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New York nears deal creating first ban in the country on gas stoves for new homes
NEW YORK - Lawmakers in New York are gearing up to enact legislation that would prohibit gas stoves from being used in new buildings, including new single-family homes and new commercial properties.
Should the proposal — included in the state budget that's due March 31 — receive a nod from Empire State lawmakers, it would be the first piece of legislation in the nation to target gas and fossil fuel appliances.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and many of her fellow Democrats in the state legislature have signaled support for proposals that would prevent the use of water heaters, fossil fuel furnaces and gas stoves in a majority of new construction.
Despite pushback from some Republicans over the state's proposal, as well as Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm's declaring Thursday that "there's no ban on gas stoves" at a federal level, New York lawmakers are poised to pass the legislation barring the use of certain gas-related utilities in new homes.
RELATED: Biden does not support gas stove ban, White House says
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, offered support for a ban of fossil fuel-based heating equipment during her State of the State address in January. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
While other states like California and Washington have taken similar action through building codes, New York would become the first state to do so with a legislative measure.
Hochul offered support for a ban of fossil fuel-based heating equipment during her State of the State address in January. The governor proposed abolishing the sale of gas-powered appliances and banning their installation in new buildings by 2025.
RELATED: Gas stoves may be harmful to respiratory health, report suggests
Should it pass, the proposal would not apply to existing homes that use gas stoves or other gas-powered appliances. However, the state's climate plan could take such steps in the future.
As reported by Politico, the three proposals being considered by the Assembly, Senate and governor "have some exemptions, including for emergency backup generators, hospitals, laundromats and commercial kitchens."
Albany, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
"The earliest date backed by the state Senate is the beginning of 2025 for residential and buildings below seven stories. Hochul and the Assembly backed banning gas in new homes starting in 2026," the outlet reported.
The backlash from Republicans over a potential ban on gas stoves came earlier this year after it was reported the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission planned to act on the appliances because the pollutants can cause respiratory and health issues.
In December 2022, a group of federal lawmakers, including Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote a letter to the CPSC expressing concerns "regarding the risks posed to consumers from indoor air pollution generated by gas stoves."
The Biden administration is pushing measures to ban gas stoves. (Photo by Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The group pointed out that more than 40 million homes in the U.S. rely on gas stoves for cooking, and "methane leaks from gas stoves inside U.S. homes were recently found to contribute the equivalent climate impacts as about 500,000 gasoline-powered cars."
They added that the cumulative effect of such emissions has a disproportionate impact on Black, Latino and low-income households.
Fox News' Kristine Parks and Sarah Rumpf contributed to this article.
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Set your eyes on this new construction walkout ranch located in Lincoln's Shadow Creek development. With 5 beds, 3 baths and over 3500 finished square feet this home has plenty of space to stretch out! This home has a 4 stall garage with wifi controlled garage door openers to keep all your vehicles out of the elements! Inside the feature keep on coming: 10 foot tall coffered ceilings, white quartz countertops, 36 inch gas cooktop with wall pot filler, tankless water heater and a reverse osmosis system. The kitchen and bathroom cabinets and black fixtures are show stoppers along with the gorgeous walk in shower tile. In the basement you'll find a large open living room with wet bar and down the hall are two large rooms and the third bath. The exterior has stucco, beautiful stone, and peep the amazing composite, covered deck in the backyard with a gas line to hook up directly to your grill! This home is waiting for its new owner(s), will that be you?! Schedule your showing today!
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Nick Saban provides Jaylen Moody injury update after Alabama football beats Texas A&M
Alabama football linebacker Jaylen Moody was unavailable to play against Texas A&M with a kidney bruise, according to coach Nick Saban. The senior was tied for the team lead in tackles (33) entering play Saturday night, but was capably replaced by redshirt freshman Deontae Lawson in the Crimson Tide's 24-20 victory.
"Until (Moody medically) clears, which, he's gradually doing that (but) we thought it would happen more quickly than it did. But it hasn't," Saban said. "So hopefully he'll be back."
Moody's absence gave way to Lawson to make his first career start at the weakside position. Lawson and Moody had been sharing playing time this season, but without the veteran Moody to split snaps with, Lawson made five tackles, including three solo stops.
"I thought Deontae did a pretty good job out there. And he's a good player and we have a lot of confidence in him," Saban added.
It's unclear when Moody might return.
Lawson has 22 tackles and a pass breakup on the season.
Next, No. 1 Alabama (6-0, 3-0 SEC) will face No. 8 Tennessee (5-0, 2-0) on Saturday (2:30 p.m. CT, CBS) at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney warned graduates of Colorado College that political dissent and freedoms cannot exist without stable democratic systems in America.
"We are living in a time of testing and challenge and peril for our democracy," Cheney, a 1988 graduate of Colorado College, said.
Cheney, a Republican who lost re-election to her Wyoming House seat last year, spoke about the Jan. 6 insurrection and repeated her past criticisms of former President Donald Trump. But she did not comment on her own political future, including a potential 2024 run for president.
"After the 2020 election and the attack of January 6th, my fellow Republicans wanted me to lie. They wanted me to say the 2020 election was stolen, the attack of January 6th wasn't a big deal, and Donald Trump wasn't dangerous," Cheney said Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. "I had to choose between lying and losing my position in House leadership."
Cheney emphasized the message of speaking truth, noting a Bible verse that was inscribed on a campus building that read: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
"America cannot remain a free nation if we abandon the truth. So as you go out to change the world, resolve that you will stand in truth," she told the 2023 graduates.
She also urged them to remain politically active, and protect institutions of democracy. Cheney cited a recent report from The Washington Post that spotlighted a recent audio recording of Cleta Mitchell, a former Trump adviser. Mitchell, while presenting at a Republican National Committee retreat, said that the ease of voting on college campus polling locations posed a problem.
"Those who are trying to unravel the foundations of our republic, who are threatening the rule of law and the sanctity of our elections, know that they can't succeed if you vote," Cheney said. "So class of 2023, get out and vote."
While Cheney's introduction to the stage was mostly met with applause, many graduates at the liberal arts college chose to protest her remarks by turning their chairs around during the speech. The Gazette, the local newspaper in Colorado Springs, reported that about half of the 450 graduates chose to turn their backs to Cheney.
Cheney's husband and two of their children are also graduates of the school.
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The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upheld a government program that required the exclusion of Japanese American citizens from areas along the West Coast on the premise, without benefit of any evidence, that they represented a threat to engage in sabotage and espionage on behalf of America’s enemy in World War II. The decision represented a swift plunge, as Justice Frank Murphy wrote in dissent, into “the ugly abyss of racism,” for it promoted the unsavory proposition that citizens could be punished for their ancestry.
The Court’s ruling in Korematsu was part of the larger failure of all three governing institutions—-executive, legislative and judicial—to honor and defend the Constitution, due process of law and equal protection. It thus represents a cautionary tale for a nation that might willingly scatter to the four winds fundamental democratic and legal principles, including the rule of law, on the predicate of expediency in service of values wholly foreign to our constitutional system.
A year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, issued Executive Order No. 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War, Frank Knox, to establish military zones over which he would exercise power to control the presence, movement and exclusion of any person in the area. The order reflected the growing anti-Japanese hysteria, racism and demands from members of Congress and the press to remove Japanese American citizens from the coastal region. Roosevelt was persuaded by invocations of “military necessity” from defense officials, although the foundational report on which the claim was asserted, was subsequently determined to reflect the anti-Japanese racism of those who authored it, rather than any supportive facts or evidence. Within a month, Congress passed legislation supporting and enforcing the executive order, which brought the full force of governmental power to bear on the civil liberties of 110, 000 American citizens.
Fred Korematsu was convicted for violating the exclusion order, that is, for refusing to leave his home in California. Justice Hugo Black, who wrote for a 5-4 majority, began by addressing the charge of racism. He declared, in terms that introduced to constitutional doctrine and the law of equal protection the standard of “strict scrutiny,” to apply to any legal restrictions that curtailed the civil rights of a “single racial group.” Black said of such restrictions that “the courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny.” He wrote: “Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never can.”
But Justice Black denied the actions of the army were grounded on racial prejudice. Casting the case into “the outlines of prejudice,” he wrote, “confuses the issue.” Korematsu was “not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race. He was excluded because we are at war with the Japanese Empire.”
Having dismissed the charge of racism, Justice Black concluded that the “military authorities considered that the need or action was great, and time was short.” He added that the Court could “not now,” avail itself of the “calm perspective of hindsight” and say that the actions were “unjustified.” In the end, the majority believed the exclusion order met the test of reasonableness.
In a biting dissent, Justice Frank Murphy, who had established a reputation for defending civil rights and liberties before his appointment to the Court by President Roosevelt, asserted that the exclusion order crosses “the very brink of constitutional power,” and “falls into the ugly abyss of racism.” The exclusion of all persons with “Japanese blood in their veins” is based on the assumption that “all” persons of Japanese ancestry tend to inflict sabotage and espionage against the United States. Murphy wrote, icily: “It is difficult to believe that reason, logic or experience could be marshalled in support of such an assumption.”
Korematsu raised an issue of fundamental importance for the exercise of judicial power. What, exactly, is the role of the Court when hearing cases involving military and national security programs and actions? Should the Court apply the rational basis test, as it does in so many of the cases it hears? If the military actions involve racial classifications, as Korematsu did, should the Court truly, vigorously apply the standard of strict scrutiny, or does that plunge the Justices into the realm of policy making in an area in which they have no qualifications or credentials? Or should the Court apply the standard of judicial restraint and exhibit deference? If so, how much deference, particularly considering Justice Black’s reference to “the calm perspective of hindsight?’
These questions resonate in our time, and surely will endure throughout the ages. The Korematsu Court’s exploration of this issue is enlightening. We turn to that discussion next week, as well as America’s formal apology in 1988 to surviving members of the relocation program.
And then say, for the majority, the issue turned on the degree of deference that the court should afford military claims of necessity……
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
0-0-8-9
(zero, zero, eight, nine)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
0-0-8-9
(zero, zero, eight, nine)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
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Police: 87-year-old killed in Walmart parking lot after driver backs out of parking spot
RINCON, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - A woman has died in Georgia after she was hit by a car in a parking lot.
The Rincon Police Department reports that an elderly woman was killed in a Walmart parking lot after she was hit by a vehicle.
Police identified the victim as 87-year-old Beulah Miller. Authorities said a car was backing out of a parking space when she was hit.
The woman was struck at a low speed, but she did not survive her injuries, authorities said.
According to Rincon police, traffic investigators with the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office are handling the investigation.
A spokesperson for Walmart provided the following statement:
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident at our Rincon store. We’ll continue working closely with law enforcement as they investigate the incident, and we refer further questions to them.”
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WNBA players union ‘stands with’ Griner after guilty plea
By DOUG FEINBERG
AP Basketball Writer
Brittney Griner’s guilty plea Thursday has not lessened the support the Olympic gold medalist continues to receive from her WNBA peers.
The Phoenix Mercury All-Star pleaded guilty to drug possession charges on the second day of her trial in a Russian court in a case that could see her sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. The chance of Griner being convicted were considered extremely high before her plea.
“The WNBPA stands with Brittney Griner. With a 99% conviction rate, Russia’s process is its own. You can’t navigate it or even understand it like our own legal system,” WNBAPA Executive Director Terri Jackson said in a statement. “What we do know is that the U.S. State Department determined that Brittney Griner was wrongfully detained for a reason and we’ll leave it at that.”
Speaking through an interpreter, Griner told the court that she had no intention of committing a crime and had acted unintentionally because she had packed for Moscow in a hurry. The trial was then adjourned until July 14.
Griner emphasized “that she had committed this act through negligence, unintentionally,” her lawyer, Maria Blagovolina, told reporters outside the court near Moscow following the guilty plea,
Griner, 31, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport while returning to play basketball in Russia, and police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
The plea came a day after President Joe Biden had a phone conversation with Griner’s wife Cherelle during which he told her that he is working to free the two-time Olympic gold medalists as soon as possible.
It also came after Griner’s WNBA team held a public rally in support of the 6-foot-9 center with several hundred fans in attendance. The rally at the Footprint Center, home of the Phoenix Mercury and Suns, was part celebration of Griner’s accomplishments on and off the court with a call to action.
“One hundred thirty-nine days have passed since my wife has been able to speak to me, to our family and our friends,” Cherelle Griner said during the rally, stopping to compose herself several times. “I’m frustrated my wife is not going to get justice. I know you all are frustrated, too. That’s why you’re here.”
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ROMA (AP) — El nuevo gobierno italiano de Giorgia Meloni gana fácilmente el segundo y último voto de confianza en el Parlamento.
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By LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — What started as a $4 trillion effort during President Joe Biden’s first months in office to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems has ended up a much slimmer, but not unsubstantial, compromise package of inflation-fighting health care, climate change and deficit reduction strategies that appears headed toward quick votes in Congress.
Lawmakers are pouring over the $739 billion proposal struck by two top negotiators, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and holdout Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who rejected Biden’s earlier drafts but surprised colleagues late Wednesday with a new one.
What’s in, and out, of the Democrats’ 725-page “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” as it stands now:
LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS
Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.
Those new revenues would be put back into lower costs for seniors on medications, including a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for older adults buying prescriptions from pharmacies.
Money would also be used to provide free vaccinations for seniors, who now are among the few not guaranteed free access, according to a summary document.
HELP PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.
Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for people who are purchasing their own health care policies.
‘SINGLE BIGGEST INVESTMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE IN U.S. HISTORY’
The bill would invest $369 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies including investments in renewable energy production and tax rebates for consumers to buy new or used electric vehicles.
It’s broken down to include $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production tax credit for wind and solar, seen as ways to boost and support the industries that can help curb the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
For consumers, there are tax breaks as incentives to go green. One is a 10-year consumer tax credits for renewable energy investments in wind and solar. There are tax breaks for buying electric vehicles, including a $4,000 tax credit for purchase of used electric vehicles and $7,500 for new ones.
In all, Democrats believe the strategy could put the country on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, and “would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
HOW TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS?
The biggest revenue-raiser in the bill is a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits.
It’s a way to clamp down on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some that end up paying no taxes at all.
The new corporate minimum tax would kick in after the 2022 tax year, and raise some $313 billion over the decade.
Money is also raised by boosting the IRS to go after tax cheats. The bill proposes an $80 billion investment in taxpayer services, enforcement and modernization, which is projected to raise $203 billion in new revenue — a net gain of $124 billion over the decade.
The bill sticks with Biden’s original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.
The lower drug prices for seniors are paid for with savings from Medicare’s negotiations with the drug companies.
EXTRA MONEY TO PAY DOWN DEFICITS
With $739 billion in new revenue and some $433 billion in new investments, the bill promises to put the difference toward deficit reduction.
Federal deficits have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal spending soared and tax revenues fell as the nation’s economy churned through shutdowns, closed offices and other massive changes.
The nation has seen deficits rise and fall in recent years. But overall federal budgeting is on an unsustainable path, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which put out a new report this week on long-term projections.
WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND
This latest package after 18 months of start-stop negotiations leaves behind many of Biden’s more ambitious goals.
While Congress did pass a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill of highway, broadband and other investments that Biden signed into law last year, the president’s and the party’s other priorities have slipped away.
Among them, a continuation of a $300 monthly child tax credit that was sending money directly to families during the pandemic and is believed to have widely reduced child poverty.
Also gone, for now, are plans for free pre-kindergarten and free community college, as well as the nation’s first paid family leave program that would have provided up to $4,000 a month for births, deaths and other pivotal needs.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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New ESSENCE Fest Experiences Include ESSENCE Eats: Food & Wine Fest™, a Dedicated Men's Experience, and ESSENCE Tech Summit™
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ESSENCE Communications, Inc., the leading media, technology, and commerce company dedicated to serving Black women and their communities, updates its 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture® presented by Coca-Cola®. Nightly headlining musical performances include Nicki Minaj, Janet Jackson and New Edition alongside new talent additions, Nas, Lil' Kim, Ashanti and Chloe x Halle. New additions for Super Lounge include curations by Doug E. Fresh and performances from Justine Skye, Coco Jones, Sevyn Streeter, and more. The ESSENCE Fest experience lineup includes the Beauty Carnival, Wellness House, ESSENCE E-Suite, After Dark (Comedy and Music), Girls United Day of Service and many more. In addition to the vast array of recurring free and paid experiences offered by ESSENCE Fest annually, the festival has also added new experiences including ESSENCE Eats: Food & Wine Fest™, ESSENCE In His Zone™: a Dedicated Men's Experience, and ESSENCE Tech Summit™.
For the first time ever, ESSENCE Festival will be available to livestream exclusively on Hulu featuring select musical performances and daily programming. To catch additional content, join ESSENCE Festival's virtual experiences at essencefestival.com where attendees can stream all daytime content and shop local businesses through ESSENCE's Virtual Marketplace.
For daily updates on all things ESSENCE Fest on the ground, download the ESSENCE Festival App on your mobile device.
This year, the dynamic day and nighttime festival programs and offerings include:
- ESSENCE In His Zone™: a Dedicated Men's Experience: This year, ESSENCE is excited to debut ESSENCE In His Zone™: a Dedicated Men's Experience, designed to edify, entertain, and elevate Black men. This experience features sessions and on-stage moments that cover men's health (both physical and mental), entrepreneurship and business, justice in policing, comedy, sports and more. Additionally, ESSENCE Modern Wealth will provide attendees the tools to create their own businesses, run their own organizations, grow their companies and thrive in their careers. Special guests include: DJ Rob Nice, Rotimi, Terrence J, Method Man, Luke James, Jacob Latimore, Jim Jackson, Da'Vinchi, Ryan Clark and Finesse Mitchell.
- ESSENCE Eats Food & Wine Festival™: Foodies can indulge in a wide range of mouthwatering selections at ESSENCE's official culinary experience, ESSENCE Eats. Attendees will receive first-hand recipes from industry-leading chefs and mixologists along with tutorials and pairings. Hosted by Kristi Coleman and Eden the Foodie, the experience includes legendary soul singer Patti LaBelle, MC Lyte, Slutty Vegan's Pinky Cole, Angela Yee, Chef Kareem Brooks (St. Martin), Chef Kelli Ferrell, Chef JJ Johnson, Chef Kénila Hyman (St. Martin), Chef Serigne Mbaye, Zella Palmer, Chef David Rose, Chef Nikki Steward, and Kerry Seaton Stewart.
- ESSENCE Tech Summit™: New to ESSENCE Fest, this is the chance for attendees to learn about the latest in digital and tech completely free of charge. Get the real deal on NFTs, the future of digital and try out the latest tech gadgets in interactive demos in this unique experience.
- ESSENCE Beauty Carnival: ESSENCE Beauty Carnival is an oasis for Black women to celebrate their undeniable place in culture and a heartfelt reminder that Black is and will always be beautiful. Special guests include: Issa Rae, DreamDoll, Baby Tate, Supa Cent, Rashan Ali, Mack Wilds, and Rubi Rose.
- Wellness House: Wellness House creates a safe space for Black women to explore their own personal wellness and fitness journeys through content that informs and inspires not only them, but also their families and communities. This experience provides Black women with access to health & wellness advocates and world class practitioners in an immersive setting that prioritizes their needs. Wellness House features Dr. Shana D. Lewis, ESSENCE Editor Victoria Uwumarogie, Rev. Wanda Johnson, Brandy Stinson, LCSW, Arnold H. James, Ph.D, Dr. Summer Allen, Aley Arion, Ajax Jaxon (Magnolia Yoga) and many more.
- ESSENCE E-Suite: At ESSENCE Fest, we will once again gather top notch speakers, content, and opportunities for powerful women of color from multiple industries to connect in an exclusive setting at the ESSENCE Festival. ESSENCE E-Suite aims to gather mid to senior level businesswomen and entrepreneurs who are looking for career advancement, professional development and expanding their network. The ESSENCE E-Suite will include workshops, masterclasses and so much more. Featuring executive and industry experts include: UnitedHealth Group, Ford, Disney, ABC News, Google, and more.
- After Dark (Comedy and Music): Taking over the late-night party scene, ESSENCE After Dark is the official after party series with comedy shows and intimate artist-curated jam sessions. Hosted nightly by Toya Johnson, LeToya Luckett and Da'Vinchi alongside DJ Scratch and DJ Domo featuring musical performances by SWV, Saucy Santana, Kranium and more. After Dark will take place from 10 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
- ESSENCE Eats: The Let Out Edition: This after-hours hang will host crowds who want to mix, mingle and munch under the stars. ESSENCE Eats sets the vibe of a block party and summer social.
- Girls United Day of Service: Since 2014, ESSENCE has kicked off the Festival weekend partnering with the mayor of New Orleans and local organizations to bring volunteers and partners who are committed to uplifting and building up the community. Taking place on Thursday, June 30th, this initiative will focus on supporting, cultivating and connecting the next generation of youth to New Orleans' rich culture through the lens of Art, Culture and Community.
Additional ESSENCE festival programming and experiences taking place during the ESSENCE Fest include:
- Wealth & Power: The ESSENCE Wealth & Power experience brings together the brightest leaders and biggest names representing our community's most powerful inter-generational advocates for change in entertainment, politics and media. ESSENCE Global Black Economic Forum (GBEF) is a dynamic, multi-faceted platform committing to reimagining what diversity, equity, inclusion and opportunity looks like in Corporate America, as well as the actualization of the notion of economic justice for the Black Diaspora. A GBEF panel will take place within the Wealth & Power experience on Friday and Saturday mornings. Special guests include: Rev Al. Sharpton, LaLa Anthony, Angela Yee, Stacey Abrams and Mickey Guyton.
- ESSENCE Studios Centerstage: ESSENCE Studios Centerstage (formerly known as Entertainment All Access) will bring attendees the ultimate entertainment experience with world premiere first looks, live table reads, cast and crew Q&As, and talent meet & greets.
- Get Lifted: Sunday mornings were made for self care and time with the spirit and this Sunday, June 3rd is no different. This experience will create a space for praise and worship with an all-star lineup of Gospel performers and faith leaders including: Dorinda Clark-Cole, Kierra Sheard, MC Lyte and Tweet.
- ESSENCE Film Festival: The ESSENCE Film Festival is back following its successful launch in 2020 where the ESSENCE Hollywood House attracted over 2200 attendees and created a hub for Black creatives, screenwriters, producers and directors to connect, learn, create, exchange ideas and display their work. Special guests include: Meagan Good, Brandee Evans, Mekai Curtis, Nicco Annan, Jerrie Johnson, Tonya Lee Lewis, Tyler Lepley, Ledisi, Questlove, and Luke James.
- ESSENCE Health Hub: The declining state of health in the Black community mandates that we do more in more places, with more people to educate and activate Black women and families around preventative care and healthy habits.
Essence Fest requires all attendees to show a valid ID with their proof of full vaccination for entry into all venues.
For more information and to register, visit www.essencefestival.com. Join the conversation via social @EssenceFest and download the Essence Festival App on your mobile device for on the ground updates.
Essence Communications is the number one—and only 100% Black-owned—media, technology and commerce company at scale dedicated to Black women and communities. With a community of more than 31 million Black women, ESSENCE inspires a global audience through diverse storytelling and immersive original content rooted in Culture, Equity and Celebration. The brand's multi-platform presence in publishing, experiential and online encompasses its namesake magazine; digital, video and social platforms; television specials; books; and signature live events, including Black Women in Music, Black Women in Hollywood, ESSENCE Black Women in Sports, Fashion House, Street Style and the ESSENCE Festival of Culture
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NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Yatsen Holding Limited ("Yatsen" or the "Company") (NYSE: YSG). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Yatsen and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around November 19, 2020, Yatsen conducted its initial public offering of 58.75 million American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") priced at $10.50 per ADS. On August 26, 2021, during an earnings call, Yatsen acknowledged that the Company's Perfect Diary brand business had been deteriorating, requiring Yatsen to "refocus and to devote more resources to continue the growth trend of [its] main brands."
On this news, Yatsen's ADS price fell $1.03 per share, or 17.64%, to close at $4.81 per share on August 26, 2021.
Then, on November 17, 2021, Yatsen reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2021. Among other items, Yatsen acknowledged witnessing a "soft industry environment for color cosmetics." During the related earnings call, the Company stated that "significant deceleration in general consumer and color cosmetics spending in China" was an "industry trend," partially related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Yatsen further acknowledged that gross sales from the Company's color cosmetics brands decreased by mid-single digits, due in part to "realignment" of the Company's Little Ondine brand.
On this news, Yatsen's ADS price fell $0.59 per ADS, or 17.93%, to close at $2.70 per ADS on November 17, 2021.
Finally, on March 10, 2021, Yatsen reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2021, acknowledging that its disappointing results were due to a deceleration of sales of its leading brands, including Perfect Diary, Little Ondine, and Pink Bear.
On this news, Yatsen's ADS price fell $0.49 per ADS, or 39.5%, to close at $0.75 per ADS on March 10, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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The Horned Frogs ran out of magic on Monday as TCU lost to Georgia 65-7.
Quarterback Max Duggan scored a touchdown in the first quarter to make it 10-7 in favor of Georgia and it looked like we might in fact have a game on our hands. But that was short-lived as Stetson Bennett and the Bulldogs bullied their way to a second straight national championship at SoFi Stadium.
But how rare is a 58-point loss point loss in the biggest game of the season?
Here’s a look at where TCU’s loss stands in the history books.
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What is the most points scored by a winning team in the national championship?
Record hunting in college football is a messy business, chock full of disputed national championships and changing methodology, dating back more than a century. But for the purposes of today’s record, we’ll look at games since the introduction of the BCS in 1998.
The record prior to Sunday’s routing was 55, set by USC back in 2005 when they beat Oklahoma by 36.
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Georgia had nearly matched that by the end of the third quarter.
While noteworthy for its historic nature, this impressive performance is par for the course in the era of the College Football Playoff. Since debuting in 2014, six of the nine national championship games have included at least one side that eclipsed 40 points. For perspective, that only happened five times in 16 years of the BCS.
Even looking beyond the national championship game era, Georgia’s historic effort still holds up. In 1996, Nebraska beat Florida 62-24 for the national championship. Georgia not only scored more points than the Cornhuskers but had a more dominant defensive performance.
What is the largest margin of victory in a national championship?
Oklahoma can officially expunge themselves from two unfortunate records.
Not only was the Sooners’ 2005 loss the most points allowed in a national championship, but 31 points was also the largest margin of victory. That is, until TCU came along.
The Horned Frogs’ 58-point loss is the worst in national championship game history.
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Experienced VPs of Finance, Operations Bring New Vision and Leadership to Coding Franchise
HOUSTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Code Ninjas, the world's largest and fastest-growing kids coding franchise, announced today the addition of a new VP of Finance Barry Gibson, ACMA, CGMA and new VP of Operations Mike Mercado. With experience in a variety of industries spanning several of the countries that are home to Code Ninjas franchises, both Gibson and Mercado bring new strategy and vision to the leadership team.
"Barry joins Code Ninjas with an impressive background of experience that we are already seeing make a monumental difference in how we are managing the finances, while Mike is just getting started bringing his 15+ years of franchise experience to the table," Justin Nihiser, CEO of Code Ninjas shared. "From the high-level franchise decisions to the individually unique 600+ franchisee expectations, both are hitting the ground running to lead us forward more financially disciplined and operationally sound."
Gibson joins Code Ninjas after 16+ years of financial experience, most recently in the oil and gas industry of Houston. Gibson has worked with locations spanning from the United Kingdom to the United States, bringing with him expertise directly correlated to franchisee needs and general policy. Before Code Ninjas, Gibson was Vice President of Finance for Aggreko North America, a company which provides rental temperature control, power and compressed systems to companies globally.
"Joining Code Ninjas during this time of growth and expansion is an honor," stated Gibson. "I look forward to working with the wider team to drive us into 2023 and beyond to deliver success across all locations."
Mercado joins the team with 15+ years of franchise experience, starting with Auntie Anne's where he served in a Regional VP position before launching a licensed delivery company based on a proprietary technology platform that he developed. In 2018, Mercado joined Soccer Shots as the VP of Operations where he oversaw curriculum, technology, product development, events, training and franchisee support. Not only does he bring experience of change management across a system, Mercado also brings a different perspective to child enrichment franchises which will help grow the Code Ninjas support team even more fluidly.
"Joining Code Ninjas brings all the elements of my career together in perfect alignment. I'm excited for the opportunity to establish new roots with a brand that inspires kids and parents alike," shared Mercado. "The team and franchisees have clearly worked hard to develop a fantastic program and reputation in the communities we serve. I'm thrilled to be part of a community that focuses on teaching kids not only about technology, but also important life skills that will stay with them throughout their lives."
Gibson and Mercado add on to the leadership of Code Ninjas as it continues its rapid growth including close to 400 actively open locations. The company is looking forward to hitting that big mark in the upcoming months, celebrating the success of the franchise since opening in 2016.
For more information on Code Ninjas opportunities for kids, visit codeninjas.com to find a location near you. To learn more about joining Code Ninjas as a franchisee, visit codeninjasfranchise.com.
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Founded in 2016, Code Ninjas® is the world's largest and fastest-growing coding franchise, with hundreds of locations across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. At Code Ninjas, kids learn to code while building their own video games. They gain problem solving, critical thinking, and STEM skills in a fun, safe, and inspiring environment. Kids have fun, parents see results. ® For more information, visit codeninjas.com.
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Kenneth E. Weber, 56, of Old Forge, died Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, in Geisinger Community Medical Center. Surviving are siblings, Michelle Stefanowicz; John Weber and Scott Weber. A service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ferri & Gillette Funeral Services LLC, with visitation from noon to 2 p.m.
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DELAWARE - The Summer Food Service Program, which aims to ensure that children in low-income areas have meals during the summer, is seeking sponsors and sites for meal locations.
Sponsors and sites will receive training to help them operate a successful program and will have continued support from the Delaware Department of Education throughout the program. They will also be reimbursed for all meals served free at approved meal sites in low-income areas to children 18 years old and younger. Meals and snacks are also available to people with disabilities over the age of 18 who participate in school programs.
Local governments, camps, schools, and private nonprofit organizations are eligible to operate as Summer Food Service sponsors. Sites like camps, housing complexes, community centers, parks, and even homes are eligible to operate as a site under a sponsor. Sponsors would prepare and deliver meals to the site to be served. Sites must be in an area where 50 percent or more of children quality for free or reduced lunch.
Eligibility to receive meals in this program is based on free and reduced lunch data. Households with four people must have an income of $51,338 to be eligible.
More household sizes and additional information on the program is available online at news.delaware.gov.
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Israel's Leading Privately Owned Food Company Expected to Sell Animal-Free, Real Dairy Cheese, Yogurt and Drinks Within the Year
NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Remilk, a global leader in the development and production of animal-free dairy, has signed a strategic commercial agreement with Central Bottling Company (CBC Group). As per the agreement, CBC Group will develop and launch a new line of dairy drinks, cheeses, and yogurts created with Remilk's animal-free milk protein, for the Israeli market. Commercial launch is planned within 12 months (pending regulatory approval).
Replacing traditional cow-milk protein with Remilk's dairy-identical, non-animal milk protein enables CBC Group to craft a wide variety of real dairy products that are entirely free of lactose, hormones, and cholesterol, all without a single cow, and with a fraction of the resources required and environmental impact as compared to traditional dairy.
"We're thrilled to partner with one of the most trusted and innovative dairy producers in Israel, with a legacy of more than 70 years making delicious dairy products for generations of consumers," said Aviv Wolff, CEO and co-founder of Remilk. "This is a significant affirmation of the quality, safety, and versatility of Remilk's protein. CBC Group is a first mover, playing a powerful role in helping drive a dairy industry evolution for the better of people and the planet. We're working with regulators and innovators around the world to make non-animal dairy products available to consumers everywhere."
Yoram Sagy, president of CBC Group said: "Our partnership with Remilk is in complete alignment with CBC Group's values of introducing cutting edge innovations on the one hand and finding innovative solutions for the existing food and beverage market on the other, as part of The Core, our new center promoting innovative R&D."
The new line of products will be crafted with Remilk's non-animal milk protein in place of cow-derived milk protein. Remilk pioneered a yeast-based fermentation process that produces non-animal milk proteins for use in dairy products traditionally made with milk from cows. Dairy produced through precision fermentation requires a fraction of the Earth's resources and emits a fraction of the harmful greenhouse gas emissions of animal dairy.
Remilk recently obtained self-affirmed GRAS status in accordance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements, paving the way for the sale of products made with Remilk non-animal dairy in the U.S. In April, the company announced plans to build the world's largest precision fermentation facility in Denmark.
CBC Group (exclusive Israeli franchise of Coca-Cola, Carlsberg and more), is one of the largest food companies in Israel and owner of Tara Dairy, Israel's leading privately owned manufacturer of dairy products and one of Israel's leading milk processing companies. Tara Dairy combines unique technology with stringent quality assurance procedures to produce its wide range of milk products, yogurts, cheeses and dairy desserts. The company heavily invests in R&D and has one of the leading departments in its field.
Remilk is a global leader in the development of animal-free dairy. The company was founded by CEO Aviv Wolff, an entrepreneur behind several business and social initiatives, and CTO Ori Cohavi, PhD in Biochemistry, who has worked in R&D at a variety of biotech firms. They founded Remilk driven by a shared dedication to improving life on earth by learning from nature, while preserving it. Remilk produces dairy-identical milk proteins through precision fermentation and has developed a unique and patented approach to scalable manufacturing which requires a fraction of Earth's resources compared to traditional dairy, while dramatically increasing efficiency in production, and, for the first time in history, eliminates the need for dairy cows in industrial-scale dairy production without compromising on taste, functionality, or nutritional values. Remilk is real dairy, no cows.
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SHANGHAI, April 27, 2023 PRNewswire/ -- S'Young Group Co., Ltd. (S'Young, the Company) (300740.SZ) has made the Women's Wear Daily (WWD) Beauty Inc's annual top 100 ranking for the first time in 2022. With its outstanding performance in 2022, S'Young ranked the 49th and joined the top 100 list with other globally renowned beauty companies, the debut marks a new milestone of breakthrough significance for S'Young.
WWD is a flagship publication of Fairchild Media, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. The fashion-industry trade journey known as the "bible of fashion," provides insights and intelligence on the changing trends and news of fashion, beauty, and retail industries.
WWD Beauty Inc's Top 100 holds significant importance as the "Global Beauty Industry Yearbook," ranking of the world's largest beauty manufacturers is calculated by beauty sales for the 2022 calendar year, conducting scientific and rigorous quantitative examinations of company's economic conditions, representing its authority through international scientific approaches.
Through its 17 years of rich experience in beauty brand management, S'Young was listed in WWD Beauty Inc 2022 Top 100 list for the first time in 2023, ranking 49th. In the past challenging market environment plagued by various adverse factors, such as pandemic, SYoung has managed to maintain rapid growth in the beauty industry. With a core focus on technological innovation, deploying a global expansion strategy, which solidifies its position as a stable player in the beauty industry.
As the trusted and preferred China Partner for global beauty brands, its recently launched S'Young City, the new 180,000 sqm $200m campus that integrates all head office departments in one place: R&D; design; production and logistics. S'Young is committed to building a premium platform for them to connect with the Chinese market, and it's now cooperating with more than 30 beauty brands globally and providing complete solutions through all-demensional and omni-channel developments. Its pioneering "CP" (China Partner) model has empowered beauty companies on brand positioning, differentiated communications, marketing, retailing and supply chain management.
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HOUSTON (AP) _ Archrock Inc. (AROC) on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $16.7 million.
On a per-share basis, the Houston-based company said it had net income of 11 cents.
The natural gas compression services business posted revenue of $215.8 million in the period.
Archrock Inc. shares have climbed 13% since the beginning of the year.
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MIAMI (AP) — Marcell Ozuna homered for third time in two games, Ronald Acuña Jr. stole his league-leading 15th base, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Miami Marlins 6-3 on Thursday to complete a three-game sweep.
Acuña went down in the sixth after fouling a ball off his left knee. He remained on the ground and grabbed at his leg for several minutes, but finished the at-bat and returned to right field in the bottom of the frame. He was eventually removed out of precaution.
Matt Olson also homered for the Braves, winners of five of their last six. They have hit 19 home runs in seven games against Miami this season, including six in a 14-6 win Wednesday night. Atlanta has gone deep in all but one game against the Marlins this year: a 5-4 loss on April 27 in which Miami came from behind with a five-run ninth.
Acuña extended his on-base streak to 23 games when he reached on a fielding error by first baseman Yuli Gurriel in the first. He scored on an RBI single by Sean Murphy later in the inning to make it 1-0.
Dylan Dodd (2-1) allowed eight hits, three runs, walked three and struck out one in six innings. A.J. Minter struck out two in the ninth for his seventh save of the season.
Jorge Soler, who finished a triple shy of the cycle, gave Miami a 2-1 lead in the first with his sixth home run of the season. It also scored Jon Berti, who had a leadoff single and stole his fifth base.
But the Braves retook the lead in the second on an RBI single by Acuña, who stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error by Nick Fortes.
Ozuna drilled a 1-0 pitch from Jesús Luzardo (2-2) to left-center in the fourth to make it 4-2. It was Ozuna's fifth homer of the season and came one day after he hit a grand slam and a solo home run.
Soler made it 4-3 with an RBI double in the fifth. He singled in the seventh off Michael Tonkin, who combined with Nick Anderson for two scoreless relief innings.
The Braves forced three Miami errors on Thursday.
Luzardo allowed six hits, four runs — three earned — walked three, including an intentional pass to Acuña, and struck out three in 5 2/3 innings.
TOUGH COMPETITION
The Marlins are 3-11 against the Mets and Braves this season and 13-5 vs. the rest of the league. After a three-game series at Atlanta in late June, the Marlins will not face either team until a September homestand in which they'll face Atlanta and New York in back-to-back series.
TRAINERS ROOM
Braves: Manager Brian Snitker said CF Michael Harris II is sore after landing awkwardly on his right leg during Wednesday's game, but isn't expected to go on the injured list. Harris was given the day off Thursday, but was available.
ROSTER MOVES
The Marlins selected the contract of RHP Chi Chi Gonzalez from Triple-A Jacksonville and designated LHP Devin Smeltzer for assignment.
UP NEXT
Braves: LHP Max Fried (2-0) will start Friday against Baltimore after getting an extra day of rest.
Marlins: RHP Edward Cabrera (2-2) will start Friday in the first of a three-game road series against Chicago.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a pair of fundraisers here on Friday, President Joe Biden urged Democratic donors to send him reinforcements on Capitol Hill to keep Republicans out of power and help dislodge his agenda from the current gridlock.
“We need two more senators,” Biden said at the second fundraiser, a reference to Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, two members of the Democratic caucus that he’s struggled to win over.
Without naming either of them, he said they’re “slowing up what we’re able to do.”
It will be difficult for Democrats to pick up any seats in this year’s midterm elections, and Republicans are poised to retake control of Congress.
But Biden described himself as an optimist as he urged donors to continue opening their wallets to support his party. Each fundraiser raised about $2.5 million, according to a Democratic National Committee official.
The first was intimate, with a couple dozen attendees. It was held on the back patio of the home of Andrew Hauptman, a private investor. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood producer, was also there.
The second fundraiser was at the Muholland Drive estate of Haim Saban, an entertainment mogul. Scores of donors sat under a tent that was pitched on the property’s tennis court.
During the fundraiser there, Biden touted the economic progress under his watch but conceded that prices will likely continue to rise.
“We’re going to live with this inflation for a while,” he said. It’s going to come down gradually, but we’re going to live with it for a while.”
Biden also spoke emotionally about the toll of two recent gun massacres, in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.
He mocked the idea that teachers should be armed, noting how long it takes to train a soldier to use a firearm.
Pantomiming a pistol with his fingers, he said, “It’s not easy to pick up a rifle or a gun and blow somebody’s brains out.”
At the first fundraiser, first lady Jill Biden spoke before the president.
“He is working as hard as he can,” she said. “We are moving in the right direction.”
Biden spoke about rallying allies to support Ukraine, recalling how some people doubted U.S. intelligence about Russia’s pending invasion.
“Zelenskyy didn’t want to hear it,” he said in a reference to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Biden also appeared raw over some of the media coverage of the Summit of the Americas, which was held this week in Los Angeles. Many stories focused on how some Latin American leaders, notably the Mexican president, boycotted the summit, and others who attended gave speeches criticizing how the U.S. handled the event.
Speaking of the press, Biden said, “I wish they would go back and interview all the heads of state,” insisting that “there was overwhelming, overwhelming support” for working together.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "My mother tested positive for COVID-19 and I wanted a quick and easy way to sanitize her house," said an inventor, from Waco, Texas, "so I invented the WIPE OUT. My design increases sanitary conditions and it ensures that the sanitizer is evenly distributed throughout a room."
The invention provides an improved way to sanitize a space. In doing so, it offers an alternative to manually spraying and wiping various surfaces. As a result, it helps prevent the spread of germs, viruses and bacteria. It also helps eliminate odors. The invention features an effective design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households and commercial locations. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Austin sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-ASP-187, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MIAMI (AP) — Win Game 1, lose Game 2, win Game 3.
The Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat have followed the same path to 2-1 leads in their respective first-round series — and on Monday night, both will hope to break that win-one-lose-one trend and grab command of their matchups.
The seventh-seeded Lakers play host to the second-seeded Memphis Grizzlies in Game 4 of their Western Conference series, while the eighth-seeded Heat — who lost Victor Oladipo for the season in Saturday’s win — play host to the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in Game 4 of that Eastern Conference matchup.
“You have to respect championship DNA. They have it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of the Bucks on Sunday. “They have guys that have been through the battle, have been through the wars. It’s not like they’re going to get sick at sea because they’re down 2-1. They’ll just go and focus on doing what they have to do to try to get tomorrow and that’s what our focus is as well. It’s competition. You got to put yourself out there and do we have to do.”
The Bucks are waiting to see if Giannis Antetokounmpo — who bruised his lower back in the first half of Game 1, then didn’t play in Games 2 or 3 — can play Monday. The Bucks didn’t practice Sunday, but Antetokounmpo did some on-court work in an effort to determine what he might be able to do in Game 4.
“He is the constant. He is the key and he always wants to make himself available,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said Sunday.
No final decision is expected on Antetokounmpo until Monday.
Miami used a 19-0 early run to take control of its win on Saturday night. The Lakers — quite possibly steamed a bit by some comments Memphis’ Dillon Brooks made about LeBron James — left no doubt right away, grabbing a 38-9 lead to open the game.
“I don’t need to make statements,” James said.
Correct, but he and the Lakers made one anyway — and they can make an even bigger one with a win on Monday.
“The way our guys fought for quarters two, three, and four showed a lot of great resiliency,” Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins said, noting that his team erased most of the 29-point deficit and made things a bit interesting before losing 111-101. “We’ve got to learn and get better from this. Adversity’s going to get the best out of us.”
BUCKS AT HEAT
Miami leads 2-1. Game 4, 7:30 p.m. EDT, TNT.
— NEED TO KNOW: This is the 12th time that a No. 8 seed has taken a 2-1 lead over a No. 1 seed in this playoff format; the higher seed rallied to win in seven of the previous 11 such situations.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: The 3-point line. Milwaukee has made 125 3-pointers in seven games against Miami this season — outscoring the Heat by 123 points in that span from beyond the arc. But the Heat have won four of the seven games so far.
— INJURY WATCH: Milwaukee is waiting to see if Antetokounmpo (lower back contusion in Game 1) can play or will sit a third consecutive game. He has played 53 of a possible 336 minutes against Miami this season. Oladipo (torn left patellar tendon in Game 3) is out for the rest of the season for Miami, as is Tyler Herro (broken right hand in Game 1). Jimmy Butler (bruised glute in Game 3) indicated that he will play Monday.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Milwaukee. Going down 3-1 to Butler and the Heat would be a bad plan, even for a No. 1 seed.
GRIZZLIES AT LAKERS
Los Angeles leads 2-1. Game 4, 10 p.m. EDT, TNT.
— NEED TO KNOW: The Grizzlies had the second-worst road record among the NBA’s 16 playoff teams, and they started horrifically in their road playoff opener. After falling behind by 29 in the second quarter of Game 3 and managing to get within only nine before losing, Memphis faces the prospect of a 3-1 series deficit, something this franchise has never overcome.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Brooks. The Grizzlies’ self-appointed bear-poker avoided suspension for poking James in a sensitive place in Game 3, but Brooks was playing terribly even before he got ejected. His performative aggression is comical and detrimental unless he can contribute something positive.
— INJURY WATCH: Ja Morant’s sore right hand didn’t stop him from dropping 24 of his 45 points in the fourth quarter of Game 3. He shrugged off the pain afterward, saying he simply has to play through it.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Memphis. A huge series deficit would be daunting, but the Grizzlies also need to show their resilience and to demonstrate their depth after relying solely on Morant’s brilliance to make up any ground in Game 3.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham in Los Angeles contributed.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration’s approval of a massive oil development in northern Alaska commits the U.S. to yet another decadeslong crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change.
ConocoPhillips’ Willow project would produce 180,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak, and using that crude would result in at least 263 million tons (239 million metric tons) of greenhouse gas emissions over 30 years.
Demand for oil isn’t dropping as the planet heats, and a bitter political dispute over the project, which was approved Monday, has underscored the Democratic administration’s struggle to balance economic pressures against pledges to curb fossil fuels. The proposal in the remote region north of the Arctic Circle also highlights the paradox facing the U.S. and other nations: The world’s transition to clean energy lags behind the reality of an economy still largely driven by oil consumption.
“At some point, we have to leave oil and gas and coal in the ground. And for me, that some point is now — particularly in a vulnerable ecosystem like the Arctic,” said Rob Jackson, a climate scientist at Stanford University.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, in announcing Willow’s approval, stressed that the number of drill pads was reduced by 40% from ConocoPhillips’ original proposal, which she said would benefit people and wildlife. But the company still is expected to get most of the oil it wanted, resulting in only an 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, according to government estimates.
For Alaska, the project promises an economic boost after oil production dropped sharply since the late 1980s. Leaders from both parties in the state united behind it. Oil has long been the state’s economic lifeblood, with revenues helping remote communities and villages on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope.
But the state also has felt the impacts of climate change: coastal erosion is threatening Indigenous villages, unusual wildfires are popping up, sea ice is thinning and permafrost promises to release carbon as it melts.
The International Energy Agency has said new drilling investments must be halted if nations, including the U.S., hope to reach their 2050 goal of net-zero emissions, meaning only as much planet-warming gas is released into the atmosphere as can be absorbed.
The energy sector accounts for 90% of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide and three-quarters of the total human-made greenhouse gases.
Yet global demand for crude is expected to continue rising, according to industry analysts and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Instead of targeting domestic supplies of those fuels — including projects like Willow — energy expert Jim Krane said policymakers should focus on reducing demand.
“If you target supply in the U.S. without any kind of measures to bring demand down, refiners are just going to pull their oil from overseas,” said Krane, of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Electric vehicles offer a potential substitute for gasoline-powered cars and trucks, but so far they’ve barely dented fossil fuel demand. By 2030, EV is expected to displace 2.7 million barrels of oil a day, according to Enverus Intelligence Research, a data analysis firm focused on the energy industry.
That’s less than 3% of global oil consumption, which in 2030 is anticipated to be about the same as current levels — roughly 100 million barrels a day, said Al Salazar, senior vice president of the research company.
“Demand does not go to zero in a blink-of-the-eye,” Salazar said. “It takes time to turn over the entire light duty vehicle fleet.”
The Willow project is in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, where Republican U.S. senators have noted drilling should be expected.
Greenhouse gases from Willow would equal emissions from about 1.7 million cars, or just over 0.1% of the U.S. total. Interior Department officials for years have cited such relatively small percentages as justification for approvals of coal mines and oil and gas leases.
Jackson said that perspective can’t continue if the worst effects of climate change are to be avoided. The planet is “as far from zero emissions as we’ve ever been” despite the emphasis on renewable energy.
“It’s the same as thinking, well, every new car we put on the road or coal plant we build doesn’t matter because there are millions of other cars and thousands of other coal plants around the world operating,” he said.
Prior to the Willow decision, the administration already had softened its opposition to oil and gas — a departure from the early days of Biden’s presidency. During negotiations over last year’s climate bill the administration agreed to tens of millions of acres of new leasing to get the support of Democratic holdout U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia.
Provisions in the measure link oil and gas leasing to renewable energy development. Consequently, the administration will offer for sale more than 73 million acres (29.5 million hectares) of oil and gas leases for sale March 29 in the Gulf of Mexico. Over several months beginning in May, it also plans to auction some 350,000 acres (141,600 hectares) of onshore oil and gas leases in Wyoming, New Mexico, Montana, Nevada and other states.
Environmentalists say the Gulf sale alone could yield more than 1 billion barrels of oil over 50 years.
“This administration has pledged to oversee a historic transition to clean energy, but actions speak louder than words,” said Earthjustice attorney George Torgun, who represents environmental groups trying to stop further lease sales.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
01-02-04-05-08-10-11-13-15-19-23-24
(one, two, four, five, eight, ten, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-four)
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New research examines the retirement outlook of the workforce and the urgent need for action
LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fewer than three in 10 workers (29 percent) "strongly agree" they are building a large enough retirement nest egg, according to Emerging From the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Retirement Outlook of the Workforce, a survey report released today by nonprofit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies® (TCRS) in collaboration with Transamerica Institute®.
"Without doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the workforce and the employment of many workers. Employment setbacks often trigger financial setbacks that can easily threaten people's ability to achieve a secure retirement," said Catherine Collinson, CEO and president of Transamerica Institute and TCRS. According to the survey's findings, 36 percent of workers were unemployed for various reasons at some point during the pandemic, and 38 percent experienced employment-related impacts ranging from reductions in hours and pay to layoffs and furloughs.
As part of TCRS' 22nd Annual Retirement Survey, one of the largest and longest-running surveys of its kind, the study delves into the impacts of the pandemic, including the health and financial well-being and retirement outlook of the workforce. It offers comparisons of workers who are employed by others, self-employed, and unemployed but looking for work. In addition, the study illustrates the urgent need for strengthening the U.S. retirement system and outlines recommendations for doing so.
"Employed workers are generally well-positioned to save, invest, and prepare for retirement. They enjoy a steady income and are often offered employer-sponsored retirement benefits such as a 401(k) or similar plan that makes saving and investing easier. However, not all employed workers are offered workplace retirement plans. Furthermore, among all employed workers, many are inadequately saving," said Collinson.
Sixty-three percent of employed workers indicate their financial situation has stayed the same amid the pandemic, while 22 percent say it worsened. Thirty-eight percent experienced one or more negative employment impacts such as reduced hours (20 percent), reduced salary (13 percent), being laid off (12 percent), and being furloughed (12 percent). Twenty-eight percent were unemployed at some point.
Employed workers dream of an active retirement that includes traveling, spending more time with family and friends, and pursuing hobbies. Almost half (47 percent) expect to retire after age 65 or do not plan to retire – and almost six in 10 plan to work at least part-time in retirement (58 percent). Twenty-four percent expect to retire later than planned because of the pandemic.
Seventy-nine percent of employed workers save in an employer-sponsored retirement plan and/or outside the workplace. They began saving at age 27 (median). However, an alarming 39 percent tapped their retirement accounts, including 29 percent who have taken a loan and 27 percent who have taken an early and/or hardship withdrawal. Total savings in household retirement accounts is $65,000 (estimated median).
"Self-employment brings freedom, flexibility, and autonomy – yet it often comes without a steady paycheck or access to employer-sponsored retirement benefits. The self-employed must take a do-it-yourself approach to save for retirement," said Collinson.
The pandemic has been especially challenging for self-employed workers. Thirty-four percent indicate their financial situation worsened – and 35 percent were unemployed at some point during the pandemic.
Self-employed workers envision long and financially productive lives. Seventeen percent plan to live to age 100 or older. Sixty-three percent expect to retire after age 65 or do not plan to retire – and 62 percent plan to continue working at least part time in retirement. Among them, 85 percent cite healthy-aging reasons for doing so, compared with 76 percent who cite financial reasons.
Sixty-eight percent of self-employed workers are saving for retirement, and they started saving at age 29 (median). Among them, 79 percent are saving in one or more types of tax-advantaged retirement account, with a traditional or Roth IRA being the most common (44 percent). However, relatively few are saving in tax- advantaged accounts for sole proprietors and small businesses (e.g., Solo 401(k), SIMPLE IRA, SEP-IRA).
"Retirement planning is crucial for the self-employed. While working into older age can bring income and more time to save, planning not to retire is not a retirement strategy," said Collinson. Only 26 percent of self- employed workers have a financial strategy for retirement in the form of a written plan. The self-employed have saved $42,000 (estimated median) in all household retirement accounts.
Unemployed workers who are looking for work are struggling. Sixty-seven percent are concerned about their physical health – and 67 percent are concerned about their mental health. Six in 10 indicate they have trouble making ends meet (60 percent).
Without a paycheck or access to employer-sponsored retirement benefits, the unemployed may find it impossible to save. Forty-four percent have no emergency savings. One in three unemployed workers (33 percent) expect to rely on Social Security as their primary source of income in retirement – despite 72 percent being concerned that Social Security will not be there for them when they are ready to retire. The unemployed have saved just $200 in all household retirement accounts (estimated median).
"Finding gainful employment is the first step for the unemployed to begin strengthening their financial situation. As unemployed workers seek employment opportunities, they should consider retirement benefits as part of a total compensation package," said Collinson. "From a public policy perspective, it is important to recognize the risks and vulnerabilities of unemployed workers to avoid leaving them behind."
"As we emerge from the pandemic, we face an urgent need to strengthen our retirement system so that everyone can retire with dignity. A collaborative, concerted effort among policymakers, employers, and workers is required," said Collinson.
When asked about priorities for the President and Congress to help people have a financially secure retirement, the workforce calls for addressing Social Security's funding shortfalls (51 percent), making out-of-pocket health care expenses and prescription drugs more affordable (42 percent), addressing Medicare's funding shortfalls (41 percent), increasing access to affordable housing (33 percent), supporting family caregivers (32 percent), expanding access to workplace retirement plans to all workers (31 percent), innovating solutions for long-term care services and supports (30 percent), implementing financial literacy in schools (30 percent), and expanding the Saver's Credit (30 percent), among other priorities.
"Employers and workers can also do more to improve retirement security," said Collinson. "More employers could offer retirement and other health and welfare benefits to help their employees save and protect their savings, and workers could learn more about investing and engage in long-term financial planning."
Emerging From the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Retirement Outlook of the Workforce provides detailed findings by workers who are employed by others, self-employed, and unemployed but looking for work. To download this report and TCRS' recently published report The Saver's Credit: A Tax Credit That Pays to Save for Retirement, visit www.transamericainstitute.org. Follow on Twitter @TCRStudies.
Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies® (TCRS) is an operating division of Transamerica Institute®, a nonprofit, private foundation. Transamerica Institute is funded by contributions from Transamerica Life Insurance Company and its affiliates and may receive funds from unaffiliated third parties. TCRS and its representative cannot give ERISA, tax, investment, or legal advice. This material is provided for informational purposes only and should not be construed as ERISA, tax, investment, or legal advice. Interested parties must consult and rely solely upon their independent advisors regarding their situation and the concepts presented here. For more information about TCRS, please refer to www.transamericainstitute.org and follow TCRS on Twitter at @TCRStudies.
This online survey was conducted within the U.S. by The Harris Poll on behalf of Transamerica Institute and TCRS between October 28 and December 10, 2021, among a nationally representative sample of 10,003 adults. The data in this press release is shown for the workforce, a subsample of 5,846 workers comprising 4,741 employed by others, 580 self-employed, and 525 unemployed but looking for work. Results were weighted where necessary to align with the population of U.S. residents, referencing Census data for education, age by gender, race/ethnicity, region, household income, education, employment, marital status, and size of household. Weighting also adjusts for attitudinal and behavioral differences between those who are online versus those who are not, those who join online panels versus those who do not, and those who respond to surveys versus those who do not.
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Deadly crash reported in Sumner County
Published: Aug. 31, 2022 at 6:10 AM CDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A deadly crash was reported Tuesday in Sumner County. The crash happened at K49 milepost 5 in a southbound lane.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a truck tractor left the roadway and entered a ditch to the west. The trailer rolled and came to rest after striking a utility pole.
Information on a victim or victims has not been released as of early Wednesday morning.
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WASHINGTON — Two Federal Reserve officials said Monday that they favor raising the Fed’s key rate to roughly 5% or more and keeping it at its peak through next year — longer than many on Wall Street have expected.
And James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Fed, suggested that financial markets are underestimating the likelihood the Fed will have to be more aggressive in its fight against the worst inflation bout in four decades.
The Fed has raised its benchmark short-term rate six times this year, to a range of 3.75% to 4%, with each of the last four hikes being a historically large three-quarters of a point. The central bank is expected to raise rates by an additional half-point when it next meets in mid-December. Though that would represent a reduction in the size of its rate hikes, Fed officials have stressed that they expect to keep their key rate at a historically high level well into the future.
Because the Fed’s benchmark rate influences many consumer and business loans, its aggressive series of hikes have made most loans throughout the economy sharply more expensive. That has been particularly true of mortgage rates, which have risen dramatically over the past year and have severely crimped home sales.
On Wednesday, Powell is scheduled to address the Fed’s policies and their effects on the job market in a speech in Washington.
In an interview with Marketwatch, Bullard suggested that the speed of the Fed’s rate hikes isn’t as important as the ultimate level of its benchmark rate, which he said could exceed the 5% that financial markets have priced in.
“Markets are underpricing the risk that the (Fed) will have to be more aggressive rather than less aggressive in order to contain the very substantial inflation that we have,” Bullard said.
The central bank, he added, will likely have to keep its benchmark rate above 5% all through 2023 and into 2024. He also reiterated his view that the Fed should be prepared to raise that rate to the “lower end” of a range between 5% and 7%.
By contrast, financial markets have projected that the Fed will have to reverse course and start cutting rates by next September, presumably in response to a recession that many economists expect will occur next year.
Williams suggested that there are some positive signs that inflation is easing, noting falling prices for lumber, oil, and other commodities. Supply chains are also loosening, he said: A measure of supply chain snarls maintained by the New York Fed has declined by three-quarters from its pandemic peak.
Yet the job market has stayed stronger than he expected, Williams said, with the unemployment rate, at 3.7%, still near a half-century low.
“That argues that we’ll need to have a somewhat higher path for interest rates” than the Fed projected in September, Williams said. At that time, the officials forecast that their benchmark rate would reach a range of 4.5% to 4.75% by early next year.
He said he now expects the unemployment rate to rise to 4.5% to 5% by the end of next year, with inflation falling to 3% to 3.5% by then.
At that level, inflation would still exceed the Fed’s target of 2%, thereby extending its inflation fight into 2024, Williams said.
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WASHINGTON, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Below is a statement by Tom Cochran, CEO and Executive Director of The United States Conference of Mayors, on today's mass shooting in Louisville:
"The senseless carnage of gun violence struck another American city this morning as four innocent lives were lost and nine others, including at least two police officers, were injured in a mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville. Yet again, a community is shattered, and we are left grasping for a way to provide comfort to a community that has experienced unspeakable trauma. 'Thoughts and prayers' do not suffice.
"We commend Governor Andy Beshear for standing with Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg to condemn the mass shooting and killing in Louisville. We encourage all governors to join with the nation's mayors and police chiefs calling for legislative action to stop the killing of innocent Americans.
"We extend our condolences to the families of those murdered and hope for a full recovery for those injured. We offer Mayor Greenberg our unwavering support as he leads his city through this difficult time and works to bring the community together. We praise the police officers and all of the first responders for their quick and brave response this morning, which we know saved lives.
"Once again, we ask what will it take for Congress, state legislators and governors to pass common sense gun violence legislation? How many people must be killed and wounded for our nation to take action? It has been said that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.' As we witness one mass shooting after another—week after week, month after month, year after year—it is nothing short of insane that as a nation we are not willing to address the serious and deadly gun violence problem that we face."
About the United States Conference of Mayors -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are more than 1,400 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
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Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles is a show that shares true crime stories through readings of newspaper articles and interviews with the journalists who reported on the stories.
This is the fifth and final episode of the series, so you should jump back to part one and get up to speed if you need to, making sure not to skip the bonus episode interview with Lincoln Journal Star reporter Lori Pilger about her coverage of the trial as it was happening as well as the present state of Trail's appeal to the State Supreme Court.
Previous episodes
Bonus: Lincoln Journal Star reporter Lori Pilger discusses Sydney Loofe case
Chapter 1: 'In Sydney's name'
Chapter 2: 'Persons of interest'
Chapter 3: 'Exceptional depravity'
Chapter 4: 'A courtroom outburst'
Chapter 5: 'Vampries and a verdict'
For this set of episodes we'll be traveling to Wilber, Nebraska, where, in November of 2017, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe left work to go on a second date with someone she met on a dating app, and she never came home.
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The events that followed centered around Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell, who were eventually convicted in the case, and were bizarre in the way they unfolded on social media and in the courtroom.
The Lincoln Journal Star and Omaha World-Herald covered the story as it broke and navigated the circus-like atmosphere that developed in the courtroom and in conversations with Aubrey Trail.
The articles are linked below and if you appreciate what we're doing with this program, we encourage you to invest in local journalism and support whichever newspaper serves your community.
- Three witnesses talk about Trail giving them allowances, Boswell's 'kill bag'
- FBI agent tells jury about Tinder messages between Loofe and Boswell
- Expert says hacksaw — like one Trail bought hours before Loofe’s death — was used to dismember her
- Prosecutor: 'Isn’t it true, Mr. Trail, that your performance today was your biggest con?'
We're already hard at work on our next series, with a new co-host, so look forward to more info about that very soon and make sure you're subscribed wherever you get your podcasts.
Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles, a product of Lee Enterprises, is produced, recorded, edited and hosted by Chris Lay.
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BERLIN (AP) — German investigators on Monday searched two garages used by an Iranian man arrested on suspicion that he could be planning an attack with deadly chemicals.
The 32-year-old suspect and his 25-year-old brother were detained on Saturday night in Castrop-Rauxel, in western Germany, following a tip from U.S. security officials. Authorities say the men are suspected of planning a serious attack motivated by Islamic extremism, for which at least one of them had allegedly sought to obtain the potent toxins cyanide and ricin.
A court in Dortmund on Sunday evening ordered the pair kept in custody pending a possible indictment, prosecutors in Duesseldorf said in a statement. They are suspected of conspiracy to murder, a charge that can carry a prison sentence of three to 15 years.
Prosecutors said on Sunday that an initial search of the elder suspect’s home turned up no toxic substances.
On Monday, they said they have discovered that he used two garages in the back yard of a house in Castrop-Rauxel, and they also were being searched with help from analysts trained to deal with possible dangerous substances.
It wasn’t yet clear how far advanced the plans for an attack were and whether the suspects had picked a specific target.
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The White House this week is stepping up attacks on conservative Republicans, using a budget proposal by a bloc of lawmakers to hit the opposition party on key issues that typically rile the base ahead of 2024.
The Biden administration kicked off a messaging campaign to slam the House Freedom Caucus’s budget proposal on a daily basis and also go after other conservative groups — like the Republican Study Committee — that have in recent weeks criticized Biden’s budget proposal, which was made public earlier this month.
The House Republican-White House tit-for-tat over issues like Social Security and Medicare has dominated fiscal talks for much of the year, but the White House is now drawing on what it calls “draconian cuts” on a host of other things central to the GOP: Manufacturing jobs, public safety and border security.
It began when the White House declared a “five-alarm fire” to describe the Freedom Caucus’s proposal, arguing it would be “a disaster for families in at least five key ways,” comprising what the White House claimed to be endangering public safety, raising costs for families, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers, weakening national security and hurting seniors.
“Democrats are going to explain what budget cuts mean to everyday Americans and that’s been the heart of Democratic messaging against austerity budgeting for years,” said Charlie Ellsworth, partner at Pioneer Public Affairs and former budget aide for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Indeed, the strategy gives the Biden administration a head start to crafting such messaging ahead of when the president plans to run for reelection in 2024.
“The White House’s budget strategy is clear. They’re elevating unpopular proposals from the Freedom Caucus because that contrast benefits the president,” said Nu Wexler, a partner at Seven Letter and former communications director for the House Budget Committee Democrats.
The Freedom Caucus is pushing to restrict discretionary funding for fiscal 2024 at the 2022 threshold, while keeping defense funding at current levels, in order to balance the federal budget in 10 years — the latter of which is a key goal of theirs.
The White House has argued the Republicans budget math “doesn’t add up,” highlighting in a statement Tuesday that a Congressional Budget Office estimate found that to reach the goal of balancing the budget in 10 years, “without raising taxes on the wealthy or corporations, and without cutting Social Security, Medicare, defense and some veteran’s benefits-Congressional Republicans would need to eliminate everything else in the Federal budget.”
The “five-alarm fire” messaging strategy is also in coordination with the House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro (Conn.) and other House Democrats, who are highlighting this week that government agencies are sounding the alarm over the impacts of returning to 2022 spending levels.
The White House’s “five-alarm fire” messaging has highlighted the potential impact of the Freedom Caucus’s budget on costs for Americans — an offensive tactic as the administration has spent the better part of year struggling with amid stubborn inflation.
The messaging also turned toward hammering the Freedom Caucus on matters central to the conservative Republican base, such as endangering public safety, and a back-and-forth over how Republicans and Democrats are approaching border security.
The Freedom Caucus says the Biden administration’s budget would make the border less secure, but the president’s budget in fact includes funding to hire more agents to staff the southern border.
The tactic widely broadens the number of issues Biden and House Republicans have been hammering each other on for much of the year, which has centered heavily so far on Social Security and Medicare.
Biden has insisted that Republicans want to “cut” the programs based on some GOP suggestions that spending on the programs should be evaluated — a narrative backed up by a plan floated by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has suggested those programs “sunset” every five years. Scott’s plan, however, had no backing from Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), meanwhile, has said that any cuts to Social Security and Medicare as part of a deal would be “off the table.”
But that didn’t stop the White House on Monday from highlighting a Social Security “solvency” plan from the Republican Study Committee, which proposed that if the Social Security Administration isn’t able to pay its debts, there will be automatic cuts to benefits.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement that while Republican lawmakers fought back on the idea that they want to cut entitlement benefits when Biden brought it up in the State of the Union address, “Here we are months later, and the only budget we know the public will even get to see will do exactly that: cut Social Security benefits.”
Some argue that the president should invite McCarthy back to the White House to negotiate, regardless of the lack of consensus on a Republican budget to at least help the appearance of bipartisanship.
“I don’t think the president stiff-arming Republicans until they present a plan on paper is going to play very well,” said Stephen Cote, a principal at Mehlman Consulting and former director for legislative affairs at the Office of Management and Budget under former President George W. Bush.
Democrats, though, agree with the president’s tactic to call out Republicans for not presenting an alternate budget.
“I don’t see anything to engage with until McCarthy has a plan that’s supported by his caucus, otherwise, what is he coming to the table with? He has to show that he has the votes to pass something,” Ellsworth said. “The president, Democrats can’t solve that problem for him. He has to do that.”
Wexler also noted that McCarthy is in a tight spot with his caucus following the Speakership vote.
“There may be a loose Republican strategy to let the Freedom Caucus stake out a conservative position and let leadership negotiate from there,” he said. “But it’s more likely that McCarthy doesn’t want to disrupt his fragile coalition because he owes his Speakership to them.”
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Company's recently acquired Prime Time's high-resolution mobile LED screen receives relaunch with Limitless X rebranding
100+ ft LCD screen provides a marketing solution that will connect advertisers with their audience for entertainment, corporate, civic, and sporting events
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limitless X Inc., (OTCQB: BLAB) ("the Company"), a creative and empowering lifestyle agency and brand house, today announced the commercial rollout of its high-resolution mobile LCD screen which has received rebranding with the Limitless X logo.
Following its acquisition of Bio Lab Naturals' business and core operations, Limitless X acquired Prime Time Live's jumbo LCD screens which provide unique marketing and advertising solutions. Since then, Limitless X has successfully and rapidly converted and capitalized such assets that include its marketing truck outfitted with a 100+ ft LCD screen which has undergone an update with the Limitless Logo and Product Page and has been active in the promotion of Limitless' product lines.
Jas Mathur, CEO of Limitless X, commented "Prime Time was a strategic acquisition for us as it allows us to expand the digital marketing arm of our business. This marketing and advertising truck, which essentially is a moving billboard, helps create awareness of our product lines and its mobility allows us to reach a larger audience than a stationary billboard could, which in turn creates a fully scalable ecosystem for our clients and businesses."
About Jas Mathur
Jas Mathur is an investor and entrepreneur who has developed multiple brands in the marketing, health and wellness spaces generating tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year. The digital marketing and branding firm he founded, Limitless X, has launched numerous industry-leading products in the dietary and CBD supplement sectors. He is a trendsetter with more than 7 million Instagram followers and frequently collaborates with leaders in the sports and entertainment industries.
Jas' passion is helping accelerate the achievement of people's health, wellness and business goals, inspired by his personal transformation story of losing over 250lbs in his twenties. Now a sought-after expert in developing fitness and training programs, he's helped many high-profile figures embark on their own health journeys and seeks to do the same for today's youth. Suitably, he partnered with Dr. Oz's nonprofit, Healthcorps, to jumpstart health and wellness programs targeted at teens and young adults.
As Jas transformed his life and body, he applied his newfound passion for health and wellness to launch Limitless X. Prospective services he is blueprinting for the company include personality development, life coaching and educational platforms, in addition to the brand portfolio.
About Limitless X
Limitless X is a creative and empowering lifestyle agency specializing in the full spectrum of digital advertising and marketing. The Company has a global eco-system with three verticals and a series of unique product and service-oriented businesses within each, focused on the Health & Wellness, Beauty & Skincare, and CBD Industries .
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FORT STEWART, Ga. (WSAV) — A soldier was fatally shot at Fort Stewart Army post in Georgia on Monday morning. The suspect has been taken into custody.
According to Fort Stewart officials, law enforcement was dispatched for a possible shooting at the Second Armored Brigade Combat Team complex shortly before 10 a.m. Monday.
Emergency medical personnel were called in to treat a victim at the scene. That soldier, identified as Sgt. Nathan M. Hillman of Plum, Pennsylvania, later died.
Hillman, a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist, joined the Army in February 2015. According to officials, he had one deployment to Afghanistan and had earned the Air Assault Badge. He was assigned to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division in July 2021.
“On Monday morning, the Spartan Family lost one of our own in a tragic and unexpected way,” said Col. Ethan J. Diven, commander of the Spartan Brigade, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team. “With deepest sorrow, our hearts are with the families and units involved in the incident. Providing support to the impacted families and soldiers is our first priority. We are working closely with the Fort Stewart military police and U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division.”
The suspect, who hasn’t yet been identified, was taken into custody at the scene by Fort Stewart law enforcement and transferred to U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division’s custody. There is no active threat to the community, according to officials.
Additional details about the incident have not yet been released.
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North American companies are onboarding robot workers at a faster-than-ever pace.
According to the Association for Advancing Automation, companies ordered a record-setting 12,305 machines in the second quarter of 2022. That's 25% more than the same period a year ago.
"The pandemic definitely highlighted some areas and shortages in resources needed to be automated, and customers had to automate just due to the fact that people weren't coming back to the workplace," FANUC North America Vice President Louis Finazzo said.
"For a long time, the automotive industry accounted for 60 to 70% of robot orders," Association for Advancing Automation President Jeff Burnstein said. "And we knew that when other industries started adopting is when we would really see growth, which is finally happening now, in part due to the pandemic forcing companies to look at other options when they couldn't bring people into work."
Burnstein and Finazzo told Newsy that the industries helping fuel this increased demand for robotics ranged widely from food processing to pharmaceuticals.
E-commerce companies have been particularly interested in buying up these robots, as robots can help grab packages and get them ready for delivery.
However, if these robots are meant to close productivity gaps, the results aren't apparent. During the second quarter of 2022, U.S. productivity fell at its highest rate since the government began collecting that data.
Robots can help do the tasks businesses need to be done, but it will take time to get those machines up and running. And they'll need a human workforce with specialized training.
"The lack of people who are available to install and maintain, operate, program and take advantage of all the data — this is a barrier, actually, to further adoption of robotics," Burnstein said. "We have to put more emphasis on teaching people the skills they need because we all have to benefit in an increasingly automated future."
Experts are pleased with how quickly robots are being added to the workplace. A mechanized future is well on its way.
"The adoption curve used to be 50 weeks; now it's been cut into the 21-week range," Finazzo said. "So, you will see gains happening quicker because the customers and the manufacturers are picking applications that can get immediate impact."
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PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I used to inspect my brothers hose sewer pipe for service," said the inventor from Lake Forest, Calif. "I thought of the idea to add a source of light in order to provide convenience when servicing these types of dark areas."
He created a prototype for WIDE BRIGHT that could be used on a variety of makes and models of sewer inspection cameras. This device would provide additional light allowing the user to have a clearer view. It would be efficient, convenient and easy to use. Additionally, this could be used by plumbing, heating and air conditioning contractors.
The original design was submitted to the Orange County sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-OCC-1572, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Two of the solutions are named CES 2023 Innovation Award Honorees
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EcoFlow, a portable power and eco-friendly energy solutions company, will showcase four new home and outdoor innovations at CES 2023, including two CES Innovation Award Honorees.
The innovations will tackle increasing global energy insecurity, as well as provide smarter and more energy-efficient methods of power consumption. These moves reflect EcoFlow's commitment to making accessing power easier than ever.
"EcoFlow keeps pushing the boundaries as an energy solutions company in these times of energy insecurity," said Bruce Wang, CEO of EcoFlow. "To truly empower individuals and families, we need to make power not only accessible but also easy to use at home, outdoors and in mobile spaces, and we are doing just that with our new innovations at CES 2023."
As an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products, the CES Innovation Awards program saw fierce competition this year with a record 2,100 submissions. EcoFlow will join other honorees from 28 categories for a chance to win the prestigious Best of Innovation award, which will be announced during the event.
"It is an honor to be recognized by the Consumer Technology Association alongside some of the most spectacular innovations in the world. We will take it as an inspiration moving forward as we continue to make life better through meaningful innovation," Wang said.
About EcoFlow
EcoFlow is a leading eco-friendly energy solutions company with the vision to power a new world. Since its founding in 2017, EcoFlow aims to become a reliable and trusted energy companion for individuals and families across the world, providing accessible and renewable power solutions at home, outdoors, and in mobile spaces. Today, with operational headquarters located in the USA, Germany, and Japan, EcoFlow has empowered more than 2 million users in over 100 markets worldwide.
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There have been almost 500 gun-related domestic violence fatalities this year in the United States. There are 10 million people a year physically abused by an intimate partner and 20,000 calls are placed daily to domestic violence hotlines.
In Philadelphia:
The police responded to more than 100,000 calls each year that were domestic in nature.
On average approximately 10,000 petitions for protection from abuse (PFA) orders were filed from 2014 to 2019.
There were 43 people killed in domestic violence incidents in 2021 — more than doubling domestic violence murders from the year before, and the largest number known to date.
These cases may differ nationally versus locally, but all have similar effects. While these stories are happening every day, we need to examine them in October during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
We see that domestic abuse does not discriminate. It affects all races, ethnicities and walks of life — not even just women or children. It also can be directly tied to poverty, housing insecurity and job instability — all of which affect survivors’ abilities to escape any abuse.
“By intentionally denying Black people access to economic opportunities, the ability to build intergenerational wealth, health care, education, and a sense of safety from governmental systems, racist policies increase the prevalence of risk factors for domestic violence,” according to a statement from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
The national coalition also said that more than 40% of Black women have experienced physical domestic violence, domestic partner sexual violence and/or intimate partner stalking in their lifetimes. And more than half of Black adult female homicides are related to domestic violence.
At Coburn Place, a domestic violence service organization, 65% of their clients in 2020 identified as Black and female, and that is true at many similar groups across the U.S. Black women and men experience intimate partner abuse at a disproportionately higher rate than whites. But why?
“First of all, a lack of opportunities along with financial barriers lead to domestic violence,” said Jacqueline Willett, coordinator of Coburn Place intake and well-being services.
Cecily Johnson, director of strategic initiatives at the Domestic Violence Network, agrees it’s a systemic issue.
“Because of the history, because of the 400-year gap and 400 years of being left at the starting line while other groups have moved forward with ease, that holds us back,” she said. “That’s the root cause. It’s a combination of things we’re not given. We’re just not given opportunities in education that generally would be made available to other populations, specifically white populations. And it’s socioeconomics. Typically, the higher you are in that socioeconomic strata, the greater access you have to education and resources where you can get some of this information, where you can receive services.”
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, first passed by Congress in 1984, was the primary federal funding source dedicated to assisting survivors of domestic violence and their children with things such as emergency shelters. It also provided core funding to more than 1,500 domestic violence shelters and programs.
The reauthorization of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, which expired in 2015, is long overdue. The act helped survivors access violence-prevention resources, health care, housing, education, child support and much more. Resources from the act also helped other groups that support survivors get training, technical assistance and grants. Groups also used the funds to increase their service capacity, community engagement and other things to help survivors.
The House has already reauthorized the act in 2021 and the Senate has yet to pass it.
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act is critical, lifesaving legislation that survivors depend on and we need to tell our senators to support domestic violence survivors by passing it.
We must ask our legislators to support this act and help to ensure that domestic violence survivors aren’t re-victimized.
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Harvey Weinstein's attorneys question Jennifer Siebel Newsom's during cross-examination
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, faced cross-examination from one of Harvey Weinstein 's attorneys Tuesday about why her description of a 2005 encounter during which she says the filmmaker raped her has expanded since she first spoke with prosecutors.
The testimony came three weeks into the Los Angeles rape and sexual assault trial of Weinstein, and on the same day that the judge dismissed four of the 11 counts against him at the request of prosecutors.
Weinstein lawyer Mark Werksman pressed Siebel Newsom about what she said were frequent nightmares she'd been having about the encounter with Weinstein in a Beverly Hills hotel suite.
“Have you had a difficult time actually discerning what happened in a nightmare and what actually happened in a bedroom at the Peninsula Hotel?” Werksman asked.
“No, no,” Siebel Newsom responded.
She explained that the new elements of her testimony, some of which she said under oath for the first time on Monday, were a result of having more time to process what happened.
“As we’ve gotten closer to this, and it’s gotten more real, my need to clarify and be more detailed” has increased, Siebel Newsom said. “I had everything in a box, and I’ve been slowly sharing a little bit at a time, because this is so painful.”
As Werksman kept returning to transcripts of her initial conversations with prosecutors in 2020, Siebel Newsom said that she did not think her initial conversations with police and prosecutors would lead to charges.
“I offered to talk to detectives initially to support other women, not to be up here on the witness stand,” Siebel Newsom said.
She then teared up as she did occasionally Tuesday, though she was not nearly as emotional as she was during her intense and dramatic testimony a day earlier.
“You’re the wife of the governor of California at the time and you’re about to meet with the police and a deputy DA,” Werksman said, “and you didn’t think that the consequence of what you said was that you would be a victim in an indictment in a criminal indictment?”
Siebel Newsom said she thought her allegations were likely to be beyond the statute of limitations.
“I honestly was just telling my truth and I didn’t know what the outcome was going to be,” she testified.
Werksman, who says Siebel Newsom had consensual sex with Weinstein to advance her career, said during his questioning that her testimony showed she had not made her lack of consent clear during the encounter. He also showed her many friendly emails she sent to Weinstein in the years that followed that Werksman said would not have been sent by someone who had been raped.
She responded that she had set aside the assault in her mind, and the communications were an unfortunate necessity as a young actor like she was at the time.
“I was just surviving," she said.
Siebel Newsom is going by the name Jane Doe #4 at the trial, and like the others Weinstein is charged with raping or sexually assaulting, her real name is not being spoken in court. But both the prosecution and the defense have identified her as the governor’s wife during the trial, and Siebel Newsom’s attorney confirmed to The Associated Press and other news outlets that she is Jane Doe #4.
The governor, who last week sailed to a second term, was not in the courtroom for his wife's testimony.
She will now be the last of four women Weinstein is charged with assaulting to testify at the trial after Judge Lisa Lench dropped charges involving a fifth accuser.
Lench dismissed two counts of forcible rape and two counts of forcible oral copulation against the 70-year-old Weinstein.
The move had appeared likely since the trial's opening statements, when prosecutors only mentioned four women Weinstein was charged with assaulting, leaving out the accuser identified in an indictment as Jane Doe #5.
The prosecutors at first kept the charges in place and left open the possibility that the woman would testify. But Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson told the judge before testimony began Tuesday they would no longer pursue the Jane Doe #5 counts.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has not provided an explanation for why they opted to leave the woman out of the trial.
The remaining charges against Weinstein, who is serving a 23-year sentence for a conviction in New York, are two counts of rape and five other sexual assault counts.
He has pleaded not guilty and has said he didn't engage in nonconsensual sex.
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Xgimi Halo Plus Portable Projector Review: Big Picture, Will Travel
The Halo Plus portable mini projector offers an impressive image on battery power, but it's not cheap.
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Geoffrey Morrison is a writer/photographer for CNET, Forbes, and The New York Times. He also the Editor-at-large for The Wirecutter. He has written for Sound&Vision magazine, Home Theater magazine, and was the Editor in Chief of Home Entertainment magazine. He is NIST and ISF trained, and has a degree in Television/Radio from Ithaca College. His bestselling novel, Undersea, and its sequel, Undersea Atrophia, are available in paperback and as an ebook on Amazon. He spends most of the year as a digital nomad, living and working while traveling around the world. You can follow his travels at BaldNomad.com.
The Xgimi Halo Plus is not your typical dim, inexpensive portable mini projector. Its sleek, understated design combines with a surprisingly good picture. This little beauty is bright for its size, has decent contrast, fairly accurate color and Android TV streaming built in. There's even a battery with 2.5 hours of claimed playback time.
It's a bit expensive, however, and easily outclassed by bigger projectors that lack a battery, like the BenQ HT2050A. So if you don't absolutely need totally cordless movie nights, you can get a better image, or save money, compared to the Halo Plus.
If you are looking for some wireless fun, the Halo Plus offers a better, brighter image than many competing projectors. The simplicity of the built-in Android TV interface and its myriad streaming options makes it far easier to use than many previous portable projectors we've liked. You'll have to pay quite a bit for that ease of use and performance though.
Check Out Classy and Portable Xgimi Halo Plus Projector
The Halo Plus is a 1080p projector, but it can accept 4K and HDR signals. Like most projectors it won't do much with HDR, but that functionality doesn't hurt. As is typical for projectors in this category, there's no lens shift or zoom. If you want a bigger image, you have to move the projector farther from the screen.
The brightness spec is inflated even more than usual. I measured approximately 284 lumens compared to their spec of 900. That's not actually that bad, but it's pretty far from Xgimi's claims. It's one of the brighter portable projectors we've tested, but a far cry from even less expensive non-battery projectors. So it all depends how you're approaching the Halo Plus. If the inclusion of a battery is paramount, then this is pretty bright for its class. If you just want something small and not too expensive, there are other, far brighter/better options.
That battery has a claimed runtime of 2.5 hours. Using the battery drops the light output roughly in half, which is similar to what happens with most battery-powered PJs.
There is one other oddity I have to mention, because it drove me bonkers. When you turn the Halo Plus off you're given two choices, essentially standby and fully off. If you choose fully off, which is logical if you don't want the battery to wear down, the only way to turn the projector back on is to press the power button… twice. There's a tiny warning about this before the screen goes black, but it's blink-and-miss-it. To me this design is exceptionally counterintuitive. I can't think of another product that requires you to press the power button twice to activate. I'd seriously thought the projector had died on me mid-review.
Inputs and streaming: Check and check
HDMI inputs: 1
USB port: 1
Audio output: Headphone output and Bluetooth
Internet: 2.4/5GHz, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
Remote: Not backlit
On the back is a fairly standard suite of connections for a projector this size. HDMI and USB, plus an analog headphone output.
You've got full Android TV inside, which is a nice change from the more common Android-lite and Aptoide store. Which means you've got all the major streaming apps, and the full versions of said apps. Many portable projectors use nerfed versions of many apps, making them far more annoying to use.
On the sides are two 5W speakers tuned by Harman Kardon. They play quite loud for their size. This is one of the first projectors this size where I didn't need to run it at 100% to hear over my air conditioner.
Picture quality comparisons
For my comparison I pitted the Xgimi against two similar (in spirit) portable projectors, the Anker Mars II Pro and the BenQ GS50. The Anker Mars II Pro offers some similar specs, roughly similar size, but is $550. The BenQ has about 80% more physical volume compared to the Xgimi, but both are still easily considered portable. It costs $800. I connected them to a Monoprice 1x4 distribution amplifier and viewed them side by side by side on a 102-inch 1.0-gain screen.
The Anker looked somewhat washed out compared to the Xgimi, despite their contrast ratios being basically the same. This is likely due to the lack of picture setting controls on the Mars II Pro. The non-adjustable brightness setting is too high, raising the shadows and making the image appear washed out. On its own this isn't as obvious, and the image is still good overall, but compared to the Xgimi it lags behind.
While the Mars II Pro is also 720p to the BenQ and Xgimi's 1080p, this isn't quite as big of a deal as you might imagine. Sure, the other two are sharper, but the Anker holds its own. Overall, if you want something that's nearly as good, but want to save some money, the Mars II Pro is the way to go.
The GS50 looks good on its own, but there is one vital way it comes up short: brightness. The Xgimi is nearly twice as bright as the BenQ. At 100-inches both are still dim compared to "real" home theater projectors, but if you project a more TV-sized image they look far more impressive. The eye, however, is immediately drawn to the Xgimi. It's just so much brighter. Its contrast ratio is better too, by about 50%. That, combined with the added light, just makes for a more attractive image.
However, the BenQ has far better color. Grass, skies, skin tones, all look significantly more natural on the BenQ. The Xgimi's colors aren't as bad as some I've tested lately, they're just not as realistic as the BenQ's. While color is a crucial component in overall picture quality, it just can't compete in this case with the better brightness and contrast ratio of the Xgimi.
What about the Xiaomi Mi Smart Projector 2? I measured half the lumens compared to the Xgimi and Anker, roughly the same as the BenQ. Since it's basically the same price as the Xgimi, but lacks a battery, the Xgimi is the clear winner.
Silver cylinder
The Halo Plus has a classy, if understated, design. A business suit on the outside but an athlete on the inside. It performs better than its most direct competitors. However, as with any of these portable projectors, you really need to consider how you're going to be using it. Is the battery aspect a nice addition, or will you be using it that way regularly? Because if you're not going to be using the battery a traditional home theater projector like the BenQ HT2050A, for example, looks vastly better than the Halo Plus for the same money.
On the other hand, if you are going to be using it away from power outlets regularly, the Halo Plus offers a brighter, and generally better, image compared to several other portable projectors we've liked. The Anker Mars II Pro is a better deal, but lacks the contrast, detail, and the ease of use of a full Android TV interface. The BenQ GS50 has a more playful industrial design, but can't compete with the Xgimi on brightness.
So if you are going to be using it unplugged, and don't mind the fairly high price, the Xgimi Halo Plus is a great option.
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Science Friday is a weekly talk show focused on science topics that are in the news. Hosted by veteran science journalist Ira Flatowhe, the program brings an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand.
Science Friday is a weekly talk show focused on science topics that are in the news. Hosted by veteran science journalist Ira Flatowhe, the program brings an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand.
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Fatal Traffic Incident Ruled Accidental
Alexandria, La. (Oct. 20, 2022) – The Alexandria Police Department has determined a traffic incident that resulted in the death of an Alexandria man early Saturday morning was an accident.
The accident occurred at approximately 3:30 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of Lee and Lafargue streets. A preliminary investigation suggested the deceased pedestrian, Donald Lair, Jr., could have been the victim of a hit and run accident.
Following a thorough investigation by traffic investigators, including interviews with witnesses and video camera footage of the incident, it was determined the victim was lying in the roadway at the time of the incident. Only one vehicle struck the victim and the driver stopped and notified police.
Based on the updated findings, no charges are being pursued at this time against the driver of the vehicle involved.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Palantir Technologies Inc. ("Palantir" or the "Company") (NYSE: PLTR).
Class Period: November 9, 2021 – May 6, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 14, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Palantir investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Palantir's investments in marketable securities were having a significant negative impact on the Company's EPS results; (2) Palantir overstated the sustainability of its government segment's growth and revenues; (3) Palantir was experiencing a significant slowdown in revenue growth, particularly among its government customers, despite ongoing global conflicts and market disruptions; (4) as a result of all the foregoing, the Company was likely to miss consensus estimates for its Q1 EPS and Q2 sales outlook; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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(Motor Authority) — Porsche on Thursday revealed a revised design for its iconic crest logo that will start appearing on the automaker’s vehicles starting in late 2023.
The basic design hasn’t changed but elements have been simplified to make 2D versions of the logo, such as those used in digital mediums, more closely match 3D versions, such as physical badges.
The gold of the logo has also taken on a darker tone, while the “Stuttgart” script in the center has been made black for the first time.
There’s still the familiar layout with a prancing horse borrowed from the city seal of Stuttgart, Porsche’s home, as well as red and black bars and antlers. The latter come from the coat of arms of the former German state Württemberg-Hohenzollern, which is now part of the state Baden-Württemberg, whose capital is Stuttgart.
Perhaps the most dramatic change is the honeycomb-like pattern added to the red sections of the logo. The pattern is meant to signify the technical aspect of Porsche cars and has a real-world link with weight-saving technology used by the automaker.
“We have reinterpreted historical characteristics and combined them with innovative design elements such as a honeycomb structure and brushed metal,” Michael Mauer, Porsche’s design chief, said in a statement. “The result is an aesthetically ambitious arc that bridges the history and the future of the brand.”
The logo dates back to 1952. Porsche’s first sports car, the 356, was already in production for a few years at that time and management wanted a proper logo to help build brand awareness, at the urging of U.S. importer Max Hoffman. A competition among art schools was run to seek a winning design but with none of the submissions pleasing management, in-house designer Franz Xaver Reimspiess, who designed the original Volkswagen logo in 1936, came up with a logo that emphasized civic pride.
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Since the first logo, revisions have been made in 1954, 1963, 1973, 1994, 2008, and now in 2023. Anyone restoring an older Porsche can always find badges with the earlier designs via the Porsche Classic department.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
04-18-21-25-26-28
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President Biden’s Labor secretary nominee appears to have reached a dead end in the Senate.
Almost four months after the White House rolled out Julie Su’s nomination in February, Democratic leadership is not shaking up their strategy, even as they’ve made little progress getting her across the finish line.
At the same time, Republicans are calling for her name to be withdrawn, and there is no sign of a vote coming anytime soon in the upper chamber.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday teed up votes after the two-week July 4 recess on a slew of nominations, including former Rep. Xochitl Torres Small’s (D-N.M.) to be deputy secretary of Agriculture, Rosie Hidalgo to be the Justice Department’s director of Violence Against Women Office and another spate of Judicial nominees. That means the very earliest Su’s nomination would be considered is in mid-July, if at all.
“Frustrated,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee member who has lobbied the holdouts, said about his feelings on the languishing nomination. “I can’t predict what other people are going to do. But I do know this: keeping it hanging out there is good for nobody — not for the country, not for her, not for us. Let’s have a vote.”
At issue has been the inability to shake loose two of the three moderates — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) — that Democrats need to back her nomination.
Manchin has long been viewed as the most unlikely of the three to back her on the floor. Tester has been peppered with questions for weeks about Su’s nomination but has consistently said that he is still deciding.
“I would love to [have a vote on her], but you know why? Because you guys would never have to ask me again how I was going to vote on Julie Su,” Tester said with a laugh last week.
Sinema has a policy of not previewing votes.
With little movement among the trio, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) emerged as the senator to watch during the confirmation fight, but the White House had nothing to report about how those conversations have been going.
Murkowski also declined to say Thursday whether she had taken a stance one way or another on Su’s nomination.
“I don’t know,” Murkowski said. “I don’t think she’s coming forward. Look at where we are right now. I haven’t seen anyone on the other side move on her.”
The administration has had a tough time getting some nominees through this year. Biden withdrew two nominations in March — Phillip Washington, Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, and Gigi Sohn, Biden’s pick to serve as the top telecommunications regulator for the Federal Communications Commission. In May, he pulled his choice to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and two judiciary picks.
Still, losing out on a Su’s confirmation to a Cabinet-level role would be a significant blow.
Schumer reiterated to reporters Wednesday that they were still working hard to get her confirmed.
The White House recently assembled a so-called war room to make calls every day about Su’s nomination, and chief of staff Jeff Zients, among others, had been speaking with Schumer and other Democrats regularly about it.
“We are definitely committed,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday. “The White House and outside groups continue … a full-court press to get Julie confirmed. That has not stopped.”
When pressed on if Su’s nomination will be pulled due to the lack of progress, the White House has stressed that she is highly qualified and points to Su’s role in brokering a recent tentative agreement between shippers and West Coast dockworkers — an accomplishment Biden also praised her for earlier this month.
Biden nominated her to replace Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who is the first Cabinet secretary in the line of succession to leave his post since the start of the Biden administration.
The timing of Su’s potential failed nomination isn’t ideal for the president going into a reelection year.
The Biden campaign received over a dozen endorsements from labor groups, including the AFL-CIO, and has touted big labor as a major asset for them. Biden rallied with labor groups Saturday in Philadelphia to tout the boost from their endorsements.
Despite the poor optics of a flailing Labor secretary nominee, the White House has not changed up its strategy to get her over the top, a sign that they could have reached a dead end.
Meanwhile, Republicans have been consistent in their opposition to Su throughout the nomination process. That kept up last week when 33 Senate Republicans — led by Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — signed a letter to Biden calling on him to withdraw her nomination.
“Given this present state of affairs, we respectfully urge you to withdraw the nomination,” they wrote. “We appreciate your responsiveness to this request, and ask for prompt confirmation that the nomination of Julie A. Su is formally withdrawn.”
Specifically, Republicans have opposed Su over her handling of California’s unemployment insurance program, when the state paid out billions in fraudulent COVID-19 funds, and her stance on the gig economy and independent contractors.
The latter half of the opposition stems from a potential Department of Labor rule that would make it more difficult for workers to classify as independent contractors. Those individuals can be up to 30-percent cheaper for businesses than full-time employees. They also have fewer legal protections.
Some outside groups are also lining up to call for her name to be taken out of the running.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, a worker group that has opposed Su, wrote a letter to Biden on Thursday asking to withdraw her name. The trucker group said that her nomination hasn’t been supported in the Senate in part because of her “disastrous policies affecting the trucking industry” in California, including on gig workers.
Meanwhile, business groups that have long called on Senators to oppose her nomination, such as the International Franchise Association, were thrilled to see the Senate GOP letter this week pressuring the president to withdraw her name.
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‘The Rock’ buys every Snickers at a 7-Eleven to ‘right his wrongs’
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said he is trying to right some wrongs from his youth.
The actor and former professional wrestler confessed in a recent post on Instagram that when he was 14 years old, he stole a Snickers bar from a 7-Eleven store in Hawaii every day on the way to the gym for nearly a year.
“The same store clerk was there every day and always just turned her head and never busted me,” he said in the post.
In the feel-good viral video, Johnson returns to his childhood convenience store to do what he called “righting his wrongs” ― and buys every Snickers bar on the shelf.
He explained on Instagram that it was the “least he could do.”
“When I was 14 years old, every day I used to stop here at this 7-Eleven and steal a king-sized Snickers bar because I couldn’t afford to buy one. I had to come back and buy every Snickers bar on these shelves,” he said.
Johnson also took care of every purchase for the people who walked into the store, picking up the tab for shoppers.
He left the candy bars at the counter and asked the cashiers to give them to anyone else trying to swipe a Snickers bar.
“After decades of me wanting to come back home to 7-Eleven and try to make good, that felt really, really good,” he said, at the end of the video.
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Which high-end gift for your mother-in-law is best?
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Despite what some stand-up comedians say, a mother-in-law is a treasured family member who deserves love and attention. They can serve as a surrogate parent when your immediate family is unavailable, help raise your children as a grandmother and in many cases, act as a matriarch for the entire family.
This holiday season, treat your mother-in-law like a queen by finding them a high-end gift that will make their hearts melt. Whether it’s jewelry, designer accessories, perfume, or something a little more personal, it’s easy to find a top-shelf gift for just about any mother-in-law.
Best high-end mother-in-law gifts
Yves Saint Lauren Libre Eau De Parfum
One surefire way to impress your mother-in-law is by picking out a lovely fragrance for them. If you’re unsure about what type of fragrance to choose, stick with comfort notes, like vanilla, musk or soft florals. This eau de parfum embodies a fresh and floral fragrance with notes of orange blossom, lavender and warm vanilla, making it a great choice for most moms.
Available at: Sephora and Kohl’s
Weighted blankets offer warmth with an extra layer of comfort and soothing, making them great gifts for almost anyone. YnM makes a luxurious and breathable weighted blanket made with cotton and undetectable glass beads. Designed with quality construction and components, it’s a great natural solution for stress, anxiety and sleeping issues, so your mother-in-law is bound to derive some enjoyment and comfort from it.
Available at: Amazon
BioBidet Bliss BB-2000 Bidet Seat
Although it isn’t common in the United States, the bidet is a staple of bathrooms around the world, and these days it’s easier than ever to convert your home latrine into a refreshing experience. Take your mother-in-law’s cleanliness to the next level with the Bliss BB-2000, an all-in-one toilet upgrade. It features an adjustable heated bidet seat, a deodorizer, a warm air blower and a night light, as well as a 3-in-1 stainless steel nozzle — all of which are easily controlled with the included remote.
Available at: BioBidet and Amazon
Coach Lori Leather Shoulder Bag
One thing most mothers love is a top-notch bag that’s fashionable as well as practical. This Coach shoulder bag is high-quality and high fashion — not to mention, high-capacity. It’s made with genuine leather and has 11-inch adjustable straps, a magnetic snap closure, gold-tone exterior hardware and soft fabric interior lining.
Available at: Macy’s
Clinique Moisture Surge Auto-Replenishing Moisturizer
One solid bet for a mother-in-law’s gift is to buy them something for their daily care that they wouldn’t otherwise spend a high price on, like skin care products. This upgrade of a Clinique favorite is ideal for most skin types — an oil-free gel-cream moisturizer that penetrates deep into the skin’s surface for up to 100 hours of hydration. It features aloe bio-ferment, hyaluronic acid and activated aloe water to keep skin feeling refreshed.
Available at: Ulta Beauty, Kohl’s and Amazon
Macy’s Sapphire and Diamond Cuff Bangle Bracelet
Jewelry is usually a hit with most moms, so your mother-in-law is sure to be satisfied with sapphires. This sterling silver stunner is lined with round-cut diamonds and sapphires that extend most of the length of the bangle, with elegant floral and diamond patterns filling out the center band. Not only is this bracelet shimmering with its vintage motif, but it’s also well-balanced and comfortable.
Available at: Macy’s
Nespresso VertuoLine By Breville With Aeroccino3 Frother
Is your mother-in-law always looking for a caffeine boost on the go? Rather than stuffing her stocking with Starbucks gift cards, invest in a sleek and stylish Nespresso VertuoLine coffee and espresso maker. With the wide array of flavored pods and the included milk frother, your maternal figure will soon feel like a burgeoning barista. It’s easy to operate and brews up to five different cup sizes, from an espresso shot to a full 7.7-ounce coffee.
Available at: Sur La Table
Lenox Barware Tuscany Classics Wine Decanter
This attractive wine decanter is an excellent gift for the mother-in-law who enjoys a nice glass of pinot noir at the end of their day. Its design is simultaneously modern and classic with a curvaceous body and flared neck. Featuring a stylish stopper and central hole for easy handling, make sure your mom handles this glass decanter with care and limits it to hand washing.
Available at: Amazon
Earrings are another great gift idea for the family matriarch that loves to shine. Made with a stunning diamond-cut design, these textured earrings are available in 10-karat gold, white gold and rose gold. Rather than drawing attention with a bold statement piece, your mother-in-law will impress her peers with a subdued-yet-chic style. The best part? It comes ready to present in an attractive red gift box.
Available at: Macy’s
One of the best ways to upgrade your mother-in-law’s kitchen is with a new high-end knife set, and Japanese blades are always a sharp investment. This 16-piece set is made with German standard steel for prolonged durability and sharpness, with rich brownish-red artificial pakkawood handles that are hand-polished for a comfortable grip. It comes complete with six steak knives, a Santoku knife, two sizes of chef’s knives and more, plus an attractive block for safe storage.
Available at: Amazon
“State of Terror”: A Novel by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
Is your mother-in-law a fan of both thrilling mysteries and strong female leaders? Look no further than this highly-anticipated first work of fiction from the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, writing in tandem with her personal favorite author. Drawing from her unique perspective as a Washington insider, Clinton infuses the novel with realism and intrigue while multiple award-winning and New York Times Bestseller Louise Penny directs the action with her signature style. It’s available as a paperback or as an Audible audiobook.
Available at: Amazon
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Biden to speak on threats to democracy ahead of midterms
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver remarks Wednesday evening on threats to democracy, as he seeks to raise the stakes for voters less than a week before the midterm elections.
Biden, who has repeatedly said that “democracy is on the ballot” on Nov. 8, will speak from Capitol Hill, the site of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, White House senior adviser Anita Dunn told Axios on Wednesday morning.
“It’s from Capitol Hill, because that is where there was an attempt to subvert our democracy,” Dunn said.
Previewing Biden’s remarks, Dunn said Biden “will be very clear tonight that he is speaking to people who don’t agree with him on any issues, who don’t agree on his agenda, but who really can unite behind this idea of this fundamental value of democracy.”
The speech comes days after a man seeking to kidnap House Speaker Nancy Pelosi severely injured her husband in their San Francisco home, and as threats of political violence have rattled members of Congress and election workers.
“The threat of political violence which most Americans find abhorrent, the idea that you would use violence to further your political means, it’s something that unites almost all Americans and that we can all be united against, and obviously, we’ve seen horrible things happen quite recently,” Dunn told Axios.
Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. And learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections.
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Oklahoma prepares to execute man for 1995 slaying of Tulsa woman
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center.
Jemaine Cannon, 51, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 10 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. It will be the second execution in Oklahoma this year and the ninth since the state resumed lethal injections in 2021.
Cannon was convicted of killing 20-year-old Sharonda Clark, a mother of two with whom Cannon had been living at an apartment in Tulsa after his escape weeks earlier from a prison work center in southwest Oklahoma. At the time, Cannon was serving a 15-year sentence for the violent assault of another woman who suffered permanent injuries after prosecutors say Cannon raped her and beat her viciously with a claw hammer, iron and kitchen toaster.
A last-minute appeal seeking a stay of execution in which Cannon claims, among other things, that he is Native American and not subject to Oklahoma jurisdiction was pending late Wednesday in a federal appeals court, records show.
Cannon claimed at a clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board last month that he killed Clark in self-defense.
“I am deeply disheartened that the act of defending my life and the acts that she initiated against me ever happened,” Cannon told the board via a video feed from the state penitentiary. “The ending of human life was never desired, planned or premeditated.”
Cannon’s attorney, Mark Henricksen, also told the panel that Cannon’s trial and appellate attorneys were ineffective for not presenting evidence that supported his self-defense claim. His trial attorneys presented no witnesses or exhibits and rested after prosecutors presented their case, Henricksen said.
In a statement sent to The Associated Press this week, Henricksen said the state’s decision to proceed with Cannon’s execution amounts to “historic barbarism.”
“Mr. Cannon has endured abuse and neglect for fifty years by those charged with his care,” Henricksen said. “He sits in his cell a model prisoner. He is nearly deaf, blind, and nearing death by natural causes. The decision to proceed with this particular execution is obscene.”
But prosecutors from the attorney general’s office and Clark’s adult daughters have urged the state to execute Cannon.
Clark’s eldest daughter, Yeh-Sehn White, told the Pardon and Parole Board last month that Cannon had never in 28 years expressed any remorse for his actions and urged the board to reject clemency, which it did on a 3-2 vote.
“Mercy was never given my mother,” she said. “Even still today he points the blame at my mother for his actions.”
Oklahoma currently uses a three-drug lethal injection protocol beginning with the sedative midazolam, followed by the paralytic vecuronium bromide and finally potassium chloride, which stops the heart. The state had one of the nation’s busiest death chambers until problems in 2014 and 2015 led to a de facto moratorium.
Richard Glossip was just hours from being executed in September 2015 when prison officials realized they received the wrong lethal drug. It was later learned that the same wrong drug had been used to execute an inmate in January 2015.
The drug mix-ups followed a botched execution in April 2014 in which inmate Clayton Lockett struggled on a gurney before dying 43 minutes into his lethal injection — and after the state’s prisons chief ordered executioners to stop.
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by: Jennifer Lewis-Hall Posted: Dec 12, 2022 / 01:54 PM EST Updated: Dec 12, 2022 / 01:54 PM EST SHARE We explore the end-of-year “to do list” regarding Congress and what legislators are debating that needs to be done by the end of the year. Joining us is Mychael Schnell, Congressional Reporter at The Hill. Close Modal Suggest a Correction Your name(required) Your email(required) Report a typo or grammatical error(required) Submit Δ Suggest a Correction
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A childhood interest leads to the job of a lifetime.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 1792, when George Washington appointed David Rittenhouse to be the first director of the U.S. Mint, there have been 40 different Mint Directors. How does someone become part of this lineage? This week on U.S. Money Reserve's "In Conversation," 35th Director of the U.S Mint (1994–2000) and U.S. Money Reserve President Philip N. Diehl and 38th Director of the U.S. Mint (2006–2011) and U.S. Money Reserve Senior IRA Strategist Edmund C. Moy reflect on what it takes to become a Director at the U.S. Mint.
Watch the latest video to learn more.
When Director Moy was a young boy learning arithmetic, his parents made him responsible for the cash register at their restaurant. That was the beginning of Director Moy's interest in collecting coins and his journey to becoming Director at the U.S. Mint.
The interest in coins stayed with Director Moy throughout his career in public service. When Director Moy was ready to leave his position as a White House staffer for the George W. Bush Administration and transition into the private sector, he accepted the role of 38th Director of the U.S. Mint. Director Moy considers this the position of a lifetime.
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Getting to the final day of May is an outstanding accomplishment for any high school lacrosse program.
A trio of South Jersey Times area teams reached that milestone with three others extending their season beyond Memorial Day Weekend.
The Kingsway and Clearview boys teams have quarterfinal games ahead of them shortly after this notebook goes online. The Kingsway girls continue their South, Group 4 title bid with a semifinal game against Central Regional.
On Tuesday, Clearview, West Deptford and Williamstown saw their seasons come to an end, which was particularly tough on the Eagles and Braves. West Deptford and Williamstown each lost by a single goal in their quarterfinal games.
With a dwindling numbers of chances to add to another highlight to an outstanding season of SJT lacrosse, here are some of our favoriteAll our favorites players we had the opportunity to watch play this spring.
Brooke Alessandrini, Washington Township — With a year to go, Alessandrini has become one of the area’s very best leaders. Already over the 100-goal mark, she had 63 tallies this season.
Rylie Gemberling, Our Lady of Mercy — The junior has become one of the most dangerous scoring threats in the area and beyond. Gemberling scored 78 goals this season, coming just shy of 100 points on the season with 96.
Vincenzo Gramaglia, Clearview — The master of Center X, Gramaglia was possibly the area’s most valuable weapon. Gramaglia won 70 percent of the faceoffs he took, giving the Pioneers a distinct advantage in every game.
Jake Mason, Kingsway — It only seems like Mason has been around forever. Even in a COVID-shortened three-year career, Mason has reached incredible heights. He entered the day a single point shy of 100 for the season, the second year in a row he’s reached that milestone.
Olivia McMaster & Julia Verratti, Williamstown — The Braves duo established a new program single-season scoring best in their first playoff game. Amazingly, they kept pace with each other in their finale with four goals each to finish with 58 goals this season.
Ally Phalines, Kingsway — The Dragons junior has an astounding 87 goals this season, with at least one game to play. Paired with freshman phenom Phoebe O’Rourke, Kingsway has a very bright road ahead.
Ryan Remaly, Clearview — It’s no surprise that Remaly is a leader. She’ll be playing for Clearview icon Michelle Tumolo at West Point next year. She is the latest in the long green Clearview line of greats that includes, Tumolo, Jess Loizeaux, Gianna Bowe and Haley Russo.
Bobby Stevens, Williamstown — The Braves made strides this season with double-digit wins. Stevens led the way with 49 goals and 32 assists. Stevens did what all players should hope to do, he left the Braves program better than it was when he first played.
Matt Tuttle, Highland — The Tartans were the best story of the regular season, reeling off a SJT-area best nine-game win streak to start the season. Tuttle was a dominant force on faceoffs but didn’t embrace the ‘GO’ in FOGO. Rather than ‘Get-Off,’ Tuttle stayed on the field to lead the team in goal and points.
Madison Warlow, West Deptford — The Eagles goalie didn’t just make great saves all year long, she led and inspired her team to great heights. It’s no accident that West Deptford won a dozen games this season.
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Palo Alto Networks received the highest scores in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022 report.
According to the Forrester report: "Palo Alto Networks, long known as the inventors of the next-generation firewall (NGFW), demonstrate real innovation across multiple criteria in the network security space. The company's vision for network security is infused with AI and Zero Trust principles. The execution of both is impressive." The report also notes: "Palo Alto Networks' new policy creation wizards use AIOps to continuously recommend best practices on any change, effectively providing real-time guardrails to the user. It would be difficult to overstate how much better this approach is vs. the competition."
Palo Alto Networks was among the 10 select vendors that Forrester evaluated for its Q4 2022 Enterprise Firewalls report and received the highest scores in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories.
"We are thrilled to be recognized for both our strategy and our offerings. We've been at the forefront of innovation for more than a decade with the goal of helping our customers stay ahead of attackers", said Anand Oswal, senior vice president of products, Network Security at Palo Alto Networks. "For example, leveraging AI and ML to outpace threats and using AIOps to help customers adopt best practices that increase security effectiveness. Most recently, the latest release of our industry-leading software, PAN-OS 10.2 Nebula, brought deep learning inline to help stop the most evasive zero-day threats in real time. With us, customers can be confident they have real zero trust security safeguarding their entire organization, from protecting the hybrid workforce to securing the largest offices, data centers and cloud environments."
To learn more about the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall platform, visit: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/secure-the-network/next-generation-firewall
To read a complimentary copy of The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022 report, please visit: https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/leader-in-forrester-wave.html
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the world's cybersecurity leader. We innovate to outpace cyberthreats, so organizations can embrace technology with confidence. We provide next-gen cybersecurity to thousands of customers globally, across all sectors. Our best-in-class cybersecurity platforms and services are backed by industry-leading threat intelligence and strengthened by state-of-the-art automation. Whether deploying our products to enable the Zero Trust Enterprise, responding to a security incident, or partnering to deliver better security outcomes through a world-class partner ecosystem, we're committed to helping ensure each day is safer than the one before. It's what makes us the cybersecurity partner of choice.
At Palo Alto Networks, we're committed to bringing together the very best people in service of our mission, so we're also proud to be the cybersecurity workplace of choice, recognized among Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces (2021), Comparably Best Companies for Diversity (2021), and HRC Best Places for LGBTQ Equality (2022). For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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Truex, Reddick, Allmendinger are drivers to watch
June 29, 2023 03:05 PM
Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, and Dustin Long select the drivers they're keeping an eye on in Chicago, including Martin Truex Jr., Bubba Wallace, AJ Allmendinger, Chris Buescher, Tyler Reddick, and Brad Keselowski.
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CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – A 24-year-old woman from Sacramento, Calif. was arrested at Buffalo Niagara International Airport Tuesday night after what is being described as “unruly behavior.”
The pilot was reportedly preparing to take off, but because of the disorderly passenger, had to return to the gate when the incident occurred.
“Cynthia McKnight faces a number of charges including disorderly conduct, harassment, trespass and criminal mischief,” Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Director of Public Affairs Helen Tederous said. “According to detectives, McKnight actually opened the cabin door of the plane. The American Airlines flight was on route to Chicago.”
Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Spencer Brown was on the plane as the incident occurred and tweeted about it afterward.
“Sitting on a plane. A lady is pissed,” Brown said. “Lady pulls the emergency inflatable slide to escape the plane. Lady is running wild through the tarmac currently. Cops have arrived. Flight ruined. Memories made. Noice”
He capped off the post with a thumbs up emoji and later posted a photo of the slide on the tarmac from his spot on the plane.
Local attorney Alfonzo Cutaia also tweeted his view of the incident.
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Stabbing Victim Found In Cass County
(KFOR NEWS August 26, 2022) An autopsy is being conducted today (Friday) on the body of a 55 year old woman found stabbed to death in a house near Plattsmouth.
Cass County Sheriff Wm. C. Brueggemann says Thursday afternoon, deputies were dispatched to 9301 Highway 75, a residence south of Plattsmouth for a possible disturbance. The 911 caller, a short time later, reported a small fire in the living room and an adult female was laying on the floor.
Upon arrival, at 3:20 p.m., the deputies found the fire to have been extinguished and located 55 year old, Mary D. Blackwell on the floor with blood around her. Deputies observed multiple lacerations on Blackwell and a fatal stab wound in the chest caused by a knife. Blackwell was pronounced deceased at 3:20 p.m. Her next of kin were notified.
18 year old, Jabari D. Parsons was located at the scene, arrested, and transported to the Cass County Jail and booked on the charges of Murder first degree and Murder second degree.
Douglas County Crime Scene Investigation unit was requested and responded to assist in the collection of evidence and documentation of the crime scene.
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WASHINGTON, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report finds that in 2022, public higher education appropriations increased 4.9% beyond inflation, surpassing pre-recession per-student funding levels for the first time since 2008. The SHEF report also finds that fiscal year 2022 saw the second largest public FTE enrollment decline since the start of the SHEF dataset in 1980, and tuition revenue continued to decline.
After a short recession in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, historical patterns following economic recessions reversed in 2021 and 2022. Instead of the typical decrease in state funding following a recession, education appropriations increased for the 10th straight year, rising $932 per full-time equivalent (FTE) from 2020 to 2022. Inflation-adjusted education appropriations per FTE were greater than pre-recession funding levels in 2008, by 3.1% or $304 per FTE. The increase in education appropriations per FTE can be attributed to three notable trends: increasing state commitments to higher education funding, a sharp decline in FTE enrollment, and generous federal stimulus funding.
Additional findings from this year's report include:
- Public FTE enrollment has now declined for 11 straight years to 10.31 million in 2022, down 2.5% since 2021, and down 11.6% from an enrollment peak in 2011.
- State and local government funding for higher education totaled $120.7 billion in fiscal year 2022, including more than $2.5 billion (2.1%) in federal stimulus funding. Inflation-adjusted federal stimulus funding for higher education declined $1.4 billion or 36.4% from fiscal year 2021.
- Education appropriations increased 3.8% at two-year institutions and 4.0% at four-year institutions. Although national-level education appropriations have recovered to 2008 levels, 28 states continue funding higher education at a lower level than prior to the Great Recession.
- State public financial aid per FTE increased 2.0% from 2021 to 2022 and reached an all-time high of $990 per FTE enrolled student. These funds made up 9.7% of all education appropriations.
- Inflation-adjusted net tuition revenue decreased 1.0% in 2022 and has declined 5.8% in the last five years. Public institutions received $7,244 per FTE in net tuition and fee revenue in 2022.
- Total education revenue increased 2.4% from 2021 to 2022, reaching an all-time high of $17,393 per FTE. However, total education revenue is at an all-time high in only 11 states, and many institutions are not at an all-time high for total education revenue. Additionally, the increase in total education revenue since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic is explained by federal stimulus funding and the enrollment decline. Excluding federal stimulus funding, and if enrollment had held constant at 2020 levels, total education revenue per FTE would have declined 2.4% from 2020 to 2022.
- The student share decreased from 43.1% in 2021 to 41.7% in 2022, and for the first time since 2016, the student tuition and fees funding public higher education comprised less than 50% of total revenues in more than half of all states and Washington, D.C., even after excluding federal stimulus funding.
As these findings demonstrate, fiscal year 2022 defied several long-term trends in higher education finance and showed growth in education appropriations.
Explore the SHEF website to read the full report and customize the interactive data visualizations. The SHEF website also includes individual state profiles, an additional report on state effort and capacity to fund higher education, and data resources exploring additional higher education finance topics like student residency, performance-based funding, and capital appropriations.
For the full press release, visit https://bit.ly/SHEF22_Release.
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The 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic Odds & Preview: Hideki Matsuyama
The field for the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, Michigan at Detroit Golf Club includes Hideki Matsuyama. The event is from June 29 - July 2.
Looking to place a wager on Matsuyama at the Rocket Mortgage Classic this week? Keep reading for the betting odds and stats you need to know before you make your picks.
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Hideki Matsuyama Insights
- Matsuyama has finished below par on 11 occasions, completed his day bogey-free four times and finished 14 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 20 rounds played.
- He has carded the best score of the day once while finishing in the top-five twice and with a top-10 score in five of his last 20 rounds played.
- Over his last 20 rounds, Matsuyama has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 11 occasions.
- In his past five appearances, Matsuyama has finished in the top 20 twice.
- Matsuyama has finished with a score better than the tournament average in four of his past five tournaments.
- Matsuyama will attempt to prolong his streak of made cuts to nine by qualifying for the weekend again.
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Rocket Mortgage Classic Insights and Stats
- In Matsuyama's previous three appearances at this tournament, he has finished in the top 20 once. His average finish has been 17th.
- In his past three appearances at this event, he made it to the weekend twice.
- The par-72 course measures 7,370 yards this week, 346 yards longer than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- Players have posted 69.25 strokes per round and an average score of -5 in the past year on Tour. Events hosted on this course have a lower scoring average of -11.
- The courses that Matsuyama has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,361 yards, while Detroit Golf Club will be 7,370 yards this week.
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -3. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -11.
Matsuyama's Last Time Out
- Matsuyama finished in the 64th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the Travelers Championship, with an average of 2.88 strokes.
- He finished in the 88th percentile on par 4s at the Travelers Championship, averaging 3.77 strokes on those 48 holes.
- On the eight par-5 holes at the Travelers Championship, Matsuyama was better than 41% of the competitors (averaging 4.63 strokes).
- Matsuyama shot equal to the field average on par-3 holes in the last time out, carding a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the Travelers Championship.
- On the 16 par-3s at the Travelers Championship, Matsuyama did not record a bogey or worse (the tournament average was 1.7).
- Matsuyama's 14 birdies or better on par-4s at the Travelers Championship were more than the tournament average of 7.6.
- At that most recent outing, Matsuyama's showing on the 48 par-4s included a bogey or worse four times (the field's average was worse, at 4.8).
- Matsuyama ended the Travelers Championship with a birdie or better on three par-5 holes, while the field averaged 2.9 on the eight par-5s.
- The field at the Travelers Championship averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the eight par-5s, but Matsuyama finished without one.
Rocket Mortgage Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: June 29 - July 2, 2023
- Course: Detroit Golf Club
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
- Par: 72 / 7,370 yards
- Matsuyama Odds to Win: +1800 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
9-8-9
(nine, eight, nine)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 3" game were:
9-8-9
(nine, eight, nine)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
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Keri Russell's Hollywood career started at 15, when, on a whim, she attended a casting call in Colorado for The All New Mickey Mouse Club. After waiting in the audition line for hours, Russell read the script that was given to her and performed a dance routine. Then the executive asked her to sing — and Russell demurred.
"He said, 'Little girl, do you see the line of kids waiting out there? Do you want to sing?' And I said, 'I don't. I don't sing,' " Russell recalls.
Nevertheless, Russell got a call back. After proving that she could indeed carry a tune, she spent the next three years on The All New Mickey Mouse Club — an experience she likens to being in a small high school.
"I was one of 19 kids. The adults were invisible to me," Russell says. "It was a sweet, kind of innocent version of acting."
That was the beginning. She went on to play the title role in the drama Felicity, which aired from 1998 until 2002. More recently, Russell starred as a Soviet spy living undercover in the U.S. in the critically acclaimed series The Americans.
In the new Netflix political drama, The Diplomat, Russell plays Kate Wyler, a career foreign service officer who specializes in behind-the-scenes crisis management, who's forced out of her comfort zone when she becomes the U.S. ambassador in London.
"That's what this show is sort of about, you know, plucking her from the background as, like, No. 2 and bringing her to the front in a very visible post," Russell says.
Russell can relate to her character's discomfort: She was a nervous person to begin with, and fame made it worse. "People would always recognize you and then you always feel more watched," she says. But Russell has made her peace with it. "I go, 'Oh, that's part of me. You know, I get nervous and it's OK.' "
Interview highlights
On deciding to take a break from acting when Felicity wrapped in 2002
We were working really long hours. On network shows, you have about two months a year that you're not on that show. You're doing about 20 to 24 episodes. And, like, 16-hour days, 17-, 18-hour days sometimes. And I just felt like I missed part of being a kid a little bit.
I missed out on stupid things — birthday parties and going out dancing and getting drunk and walking home drunk in the snow. And I got to do all of those things those few years in New York. ... And that step back is the only way I'm still in this business.
So I took that money I had saved and I rented an apartment in New York to be close to my girlfriends. ... I didn't want to act. ... When you're shooting a show, you're working 'till 10:30 at night, and then you wake up at 5:00 and you're on set the next day. So I missed out on stupid things — birthday parties and going out dancing and getting drunk and walking home drunk in the snow.
And I got to do all of those things those few years in New York. ... Just wander around listening to overly emotional teenage music or, you know, reading books all day. And that step back is the only way I'm still in this business.
On going to awards shows — it's not as much fun as it looks
It's so fun to think about wearing a fancy dress. It is so fun. Everything is so pretty. Oh my gosh. And the colors, and getting your hair and makeup done and imagining that you'll look so much better than you really do when you do school drop off.
But the truth and the reality of getting your hair and makeup done is you still look sort of weird. You're instantly starting to sweat putting on a dress, going, "Oh, this doesn't look the way I thought it would. Oh, wow." Standing in front of hundreds of photographers while they take your picture and you're like, "Oh, my God, I'm doing the wrong face. I'm not standing right. They're going to see my sweat. Can they see through this dress? Can they see my nipples?"
On the marriage of fictional Soviet spies Philip and Elizabeth Jennings on The Americans
To me, it was just this impossible, painful marriage and trying to stick it out or not. And that's every marriage or any long-term relationship. They're so hard. I mean, there might be a couple people who [find] it's easy and great, but it's hard. And I thought that was truly what the show was so great at. ... Literally, for the job, [Philip] had to sleep with someone else or multiple people. You know what I mean? So you got to play out those real fears and feelings of long-term relationships in that way. And it was just such a smart idea to explore and unravel a relationship.
On acting opposite her real-life romantic partner, Matthew Rhys, on The Americans
We got to fall in love on this show, like doing these ridiculous spy things. And it was sexy and fun. But yes, it can be problematic, too. I remember Matthew directed a few episodes as well. And in one episode I was really pregnant and he was trying to get me to do something. I didn't even know what it was, but I had a huge monologue. ... And he came up to give me something, some note, and I was just like, "Stop. No, I'm doing what I can do. Just back away. Got it?"
On what appealed to her when she first read the script for The Diplomat
It has this combination of ... political fun intrigue and almost ... war journalism. ... [showrunner] Debora [Cahn], she writes about the minutia of life, so it's someone going to meet the president, but then realizing there's yogurt on my pants and you're like, "How am I gonna get this off?" It's just great writing. And I couldn't say no.
On how her character in The Diplomat feels more comfortable working behind the scenes
She's a very good organizer and she's very good at getting all the facts right and getting people where they need to be behind the scenes. And then I think if you ask her to wear something other than her one black suit that she really feels good in and smart in and tough in, and you ask her to wear a dress ... she doesn't like when people look at her.
Heidi Saman and Thea Chaloner produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Susan Nyakundi and Beth Novey adapted it for the web.
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Nationals third. Victor Robles doubles to center field. CJ Abrams out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Austin Gomber to Mike Moustakas. Victor Robles to third. Alex Call singles to third base. Stone Garrett homers to center field. Alex Call scores. Victor Robles scores. Jeimer Candelario grounds out to third base, Alan Trejo to Mike Moustakas. Joey Meneses flies out to shallow infield to Charlie Blackmon.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Nationals 3, Rockies 0.
Nationals fifth. Victor Robles flies out to deep left field to Harold Castro. CJ Abrams walks. Alex Call doubles to right field. CJ Abrams to third. Stone Garrett singles to left field. Alex Call scores. CJ Abrams scores. Jeimer Candelario pops out to shallow right field to Ryan McMahon. Joey Meneses doubles to center field. Stone Garrett to third. Lane Thomas strikes out on a foul tip.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Nationals 5, Rockies 0.
Rockies fifth. Harold Castro singles to center field. Alan Trejo grounds out to shallow infield, CJ Abrams to Joey Meneses. Harold Castro to second. Ezequiel Tovar flies out to deep right field to Lane Thomas. Harold Castro to third. Brian Serven doubles to deep left field. Harold Castro scores. Charlie Blackmon lines out to left field to Alex Call.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Nationals 5, Rockies 1.
Rockies sixth. Yonathan Daza doubles to center field. Kris Bryant lines out to center field to Victor Robles. Yonathan Daza to third. Ryan McMahon out on a sacrifice fly to deep left center field to Alex Call. Yonathan Daza scores. Mike Moustakas grounds out to second base, Michael Chavis to Joey Meneses.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Nationals 5, Rockies 2.
Nationals seventh. CJ Abrams flies out to shallow left field to Ezequiel Tovar. Alex Call called out on strikes. Stone Garrett doubles to deep left field. Jeimer Candelario singles to right field. Stone Garrett scores. Joey Meneses grounds out to third base, Alan Trejo to Mike Moustakas.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Nationals 6, Rockies 2.
Nationals eighth. Lane Thomas singles to center field. Michael Chavis singles to right field. Lane Thomas to third. Riley Adams strikes out swinging. Victor Robles out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Mike Moustakas to Ryan McMahon. Michael Chavis to second. Lane Thomas scores. CJ Abrams walks. Alex Call grounds out to shallow infield, Alan Trejo to Mike Moustakas.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Nationals 7, Rockies 2.
Rockies ninth. Ryan McMahon singles to deep left field. Mike Moustakas homers to right field. Ryan McMahon scores. Elehuris Montero pinch-hitting for Harold Castro. Elehuris Montero walks. Alan Trejo flies out to center field to Victor Robles. Jurickson Profar pinch-hitting for Ezequiel Tovar. Jurickson Profar doubles. Elehuris Montero to third. Elias Diaz pinch-hitting for Brian Serven. Elias Diaz singles to right field. Jurickson Profar scores. Elehuris Montero scores. Charlie Blackmon flies out to right field to Lane Thomas. Yonathan Daza singles to right field. Elias Diaz to second. Kris Bryant strikes out swinging.
4 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Nationals 7, Rockies 6.
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I would like to nominate Mary Summers for the Sunshine Award. Mary is a teacher for the Eleva School District who educates and supports students with special needs in high school. She puts her students first in and out of school. Mary impacts not just the students’ lives, but the lives of the parents also. As one of those parents it can be emotionally draining but Mary always has a way to put a happy tear in the eye instead of tears from stress. With all that work she still finds time to help direct the school’s annual musical. It doesn’t stop there though; Mary also is a figure skating coach where she even has students from UWEC. Mary is the teacher who advocates for my daughter in so many ways. If it was not for Mary, I truly don’t know what I would have done. Mary is definitely there for the students, 100 percent. I know it would be a struggle to get my daughter to attend school if it was not for the support of Mary. She has been a big support for our family and many others.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the modernization of warfare. With D-Day in mind, he considers the world order established in World War II.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Micronesia’s first outbreak of COVID-19 grew in one week to more than 1,000 cases by Tuesday, causing alarm in the Pacific island nation.
Last week, Micronesia likely became the final nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to experience an outbreak of the disease, after avoiding it for 2 1/2 years thanks to its geographic isolation and border controls.
Health officials said cases were rapidly increasing. It reported 140 new cases Monday, bringing the total to 1,261, a figure which includes some cases caught at the border before the outbreak.
Eight people have been hospitalized and one older man has died, officials said.
Many top lawmakers and senior officials have caught the disease, including Vice President Yosiwo George, who has been hospitalized, officials said. They said the vice president’s condition was improving.
Camille Movick, whose family owns Fusion Restaurant in Pohnpei State, told The Associated Press that a lot of people have been posting on Facebook asking, for instance, that others stay away from their homes.
“Initially there was quite a bit of panic and worry with most people,” she said.
She said her restaurant remained open although business was slow because many people were afraid to dine in. She said some other restaurants had closed their dining rooms and were only offering takeaway services.
Movick said authorities had issued a directive that all people must wear masks in public — even outdoors — and that they faced fines of $1,000 for noncompliance.
She said one positive outcome was the outbreak had prompted many previously unvaccinated people to get their shots.
She said many people suspected the virus might have been circulating before the first community case was confirmed last week because health authorities weren’t routinely testing patients for the disease.
Last year, Micronesia became one of the few countries to impose a broad mandate requiring all eligible citizens get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The government threatened to withhold federal funds from any individuals or business owners who didn’t follow the rules. Health officials said this week that 75% of people aged 5 and over were fully vaccinated.
Movick said many parts of society were continuing to function as before, including many people who were working from their offices.
“We’re hoping things get back to normal soon,” Movick said. “Just like in other countries, over time, they’ve gotten over it, and lifted the restrictions.”
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On Wednesday, the St. Paul City Council will appoint nonprofit founder Russel Balenger to serve the remainder of St. Paul Council Member Dai Thao’s unexpired term.
Balenger will hold the Ward 1 seat representing Summit-University, Frogtown, and parts of adjoining neighborhoods largely connected by University Avenue and the Green Line light rail corridor, including the area around Allianz Field, the Major League Soccer stadium in the Midway.
Balenger was one of seven finalists interviewed by the city council last week. In all, 22 applicants vied for the job, which runs through 2023.
Balenger was born and raised in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood and has also lived in Chicago and Ann Arbor. He is the founder and director of the Circle of Peace Movement, which brings together community members, nonprofits and police officers to pursue non-violent conflict resolution and racial healing.
“I am looking forward to the opportunity to further the work of making Ward 1 a strong and lasting example of a great place to live,” said Balenger, in a written statement. “My life’s work has lead me to this role, and I will deliver for the people of my community.”
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Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere shoot past key milestone
(AP) - The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone -- more than 50% higher than pre-industrial times -- and is at levels not seen since millions of years ago when Earth was a hothouse ocean-inundated planet, federal scientists announced Friday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its long-time monitoring station at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, averaged 421 parts per million of carbon dioxide for the month of May, which is when the crucial greenhouse gas hits its yearly high. Before the industrial revolution in the late 19th century carbon dioxide levels were at 280 parts per million, scientists said, so humans have significantly changed the atmosphere. Some activists and scientists want a level of 350 parts per million. Industrial carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of coal, oil and gas.
Levels of the gas continue to rise, when they need to be falling, scientists say. This year’s carbon dioxide level is nearly 1.9 ppm more than a year ago, a slightly bigger jump than from May 2020 to May 2021.
“The world is trying to reduce emissions, and you just don’t see it. In other words, if you’re measuring the atmosphere, you’re not seeing anything happening right now in terms of change,” said NOAA climate scientist Pieter Tans, who tracks global greenhouse gas emissions for the agency.
Outside scientists said the numbers show a severe climate change problem.
“Humanity has to make more serious efforts and see a rapid decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, or else the impacts of climate change will only continue to worsen,” said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of environment at the University of Michigan.
University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles said without cuts in carbon pollution “we will see ever more damaging levels of climate change, more heat waves, more flooding, more droughts, more large storms and higher sea levels.”
The slowdown from the pandemic did cut global carbon emissions a bit in 2020, but they rebounded last year. Both changes were small compared to how much carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere each year, especially considering that carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere hundreds to a thousand years, Tans said.
The world puts about 10 billion metric tons of carbon in the air each year; much of it gets drawn down by oceans and plants. That’s why May is the peak for global carbon dioxide emissions. Plants in the northern hemisphere start sucking up more carbon dioxide in the summer as they grow.
NOAA said carbon dioxide levels are now about the same as 4.1 to 4.5 million years ago in the Pliocene era, when temperatures were 7 degrees (3.9 degrees Celsius) hotter and sea levels were 16 to 82 feet (5 to 25 meters) higher than now. South Florida, for example, was completely underwater. These are conditions that human civilization has never known.
The reason it was much warmer and seas were higher millions of years ago at the same carbon dioxide level as now is that in the past the natural increase in carbon dioxide levels was far more gradual. With carbon sticking in the air hundreds of years, temperatures heated up over longer periods of time and stayed there. The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melted over time, raising sea levels tremendously and making Earth darker and reflecting less heat off the planet, Tans and Overpeck said.
Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography calculated levels a bit differently based on time and averaging, and put the May average at 420.8 ppm, slightly lower than NOAA’s figure.
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For a decade, Maria Sylvia had a tan streak on her nail. Doctors told her it was a mole and nothing to worry about. After a colleague urged her to get it examined again, Sylvia learned it was a rare skin cancer, called subungual melanoma, and shared her experience on TikTok.
“This whole thing started with me just trying to cope with my trauma with dark humor,” Sylvia, 25, an analyst in Alexandria, Virginia, told TODAY. “When I saw that this was garnering an insane amount of attention I thought people should know more about this.”
A nail streak appears
In high school, Sylvia played a lot of sports so when the tan streak appeared on her right thumbnail she thought maybe it was a blood blister or a bruise. When she visited a podiatrist for an ingrown toenail, the doctor recommended that Sylvia visit a dermatologist to have it examined.
“(The dermatologist) basically said it’s most likely a mole in your nail bed and it’s probably not going to be of concern because the alternative was like a 1% chance it was this cancer,” she said. “They basically told me to wait and watch and see if it got darker, grew wider.”
For the next several years, Sylvia thought little of the streak.
“I wasn’t concerned. I was like, ‘What are the odds?’” Sylvia recalled. “I would say, ‘Oh I was just told it was a mole under my nail bed. I grew to accept that it was just part of my hand.’”
Last fall, a former co-worker, reached out to Sylvia after reading something about subungual melanoma and encouraged Sylvia to see a dermatologist.
“She saw a picture that looked like my thumb and so she sent it to me, ‘You need to get this looked at,’” Sylvia said. “It’s almost like you don’t want to face it at that point because it’s scary.”
Sylvia started researching it and in January she made an appointment with a dermatologist.
“I owe it to my co-worker for creating a voice in the back of my head to get it looked at,” Sylvia said.
But the still dermatologist wasn’t sure about conducting a biopsy.
“He wasn’t even concerned. He was like, ‘Oh I don’t think it’ll be that,’” Sylvia said. “I’m like ‘OK, well I still want to get this biopsy done.’”
The doctor used a local anesthesia to numb the area and conducted a “punch biopsy,” taking a tiny patch of skin from the nailbed. Even as he finished the procedure, he felt confident the mark was just a mole.
“A week later, I get a call from him … he’s saying, ‘Hey we got your biopsy results back,’” she said. “He says, ‘We found melanoma.’”
What is subungual melanoma?
A subungual melanoma is a skin cancer that form in the finger or toe nailbeds.
“It’s a pretty rare subtype. However because of that it could be missed and could go on for years without being recognized,” Dr. Adam Friedman, chair of dermatology at George Washington School of Medicine and Health Science, who was not Sylvia’s doctor, told TODAY. “It can be certainly aggressive if not caught — that’s the rule of all melanomas.”
While subungual melanomas don’t frequently occur, nail discoloration is quite common. Fungal infections, bruises and moles can cause streaks on both finger and toe nails. People who work with heavy machinery, such as construction workers, often have multiple streaks in their nails.
“Vibrations can stimulate pigment production. That trauma can start stimulating the production,” Friedman explained. “The difference here is you would ... see multiple nail streaks. There shouldn’t be just one.”
People also develop moles under their nails. Much like moles on the rest of their body, they need to be mindful of changes to them.
“It gets a little tricker because how do you define it? Is it just a band from a healthy mole or is it band from a melanoma,” Friedman said. “Is that band getting wider and darker over time? Is there any injury to the nail itself?”
Often changes in the streak cannot be seen until the melanoma is advanced, which is why having regular skin checks with a dermatologist can help people understand what discoloration is normal — and what isn’t.
“Change over time is helpful, but the change over time will be slower in the nail because fingernails grow three millimeters a month. So that change may not be noticed as quickly,” Friedman said. “When in doubt, if there’s any confusion, or there’s a lack of clarity, if it could be on the fence, that’s where a biopsy could be helpful.”
Treating subungual melanoma
Sylvia’s doctor recommended she meet with an oncologist for treatment.
“All the doctors that I’ve seen are just flabbergasted by my case because I’m like the youngest person they’ve ever met with this cancer,” she said. “My oncologist informed me that I had stage zero … and it was good that I came in when I did because that means the cancer was isolated in the mole in my thumb.”
The oncologist wanted it removed within a month if possible and referred Sylvia to a Mohs surgeon, a doctor who removes skin cancer. But finding someone to treat her wasn't that straightforward. The first surgeon she met with felt uncomfortable performing the surgery as he had never treated a subungual melanoma before. He referred Sylvia to a doctor at Johns Hopkins who specialized in hand tumor removal.
“I was very happy that he was being very candid and honest with me saying that he wasn’t confident in this,” Sylvia said. “It also makes you scared because you’re like, ‘Why is it that no one feels confident doing this?’”
The surgeon at Johns Hopkins recommended “a wide excision” that removed the entire nailbed.
“Anything that might have creeped out of the mole would be removed,” Slyvia said.
But this required two surgeries. After successfully removing the nail bed and surrounding tissues, which showed the cancer had not spread, Sylvia needed to undergo a procedure that used skin from her forearm to cover the now nail-less thumb.
“(When) I actually saw my thumb for the first time I had an out of body experience,” she said. “It’s so horrible.”
It’s been tough because she can’t use her right hand very much and she’ll need physical therapy to move her thumb properly again . She is left handed but still uses her right quite a bit. She’ll never grow a nail again because of the surgery. Since sharing her story on TikTok, she’s heard from a lot of people who didn’t realize a mark on their nail could turn into skin cancer.
“People were interested to know more about it — so I found that sometimes oversharing on the internet can be beneficial,” Sylvia said. “I’ve had people reach out to me saying they were so grateful for me to share awareness.”
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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smooth and catchy musical beats by Bryce Vine, a blast of energy and upbeat tunes by party band Pop Rocks, and a mind-bending, escape room experience by Hurry Houdini are headed to U.S. military bases overseas to entertain service members as part of Armed Forces Entertainment's (AFE) late October tour.
Multi-platinum recording artist Bryce Vine has a sound that critics agree cannot easily be defined or neatly placed in a single category, only that it pushes boundaries and defines "cool." Since his influences are as wide-ranging as science fiction, pop punk and 90s nostalgia, it is not surprising his music reflects amazing complexity. His ode to his California origins "La La Land" gave him a chart topper, and he has collaborated with recording artists such as G, Cheat Codes, Loud Luxury, Jeremih, Wale, Parmalee, Blanco Brown and others. Vine's lyrical groove and catchy beats are what make him a fan favorite. Vine will be performing at OSAN Air Base Oct. 26; U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys Oct. 27, and Marine Corps Base Camp Butler Oct. 29 and Oct. 30.
Pop Rocks practically bursts off the stage with energy and eye-popping rockstar look-a-like performers who even sound like the singers as well. They perform classics from the 80s like Hall and Oates and then switch gears to Pitbull. The setlist is full of bangers from today's hottest top 40 hits, throwback hip-hop, pop country, party rock and timeless classics all mashed up and delivered in a party zone format. The Pop Rocks show brings a unique musical experience to life with costumes, lights, effects, and most importantly, awesome music. They are performing at military installations in Southwest Asia beginning Oct. 26 through Nov. 3.
Service members at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) will travel back to 1926 Detroit as they compete on teams to solve puzzles based on the mind-bending traps of famed illusionist Harry Houdini. The Hurry Houdini experience is one part interactive theater, one part brain-game and one part escape room competition that adds up to an evening of 100 percent fun. Participants are immersed into a mystery space designed to trap the famous escape artist in what would be his final stage performance. They will be performing Oct. 29-30 at GTMO.
"Diverse music, electric performances and immersive magic are in store for service members serving overseas as part of AFE's late October tour," said AFE Marketing & Business Analyst Brian Burke. "We are grateful to the performers who enjoy bringing exceptional entertainment and levity to our service members serving in remote locations," Burke said.
About Armed Forces Entertainment: Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE) is the official agency of the Department of Defense providing quality entertainment to U.S. military personnel serving overseas, primarily at contingency operations and in remote and isolated locations. Now in its 71st year, AFE brings a touch of home through music, sports and comedy entertainment to nearly 400,000 troops annually, providing our dedicated military members much-needed downtime.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — At a recent White House ceremony honoring Hispanic heritage in the U.S., President Joe Biden spoke of how immigration has defined the nation and should be celebrated.
“We say it all the time, but that’s who we are,” Biden said. “That’s the nation. We are a nation of immigrants.”
Biden pledged himself to “fixing our immigration system for good.” He’s tackling near-term issues like reuniting migrant families separated during the previous administration and addressing clogs in the asylum system. And his border officials have worked to reduce the chaos along the U.S.-Mexico line.
But an increasingly divided nation can’t agree on what a longer-term fix to the system should look like — basic questions like should there be more immigrants coming in, or fewer? And the future of key policies lies not with the White House or in the outcome of the midterm elections, but with the courts.
Just Wednesday, a federal appeals court ruling left in limbo the fate of more than 600,000 immigrants known as “dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children. Biden said he would do everything to help them but cautioned it wasn’t all up to him.
“While we will use the tools we have to allow dreamers to live and work in the only country they know as home, it is long past time for Congress to pass permanent protections for dreamers, including a pathway to citizenship,” Biden said in a statement.
The political backdrop to all these challenges is stark.
One in 3 U.S. adults believe an effort is underway to replace native-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains, according to an AP-NORC study. Republicans running for Congress are using midterm campaign ads to warn of a coming “invasion.” Some GOP leaders have taken to busing or flying border crossers to Democratic-led areas as a political play to raise awareness of what they claim is ongoing mayhem at the border.
Democrats, for their part, say they want to create a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came here as children, and they want policies that reflect the U.S. role as a haven for those fleeing persecution. But they can’t agree on what that should look like.
And all the while, economists say the country needs more workers, not less, to meet its labor needs.
Biden, who inherited a hardened system oriented by Donald Trump toward keeping immigrants out, has undone many of Trump’s most contentious policies. He’s worked to speed up the handling of asylum cases and boost the number of refugees allowed into the U.S.
And despite record numbers of arrivals in recent months and all of those overheated campaign aids, border stations right now are largely free of the chaotic scenes that in past years sparked outrage — migrants huddling under a bridge or small children packed behind fences.
Congress has repeatedly tried – and failed – to improve the nation’s tattered immigration system, chasing various proposals through the House and Senate only to see them collapse, often spectacularly.
Despite the latest court ruling on dreamers, it’s doubtful Congress will be able to pass any substantive legislation to protect a new generation of immigrants the way the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program provided a route to legal status a decade ago in the Obama administration.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointed to the most recent bills that have been approved by the Democratic-run House, but languished in the Senate, where Republicans are able to filibuster to block bills in the evenly split chamber.
“House Democrats have twice passed the Dream and Promise Act: to finally offer Dreamers a permanent pathway to citizenship,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Senate Republicans must join us to immediately pass this urgent, necessary, House-passed legislation and send it straight to President Biden’s desk.”
With action in Congress unlikely, the president is going to have to find ways to innovate if he wants to improve on the status quo, advocates say.
Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, acknowledged the “very real and undeniable challenges” Biden is facing, particularly as migrants arrive in record numbers. But he says the administration is falling short in meeting the moment.
“I have found this administration, particularly the White House, to be not creative nor open to creative approaches to provide relief,” he said, talking about migration issues that extend beyond the border.
Debate about the DACA program has dragged on so long that many of those children are now in their mid-30s with children of their own who are U.S. citizens. And the limbo continues after Wednesday’s court ruling.
If the program is ultimately ended by the courts, Biden is weighing possible executive action to provide some safeguards to the dreamers, according to administration officials familiar with the plan who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss preparations.
The Trump administration claimed DACA was denying jobs to Americans by allowing migrants to supplant them. That idea has been disproven by economists and isn’t shared by a majority of Americans. Two-thirds feel the country’s diverse population makes the U.S. stronger, and far more favor than oppose a path to legal status for the DACA recipients, according to AP-NORC.
But the deep anxieties expressed by some Americans help to explain how the issue energizes those opposed to immigration. And the idea of disarray at the U.S-Mexico border also animates those on both sides of the debate.
Even as officials encounter more migrants than ever at the border, there’s a lull right now in the type of shocking turmoil that has defined the past few years.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say changes to their processing system deserve at least part of the credit for increased efficiency and improved communication with Mexican officials on when and where migrants are coming.
“There is a lot of really thoughtful, detailed and careful work that’s being done to manage this flow,” said Commissioner Chris Magnus. He said migrants are vetted and screened rigorously, and careful steps are taken to make sure they are going into proper immigration pathways.
Critics, including some Democrats, say the administration is letting too many people into the country and should be either deporting or detaining more.
“If you don’t deport people, they will see the border as a speed bump,” Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, told Fox News. “We have to deport people. We have to deport people who aren’t supposed to be here.”
Overall, migrants have been expelled 1.8 million times since the beginning of the pandemic under an emergency health authority known as Title 42, which allowed the government to immediately deport asylum seekers as long as their countries were considered safe.
Although Biden in late March agreed to end the program, it has continued for now under a court order.
Sergio Gonzales, executive director of the Immigration Hub, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration reform, said whether the rule ultimately stands or falls, migrants will continue coming to the border because they’re living in impoverished, dangerous countries and making a calculus that staying is worse than the journey, ”even though there is a danger in that too.”
The U.S. is still trying to atone for the Trump-era family separations in which as many as 5,500 children were taken from their parents. So far, only about 600 families have been brought back together, in part because of considerable roadblocks thrown up under Trump.
Lee Gelernt, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who sued over the separations and is managing the reunifications, said that while the Biden administration has been “constructively working” to reunite families, he worries that the separations — international news when they happened — have been largely forgotten. “The truth is, there are still hundreds of little children who are not back with their parents.”
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MADRID – Spain's Civil Guard said Tuesday it had arrested 26 people in raids on illegal wells in the Andalusia region, as part of a widening crackdown on unauthorized water use amid a prolonged drought.
The Civil Guard's environmental crimes division said it had identified 250 infractions by fruit farmers including illegal wells and boreholes in the Axarquia area, east of the coastal city of Malaga. It estimated the damage to public water infrastructure at 10 million euros ($10.95 million).
Spain's central government is urging increasingly strict rules on water use in Andalusia, the world's most important region for olive oil production and a key source of fruits and vegetables for the European export market.
Record-breaking April temperatures in Andalusia have coupled with a chronic lack of rainfall. Water reservoirs in the Guadalquivir river basin, which runs through the territory, are only about a quarter full, at 27.95%, even before summer has begun. Farmers in the region have had their water allowance for irrigation cut by up to 90% in some cases.
The situation in the vast agricultural heartland and in northeastern Catalonia means that Spain's total water reserves nationally have dipped to 48.9%.
April was also Spain's driest ever. Currently, 27% of Spanish territory is in either the drought “emergency” or “alert” category. Farmers across the Western Mediterranean have warned that crop failures are likely.
Water resources in Spain have meanwhile become increasingly politicized ahead of May 28 local elections. The left-wing central government has criticized Andalusia’s right-wing regional administration for attempting to declare an amnesty for illegal wells around the region's Doñana wetlands, in contravention of European Union law.
Meanwhile, the far-right in Spain has used social media to perpetrate disinformation about a government official falsely ordering reservoirs to be emptied.
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BEIJING, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To deepen business cooperation and promote women entrepreneurship among BRICS countries, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC) held the 2023 BRICS Women's Leadership Forum on June 5 in Beijing.
Diane Wang, Member of BRICS WBA China Chapter, Founder, Chairperson & CEO of DHGATE Group, attended the panel discussion themed "She Leads in Digital Transformation", along with Nobukhosi Dlamini, CEO of Bahati Tech, Mônica Pinhanez, CEO of Zeka Digital Education, Jingjing Xu, Chair of the Board, Meridian Smart Health Technology Beijing Ltd and Ayesha Nazneen, COO of Apollo Telehealth Services. Shen Yueyue, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the All-China Women's Federation chairperson, Ren Hongbin, Chairman of CCPIT, Siyabonga C. Cwele, South Africa's ambassador to China, Lebogang Zulu, rotating chairperson of BRICS WBA, Group CEO of AV South Africa, and business representatives from BRICS countries including South Africa, Russia, Brazil, India, attended the forum.
MyyShop stages numerous budding women entrepreneurs
"We have to face the severe situation that there are still high barriers for women to gain knowledge," said Diane during the forum, drawing participants' attention to a survey carried out last year by the APEC Business Advisory Council in which 63% of women respondents from MSMEs reported a lack of professional skills while more than 50% expressed a strong need for training in digital tools. "All parties are in action, but I would like to reiterate to strengthen multilateral cooperation in the digital capability building for women, help women to access digital skills in a practical way to realize entrepreneurship," she added.
To lower the barriers for women to participate in e-commerce to an absolute minimum and provide a powerful digital tool for young women entrepreneurs to grow their social commerce business, DHGATE launched MyyShop in 2020 as a pioneering social commerce platform. MyyShop provides digitalization tools and step-by-step support to empower creators, influencers, and individual entrepreneurs with social influence to effortlessly monetize their influence on social platforms. Put simply, users can "Share to Earn" by selling through shoppable feeds or leveraging influencer marketing on social platforms.
Diane shared the story of Sonya, a Russian woman's story to allow participants to have a full picture of how MyyShop works to help women stand on their own feet. Sonya is an international student studying in China. She once modeled part-time but gave that up when COVID-19 hit. Fortunately, she started to learn e-commerce knowledge and skills on MyyShop and tried to recommend wigs to her followers, which were shipped by MyyShop suppliers. Now, her monthly revenue is above USD 400,000, which not only allows her to pay her tuition fees but also allows her to partly support her family.
"This is a touching story that makes us believe that if we provide training to women and connect them with resources, they can better participate in the digital economy and make themselves better off. "
For women entrepreneurs, MyyShop addresses complex supply chain challenges in cross-border e-commerce using innovative technology and services. This enables women to leverage their strengths and actively participate in the digital economy with equal opportunities.
"We should strive to harness and utilize the latest technology. I look forward to seeing more women-led entrepreneurial enterprises effectively leverage the power of social networks and new technologies," said Diane, pointing out the infinite potential of digital transformation.
A new women empowerment community to come
Diane appealed for different organizations among BRICS countries to cooperate with and promote outstanding women role models to inspire more women worldwide, foster an environment of public opinion that supports women entrepreneurs, and let women see the limitless potential of the digital economy.
To encourage the global women community to stand up, raise their voices, and break old stereotypes, Diane is in the process of establishing an international women empowerment community. "The road for women to form and grow a business is long and difficult," said Diane, who founded DHGATE in 2004.
"If someone can guide budding entrepreneurs as mentors, allowing them to learn from their valuable experience, such women are more likely to succeed," she added. This community will serve as a platform for women to support each other, giving them the opportunity to learn new skills, acquire new resources, realize their potential faster and better, and let the world see "Her Power".
This new community initiative follows the APEC Women Connect platform initiated by Diane in 2016. As an APEC-endorsed program, the platform aims to empower women, especially young women, to realize entrepreneurship through digital solutions, including inspirational sharing, practical learning, effective recognition, and awards.
"We will continue to persist with this project and continuously expand its influence to drive and assist more women entrepreneurs," said Diane.
During the 2023 BRICS Women's Leadership Forum, the BRICS Women's Development Report for 2023 was also published to provide an overview of the current state and progress of women's development in these countries.
About DHgate
Founded in 2004, DHgate has become the leading B2B cross-border e-commerce marketplace in China. Through our global operations and offices, including in the USA and UK, we reach millions of people with trusted products and services. As of December 31, 2022, DHgate served more than 59.6 million registered buyers from 225 countries and regions by connecting them to over 2.54 million sellers in China and other countries, with over 34 million live listings on the platform annually. For more information, please visit dhgate.com and follow @DHgate.com
About MyyShop
MyyShop is a pioneering social commerce platform launched by DHGATE Group that allows effortless selling on social media. MyyShop aims to provide content creators with online store creation tools, as well as AI-powered, tailored product recommendations that their audience won't be able to resist, allow them to sell with confidence knowing the products are in demand and backed by a world-leading supply chain that delivers to increase earnings quickly. For more information, please visit MyyShop.com and follow @MyyShopOfficial
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (Associated Press)
A Washington, D.C. police officer was arrested Friday on charges that he lied about leaking confidential information to Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and obstructed an investigation after group members destroyed a Black Lives Matter banner in the nation’s capital.
An indictment alleges that Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond, 47, of Stafford, Virginia, warned Tarrio, then national chairman of the far-right group, that law enforcement had an arrest warrant for him related to the banner’s destruction.
Tarrio was arrested in Washington two days before Proud Boys members joined the mob in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Earlier this month, Tarrio and three other leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy charges for what prosecutors said was a plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in the White House after he lost the 2020 election.
A federal grand jury in Washington indicted Lamond on one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements. A magistrate judge ordered Lamond’s release from custody after he pleaded not guilty to the charges during his initial court appearance Friday.
The indictment accuses Lamond of lying to and misleading federal investigators when they questioned him in June 2021 about his contacts with Tarrio. The indictment also says Tarrio provided Lamond with information about the Jan. 6 attack.
“Looks like the feds are locking people up for rioting at the Capitol. I hope none of your guys were among them,” Lamond told Tarrio in a Telegram message two days after the siege.
“So far from what I’m seeing and hearing we’re good,” Tarrio replied.
“Great to hear,” Lamond wrote. “Of course I can’t say it officially, but personally I support you all and don’t want to see your group’s name and reputation dragged through the mud.”
Lamond was placed on administrative leave by the police force in February 2022.
Lamond, who supervised the intelligence branch of the police department’s Homeland Security Bureau, was responsible for monitoring groups like the Proud Boys when they came to Washington.
Lamond declined to comment. His attorney, Mark Schamel, said Lamond’s arrest “came as a little bit of a shock” because he hadn’t spoken to the government since December.
Schamel has previously said that Lamond’s job was to communicate with a variety of groups protesting in Washington, and his conduct with Tarrio was never inappropriate. His lawyer told The Associated Press in December that Lamond is a “decorated veteran” of the police department and “doesn’t share any of the indefensible positions” of extremist groups.
The Metropolitan Police Department said Friday that it would do an internal review after the federal case against Lamond is resolved.
“We understand this matter sparks a range of emotions, and believe the allegations of this member’s actions are not consistent of our values and our commitment to the community,” the department said in a statement.
Lamond’s name repeatedly came up in the Capitol riot trial of Tarrio and other Proud Boys leaders. Tarrio’s defense sought to use messages showing that Tarrio was informing Lamond of the Proud Boys plans in Washington in order to support Tarrio’s claims that he was looking to avoid violence, not create it.
Text messages introduced at Tarrio’s trial appeared to show a close rapport between the two men, with Lamond frequently greeting the extremist group leader with the words “hey brother.”
Tarrio’s lawyers had wanted to call Lamond as a witness, but were stymied by the investigation into Lamond’s conduct and his lawyer’s contention that Lamond would claim Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. The defense accused the Justice Department of trying to bully Lamond into keeping quiet because his testimony would hurt their case — a charge prosecutors vehemently denied.
The indictment is the latest sign the Justice Department is moving forward in cases against people whose alleged conduct was uncovered in the massive Jan. 6 investigation, beyond the rioters themselves. More than 1,000 people have been charged with participating in the attack on the Capitol, but investigators have also been examining broader efforts by Trump and his allies to undermine the 2020 election.
Prosecutors say Lamond and Tarrio communicated at least 500 times across several platforms about things like the Proud Boys’ planned activities in Washington over a roughly year and a half.
Tarrio is expected to be sentenced in August. His lawyer, Nayib Hassan, declined to comment Friday on Lamond’s indictment, but said he was “shocked and disgusted” that the government used information in the case against Lamond that Tarrio’s defense was not allowed to show jurors at trial.
Lamond began using the Telegram messaging platform to give Tarrio information about law enforcement activity around July 2020, about a year after they started talking, according to prosecutors. By November of that year, he was talking about meeting Tarrio during a night out.
In December 2020, Lamond told Tarrio about where competing antifascist activists were expected to be. Lamond, whose job entailed sharing what he learned with others in the department, asked Tarrio whether he should share the information Tarrio gave him about Proud Boys activities, prosecutors said.
Jurors who convicted Tarrio heard testimony that Lamond frequently provided the Proud Boys leader with internal information about law enforcement operations in the weeks before other members of his group stormed the Capitol.
Less than three weeks before the Jan. 6 riot, Lamond warned Tarrio that the FBI and U.S. Secret Service were “all spun up” over talk on an Infowars internet show that the Proud Boys planned to dress up as supporters of President Joe Biden on the day of the inauguration.
In a message to Tarrio on Dec. 25, 2020, Lamond said police investigators had asked him to identify Tarrio from a photograph. Lamond warned Tarrio that police may be seeking a warrant for his arrest.
Later, on the day of his arrest, Tarrio posted a message to other Proud Boys leaders that said, “The warrant was just signed.”
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Durkin Richer contributed to this story from Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Which dinosaur toy is best?
Many kids go through a dinosaur phase. It’s amazing to think that the planet we’re living on now is the same planet where these magnificent reptiles roamed some 66 million years ago. Until scientists figure out a way to bring these massive animals back to life, playing with dinosaur toys is the next best thing.
The perfect dinosaur toy unlocks your child’s curiosity and imagination. As a top pick, the Papo Pentaceratops Figurine is highly detailed and super durable. Whether you’re buying for an action movie fan or a natural history buff, here’s what to consider.
What to know before you buy a dinosaur toy
Popular species
Paleontologists have identified over 700 different species of dinosaurs. Toy manufacturers tend to focus on the dozen or so most popular species that are most identifiable to children. These species include the tyrannosaurus rex, the triceratops, the stegosaurus, the brontosaurus and the pterodactyl.
Some kids may want a big and ferocious dinosaur like the carnivorous tyrannosaurus rex. Others may prefer a gentle giant like the herbivorous brontosaurus. The pterodactyl, the best-known species of flying dinosaur, is a fun addition to any collection.
Scientific accuracy
If you’ve got a child with a budding interest in paleontology, you may want to opt for a scientifically accurate dinosaur toy with a realistic design and features. These toys are based on the latest academic findings and are also a great gift for dinosaur-loving adults.
If you’ve got a child who just wants a big scaly monster to rule over the rest of their toys with a mighty roar, scientific accuracy will be less important. Most manufacturers tend to focus on one type of toy or the other. You won’t need a degree in paleontology to figure out which is which.
Age range
Dinosaurs are ferocious reptiles. They have horns, bumps and claws. That means a lot of sharp edges and potentially dangerous small parts, especially if you opt for a scientifically accurate toy. Pay close attention to the recommended age range and use common sense. Only you know whether or not a toy will be safe for your child.
For very young children, consider a dinosaur stuffed animal like this adorable Wild Republic Brachiosaurus Plush.
What to look for in a quality dinosaur toy
Interactivity
Some dinosaur toys are static figures meant for display only. The more expensive and the more scientifically accurate the toy, the more likely it’s meant to be admired on a shelf.
Other dinosaur toys have moving parts like a tail that goes up and down, a head that turns side to side or wings that actually flap. Some may even have a button for sound. While your child may love hearing their dinosaur over and over again, you may not appreciate the constant noise. Make sure to consider your own sanity before buying.
Customization
Look for toys that are part of a larger family of products. While some kids may want just the single dinosaur, others may want to start a collection. Most manufacturers make at least a few species, but some go so far as to offer other prehistoric animals or full play sets.
There are also building kits that will allow your child to make their own dinosaur. One of the simplest and best is the LEGO Creator Mighty Dinosaurs Kit. A single 174-piece kit allows you to make a tyrannosaurus rex, a triceratops or a pterodactyl.
Film or TV tie-in
Any movie or TV show featuring dinosaurs should have some sort of merchandise. The “Jurassic World” franchise is constantly putting out new toys to accompany each film. The popular “Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous” animated series on Netflix also has its own line of products.
When purchasing an officially licensed dinosaur toy, be sure to buy from trusted retailers and not secondhand sources like Etsy or eBay. It’s difficult to confirm a toy’s authenticity if you don’t buy it directly.
How much you can expect to spend on a dinosaur toy
Dinosaur toy prices depend on size, scientific accuracy, interactive features and whether the dinosaur comes by itself or as part of a set. Small and simple figurines hover around $8-$10. Larger, scientifically accurate or officially licensed figurines range from $20-$35. Sets with multiple dinosaurs can be $25-$50.
Dinosaur toy FAQ
Are my old dinosaur toys worth anything?
A. If they’re out of the original packaging and they’ve been sitting around collecting dust and moisture in your basement for the past couple of decades, then probably not. If you’ve got unopened toys in mint condition, then it’s worth checking auction sites or with a local collector to see if you have anything of value.
Will a realistic dinosaur toy be too scary for my child?
A. Unfortunately, there’s really no way to know for sure until you get the toy in front of your child. Be sure to keep the tags on if you can. Not only will this make the dinosaur less intimidating, but it’ll also ensure an easy return if necessary. If you’re truly concerned, consider a cute plush dinosaur instead of a ferocious plastic dinosaur.
What’s the best dinosaur toy to buy?
Top dinosaur toy
What you need to know: Papo’s figurines feature intricate designs and gorgeous hand painting.
What you’ll love: This manufacturer makes a wide variety of scientifically accurate species that are durable and hefty. They’re great for kids or adults.
What you should consider: It may be too scary with too many small and pointy parts for younger children.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top dinosaur toy for the money
Boley 5-Piece Jumbo Dinosaur Set
What you need to know: These are five soft plastic dinosaurs for the price of one.
What you’ll love: The squishy design is great for all ages. The set includes a mix of scary and friendly species.
What you should consider: The figurines have no moving parts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Mattel Jurassic World Carnotaurus Toro
What you need to know: This features the biggest and baddest dinosaur toy in town.
What you’ll love: As an officially licensed “Jurassic World” tie-in product, the head, neck, legs, arms, tail and jaws all move.
What you should consider: Some parents report that the toy’s roaring feature is very loud with no way to adjust the volume.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Retailer helped recycle 1,825 tons of plastic plant containers
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to be a good neighbor and lessen its impact on the environment, Meijer is encouraging its customers to bring their plastic flowerpots and trays – regardless of where they originally purchased the plants or flowers – to any Meijer Garden Center to recycle.
The retailer began collecting the plastic gardening containers – which primarily come from its three suppliers of annuals, like geraniums or petunias – on recycling carts in its Garden Centers in 2014 and has since contributed to the recycling of 1,825 tons of plastic through East Jordan Plastics, Inc., a South Haven, Mich.-based plastic processing company.
"At Meijer, we integrate environmental sustainability into our daily operations because it makes good business sense and aligns with our values of caring about the communities we serve," said Jeff Lynch, Garden Center Merchant for Meijer. "Gardening is an activity that supports a natural environment where plants can flourish, but unfortunately, the majority are sold in plastic gardening containers. By working with our suppliers and customers to recycle those containers, it's our way of being more environmentally friendly and moving the industry forward."
Meijer works with three main suppliers of annual flowers, all of which are local: Masterpiece Flower Company in Byron Center, Kalamazoo Flower Group in Kalamazoo and Meadowridge, Inc. in Zeeland. The three suppliers provide Meijer with more than 6.5 million plants each year, and work together to consolidate, sort and ship the containers back to East Jordan Plastics, which continues the cycle.
In addition to keeping plastic out of the landfill, recycled plastic uses less energy and emits less carbon in its production compared to virgin plastic. In fact, the Association of Plastic Recyclers reported that recycled plastic reduced total energy consumption by 88 percent and cut emissions by 71 percent for Polypropylene, which is the plastic used to manufacture plant and flowerpots and trays.
Meijer has made significant strides in recent years to reduce plastic waste. For example:
- In April 2022, Meijer donated $1 million to the charitable arm of the Council of the Great Lakes Region in the United States – the CGLR Foundation – to clean up Midwestern beaches and waterways and provide greater awareness about the scale of the plastics pollution problem in the Great Lakes.
- In November 2021, Meijer wrapped up a pilot project with Dow (NYSE: DOW) that enabled a new paving technique using recycled plastic bags to create a more durable parking lot at the retailer's Holland, Mich. supercenter. The project used approximately 12,500 pounds of post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR), which is the equivalent of 944,000 plastic grocery bags.
- In January 2020, Meijer opened its first small format store, Woodward Corner Market, without single-use plastic bags. The initiative was launched in April 2022 at Bridge Street Market in Grand Rapids.
- Since 2014, each Meijer store has collection bins inside its front entrance vestibules for customers to deposit clean, dry plastic bags and films, including single-use, bread, dry cleaning, produce and water softener bags. In 2021, Meijer recycled 7.6 million pounds of plastic bags that were sent to its distribution centers for remanufacturing into decking.
About Meijer: Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates more than 262 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer pioneered the "one-stop shopping" concept and has evolved through the years to include expanded fresh produce and meat departments, as well as pharmacies, comprehensive apparel departments, pet departments, garden centers, toys and electronics. For additional information on Meijer, please visit www.meijer.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter at twitter.com/Meijer and twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.
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If you’re areader who enjoys feeling a shiver down your spine — even in the bright summer heat next to a chlorinated pool — something spooky is heading your way. “Our Crooked Hearts,” the latest release from Brooklyn-based writer Melissa Albert, is a contemporary, atmospheric journey, flush with in-ground pools, enchanted golden boxes, and deadly spells.
Albert, a former bookseller and YA literary blogger for Barnes & Noble, is the New York Times best-selling author of The Hazel Wood series — ”The Hazel Wood,” “The Night Country,” and “Tales from the Hinterland” —fantastical stories set in the liminal space of a modern reality infused with intrusions from fairy tales.
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Her new novel, out on Tuesday, takes place in the Chicago suburbs and city, spanning time periods between 17-year-old Ivy’s summer break, and her mother Dana’s secret occult past involving dark, otherworldly forces that may or may not want vengeance on her daughter in the present-day.
On Wednesday, Albert will be visiting An Unlikely Story bookstore in Plainville for a signing and conversation with New England-based author Julie C. Dao (“Forest of a Thousand Lanterns,” “Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena”). As Albert gears up for her book tour, we caught up over Zoom for a chat about her work.
Q. I stayed up finishing your book last night and I definitely didn’t sleep well, but I think that’s a compliment to you.
A. Sleep — who needs that right now?
Q. But seriously, the book really moves. Do you have the action plotted before you start writing?
A. I have a little bit of an idea of where it’s going, but I don’t know exactly how I’m going to get there. The metaphor that I use is the headlights method. You can kind of see one scene ahead, so you’re always kind of writing into the next scene that you can see.
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Q. There’s a thread dealing with memory as both a gift and a curse. Did you know you wanted to focus on that?
A. I like to explore things through the lens of the speculative, but it’s always an organic outgrowth of storytelling: a narrative I want to tell, and then I look back and can see what it actually touches on, outside of the plot itself. I wrote this one during the pandemic. I’m a parent to a small child. He was 2½ when the pandemic began, and I was thinking about the ways you can fail your children — writing fantasy gave me some really interesting ways to explore that.
Q. What books were you reading when you wrote it?
A. My pandemic reading diet was genre fiction — mysteries and horror and high fantasy. I couldn’t click with anything that wasn’t heavily page-turning. I think this book was written kind of in homage to that. I read “A Deadly Education” by Naomi Novic, Emily Henry’s “Beach Read,” Agatha Christie; I reread “The Westing Game” [by Ellen Raskin] and “Spinning Silver” [by Naomi Novic] — anything super page-turning.
Q. I loved the suburban setting. Was that inspired by where you grew up?
A. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. I wanted to write and make a suburban setting for Ivy’s story that was as specific and coded as what you see in urban fantasy with cities.
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Q. And then you also have the city, told through Dana’s story.
A. I got so drawn into Dana, the mother’s story — which I’d originally perceived as the backstory. It turned into half the book. I hadn’t intended to write anything set in Chicago in the ‘90s, but getting to do it was so fun. I set it in East Arches Park, which is where my dad grew up.
Q. What’s so attractive to you about the space you write in — mixing contemporary reality with magical elements?
A. When I’m writing, I’m drawn again and again to the idea of the world slightly tilted. The world as we know it, but with portals, or thin places — magic threading through. I like that atmosphere of dread and possibility. As a kid, everything I read and connected with the most was about kids finding their ways into other worlds. That’s not an original thing to say — I think a lot of writers start that way. But for me, it lived on in this very literal way. I never let go of the idea of magic bleeding into the real world.
Q. I love the fierceness and complexity of the female characters in your books.
A. In “The Hazel Wood,” the main character’s ferocious nature is initially meant to be a bit alienating to readers, and then there’s kind of a reveal for it at the end, and the reveal is magical in nature. For this book, I wanted to build it more organically. The women in this book — their fierceness and the anger that drives them is very human in origin.
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Q. I find it extremely satisfying to read female characters like that.
A. There’s this kind of advancing, wonderful understanding of the wholeness of female characters that I’ve been able to watch happen in real time because I’ve been so entrenched in YA for so long. It’s this march towards full humanity as simply a given. Not like every book has to try to convince you these girls are human — it’s like, they’re human. And people who are paying attention know this.
Q. It’s cool to imagine young people folding these books into their understanding of themselves.
A. YA is always kind of that front edge of acceptance, too, and I love that about writing in this space. The readers are just so smart and they’re young enough, hungry enough, and engaged enough to kind of take on whatever kind of character you give them.
Interview was edited and condensed. Gina Tomaine can be reached at Gina.Tomaine@gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter @gtomaine.
Melissa Albert and “Our Crooked Hearts,” June 29 at 7 p.m., An Unlikely Story, 111 South St., Plainville, Free, anunlikelystory.com/event
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Williamsburg was solid, but not good enough, on Thursday, as Des Moines Hoover prevailed 65-49 in an Iowa boys basketball matchup on Feb. 23.
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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that it will present at the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 12:45 pm Eastern Time.
The live webcast of BD's presentation can be accessed from the BD investor relations website, investors.bd.com. A replay of the event will be available on the same webpage following its conclusion.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ‘s reelection campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020 but also compete in places it lost like North Carolina and increasingly Republican-dominated Florida, providing what it says are “a number of viable pathways to the 270 electoral votes” needed to clinch four more years.
Offering her first extensive comments on strategy since she was named manager of Biden’s campaign last month, Julie Chavez Rodriguez wrote in a memo to “interested parties” that the 2024 race presents “significant opportunities to grow Democratic support.” It was released while Biden was traveling in Japan, but he is skipping previously planned, subsequent stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea to focus on debt limit talks in Washington.
Rodriguez said the reelection campaign is planning early investments to try to retain battleground states Biden won in 2020 including Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New Hampshire, and to hold Georgia and Arizona, which hadn’t voted Democratic in a presidential race in decades prior to three years ago.
But the campaign will also “look to expand the map even further in states like North Carolina and Florida” and Rodriguez said both would be included in a “7-figure” advertising buy that encompassed investments in a string of swing states.
Biden’s reelection campaign is built around asking Americans to allow him to “finish the job” he started, and has sought to paint “extreme” Republicans like former President Donald Trump and supporters of his “Make America Great Again” movement as threats to core American political values.
Trump is now seeking the White House for a third time, and while Rodriguez’s memo did not mention him by name, it did predict Biden would “prevail over the MAGA extremist agenda once again.”
Biden’s political advisers have long argued that Biden beat Trump once and can do so again. If someone else captures the GOP presidential nomination — like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is widely seen as a top Trump alternative — Biden’s team maintains the same strategy can work since most top Republicans have done little to distance themselves from the MAGA movement.
Though Rodriguez’s memo makes no mention of it, contrasting Biden with his opponent may be the president’s strongest reelection tactic. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll last month found that only about half of Democrats think the 80-year-old Biden should run again, though 81% said they would at least probably support him in the 2024 general election if he is the nominee.
The memo says the reelection campaign plans to spread its message online and through in-person contacts with voters, but will rely heavily on leveraging voters’ existing social circles.
“While trust in the media may have eroded, trust in people’s personal networks has never been stronger,” Rodriguez wrote. She promised that the campaign will “engage early and often” with its traditional base supporters among women, as well as Black, Hispanic and Asian American voters, and young people who didn’t turn out for the 2022 midterms. The memo also says organized labor “will be core to our electoral success.”
Biden’s reelection campaign says it plans to try for gains among targeted groups of voters during next year’s race. That includes building on 2020, when Biden “made small, but critical gains among rural and white working class voters in battleground states.” It further notes that Democrats saw support rise slightly in those demographics during last year’s midterms in “states like Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin, and remain consistent in Georgia and North Carolina.”
The memo says strong suburban support helped lift Biden to the 306 electoral votes he won in 2020, and there could be room for growth among such voters, who may be energized by the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision.
National Democrats have remained strongly unified behind Biden. He faces only token opposition in the party’s presidential primary from self-help author Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. That means, Chavez wrote, that the reelection campaign “is able to leverage party infrastructure from Day One, including tools, technology and people, which means we aren’t starting from scratch.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — For more than half a century, ABC, CBS and NBC have aired evening newscasts each weeknight on television. This fall, the competition has spread to another medium.
The launch of John Dickerson’s “CBS News Prime Time” in September means that all three news divisions have unique streaming newscasts at night, a nod to the future and bid to reach young people who aren’t watching television at dinnertime.
Dickerson’s newscast debuted nearly a year after NBC’s “Top Story” with Tom Llamas. ABC’s “Live Prime” with Linsey Davis started in February 2020. Each streams live for at least an hour starting at 7 p.m. Eastern and are repeated later in the evening. All can be seen for free.
“The revolution will not be televised,” Davis quipped. “It will be streamed.”
She and her rivals have big ambitions.
“We want to be the best news show, period,” Llamas said. “I don’t want to be just the best show on streaming.”
Looking past the similarities, they each have intriguing differences in approach, more so than the broadcast evening news shows led by Lester Holt, David Muir and Norah O’Donnell.
Network news divisions aren’t looking to replace the television broadcasts, which usually reach around 20 million people combined every night, more during cold weather months.
The streamcasts almost certainly don’t approach those numbers, although if anyone knows for sure how many people are watching, they aren’t telling. There isn’t a single outside source that measures audience size, like the Nielsen company does for TV. The networks all say the shows are catching on, but won’t share their own statistics with competitors or the public — often a sign that those levels are low.
Dickerson brings the most broadcast experience to his role, having reported for “60 Minutes,” moderated “Face the Nation” and hosted “CBS This Morning.”
At its launch, his streamcast quickly distinguished itself as the most interview-heavy of the three. He will debrief CBS News reporters who have done television stories to empty their notebooks of additional details, and find experts for conversations on the day’s major stories.
“I’m interested in who the person is who may not even be known, but knows what is going on,” Dickerson said. “It’s great to be able to ask the experts yourself, whether the experts are within CBS or not.”
Probing with experts to tell people more about stories they may have seen flash by in headlines leans into Dickerson’s strength as a journalist, said Anthony Galloway, CBS News Streaming senior vice president.
The most established streamcast, ABC’s “Live Prime,” takes advantage of what streaming has to offer over television right now: time. Davis’ show is most apt to stretch reports beyond what can be seen on TV’s “World News Tonight.” After Muir traveled to Ukraine, the streaming show gave him 10 minutes to report on what happened in a village recently liberated from the Russians. That kind of length is a luxury seldom afforded on television evening news programs that have roughly 22 minutes of news between commercials.
A profile of the jam band O.A.R. stretched like a guitar solo, and correspondent Phil Lipof even went onstage to play with the band.
“Live Prime” airs for an hour and a half, although the last half hour is largely a shortened summary of what had been on before. The CBS and NBC shows are an hour.
Internal research shows that “Live Prime” viewers appreciate the longer-form stories, more than a reliance on talking heads, said Seni Tienabeso, executive director of ABC News Live.
Getting “Live Prime” started before its rivals allowed for more research time, said Reena Mehta, ABC’s senior vice president for streaming and digital content. She said it’s not ABC’s goal to replicate the linear television model, and the program essentially has the capacity to go live all evening. The form of these programs, though, is hardly a shock to television viewers.
For NBC, Llamas packs his fast-paced show with as much information as possible.
“I believe in delivering a high story count,” he said. “I think people right now are inundated with information, but they’re inundated with the same type of information, the same stories. I want to find stuff that’s not already out there.”
Llamas, a Cuban-American, makes sure to report on Latin American issues on each show. He travels frequently to news locations — Uvalde, Texas, and Chicago on mass shootings, from Ukraine to Scotland after the queen’s death, and twice to Wisconsin. He talks about binge-worthy entertainment. Producers comb social media and local NBC stations for news, although there’s an occasional reliance on eye candy — things like car chases that are on because the video is interesting.
There’s no evidence that the streamcasts are cutting into viewership of the televised evening news shows. The networks show no signs of abandoning them, either: NBC, for example, has quietly and successfully aired Holt’s “Nightly News” on YouTube, part of a strategy of finding an audience wherever it can.
The news divisions say they have not built the evening streamcasts to replace the television product. “I feel like it’s a nice complement to ‘World News,’” Davis said.
Besides, the television and streaming audiences tend not to overlap much.
Although there are no specific numbers for “Top Story,” NBC says that its streaming service overall gets an average of 100 million views each month. The pandemic brought in more viewers and people continue to cut the cable television cords.
Most new television sets being manufactured offer people easy access to the streaming product, said Janelle Rodriguez, senior vice president at NBC News.
“There’s no real turning back the clock here,” she said.
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If you like to daydream about what you'd do with a billion-dollar payday, Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries are giving you more chances than ever: for several reasons, eye-popping jackpots are much more likely to happen now than they were in recent years.
But that doesn't mean you're more likely to win a massive lottery prize than you were 10 years ago. It's less likely, in fact — but that isn't likely to stop anyone from buying a ticket.
"Human beings just fundamentally have a very, very difficult time understanding risk when we have things that are very, very rare," economics professor Victor Matheson of the College of the Holy Cross told NPR.
The what-ifs of sudden wealth are on many Americans' minds now, as the jackpot for Friday night's Mega Millions drawing was forecast at $1.35 billion. If a winner emerges, it would be the second-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. The Friday the 13th drawing is set for 11 p.m. ET.
Here are five things to know about the way lotteries work, and why organizers are touting mega-jackpots now more than ever:
First, about those billion-dollar paydays
Huge jackpots make for eye-catching headlines — $2.04 billion! $1.337 billion! — but while the term "jackpot" might imply a pile of cash waiting to be raked in by a lucky winner, the reality is different.
"It's not accurate at all" to think of someone getting all that money in a sudden windfall, Matheson says. "And it's actually kind of crazy that we've all bought into the framing that the American lotteries have put upon us — even me, the economist who should know better."
When people win the lottery, they get to choose between taking a cash payout or having organizers invest the money in an annuity that will pay them once now, and again for roughly the next 29 years. On the day of the drawing, the actual amount of money at stake might be huge — but it's much smaller than the jackpot.
"What they call the 'advertised jackpot' is the sum of these 30 payments. And that's crazy," Matheson says, adding that lottery winners overwhelmingly opt for the cash payout. But that doesn't stop the lotteries — and yes, the media — from hyping the bigger, more exciting numbers.
Rising interest rates are making jackpots bigger
Lotteries' advertised jackpots are based on annuities, which in turn are based on interest rates. And as interest rates rose sharply over the past year, they took jackpot totals along for the ride.
"To have a $1 billion advertised jackpot today, you need about $500 million in that jackpot pool," Matheson says. "But two years ago, during the depths of the recession from COVID, you would have needed more like $700 million in that pool to actually generate a $1 billion annuity."
The spike in interest rates helps explain why two of the largest-ever lottery jackpots came in 2022. But other factors are also at work.
The lotteries have changed their rules
In the past 10 years or so, lotteries have seen three big changes that made mega-jackpots less rare.
The first big shift came when the two big multi-state lotteries, Mega Millions and Powerball, threw out an old agreement restricting each of them to separate parts of the country.
"They essentially signed a truce," Matheson says. And with all but five U.S. states now operating lotteries, he adds, "what this means is you've got 300 million potential buyers all contributing to that pool."
The second change is simple: prices have doubled. After Powerball raised its tickets from $1 to $2 in 2012, Mega Millions followed suit in 2017, letting money accumulate much more quickly than in the past.
The third shift, Matheson says, is that both lotteries have changed their odds, as they now give players roughly a 1-in-300 million chance of winning.
"The fact that they made it harder to win means it's more likely for the jackpot to roll over" and grow even larger, he says.
People are not great at calculating the odds
Lotteries play on a human desire to dream big. But while humans are good at developing an intuitive sense for how likely risks and rewards are within their own experience, those skills don't translate very well to the immense scope of lotteries.
People's basic misunderstanding about how rare it is to win a jackpot works in the lotteries' favor, Matheson says.
"If people were really, really good at math, no one should be buying lottery tickets," he says.
As an example, he points to that shift in how the two big lotteries work. On an intuitive level, it makes no difference when a lottery goes from offering a 1-in-175 million chance of winning to a 1-in-300 million chance.
"We don't understand that sort of difference, even though mathematically it basically means these billion-dollar jackpots are about twice as common," Matheson says.
Big jackpots shift the lottery's demographics
"One of the major criticisms of lotteries in general is that they prey upon the poor by selling them hope," Matheson says. "And for things like scratch-off tickets, we know that they are predominantly bought by lower income individuals."
A huge jackpot changes the demographic, drawing ticket-buyers from a wide range of incomes. The result, Matheson says, is that lotteries with large jackpots can be seen as "a more progressive lottery ticket option than most of the things that we typically see being sold by lotteries."
For a sign of how that works, consider this: When you walk into a store to buy a lottery ticket with a big payout, you're ignoring other games that bring a higher chance of winning — but that also lack the tantalizing prospect of life-changing wealth.
Matheson sums it up: "The excitement really isn't there, and the dreaming about what you would do [if you won] isn't there with a scratch-off ticket in the same way that it is with a Mega Millions ticket with a gigantic jackpot."
Sure, if you hit it big, you might have to split the prize with other winners. And the actual cash payout will be much smaller than the jackpot — even before the IRS grabs its share. But for most of us, that's not the point.
"It really is a purely entertainment product," Matheson says of the lottery. "As soon as people start thinking of it as an investment product, that's a problem because it's an investment with a huge negative return on average."
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Billy Horschel finally made a U.S. team as one of six players added Wednesday to a stacked American team that will try to win the Presidents Cup for the ninth straight time.
Captain Davis Love III took two other newcomers to team competition with Max Homa, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour last season and Cameron Young, a 25-year-old who nearly won two majors as a rookie.
The other picks went to three-time major champion Jordan Spieth, two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and Kevin Kisner, who thrives in match play and contended at Quail Hollow in the 2017 PGA Championship.
The Presidents Cup is Sept. 22-25 at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, and these matches would seem to be as lopsided as any since the event began in 1994 to give players from outside Europe a chance to play team competition like the Ryder Cup.
International captain Trevor Immelman filled out his 12-man team on Tuesday, picks that were delayed a week over uncertainty of who would leave the PGA Tour for Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Immelman lost four players who otherwise would have been on the team, including British Open champion Cameron Smith and Louis Oosthuizen.
Former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan is the highest-ranked player on the International team at No. 16.
The Americans counter with nine players from the top 15 in the world, and no one ranked lower than Kisner at No. 26.
“These guys, this is their 12-man team that has never played together before,” Love said. “So they want to win for this team. So I don’t think we have to do too much messaging or motivation. Certainly you don’t want to be on a losing team ever. And we know we are up against it.
“Trevor is going to have a team that’s got a chip on their shoulder and that’s motivated and wants to prove that they can still be competitive. We have to be careful. Certainly these guys are not going to take it lying down.”
Horschel played in the Walker Cup when he was in college, renowned for his fiery matches with Rory McIlroy. But he never made it through qualifying or was picked for a Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup, usually a case of bad timing.
He won the FedEx Cup in 2014 with a runner-up finish and two wins. But the two wins came after the captain’s picks were decided. Horschel won the Dell Match Play a year ago but was outside the qualifying and was not selected as a Ryder Cup pick. He won the Memorial this year and finished 11th in the U.S. standings.
“I’ve been around Billy a lot over the years and I haven’t figured that out, how to rein him in. You ride his wave a little bit,” Love said. “He can certainly be over the top sometimes. But that’s what we want.”
Horschel is playing the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week, the European tour’s flagship event that he won last year.
Homa won his first PGA Tour title at Quail Hollow in the Wells Fargo Championship and made no secret that getting on the Presidents Cup was a chief goal this year.
The leading six qualifiers were Masters champion and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, PGA champion Justin Thomas, Sam Burns and Tony Finau. Thomas won his first PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in 2017.
Love went down the standings for all the picks except Kisner, who finished behind Tom Hoge and J.T. Poston, both of whom won this year, neither of whom have played in a cup. Kisner went 2-0-2 in the 2017 Presidents Cup at Liberty National.
“Kevin, again, adds some veteran leadership, a guy in the team room that everybody loves having around is really, really easy to pair,” Love said.
Cantlay, Schauffele, Thomas and Finau are the only four players from the 2019 team at Royal Melbourne that rallied on the final day to beat the International team.
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Friday night, the entire LeBron James family — the #JamesGang as he likes to tag it — went out to dinner in Los Angeles, including Bronny James, something reported by TMZ.
Saturday, LeBron posted this video of Bronny looking comfortable and well at home, playing the piano.
Bronny James is back home ❤️
— ESPN (@espn) July 29, 2023
(via @KingJames) pic.twitter.com/RDtzLgz6kh
This is another good sign after Bronny was released from the hospital just a couple of days after collapsing on the court with a cardiac arrest during a workout at USC, where he will begin taking classes in the fall. The fact he was out of the ICU in a few hours and sent home within a couple of days are an excellent sign for the 18 year old.
“He arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center fully conscious, neurologically intact and stable,” Dr. Merije Chukumerije, a consulting cardiologist for Bronny, said in a statement upon his release from the hospital. “Mr. James was cared for promptly by highly-trained staff and has been discharged home, where he is resting. Although his workup will be ongoing, we hope for his continued progress and are encouraged by his response, resilience, and family and community support.”
It’s
too early to know how this impacts Bronny’s basketball career long-term or speculate on his return to the court. While the signs so far are promising, the cause of the cardiac arrest and its long-term treatment will determine Bronny’s future path on the court.
What matters now is that he is home, with his family, and things seem good for him off the court.
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Her gaze is steady and her voice barely quivers in the video as she remembers what brought her out onto the Beijing streets in late November, and the consequences she knew she likely faced for her decision.
"I have delegated some friends to publicize this video after I disappear. When you see this video, I will have been arrested too," the 26-year-old woman states calmly.
On Christmas Eve, the woman, an editor at a Beijing publishing press, was arrested at her family home in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, and taken into police custody in Beijing, according to three people who know her.
She is one of eight people NPR was able to confirm had been arrested in connection to peaceful demonstrations held across the country last November. The protests began after a deadly fire in the western city of Urumqi, where at least 10 people died after they were unable to escape their blazing apartment due to pandemic lockdown measures.
Infuriated by nearly three years of stringent COVID-19 policies, residents of nearly every major Chinese city held vigils commemorating the lives of the those who had died while trapped under lockdown conditions or because they were denied potentially life-saving care.
Many attendees held up blank white sheets of paper to represent the lack of agency and freedom of expression they felt under the pandemic rules. Since then, the demonstrations have been dubbed "the A4 protests," named after the A4 paper size used internationally.
The demonstrations were also a powerful rebuke of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who has become closely associated with a suite of regulations loosely termed "zero COVID" and meant to keep coronavirus infection numbers near zero.
Less than two weeks after the A4 protests first began, Chinese authorities announced they were rolling back nearly all of their zero-COVID policies. They eliminated extensive contact-tracing and quarantine systems, as well as mandatory coronavirus testing once required every two to three days.
The police need a theory to explain away the protests.
By then, China's security ministries were already hunting down people they believed were behind the vigils.
"The police need a theory to explain away the protests and they are trying to find an organizer to blame," says a friend of one of the vigil participants arrested. NPR is not using the names of protesters and others interviewed for this story for their safety.
That blame would be pinned on the Beijing editor and other journalists and writers, many of them young women, in the weeks ahead.
They came together for a vigil
On Nov. 26, passersby spontaneously began laying bouquets of flowers near the sign for Urumqi Road, a major commercial thoroughfare in the metropolis of Shanghai, in remembrance of the victims of the apartment fire in the city of Urumqi that the road was named after.
Residents also shared pictures of the bouquets on social media, bringing even more people onto the street. Hours later, hundreds of people had gathered, and the atmosphere grew rowdier, according to two people NPR interviewed after the demonstration. One person began shouting for Xi to step down, a call echoed by dozens of other demonstrators.
At dawn, riot police charged the crowd, dragging several of them away and dispersing the remaining demonstrators, but not before videos and pictures of the protest were shared with people living in other cities.
In Beijing, the editor and some of her friends were hoping to remember the victims of the Urumqi fire. They decided to join a vigil they had heard would be held along the Liangma River, which runs across central Beijing and through a ritzy commercial boardwalk.
Around 8 p.m. on Nov. 27, a features writer for a state-run newspaper arrived at the river. Her boyfriend, the co-owner of a bar, gave her a ride on his motorcycle to the vigil. They brought some flowers, several of the writer's favorite poems handwritten on sheets of paper, and some candles.
They soon met up with two more friends.
Also at the riverside vigil was a former journalist who was pursuing a master's degree in film.
"She often feels guilty for her family's more affluent circumstances and that other people still live in poverty and pain," says a friend of the film student.
During an extreme lockdown of Shanghai last spring, the graduate student volunteered to find transportation for doctors and dialysis patients and also remotely coordinated online requests for help from Wuhan, when it was under lockdown in 2020.
The Beijing publishing editor came too, joining a crowd of several hundred people who slowly gathered as the frigid evening turned to dawn.
Other vigil participants held up blank paper and chanted against mandatory coronavirus testing, which was required to enter all public spaces including grocery stores and the metro, and shouted in favor of greater civil liberties and freedom of speech.
Most of the attendees wore face masks to both hide their identities but also to protect themselves against the coronavirus, which was already spreading more quickly through Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou.
Very few of those at the Liangma River that night thought they would face serious legal consequences for showing up — perhaps a police reprimand or, at worst, a day of detention, according to the people who were there. Almost none of the attendees were activists or even politically active, but simply engaged young professionals who saw the vigil as a humane gesture toward their fellow citizens.
"If we are arrested for expressing our sympathy, then how much space do our opinions have in this society?" the editor remembered thinking at the time.
They were tracked down and detained
The crackdown came swiftly.
Using phone tower data, police were able to roughly triangulate who had been near the Liangma River the night of Nov. 27. They called in vigil attendees or visited their homes at night. Most participants were let go after a few hours of questioning, but the editor watched with a growing sense of dread as her friends were detained one by one.
The newspaper journalist was asked repeatedly which feminist organizations and events she had participated in. Police were especially aggressive when questioning a woman who works as an accountant at a multinational firm, who frequented live rock music events.
The accountant had been in a chat group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram about the vigil. Since she happened to be the administrator of the chat group, she must be the demonstration organizer, police reasoned.
Some had been at the vigil purely by accident. A 31-year-old techno enthusiast happened to be drinking with friends at a bar along the Liangma River. The German magazine Der Spiegel later ran a cover story with a picture of her holding a blank sheet of white paper aloft that night.
"I drink every weekend, but the police didn't believe that I was just drinking there. They think I am the organizer," the techno fan says. Police eventually let her go after 24 hours of questioning, but they confiscated her cellphone.
On Nov. 30, police released the editor and her friends and said they could go home. The group of friends thought the worst had passed. China's leader Xi, in meetings with European diplomats soon after, reportedly dismissed the vigils as the product of a few "frustrated student protesters."
But by mid-December, the public narrative in China about the protests — previously largely unmentioned in official channels — was beginning to change. Nationalist bloggers online posited, without any factual basis, that foreign meddling was responsible for instigating the unrest. Some Chinese officials encouraged the speculation that foreign countries were responsible.
"At first, people took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with how local governments were unable to completely and accurately implement measures introduced by the central government, but the protests were quickly exploited by foreign forces," said Lu Shaye, China's ambassador to France, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry transcript of remarks he gave at a reception shortly after the demonstrations.
Starting Dec. 18, many of those briefly detained earlier were formally arrested, including the editor and her friends. The woman on the Der Spiegel cover was arrested as well, according to a friend.
In her video, the editor says they were forced to sign arrest notices but the space next to what crime they were being charged with, along with when and where they would be detained, had been left blank. The families of those detained were unable to keep a copy of the arrest warrants, according to two people close to them.
NPR reached out to the Beijing police departments that made the arrests, but they declined to comment, saying the case was a national security matter.
Some of the vigil participants have been charged with the "crime of gathering a crowd to disrupt public order," which carries a maximum five-year sentence, according to Teng Biao, a human rights lawyer and visiting professor at the University of Chicago.
"According to the definition of this crime, this should target only the people who played a leading role," not ordinary vigil participants, Teng says. "The Chinese government is trying to punish the people who are active in human rights activities like LGBTQ issues or the feminism movement."
In her last video, the editor pleads for help, and she wonders why, out of the hundreds of people who were present that night, a group of young, largely female professionals was singled out. "We want to know why we were charged and what evidence there is for these charges," she says.
Three days after the vigil held near Beijing's Liangma River, the Chinese Communist Party's top security body, the Central Legal and Political Affairs Commission, vowed to "resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces and illegal and criminal acts that disrupt social order."
"Now, the security forces' working theory seems to be that a group of feminists influenced by Western ideas organized the demonstrations," says a friend of several of the vigil attendees who were arrested.
Attendees denied such allegations, emphasizing the vigils were merely held to express how frustrated they were by nearly three years of China's zero-COVID policy that had left people literally starving or trapped in their own homes and destroyed the economy.
"If even ordinary people like my friends who peacefully participated in a vigil can be arrested," the friend says, "anyone can be taken."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The job of chief White House economist is typically a wonky, low-profile one, with its occupant mainly tasked with producing analyses and poring over charts and graphs. But President Joe Biden's next pick to lead the Council of Economic Advisers is bracing for a barrage of political attacks centered on how the White House has tackled inflation.
Jared Bernstein is a longtime member of Biden's inner circle who has served in top administration roles as well as progressive think tanks focusing on economic policy. Working first under vice president Biden and now in the Biden White House, Bernstein has long had an unparalleled ability to channel the president's economic values.
In his February statement announcing Bernstein’s nomination, Biden said, “He is an expert on worker empowerment and a worker-centric economic policy, which has long been the heart of my economic vision."
But that also makes Bernstein a target for Republican lawmakers.
Frequently appearing on TV, Bernstein was one of the most visible White House proponents that the inflation first seen in 2021 was “transitory" and would soon fade. He was a chief advocate of the sweeping, $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which critics say triggered the persistent high prices that have become a political and economic headache for Biden. Bernstein and other White House officials contend the aid jumpstarted hiring at a historic scale.
Bernstein's confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday is one of the few opportunities GOP senators will have to directly go after Biden's handling of inflation and publicly put the White House on defense.
“The committee needs to hear from Bernstein on how he will advise President Biden on the economy," said Ryann Durant, a spokeswoman for South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the committee's top Republican. "Inflation is the top concern for American families, and the country deserves someone who takes the issues seriously –- not just working to advance progressive policies through a partisan tax-and-spend agenda.”
Bernstein is seeking to replace Cecilia Rouse, an economist who is returning to Princeton University after a two-year stint in the Biden administration. Bernstein currently serves on the three-member Council of Economic Advisers, but to become its chairman, he will need approval from the Senate, where Democrats hold a narrow majority. Several moderate Democrats are up for reelection next November and have been unafraid to torpedo Biden picks if it could be politically advantageous for them back home with voters, although it's unclear whether that dynamic will occur with Bernstein's nomination.
Republicans hope that it will. GOP aides have spent weeks poring over Bernstein's public writings and media appearances dating back at least a dozen years, finding a slew of statements they believe could be damaging to his confirmation prospects, according to two officials involved in crafting the strategy.
For instance, Bernstein repeatedly stressed since early 2021 that any increases in inflation would be modest and “transitory.” Then in July 2022 — amid soaring price hikes — he said the use of the transitory description and its lack of specificity “led to a level of ambiguity that wasn’t serving the debate very well.”
Republican senators are preparing to ask Bernstein what his economic advice will be for Biden, as well as making the case that he is largely a partisan academic, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy deliberations.
Though much less of a focus than inflation, Republicans will also focus on Bernstein's climate views, including his contention that fossil fuels are “severely underpriced” and his argument that “we really should take the Green New Deal seriously."
Puncturing the Senate Republicans' argument somewhat is an endorsement from seven former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers under GOP presidents, who say Bernstein is well-qualified to take the job. The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, also says Bernstein was one of the first to come up with the concept of “Opportunity Zones," which use tax law to promote private investment in poor communities and are one of Scott's chief legislative achievements.
Scott, whose Opportunity Zones initiative was part of the 2017 tax overhaul, is exploring a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
“He is a collegial and inquisitive policymaker who enjoys substantive engagement with other policy experts, including those with whom he disagrees, a vital characteristic not always shared by economists involved in policy matters,” reads the letter, first reported by The New York Times. “Dr. Bernstein values inputs from a diverse set of views.”
Meanwhile, Democrats led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, are dismissing Republican attempts to politicize the traditionally noncontroversial job, noting that senators have generally deferred heavily to presidents of both parties on whom they wanted as their chief in-house economist.
Democrats have also noted that inflation has eased from its peak last year. And administration officials are paying attention to a key metric: Are wages rising faster than inflation?
There was a major gap between average hourly earnings and inflation in June of last year, but that gap has narrowed in ways that will allow Bernstein to potentially tell lawmakers that the administration is making progress against inflation.
Wages have risen 4.2% from a year ago, compared to prices rising 5%. That gap of roughly 0.8% has narrowed from a peak of 3.5% last June, an indication that income growth could turn positive this year as inflation rates decline.
Ahead of his hearing, Bernstein, 67, has met with Democratic and Republican senators, both on and off the Banking Committee. He has also prepared with briefings and mock hearings, according to a White House official who insisted on anonymity to discuss preparations. Since his nomination to head the CEA, Bernstein has not done media interviews.
Much of Bernstein’s research and analysis has focused on improving the lives of workers and he has worked at both the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, two liberal think tanks based in Washington. His ability to clearly lay out Biden's thinking is unique compared to his predecessors, who often hailed from academia and could struggle to catch the president’s attention.
Bernstein has a simple definition of what he has called “Biden-nomics.” The theory is that if you’re helping to make a pie, then you should get a fair slice for the effort. There is a respect for the free market, and Bernstein often quotes outside economic forecasts from Wall Street analysts to back up his arguments. But the government exists to ensure the bounty of the market gets shared as broadly as possible, he argues.
When Biden put forward his pandemic relief package, Bernstein said the president’s economic team did consider the risks that the spending could push up inflation. But, backed by comments by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Bernstein said the more severe threat was an underwhelming amount of aid.
“We’ve constantly argued that the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risk of going big, providing families and businesses with the relief they need to finally put this virus behind us,” Bernstein told reporters in February.
Biden has rejected claims that his aid contributed to higher inflation, even though independent economic analyses suggest it did.
The economy has added 12.6 million jobs so far during Biden’s presidency, the highest total of any White House term, and the administration has vowed to bring down down inflation without sacrificing most of the job gains — as efforts by the Fed to combat high prices can lead to slowdowns and layoffs.
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Several cars on a freight train derailed and caught fire early Saturday in rural Maine, officials and the train operator said. Three workers were hurt, but their injuries were said not to be life-threatening.
The Maine Forest Service said in a statement that three locomotive engines and six cars carrying lumber and electrical wiring went off the track at about 8:30 a.m. in Sandwich Academy Grant Township in Somerset County.
They derailed into a wooded area and started a small forest fire, which emergency responders contained and were monitoring, the service said. The three railroad employees were taken to the hospital.
Preliminary assessment pointed to a buildup of “melting ice and debris that washed out part of the railroad track” as a possible cause of the accident, the Forest Service added.
Some hazardous materials were on board the train, the agency said, but officials on the scene assessed that they were not at risk of leaking or catching fire.
C. Doniele Carlson, the director of communications for Canadian Pacific Kansas City, also confirmed the derailment about 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of Jackman and said the hazardous elements of the train’s cargo were not involved in the fire.
“Our emergency response teams and hazardous materials experts have responded and continue to conduct a full assessment of the situation,” Carlson said in a statement. “There are no evacuations and no threat to public safety.”
The fire and rescue department in nearby Rockwood posted a photo of the derailment on its Facebook page and advised residents to stay away from the area. The image showed multiple derailed cars and a small fire, with black smoke wafting across snowy forestland.
A merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern was announced Friday. The rail line bills itself as the first and only single-line railway connecting Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
The derailment is the latest one to hit the rail industry. Federal regulators and members of Congress are urging railroads to do more to prevent derailments after recent fiery wrecks involving hazardous chemicals in Ohio and Minnesota prompted evacuations.
Rockwood, about 90 miles (140 kilometers) northwest of Bangor, is a village in Somerset County with about 300 residents. Located on the western side of Moosehead Lake, one of the state’s largest freshwater bodies, it’s a destination for salmon and trout fishing on both the lake and the Moose River.
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Casey reported from Boston. Associated Press writer Mark Thiessen contributed from Anchorage, Alaska.
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Increasing Interest in Building Strong Online Brands with Descriptive Domains Is Driving the Company's Growth.
NEW YORK and BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine announced today that Identity Digital Inc., a leader in connecting the online world with domain names and related technologies, is listed on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment – its independent businesses. Many well-known businesses, such as Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, and Patagonia, gained their first exposure as Inc. 5000 honorees.
"We are honored to receive this recognition again this year, and we appreciate the consideration from Inc. and endorsement by our customers and partners," says Akram J. Atallah, CEO of Identity Digital. "We are committed to enabling people and businesses around the globe to create domain names that use both sides of the dot to convey exactly who they are and what their businesses do. They're enabling our growth by enthusiastically embracing our descriptive domains."
Identity Digital top-level domains (TLDs) such as .info, .live, .world, .games, .digital and .studio allow businesses to craft memorable names that anchor their search engine optimization (SEO) strategies and build strong online brands.
"We are proud to be among the 2022 honorees that have overcome challenges over the past few years and continued to succeed," Atallah comments.
Inc. reports that companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of COVID-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
The Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000
Methodology
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
About Inc.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
For more information on the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, visit http://conference.inc.com/.
About Identity Digital
Identity Digital Inc. simplifies and connects the online world with domain names and related technologies to empower people to build, market, and own their authentic digital identities. With the world's largest portfolio of nearly 300 TLDs such as .live, .technology, and .restaurant, Identity Digital operates around 25 million domains on its innovative registry services platform. In addition, they enable customers to discover, register, support and use high-quality domain names with its registrar, Name.com. Headquartered in Bellevue, WA, Identity Digital is a global company with approximately 300 employees. For more information, please visit identity.digital.
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At least 26 people, including children, have died in floods unleashed by torrential rains in eastern Kentucky, and more fatalities are predicted with authorities expecting to continue finding bodies for weeks, Gov. Andy Beshear said on Sunday.
"There is widespread damage with many families displaced and more rain expected throughout the next day," the governor wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
"I know of several additional bodies, and we know it's going to grow," the governor told NBC News. "We are going to be finding bodies for weeks."
Four children were confirmed dead as of Saturday, and the governor told NBC News he feared that number would go up at least by two on Sunday. The governor said that bodies will keep turning up as responders reach more remote areas.
More rain may arrive in the coming days with the National Weather Service saying several rounds of showers and storms were expected through Tuesday. A flood watch was in effect through Monday morning for areas in southern and eastern Kentucky, the agency said.
The floods were the second major national disaster to strike Kentucky in seven months, following a swarm of tornadoes that claimed nearly 80 lives in the western part of the state in December.
Beshear on Thursday declared an emergency and described the disaster as "one of the worst, most devastating flooding events" in Kentucky's history.
President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Kentucky on Friday, allowing federal funding to be allocated to the state.
There were over 14,000 reports of power outages in the state on Sunday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.US.
The damage from the storms could take years to repair, Beshear said.
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YREKA, Calif. (AP) — Two bodies were found inside a charred vehicle in a driveway in the wildfire zone of a raging California blaze that was among several menacing thousands of homes Monday in the western U.S., officials said. Hot and gusty weather and lightning storms threatened to boost the danger that the fires will keep growing,
The McKinney Fire in Northern California near the state line with Oregon exploded in size to nearly 87 square miles (225 square km) after erupting Friday in the Klamath National Forest, firefighting officials said. It is California’s largest wildfire of the year so far and officials have not determined the cause.
The vehicle and the bodies were found Sunday morning in the driveway of a residence near the remote community of Klamath River, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Nearly 5,000 Northern California homes and other structures were threatened and an unknown number of buildings have burned, said Adrienne Freeman, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service.
The smoky blaze cast an eerie, orange-brown hue in one neighborhood where a brick chimney stood surrounded by rubble and scorched vehicles on Sunday. Flames torched trees along State Route 96 and raced through hillsides in sight of homes.
Valerie Linfoot’s son, a fire dispatcher, called to tell her their family home of three decades in Klamath River had burned. Linfoot said her husband worked as a U.S. Forest Service firefighter for years and the family did everything they could to prepare their house for a wildfire — including installing a metal roof and trimming trees and tall grasses around the property.
“It was as safe as we could make it, and it was just so dry and so hot and the fire was going so fast,” Linfoot told the Bay Area News Group. She said her neighbors have also lost homes.
“It’s a beautiful place. And from what I’ve seen, it’s just decimated. It’s absolutely destroyed,” she told the news group.
Firefighting crews on the ground were trying to prevent the blaze from moving closer to the town of Yreka, population about 7,500. The blaze was about four miles (6.4 kilometers) away as of Monday.
A second, smaller fire in the region that was sparked by dry lightning Saturday threatened the tiny California community of Seiad.
Freeman said “there has been significant damage and loss along the Highway 96 corridor” that runs parallel to the Klamath River and is one of the few roads in and out of the region
She added: “But just how much damage is still being assessed.”
Erratic storms were expected to move through Northern California again on Monday with lightning that threatened to spark new fires in bone dry vegetation, forecasters said. A day earlier, thunderstorms caused flash flooding that damaged roads in Death Valley National Park and in mountains east of Los Angeles.
In northwestern Montana, a fire on the Flathead Indian Reservation that started in grasslands near the town of Elmo on Friday and moved into forested areas had grown to 20 square miles (52 square km) by Monday, fire officials said. Residents of about 20 homes were told to be prepared to evacuate.
The Moose Fire in Idaho has burned more than 85 square miles (220 square kilometers) in the Salmon-Challis National Forest while threatening homes, mining operations and fisheries near the town of Salmon. It was 23% contained Monday.
And a wildfire raging in northwestern Nebraska led to evacuations and destroyed or damaged several homes near the small city of Gering. The Carter Canyon Fire began Saturday as two separate fires that merged. It was about 30% contained by early Monday.
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday, allowing him more flexibility to make emergency response and recovery effort decisions and to tap federal aid.
Scientists have said climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
The U.S. Forest service shut down a 110-mile (177 km) section of the famed Pacific Crest Trail in Northern California and southern Oregon and dozens of hikers in that area were urged to abandon their treks and head to the nearest towns.
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Weber reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press reporters Amy Hanson in Helena, Montana; Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska; and Keith Ridler in Boise, Idaho contributed to this report.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The head of the Philadelphia Flyers understood the optics of a franchise going on 48 years since winning a Stanley Cup deciding to hire more former Flyers in the front office to try and win one.
But the Flyers did it anyway.
“I know some people are thinking,” Comcast Spectacor chairman Dan Hilferty said, “here they go again, hiring two former Flyers isn’t a fresh start.”
The Flyers on Friday introduced Keith Jones — yeah, their former long-time broadcaster — as team president and stamped general manager Danny Briere as one of the leaders of the franchise. Jones and Briere each played for the Flyers and both have remained connected to the franchise in retirement.
They both remember when the Flyers were an elite franchise — Briere as a star postseason player that led them to the last Stanley Cup Final in 2010 and Jones as a sharp-witted analyst affectionately known as “Jonesy” that watched it happen from the broadcast booth.
But it’s been a long time since the Flyers were good, even longer since they were bona fide Stanley Cup contenders and the rowdy atmosphere that once gave them one of the toughest home-ice edges in the NHL has melted into scores of empty sections and turned game night into the dreariest atmosphere in Philly sports.
At their introductory presser, Briere and Jones were light on specifics other than offering the cold reminder that building the Flyers into winners would take time. They preached patience for the fans and promoted that the leadership group — including second-year coach John Tortorella — was unified in the rebuilding path needed to reach their goals.
And that they’re former Flyers? So what, Hilferty said. They were the best candidates for their jobs and “it just so happens they’re former Flyers.”
Jones said there was no other team he had an interest in working for other than the Flyers. He thought 23 years as an analyst for Flyers telecasts on NBC Sports Philadelphia and years spent on national broadcasts on NBC and TNT gave him a unique perspective on the league and an insider’s edge that could make it easier to navigate a rookie year in the front office.
The Flyers hired multiple search firms and interviewed several candidates all to land on a candidate who simply had to surrender his press pass to get the job.
“I don’t get sometimes when in this process, when people start taking about Flyers alumni, Jonesey an ex-Flyer, Danny an ex-Flyer, what has happened, why do people think that they are diseased if you’re an ex-Flyer?” Tortorella asked. “That you shouldn’t be in this organization, that you need to look outside. It’s the person you’re looking at. I’m proud that they’re Flyers.”
Philadelphia is coming off one of the worst seasons in franchise history under Tortorella, who led Tampa Bay to a Stanley Cup in 2004, and has missed the playoffs for three straight years. The Flyers haven’t won a Stanley Cup since taking consecutive championships in 1974 and 1975.
Briere was promoted to interim general manager after Chuck Fletcher was fired in early March as the organization started to shuffle the front office ahead of a lengthy rebuild. Hilferty was named chairman later that month of the Flyers’ parent company, Comcast Spectacor.
As empty seasons piled up, the Flyers continued to lean on former players such as Bobby Clarke, Paul Holmgren and Ron Hextall to jump to the front office and hope what they learned on the ice in the glory days could transfer into a winning culture in the front office. The in-season results were mixed. The postseason play results were not, empty offseasons without a championship.
“I’m proud that these guys over here and other alumni care about the organization,” Tortorella said. “That’s what throws me the most. I think we have strong personalities and I think they care. I don’t get some of the thinking out of this city.”
The short answer, the old-school methodology anchored by executives who last played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s caused the franchise to fall behind in various modern aspects of the game, from successfully managing the salary cap (founder and former owner Ed Snider threw the most money at the best players), to a glaring lack of patience in a long-range plan to win to failing to identify the best players in the draft caused the Flyers to sink into irrelevance.
Briere, Jones, Tortorella and other executives all vowed they’d work together to restore the Flyers to their former glory. And they’ll do it under the Comcast Spectacor banner.
Hilferty firmly reiterated the team — despite many inquiries — is not for sale.
“Comcast Spectactor expects to have a long and successful run as owners of the Flyers,” he said.
Let the journey under Jonesy begin.
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Federal regulators have launched an investigation into the creator of the popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether OpenAI violated consumer protection laws by engaging in "unfair or deceptive data security practices" that could harm consumers, according to a 20-page letter from regulators that was published by the Washington Post. The FTC says ChatGPT has the potential to generate false or misleading statements that could cause "reputational harm" to individuals. It also believes the company may be using public data to train the AI tool.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter to express disappointment that the federal probe was published in a "leak," saying the move would "not help build trust" but that his company would cooperate with the investigation.
"It's super important to us that [our] technology is safe and pro-consumer, and we are confident we follow the law. of course we will work with the FTC," Altman tweeted.
"We protect user privacy and design our systems to learn about the world, not private individuals," he added.
SEE MORE: Senators show bipartisan concern about rapid expansion of AI
The Biden administration has been trying to get out in front of the quickly evolving AI industry and plans to issue a new regulatory framework in the coming months. Vice President Kamala Harris met with the leaders of four tech companies earlier this year, including Google and Microsoft, both of which have their own AI systems.
"AI is one of today's most powerful technologies, with the potential to improve people's lives and tackle some of society's biggest challenges," Harris said in a statement after the meeting in May. "At the same time, AI has the potential to dramatically increase threats to safety and security, infringe (on) civil rights and privacy, and erode public trust and faith in democracy."
SEE MORE: Schumer unveils new artificial intelligence regulatory framework
Congress has also held a series of hearings this year to discuss the potential harms that could arise from AI, although some lawmakers claim it may be too late. Altman himself, along with several other industry leaders — like Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — have called for more AI regulation.
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HAIKOU, China, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JX Luxventure Limited (Nasdaq: LLL) (the "Company"), a company delivering comprehensive products solutions to global elite families serviced by our business customers with business segments covering menswear, cross-border merchandise and tourism, announced today that, on June 1, 2022, Jin Xuan Luxury Tourism (Hainan) Digital Technology Co., Ltd. ("JX Hainan"), a subsidiary of the Company, entered into and executed a Technology Consulting Agreement (the "Agreement") with Tianjin City Wei Ka Technology Co., Ltd. ("Tianjin Wei Ka"). Pursuant to the Agreement, JX Hainan will provide technology consulting services to Tianjin Wei Ka for entering into Metaverse by delivering a solution for an NFT based virtual human host to be used on live stream platforms.
Ms. Sun "Ice" Lei, Chief Executive Officer of the Company commented: "We received the award for 'Best Virtual Human Software Technology Service Provider' in April of this year. Our technology team is now leveraging this expertise to deliver solutions to help Tianjin Wei Ka to enter into Metaverse. I am confident that under the leadership of our CTO, who is an expert in artificial intelligence, Internet of All Things and Blockchain, we can deliver world class technology consulting services not only to Tianjin Wei Ka, but other companies seek to enter Metaverse. I expect our technology consulting service will become one of the key business segments in the future."
About JX Luxventure Limited
Headquartered in Haikou, China, JX Luxventure Limited is a company delivering comprehensive products solutions to global elite families serviced by our business customers with business segments covering menswear, cross-border merchandise and tourism. To learn more about the Company, please visit its corporate website at en.jxluxventure.com.
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Jiří Zídek, the first Czech in FIBA Hall of Fame, dies at 78
PRAGUE (AP) — Jiří Zidek Sr., voted the best Czech basketball player of the 20th century and the first Czech inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, has died. He was 78. The Czech Basketball Federation announced the news on Saturday, saying he had a long-term illness without elaborating. The two-meter-tall Zídek was one of the best European centers of his time. He played 257 games for Czechoslovakia. He said the Boston Celtics offered him a deal to play in the NBA in 1966. But he couldn’t take it up from behind the Iron Curtain. His son, Jiří “George” Zídek Jr., became the first Czech to play in the NBA after he was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets in 1995.
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Mayhem and mischief: How tourists behaved badly in 2022
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN
In 2022, the world started traveling again — and with that came the return of all the usual misbehavior and antics abroad. But with nerves perhaps frayed by a record year for airline cancellations, delays, lost luggage and inflated prices, misconduct was a particularly strong theme. Here are the standout moments from a year of travelers behaving badly.
‘Did you pack your bag yourself?’
Sharp items and weaponry are, as everyone knows, huge no-nos when it comes to carry-on bags at the airport.
Everyone that is except for the man in Boston with a sword concealed inside a cane, the passenger at New York’s LaGuardia who was packing nunchucks, three saw blades, a switchblade and a folding knife, and the traveler in Alaska who rocked up to the security checkpoint with a bag filled with 28 knives.
A family of American tourists also caused havoc at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport in April after trying to transport an unexploded shell through security. Airport staff announced an evacuation and video circulated on social media showed people panicking and running for cover.
Popping a whole uncooked chicken in your carry-on is guaranteed to raise suspicions with the US Transport Security Administration, but even more so if you hide a gun inside it, as one man did in Florida.
And at least that poultry-clad firearm was discovered: An investigation was launched in June after an Atlanta passenger cleared security with a bag that may have contained a gun.
Live animals were also part of the circus of mayhem in 2022: Porcupines, armadillos, turtles, lizards and snakes were among the 109 live creatures discovered by X-ray in two pieces of luggage at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.
Two women were arrested and charged with smuggling in that incident, but on other occasions the intentions weren’t criminal. A live dog was accidentally sent through the X-ray machine at an airport in Wisconsin in December, just weeks after a cat was found trapped inside a suitcase at New York’s JFK Airport. It appeared to have crept inside when the suitcase’s owner wasn’t looking.
And at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Ohio in September, a human was the unexpected item hiding among the luggage. A man was arrested after climbing through the airport baggage carousel into a restricted area.
‘For your safety and comfort, please remain seated’
In January in Honduras, a man was reported to have damaged the inside of a cockpit in a Miami-bound American Airlines plane then tried to jump out of a window — all while the aircraft was still at the gate.
NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. was another passenger who was kicked off a flight before takeoff: He was removed from a Los Angeles-bound American Airlines flight at Miami International Airport in November after refusing to comply with safety protocol, according to a police statement.
And in September, a Southwest Airlines pilot in Houston threatened to cancel takeoff after a passenger AirDropped a nude photo to other fliers.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was the most high-profile traveler to be involved in a physical altercation with another this year, but fisticuffs and mid-air high jinks continued to be on trend.
The worst year on record for unruly airplane passenger behavior in the United States was 2021, with nearly 6,000 incidents reported and nearly 72% of them mask-related. This year, meanwhile, there was a much reduced 2,359 Federal Aviation Administration reports as of December 15, with the peak being in February 2022, before the mask mandate was lifted.
This year started with a rowdy group of Canadians being stranded in Mexico after their maskless partying on a Cancun-bound flight got their return flight scrubbed and other airlines declined to fly them home.
In February, an American Airlines flight attendant used a coffee pot to hit a passenger on the head after he tried to open the plane’s exit door, according to the airline. And there were multiple cases of flights being diverted or turned around because of disruptive behavior — such as trying to bite a fellow passenger or assaulting cabin crew.
Fines for McMuffins and reclining your seat
It wasn’t just airplane passengers who were getting out of line. Two Air France pilots were suspended after a fight in the cockpit, a JetBlue pilot was “removed from duties” after failing a Breathalyzer test before a flight, and two pilots on a Ethiopian Airlines plane were reported to have fallen asleep and missed their landing.
An AirAsia flight in Malaysia was rerouted after a snake was found slithering through the light fixtures. And strange moans and groans were heard blasting out over the PA on an American Airlines flight to the bewilderment of passengers.
At Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in May, a man was taken into custody after walking out onto the wing of a plane that was taxiing after arriving from San Diego.
And the misadventure didn’t stop after planes landed. A passenger arriving in Australia from Bali, Indonesia, was fined $1,874 after two undeclared McMuffins and a ham croissant were found in their luggage.
Fines were handed out on other modes of transport too. A man in China was ordered to pay $478 for reclining his train seat: It smashed the laptop screen of the passenger sitting behind him.
Bad behavior in the Bel Paese
International tourists flooded back to Italy this summer and soon the Bel Paese was the world capital of visitor villainy.
There was topless sunbathing on a war memorial, skinny-dipping in Venice canals and Rome’s Spanish Steps were damaged first by a Maserati and then by scooters.
An Australian man rode a scooter through the ancient site of Pompeii and the southern coastal town of Sorrento introduced fines for bare chests.
“Italy is peculiar in the wealth of tourism features the country has, and it’s unique in that people occupy these spaces in a way that doesn’t occur in many countries,” Tom Jenkins, CEO of the European Tourism Association (ETOA), told CNN Travel in October.
He pointed out that Venice and Rome are living cities in which people are forever rubbing alongside priceless cultural treasures. Said Jenkins, “There’s nowhere in France [the most visited country in the world] that’s as sensitive. And they’re getting 65 million international visitors a year, so the sheer volume of people going into these spaces means a small fraction behaving irresponsibly isn’t that surprising.”
Come with your buds, but not for the bud
Visitors also poured back into Amsterdam, with the city officials targeting less desirable sex and drug tourists with an initiative focused on “actively discouraging international visitors with plans to ‘go wild'” in the Dutch capital. It’s been dubbed the “stay away” campaign.
Thailand decriminalized cannabis in June 2022 and cannabis cafes subsequently started popping up over the Thai capital, Bangkok.
Not everyone was keen on this new tourism offering, with Anutin Charnvirakul, the country’s health minister, saying in August that weed-smoking visitors weren’t welcome.
Of course, trouble-making tourists were as ever but a tiny portion of the number of people on the move this year and there were many heartwarming stories from 2022 as well.
There was the retired nurse who helped save the life of a baby who had stopped breathing on a flight between Pittsburgh and Orlando.
And the woman who became friends with a kind stranger who came to her rescue after her luggage was lost en route between Europe and the US.
Then as the year came to a close, there were the two refugee sisters who were reunited with the mystery woman who gave them $100 on a plane 23 years before, a gift that would change the young girls’ lives.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A plan to bolster state aid to local governments, which mayors from Milwaukee to the smallest towns and villages have been clamoring for, moved a step closer to passage Thursday with no changes, despite a veto threat from Gov. Tony Evers.
Bipartisan negotiations continued behind the scenes among Evers, lawmakers, local government representatives and others to make changes to the bill to get enough votes to clear the Legislature and be signed into law by Evers. But Republicans offered no changes before passing it out of committee on a party-line vote on Thursday.
“There are no amendments today because there are negotiations still going on," Republican Rep. Todd Novak, chair of the committee, said Thursday.
Democrats, Evers and Milwaukee leaders are “working hard” with Republican lawmakers to reach a deal, Novak said after the vote.
He promised that the Assembly would pass the bill on Wednesday. Negotiations continued with Republicans who control the Senate.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Democrats on the committee tried unsuccessfully Thursday to remove portions of the bill unrelated to state aid to local governments, but Republicans rejected it. Democratic members of the Assembly committee said Thursday the bill came with too many strings attached.
For example, the proposal would prohibit local advisory referenda questions, ban public health officials from ordering businesses closed for more than two weeks and cut aid to communities that reduce the number of police officers and firefighters.
It would also mandate that local governments approve projects under the state’s land stewardship program that are north of U.S. Highway 8, which runs across roughly the northernmost quarter of the state. Republicans have long raised concerns about such projects that protect the land from future development.
At its core, the Republican-authored proposal will increase funding to counties, cities, towns and villages by $227 million over the next two years, but could only be spent on police and fire protection, emergency medical services, emergency response communications, public works and transportation. State aid to local governments, known as shared revenue, will be tied to the state sales tax and go up with inflation.
Milwaukee could levy a 2% sales tax and Milwaukee County could add 0.375% sales tax to its current 0.5% sales tax. Both would need voter approval, and any money raised would go toward paying for the underfunded pension and public safety services. Once the pension obligations are paid, the city and county could no longer levy the additional sales tax.
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Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says he will vote for a Republican-sponsored resolution to block a D.C. crime law that would eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, allow jury trials for misdemeanor offenses and reduce maximum sentences for crimes ranging from robberies to carjackings.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the bill but was overridden by a 12-1 vote by the D.C. Council.
Now, Manchin says he will vote for a resolution of disapproval that will block the implementation of the law, which passed the House with 31 Democratic votes in early February.
“I don’t support it. I mean, I want to put people away, I don’t want to let them out,” Manchin told CNN on Monday. “I haven’t been briefed on it, but what I know about it, I would vote to rescind it.”
Manchin also told reporters: “None of that makes sense to me.”
“I would rescind letting people out” of prison early for committing serious crimes, he said, arguing that criminal offenders “know what they can get by with all over the country.”
Republicans, who are in the minority in the upper chamber, can advance the disapproval resolution, which is sponsored by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), because it is privileged under Senate rules.
The discharge motion for the resolution doesn’t ripen until March 6, according to a senior Democratic aide, which means it won’t come to the floor before next week.
With Manchin’s support, the resolution has a good chance of passing the Senate, raising the prospect of a possible veto from President Biden.
Biden opposes rescinding the new D.C. crime law but he hasn’t yet said whether he will veto a repeal.
All 49 Senate Republicans support rescinding the law, which means the disapproval resolution would need the vote of Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) or another centrist Democrat to advance to Biden’s desk.
The measure got a wave of Democratic support in the House after Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was attacked by a 26-year-old homeless man in the elevator of her apartment building.
“It turns out the congresswoman’s attacker had been arrested and convicted no fewer than 12 times before. Most recently for assaulting a Metropolitan Police officer! But there he was, this career criminal, just roaming the streets,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said in a recent floor speech.
“The good news is the Constitution actually gives the United States Congress final say over issues in our nation’s capital,” he said.
“And when the soft-on-crime local government has become this incompetent; when members of Congress can’t go about their daily lives without being attacked; when families cannot come to visit their own capital in safety; then it is high time the federal government provides some adult supervision,” he added.
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Netflix plans to roll out password-sharing crackdown in 2023
(CNN) – Netflix has a plan in place to crackdown on password sharing starting next year.
The streaming giant shared more details of its plan during Tuesday’s earning report.
The company says the two features it started testing earlier this year to combat shared accounts will be broadly implemented in 2023.
In March, Netflix started testing “extra member” and “profile transfer” features in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru.
The “profile transfer” feature allows users to transfer their current profiles to a new paid account.
For those who want to continue to share their account with family and friends, the “extra member” option allows users to create sub-accounts under their main account for an additional fee.
No word on what the fee would be, but during testing, it cost around $3 in Costa Rica.
Netflix also reported Tuesday that it gained 2.4 million subscribers in its third quarter, which far exceeded expectations.
They say they will also likely add 4.5 million subscribers in their next quarter.
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Police captain accused of DUI asks officer to turn off body camera, video shows
OKLAHOMA CITY (CNN) - Body camera footage shows an off-duty Oklahoma City police captain, who was pulled over for suspected drunken driving, asking the arresting officer to turn off the camera.
Police Capt. James French, 55, was pulled over about 1:30 a.m. last Sunday after police Sgt. Christopher Skinner allegedly saw his SUV swerve and turn without signaling, according to incident reports and body camera footage.
In the footage, French identifies himself as a police captain and requests that Skinner turn off his body camera.
When asked how much he had to drink, French says he had three or four beers at a poker game and then asks Skinner again to turn off his body camera. Skinner tells French that he doesn’t show favoritism to anyone and cannot turn off the camera.
The video shows French repeat the request several times as he struggles with field sobriety tests, CNN reports.
French was arrested and booked on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to signal intention to turn.
Oklahoma City Police say French is on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.
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