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SAN FRANCISCO -- Senator Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday said that she is requesting to temporarily step aside from the Senate Judiciary Committee as she continues to recover from shingles. The announcement came after a small but growing number of Democrats called for the 89-year-old to resign from the Senate arguing her absence was stalling the confirmation of President Biden's judicial nominees.
In a statement released by Feinstein's office, the California senator said her return to Washington D.C. has been delayed due to complications related to her shingles diagnosis.
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Feinstein has been out of work since early March. During that time, she has missed 60 votes, including 25 judicial appointments, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"I intend to return as soon as possible once my medical team advises that it's safe," Feinstein said in the statement. "In the meantime, I remain committed to the job and will continue to work from home in San Francisco."
Feinstein then added: "I understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I've asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I'm able to resume my committee work."
There's no word yet on who may be selected to temporarily fill Feinstein's seat, and the process of choosing that person may not be easy. According to the Congressional Research Service, an appointee to a standing committee -- which would include the Judiciary Committee -- must be elected by the entire Senate.
Still, the announcement from Feinstein highlighted the growing sentiment among some Democrats that Feinstein -- who earlier this year announced she would not seek reelection in 2024 -- should resign.
Among those making the call is Bay Area Democratic congressman Ro Khanna. Khanna said the ruling by a conservative judge in Texas last week that put the future of a widely used abortion pill in limbo is an example of why judicial appointments are so important -- and why Democrats need to move fast to confirm President Biden's nominees.
"It's time for @SenFeinstein to resign," Khanna tweeted. "We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties. Not speaking out undermines our credibility as elected representatives of the people."
Soon after, Democratic congressman Dean Phillips from Minnesota tweeted that he agreed with Khanna, calling it a "dereliction of duty" for Feinstein to stay in the job.
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"It's particularly painful to them in the judiciary committee where Feinstein is a member, because to advance judges and judicial appointments out of that committee, you need to have a majority vote," Joe Garofoli, a senior political writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, told ABC7 News. "Without Feinstein's vote, you don't have a majority."
In an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday, Congresswoman Katie Porter, who is running to replace Feinstein in the Senate, declined to say Feinstein should resign but said she should be removed from the Judicial Committee.
"I think the solution on the judges portion is to have her removed from her committee, if she's not able to do her service," Porter said. "I think that's something she can talk about with majority Leader Chuck Schumer. I think they'll chart a path together."
Notably, no member of the Senate has called for Feinstein to resign and on Wednesday high-profile allies of the senator came to her defense.
"All of those people raising all those questions should be far more respectful of the more than 40 years of quality service provided to the voters of this state by Dianne Feinstein," former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown said of Feinstein. "Senator Feinstein has been elected. She's been entitled to the job, and believe me when you are elected to something you are expected to serve."
Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi also defended Feinstein, telling ABC7 News on Wednesday that Feinstein "deserves the respect to get well and be back on duty." She suggested sexism could be at play.
"I don't know what political agendas are at work that are going after Senator Feinstein in that way," Pelosi said, adding: "I've never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way."
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Feinstein's supporters point out that the Senate has a long history of accommodating members who are sick or elderly and that Feinstein deserves the same respect.
"Remember, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator John McCain being gone for long stretches of time as they dealt with what ended up being terminal illnesses," ABC News Political Director Rick Klein told our sister station in Los Angeles. "And that was a fact of life in the Senate that you just had one less vote on that side and that you didn't have that senator."
Garofoli said it would be difficult -- and unlikely -- to see Feinstein's fellow Democratic senators calling for her resignation.
"She has built up a lifetime of respect among her fellow democrats there," Garofoli said, "And they basically don't pick on your own, if you will."
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The father of a Russian girl sent to an orphanage after drawing an anti-war sketch at school has been extradited from Belarus back to Russia, a human rights group reported Wednesday. He faces two years in prison there.
Alexei Moskalyov fled house arrest just before his sentencing hearing last month in the town of Yefremov, south of Moscow. He was detained in Belarus two days later. According to the Belarusian human rights center Viasna, when visitors tried to find Moskalyov in a Belarussian prison on Wednesday, they were told he had been extradited to Russia.
Moskalyov, 54 was charged over social media posts criticizing the war in Ukraine under a law adopted days after Russian troops invaded in February 2022. He rejected the accusations.
In a case that drew international outrage, the father of 13-year-old Maria Moskalyova was convicted of discrediting the Russian military and handed a two-year prison term, while his daughter was dispatched to an orphanage.
According to his lawyer and supporters, Moskalyov’s troubles began after his daughter drew a picture at Yefremov School No. 9 that depicted missiles flying over a Russian flag at a woman and child. The drawing also featured the words “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine.” Moskalyov was fined and convicted over his social media posts.
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(CNN) — FBI Director Christopher Wray is scheduled to speak Wednesday with House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley regarding a dispute over an internal law enforcement document that Republicans believe will shed light into an allegation that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a criminal scheme with a foreign national.
The FBI said it is cooperating and has offered to allow Republicans to see the document but has so far refused to hand it over because it contains raw and unsubstantiated intelligence. Comer, however, has threatened to hold the FBI director in contempt of Congress if the bureau refuses to comply with a subpoena.
The call is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. ET, Comer spokesperson Austin Hacker said.
The document is an FD-1023 form, which the FBI uses to memorialize information gathered from confidential sources. It typically includes allegations from a source that have not been verified by the FBI. According to Comer, the one in question, dated June 30, 2020, says the foreign national allegedly paid $5 million to receive a desired policy outcome, based on unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures.
In a recent letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Comer and Grassley wrote, “It has been alleged that the document includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose.”
The White House has previously dismissed the unverified claim as another one of Republicans’ “unfounded politically-motivated attacks.”
The FBI said it will make the information available to the oversight committee “in a format and setting that maintains confidentiality and protects important security interests and the integrity of FBI investigations.” The FBI also said there are limitations on its ability to share unsubstantiated raw intelligence outside the bureau.
Since taking control of the House earlier this year, Republicans have aggressively pursued Biden and his family, particularly his son Hunter Biden, over allegations that they improperly used the now-president’s political connections to enrich themselves. Earlier this month, Comer alleged that the Biden family received millions of dollars in payments from foreign entities in China and Romania, including when Biden was vice president. The committee does not suggest any illegality about the payments from foreign sources and representatives for the White House and Hunter Biden have dismissed the allegations as politically motivated. | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-politics/fbi-director-scheduled-to-speak-with-congressional-republicans-about-biden-document-dispute/article_b0ceb98e-8100-5bfa-80c9-70c5ef426f80.html | 2023-05-31 16:12:00 | 1 | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-politics/fbi-director-scheduled-to-speak-with-congressional-republicans-about-biden-document-dispute/article_b0ceb98e-8100-5bfa-80c9-70c5ef426f80.html |
POWERHANDZ + PUMA + Champs Sports combined its strength in sports performance to serve the community.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- POWERHANDZ, a global sports and fitness product tech platform transforming the way athletes and the overall fitness community improve skill development, launched in the Champs Sports Homefield's 35,000 square foot new retail concept, which is the largest of the Foot Locker, Inc. subsidiary. The brand has the distinction to be the only black woman owned business sold at Champs Sports Homefield.
Champs Homefield provided the perfect retail and experiential model to curate a unique experience for the community focused on sports and fitness performance. POWERHANDZ led this activation with a surprise appearance by General Partner, NBA All-Star and Rookie of the Year, LaMelo Ball, whose Puma MB.01 collection is also featured.
"Our goal is to transform the way our community thinks about performance by working in tandem with bridge builders like LaMelo who have a tremendous inspirational influence over young athletes and adults who watch him play. Consumers better understand how a performance sneaker combined with sports training innovation, truly elevates your game," said POWERHANDZ CEO, Danyel Surrency Jones.
Fully utilizing the innovative space, POWERHANDZ conducted private training for six local middle school and high school (girls & boys) basketball teams led by LaMelo Ball's trainer and manager Jermaine Jackson and strength & conditioning coach, Mike Fox. Each athlete trained with POWERHANDZ patented weighted anti-grip basketball gloves and weighted heavy basketballs to improve ball-handling skills, while laced up in LaMelo's MB.01 PUMA Collection. Then, LaMelo signed everyone's POWERHANDZ basketballs and Puma sneakers, while guests were entertained with a high-octane performance by McDonald's All American and first POWERHANDZ POWER U & POWER University NIL Athlete, Flau'jae Johnson.
The POWER Takeover Weekend ended with a POWERHANDZ Invitational powered by The Power to Give Foundation which featured 5on5 games led by the Wheelchair Basketball Association and an intense fitness class integrating POWERHANDZ Resistance Bands and POWERFIT Training Gloves now sold in Champs Sports Homefield.
"Being involved in the community and inspiring youth, boys and girls, from all backgrounds is what we are all about.'' said Jermaine Jackson, LaMelo Ball's Manager. "That's why having the Wheelchair Basketball Association included in the POWERHANDZ Invitational was a must."
POWERHANDZ is a global double minority-owned sports and fitness training product tech platform transforming the way athletes and patients improve human performance through the combined use of intelligent sports products, technology, and services for the lifecycle of an athlete. Based out of Frisco, Texas, the brand offers 12+ smart sports products and a technology platform designed for athletes and fitness enthusiasts across multiple sports to improve performance, decrease injury, and aid in recovery. These products are sold in over 87 countries worldwide and are used by athletes of all different skill levels, ranging from youth to professionals. For more information visit http://www.powerhandz.com
Foot Locker, Inc. leads the celebration of sneaker and youth culture around the globe through a portfolio of brands including Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Eastbay, atmos, WSS, Footaction, and Sidestep. With approximately 2,800 retail stores in 28 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, as well as websites and mobile apps, the Company's purpose is to inspire and empower youth culture around the world, by fueling a shared passion for self-expression and creating unrivaled experiences at the heart of the global sneaker community. Foot Locker, Inc. has its corporate headquarters in New York.
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Best Selling Author Jessica Lahey Will Help Parents Understand the Gift of Failure
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents juggling the demands to be practically perfect are encouraged to register for a free webinar hosted by Fusion Education Group with New York Times best-selling author Jessica Lahey who will discuss how when parents give themselves the grace to the fail, their children and family also benefit.
"The path to resilience is more rewarding than the path of perfection," said Lahey. "Giving ourselves the permission to fail is a monumental act. It's ok to make mistakes and incredibly important to impress that lesson on our children."
Lahey is a middle school teacher turned best-selling author of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed and The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence. She will join Fusion Education Group for its monthly webinar. The webinar entitled "Permission to Fail" is free and open to all families, especially those with middle and high schoolers.
- Free webinar: Permission to Fail
- Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
- Time: 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time
- Attendees should register in advance here.
- Channel: Zoom link will be sent upon registration.
This will be a live interactive webinar, with a short intro and questions answered throughout the hour. Lahey speaks to parents, educators, school administrators, coaches, pastors, and community leaders about the science of learning, motivation, engagement, and substance abuse prevention, all in service to the belief that adults have the power to help kids become more autonomous, competent, connected, and fulfilled.
Fusion Education Group is guided by a fundamental belief in the immense potential in every person; its mission is to help each student flourish, academically, socially, and emotionally. Teachers are also mentors and work to create positive, safe, and secure environments where students are emotionally supported.
Fusion hosts monthly webinars free and open to the public that support parents raising middle and high schoolers. In October Fusion hosted a week of virtual college readiness events, including a webinar with New York Times best-selling author Jeff Selingo. Social and emotional health and additional resources can be found here.
About Fusion Education Group:
Fusion Education Group a revolutionary innovator in personalized education and provides accredited personalized education for more than 9,000 middle and high school students at Fusion Academy, through its 80 campuses that offer one-to-one instruction; Barnstable Academy, which offers traditional college-prep in a small school setting in New Jersey; and Fusion Global Academy, which offers one-to-one personalized education through a completely virtual campus that currently serves students in all 50 states and 35 additional countries. Learn more here.
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Navy disciplines officers in massive ship fire
WASHINGTON (AP) — Navy leaders have disciplined more than 20 senior officers and sailors in connection with widespread leadership and other failures that contributed to the July 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard.
The most significant actions were taken against members of the ship’s leadership team, including letters of reprimand and pay cuts for the former commander and executive officer. And Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro issued a letter of censure to retired Vice Adm. Richard Brown, who was the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet at the time of the fire.
The ship was undergoing a two-year, $250 million upgrade pierside in San Diego when the fire broke out. About 115 sailors were on board, and nearly 60 were treated for heat exhaustion, smoke inhalation and minor injuries. The failure to extinguish or contain the fire led to temperatures exceeding 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas, melting sections of the ship into molten metal that flowed into other parts of the ship.
A Navy report last year concluded that the massive five-day blaze was preventable and unacceptable, and that there were lapses in training, coordination, communications, fire preparedness, equipment maintenance and overall command and control. And, while one sailor — Seaman Apprentice Ryan Mays — has been charged with setting the fire, the report found that failings by about three dozen officers and sailors either directly led to the ship’s loss or contributed to it.
“When leaders’ actions or inactions result in the loss of life or capital resources, the senior leadership of the Department of the Navy has a responsibility to determine the root cause and hold those accountable,” Del Toro said in a message sent to the Department of the Navy on June 2. “This fire could have been prevented with adequate oversight into the ship’s material condition and the crew’s readiness to combat a fire.”
The Navy on Friday laid out the disciplinary actions taken by Adm. Samuel Paparo, current commander of Pacific Fleet. In most cases, Paparo issued letters in the sailors’ personnel files that ranged in severity. In many cases a disciplinary letter can be career-ending.
According to the Navy, Paparo gave punitive letters of reprimand and pay forfeitures to Capt. Gregory Scott Thoroman, the ship’s former commanding officer, and to Capt. Michael Ray, the former executive officer. Former Command Master Chief Jose Hernandez was given a punitive letter of reprimand.
Others who received letters in their files were Rear Adm. Scott Brown, who was director of fleet maintenance, and Rear Adm. Eric Ver Hage, commander of the Navy Regional Maintenance Center.
Mays is facing a court martial, and was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel. He has denied setting the fire. Mays set the fire because he was disgruntled after dropping out of Navy SEAL training, prosecutors said. His defense lawyers said there was no physical evidence connecting him to the blaze.
The Navy report on the fire issued last year spread blame across a wide range of ranks and responsibilities, from Brown to senior commanders, lower ranking sailors and civilian program managers. It cited 17 for failures that “directly” led to the loss of the ship, while 17 others “contributed” to the loss of the ship. Two other sailors were faulted for not effectively helping the fire response. Of the 36, nine were civilians.
The report directly faulted the ship’s three top officers — Thoroman, Ray and Hernandez — for not effectively ensuring the readiness and condition of the ship. And it said that the failures of Vice Adm. Brown; Rear Adm. Scott Brown and Ver Hage all “contributed to the loss of the ship.”
The fire marked one of the worst noncombat warship disasters in recent memory and the vessel had to be scrapped. It would cost an estimated $4 billion to replace.
The report described a ship in disarray, with combustible materials scattered and stored improperly. It said maintenance reports were falsified, and that 87% of the fire stations on board had equipment problems or had not been inspected.
It also found that crew members didn’t ring the bells to alert sailors of a fire until 10 minutes after it was discovered. Those crucial minutes, the report said, caused delays in crews donning fire gear, assembling hose teams and responding to the fire.
Sailors also failed to push the button and activate the firefighting foam system, even though it was accessible and could have slowed the fire’s progress. “No member of the crew interviewed considered this action or had specific knowledge as to the location of the button or its function,” the report said.
More broadly, the crew was slammed for “a pattern of failed drills, minimal crew participation, an absence of basic knowledge on firefighting” and an inability to coordinate with civilian firefighters.
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Fairleigh Dickinson became the second No. 16 seed in history to win an NCAA Tournament game, stunning top-seeded Purdue 63-58 behind 19 points from Sean Moore and a relentless, hustling defense on Friday night.
The shortest team in the tourney, the Knights (21-15) showed no fear in swarming 7-foot-4 All-America center Zach Edey from the start. FDU’s players were quicker and more composed than the Big Ten champion Boilermakers (29-6).
Five years ago, UMBC showed the way for the little guys by overwhelming Virginia in the first 16-over-1 victory after numerous close calls over the years. Still, No. 16s had a 1-150 record against No. 1s and were 1-151 overall before FDU’s shocker.
After the final horn, FDU’s players mobbed each other on the floor of Nationwide Arena, where the fans from Memphis and Florida Atlantic joined forces in cheering on the Knights in the final minutes.
Fairleigh Dickinson didn't even win the Northeast Conference Tournament, falling by one point in the title game to Merrimack, which couldn't participate in the NCAA Tournament because of an NCAA rule that bars it from the postseason because it's still completing its four-year transition from Division II.
FDU held Purdue scoreless for more than 5 1/2 minutes down the stretch and moved ahead by five on a 3-pointer by Moore — who is from suburban Columbus — with 1:03 left. The Knights held on from there, becoming the second straight double-digit seed to send the Boilermakers home. Purdue was a 3 seed when it lost to 15 seed Saint Peter’s, another small New Jersey school, in the Sweet 16 last year.
Edey finished with 21 point and 15 rebounds in what may have been his final college game, but the Knights consistently denied him the ball down the stretch. He didn't attempt a shot in the final nine minutes. The junior center is a possible NBA lottery pick, but the bitterness of this defeat could sway him to stick around for another year.
The Knights' two prior NCAA Tournament wins came in the First Four, including this year, when they drubbed Texas Southern 84-61. After that game, Knights coach Tobin Anderson told his players he believed they could handle Edey and Co.
“The more I see Purdue, the more I think we can beat them,” Anderson told his players in the locker room.
Some of Purdue’s players said they felt disrespected by the comments, which turned out to be prophetic.
The Knights will now meet the Memphis-Florida Atlantic winner on Sunday for a Sweet 16 berth and trip to play at Madison Square Garden in New York next week — just a short drive from the private school's campus in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Tremont’s block clubs help keep neighborhood safe and thriving
TREMONT, Ohio (WOIO) -The Tremont Block Clubs are working every day to help make the neighborhood better, and Jonathan Petrea is one of the neighbors proud to be a part of the Auburn & Lincoln Park Block Clubs.
“Just being engaged here I know that it makes a difference, and I know it’s a game-changer, “said Petrea.
The block club can be spotted hosting farmers’ markets, creating food drives during the holiday, and cleaning up Lincoln Park.
“We have gardeners that take care of that and they do it all on a volunteer basis, it’s all because they are engaged in our community and in our neighborhood,” said Petrea.
They also work with the Cleveland Police Department to keep you safe. Bringing up concerns at their meetings, tackling a wide range of local problems.
“They make sure we know what’s happening and how they’re investigating and they’re being proactive,” said Petrea.
All while making sure that the crime in the area doesn’t outshine what all the neighborhood has to offer the community.
“We have great recreational amenities, we have restaurants, we have a great business core,” said Petrea. " Anything that adds that adds to that dynamic in a positive way, i think that’s the vision for our neighborhood”.
The group shows that we all are truly stronger when we work together.
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ROSWELL, Ga., Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raptor Scientific and World Micro announced today that the companies have entered a strategic partnership that will promote & distribute Raptor Scientific air data test solutions for the newest and most advanced civil aircraft built. The deal includes equipment and service for business aviation manufacturers, as well as service and repair stations worldwide. The Partnership will provide Raptor Scientific with a significant network reaching OEMs in the passenger, corporate, and luxury jet markets.
"The partnership with World Micro is critical for Raptor Scientific's growth strategy in the civil aviation sector." said Derek Coppinger, Raptor Scientific CEO. "It allows us to continue our development of aerospace solutions that are not necessarily all defense related – a vertical we have significant market presence."
Leading civil aviation companies around the world will now have more immediate access to the Raptor Scientific product lines.
"World Micro is extremely excited to partner with Raptor Scientific to bring proven, best in class air data test solutions into the Civil Aviation market," said Dan Ellsworth, World Micro CEO. "We are highly confident that our collective experience and capabilities will lead to a successful venture."
World Micro and its wholly owned subsidiary, MIT Distributors, are global franchised distributors specializing in commodities such as electronic components, specialty hardware, test & measurement, wire & cable, electromechanical, and interconnect products. Our capabilities include global sourcing & procurement, kitting & assembly, inventory management programs, AOG fulfillment, quality testing & inspection, ITAR/export compliance, and engineering & technical support. By focusing on quality systems & custom-tailored programs, World Micro and MIT are able to provide supply chain solutions that exceed our customers' rigid requirements and expectations. We are ISO 9001:2015, AS9120, AC 00-56, and Small Business Certified, ITAR Registered, and ERAI Members. Visit us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/world-micro-components
Raptor Scientific offers an extensive range of test and measurement capabilities including Mass Properties, Radar Cross Section Measurement Instruments, Air Data Test Systems, and Igniter Circuit Testers for developers of high-performance systems for whom failure is not an option. Raptor's groundbreaking solutions offer the highest level of accuracy, safety, and exceptional product reliability.
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A D.C. man was sentenced to 14 years in prison Monday for fatally shooting another man he found at the home of his ex-wife, authorities said.
According to prosecutors, when Washington arrived at the apartment about 5:10 a.m., he discovered the victim, Alie Labay, in his ex-wife’s home. The two men got into a scuffle, and Washington shot Labay three times, prosecutors said. Labay, who was unarmed, died of his injuries.
Washington fled the apartment and was arrested a month later and charged with premeditated first-degree murder while armed.
In April, Washington pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed. The plea agreement, which called for a 14-year prison term, was approved by D.C. Superior Court Judge Rainey R. Brandt, who sentenced Washington on Monday. If found guilty of the original first-degree murder charge at trial, Washington could have faced 30 or more years in prison. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/25/washington-labay-murder-ex-wife/ | 2022-07-25 20:32:01 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/25/washington-labay-murder-ex-wife/ |
New Twitter CEO Elon Musk met with civil rights groups this week amid concerns over hate speech and misinformation spreading on the platform after his takeover, especially in the days leading up to the midterm elections.
During the meeting with representatives from groups including the Anti-Defamation League, Color of Change, the NAACP and Free Press, Musk committed to taking actions that the groups pushed for aimed at keeping Twitter safe. But the leaders said they will move forward with their efforts to hold him accountable.
Jessica González, co-CEO of Free Press, said the meeting with Musk “seemed productive” but she is not “encouraged enough” to pull back on the campaign that civil rights groups launched asking advertisers to suspend their ads on Twitter if Musk doesn’t commit to enforcing safety standards.
“I think we need to keep the pressure on and make sure that his actions meet his words,” González told The Hill.
Musk met with the groups after Free Press and Media Matters led nearly 50 civil society groups in a letter Tuesday calling for Twitter’s top 20 advertisers to pull their ads if he didn’t enforce safety standards. Advertising giant IPG later reportedly issued a recommendation to its clients, which include Johnson and Johnson, Coca Cola and American Express, to pause paid advertising on Twitter.
The meeting showcases the balancing act Musk faces to follow through on his pledge to create his vision of a “free speech” platform by peeling back content moderation measures, while also appeasing the advertisers Twitter is largely reliant on for revenue.
During the meeting, Musk agreed to keep Twitter’s election integrity team in place and continue to take action against tweets that spew election misinformation, González said.
He also assured the leaders that employees who had moderation tools frozen, as reported by Bloomberg, would have access to them by the end of the week, she said.
“I actually don’t think that timeline is quick enough at all — I said so — but he did commit that they would be back with the tools shortly,” she said, noting that the election is less than a week away.
Musk also committed to keep users banned from Twitter off the platform for now. He tweeted after the meeting that users will remain banned for “at least a few more weeks,” as the company creates a “clear process” for reinstating accounts.
Civil rights leaders have raised concerns around letting banned users back on, especially former President Trump, who was banned after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and could use Twitter to reach out to a wider audience ahead of a 2024 run.
Decisions about reinstating accounts will in part be made by Twitter’s content moderation council, a proposal Musk announced after closing the deal to buy the social media site last week.
After the meeting, he said the council will “certainly include the civil rights community and groups who face hate-fueled violence,” but he has not provided more detail about its scope.
The meeting faced criticism over the lack of representation from LGBTQ rights groups.
“Notably absent from the groups Elon talked to, any LGBTQ civil rights org. Neither HRC or GLAAD were consulted. This is why coalition building is critical. It’s so that when we are excluded, other groups can still advocate on our behalf,” tweeted Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic.
Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, tweeted, “cool so not a single trans person or LGBTQ+ group this bodes well for us,” in response to Musk’s tweet about the meeting.
Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, said the meeting with Musk is “just the beginning.”
“Misinformation, disinformation, hateful rhetoric, online harassment and other results of an almost entirely unregulated tech sector are not just abstract principles or debates — they are matters of life and death, safety and harm, freedom and oppression. We will continue to hold Musk accountable to the evidence of Twitter’s negative impact on Black people and our freedoms, even as his many cheerleaders try to deny them,” Robinson said in a statement.
The meeting also faced a hiccup over the participation of a representative that Latino civil rights group LULAC said does not represent them. Musk tweeted that he met with Sindy Benavides, but in a press release issued last month, LULAC said the former CEO was terminated.
David Cruz, a spokesperson for LULAC, told Bloomberg that Benavides “does not represent LULAC in any capacity before any audience” and that her presence “[d]enied us having a voice and adding our perspective to this important debate at a critical time in our history.”
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a convenient and fun way for a man to carry a condom on his person," said an inventor, from Louisville, Ky., "so I invented the LUCKY FOR HIM. My design may reduce the awkwardness and interrupted intimacy experienced with searching for a condom."
The patent-pending invention ensures that a condom is readily available if needed. In doing so, it eliminates the need to search in a drawer or medicine cabinet. As a result, it increases convenience and it helps to protect against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. The invention features a simple design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for men. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Nashville sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-NAM-195, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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For far too long, women have essentially been mandated to be givers of life. But do not despair! You too can be a giver of life, whether you are a man, or a woman, or otherwise! We should immediately establish a list of all citizens that includes blood type etc.
This list would be matched against people who need kidney transplants, marrow donors, and the like. Once you are matched, you will donate what is needed. This is a no brainer, because people are literally dying and you might have what they need to live! Shouldn’t you have to donate what they need? Isn’t this just as important as every fetus being carried and born? A life is a life, from birth or otherwise. Don’t limit your beliefs to only ne’er do borns. Surely, you see the logic in this right?
My body, my choice … until everyone gets on board with saving all lives. No more excuses. Do your part for your fellow citizens who are already living, have families, and pay taxes. Or, stop creating laws that make only women give up body autonomy. Your choice. Wait, my choice … wait …
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Migration Brewing is back on top… of the Canvas building, that is.
The brand’s taproom on the ninth floor of the Urban Renaissance Group’s structure at 817 SW 17th St. reopened July 13, a somewhat surprising turn of events since the seasonal project was not revived last year.
Migration originally launched a beer bar on the sky-skimming space in 2020. It was perfect timing as people began to seek out bars and restaurants with outdoor seating as a way to escape home for a few hours in a pre-vaccine world. The arrangement was also helpful for Urban Renaissance since the office building had been completed that spring, a period when work was going remote and square footage for office dwellers was anything but in demand.
Were it not for COVID-19, the average person actually never would have gotten to ascend to the top of the Canvas building, which is located where one of The Oregonian’s cavernous printing press warehouses used to be, right across from the Timbers’ and Thorns’ home pitch. Rooftop soirees were supposed to be a perk for office tenants. Beer drinking was going to be relegated to the ground level, where Migration had planned to open a full-service pub. The 10-year-old company suddenly flipped floors after co-founder McKean Banzer-Lausberg had a late-night conversation with the developer/property manager.
“The community needs more outdoor space right now,” Travis Drilling, regional leasing manager for the Urban Renaissance Group, said in 2020. “This will bring more attention to the building, so let’s do this rooftop. Let’s take this amenity space and open it to the public.”
Migration joins shoe design company Hoka in the Canvas building.
“We’re excited to get the Rooftop back in action. This will be our third summer at the Canvas building, and it’s always been one of our most popular pop-up projects,” CEO and Migration co-founder McKean Banzer-Lausberg stated in a press release. “As a company, we really value local partnerships and have always enjoyed working with Urban Renaissance Group. This will be a truly unique craft beer experience.”
The 2,000-square-foot, mostly outdoor space serves draft and packaged beer, though you may be too distracted by the view, initially, to take your first sip. Since the building is practically nestled in the West Hills, the deck offers a different perspective of the city than other bars and restaurants. You can see past the Montgomery Park Building to shipping cranes lining the Willamette River and the prominent arch of the Fremont Bridge. There’s also a view of downtown’s mixture of high rises and familiar skyscrapers that resemble a jagged range. A trio of real mountains rises beyond that: Helens, Adams and Hood.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. – Inside the visitor’s locker room at State Farm Stadium, the Eagles were smiling and joking, having just escaped with a 20-17 win over the Arizona Cardinals, something the team had not done since the 2001 season.
“Only players whose team is 5-0 can get on the bus,” was yelled by a player leaving the room as reporters waited for Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts to take the podium and give his thoughts about the win. | https://www.nj.com/eagles/2022/10/why-eagles-jalen-hurts-is-not-happy-with-hearing-team-is-5-0.html | 2022-10-10 13:19:06 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/eagles/2022/10/why-eagles-jalen-hurts-is-not-happy-with-hearing-team-is-5-0.html |
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP)KJ Johnson scored 22 points to guide North Alabama to an 80-70 victory over Lipscomb on Saturday night.
Johnson was 7-of-15 shooting from the floor and 8 of 9 from the free-throw line for the Lions (16-11, 8-6 Atlantic Sun Conference). Jacari Lane added 19 points. Daniel Ortiz sank three 3-pointers and scored 17, adding five rebounds and three steals.
Jacob Ognacevic led the Bisons (16-11, 8-6) with 17 points. Trae Benham added 11 points, while Will Pruitt scored 10 with four assists.
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NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of Unity Software Inc. ("Unity" or the "Company") (NYSE: U) between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Unity creates and operates an interactive real-time 3D content platform. The Company's platform provides software solutions to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. One of the tools on the Company's product platform is the Audience Pinpointer, a user acquisition service which uses real-time user valuation at the time of an ad request.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants failed to disclose that: (i) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (ii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (iii) accordingly, Unity had overstated the Company's commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; and (iv) as a result, the Company was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance.
On May 10, 2022, after the market closed, Unity announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2022. The Company also reduced its fiscal 2022 guidance, citing "challenges with monetization products." Specifically, Unity stated that "a fault in [Unity's] platform . . . resulted in reduced accuracy for [its] Audience Pinpointer tool, a revenue expensive issue given that [the] Pinpointer tool experienced significant growth post the IDFA changes."
On this news, the Company's stock price fell $17.83 per share to close at $30.30 per share on May 11, 2022.
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France’s highest administrative court said Thursday the country’s soccer federation is entitled to ban headscarves in competitions even though the measure can limit freedom of expression.
The Council of State issued its ruling after a group of headscarf-wearing soccer players called “Les Hijabeuses” — the word hijab refers to the headscarf — campaigned against the ban and launched legal action.
The ruling is likely to refuel the lingering debate on secularism — still volatile more than a century after the 1905 law on separation of church and state that established it as a principle of the French Republic.
The French soccer federation bans players from wearing headscarves and other religious symbols in official matches, as well as at competitions it organizes. It’s not in line with the recommendations of soccer governing body FIFA, which authorizes players to compete at international level with headscarves.
The French federation said the ruling gave it the opportunity to “reaffirm the republican and civic values that underpin soccer, and its total commitment to combating all forms of discrimination and promoting gender equality.”
The Council of State said sports federations “may impose on their players an obligation to wear neutral clothing during sporting competitions and events, in order to guarantee the smooth running of matches and prevent clashes or confrontation. It considers that the ban imposed by the FFF is appropriate and proportionate.”
Unusually, the court did not follow its public rapporteur’s recommendations, who earlier this week said Article 1 of the federation’s rules should be annulled. The article prohibits “the wearing of any sign or dress ostensibly manifesting a religious affiliation,” and applies to matches and competitions organized.
It is unclear whether the ban would be implemented for next year’s Paris Olympics.
The rapporteur had argued that religious symbols were already present in soccer, citing the example of players crossing themselves before entering the field.
The court recalled that federations are free to determine the rules for participation in their events, including rules on clothing and equipment.
“The rules of participation laid down by these federations may limit (the players’) freedom of expression of their opinions and convictions in order to guarantee the proper functioning of the public service,” it said.
French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin told RTL radio earlier this week he was opposed to the wearing of the hijab during sports competitions.
“You don’t wear religious clothes when you play sports,” he said. “When you play soccer, you don’t need to know the religion of the person in front of you.”
Right-wing senators vainly tried last year to introduce an amendment to a law on sports that would have extended the ban on headscarves to all sports competitions, arguing that neutrality was a requirement on the field of play, and that headscarves could put at risk the safety of athletes wearing it when they practice their discipline.
The amendment was rejected in the lower house of the Parliament after a fierce debate.
Lawmakers had previously approved a bill to strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs in a bid to safeguard France from radical Islamists and to promote respect for French values — one of President Emmanuel Macron’s landmark projects.
With France bloodied by terror attacks, few disagreed that radicalization was a danger. But critics also saw the law as a political ploy to lure the right wing to Macron’s centrist party ahead of the presidential election that Macron won.
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ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro’s long record as a killer — turncoat mobsters said he’d boast of enough murders to fill a cemetery — greatly burnished his credentials among his peers as a major boss in the Sicilian Mafia.
After 30 years eluding capture while still running much of the Mafia’s affairs, he was arrested Monday at a Palermo clinic, where the convicted mobster was receiving chemotherapy. But while he was hustled off early Tuesday to a maximum-security prison on the Italian mainland, his capture is hardly expect to bring the demise of the Cosa Nostra, thanks to the syndicate’s more than century-old roots and rules.
“What will happen in detail, we can’t know,” Palermo Prosecutor General Lia Sava, said on Rai state radio about the future of the Mafia.
“But one thing is sure. Cosa Nostra is made up of rules. It has supported itself on these rules for 150 years, so certainly it will put into motion those rules to repair the damage, and thus create the new leadership structure needed after the arrest,” Sava said.
While Messina Denaro wielded great influence in the Mafia, for decades Cosa Nostra has lacked a supreme capo, investigators say.
The practically mythical figure of a “boss of bosses” ended in 1993, with the arrest in a Palermo hideout of Salvatore ”Toto” Riina, who had been Italy’s top fugitive for 23 years.
According to trial testimony that led to his conviction for many murders, including the 1992 bombings that killed Italy’s top two anti-Mafia magistrates, Riina was in charge of Cosa Nostra’s “commission” that ran illicit businesses and devised a strategy of deadly retaliation against the state for its crackdown on the mob.
“After Riina there was never an absolute boss,” said Rome Chief Prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi, who took up his post last year after serving as Palermo chief prosecutor, helping coordinate the hunt for Messina Denaro.
Even if the “capo di capi” figure still existed, Messina Denaro wouldn’t have qualified because he came from Castelvetrano on Sicily’s western edge, not from Palermo or its surrounding countryside, Lo Voi noted, citing Cosa Nostra’s rules.
Still, Messina Denaro, the son of a crime boss, “was one of the most important bosses and (he) had ties with other criminal organizations in Italy and abroad,” Lo Voi told The Associated Press.
“That’s why his arrest surely represents an earthquake at this moment for Cosa Nostra,” Lo Voi said.
Also boosting Messina Denaro’s prestige was his fierce record as a murderous clan boss, holding sway over a large swath of western Sicily, Lo Voi said.
A military plane ferried Messina Denaro Tuesday to a maximum security prison in L’Aquila, in the central Apennine mountains, where strict rules for top organized crime bosses who won’t cooperate with authorities include sharply limited visitor privileges.
Italy’s national anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo, said that finally putting Messina Denaro behind bars won’t change the strategy Cosa Nostra has followed for more than a decade.
That strategy is “no longer one of violence” against the state, Melillo said on state TV Monday night, referring to the 1992 bombings that killed Palermo prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, and the 1993 bomb attacks against Rome churches, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and an art gallery in Milan, part of the Mafia’s bid to try to get the state to drop its crackdown on Cosa Nostra.
Instead Cosa Nostra is lying low, opting to “co-penetrate the social and economic fabric” of Italy, Melillo said.
A small army of turncoats helped Italian authorities put scores of Cosa Nostra members behind bars in the last few decades, and as a consequence, gave boost to the ‘ndrangheta crime syndicate in Italy’s southern “toe,” allowing it to eclipse the Sicilian mob in influence to become one of the world’s biggest cocaine brokers.
In the 1980s, an FBI undercover operation working with Italian investigators, including Falcone, broke up a multi-million heroin ring and cocaine distribution operation involving Sicilian Mafia figures and the Gambino crime family in New York.
But Cosa Nostra lately “has gone back in a big way to drug trafficking,” including cocaine, synthetic illegal drugs and heroin, Lo Voi said. With enough drug trade to go around, there’s no real rivalry between Cosa Nostra and the ‘ndrangheta, he added.
With drug trafficking, “the earnings are enormous and the activity is less dangerous than extortion,” Lo Voi said.
Pressuring local businesses to pay crime clans monthly protection money, known as “pizzo,” has long been a mainstay of Cosa Nostra’s activity.
But some 15 years ago, grass-roots groups of young people in Palermo rebelled against their elders’ longtime surrender to the practice. Forming an organization called “Addiopizzo,” or “Farewell Pizzo,” they encouraged businesses to report extortionists to authorities instead of paying them.
Control of local territory is crucial for the Mafia’s existence.
Lo Voi said during the COVID-19 pandemic, neighborhood mobsters supplied residents with groceries when breadwinners lost jobs.
That complex relationship — a combination of benefit, fear and even complicity — is suspected of helping Messina Denaro elude the law for 30 years, most of that time in Sicily.
Since his capture, police have been searching his most recent hideout — a home on a dead-end alley in Campobello di Mazara, near Trapani. The owner is Andrea Bonafede, the name the fugitive used on an identity card to receive his cancer treatment.
The real Bonafede is under investigation, including at least one of the doctors who had been involved in the fugitive’s treatment at the clinic beginning in late 2020, Italian news reports said.
Fellow cancer patients told La Repubblica daily that the man who wore designer scarves and hand-painted shirts freely chatted with them while receiving chemotherapy and sometimes gave them bottles of olive oil.
Six years ago, Italian authorities confiscated 13 million euros worth of olive groves and bottling facilities linked to Messina Denaro in the countryside near Trapani.
Shouts of “Bravi!” rose in the street outside the clinic when two Carabinieri officers brought him out of the clinic.
But others wondered about why it took decades to capture him.
“I had expected for a long time that it would happen, but it is absurd that it took 30 years,” Salvatore Borsellino, brother of the slain prosecutor, told AP in a video interview from Palermo.
It’s clear “that he enjoyed cover” on the local level, Borsellino said. “But there must have been institutional complicity” as well.
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Andrea Rosa contributed. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/ap-fugitives-arrest-like-a-quake-but-mafia-very-resilient/ | 2023-01-18 22:40:33 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/ap-fugitives-arrest-like-a-quake-but-mafia-very-resilient/ |
BELLAIRE, Texas (AP) _ Bio-Path Holdings Inc. (BPTH) on Monday reported a loss of $3.4 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Bellaire, Texas-based company said it had a loss of 47 cents.
The company's shares closed at $3.19. A year ago, they were trading at $5.33.
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A 19-year-old was arrested after police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said he fatally shot a person at a movie theater in a dispute over seats.
The shooting happened Sunday at the Century Rio movie theater.
"Understandably, there was a sense of chaos here," said Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos. "A lot of people running from the theater and trying to get away."
According to a criminal complaint, Enrique Padilla was seated in the theater with another person for the 8:50 p.m. showing of "No Hard Feelings."
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The complaint states that Michael Tenorio and his wife also purchased tickets to see the movie, but their tickets were separated by seats 9 and 10, where Padilla and his date were sitting.
A theater employee reportedly told the Tenorios that they could ask the people in those seats to move down a seat so they could sit together.
However, that request apparently turned into an argument. It escalated when police said Padilla threw a bucket of popcorn at Tenorio's wife.
The complaint states that a scuffle ensued and shots were fired. Tenorio was hit and died at the scene.
Padilla was found outside the theater with a gunshot wound. He was reportedly taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Upon his release, he will face a murder charge.
The movie theater remains closed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that “history matters, and Black history matters” during a White House reception marking Black History Month, a forceful declaration that comes after the state of Florida blocked a new advanced course on African American studies from being taught in its high schools.
“It’s important to say from the White House for the entire country to hear: History matters. History matters and Black history matters,” Biden said, to murmurs of agreement from the roughly 400 people inside the East Room of the White House. “I can’t just choose to learn what we want to know. We learn what we should know. We have to learn everything, the good, the bad, the truth, and who we are as a nation.”
Biden added, “That’s what great nations do.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential Republican opponent against Biden in 2024, has attracted nationwide attention with his administration’s effort to reject the Advanced Placement course in its schools, saying the class pushed a political agenda rather than teaching students history. But DeSantis’ critics say he is censoring critical parts of America’s history and at least one Democratic governor, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, is expanding the number of schools in that state that offer the advanced course.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black and south Asian woman to hold the office, had a similar message at the White House reception Monday: that Black history is “American history, living history, breathing history, history that we create every day.”
“Let us all be clear: We will not, as a nation, build a better future for America by trying to erase America’s past,” Harris said.
Top administration officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and several dozen Black lawmakers were among the hundreds in attendance at the Black History Month celebration at the White House. During the event, Biden rattled off his administration’s accomplishments for the Black community, including tapping a historic number of Black women to the federal judiciary and issuing an executive order to overhaul policing practices.
But “we have to keep going. We’re not finished yet,” Biden said.
He also paid tribute to the Divine Nine, the nine historically Black fraternities and sororities. Harris pledged one of them, Alpha Kappa Alpha, when she attended Howard University.
“I may be a white boy, but I’m not stupid,” Biden said, as the crowd laughed. “I know where the power is.” | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/ap-from-white-house-biden-says-black-history-matters/ | 2023-02-28 15:25:24 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/ap-from-white-house-biden-says-black-history-matters/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-0-6
(eight, zero, six)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-0-6
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OXFORD — To get an idea of just how much of a planner A.J. Finley truly is, look no further than his preteen days.
Finley, Ole Miss’ senior starting safety the last three seasons, likes to have his routine laid out. Sometimes, it’s set in stone several years in advance. When he was growing up in Mobile, Alabama, Finley — who received his first college scholarship offer his junior year at St. Paul's Episcopal School — started mapping out his future optimal height and weight statistics back when he was finishing middle school.
By the time he was a sophomore or junior in high school, he was going to be 6-feet tall. When he graduated high school, he was going to be 6-foot-2. The fact he was about 5-foot-8 at the time was beside the point: the goal was the goal, and Finley was going to get there one way or the other.
Finley — who, for the record, stands 6-foot-3 now — says he doesn’t remember that specific set of goal writing. But his parents Al and Shay certainly do.
“Everything that he discussed with us, or he wrote it down, it happened for him,” his mother Shay said.
Finley has been a defensive stalwart for the undefeated No. 9 Rebels (6-0, 2-0 SEC), having amassed 214 career tackles and seven interceptions in his career. But just as important as his play on the field is his unofficial role as Team Dad, a badge he wears quite proudly.
You see, whenever a teammate has some sort of problem, whether that be car trouble, handywork or just needs a nice meal with friends, Finley is the first to offer his assistance. As he spoke to the Daily Journal for this story, Finley noted he was set to help hang a television for true freshman cornerback Davison Igbinosun in the coming days.
“Anything. (Teammates) come over to eat sometimes. I’ve helped people put gas in their car,” Finley said. “Like, people run out of gas, I have a gas tank. Hanging TVs, anything. You name it, I’ve probably done it honestly.”
Finley married his girlfriend of three years, Ruby Draayer Finley, over the summer. He’s been a member of the SEC’s, Chancellor’s and Dean’s honor rolls. His teammates like to lovingly point out the patch of gray he already has in his hair. Finley has always been wise beyond his years, driven to reach success at every level, whatever that entails.
Finley tends to fly under the radar — Al always taught him that the spotlight would find him if he did things the right way. But that humility should never be confused with complacency. Finley is on a constant quest to find the best possible version of himself. And, while he’s at it, he’ll help others find their happiness, too.
“The thing I am the most proud of is how he treats people. And it doesn’t matter who it is. Fans will come up and are so excited to see him, and he’s always so sweet,” Draayer Finley said. “ … (He’s) always looking for the very best in people and showing those people his best, no matter what.”
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Given the timeframe of his formative football-viewing days, it’s not a surprise that, despite being raised in Auburn and Alabama territory, Finley grew up infatuated with Oregon. Back when he was eight or nine, the Ducks were the talk of the college football world. Oregon’s on-field success spoke for itself — from 2008 through 2014, the Ducks went 80-14 and played in two national title games. But there was a certain appeal Oregon had at that time, due in no small part to flashy jersey combinations.
Every kid in America likely at least thought Oregon looked good. But not everyone took the initiative Finley did.
One day, Finley consulted his laptop and began looking at the cost of tuition at Oregon, a good 2,600 miles from home, his mother said. It wasn’t cheap, of course, but he assured his parents it wouldn’t be an issue. He’d figure out a way.
“(He said) ‘Momma, you don't really have to worry about that, because I'm going to get a football scholarship,’” Shay said. “He was like eight years old.”
Finley grew up with baseballs, basketballs and footballs. Anything to keep him from “tearing up the house,” Shay noted. Finley had a lot of energy, and the best way to tire him out was to let him be outside. When he was in elementary school, Finley would play with the neighborhood kids, some in middle school and high school. He was significantly better than a lot of them.
Shay’s great uncle is MLB Hall of Fame outfielder Billy Williams, who starred for the Chicago Cubs in the 1960s and 70s. Shay thought baseball might be in A.J.’s future — at least, she hoped it might be — but Finley decided at a young age baseball was “too boring.”
Al was his son’s first football coach, coaching him from age 4 to 10. The duo won four of six Mobile Youth Football Conference championships, Al says proudly.
Finley was a quarterback growing up. But even then, he didn’t rely on athleticism to win; he studied.
“I would be sitting here game planning for the week, and even practice prepping for the week, he would be in my hip pocket,” Al said. “So theoretically, by the time we got to practice, I didn't have to really explain anything to him in terms of what the game plan was.”
Finley was largely an offensive player up until his senior season at St. Paul's. As a junior running back, he rushed for more than 1,200 yards. He didn’t move to defense full-time until his senior season, when it became a position of need.
But, as always, he soaked things up like a sponge.
Finley was high school teammates with Jalyn Armour-Davis, the former Alabama cornerback who was a fourth-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in 2022. The Saints needed another defensive back. So, Armour-Davis gave Finley a crash course in defense the spring before he departed for Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Finley responded by intercepting six passes his senior season en route to helping St. Paul’s win its third-straight Alabama 5A state title.
“I feel like that’s always been me. I’ve always been dedicated. I don’t know where it came from, what happened with me, why it clicked so young,” Finley said. “But I’ve always been a preparation type of guy. I take that stuff very serious.”
Finley could have gone to Tennessee, Duke or Wake Forest, among others. At the time, Ole Miss was still coming off sanctions and had just endured a 5-7 season. But Something about Oxford just felt right for Finley. That, and he knew he had the chance to see the field early.
Finley also looked at the Rebels’ recruiting class that year — Jerrion Ealy, Jonathan Mingo, Sam Williams, John Rhys Plumlee, Snoop Conner, Dontario Drummond, Nick Broeker, among others — and knew that, by the time he was done at Ole Miss, the Rebels were going to be a force to be reckoned with.
“I knew the turnaround for this team was going to be spectacular, no matter what,” Finley said.
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Al himself was quite the athlete back in the day, though he’s willing to admit his son got the better end of the deal.
Al played running back and then linebacker his senior year of high school in Alabama. In retrospect, Al will tell you he did not work as hard as he could have or should have given his ability.
If teammates were going to go drink a few beers, he “was the first one in the car,” Al said. He didn’t take practice seriously and didn’t heed advice his coaches tried to give him. He didn’t put in extra time in the weight room. He was the last one in and the first one out.
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Because of that, coaches didn’t have the best perception of Al, despite his talent. Having grown up in a largely single-parent household, Al said he didn’t always have a father figure around to steer him in the right direction.
Al had college programs interested in his services, he said, but it never amounted to anything because he wasn’t willing to put the necessary work in. He ended up joining the military after high school.
Al can talk about all of this now, years after the fact. But it’s something that stuck with him.
“I had established, unfortunately, a reputation with my coaches — some of them, anyway — that I didn’t care,” Al said. “… When I say squandered opportunities, I take full responsibility for not utilizing and capitalizing on the opportunities that I had.”
From Day One, Al was determined to push A.J. to be the best version of himself and, in the process, for him to be better than he was. His son was going to make the most of every opportunity he had. St. Paul’s is on the higher end of private school tuition, but it was worth every cent for A.J. to get the best possible education to be prepared for college and beyond.
A.J. was not going to make the same choices his father made. His son was going to reach for the stars and climb beyond them.
“I always challenged him and told him, ‘You’re going to be better than me. You’re going to do better than I did. You’re going to make better decisions, because I’m going to show you how to do it,” Al said. “Now it’s up to you to do it.”
Finley knows his father’s story. It’s not something he thought a lot about growing up. He also didn’t look at it as his dad making sure his son was better than him; he thought of it more as his father wanting him to utilize everything at his disposal. As Draayer Finley says, if Finley puts his mind to it, it almost certainly will get done.
But after talking it out, Finley — who, to this day, still shows up to everything 45 minutes to an hour early, according to Draayer Finley — had a moment of clarity.
“I just know he wanted me to be very successful in life,” Finley said before continuing. “… He did say he wanted me to do more than him. I guess that is what he meant.”
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Late last season, sophomore safety Tysheem Johnson had a shoulder injury that hindered him from driving. He could drive with his left hand, he said, but it wasn’t optimal.
Al, Shay and A.J. were out one night when A.J. received a phone call. Johnson didn’t have a way to get food, he said. The Finleys were already on the way to Southern Coop. They picked up food for one more, brought it to Johnson’s apartment, where he met them in the parking lot — ice pack on his shoulder and all — beyond thankful.
Finley and his wife have a core set of teammates over for dinner on a semi-regular basis — Johnson, safeties Isheem Young and Trey Washington, cornerbacks Kyndrich Breedlove and Demarko Williams and, recently, quarterback Jaxson Dart.
Draayer Finley does most of the cooking (Johnson is quick to point out her creative culinary ability); Johnson lovingly refers to her as “mom.” There aren’t a lot of people in their 20s with the sort of maturity husband and wife display.
Johnson is from Philadelphia; there aren’t a ton of people his age with Finley’s giving mentality. Johnson refers to Finley as “that younger, older person.” He is always there when you need him, no matter what it is.
“You don’t see too many people like A.J., even as like a teammate, who are willing to go out of their way,” Johnson said. “ … (He’s a) great guy, on and off the field.”
Finley and Draayer Finley first met when they were freshmen living in RC South. Someone pulled their dorm fire alarm, Finley remembered, and he and his roommates made the trip downstairs (he said he usually didn’t because it was almost never an actual hazard). One of Draayer’s roommates approached Finley and his group, and they all exchanged Snapchats. Finley saw Draayer Finley in a subsequent Snapchat, visited their room for help with a paper, and the rest is history.
There are a lot of things Draayer Finley appreciates about her husband. But among the most integral is he understands life is bigger than just him. Finley isn’t one to boast about his life or his accolades; he hasn't tweeted in more than a year and half and has just nine Instagram posts. He isn’t concerned if people know a ton about him.
Finley casually recounts the time senior cornerback Miles Battle needed help picking up his car, which isn’t particularly noteworthy on its own. The real problem was that his car was in Collierville, Tennessee, a good hour-plus from Oxford.
There was, naturally, one man up to the task.
Immediately after finishing class, Finley jumped in his car with Battle, drove the 60 miles or so, dropped him off so he could pick up his car, and then turned around back toward Oxford.
Draayer Finley works for ESPN’s College GameDay in production and is gone until late Saturday or early Sunday morning most weekends. Every time she comes home, Finley has left a new set of flowers and, if he won’t be awake for her arrival, a note. Those sorts of gestures are not uncommon.
“He’s so thoughtful and nice and does very sweet things,” Draayer Finley said. “ … He’ll leave a note on the garage door (that says) ‘check the kitchen.’ And he will have gotten a cold water bottle ready for me — because I love cold water — and flowers out on the table. I come home to that.”
Finley is well aware of how fortunate he is. He knows that not all of his teammates grew up in stable homes with both parents around. He knows he was extremely fortunate to go to a private high school. Al works with land development at an engineering company, and Shay has worked at the same software analyst job for 23 years. They both worked in the ministry when A.J. was growing up, and Al still does.
Not everyone — Al included — had that sort of support to follow their dreams.
“One of the main things I try to live by is just helping others and just bringing happiness to everything. Everything I do, I try to bring a smile to it. And just living every day separate from the other and just bringing my best foot forward every day.”
Al and Shay are proud of a lot of things when it comes to their son. He stuck through tough times at Ole Miss because he knew things would get better. He’s loyal to all those in his circle. He is going to graduate with a degree in financing. He is a natural-born leader and will thrive in whatever life after football brings his way, his parents said.
But no, among the things his parents are proudest of is how he always stayed true to himself. His father fondly remembers walking through a Walmart one day, when a man approached him and asked if he was A.J.’s father. Al confirmed he was, and the man proceeded to tell him he was the janitor at St. Paul’s.
“Man, A.J.’s a great guy,” the janitor told Al.
That’s who A.J. Finley is, through thick and thin.
“I’ve always told him, the true testing of a man is not when everything is going perfect. It’s when it starts to rain a little bit, how do you handle yourself? How do you respond to things?” Al said. “I think A.J. responds to things in a manner that’s rare for somebody his age.”
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HAYWARD, Calif., Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avirmax Biopharma Inc. (ABI), Chief Executive and Scientific Officer, Shengjiang Shawn Liu will present the Avirmax BioPharma Inc (ABI)'s progress in the innovation and development of genetic medicines for glaucoma treatment at Glaucoma 360 New Horizons Forum at The Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, Feb 03, 2023. Since its founding, Avirmax Biopharma Inc (ABI) has been focusing on developing an effective gene therapy product, ABI-902 for glaucoma treatment. Intravitreal administration of ABI-902 has demonstrated retinal ganglion cell (RGC) protection against N-methyl-D-Asparate (NMDA) excitotoxicity in mice and rats of partial optic nerve transection (pONT) measured by Detection of Apoptosing Retinal Cell (DARC) imaging technology. ABI-902 is manufactured by Avirmax CMC Inc.
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Portland has shed more than 18,200 residents between the pandemic’s onset and last summer, new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau shows.
That makes Oregon’s largest city one of its fastest shrinking. Between July 2020 and July 2022, it lost 2.8% of its population. Only Troutdale lost a larger share of its residents, according to the new estimates.
But the population decline has slowed slightly. In the year leading up to July 2022, the city lost only 8,300 residents as the pandemic eased and the economy gained steam, compared with 9,900 the year prior.
Portland now has just over 635,000 residents, according to the census data.
Huda Alkitkat, program manager at Portland State University’s Population Research Center, said fewer people are moving to the city to replace those moving out, and deaths outpace births.
The new census data also show, however, that the number of occupied homes in the city continues to increase. That suggests the number of people per household in Portland is declining, with more people living on their own or with a roommate or partner rather than a large family.
“The average household size is indeed down quite significantly for rented and owner-occupied units,” Alkitkat said, citing recent census data. In 2021, the average household size in Portland was 2.5 people for owner-occupied homes and 1.9 in rented homes.
Some Portland suburbs, including Gresham, Lake Oswego, West Linn and Troutdale, have also seen their populations drop since the start of the pandemic.
For Gresham, Lake Oswego and West Linn, the population declines accelerated last year.
Gresham, the state’s fourth largest city with roughly 111,600 residents, has lost 2,850 residents, or 2.3% of its population, since the beginning of the pandemic. Lake Oswego lost about 1.8% of its residents.
Other cities in the region have grown, however, evening out localized population declines across the metro area.
Ridgefield in Clark County, Wash., saw its population grow 38% since the start of the pandemic, while Estacada and Happy Valley in Clackamas County saw a 21% and 11% growth, respectively, during the same time frame.
Cornelius in Washington County saw the third-largest population growth in the state since the start of the pandemic. Between April 2020 and July 2022, the city grew 14%, census data shows.
Amy Vander Vliet, Portland-area regional economist with the Oregon Employment Department, said a shrinking population would typically endanger the region’s enviable economic growth of recent years.
“If you have a declining population, you generally see less services available tied to the area’s population, so less dry cleaners, less hair salons, less restaurants,” Vander Vliet said, adding that a population decline would also generally have a negative impact on the job market, with fewer qualified workers for available work.
However, she said, “it’s a little trickier to measure” the economic impacts in cities like Portland and larger suburbs, as the labor force is still close by and the businesses — while perhaps moving around — remain.
“If people left Portland or a nearby suburb but still live in the metro area, then they would still contribute to the labor market and create demand for services at a regional level,” she said.
Population decline will mean local governments likely take a hit. Vander Vliet said certain taxes collected from Portland city residents, such as its arts and the Preschool for All taxes, and the revenue from those would be impacted.
The economic impacts of Portland’s population decline remain murky, though, because data on the ages and income of the residents who remain and who have left is still limited.
Barbara Fryer, the community development director for the fast-growing city of Cornelius, said new subdivisions in the city have added more than 900 homes over the last couple of years.
“A lot of this new development was from 2020 to 2022, and so that, and the fact that our city consistently has the highest number of people per household of the Portland metro region, is why we’re seeing growth,” Fryer said.
Fryer said the newly built homes have generally been more affordable than those in the city of Portland and nearby communities. She said many of the new single-family homes started in the $300,000 range, but prices for new homes have escalated to around $700,000 in recent years.
But she said new town home subdivisions have cropped up, offering lower price points.
Fryer said she hopes that the population growth will eventually translate into more commercial development in the city. She said that while there’s been an uptick in builders inquiring about properties in the city, there has only been a couple of new commercial developments.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Höegh LNG Partners LP (the "Partnership") (NYSE: HMLP-PA) announces that Mr. Erik Nyheim has been appointed by the general partner of the Partnership to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. John V. Veech earlier this month as an appointed director of the Board of Directors of the Partnership (the "Board"). Additionally, Mr. Carlo Ravizza has been appointed by the appointed directors of the Board to succeed Mr. Veech as chairman of the Board.
Mr. Nyheim has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. since August 2022. Previously, he was a Partner of Boston Consulting Group's Norwegian office where he had led their maritime practice since 2019. Prior to 2019, he worked for more than 15 years with the Wilhelmsen group. Mr. Nyheim holds a BSc Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Business and Administration (NHH) in Bergen.
Mr. Håvard Furu, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Partnership, commented "On behalf of the Partnership, I am very pleased to welcome Erik Nyheim as our new Director."
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 19, 2022
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fortegra Group, Inc. ("Fortegra" or the "Company"), a global specialty insurer and subsidiary of Tiptree Inc. (NASDAQ: TIPT), today announced the appointments of Abigail (Abbie) Taylor as Chief Operating Officer and Joe Lettween as Chief Innovation, Data Science, and Technology Officer. Their hirings add to a breadth of expertise and experience amongst Fortegra's senior leadership across the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe.
"We are thrilled to welcome Abbie Taylor and Joe Lettween to Fortegra. Their roles are instrumental in our continued strategic and organic growth," said Rick Kahlbaugh, Fortegra's CEO. "Both Abbie and Joe are deeply committed to driving operational excellence and innovation, which are key components in delivering value to our stakeholders."
As COO, Abbie will oversee Fortegra's daily operations and will spearhead strategic growth initiatives. She brings nearly 20 years of experience in various global management and strategy roles. Prior to joining Fortegra, she served as Head of Client Operations for the Strategic Accounts at Asurion, where she crafted portfolio strategy and drove digital, supply chain and customer service improvements.
As Chief Innovation, Data Science, and Technology Officer, Joe Lettween will lead Fortegra's efforts to scale both efficiently and securely through technology. His expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence strategies, data products, and process automation will be imperative to Fortegra's continued success. Previously, Joe was the Principal and Head of Data & Analytics at Osso Capital.
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For more than 45 years, Fortegra and its subsidiaries have underwritten risk management solutions that help people and businesses succeed in the face of uncertainty. As a global specialty insurer, we offer a diverse set of admitted and surplus insurance products and warranty solutions. Fortegra's A.M. Best Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) is a result of our strict underwriting standards, consistent profitability, and high cash flows. For more information, visit: https://www.fortegra.com.
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Mom wants justice for daughter allegedly shot by 9-year-old boy
BALTIMORE (WJZ) - A Baltimore mother is grieving the loss of her 15-year-old daughter, whom police say was shot by a 9-year-old boy allegedly playing with a loaded handgun.
Mother Nykerah Strawder is devastated after her 15-year-old daughter, Nykayla Strawder, was shot in the head Saturday on her porch in the Edmondson Village neighborhood.
“I hear it: ‘Boom!’ It shook my house. It shook my soul. I look over to the left. I see her laying there. I don’t see the blood at this time. I go to her. I said, ‘Kayla… wake up,’” she said.
Nykayla was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“I gotta speak for her. I gotta be her voice. I got to let the world know that my daughter was everything to me. She was everything. I watched what I formed in my womb leave her body,” Strawder said.
Police say the person who pulled the trigger was a 9-year-old boy. Witnesses told investigators the boy was playing with a loaded handgun when it accidentally discharged.
He will not face charges because of his age.
Under a new Maryland juvenile justice law, children under the age of 13 can’t be charged with a crime. Anyone younger than 10 is outside the jurisdiction of juvenile courts.
“This is a child that was able to get to a Glock and shoot my baby right in the head on her porch. My soul, my heart knows that this is not right. This is no accident,” Strawder said.
Police say their investigation into how the boy was able to obtain the weapon remains open. The gun was registered to a relative of his who works as a security guard.
While the boy can’t legally be charged, detectives are working with the state attorney’s office to determine whether any charges will be handed down.
“I just want my daughter to get the justice that she deserves. I don’t want her to have to look down upon what’s going on right now and say, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m another statistic in my city. I ain’t getting no justice,’” Strawder said.
Police records show that Nykayla is the fifth teenager to be shot and killed in Edmondson Village within the past year.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Detectives with the VCU Police Department are looking for two suspects from a recent breaking and entering on the VCU’s Monroe Park Campus.
According to a VCUPD press release, the incident occurred around 8 p.m. on April 8 at VCU’s Williams House, located at 800 W. Franklin Street.
Officers reviewed camera footage from the area and found two male suspects leaving the building via the fire escape. They dropped papers on the ground that police said they had taken from the building.
At the scene, officers found an open office window.
Police said the documents that the suspects removed did not contain any personal information. Nothing else was reported missing.
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Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune 2023 cinch Championships Odds
Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune's run in the cinch Championships in London, United Kingdom has reached the quarterfinals, where he will meet Lorenzo Musetti. At +500, Rune has the fourth-best odds to win this tournament at The Queen's Club.
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Rune at the 2023 cinch Championships
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 16-25
- Venue: The Queen's Club
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Rune's Next Match
Rune has advanced to the quarterfinals, where he will face Musetti on Friday, June 23 at 7:00 AM ET (after getting past Ryan Peniston 6-3, 6-4).
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Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +1400
- US Open odds to win: +1400
- cinch Championships odds to win: +500
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Rune Stats
- Rune is coming off a 6-3, 6-4 win over No. 265-ranked Peniston in the Round of 16 on Wednesday.
- Rune is 54-22 over the past 12 months, with three tournament victories.
- Rune is 0-1 on grass over the past 12 months.
- Through 76 matches over the past year (across all court types), Rune has played 24.6 games per match. He won 53.9% of them.
- In his one match on a grass surface over the past year, Rune has averaged 31.0 games.
- Over the past 12 months, Rune has been victorious in 24.3% of his return games and 83.9% of his service games.
- Rune has been victorious in 80.0% of his service games on grass over the past 12 months and 0.0% of his return games.
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BEIJING, Jan. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ZEASN, the world's leading smart home ecosystem operator, today announced that Dr. Jack Q. Gao, CEO of Smart Cinema and the former president of Microsoft (China) has joined the Board of Directors of ZEASN as the Chairman of the Global Strategy Committee to guide and promote ZEASN's global strategic development.
Dr. Gao has more than 30 years of experience in software, media and entertainment, and venture capital around the world. He is currently the CEO of Smart Cinema, before this, he was the former president of Microsoft (China) , Sr. Corporate Vice President of News Corporation and 21st Century Fox, partner of Walden International (Venture Capital Fund), CEO of Hollywood Legendary Pictures, leading board director of AMC Entertainment, CEO of the International Department of Wanda Culture Group and a member of the Board of Trustees of American Film Institute (AFI).
Founded in 2011, ZEASN has accumulated rich industry-related experiences and is committed to creating wonderful smart home experiences for global users. The joining of Dr. Gao will surely further enhance the strategic planning and overall planning abilities of ZEASN and speed up its globalization.
About ZEASN
ZEASN Information Group was founded in January 2011. As the world's leading smart home ecosystem operator, more than 60 million global households (with more than 180 million users) are currently using smart TVs, set-top boxes, smart speakers, and other smart home entertainment devices powered by Whale cloud services.
Whale OS is an operating system with independent intellectual property rights that supports various popular smart home devices. Based on Whale Eco, it provides users with a wide range of global top and local essential entertainment apps or content and provides innovative Internet services such as efficient customized development and intelligent voice for Whale Eco partners.
Whale Eco is ZEASN's efforts to build a smart home entertainment ecosystem that serves global users since 2018. The ecosystem takes Whale OS as the core, relying on professional and powerful Whale cloud services and smart devices, and unites content service partners, technical service providers, advertising service providers, and smart device manufacturers to provide global users with wonderful home entertainment products. Whale Eco's partners include Philips, Netflix, Novatek, TPV, TCL, Amazon, Google, etc. To find out more, please visit: https://www.zeasn.com
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Cookies sold at Target recalled due to possible wire pieces
(CNN) - A popular snack item sold at Target is being pulled from store shelves for safety-related concerns.
D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Co., Inc. announced a voluntary recall of its 44-ounce Market Pantry White Fudge Animal Cookies. The cookies come in a clear plastic container shaped like a bear and were sold nationally in Target stores.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, the products in question might contain small metal fragments.
The recall only affects products with a specific best by date, lot numbers and time stamps. This information can be found printed on the back side of the jug on the product label, below the nutritional panel.
The best by date in question is 21FEB2023 with jug and case lot numbers of Y052722 and a time stamp between 15:00 to 23:00. The UPC code is 085239817698.
Consumers who bought these cookies are advised to return them to the place of purchase for a full refund.
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They are showdowns that didn't need to happen — rival studios staring each other down, refusing to blink.
In 1998, Earth-snuffing asteroids got blown up in the nick of time by nuclear warheads, not once but twice, in Armageddon and Deep Impact. That same year, animated insects skittered onto movie screens in Antz and A Bug's Life — and just a year earlier, dueling lava flows erupted in Dante's Peak and Volcano.
And in 2013, Jesse Eisenberg starred in The Double, and Jake Gyllenhaal in Enemy, each as a man tormented by his doppelganger (and wouldn't you know that Enemy was based on a novel called...wait for it... The Double.)
Hollywood is not a big town. Everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and movies that cost millions of dollars require many people and many months of development. Yet they still ended up in '87/'88 with four body-switching comedies: George Burns turned 18 Again!; fathers Judge Reinhold and Dudley Moore each switched places with sons in Vice Versa and Like Father Like Son, respectively; and in Big, an amusement park wish turned a little boy into Tom Hanks.
This is not, from a business standpoint, smart. One film will inevitably come out on top (only Big attracted substantial crowds in that mid-'80s body-switching smackdown) and arguably nobody emerges unscathed.
And yet....
Here's a (far-from-definitive) list of 50 conceptual twins that went head-to-head for no discernible reason.
Golden age identi-films
The Scarlet Empress and The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) — dueling Catherines Garbo and Dietrich
Jezebel and Gone With The Wind (1938/39) – antebellum hellions
Young Mr. Lincoln and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939/40) — Abes-in-training
Oscar Wilde and The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) – where the Wilde things were
Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe (1964) – atomic bombs away
Harlow and Harlow (1965) – blonde bombshell bio-pics
Yours, Mine & Ours and With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) — widowed parents marry and combine families
Bloody Mama and The Grissom Gang (1970/71) — Ma Barker, meet Ma Barker
Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) – the greatest story ever told to music
Corvette Summer and Stingray (1978) — drove my Chevy to the levee
The Warriors and The Wanderers (1979) – teen NYC gangs
The Howling, Wolfen and An American Werewolf in London (1981) — Owoooo!
Weird Science, Real Genius and My Science Project (1985) – teen geek comedies
Back to the Future and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) – teen time travel
Turner & Hooch and K-9 (1989) — police officers and their pooches
The Abyss and Leviathan (1989) — underwater horror
Dangerous Liaisons and Valmont (1988/89) – based on the same epistolary novel
Twice told tales in the '90s
Robin Hood and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991) – Sherwood forestry competition
1492: Conquest of Paradise and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) - 500th anniversaries don't come often
Tombstone and Wyatt Earp (1994) – gunfight at the same OK Corral
Priscilla Queen of the Desert and To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Love Julie Newmar (1994/95) — drag queen road trips
Babe and Gordy (1995) — talking, live-action piglets
Powder and Phenomenon (1995/96) – Extra-Sensory Perception at work?
Striptease and Showgirls (1995/96) – dirty (pole) dancing
Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet (1997) – in-a-Dalai-Lama-da-vida
Volcano and Dante's Peak (1997) — eruptive dysfunction
Armageddon and Deep Impact (1998) – great balls of fire
Antz and A Bug's Life (1998) — animated insects
The Truman Show and EDtv (1998/99) – reality TV, but for real
The Matrix, eXistenz and The Thirteenth Floor (1999) — reality as computer simulation
Doubling down for the new millennium
Red Planet and Mission to Mars (2000) – dueling Martian chronicles
Chasing Liberty and First Daughter (2004) – teen White House romances
Capote and Infamous (2005/06) — Truman Capote bio-pics
The Prestige and The Illusionist (2006) — 19th Century magician tricksters
Happy Feet and Surf's Up (2006/07) — animated penguins
27 Dresses and Made of Honor (2008) — bridesmaid romances
Observe and Report and Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) — overweight mall-cop comedies
Despicable Me and Megamind (2010) — animated supervillains
Friends With Benefits and No Strings Attached (2011) — flings gone right
Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) — live-action Snow Whites
Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer (2012) – aged Abes
The Double and Enemy (2013) — a man tormented by his own doppelganger
Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down (2013) – terrorism at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
After Earth and Oblivion (2013) – apocalypse soon
This Is the End, The World's End and Rapture-Palooza (2013) — apocalypses for laughs
Marguerite and Florence Foster Jenkins (2015/16) – cluelessly terrible opera singers
Barry and Southside With You (2016) — young Barack Obama
Rough Night and Girls Trip (2017) — girlfriends carousing
RBG and On the Basis of Sex (2018) — Ruth Bader Ginsburg origin stories
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — multiple multiverses
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NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Val Kleyman, Esq, a NYC divorce lawyer and partner at the Kleyman Law Firm, released a new article addressing if it's a good idea to spend holidays together with your ex when you no longer live together for the benefit of the children in common.
According to Kleyman, whether a parent should spend the holidays with their ex is a question that goes through many people's minds this time of the year. "The most important thing to consider is not to put yourself in a situation where you may not be safe, will feel harassed or embarrassed. The second most important thing is to ensure that an argument or a fight with your ex will not happen during the holidays and in front of the children. If the parents are going through a high-conflict situation with each other, or if their ability to make it through the holidays without a fight is not certain, it would be best to not spend the holidays together," says Kleyman.
On the other hand, if the parents are amicable, it could even be beneficial for the children to see both parents together for the holidays. In his article, Val Kleyman, a NYC divorce lawyer who is no stranger to high conflict divorce and contested custody disputes, suggests that the children will usually be happier having both of their parents around during holidays as it reinforces the idea that the children will be a priority no matter what. "While it may not be the most comfortable of situations, it is always important to have the grown-ups make sacrifices for the children and not have the children make sacrifices for their parents, especially regarding the holidays. The children will not have to transfer homes in the middle of the festivities, so they can focus on enjoying themselves surrounded by both parents that love them and observe that both parents can set aside their differences at least for a short while to focus on them."
Val Kleyman, Esq. is a NYC divorce lawyer at the Kleyman Law Firm, handling contested divorce and family law matters. The Kleyman Law Firm is located at One Rockefeller Plaza, 11th Floor, New York, NY. For more info go to https://nyc-divorcelawyer.com, email: vkleyman@kleymanfirm.com or call 212-401-1977.
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TORONTO, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Gutenberg Certs, a global provider of tamperproof blockchain digital certificates for webinars, videoconferencing and virtual meetings, announces its integration with Webex by Cisco to securely issue digital certificates for meetings and videoconferencing.
As businesses, schools, and the healthcare sector continue to adjust and support a growing virtual and hybrid environment, this new functionality will enable secure and shareable digital certificates to document attendance, participation or accreditation of completion for Webex users.
Users can build, design or select from a template menu to create digital certificates, automatically import attendee list, and then issue certificates with the Gutenberg Certs plug-in. Blockchain-powered digital certificates are recipient owned, tamperproof and instantly verifiable anywhere in the world.
Marius Oancea, Chief Information Officer at Gutenberg Certs remarks: "I am thrilled to offer Webex users the ability to provide ironclad proof of participation within a virtual Webex meeting or webinar using Gutenberg Certs' patent-pending blockchain-powered digital certificate engine. Imagine how difficult it is to run a virtual educational session or a virtual meeting that requires proof of attendance. Gutenberg Certs makes those challenges disappear with its easy-to-use and state-of-the-art technologies that integrate seamlessly with Webex."
Webex VP, Webex Platform, Product Management, Jason Copeland, said: "The Webex Platform enables a rich ecosystem of third-party partners to extend collaboration workflows for our customers. Gutenberg Certs offers a 'proof of attendance' digital certificate technology that demonstrates the flexibility of the Webex Platform."
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SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP)Everette Hammond scored 25 points as UMass-Lowell beat Bryant 85-71 on Wednesday night.
Hammond also contributed seven rebounds and three steals for the River Hawks (21-7, 8-5 America East Conference). Ayinde Hikim scored 21 points while shooting 5 of 12 from the field and 10 for 12 from the line and added five assists. Allin Blunt scored 10 points, while adding six rebounds.
Sherif Kenney finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Bulldogs (16-10, 7-6). Charles Pride added 13 points and Antwan Walker put up 11 points, 10 rebounds, two steals and three blocks.
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Spacruzzi hot tub boats; a one-of-a-kind American made luxury experience.
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev., Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Founded in 2021 in Incline Village by serial digital and consumer products entrepreneur Alex Kanwetz, Spacruzzi epitomizes the American made luxury experience.
Though hot tub boats are not a brand new concept, Kanwetz and his team set out to create a truly one-of-a-kind experience that boat owners and renters will never forget. He said that the top priorities when starting Spacruzzi were to deliver a product that is incredibly safe and simple to enjoy while keeping manufacturing in the U.S. and as local as possible.
Those looking to supplement their current boat rental operations with a fleet of hot tub boats, or start a new operation, are guided through the process at every step. Buyers can start their order at the company's website, www.spacruzzi.com. Boat build and delivery time can take up to 120 days, depending on finish levels and custom features.
Coming to a Waterway Near You
Despite being a new company, Spacruzzi is already drawing the attention of customers that include boat and watersports rental companies and individuals with their own docks.
When asked about the future of Spacruzzi, Kanwetz said, "Since we launched, we've seen immediate growth in both our rental and direct to consumer sales and this is continuing to grow. As you begin to see more rental operations popping up, we expect the awareness of the product to grow on the national level as more people see that this isn't just a novelty item, but an experience that can't be matched on the water. We continue to secure intellectual property on the development of the special features of the boat and are always looking to make the experience as safe and enjoyable as possible for our boat owners and rental partners."
Safe & Environmentally Friendly
"Unlike most power boats on the water, our all-electric propulsion and our patent protected electric and propane heating system do not put pollutants into the air or water. Spacruzzi is built to comply with all U.S. Coast Guard regulations including safety on the water (anti-tip, unsinkable) and on-board heating systems." Not only are these boats incredibly safe but they are easy to use. You don't have to be an experienced boat operator to move about on the lake.
"Options to access the water include launching with trailer, forklift, gantry, and dockside slip or mooring. The boat is light with a 1,200-pound dry weight and under 13 feet long and very easy to manage," explains Kanwetz. "We have customers putting these boats on a trailer, along with a generator, and taking them to auto races, concerts, you name it."
Custom designed Spacruzzi hot tub boats orders can be started directly from the company's website, https://www.spacruzzi.com. Those looking to rent a hot tub boat are encouraged to contact their local marina as more and more operators receive their boats and begin offering rentals throughout the year.
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Mayo Clinic Health System celebrates birthday of child born premature at Arcadia clinic
ARCADIA, Wis. (WEAU) - Staff at Mayo Clinic Health System in Arcadia are celebrating a very meaningful birthday.
Six months ago, Maria Aguilar was at her Arcadia home with her family when she says something started to feel off about her pregnancy.
“I’m having a lot of pain, I feel like I want to push,” Aguilar said through Mayo Clinic Interpreter Angela Lovato. “My mom said no, don’t push, we will take you to Whitehall, and I said I don’t think I’ll make it to Whitehall.”
At that point, Maria was only 23 weeks pregnant, so she had to be rushed to the nearest medical facility that could assist her, which was Mayo Clinic.
“The majority of us providers who are here have emergency room experience, which has proved helpful because even though we’re just a clinic, we do have emergencies that wander in from time to time,” said Dr. Jodi Breska, who helped Maria on the day.
Breska recalls staff immediately coming to Maria’s aid, but delivering a premature is a tall task, especially in a clinical setting.
“All of my experience and training really got me ready for this day, but even as a medical student knowing that I was going into family medicine, you get to work with babies who are maybe 30 weeks and ahead, you don’t get to touch the 23 week babies,” Breska explained.
Fortunately, the Arcadia clinic is equipped with Telehealth capabilities, so Breska was able to connect with neonatal specialists at Mayo Clinic in Rochester that ensured Maria’s daughter Anya was delivered as safe as possible.
Anya was born that day, but was quickly flown out of Arcadia to Rochester, where Maria says she was kept in a NICU for four months.
“Many times, I thought she wouldn’t make it, we didn’t think that she could survive with so many things that happened,” Aguilar expressed.
Eventually, Anya was deemed to be in good enough health to return to her parents Maria and Nelson, who are now the proud parents of a baby girl.
To show their gratitude for the help the Arcadia staff was able to give them, the Aguilars returned to the clinic Tuesday for Anya’s six-month birthday.
Seeing Anya happy and healthy made Breska proud of what her team was able to do last December.
“I’m just joyful at the outcome, and I have gratitude for the higher power that was really in charge that day to make sure all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place,” Breska said.
Anya Aguilar weighed just 700 grams when she was born, and now checks in at 10 pounds, 7 ounces.
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Republican women are poised to play a larger role than ever in the process that chooses their party's national ticket for 2024.
The most immediate symbol of this is Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who is expected to announce her candidacy for president on Wednesday. After her planned event in South Carolina, where she was governor from 2011 to 2017, Haley will spend the next two days in New Hampshire, the state that has held the first presidential preference primaries every four years since 1920.
Haley will be the first high-profile Republican to announce other than former President Trump, which means she will be challenging her former boss for their party's nomination.
But she is not the only woman from the ranks of well-known current and former officials who will matter in the next GOP nominating process – the first voting events of which are now just a year away.
Women on the right are finding national political audiences
Gov. Kristi Noem
Also widely expected to run is South Dakota's two-term Gov. Kristi Noem, a former member of Congress who has published a campaign-style memoir and taken on a variety of national issues from abortion to immigration and been critical of potential rivals for the nomination such as Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Like Haley, Noem has said in the past she would support Trump if he sought the party's nomination a third time. But, also like Haley, she declined to endorse him when he declared formally in November. Instead, Noem told The New York Times that Trump "does not offer the best chance" for the GOP in 2024.
Last month Noem said she is "not convinced that I need to run for president" — but she has kept the door open, and taken a succession of hardline, well-publicized stands on national issues such as abortion and immigration. Haley's announcement may increase the pressure on Noem to decide, or announce.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney
Former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, once a name in the conversation for speaker of the House or the national ticket, fell from grace when she defied her Republican colleagues and co-chaired the House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack on the Capitol. Cheney was at least as prominent as any member of that panel in condemning Trump and declared she would do "whatever it takes" to prevent his return to office.
That was taken by some as prelude to an intraparty challenge to the former president in 2024. But after Cheney lost her own primary in August, her future prospects seemed all but extinguished in the party she had long served (as had her father, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney).
Yet Cheney has vowed to remain active in national politics, and some believe she could reemerge as part of a third-party ticket.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Ranging beyond the realm of Republican officeholders, there are other women with conservative credentials or points of view who have shown interest in the nation's highest office as well. This past week when a congressional panel had a hearing on how the Biden administration was "weaponizing" federal agencies against citizens, one witness getting a lot of attention was Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard is a former major in the National Guard who fought in Iraq, served four terms as a member of Congress from Hawaii and ran for president as a Democrat in 2020.
I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are… pic.twitter.com/oAuTnxZldf
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
Gabbard left the Democratic Party in 2022, denouncing it as "an elitist cabal of warmongers" and has since appeared often on Fox News and elsewhere as a critic of Democrats and "Big Tech" social media.
She has not declared any new party allegiance, but has remained in the public eye as the host of a podcast and YouTube channel and as a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference. And last fall, Newsweek reported that at least one British bookmaker was giving Gabbard better odds of being on the next Republican ticket than former Vice President Mike Pence.
Widening the lens to include the VP nomination, more GOP women enter the frame
Listings of prospective running mates often begin with people who have fallen short in running for president. That would be expected in 2024, as well, but in addition to a Haley or a Noem, Republicans could look to other woman governors, senators or prominent members of Congress — not to mention those with national reputations for past political exploits.
There is a clear reason for the scramble to define women as presidential as never before. It is embodied in the arrival of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman to occupy the job famously described as a "heartbeat away from the presidency."
Many political observers have long believed the first woman president would achieve that office after first being vice president. And now that could happen at any time, a possibility Harris personifies wherever she goes.
Like Hillary Clinton's climb to the presidential nomination in 2016, Harris' ascent to her current position represents a long step toward making women's full political equality a reality in both parties.
This trend was on full view in the 2020 cycle, when Harris was one of six women participating in the Democrats' early rounds of presidential debates in the summer of 2019. All this raises the ante for Republicans, especially considering that women now cast more than half the total vote for president.
For a century after the first woman declared herself a protest candidate for the White House in 1872 (before women's right to vote was added to the Constitution in 1920), when women ran for the White House it was more to make a point than to win an office. The first woman to receive votes in primaries and at the national convention was Margaret Chase Smith, a senator from Maine, in 1964.
But in recent decades, women have been running not just to make a showing but to get on the ticket. Surely Elizabeth Dole, a senator from North Carolina, thought that was possible when she ran in the 1999-2000 cycle. Carly Fiorina, a California business executive, ran for president in 2016 but late in the primaries agreed to be Texas Sen. Ted Cruz' prospective running mate instead.
Two women have indeed been nominated for vice president by the major parties, Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Republican Sarah Palin in 2008. Both managed to shake up the party's convention, the media coverage and even the contest itself for a period of weeks.
But ultimately neither could alter the underlying dynamics of those races or supply what may have been lacking in their parties' presidential nominees. Supporters who thought these gender breakthroughs might galvanize women voters across party lines were disappointed.
But Harris was elected, and that carried the conversation about women on the ticket to its next logical step. The culture has continued to change. Gender balance has gone from a novelty to a natural assumption. The pressure will be on the party that tries to resist that nature in 2024 and beyond.
Stand by Trump or separate from him?
A key complicating factor for women contemplating 2024 is the role of Trump. While Haley is his first official challenger, no one expects her to be the last. His failure to "clear the field" as a two-time nominee and former president has been widely noted.
DeSantis is regarded as the likeliest challenger to match Trump in polls and fundraising. But New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has been "testing the waters" as well, and there could be others such as Maryland's popular former Gov. Larry Hogan, who just retired due to term limits.
Pence, too, for his part, has been showing up in the early primary states, but not showing well in the polls. Trump's true believers see him as disloyal, yet Pence seems part of the Trump legacy to those who want the party to move on.
All of which reminds us that Trump remains by far the best-known and feared figure in the GOP.
That may be why Haley, Noem and others have tried not to criticize Trump or disrespect him even as they contemplate running against him.
Would opposing him in the primaries automatically kill any chance of being his running mate? Taking on Biden in the early Democratic debates did not kill Harris' chances. On the other hand, Harris did drop out before the primaries actually began and endorsed Biden early in March.
The ideal space for a woman candidate, or any prospective candidate in 2024, might be just outside of Trump's immediate orbit — somehow uninvolved in his controversies and beyond his wrath. That would allow a prospective running mate to pursue free agency for a time, holding open the prospect of joining Trump at some point or of joining someone else's ticket.
There is an awkwardness in all this posturing, some of which may have been at work when Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave the official Republican response to Biden's State of the Union on Feb. 7. That speaking slot has often been seen as an audition for statewide politicians with national ambitions. Sanders used it to deliver a strong message of condemnation against the Biden administration and against Democrats in general, especially on social issues.
She also included considerable personal information and referred to her role as the White House press secretary going to Iraq to visit troops with the president and first lady – all without ever without mentioning the name of the president she served. For this she was also criticized by many conservatives and Trump supporters.
Sanders has not broken with Trump. But she may be seeking a safe distance not unlike that sought by her father, Mike Huckabee, who once also served as Arkansas' governor. Huckabee ran for president in 2008 and again in 2016, and while he has supported Trump he did not take a job in the Trump administration, pursuing his TBN talk show and speaking engagements.
Other recognizable political personalities among Republican women might also find themselves divided between gratitude for Trump's past help and a desire to be part of what Sanders called "a new generation of Republican leaders."
Some, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, may be too closely associated with Trump already to have other options. But someone such as Elise Stefanik, the New York congresswoman who replaced Cheney as the House GOP's third-ranking leader, might have maneuvering room in either direction.
There also exists the possibility that a resurgent Trump might look beyond current officeholders for an outsider with no second thoughts as his running mate, someone with mediagenic appeal who is willing to embrace his "stolen election" obsession about 2020 with fervor to match his own.
Kari Lake, a former local TV anchor in Phoenix, has shown that kind of devotion to her insistence she was elected governor of Arizona in 2022 — a race she lost. Lake has been mentioned as a Senate candidate next year, but this weekend she will be visiting Iowa, the site of the first Republican caucuses a year from now.
And Palin is still politically active and still telling Alaskans she would be their elected member of Congress right now if it were not for a "weird" voting system voters adopted there by referendum the year before her defeat in 2022.
Trump enthusiastically endorsed and praised both women in their contests last year.
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In June 2019, a woman lay on the floor of a trailer home in Kitsap County, struggling to breathe after her boyfriend allegedly beat and choked her.
After a neighbor called the police, Dwayne Allen Flannery was charged with second-degree assault. The county’s Superior Court issued a no-contact order prohibiting Flannery from going near his girlfriend. The court also issued an order requiring him to immediately turn in his firearms.
Four years later, Flannery has not turned in a single weapon.
He claimed the order to surrender weapons violates his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures and self-incrimination, because turning in his weapons would mean admitting he had firearms that he wasn’t legally allowed to have under the no-contact order, which made it a felony offense for him to possess firearms.
The Washington Court of Appeals agreed with Flannery, dropping the weapons surrender order in a November 2022 decision.
Since then, the Flannery case has spawned uncertainty over a law meant to protect domestic violence survivors from gun violence in Washington, a state with some of the strongest firearm regulations in the country. Many judicial officers, including all of those in the Pierce and Cowlitz counties Superior Courts, have stopped enforcing Washington’s firearm surrender law in civil protection order cases due to their interpretation of the Flannery decision, creating a patchwork of rulings from judge to judge on whether to require alleged abusers to turn in their guns.
State legislators attempted to clarify Flannery’s Fifth Amendment concern with a “Flannery fix” contained in recently passed legislation, but it’s unclear whether judges will find the change sufficient when the law takes effect in late July.
Even if judges do find it sufficient, the state’s firearm surrender law remains threatened. The Flannery decision is part of a flurry of similar court rulings across the country challenging the constitutionality of gun regulations, resulting in firearm surrender laws becoming effectively meaningless in some jurisdictions. A looming federal case, United States v. Rahimi, could invalidate firearm prohibition laws nationwide for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders. The U.S. Supreme Court announced June 30 that it would weigh in on the case.
These decisions worry domestic violence experts, advocates and attorneys. Research shows domestic violence victims are five times more likely to be killed when their abuser has access to a gun.
“Rollbacks of these protections will no doubt lead to more female homicides in domestic violence incidents,” said Wendy Schiller, a Brown University political science and public policy professor who recently co-authored a book on state domestic violence legislation. “The seriousness of this just can’t be underestimated, given that nearly 50% of women who die by domestic violence die by firearm. This is hundreds, if not thousands, of women dying a year.”
Flannery decision fallout
Domestic violence victim advocates and attorneys said the way many judicial officers in Washington interpreted the Flannery decision is misguided at best — and potentially lethal in the worst cases.
“These precedents really have the potential to unravel all of the protections that advocates, that legislators, that survivors, prosecutors and law enforcement have been building and putting into place over decades to keep survivors and their families safe,” said Elizabeth Montoya, communications coordinator for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
In 1994, Washington became among the first three states to require all people under temporary domestic violence restraining orders to turn in their guns when they’re prohibited from having them. Today, eight states share that requirement, according to Everytown for Gun Safety’s Gun Law Navigator database.
In the past decade, state lawmakers gave law enforcement and the courts more authority to remove firearms in civil protection order cases and ensured law enforcement had a process for serving the orders. That led to an increase in firearm surrenders overall, Montoya said.
But now, in response to the Flannery case, many judicial officers across the state are failing to grant domestic violence victims’ requests for abusers to surrender their firearms. Despite Flannery’s case being a criminal no-contact order, some judges and court commissioners across Washington are applying the decision to civil cases as well, under the interpretation that the Flannery decision renders all civil firearm surrender orders unconstitutional.
While criminal cases address crimes such as assault and can lead to no-contact orders, civil cases address issues where there isn’t enough evidence for the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard needed for a criminal conviction. To be granted a protection order in civil cases, victims must only demonstrate that it’s more likely than not that the abuse occurred.
Some attorneys and legal experts in Washington disagree that the Flannery decision can even be applied to civil protection order cases because the Flannery ruling specifies that it is only relevant to criminal, pretrial cases.
“The Flannery court explicitly limited its opinion to the arguments presented in that case,” said Mary Welch, an attorney and statewide advocacy counsel with the Northwest Justice Project, which provides free legal assistance for civil cases. “It doesn’t apply to civil cases.”
In Pierce County, the Superior Court’s decision not to issue the orders is based primarily on the Fifth Amendment argument that firearm surrenders are self-incriminating, according to Terri Farmer, a Pierce County Superior Court commissioner.
The Pierce County court edited its protection order paperwork to remove all firearm surrender language. Farmer said the updated wording is meant to clarify that respondents cannot possess firearms, even though the court is not requiring them to turn in their weapons.
“All the judges looked at it and made a decision,” Farmer said. “We found Flannery to be binding, and we’re not issuing the orders.”
In other counties, including Yakima, Benton and Franklin, attorneys say some judges and commissioners have also refused to issue firearm surrender orders.
Welch started getting emails from victim advocates across Washington following the decision, saying courts wouldn’t enter weapons surrender orders. She’s seen judicial officers write, “Not allowed under Flannery” in the weapons surrender section within the protection order, while some courts scratch out the section completely, she said.
Washington’s “Flannery fix” in House Bill 1715, passed during this year’s legislative session, gives people subject to protection orders immunity from being prosecuted in certain instances where turning in their firearms would be self-incriminating. In granting this immunity, the bill aims to address courts’ concerns that firearm surrender orders violate individuals’ Fifth Amendment rights.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Lauren Davis, D-Shoreline, wrote the legislation in part based on her own experience with domestic violence in King County. She said her abuser had access to firearms.
Not all courts have interpreted the Flannery decision as Pierce County has. King County continues to issue firearm surrender orders and ensures they are carried out through its Regional Domestic Violence Firearms Enforcement Unit.
The unit, composed of law enforcement personnel and prosecutors, among other partners, has recovered 4,000 firearms since it was formed in 2018, according to program manager Sandra Shanahan.
Victims are in danger as debate continues on the Flannery decision, attorneys say. Welch with the Northwest Justice Project has one client in a particularly dangerous situation who she advised to take refuge in a shelter because the weapons surrender order wasn’t issued.
“This isn’t going to stop until somebody gets killed by a gun that should have been taken away,” Welch said. “That’s what keeps me up at night. I just don’t want to have to wait until the worst happens.”
Supreme Court weighing in
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision, however, could make courts’ interpretations of the Flannery decision a moot point in Washington.
The Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a lower court decision that struck down a federal law prohibiting people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms. The ruling, made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, revolves around Zackey Rahimi, an alleged domestic abuser in Texas who argued that a firearms prohibition violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The Fifth Circuit, a court skewed heavily to the right, agreed with Rahimi, making it legal under federal law for accused domestic abusers to own guns in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Gun safety advocates say it is critical for the Supreme Court to hear the case — and reverse it — because federal courts in other parts of the country might reach the same conclusion as the Fifth Circuit if its invalidation of federal law stands. If the Supreme Court affirms the decision, domestic violence survivors in all 50 states will be at heightened risk for gun violence, advocates say.
The Rahimi decision rests on a previous Supreme Court ruling in 2022, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. The Bruen decision upended how lower courts approach gun restrictions by ruling that firearm regulations are only justified if they are consistent with the nation’s “historic” understanding of the Second Amendment, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the court’s majority opinion.
As in Flannery’s case, advocates, attorneys and researchers question the validity of the court’s legal arguments in the Rahimi and Bruen decisions. The Constitution was ratified before domestic violence was even considered a crime, noted Schiller, the Brown University professor. Basing domestic violence firearm laws on historic precedent set in the 18th century doesn’t make sense given how far women’s rights have progressed, she argues.
The legal uncertainty created by cases like Flannery and Rahimi is discouraging judges from entering into firearm surrender and prohibition orders, even when they have the authority to do so, experts say.
“Court decisions that are making it harder and harder to intervene and remove those guns when people are behaving dangerously are just an additional barrier to partner violence prevention efforts that we don’t need,” said Shannon Frattaroli, a researcher and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions. “To suddenly roll back that progress has very real consequences.”
Andrea Saunders, managing attorney with the Family Safety Project at Tacomaprobono Community Lawyers, which provides free civil legal aid in Pierce County, said that even before the Flannery decision, enforcing firearm surrender orders had been a challenge for Washington’s law enforcement agencies and courts.
Law enforcement has to rely mainly on the honor system when serving firearm surrender orders. Saunders has seen cases in Pierce County where individuals simply won’t admit to having weapons.
Still, Saunders said she hopes House Bill 1715 will be enough for Pierce County Superior Court to start issuing weapons surrender orders again.
“It’s a real frustration and a safety concern,” she said. “A protection order doesn’t stop a bullet.”
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Athletics first. Tony Kemp strikes out on a foul tip. Seth Brown doubles to deep left field. Ramon Laureano singles to shallow right field. Seth Brown to third. Stephen Vogt strikes out swinging. Stephen Piscotty doubles to left field. Ramon Laureano scores. Seth Brown scores. Elvis Andrus singles to left field. Stephen Piscotty scores. Sheldon Neuse flies out to shallow right field to Marwin Gonzalez.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Athletics 3, Yankees 0.
Yankees first. DJ LeMahieu singles to left field. Aaron Judge homers to left field. DJ LeMahieu scores. Josh Donaldson grounds out to third base, Sheldon Neuse to Seth Brown. Giancarlo Stanton strikes out swinging. Gleyber Torres called out on strikes.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Athletics 3, Yankees 2.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Daily Star has won top honors in the Arizona Newspapers Association's annual Better Newspapers Contest announced Friday.
The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson earned Arizona Newspaper of the Year and finished first in general excellence among newspapers with a circulation of over 25,000. The Navajo Times based in Window Rock followed in second place for general excellence.
Angela Gervasi of the Nogales International was named the Journalist of the Year. The newspaper also finished first in general excellence among newspapers with a circulation under 3,500.
Kelly Presnell of the Arizona Daily Star won a fifth consecutive award as ANA Photographer of the Year.
A total of 35 newspapers submitted 813 entries. They were judged by the Nevada Press Association.
Below is a complete list of winners:
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NEWSPAPER of the Year
Arizona Daily Star Publisher: John D’Orlando
JOURNALIST of the Year
Angela Gervasi Nogales International
PHOTOGRAPHER of the Year
Kelly Presnell Arizona Daily Star
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE of the Year
Brandon Sanchez Herald/Review
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BNC General Excellence
Division 1 – Circulation: 25,001 & Up
1st Place Arizona Daily Star Publisher: John D’Orlando
2nd Place Navajo Times Publisher: Olivia Benally
Division 2 – Circulation: 10,001 to 25,000
1st Place The Daily Courier Publisher: Blake DeWitt
2nd Place East Valley Courier News Publisher: Richard Taylor
Division 3 – Circulation: 3501 to 10,000
1st Place Herald/Review Publisher: Jennifer Sorenson
2nd Place Casa Grande Dispatch Co-Publishers: Donovan Kramer Jr & Kara K. Cooper
3rd Place Green Valley News Publisher: Dru Sanchez
Division 4 – Circulation: Under 3,500
1st Place Nogales International Publisher: Manuel Coppola
2nd Place Maricopa Monitor Publisher: Kara K. Cooper
2nd Place Parker Pioneer Publisher: Rich Macke
NOTE: There was a tie for 2nd place
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BNC Newspaper Categories
Division 1 – 25,001 and up
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 03 – Page Design Excellence
2nd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 03 – Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 03 – Page Design Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
2nd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 05 – Best Use of Photography
2nd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 05 – Best Use of Photography
3rd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 05 – Best Use of Photography
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 06 – Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
2nd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 06 – Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 09 – Best Newsletter
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 11 – Best Newspaper Innovation
Division 2 – 10,001 to 25,000
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place East Valley Courier News Richard Taylor 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place East Valley Courier News Richard Taylor 03 – Page Design Excellence
2nd Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 03 – Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Navajo-Hopi Observer Blake DeWitt 03 – Page Design Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place East Valley Courier News Richard Taylor 05 – Best Use of Photography
2nd Place East Valley Courier News Richard Taylor 05 – Best Use of Photography
3rd Place East Valley Courier News Richard Taylor 05 – Best Use of Photography
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 06 – Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 07 – Special Section or Magazine
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
2nd Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 11 – Best Newspaper Innovation
Division 3 – 3,501 to 10,000
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Phoenix Business Journal Ray Schey 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place Arizona Daily Sun Collen Brady 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
3rd Place Green Valley News Dru Sanchez 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Payson Roundup Brian Kramer 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
2nd Place Phoenix Business Journal Ray Schey 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
3rd Place Arizona Daily Sun Collen Brady 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Green Valley News Dru Sanchez 03 – Page Design Excellence
2nd Place Phoenix Business Journal Ray Schey 03 – Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 03 – Page Design Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Green Valley News Dru Sanchez 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
2nd Place Todays News-Herald Rich Macke 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
3rd Place Fountain Hills Times Brent Cruikshank 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 05 – Best Use of Photography
2nd Place Fountain Hills Times Brent Cruikshank 05 – Best Use of Photography
3rd Place Casa Grande Dispatch Donovan Kramer Jr & Kara K. Cooper 05 – Best Use of Photography
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 06 – Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
2nd Place Todays News-Herald Rich Macke 06 – Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
3rd Place Payson Roundup Brian Kramer 06 – Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Payson Roundup Brian Kramer 07 – Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Green Valley News Dru Sanchez 07 – Special Section or Magazine
3rd Place Casa Grande Dispatch Donovan Kramer Jr & Kara K. Cooper 07 – Special Section or Magazine
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Sun Collen Brady 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
2nd Place Casa Grande Dispatch Donovan Kramer Jr & Kara K. Cooper 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
3rd Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 09 – Best Newsletter
2nd Place Casa Grande Dispatch Donovan Kramer Jr & Kara K. Cooper 09 – Best Newsletter
3rd Place Green Valley News Dru Sanchez 09 – Best Newsletter
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 10 – Best Podcast
2nd Place Casa Grande Dispatch Donovan Kramer Jr & Kara K. Cooper 10 – Best Podcast
3rd Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 10 – Best Podcast
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Casa Grande Dispatch Donovan Kramer Jr & Kara K. Cooper 11 – Best Newspaper Innovation
2nd Place Herald/Review Jennifer Sorenson 11 – Best Newspaper Innovation
Division 4 – Under 3,500
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place Parker Pioneer Rich Macke 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
3rd Place Maricopa Monitor Kara K. Cooper 01 – Reporting & News Writing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Parker Pioneer Rich Macke 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
2nd Place Maricopa Monitor Kara K. Cooper 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
3rd Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 02 – Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 03 – Page Design Excellence
2nd Place Parker Pioneer Rich Macke 03 – Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Williams-Grand Canyon News Blake DeWitt 03 – Page Design Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Camp Verde Journal, The Kyle Larson 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
1st Place Parker Pioneer Rich Macke 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
3rd Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 04 – Editorial Page Excellence
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 05 – Best Use of Photography
2nd Place Maricopa Monitor Kara K. Cooper 05 – Best Use of Photography
3rd Place Parker Pioneer Rich Macke 05 – Best Use of Photography
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 06 – Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 07 – Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Maricopa Monitor Kara K. Cooper 07 – Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Parker Pioneer Rich Macke 07 – Special Section or Magazine
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Maricopa Monitor Kara K. Cooper 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
2nd Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
3rd Place Camp Verde Journal, The Kyle Larson 08 – Newspaper Website – ONLINE
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 09 – Best Newsletter
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BNC Individual Categories
Best Individual Categories
Division 1 – 25,001 and up
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 12 – Best Headline
2nd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 12 – Best Headline
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 14 – Best News Story
2nd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 14 – Best News Story
3rd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 14 – Best News Story
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 15 – Best Sustained Coverage or Series
2nd Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 15 – Best Sustained Coverage or Series
3rd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 15 – Best Sustained Coverage or Series
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 16 – Investigative Reporting
2nd Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 16 – Investigative Reporting
3rd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 16 – Investigative Reporting
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 17 – Best use of Data Journalism
2nd Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 17 – Best use of Data Journalism
3rd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 17 – Best use of Data Journalism
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 18 – Best Sports Story
2nd Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 18 – Best Sports Story
3rd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 18 – Best Sports Story
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 19 – Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage
2nd Place Ahwatukee Foothills News Steve Strickbine 19 – Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage
3rd Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 19 – Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 20 – Best Feature Story
2nd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 20 – Best Feature Story
3rd Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 20 – Best Feature Story
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 21 – Enterprise Reporting
2nd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 21 – Enterprise Reporting
3rd Place Arizona Republic, The Greg Burton, Editor 21 – Enterprise Reporting
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 22 – Best Column, Feature or Commentary
2nd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 22 – Best Column, Feature or Commentary
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 26 – Online Coverage of Breaking News
2nd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 26 – Online Coverage of Breaking News
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 27 – Best News Photograph
2nd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 27 – Best News Photograph
3rd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 27 – Best News Photograph
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 28 – Best Sports Photograph
2nd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 28 – Best Sports Photograph
3rd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 28 – Best Sports Photograph
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 29 – Best Feature Photograph
2nd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 29 – Best Feature Photograph
3rd Place Arizona Daily Star John D’Orlando 29 – Best Feature Photograph
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 30 – Best Feature Photo Layout or Photo Story
2nd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 30 – Best Feature Photo Layout or Photo Story
3rd Place Navajo Times Olivia Benally 30 – Best Feature Photo Layout or Photo Story
Division 2 – 10,001 to 25,000
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Navajo-Hopi Observer Blake DeWitt 14 – Best News Story
2nd Place Peoria Times Steve Strickbine 14 – Best News Story
3rd Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 14 – Best News Story
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 15 – Best Sustained Coverage or Series
2nd Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 15 – Best Sustained Coverage or Series
3rd Place Peoria Independent Charlene Bisson 15 – Best Sustained Coverage or Series
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 16 – Investigative Reporting
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 17 – Best use of Data Journalism
2nd Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 17 – Best use of Data Journalism
3rd Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 17 – Best use of Data Journalism
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place SanTan Sun News Steve Strickbine 18 – Best Sports Story
2nd Place SanTan Sun News Steve Strickbine 18 – Best Sports Story
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 20 – Best Feature Story
2nd Place Navajo-Hopi Observer Blake DeWitt 20 – Best Feature Story
3rd Place Peoria Times Steve Strickbine 20 – Best Feature Story
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 21 – Enterprise Reporting
2nd Place Peoria Independent Charlene Bisson 21 – Enterprise Reporting
3rd Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 21 – Enterprise Reporting
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 22 – Best Column, Feature or Commentary
2nd Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 22 – Best Column, Feature or Commentary
3rd Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 22 – Best Column, Feature or Commentary
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Daily Courier, The Blake DeWitt 23 – Best Multimedia Storytelling
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Arizona Mirror (Online) Chris Fitzsimon 25 – Best Video reporting by print journalist
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Queen Creek Independent Charlene Bisson 29 – Best Feature Photograph
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Peoria Times Steve Strickbine 30 – Best Feature Photo Layout or Photo Story
Division 3 – 3,501 to 10,000
Winner Newspaper Publisher Class
1st Place Payson Roundup Brian Kramer 12 – Best Headline
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1st Place Phoenix Business Journal, The Ray Schey 18 – Best Sports Story
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2nd Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 22 – Best Column, Feature or Commentary
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1st Place Nogales International Manuel Coppola 27 – Best News Photograph
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1st Place Camp Verde Journal, The Kyle Larson 28 – Best Sports Photograph
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1st Place Camp Verde Journal, The Kyle Larson 29 – Best Feature Photograph
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1st Place Camp Verde Journal, The Kyle Larson 30 – Best Feature Photo Layout or Photo Story
2nd Place Eastern Arizona Courier (Safford) Belinda Mills 30 – Best Feature Photo Layout or Photo Story
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LAKE WALES, Fla. — The City of Lake Wales will use more than a million dollars to help keep pedestrians safe in a historically underserved community.
Any given morning you can find Larry Seay, taking a walk around his Northwest Lake Wales neighborhood.
“Pretty much every day. I'm diabetic, so I walk the streets every day,” Seay said.
He will be the first to tell you that the sidewalks aren't the safest. “They’re off balance. They got a lot of cracks in them, a lot of grass growing in them and they’re really not good for people to be walking on,” he said.
It’s no secret, the historically Black neighborhood has not had infrastructure upgrades in years. “They’re just bad. Just take a look around,” said Seay.
The City of Lake Wales just received nearly $1.2 million to restore sidewalks and footpaths in the Northwest neighborhood. Plans include widening existing sidewalks and adding sidewalks along streets that don’t have them.
“To create a safe environment for our pedestrians as well as beautify the neighborhood. It’s part of our overall effort to revitalize Lake Wales,” said City Manager James Slaton.
Lake Wales is one of ten Florida communities to receive funding administered by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. Construction on the sidewalks is set to begin later this year. Seay couldn’t be more excited.
“It’s hard to get things down here, but if the City of Lake Wales is going to do it, I'll be glad when they do it,” said Seay. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-polk/lake-wales-awarded-1-2-million-to-increase-pedestrian-safety-in-underserved-community | 2022-06-03 21:41:24 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-polk/lake-wales-awarded-1-2-million-to-increase-pedestrian-safety-in-underserved-community |
Woman allegedly broke into Robert De Niro’s home, tried to take Christmas gifts, reports say
Published: Dec. 19, 2022 at 11:07 AM EST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
(Gray News) - A woman was arrested early Monday morning after breaking into legendary actor Robert De Niro’s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, local media reported.
Shanice Aviles, 30, was arrested after she was spotted entering the actor’s home at around 2:45 a.m. Eastern. Police said she was spotted taking Christmas presents from under the tree and putting them in a bag.
The actor was at home the time of the break-in but didn’t know what was going on, NBC New York said.
Aviles was being followed because she was wanted in connection with six other burglaries, ABC New York said. Media reports described her as a repeat offender.
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The redesigned 2023 Honda Accord mid-size sedan receives a modest price bump and a modest efficiency bump for hybrid versions, Honda announced Wednesday.
The 2023 Honda Accord LX starts the bidding at $28,390, including a $1,095 destination fee. That’s an increase of $775 from last year’s model. The price increase includes a new look with a lower front end that mirrors the Honda Civic. The 11th-generation Accord is three inches longer than its predecessor, but the standard 192-hp 1.5-liter turbo-4 and CVT mostly carries over for base LX and EX trims. Honda says it refined the direct-injection system and crankshaft, and updated the CVT to reduce engine noise. But fuel economy drops 1 mpg to an EPA-rated 29 mpg city, 37 highway, 32 combined.
The turbo-4 comes in LX and EX grades, with standard features such as LED headlights, 17-inch wheels, cloth seats, a 7.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, a 10.2-inch digital instrument cluster, and two USB-C ports.
For $30,705, the EX adds heated front seats, a sunroof, and a power driver seat.
The 2023 Accord Sport kicks off the hybrid lineup for $32,990. That’s a $725 increase from last year’s Hybrid Sport. The Hybrid uses a new iteration of Honda’s two-motor hybrid system. The motors are mounted beside each other now, enabling a larger propulsion motor to fit, and a 2.0-liter inline-4 running on the efficient Atkinson cycle has direct fuel injection this year. Power drops to 204 hp from 212 hp, but the larger motor makes more torque, from 232 lb-ft in the outgoing model to 247 lb-ft of torque in the 2023 Hybrid.
Honda expects the Accord Hybrid to account for more than half of Accord sales, with four of the six trims designated for the Hybrid. Sport, Sport-L, and Touring trims have an EPA-rated 46 mpg city, 41 highway, 44 combined. The EX-L Hybrid downsizes wheels from 19 inches to 17 inches, and boosts efficiency to 51/44/48 mpg, which is 1 mpg combined more than last year’s most efficient Accord Hybrid.
The 2023 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Blue outpaces the hybrid mid-size sedan class with a 52-mpg combined rating.
It Hybrid Sport comes well equipped with a 12.3-inch touchscreen with wireless smartphone compatibility and available charging, 19-inch black alloy wheels, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
The more efficient EX-L costs $34,635, and adds leather upholstery and parking sensors. The $34,970 Sport-L adds black trim elements and a rear diffuser, as well as a power passenger seat.
The Touring hybrid tops the lineup at $38,985. It features a Google built-in infotainment operating system with a 3-year data plan, 12-speaker Bose audio, a wireless smartphone charger, wifi hotspot, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear outboard seats, and a 6.0-inch head-up display.
The 2023 Honda Accord goes on sale later this month.
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The Transportation Department recently announced a rule that would require newly built single-aisle aircrafts to have lavatories big enough to fit both a passenger with a disability and an attendant.
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A lawyer for Donald Trump said Thursday he’s been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.
It becomes the first ever criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to Trump’s bid to retake the White House in 2024.
Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for Trump, told The Associated Press he had been told that a grand jury that had been meeting for months voted to indict Trump. The specific charges were not immediately made public.
Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and has attacked the investigation, was expected to surrender to authorities next week, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss a matter that remained under seal.
The grand jury indictment of Trump, 76, is an extraordinary development after years of investigations into his business, political and personal dealings. It is likely to galvanize critics who say Trump lied and cheated his way to the top and embolden supporters who feel the Republican is being unfairly targeted by a Democratic prosecutor.
Associated Press writer Colleen Long in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.wrde.com/news/lawyer-trump-indicted-1st-ex-president-charged-with-crime/article_8e3428da-cf44-11ed-b72a-431d78ac28db.html | 2023-03-31 01:31:11 | 1 | https://www.wrde.com/news/lawyer-trump-indicted-1st-ex-president-charged-with-crime/article_8e3428da-cf44-11ed-b72a-431d78ac28db.html |
What to Know
- Bryce Harper and Mike Trout both came to the big leagues in the early 2010s and have grown from teenage sensations to mature superstars.
- Now Harper has had his big postseason moment, clubbing a two-run homer in Game 5 of the NLCS on Sunday to send the Phillies to their first World Series since 2009. Meanwhile, Trout's wait continues.
- Harper’s recent success magnifies how little team success and postseason baseball Trout has seen.
Bryce Harper's career arc from teenage sensation to full-blown superstar has been an 11-year process, hitting a crescendo Sunday night when his two-run homer in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series proved to be the deciding hit that sent his Philadelphia Phillies to their first World Series since 2009.
One of the game's biggest stars is finally on the game's biggest stage.
Meanwhile, Mike Trout's wait continues.
Their careers have been linked since they were teenagers, when Sports Illustrated touted Harper as “Baseball's Chosen One” and Trout began drawing Mickey Mantle comparisons. They had nearly impossible expectations heaped on them before even entering a big league lineup, billed as the game's next superstars.
Somehow, Harper and Trout have pretty much been as good as advertised.
They're mature ballplayers now, both in their early 30s and each on a Hall of Fame trajectory. Harper is one of the game's most feared sluggers. Trout patrols center field for the Los Angeles Angels, MLB's best all-around player for most of the last decade.
Trout has largely dominated the debate about which player has been better. But Harper has at least one item missing from Trout's resume — a signature October moment. Thanks to his homer Sunday, the Phillies travel to face the Astros in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday.
“This game is ‘What have you done for me lately?’” Harper said when discussing the Phillies journey this season. “That’s how it’s always been.”
Purely by the numbers, Trout has an edge in most categories.
He’s a three-time AL MVP while Harper has been named NL MVP twice. Trout has made 10 All-Star teams while Harper has been on seven.
If sabermetrics are your thing, baseball-reference.com says Trout has been worth 82.4 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) over his 12 seasons. Harper has 42.5 WAR over 11 seasons.
Or if you prefer dollars: Harper set a North American pro sports record with his $330 million, 13-year free-agent deal with the Phillies in 2019 — then immediately and unsuccessfully tried to recruit Trout to join him in Philadelphia.
Trout instead extended his deal in Los Angeles for $360 million and 10 more years, surpassing Harper's record total.
It's hard to blame Trout for the Angels' woes, but Harper’s recent run magnifies how little team success and postseason baseball Trout has seen. Even in a year where 40% of MLB teams made the postseason, the Angels were done after the regular season, finishing with a disappointing 73-89 record.
It's been a confounding several years for the Angels, who have paired Trout with several superstars throughout his career. Currently, Shohei Ohtani is the game's best two-way player since Babe Ruth.
“We’ve got two of the greatest players ever to put on uniforms, but we need more,” Angels GM Perry Minasian said recently. “It’s not a 2-on-2 game. If it was, I would love our chances.”
Trout has played in the postseason just once, in 2014. The Angels were swept by the Royals in the AL Division Series and Trout was 1 for 12 at the plate, though his one hit was a homer.
In retrospect, it was a prophetic stretch of games earlier this season back in June, when Harper's Phillies swept Trout and the Angels in a three-game series. It was the start of Philadelphia's rise that culminated in their unlikely trip to the World Series.
The Angels were mired in a 14-game losing streak at the time and continued their collapse while Trout eventually got hurt. His back problems this season served as a reminder about the fragility of professional athletes: As awesome as he is, the 31-year-old won't keep putting up MVP-caliber numbers forever.
“I'm doing everything I can to stay on the field, but things pop up,” Trout said. “I play the game hard.”
It's not clear if the Angels will compete for championships any time soon. The team's payroll has always been competitive under owner Arte Moreno, but now he's exploring a sale of the team, which brings more uncertainty for the franchise.
“I trust Perry to bring a winning team in here,” Trout said. “He harps on it every day, ever since we were knocked out (of the playoffs), bringing in a great group here to compete.”
The good news for Trout is postseason fortune can change quickly. Harper went through his own four-year playoff drought from 2018-21 before leading the Phillies to the World Series this season.
For their part, Harper and Trout share a mutual respect. Even when Trout was struggling — he was 0 for 11 in the three games when the two teams met in June — Harper said it wouldn't last forever.
“I think everybody kind of goes through stretches like that,” Harper said about Trout, talking to the L.A. Times in June. “I’ve done it in my career. He’s one of the best of all time. Everybody knows how good he is.
“He’ll get out of it, and by the end of the year, nobody will even think about this stretch that he’s on. He’ll be the same Mike Trout and hit .300 with 40 homers.”
Harper was pretty much correct. Trout finished with a .283 batting average and clubbed 40 homers despite the back problems, continuing a stellar career that rivals some of the all-time greats.
Here's hoping that baseball fans get to see it in the postseason some day.
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By BERNIE WILSON
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jake Cronenworth hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning and the San Diego Padres rallied past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 Saturday night to advance to the NL Championship Series for the first time since 1998.
The Padres stunned the 111-win Dodgers with a five-run seventh to win the best-of-five NL Division Series 3-1 in front of a raucous sellout crowd of 45,139 at Petco Park.
“It’s about to be a party out here tonight,” said starting pitcher Joe Musgrove, who grew up a Padres fan in the San Diego suburbs.
“I mean, since I was a little kid we’ve been getting beat up by the Dodgers. But when it comes down to it and the games matter, this team stepped up, from top to bottom.”
San Diego will host the Philadelphia Phillies in Games 1 and 2 of an all-wild card NLCS on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Phillies beat the defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves 8-3 earlier in the day to win their NLDS in four games.
The crowd roared when Josh Hader, obtained from Milwaukee on Aug. 1, struck out Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman in succession to end the Padres’ third straight win against the Dodgers. Padres players celebrated wildly on the infield and fireworks went off above the downtown ballpark. Manny Machado and Juan Soto exhorted the fans for more as they all reveled in the middle of a rare San Diego rainstorm.
The Padres last reached the NLCS 24 years ago when they beat Atlanta in six games and were then swept by the New York Yankees in the World Series. A handful of players from that team watched from a luxury suite, including Hall of Fame closer Trevor Hoffman and center fielder Steve Finley.
It was a soul-crushing ending for the Dodgers after the best regular-season record in club history and manager Dave Roberts’ prediction during spring training that they’d win the World Series.
“Shock factor, very high. Disappointment, very high. It’s crushing,” Roberts said. “Each guy gave everything they had all year long, and a tremendous season. The great thing about baseball is the unpredictability, and the tough thing about it is the same thing.
“Nothing I can say is going to make it feel any better. Obviously we didn’t expect to be in this position,” he added.
The game was delayed 31 minutes at the start by showers, which returned in the eighth inning and prompted a short delay while the grounds crew worked on the mound.
After left-hander Tyler Anderson stymied the Padres through five scoreless innings, San Diego broke through against the Dodgers’ bullpen in the seventh.
Jurickson Profar drew a leadoff walk against Tommy Kahnle, took third on Trent Grisham’s single and scored when Austin Nola’s infield single glanced off Freeman’s glove at first base. Yency Almonte, who took the loss, came on and was greeted by Kim Ha-seong’s RBI double inside the third base line, followed by Soto’s tying single to right.
With two outs and the crowd on its feet, Cronenworth singled to center off local product Alex Vesia to give the Padres the lead, raising his arms in celebration as he rounded first and then punching the air with his right fist as he pulled into second base on the throw home. Soto, acquired from Washington in a blockbuster trade Aug. 2, slid home headfirst and jumped up and cheered.
“It took a team effort to beat a really good team and we did that tonight,” Machado said.
After the first rain delay, fans were amped up in anticipation of Musgrove pitching his hometown Padres into the NL Championship Series. The big right-hander from suburban El Cajon, a first-time All-Star in 2022, was the first Padres pitcher from San Diego to make a postseason start in his hometown.
But Anderson outpitched Musgrove, holding the Padres to two hits through five innings.
The Dodgers took a 2-0 lead in the third. Betts walked with one out and Turner scorched a grounder past third baseman Machado, who has carried the Padres much of the season, to move Betts to third. Freeman, who helped the Braves win the World Series last year before signing with the Dodgers as a free agent, doubled down the right field line to bring them both in.
Will Smith hit a sacrifice fly against Steven Wilson with the bases loaded in the seventh for a 3-0 lead, but winning pitcher Tim Hill prevented further damage.
The Dodgers will be left with an empty feeling. They won the NL West for the ninth time in 10 seasons and finished 22 games ahead of San Diego. The Dodgers went 14-5 against the Padres in the regular season and had won nine straight regular-season series against them.
“These guys dominated us all year long, but we got hot at the right time. And you see the unity in this group, this fan base — we wanted to give it to these people so bad,” Musgrove said. “It’s a good feeling.”
Musgrove was trying for his second straight playoff series-clinching win. On Sunday night, he dominated the New York Mets at Citi Field, allowing just one hit and one walk in seven innings in a 6-0 win that sent the Padres to the NLDS.
He gave up two runs and six hits in six innings against the Dodgers, struck out eight and walked three.
FIRST PITCH
Jake Peavy, the 2007 NL Cy Young Award winner who was Musgrove’s boyhood idol, threw out the ceremonial first pitch to former teammate Mark Loretta. Musgrove switched to Peavy’s No. 44 after he was obtained by the Padres prior to the 2021 season. Peavy said he texted congratulations to Musgrove after he threw the first no-hitter in franchise history on April 9, 2021, and met him for the first time this weekend. “Like, I’m honored that this dude saw me,” Peavy said of being Musgrove’s idol, “because I did it with the Roger Clemens and the Nolan Ryans of the world. I looked up to these guys and ripped off some of their game to become my own version of myself.”
UP NEXT
Dodgers: Play their spring training opener Feb. 25 against Milwaukee.
Padres: RHP Yu Darvish likely will get the start Tuesday night in Game 1 of the NLCS.
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DELHI, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – Two people were arrested and charged after setting on fire the personal property of a victim in Delaware County.
On July 31st, Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to an incident on Honest Brook Road in the Town of Delhi. A male party reported that his personal property located at his residence had been damaged by fire.
After an investigation, 34-year-old Amanda Nodine of Delhi was arrested and charged with the following crimes:
- 1 Count of Criminal Contempt for violating an active court order of protection (Class A Misdemeanor)
- 1 Count of Criminal Mischief for damaging property in excess on $250 (Class E Felony)
- 1 Count of Arson for intentional damage to property by fire (Class A Misdemeanor)
Deputies also arrested 25-year old Chance Byington of Colchester after determining that he was Nodine’s co-conspirator. He was charged with the following crimes:
- 1 Count of Criminal Mischief for damaging property in excess on $250 (Class E Felony)
- 1 Count of Arson for intentional damage to property by fire (Class A Misdemeanor)
Nodine was arraigned in the Town of Hamden Court and then released on her own recognizance. She was directed to appear in the Town of Delhi Court at a later date.
Byington was processed and released on an Appearance Ticket returnable to the Town of Delhi Court at a later date. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/crime/two-charged-with-arson-in-delaware-county/ | 2022-08-04 17:50:31 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/crime/two-charged-with-arson-in-delaware-county/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Senate has picked committee leaders and members for the next two years, with 24 of 32 Republicans in the chamber majority named as chairs on Thursday by Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and the Senate Committee on Assignments.
Sen. Blake Tillery, of Vidalia, will stay at the helm of the budget-writing Senate Appropriations Committee, as expected. Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, of Rome, will remain chair of the Senate Finance Committee, which writes tax bills. Sen. Brian Strickland, of McDonough, also returns as the chair of the Judiciary Committee, which handles legislation on criminal and civil law.
Sen. Matt Brass of Newnan, one of the Republican Jones’ closest allies, will head the Rules Committee, which controls the flow of the legislation that goes to the full Senate. Other top Jones allies who were appointed include Sen. Brandon Beach, of Alpharetta, to helm the Economic Development and Tourism Committee and Sen. Greg Dolezal, of Cumming, to head the Transportation Committee.
One early initiative by Jones and Republican leaders has been to create a Children and Families Committee, which will be led by Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, of Marietta. Jones said the panel will focus in part on improving foster care and child welfare conditions.
Traditionally, some high-ranking senators including President Pro Tem John Kennedy, of Macon, do not lead committees.
Sen Mike Dugan of Carrollton, who lost his bid to become president pro tem to Kennedy, will chair the Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security Committee.
There are three first-term Republican chairs, with Shelly Echols, of Alto, leading the Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee, former House member Rick Williams, of Milledgeville, leading the Retirement Committee, and Colton Moore, of Trenton, leading the Interstate Cooperation Committee.
Senate leaders also tapped two Democrats to lead low-profile panels. Sen. Donzella James, of Atlanta, will chair the the Urban Affairs Committee, while Sen. Ed Harbison, of Columbus, will lead the State Institutions and Property Committee. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mix-of-old-and-new-in-Georgia-Senate-committee-17714297.php | 2023-01-12 23:08:40 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mix-of-old-and-new-in-Georgia-Senate-committee-17714297.php |
Company introduces new Trust and Safety Roadmap with enhanced measures following in-depth review by world-class safety expert
MIAMI, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Papa, a curated platform of companionship and support for older adults and families, today announced a new Trust and Safety Roadmap, inclusive of enhanced new safety measures, protections, policies, and protocols. The Trust and Safety Roadmap was developed in collaboration with world-class safety expert Robert Chesnut, who brings 30 years of experience spanning the U.S Department of Justice, to eBay and Airbnb.
"The initiatives identified in Papa's Trust and Safety Roadmap are the result of an in-depth assessment of the company's existing trust and safety processes, policies, and systems, including insights from more than 25 interviews with current and former employees and industry leaders," said Chesnut. "I presented my report to Papa's board and executive team, and I am pleased to see the company announced its new safety measures today."
Papa's platform connects older adults and families with vetted companions to provide social support and successfully address the social drivers that disproportionately affect health outcomes. In a randomized controlled study, 69% of Papa participants reported a reduction in loneliness and average physically and mentally unhealthy days were reduced by 4.5 and 4 days, respectively. Additionally, claims-based analyses by Papa clients revealed a 20% reduction in emergency department visits, an increase in cancer screenings (5.4% increase in breast cancer screening rate), and 6% lower total cost of care.
Today, Papa operates nationwide, has conducted more than 1.6 million visits, and is on track to conduct nearly 1 million visits in 2023 alone. While one incident is too many, only 0.1% of in-person visits have contained a member-reported safety complaint and 0.3% of visits have contained a Pal-reported safety complaint. By comparison, per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 41% of traditional home healthcare workers have reported sexual harassment.
Papa has consistently put trust and safety at the core of its operations, and over the past year, has taken even further measures to improve the security and safety of members and Papa Pals on its platform. This includes fundamentally reviewing and revamping its screening process to go above and beyond the industry standard, adding manual reviews of the raw data background check vendors receive, in addition to analysis by the background check vendor's software, to avoid potential configuration issues. Prior to implementing this enhanced screening process, the company conducted a retroactive manual review of every Papa Pal in its system to ensure these high standards are met across its network.
Papa also significantly enhanced its Papa Pal training and education, more than doubling touch points to its Pals; rolled out enhanced geolocation technology to catch anomalous situations that could present safety concerns; implemented software that automatically scans for over 300 keywords to uncover and escalate safety-related issues sooner; and improved the ability to report visit problems within its app.
Based on Chesnut's recent review, Papa is prioritizing additional areas for improvement and several initiatives that will roll out over the next three to six months to build on the safety measures described above, including:
- adding additional trust and safety expertise to the organization by establishing an external Safety Advisory Board
- further increasing mandatory training activities for Papa Pals, with a focus on combating sexual and other workplace harassment, responding to emergency situations, and cultural competency during onboarding
- enhancing Papa Pal screenings and identity verification checks, with monitoring related to transportation and vehicle safety standards
- adding new in-visit and post-visit safety features for Papa Pals and members, improving the ability to report visit problems—across multiple secure channels, receive assistance in the event of an emergency, and more
- rolling out more secure communication channels, such as number anonymization, without hindering relationship-building
"I'm deeply committed to protecting the safety of our members and Papa Pals as we build and refine a new model of care. It's important, and it's personal. I think of every member as I would my own grandfather, who I called Papa, and every Pal as a friend," said Andrew Parker, founder and CEO of Papa. "Our work to uphold trust and safety among our members and Pals is at the center of our operations and mission. Over the last year-plus, we've taken consistent measures to improve the safety and security of our platform to go above and beyond the industry standard. And we will continue to do everything we can to ensure the well-being of our community and make changes to how we do business wherever necessary."
Find Papa's full Trust and Safety Roadmap here.
About Papa
Papa is a new kind of care, built on human connection. Across the country, health plans and employers look to Papa to provide vital social support by pairing older adults and families with Papa Pals, caring and vetted companions, who provide a helping hand and an open ear, resulting in less loneliness and better health. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Miami, Papa is backed by Canaan, Tiger Global Management, Comcast Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, TCG, Initialized Capital, and Seven Seven Six, among other revered institutional and individual investors. We envision a world where no one has to go it alone. Learn more at papa.com.
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) is leaving the door open to a 2024 presidential run, acknowledging that he’s having conversations about a bid for the White House.
In an interview with Fox News, Sununu, who won reelection in November, said that he’s been approached about a possible presidential campaign and is discussing the matter. But he also insisted that there’s still plenty of time to make a decision.
“It’s incredibly flattering,” Sununu said of the speculation that he could mount a presidential bid. “A lot of folks are coming to me, a lot of folks want me to run. It’s definitely conversations that we’re having, of course.”
“My first priority is New Hampshire. It really is,” he added. “But again, we’ll keep having those conversations. There’s no time table for making decisions or where it all goes.”
Sununu was reelected to a fourth term in the New Hampshire governor’s mansion last year after passing on a bid for the U.S. Senate. He’s repeatedly been mentioned as a possible candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, especially by critics of former President Donald Trump, who launched a comeback campaign in November.
But Sununu offered few clues about when he could make a final decision on a presidential campaign, noting that the New Hampshire presidential primaries are still more than a year away.
“I think people have to understand it is, what? Jan. 4 or 5, right? Of ‘23? So we still have well over a year before we even get to the first-in-the nation primary,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of time before folks even get in the race.”
While that may be true, the 2024 Republican primary has already begun to draw considerable attention. Trump is the only candidate who has launched a campaign so far, but there’s growing chatter that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may jump into the race.
There’s also a handful of Republicans who are also seen as would-be contenders, including former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Early polling suggests that Trump and DeSantis are the two frontrunners for the 2024 nomination. Nevertheless, Sununu said that there’s still time for the political landscape to change.
“Who knows what might happen between now and then?” Sununu said. “And those unknown variables could really dictate who gets in the race and how successful they can be.” | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/sununu-on-possible-2024-run-its-definitely-conversations-that-were-having/ | 2023-01-05 20:36:57 | 1 | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/sununu-on-possible-2024-run-its-definitely-conversations-that-were-having/ |
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PHOENIX (AP) — Load management is a big topic across the NBA these days.
One great way to make sure players get rest in the playoffs is to end the series early.
The Phoenix Suns, Denver Nuggets and Boston Celtics all have that opportunity on Tuesday night when they host Game 5s with a 3-1 lead in the series.
“Closeout games are always the hardest,” Suns center Deandre Ayton said. “We expect it’s going to be a battle. We’re just gearing up.”
The Western Conference top-seed Nuggets already had one opportunity to end their series, but the feisty Timberwolves managed to extend it with a Game 4 win in overtime on Sunday.
“We really wanted to come out and have a sweep under our belt. Didn’t happen,” Nuggets guard Jamal Murray said. “They fought. They fought like hell, all game long. Even when we put a scare in their heart a little bit, they kept fighting, kept playing, and the crowd was into it.”
The Suns-Los Angeles Clippers series has been shaped by Kawhi Leonard’s knee injury. Leonard has missed the past two games with a sprained knee, which has helped tip the series in favor of Phoenix.
“He’s definitely hurt. It’s not load management where he’s taking time off,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. “He’s shown in the past that he’s played through injuries in the playoffs and so if it’s something he can’t play through, then it has to be pretty serious.”
L.A.’s Paul George has been out since March 21 with the same injury as Leonard.
HAWKS AT CELTICS
Boston leads 3-1. Game 4, 7:30 p.m. EDT, TNT.
— NEED TO KNOW: The Celtics have never lost a best-of-seven playoff series after building a 3-1 lead. They are 27-0 in those situations over their storied history.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Jaylen Brown’s facial wear. The Boston star had been using a protective mask since February, when he sustained a broken bone in his face. But he ditched the mask in the second quarter of Game 4 after making just 1 of 7 shots. He went 11 of 15 the rest of the way to finish with 31 points in a 129-121 victory. Presumably, he won’t be wearing the mask anymore in these playoffs. “As soon as I took it off, things started to turn around a little bit,” Brown said.
— INJURY WATCH: Boston G Marcus Smart looked just fine in Game 4 after falling hard on his tailbone in the previous contest. He said they were times when his lower back tightened up, and he’ll have to remain diligent in his treatment to make sure the pain doesn’t keep him off the court. “Throughout the game, it got a little tight on me. It flared up. But once I got it stretched out again, got it loose, got some heat on it, it was pretty good,” Smart said.
— PRESSURE IS ON: The Hawks. It looks like another brief playoff appearance unless they can pull of a win in Boston, and the challenge got even tougher when guard Dejounte Murray was suspended for Game 5 after bumping and verbally abusing an official after the end of Game 4. Murray is averaging 25.3 points in the series. Atlanta has lost five straight at TD Garden since its last victory on Feb. 17, 2021, including a pair of 13-point defeats in the first two games of this series. If the Hawks lose, it would be the second straight year they’ve gone down in five games in the opening round and could signal major changes heading into the offseason.
TIMBERWOLVES AT NUGGETS
Denver leads 3-1. Game 5, 9 p.m. EDT, NBA TV.
— NEED TO KNOW: The Nuggets closed the last 2½ minutes of the fourth quarter of Game 4 on a tying 12-0 run, but the Timberwolves recovered with an 18-point overtime on 6-for-8 shooting for a 114-108 victory. It denied Denver a first playoff-series sweep in franchise history and keep the first-round matchup alive despite Nikola Jokic’s playoff-career-high-tying 43 points.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Anthony Edwards. Minnesota’s All-Star guard has 129 points in four games, the second-most in the NBA playoffs behind Phoenix’s Devin Booker (139). He delivered a wide array of clutch baskets down the stretch for the Wolves in Game 4, including a pull-up 3-pointer from the wing with 11.5 seconds left in overtime to push their lead to four. He’s the first player in Wolves’ history with 100-plus points over three consecutive playoff games. Only LeBron James (eight) had more 30-plus-point playoff games before age 22 than Edwards does (five). Still, Edwards was aiming for a higher bar after his 12-for-27 shooting performance.
“I played terrible, if you ask me,” he said. “I took three bad 3s, three terrible possessions, and I damn near shot us out the game.”
— INJURY WATCH: Wolves sixth man Kyle Anderson was inadvertently struck by a stray arm from Edwards during a leap for a rebound late in the third quarter and did not return after suffering what the team announced as a left eye and facial contusion. Coach Chris Finch said Anderson went to see an eye specialist. … Nuggets coach Mike Malone on Jokic’s aggression with 12 free-throw attempts in Game 4 after zero in Game 3: “He’s banged up. He’s playing hard.”
— PRESSURE IS ON: Jamal Murray. After scoring 40 points in Game 2, Denver’s standout point guard missed 26 of 43 shots over the two games in Minnesota. He had 19 points in Game 4, with Nickeil Alexander-Walker frequently picking up his defense before half court and making him work hard for every shot, drive and pass.
CLIPPERS AT SUNS
Phoenix leads 3-1, Game 5, 10 p.m. EDT, TNT
— NEED TO KNOW: The Suns took control of the series with two wins in Los Angeles and now return to Phoenix to try and close it out. The Suns have taken advantage of the absence of L.A. star Kawhi Leonard, who missed both Games 3 and 4 because of a sprained knee.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Three-time All-Star Devin Booker is cooking for the Suns, averaging 34.8 points on 57.1% shooting. The 26-year-old isn’t just scoring, he’s averaging 5.5 assists, 4.3 rebounds, 2.8 steals and 1.3 blocks.
— INJURY WATCH: All eyes are on Leonard to see if he can return. The Suns have been without backup point guard Cam Payne, who hasn’t played in the series because of a sore back.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Russell Westbrook. If Leonard can’t play, the Clippers almost certainly have to have another massive game from Westbrook, who has played well in the series. He’s improved his scoring total each game, rising from 9 points in Game 1 to 28 in Game 2, 30 in Game 3 and 37 in Game 4. L.A. might need a 40-spot from him on Tuesday to extend the series.
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AP Sports Writers Paul Newberry, Beth Harris and Dave Campbell contributed to this report.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona's Jayden de Laura had one of the best passing games in school history against one of the Pac-12's worst teams last week.
Now he'll try to duplicate the feat against Oregon, a team that's among the league's best.
Arizona hosts No. 12 Oregon in Tucson on Saturday night in arguably the biggest game of second-year coach Jedd Fisch's tenure. The Wildcats (3-2, 1-1 Pac-12) are already halfway to bowl eligibility one season after finishing with a 1-11 record.
Oregon (4-1, 2-0) has won four straight games since opening the season with a loss to Georgia.
"We're expecting Arizona's absolute best, but just like we've said every week, we're not playing Arizona, we're playing Oregon," Ducks first-year coach Dan Lanning said. "That's our focus right now. We got to be the best version of us."
Arizona has languished at or near the bottom of the Pac-12 the past few years but has been much more competitive in Fisch's second season. The Wildcats thumped Colorado 43-20 last weekend, a blowout that ultimately cost Buffs coach Karl Dorrell his job.
De Laura had a monster game against Colorado's porous defense, throwing for 484 yards and tying a school record with six passing touchdowns. The sophomore — who is a transfer from Washington State — has adapted quickly to his new program.
"I think that he's somebody who will continue to improve each week," Fisch said. "It was neat to see how he played and that fact that we've only had him for five games."
Oregon has been on a roll since losing to Georgia on Sept. 3. The Ducks have scored at least 41 points in each of their four victories during their winning streak. Quarterback Bo Nix has thrown for 1,261 yards and 12 touchdowns this season.
"These away games are tough. It's a good opponent," Nix said. "It's going to be good competition, good atmosphere. We've got to go in there really sharp and not do anything that will hurt yourself."
Run Bo run
Nix ran for a career-high 141 yards and two touchdowns in last weekend's 45-27 win over Stanford. He also threw for 161 yards and two touchdowns.
His biggest play was an 80-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.
"That run was fun," Lanning said. "When he got over there after, he was sucking wind on the sideline."
Great receivers
Arizona's offensive improvement can be traced back to de Laura's arrival, but he's also got a pretty good pair of pass catchers.
Receivers Jacob Cowing and Dorian Singer had big games in the win against Colorado. Cowing caught 12 passes for 180 yards and a touchdown while Singer caught nine balls for 163 yards and a touchdown.
Singer had a couple of particularly impressive catches. One was a one-handed grab down the sideline for a big gain. The other was a difficult 5-yard touchdown catch in traffic in the back of the end zone.
Oregon's defense
Oregon's pass defense hasn't been great this season, giving up 282.2 yards per game, which ranks last in the Pac-12.
That number is inflated by a rough game against Georgia in the opener, but they also gave up 375 yards passing against Washington State two weeks ago.
Now it's time to try to slow down de Laura, Cowing and Singer.
"There haven't been a lot of teams that have really slowed them down offensively," Lanning said. "They only maybe hurt themselves a couple of times, to be honest. They've done a really good job. They get the ball downfield, they take long shots, so this will be a really good challenge."
The series
Oregon's got a 28-17 lead in the all-time series and has won seven of the past 10.
But the Ducks haven't been good when they've ventured into Tucson, losing the past two games by a lopsided margin. The last time Oregon beat Arizona in Tucson was 2011.
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Syphilis outbreak in Houston-area, women seeing an alarming spike of cases
HOUSTON - Houston and Harris County are in the midst of a syphilis outbreak. The health department reports a 128% increase in cases among women.
"It's really something that we all should be getting screened for, because you can't look at anybody and tell, you don't know what every partner has been exposed to, or what you may have been exposed to," said Dr. Foye Ikyaator, Medical Director at Life Savers Emergency Room in Houston.
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According to the Houston Health Department, new infections increased from 1,845 in 2019, to 2,905 cases in 2022, that's a 57% increase.
Ikyaator says what people think of as an uncommon STI, is becoming more prevalent in our communities.
"We've gotten to the point where we think it's eradicated. I talk to people all the time who say, "is that still going on?" 'Yeah, it is," Ikyaator said.
She also says it's mostly impacting women of childbearing age, and when women of childbearing age are impacted at this rate, so are children. The health department reports a spike in congenital syphilis, the number of babies being born with the infection went from just 16 cases in 2016, to 151 cases in 2021.
"It means that these pregnant women with syphilis are having babies that are born with neurological deficits," said Ikyaator.
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Doctors recommend that every pregnant woman gets screened in the beginning and toward the middle of her pregnancy.
Symptoms of syphilis include a circular rash that can appear on numerous parts of the body. If not caught in a timely manner it can lead to fever, hair loss, headaches, and ultimately it can damage internal organs.
Syphilis is a treatable STI and only requires one shot. But if it goes untreated, it can be deadly.
"It can cause severe neurological problems for adults and babies," said Dr. Ikyaator.
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Day County search recovers body of missing snowmobiler
WAUBAY, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - After a search effort that involved more than 50 people, the body of a Day County man who went missing on Sunday while snowmobiling was recovered Monday morning at Bitter Lake near Waubay.
According to Day County Sheriff Jerred Schreur, the snowmobiler had called someone to notify them that he was stuck on Bitter Lake on Sunday. He had said he was working on getting out, but when he wasn’t heard from again, the Day County Sheriff’s Department began their search.
They were joined in the search by South Dakota Highway Patrol, Game Fish and Parks and Codington County Search and Rescue. That search was paused when daylight ran out.
”There was a lot of community members out all night looking for him, but once daylight came we were able to cut a track of his snowmobile. He did get out and it looked like he was heading toward back home, and unfortunately, hit a patch of thin ice and broke through,” said Schreur.
Sheriff Schreur believes the deep snow may have hindered the snowmobiler’s ability to see the thin ice patch.
“With Bitter Lake being that big, and the big lakes around here, there’s natural springs, there’s waterfall that keeps pockets open. So, when you get that, you can get a thin layer of ice, and then if you get snow, like we got on top of it, it now looks exactly similar to eight, 10, 12 inches of ice. It’s one of those really unfortunate situations that we don’t believe the individual was doing anything abnormal or risky, it was just the simple fact that he did hit a patch of thin ice,” said Schreur.
Although the outcome wasn’t what the search party had hoped for, Sheriff Schreur says he’s thankful a large group of community members came out to help get the family answers.
”Like I said, we had a law enforcement group out, who are great and do a lot, but I was extremely impressed and thankful for the community outpour in the searching that went in. He’s local, right on the lake, so there was a lot of community members looking, like I said, throughout the night. Some of them continued all the way until the morning. So, obviously not a great outcome, but we like to see that outpouring and how people care around here,” said Schreur.
Shreur says the name of the snowmobiler will not be released until later this week once all family members have been notified.
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UPDATE
WACO, Texas — An arrest has been made in the March 28 murder of 16-year-old Justin Sharp.
A 15-year-old was taken into custody Tuesday.
UPDATE
Police have identified the victim of a murder in the 3300 block of Brookview Drive near Guthrie Park as 16-year-old Justin Sharp.
Waco police are continuing to investigate the homicide.
A suspect has not been named in the case, police said.
25 News will continue to provide updates as they become available.
ORIGINAL STORY
Waco police are investigating the murder of a male who was shot Tuesday in the 3300 block of Brookview Drive near Guthrie Park.
The yet-to-be-identified victim was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said. Police say the victim was 16 years old.
Police responded to the call about 1:30 p.m.
A suspect has not been arrested in the case.
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Anyone with information should call Waco police at (254) 750-7500 or Crime Stoppers at (254) 753-4357.
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The 2023 U.S. Open Odds & Preview: Mito Pereira
The field for the 2023 U.S. Open in Los Angeles, California at The Los Angeles Country Club will include Mito Pereira. The event runs from June 15-18.
Looking to bet on Pereira at the U.S. Open this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you need before you make your picks.
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Mito Pereira Insights
- Pereira has finished below par on 13 occasions, completed his day without a bogey twice and finished 14 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 20 rounds played.
- He has carded the best score of the day in one of his last 20 rounds, while scoring among the top 10 in six rounds.
- Pereira has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in seven of his last 20 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day 11 times.
- Pereira has finished in the top five once in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five events, Pereira has finished within five shots of the leader once. He posted a score that was better than average three times.
- Pereira will attempt to make the cut for the eighth straight time by qualifying for the weekend in this tournament.
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U.S. Open Insights and Stats
- Pereira did not make the cut in either of his last two trips to this event.
- Pereira missed the cut when he last played this event, which was in 2022.
- In the past year, the Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,259 yards, 164 yards shorter than the 7,423-yard par 70 for this week's tournament.
- The courses that Pereira has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,299 yards, while The Los Angeles Country Club will be 7,423 yards this week.
Pereira's Last Time Out
- Pereira finished in the 50th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the PGA Championship, with an average of 3.13 strokes.
- His 4.04-stroke average on the 48 par-4 holes at the PGA Championship was strong, putting him in the 86th percentile of the field.
- On the eight par-5 holes at the PGA Championship, Pereira shot better than 65% of the competitors (averaging 4.75 strokes).
- Pereira shot better on par 3s than most players his last time out, recording a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at the PGA Championship (the other participants averaged 1.3).
- On the 16 par-3s at the PGA Championship, Pereira recorded four bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 2.8).
- Pereira's six birdies or better on the 48 par-4s at the PGA Championship were more than the field average (4.5).
- In that last competition, Pereira's performance on the 48 par-4s included a bogey or worse eight times (the field's average was worse, at 9.7).
- Pereira finished the PGA Championship outperforming the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (1.3) with two on the eight par-5 holes.
- The field at the PGA Championship averaged one bogey or worse on the eight par-5s, but Pereira finished without one.
U.S. Open Time and Date Info
- Date: June 15-18, 2023
- Course: The Los Angeles Country Club
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Par: 70 / 7,423 yards
- Pereira Odds to Win: +8000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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The National Toy Hall has three new inductees.
The ancient top, Masters of the Universe and Lite-Brite were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday.
The top has been around for centuries.
"With more than 5,000 years of history behind it, it’s about time that the top spun its way into the National Toy Hall of Fame," said chief curator Christopher Bensch.
Masters of the Universe gained popularity in the 1980s with the rise of the He-Man and She-Ra cartoon characters.
Lite-Brite has been in homes for decades, allowing children to make artistic displays.
" In 1968 promotional materials, Hasbro declared Lite-Brite a ‘magic light box,’ and that magic continues more than 50 years later," curator Nicolas Ricketts said.
New toys are selected every year to be part of the toy hall of fame, which is located at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. This year's finalists included bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Nerf Toys, the piñata, Phase 10, Pound Puppies, Rack-O, and Spirograph.
The winners were selected after a panel determines the toys have achieved icon status and longevity.
The National Toy Hall of Fame opened at The Strong in 1998. So far, 80 toys have been inducted.
Last year's honorees were American Girl Dolls, Risk, and sand. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/masters-of-the-universe-lite-brite-the-top-inducted-into-toy-hall-of-fame | 2022-11-10 21:12:12 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/masters-of-the-universe-lite-brite-the-top-inducted-into-toy-hall-of-fame |
Buyers will face home price increases nationally (+5.4%) and in all of the 100 largest markets in 2023, but those who can afford to persist will find more inventory than last year (+22.8%)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid higher mortgage rates and budgets squeezed by inflation, homebuyers looking for affordability in 2023 will find that prices aren't coming down, according to the Realtor.com® 2023 Housing Forecast released today. Instead, with the housing market beginning a gradual adjustment that could last through 2025, what next year will offer buyers is less competition for a growing number of for-sale homes.
Overall in 2023,1 Realtor.com® forecasts that buyers and sellers can expect:
- Average mortgage rates of 7.4%, with early 2023 hikes followed by a slight retreat to 7.1% by year-end.
- Home sales prices won't come down, but growth will moderate to a single-digit yearly pace (+5.4%) for the first time since 2020.
- Rents (+6.3% year-over-year) will outpace home prices and likely hit new highs, further adding to budget pressures – especially for first-time buyers.
- An increase in existing homes for sale (+22.8% year-over-year), as the inventory refresh that began last summer accelerates.
- Home sales will decline 14.1% year-over-year to 4.53 million, the lowest level since 2012 (see table below).
"Compared to the wild ride of the past two years, 2023 will be a slower-paced housing market, which means drastic shifts like price declines may not happen as quickly as some have anticipated. It will be a challenging year for both buyers and sellers, but an important one in setting the stage for home sales to return to a sustainable pace over the next two to three years," said Danielle Hale, Chief Economist for Realtor.com®. "With mortgage rates continuing to climb as the Fed navigates the economy to a soft-ish landing, higher costs will lead to fewer closings, but that doesn't mean homebuying will stop entirely in 2023. Americans who are determined to make a move will find that staying up-to-date on the market, flexibility, creativity and a healthy dose of patience will go a long way toward success in the year ahead."
Key 2023 housing trends and wildcards
- A second wind in the second half. Although home sales are expected to slow overall in 2023, Realtor.com®'s forecast points to the possibility of a second wind in buying activity in the second half of the year. With mortgage rate hikes projected to continue through March, the Spring season will likely be less busy than in a typical year as buyers and sellers recalibrate their expectations around smaller budgets. This break could provide space for demand to renew as mortgage rates dip later in the year, when home shoppers will also have more options and bargaining power.
- A trifecta of budget barriers awaits buyers. In 2023, incomes are expected to grow (+3.9%), but not enough to offset higher mortgage rates (7.4%) and home prices (+5.4%), creating a trifecta of budget barriers. The typical monthly mortgage payment will be $2,430, 28% higher than in 2022, which will likely price many home shoppers out of the market. This will especially be a concern for first-time buyers. As rents will likely reach new highs, it will leave less room for saving towards a down payment. At the same time, some home shoppers may consider exploring new financial options like adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs), a trend that has already begun to take shape in 2022.
- It isn't '08. During the mid-2000s housing boom, home sales were elevated for more than five years, and it took another five years for home sales to recover from the economic aftermath. Comparatively, mortgage rate hikes have brought a quicker but less dramatic end to the recent frenzy, during which buyers have been better qualified than in '08. Moving forward, home price growth will slow and may even decline periodically as prices largely stabilize over the next two-to-three years. The homeownership rate is predicted to hold in 2023.
- Some homeowners could still make bank. In 2023, the typical homeowner is projected to gain $25,650 in equity as prices keep rising. With real estate wealth already much higher than pre-COVID, these trends offer a positive reality check for sellers who have been increasingly pessimistic about entering the market as listing prices have pulled back from last year's peak. While bidding wars won't be the norm in 2023, sellers who have owned their home for a longer period of time are still likely to make a profit. And those living in relatively affordable areas may still command offers above asking, driven by continued home shopper interest in relocating to lower-priced markets.
- 2023 puts the "wild" in wildcards: Political and economic events can always shake up the housing outlook, as was the case with major financial shifts in 2022. Along with factors including supply chain disruptions and the conflict in Ukraine, markets have largely begun to adjust for these changes, such as with the Fed's efforts to combat inflation with rate hikes. As such, forecasted 2023 housing trends don't anticipate a major shakeup like a recession, but it's still a possibility. Buyers and sellers should keep an eye out for risk signs like a substantial weakening in the jobs market, beyond the mild uptick in unemployment that is projected, as businesses are potentially disrupted by shifting geopolitical, financial and economic conditions. Although a potential recession may lead to lower mortgage rates, ultimately buyers' purchasing power would suffer. And for sellers, this would likely mean less demand and potential price drops.
"Of the many factors that are expected to affect the housing market in 2023, affordability tops the list of issues most likely to make or break buyers' plans. Still, our forecast does offer promise for home shoppers who are well-prepared. Tools like Realtor.com®'s Buying Power can help you understand how various rate changes and options impact your budget, and seamlessly integrate into the home search experience to help you stay on track financially," Hale added.
2023 Forecasted Housing Metrics & Historical Data – National
2023 Forecasted Housing Metrics – 100 Largest U.S. Metros (in alphabetical order)
Methodology
Realtor.com®'s model-based forecast uses data on the housing market and overall economy to estimate values for these variables in the year ahead.
About Realtor.com®
Realtor.com® is an open real estate marketplace built for everyone. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago. Today, through its website and mobile apps, Realtor.com® is a trusted guide for consumers, empowering more people to find their way home by breaking down barriers, helping them make the right connections, and creating confidence through expert insights and guidance. For professionals, Realtor.com® is a trusted partner for business growth, offering consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. For more information, visit Realtor.com® .
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
7-7-4
(seven, seven, four)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
7-7-4
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The horrific video of Memphis police fatally beating Tyre Nichols has dominated the media this weekend. But another video is circulating, showing Nichols happily skateboarding in his teen years.
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The horrific video of Memphis police fatally beating Tyre Nichols has dominated the media this weekend. But another video is circulating, showing Nichols happily skateboarding in his teen years.
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Wyoming tornado injures 8 people and flips buses and train cars at mine site, report says
CAMPBELL COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — A tornado touched down at a mine in Wyoming Friday evening, injuring eight people and knocking over employee transport buses and empty train cars at the facility, a news report said.
The tornado hit the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Campbell County around 6 p.m. during a storm complex that also delivered tornadoes to neighboring Natrona and Johnson counties, the Gillette News Record reported.
The Campbell County Fire Department responded to the open-pit coal mine about 64 miles (103 kilometers) south of Gillette.
Six people with non-life-threatening injuries were transported by ambulance to Gillette, one victim was transported to Douglas and another refused treatment, the newspaper reported.
The tornado struck during a shift change and flipped buses waiting to transport workers, although it was not immediately clear if there was anyone on the vehicles at the time, Campbell County Public Information Officer Leslie Perkins said.
All workers were accounted for after a search by the mine’s search and rescue team, which was assisted by the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds said.
The storm also knocked over 12 unoccupied train cars, the News Record reported.
Melissa Smith, a meteorologist and hydrologist with the National Weather Service office in Rapid City, South Dakota, told the newspaper that the storm system scattered tornadoes throughout Campbell, Natrona and Johnson counties.
“The tornadoes would form, come down, stay on the ground and come back up,” Smith said.
Peabody Energy Inc., the operator of North Antelope Rochelle Mine with headquarters in St. Louis and South Brisbane, Australia, confirmed six employees were being treated in hospitals as of 11 p.m. Friday and that all employees had been accounted for.
“Operations have been suspended until we can fully assess facility damages and begin the process of restarting safe operations,” Peabody said in a statement Saturday, which did not provide specifics about the damage caused by the tornado.
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WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — A man was arrested Wednesday morning after police believe he was driving drunk while in West Monroe, Louisiana.
At 3:09 a.m. Wednesday, West Monroe Police observed a vehicle traveling on Cypress Street when the driver straddled the fog line. According to officers, the vehicle was also traveling nearly 20 miles per hour over the speed limit.
After authorities initiated a traffic stop, they made contact with the driver, 44-year-old Lester Ray Jackson Jr. As officers questioned Jackson, authorities allegedly smelled alcohol coming from his breath and noticed he was intoxicated.
In the midst of being questioned by authorities, Jackson allegedly stated, “I know I was swerving, I was trying to eat some chicken legs.” According to police, Jackson had poor balance after he exited the vehicle.
After performing poorly on the field sobriety test, Jackson was arrested and transported to the Ouachita Correctional Center. Jackson was charged with operating a vehicle while license is suspended, improper lane use and operating a vehicle while intoxicated. | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/louisiana-news/louisiana-man-accused-of-drunk-driving-claimed-he-swerved-vehicle-while-trying-to-eat-chicken/ | 2023-01-12 22:10:59 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/regional/louisiana-news/louisiana-man-accused-of-drunk-driving-claimed-he-swerved-vehicle-while-trying-to-eat-chicken/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license, and it referred a separate complaint over her state airplane use to the state's attorney general for investigation.
The three retired judges on the Government Accountability Board determined that “appropriate action” could be taken against Noem for her role in her daughter's appraiser licensure, though it didn't specify the action.
The board’s moves potentially escalate the ramifications of investigations into Noem. The Republican governor faces reelection this year and has also positioned herself as an aspirant to the White House in 2024. She is under scrutiny from the board after Jason Ravnsborg, the state’s former Republican attorney general, filed complaints that stemmed from media reports on Noem’s actions in office. She has denied any wrongdoing.
After meeting in a closed-door session for one hour Monday, the board voted unanimously to invoke procedures that allow for a contested case hearing to give Noem, who has denied wrongdoing, a chance to publicly defend herself against allegations of “misconduct” related to “conflicts of interest” and “malfeasance.” The board also dismissed Ravnsborg's allegations that Noem misused state funds in the episode.
However, the retired judges left it unclear how they will proceed. Lori Wilbur, the board chair, said the complaint was “partially dismissed and partially closed,” but added that the complaint could be reopened. She declined to discuss what would cause the board to reopen the complaint.
The board can issue a public or private reprimand or direct an official to do community service. It can also make recommendations to the governor — though that option seems unlikely since the complaints are leveled against Noem.
The AP first reported that the governor took a hands-on role in a state agency soon after it had moved to deny her daughter’s application for an appraiser license in 2020. Noem had called a meeting with her daughter, the labor secretary and the then-director of the appraiser certification program where a plan was discussed to give the governor’s daughter, Kassidy Peters, another chance to show she could meet federal standards in her appraiser work.
The complaints are proving to be the first major test of the board, which was launched in 2017 in response to several scandals in state government. It has never taken public action against a state official.
The retired judges also referred a complaint that Noem flew on state-owned airplanes to political events to the state attorney general’s office for further investigation. That puts the investigation under the oversight of the interim attorney general, Mark Vargo, who was appointed by Noem.
When asked whether he would recuse himself from the investigation, Vargo said in a statement: “Based on the fact that this just happened, no decision has been made.”
“We will be diligent in our duty and thoroughly investigate the complaint that the Government Accountability Board has presented to the Attorney General’s Office," he said in an earlier statement. "The investigation, as with all other investigations, will remain confidential as does the complaint that has been presented to us. We have no other comment at this time.”
The board handled the complaints only by case number and did not refer to Noem directly in either case. Ravnsborg provided the case numbers to The Associated Press.
“Knowing what I know as the complainant, Gov. Noem should be fully investigated for her abuse of power in getting her daughter an appraiser license, and Gov. Noem should be prosecuted for her criminal use of state resources for personal gain,” he said in a statement.
The board plans to publicly release the complaint over the appraiser license for Noem after redacting some sections. It did not give a date for when that will happen.
Noem and Ravnsborg have become political enemies since he fatally struck a pedestrian in 2020. Noem pushed hard for him to be removed from office, and the state Senate convicted him on impeachment charges and removed him as attorney general. He had continued to press the complaints as a private citizen.
Noem did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
Noem’s office has said the plan for Peters to get another chance was already in the works before the meeting, but the agency’s director, Sherry Bren, told a legislative committee last year that she felt “intimidated” during the meeting at the governor’s mansion where Peters’ unsuccessful application was discussed in detail. A Republican-controlled legislative committee that probed the episode concluded that Peters received special treatment.
Bren was also pressured to retire later in 2020 and eventually received a $200,000 settlement to withdraw an age discrimination complaint.
The former attorney general’s other complaint was sparked after online news website Raw Story found that Noem in 2019 used a state airplane to travel to events hosted by political organizations such as the National Rifle Association and the Republican Jewish Coalition, even though South Dakota law bars state airplanes from being used for anything other than state business.
Noem has said she was traveling to the events as an ambassador for the state.
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This story has been corrected to show that South Dakota Attorney General Mark Vargo says he has not yet decided whether to recuse himself from investigating the case referred to his office. | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2022/08/22/ethics-board-sd-gov-noem-may-have-engaged-in-misconduct/ | 2022-08-22 23:18:43 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2022/08/22/ethics-board-sd-gov-noem-may-have-engaged-in-misconduct/ |
The clean beauty brand encourages people to create the life they want to live through vibrant self-expression
NEW YORK, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 25th & June, a beauty brand that centers creativity, community, and culture through high quality nail polish collections and body care products, is proud to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Bringing a portfolio of colorful products to the world and on the helm of expansion, 25th & June currently offers a vibrant selection of cruelty-free, vegan-friendly, and 10-free nail products in unique shades like 'Drama Queen,' 'Royal Highness,' and 'Tan Lines' that accompany every skin tone.
25th & June has captivated nail enthusiasts around the world as their diverse array of consumers continue to express themselves via the brand's premium nail elixirs. 25th & June's quality product offerings and creative approach to business has allowed the premium beauty brand and their fans to express themselves wholly and authentically over the past decade. As 25th & June reaches this significant milestone, they continue to inspire creativity, celebrate diversity, and empower individuals to express their personal style with confidence.
"After 10 years, I am proud of the progress 25th & June has made and how the brand continues to manifest its intentions for inclusivity in everything we do," says Nexus Cook, Founder and Creative Director of 25th & June. "Creating a successful and enduring brand is no small feat, especially considering the additional complexities Black business owners face. I credit our success to quality products, our passionate approach to business and the genuine connections we've built with our audience. I look forward to expanding the business and building a legacy within the clean beauty industry."
Each 25th & June product is meticulously crafted in the USA without the use of harmful chemicals or ingredients that could compromise its customers well-being or the environment. This summer, 25th & June is launching new nail products as well as entering the body care category, extending Nexus' vision of evolving the beauty space with more clean products for individuals of all shades and backgrounds—without compromising on quality or creativity.
25th & June is committed to creating a more inclusive and vibrant beauty industry. Learn more about the brand's upcoming product releases and news at https://www.25thandjune.com/.
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Anna Miya
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ABOUT 25th & JUNE
Founded on June 25, 2013, 25th & June exists because of a passion for all things beautiful and a deep desire to express creativity through gorgeous collections and vibrant storytelling.
Inclusive of premium nail elixirs and body care products for all nail and skin types, 25th & June is mindfully made in the USA with cruelty-free, vegan-friendly, and more importantly 10-Free, products that are free of harmful chemicals.
If we could have it our way, every 25th & June product will spark a bit of colorful inspiration and intention to commit to self care, to help you continue creating the life you want to live.
We all have different starting points, but at 25th & June, no matter where you're from or what color you choose–you belong here.
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Innovative approach to cyber asset management will help security teams focus on preventative controls to improve cyber risk
BOSTON, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noetic Cyber, an innovator in Continuous Cybersecurity Asset and Controls Management, today announced that it has been selected by OVO Energy as a solution partner to help them achieve greater visibility and insights into their current cybersecurity posture. OVO is deploying the Noetic platform to gain better context and understanding of their cyber risk.
OVO Energy is the UK's third largest energy supplier, and has adopted a cloud first approach, enabled by implementing a culture of technical autonomy, where teams at OVO select the cloud platforms and services best suited for their specific needs.
This means OVO's security team needs an automated way to understand their cybersecurity landscape across a diverse range of cloud platforms, SaaS applications, on-premises systems and more. The team was keen to adopt a data model that supported different business units and product teams, allowing them to maintain their current agility, but ensuring that central visibility of security control coverage and configuration was available to secure the organization, and meet their regulatory requirements as part of the UK's critical national infrastructure.
To achieve this new kind of visibility and asset intelligence, OVO selected Noetic as their partner. The Noetic platform works across OVO's different cloud and on-premises systems, integrating with existing security and IT management tools to ingest security data, building a multi-dimensional map of all assets in the organization and the cyber relationships between them. This asset intelligence, visualized through an innovative graph database, enables the OVO team to identify security coverage gaps, cloud service misconfigurations and violations of security controls, all prioritized based on business criticality and potential impact.
The Noetic platform uses standardized APIs to integrate with OVO's existing tooling for EDR, vulnerability management, device control, application security, network monitoring, cloud management and more to continuously discover, inventory and manage all assets in OVO's environment.
Gartner describes this new approach to understanding cyber relationship between assets as 'cyber asset attack surface management' (CAASM) and they state that it's value to security teams is 'to improve basic security hygiene by ensuring security controls, security posture and asset exposure are understood and remediated across the environment'1.
"OVO is known as an innovator in the UK energy market in its business model and approach to technology," said Paul Ayers, CEO and co-founder at Noetic Cyber, "Our partnership with them showcases that innovation as we're working together to address a fundamental cybersecurity challenge in finding and securing unknown and unprotected assets."
Initial use cases for Noetic within OVO Energy include:
- Identifying and remediating security coverage gaps across common cloud and endpoint use cases.
- Providing critical insights into patching and vulnerability management by mapping business criticality, asset exposure and exploitability to the existing vulnerability process.
- Supporting the security operations team in incident investigation with more detailed information and context on affected assets
- Working with GRC to ensure that all parts of the OVO business are building and managing controls based on a shared understanding of security data.
For more information on the Noetic's Continuous Cyber Asset Management and Controls Platform, please visit https://noeticcyber.com/platform/.
About Noetic Cyber
Noetic provides a proactive approach to cyber asset and controls management, empowering security teams to see, understand, fix and improve their security posture and enterprise ecosystem. Our goal is to improve security tools and control efficacy by breaking down existing siloes and improving the entire security ecosystem. Founded in 2019, Noetic is based in Boston and London. For more information, visit www.noeticcyber.com, or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
About OVO Energy
OVO Energy was founded in 2009 and redesigned the energy experience to be fair, effortless, green and simple for all customers. The company has spent the last decade investing in the market leading technology, customer service operations and digital products to help members cut their carbon emissions. OVO is on a mission through its sustainability strategy Plan Zero to tackle the most important issue of our time; the climate crisis, by bringing our customers with us on the journey towards zero carbon living. OVO Energy has committed to being a net zero carbon business and achieve bold science-based carbon reduction targets by 2030, while helping members reduce their household emissions at the same time.
1 Gartner, Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2021
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A few minutes before game time on Friday night, area children ranging from ages 4-15 who were battling cancer lined up along the Phillies’ first-base line. Front office members and members of the Nemours Children’s Health system stood in center field, holding a large yellow ribbon to honor those who have fought, or are fighting, childhood cancer.
Sean Kennedy, a 6-year-old Phillies fan who is battling cancer, stood at the plate to run the bases. Rhys Hoskins guided him down the first base line He rounded second, high-fived the Washington Nationals players on the third-base line, and greeted the special guest of the evening at home plate: First Lady Jill Biden.
Biden was in attendance for the Phillies’ sixth consecutive childhood cancer awareness night. It was her first visit to Citizens Bank Park since her husband, President Joe Biden, took office in 2020.
Biden has been an advocate for cancer research and prevention since 1993, when four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer. Her stepson, Beau Biden, also passed away from brain cancer at age 46 in 2015.
After Kennedy crossed home plate, the national anthem played. The Phillies stood along the first base line, many of them flanked by children who were battling cancer. Kyle Schwarber lingered on the field after the ceremony was over to sign bats and jerseys and hand out a few more high fives. Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos took some time to sign a few jerseys, bats, and casts as well.
The ceremony ended with the Phillie Phanatic gifting First Lady Biden with a gold scarf that read “Go Gold” on it. The gold ribbon is the international symbol of childhood cancer.
Biden famously is a longtime Phillies fan. She grew up in Willow Grove and was present at the ballpark every October during the Phillies’ five-year postseason run from 2007-11. She was present at the 2008 World Series while her husband campaigned for his then-running mate, former President Barack Obama.
» READ MORE: Aaron Nola has seen it all with the Phillies — except the playoffs. And he wants in on the fun.
“(She) is a Philly girl from her belt buckle to her shoe soles, and if I root for anybody but the Phillies, I’ll be sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom alone,” President Biden joked to Los Angeles Dodgers players during their visit to the White House in 2021.
The Phillies will continue their childhood cancer awareness efforts ahead of Saturday’s game against the Nationals, when they hold a fashion show for children from the Kisses for Kyle Foundation, which assists families in the region who are battling childhood cancer. The show will take place in The Yard at Citizens Bank Park. | https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/first-lady-jill-biden-phillies-cancer-awareness-20220909.html | 2022-09-10 00:41:22 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/first-lady-jill-biden-phillies-cancer-awareness-20220909.html |
NEW YORK — Actor and activist James Cromwell has gone from "Succession's" Uncle Ewan to real-life supergluin' — pasting his hand to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter on Tuesday to protest the coffee chain's extra charge for plant-based milk.
The 82-year-old Oscar nominee, known for "Babe: Pig in the City" and "L.A. Confidential," channeled his role as the crotchety, anti-capitalist brother of a billionaire media mogul for the protest organized by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Cromwell sat on the Starbucks counter wearing a "Free the Animals" T-shirt and read a statement denouncing the surcharge for vegan milk alternatives.
"When will you stop raking in huge profits while customers, animals and the environment suffer?" he demanded as fellow activists streamed the protest on Facebook.
Cromwell glued his hand to the counter, then later used a knife to scrape it off. Police said there were no arrests.
Starbucks outlets in the United States charge 50 cents to a dollar more for drinks made with plant-based milks.
"Customers can customize any beverage on the menu with a non-dairy milk, including soymilk, coconutmilk, almondmilk, and oatmilk for an additional cost (similar to other beverage customizations such as an additional espresso shot or syrup)," a Starbucks spokesperson said in a statement. "Pricing varies market by market."
The spokesperson said Starbucks respects customers' right to voice their opinions "so long as it does not disrupt our store operations."
Cromwell, nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the farmer in "Babe," is a veteran protester who was charged with trespassing in 2017 for interrupting an orca show at SeaWorld in San Diego.
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NEW YORK (AP) — One of Europe’s most fossil fuel-intensive energy companies transformed completely in little more than a decade by doubling down on offshore wind.
Ørsted, formerly DONG Energy, for Danish Oil and Natural Gas, started aggressively building wind farms off the coast of Denmark, the U.K. and Germany in 2008 — a time when offshore wind was a curiosity.
The company sold off the North Sea oil and gas assets on which it had built its identity to focus on clean energy, becoming Ørsted.
Fast forward 15 years and China, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan and Denmark have some 62 nuclear plants’ worth of wind power spinning or under construction offshore. Ørsted is one of the biggest developers.
CEO Mads Nipper called Ørsted the “Tesla of offshore wind” because it didn’t invent wind turbines or copper cable or substations, just like the electric car company didn’t invent batteries or electric motors. But they both proved something was scalable when few believed it.
Currently Ørsted is building offshore wind farms along the East Coast of the U.S., in Europe and Taiwan. It’s trying to create a market globally for green hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels. And it aims to build 50 gigawatts of clean energy generation by 2030.
Nipper spoke with The Associated Press about the industry. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Q: They say soon we’ll have clean energy supermajors, the way we’ve had oil majors. Do you consider Ørsted to be a clean energy supermajor?
A: Not yet. But we will be. There are no clean energy supermajors. If there was one, it’s us. But there aren’t any yet. It would be arrogant to say that we are a supermajor yet… We invest, depending on the year, $6, $7 billion a year purely into renewable energy, which makes us comfortably one of the top players.
Q: How has the war in Ukraine affected Ørsted’s business and the offshore wind sector in general?
A: It has not affected our offshore business, I would say. If indirectly, then tragically or ironically, actually positively, because it’s dawning very clearly to Europe that energy independence, and therefore energy security, and not being dependent on Russia for energy supplies, is not just a matter of climate policy — it’s very much security policy as well. So if anything, especially European governments are extremely determined to make renewable energy ambitions come through… We are looking at Ukraine. We are actually in dialog with the Danish foreign ministry to see what can we do to help Ukraine establish a reliable power supply.
Q: Is Ørsted best positioned to help the U.S. transition to green energy?
A: On offshore, I have no doubt. And onshore, given the traction we have and given also what we are seeing of opportunities, I think, we would be amongst the best positioned. I think it would be leaning out to say that in onshore specifically we would be best positioned. But with already 5 gigawatts of awarded capacity in offshore, we are not done. The U.S. is a major growth priority market for us globally. Our preparedness to invest significant capital in the U.S. market to help that transformation is intact.
Q: How can you use the incentives offered for green energy in the U.S. through the Inflation Reduction Act?
A: Given some of the headwinds of the industry recently and especially higher cost of capital through interest rates and significant capital expenditure inflation due to both materials but also supply chain bottlenecks, the Inflation Reduction Act is a vital part of addressing that challenge. And quite honestly, also in a world where there is going to be competition to attract capital both for offshore and renewable energy, but also for the manufacturing jobs that follow that, that is where the U.S. has clearly set a benchmark globally for what I call a wholehearted push to really advance clean energy. That’s both for offshore but also for onshore, and maybe most revolutionary also with the up to $3 tax credit for green hydrogen. Overnight, that very likely made the U.S. the cheapest market to produce green hydrogen, which as opposed to electricity can travel well if you make liquid fuels from green hydrogen.
Q: You have said that green hydrogen is a key component of the green transition and a major growth area for Ørsted. Can you talk about that?
A: We’ve built up a strong portfolio of tangible opportunities, most in Europe, but also in the U.S., where we have a MOU with Maersk, the world’s largest container shipper who is very committed to decarbonizing ocean transport, for up to 300,000 tons of e-methanol a year, which would be purely based on renewable hydrogen and biogenic CO2. We took final investment decision on our first utility-scale green hydrogen project in Sweden, which is where we would also make methanol from biogenic CO2 and sell that to the maritime sector. That’s 50,000 tons a year. So not huge, but big enough to matter. It will fuel a couple of ships. And by doing that, we don’t think we will be necessarily the biggest producer of green hydrogen. We hope and believe that also the big oil majors will have this as a strategic bet. But we want to be a catalyst for change, that we prove that it is possible… We know that all the hard-to-abate sectors of the world, be it heavy transport, maritime, refineries, cement, everyone needs green molecules. So we know the market will be there and we are trying to help create that.
Q: Where do you see us on the trajectory of offshore wind?
A: We are at the end of the beginning… We are ready for a totally different level of scaling. The industry has scaled, but we need to accelerate that scaling, including the supply chain, with even more sustainable approaches but also significant support and investment. And I don’t necessarily mean sort of subsidy, but significant capital availability to scale an industry that needs to go much faster. So we are at the end of the beginning and also now in a reality where, especially over the last 12 months, it just became harder. But instead of saying, ‘oh, then we need to slow down,’ we would ask ourselves as an industry and we will definitely as a company, ‘how do we leverage a difficult situation?’
Q: You said a year ago that it’s still possible to stay within the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) scenario, the elusive international goal. Do you still feel that way?
A: I still don’t think it’s impossible, but it has become more difficult. It has become more difficult because unfortunately, the planet doesn’t forget. And unfortunately, the current energy crisis means that we are burning more fossil fuels than we did before. In Europe, lignite and coal is being burnt to ensure that there is energy. And unfortunately I also think that right now, if anything, the large oil companies are probably, at least some of them, redirecting funds back to fossil fuels. We must as humanity remain optimistic. I will say I am still optimistic we will manage temperature increases to be at a level where we can avoid the biggest disasters. But 1.5 degrees is a stretch. ________
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Ukrainian presidency: 10 killed in latest Russian shelling
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others in a day, the office of Ukraine’s president reported Friday as the country worked to recover from an earlier wave of Russian missile strikes and drone attacks.
The new casualties included the deaths of at least two civilians in the southern city of Kherson, which Ukrainian troops recaptured in November, and two more in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province. The missiles and self-propelled drones Russian forces fired Thursday hit deeper into Ukrainian territory, killing at least 11 people.
The bombardment followed announcements by the United States and Germany of plans to ship powerful tanks to help Ukraine defend itself. Other Western countries said they also would share modern tanks from their stockpiles.
Moscow has bristled at the move, and accused Western nations of entering a new level of confrontation with Russia.
Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko of the eastern Donetsk region said the Russian military used phosphorus munitions in shelling the village of Zvanivka. The village is located about 20 kilometers north of Bakhmut, a city that has become the focus of a grueling battle in recent months. The shelling also damaged apartment buildings and two schools in the nearby town of Vuhledar, Kyrylenko said.
The governor of the neighboring Luhansk region, Serhii Haidai, said Ukrainian shelling hit two Russian bases in the occupied towns of Kreminna and Rubizhne, killing and wounding “dozens” of Russian soldiers. His claim couldn’t be independently verified.
Further south, Russian troops resumed shelling the town of Nikopol, across the Dnieper from the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, damaging apartment buildings, gas pipelines, power lines and a bakery, officials said.
Separately Friday, Russian authorities took new steps in their months-long and widely criticized effort to graft four Ukrainian provinces onto Russia’s already vast territory. They said the illegally annexed provinces would switch from the time zone that covers Kyiv to the one in Moscow.
The Ukrainian southern and eastern regions that Russia declared as part of its territory four months ago — Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — will take place “in the near future,” Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade said. The move comes as part of what the ministry called the “gradual synchronization” of Russian legislation after the “admission of the four subjects.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s highly orchestrated announcement of the illegal annexations came despite widespread international condemnation and the fact that Russia didn’t fully control the areas it annexed. Russia claims to control nearly all of Luhansk and about half of Donetsk.
Less than 1-1/2 months after the annexations, Russia lost control of the city of Kherson and broad swaths of the surrounding territory under the brunt of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Kherson was the only regional capital Russia seized since starting its invasion on Feb. 24, and its loss dealt a heavy blow to the Kremlin.
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GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. calling the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would ultimately cost lives.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing that decades of scientific data prove that access to safe and legal abortion saves lives.
“The evidence is irrefutable,” Tedros said. “Restricting (abortion) drives women and girls toward unsafe abortions resulting in complications, even death.” He said safe abortion should be understood as health care and warned that limiting its access would disproportionately hit women from the poorest and most marginalized communities.
“We hadn’t really expected this from the U.S.,” Tedros said, adding that he was concerned the Supreme Court’s decision was a move “backwards.” In recent years, the U.S. has supported numerous maternal health care programs in developing countries, including access to reproductive health care.
“We had really hoped the U.S. would lead on this issue,” Tedros said.
WHO’s chief scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, said the U.N. health agency’s position on abortion was based on decades of data from numerous countries.
“I know from own experience, working in India, that having access to safe abortion is a life-saving measure,” Swaminathan said. She said denying a woman access to abortion was “like denying someone a life-saving drug.”
She said bans on abortion would do little to reduce the number of procedures while people who undergo unsafe abortions are at risk of developing fatal blood infections.
“What these bans do…is it drives women into the hands of people who are there to exploit the situation, performing unsafe abortion and very often resulting in a huge amount of damage to their health and sometimes death,” Swaminathan said.
In recent years, the trend among countries has been to increase access to abortion, including regions where there was staunch opposition, like Latin America, she said.
“It’s unfortunate to see some countries going backward,” Swaminathan said, citing the U.S. decision.
WHO chief Tedros said he feared many other countries might not understand the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling and could take similar measures to restrict abortions.
“The global impact is also a concern,” he said. “This is about the life of mother,” he said. “If safe abortion is illegal, then women will definitely resort to unsafe ways of doing it. And that means it could cost them their lives.”
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ATLANTA – Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died.
Her niece, the Rev. Bernice King, tweeted that her “beloved aunt” died Thursday. She was 95.
For decades after her brother's assassination in 1968, Farris worked along with his widow, Coretta Scott King, to preserve and promote his legacy. But unlike her high-profile sister-in-law, Farris' activism — and grief — was often behind the scenes.
“She may not have always been on the line of the march, but that was true with a lot of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement,” said Marcellus Barksdale, a history professor at Morehouse College, of Farris in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press. “Because of the luminescence of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King, Christine kind of got dimmed by that, but she was no less important.”
Farris was born Willie Christine King on Sept. 11, 1927, in Atlanta. She was the first child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Christine Williams King.
Farris helped Coretta Scott King build The King Center and helped to teach Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent resistance. For years, her regal, dignified presence was a mainstay at the ecumenical service celebrating her brother's birthday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her grandfather and father also preached and where Farris remained a member.
The King Center tweeted Thursday that it mourns the loss of Farris, a founding board member, former vice-chair and treasurer, along with a photo of her.
Bernice King tweeted a photo of herself with Farris, writing, “I love you and will miss you, Aunt Christine.”
Martin Luther King III tweeted that he, his wife and his daughter had been able to spend time with his aunt in her final days.
“Aunt Christine embodied what it meant to be a public servant. Like my dad, she spent her life fighting for equality and against racism in America,” he tweeted. “She defied the odds that held back too many marginalized communities – going on to become a civil rights leader and acclaimed author. No stranger to adversity, Aunt Christine used the tragedies of the assassinations of her mother and brother to fight for change in America.”
Farris outlived many of the people she loved, including her parents, her two brothers, her sister-in-law and her niece, Yolanda. She graduated from Spelman College in 1948 with a degree in economics on the same day Martin Luther King Jr. earned his degree in sociology from Morehouse College.
A decade later, Farris returned to Spelman, where she worked for more than 50 years. In 1960, she married Isaac Newton Farris. The couple had two children, Angela Christine Farris Watkins and Isaac Newton Farris Jr.
“Our hearts are heavy in Atlanta today, with the news that Christine King Farris has died,” Mayor Andre Dickens said in a statement.
“Mrs. Farris was a force in her own right," Dickens said. “A champion of literacy and education, she taught at her alma mater, Spelman College, for nearly 50 years. As the last of the King siblings, she spent much of her life advocating for equality. She once said that her brother Martin simply gave us the blueprint, but it was our duty ‘to carry it out.’”
Farris wrote two children's books about her life, “My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up With the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” and “March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World.” In 2009, she wrote a memoir, “Through It All: Reflections on My Life, My Family and My Faith.”
Farris often shared stories about her brother as a normal child and young man to make him and his achievements more accessible to people.
“They think he simply happened, that he appeared fully formed, without context, ready to change the world,” she said. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2023/06/29/christine-king-farris-the-last-living-sibling-of-martin-luther-king-jr-dies-at-95/ | 2023-06-29 18:40:02 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2023/06/29/christine-king-farris-the-last-living-sibling-of-martin-luther-king-jr-dies-at-95/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in a civil case centered on a rape allegation against Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, who has faced several sexual assault and misconduct allegations over the last five years.
The lawsuit that went to trial in New York was filed by a publicist who said the “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby” screenwriter lured her to his Manhattan apartment and raped her after a 2013 movie premiere.
Haggis maintains the encounter was consensual. His lawyers have suggested that the Church of Scientology engineered false accusations of sexual misdeeds to discredit him. Haggis left the church in 2009 and later publicly denounced it.
The church has said it had no involvement in the allegations against Haggis.
No criminal charges were filed in connection with the publicist's accusation. Her lawsuit could mean a financial penalty, but not prison or probation for Haggis if she prevails. She is seeking unspecified damages.
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After the suit was filed in late 2017, three other women told her attorneys and The Associated Press that Haggis had sexually assaulted them or attempted to do so. One said he had raped her. In response, his lawyer said Haggis "didn’t rape anybody.”
The lawsuit was filed only by the publicist who made the 2013 rape allegation, but Judge Sabrina Kraus ruled last month that the other three women can also testify as part of the plaintiff's effort to demonstrate Haggis' “intent and lack of consent.”
Jurors won't be allowed to hear that Haggis was detained for about two weeks at an Italian hotel in June while authorities investigated allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman there. Haggis was in Italy for an arts festival.
Haggis' Italian attorney said the filmmaker was innocent and in early July, a judge released him while prosecutors considered whether to pursue their inquiry. The judge concluded that Haggis hadn't engaged in “constrictive violent behavior,” according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera.
The Canadian-born Haggis wrote “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” which won back-to-back Academy Awards for best picture in the mid-2000s. He also directed and was a producer of “Crash,” which garnered him and Bobby Moresco the best original screenplay Oscar in 2006. The next year, Haggis was nominated in the same category for “Letters from Iwo Jima.” | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/suit-over-rape-claim-against-filmmaker-haggis-heads-to-trial/article_f07062b2-2e84-50a8-8064-6f0fde954c1f.html | 2022-10-17 19:06:57 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/suit-over-rape-claim-against-filmmaker-haggis-heads-to-trial/article_f07062b2-2e84-50a8-8064-6f0fde954c1f.html |
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Democrats defied expectations in a midterm election that had been expected to go well for Republicans, winning the governor's race and completing a trifecta Wednesday by winning both houses of the Legislature to take full control of state government for the first time in eight years.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller conceded Wednesday morning that his party had lost its majority to Senate Democrats. That followed a concession earlier Wednesday from GOP House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt and the re-election of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday night.
“A Minnesota Senate miracle,” outgoing Democratic Minority Leader Melisa Lopez Franzen proclaimed at a news conference. She acknowledged later: “We didn't think this would happen, and it happened.”
While some legislative races were yet to be called as of Wednesday, Democrats exceeded the 68 seats they needed to preserve their majority in the House. And they appeared to have the 34 seats they need to control the Senate.
The only other time that Minnesota saw single-party control in the past 30 years was when Democrats held full power in 2013-14, and the last time any Minnesota Republican won statewide office was in 2006, when Gov. Tim Pawlenty was reelected.
Democrats were short on specifics Wednesday on what they might do on policy changes they could not get through the Senate under Republican control. They said they'll start working on that at an organizational meeting Thursday.
But they mentioned codifying abortion rights, which are currently protected by a 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling, to protect them from future legal challenges. Other possibilities include paid family leave, legalizing recreational marijuana, more education funding and even a full exemption of Social Security from income taxes, a top GOP priority embraced by some Democratic candidates.
Walz was still digesting the Democratic triumph, too. He acknowledged at a news conference that he expected to win his race but thought there was only an “outside chance” of hitting the trifecta.
The governor was also short on details for his own agenda for the 2023 session but said it could look a lot like the budget plan he offered at start of this year's session. And he said he'll push to revive his proposal for tax rebate checks of $1,000 for individuals and $2,000 for joint filers.
The state's budget surplus was projected at $9.25 billion as of the last detailed forecast in February. Lawmakers were unable to agree on how to spend or return about $7 billion of that, so it's still sitting in the bank, and revenues have been running nearly $300 million ahead of projections.
“Minnesota state finances are in as solid a position as maybe they've ever been, and we are sitting on one of the largest surpluses per capita of anyplace in the country,” Walz said. “That gives us an opportunity to do those things — make communities safe, invest in people to make sure reduce the pains of inflation, invest in education.”
Republicans, meanwhile, were coming to terms with their losses.
“Tim Walz is the governor for four more years,” GOP challenger Scott Jensen told supporters in a concession speech. “Republicans, quite frankly, we didn’t have a red wave. It was a blue wave. And we need to stop, we need to recalibrate, we need to ask ourselves: ‘OK, what can we learn from this? What can we do better? How do we go forward?’ ”
Democrats also kept Minnesota's three other constitutional offices. Secretary of State Steve Simon defeated Republican election skeptic Kim Crockett, winning more votes than any other Democratic statewide candidate including Walz.
Attorney General Keith Ellison defeated Republican Jim Schultz and Ryan Wilson conceded to Democratic State Auditor Julie Blaha in the closest statewide race.
Amy Koch, a former Republican Senate majority leader turned political strategist, said weakness at the top of the GOP ticket and and the party's alienation of women were major factors in the Democratic sweep.
“We should have wiped the floor with the DFL. We didn't. We lost,” Koch said in an interview.
She said a stronger showing by Jensen could have lifted other statewide Republicans. And she said she heard from many women, and many Republicans, angry over comments by Jensen running mate Matt Birk against abortion rights and women having careers, including accusing abortion rights supporters of playing the “rape card” by demanding exceptions to abortion bans for rape and incest.
Many women responded by quietly going to the polls and voting for Democrats, she said, and “that's why everybody is in shock this morning.” | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Red-wave-In-Minnesota-Dems-ride-blue-wave-to-17572669.php | 2022-11-09 23:32:03 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Red-wave-In-Minnesota-Dems-ride-blue-wave-to-17572669.php |
GREENWICH TWP., Pa. - Flames and smoke could be seen for miles coming from a building near a home in the 400 block of Dreibelbis Station Road in Greenwich Township, near I-78.
Virginville Fire Chief Mark Richards said it seemed like a controlled burn got out of control. He tells 69 News a fire marshal is investigating.
"We did have about 2,000 gallons between a mixture of heating oil and fuel inside the main building, which was causing a lot of issues," Richards said.
He told 69 News tankers and a hazmat team had to be brought in. According to the chief, first responders heard some explosions from drums popping off as the fuel heated up.
Mervin Smith lives nearby and said he saw fire trucks responding around 2 p.m. He went to see what was going on.
"I looked up and had seen a lot of smoke, and I walked into there and it just went 'boom,' and the flames shot up higher than that tree there," said Smith.
He saw a building on fire and first responders from Berks and Lehigh counties rushing in.
"I got all scared, you know what I mean." Smith said. "You see something like that, you almost fear for your own place."
The black smoke could be seen from miles away.
Initial reports of the fire came in around 2 p.m. Multiple fire departments from Berks County and a Lehigh County Special Operations truck responded.
The fire chief said nobody was injured. He said brush and trees caught on fire as well.
"We did ask for a couple brush trucks to come in to extinguish those fires," Richards said.
Mike Stephens said he noticed a plume of smoke from his home nearby as he was about to fly his drone for practice.
"I was concerned it was one of our neighbors," Stephens said. "A house is on fire or possibly a mountain fire coming up the hill."
He said he knew it was something major.
"I'm just glad everybody is OK," Stephens said. "The first responders were magnificent." | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/2k-gallons-heating-oil-fuel-involved-in-large-fire-in-greenwich-twp/article_a8452cba-f9ba-11ed-adf1-3f88710f3bb9.html | 2023-05-24 07:18:31 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/2k-gallons-heating-oil-fuel-involved-in-large-fire-in-greenwich-twp/article_a8452cba-f9ba-11ed-adf1-3f88710f3bb9.html |
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
THIS NOTICE WAS AUTHORIZED BY THE COURT. IT IS NOT A LAWYER SOLICITATION. PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a hearing will be held on December 7, 2023, at 1:30 p.m., before the Honorable Sunil R. Kulkarni at the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, Department 1, 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113, to determine whether: (1) the proposed settlement ("Settlement") of the above-captioned action as set forth in the Stipulation of Settlement ("Stipulation")1 for $36,500,000 in cash should be approved by the Court as fair, reasonable and adequate; (2) the Judgment as provided under the Stipulation should be entered; (3) to award Class Counsel attorneys' fees and expenses out of the Settlement Fund (as defined in the Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action ("Notice"), which is discussed below) and, if so, in what amount; (4) to pay Class Representative out of the Settlement Fund for representing the Class and, if so, in what amount; and (5) the Plan of Allocation should be approved by the Court as fair, reasonable, and adequate.
This Action is a securities class action brought on behalf of those persons who acquired Maxar common stock pursuant to the registration statement and prospectus ("Offering Materials") issued in connection with Maxar's October 2017 merger with and acquisition of DigitalGlobe, against Maxar and certain of its officers and directors (collectively, "Defendants") for, among other things, allegedly misstating and omitting material facts from the registration statement and prospectus filed in connection with the Merger. Plaintiff alleges that these purportedly false and misleading statements resulted in damage to Class Members. Defendants deny all of Plaintiff's allegations and deny that there was any violation of the securities laws.
1 The Stipulation can be viewed and/or obtained at www.MaxarSecuritiesSettlement.com.
IF YOU ACQUIRED MAXAR COMMON STOCK IN THE MERGER WITH DIGITALGLOBE, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT OF THIS ACTION.
To share in the distribution of the Settlement Fund, you must establish your rights by submitting a Proof of Claim and Release form ("Proof of Claim") by mail (postmarked no later than September 27, 2023) or electronically (no later than September 27, 2023). Your failure to timely submit your Proof of Claim will subject your claim to rejection and preclude your receiving any of the recovery in connection with the Settlement of this Action. If you are a member of the Class and do not request exclusion therefrom, you will be bound by the Settlement and any judgment and release entered in the Action, whether or not you submit a Proof of Claim. If you have not received a copy of the Notice, which more completely describes the Settlement and your rights thereunder (including your right to object to the Settlement), and a Proof of Claim, you may obtain these documents, as well as a copy of the Stipulation (which, among other things, contains definitions for the defined terms used in this Summary Notice) and other settlement documents, online at www.MaxarSecuritiesSettlement.com, or by writing to:
Maxar Securities Settlement
c/o A.B. Data, Ltd.
P.O. Box 173131
Milwaukee, WI 53217
Inquiries should NOT be directed to Defendants, the Court, or the Clerk of the Court.
Inquiries, other than requests for the Notice or for a Proof of Claim, may be made to Class Counsel:
ADAM E. POLK
GIRARD SHARP LLP
601 California Street, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94108
Telephone: (415) 981-4800
Facsimile: (415) 981-4846
DAVID W. HALL
HEDIN HALL LLP
Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94104
Telephone: (415) 766-3534
Facsimile: (415) 402-0058
If you wish to be excluded from the Class, you must submit a request for exclusion such that it is postmarked by August 28, 2023, in the manner and form explained in the Notice. All members of the Class who have not requested exclusion from the Class will be bound by the Settlement, even if they do not submit a timely Proof of Claim.
If you are a Class Member, you have the right to object to the Settlement, the Plan of Allocation, the Request by Class Counsel for an award of attorneys' fees of up to 35% of the Settlement Fund (or $12,775,000) and expenses not to exceed $600,000, and/or for payment to the Class Representative not to exceed $10,000 for representing the Class. Any written objections must be filed with the Court and sent to Class Counsel and Defendants' counsel by August 28, 2023, in the manner and form explained in the Notice. You may also make an oral objection at the Settlement Fairness Hearing without submitting a written objection.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
02-08-27-44-57, Cash Ball: 2
(two, eight, twenty-seven, forty-four, fifty-seven; Cash Ball: two)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
02-08-27-44-57, Cash Ball: 2
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a 59-count indictment of eight members and associates of the Crips gang on Thursday for several violent crimes across Long Island, New York as well as firearms offenses, racketeering and fraud.
The eight members and associates belong to a subset of the Crips known as the Insane Crip Gang, or ICG.
The defendants named in the indictment are Akeem Chambers, of Uniondale, New York; Jahziah Dindyal, 19, of Hempstead, New York; Jonathan Gonzalez, 23, of Greensboro, North Carolina; Lesly Pardo, 26, of Mount Sinai, New York; Rob Pardo, 25, of Mount Sinai, New York; Jalen Rogers, 20, of Hempstead, New York; and Jonathan Vazquez, 21, of Hempstead, New York.
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According to a press release from the DOJ, seven of the suspects were taken into custody on Thursday morning and one remains at large.
The suspects are accused of participating in dozens of gang-related shootings and multiple murders in Nassau County, New York since 2015.
Chambers, the release read, took part in over a dozen shootings between 2020 and 2022. One of those shootings resulted in the death of 28-year-old Thiasia Williams.
On Aug. 1, 2020, Chambers, Rob Pardo and another associate of the ICG went to a party in Hempstead where members of a rival gang were expected to be.
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Chambers and an associate, each armed with a 9mm fired at least eight times at party goers with Gonzalez behind the wheel. One of the bullets struck Williams, who was sitting in her car outside the party to pick up a friend. Another bystander was also struck by gunfire, and the wound was non-life-threatening.
Chambers is also accused of participating in the robbery of James Diamond in Freeport, New York in 2021. During the incident, Chambers and another person were armed with guns, approached Diamond and another man, and attempted to rob them at gunpoint.
The DOJ said Chambers’ co-conspirator shot and killed Diamond.
Rogers was charged with more than a half-dozen violent crimes including attempted murder and attempted kidnapping, and at least three of the crimes occurred while he was wearing a court-ordered GPS ankle monitor that placed him at the scene of shootings.
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Vazquez, the release read, was charged with killing 19-year-old Joecephus Vanable in November 2016.
Vanable, the DOJ said, was repeatedly targeted by the ICG until he was allegedly shot and killed in Hempstead by Vazquez.
Gang members bragged about the killing on social media, rap videos and in graffiti all around Hempstead.
Vazquez was also accused of opening fire on two Nassau County Police officers who attempted to conduct a traffic stop of his vehicle.
The indictment also included allegations that the gang members netted hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent unemployment benefits applications and the federal Covid-19 Paycheck Protection Program, as well as through identity theft and bank fraud.
Investigators linked 26 guns to the defendants, and 14 of the 26 guns were linked to several shootings committed by members of the ICG.
If convicted, Pardo faces up to 20 years in prison, while the other six defendants face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
"As alleged, the defendants participated in a staggering amount of extreme violence that shattered lives, maimed rivals and endangered countless innocent bystanders on Long Island. As of today, after three brutal murders, over a dozen shootings, hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraud, their chokehold of fear and violence over our community is finally over," stated U.S. attorney Breon Peace said. "This Office and our law enforcement partners will continue working tirelessly to protect our communities from gang violence and fraud." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/new-york-prosecutors-indict-suspected-crips-gang-members-for-string-of-murders-violence-over-several/article_3c938a0d-d810-5f6c-80d8-cfcc2b623fcf.html | 2023-04-14 04:11:54 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/new-york-prosecutors-indict-suspected-crips-gang-members-for-string-of-murders-violence-over-several/article_3c938a0d-d810-5f6c-80d8-cfcc2b623fcf.html |
What is 'chroming'? The deadly social media trend on TikTok
LOS ANGELES - Another dangerous social media trend is once again claiming young lives across the world as health officials sound the alarm.
Several people have lost their lives due to "chroming," but yet it is becoming more popular.
What is chroming?
According to The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, "‘chroming’ is a general term to describe the inhalation of volatile substances/solvents as recreational drugs."
The term came from the sniffing of chrome-based paint. However, it now more broadly refers to the inhalation of volatile substances as recreational drugs.
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"You’re literally inhaling paints and solvents to get a high … the problem is you have acetone in there, formaldehyde is in there," Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel said during an appearance on "America’s Newsroom." "It’s called volatile organic compounds for a reason: It irritates your skin, it can get into your lungs, you can have seizures, you can have coma, and, again, we’re occasionally seeing people die from this."
Additional side effects include slurred speech, dizziness, hallucination, nausea and vomiting. Effects can last for a short amount of time — mere hours after exposure — but chroming can also lead to heart attack, seizure, suffocation, coma or permanent damage to organs such as the brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.
"The biggest problem is the long-term cognitive problems — that it actually causes problems with concentration if you use it over time," Siegel stressed. "Really dangerous idea to put organically active compounds — to sniff them in."
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Siegel blamed platforms like TikTok for allowing the trend to grow, saying, "It’s one of the problems I have with social media and the impact it has."
The trend can have deadly effects
In March, a 13-year-old Australian girl died after engaging in "chroming."
Esra Haynes died after she inhaled fumes from a deodorant can, causing her to go into cardiac arrest March 31. She remained on life support eight days, at which point doctors determined her brain was "damaged beyond repair" and her family decided to turn off the machines.
Her parents are now fighting so no other lives are lost.
Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Veronica DeAlba holds one of the tiny silver canisters called a "Whipet" that contains nitrous oxide. Los Angeles Unified School District health advisor Antonio Roque and DeAlba are getting the word into the communiti
"We want to help other children not fall into the silly trap of doing this silly thing. It’s unquestionable that this will be our crusade," Paul Haynes, the girl’s father, told Australian outlet the Herald Sun. "No matter how much you lead a horse to water, anyone can drag them away. It’s not something she would have done on her own.
"The ripple effect is that this is absolutely devastating. We've got no child to bring home."
What is being done to reverse the trend?
According to FOX News, the Victoria Education Department in Australia said it would increase efforts to provide children with more information about chroming and its deadly effects following Haynes’s death.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn't directly address chroming specifically, but has addressed substance abuse among teenagers.
The CDC said it is conducting surveillance and surveys to explore the risk and factors that go into youth substance abuse. The agency is also looking to lobbying for more local and state policies to prevent substance abuse.
The CDC has also launched "Teens Linked to Care," a pilot program in high-risk rural communities to address the issue.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Alexei Navalny turns 47 on Sunday, he’ll wake up in a bare concrete cell with hardly any natural light.
He won’t be able to see or talk to any of his loved ones. Phone calls and visits are banned for those in “punishment isolation” cells, a 2-by-3-meter (6 1/2-by-10-foot) space. Guards usually blast patriotic songs and speeches by President Vladimir Putin at him.
“Guess who is the champion of listening to Putin’s speeches? Who listens to them for hours and falls asleep to them?” Navalny said recently in a typically sardonic social media post via his attorneys from Penal Colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region east of Moscow.
He is serving a nine-year term due to end in 2030 on charges widely seen as trumped up, and is facing another trial on new charges that could keep him locked up for another two decades. Rallies have been called for Sunday in Russia to support him.
Navalny has become Russia’s most famous political prisoner — and not just because of his prominence as Putin’s fiercest political foe, his poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin, and his being the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary.
He has chronicled his arbitrary placement in isolation, where he has spent almost six months. He’s on a meager prison diet, restricted on how much time he can spend writing letters and forced at times to live with a cellmate with poor personal hygiene, making life even more miserable.
Most of the attention goes to Navalny and other high-profile figures like Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced last month to 25 years on treason charges. But there’s a growing number of less-famous prisoners who are serving time in similarly harsh conditions.
Memorial, Russia’s oldest and most prominent human rights organization and a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, counted 558 political prisoners in the country as of April — more than three times the figure than in 2018, when it listed 183.
The Soviet Union’s far-flung gulag system of prison camps provided inmate labor to develop industries such as mining and logging. While conditions vary among modern-day penal colonies, Russian law still permits prisoners to work on jobs like sewing uniforms for soldiers.
In a 2021 report, the U.S. State Department said conditions in Russian prisons and detention centers “were often harsh and life threatening. Overcrowding, abuse by guards and inmates, limited access to health care, food shortages and inadequate sanitation were common in prisons, penal colonies, and other detention facilities.”
Andrei Pivovarov, an opposition figure sentenced last year to four years in prison, has been in isolation at Penal Colony No. 7 in northern Russia’s Karelia region since January and is likely to stay there the rest of this year, said his partner, Tatyana Usmanova. The institution is notorious for its harsh conditions and reports of torture.
The 41-year-old former head of the pro-democracy group Open Russia spends his days alone in a small cell in a “strict detention” unit, and is not allowed any calls or visits from anyone but his lawyers, Usmanova told The Associated Press. He can get one book from the prison library, can write letters for several hours a day and is permitted 90 minutes outdoors, she said.
Other inmates are prohibited from making eye contact with Pivovarov in the corridors, contributing to his “maximum isolation,” she said.
“It wasn’t enough to sentence him to a real prison term. They are also trying to ruin his life there,” Usmanova added.
Pivovarov was pulled off a Warsaw-bound flight just before takeoff from St. Petersburg in May 2021 and taken to the southern city of Krasnodar. Authorities accused him of engaging with an “undesirable” organization -– a crime since 2015.
Several days before his arrest, Open Russia had disbanded after getting the “undesirable” label.
After his trial in Krasnodar, the St. Petersburg native was convicted and sentenced in July, when Russia’s war in Ukraine and Putin’s sweeping crackdown on dissent were in full swing.
He told AP in a letter from Krasnodar in December that authorities moved him there “to hide me farther away” from his hometown and Moscow. That interview was one of the last Pivovarov was able to give, describing prison life there as “boring and depressing,” with his only diversion being an hour-long walk in a small yard. “Lucky” inmates with cash in their accounts can shop at a prison store once a week for 10 minutes but otherwise must stay in their cells, he wrote.
Letters from supporters lift his spirits, he said. Many people wrote that they used to be uninterested in Russian politics, according to Pivovarov, and “only now are starting to see clearly.”
Now, any letters take weeks to arrive, Usmanova said.
Conditions are easier for some less-famous political prisoners like Alexei Gorinov, a former member of a Moscow municipal council. He was was convicted of “spreading false information” about the army in July over antiwar remarks he made at a council session.
Criticism of the invasion was criminalized a few months earlier, and Gorinov, 61, became the first Russian sent to prison for it, receiving seven years.
He is housed in barracks with about 50 others in his unit at Penal Colony No. 2 in the Vladimir region, Gorinov said in written answers passed to AP in March.
The long sentence for a low-profile activist shocked many, and Gorinov said “authorities needed an example they could showcase to others (of) an ordinary person, rather than a public figure.”
Inmates in his unit can watch TV, and play chess, backgammon or table tennis. There’s a small kitchen to brew tea or coffee between meals, and they can have food from personal supplies.
But Gorinov said prison officials still carry out “enhanced control” of the unit, and he and two other inmates get special checks every two hours, since they’ve been labeled “prone to escape.”
There is little medical help, he said.
“Right now, I’m not feeling all that well, as I can’t recover from bronchitis,” he said, adding that he needed treatment for pneumonia last winter at another prison’s hospital ward, because at Penal Colony No. 2, the most they can do is “break a fever.”
Also suffering health problems is artist and musician Sasha Skochilenko, who is detained amid her ongoing trial following her April 2022 arrest in St. Petersburg, also on charges of spreading false information about the army. Her crime was replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans in protest.
Skochilenko has a congenital heart defect and celiac disease, requiring a gluten-free diet. She gets food parcels weekly, but there is a weight limit, and the 32-year-old can’t eat “half the things they give her there,” said her partner, Sophia Subbotina.
There’s a stark difference between detention facilities for women and men, and Skochilenko has it easier in some ways than male prisoners, Subbotina said.
“Oddly enough, the staff are mostly nice. Mostly they are women, they are quite friendly, they will give helpful tips and they have a very good attitude toward Sasha,” Subbotina told AP by phone.
“Often they support Sasha, they tell her: ‘You will definitely get out of here soon, this is so unfair here.’ They know about our relationship and they are fine with it. They’re very humane,” she said.
There’s no political propaganda in the jail and dance music blares from a radio. Cooking shows play on TV. Skochilenko “wouldn’t watch them in normal life, but in jail, it’s a distraction,” Subbotina said.
She recently arranged for an outside cardiologist to examine Skochilneko and since March has been allowed to visit her twice a month.
Subbotina gets emotional when she recalled their first visit.
“It is a complex and weird feeling when you’ve been living with a person. Sasha and I have been together for over six years — waking up with them, falling asleep with them — then not being able to see them for a year,” she said. “I was nervous when I went to visit her. I didn’t know what I would say to Sasha, but in the end, it went really well.”
Still, Subbotina said a year behind bars has been hard on Skochilenko. The trial is moving slowly, unlike usually swift proceedings for high-profile political activists, with guilty verdicts almost a certainty.
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Program Supports Causes that Include Treating Childhood Illness, Helping end Hunger and Homelessness, Disaster Relief for Impacted Communities, and Aid for Military Families
IRVINE, Calif., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia America today announced the automaker's "Accelerate the Good" Dealer Match program raised $3.779 million for non-profits nationwide. Kia and its dealers selected charities across the U.S., including organizations that help treat and defeat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases, help end childhood hunger, provide shelter for youth facing homelessness, provide disaster relief for recovering communities, and offer support for military families.
"Helping those in need is a core tenant of the Kia brand and we are proud to partner with our retailers to make a positive impact on communities across the U.S.," said Sean Yoon, president and CEO of Kia North America and Kia America.
Donations will be provided to the following organizations:
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®
- American Red Cross
- Covenant House
- Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
- Share our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign
- Operation Homefront
- The Petfinder Foundation
In addition to the national donations, Kia will support several local charities across the U.S. The latest donations are a further extension of Kia's "Accelerate the Good" charitable initiative, which has provided more than $22 million to those in need since 2019. In addition to the dealer match donations, Kia has made donations to establish scholarships for students in need looking to pursue their dreams of higher education; provided PPE to medical facilities nationwide during the pandemic; and partnered with animal welfare organizations including those that help rescue and preserve the endangered sea turtle population.
Kia America – about us
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrified vehicles sold through a network of over 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America*.
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SANTA FE, N.M., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities Trust (the "Trust") (NASDAQ: TBLD) today announced a monthly distribution of $0.10417 per share on the Trust's common shares, payable on June 21, 2022 to common shareholders of record as of June 13, 2022.
The Trust's monthly distributions are shown below:
Distribution rates are not performance and are calculated by summing the Trust's monthly distribution per share over four quarters and dividing by the net asset value or market price per share, as applicable, as of the distribution announcement date. Distributions on common shares are generally paid from net investment income (regular interest and dividends) and may also include capital gains and/or a return of capital. The Trust's distribution payable on June 21, 2022, does not include a return of capital but includes short-term capital gains in the amount of $0.08329. The specific tax characteristics of the distributions will be reported to the Trust's common shareholders on Form 1099 after the end of the 2022 calendar year. The final determination for all distributions paid in 2022 will be made in early 2023 and reported to you on Form 1099-DIV. You should not use this notice as a substitute for your 1099-DIV.
Shareholders should not assume that the source of a distribution from the Trust is net income or profit. A distribution comprised in whole or in part by a return of capital does not necessarily reflect the Trust's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income." Future distributions may consist of a return of capital. For further information regarding the Trust's distributions, please visit www.thornburg.com/tbld-distributions.
The Trust's investment objective is to provide current income and additional total return. The Trust seeks to achieve its objective by investing, directly or indirectly, at least 80% of its managed assets in a broad range of income-producing securities. The Trust invests in both equity and debt securities of companies located in the United States and around the globe. The Trust may invest in non-U.S. domiciled companies, including up to 20% of its managed assets at the time of investment in equity and debt securities of emerging market companies.
As a registered investment company, the Trust is subject to a 4% excise tax that is imposed if the Trust does not distribute to common shareholders by the end of any calendar year at least the sum of (i) 98% of its ordinary income (not taking into account any capital gain or loss) for the calendar year and (ii) 98.2% of its capital gain in excess of its capital loss (adjusted for certain ordinary losses) for a one-year period generally ending on October 31 of the calendar year (unless an election is made to use the Trust's fiscal year). In certain circumstances, the Trust may elect to retain income or capital gain to the extent that the Board of Trustees, in consultation with Trust management, determines it to be in the interest of shareholders to do so.
The common share distributions paid by the Trust for any particular period may be more than the amount of net investment income from that period. As a result, all or a portion of a distribution may be a return of capital, which is in effect a partial return of the amount a common shareholder invested in the Trust, up to the amount of the common shareholder's tax basis in their common shares, which would reduce such tax basis. Although a return of capital may not be taxable, it will generally increase the common shareholder's potential gain, or reduce the common shareholder's potential loss, on any subsequent sale or other disposition of common shares.
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As an independent firm, Thornburg can take on a wide range of opportunities, explore ideas thoroughly and work across strategies to deliver consistent risk-adjusted outperformance over the long term. The firm attracts free-thinking professionals who are eager to pursue investment outcomes beyond the confines of popular wisdom. From nimble operational capabilities to principles and actions fitting of a global citizen, Thornburg's world-class investment platform and team are aligned on strategy to serve investors.
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Teens' brains aged faster during the first year of the pandemic, study says. Stress may be to blame
The brains of U.S. teens have physically changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says.
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The young study participants also reported more severe symptoms of anxiety, depression and what scientists call internalized problems — meaning feelings of sadness, low self-esteem and fear and trouble regulating their emotions — after the first year of the pandemic.
Dozens of studies have found that teens' and adolescents' mental health has suffered during the pandemic. They have been taken out of school, away from their friends and familiar support structures, and had to live with the uncertainty and fear that came with the coronavirus. Many parents lost jobs. Millions of children lost parents and grandparents to COVID-19.
The study, published Thursday in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, is one of the first to look at the physical changes in the brain brought by that stress and anxiety.
The research comes out of a larger study in which scientists were trying to understand the gender differences in depression among adolescents.
Eight years ago, they set out with a plan to take MRI scans of 220 children ages 9 to 13 every two years. The team had completed two sets of scans when the pandemic interrupted their research, and they weren't able to start scanning again until the end of 2020.
When their research was interrupted, the team decided it would be interesting to study the effects that this stressful event was having on kids' developing brains. The pre-pandemic scans would help them make this comparison.
The researchers matched children in the same demographics — including gender, age, exposure to stress and socioeconomic status.
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To find the average brain age, they put the MRI scans through a model that pools data from other scans.
The researchers compared the MRI scans of 128 children. Half the scans were taken before the pandemic and the other half at the end of 2020.
They found that the children who had lived through the first year of the pandemic had brain ages that were older than their chronological age.
The brains that had gone through the beginning of the pandemic had growth in the area that can help regulate fear and stress, called the amygdala, and in the hippocampus, the area of the brain that can controls access to memories. Tissues had thinned in the part of the brain that controls executive functioning, the cortex.
A child's brain changes naturally over time, but research has found that these physical changes can speed up when a person goes through significant adversity in childhood.
Studies have shown that people who are exposed to violence, neglect, poverty and family problems early in life have faster brain aging and can have problems with their mental health later on.
Ian Gotlib, lead author of the new study, said the research team had expected to find the problems with anxiety, depression and internalized problems.
"The pandemic has not been kind to adolescent mental health," said Gotlib, a psychology professor at Stanford University.
But they weren't exactly sure what they would find with the MRI scans.
"It's always interesting to do research like this when you're not really sure what's going to happen," Gotlib said. "These effects were interesting and happened pretty quickly.
"This was just a one-year shutdown, so we didn't know that the effects on the brain would be this pronounced after that short a period of stress," he added. "It tracks with the mental health difficulties that we're seeing."
What isn't clear, he said, is whether the brain changes will have an impact later in life. The research team plans to scan the same kids later to track their brain development. There is a chance that their brain changes could have just been an immediate response to a stressor that will normalize over time, he said.
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The team also plans to look at the 10 children in the study who had Covid-19 to see whether there is a different effect. The physical differences seem to be "a little more pronounced" in the children who had Covid, Gotlib said.
Dr. Max Wiznitzer, diversion chief of pediatric neurology at UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, said the changes in the brain were interesting, but what's important is whether the mental health problems persist.
"The anatomy is not important. It's the functionality that's important," said Wiznitzer, who wasn't involved in the research. "The clinical consequence here is the functional impact, the mental health condition clinically and how it's functioning and how you deal with it."
With appropriate mental health interventions, problems like anxiety or depression can be managed. "The brain has that capacity for reorganization — or call it improvement, if you will," Wiznitzer added.
Gotlib hopes parents and guardians keep in mind that although lockdowns and school closures may be over, the mental health consequences may be lingering.
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LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — Dressed in her Sunday best — pink ruffled sleeves and a rainbow tulle tutu — Crystal Martinez’s 4-year-old daughter proudly presents her with a multicolored bouquet of carefully crafted tissue paper flowers. With her 5-year-old son nestled on her lap, laughing in delight, Martinez holds out her arms and pulls the girl into a hug so tight that her glasses are knocked askew.
“I want you! I don’t want the flowers,” Martinez says , smiling and holding her children close.
Martinez’ five children, including the three aged 13, 10 and 6, last month traveled for three hours from Chicago to visit her in Logan Correctional, Illinois’ largest state prison for women and transgender people, on the Reunification Ride. The donation-dependent initiative buses prisoners’ family members 180 miles (290 km) from the city to Logan every month so they can spend time with their mothers and grandmothers.
The number of incarcerated women in the United States dropped by tens of thousands because of COVID-19. But as the criminal justice system returns to business as usual and prison populations creep back to pre-pandemic norms, more children are being separated from their mothers, putting them at greater risk of health and behavioral problems and making them vulnerable to abuse and displacement.
Black and Hispanic women are more likely to be imprisoned than white women and are affected disproportionately by family separation due to incarceration.
Women held at Logan describe the Reunification Ride — one of the increasingly rare, under-funded programs designed to keep families together — as a crucial lifeline.
“I thank God that it is at least once a month. Some people don’t get to see their kids at all,” says Joshlyn Allen, whose 5- and 3-year-old children were visiting her with their grandmother.
The kids and their caregivers meet at 7 a.m. at a South Side big box store parking lot, bleary-eyed but excited. Organizers hand out snacks, games, water and coloring supplies as they get on the road.
Three hours later, the charter bus pulls up at the facility’s barbed wire gates in Lincoln, Illinois, with children peering from the windows. As families progress slowly through security, shouts of “Mommy!” and squeals of glee fill the prison gym made cheerful with handmade decorations.
The prisoners create decorations for the visits, including colorful paper flowers, butterflies, family photos framed in construction paper and even the bouquet presented to Martinez by her daughter. Families are not allowed to bring anything besides essentials, such as diapers.
The number of women incarcerated in the U.S. dropped by about 30%, to 146,000, from 2019 to 2020, according to U.S. Department of Justice data. The nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative attributes that decrease to slowdowns in court proceedings, temporary process changes and efforts to reduce prison populations due to the pandemic.
But female prison and jail populations are rebounding to pre-pandemic levels.
“We are seeing more and more families separated,” said Alexis Mansfield, Reunification Ride coordinator for the Women’s Justice Institute.
About 58% of women in state or federal prisons are parents of minor children in the U.S. Black and Latina women experience greater incarceration rates than white women and are about as likely or more likely to be parents, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Although women are far less likely to be imprisoned than men, their incarceration can have outsized effects on families, Mansfield said. She has witnessed children reuniting with their incarcerated mothers after months or years apart who “immediately disclose that they’re being abused or that they’re facing a challenge at school.”
“That bond between mothers and children is so strong. And without seeing their moms, very often kids are in vulnerable positions with nobody to turn to,” she said.
Gina Fedock, professor at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, researches the well-being of marginalized women, particularly those behind bars.
Programs like Reunification Ride that offer recurring visits are rare in the U.S., Fedock said.
“Most states don’t have such opportunities,” she said. “There’s a real lack of consistent resources, particularly these types of transportation programs.”
University of Chicago researchers found only one similar initiative in a nationwide sweep, Hour Children in New York, Fedock said.
Incarcerated women tend to be the primary caregivers and often are the breadwinners, meaning children whose mothers are imprisoned are frequently displaced or enter the child welfare system, she said.
The impact of this kind of “ambiguous loss” of a parent can lead to increased risk of health issues, developmental delays, behavioral problems and issues with education, since kids moving in with a different caregiver often have to switch schools abruptly, according to the researcher.
“It’s really easy for (the children) to fall through the cracks,” Fedock said.
Maintaining the maternal bond can reduce “the traumatic effects of parental incarceration for those children and their families,” Fedock explained. “Every constraint on the parent constrains the parenting relationship.”
Nyia Pritchett says she was unable to visit her mother, Latonyia Dextra, without Reunification Ride. Before the trip, the 27-year-old had not seen Dextra in person for three years.
Pritchett, who lives an hour outside of Chicago, awoke at 4 a.m. to catch the bus.
“It’s worth it,” she says. “So much time my mom has missed out of our lives. The little times like this mean a lot.”
Dextra is serving a 28-year sentence and has been imprisoned since Pritchett was a child. During the visit, she braids Pritchett’s vibrant red curls into a crown.
“It felt like when I was a little girl,” Pritchett says.
Pritchett weeps as she recounts the time spent without her mother. Dextra holds her and wipes away her tears.
Dextra says her children give her hope and that “this program means a lot.”
The Reunification Ride, formerly the recipient of public funds that dried up in 2015 during Illinois’ two-year budget impasse, has been adopted by nonprofits that rely on crowdsourcing and volunteers to keep the program alive. Each trip costs about $3,000 to $3,500.
“We realized that this was just too important to stop,” Mansfield said.
Erika Ray is serving a 42-year sentence for armed robbery and murder. Her 23-year-old daughter, Jada Lesure, was just 7 when her mother was charged. Lesure now brings her 4-year old son to visit.
The programs offer a child-friendly, welcoming alternative to the strict rules of a typical visit behind glass or in small visitor spaces where kids struggle to sit still, without games or food, Ray says.
“There wasn’t any program like this” when Jada was a child, Ray says, watching her grandson zoom happily around the gym.
But even as an adult, Lesure says, “I need my mom. Everybody needs their mom.”
Ray laments it will be a long time before she is able to return home.
“There is no way to punish the parent and not punish the child,” she says.
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Planet Fitness offers high school teens free workouts all summer
(WXIX/Gray News) - Planet Fitness is offering free workouts to high schoolers ages 14-19 this summer.
The offer is good at all of Planet Fitness’s 2,200 locations from May 16-Aug. 31.
Need more motivation? All participants who sign up starting May 16 are automatically entered into the Planet Fitness High School Summer Pass Sweepstakes.
Planet Fitness will award one $500 scholarship in each state (and the District of Columbia), and one grand prize $5,000 scholarship at the end of the summer.
These scholarships can be used for academic or athletic activities or programs.
It’s part of the High School Summer Pass initiative, formerly the Teen Summer Challenge, which was launched in 2019 and saw more than 900,000 teens sign up and complete more than 5.5 million workouts over the summer.
You can pre-register here.
Teens under 18 must register with a parent or guardian online or in-club.
A Planet Fitness spokesperson cites a study that says less than 15% of teens met the 60-minute daily physical activity recommendation during the pandemic.
A national study commissioned by Planet Fitness further found 93% of American teens want to stay healthy and active but lack motivation or access.
The High School Summer Pass is envisioned as a solution when school sports programs, gym classes and after-school activities wind down.
“As the leader in fitness, we believe we have a responsibility to provide a welcoming, safe, and Judgement Free environment for high school students to improve their physical and mental wellness, particularly given the challenges they have and continue to face in the wake of the pandemic,” said Chris Rondeau, chief executive officer at Planet Fitness.
“Our study found that nearly all (92%) high school students agreed that when they are regularly physically active, they feel much better mentally. Fitness is about feeling good, too, and our hope is that High School Summer Pass empowers teens to create life-long workout habits to help them succeed in every aspect of their lives.”
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Cowboys TEs play live Whac-A-Mole to celebrate vs. Giants
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — That hurdle over a defender in the open field was just an instinctive move for Jake Ferguson. That unique celebration with the other three Dallas Cowboys tight ends after a touchdown a few plays later was a scheme he had come up with in advance.
And it was Ferguson who got bopped on the head in a live-version Whac-A-Mole celebration in the Cowboys’ 28-20 win on Thanksgiving Day, in another knock for the New York Giants in a once-promising season that seems to be unraveling with three losses in the last four games.
After rookie Peyton Hendershot scored on a 2-yard sweep, cutting in behind the blocks of two other tight ends to get into the end zone, he immediately motioned the rest of his group toward one of the oversized Salvation Army red kettles in the back of the end zone.
“We just saw the kettle and we were just brainstorming in the tight end room, like what can we do,” Ferguson said. “What about if all three of us in there, and we just play Whac-A-Mole. Because we knew Peyton had that play in for a couple of weeks, and we knew he was going to get into there and we’d have an opportunity.”
Dalton Schultz, Sean McKeon and Ferguson all jumped into kettle, then started popping up and down before Hendershot used the football like a mallet, holding it with both hands whacking Ferguson on top of the head.
“If all four tight ends are in there, we’re going to score a touchdown, we’ve got to do something special,” Hendershot said. “When they called (the play), we knew it was time to go.”
Schultz said he honestly didn’t know if three tight ends would fit in the kettle together.
“I didn’t know that it was squishy either, so I was a little happy about that,” Schultz said.
That was the last score for the Cowboys in their annual Thanksgiving game that also serves as the kickoff for the Salvation Army’s holiday fundraiser.
While the tight ends weren’t the first ones to use the kettles as part of a touchdown celebration, they did it as a group. Running back Ezekiel Elliott once dropped money and himself in the big red bucket, and another time picked up Dak Prescott and put the quarterback in one.
“They topped me. They topped my kettle celebrations,” Elliott said. “I’m a little jealous. You know they didn’t let me in on it, but love those tight ends.”
It was a celebration that wouldn’t have even happened if the Cowboys had won their challenge of the previous play, when CeeDee Lamb made an incredible catch in the back of the end zone. Coach Mike McCarthy challenged after Lamb was ruled out of bounds, and that call was upheld after replay review.
A few plays before that, Ferguson leaped into the air to make a two-handed catch on what turned into a 30-yard gain to the Giants 24. After the open-field catch near the 45, he took off and went hurdling over 6-foot safety Jason Pinnock close to the 30, then got a few more yards before lowering his shoulder into cornerback Rodarius Williams.
“Cleared somebody? Never,” Ferguson said about the hurdle. “That probably will be the last time I jump this year because now guys will be going high, sets them up a little bit. But yeah, I don’t really know how to explain that one.”
As for putting his head down, and bulling into Williams, Ferguson said, “My legs might have been a little tired.”
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Circuit Clinical—one of the nation's fastest growing integrated research organizations—has expanded their presence in the Hudson Valley region through a partnership with Middletown Medical, a top tier, multi-specialty physician group, increasing access to clinical research as a care option to an additional 100,000 patients that Middletown Medical serves. This partnership will bring trials to a more diverse patient population—comprised of approximately 50% non-white individuals.
The breadth of Middletown Medical's primary and specialty care, combined with Circuit's commitment to improving patient access and inclusion in clinical trials, will bring new care opportunities to Middletown's patients through the provider relationships they already trust – further positioning the region as a destination for medical research and advancements. This partnership will initially include 11 Principal Investigators, participating in specialties such as, but not limited to, cardiology, rheumatology, neurology, gastroenterology, and family medicine.
"Patient care is a top priority for Middletown Medical and we are committed to providing any and all opportunities to our physicians and the communities they serve," said Dr Rajan Gulati, President of Middletown Medical.
Middletown Medical and Circuit Clinical are committed to reducing the burden on patients who opt in for research participation. Along with localizing patient care within the Middletown Medical physicians' offices, Circuit's approach to transforming the patient journey includes hybrid care options through telemedicine, fully decentralized trial solutions, as well as trialjourney.com—an award-winning patient experience platform for finding trials and leaving site ratings and reviews to improve the experience of participating in clinical trials. This variety of care options can help eliminate traditional care obstacles that have created a burden for patients to participate in clinical research. Furthermore, patient participation in research will serve to benefit both individuals and communities, including offering extra care visits without co-pays, strengthening the patient-provider relationship, and often leading to improved health outcomes through a better and more personal care experience.
This collaboration was made possible through strategic partnerships with Labcorp—a leading global life sciences company that provides vital information to help doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and patients make clear and confident decisions—as well as Medidata—a Dassault Systems company that is powering smarter treatments and healthier people with the world's most trusted platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data.
"We are beyond excited to expand our national research network through amazing partnerships like this one with Middletown Medical," said Irfan Khan, MD, CEO of Circuit Clinical. "Together we can empower patients to engage with clinical trials as a care option. The combined efforts of Circuit Clinical and our strategic partners, Labcorp and Medidata, allow us to make partnerships like this with Middletown Medical not only a reality, but as optimal and innovative as possible."
Middletown Medical is a multi-specialty physicians' group dedicated to providing patients with top quality, comprehensive care in a warm and caring environment which delivers care to over 100,000 patients throughout Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster counties in New York state. Please access Middletownmedical.com to learn more about their doctors and the expansive scope of services provided.
Circuit Clinical®, one of the fastest-growing integrated research organizations in the USA, is dedicated to empowering patients to choose clinical research as a care option. Circuit is committed to transforming the experience for physicians and their patients of finding, choosing, and participating in clinical research. The company delivers clinical research services and an award-winning patient engagement platform, trialjourney.com. Learn more at circuitclinical.com and follow along for updates and announcements on LinkedIn.
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ATLANTIC CITY — In the late 1970s, Atlantic City looked to legalized gambling to revive its fortunes.
Gaming now brings hundreds of millions of dollars into the city each month, with revenue on an upswing after a slump.
The casino industry reported a gross operating profit of $767 million last year. Still, a significant portion of residents live below the poverty line, and by several other measures, residents continue to struggle.
The city is looking to cannabis, now legal, taxed and licensed in New Jersey, as a new lifeline for the local economy.
On Tuesday, the city Planning Board endorsed a proposal to create a Green Zone Redevelopment Plan, which would declare a wide swath of the city ready for cannabis-related businesses.
The proposed zone, which must still go before City Council, runs from Boston Avenue to Maryland Avenue, including both sides of Atlantic and Pacific avenues. It also includes the Orange Loop district running from Pacific Avenue to just shy of the Boardwalk between New York and Tennessee avenues, where developers have sought to revitalize the area with tourist-friendly attractions.
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Under the proposal, cannabis would be one of those attractions.
The plan calls for design standards for cannabis businesses and would allow for retail sales, growing operations, manufacturing and wholesale businesses.
“The purpose of the Green Zone Redevelopment Plan is to create additional incentives for private investment and tourism in Atlantic City with the introduction of recreational cannabis, and to support the revitalization, economic diversification, and the investment of private capital in the city’s main commercial and tourism corridors,” reads the introduction of the plan voted on Tuesday.
The board’s vote states that the plan conforms to the city’s approved master plan and clears the way for council action. Council is set for a public hearing and final vote to create the zone at its Sept. 21 meeting, 5 p.m. at 1301 Bacharach Blvd.
The vote was almost unanimous. Planning Board member Evan Sanchez said he supports the idea but owns property within the zone and is likely to become the landlord of a cannabis business. He followed the advice of board attorney Joel Fleishman and abstained. All members other members voted yes.
Kaleem Shabazz, who also serves on City Council, made the motion to approve the zone.
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Shabazz has been a cannabis skeptic on council and has opposed some proposed locations for cannabis businesses. He said after the meeting that his primary objection has been to locating the businesses in residential areas.
He said he has been strongly in favor of medical marijuana but less sure about its recreational use.
“I realize recreational cannabis is legal whether I agree with it or not,” Shabazz said.
The potential for economic development and new jobs for Atlantic City residents is too great to ignore, he said.
There have already been multiple applications for cannabis businesses within the city’s Tourism District, according to Lance Landgraf, director of planning and development for the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority.
The CRDA serves as the planning authority in Atlantic City within the Tourism District. The authority board is set to review the Green Zone proposal at its Sept. 20 meeting, so it can endorse the plan before City Council’s public hearing.
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He said CRDA staff members like the plan.
“We support it. It’s something that the state has been very bullish on for Atlantic City,” Landgraf said after the meeting. “The city has looked at it as a potential economic development boost.”
He praised the work redevelopment specialist Jim Rutala did on the plan, citing the inclusion of design standards and security requirements. On Tuesday, Planning Board members added requirements for air filtration systems that would mean no smell of cannabis could be detected outside, and stated that no cannabis products could be stored outside the properties.
“It is very well written,” Landgraf said.
In April, the CRDA approved a planning application for a cannabis dispensary at 2415 Pacific Ave. There is already a dispensary on the Boardwalk, owned by The Botanist, but that site is restricted to selling only to medical marijuana patients.
There were four applications in August seeking use variances for cannabis businesses, Landgraf said. The applicants agreed to hold off until the council vote. If the zone is approved, the applications would only need site plan approval, rather than variances, which require a more stringent standard.
While the legal cannabis industry may appear inflation-proof at the consumer level, it is facing many of the same issues and problems of more established products.
Proposals include dispensaries and consumption lounges, which are allowable under New Jersey law. A company called Starboard Enterprises has submitted an application for a 125,000-square-foot facility at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue, what is currently a vacant property.
Inside, the company plans to grow cannabis for the New Jersey market.
“It could mean a lot of jobs,” Landgraf said.
There was no immediate comment Tuesday from Mayor Marty Small Sr.’s administration.
In previous interviews, members of the administration have talked up the economic potential of cannabis, and over the weekend, Kashawn “Kash” McKinley, Small’s director of constituent services, spoke at a cannabis business conference in the city, with a theme that Atlantic City is open for canna-business.
“The adoption of the Green Zone Redevelopment Plan will allow for the strategic enhancement and diversification of the retail and tourism-based economy,” reads a summary of the Green Zone plan included with the planning documents. “The goal of the redevelopment plan is to increase economic development through the establishment of permitted classes of recreational cannabis and to recapture disposable income, sales and property taxes, development fees and employment opportunities for local residents.”
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New Jersey voters strongly supported legalization in 2020. In February 2021, Gov. Phil Murphy signed three bills legalizing weed and assigning the task of creating regulations for the new market to the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. The Garden State had joined a growing number of states to allow cannabis possession and sales.
Advocates for the new industry project cannabis sales could eventually reach $2 billion a year in New Jersey. With the first legal sales beginning in April and only a few sites yet open, state officials reported close to $80 million in legal cannabis sales through the end of June, raising $4.6 million in taxes.
The Green Zone proposal states that the area includes vacant buildings and blight. At one time, the area was the commercial and entertainment corridor for the city, with retail dining and entertainment. As new casinos boomed, the report states, tourists skipped these areas.
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The Screen Time Alliance and partnership with Actor and Gamer Jordan Fisher aim to bring awareness to healthy screen time practices and encourage patients to be seen in person by an AOA doctor of optometry for quality eye care
ST. LOUIS, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Optometric Association (AOA), the leading authority on quality eye care and an advocate for our nation's health, launched today a first-of-its kind Screen Time Alliance, in partnership with the gaming industry, to educate Americans about the effects of prolonged time on digital devices and its impact on eye health. With the increase of online and app-based vision services, AOA's Eye Deserve More, national public awareness campaign takes a stand that every American deserves in-person comprehensive eye care from a doctor of optometry as part of their eye health and overall wellbeing. The Screen Time Alliance focuses on the rise of screen time – particularly among gamers – and shows how all gamers, streamers and scrollers can keep their eyes healthy.
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There are more than 227 million Americans who play video games1 and with gaming and screen time on the rise, so is the risk for long-term implications for people's eye health. AOA's 2022 Gamer Survey results revealed, the average gamer spends more than 8 hours a day on screens and has experienced various eye-related symptoms from gaming, including eye strain, headaches, dry eyes, and blurred vision. Many gamers are aware of the eye health implications for long-term screen time usage, but less than half (46%) visit a health care professional for a comprehensive eye exam every year.
The Screen Time Alliance is a collaboration between a professional eye health association and gaming industry companies to educate gamers, and all screen time users, about the importance of healthy screen time. Current members of the Alliance include Nerd Street Gamers, a national network of e-sports facilities, events and content, and Playcrafting, a game development company. The Alliance's goal is to encourage people to get their eyes checked offline by a doctor of optometry so they can do more of what they love online. Additionally, the AOA has developed Eye Health Guidance for Screen Time to provide actionable steps for gamers to adapt and optimize gaming experiences to improve their eye and overall health.
"The establishment of the Screen Time Alliance is an important collaboration for us, as the majority of Americans spend a significant amount of time on screens and playing video games," says James P. DeVleming, O.D., AOA President. "While there are many things we can do on our screens, getting a comprehensive eye exam is not one of them. Through in-person exams, doctors of optometry play a major role in an individual's overall wellbeing, by being able to spot vision and eye health issues, as well as early signs of systemic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune diseases and cancers."
As part of this year's campaign, AOA is partnering with Jordan Fisher, an actor, singer, songwriter, producer, gamer and parent to educate fellow gamers and parents about the importance of taking care of their eye health and encouraging them to practice healthier screen time habits.
"After injuring my cornea years ago, I did not realize how it would affect the rest of my body. With the amount of time I spend on screens – about 7 hours a day reading, producing, gaming, or taking video conference calls – it's key to practice healthy screen time habits as it can really take a toll on your eyes," says Fisher. "That's why getting an eye exam in person is so important, optometrists are able to look beyond your eyes into your whole body. I make eye health a priority for me and my family, so we won't miss any important life moments."
Optometrists like Dr. Jason Compton, AOA member and a gamer himself, say some patients may not make the connection between screens and their symptoms such as dry eyes and headaches.
"It's my job as an optometrist to get to know my patients' habits and behaviors to create tailored recommendations to keep their eyes and overall body healthy, especially since comprehensive eye health is not a one-size-fits-all approach," says Dr. Compton. "Whether you're a pro gamer, Twitch streamer, casual scroller, or someone who spends all day working at the computer – it's critical to see a doctor of optometry in person every year and adapt healthy gaming and screen time habits, like taking regular screen breaks and stopping any gaming activity at least one hour before bedtime."
To find Eye Health Guidance for Screen Time and to book an appointment with a local AOA doctor of optometry, visit AOA.org/EyeDeserveMore.
About The American Optometric Association (AOA)
The American Optometric Association (AOA) is the leading authority on and advocate for quality eye health care, representing more than 44,000 doctors of optometry, optometry students and optometric professionals. As the sole primary eye care provider in many communities across America, doctors of optometry are often a patient's first entry point into the health care system, and have extensive, ongoing training to examine, diagnose, treat, and manage disorders, diseases, and injuries that affect the eye and visual system. Through a nationwide public health initiative, AOA's Eye Deserve More campaign is fostering awareness of the importance of eye health and vision care and the overall health benefits of in-person, comprehensive eye examinations with AOA doctors of optometry for all Americans.
About Jordan Fisher
Jordan Fisher's abilities as an actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and gamer whose work has spanned from TV to music, Broadway, and film. Jordan can be seen in Netflix's Work It and To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, The CW's The Flash, and — most recently — Netflix's Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between and HBO's The Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience. Jordan is an avid gamer and even commentated for the 2019 Fortnite World Cup. His additional accomplishments include being the first African American to portray the title character of 'Evan' in Dear Evan Hansen and 'Mark' in Fox's Emmy-nominated Rent: Live, as well as being named a breakout star by MTV and People Magazine for Fox's Emmy-winning broadcast Grease Live! Jordan also won ABC's 25th season of Dancing with the Stars and collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda, performing a duet with him for Disney's Moana soundtrack, as well as joined the cast of the Tony award-winning musical, Hamilton.
About Eye Deserve More & Screen Time Alliance
Eye Deserve More is a multi-faceted national campaign to take a stand that every American deserves in-person comprehensive care from an AOA doctor of optometry as part of their eye health and overall health and wellbeing. The Screen Time Alliance, a first-of-its-kind alliance between the American Optometric Association and gaming industry partners, is a call to action to prioritize eye health across screens, devices, and platforms. The Alliance aims to educate Americans about healthy screen time, especially the 227 million who play video games.
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Yakesha Cooper
American Optometric Association
Ycooper@aoa.org
Rachel Stevens
Edelman
Rachel.stevens@edelman.com
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- Entertainment Software Association. February 2022. "2021 Essential Facts About the Video Game Industry." https://www.theesa.com/resource/2021-essential-facts-about-the-video-game-industry/
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LAS VEGAS, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Switch, Inc. (NYSE: SWCH) today announced that it will conduct its first quarter 2022 earnings conference call and live webcast for analysts and investors at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday May 11, 2022. The company is providing updated dial-in information below, which replaces the previous conference call information provided in Switch's first quarter 2022 earnings press release.
- Participant toll free dial-in: 888-660-6585
- Conference ID: 1555854
The webcast will be accessible on Switch's investor relations website at https://investors.switch.com/ for one year. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
- Replay dial-in: 800-770-2030
- Replay access code: 1555854
ABOUT Switch
Switch (NYSE: SWCH), is the independent leader in exascale data center ecosystems, edge data center designs, industry-leading telecommunications solutions and next-generation technology innovation. Switch Founder and CEO Rob Roy has developed more than 700 issued and pending patent claims covering data center designs that have manifested into the company's world-renowned data centers and technology solutions.
We innovate to sustainably progress the digital foundation of the connected world with a focus on enterprise-class and emerging hybrid cloud solutions. The Switch PRIMES, located in Las Vegas and Tahoe Reno, Nevada; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; and Austin, Texas are the world's most powerful exascale data center campus ecosystems with low latency to major U.S. markets. Visit switch.com for more information or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. and SHANGHAI, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- I-Mab (the "Company") (Nasdaq: IMAB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel biologics, today announced that a poster featuring the latest clinical data of uliledlimab, the Company's proprietary and highly differentiated CD73 antibody, in combination with PD-1 therapy in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), will be presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, taking place June 2-6 in Chicago, Illinois.
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About Uliledlimab
Uliledlimab (also known as TJD5) is a differentiated, humanized antibody against CD73, an ecto-enzyme expressed on stromal cells and tumors that converts extracellular adenosine monophosphate (AMP) to adenosine. Adenosine, in turn, binds to adenosine receptors on relevant immune cells and inhibits anti-tumor immune responses in the tumor microenvironment. Uliledlimab is expected to offer clinical benefits by suppressing tumor growth in concert with checkpoint therapies such as PD-(L)1 antibodies. Uliledlimab is effective in anti-tumor activities through a unique intra-dimer binding, leading to differentiated and favorable functional properties, as evident in preclinical studies.
About I-Mab
I-Mab (Nasdaq: IMAB) is a dynamic, global biotech company focused on discovery, development and soon, commercialization of novel or highly differentiated biologics in the therapeutic areas of immuno-oncology and autoimmune diseases. The Company's mission is to bring transformational medicines to patients around the world through innovation. I-Mab's innovative pipeline of more than 10 clinical and pre-clinical stage drug candidates is driven by the Company's Fast-to-Proof-of-Concept and Fast-to-Market development strategies through internal R&D and global partnerships and commercial partnerships. I-Mab has established its global footprint in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Lishui and Hong Kong in China, and Maryland and San Diego in the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.i-mabbiopharma.com and follow I-Mab on LinkedIn, Twitter, and WeChat.
I-Mab Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws, including statements regarding data from clinical studies of uliledlimab, the potential implications of clinical data for patients, and I-Mab's advancement of, and anticipated clinical development, regulatory milestones, and commercialization of uliledlimab. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including but not limited to I-Mab's ability to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of its drug candidates; the clinical results for its drug candidates, which may not support further development or NDA/BLA approval; the content and timing of decisions made by the relevant regulatory authorities regarding regulatory approval of I-Mab's drug candidates; I-Mab's ability to achieve commercial success for its drug candidates, if approved; I-Mab's ability to obtain and maintain protection of intellectual property for its technology and drugs; I-Mab's reliance on third parties to conduct drug development, manufacturing and other services; I-Mab's limited operating history and I-Mab's ability to obtain additional funding for operations and to complete the development and commercialization of its drug candidates; and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's clinical development, commercial and other operations, as well as those risks more fully discussed in the "Risk Factors" section in I-Mab's most recent annual report on Form 20-F, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in I-Mab's subsequent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to I-Mab, and I-Mab undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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JACKSON, N.J., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RXDco, the "forward-thinking" premium cannabis packaging company, innovators of unique, child-resistant containers and bags, is aiming to change how consumers think of packaging and fill a trending requirement in the Cannabis Industry with their eco-friendly, sustainable and renewable collections; Atid, PearlLoc, and EcoPro.
Due to the nature of cannabis, there are stringent laws governing its marketing and packaging. Among the many regulations already in place, two of the newest states to legalize cannabis, New York and New Jersey, have taken things a step further by placing mandatory requirements on utilizing environmentally sustainable packaging. For example, in NY, a cannabis licensee must ensure their packaging is made from at least 25% post-consumer waste. With RXDcos' extensive experience in the industry and unmatched R&D capabilities, the company is poised and ready to fill the new environmental requirements of NY and NJ, with options already available and many others in the pipeline.
Of RXDco's many packaging collections, they are most enthusiastic about their eco-conscious, Atid, PearlLoc, and EcoPro series, as they represent the very best of RXDcos' sustainability initiatives. As Steven Jay, RXDco's CMO, explains, "We are all living on this amazing planet called Earth. It's our home; it provides the oxygen we breathe, the food that sustains us, the medicine that heals us, and the materials that shelter us. We believe that we must do whatever we can as a company to protect our planet for ourselves and our children for generations to come. That's why we are so proud to offer companies and consumers the option of going green and choosing environmentally friendly, sustainable packaging for their cannabis products."
RXDco's Atid, PearlLoc, and Eco-Pro are paper-based biodegradable, recyclable, child-resistant certified cannabis packaging options. Atid is unique to RXDco; its patented and the perfect choice for those seeking to keep their flower and edibles fresh and protected. https://rxdco.com/product/atid PearlLoc are premium vape cylinders and boxes available with extensive branding customization options. https://rxdco.com/product/pearl-loc Eco-Pro is an elegant 100% paper-based vape boxing option that is sustainably manufactured in the USA. https://rxdco.com/product/eco-pro For those looking for more affordable basics, RXDco offers an impressive collection of biodegradable and sustainable jars and bags.
RXDco is a premium Cannabis, Hemp/CBD packaging manufacturer specializing in cutting-edge, custom-branded packaging solutions. With over 100 years of experience in the packaging industry, RXDco is unique in its understanding of regulatory & compliance packaging, possessing the knowledge and expertise to deliver any packaging need. Recognized by leading brands for its forward-thinking and innovative capabilities, RXDco is a trendsetting industry trailblazer. With unparalleled R&D capabilities, in-house graphic design, industry-best pricing, and first-class customer support, RXDco is truly the total package.
For more information and imagery, please contact Steven Jay: stevenjay@rxdco.com
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
0-3-7, WB: 6
(zero, three, seven; WB: six)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
0-3-7, WB: 6
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CLEVELAND, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE: TDG) ("the Company") announced today the upcoming retirement of Chief Operating Officer Jorge L. Valladares III, the appointment of Mr. Valladares to the Company's Board of Directors, the appointment of Mike Lisman and Joel Reiss as Co-Chief Operating Officers, and the appointment of Sarah Wynne as Chief Financial Officer.
Retirement of Chief Operating Officer Jorge L. Valladares III
Mr. Valladares will retire at the end of the TransDigm's 2023 fiscal year and has served as the Company's Chief Operating Officer for the past four years. Mr. Valladares' prior roles include co-COO, Executive Vice President, and President of three TransDigm operating units. Mr. Valladares will aid in the transition of his role to Mike and Joel until his retirement date. He has also joined the Company's Board of Directors, effective as of today.
Mr. Stein, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "During Jorge's recent tenure as COO and across more than 25 years at the Company, he has been an integral part of the long-term value creation at TransDigm and a key player in the cultural preservation of the Company. Jorge has done a truly outstanding job, and we sincerely thank him for his dedication. We look forward to having Jorge continue to contribute to the growth of TransDigm as a member of the Company's Board."
Appointment of Mike Lisman and Joel Reiss as Co-Chief Operating Officers
Mr. Lisman, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Reiss, an Executive Vice President of the Company, have now assumed the roles of co-COOs.
Mr. Lisman has served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer for the past five years. Prior to becoming CFO, he worked at AeroFluid Products (a TransDigm operating unit) and on the Mergers & Acquisitions team at TransDigm. Before joining the Company, Mike worked at Warburg Pincus.
Mr. Reiss is a long-time employee of TransDigm, having joined the Company in 2000. He has been an Executive Vice President for the last eight years. Prior to that, Mr. Reiss served as President of Hartwell Corporation and President of Skurka Aerospace, both of which are operating units of TransDigm. Before becoming an operating unit President, Mr. Reiss was the Director of Operations at TransDigm's Adams Rite Aerospace operating unit.
Appointment of Sarah Wynne as Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Wynne has assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer, after having served as TransDigm's Chief Accounting Officer for the past five years. She brings strong experience in operational and GAAP accounting to her new assignment and has been with TransDigm for 20 years.
Before becoming the Company's Chief Accounting Officer, she served as a Group Controller overseeing the financial reporting of several operating units. Prior to that, Ms. Wynne served as a Controller at the Company's AeroFluid Products operating unit and held various accounting positions in TransDigm's corporate office.
Mr. Stein, stated, "Sarah, Mike and Joel bring a unique mix of experience in a broad range of aerospace businesses to their new roles. They are experienced senior executives with proven track records. We are very excited to be able to promote internally-developed, long-term employees to each of these roles to continue to perpetuate our unique culture. I'm confident that they will continue to create the kind of value that has been the long-term hallmark of TransDigm."
About TransDigm Group
TransDigm Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a leading global designer, producer and supplier of highly engineered aircraft components for use on nearly all commercial and military aircraft in service today. Major product offerings, substantially all of which are ultimately provided to end-users in the aerospace industry, include mechanical/electro-mechanical actuators and controls, ignition systems and engine technology, specialized pumps and valves, power conditioning devices, specialized AC/DC electric motors and generators, batteries and chargers, engineered latching and locking devices, engineered rods, engineered connectors and elastomer sealing solutions, databus and power controls, cockpit security components and systems, specialized and advanced cockpit displays, engineered audio, radio and antenna systems, specialized lavatory components, seat belts and safety restraints, engineered and customized interior surfaces and related components, advanced sensor products, switches and relay panels, thermal protection and insulation, lighting and control technology, parachutes, high performance hoists, winches and lifting devices, and cargo loading, handling and delivery systems.
Contact:
Investor Relations
(216) 706-2945
ir@transdigm.com
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