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(KTXL) — An airplane crashed into Lake Tahoe on Saturday morning near Rubicon Bay, leaving one of two people seriously injured, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office.
At around 10:18 a.m., calls came into law enforcement that a fixed-wing airplane with two passengers crashed into the water.
Surrounding boats headed for the crashed plane and were able to recover both passengers.
One of the passengers of the plane did sustain a serious head injury, and the condition of the other passenger is unknown at this time.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were informed about the crash.
The cause of the crash is still unknown at this time. | https://www.kron4.com/news/airplane-crashes-into-lake-tahoe-passengers-rescued-by-boaters/ | 2023-07-01 20:32:23 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/airplane-crashes-into-lake-tahoe-passengers-rescued-by-boaters/ |
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This weekend could see Beaumont ISD's first back-to-back-to-back boys basketball state champions since the early 1980s.
Beaumont United High School will face off at 7 p.m. Friday against Northside Brennan at the Alamodome in the state semifinals. Should the Timberwolves defeat the Bears, they will advance to the state championship game Saturday.
In preparation for what is sure to be a thrilling weekend for the district, the district has a week of events lined up to boost morale and send the boys basketball team off to San Antonio. Here's how they plan to celebrate:
Tuesday, March 7
- Each district department will take pictures with signs boasting the hashtag #WeWantThree
- Elementary schools will participate in #WeWantThree pictures on social media
- Beaumont United players will return to their respective elementary campuses for a commemorative walk
RELATED: Beaumont schools cancel classes ahead of state championship
Wednesday, March 8
- School board and cabinet members will wear special shirts at the regular March school board meeting
- Beaumont Mayor Robin Mouton will proclaim "Beaumont United Timberwolves Day" at Wednesday's school board meeting; will declare Thursday "Paint the Town Maroon and Gold Day"
- District business partners will post #WeWantThree and "Good Luck Timberwolves" on business marquees
- Beaumont United players will return to their respective middle schools for a commemorative walk
Thursday, March 9
- "Paint the Town Maroon and Gold Day"
- Spirit Day for all district campuses -- jeans allowed with maroon and gold
- 7:30 a.m., Community Pep Rally at the Beaumont United gym
The district is also organizing a state semifinals community spectator bus for the Friday game. Those interested can contact Kay Gilbert at 409-504-5087 for more information.
olivia.malick@hearst.com
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NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 1, 2022, Credit Suisse announced expected coupon payments for the following ETNs:
1. On June 13, 2022, the Credit Suisse Nasdaq Gold FLOWSTM 103 Index, the Credit Suisse Nasdaq Silver FLOWSTM 106 Index and the Credit Suisse Nasdaq WTI Crude Oil FLOWSTM 106 Index (the "Indices") concluded the notional sale of options on GLD shares, SLV shares and USO shares, respectively, with July 2022 expiration. We expect that the notional cash distribution generated by this sale of options will be withdrawn from the Indices on July 11, 2022, subject to adjustment in the event of any market disruption events. Assuming no redemption or acceleration of GLDI, SLVO and USOI, and that the notional cash distribution is withdrawn from the Indices on July 11, 2022, we expect to declare a Coupon Amount for GLDI, SLVO and USOI, respectively, equal to the corresponding Expected Coupon Amount. The Expected Coupon Amount is subject to change upon the occurrence of a disruption event or other unforeseen circumstances.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding on Thursday beat market expectations for revenue in its quarter ended June, even as revenue was nearly flat and the company continues to grapple with the fallout from increased regulatory scrutiny and slowing economy growth.
Alibaba reported revenues of 205.6 billion ($30.4 billion) for its quarter ended June, a 1% decrease from the same time last year. It was the first time that the company reported a contraction in sales. That was still better than the average analyst estimate of $30.09 billion, according to FactSet.
Net income plunged 50% to 22.7 billion yuan ($3.4 billion). Excluding one-time charges, adjusted earnings per ADS totaled $1.75, topping the average analyst estimate of $1.60 per share.
Its U.S.-listed shares rose about 5% in premarket trading Thursday.
Alibaba had been hit hard in the last quarter as China locked down various cities around the country to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
The decline in revenue was “mainly due to impacts from COVID-19 resurgence and restrictions that resulted in supply chain and logistics disruptions in April and most of May,” the company said in its earnings release.
Customers in the bustling, cosmopolitan city of Shanghai, for example, were unable to shop online or even order food delivery during its two-month lockdown.
The Hangzhou-headquartered firm has also in recent years been scrutinized heavily by regulators, and has faced anti-monopoly fines. Its cloud business has also been linked to China’s largest cybersecurity breach, when a hacker online attempted to sell over a billion personal records purportedly from a Shanghai police database.
Alibaba is also facing fierce competition from rivals such as Pinduoduo, which has reported an increase in user numbers, as well as rival JD.com.
Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission added Alibaba to a growing list of companies that could face delisting from the U.S. stock exchanges unless they give U.S. regulators unfettered access to their auditing processes and financial books.
Meanwhile, Alibaba is seeking a primary listing in Hong Kong by the end of the year that would allow mainland Chinese investors direct access to its stock as it seeks a more diversified investor base. | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/Alibaba-revenue-beats-expectations-despite-17350908.php | 2022-08-04 13:27:37 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/Alibaba-revenue-beats-expectations-despite-17350908.php |
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BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Friday it regrets plans by families of Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich to boycott a 50-year anniversary ceremony next month and said it was prepared to continue talks on further compensation.
Eleven Israelis and a German police officer were killed after members of the militant Palestinian group Black September broke into the Olympic Village on Sept. 5, 1972. They took Israelis hostage, hoping to force the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and two left-wing extremists in West German jails.
The victims' families announced Thursday that they would not attend the memorial ceremony, underscoring ongoing friction between Germany and Israel. The two countries have built strong ties despite the enduring legacy of the Holocaust, in which German Nazis systematically killed 6 million Jews during World War II.
Relatives of the athletes have long accused Germany of failing to secure the Olympic Village, refusing Israeli help and botching the rescue operation in which the German police officer and five of the attackers died.
While Germany has apologized for mishandling the response to the attack and opened previously sealed archives, relatives of the victims say the amount of compensation offered by the government so far is “an insult.”
German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said Friday that Germany was committed to thoroughly reviewing what had happened 50 years ago and prepared to continue discussing the issue of “recognition payments” to the relatives.
“Of course, we very much regret the decision by the relatives to cancel their attendance at the event," he told reporters in Berlin. "The government hopes that a way will be found so the relatives can decide to attend the memorial event on Sept. 5 after all.”
Hebestreit declined to comment on how much compensation Germany was willing to offer. So far, the country has provided about 5 million euros; German media report that the government is prepared to double that amount, while relatives are seeking considerably more. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Germany-regrets-boycott-by-Munich-attack-17369005.php | 2022-08-12 11:56:36 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Germany-regrets-boycott-by-Munich-attack-17369005.php |
NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire” as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016.
Clinton, president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, said he has been amazed by the massive response.
“The world’s on fire in a lot of different ways,” he told The Associated Press in an interview. “But there are a lot of things that businesses, non-governmental groups and governments working together can do to help with a lot of these problems.”
The Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI, has helped more than 435 million people in more than 180 countries since it was established in 2005. It previously required attendees to create a Commitment to Action, a measurable project that addresses a global issue, though for this year that requirement has been waived. Those commitments often unite new partners and encourage cooperation between the public and private sectors.
“I think there is a longing for people to get together and meet with an end in mind,” Clinton said. “Not just talk about it, but knowing that when they walk away, they will have committed to doing something.”
Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton calls that “a bias toward action,” which she says is part of what makes CGI special and a catalyst for global change. She said the COVID-19 pandemic has energized interest in public health and addressing health disparities because people outside of the field could see the impact.
“Health is interconnected to anything and everything that anyone may care about,” Chelsea Clinton said. “There are a lot of people who now are mobilized to do something with what they have come to newly understand and which they now feel responsible for helping to solve.”
The panel discussions scheduled for the initiative focus on potential solutions. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will discuss approaches to creating gender equality with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, actor and philanthropist Robin Wright and others. All three Clintons will talk about partnerships that focus on common humanity. They will be joined in that by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, U2 singer Bono and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Peter Sands, executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said CGI has always introduced his group to new potential partners, something even more valuable after two challenging pandemic years that made access to new donors difficult. “There’s only so much you can do with PowerPoints and Zooms,” Sands said.
He is currently in the midst of a fundraising campaign of his own. President Joe Biden will host The Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York on Wednesday, delayed two days so that Biden can attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday.
However, he now plans to attend CGI and said the gathering has been missed during its hiatus, even though the Clinton Foundation itself has remained active. The initiative convened annually until 2016 during former Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, when questions were raised about the appearance of potential conflicts of interests if donors then had business before her administration.
Bill Clinton said the initiative is counting on the special energy of its participants to tackle a growing number of issues.
“We’ve got the largest number of migrants since World War II,” he said. “And the most publicity they get in America is when one governor or two turns it into some political issue and tries to make problems for other people. Sensible countries work together and try to figure out the best way to deal with it.”
Clinton also hopes CGI can spotlight various solutions that need more support. He points to a study from Generation180, a nonprofit that promotes the use of clean energy. Its research shows some rural schools have installed solar panels to reduce their carbon emissions and their electric bills. The schools then used the savings to give raises to teachers.
“The energy is here. The jobs are here. The benefits are here. The kids win,” Clinton said. “That shouldn’t be a political issue.”
He says philanthropy can help bust through political and cultural gridlock by showing what can be done. For example, he said that when President Barack Obama proposed hiring 100,000 new STEM teachers and Congress turned him down, philanthropy stepped in to make it happen.
“We got the Carnegie Corporation and the American Federation of Teachers and more than 20 other partners together and they said, ‘We will raise the money,’” Clinton said. “Nobody ever thought of that as being a purpose of philanthropy. But it got the job done, and it demonstrated why Republicans and Democrats should cooperate on such things.”
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SAN ANTONIO — Holiday debt can become the ghost of Christmas past, haunting shoppers for years to come. Higher interest rates mean bigger payments for longer periods.
“I’m suggesting to everyone if you’re on a really tight budget to dial it back. We don’t need to go overboard,” said Trae Bodge, a smart shopping expert with AARP.
Overspending can cost you. LendingTree data shows last year holiday shoppers had an average of $1250 of debt at 19 percent interest with a $50 minimum payment. That cost them about $337 in interest over 32 months. That same amount this year with a higher interest rate of 22 percent means it will cost $407 in interest over 34 months. That means it will take two months longer and $70 more to pay off.
Save on credit card interest by transferring your balance to a 0 percent interest rate card, if you qualify. Understand what the fees for transferring are, when interest will be charged, and how much it will be. You can also call your credit card and ask for a lower interest rate. A LendingTree study found 80 percent of people who requested a reduced interest rate were successful, but few people ask.
Alternatives include Buy Now Pay Later. These services break down payments into four equal, interest-free payments. They are easy to get and users are approved almost instantly. Yet, be aware payment schedules for Buy Now, Pay Later services are more frequent than credit cards.
“Buy Now Pay Later loans require payments every two weeks and that’s different from what we’re used to with car payments and credit cards and mortgages where it’s typically paying once a month,” said Matt Schulz, a credit card industry analyst for LendingTree.com.
It is important to make sure you will have the money to make the payments. Late payments to Buy Now, Pay Later services can hurt your credit. Having too many Buy Now, Pay Later payments can be difficult to manage. Plus, returns can be difficult when you use Buy Now, Pay Later. You may still need to make payments after you return the item.
Another option can be store credit cards but interest rates for them are often higher than traditional credit cards. LendingTree data shows regular credit cards on average charge 22 percent interest. Store credit cards charge 26 percent. That means you will pay an extra $60 on a $1000 balance with a $50 minimum payment.
“They tend to have higher interest rates, even than other types of credit cards and your average, everyday, regular credit card already has sky-high rates,” Schulz said. “If you’re somebody who carries a balance regularly, a store credit card probably just isn’t for you because those interest rates are so high,” Schulz said.
Yet, store credits do often offer discounts and rewards. They are best used if the balance is paid off monthly.
So like Santa, make your list but include alternative presents to give.
“Options are important just in case you can’t get your favorite gift,” Bodge said. “Then if a great deal appears and it applies to something on your list, you can count on that.”
She said she is seeing discounts now between ten and 70 percent, so it is important to track prices and to shop around for the best deal on any item.
Other ways to save on your gift list include: Using coupons, cash back apps and loyalty programs at your favorite stores. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/national/avoid-holiday-debt-with-higher-interest-rates/273-2e321cab-b7c8-49f0-8449-f5d368347e45 | 2022-11-03 22:15:22 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/national/avoid-holiday-debt-with-higher-interest-rates/273-2e321cab-b7c8-49f0-8449-f5d368347e45 |
TODAY’S SPORTS ON TV
Sunday, October 2
AUTO RACING
4:40 a.m.
ESPN2 — W Series: Round 6, Marina Bay Street Circuit, Marina Bay, Singapore
7:55 a.m.
ESPN2 — Formula 1: The Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay Street Circuit, Marina Bay, Singapore
12:30 p.m.
FS1 — NHRA: Qualifying, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill. (Taped)
1:30 p.m.
CNBC — FIM MotoGP: The Thailand Grand Prix, Chang International Circuit, Isan, Thailand (Taped)
2 p.m.
FS1 — NHRA: The NHRA Midwest Nationals, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill.
NBC — NASCAR Cup Series: The YellaWood 500, Playoffs — Round of 12, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, Ala.
COLLEGE SOCCER (MEN’S)
4 p.m.
BTN — Indiana at Michigan
7 p.m.
PAC-12N — Washington at UCLA
COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S)
12 p.m.
ACCN — Syracuse at Wake Forest
BTN — Rutgers at Purdue
2 p.m.
BTN — Northwestern at Illinois
SECN — Kentucky at LSU
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)
12 p.m.
SECN — Texas A&M at Georgia
12:30 p.m.
ESPNU — Penn at Dartmouth
1 p.m.
ESPN — Georgia Tech at Louisville
2 p.m.
ACCN — Miami at NC State
2:30 p.m.
ESPNU — Arkansas at Mississippi St.
3 p.m.
ESPN — Texas at Texas Tech
PAC-12N — Washington St. at Stanford
4 p.m.
ACCN — Virginia at Duke
SECN — Missouri at South Carolina
4:30 p.m.
ESPNU — Iowa St. at Kansas St.
5 p.m.
PAC-12N — Washington at California
FISHING
8 a.m.
FS1 — Bassmaster Elite Series: The 2022 Bassmaster College Classic Bracket, Lake Greenwood, Greenwood, S.C.
GOLF
6:30 a.m.
GOLF — DP World Tour: The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Final Round, Old Course, St Andrews, Scotland
1 p.m.
GOLF — LPGA Tour: The Volunteers Of America Classic, Final Round, Old American Golf Club, The Colony, Texas
4 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour: The Sanderson Farms Championship, Final Round, Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Miss.
HORSE RACING
9:30 a.m.
FS2 — The Prix De L’Arc De Triomphe: From Longchamp Racecourse, Paris
12:30 p.m.
FS2 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races
MiLB BASEBALL
7 p.m.
MLBN — Triple-A National Championship: TBD, Las Vegas
MLB BASEBALL
Noon
BSD — Minnesota at Detroit
1:30 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: Baltimore at NY Yankees OR Boston at Toronto
7 p.m.
ESPN — NY Mets at Atlanta
NBA BASKETBALL
1 p.m.
NBATV — Preseason: Charlotte at Boston
6 p.m.
NBATV — Preseason: Utah vs. Toronto, Edmonton, Canada
10 p.m.
NBATV — Preseason: Adelaide 36ers at Phoenix
NFL FOOTBALL
9:30 a.m.
NFLN — Minnesota vs. New Orleans, London
1 p.m.
CBS — Regional Coverage: Cleveland at Atlanta, Jacksonville at Philadelphia, NY Jets at Pittsburgh, Buffalo at Baltimore, LA Chargers at Houston
FOX — Regional Coverage: Washington at Dallas, Seattle at Detroit, Tennessee at Indianapolis, Chicago at NY Giants
4:05 p.m.
FOX — Arizona at Carolina
4:25 p.m.
CBS — Regional Coverage: New England at Green Bay OR Denver at Las Vegas
8:15 p.m.
NBC — Kansas City at Tampa Bay
NHL HOCKEY
7:30 p.m.
NHLN — Preseason: Minnesota at Chicago
RUGBY (MEN’S)
4:25 a.m.
FS2 — NRL: Penrith vs. Parramatta, Grand Final, Sydney
SOCCER (MEN’S)
11:30 a.m.
USA — Premier League: Aston Villa at Leeds United
3 p.m.
ABC — MLS: LA FC at Portland
5 p.m.
FS1 — MLS: Seattle at Kansas City
7 p.m.
FS2 — Liga MX: Mazatlan at Santos Laguna
TENNIS
6 a.m.
TENNIS — Tallinn-WTA Singles Final
9:30 a.m.
TENNIS — Tel Aviv-ATP, Sofia-ATP Singles Finals
10 p.m.
TENNIS — Tokyo-ATP, Nur-Sultan-ATP, Ostrava-WTA, Monastir-WTA Early Rounds
RADIO
Noon — MLB, Minnesota at Detroit, FM-101.1/AM-1210
1 p.m. — NFL, Seattle at Detroit, FM-98.1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/todays-sports-on-tv-10-2-22/article_64ebd8ba-4100-11ed-a2f0-abcad1f7b80c.html | 2022-10-02 02:03:26 | 0 | https://www.record-eagle.com/todays-sports-on-tv-10-2-22/article_64ebd8ba-4100-11ed-a2f0-abcad1f7b80c.html |
NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Upstart Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPST) between March 18, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important July 12, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Upstart securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Upstart class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6208 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 12, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Upstart's AI model could not adequately account for macroeconomic factors such as interest rates that impact the market-clearing price for loans; (2) as a result, Upstart was experiencing negative impact on its conversion rate; (3) as a result, Upstart was reasonably likely to use its balance sheet to fund loans; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Upstart's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Upstart class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6208 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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After going the pitcher route in the first round three of the last four years, the Chicago Cubs tapped into the college hitter pool for their top 2023 draft pick.
The Cubs chose Maryland shortstop Matt Shaw with the No. 13 pick. Shaw, 21, was considered one of the top college hitters in the draft. He won the 2023 Brooks Wallace Award as the nation’s top shortstop and was the Big Ten Player of the Year.
Shaw hit .341 with a .445 on-base percentage, 1.142 OPS, 20 doubles and 24 home runs during his junior season at Maryland. He also stole 18 bases and was caught only once. He showed a good approach and limited his whiffs, drawing 43 walks against 42 strikeouts in 62 games (317 plate appearances).
This marks the third time the Cubs have picked at No. 13. They selected outfielder Tyler Colvin in 2006 and catcher Bill Hayes in 1978. Manny Ramirez (1991), Frank Tanana (1971), Chris Sale (2010), Trea Turner (2014) and Paul Konerko (1994) have the highest career WARs from that draft position.
Here’s a breakdown of the Cubs’ selections in the 2023 MLB draft.
- Round 1: No. 13 (bonus slot value $4,848,500)
- Compensation pick: No. 68
- Round 3: No. 81
- Round 4: No. 113
- Rounds 5-20: No. 149 and every 30th pick thereafter | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/ct-chicago-cubs-mlb-draft-20230710-lmzq3jvhjbei7ldi2btu6bougq-story.html | 2023-07-10 02:07:10 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/ct-chicago-cubs-mlb-draft-20230710-lmzq3jvhjbei7ldi2btu6bougq-story.html |
One of the two teams facing off in Lincoln on Tuesday night would string a pair of conference wins together and rise toward the middle of the conference’s standings.
That team wasn’t Nebraska.
Illinois’ high-ceiling — the Illini boast a trio of four-star freshmen, a pair of high-impact transfers and three top-15 wins — shone through despite a spirited Husker defensive effort early. Nebraska couldn’t find the offensive output it enjoyed in a weekend win at Minnesota.
“For whatever reason, after losses we’re bouncing back with good effort,” Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg said postgame. “After wins, we’re just not handling it the right way.”
Truthfully, the Fighting Illini weren’t shooting much better over the course of the game. They finished with a shooting percentage of 45.9% compared to Nebraska’s 37%, but the two teams were in mediocre-shooting lockstep for the majority of the contest.
Both teams struggled to connect on their early attempts, as the Fighting Illini missed their first four shots and Nebraska its first five. The first half, and much of the game, was colored by fouls. Both teams racked up penalties aplenty, with 12 each before halftime. Illinois started with three before the Huskers committed any, but that flipped as three straight trips to the free-throw line gave the visitors a 5-2 lead.
Both teams were shooting a twin percentage of 12.5% nearly six minutes into the game before Illinois embarked on a 9-0 run to take a 14-7 lead.
The Huskers hung close for much of the first half, but senior guard Terrence Shannon Jr.’s first 3-pointer of the game gave Illinois a 25-17 lead. He made another a minute later, and despite Nebraska finding a couple offensive responses, Illinois took a double-digit lead, 34-23, into halftime.
Senior forward Derrick Walker, the Huskers’ leading scorer, was held scoreless in the first half as he picked up two early fouls and finished with a season-low five points on 2-of-7 shooting. He struggled against 6-foot-9, 270-pound Illini forward Dain Dainja, who tallied three of Illinois’ seven blocks and boasts a 7-foot-7 wingspan. Nebraska managed just two blocks.
“I feel good about Derrick (no matter) whoever’s guarding him,” Hoiberg said. “We couldn’t get around them, couldn’t get over the top.”
Nebraska brought an inspired effort to the start of the second half despite being without junior forward Juwan Gary, a key starter who left late in the first half with a shoulder injury.
The Huskers opened the half on a 6-0 run to cut their deficit to five points and force an Illinois timeout. Sophomore guard CJ Wilcher notched four of those points with a pair of reverse layups and scored six of the Huskers’ first eight points of the half.
Illinois, however, provided a response on a night when Nebraska had few. The Illini got their lead back to double digits, as forward Coleman Hawkins scored five unanswered points. That was part of a larger 14-2 run that pushed Illinois ahead by 17.
After falling behind by 20, sophomore forward Wilhelm Breidenbach scored eight unanswered points to trim Illinois’ lead to 55-43 with nine minutes remaining. The Huskers got as close as 10 after a Breidenbach 3-pointer and an and-one from Walker.
But any idea of a comeback evaporated immediately after, as Nebraska went scoreless for the final six minutes. Meanwhile, Illinois made eight of its final nine shots to end on a 17-1 run and win 76-50.
Beyond the aforementioned shooting differential, Nebraska also struggled with turnovers (committing 17 to Illinois’ 11) and was beaten on the glass. Consequently, Illinois scoring more on fast break and second-chance opportunities, and its superior overall shooting, led to the relative blowout final score.
“The two basics that we had to execute tonight to have a chance to win the game was taking care of the basketball and rebounding the ball and playing with physicality,” Hoiberg said. “And I thought they (Illinois) were clearly the better team in both those areas.”
Senior forward Sam Griesel led the Huskers with 12 points, nine of which came in the first half. Breidenbach, with 11 points in 13 minutes, was the only other Nebraska player who scored in double figures.
Shannon Jr. tallied game-highs in points (25), rebounds (11) and steals (four) to go with four assists.
Nebraska falls to 9-8 overall and 2-4 in Big Ten play with the loss, while the Illini rise to 11-5 and 2-3. The Huskers have quite likely their most difficult game of the season ahead of them, as they visit No. 3 Purdue on Friday. | https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/nebraska-men-s-basketball-overwhelmed-in-home-loss-to-illinois/article_016334c4-9172-11ed-8303-93778b977f2d.html | 2023-01-11 17:18:51 | 1 | https://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/nebraska-men-s-basketball-overwhelmed-in-home-loss-to-illinois/article_016334c4-9172-11ed-8303-93778b977f2d.html |
ATLANTA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Primrose Schools was named the winner of two Stevie® Awards - the Gold Stevie Award for Company of the Year in the Consumer services - Large category and the Bronze Stevie Award for Marketing Campaign of the Year in the Education and Training category - in the 20th Annual American Business Awards®.
Primrose Schools received top recognition as Company of the Year for its rapid growth and consistent leadership in early education and care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid the high demand for childcare, in 2021 the company awarded 27 franchise agreements, opened 22 schools and experienced a 340% increase in potential franchise owner inquiries compared to 2020. In 2021, Primrose schools donated a combined $350,000, 35,000 books and 150,000 canned food items to nonprofits across the country.
"The pandemic brought the childcare crisis in our country in sharp focus," said Jo Kirchner, CEO of Primrose Schools. "This recognition is a testament to the dedication of our Support Center team and the franchise owners and staff in nearly 475 schools across the country that are working to serve more children and provide increased accessibility to high-quality education and care for all families."
Primrose Schools won the Bronze Marketing Campaign of the Year for its high-achieving Recruitment Marketing campaign designed to encourage passionate educators to return to early care and education positions and bring relief from talent shortages and long waitlists across the country. The campaign generated a 192% increase in school hiring.
"This marketing campaign helped us achieve our vision to deliver the best and most trusted early education and care for children and families across America during an extremely challenging time in the industry," said Tim Roush, Chief Marketing Officer of Primrose Schools. "We're honored to be recognized for our efforts to help open the door for more children to experience high-quality early education."
More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners. The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.'s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, large and small.
More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leader of the Year, and App of the Year, among others.
Leaders from Primrose Schools accepted the awards at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Monday, June 13, in New York City. Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2022 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
Primrose Schools is the leader in providing premier early education and care to children and families in the United States. Founded in 1982, there are nearly 475 Primrose schools in 33 states and Washington D.C. today. Each school is independently owned and operated by franchise owners who partner with parents to help children build the right foundation for future learning and life. Primrose believes who children become is as important as what they know. The Primrose-exclusive Balanced Learning® approach is created from the best early education wisdom and balances purposeful play with nurturing guidance from teachers to encourage curiosity, creativity, confidence, and compassion. For more information, visit www.PrimroseSchools.com, connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, explore our blog, sign up for our Pointers for Parents emails and find a Primrose school near you.
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Sponsors of The 2022 American Business Awards include HCL America, John Hancock Financial Services, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.
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SAN ANTONIO —
Kick off Pride Month by burning off some calories
San Antonio cyclists will take off from Crockett Park, north of downtown, Saturday morning for a guided ride visiting points of interest for the LGBTQ community around town. Grab your helmet, fill up a water bottle and don’t forget the sunscreen.
The 12-to-15-mile casual ride is being organized in collaboration with Pride Center San Antonio.
When: Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Cost: Free
Where: Ride begins at Crockett Park (1300 North Main Ave.).
Briscoe showcases the past and future of Western art
Pieces from nearly 20 artists help to visualize “a core set of criteria for what traditional Western art is” in the recently opened Briscoe Museum exhibit “The Sons of Charlie Russell: Cowboy Artists of America.”
The exhibit is accompanied by a summer calendar packed with related programming events, including a June 19 screening of the John Wayne classic “The Searchers,” a celebration of National Day of the Cowboy on July 23 and monthly demonstrations led by contemporary cowboy artists.
When: Currently running through Sept. 5.
Cost: Free with museum admission; buy tickets here.
Where: Briscoe Western Art Museum (210 West Market St.).
The Public raises the curtain on its latest show
San Antonio-based theater actors Lauren Esquivel and Grant Bryan headline “She Loves Me,” a 1930s-set “Shop Around the Corner”-esque production about bickering coworkers who, thanks to a newspaper ad, find themselves unknowingly sending love letters to one another. Its opening delayed by COVID-19, the play will finally open Friday.
Laura Michelle Wolfe Hoadley steps into the role of director for “She Loves Me,” which runs about two and a half hours (including a 15-minute intermission), and for which The Public is holding special ASL-interpreted performances on select nights.
When: Opens Friday, runs through June 12.
Cost: Tickets start at $45, including $30 specials for military personnel, students and seniors, as well as $15 for children 11 and under. Buy here.
Where: The Public Theater of San Antonio (800 West Ashby Place).
Unleash your inner medieval at a summer renaissance fair
Renaissance fairs are typically October affairs, but Historic Jackson Ranch on the northwest side is getting a head start with its own mutton-chompin’, flute-playin’, horseback-joustin’ celebration on Saturday. In addition to dance troupes, poetry and petting zoos, the Renaissance Fair at Historic Jackson Ranch will include vendors, costume contests and the opportunity to have your fortune told.
When: Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost: Free admission with donation of canned or packaged item, or $5 for the San Antonio Food Bank.
Where: Historic Jackson Ranch (8910 Callaghan Rd.).
Kick back and do some grilling at the garden
You might not always think of barbecue and live music when you think about the San Antonio Botanical Garden, but that’s exactly what’s on tap for Friday evening at the Alamo City’s very own oasis.
At “Sipping and Searing,” the name says it all. Attendees will be able to partake in a sizzling parrillada, complete with live music and an interactive how-to on the basics of grilling. In other words: a perfect way to start off the summer in San Antonio.
When: Friday, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $50 for tickets, $45 for members.
Where: San Antonio Botanical Garden (555 Funston Place). | https://www.kens5.com/article/entertainment/what-to-do-this-weekend-in-san-antonio-pride-theater-music-food/273-fb81ef88-6c3d-44ee-bf51-17c102955134 | 2022-06-03 03:04:18 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/entertainment/what-to-do-this-weekend-in-san-antonio-pride-theater-music-food/273-fb81ef88-6c3d-44ee-bf51-17c102955134 |
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Bond was denied Monday for a man accused in a Colleton County, South Carolina murder and fire investigation.
Agencies responded to a house fire on Folly Creek Lane in the Green Pond community around 11:00 a.m. Sunday after a neighbor reported seeing the home on fire, according to Colleton County Fire Rescue.
Fire Rescue officials said the roof had already collapsed on one end and fire was visible from the remaining roof and several windows when crews arrived.
A 13-year-old with cuts and stab wounds was found outside of the home and airlifted to an area hospital for treatment.
“The injured [party] advised that there were victims inside the home. During extinguishment and overhaul, Firefighter-Paramedics discovered six victims inside the home. All six were deceased,” said officials with Colleton County Fire Rescue.
During the investigation, Colleton County deputies said they obtained information that led to the arrest of Ryan Lenard Manigo, 33, for the only surviving victim’s attempted murder.
Colleton County Sheriff Guerry Hill Jr. said Manigo was detained near the scene and arrested shortly after. He was then booked into the Colleton County Detention Center and charged with the attempted murder of the 13-year-old.
Sheriff Hill said it is believed Manigo is the brother-in-law of victim Michelle Marie Wright, 50, and the father of 11-year-old victim Shariah Manigo.
The two victims were identified as being in the house and deceased from what the witness described as stab wounds. “We are currently waiting on positive ID on the other four victims through pending autopsy,” the sheriff said.
There is no known motive for the attack and the investigation remains active. Officials say additional charges are expected.
During a bond hearing Monday afternoon, three members of the victims’ family shared sharp words for Manigo as they spoke directly to the man accused in the killings.
“I want Ryan to know that he’ll never be forgiven,” said one family member. “When you did, you hurt us- you took away our matriarch of our family. Someone who took you in and fed you just as her own. I just wish you get the worse charges ever. I really wish you death. I wish they give you the death penalty. What you did is brought death to us … thank God one got away to be able to tell us what actually happened in that house. We hate you.”
“I just want to know why,” added another. “What was your motive? … I hope that you will get what you deserve if you are found totally guilty of all the charges that are brought against you. You’re talking about six lives and the seventh got away to tell us what happened.”
Manigo was denied bond.
Family members spoke to Nexstar’s WCBD earlier in the day, saying they were at a “loss for words” after learning that six relatives were found dead at the burned Colleton County home.
David and Monique Magwood said several of their family members were inside the home, including David’s 101-year-old mother. The woman was not identified by law enforcement on Monday.
“I can’t say what happened, but I do know one thing. I was expecting, all through life, for my mom to go to bed (at night) and not wake up in the morning. And when I heard what I heard, I was very dissatisfied. It wasn’t nice at all. But anyway, it is what it is. It’s in the hands of the man upstairs,” Magwood said.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s Arson Unit is assisting. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/6-dead-in-south-carolina-murder-fire-family-member-charged/ | 2023-07-04 01:13:32 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/6-dead-in-south-carolina-murder-fire-family-member-charged/ |
U-Haul honors and celebrates the life of a Company titan, whose impact is still felt today
TEMPE, Ariz. and RIDGEFIELD, Wash., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An 18-year-old William E. "Hap" Carty, while on leave from the U.S. Army in 1945, helped his sister and brother-in-law with an upstart company they were building – quite literally – in a milk house on the Carty Ranch in Ridgefield.
The concept was to create a line of trailers families could rent for one-way moves. The business was to be called U-Haul. The do-it-yourself moving industry would never be the same.
Carty joined U-Haul full-time in 1946 following his discharge at the end of WWII, and in doing so became the Company's first employee. While he never cashed his paycheck from the first 10 trailers he helped build in that milk house, his tireless commitment and influence over the next 43 years shaped the foundation and growth of one of North America's most recognizable companies and successful entrepreneurial stories.
Hap, nicknamed for being a happy child with a big smile, died on Friday. He was 95.
"U-Haul would not exist today but for Hap," stated Joe Shoen, U-Haul CEO and son of the Company's late founders L.S. "Sam" and Anna Mary Carty Shoen. "He was a recognized industry innovator who crossed paths with many industry stalwarts including John Rock, Red Pohling, Don Peterson, John DeLorean and Roger Penske.
"Hap and John Rock designed the only medium-duty air-ride truck that GMC® ever built. He worked with Navistar® and Dana® to produce a medium-duty truck with a 24-inch frame rail height. That truck revolutionized do-it-yourself moving."
During his illustrious career, Carty served as president and Chairman of the Board for U-Haul International, Inc. In 1971, as president of U-Haul, he brought the Company's network of independent U-Haul dealerships to 15,000, a record that stood for more than 30 years.
"One of the reasons I've had good luck in management is that I always hire good people," Carty told Amerco World (now U-Haul News) in 1981. "I get them strong in the areas I'm weak in, and we work together. I've lived this way for years and looked like a genius many times, because I had the buoyancy of good people."
Carty was born on March 2, 1927. He and his wife, Toni, have six children: Gail, Tim, Martin, Kevin, Katie and Patrick, along with several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The Carty family is synonymous with the rural Washington town 24 miles north of Portland, Ore., where a sign greets visitors: "Welcome to Ridgefield, birthplace of U-Haul."
Hap Carty is equally tied to Tempe, where he lived the latter half of his life and was instrumental in opening the U-Haul Technical Center in 1970. Though just nine miles east of Phoenix, Tempe was largely undeveloped desert at the time. The U-Haul Tech Center not only signaled business expansion in Tempe, but it was the only research and development facility of its kind in the world, featuring a test track where rental equipment was rigorously tested to meet safety standards. Carty ran the facility, which still manufactures U-Haul trailers and truck boxes today.
From 1946-52, Carty assembled, painted, serviced and rented trailers. Then he took his wife, Toni, and their two children to Boston to establish the first U-Haul manufacturing plant on the East Coast, empowering the Company to become a nationwide brand.
"I had $500 with which to open Boston Trailer Manufacturing Company, but was on a $3 per diem allowance. We ate a lot of hot dogs cooked over open fires as we made our way across the continent," Carty recalled. "The (Boston) shop bore no relation to an automobile assembly line. It looked more like a village blacksmith shop, complete with hearth, hammer and anvil."
Carty also helped establish the U-Haul manufacturing center in Willow Grove, Penn. He took night classes at Penn State University, acquiring knowledge over a wide range of subjects that enabled him to deal with his immediate responsibilities. He studied business law, management, economics and engineering. As the first U-Haul field director of eastern states, Carty directed manufacturing and marketing operations in 28 states, from Florida to Maine to Minnesota.
In the 1960s, Carty was named U-Haul marketing director. He later became president of U-Haul subsidiary Kar-Go International, a role he held when he helped launch the Tech Center.
Carty retired on Jan. 1, 1988, and remained on the Board of Directors for AMERCO, parent company of U-Haul, through 2006. Even still, Carty could be seen frequently in the Company lunchroom, counseling younger managers and attending U-Haul functions, including one Team Member's 50th anniversary celebration one week before he passed.
While his legacy remains evident through the awards, images and quotes attributed to him across the U-Haul Midtown Campus in Phoenix, his real impact is felt through the lives he touched, professionally and personally, throughout the U-Haul network across North America.
Since 1945, U-Haul has been the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 23,000 locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 offers secure access to U-Haul trucks every hour of every day through the customer dispatch option on their smartphones and our proprietary Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to approximately 186,000 trucks, 128,000 trailers and 46,000 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers 876,000 rentable storage units and 75.1 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the largest retailer of propane in the U.S., and continues to be the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. U-Haul has been recognized repeatedly as a leading "Best for Vets" employer and was recently named one of the 15 Healthiest Workplaces in America.
Contact:
Jeff Lockridge
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E-mail: publicrelations@uhaul.com
Phone: 602-263-6981
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Nikki Haley's tiny hometown – of Bamberg, South Carolina – played a starring role in the launch of her presidential campaign.
A video released online on Tuesday announcing her run for President began with images including a set of railroad tracks.
"The railroad divided the town by race," Haley narrated. "I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants - not Black, not white. I was different."
The next day, during a speech in Charleston kicking off her bid for the 2024 Republican nomination, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations Ambassador under President Trump said her parents had taught Haley and her siblings that "even on our worst day, we are blessed to live in America."
Haley paints a picture of Bamberg – and the country – as a place where race is a reality, but not a limitation.
As the only Indian family, "Our little town came to love us, but it wasn't always easy," she said. "Nobody knew who we were, what we were, or why we were there."
Haley was born in 1972, just a few years after her parents moved the family to Bamberg, a town with a current population around 3,000. Her father took a position as a biology professor at a local college and her mother taught school before opening a successful clothing store.
A visit to Bamberg
"No, nobody knew who they were," said Harriet Coker, a retired teacher, on a recent sunny afternoon in Bamberg.
Coker has known the family - the Randhawas - since before Nikki was born. She had Nikki in her seventh-grade social studies class and remembers her as quiet, but smart.
There were challenges. A spokeswoman for Haley's campaign says when they first moved to the area, her parents struggled to find anyone who'd rent to them. Her modest childhood home which was featured prominently in Haley's campaign video.
But soon, Coker says, they were just part of the community.
"It didn't take long for people to really get to know them and to realize what wonderful people they are," she says.
As she launched her campaign, Haley pointed to her political resume as a living example of the idea that America is – at its core – a land of opportunity. She pushed back on what she described as a rising "self-loathing," which she said views America as "flawed, rotten, and full of hate" – particularly on the political left.
"Take it from me, the first minority female governor in history, America is not a racist country," Haley said, drawing robust applause from the mostly white crowd.
It still exists
Tony Duncan, a local Black business owner, is a few years older than Haley and remembers being in school with her older siblings.
"She comes from good people, and she's good people," Duncan says.
But, growing up in South Carolina in the 1960s and '70s, Duncan says race was always there.
"I think all of us know what this country was built on. And [racism] still exists," he says. "It exists. As people here in America, we have to deal with these things."
Lisa B. Stokes grew up in Bamberg and spent her career as a teacher. She started elementary school right around the time local schools were integrating and spent her first year of grade school in an all-Black class. Stokes has mixed feelings about Haley's comments.
"Yes, there are so many opportunities and we can all make it," Stokes says. "It's a lot easier for some than others."
Slights, and racist insults
In her life and her political career, Haley has at times been targeted for her race.
At age 5, Haley was asked, mid-competition, to bow out of the Little Miss Bamberg beauty pageant – which had separate awards for Black children and white children – because they had no category for her, she told the New York Times Magazine in a 2011 interview. After that, the town integrated its pageants and many other social activities.
"I mean, that kind of thing would [make her] say, 'Well, now it's crystal clear. I'm different; I don't fit in," said Sharon Carter, the Bamberg County Republican Party chairwoman.
Carter grew up in Bamberg around the same time as Haley. She says Haley's race was never a significant issue, and the family was well-regarded: "You know, by the time you're in school as elementary-age kids, everybody just all gets along."
In 2010, when Haley was running for governor of South Carolina, a Republican state senator who was an ally of one her primary opponents used a racist slur to refer to Haley, alluding to her parents' Sikh faith.
Coker says despite that "really insulting" incident, Haley pressed forward.
"I don't write many letters to the editor but I had to respond to that, and I said, 'Well you obviously don't know them,'" she says. "She ended up winning, and she hasn't slowed down."
Both sides of the tracks
As Haley's star has risen, her hometown – like many other rural small towns, has declined, losing jobs and many of its young people. The interstate bypassed the community, and a textile factory left town. Older residents can remember when the town's main street was bustling and lined with traffic; today, most of the old brick storefronts are empty or covered in plywood.
And there are still racial divisions.
Stokes, who lives a few blocks from the much larger home that Haley's parents eventually moved into, says when she moved into the overwhelmingly white neighborhood around 1990, many of the neighbors actively avoided her.
"It was obvious some were not really pleased we'd moved here," Stokes says. "And even to this day, you know, we're the only African-American couple on the street."
Stokes says she appreciated Haley's work to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol after a white supremacist shot and killed nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston in 2015. But she was disappointed to see Haley – after first criticizing Trump – align herself with him just a few years later.
"It's like, 'Who are you, Nikki Haley?'" she says. "Really and truly, who are you?
Stokes says she also feels proud of the recognition that Haley has brought to their hometown. But she hopes that Haley will remember the people back home – on both sides of town.
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US Army developing tactical bra for female soldiers
Published: Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:48 PM EDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
(CNN) - The U.S. Army is working on something historic – a combat-ready bra designed for female soldiers.
The “Army tactical brassiere” will be the first official uniform bra the Army has offered female soldiers in history.
It’s still in development, and the design team has talked to hundreds of female soldiers to design the proper fit, function, support and performance.
Because it’s considered tactical and not just a sportswear item, the bra has gone through a lot of testing, even including flame-resistant testing.
If it gets the thumbs up, the bra will be an official part of the soldier’s uniform.
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WIMBLEDON, England — When 2022 Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios steps out on No. 1 Court on Monday at the All England Club, it will be just his second singles match since October.
Kyrgios missed the Australian Open and the French Open during his lengthy absence and can’t be sure whether his body is ready for best-of-five-set competition.
“I still think there’s some question marks, for sure,” said the 28-year-old Australian, who plays David Goffin of Belgium in the first round.
“I look at my preparations last year coming in, I probably had the most ideal preparation possible,” Kyrgios said, a Boston Celtics hat perched on his head. “It couldn’t be any different this year.”
And it’s been difficult, he said, to think that people might expect him to be able to play at his best now — or anything like how he was able to perform when he reached his first Grand Slam final a year ago before losing to Novak Djokovic.
Kyrgios has been frank about mental health issues he dealt with in the past, including feeling suicidal after losing at Wimbledon in 2019.
“It took seven, eight years to be able to just open up about that. I kept it very close to the chest for a long time. But I think it’s important,” he said Sunday. “I think a lot of athletes kind of go through that. But ... especially males felt like it was kind of hard to open up, admit they were struggling. I feel very different to how I was feeling obviously throughout that period in 2019. Yeah, look, I guess I feel great now.”
Matteo Berrettini is ignoring social media for the time being. Not simply, mind you, to avoid negative comments from strangers — or not just for that reason, anyway — but to stay away from positive messages, too.
Let’s let the player who was a finalist at Wimbledon in 2021 explain:
“People believe in me, which is beautiful, but I also got to a point where I realized that nine out of 10 people who ask me something, the next phrase they write is, ‘This year, you’ll win Wimbledon,’” Berrettini said Sunday. “And so I need to protect myself from that sort of thing, too.”
Even thoughts from other people that are meant to be supportive can get in his head and create problems, in part by raising the pressure with regard to what sort of result he is “supposed” to achieve.
“I consider myself pretty mature,” said Berrettini, a 27-year-old from Italy who has been ranked as high as No. 6 and is outside the top 35 now, “but it’s not easy to handle it all.”
Particularly during a season when hand surgery and an abdominal muscle problem have limited him to 14 matches.
“I need to try to focus on the things that brought me to where I got, such as hard work, keeping my head down, doing what I like to do — fight, and believe in my team and my family,” Berrettini said. “So that’s what I’m doing.”
He missed Wimbledon a year ago after testing positive for COVID-19 and faces Lorenzo Sonego — a countryman and his best friend on tour — in the first round on Tuesday.
A year ago at Wimbledon, everything was new to Elena Rybakina.
She had been past the fourth round only once — and never past the quarterfinals — in 11 previous Grand Slam appearances. She was not among the leading seeds or among the favorites.
And now? Now she returns to the All England Club as the defending champion. Plus, she showed that was no fluke by reaching the final at the Australian Open in January.
“I know what to expect, how it works, if you actually go that far in the tournament,” Rybakina said Sunday. “Psychologically I would say that it’s a bit easier than when you don’t know what to expect.”
She is seeded No. 3 in the women’s bracket and will play Shelby Rogers of the United States in the first round on Tuesday.
Rybakina pulled out of the French Open before her third-round match last month because of a viral illness, then cited that reason again when she withdrew from a grass-court tournament in England last week.
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A "dream project" jazz trio will finally play after being delayed by the pandemic.
On June 25, clarinetist Anat Cohen, saxophonist Steve Wilson and jazz pianist Bruce Barth will perform as a trio for an evening fundraiser presented by the Jazz Society of Northwest Arkansas.
All three are "internationally acclaimed. They're kind of at the top of the heap and what they all do, they've all performed with one another in different incarnations," Robert Ginsburg, founder and artistic director of NWA Jazz Society, explains. He adds that the event was in the planning stages before covid hit. This will be the first time that they've performed anywhere as a trio.
"Typically you think of a jazz ensemble as a rhythm section with piano, bass and drums or guitar, bass and drums, and then maybe a soloist or two. [For] this there's no bass player. There's no drummer. It really opens up the music in a different way because the task of holding down the rhythm is then shared by these soloists. The task of holding down the bottom, which is what the bass player does, is also shared. So it's almost like a jazz chamber group, in a way. All of that makes for just kind of an exciting concept," Ginsburg adds.
"With players that are of this caliber, it opens the door of possibilities, not only for what the audience is going to hear, but what the musicians are going to be inspired to do," he adds.
Cohen has been voted "year after year as Jazz Journalist Society's Best Clarinetist of the Year," Ginsburg explains. She's known for the "repertoire and style that she brings to the instrument. She's huge into Brazilian music, and she's huge into jazz and she's huge into traditional jazz. She's even dipped her foot into the classical music world. So everything that she brings here just enhances the idea of these three musicians all collaborating."
"Steve Wilson is legendary. His career is all over the map. He plays with one of the most renowned jazz orchestras, now the Maria Schneider Orchestra. He's also accompanied some of the great singers, and just played with this amazing who's who of jazz artists over the years."
A former accompanist for Tony Bennett, Bruce Barth was called the best pianist in New York by the Village Voice.
Barth actually performed in Northwest Arkansas about six years ago with Cohen, which was the last time that he was in the area, he says. Prior to that he performed as a duo with Steve Wilson in Northwest Arkansas. He says this show is "a bit of a reunion," for them.
"I think it'll be very fun. We love playing together, and I think there will be a lot of spontaneity. I think it's going to be pretty wide open," Barth adds. "We share a similar philosophy with the music. Whereas we never know where the music's going to go. ... One thing we're trying to do is to surprise ourselves and keep it interesting and fresh."
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KOKOMO, Ind. (WXIN) – An Indiana woman left four young children home alone while she went on a shopping trip about an hour away, according to an incident report by Kokomo police.
Courtny Prater, 25, has been charged with neglect. The report states the children were ages 1, 4, 5 and 8.
Police were called to a trailer home in Kokomo on Aug. 2 for a child welfare check. When they arrived, they met another woman who told them she was the mother of two of the children.
The woman said her father, who lived nearby, went to check on the children earlier and was greeted at the door by the 8-year-old. The 8-year-old told the man that his mother and father were in Indianapolis and that the kids were home alone, according to court documents.
The distance between Indianapolis and Kokomo is about one hour.
Police say when they knocked on the door, they could hear “two large dogs barking and hitting the door.” When they went to check the windows, the dogs were reportedly so aggressive that one of them hit the window and caused the window frame to move.
The woman who had greeted police contacted the suspect — later identified as Prater, who is also the mother of the other children — and told her that police wanted her at the home right away, documents said.
When Prater arrived, she reportedly admitted she had been shopping in Indianapolis and pointed to two other people in the car and said they were supposed to be watching the kids, documents said.
After the dogs were secured, police went inside the home, which they say had trash on the floor and smelled of dog urine.
The incident report says the mother of the other two children asked for her children back at this point, and police say they granted her request immediately.
Prater told police that another man who lived at the trailer “off and on” was supposed to check on the kids throughout the day while she was in Indianapolis.
After determining the 8-year-old did not “appear qualified” to care for the other children, Kokomo police requested an arrest warrant be issued for Prater on four counts of neglect, but she was only charged with two counts.
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NEW YORK (AP) — First Citizens will acquire much of Silicon Valley Bank, the tech-focused financial institution that collapsed this month, setting off a chain reaction that caused a second bank to fail and tested faith in the global banking sector.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and other regulators had already taken extraordinary steps to head off a wider banking crisis by guaranteeing that depositors in SVB and failed Signature Bank would be able to access all of their money.
While more than half of Silicon Valley’s assets will remain in U.S. receivership, the First Citizens deal announced late Sunday, at least initially, seemed to achieve what regulators have sought: a shoring up of trust in U.S. regional banks.
At the opening bell Monday, shares of midsized banks like Keycorp, Zions and First Horizon rose 8%. First Republic Bank, which received a $30 billion rescue package from 11 of the biggest banks in the country as it teetered in the wake of the Silicon Valley collapse, jumped 23%.
Customers of SVB will automatically become customers of First Citizens, which is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. The 17 former branches of SVB will open as First Citizens branches Monday, the FDIC said.
European shares opened higher Monday, with German lender Commerzbank AG up 2.4% and BNP Paribas up 1.2%. Anxiety over contagion in the banking sector quickly spread to Europe this month and regulators there brokered a takeover by UBS of troubled Swiss bank Credit Suisse.
Shares of Deutsche Bank tumbled 8.5% Friday for similar reasons, rising interest rates, but stock in the German bank bounced back 3.6% Monday.
Silicon Valley, based in Santa Clara, California, collapsed March 10 in a bank run after customers rushed to withdraw money due to fears over the bank’s solvency. It was the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history after the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual. Two days later, New York’s Signature Bank was seized by regulators in the third-largest bank failure in the U.S.
In both cases, the government agreed to cover deposits, even those that exceeded the federally insured limit of $250,000, so depositors were able to access their money.
New York Community Bank agreed to buy a significant chunk of Signature Bank in a $2.7 billion deal a week ago, but the search for a buyer for SVB took longer.
The sale of Silicon Valley Bank involves the sale of all deposits and loans of SVB to First-Citizens Bank and Trust Co., the FDIC said.
The acquisition gives the FDIC shares in First Citizens worth $500 million. Both the FDIC and First Citizens will share in losses and the potential recovery on loans included in a loss-share agreement, the FDIC said.
The FDIC will retain about $90 billion of Silicon Valley Bank’s $167 billion in total assets, as of March 10, while First Citizens will acquire $72 billion at a discount of $16.5 billion, the FDIC said. It said it estimates Silicon Valley Bank’s failure will cost its industry-funded Deposit Insurance Fund about $20 billion.
First Citizens Bank was founded in 1898 and says it has more than $100 billion in total assets, with more than 500 branches in 21 states as well as a nationwide bank. It reported net profit of $243 million in the last quarter. It is one of the top 20 U.S. banks and says it is the largest family-controlled bank in the country. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/fdic-first-citizens-bank-to-acquire-silicon-valley-bank/ | 2023-03-27 17:48:13 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/fdic-first-citizens-bank-to-acquire-silicon-valley-bank/ |
Colombian police stop Atletico Nacional supporters from storming the pitch in BogotaImage: Cristian Bayona/Zuma/picture alliance
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Colombian football violence a reflection of society
Tobias Käufer
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Deadly riots in Medellin during a local football derby Atletico Nacional and Independiente are fuelling discussions. The clubs involved from the Colombian metropolis are calling for tougher political action.
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It is a football match that has electrified the Colombian metropolis of Medellin for decades. Emotions always run high around the local derby between Atletico Nacional and Independiente. Sometimes too high, as seen in late April, when scenes of violence broke out in and outside the stadium.
It was the latest in a series of clashes between rival fans in recent years. At the end of a bloody day, the police statistics recorded two lives lost, at least 14 injured. It's a problem not just in Medellin, but in other Latin American cities where violent football fan groups have enough power to put pressure on the clubs.
Debate about violence in football
As a result, a debate has erupted in Colombia about how to tackle violence inside and outside stadiums. This problem is not exclusive to Medellin or even Colombia, but given its history, the rest of the world watches closely when blood is spilled in the Antioquia province.
That’s due to the murder of national team player Andres Escobar, who was shot dead in 1994 after returning to his hometown, having scored an own goal in Colombia's World Cup match against the hosts, the United States.
Since then, Medellin has had the stigma of being one of the most dangerous football cities in the world. Yet the city actually deserves recognition for its dynamic rise to becoming one of the most exciting economic locations in South America as well as the "eternal spring" it enjoys thanks to its location on the globe.
Venue for social problems
"I think it's a problem of society that spills over into football because society in a way permeates football," said club President Mauricio Navarro of Atletico Nacional, one of the most popular clubs in Latin America.
Speaking to DW, Navarro compared the recent clashes with the political protests in recent years when the so-called "Primera Linea" took to the country's streets.
"You saw then a similar violence that we saw in football, also in the streets," he said.
Club Vice President Benjamin Romero believes deeply rooted intolerance has led to life having little value.
"On the street, someone is killed because their cell phone is stolen. If we apply this to football, in the street someone is killed because they’re wearing an opposing team’s jersey. It's a completely absurd situation," he said.
Apply existing laws as well
Both Atletico Nacional and Independiente are calling on politicians and the government to take a tougher stance in dealing with the perpetrators. They say it is necessary for the government to enforce the laws and for sentences to be carried out "so that there really is a consequence for violent acts in these scenarios, not only at football matches, but in all areas of social coexistence," Independiente spokeswoman Paula Andrea Gonzalez told DW.
She added that it was not acceptable for a few to destroy the overall experience of predominantly peaceful fans.
"The only way to put an end to this is prison, prison for criminals and for those who are violent in football," demanded Atletico Vice President Romero.
Clubs also have a duty
Both clubs point to their social activities and the dialog they conduct with the fan clubs and ultras. But there is also room for improvement, admitted Paula Andrea Gonzalez, referring to the behavior of players on the pitch.
"The club still has to bridge a gap between what happens at home, in their personal lives and their development in terms of personality."
It is important, she said, during the 90 minutes of a match, not to give in to provocations amid the emotions.
"This is an issue that we can work on culturally with the teams and with the players," she said.
The clubs themselves say they have a huge interest in seeing the situation improve, as violence in and around the stadium have a negative economic impact.
"There is a fear of going to the stadium, plus our stadiums are not as comfortable as those in the US or Europe," Navarro admitted.
"We need to get back to how it was 30 years ago or earlier," claimed Atletico Nacional Vice President Romero. Back then, he said, there were no violent fan groups. It was mainly families who came to the stadiums, and the atmosphere was much more peaceful and harmonious. But football, not only in Colombia, is currently a long way from that. | https://www.dw.com/en/football-violence-in-colombia-a-reflection-of-society/a-65603923?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf | 2023-05-12 16:06:00 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/football-violence-in-colombia-a-reflection-of-society/a-65603923?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf |
Cast visit; Dynamic Light Show; 86th Floor Life-size Demogorgon Photo-Op
NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Empire State Building (ESB) commenced a two-month engagement to share a special "Stranger Things" themed experience with New Yorkers. ESB brought the Upside Down from Netflix's "Stranger Things" to her entire southern façade with a first-of-its-kind, dynamic light show. There was a special appearance from the "Stranger Things" cast, who debuted the one-of-a-kind, life-size Demogorgon photo opportunity for visitors on the building's open-air 86th Floor Observatory.
"We are happy to unite New Yorkers and our visitors with once-in-a-lifetime experiences at the World's Most Famous Building," said Jean-Yves Ghazi, president of the Empire State Building Observatory. "Now, our guests can come face-to-face with one of television's most iconic monsters on our 86th Floor Observatory."
- ESB in the Upside Down – On Thursday, May 26, the ESB's south side transformed into a portal into the Upside Down.
- Cast Visit - That morning, "Stranger Things" cast members Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Cara Buono, and Priah Ferguson visited the Empire State Building for a photo opportunity at the Observatory Experience.
- Face the Monster – Fans now have the chance to pose with a life-size Demogorgon on the building's 86th Floor Observatory as he peers out over New York City. The Demogorgon will remain within the Observatory Experience through July.
These special experiences for fans were in partnership with Netflix and advertising agency Giant Spoon.
The Empire State Building Observatory Experience recently underwent a top-to-bottom reimagination that added a dedicated guest entrance, a digital and tactile museum that celebrates the icon from the moment it was conceived to its current place in pop culture, and a completely re-imagined 102nd Floor Observatory. More information about the Empire State Building and its Observatory Experience can be found at www.esbnyc.com.
Hi-res imagery of the Empire State Building's tower lights and cast visit can be downloaded here.
About the Empire State Building
The Empire State Building, the "World's Most Famous Building," owned by Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT), soars 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan from base to antenna. The $165 million reimagination of the Empire State Building Observatory Experience creates an all-new experience with a dedicated guest entrance, an interactive museum with nine galleries, and a redesigned 102nd Floor Observatory with floor-to-ceiling windows. The journey to the world-famous 86th Floor Observatory, the only 360-degree, open-air observatory with views of New York and beyond, orients visitors for their entire New York City experience and covers everything from the building's iconic history to its current place in pop-culture. Learn more at www.esbnyc.com. Declared "America's Favorite Building" by the American Institute of Architects, as well as the world's most popular travel destination by Uber and the #1 New York City attraction by Lonely Planet, it welcomes more than 4 million annual visitors from around the world.
Since 2011, the building has been fully powered by renewable wind electricity, and its many floors primarily house a diverse array of office tenants such as LinkedIn and Shutterstock, as well as retail options like STATE Grill and Bar, Tacombi, and Starbucks. For more information and Observatory Experience tickets visit esbnyc.com or follow the building's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Weibo, YouTube, or TikTok.
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The Florida based lender joins the multi-channel fintech as its newest division.
COLUMBUS, Ohio , June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lower, the multi-channel fintech aimed at creating wealth through homeownership, today announced the addition of Hamilton Home Loans to the company.
Lower's platform allows distributed retail partners to connect into its infrastructure to benefit from its streamlined tech, delivering the best customer experience. Its channels include retail, direct to consumer, wholesale, and Mortgage as a Service. Hamilton joins its private label retail channel as a new division.
"Hamilton's high caliber team makes this a perfect strategic fit for Lower. Together, we're both aligned on our mission to help more people become homeowners and share a strong commitment to the customer experience," said Co-Founder and Managing Partner Mike Baynes. "Our teams, customers, and partners can expect the same great service that we believe will only strengthen over time. We're proud that Hamilton chose to join us, and we look forward to a bright future."
Hamilton Home Loans has a number of branches across the country with the majority in Florida. Founded in 2003, Hamilton focuses on reshaping the future of lending by harnessing the power of current technologies to deliver unsurpassed service to customers and build strong relationships with industry partners.
Hamilton President and CEO Pat Sheehy becomes Managing Director of Hamilton Home Mortgage, overseeing strategy and day-to-day operations of the division. Board Chairman Mark Korell joins the division's executive office to assist with strategic direction and operations.
"Joining Lower and its family of companies is an ideal cultural fit for Hamilton. Like Lower, our team is dedicated to helping families build wealth through homeownership. The synergies of the combined organization will expand our product and service offerings and enhance the exceptional experience we provide for borrowers and business partners," said Sheehy. "This is an exciting time for both companies."
Hamilton Home Loans will now operate as Hamilton Home Mortgage and the company's nearly 500 team members will join Sheehy and Korell in the transition.
About Lower
Lower's multi-channel fintech platform helps consumers build wealth through homeownership, no matter where they are in their life's journey. Our products for mortgage, banking, insurance, and real estate provide customers with an intuitive ecosystem to simplify their homeownership goals, whether it's their first home or their last. Lower is a national and local best place to work, and the naming rights partner of Lower.com Field, home of the Columbus Crew.
About Hamilton Home Loans
Based in Sunrise, FL, with branches in many states including Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Virginia, and Nevada, Hamilton Home Loans has been a leading residential mortgage lender for more than 18 years. Their unique approach to lending includes proprietary programs like Hamilton for Heroes for military, firefighters, police, nurses, EMTs, and more, designed to help individual buyers achieve the American dream through discounts on fees and a refreshingly simple experience.
Hamilton ranks high in employee satisfaction, praised for the company's family-like approach: For the past six years consecutively, Hamilton was featured in the Sun Sentinel's Top Workplaces in South Florida.
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Huntsville police say a person was critically injured Thursday night after being struck by a vehicle.
Sgt. Rosalind White said the incident happened when a person attempted to cross at Triana Boulevard and 15th Street about 7:45 p.m.
The victim was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Police have not identified the pedestrian.
White said the driver of the vehicle remained on the scene.
Charges could follow, pending toxicology results. | https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2022/10/pedestrian-struck-in-thursday-night-huntsville-crash.html | 2022-10-28 15:27:25 | 0 | https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2022/10/pedestrian-struck-in-thursday-night-huntsville-crash.html |
$2M Rocket Wealth Accelerator launches for low-income families in Detroit, 3 other cities
Detroit — The Rocket Community Fund has partnered with Local Initiatives Support Corp. in a $2 million effort to financially educate and improve wealth of low-income families in Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Atlanta.
Leaders announced the creation of the Rocket Wealth Accelerator Program Thursday that's funded by the Rocket Community Fund, an philanthropic arm of billionaire Dan Gilbert's Rocket Mortgage. The Rocket Community Fund is investing $150 million of the overall $500 million promise Gilbert made to pour into Detroit over the next 10 years, continuing to focus on its primary issue areas of housing, employment and public life.
The Rocket Wealth Accelerator will launch in the summer 2023 to provide clients in the four major cities with coaches who will work with them to improve their ability to meet emergency needs, build their credit and grow generational wealth, officials said.
Over the next year, LISC staff will onboard and train coaches, connect with community members eager to build savings, establish incentives programming and develop the necessary infrastructure to launch and roll out the program in each market through local community partners.
The accelerator also provides matching dollars for participants’ savings plans, with up to $500 for people with large financial goals such as purchasing a home or vehicle, and up to $300 for those with short-term or emergency savings goals.
The accelerator is open to any income-qualified family, but specifically aims to address systemic racism and racial injustice that have decimated Black wealth, said Laura Grannemann, vice president of the Rocket Community Fund.
Nearly half of all Black and Hispanic households are unbanked or underbanked, meaning they don't use mainstream financial services such as checking accounts and primarily rely on cash, and Black Americans are twice as likely to be denied for credit. The accelerator program aims to put participants on a path to homeownership, combating the Black-white homeownership gap that is wider today than it was when race-based discrimination against homebuyers was legal.
The accelerator is a small step toward leveling the playing field for Black and minority families who have endured a system that prevents them from accumulating wealth, Grannemann said.
"Saving for a down payment is often one of the most significant barriers we hear in all of our efforts," Grannemann said at the press conference Thursday. “Our goal today is not just to support those clients directly, but also to build generational wealth so these families can pass this opportunity on to future generations.”
Over the next three years, Grannemann said she hopes these coaches can help 2,000 families and build their credit score and saving accounts. About half will be based in Detroit.
Locally, SER Metro-Detroit and Wayne Metro Community Action Agency will be using its extensive 14-year tracking system to measure success of the program.
"This new grant will provide a needed boost for our community members already doing their all to meet this challenging economy,” said SER Metro-Detroit President and CEO Eva Garza Dewaelsche. “The Rocket Wealth Accelerator will provide our community with new avenues to build income and credit — necessary keys for long-term wealth-building opportunities.”
The Rocket Wealth Accelerator will be offered in each of the four cities at:
- SER-Metro Detroit, Wayne Metro Community Action Agency and International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit in Detroit
- May Dugan Center and Urban League of Greater Cleveland in Cleveland
- Jobs Work MKE in Milwaukee
- Atlanta Center for Self-Sufficiency in Atlanta
“For far too many, the American dream of financial security feels out of reach,” said LISC CEO Lisa Glover. “Our partnership with the Rocket Community Fund, which is focused on pairing financial coaching with products designed to accelerate savings, is exactly the kind of investment in economic empowerment that can help close our country’s widening wealth gaps and equip more families of color to build generational wealth.”
More than 40% of Black households have no emergency savings, almost 45% have less than a month of income saved, and only 15% have at least one month of income saved, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said the city's unemployment is at its lowest level in 20 years. He added that household incomes in Detroit are rising.
"We've moved a lot of people from poverty to middle class. But just because you're making more money, doesn't mean you're free and clear. We've got a lot of folks I would say are suffering from a financial hangover," he added.
Duggan said partners like LISC and the Rocket Community Fund will help "to provide not only training but also financial incentives to help program participants build their savings or make important life purchases such as a vehicle or home."
Participants in the Rocket Wealth Accelerator will also receive access to a free, three-month subscription to Rocket Money, a part of Rocket Companies. Rocket Money, formerly known as Truebill, helps users manage subscriptions, lower their bills, build budgets and other services to save time and money.
How to participate
Once the program is launched in each of the Rocket Wealth Accelerator cities, those interested in becoming potential clients can visit one of the participating locations and work with a financial coach to help them understand their long-term goals.
Qualified clients include those who are striving toward homeownership, a car purchase or increasing emergency and short-term savings.
More information on how to enroll will be available in the coming months at www.lisc.org. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/12/08/2-million-rocket-wealth-accelerator-launches-for-low-income-families-in-detroit-atlanta-cleveland-mi/69706584007/ | 2022-12-08 18:06:39 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/12/08/2-million-rocket-wealth-accelerator-launches-for-low-income-families-in-detroit-atlanta-cleveland-mi/69706584007/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Deep-South Resources Inc. ("Deep-South" or the Company) (TSXV: DSM) announces that its Board of Directors will start the search to find and appoint a new Chairman or Chairwoman to replace the late Mr. John Akwenye who passed in May 2022. In the mean time, the Directors have nominated Mr. Jean-Luc Roy to the position of Acting Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Roy is a Director of the Board since May 2018. He has been a major contributor to the development of several important corporations in Africa during the last 30 years working for majors, mid-tiers and junior exploration companies.
Mr. Roy extensive exploration and mining company experience includes:
- First Quantum Minerals Ltd: Managing Director in Democratic Republic of Congo;
- El Nino Venture Inc: President & CEO, mainly focusing on Democratic Republic of Congo project acquisitions financing and management;
- Ampella Mining Ltd (division of Centamin PLC): Chief Operating Officer, supervising exploration and development of the projects in West Africa;
- Resolute Mining Ltd: General Manager, Supervising all operations in Mali.
Mr. Roy is presently a Director for Can Alaska Uranium (TSX:CVV) and Nine Miles Metals (CSE: NINE)
Deep-South Resources is a mineral exploration and development company. Deep-South's growth strategy is to focus on the exploration and development of quality assets in significant mineralized trends and in proximity to infrastructure in stable countries. In using and assessing environmentally friendly technologies in the development of its copper project, Deep-South embraces the green revolution.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Forward-looking information is necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by Deep-South, are inherently subject to significant technical, political, business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Known and unknown factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. Factors and assumptions that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things: political risks associated with the Company's operations in Namibia; the failure of the Namibian Government to comply with its continuing obligations under the Act to allow for the renewal of the Licence; the impact of changes in, or to the more aggressive enforcement of, laws, regulations and government practices; the inability of the Company and its subsidiaries to enforce their legal rights in certain circumstances. For additional risk factors, please see the Company's most recently filed Management Discussions & Analysis available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
0-7-0-3
(zero, seven, zero, three)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
0-7-0-3
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul speaks on the findings of his office's investigation into Catholic Clergy Child Sex Abuse in Chicago, on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Raoul released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in the state on Tuesday. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune via AP)
CHICAGO — An Illinois attorney general's office investigation released Tuesday found that 451 Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children in the state over a nearly 70-year period, which was more than four times the 103 individuals the church named when the state began its review in 2018.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul said at a news conference that investigators found that Catholic clergy abused 1,997 children in Illinois between 1950 and 2019, though he acknowledged that the statute of limitations has expired in many cases and that those abusers "will never see justice in a legal sense."
"It is my hope that this report will shine light both on those who violated their positions of power and trust to abuse innocent children, and on the men in church leadership who covered up that abuse," Raoul said, crediting the accusers for making the review possible. "These perpetrators may never be held accountable in a court of law, but by naming them here, the intention is to provide a public accountability and a measure of healing to survivors who have long suffered in silence."
The lengthy report describes Illinois church leaders as woefully slow to acknowledge the extent of the abuse. It also accuses them of frequently dragging their feet to confront accused clergy and of failing to warn parishioners about possible abusers in their midst, sometimes even decades after allegations emerged about a clergy member.
The review began in 2018 under Raoul's predecessor, Lisa Madigan, who released a blistering report as she prepared to leave office. Raoul committed to continuing the investigation, and he said Tuesday that 25 staff members reviewed more than 100,000 pages of diocesan documents and engaged in more than 600 confidential interactions with contacts.
Among those cited in the report are accusers who contemplated suicide after being abused, and who turned to drugs or alcohol in a bid to cope with "anxiety and feelings of unworthiness." One survivor, referred to only as "David" in the report, said a priest's sexual abuse of him as a child directly affected his career, financial wellbeing and ability to hold jobs. He told investigators he has "left, quit, or was fired from every job he's ever had."
"Survivors spoke of years, and often decades, struggling with challenges including insomnia, anxiety, trust issues, nightmares, suicidal ideation, guilt, addiction, alcoholism, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, issues creating and maintaining relationships, and sexual side effects," according to the report.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called the report "stunning" but emphasized that the numbers of victims and abusers cited by state investigators are likely undercounted.
"There is no questioning the facts of the report — until 2018 when the investigation began, hierarchs in every Illinois diocese kept known abusers under wraps, declined to include them on their accused lists, and refused to acknowledge the truth that survivors of abuse who came forward to make a report shared with them," the group said. "It is to us, in a word, disgusting that these supposed shepherds would lie so blatantly."
Similar government-led investigations detailing reports of clergy sexual abuse and church leaders' failure to hold perpetrators accountable have rocked archdioceses in other states, including Pennsylvania and Maryland.
In a joint statement issued Friday ahead of Raoul's announcement, the state's Catholic dioceses provided summaries of their current process following an accusation of abuse and said the attorney general's investigation prompted a review of their policies and unspecified changes. Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Monday called abuse "repugnant" but said the church in 1992 began overhauling its policies and programs and cooperated fully with the state's review.
"My hope is that the release of this report will be an occasion for the attorney general to issue a rallying cry to all adults to join in the work of safeguarding children, lest this moment be a lost opportunity," Cupich said. "I stand ready to continue to do my part."
The preliminary report conducted under Madigan found that the dioceses had done a woefully inadequate job of investigating allegations. Raoul, too, accused Catholic leaders of making decisions and policies that "allowed known child sex abusers to hide, often in plain sight."
In its statement Tuesday, SNAP also called on other attorneys general and prosecutors to initiate similar investigations of Catholic dioceses under their authority.
"For many survivors, secular investigations like this will open an area for new conversations, healing among fellow victims, and assisting communities to comprehend the horrors of their past and the risk of their present," the group said. "When the legal system fails to provide victims with justice, statewide investigations can assist citizens and survivors in communicating essential facts about the global scourge of child sexual abuse."
The Catholic Conference of Illinois says 3.5 million Catholics make up approximately 27% of Illinois' total population, and that the Church maintains 949 parishes and has 2,215 priests, 1,372 deacons, and 260 religious brothers.
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Leaving DII powerhouse GVSU for Wisconsin tough, but right for Matt Mitchell
Matt Mitchell has had his share of offers to leave Grand Valley State over the years.
Earlier this month, he finally got one he couldn't refuse -- departing after 13 years as head coach of the Division II-powerhouse Lakers to join Luke Fickell's new coaching staff at Wisconsin. Mitchell, 48, officially signed his new contract with Wisconsin earlier this week.
Mitchell will be the special-teams coach and outside linebackers coach at Wisconsin.
"There has been some previous interest and outreach by some other institutions, but it never was the right fit or the right timing," Mitchell told The News over the phone Wednesday. "I feel like this is the perfect fit. The timing's difficult because Grand Valley has a really good team coming back. There are a lot of relationship in that building.
"But this was too good an opportunity to pass up."
Mitchell joined Grand Valley State as an assistant coach in 2004 under Chuck Martin, who led Grand Valley State to two Division II national championships. When Martin left to join Brian Kelly, another former Grand Valley State coach, at Notre Dame in 2010, Mitchell was named Martin's successor.
In 13 years (12 seasons, because of COVID), Mitchell was 117-31, with seven Division II playoff appearances. He led the Lakers to a perfect 12-0 regular season and No. 1 ranking in the country this past season, before falling to rival Ferris State, which went on to win a second straight national championship.
This year was his best chance at the national championship that eluded him, a regret, to be sure.
"But I will never regret the way in which we operated," Mitchell said.
Mitchell is the fourth consecutive Grand Valley State head coach to leave for a job at the next level -- Tom Beck to Notre Dame offensive coordinator, Kelly to Central Michigan head coach, and Martin to Notre Dame defensive backs coach.
Mitchell, who is married and has two sons, is expected to more than double his salary, who made about $170,000 at Grand Valley State.
He was offered the Wisconsin job Sunday, Jan. 15, about six days after he first interviewed. He had already decided if he was offered, he was taking it. But he made sure to let his players and coaches know in person. There was a team meeting that Sunday night.
"I was not going to tell the team I was leaving over Zoom or text message," Mitchell said. "The relationships I have there, 19 years, 13 as a head coach, I was not going to tell them any way but in person.
"It was a very emotional meeting."
Mitchell didn't really know Fickell -- who took the Wisconsin job after a highly successful run at the University of Cincinnati -- before the interview.
His indirect connection was Mike Tressel, who was Cincinnati's defensive coordinator, and followed Fickell to Wisconsin to be DC and outside linebackers coach. Mitchell and Tressel played together and were roommates at Cornell College, a Division III school in Iowa, and then got their coaching starts together at Wartburg College, another Division III school, also in Iowa, before Tressel eventually joined Mark Dantonio's coaching staffs at Cincinnati and Michigan State. Mitchell and Tressel stayed in touch when Tressel was in East Lansing.
Fickell, in announcing Mitchell's hiring, called Mitchell "a good fit on our staff and in this program."
"I was fired up that we were able to add Matt to the staff," Fickell said in a statement. "He is a great coach with tremendous experience. What his teams at Grand Valley State accomplished is very impressive."
The 2023 season will be Mitchell's first season as an assistant coach since 2009, but could be his path back to being a head coach someday, at the Football Bowl Subdivision level. Central Michigan, Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan all have had multiple head-coaching changes since Mitchell has been head coach at Grand Valley, and he's never been considered a realistic candidate. Despite the 12-0 regular season in 2022, he wasn't interviewed for the Western Michigan job that eventually went to Lance Taylor, the offensive coordinator at Louisville. (Also not interviewed: Ferris State head coach Tony Annese.)
Grand Valley State, which has four national championships to its credit (two under Kelly and two under Martin), acted quickly in naming Mitchell's successor. Offensive-line coach Scott Wooster got the job this week, the former Wayne State player and long-time assistant locked up while Wayne State also is looking for a head football coach.
Mitchell said he gave his endorsement to Wooster before he left for Wisconsin.
"He's a high-character person that brings a really, really strong culture," Mitchell said of Wooster, whom he hired in 2020 away from Wayne State, a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rival. "His promotion allows Grand Valley to pick up where it left off, and maybe even potentially be better. I hope he is better.
"He's 100% the right man for that position."
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MARLO ALLEVA: Frontal raise strengthens shoulders
Upper body strength can come from all angles Although it's normal to have your “go to,” more attainable movements, it’s good to throw in variation from time to time.
Our move today is a frontal raise. This exercise strengthens the shoulder muscles and also works the upper chest.
You will need a light hand weight for this move.
Whether standing or seated hold your chest tall, shoulders will be back and down, and holdyour core strong. Grip your weight in one hand, with your palm facing down, extending your arm down by your frontal thigh.
At this point you are ready to begin movement.
Proceed to raise your (extended) arm up and out from your body. Without locking the elbow continue to raise your arm to roughly shoulder level. Once you reach your fullest contraction slowly guide the weight back to the front side of your thigh.
Continue this motion for at least eight repetitions. If at anytime there is discomfort lower the amount of added weight.
Alternating sets from side to side, give yourself three sets of eight on each side.
This move is an added bonus to any upper body program to build strength and tone to the front of your chest and shoulders.
Marlo Alleva, a fitness coordinator at Fontaine-Gill YMCA, can be reached at faluuzpa@msn.com | https://www.theledger.com/story/lifestyle/2022/07/26/weeks-workout/10142707002/ | 2022-07-26 19:21:25 | 0 | https://www.theledger.com/story/lifestyle/2022/07/26/weeks-workout/10142707002/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
17-21-22-34, Bonus: 20
(seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-four; Bonus: twenty)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
17-21-22-34, Bonus: 20
(seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-four; Bonus: twenty) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Two-Step-game-17414365.php | 2022-09-02 04:58:45 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Two-Step-game-17414365.php |
(NewsNation) — Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) announced on Tuesday it’s cutting 26% of personnel — a total of 125 positions, across scripted, unscripted and animation.
Channing Dungey — who is both chairman of WBTVG and the first Black executive to run the entertainment division at a major network — called the move “incredibly difficult,” citing a “tumultuous time” in the industry in a memo to employees sent Wednesday.
In addition to the layoffs, the production company has opted not to fill 43 additional vacant positions, taking the total number of eliminated jobs to 125.
The news is the latest in what has been an overhaul for Warner Bros Discovery, which has been forced to make cuts in order to save at least $3 billion after the merger overseen by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav in April.
The move is also on par with the studio’s round of layoffs in August. wherein it cut 14% of staff, around 70 people, after merging with HBO Max.
But while Dungey’s memo laid out several structural changes — from scripted and unscripted — none have made more waves than what’s to come of the animation departments, especially Cartoon Network.
The news caused some to say it’s the end of an era for ‘90s-era kids.
While Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe and Cartoon Network Studios always had seamless integration across programming, casting, legal, business affairs and artist relations teams, following Discovery’s absorption of all three in August, it has changed the structure. The merger of the studios together in Discovery’s new “strategic realignment” — as Dungey calls the move — consolidates the development and production departments for the first time.
As Cartoonbrew, an animation news website put it, the move alters Cartoon Network’s structure going forward, as it will be the first time CNS will not have an independent say on either creative or operational matters in the channel’s existence.
“All three labels will continue to exist, but perhaps more in name than in action,” Cartoonbrew explained.
It may be what prompted Brian Miller, former general manager of Cartoon Network Studios, to tweet “RIP CNS” on Wednesday.
The lack of Cartoon Network’s creative control in the new alignment is only one indication of the doom and gloom ahead for the beloved animation studio alluded to by Miller.
While the three animation studios will continue to be run by Sam Register, many believe it’s a sign of fewer original projects from CNS, as Zaslav — who has prioritized intellectual properties (IP) in his role at Discovery — will ultimately oversee the departments, which now share development and production resources.
So, instead of shows such as “Uncle Grandpa,” “Steven Universe,” “Clarence,” “Over the Garden Wall,” and many other CSN originals that have been produced over the last year, animation viewers can expect remakes.
“As long as Zaslav is king, Cartoon Network Studios is likely to shift more strongly towards reboots of its existing catalog, as it is currently doing with ‘The Powerpuff Girls,’ than launching new IP,” Jamie Lang, of Cartoonbrew, wrote.
Although many woke up without a job today, Dungey wrote that she hopes the changes made “will strengthen and stabilize” the company and “better position” the company for future success. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/is-cartoon-networks-end-near/ | 2022-10-13 21:16:12 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/is-cartoon-networks-end-near/ |
PINE BLUFF, Ark. — An 8-year-old boy is dead after being shot by his younger brother, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
The incident occurred Thursday around 2:00 p.m. on Shannon Valley Road just west of Pine Bluff.
Once deputies were on scene they found the 8-year-old "unresponsive" inside the home. The child was pronounced dead once the coroner arrived on scene.
The child was reportedly shot by his 5-year-old brother.
Investigators say the shooting was accidental.
"This is a tragic incident that could have been avoided. I can't emphasize strongly enough that guns need to be well secured and kept out of the hands and away from children at all times," Sheriff Lafayette Woods, Jr. said. "Gun owners that do not properly secure their firearms are just one split second away from one of these tragedies happening in their home."
This investigation is currently ongoing. We will continue to update this article with new information as we receive it. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/crime/8-year-old-dead-shot-younger-brother-arkansas/91-28acff8a-d53f-45f8-981e-8b598e9c7d49 | 2022-07-14 23:31:30 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/crime/8-year-old-dead-shot-younger-brother-arkansas/91-28acff8a-d53f-45f8-981e-8b598e9c7d49 |
Garner-Hayfield-Ventura's boys cross country team has been peaking at the right time this fall.
After the first handful of meets struggling to bring its chase pack up to the forefront with its aces in Zach Flatebo and Connor Hammitt, the Cardinals have been scoring lower and lower.
In a tune-up before the Top of Iowa Conference meet, GHV is becoming a real threat for a conference title.
Flatebo broke 17 minutes, Hammitt placed fifth and the Cardinals pair of seniors in Scylar Schulze and Bronson Buitenwerf placed in the top-15 to spur them to a victory at Monday's Forest City Invite with 44 points.
The Class 2A No. 15 Indians were the runner-up with 71 points, followed by Lake Mills (100), Osage (111) and Newman Catholic (127). Their girls team clipped North Iowa 54-58 to win the team title. The Knights then edged the Cardinals 72-73 for third.
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Flatebo placed third in 16 minutes, 59.47 seconds in what was a three-person front pack near the end with Lake Mills' Justin Rygh and North Iowa's Gavin Grunhovd. Rygh won the meet in 16:44.91.
It was the running of Schulze (17:50.61) and Buitenwerf (18:00.82) that allowed the Cardinals to push forward as those two finished ahead of Forest City's second runner. Caleb Good placed 19th in 18:11.91 for GHV.
Osage's Keagan Hennessey crossed the line in sixth place in one of the fastest times of his senior season, 17:32.96. He outlasted Newman Catholic's Joey Ringo by seven seconds. Lake Mills' Knute Rogne (17:44.84) and Forest City's Parker Sharp (17:50.23) placed ninth and 10th, respectively.
Forest City's girls team had three in the top-nine, paced by the return of senior Lili Nelson placing third in 20:54.90. Emilie Weaver was sixth and Sarah Lunning finished ninth both in under 22:10.
St. Ansgar's Lila Powers was seventh and Newman's Kenna Hemann is starting to heat up in the second half yet again, finishing in eighth place.
Volleyball
Osage takes two in triangular: The Class 3A No. 8 Green Devils closed the regular season with a pair of victories and pushed their winning streak to nine as they swept Janesville and 4A No. 14 Charles City on Monday.
The Comets hosted the triangular, their second one of the season. Osage (26-6) cruised by Janesville 25-10, 25-14 and after winning a tightly contested opener versus Charles City, the Green Devils had more cushion in the second to win 25-23, 25-16.
No stats for Osage were published online.
Charles City (23-10) outlasted Janesville in three sets, but the set scores were published online. Mya Rimrod did a little bit of everything for the Comets against the Wildcats, recording team-highs in kills (11), digs (15) and service aces (3).
Morgan Maloy and Anya Ruzicka dished out a combined 28 assists in the victory while Keely Collins chipped in 10 kills. Versus Osage, Emma Miller had four kills for Charles City and Hailey Kowalski notched eight digs.
Crestwood 3, St. Ansgar 1: The Cadets won the final two sets to break a 1-1 tie and snare a 25-21, 21-25, 25-17, 25-20 non-conference victory over the Saints on Monday night.
The key difference was serving as Crestwood had 11 aces and clipped at 93.4 from the line. St. Ansgar (15-11) finished with a percentage of 78.6 and just six aces to 18 errors. It won the second set after dropping the opener, but failed to keep that momentum going.
Addison Tabbert recorded a match-high 18 kills and Madison Hillman chipped in 12. Aspen Falk dished out 38 assists while Kinsey Anderson and Kaelee Hicken posted 16 and 14 digs, respectively.
Zach Martin is a sports reporter for the Globe Gazette. Reach him via email at zachary.martin@globegazette.com and follow him on Twitter @zach_martin95. | https://globegazette.com/sports/high-school/roundup/area-high-school-roundup-ghv-boys-xc-making-late-season-statement/article_9db2fa7f-44b8-5a44-a040-8a7a598511b7.html | 2022-10-11 17:47:08 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/sports/high-school/roundup/area-high-school-roundup-ghv-boys-xc-making-late-season-statement/article_9db2fa7f-44b8-5a44-a040-8a7a598511b7.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group who smashed out a window at the U.S. Capitol, allowing some of the first Jan. 6 rioters to enter the building, testified Wednesday that he acted alone.
Dominic Pezzola is one of five Proud Boys facing seditious conspiracy and other charges in one of the most high-profile trials to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. He’s the second defendant to take the stand, a potentially risky legal move as the long-running trial inches to a close.
Video captured Pezzola using a riot shield taken from a Capitol Police officer to smash out the glass after another rioter threw a piece of wood through it. In another selfie video, Pezzola has a “victory smoke” cigar as he says “I knew we could take this (expletive) if we just tried hard enough.”
The flooring contractor from Rochester, New York, testified that he got “caught up in the craziness” on Jan. 6. He denied tearing the riot shield from a police officer’s arms himself, but said he took it from another rioter for protection because he’d seen police rubber bullets injure a man and the crowd was growing increasingly angry in response.
“I was in fear. … I thought any moment I could get hit with one of those,” Pezzola said.
His prior military training kicked in as he advanced toward the Capitol, and he smashed the window pane “on autopilot” after he saw another rioter throw something through it, he said.
Pezzola said his video speech inside the Capitol wasn’t a reference to any plan to storm the building, but rather an effort to “say something profound.” He was a recent recruit who didn’t know his co-defendants before Jan. 6, he said, calling his actions that day a “bad reaction to a bad situation.”
“Our only plans were to storm the liquor store, that’s it,” he said.
Fellow Proud Boy Zachary Rehl also testified there was no plan to storm the Capitol, though prosecutors have argued that an advanced, detailed plan isn’t necessary for a conviction.
Rehl and Pezzola are on trial alongside former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and two others accused of plotting to forcibly stop the transfer of power from President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. They face up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of seditious conspiracy.
The other three defendants are not expected to testify.
Prosecutors will cross-examine Pezzola starting Thursday. They have said the Proud Boys viewed him as a “rising star,” and Tarrio included his picture on a social media post with the words “Lords of War.” | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/proud-boy-says-he-took-riot-shield-for-protection-on-jan-6/ | 2023-04-20 05:24:22 | 1 | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/proud-boy-says-he-took-riot-shield-for-protection-on-jan-6/ |
Court convicts man of removing condom without his partner’s consent
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch man was convicted Tuesday of removing his condom during sex without his partner’s consent, in the first trial in the Netherlands for so-called “stealthing.”
However, Dordrecht District Court acquitted the man of a rape charge because it ruled that the sex was consensual.
“By his actions, the suspect forced the victim to tolerate having unprotected sex with him. In doing so, he restricted her personal freedom and abused the trust she had placed in him,” the court said.
Other courts also have also tackled the phenomenon in recent years. In a case in Germany, a Berlin court in 2018 convicted a police officer of sexual assault and gave him an eight-month suspended sentence for secretly removing his condom during intercourse, and ordered him to pay damages of nearly 3,100 euros to the victim. The suspended sentence was reduced to six months on an initial appeal.
In 2021, California lawmakers made the state the first in the U.S. to outlaw “stealthing,” making it illegal to remove a condom without obtaining verbal consent. But it didn’t change the criminal code. Instead, it would amend the civil code so that a victim could sue the perpetrator for damages, including punitive damages.
In the case in Dordrecht, a 28-year-old man from Rotterdam was given a three-month suspended prison term — meaning he won’t have to serve the sentence unless he commits another crime — and ordered to pay his victim 1,000 euros ($1,073) in damages.
Another man was acquitted in a separate “stealthing” trial because the court said it was not proven that he had the intent to force his partner to have unprotected sex.
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SINGAPORE, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.com, the world's first social infused digital assets trading platform, is delighted to announce that it has listed Mammoth (MMT) token on its platform. For all traders, MMT/USDT is the available trading pair onboarded on top of the XT.com Main Zone (Metaverse).
Mammoth (MMT) is a decentralized market-based ecosystem that enables production of goods and services and exchange among the platform participants by the exchange of its native token, MMT. The Mammoth token, MMT, operates by using the rewards of the Mammoth economy and the inherent misalignment of incentives that centralized economies create. Moreover, MMT token adopts Proof-of-Stake (MPoSA) consensus mechanism as its backbone technology to operate.
As the listing has gone live, MMT token is expected to see an upward momentum as it is traded on XT.com. The platform officially encourages crypto enthusiasts to proceed with depositing crypto assets. Furthermore, traders can fully participate and capitalize substantially on Mammoth (MMT) by trading it. XT.com has opened an MMT/USDT withdrawal option for traders. Regardless of traders' level in crypto, the XT platform has made trading MMT/USDT easy and efficient.
The XT team highlights that the secret behind their continuous token listing overnight forms part of XT.com's ambition to become the ultimate marketplace for crypto listing. Meanwhile, this moment represents the first time that MMT Token has been listed on the exchange.
About Mammoth Token (MMT)
Mammoth is a project to build an integrated infrastructure based on ecosystem resources. Mammoth is committed to being the actual birthplace of innovative technologies for innovative businesses, building a complete ecosystem of technology development, application promotion and trading. It allows for more efficient deployment of distributed applications and provides comprehensive authorization for traffic and resources. In addition, Mammoth caters to provide a variety of innovative services to global developers. The company's ultimate goal is to establish an ecosystem so that transactions and economic activities between users can actively occur within it.
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By consistently expanding its ecosystem, XT.com is dedicated to providing users with the most secure, trusted, and hassle-free digital asset trading services. Our exchange is built from a desire to give everyone access to digital assets regardless where you are.
Founded in 2018, XT.com now serves more than 4.5 million registered users, over 500,000+ monthly active users and 30+ million users in the ecosystem. Covering a rich variety of trading categories together with a NFT aggregated marketplace, our platform strives to cater to its large user base by providing a secure, trusted and intuitive trading experience.
As the world's first social infused digital assets trading platform, XT.com also supports social networking platform based transactions to make our crypto services more accessible to users all over the world. Furthermore, to ensure optimal data integrity and security, we see user security as our top priority at XT.com.
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Lauded fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88
PARIS (AP) — Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his fashion house announced on its website Friday.
“The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain,” the statement from Puig said.
Le Telegramme newspaper in Brittany quoted the mayor of Vannes, David Robo, as saying that Rabanne died at his home in Portsall, in the Finistere region.
Rabanne’s fashion house shows its collections in Paris, and is scheduled to unveil the brand’s latest ready-to-wear designs during fashion week from Feb. 27-March 3.
He was known as a rebel designer in a career that blossomed with his collaboration with Antonio and Mariano Puig, a Spanish company that now also owns other design houses, including Nina Ricci and Jean Paul Gaultier.
“Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women (to) clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal? Who but Paco Rabanne could imagine a fragrance called Calandre — the word means ‘automobile grill,’ you know — and turn it into an icon of modern femininity?” said the statement.
The “Calandre” perfume was launched in 1969, the first product by Puig in Spain, France and the United States, according to the group.
Born Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo in 1934, he fled the Spanish Basque country at the age of 5 during the Spanish Civil War, and took the name of Paco Rabanne.
He studied architecture at Paris’ Beaux Arts Academie before moving to couture — in the steps of his mother, who was a couturier in Spain — where, he once said, she was jailed at one point for being dressed in a “scandalous” fashion.
He sold accessories to well-known designers before launching his own collection.
In the first collection under his name, he introduced “12 unwearable dressed in contemporary materials.” His innovative outfits were made of various kinds of metal, including his famous use of mail, best associated with Medieval knights.
Coco Chanel reportedly called Rabanne “the metallurgist of fashion.”
“My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier, but an artisan and It’s true that I’m an artisan. ... I work with my hands,” he said in interview in the 1970s.
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ARMONK, N.Y., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The IBM (NYSE: IBM) board of directors has elected Michael Miebach to the board, effective October 30, 2023.
Michael Miebach, 55, is the chief executive officer of Mastercard Incorporated and a member of its board of directors. An innovator and technologist, Mr. Miebach has led Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, since January 2021. Previously Mastercard's chief product officer, Mr. Miebach has deep experience in digital transformation, cybersecurity and delivering data-driven insights.
Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer, said: "We are delighted that Michael Miebach will join the IBM board of directors. Michael is an accomplished technologist and international business leader. His insights and experience will strongly benefit IBM and its shareholders."
Mr. Miebach is a member of the Business Roundtable, the Business Council and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is a trustee of the United States Council for International Business and also serves on the United States Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity.
Mr. Miebach holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Passau in Germany.
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ROME (AP) — An Italian lawmaker who fought for a rule so that women can be allowed to nurse their babies during a parliamentary session has now become the first woman to do just that.
Bipartisan applause broke out on Wednesday when Gilda Sportiello, a member of the lower Chamber of Deputies, nursed her 2-month-old son during a legislative vote. In the previous legislature, Sportiello had successfully pushed for a rule to be passed by the chamber’s rules committee to allow women to participate in voting and debates while nursing their children until their babies are 12 months old.
She and baby Federico’s father, Riccardo Ricciardi, are both lawmakers from the populist 5-Star Movement.
La Repubblica daily quoted Sportiello as saying that she hopes her pioneering act will inspire all workplaces in Italy to make it easier for working mothers to nurse their infants if they want to while on the job.
“From today on, if the highest Italian institutions allow workers to nurse at their workplace, then no woman, in any profession, can be denied this right,” Sportiello said.
“No mamma must be forced to interrupt nursing to return to work, no women should be denied this possibility,” she said.
While she nursed Federico, Sportiello took a seat in the chamber’s back row, and leaned forward to push a button to indicate her vote on various motions being decided.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Rackspace Technology, Inc. ("Rackspace" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: RXT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Rackspace and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On December 3, 2022, Rackspace disclosed that it proactively powered down its Hosted Exchange environment after discovering a security incident. On December 5, 2022, Rackspace provided an update, stating that it had "successfully restored email services to thousands of customers on Microsoft 365 and continue[s] to make progress on restoring email service to every affected customer."
Following these disclosures, Rackspace's stock price fell $0.75 per share, or 15.46%, to close at $4.10 per share on December 5, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Data Solutions (SDS), a leading provider of data management, claim routing and workflow solutions to Health Plans and TPAs, recently announced that Co-CEO and founding member of SDS, John Prange, is stepping back from his duties as Co-CEO.
Since its inception in 2000, John has played a vital role in Smart Data Solutions' success. He has served as Smart Data Solutions' Co-CEO and head of our technical departments for over 22 years. Going forward, John will remain with Smart Data Solutions in other capacities including taking a strategic advisory role and remaining a member of the Board of Directors.
When asked about this milestone, John Prange said, "I feel indebted to so many people at SDS and have benefitted from being around so many intelligent, eclectic and kind individuals. On a personal level, it's been a privilege getting to know so many great folks. On a professional level, I've been amazed at our staff's creativity, resourcefulness and ability to do things others can't."
As far as the future of Smart Data Solutions, Pat Bollom will remain on as sole CEO and continue to lead the company through unprecedented growth. Following a partnership with Parthenon Capital and The Blue Venture fund late last year, Smart Data Solutions has plans to continue to expand into different healthcare markets and increase product offerings.
As a leader in the healthcare industry, Smart Data Solutions' mission is to make the healthcare market more efficient by leveraging technology to provide effective, high-quality claims processing solutions. SDS is committed to providing an unparalleled level of customization and places great value on providing personalized service. SDS brings a comprehensive set of tools and processes to every opportunity, which is carefully configured to the individual needs of each customer. Smart Data Solutions has focused on creating innovative solutions specifically to meet the needs of the healthcare market. Today, more than 400 TPAs, PPOs, HMOs, hospitals, and insurance companies depend on SDS for automation of intake, data capture, and front-end workflows for health insurance and claim administration entities. For more information about Smart Data Solutions please visit our website at www.sdata.us or contact us at 651.894.6400.
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Plebe year for the United States Naval Academy’s Class of 2026 comes to an end Wednesday morning as they complete the Herndon Monument climb.
Following Sea Trials on Tuesday, hundreds of first-year midshipmen closed out the grueling series of mental and physical tests by scaling the storied 21-foot- obelisk covered in 50 pounds of vegetable shortening. The climb began around 8 a.m. with mids working together to reach the top of the obelisk to replace a hat — known as a Dixie cup — with an upperclassman’s cap.
The event culminates the Sea Trials, a 14-hour gauntlet where the plebes demonstrate endurance and spirit while completing a campus-wide test on what they have learned that year.
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Last year, it took the 2022 class over 3.5 hours to reach the Herndon pinnacle, one of the longest times in the academy’s history.
The Class of 1972 holds the title for the fastest recorded time completing the climb in one minute and 30 seconds, according to the academy but there was no grease applied to the monument at that time.
The monument is named for Commander William Lewis Herndon, who drowned with his ship off the coast of North Carolina in 1857 after trying to save as many on board as possible from a hurricane.
The plebes will attempt the climb in waves, company by company.
Typically, the first company to take a run at the monument is the one that won Sea Trials. After successfully completing the Herndon climb, the freshmen are no longer called plebes and are now referred to as fourth-class midshipmen.
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RxDefine continues to strengthen its healthcare engagement platform with the addition of RxTelehealth for virtual care
MIAMI, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RxDefine, a leading engagement platform dedicated to educating and empowering healthcare consumers and HCPs, today announced the launch of RxTelehealth, its telehealth solution for life sciences brands. RxDefine's mission is to ethically empower people to navigate their own health decisions, and the launch of RxTelehealth is a critical step toward living this mission. For more information about telehealth for life sciences brands, read RxDefine's two-part series, 5 questions to ask about whether telehealth is right for your life sciences brand, and 5 things to look for when choosing a telehealth provider.
"RxDefine is about making healthcare easier - for consumers, for health care providers, and for everyone else on the journey," said Dr. Chase Feiger, CEO of RxDefine. "By giving consumers a simple, streamlined way to access independent clinicians who can address their healthcare needs, RxTelehealth is another way that RxDefine is reducing friction and improving the consumer experience."
RxTelehealth builds upon the foundation of RxDefine's core product, RxNavigate, which offers consumers and HCPs:
- A personalized journey that addresses their individual needs.
- One-to-one interaction with a live brand navigator, to help them get the education they need about a therapeutic or medical device.
RxTelehealth continues this consumer journey by leveraging a consumer-like experience coupled with an independent third-party telemedicine platform to provide consumers with an opportunity to seamlessly engage with a clinician.
Based on results from early adopters, RxDefine has found that the pairing of RxNavigate and RxTelehealth together has resulted in significant increases in consumer engagement. Specifically, data shows that consumers who have a pre-telehealth experience via RxNavigate are 2-4 times more likely to complete a started telehealth consultation.
"In launching RxTelehealth, our goal is to set the standard for what telehealth solutions for life sciences brands should be," said Gurjeev Singh, director of product management at RxDefine. "That means we've designed this product with the consumer front-and-center - so that we can reduce friction, improve engagement, and deliver a truly superior experience."
RxDefine is a healthcare engagement platform that helps consumers and HCPs find the information and services they need to take the best next action, while also giving brands the data and insights they need to effectively maximize marketing efforts. The RxDefine platform is composed of RxNavigate, a product that offers consumers a personalized journey to help address their needs via empathetic 1:1 interactions; RxTelehealth, a telehealth experience that allows for a seamless transition from engagement to virtual care; and RxJourney, an analytics product that connects the dots between online and offline actions to help measure and improve engagement efforts. For more information about RxDefine, visit www.rxdefine.com.
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Byron Buxton Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Astros - May 31
Published: May. 31, 2023 at 7:24 AM CDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
On Wednesday, Byron Buxton (.268 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 56 points below season-long percentage) and the Minnesota Twins play the Houston Astros, whose starting pitcher will be Hunter Brown. First pitch is at 8:10 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-3) against the Astros.
Byron Buxton Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: SportsNet SW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +375)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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Byron Buxton At The Plate
- Buxton leads Minnesota with 40 hits and an OBP of .324, plus a team-best slugging percentage of .448.
- In 29 of 49 games this year (59.2%) Buxton has had a hit, and in 11 of those games he had more than one (22.4%).
- He has hit a home run in 10 games this year (20.4%), leaving the park in 4.8% of his chances at the plate.
- In 14 games this season (28.6%), Buxton has picked up an RBI, and in six of those games (12.2%) he had two or more. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored a run in 25 games this year, with multiple runs six times.
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Byron Buxton Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Astros pitching staff paces the league.
- The Astros have a 3.19 team ERA that is No. 1 among all league pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to give up 56 home runs (one per game), the eighth-fewest in baseball.
- Brown (5-1 with a 3.28 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 57 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Astros, his 11th of the season.
- In his most recent appearance on Saturday, the right-hander threw seven innings against the Oakland Athletics, giving up two earned runs while surrendering four hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 24-year-old's 3.28 ERA ranks 24th, 1.197 WHIP ranks 37th, and 10.3 K/9 ranks 15th.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — All golf majors are real, but some are realer than others, and this 105th PGA Championship looks like one of the realest. The Oak Hill course has hogged praise in Meryl Streep amounts. The leader board promises weekend hyperventilation, brimming with major winners and at least one absolute, positive, definite, can’t-miss future major winner, Viktor Hovland, who stood tied for the lead at 5 under par with Scottie Scheffler and Corey Conners, among 18 players within five shots of the front, including Brooks Koepka and Rory McIlroy.
There’s even a starring hole: No. 6.
“I mean, 6 is probably the hardest hole I’ve ever played,” Scheffler said.
No. 6 flirted Friday with becoming the hardest hole in PGA Championship history, surging ahead of its 17 brethren in difficulty with stats that could drop a golf-geeky jaw. By early evening, this 503-yard, par-4 barbarian had allowed three birdies, 63 pars, 63 bogeys, 24 double bogeys and three other things too profane to detail. At one point it had played to 102 over par, with second-place No. 7 at 43 over par, before that gap narrowed somewhat to 117-66 after an afternoon rainfall shooed the wind.
From behind, this hole dubbed “Double Trouble” bears a sign telling how an “army of 3,000 French and Indians crossed these grounds twice in July 1687.” From the right side, it has a native area of unkempt mud and weedy reeds where Dustin Johnson visited for a penalty shot early Friday and a duck milled around with her 11 ducklings late Friday. From the left side, it has a grandstand serving the kinds of products often necessary for viewing such carnage. At the tee late Friday lay two crumpled beer cans — presumably not from players, but you never know.
“I think 500 yards into the wind with water by the right and by the green, it just makes for a tough hole,” said Phil Mickelson, who will play the weekend after sneaking in on the cut line of 5 over.
“It’s crazy difficult,” said Mito Pereira, the Chilean who almost won this thing last year in Tulsa and who stands six shots off the lead. Asked whether it’s fair, he said: “Today, I don’t know. I mean, it’s playing pretty long.”
“The length, first of all,” said Conners, the 31-year-old Canadian in his 18th major with three top 10s, all at the Masters. “The tee shot is difficult. If you get in the rough, you have no chance to go for the green, pretty much. Even if you hit the fairway, you really can’t hit the green in two, so it’s just a hard hole.”
The funny thing about that is that a sixth hole at Oak Hill once qualified for the pushover hall of fame. That happened at the 1989 U.S. Open, where the No. 6 of that time happened to be the 167-yard par 3 that staged one of the most remarkable sequences in golf history: four holes-in-one from among the first 33 players on the Friday of that event (Doug Weaver, Mark Wiebe, Jerry Pate and Nick Price). As Rick Reilly wrote in Sports Illustrated at the time: “And you know that somebody sitting at the 6th hole was seeing golf played for the first time: These guys aren’t so great. A lot of ’em don’t even make it.”
And with course redesigns also art forms, the one Andrew Green fashioned here from 2015 to 2019 has gotten its nods.
“I was really, really impressed” upon first sight, Conners said. “I thought it’s a spectacular test of golf. It’s demanding.”
“It’s just a good, hard, fair test,” Mickelson said.
“You get rewarded for good shots out here,” Scheffler said, “and if you execute, you can birdie pretty much any hole. Granted, it’s going to take two pretty incredible golf shots to do that, but it can be done.”
Old Oak Hill, born in 1926 before serial makeovers all the way into its dotage, seemed to be trying hard to reward excellence as Scheffler and Conners went 67-68 while Hovland went 68-67. It had Scheffler, the 2022 Masters champion, a winner twice this year and ranked second in the world; Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S. Open champion two shots back after his gut-it-out 71 with a double bogey on No. 6 followed his opening 66; long-promising American and former Southern California Trojan Justin Suh at 3 under, two from the lead; and then more shine just below.
Here came Koepka, the four-time major winner who grimaced at his own waywardness Thursday but then parred the entire front nine and birdied five times on the back nine, just about all of it with textbook accuracy for birdie putts of six, six, 11, 13 and six feet. His great 66 left him at 2 under. There stood habitual contender Justin Rose, at 1 under after his 69-70 on the par-70 track. Here came 2019 British Open winner Shane Lowry, who birdied six of the eight holes between Nos. 8 and 15 before two closing bogeys left him at even par.
And writhing around back there alongside Lowry and seven others at even par, was that Rory McIlroy? That was Rory McIlroy. He birdied No. 18 from 16 feet and felt something approaching amazement.
“I think how terribly I’ve felt over the golf ball over the last two days,” he said, “the fact that I’m only five back — yeah, not saying I could be up there with one of my best performances, but when I holed that putt at the last, I looked at the board, and I thought, I can’t believe I’m five back.”
They all went toward a weekend forecast of rain and suspense, with only nine players under par and a course grudging in its fairness. “It’s exciting,” said Hovland, still just 25, “but you have to focus on every single shot you are hitting. Your mind can easily start to wander, and you hit a bad shot because of that, and now suddenly it’s not as exciting.”
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(THE CONVERSATION) What makes talented musicians so good at what they do?
There’s plenty of evidence that people can be born that way. Research findings suggest that about half of musical ability is inherited. Even if that’s true, it doesn’t mean you must have musical talent in your genes to excel on the bass, oboe or drums.
And even if you’re fortunate enough to belong to a family that includes musicians, you would still need to study, practice and get expert guidance to play well.
As a music professor and conductor, I’ve seen the role that practice and experience play in propelling musicians toward mastery and success. There are some factors that help a musician get started – and heredity could be one of them. But musical skill is ultimately a complex interplay between lots of practice and high-quality instruction.
The role genes can play
Of course many great musicians, including some who are world famous, are related to other musical stars.
Liza Minnelli, the famed actress, singer and dancer, is one of the late entertainer Judy Garland’s three children. Jon Batiste – “The Late Show” bandleader, pianist and composer who has won Emmy, Oscar and Golden Globe awards – has at least 25 musicians in his family. Saxophonist Branford, trumpeter Wynton, trombonist Delfeayo and drummer Jason Marsalis are the sons of pianist Ellis Marsalis.
Singer and pianist Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, though Jones had little contact with her renowned father while growing up.
Absolute pitch, also known as perfect pitch, is the ability to recognize and name any note you hear anywhere. Researchers have found that it may be hereditary. But do you need it to be a great musician? Not really.
Most people are born with some musical ability
I define musical ability as the possession of talent or potential – the means to achieve something musical.
Then there’s skill, which I define as what you attain by working at it.
You need at least some basic musical ability to acquire musical skills. Unless you can hear and discern pitches and rhythms, you can’t reproduce them.
But people may overestimate the role of genetics because, with very rare exceptions, almost everyone can perceive pitches and rhythms.
My research regarding children’s musicality suggests measures of singing skills are normally distributed in the population. That is, pitch ability follows a bell curve: Most people are average singers. Not many are way below average or excellent.
My team’s most recent research suggests that this distribution is true for rhythm in addition to pitch.
Not surprisingly, some musical skills are correlated.
The more training you have on specific musical skills, the better you’ll test on certain others. This is probably because musical experience enhances other musical abilities.
To sum it up, an emerging body of research indicates that practice doesn’t make perfect. But for most people, it helps a lot.
Lessons and practice are essential
What about people who say they they can’t keep a beat? It turns out that they almost always can track a steady beat to music. They just haven’t done it enough.
Indeed, the last time I gave a nonbeliever our lab’s test for rhythm perception, she performed excellently. For that and for singing, some people just need a little help to move past assumptions they lack talent: You can’t say you’re incapable of something if you haven’t spent time trying.
Some researchers and journalists have promoted the idea it takes 10,000 hours of practice or training to master a new skill.
Innate ability puts people at different starting lines toward musical mastery. But once you’ve started to study an instrument or singing style, skill development depends on many other factors. Getting lessons, practicing often and being in a musical family may make those more likely.
For example, Lizzo, a hip-hop superstar and classically trained flute player, had the luck to grow up in family of music lovers. They all had their own taste in music. Her success is a microcosm of why a well-rounded musical education for young people matters.
The singers in the choir I lead at Penn State have a range of experience, from a little to a lot. Yet soon after they join it, they develop the ability to pick a good key and starting pitch as they get to know their own voices.
Practicing more doesn’t change your baseline potential, it just changes what you can presently do. That is, if you practice a specific song over and over again, eventually you’re going to get better at it.
Jonathon Heyward, the Baltimore Symphony’s new conductor, who has no musicians in his family, has worked really hard to excel. He started taking cello lessons at age 10 and hasn’t stopped since, playing and practicing and studying.
Privilege can play a role
Socioeconomic factors can also enter the equation. While conducting research, I’ve seen high-income college students from high-income families, with more years of musical experience, perform better than their classmates who have lower-income backgrounds and had fewer opportunities.
Genes can give someone a head start. At the same time, having a quiet space where you can practice on an acoustic instrument or a digital workstation might make a more decisive difference for the musical prospects of most children. The same goes for having money for private lessons or access to free classes.
Even so, many of the best musicians, including jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, grew up facing many hardships.
With the right conditions for practice and gaining experience, who knows where the next Liza or Lizzo will come from.
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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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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Canada has pledged a significant increase in spending to improve water quality in the Great Lakes following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, whose administration also has boosted funding for the shared waters.
Following their discussion Friday in Ottawa, Trudeau said his government would spend $420 million — about $306 million in U.S. dollars — over the next decade on the lakes, still suffering from 20th-century industrial pollution and newer challenges such as climate change, PFAS chemicals and microplastics.
The announcement came weeks after U.S. Congress members prodded Biden to seek more support for the lakes from Canada, which critics have accused of doing too little.
“The Great Lakes are a source of drinking water for 40 million people, and this shared resource needs to be protected,” Trudeau said. “This is why Canada will make a major new investment ... to continue safeguarding the Great Lakes for generations to come.”
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River are the world’s largest surface freshwater system, providing drinking water for some 40 million people and supporting a regional economy in eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.
Trudeau’s father, then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, signed an agreement with President Richard M. Nixon in 1972 to restore and protect the lakes. It has been updated several times since.
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The U.S. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, started by President Barack Obama in 2010, has pumped some $4 billion into projects aimed at fixing those problems, with annual spending averaging between $300 million to 400 million.
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A University of Michigan analysis has found that each $1 spent under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative generated $3.35 across the region and more in some areas.
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MISSOULA, Mont., July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the new school year, the University of Montana is launching an easier way to pay for parking with Passport, a mobility software and payments company that is trusted by cities and universities to manage their parking and mobility infrastructure. Passport is also the mobility software provider for downtown Missoula, MT, Montana State University in Bozeman and the city of Bozeman, MT.
Passport Parking makes paying to park seamless and hassle-free. After downloading the app from the App Store or Google Play, users enter the respective zone number, license plate number and the desired length of time for parking. Users can receive notifications when their sessions are about to expire and view receipts and parking history directly from their smartphones.
Bill Donovan, Parking Director at the University of Montana, is looking forward to the added convenience Passport will bring to parking on campus. "With the addition of a mobile payment solution, we're able to provide hourly and daily parking across all of our commuter lots, not just those currently labeled as 'hourly,'" Donovan says. "Passport will give commuters more options, which is what we're working toward with all of our parking management strategies."
The University of Montana chose Passport because of the company's success in downtown Missoula. With one powerful platform in place to manage all of their parking and mobility needs, both the University of Montana and downtown Missoula have access to powerful data that allow the teams to form more data-driven decisions, supporting more sustainable and equitable communities for students, residents and visitors.
"The University of Montana joins more than 800 other universities and cities that partner with Passport to manage and simplify their parking and mobility needs," says Bianca Keipe, Passport account executive. "We are thrilled for this partnership and to continue to improve the parking experience across the city of Missoula."
The Passport Parking app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. Users can also manage their parking online at passportparking.com.
About Passport
Passport is a mobility software and payments company that builds solutions to centrally manage complexities at the curb. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is trusted by more than 800 cities, universities and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Miami. Passport's mobility management platform helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure, creating more livable, equitable communities. One of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, Passport was also the 2021 Fintech category winner for the NC Tech Association's Industry Driven award.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had intended to release a draft report later this year on how the proposed tunnel beneath Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac would affect the environment. Enbridge Energy wants it to house a section of its Line 5 oil pipeline that crosses the bottom of the straits connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
But under the new timeline, the report won’t be issued until spring 2025. An approval decision would be expected in early 2026.
The Corps’ Detroit district office said it revised the schedule after receiving more than 17,000 public comments during an initial “scoping” period. The agency in December ordered Enbridge to redo measurement of wetlands that could be damaged from roads and structures for tunnel construction.
“We greatly appreciate the meaningful input received throughout scoping and will use this information to shape studies and continuing consultations throughout development of our draft environmental impact statement,” District Commander Lt. Col. Brett Boyle said.
The slowdown is a setback for a project that Enbridge originally planned to complete as early as next year, spending about $500 million. Mike Fernandez, a senior vice president of the Canadian company based in Calgary, Alberta, told The Associated Press the cost has risen but did not have a new estimate. The new timeline could push tunnel completion to 2030.
“It’s really, really disappointing,” Fernandez said in an interview ahead of the Corps’ announcement, adding that the delay “flies in the face” of the Biden administration’s pledge to quicken environmental permitting for infrastructure projects.
“To borrow a phrase from the president when he was running, we want to build back better and sooner,” Fernandez said. “But right now, it appears that the federal government, or at least the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has not gotten that message.”
He said Enbridge remains committed to the tunnel for the underwater segment of Line 5 that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, environmental groups and Native American tribes want shut down.
They contend the nearly 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) section is vulnerable to a rupture. Line 5 moves about 23 million gallons (87 million liters) of oil and natural gas liquids daily between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario.
Enbridge insists the nearly 70-year-old dual pipes are in good condition and monitored regularly. But the company agreed in 2018 with Whitmer’s predecessor, Republican Rick Snyder, to drill a tunnel that would encase a new pipeline section in concrete.
Many Line 5 critics also oppose the tunnel, even though Whitmer’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy granted a permit. Opponents say it would risk water pollution and promote continued reliance on fossil fuels, which generate planet-warming gases.
The Bay Mills Indian Community, based in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, says construction near the straits would harm sensitive wetlands, rare plants and cultural artifacts. Tribal aquatic biologist Brad Wesolek said he raised concerns with the Corps during a September visit to the area and was convinced Enbridge had undercounted wetlands that would be affected.
“It’s a very unique site,” Wesolek said. “It has plants and animals that are only found in the Great Lakes.”
The shorelines host a plant community called limestone bedrock glade, he said, which the Michigan Natural Features Inventory labels imperiled. The plants include the dwarf lake iris and Houghton’s goldenrod, both listed as threatened.
The proposed construction zone has resources of cultural significance, said Whitney Gravelle, the Bay Mills tribal president.
“It’s where we went historically for trade,” she said. “It’s where we performed ceremony. It’s where we would have our fishing camps and our hunting camps.”
Enbridge says its onshore work would damage less than a half-acre of wetlands. But in a Dec. 21 letter, the Army Corps said its September inspection and other evidence showed more work was needed to confirm that.
Fernandez said the Enbridge will conduct another survey but said the initial one was thorough.
The tribe recently asked an administrative law judge to invalidate the state tunnel permit, saying it had relied on faulty wetlands information.
“It needs to be redone or completely thrown away,” said Debbie Chizewer, an attorney with Earthjustice, an environmental law firm representing Bay Mills.
Enbridge also awaits a ruling from the Michigan Public Service Commission on its request to relocate the underwater pipeline segment. The commission last July requested more information about tunnel engineering and hazards.
“As we continue to delve into this permit process, we’re going to find more evidence of why this tunnel should not be built,” Gravelle said.
Fernandez said impeding the tunnel project will only lengthen the time that oil flows through the straits pipes. The company has rejected Whitmer’s order to shut down Line 5. Two lawsuits over its future are ongoing.
Pro-tunnel groups criticized the Corps’ new schedule.
“Every month the project is delayed pushes this important economic and environmental investment down the line,” said Brian Calley, president and CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/army-corps-further-delays-decision-on-great-lakes-oil-tunnel/ | 2023-03-23 19:35:49 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/army-corps-further-delays-decision-on-great-lakes-oil-tunnel/ |
New England Patriots defensive back Jack Jones pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to nine counts of weapons violations in connection with his arrest at a Logan Airport security checkpoint with two loaded guns in his carry-on bag.
Jones was charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, possession of a large-capacity magazine and possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card. He was also charged with an airport security violation. Jones was released on a $30,000 cash bail pending an Aug. 18 probable cause hearing, his attorney, Rosemary Scapicchio, said.
Scapicchio said Jones has been cooperative and respectful throughout the process, bristling at media reports that portray him as a “thug” and compare him to “other people.”
Asked if she was referring to Aaron Hernandez, the Patriots player who was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 — and acquitted in a separate double-homicide — Scapicchio declined to elaborate.
“All Mr. Jones wants to do is play football and support his family,” she said. “How he’s been portrayed in some of the media is not even remotely borne out. He’s not a thug, he’s not a wannabe gang member. The comparisons to other people are unwarranted and unfair.”
A Patriots spokesman said the team was not expected to comment until the legal issues are resolved.
Massachusetts State Police were called to the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Boston airport on Friday after two firearms were found in a traveler’s carry-on luggage. Police said they identified the person as Jones and arrested him.
Jones’ troubles predate his arrival in New England.
While in college, he was kicked off the Southern California football team in 2018 after two seasons because of academic issues. Later that year he served 45 days of house arrest after police said he burglarized a Panda Express. After transferring to Arizona State, Jones was suspended for most of the 2020 season because of a violation of team rules.
The Patriots drafted Jones in the fourth round in 2022 and he played in 13 games, starting two, with 30 tackles and two interceptions, returning one for a touchdown. He was suspended for two games at the end of the season for reasons that coach Bill Belichick did not disclose.
Hernandez’s 2013 arrest led to a reckoning within the Patriots organization, with the usually reticent Belichick promising to improve how the team evaluates players “to build a winning football team, to be a strong pillar in the community and be a team that our fans can be proud of.”
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Swimming in two plastic bins inside a brightly lit and sterile quarantine room at a Rhode Island zoo, 16 quarter-sized turtle hatchlings represent a growing worry for conservationist Lou Perrotti.
These eastern musk turtles, known for spending much of their lives in swamps and ponds and emitting a foul smell when threatened, were confiscated recently in a wildlife bust. And, though the reptiles are common, their illegal sale on the internet greatly concerns Perrotti, who directs conservation programs at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence.
“We are seeing an uptick in turtle poaching,” he said. “It’s getting ruthless where we are seeing thousands of turtles leaving the United States on an annual basis. … Turtle populations cannot take that kind of a hit with that much removal coming out of the wild.”
Wildlife trade experts believe that poaching — driven by growing demand for pets in the U.S., Asia and Europe — is contributing to the global decline of rare freshwater turtle and tortoise species. One study found over half of the 360 living turtle and tortoise species are at risk of extinction.
Such concerns have prompted a dozen proposals to increase protection for freshwater turtles at the 184-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meeting in Panama Nov. 14 through Nov. 25.
Precise figures on the turtle trade, especially illegal trade, can be hard to find. Based on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data, Tara Easter, a University of Michigan doctoral candidate who studies the trade, estimated the commercial export trade for mud turtles in the United States increased from 1,844 in 1999 to nearly 40,000 in 2017 and musk turtles from 8,254 in 1999 to more than 281,000 in 2016.
In their CITES proposal to ban or limit the commercial trade in more than 20 mud turtles species, the United States and several Latin American countries cited data from Mexico that found nearly 20,000 were confiscated, mostly at the Mexico City airport, from 2010 to 2022.
Among the world’s most trafficked animals, freshwater turtles are targeted by criminal networks that connect with buyers on the internet then transport the reptiles to black markets in Hong Kong and other Asian cities. From there, they are sold as pets, to collectors and for commercial breeding, food and traditional medicine. In many countries, trade is poorly regulated or not regulated at all.
The lucrative business — some turtle species coveted for their colorful shells or strange appearance can fetch thousand of dollars in Asia — adds to threats turtles already face. Those include climate change, habitat destruction, road mortality and predators eating their eggs.
Poachers are particularly problematic, experts say, because they target rare species and adult breeding females. Many turtle species, which can live for several decades, don’t reach reproductive maturity for a decade or more.
“The loss of large numbers of adults, especially females, can send turtles into a spiraling decline from which they cannot recover,” said Dave Collins, director of North American turtle conservation for the Turtle Survival Alliance. “Turtles have extremely low reproduction levels, producing a few eggs every year.”
Since 2018, the Collaborative to Combat the Illegal Trade in Turtles — an organization of mostly state, federal and tribal biologists who combat poaching of North American turtles — has documented at least 30 major smuggling cases in 15 states. Some involved a few dozen turtles, others several thousand.
Easter at the University of Michigan identified 59 U.S. cases over the past 20 years involving about 30,000 illegally traded turtles.
Earlier this year, a federal judge in North Carolina sentenced a man to 18 months in prison and fined him $25,000 for trafficking turtles in violation of the Lacey Act. The law bans trafficking in fish, wildlife or plants that are illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold.
The man trafficked 722 eastern box turtles — the North Carolina state reptile — as well as 122 spotted turtles and three wood turtles through a middleman for markets in Asia. The man received more than $120,000 for the turtles, which have a value of $1.5 million in Asia.
In 2021, a Chinese national was sentenced to 38 months in prison and fined $10,000 for money laundering after previously pleading guilty to financing a nationwide smuggling ring that sent 1,500 turtles worth more than $2.2 million from the U.S. to China.
The man used PayPal to purchase the turtles from American buyers advertising them on social media and reptile websites and sold them to Hong Kong reptile markets.
In 2020, a New Jersey man was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $350,000 in restitution and fines for smuggling 1,000 three-toed and western box turtles from Oklahoma to New Jersey in candy wrappers and socks.
The illegal trade has prompted governments to propose listing for the first time 42 turtles species under CITES — including North American musk turtles. Though some species like the eastern musk turtle are common, a listing means traders will need a permit to sell them internationally. Commercial sale of other species such as alligator snapping turtles, found in U.S. Gulf states and reaching up to 200 pounds, would be limited.
Proposals would also tighten regulations on 13 others already listed for protection.
“We think that’s really, really important just because of the trends that we’ve seen over the past couple of decades in international reptile and particularly turtle trade,” said U.S. Department of the Interior’s Matthew Strickler, who will head the American delegation at CITES.
“There’s significant demand from Southeast Asia for food and the pet trade, but also from Europe, for pets as well,” he said. “We’ve seen this pattern of turtles being depleted in one place, and then poachers and traffickers and traders moving to another place. Southeast Asia was depleted. They moved to Africa. Now, we see them moving to the Americas.”
The tiny musk turtles were spotted for sale online by a Rhode Island Environmental Police intern. They were only $20 each. The turtles, which grow to five inches (13 centimeters) and live for decades, are brown or black with a white or yellow line along their heads.
Police busted the seller in September after arranging an undercover buy at his house. The seller paid a $1,600 fine for possessing a reptile without a permit. The hope is that the turtles, now quarantined at the Providence zoo, are injury- and disease-free and can be released back to the wild.
“Obviously when we are talking about native species being removed even for pets, it has a big impact,” said Harold Guise, an environmental police detective who handled the case. “The commercialization of wildlife has an impact on wildlife that we can’t even measure until it has already happened. We need to get ahead of these things.”
For Perrotti the conservation director, it was a reminder that illegal trade once focused in Asia is increasingly happening in his backyard.
“I couldn’t believe there was a market for it and that someone was either mass producing these or mass collecting these to make a few bucks,” he said. “A $20 turtle. That’s ridiculous. … Wildlife is not a commodity for somebody to profit on.”
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SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) — Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside city in Texas, with five flown to the hospital by helicopter.
None of the injuries were expected to be life-threatening, Brazoria County officials said. The cause of the walkway collapse in Surfside Beach, a small city on the Gulf of Mexico, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of downtown Houston, was under investigation.
Surfside Beach Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Justin Mills said his department responded to an emergency call at 12:34 p.m. and set up landing areas for the medical helicopters.
Sharon Trower, public information officer for Brazoria County, said all of the victims were between 14 and 18 years old and from the Bayou City Fellowship summer camp. The five taken by helicopter were flown to Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston. Six were taken to local hospitals by ambulance, and about 10 more were taken to hospitals by private vehicles, Trower said.
Memorial Hermann officials and Bayou City Fellowship camp officials did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
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WA Marine Warnings and Forecast for Monday, November 28, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
248 AM PST Sun Nov 27 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
4 PM PST MONDAY...
* WHAT...Rough bar conditions expected.
.IN THE MAIN CHANNEL...
.GENERAL SEAS...6 to 8 ft building to 8 to 10 ft Monday morning.
.FIRST EBB...Ebb current of 3.26 kt at 649 AM Sunday. Seas 7 to 9
ft.
.SECOND EBB...Very strong ebb current of 6.35 kt at 655 PM
Sunday. Seas 11 to 13 ft.
.THIRD EBB...Ebb current of 3.09 kt at 755 AM Monday. Seas 10 to
12 ft.
* WHERE...In the Main Channel of the Columbia River Bar.
* WHEN...From 3 PM this afternoon to 4 PM PST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Small Craft Advisory means that wave conditions are expected to
be hazardous to small craft in or near harbor entrances.
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(The Hill) – New battle lines are emerging around the issue of interstate travel for abortion, as a confusing patchwork of state and federal rules materializes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
No state currently bans women from obtaining an out-of-state abortion. But conservative lawmakers in a handful of GOP-led states where abortion is banned or restricted have floated measures that would penalize those involved — even tangentially — in helping someone access the procedure in another state.
Other red state restrictions have already had a chilling effect on doctors prescribing abortion pills across state lines.
At the other end of the political spectrum, several blue states have taken steps to become abortion safe havens, saying they would refuse to cooperate with red-state investigations into cross-border abortion cases. Meanwhile, the Justice Department (DOJ), is digging in for a fight, vowing to draw on federal legal authority to protect women who seek an abortion in states where it is legal.
Court watchers say the high court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, will set in motion a new wave of abortion-related litigation.
“Alito suggested that Roe and Casey were unworkable and returning abortion laws to the states would help make them workable. But we’re seeing the very opposite,” said Rachel Rebouché, a Temple University School of Law. “We should expect even more conflict, not less.”
For nearly 50 years after Roe was decided, a constitutional right to abortion barred states from outlawing abortion before fetal viability. But since the Supreme Court toppled that landmark 1973 precedent last month, abortion is now banned in at least nine states, more bans and restrictions are expected soon and residents of less-permissive states who seek to terminate an unwanted pregnancy are increasingly looking beyond their state’s borders.
The dynamic has drawn attention from Republican lawmakers in states where abortion is restricted.
The Texas Freedom Caucus, a group of 11 far-right state lawmakers, plan to introduce legislation that would make it a felony for employers to pay for workers to obtain an abortion in a state where it’s legal or reimburse travel expenses. The group announced its proposal last week in a pugnacious letter to the to the Dallas office of the powerhouse law firm Sidley Austin.
“It has come to our attention that Sidley Austin has decided to reimburse the travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children,” the Texas Freedom Caucus letter states. “It also appears that Sidley has been complicit in illegal abortions that were performed in Texas before and after the Supreme Court’s ruling (overturing Roe). We are writing to inform you of the consequences that you and your colleagues will face for these actions.”
The group said its legislative proposal would also contain a bounty-style enforcement mechanism — based on Texas’s six-week abortion ban, S.B. 8 — that would incentivize private citizens to bring civil lawsuits against those suspected of helping to facilitate an out-of-state abortion on a Texas resident.
Arkansas State Sen. Jason Rapert (R), who heads the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, expressed interest in a similar measure in his home state that would target businesses engaged in what he called “abortion trafficking.”
“They’re trying to traffic individuals and basically put money into the coffers of the abortion industry and circumventing these abortion bans,” he told Arkansas-based ABC affiliate 40/29 News. “So for instance, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Bank of America and some other companies have said they’re going pay people to travel and get abortions. Well, what about the shareholders? We believe this is an illegal use of shareholders’ money.”
Similar proposals have been backed by lawmakers in South Carolina and Oklahoma. One such bill in Missouri failed to clear the 2022 legislative session. But its sponsor, Missouri state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R), a special counsel at the conservative public interest firm the Thomas More Society, told The Washington Post that antiabortion activists and lawmakers in other states were interested in seeing such legislation signed into law.
Legal experts described the looming fight over abortion access as something of a tinderbox.
“The stakes are so high because people are going to try to get medical care any way they can, but anti-abortion people are going to try to stop them,” said David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University. “We are now on the verge of seeing these very serious interstate and inter-jurisdictional conflicts because of the stakes.”
Some GOP abortion restrictions have already created a chilling effect in more-permissive states.
In Montana, where the state’s supreme court has held that Montana’s constitution protects abortion, Planned Parenthood is limiting access to medical abortion for out-of-state residents.
“The way abortion pills work is that there are two different sets of pills you take, spaced apart in time, and so the patient could wind up taking the second set of pills, or even the first set, in an anti-abortion state and risk legal issues,” Cohen said.
At the other end of the political spectrum, a number of blue states have taken steps to become safe havens for those traveling from out of state for abortions.
In the run-up to Roe’s demise, California and Connecticut passed laws that would shield abortion providers and patients from out-of-state prohibitions.
The California law, A.B. 1666, which was sponsored by Planned Parenthood California, renders any legal action brought against the right to abortion unenforceable in California courts.
“It puts up a legal shield for our doctors, providers and patients against attacks from the radical-right extremists who seek to strip women of their fundamental right,” said California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D), the bill’s primary sponsor.
Democratic governors in seven other states have signed executive orders with other protections.
Some blue state measures codify a refusal to comply with subpoenas, investigations or records requests from conservative states. Other measures even allow providers to countersue if they’re targeted by out-of-state laws. Still other provisions would deny red-state requests to extradite those suspected of violating abortion bans.
The emerging legal landscape will likely lead to clashes between states that are novel and intense, experts said.
“Once these laws are tested, I think they’ll be wending their way back up to the Supreme Court as states seek to enforce conflicting laws,” said Naomi Cahn, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Meanwhile the DOJ said it would aid in the fight to protect abortion access. In statement Tuesday announcing the creation of reproductive rights task force, the DOJ indicated that its legal strategy would take cross-border considerations into account.
The DOJ has also said it is prepared to take to action to make sure the abortion medication Mifepristone, which has deemed by the FDA to be safe and effective, would remain widely available. More than a dozen states, mostly in the South and Midwest, ban providers from prescribing abortion pills through telemedicine.
Medication abortion has become an increasingly common method for ending pregnancies, accounting for 54 percent of all abortions in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
The Supreme Court has not made clear how it might rule if a case challenging out-of-state penalties were to reach the high court. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who signed onto Alito’s majority ruling, wrote a concurring opinion that offered some limited insights into his thinking on the issue.
“Some of the other abortion-related legal questions raised by today’s decision are not especially difficult as a constitutional matter,” Kavanaugh wrote. “For example, may a state bar a resident of that state from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel.”
But legal experts said Kavanaugh’s opinion raised more questions than it answered, and only amounted to the view of a single justice.
“He talks solely about the patient has a right to travel out of state. Well, that’s a nice thing for him to say. But does that mean that the patient’s friend has a right to drive them out of state? Does the patient’s mother has a right to buy them hotel room out of state for when they need to stay over?” Cohen said. “There are so many different permutations of what can happen here that it could go to the Supreme Court many different times.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/battle-lines-emerge-over-out-of-state-abortion/ | 2022-07-14 10:58:54 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/battle-lines-emerge-over-out-of-state-abortion/ |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
340 PM EST Mon Nov 14 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM TUESDAY TO 10 AM
EST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations of
1 to 3 inches with up to 4 inches possible in the higher
terrain. Ice accumulations of less than one tenth of an inch
expected.
* WHERE...Northwestern Connecticut, the southern Berkshires, the
Mid Hudson Valley, and portions of the eastern Catskills.
* WHEN...From 6 PM Tuesday to 10 AM EST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the Wednesday morning commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Precipitation will begin as snow, then
transition to a wintry mix Tuesday night before ending as rain
Wednesday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM TUESDAY TO 7 PM
2 to 5 inches and ice accumulations of a light glaze.
* WHERE...The Capital District, Schoharie Valley, Mohawk Valley,
Lake George Saratoga region, southern Adirondacks, southern
Vermont, and the northern Berkshires.
* WHEN...From 10 PM Tuesday to 7 PM EST Wednesday.
transition to a wintry mix late for areas along and south of
I-90 by Wednesday morning. Precipitation ends Wednesday
afternoon or evening.
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Pineland Farms' "New Gloucester, a Cotswold-style cheese" brought home a Gold Medal in the open category – Cheeses with Flavor Added
BANGOR, Maine, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pineland Farms Dairy won a Gold Medal at the 39th annual American Cheese Society (ACS) Judging and Competition. The ACS competition is the largest event of its kind for American-made cheeses.
The judging took place May 9-20, 2022, at the Huntington Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. The winners were announced during the ACS Annual Conference held in Portland, Oregon from July 20 – 23, 2022. 1,387 products from 196 entering companies across 120 categories were evaluated for excellence in cheesemaking and commitment to food safety.
"New Gloucester" is a fresh take on a historical cheese. Based on an Old-World English village recipe called Double Gloucester, this cheese dates back over 200 years. "Cotswold" was a variation that added green onions and chives. Pineland Farms Dairy began making cheese almost 20 years ago in New Gloucester, Maine and is now bringing "New Gloucester, a Cotswold-style cheese" to the New World.
The judges were impressed by the appealing, savory aroma from just the right blend of onions and garlic. Smooth and creamy, this cheese is a perfect balance of flavor and color, beautiful on a cheese board or with a selection of fresh fruit. It is an excellent cracker cheese or can go from a snack to an omelet staple.
Pineland Farms Dairy Company is located in Bangor, Maine, and produces all-natural dairy products for both the retail and foodservice industries across the Northeast. The company supports local dairy farmers by using 100% fresh Maine milk to handcraft their specialty cheeses and fluid milk products. For more information, please visit www.pinelandfarmsdairy.com.
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Louisiana vs. South Alabama Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - February 11
Published: Feb. 10, 2023 at 7:47 AM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Saturday's game that pits the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (14-11) versus the South Alabama Jaguars (6-18) at Mitchell Center should be a lopsided matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 71-56 in favor of Louisiana, who is heavily favored according to our model. Game time is at 3:00 PM ET on February 11.
The Ragin' Cajuns' last game on Thursday ended in a 65-59 loss to JMU.
Louisiana vs. South Alabama Game Info
- When: Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET
- Where: Mitchell Center in Mobile, Alabama
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Louisiana vs. South Alabama Score Prediction
- Prediction: Louisiana 71, South Alabama 56
Louisiana Schedule Analysis
- Against the Houston Cougars, a top 100 team in our computer rankings, the Ragin' Cajuns captured their best win of the season on November 7, a 55-48 home victory.
- The Jaguars have tied for the 202nd-most Quadrant 3 losses in the country based on the RPI (two).
Louisiana 2022-23 Best Wins
- 61-51 at home over Old Dominion (No. 90) on January 19
- 60-59 on the road over North Texas (No. 112) on November 25
- 68-58 on the road over Georgia Southern (No. 191) on January 26
- 65-51 on the road over Appalachian State (No. 211) on January 28
- 54-38 over Abilene Christian (No. 213) on November 27
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Louisiana Performance Insights
- The Ragin' Cajuns put up 58.8 points per game (300th in college basketball) while allowing 58.1 per outing (44th in college basketball). They have a +17 scoring differential.
- In 2022-23, Louisiana has put up 62.8 points per game in Sun Belt action, and 58.8 overall.
- At home, the Ragin' Cajuns score 62.6 points per game. On the road, they average 58.0.
- In 2022-23 Louisiana is allowing 9.0 fewer points per game at home (53.7) than away (62.7).
- The Ragin' Cajuns are putting up 66.3 points per contest over their previous 10 games, which is 7.5 more than their average for the season (58.8).
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, October 16, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Midland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Pecos County in southwestern Texas...
North central Brewster County in southwestern Texas...
* Until 530 PM CDT.
* At 441 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 12 miles north of
Marathon, or 24 miles east of Alpine, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southwestern Pecos and north central Brewster Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) — Students spread out in their rural Kansas classroom, answering questions with a partner about invaders atop elephants attempting to sack Rome more than 2,000 years ago.
“Do you want to read?” one of the third graders, Parker, asked his partner after the lesson on the Punic Wars. “Because I’m not really good.”
Bekah Noel told her students to jot down answers for their partners if they needed extra help writing or spelling. Halfway through the school year, with some of her students reading nearly 200 words per minute and others struggling to sound out around 10, she has had to make a lot of tweaks like this.
Exiting from the pandemic, the assumption might be that Noel’s students should be among the least scathed. The tiny, 900-student school system in Columbus pivoted to remote learning briefly in March 2020 before going back in person that fall, initially without masks. While some U.S. students spent a year or more learning online, pandemic school in rural Kansas was as normal as it got.
But the upheaval still took a toll. Students and teachers got sick, social distancing made it hard to teach kids in small groups, and the pace of teaching ground to a crawl. Three years later, Noel has more third graders than ever who are reading below grade level. That’s the true elephant in the room.
“I have kids,” Noel said midway through the year, “that legitimately cannot read.”
Noel is used to adapting to students’ needs, and she has been pulling out all the strategies in her toolkit. She pairs strong and struggling students, reads questions aloud and jots down dictated answers for students to rewrite in their own handwriting.
As the pandemic was raging, the district also adopted a new strategy: a reading curriculum that is heavy on phonics — a stressful gamble that the science-backed curriculum might help kids catch up.
There are signs the changes are helping, particularly for older students. Educators from other schools have been coming to observe the changes. But this is third grade, the last year students are typically taught to read.
And time is running out.
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During a group session in October, third grader Emmett Mayfield and a classmate dismantled the word “athletic” with paraprofessional Jessica Seitz. Columbus used federal pandemic relief money to double the number of paraprofessionals assigned to help its small groups of struggling students.
“How many syllables do we have?” she asked. Emmett answered: “Three.”
It was part of a lesson on closed syllables, a term that refers to a vowel being followed by a consonant. This matters because it creates a short vowel sound, meaning the letter “A” in the word is pronounced as “ah.” If it was a long vowel, it would sound more like the name of the letter.
“Make a fist,” Seitz instructed. “We are closing that door. The consonant is stopping that vowel from saying its name.”
This type of lesson is a common one now that the district emphasizes the so-called science of reading that is gaining momentum nationwide. Schools piloted two new reading curriculums for a few weeks in November and December of 2020, as COVID-19 case levels soared.
Spared initially, small towns in rural Kansas were so overwhelmed that hospitals had to fly patients hundreds of miles away for treatment. Parker’s mom, Chelsea Brinson, a medical assistant, was testing droves of COVID samples at a clinic. “Everybody was stressed out,” said Brinson, who now works as a nurse’s assistant in the district.
Students started masking. But that meant mask breaks were added to the already disrupted schedule.
Reading specialist Kelly Walters asked the overwhelmed teachers whether they wanted to put the reading pilot on hold.
“One hundred percent of our staff said, ‘No, we want to move forward,’” recalled Walters, who struggled so much to learn to read herself that she suspects an undiagnosed case of dyslexia was to blame.
The program they picked weaves phonics and other reading changes throughout the curriculum. No longer are those elements mostly isolated to worksheets. Staff praised it, which was encouraging to Walters, who tested the materials on her youngest child, just 3 at the time, while stuck at home early in the pandemic.
“As a mom, who was a struggling reader, to give that gift —” she said, and then stopped and corrected herself. “I shouldn’t have said it was a gift, because it’s not a gift. It’s a right.”
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In late November, Noel taught a science lesson on the skeletal system. Like the rest of the curriculum, it also incorporated reading instruction, with “structure” among the vocabulary words she highlighted.
“Have you ever seen a house being built before?” Noel asked. The students blurted out examples before she continued: “And they’ll have the wood up first, and it will be like beams.”
She then asked whether the word “structure” was a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. Why, she then asked, was it one of the vocabulary words in a lesson on the skeletal system?
Parker shared his answer: “Because our spine holds up the rest of our body.” Noel rewarded him with a fist bump.
Parker started the year reading at the level of a first grader. He was, Noel, said, “embarrassed.” Midway through the year he seemed stuck, learning new skills and then seeming to forget it all. Staff were worried. He was flagged for a special education assessment.
When the pandemic first closed schools in 2020, Parker was a kindergartener. His mom recalled “freaking out,” trying to figure out what to do with him. To get him to do schoolwork, his grandmother or someone else had to sit beside him at all times. Otherwise, Parker said, he would “squirrel off.”
Columbus and many other rural school systems reopened that fall. With strong opposition to masks locally, the district instead added “sneeze guards” to desks. But in-person school was far from normal. The pandemic had hobbled one of teachers’ most effective tools: small groups.
Typically, they would pull kids from different classes to create groups targeting specific skills, Noel said. But with COVID, they were trying to keep each of the classes separated to limit the spread of disease. And then there was COVID itself. Between illnesses and quarantines, students and staff were missing two weeks or more of school multiple times throughout the year.
“It was taking us two days to do something that would have taken us one,” Noel said.
Noel was infected twice, forced to miss school again just this past fall because of a COVID-sickened child. Parker caught COVID in first grade, missing two weeks of school.
Across the country, federal data show, the disruptions wrought by the pandemic were accompanied by widespread learning setbacks, even in states that saw students return quickly to in-person learning. Among those showing the largest learning losses are this year’s crop of third graders, who were in kindergarten when the pandemic hit, a foundational year for learning to read.
Now Noel’s students and other third graders are under pressure to master reading ahead of later grades, where literacy is key to learning everything else.
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By late January, it was time to show off at “Books and Breakfast,” with parents, grandparents, preschool-age siblings and friends visiting Highland School to see what the children were learning. The students sprawled around the school building, eating doughnuts and reading books to their special guests.
As Emmett read aloud from “Grumpy Monkey,” he got some help with the word “discovery” and plowed ahead, reading clearly how the bananas were “too sweet.”
“I used to didn’t like to read,” said Emmett, who started the year reading more like an early second grader, “but I just started reading.”
At home, though, he is still resisting reading, said his mother, Jessica Mayfield, a 39-year-old hospital lab technician. She blames it in part on those “awful” days of virtual learning. There were meltdowns, and she fretted even then that he would fall behind, with those early years of school so “crucial.”
Mayfield, herself an avid reader, doesn’t know what more the district could have done. “I think,” she said, “it’s just to be expected.”
Assessments showed 13 of Noel’s 24 students are reading below grade level. Many of them are kids who moved to the district in the middle of this school year. Nine have been getting the most intensive so-called tier-three level of support. Some of her students scored so highly they were evaluated for the gifted program. In a rarity, none fell in the middle tier group of kids needing just a little extra help.
It’s a trend seen elsewhere around the country as the pandemic widened the gap between higher- and lower-performing students.
Noel is working harder than ever to keep her advanced students from getting bored, assigning them special projects. Grace Epler, an advanced reader who is prone to finishing assignments early, sometimes spends her free time making up math problems, helping her classmates or playing educational games on her iPad.
State tests are looming, and it weighs heavily on Grace.
“They compare this school to all the other elementary schools in Kansas, and it scares me,” she said at lunchtime, her wrist in a pink splint after a swing mishap. “I might get, like, five wrong.”
This even though she reads nearly anything put in front of her. She is particularly partial to a book the kids wrote and illustrated themselves that documented what they will miss most about their soon-to-close school, a building filled with quirks like a toilet in an old shower stall.
Many kids in Noel’s class are progressing, but not as much as she would like.
“Those highs grew even more,” Noel said. “And the lows, they grew, but they’re still quite a bit lower.”
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One day in April, Emmett and Parker were taking a turn in the small group getting extra reading help. After talk of the basketball and softball seasons, the small group took turns reading a book called “A Prince Among Donkeys,” with lots of words and spelling patterns they’ve seen before.
Parker rested his hand on his forehead, reading: “To Adam’s surprise, Emma smelled.” Then, a quick correction: “smelled” to “smiled.”
Imperfect though it was, something had happened over these months of phonics drills and small-group work. When the special education testing came back, not only did it show he didn’t qualify, but he also made so much progress he was close to reading at the level of a beginning third grader.
“I actually do like reading now,” Parker explained. He described evenings spent on the couch with his mother, practicing. He and Emmett are now obsessed with the same book series about a superhero cat. “It’s just fun to do.”
When Parker finished his turn reading, he had the choice of picking who would go next. But he didn’t choose Emmett or any of the other kids.
“Can I pick myself?” he asked. And he kept reading.
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DENVER, Colo. — Many borrowers are excited about President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, but now, there's a question of how much this will cost the country and who is going to pay for it.
The cost of this program will likely fall on the backs of taxpayers, and one group of researchers found the student loan forgiveness program could cost about $2,500 per taxpayer.
“What we are saying is that this plan has costs that the Biden administration has not proposed a way to pay for the debt cancellation policy,” said Andrew Lautz, the director of federal policy for the conservative-leaning National Taxpayers Union Foundation.
His organization calculated that with an estimated $400 billion cost for the forgiveness program based on the number of people with student loans, divided by the number of American taxpayers (around 158 million people), the average cost for the program would be $2,500 per taxpayer.
“No, your taxes are not going up as a result of this policy,” said Lautz.
But increased taxes in the future is still a possibility. The government could also decrease spending or increase the national debt.
“It's hard to predict what Congress is going to do to address the debt in the future. But the longer we kick the can down the road, the more painful either the spending cuts or the tax increases are going to be,” said Lautz.
Beverly Moran, professor emerita of law at Vanderbilt University, views the issue differently. She said this is a cost our nation should help with.
“I think that all of us should be grateful for it, because what's the alternative? I mean, to have 45 million people who are in some sort of debt-serfdom, you know, debt servitude, because we made mistakes in our education policy? That….that can't be right,” said Moran.
She argues the program might help people who were never going to pay off their loans start doing so.
“If somebody owes $14,000 and that looks impossible to them, and now they are owing $4,000, that they might pay that $4,000 when they would have never paid the $14,000,” said Moran.
She acknowledged this forgiveness plan has high costs and is frustrated that it doesn't help fix the bigger issue of how expensive higher education has become.
“What we need to be discussing much more is how our federal policy led us to this moment,” said Moran. “Is this the right way to fund higher education by having higher and higher tuitions that are then covered by federal loans?”
Lautz agreed with Moran on the forgiveness program not addressing the biggest issue at hand. He said the cost of this program could be far higher for our country if the policy around higher education doesn't change soon.
“We worry that, that this debt cancellation policy is actually going to embolden colleges to further increase their tuition and fees,” said Lautz. “Without underlying reforms to the cost of college, this is actually going to make the problem worse for future generations of students.”
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Several record-low temperatures were set Wednesday morning. Little Rock only tied the record low of 33° set in 1989 and avoided having the official first freeze of the season. The earliest first freeze for Little Rock is October 20 (Thursday), so that record will stand.
Here’s a preliminary list of broken record low temperatures:
Arkadelphia — 22° Record: 29° – 1948
Fayetteville — 22° Record: 26° – 1989
North Little Rock — 34° Record: 35° – 1989
Little Rock AFB– 28° Record: 33° – 1996
Hot Springs — 31° Record: 34° – 1975
Monticello — 30° Record: 32° – 1990
Searcy — 25° Record: 29° – 1948
Mountain Home — 26° Record: 28° – 1989
Russellville — 28° Record: 29° – 1948
Mena — 23° Record: 33° – 2009
Camden — 27° Record: 33° – 1976
Stuttgart — 29° Record: 39° – 1996
El Dorado — 28° Record: 31° – 1948
Here’s a preliminary list of tied record low temperatures:
Little Rock — 33° Record: 33° – 1989
Pine Bluff– 31° Record: 31° – 1948
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WHAM LAUNCHES #3NOT30 CAMPAIGN TO CALL FOR ACCELERATING AND INVESTING IN THE HEALTH OF WOMEN IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS
Women's Health Access Matters (WHAM) Announces a Commemoration in Washington D.C., Featuring Hon. Barbara Mikulski, Hon. Connie Morella, Dr. Vivian Pinn, and Current Legislators Supporting Greater Inclusion of Women in Research and Clinical Trials
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi kicked off a celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 to acknowledge the contributions of the extraordinary leaders who spearheaded the successful legislation thirty years ago which established the inclusion of women in clinical trials and research. The celebration was hosted by WHAM (Women's Health Access Matters) and featured a private luncheon and roundtable dialogue in Washington D.C.
The Hon. Barbara Mikulski, Hon. Connie Morella, and Dr. Vivian Pinn, as well as leaders of today, Dr. Janine Clayton and current members of Congress, who support accelerating women's health research and investment, participated in a panel discussion which featured highlights of the past contributions of these incredible leaders. This was followed by a roundtable discussion with twenty of WHAM's partners and thought leaders to develop and steer an action plan for the future, implementing change in #3Not30 years.
Speaker Pelosi noted that women's health has been understudied and underrepresented, and the efforts of Mikulski, Morella and Pinn set us on the right path, but there is still much work to be done.
"While the Revitalization Act was a step forward for sex-based equity in health research, there has not been enough progress since this momentous event," said WHAM Founder and CEO Carolee Lee. "For decades, women's health has suffered as a result of under-investment in research. Women have also been forced to leave the workforce early to manage their own health or serve as caregivers for their loved ones. This is an economic issue that impacts everyone, and we can't afford to ignore it. We cannot wait another thirty years."
Video tributes were played from Sen. Patty Murray; Sen. Amy Klobuchar; Rep. Barbara Lee; Sen. Lisa Murkowski; Sen. Dick Durbin; Sen. Tammy Duckworth; Rep. Judy Chu; Rep. Katherine Clark; and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who all applauded the work of Sen. Barbara Mikulski; Rep. Connie Morella and Dr. Vivian Pinn and emphatically declared their support for WHAM and accelerating research and equality.
WHAM commissioned the RAND Corporation to conduct a series of studies that examine the impact of accelerating sex and gender-based health research on women, their families, and the economy. The WHAM Report found that only 4.5 percent of coronary artery research, 7 percent of autoimmune rheumatoid arthritis research, 12 percent of Alzheimer's research, and 15 percent of lung cancer research are allocated to projects focused specifically on women. Adding just $350 million in funding across these four disease areas, brain, heart, cancer, and autoimmune, that differentially and disproportionately impact women, would generate nearly $14 billion in economic returns that benefit everyone.
WHAM's #3Not30 campaign is a year-long effort to increase awareness about women's health research and drive change with the goal of accelerating investment in sex-based research in the next three years. The campaign is the first of a series of activities WHAM is spearheading in recognition of the 30th Anniversary of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993, a law which established guidelines that women and minorities should be included in all clinical trials and research which are funded by the NIH. WHAM has hosted virtual and in-person dialogues throughout the year to explore what's changed since this landmark legislation, what hasn't, and how to ensure women's health research receives the funding and support it deserves.
The Roundtable Dialogue in Washington D.C. was co-moderated by Dr. Maria Freire, former President and Executive Director of FNIH, and Ash Shehata, National Sector Leader – Healthcare & Life Science at KPMG. They were joined by business leaders, investors, advocates, economists and academics to discuss how WHAM's economic data can be used across sectors to accelerate research and investment in the health of women in #3Not30. The goal is to develop an action plan for the next three years, not
thirty, which will accelerate women's health research and investment. The twenty leaders represent different sectors of the ecosystem and contributed their vision of how their company, institution, or platform can create impactful and sustainable change. The roundtable featured:
- Michael Annichine, CEO, Magee-Womens Research Institute;
- Tom Cassels, President and CEO, Rock Health;
- Dr. Janine Clayton, Director, NIH Office of Research on Women's Health;
- Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville;
- Jessica Federer, Managing Partner, Supernode Ventures;
- Laurie Fenton Ambrose, Cofounder, President and CEO, GO2 for Lung Cancer;
- Dr. Lori Frank, Senior Vice President for Research, New York Academy of Medicine;
- Dr. Elizabeth Garner, Chief Scientific Officer, Ferring Pharmaceuticals; President, American Medical Women's Association;
- Dr. Julie Gerberding, President and CEO, FNIH;
- Stacy Haller, President and CEO, BrightFocus Foundation ;
- Marsha Henderson, former Associate Commissioner for Women's Health, FDA;
- Dr. Hadine Joffe, Executive Director, The Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School;
- Sasha Kelemen, Head of Women and Family Health Investment Banking, SVB Securities
- Sheila Mikhail, Cofounder and Advisor, Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio);
- Melissa Gong Mitchell, Executive Director, Global Coalition on Aging;
- Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire, President, CEO and Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology;
- Dr. Stacey Rosen, Senior Vice President of Women's Health, Katz Institute for Women's Health, Northwell Health;
- Dr. Ellen Sigal, Chairperson and Founder, Friends of Cancer Research;
- Ramita Tandon, Chief Clinical Trials Officer, Walgreens
"For thirty years, investment in women's health research has lagged, which has resulted in poor health and economic outcomes for women, families, and the nation," said Lee. "This is the reality despite the fact that women are 52 percent of the population, make up 50 percent of the workforce, control 60 percent of personal wealth, are responsible for 85 percent of consumer spending, and make 80 percent of health care decisions. Let's seize this moment and use it as an opportunity to equitably fund the study of diseases that so clearly disproportionately and differently impact women. If we can achieve this as a country, we all stand to gain."
To stay informed about future WHAM #3Not30 activities, please sign up for WHAM's newsletter here. And follow WHAM throughout the year on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter to stay updated the #3Not30 campaign and the latest in women's health research.
About WHAM (Women's Health Access Matters)
Women's health is an economic issue we can't afford to ignore. WHAM works to increase awareness of and funding for women's health research and investment by accelerating scientific discovery in women's health in four primary disease verticals – autoimmune disease, brain health, cancer, and heart health. The WHAM Report quantifies the economic opportunity for investing in women's health, looking across diseases that impact women differently and differentially, including coronary artery disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and Alzheimer's disease. Learn more at www.thewhamreport.org and www.whamnow.org.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s federal arraignment in Miami on Tuesday was historic — yet virtually invisible to the public.
In an era when people are accustomed to instantly available images and sounds of important events, Trump’s not-guilty plea to charges of hoarding classified documents was a step back in time. Hundreds of photographers and television crews were at the courthouse — many broadcasting live from outside — but they couldn’t show the key moments inside the courtroom.
Efforts by news organizations to loosen restrictions that generally prohibit cameras in federal courtrooms failed, despite the event’s unprecedented nature. It was a stark contrast from Trump’s arraignment in New York earlier this year.
Trump eventually found a way Tuesday to fill the void after leaving the courthouse — with a stop at a Cuban restaurant, where he could bathe in the cheers of supporters.
“This is the visual he wants — I just left the court. I’m good,” said CNN’s John King.
Earlier, he arrived at the courthouse to be booked and enter his plea and then left without being seen. Cameras followed a motorcade of black vehicles with tinted windows.
“This is a little bit old-fashioned,” said Fox News Channel’s Mark Meredith. “We’re not going to be able to see what’s going on in the courtroom.”
News organizations had petitioned the court to allow photographs of Trump to be taken prior to his arraignment, and permit the public release of an audio recording of the court proceeding after it was done. Yet on Monday night, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman denied the requests.
Also Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga ordered that no journalists could possess electronic equipment anywhere in the courthouse on the day of the arraignment. Prior to her order, credentialed journalists at the courthouse had been allowed to use cell phones and computers.
“It’s kind a black hole inside the building,” said David Reiter, executive producer of special events for CBS News.
Most reporters in the courthouse were confined to an overflow room, where they watched the proceedings on “the kind of televisions you get in low-cost hotel rooms,” CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane said.
Through a random draw, some journalists — including at least one sketch artist — were allowed into the courtroom itself.
News organizations scurried to make arrangements to deal with the restrictions. Several television networks, for example, placed a handful of reporters and producers in the overflow room, sending them out one-by-one to report from the outside on what had happened. Reporters also discovered working phones by a bathroom that allowed them to make outgoing calls.
The limits on journalists were quickly apparent. ABC News, for example, reported while the hearing was still ongoing that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith was in the courtroom. Yet when NBC News reporter Gabe Gutierrez was asked about that by anchor Lester Holt, he confessed he wasn’t certain because he was limited in what he could see.
Some commentators couldn’t resist making assumptions, either, like when ABC’s John Santucci suggested Trump would be “trying to find a way to be a little charming” when he spotted Smith.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, in debriefing reporter Evan Perez, said he couldn’t ask him to be a mind-reader in assessing Trump’s mood. Then he did precisely that.
“He appeared very glum,” Perez said. “He did not seem to have a lot of energy.”
With time to fill, most networks took it live when Trump lawyer Alina Habba spoke outside the courtroom. MSNBC cut her off, however, and CBS’ John Dickerson noted that she did not address the specifics of any charges against the former president.
An outage at the Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit on Tuesday severely restricted some news organizations, including The Associated Press, from sending material at precisely the time of Trump’s arraignment. The Verge, the Boston Globe and PennLive.com were also affected.
Reporters kept a close eye on people gathered outside of the courtroom, including several banner-waving Trump supporters, a few anti-Trump demonstrators, and journalists from around the world — China, Australia, France, Germany and Australia.
A handful of news organizations that sent reporters to the scene hired private security in case there was trouble.
“It’s a small price to pay for peace of mind,” said Nathan King, the White House correspondent for China’s state-run CGTN. King said he had to flee an angry group of demonstrators at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and watched as some of his equipment was destroyed.
Katie Taylor, a 76-year-old retired real estate agent and Trump supporter, drove 15 hours from Virginia to be part of the scene.
“We all know what’s going to happen inside the courtroom. What I care about is what they report on what is happening out here,” said Taylor, who gets her news mostly from conservative outlets like Newsmax and Bannon’s War Room. “I want to see it with my own eyes.”
Some Trump supporters snapped photographs of people in the media and recorded their interviews.
Dominic Santana, who retired in Miami after decades of operating an eatery in the New York area, showed up wearing a black and white striped jailhouse uniform, complete with handcuffs and a plastic ball and chain to celebrate what he hopes will be Trump’s imprisonment. He carried a sign saying, “Lock Him Up.”
“A fellow New Yorker can spot a rat a mile away,” said Santana, 61, a political independent who said his mother and daughter voted for Trump.
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PHOENIX (AP) — The Denver Nuggets — understandably — were putting a huge share of their defensive pressure and attention on Phoenix’s high-scoring duo of Devin Booker and Kevin Durant in the fourth quarter of Game 4 on Sunday night.
“We were trying to make other guys beat us not named Booker, not named Durant,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone explained.
Landry Shamet obliged.
Shamet made four crucial 3-pointers in the final period, Booker and Durant both scored 36 points, and the Suns beat the Nuggets 129-124 to even their Western Conference semifinal playoff series at two games apiece.
Booker also finished with a playoff career-high 12 assists, including a few to Shamet, who finished with 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting from 3-point range. Shamet had scored 14 points the entire postseason before Sunday.
“Just making quick decisions, just trying to make the defense pay,” Booker said.
The series returns to Denver for Game 5 on Tuesday.
Denver lost despite a huge game from MVP runner-up Nikola Jokic, who poured in 53 points on 20-of-30 shooting.
Jokic used his physical play to knock down several big buckets, even ripping the ball away from Suns owner Mat Ishbia at one point after the ball went out of bounds, which earned the Nuggets All-Star a technical foul.
“I was making shots, attacking the paint,” Jokic said. “It was just one of those nights.”
The Suns took a 98-92 lead into the fourth quarter after a scoring flurry from Booker, who had 17 points in the third. Phoenix wouldn’t trail in the fourth, though Denver didn’t go quietly.
The Nuggets trailed 116-106 with 4:55 remaining but never panicked, slowly cutting into the lead. They pulled within 123-120 with 22.4 seconds left but TJ Warren made two free throws to push the margin back to five.
Booker — averaging 37 points on 60% shooting in these playoffs — was hot once again, shooting 14 of 18 from the field, including 3 of 4 on 3-pointers.
“I’m just trying to win,” Booker said. “Throw that efficiency (expletive) out the window, I don’t care about that. Just keep going. Keep attacking, keep being aggressive. If it’s a product of getting open shots and knocking them down, that’s what I’m supposed to do.”
Jamal Murray added 28 points and seven assists for the Nuggets.
Suns point guard Chris Paul missed his second straight game with a strained left groin suffered during Game 2.
The Suns took a 63-61 lead by halftime. Jokic had 24 points for the Nuggets before the break while Durant had 21 for the Suns.
JOKIC VS ISHBIA
Jokic was assessed a technical foul in the second after a bizarre altercation with Ishbia.
Late in the period, Suns guard Josh Okogie crashed into the seats while trying to save a loose ball. He landed in a group of fans on the baseline that included Ishbia, who grabbed the basketball.
Jokic was trying to get the basketball quickly — apparently so the Nuggets could start their offensive possession — when he tried to take the ball away from Ishbia. The ball flew backward into the crowd, and then Ishbia was knocked backward by Jokic’s elbow.
“The ball went over into the corner there and one of the fans was holding the ball,” referee Tony Brothers said to a pool reporter. “Jokic came to get the ball, grabbed it away from the fan, then after that he deliberately gave him a shove and pushed him down, so he was issued an unsportsmanlike technical foul.”
There were a few minutes of confusion as officials sorted out the weird scene, and then Jokic was assessed a technical foul.
Ishbia told The Associated Press at halftime that he was “fine” and more worried about the game than the altercation. He was back in his usual seats in the second half.
AYTON’S BIG OVATION
Suns center Deandre Ayton was the subject of scorn from media and fans following his subpar performance in Game 3.
Ayton had just four points and nine rebounds in Game 3 and the former No. 1 overall pick was benched in the fourth quarter in favor of Jock Landale.
But the big man got the fans back on his side during the first offensive possession of the night, grabbing three consecutive offensive rebounds before Booker hit a short jumper as the crowd roared.
“I thought that set the tone for the game,” Williams said.
Ayton finished with eight points and eight rebounds.
TIP-INS
Nuggets: Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter Jr. each scored 11 points.
Suns: Booker scored 13 points on 5 of 6 shooting in the first quarter. He scored 18 points in the first quarter of Game 3.
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Conservative group says it was denied reservation at restaurant because of beliefs
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A faith-based conservative organization says its members were denied a dinner reservation at a Virginia restaurant over their political views.
Victoria Cobb, the president of Family Foundation of Virginia, said the organization made reservations at Metzger Bar & Butchery in Richmond a few weeks ago for a holiday dinner.
Last week, Cobb said the organization was contacted an hour before the 20-person dinner party. Cobb told WWBT that the restaurant told them they would be refusing their prior reservation.
“I’m very surprised to find out that a restaurant wouldn’t serve our organization,” Cobb said. “It was reserved several weeks in advance. We didn’t have any problems leading up to it, but an hour and a half before, we were told we were not welcome here.”
The Family Foundation of Virginia describes itself as an organization that advocates for policies based on Biblical principles, according to its website.
“We are directly involved with many controversial, political and public policy issues, and we advocate the general assembly and local school boards for the flourishing of families,” Cobb said.
The owners of Metzger’s released a statement on social media shortly after the reservation was canceled. In the statement, the restaurant owners said they believed the Family Foundation was “a group of donors to a political organization that seeks to deprive women and LGBTQ+ persons of their basic human rights in Virginia.”
Cobb said the owners are hypocritical by choosing to discriminate against an organization for any reason, especially politically motivated ones.
“It’s amazing that the restaurant can put out a statement that is cloaked in all these words about welcoming and tolerance and their actions being so intolerant and bigoted toward another group of people. It’s disturbing,” Cobb said.
However, LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Equality Virginia believes the actions of Metzger’s owners were justified.
“The majority of their staff are women or people who are part of the LGBTQ community, so I can understand their decision to want to support and protect their staff,” executive director Narissa Rahman said.
The debate over individuals choosing to deny customers goods and services based on political motivations has been spreading across the country.
In Colorado, a dispute between a Christian web designer who objected to providing services to same-sex couples has made it all the way to the Supreme Court. Despite the similarities in scenarios, Cobb said she believes the reservation case is a matter of free speech, not food service.
“We don’t want to compel people to speak messages they don’t agree with, but we would like to see charity in all of our Richmond businesses that do basic things like food service,” Cobb said.
Equality Virginia said nothing is stopping the Family Foundation from going to another restaurant, and the Family Foundation says it was able to find another dinner reservation.
“I think that the love Metzger has received over the past few days sends a message that equality is good for business,” Rahman said.
Although there is legislation on the books that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in Virginia, there are no laws prohibiting the denial of services based on political views.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Valmont Industries Inc. (VMI) on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $72.1 million.
The Omaha, Nebraska-based company said it had profit of $3.34 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $3.49 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.46 per share.
The infrastructure equipment maker posted revenue of $1.1 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.05 billion.
Valmont expects full-year earnings in the range of $13.65 to $14 per share.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said people no longer need to stay at least 6 feet away from others.
The changes are driven by a recognition that — more than 2 1/2 years since the start of the pandemic — an estimated 95% of Americans 16 and older have acquired some level of immunity, either from being vaccinated or infected, agency officials said.
“The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years,” said the CDC’s Greta Massetti, an author of the guidelines.
The CDC recommendations apply to everyone in the U.S., but the changes could be particularly important for schools, which resume classes this month in many parts of the country.
Perhaps the biggest education-related change is the end of the recommendation that schools do routine daily testing, although that practice can be reinstated in certain situations during a surge in infections, officials said.
The CDC also dropped a “test-to-stay” recommendation, which said students exposed to COVID-19 could regularly test — instead of quarantining at home — to keep attending school. With no quarantine recommendation anymore, the testing option disappeared too.
Masks continue to be recommended only in areas where community transmission is deemed high, or if a person is considered at high risk of severe illness.
School districts across the U.S. have been scaling back their COVID-19 precautions in recent weeks even before the CDC relaxed its guidance. Masks will be optional in most school districts when classes resume this fall, and some of the nation’s largest districts have dialed back or eliminated COVID-19 testing requirements.
Some have also been moving away from test-to-stay programs that became unmanageable during surges of the omicron variant last school year. With so many new infections among students and staff, many schools struggled to track and test their close contacts, leading to a temporary return to remote classes in some places.
The average numbers of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths have been relatively flat this summer, at around 100,000 cases a day and 300 to 400 deaths.
The CDC previously said that if people who are not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations come into close contact with a person who tests positive, they should stay home for at least five days. Now the agency says quarantining at home is not necessary, but it urges those people to wear a high-quality mask for 10 days and get tested after five.
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Updated October 4, 2022 at 8:37 AM ET
As the week begins, here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.
What to watch this week
Russia's parliament will ratify its attempted annexation of four Ukrainian territories, widely condemned internationally as illegal. On Monday, the lower house unanimously approved it. The upper house is expected to pass it on Tuesday.
Following Ukraine's recapture of Lyman in the east, Ukrainian forces appeared to break through Russian lines in the south on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin turns 70 Friday.
What happened last week
Sept. 26: The first troops called up in Russia's new mobilization in Ukraine arrived at military bases, many with no prior training and with few trainers on hand, according to British defense intelligence. Putin later said "mistakes" in the call-up should be corrected.
Sept. 27: Russia claimed that staged referendums in four occupied regions of Ukraine showed the people chose to join the Russian Federation. United Nations leaders and many countries called the process a sham and a violation of international law.
Sept. 28: Moscow-backed officials in occupied parts of Ukraine made appeals for the regions to join the Russian Federation. Putin's approval rating fell 6 points to 77% in a poll by the Levada Center. The U.S. Defense Department, meanwhile, announced $1.1 billion in additional security aid to Ukraine.
Sept. 29: Star Wars actor Mark Hamill threw his support behind a fundraiser to buy drones for Ukraine in the "war with the evil empire," he said.
Sept. 30: Putin signed documents claiming Russia is annexing four regions from Ukraine, but world powers refuse to recognize it. Ukraine applied for "accelerated" NATO membership.
Oct. 1: Russian forces retreated as Ukraine recaptured the city of Lyman, located in one of the eastern regions the Kremlin claimed to annex.
Oct. 2: Leaders of nine European countries made a joint statement in support of Ukraine joining NATO. And Pope Francis made a strong plea for Putin to end the war.
In-depth
Jewish Ukrainian father and son soldiers mark holy days under cloud of Russia's war.
With Ukraine at war, officials hope to bring tourism back to areas away from fighting.
Putin plans to formally annex 4 regions from Ukraine Friday.
Ukraine's offensive in Kharkiv was hard and bitter, say soldiers who did the fighting.
War didn't stop Hasidic pilgrims from gathering in Ukraine for the Jewish new year.
With staged referendums in Ukraine complete, Russia begins the annexation process.
Occupied regions of Ukraine vote to join Russia in staged referendums.
Russian men flee the country. Many are showing up in Istanbul.
Seismologists suspect explosions damaged undersea pipelines that carry Russian gas.
Special report
Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See its ripple effects in all corners of the globe.
Earlier developments
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The prosecution rested its case Wednesday in the trial of 62-year-old Richard Lange, who's accused of kidnapping, sexual assaulting, and murdering of Mildred Matheny, 78, of Lake Worth Beach in 1985.
Matheny was found lying naked on Old Indiantown Road in Jupiter on April 27, 1985, roughly 30 miles from her home. She was bleeding from blunt force injuries to her head and face, and her bloodstained dentures were found nearby.
Matheny died from her injuries days later at Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart. A medical examiner said she was sexually assaulted.
For 35 years, her death was left unsolved, until April 2021. That's when Palm Beach County deputies announced they arrested Lange, then 61, for the crime. Detectives said they identified him through DNA.
The state of Florida on Wednesday called to the witness stand a detective who worked for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office for more than 20 years, specifically in the agency's cold case homicide unit.
He said he was assigned Matheny's case, but was not involved in the initial investigation. He told the court when he took over the case, he started building a timeline for the case based on the initial investigation, but said all leads looked at by previous detectives had been exhausted.
The detective said the cold case unit did obtain a forensic lead from a national DNA database, which led to the identification of Lange. The detective said that prior to this lead, he had no idea who Richard Lange was.
He also testified that in 2021, he went to Lange's home in Boynton Beach to obtain forensic DNA from him.
He said he spoke to Lange at his home and said he had no reason to believe he needed DNA from any other member of the Lange family. He also said he showed Lange a photo of Matheny, and asked if he knew her, which Lange denied.
A handwritten statement documenting this was shown to the court, reading in Lange's handwriting, "Never seen this woman in my life."
The detective also said Lange told him at the time he did not have a twin nor any family members in the area.
Following his testimony, the prosecution rested their case.
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Current campus will relocate, expand its footprint and feature state-of-the-art lab facilities
TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rasmussen University today announced the relocation and expansion of its campus in Topeka, Kansas. Construction is underway at the new location at 3712 Southwest Burlingame Road in south Topeka, conveniently located at the junction of I-470, I-335 and Highway 75, providing easy access for students throughout the region, including commuters from Wichita and Manhattan.
Rasmussen University offers over 50 career-focused programs across seven areas of study, including Business, Design, Education, Health Sciences, Justice Studies, Nursing and Technology. Many of these programs are fully online, with specific programs and support available residentially. The new Topeka campus location will feature an expanded footprint, large high-tech classrooms, quiet commons and study spaces, and debrief rooms. The new location is seven miles south of Rasmussen University's current campus, which opened in 2013.
"As we approach our 10th anniversary in the Topeka market, we couldn't be more pleased to provide students a more innovative and accessible learning environment with this new high-tech campus," said Jason Allen, campus executive director, Rasmussen University Topeka campus. "We look forward to strengthening our relationships with our existing community members and organizations and growing new clinical and employer relationships."
Students in the ACEN-accredited1 Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) and CCNE-accredited2 Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs will have the opportunity to learn in a new state-of-the-art Nursing Skills laboratory and Simulation Center that features:
- Three simulation rooms
- Nursing Station
- Two control rooms
- Two debrief rooms
- Medication room
- Prep room.
"We are committed to remaining future-focused in our curriculum and technology to help prepare our students to be career-ready and to answer the critical call for nurses," says Jamie Magana, dean of nursing at Rasmussen University. "These new and expanded resources will enhance both the faculty teaching experience and the student learning journey through the development of healthcare and critical-thinking skills, which are essential requirements for today's healthcare employers."
Classes at the current Topeka campus will continue at that location until the new campus opens in spring 2023.
ABOUT RASMUSSEN UNIVERSITY:
Rasmussen University, a university accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education., (www.hlcommission.org), is dedicated to changing lives and the communities it serves through innovative educational programs. As a pioneer in career-focused education since 1900, the University is defining a new generation of higher education that focuses on competency-based education, technology and transferable skills. Rasmussen offers undergraduate and graduate programs online and in person at 22 campuses around the country. The University is designed to lift and support its students every step of the way, from each student's first credential to their last. Rasmussen is dedicated to global enrichment, serving the underserved and meeting the evolving needs of diverse students, communities and economies. Rasmussen encourages its students, faculty and staff to strive for academic excellence, community enrichment and service to the public good. Rasmussen is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Public Education, Inc. (Nasdaq: APEI). For more information about Rasmussen University, please visit www.rasmussen.edu.
1The associate nursing program at Rasmussen University at the Overland Park campus (with an off-campus instructional site in Topeka) located in Overland Park, Kansas, is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), 3390 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1400, Atlanta, GA 30326, 404-975-5000. The most recent accreditation decision made by the ACEN Board of Commissioners for the associate nursing program is Continuing Accreditation with Conditions. View the public information disclosed by the ACEN regarding this program at http://www.acenursing.us/accreditedprograms/programSearch.htm
2The Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing degree program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, 202-887-6791.
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TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging scandal widened Tuesday with Japanese advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies charged by Tokyo district prosecutors.
Executives or management-level officials at each of the accused companies, and a Tokyo Olympic organizing committee official, were charged with violating anti-monopoly laws.
No trial dates have been set.
The charges center around the companies and individuals illegally colluding in assigning contracts for the Games, and test events that came before the Games, according to prosecutors.
Among the companies facing charges are Dentsu Group, Hakuhodo, Tokyu Agency and Cerespo. All deal with event organizing, sports promotion or marketing.
Yasuo Mori, a senior Olympic official, and Koji Henmi, who headed the sports division at Dentsu, were among the seven people charged. Both Mori and Henmi were arrested earlier this month.
Dentsu was a key force in landing the Olympics for Tokyo in 2013. French prosecutors have looked into allegations that International Olympic Committee members may have been bribed to vote for Tokyo.
Once the Olympics landed in Tokyo, Dentsu became the chief marketing arm of the Games and raised a record of $3.3 billion in local sponsorship. That was at least twice as large as any previous Olympics.
Tokyo organizers say they spent $13 billion to organize the 2020 Olympics, which were delayed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a government audit suggests the expenditure might have been twice that. At least 60% was public money.
The Tokyo scandal has soured the chances of the northern city of Sapporo of landing the 2030 Olympics. It was the early favorite. The IOC has recently sought out Stockholm, Sweden, as a potential candidate.
Prosecutors have also been investigating a separate bribery scandal centered around Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Dentsu executive.
Takahashi was a member of the Olympic organizing committee and wielded tremendous influence over the Olympic business.
The scandal involving Takahashi involves bribery allegations over Olympic sponsorships that were won by companies such as Aoki Holdings, a clothing company that dressed Japan’s Olympic team, and Sun Arrow, which produced the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic mascots.
The maximum penalty for a company convicted of bid-rigging is a fine of up to 500 million yen ($3.7 million). An individual, if found guilty, faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 5 million yen ($37,000).
Takahashi was released on bail late last year after more than four months in detention.
Trials have begun for officials at Aoki and ADK Holdings, a major advertising company, in the bribery cases.
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Suspect identified in Utah double-slaying case
MOAB, Utah (KUTV) - A father is finally getting some answers months after his daughter, Kylen Schulte, and her wife, Crystal Turner, were killed.
Their bodies were found in Utah’s La Sal mountains in August.
The Grand County Sheriff’s Office said Adam Pinkusiewicz, a former co-worker of Turner, has been identified as a suspect.
“The indications we have is we don’t know if they worked shifts together. It doesn’t seem like it. They were off of each other, but they were both employees at McDonalds,” Grand County Sheriff Steven White said.
Pinkusiewicz is no longer alive. White said he died by suicide about a month after the murders.
There is no word on a motive or his relationship with the women.
“At this point, it’s still all being investigated. We’re not ruling anything out at this point,” White said.
Authorities are asking for any information the public has on Pinkusiewicz or the Toyato Yaris he drove.
Meanwhile, Kylen Schulte’s father is processing the news, and relieved and hoping it will all be over soon.
“The only other thing I can say is I hope they can process the evidence and close the case soon,” he said.
Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman was in Moab, Utah, this week searching for answers in the case, but the sheriff’s office said they did not work with him.
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Ordaōs creates novel mini-proteins that help pharma and biotechs around the world deliver safer and more effective life-saving treatments in a fraction of the time of traditional discovery methods.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ordaōs, a biotechnology company designing novel mini-proteins to help drug hunters deliver life-saving treatments, today announced the completion of $5M in seed financing to aid in new product development and expand partner acquisition efforts. The oversubscribed round was led by Middleland Capital's VTC Ventures with additional investments from Route 66 Ventures, Banyan Pacific Capital, IAG Capital Partners, and Citta Capital. Ordaōs is a human-enabled, machine-driven drug design company that leverages proprietary multitask meta-learning and reinforcement learning to create mini-proteins that enable targeted therapies to reduce patient suffering, improve health, and extend life.
"Ordaōs' class of mini-proteins, - Ordaōs miniPRO™ - transforms the role of proteins in drug discovery by providing the power and performance of antibodies, while being more stable, configurable and easier to manufacture," said David Longo, CEO of Ordaōs. "This investment will enable us to maximize drug candidate delivery speed, novelty, and probability of clinical success that provides drug hunters what they have been dreaming of."
Scott Horner, PhD, managing director at Middleland Capital said, "We have been studying the AI drug discovery sector for some time and were blown away at how effective the Ordaōs platform is in generating high-affinity hits, across several difficult to access drug targets. This team has built something really special here, and we are excited to partner with the company to realize the full potential of their novel mini-protein creation platform."
Ordaōs uses The Ordaōs Design Engine, to deliver true protein property design - leveraging continuous learning loops and proprietary data sets to translate human-targeted product criteria into machine-designed mini-proteins. Starting with amino acids, the Design Engine generates, appraises, and ranks billions of protein sequences and hundreds of thousands of protein structures and properties to create customized miniPRO™ proteins. These proteins are then rapidly evaluated in vitro to provide intelligent feedback on multiple design objectives including protein structure, binding specificity and affinity, solubility, stability, immunogenicity, and developability. This iterative process delivers optimized mini-proteins to meet the client's specific molecular target product profile (mTPP). They are also less likely to cause adverse side effects and are easier and less expensive to test, develop, and manufacture than traditional proteins. Using this approach, the Ordaōs Design Engine creates more ideal, unseen protein leads than others and can accelerate drug candidate development, increasing the probability of more therapeutically effective candidates. All of this provides clients with a high level of confidence in their investigational new drug (IND) applications.
To learn more, visit: www.ordaos.bio.
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About Ordaōs
Ordaōs is a human-enabled, machine-driven drug design company that helps birth novel therapies to reduce patient suffering, improve health, and extend life. Our flagship solution, miniPRO™ mini-proteins, enable drug hunters to deliver safer and more effective treatments in a fraction of the time of traditional discovery methods.
About VTC Ventures
Managed by Middleland Capital, VTC Ventures is a private investment fund focused on early-stage life science and technology opportunities across the Commonwealth of Virginia and opportunities outside Virginia with a connection to Virginia Tech or Carilion Clinic. VTC Ventures aims to partner with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth, and build long-term value. For more information, please visit www.vtcventures.com.
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- More than $2.5 million in Foundation scholarships awarded since 2019
- Students eligible for $20,000 in grants each year for up to three years
CHICAGO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Foundation today announced that 18 rising Black and Latinx students majoring in finance, technology and related fields at 11 partner colleges and universities in Illinois have been awarded $20,000 in scholarships each to further their education.
While many scholarship programs are aimed at helping freshmen start college, the CME Group Foundation Scholarship Program works to ensure that sophomores, juniors, and seniors can finish their four-year degrees. Winners can reapply for up to three years of support, for a total of $60,000 in financial assistance. Since its 2019 launch, this program has awarded more than $2.5 million in scholarships to 69 talented college students.
"CME Group Foundation is pleased to play a role in driving equitable growth opportunities for under-represented students in our state by providing financial assistance for high-quality education and career development opportunities," said Terry Duffy, CME Group Chairman & Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of CME Group Foundation. "This scholarship program can help our students earn college degrees debt-free, while simultaneously opening new possibilities to explore careers at CME Group and other world-class organizations."
"We are extremely proud to learn that 15 of the 35 CME Group Foundation Scholars for 2022 are UIC students," said University of Illinois Chicago Interim Chancellor Javier Reyes. "As one of the nation's most diverse public research universities, we are devoted to creating higher education opportunities for Black and Latino students. The CME Group Foundation scholarships and internship opportunities will open doors for underrepresented students and provide exposure to careers in finance, technology and related fields."
"Loyola is grateful for the CME Group Foundation's long-running support of the University and our students, including its partnership in the CME Group Foundation Business Analytics Lab in the Quinlan School of Business," said Margaret Callahan, Provost of Loyola University Chicago. "The Scholars program furthers Loyola's core mission by providing critical opportunities for Black and Latinx students in finance and analytics, and we are especially pleased to note that three Loyola Scholars who graduated in May are now working full time at CME Group."
On August 11, CME Group executives will host an annual Market Education Day on the financial services industry during which students can learn more about internship and career opportunities available at CME Group,
Scholarship partner colleges and universities include:
- DePaul University
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Loyola University Chicago
- National Louis University
- Northern Illinois University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- St. Xavier University
- University of Illinois Chicago
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Wilbur Wright College
New recipients of the CME Group Foundation Scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year include:
- Azizat Balogun, University of Illinois Chicago
- Johnny Barrios, University of Illinois Chicago
- Nicole Beulah, DePaul University
- Emmanuel Buabeng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Aiko Castrejon, University of Illinois Chicago
- Isaac Deleon, DePaul University
- Robert Denman, Loyola University Chicago
- Monica Guzman, University of Illinois Chicago
- Feisal Hassan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Niya Hitch, DePaul University
- Klever Inga, University of Illinois Chicago
- Na'im Muhammad, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Noah Munoz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Emmanuella Nwokenkwo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Anthony Olavarria, University of Illinois Chicago
- Juan Rodriguez, University of Illinois Chicago
- Jacqueline Santiago, University of Illinois Chicago
- Gretel Trejo, University of Illinois Chicago
For more information on CME Group Foundation, visit www.cmegroupfoundation.org.
About CME Group Foundation
CME Group Foundation helps today's students keep pace with dramatically evolving technology, creating a workforce for the future that is equipped with the skills to meet tomorrow's global challenges. By bringing together the brightest minds in education to generate fresh approaches to early math, computer science, personalized learning, and college and career success, we are sparking system-wide change that benefits all students, from cradle to career, with a focus on those who are typically underrepresented in the STEM fields. They will shape the future of the world's most important industries, including our own, so we give them the tools they need to achieve their full potential.
About CME Group
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec and EBS are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD and EBS Group LTD, respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UserWay, a pioneer in AI-Powered Website Accessibility technologies whose solutions help ensure compliance with WCAG and ADA regulations, announced today that it has secured four prestigious G2 badges: Winter 2023 Leader, Winter 2023 Mid-Market Leader, 2023 Mid-Market Americas Leader, and Momentum Leader. This further cements UserWay's position as a leader in the website accessibility and digital compliance spaces.
G2 badges are awarded based on customer satisfaction, market presence, and the quality and quantity of reviews and ratings. G2.com is the world's leading B2B software review platform and the go-to resource for businesses to find the leading technology solutions.
"We are thrilled to have been awarded such recognition and coveted G2 badges," stated UserWay Founder & CEO Allon Mason. "Our team has worked incredibly hard to create an intuitive AI-powered solutions that help business, from SMBs to enterprises, create an inclusive and accessible digital experience while ensuring adherence with strict regulations. This recognition from G2 is a testament to the value of our technology to both businesses and end users and UserWay's industry-leading service, legal support programs and our push to continually innovate."
Over 60 million people, or about 25% of the US population, currently live with a disability. Despite a recent surge in digital accessibility-related lawsuits, most websites remain legally vulnerable by failing to comply with WCAG standards. UserWay helps companies become more accessible, compliant, and legally protected through a full framework of solutions, such as a website accessibility widget, automated accessibility scanning and remediation, audit reports, PDF remediations, and accessibility compliance reports.
"We are proud to be a leader in digital accessibility and compliance solutions as this landscape evolves," said Mason. "We are committed to providing our customers with the tools and services they need to create a seamless and accessible digital experience for all."
About UserWay
UserWay is a global digital accessibility leader, committed to enabling the fundamental human right of digital inclusion. UserWay solutions are trusted by more than 1 million websites globally. Al-powered technologies, combined with human-in-the-loop processes, help websites more readily achieve compliance with accessibility standards, such as WCAG 2.1 AA, EN 301-549 and Section 508 regulations, as required by US and international governmental and regulatory bodies. For more information or to see how it works, visit UserWay.org.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Red Deer 4 Medicine Hat 2
Brandon 2 Lethbridge 1
Prince Albert 2 Edmonton 1
Saskatoon 3 Calgary 0
Winnipeg 5 Kamloops 3
Tri-City 6 Everett 3
Prince George 5 Vancouver 1
Saturday's results
Lethbridge 3 Swift Current 2
Red Deer 3 Prince Albert 0
Medicine Hat 5 Brandon 1
Tri-City 7 Portland 3
Vancouver 6 Victoria 5 (OT)
Seattle 8 Spokane 3
Prince George 4 Kamloops 3 (OT)
Winnipeg 5 Kelowna 4
Sunday's results
Calgary 6 Prince Albert 2
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m.
Saskatoon 5 Edmonton 1
Vancouver 6 Kamloops 3
Wednesday's games
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Thursday's games
Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Everett at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Saturday's games
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Regina, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Portland, 6 p.m.
Tri-City at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
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A new book introduction by former student and current Communities In Schools (CIS) President and CEO Rey Saldaña reveals how support and services CIS provides show life-changing impact of empowering students through personal relationships
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Communities In Schools® (CIS®), the national organization working to ensure every student, regardless of race, zip code, or history of marginalization has what they need to succeed in school and beyond, today announced the Communities In Schools Founder Bill Milliken released a new book titled, The Last Dropout: A Model for Creating Educational Equity.
The book contains a new introduction by former CIS student and current CIS National President and CEO Rey Saldaña who reveals how Communities In Schools personally impacted his life trajectory and has allowed him to flourish in pursuit of the American dream.
"As a former CIS student, I understand firsthand the challenges and difficulties facing some students and I feel an obligation to extend my voice to encourage them," said Rey Saldaña, president & CEO of Communities In Schools. "As a community, we meet the needs of students by lifting them up with the knowledge and motivation to succeed and to maneuver past the obstacles on their journey to personal achievement."
With a forward from former President Jimmy Carter and endorsements from the likes of Shaquille O-Neal, Arnie Duncan and Stedman Graham, The Last Dropout also includes updated information and anecdotes gleaned over three decades and highlights solutions to inequitable learning conditions exacerbated by the pandemic, and how the support and services Communities In Schools provides changes lives and offers pathways to a brighter future.
"I have known Bill Milliken for decades and the personal learnings and experiences he describes in his inspirational book clearly demonstrate his love for kids," said CIS Board of Directors Chairman Elaine Wynn. "He has a unique ability to create relationships that have brought together people from all walks of life to move this work forward. CIS should be an essential asset to every school's strategic plan."
The book signing, discussion and film screening of its new documentary, The Push, will take place on Monday, December 5, 2022 at Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles.
An inspiring 22-minute documentary, The Push tells the story of Ja-Mez, a high-school senior who is preparing to graduate with his high school class of 2022 – an accomplishment that seemed impossible just two years earlier. Through the intervention of a CIS site coordinator, Ja-Mez is empowered and motivated to succeed.
Originally published in 2007, the newly revised edition of The Last Dropout by Bill Milliken offers nine key principles that Communities In Schools has tested over three decades and chronicles stories from CIS leaders who have successfully adopted these principles in their own communities. It also includes a new introduction by Rey Saldaña, and an insightful, revealing conversation between Rey and Bill, examining CIS's passionate grassroots mission and the goals they seek to achieve in the future. The Last Dropout traces the evolution of the CIS movement from a handful of groundbreaking "street academies" to a national network of hundreds of local affiliates.
Communities In Schools® (CIS ®) is a national organization that ensures every student, regardless of race, zip code, or socioeconomic background has what they need to realize their potential in school and beyond. Working directly inside more than 2,900 schools across the country, we connect students to caring adults and community resources that help them see, confront, and overcome the barriers that stand between them and a brighter future. Together, we build a powerful change movement made up of peers, students, and alumni committed to building an equitable path to education for future generations.
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US Southwest swelters under dangerous heat wave, with new records on track
PHOENIX (AP) — A dangerous heat wave threatened a wide swath of the Southwest with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits on Saturday as some cooling centers planned to extend their hours and emergency rooms prepared to treat more people will heat-related illnesses.
“Near record temperatures are expected this weekend!” the National Weather Service in Phoenix warned in a tweet, advising people to follow its heat safety tips such as drinking plenty of water and checking on family members and neighbors.
“Don’t be a statistic!” the weather service in Tucson advised, noting that extreme heat can be deadly. “It CAN happen to YOU!”
About 200 hydration stations distributing bottles of water and cooling centers where thousands of people can rest in air-conditioned spaces opened Saturday morning in public spaces like libraries, churches and businesses around the Phoenix metro area.
Charles Sanders spent Friday afternoon with his Chihuahua mix Babygirl at the air-conditioned Justa Center, which offers daytime services to older homeless people in downtown Phoenix. It’s also serving as a hydration station, distributing free bottles of water to the public.
Because of funding and staffing limitations, the center can only stay open until 5:30 p.m., so Sanders, a 59-year-old who uses a wheelchair, has spent the sweltering nights with his pet in a tattered tent behind the building.
”I’ve been here for four summers now and it’s the worst so far,” said Sanders, a former welder originally from Denver.
David Hondula, chief heat officer for the City of Phoenix, said Friday that because of the health risks, some centers were extending hours that are sometimes abbreviated because of limited volunteers and money.
“This weekend there will be some of the most serious and hot conditions we’ve ever seen,” said Hondula.
He said just one location, the Brian Garcia Welcome Center for homeless people in downtown Phoenix, planned to be open 24 hours and direct people to shelters and other air conditioned spaces for the night. During especially hot spells in some past years, the Phoenix Convention Center has opened as a nighttime cooling center, but Hondula said he had not heard of that possibility this year.
Stacy Champion, an advocate for homeless people in Phoenix, took to Twitter this week to criticize the lack of nighttime cooling spaces for unsheltered individuals, saying they are “out of luck” if they have no place to go.
In Las Vegas, casinos offered respite from the heat for many. Air-conditioned libraries, police station lobbies and other places from Texas to California planned to be open to the public to offer relief at least for part of the day.
In New Mexico’s largest city of Albuquerque, splash pads will be open for extended hours and many public pools were offering free admission. In Boise, Idaho, churches and other nonprofit groups were offering water, sunscreen and shelter.
Emergency room doctors in Las Vegas have been treating more people for heat illness as the heat wave threatened to break the city’s all-time record high of 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47.2 degrees Celsius) this weekend.
Dr. Ashkan Morim, who works in the ER at Dignity Health Siena Hospital in suburban Henderson, Nevada, spoke Friday of treating tourists this week who spent too long drinking by pools and became severely dehydrated, and a stranded hiker who needed liters of fluids to regain his strength.
About 110,000 people, or about a third of Americans, were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings Saturday as the blistering heat wave was forecast to get worse this weekend for Nevada, Arizona and California. Temperatures in some desert areas were predicted to soar in parts past 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 degrees Celsius) during the day, and remain in the 90s F (above 32.2 C) overnight.
The hot, dry conditions sparked a series of blazes in Southern California, where firefighters on Saturday battled three separate brush fires that started Friday afternoon amid the hottest weather of the year so far. The fires are in mostly rural areas of Riverside County, southeast of Los Angeles.
Phoenix on Friday marked the city’s 15th consecutive day of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) or higher temperatures, hitting 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.6 degrees Celsius) by late afternoon, and putting it on track to beat the longest measured stretch of such heat. The record is 18 days, recorded in 1974.
The heat was expected to continue into next week.
Regional health officials in Las Vegas launched a new database Thursday to report “heat-caused” and “heat-related” deaths in the city and surrounding Clark County from April to October.
The Southern Nevada Health District said seven people have died since April 11, and a total of 152 deaths last year were determined to be heat-related.
Arizona’s Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, reported this week that so far this year there have been 12 confirmed heat-associated deaths going back to April, half of them people who were homeless. Another 55 deaths are under investigation.
There were 425 confirmed heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County last year, with more than half of them occurring in July. Eighty percent of the deaths occurred outside.
Closer to the Pacific coast, temperatures were less severe, but still have made for sweaty days on picket lines in the Los Angeles area where actors joined screenwriters in strikes against producers.
In Sacramento, the California State Fair kicked off with organizers canceling planned horseracing events due to concerns for animal safety. Pet owners around the Southwest were urged to keep their animals mostly inside.
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Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop review
While every tablet, laptop and desktop has inherent strengths and weaknesses, these three devices do close to the same thing. Many people own at least two of these devices, and some have all three. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was one that had the power of a desktop, the portability of a laptop and the flexibility of a tablet?
Microsoft claims its Surface 4 Laptop is that device. According to the company, they’ve designed a stylish laptop that has “serious multitasking power,†so you can get your work done with ease.
The Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop sounded like the one device that could handle all of our computing needs. So, we tested this versatile laptop to determine if it really held up to all the marketing claims. This is what we found.
Testing the Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop
Our tester has been using laptops for about 15 years. They’ve used Apple MacBooks, MacBook Pros, HP laptops, Acer laptops and laptops from other brands as well. Our tester always looks for versatility since they use it for gaming, video editing and other resource-intensive projects.
Additionally, our tester’s ideal laptop is lightweight and travel-friendly, with enough battery life to last for an entire day of work. The screen must be bright enough to be visible in any lighting situation.
During the trial period, our tester explored the many features of the Surface 4 Laptop. Besides the aspects mentioned, they evaluated processing speed, speaker quality, video call quality and the feel of the keyboard.
What is the Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop?
The Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop is a desktop computer packed into a laptop. It has everything you need, from the impressive power required for multitasking to traditional input devices, such as a keyboard and a mouse (sold separately). This laptop also features a touchscreen, and you can fold it back to use as a tablet, either with your finger or the Surface Pen (sold separately).
We were impressed with this laptop straight out of the box. It looks and feels like a quality product. The model is thin (just 0.58 inches thick) with a stylish design, but the solid case gives you confidence that it’s built for travel. The hinges operate smoothly, but they are stiff, and some people might find the laptop difficult to open.
Spec-wise, the Surface 4 Laptop has 16GB of RAM, two USB ports and runs on Windows 11 OS. It features an 11th generation Intel core processor, a 720p HD camera, Omnisonic speakers and a studio-quality microphone.
The display is sharp, sporting visibly vibrant colors that show even in the bright afternoon sunlight. It has a 3:2 aspect ratio, which makes it more square than the average laptop or television screen. This gives you more vertical space for browsing and opening multiple windows.
Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop price and where to buy
The Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop with a 15-inch display, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage currently costs $1,499. It’s available on Amazon. Staples has a similar model with a 15-inch display, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage for $1,499.99.
How to use the Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop
Setup
Setting up the Surface 4 Laptop is a breeze, especially if you have any experience with Windows. The process involves turning on the device, connecting to Wi-Fi, creating a Microsoft account (or signing in), creating a security PIN and navigating through a few setup menus. It only takes a few minutes to get up and running.
Interface
Minus the mouse, there are two main ways to interface with this laptop: keyboard and touchscreen.
Keyboard: This laptop was designed with writers in mind. The keys are effortless to use and have just enough travel to convey a sense of precision when typing. The overall touch sensation is pillowy. While this adds comfort, some users may find this feature slightly less desirable than a clicky response.
Touchscreen: The touchscreen’s responsiveness is a high point in the design. It quickly and accurately interprets every point of contact, whether a tap, drag or pinch. The stiff hinges allow you to reach up and tap the screen while in laptop configuration without fear that it will collapse backward.
Video calls
Making a video call is as easy as navigating to your contacts list, right-clicking the desired contact and selecting “Start a Video Call.†Accepting a video call is even easier — just click the incoming alert. Video calls on the Surface 4 Laptop feature adequate image and audio, but nothing that stands out from comparable models.
Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop benefits
This laptop has the processing speed and the RAM to open and use several apps at once with no noticeable decrease in speed. It excels in all the right areas, such as responsiveness, versatility, sturdy design and long battery life. The Surface 4 Laptop also has an appealing design that enhances the user experience.
Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop drawbacks
Microsoft’s laptop has a few drawbacks. Wired connectivity is limited to one USB-A and one USB-C port. We also noticed the screen bezels seemed a bit thick. Also, the Surface Pen is not included with your purchase, and the keyboard can feel a little spongy. However, not a single one of these drawbacks is a deal-breaker because the benefits of this impressive model far outweigh these minor inconveniences.
Should you get the Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop?
If you want a versatile device that excels in productivity, the Microsoft Surface 4 Laptop should be on your list. It’s reasonably priced, it gives you the power of a desktop in a laptop and it has the versatility of a tablet.
Consider other products
If you like high-end models, this MacBook features the M1 chip and a 10-core CPU for faster performance than previous models. The 32-core GPU is designed for graphic-intensive apps, and the battery can last up to 21 hours on a single charge. The super-fast SSD storage can open files and launch apps in an instant.
Sold by Amazon
This is a comparable model for people who prefer HP products. It has a two-in-one laptop/tablet design with a 15.6-inch display. It comes loaded with Windows 11 Home, has 16GB of memory and 1TB of SSD storage.
Sold by HP
If you’re on a strict budget and just need a low-end tablet for casual use, the new Fire 7 is Amazon’s fastest and most powerful model. When compared to the previous generation, this tablet is 30% faster. It has 16GB and 32GB options, a 10-hour battery life and built-in Alexa for convenience.
Sold by Amazon, Kohl’s and Staples
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TrueCar Releases Analysis of March and First Quarter Industry Sales
Published: Mar. 29, 2023 at 2:07 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Fleet sales are at their highest in three years
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRUE), the easiest, most efficient and transparent online destination for buying and selling new and used vehicles, expects total new vehicle industry sales to reach 1,356,762 units in March 2023, up 7% from a year ago and up 4% from February 2023, when adjusted for the same number of selling days. This month's seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) for total light vehicle industry sales is an estimated 14.7 million, up 8.5% from March 2022. Excluding fleet sales, TrueCar expects U.S. retail deliveries of new cars and light trucks to be 1,131,166 units, up 3% from a year ago and up 2% from February 2023.
"While we're seeing a modest recovery in retail sales, a key focal point this month will be the return of fleet sales," said Zack Krelle, Industry Analyst at TrueCar. "Fleet growth has outpaced the retail side as manufacturers find willing and capable commercial buyers. Unit volume and share of sales are on pace to return to pre-pandemic levels. Nissan is expected to be a large contributor to fleet sales this month as they close out their fiscal year."
"Honda sales are tracking to be their best result in a year and a half," said Justin Colon, Vice President of OEM Solutions at TrueCar. "They've been able to balance an inventory recovery while keeping their portfolio fresh with new model introductions in critical segments."
Additional March Industry Insights (from TrueCar):
Total sales for March 2023 are expected to be up 7% from a year ago and up 4% from February 2023 when adjusted for the same number of selling days.
Fleet sales for March 2023 are expected to be up 31% from a year ago and up 13.5% from February 2023 when adjusted for the same number of selling days.
Average transaction price for new vehicles is projected to be up 5.6% from a year ago and even with February 2023.
Total SAAR is expected to be up 8.5% from a year ago at about 14.7 million units.
Used vehicle sales for March 2023 are expected to reach 3.4 million, down 3% from a year ago and up 6% from February 2023.
The average interest rate on new vehicles is 6.97%, on par with February 2023 and the average interest rate on used vehicles is 11%.
The average loan term on a new vehicle for March 2023 is about 69 months and the average loan term on a used vehicle is about 70 months.
Quarterly average transaction price is projected to be up 4% from a year ago and about the same as Q4 2022.
Quarterly incentive spend is down 9% from a year ago and up 27% from Q4 2022.
Quarterly Tables
(Note: This industry insight is based solely on TrueCar, Inc.'s analysis of domestic industry sales trends and conditions and is not a projection of TrueCar, Inc.'s operations.)
About TrueCar TrueCar is a leading automotive digital marketplace that lets auto buyers and sellers connect to our nationwide network of Certified Dealers. With access to an expansive inventory provided by our Certified Dealers, we are building the industry's most personalized and efficient auto shopping experience as we seek to bring more of the process online. Consumers who visit our marketplace will find a suite of vehicle discovery tools, price ratings and market context on new, used and Certified Pre-Owned vehicles. When they are ready, shoppers in TrueCar's marketplace can connect with a Certified Dealer in our network, who shares our belief that truth, transparency and fairness are the foundation of a great auto shopping experience. As part of our marketplace, TrueCar powers auto-buying programs for over 250 leading brands, including AARP, Sam's Club, Navy Federal Credit Union and American Express.
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Twins vs. Tigers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Carlos Correa and the Minnesota Twins will play Spencer Torkelson and the Detroit Tigers on Sunday at Comerica Park, at 12:10 PM ET.
The favored Twins have -145 moneyline odds against the underdog Tigers, who are listed at +120. The game's total is set at 8.5 runs.
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Twins vs. Tigers Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, June 25, 2023
- Time: 12:10 PM ET
- TV: BSDET
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
- Venue: Comerica Park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Twins Recent Betting Performance
- The Twins have played as the favorite in 10 of their past 10 games and have won four of those contests.
- In their last 10 games with a total, the Twins and their opponents have combined to hit the over six times.
- The Twins have not played a game with a spread over their last 10 outings. Minnesota games have finished below the set point total three consecutive times, and the average total during this stretch was 8.3 runs.
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Twins Betting Records & Stats
- The Twins have put together a 30-19 record in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 61.2% of those games).
- Minnesota has gone 16-15 when playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -145 or shorter (51.6% winning percentage).
- The Twins have an implied moneyline win probability of 59.2% in this game.
- Minnesota has played in 78 games with a set over/under, and have combined with its opponents to go over the total 34 times (34-39-5).
- The Twins have collected a 4-7-0 record ATS this season (covering just 36.4% of the time).
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- Linamar announces completion of its Fully Electric Technology Demonstrator BEV Pickup Truck
- Showcasing both BEV and Fuel Cell product solutions for the Commerical Vehicle market at ACT Expo in Anaheim
- Linamar will be located in Hall B, booth 5777
GUELPH, ON, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Linamar Corporation (TSX: LNR) today announced that it has completed a major Electrified Mobility R&D project - a fully functioning BEV fullsize pickup truck showcasing Linamar electrified vehicle technologies. The technology demonstrator is based off a 2500 pickup platform. The demo vehicle, along with all of Linamar's latest eLIN solutions will be on display at the 2023 Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Anaheim, California taking place May 1 – 4, 2023.
"Linamar has an an extensive portfolio of products within its eLIN electification group that OEM customers can integrate into their new EV platforms. Now, we can showcase our technology fully integrated into a functioning EV demonstration truck. Over the coming weeks and months customers will be able to get inside, go for a test drive and see first hand how our innovative solutions can help them electrify their next EV project," said Linda Hasenfratz, Linamar's Executive Chair and CEO. "The truck will be on full display this week at ACT Expo, its an incredibly exciting project brought from concept to reality by our eLIN Product Solutions Group."
The Technology Demonstrator Truck is equipped with front and rear eUD10 Beam eAxles, one of several eAxle designs with Linamar's eLIN portfolio offering that covers vehicle classes 1 through 6. With the combined eAxles, the demonstrator truck creates 4WD capability delivering over 15,200 Nm of peak torque and 750 kW peak power. The vehicle is also equipped with the eBrickTM Battery Pack, a system designed by eMatrix Custom Battery Systems, a company Linamar owns a strategic, minority stake in.
At ACT Expo, Linamar will also be highlighting the newest generation eMatrix Battery Pack design, its FlexForm hydrogen storage tank for fuel cell applications, and the second generation of its eMD15 Beam eAxle as well as a host of other Electrified Mobility & CV Truck capabilities. Through the eLIN Product Solutions Group, Linamar is well positioned to provide electrified innovations that serve the future needs of fleet and commerical truck OEMs.
For more information on the full eLIN product portfolio contact Electrification@Linamar.com or follow us on Social Media @LinamarCorp.
Linamar Corporation (TSX: LNR) is an advanced manufacturing company where the intersection of leading-edge technology and deep manufacturing expertise is creating solutions that power vehicles, motion, work and lives for the future. The Company is made up of two operating segments – the Industrial segment and the Mobility segment, both global leaders in manufacturing solutions and world-class developers of highly engineered products. The Industrial segment is comprised of Skyjack, MacDon and Salford. Skyjack manufactures scissor, boom and telehandler lifts for the aerial work platform industry. MacDon manufactures combine draper headers and self-propelled windrowers for the agricultural harvesting industry. Salford also supplies the agriculture market with farm tillage and crop fertilizer applicator equipment. The Mobility segment is subdivided into three regional groups: North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Within the Mobility segment, the regional groups are vertically integrated operations combining expertise in light metal casting, forging, machining and assembly for both the global electrified and traditionally powered vehicle markets. The Mobility segment products are focused on both components and systems for new energy powertrains, body and chassis, driveline, engine and transmission systems of these vehicles. In addition to the recently formed eLIN Product Solutions Group that focuses on Electrification, McLaren Engineering provides design, development, and testing services for the Mobility segment. Linamar's recently announced medical solutions group, Linamar MedTech, focuses on manufacturing solutions for medical devices and precision medical components. Linamar has over 28,000 employees in 66 manufacturing locations, 14 R&D centres and 28 sales offices in 17 countries in North and South America, Europe and Asia, which generated sales of more than $7.9 billion in 2022. For more information about Linamar Corporation and its industry-leading products and services, visit www.linamar.com or follow us on our social media channels.
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International Software Awards Program Announces Finalists
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perception Point, a leading provider of advanced threat prevention across digital channels, announced today that it has been declared a finalist for the Best Security Innovation in a SaaS Product (B2B, Enterprise) category this week in the international business software program, The SaaS Awards.
Perception Point's next-gen SaaS threat prevention solution addresses today's rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape by offering a one-stop-shop for protecting organizations by isolating, detecting, and remediating all threats across their main attack vectors including email, web browsers and cloud collaboration apps.
The solution boasts the best detection rates in the industry, powered by a combination of seven layers of proprietary static and next-gen dynamic detection engines, scanning 100% of content including text, files and URLs, and comes with an all-included managed Incident Response service, which optimizes detection engines on-the-fly. The free-of-charge Incident Response service fully manages and analyzes all incidents and handles end-user requests, drastically reducing the strain on SOC teams, saving up to 75% of their resources.
Deployed within the organization's existing infrastructure, including in Office 365 and Google Workspace, the cloud-native, easy-to-use SaaS solution replaces cumbersome legacy systems to detect all threats, such as APTs, zero-days, phishing, ransomware, BEC, Account Takeovers, and spam, in both Windows and Mac - a duality that other solutions have not been able to achieve.
"With the rise of digitization, organizations of all sizes are experiencing a growing number of cyberattacks that are more sophisticated than ever before and require modern advanced threat protection solutions that can protect their main attack vectors without compromising productivity," said Karen Krivaa, CMO of Perception Point.
"We are proud to have been named a finalist in this highly competitive year for the SaaS Awards and to be recognized as one of the world's most innovative SaaS security solutions. We are committed to delivering unbeatable isolation, detection and remediation solutions to protect our customers, and this latest success demonstrates the growing market awareness of the uniqueness and utility of our solution."
In its seventh edition, SaaS Awards categories include "Best SaaS for Productivity," "Highest Customer Satisfaction in a SaaS Product," and "Best Product for Financial Services."
Head of Operations for the SaaS Awards, James Williams, said: "This year the SaaS Awards received a very strong shortlist. All chosen finalists demonstrated a remarkable commitment to innovation.
"Perception Point is a worthy finalist of the SaaS Awards as its SaaS solution takes the industry a step forward. It was a pleasant surprise to see so many innovative solutions in the shortlist, but Perception Point proved to the judging panel it was a clear choice to make it to the next stage, with every possibility of being selected as the ultimate category winner."
Hundreds of organizations entered, with entries coming from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. You can view the full shortlist and all finalists here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2022-saas-awards-finalists/
Notes for editors
About the SaaS Awards
The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011. The SaaS Awards focuses on recognizing excellence and innovation in software solutions. Categories range from Best Enterprise-Level SaaS to Best UX or UI Design in a SaaS Product.
Finalists were selected by a judging panel of international industry experts. For more information about the SaaS Awards, please visit https://www.cloud-awards.com/software-as-a-service-awards/.
About the Cloud Awards
The Cloud Awards is an international program which recognizes and honors industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing. The awards are open to large, small, established and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2023 and beyond.
The Cloud Awards currently offers two awards programs, the Cloud Computing Awards and the Software-as-a-Service Awards.
Categories for the Cloud Computing Awards include Most Promising Start-Up, Best SaaS, and "Best in Mobile" Cloud Solution.
About Perception Point
Perception Point is a Prevention-as-a-Service company for the fastest and most accurate next-generation detection and response to all attacks across email, cloud collaboration channels, and web browsers. The solution's natively integrated incident response service acts as a force multiplier to the SOC team, reducing management overhead, improving user experience and delivering continuous insights; providing proven best protection for all organizations.
Deployed in minutes, with no change to the enterprise's infrastructure, the patented, cloud-native and easy-to-use service replaces cumbersome legacy systems to prevent phishing, BEC, spam, malware, Zero-days, ATO, and other advanced attacks well before they reach end-users. Fortune 500 enterprises and organizations across the globe are preventing content-borne attacks across their email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration channels with Perception Point.
To learn more about Perception Point, visit our website, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
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BOISE, Idaho — Many people in the United States are affected by loneliness and social isolation, putting them at risk for dementia and other serious medical conditions. This is why sending out a Christmas Card this holiday season; you should consider sending it to a nursing home where it can be much more impactful than you can imagine.
"Being lonely is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Having a sedentary lifestyle, we think of this as just a mental health issue, but it's really well beyond that," said Janet Miller, Program Specialist for the Idaho Commission on Aging.
The Idaho Commission on Aging has launched a campaign to make a difference in the lives of those experiencing loneliness this holiday season. They encouraged the community to write letters to residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities in your area.
According to the CDC, older adults are at increased risk for loneliness and social isolation, putting them at risk of serious medical conditions.
"Sometimes, that's the only time they have anybody think about them or ask them any questions," said Ralph Pate, a resident at the Idaho State Veterans Home.
A Christmas card to elderly people could mean a world of difference as many don't have family or friends outside the facility to spend the holidays with.
"At least for me to see even first and second graders that just learned how to write, the spelling isn't always there, but the words are," said Bob Kean, a resident at the Idaho State Veterans Home.
The Idaho State Veterans Home in Boise received over 1,000-holiday cards last year and hopes to neighbor-assisting home facilities get the same response this holiday season.
"There have been tears; there has been laughter, there has been sharing cards; it's pretty amazing here with the beautiful cards that come in and the residents that get to enjoy them," said April Floyd, Activities Coordinator for the Idaho State Veterans Home.
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Highest-paid tight ends for the 2022 NFL season originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
Tight end is one of the most important positions in football.
Not only are these big-bodied players expected to catch passes, they also serve as a de facto sixth lineman in certain offensive schemes.
With their increasing responsibilities, tight ends across the league have seen an uptick in their salaries. That became even more evident when the Las Vegas Raiders inked Darren Waller to a reported three-year, $51 million extension on Saturday. Waller’s deal came two days after the Buffalo Bills locked in Dawson Knox with a four-year extension worth $53.6 million.
Here’s a breakdown of NFL tight end salaries ahead of the 2022 season (via Spotrac):
Who is the highest-paid tight end in the NFL?
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle is the highest-paid tight end in the NFL this season at $15 million. Kittle, 28, signed a five-year, $75 million extension with the 49ers back in 2020, keeping him in the Bay through the 2025 season.
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Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs is just behind Kittle, as he’ll earn $14,312,500 in 2022 while catching passes from Patrick Mahomes. Kelce leads all tight ends with 704 receptions since he was drafted in 2013.
Philadelphia Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert ($14.25 million) and Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrew ($14 million) are the only other NFL tight ends who will make at least $14 million in 2022.
Waller and Knox will not see the new money in their extensions during the 2022 season. Waller’s extension kicks in beginning with the 2024 season, while Knox’s starts in 2023.
Who is the lowest-paid tight end in the NFL?
There are 179 tight ends under contract in the NFL, and the Bills’ Tommy Sweeney will make the least amount of money in 2022 at $654,046. Sweeney, 27, was a seventh-round pick by the Bills in 2019. He started three games last season, totaling nine receptions and one touchdown.
Five other players are just ahead of Sweeney, making $660,000: Zach Davidson (Minnesota Vikings), Joc Fortson (Kansas City Chiefs), Kenny Yeboah (New York Jets), Brock Wright (Detroit Lions) and Tyler Mabry (Seattle Seahawks).
Who are the highest-paid tight ends in the NFL?
In total, there are 11 tight ends making at least $10 million this season. Here’s a look at the top 20 tight ends by 2022 salary:
1. George Kittle, 49ers: $15 million
2. Travis Kelce, Chiefs: $14.3 million
3. Dallas Goedert, Eagles: $14.25 million
4. Mark Andrews, Ravens: $14 million
5. David Njoku, Browns: $13.7 million*
T-6. Hunter Henry, Patriots: $12.5 million
T-6. Jonnu Smith, Patriots: $12.5 million
T-8. Mike Gesicki, Dolphins: $10.93 million**
T-8. Dalton Schultz, Cowboys: $10.93 million**
10. Zach Ertz, Cardinals: $10.55 million*
11. Tayson Hill, Saints: $10 million
12. Evan Engram, Jaguars: $9 million*
13. Kyle Pitts, Falcons: $8.23 million
14. Logan Thomas, Commanders: $8.02 million
T-15. C.J. Uzomah, Jets: $8 million*
T-15. Will Dissly, Seahawks: $8 million*
17. Darren Waller, Raiders: $7.45 million
18. Tyler Higbee, Rams: $7.25 million
19. Cameron Brate, Buccaneers: $6.8 million
20. Tyler Conklin, Jets: $6.75 million*
*signed new contract this offseason
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MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flash Global, the leading authority on worldwide supply chain solutions in the post sales logistics service space, today announced it was nominated and selected for the Cisco 2022 Excellence in Service Logistics. Cisco unveiled the award nominees and winners at its annual Supplier Appreciation Event (SAE) attended by hundreds of component suppliers, manufacturing partners, logistics partners, and Cisco employees. The 31st annual hybrid SAE was held in-person and aired virtually on Cisco TV on September 15, 2022.
This award recognizes Flash Global for demonstrating the highest levels of performance, collaboration and innovation in its service logistics offering along with its alignment and commitment to Cisco.
"We are truly honored to receive Cisco's 2022 Excellence in Service Logistics award. As the world faced two years that were beyond challenging on so many levels, to be recognized for excellence in this environment is even more meaningful," said Sam Mikels, CEO of Flash Global. "This truly underscores the strength of our 23+ year strategic partnership, grounded in mutual collaboration, trust and creativity as we evolve and grow alongside Cisco in the future."
"Thanks in part to our supplier and partner relationships, Cisco recently closed out a strong fiscal year despite a myriad of ongoing pressures and global disruptions. We continue to double down on our collaborative and strategic efforts focused on resiliency, security, and sustainability," said Marco de Martin, VP Supplier Management, Cisco. "Our SAE theme this year, "Powering Growth Together" highlights the aptitude of our partner and supplier network to innovate and adapt in a collaborative spirit as we deliver for customers. Together, we will continue making significant investments in hybrid cloud, hybrid work, Security, IoT, 5G and Wi-Fi in response to technology megatrends and transitions across the globe. Now more than ever, it is an exciting time to work with Cisco as we make significant investments in our supply chain, transform our business, and look to the future as one team."
At SAE, Cisco celebrated the collective achievements and contributions of its most strategic supply chain partners and recognized the suppliers and partners that executed exceptionally well across the supply chain.
About Flash Global
Headquartered in New Jersey, Flash Global designs and implements end-to-end service supply chain strategies for rapidly expanding companies, including many of the world's top high-tech companies. Flash creates global solutions that are locally fueled, which enables companies to efficiently scale in countries all around the world. Companies leverage in-region and in-country expertise throughout Flash's worldwide infrastructure of global service centers, a global command center, distribution centers and forward stocking locations to seamlessly move products across international borders and serve their customer bases. To learn more about Flash Global, visit http://www.flashglobal.com.
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Amazfit's latest GPS sports smartwatches and adidas Running together deliver ultimate fitness and health tracking for wearers
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amazfit, a leading global smart wearables brand owned by Zepp Health (NYSE: ZEPP), a health technology company, has released the Zepp App firmware update version 7.1.0. This new update integrates support for the adidas Running app, allowing Amazfit's newly-launched GTR 4 and GTS 4 to sync activity data to adidas Running.
Users can instantly check sports performance data on their Amazfit GTR 4 and GTS 4, which will be synced to the Zepp App upon completion of their workout. From there, and once their Zepp App account and adidas Running account are connected, users will be able to share sports data like distance, duration, speed, start/end time, and so on, to the adidas Running community.
The new Amazfit GTR 4 and GTS 4 are built for users who lead an active, fitness-focused lifestyle. Equipped with over 150 sports modes, both sports smartwatches can automatically recognize eight sports, as well as supporting an advanced 'Track Run mode' to display professional lap running data. The GTR 4 and GTS 4 provide ultra-accurate positioning and movement tracking, thanks to the industry-first dual-band circularly-polarized GPS antenna, built into both smartwatches. Additionally, the mini app ecosystem available to users has been further enriched with new apps, including the fitness-themed Weight Records and Calorie Intake Record apps - to help facilitate a comprehensive approach to health and fitness from the wrist. More mini apps will also be added soon.
To get started, visit How to connect adidas Running with Amazfit and follow the steps to complete the account link on the Zepp App, and enjoy joining an online community of sports lovers.
About Amazfit
Amazfit, a leading global smart wearables brand focused on health and fitness, is part of Zepp Health ( NYSE: ZEPP), a health technology company. Offering a wide selection of smart watches and bands, Amazfit's brand essence is "Up Your Game", encouraging users to live their passions and express their active spirits freely. Amazfit is powered by Zepp Health's proprietary health management platform that delivers cloud-based 24/7 actionable insights and guidance to help users attain their wellness goals.
Launched in 2015, Amazfit is today embraced by millions of users. Its products are available in more than 90 countries across the Americas, and EMEA and APAC regions. For more information about Amazfit, visit www.amazfit.com/.
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Peak bloom has arrived for the thousands of Japanese cherry blossom trees at the National Mall in Washington, and the area is awash in magnificent pink and white.
Predicting the timing of peak bloom — defined as when 70% of the blossoms have opened — has been getting harder. In the 1920s, the average peak bloom was April 5. That moved up to March 31 in recent years, and the 2023 peak arrived yet a week earlier, according to the National Park Service on Thursday.
“I’m feeling like this is going to be the trend” due to climate change, said Matthew Morrison, the park service's urban forester charged with overseeing the trees' care.
The annual National Cherry Blossom Festival, which runs through April 16, celebrates Japan’s 1912 gift of 3,020 cherry trees to the city of Washington.
Two of those trees were planted by First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, with just a few onlookers present. That small gathering became the origin of the festival, which officially launched 23 years later, in 1934.
The average lifespan of a Japanese cherry tree falls roughly between 30 and 40 years, depending on variety, yet the two trees planted by Taft and Chinda and a handful of other trees are still standing 111 years later.
“That defies science,” said Morrison, who attributes the anomaly to “a little bit of magic tied to this wonderful gift,” and the attentive, year-round care his team provides.
Many of the 3,700 trees blooming at the 146-acre park today are offspring of the originals, cultivated from clippings, Morrison said. Others are regularly donated by the Casey Trees philanthropic group of Washington.
Morrison oversees a team of just three arborists charged with caring for the cherry trees, and keeps a “personal health record” for each.
The arborists, armed with climbing gear, ladders and chippers, visit each tree to provide pruning and other care. They record their findings in a database.
Three years ago, Morrison introduced the practice of mulching the trees with “copious amounts of wood chips” to create the most beneficial growing conditions possible. As the chips decompose, he said, they release beneficial fungi and bacteria that connect the trees' root systems and “allow them to communicate with one another and transport nutrients to each other, so now they function as one super-organism.”
The wood chips also serve as a physical barrier between the lawn and the trees, eliminating the mower and string-trimmer injuries that have plagued their lower trunks for years.
Morrison recommends the same practice for homeowners growing trees in their own yards. When wood chips are applied over the root zones, he said, “you can pretty much turn your back on the tree,” adding that “it would never need any fertilizer, amendments” or supplemental water.
“Even on the hottest days of summer when it hasn’t rained, I dig down in the wood chips and find moisture,” he said.
For best results, Morrison advises adding 6 inches of fresh wood chips around trees. “That 6 inches will compress to 3½ or 4 inches, and that’s a good level to maintain,” he said, adding that the chips will smother grass and weeds so can be applied right over them.
More tips from Morrison:
— Keep wood chips at least 3-4 inches away from tree trunks. Ideally, extend them as far over the soil as the branches reach overhead, but, if necessary, a smaller application can be made on smaller properties to avoid mulching the entire yard.
— If grass grows through the wood chips, use a metal rake to fluff them up or cover the breakthrough growth with more chips.
— Finally, learn proper pruning techniques, and prune away dead or diseased wood every winter while the tree is dormant.
Morrison also recommends the Yoshino cultivar (that of most of the National Mall's cherry blossom trees) to homeowners.
“It’s one of the best growers and the best to flower,” he said. “Kwanzan cherry also is a good grower and gets a little bigger than Yoshino.”
Before selecting a tree to grow at home, however, Morrison recommends finding your local plant hardiness zone and researching which types will grow best in your region.
As for the National Cherry Blossom Festival, it spans five weekends and includes a roster of events throughout Washington and its suburbs, including a Japanese street festival, 5K and 10-mile runs, fireworks, food fairs and more. If you can’t make it, peep the trees live via the Trust for the National Mall’s Bloom Cam.
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House Republicans plan to put sharp scrutiny on China next year if they win the majority, including establishing a select committee to take on Beijing on a range of economic and military issues.
And while much of the their agenda consists of aggressively investigating the Biden administration and pushing partisan priorities, Republicans are hopeful that work on China and the select committee will be a largely bipartisan, non-adversarial venture that has lasting impacts in tackling a generational challenge.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), a member of House Intelligence and Armed Services committees, said that there is “huge opportunity in divided government” to get “bipartisan work” done on China.
Creating a China select committee has been a longtime goal of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who tried to work with Democrats to create one in 2020.
But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Republicans say, pulled Democrats out of a planned China panel the day before the original launch date that February, around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Washington Post reported at the time that Democrats had concerns about the China issue being too politicized.
After plans for a bipartisan group crumbled, McCarthy organized a House GOP China “Task Force,” led by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Despite the task force lacking Democratic participation, McCarthy flaunted to Roll Call later that year that “more than 60 percent of the ideas are bipartisan.” A select committee would be a continuation of that effort.
Some proposals from members on the GOP China Task Force were included in a $280 billion bill to boost domestic chip manufacturing industry and fund scientific research that was passed and signed into law earlier this year. House GOP leaders whipped against the final version of the bill, however, over larger political and tax objections.
“This really isn’t just a military effort, or even a whole-of-government effort,” said Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), but an “all-of-society effort.”
Waltz said he has experienced good bipartisan working relationships with Democrats when working on China policy that has a national-security focus. But he is not certain that would case on some domestic issues related to influence of the Chinese Communist Party — or for members who do not have access to classified information about Chinese threats.
“I just don’t know the appreciation for example, of some Democrats that are on Ed and Labor, and are they concerned about the amount of CCP-backed money flowing into university endowments? Or the number of university students who will get a visa to come to here on a liberal arts degree, and then switch their major to nanotechnology while here? And there’s no provision within our visa law to really kind of capture that,” Waltz said.
“There were kind of so many disparate, uncoordinated efforts going on that the task force really pulled a lot of that together,” said Waltz, a member of the Armed Services Committee who was also on the task force.
Specific plans and focus for the select committee are in deliberation and may change depending on who is selected to be on it, but a person familiar with the plans expects it to put a large focus on domestic, economic and tech issues. Some standing committees with access to classified information take the lead on matters of hard military power.
Boosting U.S. competition with China in the tech space, the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in American universities and Beijing’s purchase of agricultural land in the U.S. are all possible areas of focus for a select committee, which is expected to collaborate with standing panels. McCarthy said in a September radio interview that he envisions the select committee focusing on China’s control of critical minerals, its stealing of U.S. technology and its fraught relationship with Taiwan.
“A select committee on China could go a long way towards coordinating policy across the many committee jurisdictions and thereby create a more coherent approach to our China policy,” said Gallagher, adding that it might also focus on human rights issues and “ideological warfare.”
Both Gallagher and Waltz said that they are interested in looking at policy moves to incentivize rather than mandate the decoupling of supply chains that are too dependent on China.
“This will be won or lost economically way before it is militarily,” Waltz said.
GOP focus on Taiwan will extend far beyond the planned select committee.
On the House Foreign Affairs Committee, likely to be chaired by McCaul in a GOP majority, weapons sales to Taiwan will be a large focus for Republicans, particularly with the Russian invasion of Ukraine stoking fears about a Beijing attack on the island.
“There’s a whole series of things you can do when it comes to hard power and deterrence over Taiwan,” Gallagher said.
McCaul has also called for a 90-day review of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, and whether it is adequately enforcing compliance rules relating to trade and national security.
Rep. James Comer (Ky.), the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, plans to use his committee to dig into the origins of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China, with an eye on the theory that the virus originated in a lab.
China is also a top concern for the House Intelligence Committee.
“We know the Chinese Communist Party continues to invest and develop cyber, space, biological and nuclear weapons. Our members will continue to work with our Intelligence Community as well as our Congressional colleagues to best address these threats,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), ranking member on the Intelligence panel, said in a statement. | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/republicans-sharpen-knives-for-china-with-eye-on-house-majority/ | 2022-10-28 11:07:57 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/republicans-sharpen-knives-for-china-with-eye-on-house-majority/ |
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria's leader says he will move forward with a minority government following the withdrawal of one of the four parties from the country's centrist coalition government.
“A minority government is better than one that is under constant pressure and extortion (from a coalition partner),” Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told reporters on Wednesday.
Three ministers of the populist There Is Such a People party left the government, among them Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska, putting the future of the governing coalition in jeopardy. Their party leader, Slavi Trifonov, cited disagreements with the revision of the state budget proposed by the prime minister, accusing him of leading the country toward bankruptcy by raising new debt.
Trifonov also accused the prime minister of ignoring Bulgaria’s national interests by making concessions to neighboring North Macedonia so it can start European Union accession talks.
“As of today, I am withdrawing our ministers and I am putting an end to this coalition and this agony,” Trifonov said.
The ruling four-party coalition commands 134 seats in the 240-seat National Assembly, but without the support of Trifonov’s 25 legislators it would be left short of a majority. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Bulgaria-s-ruling-coalition-threatened-by-17227812.php | 2022-06-08 19:58:24 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Bulgaria-s-ruling-coalition-threatened-by-17227812.php |
'Saucesicles' celebrate the saucy side of iconic chicken brand
ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zaxby's, the premium quick-service restaurant, beloved for its Chicken Fingerz™, wings and legendary Zax Sauce, has partnered with Alabama-based gourmet popsicle brand Frios to introduce sauce-flavored popsicles. Zaxby's 'Saucesicles' will be available for FREE on Sept. 19 online through saucesicles.com, first come first served, while supplies last. The frozen treat will feature two of the brand's boldest sauces: Zax Sauce® and Tongue Torch®.
"Saucesicles were created for our most loyal fans that can't get enough of our signature sauces. The collaboration with Frios is built on flavor, bringing together two iconic Southern brands," said Patrick Schwing, chief marketing and strategy officer at Zaxby's.
The Saucesicles come in two flavors: Zax Sauce and Tongue Torch. The Zax Sauce-flavored Saucesicle features all the sweet and tangy and creamy flavors created by the secret blend of spices, black pepper and Worcestershire Sauce. The Tongue Torch Saucesicle is a mild heat tomato pop with notes of garlic, paprika, turmeric and a hint of lime.
Zaxby's has renamed the month of September 'Saucetember' to highlight the brand's proprietary portfolio of 12 dipping and tossing sauces. Zaxby's is celebrating 'Saucetember' by treating its loyal fan base to this saucy goodness on a stick.
Saucesicles come in packs of eight and are limited to one order per person. States excluded from shipping include Alaska, California, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Puerto Rico and Washington.
For fans who might miss out on the spicy-saucy treat, Zaxby's will also offer a Buy-One-Get-One-Half-Off (BOGOHO) Boneless Wings Meal Deal with wings tossed in one of Zaxby's eight sauces, when ordering through the app on September 27.
"Partnering with Zaxby's on this one-of-a-kind project has been a fantastic opportunity, bringing to life Zaxby's unique idea for a new offering of their sauces," Cliff Kennedy, CEO and founder of Frios added.
Founded in 1990, Zaxby's is committed to serving delicious chicken fingers, wings, sandwiches and salads with Southern hospitality and a modern twist. For the second year in a row, Zaxby's iconic Signature Sandwich has won Thrillist's 2022 Fasties Award for Best Fried Chicken Sandwich. Zaxby's has grown to more than 900 locations in 17 states and is headquartered in Athens, Georgia. For more information, visit zaxbys.com or zaxbysfranchising.com.
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Some York County schools close early for winter break because of the weather
Some students will be getting an extra day off in their winter break because of the forecasted high winds and potential for flash freezing as temperatures are expected to plummet on Friday.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill advisory for several counties, including Adams and York. It is in effect from 1 p.m. Friday until 11 a.m. Saturday.
Wind chills as low as 15 below zero are predicted, the agency said. Areas will see wind gusts between 35 and 45 mph.
Numerous school districts, such as Central, Dover and York City, already were scheduled to be closed on Friday for the holiday break.
Others had planned to remain open on Friday, but due to the weather conditions, some have chosen to close on Friday. They are:
In addition, the County of York has announced that its county and court offices will close at noon because of the weather forecast. | https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/york-county-schools-start-winter-break-early-because-of-frigid-weather/69752220007/ | 2022-12-23 00:17:30 | 1 | https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/york-county-schools-start-winter-break-early-because-of-frigid-weather/69752220007/ |
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