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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Senate on Tuesday approved an amendment to the country’s constitution, expanding its first article to specifically ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or disability, a move hailed as historic by rights groups.
The constitution’s updated Article 1 mandates that all people in the country must be treated equally and that “discrimination on the basis of religion, belief, political opinion, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or on any other basis is not allowed.”
Astrid Oosenbrug, chair of the country’s COC gay rights organization, called the vote “a historic victory for the rainbow community and a crown on years of work” by the group.
She said it was “an emotional moment when, after all these years, the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of constitutional recognition this afternoon. At last, LGBTI+ rights are proudly mentioned in Article 1 and are no longer concealed.”
In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize gay marriage, but members of its LGBTQ community continue to suffer verbal and sometimes physical abuse in this country that has long been seen as a bastion of tolerance.
Oosenbrug said the constitutional change should be seen by lawmakers as an assignment to “tackle discriminatory violence, bullying in schools and other forms of discrimination.”
A group called Ieder(in), which represents people with disabilities and chronic illness, also welcomed the vote.
“Adding the disability basis to Article 1 is historic news,” the organization’s director, Illya Soffer, said in a statement. “The government has been given an additional task to permanently improve and strengthen the position of people with a disability. Not only in law, but also in practice. This is badly needed, because at the moment they experience discrimination and exclusion every day in their lives.”
The move was initiated by three lawmakers in the lower house of Dutch parliament, two from opposition parties and a third from the centrist D66 party, which is part of the ruling four-party coalition led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
The Dutch Constitution dates back to 1798 and has been updated several times since then. Tweaking the document is a long process. Changes must be approved by a majority of both houses of parliament, then a second reading can only happen once national elections have happened and then both houses must approve any change with a two-thirds majority.
The latest change was approved Tuesday by 56 senators, while 15 voted against the proposal in the 75-member senate.
“The constitution forms the foundation of our society. It is important that we keep it up to date,” Interior Minister Hanke Bruins Slot said. | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-dutch-senate-expands-constitutional-ban-on-discrimination/ | 2023-01-17 23:38:13 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-dutch-senate-expands-constitutional-ban-on-discrimination/ |
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – On Wednesday, a community in North Little Rock became outraged after being issued a nuisance notice from the city.
The notices were placed on homes impacted by the March 31 tornado that struck neighborhoods in parts of Little Rock and North Little Rock.
The community was developed in 1985 and is one that neighbors said rarely has crime.
When a nuisance notice was placed on the doors of tornado-stricken homes, people who lived in the area were left confused.
Samantha McGarrell, a resident of the neighborhood said this was the last thing tornado victims of the community needed.
“This shouldn’t even be an issue. Right now, this is not code. We are destroyed here,” McGarrell said.
McGarrell said she was horrified to drive by and see notices on neighbors’ homes.
“This is my home of two decades and the last thing we need is someone to come in here and tell us that we’re not doing a good job as a community, we’re coming together,” McGarrell said. “We don’t need code coming here trying to pull us apart.”
After the photo of the notice gained much attention on social media Wednesday, Mayor Terry Hartwick said he doesn’t why the signs were put up in the first place.
“I didn’t know,” Hartwick said. “When I found out about it, they went out after hours and started picking up those very bad notices.”
Hartwick said that Felica McHenry who runs code enforcement for the city made a simple mistake in judgment.
“She’s really, really good at what she does,” Hartwick said. “I brought her in here this morning, and I said, what are you doing, and she admitted she made a mistake, especially on a tornado victim’s area.”
Hartwick said there have already been disciplinary actions taken in the matter but could not disclose what they were.
“I think she’ll run it by me before she does anything again,” Hartwick said. | https://www.kark.com/severe-weather-coverage/north-little-rock-mayor-terry-hartwick-addresses-nuisance-notice-placed-on-tornado-victims-homes/ | 2023-04-21 01:01:17 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/severe-weather-coverage/north-little-rock-mayor-terry-hartwick-addresses-nuisance-notice-placed-on-tornado-victims-homes/ |
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for installing razor wire barriers in the Rio Grande to block migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jean-Pierre made the comments during a White House press briefing on Wednesday, saying Abbott's decision was "atrocious" and "inhumane." The White House official stopped short of saying whether President Biden had discussed the issue with the Mexican government.
"Texas has been installing these buoys along with razor wire on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. Mexico is now requesting that Texas remove these barriers. They say the state is violating international treaties and that they raised this with the administration three weeks ago. Do you agree with Mexico that Texas is violating these international treaties?" a reporter asked.
"This governor … has treated the situation that we're seeing at the border in an inhumane way," Jean-Pierre responded. "It is atrocious, the actions that he decides to take. He takes this [action] instead of dealing with this issue in a way that we can get to a resolution and working together, he turns it into a political stunt."
CHINA SEEKS TO GAIN ‘FOOTHOLD’ ON AMERICA’S DOORSTEP AMID BORDER CRISIS, TOP REPUBLICAN WARNS
"I can't speak to conversations three weeks ago with the Mexican government," she added. "I don't have any information to share if that came up in a conversation."
TEXAS TO DEPLOY INFLATABLE BARRIER ALONG RIO GRANDE RIVER IN EAGLE PASS
Mexico sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government earlier this week saying that Texas’ deployment of floating barriers along the Rio Grande may violate treaties on boundaries and water.
Texas began rolling out the new floating barriers in early July, but migrant advocates have voiced concerns about drowning risks from the buoys. Environmentalists also questioned the impact on the river.
TEXAS LEGISLATURE'S FIRST SPECIAL SESSION FOCUSING ON BORDER SECURITY, CUTTING PROPERTY TAXES, ABBOTT REVEALS
Abbott’s office has defended the inflatable barriers, arguing they will "proactively prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry by making it more difficult to cross the Rio Grande and reach the Texas side of the southern border."
"Texas has pushed back against the swell of migrants and held the line to keep people out of Texas — but there's more that needs to be done," Abbott said last month. "The Texas Legislature has stepped up to make sure we continue to robustly respond to President Biden's growing border crisis, including allocating $5.1 billion for border security."
Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this report. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/white-house-condemns-texas-over-atrocious-floating-razor-wire-barriers-at-southern-border/article_494ae3c4-a2c0-5b36-a98c-2f95dedc05f2.html | 2023-07-20 00:26:01 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/white-house-condemns-texas-over-atrocious-floating-razor-wire-barriers-at-southern-border/article_494ae3c4-a2c0-5b36-a98c-2f95dedc05f2.html |
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, July 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ITE HCMC 2023 – The largest and most established travel event in Vietnam and Mekong sub-region will take place from 07 – 09 September 2023 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC), District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
On June 24th 2023, Vietnam National Assembly approved the amendments and supplements of the Law on Foreigners' Entry into, Exit from, Transit through, and Residence in Vietnam, including extending the e-visa validity period to 90 days. This policy is expected to enhance the competitiveness of Vietnam's tourism industry and create a boost to promote its development, attracting international visitors in the coming time. Furthermore, promotion and marketing are essential activities to boost tourism development and enhance destination's competitiveness. ITE HCMC is considered one of the important and effective solutions for this purpose.
The 17th International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City, themed "Connectivity, Growth, Sustainability", offers three full days of opportunities to network with international and local exhibitors, as well as high-level forums, informative seminars, and top-notch entertainment experiences.
This year, ITE HCMC 2023 will double its scale compared to last year with exceptional quality. Therefore, the event is expected to attract leaders in the international travel industry and over 400 exhibiting companies & brands, of which, the booths from domestic units make up more than 70% and about 30% are international units. As of the end of June 2023, the exhibition has covered over 70% of the exhibition area, with the participation of National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) from countries such as Cambodia, Chile, Taiwan (China), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand; Regional Tourism Organizations (RTOs) from St.Petersburg (Russia), Seoul (South Korea), and over 45 provinces and cities of Vietnam, including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho City, Da Nang City, Hai Phong City, An Giang, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Bac Lieu, Ben Tre, Binh Dinh, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, Ca Mau, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Gia Lai, Ha Giang, Ha Tinh, Hau Giang, Kien Giang, Kontum, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Lang Son, Lam Dong, Long An, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Binh, Ninh Thuan, Nghe An, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, Soc Trang, Tay Ninh, Thanh Hoa, Tien Giang, Thua Thien - Hue, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long, and Yen Bai.
In addition, the exhibition has attracted the leading tourism businesses such as Saigontourist Group, BenThanh Tourist, Vietravel, Tan Son Nhat Hotel, Holiday Inn & Suites Saigon Airport, Melia Hotels International, Movenpick, Tam Chuc National Tourism Area, Tung Lam Tourism Area, Muong Thanh Hospitality, and other sponsor in-kind: The Cocoon Vietnam, BLUSaigon and many more.
ITE HCMC 2023 will be held in a hybrid format, combining physical booths and 2D online booths. These online booths will inform international buyers about products, services and a pre-appointment booking system to connect with sellers. Furthermore, the local experience areas will also be the highlight of this year's expo when displaying and introducing the unique cultural features of Vietnam to international firms and the public through handicrafts, coffee, traditional art workshops, and many more.
Moreover, ITE HCMC has the exclusive Hosted Buyer Program which provides an opportunity for international tourism businesses to grow their markets and broaden tourism partners' networks in Vietnam and the Lower Mekong region. The Organizing Committee, together with the Advisory Board comprised of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham), and leading tourism businesses, to select and invite over 200 international buyers from 20 countries and territories (increasing by more than 25% compared to 2022). The Hosted Buyer Program is expected to welcome decision makers from international travel agencies, MICE travel companies, luxury travel companies from key inbound markets and potential markets like mainland China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Australia, India, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and many more.
Within the framework of ITE HCMC 2023, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism also cooperates with the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism to organize many exciting activities such as Gala Dinner x World Travel Award – Asia & Oceania Ceremony, Seminar on the introduction of key tourist markets, ITE HCMC Awards 2023, Travel Fun Fair Day and many more.
ITE HCMC 2023 is organized under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, organized by Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism and Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Promotion Center, CIS Vietnam, and Le Bros.
Event information:
Exhibition date: 07 – 09 September 2023
- 09:00 - 16:00, 07 - 08 September 2023: exclusively for business visitors
- 16:00 - 18:00, 07 - 08 September 2023: for both business visitors and the public
- 09:00 - 18:00, September 9th, 2023: open to the public
Venue: Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), 799 Nguyen Van Linh, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City.
Highlight events:
- Ribbon-cutting Ceremony
- Business matching program between international buyers and exhibitors
- High-level Tourism Forum on "Digital Transformation Driving Tourism Development" chaired by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.
- ASEAN Public Relations and Communications Forum "Destination Marketing & Sustainable Communications"
- Series of tourism industry seminars
- ITE HCMC Award 2023
- World Travel Awards - Asia Pacific Ceremony
- ASEAN PR Excellence Awards 2023 Ceremony
- Vietnam Night
- Cambodia Night
- Welcome Dinner and Destination survey program for international buyers and press
- Thank you Party
The travel agents who are sourcing for Vietnam's tourism services and products may apply for Hosted Buyer Program via https://itehcmc.travel/buyer-3/buyer-registration/
For National Tourism Organizations (NTOs), Regional Tourism Organizations (RTOs) and travel businesses, who want to showcase their travel services and products may book a stand via www.itehcmc.travel.
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DAYTON, OH (WDTN) – Although the summer is winding down, it’s not too late to take yourself out to the ball game at Day Air Ball Park! We talked with Dragons Executive Vice President, Eric Deutsch to hear about their upcoming deals for the rest of the summer.
If the season has gotten away from you and you haven’t yet made it to a game, not to worry! You haven’t struck out on home games. The Dragons will play August 30 to September 4 at Day Air Ball Park.
Deutsch says no matter how many home runs players hit, Dragons fans are always winning.
“It’s not about wins or losses, it’s more about memories, smiles, being with your family and friends,” Deutsch says. “We generate wins and losses through memories, smiles and good times at the ballpark.” | https://www.wdtn.com/living-dayton/its-not-too-late-to-catch-a-dragons-baseball-game/ | 2022-08-16 20:37:27 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/living-dayton/its-not-too-late-to-catch-a-dragons-baseball-game/ |
Federal transportation officials are “actively monitoring” the aftermath of Thursday’s frightening Orange Line train fire that left passengers kicking out windows in desperate attempts to escape and one woman plunging off the bridge into the Mystic River below.
Federal Transit Administration safety staff is “in close contact with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities — the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s state safety oversight agency — and the MBTA,” an FTA spokesperson said.
“FTA will consider (Thursday’s) incident in the context of the final safety inspection report that will be released in late August,” the spokesperson said.
The latest safety debacle, which left some of the 200 passengers aboard the train fearing for their lives, could not have come at a worse time for a beleaguered agency that is already working to comply with four safety directives issued to the FTA last month.
The feds launched their safety management inspection in April, days after a 39-year-old man was killed when his arm became trapped in a faulty Red Line train door and he was dragged more than 100 feet.
Since then, safety issues for the T have only continued to pile up, with derailments, battery failures, train collisions and malfunctioning escalators, to name a few.
On Monday — days before the Orange Line train burst into flames after a metal sill broke loose and made contact with the electrified rail — lawmakers grilled MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak and MassDOT Secretary Jamey Tesler about the continued incidents during the first of at least three planned legislative oversight hearings.
State Sen. Brendan Crighton, D-Lynn, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Transportation, said the committee “barely scratched the surface” in the first legislative hearing, and “has a lot more work to do,” based on the continued safety incidents at the T.
Crighton said Thursday’s train fire will “play a big role” in the next oversight hearing, which is scheduled for some time next month.
“Obviously, horrific images and the stories from passengers — our thoughts are with them, having to experience a dramatic evacuation of the train on fire on a bridge over a waterway,” Crighton said.
Poftak said Thursday’s train fire, which left passengers walking about 1,500 to 2,000 feet back to Wellington station, will likely result in more stringent training and protocols around communication, but one transit advocate doesn’t expect much immediate action.
“The frustrating thing is that there’s likely nothing that can be done immediately,” TransitMatters Chief Operating Officer Jarred Johnson said. “The T should look at increasing the frequency of the inspections, but this vehicle (and the offending panel) was inspected a month ago.
“This incident is decades in the making. It should not have taken 34 years after the vehicles first hit the rails to order new ones. And the decision to go with the lowest bidder and build them in state added years of delays.”
Hours after the incident, Gov. Charlie Baker said on a GBH radio program that he would be open to a conversation around dissolving the MBTA, and having it function as a public transit division of MassDOT.
The proposal was first floated by state Rep. William Straus, D-Mattapoisett, co-chair of the transportation committee.
Another committee member, state Rep. Peter Capano, D-Lynn, said Friday he was also on board with the idea that the T may have “outlived their useful purpose and we need to think about a new transportation department.”
“We need leadership that can talk about what the future of transportation should look like,” he said. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/22/feds-actively-monitoring-mbta-train-fire-incident-will-be-focus-of-next-legislative-oversight-hearing/ | 2022-07-23 00:45:38 | 1 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/22/feds-actively-monitoring-mbta-train-fire-incident-will-be-focus-of-next-legislative-oversight-hearing/ |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)Hunter Dickinson scored 28 points and Michigan overcame an injury to Jett Howard to defeat Minnesota 60-56 on Sunday.
Howard, who averages 15.4 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, injured his left ankle late in the first half and did not return to the game. He was seen in a walking boot on the Michigan bench during the second half.
After the Wolverines led for most of the second half, Pharrel Payne’s layup drew the Golden Gophers within 55-51 and a free throw by Ta’lon Cooper made it 55-52 with 35 seconds left. But Minnesota’s Jamison Battle was called for a technical foul, Will Tschetter converted the free throws, and Michigan led by five, still with 35 seconds remaining. Michigan added 3 of 4 from the line in the final 20 seconds to preserve the win.
The score was last tied at 33 with 13:42 remaining before McDaniel hit a 3-pointer and Dickinson converted a three-point play for a six-point lead and Michigan led the rest of the way.
Kobe Bufkin scored 12 points and Dug McDaniel added 10 for Michigan (11-8, 5-3). Dickinson finished one rebound shy of his fourth-straight double-double.
Cooper had 15 points and 10 rebounds, Jamison Battle 14 points and Dawson Garcia 13 points for Minnesota (7-11, 1-7).
Minnesota scored 16 points in the first seven minutes of the game and led 16-6. After back-to-back baskets by Dawson Garcia and Ta’lon Cooper the Golden Gophers led 20-10 with 10:16 remaining in the half.
Minnesota would score only three more points before halftime, making 1 of 13 shots in the final 10 minutes. The Wolverines closed the half on an 13-3 run, getting six points from Dickinson and five from McDaniel.
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Updated April 3, 2023 at 3:49 PM ET
Former President Donald Trump has arrived in New York City to surrender himself to authorities after his historic indictment by a Manhattan grand jury.
The charges, which are expected to remain under seal until Trump's arraignment Tuesday, relate to his alleged role in covering up hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 presidential election.
For months, a 23-person grand jury heard evidence of the former president's role in the hush money scheme, including testimony from Daniels and Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Ultimately, more than half of the jurors were convinced there was reasonable cause to believe that Trump committed a crime, resulting in his indictment Thursday.
Trump has denied any criminal wrongdoing and is expected to plead not guilty. "On Tuesday morning I will be going to, believe it or not, the Courthouse," he wrote on Truth Social. "America was not supposed to be this way!"
A court appearance for the history books is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, where the criminal charges against the former president will be unsealed.
"This is the first time that it really seems likely that the former president of the United States will be having a mugshot, being fingerprinted," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley told NPR's Morning Edition. With Trump also facing a handful of other ongoing criminal cases, "we're in for a very rocky spring," Brinkley said.
Trump will be arraigned in person
An arraignment is a criminal defendant's first court appearance. For a normal defendant, that's usually when one would appear for photographs, fingerprints and arrest paperwork, a process that typically takes several hours behind closed doors.
Then, defendants go before a judge to hear the charges against them. Defendants can enter a plea, most often "not guilty," at this stage in the criminal process.
Two of Trump's lawyers told Reuters on Friday that he will not be handcuffed when he arrives, and plans to enter a not guilty plea.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has said repeatedly that the justice system should treat a former president the same way as any other defendant, a suggestion that Trump may have to go through many of the typical steps of an arraignment.
Even so, his status as a former president is expected to pose some unusual logistical challenges. He has a large legal team and a Secret Service detail. Protests are expected. There will be media attention. And all of that will happen alongside the everyday operations of a busy state court office.
"There's a lot of external factors that just don't happen for 99.99% of the cases we have," said former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance in an NPR interview on Sunday. "It will be a real challenge for the [police department], the court officers, investigators in our office to ensure that things function safely and smoothly."
It's expected that a judge will determine that Trump does not pose a flight risk. After the hearing, Trump will be free to leave. He plans to immediately return to Florida, where he will give a speech on Tuesday night, his campaign announced Sunday.
The case could go to trial
Trump's indictment raises plenty of unique legal and political questions, given his former job and the fact that he's currently campaigning to hold the office again.
But he's still entitled to the same due process as everyone else, says Kim Wehle, a former assistant U.S. attorney and now a law professor at the University of Baltimore.
When asked about the potential charges against him and penalties they would carry, she says that's "way, way down the line," telling All Things Considered there are plenty of hurdles to get through first.
"There are a lot of procedural, evidentiary and constitutional protections in place to make sure that that far-off question is fairly adjudicated," Wehle adds.
Key to a trial will be the strength of the evidence presented by prosecutors, legal experts said. Another factor will be the jury, said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina.
"This ultimately will be decided not in the court of public opinion, but it will be decided by those 12 people," Gerhardt told Weekend Edition. "Mr. Trump's lawyers will be there every step of the way, and they'll have to make sure that the jury is fairly chosen and that the jury does its job."
In Manhattan, where Trump won only 12% of the vote in the 2020 presidential election, it could be challenging to find jurors who don't already have a negative opinion of him, said Matthew Galluzzo, a former prosecutor in the New York County District Attorney's Office.
"If I had to pick which side to be on, and I had to win to save my life, I would probably choose to be on the prosecution's side simply because the jury pool in Manhattan is so incredibly against Donald Trump," he said in an interview with NPR.
That trial might not happen for a while
Galluzzo expects defense attorneys to argue that it won't be fair for Trump to get a fair trial in Manhattan and push to have it moved somewhere else.
And he doesn't think that's the only pretrial motion Trump's team will make.
Most similar cases would probably take a year to get to trial, Galluzzo says. He expects that Trump's strategy will be to delay that process as much as possible.
"If he can push this thing back until after the election then he can effectively win the trial that way," he says.
He says it's theoretically possible to delay a case for two or three years, using motions and appeals.
But the one thing he's not expecting to see is a settlement deal reached by the two parties.
"They're not going to make him an offer that he would accept," he adds. "And I think more than anything he probably wants that public stage to play the victim, to have an audience."
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LOS ANGELES — California will amend the state constitution to guarantee the right to abortion and contraception. Voters approved the ballot measure known as Proposition 1, according to a call by The Associated Press.
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Proposition 1 was a direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling. State Democratic leaders introduced the proposition language after a draft of the Dobbs decision leaked last spring. Following the high court's final decision in June, the Democratically controlled state Senate approved putting it on the ballot.
The language voters endorsed will add to the California Constitution that "the state shall not deny or interfere with an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives."
Current state law allows abortions before the fetus is viable, generally around 24 weeks into a pregnancy. Abortions can also be performed after viability, but only if a doctor determines a pregnant person's life or health is in danger.
The new constitutional amendment doesn't contain the word 'viability,' and legal scholars don't agree about whether the viability standard that is in place will remain.
Some say the language is too broad, potentially opening the amendment up to being struck down by courts in the future.
Courts may have to sort out the details later, but passage of the constitutional amendment cements California as an abortion sanctuary.
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Massive learning setbacks show COVID’s sweeping toll on kids
(AP) - The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away their parents’ jobs, sickening their families and teachers, and adding chaos and fear to their daily lives.
The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. The data provide the most comprehensive look yet at how much schoolchildren have fallen behind academically.
The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse.
Online learning played a major role, but students lost significant ground even when they returned quickly to schoolhouses, especially in math scores in low-income communities.
“When you have a massive crisis, the worst effects end up being felt by the people with the least resources,” said Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, who compiled and analyzed the data along with Harvard economist Thomas Kane.
Some educators have objected to the very idea of measuring learning loss after a crisis that has killed more than 1 million Americans. Reading and math scores don’t tell the entire story about what’s happening with a child, but they’re one of the only aspects of children’s development reliably measured nationwide.
“Test scores aren’t the only thing or the most important thing,” Reardon said. “But they serve as an indicator for how kids are doing.”
And kids aren’t doing well, especially those who were at the highest risk before the pandemic. The data show many children need significant intervention, and advocates and researchers say the U.S. isn’t doing enough.
Together, Reardon and Kane created a map showing how many years of learning the average student in each district has lost since 2019. Their project, the Education Recovery Scorecard, compared results from a test known as the “nation’s report card” with local standardized test scores from 29 states and Washington, D.C.
In Memphis, Tennessee, where nearly 80% of students are poor, students lost the equivalent of 70% of a school year in reading and more than a year in math, according to the analysis. The district’s Black students lost a year-and-one-third in math and two-thirds of a year in reading.
For church pastor Charles Lampkin, who is Black, it was the effects on his sons’ reading that grabbed his attention. He was studying the Bible with them one night this fall when he noticed his sixth and seventh graders were struggling with their “junior” Bible editions written for a fifth grade reading level. “They couldn’t get through it,” Lampkin said.
Lampkin blames the year and a half his sons were away from school buildings from March 2020 until the fall of 2021.
“They weren’t engaged at all. It was all tomfoolery,” he said.
Officials with the local district, Shelby County Public Schools, did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails requesting comment. According to district presentations, Shelby County schools last year offered tutoring to the lowest-performing students. Most students who received tutoring focused on English language arts, but not math. Lampkin said his sons have not been offered the extra help.
The amount of learning that students lost – or gained, in rare cases – over the last three years varied widely. Poverty and time spent in remote learning affected learning loss, and learning losses were greater in districts that remained online longer, according to Kane and Reardon’s analysis. But neither was a perfect predictor of declines in reading and math.
In some districts, students lost more than two years of math learning, according to the data. Hopewell, Virginia, a school system of 4,000 students who are mostly low-income and 60% Black, showed an average loss of 2.29 years of school.
“This is not anywhere near what we wanted to see,” Deputy Superintendent Jay McClain said.
The district began offering in-person learning in March 2021, but three-quarters of students remained home. “There was so much fear of the effects of COVID,” he said. “Families here were just hunkered down.”
When schools resumed in the fall, the virus swept through Hopewell, and half of all students stayed home either sick or in quarantine, McClain said. A full 40% of students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 18 days or more.
The pandemic brought other challenges unrelated to remote learning.
In Rochester, New Hampshire, students lost nearly two years in reading even though schools offered in-person learning most of the 2020-2021 school year. It was the largest literacy decline among all the districts in the analysis.
The 4,000-student district, where most are white and nearly half live in poverty, had to close schools in November 2020 when too few teachers could report for work, Superintendent Kyle Repucci said. Students studied online until March 2021, and when schools reopened, many chose to stay with remote learning, Repucci said.
“Students here were exposed to things they should never have been exposed to until much later,” Repucci said. “Death. Severe illness. Working to feed their families.”
In Los Angeles, school leaders shuttered classrooms for the entire 2020-2021 academic year, yet students held their ground in reading.
It’s hard to tell what explains the vastly different outcomes in some states. In California, where students on average stayed steady or only marginally declined, it could suggest that educators there were better at teaching over Zoom or the state made effective investments in technology, Reardon said.
But the differences could also be explained by what happened outside of school. “I think a lot more of the variation has to do with things that were outside of a school’s control,” Reardon said.
Now, the onus is on America’s adults to work toward kids’ recovery. For the federal government and individual states, advocates hope the recent releases of test data could inspire more urgency to direct funding to the students who suffered the largest setbacks, whether it’s academic or other support.
School systems are still spending the nearly $190 billion in federal relief money allocated for recovery, a sum experts have said fails to address the extent of learning loss in schools. Nearly 70% of students live in districts where federal relief money is likely inadequate to address the magnitude of their learning loss, according to Kane and Reardon’s analysis.
The implications for kids’ futures are alarming: Lower test scores are predictors of lower wages, plus higher rates of incarceration and teen pregnancy, Kane said.
It doesn’t take Harvard research to convince parents whose children are struggling to read or learn algebra that something needs to be done.
At his church in Memphis, Lampkin started his own tutoring program three nights a week. Adults from his congregation, some of them teachers, help around 50 students with their homework, reinforcing skills and teaching new ones.
“We shouldn’t have had to do this,” Lampkin said. “But sometimes you have to lead by example.”
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A helicopter bringing Hindu pilgrims from a popular temple site in the Indian Himalayas crashed Tuesday in foggy weather.
India's Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia confirmed the crash and said his ministry was determining the magnitude of the loss. Media reports said six passengers and a pilot were on board.
Officials said the helicopter operated by a private company crashed in foggy weather. Other details were not immediately known.
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It's often given to patients with breathing issues and those diagnosed with asthma, but a shortage of the drug albuterol is causing concern from pharmacies to hospitals.
Albuterol products have been in short supply since October 2022, according to the FDA, and the liquid version of the drug used in nebulizers has been in a supply decline since last summer — according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).
So what's the reason? Truthfully, there are only a couple of answers.
The ASHP reports albuterol manufacturer Akron ceased their operations in February — a report from CNN shows Akron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020. A press release announcing the bankruptcy was sent out in May of that year.
"Nephron Pharmaceuticals has albuterol inhalation solution on shortage due to a manufacturing issue," reasoning from the ASHP website reads. Mylan (Viatris) Pharmaceuticals and Sun Pharmaceuticals did not provide a reason.
"This is definitely concerning, especially as we are coming out of the respiratory season where we had a big demand with RSV, Covid-19 and flu, and are now heading into spring allergy season when a lot of kids and adults experience asthma symptoms," Dr. Janita Mora, spokesperson for the America Lung Association and allergist and immunologist in Chicago, told CNN. "This is a life-saving drug and being able to breathe is vital for everyone."
And a report from NewsNation reads, "The U.S. relies heavily on foreign countries, including China and India, for pharmaceutical ingredients and drugs, and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for domestic supply chains."
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Campaign elements feature a new series of brain-friendly recipes, curated by Chef Alton Brown.
PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Daylight Savings can be a difficult time on both daily routines and sleep patterns. Recognizing this disruption, cognitive health supplement, Neuriva, a Reckitt brand, has launched a variety of resources to assist consumers in prioritizing their brain health, including delicious new breakfast recipes1 developed by brand ambassador and award-winning chef, Alton Brown.
In keeping with the brand's commitment to give brains a helping hand, the national activation for Brain & Sleep Awareness Week strives to encourage consumers to do more for their brains. The campaign includes PR, digital, advertising, and expert marketing support.
"With Brain & Sleep Awareness Week starting the day after Daylight Savings, we believe this it's the right time to remind and encourage consumers to Think Bigger and do more for their brain," said Isabel Serralha Marques, Marketing Director, Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements at Reckitt. "Neuriva, as a leading brain health brand, wants to support consumers take action and that's why we're providing a full brain health ecosystem of tools like brain health tips & education from Brain Health Experts, tasty brain health-focused recipes, brain-exercising games and Neuriva, so consumers can incorporate brain health practices into their daily life all year long."
To jumpstart mornings and reset consumer health routines, Brown composed each new breakfast recipe with healthy ingredients that can help cognitive function. While designing the meal, Brown relied on nutritional and scientific guidance from Neuriva's Global Medical Affairs Manager, Lauren Brink, PhD, RDN.
"These breakfast recipes are tasty, but they're also packed with brain-healthy ingredients," said Brown. "It's an exciting challenge to design meals that satisfy taste buds while also providing nutrients for brain health. Personally, I've made it a mission to support my brain health with plenty of sleep, the right nutrition, and supplements like Neuriva, that can support brain health.
Inspired by the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet2, the recipes star ingredients that help support brain health are:
- Overnight Coconut Oats: This recipe includes whole grains, berries, and chia seeds.
- Chickpea & Smoked Trout Frittata: This dish includes chickpeas, fish, and bell peppers.
- Parsley Salad with Toasted Walnuts: This succulent salad includes fresh parsley, citrus, and toasted nuts.
Registered Dietitian and Neuriva Brain Health Expert Melissa Halas, MA, RDN, CDE, reiterates the importance of taking small steps that add up to a brain-healthy lifestyle. "From eating phytonutrient-rich foods – like spinach, kale, walnuts and berries – to getting enough sleep and exercising with friends, there are many ways to do more for your brain in your day-to-day routine."
From March 13-17, consumers who follow the brand on Instagram, @Neuriva, can access tips for a healthy brain and participate in Brain Games for a chance to win daily giveaways. Followers who complete five Brain Games have a chance to win special prizes and a six-month supply of Neuriva Plus and Neuriva Relax & Sleep.
For more information, please visit Neuriva.com.
About Neuriva
Launched in 2019, Neuriva is a leading brain health supplement brand that combines science and nature with clinically tested and plant-sourced ingredients to help with cognitive function, energy levels and sleep support3.
Neuriva's mission is to champion holistic, proactive brain health for consumers. Whether you prefer an easy-to-take capsule or a tasty gummy, Neuriva is here to help support your daily brain self-care routine and make your brain health a priority1.
About Reckitt
Reckitt4 exists to protect, heal, and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We believe that access to the highest-quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment is a right, not a privilege.
Reckitt is the company behind some of the world's most recognizable and trusted consumer brands in hygiene, health, and nutrition, including Air Wick, Calgon, Cillit Bang, Clearasil, Dettol, Durex, Enfamil, Finish, Gaviscon, Harpic, Lysol, Mortein, Mucinex, Nurofen, Nutramigen, Strepsils, Vanish, Veet, Woolite and more.
Every day, more than 20 million Reckitt products are bought globally. We always put consumers and people first, seek out new opportunities, strive for excellence in all that we do and build shared success with all our partners. We aim to do the right thing, always.
We are a diverse global team of c. 40,000 colleagues. We draw on our collective energy to meet our ambitions of purpose-led brands, a healthier planet, and a fairer society.
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) _ AGNC Investment Corp. (AGNC) on Monday reported fourth-quarter net income of $561 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said it had profit of 93 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 74 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 67 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $347 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $25 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $1.19 billion, or $2.41 per share, swinging to a loss in the period. Revenue was reported as $965 million.
AGNC Investment shares have increased 9% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Monday, shares hit $11.28, a decline of 24% in the last 12 months.
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By KATE BRUMBACK and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta office.
The widening of the probe highlights the latest instance in which unauthorized people appear to have gained access to voting equipment since the 2020 election, primarily in battleground states lost by Trump. Election experts have raised concerns that sensitive information shared online about the equipment may have exposed vulnerabilities that could be exploited by people intent on disrupting future elections.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to have attorney Sidney Powell, who tried persistently to overturn Trump’s loss, testify before a special grand jury seated for the investigation into possible illegal election interference. In her court petition filed Thursday, Willis said Powell is “known to be affiliated” with Trump and the Trump campaign and has unique knowledge about her communications with them and others “involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere.”
The scope of Willis’ criminal investigation has expanded considerably since it began, prompted by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump suggested Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to overturn Trump’s narrow election loss in the state. Among other things, Willis wrote that she wants to ask Powell about rural Coffee County, where Trump beat President Joe Biden by nearly 40 percentage points.
Emails and other records first reported this month by The Washington Post and also obtained by The Associated Press show that Powell was involved in arranging for a team from data solutions company SullivanStrickler to travel to the county’s elections office.
The records were produced in response to subpoenas issued by plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit that alleges Georgia’s voting machines, which are manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems, are vulnerable to attack. The plaintiffs want the machines replaced by a system that uses hand-marked paper ballots.
The lawsuit filed by the Coalition for Good Governance and individual voters long predates and is unrelated to false allegations of widespread election fraud pushed by Trump and his allies.
Dominion has filed defamation lawsuits against high-profile Trump supporters, including Powell, who made false claims about Dominion voting machines being used to steal the 2020 election.
In an email sent to Powell on Jan. 7, 2021, SullivanStrickler COO Paul Maggio said he and his team were “on our way to Coffee County Georgia to collect what we can from the Election/Voting machines and systems.” He included an invoice for an “initial retainer” of $26,000 to pay for a team of four people for one day. The subject of the invoice is “Voting Machines Analysis.”
“Everything went smoothly yesterday with the Coffee County collection. Everyone involved was extremely helpful,” Maggio wrote in an email the next day. “We are consolidating all of the data collected and will be uploading it to our secure site for access by your team.”
A document listing the contents of Maggio’s hard drive shows that it includes forensic images of an election management system server, a precinct tabulator, compact flash cards and thumb drives used to program tabulators and touchscreen voting machines, a computer used to check in voters and a laptop computer supplied by Dominion. It also includes scanned images of paper ballots from the January 2021 U.S. Senate runoff election.
The company defended its actions in a statement sent by its attorney, Amanda Clark Palmer.
“SullivanStrickler was retained by and took direction from licensed, practicing attorneys to preserve and forensically copy the Dominion Voting Machines used in the 2020 election,” the statement said. “The firm had no reason to believe that, as officers of the court, these attorneys would ask or direct SullivanStrickler to do anything either improper or illegal.”
The attorneys told the firm to contact county election officials to access certain data and then to distribute it to certain other people, the statement said. The company maintains that “at the time they engaged in that work, they were operating under the good faith belief that their client was authorized to access the voting machines and servers.”
“With the benefit of hindsight, and knowing everything they know now, they would not take on any further work of this kind,” the statement said, adding that the company intends to fully cooperate with any investigation.
Willis noted that there also is “evidence in the public record” that Powell was involved in similar efforts in Michigan and Nevada around the same time. A lawyer representing Powell didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Ryan Germany, general counsel for the Georgia secretary of state’s office, said in a declaration filed in court on Aug. 2 that the office opened an investigation in mid-March and brought in an expert to perform a forensic inspection of the Coffee County election server. The next steps, he said, are to complete the forensic investigation and interview witnesses.
The secretary of state’s office requested help earlier this month from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which on Aug. 15 opened “a computer trespass investigation of a Coffee County elections server,” spokesperson Nelly Miles said in an email.
The Coffee County case appears similar to breaches of voting equipment elsewhere. In addition to Georgia, these include local election offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Colorado.
During an event last summer held by Trump ally Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who has sought to prove voting machines are being manipulated, copies of voting systems from Mesa County, Colorado, and Antrim County, Michigan, were distributed and made available online.
A month earlier, Pennsylvania election officials decertified voting equipment used in one county — also named Fulton — after officials there allowed an outside firm access to “certain key components of its certified system, including the county’s election database, results files, and Windows systems logs.” The firm also was allowed to make copies of voting system hard drives.
In Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters and her deputy were indicted in connection with a May 2021 security breach at the election office. Prosecutors allege the pair were part of a “deceptive scheme” to provide access to their voting system technology to unauthorized individuals.
This week, the deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Peters, who has denied wrongdoing and claimed she had an obligation to investigate.
Also in Colorado, state election officials have been investigating a potential breach in Elbert County, where they say the clerk made two copies of the county’s voting system and provided them to two attorneys not authorized to have them.
In Antrim County, Michigan, a judge had allowed a forensic exam of voting equipment after a brief mix-up of 2020 election results led to a lawsuit alleging fraud. The lawsuit was dismissed, but somehow a copy of the voting system ended up being distributed publicly at the Lindell event, according to attendees.
Michigan authorities also are investigating security breaches at four local election offices that are alleged to have occurred between March and late June 2021.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Democrats are trying to get their first statewide election win since 2012, and they see opportunity in the Indiana secretary of state race.
In November, Indiana will elect a new secretary of state, the official who oversees elections. Incumbent Holli Sullivan was defeated at the June GOP convention by Diego Morales.
Democrats say they feel confident about a win in the race amid polling numbers, increased fundraising and scrutiny Morales has faced.
At least one poll suggests a close race for Indiana secretary of state. A poll released earlier this month by Indy Politics and ARW Strategies shows Democrat Destiny Wells leading Morales by 4 percentage points, 36% to 32%, respectively. Libertarian Jeff Maurer is polling at 7%, and a quarter of voters are undecided.
Wells has focused her campaign on improving voter turnout.
“Just overwhelmingly working with county clerks to make sure that we are administering elections in a fair, free, secure and accessible way,” Wells said.
Maurer is calling for more post-election audits to boost voters’ confidence in elections.
“What’s being done now is a very limited review of our hardware and software,” Maurer said. “What I’m talking about is a complete risk-limiting audit, and it has to be an independent audit.”
Morales has also focused on election security. But his candidacy has faced criticism.
In a March op-ed, he called the 2020 presidential election results “questionable.”
State records show in 2009, he was fired from his job at the secretary of state’s office. Two years later, he was rehired but then resigned after he was given a performance improvement plan.
Recently, our partners at The Indianapolis Star spoke with two women accusing Morales of sexual misconduct.
Morales declined our request for an interview Wednesday but referred us to a statement he provided last month after the allegations were first published by political writer Abdul-Hakim Shabazz.
“As a husband and father, I understand sexual harassment is deplorable and can leave devastating scars,” Morales said in his statement. “The claims being made against me are false and I unequivocally deny all of them.”
Earlier this month, Indiana GOP chairman Kyle Hupfer confirmed he was made aware of one of the sexual misconduct allegations over the summer.
“A member of the Republican Party asked to meet with me nearly two months after our state convention,” Hupfer said in a statement. “At the meeting, she shared with me elements of a story that have now been made public. It wasn’t then, nor is it now, my story to share.”
“There is a bevy of things that he has done that has detracted attention from the actual policymaking and agenda,” Wells said Wednesday.
State data shows from July through September, Wells out-fundraised Morales by about $17,000.
Laura Wilson, associate professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis, said that’s significant.
“She’s a Democratic candidate, and there are no Democrats currently holding statewide executive offices,” Wilson said. “But in addition to that, money matters because it’s something you can use to gain support.”
State campaign finance reports show as of late September, Morales has about $180,000 more cash on hand compared to Wells.
The secretary of state would have to work with the Indiana legislature to make changes to election law. The legislature currently holds a Republican supermajority. | https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/indiana-democrats-see-promise-in-secretary-of-state-race/ | 2022-10-27 00:53:39 | 0 | https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/indiana-democrats-see-promise-in-secretary-of-state-race/ |
BEIJING, China — Five years ago, scientist He Jiankui shocked his peers and the world with claims that he created the first genetically edited babies. Now, after serving three years in a Chinese prison for practicing medicine without a license, he faces obstacles and critics as he tries to re-enter science.
For months he’s been touting plans to develop affordable gene therapies for rare diseases, starting with the muscle-wasting condition Duchenne muscular dystrophy. He announced on social media last fall that he had opened a lab in Beijing. He spoke remotely about this new endeavor at an event in early February hosted by the University of Kent in the United Kingdom.
And last week, he announced to the press that he’d received a Hong Kong visa and might want to work in the financial hub. But Hong Kong officials revoked that visa hours later, saying false statements had been made and a criminal investigation would be launched.
The Associated Press has reached out to He several times by phone and email, but he has not agreed to an interview. He said on Twitter over the weekend that he will pause posting there to focus on his research. Others in the scientific world, meanwhile, are divided about his efforts at a comeback — with some expressing serious doubts.
“We have to be clear: He has no expertise in gene editing” and his previous experiment was “a total, total disaster,” said Kiran Musunuru, a University of Pennsylvania gene editing expert who wrote a book on the case. "I understand maybe some of this is a play to rehabilitate his reputation ... But how can anyone think this is a good idea?”
Some scientists worry he may return to the sort of work he did before, which involved using a tool called CRISPR-Cas9 to genetically edit embryos, disabling a gene that allows HIV to enter cells. The idea was to try to make the children resistant to AIDS.
The gene editing tool is a powerful one that may lead to treatments for many diseases. The scientists who discovered it were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2020. But He's work was criticized across the globe because, by making edits to embryos, he was attempting changes that could be passed to future generations — potentially altering the course of human evolution. The work was also medically unnecessary and carried the risks of changing other genes.
It's unclear how the three children who grew from the embryos — twins known as Lulu and Nana and a third child known as Amy — are doing.
Given He's ambition,“I wouldn't be surprised that a few years down the line if the opportunity arises, that he would go back” to that sort of work, said Dr. Samira Kiani, a genetic engineer and researcher at the University of Pittsburgh who produced a documentary on He’s story called “Make People Better."
But Benjamin Hurlbut, an expert in bioethics and biomedicine at Arizona State University who is in touch with He off and on, said “there's absolutely no reason” to believe he will do anything similar, and that He has the know-how and connections to build respectable projects in biotech.
“He’s done his time and he’s trying to start over,” Hurlbut said.
A REVEALING TALK
Kent sociologist Joy Zhang, an organizer of the U.K. event where He spoke, said most participants were scientists and academics based in China, and many arrived with open minds about him and his latest project.
“It was really shocking how shameless he was boasting about his gene therapy when he had very little substance to show, either scientifically or ethically,” Zhang said. “He proved that he’s not a misunderstood genius. He’s just a very egotistic opportunist.”
During his 25-minute presentation, He spent most of the time explaining basic science, discussing his Duchenne research for less than two minutes, according to a scathing report published by event organizers. That included sharing his goal to raise 50 million Chinese yuan through charity (about $7.3 million) and start clinical trials by March 2025.
“We’ve exposed that there is little substance” behind He’s ambitious Duchenne gene therapy plans, the report said. “We were concerned that he might endanger another vulnerable population if his new venture remains unchecked.”
Organizers said they invited He because China hadn’t had an open discussion about CRISPR technology and ethics since his stunning announcement in 2018. They were disappointed He wouldn’t talk about his recent past. A day earlier, he had pulled out of a planned talk at Oxford University, saying on Twitter he wasn’t ready to do that.
Kiani said inviting He to speak at such events is a good idea because the scientific community can communicate what’s right and wrong – and hear about his plans. “It would be very naive of us to think that if we don’t engage him in any conversation, he will just go away,” she said.
After He’s presentation, a fellow scientist pressed him about whether he thought so-called “heritable human genome editing” should be banned. The question has become especially timely, experts say, as the U.K. fertility watchdog agency pushes for an overhaul of fertility laws that some worry could eventually lead to the legalization of the practice.
He wouldn’t answer.
SCIENCE'S COMPETITIVE CULTURE
Cultural anthropologist Eben Kirksey, a fellow of St. Cross College at the University of Oxford, who wrote the book “The Mutant Project,” said he's concerned about what He's past actions might portend about the future. For example, Kirksey said He misled the public about the health of the twin girls in the gene-editing experiment; Kirksey revealed in his book that they were born at 31 weeks gestation by emergency C-section.
Kirksey said, He's pursuit of fame and potentially-profitable breakthroughs again threaten to get in the way of “good, stable, well-thought-out science.”
Besides the Duchenne research, He said last year on the social media platform Weibo that he was seeking funds from the Chinese government to develop an advanced type of machine that creates synthetic DNA that could be used for information storage. A tiny piece of synthetic DNA can store vast amounts of data.
His proposal for that project listed J. William Efcavitch, a scientific officer at a life sciences company in California, as a scientific adviser. Efcavitch, who did not respond to requests for comment, previously served on the scientific advisory board of Direct Genomics, a sequencing company He co-founded before the gene editing scandal.
Hurlbut said those plans wouldn’t attract much attention if not for the scandal.
“There’s something off about the singular preoccupation about the one individual – the sort of ‘mad scientist’ narrative – when what he did was embedded in a much larger network,” Hurlbut said soon after the Weibo posting.
Something similar is bound to happen again, experts said, unless the global scientific community changes the competitive culture that pushes many into a race to be first, and unless people ask: Should we rush forward just because we can?
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Funding is available to help boost the Kentucky tourism industry, which saw a decline in visitors with the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.
The state will allocate $75 million over the next several weeks to help eligible tourism organizations that apply and show the impact of the virus, Gov. Andy Beshear's office said Monday in a statement. The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan Act and was allocated by the General Assembly earlier this year.
It will be distributed in four ways. Officials said $25 million will go to local tourism commissions to market their communities, $25 million will be used to attract conventions and meetings, $15 million will go toward statewide marketing and $10 million will be available for multicounty collaborations.
“Our tourism industry is critical to our economic success, and now is the time to invest and support our travel partners across the commonwealth as we see our economy booming and our communities and our people reaping the benefits," Beshear said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/75M-aims-to-help-boost-Kentucky-tourism-industry-17328893.php | 2022-07-26 09:03:03 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/75M-aims-to-help-boost-Kentucky-tourism-industry-17328893.php |
Proposed bill would ban dogs from sticking heads outside car windows
TAMPA, Fla. - A newly filed Florida Senate Bill related to animal welfare could change how you travel with your dog.
SB 932 would ban drivers "from holding a dog in his or her lap" or "allow a dog to extend its head or any other body part outside a motor vehicle window while the person is operating the motor vehicle on a public roadway."
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"I think my dog would be a little bit more upset about that, honestly. And a citation, I think that's a little much, but I mean, I get the idea of it for safety purposes, but I mean, I feel like that should be up to the pet owner’s discretion," Gaby Graxirena said.
The bill would also require a dog being transported in a crate that is an appropriate size, restrained safely with a harness or pet seat belt or held by a passenger.
Animal advocates said it’s legislation that would help address distracted driving.
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"Having a companion animal in your lap or with their head out the window, now you're having to focus on that, you know, what's happening in front of you as opposed to paying attention to your actual surroundings and being the safest driver that you possibly can be," Brittany Livingston of Florida Voices for Animals said.
The goal of the bill filed by Senator Lauren Book on February 17 is to protect dogs from the outdoor elements and prevent them from escaping.
The legislation would also address declawing of cats, cosmetic animal testing, and prohibiting the sale of rabbits in specified locations and during specified months.
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"We are all for making sure that good legislation is passed for companion animals to stay safe and also to prevent any inhumane acts," Trevor Chin of Florida Voices for Animals said.
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Judge grants Trump bid for special master in Mar-a-Lago case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI during a search of his Florida home last month.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon came despite the objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents. The judge had previously signaled her inclination to approve a special master, asking a department lawyer during arguments this month, “What is the harm?”
The appointment may slow the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago, but it is unlikely to affect any investigative decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — An independent scientific agency that advises the federal government on policies that could impact marine mammals said there is no evidence linking site preparation work for offshore wind farms with a number of whale deaths along the U.S. East Coast.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Marine Mammal Commission became the third federal agency to reject a link between the deaths and the offshore wind energy industry, despite a growing narrative among offshore wind opponents that probing the ocean floor to prepare for wind turbine projects is killing whales.
Last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said there is no evidence linking offshore wind development with whale deaths.
The commission said 16 humpback whales and at least one critically endangered North Atlantic right whale have washed ashore dead on the East Coast this winter.
“Despite several reports in the media, there is no evidence to link these strandings to offshore wind energy development,” the commission said.
The deaths are part of an “unusual mortality event” involving humpback whales declared by the National Marine Fisheries Service in 2016. The agency said 40% of the whales that could be examined at necropsy, or post-mortem, showed evidence of a ship strike or entanglement with fishing gear. Others were floating at sea or otherwise inaccessible.
The commission said the number of whale strandings is not unusual. Ten or more humpback whales have stranded each year since 2016, with a high of 34 in 2017, it added.
It said the number of whales in the northeast is growing, something other agencies have noted as well. As the population grows, more whales are choosing to spend the winter in the northeast, where they are more vulnerable to being struck by ships or entangled in fishing gear, instead of migrating to warmer areas.
On Feb. 12, a dead North Atlantic right whale washed ashore in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was a 20-year-old, 43-foot male.
A necropsy was conducted by numerous state and city agencies and a private stranding response program, determining that the whale suffered a catastrophic blunt force traumatic injury, impacting its spine. The injuries, which are consistent with those often found in animals that have been struck by ships, included multiple vertebral fractures that would have resulted in death shortly after the injury.
Today, there are fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales in existence, with fewer than 95 mature females in the population. An unusual mortality event was declared for these animals in 2017.
The commission’s report comes as offshore wind opponents are pushing for investigations into whether offshore wind is killing whales, even though the federal government has been investigating whale deaths since 2016.
Earlier this week, two Republican Congressmen from New Jersey announced legislation aimed at investigating, pausing or halting offshore wind projects.
Rep. Chris Smith’s bill would require an investigation into the environmental approval process for offshore wind projects. A bill by Rep. Jeff Van Drew would impose a moratorium on all existing offshore wind projects and prohibit all future projects.
About 30 New Jersey mayors have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on offshore wind projects and an investigation into whether the whale deaths are related to such work.
The Marine Mammal Commission is an independent government agency charged by the Marine Mammal Protection Act to further the conservation of marine mammals and their environment. Its website says it provides “science-based oversight of domestic and international policies and actions of federal agencies with mandates to address human impacts on marine mammals and their ecosystems.”
“Our role is unique,” the agency’s mission statement said. “We are the only U.S. government agency that provides comprehensive oversight of all science, policy, and management actions affecting marine mammals.”
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Amazon is having limited time deals on its Amazon Fire TVs this week up to 41 percent off.
An Amazon Fire TV is simply Amazon’s take on a smart TV. These televisions offer built in streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and of course Amazon Prime Video. Many of these TV’s also come with a built in Alexa.
According to Amazon, a built-in Alexa feature simply allows the user to play a movie or TV show, search for new content, ask Alexa to open up apps and control playback.
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EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expressed confidence Tuesday in the completion of the $6.05 billion sale of the Washington Commanders, after owners were updated on the process at their spring meetings.
“I think we’ll get it to a place where we’ll get it approved,” Goodell said. “We’re hard at work as a staff looking at that, as we do every transaction. There’s a lot of due diligence, as well as compliance issues.”
The NFL-record purchase by investor Josh Harris and his large group from longtime owner Dan Snyder and his family was formally submitted to the league May 12. No timeline has been established for a vote, with at least 24 of 32 owners needed to approve it.
With franchise values soaring, deals will only get larger in the future and require more partners. Goodell acknowledged that some modification of ownership rules would be worth considering.
“I think it’s important for our membership to be engaged in that,” Goodell said. “It’s not how do we get greater value. It’s how do we create stability in our league amongst the 32 teams. That’s the most important aspect of our ownership policies.”
Goodell said he has spoken to public officials in the Washington area about stadium plans, with a replacement for FedEx Field in Maryland likely coming sooner than later — whether that’s in the District of Columbia or in the surrounding suburbs.
“It is not something that we’re requiring in the context of the transaction,” Goodell said, “but I know that the ownership is going to be focused on it just from the limited conversations I’ve had.”
Snyder and the Commanders are still under investigation by former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who was retained by the league more than a year ago to study the organization. That stemmed from a congressional review into workplace misconduct that also included a referral to the Federal Trade Commission for potential business improprieties.
“Mary Jo White is an expert. She’s being incredibly thorough. When she’s concluded the investigation, she’ll let me know,” Goodell said. “We have pledged to make sure that we tell our ownership, and we have pledged to make sure the findings are made public.”
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ISLAMABAD — A gunman opened fire at a container truck carrying Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday, wounding him slightly and also some of his supporters, a senior leader from his party and police said.
Party official Asad Umar says Khan was wounded in the foot and was not seriously hurt.
The attack happened in the Wazirabad district in the eastern Punjab province. Khan was traveling in a large convoy of trucks and cars heading towards the capital, Islamabad, as part of his campaign aimed at forcing the government to hold early elections.
Khan with later seen with a bandage on his foot. He was moved to another vehicle from his container truck, from where announcements were being made that he was safe. Some of the supporters from his Tehreek-e-Insaf party were also wounded, according to the announcement.
The attack happened less than a week after Khan began his march from Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, along with thousands of supporters. Since his ouster in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April, Khan has alleged that his ouster was a conspiracy engineered by his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and the United States — claims that both the new premier and Washington have denied.
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Chicago Hyde Park didn't bring a magic wand, just a dominating bond that eliminated Chicago Bogan's attack in a virtuoso 50-0 performance in Illinois high school football action on September 10.
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SHANGHAI, April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raythink, a world-leading ARHUD solutions provider for the automotive and transportation industry, will exhibit a wide range of new products and solutions including its proprietary OpticalCore® PGU at the 20th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai 2023) to be held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from April 18-27. The event will provide an opportunity for Raythink to showcase its strong product innovation and development capabilities. In addition, Raythink will host a press conference on April 19 to launch the world's first augmented reality (AR) head-up display (HUD) with utilizing the OpticalCore® PGU and a world-first wave-layer 3d display technology which can be utilized in AR HUDs and other display solutions. The Wave-Layer 3D Display Technology uses utilizes multiple display stacks to project a fully naked-eye 3D image with depth, delivering a futuristic and better 3D effect to enhance the driving experience.
Raythink's expansive 240-square meter booth will be located at NO.2BA006, Hall 2.2 and will feature AR HUDs at multiple FOVs (10º, 15º, 20º) with pedestrian detection, lane departure warning (LDW), AR navigation, and other assisted driving functions. Two physical vehicles equipped with AR HUDs will also be on display in the exhibition area, alongside a new generation of intelligent cockpits. Visitors can experience the event's most cutting-edge AR technology, which can identify pedestrians in real time through AR software, perform AR rendering, and ultimately present a glasses-free AR image in front of the driver's eyes.
HUD (head-up display) is a technology that projects important driving information such as speed, navigation and assisted driving applications on to the windshield in front of the driver, allowing the driver to view the information without having to look down or turn one's head. To truly integrate AR HUD with real scenes, it is necessary to provide a larger field of view (FOV) and a longer virtual image distance (VID). The key to solving this problem lies in the core light source module of the HUD.
Compared with traditional thin-film transistor (TFT) or digital light processing (DLP) solutions, the LBS-based PGU module OpticalCore®, a proprietary Raythink solution, can greatly reduce the cost of HUD and system footprint while increasing FOV, truly achieving a wide-angle large FOV covering three lanes and a higher image contrast without light window effects. The solution delivers superior performance without solar loading while reducing power consumption.
The AR HUD software developed by Raythink is bundled into the AR Generator® software development kit (SDK), allowing for AR display adjustment, AR navigation, LDW, pedestrian collision warning (PCW), forward collision warning (FCW) and other functions powered by artificial intelligence (AI). It also enables customized HUD or AR HUD applications with minimal latency and processing requirements and projects traffic information on to the front windshield in real-time.
Raythink, founded in 2019, has formally entered the mass production phase, marking a significant milestone. In 2021, the company established a lean production line for independent production, and passed ISO9001, IATF16949 and other quality system certifications in April 2022. Raythink then was chosen for a number of designated projects in cooperation with world-renowned Tier 1 manufacturers and brands, leading joint ventures and domestic EV OEMs, and, soon after, successfully delivered its first mass production HUD orders.
This year, Raythink plans to expand its production line to meet the increased demand for AR HUD standard equipment, while continuing to streamline the development and mass production of innovative light sources, as well as develop the next generation of AR HUDs for the digital large-screen immersive displays that will define the cars of the future.
Raythink CEO Ray Lu said smart cars will usher in the third living space era where scenario-based innovation will yield intelligent cockpit solutions that deliver a far superior experience to drivers and passengers. The next step in the century-old automotive industry will lead to digital innovation, creating a display and interaction revolution, while AR HUD will serve as the standard for the next wave of human-machine interaction applications.
Raythink will use AR HUD as a natural in-vehicle human-machine interface to replace the dashboard, redefining the intelligent cockpit with a digital emotional experience that evokes the look and feel of the car of the future.
About Raythink
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Localization strategy enables the implementation of innovative products
Founded in 2019, Raythink is a provider of solutions integrating intelligent transportation, assisted driving and AR display. The company's core technologies include optics, picture generation units (PGUs), AR Generator® SDK, algorithms and hardware. Raythink has successfully developed unique large field of view AR HUD products with automotive-grade mass production capacity.
The company's headquarters and main production facilities are located in Shenzhen, with R&D centers worldwide, including the Changsha Embedded Software Application Service Team, the Taipei Optical Innovation R&D Center, Shanghai Product Center and the Bangalore Algorithm and Software Development Center, all of which are focused on the development of next-generation automotive human-machine interfaces (HMIs).
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The new platform helps connect resources in the low-carbon field and strengthen the fight against climate change.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent launched a platform today to help connect stakeholders of low-carbon technologies, including entrepreneurs, investors and research institutions. TanLIVE, co-developed with 10 other international and local partners including Impact Hub Shanghai and Plug and Play China, brings together technical tools and insights to accelerate the implementation of climate solutions.
Despite the pressing need for action on climate change, innovators continue to struggle to identify and access the resources and organizations required to drive real change. Through the TanLIVE community, users can tap different resources such as funds, pilot scenarios, and competitions to spur innovation and build influence.
The launch of TanLIVE focuses on three major functions: resources, tools, and user systems:
- Resource Planet enables enterprises, investors and incubators to publish their supporting resources to entrepreneurs.
- Tool Lab gathers policy insights, data, and analysis tools required for low-carbon innovation.
- TanLIVE Passport integrates user accounts for all partner sites, enabling users to access various resources and tools with just one unified account.
The low-carbon innovation Tool Lab provides tools and data to help innovators find local policies, open tenders, and investors, with more features coming in the next few months.
As an aggregator of low-carbon platforms, TanLIVE Passport connects those user systems, saves the trouble of creating multiple accounts, and grants easy access to various low-carbon platforms.
"There is an imminent need to address climate change and facilitate the transition into a low-carbon economy," said Hao Xu, Vice President of Tencent Sustainable Social Value (SSV) and Head of Tencent Carbon Neutral Lab at the launch event held today in Shanghai. "Transformation of traditional industries into low-carbon models engages a long value chain. Digitalization can help connect the dots across the value chain and significantly improve efficiency in catalyzing and scaling innovations."
To celebrate the platform's kickoff, the co-founders of TanLIVE also joined the event, including BottleDream, Nengjian, Plug and Play China, Makable, 36Tan, Impact Hub Shanghai, NEX China, Meituan Qingshan Project, BCAA, and the Greentech Financing Platform.
Tencent aims to play a constructive role as a partner and connector across industries and is committed to accelerating and scaling innovation in carbon neutral and climate technologies. By linking the driving forces of low-carbon innovations, the TanLIVE platform can help the world accelerate its goal of carbon neutrality via a networked community.
About Tencent
Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world.
Founded in 1998 with its headquarters in Shenzhen, China, Tencent's guiding principle is to use technology for good. Our communication and social services connect more than one billion people around the world, helping them to keep in touch with friends and family, access transportation, pay for daily necessities, and even be entertained.
Tencent also publishes some of the world's most popular video games and other high-quality digital content, enriching interactive entertainment experiences for people around the globe.
Tencent also offers a range of services such as cloud computing, advertising, FinTech, and other enterprise services to support our clients' digital transformation and business growth.
Tencent has been listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since 2004.
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Elon Musk was met with mixed reaction Sunday night when Dave Chappelle brought him on stage during a comedy show in San Francisco.
The Tesla CEO was met with boos but also a share of cheers.
“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle tells the audience.
“You weren’t expecting this, were you?” Musk tells Chappelle following the boos.
In a video shared on Twitter, the crowd can be heard jeering Musk, whose recent purchase of the social media platform attracted criticism due to concerns about mass layoffs and looser content moderation.
Chappelle responds: “It sounds like some of those people you fired are in the audience.”
Later in the video, Chappelle said: “All these people that are booing, I’m just pointing out the obvious — they have terrible seats in the stadium.”
According to reports, the owner of the video that was posted on Twitter appears to have had their account suspended or has taken it down, with a message reading: “This Tweet is from an account that no longer exists.”
Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service a month after a previous attempt failed. The social media company said it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features starting Monday.
The blue checkmark was originally given to companies, celebrities, government entities and journalists verified by the platform.
After Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October he launched a service granting blue checks to anyone willing to pay $8 a month. But it was inundated by imposter accounts, so Twitter suspended the service.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional work periods. And he refused mental health treatment recommended by his doctors, worried he would be recognized in that wing of the hospital.
Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat and the son of the late Edward Kennedy, was eventually forced to reveal his struggles when he crashed his car outside the Capitol while intoxicated in May 2006. He talked openly about his mental health and substance abuse for the first time, and something surprising happened — he became more popular with his constituency, winning reelection by a bigger margin than he had two years earlier.
On Thursday, the office of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat who was elected to the Senate after a bruising campaign during which he suffered a stroke, announced he had checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression. The statement said Fetterman had experienced depression on and off in his life, but it had only become severe in recent weeks.
Fetterman’s public struggle is extraordinary in a building where few talk about their own mental health, even while members of both parties have legislation to expand aid for it. Kennedy and a handful of others who have been open about their own problems, or those in their family, say they hope Fetterman’s honesty — and his decisive action to get help — will foster more openness among lawmakers and their constituents in the wake of a global pandemic that has had far-reaching effects.
“This is a moment for us to tear down the stigma of depression and anxiety,” said Kennedy, who retired in 2010 and has become a leading voice on mental illness. “Sen. Fetterman may do more for people just by admitting that he’s getting help for depression than any bill he ends up sponsoring.”
The U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murphy, tweeted praise for Fetterman, saying he hopes his “courage will serve as an example for others.”
Fetterman’s Senate colleagues were immediately supportive.
“In every single city and town and rural community there is someone struggling with mental health,” said Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat who shared her own stories about periods of depression on the Senate floor four years ago. “If they see somebody else, like John, saying, ‘OK, I need to get medical care,’ that can be important to people.”
South Dakota’s John Thune, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, said he thinks politicians have become more comfortable discussing the issue since the pandemic.
“The more open, transparent people can be, the better our understanding is,” Thune said.
Fetterman’s hospitalization comes after a rough year in which the 53 year-old suffered a stroke just ahead of the May primary election and spent much of the summer off the campaign trail, recovering. He has said the stroke nearly killed him. He also underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator to manage two heart conditions, atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy. He entered the Senate in January, where he has had to adjust to life in Washington and the daily grind of a federal lawmaker.
“It’s unreal what @JohnFetterman has been through in the last year,” tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. “A stroke, a recovery, a bruising campaign, a transition to the Senate. I’m so proud of him for taking his health seriously. He’s going to be a great Senator for a long time, and I’m pulling for him today.”
Texas Sen. John Cornyn said the Senate “can be arduous. So I’m sure if somebody is not up to 100% then it’s especially tough, so I wish him well.”
Post-stroke depression is common, doctors say. And that could be even more difficult when dealing with it publicly, like Fetterman is.
“Having a stroke in and of itself is devastating and having to recover from a stroke in the public eye only adds to the level of stress as one recovers,” said Dr. Bruce Ovbiagele, associate dean and professor of neurology at the University of California-San Francisco.
Dr. Eric Lenze, head of the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, said he thinks it’s “interesting and heroic” for a major political figure to acknowledge depression, “instead of saying they’re hospitalized for exhaustion or trying to hide it.”
While many members are still loath to talk about themselves or their own hardships, some have been more forthcoming about mental illness in recent years. Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild declared from the House floor in 2019 that suicide is a “national emergency” and told the story of her partner, who had recently taken his own life. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., who was elected in 2020, has said he dropped out of college and at times thought of suicide after struggling with depression, substance abuse and grief after the loss of a friend. Smith said she found that ever since she told her own story of periods of depression as a college student and young mother, people still come up to her to talk about it.
Many lawmakers have also been open about their fear and anxiety after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, when many of them ran for their lives, and the months afterward when tensions between the two parties became even worse. Democratic Reps. Dan Kildee of Michigan and Annie Kuster of New Hampshire both talked about dealing with post-traumatic stress during that time.
The Jan. 6 attack was another inflection point amid the global pandemic.
“We’re living in a time of extraordinary stress and crisis,” said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who lost his son to suicide just a few days before the insurrection and has since written a book about his experience. “We’ve come through a plague, we’ve had tremendous mental and emotional health problems.”
Raskin, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, says there may have been a time when political leaders had to pretend that hardships didn’t touch their own families, “but I don’t think we are living in that time.”
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has been in the Senate for almost three decades, credits returning veterans from the Iraq war and other conflicts “who have convinced us that this is simple medical, mental health care that many people need from time to time. There isn’t a single family that isn’t touched by it.”
Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, credited Fetterman for being honest. “This is a challenge, unimaginable challenge, that he’s faced in life,” Durbin said.
Kennedy says that when he returned from his recovery in the mid-2000s, many of his colleagues sought his help and advice privately. And he has continued to talk to some members in the decade since he retired.
He predicted Fetterman could find a “whole new world of connection with his constituency” when he returns to the Senate, and could help people understand the brain science behind depression.
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Next-generation solutions bring faster connectivity for digital learning
MCLEAN, Va., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kajeet®, the leading wireless connectivity and device management provider for education, government, and commercial markets, today unveiled its growing 5G EdTech portfolio at the prestigious ISTELive 23 Conference in Philadelphia. This collection of education connectivity solutions harnesses 5G technology to empower teachers and students with faster connectivity, enabling them to embrace the full potential of today's digital learning.
ISTE, considered one of the largest events in the United States for educators to learn about technology in education, offers the ideal opportunity to demonstrate to the EdTech community how Kajeet remains at the forefront of providing reliable and secure internet connectivity solutions to bridge the digital divide.
"Kajeet is proud to introduce our 5G Portfolio at ISTE. These innovative products represent a significant milestone in educational connectivity," said Michael Flood, senior vice president of public sector at Kajeet. "We are committed to ensuring that teachers and students have access to reliable, high-speed internet wherever they learn."
The comprehensive 5G Portfolio from Kajeet is comprised of a range of cutting-edge devices, each tailored to meet the unique needs of educators and learners alike. The latest models being showcased include:
- Kajeet 5G SmartSpot: This education-ready WiFi hotspot helps bring digital equity to students and provides easy implementation for schools to prioritize digital education. With faster speeds, students can easily master digital skills as part of their education journey.
- Kajeet SmartBus 5G: Kajeet offers a secure and reliable mobile router designed to seamlessly connect students to a portable and reliable WiFi hotspot on wheels that turns travel time into an extension of the classroom.
- Kajeet 5G Fixed Wireless: Kajeet Fixed 5G Internet Gateway router ensures a reliable and high-speed connection for homes, remote facilities, community centers, and outdoor locations for primary internet access. Designed to bring lightning-fast internet connectivity to students, this affordable solution can support multiple devices simultaneously.
- Evolve III T-3 Pro Touch 5G LTE Notebook: Kajeet has partnered with Evolve III to offer a Windows 11, touchscreen notebook with built-in 5G & LTE capabilities. Kajeet offers coverage from all major US wireless networks and is currently taking pre-orders for Q4 delivery.
All Kajeet 5G education solutions include CIPA-compliant filtering to keep students safe and on-task, as well as Kajeet's award-winning device and data management platform, Sentinel®, which allows administrators to manage devices and data allocations, access controls and gain key insights into program performance.
The Kajeet 5G portfolio of products will be on display at Booth #2856 at ISTELive 23 this week. The Kajeet education team will provide detailed demonstrations and answer any questions for technology decision makers looking to bring the next generation of tools to their students.
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Thanks in large part to presenting sponsor ProMedica, the U.S. Women's Open is offering the biggest purse in women's history at $10 million. The winner will receive $1.8 million and the runner-up will earn over $1 million. Even players who missed the cut will earn a "stipend" of $8,000.
Here's how the purse breaks down for the players at Pine Needles:
Win: $1,800,000
2: $1,080,000
3: $685,043
4: $480,225
5: $399,982
6: $354,658
7: $319,738
8: $286,363
9: $259,169
10: $238,052
11: $217,245
12: $200,866
13: $187,166
14: $172,745
15: $160,384
16: $150,083
17: $141,842
18: $133,602
19: $125,361
20: $117,120
21: $110,013
22: $102,905
23: $96,003
24: $89,617
25: $84,054
26: $79,316
27: $75,711
28: $72,518
29: $69,427
30: $66,337
31: $63,247
32: $60,156
33: $57,066
34: $54,285
35: $52,019
36: $49,753
37: $47,589
38: $45,529
39: $43,469
40: $41,409
41: $39,349
42: $37,289
43: $35,228
44: $33,168
45: $31,108
46: $29,254
47: $27,400
48: $25,649
49: $24,619
50: $23,588
51: $22,970
52: $22,455
53: $22,043
54: $21,837
55: $21,631
56: $21,425
57: $21,219
58: $21,013
59: $20,807
60: $20,601
61: $20,395
62: $20,189
63: $19,983
64: $19,777
65: $19,571
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AUSTIN, Texas — Woman-owned jewelry company Kendra Scott is making Mother’s Day a company holiday.
As part of its Take the Time initiative, the Texas-based company plans to make Mother’s Day a paid holiday.
Kendra Scott’s corporate office and distribution center will be closed the day after holiday.
Those who end up working during Mother’s Day, including retail and customer care employees, will get paid an increased hourly rate.
The founder of the company announced the news on Instagram.
“As a working mother, I know how important it is to take the time to celebrate my children, my mother, and myself. To be able to provide my team more time to do just that brings me indescribable joy and hope for the future,” Scott wrote.
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Don't call the new Little Mermaid "Black Ariel," Saturday Night Live says.
The casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney's upcoming live-action remake in 2019 has since sparked debate, with critics unhappy that the role, portrayed as white in the 1989 animated film, did not go to a white actress. The news, and a recently released first teaser showing the star singing "Part of Your World," has also inspired a new generation to dress up as Ariel. On NBC's SNL Oct. 8, cast member Ego Nwodim portrayed the character on Weekend Update.
"Disney recently made history after announcing the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid featuring a Black Ariel," co-host Colin Jost said. "Here to comment is Black Ariel."
Ego then joined the anchor desk in a Little Mermaid costume. "Thanks so much Colin," she said. "You know, you can just call me Ariel. I don't call you White Colin. To your face."
Colin then told her character that "some people online are now calling you a hero and a role model," to which she replied, "Role model to who? Black girls who want to be a fish?"
She continued, "I gotta be honest, Colin, it's a lot of pressure. People are all like, 'Oh, Ariel, you're perfect. You're the hero we need.' Bitch, I am normal."
Ego's Ariel then went on to detail some of her weaknesses and personal faults, such as growing up [Jeff] Bezos-rich and riding on "poor people" seahorses "for fun," being so "stupid-stupid" that she's always falling for a worm on a hook and being "pro-SeaWorld."
Directed by Rob Marshall, The Little Mermaid also stars Melissa McCarthy as villain Ursula, Javier Bardem as Ariel's father King Triton, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, Hamilton's Daveed Diggs as Sebastian the crab, Awkwafina as Scuttle the seagull and Little Women actor Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric.
"It has been the toughest experience being away from everything and everyone i've ever known, to feeling self doubt/ loneliness, but also feeling such freedom and perseverance as i've reached the end," Halle wrote on Instagram in July, regarding time filming The Little Mermaid. "This experience has made me so much stronger than i ever thought i could be."
In September, Halle talked to E! News at the D23 Expo about how Disney's animated Little Mermaid film inspired her. "I definitely think that because I love this movie so much, and I've treasured it since I was a little girl, I did put a bit of pressure on myself," she said. "Just because I want to deliver all of the feels that I saw when I was a little girl."
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PHOENIX, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cable One®, a leading broadband communications provider, was recently named by the Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Network as one of the 2022 Top Companies for Women to Work based on the results of their most recent PAR (pay equity, advancement opportunities and resources) workplace diversity survey.
The survey — which evaluates pay equity, advancement opportunities and resources for work/life integration — is a critical diversity and inclusion resource for individual companies and the industry at large. The PAR Survey enables participating companies to benchmark their progress toward gender equity and provides overall industry benchmarks relative to other businesses and industries.
Despite widely-publicized statistics about women being disproportionately impacted by pandemic-related unemployment and reductions in labor force participation over the past several years, Cable One has remained on a positive gender-diversity trajectory due to flexible work models and a continued commitment to inclusion and diversity across its family of brands (Sparklight, Fidelity, Hargray, ValuNet and Cable America).
As of year-end 2022, women represented 33 percent of Cable One's total associates, 37 percent of management-level positions and 60 percent of the company's 10-member Board of Directors, including the Chair of the Board, President and CEO.
"We are honored by this recognition, which is a direct reflection of our commitment to cultivating an inclusive and diverse workplace that is purpose-driven and engaging, enabling all of our associates to thrive," said Julie Laulis, Cable One President and CEO.
Cable One, Inc. is a leading broadband communications provider committed to connecting customers and communities to what matters most. Through Sparklight® and the associated Cable One family of brands, the Company serves more than 1.1 million residential and business customers in 24 states. Over its fiber-powered network, the Cable One family of brands provide residential customers with a wide array of connectivity and entertainment services, including Gigabit speeds, advanced WiFi and video. For businesses ranging from small and mid-market up to enterprise, wholesale and carrier, the Company offers scalable, cost-effective solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to grow, compete and succeed.
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SALEM, N.H., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Standex International Corporation (NYSE:SXI) will announce its fourth quarter fiscal 2022 financial results on Thursday, August 4, 2022 after the close of the market and will broadcast its conference call live over the Internet at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday, August 5, 2022.
On the call, David Dunbar, President & CEO, and Ademir Sarcevic, CFO & Treasurer, will review the Company's fourth quarter financial results, business highlights and outlook.
Investors interested in listening to the webcast and viewing the slide presentation should log on to the "Investors" section of Standex's website under the subheading, "Events and Presentations," located at www.standex.com. A replay of the webcast also will be available on the Company's web site shortly after the conclusion of the presentation.
About Standex
Standex International Corporation is a global multi-industry manufacturer in five broad business segments: Electronics, Engraving, Scientific, Engineering Technologies and Specialty Solutions with operations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, India and China. For additional information, visit the Company's website at www.standex.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays are supposed to be a joyful time, but they can also be financially stressful. With gifts, social gatherings and plane tickets home, the costs can start piling up.
With inflation easing but still high, 57% of Americans say it has been harder to afford the gifts they want to give, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Compared to the height of the pandemic, "we’re having less stress navigating the things that bring us together during the holidays. What is different from last year is how much financial stress there is,” said Dr. Rebecca Brendel, director of the American Psychiatric Association.
Here are recommendations from experts to reduce financial stress during the holidays:
SET EXPECTATIONS
In many families, the holidays mean going all out with gift giving. But this can quickly become stressful if your finances make it hard to keep up.
Managing expectations is key, according to Sarah Foster, a Bankrate.com analyst.
“During the holiday season, we often feel like not talking about money, not letting individuals know how much the gift we bought for them cost,” said Foster, who recommends leaving aside taboos and talking about how much you can afford to give this year.
For Kathy Colmenares, a Connecticut-based senior caregiver and singer who experienced financial challenges during the pandemic, setting expectations meant choosing to cut down on the amount of money she sends to her family and friends in Venezuela.
“I used to not care if I had no money as long as I could send money to help," she said. “I have to put myself and my family first.”
MAKE A BUDGET
Setting a budget can help prevent stress during the holidays, Brendel said.
“Making decisions and sticking to them can really avoid regret and stress after the spending happens, when the January bills start coming in,” she said.
She recommends prioritizing who gets individual gifts and organizing a gift game such as white elephant or gift pool with the rest of your loved ones. Alternatively, if you are planning to give individual gifts, she recommends allowing your family members to say which things they’d really like, since it takes the pressure and stress off of you.
If you are looking for a budget template, Microsoft Office offers a holiday spending-focused version.
GET CREATIVE
There are several alternatives to spending a lot of money. They include:
— Homemade gifts
One of Brendel’s favorite homemade gifts is cocktail mason jars. You put the ingredients for a cocktail in a mason jar and the recipient just has to add water or alcohol.
This year, Lena Liu, 29, a Massachusetts-based resident physician, will give homemade bracelets to some of her friends.
“It can be really thoughtful and it actually ends up not being so expensive either,” Liu said. “They know that you put your work and your energy into designing the bracelet and getting the beads so they really appreciate that.”
— Gift cards
Gift cards can seem impersonal, but Foster argues that they are a great way to stay within your budget since you can plan out the exact amount you’re spending on each card.
— Experiences
When patients approach Karen Lynn Cassiday, managing director of the Anxiety Treatment Center of Greater Chicago, about their financial stress during the holidays, the first advice she gives is to grant experiences rather than items.
“The thing that each person most deeply needs is to be known, heard and seen," Cassiday said. “Then doing something with them or something for them is priceless.”
You could also gift a photoshoot or framed pictures or digital albums to commemorate happy experiences.
— The gift of time
If you can't afford to take your parents on a trip or visit them during the holidays, giving them more of your time can be a true gift, according to Eliza Menninger, medical director of the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts.
Whether it’s planning weekly video calls with your friend group or calling your grandma every day, Menninger suggests you think of non-monetary gifts that your loved ones will appreciate.
CREATE YOUR OWN TRADITIONS
Expectations or traditions you grew up with, such as buying expensive gifts for every member of your extended family, can cause stress during the holidays. Creating your own new traditions can help reduce it.
This year, Valentina Chavez Otero, a 22-year-old resident of Norwalk, Connecticut, is planning to celebrate the holidays by spending a day in New York City.
“I’m not very interested in celebrating Christmas, I just want to spend a day walking and seeing new things,” said Chavez Otero, who has faced economic instability since moving from Cali, Colombia, with her boyfriend.
DIVIDE RESPONSIBILITIES
With inflation making holiday food even more expensive than usual, one way to cut costs is making sure whoever is hosting doesn't have to pay for the whole meal.
If your parents, grandparents, aunts or friends are hosting in their house, you could propose that everyone brings a dish, Brendel said.
“Potlucks can always be fun, and they take away the stress of preparation from one person and also reduce the cost from falling on the host," she said. “These kinds of ideas can really reduce financial burden and stress.”
COMMUNICATE YOUR FEELINGS
If you are having financial difficulties, it can help to talk about it with your family and friends, Brendel said.
Liu, who was diagnosed with anxiety and depression during her first year as a medical resident, now feels more comfortable talking with her family after keeping her struggles to herself for six months.
“I’m of Chinese ethnicity and, in our culture, it’s very stigmatized to talk about mental health at all,” Liu said.
Her parents and twin sister helped her through the difficult time, and her father shared that he struggled to show emotions when he was growing up and wants her generation to be able to be more open.
PRACTICE A HEALTHY ROUTINE
While your stress might stem from financial struggles, negative feelings can spill over to other aspects of your life, making it hard to enjoy the holidays.
Menninger recommends taking some time out from social gatherings and Christmas shopping to do something for yourself, such as exercising or meditating.
If you tend to forget to take a second to breathe, Menninger recommends you add an alarm in your phone as a reminder. The best times to have some time alone are between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., she said.
For Lori Lebson, a 41-year-old mom from Massachusetts, it’s crucial to go for a run at some time during the day, even if it means waking up a bit before her children.
Chavez Otero, who has been having trouble sleeping for the last few months, watches sleeping meditations on YouTube to help her reduce anxiety. Liu’s favorite relaxing activity is doing yoga before or after a hospital shift.
Liu also practices journaling, writing down what she is grateful for in her life.
Getting enough sleep is also critical, so Menninger recommends turning off your electronics a few hours before bed.
SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP IF YOU NEED IT
If you are experiencing mental health struggles, there are several resources you can use to find professional help.
In the U.S., you can dial 211 to speak with a mental health expert, confidentially and for free.
Other mental health resources include:
Veterans Crisis Line: call 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Crisis Text Line: Text the word ‘Home’ to 741-741
The Trevor Lifeline for LGBTQ Youth: 1-866-488-7386
The Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860
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Carbon dioxide emissions reached a record high in 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — Communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide in 2022 than in any other year on records dating to 1900, a result of air travel rebounding from the pandemic and more cities turning to coal as a low-cost source of power.
Emissions of the climate-warming gas that were caused by energy production grew 0.9% to reach 36.8 gigatons in 2022, the International Energy Agency reported Thursday. (The mass of one gigaton is equivalent to about 10,000 fully loaded aircraft carriers, according to NASA.)
Carbon dioxide is released when fossil fuels such as oil, coal or natural gas are burned to powers cars, planes, homes and factories. When the gas enters the atmosphere, it traps heat and contributes to the warming of the the climate.
Extreme weather events intensified last year’s carbon dioxide emissions: Droughts reduced the amount of water available for hydropower, which increased the need to burn fossil fuels. And heat waves drove up demand for electricity.
Thursday’s report was described as disconcerting by climate scientists, who warn that energy users around the world must cut emissions dramatically to slow the dire consequences of global warming.
“Any emissions growth — even 1% — is a failure,” said Rob Jackson, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University and chairman of the Global Carbon Project, an international group. “We can’t afford growth. We can’t afford stasis. It’s cuts or chaos for the planet. Any year with higher coal emissions is a bad year for our health and for the Earth.”
Carbon dioxide emissions from coal grew 1.6% last year. Many communities, primarily in Asia, switched from natural gas to coal to avoid high natural gas prices that were worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the IEA said.
And as global airline traffic increased, carbon dioxide emissions from burning oil grew 2.5%, with about half the surge resulting from the aviation sector.
Global emissions have grown in most years since 1900 and have accelerated over time, according to data from IEA. One exception was the pandemic year of 2020, when travel all but came to a standstill.
Last year’s level of emissions, though a record high, was nevertheless lower than experts had expected. Increased deployment of renewable energy, electric vehicles and heat pumps together helped prevent an additional 550 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions, the IEA said.
Strict pandemic measures and weak economic growth in China also curtailed production, helping to limit overall global emissions. And in Europe, the IEA said, electricity generation from wind and solar power exceeded that of gas or nuclear for the first time.
“Without clean energy, the growth in CO2 emissions would have been nearly three times as high,” Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, said in a statement.
“However, we still see emissions growing from fossil fuels, hindering efforts to meet the world’s climate targets. International and national fossil fuel companies are making record revenues and need to take their share of responsibility, in line with their public pledges to meet climate goals.”
Though emissions continue to grow at worrisome levels, a reversal that would help achieve the climate goals that nations have committed to remains possible, said John Sterman, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Sustainability Initiative.
Nations must subsidize renewables, improve energy efficiency, electrify industry and transportation, set a high price for carbon emissions, reduce deforestation, plant trees and rid the system of coal, Sterman argued.
“This is a massive, massive undertaking to do all these things, but that’s what’s needed,” he said.
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DALLAS (AP) — Two men who were in a Phoenix hotel lobby the night that Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin was accused of misconduct with a female employee said Wednesday they didn’t see him do anything wrong and that his brief interaction with the woman appeared friendly.
Phil Watkins of Australia and Bryn Davis of Philadelphia appeared at a news conference by video link with Irvin and his attorney.
Irvin has filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against a “Jane Doe” and Marriott International Inc., alleging that a false misconduct claim on Feb. 5 caused him to be kicked out of the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel hotel and removed from the NFL Network’s Super Bowl week coverage.
Watkins said he saw “nothing at all” that could be considered inappropriate, and that Irvin and the woman shook hands and laughed.
“There was nothing untoward out of the interaction,” and Irvin soon left for the elevator as the woman went back toward the bar, Watkins said.
Irvin has insisted he did nothing wrong during the encounter with the woman and went to his room alone. He has said there was no inappropriate physical contact.
Irvin’s attorney, Levi McCathern, complained that Marriott has not adequately provided him with video footage of the encounter. McCathern said he was allowed to watch a short video in Marriott’s attorney offices on Tuesday but was not allowed to take a copy or make one.
The video showed Irvin and the woman meet and shake hands, and Irvin twice touched her elbow before leaving, McCathern said.
McCathern said he asked a judge to order Marriott to provide him with a copy.
“The allegations are nonsense,” McCathern said. “We need to immediately get Michael back to work, and I believe Renaissance needs to apologize.”
Marriott officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Irvin, who appeared to tear up briefly at the new conference, complained that he hasn’t yet been allowed to see the video. And he compared the allegations and resulting fallout to Jim Crow-era persecution of Black men.
“I couldn’t even tell you what she looked like,” Irvin said. “This just blows my mind, that in 2023 we still dragging and hanging brothers by a tree.”
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COLUMBUS, Ga. — Former President Donald Trump blasted his historic federal indictment as “ridiculous” and “baseless" Saturday during his first public appearance since the charges were unsealed, painting the 37 felony counts as an attack on his supporters as he tried to turn dire legal peril to political advantage.
Speaking at a Republican state convention in Georgia, Trump cast his indictment by the Department of Justice as an attempt to damage his chances of returning to the White House as he campaigns for a second term.
“They’ve launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people,” Trump alleged, later telling the crowd that, "In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you.”
The strategy is a well-worn one for Trump, who remains the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination despite his mounting legal woes, which also include criminal charges filed against him in March in New York. Again and again, in the face of investigation, Trump has tried to delegitimize law enforcement officials and portray himself — and his supporters — as victims, even when he faces serious charges.
The indictment unsealed Friday charges Trump with willfully defying Justice Department demands to return classified documents, enlisting aides in his efforts to hide the records and even telling his lawyers that he wanted to defy a subpoena for the materials stored at his residence.
The indictment includes allegations that he stored documents in a ballroom and bathroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort, among other places.
Trump is due to make his first federal court appearance Tuesday in Miami. He was charged alongside valet Walt Nauta, a personal aide whom prosecutors say moved boxes from a storage room to Trump’s residence for him to review and later lied to investigators about the movement. Nauta traveled with Trump to Georgia, appearing by his side at a Waffle House stop where the former president signed autographs, posed for photos and told supporters, “We did absolutely nothing wrong.”
Earlier Saturday, Trump was given a hero's welcome at the party convention in Georgia, where he drew loud applause as he slammed the investigation as “a political hit job” and accused his political enemies of launching “one hoax and witch hunt after another” to prevent his reelection.
“The ridiculous and baseless indictment by the Biden administration’s weaponized Department of Injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country," he said.
He also used his remarks to rail against President Joe Biden and his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, accusing them of mishandling classified information and insisting he was treated unfairly because he is a Republican. But Trump overlooked a critical difference: Only he has been accused of intentionally trying to impede investigators by not returning the classified documents.
In the Clinton probe, for instance, FBI investigators concluded that although she was extremely careless in her handling of classified emails on a private server, there was no evidence that she intended to break the law. And though the Biden investigation is still ongoing, no evidence has emerged to suggest that he intentionally held onto the records or even knew that they were there, with his representatives turning over records after they were discovered and voluntarily consenting to FBI searches.
Trump also lingered on Georgia’s role in his 2020 defeat, repeating his lies that he had won the state and defending his efforts to overturn Biden’s victory, which is now the subject of an investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. She has suggested that any indictments would likely come in August.
At the heart of the investigation is a recorded phone conversation in which Trump urges Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” — just enough to overtake Biden and overturn Trump’s narrow loss in the state.
Despite the latest criminal charges, attendees cheered him on in Georgia and eagerly awaited his arrival in North Carolina, where he will speak at the party's convention Saturday evening.
About 100 supporters, some waving “Witch Hunt” signs, showed up to the Columbus, Georgia, airfield to greet Trump as he arrived. Jan Plemmons, 66, wearing an oversize foam “Make America Great Again” hat, called the federal charges “absolutely ridiculous” and said she was ready to campaign with Trump. To Michael Sellers, 67, it was “criminal what they're doing to him."
The indictment arrives as Trump is continuing to dominate the primary race. Other candidates have largely attacked the Justice Department — rather than Trump — for the investigation. But the indictment’s breadth of allegations and scope could make it harder for Republicans to rail against these charges compared with an earlier New York criminal case that many legal analysts had derided as weak.
Among the various investigations Trump has faced, the documents case has long been considered the most perilous threat and the one most ripe for prosecution. But Trump’s continued popularity among Republican voters is evident in how gingerly his primary rivals have treated the federal indictment.
Mike Pence, whose appearance in North Carolina marked the first shared venue with his former boss since the ex-vice president announced his own campaign this past week, condemned the “politicization” of the Justice Department and urged Attorney General Merrick Garland "to stop hiding behind the special counsel and stand before the American people” to explain the basis for the federal investigation into Trump.
In an interview with The Associated Press after his speech, Pence said he had read the indictment but repeatedly declined to share his personal reaction to its contents — including the photographs of boxes with classified information stacked in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom and on a ballroom stage — or to criticize Trump.
“The very nature of a grand jury is that there is no defense presented,” Pence said. “That’s why I said today I’m going to urge patience, encourage people to be prayerful for the former president, but also for all those in authority and for the country going forward.”
At the North Carolina GOP gathering Friday night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump's leading GOP rival, didn't mention Trump by name but compared his situation to that of Clinton.
“Is there a different standard for a Democratic secretary of state versus a former Republican president?” DeSantis asked. “I think there needs to be one standard of justice in this country. ... At the end of the day, we will once and for all end the weaponization of government under my administration.”
Among the declared Republican contenders, only Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has explicitly called for Trump to end his candidacy. Hutchinson told reporters in Georgia that the Republican Party “should not lose its soul” in defending Trump and said the evidence so far suggested that the former president treated national secrets “like entertainment tools.”
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Udonis Haslem thought he would be able to walk around unnoticed at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Not quite.
Oddly enough, a 6-foot-8 man — one of South Florida’s most recognizable athletes after 20 years and three championships with the Miami Heat — was somewhat easy to spot in the crowd Sunday, when he served as an honorary race official for NASCAR’s annual stop at Homestead.
“You can feel the energy coming from all angles,” said Haslem, the Heat captain. “You can feel it. The motors revving over here, you can feel the trucks over here, you can feel the fans coming this way … I was just taking it all in.”
Sunday marked Haslem’s first time experiencing NASCAR in person, but the sport isn’t completely foreign to him. Haslem’s grandparents are from Georgia, he said, “and NASCAR is something my grandparents have watched my whole life.”
“I sat there as a kid and I watched it,” Haslem said. “It’s overwhelming. It’s amazing. It’s just another whole community. I had no idea about being here. Watching it on TV doesn’t even compare to being here in person. It’s an amazing experience.”
Haslem’s original plans for Sunday included him meeting Bubba Wallace, the only Black full-time driver on the NASCAR circuit. Wallace’s one-race suspension — handed down after an investigation determined he deliberately spun reigning Cup champion Kyle Larson at Las Vegas in a “dangerous act” of retaliation last weekend before confronting him afterward — thwarted those plans.
“I’m a little disappointed, but obviously I understand alphas in alpha sports,” Haslem said. “I am an alpha. So I understand how that goes and our competitive nature.”
Haslem suggested he might want to take a car out on the track for a few laps. He wouldn’t reveal how fast he has ever driven — “Not going to snitch on myself,” he said — but revealed he has an electric Audi “that moves pretty well.”
Haslem plans on retiring after this NBA season and has talked about getting into ownership; he has made no secret that his goal is to eventually be involved with the Heat organization at an upper level of the front office.
But he is an active investor in a number of other businesses. And he wouldn’t be the first player to turn to NASCAR after an NBA career — Michael Jordan is an owner of the 23XI team that Wallace drives for, and Brad Daugherty has been involved in racing through ownership and as a television analyst for years.
“I’m a person that is very ambitious,” Haslem said, wearing a hat with the 23XI logo on the side. “And if it’s something that I’m interested in, and it’s something that I want to be a part of, then we’ll talk about it and we make that move. This is something that I’m definitely interested in. I like to compete, I like fast — and I know it’s kind of a parody but the movie ‘Talladega Nights’ is one of my favorite movies ever.”
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CALGARY, AB, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - High Tide Inc. ("High Tide" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: HITI) (TSXV: HITI) (FSE: 2LYA), Canada's largest non-franchised cannabis retailer with bricks-and-mortar as well as global e-commerce assets, is pleased to announce that its senior executive is available for comment ahead of the fourth anniversary of cannabis legalization in Canada.
According to a joint study completed by Deloitte and the Ontario Cannabis Store,1 Canadians celebrate the growth of an industry that contributed $43.5 billion to the country's GDP and created 43,479 direct industry jobs between 2018 and 2021, with many in small and rural communities. Despite these successes, the industry faces headwinds that can be partially alleviated through common-sense regulatory and legislative reforms from the federal and provincial governments.
As Senior Vice President - Corporate and Public Affairs, Mr. Khan leads the policy and communications team at High Tide. He will be able to shed light on the current state of the cannabis industry and what common sense reforms Canada's federal and provincial governments should take to bolster this burgeoning sector. He has nearly two decades of experience working as a communication strategist in Canadian federal and provincial politics, including serving as the Chief of Staff to several Ontario Ministers.
- Since cannabis legalization in Canada, High Tide has grown into an international cannabis company, evolving beyond bricks-and-mortar cannabis sales with e-commerce platforms focusing on CBD and consumption accessories (Nuleaf Naturals, FABCBD, Blessed CBD, Grasscity.com, Smokecartel.com, Dailyhighclub.com, and Dankstop.com);
- Since October 2018, High Tide has grown from two stores in Alberta to 140 across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, employing over 1400 people across Canada, the United States and Europe;
- High Tide's strategy is to capture the Canadian retail cannabis market share by focusing on converting the approximately 40 percent of Canadian consumers still purchasing cannabis through illicit market channels.
High Tide is a leading retail-focused cannabis company with bricks-and-mortar as well as global e-commerce assets. The Company is the largest non-franchised recreational cannabis retail chain in Canada as measured by revenue, with 140 current locations spanning British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The Company is also North America's first cannabis discount club retailer, under the Canna Cabana banner, which is the single-largest cannabis retail brand in Canada, with additional locations under development across the country. High Tide's portfolio also includes retail kiosks and smart locker technology – Fastendr™. High Tide has been serving consumers for over a decade through its established e-commerce platforms, including Grasscity.com, Smokecartel.com, Dailyhighclub.com, and Dankstop.com and more recently in the hemp-derived CBD space through Nuleafnaturals.com, FABCBD.com, BlessedCBD.co.uk, BlessedCBD.de, and Amazon United Kingdom, as well as its wholesale distribution division under Valiant Distribution, including the licensed entertainment product manufacturer Famous Brandz. High Tide was featured in the annual Report on Business Magazine's ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies in both 2021 and 2022 and was named as one of the top 10 performing diversified industries stocks in the 2022 TSX Venture 50™. High Tide's strategy as a parent company is to extend and strengthen its integrated value chain while providing a complete customer experience and maximizing shareholder value.
For more information about High Tide, please visit www.hightideinc.com and its profile pages on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. These statements relate to future events or future performance. The use of any of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on the Company's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events. The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained herein include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the Company's business; the Company's future growth prospects and intentions to pursue one or more viable business opportunities; the development of the Company's business and future activities following the date hereof; expectations relating to market size and anticipated growth in the jurisdictions within which the Company may from time to time operate or contemplate future operations; expectations with respect to economic, business, regulatory and/or competitive factors related to the Company or the cannabis industry generally; the market for the Company's current and proposed product offerings, as well as the Company's ability to capture market share; the distribution methods expected to be used by the Company to deliver its product offerings; the performance of the Company's business and the operations and activities; the Company adding the number of additional cannabis retail store locations the Company proposes to add to its business, and the Company remaining on a positive growth trajectory; the Company completing the development of its cannabis retail stores; the Company's ability to successfully integrate the operations of any business acquired within the Company's business; and the Company continuing to grow its online retail portfolio through further strategic and accretive acquisitions. Forward-looking information in this press release are based on certain assumptions and expected future events, namely: current and future members of management will abide by the Company's business objectives and strategies from time to time established by the Company; the Company will have sufficient working capital and the ability to obtain the financing required in order to develop and continue its business and operations; the Company will continue to attract, develop, motivate and retain highly qualified and skilled consultants and/or employees; no adverse changes will be made to the regulatory framework governing cannabis, taxes and all other applicable matters in the jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business and any other jurisdiction in which the Company may conduct business in the future; the Company will be able to execute on its business strategy as anticipated; the Company will be able to meet the requirements necessary to obtain and/or maintain authorizations required to conduct the business; general economic, financial, market, regulatory, and political conditions, will not negatively affect the Company or its business; general market conditions will be favourable with respect to the Company's future plans and goals; the Company will remain on a positive growth trajectory; the Company will complete the development of its cannabis retail stores; and the Company will continue to grow its online retail portfolio through further strategic and accretive acquisitions. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including but not limited to: the Company's inability to attract and retain qualified members of management to grow the Company's business and its operations; unanticipated changes in economic and market conditions or in applicable laws; the impact of the publications of inaccurate or unfavourable research by securities analysts or other third parties; interruptions or shortages in the supply of cannabis from time to time available to support the Company's operations from time to time; unanticipated changes in the cannabis industry in the jurisdictions within which the Company may from time to time conduct its business and operations; the Company's inability to secure desirable retail cannabis store locations on favourable terms; risks relating to projections of the Company's operations; risk that the Company will be unable to increase its revenue profile; risk that the Company will be unable to grow its online retail portfolio through further strategic and accretive acquisitions; risk that the Company will be unable to add additional cannabis retail store locations to the Company's business and remain on a positive growth trajectory; risks that the Company will be unable to complete the development of any or all of its cannabis retail stores; and risk that the Company will be unable to continue to grow its online retail portfolio through further strategic and accretive acquisitions.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and reflect the Company's expectations as of the date hereof and are subject to change thereafter. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and such forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.
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MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (TMJ4) — The family of Zarion Robinson is mourning the one-year-old's death.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office says he was in a car seat, in the back seat of a car that was stolen over the weekend. Authorities say the driver, a 31-year-old woman crashed the vehicle, killing Zarion.
According to the Medical Examiner’s report, paramedics found Zarion still partly strapped into his car seat, which had overturned, facing down on the floor of the backseat.
At the scene, first responders said Zarion was awake and crying.
But less than two hours later, at 1:10 a.m. Saturday, Zarion was pronounced dead at Children’s Hospital.
His mom reportedly told police that she left her son in her unlocked car to quickly run and grab something from inside their home when the car was stolen.
Just a few minutes later and a couple of miles away, the car crashed.
The woman police say was driving the car was arrested. She is expected to face charges after she is released from an area hospital.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Tropical Storm Cindy formed Thursday night, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The storm is moving west-northwest at 15 mph. It is forecast to remain well northeast of the northern Leeward Islands through next week.
The storm’s winds have increased to 45 mph and it is expected to strengthen over the next few days.
“It is rare to have one storm in the Atlantic during the month of June, but since record keeping began, it has never been recorded to have two tropical cyclones in this region in June,” WFLA Meteorologist Amanda Holly said. “The good news is that neither seem to be a threat to the United States.”
Tropical Storm Bret
Tropical Storm Bret strengthened overnight but remains a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Bret has maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and is moving west at 18 mph.
It’s expected to impact the Lesser Antilles on Thursday as a strong tropical storm. A hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning are in effect for St. Lucia, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Up to 10 inches of rain are possible across portions of the Lesser Antilles.
A tropical storm warning is also in effect for the following areas:
- Martinique
- Dominica
- Barbados
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Tropical Storm Bret is expected to gradually weaken over the next couple of days, according to NHC forecasters.
“Hopefully this is not a sign of how active the rest of the season will be, but only time will tell if the record warm water temperatures or the stronger winds from El Nino will win out,” Holly said. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/tropical-storm-cindy-forms-in-the-atlantic/ | 2023-06-23 12:57:08 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/tropical-storm-cindy-forms-in-the-atlantic/ |
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Recently fired Arizona Cardinals assistant coach Sean Kugler has hired a law firm to investigate the “mysterious allegations” that he inappropriately touched a female security guard when the team was in Mexico last month for a game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Kugler hired the law firm of Shields Pettini, which said on Friday that it has filed a request for arbitration with the NFL in response to the Cardinals' handling of the situation, which resulted in Kugler's firing.
The law firm claims Kugler was fired for “unsubstantiated allegations that he inappropriately touched a female security guard.”
The popular 56-year-old Kugler — who was the team’s offensive line coach and run game coordinator — had been with the team since 2019. The Cardinals were in Mexico to play the 49ers on a Monday night. The Cardinals said the incident happened on the Saturday before the game and he was sent home by the team.
“The allegations against Coach Kugler are simply untrue and have caused Sean, his wife and family enormous personal and professional damage,” said attorney Michael Pettini. “Coach and his family have been desperate to understand from the Cardinals front office and others what rationale or evidence was used to terminate him for cause.”
The firm claims the Cardinals dismissed Kugler from the organization without conducting a thorough investigation or interviewing him.
“Respecting women is a core value for me, and something I have instilled in my children and the players that I coach,” Kugler said in a statement. “The mysterious allegations by the Cardinals are untrue, and I want to clear my name. Be it a miscommunication or mistaken identity, my family and I will cooperate fully and honestly with the NFL, Cardinals, or any other agency to get to the truth in this matter and restore my reputation."
The Cardinals released their own statement on Friday: “As an ongoing legal matter, we are going to refrain from comment other than to say that the team is confident the process will result in a much different set of facts than those presented today and that it had good cause to terminate Mr. Kugler’s employment.”
Kugler's firing has been part of tumultuous season for the Cardinals (4-9), who started the season with high hopes but have lost five of their past six games.
Among the other unwanted headlines: Three-time All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins was suspended six games for violating the NFL’s rule on performance-enhancers, while franchise quarterback Kyler Murray suffered a serious knee injury last week that will cause him to miss the final four games of the season.
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The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for the first over-the-counter at-home test than can detect whether someone has the flu or COVID-19.
The Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Home Test was developed as many people are left wondering what type of virus they have. Symptoms of the flu and COVID-19 overlap. They include fever, chills and cough.
“The FDA strongly supports innovation in test development, and we are eager to continue advancing greater access to at-home infectious disease testing to best support public health needs," said Dr. Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
The nasal swab test works similarly to other at-home COVID-19 tests. Results are given within 30 minutes, according to the FDA.
The agency says it was more than 90% correct in identifying flu samples and 88.3% correct in finding positive COVID-19 samples.
Flu peaked toward the end of 2022 and has dropped off considerably, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 cases have also fallen from a slight uptick in December, the agency reports. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/fda-authorizes-first-at-home-joint-flu-covid-19-test | 2023-02-27 18:22:03 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/fda-authorizes-first-at-home-joint-flu-covid-19-test |
TAIPEI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiwanese start-up Mbran Filtra, has been recognized as a 2022 CES Innovation Award Honoree for its world's smallest water filter. With the pandemic's end still nowhere in sight, outdoor activities such as hiking and camping have exploded in popularity, and now adventure seekers have a revolutionary product to help them access potable water anywhere. The start-up will be showcasing its technology at 2022 CES.
"Mbran Filtra's water filter is just the size of a person's thumb and weighs just 21 grams, allowing it to slip into any pocket and be used in a myriad of activities such as trail runs, mountain biking, hiking, camping, or any kind of travel exploration. It allows anyone access to safe drinking water virtually anywhere," says Dr. Hsu-Hsien Chang, CEO of Mbran Filtra.
Small footprint, big features
Mbran Filtra's water filter blocks out bacteria, microorganisms, and microplastics, which is considered a necessity for any filter and it can be used without any electricity, making it very convenient for traveling. And finally, it has a high flow rate of 1.2 liters per minute, giving its users plenty of drinking water in a fast and efficient manner.
Unique process
The innovation of this product lies in the manufacturing process, which Mbran Filtra says utilizes polyethersulfone polymer while building multifunctional properties or layers into the pore structure of the hollow fiber membrane. The membrane itself is available in different sizes (0.04 - 0.4 um), allowing it to be used in various applications.
Another unique feature is the filter's highly asymmetric pore structure. Compared to traditional filters with symmetric membranes, this design offers a higher dirt loading capacity, providing better filtration performance and higher flow rates.
With this design, the portable filter has been proven to block out bacteria such as E. Coli with up to 99.9% effectiveness, reducing the colony forming unit (CFU) levels per 100 milliliters from 5700 to less than 1 in a E.Coli test conducted by one of the world's leading testing and certification companies SGS.
The thumb-sized filter also has a total filtration capacity of up to 1,000 liters depending on water quality, giving its users a durable and reliable portable filter which they can use for a long time.
An eye towards sustainability
Aside from class-leading features, the portable filter also adheres to Mbran Filtra's commitment to sustainable manufacturing. It uses environmentally friendly solvents, non-toxic materials, and green manufacturing processes. The filter's long-life cycle also ensures that it has the least impact possible to the environment, and its indirect effect of reducing the use of bottled water means it's a product that boosts sustainability efforts.
About Mbran Filtra
Established in 2019 in Taiwan, Mbran Filtra focuses on the research, manufacture, and production of filtration materials and systems. It produces a broad range of microporous membranes for use in different industries, such as hydrophobic and hydrophilic membranes made from polyethersulfone (PES), polyamide (Nylon), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), and polypropylene (PP), among others. Aside from supplying these membranes into existing filtration products and systems, Mbran Filtra also offers its own microfiltration membrane products through its asymmetrical pore structure technology.
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Judge announces he’ll block DeSantis’ redistricting plan
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 1:13 PM EDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A congressional map approved by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and drawn by his staff is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives, a state judge said Wednesday.
Leon County Circuit Judge Layne Smith said he would issue a formal order Thursday or Friday to keep the maps from taking effect in November’s election. He made it clear he would rule in favor of voting rights groups challenging the maps.
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By MALAK HARB
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai International Airport passenger numbers surpassed pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels in the third quarter of 2022, the airport’s chief executive said, causing the airport to revise its annual forecast by another 1 million passengers.
Paul Griffiths, who oversees the world’s busiest airport, told The Associated Press the annual forecast at Dubai International, or DXB, is more than 64 million. The airport saw 18.5 million passengers in the third quarter of this year, up from 17.8 million during the first quarter of 2020 — prior to and at the dawn of the pandemic.
Most of the growth, Griffith said, comes from the traditional markets of India, the U.K., Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He added that the end of COVID-19 testing requirements and people’s eagerness to travel have contributed to the increase.
“Recovery is very much on the agenda and has been a phenomenon here ever since the end of the pandemic,” Griffiths said.
The new numbers are welcome news for the tourism-driven economy of Dubai, which accounts for about 12% of the tiny nation’s GDP. A year ago in the third quarter, 6.7 million came through the airport.
Still the figure is nowhere near the pre-pandemic milestone of 86.4 million in annual traffic logged by the airport in 2019.
The 46 million passengers who traveled through DXB in the first nine months of this year represent 72% of the airport’s pre-pandemic levels. Griffiths says they expect to reach pre-pandemic levels annually by 2023.
The largest share of traffic to Dubai came from India, with 6.8 million travelers, followed by Saudi Arabia, with 3.4 million travelers this year. A key growth market for travel to and from Dubai is Pakistan and the United States.
The United Arab Emirates is home to more than 100,000 British citizens. Dubai’s main airport logged 3.2 million passengers from the U.K. up to September this year, making it the third largest share of traffic numbers.
Around 60% of Dubai’s airport traveler figures this year represent arrivals, with the rest transiting through.
The first World Cup in the Middle East, currently taking place in Qatar, says Griffiths, is expected to add 494,000 passengers to Al Maktoum International Airport, or DWC, during the fourth quarter of the year. Currently, 120 daily flights are operational from DWC for FIFA fans to shuttle between matches in Doha and Dubai.
Qatar Airways has 60 daily flights to shuttle soccer fans to the tournament, while the other 60 are operated by low-cost carrier FlyDubai, he said.
Ambitious plans to turn the airfield in Dubai’s southern desert into a mega-aviation hub, first unveiled by Dubai before the 2008 global financial crisis, have sputtered in recent years. Long-haul carrier Emirates, based in Dubai, parked many of its double-decker Airbus A380s there during the pandemic as commercial flights halted.
Now, Griffiths says the air travel market continues to rebound around the world, with more people traveling as mobility returns to the world.
This year, 275,000 flights went through DXB, up 159% from 2021.
The widespread lifting of pandemic restrictions in Dubai triggered a rapid increase in air travel demand, filling Dubai’s hub. Griffiths says that has also contributed positively to the city’s economy.
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Professional Services and Application Management Practices Will Further Expand Cognizant's Offerings for Finance and HR Advisory Cloud Services Implementation
TEANECK, N.J., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) has entered into an agreement to acquire the professional services and application management practices of OneSource Virtual, a Workday partner based in Dallas, Texas. Acquiring these practices will complement Cognizant's existing finance and HR advisory implementation services with Workday, expanding capabilities in consulting, deployment, and post-deployment support across North America and the United Kingdom.
"Adoption and migration to the cloud to manage workflows is only accelerating, and the Workday platform ecosystem continues to be embraced as a critical tool to provide finance, HR, and other functions greater resiliency and agility. Acquiring the professional services and application management practices from OneSource Virtual enables Cognizant to expand our client offerings and provide end-to-end support in the business transformation journey," said Rob Vatter, Executive Vice President of Cognizant's Enterprise Platform Services. "We are pleased to be welcoming the talented professionals from OneSource Virtual who will join Cognizant in growing and expanding our Workday capabilities globally."
Cognizant will gain nearly 400 new employees upon closing of the acquisition, enhancing its expertise and number of professionals holding certifications in Workday implementation and support. Located throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, these individuals will join Cognizant as part of its Collaborative Solutions team, the hub of Cognizant's Workday practice. Acquired by Cognizant in 2020, Collaborative Solutions is one of the longest-tenured Workday Services Partners.
"We believe that our shared value of customer centricity makes Cognizant the ideal home for our professional services and application management services businesses while we concentrate on the Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) division going forward," said Trey Campbell, Chief Executive Officer, OneSource Virtual. "We also believe customers will appreciate the way this sharpens the focus of the professional services, application management, and BPaaS teams and enables them to operate independently to speed up investment in new products and geographical expansion. In the end, what we are all about is providing growth and innovation for our customers, and we are confident that this will enhance our ability to do that more effectively."
"We are excited about Cognizant's acquisition of OneSource Virtual's professional services and application management practices," said Sam Alkharrat, Chief Partner Officer, Workday. "We look forward to continue partnering to help our customers embark on their digital transformation journeys and equip leaders with the finance and people insights they need to respond to shifting business needs."
The acquisition is anticipated to close by year-end 2022, subject to satisfaction of closing conditions. Financial details were not disclosed.
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OneSource Virtual is a leading provider of Workday Services, Solutions, and Products. Founded in 2008 in Dallas, Texas, OSV operates in North America and Europe to deliver outcomes that boost productivity, improve compliance, and increase internal capacity for over 1,300 customers around the world. Since its founding, OSV has been awarded numerous accolades and has a 98% retention rate. OSV's leadership teams are composed of highly experienced professionals in their respective fields. Together they offer the expertise and deep knowledge of the global marketplace to deliver comprehensive solutions and services for HR and Finance and Accounting.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
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FAYETTEVILLE -- University of Arkansas freshman Quincey McAdoo was not going to let down a huge contingent of friends and family in attendance for his first extensive action of the season on Friday.
The 6-2, 181-pounder did Clarendon proud with a blocked punt and an interception in the Razorbacks' 21-19 loss to Liberty.
The coming-out party for McAdoo might have been hard to predict just a few weeks ago, when he was not in the game rotation at receiver and playing special teams. However, a series of injuries in the secondary caused him to ask the Arkansas coaches if he could join fellow receiver Sam Mbake in switching to defense.
"They didn't ask me, I asked after I saw our DB room was getting a little, like, everybody was hurt," McAdoo said. "So I knew I played defense in high school and felt like I could contribute, so I asked Coach Pitt what was his thoughts on me playing defense for the remainder of the year, and we're here."
McAdoo blocked a punt from the Liberty 7 through the back of the end zone to pull the Razorbacks within 21-5.
Later, he pulled a potential catch by Noah Frith away for his first college interception, leading to the Hogs' first touchdown of the game.
McAdoo said the home folks in the crowd were motivation.
"I felt like that's what really pushed me to do good," he said. "Coming from a small town, you know, that's all you got. That's all my people. Everybody in the stands, it just felt like I was back at home again."
Coming in behind Malik Chavis at cornerback opposite Dwight McGlothern, McAdoo wound up with three tackles and a pass breakup.
"He's had two or three weeks now to basically learn the entire position and he's doing an incredible job," linebacker Bumper Pool said.
"Throwing that pick, our backs were against the wall there and he came out and made a play," added linebacker Drew Sanders.
Take your pick
Arkansas quarterback KJ Jefferson was noticeably not his usual self at times in the passing game.
The Razorbacks' second-year starter threw a pair of interceptions in a game for the first time in his college career. He entered with 1 interception in 2022, and 2 in his last 14 games.
Jefferson's first interception bounced off the hands of tight end Trey Knox in the end zone in the second quarter and into the arms of Liberty cornerback Daijahn Anthony.
His second, in the fourth quarter, was intended for Ketron Jackson Jr. deep over the middle deep and safety Robert Rahimi read the play, picked it at the 50 and returned it 17 yards.
The interceptions came 11 attempts apart. Jefferson also had seven passes broken up by the Liberty defense.
Jefferson finished the game 23-of-37 passing for 284 yards and 2 touchdowns.
50-yard FGs
Cam Little's 50-yard field goal on the final play of the first half was the third of 50-plus yards in his career and his second of the season.
Little had plenty of leg on the 50 yard kick, which drifted left, a few feet inside the right upright.
Little had been 1 of 2 on 50 yarders this season, missing from 50 against South Carolina and converting from 51 against Mississippi State. The 6-2, 181-pounder from Moore, Okla., was 1 of 3 from 50-plus yards as a freshman in 2021, missing from 50 at Ole Miss and from 53 versus Auburn before connecting on a 51-yarder against Mississippi State.
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Arkansas quarterback KJ Jefferson, on his two-point conversion attempt with 1:11 remaining, came up less than one yard shy of tying the game 21-21.
The line judge assigned to the goal line on the Arkansas sideline ruled the quarterback was short on the play. Moments later, UA Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek walked multiple yards onto the field in the end zone, obviously disputing the call.
The official walked toward him, and Yurachek backpedaled to the sideline. After a fairly lengthy review, the call on the field was upheld.
Independence
Liberty became the first Independent to beat Arkansas since Memphis won 16-15 at Liberty Bowl Stadium in 1994.
The Razorbacks entered Saturday's game with 12 consecutive victories over Independents, including 52-35 at BYU on Oct. 15.
Arkansas had never lost to an Independent in Fayetteville, but had lost three times to Independents in Little Rock -- to Miami, Fla., in 1987 and 1991, and Memphis in 1993.
The Razorbacks have an all-time record of 22-6 against Independents.
Non-Power 5s
Liberty became the fifth team from outside the Power 5 to beat Arkansas in the past five seasons, but the first since Sam Pittman took over the Razorbacks' program in 2020. Pittman had his school-record eight-game winning streak in non-conference games to open his career snapped.
Chad Morris-coached teams lost 34-27 to Colorado State and 44-17 to North Texas in 2018, and lost 31-24 to San Jose State and 45-19 to Western Kentucky in 2019.
Four of the five losses to non-Power 5 teams have been in Fayetteville.
Pittman had won eight consecutive games against non-conference teams since he was hired, including six against teams from outside the Power 5.
Three and out
The Razorbacks had a three-and-out offensive series to open the game, their third on a game-opening drive this season and their second in a row.
Arkansas also had three and out series on their first possessions against Missouri State and Auburn.
The Razorbacks have scored on only one opening drive, a 68-yard march that featured five first downs before Raheim Sanders scored on a 1-yard run against South Carolina.
First TD
Arkansas cornerback Dwight McGlothern had not given up a touchdown pass all season, per statistics compiled by Pro Football Focus.
That changed with 42 seconds left in the first half. On an extended play after quarterback Johnathan Bennett bought himself more time in the pocket, receiver Treon Sibley used the extra seconds to find a space in the front right corner of the end zone. McGlothern had his back to the play and came in to front Sibley, by the 6-foot sophomore went low and got his hands under the ball to make the 18-yard scoring pass.
Liberty first
Liberty beat an SEC team for the first time.
The Flames lost 53-0 at Auburn in 2018 and lost 27-14 last season at Ole Miss.
Liberty is 3-7 in games against Power 5 teams under fourth-year Coach Hugh Freeze. The Flames defeated Syracuse and Virginia Tech from the ACC in 2020.
Finally for Freeze
Liberty Coach Hugh Freeze was on the winning sideline for the first time in four trips to Fayetteville.
Freeze was 0-2 here as Ole Miss' coach, with losses of 30-0 in 2014 and 34-30 in 2016. He was also the Rebels' tight ends coach when Arkansas defeated Ole Miss 38-3 in Fayetteville in 2006.
A Freeze-coached team defeated the Razorbacks in the state of Arkansas for the second time. His first Ole Miss team won 30-27 in Little Rock in 2012.
Can't do it
Arkansas Coach Sam Pittman kept his halftime remarks on the Razorback Sports Network short and to the point.
"We got the three at the end, but we're not playing good anywhere," Pittman said, referencing Cam Little's 50-yard field goal on the last play of the half.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, April 27, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
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North central Aransas County in south central Texas...
North central San Patricio County in south central Texas...
Central Refugio County in south central Texas...
* Until 1015 AM CDT.
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* At 928 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Bonnie View,
or near Woodsboro, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
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IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Refugio, Woodsboro, Quintana and Bonnie View.
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This includes the following highways...
US Highway 183 between mile markers 666 and 668.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 608 and 634.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Jim Hogg and
northwestern Brooks Counties through 1015 AM CDT...
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At 929 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Ramirez, or 10 miles east of Hebbronville, moving southeast at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and nickel size hail.
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SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
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Locations impacted include...
Falfurrias, Hebbronville, Agua Nueva, La Colonia Park, Airport Road
Addition, South Fork Estates, Falfurrias Junior High School, Pleasant
Park, Hebbronville High School and Falfurrias Fire Station.
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If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 2734 9855 2734 9852 2727 9852 2726 9804
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2685 9857 2704 9877 2722 9883 2735 9863
2734 9862 2734 9859 2736 9859 2736 9855
TIME...MOT...LOC 1429Z 310DEG 17KT 2732 9852
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
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MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WEBB COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
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the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN DUVAL COUNTY...
At 929 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Ramirez, or 12
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miles east of Hebbronville, moving southeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
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Concepcion and Ramirez.
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN JIM HOGG AND
NORTHWESTERN BROOKS COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
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limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been allowed to expire.
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NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
NYZ033-302000-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Speculator and Indian Lake
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
West winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows around 60. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny with a chance of showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Highs in
the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs around 70. Lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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NYZ052-302000-
Eastern Albany-
Including the city of ALBANY
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ058-302000-
Western Greene-
Including the cities of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in
the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
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NYZ065-302000-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...A chance of thunderstorms. Showers, hot with highs in
the mid 80s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
80 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Highs in
the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ041-302000-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Hot with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ038-302000-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. West winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ032-302000-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Patchy fog this morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
West winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Highs in
the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 50s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s. Lows around 50. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
NYZ042-302000-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ083-302000-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. North winds around 5 mph, becoming
west around 5 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs around 90. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Hot with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ043-302000-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs around 90. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Hot with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ084-302000-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows around 60. South winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Hot with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ082-302000-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then mostly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 50s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs around 70. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
NYZ039-302000-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ040-302000-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Humid with lows in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ047-302000-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ048-302000-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ049-302000-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming south
around 5 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ050-302000-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ051-302000-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Not as warm with highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ053-302000-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Humid with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ054-302000-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Humid with highs in the upper 70s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
NYZ060-302000-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Not as
warm. Humid with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ061-302000-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs around 90. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Not as
warm. Humid with highs around 80. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs around 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
NYZ059-302000-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Not as
warm. Humid with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 60. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
NYZ063-302000-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 80s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ064-302000-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs around 80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ066-302000-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
322 AM EDT Thu Jun 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 90. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Humid
with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
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The Gophers’ Coaches Caravan returned Monday after a two-year, pandemic-forced hiatus. With one-liners, anecdotes and nuggets of information shared at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, it was like the once-annual event never fell off the calendar after 2019.
While the new frontier of name, image and likeness (NIL) rules collides with the NCAA transfer portal and hangs over the future of college athletics, there were some lighter moments on the first caravan stop. Here are some highlights:
NOT A ZERO
Football coach P.J. Fleck, entering his sixth season at Minnesota this fall, said basketball coach Ben Johnson and soccer coach Erin Chastain didn’t take full advantage of their debut seasons at the U.
“You screwed it up,” Fleck said. “… You can’t call Year 1 ‘Year 1.’ Year 1 is ‘Year 0!’ You’ve gone through Year 0, my friends. And guess what: Next year is No. 1. Don’t give (AD Mark Coyle) a head start on numbers when you don’t need him to.
“Just make up your own stuff like I do!”
HUSTLE PLAYS
Regardless of what year number it was last winter, Fleck left impressed with Johnson’s team in the 2021-22 campaign.
“Ben, I mean this wholeheartedly, the way they play and how hard they play defense and how fast they go up and down the court, you can see what’s coming in the future,” Fleck said. “I think it’s very easy to see where our basketball program is headed.”
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
When Coyle first introduced Fleck, the AD asked the capacity crowd a question: “How many of you didn’t think he would be here this long?” Coyle asked.
“Me too,” Coyle answered.
With Fleck, Minnesota went 9-4 a year ago, and with an 11-2 season in 2021, Fleck holds two of four times the U has won nine or more games since 1905. In November, Coyle signed Fleck to a new seven-year contract with a $350,000 raise to $5 million per year.
Fleck, a half hour later Monday, got a chance to respond to his boss. “It was a joke. Hahaha,” Fleck said. “Some of you don’t want me here still. ‘You haven’t left yet, but I’m gonna get you this year.’”
Volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon and Fleck had a power lunch for two at Athletes Village in April, and Fleck said over that hour, the New Zealand and Illinois natives talked in earnest about enjoying their lives in Minnesota.
DEEP BREATHS
With seven straight runs deep into NCAA tournaments, McCutcheon was the most successful of the four coaches in Chaska. He shared a tidbit about their “shaky” 1-3 start to the 2021 season.
“Mark gave me a call … and he was freaking out a little bit,” McCutchen said to the crowd’s laughter. “Mark, give me a little bit of breathing room. I get it, expectations are high, but we’re gonna be OK.”
The U finished 22-9 and advanced to the Elite Eight. Given McCutcheon’s sterling resume, that anecdote might have been the most embellished one shared in the hourlong presentation.
JUMP FOR JOY
After the Gophers football team snagged Paul Bunyan’s Axe from Wisconsin at Huntington Bank Stadium in November, the U’s stadium operations played “Jump Around,” which brought glee to Gophers fans because that hip hop song is tradition at the Badgers’ Camp Randall Stadium.
“A lot of you thanked me and thought that was so cool,” Fleck said. “If there is one thing that I have zero control over, it is the DJ for the game.”
STUD STARTER
The Gophers soccer team — which is welcoming back roughly 20 players from 2021 — added two potential starters via the portal in the offseason: central midfielder Sophia Romine (Wisconsin) and center back Gabbie Cesarone (Washington University in St. Louis).
“(Cesarone) is going to be a stud on the back line,” Chastain gushed.
BRIEFLY
The Coaches Caravan has three more stops: Rochester on May 24; Stillwater on June 6; and Brainerd on a date that has yet to be announced. … The Gophers’ student-athletes have a record 3.44 grade-point average, with the football team at 3.6, Coyle shared. Some “ohhs” came from the crowd on those stats. … Gopher Athletics is 11th in the Director’s Cup standing for overall Division I athletic success after the winter seasons, “which means we are in the top five percent,” Coyle said. … Fleck said J.J. Guedet, a presumptive starter at right tackle on a remade offensive line in 2022, will able to go through summer workouts without limitations after missing all spring practices with an undisclosed issue. … Chastain, a Plymouth native and Wayzata High School graduate, was hired at her alma mater in July and said she is feeling more settled as she started to move into her new home Monday. | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/09/top-jokes-anecdotes-and-nuggets-from-the-gophers-coaches-caravan/ | 2022-05-10 03:36:07 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/09/top-jokes-anecdotes-and-nuggets-from-the-gophers-coaches-caravan/ |
Researchers reviewed public resources on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from state and federal agencies and other health organizations to see how these groups discussed PFAS contamination.
The analysis found that public health agencies often understate scientific evidence related to the toxicity of PFAS — and that many organizations failed to give clear messages about the risks and needs of highly exposed populations, like those who have long consumed water from the Cape Fear River.
“As a physician who has had to advise many people whose drinking water has been contaminated with PFAS—sometimes for decades—I know only too well the distress and confusion felt by hard-hit communities,” said lead author Alan Ducatman, a physician and professor emeritus at West Virginia University. “Patients and doctors in PFAS-contaminated neighborhoods need accurate information on how to protect their health.”
Ducatman said many patients are worried about the repercussions of PFAS exposure. For example, patients with newborns are often concerned about breastfeeding, given that PFAS is passed to infants through breastmilk.
“We recommend breastfeeding even for highly exposed patients. We simply have more information about the many benefits of breastfeeding than we do about the risks of PFAS in breastmilk. But most of the government websites we reviewed ignored these difficult and complicated situations,” Ducatman said.
The report also noted that government agencies tend to overemphasize the uncertainty of health harm and hedge that PFAS 'may' cause health effects, according to "some studies." This language is misleading, because nearly all studies link PFAS exposure to negative health outcomes for certain immune, liver, reproductive, and cancer outcomes such as kidney or testicular cancer.
“The experimental and observational evidence supporting the links between exposure to certain PFAS and adverse outcomes like reduced vaccine responses and liver damage is robust,” said co-author and East Carolina University professor Jamie DeWitt. “Agency websites and fact sheets that use weak language like ‘may cause’ and ‘some studies’ across health outcomes are misleading the public.”
What's more, relatively few agencies reviewed in the study discussed how to reduce exposure to PFAS.
The researchers did find positive examples of communications from some state agencies and nonprofit groups that can serve as models for improvement. They recommend the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s fact sheet, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Clinician FAQ, and the clinician guidance on Silent Spring Institute’s PFAS-REACH Exchange website.
Ten leading PFAS researchers listed in the paper are calling on government agencies to update their communications to better serve people in heavily contaminated communities- and to better align with the science.
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2023 Barbasol Championship Schedule: Sunday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
Trevor Cone leads the field at the 2023 Barbasol Championship through three rounds of play, with a score of -17. Play continues at Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course) in Nicholasville, Kentucky, watch the fourth round to see how the action unfolds.
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How to Watch the 2023 Barbasol Championship
- Start Time: 9:05 AM ET
- Venue: Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course)
- Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
- Par/Distance: Par 72/7,328 yards
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As the virtual world develops, fashion designers are creating more apparel in this space.
WBUR’s Yasmin Amer reports.
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As the virtual world develops, fashion designers are creating more apparel in this space.
WBUR’s Yasmin Amer reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Partnership includes Roots Virtual Store and Limited-Edition Apparel Collection
TORONTO, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Stadium Live, a leading platform for Gen Z sports, culture and entertainment fans, and Roots Corporation, a global lifestyle brand, today announced a multi-faceted partnership to deliver a collection of unique digital branded experiences for users. Starting in March, Stadium Live users will have access to exclusive Roots branded activations throughout the platform. The partnership will debut a digital apparel and accessories collection launching in the Stadium Live Roots store, as well as physical apparel – inspired by the digital-first collection.
The first-of-its-kind partnership between the two brands aims to provide Gen Z users with a unique and differentiated way to interact and engage with the Roots brand. Stadium Live's platform ensures a seamless experience from physical to digital, allowing Roots to extend their brand exposure beyond the physical and explore new ways of engaging with digital customers in a virtual setting.
"As we strive to continue expanding our brand, we understand the importance of connecting with digital audiences. With Stadium Live, we can integrate the physical and digital realms to engage more effectively with the crucial Gen Z demographic," stated Meghan Roach, President & CEO. "We are excited to provide our customers with an immersive experience that allows them to fully engage with our brand and products on a deeper level."
Stadium Live's innovative digital platform has attracted over 750,000 registered Gen Z users across North America. Users participate in sports-focused gameplay and live streams, collect unique items and prizes, chat and make friends with other fans, and customize their in-game avatar.
"We are thrilled to partner with Roots and provide Gen Z with a unique and engaging experience on the Stadium Live platform. The activation provides an authentic medium for Roots to drive brand awareness and revenue through next-gen sports fans," Stadium Live CEO and Co-founder Kevin Kim said. "Our platform offers the perfect opportunity for brands to connect with our audience in a way that feels native to them through digital gamified experiences."
Stadium Live is available for download in the App Store and Google Play store.
Stadium Live Studios was founded in 2020 with one goal in mind: to revolutionize the sports industry by building the digital playground for millions of next-gen sports fans to play, hang out, and express themselves.
Its platform, Stadium Live, is available worldwide on IOS & Android and serves as a one-stop shop for sports fans looking to express themselves in a unique way, meet communities of like-minded fans, and compete for prizes.
Last summer, Stadium Live raised a $10 million series A round, led by KB Partners and Union Square Ventures, with participation from Kevin Durant's 35 Ventures, Blaise Matuidi's Origins Fund, Dapper Labs Ventures, Position Ventures, Valhalla Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Breakout Capital as well.
For anyone curious about what Stadium Live is doing next, sign up for the app for free or visit stadiumverse.com. For press and partnership inquiries, please contact warren@stadiumliveapp.com.
Established in 1973, Roots is a global lifestyle brand. Starting from a small cabin in northern Canada, Roots has become a global brand with over 100 corporate retail stores in Canada, two stores in the United States, and an eCommerce platform, www.roots.com. Roots has more than 100 partner-operated stores in Asia, and it also operates a dedicated Roots-branded storefront on Tmall.com in China. Roots designs, markets, and sells a broad selection of products in different departments, including women's, men's, children's, and gender-free apparel, leather goods, footwear, and accessories. Roots products are built with uncompromising comfort, quality, and style that allows you to feel at home with nature. Roots offers products designed to meet life's everyday adventures and provide you with the versatility to live your life to the fullest. Roots also wholesale through business-to-business channels and license the brand to a select group of licensees selling products to major retailers. Roots Corporation is a Canadian corporation doing business as "Roots" and "Roots Canada".
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I'm a Black lesbian with a Harvard law degree. Even I got censored by Big Tech
I've never been accused of advocating for a hateful position. What happened to me was shocking and ironic
Editor's note: This column first appeared on the blog Reality's Last Stand.
Recently, I was reminded of just how easy it is to be silenced in America now.
I published an article on Medium about the impact of transgender inclusion on the rights of women and lesbians. I felt it was a timely subject, and as a gay woman of color I have a vested interest in this issue. So, you can imagine my shock when, less than 24 hours after the article appeared, Medium’s Trust & Safety team removed it for violating community rules. I was further warned that repeated violations would lead to possible suspension of my account.
My crime? Posting "hateful content."
For perspective, I have more than 1,000 followers and nearly 70 published articles on Medium. I’m a graduate of Harvard Law School and am on the Board of Advisors of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. I’m a published author and a TEDx speaker. Much of my writing focuses on bringing people together around our shared values and interests. I’ve never been accused of advocating hateful positions.
This incident is laced with many ironies, not the least of which is that I’ve spent much of my life feeling invisible and not having a voice.
Protecting our sacred right to free speech isn’t easy or painless; it demands our constant vigilance and selflessness. What we safeguard for ourselves we must also be willing to safeguard for others, even those with whom we vehemently disagree.
Growing up Black and gay in the 70s and 80s was an alienating and often heartbreaking experience. Thankfully, as America has begun to reckon with its insidious legacy of racism, sexism, and homophobia, the landscape has changed. Barriers have crumbled. Hearts and minds have opened.
I enjoy a thriving legal career in entertainment and have a white partner and a biracial son. We happily live our alternative lifestyle in a state that is overwhelmingly white and Christian. The past two decades have empowered me and given me a voice.
Yet now I fear I’m in danger of losing my voice. I worry that I, and millions of other women, are becoming invisible — not at the hands of right-wing extremists, but by those who promote tolerance and inclusion.
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Medium’s content curators removed my article because it "disempower[ed]" and excluded others based on "protected characteristics," i.e. biological men who identify as women. Yet they had no qualms about disempowering and excluding me — a member of not one, but three "protected" groups — from their community.
Further, I was silenced for expressing my belief that inclusion of biological men in women’s sports, prisons and other historically protected spaces potentially undermines the rights and safety of biological women and lesbians. Yet the act of deplatforming my article was, itself, proof of the marginalization I lamented in my article.
When I shared the incident with a left-leaning friend, she cautioned that right-wing extremists have created a dangerous environment for transgender Americans. While this is undoubtedly true, I’m not a right-wing extremist. Why should my concerns be conflated with fringe elements with whom I have nothing in common? If an article that raises thoughtful concerns on behalf of protected groups can be characterized as "hateful content," then what is the threshold for hate?
You don’t have to be gay, female, or a person of color to appreciate the danger this poses to all Americans. If the boundaries of prohibited speech keep growing, then we can be silenced by anyone who disagrees with us. All they have to do is call us "hateful." Yet if we live in constant fear of offending others, then how long will it be before we’re too afraid to say anything?
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Freedom of speech is one of our most cherished rights. The free and open marketplace of ideas is what makes our country unique. It’s enabled groundbreaking innovation and thought and has empowered historically disenfranchised groups. Given my unique background and experience, freedom of speech holds a special place in my heart. Where would I be today if voices that made others uncomfortable had been muffled?
But protecting this sacred right isn’t easy or painless; it demands our constant vigilance and selflessness. What we safeguard for ourselves we must also be willing to safeguard for others, even those with whom we vehemently disagree.
Unfortunately, a growing number of social media platforms aren’t committed to doing the hard work. They’re apparently willing to sacrifice freedom of speech when it makes others uncomfortable, even if the people expressing themselves have lived in discomfort most of their lives (and in many cases still do). They fail to see that the noble goals of tolerance and inclusion become performative when they’re restricted to those with preferred agendas. Selective tolerance and inclusion aren’t progressive; they’re regressive.
For now, I write with a question mark over my head. Will I be branded a TERF if I continue to advocate for the rights of women and lesbians? Will my next article offend others and be "the one" that terminates my account?
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All I know for certain is that this is no way for people to live in a free society. If we can spend billions of dollars to fight for the freedom of people in another country, then surely we can find the courage to defend this precious right at home.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Celtics vs. Hawks NBA Playoffs Game 6 on April 27, 2023
The Boston Celtics visit the Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Arena on Thursday (tip at 8:30 PM ET). Those looking to place a player prop wager can find odds on Jayson Tatum, Trae Young and others in this matchup.
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Celtics vs. Hawks Game Info
- Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, BSSE, and NBCS-BOS
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: State Farm Arena
NBA Props Today: Boston Celtics
Jayson Tatum Props
- Tatum has put up 30.1 points per game in the 2022-23 season, 0.4 points fewer than Thursday's points prop total.
- Tatum has averaged 0.7 fewer rebounds per game (8.8) than his prop bet total in Thursday's game (9.5).
- Tatum has averaged 4.6 assists per game, 0.1 more than Thursday's assist over/under (4.5).
- Tatum's 3.2 made three-pointers per game is 0.3 less than his over/under in Thursday's game (3.5).
Check out the latest odds and place your bets on player props with BetMGM Sportsbook.
Jaylen Brown Props
- The 26.5-point over/under set for Jaylen Brown on Thursday is 0.1 less than his scoring average on the season (26.6).
- His per-game rebounding average of 6.9 is 0.4 higher than his prop bet on Thursday (6.5).
- Brown collects 3.5 assists per game, equal to his prop bet on Thursday.
- He makes 2.4 three-pointers per game, 0.1 fewer than his over/under on Thursday (2.5).
Derrick White Props
- The 15.5-point prop total for Derrick White on Thursday is 3.1 higher than his scoring average, which is 12.4.
- White averages 0.9 fewer rebounds than his over/under on Thursday (which is 4.5).
- White's assist average -- 3.9 -- is higher than Thursday's assist over/under (3.5).
- White has made 1.8 three-pointers per game, which is less than his over/under in Thursday's game (2.5).
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NBA Props Today: Atlanta Hawks
Trae Young Props
- Thursday's over/under for Young is 27.5 points, 1.3 more than his season average.
- Young has grabbed three boards per game, which is less than his prop bet for Thursday's game (3.5).
- Young averages 10.2 assists, 1.7 more than Thursday's over/under.
- Young, at 2.1 three-pointers made per game, averages 0.4 less than his over/under on Thursday.
Put your picks to the test and bet on Celtics vs. Hawks player props with BetMGM Sportsbook.
Clint Capela Props
- The 9.5 points prop bet set for Clint Capela on Thursday is 2.5 fewer points than his season scoring average (12).
- Capela has averaged 1.5 more rebounds per game (11) than his prop bet total in Thursday's game (9.5).
- Capela has averaged 0.9 assists per game this year, 0.4 more than his prop bet for Thursday (0.5).
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WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Thursday, August 11, 2022
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390 FPUS56 KPDT 121058
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Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
WAZ026-122300-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s. North wind 5 to 10 mph shifting
to the southeast with gusts to around 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s.
Windy. Northwest wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. Breezy. Northwest wind 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Breezy. Northwest wind
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Northwest
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 93 to 101. Lows
in the 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
60s to lower 70s. Highs 97 to 101.
$$
WAZ027-122300-
Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the south with gusts to around 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. West
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. West wind
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind 5 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Light wind.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s to upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s to lower 70s. Highs 93 to 102.
$$
WAZ028-122300-
Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 90s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Southwest
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Southwest
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. West wind
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Southwest
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s
to mid 60s. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 95 to 104. Lows
in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
$$
WAZ029-122300-
Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Breezy. Southwest
wind 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph overnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Breezy.
Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s. South wind
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Southwest
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s
to lower 60s. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 95 to 103. Lows
in the upper 50s to upper 60s.
$$
WAZ030-122300-
Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s to upper
80s.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph overnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s. Southwest
wind 5 to 15 mph in the morning, becoming light.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s
to lower 60s. Highs in the 70s, except in the upper 70s to upper
80s valleys.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s
to mid 80s, except in the mid 80s to mid 90s valleys. Lows in the
lower 60s to lower 70s.
$$
WAZ520-122300-
East Slopes of the Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to upper 80s. Gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. West
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s, except in
the upper 70s to lower 80s valleys. West wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s, except in
the lower to mid 80s valleys.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 50s to lower 60s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s,
except in the lower 80s to lower 90s valleys.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s
to lower 90s. Lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
WAZ521-122300-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
358 AM PDT Fri Aug 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Southwest wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to upper 50s.
Windy. West wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. West
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s
to mid 60s. Highs in the lower 80s to lower 90s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 90 to 100. Lows
in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
$$
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GLENS FALLS, N.Y., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Arrow Financial Corporation (NasdaqGS® - AROW) on July 27, 2022, declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share payable September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on September 1, 2022.
This represents an increase of 7% over the cash dividend paid to shareholders in the second quarter of 2021 as a result of the $.01 per share increase and a 3% stock dividend distributed on September 24, 2021.
Arrow Financial Corporation (NasdaqGS® - AROW) is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Glens Falls, New York, serving the financial needs of northeastern New York. The Company is the parent of Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company and Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company. Other subsidiaries include North Country Investment Advisers, Inc., and Upstate Agency, LLC, specializing in property and casualty insurance and group health and employee benefits.
The information in this document may contain statements based on management's beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates and projections about the future. Such "forward-looking statements," as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, involve a degree of uncertainty and attendant risk. Actual outcomes and results may differ, explicitly or by implication. We are not obliged to revise or update these statements to reflect unanticipated events. This document should be read in conjunction with Arrow's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Warriors vs. Lakers: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - Western Conference Semifinals Game 2
The Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers will go head to head in Game 2 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs.
See odds, spreads, over/unders and more from multiple sportsbooks in this article for the Warriors vs. Lakers matchup.
Warriors vs. Lakers Game Info
- Date: Thursday, May 4, 2023
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
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- The Warriors average 118.9 points per game (second in the league) while giving up 117.1 per contest (21st in the NBA). They have a +148 scoring differential overall and outscore opponents by 1.8 points per game.
- The Lakers put up 117.2 points per game (sixth in league) while allowing 116.6 per outing (20th in NBA). They have a +47 scoring differential.
- These teams score 236.1 points per game combined, 9.1 more than this game's total.
- These two teams allow a combined 233.7 points per game, 6.7 more points than this contest's total.
- Golden State has put together a 38-42-2 record against the spread this season.
- Los Angeles has put together a 40-39-3 record against the spread this year.
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With the Super Bowl approaching, gamblers in New Jersey should pay homage to the liberal Democrat who has done more to advance the conservative philosophy of limited government than anyone in recent history.
That’s Ray Lesniak, formerly a state senator from Elizabeth.
In his book “Beating the Odds,” Lesniak explains how he won a battle before the U.S. Supreme Court to permit the state to legalize sports betting despite a federal ban.
That ban was the handiwork of another liberal Democrat from New Jersey, Bill Bradley. In 1992, Bradley sponsored the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act – PASPA for short. PASPA prohibited sports betting in any state that had not legalized it by a deadline of 1993. Only Nevada made the cut.
As a former basketball star for Princeton University and the New York Knicks, Bradley sought to protect the sports from the sort of shady characters who run gambling rings. Bradley’s intentions were good, but the ban pushed those shady characters underground, where they could be even shadier – and where New Jersey couldn’t get a cut of the winnings.
When PASPA passed in the early 1990s, New Jersey’s casinos and racetracks were still raking in the dough. But by 2008, the competition from other states was pushing them to the brink.
In an opinion piece that ran on NJ.com that year, Lesniak wrote that the tracks were surviving only because of a $21 million annual infusion from the casinos, the owners of which did not want to see slot machines at the tracks.
“The money does little to bring new fans to the races,” Lesniak wrote. “It’s just a short-term fix to keep racing alive.”
Lesniak was a racing fan back in the days when playing the ponies was the only game in town. But after other states opened up casinos, he knew we needed a new revenue source to save the tracks.
Sports betting was the obvious fix, but thanks to PASPA the federal government retained the power to tell states they couldn’t legalize gambling.
Or did it? As Lesniak notes in the book, the 10th Amendment to the Constitution states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Lesniak, who runs a prominent law firm, figured that among those powers was the power to regulate gambling. The first eight courts to take up the issue disagree. But then it reached the U.S. Supreme Court. There he won a decision that goes far beyond sports betting, he said.
At issue was “commandeering.” The court ruled that the federal government can’t command the states to enforce federal law.
“The federal government can’t make states do anything they don’t want to do, and I proved that,” Lesniak said when I phoned him yesterday.
On the national scene, it’s usually conservatives who make that argument. But on the state level this was great for New Jersey, Lesniak said.
“It brought Atlantic City back to life and it and saved New Jersey’s racetracks from ultimately closing,” he said.
At the grand opening of sports betting at Monmouth Park in 2018, Gov. Phil Murphy made the first bet. It was on a soccer game in Germany.
But I was the first winner. As I was chatting with the local state senator, Republican Declan O’Scanlon, I spotted a $10 bill on the ground. “Excuse me for a second, Declan,” I said as I bent down to pick it up.
The senator suggested I use it to place a bet. But after my years as a youth working the boardwalk games in Seaside, I know the No. 1 rule of gambling is: Quit while you’re ahead.
That’s because of the No. 2 rule: The house never loses.
We had a good piece on these pages last week on that very topic. It was headlined “A New Jersey sports bettor tells all and issues a warning: Don’t do it.”
When I called the author, Aaron Ernst of Plainsboro, he explained that it takes more than a year of practice and training to win big at sports betting. And at that point the bookies limit your maximum bet to the point where you can’t win big.
“They eliminate the population that can beat their algorithm,” Ernst said. “But they actually raise the limits for losers.”
Ernst said he would like the legislators to change the system so everyone is treated equally
I don’t expect to see that happen any time soon. The state makes a lot of money off those losers, money that offsets taxes for the rest of us.
Thanks to Lesniak and the court, they’ll keep paying those taxes.
Which brings up the No. 3 rule of gambling:
Never give a sucker an even break.
More: Recent Paul Mulshine columns.
Paul Mulshine may be reached at pmulshine@starledger.com.
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The inaugural lineup of Montreal's newest country festival includes Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Old Dominion, Kelsea Ballerini and more!
August 12-13, 2022 at Parc Jean-Drapeau
LASSO in the City - August 11, 2022 at MTELUS
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MONTREAL, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The very first edition of LASSO Montréal presented by Bell in collaboration with Coors Original is only a few weeks away and the LASSO team is thrilled to announce the daily lineups on August 12 and 13 at Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau!
In addition to the full-on twang fest planned for LASSO In The City on Thursday, Aug 11 with Jade Ealegleson at MTELUS, Montreal's Île Sainte-Hélène will be the site of a massive hot country hoedown with some of the most sought after acts in the biz, performing their hits at Espace 67 in Parc Jean-Drapeau (one of the top festival sites in North America). Fans can expect chart toppers and trendsetters like headliner, Luke Bryan, one of the hottest country artists in the world; Dierks Bentley, who's already got 17 number one hits on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts; Tenille Townes, the 4-time CCMA winner from Grand Prairie, Alberta who wowed the crowd at the recent Canada Day celebrations; Kelsea Ballerini, who has been teasing details of her forthcoming album on socials lately, and so many more.
There are so many great bands to catch at one of the most inspiring festival sites in the world - and in addition to the headliners, the LASSO team is beaming with excitement about a few new hot artists to be found in the lineup, as well:
Ashley Mcbryde: One of country music's most authentic new badasses, Rolling Stone referred to her as "a whiskey-swilling high priestess of dive bars whose radically lyrics-driven, rock-leaning approach to mainstream country commands instant attention".
Old Dominion - Nashville's Old Dominion is pure feel good country music that will have everyone vibing to their sweet sounds. The group have been blessed with multiple ACMA awards over, plus the individual band members have written hits for the biggest and brightest like Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton, and fellow LASSO performer Luke Bryan.
Blanco Brown - Hard to believe a rapper/producer who worked with the likes of Pitbull and Chris Brown is forging a hugely successful career in country music, but viral sensation Blanco Brown is the real deal. With his smile-inducing combination of beats and barn dancing, Brown is a trailer trap pioneer, who will have the entire crowd doing The Git Up!
Canada will also be represented by some of the most talented artists in the country performing their country hits.
Sacha - Hailing from a small town in Ontario, Sacha has a big career ahead of her. She's currently a finalist in the Siriux XM's Top of the Country Competition, which is no surprise, considering her song, What The Truck (with The Reklaws), became the fastest-ever Canadian country song in history to go GOLD.
Steven Lee Olsen - The Toronto-raised singer is best known as one of Canada's most prolific songwriters, having penned songs for, among others, Keith Urban, Garth Brooks, Rascal Flatts, Billy Currington, The Judds, Dallas Smith, and many more. This will be a great opportunity for fans to discover his own unique voice.
LASSO will also feature some of the best local talent from Quebec's new vanguard of country music makers, like Matt Lang, the festival's ambassador who played for an adoring crowd of over 80,000 fans in Quebec City last week, and continues to turn heads everywhere he goes; and Montreal's very own Brittany Kennell, a one time contestant on The Voice, and the only Quebec female country artist to have performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
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KMOT, Minot Area Homeless Coalition celebrate another successful toy drive
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - All of the toys we’ve been gathering at our KMOT station in Minot over the past month are now gone--but that’s a good thing!
The 10th annual Toy Drive we put on in partnership with the Minot Area Homeless Coalition wrapped up Thursday.
The coalition came to the station and gathered the hundreds of toys donated from the community--from toy trucks, to dolls, to board games, and Legos.
They will now do their part to make sure the toys get into the homes of families in need, to make sure kids have a gift under the tree this year.
“The children, this year, looking at everything we’ve received is absolutely amazing. They’re going to have a wonderful Christmas. This program goes towards the children that did not otherwise get put on another list through another organization, and it’s a last-minute opportunity to provide a little bit more Christmas before the holiday hits,” said Karrie Christensen, with the coalition.
All of us at KMOT want to thank everyone who went out of their way to donate toys to this year’s drive, especially during the weather, and these tough economic times!
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‘This is me, There’s no changing:’ Vicksburg woman loses job after adopting newborn child of inmate
VICKSBURG, Miss. (WLBT) - A former Vicksburg correctional officer lost her job for what she believed was right, and nearly a month later, she isn’t having second thoughts.
Roberta Bell isn’t a stereotypical C.O. that you see in movies or T.V. shows that come off as hard-nosed and brash. She’s caring, light-hearted, and willing to make sacrifices for the people around her regardless of their social class.
That includes the inmates she interacted with nearly every day at the Louisiana Transitional Center for Women in Tallulah.
Bell worked at LTCW for over three years, but a few months ago, she was presented with a challenging situation.
“She was trying to find somebody that would help keep her baby until she finished her term,” said Bell.
An inmate, Katie Bourgeois of Denham Springs, Louisiana, was just months away from giving birth to her first child and was desperately looking for a caretaker.
“She was very concerned about Child Protection Services getting the baby and her not knowing where the baby was since she had such a short term to serve,” said Bell.
Bell, who claims she primarily worked in the facilities food hall, says the thought of her becoming Bourgeois’s child’s caretaker was just a joke amongst the staff.
Then, that joke was beginning to become a reality.
“Yeah! You want to give me your baby?,” said Bell, recalling the moment she first exclaimed that she was up for the challenge.
Bell says Bourgeois came to her later that same day and pleaded that she be the caretaker of her child.
“She said, ‘I really need somebody to get my baby when I get ready to have it because I don’t have anybody,’” said Bell.
According to Bell, the reason Bourgeois didn’t believe she had any other options was because her mother was recently going through a divorce, and she didn’t know if she would be up for the challenge as well as Bourgeois’ previous comments about CPS taking custody once the child was born.
Before the last step of the agreement could be sealed, Bell told Bourgeois that she still needed to speak with her employers at LTCW. Looking to ensure that no repercussions would come as a result of a potential deal.
Bell says she contacted her commanding officers weeks in advance of Bourgeois’ anticipated due date in May, but never heard a word until the hourglass was nearly empty.
“Nobody ever got back with me until it was about two or three days time for her to deliver,” said Bell.
Bell claims by that point, she had already exchanged her personal information with Bourgeois that was needed for when the hospital called upon the child’s birth.
That exchange of information with an inmate is what Bell says got her fired.
“I said, ‘Major Murray, if the hospital calls me to come get this baby, I’m going to get him.’ He said, ‘Well, I’m gonna have to terminate you,’” said Bell.
Days after her termination, it happened.
Cayson Bourgeois was born May 17, and from that moment, Bell was officially on the clock of her new job.
The 57-year-old now lives at home in Vicksburg, watching over Cayson until the day Katie is released. Bell anticipates that day will be sometime in early-mid July, saying Katie was in for “minor charges.”
She says her plans for work following her caretaking duties are unknown, but her dream goal is to help even more people like Katie and Cayson.
“My passion was to open a recovery home for the women that are coming out of prison. I have not been successful in that yet, but I know that I will be. To get them away from the surroundings that they were in that caused them to get in trouble. That’s my passion,” said Bell.
As mentioned earlier, when asked if she could go back and do anything differently about the situation, Bell replied in the most Bell fashion she could.
“I wouldn’t because this is me. There’s no changing. I’m stubborn. Once I do something, that’s it. I’m not going to change my mind. I’m not going to back down. I’ve never been that type of person. I think that God has created me to administer to the women that don’t know him,” said Bell.
Bell says she’s anticipating the day Katie and Cayson are reunited with each other and that she’s blessed to have been a part of something bigger than her job.
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Brandon 6 Regina 2
Calgary 3 Prince Albert 1
Moose Jaw 5 Lethbridge 3
Everett 3 Kamloops 2 (OT)
Friday's results
Prince Albert 2 Red Deer 1
Calgary 2 Moose Jaw 1 (SO)
Brandon 3 Portland 2
Swift Current 5 Saskatoon 4 (SO)
Seattle 6 Regina 0
Medicine Hat 3 Edmonton 2
Everett 4 Prince George 2
Kelowna 3 Kamloops 2
Vancouver 3 Tri-City 2 (OT)
Victoria 6 Spokane 3
Saturday's results
Saskatoon 6 Red Deer 2
Prince Albert 6 Brandon 2
Moose Jaw 6 Seattle 2
Everett at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Calgary at Regina, 4 p.m.
Portland at Winnipeg, 5:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Portland at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Portland at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
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Women's BNP Paribas Poland Open Preview: How to Watch, Odds
Published: Jul. 23, 2023 at 2:41 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The eight matches today in the BNP Paribas Poland Open qualifying qualification round 1 include No. 171-ranked Rebecca Sramkova matching up against No. 298 Naiktha Bains.
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- Tournament: BNP Paribas Poland Open
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 23
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- Venue: Legia Tenis & Golf
- Location: Warsaw, Poland
- Court Surface: Hard
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BOSTON — My friend Andrea is a master of all things growing, and this is the time of year she loves to force spring bulbs.
I get that. This time of year, I like to “force spring” in my own way, as in finding escapes — for a day, a night, a meal or more — that bring the sense of the season a bit sooner.
Try these suggestions to spring ahead.
Berkshire Botanical Garden does spring
You can always count on Berkshire Botanical Garden (5 W. Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge) to have the advance on spring — their blooms and plantings are nurtured and grown to greet us early.
This year, their “Spring Hoppening” on April 16 makes visiting their vibrant colored blooms extra fun.
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day, you can take part in a huge egg hunt (2,000 eggs!) scattered throughout their lovely gardens.
Crack them open and you find not candy but seeds, so you can go home and begin your own growing projects.
There will also be crafts, baby chicks, mini horse-drawn cart rids and more. You can learn more at berkshirebotanical.org.
Newport Daffodil Festival
You’ve heard about Nantucket, but did you know Newport, R.I., goes all in on spring as well? Their annual daffodil festival features more than 1.2 million daffodils that have been lovingly planted throughout town.
A day trip to meander the beautiful town awash in yellow and lined with the blue sea is always magical. There are special events throughout April, like the Driving Miss Daffy car show on April 24, and Go Daffyat Green Animals Topiary Garden on April 26, and more. You can find a full schedule at newportdaffydays.com.
Bonus: you can find some great room deals this time of year. Consider the lovely Brenton Hotel (brentonhotel.com) for both luxury, deals and location.
It’s a pretty drive for a dose of true spring.
A taste of Alsace
Boston’s own Grand Tour (314 Newbury St., grandtourboston.com) offers a bit of culinary travel as chef Michael Serpa brings one of his favorite French Vineyards, Trimbach, to Boston.
Via a special tasting menu, Grand Tour will introduce you to the family-owned winery located in Ribeauvile France, where they’ve been making wine since 1626.
Trimbach is known for producing some of the world’s best riesling, like its Grand Cru Clos Ste. Hune.
To pair with the wines, Grand Tour will be serving up an Alsatian classic and quintessential bar snack, Tarte Flambee on the “Springtime in Alsace” menu. Also known as Flammenkuchen, it is a crisp flatbread with creme fraiche, bacon lardons and onions.
Pregame your French immersion meal with a stroll down Newbury Street and through the Public Garden.
Good night and play ball!
The Red Sox home opener is April 15, and Fenway will come roaring back to life. You can dive deep into the Sox season with a stay at the Hotel Commonwealth (500 Commonwealth Ave.) and their amazing baseball inspired suites, a bucket-list must for any fan.
The Fenway Park Suite sits just 507 feet from Fenway Park. You can step onto your private balcony and look over the park. In your room you’ll find a real bag of actual Fenway dirt, a baseball glove for catching fly balls and unique collectibles including the number 6 from the Green Monster originally given to Johnny Pesky when he retired, and a coffee table signed by numerous Red Sox legends.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP)For one night – and a big one, no less – the Buffalo Bills played up to the weighty expectations many had hung on them this offseason.
Josh Allen was in command of an offense, which scored on three straight second-half possessions. Von Miller’s offseason addition invigorated a pass rush, which registered seven sacks. And the Bills shook off some early rust before thoroughly routing the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams, 31-10, in front of a national prime-time TV audience on Thursday.
And yet, let’s remember, it was one game, or as coach Sean McDermott put it when asked about the Bills converting nine of 10 third-down opportunities: ”Let’s not jump ahead of ourselves here.”
The two-time defending AFC East champion Bills were the better team in kicking off the NFL season by taking advantage of an opponent missing several key play-makers – including Miller – from the group that defeated Cincinnati in February.
What matters more is how the Bills will look come January, when the stakes get higher and opposing teams have had a chance to gel over the course of a season.
On the bright side, Buffalo players followed their coach’s lead in staying grounded.
”I wouldn’t say it was a signature win, I would say it’s the first game,” receiver Stefon Diggs said. ”Because people win their first game, they could damn near lose every last one after that. So try not to ride that wave.”
At first glance at least, the Bills looked the part of bona fide contenders during an outing in which the only team that showed any capability of stopping Buffalo was themselves by committing three turnovers in a first half that ended tied at 10.
Rather than sag, Buffalo surged thanks in part to a defense that kept quarterback Matthew Stafford on the run to give time for the offense to regroup.
Overall, the Bills provided encouraging answers to various questions they faced entering the opener.
The offense was productive under first-time coordinator Ken Dorsey, who was promoted from quarterbacks coach after Brian Daboll was hired by the New York Giants. Buffalo generated 413 yards offense a year after topping 400 yards eight times and scoring 30-plus points nine times.
A defense that was inconsistent in generating a pass rush last season had a franchise season-opening high for sacks without having to rely on the blitz.
And Buffalo’s secondary, featuring two new starters at cornerback, mostly held up and was responsible for two of Stafford’s three interceptions. While Cooper Kupp had 13 catches for 128 yards and a touchdown, the rest of the Rams combined for 16 catches and 112 yards.
”Of course it gives us a lot of confidence, probably even overconfidence,” receiver Gabe Davis said. ”But we have to know we have to keep level-headed and keep pushing and keep working.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The Allen to Diggs connection is working. Diggs caught eight of nine passes thrown his way for 122 yards, including a 53-yard touchdown, despite being covered most of the night by Jalen Ramsey. Perhaps, it was payback after Ramsey, while playing for Jacksonville, once referred to Allen as ”trash” after the Bills selected the quarterback in the first round of the 2018 draft.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Not much needs adjusting, except someone reminding Allen and/or Dorsey to limit the number of quarterback runs especially with Buffalo leading by 21 in the final quarter. Allen took off on his own and stayed inbounds while being tackled on a 13-yard gain on Buffalo’s final drive with under seven minutes left.
STOCK UP
As the NFL’s active leader in sacks, Miller’s stock was never down. But with two sacks, the 33-year-old showed he’s not lost a step and worthy of the six-year contract he signed with Buffalo in March.
STOCK DOWN
Isaiah McKenzie’s debut as Buffalo’s slot receiver was spotty. Though he scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 7-yard catch, McKenzie’s inability to get his hands on Allen’s pass led to an interception on Buffalo’s second possession at the Rams 24.
INJURIES
Starting defensive tackle Ed Oliver hurt his ankle and was spotted wearing a protective boot following the game.
KEY NUMBER
90% – The Bills set a franchise record in converting nine of 10 third-down opportunities since the statistic began being tracked in 1973. Since 1991, only two teams have finished with the same or better third-down conversion percentage: The Chiefs went nine of 10 against Philadelphia last season and New Orleans went 11 of 12 (91.7%) against Detroit in 2008.
NEXT STEPS
The Bills are back on prime-time for their home opener against Tennessee on Sept. 19. It’s a rematch from last season, when Allen was stopped near the goal line in the final seconds of a 34-31 loss at the Titans.
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Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform to streamline AI infrastructure adoption and boost model velocity throughout global TD SYNNEX ecosystem
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise MLOps platform trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100, is expanding and strengthening its partner channel through a partnership with TD SYNNEX, an industry-leading, global IT distributor and solutions aggregator. Domino's enterprise MLOps platform is now available through TD SYNNEX's global technology distribution and aggregation services to help enterprises in more than 100 countries scale data science quickly and with ease.
A recent industry survey found that 37% of companies rank data science, ML and AI as the single most important factor for growth, yet nearly as many (27%) say access to appropriate data science tools and methods is their most significant challenge to scaling it. By leveraging Domino along with complementary partner solutions, TD SYNNEX partners and customers can deliver data science teams these required resources—such as access to infrastructure and tooling, and past research for collaboration—to quickly build, deploy, and monitor game-changing machine learning models across the business.
"For a Global 2000 company, assembling the necessary hardware and software to scale data science can delay the development of critical new AI and ML functionality by precious weeks or even months," said Thomas Robinson, COO at Domino Data Lab. "Simplifying procurement processes via familiar partners like TD SYNNEX democratizes access to the data science tooling, storage and accelerated compute required to quickly scale machine learning for innovation across the business."
TD SYNNEX's more than 150,000 customers can now leverage technology from Domino and its technology partners to quickly begin innovating using a variety of modern AI stacks. Certifications with full-stack AI solutions like the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite and NetApp ONTAP AI ensure high performance and tight integration with infrastructure, pre-tested and optimized for the scale of AI resources a business might need. The result is that data scientists can streamline workflows while maximizing infrastructure utilization, innovate faster, reuse resources and collaborate more efficiently.
"TD SYNNEX is committed to uniting IT solutions that deliver business outcomes today and unlock growth for the future," said Cheryl Neal, vice president of new vendor acquisition for TD SYNNEX. "With Domino Data Lab added to our vast portfolio, we're able to enrich the breadth and depth of our offerings, so customers can do great things with technology."
"The most meaningful partnerships today leverage the power of AI and ML to make a direct impact on customer's bottom line," said Sid Khare, Head of Partnerships at Domino Data Lab. "Our new relationship with TD SYNNEX expands our global channel — allowing customers and prospects to deliver innovation, and unleash the power of data science to address the world's most important challenges."
Learn more about the benefits of partnering with Domino and optimizing your data science initiatives.
Additional Resources
- Take a deeper dive into how Domino's joint offering with NetApp's ONTAP AI empowers data scientists to innovate faster, collaborate seamlessly, and more efficiently manage and govern infrastructure.
- See how industry leaders protect data sovereignty, reduce cloud costs and future-proof their investments with Domino Nexus.
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- Conduct an immediate data science lifecycle assessment with Domino's Model Velocity Assessment.
- Build and scale data science projects with Domino Workspaces and NVIDIA AI Enterprise with a free hands-on lab on NVIDIA LaunchPad.
About Domino Data Lab
Domino Data Lab powers model-driven businesses with its leading Enterprise MLOps platform trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100. Domino accelerates the development and deployment of data science work while increasing collaboration and governance. With Domino, enterprises worldwide can develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, build better cars, and much more. Founded in 2013, Domino is backed by Coatue Management, Great Hill Partners, Highland Capital, Sequoia Capital and other leading investors. For more information, visit www.dominodatalab.com
About TD SYNNEX
TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX) is a leading global distributor and solutions aggregator for the IT ecosystem. We're an innovative partner helping more than 150,000 customers in 100+ countries to maximize the value of technology investments, demonstrate business outcomes and unlock growth opportunities. Headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, and Fremont, California, TD SYNNEX's approximately 23,500 co-workers are dedicated to uniting compelling IT products, services and solutions from 1,500+ best-in-class technology vendors. Our edge-to-cloud portfolio is anchored in some of the highest-growth technology segments including cloud, cybersecurity, big data/analytics, IoT, mobility and everything as a service. TD SYNNEX is committed to serving customers and communities, and we believe we can have a positive impact on our people and our planet, intentionally acting as a respected corporate citizen. We aspire to be a diverse and inclusive employer of choice for talent across the IT ecosystem. For more information, visit www.TDSYNNEX.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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GASTONIA, N.C (AP) — As the bullet pierced his lung and liver, the only thing Jamie White could think about was getting his 6-year-old daughter to safety. A neighbor had opened fire after children went to retrieve a basketball from his yard.
“I was worried about my babies,” White told the Gaston Gazette. “I was already hit. I was losing breath. I was on fire. I honestly didn’t think I was going to make it.”
Recovering at home Monday, White says every movement hurts — but he feels lucky he and his family are alive. His wife was also wounded and his daughter was hit by bullet fragments that lodged in her cheek.
The neighbor has since been arrested. The violence was the latest in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.
It seemed like a normal spring evening before the shootings. White, a supervisor at a chemical cleaning company, was grilling and his daughter was playing with other children down the street. They live near Gastonia, a city of roughly 80,000 people west of Charlotte.
But a basketball rolled into Robert Louis Singletary’s yard. He confronted other neighbors about it, and it seemed like a normal argument, White said. Then Singletary walked into his house to get a revolver.
“He comes back out the door running, firing at that man and his kids,” White said. “At that point, I took off. My youngin’ was down the road too. My little girl and about 10, 12 other kids were down there. They were all stunned.”
White said he told Singletary to stop shooting because of the kids.
Singletary replied: “I’m going to shoot your a–,” and pointed the revolver at White and his girl Kinsley.
“My daughter’s right in front of me. I look and see, and he’s pointing straight at my daughter,” White said. “And I just run towards my daughter … and that’s when he got me.”
Singletary had been out on bond in a December attack in which authorities say he assaulted a woman with a hammer.
“None of this would have happened if the judicial system would have done their job,” White said.
Singletary fled the scene after the shootings. He was arrested two days later in Florida. He’s charged with attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and a gun charge.
Singletary’s grandmother, Brita Betsy, told WSOC-TV that the shooting was inexcusable, but that another neighbor threatened to shoot Singletary’s home during the ordeal. She said Singletary also struggles with anxiety.
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President Joe Biden will proclaim new federal monuments in two states, giving the land protection against commercial development.
The largest of the areas will be the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada. Local tribes have pushed for federal protection of the 380,000-acre site for years.
Advocates said developers have attempted to install a 30,000-acre wind farm on the site.
The White House said proclaiming Avi Kwa Ame as a federal monument “will honor Tribal Nations and Indigenous peoples while conserving our public lands and growing America’s outdoor recreation economy.”
“The Avi Kwa Ame National Monument protects and preserves the rich ecological, historic, cultural, and scenic values of this unique desert landscape. The monument designation protects sacred space for spiritual uses, including Spirit Mountain, which is central to the creation story of many Tribal Nations, while ensuring continued access to hunting, camping, hiking, OHV use, photography, and other recreational activities,” the White House added.
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In November 2022, President Biden delivered remarks at the Tribal Nations Summit vowing to protect the region, which includes Spirit Mountain.
The president’s proclamation will also establish the Castner Range National Monument in El Paso, Texas. It served as a training and testing site for the U.S. Army during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
It was remediated after the Army closed the site in 1966 to be safe for public use.
The White House said the land previously belonged to the Apache and Pueblo peoples and the Comanche Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
“This action will protect the cultural, scientific and historic objects found within the monument’s boundaries, honor our veterans, servicemembers, and Tribal Nations, and expand access to outdoor recreation on our public lands,” the White House said. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/biden-designates-sacred-tribal-lands-as-national-monuments | 2023-03-21 13:26:13 | 1 | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/biden-designates-sacred-tribal-lands-as-national-monuments |
Oilers vs. Golden Knights NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 5: Odds, total, moneyline and other Vegas lines
The Edmonton Oilers go on the road Friday to square off with the Vegas Golden Knights for Game 5 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round, starting at 10:00 PM ET on TNT, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS. The series is tied up 2-2. The Oilers have -135 odds on the moneyline against the Golden Knights (+115).
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Oilers vs. Golden Knights Game Info
- When: Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS
- Where: T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada
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- Vegas has played 39 games this season that finished with over 7 goals.
- The Oilers have been victorious in 22 of their 30 games when they were listed as a moneyline favorite this season (73.3%).
- This season the Golden Knights have 10 wins in the 15 games in which they've been an underdog.
- Edmonton is 18-6 when it has played with moneyline odds of -135 or shorter (75.0% win percentage).
- Vegas has nine games this season playing as an underdog by +115 or longer, and is 6-3 in those contests.
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KETTERING, Ohio – Bryson DeChambeau says he had surgery on his left wrist Thursday for a fracture hamate that has been bothering him for the last two months and likely will keep him out of the PGA Championship.
DeChambeau said on Instagram the surgery at The Kettering Medical Center was for the fractured hook of the hamate.
The former U.S. Open champion says he slipped on a marble floor in Saudi Arabia while playing table tennis and landed on his hip and hand. He withdrew after the first round of the Saudi International and did not return for seven weeks until the Match Play. He played three rounds at WGC-Match Play, missed the cut at the Texas Open and said at the Masters he was at 80%. He shot 80 the second round at Augusta National and missed the cut.
“I made attempts to play through this injury at three recent events, including the Masters, but this is typically an injury that requires surgical treatment,” DeChambeau said. “Through continued discomfort from the fracture, it has caused me to alter my grip and swing, resulting in my inability to compete at golf’s highest level. This has not been easy physically and mentally for me.”
DeChambeau said he would take appropriate time off to rest and recover and he looked forward “to competing at the highest level within the next two months.”
The PGA Championship starts in five weeks, May 19-22, at Southern Hills in Tulsa. The U.S. Open is a month later at The Country Club outside Boston. | https://www.golfchannel.com/news/bryson-dechambeau-has-surgery-left-wrist-likely-miss-pga-championship | 2022-04-15 15:00:15 | 1 | https://www.golfchannel.com/news/bryson-dechambeau-has-surgery-left-wrist-likely-miss-pga-championship |
Members of the House Freedom Caucus on Friday presented a set of spending cuts and budget proposals they want as a condition of even considering voting in favor of raising the national debt ceiling, laying down one of the first markers in the House Republican Conference for debt ceiling negotiations.
The hard-line conservative caucus wants to cap overall discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for 10 years while allowing for 1 percent growth per year, which would be a $131 billion cut from current levels. The group would aim to keep defense spending at current levels.
In addition, the caucus called to end President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program; rescind unspent COVID-19 and Inflation Reduction Act funds; enact the REINS Act, a bill that would broaden congressional input on agency regulations; and loosen domestic energy production regulations.
The group also wants to restore “Clinton-era work requirements on welfare programs” like Medicaid and pass a preemptive continuing resolution to set nondefense discretionary spending at fiscal 2019 levels in order to pressure Congress to pass appropriations.
“We’ve got a serious proposal. We urge our colleagues on the Republican side and the Democrat side to come along. If you don’t like what we’ve offered – bless you, that’s fine. What have you got to offer?” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said in a press conference on Friday, flanked by more than a dozen of the group’s other members.
Perry added the plan largely looks at nondefense discretionary spending, and that defense spending could remain flat while other cuts could achieve getting the top-line discretionary figure to fiscal 2022 levels.
The demands come as Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pushes President Biden for a deal on spending reductions as a condition of raising the debt ceiling, although McCarthy has not laid out his own specific proposals.
Any official budget position for the House GOP is likely to be less aggressive than the House Freedom Caucus plan, but Perry forecast optimism about agreement: “We’re not assuming leadership is opposed to any of this.”
The Freedom Caucus indicated it was open to negotiation on the measures.
“If somebody else on our side of the aisle or the other side of the aisle or a combination of the two wants to bring some plan together, we’re certainly going to consider it, but this is where we stand,” Perry said.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) alluded to the rules change concessions that many of the members extracted from McCarthy from the drawn-out Speaker election earlier this year.
“We fought to have the tools to do what we are doing today, and it’s time that we stop bragging about our tools, admiring our tools, and actually get to nicks them — actually use the tools that we fought so hard for House Republicans to have in this Congress,” Boebert said.
The White House released a $6.8 trillion budget proposal on Thursday that includes tax hikes on the wealthy as a means for reducing the budget deficit. It immediately drew sharp pushback from Republicans.
“His budget makes his priorities clear. His administration is at war with the American people’s freedom and prosperity,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). “We need to shrink Washington and grow America. His budget would do the opposite.”
Perry also said he is in communication with “numerous senators” on the spending demands.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) praised the Freedom Caucus proposal after its release on Friday.
“Finally, a glimpse of common sense in Washington. Today’s proposal from the HFC marks a commitment to a return to fiscal sanity and accountability in Congress,” Scott said in a statement. | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/freedom-caucus-lays-out-spending-cut-demands-for-debt-limit/ | 2023-03-10 19:44:49 | 0 | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/freedom-caucus-lays-out-spending-cut-demands-for-debt-limit/ |
ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — The NATO-led peacekeeping force said on Monday that 25 of its troops were injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo after they tried to take over the offices of one of the municipalities where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week.
The Serbs clashed with NATO troops and Kosovo police in the municipality of Zvecan, 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of the capital. The soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades to protect the Kosovar officers and disperse protesters, according to witnesses. The assembled Serbs responded by throwing rocks and other hard objects at them.
“Several soldiers of the Italian and Hungarian KFOR contingent were the subject of unprovoked attacks and sustained trauma wounds with fractures and burns due to the explosion of incendiary devices,” said the NATO peacekeepers in a statement.
Some Kosovo police vehicles and one belonging to journalists were damaged and sprayed with Serb nationalist symbols.
Addressing the nation late Monday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he would spend the night with his troops on the border with Kosovo who were placed on the highest state of alert on his orders last week. He said 52 Serbs were injured in the clashes, three seriously, and four were detained.
“The consequences (of the clashes) are big and grave and the sole culprit is (Kosovo Prime Minister) Albin Kurti,” said Vucic. He referred to the Albanian forces in the north Kosovo as “occupiers.”
“I repeat for the last time and I beg the international community to make sure Albin Kurti sees reason,” Vucic said. “If they don’t, I am afraid it will be too late for all of us.”
The violence was the latest incident as tensions soared over the past weekend, with Serbia putting the country’s military on high alert and sending more troops to the border with Kosovo, which declared independence from Belgrade in 2008.
Kosovo and Serbia have been foes for decades, with Belgrade refusing to recognize Kosovo’s sovereignty.
The United States and the European Union have stepped up efforts to help solve the Kosovo-Serbia dispute, fearing further instability in Europe as Russia’s war rages in Ukraine. The EU has made it clear to both Serbia and Kosovo they must normalize relations if they’re to make any progress toward joining the bloc.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the situation in Kosovo as “worrisome,” blaming the U.S. and NATO for claiming dominance in that part of the world.
“A big ‘explosion’ is brewing in the center of Europe, in the very place where, in 1999, NATO carried out aggression against Yugoslavia,” he said from Nairobi, Kenya, referring to the NATO-led intervention in 1999 that stopped a bloody Serb crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatists.
On Monday, Kosovar police and the NATO-led Kosovo Force, or KFOR, were seen protecting the municipal buildings in Zvecan, Leposavic, Zubin Potok and Mitrovica, four municipalities in the north that held early elections last month.
The votes were largely boycotted by ethnic Serbs, who form the majority in those areas. Only ethnic Albanian or other smaller minority representatives were elected to the mayoral posts and assemblies.
Serbia’s prime minister, Ana Brnabic, criticized the international handling of events in Kosovo, saying that KFOR was “not protecting the people … they are protecting the usurpers,” apparently referring to the new mayors.
“But we must protect the peace. Peace is all we have,” she said.
KFOR has increased its presence in the four northern municipalities. It called on all sides to refrain from actions that could cause escalation and urged both “Belgrade and Pristina to engage in the EU-led dialogue.”
U.S. Ambassador Jeff Hovenier met with President Vjosa Osmani and then together with other western powers’ ambassadors — the U.S., France, Italy, Germany and the U.K. known as the Quint — with Prime Minister Albin Kurti, urging him to take steps to de-escalate the situation and reduce tensions.
Last Friday, ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo tried to block recently elected ethnic Albanian officials from entering municipal buildings. Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd and let the new officials into the offices.
The U.S. and the EU condemned Kosovo’s government for using police to forcibly enter the municipal buildings.
The conflict in Kosovo erupted in 1998 when separatist ethnic Albanians rebelled against Serbia’s rule, and Serbia responded with a brutal crackdown. About 13,000 people, mostly ethnic Albanians, died. NATO’s military intervention in 1999 eventually forced Serbia to pull out of the territory. Washington and most EU countries have recognized Kosovo as an independent state, but Serbia, Russia and China haven’t.
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Llazar Semini reported from Tirana, Albania. Jovana Gec contributed to this report from Belgrade, Serbia; Jim Heintz from Tallinn, Estonia. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-25-nato-led-peacekeepers-injured-in-kosovo-in-clashes-with-serbs-outside-municipal-building/ | 2023-05-30 18:40:43 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-25-nato-led-peacekeepers-injured-in-kosovo-in-clashes-with-serbs-outside-municipal-building/ |
Now sober Tom Holland said his drinking “really scared” him
Posted/updated on: July 11, 2023 at 10:15 amAfter a year and a half without a drink, Tom Holland calls sobriety "the best thing I've ever done."
The 27-year-old Spider-Man: No Way Home star appeared on the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast, where he admitted his sobriety "journey" started after a particularly "boozy" holiday. "All I could think about was having a drink," Tom expressed.
"I've always been able to drink a lot," Tom admitted. However, he decided to give a dry January a go — and found it difficult.
"I was waking up thinking about it. I was checking the clock, 'When's it 12?' And it just really scared me. 'Wow, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing,'" Holland expressed. He then decided to extend his dry spell.
Tom explained, "Two months go by and I was still really struggling...I felt I couldn't go to the pub and have a lime soda. I couldn't go out to dinner. I was really, really struggling. And I started to really worry that maybe I had an alcohol problem."
The Crowded Room star then challenged himself to last until his birthday: "If I could go six months without alcohol, then I could prove to myself that I don't have a problem," he recalled thinking.
"By the time I had got to June first, I was the happiest I've ever been in my life," Holland said.
"I could sleep better. I could handle problems better. Things that would go wrong on set that would set me off, I could take in my stride," Holland recalled. "I had such better mental clarity. I felt better. I felt fitter. And I just said to myself...'Why am I so obsessed with having this drink?'"
Holland said if his "own little journey" encourages someone "to drink less, then that's great," but he's not going to preach.
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LONDON — Whether foreign leaders view the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House with hope or horror, the prospect of a Trump restoration is so deeply ingrained overseas that leaders in several countries have hedged their bets in diplomacy, security, and even where they invest their fortunes.
There were few signs that Trump’s indictment last week on criminal charges in New York has changed those calculations.
Foreign leaders have watched him bounce back from so many disasters, according to diplomats and foreign policy experts, that they now regard his political resilience with something approaching fatalism. This is especially true in Europe, whose leaders spent four years enduring Trump’s hectoring on a host of issues, including military spending and climate change.
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Even if Trump’s legal woes end his political viability in a way that two impeachments and an election defeat to Joe Biden did not, many worry that he will be replaced by any number of Trump-like alternatives, of whom the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is the most prominent example.
“If Trump were really history, many in Europe would have fewer sleepless nights,” said Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the United States who ran the Munich Security Conference until 2022. “But the fundamental fear Trump provoked six years ago would not disappear.”
“What if the isolationist virus Trump unleashed continued to infect other candidates?” Ischinger said. “What if, instead of Trump, Republicans nominate another isolationist candidate for the presidency? And what if that candidate wins?”
These fears were deepened when DeSantis, the leading potential challenger to Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, recently characterized Russia’s war on Ukraine as a “territorial dispute.” He later walked back the comment under intense criticism from fellow Republicans.
But his remark, which echoed Trump’s casual treatment of the Russian invasion, arguably landed with a bigger thud in European capitals than in the United States, given the heavy dependence of Europe on American military and diplomatic support to maintain a unified resistance to Russian aggression.
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“Trump is a phenomenon, but no longer unique,” said Kim Darroch, a former British ambassador to the United States. “He has spawned a whole generation of mini-Trumps and Trump lites.”
“So if you believe that isolationism is growing in America, or it suits you politically to assert this, you don’t have to hang it all on Trump,” said Darroch, who was forced to leave his post in Washington after critical cables he wrote about the Trump administration were leaked in 2019. “There are plenty of alternatives.”
None of this is to say that Trump does not remain a singular figure, or that his legal woes are not drawing attention abroad. The case against the former president, with its lurid accusations of “hush money” paid to a pornographic film actress, is the kind of only-in-America spectacle that lends itself to tabloid headlines.
“The Bigly Usual Suspect,” said London’s Daily Star, with a collage of unflattering photos of Trump against a backdrop used for mug shots. “Trump will refuse to be handcuffed,” said the Times of London in a front-page article Saturday that included an interview with Stormy Daniels, the actress who said she had a sexual relationship with Trump and received the payments from Trump’s lawyer in exchange for her silence.
But the Daily Telegraph, which leans to the right, focused on the potential upside for Trump with his hard-right political base, declaring “Indictment is a golden opportunity for Trump.” The sense that Trump’s legal troubles could play out unpredictably extended to parliaments and government offices.
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For one thing, Darroch said, only those who follow the Trump saga closely will recognize that this is the first of potentially several indictments, in cases involving election interference and mishandling of classified documents. More casual observers will shrug it off, focusing instead on his lead in the polls over Republican rivals.
Part of the reason that some Europeans promote the view that Trump is resilient, he said, is that it furthers their geopolitical agendas.
In Britain, some on the right openly pine for the return of Trump, who championed Brexit and dangled the prospect of a trans-Atlantic trade agreement. Biden shelved that, and while his relationship with Britain is cordial, he is less gushing than Trump was. Biden is skipping the coronation of King Charles III, the kind of showy, attention-saturated ceremony his predecessor would have savored.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron has advanced European “strategic autonomy,” the theory that Europe needs to defend itself more independently of the United States. Trump’s derision of NATO was a key motivating factor, and a second Trump term, in which he might actually pull out of the alliance, would make it all but imperative.
Yet for adversaries like Russia and China, the prospect of Trump mounting another campaign for the presidency, while at the same time defending himself from criminal charges, plays into their narrative of American chaos and decline.
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Evan S. Medeiros, a former China adviser to President Barack Obama, said, “The Chinese will use this to reinforce the argument they’ve long made: that America is consumed by its democratic dysfunction, and that China is a better bet.” | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/02/world/leaders-abroad-prospect-trump-revival-is-ever-present-2/ | 2023-04-02 21:29:57 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/02/world/leaders-abroad-prospect-trump-revival-is-ever-present-2/ |
NASA's Sustainable Human Landing System Will Land Crew on the Moon for Artemis V
DENVER, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is on the team that has won a contract from NASA to develop and demonstrate a human landing system for the Artemis program under the agency's Human Landing System program. The goal of the program is to rapidly develop a sustainable human lunar lander and perform a crewed demonstration flight to the lunar surface for Artemis V.
Led by Blue Origin, the National Team that will develop and build the lander also includes Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics.
"Congratulations to Blue Origin on this achievement. Lockheed Martin is excited to be part of Blue Origin's National team and we are looking forward to building humanity's first Cislunar Transporter," said Kirk Shireman, vice president of Lunar Exploration Campaigns at Lockheed Martin Space. "We value Blue Origin's thoughtful approach to developing human-rated flight systems and are thrilled to be part of a diverse team that combines innovation, deep experience and a strong industrial base."
NASA's Artemis program is redefining how we explore deep space, and a sustainable human landing system program is key to extending our human presence away from Earth in a long-term way, which will greatly add to our scientific knowledge of the solar system.
As a principal partner on Blue Origin's National Team, Lockheed Martin brings to the lunar lander effort more than 50 years of experience in space exploration – from developing the Orion spacecraft, to supporting numerous planetary robotic missions, to developing the space shuttle's external fuel tank. Additionally, Lockheed Martin and National Team partners are drawing on their extensive supplier base, engaging strategic small and mid-sized businesses across the country in the development of the landing system.
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Updated February 21, 2023 at 9:42 AM ET
Senator Bernie Sanders is embracing his anger.
He's shown a lot of it during three decades in Congress. In 1992, he attacked both parties for defense spending, claiming they were "hoping and praying that maybe we'll have another war."
During his first presidential run, he spoke sarcastically of people who fear his identification as a socialist. "I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program," Sanders told NPR in 2015.
It's no surprise that the Vermont senator spoke harshly of President Donald Trump, vowing: "You're damn right we're going to hold him accountable" at the time.
But he also bristled when social justice activists insisted that Democrats use the phrase "Black Lives Matter."
"It's too easy for 'liberals,' to be saying, well, let's use this phrase. What are we going to do about 51 percent of young African Americans unemployed?" Sanders said.
The Senator is preoccupied with America's economic divides; and his new book about his recent campaigns and legislation is titled It's Okay to be Angry About Capitalism.
"They say the older you get, the more conservative you become," he writes. "That's not me. The older I get, the angrier I become about the uber-capitalist system."
He says his anger grows in part out of his youth in a struggling family in Brooklyn in the 1940s and 1950s. He dedicates the book, in part, to his older brother Larry, who introduced him to authors ranging from psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud to political theorist Karl Marx, who, along with Friedrich Engles, established the far-left ideology known as Marxism.
"We didn't have a lot of books in the house, and my brother brought books into the house and talked with me about politics, talked to me about history, talked to me about psychology," Sanders told NPR.
"And kind of intellectually opened up my eyes to the world that we're living in."
Today Larry Sanders is a Green Party politician in the United Kingdom.
And Bernie Sanders, after two presidential campaigns, now chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. For all his anger and demands for systemic change, the senator told NPR he is working within a divided Congress to make more modest changes that he thinks are possible.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On his anger at some Democrats in Congress
I was bitterly disappointed [at the failure of giant social legislation known as] Build Back Better... What many of us said is... Let's deal with the structural crises facing America. Our child care system is a disaster. Our healthcare system is dysfunctional. Kids can't afford to go to college. Let's deal with the existential threat of climate change. Let's deal with income and wealth inequality. We came within two votes of bringing forth legislation which would have been transformative for the working families.
SI: Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who would be described as more moderate or more conservative, and represent more conservative states–
Corporate Democrats would be the term.
SI: Corporate Democrats?
These are folks who've got a whole lot of money from wealthy people and large corporations and they do their bidding.
SI: I was going to ask if you're still angry at someone like Joe Manchin. It sounds like you are. From his perspective, he's representing a very conservative state that votes for Republicans for president hugely and needs to bring them something that they can believe in. Do you sympathize with his political situation?
In 2016 when I was running for president, I won a landslide victory in West Virginia.
SI: In the Democratic primary.
In the Democratic primary.
SI: But there's a general election.
I understand... In my view, politicians do well when they stand up and fight for working people.
On the power of the working-class vote
SI: You write about the working class: "You can't win elections without the overwhelming support of the working class." It seems that many Republicans now agree with you and openly court the working class and get a lot of working class votes. Why do you think that is?
Well, that is an enormously important political issue. That is the most important political question of our time. [It's] not that working class people agree with Republican views... But what I think has happened over the years, and this is no great secret as a result of a lot of corporate contributions, the Democratic Party has kind of turned its back on the needs of working class people. And then you have a gap there where you have people like Trump coming along and say, "You know what the problem is? It's immigrants, it's gays, it's transgender people." And you get people angry around those issues rather than Democrats saying, I'll tell you what the problem is. The problem is the wealthy are getting richer. Corporations have enormous power. We're going to take them on to create a nation that works for you.
On what Sanders thinks he can accomplish in a divided Congress
What I want to see, a Medicare-for-all system, ain't going to happen. No Republicans support it. Half the Democrats won't support it. But this is what we can do: We can expand primary health care and community health centers to every region of the country...We now have 30 million people accessing community health centers [and can do more]... You walk into a community health center, you get affordable health care, dental care... mental health counseling and low cost prescription drugs. Republicans understand that in red states it is very hard often for people to access a doctor.
On his pragmatism
SI: Even though you say it's okay to be angry about capitalism, there's a place for capitalism in the world as you envision it.
Yes, there is. Yes, there is.
SI: If you made all the rules, there would still be large corporations.
Well, I don't know about that. But look, there's nothing in that book to suggest that it is bad for people to go out and start a business, to come up with innovation. That's great. That's good. What is bad is when a handful of corporations control sector after sector.
The audio version of this interview was produced by Milton Guevara and Nina Kravinsky, and edited by Olivia Hampton. contributed to this story
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NTSB: Dad, not boy, was driving truck that hit golfers' van
DALLAS - A Texas man, not his 13-year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico college golfers, killing nine people, and he had methamphetamine in his system, investigators said Thursday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said two days after the March 15 collision in rural West Texas that its early findings suggested that the 13-year-old was driving the pickup that struck the van carrying University of the Southwest students and their coach back to Hobbs, New Mexico, from a golf tournament in Midland. But the NTSB said in a preliminary report released Thursday that DNA testing confirmed that the father, 38-year-old Henrich Siemens, was driving and that toxicological testing showed the presence of methamphetamine in Siemens' blood.
"This was a very difficult investigation to determine some of the facts based on the catastrophic nature of the damage and the post-crash fire," Robert Molloy, the NTSB's director of highway safety, said at a news conference.
Siemens and his son died in the crash along with six members of the men's and women's golf teams and their coach, who was driving the van, which was towing a cargo trailer.
Molloy said they are still analyzing the toxicological report and that although they know methamphetamine can affect driver performance, it's too early to say whether it was a contributing factor in the crash.
Investigators are still working to determine the probable cause of the crash, and Molloy said he didn't expect a final report until next year.
The collision happened at about 8:17 p.m. in Andrews County, which is roughly 30 miles east of Texas' border with New Mexico.
In the days after the crash, the NTSB had said that the truck's left front tire blew before impact. But it said Thursday that so far, investigators haven't found evidence of a loss in tire pressure or any other indicators that the tire failed.
The NTSB said the road they were traveling on consisted of a northbound lane and southbound lane. Near the crash site, the roadway was straight but there was no highway lighting.
The speed limit on the road was 75 mph, but Molloy said they have not yet determined the vehicles' speeds at the time of the crash.
Those killed in the van were coach Tyler James, 26, of Hobbs, New Mexico; and golfers Mauricio Sanchez, 19, of Mexico; Travis Garcia, 19, of Pleasanton, Texas; Jackson Zinn, 22, of Westminster, Colorado; Karisa Raines, 21, of Fort Stockton, Texas; Laci Stone, 18, of Nocona, Texas; and Tiago Sousa, 18, of Portugal.
Two other students who were in the van were seriously injured.
Most of the students were freshmen who were getting their first taste of life away from home at the private Christian university with enrollment numbering in the hundreds. Those who knew James, the coach, said it had been his goal to be a head coach, and he was excited to be there. The crash was the latest tragedy for the Siemens family, who lived in Seminole, Texas, a rural community of around 7,500 people, some of whom first relocated to the area in the 1970s with other Mennonite families who started farming and ranching operations. Community members had rallied around Siemens and his wife months earlier when a fire that started in the kitchen destroyed the home where they had lived for a decade.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For a second time this year, jurors get a chance to decide whether a Colorado businessman helped turn an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border into a cash cow for its creators.
The jury in Manhattan federal court began deliberating the fate of Timothy Shea on Thursday after hearing closing arguments in a retrial that’s not even a week old. It resumes its work Friday morning after failing to immediately reach a conclusion.
A trial in the spring ended in a mistrial when the jury deadlocked after 11 jurors said the remaining juror had accused them of being politically biased and thought the trial should have been held in a southern state.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Bracewell told jurors in her closing that fraud was in the game plan as soon as Shea and three others, including ex-President Donald Trump’s onetime adviser Steve Bannon, thought of creating the fundraising plan in late 2018.
She said Shea “and his partners in crime” created a powerful and compelling fundraising message by assuring donors that every cent donated would be used to build portions of a wall.
“The lie served its purpose,” Bracewell said. “It mattered to donors.”
The prosecutor said fraud participants even mocked their donors in text messages as they marveled at how fast the fundraiser generated millions of dollars and eventually reached $25 million.
She accused Shea of creating a shell company and manipulating how money was drawn from the donor accounts so money could be siphoned off for use by fundraiser organizers.
Bracewell said Shea even steered money into his energy drink company, Winning Energy, which sells cans that have featured a cartoon superhero image of Trump and claim to contain “12 oz. of liberal tears.”
“We Build The Wall was like a bottomless piggybank,” she said. “They looted it for anything they wanted to do.”
Shea’s lawyer, John Meringolo, told jurors in his closing that they have multiple ways to conclude that there is insufficient evidence to convict his client.
For one, he said, the trial doesn’t belong in New York. He said that if they conclude prosecutors failed to show sufficient ties between alleged crimes and New York, then they can acquit his client.
Meringolo said Shea did plenty of work for the campaign by helping to secure land where the wall could be built and by providing security.
He said that if his client had a flaw, it was that he was sloppy with paperwork.
And he said evidence that his client did work and accumulated expenses that needed to be reimbursed was another reason to acquit.
“There is a wall,” he said. “Ladies and gentlemen, that’s reasonable doubt and that’s not guilty.”
Repeatedly, Meringolo said the evidence shown to jurors came up short.
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St. Louis would-be car-jackers run away on foot after victim refuses to give up keys, shot in leg
St. Louis investigators say the victim, a 20-year-old man, was approached by two men while in the parking lot of a gas station
A man in St. Louis was shot after confronting two men attempting to carjack his vehicle.
According to the St. Louis Police, on Saturday, March 18, the 20-year-old male victim was approached by two Black males while at the parking lot of a gas station in the 4700 block of S. Spring in south St. Louis and demanded his car keys.
The victim allegedly refused to hand over his car keys, prompting one of the perpetrators to take out a gun and shoot him once in his left leg.
‘BAMBOOZLED’ CARJACKERS END UP EMPTY-HANDED AFTER TRYING TO TAKE HOUSTON MAN'S CAR AT GUNPOINT
Following the attack, the two offenders "fled on foot," according to the St. Louis Police Department. Authorities shared that the two men did not steal the victim's vehicle following the attack.
A witness, who was with the victim at the time of the incident, drove the victim to a local hospital for treatment.
The St. Louis Police Department noted that officers received the call following the incident, at approximately 2:15 a.m.
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November 4, 1923-April 6, 2023
CEDAR FALLS-Leonard Emil Bauer, 99, of Cedar Falls, passed away at MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center on Thursday, April 6, 2023. He was born November 4, 1923, in Cedar Falls, son of Emil and Julia (Schaffenburg) Bauer. Leonard graduated from Cedar Falls High School and honorably served in the U.S. Army during WW II. He married Mary Gutknecht at Zion Lutheran Church in Hudson on August 3, 1947. Leonard owned and operated both the Janesville Locker and the Benson Locker for 35 years, retiring in 2003.
Leonard was preceded in death by his wife and parents; siblings: Gerald (Allene) Bauer, William (Thelma) Gutknecht, Wesley (Bernice) Hesse and a brother in infancy; daughter and son-in-law, Janet and Mike Lingle and daughter-in-law, Jody Bauer.
He is survived by three sons, Jim (Linda) Bauer, Keith Bauer, and Stan (Bonnie) Bauer; two daughters, Karen (Dale) Webb and Marlys (Dan) Surratt; 15 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Grace Community Church in Cedar Falls, with burial at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, rural Hudson. Military honors will be conducted by Cedar Falls AMVETS Post 49. Visitation will be 5 – 8:00 p.m. Monday at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home, Cedar Falls, and one hour before service at the church. Memorials may be directed to the family for future designation. www.DahlFuneralHome.com | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/leonard-emil-bauer/article_fee84f87-186c-53d2-8c42-1b3c050c1a65.html | 2023-04-09 05:30:13 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/leonard-emil-bauer/article_fee84f87-186c-53d2-8c42-1b3c050c1a65.html |
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Ron DeSantis has yet to enter the 2024 presidential race, but former President Donald Trump is aiming to drum up support in the Florida governor's backyard, securing endorsements already from more than one-third of the Republicans in the state's congressional delegation.
Republicans hold 20 of Florida's 28 U.S. House districts, and eight of those lawmakers have announced their support for Trump. They include Rep. Byron Donalds, who introduced DeSantis at his reelection party last year. Earlier this month, Donalds called Trump the only leader “at this time in our nation’s history who can seize the moment and deliver what we need.”
Rep. John Rutherford backed Trump on Tuesday shortly after leaving a Washington meeting with DeSantis. Others going with Trump are Reps. Vern Buchanan, Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna, Brian Mast, Cory Mills and Greg Steube,
In all, Trump has won the backing of more than 40 House Republicans across the country. His team, led by former White House political director Brian Jack, contacted some of those lawmakers, while others reached out to him.
Endorsements rarely have a dramatic impact on whom voters ultimately support, especially this early in a presidential primary. But they do signal which candidates are gaining support within a party. That's important as Trump tries to assert himself as the undisputed leader of the GOP in seeking the 2024 nomination.
Trump's endorsements are notable because they suggest his criminal indictment in New York this month did little to erode his support among elected Republicans. If anything, the charges may have enhanced his standing within the party.
“I think after the indictment, a lot of people were willing to be very vocal with their endorsement,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said.
DeSantis' backers note that the governor hasn't formally launched his effort, making it harder for him to get official endorsements. He has expanded his travel outside of Florida, making his first appearances Wednesday in South Carolina, where support for any GOP nominee is critical, and where a few state lawmakers have said they will back him if he runs for the White House.
So far, DeSantis has three congressional endorsements, including one from Florida, first-term Rep. Laurel Lee, who served as DeSantis’ secretary of state for more than three years. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas was the first House member to sign on.
Rep. Thomas Massie, who has endorsed DeSantis, acknowledged Trump’s growing endorsement advantage but emphasized that the Florida governor hasn’t yet entered the 2024 race.
“Ron DeSantis hasn’t asked anybody for an endorsement," Massie, R-Ky., said in an interview Wednesday. “He can’t ask anybody for an endorsement because he is not a candidate for president.”
The real question, Massie said, is why Trump has yet to lock up more endorsements, given that the former president is essentially an incumbent.
“I’m not concerned that Donald Trump is getting endorsements and getting a lot of them," Massie said. "He should have all of Congress. Why doesn’t he have the whole Republican Congress?”
DeSantis’ slow start in building out a national coalition underscores his long-standing disdain for investing in relationships with other Republican leaders. Fellow GOP governors and party officials regularly grumble about his tendency to ignore their public gatherings, fundraisers and conference calls.
In his recent book, DeSantis, who served nearly three terms in the House, referred to Congress as “grotesque.”
As a practice, DeSantis typically does not attend meetings of the Republican Governors Association. During the height of the pandemic, he did not participate in regularly nightly conference calls of Republican governors, according to Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H.
“All the Republican governors, for the most part, are pretty tight. We’re buddies,” Sununu said in a recent interview. “He didn’t get on the phone calls. He didn’t. He doesn’t come to our events. If he comes to a governors’ event, he shows up, makes a speech and leaves. That’s just him and his style. At first, we were all taken aback by it, but that’s just him.”
DeSantis’ unwillingness to engage with colleagues stands in stark contrast with successful candidates at the national level in the past.
Former President George W. Bush’s lengthy Christmas card list is cemented in political lore. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regularly sent handwritten notes to mark birthdays or graduations to local activists in New Hampshire and Iowa. Trump, before and after his 2016 election, was almost always on the phone with party officials, donors or business leaders.
Massie, who served with DeSantis in Congress for six years, said he hosted a private reception with him on Monday night, in part, “to dispel this notion that he is not personable.”
Massie noted that DeSantis spent less than 10 minutes of the two-hour event delivering a speech. The rest of the time, he said, DeSantis spoke one on one with other members of Congress.
“He surprised me with the degree to which he understood peoples’ districts,” Massie said. “He is a student of politics.”
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Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Steve Peoples in New York and Will Weissert in Washington contributed to this report.
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Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist, gets own stamp
A ceremony has been planned at the Newport Folk Festival where Seeger used to perform
Pete Seeger, the banjo-playing folk singer whose music was indelibly intertwined with his social activism, was honored Thursday as the latest American musician to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.
The forever stamp, which features a color-tinted, black-and-white photograph taken in the early 1960s showing Seeger in profile singing and playing his five-string banjo, went on sale at post offices nationwide, according to a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson.
A special ceremony was planned for the evening in Newport, Rhode Island, the site of the Newport Folk Festival, where Seeger was a performer and for a time a member of the board.
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"It is an honor to see a photo of my father I’d taken some 60 years ago become this wonderful forever stamp," his son, Dan Seeger, said in a statement. "My dad did most of his correspondence by hand — written letters — and I can imagine him smiling and of course appreciating this great honor because he relied on the U.S. Mail with its simplicity and honesty, knowing that thoughts and ideas can go from the sender over a tremendous expanse to a single receiver and get delivered."
Seeger, a Harvard dropout who died in 2014 at age 94, wrote or co-wrote "If I Had a Hammer," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone." He is also credited with popularizing "We Shall Overcome," an anthem of the civil rights movement.
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"He was not only a champion of traditional American music, he was also celebrated as a unifying power by promoting a variety of causes, such as civil rights, workers’ rights, social justice, the peace movement and protecting the environment," said Tom Foti, the postal service’s product solutions vice president.
While Seeger, a lifelong activist, was exiled from commercial air play in the 1950s and 1960s after an appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee for his Communist affiliations, his career never slowed and he continued to record and tour.
He won Grammy Awards, was inducted into both the Songwriters and Rock and Roll halls of fame, and earned both the National Medal of the Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors.
He remained an activist late into his life — walking through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest in 2011.
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Seeger joins a long list of musical performers to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, including Elvis Presley, Thelonious Monk, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declined to comment Monday on reports that he is planning to visit Ukraine together with his counterparts from France and Italy soon.
Weekly Bild am Sonntag had reported that Scholz would travel to Kyiv with French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Premier Mario Draghi Berlin before this month’s summit of leaders from the Group of Seven major economies in Germany.
Several other European leaders, Germany’s opposition leader and members of Scholz’s own Cabinet have visited Ukraine in recent weeks to express solidarity with the country in the face of Russia’s military assault, raising the pressure on the German chancellor to do likewise.
Scholz fobbed off questions about the reported travel plans, saying that he wouldn’t go beyond what his spokesperson had told reporters earlier in the day. The spokesperson had declined to discuss the reports.
While Germany has contributed considerable financial and military aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion three months ago, Scholz’s government has been criticized both at home and abroad for being slower to do so than the United States and some smaller European countries.
Scholz pushed back against such criticism Monday, saying that the advanced howitzers Germany is providing to Ukraine, for example, require extensive training before they can be used.
“I think it would be good if those who express their views on this or that issue spent a moment thinking about it first,” he said.
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The best knee-high boots
Fall is here, meaning it’s time to put away your summer gear and get out your warm-weather clothing. Unlike winter, fall offers plenty of versatility in the outfits you can wear and is ideal for strutting a stylish pair of boots.
Knee-high boots are a popular choice for many fall outfits, and if you’re looking for an upgrade, now is the perfect time to start shopping. Whether you want something casual or formal, there are many styles to choose from that’ll have you looking great this season.
What to know before buying knee-high boots
Ankle-high vs. knee-high boots
Ankle-length boots are excellent for wearing during the fall and are more versatile than knee-high boots. However, knee-high boots are warmer, so they’re good to wear during fall and mild winter days. If you’ve never worn knee-high boots, getting used to them may take some time, as they can initially feel awkward.
Are over-the-knee boots the same as knee-high boots?
Over-the-knee and knee-high boots are often used interchangeably, but there’s a distinction in shaft height. Over-the-knee boots have a higher shaft that sometimes extends up to the thigh and are best suited for those who want to obscure their knees.
Knee-high boots are more comfortable than over-the-knee boots, but depending on what you wear them with, it can be more challenging to create the appearance of a slim, lean silhouette the way you can with over-the-knee boots.
Price
Knee-high boots vary in price as much as in style, design and color. If you’re not picky, you can find many terrific boots in the $50-$100 range. If you want designer boots made with premium materials that have a more luxurious look, expect to pay up to $300.
Top features to look for in quality knee-high boots
High-quality materials and fabrics
The best boots are made of genuine or synthetic leather and usually have a footbed lined with soft fabric for a comfortable fit. The outsole is made with tough rubber and provides enough traction to prevent you from slipping on wet or slippery surfaces.
Zippers
Some knee-high boots require you to stick your foot in from the top, and although they offer a streamlined look, they can be frustrating to put on and take off, especially if you’re in a hurry. A side zipper on the instep can add a nice touch to a boot, letting you put it on and take it off effortlessly.
Accents
Accents at the top of the boots give them additional flair that makes them stand out compared to boots with a more traditional design. For example, some boots have tie accents at the rear of the top of the shaft, or gold-tone buckles on the side that make them appear more stylish.
Best knee-high boots
Best boots under $100
Journee Collection Mount Women’s Over-the-Knee Boots
They have small block heels measuring 1.2 inches, side zippers and stylish tie accents at the top. They have a padded footbed for long-lasting comfort, a faux-suede upper and a fabric lining for a secure fit.
Sold by Kohl’s
Dream Pairs Women’s Knee-High Riding Boots
These have a lightly padded fur lining for superior comfort and an instep zipper that makes them easy to put on and take off. They come in 11 stylish designs and colors and have a heel height of 1.4 inches.
Sold by Amazon
Steve Madden Tessy Tall Western Boots
They deliver a stylish design and are available in suede and patent leather. They have a pointed toe and a chunky block heel.
Sold by Macy’s
Journee Collection Meg Women’s Tall Boots
These have stylish knee-high styling, a durable faux-suede upper and soft fabric lining for a comfortable feel. The synthetic rubber outsole provides superior traction on wet or slippery surfaces, and the round-toe design gives them a casual but elegant look.
Sold by Kohl’s
Tommy Hilfiger Women’s Shyenne Equestrian Boots
They’re made with durable synthetic leather and are perfect for complementing your best fall outfits. They come in five stylish colors and designs and have gold details on the buckle for a sophisticated look.
Sold by Amazon
Lifestride Xtrovert Women’s Riding Boots
These almond-toe boots are suitable for cool spring, fall and even some light winter days. They have a water-resistant construction, an inset back panel for a comfortable feel and a SoftSystem comfort package in the midsole for all-day comfort and support.
Sold by Kohl’s
Journee Collection Jayne Women’s Knee-High Boots
They have a traditional style but are fashionable enough to wear with various outfits. They have a ruched slouch shaft, a durable synthetic upper and a comfortable cushioned midsole. Plus, the rubber outsole provides plenty of traction.
Sold by Kohl’s
Premium knee-high boots over $100
Nine West Yanie Women’s Over-The-Knee Boots
They have a chunky 2.87-inch heel and a 21-inch shaft height. They have a round-toe design, a faux-suede upper with synthetic lining for a secure feel and a padded footbed for superior comfort.
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Michael Kors Women’s Bromley Flat Tall Riding Boots
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NEW YORK (AP) — At a small patch of Central Park flanking New York’s Harlem neighborhood, scores came Monday to remember the injustice that imprisoned five Black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly accused and convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger.
They arrived in the chill of a late fall morning, some singing hymns, to dedicate a park entry to the men once known as the Central Park Five, but now remembered as the Exonerated Five.
The entryway, located on the northern perimeter of the park between Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, will be known as the “Gate of the Exonerated.” It commemorates the miscarriage of justice that not only befell the five men, organizers say, but the unknown others who might have been wrongly imprisoned.
“This is a moment. This is legacy time,” said one of the men, Yusef Salaam.
“We are here because we persevere,” he said to a cheering crowd.
Monday was the first time Raymond Santana, another of the men, now in his 40s, has returned to Central Park since that fateful day 33 years ago.
Santana was 14 and Salaam was 16 when they and three others — Kevin Richardson, 14; Korey Wise, 16; and Antron McCray, 15 — were wrongly tried for the rape of a 28-year-old woman, whose brutal attack left her with permanent injuries and no memory of the assault. The high-profile incident prompted police to round up Black and Brown men and boys in connection with the rape.
“We were babies, who had no dealing with the law. Never knew what Miranda was,” said Santana, as he recounted a time of confusion when police rustled him up and began interrogating him.
Matias Reyes, a murderer and serial rapist already in prison, would later confess to the crime.
Soon after, the convictions of the Central Park Five were thrown out in 2002 after the men served six to 13 years in prison.
“It needs to be known what we went through. We went to hell and back,” said Richardson. “We have these scars that nobody sees.”
The three men — Wise and McCray could not attend — spoke about how the criminal justice system is stacked against people of color.
The gate, they said, would stand as reminder of the injustice of the past but also of those still being committed today.
“This is an important time right here — the Gate of the Exonerated, this is for everybody,” Richardson said. “Everybody that’s been wronged by cops.”
The modest remembrance — words etched in stone on a waist-high wall — was years in the making.
Other entrances to the park have been labeled to reflect groups of people who live and work in the city, with names like Artisans’ Gate, Scholars’ Gate and Strangers’ Gate.
Mayor Eric Adams, who was just starting his career as a New York City police officer during the 1989 episode, arrived to the ceremony to pay tribute to the men.
“To these soldiers here, you personify the Black male experience,” the mayor, who is also Black, said to the men.
Alvin Bragg, who now leads the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, apologized for their ordeal.
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Law Enforcement Torch Run kicks off Tampa Bay Special Olympics
TAMPA, Fla. - Law enforcement from across Hillsborough County teamed up with Special Olympics athletes Thursday for the Law Enforcement Torch Run, which is in an annual kick-off to the organizations local games.
Dozens of police officers and Hillsborough deputies participated in the event, running down Bayshore Boulevard, carrying what's known as the Flame of Hope.
The group made a brief stop at the Gasparilla pirate ship to take photos, before continuing into downtown Tampa.
The flame, "symbolizes courage and celebration of diversity uniting communities around the globe," according the Special Olympics.
The torches are also carried into Special Olympics State, Regional, Provincial, National and World Games.
The Torch Run has grown over the years and now includes many fundraising platforms, including Plane Pulls, Polar Plunges, Tip-A-Cops, and more. The event has raised over $600 million for Special Olympics programs nationwide.
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Junction City man injured in motorcycle crash on I-70
Published: Jun. 22, 2022 at 10:52 PM CDT|Updated: 5 minutes ago
GEARY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) - At 7:00pm on Wednesday, June 22nd, first responders were called to the scene of a motorcycle crash on Interstate 70 near mile marker 302, near Marshall Army Airfield.
Upon arrival law enforcement found a 2016 Victory motorcycle driven by Patrick Noles, of Junction City, had been involved in a single vehicle crash.
Noles lost control of the motorcycle and laid it down before both he and the motorcycle impacted guardrail, sliding to a stop.
Noles was transported to Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka for treatment of suspected serious injuries.
Noles was not wearing a safety helmet a the time of the crash.
Crash details taken from Kansas Highway Patrol crash log.
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Coast Guard Academy settles suit over cadets-with-kids ban
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet who was expelled for becoming a father will get his degree as part of a legal settlement, his attorneys said Thursday.
Isaak Olson sued the academy in December after years of endeavoring to be reinstated as a cadet. He was two months from graduating, with a degree in mechanical engineering and a commission as an officer, when he disclosed in 2014 that his fiancée had given birth to their first child, according the lawsuit.
“No one should ever have to choose between the honor of being a Coast Guard cadet and the honor of being a parent,” Olson said Thursday in a statement released by his lawyers. He said he was “thankful the academy has reached a settlement that recognizes my right to both.”
The Coast Guard Academy confirmed the settlement but didn’t give details.
Olson was expelled under an academy regulation that barred cadets from having “any maternal or paternal obligation or responsibility,” according to the lawsuit. Olson’s lawyers said the policy still stands.
Olson learned of his fiancée’s pregnancy in April of his junior year, and the baby was born in August 2013, according to the lawsuit. It said he was never asked about dependents until he got a duty screening application in March 2014 and disclosed the child’s birth.
The couple had Olson’s parental rights terminated in hopes of enabling him to graduate, and he later went through a long administrative process to try to get his status restored, to no avail, according to his lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut, and Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic.
Along the way, Olson enlisted in the Coast Guard, and the couple married and had another child, the attorneys said. He is now an aviation maintenance technician, stationed in Alaska.
The lawsuit sought his commission and back pay, since he makes less than he would as an officer. The ACLU said there is no financial component to the settlement, but it does include a statement that will allow him to apply to be commissioned as an officer.
“Becoming a parent shouldn’t be seen as a hardship,” Olson said in his statement. “I look forward to the day that cadets are given the same rights as the rest of the service.”
The federal law that funded and authorized the Defense Department for the 2022 fiscal year gives the military until the end of December to craft “regulations that include the option to preserve parental guardianship rights” for cadets or midshipmen who become pregnant or father children while at one of the department’s service academies.
The law applies to the U.S. Military Academy, the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy — but not to the Coast Guard Academy, which is run by the Department of Homeland Security.
The academy said in a statement that there is ongoing litigation on the subject, so it wouldn’t comment.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ty Gibbs was promoted to NASCAR's top Cup series on Tuesday in an expected announcement that was void of any celebration as Joe Gibbs Racing continues to mourn the loss of Gibbs' father.
Coy Gibbs died in his sleep hours after his 20-year-old son won the Xfinity Series championship on Nov. 5 at Phoenix Raceway. He was 49, the same age as older brother, J.D., when he passed away in 2019.
Joe Gibbs, the NASCAR and NFL Hall of Famer, has lost both his sons a month before their 50th birthdays. Coy Gibbs was vice chairman of his father's NASCAR team at the time of his death.
The Gibbs family has made no public statements since confirming Coy Gibbs' passing shortly before the NASCAR season finale. Ty Gibbs did not race in the Nov. 6 finale and has made just one public appearance since, courtside at a Charlotte Hornets game last week with his younger brother, a cousin and another driver.
The Tuesday announcement that Ty Gibbs will replace Kyle Busch in JGR's Cup lineup came in a four-paragraph press release that said Gibbs will move up with Chris Gayle, his crew chief during this year's championship season.
Ty Gibbs will drive the No. 54 Toyota Camry next year and JGR said it plans to use the No. 18 for future use. Joe Gibbs chose the No. 18 when he launched his NASCAR team in 1992 and Busch spent the past 15 years with the number.
Ty Gibbs has used the No. 54 the past two seasons in the Xfinity Series, where he won 11 of 51 races and the championship in the season finale at Phoenix. His first national series title ended a bumpy season for Ty Gibbs, who scrapped with other drivers, was fined by NASCAR, and then cost JGR driver Brandon Jones a spot in the championship finale by spinning him out of the lead on the final lap at Martinsville Speedway.
If Gibbs had simply stayed in second behind Jones, both JGR drivers would have made the championship race and Toyota would have had two entries. Joe Gibbs promised consequences would be coming for his grandson, but the team had to get through championship week first.
Ty Gibbs then won the title but learned of his father's passing at a Phoenix-area hotel the next morning.
Before the incident at Martinsville, Toyota Racing Development president David Wilson had defended Gibbs' growth while noting he's younger than most of his peers. He'll join a JGR lineup that includes 42-year-old Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin, who turns 42 later this week, as well as Christopher Bell, who turns 28 next month. Bell raced for the Cup title at Phoenix, finishing third in the title race.
“What we have to remember is, particularly if you contemplate him continuing to drive at the Cup level, he’s still got a lot to learn. He just turned 20. He’s going to make mistakes," Wilson said in October. "Early in the season, he was not just getting into scraps, but once he got out of the car, he was handling that aggressively. He’s done a much better job handling the emotion once he gets out of the car.
"But he’s still seeing things that are new to him, and it’s going to be a very dynamic time for him.”
Ty Gibbs spent the week leading into the finale apologizing for the Jones incident, which he admitted was selfish and lacked big picture awareness for the entire Gibbs organization. He also copped to being over-aggressive and maybe even dirty at times on the track.
He was booed at both Martinsville after spinning Jones, and again at Phoenix after winning the title.
“Definitely have made some mistakes in the past and last weekend, but the best thing for me is to move on. And that’s what I did (at Phoenix) in my race, and we won,” Ty Gibbs said after the race. “Just moving on and learning from my mistakes. I can’t go back and change the past; and if I could, I would. But we can’t do that, and the best thing for me is to learn from it.”
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BANGKOK (AP) — A model from Myanmar who denounced her country’s military rulers last year from the stage of a beauty pageant in Thailand said Friday she fears she may be forced back home.
Thaw Nandar Aung, also known as Han Lay, told The Associated Press by phone that she was stuck at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport after being denied reentry to Thailand when she arrived Wednesday night from a short trip to Vietnam. She has been living in Thailand but needed to exit and reenter in order to extend her stay.
She said she was seeking the assistance of the United Nations' refugee agency to avoid being sent back to Myanmar, where she feared harsh punishment from the military government she has criticized.
People denied entry to Thailand are usually deported to their last point of departure, but the U.N. agency advised her she would be arrested in Vietnam and then repatriated to Myanmar.
Thai Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanee Sangrat confirmed in a text message that Thaw Nandar Aung was denied entry into Thailand “due to an issue with her travel document.”
“The relevant authorities did not make an arrest and have no plans to send her anywhere at this stage,” he said.
Myanmar’s military seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and has cracked down heavily on the widespread opposition to its rule. It used lethal force to quash demonstrations and has arrested critics, including actors and other celebrities, under various laws with potential penalties ranging from three years’ imprisonment to death. In July, authorities executed four activists who were accused of involvement with terrorist activities.
Thaw Nandar Aung said that on arrival in Bangkok, Thai immigration authorities entered her name into their online database and then asked her if she had reported her passport missing in Vietnam, to which she replied “no." She said they then showed her a screen they said indicated there was an Interpol Red Notice out for her, which means the police force of a country had asked for her to be detained.
It could not be immediately confirmed whether Interpol has posted such a notice. However, Myanmar's military government has unilaterally revoked many of its leading opponents' passports in an effort to restrict their activities.
Thaw Nandar Aung used her platform as the Myanmar contestant last year at the Miss Grand International beauty pageant in the Thai capital Bangkok to speak about the killings of pro-democracy protesters in her homeland.
“Every citizen of the world wants the prosperity of their country and the peaceful environment," she said. “In doing so, the leaders involved should not use their power and selfishness to apply.”
"Today in my country, Myanmar, while I am going to be on this stage, there are so many people dying, more than 100 people died today. I am deeply be sorry for all the people who have lost their lives,” she said, pausing frequently to fight back tears.
She added: “I want to say for here that, please help Myanmar. We need your urgent international help right now.”
Her support for her country’s pro-democracy movement continued online after the pageant.
On Thursday night, Thai police told her Myanmar police had come to see her, but she declined to meet them, Thaw Nandar Aung said, adding that she expected to meet with representatives from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees’ office Friday morning.
“Everyone now is trying to protect me, like UNHCR,” she said ahead of her meeting. “I think they will find a solution for me, today. Let’s see.”
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AVON, Conn., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Constitution Surgery Alliance (CSA), a leading operator of outpatient surgery centers, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rod Carbonell, RN, BSN, MHA to the role of Chief Development Officer. In this role, Mr. Carbonell will be responsible for identifying, cultivating and executing on partnership opportunities with health systems and physician groups, including health system joint ventures, de novo ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), and acquisitions of existing facilities.
Building on their historical success in the Northeast United States, CSA is now expanding their focus to new markets. Mr. Carbonell's appointment is an integral part of that expansion effort. "We're seeing more hospital systems developing ASC-focused strategies, and more physicians seeking the kinds of partnerships that CSA helps create," said CSA President and CEO Kris Mineau. "We needed a dedicated and experienced resource to evaluate the opportunities and find the right fits. Rod was the perfect choice because he has a deep understanding of the ASC industry from both an operational and strategic perspective."
"CSA is uniquely positioned to accelerate growth because of their clear vision and commitment to disciplined business operations," said Mr. Carbonell. "In my new role, I hope to help CSA enter new markets and partnerships with high-quality surgeons and health-systems who share similar values. Although I will be leading business development activities, my foundations as a clinician will always remain as my guide in this industry, and I am excited and honored to join CSA."
Mr. Carbonell began his career in the healthcare industry 26 years ago as a Registered Nurse, giving him a distinctive insight into healthcare operational efficiencies. Prior to joining CSA, he served as President at Muve Health and ValueHealth, where he led operations of a unique and innovative program that used surgery centers and overnight nursing care suites to perform high-acuity total joint surgeries under value-based-care payer arrangements. He has worked in, developed, or managed over 20 ASCs and has deep experience working with hospital and health system executive leadership on strategic planning and market share growth, including with prominent orthopedic, cardiology, neurosurgery, and other specialty groups.
About CSA
CSA is a leading operator of outpatient surgery centers. Over the past 20 years, CSA has developed 25 surgery centers, including 15 hospital joint ventures, and have partnered with more than 500 surgeons and physicians. CSA's centers encompass 100-plus operating rooms that complete more than 100,000 surgical cases each year. In 2023 CSA had 5 of the 28 Top Ambulatory Surgery Centers as named by The Leapfrog Group, a national recognition widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive awards United States hospitals and ASCs can receive for patient safety and quality.
For more information, please visit csasurgery.com.
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WORCESTER, Mass. - This week, Rotmans Furniture announced plans to shut down after 60 years in business, but before they close their doors, customers are flocking back one last time for deals and memories.
What You Need To Know
- Rotmans Furniture will close early next year after more than 60 years of business
- This weekend, customers are coming back for their 'Going out of Business Forever Sale'
- Employees encourage customers to stop by, even if they're not planning to buy
- After closing, CEO Steve Rotman hopes to license the space to small retailers
"Most people in Worcester County have at least something from Rotmans in their home," longtime employee Barbara Kane said.
Kane has been on the showroom floor for 23 years, watching the business grow and building long-running friendships with coworkers and customers.
"We consider ourselves family, all the employees," Kane said. "And we consider the Worcester community our family, people have shopped here for generations. Grandparents, parents and now their children."
Friday marked the beginning the Rotmans' four-day 'Going out of Business Forever Sale,' and folks like Susan and Victor Durocher couldn't resist taking one last stroll through the 200,000 square-foot building. By now, they certainly know their way around.
"We've bought, I don't know how many, one, two, three, four, probably five sets of living room furniture," Susan Durocher said. "A kitchen set, little tables, lots of stuff and mattresses and they've been really good. The service was great."
Victor, meanwhile, is no stranger to saying goodbye to a Worcester mainstay. For 43 years, he worked at Elwood Adams Hardware on Main Street. At the time of its closing in 2017, it was the longest operating hardware store in the U.S., dating back to 1782.
"It hit me the same way that business hit me, nothing is going to last forever," Victor Durocher said. "A lot of people that were in business in that time are elderly and nobody wants to get into the business. It really hurts that the brick and mortar buildings are no longer."
Rotmans Furniture will remain open until early next year, and for as long as the lights are on, employees are encouraging people to stop by, even just to say hello or walk though the store one more time.
"Even if you're not shopping for something, it's a sentimental trip," Kane said. "This is may be where you bought your bedroom set 40 years ago when you got married, there's a lot of sentiment attached to the things people buy at Rotmans."
And people seem to be answering the call. In all her hours on the clock, Kane said Friday's crowd was the busiest she'd ever seen.
The Worcester store plans to close by early 2023. CEO Steve Rotman hopes to license the space to small retailers and other businesses struggling to find space.
"My parents and the brothers who started the business always thought of the employees and the customers that we had as family," Rotman said earlier this week. "I'm at the point where I want to control the space that I'm in, but to work with multiple retailers and people and create an environment which is great for the consumer." | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/10/14/customers-visit-rotmans-furniture-one-last-time-as-worcester-mainstay-plans-to-shut-its-doors | 2022-10-14 21:42:13 | 1 | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/10/14/customers-visit-rotmans-furniture-one-last-time-as-worcester-mainstay-plans-to-shut-its-doors |
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Verrica Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (""Verrica or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VRCA). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Verrica and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
In December 2020, Verrica submitted its New Drug Application ("NDA") to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") seeking regulatory approval of VP-102 for the treatment of molluscum. Then, on September 20, 2021, after the market closed, Verrica announced receipt of a Complete Response Letter ("CRL") due to deficiencies at a facility of Verrica's contract manufacturer in connection with the Company's NDA.
On this news, the Company's stock price fell $1.00 per share, or 8.3%, to close at $11.03 per share on September 21, 2021.
In November 2021, Verrica resubmitted the NDA for VP -102, claiming "[t]he resubmission addresses the successful resolution of inspection deficiencies" at the manufacturing facility. Finally, on May 24, 2022, after the market closed, Verrica announced receipt of another Complete Response Letter regarding the VP-102 NDA citing "deficiencies identified during a general reinspection of Sterling Pharmaceuticals Services, LLC (Sterling), the contract manufacturing organization (CMO) that manufacture's Verrica's bulk solution drug product."
On this news, Verrica's stock price fell $3.55 per share, or 63.8%, to close at $2.01 per share on May 25, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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