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Romanian authorities confiscated a $3.9 million trove of luxury cars, watches and cash as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation involving British-American male dominance influencer Andrew Tate.
Tate, a 36-year-old known for his misogynistic views, was detained in Bucharest last month on charges of rape, human trafficking and running an organized crime ring. Tate's brother and two Romanian citizens were included in the initial rounds of arrests.
On Saturday, Romanian authorities descended upon the Tates' compound in Bucharest to confiscate 29 assets, including 15 sports cars and 14 luxury watches, according to a statement from the Romanian Asset Recovery and Management Agency. Alongside several sums of money in multiple currencies, the total value of the goods is estimated to be 18 million lei ($3.9 million USD).
The statement does not explicitly name Tate, but photos published by The Associated Press and Reuters showed a half-dozen masked Romanian agents hauling away a blue Rolls-Royce identical to the one pictured in the Romanian press release.
A BMW, Porsche and Aston Martin, each with a license plate bearing the word "T8," are pictured being towed away from the residence, which itself is emblazoned with the name "TATE" in fluorescent lighting.
Neither Romanian authorities nor lawyers for Tate responded to NPR's request for comment.
On Tuesday, a judge upheld an earlier move to extend the arrest of Tate and the three alleged co-conspirators from 24 hours to 30 days. A day later, Tate lost a second appeal challenging the seizure of his assets, The Associated Press reported.
Romania's anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said in its original arrest statement that it has identified six victims of sexual exploitation involved with the scheme. The women were lured by false pretenses of love, then subjected to "physical violence and mental coercion," according to the agency.
The victims were kept under surveillance and forced to "perform pornographic demonstrations," DIICOT says. At least one victim was raped on two separate occasions, the agency says.
DIICOT has executed a total of 12 home search warrants as part of the investigation so far.
A Twitter account belonging to Tate, which has been updated daily throughout his detention, posted on the day of the confiscation that "anyone smart enough to understand the American System is unfair would be mind blown by the injustice of the Romanian System."
"Anyone who believes I'm a human trafficker is genuinely a moron," the post also said.
Tate, a former professional kickboxer who self-styled himself as a male life coach, is known for viral videos containing misogynistic statements promoting female submission, domestic violence and male wealth.
Tate has been banned from every major social media platform with little impact to his overall popularity among Gen Z men. He regained a Twitter account after Elon Musk took over the company last year.
That account launched him back into the public spotlight the week of his arrest, thanks in part to a Twitter feud with the climate activist Greta Thunberg.
The two exchanged back-and-forth comments on the platform after Tate bragged about the amount of emissions produced by his luxury cars.
About half of those cars could now be auctioned off at the court's approval, Romanian officials say.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-01-16/andrew-tates-cars-and-watches-worth-4-million-are-confiscated-by-romanian-police | 2023-01-17 19:42:38 | 1 | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-01-16/andrew-tates-cars-and-watches-worth-4-million-are-confiscated-by-romanian-police |
Some of the biggest proponents of conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections regularly tour the country together. Many of the speakers are closely tied to former president Donald Trump.
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Some of the biggest proponents of conspiracy theories about vaccines and elections regularly tour the country together. Many of the speakers are closely tied to former president Donald Trump.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, June 13, 2022
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...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
* WHERE...San Bernardino County Mountains.
* WHEN...Until 11 AM PDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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The National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) on Thursday officially announced Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will take over as head of the players’ union next month, days after it was reported Walsh would depart the administration.
The NHLPA confirmed that Walsh would serve as the union’s next executive director beginning in mid-March. The announcement is the first formal confirmation from either the union or the White House that Walsh will be leaving his government job.
“I am honored to have been selected as the Executive Director of the NHLPA. In accepting this offer I am committing to do all that I can to advocate on players’ behalf,” Walsh said in a statement. “My years of experience in the labor movement and in public life has taught me that the job is never about me. It’s about us. It’s about the people we serve. So I look forward to working with players and the NHLPA staff to make the NHLPA the best and most effective team we can be to advance and protect the interests of our players and their families.”
Walsh, 55, was chosen by a search committee for the players union after a nearly yearlong search for a replacement for the retiring Director Don Fehr.
Walsh’s departure makes him the first Senate-confirmed Cabinet official in the line of succession to leave the administration since President Biden took office.
Before joining the Biden administration, Walsh was the mayor of Boston from 2014 until 2021, and prior to that he had been a member of the Massachusetts State House since 1997.
He has had various union roles throughout his career, including a stint as leader of the Building and Construction Trades Council in Boston. As Labor Secretary, Walsh was at the forefront of Biden’s efforts to fulfill his pledge to be the most pro-union president in history, meeting frequently with union workers, including those on strike.
Walsh played a key role in negotiations between railroad operators and union workers to avoid a strike that officials said would have devastated the U.S. supply chain and damaged the economy. Congress eventually voted to impose a contract to avoid a strike after negotiations initially faltered.
Jockeying has already started for who will replace Walsh in the administration. The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus has urged Biden to elevate Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su to the top job, noting that Biden lacks an Asian American secretary in his Cabinet.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has reportedly urged Biden to consider former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) for the job after he lost his reelection bid in November. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/marty-walsh-to-officially-take-over-as-nhlpa-director-in-march/ | 2023-02-16 21:44:45 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/hill-politics/marty-walsh-to-officially-take-over-as-nhlpa-director-in-march/ |
You enjoy fresh fruit and now you want to grow your own. Starting a garden requires plants and some growing knowledge. The problem is, growing your own food is a long-term commitment that can be intimidating. University of Illinois Extension believes growing your own food should be a joy, not a burden. Join friends and neighbors at The Refuge Food Forest and let us help you grow your first harvest.
A food system heavy with fresh fruit sits in North Normal. It is called a food forest because it contains trees and shrubs, just like a forest. The difference is most the plants are food-producing. A harvest from our community-supported food forest includes apples, and pears, berries like black, white, and red currant, but also seemingly exotic picks like pawpaw. This Eden in Central Illinois may sound like fiction but University of Illinois Extension and Town of Normal have created it.
In 2015, the University of Illinois Extension in Bloomington and the Town of Normal partnered with the Savannah Institute, an agroforestry & perennial agriculture non-profit, to design and install a space with the following goals:
1) Develop and maintain a site focused on food access available for all community members, dawn to dusk
2) Offer community education in an outdoor living classroom. Topics include mushroom cultivation strategies, growing fruit (perennial crop cultivation), and general land management.
3) Offer a green space that encourages collaboration between community partners.
If you are interested in a visit to The Refuge Food Forest but feel uncertain how to get involved, join a work and harvest day hosted by Nick Frillman, University of Illinois Extension Local Food Systems and Small Farms Extension Educator. Partner organizations and community members alike can join in an afternoon of weeding, mulching, or trimming during monthly guided workdays. Don't be intimidated by a lifetime of weed challenges. Consider our motto: weed early, weed often. Then put it to practice, all season long, at The Refuge Food Forest.
Let the temptation of old favorites or the adventure of new things guide you to The Refuge Food Forest, July 21 and 28. Join The Refuge Food Forest Facebook group to stay up to date on rain dates and cancellations.
For full engagement, come equipped with a harvesting vessel, outdoor seasonal attire including a hat, sunscreen, water, and sturdy shoes. We provide gloves and work tools – you are welcome to bring along your favorites!
On July 21, The Refuge Food Forest will participate in We Rise Up for Parks and Recreation Month hosted by Town of Normal Parks and Recreation. For more information, visit Town of Normal Parks and Recreation normalil.gov.
Frillman is the University of Illinois Extension local foods and small farms educator in Livingston, McLean and Woodford counties. | https://pantagraph.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/frillman-the-refuge-food-forest-can-get-you-started-in-gardening/article_01298410-01f6-11ed-ac72-3fe2971dadc2.html | 2022-07-15 14:25:26 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/frillman-the-refuge-food-forest-can-get-you-started-in-gardening/article_01298410-01f6-11ed-ac72-3fe2971dadc2.html |
GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaho Partners, LLC ("Kaho") announced today that it has formed Addtronics, LLC ("Addtronics"), a mission-driven holding company dedicated to acquiring, empowering, and growing leading robotic automation solution providers. Kaho also announced that Addtronics has acquired Dynamic Design Solutions, LLC ("DDS"), a leading custom robotic automation systems provider based in Charlotte, NC.
The United States could have over two million unfilled manufacturing jobs by 2030, a potentially trillion-dollar problem for the country. Kaho formed Addtronics to strengthen the domestic manufacturing sector by increasing the implementation of robotic automation solutions. Addtronics empowers leading robotic automation companies to solve real world manufacturing problems, like increasing output, improving worker safety, enhancing product quality, and driving productivity and velocity.
Founded in 1998, DDS designs, engineers, and fabricates custom robotic automation solutions for American manufacturing companies. Brad DeMarco, founder of DDS, has retained a meaningful ownership position in the go-forward business, and the existing management team will continue to run the business. DDS will keep its team, name, and unique culture.
Kaho also announced that Jerry Osborn and Adam Coffey have joined the board of Addtronics, and that Jerry Osborn has also joined as President. Jerry, an established leader in the robotic automation industry, has spent the last 35+ years in leadership positions at large robotic automation companies, including ABB and KUKA, two of the world's largest industrial robot OEMs. Adam, a buy-and-build expert, has spent the last 20+ years as the CEO of multiple private equity-backed industrial services companies, where he executed over 50 acquisitions and led multiple successful exits.
Brad DeMarco, the Founder of DDS, remarked "I am excited to partner with Addtronics for the next stage of DDS' growth. I was drawn to their mission-driven culture and their focus on improving the competitiveness of the American manufacturing sector. We know that our team and our customers will benefit from being part of a scaled organization that can provide additional resources, capital, and industry expertise. We remain committed to investing in our team and delivering the high-quality solutions that solve our customers' most difficult challenges."
"We are thrilled to launch Addtronics after spending more than a year developing our thesis around robotic automation. Addtronics is uniquely organized in a way that allows the companies we partner with to maintain their autonomy, brand identity, and culture, while also strengthening their competitive advantages through increased access to capital, resources, and scale. We look forward to partnering with additional robotic automation companies over the coming years as we transform this critical industry," stated Max Katzenstein, Co-founder of Addtronics and Managing Partner of Kaho.
"The COVID-19 pandemic showcased how dependent American businesses and consumers are on foreign manufacturing. If we want to continue to grow American manufacturing, it is critical that we expand access to robotic automation solutions. We are extremely excited to launch Addtronics and partner with Brad and his team at DDS," stated Griffin Horter, Co-founder of Addtronics and Managing Partner of Kaho.
Addtronics is actively searching for additional businesses to add to its family of robotic automation solution providers. Likely candidates will be excited about joining a mission-driven organization that values autonomy and the entrepreneurial spirit.
Terms of the deals were not disclosed. Holland & Knight, PLLC acted as counsel to Kaho.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Max Katzenstein (max@kahopartners.com) or Griffin Horter (griffin@kahopartners.com)
About Addtronics: Addtronics is a mission-driven holding company dedicated to acquiring, empowering, and growing leading robotic automation solution providers. Addtronics is strengthening the domestic manufacturing sector by increasing access to robotic automation solutions. Addtronics seeks to be the acquirer of choice in this space by allowing its brands to retain their autonomy, identities, and brands. For more information on Addtronics, please visit www.addtronics.com.
About Kaho Partners: Kaho is a thesis-driven private equity firm exclusively focused on building market-leading companies through aggressive organic and inorganic growth. Kaho is singularly focused on building a select few companies, and maintains a long-term time horizon. Kaho is based in New York, NY and Greenwich, CT. For more information on Kaho Partners, please visit www.kahopartners.com.
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KATY, Texas (AP) — A shelter-in-place advisory issued in suburban Houston because of a leak of ammonia gas from a refrigeration line at a warehouse was lifted early Sunday afternoon, officials said.
Officials said at a news conference that while air monitoring would continue around the 99 Cents Only Store distribution center in Katy, there wasn't currently a health risk. No injuries were reported.
Emergency responders were called to the warehouse just before 9 p.m. Saturday because of the leak of anhydrous ammonia from an overhead refrigeration line, Harris County Emergency Services District 48 Fire Chief George McAteer said. He said the refrigeration system had been undergoing maintenance.
Initially, the leak was contained to the building, but around 1 a.m. Sunday, air monitoring showed it was leaking out of the 800,000-square-foot (74,322 square meters), Harris County Fire Marshal Laurie Christensen said.
Officials said that it was initially too dangerous for crews to be inside the building because of the flammability of the gas and the respiratory effects from it, but by early afternoon, it had been determined that the tanks had bled off and only residual amounts of ammonia were left.
Harris County Public Health said it issued the shelter in place advisory Sunday morning for the 2 square miles (5 square kilometers) out of an abundance of caution.
Exposure to high concentrations of ammonia in the air can cause burning of the eyes, nose, throat and respiratory track, and can result in blindness, lung damage or death, health officials say, while exposure to lower amounts can result in coughing and irritation of the nose and throat. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/houston-area-shelter-in-place-lifted-after-17780117.php | 2023-02-12 21:18:08 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/houston-area-shelter-in-place-lifted-after-17780117.php |
Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were sold:
1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
2. $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
3. $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
4. $1.35 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
5. $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
6. $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
7. $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
8. $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
9. $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
10. $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
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Sources: AP archives, www.megamillions.com and www.powerball.com | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/ap-what-are-the-10-largest-us-lottery-jackpots-ever-won-3/ | 2023-02-04 13:24:44 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/ap-health/ap-what-are-the-10-largest-us-lottery-jackpots-ever-won-3/ |
Police: Couple found dead in home with more than 125 cats
YORKTOWN, N.Y. (News 12 Westchester) - Police in New York say they are working to remove over 100 cats from a home where a couple was found dead.
Police report the couple was found deceased in their bedroom on Monday while conducting a welfare check.
Not much is currently known about the deaths because authorities said they can’t investigate further until they remove more than 125 cats from the home.
Yorktown Police Chief Robert Noble is asking available animal lovers to adopt.
“Any place that can take in these cats is what we’re looking for. We’re trying to turn a negative into a positive,” Noble said.
Authorities said humane enforcement officers have been moving the cats to shelters.
However, the team said they can’t rescue all of them right away, because the shelters they are using are currently out of space.
“There’s probably another 40, maybe even 50 or more still inside,” said Ernest Lungaro, with the SPCA Westchester.
Lungaro said other shelters are trying to adopt the cats, while those already rescued are being treated for parasites, dehydration and eye infections.
Friends and neighbors of the couple who died said they never had any idea about the cat hoarding.
“When we first moved here, I would find every so often a cat beneath the pool deck, but I would have never guessed that many,” said neighbor Joe Prestia.
Police said it is early in their investigation but they don’t believe any foul play was involved in the couple’s deaths.
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The Illinois Senate on Thursday approved a series of changes to a nearly two-year-old criminal justice reform law just one month before some of its key provisions, including a controversial measure to eliminate cash bail, are slated to take effect.
An amendment that codifies the changes to the sweeping legislation, also known as the SAFE-T Act, passed in the Democratic-led Senate by a 38-17 party-line vote and was expected to move to the House.
The amendment included clarifications to the process for transitioning from the cash bail system to one that sets out specific criteria for judges to determine whether defendants should be incarcerated while awaiting trial.
The amendment also clarifies the standards that judges must follow when considering whether a defendant presents a danger to the public and should remain jailed.
Defendants charged with crimes before Jan. 1 would have the option to remain under the old bail system or be moved to the new system. To ease the burden on the court system, the amendment sets out specific time frames for holding detention hearings for those shifting to the new system.
Defendants accused of nonviolent offenses must have their hearings within seven days, while those deemed to be a flight risk must appear in court within 60 days. Defendants considered to be a safety threat, such as those accused of murder, sexual assault and other violent crimes, must have a hearing within 90 days.
The proposal also seeks to make clear that police can arrest people for misdemeanors such as trespassing that generally require only a ticket. The amendment clarifies that police can arrest someone for such crimes if they believe “the accused poses a threat to the community or any person” or if “criminal activity persists” after a ticket is written.
Misinformation over the law was rife during the recent election campaign, even as supporters acknowledged some clarification to the legislation signed into law by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in February 2021 was needed.
While opponents of the law stoked fears that it would lead to an emptying of county jails, judges have the ability to keep defendants behind bars if the state can show they were a flight risk or a danger to the public.
Prosecutors had expressed concern that it would be almost impossible to make an argument that a defendant is a flight risk because the law prevented them from using a defendant’s prior history of failing to appear in court. Under the amendment passed by the Senate, patterns of failing to show up for court — but not a single nonappearance — can be used in making the argument for detention.
The proposal also creates a grant program for jurisdictions to employ more public defenders to meet a possible increase in caseload.
Written and passed in early 2021 by the Democratic-controlled legislature, supporters of the SAFE-T Act say it addresses inequities in the criminal justice system that, among other things, leave many defendants sitting in jail simply because they can’t afford bail.
The elimination of cash bail of the law generated extreme heat during the just-completed election, as Republicans painted Pritzker and other Democrats as soft on crime for backing a measure that does away with cash bail as of New Year’s Day.
This fall, about 60 state’s attorneys across Illinois, including some Democrats, joined a lawsuit against Pritzker and other top Democrats contending that the passage of the law violated the Illinois constitution. A Kankakee County judge could issue a ruling on the lawsuit as early as next month.
The House on Thursday sent the Senate a proposal that represents a portion of a bipartisan deal to stabilize the state’s pandemic-depleted unemployment insurance trust fund.
The deal would repay nearly $1.4 billion outstanding from a $4.5 billion federal loan that kept checks going out to unemployed workers during the first wave of COVID-19.
The House on a 95-8 vote approved part of the plan that would increase the portion of a worker’s salary on which employers pay unemployment taxes, and also raise the target balance of the trust fund to prepare for future downturns. The measure, which has the support of both business interests and organized labor along with Pritzker, also sets up terms for an interest-free state loan to the trust fund that would be repaid over a decade through business taxes that would be deposited into the state’s rainy day fund.
The Senate on a 46-9 vote approved separate legislation that would allocate roughly $1.8 billion in surplus revenue from the current budget year to repay the federal government and lend the state unemployment trust fund $450 million to shore up its balance. State Rep. Jay Hoffman of Swansea said the House intends to take up the funding component when lawmakers return to Springfield in January. | https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/illinois-senate-approves-changes-to-safe-t-act/article_793c1e1e-71c1-11ed-bbb4-2f30be787a4c.html | 2022-12-01 22:15:38 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/illinois-senate-approves-changes-to-safe-t-act/article_793c1e1e-71c1-11ed-bbb4-2f30be787a4c.html |
The dogs were having a good time Saturday with “Paws on the Plaza” at the Santa Fe Plaza in downtown Temple.
They could participate in “lick painting,” fool around on an agility course, meet other dogs and in some cases find a new home.
Chelsea Butler, special events coordinator for Temple Parks and Recreation, explained “lick art.”
Put a sheet of paper and different-colored paint globules inside a plastic bag, she said. Spread peanut butter on the outside of the bag. As the dog licks up the peanut butter, it paints a picture.
This was the department’s second time to hold the dog-friendly event, but its first try on dog art, so no winner would be chosen, she said.
“We’ll call it ‘just for the love of lick art,’” she said.
There were 24 booths around the plaza for people to visit, most of them dog-related. About 10 of them represented other city departments.
Getting set to take all of this in were Crystal Barney of Gatesville and Lia Lenox of Temple, each with a dog that wore a service training vest.
Barney said she bought Akasha, a Belgian Malinois, as a puppy eight years ago. She and Lenox are in the same service training class in Killeen.
Lenox’s dog, Bear, is a mixed breed that she got from an animal shelter. She said they were all just going to walk around and explore.
“It’s good training for the dog,” she said. “He doesn’t have much social interaction.”
Near the sprinklers, Debbie Cotton of Temple welcomed visitors to the “Pearl’s Place” booth.
“We rehabilitate medical cases and once they are healed we adopt them out,” she said.
She brought two dogs, Mia and Copper. When they picked up Mia, she was going to be euthanized, Cotton said. Cooper was found as a stray, with severe mange. He’s all right now, she said.
“Pearl’s Place” has 40 dogs, taken care of by three workers, she said. They began the rescue operation in 2013, but ramped it up in 2020.
“People were afraid they were going to get COVID from their dogs,” she said. “So they were surrendering their dogs to the shelter.”
There are too many dogs, she said, because people are just leaving them. Some of it is economical, she said. Also, people going back to work after COVID don’t want to leave their dogs at home.
“Which is a shame, because their dogs would rather be at home than in a shelter,” she said. “If more people would spay and neuter, then we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in.”
They are trying to network the dogs and get them adopted, she said. Their website is pearlsplaceusa.com.
Brittany Perrine of Central Texas Lost and Found Pets in Waco had a similar tale. The foster home program is working with about 45 dogs, she said.
It all started 13 years ago, after the West explosion, she said, when a lot of people lost their pets. A Facebook page was formed to relocate them.
If the organization is unable to locate a pet’s owners, it gets the animal vaccinated, micro-chipped, and spayed or neutered, and looks for a new owner, she said.
One positive thing, she said, is that CTLFP covers McLennan and the surrounding counties — seven in all. Cities are starting to care, she said. On the negative side, she said, they are completely overwhelmed by the number of animals that need help. | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/central_texas_news/article_9eaf549a-cb85-11ed-ac49-d31ce7fad704.html | 2023-03-26 05:12:45 | 1 | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/central_texas_news/article_9eaf549a-cb85-11ed-ac49-d31ce7fad704.html |
Six months after the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, attorneys who promoted former President Donald Trump's false claims about election fraud are being forced to defend their actions in court.
But some experts say the abuses over the past four years compel the legal profession to perform some deeper soul-searching.
"I just think it's important, if we are to reset, that our profession is prepared to confront itself and make decisions about who we want to be, who we are and what it's going to require, which may be uncomfortable, to ensure that we hold our character," said Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, at an event sponsored by New York University School of Law.
Ifill, who used to teach aspiring attorneys about their roles and responsibilities as "officers of the court," has been calling for an independent commission to produce a full accounting of how lawyers lost their way.
So far, there's little public sign of interest in that kind of self-examination. Instead, judges and attorney discipline panels are performing their own investigations, case by case, in a methodical fashion.
This week in Michigan, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker grilled lawyers close to Trump about the actions they took before filing a lawsuit that claimed irregularities in the 2020 election.
"What authority did this court have to decertify election results?" Parker asked.
The city of Detroit wants those attorneys to face sanctions. At the hearing, Detroit lawyer David Fink called their lawsuit sloppy, careless and "an embarrassment to the legal profession."
Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has been monitoring the election fallout with interest.
"You make a misstatement in court — first of all, don't do that," Bharara said. "And if you do, correct it immediately. There's nothing worse."
But at the hearing in Michigan, some of the attorneys who are under scrutiny adopted a different approach.
One of them, attorney Lin Wood, said he didn't read the complaint before it was filed. Another lawyer with ties to Trump, Sidney Powell, said she took "full responsibility" for the paperwork. Powell told the judge she'd practiced law with the highest standards.
Meanwhile, authorities in New York recently suspended the law license of Rudy Giuliani, Trump's former personal lawyer.
They said Giuliani had "communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public" while trying to overturn the results of the election.
Giuliani wants a hearing, where his lawyers John Leventhal and Barry Kamins said they think he'll be reinstated "as a valued member of the legal profession that he has served so well in his many capacities for so many years."
George Conway, a lawyer who regularly criticizes Trump and the attorneys who worked for him, said the rules are pretty straightforward.
"When you assert something, you have to be able to back it up," Conway said. "You can't make things up."
Conway famously turned down a top job in the Trump Justice Department, calling it "probably the best decision I ever made."
But Conway said many of those lawyers who did serve in the Trump years deserve thanks for refusing to advance phony theories about election fraud this year.
"The upper echelons of the Justice Department in the waning weeks of the administration basically refused to do what Trump wanted them to do and they entered into essentially a bureaucratic suicide pact" where they agreed to quit in protest if Trump tried to fire the head of the Justice Department over the election cases, said Conway.
Trump backed down.
There are lawyers who think the legal profession needs to do a lot more to counter widespread violations of norms and rules — misleading courts, lawmakers and the public.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Sonny Dykes appeared to take a veiled shot at the mighty Southeastern Conference on Thursday morning.
The first-year TCU coach later said he was actually trying to pay the SEC a compliment.
The minor kerfuffle happened when Dykes started discussing the toll of TCU's schedule this season. The Big 12 plays a nine-game conference schedule and the Horned Frogs had to play 10 straight games in 10 weeks against conference schools, counting the Big 12 championship, which they lost to Kansas State.
The SEC plays an eight-game conference schedule.
“You’re not going to catch The Citadel in Week 10," Dykes said of the Big 12 gauntlet. "We caught Texas.”
No. 3 TCU (12-1) faces No. 2 Michigan (13-0) on Saturday in the College Football Playoff semifinal game at the Fiesta Bowl.
It's true that some SEC schools use the extra nonconference game to slide an easier contest into the back end of the schedule. For instance, LSU played UAB in Week 10. Alabama took on Austin Peay in Week 11.
But others — like defending CFP champion and this year's No. 1 seed Georgia — used the nonconference break to face another Power Five school in rival Georgia Tech.
Dykes said the point he was trying to make was the nine-game conference schedule changes things. He complimented the SEC on “taking care of their teams and being really smart.”
The SEC is certainly doing something right — 12 of the past 16 national champs have been from the conference.
“No. 1, they're very good football teams, and No. 2, they do a really good job of scheduling,” Dykes said. "They're really smart about how they schedule, who they schedule and when they schedule. The eight conference games is a huge deal. Sometimes I think that goes undiscussed and unevaluated in terms of the impact on other leagues when they play nine games and that league's playing eight.
“But again, you've got to take your hat off to the SEC. They're doing it the way they want to do and understand the big picture.”
FOLLOWING LSU’S PLAN
LSU threw for 502 yards in losing to Georgia 50-30 in the Southeastern Conference championship game on Dec. 3. The Tigers set the high mark for points, passing yards, total offense (542) and first downs (23) allowed by the Bulldogs this season.
So it’s no surprise Ohio State fielded many questions about possibly following the LSU game plan when the fourth-ranked Buckeyes meet No. 1 Georgia on Saturday in the CFP semifinals at the Peach Bowl.
There’s just one problem with that line of thinking, according to Buckeyes offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson.
“You look at those stats, but the result of the game was (Georgia) won the game by 20,” Wilson said. “So that wasn’t necessarily the formula to win the game and make plays in both phases, third-down conversions, short-yard conversions.”
Added Wilson: “We have to find ways to not only have yards passing and running. We gotta find a way to get the ball to the end zone if we want a chance to win this game.”
GEORGIA HIGHLIGHTS TEs
Georgia’s Brock Bowers won the John Mackey Award as the nation’s top tight end.
The Bulldogs highlight more than one tight end, however.
While Bowers leads the Bulldogs with 52 catches for 726 yards and six touchdowns, he often lines up in two-tight end sets with the massive Darnell Washington, who is 6-foot-7 and 265 pounds.
Washington has 26 catches for 417 yards and two touchdowns and is a strong blocker.
“I think most of the offense circles around him because he’s basically a sixth lineman that can run routes and catch balls,” Bowers said of Washington. “He’ll go road grade anybody in front of (him), but he can also have the finesse to go in and grab it off someone’s head.”
HARBAUGH & LASSO
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh pondered an unusual question on Thursday: What coaching philosophies do you take from Ted Lasso?
Ted Lasso is the name of the fictional American college football coach who is hired to take over an English soccer team in the hit television series that shares the same name as the coach.
Turns out Harbaugh is a fan.
“Everything's perfect,” Harbaugh said. “It's my favorite TV show, right up there with the Rockford Files. Just so good. There's a lesson in every show, whether a life lesson or a coaching lesson, that's what I take from Ted Lasso.”
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AP Sports Writer Charles Odum in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan (WABC) -- The white woman who was fired from her job for calling 911 on a Black bird-watcher in Central Park has lost her discrimination lawsuit.
Amy Cooper sued her former employer, Franklin Templeton, claiming she was illegally terminated without an internal investigation.
She says the investment firm also made defamatory statements against her on social media.
The judge ruled that the act of watching a video of the incident and discussing Cooper's conduct was basically an 'internal review.'
The judge said the firm's accusation of bigotry is a protected statement of opinion.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Quinton Williams threw two touchdown passes and Antoine Murray ran for two more as Howard broke a scoreless tie at halftime to post a 31-0 rout of Division II Morehouse College Saturday in the Inaugural HBCU New York Classic.
The historic rivals met for the 38th time since the series started in 1923. The Bison are 26-10-2 all-time in the series and have won all five meetings since its revival in 2010.
Aaron Bickerton missed a 43-yard field-goal attempt midway through the second quarter before connecting from 30 yards in the third to break the scoreless tie. After stopping the Maroon Tigers on downs, Williams found Murray from 29 yards out for a 10-0 lead going into the final period.
Williams and Murray connected on a second 29-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter and Eden James ran 51 yards for a TD to cap the scoring.
Williams finished 21-of-27 passing with Murray pulling down eight passes for 116 yards.
Howard (1-3) limited Morehouse College (0-3) to 98 yards passing and 120 rushing.
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: Terrell Sorensen, University of Idaho Extension educator, Power County, sits on the foundation of a building from the original townsite of American Falls. The city was moved to accommodate construction of American Falls Reservoir, but water levels in the reservoir are now so low that the townsite has been exposed.
Absent an extremely wet winter, University of Idaho Extension educator Terrell Sorensen expects growers throughout southern and eastern Idaho will have to get creative next season to stretch meager water supplies.
Sorensen, of Power County, served as district manager of Falls Irrigation in American Falls for more than 25 years before joining UI Extension in 2015. In the late fall of each year, Sorensen authors a water outlook on behalf of the university.
Conditions are already taking shape for a challenging 2023 irrigation season. Farmers mostly drained the Eastern Snake Plain reservoir system to weather the 2022 growing season, and many canal companies have had to shut off early. The Aberdeen-Springfield Canal Co., for example, cut off water in early September, about 40 days ahead of its usual schedule. As of Sept. 26, the Upper Snake River reservoir system was at just 14 percent of its capacity, according to the federal Bureau of Reclamation.
Sorensen said some water-intensive crops, such as corn, are being harvested early, and the early dig sugar beets are also being harvested in areas that are going to lack irrigation water.
“We need at least 125 percent of the average snowpack this winter to start getting some of this storage back,” Sorensen said.
The dry season undermines efforts by the state’s groundwater irrigators to meet milestones of a major settlement agreement with surface water irrigators who have senior water rights. A key prong of the settlement requires large-scale managed aquifer recharge — intentionally allowing surface water to seep into the aquifer through unlined canals and spill basins to replenish declining groundwater levels. There’s been little surplus water to recharge for the past two years.
Sorensen has several tips for farmers seeking to conserve their water without sacrificing yields and profits.
First, he recommends changing cropping systems to prioritize low-water crops and short-season crops that can be harvested earlier in the year. He finds using probes to track soil moisture can help growers avoid over-watering during the heat of summer. Finally, he suggests that growers remove their pivot end guns, which are large sprinklers on the outer ends of pivots that spray water up to 120 feet to cover field corners.
Former UI Extension irrigation specialist Howard Neibling once estimated that farmers grow about 18 percent less crop on pivot corners due to uneven distribution of water by end guns. Wind and evaporation also play a large role in the reduced efficiency of watering those areas.
Sorensen suggests that farmers who remove end guns enroll their field corners in the federal Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, which pays farmers to stop irrigating fields throughout the duration of a 10-year contract. There are about 12,000 acres in Idaho enrolled in CREP, which is significantly below a goal of 100,000 acres set in support of the water settlement.
What’s your advice to irrigators following a dry season?
Sorensen: “The main thing is you’ve got to be conservative on water use. Get your leaks all stopped. Check your pivot sprinkler packages, check your nozzles, just get your system in top irrigating shape. The best thing you can do is monitor your soil. You don’t want to overwater, which you tend to do when it’s hot. Switch to some different cropping systems. Maybe put fall wheat in if you can. Maybe look at some triticale or something for a forage crop — something that you can get off early. With alfalfa, maybe dry it up and don’t get a third crop if you’re short on water. You’d better look at your potatoes if you don’t have a sure water supply. The same goes with sugar beets and corn — and any intensive water crops. With corn maybe you could grow another feed that wouldn’t use as much water — maybe barley or something else that is a water-short crop. If you’ve got pivots, I’m big about taking the end guns off. If you put the pencil to it, with your crops out there in those corners it doesn’t pay that much to plant them and you can save a bunch of water by taking off those end guns.”
What’s the storage outlook throughout the Eastern Snake Plain?
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Azure Power Global Limited ("Azure" or the "Company") (NYSE: AZRE), if they purchased the Company's securities between June 15, 2021 and August 26, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until October 31, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
5-3-7-7-6
(five, three, seven, seven, six)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
5-3-7-7-6
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The Nation's Weather for Friday, June 10, 2022
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NATIONAL SUMMARY
An area of thunderstorms will move from Arkansas in the
morning to southwestern Alabama during the afternoon today.
Flash flooding and damaging winds will be the main threats
along the path of these strong storms. Elsewhere, non-severe
thunderstorms will rumble from Iowa to Illinois, Missouri,
Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. To the east of the severe
weather, thunderstorms are also expected in Georgia and
Florida. Meanwhile, much of the Northeast will be dry. The
exception will be a possible spotty shower in northern
portions of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire and western
and central Maine. In the West, afternoon thunderstorms may
develop in the higher terrain of Arizona and southwestern
New Mexico. Unfortunately, the storms are likely to contain
more lightning than rain.
SPECIAL WEATHER
No new information for this time period.
WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS
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DAILY EXTREMES
National High Thursday 117 at Death Valley, CA
National Low Thursday 29 at Yellowstone N.P., WY
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truechip, the Verification IP Specialist, today announced at DAC 2022 that it has launched a new product series of Automation products viz. NoC Verification and NoC Performance which will revolutionize the current NoC verification methodology.
Speaking on the occasion, Nitin Kishore, CEO, Truechip said, "Being the pioneer in the Verification space, I am glad to share that Truechip has a new product which will bring a paradigm shift for the NoC verification. We believe that this will transform the way NoC verification is being done. It generates sanity tests as well as comprehensive tests for full coverage verification. NoC Verification and NoC Performance products are available for all major NoC Interfaces such as AMBA (AXI, AHB, APB, CXS) & TileLink protocols. NoC Performance helps to avoid manual calculations and waveform viewing for checking various latencies and reduces overall time in performance calculation and optimization. This is very helpful not only to chip verification and chip architecture teams who want to check latencies and hopping latencies at different points of the chip but also for the IP Teams and IP companies who want to optimize their IP designs for maximum bus and bandwidth utilization."
"NoC Verification and NoC Performance also includes the TruEYE™ GUI which provides transaction level information." Mr. Kishore further added.
Features of NoC Verification:
- Automated Testbench creation & Integration of DUT and VIP
- Automated Test case generation for sanity tests / full verification
- End to end data score boarding
- NoC Monitor is included
- Regression running and analysis
- Multiple protocols and theoretically any number of nodes.
Features of NoC Performance:
- Latency taken inside the NoC in multiple ways
- Bus utilization
- Bandwidth utilization
- Data transfer information
Speaking on the occasion, Saurabh Agarwal, Head-Marketing & Sales, Truechip said, "Being the innovator in the area of verification, Truechip's constant endeavor is to invent new products and solutions which can transform the processes in the chip verification industry. Automation and GUI products is another product after the successful launch of Silicon IPs. Stay tuned as we will be launching more innovative products in the coming future. For more information on Automation and GUI products, you can visit our website or click here."
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Truechip is a leading provider of Verification IP solutions, DFT, Physical design and verification services, which aid to accelerate IP/ SOC design thus lowering the cost and the risks associated with the development of ASIC, FPGA and SOC. Truechip provides Verification IP solutions for RISC V-based chips, Networking, Automotive, Microcontroller, Mobile, Storage, Data Centers, AI domains for all known protocols along with custom VIP development. A privately held company with solid and seasoned leadership, having global footprints and coverage across North America, Europe, and Asia. Truechip offers Industry's first 24 x 7 technical support.
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GRAMMY-Nominated Artist Took the Stage at Hard Rock Cafe London Old Park Lane, where Hard Rock Heals Foundation Presented a $250,000 Donation to LGBTQIA+ Causes
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: Hard Rock International hosted a private event with Halsey to celebrate the start of Pride Month at Hard Rock Cafe London Old Park Lane, where the brand was founded. This VIP event featured an intimate performance by the GRAMMY®-nominated, multi-platinum, genre-bending artist, known for advocating for the LGBTQIA+ community as a queer artist themselves, alongside notable speakers and representation from LGBTQIA+ nonprofit partners. To commemorate the occasion, Hard Rock Heals Foundation®, the charitable arm of Hard Rock®, presented a $250,000 donation to the Human Rights Campaign and Outright International in support of their service to LGBTQIA+ communities.
Additionally, live during the event, Halsey donated several pieces of memorabilia to Hard Rock's celebrated collection of more than 87,000 pieces. The world's largest and most valuable authentic music memorabilia collection at Hard Rock began at Hard Rock Cafe London Old Park Lane with Eric Clapton marking his favorite seat by hanging his guitar on the wall. Halsey's contribution now adds:
- Custom white and orange pullover with two-piece bodysuit worn every night during Halsey's 2017-18 "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom" World Tour, with stops in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
- Gibson J-45 Tobacco Burst acoustic guitar played by Halsey while performing "Finally // Beautiful Stranger" during January 26, 2020 appearance on Saturday Night Live. At the VIP event on June 3, 2023, Halsey personally inscribed a thank you message to Hard Rock along with a drawing on the guitar.
WHEN: June 3, 2023
WHERE: Hard Rock Cafe London Old Park Lane - 150 Old Park Lane, London W1K 1QZ
VISUALS: Halsey with String Ensemble intimate performance and live memorabilia donation at Hard Rock Cafe London Old Park Lane; two co-branded Hard Rock x Halsey Signature Series Pride Edition T-shirts – Images can be found HERE.
Now available in stores and online at Rock Shops®, Halsey, who is a queer artist themself, has designed two co-branded Hard Rock x Halsey Signature Series Pride Edition T-shirts. A portion of proceeds from the 2023 Pride will benefit Human Rights Campaign, Outright International, and local LGBTQIA+ charities.
"All of us at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) are incredibly grateful to Halsey and Hard Rock for selecting HRCF as a beneficiary partner for this global fundraising effort. HRCF seeks to fundamentally change the way LGBTQIA+ people are treated in our everyday lives. LGBTQIA+ people are in every community, every profession and every culture, and yet we face enormous obstacles simply because of who we are," said Zack Hasychak, Director of Membership Outreach at Human Rights Campaign Foundation. "We work to build capacity and change policies, practices, hearts and minds in a range of institutions that shape our daily lives, from corporations to hospitals to schools. This partnership with Halsey and Hard Rock will provide critical funds to support and grow our work so that we can impact even more LGBTQIA+ people."
"Outright International is delighted and proud to partner with Hard Rock and Halsey to celebrate the resilience and joy of the LGBTIQIA+ community and elevate Outright's work advocating for the human rights of LGBTIQIA+ people around the world," said Elise Colomer-Cheadle, Director of Development & Corporate Engagement at Outright International. "Through our collaboration this June, Hard Rock and Halsey will help extend the impact of Outright's work, elevating the voices of LGBTQIA+ activists around the globe and amplifying the issues impacting LGBTQIA+ communities. At a time where anti-LGBTIQIA+ movements are mobilizing, we remain deeply grateful to Hard Rock and Halsey for their support and solidarity."
For full details on Hard Rock International's 2023 Pride activations, partnerships, and support of the LGBTQIA+ community and diversity, please see HERE.
About Hard Rock Heals Foundation®:
The Hard Rock Heals Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization and oversees all philanthropic outreach for Hard Rock International. Music is energy; it stirs emotion, inspires, connects, and restores. The Hard Rock Heals Foundation exists to improve lives through the power of music. Since its inception in 1971, Hard Rock International has brought people together through the power of music. We have developed partnerships with artists ranging from emerging to iconic in support of charitable efforts around the world. The Hard Rock Heals Foundation provides grants and assistance to individuals whose goal is to heal through the power of music. Partnerships with like-minded, music-centric organizations allow Hard Rock Heals Foundation the opportunity to improve lives and promote wellness.
About Hard Rock®:
Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in over 70 countries spanning 290 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Hotels, Casinos, Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 87,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. Hard Rock Hotels has been honored by J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study as the number one brand in Outstanding Guest Satisfaction for two consecutive years, and among the top Upper Upscale Hotels for four consecutive years. HRI became the first privately-owned gaming company designated a U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal in 2021, and has since been honored threefold. Hard Rock was also honored by Forbes among the World's Best Employers, as well as Best Employers for Women, Diversity and New Grads and a Top Large Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. In the 2022 Global Gaming Awards, Hard Rock was named Land-Based Operator of the Year for the second time in four years. In 2021, Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos received first place ranking in the Casino Gaming Executive Satisfaction Survey conducted by Bristol Associates Inc. and Spectrum Gaming Group for six of the last seven years. Hard Rock International currently holds investment grades from primary investment rating agencies: S&P Global Ratings (BBB) and Fitch Ratings (BBB). For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- An inventor, from Scobey, Miss., realized there was a need for a more accurate and productive way to pull measurements in the piping industry. After 40 years in the trade, he designed and built a laser operated center finder. The "Eliminator" eliminates time consumption and errors in the task of pulling measurements, where other tools such as string levels, plum bobs and straight edges would require a substantial amount of time to perform the task and often leave room for error.
The LASER OPERATED CENTER FINDER provides a center finder tool with integrated laser component. In doing so, it can be used for precision alignment, measurement, and elevation work in industrial piping applications. As a result, it ensures accuracy, safety and convenience. The invention features an ergonomic design that is easy to use so it is ideal for professional welders, metal piping product manufacturers, pipefitters, plumbing contractors, and building construction site-preparation workers.
The original design was submitted to the Jackson sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-JTK-162, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Can you feel that?
It’s pressure. And after the Warriors’ Game 5 win, it’s all on the Los Angeles Lakers.
And they know it, too.
Yes, the Warriors remain on the brink of elimination, but on Wednesday night, Golden State had everything to lose and responded by playing loose.
More importantly, they played fast.
It wasn’t the Warriors’ best basketball — far from it — but it was highly effective against this tight and plodding Lakers team.
It shouldn’t have taken a four-time champion core this long, but the Warriors finally figured out that this series is little more than a game of attrition.
And when the series is viewed in that light, the Warriors have a massive advantage going into Game 6.
LeBron James is 38 years old and playing his 20th NBA season. He is tired.
Anthony Davis took a seemingly innocuous hit to the head in Game 5 and needed a wheelchair to reach the locker room.
Both should be expected to play in Game 6, but their efficacy moving forward (and looking back on Games 4 and 5) can be questioned.
I think back to a stretch late in the second quarter — when the Warriors opened up what proved to be the winning margin — showed the toll this series has already taken on the Lakers’ two stars.
Luckily, James looked back on it, too:
“We kind of made a run, we had an opportunity to — I missed an easy jump hook in the lane to cut the lead to three,” he said. “AD, right after I missed… had an opportunity to have a tip dunk and missed it. We blew a coverage, Klay hit a 3 on that right wing.”
Another Lakers miss and a Steph 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer and you had a gassed Lakers team going into halftime, wondering what just happened. The Warriors expanded their lead and coasted the remainder of the game, but not before forcing James to play 39 hard minutes and chasing Davis from the game with a head injury.
LA was blitzed. The Warriors went right after the Lakers’ top duo in Game 5. They’ll do it again in Game 6 and Game 7, too.
That’s why the Lakers are running — no, jogging — scared.
In the Lakers’ last series, they found themselves in a similar scenario: A loss in a clincher Game 5 on the road, leaving them one last home game to finish the job. Lakers coach Darvin Ham said his team needed to treat Game 6 like a Game 7 — one more game, and the minutes might be too much for James and Davis.
The Lakers handily won that Game 6 against Memphis.
But it will be a bit harder to end the defending champions’ season.
Still, the Lakers are treating Game 6 like it’s do-or-die.
“It’s the same. It’s the same,” James said.
What happens if Klay Thompson decides the Game 6 Klay legend needs another chapter?
What happens if Draymond Green continues to be Dray Nowitzki?
What happens if Steph Curry — 6-for-his-last-25 from beyond the arc — finds that 3-point shot again?
What happens if the referees decide that the players should determine the game’s outcome, like in the last two games?
“I don’t know what’s a foul anymore,” Ham said after Game 5.
The Warriors do know the formula to beat the Lakers, though. Their issue is they just haven’t been able to execute it save for two games in this series.
But dire circumstances typically bring out a pragmatism in this idealistic Warriors operation. And that pragmatism plus the Warriors’ talent, versatility, and experience is an impressive combination.
That’s why the Lakers are right — they don’t want to play Game 7 in San Francisco. They shouldn’t trust themselves to have enough in the tank for that scenario. They should expect the Warriors’ best in a home afternoon game with everything on the line.
But Game 6 isn’t looking so hot for LA, either.
If the Lakers don’t have Davis for Friday’s game, they will likely lose. LeBron doesn’t have the oomph from years past to singlehandedly win a game for his team. Not with his left foot injury. Not after 11 playoff games.
Even if the Lakers do have Davis, will the best version of him be on the floor? I’d have to guess no — the accumulation of hits has sapped much of his effectiveness as the series has progressed.
The Lakers will be counting on their role players to step up — the last thing you want to require in a big late-in-the-series game. Unless LA can get out to a big early lead and the Lakers can front-run, the pressure of Friday’s game will likely kneecap those role players.
Meanwhile, if the Warriors have one thing going for them, it’s confidence that when the going gets tough, they will find what they need to do the job. Frankly, that confidence has worked against them most of the season, but it’s nice to have when you trail 3-1 in a playoff series.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll repeat it: I won’t believe the Warriors are dead until they register that fourth loss in a series.
And why would anyone believe the Warriors are dead after Wednesday?
No, they look very much alive. And it feels like, even down 3-2, they have the upper hand in this series. | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/05/11/kurtenbach-after-the-warriors-game-5-win-all-the-pressure-is-on-the-lakers-and-they-know-it/ | 2023-05-11 18:04:36 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/05/11/kurtenbach-after-the-warriors-game-5-win-all-the-pressure-is-on-the-lakers-and-they-know-it/ |
Decorative helicopter falls into NJ water park pool; 4 hurt
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — A decorative helicopter fell into a swimming pool at a New Jersey water park, injuring four people on Sunday afternoon.
One person was taken to a hospital and three others were treated at the scene after the object crashed from the ceiling at the DreamWorks Water Park in East Rutherford, NorthJersey.com reported. None of the injuries were life-threatening.
The venue was evacuated and an investigation will take place, New Jersey State Police Sergeant Philip Curry told the news outlet.
DreamWorks Water Park is part of the American Dream shopping and entertainment complex located about 13 miles (21 kilometers) west of New York City in the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
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The MAGA GOP Freedom Team from AZ LD 17 (Rep. Jones, Rep. McGarr, Sen. Wadsack) have sponsored a bill prohibiting transgender persons from working in domestic violence shelters. It is clearly unconstitutional. It illegally prejudges against a particular class of citizens.
It insinuates that law-abiding transgender persons pose some kind of risk to adult and minor DV victims. The state's criminal records show that most domestic violence offenders are almost all heterosexual males and females. Almost all the sexual abusers, molesters and "groomers" are heterosexual males. Not transgender persons.
So, following this proposed law, is the legislature also going to prohibit all heterosexual adults in Arizona from being hired by DV facilities?
The Domestic Violence shelters in Arizona did not ask for this law. It clearly an attempt to punish and discriminate against citizens who happen to be law-abiding transgender persons.
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Randy Rogers picks up his 500th win as Head Coach of the CSI Lady Golden Eagles
In his 21 seasons at the helm, Rogers has experienced heaps of success, but it wasn’t always that way.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — “Win, 1...2…3… WIN!”
“Win”, A simple halftime mantra and something CSI Women’s Basketball Head Coach Randy Rogers has done a whole lot of.
Saturday marked his 500th win with the Golden Eagles.
“I think it’s CSI and its players. Coaches really don’t win games, we can try to help organize it, but you better have some players that can play,” said Rogers.
In his 21 seasons at the helm, Rogers has experienced heaps of success, but it wasn’t always that way.
2002, his first year in the position, the Golden Eagles had a losing record, leaving Rogers wondering if the jump from High School might not work out.
“I wasn’t sure, but the next two years I had success and then, success just kind of bred its own success,” added Rogers.
If anyone knows the challenges of sitting at the top of one the top JC programs in the country, it’s Athletic Director Joel Bate, who coached the team until 2001.
Bate, who brought Rogers to the program’s attention in the early 2000′s, knows he is witnessing greatness.
“It’s a great honor for any of us that have ever had that opportunity and Randy is one of the best in that list,” said Bate.
For his players, Rogers is much more than the oft-yelling, never-sitting coach fans and media see at ICCU Court.
What can you say about coach?
“I love him. He’s tough on the court but he’s such a good person off the court,” said Courtney Stothard – CSI Guard.
His counterpart, Jeff Reinert whose men are undefeated and second in the nation, also knows about success at CSI.
“To coach that many games, that shows longevity, and he still has a major fire to be successful,” said Reinert.
500 wins, far and away the most in CSI history, with no signs of slowing down.
“The fans have been so good to me, and the community has been good to me, it’s such a great area,” said Rogers.
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Duo accused of stealing $1,100+ worth of beer from HEB store
College Station police say one of the suspects admitted to stealing the alcohol as a way to provide drinks at house parties they were attending.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Two College Station men are accused of stealing more than one thousand dollars worth of beer from a grocery store.
According to probable cause affidavits filed by College Station police, Harold Collins, 19, and Bryce Otis, 19, took the alcohol on two separate occasions.
The first theft occurred on September 15, according to police.
Collins and Otis are accused of putting $364 worth of Twisted Teas, Michelob Ultras, and two Fireball Beer and Wine buckets into a cart and then exiting the store without paying.
The second theft occurred on October 7.
On that trip, the duo is accused of stealing nearly $800 in alcohol including 9 Michelob Ultra 18-packs, 6 Miller Lite 24-packs, 16 Twisted Tea 12-packs, 5 Coors Light 24-packs, and 5 Coors Banquet 24-packs.
Police were able to use vehicle license plates to track down the two suspects.
When asked why they did it, Collins reportedly told police they took the beer as a way to provide alcohol to house parties they were attending.
Both are facing theft charges.
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- Six elevators at the 111-year-old ALICO Building are being modernized by TK Elevator.
- TK Elevator has also taken over as the new service provider after more than 100 years with its previous provider.
- Throughout Waco and the surrounding communities, TK Elevator has been keeping people safely moving with its leading service support.
WACO, Texas, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TK Elevator is modernizing the elevators at the 111-year-old ALICO Building, Waco's historic 282-foot-tall office building that was the tallest U.S. building west of the Mississippi River when it was constructed in 1911. The modernization project includes four elevators in the main building and two in the parking garage.
The custom-engineered modernization features tech-driven and environmentally friendly upgrades that will help ensure the long-term future of this iconic building. This includes the addition of regenerative drives, which puts energy back into the building, as well as the installation of MAX, the elevator industry's first IoT predictive maintenance solution.
"The ALICO Building is Waco's most visible symbol of strength and stability, an iconic building that has stood the test of time thanks to American-Amicable Life Insurance Company. We deeply appreciate that American-Amicable Life has entrusted us with these important elevator upgrades as well as the maintenance and service of these units and look forward to helping keep this incredible building safely operating for another 100-plus years," said Kevin Lavallee, CEO BU North America and Group COO Field.
The ALICO Building, which is owned and operated by the American-Amicable Life Insurance Company of Texas, remains the tallest building in Waco and is the oldest skyscraper in Texas still standing despite an F4 tornado in 1953 that damaged or destroyed many nearby buildings. In 2012, the ALICO Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Waco Downtown Historic District.
Founded in 1910, American-Amicable Life Insurance Company of Texas is a progressive special markets insurer offering innovative life insurance products developed to target the individual needs of protection, wealth creation and estate preservation.
"As business office functions have changed, it has been important to update interior floors and associated equipment, systems and components to meet evolving market needs and ensure the ALICO Building remains an attractive and viable office building," added Melissa Clendenin, Director, Client Experience & Facilities at American-Amicable Life. "We take tremendous pride in this treasured part of the Waco community and that pride-in-ownership is reflected in the many upgrades we have made, including to the elevator systems."
TK Elevator has also taken over as the maintenance provider, bringing top-level service support that seamlessly blends the best tools and technologies with the best technicians. The ALICO Building is supported by a highly respected TK Elevator service technician with nearly four decades of experience.
TK Elevator has a rich history supporting businesses, municipalities and educational institutions in Waco and the surrounding communities, including the City of Waco, McLennan Community College and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
To learn more about TK Elevator, go to https://www.tkelevator.com/us-en/.
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With customers in over 100 countries served by more than 50,000 employees, TK Elevator achieved sales of around €8 billion in the fiscal year 2020/2021. Over 1,000 locations around the world provide an extensive network that guarantees closeness to customers. Over the past decades, TK Elevator has established itself as one of the world's leading elevator companies and became independent since its separation from thyssenkrupp AG in August 2020. The company's most important business line is the service business represented by over 24,000 service technicians. The product portfolio covers commodity elevators for residential and commercial buildings to cutting-edge, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers. In addition, it also consists of escalators and moving walks, passenger boarding bridges, stair and platform lifts. Integrated cloud-based service solutions, such as the MAX platform, are gaining in importance. With these digital offerings, there are no limits to urban mobility anymore. TKE – move beyond.
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CANNES, France, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicom Media Group, the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) today announced a strategic collaboration with Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) that will deliver early-adopter opportunities to Omnicom clients. Kroger Precision Marketing is the retail media network powered by 84.51°.
The agreement will launch with Kroger Precision Marketing feeding its SKU-level store inventory data to Omni, Omnicom's open operating system that orchestrates better outcomes for clients across the entire consumer purchasing journey. This daily data will add a critical capability to Omnicom's Supply Chain IQ Score which helps brands to quickly and effectively re-direct media spend to deliver on business KPIs in a supply-strained environment.
The agreement marks the first formal collaboration with this dataset between Kroger Precision Marketing and an agency holding company.
As reported in a recent White House economic report, the supply chain disruption that erupted during the Covid crisis is not fading away even as the pandemic subsides. With inventory challenges continuing, marketers need the ability to quickly adjust their media spend to product availability without negatively impacting performance. At the same time, retailers have a vested interest in supporting efforts to better align advertising to product availability, so their customers aren't being driven to products that aren't available.
Launched in May, the Supply Chain IQ Score leverages data from top U.S. retailers and distributors to give media planners day-to-day visibility into SKU inventory data at the physical store and digital shelf levels. This visibility enables media investment to be quickly shifted away from low-inventory products, and toward another SKU in the brand portfolio that has high repeat purchase behavior, healthy inventory, and strong market basket correlation to the low-inventory item.
This partnership with KPM will provide product availability data across Kroger's 2700 stores in 35 states, as well as fulfillment rates from ecommerce orders and market basket insights around SKUs purchased together and substituted--not currently available through any other third-party platform.
Planners can now optimize in-market retail media, utilizing shopper behavior data to shift spend based on product availability; and still have the flexibility to optimize media, while maintaining national consumer demand.
"The combination of Kroger's reach - 50% of US households– and the greater depth of visibility that its unique inventory data enables adds scale and utility to the Supply Chain IQ Score," says Omnicom Media Group Chief Activation Officer Megan Pagliuca, enhancing account teams' ability to reduce media waste, meet brand performance goals and assure positive consumer experiences in a supply-strained environment."
"Kroger Precision Marketing is committed to bringing more transparency to the media supply chain to help brands be more effective in their advertising," says KPM Senior Vice President Cara Pratt. "Our collaboration with Omnicom aligns with our mission to make brand advertising more accountable."
Omnicom Media Group (OMG) is the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC), a leading global marketing and corporate communications company, providing services to more than 5,000 clients in more than 70 countries. Omnicom Media Group includes full- service media agencies Hearts & Science, OMD and PHD; performance marketing agency Resolution; Optimum Sports Media and Marketing; and the Annalect data and analytics division that developed and manages the Omni open operating system that orchestrates better outcomes for clients across the entire consumer marketing journey .
Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) is a leading retail media network. Powered by 84.51° data science, and Kroger's popular loyalty card program, we connect customers to brands through engaging moments that inspire purchasing online or in-store. Kroger Precision Marketing closes the loop between media exposure and store sales to make brand advertising more accountable. Learn more at KrogerPrecisionMarketing.com
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RUSTON, La. (AP) — Abou Ousmane scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and North Texas beat Louisiana Tech 72-62 on Thursday night.
Kai Huntsberry scored 19 points while finishing 8 of 10 from the floor, and added six assists. Aaron Scott was 5 of 7 shooting and 1 of 3 from the free throw line to finish with 11 points, while adding six rebounds. It was the seventh straight victory for the Mean Green (22-5, 13-3 Conference USA).
Keaston Willis led the way for the Bulldogs (13-13, 6-9) with 18 points. Isaiah Crawford added 12 points, six assists and four steals for Louisiana Tech. Quandre Bullock also had 11 points.
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Both teams next play Saturday. North Texas visits UTEP and Louisiana Tech hosts Charlotte.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world's first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will impact its target asteroid—which poses no threat to Earth—at 7:14 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 26.
Among other activities, NASA will host a televised briefing beginning at 6 p.m. on Sept. 26 from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. APL is the builder and manager of the DART spacecraft for NASA.
This test will show a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it to change the asteroid's motion in a way that can be measured using ground-based telescopes. DART will provide important data to help better prepare for an asteroid that might pose an impact hazard to Earth, should one ever be discovered.
The following is a list of activities for DART's impact with the asteroid Dimorphos (all times Eastern):
Monday, Sept. 12
- 9 a.m. – NASA will host a hybrid media day at APL focused on the technology enabling the DART spacecraft to autonomously navigate to and impact its target asteroid. Participants include leaders from NASA and the DART mission team. In-person attendees will have an opportunity to tour the DART mission operations center at APL, located at 11100 Johns Hopkins Road in Laurel, Maryland.
Media interested in participating must RSVP by completing this form no later than 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30. NASA's media accreditation policy for on-site and virtual activities is available online.
Thursday, Sept. 22
- 3 p.m. – Media briefing at NASA Headquarters to preview DART's final activities before its impact with Dimorphos. The media briefing will take place in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in the Mary W. Jackson building, 300 E. Street, SW in Washington and include senior leaders from NASA and APL.
Media interested in participating must RSVP by completing this form no later than 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15.
Monday, Sept. 26 (DART Impact Day)
Media interested in covering the DART impact from APL must complete this form by 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2.
- 6 p.m. – Live coverage of DART's impact with the asteroid Dimorphos will air on NASA TV and the agency's website. The public also can watch live on agency social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
- 7:14 p.m. – DART's kinetic impact with asteroid Dimorphos.
Interview Opportunities
Remote live and taped interviews via Zoom will be offered from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26. To book a live shot window, media should fill out this form by 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22.
A series of panels featuring NASA and APL mission experts will take place at APL on Monday, Sept. 26. Opportunities for interviews before and after DART's asteroid impact will be available by filling out this form.
NASA Social
Stay connected with the DART mission and share your experience watching DART's impact with an asteroid on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with #DARTMission and #PlanetaryDefender. Follow and tag these accounts:
- Twitter: @NASA, @NASASolarSystem, @AsteroidWatch, @JHUAPL
- Facebook: NASA, NASA Solar System Exploration, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
- Instagram: @NASA, @NASASolarSystem, @JohnsHopkinsAPL
Become a Planetary Defender
Support the DART mission by becoming a "Planetary Defender!" Participants who take a short quiz will earn a certificate and badge they can download, print, and share on social media.
For more information about the DART mission, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/dartmission
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Investcorp Credit Management BDC, Inc. (formerly CM Finance Inc) (NASDAQ:ICMB) ("ICMB" or "the Company") today announced that it will release its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 on Monday, February 13, 2023, after the close of the financial markets.
The Company will host an earnings conference call at 1:00 pm (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. All interested parties may participate in the conference call by dialing (800) 550-9893 5-10 minutes prior to the call; international callers should dial (858) 609-8959. Participants passcode 872058# then press 2 when asked Call. For those who are not able to listen to the call, a replay will be available shortly after the call by visiting our website at http://icmbdc.com/earnings-calls/.
About Investcorp Credit Management BDC, Inc.
The Company is an externally-managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Company's primary investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing in debt and related equity investments of privately held middle-market companies. The Company seeks to invest primarily in middle-market companies that have annual revenues of at least $50 million and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization of at least $15 million. The Company's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, CM Investment Partners LLC. To learn more about Investcorp Credit Management BDC, Inc., please visit www.icmbdc.com.
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Statements included herein may contain "forward-looking statements," which relate to future performance or financial condition, are based upon current expectations and are inherently uncertain. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond the Company's control, including the impact of COVID-19 and related changes in base interest rates and significant market volatility on the Company's business, its portfolio companies, its industry and the global economy. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein, except as required by law. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
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When I first moved to northern Arizona a couple of years ago, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Initially, there was a lot of fear because my personal lifestyle tastes did not jibe with my preconceived notions. Don’t get me wrong, I love the heat, but I was in search of a place with ecological variety and a culture that would be more enriching than where I came from. And being the idiot that I was back then, I thought Flagstaff and the northern Arizona community would be nothing more than the conclusions that I had come to in my own head.
Boy, was I wrong.
Northern Arizona is bursting at the seams with adventure, culture, beauty and opportunity. I remember visiting the Grand Canyon for the first time expecting, as always, to be underwhelmed, thinking, "How big could it REALLY be?" Well, when I first caught a glimpse of it, I couldn’t fully comprehend its immensity. The light haze that things get when they’re in the distance gave the North Rim a mystical quality; one that makes you feel as if you’ve been transported to a different planet. It’s an uncanny feeling, but recently, I’ve been resisting the urge to describe many of the things you’ll find in northern Arizona as “otherworldly.”
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These declarations suggest subliminally, if not outright, that the wonder of this natural world can only be found elsewhere. They dilute our sense of place and our relationship with the land, so in this edition of 99 Things to do in Northern Arizona, we are examining this sense of place and the ways in which we can interact with the land we live with.
Back by popular demand, we have developed three itineraries for you to use as a guide or for inspiration as you venture through the state. We have also brought back Flagstaff’s brewery map with some much-needed edits that will keep our craft beer connoisseurs happy as they navigate Flagstaff and the surrounding towns. And we have added a brand new section where you can read about the community’s favorite memories during their time in the area, and we hope that you will be able to contribute your own when your time here is done.
Northern Arizona is shaping up to be a beautiful place to visit this year, but please, if you do decide to come, take care of the land. It’s the only one we’ve got.
All the best,
Matthew Hayden
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The 2023 NFL Draft came to an end on Saturday.
Here’s a look at the most recent players to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers roster:
Round 1: Calijah Kancey
The Buccaneers selected Pittsburgh defensive lineman Calijah Kancey as the 19th overall pick in the first round. Kancey redshirted his first year with the Pittsburgh Panthers after becoming a first-team All-Florida pick from Miami Northwestern High School.
“Something I hope to do when I get to the next level is I want to learn the playbook and I want to be able to play faster than [I do],” Kancey said. “I think knowing the playbook and knowing what you have to do helps you play faster – that’s something I’m going to put a lot of work into.”
Round 2: Cody Mauch
The Buccaneers selected North Dakota State University offensive tackle Cody Mauch in the second round as the 48th overall pick. Mauch was part of a dominant Bison team that secured four NCAA national championships and four Missouri Valley Football Conference titles.
“They’re getting a guy who’s going to work hard,” Mauch said, addressing Tampa Bay fans. “I’m going go out there, do my part, do what I can to help us win on Sundays in whatever capacity that looks like. I’m going to do my job and have fun doing it. I’m going to try to show that, too. I’m going to have a blast out there. Whatever needs to be done will get done on Sundays.”
Round 3: YaYa Diaby
The Buccaneers selected University of Louisville defensive end YaYa Diaby in the third round as the 82nd overall pick. Diaby started all 13 games with Louisville last season, finishing with 37 total tackles.
“It’s super exciting,” Diaby said about joining the Bucs. “The only interaction I really had with them was at the Senior Bowl or the Combine where I had a formal meeting with them. Everything went smoothly and went well. I’m just happy to be a Buccaneer.”
Round 4: SirVocea Dennis
The Buccaneers selected another Pittsburgh player, linebacker SirVocea Dennis, in the fourth round as the 153rd overall pick. Dennis started all 12 games last season, making Pro Football
Focus All-American (third team). He was also a Butkus Award semifinalist.
Round 6: Josh Hayes
The Buccaneers selected Kansas State University defensive back Josh Hayes in the sixth round as the 181st overall pick. The Lakeland native spent the 2022 season at Kansas State, where he started all 13 games. He started his career at NDSU, where he helped secure FCS division and national championship titles. He graduated from Lake Gibson High School in Lakeland.
Round 6: Trey Palmer
The Buccaneers selected University of Nebraska wide receiver Trey Palmer in the sixth round as the 191st overall pick. Palmer joined the Cornhuskers after three seasons at Louisiana State University. Last season, he appeared in every game with 11 starts and caught 71 passes for 1,043 yards and nine touchdowns.
Round 6: Jose Ramirez
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Which gifts are best for dads?
Father’s Day is coming up. With it comes the opportunity to show your father how much you care. Giving a gift isn’t necessary, but if that’s how you choose to show your love and appreciation, you want to get the right one. The easiest way to choose a gift is to ask him directly what he might like. If you want the gift to be a surprise instead, consider your dad’s main interests. Within those interests, getting him something he’s always wanted or something he truly needs never goes wrong.
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Best gifts for dads
TaylorMade TP Hydro Blast Bandon 3 Putter
Father’s Day Update: This putter is an excellent upgrade for any golf-loving dad looking to improve his short game. High-handicap players especially love the elite distance control, plus the grip is similar to higher-end putters.
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John Christian Men’s Fleece Robe
This luxurious robe is made for lounging around the house on a day off. It has two front pockets so your dad can keep his phone, some snacks and anything else he wants on him.
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Calvin Klein Slim Fit Men’s Dress Shirt
Some dads love getting gifts they can actually use regularly. A button-down shirt for the office or for taking their partner out on a date fits the bill. It comes in 24 sizes.
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“Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases”
This true crime novel is the autobiography of the man who finally caught the Golden State Killer after 20 years of effort. It can be a difficult read, but true crime enthusiasts will devour it.
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“Half Baked Harvest Super Simple”
For dads who love cooking, few things are as exciting as finding a new recipe to try. This cookbook contains more than 125 recipes that are easy to follow, great for meal prepping and, most importantly, delicious.
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Garmin DriveSmart 65 Navigation System
This has a large, nearly 7-inch screen and a thin bezel for clear, easy-to-see directions. It’s controllable through both touch and voice. It can be connected to a backup camera and your dad’s smartphone.
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A dash cam is useful in many situations. It could be used as evidence to protect your dad legally after an accident, for example, or it could capture crazy happenstances that go viral on social media.
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Braun Series 9 Electric Shaver
If your dad has been using a disposable razor all this time, get him the upgrade he deserves. This can be used to shave dry or wet. It comes with a travel case and a cleaning brush.
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This kit is packed with goodies that can help your dad care for his facial hair, including a comb, two types of brushes and beard shampoo, conditioner and oil.
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The Comfy Original Wearable Blanket
This giant wearable blanket is cozy for dads living in the coldest weather or the draftiest houses. It has a hood, a large front pouch and comes in 18 designs, including an American flag.
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If your dad doesn’t like the thought of wearing his blanket, consider getting an electric blanket instead. This one comes in five sizes, including ones big enough for an entire bed, and has six heat settings.
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Rybozen 35-Millimeter Slide Projector
If your dad has long been a photographer, chances are he has many old pictures he can’t truly show off any longer. This projector solves the problem if those old pictures are 35-millimeter slides.
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Nordic Flash Waterproof Camera Float
The next time your dad goes on a tropical vacation, he won’t need to leave his phone behind if he gets in the water with these floats. They work with phones, GoPros and many types of cameras.
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The iPad remains at the top of the list when it comes to tablets. This is one of Apple’s lightest and most feature-rich models. It comes in five colors and two data storage sizes.
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Xpower A-2S Electric Air Duster
The keyboard of any computer can be astonishingly dirty underneath all the keys. This duster blasts all the hair, crumbs and dust out, which can make it as responsive as it was when it was new.
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Logitech For Creators Blue Yeti USB Microphone
Dads are often filled with sage advice, whether you want to hear it or not. To distract him from telling you what you’ve already heard 100 times, get him a good microphone so he can start a podcast.
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If your dad has an iPhone and still hasn’t adopted wearable tech, get him a new Apple Watch. Besides the cool functions, it also serves as a medical emergency alert system should he fall and need help.
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Sony VPL-XW5000DES 4K Projector
If your dad is a huge film buff and he has the space for it, consider getting him a 4K projector. It’s expensive, but he’ll thank you every movie night when he sees the sheer size and quality of the new “screen.”
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If your dad loved to fly kites or pilot remote-controlled planes growing up, get him the high-tech version of those activities: a drone. It can fly for up to 16 minutes at a time.
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If your dad is a snazzy dresser even when he doesn’t necessarily have to be, chances are he loves cufflinks. These have a single initial, so you can get ones to match his first or last name.
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Bulova Men’s Icon Precisionist Quartz Chronograph Watch
Continuing the fashion-forward idea, your dad absolutely must have a nice watch to wear to formal events. Showing up with a fitness tracker or a smartwatch would be slightly gauche.
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EdgeStar Kegerator and Draft Beer Dispenser
For dads who love beer, there’s nothing that can beat the taste of an ice-cold and on-tap glass of their favorite. This refrigerator and dispenser combo can have two beers on tap.
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There’s always enough time to learn a new hobby. Turning your dad into a cocktail-making machine with this set also benefits you and the rest of your family.
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This gorgeous flask is a good bet for dads who like to get a little tipsy while out and about on their days off. The “well deserved” engraving is a nice touch for a gift, too.
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The Series X is currently the most powerful console on the market, just barely beating out the PlayStation 5. It also lets you take advantage of Xbox Game Pass, one of the best deals in gaming.
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The PlayStation 5 has some of the best exclusive games, with huge hits such as God of War: Ragnarok and Horizon: Forbidden West. Plus, Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy 16 are set for this year.
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With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom having finally released to unprecedented sales records, it’s a fantastic time to get your dad the console he needs to play it.
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Roxy Epoxy DIY Candle-Making Kit
If your dad likes working with his hands and making things, a candle-making kit is a creative idea. The included scents are coffee, cinnamon, vanilla and apple. Try mixing them to create more complex aromas.
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If your dad doesn’t already have a safe, get him one. Not only do they protect valuables, they’re beneficial for storing important documents such as birth certificates and deeds to protect them from fire and other disasters.
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GoWise USA 5.8-Quart Air Fryer
If your dad is a home chef but doesn’t have an air fryer yet, it’s almost a requirement to get him one. They’re easy to use, help decrease oil consumption and reach cooking temps faster than ovens.
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T-fal Ultimate EZ Clean Deep Fryer
Then again, life is short. Deep-fried anything is usually more delicious than anything healthy. Imagine a world without deep-fried chicken. Or Oreos. This one has an oil filtration system.
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This ice cream maker exploded in popularity when a viral TikTok video proved that it can turn almost anything into ice cream in mere minutes. It’s hard to find but if you can get one, it’ll change your dad’s game.
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The gift of a beehive starter kit accomplishes multiple things. It’s a source of free honey, and it helps protect the bee population and in turn, the local plant life.
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Garden Republic Bonsai Tree Starter Kit
Maintaining a bonsai tree is a peaceful, meditative activity that any dad with a green thumb can enjoy. This one contains four kinds of trees including Black Spruce and Flame Tree.
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Sun Joe SPX3000 Pressure Washer
If your dad is one of those who insists on doing all their own chores, getting a gift such as a pressure washer to help him complete those chores with less effort is going to be appreciated.
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Fender CD-60SCE Acoustic-Electric Guitar Set
This set includes everything your dad needs to get started on a journey toward learning to play guitar, including an instructional DVD, a tuner, three picks and a shoulder strap.
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This set of bongo drums is a good middle ground between a full drum kit (which is unbelievably loud) and nothing at all. They’re a great way to channel frustration positively.
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If your dad sits at a desk all day but doesn’t have the best chair, get him one. Low-quality chairs lead to discomfort and certain health concerns.
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Brightech LightView Pro Magnifying Floor Lamp
Magnifying lamps are great for all kind of things, from making miniatures to reading. This one has a gooseneck so it can be positioned exactly as your dad likes it.
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This kayak is for fishing dads, as it’s steady enough to handle movement, including standing and sitting, and has a large storage space in the back for a cooler.
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Clostnature 1-Person Backpacking Tent
Dads who love to explore nature (and sleep in it) need gear that’s light enough to haul but quality enough to last. This tent fits the bill and comes in orange and green.
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Vivere Double Cotton Hammock with Stand
There’s nothing like taking a nap in a hammock on a warm day. This set lets you do that without needing to find trees or put bolts in walls, since it comes with a sturdy steel stand.
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Bird feeders are too common. Squirrel feeders are much cuter, and this one looks like a miniature picnic table. You can choose from a small or extra-large tray for food.
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This handy device slips inside a phone case or wallet so your dad can track his stuff down. It’s best for dads who misplace things regularly, but it’s also handy for those worried about theft.
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If your dad is a major gamer but is always traveling, a controller grip for his phone lets him stream his console games more comfortably. It’s also great for mobile-exclusive games.
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Fila Men’s Strada Disruptor Sneakers
Maybe your dad already has and loves “dad shoes,” in which case a fresh pair would be appreciated. Maybe he refuses to buy them, in which case a pair makes a hilarious gag gift.
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Getting socks as a gift as an adult is an overplayed joke. However, these are battery-powered socks that keep your dad’s feet warm. That’s genuinely a gift worth giving. They come in four colors.
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Franklin Sports Mini Basketball Hoop
If your dad is a big basketball fan, getting him a little hoop and ball for his office shows you pay attention to his passions. It can also be a fun competition and bonding activity for the two of you.
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Mainstreet Classics Tabletop Air Hockey
A full air hockey table is expensive (and difficult to find a place for) if given as a surprise. This miniature table lets you and your dad play without any fuss.
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Etekcity Non-Contact Thermometer
Being able to point and get a temperature reading is a valuable ability you don’t truly appreciate until you have it. The cooking applications are many, but there’s also some safety in it, too.
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Black + Decker Max Drill and Home Tool Kit
Chances are your dad already has tools, but there’s an equal chance those tools are old and worn. This set is comprehensive for any number of tasks. If he gives you his old ones, even better.
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If your dad lives in a large home, hauling tools to all the places he needs to maintain can be difficult. This rolling tool box lets him focus on the task rather than the transport.
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Lego Architecture New York City Skyline
Legos are beloved by all ages, not just kids. This adult-leaning set isn’t as flashy as ones meant for kids, but it’s a great fit for dads who love architecture.
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Catan is one of the top 10 most-played board games of all time for more than one reason. It’s simple to understand but leaves room for diverse strategies, and above all, it’s plain fun.
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This 3D puzzle is a functional projector, too. It’s best suited for dads who love both puzzles and film, but it still works for those who prefer only one of the two.
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Epicka Universal Travel Adapter
If your dad travels across the world, he can’t have enough travel adapters. Even if he’s a homebody, this adapter turns any outlet into a device-charging station thanks to its many USB ports.
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Traveling dads who enjoy a particular beverage endlessly appreciate being able to enjoy that beverage at their favorite temperature during their commute. This one comes in four colors.
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Samsung 55-Inch The Terrace QLED 4K Smart Outdoor TV
No patio in the modern age is truly complete without an outdoor TV. These special devices are built with weather protection and their screens are more visible in sunlight.
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This is Google’s highest-quality streaming stick, letting you access any of your streaming services in sharp 4K detail. It comes with a remote and can be controlled by voice.
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Gifts for dads worth checking out
- These Champion boxers stretch and use cotton for maximum comfort.
- Columbia Men’s Backcast III Water Shorts are equipped for a summertime trip to the pool.
- The Complete Gardener is a thoughtful book for dads with green thumbs of any experience level.
- All the Light We Cannot See follows two children during World War II.
- M2 Basics First Aid Kit could help save your father’s life if the worst happens.
- Americaloc GPS Tracker helps to keep track of your dad’s high-value car.
- Nautica Voyage cologne has notes of apples and cedarwood.
- Showgoca Toothbrush Holder keeps your dad’s bathroom organized.
- Witshine Toilet Lights make late-night bathroom trips easier on the eyes.
- Elgato Green Screen lets your dad get more creative with his photography.
- The Targus Spy Guard helps protect your dad’s privacy.
- The Fitbit Versa 4 is an affordable alternative to an Apple Watch.
- Ray-Ban Aviators have been among the coolest sunglasses styles for decades.
- This Richardson Trucker Cap is begging to be monogrammed with your dad’s initials.
- Maitys Wine Glass Charms are helpful for keeping your family’s wine glasses identifiable.
- PlayStation Classic lets your dad relive his gaming glory days.
- Ring Video Doorbell Elite lets your dad see who comes up to their door.
- Schlage Connect Smart Deadbolt turns your dad’s chosen entry into a keyless one.
- Calphalon Intellicrisp Waffle Maker is a high-quality accessory for delicious breakfasts.
- FiveJoy Garden Tool Set gets your dad ready for a new hobby.
- The Stag Cowbell is the only prescription for your dad’s fever.
- NuLink Disco Ball adds some pizzaz to your dad’s den.
- DexBoard Combo Board is handy for home offices.
- Phomemo Label Maker is convenient for dads who like organization.
- Uscamel Binoculars are invaluable for many outdoor activities.
- Coleman SaluSpa Inflatable Hot Tub lets your dad soak aches and pains with less upkeep.
- Outland Living Fire Table upgrades your dad’s patio to one with a fire pit.
- Erligpowht Selfie Stick offers many angles for your dad’s next snap.
- Aonkey Cell Phone Holder lets your dad mount his phone in his car.
- Crocs Men’s Yukon Vista II are suitable water shoes for your dad.
- Muck Boot Wetland Premium Field Boots protect your dad’s feet in even the muddiest conditions.
- Ezred Neck Light keeps your dad’s hands free while he works or reads in the dark.
- The Da Vinci Poker Set is a good choice for dads with regular poker nights.
- Travelambo Luggage Tags come in many colors.
- Huzi Infinity Pillow helps your dad sleep comfortably, wherever he is.
- The TCL 4K Roku Smart TV is a mid-level upgrade to your dad’s older TV.
- Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K turns any TV into a smart TV.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust (BOWFF) on Tuesday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter.
The Calgary, Alberta-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $29.3 million, or 58 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $163.7 million, or $3.58 per share.
The real estate investment trust that owns residential communities, based in Calgary, Alberta, posted revenue of $96.5 million in the period.
The company's shares have climbed 22% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $44.28, a rise of 16% in the last 12 months.
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PITTSBURGH, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Losing a cherished pet in a fire or other home emergency is devastating. I wanted to create a "smart pet door" that would prevent this tragedy from happening if the pet owner was not home,"said an inventor from Shrewsbury Mass.,"That is why I invented the "EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE DOOR".
The patent-pending invention is an upgraded more modern version from the traditional doggy door. The EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE DOOR provides pet owners greater peace of mind by giving their pets a chance to escape should a fire or other life-threatnening curcumstance occur even if they are not home. It also provides visual and audio communication between pet and owner. A wearable tag equipped with a GPS tracker allows pets to be easily located after fleeing the danger. The door features customizable design, easy installation, and additional accessories, including an emergency-ready crate with similar life-saving capabilities.
The original design was submitted to the Boston sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-BEC-166, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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NFL player says his dog was having an emergency when cited for driving 140 mph
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Vikings first-round draft pick Jordan Addison told the state trooper who clocked him going 140 mph in a 55 mph zone last week that he was speeding because of an emergency involving his dog.
The Associated Press on Monday obtained an updated copy of the citation issued to Addison and filed with the St. Paul city attorney.
The Minnesota State Patrol said Addison was pulled over without resistance in a Lamborghini Urus at 3:07 a.m. Thursday by a trooper who was also traveling eastbound on Interstate 94 in St. Paul about a mile outside of downtown.
According to the citation, Addison said he was speeding because his dog was having an emergency at his residence. The nature of the emergency was not disclosed.
Addison said in a statement he made a mistake and used poor judgment. “I recognize and own that,” he said. “I am going to learn from this and not repeat the behavior. I am truly sorry.”
Addison was selected out of Southern California with the 23rd overall pick in the NFL draft, following the cost-cutting move to release veteran wide receiver Adam Thielen.
The 2021 Biletnikoff Award winner for the nation’s top wide receiver at Pittsburgh, Addison transferred to USC for his final college season. He had 59 catches for 875 yards and eight touchdowns in 2022 for the Trojans. In two years with the Panthers, Addison had 2,259 receiving yards.
ESPN first reported Addison’s stated reason for speeding.
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Owner charged with felony neglect after asking animal control to euthanize his dog
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) - A Nebraska man is facing a felony charge after he called animal control to euthanize a dog in his care that was found to be suffering from severe neglect.
Steve Glandt, the vice president of field operations with the Nebraska Humane Society, described the case of neglect to WOWT.
“This case depicts a person that should never have owned an animal; someone that left a pet who is solely dependent on him to suffer through unimaginable conditions,” he said.
WARNING: Some may find the details of this story to be graphic.
The humane society said on Thursday they received a call from Terrance Feairs on Feb. 26 to have his 3-year-old dog euthanized.
When the animal control officer responded to the call, Glandt said he thought the dog had already died. However, it was still alive.
The officer said the dog had numerous sores all over his body and was so emaciated that it could be seen from a distance.
“The animal control officer described the dog in his report as a ‘skeleton with skin draped on it,’ " Glandt said.
The dog was immediately taken in for emergency care, but care providers determined the best course of action was to humanely euthanize the dog because he had developed sepsis after digesting foreign bodies and was suffering numerous other conditions that prevented his recovery, according to Glandt.
Animal control also called the dog’s living conditions “deplorable.” The dog was apparently confined to a restricted area where it would eat, sleep, defecate and urinate.
Feairs reportedly said the animal had been in very poor health for a year and a half. He also admitted that he had not taken the animal to a veterinarian.
“Feairs said he had bought the dog approximately three years ago and still had not named it,” Glandt said. “When asked what sex the dog was, Feairs said that he would have to look.”
Officials say Feairs was cited for not having a pet license or proof of the dog’s vaccination as well as cruelty to animals, and public nuisance due to unsanitary conditions.
After the humane society reviewed the case, the cruelty charge was upgraded to a count of animal neglect or cruelty resulting in injury or death.
Feairs was in court on Thursday afternoon and was released on his own recognizance. He is not allowed to have any animals at his house.
His preliminary hearing is set for April 24.
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FARMINGTON, Conn., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) ("Horizon") (the "Company"), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, announced today that its board of directors has declared monthly cash distributions of $0.10 per share payable in each of October, November and December 2022. The following table shows these monthly distributions, payable as set forth in the tables below, total $0.30 per share. Since its 2010 initial public offering, Horizon has paid a total of $190 million in distributions to its shareholders.
When declaring distributions, the Horizon board of directors reviews estimates of taxable income available for distribution, which may differ from consolidated net income under generally accepted accounting principles due to (i) changes in unrealized appreciation and depreciation, (ii) temporary and permanent differences in income and expense recognition, and (iii) the amount of spillover income carried over from a given year for distribution in the following year. The final determination of taxable income for each tax year, as well as the tax attributes for distributions in such tax year, will be made after the close of the tax year.
Horizon maintains a "Dividend Reinvestment Plan" ("DRIP") that provides for the reinvestment of distributions on behalf of its stockholders, unless a stockholder has elected to receive distributions in cash. As a result, if Horizon declares a distribution, its stockholders who have not "opted out" of the DRIP by the distribution record date will have their distribution automatically reinvested into additional shares of Horizon's common stock. Horizon has the option to satisfy the share requirements of the DRIP through the issuance of new shares of common stock or through open market purchases of common stock by the DRIP plan administrator. Newly-issued shares will be valued based upon the final closing price of Horizon's common stock on a specified valuation date for each distribution as determined by Horizon's board of directors. Shares purchased in the open market to satisfy the DRIP requirements will be valued based upon the average price of the applicable shares purchased by the DRIP plan administrator, before any associated brokerage or other costs, which are borne by Horizon.
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and his dancer girlfriend Melanie Hamrick have put their Florida home up for sale.
A listing on Realtor.com says the lakefront home with four bedrooms and 5.5 baths is listed at $3.499 million — and it looks like the Jagger connection is a key selling point.
“You can’t always get what you want but this house is definitely what you need!” the listing overview says, quoting part of the famous Stones song written by Jagger and Keith Richards in 1969. “This magnificent, custom-built Rutenberg home in the premier gated community of The Lake Club was designed with privacy in mind.”
Jagger and Hamrick bought the home in the Lakewood Ranch area east of Bradenton along the Gulf coast for a little over $1.9 million in October 2020. The property was registered to Hamrick and was chosen mainly because her family lives in the area. Its original purchase price was $1.2 million in 2010.
The overview says the home covers more than 5,700 square feet (529 square meters) in living space and includes features such as a heated saltwater pool, three balconies and a bell tower, top quality kitchen appliances, remote-controlled window treatments and a large media room with a wet bar.
“The possibilities for that room are endless,” the listing says.
Jagger, the 79-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Hamrick, 36, have a 6-year-old son together, Deveraux. They also reside in New York City among other places around the world. Jagger and Hamrick, a former ballerina and choreographer at American Ballet Theatre, have been together since 2014. | https://www.wivb.com/entertainment-news/stones-frontman-jagger-girlfriend-have-florida-house-up-for-sale/ | 2023-06-17 21:47:51 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/entertainment-news/stones-frontman-jagger-girlfriend-have-florida-house-up-for-sale/ |
Martin County - Monday May 22, 2023: A Palm City man, piloting a small prop plane, was killed when he crashed into a field inside a private ranch on SW 48th Terrace in Palm City.
The Martin County Sheriff's Office has identified the man as 69-year old Paul Skilowitz. He was the only person aboard. Skilowitz was a well-known Treasure Coast businessman in the marine industry.
A good samaritan who tried to save Mr. Skilowitz did receive non-life threatening injuries and was treated for burns.
The investigation of the crash has been turned over to the NTSB. | https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-05-22/pilot-killed-in-sunday-plane-crash | 2023-05-22 19:08:13 | 0 | https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-05-22/pilot-killed-in-sunday-plane-crash |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A trial for the man charged in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history opened Tuesday with his own lawyer acknowledging he planned the 2018 massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue and made hateful statements about Jewish people.
Robert Bowers went to Tree of Life synagogue and “shot every person he saw,” defense attorney Judy Clarke acknowledged in her opening statement.
Bowers, 50, could face the death penalty if convicted of some of the 63 counts he faces in the Oct. 27, 2018, attack, which claimed the lives of 11 worshippers from three congregations who shared the building. Charges include 11 counts each of obstruction of free exercise of religion resulting in death and hate crimes resulting in death.
In the long run-up to the trial, Bower’s lawyers had done little to cast doubt on whether he was the gunman, instead focusing on trying to save his life. Bowers, a truck driver from the Pittsburgh suburb of Baldwin, had offered to plead guilty in return for a life sentence, but federal prosecutors turned him down.
In her opening statement, Clarke questioned whether Bowers was acting out of hatred, or an irrational belief that he needed to kill Jews to save others from the genocide he claimed they were enabling by helping immigrants come into the U.S.
“He had what to us is this unthinkable, nonsensical, irrational thought that by killing Jews he would attain his goal,” Clarke said, adding: “There is no making sense of this senseless act. Mr. Bowers caused extraordinary harm to many, many people.”
In their own statement to the jury, prosecutors described how Bowers barged into the synagogue and shot every worshipper he could find.
“The depths of the defendant’s malice and hate can only be proven in the broken bodies” of the victims and “his hateful words,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song said.
Some of the survivors dabbed tears during Song’s presentation, while Bowers, seated at the defense table, showed no reaction.
Twelve jurors and six alternates — chosen Thursday after more than 200 candidates were questioned over a month — are hearing the case. They include 11 women and seven men.
Members of the three congregations arrived at the courthouse in a school bus and entered together. The atmosphere in the large, wood-paneled courtroom was grim and somber as the gallery filled with media, survivors and family members,
Prosecutors have said Bowers made antisemitic comments at the scene of the attack and online.
As an indication that the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial seemed almost a foregone conclusion, Bowers’ lawyers spent little time during jury selection asking how potential jurors would come to a verdict.
Instead, they focused on the penalty phase and how jurors would decide whether to impose the death penalty in a case of a man charged with hate-motivated killings in a house of worship. The defense probed whether potential jurors could consider factors such as mental illness or a difficult childhood. Bowers’ attorneys recently said he has schizophrenia and brain impairments.
The families of those killed are divided over whether the government should pursue the death penalty, but most have voiced support for it.
The trial is taking place in the downtown Pittsburgh courthouse of the U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania, presided over by Judge Robert Colville, an appointee of former President Donald Trump.
Prosecutors have said Bowers made incriminating statements to investigators and left an online trail of antisemitic statements that they say shows the attack was motivated by religious hatred. Police shot Bowers three times before he surrendered.
Prosecutors began presenting their case Tuesday by playing an initial 911 call from Bernice Simon, who reported “we’re being attacked!” at the synagogue and that her husband, Sylvan, had been shot.
Shannon Basa-Sabol, the dispatcher who took that call, testified she advised Bernice Simon to find the wound and stanch the bleeding. Then the dispatcher heard additional gunfire and screaming as Bernice, too, was shot. The couple were among the victims.
“Bernice, are you still with me?” Basa-Sabol asked in an audio recording played for the jury, There was no answer.
Bowers also injured seven people, including five police officers who responded to the scene, investigators said.
In a filing earlier this year, prosecutors said Bowers “harbored deep, murderous animosity towards all Jewish people.” They said he also expressed hatred for HIAS, founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a nonprofit humanitarian group that helps refugees and asylum seekers.
Prosecutors wrote in a court filing that Bowers had nearly 400 followers on his Gab social media account “to whom he promoted his antisemitic views and calls to violence against Jews.”
The three congregations have spoken out against antisemitism and other forms of bigotry since the attack. The Tree of Life congregation also is working with partners on plans to overhaul its current structure, which still stands but has been closed since the shootings, by creating a complex that would house a sanctuary, museum, memorial and center for fighting antisemitism.
The death penalty trial is proceeding three years after now-President Joe Biden said during his 2020 campaign that he would work to end capital punishment at the federal level and in states that still use it. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, has temporarily paused executions to review policies and procedures, but federal prosecutors continue to vigorously work to uphold death sentences that have been issued and, in some cases, to pursue new death sentences at trial.
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DETROIT — Honda is recalling a half-million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because the front seat belts may not latch properly.
The recall covers some of the the automaker’s top-selling models including the 2017 through 2020 CR-V, the 2018 and 2019 Accord, the 2018 through 2020 Odyssey and the 2019 Insight. Also included is the Acura RDX from the 2019 and 2020 model years.
Honda says in documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators that the surface coating on the channel for the buckle can deteriorate over time. The release button can shrink against the channel at lower temperatures, increasing friction and stopping the buckle from latching.
If the buckle doesn’t latch, a driver or passenger may not be restrained in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
Honda says it has no reports of injuries caused by the problem.
Dealers will replace the front seat belt buckle release buttons or the buckle assemblies if needed. Owners will be notified by letter starting April 17. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/ct-biz-honda-seat-belt-recall-20230315-4rfqz4brpbbjfetxy5ozledtby-story.html | 2023-03-15 13:06:36 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/ct-biz-honda-seat-belt-recall-20230315-4rfqz4brpbbjfetxy5ozledtby-story.html |
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TRENTON — Ryan McCarthy hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and the Thunder rallied from a four-run deficit to beat State College, 12-5, on Sunday afternoon and avoid a three-game sweep.
McCarthy, a two-sport standout at The Citadel where he also played football, went 2-for-4 and stole two bases. He upped his average to .256 with 10 RBIs.
McCarthy was one of five Thunder players to collect multiple hits in the game. Dalton Davis, Andrew Cossetti, Mason Hammonds and Colby Backus had two hits each.
Villanova right-hander Cole Patten got touched up for four runs — just two earned as the Thunder (7-8) continued to struggle defensively — in three innings.
The bullpen held the Spikes (6-9) to one run on five hits over the next six innings. | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/06/19/mccarthy-homers-thunder-salvage-finale-against-spikes/ | 2022-06-19 22:57:41 | 1 | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/06/19/mccarthy-homers-thunder-salvage-finale-against-spikes/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, the White House announced Thursday.
“He wanted to let them know that they remain front of mind and that his team is working on this every day, on making sure that Brittney and Paul return home safely,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at Thursday’s press briefing at the White House.
The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans’ release. The administration said in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to get them home, but despite plans for the White House meetings, there is no sign a breakthrough is imminent.
“While I would love to say that the purpose of this meeting is to inform the families that the Russians have accepted our offer and we are bringing their loved ones home — that is not what we’re seeing in these negotiations at this time,” Jean-Pierre said.
She added: “The Russians should accept our offer. The Russians should accept our offer today.”
Griner has been held in Russia since February on drug-related charges. She was sentenced last month to nine years in prison after pleading guilty and has appealed the punishment. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges that he and his family say are false. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained, placing their cases with the office of its top hostage negotiator.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of announcing two months ago that the administration had made a substantial proposal to Russia. Since then, U.S officials have continued to press that offer in hopes of getting serious negotiations underway, and have been following up through the same channel that produced an April prisoner swap that brought Marine veteran Trevor Reed home from Russia, said a senior administration official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in advance of Thursday’s formal announcement.
The negotiations, already strained because of tense relations between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have also been complicated by Russia’s apparent resistance to the proposal the Americans put on the table.
The Russians, who have indicated that they are open to negotiations but have chided the Americans to conduct them in private, have come back with suggestions that are not within the administration’s ability to deliver, said the administration official, declining to elaborate.
The administration has not provided specifics about its proposal, but a person familiar with the matter previously confirmed it had offered to release Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer who is imprisoned in the U.S. and who has long been sought by Moscow. It is also possible that, in the interests of symmetry, Russia might insist on having two of its citizens released from prison.
Biden spoke by phone in July with Griner’s wife, Cherelle, and with Whelan’s sister, Elizabeth, but both families have also requested in-person meetings. On Friday, Biden plans to speak at the White House with Cherelle Griner and with the player’s agent in one meeting and with Elizabeth Whelan in the other, according to the official.
The meetings are being done separately so as to ensure that each family has private time with the president. But the fact that they are happening on the same day shows the extent to which the two cases have become intertwined since the only deal that is presumably palatable to the U.S. is one that gets both Americans — a famous WNBA player and a Michigan man who until recently was little known to the public — home together at the same time,
In the past several months, representatives of both families have expressed frustration over what they perceived as a lack of aggressive action and coordination from the administration.
Cherelle Griner, for instance, told The Associated Press in an interview in June that she was dismayed after the failure of a phone call from her wife that was supposed to have been patched through by the American Embassy in Moscow left the couple unable to connect on their fourth anniversary.
Whelan’s relatives have sought to keep attention on his case, anxious that it has been overshadowed in the public eye by the focus on the far more prominent Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time WNBA all-star. They also conveyed disappointment when Whelan, despite having been held in Russia since December 2018, was not included in a prisoner swap last April that brought home Reed.
Friday’s meetings were scheduled before news broke this week of an unconnected trip to Russia by Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been a veteran emissary in hostage and detainee cases. Administration officials reacted coolly to that trip, with State Department spokesman Ned Price saying Wednesday that dialogue with Russia outside the “established channel” risks hindering efforts to get Griner and Whelan home.
Administration officials say work on hostage and detainee cases persists regardless of whether a family receives a meeting with the president, though there is also no question such an encounter can help establish a meaningful connection.
Biden met in the Oval Office in March with Reed’s parents after the Texas couple stood with a large sign outside the White House calling for their son’s release. The following month, he returned home.
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian teams on Wednesday rescued one person alive and worked to save other survivors of a building collapse in the capital Amman, officials said. State media said at least five people have been killed and at least 10 others remain missing.
Amer Sartawi, a security spokesman, said eight people also have been injured and one survivor had been rescued Wednesday from the rubble of the residential building.
The four-story structure collapsed on Tuesday for reasons that remain unclear. The country’s prime minister has ordered an investigation.
The building was located in Jabal al-Weibdeh, an older district of the Jordanian capital that is popular among wealthier residents and expatriates but also includes some poorer areas.
Jordan is a close Western ally that has long been seen as a bastion of stability in the volatile Middle East. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-at-least-10-still-trapped-in-jordan-building-collapse/ | 2022-09-14 12:47:00 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-at-least-10-still-trapped-in-jordan-building-collapse/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A farmer or resident in a rural area can listen to AM radio in their vehicles for now — but an apparent trend with automakers could silence such radios in the future.
Some automakers appear to be moving away from installing AM radios in new vehicles, particularly electric models. Ford had originally proposed removing AM radios from some new vehicle models starting in 2024 but reversed after hearing from federal lawmakers and officials Tesla, BMW, Porsche, Audi and Volvo have all dropped AM radio from some models citing that electric models interfere with the reception of AM radio. The electric cars create buzzing and other noises in the reception of AM radio, some automakers have said.
A bipartisan front has emerged to to push for the retention of AM radio in all new vehicles at no additional charge. The legislation is called the AM for Every Vehicle Act. Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is one of multiple sponsors. A release from the South Dakota Attorney General said AG Marty Jackley supports the proposed legislation and South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds has signed on as a supporter.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation opposes the proposed federal legislation. It cites the possibility of electric vehicles’ high voltage systems interfering with the reception of AM radio.
The Alliance also says on its website, “Combine that with research indicating drivers barely listen to AM radio in vehicles and the finite real estate behind the dashboard to house newer technologies, a clearer, less dramatic picture starts to emerge.”
Representatives of two radio stations with long histories in South Dakota said removing AM radios from vehicles is a mistake.
AM radio is the backbone of the emergency alert system, said Bill Holst, the general manager of WNAX in Yankton.
“Do we eliminate safety belts from vehicles?” Holst asked. “Are vehicle owners charged extra for that safety feature?”
Diane Deis, the general manager of James River Broadcasting (DRG Media) in Pierre, S.D., used the 2011 flooding on the Missouri River as example of the critical importance of AM radio in emergencies.
“We had 24-hour coverage,” Deis said. “We didn’t go to regular programming. We just kept looking for information to get on the air.”
The public needed to know where it could find sandbags, what the flooding levels were and where they could get other help, Deis said.
Radio “was an instant source” of information, she said.
AM radio takes the responsibility of informing the public about emergency situations such as summer storms seriously, Holst and Deis said.
“We know storms can develop out of nowhere,” Deis said. If a person is in a vehicle and a storm is approaching, AM radio is the source for information, she said.
Holst pointed out that WiFi coverage in rural areas can be spotty, which can make it an unreliable option to get information.
Daily reliance on AM radio
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation said that many people listening to AM radios aren’t listening in their cars.
Residents in their broadcast areas are listening to AM radio every day in their vehicles, Holst and Deis said.
Agriculture producers, “spend hours in that vehicle,” Holst said. “They listen the entire day from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.”
Listening to AM radio is how farmers learn about the markets, “how they stay informed during the day,” said Scott VanderWal, a farmer from Volga who is the president of the South Dakota Farm Bureau.
AM radio often carries agriculture information and resource programs, VanderWal said.
The agriculture information shared on the radio is not replicated on the internet, Holst and Deis said.
For example, WNAX has multiple agriculture analysts from around the nation, Holst said. The information they provide is reliable and current, he said.
VanderWal said his cell phone can be used for information but the public is advised not to use cell phones while driving. His AM radio can be on while driving.
Devices and national radio program subscriptions can provide some information but Deis said, “it’s not always local or relative to their location.”
Drive time with radio
Much of the life in rural South Dakota involves time in a vehicle, Deis said. A 50-mile one-way trip to a doctor’s appointment or a multi-mile trip from one field or pasture to another is not unusual.
“We are a source of information to the masses,” Deis said.
The seven radio stations in the James River Broadcasting system are locally focused, she said.
“We donate a lot of time to local organizations to get their information out,” Deis said.
AM radio listeners will learn about the next high school sports game or a local youth organization’s fundraiser.
KGFX broadcast its first youth baseball game in 1934. “We still broadcast high school sporting events,” Deis said.
“We still announce obituaries,” Deis said. “At 7 a.m., we do the funeral announcements.”
AM radio provides a community for its listeners, Deis said.
Holst likened AM radio to the adage taking a village to raise a child. By broadcasting weather and other local information, a radio station is essentially saying “be safe” and “take care of each other.”
AM has listeners
Pew Research said in 2022, eight-in-10 Americans ages 12 and older listen to terrestrial radio in a given week. Industry websites reported in June that AM radio reaches 82.3 million Americans monthly, representing one out of three U.S. AM/FM radio listeners, based on fall 2022 Nielsen surveys.
Holst said WNAX has focused on reaching what he called three generations of listeners.
For agriculture, there are often three generations considered: The younger people who are starting in production and farming, the middle generation that is actively farming and the senior generation that is retired or not as active in farming. Research has shown that the younger person spends more time with AM radio than the senior generation, Holst said.
He uses comments heard at a social gathering as another example of listening audience. The card party included members of each of the three generations. All three made comments on something they heard on WNAX, Holst said.
Unintended consequences
VanderWal said if automakers are allowed to remove AM radio it could likely have unintended consequences, including threatening the future of AM radio.
Deis and Holst said farm equipment could be next if AM radio is removed from future vehicles.
Representatives of AM radio are sharing their concerns and stories with federal lawmakers.
Deis said radio stations are also working with the National Association of Farm Broadcasters, the National Association of Broadcasters and the South Dakota Broadcasters Association.
The advocacy is not “just for our industry but for our consumers,” Deis said. | https://www.wane.com/news/am-radios-in-new-vehicles-at-risk/ | 2023-07-01 23:03:38 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/am-radios-in-new-vehicles-at-risk/ |
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in
the lower 50s. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Point Reyes 50 66 49 67 / 20 0 0 0
$$
CAZ503-240100-
Sonoma Coastal Range-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds around
5 mph...becoming west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds around
5 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
around 5 mph...becoming south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ502-240100-
Marin Coastal Range-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest
winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the 70s.
$$
CAZ506-240100-
North Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to upper 50s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 90s. South winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the 40s to upper 50s.
South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 90s.
South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the 40s to upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 70s to 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 50s. Highs in the lower 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 70s to 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s to
lower 90s. Lows in the 50s to lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Rosa 48 86 49 87 / 10 0 0 0
San Rafael 54 88 54 82 / 20 0 0 0
Napa 51 83 52 81 / 10 0 0 0
$$
CAZ504-240100-
North Bay Interior Mountains-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to mid 60s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 90s. East winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming south 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to upper 60s. West winds
10 to 20 mph...becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to mid 90s. East winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to mid 60s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph...becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s
to upper 60s. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lake Berryessa 62 93 65 95 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ006-240100-
San Francisco-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 50s. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the upper 50s to lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 53 63 53 66 / 20 0 0 0
Ocean Beach 52 60 52 61 / 20 0 0 10
$$
CAZ509-240100-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows
in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s.
$$
CAZ508-240100-
San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 70s to mid 80s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 70s to lower 80s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph increasing
to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming
5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 70s to lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 55 70 55 72 / 10 0 0 0
Oakland 55 72 54 72 / 20 0 0 0
Fremont 55 77 56 80 / 10 0 0 0
Redwood City 55 84 55 82 / 10 0 0 0
Mountain View 55 75 56 75 / 10 0 0 0
$$
CAZ510-240100-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds
10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs near 90.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the 80s to mid 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 55 92 56 90 / 0 0 0 0
Livermore 55 91 56 92 / 10 0 0 0
$$
CAZ513-240100-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph...
becoming south around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds around 10 mph...becoming
southeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the lower to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the upper 50s. Highs in the 80s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 80s to
lower 90s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 56 83 57 84 / 10 0 0 0
Morgan Hill 54 89 54 89 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ512-240100-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to lower 60s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to mid 80s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s to mid 60s. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s to lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the 70s to
lower 80s. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ515-240100-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest
winds around 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Southwest winds
around 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 80s.
$$
CAZ514-240100-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to upper 60s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to lower 70s. West
winds 5 to 15 mph...becoming southwest up to 5 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
50s to lower 70s. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
CAZ529-240100-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower
50s. Light winds.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower
50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs around 70. Southwest winds up to
5 mph increasing to around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Highs in the
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 51 74 51 72 / 20 0 0 0
$$
CAZ530-240100-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s to mid 80s.
Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s to lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
50s. Highs in the lower 70s to mid 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 54 68 54 69 / 20 0 0 0
Big Sur 57 84 52 72 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ528-240100-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s Salinas Valley and in the lower 90s
Hollister Valley. West winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to
20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s to lower 80s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph...
becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s to lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the upper 60s Salinas Valley and in the upper
70s to mid 80s Hollister Valley.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 70s to mid 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 51 69 52 67 / 10 0 0 0
Carmel Valley 53 85 52 81 / 0 0 0 0
Hollister 52 92 52 80 / 10 0 0 0
$$
CAZ516-240100-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Light
winds.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s. North winds around 5 mph
increasing to northwest 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except patchy fog after midnight.
Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to
around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the upper
80s to mid 90s. Northwest winds around 5 mph increasing to west
10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
10 to 20 mph...becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except patchy fog. Lows in the
lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the 80s to
upper 90s. Lows in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 51 90 49 88 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ517-240100-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to 60s. Northwest winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to mid 90s. West winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to 60s. West
winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s
to upper 60s. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 90s.
$$
CAZ518-240100-
Mountains of San Benito and Interior Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Park-
301 AM PDT Sat Jul 23 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to upper
60s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs upper 80s to 102. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to upper 60s.
West winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming southwest around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 50s to mid 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s
to lower 70s. Highs in the 80s to 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pinnacles NP 56 101 56 97 / 0 0 0 0
$$
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Microsoft adds AI tools to Office apps like Outlook, Word
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is infusing artificial intelligence tools into its Office software, including Word, Excel and Outlook emails.
The company said Thursday the new feature, named Copilot, is a processing engine that will allow users to do things like summarize long emails, draft stories in Word and animate slides in PowerPoint.
Microsoft is marketing the feature as a tool that will allow workers to be more productive by freeing up time they usually spend in their inbox, or allowing them to more easily analyze trends in Excel.
The tech giant based in Redmond, Washington, will also add a chat function called Business Chat, which resembles the popular ChatGPT. It takes commands and carries out actions — like summarizing an email about a particular project to co-workers — using user data.
“Today marks the next major step in the evolution of how we interact with computing, which will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement.
Mattel, Instacart and other companies have also been integrating generative AI tools like ChatGPT and the image generator Dall-E to come up with ideas for new toy cars and answer customers’ food questions.
Microsoft rival Google said this week it is integrating generative AI tools into its own Workspace applications, such as Google Docs, Gmail and Slides. Google says it will be rolling out the features to its “trusted testers on a rolling basis throughout the year.”
Microsoft spokesperson Jessica Dash said the new Office features are currently only available for 20 enterprise customers. It will roll it out for more enterprise customers over the coming months.
The announcement came two days after OpenAI, which powers the generative AI technology Microsoft is relying on, rolled out its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-4.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Divers west of Seattle on Sunday began inspecting the hull of a ferry that lost power and ran aground near Bainbridge Island.
Nobody was hurt when the Walla Walla ran aground in Rich Passage around 4:30 p.m. Saturday on its way from Bremerton to Seattle.
A generator failure apparently played a role in the incident, affecting 596 passengers, 15 crew and 175 vehicles, according to Washington State Ferries, a division of the state Department of Transportation.
Passengers were kept onboard until two passenger-only vessels from Kitsap Transit began taking them to the slip at Bremerton around 8 p.m.
The last passengers left the Walla Walla around 10 p.m. and a rising tide floated the ferry free around midnight, enabling tugs to tow it to Bremerton.
Passengers collected their vehicles in Bremerton on Sunday morning, ferries spokesperson Diane Rhodes said.
“We ended up towing some off the vessel and others came to claim their cars,” Rhodes said.
Divers began examining the ferry's hull around midday, Rhodes said.
Passenger Haley Socha told The Seattle Times the ferry’s lights went out about 20 minutes into the voyage and the engines stopped. The lights came back on after a minute, followed by an alarm and announcement that the vessel had no propulsion and passengers should brace for impact.
People helped one another as they donned life vests, Socha said.
“Everybody’s been really nice and good to each other,” Socha told the Times.
One passenger who had an unrelated medical emergency had to be evacuated from the vessel, according to Washington State Ferries.
The Seattle-Bremerton route was out of service until further notice, the Department of Transportation said on its website.
The website lists the Walla Walla as a four-engine, jumbo class ferry with a capacity of 2,000 passengers and 188 vehicles. It is 440 feet (134 meters) long with a draft of 18 feet (5.4 meters).
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MINNEAPOLIS, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to an overwhelming need for accurate GHG emissions monitoring across the commercial fleet sector, Utilimarc has enhanced its Fleet Business Intelligence platform with comprehensive real-time and annual GHG Analytics. The emissions tracking tool gives fleets an understanding of where they stand and how they can enact change with an easily implemented solution.
The platform's new features are testament to the power of data consolidation. The Progress to Goals feature takes into account that not all fleets have the same objectives when it comes to sustainability.
Whether goals are focused on emissions reduction, fuel savings, electrification, or something else, fleets can effectively track progress toward personal goals. To aid with idle mitigation, the tool helps distinguish unproductive from productive idling times, giving fleet managers a clear target for idle and emissions reduction.
Electrification is one of the most common initiatives for improving fleet sustainability today. For those looking to electrify, EV Candidacy assesses the needs and behaviors within your fleet and identifies ideal candidates for immediate electrification. Once fleets have begun implementing EVs, the Estimated Fuel Savings from EV dashboard gives managers a breakdown of how many gallons of gas have been saved thus far.
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The Navajo Nation has rescinded a mask mandate that’s been in effect since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced Friday, fulfilling a pledge that new tribal President Buu Nygren made while campaigning for the office.
The mandate was one of the longest-standing anywhere in the U.S. and applied broadly to businesses, government offices and tourist destinations on the vast reservation, which extends into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. The tribe at one point had one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in the country and among the strictest measures to help prevent the spread of the virus.
Nygren and Navajo Nation Council Delegate Otto Tso, who temporarily is overseeing the tribe’s legislative branch, jointly announced the lifting of the mask mandate on social media Friday evening.
They cited figures from tribal health officials that show there’s a low risk of transmission, based on the seven-day incidence rate of 51 cases per 100,000 people.
The number of positive cases overall during the pandemic still remains higher in the Navajo region than any other Indian Health Service region, except for Oklahoma. The Navajo Nation has tallied more than 2,000 COVID-related deaths since the pandemic began.
Nygren and Tso urged people to continue taking precautionary measures. Masks will still be required in schools, nursing homes and health care facilities, according to the latest public health order.
“It’s time for the Navajo people to get back to work,” Nygren said in a statement. “It’s time for them to be able to open their chapter houses to conduct local business and to receive services they are asking for and deserve.”
The news spread fast and comments poured in on social media. Some praised the action and others were sharply critical, including former President Jonathan Nez, who had sought a second term, and whose tenure was dominated by the response to the pandemic.
Nez credited the mask mandate for the lower coronavirus rates and said he’s praying that COVID-19, RSV and flu cases don’t rise.
“But the new administration needs to be held accountable if we see a surge in new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths,” he wrote on Twitter.
Enforcement of the mask mandate had been mixed on the 27,000 square-mile (69,000 square-kilometer) Navajo Nation. Most people wore masks at the inauguration for newly elected officials earlier this month, but neither Nygren or Nez kept one on the entire time.
Brian Parrish, who oversees the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise, said signage would be changed at the tribe’s four casinos to indicate that masks now are optional. He said he suspected a large percentage of patrons haven’t returned because of the mask mandate but might now.
“We’re ready to take this next step toward getting back to normal,” he said late Friday.
Priscilla Todecheeny, who works at the Red Rock Trading Post in Red Valley, Arizona, said signs regarding masks came down once the reservation reopened to visitors, and no one was kept from entering. But she’s concerned about employees who had been wearing masks.
“I think it should still be in stores for our safety because we don’t know if another person might have the virus or is carrying it,” she said Friday.
Diana DeChilly, who is Navajo, was in the hospital Friday with the flu when she heard masks no longer were required on the reservation. She said she’d rather keep hers on to prevent the spread of any illness, even when she’s discharged.
“I’m willing to bet a majority of Navajo people are going to keep wearing their masks, mandate or no mandate,” she said.
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Fonseca reported from Honolulu. | https://www.qcnews.com/health-care/ap-navajo-nation-rescinds-mask-mandate-on-vast-reservation/ | 2023-01-21 11:58:59 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/health-care/ap-navajo-nation-rescinds-mask-mandate-on-vast-reservation/ |
Netgain to participate in the 11th annual conference for NetSuite customers and partners
DENVER, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Netgain today announced it will be a Diamond sponsor at SuiteWorld 2022, Oracle NetSuite's largest celebration for customers and partners that takes place September 27-30, 2022 at the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas & On Air. This year's theme is "Full Suite Ahead" with the conference promising four energy-packed days filled with networking opportunities and educational programming that will help NetSuite customers, partners, and developers discover new ways to leverage the full power of the suite.
At SuiteWorld, Netgain will offer the opportunity to experience Netgain's embedded SuiteApps, including NetClose. Additionally, conference attendees will have the opportunity to learn how accountants can address the Financial Accounting Standards Board's challenging new lease accounting standard, ASC 842. Every attendee will receive access to download NetClose, the only free lease accounting solution embedded in NetSuite.
SuiteWorld will feature keynotes from NetSuite executives – including Evan Goldberg, NetSuite co-founder and executive vice president, and Gary Wiessinger, senior vice president of product management – that showcase how organizations are leveraging the power of NetSuite and unveil new product announcements.
SuiteWorld will also include:
- Success stories from organizations that have used NetSuite to gain the visibility, control, and agility needed to adapt to changing market conditions and run their businesses better
- Strategy and technical sessions, including pre-event training, across NetSuite product areas and key business themes across different industries
- Networking opportunities with NetSuite partners, customers, executives, and product experts in the SuiteWorld Expo
- NetSuite TV, a live broadcast brought to in-person & On Air attendees from the SuiteWorld Expo floor featuring interviews with customers, executives, thought leaders and more
To learn more about Netgain and our native SuiteApps, please visit us at booth 504 in the SuiteWorld Expo.
Hosted by Oracle NetSuite, SuiteWorld is the industry's premier cloud ERP conference of the year being held at the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas & On Air September 27-30. The 11th annual celebration of NetSuite customers and partners features a gathering of industry peers and product experts who run organizations leveraging the power of NetSuite.
For registration and additional details, please visit www.netsuitesuiteworld.com. To join the SuiteWorld conversation on social media, please use #SuiteWorld.
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NORWALK, Conn., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) announced today that it intends to hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results on Wednesday, August 3 at 4:30 p.m. ET. The event will be webcasted at ir.bookingholdings.com and the audio will be available for replay on the website for seven days thereafter.
Booking Holdings will post a release containing its second quarter 2022 financial results on the company's Investor Relations website, ir.bookingholdings.com, at approximately 4:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, August 3.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — The British government on Monday dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners, part of a package of unfunded cuts unveiled only days ago that sparked turmoil on financial markets and sent the pound to record lows.
In a dramatic about-face, Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng abandoned plans to scrap the top 45% rate of income tax paid on earnings above 150,000 pounds ($167,000) a year.
He and Prime Minister Liz Truss have spent the last 10 days defending the cut in the face of market mayhem and increasing alarm among the governing Conservative Party.
“We get it, and we have listened,” Kwarteng said in a statement. He said “it is clear that the abolition of the 45p tax rate has become a distraction from our overriding mission to tackle the challenges facing our country.”
The pound rose after Kwarteng’s announcement to around $1.12 — about the value it held before the Sept. 23 budget announcements.
The U-turn came after a growing number of Conservative lawmakers, including former ministers with broad influence, turned on the government’s tax plans.
“I can’t support the 45p tax removal when nurses are struggling to pay their bills,” Tory lawmaker Maria Caulfield said.
It also came hours after the Conservatives released advance extracts of a speech Kwarteng is due to give later Monday at the party’s annual conference in the central England city of Birmingham. He had been due to say: “We must stay the course. I am confident our plan is the right one.”
Truss defended the measures Sunday but said she could have “done a better job laying the ground” for the announcements.
Truss took office less than a month ago, promising to radically reshape Britain’s economy to end years of sluggish growth. But the government’s announcement of a stimulus package that includes 45 billion pounds ($50 billion) in tax cuts, to be paid for by government borrowing, sent the pound tumbling to a record low against the dollar.
The Bank of England was forced to intervene to prop up the bond market, and fears that the bank will soon hike interest rates caused mortgage lenders to withdraw their cheapest deals, causing turmoil for homebuyers.
The package proved unpopular, even among Conservatives. Reducing taxes for top earners and scrapping a cap on bankers’ bonuses while millions face a cost-of-living crisis driven by soaring energy bills was widely seen as politically toxic.
Truss and Kwarteng insist that their plan will deliver a growing economy and eventually bring in more tax revenue, offsetting the cost of borrowing to fund the current cuts. But they also have signaled that public spending will need to be slashed to keep government debt under control.
Kwarteng has promised to set out a medium-term fiscal plan on Nov. 23, alongside an economic forecast from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility.
Axing the top-earners tax rate would have cost about 2 billion pounds, a small share of the government’s overall tax-cutting plan. Kwarteng said Monday that the government was sticking to its other tax policies, including a cut next year in the basic rate of income tax and a reversal of a corporation tax hike planned by the previous government.
Tony Danker, who heads business group the Confederation of British Industry, said he hoped the government U-turn would bring stability to the markets.
“None of this growth plan will work unless we have stability. Let’s hope this is the beginning of it,” he told broadcaster LBC.
Opposition parties said the government should scrap its whole economic plan.
“UK gov U-turns on top tax rate abolition because it’s a ‘distraction,’” Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of the Scottish National Party wrote on Twitter. “Morally wrong and hugely costly for millions is a better description. Utter ineptitude.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-uk-scraps-tax-cut-for-wealthy-that-sparked-market-turmoil/ | 2022-10-03 11:01:42 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-uk-scraps-tax-cut-for-wealthy-that-sparked-market-turmoil/ |
Marlins first. Jon Berti grounds out to second base, Harold Castro to Michael Toglia. Jorge Soler homers to center field. Luis Arraez lines out to left center field to Brenton Doyle. Garrett Cooper grounds out to shortstop, Ryan McMahon to Michael Toglia.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Marlins 1, Rockies 0.
Rockies fourth. Elias Diaz flies out to deep center field to Garrett Hampson. Randal Grichuk reaches on error to deep center field, advances to 2nd. Fielding error by Garrett Hampson. Ryan McMahon flies out to left field to Bryan De La Cruz. Harold Castro singles to center field. Randal Grichuk scores. Brenton Doyle grounds out to third base, Jean Segura to Yuli Gurriel.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on. Marlins 1, Rockies 1.
Rockies fifth. Michael Toglia walks. Ezequiel Tovar lines out to shortstop to Jon Berti. Charlie Blackmon doubles to deep center field. Michael Toglia scores. Jurickson Profar walks. Elias Diaz singles to shallow infield. Jurickson Profar to second. Charlie Blackmon to third. Randal Grichuk singles to left center field. Elias Diaz to third. Jurickson Profar scores. Charlie Blackmon scores. Ryan McMahon reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Randal Grichuk out at second. Elias Diaz scores. Harold Castro grounds out to shallow infield, Huascar Brazoban to Yuli Gurriel.
4 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rockies 5, Marlins 1.
Marlins sixth. Jon Berti walks. Jorge Soler lines out to deep left field to Jurickson Profar. Luis Arraez pops out to Ryan McMahon. Garrett Cooper homers to right field. Jon Berti scores. Bryan De La Cruz singles to shallow left field. Yuli Gurriel singles to deep right field. Bryan De La Cruz to second. Jean Segura strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Rockies 5, Marlins 3.
Marlins ninth. Joey Wendle pinch-hitting for Garrett Hampson. Joey Wendle strikes out swinging. Jon Berti singles to right field. Jorge Soler doubles to right field. Jon Berti scores. Luis Arraez flies out to left field to Jurickson Profar. Garrett Cooper flies out to deep right field to Randal Grichuk.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rockies 5, Marlins 4. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/miami-colorado-runs-18115895.php | 2023-05-24 04:34:25 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/miami-colorado-runs-18115895.php |
Here are 5 Manitowoc-area spots for ice cream on National Ice Cream Day – or any day
Manitowoc County boasts a rich ice cream tradition. Here are some spots to grab some scoops.
MANITOWOC – July 16, at the height of summer fun and heat, perhaps we can all “scream for ice cream” in honor of National Ice Cream Day.
Ice cream is a large part of the Dairy State's culture, especially in Manitowoc County.
In honor of the creamy dessert that makes just about everyone happy, here are five "scoops" about the local ice cream scene.
1. Two Rivers is the birthplace of the ice cream sundae.
The ice cream sundae was born in Two Rivers.
As the story goes, a man named George Hallauer walked into a Two Rivers pharmacy owned by Edward Berner one Sunday afternoon in 1881.
Many pharmacies in those days also had soda fountains, and Berner’s shop offered ice cream to its customers.
Hallauer asked if he could have his ice cream topped with some chocolate sauce used to make soda fountain concoctions.
News of the tasty treat quickly spread throughout the small town, and Berner was soon selling sundaes for a nickel on Sundays.
Today, anyone can order an ice cream sundae at the Washington House Museum, 1622 Jefferson St., Two Rivers, which is home to a replica of Berner’s shop, any day of the week. The historical museum serves 16 different sundae flavors, including one made with a special homemade rhubarb sauce cooked up in small batches by volunteers.
2. A popular brand is produced right here in Manitowoc and has its own parlor.
The popular Cedar Crest Ice Cream brand is produced in Manitowoc.
The company serves up more than 100 flavors of the creamy treat, along with frozen yogurt, sherbet and even gelato, and holds annual contests to allow fans to choose and name new flavors.
The company’s headquarters is in Cedarburg, but the Manitowoc ice cream parlor, 2000 S. 10th St., Manitowoc, with the large statue of Bernice the cow out front, is a local landmark.
The smiles of kids bring a smile to Ken Kohlwey, president of Cedar Crest Specialties. He started the business decades ago with his brothers Bill, Robert and Tim.
“You never get sick of seeing how happy the customers are,” he told Streetwise. “And I’ve never gotten sick of ice cream. Every time I think I have found my all-time favorite flavor, we come out with a new one that knocks the old one out of its place.”
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Cedar Crest produces about 15,000 to 16,000 gallons of ice cream each day. It’s considered a regional business, meaning it distributes mostly to stores and ice cream shops in Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and about 40 miles into Illinois.
The company also has a distributor in St. Louis and will ship ice cream throughout the country for people looking for a taste of Wisconsin elsewhere.
And while seasonal flavors may come and go, staples such as vanilla, chocolate, cookies n’ cream and butter pecan will always be on the menu.
3. You can get ice cream on a 'conut' (or a doughnut cone) in Two Rivers.
Scream N’ Conuts, 1200 Washington St. in Two Rivers, combines two favorite sweets.
As you drive down Washington Street in Two Rivers, Emilee Rysticken’s ice cream shop, Scream ‘N Conuts is hard to miss.
Painted bright pink and usually busy, the shop features homemade doughnut cones, or "conuts," rolled in cinnamon and sugar and topped with Cedar Crest ice cream.
“They taste like a county fair,” Rysticken told the Herald Times Reporter.
She said she got the idea for the business while on a school trip to Prague, where she tried the European dessert for the first time.
After talking it over with her parents, she knew is was something she wanted to pursue as a business idea.
In 2018, Rysticken graduated from high school early and, with the help of her family, began renovating the previously empty building that now houses Scream ‘N Conuts.
The shop offers roughly 16 flavors of ice cream and five types of conuts, in addition to more traditional cone choices.
As far as Rysticken knows, hers is the only ice cream shop that offers doughnut cones with hard-packed ice cream (they’re typically served with vanilla soft serve).
4. This downtown Manitowoc candy shop serves ice cream.
Step back in time at Beernsten’s Confectionary, 108 N. Eighth St., in downtown Manitowoc.
When you walk into Beernsten’s on Eighth Street, you're greeted by the comforting view of black walnut booths, candy cases and arches of the original 1932 candy shop.
Beernsten’s is best known for making candies the traditional way — copper kettles and wooden paddles are used to make hard candies, and chocolates are still dipped by hand.
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And while the store sells more than 125 different candies and chocolates throughout the year, it also offers a full food menu, including sandwiches and old-fashioned ice cream.
So, have your meal, get some ice cream and grab some chocolates to take with you on the way out.
5. This popular local bakery has an ice cream shop in Plymouth.
A combination of baked goods and ice cream sounds pretty good to us, and that’s what you’ll get at Hartman’s Bakery of Plymouth and G Scoops, 117 Division St., owned by Neal and Kristen Moenburg.
The couple moved the bakery from Mill Street in late fall 2022 and expanded to open the ice cream shop, which serves tasty premium hard ice cream made by Scoops of Chilton, soft serve dishes, as well as sundaes, mixers, banana splits and shakes.
“We had the room to open the ice cream shop my husband dreamed of that I had said ‘no’ to,” Kristen said with a laugh. “Now, we have a dessert idea where people can choose their own donut flavor and we will serve it with ice cream on top.”
Did we miss your favorite ice cream location or story in the Manitowoc area? Contact reporter Patti Zarling at pzarling@gannett.com or call 920-606-2586. Follow her on Twitter @PGPattiZarling. | https://www.htrnews.com/story/life/food/2023/07/13/two-rivers-birthplace-of-ice-cream-sundae-manitowoc-has-cedar-crest/70407772007/ | 2023-07-13 20:41:49 | 0 | https://www.htrnews.com/story/life/food/2023/07/13/two-rivers-birthplace-of-ice-cream-sundae-manitowoc-has-cedar-crest/70407772007/ |
NTSB: Plane that hit tower flew below minimum altitude
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — A small plane that crashed into a Maryland electricity transmission tower last month was flying below minimum altitudes while approaching an airport in foggy nighttime conditions, according to a preliminary report on the crash.
The pilot and passenger were seriously injured and the Mooney M20J was substantially damaged when it hit a tower supporting high-tension lines on Nov. 27, knocking out power to tens of thousands of area customers. The plane was left dangling 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report released Monday.
The report includes factual information but not a probable cause. That is typically included in a final report, which could take a year or two to complete, according to the NTSB.
The plane was operating on an instrument flight rules flight plan, which is typically used during reduced visibility, as it returned to the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg from White Plains, New York, the report states. Visibility in the fog was 1.25 miles (2 kilometers).
Air traffic control communications showed that the pilot, identified by state police as Patrick Merkle, 66, of Washington, D.C., was advised to expect one approach procedure, but he preferred another, the report states. An air traffic controller directed Merkle to a spot about 13 miles (21 kilometers) from the airport, but the plane made a wrong turn.
As the controller provided numerous course corrections, the pilot made a “series of left and right turns, near course reversals, or continued established headings as the controller repeatedly requested that the pilot turn to a different heading.” At one point, he told the controller that he had entered the wrong waypoint into his system and was correcting it, the report states. Around that time, another airplane asked to be diverted to another airport because of reduced visibility.
As Merkle’s plane approached the airport, it was below the minimum altitude at three waypoints, according to the report. At the last of those three waypoints, it was as low as 475 feet (145 meters) mean sea level, the report says. The airport’s published elevation is 539 feet (164 meters) mean sea level. When it crashed, the plane was suspended at an elevation of 600 feet (183 meters) mean sea level, the report states.
Merkle and the passenger were stranded in the aircraft for more than six hours, until crews secured the plane to the tower, officials said.
While they waited to be rescued, Merkle told 911 call center personnel, “I got down a little lower than I should have … I thought I was closer to the airport than I was … We could see the ground, but we couldn’t see in front,” the report states.
Merkle described the fog in interviews with local media as “pea soup” and “expressed concerns about his altimeter,” but a test found that it was “well within the test allowable error at all ranges,” the report states.
Merkle told The Washington Post on Tuesday that he hadn’t seen the report and was set to issue an accident report to investigators on Wednesday.(AP) -
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A Sanford police officer was arrested on a domestic battery charge after he sprained his ex-girlfriend’s ankle while doing a jiu-jitsu move and yanked out her belly button ring, according to the Casselberry Police Department.
Officer William Hamlin, 25, was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, said Sanford police spokesperson Bianca Gillett.
The arrest affidavit said Hamlin and the woman were dating for about four years and engaged in the past year while living together, but broke up on Sunday. On Wednesday, an altercation turned physical and he put her right leg in a jiu-jitsu position, causing her to sprain her ankle and tear a tendon, the affidavit said. He also caused bruising and bleeding when he tore her belly button ring, according to the affidavit.
The victim went to the hospital where she was treated for her injuries.
Casselberry police submitted a risk protection order regarding Hamlin’s weapons, the affidavit stated.
Hamlin was taken to the Seminole County Jail where he has since bonded out.
“We will investigate every aspect of the incident and allegation,” said Sanford police Chief Cecil Smith. “We ask for patience as we work through this process as we make every effort to be thorough and transparent with the outcome.” | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-sanford-police-officer-arrested-20220721-iyusbavfyrg55pzhsiay4x7wvy-story.html | 2022-07-21 22:00:33 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-sanford-police-officer-arrested-20220721-iyusbavfyrg55pzhsiay4x7wvy-story.html |
AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin, Texas, school is dealing with some unwanted visitors who just won’t go away.
“This is not the first time me and Noah have reported on raccoons in the school,” said Morgan Eye who is a journalism student at McCallum High School.
Noah Braun, who wrote a recent article about the raccoons said he has found articles from the past that show similar incidents.
“There are articles you can find from the 90s, from the early 2000’s — and even the 2010s —talking about this,” said Braun.
While there have been issues with raccoons in the past, recently the number of incidents has increased, according to journalism students at the school.
“Six catches and releases all in the span of three days is the most we have ever seen here at school,” Eye said.
Braun says this week he heard a commotion outside his classroom and when he went out there was a raccoon.
“There was a raccoon that was getting sort of pinned up against that door by the officer and eventually he was able to get it out of the building,” Braun said.
Max Davis, who is a student at the school, said there are a number of videos and pictures of the raccoons being shared around the school.
“There was a raccoon that ran out of a bathroom and when it saw people it ran the other way,” said Davis.
Braun said they even found a dead raccoon in the walls recently.
“It was rotting,” Braun said. “Its corpse was rotting and it was spreading its smell everywhere”
KXAN reached out to Austin ISD who tells us they are addressing the issues.
“We understand that having raccoons on school grounds can be worrying for parents, and we take this matter seriously. I want to assure you that we are taking steps to address the issue in a humane and effective manner. We have contacted our Pest Management Department, a professional wildlife removal specialist, and they have already started working to prevent them from coming into the building with exclusion work, as well as setting humane traps for any others that we may not know about. The team will safely remove the raccoons from the school grounds and will continue to monitor the situation to ensure that the problem is fully resolved.”
– Statement from Austin ISD
Some students tell KXAN it can be funny to see the raccoons running around, but it is also is concerning.
Eye says one raccoon fell through the ceiling and landed near a student in class.
“It was scared, it was running around and everything,” said Eye. “What if it bit her? What if it had rabies?”
KXAN reported on a raccoon found in the school last year.
McCallum High School was a school listed to get upgrades as a result of a 2022 bond that passed. In the past, the district said the upgrades would help fix the issues in the older school. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/what-if-it-had-rabies-raccoons-running-through-texas-high-school/ | 2023-04-29 04:02:46 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/what-if-it-had-rabies-raccoons-running-through-texas-high-school/ |
A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday for allegedly firing a gunshot that nearly struck a man and damaged a home on Halloween night in Roxbury, Boston police said.
Jiovvany Matosof Roxbury face charges including assault with intent to murder, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, and unlawful possession of a firearm, Boston police said in a statement. He was arrested on a warrant in the area of McGreevey Way in Roxbury at 9:30 a.m.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the area of 45 Horadan Way at 7:21 p.m. Monday, police said. A man was almost struck by the gunfire and a nearby residence sustained ballistic damage.
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GLENDALE, Calif. — "Making your kisses more craveable."
That's the idea behind the latest Applebee's venture: a partnership with makeup and skincare brand Winky Lux to launch "Saucy Gloss." It's a collection of four lip glosses inspired by Applebee’s wing sauces.
“Applebee’s is known for first dates and wings – which are one of our most popular menu items,” said Applebee’s Chief Marketing Officer Joel Yashinsky. “So, we partnered with the development team at Winky Lux to create these lip glosses inspired by four of our most popular wing sauces. Find your perfect shade and spice up your date night by adding a little bit of that Applebee’s flavor to make each kiss even more craveable with Saucy Gloss."
Here are the flavors and descriptions given by Applebee's:
- Get Me Hot Buffalo: Creamy coral that packs the hot buffalo spice your ex could never have handled.
- Sweet Chile Kiss: Deep rich red kissed with a hint of fine golden chile specks that put the “mmm” in make out.
- Be My Honey Pepper: A gorgeous golden honey-spiced gloss with shimmering flecks that'll make you the queen bee of date night.
- Honey BBQ-T: A shiny, smoky barbecue hue with a side of honey sweetness to make your kisses downright craveable.
"We are so excited to partner with Applebee's in such an unexpected way,” said Natalie Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Winky Lux. “What could be more genuine and fun than spicing up a kiss with our delicious Saucy Gloss! We love adding a playful touch to everyday beauty. After all, Winky Lux is all about surprise, creating memorable experiences and sparking joy for our customers. This collaboration captures the cutting-edge product innovation and playful spirit of our brand.”
Applebee's released a music video to accompany the announcement, "Taste My Face," directed by Hannah Lux Davis:
The lip gloss can be bought individually for $18 or in a "four-piece combo" for $65 on the Winky Lux website.
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Urges Passage of Bills to Improve Infant Health, Prevent Maternal Deaths
ARLINGTON, Va., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In testimony before Congress today, March of Dimes Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr. Elizabeth Cherot sounded the alarm on the nation's maternal and infant health crisis, saying that supporting women before, during and between pregnancies is integral to improving health outcomes for them and their babies. Cherot called for lawmakers to take swift action to pass critical legislation that can help address this public health crisis.
Testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, Cherot pointed to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that shows the number of U.S. women dying from pregnancy-related issues continues to climb. The report shows that 1,205 deaths were reported in 2021, reflecting an increase of nearly 89% in the maternal mortality rate since 2018.
Alongside this news, Cherot noted that "the number of women who experience pregnancy-related complications, or severe maternal morbidity, is increasing at a troubling rate." She also warned that the state of infant health mirrors that of maternal health, saying recent preliminary data from CDC showing a 1% dip in the preterm birth rate, while promising, still means that 1 in 10 babies are born too sick and too soon.
What's more, Cherot said persistent disparities exist across key maternal and infant health indicators. Black and Native American women 62% more likely to give birth prematurely, and their babies have a mortality rate double that of the White population.
Cherot urged lawmakers to take immediate action on the following legislation:
- The PREEMIE Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R. 3226) which represents the federal government's commitment to preventing preterm birth and its consequences. This legislation reauthorizes CDC's highly successful Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System or PRAMS. It also provides for a new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine the societal costs, the impact of social factors, and gaps in public health programs related to preterm birth.
- The Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R. 3838), which strengthens and expands federal support for Maternal Mortality Review Committees (MMRCs). MMRCs play an invaluable role in identifying maternal deaths, analyzing the factors that contributed to maternal deaths, and translating the lessons learned into policy changes.
To read the full text of Cherot's written testimony, click here.
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(NEXSTAR) – In what’s sure to come as upsetting news for cows everywhere, Yelp is currently hyping up some of the best burger restaurants in the U.S.
Ahead of National Hamburger Day on Sunday, the analysts at Yelp have — unfortunately for cows — decided to rank 100 of the top spots for beefy burgers, based largely on the ratings and reviews contributed by Yelp’s online community.
Coming in at No. 1 is the Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q in Atlanta, where their signature “burger” isn’t really a burger, but rather a chopped brisket sandwich with onion, tomato, bacon, pickles, melted pimento cheese and jalapeno mayo on a brioche bun.
“It was heaven,” one Yelp user wrote in an online review that cows everywhere would likely hate, had they the ability to read.
As Yelp itself notes on its blog, several of the other top-rated burger joints don’t serve traditional beef burgers at all. Atlanta’s Slutty Vegan (No. 3) stuffs their burgers with vegan patties and vegan bacon alternatives, while one of the most popular “burgers” at Sister Liu’s Kitchen in Durham, North Carolina (No. 7), is made with pork.
But make no mistake, cows: The majority of these restaurants are serving meaty, sloppy, sometimes hulking beef burgers.
Below are the top 25 burger spots in the U.S., according to Yelp’s users. The complete list, along with links to each restaurant’s Yelp page, can be found on Yelp’s site.
- Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q – Atlanta, Georgia
- Minetta Tavern – New York, New York
- Slutty Vegan – Atlanta, Georgia
- Gordon Ramsay Burger – Las Vegas, Nevada
- Father’s Office – Los Angeles, California
- The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar – Charlotte, North Carolina
- Sister Liu’s Kitchen – Durham, North Carolina
- Facing East – Bellevue, Washington
- Kuma’s Corner – Chicago, Illinois
- KoJa Kitchen – Berkeley, California
- Evolution Fast Food – San Diego, California
- Monty’s Good Burger – Los Angeles, California
- Crazy Burger Café & Juice Bar – Narragansett, Rhode Island
- Bear Bitez – Newark, California
- Melt Gourmet Cheeseburgers – Leesburg, Virginia
- The Counter – San Jose, California
- Peppi’s – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Green New American Vegetarian – Tempe, Arizona
- Osaka’s – Boulder, Colorado
- Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill – Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Xi-an Famous Foods – New York, New York
- Plum Bistro – Seattle, Washington
- 5 Napkin Burger – New York, New York
- Panda Gourmet – Washington, D.C.
- Katsu Burger – Seattle, Washington
It’s worth pointing out that Yelp’s analysis isn’t a ranking of the best burgers in the country, but rather a ranking of the top-rated restaurants that serve noteworthy burgers: In compiling its list, Yelp’s analysts first identified the restaurants with a high concentration of reviews that mentioned “burger,” and then ranked those restaurants by their overall ratings and the volume of their reviews.
In other words, the country’s best burger could very well be a vegan offering from a new health-food shop that simply doesn’t have enough Yelp reviews yet.
Probably not, though. It’ll probably consist of some type of cow meat, if previous Yelp activity is any indication.
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SkillUp Coalition's newly designed platform offers expanded personalized career support and deep user insights intended to drive change across the workforce ecosystem
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SkillUp Coalition, a national collaboration of nonprofits, training providers, and employers, today announced the latest release of their career services platform for individuals to explore, train, and find high-opportunity jobs that do not require a college degree. The new SkillUp experience leverages career navigator technology and custom development from technology partner, WhereWeGo, an EdTech and Design Thinking company based in New Orleans that increases access to careers, credentials, and credits.
SkillUp now delivers a sleeker, more comprehensive career platform built FOR workers:
- Available nationwide 24/7, open to any worker at no cost
- Multiple catalogs for career pathways, training programs, resources, and "Earn and Learn" jobs
- Guided pathway and milestone markers to increase motivation and confidence
- Worker-centric tools include group and individual career coaching and social capital training
- "Everywhere" and "Remote" catalog opportunities plus regional experiences for Bay Area, Dallas, Detroit, Eastern Kentucky, Florida, Los Angeles, Louisiana, New York City, Northern Nevada, Ohio, and Philadelphia
"At SkillUp, one of our core principles is to be "Data-Driven, Heart-Led". We're thrilled to launch this new product experience that offers personalized support and aligns with the needs of millions of workers skilled through alternative routes (STARs) on their journey to high-opportunity jobs. And by doing so, we're also excited to learn - through data and deep user insights - what works, and what doesn't, in their ability to secure quality jobs," said SkillUp Chief Executive Officer, Steve Lee.
With more than 1.3 million workers supported since launching in July 2020, SkillUp remains dedicated to leveraging job seekers' voices in improving both product design and functionality. A standing product advisory panel and numerous user testing sessions informed the final experience delivered today.
"I love the career building and training aspect that users can track along their journey. I also love that the platform grows with the user, over time," said Twannetta W., Florida-based upskiller who leveraged SkillUp for various training certifications and career coaching support. "This is a place upskillers can come back to time and time again to retool, restructure, and dream about new roles as the life of their career twists and turns. I envision this being a true one-stop shop that serves anyone no matter where they are in their career."
In addition to its newest features, SkillUp identifies over 37 gateway occupations – jobs that don't need a 4-year degree, pay a good wage, and unlock pathways to high-opportunity careers. A deeply-vetted training catalog of more than 900 national and regional short-term training programs further aligns users to in-demand career fields and available jobs. Last month, SkillUp also announced a $1.5 million grant from Truist Foundation to develop a remote jobs catalog to surface thousands of high-quality jobs, particularly for job seekers in rural areas. The release is planned for Labor Day 2023 and further expands the SkillUp ecosystem in supporting workers anywhere, at any stage of their career journey.
To learn more about SkillUp and explore the new platform, please visit skillup.org. If you are a partner interested in joining the Coalition, please visit www.skillup.org/partners/.
About SkillUp Coalition
Founded in July 2020, SkillUp Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that connects workers with the right tools, resources, and support so they can make confident career shifts, find quality living-wage jobs, and position themselves for promising career growth. Since its founding, SkillUp has connected over 1.3 million workers to career, training, and job support throughout the country.
The coalition brings together over 100 leading organizations including training and education providers, technology developers, policymakers, employers, and philanthropies. In addition to its national reach, SkillUp operates local partnerships in the Bay Area, Dallas, Detroit, Eastern Kentucky, Florida, Los Angeles, Louisiana, New York, Northern Nevada, Ohio, and Philadelphia.
SkillUp proudly advocates for an affordable, equitable, upskilling ecosystem that ensures every worker has high-opportunity employment. For more information, please visit www.skillup.org or follow on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
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BRUSSELS — In nearly a year of war in Ukraine, NATO allies have tried to present a united front.
"It is in our security interest to support Ukraine," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told NPR last month at the organization's headquarters in Brussels. "If you look across the alliance, there's a strong, continued support on both sides of the Atlantic."
That's true. There are also some big divisions. The most obvious is disagreement over what kind of weapons to send Ukraine. But there are also differences over how the conflict should end and what role — if any — Russia should play in a post-war Europe.
In December, French President Emmanuel Macron made waves when he said NATO would eventually have to address Russia's security concerns.
"How do we protect our allies and member states?" Macron said in an interview on French TV. "By giving guarantees for its own security to Russia the day it returns to the table."
East and West see the endgame very differently
For NATO allies in Eastern Europe, the notion of making security pledges to a nation that has relentlessly shelled Ukrainian cities is stomach-churning. It's also personal. They spent decades under Soviet domination.
"This kind of rhetoric coming from the Western leaders plays into the Kremlin's narrative," says Linas Kojala, who runs the Eastern Europe Studies Centre, a Lithuanian think tank.
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Part of President Vladimir Putin's narrative is that Russia sent troops into Ukraine to prevent the country from joining NATO, which at the time was — at best — a distant aspiration.
Instead, Kojala and others say, Putin's goal was broader: stop Ukraine's continued drift from Russia's orbit into the embrace of the West.
Putin "clearly stated that there shouldn't be Ukraine as a state, because it's simply a part of Russia," Kojala says. "His war is not because of NATO, it's because of Russia being an imperialist power in today's Europe."
Bruno Lété, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, says NATO allies are also split on their ultimate goals after the war. Countries in Scandinavia, central Europe and eastern Europe want a decisive Ukrainian victory.
He says major powers in western Europe also want Ukraine to win, "but are probably also interested in some sort of deal, some peace settlement, too."
Russia's grievances define its view of Europe
Kristi Raik, deputy director of Estonia's International Centre for Defense and Security, says these different approaches are partly a function of distance and history. Countries that border Russia and were once a part of the Soviet Union, such as Estonia and Latvia, "sense the threat," she says.
Raik says great-power privilege plays a role as well.
"France and Germany are used to seeing Russia as one of the major powers in Europe." She says they are used to thinking that, ultimately, "European security matters are settled and decided among the big powers."
But NATO didn't follow that principle after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Russia insists the U.S. promised not to expand NATO and then went back on its word. Many analysts say NATO failed to take Russia's historical anxieties into account.
"If the United States had not spent the past ... 14 years openly declaring that Ukraine would become a member of NATO one day, and not spent the past several years openly talking about Ukraine as if it were a de-facto ally, I think we wouldn't be here right now," says Zach Paikin, a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies, a Brussels think tank.
Paikin expresses horror at Russia's brutality in Ukraine, but also says the vast country is a geographic reality that has to be a part of any lasting peace.
"Whether we like it or not, at some point, we will have to address the question of finding an adequate place for Russia in Europe that provides Russia's declared security concerns with a modicum of legitimacy," Paikin says. "Otherwise, we may be forced to inhabit an unpredictable and uncontrollable escalation spiral in our relations with Russia for years to come."
Outreach to Russia is a non-starter for the NATO alliance — for now
With Russia continuing to target Ukraine's energy grid and pummel shell small villages, there is no appetite among the Western alliance for a public conversation on this now. Some say as long as Putin remains in power, there shouldn't be one.
"There will be very, very loud debates in both Germany and France and other West European countries between those who are saying no, with Putin, we cannot make a deal anymore," says Roland Freudenstein, who heads the Brussels office of the GLOBSEC think tank.
He also says others in Europe will argue "diplomacy is about talking to people we don't like." Freudenstein thinks those who say "no peace with Putin" will win the day.
Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia with the International Crisis Group in Brussels, says managing Europe's future with Russia is the biggest challenge in the coming years.
Some NATO allies want to keep arming Ukraine to weaken Russia's military further and frighten Moscow by continuing to build up their own arsenals. Oliker says the problem with that tack is that Russia is already scared of NATO — and it has nuclear weapons.
"The other option," she says, "is that you talk to them and you figure out ways of limiting activities like [military] exercises, weapons deployments and so forth that make it harder to start a new war."
As Russia's invasion grinds into its second year, any such negotiations seem a long way off — but officials across Europe are already thinking about them and how to make sure that when the war in Ukraine finally ends, it's for good.
NPR London Producer Morgan Ayre contributed to this story.
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With tens of thousands of migrants massed in northern Mexico, the expiration overnight of the US Covid-era border restriction policy known as Title 42 has American border communities on edge, worried an already challenging humanitarian crisis will worsen as crossings climb.
"We're boarding up like there were a hurricane coming," Victor Treviño, the mayor of Laredo, Texas, told CNN Thursday evening.
Live updates: The latest from the border after Title 42's expiration
The South Texas counties of Cameron and Hidalgo issued disaster declarations ahead of the order's expiration at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday to help free up state and federal resources as US troops, agents and other federal workers surged this week toward the southern border to help handle a possible crush.
Still, officials hit a roadblock late Thursday as a federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration from releasing screened and vetted migrants from Border Patrol without court notices -- a method it had planned to use to alleviate immense strain on border facilities. The ruling sidelines a tactic used by prior administrations and is "very harmful" in light of potential overcrowding, US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN on Friday.
Meantime, new rules will limit asylum claims by migrants who traverse other countries en route to the US-Mexico border and closely track migrant families released into the US during the deportation process. The asylum rule, though, quickly drew a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union and others who said it echoes Trump-era policy, breaks with US and international law and puts vulnerable migrants in harm's way.
Here are the latest developments during the first chaotic hours of the new US immigration enforcement policy:
- Mayorkas said on "CNN This Morning" the border situation reflects "a fundamentally broken immigration system that hasn't been fixed for more than two decades" and the need for "Congress to provide us with the resources that we need."
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement said late Thursday it is adding 5,000 detention beds and eliminating Covid-19 tests requirements for detainees.
- The legal wrangling includes a federal lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union against Orange and Rockland counties for blocking the arrival of asylum seekers from New York City. The counties issued executive orders barring hotels from making rooms available to migrants.
Over the last two days, more than 10,000 migrants daily were taken into custody, US border authorities reported, marking a record for daily encounters and continuing an upward trend in border arrests. And about 155,000 migrants were estimated to be in shelters and on streets across northern Mexican states bordering the US, a source familiar with federal estimates said this week.
In El Paso, Texas, about 1,000 migrants waited Thursday afternoon to be processed outside a border gate, US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said, beyond the 1,500 who were processed by border agents the previous two days.
Among them was a woman with a cut on her hand from barbed wire she'd just crossed along the border, she told CNN. A friend pointed to his ankle, revealing a gaping wound, and continued walking toward immigration authorities.
"The situation is tough in our countries," the man told CNN, explaining why he'd made the journey.
This isn't the first time El Paso has seen an influx at the border, and responding every few months to such swells is not sustainable, Mayor Oscar Leeser told CNN Thursday.
"We can't continue to do this for eternity," he said.
While the "huge rush" expected the prior day hadn't materialized Friday morning, the extent of migrant crossings in the coming days remains uncertain, Lesser told "CNN This Morning" on Friday.
"We still need to continue to prepare for the unknown because we don't know what's coming in tomorrow," he said. "We don't know what will be coming in a week from now."
Title 42 had allowed US authorities since 2020 to swiftly expel undocumented migrants with some exceptions, ostensibly to stop the spread of Covid-19. Under it, authorities expelled migrants at the US-Mexico border more than 2.8 million times, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
With the policy lapsing alongside the country's public health emergency, the US now is leaning instead on a decades-old protocol with new wrinkles: Title 8, which could carry heavier legal consequences for those crossing unlawfully but often takes more time than Title 42 expulsions.
Just before Title 42 expired, the US warned migrants the change does not mean the way is clear for unlawful entry: "Do not believe the lies of smugglers. The border is not open," Mayorkas said.
Border community leaders plead for help
With migrants said to be crowded at the border, leaders of US border towns continue to plead for help meeting the migrants' needs as makeshift encampments proliferate and social services are pushed to the brink.
Laredo's mayor worries for migrants' safety, noting Laredo does not have a permanent pediatric intensive care unit, he said.
"I don't want to see any child get gravely ill and not be able to treat them," Treviño said.
Yuma, Arizona, has seen daily migrant arrivals climb in the last month from 300 to 1,000 or more, Mayor Douglas Nicholls said. He wants a federal emergency declaration to provide "not just money but resources on the ground," he told reporters Thursday.
"A full response by (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) and the National Guard, like they would in any other disaster where they provide boots on the ground for housing, food, transportation, and health care -- that would be the beginning," Nichols said.
The border crisis was "avoidable for a long time" -- if immigration reform been put in place -- Treviño said. Now, his community is paying a price.
"At the end of the day, what has always been a federal problem for decades now has become a local problem for our border communities," Treviño said.
Biden administration plans policy changes
A court ruling late Thursday took away a tool the Biden administration had intended to use to manage the number of migrants in US Customs and Border Protection custody. A federal judge in Florida temporarily blocked the administration from releasing migrants from Border Patrol custody without court notices; the administration is expected to appeal.
The administration had prepared to release some apprehended migrants without court dates and a requirement to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid immense strain on border facilities, according to the Department of Homeland Security. It has previously done so when facing a surge of migrants after they're screened and vetted by authorities.
The judge's decision came in response to an emergency motion from Florida, which has previously taken issue with the release of migrants from custody. A preliminary injunction hearing is scheduled for May 19, according to the judge's order.
Customs and Border Protection will comply with the order, it said early Friday, but called it a "harmful ruling that will result in unsafe overcrowding at CBP facilities and undercut our ability to efficiently process and remove migrants, and risks creating dangerous conditions for border patrol agents and migrants."
The expectation among US officials has been that Biden's new asylum rule may slow down crossings as migrants try to figure out what it means for them, a source familiar with the planning said. In the interim, officials -- in their planning -- expected parole on a case-by-case basis might become available again.
The concern, however, is that families may send their children across the border alone since unaccompanied minors are exempt from the new asylum rule. The Health and Human Services Department, which is charged with the care of migrant children, has expanded capacity in anticipation of any surge.
This would not be the first time that migrant mothers self-separate from their children in response to immigration policies that don't apply to unaccompanied children. CNN reported on mothers self-separating from their children in 2021 in response to Title 42 -- which also did not apply to unaccompanied minors.
As Title 42 let border authorities swiftly turn away migrants at the US-Mexico border -- often depriving them of the chance to claim asylum and dramatically cutting down on border processing time -- it also carried almost no legal consequences for migrants crossing, meaning if they were pushed back, they could try to cross again and again.
Now, US officials will lean more on the decades-old Title 8, under which migrants could face more severe consequences for crossing the border unlawfully, such as being barred from entering the US for at least five years, they've said.
While Title 8 carries more legal consequences, including prosecution for those caught a second time, processing times under that authority take longer than Title 42 expulsions and could strain already pinched resources.
Title 8 allows for migrants to seek asylum, which can be a lengthy and drawn-out process that begins with what's called a credible-fear screening by asylum officers before migrants' cases wend through immigration courts.
The administration is also introducing new measures. A new regulation going into effect this week would largely ban migrants who traveled through other countries on their way to the US-Mexico border from applying for asylum in the United States -- with some exceptions.
The rule, proposed earlier this year, will presume migrants are ineligible for asylum in the US if they didn't first seek refuge in a country they transited through, like Mexico, on the way to the border. Migrants who secure an appointment through the Customs and Border Protection One app will be exempt, according to officials.
The State Department plans eventually to open around 100 regional processing centers in the Western Hemisphere and "in the coming days" expects to launch an online platform for immigrants to make appointments, Homeland Security officials said.
The rule is a necessary measure to stem the flow of migration while offering other legal pathways for migrants to come to the US, Biden administration officials have said. But the ACLU in its lawsuit disagreed:
"The Biden administration's new ban places vulnerable asylum seekers in grave danger and violates US asylum laws. We've been down this road before with Trump," Katrina Eiland, managing attorney with the nonprofit's Immigrants' Rights Project, said in a statement. "The asylum bans were cruel and illegal then, and nothing has changed now."
The ACLU, along with the ACLU of Northern California, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies and the National Immigrant Justice Center sued in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
The Biden administration is also rolling out a new program for migrant families released in the United States to track them as they go through a speedy deportation process, including a measure that would require they stay under home confinement, sources familiar with the plans said.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Pets will soon be allowed into more than 120 archaeological sites across Greece, the country’s Culture Ministry announced Thursday, although not in the Acropolis or some of the other top tourist draws.
The move, unanimously approved by the country’s powerful Central Archaeological Council, will relax current rules which only allow guide dogs for disabled visitors into archaeological sites. The ministry did not specify when the new regulations would be implemented.
The decision is “a first, but important, step toward harmonizing the framework of accessibility to monuments and archaeological sites with the standards of other European countries, where entry rules for pets already apply,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said in a ministry press release.
The council approved the entry of pets provided they are kept on a leash no more than one meter (3 feet) long, or carried by their owners in a pouch or a pet carrying case. Owners will also need to show their pet’s health certificate and carry the necessary accessories to pick up their animal’s droppings in order to be allowed entry, the ministry said. Larger dogs will have to be muzzled.
But some of the most popular archaeological sites, such as the Acropolis of Athens, Knossos in Crete, Ancient Olympia or Delphi, which tend to get very crowded, will still remain pet-free, as will ancient theaters, temples, graves and monuments with mosaic floors.
Cages will be installed at the entrances of more than 110 other archaeological sites, the ministry said, so owners can park their pets during their visit.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted the Biden administration to extend an olive branch to Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro.
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(NEXSTAR) – A jury unanimously decided that Gwyneth Paltrow was not to blame for an alleged skiing accident that occurred in 2016, but that it was rather the fault of Terry Sanderson, the doctor who took the Academy Award-winning actor to court.
The jury also awarded Paltrow $1 — the amount she sought in a countersuit against Sanderson, whom she alleged had crashed into her on the day of the 2016 accident at a Utah ski resort.
The two remained silent during the jury’s decision, though Paltrow, while leaving the courtroom, could be seen leaning over Sanderson’s shoulder and saying something into his ear.
“I wish you well,” she whispered, Sanderson later told reporters outside the courthouse, the Associated Press reported.
He said he responded back, “Thank you, dear.”
An attorney for Sanderson had initially filed a complaint in 2019 alleging that Paltrow crashed into his client on Feb 26, 2016, at Deer Valley Resort in Park City. He has claimed the crash resulted in broken ribs and a brain injury, among other injuries and emotional distress. Paltrow, however, has maintained that she was not at fault, but rather that Sanderson had slammed into her, delivering a “full body blow.”
In response to Sanderson’s lawsuit, which initially sought total damages of over $3 million before a judge decided he wasn’t eligible to sue for punitive damages, Paltrow filed a countersuit seeking damages of only $1 — a symbolic amount — and attorneys’ fees.
The jury’s verdict on Thursday did not include any discussion of the attorneys’ fees Paltrow was seeking. A judge in Park City will ultimately decide what to award, the Associated Press reported.
Thursday’s verdict also ended a legal ordeal that the actor’s lawyer has previously called “utter B.S,” and that Paltrow suggested could have called her character into question.
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Orlando Arcia Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Twins - June 27
Published: Jun. 27, 2023 at 5:27 AM EDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
The Atlanta Braves and Orlando Arcia (.368 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, including one homer), battle starter Joe Ryan and the Minnesota Twins at Truist Park, Tuesday at 7:20 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless performance (0-for-3) against the Twins.
Orlando Arcia Game Info & Props vs. the Twins
- Game Day: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Twins Starter: Joe Ryan
- TV Channel: TBS
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -167)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +675)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +150)
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Orlando Arcia At The Plate
- Arcia is batting .314 with 10 doubles, six home runs and 17 walks.
- In 39 of 57 games this year (68.4%) Arcia has picked up a hit, and in 19 of those games he had more than one (33.3%).
- He has hit a home run in six games this season (10.5%), leaving the park in 2.7% of his trips to the plate.
- In 31.6% of his games this year, Arcia has notched at least one RBI. In eight of those games (14.0%) he recorded two or more RBI.
- In 23 of 57 games this year, he has scored, and eight of those games included multiple runs.
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Twins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Twins pitching staff ranks third in the league.
- The Twins have a 3.65 team ERA that ranks third across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Twins give up the sixth-fewest home runs in baseball (79 total, one per game).
- Ryan gets the start for the Twins, his 16th of the season. He is 8-4 with a 2.98 ERA and 100 strikeouts through 93 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent appearance was on Thursday against the Boston Red Sox, when the righty threw nine scoreless innings while giving up three hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 27-year-old ranks 14th in ERA (2.98), second in WHIP (.907), and 20th in K/9 (9.6).
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Recognized in Beverage Dynamics' Brand Growth Award and the 2023 DB & SB Spring Blind Tasting
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Starco Brands, Inc. (OTCQB: STCB) today announced that Whipshots™, the groundbreaking vodka-infused whipped cream, has won awards in two prestigious spirit industry competitions. The boozy whipped cream brand, developed in collaboration with global artist and icon Cardi B, received a "Rising Star Award" in Beverage Dynamics' 2023 Growth Brands Awards and four medals in the 2023 DB & SB Spring Blind Tasting as part of the Global Spirits Masters Competition.
The Growth Brands Awards have recognized successful beverage alcohol brands since 1997 and are divided into four categories for wine and spirits: Fast Track, Rising Star, Established Growth Brands and Comeback Brands. For this year's competition, Whipshots has been recognized as a Rising Star within the industry as it's proven its position as an incredible product with culture-driving marketing and continuous high demand in sales in all markets.
Additionally, the 2023 DB & SB Blind Tasting awarded the entire Whipshots portfolio in its Specialty Spirits category, garnering Gold Medals for Mocha and limited-edition Peppermint and Silver Medals for Vanilla and Caramel.
"We're ecstatic that Whipshots has been recognized by both the Growth Brands Awards and The DB & SB Spring Blind Tasting," says David Dreyer, Chief Marketing Officer of Starco Brands. "Receiving these honors is extremely rewarding and further showcases our product as a disruptor in the industry from a brand and taste standpoint."
Whipshots has previously been awarded a Double Gold medal in the 2022 SIP Awards, a Gold medal in the Los Angeles International Spirits Competition and additional competitions within the spirits industry. Whipshots has 10% Alc./Vol, does not require refrigeration, and is a luxurious addition to any cocktail, dessert or party.
Starco Brands is a disruptive and scaling company that prides itself on only creating behavior-changing products and technologies. Together with its retail partners, Starco Brands is making Whipshots easily accessible to consumers nationwide. Follow @whip_shots and visit Whipshots.com for more information.
About Whipshots™
Developed by Starco Brands, Whipshots™ is a first-of-its-kind alcoholic whipped cream that is a party in a can and launched in 2021 with Partner Cardi B. Whipshots is a playful shot of sophistication that will indulge your curiosity and senses. A Double Gold medal recipient in the 2022 SIP Awards, Gold medal recipient in the Los Angeles International Spirits Competition and the Rising Star Growth Brand in the 2023 Beverage Dynamics Growth Brand Awards, the boozy whipped cream is non-dairy (contains caseinate), does not require refrigeration and can be found next to other spirits at retail and in hospitality and entertainment locations. Follow Whipshots @whip_shots and visit whipshots.com for more information.
About Starco Brands
Starco Brands (OTCQB: STCB) invents consumer products with behavior-changing technologies that spark excitement in the everyday. Today, its disruptive brands include: Whipshots, the world's only vodka-infused whipped cream; Art of Sport, the body care brand designed for athletes and co-founded by Kobe Bryant; Winona Popcorn Spray, the first indulgent theater-popcorn spray powered by air; Skylar, the only fragrance that is both hypoallergenic and safe for sensitive skin; and Soylent, the complete non-dairy nutrition brand. A modern-day invention factory to its core, Starco Brands identifies whitespaces across consumer product categories. It draws upon a portfolio of innovative formulas spanning 8 product categories with limitless innovation potential. Starco Brands publicly trades on the OTCQB stock exchange so that retail investors can invest in STCB alongside accredited individuals and institutions. Visit www.starcobrands.com for more information.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran unveiled on Thursday what it called the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled Khorramshahr ballistic missile amid wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program.
Authorities showed off the Khorramshahr-4 to journalists at an event in Tehran, with the missile on a truck-mounted launcher.
Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said the missile could be prepared for launch in a short period.
“One of the prominent characteristics of this missile is its ability to evade radar detection and penetrate enemy air defense systems, thanks to its low radar signature,” the general told journalists. “This missile has the capability to utilize various warheads for different missions.”
Iranian officials described the missile as having a 2,000-kilometer (1,240-mile) range with a 1,500-kilogram (3,300-pound) warhead. They also released undated video footage purportedly showing a successful launch of the missile.
The Khorramshahr has the heaviest payload of Iran’s ballistic missile fleet, which analysts say may be designed to keep the weapon under a 2,000-kilometer range limit imposed by the country’s supreme leader. That puts most of the Mideast in range, but falls short of Western Europe.
The Khorramshahr-4 is named after an Iranian city that was the scene of heavy fighting during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. Iraq seized the city in the oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan at the start of the war, but Iran retook it over a year later.
During the event, loudspeakers blared the “Symphony of the Epic of Khorramshahr,” an orchestral composition marking Iranian soldiers ending the Iraqi siege of the city during the war.
Tehran created its ballistic missile program after suffering through Iraqi Scud missile attacks in the conflict — and as a hedge against its Western-armed neighbors as embargoes have kept it from accessing modern attack aircraft.
The missile also is called Kheibar, after a Jewish fortress conquered by the Muslims in the 7th century — in what is now Saudi Arabia.
Regional tensions likely played a role in Iran’s missile display Thursday. A miniature example of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of the Rock on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a holy site in both Islam and Judaism that Jews call the Temple Mount, stood next to the mobile launcher.
Iran views Israel as its archenemy and arming anti-Israeli militant groups in the Palestinian territories and surrounding countries. Tensions between the two nations are high, particularly as Iran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. The Khorramshahr would be able to reach Israel.
Iran made a point, however, to keep the truck that transports the missile covered up during the event. Its missile program has been targeted for sabotage in the past — and Iran has previously used foreign-sourced vehicles to tow such massive missile systems.
It remains unclear, however, why the missile has been called Khorramshahr-4 as only two other variants of the missile are publicly known. It is modeled after North Korea’s Musudan ballistic missile, which is believed to have up to a 4,000-kilometer (2,485-mile) range with a 500-kilogram (1,100 pound) payload.
U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Washington was aware of the missile report and reiterated that “Iran’s development and proliferation of ballistic missiles poses a serious threat to regional and international security.”
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ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER (AP) — James Kiona stands on a rocky ledge overlooking Lyle Falls where the water froths and rushes through steep canyon walls just before merging with the Columbia River. His silvery ponytail flutters in the wind, and a string of eagle claws adorns his neck.
Kiona has fished for Chinook salmon for decades on his family’s scaffold at the edge of the falls, using a dip net suspended from a 33-foot pole — like his father did before him, and his son will after.
“Fishing is an art and a spiritual practice,” says Kiona, a Yakama Nation elder. “You feel exhilaration in your body when you dip that net in the water and feel the fish. Then, you’re fighting the fish. The fish is fighting you, tearing holes in the net, jerking you off the scaffold.”
He finds strength, sanctity, even salvation in that struggle. The river saved Kiona when he returned from the war in Vietnam. As he battled addiction, depression and trauma, the river gave him therapy no hospital could.
When he lies on the rocks by the rushing river and closes his eyes, he hears the songs and the voices of his ancestors. The water, he says, holds the history of the land and his people.
“It heals you.”
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From its headwaters in British Columbia where the Rocky Mountains crest, the Columbia River flows south into Washington state and then westward and into the Pacific Ocean at its mouth near Astoria, Oregon. Just below the confluence with the Snake River, the Columbia’s largest tributary, the river turns through the Cascade Mountain Range, carving out the Columbia River Gorge.
It’s a spectacular canyon, 80 miles long and up to 4,000 feet deep, with cliffs, ridges, streams and waterfalls. The landscape and colors change dramatically from the brown hills, shrubs and sagebrush at lower elevations to the lush greens of ponderosa pines, fir and larch trees higher up. Eagles and ospreys nest all along the river.
For thousands of years, Native tribes in this area have relied on Nch’i-Wána, or “the great river,” for its salmon and steelhead trout, and its surrounding areas for the fields bearing edible roots, medicinal herbs and berry bushes as well as the deer and elk whose meat and hides are used for food and ritual. That reliance transcends the material realm into the spiritual, as the acts of gathering, consuming and respecting those foods are inextricably linked to the tribes’ religious practice.
Yet the river is under threat. Warming waters linked to climate change endanger the salmon, which need cooler temperatures to survive. Hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and its tributaries have curtailed the river’s flow, further imperiling salmon’s migration from the Pacific upstream to their freshwater spawning grounds. Industrial pollution are also threats; testing by the Columbia Riverkeeper, a nonprofit that aims to protect water quality, shows that fish caught in the area are contaminated with flame retardants; polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs; and heavy metals.
Pollution and climate change are not only threatening the health of the river and its habitat, but also the millennia-old spiritual traditions that hold Native communities together.
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“We are the salmon people or river people,” says Aja DeCoteau, executive director of the Portland-based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, which represents the interests of the four Columbia River treaty tribes — Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Nez Perce — in policy, advocacy and management of the basin. “Without water there are no fish, plants or herbs.”
Each year the tribes honor the salmon, roots, berries, deer and elk — which they believe were originally placed in the land for their sustenance — with what are known as “first food ceremonies.” When children catch fish, dig roots or pick berries for the first time, they are stood up before their elders in the longhouse and recognized as food gatherers.
Elders speak of how streams flow from the mountains sanctified by the prayers of ancestors who went there to commune with the spirits. These rivulets then flow down and merge with the Columbia. If Nch’i-Wána is the main artery of the land, those streams are like the veins that feed it. So even the smallest creek is vital and sacred.
At communal meals, tribe members typically begin and end with water — “You take a drink of water to purify yourself before you eat and you end the meal with water to show respect for what you’ve eaten,” DeCouteau says.
Tribes also use the river’s water and rocks for rituals such as sweat lodge purification ceremonies, held in low, dome-shaped structures where river rocks are heated along with herbal medicine.
“After you sweat and pray, there is also the practice of jumping in the river to cleanse yourself,” DeCouteau says. “It’s hard to continue practicing these rituals when the river is so contaminated.”
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Whether the day is 100 degrees or nine below zero, Terrie Brigham takes her fishing boat out every day before the crack of dawn. Her family, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, owns Brigham Fish Market in Cascade Locks, a bucolic riverbank town of some 1,500 residents about an hour’s drive east of Portland. Her grandfather erected the family’s scaffolds in the 1950s.
On a cold June morning, Brigham watches proudly at the scaffolds as her 23-year-old nephew, Brigham Campbell, fights a large Chinook salmon thrashing about in his dip net. He secures the fish and holds it up with smile, and she lets out a loud whoop and captures the moment on her cellphone.
Fishing has been the family’s life and livelihood for generations, but it’s also a big part of her spiritual identity. Brigham speaks of her scaffold as if it were a temple, and her boat an altar.
“To me, the river is sacred. The water is sacred. The fish are sacred.”
Each year when Brigham catches the first fish of the season, she utters, “Thank you, Creator.” Then she puts a rope around its mouth so it can be used in the longhouse as part of the ceremony to welcome the fish back, known as the First Salmon Feast.
That first fish is always shared with others in the community, even if each person might get just a single bite.
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Bill Yallup Jr. was 6 when Celilo Falls “drowned,” as he puts it.
Known as Wyam to Native people, the thundering cascade was a sacred place where for 15,000 years Indigenous tribes netted salmon as the fish jumped upstream. It was also their economic nerve center, with the salmon trading for all manner of goods from feathers to copper to wampum, beads crafted from shells.
Yallup’s family came to Celilo Falls from Toppenish, Washington, when he was an infant.
“My mom cooked with water from the river,” he says. “You could hear those falls for miles. It was sacred sound.”
The falls fell silent in 1957 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erected The Dalles Dam, flooding the area and creating the Celilo Lake reservoir. His father brought him to Lyle, Washington, when he was 17. He learned to fish there.
As a young man, Yallup dreamed of a career in Hollywood as a writer and actor. He played a tribal elder in the show “Northern Exposure,” a 1990s CBS comedy-drama series about quirky residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran for five seasons.
But, the mighty river has an unfathomable pull, and it drew him back. It reminds him of who he really is, Yallup says: “I’m a fisherman.”
In his deep baritone, he enjoys telling stories of the river that have been handed down over generations.
A tale he has told hundreds of times narrates how Coyote, one of the most important characters in tribal mythology, brought the salmon back to the big river. The fish had left after a legendary battle between Mount Hood and Mount Adams, both portrayed as women in the story, caused the salmon to drain into the ocean. The fish told Coyote they would come back, but only if they were respected.
Young salmon, or smolts, swim down the Columbia to the ocean, where they grow for between one and five years. Then they migrate back upstream to spawn. Some are caught and become a source of sustenance for the people, and others die and become one with the environment. The cycle repeats over and over.
“The sacredness of this river,” Yallup says, “lies in the sacrifice the salmon make each time they fulfill their promise to come back.”
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The Whitefoots are a large family spread across the West Coast. The best-known member of the clan, Patricia “Patsy” Whitefoot, is an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women. A member of the Yakama Nation, she often travels along the river meeting family members and attending traditional tribal gatherings.
Her activism is as much a part of her Native identity as her religious practice is.
“If you are Indian, you’ll be political all your life,” she says.
On a recent afternoon, she visits cousins Debra and Sandy Whitefoot, who live near the Bonneville Dam in an “in-lieu fishing site,” lands set aside by Congress to compensate tribes whose villages were inundated by dams.
Many families here live in trailers without restrooms, lights or drains, and Debra, as executive director of the nonprofit Nch’i-Wána Housing, works to provide homes for Native people living along the river.
“My mom saw the world go by at Celilo,” she says, wiping away tears. “We have lost so much. We’re experiencing intergenerational trauma. My hope is I can make a village or a few villages for my people so we can heal and move forward.”
Sandy is smoking freshly caught salmon. She arranges the cleaned and cut-up pieces in trays and places them in a wooden smoking shed by the river. She has a job in a sandwich shop, but this, Sandy says, is “what I do.”
The first fish she ever caught was a steelhead off her father’s scaffold.
“It was one of the most exciting moments in my life,” she says.
Debra’s son, Aaron Paul, and his partner, Betty Jean Sutterlict, live by the river as well. When their son, Bennie, finished high school last year, he had his graduation photo taken on the scaffold wearing a vest embroidered with an eagle carrying a salmon. He now attends Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana, and hopes to major in fisheries and wildlife.
Debra is proud of young people like her grandson, who grew up by the river doing homework under a streetlight, and are now going to college to learn about protecting their natural resources.
“They give me hope.”
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It was worries over the spring salmon’s disappearance from the river that inspired Elaine Harvey to get her bachelor’s degree in aquatic and fishery science. She is also concerned for species like the Pacific lamprey, which has “been around since the dinosaurs” but today faces possible extinction.
Now a fish biologist for Yakama Fisheries, Harvey says what keeps her up at night is what she calls a “race to harness green energy” that has brought multinational corporations to the Columbia.
“Wind turbines and solar farms are impacting our archeological sites, cultural resource sites, wildlife and fish,” she says, pointing to a sacred mountain near the John Day Dam that the Native people call Push-pum. “Our root fields are on that mountain. We could lose access to our food.”
The tribes are also focused on preserving areas in tributaries such as the Klickitat and White Salmon, two glacial rivers that provide cold water for migrating salmon.
Harvey hopes to impart this knowledge and sense of stewardship to her children and grandchildren.
“We travel with kids to fishing stations, hunting grounds and root fields,” she says. “We give them the experience of camping on our lands.”
She connects to the land by sleeping on the ground and cooking on an open fire, just as her ancestors did when they were traveling these lands on horseback and by foot.
Harvey says she will never leave the river because that’s what she was taught by her elders.
“We have a real, deep connection to all these places. Our blood line is here.”
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Harvey’s cousin, Bronsco Jim Jr., was appointed mid-Columbia River chief when he was 21 and in that capacity performs longhouse services, first food ceremonies and funerals. He knows many sacred songs, one of which talks about the birth of the first salmon at a spot in the Columbia River.
“God’s authoritative word comes down upon (the salmon’s) body,” Jim says. “He jumps out of the water in a circular movement, and in that one revolution, he was given life.”
Sunlight streams into the longhouse during a recent ceremonial meal with elders at historic Celilo Village. Supported by tall wooden beams, the building has at its center the altar, a rectangle of earth that Jim cleanses with water before the service begins.
Jim is wearing shell earrings and a beaded necklace with the pendant of a horse’s silhouette honoring his ancestors who rode them. His soft, measured speaking voice rises into song, echoing throughout the room. It has no words but is a deep, visceral, prayerful sound capable of evoking goosebumps or tears.
Tribal members seated around a table bearing the first foods — in order, salmon, roots, berries — join in softly, waving their right hands away from their bodies and then inward toward their chests. The gesture harnesses the light and energy around them and delivers it to their hearts, Jim explains. Tribal beliefs forbid capturing these solemn services in video or photographs because that would freeze the prayers in time and prevent their transmission to the Creator.
In Native families that inhabit the Columbia Basin, education about first foods begins at home and continues in these longhouses, accompanied by teaching and ceremony. Deeply held beliefs also dictate the rules of food gathering.
“You can’t just casually go out to gather food,” Jim says.
The ceremony for each of the foods is performed at a different time of year depending on when they become available. The salmon are the first to appear in the spring. The roots are ready to be dug in the summer and different berries are picked in the summer and the fall.
Community members are required to wait for that first feast to honor each food before they head out to harvest it. In the longhouse and out in the mountains, the food-gathering is accompanied by song.
“These songs and ceremonies are part of everything we do,” Jim says. “We need the river and these foods in our lives.”
Losing these irreplaceable foods and their sources could cost them their spiritual identity, he says.
“They feed our body and soul.”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- uLab Systems™, the creator of the uSmile™ clear aligner platform and the uAssist™ treatment planning assistance service, announces a new flexible pricing structure that combines case bundle and a la carte options. Orthodontists choose the best mix and match purchase option for each patient's case after seeing the treatment plan; you plan, you choose, and you and your patient smile.
Access to case bundles is made possible by downloading the AI-driven uDesign 7.3 software update available in early July. Options such as the uAssist concierge service, custom packaging, shipping, and retainers are included in mild, moderate, and comprehensive bundles. To simplify decision-making, the software calculates the price of various options so the orthodontist can make the most appropriate choice. If, after purchasing a mild or moderate bundle, the patient requires more aligners then a la carte aligners can be added at any time. Whether the user chooses a bundle for maximum savings or a la carte for maximum flexibility, they are protected by a total case backstop: a price set per patient that the user will not exceed regardless of the purchase options chosen.
"Adding options for orthodontists to order in bundles was something we wanted to do as a convenience for when they know they have a comprehensive case, but we also wanted to maintain the flexibility and economics of the pay-per-aligner approach," says Amir Abolfathi, CEO and co-founder. "Now we offer the best of both worlds."
Along with these new purchase options, uLab has dramatically simplified its discounting structure to make it easier to qualify for discounted pricing. This flexibility in purchase options allows orthodontists to treat the patient with the best clinical approach, unencumbered by restrictive purchase plans and volume-based tiers.
Also Included in the uDesign 7.3 software release are several enhanced clinical planning and protocol tools including: eruption domes, streamlined attachment protocols, and enhanced bite ramps, passive aligners, and digital model viewing operations. All designed to save valuable planning time and enhance clinical outcomes.
uLab is dedicated to innovating for the orthodontic specialty, providing practitioners with easy access to innovative, state-of-the-art tools that enable the flexibility to control the patient treatment plan, unencumbered by pricing structure confines and restrictive protocols. Introductory bundle prices will be in place until the end of the year.
About uLab Systems
uLab Systems is led by an experienced team of healthcare innovators helping to transform options for orthodontic practices to provide the best outcomes for their patients. uLab's mission is to advance the orthodontic industry with aligner products and digital treatment planning software that let orthodontists take back control of their treatment plans. uLab sustainably manufactures uSmile aligners in Memphis, TN, recycling over 80% of manufacturing mold materials. uSmile clear aligners, the uAssist concierge service and the uDesign software are available to orthodontic practices in the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. To learn more visit www.ulabsystems.com. Contact: David Thrower, Chief Commercial Officer, pr@ulabsystems.com
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Long commutes start after part of I-95 collapses in Philadelphia following tanker truck fire
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Drivers began longer commutes Monday after an elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed in Philadelphia a day earlier following damage caused by a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo catching fire.
Sunday’s fire closed a heavily traveled segment of the East Coast’s main north-south highway indefinitely. Newscasts warned of traffic nightmares and gave advice on detours, urging drivers to take more time to travel.
“This is really going to have a ripple effect throughout the region,” AAA spokesperson Jana Tidwell said Monday. She advised people to avoid peak travel times.
Tidwell also anticipated that drivers will incur additional costs — “more gasoline, more wear and tear on their cars, additional tolls, in terms of leaving Pennsylvania into New Jersey and then back into Pennsylvania.”
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said it was operating three extra morning and late afternoon trains on its Trenton, New Jersey, line, and adding capacity to regularly scheduled lines during peak hours “to help support the city and region’s travel needs” following the collapse.
Transportation officials warned of extensive delays and street closures and urged drivers to avoid the area in the city’s northeast corner. Officials said the tanker contained a petroleum product that may have been hundreds of gallons of gasoline. The fire took about an hour to get under control.
The northbound lanes of I-95 were gone and the southbound lanes were “compromised” by heat from the fire, said Derek Bowmer, battalion chief of the Philadelphia Fire Department. Runoff from the fire or perhaps broken gas lines caused explosions underground, he added.
Some kind of crash happened on a ramp underneath northbound I-95 around 6:15 a.m., said state Transportation Department spokesman Brad Rudolph, and the northbound section above the fire collapsed quickly.
The southbound lanes were heavily damaged, “and we are assessing that now,” Rudolph said.
Gov. Josh Shapiro, who said Sunday evening he planned to issue a disaster declaration Monday to speed federal funds, said at least one vehicle was still trapped beneath the collapsed roadway.
“We’re still working to identify any individual or individuals who may have been caught in the fire and the collapse,” he said. There were no reports of injuries.
A massive concrete slab fell from I-95 onto the road below. Shapiro said his flight over the area showed “just remarkable devastation.”
“I found myself thanking the Lord that no motorists who were on I-95 were injured or died,” he said.
Mark Fusetti, a retired Philadelphia police sergeant, said he was driving south toward the city’s airport when he noticed thick, black smoke rising over the highway. As he passed the fire, the road beneath began to “dip,” creating a noticeable depression that was visible in video he took of the scene, he said.
He saw traffic in his rearview mirror come to a halt. Soon after, the northbound lanes of the highway crumbled.
“It was crazy timing,” Fusetti said. “For it to buckle and collapse that quickly, it’s pretty remarkable.”
The collapsed section of I-95 was part of a $212 million reconstruction project that wrapped up four years ago, Rudolph said. There was no immediate time frame for reopening the highway, but officials would consider “a fill-in situation or a temporary structure” to accelerate the effort, he said.
Motorists were sent on a 43-mile (69-kilometer) detour, which was going “better than it would do on a weekday,” Rudolph said. The fact that the collapse happened on a Sunday helped ease congestion, but he expected traffic “to back up significantly on all the detour areas.”
Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Michael Carroll said the I-95 segment carries roughly 160,000 vehicles per day and was likely the busiest interstate in Pennsylvania.
Shapiro said he had been spoken directly to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and had been assured that there would be “absolutely no delay” in getting federal funds quickly to rebuild what he called a “critical roadway” as safely and efficiently as possible.
But Shapiro he said the complete rebuild of I-95 would take “some number of months,” and in the meantime officials were looking at “interim solutions to connect both sides of I-95 to get traffic through the area.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a Twitter post that President Joe Biden was briefed on the collapse and that White House officials were in contact with Shapiro and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s offices to offer assistance. Buttigieg, in a social media post, called it “a major artery for people and goods” and said the closure would have “significant impacts on the city and region until reconstruction and recovery are complete.”
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to investigate the fire and collapse.
Most drivers traveling the I-95 corridor between Delaware and New York City use the New Jersey Turnpike rather than the segment of interstate where the collapse occurred. Until 2018, drivers did not have a direct highway connection between I-95 in Pennsylvania and I-95 in New Jersey. They had to use a few miles of surface roads, with traffic lights, to get from one to the other.
Officials were also concerned about the environmental effects of runoff into the nearby Delaware River.
After a sheen was seen in the Delaware River near the collapse site, the Coast Guard deployed a boom to contain the material. Ensign Josh Ledoux said the tanker had a capacity of 8,500 gallons (32,176 liters), but the contents did not appear to be spreading into the environment.
Thousands of tons of steel and concrete were piled atop the site of the fire, and heavy construction equipment would be required to start to remove the debris, said Dominick Mireles, director of Philadelphia’s Office of Emergency Management.
The fire was strikingly similar to another blaze in Philadelphia in March 1996, when an illegal tire dump under I-95 caught fire, melting guard rails and buckling the pavement.
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Associated Press writers Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Jake Offenhartz in New York, and Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot in their workplaces, chased through the streets and beaten to death by a mob of 10,000 white men and boys.
But few have been taught about the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, which shaped the city’s geography, economy, society and power structure in lasting ways. Much like the Red Summer of 1919 in the South and Northeast and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in Oklahoma would years later, the white-on-Black violence in Atlanta shattered dreams of racial harmony and forced thousands from their homes.
A grassroots coalition is working to restore Atlanta’s killings and their legacy to public memory. Historic markers and tours are planned for this September’s anniversary. A one-act play will be performed simultaneously at group dinners across the city. Organizers are seeking 500 hosts, with the ambitious goal of seating 5,000 people to discuss the lasting effects.
These activists say the massacre doesn’t fit comfortably in Atlanta’s “cradle of the civil rights movement” narrative, but they insist on truth-telling as some politicians push to ignore the nation’s history of racial violence.
Mislabeled a riot, the killings of at least 25 Black people and the destruction of Black-owned businesses had a specific purpose: thwarting their economic success and voting power before African-Americans could claim equal status, said King Williams, a journalist who gives tours describing what happened.
“The mob began its work early in the evening, pulling negroes from street cars and beating them with clubs, bricks and stones,” The Associated Press reported on Sept. 24, 1906, adding that “negroes were beaten, cut and stamped upon in an unreasoning, mad frenzy. If a negro ventured resistance or remonstrated, it meant practically sure death.”
The violence began where Georgia State University’s campus is now. Enraged by unsupported headlines about attacks on white women and the evils of “race-mixing,” the mob set fire to saloons and pounced on Black men and women headed home from work, Williams explains on the tour.
Their next target was the “Crystal Palace,” an opulent barbershop where Alonzo Herndon made his first fortune catering to white elites. Poorer white people couldn’t stomach such success by a Black man and shattered the place, Williams says.
Bodies were stacked at the statue of newspaperman Henry Grady. Williams describes Grady as a post-Civil War “demagogue who championed Atlanta, but also championed a lot of the racial rhetoric that we still see echoing today.” His statue is four blocks from CNN Center, and for most people “it’s just a thing they walk by,” Williams said.
Steps from there, some Black people either jumped or were thrown from the Forsyth Street bridge onto the railroad tracks below. Others reached shelter inside the gates of the Gammon Theological Seminary in Brownsville, a thriving African American neighborhood 3 miles (5 kilometers) to the south.
That’s where the mob, now “deputized” as law enforcers, came searching for weapons on the third day, ransacking businesses and pulling women and children from their homes. One white officer was killed and some 250 Black people were arrested, including 60 who were convicted. Not one white person was held responsible for any of the deaths, community organizer Ann Hill Bond said.
The cause was not in doubt. Atlanta Constitution editor Clark Howell and former Atlanta Journal publisher Hoke Smith had outdone each other vowing to disenfranchise Black voters while campaigning for governor. As Election Day approached, the papers printed baseless stories about attempted attacks on white women.
A Fulton County grand jury cited “inflammatory headlines” for fomenting the violence, but when “Voice of the Negro” publisher J. Maxwell Barber tied those articles to the racist campaigns, he was run out of town.
Once governor, Smith signed laws that kept most Black people from voting for another half-century. Thousands abandoned Atlanta, which became two-thirds white by 1910, the Census showed. City officials cited the need to avoid violence as they imposed segregation on neighborhoods, including “Sweet Auburn” Avenue, which became a model of African American economic self-sufficiency. Herndon gave up barbering to become one of the nation’s leading insurers for Black families.
The “riot” label still stuck when the massacre was finally added to Georgia’s eighth-grade curriculum in 2007.
“It is important for us to use correct language when we’re speaking of and remembering and honoring the lives that were lost. This was a massacre. People were killed,” said Bond, who leads a #changethename campaign. “And this is just the proper way to truth-tell in order to get to healing. If you don’t rip the Band-Aid off, you never get to healing.”
The massacre remains “terrifying” to playwright Marlon Burnley, whose one-act play will be performed by the Out of Hand Theater company at September’s Equitable Dinners.
“The biggest through-line for me is the presence of fake news and just made-up stories and fearmongering. And I feel like that’s just a constant in our history,” Burnley said.
Williams gets a variety of reactions on his tours. For college students “it’s like discovering fire,” he says. Older Atlantans are surprised they never heard the details before. “People who have skin in the game in the city” — civic boosters and people who run non-profits or work in politics — often get squeamish, he says.
“When you talk about the history of what happened in 1906, a lot of that overlaps today,” Williams says. “And a lot of people just don’t like that. It really just doesn’t shine on Atlanta when we try to present ourselves to be a respected city on a hill.”
The violence doesn’t match the image many Black people have of Atlanta as a kind of Wakanda, the highly advanced mythical African nation of “Black Panther” fame, said Allison Bantimba, who co-founded the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition.
“I do think that restoring this history to public knowledge will make a difference,” Bantimba said. “The second we pull down the veil and acknowledge all of that, a lot of people will have to reorient themselves.”
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On Nov. 11 it will be 133 years since Mary McCormic was born in Yell County.
If you've never heard of her, don't feel out of some loop. I've spent days researching her online, and Google still directs me to pages about actress Mary McCormack. But from what I see in newspaper archives, McCormic was vastly well known in the 1920s and '30s. "Superstar" is not much of an exaggeration.
She was an internationally known opera singer, a lyric soprano. But more than that, she was a hard-working woman with a happy knack for joking about her awful taste in men.
Mamie Harris was born in wee little Belleville to John and Mary Harris, and she had at least three brothers. John was a dry goods clerk who eventually owned multiple stores in southwestern Texas. And that's where Mamie became Mary and a promising singer.
If you know your Arkansas social history, though, you can guess that Arkansans eagerly claimed Mary McCormic as a native. No matter from what distant state your shiny star eventually ascends, if you were born here and you make good, you are permanently Arkansan. Don't pretend we don't do this, because you know that we do. Exactly how long did Gen. Douglas MacArthur reside in Little Rock? Hmm?
Anyway, 100 years ago, the Arkansas Democrat and Arkansas Gazette were dee-lighted by our splendid young singer's brilliant success during her first tour to Italy with the Chicago Civic Opera. Headline in the Gazette: "Arkansas Singer Receives Ovation."
Never mind that she received her seminal musical education at Amarillo, Texas. Never mind. She did study music a bit with Henry D. Tovey at Ouachita College, before she ran out of money. And, although the newspapers don't appear to have known this, the former Miss Harris did marry her starter husband at Ward in Lonoke County. Married to Kenneth Joseph Rankin in 1908, Mary Rankin had a child in 1910; but they divorced in 1916.
So, she did live here longer than baby MacArthur's six months.
But back to the Nov. 2, 1922, Gazette, which quoted a Chicago Tribune account of McCormic's triumph:
"Miss McCormic made her Italian debut at the opera house at Asti, where the critics proclaimed her voice one of the greatest ever heard in Italy. She sang the part of Santuzza in 'Cavalleria Rusticana,' and her Italian accent was so perfect that she was not recognized as an American, as she was billed under the Italian name equivalent to McCormic.
"On her third successive night a great celebration took place in her honor. She was presented with a huge bouquet containing the Italian and American flags crossed by the municipal officials of Asti."
I wonder what an Italian version of McCormic might be?
MARY GARDEN'S BIG FIND
McCormic was a protege of the marvelous Mary Garden, who was resurrecting a grand opera company out of financial ruin. Newspapers told a tale in which penniless Miss McCormic was earning $5 a week singing in choir lofts when Garden held public auditions to find "a truly American voice" in spring 1921. Garden admired the clever woman who had not studied outside the U.S., telling her that — if she would train all summer — she would get her shot in the fall.
McCormic pegged away at French and Italian day and night and learned eight operatic leads.
That November, in a Chicago Civic Opera production of "Carmen" starring Garden, Lucien Muratore and Georges Baklanoff, McCormic sang as innocent Micaela. "Arkansas Girl Makes Hit," the Gazette cheered on Nov. 28, 1921: "About as successful an entrance as ever a debutante made, it was, too."
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In the Dec. 4, 1921, Democrat, children's editor Kay Tallqvist held her up as worth emulating. Headline: "Genius Cannot Be Defined But Is Bound to Find an Outlet."
Tallqvist wrote: "From a prairie schooner to the stage of the Chicago Grand Opera Company she went. Without a dollar — without an influential friend; often with heartbreaking intervals between meal tickets — with nothing but determination and a golden voice."
SUPERSTAR
McCormic was a massive flirt. Prosper Buranelli, the New York World reporter Old News mentioned Oct. 31, wrote about encountering her at an Italian fencing match in July 1922. McCormic rose up from the audience to announce that whoever won the match would have the honor of buying her dinner.
And she was funny, especially about the sad drama of her divorces — four by 1939.
Her ex-husbands were Rankin (see arkansasonline.com/1107joe), followed in 1917 by Chester Adrian Macomic (see arkansasonline.com/1107chester; she took his name but changed the spelling, perhaps to avoid being mistaken for a relative of opera patron L. Hamilton McCormick); and then Russian playboy Prince Serge Mdivani (arkansasonline.com/1107prince); and finally Homer V. Johannsen (I can't find an online memorial).
Actually, in 1939, while telling the press about her engagement to a potential fifth spouse, Joseph Patrick Reilly, she clarified that her second (to Macomic) was bogus. He lied that he was divorced when they married in secret. And I did find a wedding record for "Charles A. McCormic" and "Mamie Rankin," at Kalamazoo, Mich., on July 14, 1917.
"I have been married only three times so far — not four," she declared. "Gosh, I marry 'em, why can't you newspaper men count 'em?"
She also opined, "I guess I'm a romanticist ... I'm in love with love ... but this time it will be different." And it was. She and Reilly didn't marry.
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THE PRINCE
Her most remarked-upon spouse was No. 3. Mdivani's family lost their fortune in the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II. For their wooing of wealthy women, he and his brothers were mocked as the "marrying Mdivanis."
And he was still married to the actress Pola Negri when McCormic announced her engagement to him. (Negri, by the way, had lost her fortune in the 1929 market crash.) As McCormic stepped off the oceanliner RMS Olympic at Cherbourg, France, on Jan. 2, 1931 — on her way to starring roles in Paris and Florence — she showed reporters her ring from the prince. And she declared, "He isn't divorced yet but I want the world to know my happiness."
When she divorced him in 1933, she told the court, "It was a noble experiment, but it didn't work out."
The judge asked if he had abused her. She shot back, "I'll say he did! He struck me and he threatened to maim me and he called me terrible names."
In 1936, Mdivani married an ex-wife of his dead brother; and then the next month, he himself died in a polo accident. McCormic reportedly wept without restraint.
She also remarried in 1936. The fact that she vowed to obey Johannsen was a fun news item. But when she sued him for divorce in 1937, she said he was cruel, isolated her from friends and knocked her across a table.
GONE HOME
Besides the opera, she was a radio star and appeared in a 1933 film, "Paddy the Next Best Thing."
In the 1940s, McCormic returned to Texas and became artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas College of Music at Denton. She created the school's now highly regarded North Texas Opera Workshop.
She made many appearances in Arkansas, singing for Lions Clubs and teachers conferences and being described as an Arkansan even after her retirement in 1966 -- which is when she moved home to Amarillo to live with her brother's widow.
And there she lived until she died in 1981. And there she is buried, like the Texan she was.
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When state lawmakers voted on bipartisan lines in 2019 to double Illinois’ motor fuel tax and raise several driving-related fees, it laid the groundwork for a $45 billion infrastructure plan, the largest in Illinois’ history and the first in nearly a decade.
The plan, spanning six years, dedicates $33.2 billion to road, bridge and other transportation-related infrastructure.
The fruits of that spending can be seen statewide in the program’s fourth year, which includes $350 million for projects on interstates 24 and 57 in Southern Illinois, and $100 million for railroad, bridge and other transportation projects in the Springfield area among several others.
“It's why I proposed and signed the historic, largest-ever in the history of Illinois, bipartisan Rebuild Illinois capital plan – so that we could deliver the repairs that our residents needed on a fast-tracked timeline,” Gov. JB Pritzker said Wednesday in one of two news conferences highlighting recent or upcoming expenditures. “And we are seeing the effects of that legislation in real time.”
The Rebuild Illinois plan also included a “vertical infrastructure” component for state buildings such as crime labs, schools and colleges, as well as other non-transportation infrastructure. Those portions of the bill are funded through a gambling expansion and a $1-per-pack cigarette tax increase, both of which were also approved in 2019.
Both revenue bills and the Rebuild Illinois spending plan passed with broad supermajority support from members of both parties. The gas tax hike passed 48-9 in the Senate and 83-29 in the House, while the gambling expansion was approved 46-10 in the Senate and 87-27 in the House.
The original Rebuild Illinois spending plan passed on even broader margins, 95-18 in the House and 53-6 in the Senate.
One lawmaker voting against all three of the bills was then-state Rep. Darren Bailey, of Xenia, who was later voted to the state Senate and is now the Republican nominee for governor against Pritzker, the plan’s biggest champion.
Bailey has frequently criticized the 2019 gas tax increase, which was indexed to inflation. He’s attacked not only Pritzker, but also state Rep. Avery Bourne, of Morrisonville, the running mate of his main primary rival who voted for the infrastructure plan in 2019.
Pritzker, meanwhile, has made a near-weekly commitment to publicizing the state’s infrastructure spending since the bill’s passage in his first year as governor.
On Wednesday that included stops in Cahokia Heights in the Metro East and Whittington in Southern Illinois to publicize funding for sewer improvements and renovations at the Rend Lake Beach Resort.
Projects in Cahokia Heights, the newest city in Illinois which incorporated in 2021, will receive $21 million, including $9.9 million to revamp its sewer system – correcting a problem that residents said has existed in the area for more than 50 years.
State Sen. Christopher Belt, D-Swansea, said at a news conference Wednesday he was raised in Centreville, which is now part of Cahokia Heights.
“The stench of sewer backup – I grew up with it. You grew up with it so much that it became the norm,” he said.
“When the weather forecasts growing up said rain or thunderstorms in Centreville, Allerton, Cahokia, what is now Cahokia Heights – that meant something totally different,” he added. “Anxiety set in and you're like ‘oh my God,’ you know, you start boxing things, precious things to you, because you didn't want to lose them.”
The $9.9 million would be immediately released by the state, Pritzker said, focusing on, among other things, repair or replacement of 35 lift stations and several thousand feet of pipeline repair.
Cahokia Heights Mayor Curtis McCall Sr. said at the news conference “there has never been this type of money” available from the state to fix chronic problems in the area.
“I'm 60 years old, all of my life I’ve been dealing with this,” he said. “Once we have this $10 million that the governor brought down today, we would probably say, according to the engineers, three to five years before this project is completely done. But I can tell you that our residents will start seeing tremendous progress as early as two months.”
At another news conference in Franklin County later in the day, Pritzker announced $17.5 million from Rebuild Illinois will go toward the renovation of the Rend Lake Resort at the 3,300-acre Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area, which is operated by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
It had been closed since December 2016 after IDNR found mold and other maintenance issues on the property.
The resort site features a hotel, conference center, cabins, restaurant, boatel, gift shop, pool, tennis courts and more, most of which will be renovated under the state construction plan, once again enabling the resort to host guests, conferences and other events.
State Rep. Dave Severin, R-Benton, voted for all three components of the capital plan in 2019. He said the announcement marked one of his two best days in the past six years, the other being when he was elected to the House in 2016.
“The potential is amazing, what it's going to bring back to Southern Illinois as far as jobs,” he said of the resort. “Of course, people who have jobs, what are they doing? They're paying taxes. With those taxes we're able to help with the things here in Southern Illinois.”
Jason Ashmore, mayor of Sesser, praised the economic potential as well.
“The river resort is an important part of the regional economic engine and the return of the resort will continue to offer more opportunities to the over 2 million visitors to the Red Lake area each year and capitalize on more tourism dollars,” he said.
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GLENSIDE, Pa., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadia University has elected three new members to its Board of Trustees: Nancy Glass, CEO and executive producer for Glass Entertainment Group, an award-winning television production company; Peri Wallace Higgins, president and founder of Evolve Advisors; and Aliyah Abraham, management and program analyst for the U.S. Department of Commerce and a 2017 graduate of Arcadia.
Glass is a six-time Emmy Award-winning producer and writer. She started Glass Entertainment Group in 2003, and since then the company has produced more than 3,000 hours of cable television shows, documentaries, digital programming, and podcasts. Glass has anchored and reported for several national television shows, including Inside Edition, American Journal, Sneak Previews, This Evening, and Attitudes on Lifetime. For the past five years, Glass Entertainment Group has been listed as one of the top 100 production companies in the world by RealScreen Magazine, and Glass is included on the 2022 Variety list of Titans of Unscripted Television.
Glass is a member and past chair of the Board of Advisors for Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences as well as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. She previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for Women's Campaign International, an organization that supports women in their efforts to participate in market and political processes in emerging democracies.
Glass earned a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University. Some of her distinctions as an industry pioneer include being the first woman to be the solo host of a nationally syndicated news show, the first person in syndication to be nominated for a national news Emmy, and the first person in cable to be nominated for an Emmy for Best Daytime Talk Show Host.
Higgins is President and Founder of Evolve Advisors, a minority-owned and woman-owned management consulting firm that assists clients in developing innovative strategies for growth and efficiencies. Prior to founding Evolve, Higgins was a founder and managing partner of two real estate investment funds and managed the private equity portfolio of a diversified holding company. Her early career was spent in investment banking.
Higgins is a founding member and former vice chair of the Board of Horizons at The Episcopal Academy and serves as an Executive Board member of Horizons Greater Philadelphia. These organizations provide summer learning programs for children from underserved communities in the Philadelphia area. She previously served on the boards of the Vetri Foundation for Children, The Franklin Institute Benefactors Society, The West Hill School, Turner Funds, and The Episcopal Academy, where she was a member of the Executive Board.
Higgins earned a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Harvard University.
Elected as a Recent Graduate Trustee, Abraham works in the U.S. Department of Commerce as a Management & Program Analyst/Human Capital Business Partner, where she conducts analyses related to the effectiveness of programs and the efficiency of management operations for Human Capital matters, specializing in Human Capital data analytics. Her contributions in this role include the development of several data visualization personnel reporting systems that assist agency leadership with strategic planning and personnel oversight, the creation of new organizational tools for tracking of congressionally funded positions, and most recently spearheading transformational recruitment efforts to obtain potential candidates from diverse backgrounds. She previously served as Equal Employment Opportunity specialist at the Department of the Navy, NAVSEA Philadelphia Division.
Abraham earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Arcadia University in 2017. At Arcadia, Abraham was active in several activities, demonstrating leadership and initiative as the founding president of Melanin in Action, the organizer of the Knights for Nutrition Food Pantry Task Force, and the organizer of the Day of Silence Part 1 & 2. Abraham was a finalist for the 2018 Arcadia University Senior Golden Disc award. In 2018, Abraham received the Arcadia University Alumni Association Student Impact Award.
In 2018, Abraham founded the Black Alumni Association of Arcadia University (BAAAU), serving as its president through 2021. In this capacity, she launched the Preview Travel Fund to increase the participation rates of Black students in Arcadia's flagship Preview Program field study courses. Abraham was awarded the 2021 Arcadia University Black Alumni Association's Sankofa Award. In addition, she serves as a representative-at-large on Arcadia's alumni council and as an advisory board member for Arcadia's Gateway to Success/Act 101 Program.
Arcadia University is a top-ranked private University in Greater Philadelphia that provides an educational experience that is values-based; rooted in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI); and places students at the center. The Institute of International Education has ranked Arcadia first nationally in study abroad for 10 of the last 12 years, and the Princeton Review has ranked Arcadia among the "Best in the Northeast" for seven consecutive years. The University's Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs are nationally ranked in their respective categories by U.S. News & World Report, which also ranks Arcadia among the top 25 percent in its category and cites Arcadia for being among the "most innovative" and "best value" colleges. Approximately 3,700 students study at Arcadia, with 2,300 undergraduate students choosing from more than 65 fields of study. Arcadia promises a distinctively global, integrative, and personal learning experience that prepares students to contribute and lead in a diverse and dynamic world. Through its community of practice, Arcadia has made facilitating a safe and welcoming environment a priority by developing and implementing anti-Black Racism Initiatives (ABRI) on campus and in its surrounding communities. Visit www.arcadia.edu.
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CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 47 to 57.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs 74 to 84.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Clear. Lows 48 to 58. Highs 76 to
86.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 48 to
58. Highs 75 to 85.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs 75 to 85.
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CAZ070-NVZ005-040300-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
332 AM PDT Wed Aug 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with isolated
showers in the afternoon. Highs 88 to 98. Light winds becoming
southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers in the evening,
then clear after midnight. Lows 59 to 69. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
isolated showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 89 to
99. Light winds becoming southwest around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows 60 to 70. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in
the afternoon. Highs 86 to 96. Light winds becoming southwest
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows 56 to 66.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs 89 to 99. Lows 57 to 67.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 59 to 69.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 98.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 60 to 70. Highs
87 to 97.
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CAZ071-040300-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
332 AM PDT Wed Aug 3 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs 85 to 95. Light winds becoming southwest around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 53 to 63. West winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with
isolated showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 86 to
96. Light winds becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 65. West winds 10 to
15 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce
heavy rainfall in the afternoon. Highs 83 to 93. Light winds
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
50 to 60.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Clear. Highs 86 to 96. Lows 51 to 61.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 53 to 63.
Highs 85 to 95.
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CAZ073-040300-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
332 AM PDT Wed Aug 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with scattered
showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 76 to 86. Light
winds becoming east around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows 47 to 57.
West winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Showers in the morning, then showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 75 to 85. Light winds
becoming southeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers and scattered thunderstorms in the
evening, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows 46 to 56. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.FRIDAY...Showers likely and chance of thunderstorms. Some
thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Highs 69 to 79. Light
winds becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows 44 to 54.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs 72 to 82. Lows 46 to 56.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 75 to
85.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 47 to 57.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 74 to 84.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows 47 to 57.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs
74 to 84.
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Pigs run loose on highway after semitruck tips over in Minnesota
LITTLE CANADA, Minn. (AP) — Pigs ran loose on a metro highway after a semitrailer truck that was carrying 50 hogs overturned, causing an hours-long shutdown Friday morning in Minnesota on Interstate 694.
State troopers tried to corral several loose pigs that cameras showed running through traffic, the Star Tribune reported.
The truck tipped over around 7:35 a.m. and caused morning rush hour traffic to back up for more than a mile, Minnesota Department of Transportation cameras showed.
The truck driver was not hurt, according to Lt. Gordon Shank with the Minnesota State Patrol. Ten pigs died in the crash.
Authorities rounded up the pigs, some of which were injured.
Investigators are looking into what caused the semi to tip on its side as it navigated the curve on I-694 where it joins with northbound Interstate 35E.
Nearly five years ago, more than 20 pigs spilled onto the roads in a more rural part of the state after a semitruck overturned at a highway interchange near Mankato. About 90 pigs had been in the livestock trailer, and some of them died. The driver suffered minor injuries.
And last year on a Pennsylvania highway, several monkeys escaped when a truck that was towing a trailer of 100 monkeys collided with a dump truck. The truck had been on its way to a lab. The drivers weren’t harmed.
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SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerline Drivers has a new scholarship program to help women become truck drivers.
The Drive It Forward scholarship is in honor of Sheila Castaneda, a key member of the Centerline Drivers' leadership team and a proponent of promoting opportunities for women in trucking.
The scholarship will provide financial assistance to one woman every year who is entering a CDL program to pursue a career as a commercial driver.
The scholarship will be for the full tuition amount up to $7,500.
"Sheila Castaneda was a steadfast proponent of encouraging women in trucking and spent a lot of her time mentoring and coaching women across Centerline. To honor her memory, we set up this scholarship fund," said Jill Quinn, President of Centerline Drivers. "I'm glad we able to continue her legacy at Centerline and help other women experiencing adversity through this scholarship program."
All women interested in a CDL program are encouraged to apply. Special consideration will be given to those demonstrating a financial need or adverse life circumstances that delayed or interfered with their career plans.
General Requirements:
- Female
- Be at least 21 years of age at the date of commencement.
- Have applied for admission to a qualified CDL program and have the required basic criteria to be accepted.
- New to the trucking industry and not held a CDL license before.
All eligible drivers will submit an online application demonstrating they meet all criteria outlined as conditions of the scholarship. Applicants must provide an essay explaining their circumstances, a professional reference and work history. The deadline for this year's applications is December 31st, 2022 at 11:59 EST.
About Centerline Drivers
Centerline Drivers connects over 4,500 drivers annually with Fortune 1000 and mid-sized companies. Centerline has been delivering superior staffing service to fleet operators and good jobs to qualified drivers since its founding in 1975. It offers nationwide coverage from a network of branches in 40 U.S. markets and a centralized service operation. Centerline is part of TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI), a global leader in specialized workforce solutions that help clients achieve business growth and improve productivity. Centerline was named a top workplace for women to work by Women in Trucking in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and a Top Workplace by Energage in 2021. Learn more at centerlinedrivers.com.
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PARADISE, Nev. (AP) — DJ Davis scored 18 points as UC Irvine beat Nicholls State 83-56 on Friday night.
Davis shot 7 for 12, including 4 for 7 from beyond the arc for the Anteaters (5-1). Dawson Baker scored 13 points while shooting 5 of 9 from the field and 3 for 6 from the line. Justin Hohn shot 4 of 6 from the field and 2 for 5 from the line to finish with 12 points.
Micah Thomas led the Colonels (1-4) in scoring, finishing with 11 points and three steals. Emanuel Littles added 10 points and six rebounds for Nicholls State. Latrell Jones also had nine points.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An editorial in a recent Insurance Advocate, authored by Steve Acunto, Editor and Publisher, referenced Demotech, Inc. as the "rating agency that stepped up in its rhetorical outreach to better a marketplace in which it plays a key role." Acunto also noted that with the Governor (of Florida) and many state leaders calling for another special session prior to year-end 2022, "this implies that the May 2022 reforms were not up to the task."
The Insurance Information Institute has estimated that since Hurricanes Ian and Nicole made landfall more than 630,000 claims have been reported in Florida. To date, catastrophe modelling results and initial carrier estimates indicate that direct damages will be within the reinsurance towers purchased by Demotech-rated carriers.
According to Demotech's President and Co-founder, Joseph L. Petrelli, "When analyzing insurer operating results the legislative, regulatory, and judicial environment may be considered in Demotech's review where legislation, regulations, or judicial decisions could materially impact an insurer's financial position or its ability to operate consistently given the market conditions of a particular jurisdiction. Regulatory practices or regulatory actions may affect the operating environment of insurers positively or negatively. Such actions may relate to product regulation, financial regulation, or market regulation. In some instances, legislation or judicial decisions may also alter the operating environment or risk exposures of certain insurers by altering the policyholder claims and litigation environment or the insurance regulatory environment. We hope that the efforts of the May 2022 special session, enacted on July 1, 2022, benefit Floridians who have been hard hit by Ian and Nicole."
Since 1985, Demotech has served the industry by assigning accurate, reliable, and proven Financial Stability Ratings® to P&C insurers and Title underwriters. Demotech was the first to review independent, regional and specialty insurers, 1989. Demotech's philosophy is to review and evaluate insurers based on their area of focus and execution of their business model rather than solely on financial size. Visit www.demotech.com for additional information.
[EDITORIAL] STEVE ACUNTO, EDITOR & PUBLISHER, INSURANCE ADVOCATE
Of Fevers and Thermometers:
The Coming Florida Insurance Market Gets the Shivers
Ian hit Cape Cayo at 155 m.p.h. Wallop. Too late to start thinking. Too late for "feel good" plans.
In a flash, first responders and insurers were hit with tidal waves that have yet to subside.
But in Ian's wake, there has been time to reflect for real on the insurance industry's performance, its readiness and its future in the Sunshine State. While some domestic insurers, like Centauri among others, fared quite well and served clients amiably and effectively, others are close to insolvency - or there already --for reasons other than the direct impact of Ian.
Thirty years after Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida's residential property insurance marketplace, many in Florida are – incredibly – blaming the thermometer – the measuring instruments of insurer solvency – for the fever afflicting the marketplace. In 1996, when the major insurer rating agencies avoided the newly capitalized insurers depopulating the Florida Residential Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association (JUA), Demotech, Inc.,the insurer rating agency accepted by Fannie and Freddie since 1990, stepped up to rate the insurers that would de-populate the JUA.
Leading up to Ian, Demotech's warnings in the form of rating downgrades, using their standard of "claims paying ability", were seen as purely "negative" and destructive, as if the thermometer caused the fever.
Demotech long ago inserted itself into one of the most difficult, catastrophe prone markets in the world. By doing so, the rating agency grew from rating a negligible market share of Florida's premium volume to nearly 60% of the homeowners' volume in the state. Year after year, and hurricane after hurricane, Demotech rated carriers, many of which were heavily reinsured by the largest and finest reinsurers in the world, paid claims and responded responsibly to the other challenges of that marketplace.
By the time it became well known that Florida's 8% of the unresolved Homeowners' claims in the country were responsible for nearly 80% of the litigated homeowner's claims in the country, Demotech had already underlined that a veritable litigation explosion was plaguing insurers, those it reviewed and rated, and others. They were so familiar with the issue that, in March, 2022, when the legislature adjourned without deliberating legislative reforms, Demotech publicly asked the Governor, House and Senate to call a special session to introduce legislative reforms.
The Governor called for a special session. Legislation was enacted to be effective July 1, 2022. However, in late July, with the crescendo of disparate litigation getting louder and some Demotech rated carriers failing, Demotech was attacked for asking carriers how they would continue to respond to the increasing levels of litigation. Some stated that Demotech was being obstinate because the legislative reforms enacted did not go as far as its communications had suggested.
Demotech held its ground and argued that the level of litigation and the laws enabling lopsided decisions were destroying insurers. Dr. Shahid Hamid, CFA, the Director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University, published an article in October describing how fraud and litigation are causing insolvencies, not hurricanes. Having asked its clients for an assessment of the damages associated with hurricane Ian, a category 4, nearly category 5, event, Demotech has indicated that it appears that all Demotech rated carriers are within their vertical reinsurance towers. The wild card was litigation ….and still is.
As to the attacks on Demotech related to its failure to consider the impact of the reforms enacted on July 1, 2022, reforms that may not have occurred had Demotech not spoken out publicly to request a special session, the Governor and many state leaders are calling for yet another special session prior to year-end 2022. This implies the May 2022 reforms were not up to the task.
Now, just to be clear, Demotech is NOT a lobbying agency, it is a rating agency that stepped up in its rhetorical outreach to better a marketplace in which it plays a key role. Many would consider that quite a decent, well intended gesture.
A little research reveals that in the nearly three decades that it has factored critically in the resuscitation of Florida's residential property insurance marketplace, Demotech has done excellent public service, right up to its recent advocacy.. Yet, often, they have been ignored. Or attacked.
Today, it is clear that they have been judicious, careful and, above all, right about the solvency of many insurers in the face of a hurricane as serious as Ian and in the disproportionate litigation outcomes in Florida.
Our view, the State of Florida – its top decision makers in Tallahassee in the legislature and in insurance – should confer with Demotech and conference in some of the successful carriers who withstood Ian to set a path forward, while enduring disparate levels of litigation.
The patient, if anything, needs the best measuring devices available to gauge its fever and the progress of its recovery.
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From left to right: Electric Apricot, Strawberry Swing, Under the Tuscan Sun and Lavender Fields Forever
Electric Apricot features L'Aperitivo Nonino, a saffron-hued aperitif.
Strawberry Swing is comprised of lime-infused tequila and aperol.
Under the Tuscan Sun is made with chamomile-infused Cathead Vodka out of Jackson, Mississippi in addition to Italicus Bergamot Liqueur, a 17th century spirit whose recipe was lost until recent years.
Finally, Lavender Fields Forever consists of Wonderbird Spirits gin out of Taylor, Mississippi, just down the road from the Oxford bar.
| Recommendations | Feeling adventurous? Want to try something new? I’ve got a few affordable recommendations for beverages based on the type of drinker you are. I’ve also broken them down by type, to help you find your perfect alcoholic drink.
Sippers Rum: Ron Zacapa, Diplomatico, Appleton Estate, Mount Gay Bourbon: Four Roses, Elijah Craig Rye: Bulleit Small Batch, George Dickel Irish: Bushmills 12-year, Redbreast 12-year Scotch: Glenlivet 12-year (single malt), Monkey Shoulder (blended) Canadian: Seagram’s V.O., Pendleton Japanese: Suntory Hibiki, Suntory Toki
Mixologist Gin: London dry – Citadelle or Gordon’s; New World – Hendrick’s, Suntory Roku, Empress; Sloe gin or Old Tom – Hayman’s Rum (for cocktails): White/silver – Flor de Caña 4-year Extra Seco, El Dorado 3-year White Rum (white/silver); Spiced – Cruzan 9, The Kraken Black Spiced Rum Tequilas: Blanco – Olmeca Altos Plata, Espolón Tequila Blanco; Reposado – Olmeca Altos Reposado, Corazón Reposado; Añejo – El Mayor Añejo, Gran Centanario Añejo; Cristallino Añejo – 1800 Cristallino Vodka (for cocktails): Unflavored – New Amsterdam, Reyka, Suntory Haku; Flavored – Deep Eddy Lemon, Pinnacle Whipped Cream
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LOS ANGELES , June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. ("Stronghold" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SDIG).
Class Period: October 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 13, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that the Registration Statement was materially false and misleading and omitted to state: (1) that contracted suppliers, including MinerVa, were reasonably likely to miss anticipated delivery quantities and deadlines; (2) that, due to strong demand and pre-sold supply of mining equipment in the industry, Stronghold would experience difficulties obtaining miners outside of confirmed purchase orders; (3) that, as a result of the foregoing, there was a significant risk that Stronghold could not expand its mining capacity as expected; (4) that, as a result, Stronghold would likely experience significant losses; and (5) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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When an 18-year-old gunman targeted an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, "systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making" on behalf of law enforcement and school officials failed to stop the shooter from killing 19 students and two teachers, a new investigative report found.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials prioritized their own safety over the lives of students and teachers that day as they waited more than an hour to confront the shooter, according to the 77-page report from a Texas House of Representatives committee.
After weeks of conflicting and inconsistent accounts of the police response, the report gives the public the most complete picture yet of the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School. As police fumbled without clear leadership or organization, school staff had grown less vigilant, straying from locked door policies and active shooter procedures.
"There were multiple systemic failures," Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Republican member of the investigative committee, said in summarizing its findings at a press conference on Sunday, hours after the report's release.
He warned that those breakdowns in safety aren't just a problem that exist in Uvalde, adding, "some of the same systems that we found here that failed that day are across the entire state and country."
Here are some of the key revelations the committee found in their probe.
A lack of leadership despite a robust police presence
In all, 376 law enforcement officers arrived at a scene that was chaotic and uncoordinated, the report says. The group of federal, state and local officials lacked any clear leadership, basic communication and enough urgency to take down the gunman, according to the committee.
Previous official accounts of the shooting placed primary blame on the school district's Police Chief Pete Arredondo – who has since resigned as Uvalde school police chief — and other local police.
After arriving at the school, Arredondo fumbled around with and eventually abandoned his radio at the fence, the report stated, reasoning that one of the other sergeants was on the scene and was "fully uniformed" with a radio, he testified to the committee.
Uvalde school district's active shooter policy called for Arredondo to be the incident commander who would've been responsible for leaving the building in order to organize a response and to inform other officers that he was in charge. Instead, Arredondo stayed inside the building.
After Arredondo entered the school, he went to classroom 110, which had bullet holes, but no children were inside. He then "prayed" the kids in rooms 111 and 112, where the gunman fired more than 100 rounds, had been emptied as well, he testified.
They had not been, and Arredondo proceeded to handle the incident as one of a "barricaded subject" and not an active shooter, according to the report.
"With the benefit of hindsight, we now know this was a terrible, tragic mistake," the committee wrote.
Officers said they knew the gunman was in one of the rooms, but did not know what was happening behind the closed doors because they did not hear screams or cries, despite hearing several gunshots ringing out.
Arredondo testified that his assessment of the situation was to prevent the shooter from moving to other classrooms.
"[T]o me ... once he's ... in a room, you know, to me, he's barricaded in a room," he said. "Our thought was, 'If he comes out, you know, you eliminate the threat,' correct? And just the thought of other children being in other classrooms, my thought was, 'We can't let him come back out. If he comes back out, we take him out, or we eliminate the threat. Let's get these children out."
The report revealed that most of the officers who responded to the incident were from state and federal forces, with 149 from U.S. Border Patrol and 91 from the state police department.
There were 25 city police officers and 16 from the county sheriff's office. Arredondo's school police force comprised five of the officers there.
The committee also faults those officers — "many of whom were better trained and better equipped than the school district police" — who it says should have filled the leadership void when they saw the chaotic scene.
"They should've begun asking questions and offered their support and guidance, and maybe eventually they would've gotten command to have a better response from that," Rep. Burrows said.
Two officers with the Uvalde Police Department arrived at rooms 111 and 112 minutes after the attacker opened fire. The attacker shot at the officers, who were grazed by bullet fragments and retreated. They did not fire back. One left the building, the report said.
Although law enforcement made multiple missteps that disregarded active shooter training, the report says, it's not clear that a quicker response from officers once they were on the scene could have prevented the loss of some lives.
Relaxed school security allowed the gunman to attack quickly
Although Robb Elementary had safeguards and active shooter procedures in place, school staff had developed a culture of complacency around such measures. Out of convenience, some teachers frequently left doors unlocked or propped open — a violation of school policy. Due to a shortage of keys, substitute teachers were often told to circumvent locks.
The school was also set up with an intruder alert system. But the frequency of "bailout" alerts, which flag the presence of fleeing human traffickers in the area, desensitized teachers to their urgency. No prior bailout alert had ever resulted in a violent incident at the school.
On the day of the attack, the gunman scaled a 5-foot tall exterior fence before multiple unlocked doors allowed the gunman to enter the classrooms unimpeded, the report found.
"But had school personnel locked the doors as the school's policy required, that could have slowed his progress for a few precious minutes—long enough to receive alerts, hide children, and lock doors; and long enough to give police more opportunity to engage and stop the attacker," it read.
Instead, the gunman likely killed most of the victims before any responder entered the building, the committee found: "Of the approximately 142 rounds the attacker fired inside the building, it is almost certain that he rapidly fired over 100 of those rounds before any officer entered."
The gunman opened fire in his former 4th grade classroom
At 11:33 a.m., the attacker spent two-and-a-half minutes firing more than 100 rounds into rooms 111 and 112.
Room 111 was the same classroom the gunman attended fourth grade, the report revealed. Just weeks before the attack, the shooter had spoken with an acquaintance about bad memories of fourth grade.
His former fourth-grade teacher, who was in the building at the time of the shooting, told the committee he reported being bullied while in the fourth grade. She consulted with the gunman's mother, and said he eventually began making friends.
The attacker's family testified that he continued being picked on for his clothes and speech impediment. By 2018, when the gunman was in the ninth grade, he had accumulated more than 100 absences and had failing grades. In 2021, when the attacker was 17, Uvalde High School withdrew him.
"It is unclear whether any school resource officers ever visited the home of the attacker," the report said.
When he returned to Robb Elementary on the day of the attack, the shooter was able to enter room 111, as the door was not properly secured, according to the report. The lock on room 111 was known to be faulty, and teachers and students would often enter to use the printer.
"Room 111 could be locked, but an extra effort was required to make sure the latch engaged," the report's authors said.
The teacher of that classroom, who was injured during the shooting, testified that he would often be admonished by school police about the door, and notified school administration, who said a request had been submitted. The teacher never submitted a work order himself, "as was the apparent practice among Robb Elementary teachers," the report said.
The head custodian at the school testified that he never knew of any problems with the door, or would have submitted a work order. The principal said administration had been alerted about the door in March.
On the day of the shooting, the teacher for room 111 said he could not remember receiving an alert about an active shooter or if he used extra effort to secure the door.
The attacker shot his grandmother after an altercation about his phone plan
Three minutes after the gunman fired into rooms 111 and 112, Uvalde Police Department dispatch received a call that a woman had been shot in the head, according to the report. It was the gunman's grandmother.
Before leaving for Robb Elementary School, the gunman and his grandmother had an altercation about his phone that resulted in her making a call to AT&T to remove him from the plan, according to the report.
During the incident, he contacted a female acquaintance in Germany for an hour, and upon hanging up, texted her of his plans to harm his grandmother, the report showed.
"Ima do something to her rn," he wrote, along with "I just shot my grandma in her head" and "Ima go shoot up a elementary school rn."
The acquaintance initially responded with "cool," which she deleted before saying, "I just saw the news."
He shot his grandmother in the face before stealing her truck, despite not having a driver's license, and drove to Robb Elementary.
She survived the attack and was released from the hospital June 29, according to CNN.
The attacker began buying firearms accessories in February, and when he turned 18 in May, spent almost $5,000 on two assault rifles and hollow point bullets, which expand upon impact.
The attacker's uncle drove him to the gun store twice to pick up the rifles, and after his grandmother told him he couldn't keep guns in her home, his uncle allowed him to stow one of the weapons at his house.
The gunman told an acquaintance he hid the second rifle outside of his grandmother's home, and brought it inside the night before the massacre.
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A 14-year-old is dead after he was stabbed Saturday afternoon on a train platform in Manhattan, police said.
The teen and suspect were arguing around 3 p.m. when the latter pulled out a knife and stabbed the 14-year-old in the abdomen, according to the NYPD.
Police believe the stabbing happened on the northbound 1 line platform at the 137 St-City College station in Hamilton Heights.
The teen did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital.
Police said the suspect, possibly 18 or 19 years old, was last seen wearing an orange shirt and black pants.
Officers closed off the entrance to the subway station due to the investigation, and northbound trains were temporarily bypassing the stop.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse, the foremost development platform for ML on edge devices, today announced a joint initiative to advance professional machine learning implementation by bringing Renesas' DRP-AI Translator software directly into Edge Impulse Studio.
Edge Impulse Studio allows developers to quickly and easily create and optimize solutions with real-world data. The company's platform streamlines the entire process of collecting and structuring datasets, designing ML algorithms with ready-made building blocks, validating the models with real-time data, and deploying the fully optimized production-ready result to an edge target.
The DRP-AI is Renesas' low-power, proprietary AI accelerator. The integration of DRP-AI Translator software into Edge Impulse Studio will now allow users to access its features inside the Studio environment, rather than needing to run it externally.
Out-of-the-box hardware support for the integration is currently available for Renesas' new RZ/V2L Evaluation Board Kit, which offers high-precision AI inference capabilities combined with top-class power efficiency. Powered by DRP-AI and dual 1.2GHz Arm® Cortex®-A55, RZ/V2L is ideal for exploring industrial monitoring and visibility solutions.
"A sound technology strategy involves coupling reliable hardware with intelligent software," said Zach Shelby, CEO and co-founder of Edge Impulse. "I am thrilled to connect with Renesas in making our machine learning software tools even more capable by allowing users to directly access the features that make Renesas' hardware world-class."
"Edge Impulse offers our customers a state-of-the-art cloud environment that works seamlessly with Renesas' RZ/V2L MPUs," said Shigeki Kato, Vice President of Renesas' Enterprise Infrastructure Business Division. "Using the integrated development environment, engineers can easily build full-scale AI Machine Learning solutions for a wide range of applications including industrial monitoring systems, smart buildings, smart cities and other vision-based inspection systems."
The Renesas/Edge Impulse partner site offers details, documentation, and support; it can be accessed here.
Edge Impulse is the leading machine learning platform, enabling all enterprises to build smarter edge products. Their technology empowers developers to bring more ML products to market faster and helps enterprise teams rapidly develop industry-specific solutions in weeks instead of years. The Edge Impulse platform provides powerful automation and low-code capabilities to make it easier to build valuable datasets and develop advanced ML with streaming data. With over 40,000 developers, and partnerships with the top silicon vendors, Edge Impulse offers a seamless integration experience to validate and deploy with confidence across the largest hardware ecosystem. To learn more, visit edgeimpulse.com.
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — As former President Donald Trump criticized the federal response to the train derailment that has shaken this Ohio town, there was one leader in Washington he praised repeatedly — the man he helped propel to Congress, Sen. J.D. Vance.
“J.D. Vance has been incredible,” Trump told reporters and local officials Wednesday at an East Palestine firehouse, as Vance stood behind him.
While a fight brews between Democrats and Republicans over the role of the federal government in the derailment’s aftermath, Vance, 38, has been at the center of it all. Some of his actions have been the conventional response of any seasoned politician. He has drafted letters calling on federal officials for more oversight and met with some of the residents most affected by the derailment and chemical spill. But he also has joined far-right Republican figures in depicting the deep-red village in northeastern Ohio as a forgotten place, taking a page from Trump’s grievance-politics playbook.
“I grew up in a town that was neglected by the national media and was affected by a lot of dumb policies,” Vance said in a brief interview, as he briskly left the firehouse Wednesday. “I worry that unless we keep the pressure on the federal policymakers and the corporations that caused this problem, a lot of people are going to be forgotten and left behind.”
The White House has pushed back on such criticism from Republicans, accusing both the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers of dismantling the Obama-era rail safety measures meant to prevent episodes like the East Palestine derailment. And at least one media critic has accused Vance of fanning the flames of white grievance by attacking the Biden administration as deserting white Americans.
For Vance, the response to the derailment could serve as a pivot point. It is the first major crisis in his tenure as a newly elected senator and it has provided him with the chance to show the voters who viewed him with skepticism during his campaign that he has not strayed far from his humble Ohio roots.
The derailment has also given him an opening to tap into a theme that first brought national attention to his Senate ambitions: speaking up for working-class Ohioans, many of them white, who he has suggested have been victimized by the politics of the left.
In one of his first campaign ads, he bluntly played to white grievance, looking at the camera and asking voters a question: “Are you a racist?” He argued in the ad that Democratic voters were “pouring into this country” through unchecked borders, echoing the “great replacement theory,” the far-right notion that immigrants are coming to America illegally to usurp the political power of native-born white voters.
In a red state that Trump won in both 2016 and 2020, many residents in East Palestine and its surrounding towns were not following the national back-and-forth over the government response as they worried about the potential effects of the spill. But they had followed Vance’s attempts to bring attention to their plight on local media outlets and approved of his handling of the crisis, even as some said there was more work to be done.
“I think a lot of people are watching him right now to see how he is handling it,” said Kayla Miller, 31, who owns a farm in nearby Negley. “I think he genuinely cares about our situation and cares about our town.”
Vance, a venture capitalist turned first-time politician, became a sought-after voice on the white working-class after the release of his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which explored his family ties to Appalachia and traced his path from humble origins in southwestern Ohio to the military and later to Yale Law School.
When he returned to Ohio, he was initially viewed as an outsider. He was funded by Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire, and had spent much of his time in San Francisco after leaving his home state. Before the state’s Republican primary in May 2022, more than three dozen Republican county and state committee leaders urged Trump in a letter to not endorse Vance. They questioned his Republican credentials and noted he had often denounced Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Vance has been a sharp critic of the Biden administration on inflation and border policies, largely falling in line with Republicans pushing for isolationism as the answer to loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs.
As residents coped with the derailment, Vance sent letters to the company that operated the freight train, Norfolk Southern, asking it to broaden its criteria for reimbursements to residents beyond a 1-mile radius of the derailment zone.
He has worked with Republicans and Democrats — including two of the region’s top Democrats, Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — to call on federal public health officials to provide resources to help the state monitor people’s health. They have also pressed federal environmental agencies to monitor the hazardous chemical compounds, or dioxins, that the derailment released into the region’s air and soil.
He has met with business owners and affected residents. He also visited a creek near the derailment site, releasing a video in which he used a stick to stir a filmy substance in the water that he described as evidence of possible contamination.
“I’ve just been doing a lot of talking to people on the ground here,” he said, speaking to reporters in downtown East Palestine last week. “Obviously, I am more concerned about the public safety component of this here. Is the air breathable? Is the water drinkable?”
On Wednesday, Vance reinforced his loyalty to the former president even as some of Trump’s staunchest supporters now privately worry about his grip on the party and his chances of winning the presidency again. Vance and Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s son, followed the former president as he made stops at local businesses to shake hands with customers and pass out Make America Great Again hats. In short remarks at the fire station, Vance thanked Trump for visiting and bringing national attention with him.
“The most important thing that we can take from this visit is that we can’t forget about the people of East Palestine,” Vance told reporters.
He said later that he believed Trump’s presence would help keep the pressure on federal officials to take action. Asked about criticism from the White House on the Republican opposition to rail safety measures, Vance said attempts to politicize the issue would not help East Palestine residents. According to the website PolitiFact, a rail safety rule repealed as part of a broad regulatory rollback under the Trump administration would have had no impact on the East Palestine derailment.
Vance and other Republicans have subtly evoked white disaffection by portraying a largely white, rural and conservative area as neglected by federal officials. On a Fox News interview this month, he accused Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg of focusing on “how we have too many white male construction workers” instead of talking about the frequency of train derailments and railroad safety.
On Wednesday, he rejected the notion that he was playing to racial grievance. “I don’t know how I am doing that or anybody else is doing that,” Vance said outside the firehouse. “This is a community that has been affected by the problem, and they deserve help.”
At the same time, far from East Palestine, Vance has used his brief time in the Senate to go on the offensive on race, accusing Democrats of injecting it into politics.
This month, he criticized Gigi B. Sohn, Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, for playing into “this weird racialization of American political rhetoric in the last few years.” And in his campaign ad on the border, he criticized Democrats for calling people racists because they wanted to talk about Biden’s border policies and the impact those policies were having on the opioid crisis, which has ravaged largely white, rural parts of the industrial Midwest and across the nation.
East Palestine residents said that before the freight train derailed on Feb. 3, many Ohioans seemed to know little about their hometown, which sits just below the manufacturing hub of Youngstown, near the Pennsylvania border. Now, the village of 4,761 in a red county Vance handily won has been under the national glare.
The crisis has spurred complicated feelings among residents about the necessity of government oversight, but many said federal agencies should take on a greater role holding Norfolk Southern accountable.
In interviews this week, several residents said they had developed coughs or odd rashes, and some had farm animals die. Miller and her husband, Chase Miller, said they had lost two chickens and three rabbits and that more farm animals had fallen ill. One of the main side effects of a gas released, vinyl chloride, they read, is cancer.
“So, in five years, am I going to have liver cancer? Am I going to be able to see my kids graduate?” she said.
Her husband added, “My biggest worry is that they are going to forget about Negley, they are going to forget about the local towns where the water runs to.”
State and federal officials have said that they have yet to detect dangerous levels of chemicals in the air or municipal water, and tests are continuing.
Leaving a grocery store with stacks of water bottles Monday, Butch Foster, 76, a farmer and former school custodian, said he refused to leave his home after the spill until federal officials declared the air safe to breathe. But after spending some time outside, he noticed black mucus coming out of his nose, so he did not want to drink the municipal water.
Foster had watched the video of Vance stirring the waters in the creek. He said the senator he had done a good job of calling attention to his and other residents’ concerns.
“I just know they need to do more,” he said. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/east-palestine-crisis-tests-a-trump-backed-senate-freshman/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-02-24 19:45:10 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/east-palestine-crisis-tests-a-trump-backed-senate-freshman/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Peddler’s Village in Lahaska, PA Invites You to an Easter Egg Hunt April 8th
It's almost spring and that means a whole new season of fun events at Peddler's Village in Lahaska, PA, including an Easter Egg Hunt.
You're invited to the Village the day before Easter, Saturday, April 8th for some old fashioned fun.
Here's how it's going to work. This a timed and ticketed event, meaning you have to have a ticket in order to participate and you can only participate during the time on your ticket.
There are three hunt times: 10:30am, 12:30pm and 2pm.
Don't worry about your little ones being stepped on by the older kids. Each hunt time will have separate hunt areas for different age groups. The age groups are 1-3, 4-7 and 8-10.
The Easter Egg Hunt will be outside in the field behind the Visitor and Event Center on Street Road (the red barn on the hill), so bring along a jacket if it's chilly. It's the same place you saw the gingerbread houses during the holidays.
Tickets are $12 per child. The ticket price included an Easter basket, six eggs during the hunt, a PEEPS candy treat, a plush pal toy, a chance to win the Grand Prize and selfies with the Easter Bunny.
It's going to be a fun day, don't miss out. The next day, Easter Sunday, April 9th, your family can enjoy an Easter buffet in the Village at the Cock n' Bull restaurant all day. Reservations are required. Click here for more information.
"We're excited to be entering the next season of festivals and events at Peddler's Village," says Chief Operating Officer of Peddler's Village, Bob McGowan. "Each year we strive to provide a family-friendly destination where guests of all ages can enjoy our special events - a place where visitors, near and far, can experience the very best of what Bucks County has to offer. This year is looking to be the best yet for our festivals and events here at Peddler's Village."
For more information about other spring events happening at Pedder's Village, like PEEPS in the Village, click here. | https://catcountry1073.com/peddlers-village-in-lahaska-pa-invites-you-to-an-easter-egg-hunt-april-8th/ | 2023-03-10 13:38:03 | 1 | https://catcountry1073.com/peddlers-village-in-lahaska-pa-invites-you-to-an-easter-egg-hunt-april-8th/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. ("17 E&T" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YQ). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether 17 E&T and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around December 4, 2020, 17 E&T conducted its initial public offering, selling 27.4 million American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") priced at $10.50 per ADS. Then, on June 10, 2022, 17 E&T announced its first quarter financial results, reporting a net loss of $3.9 million alongside a nearly 50% fall in revenue from the prior year to $36.82 million.
On this news, 17 E&T's stock price fell $1.65 per share, or 21.31%, to close at $2.40 per share on June 10, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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National and State-by-State Data: artbahighwaydashboard.org
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nebraska leveraged $369.4 million in federal highway and bridge formula funds in FY 2022 to help jumpstart 156 new improvement projects in communities across the state during the first year of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a review of U.S. Treasury Department data through September 30 shows.
"A key takeaway from the Treasury data is that the bipartisan infrastructure law is working in year-one as intended, with state transportation departments disbursing funds and projects breaking ground," said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Chief Economist Dr. Alison Premo Black, who prepared the report.
"The economic and quality of life benefits of the infrastructure law will become even more apparent as funding continues in coming years," adds ARTBA Chair Paula Hammond, a WSP USA senior vice president. "The beneficiaries of these long-term investments will be the American traveling public in their communities."
President Joe Biden signed the IIJA into law Nov. 15, 2021. Nearly 90 percent of IIJA's highway funds are dispersed by existing formula to states, with the remainder distributed through discretionary grant awards and other allocated programs.
Nationally, over 29,000 IIJA projects were launched through the end of September. The five largest projects supported by formula funds in Nebraska are:
- 23rd St, Columbus, Urban Reconstruction, Lighting, Traffic Signals, Curb Ramps - $27.2 million
- 168th St., West Center - 'Q' St., Omaha, Urban Reconstruction - $15.1 million
- Brownson East, 4-Lane Concrete Pavement Replacement, Bridge Repair, Rest Area Ramps & Parking - $15.0 million
- US-81 - Belden, Mill, Resurface, Replace Urban Section in Randolph, Br Repair/Replace - $13.9 million
- Brule - Ogallala, Interstate Reconstruction, Resurf L51A - $9.3 million
To access national and state project data, visit: artbahighwaydashboard.org.
Established in 1902, the Washington, D.C.-based ARTBA advocates for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe and efficient travel.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Just like the heat outside, July is also a hot month for sales.
With deals in full swing for the 4th of July and Amazon’s Prime Day just around the corner, there are currently deals aplenty, but what should you be buying?
Kristin McGrath from Offers.com joined AM Extra to share what you should, and shouldn’t, buy in July.
Watch the full video in the player above for more. | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/wallet-wednesday-what-to-buy-and-not-buy-during-july/ | 2023-07-05 18:37:42 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/wallet-wednesday-what-to-buy-and-not-buy-during-july/ |
What kind of impact will inflation have on midterm elections?
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Republican lawmakers are not impressed with the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Democrats.
Republican members of Congress believe Democratic candidates will pay the price for record inflation in the November midterm election.
“The American people are waking up,” Rep. Barry Moore, R-AL, said. “They’re not happy with the direction of the country.”
“America is fed up with it,” Rep. Austin Scott, R-GA, said. “November is coming, and, you know what? I think the public is going to speak loud and clear in November.”
Democrats like Louisiana Rep. Troy Carter point out prices are improving. The country has seen nine consecutive weeks of reduction in gas prices.
“We see real progress, and we have to recognize that it didn’t happen by accident, and we’ve got to let the American people know,” Carter said.
Most economists do not believe the Inflation Reduction Act will have much effect on inflation, especially in the short term.
George Washington Political Management Director Todd Belt said Democrats have to sell voters on a long term plan.
“This is going to come down to messaging, and trying to argue to people that, look, better times are around the corner, irrespective of what you see going on in your pocket book right now.”
Belt add the economy is the number one driver of votes, but there are other factors that could help Democrats at the polls in November.
He pointed to the FBI investigation into Donald Trump and the future of access to abortion.
“We would expect Republicans to take the House pretty handily, but again, we’ve never had a repeal of Roe V Wade in a midterm election.”
Belt predicts the race for control of the Senate will be a toss-up.
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NS Pharma, Inc. (NS Pharma; President, Tsugio Tanaka) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. (Nippon Shinyaku; President, Toru Nakai)
PARAMUS, N.J., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NS Pharma, Inc. announced today the first patient enrollment in a Phase 2 clinical study of NS-018 (ilginatinib), an investigational treatment for myelofibrosis (MF), a rare and incurable blood cancer.
The Phase 2b study is an open-label, multicenter, randomized, controlled, 2-arm study to assess the efficacy and safety of orally administered NS-018 versus best available therapy in subjects with primary myelofibrosis, post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis, or post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis with severe thrombocytopenia (Platelet Count <50,000/μL).
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04854096
(https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04854096)
About Myelofibrosis (MF)
MF is caused by buildup of excessive scar tissue in the bone marrow, which impairs the body's ability to produce blood cells.1 In addition to impaired blood cell production, MF often leads to enlargement of the spleen (splenomegaly) which can lead to feelings of abdominal pain and pressure.1 Other common symptoms include fatigue, bone pain, fever, and weight loss.1 MF can be diagnosed at any age but is most common in men and women 65 years or older.1 The median survival of patients with MF is approximately six years.1 Several gene mutations are associated with MF, and the most common mutation is to the Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) gene.2
About NS-018
NS-018 is a highly selective and potent inhibitor of JAK2 developed by scientists from Nippon Shinyaku and was recently granted Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
About NS Pharma, Inc.
NS Pharma, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. For more information, please visit http://www.nspharma.com. NS Pharma is a registered trademark of the Nippon Shinyaku group of companies.
U.S. Media Contact:
media@nspharma.com
References:
- What is pimary myleofibrosis? MPN Research Foundation.
Accessed at: https://www.mpnresearchfoundation.org/primary-myelofibrosis-pmf/ - Myelofibrosis. Mayo Clinic.
Accessed at: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/myelofibrosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20355057
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