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The main justification for the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s home at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort — securing state secrets — requires us to accept the government’s characterization of purloined documents that we are not allowed to see. Trump, meanwhile, insists he had no classified documents, which is even harder to believe.
According to the search warrant inventory that was unsealed Aug. 12, the FBI found 11 sets of classified documents, ranging from “confidential” to “top secret,” at Mar-a-Lago. The top-secret documents included some that were labeled “SCI,” or “sensitive compartmented information,” an especially restricted category.
Trump does not dispute that the documents bore those labels. But he says “the very fact that these documents were present at Mar-a-Lago means they couldn’t have been classified” because he had “a standing order” as president that said any material “removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence” was “deemed to be declassified.”
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If so, Trump’s treatment of classified material was remarkably cavalier. The fact that he removed documents to study in preparation for the next day’s work, which is how he describes it, had no bearing on the question of whether declassifying them could compromise national security, which is supposed to be the main consideration in such decisions.
Taking Trump at his word, all of his homework, no matter how sensitive the information it involved, was automatically declassified. Theoretically, any random person could have obtained copies of those documents under the Freedom of Information Act unless another exception applied.
Trump’s “standing order” was news to John Bolton, who served as his national security adviser for 17 months in 2018 and 2019. “I was never briefed on any such order, procedure, policy when I came in,” Bolton told The New York Times. “If he were to say something like that, you would have to memorialize that, so that people would know it existed.”
Maybe Bolton was out of the loop. But the fact that Trump’s own national security adviser was unaware of this purported policy underlines how irregular and haphazard it would have been. By Trump’s own account, his blanket declassification of whatever he happened to remove from the Oval Office meant that many documents marked as “top secret” were not secret at all.
On its face, Trump’s handling of classified material was at least as reckless as Hillary Clinton’s when she was secretary of state. Trump has long maintained that Clinton’s use of an unsecured private email server when she ran the State Department was so egregious an affront to national security that she should go to prison for it.
As Trump’s supporters are quick to point out, there is a legally relevant difference. As president, Trump had the unilateral authority to declassify secrets, while Clinton, as secretary of state, did not.
Assuming Trump really did declassify all the material found at Mar-a-Lago when he still had that power, that might mean he is not criminally liable under the Espionage Act, one of the statutes cited in the FBI’s search warrant. Or it might not, since that law does not mention classification, referring instead to mishandling of “defense information” that “could be used to the injury of the United States.”
Either way, Trump’s defense raises troubling questions about his judgment and care as the nation’s chief executive. So does his puzzling decision to keep indisputably unclassified government documents, such as his pardon for Roger Stone, that belonged in the National Archives under the Presidential Records Act, a potential violation of another law cited by the FBI.
I don’t know whether Trump’s trove of government documents posed a national security threat grave enough to justify the unprecedented and politically explosive decision to search the home of a former president who is the leading contender to oppose the current president in the next election. But its existence provides further reason, in case any was needed, to believe Trump is not qualified for that office. | https://magicvalley.com/news/opinion/columns/jacob-sullum-trumps-defense-suggests-his-treatment-of-classified-material-was-remarkably-cavalier/article_b4624720-1f19-11ed-a18b-83cdf4c1e5f8.html | 2022-08-21 20:58:48 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/opinion/columns/jacob-sullum-trumps-defense-suggests-his-treatment-of-classified-material-was-remarkably-cavalier/article_b4624720-1f19-11ed-a18b-83cdf4c1e5f8.html |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker owned by a major U.S.-traded transportation company appears to be taking on Iranian crude oil in a key Asian maritime strait in violation of American sanctions, an advocacy group alleges. The firm allegedly involved, Euronav, said Wednesday it will “take appropriate action when necessary."
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Satellite photos and maritime tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press put the Belgian-flagged crude oil tanker Oceania just next to the Vietnamese-flagged tanker Abyss for a possible ship-to-ship transfer. The group United Against Nuclear Iran has warned the Oceania's owner, the Antwerp-based Euronav, that it believes the Abyss took on Iranian crude oil in late February.
The suspicion comes as Iran remains able to trade its crude oil at sea despite American sanctions snapping back into place after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2018. Now nearly five years later, Iran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels while continuing to sell its oil and supplying bomb-carrying drones to Russia to fuel Moscow's war on Ukraine.
Brian Gallagher, a spokesman for Euronav, told the AP in a statement that the company “has and always has taken all the appropriate measures and protocols to ensure we are in compliance with all regulations.”
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“All cargoes within our system have passed these requirements,” Gallagher wrote. “Euronav will continue to monitor any specific shipments and take appropriate action where necessary.”
Gallagher said the Oceania was a storage vessel and the cargo from the Abyss was for “a third party NOT directly with Euronav.” He added if the allegation the oil is Iranian is proven, “the cargo will be returned to the third party who delivered it.”
Euronav trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Abyss' manager did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
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Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC and data from the ships' Automatic Identification System trackers put the vessels Tuesday and Wednesday in the Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways between Indonesia and Malaysia. In an image Tuesday, tug boats were pushing the Abyss toward the Oceania.
Tracking data from MarineTraffic.com showed the vessels alongside each other Wednesday. At sea, oil tankers can funnel crude between each other in a ship-to-ship transfer that typically sees boats in a similar position.
In a letter dated Tuesday to Euronav, United Against Nuclear Iran said it believed the Abyss took on crude oil at the Iranian port of Bandar Mashahr, some 600 kilometer (370 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran, on the Persian Gulf. The Abyss had turned off its AIS tracker on Feb. 18 as it was pointed toward Bandar Mashahr.
Ships are supposed to keep their AIS trackers on for safety reason, but vessels believed to be carrying Iranian crude oil routinely turn theirs off to mask their movements over the international sanctions Tehran faces.
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A ship corresponding to the Abyss' size and features could be seen docked at Bandar Mashahr on Feb. 22 in a satellite photo analyzed by the AP. United Against Nuclear Iran said it found a satellite image it believed showed the Abyss at the port in the same position the day before.
“Any other signs of manipulating AIS transponders should be considered red flags for potential illicit activity,” the New York-based group said in its letter signed by Mark Wallace, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The Abyss is managed by Ho Chi Minh City-based PetroVietnam Transportation. Vietnamese vessels have been suspected of smuggling Iranian crude oil in the past. Smugglers typically misidentify where the crude oil they carry came from in order to skirt suspicions.
Iran's mission to the United Nations and the U.S. Treasury did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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This isn't the first time a U.S.-linked firm has been associated with an Iranian oil transfer at sea. In February 2022, United Against Nuclear Iran warned Los Angeles-based private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management that it believed a tanker the firm owned took on Iranian crude oil.
The U.S. government has said illicit Iranian oil revenue funds the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, an expeditionary unit believed to be working abroad in countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen to back Iranian-allied militias.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — Andrew Tate, a divisive social media personality and former professional kickboxer, was detained in Romania late Thursday on charges of human trafficking and rape, according to local media reports.
Tate, a British-U.S. citizen who previously was banned from various social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech, was reportedly detained along with his brother Tristan in the Ilfov area north of Romania’s capital, Bucharest.
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency said in a statement late that four suspects, including two British citizens and two Romanians, were arrested on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking and rape.
The agency, DIICOT, said the British citizens recruited women who were subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion,” sexually exploited by group members and forced to perform in pornography intended to reap “important financial benefits.”
The statement did not name the Tate brothers. Photographs published by Romanian media outlets pictured Tate being led away in handcuffs by masked law enforcement officers.
DIICOT said it identified six people who were sexually exploited by the organized criminal group, and that five homes were raided on Thursday. The suspects were detained for 24 hours.
Earlier this week, Tate posted a video on Twitter of a mountainous region of Romania, the Eastern European country where he is reported to have lived for the last five years.
Tate also was embroiled this week in a war of words with 19-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg after he shared a picture of himself standing next to a Bugatti on Twitter and bragged that he owned 33 cars.
Video footage from the police raid accompanying the anti-organized crime agency's statement shows several blurred-out sports cars, wads of cash, and a handgun. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/andrew-tate-detained-in-romania/507-4aabf0c2-2fd6-479e-8ea1-f195306a4351 | 2022-12-30 16:55:09 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/andrew-tate-detained-in-romania/507-4aabf0c2-2fd6-479e-8ea1-f195306a4351 |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Monday announced a freeze on U.S. inspections of its nuclear arsenals under a pivotal arms control treaty, claiming that Western sanctions have hampered similar tours of U.S. facilities by Russian monitors.
The move reflects soaring tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s military action in Ukraine and marks the first time the Kremlin halted U.S. inspections under the New START nuclear arms control treaty.
In declaring the freeze on U.S. inspections, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the sanctions on Russian flights imposed by the U.S. and its allies, visa restrictions and other obstacles effectively have made it impossible for Russian military experts to visit U.S. nuclear weapons sites, giving the U.S. “unilateral advantages.”
It claimed that U.S. inspectors have not faced such difficulties, even though Moscow has closed its skies to the European Union’s 27 nations, the U.K. and Canada — though not the U.S. — after the start of the conflict in Ukraine in late February. Russia said at the time that exceptions would be made for diplomatic missions and deliveries of humanitarian aid.
The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that the freeze is temporary and allowed by the pact “in exceptional cases.”
It noted that Russia “highly values” the New START, adding that inspections could resume after the problems hampering them are solved.
“Russia is fully committed to abiding by all of the provisions of New START, which we see as a crucial tool for maintaining international security and stability,” the ministry said, urging a “thorough study of all existing problems in this area, the successful settlement of which would allow a return to full-scale application as soon as possible of all verification mechanisms of the Treaty.”
“After the problems regarding the resumption of inspection activities under the Treaty are resolved, we will immediately lift the exemptions from inspection activities that we have announced,” the ministry said.
The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, and envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
Just days before the New START was due to expire in February 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend it for another five years.
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Joanna Kozlowska in London contributed to this report. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Russia-temporarily-pulls-out-of-weapons-17359715.php | 2022-08-08 21:30:13 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Russia-temporarily-pulls-out-of-weapons-17359715.php |
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed another boy of the same age and left five young women injured, Milwaukee police said Wednesday.
News reports did not say what charges, if any, have been filed against the teen.
The shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. Monday on the city’s north side, police said.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the slain boy as Davion Patterson.
Patterson’s mother, Tiera Carter, told WTMJ-TV that her two children went to help others who had been in a fight.
“He was trying to break up a fight,” Carter said. “He wasn’t a street kid.”
Five women, ages 18, 19, 21, and two 22-year-olds, were taken to a hospital for treatment of nonfatal injuries, police said. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/police-teen-arrested-in-shooting-that-killed-17855142.php | 2023-03-23 03:06:17 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/police-teen-arrested-in-shooting-that-killed-17855142.php |
Bradley Beal and the Washington Wizards have agreed on a five-year contract that could pay him as much as $251 million — one of the largest contracts in NBA history.
Beal’s announcement was made by his agent, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports. The decision came almost immediately after this season’s NBA free agent negotiating window opened Thursday, and is a max-value deal.
There have been other contracts with a bit higher value: Damian Lillard’s most recent extension in Portland three years ago pushed his existing contract value to $257 million, for example, and Denver’s Nikola Jokic is expected to soon sign a supermax extension of his own that will be worth around $260 million.
Beal’s isn’t an extension, but a separate contract since he became a free agent by opting out of a $36.4 million contract for this coming season on Wednesday. He did that with the supermax deal from the Wizards clearly in mind, and the sides wasted no time making that happen.
Either way, between the new deal and the $180 million or so that Beal has earned in his first 10 NBA seasons — all with the Wizards — he’s now cemented a spot as one of the highest-paid players in the history of the league. Beal will make about $43 million this season, get raises of between $3 million and $4 million annually and make around $57 million in the 2026-27 season.
The three-time All-Star averaged 23.2 points while being limited to 40 games last season because of injury. For his career, he’s averaged 22.1 points, including back-to-back seasons exceeding 30 points per game in 2019-20 and 2020-21.
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Restaurant Staff Join Foodservice Workers Nationwide in Organizing
LAWRENCE, Kan., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Foodservice workers employed by Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community have filed for an election to join Teamsters Local 696. The vote will be conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) within the next 30 days.
The 20 cooks, servers, housekeepers, and dishwashers work at the independent living facility's restaurant. They are the latest in a growing movement of foodservice workers who are organizing nationwide.
"These workers are critical to the residents of Pioneer Ridge, and they deserve respect from their employer. We are honored to be chosen by these workers, and we look forward to winning recognition and negotiating a first union contract," said Local 696 Secretary-Treasurer Matt Hall.
"We see what's going on nationally –— at Chipotle, Starbucks, Amazon, Trader Joe's — and we said, 'Why not us?' We work hard. We care deeply about the residents of this community. We deserve a union just as much as anyone else, and we plan on getting one," said Jonathan Oliva, a Pioneer Ridge employee and member of the Teamsters organizing committee.
Teamsters Local 696 represents workers in a wide variety of industries throughout Eastern Kansas, including UPS workers, public employees, school bus drivers, sanitation workers, and more. For more information, go to Teamsters696.com/.
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Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, saw its second-quarter revenue and profit decline as rising interest rates pushed people out of the housing market.
The San Francisco bank earned $3.1 billion in the period, or 74 cents per share, coming up short of the 80 cents per share forecast by analysts surveyed by data provider FactSet. Revenue was $17 billion, down 16% from last year and below the $17.5 billion Wall Street projected. The bank had revenue of $20.3 billion and earnings per share of $1.38 in the same period a year ago.
Investors appeared less concerned with the bank’s topline numbers and more impressed with an 8% increase in loan balances, however. Wells saw growth in consumer and corporate lending and new credit card products.
Wells Fargo shares climbed 7% in afternoon trading.
This week, Wells Fargo launched its fourth new credit card since the beginning of the year and it expects to offer several more rewards-based cards. The bank said its new credit card accounts are up more than 60% from a year ago and credit card spending increased 28%.
Wells’ revenue from its home lending division fell by 53% in the quarter, as the housing market cooled in the face of rapidly rising interest rates. Mortgage loan originations, including refinancing, fell sharply in the quarter.
The Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday that mortgage applications have declined 14% from last year and refinancings are down 80%. Sales of existing homes have fallen for four straight months, during what is generally the busiest time of year in real estate.
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose to 5.51% this week and are expected to move even higher as the Federal Reserve continues its aggressive measures to combat four-decade high inflation. Most economists expect the Fed to raise its benchmark lending rate by at least another half-point when it meets later this month. Last month it raised the rate by three-quarters of a point, it’s biggest single increase since 1994.
Wells did see an increase in interest income, which jumped 16% to $10.2 billion from $8.8 billion in last year’s second quarter. The bank said that its non-interest income declined by 40%, partly reflecting a decline in deals and fewer companies going public. The bank wrote down $576 million in losses related to its venture capital investments as the stock market continued its decline in the second quarter.
Like other big banks, Wells also added to its loan-loss provisions — setting aside $580 million to cover potentially bad loans during economic downturns. JPMorgan Chase, which reported tepid second-quarter results on Thursday, set aside $428 million to cover defaults.
JPMorgan also reported Thursday that its investment banking revenue fell about 60%.
Bank stocks have been hit hard this year as investors fret that the Fed’s actions to tame inflation could potentially push the U.S. economy into recession. A recession would mean some Americans would lose jobs, and likely start falling behind on their loans. These fears have more than offset the higher revenues that banks have earned from higher interest rates.
Despite Thursday’s gains, Wells shares are still down nearly 14% this year.
Wells is still trying to exit the strict federal guidelines that sets its asset cap just under $2 billion, hindering its ability to grow.
The Federal Reserve capped the size of Wells Fargo’s assets in 2018 after a series of scandals, most notably the uncovering of millions of fake checking accounts its employees opened to meet sales quotas. | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/wells-fargo-2q-profit-falls-even-as-interest-rates-climb/ | 2022-07-15 19:09:20 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/wells-fargo-2q-profit-falls-even-as-interest-rates-climb/ |
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From NPR News, this is All Things Considered. I'm Jacki Lyden. We'll journey now to the American Southwest, to the time just after the Civil War. Slavery had ended, but racial tensions were still high, particularly involving American Indians.
Dr. KARL JACOBY (Department of History, Brown University): There's a frequent comparison of the Apache to wolves, and this is a period when people want to wipe out wolves. And so, if you think about the Apache as wolves, then, unfortunately, you start to do these incredibly violent things towards them.
LYDEN: That's historian Karl Jacoby. He's out with a new book called "Shadows at Dawn." It tells the story of one of the darkest events in borderland history - the Camp Grant Massacre. On April 30th, 1871, more than 130 Apache were killed. They were living in a lonely canyon north of Tucson, Arizona. Many of the victims were women and children. And the perpetrators?
Dr. JACOBY: There had been a group of - made up of about 100 people from Tucson. And it's a very motley group, as it were. It's a mixture of probably about six Americans, maybe about 20 to 30 ethnic Mexicans, and the rest are (unintelligible), some Indians. And for two days, they've been traveling secretly at night from Tucson to reach Aravaipa Canyon.
They reach it right in the early dawn hours. They surrounded - the Apache camp is sort of in this canyon with very steep cliffs. The Americans and Mexicans go up to the cliff edges, where they have rifles, and the ton open charged the floor of the canyon and attacked the sleeping Apache campground.
LYDEN: And it's all coordinated. In fact, you have a number of incidents we couldn't even really begin to describe here on the radio. It's just as brutal as anything you could even imagine.
Dr. JACOBY: It is quite brutal. I mean, I guess the one thing I'd want to emphasize for readers is that I feel like historians' roles really are to be truth tellers as much as we can and to look at these things and to record them accurately and tell people about them.
I think the other thing that I did try to do in the book as a whole is try to look for these other moments of reconciliation and accommodation in the fact that after the massacre, that one of the leaders of the massacre, Juan Alias, actually becomes friends with one of the Apache survivors, Captain Chiquito.
Again, I thought it was kind of a striking counterpoint to this incredibly violent period, which I think we have yet to really acknowledge as a people how incredibly vehement the language was and behavior was during the 1860s and 1870s.
LYDEN: So what was the immediate reaction to the massacre? Were the leaders really secretive about what they had done, or did they boast about it?
Dr. JACOBY: This is, again, what's really striking. I guess we would imagine today that people would want to cover this up, but it seems to have been pretty much an open secret in Tucson as to who was involved, and one of the things that I have found that was particularly striking is that some of the Anglo-American participants actually create this historical society, and they really do it to preserve and enshrine the memory of this massacre. And that, to me, was quite striking.
LYDEN: There was a trial, and they did, after all, attack a group of Apaches on land that belonged to Camp Grant, named for President Ulysses Grant. So what was the federal reaction?
Dr. JACOBY: Well, this is the great irony here is that President Grant had this policy, the peace policy, in which part of that was a notion of creating reservations, as this was a very new move in Indian policy during this time period.
So it was seen as a tremendous assault on federal policy to have people attacking Indians that are supposed to be on reservation under federal protection, and so federal authorities prodded and prodded and finally were able to get officials in Arizona to have a trial in December of 1871 of a hundred of the alleged participants. Now, no Apaches were ever called as witnesses. And it took the jury, which was made up of citizens, both Mexican - ethnic Mexicans and Anglo-Americans from Tucson. It only took them 18 minutes to find all of the accused not guilty.
LYDEN: As a historian, what do you think we've learned from this incident that might be applied to contemporary ethnic violence?
Dr. JACOBY: Oh, that's an excellent question. That's really the - perhaps the central question. The way I wrote the book was to have four competing perspectives, and what I wanted to do is to get people to see the participants from the insider perspective and the outsider perspective to see how people could seem very strange to one another, which explains the violence, but also, on some level, really to sympathize with all of the participants, even the people who are committing some of these really awful and horrific acts.
And I think the lesson is maybe a very simple one in the end, which is to say that I think we all have this tremendous capacity to commit acts of violence for what we think are very good reasons. And I just want the book to be a sort of a check on that to help people pause and try to consider things from different perspectives before we go down that route to violence.
LYDEN: Karl Jacoby, his new book is called "Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History." He spoke to us from the studios of WRNI in Providence, Rhode Island. Thank you very much, Karl.
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The future of veterinary medicine will see deeper integration of digital and in-person care, improving experiences for professionals, pets, and their owners
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tablets used in hospital rooms for prescription writing and client checkout. Chatbots to find available appointments. Credentialed virtual assistants who reduce notetaking during exams and improve the quality of record-keeping. Continuity of that begins at home or on the road, online and on our phones, carried through an in-person hospital visit. Our pets are starting to experience how technology-enabled care can improve their health and well-being. Today, VCA Animal Hospitals unveiled key trends that will change how care is delivered, expanding access to care for pets and their owners and improving the experience of professionals in the field.
"We're on the cusp of unlocking an experience that empowers care teams to see pets that need them while reducing work that distracts from the joy of caring for these pets," said Garrett Lewis, Chief Operating Officer of VCA Animal Hospitals. "We're striving for a focus on operational excellence backed by deeper integration between our in-person care teams and digital tools. Pilots are getting us started but it's the purposeful, consistent applications of technology that will improve care of pets and the lives of our Associates."
The future of veterinary medicine will bring about a seamless pairing of digital, virtual and in-person care. Innovation trends driving this future include:
- Access to triage support—anywhere, anytime. We live in an always-on world where most things are available on demand. Veterinary medicine is embracing this trend, spurred by the COVID pandemic when hospital teams quickly pivoted – some for the first time – to providing care over video calls and text messages. Expect to see more triage services offered virtually, complimenting in-person care. For example, VCA offers its clients access to free Live Chat with a credentialed veterinary technician—day or night via the myVCA App. Pet owners can quickly get expert guidance if, for example, their dog ate something they shouldn't have and whether that requires an in-person visit.
- The doctor will see you now, on video. Unlike the video calls some owners may have experienced, telemedicine involves a doctor you may not see at your home hospital. Improvements in technology and a growing interest from practitioners and consumers alike will drive an expansion of telemedicine options. VCA, for example, plans to introduce a telemedicine option in several states later this year.
- Book appointments on your schedule. Traditionally, booking an appointment with your veterinarian has meant a phone call. Today, animal hospitals are embracing digital options quickly that allow clients to book online. VCA was one of the first in the industry to offer digital appointment booking in 2016, and digital booking has helped its teams spend less time on the phone and more time with pets and clients in the hospital.
- Doctors get virtual, credentialed scribes. Veterinarians typically spend at least two hours daily typing medical notes from patient visits – so much time that doctors often take work home to complete notes after hours. Soon, this toll on doctors could be eliminated as credentialed technicians assist virtually, transcribing recorded dictations from doctors. In turn, doctors will have more time to spend with patients and clients in the hospital, ultimately expanding access. In 2022, VCA launched an internal Scribe program that currently supports over 200 doctors, with plans to support over 1,000 doctors by the end of the year.
- Technology native hospitals. The in-hospital experience will look different soon, too. More hospitals will adopt virtual waiting rooms, similar to waiting for a table at the popular restaurant from home. Virtual care options like remote client service representatives will allow some hospitals to rethink the front desk, eliminating ringing phones from the lobby space and allowing teams to focus on the pets and clients in front of them. VCA has brought these trends together in the new VCA Animal Hospitals Urgent Care facilities, 17 of which will open this year alone.
"The push to integrate digital technologies has been in the works for years, but the COVID pandemic accelerated everyone's plans – adoption that might have taken years happened in months because we all had to move quickly," said Abe Al-Murjan, Vice President, Digital Products at VCA. "Successful technology integration requires a relentless focus on our purpose and the people and pets we serve. Whenever a new platform or app comes on the scene, we always start by asking: How does this help improve the lives of our teams, and the pets and clients they care for?"
Learn more about these trends and how they contribute to the world-class medicine provided by VCA's network of hometown hospitals by visiting www.vcahospitals.com.
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March 28, 1949-July 16, 2022
EVANSDALE-Lawrence R. “Butch” Westphal, 73, of Evansdale, died Saturday, July 16, 2022, at MercyOne Waterloo.
He was born March 28, 1949, in Crookston, Minnesota, the son of R. William “Bill” and Dorothy (Stroot) Westphal.
Butch graduated from Dunkerton High School with the class of 1967.
He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War from March 3, 1969 until his honorable discharge on April 2, 1973. Butch was presented a Purple Heart Medal from injuries sustained during his service.
Butch worked as a glazier for Esser Paint & Glass for many years. He then worked for the United States Postal Service until retiring on March 31, 2009.
He was a member of the Evansdale Amvet Post 31. Butch was an avid Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, and Iowa Hawkeyes fan. In his spare time he enjoyed golfing, bowling, and playing softball. He liked to hang out and socialize with his friends. Butch had a stubborn streak but made sure things were done the right way. He loved his family and cherished his grandchildren.
Survived by two daughters, Jessica (Matt) Bullerman of Evansdale and Jennifer (Brett) Krantz of Riverside; four grandchildren, Addison & Morgan Bullerman and Kaia and Kaleb Krantz; and sister, Paulette Payne of Waterloo.
Preceded in death by his parents and brother and sister-in-law, Wayne and Kim Westphal.
Celebration of Life Gathering: 1:00—4:00 pm on Sunday, July 24, 2022 at Locke at Tower Park, with Military Honors performed at 1:00 pm by Evansdale AMVETS Post #31 and Iowa Army Funeral Honor Guard.
Memorials may be directed to the family as a memorial fund will be established later.
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Five teenagers were shot Saturday night in Louisville, Kentucky, police said.
The shooting happened on the Big Four Bridge, a former railroad span that is now used by pedestrians and cyclists near Waterfront Park, the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department said.
"We know the park was filled with a lot of people. We're asking for anybody that witnessed or observed anything to please give us a call," Major Brian Kuriger said.
Just after 9:00 p.m. officers responded to reports of people shot and discovered three teenagers who had been wounded, police said. The teens were transferred to a hospital and at least one of them was listed in critical condition suffering from life-threatening injuries.
Two other teens later arrived at the hospital on their own with gunshot wounds.
"The victims include both males and females however ages are not readily available. Due to the severity of the injuries, LMPD's Homicide Unit is handling the investigation," police said.
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Mass graves are still being dug in Syria, anonymous whistleblower tells US senators
By Ellie Kaufman, CNN
Mass graves are still being dug in Syria today, filled with victims of the ongoing conflict and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s regime, an anonymous whistleblower known as “the gravedigger” told US senators during a congressional hearing about the conflict on Wednesday.
Dressed fully in black from head to toe with his face and head completely covered by black cloth, the gravedigger spoke of the horrors he witnessed working as one of the civilian workers at a mass grave site in Syria from 2011 to 2018. While the gravedigger left Syria in 2018, he said he has spoken with others who fled the country more recently, and said they told him the mass graves are still being dug. The gravedigger gave a prepared statement through a translator.
Syria’s civil war began in 2011 as a peaceful uprising against al-Assad. In the war that has now continued for more than a decade, an estimated 400,000 Syrians have been killed, according to the United Nations, and millions more have been displaced by the conflict both in and outside of Syria.
Before the war, the gravedigger worked as an “administrative employee at the Damascus municipality,” but, in 2011, the “regime intelligence officials” visited his office and ordered him to work for them.
“When the regime asks for something, you don’t say no. I was not prepared for the horrors of my duties,” the gravedigger said through a translator.
“Every week, twice a week, three trailer trucks arrived packed with 300 to 600 bodies of victims of torture, bombardment and slaughter. Twice a week, three to four pickup trucks with 30 to 40 bodies of civilians that had been executed in Sednaya prison also arrived for disposal in the most inhumane way,” the gravedigger said.
The gravedigger was able to escape Syria in 2018 and “follow his family to Europe.” He testified before a German court in Koblenz about the horrors he witnessed. Because of other people he worked with who have recently escaped, he knows there are still mass graves being dug today, he said.
“My heart is heavy with the knowledge that many at this very moment are experiencing inhumane torture at the hands of the Assad regime,” the gravedigger said via the translator. “In some, I know exactly where they are piled up into mass graves that are still being dug today. I know this because others who have worked with me on the mass graves have recently escaped and confirmed what we have been hearing.”
The gravedigger said the longer the war goes on and Assad is in power, the more it also enables Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Enabling Assad enables Putin, in stopping Assad hurts the Russian dictator. We must finally learn from the past and not let this never again moment happen yet again,” he said.
The gravedigger recounted horrors of his time working at the mass grave sites. In one instance, a man who was dumped from a trailer truck with other dead bodies made a movement, signaling he was still alive.
“One of the civilian workers said, started crying, said that we had to do something,” the gravedigger said. “The intelligence officer supervising us ordered the bulldozer driver to run him over, the driver could not hesitate or else he would have been next. He ran over the man in the trenches, killing him. As for the young man in our workshop who dared to shed tears over the victim of Assad’s regime, we never saw him again.”
The gravedigger called on the senators to “take action.”
“Although hundreds of thousands have already been murdered and disappeared and millions displaced, the worst is still yet to come. It can be prevented. But I beg of you do not wait a second longer. I beg of you to take action,” the gravedigger said.
CNN has reached out to the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and had not received a response at the time of publication.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers no longer have to walk through metal detectors before gaining access to the House floor. And any time they do vote, they will have to do so in person — no more voting by proxy from home.
Those are just some of the changes being made by the now GOP-led House that had chafed at some of the restrictions Democrats put in place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A look at some of the key changes Republicans adopted Monday that will affect floor proceedings and dictate their priorities in the 118th Congress.
ENDING PROXY VOTING
As the pandemic surged in the U.S. and the death toll reached more than 80,000, the House approved new rules allowing lawmakers to vote by proxy. Under the process, they assigned their vote to another lawmaker who then announced on the House floor how the absent lawmaker was voting on a particular bill.
Republicans opposed the change from the start, though many used proxy voting after it went into effect. And hewing to their campaign promise, they made sure the House rules provide no option for remote voting.
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House majority leader, said ending proxy voting would increase collaboration and speed up the voting process.
"It's about making Congress work again where people have to show up and do their jobs in person like everybody else in the real world has to," Scalise said.
PRESSURE ON THE SPEAKER
House rules give lawmakers the ability to remove the speaker from the job through what's known as a motion to vacate. A majority vote of all House members would be needed for the speaker to be ousted.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., hoping to appease some on the hard right, agreed to give as few as five Republican members the ability to initiate a vote to remove him. But when that wasn't good enough for some of the more conservative members of the conference, he agreed to reduce that threshold to one — the threshold that historically has been the norm.
Proponents of the one-person threshold said it promotes accountability, noting its long history in the House. The last use of the motion was in 2015, when then-Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a Republican who later became Donald Trump's chief of staff, introduced a resolution to declare the speaker's office vacant. Two months later, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he would be stepping down.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., calls the move to go back to the lower threshold "allowing the far-right to hold the incoming speaker hostage." And some moderate Republicans agree with that assessment.
But Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who initially opposed McCarthy's speakership bid before ultimately supporting him, said the bare-minimum threshold had been in place since the 1800s and is an important tool that was in force until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the gavel.
"In the business arena, if a CEO is not doing the job, you get fired," Norman said. "Same thing in politics. We're not immune."
REVAMPING ETHICS OFFICE
Republicans are proposing major changes to the Office of Congressional Ethics, which initiates reviews of ethics complaints and when appropriate refers its findings to the House Committee on Ethics. Only the latter has the authority to recommend discipline.
But the office initiating the review plays a critical role in ensuring complaints from the public are followed up on. The board has six members and two alternates.
The Republican rules package would essentially gut the office, according to advocacy groups opposing the changes being made.
First, the new rules force three of the four Democrats who currently sit on the eight-member board to leave their positions immediately because they would be serving beyond an eight-year term limit that the rules package imposes. Second, it requires OCE staff to have been hired within 30 days of the rule's passage, making it difficult to assess and hire candidates for those jobs in such a brief window.
"Together, these changes weaken OCE to the point where the office would struggle to perform its core function, dismantling one of the only ways members of Congress are head accountable for ethics violations," said the Campaign Legal Center, which led a letter to lawmakers on behalf of about two dozen advocacy groups.
Members of both parties have chafed at the OCE's work over the years, complaining that complaints to the office are often politically motivated. The rule also directs the Ethics Committee to come up with a process to receive complaints directly from the public, rather than go through the OCE.
THE HOLMAN RULE
Another rule Republicans are resurrecting allows lawmakers to include language in appropriations bills that can rearrange an agency or slash specific positions or salaries.
Republicans say the rule is about enhancing accountability. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., said the rule was created in 1876 as a tool to cut spending by restructuring an agency. Rep. William Holman thought spending was out of control, Griffith said.
But the rule could also be used to target an individual over ideological differences, or say a special counsel, like the one overseeing the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. Of course, the Democratic-led Senate would have to go along for any such rescissions to take effect, which is highly unlikely.
The House Freedom Caucus even specifically named Dr. Anthony Fauci in calling for the rule's reinstatement. Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, and his efforts to mitigate the damage from COVID-19 clashed with the views of some conservatives closely aligned with former President Donald Trump.
FIRE UP THE INVESTIGATIONS
The rules package calls for the House to vote on a resolution establishing a committee to investigate a number of things involving "strategic competition" between the U.S. and China as lawmakers take a more hardline approach with the Asian nation.
It also calls for creation of a "select subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal government" to be within the Judiciary Committee, which is headed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a hardliner who is a close ally of Trump.
"We're going to get into what's going on at the FBI where we have had 14 whistleblowers come talk to us about the weaponization of government there and the political nature of the Justice Department," Jordan said on "Fox News Sunday."
Votes on creating those committees could come as soon as this week.
Democrats call the "weaponization" panel a ploy to push a far-right agenda.
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Leader in home services business coaching empowers contractor clients to boost efficiency and profitability with premium connection to top field service technology provider
SEATTLE, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Business Development Resources (BDR), the training and business coaching authority for home services industry professionals, announces the addition of measurable value to its service contractor network through a new partnership with XOi Technologies, a leading provider of technician-focused technology solutions.
The partnership allows BDR to deliver coaching clients unique premium access to XOi's innovative best-in-class tech-enablement solutions through its premier partner program, Secure Advantage Inc. (SAI).
"BDR clients are already seeing significant return on their investment and feeling peace of mind," said Tammy Vasquez, BDR's senior head coach and SAI manager. "Combining XOi's powerful functionality with the exclusive resources available through the SAI program is allowing our clients to immediately capture additional revenue and increase operational efficiency."
SAI leverages BDR's position as an industry leader to connect contractors and distributors with a network of trusted business products and services curated to help them increase revenue and profitability.
XOi's advanced data-powered solutions equip field service teams to drive productivity, elevate customer experience and help close the skilled labor gap. With XOi's standardized workflows, deep job documentation capabilities, and training and enablement solutions, teams can build institutional knowledge bases that support real-time decision-making and data-based continuity.
"Just like BDR, we're committed to helping service providers overcome the challenges they're continuing to face in 2022," said Aaron Salow, founder and CEO of XOi. "The SAI network demonstrates the real value BDR offers the industry, and this collaboration gives leaders in the field an opportunity to transform their operations and see meaningful results with XOi's field-focused solutions."
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BDR (Business Development Resources) is the premier provider of business training and coaching to HVAC contractors and distributors, established in 1998. BDR's Profit Coach program has a membership of 600 leading contractors. Ten thousand HVAC professionals across North America attend BDR training courses annually. Nearly 1,000 industry professionals attend Profit Launch, BDR's planning workshop. For more information, please visit www.bdrco.com.
XOi Technologies, the leading provider of technician-first smart technology for commercial and residential field service companies, delivers innovative artificial intelligence-based solutions that empower field service teams to drive productivity, elevate customer experience and help close the skilled labor gap. Developed to meet the unique challenges of an industry traditionally underserved by technology, XOi equips field service professionals with groundbreaking technician-enablement tools, including remote support, visual documentation, immediate on-the-job insights and training resources, asset and team management functions, and a comprehensive knowledge base leveraging data from current and historical projects. With a proven record of innovation and demonstrated commitment to the hard-working men and women in the field service industries, XOi has distinguished itself as a pioneer in technician-focused solutions that bring efficiency, transparency, and expertise to every jobsite. For more information about XOi, visit https://xoi.io.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired several cruise missiles toward its western sea Saturday, South Korea’s military said, marking the second launch event this week, apparently in protest of the docking of a nuclear-armed U.S. submarine in South Korea.
While adding to its barrage of missile launches in recent months, North Korea remained publicly silent for a fifth day on the fate of an American soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border this week.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launches were detected beginning around 4 a.m. but did not immediately report how many missiles were fired or how far they flew. It said the United States and South Korean militaries were closely analyzing the launches.
North Korea in recent years has been testing newly developed cruise missiles it describes as “strategic,” implying an intent to arm them with nuclear weapons. Experts say the main mission of those weapons would include striking naval assets and ports. Designed to fly like small airplanes and travel along landscape that would make them harder to detect by radar, cruise missiles are among a growing collection of North Korean weapons aimed at overwhelming missile defenses in the South.
On Wednesday, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from an area near its capital, Pyongyang. They flew about 550 kilometers (340 miles) before landing in waters east of the Korean Peninsula.
The flight distance of those missiles roughly matched the distance between Pyongyang and the South Korean port city of Busan, where the USS Kentucky on Tuesday made the first visit by a U.S. nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea since the 1980s.
Also Tuesday, American soldier Pvt. Travis King sprinted across the border into North Korea while on a tour of an inter-Korean truce village.
North Korea’s state media has yet to comment on King and the country has not responded to U.S. requests to clarify where he is being kept and what his condition is. U.S. officials have expressed concern about King’s well-being, considering North Korea’s previous rough treatment of some American detainees. It could be weeks, or even months, before North Korea releases meaningful information about King, analysts say, as the country could drag out his detention to maximize leverage and add urgency to U.S. efforts to secure his release.
Some experts say the North may try to use King for propaganda or as a bargaining chip to coax political and security concessions from Washington, possibly tying his release with the United States cutting back its military activities with South Korea.
“With so many moving pieces, it’s important not to attribute causation to mere correlation of events. But North Korea’s missile provocations do not foreshadow an easy negotiation to secure Travis King’s release,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at South Korea’s Ewha University. “Unauthorized border crossings endanger personnel, risk a political and even military incident, and can be exploited by North Korean hostage diplomacy.”
The United States and South Korea have been expanding their combined military exercises and have agreed to increase the regional deployment of U.S. strategic assets like bombers, aircraft carriers and submarines in a show of force against North Korea, which has test-fired around 100 missiles since the start of 2022.
The allies also kicked off new rounds of nuclear contingency planning meetings that are partially aimed at easing fears among the South Korean public about the North’s growing nuclear threat and suppressing voices within the country that it should pursue its own deterrent.
North Korea’s defense minister issued a veiled threat Thursday suggesting the docking of the Kentucky in South Korea could be grounds for a nuclear attack by the North. North Korea has used such rhetoric before, but the comments underscored how much relations are strained now.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry on Friday described the deployment of the Kentucky and the nuclear contingency planning meetings between Washington and Seoul as “defensive response measures” to counter the North Korean threat. The ministry said in a statement it “strongly warns” that any nuclear attack by the North on the allies would face an “immediate, overwhelming and decisive response … that would bring an end to the North Korean regime.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-north-korea-fires-cruise-missiles-stays-mum-on-us-soldier-who-crossed-into-country/ | 2023-07-22 15:35:05 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-north-korea-fires-cruise-missiles-stays-mum-on-us-soldier-who-crossed-into-country/ |
A house in Mahwah that sold for $1.9 million tops the list of the most expensive real estate sales in Bergen County between April 10 and April 17.
In total, 138 real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $622,098. The average price per square foot ended up at $347.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of April 10 even if the property may have been sold earlier.
10. $999,000, detached house at 39 Old Quarry Road
The 2,968 square-foot single-family house at 39 Old Quarry Road, Englewood, has now been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in March and the total purchase price was $999,000, $337 per square foot. The house was built in 1982. The deal was finalized on Mar. 22.
9. $1.1 million, single-family home at 2460 Hammett Avenue
The sale of the detached house at 2460 Hammett Avenue, Fort Lee, has been finalized. The price was $1,060,000, and the new owners took over the house in March. The house was built in 2004 and has a living area of 2,833 square feet. The price per square foot was $374. The deal was finalized on Mar. 10.
8. $1.1 million, single-family house at 206 Lozier Terrace
The 1,920 square-foot single-family residence at 206 Lozier Terrace in River Edge has now been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in March and the total purchase price was $1,111,000, $579 per square foot. The house was built in 2011. The deal was finalized on Mar. 22.
7. $1.2 million, single-family residence at 188 Cottage Road
The property at 188 Cottage Road in Wyckoff has new owners. The price was $1,200,000. The house was built in 1940 and has a living area of 3,493 square feet. The price per square foot is $344. The deal was finalized on Mar. 23.
6. $1.2 million, detached house at 64 Madison Avenue
The property at 64 Madison Avenue in Demarest has new owners. The price was $1,208,000. The house was built in 1955 and has a living area of 2,174 square feet. The price per square foot is $556. The deal was finalized on Mar. 23.
5. $1.3 million, single-family home at 839 Seneca Road
The sale of the single family residence at 839 Seneca Road in Franklin Lakes has been finalized. The price was $1,325,000, and the new owners took over the house in March. The house was built in 1960 and has a living area of 3,686 square feet. The price per square foot was $359. The deal was finalized on Mar. 10.
4. $1.6 million, single-family house at 43 Park Street
A sale has been finalized for the single-family home at 43 Park Street in Tenafly. The price was $1,600,000 and the new owners took over the house in March. The house was built in 2007 and the living area totals 3,738 square feet. The price per square foot ended up at $428. The deal was finalized on Mar. 10.
3. $1.7 million, single-family residence at 8 Broad Street
The 1,741 square-foot single-family home at 8 Broad Street in Demarest has now been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in March and the total purchase price was $1,650,000, $948 per square foot. The house was built in 1952. The deal was finalized on Mar. 13.
2. $1.8 million, detached house at 40 Glenwood Avenue
The sale of the single-family home at 40 Glenwood Avenue, Demarest, has been finalized. The price was $1,750,000, and the house changed hands in March. The house was built in 2011 and has a living area of 2,399 square feet. The price per square foot was $729. The deal was finalized on Mar. 22.
1. $1.9 million, single-family house at 26 Hampshire Road
The property at 26 Hampshire Road in Mahwah has new owners. The price was $1,875,000. The house was built in 1992 and has a living area of 4,454 square feet. The price per square foot is $421. The deal was finalized on Mar. 21.
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BOSTON (AP) — Scores of Boston University students turned their backs on the head of one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, and some shouted “pay your writers,” as he gave the school’s commencement address Sunday in a stadium where protesters supporting the Hollywood writers’ strike picketed outside.
About 100 protesters chanted “No wages, no pages,” waved signs and were accompanied by an inflatable rat outside Nickerson Field as David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, gave his address inside the stadium. Thousands of graduating students, family members and educators attending the graduation ceremony had to walk by the protesters to enter the stadium.
Above the stadium, a small plane flew a banner that read, “David Zaslav — pay your writers.”
Kim Caramele, a writer and producer from North Stonington, Connecticut, said she hoped the protesters’ presence at the graduation ceremony helped give students a different perspective on what they should value in life.
“The writers being here today can help show the students that wealth is different than good,” said Caramele, a winner of Emmy and Peabody awards for work on her sister’s show, “Inside Amy Schumer.”
Inside the stadium, scores of students wearing red graduation gowns stood up during Zaslav’s speech and turned their backs on him. Other students booed during his speech and shouted in support of the striking writers.
Zaslav, a graduate of the university’s law school in the mid-1980s, was a contentious pick, with many alumni taking to social media with their objections.
In a statement after the event, Zaslav said, “I am grateful to my alma mater, Boston University, for inviting me to be part of today’s commencement and for giving me an honorary degree, and, as I have often said, I am immensely supportive of writers and hope the strike is resolved soon and in a way that they feel recognizes their value.”
Saying the rise of streaming has hurt their earning power, about 11,500 members of the Writers Guild for America walked off the job at the beginning of May, after talks on a new contract broke down, and they haven’t returned to the negotiating table since. It’s the first writers’ strike — and the first Hollywood strike of any kind — in 15 years.
The union is seeking higher minimum pay, more writers per show and shorter exclusive contracts, among other demands — all conditions it says have been diminished in the content boom driven by streaming.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has said that it had offered “generous increases in compensation for writers as well as improvements in streaming residuals,” including the highest first-year wage increase in a WGA contract in more than 25 years, and the creation of a new category of rates that would mean a new, higher minimum for mid-level writers. | https://www.kark.com/news/national/ap-warner-ceo-booed-at-boston-university-as-supporters-of-writers-strike-picket-outside/ | 2023-05-22 21:46:51 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/national/ap-warner-ceo-booed-at-boston-university-as-supporters-of-writers-strike-picket-outside/ |
Judge again denies bond for man accused in deaths of 3 men in Summit County
SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The suspect accused of murdering three men and injuring a fourth man in Summit County appeared in Barberton Municipal Court Wednesday morning for a bond review hearing.
According to a Copley police detective who testified in court, Elias Gudino, 58, participated in the kidnapping of the four victims from another county the day before the murders.
The detective added Gudino admitted to being present during the murder of Domingo Castillo-Reyes, 35, of Youngstown. His body was found in Copley in the 2100 Block of Wright Road on March 10, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner.
The detective also said Gudino admitted to being present to the shooting of the man who survived the attack. That victim’s name and current location are not being released.
According to the detective, they recovered evidence linking Gudino to the crimes in both his vehicle and Copley home.
Akron police said Gudino is also a suspect in the murders of two men found dead in their city on March 10.
Inmer Reyes, 25, of Youngstown, and Victor Varela-Rodriguez, 31, of Youngstown, were found in Akron in the area of Cordova Avenue near Redbush Road, said the Summit County Medical Examiner.
Akron police said all three deceased victims were found gagged, bound and shot in the head.
Gudino is currently charged with one count of aggravated murder and one count of attempted murder for the Copley victims, but officials said additional charges are pending.
At Wednesday’s hearing, the judge again denied bond for Gudino.
Copyright 2023 WOIO. All rights reserved. | https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/03/15/judge-again-denies-bond-man-accused-deaths-3-men-summit-county/ | 2023-03-15 14:20:25 | 0 | https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/03/15/judge-again-denies-bond-man-accused-deaths-3-men-summit-county/ |
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called for order and calm, and efforts to address the roots of several days of unrest around France that was sparked by the police killing of a 17-year-old boy.
The police officer accused of the shooting death of teen Nahel Merzouk is in custody on a charge of voluntary homicide, and a judge in Versailles on Thursday rejected his request for release pending further investigation.
“We all lived through an important moment in the life of our nation,” Macron said in the southern city of Pau on the edge of the Pyrenees. He said that France now needs “order, calm, unity. And then to work on the deep causes of what happened.”
He didn’t address what those causes are. The French leader has blamed parents of young rioters and social networks including TikTok and Snapchat for fueling violence that spread to around 500 cities and towns.
Some activists, along with residents of the low-income neighborhoods where the violence began, say the killing was the latest evidence of systematic police brutality and unaddressed racial discrimination in France. Merzouk was of north African origin. | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-macron-says-france-needs-to-address-causes-of-unrest-prompted-by-police-killing-of-teen/ | 2023-07-07 11:36:03 | 0 | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-macron-says-france-needs-to-address-causes-of-unrest-prompted-by-police-killing-of-teen/ |
Toms River South won its final baseball game of the 2023 season on Wednesday, a four-run, sixth-inning rally giving the Hitting Indians a 5-4 win over Monroe in what was, truthfully, a meaningless game in Toms River.
However, that “meaningless” label changes to “historic” if it turns out to be the final game of head coach Ken Frank’s 46-year, 929-victory career. Frank, who was named one of the top 99 high school coaches of all time by NJ.com won his 900th game in 2021. | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/05/was-wednesdays-win-over-monroe-the-last-in-ken-franks-46-season-run-at-tr-south.html | 2023-05-26 15:59:21 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/05/was-wednesdays-win-over-monroe-the-last-in-ken-franks-46-season-run-at-tr-south.html |
When you pursue life with a whole bundle of energy each day, you’re bound to make mistakes. My pursuit of life is super-charged, which means sometimes I learn lessons the hard way. And that’s okay as long as I’m able to anchor that lesson in my mind so I can pull it out at any time in the future that’s appropriate. I’d like to share an important life lesson that I learned the hard way in hopes that you can learn it the easy way and put it to immediate use in your own life. In other words, I’m trying to help you.
Helping others has always been a major and important part of the way I choose to live this life I’ve been given. At the root level, the inspiration for helping others involves both selfless and selfish motivations. Selfless from the point of the benefits that others receive when we help them and selfish, in some sense, from the incredible benefits we receive when we help others. The benefits others receive from our helpful actions are self-evident and occur immediately and may have long-lasting impact. The benefits we enjoy from helping others includes an instant release of serotonin (a natural drug contained in all of us that brings joy, happiness and a feeling of well-being), but it’s more than that with data showing that our entire life will be more meaningful, healthy and happy.
The more I studied the win/win scenario that was created each time a person helped another person, or group of people, the more excited I was to share this information with others offering proof with an increase in the number of opportunities I personally pursued to help others. You’d have thought I had found the actual “fountain of youth!” Taking advantage of the privilege of speaking to a wide variety of groups on a regular basis, this “helping others” discovery quickly became a focus topic that I covered diligently in my attempt to inspire others to make “helping others” a priority in their life based on the huge Return On Investment (ROI) that resulted for both the selfless and selfish sides of the equation that always equaled a win/win. There’s no downside!
As time went by, this “helping others” mentality began to have a positive effect in all areas of my life. It helped strengthen my marriage, my parenting skills, my co-worker relationships, my friendships and my personal character. I decided that I wanted to take this to a whole new level and spent some time thinking about how being a “professional helper” would be defined. I came up with the following: A professional helper helps others, applying the skill sets and assets they have accumulated, without regard to any judgement, other than every person on this earth is a child of God and therefore equal. It was really that simple for me, or so I thought.
Several years ago, my wife and I were humming along in life helping others, teaching our children the power of helping others and leading by example in showing everyone else the true-life-value derived through helping others. Then I broke my neck. In the emergency room I was told that if they didn’t perform emergency surgery I would most likely end up a quadriplegic. They operated on a Sunday, inserted and attached a three-inch titanium plate to my vertebrae, successfully shifted my spinal cord back in place and told me to behave during recovery (I have a little bit of rebel in me). During recovery is where I really messed up with my “helping others” solutions for what ails a person in life. Hang with me here.
As soon as word got out that I had broken my neck, was in trouble, had major surgery and was attempting to recover, the “help” began to pour in for our family. Cards, emails, text messages, phone calls, meals, food, shopping for us, cutting our grass and dozens of other forms of support and love. At first, I was extremely grateful, but then it got to the point where it was almost overwhelming. Then I got the fool-hearted idea in my mind that I always wanted to live life as the helper, not the helpee! I began to decline help that was being offered. I asked my wife to begin declining meals that people kept bringing, even though they were extremely helpful to our family.
It was then a close friend came to visit. He endured about 10 minutes of my whining about all the help we were receiving and how we were people that didn’t need help anymore. We could be self-sufficient and self-dependent. I was going to recover, if the world could just be patient, and then I could get back to what floated my boat everyday: Helping others, not having others help me. After about 15 seconds of stone-faced silence, he loudly blasted me with two words: “You hypocrite!” He paused then continued, “You’ve been proclaiming for years the benefits that helping others provides, and here’s an opportunity where people have an opportunity to enjoy those incredible feelings you’re always talking about, and you’re going to sit here and deny them that? You? The person that told them to do it? You, sir, are the biggest hypocrite I know.” My initial reaction to his claim went from being stunned, to a feeble attempt at denial, to a feeling of "Dang…he’s right," to the final feeling of fear thinking what have I done, and how do I correct it.
Paul White is an entrepreneur, retired Midland businessman and a guest columnist for the Midland Daily News. He can be reached at coach@theanswerdiscovery.com. | https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/You-hypocrite-17415802.php | 2022-09-10 09:15:38 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/You-hypocrite-17415802.php |
Four-seed Hokies, Kitley have special connection
By HANK KURZ Jr.
AP Sports Writer
Virginia Tech coach Kenny Brooks remembers feeling special, and lucky.
He was in Atlanta watching an AAU basketball tournament, one of several dozen coaches hoping to lure a program-changing recruit to his school, when someone with no chance of being that player ambled past.
“Raven was at the game and she was going to the bathroom,” Brooks said Thursday of Elizabeth Kitley’s sister, “and I remember she ran past all the coaches and she took like two or three steps past me, and she put the brakes on and she backed up and she said, `Hi, Coach Brooks’. And she waved at me and she took off, and the other coaches were like, Who was that?
“And I’m like, yeah, we’re in good shape with Liz.”
Raven Kitley. Elizabeth’s older sister, is autistic and especially connected to her sister’s career, and the Hokies. It’s been huge for Virginia Tech.
Elizabeth Kitley, the two-time Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, led the No. 4 Hokies to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament this season. They’ll face No. 16 Chattanooga on Friday.
“She’ll definitely be here cheering us on, as she always is, and hopefully we can make her proud and happy,” Kitley said.
The Hokies will be facing a familiar face. Mocs coach Shawn Poppie spent six seasons as an assistant for Brooks, the last three as associate head coach.
“I tell you what, this past season, I have watched from afar as a fan.” Poppie said. “Obviously being here for six years and getting to know the kids and being so close to Coach Brooks and the staff, I have been a fan all year.”
The other game will feature eighth-seeded and two-time national champion Southern Cal and ninth-seeded South Dakota State. The USC team is in the tournament for the first time since 2014.
“They’re a team that likes to run in transition, get really quick buckets. They’re really, really good three-point shooters. Everyone on the floor can shoot, and I think that’s different from what we’ve faced,” Trojans guard Destiny Littleton said.
The Jackrabbits are thrilled for the opportunity.
“Any time we can meet up with another opponent, it’s fun,” Myah Selland said. “We have spent the last 21 games playing very familiar faces, so I think we are excited to play somebody new. Our coaches have done a great job of getting us prepared for that but yeah, really excited for this opportunity.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, May 7, 2022
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FIRE WEATHER WATCH
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
314 AM CDT Fri May 6 2022
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING
THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITY FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND ALL
BUT THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE...
* Affected Area...In Oklahoma...Cimarron and Texas. In Texas...
Dallam...Sherman...Hansford...Hartley...Moore...Hutchinson...
Oldham...Potter...Carson...Gray...Deaf Smith...Randall...
Armstrong...Donley...Collingsworth and Palo Duro Canyon.
* 20 Foot Winds...Southwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
* Relative Humidity...As low as 5 percent.
* Red Flag Threat Index...3 to 7.
* Timing...10 AM CDT until 9 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Fire Weather Watch means that the potential for critical fire
weather conditions exists. Listen for later forecasts and
possible red flag warnings.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.mrt.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AMARILLO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17153374.php | 2022-05-06 08:55:27 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AMARILLO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17153374.php |
Jackson Mahomes, the brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, grabbed a woman by the neck and kissed her against her will three times earlier this year, according to new information in an affidavit.
Mahomes was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of battery after the incident at Aspens Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas, on Feb. 25.
During a brief hearing on Tuesday, a Johnson County judge agreed to Mahomes' request to have his bond agreement modified so he could talk to three of four people listed as witnesses, who are his friends.
Mahomes declined to comment before and after Tuesday's hearing. He has been free after posting $100,000 bond.
The hearing came a day after a redacted affidavit provided more details of the alleged assault on the restaurant's owner, Aspen Vaugh.
Investigators said Mahomes shoved a waiter at the restaurant who tried to come into a room where he was with Vaughn. After the waiter left, Mahomes grabbed her by the throat and forcefully kissed her three different times without her consent, according to the court document.
She told police Mahomes was a friend of her stepdaughter and had caused trouble and been asked to leave the restaurant in the past.
According to the affidavit, two servers in the area did not hear her call for help but later confirmed that she told them about the assault and showed them a bruise on her neck.
Mahomes, who is a social media influencer on TikTok and Instagram, asked Vaughn not to tell anyone what happened and then said he could help her business because he has a “large social media following,” investigators said.
Vaughn's boyfriend came to the restaurant and, after finding out what happened, ordered Mahomes and his friends to leave.
At Tuesday's hearing, Johnson County District Judge Thomas M. Sutherland said Mahomes could not speak to one of the witnesses, who had direct knowledge of the incident. He warned the other three witnesses they could not talk to Mahomes about the case, Kansas City media reported.
Mahomes' preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 31. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/jackson-mahomes-grabbed-and-kissed-woman-against-18102850.php | 2023-05-16 20:38:23 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/jackson-mahomes-grabbed-and-kissed-woman-against-18102850.php |
NEW YORK — The Brad Pitt action film “Bullet Train” led all movies in ticket sales for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while a quiet spell in theaters and incredible staying power allowed “Top Gun: Maverick” to rocket back into third place in its 12th week of release.
After launching the previous weekend with about $30 million at the box office, “Bullet Train” pulled in $13.4 million in its second go-around. David Leitch's assassin-crowded film, made for $90 million, has grossed $54.4 million in two weeks for Sony Pictures. Globally, “Bullet Train” has grossed $114.5 million.
Three new films went into wide release but none cracked the top five films. The slowdown — an expected but still acute late-summer downturn in big releases — gave plenty of airspace for the year's biggest movie, “Maverick,” to make another fly-by in theaters.
Nearly three months after opening in May, Paramount Pictures put the “Top Gun” sequel back on a number of large-format screens and increased its theater count from 2,760 to 3,181. It came away with $7.2 million, bringing its cumulative total to $673.8 million. Paramount's biggest smash ever, “Maverick” sits at seventh all-time in domestic box office, not accounting for inflation, right above “Titanic" and just below “Avengers: Infinity War."
The uncommonly long run for “Top Gun: Maverick” is even rarer at a time when studios have shrunk theatrical windows, typically sending movies to streaming services after about 45 days in theaters.
“Top Gun: Maverick” was very narrowly edged for second place by Warner Bros.' “DC League of Super-Pets.” Warner Bros. estimated Sunday that its animated movie took in $7.17 million in its third week of release, just a nose above the $7.15 million for “Maverick." Final figures Monday should break the near-tie.
But while “Top Gun: Maverick” has been a boon to theaters recovering from the pandemic, the thinly scheduled dog days of August — and potentially a chunk of September — will pose a test to the industry. This weekend, the biggest new film in nationwide theaters was A24's “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” a Gen Z horror comedy that expanded to 1,269 locations after last week's opening in limited release. It came in eighth with $3.3 million.
Lionsgate's “The Fall,” about two friends stranded atop a 2,000-foot radio tower, debuted with $2.5 million. Diane Keaton’s body-swap comedy “Mack & Rita" opened with just $1 million in ticket sales for Gravitas Ventures.
In overall sales it was the lowest ticket-selling weekend of the summer. With few new wide releases on tap — including two Idris Elba titles: the safari thriller “Beast” (Aug. 19) and George Miller's “Three Thousand Years of Longing” (Aug. 26) — moviegoing is likely to slow further in the coming weeks.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Bullet Train," $13.4 million.
2. “DC League of Super-Pets,” $7.2 million
3. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $7.2 million.
4. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” $5.3 million.
5. “Nope,” $5.3 million.
6. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $4.9 million.
7. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” $4 million.
8. “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” $3.3 million.
9. “Elvis,” $2.6 million.
10. “Fall,” $2.5 million. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/top-films/507-eba17d4f-a4ed-40c9-b058-aba014883a7f | 2022-08-15 12:06:22 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/top-films/507-eba17d4f-a4ed-40c9-b058-aba014883a7f |
Payton Gendron, the 19-year-old White gunman who killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo using a modified Bushmaster XM-15 semiautomatic rifle, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole, providing some sense of justice for the community.
But the city - still reeling from the racist attack - wants more.
Buffalo is suing several gun manufacturers, including Beretta, Smith & Wesson, Glock, Remington and Bushmaster, arguing they have fueled gun violence in the city, endangered the safety and health of the public and "must be held accountable."
"What happened in this community certainly cries out for sensible gun reform," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told reporters following Gendron's sentencing.
Buffalo's lawsuit, filed in December, is one of the first cases of its kind under New York's 2021 public nuisance gun law, which allows the state and people affected by gun violence to sue gun manufacturers, sellers and distributors for endangering the public's health and safety - or creating a "public nuisance."
The new statute and similar laws recently enacted in other states mark the latest round in a long-running battle between gun control advocates and firearm manufacturers over a 2005 federal law that protects the industry from liability.
And this time the issue could land before the Supreme Court, according to legal experts, as several Democratic-led states take a more aggressive approach to restricting firearms even after the Court acted to expand gun rights last year by striking down a decades-old New York law that limited the ability to carry a handgun outside the home.
"For more than a decade, the Court turned away basically every Second Amendment petition that it received," said Joseph Blocher, a Second Amendment law professor at Duke University. But after last year's ruling, "it could be that we're going to be looking at multiple gun cases at the Supreme Court."
Gun control advocates have long sought ways to circumvent the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which passed with bipartisan support in 2005 at a time when several cities, including New Orleans, Chicago and Washington, were filing multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the gun industry for creating a "public nuisance," charging it was flooding their cities with guns.
The cities argued the gun industry shared responsibility for the violence and sought reimbursement for the millions of dollars spent on medical care, police work and other costs.
After aggressive lobbying from the National Rifle Association (NRA), which was worried the lawsuits would bankrupt the industry, Congress passed PLCAA. It shields manufacturers and sellers of firearms and ammunition from civil lawsuits "resulting from the misuse of their products by others."
But lawmakers carved out some exceptions that Democratic-led states are now trying to utilize in response to the steady stream of gun violence across the country.
Under new laws in New York, New Jersey and Delaware, gun manufacturers, sellers and distributors can be sued for creating a "public nuisance" through improper marketing or sales practices - a strategy the states argue complies with the PLCAA.
Gun control advocates hope the new laws will reduce the risk of guns falling into the hands of criminals and force gun manufacturers to more diligently monitor the sales of their firearms.
"They know that if the laws are upheld, they are going to face accountability in a way that they have not since the federal immunity law was passed in 2005," Eric Tirschwell, executive director of gun control nonprofit Everytown Law, said of gunmakers.
But these state laws are now the subject of a legal campaign by firearm manufacturers.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the gun industry's trade association, is leading the challenge, arguing the new laws are unconstitutional because they are too vague, regulate transactions that take place outside of the states and are preempted by the 2005 law.
The laws are a "transparent and obvious attempt to circumvent the will of Congress," said NSSF senior vice president Lawrence Keane.
A New Jersey federal judge sided with the group last month when he blocked the state's law from being enforced, noting that it "is in direct conflict" with federal law. New Jersey has appealed the ruling.
Meanwhile, the NSSF has appealed the dismissal of their New York lawsuit by a district court to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. A hearing for NSSF's district challenge in Delaware will be held Feb. 28. The group also plans to sue California later this year when its version of the law goes into effect.
Gun control advocates and legal experts who focus on the Second Amendment said the NSSF's multistate approach bears all the hallmarks of how a special interest group can maneuver to give itself the best chance to bring a case before the Supreme Court, particularly one that may be viewed favorably by the majority.
The NSSF said its goal is simply to challenge the new laws in every jurisdiction where they are being implemented.
"It's really that simple. There's no grand strategy," Keane said. "We are simply responding to the threat to our industry that is occasioned by these statutes being passed at the behest of these gun control groups."
The National Rifle Association, which filed a brief in support of the NSSF's New York challenge, said the same.
"The NRA challenges regulations that are unconstitutional and that strip law-abiding citizens of their ability to exercise their rights," NRA spokesman Lars Dalseide said in a statement. "We are willing to take these cases to the Supreme Court, and of course, accept any favorable decision by a lower court."
But gun control advocates are skeptical the industry is not angling for a date with the Supreme Court.
Esther Sanchez-Gomez, litigation director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, believes that the NSSF and other gun industry groups could be trying to manufacture circuit splits by filing several lawsuits across the country.
A circuit split is when two or more appeals courts give conflicting rulings about the same legal issue, and it's one of the traits justices often look for when deciding whether to accept a case.
"If you're filing lawsuits across the country, courts are going to come out differently in different places," she said. This "is a long-game strategy of forcing the Court to take up these issues."
Some experts said whether it's part of a legal strategy or simply how the legal battle is unfolding on its own, the states and lawsuits involved will put the issue on the Court's radar.
If "the New York courts say one thing and the California courts say another thing, then it's likely that the Supreme Court may want to weigh in to clarify what the scope of PLCAA is," said Timothy D. Lytton, a law professor at Georgia State University.
A lawsuit challenging public nuisance gun laws could reach the Supreme Court in two to four years, said Clark Neily, who served as the co-counsel on the winning side of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), a landmark Supreme Court case that overturned the city's ban on handguns and expanded the scope of the Second Amendment to include individual rights.
Some gun control advocates said they will be closely watching Tuesday when the Court hears arguments in a case - Gonzalez vs. Google - concerning liability protections for technology companies for any clues on how the justices view the broader issue of liability laws for specific industries.
At issue is whether tech companies should be held legally liable for harmful content their algorithms promote. This suit takes aim at Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which protects tech companies from lawsuits over the posts, photos and videos users share on their platforms.
The NSSF has lined up two legal heavyweights with decades of appellate experience in gun rights cases to handle its multistate public nuisance litigation.
The trade association announced in July that it hired Paul Clement and Erin Murphy to manage its appeal to the Second Circuit. The pair left Kirkland & Ellis in June over the firm's decision to stop taking Second Amendment cases after Clement helped secure the victory in last year's landmark gun rights case - New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Bruen - and started their own boutique practice.
Clement is one of the field's leading Supreme Court litigators, having served as solicitor general during the George W. Bush administration and arguing dozens of cases in private practice. He also has personal and professional ties to some of the justices - he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of Brett M. Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation in 2018. Neil M. Gorsuch called Clement a "dear friend" during his confirmation hearing in 2017.
Former president Donald Trump also named Clement in a list of 20 potential Supreme Court nominees during his 2020 presidential campaign.
The NSSF "could hardly do better than having Paul Clement and Erin Murphy as their legal team," said Blocher. "They have been involved in some of the most prominent gun litigation over the past few years at the Supreme Court and also at the courts of appeal. So, I have to assume that they're litigating with an eye toward potential Supreme Court review."
Clement and Murphy did not respond to requests for comment.
As the NRA's stature continues to decline following years of internal division and legal strife, the ascendant NSSF has taken on a more prominent role in lobbying and public policy debates.
But the NRA isn't sitting the issue out. Former solicitor general Noel Francisco has filed a brief on behalf of the NRA supporting the NSSF's New York appeal. The Trump-era official is another high-powered lawyer who has argued several times before the Supreme Court and now serves as the head of Jones Day's Washington office.
For now, Buffalo is pressing forward with its suit as its leaders argue that gun restrictions are needed to prevent more shootings and that Gendron's sentencing cannot be the only repercussion for the slaying that devastated the city.
"I would say that justice was done with a small 'j' today. But we still have a big 'J' of justice to do," Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn said following the sentencing. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/are-gunmakers-liable-for-shootings-the-supreme-court-could-decide/article_46e72250-26f3-58d4-b45a-b3ac2992bc2d.html | 2023-02-21 16:11:05 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/are-gunmakers-liable-for-shootings-the-supreme-court-could-decide/article_46e72250-26f3-58d4-b45a-b3ac2992bc2d.html |
Biden’s labor secretary nominee faces doubts in Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next labor secretary, Julie Su, will testify to the Senate Thursday with key Democrats unwilling to voice support for her confirmation, creating uncertainty about her prospects in the narrowly divided chamber.
A handful of moderate Democrats have not publicly stated whether they will vote for Su’s nomination ahead of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Biden in February picked Su, a civil rights attorney and the current deputy labor secretary, to replace Marty Walsh, the former mayor of Boston, to lead the Department of Labor.
The daughter of an immigrant mother who arrived on a cargo ship, Su would be the first Asian American in the Biden administration to serve in the Cabinet at the secretary level. Biden called her path proof of the “American dream” and that “she’s committed to making sure that dream is in reach for every American.”
Su was previously confirmed as the deputy labor secretary, but has faced opposition from business groups critical of her record leading California’s labor department. They point to her support of an overturned California law that would have required app-based ride hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft, as well as trucking businesses, to treat their workers as employees, providing benefits like paid sick leave and unemployment insurance, rather than independent contractors.
Su has also faced blame for problems at the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency during the pandemic when unprecedented numbers of people applying for unemployment benefits faced long work times and the state potentially paid out billions of dollars in fraudulent claims.
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, Jon Tester and Mark Kelly and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent, all declined to say whether they would vote for her confirmation this week. Democrats cannot afford to lose more than a couple votes in a Senate divided 51-49. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is also recovering from shingles in California, with no firm return date.
Manchin repeatedly declined to comment on Su’s nomination this week; Tester said he would meet with her after the meeting to “make sure she’s still right”; Kelly said he did not have concerns about her record but added he does not preview his votes; Sinema said through a spokeswoman that she does not preview votes.
Su was confirmed by the Senate to her current role in 2021 by a 50–47 vote.
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she voted against Su’s confirmation in 2021 because of “how she had handled the unemployment compensation issues in the state of California.”
Top Democrats, meanwhile, have signaled their support for Su with meetings at the Capitol this week.
At a meeting with Su on Monday, Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, pointed to her work on job growth and said, “She’s done a good job and I think she’s got a two-year track record that is strong.”
Late last year, Su was central to negotiations between labor and freight rail companies and helped avoid an economically debilitating strike. She has also led efforts to crack down on wage theft.
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Employee satisfaction and engagement surveys show the college's commitment to a positive work culture
INDIANAPOLIS , Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently named second-best online college in America for its student experience, American College of Education® (ACE) has also been recognized for its employee engagement. The college was named a Top Workplaces USA winner for the second consecutive year. Employees described the culture as inclusive, supportive, rewarding, and more.
"Being a Top Workplaces winner again is so exciting," ACE Chief Human Resources Officer KK Byland said. "We take intentional steps to make our employee experience just as meaningful as our student experience, and it's wonderful to know that our faculty and staff are reaping the benefits of that effort. Our organizational culture is one of collaboration, camaraderie and commitment to serving one another, our communities and our students."
More than three million employees in over 8,000 organizations partnered with Energage to participate in employee engagement surveys. Engagement was measured by three parameters – motivation, commitment and recruitment. Data showed that ACE outperformed other college participants by 10% or more in culture drivers and positivity themes including performance, alignment, connection and coaching. Particularly, the survey's measurement of culture driver responses showed the college earned scores above the 90th percentile in all categories.
"Our top priority at ACE is to provide affordable, flexible and high-quality programs to students globally," ACE President and CEO Geordie Hyland said. "To achieve this goal, we must work from within and empower our employees with a healthy culture that invites them to do their best and contribute their skills to make an impact. Our employees are part of a family, and we are committed to ensuring ACE is a great place to work."
About American College of Education
American College of Education (ACE) is an accredited, 100% online college specializing in high-quality, affordable programs in education, business, leadership, healthcare and nursing. ACE is ranked #2 on Newsweek's 2023 top online colleges list. Headquartered in Indianapolis, ACE offers more than 80 innovative and engaging programs for adult students to pursue a doctorate, specialist, master's or bachelor's degree, along with micro-credentials and graduate-level certificate programs. In addition to being a leader in online education, ACE is a Certified B Corporation. Certified B Corporations are leaders of a global
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For the past two years, President Biden has frequently quipped that “infrastructure week” was nothing more than a punchline during the Trump administration. On Friday, it will be a cause for celebration for his administration.
Industry advocates and trade groups mark infrastructure week in Washington, D.C., every May, and the Biden administration is taking advantage to tout the progress it has made in the 18 months since the president signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
“It became a punchline about infrastructure week. Essentially, we not only have an infrastructure week, we have it every week, and it actually is going to go on for a decade. And we have the receipts to talk about it,” Mitch Landrieu, who is overseeing the implementation of the law, told a small group of reporters.
The bipartisan law, which has been among the most significant pieces of legislation signed during Biden’s first term, allocated $1.2 trillion in funding for investments in the nation’s roads, bridges, railways and airports.
In the year and a half since the law was enacted, the Biden administration has announced more than $220 billion in funding through the legislation, covering more than 32,000 different projects that span all 50 states.
The investments include more than 4,600 bridge improvement projects that are underway and 69,000 miles of road repairs that were started in fiscal year 2022.
In addition to improving bridges, railways, roads and airports, money from the bipartisan law has been used to help replace lead pipes, clean up polluted sites and invest in electrical vehicle charging stations.
The White House on Friday released a map highlighting thousands of projects that are being supported by the infrastructure law.
Administration officials have made more than 300 trips nationwide to promote investments made possible by the bipartisan law. Biden this year traveled to Kentucky to highlight improvements to the Brent Spence Bridge, which connects the state with Ohio, and he was joined by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Coinciding with infrastructure week, the Federal Railroad Administration will break ground on the Walk Bridge Replacement, one of the oldest in the Northeast Corridor that is used by Metro North and Amtrak. Landrieu will be in Illinois to highlight investments to improve locks and dams, and first lady Jill Biden will visit Alaska to spotlight the state’s tribal broadband project.
The infrastructure law has been a cornerstone of Biden’s economic agenda, which is focused on investing in the country and in the middle class in particular. But polls have shown voters largely disapprove of his handling of the economy as he seeks a second term.
Landrieu noted that groups like the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the American Society of Engineers and Infrastructure Report Card are the ones that organize the official infrastructure week.
But he argued Biden has earned the right to frequently remind voters that his administration is the one that was able to pass critical investments in the nation’s roads, bridges and railways after so many of his predecessors promised they would, only to come up short.
“He’s entitled to remind people that his predecessor, and the guy before that, and the guy before that, and the guy before that, you know, basically said they were going to do it,” Landrieu said. “We actually got it done. So I think that he deserves a lot of latitude of reminding people how far we’ve come.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/white-house-to-mark-infrastructure-week-18-months-after-signing-of-bipartisan-law/ | 2023-05-12 09:34:33 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/hill-politics/white-house-to-mark-infrastructure-week-18-months-after-signing-of-bipartisan-law/ |
BELFAST, Maine — A woman riding a bicycle was hit by a truck and left injured in a ditch in Belfast on Friday, police said.
Law enforcement officials arrived at the scene after a person who lived on Belmont Avenue reportedly heard the crash at about 8:50 p.m. and went to see what happened. The person then found 30-year-old Tristen Fontenelle of Searsport with a visible head injury in the ditch and called for help, Belfast Police Department Chief Robert Cormier said in an email Saturday.
Cormier said their initial investigation suggested that Fontenelle was riding her bicycle west on Belmont Avenue, or Route 3, on the eastbound shoulder when she was hit by a truck driving eastbound. The driver reportedly left the scene, with Fontanelle in a ditch, Cormier added.
Police are searching for the suspect. In an updated email Sunday morning, Cormier said they believe the person who hit Fontenelle may have been driving a 2014 to 2018 Chevrolet Silverado Pickup truck with a missing or damaged passenger-side mirror.
Fontenelle was taken to Waldo General Hospital and treated for her injuries. On Sunday morning, Cormier said Fontenelle is home and recovering from her injures.
Police ask that anyone who may have been in the area or anyone with information to call the police at 207-338-2040. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/crime/woman-injured-after-alleged-hit-and-run-in-belfast-as-police-search-for-suspect/97-5b86a1f8-aaf9-400c-ba79-d44b0da76db6 | 2022-08-14 19:38:28 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/crime/woman-injured-after-alleged-hit-and-run-in-belfast-as-police-search-for-suspect/97-5b86a1f8-aaf9-400c-ba79-d44b0da76db6 |
Citing a “staff culture of targeting inmates with disabilities” within California prisons, a federal appellate court on Thursday upheld the legality of a set of measures aimed at improving the behavior of correctional officers.
The reforms, first ordered by a federal District Court judge in 2020 in response to prisoner complaints in a long-standing lawsuit against the state, include a requirement that officers in six state prisons wear video cameras and that the number of stationary cameras in prisons be increased. They also require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to add more supervisors to prison staffs, and improve processes for investigating, tracking and disciplining officers who abuse prisoners.
On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld the lower court’s orders, finding the mandated changes were necessary in light of persistent abuse of disabled prisoners and the state’s “prior failures to improve their accountability systems in the absence of specific, court-ordered instructions.”
The ruling is the latest twist in a class-action lawsuit filed in 1994 by prisoners with physical and mental disabilities who alleged the abuse they suffered because of their disabilities violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
The panel’s findings also were another acknowledgment that the prisoners’ long-standing claims remain unresolved, in part because the state agency has not done enough to stop the abuse.
“In both of its orders, the district court found not only ongoing violations of class members’ rights at the prisons, but also a common source of those violations: the lack of sufficient accountability measures to address officers’ misconduct, which fostered a staff culture of targeting inmates with disabilities,” Circuit Judge Michelle Friedland wrote for the appellate court. “The record amply supports both conclusions.”
Friedland, an Obama appointee, was joined in her decision by senior Circuit Judge Susan Graber, who was appointed by former President Clinton, and Circuit Judge Eric Miller, a Trump appointee.
Vicky Waters, a CDCR spokeswoman, said the department was still reviewing the court’s decision but claimed many of the mandated reforms were already in place.
The department has expanded the use of surveillance and body-worn cameras “across prisons in the state” and has increased staff training, she said. In January 2022, it also issued new regulations for investigating staff misconduct allegations, she added.
“We are committed to ensuring accountability and results-driven changes to address the issues raised by the District Court,” Waters said.
Advocates for prisoners said the changes were badly needed to ensure that complaints from incarcerated people with disabilities — which have been discounted for decades — are addressed.
Gay Grunfeld, one of the prisoners’ attorneys, agreed that many of the reforms upheld by the appellate court are already in place thanks to the lower court’s order, but said the higher court’s ruling will help to ensure the improvements won’t be undone. She said the camera requirements are particularly important, because “without cameras, a code of silence reigns and the statements of incarcerated people are not believed.”
Grunfeld said her team had filed in court about 175 declarations from prisoners describing the treatment they received at the hands of prison staff. The prisoners have an array of disabilities including speech, hearing and mobility issues, kidney problems, learning disabilities and mental illness.
One prisoner who struggles with mobility asked for help carrying a heavy package, and an officer refused. When the prisoner threatened to file a complaint, the officer pepper-sprayed him, hit him with the spray canister and then kicked him, Grunfeld said.
When another prisoner who uses a cane asked to be handcuffed in front of his body instead of behind him, an officer slammed him to the floor instead, Grunfeld said. Other prisoners with mental illness who asked for help after feeling suicidal were simply ignored, Grunfeld said.
“We have many, many of these very disturbing examples,” she said. “It runs the gamut.”
The ruling applies to six prisons in the state: the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego; the California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster; Kern Valley State Prison in Delano; the California State Prison in Corcoran; the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran; and the California Institution for Women in Chino.
The appellate panel upheld all the changes that U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ordered for the San Diego facility, including the use of body cameras, surveillance cameras, increased supervision, increased training and tracking measures, and restrictions on the use of pepper spray by officers.
For the other five facilities, the panel agreed with Wilken’s call for cameras and training and tracking of jail staff. It reversed her order mandating increased supervision and new rules for pepper spray at these prisons — finding the evidence was insufficient to support the need for those measures.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has already initiated changes to its pepper-spray policy and added sergeants to shifts to comply with the lower court’s order at all six facilities. Asked whether the appellate court’s decision not to uphold those mandates in five of the facilities would lead to more changes, Waters said “any next steps” would be determined by the state’s ongoing review of the appellate court’s decision.
Brandon Richards, a spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom, said the governor’s office was reviewing the decision and had no further comment Thursday.
Grunfeld said she hopes the state does not backtrack on any reforms, because all of them are “critical for oversight of the officers.”
She said the appellate court’s decision “could not have come down soon enough,” given the national focus on abuse by law enforcement — including in the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the more recent death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police.
“People inside prisons and jails are at even greater risk of the kind of brutality that we’ve seen nationally, and that people are starting to realize is so prevalent, particularly against Black and brown people,” Grunfeld said.
The appellate court’s ruling is not the end of the prisoners’ litigation.
The District Court has issued multiple remedial plans for the state to comply with in the case, and the prisoners’ attorneys and a court-appointed expert are monitoring the prisons for compliance with those plans — including by watching body-camera footage of alleged abuses by officers and determining whether the state is disciplining them properly, Grunfeld said. | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/02/03/9th-circuit-upholds-california-prison-reforms-citing-abuse-of-inmates-with-disabilities-3/ | 2023-02-03 17:24:02 | 0 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/02/03/9th-circuit-upholds-california-prison-reforms-citing-abuse-of-inmates-with-disabilities-3/ |
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — C.J. Wilcher made four 3-pointers and scored a career-high 21 points to lead Nebraska to a 75-61 victory over Omaha on Thursday night.
Wilcher, a 6-foot-5 guard from Plainfield, N.J., was 8 of 12 from the field. Sam Griesel added 18 points for Nebraska (2-0). Emmanuel Bandoumel made two 3s and also had 18 points. Blaise Keita grabbed 12 rebounds and chipped in nine points.
Nebraska jumped out to a 26-9 lead midway through the first half and led 41-31 at the break. About halfway through the second, Omaha's Luke Jungers made a layup and Jaeden Marshall converted a four-point play to get the Mavericks to 55-48. Wilcher answered with a 3-pointer and capped the ensuing 15-3 surge with a pullup jumper, and the Cornhuskers led 70-53 with 3:29 remaining.
Nebraska shot 50% in each half, with five of its seven 3-pointers coming in the first.
Marshall scored 16 points for Omaha (0-2). Marquel Sutton added 14 points. The Mavericks also had balanced shooting, finishing 12 of 29 (41%) from the floor in each half, but missed 12 of its 17 3-point shots. Marshall and Jungers were a combined 5-of-10 shooting from long range.
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The Florida Panthers face the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 (5/24/23) at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida.
The Panthers lead the series, 3-0, after winning Game 3 on Monday.
Fans can watch the game via a subscription to Sling, which is offering 50% off your first month.
Here is what you need to know:
What: Stanley Cup Playoffs, Eastern Conference Final, Game 4
Who: Hurricanes vs. Panthers
Where: FLA Live Arena
When: Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Time: 8 p.m. ET
TV: TNT
Live stream: Sling
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Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour spent some time Tuesday shaking his head. The occasional shoulder shrug was thrown in there, too. He knows all the questions, and there are few answers.
Here’s what befuddles him right now: There isn’t much to fix regarding the way the Hurricanes are playing against the Florida Panthers. The offense is generating chances. The defense is giving up almost nothing.
And they’re down 3-0 to the Panthers in the Eastern Conference finals anyway.
The Panthers can wrap up their first trip to the Stanley Cup final in 27 years on Wednesday night when they host the Hurricanes in Game 4.
Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky has been almost immaculate, stopping 132 of 135 shots in the series — hence, Brind’Amour spending his days wondering what the Hurricanes have to do to get one past that guy.
“That is the toughest way to lose a game, when you come back in and it’s a play here or there that you didn’t make. That’s the whole difference in this series right now,” Brind’Amour said Tuesday. “It’s definitely frustrating. The key is, you can’t let it change your mindset. We’re not going to win four games tomorrow. We’ve got to try to win one.”
There have been 244 games this season — counting the playoffs — with teams combining to score at least nine goals. It’s not uncommon to have that many; roughly one in every 5 1/2 games this season has seen at least nine goals.
This series? Not so much. The Panthers and Hurricanes have combined in three games to score nine goals — total: Florida 6, Carolina 3. And that really should be four games, considering all the overtimes that the teams grinded through before Matthew Tkachuk gave the Panthers a middle-of-the-night gamewinner in Game 1.
“We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us,” Carolina’s Jaccob Slavin said. “There’s no beating around the bush there. But we’ve got a lot of belief in our locker room, and we’ve just got to break through.”
Panthers coach Paul Maurice freely acknowledges that he’s no goaltending genius. He says hello to his goalies and that’s about it, other than trying to read some body language from time to time. But he had this highly technical assessment of Bobrovsky right now, after going 10-1 in his last 11 games. The run started with Florida rallying from down 3-1 in Round 1 against a Boston team that was coming off posting the NHL’s best regular season record ever.
“Really, really good,” Maurice said.
That about sums it up. If Bobrovsky is really, really good again, the Panthers are likely headed to the Stanley Cup final — another step in the turnaround of a franchise that has transformed itself in the last few years from perennial doormat to built-to-last contender.
The focus is on Game 4. But the Panthers might be as little as 60 minutes away from a celebration.
“It’s only natural, right?” Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad said when asked how the team will keep itself from looking ahead. “Obviously, thoughts cross your mind all the time but at the end of the day you come in and you just play the game … play the game, play your hardest, focus on the little details and it all takes care of itself.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s annual inflation passed 80% in August, according to official data on Monday, further hitting consumers facing high energy, food and housing costs.
The Turkish Statistical Institute said consumer prices rose by 80.21% from a year earlier, up 0.6 percentage points from the previous month.
Independent experts say inflation is much higher than official statistics. The Inflation Research Group put the annual rate at 181%.
The central bank unexpectedly cut interest rates to 13% in August despite rising prices, a plunging lira and an unbalanced current account. The central bank slashed interest rates by 5 percentage points between September and December last year. The rate then stayed at 14% until last month.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the lira’s decline have stoked inflation. The lira has plunged over 50% against the U.S. dollar since the central bank began cutting rates.
Economists say rising inflation in Turkey is fuelled by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox belief that high borrowing costs lead to higher prices — the opposite to established economic theory.
The government says it hopes to lower interest rates to boost production and exports in a bid to reach a current account surplus. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-turkeys-annual-inflation-passes-80-after-interest-rate-cut/ | 2022-09-05 20:32:39 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-turkeys-annual-inflation-passes-80-after-interest-rate-cut/ |
In 'Paradise City,' it's John Travolta vs. Bruce Willis. The action-thriller is directed by Chuck Russell, who also directed 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors' and 'The Scorpion King.'
Do you need more diehard devotion to iconic leading man (and the recently retired) Bruce Willis? How about a new action movie where bullets and playground insults are fired between him and John Travolta?
Well, welcome to the party, pal!
Co-written and directed by Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and The Scorpion King), Paradise City is a new cinematic adrenaline rush. It tells the story of a bounty hunter named Ian Shaw (Willis), who is shot and presumed dead following a seaside firefight. Following his disappearance into the blue waters of Maui, Ian’s son, Ryan (Blake Jenner), and former partner, Robbie Cole (Stephen Dorff), team up with local detective Savannah (Praya Lundberg) to track down the killers. But the trail is becoming more stained in red with a ruthless power broker (Travolta) on their heels and throats. But, hopefully, the grass is green on the other side of Paradise City.
To celebrate the film’s release on digital and on-demand, the Denton Record-Chronicle had the opportunity to (virtually) sit down with Russell. In the below video interview, we discuss the Pulp Fiction reunion with Willis and Travolta as well as Russell's thoughts on Jordan Peele's big Scorpion King reference in this year's Nope. Enjoy! | https://dentonrc.com/entertainment/action-thriller-paradise-city-features-a-pulp-fiction-reunion-director-talks-willis-travolta-showdown/article_d393a7bc-620b-11ed-9859-7b41aaa695a7.html | 2022-11-12 00:26:49 | 0 | https://dentonrc.com/entertainment/action-thriller-paradise-city-features-a-pulp-fiction-reunion-director-talks-willis-travolta-showdown/article_d393a7bc-620b-11ed-9859-7b41aaa695a7.html |
NEWARK VALLEY, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – The Newark Valley Girls Basketball team took down Union-Endicott in overtime 64-57.
This was a battle of top teams in New York state, Newark Valley ranked 4th in Class B and Union-Endicott ranked 13th in Class A.
Hailey Beebe hit a clutch 3-pointer with 4 seconds to go in regulation to force overtime.
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What are the best Nike slides?
Slides are a popular and comfortable option for anyone looking for an easy-to-access pair of sandals. Nike is one of the leading athletic apparel manufacturers in the world. There is a wide array of Nike slides available for men, women, children and even toddlers. They are comfortable and durable and feature modern designs and classic throwbacks to the popular Air Jordan shoes. For their premium comfort and classic design, the best Nike slides are the Nike Women’s Victori One Slides.
What to know before you buy Nike slides
What are the types of Nike slides?
There is a wide variety of Nike slides for every budget and taste.
- Benassi Just Do It are basic slides with a great reputation and affordable price point.
- Victori One have a classic style and come in print styles in addition to basic black.
- Jordan has its own category of slides under the Jordan Play, Jordan Break and Jordan Hydro names.
- Air Max Cirro and 90 hearken back to the original Air Max shoe design.
- Offset slides have partnered with the National Football League, Major League Baseball and the National Collegiate Athletic Association to offer licensed slides of your favorite sports teams.
What is Nike Next Nature?
Nike is working toward zero carbon emissions in its manufacturing processes. Slides that are labeled Next Nature are made with at least 20% recyclable materials and part of the environmentally-conscious efforts of the company. Both the EcoHaven and Victori One slides have Next Nature alternatives.
What is the difference between a slide and a flip-flop?
Slides and flip-flops are forms of sandals, but the primary difference involves the strap. Flip-flops have a Y-strap that intersects between the first and second toes. Slides have a wide strap that crosses over the foot close to the toes. The name emerged from the ease of sliding your foot into them.
Slides also are easy to wear with socks, which is popular among athletes who drop their cleats after practice and want something comfortable for their feet.
What to look for in quality Nike slides
Strap
Nike slides come with straps that are size-specific and designed to hold your foot in place. Some straps have a cloth or lining inside to feel extra comfortable on the top of your foot. Many Nike slides have the Nike logo painted or embroidered on the strap for branding purposes.
Gender
Nike slides are categorized into men’s, women’s and children’s sizes. Some slides have a sizing chart that incorporates both men’s and women’s sizes since most slides are truly unisex in their design and style.
Foam insole
Most Nike slides have a generous foam cushion in the insole to cradle the foot and hold it in place. Different foams are used for each style, but the goal of any slide is to be a comfortable and convenient alternative to wearing shoes.
How much you can expect to spend on Nike slides
Nike slides start at $20 to $40 for basic models like the Benassi Just Do It and Victori One. The Jordan and Offset slides run between $40 to $70. The Air Max slides are priced from $80 to $95.
Nike slides FAQ
How do you wash Nike slides?
A. If your slides do not have leather components, you should wet the slides with warm water, sprinkle baking soda on them and then use a toothbrush to gently scrub them. Rinse the slides with warm water and air dry. Some consumers have tried putting nonleather slides in a pillowcase and laundering them in a washing machine with detergent. Check the instructions that come with your specific slides to avoid any mishaps.
Are slides OK for small children?
A. Slides are most effective for children that have been walking for a while and don’t have the risk of falling. There is conflicting research regarding the support that slides provide young children. If you have concerns, talk to your health care provider about slides for your child.
What are the best Nike slides to buy?
Top Nike slides
Nike Women’s Victori One Slides
What you need to know: This versatile slide has a classic design with premium comfort that cradles your foot while you’re on the move or relaxing.
What you’ll love: The responsive foam provides comfort all day long. The strap has a rolled top edge for extra comfort and has been designed to accommodate a wide range of foot sizes. The outsole has a high-traction pattern.
What you should consider: There were a few reports of the print slides fitting differently than same-sized black slides.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top Nike slides for the money
What you need to know: These slides are not only affordable, but they are also comfortable for your day at the beach or relaxing at home.
What you’ll love: The foam midsole boosts your foot and doubles as an outsole for a lightweight feel. A one-piece synthetic leather strap is lined with towel-like fabric for extra comfort. The Nike logo is prominently featured on the strap.
What you should consider: Some users with wide feet reported that the slides were narrow and tight.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Price Simms Family Dealerships, one of the largest privately held Automotive Groups in Northern California, has completed the acquisition of Downtown Ford and Harrold Ford from the Victory Automotive Group, adding two stores to their now 28-store lineup.
Price Simms CEO, Adam Simms commented, "The two dealerships are among the largest Ford stores in Sacramento, and we're excited for this new opportunity. The talent at both stores has put us in a position to become stronger and I'm pleased to welcome our new teammates."
Mr. Simms continued, "To grow our business into nearby Sacramento is tremendously exciting for our organization and we look forward to making significant capital improvements and supporting our surrounding neighborhoods. My family used to live here and it's very exciting for me to return and once again contribute to this amazing community."
Price Simms owns and operates a vast portfolio of dealerships throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including several award-winning high-volume Toyota and Ford stores, the first two Polestar dealerships in the US, and various luxury stores including Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, McLaren, Mercedes, and more.
Chairman Tom Price purchased his first Bay Area dealership in 1976 and has been serving our local communities ever since. In 2003, he partnered with automotive tech pioneer, Adam Simms, to create Price Simms Family Dealerships. They now own and operate 28 franchised dealerships across 14 Northern California locations.
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Strong quake kills 1, knocks house, derails train in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan on Sunday, toppling a three-story building and temporarily trapping four people inside, stranding about 400 tourists on a mountainside, and knocking part of a passenger train off its tracks.
One person died and nine people had minor injuries, Taiwan’s Emergency Operations Center said.
The magnitude 6.8 quake was the largest among dozens that have rattled the island’s southeastern coast since Saturday evening, when a 6.4 quake struck the same area.
Most of the damage appeared to be north of the epicenter, which Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said was in the town of Chishang at the relatively shallow depth of 7 kilometers (4 miles).
In nearby Yuli town, a cement factory worker died and the three-story building, which had a 7-11 convenience store on the ground floor and residences above it, collapsed, the island’s Central News Agency said.
The 70-year-old owner of the building and his wife were rescued first, but it took longer to get to a 39-year-old woman and her 5-year-old daughter.
A photo released by the Hualien city government showed the girl lying on a blanket and being handed down a metal ladder from the top of the debris by helmeted rescue workers in orange uniforms.
The top two stories of the building were left sprawled across a small street and onto the other side, with electricity wires pulled down by the fallen structure.
More than 7,000 households were reported without power in Yuli, and water pipes were also damaged. Shelves and musical instruments fell over at the Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church and a long crack ran down its floor. Outside, the pavement was broken into slabs of concrete.
Police and firefighters rushed to a bridge collapse on a two-lane road in what appeared to be a rural part of the same town where three people and one or more vehicles may have fallen off, according to media reports.
Also in Yuli, a landslide trapped nearly 400 tourists on a mountain famous for the orange day lilies that blanket its slopes this time of year, the Central News Agency said. They had no electricity and a weak cellphone signal.
Debris from a falling canopy on a platform at Dongli station in Fuli town, which is between Yuli and the epicenter at Chishang, hit a passing train, derailing six cars, the Central News Agency said, citing the railway administration. None of the 20 passengers were injured.
The shaking was felt at the north end of the island in the capital, Taipei. In Taoyuan city, west of Taipei and 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of the epicenter, a man was injured by a ceiling collapse on the 5th floor of a sports center.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory for several southern Japanese islands near Taiwan, but later lifted it.
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Moritsugu reported from Beijing. Associated Press writer Huizhong Wu in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this report.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP)Logan Dye had 19 points and Samford beat East Tennessee State 69-59 on Wednesday night.
Dye also contributed five rebounds for the Bulldogs (13-7, 7-0 Southern Conference). Jermaine Marshall scored 17 points and added 12 rebounds. Jaden Campbell shot 4 for 10, including 1 for 5 from beyond the arc to finish with 11 points. The Bulldogs prolonged their winning streak to seven games.
Jalen Haynes led the way for the Buccaneers (7-13, 3-4) with 18 points and eight rebounds. Justice Smith added 11 points for East Tennessee State. In addition, Jaden Seymour finished with six points.
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MASON CITY, Iowa – A repeat gas station robber is going to prison.
Houston Daniel Conway, 24 of Mason City, pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree robbery. Investigators say Conway robbed three gas stations in Mason City and another in Clear Lake between January 6 and January 25.
Court documents state Conway demanded an employee open the register and took cash in all three Mason City robberies. He is accused of having his hand in his pocket to make it appear he may have been concealing a weapon during one crime.
Conway was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in state prison and must serve at least 50% of that sentence before becoming eligible for parole. | https://www.kimt.com/news/cerro-gordo-county/cerro-gordo-county-gas-station-robber-is-sent-to-prison/article_05b20850-cb31-11ec-bf25-430852712164.html | 2022-05-04 02:31:40 | 0 | https://www.kimt.com/news/cerro-gordo-county/cerro-gordo-county-gas-station-robber-is-sent-to-prison/article_05b20850-cb31-11ec-bf25-430852712164.html |
Innovate Canada 2022 will share discoveries from the most exclusive research facilities in host city, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, alongside destinations from coast to coast to coast.
VANCOUVER, BC, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Destination Canada is pleased to announce the return of Innovate Canada, a Destination Canada signature business event that highlights the groundbreaking work taking place across Canada's leading innovation sectors to attract aligned international business events. Running from July 25-28 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Innovate Canada 2022 will give international delegates the opportunity to explore Canada's blue economy and global leadership in ocean sciences, including the people and facilities behind some of the most transformative sustainable technologies and solutions for ocean restoration and marine health.
"Bounded by three oceans and home to the largest coastline in the world, it should be no surprise that Canada has a rich history of innovation and global leadership in the ocean's sciences sector," says Virginie De Visscher, Senior Director of Business Development, Economic Sectors, Destination Canada Business Events. "After a two-year hiatus, we are thrilled to bring the Innovate Canada program to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The city has a global reputation as a centre of ocean excellence and is home to some of the most exclusive facilities, advanced post-secondary institutions and renowned ocean research and training centres. Combine this leadership with the warmth of Newfoundland and Labrador hospitality, and there's little wonder why global organizations in ocean sciences continually choose to host their events in St. John's."
In addition to educational site visits to disruptive startups and established businesses across St. John's ocean science related industries, the Innovate Canada program will take delegates on curated tours of:
- The National Research Council's Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering Research Centre for research being conducted in the Ice Tank, one of the globe's largest facilities of its kind; the Offshore Engineering Basin, one of the most advanced indoor model ocean facilities in the world; and the Tow Tank, which simulates marine conditions to evaluate the performance of marine systems.
- The Marine Institute of Memorial University to experience the most advanced marine simulation technology, pilot underwater vehicles in the Underwater Exploration Lab, and discover the newest technologies being applied to the global fisheries industries in support of sustainable aquatic resources.
"From ocean technology, aquaculture and fisheries, ocean defense, marine bio-products, marine renewable energy, shipbuilding, and marine transportation, St. John's is changing the way business in the ocean economy is conducted," says Cathy Hogan, Executive Director at OceansAdvance, Newfoundland and Labrador's ocean technology cluster organization. "We're thrilled to collaborate with Destination Canada through the Innovate Canada program, to put local leading innovators, cutting edge innovations and world class oceans research facilities on the global stage and show delegates why St. John's is an incredibly distinct and unique location to host ocean-related business events."
Aligned with Destination Canada's national meeting strategy, Innovate Canada aims to drive regional economic growth and compel global organizations to host their business events in Canada.
"When conference-goers meet in Canada's innovation hubs, they can tap into the country's brain trust, connect with some of the brightest minds and thought leaders, preview made-in-Canada solutions to the world's greatest challenges and explore the Canadian innovations that are creating a more sustainable world," adds Chantal Sturk-Nadeau, Executive Director, Business Events, Destination Canada. "When this intellectual capital is combined with our vibrant urban centres and unique natural landscapes, it provides a thriving ecosystem for business events that foster creativity, collaboration and ultimately, leave a lasting impact. We can't wait to provide a look at just that."
Innovate Canada rotates destinations and industry sectors each year and will return in May 2023 to share the brilliant minds and transformative work being done across Waterloo, Ontario's advanced manufacturing sector including automotive, aerospace, food processing, cutting-edge robotics and automation innovation. Aligned with Destination Canada's new Canadian Business Events Sustainability Strategy, Innovate Canada 2023 will, for the first time, be carbon neutral.
At Destination Canada, we believe that tourism enhances the quality of life of Canadians and enriches the lives of visitors. We believe that Canada's diversity, its greatest asset, is also what touches travellers' hearts most deeply. Our mission is to influence supply, and build demand for the benefit of locals, communities and visitors through leading research, alignment with public and private sectors, and marketing Canada nationally and abroad. Our destination development work ensures that we grow a premier four-season tourism economy that is community centric and regenerative in nature — catalysing thriving commerce, culture and reconciliation.
Destination Canada's Business Events team is charged with growing Canada's share of international business events by promoting the country's unique meeting, convention, and incentive event possibilities. By driving awareness of Canada's leading economic strengths and how local knowledge capital can elevate business events, Destination Canada's Business Events team helps international organizations meet with purpose in Canada. Destination Canada is a Crown corporation wholly owned by the Government of Canada.
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Roku is stepping up from streaming sticks and audio bars to making its own TVs. At CES 2023 the streaming device manufacturer introduced two new lines: the Roku Select and Roku Plus.
The new lines will consist of 11 models in total, ranging in size from 24 to 75 inches, and will include up to 4K resolutions. The HD-based Roku Select series will come equipped with Roku Voice Remotes, while the step-up Roku Plus units will ship with the $30 Voice Remote Pro.
Roku's first foray into TV manufacturing comes on the heels of successful partnerships with more established TV suppliers such as TCL, Hisense and Sharp.
"These Roku-branded TVs will not only complement the current lineup of partner-branded Roku TV models, but also allow us to enable future smart TV innovations," Mustafa Ozgen, the president of Devices at Roku, said in a press release.
Although it's talking about the future, there's no indication that Roku is looking to push the technological envelope with its own TVs just yet. The company will initially be competing with its own partners, in fact, for a segment of the budget market. Roku has released only limited information so little is known about the differences between Roku-made TVs and Roku-branded ones.
Roku has so far relied on partners to innovate in terms of picture quality. The TCL 6-Series Roku TV, for example, uses the latest in mini-LED technology and comes with full-array local dimming and a reasonable price. But the company also announced a reference design for a Roku OLED TV in the hopes that one of its manufacturing partners will take up the task.
Amazon recently launched its own TV lineup in addition to maintaining partnerships with brands such as Toshiba and Pioneer. The Fire TV Omni and 4 Series were sold exclusively at Amazon and Best Buy, while Fire TVs from their partners were sold in other outlets.
The Roku TV lineup will range between $119 and $999, and while Roku has yet to announce specific pricing, it says that the TVs will be available in the spring. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/roku-has-entered-the-chat/ | 2023-01-04 23:52:27 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/roku-has-entered-the-chat/ |
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PARIS (AP) — The French foreign ministry said Thursday it is recalling its ambassador to Burkina Faso for consultations, one day after Paris decided to withdraw troops from the West African country following a demand by its military rulers.
A top official at the foreign ministry said the decision has been made “in the context of the latest developments in Burkina Faso” in order to conduct “consultations on the state and perspectives of our bilateral cooperation” with Ambassador Luc Hallade. The official requested anonymity in line with the French government’s customary practices.
Burkina Faso’s military junta had asked France to recall its ambassador earlier this month.
France’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that French troops deployed in Burkina Faso will have left the country within a month, in line with Burkina Faso's notification of the termination of the 2018 agreement on the presence of French troops on its soil.
About 400 French special forces members were based in the country as part of a broader military deployment aimed at fighting extremists in Africa’s Sahel region.
Anti-French sentiment has grown in Burkina Faso, a former French colony, since junta leader Ibrahim Traore seized power in September. Traore has been more overtly open to working with other countries, notably Russia.
The move by Burkina Faso’s regime comes five months after France completed its withdrawal from Mali after nine years fighting Islamic extremists alongside regional troops.
About 3,000 French soldiers are deployed in the Sahel region, most of them based in Chad and Niger. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/france-recalls-ambassador-to-burkina-faso-pulls-17743118.php | 2023-01-26 12:17:05 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/france-recalls-ambassador-to-burkina-faso-pulls-17743118.php |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alison Lee shot a 5-under 66 on Thursday afternoon at breezy Wilshire Country Club to take the first-round lead in the DIO Implant LA Open.
The resurgent former UCLA star had the lone bogey-free round of the day in testing conditions with the wind gusting to 25 mph to start the LPGA Tour’s two-week run in the Los Angeles area, with the Palos Verdes Championship next week.
“I feel really comfortable,” Lee said. “I would say it’s not so much the course, but just being in L.A., seeing a bunch of familiar faces out there. Sometimes when you play week to week it does get pretty lonely out there. When you come to an event and you see people that you recognize and you know and they’re there to support you and bring up and lift you up.”
Lee birdied the par-4 sixth and par-3 seventh on the front nine, then moved up the leaderboard with birdies on the par-3 12th, par-5 15th and par-4 16th. She saved par on the final two holes, making a 6-footer on the par-4 17th and blasting out of the front bunker for a tap-in on the par-3 18th.
“I wouldn’t say there is any sort of secret weapon or secret that you need to know to play this course,” Lee said. “I would say it’s a little bit of everything. You are challenged with your tee shots, with your approach shots, even around the greens. As it gets in the afternoon it does tend to get a little more bumpy. You just need to stay patient out there.”
The 27-year-old American is trying to win for the first time on the LPGA Tour.
“There was a point in time where I almost wanted to quit,” Lee said. “Golf was just so frustrating for me. I felt lost. I didn’t know what I was doing right. I didn’t know what I was doing wrong. I just felt like golf just to me felt like a big blah. To really see my hard work pay off — because most of it for me was just from a mental perspective, mental side of it.”
Fellow afternoon starter Emma Talley and morning players Nasa Hataoka and Emily Kristine Pedersen were a stroke back.
Talley had the lead at 5 under before dropping back with a bogey on the par-4 eighth, her 17th hole of the day. The 28-year-old from Kentucky is winless on the tour. She won the 2013 U.S. Women’s Amateur and took the 2015 NCAA individual title at Alabama.
“I’m hitting the ball really well right now, and that goes a long way, especially when it’s windy,” Talley said.
Hataoka closed with a birdie on 18. The 23-year-old Japanese player had seven birdies and three bogeys. She has five LPGA Tour victories, winning twice last season.
“Wilshire is not an easy course,” Hataoka said. “Four under is a pretty good start for me.”
Pedersen had five birdies and a bogey. The 23-year-old from Denmark is winless on the tour.
“I think you need a bit of confidence going into this course,” Pedersen said. “There are a few tight drives, a bit quirky shots into the greens where you really have to be on the right angle and just commit to the shots.”
Sei Young Kim and So Yeon Ryu were at 68 with Jennifer Song, Haylee Harford, Janie Jackson and Dewi Weber. They all played in the morning.
“A little windy on the back nine, so couple holes we took a long iron, just trying to make the par,” Kim said. “It’s not easy. You have to pick right number and then it’s going to be release a lot.”
Top-ranked Jin Young Ko had a 71 in the morning. Defending champion Brooke Henderson, playing alongside Ko, opened with a 76. She had a triple bogey on the par-3 fourth.
Patty Tavatanakit had a double bogey on No. 16 in a 73 in the afternoon.
Former Southern California player Allisen Corpuz and Amy Olson aced the 134-yard 18th. Corpuz shot a 72, and Olson had a 75.
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NEW YORK, June 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE: S) between June 1, 2022 and June 1, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased SentinelOne securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) SentinelOne lacked effective internal controls over accounting and financial reporting; (2) as a result, SentinelOne's Annualized Recurring Revenue ("ARR") was overstated; (3) as a result, SentinelOne's guidance was overstated; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will go before the state parole board on Tuesday in a high-stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison.
Michael Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman on Dec. 1, 1997, when he fired a stolen pistol at a before-school prayer group in the lobby of Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky. School shootings were not yet a depressing part of the national consciousness, and Carneal was given the maximum sentence possible at the time for someone his age — life in prison but with the possibility of parole. A quarter century later, in the shadow of Uvalde and in a nation disgusted by the carnage of mass shootings, Carneal, now 39, will try to convince the parole board he deserves to be freed.
His parole hearing began Monday with testimony from those injured and close family of those killed, several of whom had considered Carneal a friend.
Missy Jenkins Smith, who was paralyzed by one of Carneal's bullets and uses a wheelchair, said there are too many “what ifs” to release him. What if he stops taking his medication? What if his medication stops working?
“Continuing his life in prison is the only way his victims can feel comfortable and safe,” she said.
Killed in the shooting were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger. Jenkins Smith said it would be unfair to them and their loved ones for Carneal to be set free.
“They will forever be a 17-year-old, a 14-year-old, and a 15-year-old — allowed only one full decade of life. A consequence of Michael’s choice,” she said.
Also testifying Monday was Christina Hadley Ellegood, whose younger sister Nicole was killed in the shooting. Ellegood has written about the pain of seeing her sister's body and having to call their mom and tell her Nicole had been shot.
“I had no one to turn to who understood what I was going through,” she said Monday. “For me, it’s not fair for him to be able to roam around with freedom when we live in fear of where he might be.”
A two-person panel of the full parole board is hearing Carneal’s appeal. They have the option to release him or defer his next opportunity for parole for up to five years. If the two cannot agree on those options, they can send the case to a meeting of the full board next Monday. Only the full board has the power to deny Carneal any chance of parole, forcing him to stay in prison for the rest of his life.
Hollan Holm, who was wounded that day, spoke Monday about lying on the floor of the high school lobby, bleeding from his head and believing he was going to die. But he said Carneal was too young to comprehend the full consequences of his actions and should have a chance at supervised release.
“When I think of Michael Carneal, I think of the child I rode the bus with every day,” he said. “I think of the child I shared a lunch table with in third grade. I think of what he could have become if, on that day, he had it somewhere in him to make a different choice or take a different path.” | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/kentucky-school-shooter-seeks-parole-in-high-stakes-hearing | 2022-09-20 15:38:30 | 1 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/kentucky-school-shooter-seeks-parole-in-high-stakes-hearing |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans were on the cusp of retaking control of the House late Monday, just one victory shy of the 218 seats the party needs to secure a majority, narrowing the path for Democrats to keep the chamber and raising the prospect of a divided government in Washington.
Democrats have already won control of the Senate, securing 50 seats with a runoff in Georgia next month that could give President Joe Biden’s party an additional seat. The GOP came into the election needing to gain a net of just five seats for House control.
Nearly a week after the midterm elections, Republicans were closing in on the majority, giving conservatives leverage to blunt Biden’s agenda and spur a flurry of investigations. But a slim numerical advantage will pose immediate challenges for GOP leaders and complicate the party’s ability to govern.
The full scope of the party’s majority may not be clear for several more days — or weeks — as votes in competitive races are still being counted. Still, the party was on track to achieve 218 with seats in California and other states still too early to call.
Even barely achieving 218, though, means Republicans will likely have the narrowest majority of the 21st century. It could rival 2001, when Republicans had just a nine-seat majority, 221-212 with two independents. That’s far short of the sweeping victory Republicans predicted going into this year’s midterm elections, when the party hoped to reset the agenda on Capitol Hill by capitalizing on economic challenges and Biden’s lagging popularity.
Instead, Democrats were able to largely blunt an expected big GOP election, holding on to moderate, suburban districts from Virginia to Minnesota and Kansas. The results could complicate House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s plans to become speaker as some conservative members have questioned whether to back him or have imposed conditions for their support.
The narrow margins have upended Republican politics and prompted finger-pointing about what went wrong. Some in the GOP have blamed Donald Trump for the worse-than-expected outcome. The former president, who is expected to announce a third White House bid on Tuesday, lifted candidates during this year’s primaries who struggled to win during the general election.
Despite its underwhelming showing, the GOP will still see its power in Washington grow. Republicans will take control of House committees, giving them the ability to shape legislation and launch probes of Biden, his family and his administration.
There’s particular interest in investigating the overseas business dealings of the president’s son Hunter Biden. Some of the most conservative lawmakers have raised the prospect of impeaching Biden, though that will be much harder for the party to accomplish with a tight majority.
Any legislation that emerges from the House could face steep odds in the Senate, where the narrow Democratic majority will often be enough to derail GOP-championed legislation.
With such a slim majority in the House, there’s a potential for legislative chaos. The dynamic essentially gives an individual member enormous sway over shaping what happens in the chamber. That could lead to particularly tricky circumstances for GOP leaders as they try to win support for must-pass measures that keep the government funded or raise the debt ceiling.
The GOP’s failure to notch more gains was especially surprising because the party went into the election benefiting from congressional maps that were redrawn by Republican legislatures. History was also on Republicans’ side: The party that holds the White House had lost congressional seats during virtually every new president’s first midterm of the modern era.
If elected to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the top post, McCarthy would lead what will likely be a rowdy conference of House Republicans, most of whom are aligned with Trump’s bare-knuckle brand of politics. Many Republicans in the incoming Congress rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election, even though claims of widespread fraud were refuted by courts, elections officials and Trump’s own attorney general.
In the first national election since the Jan. 6 insurrection, one Republican who was outside the Capitol on the day of the mob attack, Derrick Van Orden, won a House seat. He won a seat long held by Democrats in Wisconsin.
Republican candidates pledged on the campaign trail to cut taxes and tighten border security. GOP lawmakers also could withhold aid to Ukraine as it fights a war with Russia or use the threat of defaulting on the nation’s debt as leverage to extract cuts from social spending and entitlements — though all such pursuits will be tougher given how small the GOP majority may end up being.
As a senator and then vice president, Biden spent a career crafting legislative compromises with Republicans. But as president, he was clear about what he viewed as the threats posed by the current Republican Party.
Biden said the midterms show voters want Democrats and Republicans to find ways to cooperate and govern in a bipartisan manner, but also noted that Republicans didn’t achieve the electoral surge they’d been betting on and vowed, “I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way.”
The president was also blunt in assessing his party’s dwindling chances, saying Monday of the House, “I think it’s going to be very close, but I don’t think we’re going to make it.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-gop-on-cusp-of-retaking-house-control-with-slim-majority/ | 2022-11-16 02:46:06 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-gop-on-cusp-of-retaking-house-control-with-slim-majority/ |
DENVER, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SM Energy Company (the "Company") (NYSE: SM) today announced the publication of its updated environmental, social and governance ("ESG") materials, all of which are available on the Company's website at http://sm-energy.com/sustainability/. Updated publications include:
- Letter from our CEO to Stakeholders
- Quick Reference ESG Metrics and Performance Highlights
- Corporate Responsibility Report
- CDP Climate Change Questionnaire 2022, which reports 2021 data
- Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD) framework mapping to the CDP Questionnaire
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Report, which reports 2021 data
2021 ESG performance and accomplishments included:
- methane intensity of 0.03 mT CH4/MBoe, down 40% from 0.05 mT CH4/MBoe in base year 2019, which meets the Company's medium-term target;
- greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity for Scope 1 emissions of 8.4 mT CO2e/MBoe, outperforming the Company's internal compensation target of 9.5 mT CO2e/MBoe, and down 33% from base year 2019;
- GHG intensity for Scope 1 + 2 emissions of 9.88 mT CO2e/MBoe, more than halfway to meeting the Company's 2030 medium-term goal;
- flaring of natural gas reduced to 0.63% of total natural gas production, within the Company's internal objective of less than 1%;
- total produced fluid spills of 0.009/1,000 Bbls of produced fluid, down 40% from base year 2019;
- freshwater use reduced by 35% from base year 2019; and
- paid $169 million in local taxes.
Chief Executive Officer Herb Vogel comments: "Our definition of being a premier operator includes exceptional safety and environmental performance. At SM Energy, compensation for all employees is tied, in part, to target environmental, health and safety metrics. We support expanded ESG disclosures and recognize the need for clear, well-defined and comparable information across our industry for the consideration of our stakeholders. I hope you enjoy the publication of our updated ESG disclosures, which demonstrate our commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainability."
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RADCOM (NASDAQ: RDCM) today announced that RADCOM's Chief Executive Officer, Eyal Harari, will present at the 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference on Wednesday, January 11, 2023.
Eyal is scheduled to present at 10:15 a.m. ET and will also be available for one-on-one meetings during the day. Please get in touch with your Needham salesperson to attend the presentation or schedule a meeting.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available at: https://wsw.com/webcast/needham128/rdcm/2238926.
The webcast will be archived for 90 days following the live presentation. The presentation slides will be available on the day of the presentation from RADCOM's website www.radcom.com/investor-relations.
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RADCOM (NASDAQ: RDCM) is the leading expert in 5G ready cloud-native, network intelligence solutions for telecom operators transitioning to 5G. RADCOM Network Intelligence consists of RADCOM Network Visibility, RADCOM Service Assurance, and RADCOM Network Insights. The RADCOM Network Intelligence suite offers intelligent, container-based, on-demand solutions to deliver network analysis from the RAN to the core for 5G assurance. Utilizing automated and dynamic solutions with smart minimal data collection and on-demand troubleshooting and cutting-edge techniques based on machine learning, these solutions work in harmony to provide operators an understanding of the entire customer experience and allow them to troubleshoot network performance from a high to granular level while reducing storage costs and cloud resource utilization. For more information on how to RADCOMize your network today, please visit www.radcom.com, the content of which does not form a part of this press release.
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NM demonstrators look for next steps in preserving abortion rights – Shaun Griswold, Source New Mexico
The rains washed over Old Town Albuquerque and brought hundreds of people to Tiguex Park to share anger and grief at federal reproductive rights taken away earlier in the day by a Supreme Court ruling.
For some, the event was place to understand how the court’s ruling that overturns Roe v. Wade ends federal protection on abortion services and triggers bans or severe restrictions in 13 states over the coming weeks. But the ruling does not restrict abortion access in New Mexico.
In fact, people at the event said they want more from legislative leaders in Santa Fe to preserve abortion rights in New Mexico, including protections for patients who travel from areas where abortion is newly illegal or where access is restricted.
As the event was harnessed at times for the 2022 election cycle by New Mexico candidates who support abortion rights, people in the crowd like Adlemmy Molina said they want to make sure politicians keep their promises to make abortion protections stronger.
“I really hope we push for that, we stay like a protective state,” that people know is safe to come for abortion care, she said. “Like, ‘OK, we’re protected. We’re supported. We’re good to go.’ And that’s definitely someone I would vote for. If they’re willing to keep that threshold there.”
Molina made her comments after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spoke to the crowd at the park promising, “we’re going to do more in the 60-day session. We’re going to continue to expand and protect access.”
New Mexico alternates between a 30-day and 60-day legislative sessions. During the previous 60-day in 2021, Lujan Grisham and a majority Democratic Legislature repealed an outdated 1969 statewide abortion ban that was overruled by federal protections but was still on the books. Advocates for the bill argue removing the state ban made sure abortion care would be legal in N.M., even if the Supreme Court changed the position it had upheld for decades as we saw Friday.
If Lujan Grisham wants to expand abortion access during the 2023 60-day session, she’ll have to win re-election first. On Friday, her Republican opponent Mark Ronchetti announced that if elected governor, he would compromise with state Democrats and propose a ban on abortions after 15-weeks.
It’s still too soon to understand what the Legislature is likely do on this matter. N.M. Sen. Linda Lopez, (D-Albuquerque), who sponsored the repeal in 2021, said she wants to continue having conversations about possible legislation with service providers and other groups working on access issues.
“I think we need to take a step back,” Lopez said, “work with our partners here in the state and do thoughtful legislation, if it’s needed at this point in time. I know that we’re still talking, and I believe that we will do this together.”
For people at Tiguex Park, action is expected of anyone they vote into office, and it’s clear that many ballots will be cast for candidates that seek to protect reproductive rights in New Mexico.
Molina, an Army veteran who recently returned from South Korea, was disturbed the Supreme Court decision created another battle she will have to take on.
“I am embarrassed that I served for the country that’s taking rights away,” Molina said. “And it hit very, very deep to the core. I feel very, for lack of better words, I felt very betrayed. (New Mexico) is a spot where people can flourish and thrive and be healthy. I’m really hoping that we’re going to stand our ground, and we’re going to keep it safe here.”
Rebecca Haskins recently moved to New Mexico from the east coast. She said the state’s reproductive rights were one reason she chose to move here. Not only does she want to see reproductive rights codified into state law, but she said she wants further protections for body autonomy.
“It needs to be amended into state constitutions so it cannot be repealed,” she said. “It’s nobody’s business what adults do with their own bodies. It’s nobody’s business who adults love.”
Marisol Brito and her friend Kelly Ann also said they want to see state lawmakers act on their promises to preserve abortion rights in the state and more support for out-of-state patients.
Brito said she was sad, angry and confused by the Supreme Court ruling but maintains the sense of relief so many at Tiguex Park felt because New Mexico leaders today value access.
“I’m not just voting for the right for abortion or Roe v. Wade,” she said. ”I’m voting for autonomy for my physical being. People cannot tell me what to do with my body. Period. And it’s not just me.”
O'Keeffe strived to be close to New Mexico landscapes – By Kathaleen Roberts, Albuquerque Journal
In 1940s America, for a woman to go camping in the wilderness was virtually unheard of.
Enter Georgia O'Keeffe.
Determined to move as close to the New Mexico landscape as humanly possible, O'Keeffe went camping in Glen Canyon, Plaza Blanca and what she termed The Black Place located 150 miles northwest of her Abiquiú home.
The Georgia O'Keeffe Welcome Center in Abiquiú is hosting its first exhibit, "O'Keeffe in the Landscape," on display through April 2, 2023.
The exhibition showcases Marie Chabot's photographs of the artist mid-camping, her clothing, hiking boots and equipment, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
O'Keeffe had learned to drive in Taos and bought a 1928 Ford Model T so that she could go car camping in remote locations. At the time, she didn't need a driver's license.
"She would set up her tent outside," curator of historic properties Giustina Renzoni said. "She had the passenger's seat removed so she could put a table with all her paints and her brushes. She essentially carried a moving studio."
The artist traveled to evoke the essence of these spectacular views in her work.
Conscious of her safety, O'Keeffe never traveled alone, often taking her friend Maria Chabot, who photographed her on various trips. Chabot had worked for salon maven Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos. She was the general contractor for O'Keeffe's Abiquiú home. O'Keeffe also camped with such celebrated photographers as Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter and Todd Webb.
"It was a very creative atmosphere," Renzoni said.
The artist learned about these unusual sites by talking to local people. She had learned about Ghost Ranch, where she first bought a house in 1940, from acquaintances when she stayed at Luhan's home.
"She knew she had to see it herself," Renzoni said.
She also hired local guides.
"What she was doing was very unusual at the time, especially for a woman," she added.
By the early 1900s, camping had grown into a leisure activity in a reaction against urbanization, Renzoni said.
O'Keeffe first went camping to Yosemite National Park with Adams in 1938. Telling herself this was a vacation, she took no canvases, paint or brushes. She regretted that decision.
"Of course, as soon as she got there she ended up borrowing supplies from people and using the charcoal from the fire," Renzoni said.
In New Mexico, she collected rocks and bones as she moved through the ragged country.
"It's an object of nature," Renzoni said of the rocks. "She liked to hold them and feel the whole rock."
The bones became part of her image repertoire.
"For her, it was representative of desert life and natural images and colors," Renzoni added.
O'Keeffe went river rafting for the first time at age 74, invited by Webb.
They headed up to Utah's Glen Canyon. O'Keeffe wrote to her sister about the trip. After an entire day of rafting, the group camped near the river and settled down, only to be awakened by a torrential downpour.
"She loved it; even the rain," Renzoni said. "She thought it was a wonderful experience."
The exhibition also includes a camping dress, complete with large pockets to collect rocks.
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DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines said second-quarter earnings dropped 10% to $683 million as labor costs soared, offsetting record revenue at the start of the peak summer travel season.
The airline also warned Thursday that a key revenue ratio will drop and non-fuel costs will rise in the third quarter.
The shares fell more than 8% at the opening bell on Wall Street.
Southwest said that revenue for every seat flown one mile — a closely watched ratio in the airline business — fell 8.3% in the second quarter and will drop by between 3% and 7% in the third quarter, compared with the same periods last year.
That outlook “will amplify concerns around slowing domestic air travel demand,” said Cowen airline analyst Helane Becker.
A report earlier this week from Alaska Airlines fanned worries that demand for air travel — especially within the United States — might finally be cooling after recovering strongly from the pandemic. Southwest and Alaska both operate mostly domestic flights, and they are benefitting less than bigger rivals Delta, United and American from the boom in international flying.
Southwest CEO Robert Jordan sought to assure the market, saying that much of the decline in the revenue ratio is due to people traveling on vouchers and credits that Southwest extended during the pandemic. He said the airline is 70% booked for the third quarter — ahead of where it would normally be in late July.
“As far as I can tell, we see really strong demand for Southwest Airlines,” he said on CNBC.
The average one-way fare on Southwest dropped nearly 3% compared with last summer, to $179.44.
Southwest and other airlines are trying to adapt to changes in travel habits since the pandemic. Business travel has yet to recover, causing airlines to tweak their schedules to attract more leisure flyers. Southwest is scheduling more long flights, and it is reducing early-morning and late-night flights.
The second-quarter results from Dallas-based Southwest, which were aided by lower fuel prices, beat analyst expectations. The company predicted record revenue and another profit in the third quarter, but warned of higher non-fuel costs.
Southwest is locked in drawn-out negotiations with pilots and flight attendants, who have not received pay raises in several years. Unions are aiming to match higher wages won by counterparts at other major U.S. airlines, including up to 40% more pay over four years at United.
“It’s a great time to be negotiating as a pilot,” Jordan said.
Southwest struggled with a shortage of pilots as travel began recovering last year, but Jordan said it will soon be caught up.
Southwest’s profit fell from $760 million a year earlier. Excluding special items, earnings per share were $1.09, matching the mean forecast in a FactSet survey of analysts.
Revenue rose 5% to a quarterly record of $7.04 billion, topping the $6.98 billion prediction of analysts.
Southwest’s labor costs rose 25.5% from a year earlier, an increase of more than $500 million, and the airline said third-quarter non-fuel costs would rise by 3.5% to 6.5% for each seat flown one mile, mostly in anticipation of higher wages.
Southwest Airlines Co. spent 14% less on fuel than a year earlier, a savings of more than $200 million, because of lower prices.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate has approved a wide-ranging reform of laws governing the mining industry, including a requirement that companies pay 5% of profits to local communities.
The mining bill was among 18 pieces of legislation, some controversial, that were passed in a frenzied rush late Friday and early Saturday.
The bills were approved with little or no debate, based on votes by only senators from Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party and its allies. The opposition occupied the Senate’s normal headquarters to protest a lack of debate, so the Morena senators and allies met in an alternative chamber.
The new mining law reduces the maximum length of concessions from 50 to 30 years, and punishes speculation by allowing authorities to cancel concessions if no work is done on them within two years.
The mining industry, much of it foreign and in a considerable amount Canadian, has drawn complaints because of ecological damage, speculation and the fact that communities around the mines remain among the poorest in Mexico.
Many companies, especially smaller “minor” companies listed on Canadian exchanges, do exploratory work, estimate the presence of minerals and then do nothing, waiting to sell the concession to a larger player. Many of the properties involve gold or silver deposits.
Large Mexican companies dominate mining for copper and some other metals.
The Senate also approved a bill mandating 10 to 15 year prison sentences for people who produce the synthetic opioid fentanyl in Mexico or who provide precursor chemicals largely imported from China. It makes drug production a separate crime, in addition to possession.
Perhaps more controversially, the senators approved a bill to replace the country’s science and technology commission — which hands out research grants and other funding — to include representatives from the Army and Navy on its board.
The new framework would also explicitly give priority to researchers at state-run universities over private ones.
Under another bill, the military would gain a dominant role in providing security in the country’s airspace, and would also be allowed to operate a commercial airline. That represents a potential conflict, since the army will also be allowed to operate civilian airports, and Mexican law prohibits and airport operator from also running an airline.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
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(one, two, twelve, sixteen, twenty)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
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Bella Mazur scored 19 points as Mainland ran over Our Lady of Mercy for a 51-26 road win in Newfield. Kasey Bretones added 18 points in the win.
Madelynn Bernhardt led Our Lady of Mercy with 11 points.
Mainland broke open aone-point game with a 13-5 second quarter.
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Air traffic control cannot handle summer travel, United Airlines says
(CNN) - United Airlines is sounding the alarm and telling its staff there are more summer flights than air traffic controllers can handle, an issue that could contribute to more flight disruptions this summer.
United’s chief operating officer voiced his frustration in a memo to staff, saying until there are more air traffic controllers, they expect the U.S aviation system to remain challenged this summer.
He noted the situation is particularly bad in New York and Florida.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with the heads of airlines last month and said Tuesday that he disagrees.
Buttigieg said air traffic control staffing is not to blame for most delays and cancellations this summer. He said there are other issues at play, like airlines pushing pilots into early retirement.
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By JAMIE STENGLE
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and he had methamphetamine in his system, investigators said Thursday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said two days after the March 15 collision that its early findings suggested that the 13-year-old was driving the pickup that struck the van carrying University of the Southwest students and coaches back to Hobbs, New Mexico, from a golf tournament in Midland, Texas. But the NTSB said in a preliminary report released Thursday that DNA testing confirmed that the father, 38-year-old Henrich Siemens, was driving and that toxicological testing showed the presence of methamphetamine in the Siemens’ blood.
Siemens and his son died in the crash along with six members of the men’s and women’s golf teams and their coach, who was driving the van.
The collision happened at about 8:17 p.m. in Andrews County, which is roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Texas’ border with New Mexico. Although it’s a rural area, the roads there are often busy with traffic related to agriculture and oil and gas development.
In the days after the crash, the NTSB had said that the truck’s left front tire blew before impact. But it said Thursday that so far, investigators haven’t found evidence of a loss in tire pressure or any other indicators that the tire failed.
The NTSB said the road they were traveling on consisted of a northbound lane and southbound lane. Near the crash site, the roadway was straight but there was no highway lighting.
Those killed in the van were coach Tyler James, 26, of Hobbs, New Mexico; and players Mauricio Sanchez, 19, of Mexico; Travis Garcia, 19, of Pleasanton, Texas; Jackson Zinn, 22, of Westminster, Colorado; Karisa Raines, 21, of Fort Stockton, Texas; Laci Stone, 18, of Nocona, Texas; and Tiago Sousa, 18, of Portugal.
Two other students aboard the van were seriously injured.
The crash is still being investigated to determine the probable case of the crash, the NTSB said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti won confirmation Wednesday from a divided Senate as the nation’s next ambassador to India, more than a year and a half after he was first nominated by President Joe Biden and after weathering doubts about his truthfulness in a sexual harassment scandal involving a City Hall adviser.
The 52-42 vote gave the administration a long-sought victory with several Republicans breaking party discipline for the vote that they said was critical to fill one of the country’s highest-profile diplomatic posts.
“It’s a national security imperative to immediately have an ambassador in place in India. We can’t afford to wait any longer,” said Indiana Sen. Todd Young, one of the Republican crossover votes.
The day began with uncertain prospects for Garcetti, a two-term, progressive Democrat first nominated to the diplomatic post by Biden in July 2021.
With several Democrats defecting, Garcetti’s fate rested with Republican senators in a chamber often divided along partisan lines. He secured seven GOP votes, more than enough to make up for the Democratic breakaways.
Kansas Republican Roger Marshall said having an ambassador in place in India was vital in advancing relations among members of the “quad” — the U.S. India, Australia and Japan, which he said puts pressure on China.
“We don’t agree on all the different policies he did as mayor, but I think he’s a good person at heart and he would be a good ambassador,” Marshall said. He said on the allegations: “He answered my questions adequately.”
At the White House, spokesperson Olivia Dalton said Biden “believes that we have a crucial and consequential partnership with India and that Mayor Garcetti will make a strong and effective ambassador.”
The vacancy in the ambassadorship had left a significant diplomatic gap for the administration at a time of rising global tensions, including China’s increasingly assertive presence in the Pacific region and Russia’s war with Ukraine.
India, the world’s most populous democracy, is continuing to buy oil from Russia, while Western governments move to limit fossil fuel earnings that support Moscow’s budget, its military and its invasion of Ukraine. Russia also provides the majority of India’s military hardware.
The nomination had been freighted with questions about what the former mayor knew, and when, about sexual harassment allegations against his friend and once-close adviser, Rick Jacobs. A lawsuit alleges that Jacobs frequently harassed one of the then-mayor’s police bodyguards while Garcetti ignored the abuse or laughed it off.
Garcetti, the son of former Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti, has repeatedly denied the claims. Jacobs has called the allegations against him “pure fiction.” The case is scheduled to go to trial later this year.
At a Senate committee hearing in December 2021, Garcetti said, “I never witnessed, nor was it brought to my attention, the behavior that’s been alleged. … If it had been, I would have immediately taken action to stop that.”
Wednesday’s vote tested Democratic loyalty to Biden, and also measured assessments of Garcetti’s judgment and trustworthiness, stemming from the City Hall allegations that shadowed him in the #MeToo era.
“I think we can find somebody that will do the job better,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, one of the Democrats who opposed Garcetti.
Garcetti also failed to win over Democrat Mark Kelly of Arizona, who said he had “serious concerns.”
Rachel Rizzo, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said she sensed frustration about the lack of an ambassador during a recent trip to India. She said it gave “an impression that the relationship isn’t important.”
“It really points to the internal dysfunction in the U.S. Congress at the moment, and it makes it very hard for us to send the messages that we’re trying to send when it looks to our diplomatic partners that we don’t have our house in order,” she said.
Last May, a top Senate Republican released an investigation t hat concluded Garcetti “likely knew or should have known” that Jacobs was alleged to be sexually harassing city employees, a finding that appeared to contradict the mayor’s assertion that he was unaware of any inappropriate behavior. The 23-page report released by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa found it was “extremely unlikely” that the mayor would not have been aware.
The White House called that report a partisan smear.
In a final push to stop the nomination, Grassley released a statement Tuesday saying his office identified at least 19 people who said they either witnessed inappropriate behavior by Jacobs or were victims of it.
“On the one hand, the Biden administration says it supports victims,” Grassley wrote. “Yet, on the other hand, the Biden administration supports a nominee who enables misconduct that creates more victims.”
The legal nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which sought to defeat the nomination, said the vote “will have a chilling effect on future attempts to hold enablers and perpetrators to account and cause victims and witnesses to think twice about the risks they are taking in coming forward.”
The nomination, first announced in July 2021, cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January 2022 but was not considered by the full Senate. Biden renominated Garcetti early this year, and the White House has defended him as a well-qualified candidate.
On a politically divided vote, the committee again advanced the nomination to the full Senate early this month, though Jim Risch of Idaho, the top Republican on the panel, said that “new evidence” had raised questions about Garcetti’s judgment and prompted him to oppose the nomination.
Garcetti’s confirmation follows a contentious tenure at Los Angeles City Hall framed by rising homelessness, the pandemic and high crime rates as well as sexual harassment and corruption scandals. The Los Angeles area, once known for boundless growth, has seen its population decline.
Garcetti took office in 2013 with a “back to basics” agenda that centered on fixing L.A.’s notoriously cratered streets and sidewalks. But those early ambitions faded as out-of-control homeless encampments transformed the city and then the government shuttered businesses, restaurants and schoolrooms — and shed hundreds of thousands of jobs — in the depths of the pandemic.
Still, the former mayor has been credited with continuing a transit buildup in a city choked with traffic and establishing tougher earthquake safety standards for thousands of buildings.
An Ivy Leaguer and Rhodes Scholar, he spent two decades in city government either as mayor or a city councilman and took a circuitous path toward the diplomatic corps. Ambassadorships are frequently a reward for political supporters.
Garcetti considered a 2020 White House run but later became part of Biden’s inner circle, emerging as a widely discussed possibility to join the Cabinet. He took himself out of the running after many of the plum jobs had been filled, saying the coronavirus crisis at the time made it impossible for him to step away from City Hall.
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Wheat for Mar. rose 14.25 cents at $6.8650 a bushel; Mar. corn was up 3 cents at $6.2750 a bushel, Mar. oats fell 5.50 cents at at $3.4025 a bushel; while Mar. soybeans was off .25 cent at $14.9975 a bushel.
Beef and pork were lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Apr. live cattle was off .50 cent at $1.6305 a pound; Mar. cattle lost .90 cent at $1.8992 a pound; while Apr. lean hogs fell .82 cent at $.8540 a pound. | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/grains-mixed-livestock-lower-17839244.php | 2023-03-14 21:24:31 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/grains-mixed-livestock-lower-17839244.php |
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge has agreed to order a mental evaluation for a former Army soldier charged with crashing a military Humvee into an office building for base commanders at Fort Stewart in southeastern Georgia.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian K. Epps granted prosecutors’ request for the evaluation to help determine whether 39-year-old Treamon Dominic Lacy is mentally competent to stand trial. Court records show the decision was made during Lacy’s initial court appearance Tuesday.
Army investigators say that Lacy, a former Army mechanic who retired as a staff sergeant in 2013, stole a Humvee from a Fort Stewart motor pool Monday morning and then plowed the armored vehicle through the glass front doors of the Army post’s headquarters.
No one was injured. The damaged building houses the offices of Fort Stewart’s commanding general and other leaders. Located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Savannah, Fort Stewart is home to the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. It’s the largest Army post east of the Mississippi River.
Lacy was detained at the scene of the crash and arrested by military police. He remained jailed Wednesday in Liberty County on federal charges of theft and destruction of government property.
Lacy’s attorney, Troy Marsh, said in an email Wednesday that he had no comment on the case.
Authorities have not given a suspected motive for the crash. The judge sealed court documents related to the pending mental evaluation for Lacy.
Fort Stewart officials said in a statement Tuesday that Lacy was a military retiree, which allowed him access to the post. He served on active duty from 2002 until 2013 and deployed twice to Iraq, according to the statement.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil posted record annual profits in 2022 as Americans struggled with high prices for gasoline, home heating and consumer goods.
The oil giant brought in $12.75 billion in profits in the fourth quarter, bringing annual profits to $55.7 billion. That exceeded Exxon’s previous annual record of $45.22 billion in annual profits Exxon set in 2008, when a barrel of oil soared close to $150.
The Irving, Texas, company brought in $95.43 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter.
Recovering demand and tight energy supplies helped boost profit, the company said.
“While our results clearly benefited from a favorable market, the counter-cyclical investments we made before and during the pandemic provided the energy and products people needed as economies began recovering and supplies became tight,” said CEO Darren Woods. “We leaned in when others leaned out.”
Exxon achieved its best-ever annual refining throughput in North America and the highest globally since 2012, the company said. It mechanically completed the expansion of its Beaumont Refinery in Texas and expects to bring 250,000 barrels per day of crude oil distillation capacity to the market in first quarter of this year.
Exxon earned $3.09 per share in the quarter. That was lower than the expectations of analysts polled by Factset, who were anticipating $3.29 per share.
The price of oil ranged between $70 to $90 for a barrel of U.S. benchmark crude during the quarter. Domestic natural gas prices, which affect the cost of home energy and electricity, ranged from $6 to $7 per million British thermal units during the quarter, according to FactSet, which was a higher price than most Americans have paid in recent years.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia’s decreased its supply of natural gas to Europe, which resulted in higher prices of natural gas and its liquid counterpart, LNG, on the global market.
President Joe Biden has accused oil companies of profiting from the war Russia waged on Ukraine, and has previously raised the possibility of a war profit tax on oil companies. Exxon said it incurred $1.3 billion during the quarter associated with European taxes on the energy sector. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/exxon-profits-at-record-high-in-2022-as-energy-prices-soared/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2023-01-31 13:08:52 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/exxon-profits-at-record-high-in-2022-as-energy-prices-soared/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
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Last month, a New York court threw out the congressional district map for the state that was drawn by Democrats. A new map, drawn by an unelected special master, is expected to be finalized as early as today, and Democrats are furious. They already know the new map will force some incumbent Democrats to run against each other, creating more opportunities for Republicans to pick up House seats and improving their chances of taking control of the House in November.
To talk us through the Democrats' political drama is NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis. Hey, Sue.
SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE: Hey there.
KELLY: So it seems less than ideal that these maps are still being figured out - what? - nearly halfway through the election year. Why are we here?
DAVIS: Well, you know, Democrats thought they had drawn some pretty good maps. They controlled the entire redistricting process in the state, and the map they drew earlier this year was approved by the state legislature with supermajorities of support. But last month, in a series of court rulings, that map was thrown out. Basically, the courts ruled that Democrats gerrymandered so aggressively it violated the state's constitution. Democrats were trying to shore up their majorities by basically eliminating as much competition as possible for their state's 26 districts. The map they wanted would have created 20 safe Democratic seats, four seats that leaned Republican and just two competitive seats.
So when the court throws out the map, the process calls for a judge to appoint someone who's known as a special master. They are an unelected expert who can draw maps that are more fair and then submit that map back to the court for approval. The draft map was released on Monday and, Mary Louise, it is completely safe to say it has rocked the New York delegation.
KELLY: Rocked the delegation - it's so interesting because drawing up a map sounds like a bureaucratic exercise.
DAVIS: (Laughter).
KELLY: But this - I mean, serious disputes...
DAVIS: Yeah.
KELLY: ...Coming out of this, both among Democrats in New York and in the party nationally, right?
DAVIS: Yeah. I mean, there are two major complaints among Democrats. First is that the new maps would pit several Democratic incumbents against each other. That includes, notably, two veteran lawmakers - Jerry Nadler, who's the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Carolyn Maloney, who chairs the Oversight Committee. They could now be competing for the same Manhattan-based district.
It's also generated a ton of anger at Sean Patrick Maloney. He's the chairman of the House Democrats' 2022 campaign operation. He's already announced he would run in a new district where his house is located, but that seat is anchored around another Democrat's district - fellow Democratic Congressman Mondaire Jones. So that means Jones is going to have to choose whether to run against Maloney or another freshman, Jamaal Bowman. And both Jones and Bowman are Black men, which leads to the second complaint here, and that involves accusations of racism. I mean, Democrats are really mad at this idea of forcing two Black lawmakers to run against each other and essentially dilute Black representation in the delegation in the end 'cause one of them would lose.
And another New York member of Democratic leadership, Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, has also echoed these accusations of racism because the new map would divvy up neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens that are historically Black. And I want to be clear that the new districts would still be minority-represented districts - it's just not in a way that the incumbents that represent them, like Jeffries, would like them to be.
KELLY: OK. So Democrats are mad. What about Republicans? How are they responding to the new maps?
DAVIS: Oh, this is great news for them. I mean, the new map would not only increase the number of Republican-leaning seats, it would also create as many as five new competitive seats. If you consider so much of the 2022 fundamentals already benefit Republicans - they're already expected to pick up seats, they're already favored to take the majority - this outcome just makes that even more likely.
They also get the political gift of watching Democrats fight it out all summer long. There's a lot of internal fighting, too. I mean, some Democrats, including New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have called on Maloney to step aside if he goes through with challenging an incumbent, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that she supports him in that role.
KELLY: NPR's Sue Davis. Thank you.
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The 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Odds & Preview: Xiyu Lin
The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is underway, and Xiyu Lin is currently in second place with a score of -4.
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Xiyu Lin Insights
- Over her last 15 rounds, Lin has shot below par on 11 occasions, while also posting three bogey-free rounds and 12 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has carded the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five four times and with a top-10 score in five of her last 15 rounds played.
- Lin has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in five of her last 15 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day 11 times.
- Lin has finished in the top five in three of her past five tournaments.
- She has made four cuts in her past five tournaments.
- Lin has finished within three shots of the leader in three of her past five events. During that same span, she's posted a better-than-average score four times.
- Lin is heading into this tournament with two consecutive top-five placements.
Over the last year
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KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Insights and Stats
- In Lin's previous two appearances in this tournament, she has finished among the top five once. Her average finish has been 24th.
- Lin made the cut in each of her two most recent entries to this event.
- Lin finished second in her most recent appearance at this tournament (2023).
- This tournament will take place on a par 71 listed at 6,621 yards, compared to the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- Lin will take to the 6,621-yard course this week at Baltusrol GC after having played courses with an average length of 6,551 yards in the past year.
Lin's Last Time Out
- Lin was good on the 20 par-3 holes at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, averaging 2.75 strokes to finish in the 97th percentile of the field.
- She averaged 3.97 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 32) at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, which was good enough to place her in the 82nd percentile of the field on par 4s (the tournament average was 4.09).
- Lin shot better than 92% of the golfers at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give on par-5 holes, averaging 4.40 strokes per hole, in comparison to the field average of 4.63.
- Lin recorded a birdie or better on five of 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give (the other golfers averaged 2.0).
- On the 20 par-3s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Lin did not have a bogey or worse (the other participants averaged 2.1).
- Lin carded more birdies or better (four) than the tournament average of 3.0 on the 32 par-4s at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give.
- In that most recent tournament, Lin carded a bogey or worse on three of 32 par-4s (the field averaged 4.8).
- Lin finished the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give with a birdie or better on 12 of the 20 par-5s, more than the field average of 6.4.
- The field at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give averaged 1.1 bogeys or worse on the 20 par-5s, but Lin finished without one.
KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: Baltusrol GC
- Location: Springfield, New Jersey
- Par: 71 / 6,621 yards
- Lin Odds to Win: +2500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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SHANGHAI, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Choicefom, China's leading CEM management platform provider introduced a brand-new CEM concept to its Total Experience Management platform TX that helps to improve customer experience and clients' business performance. According to forecasts from IDC, QY Research and Touch PointChina's customer experience management (CEM) market is on track to grow to US$1.8 billion in 2022, accounting for 15 per cent of the global market. China is now stepping into a fast track of enterprise growth with the focus on enhancing the customer experience.
With the new concept, Choiceform helps to create business growth for its clients through its absolute advantages in three steps.
1.Launching its strategic concept of the Total Experience Management
In China, many industries are about to enter the stage of slow growth and saturation. For companies, the demand for consumer insights and for experience data is growing rapidly, opening the way to significant development potential for CEM. It may soon become something no company can do without. Consequently, it becomes very important to accurately define CEM. The TX Total Experience concept proposed by Choiceform is a customer-oriented strategic management system that includes brand experience (BX), product experience (PX) and service experience (SX), supplemented by employee experience (EX). The perfect combination of the four metrics demonstrates a complete holistic consumer insights which drives enhanced experience management. Not to be overlooked is that employees will also directly affect how a customer feels about the company and the brand. CX and EX will form a positive cycle of complementary and sustainable development. Choiceform TX was born from the concept that CEM must be comprehensive.
2. Improving customer satisfaction with scalable one-to-one interactions across the customer's whole life cycle
The customer journey is an important vehicle to creating the best customer experience. Choiceform emphasizes the use of Moment of Truth to define the experience strategies, and to merge the scattered operational data with quality experience data scientifically. Across the full life cycle, in addition to solving the problem of data silos and achieving data convergence, it is more important to uncover the painpoints and unmet needs so as to transform and reshape the experience. When optimizing the interactions with customers, Choiceform TX will automatically initiate sustainable and scalable one-to-one interaction campaigns. The automatic advance warning + multi point trigger mechanism creates a one-stop professional and standardized closed-loop management system, to ensure a sustained interaction across the whole life cycle in real time. Based on the development plan for modular applications, Choiceform will expand from a SaaS platform provider to PaaS platform provider starting this year, making it easier for companies to connect with different SaaS applications.
3. TX is not just a tool, but the brain of enterprises developing the date-driven scientific strategic growth decision
Discovery and predictions are the core of insights, while effective decisions based on the conclusions is the ultimate goal. In the future, companies that can minimize the process from data collection to decision making will be better positioned to seize market opportunities. The Choiceform TX platform truly makes data work, discovers and identifies the most valuable information for companies, and empowers them to find the best marketing paths through intelligent and digital technological innovation, transforming every decision into one that is science-based and informed. The value of Choiceform does not only lie in helping companies collect data, but about helping them improve customer satisfaction, retention, and ROI conversion rates. This is the unmistakable difference between CEM and other big data solutions. CEM is no longer a tool to execute processes, but a key factor in driving strategic business decisions.
Data and technologies are the basic elements, but data security in its most comprehensive form is the fundamental protection.
Choiceform's "data security control center" provides security protection for different data levels and covers the whole data life cycle from generation to deletion. Firstly, infrastructures with comprehensive defense capabilities are built to cover the security baseline in the machine room as well as across the network, system and application data, so as to improve the capacity to deal with advanced security threats. Secondly, a resource management infrastructure is built to prevent unauthorized data access and maintain data confidentiality, integrity and availability through data encryption, key management and data shielding, among other techniques. Thirdly, normalized security operation infrastructures are built for compulsory implementation of secure development lifecycles (SDLs), effectively removing security vulnerabilities, as well as for dealing with every kind of security issues in a comprehensive, networked, systematic way through continuous implementation of vulnerability scans, penetration tests, code audits, security scheme design and implementation, security training and establishment of emergency response teams. Choiceform is committed to implementing data security standards in compliance with the strictest regulatory guidance.
Integrating its advanced abilities in providing customer insights with technologies to empower industry development
Choiceform's business has from day one been CEM, with its prowess in technology integration and in providing customer insights setting it apart from the competition. Founded in 2015, Choiceform currently has teams in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Wuhan, serving customers in the automobile, real estate and property, finance, fast moving consumer goods (FCMG), computers, communications, consumer electronics and gaming sectors, among others. Core R&D teams account for 65% of the firm's headcount. Choiceform has also assembled an insight team led by senior industry experts, all with more than 20 years' experience, to drive the global data insights practice.
Choiceform Founder and Chief Executive Officer Wester Xi said, "This year is the seventh year since our inception. Choiceform has it in its roadmap to build a world-class product with Chinese characteristics and to continue driving the development and growth of the Chinese CEM market."
About Choiceform
Choiceform is China's leading Total Experience Management platform. It is the new growth engine for customer-centric enterprises. The company is dedicated to integrating multi-source data, discovering and predicting the real needs and preferences of every customer through cloud technologies, while delivering solutions that drive science-based decision-making across organizations.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
542 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northern Armstrong
and southern Carson Counties through 615 PM CDT...
At 542 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 4 miles southwest of Groom to 4 miles southwest
of Claude. Movement was southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Claude, Groom, Washburn and Goodnight.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3523 10161 3528 10110 3525 10109 3499 10109
3489 10151
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 320DEG 7KT 3516 10117 3506 10141
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL JACK COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has weakened.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However gusty winds are
still possible with this thunderstorm.
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Execution set for man convicted of stabbing woman 37 times
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of breaking into a woman’s Florida Panhandle apartment and fatally stabbing her 37 times in 1986 is set to be executed next month under a death warrant signed Monday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Darryl B. Barwick’s execution is set for May 3 at 6 p.m. It’s the third execution scheduled in Florida this year after a break dating back to 2019. Donald Dillbeck was executed in February, and Louis Bernard Gaskin is set to be euthanized April 12.
The execution would be only the fifth under DeSantis, a far slower pace than recent Florida governors — and ahead of his widely expected presidential campaign.
According to court records, Rebecca Wendt, 24, was sunbathing at her Panama City apartment complex on March 31, 1986. When she eventually returned to her apartment, investigators said Barwick followed her inside and attacked her. Wendt’s sister, who also lived at the apartment, returned home later that night and found Wendt’s body wrapped in a blanket.
Investigators reported finding bloody footprints and fingerprints in the home. Wendt’s bathing suit appeared as though someone had tried unsuccessfully to remove it, officials said.
An autopsy determined that Wendt had been stabbed 37 times. There was no evidence of sexual assault, but medical examiners reported finding semen on the blanket she was wrapped in.
Barwick was arrested about two weeks after the slaying. He told investigators he meant to rob Wendt and only stabbed her after she resisted. Blood tests showed that Barwick was within 2% of the population that could have left the semen on the blanket.
Barwick, 56, was found guilty of first-degree murder in November 1986 and sentenced to death two months later following the jury’s 9-3 recommendation. He was also convicted of armed burglary, attempted sexual battery and armed robbery.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After Mississippi spent millions of dollars in welfare money on Brett Favre’s pet project, a university volleyball arena, the retired NFL quarterback tried two years later to get additional cash from the state’s welfare agency for another sports facility, new court documents show.
The governor at the time, Republican Phil Bryant, texted in 2019 with Favre, who wanted to build an indoor practice facility for the University of Southern Mississippi’s football team. Bryant told him federal money for children and low-income adults is “tightly controlled” and “improper use could result in violation of Federal Law.”
Text messages between Bryant and Favre are in court documents filed Friday by Bryant’s lawyers, which seek to show the governor was willing to help Favre raise private money for the volleyball facility starting in 2017 and was unaware for more than two years that welfare money was going to the project.
Mississippi’s largest-ever public corruption case has ensnared several people, including a pro wrestler whose drug rehab was funded with welfare money.
The state has filed a civil lawsuit against Favre and others to recover more than $20 million in misspent welfare money intended to help needy people in one of the country’s poorest states. Bryant and Favre are not facing criminal charges, and Bryant is not among those named in the state’s civil lawsuit.
A former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, John Davis, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal and state felony charges in a conspiracy to misspend welfare money. Davis was appointed by Bryant in February 2016 and fired by him in July 2019. Davis has agreed to testify against others.
Attorneys for a nonprofit organization being sued, Mississippi Community Education Center, sent a subpoena to Bryant in late July, seeking communication between the former governor and any other person about the volleyball arena.
The nonprofit was run by Nancy New and her son, Zachary New, who in April pleaded guilty to state charges of misusing welfare money. They also agreed to testify against others.
In the court filing Friday, Bryant objected to producing documents unless it was under a protective order to prevent public release of the contents.
“This motion was brought in bad faith and solely to annoy, embarrass, and oppress Governor Bryant because he refused to turn a blind eye to the crimes perpetrated by New and Davis,” Bryant’s attorneys wrote.
Favre’s request for money from the Mississippi Department of Humans Services to fund the football facility went nowhere. Favre made the request July 28, 2019, as he was unsuccessfully trying to recruit the son of another retired NFL player, Deion Sanders, to the university in Hattiesburg.
Favre played football at the University of Southern Mississippi before going to the NFL in 1991. Bryant and New are also alumni, and Favre wrote to Bryant that having an indoor practice facility would give the football program “instant credibility.”
Favre’s daughter started playing volleyball at the university in 2017. The new court papers said Bryant first learned Favre was trying to raise money for a volleyball arena on April 20, 2017, when Favre texted the governor to say he and his wife, Deanna, were building the facility.
“I need your influence somehow to get donations and or sponsorships,” Favre texted Bryant. “Obviously Southern has no money so I’m hustling to get it raised.”
The documents said Bryant replied a few hours later, “Of course I am all in on the Volleyball facility. … One thing I know how to do is raise money.'”
In July 2017, Favre texted Bryant about the volleyball facility again, asking “if we can find a contractor that would say hey rather than give you money I’ll build for free!! Maybe you know of someone.”
Bryant replied he was “all over it.”
“It is important to note that, in these early text messages, Favre never mentioned the use of public funds, much less the use of TANF funds for the construction of the facility,” Bryant’s attorneys wrote Friday. “At this time, the discussions between Favre and Governor Bryant were focused on private donations and corporate sponsorships.”
In July 2017, court records show Davis and Nancy New met about using welfare money to fund the volleyball arena, with Davis committing $4 million. New’s nonprofit later paid Favre $1.1 million for speaking engagements to help him pay for the arena. Favre never made the speeches and later repaid the money, although he has not repaid $228,000 in interest.
Bryant’s attorneys wrote that the governor first learned Human Services was involved with funding the volleyball arena in a text message he received from Favre on July 16, 2019. “I want you to know how much I love Nancy New and John Davis,” Favre wrote. “What they have done for me and Southern Miss is amazing.”
Favre wrote there were plans to do workshops and youth clinics in the volleyball facility with a program run by Nancy New.
“And also I paid for 3/4 of Vball facility and the rest was a joint project with her and John which was saving me 1.8 million,” Favre texted Bryant. “I was informed today that she may not be able to fund her part. I and we need your help very badly Governor and sorry to even bring this up.”
Bryant’s attorneys wrote that “Favre began a campaign to aggressively lobby the governor to help him cover the debt on the USM Volleyball Center.” They also wrote Favre had not paid for three-quarters of the construction costs, and Human Services committed more than $1.8 million to the project.
According to Friday’s court documents, Bryant and Favre met Sept. 4, 2019, with the new Department of Human Services director, retired FBI agent Christopher Freeze. Favre texted Bryant after the meeting: “We obviously need your help big time and time is working against us.” Favre also mentioned the volleyball facility could be named for Bryant, who was in his final months as governor.
Bryant responded: “We are going to get there. This was a great meeting. But we have to follow the law. I am to old for Federal Prison.” He added a smiling emoji with sunglasses. | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-texts-favre-also-sought-welfare-money-for-football-facility/ | 2022-09-26 02:19:54 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-texts-favre-also-sought-welfare-money-for-football-facility/ |
(Stacker) – Since the start of 2023, the United States has averaged more than one mass shooting per day, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit group that tracks gun violence using police reports, government sources, news coverage, and other public data.
No official, universal definition of what constitutes a mass shooting currently exists. Groups define it differently based on the number of victims, whether they are killed or injured, whether the shooting occurs in a public or private space, and whether the shooter targets specific victims. The Gun Violence Archive defines it as an event in which at least four people were killed or injured.
The lack of a consistent definition creates opportunities for people to interpret the data differently, making it difficult for lawmakers to establish a set of agreed-upon facts upon which to address the issue of gun control.
For example, using a much narrower definition of a mass shooting, security specialists who drafted a 2013 congressional report identified just 78 mass shooting events between 1983 and 2012. This figure starkly contrasts with the GVA’s findings for 2014, which determined 273 mass shootings had occurred that year alone.
As to more recent figures, the Gun Violence Archive recorded 647 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2022. Compared to this time last year, mass shootings in 2023 are outpacing last year’s rate.
Stacker cited data from the Gun Violence Archive to visualize the scope of mass shootings thus far in 2023. Data is as of April 10, 2023.
Mass shootings have happened in gun-friendly states—and some stricter ones
Several of the states where mass shootings have occurred this year are those that don’t require gun owners to obtain permits to carry concealed weapons. However, some of the most high-profile mass shootings of this year, like those in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park, California, and Washington D.C., happened in states with stricter gun laws.
Gun violence in the U.S. is a complex problem with many contributing factors beyond state laws; however, a 2022 study from Everytown for Gun Safety comparing state laws to rates of gun violence shows a correlation between the two. States with the most restrictions on gun users also have the lowest rates of gun-related deaths, while states with fewer regulations have a higher death rate from guns.
At 120 firearms per 100 residents, the U.S. is the only country in the world with more civilian-owned guns than people, according to the 2018 Small Arms Survey.
Mass shootings take place in nearly every type of public and private space
This year, shooters have attacked people at schools, cultural celebrations, gas stations, private residences, downtowns, highways, and most recently, workplaces.
The deadliest single event to date remains the Jan 21. shooting in Monterey Park, California, where a gunman killed 11 people and wounded nine others at a dance hall in an Asian American community during a Lunar New Year celebration.
Nine mass shooting incidents occurred between Feb. 17 and Feb. 19—the most of any weekend in 2023. That weekend, nine children were shot at a gas station in Georgia, six people were shot on I-57 in Chicago leaving one toddler dead, and five people, including a 4-year-old, were shot at a parade in New Orleans. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/the-us-surpasses-140-mass-shootings-in-2023-heres-every-event-mapped/ | 2023-04-12 00:27:08 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/the-us-surpasses-140-mass-shootings-in-2023-heres-every-event-mapped/ |
New music track helps people rethink the shopping experience and spend more mindfully
NEW YORK and TORONTO, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Interac and Sixieme Son rethink the shopping experience with a new music track that invites shoppers to spend more mindfully. To help Canadians manage their spending amid rising prices, Sixieme Son, a global sonic branding agency, embraced one of its most exciting challenges to date. On behalf of the Canadian Fintech leader, it created a twenty-minute music track to leverage sound to help customers control how they use their money.
LISTEN TO THE SOUND SHOPPING TRACK HERE
Discover Interac's video explaining Sound Shopping
Recent work by Sixieme Son on Interac's audio identity opened up new opportunities for the brand. So, Interac challenged Sixieme Son to use sound to reduce mindless purchases while positively affecting the shopping experience. The result is Sound Shopping.
Research carried out by Sixieme Son over the past 25 years led to the composition of an original track which taps into the emotional response and behavioral impact music can have. The music features a balance between comfort of listening, surprise and the leveraging of tempo and instrumentation in varied ways.
To put the track to the test, 2000 shoppers across the country took part in an innovative research study. Half of the participants listened to Sound Shopping, while a control group listened to the standard pop-style music typically heard in retail environments. The results speak for themselves: the Sound Shopping track made participants feel calmer and drew a 98% purchase satisfaction rate.
With this track, Interac brings a new sound to increase its brand equity and reaffirm its aspiration: to give its users everyday control of their money so they can get more out of life. Sound Shopping will be the most frequently heard part of the Interac sonic ecosystem, and will provide an exciting boost to the brand's overall memorability.
Interac's sonic identity just won a Transform Award North America, becoming the first ever Canadian brand to win in the "Best use of audio branding" category.
Matt Houghton, Director of digital and integrated marketing, Interac:
"Exploring the interplay between music and shopping behaviours is very meaningful in relation to our brand purpose of helping Canadians get more out of life by being in control of their money. It also reflects the interests and needs of our primary consumer audience who are actively on the go in their daily lives, and seeking tools to help them with their finances."
Michael Boumendil, President & Chief Creative Officer, Sixieme Son:
"Beyond the success of the sonic identity, Interac's innovative approach is truly unprecedented: it benefits all customers and goes much further than any audio initiative previously undertaken by brands in retail."
Valentin Fleur, Managing Director Canada, Sixième Son:
"Using music as a strong emotional connection with users, Interac takes its communications to the next level. The music we created uses all of these elements to trigger a more mindful shopping experience. The way Interac, their ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo and Sixieme Son teams worked together was remarkable and definitely a key success factor."
CREDITS
Agency: Sixieme Son
- President & Chief Creative Officer: Michaël Boumendil
- Managing Director Canada / Head of Strategy: Valentin Fleur
- Project Manager: Julien Courjaud
- Music designers: Alice Lepine, David Delazyn, Eric Caissy
CONTACT – SIXIEME SON
Sophie de Busni - +33 6 25 07 01 29 - s.debusni@sixiemeson.com
Suzanne Moccia – smoccia@carabinercomms.com
CONTACT – INTERAC
Interac Corp. - 416-869-2017 - media@interac.ca
A global sonic branding agency that creates long-lasting sonic identities, designs sonic signals for human-machine interfaces and provides soundscapes for environmental brand experiences.
Sixieme Son has created over 450 sonic identities for brands all over the world. Our goal is to increase brand value by differentiating each brand, calling attention to it, making it memorable and conveying its values through sound. Offices include Toronto, Chicago, New York, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore. Sixieme Son works in all sectors, both B2B and B2C.
Interac empowers Canadians to transact digitally with confidence by providing payment and value exchange services. In helping to develop the future of money, data, and verification in Canada, security is the core of everything we do. Through our privacy, fraud mitigation, governance, and verification and authentication services, we help keep Canadian customers safe and secure when transacting. With nearly 300 financial institutions connected to our network, Canadians choose Interac products over 20 million times a day on average to exchange money. Interac champions workplace culture and corporate citizenship based on the principles of responsibility, diversity and inclusion. We are proud to be one of Canada's leading and most trusted financial brands. For more information, visit our website.
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VIENNA (AP) — A man killed a woman with an ax in the German capital on Sunday morning before being shot dead by police, officials said.
Police said that they were called to an apartment in Berlin’s Lichtenberg neighborhood shortly before 8 a.m. As they arrived, they saw a man striking a woman with an ax.
Officers shot and killed the suspect, according to a police statement. The victim died on the scene of her injuries.
As of Sunday afternoon, police were still investigating the crime. They hadn’t yet released details on the identities of the suspect or the victim, nor on the motive for the attack. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-berlin-police-shoot-dead-man-who-killed-woman-with-an-ax/ | 2022-09-05 11:44:58 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-berlin-police-shoot-dead-man-who-killed-woman-with-an-ax/ |
A fourth-grade Covington Elementary School teacher was surprised to learn Friday during a pep rally that she won a top honor for Southwest Allen County Schools educators.
SACS Superintendent Park Ginder, along with Covington Principal Fred Graf, announced during the school’s Field Day Kick Off Pep Rally that Jennifer Peeper is the district’s 2023 Teacher of the Year.
The morning announcement surprised most everyone, including Peeper, who was soon surrounded by cheering coworkers and family.
“I fell in love with teaching long before I entered a college classroom,” she said. “Teachers along the way showed me the difference you can make by being a consistent, loving and encouraging presence in a student’s life.”
As this year’s SACS Teacher of the Year, Peeper will also be nominated for 2024 Indiana Teacher of the Year.
She joined SACS in 2013 after gaining international teaching experience in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and Cape Town, South Africa.
After teaching for a few years in the local district, Peeper realized many students were coming to school with limited exposure to languages, cultures and even the general Fort Wayne community, SACS said in a news release.
Peeper worked with her second-grade team at Haverhill Elementary to organize Saturday trips around Fort Wayne to bring unique experiences for students called “2nd Grade meets Fort Wayne.” The optional Saturday trips had families meeting at apple orchards, pumpkin fields, downtown markets, the zoo and an ice-skating rink.
Peeper also started monthly Spanish lessons for her second-grade class by partnering with Homestead High School Spanish students who came to the second-grade classes to teach basic Spanish words and phrases.
Peeper loves the chance to support students at their out of school activities, attending countless football, basketball and baseball games. She’s also been in the audience for dance and violin recitals, ice skating and hockey lessons, and even karate and cheer competitions, SACS said.
“If I want my students to be invested in what I’m teaching, I also need to show that I am invested in the things that interest them,” Peeper said.
“This year I organized a new event at Covington called the Imagination Fair – encouraging students to share something that makes them excited, without the traditional restrictions from a science fair,” she said. “Watching 50 students dance, sing, and invent without limits is something I look forward to continuing to grow next year.”
Graf reflected on Peeper’s consistent excellence in the classroom.
“Her ability to engage her students and create a positive learning environment is truly remarkable,” he said. “When in her classroom, students experience a calm perfection and optimal environment for all learners. Mrs. Peeper is not just a great teacher; she is also a mentor and role model for her students.”
SACS Teacher of the Year finalists this year were: Christine Rhodes, Aboite Elementary; Lori Lemke, Deer Ridge Elementary; Heather Ramser, Haverhill Elementary; Matt Loshe, Lafayette Meadows Elementary; Kathleen Lochry, Whispering Meadows Elementary; Caitlin Banton, Summit Middle School; Angela Hubler, Woodside Middle School; and Sally Rauber, Homestead High School. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/covington-teacher-wins-sacs-top-educator-award/article_a533d154-fbd9-11ed-8a80-e72ad3fd1133.html | 2023-05-27 01:11:11 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/covington-teacher-wins-sacs-top-educator-award/article_a533d154-fbd9-11ed-8a80-e72ad3fd1133.html |
Pickleball clubs popping up across Bay Area compete for business
SARASOTA, Fla. - As the sport grows in popularity, pickleball clubs are popping up throughout the Bay Area and it means big business for investors,
Across The Pickleball Club in Sarasota, you'll hear the fierce sounds of friendly competition.
"It's been great. Membership climbs a little bit every week. This is an ideal location for us because we are sitting literally on the border of Lakewood Ranch in Sarasota. It's a very large pickleball community. There's a lot of public parks around us which really helps feed our membership and keeps us moving," said Lance Martin, the director of operations for The Pickleball Club.
READ: Passionate pickleball players push organization to make sport a priority
The Pickleball Club is expanding locations across the state and other options are coming into play, which leads investors like Reuben Pressman to see pickleball as more than a trend.
Pickleball clubs are expanding across Florida.
He's teaming up with one of the top pickleball players in the world, Travis Rettenmaier, to build the first-ever pickleball club in St. Petersburg.
"It’s St. Pete Athletic. We're building a 16-course athletic club with a full restaurant and bar. All the amenities you could wish for," Pressman explained.
READ: Preparation is key to preventing pickleball injuries
Like The Pickleball Club, players can compete out of the heat.
"He's come with the idea that we need indoor courts. We need somewhere for families to go. We need a real pickleball facility that kind of drives the community forward. And I think we're seeing that all across the country", said Rettenmaier.
Jarrett Sabatini, the owner of Intermezzo Coffee and Cocktails is looking forward to his own serving area in the club.
"Yeah, it's a different type of kitchen. People can come have good food, good drinks while they're playing, or if you're not a pickleball player, you can still come and, you know, maybe watch a different game on TV or just socialize in general," shared Sabatini.
An open-air facility is also in the works in Ybor City.
A pickleball club is in the works for Ybor City.
The Tampa Pickleball Crew is in the process of building its own courts of dreams.
"It's going to be membership-based where we'll have two bays. One of them will house three courts and bay number two will actually have four courts for all of our members to play on," said Dene Williamson with the Tampa Pickleball Crew.
So while picklers compete on the courts there will be more options across the Bay Area to compete for their business.
Pickleball players play on outdoor court.
"There's actually 66 new places that are opening each month of play around the country. We've had 37 million players in the last 12 months. It's definitely not a fad by any sense", said Pressman.
Click here for more information about The Pickleball Club.
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Click here for more information about the Tampa Pickleball Crew. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/pickleball-clubs-popping-up-across-bay-area-compete-for-business | 2023-07-13 12:58:07 | 1 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/pickleball-clubs-popping-up-across-bay-area-compete-for-business |
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, November 3, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
1022 AM EDT Thu Nov 3 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Visibility as low as one quarter mile at times in dense
fog. The most widespread and dense fog will be found mainly
north of Niagara Falls, Lockport, Medina, and Albion late this
morning...before slowly dissipating early this afternoon.
* WHERE...Niagara and Orleans counties.
* WHEN...Until 2 PM EDT this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The dense fog from earlier this morning has largely
dissipated...therefore the advisory has been cancelled.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Minerva Intelligence Inc. (TSXV: MVAI) (OTCQB: MVAIF) ("Minerva" or the "Company"), an artificial intelligence software company focused on building decision support tools for climate risk, mineral exploration and mining, announces its financial results for the three-month period ended September 30, 2022 ("Q3"). All amounts are presented in Canadian dollars.
- Total revenues for the three-month period ended September 30th, 2022, of $89,422
- Net loss for the three-month period ended September 30th, 2022, of $812,124
- Cash balance of $812,684 and working capital of $595,196
For full details on Minera's reported results, please go to https://minervaintelligence.com/investors.
About Minerva Intelligence Inc.
Minerva Intelligence Inc. is a software development company based in Vancouver, Canada, with a subsidiary office in Darmstadt, Germany. Their proprietary technology is empowering organizations to make defensible decisions in the face of climate change. Although Minerva's applications focus on the search for critical metals and the assessment of physical climate risk, their technology has application in diverse industries and domains. Minerva's common shares are currently listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (symbol MVAI). For further details, please refer to their website www.minervaintelligence.com or follow Minerva on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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ROME (AP) — Italy’s government has endorsed legislation that would outlaw laboratory-grown food and allow stiff fines for those who make it or sell it, a proposal that is part of Premier Giorgia Meloni’s crusade to protect “made in Italy” products.
Meloni celebrated with farmers after her Cabinet on Tuesday evening approved measures that provide for fines as high as 60,000 euros ($60,000) and for the confiscation of “synthetic food.” The proposed penalties, which the Italian Parliament would need to turn into law, cover both food for people and animal feed.
Championing the law was a close Meloni stalwart, Francesco Lollobrigida, who is the minister of agriculture, food sovereignty and forests. His ministry’s title is a new one that reflects the focus of Meloni’s right-wing coalition government on homegrown products.
A government statement said the ban on lab-grown food was proposed, “in respect for the principle of precaution,” to protect human health and Italy’s “farm-food heritage.”
Meloni’s five-month-old coalition has a comfortable majority in Parliament, but Italy’s legislative process is usually a long one, and there was no indication when such a law might become reality.
“We couldn’t help but celebrate with our farmers a measure that puts Italy into the vanguard on a theme not only in the defense of excellence, a particularly important subject for us, but also on the theme of the defense of consumers,” Meloni said outside the premier’s office after the Cabinet meeting.
Members of Italy’s powerful farm lobby, Coldiretti, an important source of votes, especially in the country’s north, were on hand to clap for the Italian leader.
The lobby said some 500,000 Italians had signed petitions as part of a drive it launched to demonstrate support for the proposed measures. It said the appeal aimed to “save ‘Made in Italy’ on the dinner table from the attack by multinational” companies, which are pioneering lab-grown meats.
Agriculture is a mainstay of the Italian economy. Last month, Coldiretti estimated that Italian food exports, including of wine, were valued at more than 60 billion euros ($65 billion) last year.
Campaigns against laboratory-grown meat run counter to pushes by environmentalists to limit greenhouse gases, much of which is produced by agriculture, particularly the cattle industry.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, no food made from cultured animal cells are currently available for sale in the United States. The process that the FDA calls an “emerging area of food science” involves taking a small number of cells from living animals and growing them in a controlled environment to create food.
For now, manufacturers are working on how to ramp up their processes to yield quantities large enough for competitive pricing.
Meloni has long railed against food trends that contrast with Italy’s classic Mediterranean diet, which is heavy on fruit and vegetables as well as pasta and fish. During her election campaign last year, she repeatedly lambasted European Union rules regulating the use of insects for human food, saying the bloc should have concentrated more on energy policy than on niche foods.
Separately, the agriculture minister announced that the government had signed four decrees regulating flour derived from insects such as crickets. The decrees specify that labels must clearly indicate to consumers that the flour contains ground-up insects.
Meloni’s government is promoting Italian cuisine for possible heritage-for-humanity designation by UNESCO, the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/italy-to-punish-synthetic-food-purveyors-protect-farmers/ | 2023-03-29 21:41:48 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/italy-to-punish-synthetic-food-purveyors-protect-farmers/ |
Memphis braces for release of video showing Tyre Nichols arrest
The city of Memphis and the nation on Friday braced for the release of a police video depicting five officers viciously beating Tyre Nichols, a Black man whose death prompted murder charges against them and outrage at the country’s latest instance of police brutality.
The officers were charged Thursday with murder and other crimes in the killing of Nichols, a motorist who died three days after a confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop on Jan. 7.
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told a news conference that although the officers each played different roles in the killing, “they are all responsible.”
The officers, who are all Black, each face charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.
Nichols' family members and their lawyers said the footage shows officers savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx worker for three minutes in an assault that the legal team likened to the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn Davis described the officers' actions as “heinous, reckless and inhumane,” and said Friday that her department has been unable to substantiate the reckless driving allegation that prompted the stop.
“As far as I know today, I do believe that the stop itself was very questionable,” she told Good Morning America.
Video of the traffic stop will be released to the public sometime Friday evening, Mulroy said, noting that local and state investigators wanted to complete as many interviews as possible before releasing it. Nichols' family members viewed the footage on Monday.
Davis told GMA that she and other local officials decided it would be best to release the video later in the day Friday after schools have let out and people are home from work, given that protests are expected to erupt.
As a precaution, Memphis area schools canceled all after-class activities and postponed a school event scheduled for Saturday morning. Other early closures include the Memphis power company's community offices and the University of Memphis.
Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, who said her family is “grief-stricken,” warned supporters of the “horrific” nature of the video but pleaded for peaceful protests.
“I don’t want us burning up our city, tearing up the streets, because that’s not what my son stood for,” she said Thursday. “If you guys are here for me and Tyre, then you will protest peacefully.”
Davis also urged calm after the video’s release.
“I expect our citizens to exercise their First Amendment right to protest, to demand actions and results, but we need to ensure our community is safe in this process,” she said Thursday. “None of this is a calling card for inciting violence or destruction on our community or against our citizens.”
Nichols’ stepfather, Rodney Wells, told The Associated Press by phone that he and RowVaughn Wells discussed the second-degree murder charges and are “fine with it.” They had sought first-degree murder charges.
“There’s other charges, so I’m all right with that,” he said.
Rodney and RowVaughn Wells were joined by several dozen supporters on a cold Thursday night for a candlelight vigil and prayer service at a Memphis skate park. Nichols, who had a 4-year-old son, was an avid skateboarder.
Activists and clergy led the group in prayer and a drummer played a steady rhythm to lead into the spoken part of the vigil. Afterward, skaters rode their boards as the Wellses watched.
Court records showed that all five former officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith — were taken into custody.
Martin's lawyer, William Massey, confirmed that his client had turned himself in. He and Mills' lawyer, Blake Ballin, said their clients would plead not guilty. Lawyers for Smith, Bean and Haley could not be reached.
“No one out there that night intended for Tyre Nichols to die,” Massey said.
Both lawyers said they had not seen the video.
“We are in the dark about many things, just like the general public is,” Ballin said.
Second-degree murder is punishable by 15 to 60 years in prison under Tennessee law.
The attorneys for Nichols' family, Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, issued a statement saying that Nichols "lost his life in a particularly disgusting manner that points to the desperate need for change and reform to ensure this violence stops occurring during low-threat procedures, like in this case, a traffic stop.”
At the White House, President Joe Biden said the Nichols family and the city of Memphis deserve “a swift, full and transparent investigation.”
“Public trust is the foundation of public safety, and there are still too many places in America today where the bonds of trust are frayed or broken,” Biden said in a statement.
Davis said other officers are still being investigated for violating department policy. In addition, she said “a complete and independent review” will be conducted of the department’s specialized units, without providing further details.
Two fire department workers were also removed from duty over Nichols’ arrest.
As state and federal investigations continue, Davis promised the police department’s “full and complete cooperation” to determine what contributed to Nichols’ Jan. 10 death.
Crump said the video showed that Nichols was shocked, pepper-sprayed and restrained when he was pulled over near his home. He was returning home from a suburban park where he had taken photos of the sunset.
Police have said Nichols was stopped for reckless driving and fled from the scene at some point.
Relatives have accused the police of causing Nichols to have a heart attack and kidney failure. Authorities have only said Nichols experienced a medical emergency.
One of the officers, Haley, was accused previously of using excessive force. He was named as a defendant in a 2016 federal civil rights lawsuit while employed by the Shelby County Division of Corrections.
The claims were ultimately dismissed after a judge ruled that the plaintiff had failed to file a grievance against the officers within 30 days of the incident.
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Associated Press reporters Aaron Morrison in New York, Travis Loller in Nashville, Tennessee, and Rebecca Reynolds in Lexington, Kentucky, contributed to this report. | https://www.wgal.com/article/memphis-braces-for-release-of-video-showing-tyre-nichols-arrest/42687994 | 2023-01-27 19:00:22 | 1 | https://www.wgal.com/article/memphis-braces-for-release-of-video-showing-tyre-nichols-arrest/42687994 |
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A concrete obelisk with Soviet stars at the top that was the centerpiece of a monument commemorating the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany was taken down Thursday in Latvia's capital.
Heavy machinery was spotted behind a green privacy screen fence at the foot of the nearly 80-meter (260-foot) obelisk shortly before its removal. The column, which had stood like a high-rise in the landscape of downtown Riga, crashed into a nearby pond at Victory Park.
A leading Latvian media outlet broadcast the event live, showing onlookers cheering and applauding as the obelisk fell. It wasn’t immediately clear what would happen to it.
The obelisk, which comprised five spires with three Soviet stars at the top, stood between two groups of statues — a band of three Red Army soldiers and on the other side a woman representing the “Motherland” with her arms held high.
The monument was built in 1985 while Latvia was still part of the Soviet Union. It had stirred controversy since Latvia regained independence in 1991 and eventually became a NATO and European Union member.
The country shares a 214-kilometer (133-mile) border with Russia and has a large ethnic Russian population. On Russia’s annual Victory Day, which commemorates the Soviet victory over Germany in World War II, people gathered in front of the Riga monument to lay flowers.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February has prompted authorities in several eastern European countries to hasten the removal of symbols from their communist eras.
Latvia’s parliament voted to approve the demolition of the Victory Park monument in May, and the Riga City Council followed suit.
Work to clear away the monument started three days ago with the removal of statues. The area was then cordoned off and authorities issued a flight ban for drones over it.
Police temporarily closed traffic near the park on Thursday, citing security reasons.
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TULSA, Okla. and MINNEAPOLIS, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - RideCo, in partnership with Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority (MTTA), Unwire, and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), is powering an exciting new on-demand microtransit program in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Since August 2020, the riders of MTTA have been able to plan their transit journeys and purchase their passes from the award-winning GoPass® app, delivered by DART through Unwire's Mobility Platform.
Tulsa residents are now presented with new choices in the GoPass® solution, including full integration with RideCo's on-demand microtransit platform. The new integration empowers the riders to plan, book, pay for, and track their multimodal journey across traditional fixed routes and on-demand microtransit, enabled by RideCo.
Public transit is no longer simply the traditional modes such as fixed-route buses and trains. Although these remain the backbone of public transit, alternative modes of transportation need to be considered when assessing how to make mobility more equitable and accessible. By integrating RideCo's on-demand microtransit platform with MTTA's existing mobile ticketing and trip planning solution, the rider avoids the hassle of having to download multiple apps to execute their end-to-end journey. Multimodal journeys are now seamless and easy to navigate.
How Does It Work? When requesting a trip in the GoPass® app, riders are matched with the best available option and the trip is then serviced by a fleet of vehicles in the designated area. On-demand fits around the user, not the other way around. It offers a solution to first/last mile problems, short point-to-point trips within a zone, and connections to transit hubs, enabling more access to traditional public transit. In addition, on-demand microtransit trips are affordable as they are included in the standard transit offering, providing more access to a broader range of users.
"MTTA's vision is to make transit easily accessible for all citizens. Greater flexibility and superior rider experience will encourage more people to use transit," stated Scott Marr, General Manager at MTTA. "Our new partners RideCo and Unwire have helped make our vision a reality as we launch the on-demand service. It is now completely integrated with all modes of transit, making end-to-end trip planning on a single app a reality."
The integration is supported by a strong partnership between Unwire and RideCo that will enable agencies using Unwire's Mobility Platform to leverage the innovative Unwire-RideCo integration in their solutions.
"We are delighted with the new integration of RideCo in our Mobility Platform. It ties into the very core of what Unwire's platform is all about, and we are looking forward to following how this new integration will support the transit operations of MTTA," said Rikke Espe, Chief Commercial Officer at Unwire.
"DART and MTTA have maintained a multi-year partnership to jointly deliver world-class mobility solutions powered by DART's GoPass® app," said Gregory Elsborg, VP and Chief Innovation Officer at DART. "The integration of RideCo with GoPass® enables Tulsa to add flexibility to their service offering while expanding rider options. We have learned a lot through operating DART's GoLink service. It has been our pleasure to share these learnings in support of a successful rollout for Tulsa's on-demand program while working with new and long-standing partners in RideCo and Unwire."
"RideCo is constantly looking for ways to continue driving innovation through integrating with other platforms to further enhance public transit and connect more riders to the fixed-route system," stated Prem Gururajan, Founder and CEO at RideCo. "Working alongside Unwire, DART, and the team at MTTA, we have created a personalized experience for riders, one that's convenient, efficient, and affordable."
RideCo is an industry leader in on-demand transit technology, enabling on-demand ridesharing for transit riders around the globe. We partner with transit agencies, municipalities, and experienced local fleet operators to design and operate on-demand transit services. Our solutions reduce travel time, decrease walking distance, and increase service frequency for riders while lowering transit agencies' cost-per-ride, reducing demand for parking, and attracting net new riders to transit systems. RideCo continuously drives innovation and to-date has been awarded U.S. Patent Nos. 10,248,913 ; 10,853,743 ; and 11,429,910. To learn more about our proprietary cloud-based platform and how it can revolutionize mobility in your city, visit www.rideco.com.
The Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority (Tulsa Transit) was formed in August 1968 by the City of Tulsa. Tulsa Transit was set up as a public trust to continue the operations of the private bus service that had been run by the Missouri, Kansas & Oklahoma bus company (MK&O Lines).
Today Tulsa Transit services 199 square miles of Tulsa and surrounding areas such as Jenks, Sand Springs, and Broken Arrow. We operate Fixed Route and Paratransit bus services, and Tulsa Transit administration is overseen by a seven-member Board of Trustees.
Unwire is a Danish based company, specializing in mobility solutions, and built on more than two decades of experience with mobile solutions and public transit fare collection.
Unwire's Mobility Platform is a white-label mobility solution for transit agencies, cities, and their citizens, that enables seamless end-to-end journey experiences. From planning, booking, and paying for multimodal journeys to communicating with the passengers, Unwire removes barriers to mobility so that everyone can get on board.
Unwire's Mobility Platform powers solutions for multiple transit agencies in the US, including Tulsa Transit, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Charlotte Area Transit System, Valley Metro, and Minnesota Valley Transit Authority.
DART is the public transit agency for 13 cities in the North Texas region. It operates an extensive multimodal network of DART Light Rail, Trinity Railway Express commuter rail, Dallas Streetcar, bus routes, GoLink on-demand services, and paratransit services, providing service to more than 220,000 passengers per day across our 700-square-mile service area.
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U.S. parents are less interested in laws that would ban transgender youth from accessing health care or prohibit the teaching of critical race theory than they are policies that zero in on issues like affordable childcare and gun safety, new polling from Navigator shows.
Majorities of Independents, Republicans, and parents back Democratic-led policy proposals like expanding family and medical leave for workers and creating more affordable childcare options for families, according to the poll, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters nationwide in February.
A majority of voters also ranked proposed policies including offering free community college and reimplementing an expanded tax break for certain families with children high on their list of priorities. Expanding universal preschool education for three- and four-year-olds and doubling college scholarships for future teachers are also popular among U.S. voters, regardless of their political affiliation.
Overall, voters said they were mostly opposed to banning the teaching of critical race theory in schools and barring transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming health care or using school facilities that match their gender identity.
More than 100 bills to ban gender-affirming health care for minors have been introduced in state legislatures this year, and four of them have already become law.
Since 2020, 18 states have enacted laws that bar transgender women and girls from competing on female sports teams. On Wednesday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce considered federal legislation to redefine sex in Title IX to mean “a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
Meanwhile, since 2021, at least 44 states have introduced legislation or taken other steps to restrict the teaching of critical race theory or limit how public school teachers can address systemic inequality and racism in the classroom, Education Week reported.
In January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) administration rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course, alleging the class contests with state law and “significantly lacks educational value.” Florida’s education department has also banned the teaching of critical race theory, a college-level theory addressing systemic racism.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), whose administration last year proposed a slate of model transgender policies that sparked widespread outrage from students and LGBTQ advocacy groups, has also requested a review of the course.
Nearly 70 percent of voters in the Navigator poll said they opposed banning high school classes like AP African American studies. Fifty-seven percent said they also oppose removing books that some parents find to have “questionable content” from schools and libraries.
More than 1,600 books were banned in the 2021-2022 school year, a September PEN America report found, with most banned content featuring protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color and LGBTQ storylines.
According to the Navigator poll, a majority of Independents trust Democrats more than Republicans when it comes to “looking out for children,” but are more divided on which party cares most about “children’s well-being.”
Republicans, according to the survey, stand alone in their prioritization of “preventing [children] from being exposed to woke ideas” over protecting them from gun violence. More than half of Republican respondents – 54 percent – said shielding youth from “woke” ideas about race and gender is paramount, while just 40 percent said keeping children safe from mass shootings in schools and other public places is a top priority.
An overwhelming majority of Democrats and smaller majorities of Independents and parents said protecting youth from gun violence is the No. 1 most important issue when it comes to the nation’s children.
More than 6,000 young children and teens in the U.S. were injured or killed in mass shootings last year, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, the largest single-year tally since the organization began tracking in 2014.
In June, Congress passed a sweeping gun safety package in response to mass shootings at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y. and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The measure, which had bipartisan support, has been criticized by Republicans including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who voted against the bill.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who broke with Texas Republicans last year to pass the legislation in the House, was censured by the state Republican Party last week over his vote on the bill and other Democrat-backed legislation, including the Respect for Marriage Act.
In the Navigator survey, Democrats, Independents, Republicans and parents were all in agreement however, that making sure children “learn the things they need to know to be successful in school and life” is a top priority when it comes to the nation’s youth.
Parents and voters across the political spectrum were also similarly aligned in their prioritization of youth mental health and making childcare accessible to working families but were more divided in whether “curbing climate change” is a top priority.
When asked specifically about their educational concerns, Democrats, Independents, Republicans and parents all said they are most worried about children “not learning the material they need to know” to be successful. A majority of respondents similarly agreed that mental health issues in students and a lack of funding for public schools are among their biggest concerns. | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/laws-banning-gender-affirming-health-care-critical-race-theory-rank-low-on-priority-list-of-parents/ | 2023-03-10 19:32:50 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/laws-banning-gender-affirming-health-care-critical-race-theory-rank-low-on-priority-list-of-parents/ |
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Graham Gano kicked a 56-yard field goal with 3:34 to play and the Giants beat Carolina 19-16 Sunday, giving New York its first 2-0 start since 2016 and sending the Panthers to their ninth straight loss.
Gano also hit from 52, 36 and 33 yards and Daniel Jones found rookie tight end Daniel Bellinger on a 16-yard touchdown pass as the Giants responded in the second half after being booed off the field at halftime of a 6-6 game.
Baker Mayfield hit DJ Moore for a 16-yard touchdown for a 13-6 lead early in the second half for the Panthers (0-2). Eddy Pineiro kicked field goals of 31, 32 and 38 yards for Carolina, the last one tying the game at 16-all with 10:40 to play.
Saquon Barkley, who rushed for 72 yards on 21 carries, had runs of 10 and 8 yards as the Giants responded with an 11-play, 37-yard drive to take the lead. It was much like New York’s late drive in its season-opening win over Tennessee.
The Panthers got the ball back, gained 12 yards and were forced to punt, allowing the Giants and Jones (22 of 34 for 176 yards) to close out the game after the quarterback scrambled for a first down on third-and-6.
Christian McCaffrey led the Panthers with 15 carries for 102 yards. Mayfield finished 14 of 29 for 145 yards.
The Panthers’ losing streak is the longest active skid in the NFL. Matt Rhule is 10-25 as Carolina’s coach.
The Panthers tried to hand the game to the Giants early. Chuba Hubbard, replacing the injured Andre Roberts, fumbled the opening kickoff and then receiver Robbie Anderson coughed up the ball on the next series after a catch at his own 40.
Despite great field position, the Giants were shut down by Carolina’s defense — New York was held to 60 yards in the first half — and settled for two field goals.
INJURIES
Panthers CB Donte Jackson and backup DT Bravvion Roy were ruled out in the second half with hamstring injuries. … Leonard Williams, the Giants’ best defensive lineman, hurt a knee in the third quarter and left the game. … New York had four starters out: OLBs Kayvon Thibodeaux (knee) and Azeez Ojulari (calf), WR Wan’Dale Robinson (knee) and CB Aaron Robinson (appendicitis).
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) -- The St. Elias Orthodox Church's 49th annual Mediterranean Festival is coming up on Sunday. Parishioners and volunteers are hard at work preparing for Sunday's event.
With activities, music and of course the food there is plenty to do leading up to the festival, which includes the preparation of a variety of Mediterranean foods.
"Well of course, number one, you can find the food, that's our number one thing," St. Elias Orthodox Church publicist Richard Markos said. "We're going to be featuring a chicken kabob meal, we're also going to feature a sliced lamb dinner and also a falafel dinner. All of the dinner's include Syrian rice, Greek salad with tzatziki sauce, pita, hummus, Kalamata olives from Greece."
Wednesday evening, volunteers spent time working in the kitchen preparing what organizers said is one of the most popular items at the festival - baklava. From the homemade filling to the many layers of filo dough, they made enough for more than 300 people.
"Everybody thinks it's so complicated when they see the dessert and actually it's so simple and easy to make," Parishioner Violeta Toteva said. "It's also fun."
She added that the sweet dessert has a pretty interesting history.
"It is a pure Turkish delight - Turkish dessert," Toteva said. "It was a sign of being well and aristocratic in the society to be able to eat the baklava. They were very serious and [had] big competitions between chefs and bakers that made the best filo dough."
According to the festival's co-chair Olga Anderson, being able to share their history and traditional food, is just another way to share parts of their cultures with the region.
"We think that the best part is just to share love, because food is love," Anderson said. "When we invite our guests, we like to treat them nicely, we like to feed them the best food that we have - the family recipes that have been in the family for maybe hundreds of years. So, food is very important to us."
The festival takes place Sunday 12-5 p.m. The event it free but tickets are for sale for the traditional dinners. | https://www.wxow.com/news/st-elias-orthodox-church-is-bringing-a-taste-of-the-mediterranean-to-the-region/article_387620a0-2751-11ee-8e33-976a91f7a9d3.html | 2023-07-21 00:37:58 | 0 | https://www.wxow.com/news/st-elias-orthodox-church-is-bringing-a-taste-of-the-mediterranean-to-the-region/article_387620a0-2751-11ee-8e33-976a91f7a9d3.html |
Feel the thrill of 'going electric' at North America's Largest Electric Vehicle Festival
LONG ISLAND, N.Y., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrify Expo, North America's largest electric-vehicle festival, is making its third stop on its national tour in New York, Saturday, August 27 through Sunday, August 28, at the Nassau Coliseum. The outdoor festival offers attendees the chance to demo the world's leading brands in EV technology and mobility from electric cars, e-bikes, e-motorcycles, e-skateboards, e-scooters, and more.
Attendees will experience approximately 1 million square feet of exhibits and test rides, as well as learn about EV technology and charging. Brands like BMW, Chrysler, Kia, Lexus, Polestar, Volvo, Volkswagen, and Harley-Davidson's Livewire will be on-site, as well as iconic bike brands like Specialized, SUPER73, and others. Multiple demo courses offer attendees the opportunity to feel the thrill of electric vehicles. The family-friendly festival also includes the Hover-1 Kids Zone with test rides for New York's adrenaline-chasing youth.
As New York legislators continue to push for 100% electric vehicle sales by 2035, consumers are looking for an interactive way to test multiple products before they buy. According to Consumer Reports, the biggest barrier to EV adoption is simply the opportunity to test drive them. As the premier North American festival for testing the latest in electric vehicles and e-mobility, Electrify Expo answers this problem with fun, meaningful test drives that convince consumers to jump into electric vehicles of all kinds. With more than 70,000+ demo rides expected and 125,000+ e-curious consumers estimated to attend the five-stop tour in 2022, consumers can expect a fun-filled day of experiencing electric vehicles of all types.
To register for a press pass to attend Electrify Expo, you are invited to apply here https://www.electrifyexpo.com/exhibits-press#Press
Electrify Expo is North America's largest outdoor electric vehicle festival showcasing the latest electric vehicles and products, including EVs, e-motorcycles, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards, e-boats, e-surfboards, and more from top brands around the world. The festival addresses one of the most challenging barriers to mass adoption of electric vehicles with meaningful hands-on experiences, demonstrations, and test rides. Electrify Expo meets the soaring demand for companies to share new technologies, new modes of mobility and put products in the hands of consumers in a meaningful way. Electrify Expo will feature more than 1M+ square feet of exhibit space in Los Angeles County, Seattle, New York, Miami, and Austin.
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Carrier continues streamlining business travel program contracts with industry-standard data solution
DALLAS, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today announced an expanded partnership with Sabre Corporation to begin utilizing PRISM, an industry-standard data solution designed to streamline the sales process with corporate travel managers and travel management companies. Sabre's PRISM brings decision science to the Southwest® Business Sales Team, allowing the ability to develop a more customized travel solution for business Customers through automated, real-time data insights and trends.
"With PRISM, we can now simplify the contracting process as we continue on our journey to remove friction while bringing more savings, simplicity, and total value when doing business with Southwest Business," said Dave Harvey, Vice President and Chief Sales Officer at Southwest Airlines. "We're thrilled to expand on our decades-long partnership with Sabre and bring its technology solutions to our Customers as we work together to improve the business travel journey."
"We're excited to support Southwest Business and its growth as a trusted partner. This agreement is a testament to the partnership between our companies and our shared vision for the future of travel," said Darren Rickey, Senior Vice President, Global Airline Sales and Account Management, Sabre Travel Solutions. "PRISM provides cutting-edge capabilities and a global scope, positioning it as an industry-standard in corporate solutions."
PRISM automates, aggregates and analyzes corporate sales information globally, providing companies with the decision science to build the right offers for the right customers. In addition to being fully-hosted in the Google cloud, PRISM now offers daily booking data, new user analytics, API connections to link to airline CRM systems, and enhanced user tools to streamline sales teamwork with partner airlines and commercial clients.
Making Travel Management Easier
Southwest Business is focused on making it easier to do business with Southwest. The airline recently added more enhancements to Southwest Business AssistTM, a portal designed for travel managers to streamline corporate travel programs. Among newly introduced features includes the launch of Partner Benefits which adds even more flexibility and value to travel programs. To learn more about how companies can partner with Southwest Business and take advantage of the airline's mission to make business travel easier, visit Southwest.com/AboutBusiness.
ABOUT SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
Southwest Airlines Co. operates one of the world's most admired and awarded airlines, offering its one-of-a-kind value and Hospitality at 121 airports across 11 countries. Southwest took flight in 1971 to democratize the sky through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel and now carries more air travelers flying nonstop within the United States than any other airline1. Based in Dallas and famous for an Employee-first corporate Culture, Southwest maintains an unprecedented record of no involuntary furloughs or layoffs in its history. By empowering its more than 66,0002 People to deliver unparalleled Hospitality, the maverick airline cherishes a passionate loyalty among as many as 130 million Customers carried a year. That formula for success brought industry-leading prosperity and 47 consecutive years3 of profitability for Southwest Shareholders (NYSE: LUV). Southwest leverages a unique legacy and mission to serve communities around the world including harnessing the power of its People and Purpose to put communities at the Heart of its success. Learn more by visiting Southwest.com/citizenship. Southwest is also continuing to develop tangible steps toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, including offering Customers an opportunity to help the airline offset its carbon emissions. To be part of the solution, visit Southwest.com/wannaoffsetcarbon.
1) U.S. Dept. of Transportation most recent reporting of domestic originating passengers boarded
2) Fulltime-equivalent active Employees
3) 1973-2019 annual profitability
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MADISON, Wis., May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Exact Sciences, a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, announced today that it awarded $1.1 million to 18 organizations through its Funding Opportunities for CRC Screening Uptake Strategies (FOCUS) Program. Grant recipients are committed to improving uptake of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and supporting affordable pathways to follow-up care for people who are medically underserved.
CRC is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States.1 The disease disproportionately affects different socioeconomic groups, races, and regions in the United States, with higher rates seen in certain populations, such as Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native communities.2 It has been estimated that tens of thousands of CRC cases and deaths could be prevented if 80% of eligible U.S. adults were screened.2
"Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, yet approximately 60 million average-risk Americans remain unscreened³†," said Paul Limburg, Chief Medical Officer, Screening, at Exact Sciences. "Awareness and access are critical to increasing screenings, and Exact Sciences is honored to support these organizations that are driving screening uptake and addressing inequities within their communities."
Launched in June 2022, the FOCUS Program provides grant funding to community organizations, health foundations, public health organizations, and advocacy groups working to increase access to CRC screening and reduce barriers to follow-up colonoscopy.
Exact Sciences developed Cologuard®, the first and only FDA-approved, noninvasive, multi-target, stool-based DNA screening test that people can use at home. Since making the test available in 2014, more than 11 million people have used Cologuard to screen for CRC.
Awardees
Advocates for Community Wellness, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
The organization plans to implement a cancer awareness program focused on reducing CRC morbidity and mortality for people of color.
AltaMed Health Services Corporation
Los Angeles, California
The group will build on its award-winning CRC screening and follow-up program, using community health workers to educate patients about screening and help them navigate care.
Bond Community Health Center
Tallahassee, Florida
The center will continue its "They Matter. You Matter" project to educate people about the importance of CRC screenings and explore new methods for engaging patients.
Communities First, Inc.
Flint, Michigan
The organization is expanding its Family Mobility Services and community health education materials aimed at reaching medically underserved populations.
Community Health Center, Inc.
Middletown, Connecticut
Funding will support the integration of a CHW into the CRC process as a way to provide one-on-one education, support patients in completing screening and receiving appropriate follow-up care, and helping overdue patients re-engage in this life-saving screening.
Erie Family Health Center, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
The organization plans to increase access to and rates of CRC screening. It will ensure pathways to follow-up colonoscopies for patients across its 13 centers.
Kaleida Health Foundation/Great Lakes Cancer Care Collaborative
Buffalo, New York
The community outreach team aims to increase colorectal cancer awareness for 900 individuals from primarily disadvantaged neighborhoods. These individuals face roadblocks to cancer screening including knowledge of available screening tools and their eligibility.
Kenosha Community Health Center, Inc.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
The center intends to better understand patient motivation and screening barriers. It will also explore new technology and workflows for managing the CRC screening patient cohort.
R.L. Jones Community Outreach Center
Flint, Michigan
Funding will support a partnership between the R.L. Jones Community Outreach Center and the Michigan State University Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health. This project will focus on educating hard-to-reach residents in the community about CRC screening.
Milwaukee Black Grassroots Network for Health Equity
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The organization will promote CRC screening in highly disadvantaged neighborhoods, with a goal of reaching 500 African American people at higher risk of developing CRC.
Nebraska Cancer Coalition
Lincoln, Nebraska
The coalition will address intersecting issues of health disparities/health equity and education surrounding CRC screenings in rural and urban settings.
Northwestern Memorial Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
Through Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, the organization aims to increase colorectal cancer awareness for 1,500 Bronzeville residents who have higher risk for colorectal cancer and higher mortality rates than the average person in Chicago.
Odyssey House Louisiana, Inc.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The organization will execute a patient-centered program that uses one-on-one education to increase CRC screenings and understanding of the importance of regular screening.
Olathe Community Clinic Inc., dba River Family Health Centers
Olathe, Colorado
The funding supports a project that will meet the pressing need to increase CRC screenings, especially for low-income, uninsured, Hispanic/Latino, and other populations at risk.
Refuah Health Center, Inc.
Spring Valley, New York
The center intends to increase equitable access to CRC screening and comprehensive gastroenterology care within low-income, marginalized communities.
Shawnee Health Service and Development Corporation
Carterville, Illinois
The organization's community health workers will provide patient navigation and education to those who have been prescribed a CRC screening but have not yet completed it.
Taking Aim at Cancer in Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
Each participating clinic aims to increase its baseline screening rate among individuals with low incomes, with a goal of bringing down the state's high death rate from CRC.
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees dba HealthARCH
Orlando, Florida
UCF HealthARCH, a division of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, will implement a screening program at four health systems serving populations at high risk.
About the FOCUS Program
Launched in June 2022, Exact Sciences' Funding Opportunities for CRC Screening Uptake Strategies (FOCUS) Program provides grant funding to community organizations, health foundations, public health organizations, and CRC advocacy groups to expand access to colorectal cancer screening and create affordable pathways to follow-up diagnostic care. FOCUS reflects Exact Sciences' ongoing commitment to meet people where they are and offer solutions to overcome barriers to care, regardless of a patient's race, ethnicity, gender identity, socioeconomic status, or geographic location. Submissions are reviewed via Exact Sciences' corporate grants process, which is fully independent from sales and marketing activities. Funding decisions are based solely on the strength of the application and alignment with FOCUS Program objectives, without regard to any actual or potential commercial relationships with potential grantees. Learn more information about the FOCUS Program here.
About Exact Sciences Corp.
A leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, Exact Sciences gives patients and health care professionals the clarity needed to take life-changing action earlier. Building on the success of the Cologuard® and Oncotype® tests, Exact Sciences is investing in its pipeline to develop innovative solutions for use before, during, and after a cancer diagnosis. For more information, visit ExactSciences.com, follow Exact Sciences on Twitter @ExactSciences, or find Exact Sciences on LinkedIn and Facebook.
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References:
- American Cancer Society. Colorectal Cancer Facts & Figures 2023-2025. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; 2023.
- Meester RG, Doubeni CA, Zauber AG, et al. Public health impact of achieving 80% colorectal cancer screening rates in the United States by 2018. Cancer. 2015;121(13):2281-2285.
- Fisher D, et al. J Clin Oncol. 2022;40(4 suppl):65. doi:10.1200/JCO.2022.40.4_suppl.065
† Exact Sciences' estimate assumes 50% screening rate for Americans ages 50-85 and 10% screening rate for ages 45-49.
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA stripped Russia of hosting rights on Wednesday for the season-opening Super Cup game in August because of the country’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
The city of Kazan, which was a 2018 World Cup host, was due to stage the curtain-raising game between the winners of this season’s Champions League and Europa League.
It will now be played in Athens at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium home of Olympiakos on Aug. 16, UEFA said after an executive committee meeting.
UEFA had not moved the Super Cup from Russia despite taking the 2022 Champions League final from St. Petersburg within days of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine last February.
Russian teams have been banned from UEFA and FIFA competitions since Feb. 28 and the International Olympic Committee also advised sports governing bodies not to let Russia host events.
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Veteran actor Fred Ward, who parlayed rugged everyman looks into a lengthy career playing everything from historic American heroes to a monster-fighting repairman, has died, his representative said Friday.
Ward was 79 when he passed away on Sunday. The cause of his death was not immediately revealed.
The San Diego native and Air Force veteran had stints as a short-order cook, boxer and Alaskan lumberjack before finding his true calling as an actor in the 1970s, Ward's manager Ron Hoffman said in a statement.
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SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) _ Nutrien Ltd. (NTR) on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $1.58 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based company said it had profit of $2.94. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were $2.51 per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.92 per share.
The producer of potash and other fertilizers posted revenue of $8.19 billion in the period, which also fell short of Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $9.02 billion.
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Which baby memory book is best?
New parents always hear about how quickly time flies and how fast their child grows up. However, it doesn’t exactly hit them until their child is suddenly going to high school or even moving out for college.
Getting a quality baby memory book is an excellent way to look back to when their children needed them the most. The best books all have a few common factors, but if you’re looking for the best option, check out the C.R. Gibson Perfect-Bound Memory Book.
What to know before you buy a baby memory book
Personalization
Like how no two children are the same, neither should be quality baby memory books. The best ones allow for moderate levels of personalization to make them uniquely theirs. For example, while a majority of children smile, their first smile won’t be in the exact same place and time. One child might show their first smile in the car ride home from the hospital, and new parents can note how it made them feel in the moment. At the same time, another might have their first smile in the living room after a long crying bout.
It can be difficult to avoid generic covers. However, the best baby memory books allow parents to customize the pages to truly make it a part of their family history.
Material
The materials used to create the book is of utmost importance because it’s one that you need to last for many years. If the cover quality is made from cheap material, it’s likely to show signs of wear relatively quickly. That means your precious memories and photos are at risk of exposure to the elements.
Even if you get a book made from high-quality material, you may want to consider placing the book in a keepsake box.
The same principle applies to page quality. Sometimes there’s nothing you can do about pages unbinding. However, it’s always best to look for ones with reinforced pages, so they don’t fall out a few years down the road.
Space
Some baby memory books focus solely on major milestones, like birthdays and holidays. You can also find others that further narrow their focus on daily and monthly details.
As a new parent, it’s up to you to decide how much time you’re willing to put into your baby’s memory book. If you feel that you’ll have enough time and energy left to fill out all the details, it’s advantageous to select a book that allows additional pages.
Also, you may want to select a book with blank pages and minimal guidance to give you all the space you need for any photos, notes or drawings.
What to look for in a quality baby memory book
Timeframe
When it comes to quality baby memory books, there is a wide range of options. Some only cover the nine months during pregnancy, while others contain enough pages to cover your baby’s first five years.
Before purchasing your first baby memory book, consider the overall timeframe. Do you want to consolidate five years’ worth of memories in one book? Or would you prefer purchasing a new book every year or for every occasion?
Format
It can be challenging to know what to write when all you have are blank pages with a few areas to place photos. While some parents prefer blank slates to make it truly theirs, others can benefit from pre-written prompts. This ensures new parents jot everything down. The last thing you want is to read the book years down the road, only to discover you missed a memorable moment.
The best pre-written baby books will contain placeholders for photos and specific baby stats to help mark when they reach certain milestones. These books are best for parents with busy schedules who can’t dedicate too much of their time to their baby’s memory book. On the other hand, parents with an abundance of time might find a memory book with blank pages exceedingly inspirational as they would need increased energy levels to get it filled out.
Design
While the overall design might not matter to some parents, you want it to be something memorable. It also doesn’t hurt if the design happens to match your baby’s nursery or the overall interior style and decor.
How much you can expect to spend on baby memory books
Depending on the book’s brand, size and purpose, you can expect to spend between $17-$40 on a quality baby memory book.
Baby memory book FAQ
What should I include in my baby memory book?
A. Some of the most common material that parents include in their baby memory book includes photos of ultrasounds, the pregnancy, the pregnancy test, baby shower memories and other major milestones. You may also want to include the birth story, family tree and potentially some letters. A baby memory book is a personal matter, so take a few minutes and consider what you want to look back on when your child gets older.
When should I start my baby memory book?
A. You can start your book at any time! However, if you plan to include details of the pregnancy, it’s best to get started right away before those memories get lost. Don’t fret if you’re a brand new parent and forgot to start the book throughout the pregnancy. It’s never a day too late to get started because new memories and milestones are achieved every single day.
What’s the best baby memory book to buy?
Top baby memory book
C.R. Gibson Perfect-Bound Memory Book
What you need to know: The C.R. Gibson memory book is the perfect gift for new parents that has a clean, minimalist design.
What you’ll love: This memory book is well-formatted, with separate sections for unique milestones, memories and an outline for a family tree. There are two versions available: one for boys and one for girls. The pages are strongly bound, so they don’t fall out over time, and it also comes with a beautiful ribbon bookmark as a cherry on top.
What you should consider: There’s more room for writing, which isn’t ideal for those who prefer an abundance of photos.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top baby memory book for the money
Pearhead First Five Years Memory Book
What you need to know: This is an affordable option for parents who want to keep the first five years of memories with their child in one consolidated location.
What you’ll love: There’s no need to buy separate ink pads and paper to get impressions of your baby’s hands and footprints with this memory book. Due to the large timeline, it offers a spacious format that allows for plenty of photos and writing.
What you should consider: There isn’t much direction, so it may leave some parents wondering what they should put in this memory book.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
Worth checking out
LovelySprouts Baby Memory Book and Journal
What you need to know: LovelySprouts features a simple and clean gender-neutral baby memory book.
What you’ll love: It’s not only the gender-neutral design that makes this memory book great. The wide range of photo boxes come in various sizes. It also features a durable spiral binding, which ensures it’ll stay together even after the 100th time you’ve gone through the pages.
What you should consider: While the photo boxes come in various sizes, they are all square-shaped, so you may need to cut your photos to size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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TX Midland/Odessa TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, June 8, 2022
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National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
Zone forecast text represents an average of conditions over an
entire zone. For point-specific forecasts, please refer to the
Point Forecast Matrices product, issued by the National Weather
Service Office in Midland/Odessa, WMO header FOUS54 KMAF.
TXZ061-062-092145-
Ector-Midland-
Including the cities of Odessa and Midland
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 90s.
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Gaines-Dawson-Andrews-Martin-
Including the cities of Seminole, Lamesa, Andrews, and Stanton
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds around 10 mph,
becoming south this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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Borden-Scurry-Howard-Mitchell-
Including the cities of Gail, Snyder, Big Spring,
and Colorado City
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south with gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs around 100.
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Central Lea County-Southern Lea County-
Including the cities of Hobbs, Lovington, Eunice, and Jal
219 AM MDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet-
Including the city of Guadalupe Mountains NP
219 AM MDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds around
15 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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TXZ271-092145-
Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains-
Including the cities of Guadalupe Mountains NP and Pine Springs
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022 /219 AM MDT Thu Jun 9 2022/
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 90. East winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming south 15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 90s.
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Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor-
Including the city of Van Horn
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ273-092145-
Eastern Culberson County-
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to
20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ274-092145-
Reeves County Plains-
Including the city of Pecos
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 106. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 110.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
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Pecos-
Including the city of Fort Stockton
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 106. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs 97 to 103.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 90s.
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Terrell-
Including the cities of Dryden and Sanderson
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then clearing. Highs in the
upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, breezy, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ278-092145-
Davis Mountains Foothills-
Including the city of Alpine
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Gusts up
to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
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Davis Mountains-
Including the city of Fort Davis
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming north in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
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TXZ276-092145-
Marfa Plateau-
Including the city of Marfa
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 60s. East winds 10 to 15
mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s to around 70.
East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ275-092145-
Chinati Mountains-
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
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TXZ279-092145-
Central Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Panther Junction,
and Marathon
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. East winds 10 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ282-092145-
Lower Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Lajitas, and Castolon
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 106. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 102 to 108. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 99 to 105.
$$
TXZ280-092145-
Chisos Basin-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP and Chisos Basin
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. East winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ281-092145-
Presidio Valley-
Including the city of Presidio
319 AM CDT Thu Jun 9 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
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Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate, escalating a dispute over the powers of an independent arbiter appointed to inspect the records.
The Trump team asked the justices to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
A three-judge panel from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month limited the special master’s review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. The judges, including two Trump appointees, sided with the Justice Department, which had argued there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own review of the classified records.
But Trump’s lawyers said in their application to the Supreme Court that it was essential for the special master to have access to the classified records to “determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are personal records or Presidential records.”
“Since President Trump had absolute authority over classification decisions during his Presidency, the current status of any disputed document cannot possibly be determined solely by reference to the markings on that document,” the application states.
It says that without the special master review, “the unchallenged views of the current Justice Department would supersede the established authority of the Chief Executive.”
The FBI says it seized roughly 11,000 documents, including about 100 with classification markings, during its search. The Trump team asked a judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, to appoint a special master to do an independent review of the records.
Cannon subsequently assigned a veteran Brooklyn judge, Raymond Dearie, to review the records and segregate those that may be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege. The Justice Department objected to Dearie’s ability to review the classified records, prompting the 11th Circuit to side with the department.
Trump’s lawyers submitted the Supreme Court application to Justice Clarence Thomas, who oversees emergency matters from Florida and several other Southern states. Thomas can act on his own or, as is usually done, refer the emergency appeal to the rest of the court.
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A Princeton University student was arrested Tuesday on charges that he joined other rioters in pushing against police officers guarding an entrance to the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack, court records show.
Larry Fife Giberson, 21, of Manahawkin, New Jersey, was at the front line of the mob’s fight against police in a tunnel when one of the officers was briefly crushed between rioters and tunnel doors, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. Giberson waved other rioters into the tunnel before joining a second round of “heave ho” pushing against police, the agent said.
Giberson tried in vain to start a chant of “Drag them out!” and then cheered on rioters using weapons and pepper spray against police in the tunnel, according to the FBI. Giberson remained in that area for roughly an hour on Jan. 6, 2021, the affidavit says.
Giberson was arrested in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, on charges including a felony count of civil disorder, according to a court filing. He faces four other counts including engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds.
A federal magistrate judge ordered Giberson’s release from custody after his initial court appearance in Washington on Tuesday.
Charles Burnham, an attorney for Giberson, declined to comment on the charges.
University spokesman Michael Hotchkiss said in an email Tuesday that Giberson is currently enrolled at Princeton as an undergraduate.
“We don’t have anything to add beyond that,” Hotchkiss wrote.
Giberson was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and a Trump flag around his neck when he joined the mob’s assault on police officers in a tunnel on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrance, the affidavit says.
The FBI posted images of Giberson on social media to seek the public’s help in identifying him. Online sleuths also posted mages of Giberson online using the “#DragThemOut” hashtag moniker.
Investigators matched photos of Giberson from the Capitol to several images found on Instagram and Princeton University’s website, the FBI agent said. The FBI interviewed Giberson at the Princeton Police Department in the presence of an attorney before his arrest.
Approximately 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot, which disrupted the joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
The FBI agent’s affidavit doesn’t say whether Giberson attended the “Stop the Steal” rally where then-President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters on Jan. 6. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/princeton-student-charged-with-joining-mobs-capitol-attack/ | 2023-03-15 08:06:56 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/princeton-student-charged-with-joining-mobs-capitol-attack/ |
Despite missing two teams from major coasts, the Atlantic is still represented in the King Cotton Holiday Classic, thanks to Windermere (Fla.)
Chalier Torres scored 16 points, Cole White pulled down 17 rebounds, and the Wolverines from greater Orlando tipped off the three-day tournament with a 57-46 win over Greenforest-McCalep Christian Academic Center of Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday.
Torres shot 7 of 13 from the floor, making 2 from 3-point range. Windermere (8-2) survived a 6-for-28 performance from the arc, but shot 24 for 58 (41.4%) from the floor and outrebounded Greenforest 38-30. That was due in large part to White’s work on the offensive glass, where he snatched 8 of his rebounds.
Isaiah Doeceus added 13 points for the Wolverines.
Elijah Lewis scored 14 points. Caleb Kawela registered 13 points and 8 boards to lead Greenforest (4-5), which shot 18 of 45 (40%) from the floor and made 6 of 11 treys.
Travel delays exacerbated by the winter storm prevented California’s St. John Bosco and New York City’s South Shore from making it to Pine Bluff. But, with Windermere, the East Coast is 1-0 in Pine Bluff.
Scoreboard and schedule:
Today’s games
— Windermere (Fla.) 57, Greenforest-McCalep (Ga.) 46
— White Hall 65, Grissom (Ala.) 64
— Silsbee (Texas) 55, Mills University Studies 47
4 p.m. — Beaumont (Texas) United vs. Sidwell Friends School (D.C.)
5:30 p.m. — Newton (Ga.) vs. Jonesboro (Ark.)
7 p.m. — Pine Bluff vs. Fort Bend (Texas) Elkins
8:30 p.m. — McEachern (Ga.) vs. Bishop O’Connell (Va.)
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, May 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
433 PM CDT Sat May 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Knox
County through 500 PM CDT...
At 433 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles west of Benjamin, moving southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Benjamin.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3354 9999 3371 9999 3358 9969 3345 9985
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 309DEG 5KT 3360 9992
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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How Panthers' Jaycee Horn helped South Carolina's Cam Smith, Darius Rush before NFL Draft
COLUMBIA — When South Carolina defensive backs Cam Smith and Darius Rush were preparing for the 2023 NFL Draft, they had a clear blueprint to follow thanks to former teammate Jaycee Horn, now a star cornerback for the Carolina Panthers.
Horn, who was selected No. 8 overall by the Panthers in 2021, was the highest-drafted Gamecock since Jadeveon Clowney went No. 1 in 2014 and one of just five drafted in the top 10 since 2000. After a foot injury during his rookie campaign, Horn had a breakout season in 2022 recording a team-high three interceptions, seven pass breakups and 53 total tackles.
Most draft analysts project Smith as an early-round pick, and he could be the Gamecocks' first Round 1 selection since Horn. He logged 23 solo tackles, six pass breakups and an interception in 2022. Rush is widely projected as a third- or fourth-round pick and is considered one of the top sleepers in the draft. He was South Carolina's No. 2 pass defender last season with seven breakups, plus two interceptions and 28 solo tackles.
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Rush and Smith trained together in Charlotte for the NFL scouting combine, and Smith sat down with Horn before heading to Indianapolis to talk through what the experience would look like. He said the Panthers star's biggest advice was about the maturity required to step up to the professional level.
"He kind of gave me the ins and outs of it so I wasn't going into everything blind," Smith said. "During the training process, I thought it was going to be hard beforehand ... but (Horn) was talking about how it's just really your job to do things. Nobody is making you do it. If you're hurting or something like that, make sure you tell somebody. Make sure that you're being a pro about everything and not being a child by not saying anything."
Though he didn't have an in-person conversation with Horn, Rush said he has been regularly in touch with his former teammate and constantly felt his support during the draft process.
"He's always rooting for us, so I appreciate him and the kind of person he is to do that is just amazing," Smith said. "To have him still giving those encouraging words means a lot. The most thoughtful thing he's said to me was to keep going. Just keep putting in that work and it's all going to pay off ... That's an NFL first-rounder telling me this, and look where it got him, so I'm just taking that advice."
South Carolina has excelled in producing NFL defensive backs over the several years. Six of the team's active professional players are DBs and two are starters: Horn and Dallas Cowboys cornerback Stephon Gilmore, a five-time Pro Bowl selection. Since 2000, 19 South Carolina defensive backs have been drafted.
Rush was an under-the-radar prospect during the 2022 college football season, but his stock skyrocketed after impressive performances at both the Senior Bowl and the NFL Combine. He said training alongside another South Carolina defensive back in Smith brought a level of comfort and also heightened his competitiveness during the draft preparation process.
"When we're training, we try to compete 100% every time," Rush said. "We come out here and push each other, coach each other. We're hard on each other but we love each other." | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/usc/2023/04/27/cam-smith-nfl-draft-darius-rush-south-carolina-jaycee-horn-panthers/70143698007/ | 2023-04-27 12:36:08 | 1 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/usc/2023/04/27/cam-smith-nfl-draft-darius-rush-south-carolina-jaycee-horn-panthers/70143698007/ |
Antetokounmpo won’t play against Suns due to bruised quad
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo won’t play in the Milwaukee Bucks’ game Sunday against the Phoenix Suns because of what the team is describing as a bruised right quadriceps.
That means neither team will have its MVP available for the afternoon matchup. Kevin Durant remains out for Phoenix because of a sprained right medial collateral ligament and hasn’t played since Jan. 8, when he was still with the Brooklyn Nets.
Antetokounmpo left the Bucks’ 128-99 victory over the Miami Heat on Friday in the first quarter after team officials said he knocked knees with an opposing player. The Bucks called it a right knee issue at the time, but the injury report for Sunday’s game lists the two-time MVP with a bruised right quad.
“It’s enough where he can’t play today, but I think we’re also confident that this is just a fairly common occurrence in our league,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said before the game. “You hit knees, you knock, sometimes it takes a day or two, and it’s really nothing more than that. The level of conversations have all been kind of along that line.”
Budenholzer said Bobby Portis will start in place of Antetokounmpo.
Antetokounmpo had started Friday’s game after a sprained right wrist caused him to leave Milwaukee’s 112-100 victory at Chicago on Feb. 16, which marked the Bucks’ last game before the All-Star break. Antetokounmpo played only 20 seconds in the All-Star Game and went to New York the next day to have the wrist examined, but he recovered from that injury quickly enough to play Friday.
The Bucks also will be missing Wesley Matthews on Sunday for a second straight game due to a strained right calf. Pat Connaughton is available for the Bucks after missing the Heat game because of a sore left calf.
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