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Body found confirmed to be missing 73-year-old Florida man who disappeared on Thanksgiving
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. - The Osceola County Sheriff's Office has confirmed that the body found in a swampy pond in Kissimmee is 73-year-old Herman McClenton of Eustis.
His body was retrieved from deputies on Dec. 1 around 1:10 p.m., nearly one mile from the area of Secret Key Cove in Kissimmee where McClenton was last seen going for a walk.
Sheriff Marcos Lopez said they found articles of clothing that matched what McClenton was last seen wearing. Days before, the family pleaded with the public to help with finding the missing man.
McClenton suffered from dementia and went missing while going on a walk as he visited relatives in Kissimmee for Thanksgiving. | https://www.wogx.com/news/body-found-confirmed-to-be-missing-73-year-old-florida-man-who-disappeared-on-thanksgiving | 2022-12-17 17:38:33 | 1 | https://www.wogx.com/news/body-found-confirmed-to-be-missing-73-year-old-florida-man-who-disappeared-on-thanksgiving |
Grocer recognized for outstanding corporate citizenship and commitment to Zero Hunger | Zero Waste
CINCINNATI, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's grocer, today announced it has been recognized by Newsweek as one of "America's Most Responsible Companies" for 2023, earning the distinction for the fourth consecutive year. Newsweek recognizes the Top 500 most responsible companies in the United States, spanning 14 industries.
"This recognition is a testament to the incredible dedication of our associates and our collective commitment to end hunger through Zero Hunger | Zero Waste," said Rodney McMullen, Kroger's chairman and CEO. "Kroger plays a critical role in building a more resilient and sustainable food system for all of America."
This year, Kroger celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste social and environmental impact plan. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste emphasizes the unique role Kroger plays across the food system and its many stakeholders as an employer, food processor, retailer, healthcare provider and more. Over the past 5 years, Kroger has donated 2.3 billion meals to fight hunger, including:
- $1 billion in giving to hunger relief, which includes 500 million pounds of surplus food donated to food banks, for a total of 2.3 billion meals directed to communities
- Nearly $45 million in grants from the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation to support food recovery and system change
America's Most Responsible Companies were selected based on publicly available key performance indicators derived from Corporate Responsibility Reports, Corporate Citizen Reports or Sustainability Reports, as well as an independent survey. The methodology focused on company performance in the environmental, social and corporate governance categories. Additionally, an independent survey was conducted to evaluate companies' reputation by asking U.S. citizens about their perception of company activities related to corporate social responsibility.
To learn more about Kroger's efforts to positively impact people and the planet, visit the ESG Hub: Thriving Together.
About Kroger
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of companies nearly half a million associates who serve over 11 million customers daily through a seamless digital shopping experience and retail food stores under a variety of banner names , serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site.
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DALLAS, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexBank Capital, Inc., a Dallas-based financial services company and holding company of NexBank, today announced the successful completion of a private placement of $62 million of its 6.00% fixed-to-floating rate subordinated notes due 2032 (the "Notes"). NexBank Capital, Inc. intends to use the proceeds of the private placement for general corporate purposes and to repurchase a portion of its existing debt.
The Notes will initially bear interest at a fixed rate of 6.00% for five years, and thereafter the interest rate will be reset quarterly to a per annum floating rate equal to the then current three-month term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) plus 299 basis points. The Notes have a stated maturity date of July 15, 2032.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Poland's president said Wednesday that it appears a missile that landed just inside the country's border was from Ukraine in what he called an "unfortunate accident."
"We have no evidence at the moment that it was a rocket launched by Russian forces," President Andrzej Duda said. "However, there are many indications that it was a missile that was used by Ukraine's anti-missile defense."
Two Polish citizens were killed Tuesday when the missile came crashing down in a rural village in eastern Poland, just a few miles from the western border of Ukraine. This happened amid a Russian barrage of missiles fired at cities across Ukraine, with Ukraine responding with its air defense systems.
NATO members discussed the issue in Brussels, and the secretary general of alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said a preliminary analysis pointed to a Ukrainian air defense missile that had been fired at an incoming Russian missile.
"Let me be clear: this is not Ukraine's fault. Russia bears ultimate responsibility as it continues its illegal war against Ukraine," Stoltenberg said.
In Russia, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Russian specialists had studied images of the explosion in Poland and concluded rocket fragments were from an S-300 surface-to-air missile system fired by Ukraine.
Konashenkov insisted Russia carried out a wave of what he called "precision" strikes on Ukrainian military and energy infrastructure. He said this included attacks in western Ukraine, but all were 20 miles or more away from Poland's border.
At the G20 summit in Indonesia, President Biden has said the missile was "probably" not fired from Russia. Still, he supported an investigation with Poland and condemned Moscow's latest attacks on Ukraine.
In Ukraine, President Volodomyr Zelenskyy spoke in a brief video on Wednesday morning, wishing citizens a "normal day" after Tuesday's missile barrage. He didn't say whose missile may have exploded in Poland.
This was in contrast to his initial comment Tuesday night, when he said, "This is a Russian missile attack on collective security."
Only Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine and massive missile strikes. Only Russia is behind the rapidly growing risks for the border countries. No need to look for excuses and postpone key decisions. Time for Europe to "close the sky over 🇺🇦". For your own safety too...
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) November 16, 2022
One of his top advisers, Mykhailo Podolyak, said that regardless of whose missile landed in Poland, Russia was responsible.
"Only Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine and massive missile strikes," he tweeted. "Only Russia is behind the rapidly growing risks for the border countries. No need to look for excuses and postpone key decisions. Time for Europe to close the sky over Ukraine."
Russia fired a barrage of around 100 missiles into Ukraine in just a couple hours
Tuesday afternoon's missiles targeted the Ukraine's electricity grid as it's been doing for the past month.
Ukraine says it shot down about 70 of the incoming missiles, in line with other recent attacks.
But Ukraine's energy systems, which already include daily power outages in many parts of the country, suffered another heavy blow.
In the capital Kyiv, the largest city with around 3 million residents, about half the homes and businesses were without power, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Other large cities were in similar condition, if not worse.
One woman was killed in Kyiv when a missile slammed into her apartment in a residential area near the center of the city. There were no obvious military, government or energy facilities in the area.
It was not clear why the building would have been targeted, or if perhaps a Ukrainian air defense system hit a Russian missile, with the remnants of that Russian missile hitting the building.
Standing in the darkness outside the apartment building, Vladimir Yanachuk said he expected many more Russian attacks, but this was not weakening the resolve of Ukrainians.
"We are not afraid about this. Ukrainians are not afraid about this," he said. "Winter will be hard. But this winter will be hard not only for Ukrainians, but for Russian soldiers too."
As he was speaking in the street, the lights suddenly came back on in surrounding apartment buildings, though not the one that had been hit.
Ukrainians have been rapidly repairing the power outages inflicted by the Russians, but the sheer number of attacks has strained the country's capacity to keep up.
Russia has damaged around 40% of the country's electricity system, according to Ukrainian officials.
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BERLIN -- Germany's foreign minister is calling for European Union entry bans and asset freezes against those responsible for what she described as brutal repression against anti-government protesters in Iran.
The most sustained protests in years against Iran's theocracy are now in their fourth week. They erupted Sept. 17 after the burial of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the custody of Iran's feared morality police. Amini had been detained for an alleged violation of strict Islamic dress codes for women.
Since then, protests spread across the country and have been met by a fierce crackdown, in which dozens are estimated to have been killed and hundreds arrested.
"Those who beat up women and girls on the street, carry off people who want nothing other than to live freely, arrest them arbitrarily and sentence them to death stand on the wrong side of history," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was quoted as telling Sunday's Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
"We will ensure that the EU imposes entry bans on those responsible for this brutal repression and freezes their assets in the EU," she added. "We say to people in Iran: We stand and remain by your side."
Baerbock didn't name any specific individuals or organizations.
On Thursday, EU lawmakers approved a resolution calling for sanctions against those responsible for the death of Amini and the subsequent crackdown.
Germany, along with fellow EU member France, is among the nations that are part of a 2015 agreement with Iran to address concerns over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program and have been attempting to revive the deal.
Talks on the deal have languished but if reinstated, the agreement would provide sanctions relief that would help strengthen the Iranian government.
On Sunday, videos on Iranian social media appeared to show students staging a protest on the campus of al-Zahra University in Tehran, a day after students chanted against Iran's president during a visit there.
Protests erupted in cities across Iran on Saturday. In Tehran's bazaar, traditionally a stronghold of Iran's rulers, a crowd set fire to a police kiosk. Later that evening, anti-government marches drew a large crowd in the capital's central Naziabad area, social media posts showed.
Facing persistent unrest, authorities have turned to targeting prominent Iranians who have expressed support for the protests.
The semi-official ILNA news agency reported that Iranian officials seized the passports of Homayoun Shajarian, a prominent singer, and Sahar Dolatshahi, an actress, after the pair returned from a concert tour in Australia on Saturday. The passports were taken at Tehran's international airport, the news agency said.
Shajarian had expressed support for the protesters during his foreign tour. During a Sept. 13 concert, a large photo of Mahsa Amini served as a stage backdrop and he sang an old song dealing with cruelty and oppressors.
Another backdrop had the caption: "Don't kill these people. These people deserve life, not death. These people deserve happiness and freedom. My position is clear, I will always stand by the people of my land."
Authorities also detained a number of prominent artists, including singer Shervin Hajipour whose song "For" became an anthem of the protest movement. Hajipour was released on bail on Oct. 4.
In parallel, Iranian officials have wielded state media to blame unrest on foreign powers.
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DANNY JOE STEVENS, 63, of Midkiff, WV, died July 1. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. July 8 at McGhee-Handley Funeral Home, West Hamlin, WV. The burial will follow in the Stevens Hager Cemetery, Midkiff, WV. A visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Angelo State University has been selected by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to participate in the TEA’s Principal Residency Grant initiative for 2023-24 through ASU’s Master of Science (M.S.) in educational leadership with Texas principal certification online graduate degree program.
ASU will partner with public school districts and charter schools to provide principal residency opportunities. Teachers in eligible districts will be chosen to step out of their classrooms and into full-time, year-long positions as assistant principal interns, where they will receive on-the-job training and support while completing the M.S. in educational leadership and principal certification at ASU. The ultimate goal is to have successful interns hired as assistant principals or principals by their school districts as soon as they complete the program.
Participating districts are eligible for TEA grant funds up to $70,000 per resident intern to help pay for their salaries, tuition and principal certification exams. The next round of grants will be awarded for the 2023-24 academic year, and districts must complete and submit a grant proposal to be eligible. Applications will open this fall.
Dr. Tia Agan, coordinator of the M.S. in educational leadership with the Texas principal certification program, will be the school district’s point of contact at ASU.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for teacher leaders who are ready to become Texas principals,” Agan said, “and it provides funds and support for districts who need additional campus leadership to impact student achievement. This is a great way for Angelo State to support and strengthen relationships with school districts and create an even stronger pipeline for teacher leaders to become Texas principals. We are honored to be vetted and among the elite educator preparation programs that were selected for the principal residency program.”
ASU is one of only 19 Texas universities and Education Service Centers to have an educator preparation program approved for the 2023-24 TEA Principal Residency Grant cycle.
School districts and charter schools interested in partnering with ASU should contact Agan as soon as possible at 325-486-6791 or tia.agan@angelo.edu.
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The best Father’s Day gifts you can still get on time
Father’s Day is quickly approaching, but if you haven’t had a chance to shop for gifts, there’s still time to get the special people in your life something thoughtful. Amazon offers thousands of excellent products that’ll arrive on time for Father’s Day, but it’s prudent to order something as soon as possible to ensure it does. You can shop for many neat items on Amazon, such as eye massagers and golf rangefinders, but there are thousands of other products, too, so you can find the perfect gift for dad.
Shop this article: Renpho Eyeris 1 Eye Massager, Cosori Electric Gooseneck Kettle and Nautica Men’s Robe.
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The best Father’s Day gift is a thoughtful one, so it’s best to consider the likes and interests of the person you want to gift. For example, some fathers may appreciate simple gifts such as clothing or shoes, while others may prefer electronics such as streaming devices or smart speakers. Handypersons might appreciate tools, and those who love getting busy in the kitchen will love kitchen products designed to make their lives easier.
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TaylorMade TP Hydro Blast Bandon 3 Putter
Father’s Day Update: This putter uses 303 stainless steel and a Hydro Blast finish to make it among the most dazzling-looking putters you can find at its price range. The Hydro Blast finish also gives it a smoother and more durable surface.
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Dads who work in an office staring at a computer screen all day will appreciate this eye massager as a Father’s Day gift. It uses oscillating pressure, rhythmic percussion massaging and heating pads to reduce eye strain and relieve the skin around the eyes. Plus, it has Bluetooth speakers.
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Cosori Electric Gooseneck Kettle
While boiling water the old-fashioned is still fine for many, this electric kettle makes it even easier and ensures dads never burn their coffee again. It has five preset temperature settings and a hold-temperature function to keep water warm for up to one hour. Also, the spout is designed for easy pouring and prevents spilling.
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This robe is made with 100% brushed cotton for a soft feel and has a traditional tie closure for an adjustable fit. The side seam pockets are perfect for keeping hands warm and cozy or holding a phone, and the knit waistband offers superior comfort. Also, it’s available in 11 colors.
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Lodge Cast-Iron Pre-seasoned Skillet
Dads with a knack for whipping up meals in the kitchen will love this 10.25-inch pre-seasoned skillet. It’s versatile enough for various cooking methods, including searing, sautéing, baking, broiling, braising, frying and grilling, and can also be used in the oven or over a campfire.
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This blower has an electric brushless motor and offers up to 28 minutes of run time at 15,800 revolutions per minute. It’s an eco-friendly power tool that doesn’t cause any emissions and has a six-stage air velocity and volume selection dial with a variable speed control trigger.
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Midland X-Talker Two-Way Radio
This two-way radio has a 38-mile range and is an excellent gift for dads who love going on outdoor adventures. It offers 36 family radio service channels, a Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System with 2,662 channel options to help block other conversations and a weather scan function.
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Canon Zoom Digital Monocular Kit
This monocular is excellent for zooming in on objects during sporting events or hiking adventures. It’s compact enough to fit in most pockets, and it offers one-touch three-step telephoto magnification from 100-millimeter optical to 400-millimeter optical zoom and 800-millimeter digital zoom. Plus, it has a shake correction and autofocus function.
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The PS5 is the latest Sony gaming console, and it offers spectacular graphics and an immersive experience. It has haptic feedback, adaptive triggers and 3D Audio technology and high-end internal specs such as a high-powered CPU and premium GPU. The fan works quietly, and cross-play with other consoles is supported for some titles.
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Blue Tees Golf Series 3 Laser Rangefinder
Golf-loving dads will appreciate this high-quality laser rangefinder. It provides distance readings from the tee to the flag and helps golfers determine which club to use for their next shot and how to execute it. This rangefinder has slope technology that accounts for elevation in its readings, seven times magnification and a 900-yard range.
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This Echo Dot smart speaker offers improved sound over its predecessor and lets you control smart devices in your home. You can play music from popular streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music and get live sports and weather updates from Alexa. Plus, it has an integrated button for turning off the microphone.
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If the person you want to gift this Father’s Day is reluctant to abandon their older TV for a newer smart TV, you can help them step things up with this streaming device. It supports Wi-Fi 6 for fast download speeds, and the Alexa voice remote lets you search for titles across all apps.
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iRobot Roomba 694 Robot Vacuum
A robot vacuum cleaner is an excellent gift for anyone who wants to spend less time housekeeping. This robot vacuum has a three-stage cleaning system and works on various surfaces, including carpets and hardwood floors. The advanced sensors prevent it from falling down steps, and it runs for up to 90 minutes on a full charge.
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ATLANTA, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spelman College formally installed Helene D. Gayle, M.D., MPH, as its 11th President at the investiture ceremony held today, April 28, at the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel.
During the ceremony, attended by Spelman's Board of Trustees, higher education peers, distinguished guests, family and friends, Dr. Gayle was officially bestowed the title of president. The inauguration theme of "Honoring Our Past, Claiming Our Future" paid homage to the great leaders that came before her, as well as her hope and vision for continued success of this storied institution.
During her inaugural address, Dr. Gayle acknowledged and thanked the past five Spelman presidents in attendance, as well as many individuals who have played an important role in her life. During her remarks she reaffirmed her commitment to Spelman and aspirations for the future
"I am here to honor the vision and mission of the founders," said Dr. Gayle. "I am here to continue the legacy of all the past presidents who made it possible for me to inherit an institution with few problems and many possibilities. I am here for the same reason this institution has always been here: to ensure there is a special place – that there will always be a special place – where a young Black woman with a dream of making the world better will be nurtured and affirmed, educated wholly, and encouraged to be and become her best and authentic self. It is an amazing calling. And I am humbled to accept this mantle of leadership."
Rosalind Gates Brewer, C'84, chair of the Spelman Board of Trustees and president and CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, presided over the investiture ceremony. Guest speakers included: Mary Schmidt Campbell, 10th president of Spelman College; David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College; Sian Beilock, president of Barnard College; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American Civil Rights activist and journalist; and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of American University.
Dr. Gayle began serving as the 11th president of Spelman College on July 1, 2022, following an extensive national search led by the Board of Trustees. She succeeded President Emerita Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., who served as president from 2015 - 2022.
The four-day line-up of inauguration events began on Thursday, April 27, with an academic symposium, a campus celebration following the investiture on Friday, day of service on Saturday, and will conclude on Sunday with an interfaith service at Spelman's historic Sisters Chapel, featuring an inauguration sermon by Bishop Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Dr. Gayle previously served as president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation's oldest and largest community foundations, from October 2017 to June 2022. Under her leadership, the Trust adopted a new strategic focus on closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap in the Chicago region. For almost a decade, she was president and CEO of CARE, a leading international humanitarian organization. A pediatrician and public health physician with expertise in economic development, humanitarian, and health issues, she spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control, working primarily on HIV/AIDS. She led the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's programs on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues.
Dr. Gayle serves on public company and nonprofit boards, including The Coca-Cola Company, Organon, Palo Alto Networks, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Brookings Institution, Center for Strategic and International Studies, New America and the ONE Campaign. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, Council on Foreign Relations, American Public Health Association, National Medical Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Gayle is from Buffalo, N.Y. She earned a B.A. in psychology at Barnard College, an M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.P.H. at Johns Hopkins University. She is a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Environmental and Health Sciences at Spelman College and has received 18 honorary degrees. She also holds faculty appointments at the University of Washington and Emory University.
For more information about the inauguration of Dr. Helene D. Gayle, or to watch the video broadcast, please visit www.spelman.edu/inauguration.
About Spelman College
Founded in 1881, Spelman College is a leading liberal arts college widely recognized as the global leader in the education of women of African descent. Located in Atlanta, the College's picturesque campus is home to 2,100 students. Spelman is the country's leading producer of Black women who complete Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The College's status is confirmed by the U.S. News & World Report, which ranked Spelman No. 51 among all liberal arts colleges, No. 19 for undergraduate teaching, No. 5 for social mobility among liberal arts colleges, and No. 1 for the 16th year among historically Black colleges and universities. The Wall Street Journal has ranked the College No. 3, nationally, in terms of student satisfaction. Recent initiatives include a designation by the Department of Defense as a Center of Excellence for Minority Women in STEM, a Gender and Sexuality Studies Institute, the first endowed queer studies chair at an HBCU, and a program to increase the number of Black women Ph.D.s in economics. New majors have been added, including documentary filmmaking and photography, and collaborations have been established with MIT's Media Lab, the Broad Institute and the Army Research Lab for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Outstanding alumnae include Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Rosalind Brewer, political leader Stacey Abrams, former Acting Surgeon General and Spelman's first alumna president Audrey Forbes Manley, actress and producer Latanya Richardson Jackson, global bioinformatics geneticist Janina Jeff and authors Pearl Cleage and Tayari Jones.
To learn more, please visit spelman.edu and @spelmancollege on social media.
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Girl, 9, trapped under 1,000-lb. hay bale airlifted to children’s hospital, recovering
FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) – A 9-year-old girl who was trapped underneath a large bale of hale last week in Wisconsin, was expected to be released from the hospital Tuesday.
Savannah Grahl, 9, and her older sister were playing with new kittens in the calf barn on a family farm, their mother, Tara Grahl, told WBAY.
Grahl said she walked into the barn and found Savannah’s head and neck trapped between two bales of hay that were stacked on top of one another.
With the help of her sister-in-law, the two women were able to lift the 1,000-pound bale off the girl, freeing her.
They got the girl breathing again before first responders arrived. She was eventually flown to Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee in critical care.
She moved out of ICU on Saturday, and Grahl announced on Facebook Monday that Savannah would be released from the hospital Tuesday.
Grahl says her daughter will have to wear a neck brace for a few months and will need physical and occupational therapy to regain strength and mobility in her right arm and hand.
“She has the best attitude and has been the best little patient ever,” her mother said, thankful her daughter is alive.
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Man accused of throwing beer on 5-month-old baby while drunk
NAPLES, Fla. (WBBH) - A Florida man is facing charges after he allegedly threw an open cup of beer at a 5-month-old baby during a drunken outburst.
The Naples Police Department arrested 58-year-old Joseph Morrello and charged him with battery Friday in relation to the reported incident.
The mother of the 5-month-old baby, only identified as “D,” told police her family was saying goodbye to each other late Monday on the sidewalk outside Vergina’s Italian Restaurant in Naples, Florida.
She says staff escorted the suspect out of the restaurant, and he began yelling. She says he then threw an open cup of beer that hit her baby girl.
“As he stormed out, he proceeded to throw an entire beer on my 5-month-old baby, who was in her stroller doing absolutely nothing wrong,” the mother said. “When I saw my baby scared, like I’ve never seen before, soaking wet in beer, I knew had to just pick her up and grab her.”
Vergina’s management quickly snapped a photo of the man before he ran off down the street.
“This is not the place for you. Unfortunately, there’s consequences when you do things like that,” said Vergina’s manager Eric Tancredi.
The mother filed a police report following the incident. She says she has been in contact with other restaurants in the area who have had similar issues with the suspect.
Morrello posted bond Saturday, according to online records. He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 1.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Jordan signed a declaration of intent on Thursday at the U.N. climate conference to conserve and protect their shared Jordan River — a sacred waterway nearly running dry because of climate change, pollution and other threats.
The agreement, struck at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where world leaders are discussing how to mitigate the escalating impact from a changing climate, marks an important, albeit initial, step in cooperation.
Water cooperation was a key element of the 1994 peace treaty between the two countries but chilly relations over the past decades have complicated efforts to increase water supply to the Jordan River.
The plan announced Thursday is short on specifics. It says Israel and Jordan have promised to try to reduce river pollution by building up wastewater treatment facilities and upgrading sewer systems to prevent riverside cities from dumping raw sewage into the waters, according to a statement from the Israeli government.
The two countries also aim to promote sustainable agriculture, controlling runoff from farm fields and reducing the use of pesticides, it added, without elaborating on how.
“Cleaning up the pollutants and hazards, restoring water flow and strengthening the natural ecosystems will help us prepare and adapt to the climate crisis,” said Minister of Environmental Protection Tamar Zandberg.
Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency said the plan will hopefully increase water supplies and create job opportunities “for those living on both sides of the Jordan River, including Palestinians.”
EcoPeace Middle East, a cross-border environmental group that has promoted Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian cooperation on water issues, said the agreement to rehabilitate the Jordan River was “a critical climate adaptation measure that can help bring back 50% of the biodiversity lost because of decades of pollution and freshwater diversion.”
The waterway also separates Jordan to the east from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and sought by the Palestinians for their future independent state. The river is also home to traditional sites where Jesus is believed to have been baptized, which draw tourism revenue for both countries.
In recent years the once-rushing waters of the Jordan River have been reduced to a trickle as population growth and climate change take their toll.
Jordan reported on Thursday that the river’s runoff has plummeted to a mere 7% of what it once was. Because its waters feed into the Dead Sea, the saltwater lake is now disappearing — its levels dropping by three feet per year. | https://www.wjhl.com/science/ap-science/ap-israel-and-jordan-agree-to-team-up-to-save-jordan-river/ | 2022-11-17 20:47:52 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/science/ap-science/ap-israel-and-jordan-agree-to-team-up-to-save-jordan-river/ |
Chris Beard, the men's basketball coach at the University of Texas at Austin, is accused of strangling a woman.
According to the Austin Police Department, officers were called to a home around 12:15 Monday morning. Police said when officers arrived, they located a woman who said she was assaulted and strangled by Beard.
Beard was located and arrested hours later. He is charged with assaulting a family member, a third-degree felony.
In a statement to the Austin American-Statesmen, Beard's attorney said his client is "100% innocent of these charges." He added that Beard "should never have been arrested."
The University of Texas said it is "continuing to gather information and monitoring the legal process."
Beard is in his second year as head coach at the University of Texas. The team is 7-1 this season and ranked No. 7 in the country. The Longhorns are scheduled to play Monday night. It's unclear whether Beard will be coaching. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/chris-beard-ut-mens-basketball-coach-arrested-on-assault-charge | 2022-12-12 21:38:18 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/chris-beard-ut-mens-basketball-coach-arrested-on-assault-charge |
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HOUSTON (AP) — Jarren Duran homered and drove in a career-high three RBIs, and the Boston Red Sox overcame sloppy fielding early for a 3-2 win over Houston on Monday night, as the Astros made a pair of important moves a day before the MLB trade deadline.
Houston led 2-1 after scoring twice, thanks to errors in the third inning.
The Red Sox still trailed by a run when Bobby Dalbec walked to start the fifth. There were two outs in the inning when Duran smacked his second homer of the season into the seats in right field to make it 3-2.
The 25-year-old Duran got the Red Sox on the board in the third inning when he drove in a run with a ground-rule double.
Nathan Eovaldi (5-3) allowed four hits and no earned runs with six strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings to get his first win since June 8.
Houston starter Luis Garcia (8-7) yielded six hits and three runs in seven innings for his second straight loss.
Martín Maldonado singled with one out in the seventh to chase Eovaldi. He was replaced by John Schreiber, and Jose Altuve grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Tanner Houck pitched a scoreless ninth for his seventh save.
It was a busy day for the Astros, who made two significant deals on the eve of the trade deadline. Houston acquired first baseman Trey Mancini from the Baltimore Orioles in a three-team trade, and then added catcher Christian Vázquez in a deal with the Red Sox.
Vázquez was in the Red Sox lineup before being scratched just minutes before the game. Now, with a move to the other clubhouse at Minute Maid Park, he’ll try to help the Astros make another deep playoff push.
The Astros went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position while playing without third baseman Alex Bregman, who went on the paternity list Monday after his wife Reagan went into labor with their first child.
Dalbec doubled to open the third and scored on the ground-rule by Duran to put the Red Sox up 1-0.
Altuve reached on an error by third baseman Christian Arroyo with no outs in the bottom of the inning. Yuli Gurriel then reached on a fielder’s choice by shortstop Xander Bogaerts, and Gurriel took second and Altuve went to third on an error by Bogaerts on the play.
The Astros tied it when Altuve scored on a sacrifice fly by Yordan Alvarez. A double by Aledmys Díaz came next to send Gurriel home and put Houston up 2-1.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: LHP Rich Hill (sprained left knee) was activated from the 15-day injured list Monday, but the team hasn’t said when he’ll make his next start.
Astros: RHP Lance McCullers will make his third rehabilitation start for Triple-A Sugar Land on Tuesday night. McCullers, who has been out all season with a forearm strain, threw 52 pitches in three innings in his last start and is expected to pitch longer Tuesday. ... INF Taylor Jones was recalled from Sugar Land to take Bregman’s spot on the roster.
UP NEXT
Houston’s Cristian Javier (6-6, 3.26 ERA) opposes Kutter Crawford (2-3, 4.15) when the series continues Tuesday night.
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(NewsNation) — As workers are returning to the office and job-related stresses are creeping back, there is a shift to the well-being of employees coming to the forefront in the American workplace.
We’ve seen record-breaking resignations across the country, and now rest and recovery is a discussion being had among employees and their employers.
According to a report from Destination Analysts, more than two-thirds of American workers feel at least moderately burned out.
Economist and futurist Rebecca Ryan discussed avoiding worker burnout and how employees are not taking enough vacations during an appearance on “Morning in America”.
“I feel like the ‘check engine’ light is on for American workers because of two years of living under these stressful conditions,” she said. “So what we’re seeing is this drastic shift from sort of a workaholic environment to one that is shifting to a well-being focus at work.”
Ryan said employees are strapped with added responsibilities as many of their colleagues participated in the “Great Resignation.”
“We’re seeing it in employers, public sector employers, private sector employers, as people are leaving,” she said. “A lot of those people who are leaving are doing it to sort of claw back their mental and physical health, but it is leaving those behind to do a little bit more work.”
There’s a work and rest balance and every person is different, according to Ryan.
“Data going back to the 1940s, and 1930, show that American workers can work about 40 hours, and after that our margin of productivity goes down,” she said. “So we make worse decisions. We’re not as productive. We do need time off.”
And the levels of burnout that we’re now seeing can have long-term effects, Ryan said.
“We know that this impacts cardiovascular health, it impacts psychological health, including depression and drug use,” she said. “If burnout goes on for too long, it obviously impacts us at work as well.”
Ryan said employers have a role in their employees’ well-being, but it takes effort from all sides.
“Take your vacation, take care of yourself, get yourself some rest and renewal even if it’s a staycation,” she said.
One thing Ryan said that employers can do is make it really clear that they value employees taking time off.
“So bosses, for example, stop sending emails at midnight,” she said. “Set good mental health hygiene at work, where there are clear starts and stops and take your own vacation as well.”
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The employer-sponsored health plan insurer also earned URAC accreditations for disease management and health utilization management
PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine360, a company offering a simplified, total health plan solution for self-funded businesses, today announced they received Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) accreditation for the company's case management program.
URAC's rigorous review and accreditation demonstrates Imagine360's exemplary care coordination in providing case management to its members. A collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation and advocacy help to ensure each member's comprehensive health needs are met.
"Imagine360 is committed to ensuring exceptional member support and experience, and it is because of this commitment that we received this valued accreditation," said Jeff Bak, President and CEO at Imagine360. "Our credentialed and compassionate healthcare specialists, the 1:1 patient support, and the integration of plan data all support a seamless member experience. The URAC accreditation further distinguishes Imagine360's devotion to quality and accountability. We are very proud to have earned this distinction."
The company also earned the URAC accreditations for disease management, for its ability to meet the needs of members with chronic diseases, and for health utilization management, recognizing its ability to help ensure members get the quality and cost-effective care they need.
Imagine360 offers self-funded businesses and their employees innovative and cost-effective health plan solutions, all while providing the highest quality of member services. The solution is a people-centric, data-driven healthcare journey that includes identifying top-quality healthcare providers, assisting with the management of complex health issues, and ensuring full price protection with deep transparency.
About Imagine360
Imagine360 is a company offering a simplified, total health plan solution for self-funded businesses that combines the financial savings from reference-based pricing with seamless benefits administration and concierge-level member support. The reimagined health plan solution leverages 50+ years of expertise and best-in-class offerings from industry leaders to deliver a more affordable and better healthcare experience.
About URAC
Founded in 1990 as a non-profit organization, URAC is the independent leader in promoting health care quality and patient safety through renowned accreditation programs. URAC develops its evidence-based standards in collaboration with a wide array of stakeholders and industry experts. The company's portfolio of accreditation and certification programs span the health care industry, addressing health care management and operations, pharmacies, telehealth, health plans, medical practices and more. URAC accreditation is a symbol of excellence for organizations to showcase their validated commitment to quality and accountability.
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- Nuvini acquires and manages a portfolio of high growth software-as-a-service ("SaaS") companies in Latin America.
- The expected funding and capital markets access from the proposed business combination will enable Nuvini to continue furthering its acquisition strategy.
- Combined company to have an enterprise value of approximately US$312 million, with the proposed business combination expected to provide approximately US$43 million in gross proceeds, assuming no further redemptions by public stockholders of Mercato Partners Acquisition Corporation.
- All existing Nuvini shareholders are expected to roll 100% of their equity holdings into the combined company.
- The proposed business combination is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023.
SAO PAULO and SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nvni Group Limited ("NewCo") and Mercato Partners Acquisition Corporation, a publicly-listed special purpose acquisition company (Nasdaq: MPRA) ("Mercato"), today announced that they have entered into a business combination agreement by and among NewCo, Nuvini Holdings Limited (with all its subsidiaries, the "Nuvini Group"), Nuvini Merger Sub, Inc. and Mercato (the "business combination agreement"). Upon completion of the proposed business combination, the combined company will operate under the "Nuvini" name and its ordinary shares are expected to be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol "NVNI." The business combination is expected to provide the Nuvini Group with access to the public equity capital markets and thereby position it to continue growing its portfolio of SaaS companies.
Mercato is a special purpose acquisition company led by veteran investor and executive Dr. Gregory Warnock, who serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mercato's sponsor, Mercato Partners Acquisition Group, LLC, is an affiliate of Mercato Management, LLC, a private multi-practice investment firm that provides funding, strategic guidance and growth support for rapidly expanding technology, branded consumer, and food and beverage companies.
Founded in in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2020 by seasoned Brazilian serial entrepreneur and investor Pierre Schurmann, Nuvini S.A. ("Nuvini") is the leading private serial software business acquirer in Latin America. With seven companies currently in its portfolio, the Nuvini Group intends to use the expected funding and capital market access from the business combination to continue furthering its acquisition strategy.
Following the closing of the business combination, Nuvini's founder Pierre Schurmann will continue as Chief Executive Officer and Luis Busnello will continue as Chief Operating Officer of the combined company.
"Going public would, by itself, be an important step on our long-term strategy to become the leaders of B2B SaaS in Latin America. We believe partnering with a high-performing and experienced group like Mercato that is rooted in funding high-growth technology companies outside of high concentrated capital centers will be even more valuable"- said Pierre Schurmann, Nuvini's CEO.
"We believe Nuvini will bring great value to our investors," said Greg Warnock. "Their vision to foster the entrepreneurial spirit and create value through long-term partnerships aligns perfectly to the foundational pillars for which we founded Mercato."
Transaction Overview
The estimated pro forma enterprise value of the combined company is $312 million, including an anticipated $23 million in cash net of Nuvini debt at the time of closing, assuming no further redemptions by Mercato's existing stockholders. The transaction, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of Nuvini and Mercato, is subject to approval by the stockholders of Nuvini and Mercato, respectively, and other customary closing conditions. The proposed business combination contemplates that Nuvini shareholders will roll 100% of their equity holdings into the combined company and will hold approximately 70% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of the combined company immediately following the consummation of the transaction, assuming no redemptions by Mercato's existing public stockholders and no exercise of Mercato's currently outstanding warrants.
All cash remaining on the combined company's balance sheet at the closing of the transaction, after the settlement of transaction-related expenses, is expected to be utilized for working capital and general corporate purposes.
A more detailed description of the transaction terms and a copy of the business combination agreement will be included in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by Mercato with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). NewCo, a newly formed exempted company incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands, will be the surviving public company following the consummation of the business combination, and will file a registration statement (which will contain a proxy statement and prospectus) with the SEC in connection with the transaction.
Information About Nuvini
Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, Nuvini is the leading private serial software business acquirer in Latin America. The Nuvini Group acquires software companies within SaaS markets in Latin America. It focuses on acquiring profitable "business-to-business" SaaS companies with a consolidated business model, recurring revenue, positive cash generation and relevant growth potential. The Nuvini Group enables its acquired companies to provide mission-critical solutions to customers within its industry or sector. Its business philosophy is to invest in established companies and foster an entrepreneurial environment that would enable companies to become leaders in their respective industries. The Nuvini Group's goal is to buy, retain and create value through long-term partnerships with the existing management of its acquired companies. To date, Nuvini Group's portfolio of SaaS companies consists of Effecti Tecnologia Web Ltda., Leadlovers Tecnologia Ltda., Ipê Tecnologia Ltda., Dataminer Dados, Informações e Documentos Ltda., OnClick Sistemas de Informação Ltda., Simplest Software Ltda. and SmartNX Tecnologia Ltda.
Information About Mercato
Mercato Partners Acquisition Corporation is a blank check company formed for the purpose of entering into a business combination with one or more businesses.
Advisors
Maxim Group LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to Mercato in connection with the business combination. Latham & Watkins LLP served as Mercato's U.S. legal counsel; Machado Meyer served as its Brazilian legal counsel; and Maples and Calder (Cayman) LLP served as its Cayman legal counsel.
The Nuvini Group and NewCo were advised by Mayer Brown LLP as their U.S. legal counsel; Tauil & Chequer Advogados, affiliate of Mayer Brown LLP, as their Brazilian legal counsel; and Carey Olsen Cayman Limited, as their Cayman legal counsel.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements made herein are not historical facts but may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act"), Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the "safe harbor" provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "should," "would," "plan," "predict," "potential," "seem," "seek," "future," "outlook" or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology or expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding future events, the proposed business combination between Mercato and Nuvini, the estimated or anticipated future results and benefits of the combined company following the business combination, including the likelihood and ability of the parties to successfully consummate the business combination, future opportunities for the combined company, including the Nuvini Group's growth strategy and its continued acquisitions of SaaS businesses in Latin America, and other statements that are not historical facts.
These statements are based on the current expectations of Mercato, Nuvini and/or Nuvini Group's management and are not predictions of actual performance. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on, by any investor as a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of Mercato, Nuvini and the Nuvini Group. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties regarding Nuvini Group's business and the business combination, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: general economic, political and business conditions, including but not limited to the economic and operational disruptions and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the inability of the parties to consummate the business combination or the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the business combination agreement; the number of redemption requests made by Mercato stockholders in connection with the business combination; the risk that the transaction may not be completed by Mercato's business combination deadline and the potential failure to obtain an extension of the business combination deadline if sought by Mercato; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the parties following the announcement of the business combination; the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the transaction, including the risk that the approval of Nuvini shareholders or Mercato stockholders for the potential business combination is not obtained, the risk that any closing condition in the business combination agreement is not met and the failure to receive certain governmental and regulatory approvals; the lack of a third party valuation in determining whether or not to pursue the proposed transaction; failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the business combination, including as a result of a delay in consummating the potential business combination; the risk that the business combination disrupts current plans and operations as a result of the announcement and consummation of the business combination; the risks related to Nuvini Group's business including the efficiency and timing of its growth strategy which depends exclusively on continued acquisitions of SaaS businesses and relies to a great extent on a target acquisition's receptiveness to and adoption of the Nuvini Group's model and their acceptance of its proposals; the risks related to the software market in general and the competition on Nuvini Group's business; the risks related to the Nuvini Group's technology, intellectual property and infrastructure; the risks related to the Nuvini Group's substantial operations in Brazil; the ability of the combined company to execute its growth strategy, manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; the ability of Nuvini to obtain or maintain the listing of its securities on a U.S. national securities exchange following the business combination; costs related to the business combination; and other risks that will be detailed from time to time in filings with the SEC. The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. There may be additional risks that Mercato and Nuvini presently do not know or that they currently believe are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements provide expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views of Mercato, Nuvini and the Nuvini Group as of the date of this communication. Mercato and Nuvini anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause their assessments to change. However, while Mercato and Nuvini may elect to update these forward-looking statements in the future, Mercato and Nuvini specifically disclaim any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing assessments of Mercato and Nuvini as of any date subsequent to the date of this communication. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements. Nothing herein should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or results of such forward-looking statements will be achieved.
Important Information About the Proposed Business Combination and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed business combination, NewCo intends to file with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-4, which will include a preliminary prospectus/proxy statement and other relevant documents, which will be both the proxy statement to be distributed to Mercato's stockholders in connection with Mercato's solicitation of proxies for the vote by Mercato's stockholders with respect to the proposed business combination and other matters as may be described in the registration statement, as well as the prospectus relating to the offer and sale of the securities of NewCo to be issued in connection with the business combination.
THIS COMMUNICATION IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENT THAT MERCATO WILL SEND TO ITS STOCKHOLDERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE BUSINESS COMBINATION.
INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE ADVISED TO READ, WHEN AVAILABLE, THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE BUSINESS COMBINATION AND THE PARTIES TO THE BUSINESS COMBINATION. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain copies of these documents (if and when available) and other documents filed with the SEC free of charge at www.sec.gov. The definitive proxy statement/final prospectus (when available) will be mailed to Mercato stockholders as of a record date to be established for voting on the business combination. Mercato stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the proxy statement/prospectus without charge, once available, at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to: Mercato Partners Acquisition Corporation, 2750 E. Cottonwood Parkway, Suite #500, Cottonwood Heights, Utah 84121, MPRA@mercatopartners.com.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Senator Mike Crapo is seeking a fifth term in the deeply conservative state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1974.
The 71-year-old has a huge fundraising advantage and name recognition over other candidates heading into Tuesday’s election.
He’s raised about $6.5 million compared to about $26,000 for his Democratic challenger, 41-year-old David Roth, who tops the remaining candidates in fundraising. Crapo had more than $5.5 million cash on hand at the end of June, according to federal election tracking.
Other candidates in the race are Independent Scott Cleveland, Libertarian Idaho Sierra Law and Constitution Party candidate Ray Writz.
The difference between Crapo and Roth are stark, perhaps most notably on abortion.
Crapo lauded the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that stripped away women's constitutional protections for abortion, a ruling that triggered in Idaho one of the most strict abortion bans in the nation.
Roth, executive director of the Bonneville Youth Development Council in Idaho Falls, posted on his website that “a woman has the right to make her own healthcare decisions.”
Crapo became the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee in 2021, putting him in a position to potentially chair the committee if Republicans take control of the now evenly-divided Senate. He previously served as chair of the Senate Banking Committee.
Crapo, who received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and a law degree from Harvard Law School, has a long political career in Idaho. He served in the Idaho Senate for six years before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Idaho's 2nd district, taking office in 1993. He served there for six years before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1998.
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Losing weight is a popular New Year's resolution. But people often fail to keep this commitment or quickly gain back the pounds.
Instead of jumping on the latest fad diet, experts advise improving the nutritional quality of what goes into your body. A gradual shift to healthier eating is more likely to stick and can reap long-lasting rewards, such as better heart health and a lower risk of dying from heart disease or stroke.
"Rather than taking things out of your diet, I try to encourage people to think about adding things in that give them better nutrition," said Alexis Newman, a registered dietitian based in Philadelphia. "I stray away from the diet mentality because research shows dieting doesn't work."
Newman said she encourages her clients to add more fruits and vegetables to their diets, along with fiber from whole grains, such as brown rice, and plenty of water for hydration.
These foods are found in eating patterns such as the Mediterranean diet and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH diet. The American Heart Association recommended both in its 2021 scientific statement on dietary guidance. Both emphasize whole grains, plant-based or other healthy proteins from fish, seafood and lean meats, liquid plant oils and minimally processed foods. And they encourage minimal consumption of foods and beverages with added sugar and salt.
Research shows people who follow such heart-healthy eating patterns have a cardiovascular mortality rate up to 28% lower than those who don't.
Dr. Anne Thorndike, a member of the dietary guidance writing committee, said people can include healthier choices without giving up favorite foods or important family or cultural staples.
"If I tell you that you can never have something again, the only thing you're going to want is that thing," said Thorndike, director of the cardiac lifestyle program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
"You don't have to give something up completely," she said, especially dishes that are part of special occasions. "Enjoy it once and be done with it. Don't eat the leftovers for five days in a row."
And don't think eating healthier has to mean giving up taste, she said. "You should never eat things you don't like. It's not worth the extra calories. If a cracker tastes like cardboard, don't choose that cracker."
Look for variety, Thorndike said, and don't be afraid to try new things.
"I have patients who say, 'I like bananas,' and they eat bananas every day," she said. "Try an apple, an orange, some grapes. And don't forget the vegetables. They are a key component. Choose a variety of colors – green, orange, yellow, red."
How foods are prepared also matters.
"If you're a person used to eating fried foods, try to add in one or two not-fried meals during the week," Newman said.
Fish and chicken can be baked or sauteed instead of fried, for example. Thorndike suggests cooking with olive or other plant-based oils, rather than butter or tropical oils.
She also advises staying away from processed foods such as white bread or packaged rice with flavor packets that include sodium, which can contribute to high blood pressure. But if that's what's available, she said, replace the flavor packet with other seasonings such as garlic, cumin or pepper. "There are a lot of off-the-shelf spice mixes that don't have sodium in them that can add a lot of flavor," Thorndike said.
Finding healthier foods can be a challenge in neighborhoods with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables or for families with limited budgets. Newman said she encourages people to work with what they've got. For example, if fresh fruits and vegetables are too costly or in short supply, substitute with canned or frozen. The added sodium in some canned vegetables can be rinsed off, she said.
If frozen meals are needed to make ends meet, Newman suggests choosing those that come with a fruit or vegetable.
Both Newman and Thorndike take a "big picture" approach to healthy eating, suggesting people focus on making as many healthy choices as possible. The goal, they said, is to make gradual changes that become part of a healthier eating pattern they can maintain.
"We're not talking about something you're doing for a few weeks," Thorndike said. "This is for the rest of your life."
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Observations and other notes of interest from Thursday night’s 106-104 loss to the New York Knicks:
– Yes, this is redundant.
– It also is reality.
– Kyle Lowry played Tuesday night’s first half in Cleveland without a point, rebound or assist.
– He then played Thursday’s first half without a point, rebound or assist.
– This time missing all five of his first-half shots, four of them 3-point attempts.
– As the Knicks also hunted him (when they weren’t hunting Tyler Herro) on defense.
– Lowry was minus 20 at halftime.
– At a stage the Heat trailed by three.
– At halftime, the Knicks’ Jalen Brunson had as many points, rebounds and assists as Lowry.
– And he did not play, sidelined by illness.
– Lowry’s first points, on a 3-pointer, came with 2:44 left in the third period.
– After an 0-for-6 start from the field.
– He exited for good with 1:41 left in the third period.
– It’s a tough spot for Erik Spoelstra.
– With the Heat this season already sitting Ducan Robinson’s money.
– And Dewayne Dedmon’s (more on that later).
– It’s almost as if Lowry is making Gabe Vincent indispensable.
– With Vincent again having his moments.
– The Heat again opened with Bam Adebayo, Caleb Martin, Jimmy Butler, Herro and Lowry.
– With the appearance, Adebayo tied Goran Dragic for 10th on the Heat’s all-time games list.
– Victor Oladipo was an active scratch, due to an ankle sprain.
– With Orlando Robinson out due to a fractured thumb, Udonis Haslem played as the Heat’s first big man off the bench.
– Ahead of Dedmon
– Which says plenty about where Dedmon stands.
– Or doesn’t.
– Haslem entered in the Heat’s first substitution along with Max Strus.
– Typically, that is when Oladipo would have entered.
– Haywood Highsmith played as the Heat’s third reserve.
– And again had his moments.
– Vincent then made it nine deep.
– Butler’s first steal moved him past Reggie Theus for 93rd on the NBA all-time list.
– Butler tied Shaquille O’Neal for 17 on the Heat all-time list of double-digit games in points.
– Herro’s second assist moved him past Josh Richardson for 17th on the Heat all-time list.
– Vincent’s third 3-pointer attempt moved him past Dion Waiters for 24th on Heat all-time list.
– Adebayo’s fifth free throw was the 1,300th of his career.
– Spoelstra noted the uncommonness of having not faced the Heat this season until Thursday.
– “There’s no doubt about it,” he said, “it’s a little bit unique that we’re this far along in the season, we haven’t even played ‘em yet, and we’ll play them four times in the next five weeks.”
– Still, he said the legacy of Heat-Knicks endures.
– “This history,” Spoelstra said, “it’s not specifically relevant now, but I think you inherit all of the things that we’ve experienced as an organization. Ultimately, it’s just good competition. We’re both right there, basically in a similar spot in the very competitive Eastern Conference.”
– Of the scheduling that did not have the teams meeting this season until Thursday, Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said, “It’s a quirk. Those things happen.”
– Of this current rendition of the Knicks, Spoelstra said, “You respect how they play, how physical they are, and how much emotion and passion they play with in this environment, this building.”
– Knicks guard Jalen Brunson on the Heat, “Obviously they have great personnel, a culture that they talk about all the time.”
– Thibodeau said among the prime reasons the Heat entered with 17 wins in their previous 25 was the team’s return to health.
– On meeting up again with Butler, his player in Chicago and Minnesota, Thibodeau said, “Jimmy’s Jimmy. He’s the ultimate competitor, and I think that transcends anything. He’s going to find a way to win.”
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Rohi's Readery offers community inclusive, diverse books
Rohi's Readery at The Square is a place many people have come looking for support and books on topics that they can no longer find in schools.
The store is filled with books about inclusion and diversity representing historically marginalized communities.
"I have a grandson who is biracial and it's wonderful, this kind of a place. To bring him would be awesome," Brenda Zimmerman, a grandmother of interracial grandchildren, said.
This as educators throughout Florida are asked to remove books from their classrooms that discuss topics such as sexuality, gender identity and race.
RELATED: Dozens of books removed from Martin County schools
"I'm a retired elementary school librarian from the time when we did choose the book that we felt the library needed," Ellen Heath said. "Obviously, we read reviews, we bought the best quality, but we were free to choose books that would reach a diverse community, and I'm sick that that has changed."
The bookstore is a passion project by Pranoo Kumar as a tribute to her grandmother, who was an education activist who fought for children's rights.
"We want to use these books as tools of empowerment, but instead people are seeing them as a threat, which is not the case," Kumar said. "It's even sad that they're being called banned books, because their intention of these authors and illustrators is to create liberation. It's to create opportunities for open engagement and conversation and learning of stories of others."
Rohi's Readery has been around for about a year and a half, and Kumar said she has faced some negativity.
RELATED: West Palm Beach bookstore owner shares concerns amid book bans
"We have experienced pushbacks and challenges, whether it's through emails or a death threat, whether it is through challenges even outside of the Readery,' said Kumar.
But she said her motivation to stay open is to honor her grandmother and for the community and children who need the books the most.
"My biggest thing about books is that every child that comes in here really sees that they feel a sense of belonging and empowerment in every little act of reading," Kumar said.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Damar Hamlin took another step in his comeback as he donned pads for a Buffalo Bills practice for the first time since his cardiac arrest, CNN reported.
Bills players put on the pads Monday for the first time during training camp as they prepare for the upcoming NFL season.
SEE ALSO: Damar Hamlin opens up about his 'remarkable' recovery in GMA interview
On Jan. 2, Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after making a tackle and appearing to be hit with a helmet in his chest during the first quarter of the Bills' Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
CPR was performed on Hamlin when he lost his pulse and needed to be revived through resuscitation and defibrillation.
RELATED: 'Fear is a choice': Damar Hamlin talks about being cleared to play
Hamlin was cleared to resume football activities after it was determined that his cardiac arrest was caused by commotio cordis, which can occur when severe trauma to the chest disrupts the heart's electrical charge and causes dangerous fibrillations.
Last week, Bills head coach Sean McDermott said that Hamlin would be a "full go" at the team's training camp and that the Bills would go at his cadence.
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SANTA FE, N.M., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), the non-profit that produces the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, is pleased to announce the launch of the Get Indigenous Film Festival (GIFF). The inaugural Native American and Indigenous film festival begins with a double bill screening of the newest season openers of FX's Reservation Dogs (SE3) and AMC's Dark Winds (SE2) episodes at 7pm Thursday, August 17, 2023, at the Violet Crown Cinema. An after-party at the newly opened Nuckolls Brewing Co. begins at 9 pm— immediately after the screenings.
"Our soft launch of the Get Indigenous Film Festival (GIFF) at this year's Indian Market is, on one level, to celebrate these shows about Native experiences currently receiving so much acclaim. Their success highlights Native excellence and Native voices. In addition to showcasing traditional Native arts, we at SWAIA are creating a film-inclusive environment with our new and exciting Get Indigenous Film Festival. Film and television can reach a diverse audience who may have not been exposed to the rich beauty of Indigenous cultures. Our mission is to promote Native arts from every culture, this includes the culture of the silver screen," said Executive Director Jamie Schulze (Northern Cheyenne / Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate).
In addition to Thursday's screenings, the Get Indigenous Film Festival will host a panel discussion on Saturday, 9am-11am, August 19, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA). Details on the panel discussion will be available on the SWAIA website in the next few weeks. The panel discussion will explore topics on Indigenous film and television of particular interest to Native and non-Native audiences. The film festival's vision is "To provide every Native American and Indigenous film and television artist a voice, through the medium of our time."
About SWAIA:
The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) is a non-profit organization supporting Native North American art and culture. SWAIA creates economic and cultural opportunities for Native North American artists by producing and promoting the Santa Fe Indian Market— the largest and most prestigious Native art event in the world. Since 1922 SWAIA has cultivated excellence and innovation across traditional and non-traditional art forms— developing programs and events that support, promote and honor Native North American artists year-round. swaia.org
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that overtures toward Syria's ruler should be made contingent on concessions from DamascusImage: Florian Gaertner/photothek/IMAGO
Baerbock warns against 'unconditional' Assad normalization
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Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made the comments as a number of Arab states have softened their positions toward Damascus in recent months.
"Every step towards Assad should be made dependent on concrete concessions," she said.
Her remarks followed her meeting with Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry said that the two officials discussed regional and international issues. The talks were held in the western Saudi city of Jeddah.
Baerbock is set to meet Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak in Jeddah on Tuesday. The German Foreign Ministry earlier said that Baerbock will visit Qatar following her trip to Saudi Arabia.
What did Baerbock say?
Baerbock said she believed that Assad should not be "rewarded for the most serious human rights violations on a daily basis."
"In Syria, the political process to resolve the conflict remains distant," said Baerbock. "For more than 10 years there has been nothing but bloodshed, unbelievable human suffering that is hardly reported anymore."
The Arab League, an organization made up of 22 member states in the Middle East and North Africa, agreed to readmit Syria earlier this month. Syria was suspended from the organization shortly after the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.
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Mastercam sponsored competition encourages innovative design and manufacturing
TOLLAND, Conn., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mastercam, CAD/CAM software developed by CNC Software, LLC, is proud to sponsor a competition to inspire students and professionals in the manufacturing arena. The Mastercam 2022 Wildest Parts Competition is now accepting entries.
The challenge is simple. Create a bold, original item using Mastercam. The competition challenges students and professionals to create something that shows off imaginative design and exciting machining.
Participating in the Wildest Parts Competition is a great opportunity for instructors and students to get inspired in the classroom and motivated to expand their CAD/CAM abilities by the spirit of competition. Entrants are expected to create high quality parts that either haven't been done before or add a new twist to an existing concept.
Now until October 31, 2022, entries will be accepted in two divisions:
Education (1st, 2nd, 3rd) – open to individual students at high school and college/university level of education.
Professional (1st, 2nd, 3rd) – open to anyone with professional manufacturing experience; instructors are encouraged to enter parts in this division.
"Last year we received a lot of amazing and creative parts from students and professionals around the world," said Peter Mancini, Education Product Manager at CNC Software. "For example, Wes Bruski from Capital High School in Helena, MT, was the winner in our Secondary division with a Domino and Dice Cup Game Set, and Gus Bronk from Washington State University made a keyboard from exotic materials for our Postsecondary division. The parts they submitted were extremely impressive, and we look forward to seeing what entries are submitted this coming year!"
All entrants receive a Mastercam t-shirt for participating. Winning entries receive cash, $3,000 for first place; $1,500 for second place; and $700 for third place, in addition to certificates of achievement and more. Anyone interested in a manufacturing and design challenge to break the mold, think outside the box, cut outside the lines, and share their creativity is encouraged to enter.
For more information about the Mastercam Wildest Parts Competition, visit https://www.mastercam.com/community/competitions/wildestparts/.
Founded in 1983, CNC Software, LLC is headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, with corporate offices in China. The company develops Mastercam, a suite of CAD/CAM software created to reduce production time and expense with efficient machining strategies and advanced toolpath technologies like Accelerated Finishing™ and Dynamic Motion™. Mastercam is the world's #1 CAM software, with more than 284,000 installations in industries such as moldmaking, automotive, medical, aerospace, consumer products, education, and prototyping. It is distributed through an international channel of authorized Mastercam Resellers in 75 countries, providing localized sales, training, and support for 2- through 5-axis routing, milling, and turning; 2- and 4-axis wire EDM; 2D and 3D design; surface and solid modeling; artistic relief cutting; and Swiss machining. For more information, visit www.mastercam.com.
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CA San Diego CA Zone Forecast for Monday, October 10, 2022
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.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs in
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then cloudy overnight. Lows in the
mid 60s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s near the coast to in the mid 70s
inland. Light winds becoming west 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Areas of low clouds. Lows in the mid 60s.
Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Areas of low clouds. Highs in the lower 70s. Light
winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
CAZ050-112115-
San Diego County Valleys-
Including the cities of Escondido, El Cajon, San Marcos, La Mesa,
Santee, and Poway
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper
70s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs in
the upper 70s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Patchy low clouds and fog. Lows in the lower
60s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Patchy low clouds and fog. Highs around 80. Light
winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows
around 60.
.FRIDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog
overnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Patchy fog in the morning. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs in the
mid 70s.
$$
CAZ048-112115-
San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire-
Including the cities of Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario,
Moreno Valley, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, and Corona
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower
80s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph this
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Areas of winds west 15 mph in the evening becoming
light. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 80s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Areas of
winds west 15 mph in the evening becoming light. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 80s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Patchy fog overnight. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms overnight. Patchy fog
overnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 70s.
$$
CAZ057-112115-
Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills-
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog this morning. A slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper
70s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Patchy fog overnight. Lows around
60. Light winds. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Light winds becoming west 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. A slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog
overnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog overnight. Lows in the
upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs in the
mid 70s.
$$
CAZ055-112115-
San Bernardino County Mountains-
Including the cities of Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear City,
Big Bear Lake, Running Springs, and Wrightwood
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
lower 60s above 6000 feet to this lower 70s below 6000 feet.
Light winds becoming southeast 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph this
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 40s above
6000 feet to in the upper 50s below 6000 feet. Light winds.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 60s above 6000 feet to in the lower 70s below
6000 feet. Areas of winds southeast 15 mph. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight.
Lows in the lower 50s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s above 6000 feet to in the mid 70s below
6000 feet. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s above 6000 feet to in the mid 70s below
6000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs
around 60 above 6000 feet to in the upper 60s below 6000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 50s above 6000 feet to in the
upper 60s below 6000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs around 60 above 6000 feet to 70 below 6000 feet.
$$
CAZ056-112115-
Riverside County Mountains-
Including the city of Idyllwild-Pine Cove
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
lower 70s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds becoming southeast 15 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight.
Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ058-112115-
San Diego County Mountains-
Including the cities of Julian and Pine Valley
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 70s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the upper 50s. Light winds. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds becoming east 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 60. Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 70s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning...becoming partly cloudy.
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
CAZ060-112115-
Apple and Lucerne Valleys-
Including the cities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley,
and Lucerne Valley
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
in the mid 80s. Light winds becoming east 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph this afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly clear.
Lows in the lower 60s. Areas of winds southwest 15 mph with gusts
to 25 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s. Light winds becoming east 15 mph with
gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 60. Areas of winds west 15 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
CAZ065-112115-
San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning-
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs
in the upper 80s through the pass to this lower 90s this northern
Coachella Valley. Light winds becoming south 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph this afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s through the pass to
in the mid 70s in the northern Coachella Valley. Areas of winds
northwest 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 90s. Light winds becoming south 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Areas of winds northwest 15 mph.
Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 25 mph overnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms overnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s through the pass to
in the mid 80s in the northern Coachella Valley.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
CAZ061-112115-
Coachella Valley-
Including the cities of Indio, Palm Springs, Cathedral City,
Palm Desert, Palm Desert Country, La Quinta, and Coachella
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 70s. Areas of winds northwest 15 mph. Gusts to
25 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Light winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Areas of
winds northwest 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms overnight. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
around 70.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
CAZ062-112115-
San Diego County Deserts-
Including the city of Borrego Springs
205 AM PDT Tue Oct 11 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Light winds.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly clear.
Lows in the mid 70s. Areas of winds west 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Light winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Areas of
winds west 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear overnight. Lows
in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
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NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5WPR, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announces today it has been selected as the public relations Agency of Record for leading SaaS solutions platform, LeanIX.
Tasked with expanding the Europe-based company's presence in North America, 5WPR will be responsible for managing a media relations program that will drive awareness of LeanIX, the company's suite of tools for enterprise architecture management, value stream management, and SaaS management. The program also aims to amplify the critical role enterprise architects play as business transformation leaders.
"LeanIX is a powerful force within the SaaS space, and we are delighted to guide their media correspondence," said 5WPR CEO, Matthew Caiola. "Our accomplished technology team is highly successful in utilizing media connections that increase brand recognition."
5W's Tech PR team holds a profound mastery of the SaaS landscape, amplifying brands in the media with agility. The team consistently places clients into top-tier news stories that matter most for their continued growth using well-established media connections.
About LeanIX
LeanIX's Continuous Transformation Platform® is trusted by Corporate IT and Product IT to achieve comprehensive visibility and superior governance. Global customers organize, plan and manage their software landscapes with LeanIX's automated and data-driven approach. Offering SaaS for Enterprise Architecture Management, SaaS Management, and Value Stream Management, LeanIX helps organizations make sound decisions and accelerate transformation journeys. LeanIX has more than 700 customers globally, including Adidas, Atlassian, Bosch, Dropbox, Santander or Volkswagen. The company is headquartered in Bonn, Germany, with offices in Boston, Hyderabad and around the world.
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About 5WPR
5W Public Relations is a full-service PR agency in NYC known for cutting-edge programs that engage with businesses, issues and ideas. With more than 300 professionals serving clients in B2C (Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, Nonprofit), B2B (Corporate Communications and Reputation Management), Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Digital Marketing (Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, SEO). Founded by Ronn Torossian 20 years ago, 5W was named to Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces 2022 list, awarded 2020 PR Agency of The Year, and brings leading businesses a resourceful, bold and results-driven approach to communication.
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DALLAS, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Crossplane Capital ("Crossplane") is excited to announce six promotions and two new additions to the team after a successful 2022 that included 13 acquisitions (3 new platforms and 10 add-ons) and $413 million of new capital raised across Crossplane Capital Fund II, LP and co-investments. The six promotions were Greg Balliro to Partner, Katie Oswald to Managing Director - Business Development, Michael Bertrand to Vice President, Patrick Lynch and David Harris to Senior Associate and Will Huntsman to Senior Analyst.
Since joining Crossplane in November 2020, Greg has played a significant role in Crossplane's growth by leading or having leadership roles in closing two platforms and 16 add-on acquisitions. Prior to joining Crossplane, Greg spent time with private equity firms Prophet Equity and Energy Capital Partners, as well as Credit Suisse where he started his career.
"Not only has Greg had an incredible start to his career at Crossplane by closing 18 transactions in 25 months, but he is also the culture captain of our firm," said Managing Partner Brian Hegi. "Greg is a uniquely talented leader who combines strong investment acumen with the ability to relate and add value to all levels of an organization – from hourly workers to senior leadership."
Katie Oswald and Michael Bertrand were Crossplane's first and second hires, joining in March and August 2019, respectively. Under Katie's business development leadership, Crossplane has closed 8 platforms and 23 add-ons since 2019. Similarly, Michael has been involved with five platform acquisitions, stepped in as an interim portfolio company controller and developed training programs for new employees.
"As our first Crossplane hires, Katie and Michael have been instrumental in our firm's growth and success over the last 4 years," said Managing Partner Ben Eakes. "We look forward to them continuing to make significant contributions and taking on more responsibility. We are also excited about the well-deserved promotions of Patrick Lynch, David Harris and Will Huntsman, all of whom are extremely talented teammates that embody the Crossplane culture."
To support Crossplane's growing transaction volume and number of portfolio companies, Harrison Finkelstein joined in November 2022 as Vice President and Jerry Lopez joined the Crossplane Operations Team in January 2023 as Vice President, IT & Cybersecurity. Prior to Crossplane, Harrison was a Senior Associate at Sterling Investment Partners in Connecticut, and he began his career as an investment banking analyst with Morgan Stanley in New York. Jerry is a seasoned IT executive that combines IT consulting with Chief Information Officer experience within industrial companies. Most recently, he was an independent consultant after being Chief Information Officer of AF Global Corporation.
Launched in 2018, Crossplane Capital is a Dallas-based private equity firm that makes control investments in niche manufacturing, value-added distribution and industrial business services companies. The firm seeks to partner with lower-middle market companies to enhance financial performance and generate strategic value creation. For more information, please visit www.crossplanecapital.com.
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CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Friday, November 18, 2022
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944 FPUS55 KREV 191131
ZFPREV
Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
331 AM PST Sat Nov 19 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-200300-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
331 AM PST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 34 to 44. Southeast winds around 10 mph in
the morning becoming light.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 5 to 15. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 41 to 51. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 21. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 41 to 51. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 24.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
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.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 10 to 20. East winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 36 to 46. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 13 to 23. Light winds.
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east around 10 mph in the afternoon.
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.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
44 to 54.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 21 to 31.
Highs 45 to 55.
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Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
331 AM PST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 35 to 45. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 8 to 18. East winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 40 to 50. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 13 to 23. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 41 to 51. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
16 to 26.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 45 to 55. Lows
18 to 28.
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and Mammoth Lakes
331 AM PST Sat Nov 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Freezing fog in the morning. Highs 33 to 43.
Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 4 to 14. Light winds becoming southwest
around 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 39 to 49. West winds around 10 mph in the
morning becoming light.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 9 to 19. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
40 to 50. Southwest winds around 10 mph in the morning becoming
light.
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Apple TV Plus is stocked with big names and some hit shows, from the first season of Severance to the heartwarmingly adorable Ted Lasso to Reese Witherspoon's Emmy-winning drama The Morning Show.
Like rivals Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus is filled with exclusive, original content. But unlike the other services, Apple streams only content it has made itself. That meant that when the service launched in November 2019, the catalog wasn't huge, but it's been filling out fast.
Here's what's coming to the streaming service this month, followed by our guide to some of the best TV shows on Apple TV Plus.
Read more: Apple TV Plus: Everything to Know About Apple's Streaming Service
What's new this month
Here's every show coming out in January.
Jan. 6
- Mythic Quest, season 3 finale (2020- ): A comedy about a long-running video game called Mythic Quest and the people who make it.
Jan. 13
- Servant, season 4 (2019- ): This series from director M. Night Shyamalan follows a wealthy couple who lose their baby and use an unsettling lifelike doll to cope. The show features Harry Potter's Rupert Grint.
Jan. 20
- Truth Be Told, season 3 (2019- ): This series is about a true crime podcast. Octavia Spencer plays a podcaster trying to bring attention to the disappearance of several young Black girls.
Jan. 27
- Shrinking, series debut (2022- ): Jason Segel plays a therapist dealing with the loss of his wife. Harrison Ford also stars.
Best Apple TV Plus series
Lisey's Story (2021)
Adapted by Stephen King from his own novel, Lisey's Story stars Julianne Moore as a grieving widow spookily revisiting her marriage to her late husband, a famous novelist played by Clive Owen.
Severance (2022- )
This show has a fascinating premise: People can choose to undergo a procedure called severance, which separates their work-related and personal memories. Adam Scott's character spends eight hours of the day in a sanitized, strikingly white office space with no recollection of his outside life. Soon, a former co-worker shows up with a warning about the strange company. A mind-bending and suspenseful sci-fi thriller -- enjoying Severance is no work at all.
Trying (2020- )
In this British comedy, couple Nikki and Jason want to have a baby but struggle to conceive. They decide to adopt -- a process that inevitably throws new challenges their way. Trying offers charm and low-stakes fun, and it also happens to be laugh-out-loud funny. If you're in need of some lighthearted TV time, this show has you covered.
Dickinson (2019-2021)
Dickinson takes the story of real-life American poet Emily Dickinson and shoehorns it into a period drama of sorts. It's hardly historically accurate -- Emily and her teenage friends act more like characters from Riverdale -- but it is entertaining.
Home Before Dark (2020- )
Inspired by the reporting of real-life journalist Hilde Lysiak, Home Before Dark follows the story of a young girl who moves from Brooklyn to a small lakeside town. It starts slow but features some strong central performances, particularly in the lead role.
Prehistoric Planet (2022)
Prehistoric Planet gives viewers a look at the world of dinosaurs. Using realistic computer-generated dinos, and structured like a nature documentary series down to the camera shots, it's easy to forget you're not watching real footage. To top is off, David Attenborough narrates.
The Afterparty (2022- )
A comedic murder mystery in the same vein as Rian Johnson's 2019 film Knives Out, The Afterparty is a star-packed whodunnit that will keep you guessing and laughing with each episode. Tiffany Haddish, Dave Franco, Ilana Glazer, Ben Schwartz and more lend their talents to the show. If you're one to opt for a mystery-comedy mixture, The Afterparty should shoot right to the top of your to-stream list.
The Shrink Next Door (2021)
In my book, any show that casts both Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd as its leads is already doing something very right. In the drama miniseries The Shrink Next Door, Ferrell and Rudd play characters on opposite ends of the personality spectrum -- Ferrell is a sniffling, timid textile business owner, and his co-star is an egotistic therapist with manipulative tendencies. When the two are together, the result is both unsettling and tantalizing, making The Shrink Next Door something you'll want to check out for yourself.
Truth Be Told (2019- )
Truth Be Told is a drama for true-crime fans, riding the recent trend of crime podcasts in a fictionalized form. Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul play a podcaster and a prisoner united by a horrific crime years before, kicking off a whodunit that draws in both their families in an entertaining mix of a character-driven drama like Big Little Lies with true-crime stories like Making a Murderer and The Staircase.
Loot (2022-)
After Molly Wells (Maya Rudolph) catches her tech billionaire husband (Adam Scott) of 20 years cheating on her, she divorces him and ends up with not only $87 million, but a question of what to do with her life. The answer? Get involved with a philanthropic foundation she didn't even know she had. Along the way, she finds grounding with her new coworkers -- but not without plenty of comedic, out-of-touch-millionaire flaps along the way. The show was co-created by Alan Yang, who was also involved in Parks and Rec and Master of None.
Ted Lasso (2020- )
You don't need to like sports to love comedy series Ted Lasso. Produced by the show's Golden Globe-winning star Jason Sudeikis with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence, it follows relentlessly upbeat American coach Ted Lasso as he takes charge of an English soccer team. Think of it as Friday Night Lights crossed with Saturday Night Live (in London).
Little America (2020- )
Ordinary people dream big in Little America. A heavyweight cast tells stories of immigrants living their lives in a heartwarming anthology series packed with a mix of funny, sweet, romantic and often surprising tales.
WeCrashed (2022)
Starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, WeCrashed tells the story of the rise and fall of WeWork founder Adam Neumann and his wife Rebekah, and how their relationship backdropped the company's peak -- and significant valley.
Servant (2019- )
Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan brings his brand of creepy domestic drama to episodic TV in Servant, created and written by Tony Basgallop. After a devastating loss, two bereaved parents adopt a hyperrealistic baby doll to help them tackle their grief, but danger and deception lurks in the nursery.
For All Mankind (2019-)
For All Mankind offers an alternate timeline of what would have happened if the Soviets had landed on the moon first. The short answer is the never-ending militarization of space, but the show is so much more expansive than that. If you're looking for a sci-fi thriller with plenty of interpersonal drama and political intrigue, For All Mankind is solid choice.
Long Way Up (2020)
Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman get back on their bikes and head north from Argentina through South and Central America. In this sequel to the popular travel shows Long Way Round and Long Way Down, the petrolhead duo goes green. They cover 13,000 miles and 13 countries on Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycles.
Tiny World (2020- )
A nature show, focused on small creatures, narrated by Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd. Absolute genius.
Like seemingly every single one of these modern nature documentaries, Tiny World is gorgeously shot and brilliantly compelling.
The Mosquito Coast (2021- )
Justin Theroux stars as Allie Fox, an oddball inventor taking his family off the grid in protest against society's failings. Apple's heavyweight drama is based on the novel by the actor's uncle Paul Theroux (previously filmed with Harrison Ford in 1986). Now season 1 has wrapped up, Apple has already renewed this modern version of The Mosquito Coast for a second season.
Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet (2020- )
Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet is a must for anyone with even a passing interest in video games or the industry that produces them. It's unique, funny and earnest in parts. It treads familiar territory but is well worth a watch.
The Morning Show (2019- )
Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston produce and star in a timely series tackling office politics in the #MeToo era, as a TV network is rocked by the indiscretions of a host played by Steve Carell. Among the compelling performances, Billy Crudup won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 2020 Emmy Awards. The award-winning drama, strong cast and timely themes make The Morning Show worth a watch. | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/apple-tv-plus-tv-shows-to-watch-in-january-this-evening/ | 2023-01-13 17:08:13 | 0 | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/apple-tv-plus-tv-shows-to-watch-in-january-this-evening/ |
Innovations will help enterprises accelerate development, optimize processes, and create effortless experiences for employees and customers
LAS VEGAS, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider empowering the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change®, today announced at the PegaWorld® iNspire annual conference the latest edition of its Pega Infinity™ software suite with new features that will accelerate low-code development, continuously optimize existing processes, and create effortless experiences for employees and customers alike. These new capabilities will help organizations on their path toward becoming an autonomous enterprise so they can innovate faster, increase productivity, and personalize customer experiences while reducing costs and manual work.
In times of economic disruption, organizations are challenged with cutting costs while also innovating to meet industry and customer needs. Enter the concept of the autonomous enterprise, which unifies AI and automation to help organizations become more self-optimizing to drive maximum efficiency and effectiveness. New capabilities in Pega Infinity '23 – Pega's flagship software suite empowering organizations with AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation capabilities – will help organizations unlock new levels of intelligence and autonomy.
Pega previously announced Pega GenAI™, which will provide a set of 20 new generative AI-powered boosters across Pega Infinity '23 to make it even easier, faster, and more powerful to use. Pega's approach will help organizations leverage the power of generative AI while building controls, governance, and auditing to keep humans in the loop. Pega GenAI will offer a secure, plug-and-play architecture that will allow for low-code development of AI prompts, the ability to infuse generative AI functions into workflows, and the freedom to swap in different large language models. This approach will help users drive value from generative AI now and into the future.
In addition to new generative AI-powered boosters, Pega Infinity '23 will also include updates to Pega Platform™, Pega Customer Decision Hub™ , and Pega Customer Service™. Highlights include:
Develop applications faster and intelligently route work to accelerate innovation and productivity
- Reuse Library in App Studio: A new reuse library will enable users to easily discover and share reusable components to accelerate professional developers' projects while empowering citizen developers to make effective and governed use of pre-built business logic, integrations, AI models, and other features unique to any given enterprise.
- Constellation UX: Pega's design system, Pega Constellation, offers more engaging, accessible, and intuitive user experiences all in a low-code, flexible architecture. With Constellation, users can seamlessly scale application designs with the latest built-in design components, templates, and patterns. Additionally, automatic updates follow Pega's latest best practices to help ensure applications are in top shape.
- Enhanced Accessibility Compliance: With a focus on Web Content Accessibility Guides (WCAG) 2.1, Pega Infinity '23 will offer standard accessibility compliance in its out-of-the-box features, along with design guidance built directly into authoring tools so users will be able to create even more inclusive applications.
- Process AI case categorizations: New AI capabilities will predict the class and category of a particular case, categorize data to implement clients' chosen data classification, and route and assign work to the proper individual. Additionally, users will be provided with related context so they can get up to speed and resolve the case as quickly as possible. This will help avoid re-assignments and save valuable costs and time while providing better experiences and trust in AI effectiveness.
Improve customer engagement with better personalization, speed, and transparency
- More agile 1:1 operations: New features will improve the operations experience for marketers and business users including One-Time Actions, which will rapidly create new messages for specific audiences to address a distinct and immediate need, such as an emergency notification. Additionally, enhanced Persona Management will enable users to automatically create customer personas for more efficient testing and validation of next-best-action strategies.
- Strategy optimization: Users will be able to achieve higher decisioning accuracy with new features including Conversion Modeling, which will use adaptive models to better determine a customer's propensity to take a specific action, such as making a purchase or finishing an onboarding journey. Additionally, an enhanced capability for testing and deploying machine learning models will help users conduct field experiments with specific models for high-value use cases and complex interactions to determine success. Once satisfied, users can easily activate those models with a single click.
- Enhanced Always-On Insights: New capabilities like Feature Finder will allow clients to configure Pega to turn customer data into actionable insights by continuously scanning data to identify new predictors as they arise (e.g., finding and using the feature "contract expiration date" to improve propensity to respond). In addition, new integrated Identity Management capabilities will improve the use of prospect and customer data for more complete profiles and relevant actions. Enhanced Integrated Identity Management capabilities allow clients to merge customer profiles and behavioral data across channels to create relevant, holistic 1:1 engagement while implementing their compliance strategies.
Optimize customer service and agent experiences
- Seamless integration of Pega Customer Service with any design system: Clients will be able to leverage the latest Pega Constellation APIs to more easily integrate Pega workflows and knowledge articles into portals or mobile apps built in any modern design system. This will provide the flexibility to use existing technology with Pega Customer Service for more consistent, end-to-end customer journeys across applications. For example, clients can embed Pega self-service workflows to automate resolutions from start to finish for faster resolution and better customer experiences.
- Agent productivity components: Users will be able to improve effectiveness and reduce new agent onboarding time with features including a new simulated digital customer that will help agents roleplay with automatic performance feedback. Additionally, automated summarization of customer interactions will minimize manual notetaking and agent wrap-up efforts, saving customer service organizations time and money. A revamped agent desktop will deliver an updated, visually compelling, guided agent experience.
- Pega Process Fabric connectors: Users will be able to better prioritize and manage work across the enterprise with connectors that integrate Pega Customer Service with Pega Process Fabric to unify discoverability and prioritization of work. Customer service agents will also be able to easily view and action work from any Pega application.
Pega Infinity
Pega Infinity unifies customer engagement, customer service, and intelligent automation capabilities within a single platform to help accelerate digital transformation. By engaging customers with the right message, at the right time, across any channel, clients can improve customer satisfaction, increase customer lifetime value, and boost productivity. Pega's low-code environment helps reduce complexity for accelerated deployments, faster iteration, and greater customer and employee satisfaction.
Pega Infinity '23 will be available in Q3 2023. It will also be demoed at the annual PegaWorld iNspire conference being held this week, June 11-13, in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand. PegaWorld has drawn more than 4,000 in-person attendees this week from the world's leading organizations to demystify technologies like generative AI and intelligent automation and illustrate how enterprises can practically apply them to turbocharge productivity, improve low-code app development, and optimize customer engagement.
Quotes & Commentary:
"Achieving maximum productivity while delivering incredible customer experiences has been a long-coveted goal of organizations as well as a promise of many technology solutions, but many still aren't practically applying AI and automation in a way that gets the job done," said Kerim Akgonul, chief product officer, Pega. "Pega Infinity '23 is providing enterprises with integrated AI, automation, and low-code technologies across the entire suite of solutions to help organizations reach a level of self-optimization that results in better experiences for employees and customers."
About Pegasystems
Pega provides a powerful low-code platform that builds agility into the world's leading organizations so they can adapt to change. Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we've built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today's customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), visit www.pega.com.
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Dave joins as the league's Official Financial Services Partner and first fintech partner
LOS ANGELES, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dave (NASDAQ: DAVE), one of the nation's leading neobanks, announced today an official partnership with the Drew League, Los Angeles' premiere Pro-Am basketball league.
Dave chose to partner with Drew League because of their shared missions to provide opportunities for young people to succeed and give them the tools they need to create change in their lives. While The Drew League levels the playing field on the court, Dave is leveling the financial playing field for millions of underserved Americans across the country.
Dave Founder and CEO, Jason Wilk, said, "At Dave, our mission is to level the financial playing field for everyone. In this case, we're taking our efforts to the basketball court in partnering with Drew League as the official financial services sponsor for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. As a Los Angeles-based company, Dave and Drew League share a passion for improving our local community by creating opportunity and access."
Drew League commissioner, Chaniel Smiley said, "The Drew League has been creating opportunities for emerging basketball talent in South Central Los Angeles for 50 years and we're proud to partner with Dave this season and next. Dave and Drew League have a shared passion for improving this community, while increasing access and visibility for all."
Crossovr Collective [OVR] Co-Founder, Steph Rawlins, The Drew League's media, marketing & brand agency who coordinated the partnership said, "Having a brand partner like Dave is really special and important, because not only do they see the value of the brand, but they also understand the importance of making sure local entities like The Drew are supported so that they can continue to exist, and be a staple to the community for another 50 years. Partnerships like this allow The Drew to expand their resources and opportunities it offers its youth, through the Drew League Non-Profit, the players and other members of the community."
This summer, Dave kicked off its support of the Drew League's "Player of the Game" series and branding began appearing in the gyms and on the court throughout the season. In 2024, the partnership will expand and Dave will be the official Jersey Patch sponsor for the league.
This partnership marks Dave's continued support for the LA community, following the neobank's recent support of Baby2Baby's Beverly Hills Mother's Day event.
About Dave:
Dave (NASDAQ: DAVE) is a leading U.S. neobank and fintech pioneer serving millions of everyday Americans. Dave uses disruptive technologies to provide best-in-class banking services at a fraction of the price of incumbents. Dave partners with Evolve Bank & Trust, member FDIC. For more information about the company, visit: www.dave.com. For investor information and updates, visit: investors.dave.com/ and follow @davebanking on Twitter.
About Drew League:
Since 1973, Drew League has brought local kids, streetball legends and professional stars together in Los Angeles–all for the love of basketball. The rich legacy includes the original founding father, a visionary commissioner, veteran coaches, three different gyms and countless magical moments. For 50 years, The Drew League has been a remarkable success story that began in South Central Los Angeles and still continues to flourish within the exact same community. For more information, please visit: www.drewleague.com.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland family has transformed their grief into action following the death of their 31-year-old son in 2022.
Josh Siems grew up in Baltimore, but was living in the NoMa neighborhood of D.C. when he ingested a deadly dose of fentanyl on his birthday. He was admitted into the ICU of an area hospital but died from an overdose.
Siems had struggled with substance use for years. When summoned to the hospital, Siems' family and partner Melanie Yates knew that fentanyl was the prime suspect in his death.
State records show that from October 2020 through October of 2022 there were more than 5,300 fentanyl-related overdose deaths in Maryland.
Fentanyl did not show up on Siems' medical chart or report. Depending on what hospital you visit, some aren't testing for fentanyl as part of a normal toxicology screening. That's leading to some unintended consequences, not only in Maryland, but across the country.
Josh's father Bob Siems joined us in the WUSA9 studio Thursday night along with Josh's partner Melanie Yates and Maryland State Delegate Joe Vogel (D-Gaithersburg/ Rockville).
Together, they're pushing a bill in Annapolis that would mandate hospitals in the state add fentanyl to the list of drugs to search for in a toxicology screening. It would cost an additional $0.75 per test.
The family joined Delegate Vogel in Annapolis earlier Thursday to visit other lawmakers and earn their support for the legislation.
Governor Wes Moore today announced his support for the bill.
A representative from the Maryland Hospital Association wrote a letter to state lawmakers to explain their thoughts on the bill saying in part, "in general we do not believe clinical practice should be legislated."
The MHA neither supports the legislation or is opposed to it.
Caregivers in Maryland’s hospitals and health systems work every day to reduce overdoses in their communities by providing substance use screening to patients, increasing access to naloxone to treat overdoses in the emergency department, and using peer recovery counselors to connect patients to outpatient services when needed.
"Many Maryland hospitals also already include fentanyl screening as part of regular toxicology urinalysis done with patient consent," said MHA Vice President Erin Dorrien in a statement to WUSA9.
Delegate Vogel's bill is modeled after similar legislation that passed in California in 2022. "Tyler's Law" is named for a 19-year-old man who visited a hospital with stomach pains and was assured there were no dangerous drugs in his system after he passed a toxicology test. He died a short time later.
Having an accurate system to count and track fentanyl overdose and death cases is one of the major drivers behind this bill. Delegate Vogel believes the number of fentanyl-related cases in Maryland could be significantly under reported.
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CHICAGO, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas will celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by recognizing business and community leaders with Certificates of Excellence.
The celebration will take place on Monday, May 22 at 3 p.m. at the Cook County Treasurer's Office, 118 N. Clark St., Room 112.
"Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have made significant contributions to many facets of our culture and society despite having to battle xenophobia along the way," said Pappas. "Their achievements embody the truth that our diversity is our greatest strength."
The honorees include: Farah Chalisa, a staff attorney with the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation; Chandra Chataut, a physician at Stroger Hospital of Cook County who also provides volunteer services to the Nepalese and Bangladeshi communities; Archawee Dhamavasi, a Thai community activist; Lydia Anastasia Hardono, an Indonesian-American entrepreneur; Nilofer Kurji, an Indian-American entrepreneur; Tam Nguyen, an Argyle Corridor Ambassador; Joomi Park, a Korean performer; Ahhae Song, a Korean-American pianist; Jashim Uddin, a Bangladeshi Community Activist; Maiko Yanai, a clinical counselor of Japanese descent.
Pappas will also debut the latest informational brochure on the property tax system in Filipino. The online outreach brochure will be dedicated to the late Joseph Mauricio. He worked with his wife, Honorary Deputy Treasurer Veronica Leighton, at VIA Times Newsmagazine and Chicago Philippine Reports TV.
The brochures give an overview of the property tax system and explain how to access and download a tax bill and pay online for free. The brochure is available in 27 foreign languages at cookcountytreasurer.com.
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Baltimoreans came together Friday to remember the lives lost and pray for an end to the war in Ukraine.It was a very emotional night at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in east Baltimore, where there was a vigil to pray for peace and pay tribute to the tens of thousands of lives lost as Friday marks one year since Russia authorized a massive military offensive that kicked off a brutal invasion of Ukraine.Ihor Remsky, a trustee of the church, said his family in Ukraine never knows what to expect."Personally, I didn't expect it to last this long. I thought it would be over," Remsky said. "The ones that have been targeted are people like you and me -- civilians, children, women, movie theaters, churches, schools, apartments, housing."According to estimates from Western leaders, at least 13,000 service personnel have been killed and more than 7,000 civilians have died, including at least 400 children."We thought that, by now, things would be over, or at least lessening, and we find that it really seems to be growing almost," said Maria Kaczaniuk, a parishioner whose family fled Ukraine when the war started.Despite the bloodshed and destruction Kaczaniuk said Ukrainians are not giving up."They are hopeful. They are never giving up. They said we will fight until the end, and they think the end will be in their favor," she said.Friday night's vigil started with a prayer before candles were handed out and everyone all came together in song."All of these things make us untied, and that we have to come together during these difficult times and think of how to help each other," said Karina Mandell, chairwoman of the Baltimore-Odesa Sister City Committee.| RELATED: President Biden declares 'Kyiv stands' in surprise visit to UkraineThe church said Ukraine still needs medical and humanitarian aid, and it is collecting donations.Monetary donations for the Ukrainian Relief Fund can be made via checks made payable to St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, memo: Aid to Ukraine. Send checks to:St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church2401 Eastern Ave.Baltimore, MD 21224| LINK: More information about how to helpThe donations will be forwarded to the Ukrainian Archdiocese in Philadelphia to send directly to Ukraine.Humanitarian donations can be dropped off at the church hall vestibule before or after liturgy times.| VIDEO BELOW: Ukraine marks war anniversary
BALTIMORE — Baltimoreans came together Friday to remember the lives lost and pray for an end to the war in Ukraine.
It was a very emotional night at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in east Baltimore, where there was a vigil to pray for peace and pay tribute to the tens of thousands of lives lost as Friday marks one year since Russia authorized a massive military offensive that kicked off a brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Ihor Remsky, a trustee of the church, said his family in Ukraine never knows what to expect.
"Personally, I didn't expect it to last this long. I thought it would be over," Remsky said. "The ones that have been targeted are people like you and me -- civilians, children, women, movie theaters, churches, schools, apartments, housing."
According to estimates from Western leaders, at least 13,000 service personnel have been killed and more than 7,000 civilians have died, including at least 400 children.
"We thought that, by now, things would be over, or at least lessening, and we find that it really seems to be growing almost," said Maria Kaczaniuk, a parishioner whose family fled Ukraine when the war started.
Despite the bloodshed and destruction Kaczaniuk said Ukrainians are not giving up.
"They are hopeful. They are never giving up. They said we will fight until the end, and they think the end will be in their favor," she said.
Friday night's vigil started with a prayer before candles were handed out and everyone all came together in song.
"All of these things make us untied, and that we have to come together during these difficult times and think of how to help each other," said Karina Mandell, chairwoman of the Baltimore-Odesa Sister City Committee.
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The church said Ukraine still needs medical and humanitarian aid, and it is collecting donations.
Monetary donations for the Ukrainian Relief Fund can be made via checks made payable to St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, memo: Aid to Ukraine. Send checks to:
St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church
2401 Eastern Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21224
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The donations will be forwarded to the Ukrainian Archdiocese in Philadelphia to send directly to Ukraine.
Humanitarian donations can be dropped off at the church hall vestibule before or after liturgy times.
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Hundreds of people seek shelter underground, on the platform, inside the dark train cars, and even in the emergency exits, in metro subway station as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A child is carried down the steps in her stroller. Hundreds of people seek shelter underground, on the platform, inside the dark train cars, and even in the emergency exits, in metro subway station as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
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Hundreds of people including women and children seek shelter underground, on the platform, inside the dark train cars, and even in the emergency exits, in metro subway station as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
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People shelter in a subway station before a curfew comes into effect on February 24, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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People shelter in a subway station before a curfew comes into effect on February 24, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Right Sector militias gather outside the city hall prior to deploying on defensive positions on February 24, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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People hitchhike and wait for buses as people try to leave the city on February 24, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Several observers (including this one) had already compared this year’s Academy Awards race to the 1960s, when films like “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Graduate” upended Hollywood’s traditional notions of sense, substance and good taste. “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, both in their 30s and collectively known as the Daniels, possessed the similar contours of a cultural disrupter: audacious, unabashedly self-indulgent, a pastiche of formal influences and callbacks that managed to feel sophomorically shallow and philosophically deep at the same time. It wound up winning seven of the 11 Oscars it was nominated for, including best picture, best director, original screenplay, editing and three acting awards.
Filmed and edited in 2020 — amid the ructions of the covid pandemic, the Trump administration and the outrage over the murder of George Floyd — “Everything Everywhere All at Once” uncannily captured and expressed the chaos of its era, and its embrace of dislocation and contingency resonated especially poignantly with young viewers, whose lives now resemble a confounding A/B test that will result in either promising or disastrous futures. Its pop culture grammar connected as well: While Steven Spielberg was referencing “The Greatest Show on Earth” and John Ford in “The Fabelmans,” which “Everything Everywhere All at Once” competed against for best picture, the Daniels were referencing anime movies, Marvel comics, martial arts flicks, video games and Spielberg himself. (Ke Huy Quan, who won the Oscar for his supporting performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” made his screen debut as a 12-year-old in Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”)
In grumpier precincts, some skeptics actually compared “Everything Everywhere All at Once” to “The Greatest Show on Earth,” albeit as one of the worst best picture winners in Oscar history. And it’s true that the film’s anarchic, endlessly iterative style and shaggy structure (editor Paul Rogers sheepishly admitted in his acceptance speech that this was only his second movie) turned off many people who went to see it out of curiosity. But for those who gravitated to “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — often returning more than once to tease out its Easter eggs and hidden meanings — it dovetailed with the zeitgeist. After making a rhapsodic debut at last year’s South by Southwest film festival, the movie played and played, eventually earning more than $100 million worldwide and staying in some art house theaters for almost a year.
The fact that “Everything Everywhere All at Once” swept the Oscars on Sunday night has already animated a dedicated group of detractors, who see its success as the End of Cinema as We Know It. But they can take comfort in the evening’s other big winner: “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Edward Berger’s harrowing, exquisitely rendered German-language remake of 1930’s best picture, earned four Oscars: for best international feature, cinematography, production design and original score. If “Everything Everywhere” represented an annihilation of once-sacred norms and traditions, “All Quiet” represented abiding fealty to formal elegance and narrative fundamentals, which Berger executed with crisp precision and breathtaking expressiveness.
Along with several of their fellow winners, “Everything Everywhere” and “All Quiet” also exemplified the growing internationalization of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has only recently acknowledged the reality that film is a global medium, inside Hollywood and out. The Indian film “RRR” won best song for “Naatu Naatu,” whose live performance provided a jolt of exhilaration in an otherwise safe-and-steady telecast. It was the second India-based production to win an Oscar: Earlier in the show, the documentary short “The Elephant Whisperers” became the first. Like such recent predecessors as “Roma” (from Mexico), “Parasite” (South Korea), and “Drive My Car” (Japan), “All Quiet” competed in both the international feature and best picture categories. This year, Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund made the leap from the international feature category (in which his previous films “Force Majeure” and “The Square” were nominated) to best picture for his cosmopolitan social satire “Triangle of Sadness.” When she became the first lead actress of Asian descent to win an Oscar, veteran Michelle Yeoh joined such recent winners as Bong Joon-ho, Chloé Zhao and Yuh-jung Youn in embodying an Academy whose membership is now more than 20 percent international and growing.
The success of “Everything Everywhere” and “All Quiet” also proved the value of a rock-solid Oscar campaign. The independent studio A24 broke its own record on Sunday night, becoming the first company to sweep the top six Oscars (Brendan Fraser won for his lead performance in “The Whale,” an A24 production). This came as no surprise to anyone who had paid attention to A24’s rise since its founding in 2012, when it set upon a trajectory of making smart, envelope-pushing films by edgy auteurs, and brilliantly cultivating their devoted audiences. The company has also become an awards juggernaut, creating quietly effective campaigns for such contenders as “Lady Bird,” “Room” and “Minari” and winners like “Moonlight” and, now, “Everything Everywhere.”
Netflix, which distributed “All Quiet,” has become its own awards-season behemoth, aggressively vying to become the first streamer to earn a best picture Oscar (that honor went to Apple TV Plus last year, with “CODA”). While the cast and directors of “Everything Everywhere” were charming their way through the parties, luncheons, guild awards and in-person screenings that precede the Oscars, the team behind “All Quiet” was subtly emphasizing that film’s dedication to pure craft, as well as its antiwar message — timely in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a marked contrast to such bellicose competitors as “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
In their own ways, “Everything Everywhere” and “All Quiet” both succeeded in generating the kind of goodwill that is essential when it’s time for Academy members to vote. Paraphrasing Maya Angelou: You might forget what someone says but you’ll never forget how they made you feel. On the surface, the night’s two big winners could not be more different. But “Everything Everywhere” and “All Quiet” both had passionate constituencies that their teams identified, activated and grew with superb skill. In the case of “Everything Everywhere,” a core audience of cultists grew into a critical mass of voters who privately might have been befuddled or even alienated by the movie’s self-indulgent excesses, but who couldn’t resist the likability of stars Quan, Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, and the goofy humanism of the Daniels.
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CHICAGO, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Morton Salt, one of America's favorite and most enduring brands, is proud to announce its brand-new collection of refillable, adjustable grinders. Morton's sleek new glass grinder is designed to offer consumers a more sustainable option compared to the single use disposable options in the market today. Much to the delight of home chefs everywhere, the newly redesigned grinder will also feature an easily adjustable grinder top, recyclable glass bottle, and be available in three key products: All-Natural Sea Salt, All-Natural Himalayan Pink Salt, and Black Peppercorn.
"Consumers have been asking for more sustainable products, and now thanks to our new refillable design, Morton is able to offer a high quality, convenient to purchase and refillable alternative to single-use grinders." said Doug Kafer Marketing Director, Morton Salt, Inc. "Given Morton's commitment to quality and sustainability, we're proud to add these products to our portfolio."
In addition to this great trio of new products, Morton is also launching recyclable glass refill bottles of both All-Natural Extra Coarse Sea Salt and Himalayan Pink Salt. These new and improved Morton grinders and refill bottles are now available at most major grocery stores nationwide.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Huntington National Bank ("Huntington") announced today the addition of a fund finance banking team to support its sponsor finance business within the Commercial Bank. The 10-person team will significantly boost Huntington's capabilities by providing strategically important financing directly at the fund level and expanding coverage across the sponsor ecosystem.
The team, led by managing director Brad Boland, is based in Charlotte, NC and New York City. Boland is an industry veteran with prior leadership roles at Wells Fargo and Bank of America. He became managing director of Signature Bank's Fund Banking Division in 2019.
"We are committed to enhancing our sponsor coverage and positioning Huntington for success as we respond to the growth of institutional ownership," said Tizu Menelik, executive managing director of Huntington Specialty and Corporate Banking. "The addition of this highly successful team, which will further help broaden our offering and better serve our clients, is an exciting step toward that commitment."
The new team brings decades of experience in subscription finance and will offer new and existing sponsors a broader range of options for financing as we leverage the broader Huntington banking platform.
"Huntington is uniquely positioned to leverage its subscription finance business for greater fee opportunities across Middle Market, Corporate, and Capstone," said Scott Kleinman, president of Huntington Commercial Bank. "The addition of this team better positions Huntington to serve the full range of needs across commercial clients and is yet another example of our targeted strategic investments to expand our commercial expertise and capabilities."
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When Colorado lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Monday, they did so in historic fashion.
A record number of women will fill state House and Senate seats — a majority, making Colorado the second state in the country to hit that mark. The state will have the largest LGBTQ caucus of any legislature in the country, according to the caucus chair. Nearly two-thirds of the House’s 65 members will be women, many of them people of color. And for the first time in the state’s history, the House’s top three leadership positions will all be held by women.
“I wasn’t sure how much longer it was going to take,” laughed Morgan Carroll, the chair of the state Democratic Party and a past president of the state Senate. “Sooner or later, it was going to happen.”
It took work to get here, Carroll and four top House lawmakers said. An ascendant Democratic Party had to buck historic midterm election trends in November to grow their majorities in the statehouse. Women had to win competitive races across a redistricted map. Newly elected Democrats in the House had to, in the words of Rep. Jennifer Bacon, “be about what we say we’re about” and elect women to leadership. People like Carroll had to be “extra combative” to defend women’s presence in the Capitol. Organizers had to build political infrastructures that encouraged women to run and pushed voters to support them.
In hindsight, having female leaders in a caucus that’s dominated by women seems inevitable, said Bacon, a Denver Democrat elected as House assistant majority leader in November. But it was intentional. It took work, she said. “And so in that way, we built it to be inevitable.”
Political organizations have worked for years on recruiting women — and women of color — to run for office, Bacon said, and she had risen through that base. An educator with a law degree, she was first elected as a member of Denver Public Schools’ board before earning a seat in the statehouse in 2020. She joins Rep. Monica Duran, the incoming majority leader, and Rep. Iman Jodeh, the co-whip and the legislature’s first Muslim lawmaker, as women of color elected to help lead the House’s Democratic supermajority.
Next to them stands Rep. Julie McCluskie, a Dillon Democrat stepping into her third term in the House. McCluskie officially became the chamber’s next speaker Monday, two decades after the House elected its first female speaker. She described participating in the Women’s March several years ago as a “defining moment.”
“The three of us in the top leadership seats in the House, I believe that we’ve created an environment where those voices that have often been marginalized can be not only heard but recognized in our policymaking,” McCluskie said. “A diversity of voices, a diversity of opinions, I think is incredibly important to solving the problems that we face as a state.”
The election — and the leadership picks — are historic, but they’re not just checking a box, leaders said. An increased number of women — particularly of color — will have a tangible impact on policy and legislation. They pointed to the passage of the Reproductive Health Equity Act last year, which protects abortion access, and the elimination of taxes on feminine hygiene products and diapers as evidence of past influence.
McCluskie beat out two other veteran lawmakers to become speaker in November, after serving as the chair of the legislature’s powerful Joint Budget Committee. She and her counterpart in the Senate, Boulder Democrat Steve Fenberg, have described this session as a continuation of Democratic priorities from previous years.
McCluskie said three of the party’s priorities for this year — housing, health care and child care — were women’s and family priorities. The party’s victories in November, Duran said, showed that Colorado voters are in step with those goals, too.
“Colorado is saying, ‘This matters, this is important, we are going to fund this, we are going to prioritize this,’” she said. “And that’s what I think really makes a difference. We can talk about things that matter, but we’re putting our money where our mouth is.”
That’s not to say there will be full political alignment. The Democratic caucus in the House is big, and its diversity also comes from its broad political bearings.
McCluskie is viewed more as an experienced moderate leading a caucus with a growing progressive wing. She held that line, Bacon said, and the majority of the caucus fell in behind it.
There are layers beneath the surface-level diversity, too, Duran and Bacon said. Duran brings the perspective of a Latina woman, “a domestic violence survivor and a homeless mom.” Bacon said her role in leadership will bring a new, emphasized voice on criminal justice to the top of legislative debates. She pointed to the fentanyl bill passed last year — which, among other things, tightened criminal penalties for possessing certain amounts of the drug.
She was a no-vote on that bill. The Democrats’ approach to criminal justice was a major theme of the Republican push to unseat Democrats in 2022, in Colorado and across the country.
Democrats were expected to lose seats, in part because of crime. They didn’t, and now Bacon’s in leadership. There’s a lesson there, too, she said, about what Coloradans believe and value versus what politicos expected them to believe and value.
“When I’m in a room, I will ask the question: ‘How many people are going to go to jail for a misunderstanding of the root causes of crime?’ ” she said.
“That was also why a lot of us ran for leadership because we felt like our themes were expressed in isolated experiences. And so that’s something I think motivated, quite honestly, a lot of us to want to run for leadership, to want to be able to open that up more.”
Carroll said there was a balance, between the novelty of a historically diverse legislature and a sense that this should just be normal. She felt the shift slowly during her years in the legislature, starting in 2006 and stretching over a decade.
She had to be combative and felt more challenged than her male colleagues. She saw the same aggression levied at female committee chairs. Attitudes slowly changed. More women were elected, the novel became routine.
The election of McCluskie, Duran and Bacon — as well as Rep. Brianna Titone, a transwoman, as the co-caucus chair — to leadership positions is a further sign of that shift from novelty to normalcy, Carroll said.
Bacon isn’t quite sure what broader conclusions to draw just yet. Every Coloradan who cast a ballot in November voted for one House candidate, she said.
They didn’t elect Jennifer Bacon as assistant majority leader or Iman Jodeh as co-whip.
But most of them elected Democrats, who share common goals around housing, health care, criminal justice, around governance.
The importance of diverse leadership and membership, she said, is in how those voices are included in shaping the pursuit of those goals.
The impact on policy matters. But there are implications beyond that, too.
“Honestly, when you see someone who looks like you in a position like the speaker’s in, myself and Rep. Bacon are in, then you feel like, ‘OK, there’s someone who looks like me,’” Duran said. “That fear kind of goes away, in all honestly. It really does. ‘I can say something. I can be part of that.’ ” | https://www.gjsentinel.com/record-number-of-women-in-colorado-house-senate/article_d20f2fc8-9079-11ed-afc7-673237de5816.html | 2023-01-10 09:29:10 | 1 | https://www.gjsentinel.com/record-number-of-women-in-colorado-house-senate/article_d20f2fc8-9079-11ed-afc7-673237de5816.html |
Extreme cold is disrupting weekend plans in Northern New England. In Maine, people are urged to stay indoors. Even the opening of the National Toboggan Championship has been postponed.
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Washington County man sentenced for Sexual Contact with a Child
Published: May. 20, 2023 at 2:13 PM CDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
BRENHAM, Texas (KBTX) - A Washington County man pled guilty and was sentenced for Indecency with a Child/ Sexual Contact.
That’s according to the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
They say the incident happened in 2018.
Jail records show Jose Madrid, of Chappell Hill, was arrested in 2022.
The 39-year-old has been sentenced to 14 years in jail.
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New Incentive Program Rewards Active Members while Benefiting Franchisees with Brand Differentiation
CHANHASSEN, Minn., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a strategic move that further sets them apart as a leader in the fitness space, Snap Fitness announced today the global launch of the "Earn Your Apple Watch" program, the first of its kind outside of the US. Snap Fitness—focused on the belief that how exercise makes you feel is just as important as how it makes you look—is launching its new "Earn Your Apple Watch" program in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The program rewards Snap Fitness members for frequent visits to their Snap Fitness club, and closing their Activity Rings on Apple Watch, allowing them to earn credits when they track their workouts via the Snap App. Users can earn enough credits over a 24-month period—equaling the value of an $199 USD Apple Watch—which can be applied as a future membership discount at their club. Credits are earned through gym visits and Activity Rings on Apple Watch being closed.
Upon connecting an Apple Watch, the Snap App experience will integrate the "Earn Your Apple Watch" program into the user interface. The app will display the gym visits and the user's Activity Rings and credit values in the track section of the app. It will show monthly milestones in order to achieve the max credit.
This collaboration is a testament to Snap Fitness's commitment to investing in rewarding its members for exhibiting ongoing healthy lifestyle habits.
Snap Fitness franchisees will benefit greatly from the program, creating a differentiator amongst competitors, increasing member retention and helping reach a new membership base through word of mouth.
"We're thrilled to collaborate with a leader in technological innovation like Apple to better support our members achieve healthier lifestyles. It's just one of the few ways Snap Fitness has positioned itself as one of the most innovative brands in the fitness space," said Ty Menzies, Global CEO of Lift Brands, parent brand of Snap Fitness. "Not only will our members reap the benefits from 'Earn Your Apple Watch,' our franchisees will also have a new tool that works to advance member satisfaction, improve member retention and increase their membership base. It's a collaboration that benefits everyone at Snap Fitness."
Globally, Snap Fitness has locations in more than 20 countries, with over 640 units in the United States and Canada, 85 units in the United Kingdom, and 300 units in Asia Pacific. The brand takes pride in creating an inclusive, empathetic and supportive approach to fitness.
For more information about the Snap Fitness franchise opportunity, please visit: https://www.snapfitness.com/us/why-franchise-with-snap-fitness/
About Snap Fitness
Snap Fitness helps people create positive lifestyle habits that make them feel fantastic. Founded in 2003, our 24/7 fitness concept boasts over 1,000 clubs across the globe and offers the most inclusive, empathetic and supportive experience regardless of level. Snap Fitness makes fitting in fitness simple with a welcoming atmosphere, easy-to-use equipment, the latest technology innovations—including the Snap App—and clear guidance.
Visit www.snapfitness.com or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. Snap Fitness—#ForTheFeeling.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, May 8, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
250 AM CDT Sun May 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Heat index values from 110 to 114 degrees expected.
* WHERE...La Salle, McMullen, Live Oak, Webb, Duval, Jim Wells,
Inland Kleberg and Inland Nueces Counties.
* WHEN...From 1 PM this afternoon to 7 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, January 8, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
734 AM CST Sun Jan 8 2023
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Little Cypress Creek NEAR Becker Road affecting Harris County.
For the Little Cypress Creek...including Cypress-Rosehill Road,
Kluge Road, Becker Road...Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 745 PM CST.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Little Cypress Creek NEAR Becker Road.
* WHEN...Until further notice.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:20 AM CST Sunday the stage was 195.9 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:20 AM CST Sunday was 195.9 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 196.0
feet this morning. It will then fall below flood stage late
this evening.
- Flood stage is 194.6 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
195.8 feet on 11/14/1998.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (6 am CST)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Mon Tue Wed
Little Cypress Creek
Becker Road 194.6 195.9 Sun 7 am CST 193.0 MSG MSG
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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention TuSimple Holdings Inc. ("TuSimple") (NASDAQ: TSP) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple securities pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with TuSimple's April 15, 2021 initial public offering ; and/or (b) purchased or otherwise acquired TuSimple securities between April 15, 2021 and October 31, 2022, both dates inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in TuSimple, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against TuSimple includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) TuSimple was engaged in undisclosed related party transactions with Hydron, a company founded by TuSimple's co-founder, Mo Chen; (2) TuSimple shared confidential information and/or proprietary technology with Hydron without the approval of TuSimple's board of directors or informing regulators or TuSimple shareholders; (3) TuSimple failed to disclose the internal investigation by its board of directors into the Company's ties to Hydron, which commenced in July 2022; (4) the aforementioned conduct enhanced the likelihood of regulatory scrutiny and investigatory action toward the Company; and (5) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Aggrieved TuSimple investors only have until January 9, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) resulting from allegations that Uber may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Uber securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7523 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On July 10, 2022, The Guardian published an article titled, "Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." The article, based on 124,000 documents leaked by a whistleblower, alleged, among other things, that Uber broke local laws when entering new markets, lobbied politicians to intervene in investigations against Uber, and utilized "kill switches" to cut off access to company documents to thwart law enforcement raids. The article further states that Uber executives knew about the Company's illegal status in new markets, and even seemed delighted to send Uber drivers into violent areas to garner public support for the Company.
On this news, Uber's share price dropped $1.15 per share, or approximately 5.1%, to close at $21.19 per share on July 11, 2022.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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WILKES-BARRE — With no other Sangvedolce, Sangaldocha, Sangediluce and Saduche on the May 16 primary ballot, Luzerne County District Attorney Sam SANGUEDOLCE said he was the only “Sam” and “Sanguedolce” candidate for office.
Sanguedolce on Thursday appeared before the election panel of Luzerne County judges Tina Polachek Gartley, Tarah C. Toohil and Stefanie J. Salavantis on a petition to count different spellings of his first and last name as written on write-in votes.
“I am the only Sam that I know of that ran for this office,” Sanguedolce said.
Sanguedolce was the uncontested Republican candidate on the primary ballot, receiving an official 15,383 votes. As there were no Democratic candidates on the ballot, there were 879 write-in Democratic votes, with Sanguedolce receiving 103 in some form of his first and last name.
Gartley quizzed Sanguedolce about his primary campaign, how he became district attorney, how many Sanguedolces he knows and if he knew if any Sanguedolce besides him campaigned for office.
Sanguedolce said he was appointed district attorney in March 2021 when “his boss” (referring to Salavantis) resigned to campaign for a seat on the county Court of Common Pleas. Sanguedolce said he then campaign for district attorney and was successful in the 2021 General Election, and ran a “grassroots” campaign during the 2023 Primary Election.
Gartley then asked what campaign events and the type of signs Sanguedolce placed to alert the public he was a candidate for district attorney.
Sanguedolce said he attended many political fundraisers and events and his signs were three-by-four feet in size placed throughout Luzerne County.
Other candidates who petitioned to seek credit for votes cast under different variations of their names were Peter J. Biscontini and Ciro Cinti Jr. for Plains Township Commissioner, Robinn Mikalic for Harveys Lake Council and Matthew Redick for Hanover Area School Director.
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Elizabeth Olsen to Star in Missha's Global "Beauty is Reality" Campaign Focusing on Attainable Beauty
SEOUL, South Korea, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global beauty company Able C&C's top-selling skincare brand Missha announced today that it has selected actress Elizabeth Olsen as its global ambassador and face of its new 'Beauty is Reality' campaign.
Elizabeth Olsen is a highly acclaimed actress known for her outstanding acting and appearances, playing the role of Scarlet Witch in Marvel Studios' "Avengers" films and the TV series "WandaVision." In Korea, she expanded her presence by starring in the American version of director Park Chan-wook's film "Oldboy."
Missha's global brand campaign 'Beauty is Reality' captures beautiful moments in daily life and presents the idea that beauty should not be overly dramatized or based on inflated luxurious sentiments. Able C&C's Missha chose Elizabeth Olsen as their spokesperson with the belief that her ambition and intelligence transcend her beauty and fame, aligning with the unique message the campaign aims to convey.
Elizabeth Olsen said, "When Missha approached me with an ambassador opportunity, the most important factor was the message the brand wanted to convey." She added, "Missha's 'Beauty is Reality' represents an innovative and practical message that I can support." Olsen continued, "Attaining exceptional quality doesn't necessarily require a hefty price tag. Missha's aim is to create outstanding products that are accessible to everyone, and it's an honor to communicate this value to young women like myself." Olsen personally uses the brand's famous ampoules to address a variety of skincare needs.
Since its launch in 2000, Missha has led a significant shift in domestic beauty market consumption trends by offering effective products at affordable prices. Through the brand's latest initiative, Missha aims to strengthen its presence as a global brand by promoting its long-established identity in the international market and further amplifying the excellence of its five best-selling ampoules, which offer tailored solutions for various skin concerns in a new look that embraces the brand's heritage.
Launching in the U.S. on May 15, 2023 on MisshaUS.com are: ▲Vita C Plus Spot Correcting & Firming Ampoule (Brightening) ▲Artemisia Calming Ampoule (Calming) ▲Time Revolution Night Repair Ampoule 5X (Smoothing) ▲Time Revolution Primestem 100 Lifting Serum (Lifting) ▲Bee Pollen Renew Ampouler (Nourishing). Priced at $69.00 for 75 ml each.
The redesigned Missha ampoule packaging combines a minimalist, user-friendly design with triangular sculptural beauty, reflecting the brand's dynamic identity. The color of each label represents the primary ingredient of the corresponding ampoule, adding a sensory touch.
With the launch of this campaign, Able C&C's Missha continues to thrive as a global beauty brand, expanding its presence to 46 countries and over 37,000 retail locations worldwide. Able C&C also continues to strengthen its position as a competitive global beauty enterprise, curating a diverse brand portfolio that includes the skincare, cosmetic, Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM), and derma categories, featuring brands such as Missha, A'pieu, Chogongjin, Stila, Cellapy, and Lapothicell.
ABOUT MISSHA
Missha is a global beauty brand renowned for its high-quality and affordable skincare and makeup products that are clinically proven and backed by science. Part of the beauty portfolio of Able C&C, a Global Top 100 Manufacturer of skincare and beauty products based in Seoul, South Korea, Missha is centered on holistic functionality, efficacy, and balance. Missha products feature patented, proprietary ingredient blends, unique probiotic fermentation methods and advanced absorption technology that deeply delivers carefully selected active ingredients into the skin. To learn more about Missha, please visit www.MisshaUS.com or follow the brand on Instagram @Missha_US and on TikTok @Missha.Official.
ABOUT ABLE C&C
Based in Seoul, Korea, Able C&C is a first-generation beauty company and a Global Top 100 Manufacturer of skincare and beauty products. Launched 20 years ago as a beauty retail store in a Korean subway station, Able C&C has grown to become the third largest K-beauty manufacturer in South Korea. With "Able" representing a can-do spirit and "C&C" meaning "creation and communication," Able C&C is rooted in innovation and its founding mission of making high quality beauty products accessible and affordable. Able C&C brings these core values to life every day through its global beauty and skincare brands. To learn more about Able C&C and its brands, visit www.able-cnc.com/en.
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Report: National Archives asked for Trump records in 2021
(CNN) - Records from the Trump era in the White House were not returned to the government during the final days of the administration despite a determination that they should be, according to an email that National Archives and Records Administration sent to President Donald Trump’s lawyers in May 2021.
The contents of the email were first reported by The Washington Post.
The FBI executed a search warrant earlier this month at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents.
On Thursday, lawyers from the Department of Justice are expected to submit their recommended redactions to the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search Trump’s residence.
The affidavit describes why investigators believed they had probable cause that a crime was committed.
President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday that he had no advance warning about the search of Trump’s home.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate whose lawyers say has a history of mental illness faces execution on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body in her backyard nearly 20 years ago.
Tracy Beatty, 61, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was sentenced to death for strangling his mother, Carolyn Click, after they had argued in November 2003 in her East Texas home.
Authorities say Beatty buried his 62-year-old mother’s body beside her mobile home in Whitehouse, about 115 miles (180 km) southeast of Dallas, and then spent her money on drugs and alcohol.
Beatty’s attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his scheduled execution, arguing he was being prevented from receiving a full examination to determine if he is intellectually disabled and possibly ineligible to be put to death. He has had three prior execution dates.
His attorneys have requested that state prison officials allow Beatty to be uncuffed during mental health evaluations by experts. The experts argue that having Beatty uncuffed during neurological and other tests is crucial to make an informed decision about intellectual disability and evaluate his mental health.
One expert who examined Beatty said he “is clearly psychotic and has a complex paranoid delusional belief system” and that he lives in a “complex delusional world” where he believes that there is a “vast conspiracy of correctional officers who . . . ‘torture’ him via a device in his ear so he can hear their menacing voices,” Beatty’s lawyers wrote in their Supreme Court petition.
In 2021, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice put in place an informal policy, citing security and liability concerns, that it would only allow an inmate to be unshackled during an expert evaluation through a court order.
Federal judges in East Texas and Houston and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans have previously ruled against Beatty’s request for an evaluation without handcuffs. The federal appeals court called Beatty’s request a “delay tactic.” U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge in Houston last week questioned why Beatty’s lawyers during years of appeals had not previously raised any claim relating to his mental health and that requiring handcuffs during such an evaluation is “quite simply, a rational security concern.”
While the Supreme Court has prohibited the death penalty for individuals who are intellectually disabled, it has not barred such punishment for those with serious mental illness, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
In 2019, the Texas Legislature considered a bill that would have prohibited the death penalty for someone with severe mental illness. The legislation did not pass.
On Monday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously declined to commute Beatty’s death sentence to a lesser penalty or to grant a six-month reprieve.
Beatty had a “volatile and combative relationship” with his mother, according to prosecutors. One neighbor, Lieanna Wilkerson, testified Click had told her that Beatty had assaulted her several times before, including once where he had “beaten her so severely that he had left her for dead.” But Wilkerson said Click had still been excited to have Beatty move in back with her in October 2003 so they could mend their relationship.
But mother and son argued daily and Click asked her son twice to move out, including just before she was killed, according to testimony from Beatty’s 2004 trial.
“Several times (Beatty) had said he just wanted to shut her up, that he just wanted to choke her and shut her up,” Wilkerson testified.
If Beatty is executed, he would be the fourth inmate put to death this year in Texas and the 13th in the U.S. Another execution in Texas — the last one in the state in 2022 — is scheduled for next week.
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Jeanty, Dalmas help Boise St. hold off Air Force, 19-14
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — Ashton Jeanty scored on a 1-yard run and Jonah Dalmas kicked four field goals Saturday night to help Boise State beat Air Force 19-14.
Jeanty’s TD capped a 13-play, 63-yard drive that took more than 6 minutes off the clock and opened the scoring with 5:14 left in the first quarter. Dalmas kicked field goals of 42 yards about 3 minutes later and 29 yards early in the second quarter before his 51-yarder gave Boise State (5-2, 4-0 Mountain West) a 16-0 lead with 9 minutes to go in the first half.
Haaziq Daniels capped a seven-play, 75-yard drive with a 15-yard touchdown run that got Air Force (5-3, 2-3) on the board with 6:18 left in the second quarter but Dalmas answered with a 39-yard field goal just before halftime that made it 19-7.
Brad Roberts ran for 90 yards — including a 3-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter — on 25 carries for the Falcons. Daniels finished 4-of-8 passing for 96 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions and added 70 yards rushing on 14 carries.
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South Carolina’s York County is suing Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper’s companies and the City of Rock Hill for at least $21 million over the failed completion of the team’s proposed $800 million practice facility and headquarters.
The structure remains half-built in Rock Hill, South Carolina, with no plans of being finished.
Tepper’s real estate company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on June 2 after having invested more than $175 million into the facility. It is located about 25 miles south of the team’s current downtown stadium and headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Among Tepper’s companies named in the lawsuit are DT Sports Holding, LLC, Appaloosa Management LP and Tepper Sports Holding, Inc. York County officials say the purpose of the lawsuit is to protect the county and its taxpayers and recover damages caused by these defendants.
The complaint filed Thursday said Tepper and his companies took $21 million from a special penny sales tax intended to expand a road in York County and used the money for what the county’s lawyers called a “failed vanity project.”
“Rather than cover the ballooning project budget themselves, the Tepper Defendants took money from York County and its taxpayers,” the complaint said.
The lawsuit asks for the $21 million of tax money York County said was improperly spent along with interest, any lost economic benefit from the failed project and any other damages a judge might see fit.
A spokesman for Tepper Sports and Entertainment declined comment Friday.
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Throughout the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Americans have been advised to wear face masks to protect themselves and others against the potentially life-threatening illness. This issue has sparked social division throughout the country, but Black men have borne an additional weight.
In addition to grappling with perceptions of being more untrustworthy and more threatening while wearing face masks, according to a Washington Post analysis, Black men have also been reminded of the psychological masks they often wear in social situations to navigate emotional survival and safeguard themselves from harm.
As a mental health therapist and African American man, I’m familiar with psychological masks that I and other Black men have donned in absence of emotional safety to navigate the stress of perceived powerlessness and marginalization. They are adaptive and protective, allowing our brains to modify behaviors in response to the loss of control and sense of helplessness in traumatic experiences.
We wear these masks to conceal our pain; to convey strength despite feeling vulnerable; to obtain respect, even while sensing contempt from others; to mimic belonging amid systems and structures fashioned for our exclusion.
But we must remember: The road to our healing is paved by our willingness to take off our masks and still believe we can be safe.
Some people have suggested these masks are inherently problematic, hypermasculine or toxic. Popular culture has idealized our masks as swagger, coolness, or charisma. Whether celebrated as fashionable or spurned as vulgar, the way Black men mask our inner selves to navigate endless stereotypes, caricatures and expectations of who we are can have dire consequences on our mental, emotional and physical well-being.
Black men die at higher rates compared to nearly every other population group, and that gap continues to widen each year. The accumulated impact of stress-related health conditions and the lack of access to adequate physical and mental health care perpetuate this dire situation. Rising rates of suicide, depression and psychological distress are robbing Black men of their futures and their hopes.
Our masks may say we’re OK, even when we are not.
Masks have been one of the many adaptations that have enabled us to survive and thrive despite stressors of a traumatic history and continuously problematic present day. Our African ancestors used traditional masks in celebratory festivals, in war, and in expressions of spirituality, so we, too, can hold our masks in high esteem as beacons of our inner fortitude and resilience. But we must also learn to lay our masks down to make room for our true selves.
We do have pain. We are afraid. Our anger is real and valid and justified. At times, we do feel vulnerable. And those we love and who love us need to know that, sometimes, we are not OK.
It’s true that Black men have been given reason to believe that people will be misunderstanding, misjudge our intentions or feel threatened by us in places like department stores, during police stops, or when we are attempting to protect our physical bodies from COVID-19.
Still, the data on the physical and mental health disparities for Black men necessitates that we begin to acknowledge when we are not OK. Research finds that black men, on average, die more than seven years earlier than U.S. women of all races, and Black men die younger than all other groups of men, except Native Americans. Those who want to help us need to recognize that, like all other humans, we may not be OK, despite the masks we wear.
We must know that we can trust. We must believe that we will not be stereotyped or immediately feared. We might discover safety among people with whom we can share our stories and expose our scars.
We might find that safety with healers, mental health therapists and other helping professionals who are willing to guide us in gaining a deeper understanding of our own emotions, vulnerabilities and strengths. We might find that safety by embracing the remarkable history of our collective resilience or the formidable forcefulness of our hope, our faith and our love.
Whatever approach we take, we must find that safety — the safety to take off the masks we wear, to be honest about who we really are, and discover our true selves.
Ereke Bruce, LICSWA, is a clinician at the Cohen Clinic at Valley Cities. Ereke served an active duty career in the U.S. Army with multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Middle Tennessee State University and a Master of Social Work degree from Fordham University. Ereke is passionate about serving and supporting service members, veterans, and their families. He previously worked as an intake coordinator and housing navigator for homeless veterans in Thurston County. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mental-health/for-black-men-like-me-the-pandemics-been-a-reminder-of-our-psychological-masks-mental-health-perspectives/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-09-28 15:11:32 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mental-health/for-black-men-like-me-the-pandemics-been-a-reminder-of-our-psychological-masks-mental-health-perspectives/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of The Charles Schwab Corporation ("Charles Schwab" or the "Company") (NYSE: SCHW). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Charles Schwab Therapeutics and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On July 2, 2021, Charles Schwab disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that the Company "has been responding to an investigation by the [SEC] arising from a compliance examination" and that "[t]he investigation largely concerns historic disclosures related to the Schwab Intelligent Portfolios® (SIP) digital advisory solution." Accordingly, Charles Schwab disclosed that "[g]iven the investigation's status, Schwab's second quarter 2021 financial results will include a liability and related non-deductible charge of $200 million."
On this news, Charles Schwab's stock price fell $2.03 per share, or 2.79%, to close at $70.77 per share on July 6, 2021, the next trading day.
Then, on June 13, 2022, the SEC announced that it "charged three Charles Schwab investment adviser subsidiaries" who "agreed to pay $187 million to harmed clients to settle the charges." The SEC charged Charles Schwab with misleading investors that used its robo-adviser product, Schwab Intelligent Portfolios. Instead of the touted "disciplined portfolio construction methodology" that sought "optimal return[s]", Charles Schwab's "own data showed that under most market conditions, the cash in the portfolios would cause clients to make less money even while taking on the same amount of risk."
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MAUMELLE, Ark – Down the road, drivers are used to seeing speed limit signs and right of ways, but a new billboard in Maumelle has people pumping the breaks to take a second look.
“We were tagged in it pretty much within minutes of it going up,” Courtney Mixon who opposes the billboard said.
The ad shows a pit bull chained up with their teeth out and across the top, it reads “Pit bulls kill.”
“Who would spend that much money to put that billboard up? To fear monger people into believing all these dogs are vicious,” Mixon asked.
The billboard is an attempt to re-enact the city’s ban on the breed. Paid for anonymously, it asks drivers to call the mayor with a direct line to his office.
“The average person that reaches out to me, thinks I put the billboard up,” Maumelle Mayor Caleb Norris said.
Norris says he’s frustrated having to explain himself but says whoever put the ad up had every right to do so.
“A billboard critiquing an elected official is about as American as apple pie, right? It’s supposed to happen,” Norris said.
The City of Maumelle lifted its ban on pit bulls back in 2021, replacing it instead with a set of ordinances focused on behavior of all dogs.
Norris says he thought it was a discussion long past.
“That issue has kind of come and gone,” Norris said.
Now it’s circling back and getting people in the city to talk again.
“It’s not just this type of dog that just attacks only, there’s labs, there’s huskies, there’s poodles,” Mixon said.
Others who didn’t want to go on camera said they agree with the billboard.
Right now, Norris says the city council has no plans to discuss putting the ban back in place. | https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/billboard-calling-for-a-ban-on-pit-bulls-sparks-conversation-in-maumelle/ | 2023-01-13 00:09:41 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/billboard-calling-for-a-ban-on-pit-bulls-sparks-conversation-in-maumelle/ |
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio -- An investigation is underway into why a police dog was deployed to attack a semi-truck driver who appeared in body-camera footage to be complying with orders to get on his knees and keep his hands in the air after allegedly leading officers from several law enforcement agencies on a highway chase, authorities said.
The incident occurred on July 4 on U.S. Route 23 near Circleville, Ohio, about 28 miles south of Columbus, but police body-camera footage of the arrest of 23-year-old Jadarrius Rose was not released to the public until Friday, July 21, by the Ohio State Highway Police.
The body-camera video shows the German Shepherd K-9, a member of the Circleville, Ohio, Police Department, arriving at the scene and initially being held back by its handler as troopers yelled to Rose, "Get on the ground or you're going to get bit."
The footage shows Rose complying with orders to get on his knees with both hands in the air. A police trooper can be heard in the video repeatedly yelling, "Do not release the dog with his hands up."
The dog, however, was let loose and attacked Rose, grabbing his arm as he screamed, "Get it off" and appeared to be in pain.
Other officers, including the dog's handler, rushed to Rose as he was being attacked in the grassy center median and pulled the animal off Rose, according to the video.
"As troopers were attempting to gain compliance by providing verbal commands to the suspect, the Circleville Police Department deployed their canine, which resulted in the suspect being bitten by the canine," the Ohio State Highway Police said in a statement.
Rose was taken into custody and troopers immediately performed first aid on him as they waited for paramedics to arrive, according to the statement.
Rose was treated at a hospital and released into the custody of the state Highway Police. He was booked at the Ross County Jail on charges of failure to comply, a fourth-degree felony, according to the highway patrol.
It remained unclear Sunday why Rose did not immediately pull over when troopers initially ordered him to.
The Circleville Police Department said the city's Use of Force Review Board is conducting an investigation.
The state Highway Police identified the K-9 Officer who was handling the German Shepherd during Rose's arrest as Circleville Police Officer R. Speakman. Circleville officials would not say if Speakman has or will be placed on leave during the investigation.
Efforts by ABC News to reach Rose or Officer Speakman for comment were unsuccessful.
According to online records, Rose has been released from the Ross County Jail. It is unclear if he has hired an attorney.
The union representing the Circleville police officers told ABC News affiliate station WSYX-TV in Columbus that it is asking "everyone reserve judgment" and declined further comment.
Nana Watson, president of the NAACP Columbus Chapter, said the organization is also looking into the incident. Watson said that after viewing the body-camera video of Rose's arrest, she was "traumatized because it brought back memories from the 1960s."
"I was afraid for him. I was fearful for him," Watson told WSYX. "I was taken aback when he had his hands up, and they unleashed the dog on him."
Watson added, "It saddens me that in 2023 we have officers who are unleashing dogs on a person who clearly had his hands in the air. That did not matter to the Circleville Police Department."
The incident began about 9:30 a.m. on July 4, as troopers from the state Highway Police Department's Motor Carrier Enforcement Inspector unit attempted to pull Rose over on westbound U.S. Route 35 for what they described as an alleged traffic defect violation, according to an initial incident report released by the state Highway Police.
Rose allegedly refused to pull over and led troopers on a chase through two counties, according to the incident report.
"I activated my marked patrol vehicle light bar and siren, but the suspect failed to stop. I drove in the left lane and along the left side of the vehicle in an attempt to get the driver's attention. The driver would not make eye contact and did not acknowledge me," a trooper wrote in the report.
As the chase shifted onto U.S. Route 23, the big rig forced a trooper to "swerve off the right side of the roadway to avoid contact," according to the report.
Troopers placed stop-sticks, or spike strips, in the roadway ahead of the chase and blew out Rose's tires, forcing him to pull over on Route 23 in Pickaway County and surrender, according to the report. | https://6abc.com/police-let-dog-attack-man-ohio-k9-circleville-k-9-dogs/13541342/ | 2023-07-24 15:58:07 | 0 | https://6abc.com/police-let-dog-attack-man-ohio-k9-circleville-k-9-dogs/13541342/ |
El Salvador’s congress has voted to approve yet another extension of emergency rules allowing police to round up suspected members of street gangs.
The vote late Wednesday was widely expected, and marks the 12th such one-month extension granted to President Nayib Bukele since the measure was first approved on March 27, 2022.
The crackdown has resulted in over 65,000 arrests and thousands of alleged rights abuses, but remains popular in a country where gangs once demanded protection payments with impunity.
Opinion polls suggest that about 9 out of 10 Salvadorans approve of the government’s anti-crime strategy.
The extension came on the same day the government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members Wednesday, and the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets.
The government announced the mass inmate transfer with a slickly produced video posted on social media. It showed prisoners forced to run barefoot and handcuffed down stairways and over bare ground, clad only in regulation white shorts. They were then forced to sit with their legs locked in closely clumped groups in cells.
In his Twitter account Thursday, Bukele mocked social media comments about the prisoners being paraded shoeless and shirtless during the prison transfer.
“What, are the saying the darned dictatorship didn’t give the prisoners tuxedos? Shoeless? Right now we’ll take money away from the children’s hospitals to buy them shoes! What brand do you think they would like?” Bukele wrote.
Gustavo Villatoro, the government’s minister for justice and peace, said Wednesday the suspected gang members would never return to the streets, even though about 57,000 of those arrested are still awaiting formal charges or a trial.
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” Villatoro said.
Only about 3,500 people swept up in the crackdown have been released so far.
Human rights groups say that there have been many instances of prisoner abuses and that innocent people have been swept up in police raids.
The local rights group Cristosal documented 3,344 cases of human rights abuses in the first 11 months of the state of emergency. Most of the abuses involved arbitrary arrest; relatives claim young men are rounded up based on their appearance, or because they live in low-income neighborhoods.
There have also been complaints about inadequate medical treatment in prisons. | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/el-salvadors-congress-extends-anti-gang-crackdown/ | 2023-03-18 02:02:05 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/el-salvadors-congress-extends-anti-gang-crackdown/ |
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family members of a 22-year-old woman whose boyfriend admitted to killing her last year have filed a wrongful death suit against the Moab Police Department, claiming their negligence led to her death weeks later.
The lawsuit filed on Thursday is the latest development in the high-profile case around Gabby Petito’s death. What began as a missing person’s case last summer rode a wave of true crime obsession to become a social media sensation, drawing amateur online sleuthers and the kind of worldwide attention that can help authorities locate missing people.
Petito and her boyfriend, 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, were stopped by police officers in Moab, Utah last summer but were ultimately not cited for domestic violence amid signs of distress and their own statements about physical conflict. Petito’s body was later found on the edge of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming after being strangled. Laundrie was the only person ever identified by law enforcement as a person of interest and was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after returning alone to his parents’ home in Florida.
The contrast between the cheerful facade on display on Petito’s widely followed Instagram account — where she chronicled her cross-country trip in a van to tens of thousands of followers — and the darker reality of domestic violence she was experiencing in the lead-up to her death captivated millions and sparked unprecedented national conversation about dating violence. It also brought criticism of authorities and the news media for focusing more attention on missing white women like Petito than on missing and murdered indigenous women and women of color more broadly.
Petito’s mother, father and other family members have sought to keep her name in the news, hoping to honor her legacy and help make sure signs of abuse are recognized by authorities in a position to intervene, they said Thursday.
“There are laws put in place to protect victims. And those laws were not followed. And we don’t want this to happen to anybody else,” said Nicole Schmidt, Petito’s mother, her voice quivering.
Schmidt, other family members and their team of lawyers stood in front of an old picture of Petito smiling in a slot canyon at a Thursday press conference in Salt Lake City.
The wrongful death lawsuit seeks $50 million in damages from the police department in Moab, a rural Utah city known for being an entryway to national parks full of red rock canyons and mesas.
It lays blame for Petito’s death on the city’s police officers, who did not issue a domestic violence citation after a bystander called to report conflict between Petito and Laundrie. In doing so, the lawsuit claims officers disregarded signs of violence they should have been trained to notice.
The suit also claims police officers “coached Gabby to provide answers that the officers used to justify their decision not to enforce Utah law,” which requires action be taken in response to domestic violence incidents.
Moab Police Officer Eric Pratt “was fundamentally biased in his approach to the investigation, choosing to believe Gabby’s abuser, ignoring evidence that Gabby was the victim and intentionally looking for loopholes to get around the requirements of Utah law and his duty to protect Gabby.”
The complaint bases that bias claim off of an unnamed woman referred to as “Witness 1,” who alleges Pratt threatened to kill her after their relationship ended while he was serving as police chief in Salina, Utah, another rural town.
After the lawsuit was filed, the city of Moab said the death was tragic yet not the fault of their police department. Pratt did not respond to a phone call requesting comment and the city of Moab said no employee of the city or police department would be commenting further at this time.
“Our officers acted with kindness, respect, and empathy toward Ms. Petito,” city spokesperson Lisa Adams said in a statement. “No one could have predicted the tragedy that would occur weeks later and hundreds of miles away, and the City of Moab will ardently defend against this lawsuit.”
The lawsuit follows a notice of claim filed in August, notifying Moab that Petito’s family intended to file for damages due to wrongful death. An independent investigation in January faulted police for making “several unintentional mistakes” including not issuing a domestic violence citation after Petito told police she had hit her boyfriend. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/gabby-petitos-family-files-wrongful-death-suit-against-moab/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-11-03 20:51:01 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/gabby-petitos-family-files-wrongful-death-suit-against-moab/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
DETROIT (AP) — Officers found the body of a 3-year-old boy inside a freezer in a Detroit home Friday morning, police said.
Officers were conducting a welfare check at a westside home when they discovered the body. It was not immediately clear how long the body had been in the freezer.
A 30-year-old old woman has been arrested. Police have not provided details about the relationship between the woman and the child, their names or other information.
In a brief statement, Chief James White said he would provide an update later Friday. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Detroit-police-discover-body-of-3-year-old-boy-in-17263176.php | 2022-06-24 15:21:17 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Detroit-police-discover-body-of-3-year-old-boy-in-17263176.php |
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Moussa passed for two touchdowns, Jaylen McCloud rushed for two scores and Florida A&M beat Bethune-Cookman 41-20 on Saturday in the Florida Classic.
Florida A&M (9-2, 7-1 SWAC) extended its winning streak to nine games after season-opening losses to Jackson State and North Carolina.
Moussa also had a 24-yard receiving touchdown, on a double pass from WR Xavier Smith, to take a 27-7 lead with 1:01 left before halftime. Smith also made five catches for 76 yards, including a 32-yard touchdown on a pass from Moussa.
Smith entered ranked third in the nation (first in SWAC) in receptions per game (8.2), fifth in receiving yards (first in SWAC) with 951 yards, and sixth in receiving touchdowns (first in SWAC) with 10. Moussa entered ranked 18th in passing yards with 2,538 and 19th with 19 passing TDs.
Jalon Jones threw for 172 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for Bethune-Cookman (2-9, 2-6). He also rushed for 61 yards.
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Veteran emissary Richardson hopeful for Griner, Whelan swap
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations, said Tuesday he was hopeful about the chances of a two-for-two prisoner swap that could result in Russia’s release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan.
In cases like this, Richardson said in an interview with The Associated Press, “it’s proportional — two-for two.”
Richardson, who traveled to Russia in advance of the release by Moscow of Marine veteran Trevor Reed in an April prisoner swap, declined to discuss the current status of negotiations with Russia over Griner or Whelan or to explain what role he may be playing in the talks.
But he said he felt “relatively positive” for several reasons. For one, the conclusion of the criminal case against Griner last week — she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison on drug charges — provides an opening for diplomatic negotiations to begin in earnest. Plus, he said, the U.S. and Russia have already shown a willingness to carry out prisoner swaps, as evidenced by the Reed exchange. And Griner’s strategy of expressing contrition before a Russian court was important.
“And that is why I think a two-for-two deal is hopefully a likely outcome,” Richardson said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of revealing publicly last month that the U.S. in June made a “substantial proposal” to get Griner and Whelan home. He did not elaborate, but the AP and other news organizations have reported that the U.S. has offered to free Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. and once earned the nickname the “Merchant of Death.”
Russia made a counteroffer that the U.S. did not regard as serious, the White House has said.
It is not clear which other Russian could be included in a two-for-two deal, assuming it happens.
Griner, the most prominent American jailed by a foreign government, has acknowledged there were vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage when she was arrested at a Moscow airport in February. But she insisted that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage because she was packing hastily. Griner played for a Russian women’s basketball team in the WNBA off-season.
Whelan, a corporate security executive from Michigan, was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in prison on espionage-related charges he and his family say are manufactured. The U.S. government regards both him and Griner as wrongful detainees.
Though Richardson said he was cautiously optimistic, and even though there is recent precedent for prisoner swaps, such deals aren’t easy.
“The relationship between the United States and Russia is quite toxic,” he said. “The geopolitical differences many times override the humanitarian issues that we need to deal with.”
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BALTIMORE (AP) — In one of his first high-profile decisions after taking office earlier this month, Baltimore’s new top prosecutor declined to bring criminal charges against a local police officer who fatally shot a fleeing teenage driver last year.
The decision came despite an investigative review that found the driver “no longer posed a threat” when Baltimore police officer Connor Murray fired the fatal shot. Murray and other officers were pursuing Donnell Rochester, 18, for outstanding bench warrants resulting from his failure to appear on a pending carjacking charge.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates released his decision last week. The former defense attorney was elected last year after defeating then-incumbent Marilyn Mosby in a Democratic primary. Mosby gained national recognition after bringing criminal charges against the officers involved in Freddie Gray’s 2015 death.
After reviewing evidence from the February 2022 police shooting, Bates found two officers acted “reasonably and lawfully” when they opened fire on Rochester’s moving vehicle, according to a report from his office. Rochester was driving toward Murray, creating a “life threatening situation,” the report said.
But another review of the case — conducted by the Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division — found prosecutors could likely prove Murray committed voluntary manslaughter. That review was released Tuesday.
The division, which investigates fatal encounters with law enforcement, was created in 2021 amid a push among Maryland legislators to increase police accountability across the state. Though its investigators release their findings to local prosecutors and the public, the written reports stop short of recommending criminal charges or lack thereof; charging decisions ultimately fall to local prosecutors.
Of the 27 cases reviewed by the division since fall 2021, none have resulted in charges against the officers involved, according to agency data. Nearly half the cases are still under investigation or awaiting a charging decision.
The argument for voluntary manslaughter in the Rochester case focuses on the fourth shot Murray fired, which lodged in Rochester’s chest, killing him. That shot — the only one that struck Rochester — could likely be considered unreasonable because Murray pulled the trigger moments after jumping away from the moving vehicle, falling down and removing himself from its path.
However, investigators also said the standard for legal review specifically notes police officers “are often forced to make split-second judgments — in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving — about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.”
With less than a second in between the third and fourth shots, investigators said, it’s possible Murray didn’t have time to realize the threat had passed and act accordingly.
Rochester had evaded a traffic stop minutes earlier, then parked on a residential street and exited his car. He got back behind the wheel and started driving off when he saw police approaching on foot. The violent encounter unfolded within seconds.
After the shooting, Rochester’s car came to a sudden stop, and he stepped out with his hands up before falling to his knees, bodycam footage shows. He was pronounced dead after medics arrived and brought him to a hospital.
In the weeks that followed, protesters gathered outside City Hall and Baltimore Police Headquarters, demanding criminal charges against the officers involved. Rochester’s loved ones described his infectious smile and dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. They questioned why Rochester was killed over a missed court date.
Moments after firing his service weapon, Murray said he thought Rochester’s car hit his leg, but then he changed his account, saying it must have missed him, according to the investigative report. Murray, who joined the Baltimore police force after completing training academy in 2019, wasn’t involved in any prior shootings.
Investigators said Murray may have experienced pain from falling and assumed the car struck him. “On the other hand,” they said, he could have been trying to “exaggerate the threat he faced, thereby attempting to make his use of force appear more reasonable.”
After Murray’s four shots, another officer, Robert Mauri, fired twice from down the street. Neither of his bullets struck Rochester.
Mauri later said he believed his colleague was about to be run over, a statement investigators found credible. But they said prosecutors could consider an attempted voluntary manslaughter charge against Mauri because he should have realized the other officer was no longer in danger before pulling the trigger.
In addition to analyzing potential criminal charges, investigators considered whether the officers violated the Baltimore Police Department’s internal policies during the encounter.
Less than a year before the shooting, both Murray and Mauri completed training that specifically warned against firing at moving vehicles, according to the report. Department policy also tells officers to avoid placing themselves in the path of a moving vehicle whenever possible.
Officers are trained to continually assess whether deadly force is needed, including in between gunshots, the report says. Deadly force is warranted only in the face of an immediate threat of death or severe injury, according to department policy.
A de-escalation policy also instructs officers to approach suspects slowly and deliberately to avoid physical confrontations. Murray likely violated that policy by “running directly at the front of Mr. Rochester’s Honda,” investigators found.
Both officers involved in the shooting remain on administrative duty pending the results of an internal investigation to determine whether they will face discipline, a department spokesperson said Wednesday. Officials declined to comment on either the investigative report or Bates’ decision not to bring charges.
Bates’ office also didn’t respond to a request for comment Wednesday. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-baltimore-officer-faces-no-charges-after-killing-teen-driver/ | 2023-01-19 14:24:32 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-baltimore-officer-faces-no-charges-after-killing-teen-driver/ |
Twitter owner Elon Musk publicly slammed Apple on Monday for suspending some of its advertising on the social media platform, asking if leaders of the tech company “hate free speech.”
“Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter,” Musk announced.
“Do they hate free speech in America?”
Musk called out Apple CEO Tim Cook in a second tweet, writing: “What’s going on here @tim_cook?”
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who acquired Twitter in a $44 billion deal closed last month, has described himself as a “free speech absolutist” and promised to advocate for it using his ownership of the platform.
Racist language and misinformation have reportedly surged on Twitter since Musk’s acquisition, and left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America found that 50 of Twitter’s leading 100 advertisers appear to have halted their work with the site.
Those 50 companies made up $750 million in spending on Twitter over the course of 2022, according to the analysis.
Musk claimed that Apple “has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why.”
The Hill has reached out to Apple for comment on the alleged threats.
Musk posted a parade of tweets criticizing Apple for its “monopoly” on tech products and its censorship of some language.
Content sharing and publishing platform LBRY posted over its official Twitter account that “Apple may make good products, but they have been opposed to free speech for some time.”
“During Covid, Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned. If we did not filter the terms, our apps would not be allowed in the store,” the account wrote in response to Musk’s question about Apple and free speech.
“Who else has Apple censored?” responded Musk. | https://www.wane.com/hill-politics/musk-asks-if-apple-hates-free-speech-in-america-after-twitter-advertising-drop-off/ | 2022-11-28 21:47:51 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/hill-politics/musk-asks-if-apple-hates-free-speech-in-america-after-twitter-advertising-drop-off/ |
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Kevin Obanor made five 3-pointers and scored 24 points and Texas Tech extended its home winning streak to 29 with a 110-71 rout of South Carolina State on Tuesday night.
Texas Tech (10-2) also won its sixth consecutive game, including three straight with 100-plus points.
Daniel Batcho added 17 points for the Aggies, which shot 64% and made 14 of 28 from long range. Pop Isaacs and De’Vion Harmon had 14 points apiece and Jaylon Tyson added 13. Isaacs and Tyson combined for seven 3s.
Obanor made two 3s and a pair of free throws as Texas Tech opened on a 24-12 run and led 59-36 at halftime. Obanor had 17 points and eight rebounds in the first half and Harmon had 10 points.
S.C. State pulled within 19 points with 16:37 to play. Obanor made four free throws and Batcho had consecutive dunks during a 14-6 surge and the Red Raiders stretched their lead to 30 points about three minutes later. Back-to-back 3s from Isaacs pushed the lead to 93-56 with 8:10 to play.
Raquan Brown scored 17 points for South Carolina State (2-13).
Texas Tech plays at TCU in a Big 12 Conference opener on New Year’s Eve. South Carolina State hosts St. Andrews on Friday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The price tag for cleaning up waste from the once top-secret Manhattan Project and subsequent Cold War-era nuclear research at Los Alamos National Laboratory has more than doubled in the last seven years, and independent federal investigators say federal officials will have to do better to track costs and progress.
The Government Accountability Office in a report issued Wednesday said while some improvements have been made, the U.S. Energy Department hasn’t taken a comprehensive approach to prioritizing cleanup activities at the New Mexico lab.
The report came as federal officials hosted a forum Thursday in Los Alamos to talk about cleaning up contaminated soil and groundwater and handling hazardous waste generated by decades of research that started with development of the atomic bomb during the 1940s.
Ike White, who heads DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, said the release this week of the “Oppenheimer” film makes it a good time to talk about the legacy that came from the dawning of the atomic age. Part of the environmental cleanup mission requires an examination of history, White told those gathered at the historic Fuller Lodge in the heart of Los Alamos.
He characterized the nation’s multibillion-dollar cleanup program as the third largest liability on the books for the federal government — behind only Social Security and Medicaid.
“It is a large, it is a complicated, it a technologically challenging program,” White said. “It is extremely important to a lot of people who live across the country from coast to coast, and all of us who are part of that program feel an extraordinary responsibility to make that program successful.”
Still, the GAO pointed to weaknesses in oversight by the Office of Environmental Management at Los Alamos. They said failure to finalize a performance baseline for the cleanup contractor prevented the office from tracking ongoing costs, the scope of work and progress.
New Mexico environmental regulators said the report validates their longstanding concerns — that cleanup is mired in unnecessary delays that threaten public health and the environment. New Mexico Environment Department spokesman Matthew Maez pointed specifically to the federal government’s responsibility to protect drinking water.
“The frequent delays and lack of transparency in cleanup must be remedied,” he said. “We hope this report galvanizes DOE-EM to enact change in Los Alamos.”
Environmental management officials at Los Alamos said they expect to complete remaining cleanup activities at the lab by 2043 at an estimated cost of about $7 billion.
Michael Mikolanis, who heads DOE’s environmental management office at Los Alamos, said Thursday that his team is developing a long-term strategic vision for the remaining cleanup that will be based on priorities identified through numerous meetings with state regulators, the leaders of neighboring Native American communities and others.
While White agrees with the GAO that prioritizing the scope of work is important, he said optimum efficiency is not always the most important factor.
“One of the things that we’ve arranged with our strategic vision effort and our stakeholder engagement is to try to make sure we’re doing that prioritization of the work in a way that is transparent to the community and that doesn’t just reflect a sort of bureaucratic set of values,” he said.
Don Hancock with the Albuquerque-based nuclear watchdog group Southwest Research and Information Center said the DOE in 2010 had issued a roadmap that included a goal of disposing of most of the transuranic waste — that which contains manmade elements heavier than uranium — by the end of 2015.
He asked the DOE officials at the forum about the timeline and how much waste remained.
Mikolanis said his office plans to unveil an interactive map this fall that will include estimates of the waste at Los Alamos that is stored above ground and that which has yet to be unearthed.
White said estimates for the cleanup project nationwide are hard to calculate because the ultimate volume of waste can change depending on the scope of a project.
The GAO report includes several recommendations for the DOE that include implementing a plan to account for cost and schedule increases, building trust with state regulators and including consideration of potential risks when making decisions. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-in-a-nod-to-oppenheimers-legacy-us-officials-vow-to-prioritize-cleanup-at-nuclear-lab/ | 2023-07-21 01:49:01 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-in-a-nod-to-oppenheimers-legacy-us-officials-vow-to-prioritize-cleanup-at-nuclear-lab/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan Sunday morning, then declined to tropical storm force and quickly moved inland.
By Sunday evening, Roslyn had winds of 35 mph (55 kph), down from its peak of 130 mph. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn was about 60 miles (95 kilometers) east-southeast of the northern city of Torreon.
The hurricane was moving northeast at 21 miles per hour (33 kph) and was expected to lose strength further as it moves inland. The center expects Roslyn would dissipate before reaching Texas.
Local media reported two people died after taking shelter in unstable structures that collapsed during the storm, but the Nayarit state civil defense office said it could not confirm those deaths.
While it missed a direct hit, Roslyn brought heavy rain and high waves to Puerto Vallarta, where ocean surges lashed the beachside promenade.
Roslyn came ashore in Nayarit state, in roughly the same area where Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3.
The hurricane made landfall around the village of Santa Cruz, near the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of Puerto Vallarta.
José Antonio Barajas, the mayor of San Blas, said in a video broadcast that some houses had been damaged and power was knocked out, but nobody was killed or seriously injured.
“The winds from this hurricane were, in truth, tremendous,” Barajas said. “The sound of the wind was strong.”
In Tepic, the Nayarit state capital, Roslyn blew down trees and flooded some streets; authorities asked residents to avoid going out Sunday, as crews worked to clear a landslide that had blocked a local highway.
The Federal Electricity Commission reported that over 150,000 homes had lost power as a result of the storm, and that by midday Sunday, service had been restored to about one-third of those customers.
Meanwhile, beachside eateries in Puerto Vallarta where tourists had lunched unconcerned Saturday were abandoned Sunday morning, and at some the waves had carried away railings and small thatched structures that normally keep the sun off diners.
The head of the state civil defense office for the Puerto Vallarta area, Adrián Bobadilla, said authorities were patrolling the area, but had not yet seen any major damage.
“The biggest effect was from the waves, on some of the beachside infrastructure,” said Bobadilla. “We did not have any significant damage.”
The state civil defense office posted video of officers escorting a large sea turtle back to the water, after it had been thrown up on the beach by the large waves.
The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding and the U.S. hurricane center warned that heavy rains could cause flash flooding and landslides over the rugged terrain inland. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-category-4-rosyln-brushing-vallarta-on-way-to-mexico-coast/ | 2022-10-24 01:14:58 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-category-4-rosyln-brushing-vallarta-on-way-to-mexico-coast/ |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Despite finishing first in Denmark’s election, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen decided to step down along with her Social Democratic government Wednesday in an attempt to build a broader coalition across the political divide.
Frederiksen’s announcement came after a dramatic vote count in which the center-left bloc that has backed her since 2019 retained its majority in Parliament by a single seat.
In theory, the 44-year-old Social Democratic leader could have stayed in power as head of a minority government. But she said she would stick to promises made before Tuesday’s election to try to form a wider governing coalition that includes parties on the center-right.
”I am happy, proud, and grateful,” Frederiksen said. “It has been a very difficult few years to be prime minister: first the pandemic, now inflation. A lot indicated that a sitting government would not achieve reelection.”
Frederiksen handed her resignation Wednesday to Queen Margrethe, Denmark’s figurehead monarch. Frederiksen will remain as prime minister in a caretaking capacity until a new government is formed.
Frederiksen called the election last month amid fallout from her government’s contentious decision to cull millions of minks as a pandemic response measure. The cull and chilling images of mass graves of minks have haunted Frederiksen since 2020 and eventually led to cracks in the center-left bloc.
On Tuesday, the Social Democrats won 28% of the vote, or 50 seats in the 179-member Danish Parliament. Exit polls and early results had suggested the center-left parties together would not gather the 90 seats needed for a majority. They were one seat short until the very end of the ballot count, when the decisive seat flipped.
Before that, former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen appeared set to become kingmaker. His newly formed Moderate party won 9% of the vote for 16 seats, according to the full vote count, which was preliminary. Final results were expected later.
Løkke Rasmussen, a two-time government leader who lost the 2019 election to Frederiksen and abandoned the center-right Liberal party following an internal power struggle, said he would support Frederiksen’s attempt to form a government, but not necessarily with her as prime minister.
“I know for sure that Denmark needs a new government,“ he told jubilant supporters in Copenhagen. “Who is going to sit at the end of the table? We do not know.”
Election results from Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory which has two seats in the legislature, confirmed early Wednesday that the center-left bloc would have a one-seat majority in Parliament.
Some of Frederiksen’s former partners expressed disappointment that she opted to seek a broader coalition rather than continue to govern with support from the center-left. Troels Bøggild, an associate professor of political science at Aarhus University in western Denmark, said Frederiksen now has two options for forming a new government.
“Either go with the Moderates (at the center) and the Liberals, and if that fails, she can crawl back to the red bloc and form a government there,” he said. “By resigning, she shows that her election promises to build a broad center government are serious.”
Frederiksen said a broad coalition would be better placed to face major challenges such as inflation, climate change and shortcomings in the public health care system.
Before the election, opposition leaders Jakob Ellemann-Jensen of the Liberals and Søren Pape Poulsen of the Conservatives dismissed the idea of joining forces with Frederiksen, saying they aimed to form a center-right government. The center-right bloc won 73 seats, well short of a majority, after a poor showing by the Liberals.
Frederiksen, who became Denmark’s youngest prime minister when she took office in 2019 at age 41, teamed up with the opposition to increase NATO-member Denmark’s defense spending in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Her steadfast leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic was partly overshadowed by the mink-culling episode.
The decision to slaughter up to 17 million minks to protect humans from a mutation of the coronavirus was taken in haste and without the required legislation in place. It dealt a devastating blow to Danish mink farmers, even though there was no evidence the mutated virus found among some minks was more dangerous than other strains. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-danish-leader-to-quit-in-bid-to-form-new-cabinet-despite-win/ | 2022-11-02 12:32:11 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-danish-leader-to-quit-in-bid-to-form-new-cabinet-despite-win/ |
Boston , June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New York-based venture capital firm, Laidlaw Capital Markets was honored to sponsor the world's largest mentorship network, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts for its keystone fundraiser.
400 golfers joined football stars, Kendrick Bourne and Devin Asiasi at the 47th annual Golf Classic on June 2. The tournament, which took place at Pinehills Golf Club, Plymouth, MA, raised an enormous $1 million to support year-round, one-to-one mentoring.
Managing partner of Laidlaw, Jimmy Ahern who served as Vice Chairman of the event for the seventh consecutive year, said: "Big Brothers Big Sisters provides amazing opportunities for less fortunate children and young people. They have successfully provided 78% of the youths in the program group with a mentor, making 46% less likely to use illegal drugs, 27% less likely to use alcohol and 58% less likely to skip school. Golf Classic is only one of the amazing events the organization hosts and was an honor to be a part of."
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts has supported and nurtured more than 20,000 matched pairings of six to 18-year-olds with adult volunteers who form lasting bonds and relationships. The organization was founded to provide opportunities for the children and young people to unlock their full potential and guide them towards a brighter future.
The global pandemic has had a huge effect on those families involved with the organization. "We can't change the multi-year impact of COVID-19 on our youth and families," said Mark O'Donnell, President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Massachusetts. "What we can do, however," he continued, "is implement proactive positive changes, one child at a time, that at scale can create broad impact that has the power to redefine our communities. Our work is more important now than ever, and we're so grateful for those that came out to support our mission and play golf today."
CEO of Laidlaw & Company, Matt Eitner said: "Laidlaw is honored to yet again sponsor this event. We truly believe in Big Brothers Big Sisters' mission to provide mentorship which positively impacts the lives of those who need it most."
Golf Classic is recognized throughout Boston and New York's financial and philanthropic communities as the "can't miss" event of the year with amazing giveaways and on-course fun. Big Brothers Big Sisters is grateful for the support, accredits donators, sponsors, and volunteers for making the golf tournament possible.
For more information about its mission, to become a volunteer or to register with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts visit www.emassbigs.org
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Laidlaw Capital Markets is a part of Laidlaw & Company (UK) Ltd. Which is a New York-based independent investment banking and securities brokerage focused on the needs of domestic and international companies, corporate entrepreneurs, institutions and private clients worldwide within sectors such as healthcare, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts is an innovative, energetic organization that is making a real difference in the lives of nearly 3,000 youth annually by providing them with an invested, caring adult mentor in long-term, professionally supported relationships. With research and proven outcomes at its core, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts is working to defend the potential of children facing adversity and ensure every child has the support from caring adults that they need for healthy development and success in life. The organization's vision is to inspire, engage and transform communities in Eastern Massachusetts by helping youth achieve their full potential, contributing to healthier families, better schools, more confident futures and stronger communities. Throughout its 70 years, the largest Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliate in New England has created and served more than 20,000 matches. For more information about the agency and its mission, visit www.emassbigs.org.
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POTIOMKYNE, Ukraine — A grassy lane rutted with tire tracks leads to Volodymyr Zaiets' farm in southern Ukraine. He is careful, driving only within those shallow grooves — veering away might cost him his life in the field dotted with explosive mines.
Weeds grow tall where rows of sunflowers once bloomed. Zaiets' land hasn't been touched since the fall of 2021, when it was last seeded with wheat. Now, it's a minefield left by retreating Russian forces.
Zaiets eschewed official warnings and demined this patch of land himself, determined not to lose the year's harvest. He expects that 15% of his 1,600 hectares (4,000 acres) of farmland was salvaged.
Workers like Victor Kostiuk still spot mines, but he's ready to start the tractor.
"We have to do it," he says, "Why be afraid?"
Across Ukraine, the war has forced grain growers into a vicious dilemma. Farmers in areas now free from Russian occupation must decide if it's worth risking their lives to strip land of explosives before the critical spring planting season.
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They have soaring production and transportation costs caused by Russia's blockade of many Black Sea ports, and several neighboring European countries imposed import restrictions on Ukrainian grain to prevent a glut.
The dual crisis is causing many farmers to cut back on sowing crops. Bottlenecks in shipping grain by land and sea are creating losses, with expectations of a 20% to 30% reduction in grain output, poorer quality crops and potentially thousands of bankruptcies next year, according to industry insiders, Ukrainian government officials and international organizations.
The "drastic reduction" of grain crops potentially threatens global food security, said Pierre Vauthier, head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Ukraine. "That is the main thing everybody eats. So that's why it is a big concern."
More than a year since Russia's invasion, the Ukrainian agriculture industry is starting to see the full impact of what's been dubbed " the breadbasket of the world," whose affordable supplies of wheat, barley and sunflower oil are crucial to Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia where people are going hungry.
The FAO says 90% of agricultural businesses lost revenue and 12% reported lands contaminated with mines. Land planted with grain dropped last year to 11.6 million hectares (28.6 million acres) from 16 million hectares (around 40 million acres) in 2021. That's expected to fall to 10.2 million hectares (25.2 million acres) this year.
In the southern Kherson province, between the threat of missiles from the sky and mines on the ground, farmers make the same, often tragic, calculation: Take the risk and plant or lose their livelihoods.
The region is among the highest wheat-producing areas in Ukraine and the most heavily mined. Demining services are overstretched, with infrastructure and civilian homes prioritized over farms.
But growers can't wait: April and May are key planting months for corn, the autumn months for wheat. Many are switching to planting oil seeds that are less costly.
"We have nearly 40 big farmers in our area, and nearly everyone is unable to access their lands except two," said Hanna Shostak-Kuchmiak, head of the Vysokopillya administration that includes several villages in northern Kherson.
Zaiets is one, and Valerii Shkuropat from the nearby village of Ivanivka is the other.
"Our heroes," said Shostak-Kuchmiak, "who were driving their cars around picking up mines and bringing them to our deminers."
Neither farmer felt they had the choice. Both knew that without a harvest this year, they will be insolvent by next.
Everyone understands the risks, said Shkuropat, who's vast 2,500 hectares (more than 6,000 acres) of land once grew peas, barley, millet and sunflowers. He estimates that half can be planted.
Last month, one of his workers was killed and another was wounded while picking up metal missile remnants.
"If we sow, if we grow crops, people will have jobs, salaries and they will have a means to feed their families," Shkuropat said. "But if we don't do anything, we will have nothing."
Russia's blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports stripped the country of the advantage it once enjoyed over other grain-exporting countries. Transit costs, now four to six times higher than prewar levels, have rendered grain production prohibitively expensive.
High costs of fuel, fertilizer and quality seeds only add to farmers' woes. Most must sell their grain at a loss.
Farmers are responding by seeding less, said Andrii Vadaturskyi, CEO of Nibulon, a top Ukrainian grain shipping company.
"No one is paying attention to the fact that already 40% less wheat has been seeded (this year), and we expect 50% less corn will be seeded in Ukraine," he said, drawing on data from 3,000 farmers.
Nibulon once paid an average of $12 to ship a ton of grain from the southern port city of Odesa. Now it pays $80-$100 per ton, Vadaturskyi said,
HarvEast CEO Dmytro Skornyakov said that his agricultural company pays almost $110 in logistics costs to export every ton of corn.
"It covers our expenses, but doesn't give us any profit," he said.
Negotiations are underway on renewing the U.N.-brokered agreement that allows Ukrainian grain to safely leave three Black Sea ports. Shippers say the deal isn't working efficiently.
Russian inspections are causing long wait times for vessels, piling on fees and making the sea route expensive and unreliable, Ukrainian grain shippers say. Russia denies slowing inspections.
"We had some vessels which were waiting close to 80 days in the queue simply to be loaded," said Vadaturskyi of Nibulon. "Someone has to lose that money, either the buyer, owner of the vessel or trader."
Transit routes through Europe are open even as Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary temporarily banned Ukrainian wheat, corn and some other products over concerns about their own farmers' profits.
But those routes are slow and costly. Shipping by sea accounted for 75% of Ukrainian grain exports at the start of the year.
Meanwhile, some farmers won't risk planting their fields.
Oleh Uskhalo's land in Potiomkyne is awash with ammunition, the vast wheat farms reduced to a graveyard of scorched equipment.
Inside a bombed-out grain shed lies piles of wheat grain — Ushkalo's entire prewar harvest — rotting under the sun.
"We can go on for another year," he said. After that, he doesn't know. He hopes for government compensation.
"I cannot send (my workers) to a field where I know mines and bombs are," Uskhalo said. "To send a person to blow themselves up? I can't do that."
He faces resistance from his employees, eager to earn wages.
"The tractor drivers, they say, 'We can go, we can sign a document stating that we take full responsibility,'" Uskhalo said.
It's too risky, he told them.
In the distance, he can see a tractor equipped with disk tillers, a type of plow. "I wonder if it's Volodymyr Mykolaiovych," he said, referring to Zaiets.
"All it takes is for one of those disks to hit a mine and that's it."
That's what happened to Mykola Ozarianskyi.
In April, the farmer took a chance: He hopped on his tractor in his village of Borozenske, in Kherson, to head to a friend's sunflower field to cut stalks.
He swerved to turn down a side farm road. He remembers the explosion, then waking up in a hospital bed with a collapsed lung and broken ribs.
Every day, he thinks of his 16 hectares (around 40 acres) of land, still unseeded.
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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is facing a potential uprising from members of his own party in the far-right Freedom Caucus following the approval of a deal he orchestrated to raise the federal spending limit and avoid a catastrophic debt default.
Back home in California, in his Bakersfield district, some constituents are praising the Republican leader for his handling of the tense negotiations that largely held the line for Democrats while failing to advance key conservative priorities.
In Wool Growers, a historic Basque restaurant and Bakersfield institution, owner Jenny Maitia-Poncetta — and many locals — watched the debt ceiling showdown unfold from a tiny TV hanging above the bar.
McCarthy's willingness to reach across the aisle and usher in a deal is a strength of the embattled speaker, she said.
"I'm a Republican, and I'm proud of being a Republican, but I know we need to work together to make it work," she said of the bill that ultimately saw more Democratic votes than Republican.
And besides, she says, the deal saw non-defense spending shrink for the first time in years. Deeper cuts would be ideal, but that's still a win for conservatives.
"Anything is better than nothing," the restaurateur adds.
Diner Randy McDaniel agrees between sips of hearty vegetable soup.
"I'm very conservative, but I think people who are too far right are going to kill us if they don't get in the middle a little bit," he said.
In particular, McDaniel says he's happy to see the expansion of work requirements tied to food stamp eligibility.
"I'm good with helping people who really need it, but I think there's too many people out there that are not doing their part to try and improve," he said.
Ivy Cargile is a political science professor at California State University, Bakersfield. She's been watching the discussions closely and says McCarthy fared better than expected, given his contentious path to the speakership.
"The debt ceiling bill passed and this is a win for him," she said. "This is a solid win for him."
She says a deal to raise the debt limit and spare the country an unprecedented financial crisis was hardly a foregone conclusion.
"I was concerned," she said. "In Kern County, poverty levels are high. People do live paycheck-to-paycheck. And some of those paychecks come from the federal government."
Cargile says she's eagerly waiting to see how McCarthy will handle the federal government's funding fight — through the formal budget-making process — at the end of the year.
In an unprecedented concession to claiming the speaker's gavel, any single House Republican can trigger a motion to fire McCarthy. It remains unclear whether any in his conference will trigger what some lawmakers have called the "nuclear" option.
But that hasn't stopped hardline conservatives from expressing their displeasure with McCarthy and party leadership. Earlier this week, some in the Freedom Caucus upended routine House procedures ahead of a vote to forbid future bans on gas stoves, a Republican priority.
The tumult spread to other factions of the Republican Party on Wednesday, McCarthy told reporters Wednesday evening, adding that he wasn't concerned about threats to his gavel.
If House Republicans were to oust the speaker — a big "if" at this point — it's unclear who could take up the gavel. Any replacement would have a tough task finding consensus within the divided party, Cargile says.
A search for a new party leader could also distract from what is already shaping up to be a contentious 2024 presidential election, she adds.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Molecular Partners AG ("Molecular Partners") (NASDAQ: MOLN) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Molecular Partners American Depositary Shares pursuant and/or traceable to certain documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about June 16, 2021; and/or (b) Molecular Partners securities between June 16, 2021, and April 26, 2022.
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ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Molecular Partners includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's product, ensovibep, was less effective at treating COVID-19 than defendants had led investors to believe; that (ii) accordingly, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") was reasonably likely to require an additional Phase 3 study of ensovibep before granting the drug Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA"); (iii) waning global rates of COVID-19 significantly reduced the Company's chances of securing EUA for ensovibep; (iv) another of the Company's product candidates, MP0310, was less attractive to Molecular Partners' collaborator, Amgen, than defendants had led investors to believe; (v) accordingly, there was a significant likelihood that Amgen would return to global rights of MP0310 to Molecular Partners; (vi) as a result of all the foregoing, the clinical and commercial prospects of ensovibep and MP0310 were overstated; and (vii) as a result, documents issues in connection with the Company's initial public offer and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
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Ex-congressman from California arrested, charged with fraud
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A former U.S. congressman from central California was arrested Tuesday by federal agents on wire fraud, money laundering, and campaign contribution fraud charges stemming from “multiple fraud schemes,” federal prosecutors said.
Terrance “T.J.” Cox was arrested by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Fresno, where he was booked to the Fresno County jail on a U.S. Marshals hold, jail records showed. It was not immediately known if he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf. An email message sent to Cox Tuesday was not immediately answered.
Cox, a Democrat, represented the 21st Congressional District from January 2019 to January 2021. The district is in the agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley and includes Kings County and portions of Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties.
Cox, 59, was charged with 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert said in a statement.
Talbert said that between 2013 and 2018, Cox allegedly obtained $1.7 million from funds he solicited from clients and loans he got for his companies and then stole by diverting the money to “off-the-book bank accounts.”
Cox partially owned, managed and was employed by several companies and non-profit organizations, including a business that helped companies get loans and federal tax credits, an almond processing company and a non-profit that operated Granite Park, a recreation facility in Fresno, according to the complaint.
Cox also fraudulently obtained a $1.5 million construction loan to develop Granite Park, Talbert said.
After his nonprofit could not qualify for the construction loan for the recreation facility without a party guaranteeing the loan, Cox said that one of the companies he co-owned would guarantee the loan, and submitted a fabricated board resolution that falsely stated that during a meeting all company owners had agreed to guarantee the Granite Park loan.
“No meeting took place, and the other owners did not agree to back the loan,” Talbert said.
The loan later went into default, causing a loss of more than $1.28 million, he said.
According to the indictment, when Cox was campaigning in 2017 for the U.S. House of Representatives he reimbursed family members and associates for donations to his campaign, prosecutors said. Cox arranged for over $25,000 in illegal straw or conduit donations to his campaign, Talbert said.
If convicted, Cox faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for wire fraud and money laundering, and up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine for wire fraud affecting a financial institution. The charge of campaign contribution fraud carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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A step forward in providing an integrated platform centered on software
- President Cho Sung-Hwan hosted a Media Showcase, where he presented the vision of 'New Mobis' - a mobility company that provides an integrated platform combining software and hardware.
- Hyundai Mobis also announced its plan to develop a level 3 integrated autonomous driving controller and software platform with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride Platforms.
LAS VEGAS and SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Mobis (KRX: 012330) unveiled its "NEW MOBIS" vision at CES 2023, declaring a leap forward as a mobility company that provides an integrated platform centered on software. The essence of the company's name was also redefined as 'MObility Beyond Integrated Solution' in order to emphasize the crux of its future strategy, namely the innovation of the user experience and the provision of integrated solutions optimized for customer needs.
To speak to this future growth strategy and new vision, President Cho Sung-hwan hosted a media showcase at CES 2023 on 5th, where he stressed the importance and the direction of future growth as a company specializing in mobility.
Hyundai Mobis' long-term goal and key strategy for New Mobis is to become a Mobility Platform Provider that offers integrated solutions by combining core technologies in electrification, autonomous driving, and connectivity.
This future growth strategy is well demonstrated in M.VISION TO, the future PBV concept model unveiled by Hyundai Mobis at this year's CES. M.VISION TO is an electrification-based autonomous vehicle with an integrated solution of combining its drive module battery system to pillar modules centered on e-corner system, autonomous driving sensor and communication lighting.
M.VISION TO is a mobility solution which offers scalable shapes and sizes to meet different purposes. It also extends freedom of movement including crab driving and zero-turn with 90 degrees rotating wheel. Through these competitive points, it supports a wide range of user-specific applications from driving in narrow downtown street or transporting cargo.
Cheon Jae-seung, head of FTCI (Future Technology Convergence Institute), also took the stage as a presenter at the media showcase, where he emphasized software and semiconductors as the core competitiveness of integrated solutions. "Reliable software and semiconductor technologies are the key to the future mobility solutions that we provide," shared Jae-seung.
Also unveiled at CES, Hyundai Mobis announced of developing an integrated autonomous driving controller scaling up to level 3 utilizing Snapdragon Ride Platforms by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Hyundai Mobis has been developing independent autonomous driving software platform for both global and local automakers.
Hyundai Mobis is to develop a software platform, where the autonomous driving controller introduced by Hyundai Mobis is the key component for implementing all levels including level-3 or higher autonomous driving.
Hyundai Mobis expects its development completion in the first half of 2023. The company prospects increased orders from global automakers for autonomous driving and ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance System).
Moving forward, Hyundai Mobis will continue to strengthen close cooperative relationships with various partners in order to secure new technologies for future mobility. Recently, Hyundai Mobis teamed up with Ottopia, an Israeli start-up, to develop a remote support solution for self-driving, targeting the fully autonomous driving market of level 4 or higher.
About Hyundai Mobis
Hyundai Mobis is the global no. 6 automotive supplier, headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Hyundai Mobis has outstanding expertise in sensors, sensor fusion in ECUs and software development for safety control. The company's products also include various components for electrification, brakes, chassis and suspension, steering, airbags, lighting, and automotive electronics. Hyundai Mobis operates its R&D headquarters in Korea, with four technology centers in the United States, Germany, China and India. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.mobis.co.kr/
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TILDEN TWP., Pa. - A farm in Tilden Township is getting ready for Christmas with some special guests.
Reindeer will be at the Lafaver Family Farm on Saturday, Dec. 10.
The animals will be on hand from 6-9 p.m., and families can get a photo for $45. Additional photos are $5.
Santa will also make an appearance, and visitors can write letters to Santa and enjoy free hot chocolate.
Several local vendors will also be at the event, and the farm's beef store will be open.
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence today announced the launch of an integrated solution that streamlines the lifecycle and workflow of the syndicated primary bond markets. The collaborative solution connects mutual clients of TSOX, Bloomberg's fixed income execution management system (EMS) and S&P Global Market Intelligence's InvestorAccess ('InvestorAccess') platform. Portfolio managers and traders are provided with an optimized end-to-end primary markets workflow, which includes quick access to the most up-to-date information on new issue securities of interest, electronic order routing and automatic delivery of final allocations.
The solution improves the primary markets workflow by providing market participants with a more efficient way to process orders and allocations. The linkage between TSOX and InvestorAccess begins with the staging and intelligent aggregation of orders from multiple portfolio managers. These orders are electronically routed to InvestorAccess and dynamically updated as the new issue security evolves from initial announcement to final terms. This is followed by delivery of the order allocations via straight-through-processing as soon as the syndicate has released them.
Bloomberg users who stage orders into TSOX from their Order Management System (OMS) can now take advantage of automated security creation, electronic order routing and dynamic order modification and cancellation. In addition, once the orders are filled, the details are immediately delivered to a client's OMS for easy tracking.
The synchronization of the primary market data workflow between both firms helps ensure that traders can exchange pertinent order-level information on new issue securities. This alignment allows for free exchange of new issue data by systems supporting the market participants' trading desk through the syndicate banks' book building technology. This minimizes the need for proprietary mapping and manual tracking of security information.
"This integration is part of our commitment to making data available to users faster, following the announcement of a new issue. By providing clients a streamlined electronic workflow we're helping to optimize their interactions within the primary markets," said Phil McCabe, Global Head of EMS and Analytics Product at Bloomberg. "Bloomberg has continued to invest in this space, and by centralizing new issue workflows, traders are able to combine the best of data and information discovery with efficient and inter-operable execution management using TSOX."
"The synchronization of the primary market data workflow between both firms aims to ensure that traders can exchange pertinent order-level information on new issue securities," said Chris Sztam, Head of Global Markets Group, S&P Global Market Intelligence. "The benefit we are jointly providing to portfolio managers and traders will create greater efficiencies across asset classes as capital markets become increasingly electronic."
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Medical technology marketing leader to bolster brand equity and accelerate commercial strategies for digital health company poised for growth
AUSTIN, Texas, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BrainCheck, Inc. today announced the appointment of Chelsea Dugan as Vice President of Marketing, strengthening the Company's executive leadership team and accelerating its growth strategies. The announcement follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s landmark decision to approve Leqembi® (developed by Eisai/Biogen) for the treatment of early Alzheimer's disease, driving increased demand for BrainCheck's proven technology in the early detection of cognitive impairment.
"The recent breakthroughs in the treatment of early forms of Alzheimer's disease and dementia represent a watershed moment in cognitive care. With early screening, we have an opportunity to more objectively assess patient risk, equipping providers with the information needed to prioritize prevention and take early action when necessary," said Kim Rodriguez, CEO of BrainCheck. "At BrainCheck, we recognize the critical role we have to play in the fight against this devastating disease, and that begins with driving awareness of and access to our proven technology for patients and their families."
"I'm thrilled to welcome Chelsea to the team to lead the implementation of new marketing strategies to bolster our brand equity and position the company for accelerated growth. With a strong track record of impactful marketing outcomes in the medical technology space, I am confident that her unique set of skills and expertise will be instrumental to our go-to-market success," added Ms. Rodriguez.
Ms. Dugan is an accomplished global marketing leader with extensive experience in the medical technology industry, spanning multiple clinical areas including radiology, radiation oncology, surgery and dermatology. She joins BrainCheck from iCAD, Inc., the market leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for breast cancer detection, density assessment, and risk evaluation. Under her leadership, iCAD's brand health experienced significant improvement year-over-year, attracting key strategic partners including Google Health and driving worldwide adoption. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Masters of Business Administration from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
"With a legacy of leadership in the early detection of cognitive impairment, the BrainCheck platform is transforming the screening landscape, arming providers with clinically proven technology and empowering patients to take control of their cognitive health," said Ms. Dugan. "I am honored to join the company as we execute on our mission to accelerate intervention, improve care, and offer new hope to patients and their families. I look forward to working with our talented and passionate team to maximize the growing market opportunity and expand our impact nationwide."
Developed by neuroscientists and technologists from Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University, BrainCheck's FDA-registered cognitive assessment and care management platform is the most comprehensive digital health solution of its kind available on the market today. Its proprietary computerized cognitive assessments and robust portfolio of screeners can be applied to evaluate all types of cognitive impairments and decline, including Alzheimer's and dementia. The technology is trusted by hundreds of the country's most prestigious providers and specialists to manage the cognitive health of more than 300,000 patients to date.
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Two Real-Life Aircrafts Communicate and Interact with Augmented Reality Tanker
MIAMI, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Red 6, a revolutionary technology firm at the forefront of Augmented Reality (AR) and synthetic air combat training, is proud to announce that it has successfully flown the first multi-aircraft, training flight against multiple Augmented Reality assets. With this successful flight test, Red 6 has ushered in a new frontier of combat training for the War Fighter. Connecting multiple live aircraft into one common Augmented Reality environment, outdoors, up in the sky, is a significant technical milestone. "We are thrilled that our thesis has been validated and this achievement is a major step forward towards the creation of an outdoor Military Metaverse in which all warfighters, across all domains can train together," said Daniel Robinson, Founder and CEO of Red 6.
Two Red 6 Test Pilots took off in Berkut 540's from California's Santa Monica Airport. Upon entering Red 6's Combined Augmented Reality Battlespace Operation Network (CARBON), over Ventura County, each pilot could see and interact with the same AR generated KC-46 Pegasus Tanker, from their respective aircraft. Red 1 conducted a training mission on the AR refueling Tanker while Red 2 was able to observe Red 1 and the AR Tanker in real time.
"Never has it been possible for multiple pilots to communicate simultaneously in AR like this. Today was a historic milestone for not just Red 6, but for the overall AR industry. One day this training will produce the most elite War Fighters in the world," stated Brandon Harris, F-22 and Red 6 Test Pilot.
The flights expand upon Red 6's world-first live dogfight against an AI-driven virtual aircraft two years ago. The flight showcased the groundbreaking display and control systems needed to bring AR into the real world, while simultaneously integrating tactical AI into the Red 6 system. "Red 6 continues to expand beyond what was previously thought possible. Synthetic training environments are going to grow exponentially in the future and Red 6 plans to be a huge part of that growth and success," concluded Robinson.
For more information or to speak with Daniel Robinson about the award please contact Christina Babbitt at Christina.Babbitt@red6ar.com
Red 6, founded in 2018, is the creator of Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS) and Combined Augmented Reality Battlespace Operational Network (CARBON). Red 6's Systems are the first wide field-of-view, full color demonstrably proven outdoor augmented reality solution that works in dynamic outdoor environments. They allow Virtual and Constructive assets into the real-world by allowing pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors, and critically, in high-speed environments. By blending augmented reality and artificial intelligence and using both the indoor and outdoor space around us as a medium, Red 6 has redefined the limits of how the world will experience, share, and interact with its information.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bed & Bath & Beyond will live on, online at least, after Overstock.com acquired the bankrupt retail chain’s intellectual property assets for $21.5 million.
The online retailer Overstock.com is dumping its name online and will become Bed & Bath & Beyond, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year. Overstock.com’s CEO Jonathan Johnson told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Thursday that the company is considering changing its corporate name but won’t make any decisions until after it digests the assets.
The switcheroo to a very recognizable brand was cheered on Wall Street. Shares of Overstock.com Inc., based in Midvale, Utah, soared nearly 20% during afternoon trading Thursday.
The deal doesn’t include Bed Bath & Beyond stores, the last of which are expected to be shuttered Friday, or the Buybuy Baby chain.
The name change will roll out in Canada next month and in August, a relaunch of the company’s website and mobile app as Bed Bath & Beyond will appear in the U.S. Those visiting overstock.com will be redirected to bedbathandbeyond.com.
The name Overstock still confuses some customers and suppliers who thought it was a liquidator. That’s how it got its start in 1999. It transformed in 2004 into a general merchandise retailer, selling a wide variety of items. In 2021, Overstock finetuned its strategy to focus on furniture and home decor, getting rid of items like clothing.
When Bed Bath & Beyond’s financial woes deepened last year, Overstock.com tried to court the retailer’s suppliers but it met with some skepticism. But after its bid for Bed Bath became public last week, it was able to add 100,000 bed and bath items to its site, Johnson said. He expects that pace will pick up.
“I can’t count how many times we were asked when we were going to change the company name,” he said. “This opportunity is too good to be true. We are Bed Bath and a bigger beyond.”
Johnson said that it will offer some coupons to cater to the Bed Bath & Beyond customers who were used to the popular perk, but he noted that customers will be surprised that the discounts offered by Overstock.com are actually better on an every day basis. He also added that Overstock plans to step up marketing to Bed Bath & Beyond customers to make them aware of the change.
He estimated Overstock.com has about 5 million customers; Bed Bath & Beyond’s online customers number about 10 million.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Since 2000, nearly 4,000 migrant remains have been found in Southern Arizona. During the 2022 federal fiscal year, 179 bodies were recovered.
Alvaro Enciso is an artist with the nonprofit Tucson Samaritans. He makes wooden crosses and places them where bodies have been found.
“You know, out of the 4,000 people that have been found dead here, about ⅓ of them are unidentified,” said Enciso.
He’s determined to place a cross at every location a body has been found.
“I have put about 1,500 crosses so far in 10 years. I work slowly,” he said.
Enciso takes a trip every Tuesday to the Southern Arizona desert to place at least three crosses each time.
“So these crosses that I put every week are sort of the story of my own life, you know I came here as a migrant. So I decided to mark these locations where the American dream came to an end,” said Enciso.
He places each cross in a hole he digs, and then fills it with concrete and rocks. After all is set in stone, the Tucson Samaritan volunteers lay a rosary and pay their respects.
Then they hike back to the car to drive to the GPS marker where the next body was found.
“When a migrant is found dead out in the desert, the first thing that you do is you call 9-1-1. And 9-1-1 will send a deputy to pick up the remains to send them to the medical examiner and part of the protocol for the remains is to put a GPS mark where the person is found.”
Every month the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office sends new information on migrant deaths to the nonprofit Humane Borders.
Humane Borders records that information on a map showing marked locations where remains have been found since 2000.
Around 2000 is when the number of deaths increased significantly. Pima County Medical Examiner Dr. Greg Hess describes the increase by calendar year.
“About 77 deaths in 2001, about 146 in 2002, and then ever since 2002 we’ve averaged 165 remains a year. And clearly it’s fluctuated over time.”
In the 2021 federal fiscal year, that number reached its peak.
”2021 we had a very busy June, it was very hot, very dry. In 2022 it was a little bit more moderate, we did get more rain last year. So really the biggest benchmark for the number of people dying, in my opinion, is weather related.”
In an effort to prevent deaths, the Tucson Samaritans set out water and other items that could possibly save a life.
“Humanitarian aid is never a crime. So we help people. We give them food, we give them water to not let them suffer, and if they want us to call border patrol, we do. And most of them do because they know they’re going to die,” said one volunteer, Gail Kocourek.
Gail Kocourek witnesses what goes on at the border twice a week. She remembers seeing and talking with many migrants who are often looking for a life line. There’s one encounter she said she will never forget.
“I found him along the side of the road, his arms were covered with scratches. He was from Guatemala, he just wanted to be with his sister in the south. And he kept saying that he wanted to be with her. But he didn’t have food, didn’t have water, he’d been left.”
She remembers getting a friend on the phone to translate. They translated that the man wanted her to call border patrol.
“When he realized that his dreams were gone, he sat down in the back of my car and put his head on my shoulder and cried. He was only 23, you know, and he just wanted to be with his family. It was so heartbreaking to have him crying, and the border patrol came and walked away with him, and as he walked away he was crying and he took his rosary off and put it around my neck. and it made me cry,” explained Kocourek.
She's seen a lot, from people crossing through openings to people climbing the wall. She said despite how hard it is to witness, she keeps going for a reason.
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Shipping and printing solutions provides premium incentives for veterans looking to own a franchise
DENVER, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PostNet, a global leader in high-quality printing and shipping solutions, has been named one of the top franchises for veterans by Entrepreneur after ranking 50th on the publication's Top 150 Franchises for Veterans.
The Top Franchises for Veterans list recognizes franchises dedicated to providing the best incentives and opportunities to veterans. The selected companies support and assist veteran franchisees in their new business venture.
"At PostNet, culture remains a big part of who we are as a franchise," said Bill McPherson, vice president of franchise development. "We seek franchisees who are going to put in the time and effort to be successful owners. Veterans are the perfect example of the type of individuals we seek. They have strong discipline, a desire to succeed, and are great at following a process. We provide them with all the necessary tools and a proven operating system. They tend to be great PostNet franchise owners."
When developing the Top Franchises for Veterans list, Entrepreneur invites companies to participate in a survey designed to help the publication learn more about the companies' veterans programs. From there, the rankings are developed, taking into account each company's veteran incentive, how veteran franchisees are attracted to and supported by the company and how each company scored in the 2022 Franchise 500.
For PostNet, the company ranked 374 on the Franchise 500 list. They also placed 92nd on the Top Global Franchises list.
"Being named to numerous lists by Entrepreneur is a testament to the success of our franchisees and services," McPherson said. "It takes a complete team effort from both the franchise owners and headquarters to continue earning success at the rate we do. We look forward to seeing what 2023 has in store."
To learn more about PostNet franchise opportunities, please visit https://postnetfranchise.com/.
PostNet opened its doors in 1993. With nearly 700 locations in North America, Central America, South America and Africa, PostNet is a global leader in printing and shipping solutions. In 2017, PostNet joined the MBE Worldwide family. Combined, MBE has nearly 2,600 locations in 44 countries. For more information about PostNet services, visit www.postnet.com. To learn about franchise opportunities, visit www.postnetfranchise.com.
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Woman faces homicide charge after deputies said she used meth during pregnancy
Published: Jun. 30, 2022 at 12:54 PM CDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) – A woman in Alabama is accused of using methamphetamine during her pregnancy, according to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office.
WSFA reports Faith Victoria Kemp was charged with child homicide after delivering a stillborn baby at Madison Hospital in May.
The stillborn delivery was reported to the sheriff’s office, which conducted an investigation that found Kemp was allegedly using drugs throughout her pregnancy.
Kemp was arrested May 16 on an outstanding controlled substance bond revocation and was already in jail when she was charged Wednesday with chemical endangerment of a child with homicide.
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- Experience Abu Dhabi's new campaign invites the world for a variety of memorable, enriching experiences, available 365 days and minutes apart
- Emirati hospitality is at the heart of every moment that matters: a living culture that leaves visitors with a home-away-from-home feeling
- With experiences that inspire, excite and restore, there is something for everyone to enjoy and experience at their own pace
ABU DHABI, UAE, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has unveiled its latest campaign: Experience Abu Dhabi. Find Your Pace. The campaign shares the variety of experiences that inspire, excite and restore, welcoming the world to come and enjoy memorable moments that matter – in their own way, and at their own pace.
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Experience Abu Dhabi shows the seamless connections between a wealth of cultural heritage, alongside exciting experiences. Yas Island welcomes the world with year-round theme park action and waterfront attractions, with events and entertainment for families and all ages. Only 15 minutes away, Saadiyat Island is filled with living culture, home to Louvre Abu Dhabi's timeless inspiration and unforgettable architecture.
Located at the heart of the island, Saadiyat Cultural District hosts community events and exhibitions at Manarat Al Saadiyat, alongside Berklee Abu Dhabi, the pre-eminent institute of contemporary music and the performing arts. The district is also the future home of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum, and the immersive art of teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi. Nearby, pristine beaches and coastal avenues are lined with cafes and dining options at Mamsha Al Saadiyat, to enjoy over a breathtaking sunset.
Just over an hour from these remarkable island experiences, Abu Dhabi invites visitors to ignite their curiosity by visiting UNESCO World Heritage sites in Al Ain, experience adventure and tranquillity among the desert dunes, and embrace Abu Dhabi's fascinating past with iconic museums and ancient forts.
Enriching experiences throughout the year
The campaign welcomes the world to enjoy Abu Dhabi's enriching experiences at their own pace, with:
Cultural inspiration: past, present and future
Explore the nation's living memorial and the narrator of Abu Dhabi's history, Qasr Al Hosn, an 18th-century stone building in the heart of city. It is also home to the House of Artisans, which celebrates Emirati heritage and enduring tradition of craftsmanship. Within the same day, you can discover inspiration at Louvre Abu Dhabi, through stunning architecture, art collections and artefacts.
Back-to-nature moments that restore body and soul
From stargazing and glamping at Jebel Hafit Desert Park to walking the shaded oasis pathways in the garden city of Al Ain, visitors can also enjoy the sun-kissed beaches of Saadiyat Island, take in wildlife safaris on Sir Bani Yas Island and escape to the tranquil desert serenity of the Empty Quarter.
Excitement for everyone, all year round
Abu Dhabi's sandscapes offer endless opportunities for dune buggies and sand surfing, while the thrills of the world's largest indoor theme park, Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi on Yas Island, will create memories to last a lifetime. Minutes away discover the world-famous Yas Marina F1 Circuit and indoor adventures at CLYMB and Ferrari World Abu Dhabi.
A calendar of events for everyone to enjoy
Abu Dhabi is a global hub for events, with an action-packed calendar that has something for everyone to enjoy. Recently hosting the first-ever NBA games in the region, as well as sold-out UFC and WBA boxing title fights, Abu Dhabi also enchanted families and younger visitors with the Middle East debut of the internationally renowned Broadway show, Disney's The Lion King musical, as well as the captivating Disney on Ice.
Looking ahead, music lovers have so much to get excited about, with performances by Andrea Bocelli, Post Malone, Imagine Dragons, Blackpink, Sting and John Legend, with Kendrick Lamar and Swedish House Mafia headlining concerts at the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Pictured below: the peaceful Al Ain Oasis, indoor fun at Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, wildlife safaris on Sir Bani Yas Island and the award-winning Emirati flavours of Mezlai at Emirates Palace. With so many experiences that inspire, excite and restore, there is something for everyone in Abu Dhabi and so much waiting to be discovered, at your own pace.
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City of Eau Claire explores local vehicle registration fee
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The City of Eau Claire is looking at instituting a local vehicle registration fee, commonly referred to as a wheel tax.
The city hosted an informational session for community members on Thursday, March 9 to learn more about the local vehicle registration fee.
The proposed ordinance is for a $30 annual fee. Eau Claire City Engineer David Solberg says that would generate $1.5 million per year for street projects within the city.
He says the improvement projects would focus on maintaining the city’s primary roads.
“Birch Street is an example. We’ve taken many complaints about Birch Street this winter with the freeze and thaw we’ve had lately. That street is prematurely distressing. That’s not in our program from the next five years, and it’s going to be a terribly expensive project. A local vehicle registration fee would help us address that,” said Solberg.
The vehicle registration fee is on the March 14 council agenda for a first reading, with consideration for passage on March 28. If the ordinance passes, the city can begin getting revenue from it on July 1.
Eau Claire County already has a $30 wheel tax. Solberg says that money largely goes to the county highway system. He says the city’s local vehicle registration fee would be used only for city roads.
If the city council does not pass the ordinance, Solberg says fewer street projects will be done this year and next year. He says the city typically spends between $6 and $10 million each year for streets projects.
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After leading efforts to significantly improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area for the last five years, Justin Behrens is stepping down as executive director and CEO of Keystone Mission.
Behrens, 44, said the board of directors of the mission has been in the process of searching for a replacement, but he publicly announced his decision to resign on the Keystone Mission Facebook page Monday because word was spreading and he wanted to offer an explanation.
He and his wife, Liza Behrens, moved to State College about two and a half years ago after she accepted a position as a nursing professor in research at Penn State University, and the commute has become too much for him, Behrens said in a phone interview Monday.
"It was her time to shine and do God's calling and go where she needed to go," Behrens said. "This decision was for family (reasons). If I was still living there, I would continue with Keystone because it's something I helped grow and make positive changes for the homeless in some major ways."
Keystone Mission began providing food to homeless individuals off the back of a box truck in Scranton in 2005 and opened its first first buildings at 8–12 W. Olive St. in Scranton in 2007. In 2008, a donor enabled Keystone Mission to buy a building at 290 Parkview Circle in Wilkes-Barre with the intent of housing a long-term men’s residential addiction recovery program.
In 2009, both locations focused on "Message and a Meal," which provided a hot meal and a gospel presentation on the weekends (Friday to Monday), and food- and clothing-distribution programs.
Ten years later, the Board of Directors brought on Behrens, a licensed social worker with a master's degree, and the mission "refined its focus to provide help and hope to men and women who are broken and experiencing homelessness in Northeast Pennsylvania," according to the mission website — keystonemission.org.
Under Behrens' oversight, all distribution programs were discontinued to restructure staff and resources toward providing programs to educate, train and teach men and women how to build themselves up, with assistance from local social services agencies.
The Scranton facility became The Innovation Center for Homeless and Poverty, where programs empower and equip guests to better themselves by taking steps to seek medical, mental health and drug/alcohol treatment; education and job readiness training; housing assistance; and aid to obtain government IDs, health insurance and social security benefits.
The Wilkes-Barre facility reopened in November as a 15-bed transformation center that takes men off the street and places them in a controlled environment with the purpose of equipping them to turn their lives around.
A new drop-in center for homeless individuals, transitional housing for homeless families and men, and a permanent "code blue" overnight shelter that will operate from November through March, soon will open in the former Thomas C. Thomas building on East Union Street in Wilkes-Barre.
"With God's guidance, Justin has led us to a place where we can focus on the mission of helping the homeless, and he's led us to a much better place than we were financially," Mary Wood, chairwoman of the Board of Trustees, said in a phone interview.
"I'm very sad to see him go," Wood said. "Speaking on behalf of the board, we're very grateful for the time he's been with us."
Wood said the board has been conducting a regional search for a new executive director and has found "several very qualified candidates."
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Lawmakers' agendas would ordinarily be too stodgy a subject to interest drag performers. So it was an ominous sign last December when Eureka O'Hara opened her "Big Mawma" music video with what was meant to sound like a news report about Republicans from her home state of Tennessee fixating on "deceptive claims about young transgender children having gender-affirming surgeries."
"Well, it's the truth," O'Hara reasons over Zoom about her decision to use that current event reference as a 13-second intro. The rest of the clip depicts transgender coming-out narratives — partially inspired by her public acknowledgement of her own trans womanhood the same day as the video drop — and the allyship of plus-sized, cis women over her track's militantly anthemic electro-pop.
Over the first three months of 2023, the Republican supermajority in the Tennessee legislature has fashioned the alarmist narrative about trans youth that served as a grim backdrop for O'Hara's on-screen defiance of transphobia into a raft of restrictive legislation. Those lawmakers have been pushing through a sweeping collection of bills that crack down not only drag shows, but may imperil the performing careers of singers and instrumentalists who don't do drag at all, but happen to be nonbinary, transgender or gender-nonconforming, while also eroding the rights of trans youth, adults and their families in crucial education and healthcare matters.
The first two to clear the Tennessee senate and house and get signed into law by Governor Bill Lee deny minors access to gender-affirming healthcare and ban "male and female impersonators" from taking the stage on public property or where anyone under 18 could be present, effectively categorizing drag as sexually explicit adult entertainment that's harmful to minors. On top of those measures, Republican lawmakers are advancing a bill that will further limit drag by requiring professional performers to obtain permits, another allowing government employees to refuse to solemnize same-sex marriages on the basis of religious beliefs and a third that would legally define gender as a male-female binary prescribed by a person's anatomy at birth. Still another under consideration would prevent insurance companies that cover gender transition treatment anywhere in the U.S. from working with Tennessee's Medicaid program, TennCare.
Tennessee is hardly the only state where Republicans are erecting such obstructions around the lives of LGBTQIA+ residents. That's nearly become a national obsession among conservatives this legislative session. Similar drag bills are in the works in Kentucky and elsewhere; Arkansas, Florida, Utah, South Dakota, Alabama and Mississippi have also already put a stop to gender-affirming care for youth; North Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, Georgia, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas are debating their own legislation, often targeting not only transgender healthcare, but athletics too.
Still, Tennessee's actions are notable for how aggressive they are — according to the Human Rights Campaign, they outnumber those of many other states — and for how they'll impact Nashville's lucrative and widely watched music industry. Given how many of country's leading women have served as judges on RuPaul's Drag Race — roughly half a dozen and counting — it's not surprising that there are murmurs of concern about the fate of drag in certain corners of the country mainstream. But the implications for musicians of many stripes means the worry's spread all around. It could disrupt numerous other scenes: those populated with young, queer voices; or those inclined toward activism; or those that pride themselves on their independence. Pop stars could be deterred from bringing their tours to Music City, or going there to make use of its infrastructure, work with its seasoned pros or brush up against its history. It's hard to imagine an entertainment town thriving when LGBTQIA+ expression, a prime mover in popular culture always and everywhere, gets constricted. Nonbinary roots singer-songwriter Adeem the Artist forecasts a drain of talent and influence: "The strength of Nashville is going to only diminish from here out," they say, "especially as the world develops beyond it."
A lot left open to interpretation
Republican leaders who championed the new drag law have repeatedly insisted that their fundamental motivation is protecting children, not attacking the queer community, and that the statute's purview is clear and easy to enforce. Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, who drafted the anti-drag bill, tweeted that the bill "gives confidence to parents that they can take their kids to a public or private show and will not be blindsided by a sexualized performance."
But legal experts like Kathy Sinback, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, point to dangerous ambiguity in lawmakers' choice of wording. The fact that the statute names "male and female impersonators," rather than drag queens and kings, she notes, opens the door to conflating the art and craft of dressing in drag with the everyday embodiment of transgender, nonbinary or gender-nonconforming people, music-makers included.
"It is definitely broad enough to include trans people," Sinback observes. "I think the intent is to be able to enforce it against anyone who [legislators] feel is not complying with the gender norms that they think they should be exhibiting. Anyone who's dressed as a sex that they were not assigned at birth is a 'male or female impersonator' in their point of view."
Another aspect of the law Sinback thinks is left far too open to interpretation is the settings to which it applies. Though Republican lawmakers made clear that curbing Pride festivals in their communities is a specific priority, she says, the way the statute's written casts a much wider net: "It's so broad as to be able to be enforced in most places, depending on who wants to enforce it and their beliefs. It can be basically any venue. It could [apply to] somebody's house if [the performance] could be seen through a window, potentially, by a minor.
Attorney Abby Rubenfeld, who specializes in LGBTQ family law and testified against the bill in front of a house committee, warned that it will certainly be challenged as unconstitutional. "A law is unconstitutionally vague criminal law if it doesn't give people specific notice of what behavior is prohibited," she explains, seated behind her desk in a law office housed in a century-old, converted brick bungalow.
At odds with the entertainment industry, past and present
At least so far, pushback from the entertainment sector on economic grounds hasn't really fazed the Volunteer State's Republican legislators. Not when a proprietor of Nashville's two most prominent gay bars, Play and Tribe, and its popular, touristy transportainment venture, The Big Drag Bus, appealed to a house committee to take into account the revenue generated by those businesses. Nor when more than 200 companies, among them leading country management, publicity and marketing firms, booking agencies, publishing outfits and record labels, signed the Tennessee Pride Chamber's letter to the governor. Its closing plea, that Lee veto the drag bill because it's "bad for our economy" and "our soul," went unheeded.
The same politicians who are portraying the drag law as a triumph of traditional family values over a perceived new moral threat appear equally uninterested in the tradition of drag even in their own state. "It's not like drag just popped up in 2023," says historian Philip Staffelli-Suel. He's found newspaper accounts of forms of it that predate the Civil War, at circus and theater engagements that catered to middle-class families, no less.
Staffelli-Suel can reel off names of numerous drag-hosting establishments that have coexisted with various eras of country tourism in Nashville's downtown entertainment district since the dawn of the 1970s. In the '90s, a country drag spot right on Lower Broadway was where Reba McEntire first enjoyed her consummate impersonator, the late Coti Collins, who eventually landed a role in a pyrotechnics-aided production stunt on McEntire's tour. As of 2021, a side street less than two miles away bears the name of Bianca Paige, a drag queen who was a local leader in raising funds and awareness at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
When the initial two bills became law in early March, a coalition of artists and industry professionals, convened by Allison Russell, immediately began plotting to put on shows benefiting organizations that work on the behalf of LGBTQIA+ Tennesseeans, like Tennessee Equality Project and Inclusion Tennessee. They were able to book 16 drag queens and kings and nearly two dozen musical artists — Mya Byrne, Brittany Howard, Jason Isbell, Hayley Williams, Julien Baker, Joy Oladokun, Autumn Nicholas, Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne, Adeem and more — for last night's Love Rising concert at Bridgestone Arena. The impressive lineup not only brought together an array of pop, indie-rock, Americana and country performers, some of whom move in overlapping orbits, but not all of whom would ordinarily share the same stage — it counted as the state's largest gathering to date of LGBTQIA+ people and allies who oppose the legislation, reinforcing for the thousands that packed the arena that they, too, speak for the Volunteer State.
Show organizers were in a hurry to beat the April 1 deadline, after which the drag ban goes into effect and an event like that, in front of an audience of all ages, would likely be out of the question for the Bridgestone. The arena's one of many prominent Nashville venues that allow minors at least some of the time. The venerable Ryman Auditorium, where Ashley McBryde recently brought her cleverly downhome and colorful Lindeville Live musical theater piece for two consecutive nights with drag queens in the cast, is another.
"We have to protect these people too"
Drkmttr Collective, the smallest venue to sign the letter to the governor, wears its teen-friendly status on its exterior. Adhered to the window of its strip mall storefront is a sticker of a cartoon angel beaming goofily over the words "all ages." "When we say 'all ages,' " clarifies Olivia Scibelli, one of the owners, as she jiggles her keys in the lock and coaxes the door open, "we do mean all ages. It always has been such a safe space for any human being, regardless of how you look or who you're with. As long as you're not hurting anybody, you're welcome here."
Drkmttr has already survived longer than many other independent, all-ages spots in Nashville, thanks to its resourceful, DIY approach and commitment to adapting to meet local needs; besides shows, they've hosted community organizing and reading groups and mutual aid efforts.
Scibelli looks slightly perplexed when asked what portion of the shows they've booked might defy the new law. She has no estimated percentage to offer: "For us, it's more of just, like, all the time."
"I mean, we have trans entertainers in here all the time," she elaborates. "We have nonbinary people, people who dress in drag. We are here for the community in whatever capacity, whether it's to blow off some steam at a metal show or to have a safe space to walk a ball and have some drag."
The new law won't change that, she vows. "But I also want to maintain the idea that we have to protect these people, too. So if we had a drag show, I don't want to just get the drag queens arrested. You have to stand in front of them and protect them."
"So, arrest me," she challenges with a burst of mischievous laughter. It's gallows humor, but a scenario she may have to seriously consider in the days to come.
"It's because it affects me as a human being."
At the Bluebird Cafe, the storied home of the most Nashville of all performing formats, the writers' round, seasoned songsmiths take turns singing unadorned renditions of their compositions for multi-generational crowds in an atmosphere of rapt, reverent listening, enforced when necessary by shushing staff. Cidny Bullens played the final March 2020 round there before the pandemic shutdown. Now he's worried about legal prohibitions against him returning to share his songs. "Does this [new law] mean that I can't play the Bluebird because I'm a trans person in Nashville?" he asks during a Zoom interview, letting the question hang heavily in the air. "The way it's worded, it's a draconian [law]. Basically, it might as well say that you have to dress as your birth gender."
Bullens has been in the music business for half a century. Early on, he grew acutely aware of the scrutiny of certain performers' outward gender expression in certain climates. He knew from age three that he was a boy in a girl's body, and dressed accordingly. That continued when he got a big break in the '70s singing backup for Elton John in stadiums, and labored to build a solo career with a rousingly kinetic stage presence, his style "to swing a Les Paul and jump off pianos and not be frilly." Back then, the industry still viewed him as a woman, and the androgyny that suited him personally didn't boost his professional image the way it did some cis male rockers of the era. "It was difficult to move through the world as who I was, but I couldn't be anything different," he recalls. "I lost record deals because I wouldn't dress like a woman. I lost professionally because I wouldn't conform."
By the time that Bullens transitioned in 2011, he was 61 years old and had drifted away from his rock origins toward deep involvement in the Nashville singer-songwriter community, clicking with similarly searching veterans of country and Americana renown. The Refugees, his folk trio with Wendy Waldman and Deborah Holland, simply adjusted its old way of billing itself as an all-woman lineup. Though he had never been much for pointedly topical writing, he began to embrace autobiographical work, giving documentary interviews and shaping a one-person show.
Sharing his account of what it was like being perceived as a woman even as he carried certainty about his male identity with him through decades of music-making, marriage and parenting has taken on even greater importance, as Republicans justify their legislation by characterizing the desire to transition as the whim of confused people. Through a stirring memoir that comes out in June, TransElectric: My Life As a Cosmic Rock Star, and speaking engagements around it, Bullens is further fleshing out his lived testimony. "As I say in the book, I was putting a bomb in the middle of my life, but I couldn't not do it," he says of his decision to live openly as a transgender man. "Because it's who I am. It's who I've always been. I feel like I am in the right place in my life. And so that's, I think, the power of my story — not just protesting on the street. There are other people who are much better at the political speech and the advocacy than I am. I have a story to tell."
What Bullens is unsure of is whether he'll stick around in Nashville, where he and his wife bought a house in 2020, to do that: "I mean, do you think I want to live there if I can't perform there? If living in the state of Tennessee further restricts my being, why would I live there? And it's not because I would be running away from the problem. It's because it affects me as a human being. I'm not 21; I'm not 31; I'm not 41. I'm an elder now. Where am I going to live the rest of my life? Where am I going to be free to be who I am?"
He's not the only one contemplating leaving Tennessee. Adeem the Artist has been measuring the kind of upbringing they want to give their young kid, who they describe as having "a very elastic understanding of gender," against tightening constraints in their home state. Already Adeem's had a foretaste of a selective and subjective crackdown; last year, at a festival near Knoxville, they were hurried off stage mid-set, and later learned that they'd been accused of "talking about sexually explicit things in front of children," on account of singing a dreamy, bashful song about kissing a guy, mentioning they/them pronouns and wearing a romper. They don't want to also be denied future chances to provide their child with a different type of festival experience that they shared last year: watching a Dolly Parton impersonator together. "It was a really sweet and important moment I was grateful to give my kid," they explain. "And the idea that somebody's bigotry could restrict my freedom to take my kid to an event like that, to expose them to an artistic expression, is just bewildering."
"It is a long-term issue for the state that will cause serious repercussions moving forward, because the rest of the world is going to continue to explore a deeper understanding of gender," they go on. "The people of this state will grow up without that representation, without the language. My kid asks other kids what their pronouns are. It's the same as asking someone what their name is. And the reality is, whether you like that or not, that's the future. That is where we're heading."
Moving their family beyond the reach of the legislation won't keep them from returning to the Volunteer State and wearing whatever feels right on stage. The only modifications they intend to make are to safeguard those who remain behind. "I will be at regional protests around Tennessee with drag queens and other performers as I'm available," they promise. "If safety was my primary concern, I would not be an openly nonbinary, queer musician taking shots at Toby Keith within the country music world. I will collaborate with venues where possible to make shows 18 and up. I expect to make those concessions where necessary to embolden the businesses and the communities that need protection here."
"We're going to fight it with our art"
Houston Kendrick began interrogating the traditional models of masculinity he was surrounded with while growing up and growing into his musical inclinations in suburban Alabama. When he arrived to study and pursue music in Nashville — where sturdy, proven templates are frequently favored over conceptual daring and the smoothest path to professional success is set aside for straight, white, cis men bound for the country music machine — his devotion to refining his artistic identity as an expansive pop and R&B ruminator, unafraid to experiment, was inherently a bit transgressive. It helped that he could look elsewhere — to the elegance, interiority and queerness of Frank Ocean, and the vivid, virtuosic and liberatory fluidity of the Black and brown drag ballroom legends of New York City immortalized in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.
"I think that being Black and gay, I always feel that there is something more to prove," Kendrick reflects. "But I've really enjoyed the opportunity to create and grow and mature here, specifically because this is a pressure cooker for people like me. Access isn't easily granted. You have to really believe in yourself and you have to believe in the art and the message that you want to convey. And I would not have been able to garner that kind of tenacity and endurance anywhere else. I really am grateful to Nashville. I'm grateful because I think that I have changed lots of minds, and I think I'm going to change a lot more minds."
On his self-released 2021 album Small Infinity, stocked with airily arresting melodies and deft, moody shifts in tone of voice, Kendrick made room for owning and exploring his many sides, sketching his inner life, validating his youthful restlessness and teasing out unbounded desire. He also began working on a short film to accompany it. The video for his song "Concrete" has been in the works for two and a half years, and completed for at least one. Kendrick was impatient to release it, and his team's search for label or distribution partners delayed the process. But he's realized that, coming from a Nashville-repping visionary, its arrival later this week, on March 23, will register greater meaning; it depicts his inner life as a drag ball.
First he serves a masc look, "sort of like a little bit worker, overalls, Timbs, bandana, gold chains, just giving you real the Southern type." Then he walks femme, "in this long, flowy, satin, caftan moment with pearls everywhere." In the clip's culminating scenes, he inhabits a third persona, dressed in purple and transcending both of the others. "So basically, the entire concept is how we coalesce the masculine and feminine without shame, because I think there's room for both of those things in all of us," he explains. "There is no binary, actually, at [the end]. There is just soaking up all that love in all this that is going on within me."
Kendrick's most lavish exploration of drag to date coincides with his resolve to grow even bolder in response to Tennessee's new laws. "I guess I'm just gonna have to be a little bit louder," he muses. "Is it crazy that I still have this sense of optimism? I feel like we're in a renaissance of trans and queer creativity right now."
"There's this continued attempt to make people illegal, to make people feel unsafe, unworthy, undervalued and invisible. We're going to fight it with our art, with our voices, with our bodies if we have to."
Fixing it for the next generation
Ellen Angelico, a top-flight guitarist who's been active on the Nashville circuit for just over a dozen years, realizes that the state's Republican lawmakers probably have no concept of why the sort of advocacy Kendrick pledges is so vital. She says, "They don't see the Nashville that I see."
She recognized from the beginning of her Tennessee tenure that her queerness and, as she playfully puts it, "gender amorphous" presentation made seeking out solidarity and forging like-minded alliances just as essential as leaning into her nimble musicianship and deeply knowledgeable appreciation of country ancestors. The decor of her condo living room reflects that range: one wall holds vinyl LPs by Roger Miller, mid-20th century archetype of mischievously and masterfully witty songcraft; another displays posters from the girl-group tribute shows where she's led bands assembled from the indie underground, the roots scene and teen rock camps alike; yet another commemorates one of the big concerts she's played with the contemporary country star Cam. (Full disclosure: Angelico and I have taken a dive bar stage together as part of the backing band for a country drag show.)
Angelico's strategizing quickly took on an organized form. She made a flow chart to guide conscientious decision-making about which side gigs to take. It prompts her to evaluate everything from the quality of the music and travel accommodations to the quality of artist's character (sample question: "Are they a known racist?") Then there's a spreadsheet she shares around town that lists dozens of top-tier pros she's worked with who too often get passed over on the basis of their gender, gender variance, sexuality, race or age.
"I just want to connect people to the people they may not see," she reasons. "The real solution to that problem lives a lot higher up the food chain than me. But I've got to do what I can."
Over the years, Angelico's grown far less willing to accommodate anyone's expectation that she take on a femme appearance on stage. She scrolls through her phone in search of photographic evidence of a long-ago night when she let members of a band she was playing with pick out her look.
"You want to talk about banning drag?" she teases. "I'll show you drag."
In the old backstage photo on her screen, she's unrecognizable.
"Like, this is just not a nice outfit: a crop top and tight jeans with the boots on the outside and lots of sparkles and big hair!"
Those days of dress up are long gone. Angelico pressed onward in her career, getting an instrumentalist of the year nod at the 2020 Americana Awards, as her musically accomplished, genuinely butch self. "I can just show up in a black T-shirt and jeans and fade into any band as long as I don't open my mouth," she says. "There are so many people like me that don't have that choice, people who have the exact same skill set that I do, but are Black or they are more visibly trans than I am."
She's spent the last few weeks conferring with a member of the Metro Human Relations Commission who's transgender and firing off emails to state representatives, but her highest priority right now is encouraging the artistic leanings of the city's LGBTQIA+ youth. "The only way that I know to fix it for the next generation is just to continue showing up and being myself," she says, while packing a lunch to take to her job at an East Nashville music store. "I'm going to Fanny's [House of Music] here in a couple of minutes, and there's going to be a kid that comes in and sees me in the fullness of myself in that store and maybe feels like, 'OK, there's an adult who looks like me, who feels that they have permission to be creative. So I have permission to be creative.' "
Finding people further down the road to self-acceptance was what really turned things around for Eureka O'Hara as she stood on the cusp of adulthood in her Johnson City hometown. She lost friends and endured bullying and banishment from church before being embraced by the local drag community. Veteran performer Jacqueline St. James became her drag mother. "It created a family for me, and a place to belong in East Tennessee," recalls O'Hara. "Everywhere else I went, I did not feel safe and I had to hide a lot of who I was. But not there; not in drag."
Her professional opportunities multiplied after her memorable runs on seasons nine and 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race and season 6 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. But none excited her more than the prospect of joining two other queens, Shangela and Bob the Drag Queen, on another series, We're Here. Each episode begins with a self-aware conceit where the three arrive like glamorous aliens landing in potentially hostile landscapes (i.e. culturally conservative towns). From there, they proceed to meet the locals, make LQGBTIA+ folks in their midst feel seen, heard and less alone and stage zealously uplifting drag shows for everyone. Says O'Hara, "I wanted a job where I could give back to communities like mine that need it."
It's not lost on her that this showcase of drag's therapeutic and communal sides is the absolute opposite of the picture Tennessee Republicans are painting: "I wish that some of those people would just watch an episode of We're Here, you know, watch RuPaul's Drag Race, watch anything that humanizes queer people, so they can realize that we're just like them."
O'Hara's career has taken her far from the South, but she feels it's more important than ever to return to her home club in Johnson City, New Beginnings, and be there "with bells on, looking fabulous, to show them my appreciation for keeping me alive."
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Walt Disney World to welcome wish kids from across the country at "Once Upon A Wish Party," a special princess-themed ball just for wish families to be held during the company's World Princess Week celebrations taking place August 20-26.
Disney reveals first wish as part of the event to a Florida first grader during final week of the school year.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Walt Disney World and Make-A-Wish® are announcing the "Once Upon A Wish Party," a special all-day royal experience being dreamed up just for wish families, and revealed the first wish as part of this event to a Florida first grader from the Orange County Public School district.
Minnie Mouse, Disney cast members and Make-A-Wish surprised 7-year-old Scarlett from Ventura Elementary School in Kissimmee, Fla. with the news her wish for a "Disney Princess experience" was coming true. A lifelong fan of Disney Princesses, Scarlett was surrounded by nearly 100 of her fellow first grade classmates and teachers, as well as her family.
"She's going to have this super special experience and be able to go to the royal ball as a princess … I know she's going to enjoy every single second of it," Scarlett's mom said. "To see her happy and completely fulfilled is every mother's dream. It means so much that she'll be able to experience life as a normal kid at a theme park where we don't have to think about a lot of the medical stuff that has consumed our lives in the past."
When she was just a baby, Scarlett's family learned she would need a heart transplant. After undergoing many surgeries and a transplant at 18 months old, school was always a place of comfort for her after so much time in the hospital, so Disney and Make-A-Wish teamed up to make this surprise happen earlier this week just before school let out for the summer.
"Disney is the largest wish granter in the world, and over our more than 40-year relationship, we've granted some pretty incredible wishes together," said Leslie Motter, Make-A-Wish America President and CEO. "Whatever Disney does, they go all out. I can't wait to see the new happy memories Scarlett and our other attending wish families will be able to make at what is sure to be an unforgettable event."
This first-of-its-kind wish event will take place during the company's World Princess Week celebration from August 20-26. In addition to Scarlett, wish families across the country will be invited for surprises from dusk to dawn, including tea and treats, immersive Disney character meet and greets, and a ball they're sure to remember forever.
This initiative follows the resort's World Wish Day efforts where the 150,000th Disney-inspired wish was granted to 16-year-old Mikayla from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. More on Disney's longstanding relationship with Make-A-Wish can be found at wish.org/Disney and more on Disney's impact in Florida at DisneyFlorida.com.
Walt Disney World Resort: Walt Disney World Resort is a world-class entertainment and recreation destination featuring four of the most popular theme parks from around the globe, two thrilling water parks, nearly 29,000 hotel rooms, a sports complex, several golf courses and Disney Springs — a metropolis of shopping, dining and entertainment. Since 1971, Walt Disney World has focused on delivering legendary guest service and one-of-a-kind experiences that make it the number one vacation destination in the world where families create magical memories.
Make-A-Wish America: Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Founded in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is the #1 most trusted nonprofit operating locally in all 50 states throughout the U.S. Together with generous donors, supporters, staff and more than 24,000 volunteers across the country, Make-A-Wish delivers hope and joy to children and their families when they need it most. Make-A-Wish aims to bring the power of wishing to every child with a critical illness because wish experiences can help improve emotional and physical health. Since 1980, Make-A-Wish has granted more than 550,000 wishes in 50 countries worldwide; more than 360,000 wishes in the U.S. and its territories alone. For more information about Make-A-Wish America, visit wish.org.
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Panel rules Justice Dept. improperly withheld memo in Russia probe
(AP) - The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly withheld portions of an internal memorandum Barr cited in publicly announcing that then-President Donald Trump had not committed obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation, a federal appeals panel said Friday.
The department had argued that the 2019 memo represented the private deliberations of its own lawyers before any decision had been formalized and was therefore exempt from disclosure. A federal judge previously disagreed, ordering the Justice Department to provide it to a government transparency group that had sued for it, prompting an appeal last year by the Biden administration to a higher court.
Attorneys for the Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to an email message seeking comment on the ruling. The department can appeal the ruling to the full court.
At issue in the case is a March 24, 2019, memorandum from the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC, and another senior department official that was prepared for Barr to evaluate whether evidence in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation could support an obstruction of justice prosecution of the president.
Barr has said that he looked to that opinion in concluding that Trump did not illegally obstruct the Russia probe.
The Justice Department turned over other documents to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as part of the group’s lawsuit but declined to give it the memo. Government lawyers said they were entitled under public records law to withhold the memo because it reflected internal deliberations among lawyers before any formal decision had been reached on what Mueller’s evidence showed.
But U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said last year that those arguments were disingenuous because the memo was prepared for Barr at about the same time as a separate Justice Department letter informing Congress and the public that Barr and other senior department leaders concluded that Trump had not obstructed justice.
She said the memo could therefore not have been “predecisional” in nature if the Justice Department had already decided that there would be no obstruction case.
The government said it had indeed already concluded that there would be no obstruction prosecution since Justice Department legal opinions say a sitting president cannot be indicted. But it said the memo concerned a separate issue: whether the evidence Mueller had collected could support a conclusion that Trump had obstructed justice.
In its ruling Friday, the appellate panel wrote that, had Justice Department officials made clear to the court that the memo related to Barr’s decision on making a public statement about the report, rulings in the case may have been different.
“Because the Department did not tie the memorandum to deliberations about the relevant decision, the Department failed to justify its reliance on the deliberative-process privilege,” according to the ruling, by an unsigned panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Barr and other senior officials concluded that Trump’s actions didn’t amount to obstruction, and the attorney general shared that assessment with Congress soon after the memo was complete. Mueller’s team did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump had obstructed justice.
Appellate judges also noted that their ruling was “narrow,” saying that it should not be interpreted to “call into question any of our precedents permitting agencies to withhold draft documents related to public messaging.”
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OLATHE, Kan., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Deere & Company has released the names of eight companies chosen for its 2023 Startup Collaborator program. The Startup Collaborator was launched in 2019 and helps John Deere enhance precision technology in its agriculture and construction equipment.
"This year's group shows the importance of connecting with the startup community across a broad range of applications and technologies," said Julian Sanchez, director of emerging technology at John Deere. These connections help John Deere better understand opportunities to advance precision technology in agriculture and construction."
The eight companies participating in the 2023 Startup Collaborator include:
Albedo, a startup company developing low-flying satellites that will collect visible and thermal imagery at ultra-high resolution.
ANELLO Photonics, a company that is disrupting the navigation industry with their Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope, a low-noise and low-drift optical gyroscope smart sensor for autonomous applications.
GrAI Matter Labs is in the business of Life-Ready AI – artificial intelligence that feels alive, delivering brain-inspired chips that behave like humans do and makes devices assisting humans act, and react, in real time.
Impossible Sensing, an aerospace company developing and applying space technology to the agriculture industry to help the world become carbon neutral.
IntelliCulture, a company providing farm equipment management software that helps drive sustainable farming practices through actionable insights, efficiency improvements and risk mitigation.
Precision AI, a startup that's creating the world's first artificial intelligence-powered agricultural drones for plant-level herbicide applications at broad-acre scale.
RodRadar, a company transforming excavation. Its Live Dig Radar™ technology provides real-time, on-site, automatic alerts to prevent damage to underground utility infrastructure during excavation.
Vega is the window that certifies agribusiness sustainability to the world. Supporting sustainable production, Vega impacts the entire agri-food chain through traceability, risk analysis and monitoring of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices.
"The Startup Collaborator is an exciting way for big ideas to grow into something larger," said Michele Kaiser, business development manager for the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group. "As John Deere continues searching for new and interesting ideas, we can add value to our customers – even if we're not sure exactly how that might look. We are trying to help farmers solve big challenges in efficient ways. To do this, we need access to a lot of great ideas, so it's exciting to welcome these companies into the 2023 Startup Collaborator cohort and to see what we can learn from each other by working together."
The Startup Collaborator, now in its fifth year and includes notable alumni such as Bear Flag Robotics, and Hello Tractor. In 2021, Bear Flag Robotics was acquired by John Deere to support the company's autonomous tractor solutions. In 2022, John Deere also invested in Hello Tractor, a company that connects tractor owners with smallholder farmers through a farm-equipment sharing app.
Deere & Company (www.JohnDeere.com) is a global leader in the delivery of agricultural, turf, construction, and forestry equipment. We help our customers push the boundaries of what's possible in ways that are more productive and sustainable to help life leap forward. Our technology-enabled products including John Deere Autonomous 8R Tractor, See & Spray™, and E-Power Backhoe are just some of the ways we help meet the world's increasing need for food, shelter, and infrastructure. Deere & Company also provides financial services through John Deere Financial.
For more information on Deere & Company, visit us at www.deere.com/en/news/.
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities on Thursday said one person was killed and 11 were wounded when Afghan Taliban forces fired mortars toward civilians near the southwestern Chaman border crossing, reflecting increasing tension between the neighboring nations.
The latest violence follows a series of deadly incidents and attacks that have strained relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers in recent months. It was not immediately clear what preceded the shots near Chaman, a key trade route between the two sides.
Thursday's ongoing violence came days after seven Pakistani civilians were killed in the across-border shelling by the Taliban forces. No military spokesman was immediately available for comment and there was also no comment from the Afghan Taliban.
Akhtar Mohammad, a doctor at a hospital in Chaman, said staff there received 12 wounded people following the clashes. One of them later died and some of the injured were listed in critical condition.
Abdul Hameed Zehri, a government administrator in the town of Chaman in Baluchistan province, also confirmed the casualties. Security officials say Pakistan’s army responded to the Afghan fire, but did not give further details.
Authorities say mortars fired by the Afghan Taliban forces also hit a truck near Chaman. They accused the Afghan Taliban forces of intentionally targeting the civilian population, The officials said the exchange of fire had subsided and Pakistani authorities were in contact with the Afghan Taliban rulers in Afghanistan to prevent any further escalation.
Afghanistan’s Taliban seized the Afghan capital of Kabul last year. Since then, the countries have traded fire mainly over lingering disputes about Pakistan's construction of a fence along the Afghan border. Incidents of militant attacks on Pakistani security forces have also increased since the country's new army chief Gen. Asim Munir took the charge on Nov. 29 and replaced Qamar Javed Bajwa.
On Thursday, U.S. CENTCOM chief Gen. Erik Kurilla visited Pakistan and met with Munir in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, according to a military statement. The two military leaders discussed a range of issues, including the regional stability and security cooperation. The statement said Kurilla also visited the northwestern border town of Torkham near Afghanistan.
Earlier this month, Pakistan’s Embassy in Kabul came under gunfire in an attack that was later claimed by the Islamic State group. Pakistani officials at the time had called the incident an attack on its envoy there. Islamabad also has said Afghanistan’s rulers are sheltering militants who carry out deadly attacks on its soil.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida has ramped up executions under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, with a man known as the “ninja killer” set to die Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey.
Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. by lethal injection for the deaths of Robert Sturmfels, 56, and Georgette Sturmfels, 55, on Dec. 20, 1989, in their Flagler County winter home on Florida’s northeast coast. It will be the state's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. There are another 297 people on Florida's death row.
Gaskin, who was dubbed the “ninja killer” because he wore all-black ninja clothing during the crimes, shot his victims with a .22-caliber rifle, investigators said. He was convicted of first-degree murder.
Property that he stole from the Sturmfels' home — a clock, two lamps and a videocassette recorder — was found at his residence and were intended to be Christmas gifts for his girlfriend, according to investigators. He was also convicted of armed robbery, burglary and the attempted murder of another couple who lived nearby that same night.
DeSantis has been signing death warrants at a rapid pace this year as he prepares his widely expected presidential campaign. He only oversaw two executions in his first four years in office, both in 2019.
This execution comes six weeks after Donald Dillbeck, 59, was put to death for the 1990 murder of Faye Vann, 44, in Tallahassee, and three weeks before the scheduled execution of Darryl B. Barwick for slaying Rebecca Wendt, 24, in 1986 in Panama City.
Barring any stays for Gaskin and Barwick, it will be the shortest period three executions have been carried out in Florida since three condemned prisoners were put to death within 36 days in 2014 under then Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
Local media reported at the time that Gaskin quickly confessed to the crimes and told a psychologist before his trial that he knew what he was doing.
“The guilt was always there,” Gaskin said. “The devil had more of a hold than God did. I knew that I was wrong. I wasn’t insane.”
Jurors voted 8-4 in 1990 to recommend the death sentence, which the judge accepted. Florida law now requires a unanimous jury vote for capital punishment, although the Legislature could send DeSantis a bill this week that would allow 8-4 jury recommendations for capital punishment.
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Listen1 minComment on this storyCommentGift ArticleShareA fallen tree closed northbound lanes of the Beltway’s inner loop ahead of the Braddock Road exit early Thursday, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.Drivers should use an alternative route, according to the department.WpGet the full experience.Choose your planArrowRightSpringfield: 495NB (Beltway Inner Loop) before Braddock: All NB lanes closed due to a downed tree. Pls use alternate route. pic.twitter.com/24xGlx1cb0— VDOT Northern VA (@VaDOTNOVA) August 4, 2022 Transportation, infrastructure and the pandemicUnion Station: As Starbucks exits, Union Station struggles with safety, empty storesSafety: Despite signage, D.C. drivers aren’t slowing in school zones, study saysMetro: Agency probes Metro over handling of weekend track-fire incidentCycling: D.C. may end right on red for cars, let cyclists yield at stop signsRoads: Poor, minority communities more likely to have bad roads, study findsComment CommentsGiftOutlineGift ArticleLoading... | https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/08/04/inner-loop-beltway-braddock-tree/ | 2022-08-04 10:16:14 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/08/04/inner-loop-beltway-braddock-tree/ |
WOAH: ‘Stranger Things’ Halloween display has character levitating in mid-air
PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WBBM) – A spooky Halloween decoration in Illinois looks like it’s levitating, but its creators aren’t revealing their secrets.
The jaw-dropping décor was created by a couple who were inspired by “Stranger Things.”
Dave and Aubrey Appel go big every year for Halloween. They begin decorating on Aug. 1, and then work on their display every day after work.
This year, being “Stranger Things” fanatics, they wanted to recreate an iconic scene from the show when the character Max levitates in the air.
“There’s so many people out there who are fanatics like we are,” Dave Appel said. “So, we wanted to make something that was the most iconic scene from the show. Something maybe no one else would try and do.”
A video of the display on TikTok has more than 14.2 million views, leaving people in awe – but also scratching their heads, wondering how this is possible.
“It’s not drones, it’s not helium or balloons,” Dave Appel said. “We just felt like it was more fun to keep it under wraps. The mystery!”
The display even caught the attention of Netflix, commenting on the viral TikTok video and calling the Appels their number one fans.
Aubrey Appel said the attention is amazing, and she wants to continue decorating every year.
“That’s what makes us want to continue is making the kids happy,” she said.
The home in Plainfield is located about 40 miles southwest of Chicago.
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2 rare leopards born at Pittsburgh Zoo
Published: Apr. 29, 2023 at 1:18 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - Two Amur leopard cubs are the latest additions to the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium.
They were born March 18.
Mother Semba, who was also born at the zoo, and the cubs are thriving.
Anyone anxious to see them will have to wait until June though. That’s when they get vaccinated and learn how to navigate the outdoors.
But for now, animal lovers can lend a helping hand in naming them.
For a $5 donation, people can submit name recommendations on the zoo’s website.
The contest is expected to close at the end of May.
Amur leopards are considered one of the rarest subspecies of cats on earth.
There are roughly 100 critically endangered leopards surviving in the wild in their native Russia and China.
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(NEXSTAR) – Some people consider Ebony and Jet magazines the social media for Black people in the 20th century. The magazines kept communities of color informed, and much it was done through pictures.
Now those photographs are getting a second life thanks to a multi-million-dollar purchase that will let the Images live on forever.
Through a camera lens, 85-year-old Roy Lewis produces images, telling a story with a moment captured in time.
“An artist has time to create a sculpture, a painting. But a photographer, we only have seconds. It’s a second,” Lewis said. “I tell people I write with pictures.”
In 1956, Lewis began working at Johnson Publishing Company, JPC, in Chicago. The publisher produced Negro Digest, Jet and Ebony magazines in the mid-1940s, the pioneers in storytelling for black households around the country.
“It represented the mountain, the top of the mountain for black journalists,” Lewis explained.
Within the pages of those magazines, photographers like Lewis made history. Now their camera film rolls live on after the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Getty Research Institute acquired the historic JPC archive.
The collection includes photos, negatives and contact sheets spanning more than seven decades.
“Perhaps my favorite image is this image of Marvin Gaye,” curator Eric Williams said. “Many know his father was a minister.”
Part of the $30 million collection can be seen there in the museum’s Spirit in the Dark exhibition. Black life is seen through historical figures in entertainment, religion and politics. Each camera flash reveals music, activism and pop culture, all connected by common themes.
“They were wrestling with the issues of their own times, and the role of religion was prominent in their stories,” Williams said.
Also in the exhibit are treasures like the typewriter used to transcribe notes for Malcolm X and Little Richard’s coveted bible.
“We see in his highlighting the struggle he had with the religious community around his sexuality,” Williams noted of the piece.
The images shared in the exhibit are only a glimpse of rolls of film containing more than 4 million visuals soon to be made available to the public.
Smithsonian curator Aaron Bryant said that while the collection features a number of photos of famous and widely known individuals in Black history many of the images will really focus on just regular people.
“That’s true across the board,” Bryant explained. “I think it’s really important for people, particularly young people to be able to see themselves somehow. Not just reflected in the photographs but see themselves reflected in the history that the photographs documents.”
The magazines also hold a special place in the hearts of many, providing a generational connection within families.
“I can remember going to the beauty salon with my mother, and the first thing I wanted to get were the Ebony and Jet magazines because they portrayed the black community in very wonderful ways,” Williams recalled.
That passion is now able to be relived thanks to what was captured in the lens.
“You hold these images in your hand, and it’s like a found jewel,” Bryant said.
The bulk of the archives is currently in the process of being digitized in Chicago. The museum hasn’t released specific plans on how they will be presented to the public.
For Lewis, the exhibit is a reminder of his part in sharing history. It was a very big deal to have several pages of photos in Ebony magazine, “It is a real big deal,” he stressed, and as the millions of photos come back into frame, Lewis’ work will likely be among them.
Though he stopped working for JPC in 1968, Lewis continued his work in photography and film. His heart never left the magazine company that captivated millions of people, though, and now possibly millions more through the power of an image. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hidden-history/black-history-month/jpc-archives-sharing-millions-of-images-of-black-culture-with-new-smithsonian-exhibit/ | 2023-01-30 17:02:12 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hidden-history/black-history-month/jpc-archives-sharing-millions-of-images-of-black-culture-with-new-smithsonian-exhibit/ |
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