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Musk’s Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group
(AP) - Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
The council had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives Monday night. But Twitter informed the group via email that it was disbanding it shortly before the meeting was to take place, according to multiple members.
The council members, who provided images of the email from Twitter to The Associated Press, spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fears of retaliation. The email said Twitter was “reevaluating how best to bring external insights” and the council is “not the best structure to do this.”
“Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before and we will continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to achieve this goal,” said the email, which was signed “Twitter.”
The volunteer group provided expertise and guidance on how Twitter could better combat hate, harassment and other harms but didn’t have any decision-making authority and didn’t review specific content disputes. Shortly after buying Twitter for $44 billion in late October, Musk said he would form a new “content moderation council” to help make major decisions but later changed his mind.
“Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council was a group of volunteers who over many years gave up their time when consulted by Twitter staff to offer advice on a wide range of online harms and safety issues,” tweeted council member Alex Holmes. “At no point was it a governing body or decision making.”
Twitter, which is based in San Francisco, had confirmed the meeting with the council Thursday in an email in which it promised an “open conversation and Q&A” with Twitter staff, including the new head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin.
That came on the same day that three council members announced they were resigning in a public statement posted on Twitter that said that “contrary to claims by Elon Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.”
Those former council members soon became the target of online attacks after Musk amplified criticism of them and Twitter’s past leadership for allegedly not doing enough to stop child sexual exploitation on the platform.
“It is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!” Musk tweeted.
A growing number of attacks on the council led to concerns from some remaining members who sent an email to Twitter earlier on Monday demanding the company stop misrepresenting the council’s role.
Those false accusations by Twitter leaders were “endangering current and former Council members,” the email said.
The Trust and Safety Council, in fact, had as one of its advisory groups one that focused on child exploitation. This included the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the Rati Foundation and YAKIN, or Youth Adult Survivors & Kin in Need.
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Treating Ash Trees As Emerald Ash Borer Spreads
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The discovery of the tree-killing emerald ash borer in Moorhead has crews busy in Fargo.
The pest has not yet been detected in Fargo but City Forester Scott Liudahl says it’s only a matter of time.
The department has replaced several thousand boulevard ash trees in the last decade and diversified with other tree species.
Crews have identified ash trees that are good candidates for treatment along Elm Street, Broadway, 10th Street North and 17th Avenue South.
Those that are not good candidates for treatment will eventually be cut down to prevent significant losses later as the ash borer spreads. | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/04/26/treating-ash-trees-as-emerald-ash-borer-spreads/ | 2023-04-27 02:56:04 | 0 | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/04/26/treating-ash-trees-as-emerald-ash-borer-spreads/ |
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities raided a luxury yacht belonging to a wealthy Russian businessman as part of a probe into possible breaches of Western sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, officials said Wednesday.
Specialists from the German navy and federal and state police took part in the search of the superyacht at an undisclosed shipyard in northern Germany, Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement.
The ship belongs to a 67-year-old Russian businessman, whose name wasn’t released for privacy reasons, prosecutors said.
Authorities are trying to determine whether the businessman tried to hide valuables on the yacht, which he is required to report under European Union sanctions imposed last year.
The investigation is separate from a case against Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, whose luxury yacht was raided in Germany last year. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/germany-raids-russians-superyacht-in-sanctions-probe/ | 2023-05-03 16:47:54 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/germany-raids-russians-superyacht-in-sanctions-probe/ |
WARREN, N.J. (AP) — WARREN, N.J. (AP) — Aquestive Therapeutics Inc. (AQST) on Tuesday reported a loss of $12.4 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Warren, New Jersey-based company said it had a loss of 23 cents.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 21 cents per share.
The specialty pharmaceutical company posted revenue of $10.7 million in the period, surpassing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $9.9 million.
For the year, the company reported that its loss narrowed to $54.4 million, or $1.12 per share. Revenue was reported as $47.7 million.
Aquestive Therapeutics expects full-year revenue in the range of $37 million to $41 million.
In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, the company's shares hit 85 cents. A year ago, they were trading at $2.94.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of Voyager Earn Accounts and VGX tokens ("Voyager Investment Products") between January 1, 2020 and November 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), against Stephen Ehrlich, Gerard Hanshe, David Brosgol, Janice Barrilleaux, Philip Eytan, Jarrett Lilien, and Brian Brooks (together, "Defendants"), of the important January 10, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Voyager Earn Accounts and/or VGX tokens during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Voyager class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9827 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 10, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, Defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 by selling non-exempt securities without registering them. The complaint alleges that Defendants participated in Voyager's failure to register the Voyager Financial Products. After plaintiffs and class members purchased Voyager Financial Products, the complaint alleges that Voyager suspended withdrawals from its platform.
To join the Voyager class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9827 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Rep. Gallego’s Senate bid leaves Democrats with multiple questions about who to support and at what cost
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Rep. Ruben Gallego’s (D-Ariz.) announcement of his candidacy for Senate has left Democrats with multiple questions about whether to back him or their incumbent who left the party.
Both the Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader weighed in last week.
“It’s much too early to make a decision,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) .
“It is a big dilemma for the Senate Democratic Majority,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
In Gallego’s campaign video, he went after incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) directly by saying, “I’m sorry that politicians have let you down. But I’m going to change that.”
Gallego has represented the Phoenix area in the House since 2014. He is the first Democrat to get into Arizona’s U.S. Senate race. Sinema, who ran and won as a Democrat in 2018, became an independent last December. She has not said if she will run in 2024. If she does, she would not face a primary opponent and could split votes with a Democrat like Gallego in the general election.
Navin Nayak, the President of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said everyone recognizes what is at stake.
“I really hope and expect that no one will risk, you know, this seat making the difference in terms of Mitch McConnell actually being in charge of the U.S. Senate,” said Nayak.
Democrats hold a 51-seat majority now because Sinema and two other independents typically vote with them. However, those three and 20 other seats occupied by Democrats are among 34 up for grabs in 2024.
So far, no Republicans have announced they are running in Arizona, but all eyes are on failed gubernatorial and senatorial candidates Kari Lake and Blake Masters.
Republican strategist Amy Tarkanian says if either run, they cannot try the same strategy twice.
“They’re gonna have to a ‘Come to Jesus’ moment and they’re gonna have to regroup and maybe rebrand themselves and surround themselves maybe with better campaign staff, better campaign messaging,” said Tarkanian. “Otherwise, I think you’re gonna see the democrat or the independent do fairly well.”
Gallego’s campaign says it have already raised more than $1 million. A December Morning Consult poll showed most democrats do not approve of the job Sinema is doing since she decided to leave the party.
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The CPSC announces today the following recalls are posted in cooperation with the firms listed below. Recalls can be viewed at www.cpsc.gov.
Jetson Electric Bikes Recalls Nova and Star 3-Wheel Kick Children's Scooters Due to Fall Hazard
Chervon North America Recalls EGO Power+ Cordless Brushless Hedge Trimmers Due to Laceration Hazard
Empower Brands Recalls Power XL Self-Cleaning Juicers Due to Laceration and Ingestion Hazards
About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
For lifesaving information:
- Visit CPSC.gov.
- Sign up to receive our e-mail alerts.
- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram @USCPSC and Twitter @USCPSC.
- Report a dangerous product or a product-related injury on www.SaferProducts.gov.
- Call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 (TTY 301-595-7054).
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Ashtabula man to be extradited from Colorado
ASHTABULA, Ohio (WOIO) - An Ashtabula man is being extradited back to Ohio after being found in Colorado, according to a release from the Ashtabula Police Department.
Barton Cumberland was wanted for Felonious Assault, Domestic Violence, Menacing by phone and Harassment, police say.
Officials ay Cumberland hit someone in a head after a fight had started outside a liquor store in Ashtabula February 21.
Cumberland was found in Durango, Colorado after investigators monitored leads regarding his movements across several states, police say.
Cumberland will be extradited back to Ohio and transported to the Ashtabula City Jail, according to police.
The extradition process may take up to several weeks before Cumberland will be returned to Ashtabula and brought before the court to answer to the charges.
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Honoring Top Female Leaders and Founders Across the Beauty Industry
NEW YORK, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) celebrated women and achievement Tuesday at the 2023 Women's Leadership Awards – a program that embodies CEW's mission to motivate, elevate, and advance female leaders who are shaping the beauty industry today.
In partnership with Dotdash Meredith, this annual event is comprised of the Achiever Awards acknowledging seven of the most accomplished senior-level female executives, the Catalyst for Change Award honoring one woman for moving the industry forward through a social movement, and the Female Founder Awards celebrating five honorees who are pushing the limits of Indie Beauty.
"I am absolutely thrilled to continue to honor these amazing, accomplished women through the CEW Women's Leadership Awards," said Carlotta Jacobson, CEW President. "These awards reinforce the importance of recognition and opportunity for female leadership. Without women, this business would not exist, and it is now more important than ever to showcase the valuable contributions of female leaders."
This year's honorees included:
2023 Achiever Award Honorees:
- Nikki Eslami, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Bellami Hair and Founder & CEO, New Theory Ventures
- Christina Fair, President of L'Oréal Dermatological Beauty Division, N.A., L'Oréal USA
- Alison Hahn, SVP, Merchandising, Makeup and Fragrance, Sephora
- Taydra Mitchell Jackson, Chief Marketing Officer, SheaMoisture (Unilever)
- Kory Marchisotto, Chief Marketing Officer, e.l.f. Beauty; President, Keys Soulcare
- Hilla Ram, SVP, Global Hair Care Brands & Global Beauty Analytics & Insights Leader, P&G Beauty
- Gregg Renfrew, Founder, Beautycounter
2023 Catalyst For Change Award Honoree:
- Nancy Mahon, SVP, Global Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability, The Estée Lauder Companies
2023 Female Founder Honorees
- Alicia Grande, CEO & Founder, Grande Cosmetics
- Nyakio Grieco, Co-Founder & Chief Beauty Officer, Thirteen Lune; Founder, Relevant: Your Skin Seen
- Brook Harvey-Taylor, Founder & CEO, Pacifica Beauty
- Anisa Telwar Kaicker, Founder & CEO, Anisa International
- Tracee Ellis Ross, Founder & CEO, PATTERN Beauty
Sponsors included Amazon Premium Beauty, Harris Williams, Unilever, P&G Beauty, 24 Seven, RéVive Skincare, Charlotte Tilbury, Olaplex, L'Oréal USA, Dyson, Shiseido Americas, Tarte, IPSY, Dior, L'Oréal Consumer Products, Ulta Beauty, Parlux LTD, Kargo, Rare Beauty, Ilia, Too Faced, Marina Maher Communications, Kendo, NIQ, and HSN. Event partners include Beauty Inc, Fairchild Media Group, Moss, Kaplow Communications, and Suite K.
Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) is an international organization of 9,000+ thought leaders, trendsetters, and rising stars in the beauty industry with diverse backgrounds at leading brands, indies, retailers, fragrance houses, media outlets, and suppliers. Our goal is to deliver inspiration, information via always-on programming and content that connects the beauty industry.
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(CNN) — North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly on Tuesday voted to override a veto from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper over a bill that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks.
The veto override was completed in a 72-48 vote in the state House after the state Senate voted earlier on Tuesday override the governor. A three-fifths vote in both chambers, where Republicans hold supermajorities, was necessary to override.
Cooper vetoed the abortion ban on Saturday after the Republican-controlled state Senate advanced the bill to his desk in a party-line vote.
The governor had placed pressure on four state Republican lawmakers who had previously vowed to protect abortion rights – state Reps. Ted Davis, John Bradford, Tricia Cotham and Republican state Sen. Michael Lee – by paying visits to their districts and urging them to stand by their comments.
“We are going to have to kick it into an even higher gear when that veto stamp comes down. If just one Republican in either the House or the Senate keeps a campaign promise to protect women’s reproductive health we can stop this ban,” Cooper said at a rally on Saturday.
Lee ultimately voted to overturn the veto along with his Republican colleagues.
Republicans in the state gained a veto-proof supermajority last month when then-Democrat Cotham switched parties. Cotham, who had campaigned in favor of abortion rights as a Democrat, was one of the Republicans who voted for the bill. She also sponsored legislation earlier this session to codify Roe v. Wade.
The bill – Senate Bill 20, dubbed the “Care for Women, Children and Families Act” – bans any licensed physician from performing surgical abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy. It provides exceptions in the case of rape and incest through 20 weeks of pregnancy or in the event of a “life-limiting anomaly” through 24 weeks.
Under the bill, which takes effect July 1, the procedure could be performed by a physician if a doctor determines an abortion is necessary to avert death – “not including psychological or emotional conditions.”
Under current state law, abortions are legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. A reduction to 12 weeks is significant but less restrictive than some other GOP-led states that have recently enacted six-week or near-total bans on the procedure.
The bill also prohibits health care providers who object to abortion “on moral, ethical, or religious grounds” from being required to participate in medical procedures that would result in an abortion.
It also calls for multiple in-person examination by physicians seeking to prescribe or administer abortion-inducing drugs and will prohibit people within the state from mailing such drugs to a pregnant woman. The bill mandates that doctors confirm that the “probable gestational age” of a fetus is no more than 10 weeks before they can sign off on a medication abortion.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $210 million.
The San Francisco-based company said it had net income of 21 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and amortization costs, were $1.40 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 17 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.21 per share.
The customer-management software developer posted revenue of $7.84 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Fifteen analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $7.81 billion.
For the current quarter ending in January, Salesforce.com expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.35 to $1.37. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $1.27.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $7.93 billion to $8.03 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $8.06 billion.
Salesforce.com expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.92 to $4.94 per share, with revenue ranging from $30.9 billion to $31 billion.
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Driver uses pipe in apparent road rage attack on California freeway
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) - Terrifying moments were caught on camera as a man armed with what appears to be a metal pipe got out of his car on the freeway and repeatedly hit another driver’s window.
“He cuts me off, slams the breaks, and starts banging on my car,” the alleged victim said.
The victim, who did not want to be identified, said he was driving in Glendale Wednesday morning when he was attacked.
He says moments before the road rage incident, he recorded the driver of the Tesla allegedly try to hit another car with the pipe, but that driver was able to get out of harm’s way.
The victim says he was trying to get the suspect’s license plate on video.
“I start recording on my iPhone and the guy notices that I’m recording on my iPhone, so he tries to chase me down,” he said.
That’s when the Tesla cut the victim off before attacking the man’s Chevy Colorado.
The victim said what’s even more frustrating is he just got the truck two months ago.
“There’s a light dent there, a dent there,” the driver said.
A California Highway Patrol spokesperson said there have been reports of similar incidents, but they will not confirm if they’re connected.
The victim urges other drivers to be vigilant. He says even though the incident was scary, he had to do something to try and help track down the attacker.
“It was a little frightening, but I’m a believer that if you see something that’s not right, you got to stand up and do what’s right.”
So far, no arrests have been made.
The man says he plans to go to California Highway Patrol to look at pictures of possible suspects.
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Steve Pikiell thinks that Ohio State stepped out of bounds before hitting the game-winning shot that buried his Rutgers team in a heartbreaking loss in Columbus on Thursday.
“I thought it was (out of bounds) because it was right in front of me,” Pikiell said in his post-game press conference. “... Again, I’m not sure about the sideline thing. I thought he clearly was, but again, I didn’t see anything.”
The public did not seem to have any doubt.
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Social media was ablaze following the controversial finish at Value City Arena, which led to a 67-66 win for the Buckeyes over the Scarlet Knights.
Here’s a sample of what was said in the aftermath of the game:
“Amazing finish in Rutgers-Ohio State! Before hitting the game winner, OSU’s Tanner Holden was out of bounds before stepping back in to catch the Thornton pass. After stepping OB, you can’t be the first to catch it. Violation. Tough break for Rutgers.” Jay Bilas, ESPN.
“Rutgers history on the road is well known. They’ve shown they can compete with anyone at full strength, but this loss will sting for the rest of the season.” acclaimed bracketologist Brad Wachtel.
“BEDLAM IN COLUMBUS! Tanner Holden wins it at the BUZZER for Ohio State over Rutgers. This is ONLY ****** December.” Jon Rothstein, Fanduel.
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Otis Redding III, who followed father into music, dies at 59
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Singer and guitarist Otis Redding III, the son and namesake of the legendary 1960s soul singer, has died from cancer at age 59, his family said Wednesday.
Redding was just 3 years old when his father, Otis Redding, perished along with several band members in a plane crash on Dec. 10, 1967. More than a decade later, the younger Redding and his brother, Dexter, formed the funk band The Reddings, which recorded six albums in the 1980s.
“It is with heavy hearts that the family of Otis Redding III confirms that he lost his battle with cancer last evening,” said his sister, Karla Redding-Andrews, in a statement posted on the Facebook page of the Otis Redding Foundation, the family’s charity in Macon.
Though singles “Remote Control” and “Call The Law” by The Reddings made appearances on the Billboard music charts, the Redding brothers never matched their father’s success. Redding continued playing and performing after the band recorded its final album in 1988.
He was once hired for a European tour as guitarist for soul singer Eddie Floyd, under whose guidance the younger Redding became comfortable performing “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay” and other songs of his famous father.
“He said, `You can play guitar with me, but you’re going to have to sing a few of your dad’s songs,’” Redding recalled in a 2018 interview with WCSH-TV in Portland, Maine. “I was like, `Huh? I don’t sing,’ you know. And he was like, `Well, you’re going to sing “Dock of the Bay” with me tonight.’”
Redding worked with his family’s foundation to organize summer camps that teach children to play music, and served as board president for the local chapter of Meals on Wheels.
He continued to perform his father’s songs for audiences large and small, according to his website, from appearing onstage at Carnegie Hall for a 2018 Otis Redding tribute concert to singing at weddings and private parties. Redding said he was grateful for the enduring legacy even if it overshadowed efforts to make music of his own.
“No matter how hard I try to do my own thing, you know, it’s like ... ‘sing one of your daddy’s songs,’” he told the Maine TV station. “So I go ahead and do what people want, and I live with it. But I’m not under any pressure and I don’t put myself mentally under any pressure to go begging for record deals.”
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Which bell tent is best?
Bell tents are loved for their spaciousness and durability. They are a preferred type of canvas tent due to their versatility and quick setup. The average bell tent takes 20 minutes to set up and features a large pole in the center to hold it up. You can use a bell tent in any climate due to its humidity control, waterproof features and mesh properties. Most feature a stove pipe insert for cooking inside.
What they lack in portability due to weight, they make up for in a unique camping experience. If you are looking for a waterproof bell tent that is easy to assemble and includes all the best accessories for any camping expedition, the Danchel Outdoor Cotton Canvas Yurt Tent is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a bell tent
Season
Before purchasing a bell tent, think about the season you plan to camp. Bell tents come in many different sizes and you can use them during multiple seasons. In the warmer months, users can ventilate their tent by unzipping mesh windows and rolling up the walls. In cooler months, users can bring a wood-burning stove into the tent, provided the tent has stove-pipe inserts.
Assembly
Bell tents typically are heavy and bulky but despite the weight of the material, they are very easy to assemble. A bell tent features one tall pole that brings the tent up to a peak. It takes around 20 minutes on average to assemble and is easy and quick to take apart to clean.
Size
When purchasing a bell tent, consider how many people plan to sleep in it so that you can find the right size. Bell tents are very spacious, but it is important to size up by one sleeper no matter what tent you are purchasing. For example, if you need a bell tent that sleeps five people, opt for a tent that sleeps six or more.
What to look for in a quality bell tent
Ventilation
A good bell tent has at least three vents around the peak of the tent. Since most bell tents feature openings for stoves, it is important they also have mesh windows to balance the humidity, heat and moisture present in the tent. The mesh windows used for ventilation can double as mosquito nets. The more breathable the tent, the less likely moisture will build up and cause mold.
Waterproof
A quality bell tent features a waterproof coating and is tightly and durably stitched. When purchasing the product online, check the description and reviews to make sure the stitching is secure to prevent leaking. To find out how much water a tent can repel, look for an “mm” measurement in the product description. The amount of water a tent can repel is measured in “mm” and can be different for both the walls and the floor of a tent. To ensure no added moisture gets into the tent, check to see if the tent has good ventilation. This prevents mold and bacteria growth over time.
Material
Bell tents are made from 100% cotton canvas material. A good bell tent is waterproof as well as fire retardant. Those looking for added protection against the elements can rely on bell tents due to their thick fabric.
How much you can expect to spend on a bell tent
Bell tents range from $200-$3,000 depending on material, size and accessories. A quality bell tent that uses the best material and features full ventilation and stove inserts is priced higher, while less-durable, smaller bell tents are cheaper.
Bell tent FAQ
How do you clean a bell tent?
A. To clean your bell tent, moisten the cotton. After this first step, dissolve a bleaching liquid into water and apply this solution onto the wet canvas. Let the canvas absorb this for 30 minutes and rinse the canvas with plenty of water. This will ensure there is no mold or mildew on the tent when you pack it up.
Is a bell tent portable?
A. There are such things as portable lightweight bell tents that are easily packed and carried on long hikes and expeditions, but for the most part, these tents are durable and heavy duty. The average bell tent weighs up to 60 pounds.
What’s the best bell tent to buy?
Top bell tent
Danchel Outdoor Cotton Canvas Yurt Tent
What you need to know: This bell tent is heavy duty, weighing in at 60 pounds and measuring just above 5 feet tall. Users can fit two full beds or five sleeping bags. It contains two stove jacks with outer flaps for leak protection when not in use.
What you’ll love: This product is made with breathable cotton canvas and features a waterproof coating. You can roll up the sides for ventilation and burn wood inside in the winter, making it perfect for all seasons. It is easy to assemble.
What you should consider: The hole for the stove pipe is not big enough to fit a 5-inch pipe as it claims.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Top bell tent for the money
Dream House Outdoor Waterproof Cotton Canvas Camping Family Bell Tent
What you need to know: This bell tent is made with 100% cotton and a waterproof PU coating. The seams are sealed for leak protection and the groundsheet is heavy duty and removable for all seasons and terrains.
What you’ll love: You can roll up the walls. The tent features ventilation holes at the top with mesh screens for best temperature and humidity regulation.
What you should consider: The zipper is not watertight. Users need to use cloth to cover the zipper to avoid leakage.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
Worth checking out
WHITEDUCK Regatta Canvas Bell Tent
What you need to know: This bell tent features breathable fabric that makes the tent waterproof and UV resistant. It also features a fire-retardant finish and you can use it throughout every season. Users can safely cook inside the tent.
What you’ll love: This tent uses heavy-duty zippers and stitching for maximum leak protection and adjustable ventilation. The tent bag that the tent comes in is waterproof. The tent has two layered windows you can roll up as well as a high-quality sewn-in groundsheet for additional protection.
What you should consider: The hole for the stove is lower than what is shown in the product image online.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon.
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Seasonal team members will be hired to work in Party City retail stores and Halloween City pop-up locations nationwide
ELMSFORD, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Party City, the global celebrations category leader and one-stop-Halloween-shop, plans to hire approximately 20,000 seasonal team members in advance of the highly-anticipated Halloween season. Positions will be available nationwide in over 750 Party City retail stores and 150 Halloween City pop-up locations. Approximately 10-15% of seasonal employees are offered permanent employment at the end of the season.
The brand is seeking creative, energetic, and customer-focused individuals to join a passionate team of celebration ambassadors. Available positions include Team Leaders, Supervisors, Sales Associates, Operations Assistants, Stock Associates, and Cashiers. Party City will host National Hiring Events in all of its locations on Tuesday, August 30 from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. with interviews and employment offers available on-site. New team members can look forward to flexible hours, highly competitive wages, a generous 30% employee discount and an exciting and fun work environment.
"We are thrilled to welcome thousands of new faces to the Party City team as we enter the Halloween season," said Brad Weston, President & Chief Executive Officer at Party City. "At Party City, our team members are essential in making joy easy and inspiring celebrations of all kinds. Whether it be helping customers curate a unique costume, or educating shoppers about our larger-than-life animatronics, Party City team members are an integral part of Halloween planning for families across the country."
Interested applicants should visit Stores.PartyCity.com to find the nearest hiring location in their area. Those unable to attend in-person can apply online at PartyCity.Jobs.net or text PARTY to 51893 for more information.
About Party City
Party City Holdco Inc. (PCHI) is a global leader in the celebrations industry. A vertically integrated designer, manufacturer, distributor, and retailer, PCHI offers consumer party goods in more than 100 countries around the world.
PCHI team members demonstrate a daily commitment to the company's Brand Purpose: to inspire joy by making it easy for customers to create unforgettable memories by connecting them to everything they need for life's many celebrations.
PCHI operates multiple business divisions, including the Retail Division and the Consumer Products Division. On the retail side, Party City (partycity.com) is a leading omnichannel retailer in the celebrations category, operating more than 800 company-owned and franchise stores throughout North America. Additional Halloween City (halloweencity.com) pop-up storefronts are also located throughout North America seasonally. Comprising the Consumer Products Group are design and manufacturing entities Amscan, an industry leader across multiple celebrations goods and costumes, and Anagram, a dominant player in balloons.
PCHI is headquartered in Elmsford, NY with additional locations throughout the Americas and Asia.
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Company Emerges from Chapter 11 with a Healthier Financial Foundation
Communities Continue to Operate Uninterrupted, Prioritizing Resident Health and Well-being
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Eagle Delaware Holding Company LLC and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, "Eagle Senior Living" or the "Company") today announced that they have successfully completed a comprehensive financial reorganization to achieve a more balanced and sustainable capital structure. The Company has implemented its plan of reorganization, approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on April 27, 2022. Eagle Senior Living has significantly reduced its debt service and enhanced its liquidity position, creating a stronger financial foundation.
As part of the Chapter 11 process, Eagle Senior Living executed a transaction whereby the Company's Vista Lake community was acquired by Atlantis Senior Living LLC. The sale of Vista Lake has closed, and the Vista Lake community is no longer an Eagle Senior Living community. All other Eagle Senior Living communities continue to operate uninterrupted, providing high-quality care and amenities to all residents.
"Through this process, we have secured a bolstered financial structure—allowing our communities to be the place for residents to do more of what they love for years to come," said Todd Topliff, President of American Eagle Delaware Holding Company LLC. "I would like to thank our residents and their family members for their ongoing support, our business partners for their patience, and all of our loyal employees for their unwavering hard work and dedication to providing all residents with the highest quality of care as we have worked to complete this process. We are optimistic about our future."
Greenbrier Senior Living continues to manage all of the communities remaining with Eagle Senior Living.
For more information about Eagle Senior Living's Chapter 11 case, including the terms of the transactions consummated in connection with the Company's emergence, please visit https://dm.epiq11.com/eagleseniorliving, email EagleSeniorLivinginfo@epiqglobal.com or call (800) 713-8096 for U.S. calls or +1 (503) 597-7731 for international calls.
Eagle Senior Living was represented in this matter by Polsinelli as legal counsel and FTI Consulting as restructuring and financial advisor.
About Eagle Senior Living
Established in 2018, Eagle Senior Living was founded with the recognition that our human spirit is elevated through meaningful relationships with others. It's why, across all our communities, residents and associates become like family. It's also the reason those individual communities work to become integrated into the fabric of their surrounding neighborhoods and cities. With 14 communities across seven states, our goal is to enrich the lives of older adults across the nation. Our locations offer independent living, assisted living and memory care.
The culture we foster throughout our organization is built to empower residents and employees through inclusive and purposeful programming that brings people together, because for us, people always come first. That means, in everything we do, our goal is to provide a comfortable place for seniors to live authentic and enriched lives, surrounded by opportunities to grow. Some call this approach best-in-class; we simply call it bringing out the best in each other.
These difference-making values are also shared with our management partner, Greenbrier Senior Living, whose mission is to empower and serve residents, families and associates with heart, passion and focus. For more information, visit https://www.eagleseniorliving.org/.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that the 27-nation European Union needs to make emergency plans to prepare for a complete cut-off of Russian gas in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
“It is obvious: (Russian President Vladimir) Putin continues to use energy as a weapon. This is why the Commission is working on a European emergency plan,” she told legislators in Strasbourg, France.
The EU has already imposed sanctions on Russia, including on some energy supplies, and is steering away from Kremlin-controlled deliveries. But the head of the EU’s executive branch said the bloc needed to be ready for shock disruptions coming from Moscow, and said the first plans would be presented by the middle of the month.
“If worst comes to worst, then we have to be prepared,” she said, hoping to avoid the chaotic scenes, and the my-country-first attitude that some member states showed early on in the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Energy, and the prospect of a winter without enough heating for homes or power to keep factories going, could now pose a similar challenge to EU solidarity and a source for populist-spawned division.
“It is very important to have a European overview and a coordinated approach to a potential complete cut off of Russian gas,” von der Leyen said. A dozen members have already been hit by reductions or full cuts in gas supplies as the political standoff with Moscow over the Ukraine invasion intensifies.
Highlighting the potential challenges ahead, Germany said last week it suspects that Russia may not resume natural gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after planned maintenance work in July, complicating the outlook for this winter.
Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical problem for the reduction in gas flowing through Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. The company said equipment maintenance was affected by Western sanctions.
European Union countries already agreed last month that all natural gas storage in the 27-nation bloc should be topped up to at least 80% capacity for next winter to avoid shortages during the cold season. The new regulation also says underground gas storage on EU soil will need to be filled to 90% capacity before the 2023-24 winter.
Von der Leyen said that the storage stood at 55% a week ago, adding that liquefied natural gas deliveries from the United States had already tripled.
The war in Ukraine has prompted the 27-nation bloc to rethink its energy policies and sever ties with Russian fossil fuels. Member countries have agreed to ban 90% of Russian oil by year-end in addition to a ban on imports of Russian coal that will start in August.
The EU has not included gas — a fuel used to power factories and generate electricity — in its own sanctions for fear of seriously harming the European economy. Before the war in Ukraine, it relied on Russia for 25% of its oil and 40% of its natural gas.
To slash its use of Russian energy, the European Commission has been diversifying suppliers.
In the meantime, the average monthly import of Russian pipeline gas is declining by 33% compared with last year, von der Leyen said as she called for a speedy transition toward renewable sources of energy.
“Some say, in the new security environment after Russia’s aggression, we have to slow down the green transition. This transition would come at the ‘the cost of basic security,’ they say. The opposite is true. If we all do nothing but compete about limited fossil fuels, the prices will further explode and fill Putin’s war chest,” she said. “Renewables are home-grown. They give us independence from Russian fossil fuels. They are more cost-efficient. And they are cleaner.”
The EU Council agreed last month to raise the share of renewables in the bloc’s energy mix to at least 40% by 2030 — up from the previous target of 32%. In addition, a 9% energy consumption reduction target for 2030 will become binding on all EU member states for the first time. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/eu-chief-warns-of-danger-of-complete-cut-off-of-russian-gas/ | 2022-07-06 13:55:24 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/eu-chief-warns-of-danger-of-complete-cut-off-of-russian-gas/ |
At least 4 killed, 10 injured in Afghanistan after explosion near mosque
Kabul police the blast targeted worshipers leaving the mosque after Friday prayer
At least four people are dead and 10 wounded after explosion went off near a mosque in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul on Friday, with a hospital confirming the number of casualties.
A column of black smoke rose into the sky and shots rang out several minutes after the blast in the city's diplomatic quarter.
The Italian Emergency Hospital in Kabul said it had received 14 casualties and that four people were dead on arrival.
TALIBAN OFFICIAL CONFIRMS AT LEAST 3 DEAD IN EXPLOSION AT AFGHAN CAPITAL
Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said the blast targeted worshippers leaving the mosque after Friday prayers.
Interior Minister spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor said the blast went off on the main road near the mosque. He said the cause was under investigation. Takor said police teams were at the site and that an investigation was underway.
Mosques have previously been a target for attacks.
US-BACKED FORCES IN SYRIA FOIL 'MASSIVE' SUICIDE BOMBING ATTACK IN REFUGEE CAMP
The blast took place near the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque which, in 2020, was struck by a bomb that killed two people, including the mosque’s prayer leader. | https://www.foxnews.com/world/at-least-4-killed-10-injured-afghanistan-after-explosion-near-mosque | 2022-09-23 16:13:44 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/world/at-least-4-killed-10-injured-afghanistan-after-explosion-near-mosque |
Federal agents have alleged that two people living quietly in Hawaii were actually Russian spies, the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service said.
According to government documents, Walter Glenn Primrose, also known as Bobby Edward Fort, and Gwynn Darle Morrison, also known as Julie Lyn Montague, were arrested on Friday morning.
Government records indicate that the couple used the identities of babies from Texas who died in the late 1960s to obtain Social Security cards, passports, and driver’s licenses.
Bobby Edward Fort, the baby whose name was used by Primrose, was born in Dallas, government records indicate. He was born in 1967 and died during that same year.
Julie Lyn Montague, the child whose name was used by Morrison, was born in 1968 in Burnet, Texas. She also died shortly thereafter and is buried in Marble Falls.
In the late 1980s, Primrose and Morrison were issued driver's licenses and identification cards with the identities of Fort and Montague, according to government records.
Government documents indicate that Primrose fraudulently enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1994. He also worked as a Department of Defense contractor, and he had a "secret clearance" while working as an avionic electrical technician.
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Pictures in court records show Primrose and Morrison in uniforms that allegedly belonged to the KGB, the former Soviet Union spy agency.
Both Primrose and Morrison have been charged with identity theft, lying on passport applications, and conspiracy to commit crimes against the United States.
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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the past seven years, you will find her own work in various sections: from general fiction, among the other “B”-named authors, to a shelf dedicated exclusively to her — a name unto herself.
For more than 50 years, since her breakthrough novel “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret,” Blume has been a proud member of the literary community and a citizen of special status. She is an eager promoter of other people’s works, whether on social media or at her store. She is also a literary celebrity of the rarest kind, who has not only sold millions of books, but moved young readers so profoundly that, as adults, they approach her in tears and thank her.
“I remind them of their childhood,” she likes to say.
Now 85, Blume has never been forgotten, but she is currently enjoying renewed interest. For the first time, one of her books has been adapted into a major Hollywood film: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (“Edge of Seventeen”). Premiering next week, it stars Abby Ryder Fortson as the preteen from New Jersey with a lot of questions about religion, boys and her own body. There’s also a new documentary, “Judy Blume Forever,” which includes tributes from Molly Ringwald, Tayari Jones, Jason Reynolds and many others.
“She just really got what it was like to be that age,” Craig says. “And I think at that age it’s meaningful to see yourself reflected back at you.”
Books & Books, located on a corner just a block off the main drag, has become a destination in Key West, like the former home of Ernest Hemingway and the “Little White House” once favored by Harry Truman. Blume says that she and her husband, George Cooper, expected around 80% of their customers to be locals and the remainder tourists.
The opposite has been true, even though Blume doesn’t come in every day. An email recently sent to the store reads: “Hello there, I would love to know if Judy will be at the store between Thursday and Sunday. I would love to meet this brilliant mind from my childhood, and have a book signed by her. Thanks so much.”
Wearing a white buttoned shirt and tan clamdigger pants, Blume spoke in late March from a favorite refuge — the roof of her bookstore’s building, looking out on a muggy, cloudy morning over the island city in which she and Cooper live for most of the year.
“I have no private life anymore,” she laments with a smile, reflecting on press events from Los Angeles to the independent movie theater just down the street. The Tropic Center, co-founded by Cooper, hosted an early screening of Craig’s film during an event where Blume was presented with a key to the city.
In the afterword to one of her most autobiographical novels, “starring sally j. freedman as herself,” Blume remembered being “curious, imaginative, a worrier” when she was a girl, qualities she clearly has retained. She is as likely to ask you about your life as she is to answer questions about her own. She speaks of everyday concerns, among them the sound of thunder.
Blume has not written a full-length book since “In the Unlikely Event,” published in 2015. But she is never far from her 12-year-old self, the self of “Are You There God?” and other books, the age when she was “on the brink,” as she calls it, looking ahead to a life that has been her happiest and most surprising creation.
“When I look into a kid’s eyes, when one of them comes into the bookstore, I can feel a connection,” she says.
Born Judith Sussman to a dentist and housewife and raised in New Jersey, she is a lifelong reader and lifelong storyteller. But she had no Judy Blumes to turn to as a child, no books affirming her deepest thoughts or guiding her through physical and emotional changes. Like countless women of her generation, she was expected to marry and raise a family, and fulfilled those promises early: She married John Blume in 1959, in her early 20s, and had two children within the next five years.
But by the end of the 1960s, the wife and mother was becoming a professional writer. She published the children’s book “The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo” in 1969, soon followed by “Iggie’s House” and, based in part on her early adolescence, “Are You There God?”
“I remember things. I have a really good memory. And I wanted to be honest about sixth grade,” she says. “It was a year of obsession with bodily development. I wanted to be normal. I was a late developer, a tiny kid, and I just wanted to be like everybody else.”
She has since written more than a dozen books, sold more than 80 million copies and challenged many taboos: Teenage sex in “Forever,” masturbation in “Deenie,” divorce in “It’s Not the End of the World” (Blume and her first husband divorced in 1975, three years after “It’s Not the End of the World” was published). Her power isn’t only in what she writes, but the voice she writes in — confiding and inquisitive, open and matter-of-fact about the most sensitive topics, as if sharing secrets with friends unseen.
“These are not books to be read aloud in a classroom,” Blume says. “These are books to take into your bed. They are personal and intimate.”
Censors have offered their own kind of tribute to Blume by trying to keep young people from reading her. “Forever,” “Are You There God?” and “Deenie” have been frequently challenged and complained about over the past 30 years, according to the American Library Association. Blume noted that a bill being considered by the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles in elementary schools, legislation that reminds her of a local principal in New Jersey who objected to “Are You There God?” when it was first published.
“He said, ‘I can’t have girls in our school reading about this.’ And I’m like, ‘Do you know how many girls in the fifth and sixth grade have already had their periods?’” Blume says. “Now, look what’s going on in Florida. You have girls being told not to talk about menstruation. What are you going to do? Of course they’re going to talk about it.”
The adaptation, which also stars Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates, has the explicit material of the original book, and a sentimental feel that only time can add. While writing the book, Blume set her story in what was then the present — the late 1960s to early 1970s. The film takes place in the same era, a choice Blume insisted upon.
“This book cannot be updated because of the electronics. I don’t want them to have phones. I don’t want them to be texting,” she says of the film’s characters. Blume added that she didn’t envision young people as the movie’s primary audience.
“It’s not for the kids, although they can go — they’re welcome to go, I hope they do,” she says. “It’s a nostalgia piece. And it’s really for the people who grew up with it. It’s girls’ night out.”
Blume had long resisted requests to grant the film rights, but changed her mind a few years ago. She had loved “Edge of Seventeen,” a coming-of-age story released in 2016, and was open to meeting with Craig after the filmmaker emailed her. Authors have had a long, troubled history with the filming of their books, but Blume says she could not be happier. She has enthusiastically promoted the project, citing just one objection she raised during the production — an objection that could only come from her.
In one of the book’s most famous passages, Margaret and her friends chant “We must! We must! We must increase our bust!” with an accompanying exercise. But Blume noticed something off in how the kids were moving their arms.
“I discovered I had been doing it wrong for 30 years,” Craig says. “All my friends, when we we were little, we’d kind of clap our hands together and push them real hard and flex our muscles. That’s the way it was going in my mind. And Judy says, ‘No, no, no, that’s not how you do it. You clench your hands and pull your arms back.’”
“I was happy she was there that day,” Craig added. “I couldn’t get such an iconic moment wrong. I would have had to go back and film it again.” | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/judy-blume-on-top-of-the-world-and-her-key-west-bookstore/ | 2023-04-21 19:20:44 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/judy-blume-on-top-of-the-world-and-her-key-west-bookstore/ |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will no longer allow children under 16 to marry, after the governor signed a compromise bill Wednesday.
The law signed by Republican Gov. Jim Justice continues allowing children ages 16 and 17 to get married with restrictions. Under the new law, those minors must get parental consent and can’t marry someone more than four years older than them. Existing legal marriages, and those done in other states, are unaffected.
Previously, anyone younger than 16 could have gotten married with a judge’s waiver.
Similar bills to ban child marriage were proposed in recent years but didn’t get traction.
Some Democrats, including the bill’s sponsor, Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, had hoped to eliminate child marriage altogether. Some Republicans in the GOP-dominated Legislature spoke about how they or their parents had married before adulthood and argued that state recognition of the relationships helps keep families together.
Young said she had to compromise with her Republican colleagues to secure a minimum age for marriage, and celebrated the aspect of the bill that prohibited large age gaps.
Seven states have set the minimum age for marriage at 18, all since 2018, according to the advocacy group Unchained at Last, which has lobbied for legislation in variousstates to end child marriage. The group calls the practice a human rights abuse.
Supporters of such legislation say it reduces domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies and improves the lives of teens.
West Virginia had the highest rate of child marriages among the states, according to the Pew Research Center. There were around seven marriages for every 1,000 children ages 15 to 17 in West Virginia in data collected from 2010 to 2014, compared to around 4.6 marriages per 1,000 for the same age group nationwide. More recent figures were unavailable.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Manny Machado put San Diego ahead in the seventh inning with his second homer and the 11th of the night, and the San Diego Padres outslugged the San Francisco Giants 16-11 Saturday night in Major League Baseball’s first game in Mexico City.
Nelson Cruz, Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis and Xander Bogaerts also went deep for the Padres, who outhomered the Giants 6-5 and outhit them 17-13 in the thin air of Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú, which opened in 2019. At 7,349 feet above sea level, this two-game series is the highest elevation for big league games. MLB’s previous regular-season trips to Mexico were for games in Monterrey.
San Francisco’s Brandon Crawford, Lamonte Wade Jr. and Mitch Haniger homered off Joe Musgrove. Blake Sabol hit a two-run homer in the seventh against Steven Wilson that tied the score 10-10, and David Villar homered five pitches later.
That lead didn’t last long against the Padres, who were the home team and scored in seven of eight innings in which they batted.
Before a crowd of 19,611, Tatis doubled off Tyler Rogers (0-1) and Machado hit his fourth home run of the season. The Padres tacked on four more runs in the eighth, when Trent Grisham hit a two-run double and Cruz had a two-run single.
Cruz went 5 for 6 with four RBIs and became the oldest player to homer for the Padres when he went deep leading off the third inning against Sean Manaea. Cruz was 42 years, 302 days, surpassing Rickey Henderson at 42 years, 283 days on Oct. 4, 2001.
Soto and Bogaerts homered on consecutive pitches from Jakob Junis in the fourth, and Tatis and Machado went deep in a three-pitch span against Junis in the fifth. After every home run, the Padres celebrated by topping the hitter with a green, red, white and black sombrero that Tatis picked up during promotional events Friday.
Bogaerts became the first player to homer in regular-season games in four countries, adding to his previous drives in the U.S., Canada and England.
Tom Cogrove (1-0), a 26-year-old left-hander who played at Manhattan College, won in his major league debut in the seventh for the Padres. He relieved in the seventh with a runner at third and retired Joc Pederson on a groundout.
Thairo Estrada had four hits, and Estrada and Haniger each drove in three runs.
San Francisco wore black jerseys with “Los Gigantes” across the chest while San Diego was in its Nike City Connect uniforms of pink, gold and green on white.
The Giants trailed 3-0 and 5-2, went ahead 8-5 with a six-run fourth and fell behind 9-8 in the fifth. After holding the Padres scoreless for the only time in the sixth inning, the Giants took an 11-10 lead in the seventh.
Manaea allowed five runs and five hits in just two innings, and Musgrove gave up seven runs and six hits in 3 1/3 innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: IF/OF Brandon Dion was recalled from Triple-A El Paso as the team´s 27th man for the series.
Giants: IF/OF Brett Wisely was added to the roster as the 27th player for the Mexico series. Wisely, in 12 Triple-A games, is batting .304 with eight RBIs…Brandon Crawford left the game against the Padres with right calf tightness.
UP NEXT
RHP Yu Darvish (1-2, 3.00 ERA) is set to start Sunday for the Padres and RHP Alex Cobb (1-1, 1.91 ERA) for the Giants.
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Editor’s note: This piece is adapted from a recent talk by Marcus Harrison Green at Town Hall Seattle.
Not too long ago, I was speaking with a friend who recently left journalism for much more lucrative pastures, and who is seriously thinking about expatriating from the United States.
I chided him for being overly cynical about the state of journalism and our country, and he replied that in this day and age, “to be cynical is simply to be paying attention.”
I understand the temptation to believe that. He’s hardly alone in reaching those conclusions.
A recent study showed that 71 percent of Americans believe that our country is headed in the wrong direction, more than 50 percent believe that our national media purposely misleads and misinforms, and more than two in five Americans believe that another civil war is likely in the next decade.
Coupled with these sentiments is a rising tide of polarization and violent extremism — and as a byproduct, a widening gulf of unshared ideologies, unshared information sources, and most frighteningly unshared realities.
While national news struggles for trust, local news, which is more trusted and which links people overwhelmed by otherness and isolation, has seen declines, with 20 percent of communities now at risk of becoming news deserts. Seattle of course has not been immune, with recent layoffs, such as those at Crosscut, requiring even the largest of our outlets to cover more with proportionately less.
As my friend illustrated, it’s easy to be fatalistic. It’s easy to tap out of civic engagement, believing there is nothing to be done, and that decline in our democracy and our fourth estate is inevitable, that our story is done.
But personally, I reject that notion, not out of denial or delusion (though I’ve certainly had people accuse me of both) but because I simply pay attention.
There is a reason why Walter Lippman called journalism the bible of democracy, the book by which a people determines its conduct — the only institution named in our constitution.
Because throughout our history, it has been integral to dragging us from the murk of an existing condition to the dazzle of a fulfilled promise.
When used wisely, it has been wielded as a compass to navigate change — from a nation hesitant to expand its democracy to one that produces an amendment abolishing slavery even without one Black vote, and an amendment franchising women with the right to vote despite not a single woman being eligible to vote that right into law.
When used wisely, it has revealed the corruption and deception of presidents, Supreme Court justices, governors, and mayors who believed they were above the law.
When used wisely, I know firsthand that it has helped an 83-year-old grandmother, who is battling health problems, and living near the poverty line, as she raises three grandchildren. She nearly lost her home until a story about her appeared in The Seattle Times. It inspired three different people to contribute to her monthly rent and utility bills, allowing her and her grandchildren to remain housed.
I’m not Pollyanna-ish about our media. I know that it can be used for malevolent intent, and too often is. But God, I also know its force as a tool to level our society’s power differentials, to remind each other that we are not alone and that what we do, how we act, and how we conduct our lives in the shared act of living matters. That these problems of complexity we face, whether racial, environmental, political, or economical, will not be solved by simplistic reactions but by meaningful responses.
A force that powerful is worth saving — even if you don’t always agree with it, even when it sometimes falters — because it reminds us to pay attention to the possibilities that are still yet to be in our country, even in its darkest moments.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a second person is in custody in connection with the gunfire that killed three people and wounded 11 in a popular Philadelphia entertainment district over the weekend — but no charges have yet been filed in any of the shooting deaths.
City police announced Monday night that the person was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals, but their name and further details were not disclosed. They said more information would be released “upon formal charging.”
Police officers patrolling the South Street area in central Philadelphia at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday raced to the scene after hearing multiple shots and found several people with gunshot wounds lying on the sidewalk and in the street. Seeing a man on a corner firing a handgun at people about half a block away, one officer opened fire, and that man dropped his handgun onto the sidewalk and fled, authorities said.
Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore has said authorities have identified that man as Quran Garner, and he faces multiple charges including aggravated assault and aggravated assault on law enforcement officers. Authorities had said earlier Monday that an attempted murder arrest warrant has been approved for another individual.
Authorities have said the gunfire started with a physical altercation between two people, both of whom then began firing a total of 17 shots at each other. One man, 34-year-old Gregory Jackson, was killed and the other was wounded; no charges are planned against him since both men had permits to carry and that shooting is considered self-defense. A man who was with Jackson at the time of the altercation is the other person sought.
Police said Garner then began firing back at the area of the initial confrontation until he was wounded in the hand by fire from the police officer. He fled and surrendered to other police officers at the scene of an earlier shooting nearby.
Authorities have said that the other two people killed by the gunfire, 27-year-old Alexis Quinn and an unidentified 22-year-old man, as well as many of the other people wounded by gunfire — who ranged in age from 17 to 69 — are believed to have been innocent bystanders.
It’s unclear whether Garner has an attorney and a listed number in his name couldn’t be found.
South Street is known for its entertainment venues and night life with multiple bars, restaurants and businesses. Surveillance video from local businesses showed scores of people fleeing as the gunfire broke out. Police are also investigating several other nearby shootings, one fatal, to see whether they might be related, officials said. | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/06/07/2nd-person-in-custody-in-deadly-weekend-philadelphia-gunfire/ | 2022-06-08 11:23:53 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/06/07/2nd-person-in-custody-in-deadly-weekend-philadelphia-gunfire/ |
This week, some notable mortgage rates dropped off, though rates remain high compared to a year ago. The average interest rates for both 15-year fixed and 30-year fixed mortgages fell. For variable rates, the 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgage notched higher.
The Federal Reserve will hold its May meeting next week to determine whether any further rate hikes will be necessary to tame inflation. If they do proceed with an increase, it's likely to be the last one in this rate hiking cycle and will be by just a quarter of a percentage point. After that, the central bank will hold rates where they are for an extended period of time to bring inflation down to their 2% target. But seeing as inflation has been steadily declining each month, there's a chance that a pause could come as soon as next week.
This could have an impact on mortgage rates, but it's difficult to say just how much for a market already in flux.
"We're in one of the most volatile markets in terms of rates since 2008," says Jennifer Beeston, senior vice president at Guaranteed Rate, a national mortgage lender.
Mortgages hit a 20-year high in late 2022, but now the macroeconomic environment is changing again. Rates dipped significantly in January before climbing back up in February.
While rates don't directly track changes to the federal funds rate, they do respond to inflation. Overall, inflation remains high but has been slowly but consistently falling every month since it peaked in June 2022.
After raising rates dramatically in 2022, the Fed opted for smaller, 25-basis-point rate increases in its first two meetings of 2023. The decision to hike by 0.25% on March 22 suggests that inflation is cooling and the central bank may be able to ease up -- but not stop -- on its rate hikes.
While mortgage rates have dipped a bit from their December 2022 peak, they still aren't dramatically lower. Fewer buyers are willing to jump into the housing market, driving demand down and causing home prices to ease, but that's only part of the home affordability equation.
"Even though home prices in many parts of the country have fallen since the start of the year, high rates make buying prohibitively expensive for many," says Jacob Channel, senior economist at loan marketplace LendingTree. It's still difficult for many buyers, particularly those looking for their first home, to afford a monthly payment.
What does this mean for homebuyers this year? Mortgage rates are likely to decrease slightly in 2023, although they're highly unlikely to return to the rock-bottom levels of 2020 and 2021. However, rate volatility may continue for some time. "Expect mortgage rates to yo-yo up and down in the first half of the year, at least until there is a consensus about when the Fed will conclude raising interest rates," says Greg McBride, CFA and chief financial analyst at Bankrate. (Like CNET Money, Bankrate is owned by Red Ventures.) McBride expects rates to fall more consistently as the year progresses. "Thirty-year fixed mortgage rates will end the year near 5.25%," he predicts.
Rather than worrying about market mortgage rates, homebuyers should focus on what they can control: getting the best rate they can for their situation.
"Instead of getting into the minutiae of what the market's doing every six seconds, buyers need to focus on what it is they're really trying to accomplish and have a good game plan," Beeston says.
Take steps to improve your credit score and save for a down payment to increase your odds of qualifying for the lowest rate available. Also, be sure to compare the rates and fees from multiple lenders to get the best deal. Looking at the annual percentage rate, or APR, will show you the total cost of borrowing and help you compare apples to apples.
30-year fixed-rate mortgages
The average interest rate for a standard 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.82%, which is a decline of 11 basis points from one week ago. (A basis point is equivalent to 0.01%.) The most frequently used loan term is a 30-year fixed mortgage. A 30-year fixed rate mortgage will usually have a smaller monthly payment than a 15-year one -- but usually a higher interest rate. You won't be able to pay off your house as quickly and you'll pay more interest over time, but a 30-year fixed mortgage is a good option if you're looking to minimize your monthly payment.
15-year fixed-rate mortgages
The average rate for a 15-year, fixed mortgage is 6.21%, which is a decrease of 1 basis point from seven days ago. You'll definitely have a larger monthly payment with a 15-year fixed mortgage compared to a 30-year fixed mortgage, even if the interest rate and loan amount are the same. However, if you're able to afford the monthly payments, there are several benefits to a 15-year loan. You'll typically get a lower interest rate, and you'll pay less interest in total because you're paying off your mortgage much quicker.
5/1 adjustable-rate mortgages
A 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgage has an average rate of 5.80%, an increase of 5 basis points from the same time last week. For the first five years, you'll usually get a lower interest rate with a 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgage compared to a 30-year fixed mortgage. However, changes in the market might cause your interest rate to increase after that time, as detailed in the terms of your loan. For borrowers who plan to sell or refinance their house before the rate changes, an adjustable-rate mortgage might be a good option. If not, shifts in the market could significantly increase your interest rate.
Mortgage rate trends
Mortgage rates were historically low throughout most of 2020 and 2021 but increased steadily throughout 2022. Now, mortgage rates are roughly twice what they were a year ago, pushed up by persistently high inflation. That high inflation prompted the Fed to raise its target federal funds rate seven times in 2022. By raising rates, the Fed makes it more expensive to borrow money and more appealing to keep money in savings, suppressing demand for goods and services.
Mortgage interest rates don't move in lockstep with the Fed's actions in the same way that, say, rates for a home equity line of credit do. But they do respond to inflation. As a result, cooling inflation data and positive signals from the Fed will influence mortgage rate movement more than the most recent 25-basis-point rate hike.
We use information collected by Bankrate to track changes in these daily rates. This table summarizes the average rates offered by lenders across the country:
Today's mortgage interest rates
Rates as of April 26, 2023.
How to shop for the best mortgage rate
To find a personalized mortgage rate, meet with your local mortgage broker or use an online mortgage service. In order to find the best home mortgage, you'll need to consider your goals and overall financial situation.
Things that affect the interest rate you might get on your mortgage include: your credit score, down payment, loan-to-value ratio and your debt-to-income ratio. Having a higher credit score, a larger down payment, a low DTI, a low LTV or any combination of those factors can help you get a lower interest rate.
The interest rate isn't the only factor that affects the cost of your home. Be sure to also consider other factors such as fees, closing costs, taxes and discount points. Be sure to speak with several different lenders -- for example, local and national banks, credit unions and online lenders -- and comparison shop to find the best loan for you.
How does the loan term impact my mortgage?
When picking a mortgage, you should consider the loan term, or payment schedule. The most common loan terms are 15 years and 30 years, although 10-, 20- and 40-year mortgages also exist. Another important distinction is between fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgages. The interest rates in a fixed-rate mortgage are set for the duration of the loan. For adjustable-rate mortgages, interest rates are fixed for a certain number of years (commonly five, seven or 10 years), then the rate fluctuates annually based on the current interest rate in the market.
One important factor to take into consideration when choosing between a fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgage is the length of time you plan on staying in your house. If you plan on staying long-term in a new house, fixed-rate mortgages may be the better option. Fixed-rate mortgages offer more stability over time in comparison to adjustable-rate mortgages, but adjustable-rate mortgages can sometimes offer lower interest rates upfront. If you don't have plans to keep your new house for more than three to 10 years, though, an adjustable-rate mortgage might give you a better deal. There is no best loan term as an overarching rule; it all depends on your goals and your current financial situation. It's important to do your research and understand what's most important to you when choosing a mortgage. | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/here-are-todays-mortgage-rates-on-april-26-2023-rates-decrease/ | 2023-04-26 18:46:53 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/here-are-todays-mortgage-rates-on-april-26-2023-rates-decrease/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man and woman in their 30s are dead after a shooting on Sunday morning, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they responded to the 500 block of Thomas Jefferson Way around 8:21 a.m. in reference to a shooting.
According to a news release, deputies located two people who had been shot – a woman who was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounce dead, and a man who was dead at the scene of “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
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Deputies said the man and woman lived at the same residence as roommates.
No other details were released and deputies said it is still early in the investigation.
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NJ beach weather and waves: Jersey Shore Report for Sat 9/10
Advisories
--None at this time.
At the Shore
Current conditions and forecast as of Sat morning
Tide Times
Marine Forecast
From the National Weather Service, Mt. Holly
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT
TODAY: NW winds around 5 kt, becoming S this afternoon. Seas 4 to 5 ft. Patchy fog early this morning with vsby 1 to 3 NM. E swell 3 to 5 ft at 10 seconds. Light swells.
TONIGHT: SW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 3 to 4 ft.
SUN: SW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 3 to 4 ft. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
SUN NIGHT: S winds around 10 kt. Seas around 3 ft. Showers likely with a chance of tstms.
MON: S winds around 10 kt. Seas around 3 ft. Showers likely, mainly in the morning.
MON NIGHT: S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 3 to 4 ft. Showers likely. A chance of tstms after midnight.
TUE: SW winds 5 to 10 kt, becoming W after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 ft. Showers likely in the morning. A chance of showers through the night.
WED: W winds around 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft. Winds and seas higher in and near tstms.
Plan Your Trip
Data on this page amalgamated from several sources, including the National Weather Service (weather), National Ocean Service (tides), U.S. Naval Observatory (sun), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (UV index).
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Russell Wilson’s receivers stood up for their embattled quarterback this week after his offensive linemen failed to help him up after several sacks in the Broncos’ blowout loss to the Rams on Sunday that triggered a coaching shakeup.
Interim head coach Jerry Rosburg, who replaced Nathaniel Hackett, on Friday called wide receiver Jerry Jeudy his hero for having Wilson’s back.
Jeudy took to social media to defend Wilson having his own upstairs office at Broncos headquarters, tweeting, “He got an office because he’s committed his life to this,” adding he’d never had a teammate who motivated him more than Wilson.
After practice Thursday, Jeudy explained that he’d had enough of the piling on of Wilson, who has had the worst season of his career after being traded from Seattle for four premium draft picks and three players last spring.
“I’m just tired of reading things about my boy and making it seem like, ‘Oh, he’s not a good teammate,’” Jeudy explained.
Asked about Jeudy’s late-season surge and his status as questionable for Sunday at Kansas City because of a sore right ankle, Rosburg took the opportunity to laud him for having his teammate’s back.
“Jerry Jeudy has been so impressive to me in all the plays he’s made. I thought that he made a great play yesterday, too, off the field,” Rosburg said.
Rosburg said there’s a lot of unfair characterizations of Wilson, who has his own office and parking space at team headquarters along with an entourage of support staff that includes his personal chefs and QB coach.
“We’ve all been criticized before but at some point in time, it’s really important that those that know you best stand up for you, and sometimes that’s a difficult thing to do because you get yourself messy in the process,” Rosburg said. “But he saw his teammate and friend and comrade aid low and he dug in and stood up with great courage and conviction about the truth, I would say.
“So yeah, he’s my hero today.”
Other teammates, including receiver KJ Hamler and injured left tackle Garett Bolles defended Wilson on social media for the heavy criticism he’s received in a season that features just 12 touchdown throws in 13 games and 49 sacks.
Hamler tweeted that Wilson “goes above and beyond to do whatever it takes to win for the team. Y’all not about to bash him and act like he still ain’t that same Russ who won a Super Bowl and was a 9 time pro bowler. I stand behind my QB.”
So does Bolles, who’s on IR with a broken leg.
“This has been an incredible difficult season personally and even worse watching my brother Russ get beaten down with hurtful attacks and lies,” Bolles tweeted. “Russ pours his heart and soul into this game. More importantly, he pours his heart and soul into our TEAM. He is one of the greatest competitors and teammates I’ve been around.
“We have his back and know he wants nothing more than to WIN. That is our quarterback and brother. We’ll learn from this adversity and be better for it together.”
All of this defense of Wilson comes after backup quarterback Brett Rypien got shoved in the chest by left guard Dalton Risner, the team’s Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee, when he approached the offensive linemen on the sideline Sunday following back-to-back sacks of Wilson and implored them to help the quarterback to his feet instead of just staring at him as he peeled himself off the ground.
Asked Friday if he felt the O-linemen should give their quarterback a hand when he’s been tackled, Rosburg said, “That’s a really good question. But here’s what I’m going to say. I could give a really long answer but I’m just going to say: Watch Sunday’s game.”
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CARLSBAD, Calif. (KSWB) – A “very pregnant” sea lion crashed an upscale San Diego County golf course Thursday, presenting a unique challenge for rescuers who eventually ushered her back to sea.
Workers at Omni La Costa Resort first spotted the animal on the green Thursday morning. That’s some three miles from the coast, though rescuers later noted that the animal came inland via the Batiquitos Lagoon, likely making its on-ground trek “only” a mile or so.
Golf course staff called SeaWorld Animal Rescue, and when program supervisor Jeni Smith and her team arrived, the animal didn’t appear to be in distress or in any immediate danger, she told KSWB.
“She was comfy, cozy on the golf course,” Smith said.
And the animal, which Smith described as “fairly large” and “very pregnant,” didn’t appear terribly concerned about all the fuss.
“She didn’t seem to be too alarmed by us,” Smith said. “She did keep her eye on us, and she was just relaxing on, I think it was the 16th hole, I guess.”
That’s in contrast to a harrowing rescue Smith and her team made earlier this year when a sea lion managed to get onto a busy San Diego freeway.
Still, the SeaWorld team wanted to get the mom-to-be back to her natural habitat quickly and carefully. Smith said it was too far to the lagoon to simply walk along, coaxing the animal back toward the water.
When they tried to approach the sea lion, she started waddling in the wrong direction — and moving pretty fast despite her significant size, Smith said. The rescuers blocked the animal’s path east with their truck and regrouped.
Smith eventually decided to enlist resort employees, giving them a “quick safety briefing” and handing each of them a “shield” — a big sheet of plastic with handles that they could use to block the animal’s path. Rescuers and bewildered golf course workers lined up and created a tunnel of sorts, giving the sea lion a path and guiding it toward the parked rescue truck.
The plan worked, and once the sea lion was safely corralled, the rescue team took off for nearby Carlsbad State Beach. There, a crowd of locals and summer tourists watched the rescue with excitement.
For a moment, the show-stealing sea lion didn’t want to leave the truck, Smith said. But eventually, she clamored out and back onto the sand, swimming safely into the ocean.
The rescue team thinks it won’t be long before she returns to shore to give birth to her pup. Smith said the Omni staff “actually saw the pup moving inside.”
The team hopes the birth will happen on the beach and not on some tennis court somewhere.
Smith thanked the Omni staff profusely, not just for help coaxing the animal but also for letting them drive the rescue truck onto their pristine course.
“That was the first thing I asked,” she said.
SeaWorld doesn’t name the animals it rescues and returns to their habitat, but lifeguards who helped escort the rescue team opted for the golf-themed nickname “Bogey.”
That’s only slightly less on-the-nose than “Freeway,” the widely used nickname for the aforementioned sea lion that made its way onto state Route 94 in January. That animal is actually a repeat offender: Rescuers had previously wrangled it on San Diego’s busy Harbor Island Drive and even at a La Jolla, California, gift shop.
Despite Bogey and Freeway’s exploits, Smith said sea lions making it so far onto land remains pretty rare. The team thinks the lagoon may have had a food source that the sea lion was seeking, but they are still not sure why it wandered all the way onto the green. | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/pregnant-sea-lion-found-on-resort-golf-course-miles-from-shore/ | 2022-06-24 13:17:23 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/pregnant-sea-lion-found-on-resort-golf-course-miles-from-shore/ |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Heavily armed North Dakota man who killed officer was interviewed in 2021 after tip he was stockpiling weapons, FBI says.
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When Heather Daly-Donofrio began her new job as the USGA’s managing director of player relations and development last May, she started with a blank sheet of paper.
Now, with the former LPGA player and executive spearheading the effort, the USGA has unveiled its long awaited and much needed national development program.
The U.S. National Development Program will launch this year with a goal of creating a pipeline to foster current and future generations of American golf talent, from the early stages of the competitive junior ranks through the professional game. In the USGA’s words, it hopes to “identify, train, develop, fund and support the nation’s most promising junior players – regardless of cultural, geographical or financial background – to ensure that American golf is the global leader in the game.”
“When you have a young boy or girl watching the PGA Tour or LPGA, and they turn to their mommy and say, ‘Hey, I want to be that.' ... We want to create a clear and defined pathway to that,” Daly-Donofrio said. “We want to strengthen and broaden that junior pipeline, to give the same support that other countries give their athletes and make sure that young boys and girls have resources that they need to achieve their dreams.”
Most other leading countries in the golf world have long implemented national programs, providing a bevy of resources to their most promising players. But as USGA CEO Mike Whan noted, U.S.-born players, who up until last year had been somewhat hindered by strict USGA's amateur rules, have been at a "huge competitive disadvantage in this regard."
"We simply ask our athletes, parents and coaches to forge their own path, without any unified national guidance or financial support," Whan added.
While there is still much to be done, including hiring staff and working out some details, Daly-Donofrio called 2023 a "foundation-building year."
Here is a closer look at the six pillars the USGA will lean on as it moves forward with what figures to be a massive yet crucial undertaking:
Talent identification: The minimum age for entry into the national program is expected to be 12 years old, according to Daly-Donofrio. Players will be selected based on a variety of metrics – as of now, the USGA has about 25 in mind. And they aren't just limited to rankings, though the USGA will create a ranking to sort its talent. In addition to its own data, the USGA will lean on local golf associations, junior tours and PGA of American sections to help in identifying worthy talent.
Think of this like creating a pool of prospects where the USGA can cultivate and support all of its potential talent while allowing the elite players to showcase those talents through competition with the national team.
Athlete financial support: The USGA plans to create a grant program – initially backed by the USGA and eventually also corporate sponsors and donors – and will start providing financial support to about 50 juniors this year, helping offset costs for tournament entry fees, travel, coaching costs, golf course access, equipment and more. By 2027, the goal is to fund around 1,000 juniors.
There is a need-based component for financial assistance, Daly-Donofrio said.
Access to competition: With a variety of competitive options around the country, from top national tours like the AJGA to local junior events, there is no shortage of places to play, but that also creates some confusion of where and how players can log their tournament reps. Where the USGA's program comes into play is it will create a clearer pathway to direct players up the junior ranks, starting with state-level competitions and ending with providing exemptions into AJGA tournaments, including invitationals, and USGA championships.
And by 2025, the USGA aims to have its own regional championships to further assist in identifying and developing talent.
National teams: The elite players who are selected to one of three national teams – junior (launched in 2024), amateur (2025) and young professional (2026) – will have increased resources available to them, year-round support that includes access to world-class coaching, analytics, sports psychology and nutritional guidance, and training camps. The national teams will also travel internationally to play tournaments, which potentially could include head-to-head matches between the U.S. and other national teams. "We've found that American players just aren't getting the type of international exposure as players from other countries," Daly-Donofrio said.
The initial numbers for these teams are the following: junior – 30 boys and 30 girls; amateur – 15 men and 15 women; young pros – 10 men and 10 women. A coach for the junior team will be determined later this year.
There is also a goal of creating state teams to better organize players within in the program and to serve as sort of a feeder system into the national team.
Athlete resources: While the national-team members will have the most resources available to them, the USGA will begin this year developing a platform to help all its players navigate the vast competitive landscape and ensure that they receive the best tools to be able to succeed and grow; the hope is for a player to be able to enter information about themselves, from handicap to what geographical area they want to play tournaments in, and find the best opportunities for their situation as they are readied for national-team competition.
Player development and relations: In addition to resources that help develop players' games, the USGA also will provide mentoring opportunities for its national team members, whether it's from USGA champions or other top athletes.
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AOC says she may draft Clarence Thomas impeachment article if no one else does
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says if no other Democrat introduces impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, she would be 'open' to doing it
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., renewed her calls for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached after a report detailed the justice's close relationship with a billionaire Republican donor — going so far as to say she will introduce articles of impeachment herself.
In comments made on the Lever Time podcast Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez said Thomas' position on the court is an "emergency" and a "crisis," and reiterated her full support for removing him.
When asked if she would introduce the articles of impeachment herself, the New York lawmaker said she would step up if no one else does.
"Congress is out of session for the next week. And so that does give Democrats some time to strategize, and the way I feel about it is that, I do think articles need to be introduced," said Ocasio-Cortez.
"If we decide strategically that the actual author of those articles and who introduces them may not be me, that's fine, I will support impeachment. But I just think that if no one's going to introduce it I would certainly be open to doing so and drafting them myself," she continued, adding, "I think this has gone far, far beyond any sort of acceptable standard in any democracy, let alone an American democracy."
Democrats have expressed outrage at Thomas because of his wife's conservative political activities and, most recently, a report that claimed the justice has received lavish gifts from a GOP mega-donor and never disclosed them.
A ProPublica investigation found that Thomas’ close friendship with real estate developer Harlan Crow allowed him to accompany the Texas billionaire on luxury vacations on his private jet and yacht, as well as free stays on Crow’s vast vacation property, among other perks. He reportedly failed to disclose the vast majority of Crow’s gifts.
In a statement Friday, Thomas described Harlan and Kathy Crow as "among our dearest friends."
"As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them," Thomas said. "Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable."
"I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines," Thomas continued. "These guidelines are now being changed, as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance. And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future."
The ProPublica report prompted several Democratic lawmakers to demand that a strict code of ethics be imposed on the Supreme Court by Congress.
CLARENCE THOMAS REPORT SPURS NEW CALLS FROM DEMOCRATS FOR SUPREME COURT CODE OF ETHICS
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thomas’ alleged actions are "simply inconsistent with the ethical standards the American people expect of any public servant, let alone a Justice on the Supreme Court."
"Today’s report demonstrates, yet again, that Supreme Court Justices must be held to an enforceable code of conduct, just like every other federal judge," Durbin said in a Thursday statement. "The ProPublica report is a call to action, and the Senate Judiciary Committee will act."
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However, Democrats have been all bark and no bite before. Last year, Ocasio-Cortez was one of a handful of House Democrats who demanded that Thomas step down or be impeached because he would not recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Investigators on the Jan. 6 select committee revealed that the justice's wife, Ginni Thomas, sent text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to challenge Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.
"Clarence Thomas should resign," Ocasio-Cortez said at the time. "If not, his failure to disclose income from right-wing organizations, recuse himself from matters involving his wife, and his vote to block the Jan 6th commission from key information must be investigated and could serve as grounds for impeachment."
But Democrats took no action against Thomas.
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GOP wins slim House majority, complicating ambitious agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans won control of the U.S. House on Wednesday, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden’s agenda and spur a flurry of investigations. But a threadbare majority will pose immediate challenges for GOP leaders and complicate the party’s ability to govern.
More than a week after Election Day, Republicans secured the 218th seat needed to flip the House from Democratic control. 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.
But they are on track to cobble together what could be the party’s narrowest majority of the 21st century, rivaling 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 showed surprising resilience, 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 Tuesday, lifted candidates during this year’s primaries who struggled to win during the general election.
Despite the GOP’s underwhelming showing, the party will still have notable power. Republicans will take control of key 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 Democrats won the barest of majorities Saturday. Both parties are looking to a Dec. 6 Senate runoff in Georgia as a last chance to pad their ranks.
With such a slim majority in the House, there’s also 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 wins — they needed a net gain of five seats to take the majority — 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.
The new majority will usher in a new group of leaders in Washington. 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.
McCarthy won the nomination for House speaker on Tuesday, with a formal vote to come when the new Congress convenes in January.
“I’m proud to announce the era of one-party Democrat rule in Washington is over,” McCarthy said after winning the nomination.
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.”
AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the national electorate, showed that high inflation and concerns about the fragility of democracy had heavily influenced voters. Half of voters said inflation factored significantly, with groceries, gasoline, housing, food and other costs that have shot up in the past year. Slightly fewer — 44% — said the future of democracy was their primary consideration.
Counter to the GOP’s expectations, Biden didn’t entirely shoulder the blame for inflation, with close to half of voters saying the higher-than-usual prices were more because of factors outside his control. And despite the president bearing criticism from a pessimistic electorate, some of those voters backed Democratic candidates.
Democrats also likely benefited from anger over the Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision cementing a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. Voters in Michigan voted to amend their state constitution to protect abortion rights while far more reliably Republican Kentucky rejected a constitutional amendment declaring no right to an abortion.
Overall, 7 in 10 voters said the high court’s ruling overturning the 1973 decision enshrining abortion rights was an important factor in their midterm decisions. VoteCast also showed the reversal was broadly unpopular. About 6 in 10 say they are angry or dissatisfied by it. And roughly 6 in 10 say they favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic’s minister of the environment and natural resources — the son of a former president — was shot to death in his office by a close friend Monday, the office of the president said in a statement.
Authorities said Orlando Jorge Mera was shot by Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota, who was later arrested at a church dozens of blocks away after telling a priest he committed a crime and handed over a gun to him.
Officials gave no motive for the shooting, and it wasn’t immediately clear if Cruz, 56, had an attorney.
“We express our deepest condolences,” the office of President Luis Abinader said.
As shots rang out late Monday morning, people on the street yelled and took cover as those fleeing the buidling climbed over a tall fence after first throwing over purses, backpacks and even a pair of shoes because the building’s main gates were locked.
Authorities said that in a phone conversation with Cruz while he was at the church, he promised to turn himself in if they guaranteed he wouldn’t be killed.
Heavily armed police officers took him into custody at the church, which is about a 15-minute drive from the office where Jorge was shot.
When he was brought out, Cruz was wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest and kept his head mostly down as the glasses he wore slid slightly down his nose. One bystander yelled: “You killed a good man! Murderer!”
The victim came from a powerful political family. Jorge was the son of former Dominican President Salvador Jorge Blanco and his sister is a vice minister in Abinader’s administration. Jorge’s son is a lawmaker for the Modern Revolutionary Party, of which Jorge was a founding member.
The family issued a statement saying that Cruz had been Jorge’s friend since childhood and that Jorge was shot multiple times.
“Our family forgives the person who did this. One of Orlando’s greatest legacies was to not hold grudges,” it said.
Police and emergency officials swarmed the office of Environment and Natural Resources Ministry in the capital of Santo Domingo and barred entry as mourners gathered nearby. Jorge’s office was on the fourth floor of a building that also houses the Ministry of Tourism.
“We are troubled by the situation,” Jorge’s ministry said in a brief statement.
Bartolomé Pujals, executive director of the government’s Cabinet of Innovation, wrote that he lamented the killing.
“His death is a tragedy,” Pujals said. “We Dominicans have to come together to achieve a pact for peace and peaceful coexistence. No more violence.”
Jorge, a lawyer, was appointed minister of the environment and natural resources in August 2020.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Tara Setmayer, senior adviser to the Lincoln Project, a Republican political action committee, about how election deniers fared in Tuesday's elections.
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, October 28, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
104 AM CDT Fri Oct 28 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Coke,
southeastern Sterling, northwestern Tom Green and northern Irion
Counties through 145 AM CDT...
At 104 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 20
miles west of Arden, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny 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...
Carlsbad, Water Valley and Us-87 Near The Coke-
Tom Green County Line.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3139 10114 3155 10123 3181 10069 3156 10056
TIME...MOT...LOC 0604Z 245DEG 28KT 3151 10110
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Hollywood writers begin strike, late-night shows go dark
NEW YORK (AP) — Late-night TV shows including “The Tonight Show” and “The Daily Show” will begin airing reruns as unionized writers soured by Hollywood’s low pay in the streaming era went on strike Tuesday for the first time in 15 years.
The labor dispute could have a cascading effect on TV and film productions depending on how long the strike lasts, and it comes as streaming services are under growing pressure from Wall Street to show profits.
The Writers Guild of America’s 11,500 unionized screenwriters prepared to picket after negotiations with studios, which began in March, failed by Monday’s deadline to yield a new contract. All script writing is to immediately cease, the guild informed its members.
Along with NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” and Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live” all made plans for reruns through the week.
The guild is seeking higher minimum pay, less thinly staffed writing rooms, shorter exclusive contracts and a reworking of residual pay — all conditions the WGA says have been diminished in the content boom driven by streaming.
“The companies’ behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing,” the WGA said in a statement.
Picket lines were planned throughout Los Angeles and in New York later Tuesday. The WGA is to picket first outside the Manhattan building where NBCUniversal is holding an event for advertisers to its streaming service, Peacock.
Demonstrations in Los Angeles are planned outside the offices of Walt Disney Co., Netflix, Amazon, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, CBS and Sony.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the trade association that bargains on behalf of studios and production companies, said it presented an offer with “generous increases in compensation for writers as well as improvements in streaming residuals.”
In a statement, the trade association said that it was prepared to improve its offer “but was unwilling to do so because of the magnitude of other proposals still on the table that the guild continues to insist upon.”
A shutdown has been widely forecast for months due to the scope of the discord. The writers last month voted overwhelming to authorize a strike, with 98% of membership in support.
At issue is how writers are compensated in an industry where streaming has changed the rules of Hollywood economics. Writers say they aren’t being paid enough, TV writer rooms have shrunk too much and the old calculus for how residuals are paid out needs to be redrawn.
“The survival of our profession is at stake,” the guild has said.
Streaming has exploded the number of series and films that are annually made, meaning more jobs for writers. But WGA members say they’re making much less money and working under more strained conditions. Showrunners on streaming series receive just 46% of the pay that showrunners on broadcast series receive, the WGA claims.
The guild is seeking more compensation on the front-end of deals. Many of the back-end payments writers have historically profited by – like syndication and international licensing – have been largely phased out by the onset of streaming. More writers — roughly half — are being paid minimum rates, an increase of 16% over the last decade. The use of so-called mini-writers rooms has soared.
Hollywood’s trade assocation said Monday that the primary sticking points to a deal revolved around those mini-rooms — the guild is seeking a minimum number of scribes per writer room — and duration of employment restrictions. The guild has said more flexibility for writers is needed when they’re contracted for series that have tended to be more limited and short-lived than the once-standard 20-plus episode broadcast season.
Many studios and production companies are slashing spending. The Walt Disney Co. is eliminating 7,000 jobs. Warner Bros. Discovery is cutting costs to lessen its debt. Netflix has pumped the breaks on spending growth.
When Hollywood writers have gone on strike, it’s often been lengthy. In 1988, a WGA strike lasted 153 days. The last WGA strike went for 100 days, beginning in 2007 and ending in 2008.
During the 2007 strike, late-night hosts eventually returned to the air and improvised material. Jay Leno wrote his own monologues, a move that angered union leadership.
On Friday’s episode of “Late Night,” Seth Meyers, a WGA member who said he supported the union’s demands, prepared viewers for re-runs while lamenting the hardship a strike entails.
“It doesn’t just affect the writers, it affects all the incredible non-writing staff on these shows,” Meyers said. “And it would really be a miserable thing for people to have to go through, especially considering we’re on the heels of that awful pandemic that affected, not just show business, but all of us.”
Scripted series and films will take longer to be affected. But if a strike persisted through the summer, fall schedules could be upended. And in the meantime, not having writers available for rewrites can have a dramatic effect on quality. The James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” was one of many films rushed into production during the 2007-2008 strike with what Daniel Craig called “the bare bones of a script.”
“Then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do,” Craig later recounted. “We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, ‘Never again’, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes — and a writer I am not.”
With a walkout long expected, writers have rushed to get scripts in and studios have sought to prepare their pipelines to keep churning out content for at least the short term.
“We’re assuming the worst from a business perspective,” David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, said last month. “We’ve got ourselves ready. We’ve had a lot of content that’s been produced.”
Overseas series could also fill some of the void. “If there is one, we have a large base of upcoming shows and films from around the world,” said Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-chief executive, on the company’s earnings call in April.
Yet the WGA strike may only be the beginning. Contracts for both the Directors Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA, the actors union, expire in June. Some of the same issues around the business model of streaming will factor into those bargaining sessions. The DGA is set to begin negotiations with AMPTP on May 10.
The cost of the WGA’s last strike cost Southern California $2.1 billion, according to the Milken Institute. How painful this strike is remains to be seen. But as of late Monday evening, laptops were being closed shut all over Hollywood.
“Pencils down,” said “Halt and Catch Fire” showrunner and co-creator Christopher Cantwell on Twitter shortly after the strike announcement. “Don’t even type in the document.” ___
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BOSTON (AP) — BOSTON (AP) — Safety Insurance Group Inc. (SAFT) on Wednesday reported a loss of $12.3 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Boston-based company said it had a loss of 84 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 87 cents per share.
The automobile insurance provider posted revenue of $213.8 million in the period.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Highway Patrol is asking for support in a nationwide competition to determine which state highway patrol has the best-looking cruiser.
FHP will go head-to-head with 44 other state police agencies including the Kentucky State Police, who took home the 2022 “Best Looking Cruiser” title.
According to a report from the Courier Journal, the Kentucky State Police received 77,944 votes to take home the first place prize last year. The Ohio State Highway Patrol followed in second place with 65,529 votes. The Florida Highway Patrol did not make the top 10.
Voting for the American Association of State Troopers annual “Best Looking Cruiser” Contest begins Monday, Aug. 8, and continues through Thursday, August 25, 2022.
Voters can support FHP by following these steps:
- Visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QHXV8ZS
- Select “Florida” from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page
- Click “Done”
Other state agencies participating in the annual contest include:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
According to FHP, the photo submitted this year was taken by a Trooper on the island community of Marathon in the Florida Keys. Troopers said the photo “showcases the unmatched views and natural scenery of the Sunshine State.”
The winner of the nationwide contest will receive the Best Looking Cruiser Award and will be featured on the cover of the AAST’s “America’s Best Looking Trooper Cruisers 2023” Wall Calendar. Calendar sales benefit the American Association of State Troopers Foundation, which provides educational scholarships to dependents of member troopers. | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/fhp-asks-for-support-in-nationwide-best-looking-cruiser-contest/ | 2022-08-08 17:41:09 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/fhp-asks-for-support-in-nationwide-best-looking-cruiser-contest/ |
Working dogs trained to use their noses to keep people safe at Super Bowl
SAN ANTONIO (KSAT) - Some of the top canines in the world will be at the Super Bowl.
Dogs from San Antonio will sniff out potential threats at the big game on Sunday.
The dogs receive extensive training. It’s the ultimate game of hide and seek.
The canines are trained to detect explosive devices at airports, other transit points and the festivities surrounding Super Bowl week in Arizona.
“We’re going to have our best out there on game day protecting the traveling public,” said Zeb Polasek, Tranportation Safety Administration Canine Training Center director.
These dogs go through training at the canine training center at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland.
The first exercise is detecting explosives at the terminal and people passing through the screening process, including “explosives on passengers or in a static setting at an airport. Could be mass trans. It could be multiple different areas,” said Nicholas Graham, TSA canine adoption coordinator.
The dogs are trained to give a passive response once they detect a suspicious substance.
“If they detect someone, something on a passenger, they’ll kind of hone in on them and follow that specific person,” Graham said.
The canines are also trained to detect explosives on a wide aircraft simulator, before and after passengers get onboard. During the training, the canine are seen moving up and down the aisle. The dogs also weave their way in-and-out of passenger luggage like a running back on the field.
“They don’t get distracted by food. They’re trained. You know, these dogs are professional dogs that operate at the highest levels,” Polasek said.
The goal is to keep people safe this week during the big game.
“Everything from sleep to the to the nourishment and the food that they get and of course, the expert training is key to produce that product that’s actually going to be out at the Super Bowl,” Polasek said.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Republican Ryan Zinke prevailed over his Democratic challenger in the race for a newly-drawn Montana U.S. House district on Tuesday, overcoming early stumbles including a razor-thin victory in the primary.
Zinke served previously in the House from 2015 to 2017 before leaving to join former President Donald Trump’s cabinet as Interior secretary. He resigned after less than two years at the agency amid numerous ethics investigations, including two in which federal officials concluded Zinke lied.
Democratic challenger Monica Tranel, an environmental and consumer rights attorney from Missoula, tried to capitalize on the scandals by characterizing him as a “snake” who quit Trump’s cabinet in disgrace.
Zinke said Thursday morning that “Montana saw through the lies" about him and instead responded to his calls to curb energy costs, restrict abortions but with exceptions, and address housing shortages. Zinke said Republicans now “have to deliver on promises made."
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“One key promise is we have to assert the power of the purse," he said. “We've got to show we can control the budget. Right now the budget is out of control.”
Republicans have not lost a U.S. House race in Montana since 1994. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale also win in this midterm election. Over the past decade, voters have vanquished every Democrat holding statewide office except U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, who is up for re-election in 2024.
Zinke raised and spent about $6 million during the campaign — more than twice as much as Tranel, according to campaign filings through Oct. 19.
Zinke had won two statewide elections to the U.S. House before joining Trump’s cabinet, where he eased restrictions on oil and gas drilling before resigning amid numerous ethics investigations.
During his campaign this year, the former U.S. Navy SEAL tried to portray himself as moderate by saying he does not support a no-exceptions ban on abortion. But, he also parroted GOP attacks on the Biden administration over inflation and border security.
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Live call and webcast will occur on August 3 at 9:00 a.m. ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ:TRUE) will report financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 after market close, in a stockholder letter that will be accessible from the Company's Investor Relations website at ir.truecar.com.
Mike Darrow, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Jantoon Reigersman, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will host a call on Wednesday, August 3 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the results. A live webcast of the call will also be accessible through TrueCar's Investor Relations website.
TrueCar Second Quarter 2022 Live Call and Webcast Details:
An archived version of the call will be available upon completion on the Investor Relations section of TrueCar's website at ir.truecar.com.
Stockholder Q&A Platform Available Starting July 27 at 9:00 a.m. ET:
TrueCar invites its stockholders to submit and upvote questions for its management team. To submit questions, please visit the Say Connect platform here, starting on July 27. The Q&A platform will remain open until 24 hours before the call. Management intends to respond to a selection of questions during its earnings call.
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PADDOCK LAKE - In the hit 90s television show "Married with Children," grumpy dad Al Bundy, played by Ed O'Neill, was always quick to tell people he scored four touchdowns in one game, playing high school football at Polk High.
You see, Al was married, far past his glory days, and not the happiest of humans.
His rare athletic feat was one thing he never forgot, because it's pretty special, and extremely rare, to score FOUR touchdowns in one game - at any level.
Just ask junior wide receiver Collin Meininger.
The talented Falcon did just that Friday night, three of which came in the first half, and Central rolled to a 42-7 victory over rival Wilmot.
"It feels amazing to beat them especially because they knocked us out of the playoffs last year," Meininger said via text message Saturday morning. "I was able to get open and break some tackles allowing me to get yards after the catch. It felt amazing to score four. New career high!"
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Central (7-2) secured its best overall record since going 7-2 in 2005. The Falcons earned a No. 2 seed in the WIAA Division 2 football playoffs and will host No. 7 Milwaukee Reagan Friday night.
It feels especially amazing when you have a career night and basically toy with your opponent to the tune of four touchdowns.
That's exactly what Meininger, Kenosha County's leading receiver and one of the top pass-catchers in the state, did against the Panthers, with 10 catches for 136 yards and four scores - 21, 20, 10 and 23 yards.
After Keaton Enright's 2-yard touchdown made it 7-0, the Brock Koeppel-Meininger hook-up tallied three first-half scoring strikes, and the Falcons' 28-0 halftime lead meant the rout was on.
Central head coach Jared Franz said this win was special for the seniors.
"We are incredibly proud and happy for our seniors," Franz said Saturday. "We wanted to send them off with a memory they could be proud and hang onto and we did that. They played so well in every phase of the game."
"Offensively the O-line was dominant and Brock made great reads, but the player of the game was Nick Argersinger. He ran the ball, caught the ball, returned the ball (on punt return) and played safety on defense (which limited Wilmot to zero pass completions until the fourth quarter when the game was essentially over. Defensively, Coach Bowe had a great game plan and the kids executed it perfectly. Alex Sippy continues to put together an All-State type season at cornerback. With the exception of the touchdowns Elkhorn and Wilmot scored in the final minutes of the fourth quarters of games, our defense has played eight quarters of shutout football."
Sippy locked down Wilmot's leading receiver Kade Frisby, holding him catch-less.
Plus, Ian Witt and Landon Tyler helped lead the defense, and the offensive line play of center Mason McNeill and left guard Aiden Runyan paved plenty of open holes for a ground game that racked up
2.) I was able to get open and break some tackles allowing me to get yards after the catch. It felt amazing to score 4. New career high! 3.) Brock and I are good friends off the field and on the field. We’ve been playing together for a couple years now, which is why we have so much chemistry. It’s awesome we can connect on some of the throws and catches. 4.) It feels great to finally be in the playoffs, we have to stay locked in and take one day at a time from this point moving forward.
You just have to keep working. I tend to get in my head if I drop a pass or don’t get the ball, and that’s something I’ve been working on lately. I think I forgot about it now and just focus on the next play. You can’t lose focus, and you have to keep pushing yourself. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/high-school-football-central-hangs-42-on-kenosha-county-rival-wilmot-secures-best-record-since/article_ec478da4-4cae-11ed-b171-8f68d595bf28.html | 2022-10-15 18:32:34 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/high-school-football-central-hangs-42-on-kenosha-county-rival-wilmot-secures-best-record-since/article_ec478da4-4cae-11ed-b171-8f68d595bf28.html |
Experts warn about posting pictures of your children on social media
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Experts are warning about posting pictures of your children on social media.
You may be putting your kids in danger and not even realize it.
Seventy nine percent of parents in a recent study said they uploaded pictures of their children on social media at some point.
More than 4 billion people have social media accounts, and you may not realize that you could be putting your child at risk if your profile is not on private.
Local experts say predators and pedophiles are scouring social media for pictures that you may not think twice about sharing - like playfulness at bath time or your child in a bathing suit pictures on the beach.
Predators are specifically looking for pictures of kids with little or no clothing (e.g., swimming, bathing, sports, diapers, etc.) or identifying clothing (e.g., school uniforms).
Law enforcement officials say many images found on pornographic sites children online are often lifted off of social media sites and photoshopped.
The Child Rescue Coalition also found a pattern of predators stalking a child in real life that they found on social media.
Here are some things you may want to consider before posting your child online:
Make your social media accounts private.
As the next school year approaches, don’t use any identifying information if you post pictures of your kids on the first day of school like school name, teacher, or grade.
Also, make sure not to post a picture of your child’s sport uniform, your license plate, or home address
Experts also suggest you do not include your child’s friends in photos unless you have asked for permission.
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NEW YORK and LONDON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Elliptic, the global leader in cryptoasset risk management, announced the integration of ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) into their off-chain intelligence and research gathering efforts. As the original creator of the blockchain analytics industry, Elliptic's solutions leverage a proprietary dataset which consists of over a decade's worth of data. This powers the industry's most extensive coverage, encompassing over 97% of crypto transactions by trading volume, and the largest collection of crypto exchange risk profiles in the world.
With ChatGPT, Elliptic's researchers and investigators will be able to synthesize and organize intelligence on new risk factors in higher volumes and at a quicker speed than ever before. This new technology will augment our team's efforts, allowing them to double down on accuracy and scalability, while the LLM takes care of organizing the data.
Elliptic was the first to bring blockchain analytics to market, and is the only provider to offer a truly holistic view of cross chain risk. "We pride ourselves in being on the forefront of blockchain innovation, and incorporating cutting-edge technologies to enhance how we work without compromising the high standards for which we are known is part of our DNA" said CEO Simone Maini of the addition of the LLM to Elliptic's set of tools.
"Our customers come to us to know exactly their risk exposure. Integrating ChatGPT allows us to scale up our intelligence, giving our customers a view on risk they can't get anywhere else" says Jackson Hull, CTO at Elliptic.
About Elliptic
Elliptic, the pioneer in blockchain analytics, provides the intelligence that helps financial services, crypto businesses, governments and law enforcers make faster, smarter, and safer decisions. Recognized as a RegTech100 Heavy Hitter, C.B. Insights Top 50 blockchain provider and WEF Technology Pioneer, Elliptic is backed by investors including J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, SBI Group, and Santander Innoventures. With extensive experience assessing risk on transactions and wallets across blockchains and assets, Elliptic leverages over 100 billion data points with 99.97% accuracy to uncover illicit crypto activity in real-time.
Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Singapore, and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan is an unblemished 3-0 after non-conference play, and we just about mean it.
The fourth-ranked Wolverines have outscored their opponents 166-17, not allowed a single first-half point and look like a national juggernaut.
But with the easy schedule so far, it’s hard to decipher reality from a mirage.
Jim Harbaugh’s team has beaten its opponents so bad, they’re playing second and third-string players (and beyond) midway through the second half. So the starters, some of whom are new and unproven, haven’t even played a full game yet.
What does that mean? Well, it makes it difficult to determine how they might fare against better competition, which begins Saturday in the Big Ten opener against Maryland (Noon, FOX).
But, here’s what we *think* we know about a team off to one of its best starts in program history, statistically.
More: Michigan football looks good, but is the success real?
1. QB is settled. This we can write with near-certainty, especially with Cade McNamara sidelined for the next couple of weeks with a leg injury. J.J. McCarthy has proven without a doubt to be the better option at quarterback; he’s 30 of 34 for 473 yards and three touchdowns in two starts, and provides a different look to the Michigan offense. This is McCarthy’s job for the foreseeable future, giving the Wolverines some clarity at one of the most important positions on the field.
It’s an unfortunate situation for McNamara, who deserves credit for leading the Wolverines to a 12-win season, Big Ten title and College Football Playoff appearance, exacerbated by a fluke injury during a lopsided victory. We don’t envision a change coming at QB anytime soon, giving McCarthy the keys to an offense that appears to be a bit more balanced than last year.
2. Three are three starting receivers, not five or six. And a playmaker has emerged. During the offseason, Jim Harbaugh touted his receiver room as being one of the best he’s had at Michigan, the type of compliment he doesn’t throw around very often. He believed he had “five or six” starters at the position, an ambitious proclamation given that the Wolverines rarely play with more than three receivers in the game. And so far, sure enough, there are have been three receivers — many of the same names you’ve heard before — to stand out.
Ronnie Bell remains Michigan’s top target (14 catches, 181 yards, TD) while Roman Wilson (6 catches, 171 yards, 2 TD) has emerged as the big-play threat, averaging more than 28 yards per catch, and Cornelius Johnson remains a primary option. However, Johnson (4 catches, 90 yards, TD) has struggled out of the gate, dropping balls and getting dinged for penalties. A.J. Henning is slowly emerging in the passing game, albeit remains his most productive behind the line of scrimmage.
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3. C.J. Stokes is the real deal at running back. Michigan has found its third-string running back, and perhaps its next future star in freshman C.J. Stokes. The former three-star recruit has burst onto the scene and earned immediate playing time, turning 22 carries into 114 yards and a touchdown in three games. He has been the clear No. 3 back off the bench and earned more snaps than sophomore Tavierre Dunlap against UConn, when Donovan Edwards was sidelined due to injury.
Stokes is averaging a healthy 5.2 yards per carry so far, and flashed his pass-catching ability in the opener against Colorado State. He fits right in with Michigan’s workmanlike approach to running the football, and it’s no wonder the coaching staff has taken a liking to him.
4. There are no sack stars this year. We’re three games in and no one on the Michigan defense has more than one sack to their name. In fact, six different players have racked up a sack while four others have contributed. Now, that could be a byproduct of the lopsided victories and frequent substitution, but it also tracks with what we expected out the unit this year. There are no All-American candidates or emerging prospects, just a bunch of dudes playing within a system and running to the football.
We’ve written this before, but for Michigan’s defense to be successful it must be a disciplined, all-hands-on-deck unit that swarms the football. And so far, that’s what we have seen. Don’t expect the Wolverines to change much of what they’re doing; they want to rely on their depth, fresh options and unique skillsets to overwhelm opponents. Whether that happens going forward remains unclear, but the one thing that appears abundantly clear through three games is that there isn’t going to be a sack superstar or two this year. It’s going to be a team-wide task, just as first-year coordinator Jesse Minter predicted.
Read more on Michigan football:
Snap counts, PFF grades: Michigan’s OL shows improvement
Michigan looks good, but is the success real?
Next up for U-M: Big Ten opener against unbeaten Maryland
Michigan racks up the ‘YACs’ in win vs. UConn
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CANBERRA, Australia: (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was working in the “most effective way possible” to secure the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but declined an invitation Monday to meet the Australian citizen’s wife.
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Independent lawmaker Andrew Wilkie asked Albanese if he would meet Assange’s wife Stella Assange, who was watching Parliament from the public gallery. Albanese said a meeting with Stella Assange wouldn’t help her 51-year-old husband who is in a London prison fighting extradition to the United States.
“A priority for us isn’t doing something that is a demonstration, it’s actually doing something that produces an outcome,” Albanese told Parliament. “And that’s my focus, not grandstanding.”
Albanese was with U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Japan over the weekend for the Group of Seven leading industrial nations summit. Albanese did not say whether he had raised with either leader Australia’s position that Assange had been incarcerated for too long.
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Albanese said he appreciated opposition leader Peter Dutton’s recent comments that he agreed with the government that Assange should be released.
“I’ve made it very clear to the U.S. administration and also to the U.K. administration of the Australian government’s view and I appreciate the fact that that is now a bipartisan view … that enough is enough,” Albanese said.
“Nothing is served from the ongoing incarceration of Julian Assange. What I have done … is to act in the most effective way possible,” he said. “What I have done is act diplomatically in order to maximize the opportunity that is there of breaking through an issue which has gone on for far too long."
But Albanese said the issue was not simple.
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Assange has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison fighting extradition. Before that, Assange had taken asylum for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
Stella Assange used her first visit to Australia to address the National Press Club on Monday with her husband’s lawyer, Jennifer Robinson.
The wife said her husband had spent 1,502 days behind bars under threat of extradition to the United States, where he faces a 175-year sentence on espionage charges.
“If Julian is extradited, he will be buried in the deepest, darkest hole of the U.S. prison system, isolated forever,” she said. “We must do everything we can to ensure that Julian never, ever sets foot in a U.S. prison."
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Earlier this month, Albanese expressed frustration at the United States’ continuing efforts to extradite.
Albanese said Julian Assange’s case had to be examined in terms of whether the time he had “effectively served” was in excess of what would be “reasonable” if the allegations against him were proved.
Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse that stem from WikiLeaks’ publication of a huge trove of classified documents in 2010.
American prosecutors allege he helped former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.
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To his supporters, Assange is a secrecy-busting journalist who exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nick Foles waited all season to start taking snaps with the Indianapolis Colts starters.
The 33-year-old quarterback is about to get his chance.
On Wednesday, interim coach Jeff Saturday announced Foles will replace Matt Ryan as Indy’s starter against the Los Angeles Chargers, giving Foles his first start since Dec. 26, 2021, and his second since October 2020.
“No, none,” Foles said when asked if he’s even taken first-team snaps in practice. “You never know what’s going to happen each week, it’s sort of been that kind of year. Unfortunately, in the NFL there are years like that. For me, it’s always just doing what I need to do in my role.”
It’s been a painful season for the Colts (4-9-1) and Foles, who initially signed as a free agent to rejoin coach Frank Reich only to watch his longtime friend get fired in early November.
He’s also seen Indy switch play-callers, fire the offensive coordinator and even got bypassed when Reich initially benched Ryan in October.
Reich turned the team over to second-year quarterback Sam Ehlinger, who attended the same Texas high school as Foles. Indy lost both of Ehlinger’s starts.
Foles began this season listed No. 2 on the depth chart, slid to No. 3 and now has been promoted to starter just four days after the Colts blew a 33-0 halftime lead and allowed Minnesota to rally for a 39-36 overtime victory — the largest comeback in NFL history.
“This is never an easy decision and I love Matt, he’s a pro’s pro and I love the way he’s handled it,” Saturday said. “I feel bad for Matt but ultimately, Nick gives us the best chance of winning and that’s the direction we’re headed.”
Saturday declined to say whether Ryan or Ehlinger would serve as No. 2 against the Chargers on Monday night.
Ryan’s roller-coaster season — and perhaps his career — could be over.
The 37-year-old rallied the Colts in all four of their wins this season, but has been sacked 38 times, fifth in the league, and has a league-high 18 giveaways despite missing two games. Ryan also suffered a separated shoulder in October.
He’s scheduled to count $35.2 million against Indy’s salary cap next season, but the Colts can free up $17.2 million by releasing the 2016 league MVP and four-time Pro Bowler who ranks fifth in NFL history in completions (5,551) and pass attempts (8,464), seventh in yards passing (62,792) and ninth in touchdown passes (381).
But after last week’s historic collapse, a four-turnover fourth quarter that led to 33 points in Indy’s previous game at Dallas and four consecutive losses, Saturday pulled the plug on Ryan’s starting role and is giving Foles a crash course to show what he can do with a lineup he knows little about.
“I know him and got to know him personally, unfortunately not on the field,” said center Ryan Kelly, who will be snapping to his third quarterback this season and eighth since 2017.
“Just doing the walkthrough stuff. Just keep it simple and go out there and play fast. Nick’s obviously stayed ready, working out literally every day, keeping his body right.”
But it’s unclear whether the same guy who replaced the injured Carson Wentz as the Eagles starter in Week 15 of the 2017 season and led Philadelphia to the Super Bowl title can replicate that kind of success in Indy. Foles was the Super Bowl MVP that year after throwing for 373 yards and three TDs while catching another memorable score in the game.
Saturday believes Foles can help stretch the field with more downfield throws and better efficiency and safety Rodney McLeod believes Foles is much the same player he saw in the Eagles locker room in 2017.
“It’s his confidence, leadership ability, guys have a way of kind of following Nick and I think also he’s a real good quarterback when it comes to deep balls,” McLeod said. “He’s seen a lot of ball and he’s a man of faith and I think you see that kind of calmness he can bring to a huddle.”
The Colts are hoping that even applies to a quarterback still getting his feet wet with Indy.
“Sometimes you’re with a team for a couple years and then you go in and out and then you play like this is my first time to really be with the guys,” Foles said. “For me, it’s just getting that mindset of trying to execute this offense, running this offense because really it was training camp and now since then it’s really been scout team cards, but I’ve watched Sam and Matt do a lot of reps.”
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The Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board interviews, incumbent Vincent Chiu and Aldo Bartolone, candidates for 9th Judicial Circuit Group 44.
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JAY, Maine (AP) — Across the U.S., families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten.
The Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter and some worry whether heating assistance programs will be able to make up the difference for struggling families. The situation is even bleaker in Europe, with Russia’s continued curtailment of natural gas pushing prices upward and causing painful shortages.
In Maine, Aaron Raymo saw the writing on the wall and began stocking up on heating oil in 5-gallon increments over the summer as costs crept upward. He filled a container with heating oil as he could afford it, usually on paydays, and used a heating assistance program to top off his 275-gallon oil tank with the arrival of colder weather.
His family is trying to avoid being forced into a difficult decision — choosing between food or heating their home.
“It’s a hard one,” he said. “What are you going to choose for food, or what amount of fuel oil are you going to choose to stay warm?”
A number of factors are converging to create a bleak situation: Global energy consumption has rebounded from the start of the pandemic, and supply was barely keeping pace before the war in Ukraine further reduced supplies.
The National Energy Assistance Directors Association says energy costs will be the highest in more than a decade this winter.
The Energy Department projects heating bills will jump 28% this winter for those who rely on natural gas, used by nearly half of U.S. households for heat. Heating oil is projected to be 27% higher and electricity 10% higher, the agency said.
That comes against inflation rates that accelerated last month with consumer prices growing 6.6%, the fastest such pace in four decades.
The pain will be especially acute in New England, which is heavily reliant on heating oil to keep homes warm. It’s projected to cost more than $2,300 to heat a typical home with heating oil this winter, the energy department said.
Across the country, some are urging utilities to implement a moratorium on winter shut-offs, and members of Congress already added $1 billion in heating aid. But there will be fewer federal dollars than last year when pandemic aid flowed.
In Jay, where Raymo lives with his partner, Lucinda Tyler, and 8-year-old son, residents were already bracing for the worst before the local paper mill announced it’s going to close, putting more than 200 people out of work. That has the potential to wreak havoc on the town budget, and cause higher property taxes that will further eat into residents’ budgets.
Both Raymo and Tyler work full-time jobs. He works as many as 70 or 80 hours a week in an orthopedists’ office and she works from home in shareholder services for a financial services company. They don’t qualify for much help even though they’re scraping by to keep up with repairs, buy gas and put food on the table — and heat their 100-year-old home in a state known for bitter cold weather.
“We work significant hours but it seems that it’s not enough,” said Tyler, who wept with relief when she learned they qualified for even a modest amount of heating assistance.
Last month, Congress added $1 billion in funding to Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, bringing the total to at least $4.8 billion and making additional heating aid available for the start of the winter season.
The third hottest summer on record already strained LIHEAP funding, “so I am glad that we were able to secure these new resources before the cold of winter sets in,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont.
But that level represents an overall reduction from last year, when federal pandemic relief pushed the total energy assistance package past $8 billion.
Some are seeking help who’ve never done so in the past. In Auburn, Maine, 72-year-old Mario Zullo said he worked all his life and never asked for help until last year when he received heating assistance last year. The program helped upgrade his heating.
“It came to us at a time when we needed it the most,” Zullo said.
Mark Wolfe, executive director of NEADA, said he fears the federally funded program won’t be enough because of the high cost of energy and continued instability in energy markets. It could be even worse if the winter is especially cold, he said.
“The crisis is coming,” he said. “There’s a lot of uncertainty and factors in play that could drive these prices higher.”
In Maine, the state has the nation’s oldest population and it’s the most reliant on heating oil, creating a double whammy.
“People are scared. They’re worried. They’re frustrated,” said Lisa McGee, who coordinates the heating aid program for Community Concepts Inc. in Lewiston, Maine. “There’s more anxiety this year.”
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Judge grants order to restore Peñitas library as polling location
A judge ruled Friday Hidalgo County must reinstate a polling location in the city of Peñitas, or cancel the November 2022 general election.
The order was granted Thursday, the same day the city of Peñitas filed a temporary restraining order
In response to the county removing the Peñitas Public Library as a polling location for the November 2022 election.
RELATED: City of Peñitas takes legal action against Hidalgo County over lack of polling location
Last week, the county said it didn’t receive a request to use the library as a polling location until after the deadline to submit the application had passed.
The judge’s order calls for the county to open the Peñitas Public Library polling location for the entire early voting period and General Election Day and post a notice of it online by Friday, Oct. 21.
As of Saturday afternoon, the Hidalgo County website still doesn’t list the Peñitas Public Library as a polling location.
A hearing has been set for Thursday, November 3.
Early voting begins Monday, Oct. 24. | https://www.krgv.com/news/judge-grants-order-to-restore-pe-itas-library-as-polling-location | 2022-10-23 04:45:36 | 1 | https://www.krgv.com/news/judge-grants-order-to-restore-pe-itas-library-as-polling-location |
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said future interest rate decisions are open after upheaval in the global banking system left the economic outlook “blurrier” than just a few weeks ago.
Whether to keep hiking rates would depend on incoming data, above all whether the bank could see signs that painfully high inflation is headed convincingly down, she said during a conference Wednesday at Frankfurt’s Goethe University.
“With high uncertainty, it is even more important that the rate path is data dependent,” she said. That means “we are neither committed to raise further nor are we finished with hiking rates.”
She said “the recent financial market tensions ” have “added new downside risks and have made the risk assessment blurrier.”
The open-ended approach is a shift from the ECB’s earlier stance of clearly indicating that more rate hikes were in the offing as it underlined its determination to reduce inflation.
But the failure of Silicon Valley Bank in the U.S. has sent shudders through financial markets due to fears that other banks may suffer losses as central banks in the U.S., Britain and Europe rapidly increase interest rates to battle inflation.
Investor worries about banks were intensified by troubles at Swiss bank Credit Suisse, which was rescued through a takeover by rival UBS. Troubles at Credit Suisse long predated the increases in interest rates, however.
The ECB raised rates by a larger-than-usual half-percentage point Thursday after all but promising the move in January. It’s targeting consumer prices that rose 8.5% last month from a year earlier in the 20 countries that use the euro currency.
Higher rates cool off inflation by making borrowing more expensive for new purchases or expanding a business, reducing demand for goods. But with the banking turmoil, commercial banks may become more hesitant to risk lending, which could restrict credit more than central banks might have intended.
The U.S. Federal Reserve is facing a similar conundrum Wednesday. Before the bank woes, the Fed was expected to raise rates by a quarter- or even half-point.
In Europe, Lagarde made clear that she sees “no tradeoff” between fighting inflation and supporting stability in the banking system. She says the ECB has separate tools for each issue: interest rates to combat price spikes and lending support to banks in case of risks.
Europe’s economic prospects brightened slightly after making it through the winter without running out of natural gas after Russia cut off most supply to the continent amid the war in Ukraine.
The German Council of Economic Experts on Wednesday raised its outlook for the eurozone’s largest economy to 0.2% growth from 0.2% contraction in its previous outlook in November. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/ecbs-lagarde-future-rate-hikes-open-amid-banking-turmoil/ | 2023-03-22 12:01:54 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/ecbs-lagarde-future-rate-hikes-open-amid-banking-turmoil/ |
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Sunday said former President Trump should not have kept classified documents at his Florida residence after his term in the White House ended, despite the former president’s claims that he had a right to keep them.
“We don’t have a right to take top-secret information to our home. I’ve dealt with top secrets since I was 22 years old, in the military for 30 years now, and now in Congress. You don’t show our attack plans on Iran to people who are not cleared, or pick documents that talk about our nuclear technology or where our intelligence resources are located throughout the world,” Bacon said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“And that’s what happened there. And when the government asks for them back, you give them back. And if you deny having them, but then you have them, those are crimes.”
The Nebraska lawmaker was responding to a clip of Trump during the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s conference over the weekend when he incorrectly stated that a president “has the absolute right to take” documents, and “has the absolute right to keep them or he can give them back to [National Archives and Records Administration] if he wants and talks to them like we were doing and he can do that if he wants.”
Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges after a federal indictment alleged that he kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home after his time in office and that he resisted the government’s efforts to recover them.
Asked on Sunday why many in the Republican Party have rallied around Trump over the materials, Bacon suggested that they are looking at the Trump case in the context of the classified documents found in the keeping of Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence and President Biden, “but the situations are different,” he said. Most notably, both Pence and Biden returned the documents when requested by the government.
The DOJ concluded its investigation into Pence over the materials and will not bring charges. Special counsel Robert Hur is probing the Biden documents, which were found by the president’s attorneys.
Bacon on Sunday also suggested some Republicans may “see or perceive … inconsistencies” in the context of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was investigated over her use of a private email server while in office. The FBI declined to charge her in the matter.
“But two wrongs don’t make a right. You can’t have hundreds of top secret information and be showing our attack plans on Iran to non-cleared people. I think, again, our party does best when we stand on the rule of law, the truth of the principles that made our party strong. And if we walk away from that, we’ll be weakened in the short run, for sure,” Bacon said. | https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/house-republican-says-trump-should-not-have-kept-classified-documents/ | 2023-06-25 21:23:31 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/house-republican-says-trump-should-not-have-kept-classified-documents/ |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Richmond Police Department has released photos of two men they say are persons of interest in connection to an assault and shooting on South Laurel Street in early September.
According to Richmond Police, officers were called to the 200 block of South Laurel Street just after 8 p.m. for a reported shooting on Monday, Sept. 5. When they got there, the officers found two men who had been shot.
The men were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said witnesses told officers that the man pictured below in a green T-shirt assaulted a woman at the scene, and afterward, the man in the white tank top pictured below shot the victims.
Anyone who recognizes the two men pictured or has information related to the incident is asked to call Richmond Police Major Crimes Detective G. Sullivan at 804-646-3929. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/photos-richmond-police-searching-for-laurel-street-shooting-suspects/ | 2022-10-11 17:25:44 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/photos-richmond-police-searching-for-laurel-street-shooting-suspects/ |
Racial tensions have spilled into public view amid the battle for House Speaker after Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) called Rep. Byron Donalds, a Black Republican from Florida, a “prop” for the far right.
The controversy began after Donalds, a former businessman and state representative who was first elected to Congress in 2020, was nominated on Wednesday by fellow Republican Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) to serve as Speaker amid Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R) fraught effort to win the gavel.
“[For] the first time in history there have been two Black Americans placed into the nomination for Speaker of the House,” Roy said, referring also to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), the Democratic nominee for Speaker.
But the move didn’t sit well with Bush, a progressive Democrat representing St. Louis, who promptly blasted Donalds the following day on Twitter.
“FWIW, @ByronDonalds is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop,” Bush wrote. “Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.”
The tweet sparked backlash from the GOP and spurred Donalds, one of two Black Republicans in the House, to tweet his own reply, writing that “nobody asked” Bush for her opinion.
In the process, the back-and-forth put a renewed spotlight on the issue of race inside Congress as the Speaker battle stretches into Friday night.
It’s not the first time Donalds has been at the center of the debate. An outspoken anti-abortion proponent and avid supporter of gun rights, Donalds describes himself on his website as “a Trump supporting, liberty loving, pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment black man.” The 44-year-old lawmaker, who’s heading into his second term, was denied membership in the Congressional Black Caucus in 2021; he claimed at the time it was because of his conservative views.
Republicans have rushed to Donalds’s side following Bush’s tweet. Rep.-elect Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) on Thursday said Donalds’ “ain’t no prop.”
“This is the tired, old, grotesquely racist rhetoric that we’ve seen far too long!” Bishop added.
Still, the feud has underscored the negative perception that many Black Americans have of the GOP.
Roy, in his speech to nominate Donalds, quoted Martin Luher King Jr., saying Republicans “do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin but rather the content of their character.”
Yet despite a midterm cycle that saw record-breaking numbers of Black Republican candidates run in the 2022 midterms, including Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, Republicans continue to fail at courting support from Black voters.
“[Black voters] are offended that the Republican Party is attempting to impose their version of what a Black leader should be on the Black community,” Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of Black PAC told The Hill last month.
“It insults the intelligence of Black people when you think that you can just throw any old person up and that Black people will just vote for them because they’re Black.”
Bush, in an interview with The Hill on Friday, said she has nothing personal against Donalds.
“There are great Black Republicans, and I’m not saying he is not a great person,” Bush said. “But he is part of that MAGA crowd that we don’t need in leadership here in the House of Representatives, that we don’t need leading our country in any way.”
Donalds’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
“The thing is, there is always a racial component,” Bush added. “This country is made up of people who are from different races, different ethnicities, different backgrounds, so it’s going to come into play. We need you to recognize that that’s an actual thing.”
Bush said she doesn’t believe Republicans would have nominated Donalds if Democrats weren’t united behind Jeffries.
“As if we’re ignorant enough to say, ‘oh, well, we’re gonna have to support him because he’s another Black man,’” said Bush. “We want to see the first Black person but not just because he’s Black. Jeffries led this caucus, people have seen his leadership. Regardless of who takes the seat, we need it to be someone who will prioritize the needs of all people in this country, but in a way where they see the disparities, where they see the racism. That can’t happen when you have bad folks leading.”
Donalds, who voted for himself Wednesday, cast his vote twice for speaker for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday. | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/cori-bush-remarks-put-spotlight-on-issue-of-race-in-speakers-fight/ | 2023-01-07 01:04:18 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/cori-bush-remarks-put-spotlight-on-issue-of-race-in-speakers-fight/ |
First smoky air, now clouds of bugs. Winged aphids invade New York City
NEW YORK (AP) — By the time Martin DuPain got back home from a short walk Thursday afternoon, he was covered with a smattering of tiny flying critters. They were in his hair, on his shirt and in his nose.
When he sneezed, the bugs came flying out.
As if the smoke and haze sweeping in from wildfires in Canada weren’t enough, New York City has been invaded in recent days with plumes of flying insects that have become both a nuisance and a source of fascination — what were they, where’d they come from and will they ever go away? Another unwanted Canadian export?
At first, DuPain, who lives in Queens, thought it might have been wind-driven ash, but he soon found out otherwise. Some were alive and flying. He quickly jumped in the shower.
The startling scene was nothing short of a “gnatural disaster,” quipped a post on Twitter, which has been abuzz with reports of swarms in some neighborhoods, while others remain bug-free.
As they entered clouds of bugs, some people tried to wave them away. Others covered their mouths and noses. Others put on surgical masks before venturing outdoors.
Professor David Lohman, an entomologist at the City University of New York, hadn’t seen any of the insects himself, but he concluded from photos and videos circulating on social media that they were winged aphids — not gnats, as amateur bugologists assumed.
Aphids are common all over the United States, even in New York City. They are small, pear-shaped insects that come in a variety of colors, from green, red and yellow to black, brown and gray.
While he is not an aphid expert — there are very few — Lohman said the swarms are unusual, given that aphids don’t usually come out in New York City until after summer. He theorized that warm winter temps might have contributed by causing the bug’s biological clock to go off-kilter.
On Friday, Lohman went in search of aphid experts who could chime in.
“Aphids fly at all times of the growing season,” Natalie Hernandez, who specializes in aphids, wrote in an email to Lohman. “If a colony gets too large, too dense, it will produce winged morphs to disperse.”
The wildfires in Canada and extreme temperatures “could be messing with them too,” she added.
That theory sounded plausible to Andy Jensen, another aphid researcher.
“The smoke might be allowing aphids to remain abundant longer into summer than normal,” Jensen said. “Many aphids slow down or stop reproduction in the heat of summer.”
Whatever the cause, the city’s Public Health Department said, there was nothing to be alarmed about.
“While this may be annoying, these insects do not present a known public health risk,” the department said in a statement Friday. “We are looking into these bugs and will share any important health information.”
The bug experts say the swarms shouldn’t last much longer, which is a relief to Jeremy Cohen, who was riding his bike in Brooklyn when he felt as if he was being pelted by bits of hail.
At times, he steered his bicycle with one hand and used the other to cup his mouth and nose.
“I knew the air quality was bad so I just assumed it was debris from the wildfires just flying around — which I thought would have been crazy,” said Cohen, a professional photographer. “Then I slowly realized there was a swarm of bugs flying around.”
While some saw the insects as annoying, the presence of so many bugs delighted Lohman.
“The appearance of all these aphids signal something great: New York is organic!” he said. “If pesticide use was widespread, there wouldn’t be this many aphids.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Wednesday on six members of a Mexican ring accused of supplying massive amounts of precursor chemical used to make deadly fentanyl and methamphetamines.
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control blocked any U.S. properties of brothers Ludim and Luis Alfonso Zamudio Lerma, as well as several people they did business with.
The six allegedly supplied chemicals used in super labs, which the office described as “large-scale drug laboratories that produce 10 or more pounds of an illicit drug per production cycle” to make meth and the synthetic opioid fentanyl for the Sinaloa Cartel.
“The Zamudio Lerma brothers and their network enable the production of synthetic drugs that devastate American lives, while lining the pockets of Sinaloa Cartel leadership,” OFAC Director Andrea Gacki said in a statement.
The ring allegedly supplied top-level Sinaloa cartel traffickers like the recently imprisoned Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Authorities in Mexico have found ever-larger processing facilities in Mexico where precursor chemicals, often imported from China, are used to make meth and fentanyl.
Mexican cartels often press fentanyl into pills that mimic legitimate medications, heightening the danger of overdoses because many victims do not know they are taking fentanyl.
Over 70,000 Americans died of overdoses involving opioids in 2020, mainly fentanyl.
The office also named two Mexican companies owned by the Zamudio family in the sanctions, Aceros y Refacciones del Humaya, S.A. de C.V. and Farmacia Ludim. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/us-sanctions-mexican-drug-precursor-suppliers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-02-22 18:07:31 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/us-sanctions-mexican-drug-precursor-suppliers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
The global category leader and pioneer in digital coaching secures funding to accelerate the rise of digital coaching around the world.
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoachHub, the leading global digital coaching platform, closed a $200M Series C funding round, led by Sofina and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The round will be used to further scale CoachHub's product innovation and operations while accelerating the company's global expansion. Following an $80M round only eight months ago, this Series C brings the three-year-old company's total funding to $330M. In addition to Sofina and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, existing investors including Molten Ventures, Speedinvest, HV Capital, Signals Venture Capital and Silicon Valley Bank/SVB Capital also participated in the round.
The significant growth investment round pays tribute to CoachHub's outstanding traction and global market position. This investment round comes at a time when the corporate learning industry is undergoing rapid transformation and the digital coaching segment is expected to grow by up to 100 times, resulting in most major organizations looking to implement digital coaching at scale by the end of the decade.
Yanni Pipilis, Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers said, "The Learning and Development sector is witnessing strong secular trends toward the digitization and personalization of services. CoachHub's digital platform aims to provide a tailored coaching experience to employees at all levels to help advance their careers. We are pleased to partner with the CoachHub team to support their mission of democratizing coaching."
A vast majority (77%) of learning and development professionals feel there is now a greater need to train and develop employees than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to CoachHub's recent Global HR Survey. Coaching plays an important role in people development strategies and is now more accessible than ever with CoachHub's convenient, location-independent digital platform.
"As workplaces continue adapting to the new normal of hybrid and remote models, leaders need individual support and solutions to boost employee performance, engagement and motivation, while keeping wellbeing at the forefront," said Matti Niebelschuetz, Co-founder of CoachHub. "Digital coaching offers these benefits and more, resulting in spiking global demand for CoachHub's services."
Provided by CoachHub to employees at all career levels — not just senior-level executives — coaching enhances leadership skills, improves job performance and ultimately builds a more resilient, more productive workforce. Through web- and mobile-based applications, the revolutionary end-to-end digital coaching platform matches learners to a pool of more than 3,500 certified business coaches that speak more than 60 languages and reside in 90 countries, across all time zones. The app couples human intelligence with artificial intelligence technology to pair employees with their ideal coaches and curate a library of content that enhances their learning journey.
Since its inception three years ago, CoachHub has grown rapidly to become the global category leader. This latest round of funding will fuel further expansion, with particular emphasis on the United States. The company plans to increase its headcount from 850 worldwide employees to more than 1,000 by the end of the year. The company serves most leading global economies and works with large multinational enterprises like Coca-Cola, Danone, Toyota, LVMH, L'Oréal, Credit Suisse and Twitter.
CoachHub is supported by more than 150 product engineers and a world-class, in-house Coaching Lab that employs a team of 30 leading behavioral scientists and is headed by Prof. Dr. Jonathan Passmore, the renowned professional psychologist and coaching researcher. The CoachHub Science Council is an international team of behavioral science experts and educators who help drive R&D for the company by converting scientific evidence into a science-based digital coaching offer. The company also maintains strategic partnerships with renowned organizations like EMCC Global.
"We believe 1:1 coaching will continue to be one of the most effective ways of enhancing the socio-emotional and leadership skills needed to thrive in an increasingly complex and rapidly evolving workplace. As a company that seeks to democratize access to quality coaching, CoachHub's mission resonates with our Responsible Investment strategy. We look forward to partnering with them to further their global ambitions." said Harold Boël, CEO, Sofina.
This funding round comes on the heels of CoachHub's expansion into the Asian market as well as the acquisition of leading French coaching platform MoovOne and leading Austrian provider Klaiton Coaching, strengthening CoachHub's global category leadership.
CoachHub is the leading global talent development platform that enables organizations to create personalized, measurable and scalable coaching programs for the entire workforce, regardless of department and seniority level. By doing so, organizations are able to reap a multitude of benefits, including increased employee engagement, higher levels of productivity, improved job performance and increased retention. CoachHub's global pool of coaches comprises over 3,500 certified business coaches in 90 countries across six continents with coaching sessions available in over 60 languages, to serve more than 500 clients. Our programs are based on advanced R&D from our Coaching Lab, led by Prof. Jonathan Passmore and our Scientific Board. CoachHub is backed by leading tech investors, including Sofina, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Molten Ventures, Speedinvest, HV Capital, Partech and Silicon Valley Bank/SVB Capital. In September 2021, CoachHub acquired French digital coaching pioneer MoovOne and in February 2022 the coaching division of Klaiton in Austria, to build a global champion focused on democratizing coaching.
Sofina is a family controlled and run investment company listed on Euronext Brussels, managing its own assets of circa €11 billion. Sofina aspires to be the preferred partner of entrepreneurs and families who lead growing companies by backing them with patient capital and supportive advice. Common vision and strong alignment of interests with its partners are paramount in the deployment of its sustainable strategy. For more information, visit www.sofinagroup.com.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man who immigrated to the U.S. and built a successful food business was named Monday as the National Small Business Person of the Year.
The honor for Abdirahman Kahin, CEO and owner of Afro Deli & Grill in St. Paul, was announced at an awards ceremony in Washington D.C. marking National Small Business Week.
Kahin, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1996, opened Afro Deli & Grill in 2014 as a fast-casual restaurant serving healthy, fresh African fusion cuisine.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the restaurant to close and change to grab-and-go products, according to a news release from the Small Business Administration.
Afro Deli & Grill now supplies eight stores in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and 15 other stores across the Twin Cities area, and has expanded to four locations. The business also partners with Meals on Wheels and Minnesota Central Kitchen to provide home-delivered meals to vulnerable community members.
Juanny Romero, of Mothership Coffee, which operates multiple cafes and a coffee roasting business in Nevada, was named national runner-up for the award.
Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, and Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman will travel to Minneapolis on Wednesday to have a roundtable discussion with small business community leaders and present the award to Kahin. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/minnesota-deli-owner-named-small-business-person-18001377.php | 2023-05-01 23:22:56 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/minnesota-deli-owner-named-small-business-person-18001377.php |
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Transgender Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr says she is defending LGBTQ+ community as House decides whether to punish her.
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STOCKHOLM, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fishbrain (www.fishbrain.com) - the world's most popular platform and social network for people who love fishing - is raising money through Republic (www.republic.com), one of the leading online private investment platforms with over $700 million in investments to date. Fishbrain is now accepting investment (www.republic.com/fishbrain).
Johan Attby, Fishbrain CEO, comments: "Fishbrain is growing rapidly, building out the platform for the world's biggest hobby, sport fishing. We already have more than 14 million registered users on Fishbrain and we're the number one in the US market where 55 million people fish every year and spend $50 billion doing so. To accelerate this growth we will now raise a round so that our community can invest alongside our renowned global investors such as Northzone, B Capital and Softbank, and get the benefits not only from our service, but also as shareholders."
Already this year, Fishbrain has hired a new Chief Financial Officer and launched several new features for the community, such as: Fishbrain Reeled, a highlights reel of the year in fishing for community members (plus tips on how to progress); catch and release best practice policies; integrated Fish Rules (fishing regulations on a state by state basis in North America) into the app and website, following the 2021 acquisition; and partnered with Aspira, the largest hunting and fishing licensing management software provider in North America, to enhance conservation efforts.
In 2021, Fishbrain continued to evolve, through a combination of funding, new features, and strategic partnerships. In March last year, Fishbrain raised $31mn, which helped to expand its user base and hire across the company in multiple locations across the U.S. and Europe. Fishbrain further developed the app with the introduction of Garmin's Navionics HD Depth Charts. Additionally, Fishbrain bolstered the company's senior team with the addition of Stina Granberg as Chief Operating Officer, as well as Maria Hedengren (ex-Readly CEO), Karim Abdel-Ghaffar (Westerly Winds founding partner), and Dylan Bolden (Boston Consulting Group, Managing Director and Senior Partner), who joined the board.
About Fishbrain
Fishbrain is the world's most popular mobile app, social network, and social commerce platform for people who love fishing. With over 14 million registered users across the globe, the free-to-use app helps create the best possible fishing experience by providing everyone - whether beginner or pro - with the tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy the world's most popular hobby. The app's interactive map helps anglers find hot new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait and specifically where.
Stockholm-headquartered Fishbrain disrupts an industry that has remained traditional, not only making fishing more accessible, but also levelling the playing field for the growing numbers of women, minorities, and young people looking to take up the sport. The startup has been twice named by WIRED as one of Europe's Hottest Startups, and has fostered a passionate and collaborative community; by helping them take their technique to the next level and arming them with the tools and gear needed to succeed.
Fishbrain's in-app and on-web marketplace, Fishbrain Shop, allows users to find and purchase the best fishing gear from over 350 of the world's most respected brands. With other features like Fish Species Recognition, marine mapping (provided by Garmin/Navionics), forecasts, bait recommendations and more, Fishbrain has become one of the most valuable and rewarding tools in a fisherman's tackle box. Fishbrain values responsible fishing, supporting a catch and release approach, and the sustainable harvest of fish species.
For more information visit www.fishbrain.com
About Republic
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — All but six of the 53 migrants found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer in Texas last week have been identified, officials said Wednesday.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office said 22 of the dead were from Mexico, 19 were from Guatemala and six were from Honduras.
The migrants were found in an abandoned trailer June 27 on a back road on the edge of San Antonio. The alleged driver of the truck was due in federal court Wednesday for a detention hearing.
The dead included a 13-year-old and 14-year-old from Guatemala and two 16-year-olds from Mexico, the medical examiner’s office said.
One survivor of the journey, a 20-year-old from Guatemala, told The Associated Press that smugglers had covered the trailer’s floor with what she believes was powdered chicken bouillon, apparently to throw off any dogs at checkpoint.
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Difenda's managed and professional services work with customers end-to-end to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.
TORONTO, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the latest addition of Difenda Microsoft Information Protection & Governance, Difenda now offers eight managed and professional security services on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Over the past year, Difenda's technical team worked relentlessly to create these outcome-driven services for their customers.
"Security is constantly advancing to meet the needs of our customers," says Derek Nugent, VP Revenue at Difenda. "It is important to understand where customers are specifically so we can help them with their needs at that point and then get them to where they want to go. For us, that means moving beyond managed detection and response services to transforming security operations with End-to-End Microsoft Security solutions."
Difenda's current offerings include:
These eight service offers cover all Microsoft Security Solutions and enable customers to do more with their Microsoft license capabilities and drive ROI by maximizing their investment at any stage of their cybersecurity journey.
"In today's environment of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, companies like Difenda add tremendous value by working with customers end-to-end," said Kevin Magee, Chief Security Officer, Microsoft Canada. "Difenda's expertise will continue to improve the security of our mutual customers' systems."
Difenda is also an engaged Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) partner further enabling them to participate in Microsoft's technical and service innovation activities.
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HAL enables crypto traders to effortlessly trade crypto-assets on centralised exchanges with advanced trading strategies designed by CoinShares' quant team.
SAINT HELIER, Jersey, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoinShares ("the Company"), Europe's largest and longest standing full-service digital asset investment and trading group, launches HAL, a leading crypto-assets trading strategies platform.
HAL simplifies crypto trading by offering all exchanges users access to trading algorithms designed by CoinShares' quants. Users can connect HAL to their preferred trading platform in a few clicks, where they are able to choose the trading strategies that suit them, and benefit from trading algorithms designed or curated. HAL is the only platform of its kind to offer easy access to strategies designed by professionals with proven experience in crypto trading, rather than the complex marketplace offerings targeting advanced traders with bots designed by non-professional traders.
HAL aims to simplify and democratise crypto trading, which many investors consider complex. It is designed to enable more users to boost their trading with professional algorithms, a simple user experience, fair and transparent pricing, and educational content.
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The launch of HAL is part of CoinShares' broader integrated strategy, which, after enabling exposure to digital assets to traditional finance players via its suite of crypto ETPs, is now addressing the target audience of crypto traders.
Jean-Marie Mognetti, Chief Executive Officer of CoinShares, commented: "We are delighted to launch HAL under CoinShares. We acquired Napoleon, which created Napbots, because we could immediately see our common goals: to democratise access to, and educate investors about, trading crypto assets. In a new, still-evolving ecosystem, we are very proud to be at the cutting edge of providing professional-level products, with simple user experience, to traders - enabling them to do much more with their crypto than simply 'hodl'."
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CoinShares is Europe's largest and longest standing digital asset investment firm, managing billions of dollars of assets on behalf of its client base. The Group is focused on expanding investor access to the digital asset ecosystem by pioneering new financial products and services that seek to provide trust and transparency when accessing this new asset class. CoinShares is publicly listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market under the ticker CS and the OTCQX under the ticker CNSRF.
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NEW YORK (AP) — At age 82, Ted Koppel is equipped to take the long view when discussing what divides Americans.
The former “Nightline” anchor, now an occasional contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning,” takes over from Jane Pauley for the first time this weekend to host a specially themed program on the topic.
The show includes stories on divisions created by social media and the internet, talk radio and disparities in wealth. It delves into a border dispute between Oregon and Idaho and how other countries view Americans today. Koppel contributes three stories himself, including interviews with singer John Legend and television producer Norman Lear.
Koppel is distressed about much of what he sees, particularly the speed at which hate spreads online.
Yet in the show, he’ll quote Gallup poll results that illustrate the remarkable turnaround in six decades, from opposition to acceptance, in how Americans felt about marriage between Black people and white people.
His point? We’ve been here before. Things can, and do, change.
“There is this problematic strain that runs through the American countryside that periodically we get tired of liking each other much and we start finding all the things we don’t like about each other,” he said. “It’s nothing new. We’ve done it many times before, most significantly with the Civil War, of course.”
The “CBS Sunday Morning” special edition was initially planned for more than a month ago, but was put off following Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Koppel, who hosted ABC’s “Nightline” from 1980 to 2005, has contributed to the CBS show for about five years. His enthusiasm about the topic led Rand Morrison, “CBS Sunday Morning” executive producer, to suggest that he host it.
Morrison said he’s been surprised at how active Koppel has been, particularly in generating ideas. Koppel’s story last year about how Mount Airy, North Carolina, is trying to capitalize on a connection to the fictional Mayberry of “The Andy Griffith Show” was particularly well received.
“For an old geezer, I’m doing OK,” said Koppel, who’s lived in Maryland for more than 50 years.
This weekend’s special edition is pointedly titled “A Nation Divided?”
Note the punctuation.
“You’ll leave the broadcast understanding that we’ve been here before as a nation,” Morrison said. “It’s not a terminal situation. We want to give a good look at the battlegrounds, if you will. But we want to leave you with sun on the horizon.” | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-an-anchor-again-ted-koppel-hosts-show-on-us-divisions/ | 2022-10-14 01:09:48 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/ap-an-anchor-again-ted-koppel-hosts-show-on-us-divisions/ |
The 45-20 Alabama win over Kansas State was convincing on a few levels. After falling behind by 10 early, the Crimson Tide scored touchdowns on its next five possessions to blow the game open.
Kansas State, meanwhile, managed just a field goal and touchdown in the final three quarters as Alabama ran away with the game.
Here’s the transcript of Wildcat coach Chris Klieman’s postgame comments courtesy of the Sugar Bowl.
Opening statement
“Yeah, let’s start where it needs to start. Thank you, K‑State fan base. Thank you, K‑State nation, for coming out in droves. What we saw at the pep rally last night, with probably 10,000, 12,000 people supporting these guys, is why we all came to K‑State.
And the fans out there today were phenomenal. We got off to a good start. I wish we could have given them a better show after that first quarter. But my hat is off to the best fan base in college football for coming out and supporting these great young men.
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We talked in the locker room. Obviously disappointed in how this ended in our performance, but don’t be defined by a moment. Be remembered for your body of work. And this body of work will be remembered in Kansas State history forever, because these guys were Big 12 champs and deserved it and earned the right to be Big 12 champs and represent our conference in the Sugar Bowl.
Didn’t play our best football today. Give credit to Alabama, but appreciate the guys staying in the fight for four quarters.”
Coach, did it feel like once the miss on that fourth down at the goal line that just everything swung out of favor and every gamble you took didn’t work?
Klieman: “Yes, I would have done it again. Deuce [Vaughn] would have said let’s go again. And the fact that we wanted to go ahead at halftime. It was under a minute left or a minute left or whatever the heck it was. Make a really good call and just don’t execute it.
And then, shoot, they’re at the 1‑yard line and we’re going to use time‑outs and try to get the football back. I mean, we’re in attack mode from the start.
And give those guys credit. We didn’t make a tackle when we needed to make a tackle. And can’t let them go 99 yards to make it what it was at the end of the first half.
A 21‑10 game that ‑‑ I’m never going to second‑guess myself ‑‑ and you guys know that from being around us. And we’ve gone for it on fourth down all season long ‑‑ when we had a chance to go up 17‑14.”
Coach, along that same line, at what point did you make the decision to try the on‑side kick to start the second half?
Klieman: “When we were in the locker room talking. We’ve worked these kicks every week all year long. Guys will tell you, every week, we have it in. Every week we have it in. And we didn’t execute it the way that it needed to be executed. We were trying to put it between the two guys.
That’s a hard kick. Ty [Zentner] didn’t hit it probably the way he wanted to. But we also knew we had to take some chances because of the last two drives that they had on offense, where we struggled to slow them down.
And whether or not it’s an 80‑yard drive or a 45‑yard drive, once again, we came here to win, man. We didn’t come here to try to keep this thing close, whatever. We came here to win. And that’s what we thought was the best opportunity.”
Coach Klieman, you talked about the importance of looking at the whole body of work with this team. What made this group so special character‑wise, and then obviously on the field as well?
Klieman: “Yes, just the power of belief and the power of player ownership. Those guys took ownership in the locker room, ownership in the football team.
It’s pretty special as a head football coach when you know that your phone is not ringing at night and you’re not going to have kids doing things that they shouldn’t be doing. And I’ve never been around a football team that does knucklehead things off the field that’s successful on the field.
And these guys were phenomenal kids off the field. And it translated to great players on the field, because they’re disciplined, they’re committed. They’re tough. They’re selfless. That’s what I’m going to remember about this group.”
Coach, on Alabama’s first two drives, you held them to a combined 26 yards. Deuce [Vaughn] has the 88‑yard run. What, if any, adjustments did you see Alabama made that led to five straight touchdowns?
Klieman: “They were able to hit the explosive play on us. That was kind of the fear that we had. They’re pretty talented. Their quarterback (Bryce Young) is a pretty good player. They have good wide receivers. And they did, I thought, a really nice job.
We had them in third and 10, and maybe get off the field again. And they throw it to a really good running back. Makes the kid miss. We kind of lose the cup, and he takes it for a huge gain to make it 10‑7 really fast. I thought if we had gotten off the field, but we didn’t.
That’s the whole thing. We talked all year long about not giving up explosive plays; and today, they were able to get some on us.”
Coach, you were able to get Adrian [Martinez] in there for a couple of snaps in the first half. Were you able to kind of execute that two‑quarterback strategy the way you hoped?
Klieman: “I was excited that Adrian got a chance to play in a bowl game. He came here and transferred here to win a championship and have a chance to hopefully play in a bowl game, and helped us win the Big 12 championship.
And when he got hurt, that was the goal, was to try to get him healthy enough to play some.
It became Will Howard’s football team. Everybody knows that. But Will and Adrian are so close, I thought it was important for C.K. (Collin Klein) and I to try to find a way to get Adrian a few snaps.
We were able to do that. I saw a big smile on his face. Saw a big smile on Will Howard’s face that Adrian got a chance to play in a bowl game.”
Coach, Brian Branch, you saw him all over the field where the secondary is concerned. But what impressed you about the ground he was able to cover against your offense?
Klieman: “Yeah, they’ve got really good defensive players. They tackle exceptionally well. They get off of blocks, and they played well.”
Coach, if you don’t mind me asking just about the quarterback (Bryce Young) on the other side. It’s kind of a career day for him. What were the challenges like to try to defend against him?
Klieman: “He won the Heisman for a reason, for starters. We were mixing in three‑man rush, four‑man rush, five‑man rush. We were able to get some hits on him. We were able to fluster him a little bit. But when you’ve played as many snaps as he has, it’s hard to get him flustered for very long. Credit to him.
And I didn’t get a chance to see him. I think I ran into one of their coaches. Just thanked him, tell him thank you for playing, because that’s what college football is about. I was happy Bryce played. I thought that was really good for college football and really good for kids to see.” | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/12/what-kansas-st-coach-klieman-said-about-alabama-onside-kick-decision.html | 2023-01-01 00:07:51 | 1 | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/12/what-kansas-st-coach-klieman-said-about-alabama-onside-kick-decision.html |
Parts of South Florida and the Treasure Coast are experiencing abnormally dry conditions as recorded by the U.S. Drought Monitor this week.
Abnormally dry conditions could be found in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, Monroe, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties.
Smaller pockets of dry conditions are observed in Osceola, Polk, Highlands, Glades and Hendry counties. Additionally, there are pockets of moderate drought in Indian River and Brevard counties.
As compared to last week, these abnormally dry conditions expanded inland.
The update cites multiple reasons for the dryness. Record warm August temperatures in South Florida, combined with rainfall deficits, play a role in current drought conditions.
Below normal rainfall since the beginning of this year has led to low inflows into Lake Okeechobee, leading to falling water levels.
Water levels haven't risen as expected this rainy season, so water management could be in seen in the future.
Additionally, the update cites the lack of local rainfall from tropical storm systems, after the Atlantic saw an unusually quiet August.
Not much is expected to change over the next week, as the usual scattered thunderstorms remain in the forecast.
Abnormally dry conditions can contribute to small brush fires and vegetation browning. Voluntary water conservation may be requested.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Former San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore was arrested on a charge of assault stemming from a “domestic violence incident,” according to police in New Jersey.
“On July 31, 2022, at 8:11 AM, patrol units were dispatched to Tropicana Atlantic City for a report of a domestic violence dispute,” the Atlantic City Police Department stated. “Officers arrived to find the victim, a 28-year-old woman from Miami, Florida, speaking with hotel security. The victim did not exhibit signs of injury and complaints were not filed at the time. However, an ensuing investigation resulted in Franklin Gore being charged with simple assault related to the domestic violence incident.
“Gore was issued a summons pending a future court date,” the statement continued. “The public is reminded that charges are mere allegations and the accused is considered innocent until proven guilty.”
Gore played for the 49ers from 2005 to 2014. He made one Super Bowl appearance in 2013. He subsequently played for the Indianapolis Colts, the Miami Dolphins, the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets before his retirement.
Gore, who made it to the Pro Bowl five times, also holds the record for most games played by a running back.
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NEWTOWN, Pa., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET, on Thursday, November 3, 2022, to discuss its third quarter 2022 financial results. A news release containing these results will be issued before the call.
The conference call will be available live on the EPAM website at https://investors.epam.com. Please visit the website at least 15 minutes prior to the call to register for the event. For those who will not be able to attend the live webcast, a replay will be available in the Investor Relations section of the website.
About EPAM Systems
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its advanced software engineering heritage to become the foremost global digital transformation services provider – leading the industry in digital and physical product development and digital platform engineering services. Through its innovative strategy; integrated advisory, consulting, and design capabilities; and unique 'Engineering DNA,' EPAM's globally deployed hybrid teams help make the future real for clients and communities around the world by powering better enterprise, education and health platforms that connect people, optimize experiences, and improve people's lives. In 2021, EPAM was added to the S&P 500 and included among the list of Forbes Global 2000 companies.
Selected by Newsweek as a 2021 and 2022 Most Loved Workplace, EPAM's global multi-disciplinary teams serve customers in more than 50 countries across six continents. As a recognized leader, EPAM is listed among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services on the Fortune 1000 and ranked as the top IT services company on Fortune's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list for the last three consecutive years. EPAM is also listed among Ad Age's top 25 World's Largest Agency Companies for three consecutive years, and Consulting Magazine named EPAM Continuum a top 20 Fastest-Growing Firm.
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"Record breaking" loses some of its wow factor when that record just keeps getting broken. Tuesday marked 26 consecutive days in Phoenix, Az. with a temperature over 110 degrees.
Who are they?
There are roughly 1.6 million people living in Phoenix, and nearly 5 million people in the greater Phoenix metro area.
Phoenix is known for being hot, but this July has been distinct — not just for the top temperatures, but the consistency of this heatwave. July 2022 had an average temperature of 95.3. One forecast, as reported by The Washington Post, finds Phoenix could end this July with a record average temperature of 102.7.
What's the big deal? This kind of heat isn't just uncomfortable, it can be deadly.
So far this year, 18 people have died from heat-associated deaths, and 69 more deaths are under investigation, according to Maricopa County's weekly heat report.
"It feels like an oven," says Eric Brickley, of Feed Phoenix. The community organization has been setting up hydration stations around the city, delivering ice and water to the homeless population, and anyone who needs it. "It is basically the only thing that keeps someone from perishing. Some of the places people are living are so hot and deadly that without ice, even in the shade, they will die."
A new study finds the heatwaves across the U.S. and Europe right now would be "virtually impossible" without the influence of climate change.
What are people saying? NPR's Juana Summers spoke with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego on Tuesday about the heatwave. Here's what she said.
On clearing out the city's largest homeless encampment:
Our priority is to get people into indoor shelter. Thanks to our partnership with the Biden administration, we now have hundreds of millions of dollars that we can put towards indoor air-conditioned shelters. So that is our top priority. We have a robust network of cooling centers — about 60 through 62 in our region — and those can be important. But my goal would be to get people inside an air-conditioned environment.
On protecting people working outside, like construction workers:
One of the things that we are going to mark for the first time this Thursday is the city is investing in container storage housing, which can be built indoors in air-conditioned environments and then installed on site using a crane. So it is much less exposure for our construction workers, and we're hopeful that with making more of the process indoors, they will be safer and better off.
So, what now? Mostly, just waiting for it to cool off.
Gallego has also been calling on FEMA to add extreme heat to the list of "declared disasters."
Gallego encouraged Phoenix residents to register themselves or loved ones for the Cool Callers program, where volunteers conduct check-ins for those who may be at risk for heat stroke, especially older residents.
Alejandra Marquez Janse is a producer for NPR's evening news program All Things Considered. She was part of a team that traveled to Uvalde, Texas, months after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary to cover its impact on the community. She also helped script and produce NPR's first bilingual special coverage of the State of the Union – broadcast in Spanish and English. | https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/npr-breaking-news/2023-07-25/phoenix-melts-in-a-record-streak-of-days-over-110-degrees-and-its-not-over-yet | 2023-07-26 13:35:23 | 0 | https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/npr-breaking-news/2023-07-25/phoenix-melts-in-a-record-streak-of-days-over-110-degrees-and-its-not-over-yet |
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Darius Garland scored 24 points, Isaac Okoro added 20 and the Cleveland Cavaliers made 15 3-pointers Sunday in a 122-103 rout of the Indiana Pacers.
All five starters scored in double figures for the Cavaliers, who shot 52.3% percent from the field, including 15 of 37 (40.5%) from long range, to complement a top-ranked defense that held Indiana to 43.5% shooting.
Jarrett Allen contributed 18 points and 13 rebounds, Evan Mobley had 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Donovan Mitchell added 19 points and six assists for the Cavs. Garland — a Gary, Indiana, native who was not named an All-Star despite averaging 22 points and 8.2 assists — made four 3s and had six assists.
“No extra fuel,” Garland said. “I think I was a snub, but I’ve just got to come out and prove it every night.”
Myles Turner had 27 points and 10 rebounds for Indiana, which has lost 12 of 14. All-Star Tyrese Haliburton finished with 15 points and 11 assists, while Buddy Hield had 16 points.
After alternating wins and losses over its prior eight games, Cleveland took control in the second quarter, led 62-46 at halftime and stretched its advantage to 23 points in the third quarter and as many as 26 in the fourth.
“There’s a seriousness to our approach and an attitude to how we are playing,” Cleveland coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “I think we are taking steps in the right direction. Sometimes when the offense comes easy, you just get in a back-and-forth, but in the fourth we did a much better job of tightening back up and controlling the tempo. We are growing in that area of understanding the intensity level that it takes.”
The Pacers were within 27-25 at the end of the first quarter but couldn’t keep up after that.
“They did a good job controlling us in the pick-and-roll,” Haliburton said. “We weren’t able to get stops, and that allowed them to set their defense. Kudos to them. A lot of different guys contributed for them. They just outplayed us.”
TIP-INS
Cavaliers: This was Cleveland’s NBA-best 23rd double-figure victory. ... Caris LeVert, who played parts of the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons with the Pacers, sat out his second straight game with a sore right hamstring. He is averaging 12.5 points per game. ... Backup point guard Ricky Rubio finished with seven points and nine assists.
Pacers: Indiana has lost two of the three games in the season series, which wraps up April 2 at Cleveland. ... Reserve guard Chris Duarte, averaging 7.8 points, was out with soreness in his right ankle. ... The Pacers’ high-frequency 3-point attack, which entered fifth in the league in attempts and sixth in makes, wound up 8 of 32 (25%). ... Indiana coach Rick Carlisle declined to comment on the substance of a report published Sunday by The Athletic that said members of the organization’s traveling party were aggressively confronted by associates of Grizzlies star Ja Morant following Indiana’s Jan. 29 loss at Memphis. Carlisle said he was in the locker room when the incident occurred and received a call about it.
UP NEXT
Cavaliers: At Washington on Monday night.
Pacers: At Miami on Wednesday night.
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March 14th, 2023With the goal of supporting charter schools to build new infrastructure or renovate their facilities at reasonable costs, Building Hope, a non-profit foundation dedicated to creating high-quality K-12 charter school opportunities for students through its experience in real estate, finance and operational services, recently announced that Building Hope Finance was selected to be part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program.
Bob Marshall, banking executive and member of Building Hope’s board of directors, stated:
The ultimate impact to our partners and their communities is that more doors will be open for even more children to learn.
About the Grant
Between 6 and 10 entities are awarded each year with grant funds that support the Department of Education's efforts to create and replicate high-quality public charter schools, as well as help those schools find suitable facilities.
Noted as the largest single Credit Improvement grant ever awarded to one entity, the funds are also intended to help schools attract and gain access to private lending sources.
“This grant will continue Building Hope’s efforts in aiding charter schools and providing the resources, facilities, and credit structures needed to build sustainable education alternatives where they are needed most,” added Marshall.
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Program Benefits
The Charter School Facilities Credit Enhancement Program awards grants to entities, such as Building Hope, to enable them to improve the credit of charter schools so they can efficiently access capital for their facilities.
Among the projects that benefit from the grant, the following stand out:
- Acquire or lease property for charter school operations
- Build, renovate, alter or repair existing facilities
- Evaluate school sites and fund costs prior to developing a school facility
As the grant recipient, Building Hope will use the funds to guarantee leases and loans to charter schools, as well as facilitate financing to charter schools located in Florida, Idaho, Nevada, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
“This grant funding is critical for young charter schools because lenders and landlords often request additional guarantees or credit support in order to finance or lease to schools without established track records,” said Robin Odland, president of Building Hope Finance.
For his part, Building Hope vice president Lance Helming, noted: “Since 2003, we have leveraged $482 million in loans, credit enhancements and equity investments to support more than $2 billion in school construction costs, benefitting nearly 200,000 students across the country.” | https://www.aldianews.com/en/leadership/advocacy/investment-infrastructure | 2023-03-16 03:07:23 | 0 | https://www.aldianews.com/en/leadership/advocacy/investment-infrastructure |
Best way to clean gutters
Cleaning gutters doesn’t need to be a drag, but it does need to be done twice a year. If your gutters go ignored, the problems that may arise down the line can cause headaches or even financial hardship.
Learning how to clean your gutters is not rocket science, but it can be tricky. This means you need to know how and when to clean your gutters and what equipment you need to make sure your home stays in working order. Fortunately, you can do this with equipment you already have at home.
Why you need to clean your gutters
Most owners don’t realize that not cleaning their gutters can not only lead to their home looking unkempt but can cause severe structural damage. This is because gutters clear rainwater and snowmelt away without letting it fall down the side of the house and onto the topsoil.
If water collects on the topsoil, it can cause basements to flood, foundational damage and even attract unwanted pests and landscape destruction. While it may be tempting to skip cleaning your gutters, you may be creating serious problems down the line. This is why gutters need to be cleaned twice per year, in the spring and fall.
Equipment for cleaning gutters
Cleaning gutters can be a dangerous task. You’ll need to access your roof using a ladder and it can be easy to cut your hands on loose debris. Gutter cleaning can also get extremely messy, so it’s not something you do while wearing your Sunday best.
For a safe and clean gutter cleaning session, you’ll need:
- Overalls
- Gloves
- Safety goggles
- Heavy-duty footwear
- Ladder
- Handheld brush or extendable gutter tool
- Pressure washer
How to clean your gutters in four steps
Cleaning gutters is a dreaded task. This is why most people leave it to the professionals. However, gutter cleaning doesn’t need to be difficult, especially if you do it regularly. Before you start cleaning your gutters, it’s essential to know what you need and to strategize.
Step 1: Prepare yourself, your gutters and your workspace
After making sure weather conditions are optimal (no high winds or rain, and plenty of daylight left), get your equipment ready. Always take a safety-first approach. This means getting your overalls, gloves, work boots and goggles on.
Get your ladder out and check that it’s in safe working order. Next, spread tarpaulin along the sides of the home so any debris you clear can be swept up and bagged up at the end of the process.
The final step in the preparation stage is to make sure any obstacles are cleared so you can move your ladder in a clockwise way around the home as you clean.
Step 2: Remove large debris
Once you ascend the ladder, survey your gutters for any large debris. Do this in stages. This means start at the back of the home and move clockwise until you’re back to the start.
Debris can come in all shapes and sizes. However, look for large clusters of dirt, twigs and leaves. Move your ladder accordingly so you can safely scoop the trash out of the gutters and onto the tarp below.
Once you are done, walk around your home and bag up any large debris you have cleared into some disposal bags.
Step 3: Remove small debris
At this stage, things get a little tricky and a little technical. Typically, you’ll start at the corners. This means you need to get right over the drainage system. Once you’re over the drainage pipes, you need to identify any blockages and clear them as needed.
Next, get your hose out and connect it to your gutter wand or your pressure washer. Once that’s done, move along the gutter and clear any pieces of small debris with the hose. Small debris includes leaves, twigs, sludge, dirt or any other type of dirt you can identify.
Finally, make sure water runs clear through the drainage system. This step is critical because any blockages in the drain pipes may not be identifiable with the naked eye.
Step 4: Clean up your worksite
Once you’ve removed all the small debris and hosed down the gutters and drainpipes, it’s time to clean up. Any small or large trash should be bagged and treated in the most environmentally friendly way possible. You can do this by adding the waste to a compost heap or passing it off to your nearest environmentally friendly waste-disposal unit.
Conduct one final check to ensure that any downspouts are cleared. This means you’re going to need to climb back up the ladder and aim the hose pipe back down the drainage unit to make sure no water fills up and the runoff is clear.
What you need to buy for cleaning gutters
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This pressure washer wand attachment is lightweight and durable with an easy-to-use handle that’s great for beginner and expert gutter cleaners. With an 18-foot reach, this wand is safer and easier to use when cleaning hard-to-reach areas.
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Not everyone is working with equipment like pressure washers. If you’re using a simple garden hose for your gutter cleaning, this attachment focuses the spray into a high-pressure stream to clear stubborn dirt.
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Second seasons can be complicated. But HBO's The White Lotus, which hauled in five Emmy awards in September for its first season, lends itself naturally to being extended. It took place at a resort with guests — why wouldn't you be able to do that again, exploring a new beautiful setting?
And that's what Mike White, again credited as the only writer and the only director for the season, has done. (A note: HBO provided critics with five out of what will be seven episodes.)
This story takes place at the White Lotus in Sicily. All the guests staying for a week are new to the series except Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), who's traveling with her now-husband Greg (Jon Gries) and her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson). Our new guests include a foursome made up of two college buddies and their wives (Theo James and Meghann Fahy as Cameron and Daphne Sullivan; Will Sharpe and Aubrey Plaza as Ethan and Harper Spiller) and three generations of men traveling together (F. Murray Abraham, Michael Imperioli and Adam DiMarco as Bert, Dominic and Albie Di Grasso). We also meet a couple of locals, Lucia and Mia (Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Grannò), young women who become entangled with various guests.
As with the first season, we open with a scene set at the end of the week that reveals that something terrible has happened, and then we watch that week play out. (One has to wonder how many deaths the White Lotus chain of resorts can absorb before they suffer a reputational hit.)
The most conspicuous difference in the structure of this second season is that it focuses on the guests almost to the exclusion of the staff. Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) is the manager, but we don't see much of her and she rarely interacts with the guests, which is a sharp departure from season 1, where proud manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) was the closest thing we had to a point-of-view character, and where his simmering rage and his efforts to run the place against all manner of forces aligned against him were a constant counterweight to the carefree guest life.
Thematically, without that tension between how the guests see themselves and how the staff sees them, The White Lotus seems adrift. With all the criticism of the first season and the fair questions about whether it was satirizing its rich and white characters' lack of interest in the people around them or just reproducing it, it was always clear what the show was trying to be about, or thought it was about. It was trying to be about the foibles of wealth and carelessness; it's much less clear where White is going with this story.
In general terms, the theme is sex. There is a constant sense that sexual activity could break out among almost any combination of the four people who make up the Spiller-Sullivan party at almost any time, even though (because?) they all seem vaguely hostile toward each other, and their resentments, when they finally begin to spark, give the season its most intriguing moments. The lineage that passes through the Di Grasso men is profoundly tied up with attitudes about women, the marriages of both Bert and Dominic, and the queasy beginnings of "but I'm a nice guy" entitlement in young Albie. Lucia and Mia seem to do sex work at least sometimes, although at other times they just seem to be pretty young women who improvise around rich men, especially rich tourists. Richardson is one of my favorite young actresses, and she's effortlessly charming as the frazzled Portia, who is caught between the attractions she feels and the attractions she thinks she ought to feel.
Indeed, Mike White told Vulture (in a piece I commend to you) that the driver of this season is a piece of folklore about sexual jealousy and deceit. But in these first five episodes, the thing meanders a bit. There are good scenes in isolation but the sense of propulsion toward that terrible outcome we know is inevitable doesn't come through with the vigor White managed in the Hawaii season.
Moreover, as easy as it is to love Jennifer Coolidge — and it is easy — she seems extraneous here. Tanya in the first season was an extravagant mess, but her grief and her apparently genuine desire to awaken her own spirit made her strangely compelling. But since we learned then (through her interactions with Natasha Rothwell's Belinda) that she is ultimately as careless and self-absorbed on the inside as she seems on the outside, the complex elements of her character have faded and the cartoonish parts are more prominent. Much of her story here is about being sort of "adopted" by a roving band of gay men headed up by Tom Hollander, but there's nothing about that story that seems, as yet, to be about much of anything except watching Coolidge be Coolidge. And don't get me wrong — you could do worse. But you could do better, too.
The issue with Mike White is never, to my eye, whether he's a thoughtful guy or an interesting writer. He has a lot of ideas, even if some work better than others. The issue is in part whether, in deciding to do this project as such a solitary creative work where he is the only writer and the only director, he has made it easy for those ideas to get muddled in the execution. He has bet fully not only on his concepts, but on his ability to translate them into a script and then onto the screen. There is plenty of precedent for that choice, especially in film. But these five episodes feel like they could have benefited from being seen by more eyes from more angles.
It's possible this will all come through with more clarity by the end; five out of seven is an awkward number of episodes to evaluate. But in the early going, it seems like even the most obvious second seasons have their perils.
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Drexel will hold a university-wide commencement at Citizens Bank Park after all
Morgan Wallen decided to postpone its June 17 concert at the park, freeing up the venue for Drexel to hold its commencement there on Friday, June 16.
Drexel University will hold a school-wide commencement ceremony at Citizens Bank Park after all, and the music and artistic director of The Philadelphia Orchestra will serve as the featured speaker.
Drexel’s announcement earlier this spring that it would forgo the ceremony because of a scheduling conflict at the park drew complaints from students and parents. The park already had concerts booked on both June 15 and June 17, and given the time needed for set up, the school wasn’t able to secure a night for the ceremony.
But all that changed when Morgan Wallen decided to postpone its June 17 concert at the park, Drexel said. The country singer actually has postponed six weeks of concerts, including the Philadelphia appearance, after injuring his vocal cords during a three-night performance in Florida.
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Now the university will hold its commencement on Friday at 5 p.m., with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who is in his 11th season with the orchestra, scheduled to address the class.
“We were extremely disappointed that our university-wide commencement ceremony at Citizens Bank Park had to be cancelled due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts,” said Subir Sahu, senior vice president for student success. “With recent changes to the Phillies’ concert schedule, a possibility opened up... and we are delighted to be hosting a university-wide commencement ceremony at the ballpark.”
Drexel has rented out the park for a university-wide ceremony since 2016, except for 2020 because of COVID-19.
Before that, the school had been holding individual ceremonies for its different colleges because it had no venue big enough to bring everyone together.
David Buck, executive vice president of the Phillies, said in April that any time any entity wants to rent out the park, it’s contingent on two things: the playoffs and concerts.
“No offense, if we can have 40,000 people at a concert, we’re going to have to do that,” Buck said.
The university said in April that it had searched for another venue in partnership with the Phillies but could not find one on the available dates with enough capacity, which, in the past, was between 8,000 and 12,000. About 1,500 to 2,000 of the nearly 6,000 graduates and their families come to Citizens Bank Park each year.
» READ MORE: Drexel takes over Citizens Bank Park for a day
In mid-May, when news of the concert being canceled surfaced, Drexel announced to the campus that it would be holding commencement at the park. Last week, the school announced the speaker.
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Sky vs. Fever Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - June 6
The Indiana Fever (1-4) travel to face the Chicago Sky (4-3) after Kelsey Mitchell put up 22 points in the Fever's 84-80 loss to the Aces. The matchup airs on CBS Sports Network and The U at 8:00 PM ET on Tuesday, June 6, 2023.
Bookmakers have not yet set a line for this tilt.
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Sky vs. Fever Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- Where: Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois
- TV: CBS Sports Network and The U
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Sky vs. Fever Score Prediction
Prediction: Sky 93 Fever 74
Spread & Total Prediction for Sky vs. Fever
- Computer Predicted Spread: Chicago (-18.5)
- Computer Predicted Total: 166.6
Sky vs. Fever Spread & Total Insights
- Against the spread, Chicago is 5-1-0 this season.
- Two of Chicago's games have hit the over.
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Sky Performance Insights
- The Sky are averaging just 77.4 points per game (third-worst in WNBA), but they've played more consistently on defense, where they are allowing 76.6 points per game (fifth-ranked).
- Chicago ranks best in the WNBA by pulling down 38.0 boards per game. In terms of rebounds allowed, it ranks fourth in the league (34.9 allowed per contest).
- This season, the Sky are averaging 14.3 turnovers per game (ninth-ranked in WNBA) and forcing 14.1 turnovers per contest (fourth-ranked).
- The Sky rank second-best in the WNBA with a three-point shooting percentage of 37.6%. They rank eighth in the league by draining 7.6 three-pointers per contest.
- In terms of defending three-pointers, things are clicking for the Sky, who are giving up 6.7 treys per game (second-best in WNBA) and a 31.3% shooting percentage from downtown (third-best).
- So far this season, Chicago has taken 71.4% two-pointers, accounting for 74.1% of the team's baskets. It has shot 28.6% from three-point land (25.9% of the team's baskets).
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The Brand Provides Unique Experiences and Exclusive IHG One Rewards Perks for U.S. & UK Festivalgoers
ATLANTA, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Festival season is back and bigger than ever. IHG Hotels & Resorts is ready to welcome guests traveling to see their favorite artists as the official hotel partner of some of the best U.S.-based festivals, including The Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Music Midtown and Austin City Limits Music Festival, as well as Wilderness Festival in the U.K.
IHG is making festival weekends unforgettable for IHG One Rewards members, bringing the exceptional care and experience they know and love, along with thrilling moments of extra fun. IHG One Rewards members will enjoy exclusive benefits that will vary across festivals, from exclusive access to VIP experiences, premium up-close views of headlining artists, and on-property sneaker cleanings to perfect their festival #OOTD (outfit of the day).
The Governors Ball Official Kick-Off Party
Returning to The Governors Ball in New York City for a second year, IHG is officially kicking off the festival weekend with an invitation-only celebration at its Hotel Indigo Lower East Side New York's vibrant rooftop Mr. Purple. The hotel is immersed in one of NYC's most energetic neighborhoods, surrounded by unique street art and graffiti – making it the perfect hot spot to take in 360-degree views of Manhattan with sweeping vistas from the rooftop. The event featured a performance by New York-based DJ L3ni, exclusively curated cocktails, light bites and a station to receive a personalized and festival-inspired airbrushed tote bag.
Sneaker Spa
IHG is bringing a new element to the festival weekend for the first time by unveiling the "Sneaker Spa," a pop-up experience located at Hotel Indigo Lower East Side New York. In partnership with premium shoe care company Jason Markk, the pop-up will offer express cleaning services for festivalgoers wanting to get their favorite sneakers looking fresh – available for walk-ins only on Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST.
IHG Onsite Access
Onsite at the festival, IHG One Rewards members will have the chance to enjoy exclusive benefits, including backstage experiences and access to VIP Lounges and Premium Viewing Areas, which are equipped with unique perks – from full-service bars and a dedicated VIP Concierge to relaxed seating and air-conditioned restrooms.
Connor Smith, Vice President of Masterbrand Strategy and Awareness for IHG, said: "At IHG, we want to care for our guests and open the door to incredible experiences. We have 18 amazing brands and 6,000 properties around the globe all working toward this shared passion. Like travel, music brings people together and helps us create lasting connections with others. We're excited to play a part in some of this summer's most popular music festivals, caring for guests every step of the way."
Alex Joffe, Head of Global Partnerships for Founders Entertainment, said: "IHG embodies what it means to be a true 360-degree festival partner. From money-can't-buy experiences exclusively available to IHG One Rewards members to presenting an official festival kickoff party to the incredible enhancements they are creating in the Gov Ball VIP lounges, we as producers are thrilled and humbled by their commitment to ensuring a truly best-in-class overall experience for our global audience. We can't wait to see what IHG will do next!"
IHG Hotels & Resorts' music festival partnerships are a part of the brand's growing roster of partners that help connect travelers and IHG One Rewards members to their favorite events in sports, entertainment and beyond through highly exclusive, VIP access offerings. These partnerships include:
- Major League Soccer ('MLS') – official hotel and hotel loyalty program partner
- European Professional Club Rugby ('EPCR') – official hotel partner of the Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup
- United States Tennis Association ('USTA') – official hotel and hotel loyalty program of the US Open Tennis Championships
IHG Hotels & Resorts will continue bringing people together throughout the summer by creating new ways to redeem IHG One Rewards points for exclusive tickets and memorable moments through its experiences platform – IHG One Rewards Access – which allows members to use their points to get access to unforgettable events and experiences worldwide – everything from courtside tickets at sporting events to VIP concert passes and celebrity meet-and-greets.
To learn how to redeem points for exclusive experiences, please visit auctions.ihg.com, and to learn more about IHG One Rewards, visit IHGOneRewards.com.
About IHG Hotels & Resorts
IHG Hotels & Resorts [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good. With a family of 18 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programs, IHG has over 6,000 open hotels in over 100 countries, and more than 1,800 in the development pipeline.
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(The Hill) — Former President Trump called then-Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to pressure him to overturn the 2020 election results in that state, according to reports from The Washington Post.
Trump encouraged Ducey, a tepid ally, to find votes to overcome his narrow loss in the state in multiple calls after the 2020 election and asked Vice President Mike Pence call him and ask the same, according to the outlet.
Ducey told a donor about the calls earlier this year, saying that he was under “pressure” from Trump to overturn the election. He also said he was surprised special counsel Jack Smith did not request information on the calls for his federal investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
Ducey did not record the call, the donor told The Post. He left office in January being term limited.
State investigations into Trump’s claims of mass voter fraud in Arizona did not discover any fraud. Trump lost Arizona by less than 10,000 votes in 2020, a margin of about 0.3 percent.
The reported phone calls bear resemblance to a recorded call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021. In the call, Trump asks Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to change the outcome of the election results.
“What I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than [the 11,779 vote margin of defeat] we have, because we won the state,” Trump said in the call.
Trump is currently being investigated by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr for the call and other attempts to overturn the 2020 election in that state.
Pence did not pressure Ducey to overturn the election in his calls to the governor, The Post reported.
Ducey endorsed and campaigned for Trump in 2020, but after the election their relationship soured. Trump repeatedly criticized Ducey on social media over the election in his state and called him a “RINO Republican.”
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Rangers' Josh Smith hit in jaw with 88 mph pitch, taken to hospital
Smith was making his third appearance of 2023 season
Texas Rangers outfielder Josh H. Smith was taken to the hospital after he was hit in the face with a pitch against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night.
The left-handed batter dug in against Orioles pitcher Danny Coulombe in the third inning, and it appeared the left-handed pitcher’s 88.5 mph sinker got away from him and hit Smith in the face. Smith went down writhing in pain and was replaced by Ezequiel Duran.
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The Rangers said Smith was taken to a hospital for further evaluation.
"Rangers LF Josh Smith has been taken to an area hospital for further scans and testing on his face and jaw," the team said. "He was struck on the right side of his face by a pitch in the bottom of the 3rd inning."
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Smith, who can also play third base and shortstop, was in his second season with the Rangers. He played in 73 games in 2022 and hit .197 with a .556 OPS along with two home runs and 16 RBI.
He appeared in two games for the Rangers so far this season. He is 1-for-4 in seven total plate appearances with two walks and three strikeouts.
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The Hippodrome prepares their season opener
Published: Sep. 1, 2022 at 4:32 PM EDT|Updated: 32 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The Hippodrome in Gainesville is getting ready to open its first show of the new season.
TV20′s Lisa Sacaccio tells us about the first show to expect.
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Dear Annie: My friend says, “you know what I’m saying,” after nearly every sentence in conversations. She used to not do this very annoying habit, but it has become routine when she talks. It has become a kind of pause, a nervous talking habit or something. It drives me to distraction, to the point where I no longer want to talk to her. She will use that expression at least 20 times in a short conversation.
Should I bring this up? I don’t want to make her uncomfortable, but it’s ruining our relationship. Along with that, she is constantly doing things while on the phone, such as cleaning dishes and yard work. I have asked her to please stop all that and sit and talk, but to no avail. What should I do? -- You Know What I’m Sayin’?
Dear You Know: Yes, I do know what you are saying. But my guess is that your friend is clueless.
People use that phrase when they want some sort of contact or acknowledgement that you agree with them and understand what they are saying. All you can do is tell her how you feel and remind her to stop. You should do this in a loving way each time she relies on the phrase. You’re right; it is like a nervous tic.
When she does the dishes and other things while speaking with you, it is understandable that you don’t like it because you don’t feel that your conversation is important to her. Since she has not responded back to this, next time she starts doing other things, just remind her of your conversation and say you have to get off the phone if she doesn’t stop.
However, while telling her of your feelings, try not to be super critical of your friend. If you suspect that you get annoyed very easily, you might want to examine that.
Dear Annie: I just finished reading the letter in your column about the grandson being hazed in his private school. The school’s coach and principal basically did nothing.
I agree with your advice that it is great that the young man is seeing a counselor, but I would go one step further. The private school can be made to pay for his counseling or even medication, if needed.
I am sure a letter from a lawyer would help. The family might consider a lawsuit.
The family might never know how many students they will help by making this school and administration accountable. This situation was handled so wrong on so many levels.
I LOVE your column, and you help me do my exercise bike as I read it! -- A Retired Schoolteacher from Arkansas
Dear Teacher: Thank you for your kind words. I always love hearing from professionals, and I’m glad we agree that the school really dropped the ball. You make a wonderful suggestion that the school pay for the victim’s counseling.
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Firm combines expertise of two leading Southern California MEP engineering firms
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DC Capital Partners Management, LP ("DC Capital" or "DCCP"), a sector focused private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies in the Government and Engineering sectors, today announced the launch of Akela Engineering and Consulting ("Akela"). Akela is a full-service Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) firm providing engineering and consulting services to the construction industry in California. Industry veteran Dennis Berlien, P.E., has joined Akela as Chief Executive Officer.
Akela partners with public and private entities to provide a diverse range of services, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, commissioning, sustainable solutions, architectural lighting and technology. The firm serves clients in the military, life science, government, education, corporate, multi-family, sustainability, hospitality and healthcare spaces.
DC Capital serves as the parent company to Akela. Michael Wall Engineering, Inc. and DEC Engineers, Inc., two leading Southern California MEP engineering firms, united to form Akela, which is a sister company of Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services.
"Akela is the fusion of two successful engineering firms combining 47 years of shared experience," said Thomas J. Campbell, Founder and Managing Partner of DC Capital. "We are extremely pleased to share the official launch of Akela and welcome these industry experts to our portfolio of companies providing differentiated and innovative services and solutions in the Government and Engineering markets."
Mr. Berlien brings more the 25 years of experience to his role as CEO at Akela. He most recently served as President for Glumac, a Tetra Tech Company, and prior to assuming that role, he held a variety of executive roles since joining in 2011. Throughout his career, Mr. Berlien also held leadership positions at Vanderweil Engineers, Wright Engineers, AMEC, Adobe Consulting Engineers and Bechtel.
Mr. Berlien holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Orangewood Foundation, one of the leading providers of services to foster and community youth in Orange County. He was a Director for the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), an organization committed to a sustainable, prosperous future through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria as well as a DBIA certified professional. Mr. Berlien is also co-author of the book, "Connections: Everyone Happens for a Reason."
"Akela is dedicated to delivering innovative design and sophisticated solutions to complex challenges and our culture emphasizes a collaborative wolf pack approach," said Dennis Berlien, P.E., Chief Executive Officer at Akela. "We believe we are Stronger Together, and I look forward to partnering with our colleagues and clients to deliver results for the communities we serve."
Akela is headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional engineering offices in San Diego and Newport Beach, California.
Akela Engineering and Consulting (Akela) is a full-service Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) firm providing engineering and consulting services to the construction industry in California. In 2022, Michael Wall Engineering (electrical engineering since 1996) and DEC Engineers (mechanical engineering since 2000) amalgamated to create Akela.
Akela offers full-service design through registered Professional Engineers, in-house Lighting Design staff, in-house Registered Communication Distribution Designers (RCCD), and in-house Certified Technology Specialist (CTS-D & CTS) Audiovisual Designers. The firm's services include project pre-design consulting and planning, construction documents, construction management, cost estimating, lighting design, evaluation, support services and value engineering.
Akela, Stronger Together.
To learn more about Akela, please visit: https://www.akelaeng.com/
DC Capital is a private equity investment firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, focused on making control equity investments in middle market companies that provide differentiated and innovative services and solutions to the Government and Engineering markets. Currently raising its third fund, this represents the third investment for Fund III. Fund III's earlier investments include Sionyx, LLC (www.Sionyx.com) and uAvionix Corporation (www.uAvionix.com). DCCP has developed a systematic "Strategic Approach" for creating value in portfolio companies built on their underlying three pillars of Domain Expertise, Market Focus, and Strategic Process.
To learn more about DC Capital Partners, please visit: www.dccp.com.
Contact:
Thomas J. Campbell
202-737-5220
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First-Of-Its-Kind Exhibit Features Creative Work by Child Abuse Victims in Art Therapy
Supermodel Beverly Johnson Will Attend as a Special Guest at PAAL Members-Only Grand Opening Nov. 10
PETERSBURG, Va., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eighty-four (84) pieces of original art, each created by a victim of child abuse as they underwent art therapy to help overcome their harrowing experiences, will be on display at the Petersburg Area Arts League (PAAL) in Petersburg, Virginia from November 11 to November 30.
"Overcame: Art of The Abused Child" is presented by The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center (BSCC) – one of the nation's foremost treatment, education, research and resource centers for child abuse prevention. The Petersburg experience marks the second stop for the traveling exhibit, which is believed to be the first-of-its-kind in the nation; it premiered in Vanderbilt Hall inside Grand Central Terminal in New York City in July. The exhibit is a deeply personal, immersive experience and part of BSCC's fightchildabuse.org initiative.
Beverly Johnson, the first Black model to be featured on the cover of Vogue magazine and a BSCC Board member, will be a special guest for the PAAL members-only opening of the exhibit on Thursday, Nov. 10.
"This is a powerful and poignant showcase of innocence lost and, at the same time, an insightful and inspiring story of courage demonstrated by these boys and girls as they emerged from their horrific ordeals," said John Thoresen, BSCC CEO. "We're honored that the Petersburg Area Arts League wanted to partner with us to illuminate these stories for its general public."
Bill Nicholson, the Petersburg resident who sits on the Board of both BSCC and PAAL, echoed these sentiments, adding that, "When I saw the exhibit in New York, I was filled with so many different emotions – from rage at what far too many children in this country and globally have gone through at the hands of their perpetrators to relief that they are overcoming their abuse and are able to express themselves in a way that will resonate with those who come to experience the exhibit. I felt it was imperative that PAAL be the next site for it."
Filled with art dating back to as early as 1987, pieces range from the written word and clear illustrations of a memory to more metaphorical, abstract displays of emotion. The 1,500 square-foot exhibit also includes a private, safe space for reflection and discussion.
The exhibit will be open to the public November 11 – 30 at 7 E Old St, Petersburg, VA 23803 and aims to raise awareness of the alarming prevalence of child abuse. As many as one in five girls and one in 20 boys are sexually abused by age 18, and 90% of all incidents are committed by someone in a trusting relationship with the child, according to the BSCC.
About the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center: Founded in 1986 by Barbara and Frank Sinatra, the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center is dedicated to ensuring every child's right to a normal, healthy and secure childhood. Since its creation, about 25,000 children have received outpatient mental health and counseling services at the Center. The Center provides individual, group, and family therapy and special programs that address issues associated with children suffering the effects of child abuse and neglect. An estimated 700 children are counseled annually on an outpatient basis, and no child is ever turned away because of a family's inability to pay. For more information, visit BarbaraSinatraChildrensCenter.org. An animated video series, funded by the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center Foundation, has reached over 100 million children worldwide and generated over 55 million individual and group viewings on YouTube throughout the United States and abroad.
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WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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RED FLAG WARNING
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
140 PM PDT Tue Aug 2 2022
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING
FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING ON DRY FUELS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 280...
281...284...285...621...622...623...624 AND 625...
* Impacts: Abundant lightning on critically dry vegetation is
likely to result in numerous new fire starts through this
evening that could overwhelm firefighting resources. Gusty
thunderstorm outflow wind gusts of 30 to 60 mph will contribute
to fire spread in some areas. In other areas, locally heavy,
wetting rainfall is likely to limit or prevent fire spread, but
numerous holdover fires will be possible.
* Affected area:
In Northern CA, all of Fire Zones...280...281...282...284...285.
In South Central OR, all of Fire Zones...624...625.
In Southwest OR, all of Fire Zones...617...620...621...622...623.
* View the hazard area in detail at:
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mfr/HAZARD
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- Recognized as one of the 10 Great Day of the Dead Celebrations in the World -
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Día de los Muertos returns to Hemisfair for its tenth annual celebration with a FREE two-day festival on Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30. Recognized as one of the 10 Great Day of the Dead Celebrations in the world by USA Today, Día de los Muertos at Hemisfair, popularly known as Muertos Fest, features two days of vibrant events and entertainment celebrating this Mexican tradition.
To commemorate the event's 10-year anniversary, the local ABC-affiliate KSAT 12 will broadcast this year's celebration as a two-hour evening special on October 30 to local and national audiences.
"San Antonio is fast becoming the capital of Day of the Dead celebrations in the U.S., and Día de los Muertos at Hemisfair is leading the way in that honor," said Jim Mendiola, the festival's artistic director. "For ten years Día de los Muertos has provided an event for the regional community to remember family members and together we've created a truly unique event with national recognition, and we look forward to sharing our celebration with a national television audience."
The heart of Día de los Muertos are the fifty plus altars created by San Antonio families and community organizations. These traditional and contemporary ofrendas line the paths throughout the expansive grounds of Hemisfair, the site of the 1968 World's Fair.
"Hemisfair's vision of creating one of the world's great public places is in alignment with Día de los Muertos – one of America's Best Fall Festivals, according to National Geographic," said Andres Andujar, CEO of Hemisfair.
For the tenth anniversary celebration, the signature procession will be larger, with an expanded roster of participants. Other festivities include a four-stage lineup of bands, dance and poetry performances, a curated arts market featuring original Day of the Dead local crafts and artwork, a drum, dance and puppet procession, workshops, children's programming and much more. Día de los Muertos invites the local community and visitors to experience, enjoy and remember. Applications for the altar exhibition are being accepted online.
To learn more about the 10th Anniversary event and for updates to the entertainment lineup, visit Muertos Fest.
In its tenth year, Muertos Fest, a Día de los Muertos event, is recognized as the largest and most well-known Day of the Dead Festival in Texas. Muertos Fest leads the way as the destination Day of the Dead event in the United States. Established in 2013, Día de los Muertos is held annually in downtown San Antonio and touts the largest open altar exhibition and contest in the city. Named as one of the 10 Great Day of the Dead Celebrations in the world by USA Today, and as one of the "7 Best Fall Festivals in the United States" by National Geographic Magazine, Muertos Fest was also named the second best Día de los Muertos Celebration in the country by Tripping.com. To learn more, visit MuertosFest.com. Follow Día de los Muertos on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @MuertosFest.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — According to the World Health Organization, 22.3% of the global population uses tobacco.
The website niceRX.com recently conducted a study to determine which U.S. states have the highest smoking rates and the most deaths caused by smoking, and The Natural State ranked poorly in both categories. Arkansas came in tied for 6th in highest smoking rate at 20.2%, and it had the 3rd-most smoking deaths per capita.
West Virginia had the highest smoking rate at 23.8%, followed by Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio and Mississippi. Arkansas and Alabama tied for 6th place. Massachusetts, California and Utah had the lowest rates.
West Virginia also had the highest total of smoking-related deaths per capita, with 241 per 100,000 people in 2019. Kentucky was second (197) and Arkansas was third (192). Colorado, Alaska and Utah had the fewest smoking-related deaths per 100,000 people. West Virginia had over six times as many smoking deaths per capita as Utah in 2019.
The United States had the 31st-most smoking deaths per capita when compared to other countries around the world. Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro had the most.
The full results of the report are available here. | https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/report-arkansas-6-in-country-for-smoking-rate/ | 2022-09-09 22:30:18 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/report-arkansas-6-in-country-for-smoking-rate/ |
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A woman who was sexually assaulted by a Spokane police officer has filed a tort claim against the city of Spokane.
The woman is seeking $1 million in damages from the city, alleging “red flags” related to now ex-police officer Nathan Nash’s behavior were ignored, KREM-TV reported. The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted.
Nash was convicted in August on one count of third-degree rape and one count of second-degree rape in two separate incidents in which he was on duty.
The woman intending to sue says in the claim that the city’s hiring, training, and supervision of Nash was inadequate and a proximate cause of her injuries. The city allowed Nash to use his power and police uniform to prey on women he encountered during the performance of his duties, according to the claim.
The city has about two months to respond.
Nash is in custody at the Spokane County Detention Center awaiting a mid-October sentencing for the rape convictions.
Throughout his trial, Nash maintained his innocence. He was first charged in 2019 when a woman accused him of rape while investigating her case. Another woman in 2021 told police about a similar experience. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Woman-seeks-1M-from-Spokane-over-sexual-assault-17479362.php | 2022-10-01 03:45:14 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Woman-seeks-1M-from-Spokane-over-sexual-assault-17479362.php |
Tulsi Gabbard torches Congress for failing on border security: 'Foremost responsibility'
The omnibus bill does little if anything to secure the border, ex-Democrat says
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, slammed both parties for working to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that does little to stem the tide of illegal immigrants flooding the southern border.
Gabbard, who since left the Democratic Party, told "Hannity" guest host Tammy Bruce it is the federal legislature's top job to protect the homeland and ensure liberty, and that the spending package is the latest example of failure to do so.
"[W]hat's at the heart of this is we have Democrats and Republicans, frankly, in Congress who are failing at their most basic and foremost responsibility, which is to ensure the safety, security and freedom of the American people, and that starts with securing our border," she said Thursday.
"We don't have a country if we don't have a secure border. You talked about this $1.7 trillion funding bill that the Senate just passed and the House will pass very likely soon," she continued. "Well, there's about $1.5 billion there that's been set aside for Customs and Border Protection, border security. The problem is the language also says they're not actually allowed to use any of that money to secure the border."
TULSI GABBARD SPEAKS OUT AFTER LEAVING ‘WOKE’ DEMOCRATIC PARTY: MY LOYALTY IS TO COUNTRY, NOT CAUCUS
Lawmakers therefore don't care about border security or are incompetent, Gabbard said.
"Either way, they're failing at their jobs. They either need to step up to the plate and do their job, or they need to be replaced."
Gabbard recounted serving in several different levels of government over time, from Honolulu City Council to the U.S. Congress, saying at each level, the Feds have often said there's not enough money in their coffers to fund whatever endeavor that particular legislature is seeking appropriations for.
TEXAS GOVERNOR BLASTS ‘CLUELESS’ MEDIA AFTER ABC REPORTER SUGGESTS GOP TO BLAME FOR BORDER CRISIS
"As we see in this $1.7 trillion bill, they're sending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure other countries' borders," she said. "They're spending an incredible amount of money to feed into the military-industrial complex, but not willing to do what is necessary to secure our own border and support the needs of the American people right here at home."
"There's a lot to be done at the border. There's a lot that should be done at the border, things like let's deploy more of the National Guard… to actually supplement and provide this immediate need to help secure our border, fix this broken asylum process… "
KAMALA HARRIS' ONGOING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ‘ROOT CAUSES' SEARCH TORCHED AS BORDER DETERIORATES
Gabbard called for immediate deportation of and reentry prohibition for migrants proven to have entered illegally as the crisis intensifies.
In response, Bruce pointed out how in 2021, a Democratic lawmaker representing El Paso lauded the city as America's "new Ellis Island," calling it an "invitation if I ever heard one" for further illegal immigration.
"Exactly," Gabbard replied. "And yet they have the audacity over and over again to say, 'Oh no, our borders are not open. We don't have open borders.'"
"You look at the proof, and you look at the crisis that we are facing at the border right now." | https://www.foxnews.com/media/tulsi-gabbard-torches-congress-failing-border-security-foremost-responsibility | 2022-12-23 06:48:00 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/tulsi-gabbard-torches-congress-failing-border-security-foremost-responsibility |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Night" game were:
8-6-6-0, WB: 2
(eight, six, six, zero; WB: two)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Night" game were:
8-6-6-0, WB: 2
(eight, six, six, zero; WB: two) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Night-game-17254331.php | 2022-06-21 03:41:47 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Night-game-17254331.php |
Celine Dion releases new song amid health battle with rare disorder
(CNN) – Celine Dion has debuted a new song, which comes just months after announcing she has a rare neurological disorder that affects her singing.
A post on the singer’s Instagram account shared the news that her new single “Love Again” is now out.
It’s the title track to the upcoming film of the same name.
The post featured a lyric video with scenes from the movie, in which Dion makes her film acting debut.
The caption read, “Mark your calendars. On May 5, the movie hits theaters… and on May 12, the full album, featuring five new Celine songs will be available.”
In December, Dion revealed she has stiff-person syndrome. She said the disorder was causing spasms that made it difficult to walk and hard to use her vocal cords to sing the way she used to.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, October 23, 2022
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HIGH WIND WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Diego CA
133 PM PDT Fri Oct 21 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM SATURDAY TO
8 AM PDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 75 mph
expected.
* WHERE...San Bernardino County Mountains, Riverside County
Mountains, San Diego County Mountains, Apple and Lucerne Valleys
and San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning. Strongest winds through the
passes and along the desert-facing slopes.
* WHEN...From 11 AM Saturday to 8 AM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Widespread power outages are possible. Travel will be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use caution if you must drive.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM SATURDAY TO 8 AM
PDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
* WHERE...Coachella Valley and San Diego County Deserts. Strongest
winds near the mountain slopes.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Blowing sand and dust may create poor visibility at times.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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Acquisition provides five-person firm with a solid growth strategy as Carson Group expands its East Coast presence.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carson Group today announced the acquisition of Northface Capital Holdings, LLC, a full-service financial planning and wealth management firm with $200 million in assets under management.
The Northface team, now led by Chris Tobey, sold its ownership in the firm to Carson for several reasons. Key was the desire to allow the team to focus on future opportunities while enabling Tobey to lead the firm's growth strategy and provide continuity for the firm's stakeholders and clients now and well into the future.
"Transitioning to a wholly-owned Carson Wealth office will allow us to enhance how we serve our clients," explains Tobey. "Our decisions are based on what is in our clients' best interest and this will put our team and clients in a better position."
According to a 2018 study by the Financial Planning Association, only 27% of financial advisors have a succession plan in place, even as 93% recognize that the lack of a plan poses a risk to their livelihood.
"Carson's business model accommodates many advisors' growth and operational needs, but providing a smooth transition plan where one advisor can pass the reins to the next generation and know that their clients will be taken care of is one of the most powerful," said Nick Engelbart, chief financial officer at Carson Group. "In many cases, that may mean partnering with Carson to leverage our practice management support, in other scenarios that could be transitioning into a partly owned or wholly owned office."
Tobey adds, "Having been a Carson partner for almost three years, I have seen how there is no complacency. The company's enduring goal is to continually provide advisors with the best tools and resources."
The Waltham location will be the sixth wholly owned Carson Wealth office in the U.S.
"We see Carson Group as a long-term partner that will allow us to succeed and grow into the future."
Carson Group currently manages $20 billion in assets and serves more than 44,700 families through its advisory network, including 135 partner firms and 35 Carson Wealth locations, some wholly owned and some with a minority stake. For more information, visit www.carsonwealth.com.
Founded in 1983 by Ron Carson and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Carson Group serves financial advisors and investors through its three businesses – Carson Wealth, Carson Coaching, and Carson Partners. Carson Group has created an ecosystem dedicated to helping financial advisors unleash the full potential of their firms by providing marketing, compliance, technology, investment strategies, succession planning, M&A support, and coaching. The company currently manages $20 billion in assets and serves more than 44,700 families among its advisor network of 135 partner offices, including 35 Carson Wealth locations. For more information, visit www.carsongroup.com.
Carson Partners offers investment advisory service through CWM, LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Carson Partners, a division of CWM, LLC, is a nationwide partnership of advisors. Carson Coaching and CWM, LLC are separate but affiliated companies and wholly owned subsidiaries of Carson Holdings, LLC. Carson Coaching does not provide advisory services. Securities offered through Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services offered through CWM, LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Cetera Advisor Networks LLC is under separate ownership from any other named entity.
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WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, returned to the White House Wednesday, unveiling official portraits with a modern vibe in an event that set humor and nostalgia over his presidency against the current harsh political talk about the survival of democracy.
While her husband cracked a few jokes about his gray hair, big ears and clothes in his portrait, Mrs. Obama, a descendant of slaves, said the occasion for her was more about the promise of America for people like herself.
“Barack and Michelle, welcome home,” declared President Joe Biden as the gathering cheered.
Biden, who was Obama’s vice president, praised his former boss’ leadership on health care, the economy and immigration and said nothing could have prepared him any better for being president than serving with Obama for those eight years.
“It was always about doing what was right,” he said.
The portrait of Obama, America’s 44th and first Black president, doesn’t look like any of his predecessors, nor does Michelle Obama’s look like any of the women who filled the role before her.
Obama stands expressionless against a white background, wearing a black suit and gray tie in the portrait by Robert McCurdy that looks more like a large photograph than an oil-on-canvas portrait. The former first lady, her lips pursed, is seated on a sofa in the Red Room in a strapless, light blue dress. She chose artist Sharon Sprung for her portrait.
Scores of former members of Obama’s administration were on hand for the big reveal.
Obama noted that some of them in the East Room audience had started families in the intervening years and feigned disappointment “that I haven’t heard of anyone naming a kid Barack or Michelle.”
He thanked McCurdy for his work, joking that the artist, who is known for his paintings of public figures from Nelson Mandela to the Dalai Lama, had ignored his pleas for fewer gray hairs and smaller ears. “He also talked me out of wearing a tan suit, by the way,” Obama quipped, referring to a widely panned appearance as president in the unflattering suit.
Obama went on to say his wife was the “best thing about living in the White House,” and he thanked Sprung for “capturing everything I love about Michelle, her grace, her intelligence — and the fact that she’s fine.”
Michelle Obama, when it was her turn, laughingly opened by saying she had to thank her husband for “such spicy remarks.” To which he retorted, by way of explanation, “I’m not running again.”
Then the former first lady turned serious, drawing a connection between unveiling the portraits and America’s promise for people with backgrounds like her own, a daughter of working-class parents from the South Side of Chicago.
“For me this day is not just about what has happened,” she said. “It’s also about what could happen, because a girl like me, she was never supposed to be up there next to Jacqueline Kennedy and Dolley Madison. She wasn’t supposed to live in this house, and she wasn’t supposed to serve as first lady.”
Mrs. Obama said the portraits are a “reminder that there’s a place for everyone in this country.”
Tradition holds that the sitting president invites his immediate predecessor back to the White House to unveil his portrait, but Donald Trump broke with that custom and did not host Obama. So, Biden scheduled a ceremony for his former boss.
Mrs. Obama said the tradition matters “not just for those of us who hold these positions but for everyone participating in and watching our democracy.”
In remarks that never mentioned Trump but made a point as he continues to challenge his 2020 reelection loss, she added: “You see the people, they make their voices heard with their vote, we hold an inauguration to ensure a peaceful transition of power … and once our time is up, we move on.”
McCurdy, meanwhile, said his “stripped down” style of portraiture helps create an “encounter” between the person in the painting and the person looking at it.
“They have plain white backgrounds, nobody gestures, nobody — there are no props because we’re not here to tell the story of the person that’s sitting for them,” McCurdy told the White House Historical Association during an interview for its “1600 Sessions” podcast.
“We’re here to create an encounter between the viewer and the sitter,” he said. “We’re telling as little about the sitter as possible so that the viewer can project onto them.”
He works from a photograph of his subject, selected from about 100 images, and spends at least a year on each portrait. Subjects have no say in how the painting looks. McCurdy said he knows he’s done “when it stops irritating me.”
Obama’s portrait is destined for display in the Grand Foyer of the White House, the traditional showcase for paintings of the two most recent presidents. Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s portraits currently hang there.
Mrs. Obama’s portrait likely will be placed with her predecessors along the hallway on the Ground Floor of the White House, joining Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.
Two spokespeople for Trump did not respond to emailed requests for comment on whether artists have begun work on White House portraits for Trump and former first lady Melania Trump. Work, however, is underway on a separate pair of Trump portraits bound for the collection held by the National Portrait Gallery, a Smithsonian museum.
The White House Historical Association, a nonprofit organization founded in 1961 by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and funded through private donations and sales of books and an annual Christmas ornament, helps manage the White House portrait process. Since the 1960s, the association has paid for most of the portraits in the collection.
Congress bought the first painting in the collection, of George Washington. Other portraits of early presidents and first ladies often came to the White House as gifts. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2530443/obamas-return-to-the-white-house-unveil-official-portraits.html | 2022-09-07 23:01:30 | 0 | https://www.abqjournal.com/2530443/obamas-return-to-the-white-house-unveil-official-portraits.html |
3Q 2022 Net Income of $20.8 million
Continued Net Interest Margin Expansion, Strong Loan Growth and
Favorable Credit Trends
HONOLULU, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Savings Bank, F.S.B. (ASB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (NYSE: HE), today reported third quarter 2022 net income of $20.8 million, compared to $17.5 million in the second, or linked quarter of 2022 and $19.3 million in the third quarter of 2021.
"We are pleased with the bank's solid results for the third quarter and year to date," said Ann Teranishi, president and chief executive officer of ASB. "We again saw broad-based loan growth during the quarter, reflecting great work by our team along with the Hawaii economy's ongoing recovery from the pandemic. We continued to see positive credit trends despite the inflationary environment, and the rising interest rate environment continued to benefit our net interest margin and overall profitability," said Teranishi.
Third quarter 2022 net interest income of $65.7 million was up from $61.8 million in the linked quarter, and $60.3 million in the third quarter of 2021. The increase versus the linked quarter reflected higher yields and balances across nearly the entire loan portfolio and higher yields in the investment securities portfolio, partially offset by higher funding costs and lower fee income associated with the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) portfolio as PPP loans continued to pay down. The increase versus the prior year quarter reflected higher average earning assets balances and higher yields, partially offset by lower PPP fee income. Net interest margin was 2.96% compared to 2.85% in the linked quarter, and 2.90% in the third quarter last year.
In the third quarter ASB recorded a negative provision for credit losses of $0.2 million compared to a provision for credit losses of $2.8 million in the linked quarter and a negative provision for credit losses of $1.7 million in the third quarter of 2021. The quarter's negative provision reflected continued favorable credit trends that led to the release of reserves, more than offsetting additional provisioning for loan growth. As of September 30, 2022, ASB's allowance for credit losses to outstanding loans was 1.24% compared to 1.28% as of June 30, 2022 and 1.48% as of September 30, 2021.
The net charge-off ratio for the third quarter of 2022 was 0.03%, compared to nil in the linked quarter and 0.03% in the third quarter of 2021. Nonaccrual loans as a percent of total loans receivable held for investment were 0.35% in the third quarter of 2022, compared to 0.40% in the linked quarter and 0.97% in the prior year quarter.
Noninterest income was $13.0 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $12.5 million in the linked quarter and $14.8 million in the third quarter of 2021. The increase compared to the linked quarter was primarily due to an increase in fee income on deposit liabilities and higher bank-owned life insurance income. The decrease compared to the prior year quarter was primarily due to lower bank-owned life insurance income and lower mortgage banking income.
Noninterest expense was $51.6 million compared to $49.4 million in the linked quarter and $51.5 million in the third quarter of 2021. The increase in noninterest expense versus the linked quarter was primarily due to increased compensation and benefits expenses and higher services and occupancy costs. The increase in noninterest expense versus the same quarter last year was primarily due to higher services expenses and occupancy costs, with offsets from lower compensation and benefits expenses due to higher incentive compensation in 2021.
Total earning assets as of September 30, 2022 were $8.9 billion, up 4.7% from December 31, 2021.
Total loans were $5.7 billion as of September 30, 2022, up 9.3% from December 31, 2021, reflecting growth across nearly the entire portfolio year-to-date.
Total deposits were $8.3 billion as of September 30, 2022, an increase of 1.1% from December 31, 2021. For the third quarter of 2022, the average cost of funds was 0.13%, up 0.08% versus the linked quarter and up 0.07% versus the same quarter last year.
For the third quarter of 2022 return on average equity was 15.1% compared to 12.2% in the linked quarter and 10.3% in the third quarter of 2021. Return on average assets was 0.89% for the third quarter of 2022, compared to 0.76% in the linked quarter and 0.86% in the same quarter last year.
In the third quarter of 2022, ASB paid dividends of $5.0 million to HEI. ASB had a Tier 1 leverage ratio of 7.75% as of September 30, 2022.
Concurrent with ASB's regulatory filing 30 days after the end of the quarter, ASB announced its third quarter 2022 financial results today. Please note that these reported results relate only to ASB and are not necessarily indicative of HEI's consolidated financial results for the third quarter of 2022.
HEI plans to announce its third quarter 2022 consolidated financial results on Monday, November 7, 2022 and will also conduct a webcast and conference call at 11:15 a.m. Hawaii time (4:15 p.m. Eastern time) that same day to discuss its consolidated earnings, including ASB's earnings, and 2022 guidance.
To listen to the conference call, dial 1-844-200-6205 (U.S.) or +1-929-526-1599 (international) and enter passcode 162868. Parties may also access presentation materials and/or listen to the conference call by visiting the conference call link on HEI's website at www.hei.com under "Investor Relations," sub-heading "News and Events — Events and Presentations."
A replay will be available online and via phone. The online replay will be available on HEI's website about two hours after the event. An audio replay will also be available about two hours after the event through November 21, 2022. To access the audio replay, dial 1-866-813-9403 (U.S.) or +44-204-525-0658 (international) and enter passcode 881525.
HEI and Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (Hawaiian Electric) intend to continue to use HEI's website, www.hei.com, as a means of disclosing additional information; such disclosures will be included in the Investor Relations section of the website. Accordingly, investors should routinely monitor the Investor Relations section of HEI's website, in addition to following HEI's, Hawaiian Electric's and ASB's press releases, HEI's and Hawaiian Electric's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and HEI's public conference calls and webcasts. Investors may sign up to receive e-mail alerts via the "Investor Relations" section of the website. The information on HEI's website is not incorporated by reference into this document or into HEI's and Hawaiian Electric's SEC filings unless, and except to the extent, specifically incorporated by reference.
Investors may also wish to refer to the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Hawaii (PUC) website at dms.puc.hawaii.gov/dms to review documents filed with, and issued by, the PUC. No information on the PUC website is incorporated by reference into this document or into HEI's and Hawaiian Electric's SEC filings.
The HEI family of companies provides the energy and financial services that empower much of the economic and community activity of Hawaii. HEI's electric utility, Hawaiian Electric, supplies power to approximately 95% of Hawaii's population and is undertaking an ambitious effort to decarbonize its operations and the broader state economy. Its banking subsidiary, ASB, is one of Hawaii's largest financial institutions, providing a wide array of banking and other financial services and working to advance economic growth, affordability and financial fitness. HEI also helps advance Hawaii's sustainability goals through investments by its non-regulated subsidiary, Pacific Current. For more information, visit www.hei.com.
This release may contain "forward-looking statements," which include statements that are predictive in nature, depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, and usually include words such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "predicts," "estimates" or similar expressions. In addition, any statements concerning future financial performance, ongoing business strategies or prospects or possible future actions are also forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections about future events and are subject to risks, uncertainties and the accuracy of assumptions concerning HEI and its subsidiaries, the performance of the industries in which they do business and economic, political and market factors, among other things. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance.
Forward-looking statements in this release should be read in conjunction with the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" discussions (which are incorporated by reference herein) set forth in HEI's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and HEI's other periodic reports that discuss important factors that could cause HEI's results to differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the report, presentation or filing in which they are made. Except to the extent required by the federal securities laws, HEI, Hawaiian Electric, ASB and their subsidiaries undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 5, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
123 PM PDT Wed Aug 3 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast California and south central Nevada,
including the following areas, in southeast California, Death
Valley National Park, Eastern Sierra Slopes, Owens Valley, Western
Mojave Desert and White Mountains of Inyo County. In south central
Nevada, Esmeralda and Central Nye County.
* WHEN...From Thursday afternoon through Friday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Several rounds of thunderstorms is possible Thursday
afternoon through Friday evening, including continued
thunderstorm chances for overnight Thursday. These storms
will likely contain heavy rain and may cause in flash
flooding.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Coinbase has been targeted by U.S. regulators in a new lawsuit Tuesday that alleges the cryptocurrency platform is operating as an unregistered securities platform and brokerage service.
The lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission comes only a day after it filed charges against Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, and its founder Changpeng Zhao are accused of misusing investor funds, operating as an unregistered exchange and violating a slew of U.S. securities laws.
Coinbase shares plunged nearly 15% early Tuesday.
In its complaint, the SEC said Coinbase made billions acting as the middle man for cryptocurrency buyers and sellers but did not give investors lawful protections while acting as a broker.
“Coinbase has for years defied the regulatory structures and evaded the disclosure requirements that Congress and the SEC have constructed for the protection of the national securities markets and investors,” the SEC said in its complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. It seeks injunctive relief, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains plus interest, penalties, and other equitable relief.
Coinbase said the SEC has not been transparent in how it regulates cryptocurrencies.
“The SEC’s reliance on an enforcement-only approach in the absence of clear rules for the digital asset industry is hurting America’s economic competitiveness and companies like Coinbase that have a demonstrated commitment to compliance,” said Paul Grewal, chief legal officer and general counsel for Coinbase, said in a written statement. The solution is legislation that allows fair rules for the road to be developed transparently and applied equally, not litigation. In the meantime, we’ll continue to operate our business as usual.”
The SEC had warned Coinbase in March that it could face securities charges and had long signaled that Coinbase had been flouting securities laws with its position that cryptocurrencies were not securities and therefore did not need to register as a broker.
“You simply can’t ignore the rules because you don’t like them or because you’d prefer different ones: the consequences for the investing public are far too great,” said Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, in a prepared statement.
U.S. prosecutors and the SEC charged FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried with a host of money laundering, fraud and securities fraud charges in December. His criminal trial is likely to be in the fall. | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/sec-brings-charges-against-cryptocurrency-trading-platform-coinbase/ | 2023-06-07 01:27:05 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/sec-brings-charges-against-cryptocurrency-trading-platform-coinbase/ |
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