 3-pointers per game.
Noah Clowney posts 10 points, 7.9 rebounds and 0.9 assists per contest. Defensively, he posts 0.5 steals and 1 block.
Mark Sears posts 12.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists per contest. Defensively, he averages 1.2 steals and 0.1 blocked shots.
Charles Bediako is putting up 6.3 points, 0.7 assists and 6 rebounds per game.
Quinerly paces the Crimson Tide at 3.6 assists per contest, while also averaging 1.9 rebounds and 8.7 points.
San Diego State Players to Watch
Bradley is the Aztecs' top scorer (13 points per game) and assist man (2.1), and delivers 3.9 rebounds.
Lamont Butler is No. 1 on the Aztecs in assists (3.3 per game), and puts up 8.6 points and 2.7 rebounds. He also puts up 1.5 steals and 0.1 blocked shots.
The Aztecs receive 9.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game from Darrion Trammell.
Nathan Mensah is the Aztecs' top rebounder (5.9 per game), and he posts 6.1 points and 0.6 assists.
Jaedon LeDee gets the Aztecs 7.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1 assists per game. He also delivers 0.5 steals and 0.4 blocked shots.
Alabama Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
San Diego State Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said.
Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, normally spreads in poultry and wasn’t deemed a threat to people until a 1997 outbreak among visitors to live poultry markets in Hong Kong. Most human cases worldwide have involved direct contact with infected poultry, but concerns have arisen recently about infections in a variety of mammals and the possibility the virus could evolve to spread more easily between people.
The girl from the rural southeastern province of Prey Veng became ill Feb. 16 and was sent to be treated at hospital in the capital, Phnom Penh. She was diagnosed Wednesday after suffering a fever up to 39 Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) with coughing and throat pain and died shortly afterward, the Health Ministry said in a statement Wednesday night.
Health officials have taken samples from a dead wild bird at a conservation area near the girl’s home, the ministry said in another statement Thursday. It said teams in the area would also warn residents about touching dead and sick birds.
Cambodian Health Minister Mam Bunheng warned that bird flu poses an especially high risk to children who may be feeding or collecting eggs from domesticated poultry, playing with the birds or cleaning their cages.
Symptoms of H5N1 infection are similar to that of other flus, including cough, aches and fever, and in serious cases, patients can develop life-threatening pneumonia.
Cambodia had 56 human cases of H5N1 from 2003 through 2014 and 37 of them were fatal, according to the World Health Organization.
Globally, about 870 human infections and 457 deaths have been reported to the WHO in 21 countries. But the pace has slowed, and there have been about 170 infections and 50 deaths in the last seven years.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier this month expressed concern about avian influenza infections in mammals including minks, otters, foxes and sea lions.
“H5N1 has spread widely in wild birds and poultry for 25 years, but the recent spillover to mammals needs to be monitored closely,” he warned.
In January, a 9-year-old girl in Ecuador became the first reported case of human infection in Latin America and the Caribbean. She was treated with antiviral medicine.
Tedros said earlier this month that the WHO still assesses the risk from bird flu to humans as low.
“But we cannot assume that will remain the case, and we must prepare for any change in the status quo,” he said. He advised for people not to touch dead or sick wild animals and for countries to strengthen their surveillance of settings where people and animals interact.
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South Carolina is working to help people there cope with the intense heat. Daniel Rickenmann, mayor of Columbia, S.C., joins the program to discuss how he's trying to address the issue.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Providence Homes, Jacksonville's leader in energy-efficient construction, recently launched a new interactive and informative website, myprovidencehome.com, to better serve the needs of its clients when making a home-buying decision.
"Homebuyers are savvy," said Sean Junker, President and COO at Providence Homes. "By the time they contact us, they are well researched and deep into the selection process. Our web presence now provides anyone looking to buy a home with the resources and tools they need to get a better understanding of the possibilities that a new Providence home offers."
The site gives home buyers the ability to search available homes based on the criteria that matter to them, including lot type (wooded, lakefront or cul-de-sac) and size, available spaces (bonus room, dining room, loft, study, and/or three-car garage. The ability to filter homes based on their energy-efficiency status (ENERGY STAR®, Indoor airPlus or Zero Energy Ready).
Visitors to the site can also find homes that are available for quick move in. The site contains photos of the homes under construction and model homes, allowing potential clients to see the colors and finishes used and walkthrough videos. When viewing the listings, community maps are available to help buyers see where the homesite is in the community and the view from the home. When looking at quick-move-in homes, there is simple navigation for properties "you may be interested in" that show similarly-priced options in the neighborhood.
The new myprovidencehome.com has resources to help buyers understand the specifics of the various ENERGY STAR programs and certifications. There's now an FAQ page for people with Energy Star questions. The interactive "House as a System" page allows users to see how the Energy Star program affects the home and how the home runs more efficiently, quietly and healthily.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Providence Homes is committed to providing the highest standards of residential construction in northeast Florida. As one of Jacksonville's only 100-percent ENERGY STAR® Certified home builders, Providence Homes pledges to make a difference in the industry by building every home with the same detail and commitment to excellence as they would with their own. Since becoming an ENERGY STAR® partner, Providence Homes has built more than 1,900 ENERGY STAR® homes helping Jacksonville families save more than $7 million in energy bills.
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MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police say a woman was pepper sprayed inside a Manhattan apartment.
It happened in the building on 42nd Street near 8th Avenue on Saturday afternoon.
The circumstances remain unclear. Police say they went into the apartment to investigate but her attacker appeared to have gotten away.
The woman was treated on the street in front of the building.
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BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Wednesday that it plans to make plastic manufacturers contribute to the cost of cleaning up litter in streets and parks.
The Cabinet agreed on a bill that makers of products containing single-use plastic will need to pay into a central fund managed by the government, starting in 2025.
The fund is estimated to collect about 450 million euros ($446 million) in the first year, based on the companies’ past production of single-use plastic.
Affected items include cigarette filters, drink containers and packaging for takeout food.
Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said the cost of cleanups in Europe’s biggest economy is currently borne by all.
“That should change,” she said. “Whoever depends on putting single-use plastic onto the market for their business should contribute to the collection and cleanup costs.”
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PHILADELPHIA — Four men were fatally shot and two children were wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia on Monday, police said.
4 men killed, 2 children wounded, police say
Update 11:07 p.m. EDT July 3: During a news conference Monday night, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said there were six victims shot, with four people fatally wounded.
She said the deceased victims were males, ages 20, 22 and 59, and the fourth person was “in the 16 to 21 range.”
The other victims were boys, ages 2 and 13, Outlaw said. Both children were in stable condition, she said.
Outlaw added that there are two people in custody, including the suspected shooter. Outlaw said the suspected shooter was arrested without incident.
#BREAKING UPDATE: Four men were killed and a toddler and teen were injured in a mass shooting in Philly. Two people are in custody in connection to the shooting: https://t.co/Qk1IGgXJDa pic.twitter.com/aWFtG9MqdK
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) July 4, 2023
Original report: At least two juveniles were among the victims, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Their conditions were unclear.
Police said a suspect was in custody, according to the newspaper.
Four people were killed and four others injured Monday night in a shooting in the Kingsessing section of Southwest Philadelphia.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) July 4, 2023
A suspect is in custody, police said.https://t.co/OOzY1dh3V3
The shooting occurred in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, WPVI-TV reported. Police were called to the area at about 8:30 p.m. EDT, according to the television station.
Within minutes, police found four victims at several locations, and they were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, the Inquirer reported. Four more victims arrived at area hospitals by private vehicles, according to the newspaper.
Shortly after 10 p.m. EDT, police said that one of the juveniles was being transported from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Inquirer reported. The condition of the other juvenile was unclear.
Police said a male wearing a ballistic vest was apprehended at about 8:40 p.m. EDT, the Inquirer reported. They added that a rifle, a handgun and additional magazines of ammunition were recovered in a nearby alley.
“Horrified by the reports of a shooting in Southwest Philadelphia,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney tweeted. “My heart is with the loved ones and families of everyone involved, and I send my prayers to the victims.”
Horrified by the reports of a shooting in Southwest Philadelphia. My heart is with the loved ones and families of everyone involved, and I send my prayers to the victims. https://t.co/URAmvrUQxL
— Mayor Jim Kenney (@PhillyMayor) July 4, 2023
It was unclear what led to the shooting.
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Man mauled to death while dog sitting, police say
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (WCCO) - Police have quarantined four dogs who they say mauled a man to death in Minnesota.
The attack happened in the man’s backyard as he was watching the animals.
Neighbors say they heard screams for help coming from a home in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota Thursday afternoon.
Police say when they arrived four pit bulls were attacking a man, identified as 22-year-old Dezmond Trawick, in the backyard.
Officers struck one of the dogs with a less lethal round. The dogs then dispersed and went inside.
By then, however, Trawick had sustained extensive bites on most of his body.
His injuries were too much for him to survive and he died at the hospital.
It was reported the pit bulls did not live at the home and Trawick was watching the dogs.
They’re now in quarantine during a dangerous dog process and investigation and in the custody of an animal holding facility, Pups Under Police Security.
It is unknown if the owner plans to surrender the animals to police or attend a dangerous dog hearing.
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A hospitality company announced Thursday that it was buying the shuttered Oceanview Motel in Wildwood Crest and vowed to reopen the doo-wop style property while preserving its distinctive architectural features.
Madison Resorts, which was founded by businessman Dan Alicea, is paying $10 million to purchase the site and plans to spend $12 million for renovations with a tentative grand opening set for Memorial Day weekend next year, the company said.
The beachfront motel at 7201 Ocean Ave. is being renamed Madison Resort Wildwood Crest.
The Oceanview was built in 1964 in a style called populuxe or doo-wop. "These Doo Wop motels are playful, two- or three-story, bar or l-shaped structures that usually feature elaborate balcony railings, outlandish signs, and colorful offices or lounges designed in unexpected shapes," according to a description posted on the Preservation New Jersey website.
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The motel has been closed since last fall. Earlier this year, the site reportedly was being considered for condominiums.
"We plan to keep the 62+-year-old building and restore it to its retro roots along with modern touches throughout the improvement," Alicea said in a statement. The renovated property will feature 108 rooms, including 90 suites, beach access, four floors, 90,000 square feet, new lobby/reception, restaurant, lounge area with firepits, ocean view patio lounge and other upgrades to be announced," Madison Resorts said in its announcement.
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Alicea added: "Our expansion into Wildwood Crest is a homecoming for my wife, Stephanie, who was born and raised in Wildwood Crest. This community means so much to her and our family, and we couldn't be happier to make history with the property's next chapter."
John Donio, president of the Doo-Wop Preservation League, said in a statement: "We are thrilled that Madison Resorts is taking over this mid-century modern gem and restoring it to its former glory but with the modern amenities that today's sophisticated guests demand."
Preservationists earlier this year sought to save the lobby portion of the building after a previous plan submitted to the borough sought to transform the Oceanview into condos. The building also has deteriorated in recent years, incurring code violations, operating last summer with several rooms ordered closed due to a deteriorating pedestrian walkway and suffering a partial roof collapse this past winter.
DAS Architects of Philadelphia will put together the design for the property updates, Madison Resorts said. The $12 million renovation will be handled by MCFA construction.
Madison Resorts said this is its second renovation project, after the Montreal Beach Resort in Cape May.
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Bossin' Cream Pie™ and Raspberry Cheesecake Available Now
BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- We may be just a few weeks into 2023, but Ben & Jerry's is already giving its fans a reason to break their New Year resolutions and indulge with a duo of delicious ice cream innovations. The Vermont-based dessert maker announced it is adding two more flavors, Bossin' Cream Pie™ and Raspberry Cheesecake, to their fan favorite collection of Topped™ offerings. These flavor-packed pints, complete with decadent top layers of chocolatey ganache, have dazzled fans since launching in 2021.
Bossin' Cream Pie™ Topped perfectly evokes the flavors of the classic custard-filled doughnut. Digging into the initial milk chocolate ganache layer, vanilla custard ice cream with cake pieces and pastry cream swirls elicits a trip to your favorite bakery all in a pint. Raspberry Cheesecake Topped is a zingy, tart journey that begins with a white chocolatey ganache and graham cracker crumble as a top layer and features a cheesecake ice cream with graham cracker pieces and rich raspberry swirls.
"We wanted to create a fun, cafeteria nostalgia moment with these new flavors inspired by classic desserts. The Bossin' Cream Pie transports fans to that first doughnut bite the way the rich, crunchy chocolate ganache hits tastebuds," said Flavor Guru Haylee Nelson. "The floral, fruity raspberry flavor of the Raspberry Cheesecake hits you and brings that cheesecake texture to the forefront. If you shake the pint before you open it, you can hear the sound of what's waiting inside—the graham cracker crumbs on top!"
Both flavors are full-time additions to Ben & Jerry's Topped™ offerings and will be featured across the United States in pints at an MSRP of $5.99-6.49. Shipping to stores across the country now. To find a pint near you, visit www.benjerry.com. To learn more about our entire Topped™ line, click here.
About Ben & Jerry's
Ben & Jerry's is an aspiring social justice company that believes in a greater calling than simply making and selling the world's best ice cream. The company produces a wide variety of super-premium ice cream and Non-Dairy/vegan desserts using high-quality ingredients and lots of big chunks and swirls. As a Certified B Corp, Ben & Jerry's incorporates its vision of Linked Prosperity into its business practices via values-led sourcing initiatives when purchasing ingredients. Ben & Jerry's is distributed in over 35 countries in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, franchised Scoop Shops, and via on-demand delivery services. Ben & Jerry's, a Vermont corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever, operates its business on a three-part Mission Statement emphasizing product quality, a fair financial return, and addressing issues of social, racial, and environmental injustice around the globe. The Ben & Jerry's Foundation, guided by Ben & Jerry's employees, granted $4.35MM in 2022 to support progressive, justice-focused grassroots organizing around the country. For up-to-date information visit benjerry.com.
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ALBUQUERQUE,N.M., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blythe Landry, LCSW, M.Ed.'s new book, "Trauma Intelligence: The Art of Helping in a World Filled with Pain," addresses the crucial understanding of trauma and how it impacts us and those we care for.The world is currently riddled with people experiencing trauma. Unaddressed trauma, such as childhood abuse, COVID 19, mass shootings, drug addiction, the climate crisis, mental health challenges, political unrest, work related violence and domestic abuse can negatively impact every facet of our lives. Addressing trauma in effective ways, however, can make a positive difference.
As reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor, Former Literary Editor of The Chicago Tribune and current Co-Editor of The National Book Review: "Blythe Landry understands the range of traumas experiences that haunt so many people, regardless of their differences -- they share the reality that their lives are shaped by some form of trauma. Landry explores childhood trauma, of course, but she extends the notion of trauma beyond childhood. She explains a range of trauma, that one wouldn't anticipate, ranging from medical trauma to workplace trauma. In lucid prose and with a warm, open tone, Landry not only explains the far-reaching effects of trauma, but she also explores wise and practical ways to determine tools to respond to the echoes of trauma that too often undermine one's life. A generous, wise book for anyone eager to live a fulfilled life -- and a remarkably pleasant, enlightening reading experience."
Trauma Intelligence is more than being trauma informed. It is engaging in empathetic thought, dialogue, and relationships. It is also about improving our personal and professional lives and learning a system for responding effectively to unfortunate circumstances.
Trauma Intelligence is suitable for any organization and individuals.
Blythe Landry is a LCSW, M.Ed. with over 20 years of experience working with individuals, teams and large-scale organizations (Fortune 5) to address trauma, grief or addictions. She is also a seasoned speaker and presenter and the founder of "Trauma Intelligence Training."
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The operators of the Isar 2 reactor accused Economic Affairs Minister Robert Habeck of expecting the impossible. Habeck, meanwhile, suggested they had not understood his plan.
Habeck said that Preussenelektra's letter was also confusing because surely the company had an interest in keeping the power plant online
The back and forth over whether Germany will extend the lifespans of its three remaining nuclear power plants continued on Wednesday with deputy chancellor Robert Habeck accusing one of the plant's operators of not understanding the government's plan.
Habeck, whose portfolio incorporates energy policy, announced plans to keep two of Germany's three power stations online in the coming winter, repeatedly referring to them as an "emergency reserve," on Monday. For the senior member of Germany's fervently anti-nuclear Green Party, the announcement cannot have been comfortable.
This prompted the operator of one of the two reactors to question what Habeck had meant, given that nuclear power plants can take weeks to switch on or off and cannot be used to plug intermittent gaps in electricity provision.
The plan "to send two of the three operational reactors into a cold reserve status, to power them up if and when necessary, is not technically feasible," German magazine Spiegel quoted PreussenElektra boss Guido Knott as saying in a letter to Habeck's ministry.
"I have noted the letter from PreussenEelektra with some astonishment," responded Habeck.
He suggested that the company had not understood the term "emergency reserve," which he said would not entail a closing and then re-starting of the plant. Rather, the plan meant only that the government would "decide at some point whether the power plants are needed or not. This could happen in December, January or February."
"This fact seems to have passed the technicians at PreussenElektra by," Habeck said.
The minister added that he had already received a letter from PreussenElektra in August that said if the government wished to prolong the lifespan of Germany's nuclear plants for a longer period of time, the Isar 2 plant would need to go into standstill mode for a period of time in order to accommodate that wish.
Habeck argued that these two letters seemed to contradict each other.
Germany has been phasing out nuclear energy since 2011, and the last three plants were due to go offline at the end of 2022. However, this plan has been complicated by an energy crisis brought on by dwindling supplies of Russian gas.
On Monday, Habeck's ministry announced that two of the plants would remain online in "emergency reserve" for a few weeks in the winter.A government-commissioned report said there was no point in trying to prolong the use the country's current nuclear plants for a longer period, as the phaseout process had already gone too far to be walked back.
Despite that, opposition politicians on Wednesday criticized the government's refusal to reconsider nuclear energy in a time of crisis as "madness."
The deputy chancellor was also under fire on Wednesday following an appearance on a prime time talk show in which his critics alleged he confused insolvency with companies halting production.
Asked whether he anticipated a "wave of insolvencies" in winter, Habeck had responded: "No I do not. I can imagine that some branches might temporarily halt production though."
He said certain businesses that relied on people having disposable income at hand, such as organic food stores or florists or bakeries, might be forced to halt operations if demand sank. "Then they are not insolvent automatically, but perhaps they stop selling."
Opposition politicians, including Merz, tried to pounce on the comments during Wednesday's Bundestag budget debate. But Habeck's ministry responded with a lengthy statement later in the day saying he had not confused the issues, but rather had wanted to point out that a more pressing danger than insolvency could be some businesses being forced to close their doors in a bid to avoid insolvency.
"Focusing solely on insolvency" would be too myopic, the ministry argued.
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GRAY, Maine — An 18-year-old man was taken to the hospital after suffering injuries in a crash in Gray Saturday.
Zachary Spurling, of New Gloucester, was driving on West Gray Road in the area of Pleasant View Drive around 8:35 p.m. when police said Spurling crossed the center lane and hit a car driven by Maureen Smith, 66, of Westbrook, before hitting a culvert and going airborne, according to an email by Cumberland County Sherriff’s Captain Kerry Joyce.
Smith was treated and released at the scene. Joyce said Spurling was taken to Maine Medical Center for treatment for his injuries.
The crash caused the road to be shut down for hours late Saturday night.
The incident is under investigation, but police said speed is believed to be a factor.
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Results demonstrate novel synergistic effects of IL-12 and T cell receptor signaling in anti-tumor immunity
PENNINGTON, N.J. and SAN DIEGO, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OncoSec Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ: ONCS) (the "Company" or "OncoSec"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing intratumoral immunotherapies to stimulate the patient's own immune system to target and eradicate cancer, announced that their recent publication in Molecular Cancer Research is being featured as the June 2022 "Editor's Pick." The manuscript, titled "Intratumoral Electroporation of Plasmid Encoded IL-12 and Membrane-Anchored Anti-CD3 Increases Systemic Tumor Immunity," summarizes pre-clinical results regarding OncoSec's next-generation anti-cancer treatment approach, IL-12 combined with a polyclonal T cell stimulator.
"Our previous preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that intratumoral electroporation of solid tumors with plasmid IL-12 (TAVO™) can provide clinical benefit due to the ability of TAVO™ to deliver durable anti-tumor immune responses. This recently published manuscript further advances these findings and highlights the potential of our intralesional delivery of expression plasmids as molecular platform and innovative therapeutic approach for solid tumors," said Robert H. Arch, Ph.D., OncoSec's Chief Executive Officer.
"The incorporation of a polyclonal T cell stimulator coupled with an enhanced plasmid IL-12 results in potent stimulation of T cells by membrane-bound anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody. This results in an effective anti-tumor immune response by enhancing proliferation and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) secretion of CD8+ cytotoxic T-cells and reducing suppressive effects of CD4+ T regulatory (Treg) cells. We believe these data provide a strong rationale to further evaluate this approach for potential clinical development," said David Canton, Ph.D., OncoSec's Vice President of R&D.
About OncoSec Medical Incorporated
OncoSec Medical Incorporated (the "Company," "OncoSec," "we" or "our") is a biotechnology company focused on developing intratumoral immunotherapies to stimulate the body's immune system to target and attack cancer. OncoSec's lead immunotherapy investigational product candidate – TAVO™ (tavokinogene telseplasmid) – enables the intratumoral delivery of DNA-based interleukin-12 (IL-12), a naturally occurring human protein with immune-stimulating functions. The technology, which employs electroporation (EP), is designed to produce a limited, localized expression of IL-12 in the tumor microenvironment, which ultimately enables the immune system to target and attack tumors throughout the body. OncoSec has built a diverse clinical pipeline utilizing TAVO™ as a potential treatment for multiple cancer indications either as a monotherapy or in combination with leading checkpoint inhibitors; with the latter potentially enabling OncoSec to address a great unmet medical need in oncology: non-responders to anti-PD-1 treatment. Results from recently conducted clinical studies of TAVO™ have demonstrated a local immune response, and subsequently, a systemic therapeutic effect as either a monotherapy or combination treatment approach along with an acceptable safety profile, warranting further development. For more information, please visit www.oncosec.com.
TAVO™ is a trademark of OncoSec Medical Incorporated.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Noah says that he’s leaving “The Daily Show” as host, after seven years of a Trump and pandemic-filled tenure on the weeknight Comedy Central show.
Noah surprised the studio audience during Thursday’s taping, dropping the news after discussing his “feeling of gratitude” that it was the seventh anniversary of when he took over for Jon Stewart.
“I realized, after the seven years, my time is up,” Noah said.
Neither Noah nor Comedy Central offered a timetable for his departure. The network said it was “grateful to Trevor for our amazing partnership” and indicated that it was excited “for the next chapter” of “The Daily Show.”
Television late-night comedy’s ranks have been shrinking, with Conan O’Brien pulling the plug on his show last year and Samantha Bee ending hers this year.
Noah, a relatively unknown comic from South Africa, was a bold choice to replace the popular Jon Stewart in 2015. But he slowly made the show his own and built a dedicated audience.
“So many people didn’t believe in us,” he said. “It was a crazy bet to make. I still think it was a crazy choice — this random African.”
He said hosting the show has been one of his greatest challenges and joys.
“I wanted to say thank you to the audience for an amazing seven years,” he said. “It’s been wild. It’s been truly wild.”
Like most of his fellow comedians, he dealt with the firehose of material during Donald Trump’s presidency and, when the pandemic started, found himself suddenly thrust into the challenge of producing a program without an audience.
He said he realized there was more that he wanted to do recently when he was able to travel again.
“I miss learning other languages,” he said. “I miss going to other countries and putting on a show.”
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NEW YORK — Last year, right-hander Justin Verlander came back after missing all of the 2021 season due to Tommy John surgery and went on to win the American League Cy Young Award for the third time in his career at age 39.
It was one of the best seasons of his career, he led the Majors with a 1.75 ERA in 28 starts and he was the unanimous choice by the writers.
But now, Verlander is in the National League with the New York Mets and it’s someone else’s turn to win the American League Cy Young.
So who do the Locked On Podcast Network’s MLB hosts around the country think can be in the hunt to win it in 2023?
There was a list of players who were ranked by each host and then tallied and this was the order they came up with. (Feel free to debate amongst yourselves.)
The five players who just missed the cut were: Cristian Javier (11th), Logan Gilbert (12th), Tyler Glasnow (13th), Kevin Gausman (14th), and Robbie Ray (15th).
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10) Luis Castillo, RHP, Seattle Mariners
Castillo was the big fish during last year’s trade deadline and Seattle got him. After that, he helped lead them to their first playoff appearance in more than 20 years by going 4-2 with a 3.17 ERA in 11 starts. He had his best year overall in 2022 going 8-6 with a 2.99 ERA in 25 starts between Cincinnati and Seattle so look for him to be more acclimated to the Pacific Northwest and be even more of a contributor to the team’s success.
9) Shane Bieber, RHP, Cleveland Guardians
Bieber, an All-Star in 2021, had a strong 2022 campaign going 13-8 with a 2.88 ERA in 31 starts. He threw 200 innings, struck 198 batters, and only walked 36. He already has one Cy Young Award under his belt and he received votes in last year’s contest so he was a surefire pick for our Top 10.
8) Jacob deGrom, RHP, Texas Rangers
deGrom is an obvious choice even after switching leagues and battling health issues the past two seasons because when he’s on, it's hard to argue deGrom isn't the best pitcher in baseball. That’s why Texas gave him a five-year/$185M contract at age 34. 2023 will be a test for deGrom who has pitched in the National League his entire career up to this point.
And now he’s in the American League West where the Rangers are fighting to win a division with the Houston Astros. The test will be a tough one and a lot of eyes will be on deGrom, but if anyone can pass, it’s him. He'd likely be ranked much higher as a candidate for this award if it weren't for his injuries over the past two years.
7) Carlos Rodon, LHP, New York Yankees
Rodón’s past two seasons have been the best of his career and they’re the main reason why the Yankees rewarded him with a six-year/$162M contract this offseason. He spent the first seven years of his career in the AL and after a one-year stint in the NL with the Giants, Rodon is back in the American League and looking to have a third strong season in a row. He finished 2022 14-8 with a 2.88 ERA in a career-high 178 innings with 237 strikeouts.
6) Dylan Cease, RHP, Chicago White Sox
Cease was one of the only key White Sox players not to be bitten by the injury bug in 2022. And he pitched so well, he finished second in the AL Cy Young vote behind Justin Verlander. Cease tied a career-high in starts with 32 and he was 14-8 with a 2.20 ERA. He also struck out 227 batters in 184 innings of work. He’s definitely a good choice for Cy Young in 2023.
5) Shane McClanahan, LHP, Tampa Bay Rays
McClanahan, who debuted for the Rays in 2021, had a strong 2022 finishing 12-8 with a 2.54 ERA in 28 starts. He struck out 194 batters in 166 and one-third innings and finished 6th in the 2022 Cy Young vote. He’s only turning 26 this season so he has a long career ahead of him and there’s a reason he comes in at number five on this list.
4) Alek Manoah, RHP, Toronto Blue Jays
Manoah was one of the best pitchers in baseball in 2022 pitching to a 2.24 ERA in 31 starts while pitching primarily against a tough American League East division. His control issues are still something to watch as he led the American League in hit batsmen both in 2021 (16) and 2022 (15). He finished third in the Cy Young vote in 2022, he’s only 25 and he has a bright future with the Blue Jays so don’t be surprised to see him near the top of the Cy Young list again in 2023.
3) Framber Valdez, LHP, Houston Astros
Valdez had the best season of his career in 2022 finishing 17-6 with a 2.82 ERA. He seems to have gotten better every year since 2020 and was in the Top 5 of Cy Young voting in 2022. He led the American League in innings pitched in 2022 with 201 and one-third and he faced an AL-high 827 batters. He’s a workhouse who was nearly lights out in the playoffs and everyone found out who he was when he helped Houston win the title.
2) Gerrit Cole, RHP, New York Yankees
Cole has always been a bridesmaid but never the bride. Since 2018, he’s been in the Top 5 or Top 10 of Cy Young votes—finishing second in 2021—but he can never seem to capture the award. But hey, having that many good seasons isn’t a bad thing at all. He had a “down” year in 2022, finishing with a 3.50 ERA and giving up an AL-high 33 home runs but he also led the Majors with 257 strikeouts. The point of all this is never to count out Gerrit Cole.
1) Shohei Ohtani, RHP, Los Angeles Angels
Ohtani won the American League MVP in 2021 because of his hitting but in 2022, his pitching was the best it’s been since he arrived in the Majors. He was 15-9 with a 2.33 ERA and he struck out 219 batters in 166 innings pitched. And while none of those numbers led the league in any category, the man accomplished this while also batting so well, he finished second in the AL MVP vote.
It’s not just that Ohtani is a two-way player, he’s a very good to excellent two-way player and it wouldn’t be shocking at all to see him pick up his first Cy Young Award in 2023.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As new volunteers kept streaming into the Church of the Incarnation, Reynaldo Hidalgo prepped fresh palm fronds for them to weave into elaborate designs that will be blessed at services on Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity’s holiest week.
“It’s to give welcome to the king, our Lord Jesus Christ,” said Hidalgo, who has led traditional Mexican palm weaving workshops here for half a dozen years, along with his wife. “We wanted to keep a memory of this tradition.”
Many Christians around the world will be getting blessed palm or other tree branches this weekend, in commemoration of Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, when the Gospel narrates that crowds spread branches on the road before him.
At Hidalgo’s Catholic church, and others across the country where parishioners observe the Easter traditions of many Latin American and European countries, the fronds are woven and braided into intricate designs of up to several feet, often decorated with rosettes, ribbons and images of Jesus or the saints.
It’s a celebration not just of faith, but ancient cultural crafts, often related to spring and farming rituals, that they’re eager to pass on to younger generations.
Teens and younger children, some lugging their homework, gathered Wednesday in Incarnation’s basement, where the tropical perfume of fresh palms contrasted with the below-freezing evening outside.
Maria Consuelo Palapa came with her 7-year-old son, Omar, “first to help the church, and to teach the child my traditions” from the Mexican state of Puebla.
When she ran into trouble weaving the back of a two-foot-long palm shaped into a giant flower, she consulted Hidalgo’s wife, Isabel Tenorio, who supervised the efforts to produce more than 400 palms before this weekend’s Masses. They will be sold then, all proceeds going to the community outreach and maintenance costs of the historic church.
“I would like that the community kept this going, to help our church,” Tenorio said as the woven fronds piled up on the large table in front of her and so many volunteers kept coming that some tried their hand at the craft standing up.
One of the first to arrive was Adriana Mozo, a long-time parishioner but first-time weaver whose parents migrated from Mexico.
“I’m very crafty, but this is wild,” she said as she tackled the green fronds, brittle and resistant at the same time. She bought one a couple of years ago that’s still framed in her dining room. “It feels like a connection to God.”
The palms are kept in places of honor in many homes for a year, when they’re traditionally burned to make ashes for the Ash Wednesday celebrations that mark the beginning of Lent.
“It’s a form of ratifying a pact by Mexican believers with the Catholic religion,” said Elio Masferrer, an anthropologist at Mexico’s National School of Anthropology and History. “It’s a form of endorsing a social alliance,” especially for migrant communities.
At Saint Michael Church in New Haven, Connecticut, Jean Quartiano started weaving workshops precisely so that a tradition brought over by nuns from Italy nearly a century ago wouldn’t be lost. This week, she’s been at the church up to 12 hours a day, training volunteers to braid palm crucifixes they will sell at Mass, to help keep the lights on in the shrinking parish.
“We’re going to keep the tradition alive as long as we can,” Quartiano said.
Back in Minneapolis, a high school junior who came for the chance to learn a new craft lined up for Tenorio’s advice behind a mother and daughter duo who remembered seeing artisans selling the palm designs outside churches in their native Puebla.
“I was raised in this culture, where it’s a blessing to have a little blessed palm,” Kari Mendoza said as her mother nodded.
Victor Ramirez came with his wife and 16-year-old son to learn to weave palms, which his grandparents kept in their home in the Mexican state of Morelos as protection against storms and other evils.
Even with a finger in a splint, he was soon deftly and quickly creating palm rosettes to decorate the much larger creations.
“We all keep palms as a symbol of joy,” Ramirez said.
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Sex-abuse video victimizes child long after abuser is gone
The video of a man raping his 9-year-old daughter was discovered in New Zealand in 2016 and triggered a global search for the little girl.
Investigators contacted Interpol and the pursuit eventually included the FBI, the U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Months later, investigators raided the Bisbee, Arizona, home of Paul Adams, arrested him and rescued the girl in the video along with her five siblings.
While Adams can no longer physically hurt his daughter — he died by suicide in custody — the videos live on, downloaded and uploaded by child pornographers across the U.S. and around the globe, growing ever more popular even as as police, prosecutors and internet companies chase behind in a futile effort to remove the images.
The number of times the Adams video has been seen soared from fewer than 100 in 2017 to 4,500 in 2021, according to data provided to The Associated Press with the permission of the girl and her adoptive mother, Nancy Salminen. The tally was produced by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit that tracks child pornography on the internet and works with law enforcement agencies throughout the world.
“That’s the horrendous part about it,” Salminen said. “You can’t just say that’s in the past and shut the door and move on. She will never be able to turn her back on what’s happened.”
The ongoing victimization of the child could have been avoided.
Six years before the video surfaced in Auckland, Adams, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, confessed to his bishop that he abused his daughter, identified by the AP as MJ.
But a prominent church lawyer told the bishop to keep the abuse secret. And as a result, MJ was brutalized for seven more years. Today, she continues to be victimized almost daily in a different way, as the video, and others Adams took, circulate on the internet. Details of the Mormon officials’ cover-up of the Adams rapes were reported in an AP investigation in August.
The data provided to the AP also shows that police in the U.S. referred the Adams video, or portions of it, to NCMEC for identification 1,850 times since it was discovered, contributing to nearly 800 arrests on federal child pornography charges last year alone.
Those arrested comprise a coast-to-coast catalog of men — women rarely traffic in child pornography, the data shows — that defies economic or geographic boundaries. A random sampling includes:
— Kurt Sheldon, 31, a librarian in Putnam County, Florida, was arrested in September 2020 for possession of child pornography and using Snapchat to solicit pornography from a 12-year-oid girl. Sheldon was sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison.
— Joseph Mollick, 58, a physician affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center was arrested in October 2021. Federal officials charged him with using the social media application Kik to upload 2,000 child pornography videos and images. Mollick pleaded not guilty.
— Jared Faircloth, 24, a U.S. Air Force airman, was arrested in October 2021 in Cream Ridge, New Jersey, for downloading more than 2,800 child sex abuse videos and images through the BitTorrent network. Faircloth pleaded guilty to federal charges and is awaiting sentencing.
— Harold “HL” Moody, Jr., 39, a former communications director for the Arkansas Democratic party, was arrested in November 2018 for distributing child pornography in online chatrooms. The Little Rock resident pleaded guilty to federal charges and is awaiting sentencing.
LIMITS OF COMPUTER SLEUTHING
The seeming immortality of the Adams video underscores the limits of computer sleuthing by a global network of investigators racing to stop internet child pornography, and it reveals how advances in data storage and video technology have outpaced efforts to stop it.
Permanently removing the images from the open internet is nearly impossible, child sex abuse experts say, because pornographers throughout the world are constantly downloading the images, storing them and reposting them.
“That’s what makes the whole crime type so abhorrent,” said Simon Peterson, the New Zealand customs agent who discovered the Adams video, during an interview with the AP. Victims of online child pornography, he said, “have to wake up every morning knowing that there’s imagery of those terrible times in their lives still out there, and that people are accessing it for their own gratification.”
The Adams case has also highlighted a glaring loophole in state child sex abuse reporting laws. Adams, a member of the Mormon church, confessed he was abusing his daughter to his Bishop, John Herrod, in 2010. In Arizona, clergy are among the professionals required to report child sexual abuse to police or child welfare officials.
But when the bishop called the church’s “help line” for advice, Merrill Nelson, a lawyer representing the church, directed him to withhold the information from police and child welfare officials.
According to legal documents, Nelson, who was also a Utah legislator, pointed to an exception in the state’s mandatory child sex abuse reporting law that allows clergy to keep information revealed during a confession to themselves. The so-called clergy-penitent privilege is on the books in 33 states, the AP found.
Behind this veil of church secrecy, Adams continued molesting MJ and, five years later, started raping her younger sister as well, beginning when she was just 6 weeks old. He was also taking videos and photographs of the abuse and posting them to the internet, including the nine-minute video that was eventually his undoing.
A WORLDWIDE QUEST
It was November 2016 when Peterson and his team of agents in Auckland raided the home of a 47-year-old farm worker whom they’d been watching online for months.
“He knew what we were there for,” Peterson recalled. “And by the end of the morning we’d arrested him, interviewed him and charged him for exporting and possessing child sexual abuse material.”
For weeks the investigators pored over the computers and cell phones they had seized in the raid, and shortly before Christmas, Peterson found the Adams video, which the farmworker had downloaded from an internet site based in Russia.
Agents who chase child pornographers often see the same images over and over. But Peterson said the Adams video was different. After running it through a New Zealand database of seized child pornography, and a second database maintained by Interpol, the organization that helps law enforcement agencies work across countries, Peterson suspected the video might be new, and the child depicted might still be in danger.
He could also see obvious clues that could help identify the rapist and his victim.
“We could see both their faces for a start,” Peterson said. “And they were talking throughout it, as well. We could tell from the accent if it wasn’t Canadian, it was American. So we could narrow it down pretty quickly.”
Interpol sent the video to NCMEC, which acts as a clearinghouse for agencies investigating child pornography throughout the world. Computer analysts there isolated several images of Adams’ face and sent them to Homeland Security Investigations, which in turn sent them to the FBI, where analysts tried unsuccessfully to identify them with facial recognition technology, according to summaries of the case compiled by the U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security.
The FBI’s Operation Rescue Me then turned to the State Department to compare the images to those in a database of visa and passport photos and found eight potential matches. Investigators finally zeroed in on Adams and his daughter through his wife’s Facebook page. They were also able to determine that the video was made on June 20, 2015, and that Adams was a U.S. Border Patrol employee who had that day off, so he was free to create the video at home.
On Feb. 8, 2017, about six weeks after Peterson discovered the video in New Zealand, Homeland Security agents arrested Adams on the job at the Naco, Arizona, border crossing while federal agents raided his home, seized electronic devices and rescued his six children.
“It was quite emotional,” Peterson said. “We don’t get success often.”
A GLOBAL GLUT OF CHILD PORN
Over the last several years, sightings of child sexual abuse material on the internet have skyrocketed.
Under federal law, every internet platform based in the United States is required to report discoveries of child pornography on their social media pages to NCMEC’s Cyber Tipline. Last year, the organization received 29 million reports, up from 21 million in 2020, and 18 million in 2019 — a 61% increase over just two years.
The vast majority of these reports stem from child pornography posted on the open internet and do not account for additional child porn posted to the dark web, where producers and consumers of child sexual abuse material — or CSAM — operate with near complete anonymity.
“It’s nearly impossible to fully estimate and scope how much CSAM is on the internet, whether that’s open web, P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing or the dark net,” said John Shehan, vice president of NCMEC’s Exploited Children Division.
But investigators agree that the surge in reports by companies with open internet platforms such as Facebook indicates an enormous increase in the volume of child sexual abuse material on the internet. These investigators attribute the increase to advances in technology that have made it easier and less expensive for amateurs to take pornographic videos with their cellphones and to store vast amounts child pornography at minimal cost on remote servers or external hard drives.
Erin Burke, the Homeland Security section chief for the agency’s Cyber Crimes Center, said it’s common for investigators to find child pornographers with “terabytes of files.” A single terabyte is enough space to hold hundreds of hours of video and can be stored on a remote server for as little as $25 a month, or on an external hard drive that can cost less than $100.
Investigators also attribute the sharp rise in internet child pornography to the worldwide travel restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Unable to visit countries where child prostitution proliferates, some pornographers resorted to a practice known as “sextortion,” in which an online perpetrator lures a child into sending compromising selfies. If the child later refuses to produce more explicit images, the perpetrator threatens to post the selfies the child initially created to the child’s social media contacts, which typically include family members.
“That’s one of the bad outcomes of COVID,” Burke said. “It was bound to happen anyway but it just kind of sped up that process.”
On Monday, the U.S. Justice Department issued an alert on a related scheme in which young sextortion victims are also extorted for money, citing more than 3,000 victims and multiple suicides this year.
Another chilling outcome of the pandemic, Burke said, is the advent of live streaming of child sexual abuse for audiences ranging from a handful to thousands. On platforms that offer live video chats and end-to-end encryption, viewers who pay minimal, untraceable fees may choose from a menu of child victims of varying ages, including infants, and request to see specific sex acts.
Burke said Homeland Security investigators have found that much of the live streaming originates in the Philippines and is performed for U.S. and Western European audiences. English is commonly spoken in the Southeast Asian nation and high-quality internet service is available, she said. At the same time, harsh economic conditions provide an incentive for families to participate.
“They’re mostly abusing family members,” Burke said. “It’s not grabbing kids off the street.”
As the volume of internet child sexual abuse material has soared, so too have the number of agencies working to stop it. Homeland Security and the FBI both have special units dedicated to tracking down child pornographers. Along with NCMEC, they work closely with more than 60 local branches of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, with units spread throughout the U.S.
Internationally, Homeland Security and NCMEC work with investigators at Interpol and law enforcement agencies throughout the world, including those in the other “Five Eyes” countries — Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand — which cooperate in a range of intelligence activities.
RESTITUTION
In the six years following the discovery of the nine-minute Adams video, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. have seized thousands of images of MJ’s abuse and have referred the material to NCMEC for positive identification. In turn, NCMEC has cataloged the identities of those arrested who may have possessed or trafficked the images and given the information to MJ’s lawyers, who can sue each perpetrator for up to $150,000 in restitution under federal civil law, in addition to restitution that may be available through criminal proceedings.
Lynne Cadigan, one of several attorneys representing three of the Adams children, said MJ will seek compensation from the child pornographers.
But she and Salminen, the girl’s adoptive mother, lay most of the blame for the sexual abuse on officials of the Mormon church, who knew Adams molested MJ as early as 2010 and did nothing to stop it.
“She went to church with people who didn’t help her and as a result thousands of people are looking at the video and there’s nothing she can do about it,” Cadigan said.
Two years ago, the three Adams children filed a lawsuit that accuses the church, two bishops and a third Mormon official of conspiring to keep the years of abuse by their father out of the hands of civil authorities.
As part of the lawsuit, the Arizona Court of Appeals on Dec. 15 ruled that the church does not have to turn over disciplinary records for Adams, who was excommunicated in 2013. The court also ruled that a church official who attended a disciplinary hearing could refuse to answer questions from the plaintiffs’ attorneys during pretrial testimony, based on the clergy-penitent privilege. Lawyers for the three Adams children said they plan to appeal.
Attorneys for the church say the bishops who knew that Adams abused his daughter — John Herrod and Robert “Kim” Mauzy — did nothing wrong by taking a lawyer’s advice and withholding the information because Adams told Herrod about the abuse during a spiritual confession, triggering the privilege.
In a statement to the AP, the church said it had no knowledge Adams was recording himself abusing his two daughters and posting the material on the internet until 2017. “The Church had no idea that these videos were being created or circulated until after Paul Adams was arrested,” the statement read. “The church supports all efforts to prosecute anyone who possesses or distributes these heinous and disturbing videos.”
Adams might never have stopped raping his two daughters if Peterson hadn’t discovered the nine-minute video in New Zealand. But unlike Adams, the video may never be stopped.
“They’re living with it for the rest of their lives,” Peterson said. “It’s on the internet. It’s not going anywhere.”
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AP investigative reporter Jason Dearen, video journalist Jesse Wardarski and data journalist Justin Myers contributed to this story.
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The tiny critters are found around the world — in Utah they're in the Great Salt Lake. Brine shrimp provide food for fish and commercially grown shrimp — a multi-million dollar industry in Utah.
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RIVERDALE, Md., June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Medcura Inc. welcomes Dr. Abbas Ardehali to its Board of Directors. Dr. Ardehali is a professor of surgery and medicine in the division of cardiothoracic surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Ardehali also serves as director of the UCLA Heart and Lung Transplant program.
Medcura's flagship product, LifeGel™ Absorbable Surgical Hemostat, is the first and only surgical hemostatic agent to receive the FDA's coveted Breakthrough Device Designation, due to its important differentiating no-swelling innovation. This no-swell feature is especially important in spine and cardiothoracic surgery where current swelling hemostatic agents have been known to cause adverse events including nerve damage and paralysis.
Medcura's CEO, Jim Buck, is looking forward to Dr. Ardehali's contributions to getting LifeGel™ into the hands of his fellow surgeons. "Dr. Ardehali is a fantastic addition to our board of directors. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, he has substantial clinical and FDA trial experience with hemostatic agents. Although spinal surgery will be our primary focus, Medcura anticipates strong demand for LifeGel in cardiothoracic surgery. LifeGel™, which is antimicrobial, could be very valuable for the management of bleeding at the sternal edge and in pacemaker pockets where infections are a major issue."
Ardehali exclaims, "I am thrilled to join Medcura's Board of Directors. Medcura has created a very innovative hemostasis platform that has the potential to transform the surgical hemostasis market. LifeGel™ holds an exciting new technology that will be well suited for cardiothoracic surgery."
Medcura develops first-of-their-kind hemostatic products based on its proprietary biopolymer platform. These revolutionary surgical gels, foams, powders, films and putties are designed to quickly stop internal bleeding in surgery, trauma centers, and even on the battlefield. In example. Medcura's LifeFoam™, also a recipient of the FDA's Breakthrough Device Designation, has recently been cited in peer-reviewed publications for having "significant potential" to save lives in military combat settings. Medcura has also leveraged this platform to develop products for everyday use like Rapid-Seal™, an antibacterial wound gel, available at major retailers and Seal It, the first non-stinging high performance wound gel for pets that includes an anti-lick technology, Bitrix®.
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Getting a good night’s sleep is essential for health and well-being. But it can be challenging if you’re constantly tossing and turning due to night sweats.
If you experience this uncomfortable condition, it doesn't mean you need to give up using a blanket. Instead, you can find cooling blankets that are designed to help you sleep better. The best blankets for night sweats, such as the Elegear Cooling Throw Blanket, are lightweight, silky, breathable and suitable for all seasons.
What to know before you buy a blanket for night sweats
What causes night sweats?
At its most benign, night sweats are merely a result of controllable issues such as high heat or wearing too many clothes to bed. However, night sweats can also be a symptom of various conditions ranging from hot flashes or side effects from medications to much more severe issues. If you suffer from chronic, undiagnosed night sweats, it’s essential to consult your healthcare provider.
How can a blanket help with night sweats?
It may seem counterintuitive to use a blanket when you have night sweats, but a covering for night sweats absorbs your body heat and quickly dissipates it to keep you feeling cool.
Blanket for night sweats features
Size
Blankets that can help keep you cool come in a variety of sizes. You can get a small throw for watching TV or a large blanket that covers a queen-size bed. Check the size and purchase the right size for your needs.
Comfort
Ultimately, the comfort of your blanket depends on the materials used in manufacturing. Three of the most common materials in blankets best for night sweats are cotton, polyester and bamboo.
- Cotton is popular because it naturally wicks away sweat while you sleep and feels comfortable against your skin.
- Polyester is a synthetic fiber that may feel comfortable but doesn't breathe well. It's best when used in a cotton blend to increase comfort.
- Bamboo is ideal for a cooling blanket because it naturally wicks moisture away and is one of the softest fibers available — softer, even, than regular cotton.
Color
Often, you don’t have much choice when it comes to the color of a blanket for night sweats. Some manufacturers, however, realize that everyone has different tastes, so they make blankets for night sweats in various colors. If the color is important to you, look for a manufacturer who offers options.
Ease of cleaning
Before purchasing, check the cleaning instructions. While most blankets can be machine-washed, not all can. Additionally, the heat from a dryer may damage (shrink) many cooling blankets. If you’re not a fan of hanging items up to dry, you may be unhappy with the level of care needed to clean your blanket.
Blanket for night sweats cost
In most instances, a throw-size blanket for night sweats costs $30-$40. While you can easily spend over $100 for some blankets, it might be best to stay within that $30-$40 price range if this is your first one.
Blanket for night sweats FAQ
What can trigger night sweats?
A. Many factors can bring on night sweats, and some common triggers are alcohol, spicy foods, caffeine and smoking. If you're experiencing night sweats, your first line of defense is removing these elements from your life or at least refraining from them in the hours preceding your bedtime.
How else can I combat night sweats?
A. If your condition doesn't require medical treatment, besides purchasing a cooling blanket, you can keep a fan by the bed, open a window, lower the heat, raise the air conditioning, take a cool shower before bed or try running cool water over your wrists.
Which blanket for night sweats should I get?
Best of the best blanket for night sweats
Elegear Cooling Throw Blanket: available at Amazon
Our take: A cleverly designed, two-sided blanket — one side helps dissipate heat while the other helps keep you warm.
What we like: This blanket is designed to absorb body heat and quickly dissipate it, making you feel up to three or more degrees cooler. It offers a pleasant balance of coziness and breathability.
What we dislike: This option costs a bit more than other blankets, and some users were unsatisfied with its smaller size.
Best bang for your buck blanket for night sweats
Sleep Zone Athletic-Grade Cooling Blanket: available at Amazon
Our take: An impressively functional two-sided cooling blanket that customers love for its softness and wrinkle-free design.
What we like: One side of this blanket is manufactured using 100% high-quality jersey cotton, while the other is made of 50% nylon and 50% polyester blend. The two function together to deliver a more relaxed night of sleep.
What we dislike: There are a few reports of it shrinking if machine-washed or dried.
Honorable mention blanket for night sweats
Dangtop Cooling Blanket: available at Amazon
Our take: Manufactured using breathable bamboo fiber, this lightweight blanket can help keep you cooler when sleeping.
What we like: Unlike other cooling blankets, this one is available in a wide variety of colors, including dark great, purple and navy blue. The bamboo fiber makes this blanket exceptionally soft and allows it to regulate body temperature and wick away moisture.
What we dislike: It's not as soft or comfortable as other blankets for night sweats.
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Petr Klima, Oilers' Stanley Cup hero, dead at 58
Klima scored the triple-overtime goal in Game 1 of the 1990 Cup Final
Former Edmonton Oiler Petr Klima has died at the age of 58.
Klima is perhaps best known for his triple-overtime winner in Game 1 of the 1990 Stanley Cup Final, just months after being traded to the Oilers from the Detroit Red Wings.
Klima netted the goal against the Boston Bruins, which was the start of Edmonton winning the series in five games.
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"We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Oilers alum Petr Klima & extend our condolences to his family & all loved ones," the Oilers wrote on Twitter. "The forward scored one of the most iconic goals in team history, tallying the triple-OT winner in Game 1 of the 1990 Stanley Cup Final vs. Boston."
"The NHL mourns the passing of Czech legend Petr Klima, who scored 313 goals across 13 NHL seasons," the league said in a separate statement. "Klima helped the Oilers win the 1990 Stanley Cup while scoring a memorable triple-overtime winner in Game 1 of the Final. Our sympathies are with his family, friends and many fans."
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The cause of death was not immediately known.
Klima was the first player to defect from then-Czechoslovakia and join the NHL, making his debut in 1985.
The Red Wings helped Klima get to the United States after he met with team brass and was in hiding with them for several days. The plan had been derived about a year and a half earlier. He wore the No. 85 throughout his career in honor of the year he defected to the States.
Klima racked up 573 points (313 goals, 260 assists) in 786 career games with the Red Wings, Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins and hung up his skates in 2003.
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He died in his hometown of Chomutov in the Czech Republic.
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Other terms to look for are oil-free or non-greasy. You can also reach for products that state they’re formulated for oily or combination skin.
If your skin is very sensitive (or you don’t mind a worthy splurge), you may prefer to use a luxury facial sunscreen, which will have higher-quality ingredients — just make sure to look for those important terms on the label. Sunscreen sprays or powders offer more formula variety and can be found in noncomedogenic versions as well.
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EltaMD UV Sport Broad-Spectrum SPF 50 Body Sunscreen
This zinc oxide sunscreen delivers SPF 50 protection and is sweat- and water-resistant for up to 80 minutes, making it a solid companion for a pool day. The transparent formula can be applied to wet or dry skin and doesn’t leave a white cast. It’s noncomedogenic and safe for sensitive skin.
Neutrogena Beach Defense Water-Resistant Face and Body SPF 70 Sunscreen Lotion
Long days spent basking in the sun require extra protection from Neutrogena’s SPF 70 face and body lotion. The water-resistant formula can withstand moisture for 80 minutes. It has a lightweight texture that doesn’t clog pores or leave a greasy residue, and it’s fast-absorbing for easier reapplication throughout the day.
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Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Brush-On Shield SPF 50
A powdered sunscreen is handy for on-the-go reapplication or wearing over makeup, and Colorescience’s SPF 50 version is a standout product. The all-mineral product is the only powder sunscreen recommended by the Skin Cancer Foundation for active use. It’s suitable for sensitive skin and won’t cause breakouts. It comes in four colors.
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Shiseido Urban Environment Oil-Free Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 42
This feather-light cream works well for oily or combination skin because it helps control excess sebum, leaving a matte finish and making it an excellent facial primer. The milky liquid applies easily and absorbs right into skin without a greasy feel. Beyond providing SPF 42 protection from UVA/UVB rays, it’s also deeply hydrating, thanks to hyaluronic acid and spirulina energy essence.
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Blue Lizard Sensitive SPF 50+ Mineral Spray Sunscreen
This noncomedogenic SPF 50 sunscreen contains zinc oxide, which provides broad spectrum protection. It’s great for sensitive skin since it contains no fragrance or parabens, and it’s reef-safe. The sun protection holds up in water for up to 80 minutes.
Revision Skincare Intellishade Original Tinted Moisturizer SPF 45
To brighten skin tone with sheer color, try Revision Skincare’s tinted moisturizer, which provides hydration and SPF 25 sun protection in addition to its lightweight coverage. The noncomedogenic formula works to minimize the look of fine lines and wrinkles and can be used on all skin types.
Odacite SPF 50 Flex-Perfecting Mineral Drops Tinted Sunscreen
These tinted sunscreen drops provide SPF 50 protection against UVA/UVB rays. The mineral sunscreen has a velvety, light formula packed with hydrating and calming ingredients including niacinamide, green tea, chamomile and calendula. Complexion-correcting coverage (choose from five tints) features color-adapting pigments that blend immediately and visibly even out skin tone.
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Ilia Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40 Foundation
A few drops of this lightweight tinted radiant-finish serum can help even out skin texture and tone. Plant-based squalane helps the product hydrate and tighten the look of skin without clogging pores. It also has moisture-replenishing hyaluronic acid, and the zinc-based product offers SPF 40 protection. A whopping 30 available shades ensure you’ll find the perfect match.
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Hero Cosmetics Force Shield Superbeam Sunscreen SPF 30
Specifically designed for acne-prone skin, this super-smooth mineral SPF 30 lotion protects from UVA/UVB rays without clogging pores. Light-diffusing pearl and apricot pigments provide a gentle glow, while niacinamide helps brighten the look of skin. The non-irritating formula can also help soften dark spots.
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The Inkey List Polyglutamic Acid Dewy Sunscreen SPF 30
This moisturizing, silky SPF 30 formula helps combat dryness thanks to a combination of polyglutamic acid, glycerin and squalane. The lightweight noncomedogenic cream shields skin from UVA/UVB rays. It’s non-pilling and leaves no white cast, so it makes for a sheer base under makeup.
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WORTH CHECKING OUT
- Neutrogena Beach Defense Spray Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 70 is a convenient oil-free spray version of one of our testers’ favorite sunscreens.
- Coola Organic Classic Face Sunscreen SPF 50 has a non-greasy formula that’s comfortable for wearing under makeup.
- For a refreshing mist with a sheer finish, try EltaMD UV AOX Mist Broad Spectrum SPF 40.
- BareMinerals’ Complexion Rescue Tinted Moisturizer Mineral SPF 30 is a hydrating gel formula that won’t clog pores.
- The non-greasy Dermalogica Dynamic Skin Recovery SPF 50 Moisturizer hydrates skin while minimizing fine lines and wrinkles.
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Florida school district reprints yearbooks, offers refunds after backlash to 'genderfluid' LGBTQ spread
Parents reportedly complained LGBTQ-related spread was 'inappropriate'
A Florida high school is offering yearbook refunds and reprints after it was slammed for a spread that defined terms such as "genderfluid" and "pansexual."
Seminole County School Superintendent Serita Beamon sent parents a memo last week explaining that families at Lyman High School would be able to receive a new edition of the 256-page yearbook without the controversial spread, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
The school drew the ire of parents who said one of its two-page spreads contained a list of different sexualities and LGBTQ+ related terms that was "inappropriate."
Among the terms included in the yearbook were "pansexual," "aromantic," "genderfluid," "nonbinary" and "transgender," along with definitions of each that detailed which type of attraction or preference they entailed.
Jessica Tillmann, who chairs the Seminole County chapter of Moms for Liberty, told the Sentinel that the definitions included in the yearbook were not age-appropriate.
"They shouldn’t have any sexual definitions in a yearbook," she said. "This is a yearbook that goes to every student as young as 14."
Sharmon Craft, whose child is a sophomore at the high school, told FOX 25 in Orlando that the spread is "really not relevant to school activities, academics, clubs and sports.
"Anything that has to do with a high school experience, these terms and definitions are not appropriate," Craft said.
Others have taken offense with the school's decision to remove the LGBTQ content.
"It is unbelievably unacceptable," Danielle Pomeranz, a former yearbook adviser at the school, told the local outlet. "The county is giving into the bigotry and being very cowardly by offering this as an option."
Pomeranz reportedly claimed most people did not take issue with the yearbook, according to FOX 25.
"The county is giving into the bigotry and being very cowardly by offering this as an option."
"To be fair, it was supposed to have the opposite effect, which was to be more inclusive and more understanding and just gain that perspective," she said.
"We didn’t do anything wrong," she added later. "We covered a full and fair representation, which is what we’re supposed to do. So I’m quite baffled and quite confused why this is a thing, but I’m going to defend our book because I’m proud of it."
Last year, local school board members alleged that photos in Lyman High School's yearbook showing student activists holding pride flags to protest the state's Parental Rights in Education law violated district policy.
The school at first was going to cover the photos with stickers, but decided against the proposal after student outrage.
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The controversy over Lyman High School's yearbook comes amid debate over the fledgling law, which prohibited discussions in class about sexuality and gender from kindergarten to third grade. Detractors have dubbed it the "Don't Say Gay" law.
Fox News Digital's Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
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A field that has long grown tomatoes, peppers and onions now looks like a wind-whipped ocean as farmer Don Cameron seeks to capture the runoff from a freakishly wet year in California to replenish the groundwater basin that is his only source to water his crops.
Taking some tomatoes out of production for a year is an easy choice if it means boosting future water supplies for his farm about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of Fresno. He’s pumping 300 acre-feet a day — enough to supply hundreds of households for a year — from the gushing North Fork of the Kings River onto former vegetable fields and others dotted with pistachio trees, which can withstand heavy flooding.
“We knew long-term if we didn’t have water, we’d be out of business,” Cameron said. “We’re doing our part to protect communities downstream, but we’re also putting the water in the ground.”
The 70-year-old has spent more than a decade building and expanding a system to divert floodwaters from nearby rural communities and is a pioneer in the practice of on-farm recharge, or flooding agricultural lands during rainy periods to help restore the groundwater basin.
But he isn’t alone. Government agencies, water district officials and nonprofits are eyeing the practice as a way to weather swings in climate, especially as California muddles through a winter that has experts forecasting the Sierra Nevada snowpack could last for months.
Groundwater supplies are essential to both farms and communities across the fertile Central Valley, a key source of food for the United States.
That’s even more the case during drought years, when groundwater accounts for up to 60% of the state’s water supply, compared with 40% in non-drought, said Wade Crowfoot, secretary of California’s Natural Resources Agency.
But farmers have pumped ever deeper through years of drought, depleting what’s left and leaving wells dry.
Hoping to reverse that trend, valley water agencies have built basins to try to capture water in rainy years and allow it to seep back into the ground. Now many are hoping to enlist vast tracts of farmland for a similar purpose.
Groundwater recharge projects are a “critical, important part of our infrastructure future,” Crowfoot said.
The Tulare Irrigation District for example, has doubled the amount of water it can divert this year thanks to farmers who are willing to take it, said Daniel Mountjoy, director of resource stewardship at the nonprofit Sustainable Conservation, which supports expanding on-farm recharge.
“Farmlands are the thing you can expand to when you have a freak year like this,” he said. “They are the solution.”
The idea of using farmland to recharge groundwater has percolated for years. After California enacted a law in 2014 requiring regional agencies to manage their aquifers sustainably to avoid overpumping, more farmers faced with the prospect of fallowing fields began considering it.
With the potential for flooding in small towns and rural communities this season, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an order this month making it easier for farmers to divert floodwater to their fields.
While some farmers like Cameron are ready to flood their fields now, many others aren’t. Still, the rains and looming pumping limits have galvanized interest, said Wendy Rash, state water quality specialist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Last year her agency started a pilot program for 20 farmers, and more than two dozen in Fresno County alone recently were on a call about how to join the expanding effort in its second year. If successful, the program could be replicated in other Western states.
The McMullin Area Groundwater Sustainability Agency, which operates in a portion of the Central Valley, has developed an on-farm recharge university to train farmers in the practice. One of them, Mark Pitman, said he has always used water sparingly but may eventually flood his orange grove, which is close to a proposed canal.
“If you don’t flood it, you may not be able to water your crop next year when it’s rough,” Pitman said. “It’s six of one, half dozen of another.”
Some environmental groups support on-farm recharge but urge caution over concerns that pesticides or other contaminants could be flushed into a system that is also a drinking water source.
The worry is “you may cause a groundwater quality problem when you try to solve a groundwater supply problem,” said Michael Claiborne, directing attorney at Leadership Counsel, a nonprofit focused on valley communities.
With such concerns in mind, Newsom’s recent order makes dairy lands and fields where pesticides were recently applied ineligible. Also, farmers are required to report to the state when they divert water.
It isn’t immediately clear how farmers will be compensated, but some say they expect to receive a water credit in the future. Not all the water will come back to those who participate, but experts anticipate they will see a benefit and so will their neighbors.
Some soil conditions and crops are better suited for recharge than others. Grapes, for example, can withstand large amounts of water, especially in cold temperatures, and so can pecan trees, said Philip Bachand, an environmental engineer who has worked with Cameron on recharge.
In 2017, another wet year, Cameron tried flooding almonds, pistachios, walnuts and winegrapes and found they could survive so long as the water remained cold. He said it’s hard to track where all the water went, but he measured a 40-foot (12-meter) increase in the water table beneath his flooded vineyard.
Back then, Cameron said, he moved the water with a much smaller system that he has since expanded with help from a $5 million state grant to significantly boost his recharge capacity.
“We have the location, we have the soils.” Cameron said. “And we have the will to do it.”
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IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunis Inc., a private biotechnology company developing a novel treatment for age and disease-related immune decline, has closed a $10M Series A First Closing financing led by Remiges Ventures with participation by several other healthcare investment firms. Proceeds will support clinical assessment of Immunis' immunomodulatory secretome product in an FDA-awarded Phase 1/2a clinical trial targeting muscle atrophy, which is an age, disuse and disease-associated condition experienced by 100% of the population.
"The completion of this financing round reflects strong asset development, an outstanding team and a focused strategy," said Dr. Hans S. Keirstead, Chairman of Immunis.
An inevitable consequence of aging is decline of immune system health. Immune system degeneration manifests many degenerative conditions within the body, including muscle atrophy. Mitigating the loss of muscle and improving muscle recovery are unmet medical needs. Immunis' unique secretome treatment, IMM01-STEM, addresses both medical needs using natural immunomodulators with potent cytoskeletal remodeling properties.
Immunis is a private biotechnology company developing a novel immunomodulatory secretome product for the various manifestations of age and disease-related immune decline. The STEM product line leverages Immunis' leading-edge capabilities in stem cell technology to deliver all natural, all human immune modulators in their natural, relative physiological concentrations.
Immunis' FDA-awarded Phase 1/2a clinical trial is an open-label dose escalation study to assess the safety and tolerability of IMM01-STEM in elderly participants with muscle atrophy associated with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Up to 18 patients will be enrolled in the trial and randomly assigned to an IMM01-STEM dose cohort. Treatment will be administered in the form of intramuscular injections twice a week, for four weeks (8 injections total). Male or female patients are eligible for the study if they satisfy the following criteria: (1) 50 to 75 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent, (2) have grade 2 or 3 knee osteoarthritis as defined by Kellgren-Lawrence analyses, (3) have quadricep weakness (<7.5N/kg/m2), (4) can ambulate >50 feet unassisted, (5) are negative for human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis C at the Screening Visit and (6) have a body mass index (BMI) of <40kg/m2. For additional information about Immunis' trial participant qualifications, please visit: www.immunisbiomedical.com
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The makeup industry has expanded in recent years, especially as makeup artists and influencers continue to earn many followers on social media. Cosmetics companies have come up with increasingly precise ways for customers to target their specific skincare and beauty needs. The introduction of color-correcting products is just one example.
Color corrector is the perfect way to achieve blemish-free and smooth skin without needing full-coverage foundations or concealers, but it’s essential to understand how they work to use them effectively.
What is a color corrector?
Color corrector is a blanket term for a range of beauty products that come in different pastel and primary colors to target a multitude of blemish and discoloration types on the skin.
They work by applying a color to the skin that balances out existing discoloration, such as redness. By applying an “opposite” shade to the skin with a color corrector, the shades balance to provide a more even skin tone.
What is a color corrector used for?
Color corrector is beneficial for a wide variety of skin blemishes and discolorations because each shade of color corrector is specifically designed to balance out individual skin discolorations.
For that reason, you can use a color corrector to even out:
- Redness caused by rosacea and sensitivity
- Dark circles under the eyes
- Yellow spots or an overall yellow dullness on the face
- Hyperpigmentation anywhere on the face
Is color corrector the same as concealer?
Both concealers and color correctors are designed to reduce the appearance of blemishes and discoloration. However, concealer does this by providing coverage over the areas of affected skin. It can also be used to cover up zits. On the other hand, a color corrector eliminates blemishes and discoloration by balancing out the shades of color associated with blemishes.
While concealer usually goes on top of foundation, color corrector goes on with or after your moisturizer and before you apply any makeup.
Types of color correctors
Moisturizers
Some moisturizers incorporate a color-correcting element so you can achieve the same results without having to apply two different products. This is particularly true of shades that apply to your entire face rather than one specific area.
Creams, serums and sticks
You can also find color correctors as stand-alone products that go on after your moisturizer. They're usually in the form of creams or serums, although you can also purchase color-correcting sticks for when heavier application is needed.
Palettes
If you need multiple shades of color corrector to target different problem areas on your face, you can opt for a color-correcting palette. These palettes often contain multiple color-correcting shades and are applied to the face using something like a concealer brush or your fingers.
Purposes of different shades in color correctors
Green
One of the most popular color correctors available is shades of green. They’re usually pastel green and their primary purpose is to target redness. Green color corrector is effective for targeting redness on skins of all colors, tones and shades.
Many people experience redness on their skin. It can be a result of rosacea, acne or other skin conditions. People with sensitive skin can also experience flare-ups of redness.
The green shade counteracts redness on the skin to provide a more even skin tone. You can apply it to any area of the face where redness occurs, which is most commonly on the forehead, cheeks and chin. You can also use it on areas where the skin looks broken and capillaries are visible, such as the nose.
Purple
The main use case for a purple color corrector is dullness on the skin. Purple works to counteract yellow shades of discoloration that can make skin look tired to brighten up the face. If you experience puffiness or swelling from lack of sleep, a purple color corrector can help to hide the effects.
Purple is particularly effective on olive skin tones. On darker skin tones, it can also work to reduce the appearance of dark circles under the eyes.
Red
There are a multitude of red and orange color correctors available. They’re all made for targeting dark skin discoloration, particularly under the eyes. Depending on your skin color and the tone of the dark spots, you may need a deeper red or something as light as an apricot or peach color corrector. In general, the darker your skin, the deeper the shade of red you’ll need to get the best out of your color corrector.
Yellow
Yellow is a catch-all color corrector that works for multiple skin discolorations and blemishes. Again, how well it works depends on your skin color and tone. For example, if your redness is mild, a yellow color corrector might do the trick over a green. Similarly, yellow can help lift dullness in skin, particularly for very fair complexions.
When to apply color corrector
Color corrector should be applied after you wash your face and before you apply your makeup. You may need to use different shades in different areas, which is where a palette can come in handy. For example, you might apply a green color-correcting serum to your cheeks and forehead and use a red corrector under your eyes.
If you like to go bare-faced, color-correcting moisturizer is also a great solution to skin discoloration without needing to apply makeup at all.
What you need to buy for color-correcting
[ Smashbox Photo Finish Reduce Redness Primer ]
This color corrector and primer combo is perfect for full facial balancing of redness. It can be worn on its own to reduce redness, even without makeup.
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[ LA Girl HD Pro Corrector Concealer ]
This color corrector is perfect for darker skin tones that need under-eye coverage and to target dark spots. It has a lightweight texture and lasts for hours.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
[ NYX Professional Makeup 3C Color Correcting Concealer Palette ]
If you need a bit of everything, this palette provides six different shades of color corrector, so you can target specific areas of the face with different shades.
Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
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Suns vs. Clippers Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Playoffs Game 4
Published: Apr. 22, 2023 at 8:54 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Los Angeles Clippers are 7.5-point underdogs heading into Game 4 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the Phoenix Suns at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, starting at 3:30 PM ET on TNT, BSSC, and BSAZ. The Suns have a 2-1 series lead.
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Suns vs. Clippers Game Info & Odds
- Date: Saturday, April 22, 2023
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, BSSC, and BSAZ
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue: Crypto.com Arena
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Suns vs. Clippers Score Prediction
- Prediction: - Clippers 114 - Suns 113
Spread & Total Prediction for Suns vs. Clippers
- Pick ATS: Clippers (+ 7.5)
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Under (226.5)
- The Suns (41-38-3 ATS) have covered the spread 50% of the time, 1.2% more often than the Clippers (40-42-0) this year.
- As a 7.5-point underdog or more in 2022-23, Los Angeles is 1-4 against the spread compared to the 9-8-1 ATS record Phoenix puts up as a 7.5-point favorite.
- Both Phoenix and Los Angeles games have gone over the total 48.8% of the time this season.
- The Suns have a .720 winning percentage as a moneyline favorite (36-14) this season, higher than the .300 winning percentage for the Clippers as a moneyline underdog (9-21).
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Suns Performance Insights
- Phoenix ranks 17th in the NBA with 113.6 points per game so far this season. At the other end of the court, it ranks sixth with 111.6 points allowed per contest.
- The Suns have been piling up assists in 2022-23, ranking third-best in the NBA with 27.3 assists per game.
- The Suns rank 13th in the NBA with 12.2 three-pointers per game so far this year. Meanwhile, they rank seventh with a 37.4% shooting percentage from downtown.
- Of the shots taken by Phoenix in 2022-23, 63.8% of them have been two-pointers (71% of the team's made baskets) and 36.2% have been from beyond three-point land (29%).
Clippers Performance Insights
- On offense Los Angeles is the 17th-ranked team in the league (113.6 points per game). Defensively it is 12th (113.1 points allowed per game).
- The Clippers are 23rd in the NBA in assists (23.9 per game) in 2022-23.
- The Clippers are 10th in the NBA in 3-pointers made (12.7 per game) and third-best in 3-point percentage (38.1%).
- Los Angeles takes 38.8% percent of its shots from behind the 3-point line, and 61.2% percent from inside it. In terms of makes, 30.9% of Los Angeles' baskets are 3-pointers, and 69.1% are 2-pointers.
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Eight celebrities including actor Lindsay Lohan, influencer Jake Paul and rapper Soulja Boy have been charged by federal regulators with illegally touting two cryptocurrencies and failing to disclose they were paid to do so.
The two cryptocurrencies, Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT), were sold by crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, who was also charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
Sun and three of his wholly-owned companies — Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd. and Rainberry Inc. — are accused of the unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities and manipulating the secondary market by "wash trading," which involves quickly buying and selling cryptocurrencies to make them seem like they're being actively traded.
The SEC also says Sun and the companies paid celebrities with vast social media followings to hype TRX and BTT and directed them not to publicly disclose their compensation.
"This case demonstrates again the high-risk investors face when crypto asset securities are offered and sold without proper disclosure," SEC chair Gary Gensler said in a statement.
The other celebrities charged in the scheme are:
Each of the eight is accused of illegally touting one or both of the securities.
Six of the celebrities — excluding Soulja Boy (whose legal name is DeAndre Cortez Way) and Mahone — have agreed to pay a total of more than $400,000 to settle the charges without admitting or denying the SEC's findings.
NPR reached out to representatives for each of the celebrities with a request for comment but did not immediately hear back from seven out of the eight. A representative for Jake Paul declined to comment.
Crypto's meteoric rise in popularity led to a wave of celebrities plugging various digital currencies, but regulators' interest in ferreting out illegal behavior in the crypto market has landed several of those stars in legal trouble.
In October, the SEC charged Kim Kardashian with using her Instagram account to tout a cryptocurrency without divulging that she was being paid to promote it.
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BEIJING (AP) — Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland were temporarily blocked from leaving as part of virus testing that extended to more than 400,000 people, the city government announced Tuesday.
The park closed Monday for testing of staff and visitors, Walt Disney Co. and the government said in separate statements. The city health bureau said guests all tested negative and were allowed to leave by 8:30 p.m.
No details of a possible outbreak were released, but 1.3 million residents of the downtown Yangpu district were ordered Friday to stay at home for virus testing.
President Xi Jinping's government is sticking to a severe “Zero COVID” strategy that has shut down Shanghai and other cities this year to isolate every case while other countries are easing anti-virus controls.
Also Tuesday, authorities in the southern territory of Macao were carrying out virus tests on all of its 700,000 residents after one case was found last week.
“Zero COVID” has kept infection rates relatively low but at a high cost as businesses struggle with repeated shutdowns.
Hong Kong’s main stock market index surged 5.2% on Tuesday after a comment circulated on Chinese social media that said the ruling Communist Party might set up a “reopening committee” to look at ways to wind down anti-virus controls.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, told reporters he was “not aware of what you just mentioned” when asked about the rumor.
Outbreaks in Shanghai in March led to a shutdown that confined most of its 25 million people to their homes for two months.
The city government appealed to anyone who had visited the Shanghai Disney Resort since Thursday to undergo three days of nucleic acid testing and avoid gathering in groups.
Disney said Monday parts of the resort closed due to anti-virus regulations but gave no indication visitors were kept inside. It said Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park were closed while two hotels were operating normally.
Some rides and other amusements kept operating Monday while visitors were tested, according to social media posts.
“Please return and take a tour in the park," a video on the popular Sina Weibo platform showed an employee in a mask saying to guests. "The park’s gates are all closed temporarily, and you cannot leave now.”
Another video on Sina Weibo showed technicians in white protective suits who appeared to be taking throat swabs from guests after dark while police watched and a fireworks display lit up the sky behind them.
“The most beautiful nucleic acid detection point,” the account user wrote.
In the central city of Zhengzhou, thousands of employees who assemble Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 14 walked away from a factory operated by Taiwan's Foxconn following outbreaks and complaints about unsafe working conditions.
Foxconn said it has implemented “closed loop management," the official term for employees living at their workplace and having no outside contact.
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JACKSON -- With fall sports in full swing, here is a chance to choose which performance of the past week was the biggest.
Polls will close Monday morning.
JACKSON -- With fall sports in full swing, here is a chance to choose which performance of the past week was the biggest.
Polls will close Monday morning.
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Aussie Slingsby beats Kiwi rival Burling in $1M SailGP final
By BERNIE WILSON
AP Sports Writer
Tom Slingsby of Team Australia held on through a few tense moments after his catamaran fell off its foils and then prevailed over rival Peter Burling of New Zealand in a short dash to the finish to claim his third straight $1 million, winner-take-all SailGP season championship Sunday on San Francisco Bay.
Slingsby, who has dominated tech tycoon Larry Ellison’s global league since it debuted in 2019, dodged what could have been a huge embarrassment when he recovered and kept his 50-foot Flying Roo — nicknamed for the giant yellow kangaroo on the wingsail — ahead of Burling for the thrilling victory.
British star Sir Ben Ainslie finished a distant third in the Grand Final.
“That was not the plan. I thought we lost it,” a relieved Slingsby said right after the race. “We had it the whole way. That was crazy. I was very scared. I was thinking this could be the biggest choke of all time right now, but fortunately we were able to get it over the line. What a race.”
Slingsby and his four-man, one-woman crew celebrated by spraying each other with Champagne and unfurling an Australian flag.
A few minutes earlier, it looked as though they might have been left devastated.
Slingsby led at every mark after pushing the British back during the pre-start and then forcing the Kiwis wide at the first mark. The Aussies had a lead of about 100 meters approaching the fifth mark but came off their foils after a tack and slowed considerably, allowing the Kiwis to close within 30 meters. Slingsby crossed just ahead of Burling and then tacked.
He stayed barely ahead into controlling position rounding the mark and then sped across the short reach to the finish.
“We had such a comfortable lead and then I decided that I wanted to sort of shut the race down a bit and do extra maneuvers to make sure they don’t get different wind,” Slingsby said. “In the end, they didn’t really get different wind but they were tacking in better positions and they were able to foil out of the tacks a bit better than we were. We were tacking in less wind and they just kept gaining, kept gaining and fortunately we did the tack just enough room in the last move and were able to hold on to the finish.”
Slingsby is an Olympic gold medalist and was crewmates with Ainslie on the Ellison-owned Oracle Team USA that successfully defended the America’s Cup in 2013 with a stunning comeback against Emirates Team New Zealand on the same waters they sailed on Sunday. Ainslie is the most-decorated Olympic sailor of all time, with four gold medals and one silver. Burling is the two-time reigning America’s Cup champion helmsman who has won one gold and two silver Olympic medals.
Slingsby’s crew is full of America’s Cup and Olympic veterans.
“The fact that we got the job done today is a huge testament to these people,” he said. “I’m so thankful to have such an amazing team. Our run is going to come to an end eventually, but we just want to extend it for as long as we can.”
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy auto and transport industry press releases from PR Newswire, including a new safety plan for Norfolk Southern and the new Dodge Hornet.
NEW YORK, March 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the auto and transportation industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- Norfolk Southern announces six-point safety plan
These enhanced safety measures follow the Feb. 23 release of the NTSB's preliminary report, which traced the derailment and the initial fire to an overheated axle on car number 23, which was carrying plastic pellets. - Amelia Earhart Car Added to National Historic Vehicle Register
Amelia Earhart's 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton will be the 33rd vehicle to be inducted into the National Historic Vehicle Register, the only federally recognized program to document the historical and cultural significance of the automobile. - Stellantis Partners With Detroit-based Vehya to Become One of Its Preferred EV Charger Installers for US Dealers
"We've found that our easy-to-use platform combined with an account manager for point of contact gives dealers peace of mind and minimizes barriers, especially in cases when dealing with utility company upgrades to sites," states Etta Salaj, business manager at Vehya. - Ideanomics subsidiary US Hybrid, Mi-Jack to develop hydrogen powered rubber tire gantry crane
The fossil diesel crane will be converted to hydrogen power as a step towards Ideanomics' decarbonization effort. - Honda Reveals New Prototype Autonomous Work Vehicle at CONEXPO 2023
Jason VanBuren, systems engineering manager at American Honda Motor Co., Inc., said, "We believe the Honda AWV can be a valuable solution to supporting construction teams while also enhancing worksite efficiencies and safety." - Kelley Blue Book's Car Recalls 101: What Vehicle Owners Need to Know to Stay Safe
Brian Moody, executive editor for Kelley Blue Book, said, "Drivers need to understand that a recall usually will not cost you a dime to repair. Any defect affecting a vehicle's safety can trigger a recall, and car manufacturers must fix defects from recalls for free if the vehicle is less than 16 years old." - Hyundai Mobis Introduces Electronic Leveling Control for EVs and PBVs
A new system that automatically adjusts the height of vehicles depending on the purpose, for example, to protect electric vehicle (EV) batteries, increase driving range, and make it easier to get in and out of vehicles will soon be made available in the market. - Conductor fatally injured in Cleveland
Louis Shuster, a Norfolk Southern conductor, was fatally injured early Tuesday morning at the Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland Works property in Cleveland, Ohio. The conductor was reportedly struck by a dump truck as a Norfolk Southern train was moving through a crossing at the facility. - All-new Dodge Hornet Takes the Country by Swarm The first electrified performance hybrid vehicle from Dodge is equipped with 288 horsepower, 383 lb.-ft of torque, can reach 0-60 in 5.6 seconds, and offers more than 30 miles of all-electric range.
- itselectric Raises $2.2M Pre-Seed Funding Round to Close the Urban EV Charging Gap The electric vehicle curbside charging company aims to provide charging in urban communities. To optimize urban infrastructure conducive to electric vehicle charging, itselectric's solution is to create a sleek, low-profile curbside charger that provides revenue sharing for property owners [and] plentiful access to EV drivers [with] zero impact on municipal budgets."
- Indian Motorcycle & Jack Daniel's® Celebrate American Craftsmanship with Old No. 7®-Inspired, Limited-Edition Indian Chief Bobber Dark Horse
Hand painted and highly exclusive, Indian Motorcycle will produce only 177 units for global distribution.
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Can't-Miss Earnings
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Can NSB ban certain businesses in Flagler Ave., Canal St. districts? Officials weigh in
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — In an effort to preserve the character of its iconic business districts, Flagler Avenue and Canal Street, the city of New Smyrna Beach is weighing the possibility of restricting certain types of shops in those areas.
The issue was first brought forth by City Commissioner Lisa Martin first broached the issue at an April meeting.
“The background of this is that there are businesses such as the smoke shop that I don’t really think we want on Flagler Avenue and, rather than wait for 17 more to pop up, I would like to ask staff to look at expanding the list to include pawn shops, tattoo parlors, smoke shops, gun stores and package (liquor) stores,” Martin said.
The two areas are zoned mixed-use and currently allow for several types of businesses, including some of those mentioned by Martin, such as pawn shops and package/liquor stores.
But a decision on the matter could take time, given that other city commissioners called for a careful approach as to how the city would want to proceed. The proposal does not involve shutting down businesses that are already open.
“I understand where you’re coming from,” City Commissioner Jason McGuirk responded to Martin at the meeting. “I know that there are some people on Flagler who’ve reached out to me with some concern of some smoke shops. This is more of a long-term process because you can’t just start banning different things. There’s a process to it.”
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The words of caution were echoed by Mayor Fred Cleveland, who said the City Commission would need to consider the optics of the measure and whether it could be seen as government overreach.
“I’m sensitive to what the optics are about us telling who what kind of shops they can open up and cannot open up,” Cleveland said. “So, I think we just need to be mindful of that.”
City seeks input from local businesses
Since the meeting, city staff has reached out to those business districts’ associations and sent out a citywide survey to gain feedback from residents and the business community.
According to the city, city planners have met with the Flagler Avenue Business Association and The Canal Street Business Association “to provide an initial overview of the project.”
In an interview with The News-Journal, Elizabeth Jones, owner of Nature in Beauty salon on Canal Street and head of the district’s business association, said the survey has been shared among the district’s business owners.
“Right now, what I’m getting from other business owners is that it would be nice if we could avoid having smoke shops, vape shops, gun shops, tattoo parlors,” Jones said. “That’s really all that we are, I think, looking at as something that could be a negative effect on the street.”
She added that “we would love retail, we want to keep the street prospering, and right now it is doing great.”
Jones said she believes the City Commission will “tread carefully” as they weigh in the balancing act of preserving the character of the city’s districts and avoiding stepping over business owners' rights.
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Zoe Neuner, president of the Flagler Avenue Business Association, did not want to offer any comment at this time, but said the district’s business owners are participating in the survey.
A ‘delicate balance’
The proposed restrictions would only apply to the two districts in question and not to the city as a whole.
There are certain regulations for such businesses already in place in the Flagler and Canal business districts. For instance, businesses that sell alcohol but not food on Flagler Avenue are currently required to maintain a buffer of at least 1,000 feet.
Joseph Posey, an attorney with Storch Law Firm in Daytona Beach, said he “can see the rationale for doing it, as long as it is done the right way.”
“You don’t necessarily want to discourage growth or prevent folks from utilizing their property either,” Posey said. “I can understand some of the ‘Where we want to be,’ and ‘How we want to grow’ perspective. As long as it is done in a way that collectively is in the best interest of everybody — it is that delicate balance.”
Posey said it would be important for the city to consult its citizens to gauge the community’s support for the idea and “invite those discussions.”
Posey said that the city should also keep in mind that “Flagler (Avenue) is very much a tourist corridor.”
“It is a very visited corridor by locals,” Posey said. “For any regulations that are being proposed, I would keep those things in mind.”
City staff has already come up with five different courses of action the city could take on the matter, which include:
- The commission could choose to do nothing and leave the mixed-use zoning district the way it is.
- The commission could choose to remove or add certain uses to the list of permitted uses by right in the mixed-use zoning district. Permitted uses by right are allowed without any approvals.
- The commission could choose to make certain uses special exceptions in the MU zoning district. Special exception uses must be considered by the Planning and Zoning Board at public hearings first for recommendations to approve or deny to the commission. Then a second public hearing occurs at the commission who gives the final approval or denial. Approvals are often accompanied by conditions such as hours of operation, noise control, etc.
- The commission could choose to put distance buffers between uses so similar or conflicting uses are not clustered together.
- The commission could allow certain uses by right with conditions. For example, tattoo parlors are currently allowed in the mixed-use zoning district, but they cannot front on Canal Street or Flagler Avenue.
City staff plans to present the survey’s findings and more information about the proposal to the city’s Planning and Zoning Board during its next meeting on Monday at 5:30 p.m.
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The city also plans to hold public meetings “in the near future.” Residents can find the survey at the city’s website at cityofnsb.com.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, November 24, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
131 PM CST Thu Nov 24 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda, Waller
and Wharton.
* WHEN...Until 330 PM CST.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is
occurring or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 131 PM CST, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Sugar Land, western Missouri City, Rosenberg, Stafford, Katy,
Richmond, Wharton, Brookshire, Hunters Creek Village, Bunker
Hill Village, Piney Point Village, Pecan Grove, Mission Bend,
First Colony, Town West, Eldridge / West Oaks, southern
Addicks Park Ten, Spring Branch West, Meadows Place and
Needville.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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TAIPEI – Palau's vice president and her eight-member delegation have been quarantined in Taiwan after two of them tested positive for the coronavirus.
Palau is one of the 14 countries still maintaining formal relations with Taiwan, which China claims as its own and has relentlessly sought to isolate internationally by depriving it of diplomatic partners.
Vice President J. Uduch Sengebau Senior arrived for an official five-day visit on Saturday and was due to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen.
The delegation from the Pacific nation had PCR tests on Sunday, with two of them positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.
The conditions of their quarantine remain unclear. Taiwan generally mandates several days of quarantine in a hotel or private home.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said their schedule has been suspended for the time being. In a statement, the ministry gave no details on who in the delegation had tested positive or how long they would remain in Taiwan, but said it would “continue to provide them with the proper care."
Taiwan has gradually relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions, but testing and quarantine restrictions for foreign arrivals remain in place.
Upon her arrival, Senior, who is also her country's justice minister, said she looked forward to “strengthening bilateral relations with the Taiwan government and the Ministry of Justice in Taiwan, in the areas of justice, maritime security and public safety.”
“The Republic of Palau and the Republic of Taiwan share similar beliefs in human rights, justice, the rule of law,” Senior said.
Taiwan this week is also hosting Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro of Guatemala, another of its dwindling number of diplomatic allies.
The visits come amid heightened tensions between Taiwan and China, following China's threatening military exercises and missile launches staged in retaliation for a trip to the island earlier this month by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
With a population of just over 18,000, Palau has recorded 5,348 cases of COVID-19 and six deaths. Taiwan, with 23 million people, has reported more than 5 million cases and close to 10,000 deaths.
Quarantine rules remain flexible and reports say the government plans to further relax them beginning Thursday.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, today announced that the company plans to release second quarter 2022 financial results on August 8, 2022.
The company will hold an earnings conference call beginning at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 8th to discuss these results. The call will be hosted by eHealth's chief executive officer, Fran Soistman and eHealth's chief financial officer, Christine Janofsky.
Individuals interested in listening to the conference call may do so by dialing (800) 715-9871. The participant passcode is 3075186.
A live webcast of the earnings call will also be available at www.ehealthinsurance.com under the Investor Relations section. The webcast replay will be available on our investor relations website two hours following the conclusion of the call and will be archived for a period of one year. The company suggests participants for both the conference call and those listening via the web dial in or sign on at least 15 minutes in advance of the call.
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) operates a leading health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com with technology that provides consumers with health insurance enrollment solutions. Since 1997, we have connected more than eight million members with quality, affordable health insurance, Medicare options, and ancillary plans. Our proprietary marketplace offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business, and other plans from approximately 200 health insurance carriers across 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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645 Ventures scales firm, team, portfolio, and AUM to over half a billion since 2014 inception, backed by prestigious LP base
NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 645 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders building iconic technology companies, today announced its oversubscribed fourth fund, Fund IV, alongside the launch of the firm's first opportunity fund, Select I. The closing of these two funds, totaling $347M, tracks the venture firm's exponential growth, scaling the portfolio to 50+ companies, 15 team members, two offices, and eight exit events since its inception in 2014. The new funds are backed by prestigious limited partners including endowments, foundations, fund of funds, family offices, and high net worth individuals. Due to 645's top quartile performance, existing limited partners significantly increased their allocations to the new funds, and several new institutional LPs joined the roster.
The firm now has $550M+ in assets under management, and its notable portfolio companies include Iterable, FiscalNote, Goldbelly, Panther Labs, and Overtime, all of which 645 invested in at the early stage. 645 focuses on vertical and horizontal SaaS, infrastructure software, consumer categories such as online marketplaces, and Crypto/Web3. The firm has applied specific investment themes in these categories over multiple years, enabling it to be a prepared mind and help its portfolio founders.
Founded by Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday and supported by a growing team of experienced professionals, 645 applies growth-stage investment practices, advanced proprietary software, and significant value-add resources to help Seed and Series A startups scale exponentially to become category-leading businesses. Capitalizing on structural changes at the early stage including acceleration of startup formation across the globe, more rapid startup growth through inexpensive distribution channels and reduction in startup costs, and the proliferation of startup data, 645's model enables the firm to identify and prioritize companies with the potential for exponential scaling combined with strong underlying unit economics. 645 pioneered outbound deal sourcing using software to identify and prioritize top investment prospects at the early stage, combined with supercharging its team's networks to invest in the best while efficiently delivering value-add services to founders.
"Our Fund IV and Select I Fund enable 645 to continue applying the winning formula that has led us to invest in billion-dollar companies at their earliest stages," said Nnamdi Okike, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at 645. "With these new funds, we'll build on this formula by scaling our team and portfolio resources, continuing to lead the early-stage rounds of the highest-potential early-stage founders, and supporting our best companies through the growth stage via our Select Fund. These funds enable us to continue building on the vision that Aaron and I have had since inception: to build a generational venture firm that delivers exceptional returns to our limited partners."
While the firm has always invested at Seed and Series A and will continue applying this model with Fund IV, Select I enables the firm to follow-on with larger investments in its best companies at the growth stage. Fund IV will make initial investments at Seed and Series A with check sizes ranging from $1M to $10M. Select I will write later stage checks up to $15M into the best-performing companies that reach the growth stage from its earlier funds.
645 is on a mission to become one of the most value-added funds at the early stage and this new set of funds will enable the firm's Success Team to double down in supporting founders building strong business fundamentals while committing larger investments to early and late stage rounds. The firm will continue scaling the Success Team, which super-charges founders with customer acquisition, talent recruitment, marketing and public relations, and capital raising support.
"We have a client-service mindset where we make delivering for founders our number one priority," said Aaron Holiday, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at 645. "We have built a team of experts and proprietary software that enables us to immediately respond to our founders' hiring, customer acquisition, marketing, and access to capital needs. Since starting the firm in 2014, we have facilitated over 300+ customer, talent, fundraising, and strategic introductions that have contributed to our concentrated early-stage portfolio scaling to over $2B in revenues and nearly 4,000 new jobs created in less than a decade. We have only scratched the surface on the type of support we can deliver to founders. Fund IV and Select I enable us to invest more heavily in our growing team and partner more closely with our founders along their journeys to category leadership and IPO."
In addition to 645's top institutional LPs, the firm also includes top operators, founders, VC investors and financiers who form the firm's Connected Network. The Connected Network is in place to lean into the firm's breakout successes and to support those companies as they navigate the challenges of becoming dominant category leading businesses.
645 will continue scaling the firm and will be hiring key team members in both its San Francisco and New York offices. Apply to work on 645's Investment and Research team here.
About 645 Ventures
645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders who are building iconic companies. We invest at the Seed and Series A stages and leverage our Voyager software platform to enable our Success team and Connected Network to help founders scale to the growth stage. Select companies that have reached the growth stage include Iterable, Goldbelly, Resident, Eden Health, FiscalNote, Lunchbox, and Squire. 645 has $550m+ in AUM across 5 funds, and is growing fast with backing from leading institutional investors, including university endowments, funds of funds, and pension funds. The firm has offices in New York and SF, and you can learn more at www.645ventures.com.
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GARRETT, Ky. (AP) — This tiny sliver of a town off a state highway in eastern Kentucky has been home to Brenda Francis and her husband, Paul, for decades.
Paul Francis was born 73 years ago in this house, a yellow and brown one-story, which like many dwellings in Garrett is nestled in a valley between tall, forested hills. The retired school teacher loves it here, and the couple was gifted the house by his parents about 40 years ago.
But after another flood — this one maybe the worst they’ve seen — Brenda Francis said she is done. She joins many others in this corner of Appalachia who see this latest disaster as a devastating blow to their lifestyle. Some say they’re considering moving away, despite their deep roots.
Francis, 66, said her husband wants to stay: “But not me. I don’t want to live here no more, and he knows it. So we’re going to be getting out of here.”
Kentucky’s Appalachian region has known hardship. The coal economy withered away and took the good-paying jobs with it. The opioid crisis flooded towns with millions of pain pills. Prospects were so bleak that many people left, cutting the population in many counties by double-digit percentages in the past two decades. In the Francises’ home county of Floyd, the population has declined by 15% since 2000. And household annual income in many of the counties hit hardest by last week’s flooding is a little more than half the national average of about $65,000.
But many stayed, held by ties to their communities, families and their history here. The flooding that hit the area last week is making even some of those stalwarts reconsider, especially in and around Garrett, a community of about 1,300 people that was founded by a coal company in the early 1900s.
The region’s strong social fabric and familial connections give pause to people considering moving away from home, said Ann Kingsolver, director of the Appalachian Studies Program at the University of Kentucky.
“Social capital is really important,” Kingsolver said in an email message. “Those are the resources that people have through investing in social networks of kin and neighbors over many years — a kind of wealth beyond monetary value.”
When the 2008 financial crisis hit, she said, many young people moved back to rural communities in Appalachia because they had a place to live and child care options.
Kingsolver said there is little available rental or motel space in those rural areas, but flooding victims often get help and shelter from relatives and neighbors nearby.
Pam Caudill lives on the same street as her son, who’s been a big help since the floodwaters reached 4 feet (1.2 meters) high in her home in Wayland, just a few minutes from Garrett. Her husband died of a heart attack in May, and the flooding has tested her resolve to remain in her small town.
“I have thought about it, but here’s the thing: It took everything that me and my husband could do to buy a house,” she said, weeping. “It’s hard to let go of something that you worked so hard for.”
So she and her son will instead see what can be salvaged in her home and hope the foundation remains solid.
“It was my husband’s home; it’s my children’s home,” said Caudill, who temporarily relocated to a state park shelter over the weekend. “Wayland the town has always been their home.”
Two miles outside Garrett, 104-year-old Annis Clark rode out the storm on her own as she lost electricity and her basement flooded. She and her husband built their house in the ’50s, and she’s stayed long after he died in the ’80s, said Michael Clark, her son.
“She’s a survivor. I don’t know of any other way to put it,” said Clark, who attended Garrett High School and then moved away to Lexington, where he worked in television production and operations. “I have no doubt she will stay here until she’s done.”
Clark was buying supplies for her Monday in nearby Prestonsburg. He graduated from high school in 1964, and said many of his classmates moved away like he did to seek jobs. In many parts of eastern Kentucky, he said, “unless you wanted to be a (coal) miner, your options would typically be teacher.”
In Garrett, Brenda Francis despaired at the inches of mud that had flowed into the area under their home, which was raised after a flood in the 1950s, when her husband’s parents lived there.
“When you get older, you’re not able to clean all this up. We’re just totally exhausted,” Francis said. “How are we going to get this mud out of here?”
Despite his wife’s frustrations, Paul Francis was cheerfully cleaning up the family homestead, stacking toys in a ’70s pickup truck his father bought brand new. Sloshing around in rubber boots, he smiled as he prepared to hook up a pressure washer to spray mud from his grandchildren’s toys.
Their grandchildren are one of the reasons Brenda Francis wants to move away, to higher ground in Prestonsburg, where the kids live. She said they, like many in town, have no flood insurance on their house — but they do have a possible buyer. She’s hoping the fact that the house’s living spaces stayed dry will make it a desirable property.
Her adult sons love the town of Garrett, but “they’re all grown and got their own families now. They don’t want to come back here,” she said as her husband’s pressure washer hummed in the background.
“Who would want to come?” she said. “It still floods here.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Patrick Leahy lingered on a narrow balcony on the west side of the U.S. Capitol, soaking in a panoramic view of the National Mall, the Washington Monument and, beyond, the Lincoln Memorial.
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“Now this I will miss,” he said.
As Leahy closes out a Senate career that has spanned 48 years, the Vermont senator is saying goodbye to Washington with a mix of resignation and resolve, lamenting the hyperpartisanship that now grips Congress while expressing hope that the institution as he once knew it can someday return.
“If we don’t get back to it, this country is going to be severely damaged,” he said. “We’re the wealthiest, most powerful powerful nation on Earth. And we have over 300 million Americans. We have responsibility to the Americans. We have a responsibility to the rest of the world.”
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Leahy, 82, is president pro tempore of the Senate and third in line to the presidency. He reflected on his career during a wide-ranging interview Monday with The Associated Press in his office at the Capitol, recalling how when he first joined the Senate in 1975, colleagues with starkly different views could still find ways to get things done.
“I think then, most of (the senators) knew there were basic things the Senate should do, basic things the country needed, and we should find a way to come together," Leahy said.
“Now, there are too many people who think, ‘What can I say that will get me on the evening news or give me a sound bite or get me on this Twitter account,' or something else. They don’t care about the country. They care about their political ambitions.”
The willingness to work across the aisle isn't gone entirely. Leahy, who shapes federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, pointed to this week's unveiling of a compromise $1.7 trillion government funding package. It's a capstone of sorts to Leahy's career, and one he helped negotiate largely in private.
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“I never called a press conference during that time, nor did the other senators in there," he said. “We just tried to work. There is so much legislation that doesn’t get passed but it should because everybody’s running out trying to get their spin on it, and say, ‘See, I’m the only one who knows what I’m doing.' But you’re not."
Leahy will officially leave office on Jan. 3, when his successor — Vermont's Democratic Rep. Peter Welch — will be sworn into office. After that Leahy is planning to return to Vermont and work out of an office at the University of Vermont in Burlington, which will become home to his Senate records. The first in his family to go to college, Leahy said he wants to help young people from rural areas obtain higher education.
With tearful colleagues gathered in the chamber, Leahy gave his final address to the Senate on Tuesday, exhorting his colleagues to carry on the work.
“What a journey. What an abiding hope that someday after I’ve gone, the Senate in both parties will come back together to be the conscience of the nation," he said in his address. “Together, you can build a Senate defined not by soundbites, but one strengthened when women and men with a sense of history insist that our republic move forward."
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During his eight terms in the Senate, Leahy racked up a lengthy list of accomplishments, chairing or serving as the top member of the opposing party on the Senate Appropriations, Judiciary and Agriculture committees, among others. He’s currently the longest-serving senator and third in line to the presidency as president pro tempore. He's the fourth-longest serving senator in history and has cast nearly 17,000 votes.
Leahy has been active on judicial, criminal justice, gay rights, human rights, privacy and environmental issues. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he led the Senate’s negotiations with the Bush administration on the Patriot Act, the sweeping anti-terrorism bill responding to the attacks.
One of his first significant votes in 1975 was against continued funding for the Vietnam War. In 2002 he voted against authorizing the use of force in Iraq.
He helped establish what is now the nearly $60 billion organic food industry. He helped bring about the world’s first ban on the export of antipersonnel landmines, and he's helped bring hundreds of jobs to Vermont and millions of dollars to help clean up his beloved Lake Champlain.
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Leahy took office when Vermont was still considered a largely Republican bastion. Now it's considered by many to be among the most progressive places in the country.
“We changed. We have become more diverse and that’s better for Vermont,” he said. “What we have to do now is rely not just on rhetoric, but do the hard work to create real jobs, housing for people (so they) can stay in Vermont."
After the 1997 shooting deaths of two New Hampshire state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor in Colebrook, New Hampshire — violence that spilled over into Vermont — Leahy began a push to fund bulletproof vests for police officers. Since then, 1.4 million vests have been distributed nationwide under the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Act.
Known as an accomplished photographer, Leahy has used his proximity to power to take his camera into areas where others couldn’t. He captured candid images of President George H.W. Bush in a goofy hat and Sen. Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, on a bench near the Eiffel Tower during a NATO meeting.
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Among his favorite photos, which hangs in his office, is a haunting image taken in a Central American refugee camp in the 1980s. The photo shows an older man, with white hair and stubble.
“What I read in his face is, ‘You don’t know me. You can’t speak my language. I can never do anything to help you. What do you do to help people like me?’” Leahy said. “Every day I’ve looked at that conscience picture and thought, how do I make life better for Vermonters, for our country, but for the rest of the world.”
Leahy has a quirky side. He’s a lover of Batman comic books — he’s made cameo appearances in five Batman movies and did the voice for a character in an animated Batman movie — and the Grateful Dead. He could have fun in the Senate, too, remembering how he once parachuted with the Army’s Golden Knights skydiving team.
Asked how he wanted to be remembered, he responded: “I want the legacy (to be) that I kept my word,” he said, adding that he sought solutions to the problems of the nation, the world and his home state of Vermont.
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Later, giving a tour of his favorite spots around the Capitol, Leahy paused in the Rotunda, with its immense domed ceiling, paintings and statues. It's at the heart of American democracy, the place where former presidents and national heroes lay in state.
“I was in awe the first time I came in here as a teenager with my parents," Leahy said. “Every time I walk through here I’m as lost as the tourists are, and I still am today. And I’ll walk out of here my last day looking at it again."
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genome Medical, the leading telehealth provider of genetic services and solutions, is teaming up with Beam Therapeutics Inc. to provide access to genetic counseling for participants in Beam's BEACON clinical trial evaluating BEAM-101 as a potential treatment for sickle cell disease (SCD).
Through Genome Medical, Beam is sponsoring genetic counseling to provide educational resources and support to its BEACON clinical trial participants as they navigate the complexities that arise from their sickle cell diagnosis and clinical trial journey. Beam will not receive any identifiable information about the patients who elect to pursue genetic counseling with Genome Medical.
Sickle cell disease is a group of genetic disorders that affects hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. People with this disease produce atypical hemoglobin molecules called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a sickle, or crescent shape, blocking the flow of blood and oxygen throughout the body. SCD characteristics typically appear in childhood and can include anemia, repeated infections and severe pain. It can also lead to life threatening complications, chronic organ damage and death.
The BEACON clinical trial is evaluating BEAM-101, an investigational therapy that produces base edits designed to potentially alleviate the effects of sickle cell disease by mimicking genetic variants seen in individuals who have hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin. In the BEACON clinical trial, participants undergo the removal of blood cells, which are edited and then reintroduced back into the participant.
"We look forward to working with Beam to advance access to genetic counseling for BEACON trial participants. We applaud their research on sickle cell disease and efforts to investigate a new therapeutic option for the many people worldwide living with this life-threatening hereditary condition," says Jill Davies, CEO, Genome Medical. "We consider our work with biopharmaceutical companies critical to the advancement of genomic medicine and enabling access to life-saving therapies and treatments for patients living with rare disease."
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Genome Medical, the leading telegenetics care delivery company, is making genetic care accessible and actionable for patients through seven-day a week access to genetic services. By partnering with health systems, labs and biopharmaceutical companies, Genome Medical expands the reach and impact of genomic medicine. The company helps its partners deliver clinical risk assessments for patients, genetic test recommendations and ordering, pre and post-test genetic counseling through its team of expert genetic counselors and personalized care plans. Its advisory services team uses an evidence-based approach to help partners evaluate and develop scalable, efficient and successful genetics programs. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Genome Medical is the recipient of MedTech Breakthrough's 2023 "Genomics Innovation Award" and has been honored as "The Best Digital Health Company to Work For" by Rock Health and the "Top 50 in Digital Health" by Fenwick & West and Goldman Sachs. To learn more, visit genomemedical.com and follow @GenomeMed.
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GENEVA (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino urged world leaders on Tuesday to call for a ceasefire in Russia’s war against Ukraine during the World Cup that starts this week.
Just days after asking World Cup teams to avoid the political and human rights issues swirling around host nation Qatar and focus just on soccer, Infantino seemed to stray from his own advice on a trip from the Arabian Gulf to Indonesia for the Group of 20 meeting.
The World Cup that starts Sunday could be “that positive trigger,” Infantino said, for seeking peace after nearly nine months of what FIFA described as “conflict in Russia and Ukraine.”
“We are not naïve to believe that football can solve the world’s problems,” the FIFA president told delegates from the world’s political heavyweight nations.
“So my plea, to all of you, is to think on a temporary ceasefire, for one month, for the duration of the FIFA World Cup, or at least the implementation of some humanitarian corridors, or anything that could lead to the resumption of dialogue as a first step to peace,” Infantino said.
The proposal echoed the aims of the Olympic Truce — a United Nations-backed modern renewal of the tradition to cease fighting and grant safe passage to the games in ancient Greece.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, four days after the closing ceremony at the Beijing Winter Games.
Infantino, who is a member of the International Olympic Committee, did not directly condemn Russia or refer to President Vladimir Putin. Infantino and Putin worked closely together before and during Russia’s hosting of the 2018 World Cup, which the FIFA president praised at the time for showing a new and welcoming side of the country.
It was unclear if a ceasefire would be welcomed by Ukraine’s people and its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who addressed the G-20 summit by video link. He called for a complete withdrawal of Russian troops and giving back Ukrainian control of its territory
“Ukraine should not be offered to conclude compromises with its conscience, sovereignty, territory and independence,” Zelenskyy said. “And if Russia says that it supposedly wants to end this war, let it prove it with actions.”
With Zelenskyy’s backing, Ukraine’s soccer federation has teamed with Spain and Portugal in bidding to jointly host the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal. A host for that tournament will be picked in 2024.
Infantino added that “we know that our main focus as a sports organization is and should be sports.”
“But because football unites the world, this particular FIFA World Cup, with five billion people watching it, can be a trigger for a positive gesture, for a sign or a message of hope,” Infantino said.
The most political World Cup of the modern era arrives at a time of turmoil on the streets in Iran after the death in September of a 22-year-old woman earlier detained by the country’s morality police.
Iran begins its World Cup campaign Monday against England — and later plays the United States in Group B — and some players have openly supported the protests at home.
“Everybody has the right to express themselves.” the team’s Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz said Tuesday at a news conference, adding it was not a distraction.
“It is out of (the) question to think that the Iran national team is suffering any sort of issues like that. They want to make history,” Queiroz said.
Iran has never advanced from the group stage at a World Cup.
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