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INDIANAPOLIS — Residents of a hotel on the west side are worried about not having a roof over their heads.
This comes after the owner tried to evict dozens of them without giving notice.
"Our mission is to keep people from becoming homeless and keep them from eviction," Andrew Merkley, Administrator of Homelessness Policy and Eviction Prevention said.
It's all hands on deck for the Indianapolis Office of Public Health and Safety.
Crews from across the city including IndyGo, Wheeler Mission, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, peacemakers, and more are helping protect dozens of residents at the Oyo Hotel after the owner allegedly cut off the utilities and sent them packing on Thursday.
"When they cut the power off, they sent people in a loop of panic because people need electricity, oxygen and sure enough it's hot," Eddie Withers said.
"On top of that, their utilities had been shut off and it was 96 degrees outside so kind of a chaotic situation. We immediately started desolating then resources started coming," Dane Nutty, President and CEO of Indy Public Safety said.
Residents pay in advance, which is why the city says a 30-day eviction notice must be given before kicking them out.
"Indiana Legal Services advise that without a formal eviction from a judge these folks don't have to leave the hotel. I encourage residents to reach out to Indiana Legal Services and submit an intake form so they can be made aware of their legal rights and figure out what's next for them," Merkley said.
Managers, Mary Spears and Kathy Fugate say the owner claims the property is under new management.
"I was at the front desk working and he comes in and said 'This is your new boss,' and the new boss looked and said you're done," Spears said.
"Then he called yesterday and told me to get Mary, to go get everybody out. They have to leave the property and he’s shutting the lights off and he did. He shut them off within an hour," Fugate said.
Marion County Assessor records show YAS Investment LLC. owns Oyo Hotel.
The property is also registered to a hotel off Keystone Avenue.
WRTV called, emailed, and went to the property looking for answers.
The email provided on the LLC's website which is located in Dubai, bounced back.
The owner was not on-site and did not answer the phone.
"I'm just lost," Spears said. "We are trying to help these people because they’re like family. It just breaks my heart that he would do that to people, elderly, kids he doesn’t give a s***."
Families living at the hotel said they don't know what the future holds and can't afford to move anywhere else.
"It's not easy to find apartments and housing. All the other hotels are at least $100 a night," Miller said.
"It's either living here or living in my truck," resident Robert Lawn said.
The city says it's doing all it can to keep these residents off the streets.
OPHS will be on-site through at least June 24, helping residents apply for Indy rent assistance.
"The message I want them to know is, there is a group of people that are here to serve in situations like this, not only be there like last night when it was going down but for days and weeks to come," Nutty said.
Citizens Energy tells WRTV it has been in communication with the property owner and does not plan to shut off the water.
WRTV also reached out to AES to see why the electricity was shut off.
We are still waiting to hear back. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/ophs-provides-rent-assistance-to-residents-being-evicted-from-west-side-hotel | 2022-06-17 23:21:21 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/ophs-provides-rent-assistance-to-residents-being-evicted-from-west-side-hotel |
PHOENIX (AP) _ Mesa Air Group Inc. (MESA) on Monday reported a fiscal third-quarter loss of $10 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Phoenix-based company said it had a loss of 28 cents. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 20 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 23 cents per share.
The regional airline posted revenue of $134.4 million in the period.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — LAS VEGAS (AP) — PlayAGS Inc. (AGS) on Tuesday reported a loss of $334,000 in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Las Vegas-based company said it had a loss of 1 cent.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 8 cents per share.
The gaming industry supplier posted revenue of $83.2 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $77.5 million.
PlayAGS shares have climbed 8% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $5.52, a fall of 8% in the last 12 months.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes requested a new trial Tuesday, asserting in a court filing that a key witness for the prosecution now regrets the role he played in her conviction for investor fraud and conspiracy related to her failed blood-testing startup.
The petition centers on the reliability of testimony provided by former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, who said he repeatedly raised concerns about the accuracy of bloods tests that were being administered to patients during his tenure in 2013 and 2014.
Prosecutors highlighted Rosendorff’s testimony during their closing arguments to a jury that convicted Holme s on four felony counts of investor fraud and conspiracy earlier this year after a nearly four-month trial. The same jury acquitted Holmes on charges of fraud and conspiracy against patients who had their blood tested by Theranos.
Rosendorff, reached via LinkedIn, said he had no comment, adding “Do not contact me.”
Holmes, 38, is currently free on bail, but is facing up to 20 years in prison at a sentencing hearing scheduled for Oct. 17 in San Jose, California.
Her lawyers argued in a 17-page filing that Rosendorff is now expressing misgivings about his testimony, based on recent actions described in the court document.
The filing states that Rosendorff appeared at the home Holmes shares with her partner, William Evans, on the evening of August 8 in an attempt to meet with her. Evans intercepted Rosendorff, according to the document, and asked him to leave.
Before departing, according to the filing, Rosendorff told Evans that during his trial testimony “he tried to answer the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to make everyone look bad” and now feels like “he had done something wrong.” Before he appeared at Holmes’ residence, the document said, Rosendorff left a 30-second voicemail for one of her lawyers asking for a face-to-face meeting with Holmes because he thought it could be “quite healing” for both of them.
In their filing, Holmes lawyers said they had not been able to ask Rosendorff for further information about his reflections on his trial testimony for ethical reasons. The lawyers proposed an Oct. 3 hearing to discuss why they believe Rosendorff’s recent actions merit a new trial.
Also on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila formally rejected a request to set aside the jury’s verdicts in Holmes’ trial. Davila’s decision cited Rosendorff’s testimony in support of his ruling. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/ap-elizabeth-holmes-seeks-new-trial-cites-key-witness-regrets/ | 2022-09-07 19:58:58 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/ap-elizabeth-holmes-seeks-new-trial-cites-key-witness-regrets/ |
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MIAMI (AP) — It was Kids Day in Miami, so it made sense that the youngest Heat starter would lead the way.
And the oldest member of the Heat rotation came up big, too.
Tyler Herro scored a game-high 26 points, Kyle Lowry had nine of his 17 in the final 3:03 — with the game on the line — and Miami rallied to beat the New Orleans Pelicans 100-96 on Sunday.
“When we get stops and run in transition, we're a hard team to beat," Heat center Bam Adebayo said.
Adebayo and Jimmy Butler each scored 18 for Miami, which trailed by 16 in the first half.
Trey Murphy III had 17 for New Orleans, which got 14 points and 16 rebounds from Jonas Valanciunas. CJ McCollum scored 13 and Larry Nance Jr. added 12 for for the Pelicans.
New Orleans’ 25th turnover came on a five-second violation with 15.1 seconds left, with the Heat up by two. The Pelicans argued that Dyson Daniels was calling for a time-out before the violation, to no avail.
“I felt like I called time-out ... didn't get the call," Daniels said. “It is what it is."
New Orleans wound up winning a jump ball shortly after the violation to regain possession, and McCollum got a good look at a 3-pointer for the lead with 7.6 seconds left. It rimmed out and Victor Oladipo put the game away for Miami with two free throws.
The Heat turned those 25 New Orleans turnovers into 28 points. New Orleans turned 22 Miami turnovers into 31 points.
“It was taxing." Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “It feels like mistake after mistake, but that's also not giving them credit. They are extremely good at what they do."
The Heat had eight turnovers turned into 15 points in the first quarter alone, the last three coming when Devonte’ Graham intercepted a pass at midcourt and swished a 45-footer. Graham then opened the second quarter with a more conventional 3, giving him six points in a span of 22 seconds and helping New Orleans take a big lead early.
The Pelicans led by 16 points on two occasions in the first half, the last coming when Murphy had a dunk with 3:52 left. That made it 47-31, and that was still the score 2 minutes later when Herro made a 3 to begin what was a 10-0 run to end the half by the Heat.
That cut the deficit to six at halftime, and it stayed a single-digit game the rest of the way.
“I'm proud of our guys, the fight that they had tonight," Pelicans coach Willie Green said. “Guys competed. They played at a high level, executed at a high level at both ends of the floor. We came up short and we just have to take care of the basketball."
TIP-INS
Pelicans: Brandon Ingram (toe) missed his 28th consecutive game, but played 5-on-5 on Saturday and is “progressing,” Green said. ... Zion Williamson is in his fourth season, and still hasn’t played before fans in Miami. He has missed six of the eight Heat-Pelicans games since he entered the league, and his only time playing in Miami was Christmas 2020, when the building was empty because of the pandemic.
Heat: Some of the FTX signage is gone from the building, which is being called Miami-Dade Arena for now. The logo of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange has been removed from the playing floor. ... Dewayne Dedmon did not play for the fifth consecutive game, not including the one he missed while suspended for an Jan. 10 incident against Oklahoma City. ... The Kids Day game involves having children, some whose parents are Heat broadcasters, involved in the telecast.
JUMPING WEATHER
Green had a windmill dunk during the team’s practice in Miami on Saturday, the video captured and shared by Daniel Bove — New Orleans’ Director of Sports Science and Performance. “You get in this humidity and it warms your ligaments up a bit,” Green said. “I don’t know if I could do the same thing in Cleveland or Detroit.”
ANOTHER CLOSE ONE
The game was the 35th for Miami decided by eight points or less this season. The Heat are now 19-16 in such games. “The Miami Heat fanbase, they get their money's worth," Spoelstra said.
UP NEXT
Pelicans: Host Denver on Tuesday.
Heat: Host Boston on Tuesday.
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Mark Murphy’s tenure as leader of the Pack is coming to a close
The Packers’ President announced on Saturday that, as is customary protocol, he’ll transition out of his current role in the summer of 2025.
All members of the Packers board do exactly that when they turn 70 years old.
With 3 years left as President, it’s fair to start taking stock of what type of legacy Murphy will leave to his successor.
Off the field? A+.
Murphy grown the Packers from a corner store mom and pop shop to a money-printing corporation with a globally recognized brand.
He deserves a ton of credit for the most recent round of stadium renovations, the growth of the Titletown District, and the overall positive financial status of the team.
As for football operations, the rest is still unwritten.
While he’s got a Super Bowl under his belt, a lot of the building blocks were in place prior to his ascension to President.
The current regime is undoubtedly his, from head coach on down.
One more Super Bowl will cement his place in Packers’ lore.
I can think of somebody else in the same position that has about 3 years left in Green Bay, too. | https://wtmj.com/green-bay-packers/2022/07/06/extra-points-murphys-legacy/ | 2022-07-06 10:48:35 | 1 | https://wtmj.com/green-bay-packers/2022/07/06/extra-points-murphys-legacy/ |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
319 AM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Palo Duro Canyon.
* WHEN...From this evening through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Low-water
crossings may be flooded.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- An area of moderate to perhaps heavy rainfall may develop
over the southern Texas Panhandle, leading to excessive
runoff in areas of complex terrain, such as Palo Duro Canyon.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Pegasystems Inc. ("PEGA" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PEGA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of PEGA investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased PEGA common stock between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
PEGA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) PEGA had engaged in corporate espionage and misappropriation of trade secrets to better compete against Appian, a principal competitor; (2) defendants' product development and associated success was, in significant part, not the result of its own research and product testing but rather the result of such corporate espionage and trade secret theft; (3) defendants had engaged in a scheme to steal Appian trade secrets, which was not only known to, but carried out through, the personal involvement of the Company's CEO; (4) the Company's CEO and other officers and employees did not comply with the Company's written Code of Conduct, including its express prohibition on "stealing" confidential information from a competitor and "misrepresenting your identity in hopes of obtaining confidential information"; (5) the Company was "unable to reasonably estimate damages" in the lawsuit filed by Appian as a result of the foregoing misconduct (the "Appian Litigation"); and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about PEGA's business, operations, prospects, legal compliance, and potential damages exposure in the Appian Litigation were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis when made.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in PEGA during the relevant time frame, you have until July 18, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
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GREENBELT, Md., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MARYLAND
IF YOU PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED 2U, INC. ("2U") COMMON STOCK ("2U SECURITIES") FROM FEBRUARY 26, 2018 THROUGH JULY 30, 2019, BOTH DATES INCLUSIVE (THE "CLASS PERIOD"), YOU COULD RECEIVE A PAYMENT FROM A CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT. CERTAIN PERSONS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE DEFINITION OF THE SETTLEMENT CLASS AS SET FORTH IN THE STIPULATION AND AGREEMENT OF SETTLEMENT.
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY. YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT PENDING IN THIS COURT.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and by Order of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, that in the above-captioned litigation (the "Action"), a Settlement has been proposed for $37,000,000.00 in cash. A hearing will be held on December 9, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., before the Honorable Theodore D. Chuang, at the United States District Court, District of Maryland, 6500 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt, MD 20770, or remotely per details that will be made publicly available on the Settlement website (www.2USecuritiesClassAction.com), for the purpose of determining whether: (1) the proposed Settlement should be approved by the Court as fair, reasonable and adequate; (2) the Judgment as provided under the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement (the "Stipulation") should be entered dismissing the Action against all Defendants with prejudice; (3) a Settlement Class of all persons, other than Defendants and other excluded persons, who purchased or otherwise acquired 2U Securities during the Class Period (the "Settlement Class"), should be finally certified for purposes of the Settlement only; (4) the proposed Plan of Allocation for distribution of the Settlement proceeds is fair, reasonable and adequate and therefore should be approved; (5) the application of Lead Counsel for the payment of attorneys' fees and expenses from the Settlement Fund, including interest earned thereon, should be approved and, if so, in what amount; and (6) to award Plaintiffs out of the Settlement Fund pursuant to 15 U.S.C. §78u-4(a)(4) in connection with their representation of the Settlement Class and, if so, in what amount.
IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE SETTLEMENT CLASS DESCRIBED ABOVE, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ACTION, AND YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SHARE IN THE SETTLEMENT FUND. If you have not received a detailed Notice of (i) Proposed Settlement, (ii) Motion for an Award of Attorneys' Fees and Litigation Expenses, and (iii) Settlement Fairness Hearing (the "Notice") and a copy of the Proof of Claim and Release ("Claim Form"), you may obtain a copy of these documents by contacting the Claims Administrator: 2U Securities Settlement, c/o Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutions, Inc., PO Box 5413, Portland, OR 97228-5413. You may also obtain copies of the Stipulation, Notice, and Claim Form at www.2USecuritiesClassAction.com.
If you are a Settlement Class Member, to be eligible to share in the distribution of the Net Settlement Fund, you must submit a Claim Form by mail postmarked no later than October 29, 2022, or submit it online by that date. If you are a Settlement Class Member and do not submit a valid Claim Form, you will not be eligible to share in the distribution of the Net Settlement Fund, but you will still be bound by any judgment entered by the Court in this Action (including the releases provided for therein).
To exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you must mail a written request for exclusion so that it is received by November 18, 2022, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice. If you are a Settlement Class Member and do not exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you will be bound by any judgment entered by the Court in this Action (including the releases provided for therein) whether or not you submit a Claim Form. If you submit a written request for exclusion, you will have no right to recover money pursuant to the Settlement.
Any objection to the proposed Settlement, the Plan of Allocation of Settlement proceeds, or the fee and expense application must be filed with the Court no later than November 10, 2022.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT, THE CLERK'S OFFICE, DEFENDANTS, OR DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL REGARDING THIS NOTICE. If you have any questions about the Settlement, or your eligibility to participate in the Settlement, you may contact Lead Counsel at the following address or by calling (212) 661-1100:
Pomerantz LLP
Jeremy Lieberman
600 Third Avenue, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10016
jalieberman@pomlaw.com
DATED: June 24, 2022
BY ORDER OF THE COURT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MARYLAND
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota higher education officials are deeply worried about losing students and revenue in 2024 when neighboring Minnesota makes public college and university tuition free for thousands of residents.
Officials estimate around 15,000 to 20,000 Minnesota students a year will use the free North Star Promise program, and North Dakota education officials are projecting an $8.4 million loss in combined tuition and fees in the first year alone, under one scenario.
Roughly 1,400 Minnesota students attending North Dakota colleges and universities might be eligible for the new program.
“This has catastrophic implications,” said David Cook, North Dakota State University’s president, at a recent State Board of Higher Education meeting. “This is a very serious situation for us.”
Minnesota students make up close to half the student body at North Dakota State in Fargo, their No. 1 out-of-state pick in their first year. They accounted for nearly 40% of the first-year students at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton in fall 2021.
“Probably half of our football team comes from Minnesota, so that’s kind of a big deal to us,” College of Science President Rod Flanigan said.
North Star Promise will cover undergraduate tuition and fees at Minnesota’s public post-secondary schools for students whose family income is below $80,000 after they’ve tapped other sources of financial aid. It will take effect in fall 2024.
Kari Rod, 38, of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, said North Star Promise will help her go back to college and finish her degree without taking on more student loans, and encourage her 13-year-old stepson to enroll in-state after high school.
“Our family had seriously considered moving” so the teen could take advantage of a program that covers college tuition for students who graduate from public schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rod said. But after Minnesota’s program passed, they decided to stay.
The program also “opens up the world of possibilities” for her 5-year-old’s future, Rod said.
According to the Campaign for Free College Tuition, a national nonprofit, more than half the states now offer some kind of free college tuition, often with the word “Promise” in their program names. Seven set few eligibility limits.
Many others, like Minnesota, have income limits, have merit requirements, or are limited to specific schools or majors. The group says making higher education affordable for everyone is imperative to a workforce with the skills needed for the U.S. to compete in the global marketplace.
Democratic state Sen. Tim Mathern said he is drafting a bill similar to Minnesota’s program but for North Dakotans. He acknowledged the headwinds Democrats face in North Dakota’s Republican-supermajority Legislature.
“I don’t think we should decry what Minnesota has done,” Mathern said. “We should be spending our time being creative about what our abilities are.”
North Dakota education officials estimate it would cost over $17.2 million annually to pay tuition and fees for all students eligible for federal Pell Grants, amounting to about 4,300 students at five schools.
Minnesota’s move hasn’t sparked the same fears in other neighboring states. University of Wisconsin officials are expanding a free tuition program that started at its flagship Madison campus to 12 more schools this fall.
The presidents of North Dakota State and the University of North Dakota are leading a group to address the potential impacts of Minnesota’s free tuition on their schools, which are already recruiting students for fall 2024.
Lawmakers also plan to explore the implications through an interim legislative panel ahead of the next session in 2025.
“When we have all these alternate (education) delivery methods, and we have a traditional student base that is shrinking, and we have workforce issues — all of these things are creating an issue that’s bigger than a one-state response,” said Republican Rep. Mark Sanford, who chairs the panel.
Republican House Majority Leader Mike Lefor said he doesn’t want to “rush into a decision” on responding.
“We can’t just be reacting to different situations from different states,” Lefor told reporters. “We have to have good, solid policy going forward.”
North Dakota’s Legislature this year froze tuition statewide for all students for the next two years, a move meant to be competitive with neighboring states, including Minnesota.
Lawmakers need to respond while acknowledging that campus programs will still draw out-of-state students, said North Dakota University System Chancellor Mark Hagerott.
“I’m confident we can avoid catastrophe,” he said.
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ATLANTA, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Invesco
The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Invesco Senior Income Trust (NYSE: VVR) (the "Fund") approved an increase in the monthly distribution amount payable to common shareholders pursuant to the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan (the "Plan"). Effective October 1, 2022, the Fund will pay its monthly dividend to common shareholders at a stated fixed monthly distribution amount of $0.032 per share.
The Plan is intended to provide shareholders with a consistent, but not guaranteed, periodic cash payment from the Fund, regardless of when or whether income is earned, or capital gains are realized. The Plan may have the effect of narrowing the discount between the Fund's market price and the net asset value ("NAV") of the Fund's common shares, but there is no assurance that the Plan will be effective in this regard.
If a Fund's investment income is not sufficient to cover the Fund's intended monthly distribution, the Fund will distribute long-term capital gains and/or return of capital in order to maintain its managed distribution level under its Plan. A Fund may at times distribute more than its income and net realized gains; therefore, a portion of the distribution may result in a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that shareholders invested in a Fund is paid back to them. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect a Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income." No conclusions should be drawn about a Fund's investment performance from the amount of the Fund's distributions or from the terms of its Plan.
This distribution is an additional dividend paid to meet federal income and excise requirements, such as Subchapter M (RIC status) and Section 4982 (Minimum Distribution Rules). This distribution does not change the terms of the Plan.
1 A portion of this distribution is estimated to be from a return of principal rather than net income. The 19(a) Notice referenced below provides more information and can be found on the Invesco website at www.invesco.com.
In order to comply with the requirements of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and an exemptive order granted to the Funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fund will provide its shareholders of record on the distribution date with a 19(a) Notice and issue an accompanying press release disclosing the sources of its dividend payment when a distribution includes anything other than net investment income.
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LONDON (AP) — U.K. government ministers implored Conservative colleagues to rally behind Prime Minister Liz Truss after a disastrous start to her premiership that has left the governing party demoralized and divided.
Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC that with two years or less until the next general election, the party should “get behind Liz because division will cause delay, delay is our enemy, and ultimately (means) defeat.”
House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, one of the Conservatives who ran against Truss this summer to replace Boris Johnson as the party’s leader and the U.K.’s prime minister, said in an article for the Sunday Telegraph that “division will only play into the hands of those who would take our country in the wrong direction.”
Home Secretary Suella Braverman wrote in a piece the Sun newspaper published Sunday that “the choice for my colleagues and for us is as party is simple: Back Liz or get (Labour Party leader) Keir Starmer, hand-in-hand with (Scottish National Party leader) Nicola Sturgeon.”
A misfiring economic plan that sparked turmoil on financial markets marred Truss’ tumultuous first month in office and threw her party into disarray. Both Braverman and Mordaunt openly disagreed with Truss during the party’s fractious annual conference last week.
The pleas for unity come as lawmakers are set to return to Parliament on Tuesday from a two-week break. Conservative legislator Mel Stride, who heads the House of Commons Treasury Committee, said the party mood is “fairly febrile.”
“There are a lot of backbenchers and indeed members of the government who are very concerned at where we are in the polls,” he told Times Radio.
Truss was elected Conservative leader on Sept. 5 and asked to form a government by Queen Elizabeth II the next day, two days before the monarch’s death. She wants to reshape Britain’s economy through tax cuts and deregulation in a bid to end years of sluggish growth.
But her bold first move — 45 billion pounds ($50 billion) in tax cuts, to be funded by government borrowing – spooked financial markets and sent the pound plunging to a record low against the dollar.
The Bank of England was forced to intervene to prop up the bond market and stop a wider economic crisis. The prospect of a big rate hike from the central bank next month has sent the cost of mortgages for many homeowners soaring.
The financial turmoil has helped the opposition Labour Party take a commanding lead in opinion polls. A national election does not have to be held until 2024, but many Conservatives fear the party is running out of time to close the gap.
Opposition from inside the party forced Truss to U-turn on part of her tax cuts package, but she has vowed to “stay the course” on the rest of her plan, despite economists’ warnings that big public spending cuts will be needed to pay for lower taxes.
The government has suggested it could raise pensions and welfare benefits by less than the rate of inflation – a real-terms cut. But many Conservatives say that will hurt some of society’s poorest people, already struggling with the soaring cost of living.
Truss also faces a growing Conservative rebellion over reported plans to weaken planning rules and environmental protections as part of her push to get the economy growing.
Despite the calls for unity, some Tory lawmakers are mulling ways to topple Truss, who was elected by the party after Johnson was forced out in July amid a welter of ethics scandals.
Most think that changing leader again so soon would be disastrous, but some allies of Johnson have hinted that he might consider making a comeback.
Lawmaker Nadine Dorries, a backer of the former leader, told the BBC that Johnson’s return was “extremely unlikely,” but not impossible.
“I have been in politics a long time,” she said. “I don’t rule anything out.”
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, today announced it has been named to the Best Places to Work SoCal 2022 list by Best Companies Group, a BridgeTower Media Company. Lennar was recognized and selected based on responses from a detailed and comprehensive survey of its Associates.
Best Companies Group's annual award program identifies and honors the best places to work in Southern California. The ranking is based on an anonymous Associate survey and an analysis of their responses about corporate culture, training and development, salary and benefits, and overall Associate satisfaction.
"We are honored to be recognized on the Best Places to Work So Cal 2022 list which we believe is a direct reflection of our family-oriented corporate culture," said Jon Jaffe, Co-CEO & President of Lennar Corporation. "We are proud to foster an environment where all Associates can thrive and enjoy coming to work each day."
"Southern California is known for innovation, and the companies that made our Best Places to Work SoCal list take a forward-looking approach to create workplaces of excellence," said Jaime Raul Zepeda, executive vice president of Best Companies Group. "Our research proves Lennar is committed to developing a highly-engaged and valued workforce. Congratulations to all of this year's Best Places to Work SoCal winners."
On Thursday, September 29th, BCG is hosting a virtual event to honor and celebrate this year's winners.
For the complete list of the Great Employers to Work for in SoCal 2022, please visit the Best Companies Group website.
Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN), founded in 1954, is the largest homebuilder in the United States by home sale revenues and net earnings. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENx drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more about Lennar, please visit www.lennar.com.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will continue to block the disbursement of a new tranche of European Union military support to Ukraine until Kyiv removes a Hungarian bank from a list of international sponsors of Russia’s war, Hungary’s foreign minister said Wednesday.
Peter Szijjarto, speaking in Vienna after a meeting with his Austrian counterpart, called Ukraine’s recent listing of OTP Bank “scandalous and unacceptable,” and said that Hungary wouldn’t approve the release of 500 million euros ($543 million) from the EU’s European Peace Facility until the bank is removed from the list.
“We cannot support the allocation of another half a billion euros from the European Peace Facility for arms transfers to Ukraine, and we will not give it the green light as long as OTP is on this particular list,” Szijjarto said.
Earlier this month, Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention classified OTP Bank as an international sponsor of the war over its continued presence in Russia, sparking a backlash from Hungarian officials.
After the listing of OTP, the banking group’s Ukrainian branch released a statement arguing that it had “drastically reduced its presence in the Russian market,” and that its market share there had decreased to only 0.17%.
Relations between Hungary and neighboring Ukraine have been strained by Budapest’s refusal to supply Kyiv with weapons or to allow their transfer across the countries’ shared border.
Hungary’s nationalist government, which maintains close ties with Moscow, has also argued against EU sanctions on Russia, and sought to cement Hungary’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
On Wednesday, Szijjarto suggested that Hungary would move to block further EU sanctions on Russia unless Ukraine delists OTP Bank, saying Kyiv had become “increasingly belligerent” with respect to Hungary.
“As long as Ukraine keeps OTP on the list of international sponsors of the war, Hungary cannot agree to decisions that would require the European Union and its member states to make further economic and financial sacrifices,” he said.
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Leading location intelligence provider brings data solutions to the digital real estate platform to empower users with added intelligence in the home buying and rental process
MONTREAL, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Local Logic, a location intelligence provider that quantifies location at scale to shape smarter developments and more sustainable cities, today announced a strategic partnership with Wahi, a digital real estate platform that uses tools, information, and experiences to improve the real estate journey for consumers and realtors. With this partnership, Local Logic integrates neighborhood data into Wahi's consumer-facing experience.
Local Logic enables Wahi to offer users an intimate understanding of location without having to search multiple sites. The location data includes demographics, local profiles, local scores, points of interest API, and school data. Additionally, Wahi receives an exclusive license that includes text data 66% unique to Wahi, supporting high SEO value. This partnership will drive traffic and create a more engaging customer search experience on Wahi.
"We are very excited to partner with Local Logic to use the power of technology to bring truth and transparency to the home buying journey. Wahi's mission is to reclaim real estate by harnessing the power of technology in the service of truth and transparency. We do this by using real data to help people make their dreams come true. " said Benjy Katchen, CEO of Wahi.
Local Logic's platform is the largest location intelligence platform in North America, incorporating more than 75 billion data points and 200 million properties across the United States and Canada. Through its proprietary Location Scores, Local Logic can quantify the inscrutable, ever-changing dynamics of consumer and renter demand. Examples of Location Scores include transit quality, access to restaurants, and quietness.
"There's plenty of information available during the home buying experience about the property in question, but there's not usually a ton of information on the area outside of the four walls it's made of," said Vincent-Charles Hodder, CEO at Local Logic. "At Local Logic, we're laser-focused on empowering home buyers and investors alike with pertinent information about the area surrounding a potential property to ensure that all the boxes are checked for such an important decision."
Local Logic partners with companies both within the residential and commercial industries, providing data about every aspect outside the four walls of a property. Through this approach, the company seeks to provide a means for more intentional and intelligent urban planning. For more information on Local Logic's solutions, please visit locallogic.co
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform that digitizes the built world for consumers, investors, developers, and governments – delivering unrivaled clarity and actionable insights capable of creating more sustainable, equitable cities. With more than 75 billion unique data points – the largest unique location data set in the U.S. and Canada – the platform creates a digital twin of cities, quantifying the built world and offering predictive, precise analytics to inform the present and future of over 250 million individual addresses.
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LOS ANGELES, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara should reject Mercury Insurance Company's proposed $131 million auto insurance rate hike and its job- and education-based discriminatory rating system under which working-class Californians pay up to 20% higher premiums, wrote Consumer Watchdog in a petition filed with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) yesterday.
Under Mercury's proposed overall 6.9% rate increase, over 1.6 million vehicles it insures face an average annual premium increase of $80 per insured vehicle. Because the Insurance Commissioner has failed to act on a regulation to curb job- and education-based rate discrimination, the worst of that rate increase will fall on the majority of low-income drivers Mercury doesn't give a job-based discount, said Consumer Watchdog.
These grocery clerks, hotel workers, janitors, home healthcare aides and other drivers without white-collar jobs will be charged base rates that are more than $200/yr higher than drivers in one of Mercury's preferred groups.
A 2019 investigation by the Department of Insurance found Mercury and other companies' practice of charging some drivers more based on education and occupation results in low-income drivers and communities of color paying more. Three years later, Commissioner Lara has yet to adopt a regulation to stop the practice. The last draft of a potential regulation was issued by the Department of Insurance nearly a year and a half ago and no action has been taken since.
Consumer Watchdog called on Commissioner Lara to reject Mercury's use of job and education to overcharge working-class Californians in this rate filing, and move a regulation forward to make all insurance companies rate Californians fairly regardless of their job or education level.
Mercury's request comes as soaring gas and food prices have low-wage workers struggling now more than ever to make ends meet. Most policyholders—from waiters to cashiers, construction workers to call center operators—will see their auto insurance rates increase up to about 20% more than drivers with professional occupations and advanced degrees such as engineers with a Bachelor's degree or higher education level. Mercury's request also includes rate hikes on educators, paramedics, firefighters, and police officers.
"The last thing Californians should have to worry about when we're facing sky-high prices at the gas pump and grocery store is whether they're being gouged by their insurance company," said Consumer Watchdog staff attorney Daniel L. Sternberg. "Discriminatory discounts for engineers, pilots, and other high-paid professions favored by Mercury means that low-income drivers pay more for car insurance, simply because of their job title or education status."
"Commissioner Lara needs to help working families and adopt regulations to stop occupation-based premium surcharges; surcharges that his own 2019 investigation found create 'wide socioeconomic disparities.' Instead of rubber-stamping these discriminatory discounts, the Commissioner should use his voter-enacted authority under Proposition 103 to protect middle- and low-income families from being charged higher prices based on their jobs," said Sternberg.
The Commissioner last approved Mercury's discriminatory occupation-based rating system and a 6.9% overall rate increase for Mercury policyholders in May 2019. Under Mercury's 5-tierd rating system, Mercury customers in lower wage occupations, such as grocery clerks, hotel and hospitality workers, janitors, and home healthcare workers, pay as much as 20% more than engineers, scientists, doctors, accountants, pilots and educators for all coverages combined, all other characteristics being equal.
Occupation has never been approved by regulation as a lawful rating factor under voter-enacted Proposition 103. Mercury's unfairly discriminatory occupation-based rating system means lower income and less-educated drivers continue to pay the highest premiums based solely on their job titles.
Consumer Watchdog's petition also alleges that Mercury overcharged policyholders during the COVID-19 lockdowns when accident claims were down and may owe hundreds of millions in additional refunds.
Read Consumer Watchdog's Petition for Hearing and Petition to Intervene: https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/2022-07-18%20Mercury%20Auto%202022%20PFH%20w%20Exhs%20A%20and%20B.pdf
Consumer Watchdog and 10 community and civil rights organizations challenged auto insurers' illegal and discriminatory use of job and education to set rates in February 2019. In September 2019, a Department of Insurance investigation confirmed those concerns, finding "wide socioeconomic disparities" created by insurance companies surcharging California drivers based on nothing more than their occupation or educational status. In December 2019, the Department proposed regulations to address this unfair discrimination. However, almost three years later, those rules have not yet been implemented.
Read the community and civil rights groups' petition: https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2019-02/Job%26EducationPetition.pdf
The Department's analysis of industry data shows that drivers in the highest per capita income ZIP codes are more than twice as likely to receive occupational-based discounts than drivers in the lowest per capita income ZIP codes; and only 29% of drivers in predominately minority ZIP codes receive such discounts as compared with 47% of drivers living in ZIP codes with a predominately white population. In addition, 75% of drivers in Underserved Communities as defined by Department of Insurance regulation do not receive these discounts.
Voter-approved Proposition 103 requires auto insurance premiums be based primarily on three mandatory factors – driving safety record, annual mileage, and years driving experience – and prohibits unfairly discriminatory rates. Proposition 103 prohibits this kind of unfair rate discrimination based on income or race.
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2022 Election: Cochise County backs off on full hand-count, OKs audit
COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. - The Board of Supervisors in a southeastern Arizona county has dropped their earlier insistence for a full hand-count of all ballots in the Nov. 8 election involving a group of volunteers already vetted and trained for the task, after the county attorney and state authorities warned of grave legal repercussions.
Supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby had proposed the full hand-count alongside the regular machine count, but ultimately joined the unanimous vote after an hours-long meeting. They were under intense pressure from voters who believe Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 election. There’s no evidence in Arizona or elsewhere in the United States that fraud, problems with ballot-counting equipment or other voting issues had any impact on the results of the 2020 election.
Prior to the meeting, Judd, a Republican, said they are not changing election procedures for voters. She said the whole point is to restore public faith in the election system.
"People have lost confidence over the last 10 years or so in elections, and I think it's because we've taken it out of the people's hands and into computers," said Judd.
Judd and Crosby were joined by the third supervisor, Board Chairwoman Ann English, a Democrat who had encouraged her colleagues to rethink their stance. She had argued that the county’s insurance would not protect it from expected lawsuits.
After backing off from the first proposal, the supervisors then voted 2-1 on a second one, with English dissenting, for a hand-count audit in all precincts to be organized by the county recorder or other elections official to assure agreement with the machine count.
More discussion on the matter was expected to come up at another county board meeting Tuesday morning.
Debate over count lasted weeks
This has been an ongoing debate over the past several weeks, and it started when a conservative group went to the board of supervisors wanting a hand count for the midterm election.
Cochise County says the hand count would be in addition to the machine count, and according to County Recorder David Stevens, they already have 140 GOP volunteers to count the ballot. The volunteers will be supervised by the county's Elections Director, and Stevens said that is enough people to get the work done.
Currently, the county is required to hand count 2% of the ballots, but it requires the use of Republican and Democratic volunteers.
Supporters, opponents sound off during meeting
During the meeting on Oct. 24, people supporting and opposing the proposal came to speak out.
"I support a 100% hand count of ballots," said one person.
"[This] not only risks instilling chaos and confusion, but will waste taxpayer resources and threaten both accurate counting of votes and a timely certification of election results," said an opponent of the proposal.
County officials voiced concerns prior to meeting
Prior to the meeting, County recorder David Stevens said there simply would not have been enough time to do only a hand count.
"They were looking to tabulate the 2022 General Election by hand, during the election, that has now migrated to, machine tabulate now, and then we are required by law to do an audit hand count after we've done the machine tabulation," Stevens said. "They want to increase that 2% hand count to 100%."
The county's attorney, Republican Brian McIntyre, called that original plan unlawful.
"I implore you not to attempt to order this separate hand-count," said County Attorney Brian McIntyre, a Republican. He said such action would be unlawful and supervisors could be held personally liable in a civil action.
McIntyre also called the hand-count audit plan unlawful.
Secretary of State speaks out prior to vote; threatens legal action
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has said a hand count should only be used if the equipment becomes impractical. She also threatened to take legal action against the county.
"Cochise County plans to vote to hand count every single race on every single ballot—w/ Election Day just 18 days away & early voting already started. That’s illegal & risks the integrity & accuracy of the election. I’ve warned them: If they proceed, I’ll take legal action," Arizona Secretary of State and governor candidate Katie Hobbs tweeted on Oct. 21.
RELATED: Maricopa County voting machines undergo routine 'logic and accuracy test' ahead of midterm elections
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Intelligent functionality removes supply team burdens while ensuring drug availability and reducing waste
NOTTINGHAM, England and MORRISVILLE, N.C., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Calyx, the eClinical and Regulatory solutions and services provider relied on for solving complex data challenges in clinical research, today announced an enhancement to its interactive response technology (IRT) system. By removing the supply monitoring burden from clinical trial teams, Calyx IRT's automated supply strategy management reduces the cost of drug waste while ensuring study drug is available at investigative sites on time, every time.
Traditional IRT solutions require trial teams to constantly monitor patient recruitment levels and the unpredictable supply needs that arise during clinical trials, including randomization and damaged stock replacement. When trial teams don't take the burdensome, manual steps to address changing site needs, high-enrolling sites risk stock-outs and failed patient visits, and low-enrolling sites end up with more supplies than needed, resulting in unnecessary drug waste.
"The act of consistently balancing appropriate site-level inventory without incurring excessive drug waste is difficult and time-consuming for most trial supply teams," said Juan Munoz Pujol, Vice President of IRT at Calyx. "In addition to having confidence that Calyx IRT will get the right drug to the right patient at the right time, trial supply teams can now leverage automated supply strategy management to remove the burden of monitoring site stock against a site's IRT settings and keep drug waste at a minimum. We are already seeing significant savings on clinical development budgets, especially in oncology trials and in other therapeutic areas where the expense of drug production is very high."
Calyx's automated supply strategy management is beneficial in numerous trial design scenarios and is particularly useful at reducing the burden on the clinical supply manager when a trial requires a large number of sites in order to meet patient enrolment goals.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. – Nearly four years after his arrest, a man is pleading guilty over an argument with his girlfriend that led to gunfire.
James Comer Grant, 42 of Rochester, was charged in September 2018 with two counts of threats of violence, reckless discharge of a firearm, and possession of a firearm and ammunition after being convicted of a crime of violence.
Rochester police say Grant had an argument with his girlfriend just before 11:30 pm on September 6, 2018, in the area of 6th Avenue and 1st Street SW. Investigators say Grant fired a single shot into the air and officers found a .40 caliber shell casing at the scene and a .40 caliber pistol in Grant’s home.
Court documents state that after his arrest, Grant became upset and threated a police officer. He’s accused of saying the officer “is a dead man walking.” Police say Grant also has a conviction for aggravated battery in Illinois in 2003.
Grant has now pleaded guilty to one count of threats of violence and illegal possession of a firearm. His sentencing is scheduled for September 14.
The prosecution of Grant was delayed first by him missing a court hearing in 2019 and then by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. | https://www.kimt.com/news/rochester-man-pleads-guilty-almost-four-years-after-his-arrest/article_1763eb90-19a6-11ed-adc3-d3bc2bd3f620.html | 2022-08-11 20:18:36 | 0 | https://www.kimt.com/news/rochester-man-pleads-guilty-almost-four-years-after-his-arrest/article_1763eb90-19a6-11ed-adc3-d3bc2bd3f620.html |
BOSTON and BERKELEY, Calif. , July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify, a provider of 3D printers for advanced photopolymer composites, and polySpectra, a supplier of highly durable photopolymer resins, announced strategic funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aimed at decarbonizing the U.S. industrial sector, advancing clean energy manufacturing, and improving America's economic competitiveness and workforce diversity.
The DOE announced a selection of 30 projects that will receive $57.9 million in funding from the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). The DOE awarded $3 million to polySpectra and Fortify, along with National Renewable Energy Laboratory, MPI Systems, RePliForm Inc, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop durable direct additive tooling for automotive lightweighting via Cyclic Olefin Resin-based composites.
"More than $8B is spent domestically each year on low-volume injection molding. The work addressed by this DOE award will pave the way for printed injection molding to unlock production applications," Josh Martin, CEO & Co-founder at Fortify said. "By combining advanced materials and post-processing with lightweight design principles, there is a significant opportunity to make a dent in the time to market, cost, and performance of part production within the automotive industry and beyond."
The goal of the project is to develop additively manufactured tooling with orders of magnitude improvements on cost and durability versus traditional CNC tooling with cycle times on par with CNC tooling. Fortify has already positioned itself as the leader developing robust solutions for additive tooling and, through this collaboration, will be developing a next-generation solution capable of producing long-lasting inserts for the molding of production volumes of lightweight automotive components from engineering-grade materials, including polymers, composites, and metals. With a focus on automotive, the proposed work will address the critical need to develop improved methods for commercial vehicle part production. This advanced manufacturing technology will accelerate improvements in transportation vehicle fuel efficiency and realize the corresponding energy savings and emissions reduction.
The project also features significant efforts to amplify underrepresented groups in the automotive manufacturing sector by building skills in additive manufacturing and rapid tooling. Through training and recruitment programs, the team hopes to create a diverse pool of candidates with the necessary additive tooling skills to enter the automotive work force. Along the way, the project team will be mentoring and providing in-kind support to underrepresented innovators, including students and entrepreneurs.
Raymond Weitekamp, polySpectra founder and principal investigator for the award, shares that, "Olefin-based thermoset composites have been used for many decades in extremely demanding applications such as wind turbine blades and fuel cell components, because they are among the most durable materials on the planet. Under this research grant, we will leverage Nobel-winning chemistry to directly 3D-print these robust composite Cyclic Olefin Resins. The goal of the DOE project is to bring unprecedented materials durability to additive manufacturing, which will provide the industry with immense leverage for the decarbonization and reshoring of the US manufacturing sector."
The joint project will begin later this year. You can see the latest developments in 3D printed tooling at Fortify's booth #433114 this September at IMTS. Learn more about polySpectra's massless mission to lower global energy usage by 25% by 2050 with distributed digital manufacturing, at https://massless.dev.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Facing an early test in her bid to become Kentucky’s next governor, Republican Kelly Craft is trying to navigate turbulence caused by one of her first ads, which aimed at connecting the wealthy ex-diplomat with voters by highlighting the state’s heart-aching struggles with drug addiction.
In a recent TV commercial, Craft said the fight against drug abuse is personal, confiding she’s experienced “that empty chair at my table.” The former United Nations ambassador — seen as a top-tier candidate in a large GOP field — didn’t disclose personal details in the widely aired ad. As questions swirled about its meaning, Craft told Kentucky Health News that she had a “close family member” who went to rehab and “was able to overcome the addiction and move on with their life.”
The details stirred backlash from some Kentuckians who viewed the ad as insensitive because they first interpreted the “empty chair” reference to being about someone who died. Some of the most pointed criticism has come from people whose loved ones lost their lives to addiction.
The blow-back has garnered considerable attention in a race being closely watched to see if popular incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear can overcome his party’s weak standing in Kentucky. Beshear is seeking re-election in the GOP-trending Bluegrass State.
A group of grieving mothers showed up at a Craft campaign appearance last week, hoping to confront her about the ad and press for details about how she’d curb drug addiction if elected. They were blocked from attending, WLEX-TV reported. A campaign staffer collected contact information from the group, in case they might speak to Craft another time.
Craft can “set a good example” by meeting with such groups, since it’s understandable that some people have questions about the ad, said Scott Jennings, a Kentucky-based Republican political commentator who once served as an adviser to former President George W. Bush.
“Kelly could show some leadership skills here by having the guts to meet with people who are upset with her,” Jennings said.
Her campaign didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional comments.
As the matter has festered, a Lexington Herald-Leader columnist wrote that Craft either was getting bad advice or misunderstands “the ‘empty chair’ mess she’s in right now.”
Craft — among a dozen GOP candidates competing in the state’s May primary — entered the governor’s race with an overwhelming money advantage. She’s set a fast pace in raising and spending campaign cash, and can tap into her family’s enormous wealth to bankroll her campaign.
She got a head start on competitors with TV ads meant to raise her name recognition and take a stand to fight the seemingly intractable drug abuse problem. Fatal drug overdoses rose nearly 15% in Kentucky in 2021 and surpassed 2,000 deaths, the state said last year.
Instead of backing off as pushback against the ad mounted, Craft’s campaign has pressed ahead with messaging on the drug issue. She has said an empty chair can mean many things.
In a recent follow-up video, the wife of Craft’s running mate explained what an “empty seat at the table” has meant for her family.
“I firmly believe that means different things for different families,” Heather Wise, the wife of GOP state Sen. Max Wise, said as she spoke about how addiction has “ravaged” her family.
An empty seat can mean the absence of loved ones in rehab or in jail due to addiction, she said. She said she also lost close family members to addiction.
“Not every family has had the worst-case scenario –- that permanent empty seat at their table that we have experienced,” she said.
As part of her anti-drug theme, Craft has tried connecting Beshear to President Joe Biden’s immigration policies on the nation’s southern border. She blames those policies for contributing to an influx of illegal drugs to Kentucky.
Beshear responded that a “strong national security requires strong border security,” and said Kentucky has done its part during his term. He noted that hundreds of Kentucky National Guard soldiers have deployed to the nation’s southwest border during his tenure and that a Kentucky guard member died as part of the mission.
“For somebody wanting to be governor to talk about the border and to not mention the sacrifice and heroic service of our National Guard, and recognize their loss, I think is disrespectful and disqualifying,” the governor said.
The back-and-forth enables Craft to portray herself to GOP voters as a fighter, Jennings said.
“That’s what this entire primary is missing so far – someone explaining why they are the best person to defeat Beshear, and how they plan to do it,” Jennings said.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Wednesday put an end to impeachment proceedings against him by dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly, which had accused him of embezzlement.
The conservative president, who has denied wrongdoing, can govern for up to six months by decree under a constitutional provision that had not previously been used, and his move swiftly drew pushback from critics who said his removal from office had been imminent.
Soon after Lasso’s announcement, the South American country’s top military leader warned that the armed forces would act “firmly” if any violence erupts. A strong contingent of military and police officers blocked access around the National Assembly building in Ecuador’s capital, Quito.
In a televised message, Lasso accused the National Assembly of focusing “on destabilizing the government.” He called his move “democratic,” and a way to give “people the power to decide their future in the next elections.”
Lawmakers had accused Lasso of not having intervened to end a contract between the state-owned oil transport company and a private tanker company. They argued Lasso knew the contract was full of irregularities and would cost the state millions in losses, something that the president rejects as untrue.
The National Electoral Council now has seven days to call presidential and legislative elections, which must be held within 90 days. Those elected will finish the terms of Lasso and the lawmakers he ousted, which had been set to end in May 2025. Lasso can choose to run in the election.
Lasso, a former banker, was elected in 2021 and has clashed from the start with a strong opposition in the 137-member National Assembly. He defended himself before Congress on Tuesday, insisting there was no proof or testimony of wrongdoing.
After Lasso announced his decision Wednesday, the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Gen. Nelson Proaño, called on Ecuadorians to maintain respect for the law and warned against rupturing the constitutional order through violence.
If violence erupts, the armed forces and police “will act firmly,” he said.
Lasso’s move quickly led to criticism from the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities, which in recent years has carried out protests that have virtually paralyzed the country. Its leader, Leonidas Iza Salazar, said Lasso “launched a cowardly self-coup with the help of the police and the armed forces, without citizen support” as he faced “imminent dismissal.”
Will Freeman, fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Lasso’s decision signals that “he was aware the opposition had enough votes to impeach him, and maybe then some.” He said mass protests are likely in the coming days.
“It’s also hard to imagine Lasso is making this move without the tacit support of top brass in the military,” he said. “In the past, protests have tended to turn destructive quickly — and security forces have also cracked down.”
In dissolving the assembly, Lasso made first use of the Ecuador presidency’s nuclear option in conflicts with the legislative branch. Known colloquially as the “death cross,” the option to disband and temporarily rule by decree was established in the constitution in 2008.
The measure is aimed at avoiding protracted periods of political paralysis, Ecuadorian legal analyst Ramiro Aguilar said. “A conflict of this nature can last four years and it is a conflict that paralyzes the country.”
However, the country also loses democratic debate during the interim. “There will be a unilateral voice of the executive branch imposing a course without the counterweight of the assembly and the country loses credibility, because it is left with a weak institutional framework,” Aguilar said.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) today announced that it will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, after the market closes on August 4, 2022. GoPro management will host a conference call and live webcast following the release at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to discuss the Company's financial results. A webcast link and management commentary will be posted on the "Events & Presentations" section of the Company's Investor Relations website at gopro.com prior to the start of the call.
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DETROIT — Ja Morant had 31 points and eight rebounds as the Memphis Grizzlies closed out their preseason with a 126-111 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night.
Saddiq Bey led the Pistons with 17 points and eight rebounds. Isaiah Stewart had 16 points and nine rebounds, and Cade Cunningham had 15 points and six assists. Kevin Knox II finished with 13 points as Detroit went winless in four preseason games.
The Pistons played without center Marvin Bagley III, who suffered a sprained MCL in the first minute of Tuesday’s loss to Oklahoma City. Bagley is expected to miss two to three weeks. Stewart started at center.
Both teams went with their usual starters in their final preseason game and stayed close to expected rotations through the first three quarters.
The Grizzlies used their backcourt duo of Morant and Bane for an offensive burst in the first half, while Stewart kept the Pistons close. Morant scored 15 points in the third as Memphis built its lead before Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins went to his reserves with three minutes left in the period and finished out the game.
Memphis rookies David Roddy and Jake LaRavia scored 12 and 10 points, respectively. Pistons rookie Jaden Ivey, the fifth overall pick in the draft, had seven points, going 3 of 11 from the field, including missing all four of his 3-points attempts.
Adams was injured in a scrum under the Memphis basket and went straight to the locker room just before halftime. He didn’t return.
Memphis finished the preseason 3-2 and opens the season next Wednesday, hosting the New York Knicks. Detroit also opens the regular season on Wednesday, playing at home against the Orlando Magic.
THUNDER 118, SPURS 112
In San Antonio, rookie Jalen Williams, the 12th overall draft pick from Santa Clara, had 19 points and Josh Giddey added 18 and six assists as Oklahoma City pulled away at the end to beat the Spurs.
Tre Mann finished with 17 points for Oklahoma City. Jaylin Williams, the 34th pick out of Arkansas, grabbed 11 rebounds.
Joshua Primo, a first-round pick in the 2021 draft, had 23 points to lead San Antonio, converting 8 of 12 shots. Keldon Johnson added 19 points and Devin Vassell had 18.
San Antonio’s Jakob Poeltl made all four of his shots and finished with eight points, 10 rebounds and five assists.
The game was tight throughout the second half after the teams went into halftime tied at 62. From there, neither team managed to stretch its advantage to double digits.
The game was tied at 110 with 3:24 left, but San Antonio managed only two points the rest of the way.
The Spurs open the season at home on Wednesday against the Charlotte Hornets. The Thunder start regular-season play the same night on the road in Minnesota against the Timberwolves.
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WATCH: School bus driver saves student from getting hit by car
NEW CARLISLE, Ohio (WHIO) - An Ohio school bus driver is being hailed as a hero for saving a seventh grade student from getting hit by a car as he went to exit the bus.
The seventh grader’s family is grateful for Tecumseh Local Schools bus driver April Wise after her quick thinking saved their son’s life.
“For what she did that day, we definitely appreciate it,” the boy’s father said.
School district officials, law enforcement and state representatives also expressed thanks for Wise’s brave actions when she was honored with an award Monday.
“It’s a testament to what things are that we should do and the things we actually do,” state Rep. Bernie Willis said.
Wise can be seen checking her mirrors, paying close attention to what was happening around her, as she pulled the bus to a stop in video of the Thursday incident posted to social media by the school district. The bus driver even knew the exact student that was getting off at that stop.
“He is one of my quickest students to get on and off the bus. He is super quick,” Wise said.
But Wise was quicker, grabbing the student by his backpack before he got down the steps and saving him from getting hit by a car that comes barreling into frame moments later.
“The only thing that went through my brain was to keep him from getting off the bus,” the bus driver said.
Now, the video of Wise saving a student will be used as an example during training of what is expected of drivers when caring for a bus full of students.
“This goes far beyond what I imagined to happen, so I am very emotional,” Wise said. “I don’t deserve it, but I’m glad it’s bringing awareness and stuff. Hopefully, more people will take it into consideration.”
Wise says she always has to be on high alert during her route because drivers consistently choose to ignore school buses on the road.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)The Denver Broncos haven’t been able to adequately protect Russell Wilson, who is on pace to get sacked a career-high 56 times this season behind a patchwork offensive line and a bunch of replacements at receiver and running back.
Several of his teammates, though, doggedly defended their clobbered quarterback from the latest arrow directed his way, a report on an NFL Network podcast that the QB had ”lost” some members of the locker room as the Broncos spiral through a hugely disappointing season.
”I’ll say this: I’ll say Russ is an amazing leader,” safety Justin Simmons said. ”He’s an amazing teammate and … I know it’s a quarterback-driven league, but leadership never falls under one guy.”
Simmons said there’s plenty of blame to go around for the Broncos’ bad season, but he was stumped by the latest barb directed at Wilson.
”I don’t know where that report would have come from and quite honestly … I would just like to keep the questions geared toward Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens,” Simmons said.
The Broncos (3-8) will try to snap a three-game skid at Baltimore (7-4) Sunday.
Denver’s rookie head coach Nathaniel Hackett, who has taken plenty of heat himself over the Broncos’ spiraling season, also dismissed the report.
”To me, it’s all gossip. I know this locker room – we have a fantastic locker room,” Hackett said. ”When you look at a guy like Russ, he’s unbelievable. I’ve never seen somebody work that hard. I’ve never seen somebody try to embrace a team like he has.”
Guard Dalton Risner also dismissed the report, saying, ”that’s just hilarious in my opinion. That’s funny. Because I don’t think it’s true. I know it’s not true. I know that I know who Russell is. I respect him so much. I respect the way he integrates within our locker room.
”And I feel all year he hasn’t been able to catch a break,” Risner added. ”I feel like all year people are just making up rumors about him, whether that be he’s not a good teammate or he’s lost the locker room, apparently, or whatever the heck it is. A lot of it is just so outlandish to me because I get to see him work every day.
”I get to see how much he cares about the guys in the locker room. And the devotion he has to this game. And the attitude he brings to practice every day. And the attitude he brings to the football field.”
Wilson has thrown just eight touchdown passes this season as he attempts to mesh with Hackett’s offensive philosophies, a struggle that’s exacerbated by injuries that’ve sidelined stalwarts Javonte Williams, Tim Patrick and Garett Bolles, among others.
During Denver’s 23-10 loss to the Panthers last weekend, Wilson was down to three undrafted wide receivers and a fifth-round rookie.
Still, he’s taken plenty of heat for Denver’s woes. Asked Wednesday if he sensed any teammates had a beef with him, Wilson said, ”No. I think that, first of all, everybody wants to win. … I’ve got great relationships in that locker room. So, whoever is trying to tear it down, you can’t. The best thing about it is it’s been an amazing journey coming here, moving year, being here. … It’s a blessing to be on this team and I’m honored to be a part of this.”
Wilson turned 34 Tuesday and his wife, Ciara, threw him a surprise birthday party that was attended by several dozen teammates.
”A bunch of guys came,” Wilson said. ”It was a blast to celebrate with the guys.”
The Broncos are averaging just 14.2 points per game, and no team since the 2000 Cleveland Browns went into December with a more inept offense.
Four of the Broncos’ first six games were on prime time and the Broncos lost three of four, averaging 13 points a game under the lights with their only win an 11-10 snail-biter over the 49ers in Week 3.
They had a fifth prime-time game, but the league flexed Week 14’s Chiefs-Broncos game out of the ”Sunday Night Football” slot and into the afternoon.
”When you don’t win, things like that are going to happen,” Hackett said.
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Free ice cream social to be held in Harrisburg to raise money for Salvation Army
A free ice cream social will be held in Harrisburg on Thursday afternoon to raise money for charity.
It's part of Moose Tracks Ice Cream's 10,000 Scoop Challenge.
For each scoop served, Moose Tracks will donate $1 to the Salvation Army of Harrisburg. The goal is to raise $10,000 in just four hours to help fund community projects.
"We have a lot of ongoing programs and services. We've been serving about 200 kids this summer without summer youth enrichment programs, and many of those children, as well as others in the community, are right now looking for assistance with their back-to-school needs," said Lauren Sheeler, with the Salvation Army.
"It's very fun, challenging, but also so meaningful. We know $10,000 can go a long way with the Salvation Army. They're such a responsible organization, and we know that every penny will support this community," said Caroline Winternheimer, with Moose Tracks Ice Cream.
Harrisburg is one of six locations taking part in the challenge.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Range Resources Corp. (RRC) on Monday reported fourth-quarter net income of $814.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the Fort Worth, Texas-based company said it had profit of $3.31. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $1.30 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.12 per share.
The independent oil and gas company posted revenue of $1.63 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $997.6 million, falling short of Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.02 billion.
For the year, the company reported profit of $1.18 billion, or $4.69 per share. Revenue was reported as $4.15 billion.
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Announces Tax Treatment of Year 2022 Distributions
Published: Jan. 26, 2023 at 8:30 AM EST|Updated: 35 minutes ago
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE) today announced the tax treatment of its year 2022 distributions as described in the chart below. Stockholders are encouraged to consult with their own tax advisors as to their specific tax treatment of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. distributions.
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), an S&P 500® company, is a best-in-class, mission-driven life science REIT making a positive and lasting impact on the world. As the pioneer of the life science real estate niche since its founding in 1994, Alexandria is the preeminent and longest-tenured owner, operator and developer of collaborative life science, agtech and technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, including Greater Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, San Diego, Seattle, Maryland and Research Triangle. For more information, please visit www.are.com.
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G-7 joins EU on $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Group of Seven nations and Australia agreed Friday to adopt a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil, acting shortly after the European Union reached unanimous agreement on the same price earlier in the day.
The move is a key step as Western sanctions aim to reorder the global oil market to prevent price spikes and starve President Vladimir Putin of funding for his war in Ukraine.
Europe needed to set the discounted price that other nations will pay by Monday, when an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea and a ban on insurance for those supplies take effect.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement that the agreement will help nations participating in the plan achieve the goal of restricting Putin’s "primary source of revenue for his illegal war in Ukraine while simultaneously preserving the stability of global energy supplies."
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“Today’s announcement is the culmination of months of effort by our coalition, and I commend the hard work of our partners in achieving this outcome,” she said.
Dems move to make South Carolina, not Iowa, 1st voting state
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats voted Friday to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024, a dramatic shakeup championed by President Joe Biden to better reflect the party’s deeply diverse electorate.
The Democratic National Committee's rule-making arm made the move to strip Iowa from the position it has held for five decades after technical meltdowns sparked chaos and marred results of the state's 2020 caucus. The change also comes after a long push by some of the party's top leaders to start choosing a president in states that are less white, especially given the importance of Black voters as Democrats' most loyal electoral base.
Discussion on prioritizing diversity drew such impassioned reaction at the committee gathering in Washington that DNC chair Jaime Harrison wiped away tears as committee member Donna Brazile suggested that Democrats had spent years failing to fight for Black voters: “Do you know what it’s like to live on a dirt road? Do you know what it’s like to try to find running water that is clean?”
“Do you know what it’s like to wait and see if the storm is going to pass you by and your roof is still intact?” Brazile asked. “That’s what this is about.”
The committee approved moving South Carolina's primary to Feb. 3 and having Nevada and New Hampshire vote three days later. Georgia would go the following week and Michigan two weeks after that.
Man arrested in fatal shooting of Migos rapper Takeoff
HOUSTON (AP) — A 33-year-old man was arrested on a murder charge in the shooting of rapper Takeoff, who police on Friday said was an “innocent bystander” when he was struck by gunfire outside a Houston bowling alley.
Patrick Xavier Clark was taken into custody peacefully Thursday night, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. Clark's arrest came one day after another man was charged in connection with the Nov. 1 shooting, which authorities said followed a dispute over a dice game and wounded two other people.
Clark was being held in jail Friday awaiting a bond hearing. Court records do not list an attorney who could speak for him, but indicate he was arrested as he was preparing to leave the country for Mexico.
Born Kirsnick Khari Ball, Takeoff was the youngest member of Migos, the Grammy-nominated rap trio from suburban Atlanta that also featured his uncle Quavo and cousin Offset.
The 28-year-old musician was shot outside the downtown bowling alley at around 2:30 a.m., when police said a dispute erupted as more than 30 people were leaving a private party there. Police previously said another man and a woman suffered non-life-threatening gunshot injuries, and that at least two people opened fired.
Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China.
The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. Ahead of its unveiling Friday at an Air Force facility in Palmdale, California, only artists’ renderings of the warplane have been released. Those few images reveal that the Raider resembles the black nuclear stealth bomber it will eventually replace, the B-2 Spirit.
The bomber is part of the Pentagon’s efforts to modernize all three legs of its nuclear triad, which includes silo-launched nuclear ballistic missiles and submarine-launched warheads, as it shifts from the counterterrorism campaigns of recent decades to meet China’s rapid military modernization.
China is on track to have 1,500 nuclear weapons by 2035, and its gains in hypersonics, cyber warfare, space capabilities and other areas present "the most consequential and systemic challenge to U.S. national security and the free and open international system,” the Pentagon said this week in its annual China report.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other invited guests will be on hand Friday to witness the bomber’s public unveiling.
Brazil wins group despite 1-0 loss to Cameroon at World Cup
LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Vincent Aboubakar’s powerful header was historic for Cameroon and Africa at the World Cup.
The stoppage-time goal didn't help Cameroon reach the round of 16 despite the team's 1-0 win over Brazil's reserves on Friday. But it handed the five-time champions their first group-stage loss in 24 years, and gave Africa its first win against the Seleçao at the tournament.
Aboubakar was sent off after a second booking for taking off his shirt during his celebration, leading him to miss the final minutes of his team’s big victory.
“I didn’t even realize that this was such a historic victory,” Cameroon coach Rigobert Song said. “We are one of the African countries that played the most World Cups, and now we’ve beaten Brazil."
Brazil had won its previous seven matches against African opponents at the World Cup.
Infowars host Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy
Infowars host Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy protection Friday in Texas, citing debts that include nearly $1.5 billion he has been ordered to pay to families who sued him over his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston. His filing listed $1 billion to $10 billion in liabilities and $1 million to $10 million in assets.
Jones acknowledged the filing on his Infowars broadcast, saying the case will prove that he’s broke and asking viewers to shop on his website to help keep the show on the air.
“I’m officially out of money, personally,” Jones said. “It’s all going to be filed. It’s all going to be public. And you will see that Alex Jones has almost no cash.”
Jones, who sells dietary supplements and other items on his Infowars site and promotes them during his shows, said he would not be commenting further on the bankruptcy.
Biden sees economy avoiding recession, but risks remain
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden assured Americans on Friday that the U.S. economy is chugging along in the holiday season, but the very strength of a new jobs report showed that high inflation remains a recession threat.
At the White House, the president signed an emergency bill to avert a rail strike that he said could have caused 765,000 job losses in two weeks and plunged the country into a painful downturn. But many voters and economists still fear that a recession is nigh and the price of reducing high prices will be layoffs.
Biden pointed to the addition of 263,000 jobs in November — with the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.7% — as proof that his policies have bulked up the economy. He suggested that the major recession risk was the freight rail strike, a problem the country avoided by having Congress impose an agreement that raises pay but fails to provide the additional paid sick leave that workers demanded.
“Things are moving — they’re moving in the right direction,” Biden said. “As we go into the holiday season, here’s what this all means: The Americans are working, the economy is growing.”
White House officials do see reason for optimism. Gasoline prices are averaging $3.45 a gallon, down sharply from a June peak, according to AAA. The economy is expanding after shrinking in size during the first half of the year. And since July, workers' average hourly earnings have been rising faster than consumer prices.
Prosecutor: Evidence shows Trump 'explicitly' OK'd tax fraud
NEW YORK (AP) — In the end, it wasn't a last-minute smoking gun but a prosecutor insisting that evidence shows Donald Trump was aware of a scheme that his Trump Organization’s executives hatched to avoid paying personal income taxes on millions of dollars worth of company-paid perks.
After telling jurors on Thursday that Trump “knew exactly what was going on" with the scheme, Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Joshua Steinglass followed up by citing trial evidence and testimony that he said made clear “Mr. Trump is explicitly sanctioning tax fraud.”
Steinglass, speaking on the last day before deliberations at the Trump Organization's criminal tax fraud, showed jurors a lease Trump signed for one executive's Manhattan apartment and a memo the former president initialed authorizing a pay cut for another executive who got perks.
He also cited Weisselberg’s claim, during his three days of testimony, that he told Trump he would pay him back after Trump agreed to cover his grandchildren's hefty private school tuition cost. Weisselberg then adjusted his payroll records to cut his pre-tax salary by the cost of the tuition.
“I mention this all to show that this whole narrative that Mr. Trump was blissfully ignorant is just not real," Steinglass said.
Distaste for Walker provides tailwind for Warnock in Georgia
MORROW, Ga. (AP) — It might go without saying that Democrats generally vote against Republicans. But in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff, it can hardly be overstated how much Democratic voters — and others — are driven by not wanting Republican challenger Herschel Walker to be their U.S. senator.
Ask Raphael Warnock's voters what they think about the election, and it's often criticism of Walker that first comes tumbling out.
“You’ve got a very ignorant, ignorant, ignorant fellow that’s running in Herschel Walker," said Dennis Paris, an entertainer who lives in the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro and voted for Warnock this week in Morrow. "I can’t see going through another thing like we had with an ignorant Trump making decisions for us, not caring about the people.”
Even many Georgia Republicans who are voting for Walker, the former University of Georgia and pro football star, say they're not so much motivated by liking him as by disliking President Joe Biden’s administration and Warnock’s support for Biden’s policies
Tuesday’s runoff is far from settled. Warnock led Walker in the general election on Nov. 8 but came up short of a majority, necessitating another round of voting under state law.
Amazon loses 10% of its vegetation in nearly four decades
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Amazon region has lost 10% of its native vegetation, mostly tropical rainforest, in almost four decades, an area roughly the size of Texas, a new report says.
From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometers (190,000 square miles) to 1,250,000 square kilometers (482,000 square miles), unprecedented destruction in the Amazon, according to the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information, or Raisg.
The numbers are calculated from an annual satellite monitoring since 1985 from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana. The report is a collaboration between Raisg and MapBiomas, a network of Brazilian nonprofits, universities and technology startups.
“The losses have been enormous, virtually irreversible and with no expectation of a turnaround," said a statement Friday by Raisg, a consortium of civil society organizations from the region’s countries. "The data signals a yellow light and gives a sense of urgency to the need for a coordinated, decisive and compelling international action.”
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Fire breaks out at uranium processing facility in Tennessee
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - A fire broke out at Y-12 National Security Complex on Wednesday, Kathryn King with Y-12 told WVLT.
The facility hasn’t released much information, but King was able to confirm that a fire broke out Wednesday morning in Building 9212. In an updated release, Y-12 said the fire started around 9:14 a.m. in a chemical handling hood.
WVLT News was on scene and spoke to officials, who were able to provide some information on the incident. Those officials were quick to assure the public that the incident was contained to the Y-12 complex, and the public does not need to worry about any impact offsite.
“I think if you live nearby you’d be very concerned,” one spokesperson for Y-12 said. “The situation is under control and is contained.”
According to Y-12, employees in the building addressed the fire as trained then requested help from emergency personnel. That response is being directed by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC and the National Nuclear Security Administration, according to Y-12.
Additionally, officials said that around 200 employees who work in the building were evacuated, along with some employees in adjacent buildings.
Building 9212 is listed on the Department of Energy website as a uranium processing building, built in 1945. The building serves “as one of the primary chemical processing and enriched uranium production facilities at Y-12,” the website states. It is set to be replaced by the end of 2025.
Y-12 confirmed that the material involved in the fire was a compound of uranium, the element workers in Building 9212 handle. Those compounds can come in metallic forms or solution forms, officials said.
They also added that at this time there is no indications of injuries, but teams will be evaluating those employees. The first priority in a situation like this, according to Y-12, is making sure employees and Oak Ridge residents are safe. After that, responders prioritize environmental impacts.
Y-12 was not able to confirm whether or not the fire was out as of 11:40 a.m. Eastern.
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Doctors transplant pig hearts into 2 brain-dead patients
NEW YORK (AP) - New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.
The experiments announced Tuesday come after a historic but failed attempt earlier this year to use a pig’s heart to save a dying Maryland man — sort of a rehearsal before scientists try again in the living.
Among the lessons: Practice with the deceased is important.
“We learned so much from the first one that the second one is much better,” said Dr. Nader Moazami, who led the operations at NYU Langone Health. “You stand there in awe when the pig heart starts to beat in a human body.”
This time around, Moazami’s team mimicked how heart transplants routinely are done. Once last month and once last week, researchers traveled to a facility housing genetically modified pigs, removed the needed hearts, put them on ice and flew them hundreds of miles back to New York.
They used special new methods to check for any worrisome animal viruses before sewing the heart into the chest of each deceased recipient — a Vietnam veteran from Pennsylvania with a long history of heart disease and a New York woman who’d benefited from a transplant earlier in life.
Then came three days of more intense testing than living patients could tolerate — including frequent biopsies of the organ — before doctors disconnected life support.
Already the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to allow a small number of Americans who need a new organ to volunteer for rigorous studies of either pig hearts or kidneys. NYU Langone is among three transplant centers planning trials — and has a meeting planned with the FDA in August to discuss requirements.
Testing in the deceased could help fine-tune how the first trials in the living are designed, said Dr. David Klassen of the United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the nation’s transplant system.
“They serve as an important sort of stepping stone,” said Klassen, who wonders if researchers next might consider tracking the organs for a week or so in a donated body rather than just three days.
One of the deceased recipients, Lawrence Kelly, had suffered heart disease for most of his life and “he would be so happy to know how much his contribution to this research will help people like him” in the future, his longtime partner Alice Michael told reporters Tuesday.
Animal-to-human transplants, what scientists call xenotransplantation, have been tried for decades without success, as people’s immune systems almost instantly attacked the foreign tissue. Now, pigs are being genetically modified so their organs are more human-like — increasing hope that they might one day help fill a shortage of donated organs. More than 100,000 people are on the national waiting list for a transplant, most of them kidney patients, and thousands die every year before their turn comes.
The most ambitious attempt so far came in January, when doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center transplanted a pig heart into a dying 57-year-old. David Bennett survived for two months, evidence that xenotransplantation was at least possible. But initial testing missed that the organ harbored an animal virus. What caused Bennett’s new heart to fail and whether that virus played any role still isn’t known, the Maryland researchers recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Months earlier, the NYU team and researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham separately were testing pig kidney transplants in the deceased, people who’d donated their bodies for science.
NYU’s recent heart experiments will add to the evidence as the FDA decides whether to allow formal studies in living patients.
But NYU Langone’s Dr. Robert Montgomery, a kidney transplant surgeon who received his own heart transplant, said continuing careful experiments in the deceased is critical to figuring out the best methods “in a setting where a person’s life isn’t at stake.”
“This is not a one-and-done situation. This is going to be years of learning what’s important and what’s not important for this to work,” said Montgomery, who has a list of almost 50 people who’ve called desperate to volunteer for a pig kidney transplant.
The FDA hasn’t signaled how soon it might decide whether to allow such studies. At a recent two-day public meeting, the agency’s scientific advisers said it was time to try despite a long list of questions. They include how best to modify the pigs, as several biotech companies — including Revivicor, which supplied the NYU organs — are pursuing different options.
It’s not even clear which organ to attempt first in a clinical trial. If a pig kidney fails, the patient can always survive on dialysis. Yet some of the FDA’s advisers said starting with the heart might be better. Experiments with pig kidneys in deceased humans showed the organs produced urine. But still unknown is whether pig kidneys do another important job — processing medications — the same way human kidneys do.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetEase Media, the well-established internet media platform of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES and HKEX: 9999), today announced viewership and engagement numbers for exclusive content from the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar with Champion Argentina and finalist, France. NetEase Media served as the exclusive online media partner in China for both the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and French Football Federation (FFF). The partnership brought bespoke contents including behind-the-scenes footage, exclusive player and coach interviews and the latest news to Chinese fans across a series of media outlets.
The portfolio of new, innovative contents has aroused heated discussions, with 70 trending topics and over 2.7 billion page views across leading media platforms in China throughout the 2022 World Cup competition. On NetEase News, its self-owned news application and a primary outlet for the partnership, users have spent over 1 million hours in total visiting schedule, scores, team portfolio and other contents for 40 million times under the World Cup column. Among them, over 2,200 news, articles, photos, or videos have driven 1.3 billion displays and over 6 million interactions under the column. In addition, the company has produced exclusive interviews with Argentina Manager, Lionel Scaloni, Goalkeeper, Emiliano Martinez; and Didier Deschamps, manager for France, and French players Aurélien Tchouaméni, Olivier Giroud and Raphaël Varane, delivering their aspirations for the game and gratitude towards the support of their Chinese fans.
As a well-established Chinese internet media platform, NetEase Media has been dedicated to building cooperation in large scale sports-events, such as the Olympic Games for years. This marked the third consecutive FIFA World Cup where NetEase Media partnered with premier national teams, and is the second time that a NetEase partner won the competition (France 2018).
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, March 2, the 61st day of 2023. There are 304 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands. Philadelphia won the game, 169-147.
On this date:
In 1861, the state of Texas, having seceded from the Union, was admitted to the Confederacy.
In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
In 1917, actor, producer, director and bandleader Desi Arnaz was born in Santiago de Cuba.
In 1932, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which moved the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to Jan. 20, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
In 1939, John Ford’s classic Western “Stagecoach,” starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne, opened in New York.
In 1943, the three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific during World War II; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on an Imperial Japanese convoy.
In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
In 1985, the government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
In 1989, representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), the synthetic compounds blamed for destroying the Earth’s ozone layer, by the end of the 20th century.
In 1990, more than 6,000 drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. (The company, later declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the strikers.)
In 1995, the Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.
In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, that a grieving father’s pain over mocking protests at his Marine son’s funeral had to yield to First Amendment protections for free speech in a decision favoring the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas.
In 2012, Some 40 people were killed by tornadoes that struck Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
Ten years ago: The day after $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts went into effect, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans refused to concede any culpability for failing to stave off the sequester. Alaska’s 41st Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked off with a festive ceremonial start in Anchorage.
Five years ago: At a funeral before an invitation-only crowd of approximately 2,000 in Charlotte, North Carolina, the children of the Rev. Billy Graham remembered “America’s Pastor” as a man devoted to spreading the Gospel, and one who lived his life at home as he preached it in stadiums. A nor’easter pounded the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force winds and sideways rain and snow, grounding flights and leaving more than 2 million homes and businesses without power from North Carolina to Maine.
One year ago: Russian forces laid siege to two strategic Ukrainian seaports and pressed their bombardment of the country’s second-biggest city, while the huge armored column threatening Kyiv appeared to be stalled outside the capital. Moscow’s isolation deepened as most of the world lines up against it at the United Nations. Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, died at age 92.
Today’s birthdays: Actor John Cullum is 93. Actor Barbara Luna is 84. Author John Irving is 81. Actor Cassie Yates is 72. Actor, comedian Laraine Newman (Saturday Night Live) is 71. Former Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is 70. Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is 68. Singer Jay Osmond is 68. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 67. Former tennis player Kevin Curren is 65. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 64. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 61. Blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart is 60. Actor Daniel Craig is 55. Actor Richard Ruccolo is 51. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 46. Actor Heather McComb is 46. Actor Rebel Wilson is 43. Actor Bryce Dallas Howard is 42. Former NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 41. Actor Robert Iler is 38. Actor Nathalie Emmanuel is 34. Country singer Luke Combs is 33. Singer-rapper-actor Becky G is 26. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/today-in-history-march-2-wilt-chamberlain-17794691.php | 2023-02-20 13:40:26 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/today-in-history-march-2-wilt-chamberlain-17794691.php |
Teachers unions have quickly filed a constitutional challenge to a new Florida law that places additional restrictions on public-employee unions, describing the measure as political retaliation by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The Florida Education Association, the United Faculty of Florida, the Alachua County teachers union and the University of Florida faculty union filed a lawsuit this week in federal court in Tallahassee, alleging that the law violates First Amendment, equal-protection and contract rights.
DeSantis signed the law (SB 256) during an event Tuesday in Miami. The Republican governor and teachers unions have repeatedly clashed about education policies, and the unions were key supporters last year of DeSantis’ election opponent, Democrat Charlie Crist.
The lawsuit pointed to unions that represent law-enforcement officers, correctional officers and firefighters — which have backed DeSantis and other Republicans — being exempted from the restrictions.
“In a bid to punish the ‘school unions’ and other public employee unions who have opposed him, Gov. DeSantis pushed for ‘unprecedented’ changes to Florida’s collective bargaining law to harm disfavored unions while exempting those unions representing law enforcement, corrections, and firefighter employees who have supported him,” the lawsuit said.
Among other things, the law prevents dues from being deducted from workers’ paychecks, forcing union members to make separate payments. Also, it requires gauging how many eligible employees are dues-paying union members. If fewer than 60 percent of eligible employees are members, unions will have to be recertified as bargaining agents.
In addition, it requires unions to include specific information on membership forms about Florida being a “right-to-work” state and about compensation of the five highest-paid officers and employees of each union.
Also, it requires unions to have audited financial statements, which will need to be made available to members.
Supporters have said the law would provide more transparency to workers about unions. During an appearance Wednesday in Jacksonville, DeSantis said the law will be “good for teachers.”
“They can make more of an informed decision,” DeSantis said. “They have a better sense of how much money is actually going and then they can evaluate what the union is actually doing for them. They are really not doing very much. They use that money for political, partisan activities. That’s what they use it for.”
But during a news conference Wednesday, state and national union leaders said the law is about political retribution. They likened it to DeSantis’ battle with the Walt Disney Co. after the entertainment giant opposed a 2022 state law restricting instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
"It is clear as day with Gov. DeSantis is doing. He is impeding freedom," continues @rweingarten "and that is why the FEA has gone to court to make sure the rights teachers have to speak, that students have to learn will found to be vindicated. Freedom means freedom."
— Florida Education Association (@FloridaEA) May 10, 2023
“The governor is using this legislation to retaliate against his critics, very similar to what we’ve seen in the attacks on Disney as well,” Florida Education Association President Andrew Spar said.
The lawsuit alleges the measure violates First Amendment rights, in part, by requiring that specific information be included on union membership forms.
“(The section of the law), by compelling disfavored unions to convey a prominent, government-drafted, 91-word ‘right-to-work’ affirmation in the membership authorization forms that they present to prospective members, and compelling those public employees who desire to become members of disfavored unions to sign that affirmation, violates the rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit also raises equal-protection arguments because the restrictions do not apply across-the-board to unions, exempting the unions for law-enforcement officers, correctional officers and firefighters.
Also, it raises allegations about the law unconstitutionally impairing existing union contracts. For example, the contract between the Alachua County Education Association union and the Alachua County school district allows union dues to be deducted from teachers’ paychecks. A contract between the United Faculty of Florida and the University of Florida has a similar provision.
“By prohibiting disfavored unions from collecting voluntary membership dues via payroll deduction, (a section of the law) substantially impairs the contractual rights” of the United Faculty of Florida and the Alachua County Education Association, the lawsuit said.
The law, which the Republican-controlled Legislature passed during the session that ended last week, applies to a variety of unions. The lawsuit, however, only names as plaintiffs the education unions.
Members of the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission, which will carry out the law, are named as defendants.
News Service Assignment Manager Tom Urban contributed to this report.
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Aerial and limited ground searches were underway Monday in Alaska for two overdue mountain climbers whose last known tracks disappeared at the site of an avalanche, officials said.
Eli Michel, 34, of Columbia City, Indiana, and Nafiun Awal, 32, of Seattle, were last known to be near Moose’s Tooth, a 10,300-foot mountain in Ruth Gorge, about 12 miles southeast of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, officials said in a statement.
The two last checked with friends via a satellite communication device on Friday morning, when they said they were planning to climb the West Ridge route along Moose’s Tooth.
JUDGE RULING MAY END SOUTHEAST ALASKA’S COMMERCIAL KING SALMON TROLLING
Their friends contacted park mountaineering rangers in nearby Talkeetna on Sunday when they hadn’t heard again from the climbers.
Rangers on Sunday found the climbers' unattended tent and ski tracks heading to the base of the route. There, they found the climbers’ skis, left behind when they apparently switched to crampons for the climb.
ARMY HELICOPTER COLLISION IN ALASKA THAT KILLED 3 SOLDIERS OCCURRED IN MOUNTAINS, CAUSE UNDER INVESTIGATION
Rangers then followed boot tracks continuing up the West Ridge into a recent small slab avalanche. "The tracks do disappear at the avalanche," park spokesperson Maureen Gualtieri said in an email.
No other tracks were found Sunday.
The aerial search Monday was focusing on the avalanche’s runout zone, or the lower portion of the slide path. The area also is marked by many crevasses.
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BANGKOK — A Chinese scientific ship bristling with surveillance equipment docked in a Sri Lankan port. Hundreds of fishing boats anchored for months at a time among disputed islands in the South China Sea. And ocean-going ferries, built to be capable of carrying heavy vehicles and large loads of people.
China’s navy is already the world’s largest by ship count, and has been rapidly building new warships as part of a wider military expansion. It launched its first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier in June, and at least five new destroyers are on the way soon.
The buildup comes as Beijing attempts to exert broader influence in the region. It is increasing its military activities around the self-governing island of Taiwan, seeking new security agreements with Pacific islands and building artificial islands in disputed waters to fortify its territorial claims in the South China Sea, which the U.S. and its allies have challenged.
The civilian vessels do more than just augment the raw numbers of ships, performing tasks that would be difficult for the military to carry out.
In the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands, for example, China pays commercial trawlers more than they can make by fishing simply to drop anchor for a minimum of 280 days a year to support Beijing’s claim to the disputed archipelago, said Gregory Poling, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.
“China is able to use nominally civilian vessels that are clearly state directed, state paid to eat away the sovereignty of its neighbors, but then plausibly deny that the state is responsible,” he said.
China has been using civilian fishing trawlers for military purposes for decades, but has significantly increased the numbers recently with the creation of a “Spratly Backbone Fleet” out of a government subsidy program begun under President Xi Jinping, which helps cover building new vessels, among other things.
Those ships “largely appeared almost overnight” after China constructed port infrastructure a few years ago on the artificial islands it built in the Spratlys that could be used for resupply, Poling said.
Now there are about 300 to 400 vessels deployed there at any given time, he said.
The Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and others also have claims to the Spratly Islands, which sit in a productive fishing area and important shipping lane, and are thought to hold untapped reserves of natural gas and oil.
But the Chinese ships deter other trawlers from fishing in the area, and have been slowly displacing them from the grounds, with little that governments can do, said Jay Batongbacal, who heads the University of the Philippines’ Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea.
“Because they are ostensibly civilian fishing vessels, navies’ ships are unable to deal with them lest China accuse the Philippines of provoking an incident and using force against civilians,” he said. “They take advantage of perceived ‘grey zones’ below the threshold for triggering a self-defense response.”
In one highly publicized incident, a steel Chinese trawler in 2019 rammed and sank a wooden-hulled Filipino boat at anchor northeast of the Spratly Islands, abandoning its crew to be rescued later by a Vietnamese fishing boat. Despite a diplomatic protest from the Philippines, China denied the incident was intentional, calling it an “accidental collision.”
In addition to about 800 to 1,000 commercial fishing boats in the Spratly fleet, China has approximately 200 other vessels as part of a professional maritime militia, according to a November study co-authored by Poling based on an analysis of official Chinese reports, satellite imagery and other sources.
The professional militia is better equipped, with trained crews and under direct state control, and is used for more aggressive operations such as harassing foreign oil and gas operations, Poling said.
In the event of a conflict, China’s use of civilian vessels would complicate the rules of engagement, he said.
“You don’t want to treat every Chinese fishing boat as if it were an armed combatant, but, in fact, some of them may well be armed combatants,” Poling said.
China has also been deploying civilian research vessels for military-related tasks in areas where its navy would be unable to operate without provoking a response, said Ridzwan Rahmat, a Singapore-based analyst with the defense intelligence company Janes.
“If you deploy grey hull vessels, your adversary may also deploy a grey hull vessel as a reciprocal measure, so that makes it more dangerous for everyone,” he said, referring to the typical color of military ships. “So to avoid this, China has been deploying white hull vessels — to reinforce its presence without escalating things.”
There are also many Western export controls prohibiting sensitive technology from being sent to China for military use, which China is able to bypass by building such civilian ships, even though “in everything but name they’re military,” Rahmat said.
The autonomously piloted Zhu Hai Yun is believed to be one such ship, capable of launching airborne, surface and underwater drones “to carry out marine scientific research,” according to the Chinese state-run Global Times.
The ship, which completed its first autonomous sea trial in June, could also create military maps of the South China Sea floor, including important submarine lanes around Taiwan, Rahmat said.
“China has been increasing its submarine deterrent patrols, and in order to ensure it can do this it needs to map the underwater terrain,” he said.
China’s methods drew the ire of regional rival India last month when it sought to dock the Yuan Wang 5 in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port, not far from India’s southeast coast, for refueling at a time that New Delhi was preparing to test a new missile.
The vessel is officially a scientific research ship equipped with sensors that can be used to track satellites, but the same equipment can be used to gather data on a missile launch.
Sri Lanka, in the midst of an economic crisis and heavily reliant on aid from India, initially declined to allow the ship to dock over India’s concerns.
But China operates the Hambantota Port, having been granted a 99-year lease on the facility — built with Chinese money — after Sri Lanka defaulted on loans in 2017. After high-level consultations with Beijing, Sri Lankan authorities backtracked and allowed the Yuan Wang 5 to dock from Aug. 16 to Aug. 22.
On Aug. 23, India successfully tested its new surface-to-air missile designed to defend a ship from close-range aerial threats.
“I suspect the launch was delayed until the Chinese spy ship was gone,” Rahmat said.
China hasn’t tried to disguise its military use of civilian ocean-going ferries, which have had to meet defense standards since 2016 allowing them to accommodate military vehicles like tanks, said Mike Dahm, a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer who has written on the topic for the U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute.
Slickly produced state television videos showing trainloads of military vehicles and troops boarding the vessels and heading to sea, stating openly they are testing “how to use civilian transportation resources to execute military tasks.” The latest such exercise wrapped up earlier this month.
This could be meant to intimidate Taiwan, which China claims as its own and has not ruled out attempting to take by force, and also dovetails with the Chinese government’s message that the public is contributing to national security, Dahm said.
China at the moment does not possess enough amphibious craft to transport the number of troops needed 160 kilometers (100 miles) across the Taiwan Strait for a potential beach landing on the island, and the ferries could be a stopgap measure should a crisis prompt China to decide to invade, Rahmat said.
China also may not want to take on the expense of building and maintaining a “huge amphibious armada” for an indeterminate period of time, Dahm said.
Military amphibious craft are built to land troops and vehicles on a beach, whereas ferries provide port-to-port movement, which would mean they would only be effective if China can capture Taiwanese ports in serviceable condition, Dahm said.
Still, in a crisis, China’s People’s Liberation Army could attempt a chancy gambit like offloading amphibious vehicles from the ferries at sea or using floating causeways, Dahm said.
“There is always the possibility that the PLA could commit to a high-risk operation against Taiwan with the possibility of losing a large number of civilian ships,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, and Ashok Sharma in New Delhi contributed to this story. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/china-using-civilian-ships-to-enhance-navy-capability-reach/2022/09/24/51147202-3bbf-11ed-b8af-0a04e5dc3db6_story.html | 2022-09-24 05:06:58 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/china-using-civilian-ships-to-enhance-navy-capability-reach/2022/09/24/51147202-3bbf-11ed-b8af-0a04e5dc3db6_story.html |
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Which journals are best?
With so many thoughts zipping through our heads, it’s nice to compile them into a single place at the beginning or end of the day. This is where a trusty journal comes in: a place where all those thoughts can meet up and get organized.
Journals come in all shapes and sizes and can reflect a person’s style and interior monologue. Whether you want to take notes for future projects and reminders or use it to help you pen the next great American novel, there is a perfect journal for you.
What to know before you buy journals
What you will use it for
The most important thing to ask yourself when buying a journal is what you intend on using it for. Are you a student looking for a place to jot down class notes? Are you an aspiring writer looking to get your character’s protagonist energy onto the page? Perhaps you are someone who just likes to have their thoughts penned in a single place for reflection and introspection. Regardless of the reason, understanding why you want to purchase a journal is the first step to finding the perfect one.
Prompt journals
Even seasoned writers suffer from the occasional case of writer’s block. Journals have found a way to combat this obstacle: the prompt journals. Prompt journals are great for those looking to dip their toes into the world of journaling for the first time or perhaps those who just want to have inspiration for writing every day. With a prompt journal, you will be given a set of instructions, typically on every page, to help get you started. Before you know it, you’ll have an entire journal full of thoughts and ideas.
Journal design
Journals come in every style under the sun. There are spiral-bound journals, soft-cover journals, hard-cover journals, leather-bound journals, and many more. Some journals double as calendars and planners, while others are perfect for artists with blank pages or design dots. Deciding on the kind of work and writing you intend on filling your journal with will help you determine the best journal design to utilize.
What to look for in quality journals
Size
Journal sizes can vary greatly. Most come in standard paper sizes such as A4, A5, and B5. The best journal for you will be one that you can carry comfortably, either in your hand or in your go-to bag.
Number of pages
Most journals have a range of maximum pages between 120 and 250 pages. This gives you an extensive range to decide how many pages will be ideal for your writing intentions. For example, if you are a student looking to compile all of your class notes, finding a journal with a more considerable number of pages might be ideal for ensuring you don’t run out of room.
Paper quality and ruling type
Depending on the journal, both paper quality and ruling type may vary. Paper quality tends to be tied to journal price. The better the quality of the paper, the more expensive the journal. This is not the same for ruling type. Ruling type can vary with journals of the same size. There are wide-ruled, college-ruled, blank and dotted notebooks. It is essential to pay attention to the ruling type so it meets your writing needs.
How much you can expect to spend on journals
Basic spiral-bound journals can cost just $1. Handcrafted journals with intricate designs and other features, such as specific ruling or page prompts, can cost up to $50. Most journals will fall somewhere in between, with a majority costing between $10-$20.
Journals FAQ
What makes a journal different from a notebook?
A. The terms are essentially interchangeable. A journal is more likely to describe a higher quality notebook and is used for writing things beyond just notes.
What is the best kind of journal binding?
A. Journals can have a variety of different bindings, ranging from spiral to stitched. Most higher-end journals will have glued or stitched bindings, which hide the binding within the cover.
What are the best journals to buy?
Top journal
LEUCHTTURM1917 – Medium A5 Dotted Hardcover Notebook
What you need to know: A hardback notebook with an elastic closure that offers easy, on-the-go use.
What you’ll love: This notebook features thick, creamy paper that stops ink from bleeding through to the next page. It also has numbered pages to help track writing progress and dates. There is a pocket in the back to help store keepsakes, like stickers and loose slips of paper.
What you should consider: Some users may not like the dotted paper design.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Top journal for money
Moleskine Classic Notebook, Hard Cover
What you need to know: A great and inexpensive pick for travel or basic journaling.
What you’ll love: This journal has smooth paper and can handle gel rollers. It comes with sturdy, lined paper and a solid cover perfect for taking notes or daily journaling.
What you should consider: This notebook does not come with a pen loop.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
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Moonster Vintage Handmade Bound Notepad for Men & Women
What you need to know: A handcrafted leather journal that radiates an “old world” feeling.
What you’ll love: The spine of this journal is hand-bound and made with recycled cotton paper. The thick paper also helps prevent page bleeding.
What you should consider: Its blank pages can make writing in straight lines an issue.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
Lemone Thick Classic Notebook with Pen Loop
What you need to know: An inexpensive journal that has quality paper and extra features.
What you’ll love: This notebook comes with a 180-degree flat spine to make it easy to write to the end of the page without bending or tearing the spine. A pen and expandible pocket are included with this journal.
What you should consider: Though the quality of the paper is good, fountain pens will tend to cause bleeding.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
What you need to know: A journal that offers prompts to help with the journaling journey.
What you’ll love: This product is perfect for those who are new to journaling, as every page of this journal has a new topic to help with the writing process.
What you should consider: The journal has a tight binding making it hard to stay open while writing.
Where to buy: Available at Amazon
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Canopy Health is pleased to announce the addition of St. Rose Hospital (Hayward) to its network alliance effective January 1, 2023. St. Rose Hospital has been serving the health care needs of the Hayward area for almost sixty years and is recognized for its leading-edge cardiology services, including being a designated STEMI (heart attack) Receiving Center by Alameda County. "St. Rose Hospital is a great addition to our strong network of hospitals throughout the Bay Area which includes UCSF Health, John Muir Health, Washington Hospital, Dignity Health and many others," says Canopy Health's Chief Network Development Officer, Chandra Welsh. "We partner with UnitedHealthcare and Health Net to offer more affordable access to Canopy Health's strong network of thirty hospitals and six medical groups, which now includes St. Rose Hospital."
"We are excited to join the Canopy Health network and provide quality services to Canopy Health members," stated Lex Reddy, CEO of St. Rose Hospital. "St. Rose continues to create a healthier community in Alameda County through our outstanding services including cardiology, emergency, diagnostics and women's health."
Canopy Health members accessing St. Rose Hospital will be referred in through their physicians at Hill Physicians Medical Group, the largest independent physician association in Northern California. "We are pleased to see the addition of St. Rose Hospital to Canopy Health's alliance, bringing greater access to high-quality care for Alameda County," says David Joyner, CEO of Hill Physicians and a Canopy Health board member.
Canopy Health's network has grown rapidly, adding nine new hospitals to its network since 2019. Following the most recent addition, the network will encompass 30 hospitals and nearly 6,000 providers in its Bay Area footprint. Through the Alliance Referral Program, Canopy Health members can seek referrals for care across the entire network, which includes Hill Physicians Medical Group, Meritage Medical Network, Providence Medical Network, John Muir Physician Network, Dignity Health Medical Network-Santa Cruz, and Santa Clara County IPA.
Most employers can offer their workforce access to the Canopy Health network, covering ten Bay Area counties, through select plans offered by UnitedHealthcare and Health Net. For more information on these plans and the eligibility criteria, employers should contact their licensed benefits broker or consultant.
Canopy Health is a physician and hospital owned medical alliance that delivers a refreshing approach to healthcare by providing affordable care from a network of exceptional physicians, hospitals and providers. Incorporated in March 2015 as an affiliation between UCSF Health and John Muir Health, including ownership and leadership by Hill Physicians Medical Group and John Muir Medical Group, Canopy Health developed a unique mission to provide a top-quality continuum of care across the Bay Area through strong alliances with primary care providers, top-tier academic medical facilities, community hospitals, and medical groups. Every day we work to improve access, affordability, quality and member experience. Canopy Health will now include six large physician groups and 30 participating hospitals across ten Bay Area counties.
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge eased further in December, and consumer spending fell — the latest evidence that the Fed’s series of interest rate hikes are slowing the economy.
Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 5% last month from a year earlier, down from a 5.5% year-over-year increase in November. It was the third straight drop.
Consumer spending fell 0.2% from November to December and was revised lower to show a drop of 0.1% from October to November. Last year’s holiday sales were sluggish for many retailers, and the overall spending figures for the final two months of 2022 were the weakest in two years.
The pullback in consumer spending will likely be welcomed by Fed officials, who are seeking to cool the economy by making lending increasingly expensive. A slower pace of spending could boost their confidence that inflation is steadily easing. Still, the decline in year-over-year inflation matches the Fed’s outlook and isn’t likely to alter expectations that it will raise its key rate by a quarter-point next week.
On a monthly basis, inflation ticked up just 0.1% from November to December for a second straight month. Energy prices plunged 5.1%, and the overall cost of goods also fell.
“Core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.3% from November to December and 4.4% from a year earlier. The year-over-year figure was down from 4.7% in November, though still well above the Fed’s 2% target.
Falling prices for oil, gas, copper, lumber, wheat and other commodities, along with the unclogging of supply chains, have helped slow the retail costs of cars, furniture and clothes, among other items.
Price increases, though, have remained persistently high for some goods and services, including eggs, which skyrocketed 60% last month compared with a year ago. Egg prices rose 11.1% just in December, inflated by an outbreak of avian flu that has led to a culling of herds and higher feed costs.
Car rental prices have also soared nearly 27% from a year ago and rose 1.6% just in December.
But for many other items, inflation is easing. Coffee prices, though up nearly 14% in the past year, rose just 0.2% last month. And the cost of clothes and shoes rose just 3% in the past year and 0.3% last month.
Friday’s figures are separate from the better-known inflation data that comes from the consumer price index. The CPI, which was released earlier this month, has also shown a steady deceleration.
“The latest data offer the first tangible signs that the economy’s main engine is slowing,” said Oren Klachkin, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, referring to consumers, whose spending accounts for about 70% of economic activity.
The Fed has been seeking to slow spending, growth and the surging prices that have bedeviled the nation for nearly two years. Its key rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, is now in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, up from near zero last March. Though inflation has been decelerating, most economists say they think the Fed’s harsh medicine will tip the economy into a recession sometime this year.
“We continue to see the U.S. economy experiencing a mild recession this year,” said Lydia Boussour, senior economist at EY Parthenon.
A recession typically causes widespread layoffs and higher unemployment. But for now, U.S. employers are adding workers, and the unemployment rate remains at a half-century low of 3.5%.
Should job losses — which are occurring at many finance and tech companies — drive up unemployment, a recession could eventually be declared by a group of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit that officially determines when recessions occur. The economists at the NBER typically make such an announcement well after a recession has actually begun.
For now, the number of people seeking unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs — declined last week to 186,000, a very low level historically. And Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, said it would raise its minimum wage, from $12 to $14 an hour, to help it keep and attract workers.
The Fed is in an increasingly delicate position. Chair Jerome Powell has emphasized that the central bank plans to keep boosting its key rate and to keep it elevated, potentially until the end of the year. Yet that policy may become untenable if a sharp recession takes hold.
On Thursday, the government reported that the economy grew at a healthy clip in the final three months of last year but with much of the expansion driven by one-time factors: Companies restocked their depleted inventories as supply chain snarls unraveled, and the nation’s trade deficit shrank.
By contrast, consumer spending in the October-December quarter as a whole weakened from the previous quarter, and business investment dropped off sharply. Overall, the economy expanded at a 2.9% annual rate in the October-December quarter, down slightly from a 3.2% pace in the previous quarter.
If consumers remain less willing to boost their spending, companies’ profit margins will shrink, and many may cut expenses. That trend could lead eventually to waves of layoffs. Economists at Bank of America have forecast that the economy will grow slightly in the first three months of this year — but then shrink in the following three quarters.
More frugal consumers would threaten to send the economy into a recession. But they can also help reduce inflation. Companies can’t keep raising prices if Americans won’t pay the higher costs.
Last week, the Federal Reserve’s beige book, a gathering of anecdotal reports from businesses around the country, said: “Many retailers noted increased difficulty in passing through cost increases, suggesting greater price sensitivity on the part of consumers.”
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WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department on Thursday issued new requirements for foods labeled organic, a move aimed at cracking down on fraud and boosting oversight.
The rule strengthens enforcement of the USDA’s strict definitions of organic, which must rely on “natural substances and physical, mechanical or biologically based farming methods to the fullest extent possible.”
The rule requires USDA’s National Organic Program certification for all imported organic food, increases certifications of more businesses in the supply chain and boosts authority for inspections, record-keeping, traceability and fraud prevention practices.
The Organic Trade Association, which lobbied for the rule, said it represents the biggest change to organic regulations since the creation of the USDA organic food program.
OTA officials said in a statement the regulation “will do much to deter and detect organic fraud and protect organic integrity throughout the supply chain.”
Sales of organic foods in the U.S. topped $63 billion in 2021, according to OTA, with consumers willing to pay top dollar for products free of pesticides and other contaminants.
Fresh produce, grains and other foods are vulnerable to fraud. This month, Department of Justice officials issued indictments in a multimillion-dollar scheme to export non-organic grain to the U.S., to be sold as a certified organic product.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw struck out 10, Chris Taylor blasted a three-run homer in which the Dodgers successfully challenged a fan interference call, and Los Angeles defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 on Monday night.
The Dodgers have beaten the D-backs in 19 of their last 20 meetings at Dodger Stadium. They improved to 12-3 against Arizona this season.
Kershaw (9-3) allowed one run and six hits in six innings to earn his second straight win after a loss and four no-decisions dating to July 24. His strikeouts tied for his second-most of the season. The left-hander struck out the side in the third.
Closer Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth and gave up a leadoff single and then hit two straight batters to load the bases. Gavin Lux made a diving stab on pinch-hitter Sergio Alcantara, who grounded into a double play, before Daulton Varsho popped up to end it.
On a night when the Dodgers' power trio of Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman went a combined 1 for 11 with a walk and two strikeouts, the lower half of the order produced.
Gavin Lux had three hits from the No. 7 spot.
Taylor has struggled mightily this season. He struck out 149 times in 365 at-bats coming into the game, with just 24% of his swings being put into play. He flied out in the second before connecting for his 10th homer off Merrill Kelly (12-7) in a four-run fourth. However, he had to wait for it.
Crew chief James Hoye ruled fan interference when a man in the lower left-field seats wearing a Dodgers jersey made a clumsy attempt at catching the ball in his glove. The ball struck the man in the belly and it ricocheted back onto the field.
The Dodgers challenged the call and after a video review, Taylor came trotting home with a three-run shot that extended their lead to 5-0.
Joey Gallo drove in the Dodgers' first two runs. He hit a 437-foot homer to the right-field pavilion with two outs in the second. Gallo had an RBI single in the fourth in which Max Muncy scored on a fielding error by center fielder Varsho.
The Dodgers thought they'd executed an inning-ending double play in the fifth. Instead, the video review went against them. Geraldo Perdomo grounded into a fielder's choice to third that scored Carson Kelly, who doubled leading off, and Arizona trailed 5-1.
Christian Walker scored on Alcantara's double-play grounder for Arizona's other run.
Merrill Kelly gave up five runs and eight hits in six innings. The right-hander struck out seven and walked two.
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D-backs: RHP Zach Davies (2-4, 4.06 ERA) starts Game 1 of Tuesday's doubleheader in pursuit of his first win since May 13. He got a no-decision in 5 1/3 innings against the Dodgers last week. RHP Drey Jameson (1-0, 0-0) starts Game 2. He won his MLB debut last week against the Padres with seven scoreless innings.
Dodgers: RHP Michael Grove (0-0, 4.40) gets a second start in Game 1. He faced the D-backs in a spot start on Sept. 14, giving up two runs and and two hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked one. LHP Tyler Anderson (15-3, 2.62) is expected to come off the paternity list and start Game 2.
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Matthew McConaughey tells the story of those killed in Uvalde in emotional plea for action on guns
Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered impassioned and at-times emotional remarks at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control.
McConaughey, a Uvalde native, said he and his wife, Camila Alves, spent most of the past week with the families of those who were killed in his hometown. He showed pictures of their artwork and brought to the briefing room the green Converse shoes that one girl wore every day that were used to identify her body after the shooting. She had drawn a heart on one of the shoes.
He said he needed to tell their stories to show how action needed to be taken to honor the lives of the 19 children and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School last month.
"You know what every one of these parents wanted, what they asked us for? What every parent separately expressed in their own way to Camila and me? That they want their children's dreams to live on. That they want their children's dreams to continue, to accomplish something after they are gone. They want to make their loss of life matter," McConaughey said.
Video above: McConaughey speaks about gun laws
He said there was now a "window of opportunity" to enact meaningful gun legislation reform and called for universal background checks, raising the minimum wage for purchasing an AR-15 to 21, a waiting period for purchasing AR-15s and the implementation of red flag laws.
"These are reasonable, practical, tactical regulations to our nation, states, communities, schools and homes. Responsible gun owners are fed up with the Second Amendment being abused and hijacked by some deranged individuals. These regulations are not a step back -- they're a step forward for a civil society and, and the Second Amendment," McConaughey said in a roughly 20-minute speech from the podium.
The Academy Award-winning actor met briefly with President Joe Biden before appearing at the podium, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
McConaughey spoke in great detail about the children and what dreams they held before they were killed -- one wanted to be a marine biologist, one had been preparing to read a Bible verse at church the next week, another wanted to go to art school in Paris.
"You could feel the shock in the town. You could feel the pain, the denial, the disillusion, anger, blame, sadness, loss of lives, dreams halted," he said.
McConaughey said, "Due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an AR-15 rifle, most of the bodies so mutilated that only DNA test or green converse could identify them. Many children were left not only dead but hollow. So, yes, counselors are going to be needed in Uvalde for a long time."
"We got to take a sober, humble, and honest look in the mirror and rebrand ourselves based on what we truly value. What we truly value. We got to get some real courage and honor our immortal obligations instead of our party affiliations," McConaughey said.
He continued, "Enough with the counterpunching. Enough of the invalidation of the other side. Let's come to the common table that represents the American people. Find a middle ground, the place where most of us Americans live anyway. Especially on this issue. Because I promise you, America, you and me, we are not as divided as we are being told we are."
McConaughey held meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill earlier in the day to discuss gun reform legislation
The "Dallas Buyers Club" actor publicly weighed a run for governor in Texas last year but ultimately ruled one out -- for now. He said it was "a path that I'm choosing not to take at this moment."
McConaughey told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday he hoped he was making progress in his meetings with lawmakers. He had left a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and was heading to another meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
The president earlier on Tuesday met with Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who is leading bipartisan negotiations on gun reform. Murphy told reporters at the White House he met with the president for about half an hour and spoke about the outlines of the ongoing gun reform negotiations. Murphy emphasized how much he appreciated Biden and the White House giving senators "space" to try and reach a deal, and said his goal remains to reach a deal by the end of this week.
While the odds of any sweeping reforms remain very steep, lawmakers have expressed optimism that a deal for narrow and targeted bill could be reached as soon as the end of this week. Jean-Pierre said Monday Biden was "encouraged" by the Senate negotiations on gun control measures.
The president delivered an impassioned speech from the White House after the mass shooting at the Uvalde elementary school last month and ratcheted up the pressure on Congress to act. He has called on Congress to implement stricter gun laws, including a ban on assault weapons, tougher background check laws and a higher minimum age of purchase. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/matthew-mcconaughey-white-house-briefing-plea-for-action-on-guns/40220235 | 2022-06-07 20:34:43 | 1 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/matthew-mcconaughey-white-house-briefing-plea-for-action-on-guns/40220235 |
CHICAGO — A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R. Kelly of several child pornography and sex abuse charges in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another legal blow to a singer who used to be one of the biggest R&B stars in the world.
Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement.
But the jury acquitted him on a fourth pornography count as well as a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008. He was found not guilty on all three counts of conspiring to receive child pornography and for two further enticement charges.
His two co-defendants were found not guilty on all charges.
Jurors, who deliberated for 11 hours over two days, wrote several questions to the judge on Wednesday, at least one indicating the panelists were grappling with some of the case’s legal complexities.
One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly’s lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one.
At trial, prosecutors sought to paint a picture of Kelly as a master manipulator who used his fame and wealth to reel in star-stuck fans, some of them minors, to sexually abuse then discard them.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover child pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. The conspiracy to hide his abuse ran from 2000 to 2020, prosecutors said.
Kelly associates Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown were co-defendants at the Chicago trial. Jurors acquitted McDavid, a longtime Kelly business manager, who was accused of conspiring with Kelly to rig the 2008 trial. Brown, a Kelly associate for years, was acquitted of receiving child pornography.
Kelly has already been convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In Chicago, a conviction of just one count of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, while receipt of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum of five years. Judges can order that defendants sentenced earlier in separate cases serve their new sentence simultaneously with or only after the first term is fully served. Federal inmates must serve at least 85% of their sentences.
During closing arguments Tuesday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean likened the government’s testimony and evidence to a cockroach and its case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, “you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup,” said told jurors.
“There are just too many cockroaches,” she said of the prosecution’s case.
The three defendants called only a handful of witnesses over four days. Co-defendant McDavid, who was on the stand for three days, may have damaged Kelly’s hopes for acquittal by saying that he now doubts Kelly was truthful when he denied abusing anyone after hearing the superstar’s accusers testify.
In her closing rebuttal, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng cited testimony that Kelly’s inner circle increasingly focused on doing what Kelly wanted as his fame boomed in the mid-1990s.
“And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls,” she said.
Four Kelly accusers testified, all referred to by pseudonyms or their first names: Jane, Nia, Pauline and Tracy. Some cried when describing the abuse but otherwise spoke calmly and with confidence. A fifth accuser, Brittany, did not testify.
Sitting nearby in a suit and face mask, Kelly often averted his eyes and looked down as his accusers spoke.
Some dozen die-hard Kelly fans regularly attended the trial. On at least one occasion during a break, several made hand signs of a heart at Kelly. He smiled back.
Jane, 37, was the government’s star witness and pivotal to the fixing charge, which accused Kelly of using threats and payoffs to get her to lie to a grand jury before his 2008 trial and to ensure she and her parents wouldn’t testify.
A single video, which state prosecutors said was Kelly abusing a girl of around 14, was the focal point of that trial.
On the witness stand for two days at the end of August, Jane paused, tugged at a necklace and dabbed her eyes with a tissue when she said publicly for the first time that the girl in the video was her aged 14 and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30.
Some jurors in the 2008 trial said they had to acquit Kelly because the girl in the video didn’t testify. At the federal trial in Chicago, Jane said she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said it was not her in the video, saying part of her reason for lying was that she cared for Kelly and didn’t want to get him into trouble.
Jane told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had visited Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather.
Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. She said she implored her parents not to take action against Kelly because she loved him.
Defense attorneys suggested a desire for money and fame drove some government witnesses to accuse Kelly, and they accused several people of trying to blackmail him. They also suggested that at least one of his accusers was 17 — the age of consent in Illinois — when Kelly began pursing her for sex.
Bonjean implored jurors not to accept the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as “a monster,” saying Kelly was forced to rely on others because of intellectual challenges, and that he was sometimes led astray.
“Mr. Kelly can also be a victim,” she said in her opening statement.
Prosecutors played jurors excerpts from three videos that Jane said featured her. Court officials set up opaque screens around the jurors so journalists and spectators couldn’t see the videos or the jurors’ reactions.
But the sound was audible. In one video, the girl is heard repeatedly calling the man “daddy.” At one point she asks: “Daddy, do you still love me?” The man gives her sexually explicit instructions.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video that was also evidence in the 2008 trial in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home around 1998.
Another accuser, Pauline, said Jane introduced her to Kelly when they were 14-year-old middle school classmates in 1998. At Kelly’s Chicago home later that year, Pauline described her shock when she said she first walked in on Kelly and a naked Jane. She said Kelly told her that everyone has secrets. “This is our secret,” she testified he said.
Pauline told jurors she still cares for Kelly. But, as a 37-year-old mom, she said she now has a different perspective.
“If somebody did something to my kids,” she said, “I’m killing ’em. Period.” | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/r-kelly-child-pornography-child-verdict/507-d7507fb1-128a-4511-b34a-ab8c08361ef2 | 2022-09-14 23:07:35 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/r-kelly-child-pornography-child-verdict/507-d7507fb1-128a-4511-b34a-ab8c08361ef2 |
Nia Long sounds off on Ime Udoka scandal: 'It was devastating, and it still is'
Long said their son, Kez, still struggles with the repercussions of his father's actions
Nia Long, the well-known actress and partner of suspended Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka, spoke for the first time about the scandal that rocked the NBA world prior to the start of the 2022-2023 season.
In an in-depth interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Long detailed her feelings of devastation that continue for her and their son, 11-year-old Kez, to this day.
She also took a shot at the Celtics organization.
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"I think the most heartbreaking thing about all of this was seeing my son’s face when the Boston Celtics organization decided to make a very private situation public," Long said. "It was devastating, and it still is. He still has moments where it’s not easy for him. If you’re in the business of protecting women — I’m sorry, no one from the Celtics organization has even called to see if I’m OK, to see if my children are OK. It’s very disappointing."
The report added that Kez was taken out of school when the news broke that his father was suspended by the Celtics for the 2022-2023 campaign after an investigation by an independent law firm found an improper relationship between Udoka and a female member of the organization among other policy violations.
Udoka released a statement when the Celtics revealed their investigation findings, saying "I want to apologize to our players, fans, the entire Celtics organization, and my family for letting them down. I am sorry for putting the team in this difficult situation, and I accept the team’s decision."
IME UDOKA MADE CRUDE REMARKS THAT LED TO YEARLONG SUSPENSION: REPORT
Long admitted the news shocked her but seeing the outpouring of love and support from friends, family and even those on social media helped the situation.
"I literally felt like my heart had jumped out of my body," she said. "And then what I found was this tribe of women and men who were standing up for me in a way that felt like I was in this bubble of protection, and that was very comforting."
Long and Udoka had been together since 2009 and were engaged in 2015, though Long noted that she had no intention to marry. The Hollywood Reporter stated that Long wouldn’t commit on the current relationship between the two.
Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck said at the time that the organization found out about Udoka’s relationship with the female employee over the summer.
CELTICS SUSPEND IME UDOKA FOR ENTIRE 2022-2023 SEASON FOR ‘VIOLATIONS OF TEAM POLICIES’
"Called in the law firm at that point and the investigation had some twists and turns and took some time to develop all the facts," Grousbeck said.
"I took a lot of advice from partners like [Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens] and others. We collectively came to this and got there, but it was not clear what to do. But it was clear that something substantial needed to be done, in my view, and it was."
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Udoka led the Celtics to the NBA Finals in his first year as head coach. Boston named assistant coach Joe Mazzulla as interim head coach for the upcoming season, where his squad is currently leading the Eastern Conference with an 18-4 record. | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nia-long-sounds-off-ime-udoka-scandal-devastating-still-is | 2022-12-01 22:58:09 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nia-long-sounds-off-ime-udoka-scandal-devastating-still-is |
Which tablet accessory for kids is best?
For education or entertainment, parents have been integrating more technology into the lives of their kids. Tablets in particular have become a major tool for kids to learn and play from the convenience of wherever they are. As a result, there are several different accessories that have been designed specifically for kids to use with their tablets. Depending on the interests of the kid, there are several different options for any shopper to choose from. However, knowing what exactly to look for will make a major difference.
WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY TABLET ACCESSORIES FOR KIDS
Compatibility of the accessory with brand of tablet
Several tablet accessories are built to specifically work with one brand of tablet, so ensuring that the design is either universally compatible, or at least compatible, with the currently owned device will make an obvious difference.
How the kid uses the tablet
Perhaps the most important factor is knowing what sort of activities or games the kid likes to do on the tablet will help you to choose an accessory. For kids who like to draw, there are several different drawing-specific accessories to choose from. For kids who like racing games, there are cases and accessories that are designed to improve that experience as well.
Wireless connectivity and battery life
If the accessory is wirelessly connected such as a stylus, knowing if it connects with the tablet is important. Additionally, wirelessly connected accessories will also have a battery life, which can range dramatically depending on the quality and type of device it is.
Color and design
For kids in particular, finding accessories that have fun colors or designs will be an important part of the decision-making process. Most kids’ tablet accessories will have several different options, with many others having designs that feature cartoon characters or other recognizable faces from kids’ TV and movies.
HOW MUCH YOU CAN EXPECT TO SPEND ON TABLET ACCESSORIES FOR KIDS
There are kids’ tablet accessories available in basically every price range, with a case or small stylus costing only a few dollars, while certain attachments or connected items can cost hundreds. Depending on the budget, there will be options for every shopper.
WHAT ARE THE Best tablet accessories for kids?
Top tablet accessory for kids
What you need to know: This is a fun and easy-to-use stylus designed to look like a classic yellow pencil.
What you’ll love: The stylus is universally compatible and works on any touch surface without requiring a battery. The thicker design is easier to grip for younger kids, so they won’t drop it.
What you should consider: The lack of wireless connectivity reduces precision and does not disable touch from a hand if it is resting on the tablet.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top tablet accessory for kids for the money
CozyPhones Over The Ear Headband Headphones
What you need to know: These are cute and comfortable headphones that fit like a headband for easy stability.
What you’ll love: The headphones have limited volume levels to protect kids from ear damage. The headband also comes in several different designs to work with the preferences of any kid.
What you should consider: The headphone jack will not be compatible with an iPad without an additional dongle.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Kid-Proof Case for Fire 7 Tablet
What you need to know: This is an incredibly durable tablet case that comes in several different colors for added variety.
What you’ll love: The tablet case comes with an adjustable stand that works to both angle the tablet, as well as stand it fully upright. The thick outer shell will protect from heavy impact and the elevated sides will protect the screen as well.
What you should consider: The tablet case is only compatible with Amazon Fire tablets, making it a less versatile option.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
ipega-PG-9083S wireless Mobile Controller
What you need to know: This is a great accessory for older kids who like to use their tablets for gaming.
What you’ll love: The mobile controller works for several different sizes of devices with the attachment feature being adjustable. All of the keys and buttons can be customized to the programmed settings of the user.
What you should consider: The mobile controller is only compatible with Android devices.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: This is a multi-function travel tray that can hold several toys, snacks and art supplies, as well as a tablet.
What you’ll love: The tablet holder in the middle of the tray is universal and will fit several different tablets and mobile devices. The tray will also connect easily around most different car seats with a simple strap.
What you should consider: Some users have reported that it is clunky to carry around when travelling.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Cuddly Reader Tablet Stand and Book Holder
What you need to know: This is a cute and sturdy tablet holder that is made out of soft, plush materials.
What you’ll love: The tablet holder has side pockets to hold a stylus or other additional accessories. The plush exterior comes in several different designs and characters for fun customization.
What you should consider: For tablets with thicker cases, the ledge that holds up the device may not be long enough to comfortably hold it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
FANGOR Universal Tablet Holder for Kids in Back Seats
What you need to know: This is a great tablet holder for the back seat of a car to allow kids to watch videos while in the car.
What you’ll love: The tablet holder is universal and will work with any device, regardless of brand. The anti-slip strap will ensure that the tablet stays in place even when on a bumpy road.
What you should consider: Some users report that the velcro attachment will not hold after extended use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Wahpeton (BSB) and West Fargo (SBALL) Win EDC Championship; Enter State Tournament as No. 1 Seed in East
HUSKIES DEFEAT THE PACKERS 7-4 IN BASEBALL | PACKERS DEFEAT THE ROUGHRIDERS 5-1 IN SOFTBALL TO WIN THE EDC CHAMPIONSHIPS.
WAHPETON/FARGO, N.D. —
In baseball, the Wahpeton Huskies are heading to the State Tournament as the No.1 seed out of the East with their 7-4 win over West Fargo on Saturday.
In Softball, the West Fargo Packers defeated the Roughriders of GF Red River 5-1 to win the EDC.
The State Tournament begins June 1 and will run through the 3rd in Fargo for both baseball and softball. | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/05/27/wahpeton-bsb-and-west-fargo-sball-win-edc-championship-enter-state-tournament-as-no-1-seed-in-east/ | 2023-05-28 03:44:20 | 0 | https://www.kvrr.com/2023/05/27/wahpeton-bsb-and-west-fargo-sball-win-edc-championship-enter-state-tournament-as-no-1-seed-in-east/ |
SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it is proposing a change from time-based deferrals to assessing blood donor eligibility using gender-inclusive, individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV. This proposal is in line with policies in place in countries like the United Kingdom and Canada.
These draft recommendations are based on the FDA's careful review of available information, including data from other countries with similar HIV epidemiology that have instituted this approach, as well as ongoing surveillance of the U.S. blood supply. Based on the available data, the agency believes the implementation of the proposed individual risk-based questions will not compromise the safety or availability of the blood supply.
"Whether it's for someone involved in a car accident, or for an individual with a life-threatening illness, blood donations save lives every day," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "Maintaining a safe and adequate supply of blood and blood products in the U.S. is paramount for the FDA, and this proposal for an individual risk assessment, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, will enable us to continue using the best science to do so."
Under the new proposed guidance:
- The time-based deferrals for men who have sex with men (MSM) and women who have sex with MSM would be eliminated.
- The current donor history questionnaire would be revised to ask all prospective donors about new or multiple sexual partners in the past three months.
- Prospective donors who report having a new sexual partner, or more than one sexual partner in the past three months, would then be asked about a history of anal sex in the past three months.
- All prospective donors who report having a new sexual partner or more than one sexual partner and had anal sex in the past three months would be deferred from donation.
- Under this proposal, a prospective donor who does not report having new or multiple sexual partners, and anal sex in the past three months, may be eligible to donate, provided all other eligibility criteria are met.
Other considerations in the guidance include:
- No change in the donor deferral time periods for other HIV risk factors, including for individuals who have exchanged sex for money or drugs or have a history of non-prescription injection drug use.
- Any individual who has ever had a positive test for HIV or who has taken any medication to treat HIV infection would continue to be deferred permanently.
- Blood establishments would still be required to test all blood donations for evidence of certain transfusion-transmitted infections, including HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
Proposed guidance related to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) or post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP):
- Those taking oral medications to prevent HIV infection such as PrEP or PEP would be deferred for three months from their most recent dose.
- Those taking injectable PrEP to prevent HIV infection would be deferred for two years from their most recent injection.
- Some blood establishments currently have deferral policies related to the use of medications to prevent HIV infections.
- The available data demonstrate that the use of PrEP and PEP may delay detection of HIV by licensed screening tests for blood donations, potentially resulting in false negative results.
The agency recognizes that, while these draft recommendations, when finalized, will potentially increase the number of individuals eligible to donate blood, some individuals will still be deferred from donating blood. However, this does not mean that individuals taking PrEP should stop taking these medications to donate blood. The FDA will continue to track the latest data relevant to PrEP and blood donation.
"Our approach to this work has always been, and will continue to be, based on the best available science and data. Over the years, this data-driven process has enabled us to revise our policies thereby increasing those eligible to donate blood while maintaining appropriate safeguards to protect recipients," said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. "We will continue to follow the best available scientific evidence to maintain an adequate supply of blood and minimize the risk of transmitting infectious diseases and are committed to finalizing this draft guidance as quickly as possible."
To inform these draft recommendations, the FDA carefully reviewed numerous data sources, including data from the United Kingdom and Canada, countries with similar HIV epidemiology that have implemented this gender-inclusive, individual risk-based approach for assessing donor eligibility, surveillance information obtained from the Transfusion Transmissible Infections Monitoring System, and the performance characteristics of nucleic acid testing for HIV. Additionally, the agency funded the Assessing Donor Variability And New Concepts in Eligibility (ADVANCE) study. This study examined several HIV risk factors, such as anal sex, rates of HIV infection and rates of PrEP and PEP use among MSM study participants.
As part of the FDA's established process, today's proposal will be open for public comment for 60 days. The agency will then review and consider all comments before finalizing this guidance, which would then be implemented by the nation's blood collection establishments through an updated donor history questionnaire.
Additional Resources:
- Keeping Blood Transfusions Safe: FDA's Multi-layered Protections for Donated Blood
- Blood & Blood Products
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The New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays used their social media accounts during Thursday night’s game between the teams to spread information about how gun violence affects American life.
The move was made in response to recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo. Several notable sports figures — including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr — have used their platform over the past few days to plead for action to combat gun violence.
MLB’s social media accounts are usually used during games to show video highlights, relay baseball statistics or exchange witty jokes with other accounts about the action on the field. On Thursday, that was replaced by posts like “ Firearms were the leading cause of death for American children and teens in 2020.”
Both accounts then posted a link to the source of their information.
“In lieu of gave coverage and in collaboration with the Tampa Bay Rays, we will be using our channels to offer facts about the impacts of gun violence.” the Yankees said in a statement. “The devastating events that have taken place in Uvalde, Buffalo and countless other communities across our nation are tragedies that are intolerable.”
The Rays also released a statement, saying that the recent shootings “cannot become normal.”
“We all deserve to be safe — in schools, grocery stores, places of worship, our neighborhoods, houses and America. The most recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde have shaken us to the core. The Tampa Bay Rays are mourning these heartbreaking tragedies that took the lives of innocent children and adults.
“This cannot become normal. We cannot become numb. We cannot look the other way. We all know, if nothing changes, nothing changes.”
The Uvalde school shooting was particularly personal for Rays reliever Brooks Raley, who is from Uvalde and still has family who live in the town. He attended the school where the shooting occured.
The NBA’s Miami Heat also took a different approach to raising awareness and calling for change following the Uvalde shootings. Before Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night, the Heat held a moment of silence in memory of those who were killed — followed by a statement urging fans to call lawmakers and demand change.
“The Heat urges you to contact your state senators by calling 202-224-3121 to leave a message demanding their support for common sense gun laws,” public address announcer Michael Baiamonte read to the fans, some of whom broke into applause as he spoke.
The moment was also broadcast as part of ESPN’s telecast of the game.
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this story.
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BELMONT, Mich. (AP) — Jennifer Kupcho shot a 9-under 63 on Thursday at windy Blythefield Country Club to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Meijer Classic.
Kupcho eagled the par-5 14th and had seven birdies in the bogey-free round.
“I hit a mistakenly really great shot on the first hole,” Kupcho said. “Honestly, thought I was going to miss the green but ended up great. Took advantage of that, and then sunk a longer putt on the second hole, and that really just boosted my confidence, especially in this wind.”
She won the major tournament at Mission Hills in the California desert in early April for her first LPGA Tour victory.
“I’ve been here the last couple of years and really been comfortable with this place,” Kupcho said. “Honestly, a lot of the holes are birdie holes, so I felt like I could go out and birdie every hole. I think that that was just the mindset starting every new hole, is doing that.”
Gerina Mendoza was second. She closed birdie-eagle.
“I haven’t really been posting many numbers as of late, so it just really gave me a big confidence boost and I kind of felt like my old self, just kind of plunking away and not thinking about the number or one more or calculating,” Mendoza said. “I just really stayed present in every shot.”
Lexi Thompson, the 2015 winner, was another stroke back at 65 with Swedes Anna Nordqvist and Madelene Sagstrom. Andrea Lee shot 66.
“I just kind of felt really relaxed the whole day,” Thompson said. “Coming into today I knew I’ve been hitting it well and I’ve been putting in the work, so just coming out here and believing in myself and just staying in the moment, in the present.”
Defending champion Nelly Korda opened with a 67. She’s making her second start since returning from a four-month break because of a blood clot in her left arm.
“It’s so nice to be back, just in the city of Grand Rapids, too,” Korda said. “It’s super nice. I really like it here. Everyone is so welcoming and the crowd really gets behind this entire event and the city gets behind this entire event.”
Korda also is the defending champion next week in the KPGA Women’s PGA Championship at Congressional.
Stacy Lewis also was at 67 with Na Rin An, Ruixin Liu, Bianca Pagdanganan, Megan Khang, Ryann O’Toole and Caroline Masson.
U.S. Women’s Open champion Minjee Lee of Australia opened with a 68.
Canadian Brooke Henderson, the ShopRite LPGA Classic winner Sunday in New Jersey, also shot 68. Henderson won at Blythefield in 2017 and 2019.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Joshua Duggar’s release date from federal prison has been pushed back.
According to the Bureau of Prisons website, the release date for Duggar, 35, has been changed to October 2, 2032. His original release date was listed as August 12, 2032.
Duggar, a former reality TV personality and used car salesman, was found guilty on a pair of child pornography charges in the Western District of Arkansas federal court in Fayetteville on December 9, 2021. He was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release with a host of special conditions attached.
Nexstar’s KNWA/FOX24 reached out to the Bureau of Prisons seeking information about the reason for the change in Duggar’s release date, but a Freedom of Information Act request was denied in full.
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U.S. Bureau officials said Friday they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnicity questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category to the 2030 census questionnaire, but they have to wait for another federal office to start the conversation.
That office is the White House Office of Management and Budget, which sets the definitions on race and ethnic background for all federal agencies. The Census Bureau has been using Office of Management and Budget standards which were set in 1997.
If the proposals are adopted for the 2030 census, they would mark one of the biggest changes to the census questionnaire in recent years.
Several years before the last census in 2020, support was growing for combining the race and ethnicity questions into a single question and adding the Middle Eastern and North African category, also known as MENA. Census Bureau research said doing so would increase the accuracy of the once-a-decade U.S. head count, particularly among Hispanics and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent who are unsure how to answer the race question.
But those efforts were dropped after President Donald Trump became president. As a result, there was no MENA category, and the race and ethnicity questions were separated on the 2020 census form, leading to overwhelmingly large numbers of Hispanic respondents to answer “some other race” for the race category, Census Bureau officials said.
“We are not surprised by the results. Our research predicted them,” Merarys Rios-Vargas, chief of the Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch at the Census Bureau, told members of the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Friday.
One of the committee members, Helen Hatab Samhan, a retired executive at the Arab American Institute, said it was preferable to add MENA as an ethnic category, such as Hispanic, rather than a race category like white, black, Asian, American Indian or Native Hawaiian.
Among the items the Census Bureau wants to research is the lack of responses to the race question among Hispanics, how Hispanics identified their race when they did answer the question and whether the location of the respondents made any difference in whether they answered those questions, officials said.
Once the conversation with the Office of Management and Budget gets going, it will be “jump-started” because the Census Bureau already has a trove of research, Census Bureau Director Robert Santos told committee members.
The census data are used for allocating congressional seats among the states, redrawing political districts and distributing federal funding.
In a statement on Friday, the Office of Management and Budget didn’t provide a timetable for when it would examine the issues raised by the Census Bureau.
“We are actively working to help ensure the Federal statistical system efficiently, effectively, and accurately captures the diversity of the American people,” the statement said.
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An injured hiker near Silverton, Colo., was rescued earlier this month after a train passenger spotted her from the window. She was frantically waving on the other side of a river, having just spent two days trapped in the wilderness with a broken leg.
The rider alerted the crew of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge diesel engine No. 461, according to the San Juan County Office of Emergency Management. They then notified the train inspector, Delton Henry, who was in a motor car behind them.
Henry was able to stop and communicate with the woman on the opposite bank of the Animas River, which was freezing cold and moving quickly.
The hiker, a woman from New Mexico in her 20s, had been missing for two days, the San Juan County Office of Emergency Management wrote on Facebook. She said she'd intended to go on a day hike, but ended up falling 90 feet down a cliff-face while trying to take pictures.
She lost consciousness for an unknown amount of time, she reportedly told rescuers. Despite her concussion and a badly broken leg, she was able to crawl to the bank of the river to try to flag down trains. She had no emergency supplies with her, or suitable clothing to spend the night outdoors.
Emergency management spokeswoman DeAnne Gallegos told the Durango Harold that there'd been a cold snap while the woman was trapped in the wilderness. The hiker described spending daylight hours trying to get the attention of passing trains and, at night, would tuck herself into a nearby cliff face in an attempt to stay warm.
Henry got in touch with D&SNG Superintendent Darren Whitten, who called to request help from search and rescue. The 911 operator who picked up said the hiker's family had been looking for her.
Nick and Kylah Breedon, who are married, were the engineer and fireman on the next train to pass by the location. The train's 327 passengers waited on the track as the couple crossed the river to examine the woman's injuries and bring emergency supplies, blankets and a radio for communication.
A CareFlight helicopter was required to evacuate the woman, but couldn't access the site where she was stuck. The rescue crew having stepped in, Nick left with the train but Kylah, a trained paramedic, stayed with the hiker.
Henry helped shuttle rescuers from the helicopter's landing site to the patient. They rigged a rope system to carry her across the river on a backboard. They were then able to use a gurney to transport her to the parked helicopter. She was transported to Montrose Hospital.
D&SNG compensated the train tickets for the passenger who saw the injured hiker and her husband.
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Items reported stolen in Clarks Grove
Published 9:07 am Wednesday, July 6, 2022
A trailer was reported missing at 12:18 p.m. Tuesday at 205 E. Main St. in Clarks Grove.
A black, white and blue BMX bike was reported stolen at 2:33 p.m. Tuesday at 306 N. Hillcrest Circle in Clarks Grove.
Check forgery reported
The Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office received a report of check forgery at 9:27 a.m. Tuesday at 368 S. Hillcrest Circle in Clarks Grove.
Attempted break-in reported
An attempted break-in of a storage unit was reported at 7:51 a.m. Tuesday at 301 Rezin Ave.
Trailer stolen
A silver enclosed construction trailer full of construction material and power tools was reported stolen at 10:56 a.m. Tuesday at 316 Vine Ave.
Spray-paint reported
Police received a report of spray-paint on a fence at 2:14 p.m. Tuesday at a residence in Albert Lea.
Spray-paint was reported at 5:02 p.m. Tuesday at 525 W. Clark St.
2 arrested on warrants
Police arrested Saw Yut, 30, on a warrant at 3:55 p.m. Tuesday at 411 S. Broadway.
Police arrested Pha Or Gee, 32, on a local warrant at 4:57 p.m. Tuesday at 1603 Bridge Ave.
Theft by fraud reported
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Acute malnutrition among pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25% in the past two years in 12 countries hard hit by rising food prices fueled by the fighting in Ukraine, according to a new United Nations report.
Surveys in 10 countries in Africa and two in the Middle East that are worst affected by the food crisis were used in a UNICEF report, released Tuesday, a day before International Women’s Day.
Poor nutrition in pregnant and breastfeeding women can lead to weak immunity and complications during pregnancy and birth. Some countries in sub-Saharan Africa have in previous studies recorded high infant mortality rates due to various complications.
Globally, 51 million children under two years old are too short for their age due to malnutrition, a condition called stunting, and half of these become stunted during pregnancy or within their first six months of life, the report states.
“Without urgent action from the international community, the consequences could last for generations to come,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said.
The affected girls and women have increased from 5.5 million in 2020 to 6.9 million in 2022 in Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Yemen and Afghanistan, according to the report.
UNICEF recommends increased nutrition assistance and supplying fortifications to highly consumed basic foods such as flour, cooking oil and salt to reduce micronutrient deficiencies.
Ensuring that pregnant and breastfeeding mothers have access to nutrition services and supplements has also been recommended in the report.
Some of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have high rates of teenage pregnancies and low attendance at prenatal clinics.
Faith Kanini, 28, who lives in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, told The Associated Press she cannot afford to attend the prenatal clinics although it is recommended.
“I pay cash for the few clinics I have attended. It is expensive for me and I cannot pay the NHIF (state health) insurance monthly premiums because I am unemployed and I rely on friends and family,” the first-time mother-to-be said in a phone interview.
Women in poor households are twice as likely to be underweight as those from the wealthiest households, according to the UNICEF report.
“South Asia and sub-Saharan African remain the epicenter of the nutrition crisis among adolescent girls and women, home to two in three adolescent girls and women suffering from underweight globally, and three in five adolescent girls and women with anemia,” the report adds.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — One of the 20 people arrested in a statewide voter fraud crackdown has settled her case.
Romona Oliver agreed to take a plea deal, pleading no contest to one count of voting in the 2020 election while being an unauthorized voter.
Under the deal, Oliver will be convicted of a felony and will avoid any further punishment. The state agreed to drop a second charge against her, making a false affirmation on her voter registration application.
“She gets no jail time, other than the time she served while under arrest for a couple of hours, no probation, no community service, no court or investigative fees,” said Mark Rankin, Oliver’s attorney. “She’s thrilled because she wanted to put this behind her and move on. She’s been under a lot of stress since she was arrested. She was very happy to be able to get this behind her and move on with her life.”
In August, 20 individuals were charged in a voter fraud crackdown led by Florida’s newly instated Office of Election Crimes and Security. Six of individuals living in Hillsborough County were accused of illegally voting while unqualified by state law.
The 20 individuals named by DeSantis for voter fraud arrests were all previously convicted felons. A 2018 ballot measure approved by Florida voters to let felons vote once they’ve paid their restitution, served their time, and paid court fees, allows convicts to vote, with two exceptions.
Those convicted of sexual assault and murder are barred from enfranchisement, or being given the right to vote in Florida, even after completing their sentences and paying their restitution and court fees.
Those arrested in August were all convicted of sexual assault or murder but were told they could vote by county elections supervisors. In September, several county election supervisors said it was up to the Florida Department of State’s Division of Elections to determine if a voter is eligible, and to send that information to elections offices to update voter rolls.
Oliver said she was told she was eligible to vote, and like many of the suspects arrested, seemed confused in body camera footage of the arrests.
Rankin represented Oliver free of charge.
“It’s worse than a waste of taxpayer money,” he said. “It’s legally and morally wrong. These defendants that they’re charging are people that had no intention of voting illegally, they were told by the Secretary of State and the Supervisor of Elections that they have the right to vote, were given voter cards and voted,
Rankin called the arrests nothing more than political theater, but said it was ultimately up to his client.
“I knew that this would happen at the beginning, that the state would start making people offers that would be designed to save face, claim that they got a conviction, without actually following through and having trials or punish people for this,” he said.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Andretti Autosport has insisted for months that it was doing the behind-the-scenes work to recover from last year's brutally disappointing IndyCar season.
The team won only two races among its four drivers, former Formula One star Romain Grosjean was a bust in his first year with the team and Alexander Rossi decided early that his seventh season at Andretti would be its last.
Michael Andretti powered forward. He signed Colton Herta to a long-term extension, pulled Kyle Kirkwood back into the organization and made changes at the shop that had him optimistic for 2023.
So far, so good on the opening weekend.
Grosjean opened his third season in IndyCar by winning the pole in Saturday qualifying on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, where the Frenchman led an all-Andretti front row. He surged to the second pole of his IndyCar career in the waning moments of the session and beat teammate Colton Herta for the top starting position in Sunday's race.
“We got here and I said, ‘Boys, I think we’ve got something,’" Grosjean said.
His wife and three children raced to pit road, with the kids jumping into their father's arms in celebration. Grosjean moved to IndyCar in 2021 after his nearly fatal fiery crash in a Formula One race ended his European career. He joined Andretti last season but didn't have the success he expected to achieve with one of IndyCar's top teams.
“As Mike said, we improved a lot from last year as a team,” said Grosjean, who added that the improvement was noticeable in preseason testing. "We worked really hard from a tough season last year. The car felt much more alive.
“There’s always bits and pieces we can improve on the car, but this weekend as a team we’ve been very impressive and hopefully we can carry that out in the race.”
The last two winners of the race — Scott McLaughlin of Team Penske and Herta — both won from the pole. Asked how he felt about his team's chances on Sunday, Andretti smiled and said “I feel a lot more optimistic."
“I think we really studied ourselves and got real honest with ourselves where we needed to improve. I think we’ve done it,” Andretti said. “Obviously the race is going to be another thing. Hopefully we can have all four cars go through the race without making a mistake. If that happens, I think we have a great shot at winning.”
It's been an incredible opening weekend for Andretti, which has had three fast cars since unloading for Friday practice. Along with Kirkwood, the team put three drivers into the Fast Six qualifying shootout.
“We’ve done a lot of work, for sure, it’s a pretty good feeling," Andretti said before the last qualifying group. “We know the competition has done so, too, but so far so good. Feels good to have three in the top six.”
The Andretti group stumbled at the start of the final shootout when Kirkwood crashed to bring out a red flag.
"Sorry, I hit the wall," Kirkwood radioed.
Kirkwood, in his second IndyCar season but first with Andretti, said after he locked his brakes that the wind made his qualifying lap “kind of sketchy.”
“Disappointed, it was less than ideal,” Kirkwood said. “Ultimately, we are in the Fast Six with three cars, happy with that.”
Andretti wasn't all that bothered by Kirkwood's stumble.
“Been very, very happy with his results and testing,” Andretti said. “Up until the last mistake, this weekend he’s been doing a great job.”
Pato O'Ward of McLaren was the highest-qualifying Chevrolet driver in third and followed by Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing and then Kirkwood, as Honda drivers took four of the top five spots.
McLaughlin of Team Penske went off course in the Fast Six and qualified sixth in a Chevy.
Marcus Armstrong, a rookie for Chip Ganassi Racing, was the highest qualifier among the newcomers at 13th. The biggest qualifying disappointment was Penske driver Josef Newgarden, who missed out on advancing in qualifying by a tick — under .04 seconds to teammate Will Power.
Newgarden will start 14th and stalked down pit road in anger.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP)Freshman Cotie McMahon had 28 points, 11 rebounds and four assists in her Big Ten Tournament debut, Taylor Thierry added 20 points and No. 14 Ohio State held off No. 17 Michigan 81-79 on Friday.
Ohio State (24-6) defeated Michigan three times in a season for the first time in program history to advance to the semifinals against No. 1 seed Indiana on Saturday.
McMahon made a steal and fast-break layup to give Ohio State a 74-73 lead with 3:37 left and she added two free throws to make it 76-74.
Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:20 left and McMahon found Taylor Mikesell in transition for an 81-76 lead. Michigan had two chances at a 3-pointer on its next possession and Maddie Nolan rattled one in to get within 81-79 with 47 seconds left.
Ohio State turned it over with 23.7 seconds left. Michigan had several chances, but McMahon made a key block and Leigha Brown was off the mark on a contested shot at the buzzer.
Mikesell finished with 16 points for Ohio State. Sheldon, who played just six games this season due to an injury, scored five points.
Brown had 19 points and nine assists for Michigan (22-9). Nolan finished with 16 points and Emily Kiser had 14 points and nine rebounds.
This was the sixth game of the tournament decided by five points or fewer, setting a tournament record. — AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/no-14-ohio-state-women-hold-off-no-17-michigan-81-79/ | 2023-03-04 21:51:46 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/no-14-ohio-state-women-hold-off-no-17-michigan-81-79/ |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, November 22, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
355 AM CST Tue Nov 22 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.
* WHERE...Terrell and Lower Brewster Counties.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM CST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Motorists should drive with extreme
caution and allow additional travel time. Use low beam
headlights and reduce driving speed. Watch out for cars that may
be stopped on the shoulders.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
...FREEZING FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST /9 AM MST/
THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in freezing fog.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and southwest and
western Texas.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM CST /9 AM MST/ this morning.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility
and potential frost on bridges.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...In addition to causing dangerously
restrictive visibilities, sub-freezing temperatures will result
in patches of black ice, which is virtually invisible and can
cause you to lose control of your car. Black ice is particularly
likely on bridges and overpasses. Slow down and allow
sufficient braking distance ahead of you.
distance ahead of you. Also, be alert for frost on bridge decks
causing slippery roads.
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST
WEDNESDAY...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...For the Coastal Flood Advisory, minor coastal flooding.
For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and
Calhoun Islands Counties.
* WHEN...For the Coastal Flood Advisory, until 6 PM CST
Wednesday. For the High Rip Current Risk, through Wednesday
afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only
isolated road closures expected. Rip currents can sweep even
the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper
water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to
anyone entering the surf.
If travel is required, allow extra time as some roads may be
closed. Do not drive around barricades or through water of
unknown depth. Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone
property.
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and
float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a
direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the
shore and call or wave for help.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP)American soccer hopes to be ascendant, to challenge the NFL, Major League Baseball and the NBA in the competition for U.S. market share.
Reaching the final 16 with Tuesday night’s 1-0 win over Iran was another step for a team whose success is measured in television viewers and buzz along with final scores.
”I don’t know the final numbers, but I’m sure there was a lot of people watching,” U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter said. ”You see how resilient this group is. You see how unified this group is. You see what type of energy and output they put into every single game. And then along the way, there’s some pretty good soccer. That’s the American spirit, the way this group plays, and I think people will appreciate that, especially back home.”
The Americans opened with a 1-1 draw with Wales that was seen by 11.7 million on English- and Spanish-language U.S. broadcasts and followed with a 0-0 tie against England that was viewed by 19.98 million on Black Friday, when schools were off and many offices closed.
President Joe Biden took note of the victory over Iran when speaking in Bay City, Michigan.
”They did it! God love ’em,” Biden said.
A victory on Saturday against the Netherlands would put the U.S. in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002. The status of Christian Pulisic is uncertain after he bruised his pelvis crashing into the goalkeeper while scoring against Iran. The U.S. Soccer Federation did not make Pulisic available to media on Wednesday but posted a video of him dribbling a ball.
”We may be the underdog,” said Brenden Aaronson, who replaced Pulisic at the start of the second half. ”The Dutch are a world power and they’ve been that for many, many tournaments. So I think for us, it’s just going in there with no fear and playing the way we have been this entire tournament. And I think good things will come out of it.”
Matt Turner, the first U.S. goalkeeper with consecutive World Cup shutouts since 1930, was overcome with emotion at the final whistle. Turner thought back to how the U.S. performance in 2010 helped convert him to soccer.
He was a high school baseball player who played soccer fulltime, then switched emphasis. Turner’s journey took him to a Major League Soccer debut in 2018, a transfer to Arsenal last summer and now success on soccer’s biggest stage.
”This is just an unbelievable experience for me, given my story,” he said. ”Almost everything is a carbon copy of the feelings that I felt as a fan in 2010. And to be able to have a say in the result that gets us through to the next round is huge – it was just very emotional for a lot of reasons for me.”
The American lineup against Iran was the youngest of any team at this year’s tournament and the youngest for the Americans since 1990, averaging 24 years, 321 days. Iran coach Carlos Queiroz, a former U.S. Soccer Federation adviser, praised their pace, which forced his team to adjust.
”When we play a team with Ferraris who need space to accelerate, the best way to play against them is to close the highways so they can’t gain speed,” he said.
A daunting task against the Dutch is ahead: The U.S. has five losses and six draws in 11 World Cup matches against European opponents since upsetting Portugal 3-2 in a 2002 opener.
”It’s a great opportunity but it’s not something that we’re going into it thinking it’s an honor. We deserve to be in the position we’re in and we want to keep going,” Berhalter said. ”So for us, it’s about how we recover from this game and prepare to play against a very good Dutch, very well coached, ton of quality all over the field, and we have to come up with an idea of how to beat them.”
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/iran-win-another-step-as-us-soccer-tries-to-boost-interest/ | 2022-12-01 04:33:49 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/iran-win-another-step-as-us-soccer-tries-to-boost-interest/ |
People who listen to podcasts on the Stitcher app will have to find another service.
A notice on its website says that Stitcher is being discontinued so its owner, SiriusXM, can incorporate podcasts into its own subscription businesses.
SiriusXM acquired Sitcher in 2020 for $320 million. At the time, the company said it would be moving forward as a "full-service platform for podcast creators, publishers, and advertisers."
Stitcher was founded in 2008. It's considered instrumental in propelling podcasts into mainstream media and pop culture.
SEE MORE: Spotify is laying off 2% of its workforce
According to a report from Triton Digital, which provides analytics for the podcast industry, Stitcher has more than 14 million weekly users and 56 million average weekly downloads.
Some of its most streamed podcasts included "My Favorite Murder," "SuperSoul Conversations from the Oprah Winfrey Network" and "Office Ladies."
In addition to distributing podcasts, Stitcher produced more than 20 original shows. Stitcher advised customers that it still plans to produce original podcasts though its Stitcher Studios and Earwolf networks.
They will be available on the Stitcher app until Aug. 29.
For those who have the paid service, Stitcher said it will stop automatic renewals on June 27. Some refunds will also be offered, depending on how and when a subscriber began receiving service.
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Federal authorities: 2 aircraft collide at Dallas air show
DALLAS (AP) — Two planes have collided and crashed at an air show in Dallas, Texas, the Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday.
Emergency crews were responding to the scene at the Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Dallas show at the Dallas Executive Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration says a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided and crashed around 1:20 p.m. Saturday. Officials said it was unclear how many people were on board both aircraft.
Several videos posted on Twitter showed two aircraft appearing to collide in the air before they both rapidly descended, causing a large fire and plumes of black smoke to billow into the sky.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were launching investigations.
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Burned body identified as missing woman
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) – An Alabama woman’s burned body was found Thursday night after she did not return home from a Facebook Marketplace meetup, according to police.
Birmingham police said 31-year-old Jermiera Ivory Fowler was last seen Wednesday afternoon.
Fowler’s burned body was found Thursday.
Authorities said Fowler had been shot to death and then set on fire.
Police said Fowler told her family she was going to meet someone to make a purchase off Facebook Marketplace.
“We have not ruled that out but our detectives have uncovered additional facts that may not point solely to a Facebook marketplace meetup,” said Officer Truman Fitzgerald with Birmingham Police.
No arrests have been made.
Editor’s note: It was reported earlier that the woman told her family she was going to make a Facebook Marketplace purchase before disappearing. That information has been given more nuance in the story.
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House Republicans Monday introduced election reform legislation that encourages states to implement certain changes while revising local election processes in Washington, D.C., and adjusting federal campaign finance rules.
Republicans first introduced a version of the legislation last year, fueled by GOP skepticism of election processes and results in 2020, and crafted as a response to House Democrats’ sweeping election reform legislation that would have dramatically increased federal involvement in election administration.
Led by House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act introduced Monday imposes a number of requirements on states that get elections-related federal grants, among other changes.
It requires states to preserve election materials like ballots and ballot envelope images for 22 months, and expressly allows the states to use those federal funds on audits and to implement certain restrictions on “ballot harvesting,” or designating a person to collect and return a mail ballot for a voter, according to a GOP summary of the bill. The Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration would also be required to provide data to states for the purposes of checking if registered voters are citizens or if they had died.
In changes to campaign finance rules, the bill loosens rules on political party committees coordinating expenditures with candidates and raises contribution limits for political party committees.
Another provision would prohibit 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations from directly funding election boards. The provision is a response to GOP uproar about “Zuckerbucks,” a reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pouring millions into a nonprofit that sent money to election boards in 2020, which Republicans allege benefited “overwhelmingly Democratic precincts” and funded activities that Republicans oppose like ballot drop boxes.
The bill also repeals an executive order from President Biden that directed heads of federal agencies to evaluate ways to promote voter registration and voter participation.
“This legislation is the most substantive and conservative election integrity legislation that will come before the House in over a generation,” Steil said at a press conference Monday. “We want to make it easy to vote, and hard to cheat.”
Steil and other Republicans from the House Administration Committee unveiled the bill Monday in Georgia, praising the GOP-supported election reforms in the state that prompted Major League Baseball to pull out of the state for the 2021 MLB All-Star Game. The 2023 All-Star Game is Tuesday in Seattle, Washington.
“We’re doing this in Atlanta, Georgia the day before the All-Star Game as a reminder that two years ago, there were false attacks about Georgia’s voter integrity legislation — attacks that were proven false in the last election as we saw voter participation increase after voter integrity legislation was passed,” Steil said.
“We saw people push back with false narratives right here in the state of Georgia two years ago,” Steil said. “And the president’s false narratives and the left’s false narratives seeped into woke corporate board rooms that made decisions off of the lies that were being strewn about Georgia’s voter integrity bill.”
The bill also makes numerous changes to voter laws in Washington, D.C., that include requiring photo I.D. to vote, and repealing a law that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Steil said that Republicans aim to use Washington, D.C. as a model upon which states can craft their own election laws.
Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), ranking member on the House Administration Committee, slammed the bill as “anti-American.”
“This legislation is designed to appease extremist election deniers who have spent the last four years attacking our democracy,” Morelle said. “It would restrict the fundamental right to vote especially for voters of color, jeopardize the security of our elections, burden local election administrators, and bring more dark money into our electoral process — opening the door to corruption. It’s anti-American.”
Morelle said Democrats are committed to their own election reform bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/house-gop-introduces-election-reform-bill/ | 2023-07-10 22:16:49 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/house-gop-introduces-election-reform-bill/ |
CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Sunday, October 16, 2022
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Western Nevada-Eastern Sierra-Northeast California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service Reno NV
331 AM PDT Mon Oct 17 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides averaged
values for large geographic areas and may not be representative
of a specific area. To get a more specific forecast for your area,
please visit www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/?site=rev
CAZ072-NVZ002-180300-
Greater Lake Tahoe Area-
Including the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee,
Markleeville, Stateline, Glenbrook, and Incline Village
331 AM PDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 73. Light winds becoming west around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 32 to 42. Southwest winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 62 to 72. Light winds becoming
northeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 29 to 39. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
63 to 73. Light winds becoming east around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 29 to 39.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 63 to 73.
Lows 29 to 39.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 62 to 72. Lows 31 to 41.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and
snow. Highs 54 to 64.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows
21 to 31.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
47 to 57.
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CAZ070-NVZ005-180300-
Surprise Valley California-Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Empire, and Gerlach
331 AM PDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 79. Light winds becoming southeast
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 48. East winds around 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 72 to 82. Light winds becoming
southeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 38 to 48. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 83. Light winds becoming
northeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 47.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Highs 72 to 82. Lows 36 to 46.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows 37 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs
60 to 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 36.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
52 to 62.
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CAZ071-180300-
Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties-
Including the cities of Portola, Susanville, Westwood,
Sierraville, and Loyalton
331 AM PDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 77. Light winds becoming southeast
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows
34 to 44. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 70 to 80. Light winds becoming southeast around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows
33 to 43. East winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 81. Light winds becoming east
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 43.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Highs 70 to 80. Lows 33 to 43.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows 33 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs 59 to 69.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 23 to 33.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 61.
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CAZ073-180300-
Mono County-
Including the cities of Bridgeport, Coleville, Lee Vining,
and Mammoth Lakes
331 AM PDT Mon Oct 17 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 74. Light winds becoming southeast
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows
26 to 36. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 63 to 73. Light winds becoming southeast around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 27 to 37. East winds around
10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 63 to 73. Light winds becoming
east around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows 28 to 38.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 63 to 73.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 38.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 63 to 73. Lows 27 to 37.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain and snow. Highs 58 to 68. Lows 19 to 29.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
51 to 61.
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Tens of thousands of visitors attend the Pamplona festival, which was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises.” The festival is also popular for its 24-hour partying.
During this year's festival, which started July 6, four people were gored, none seriously.
Eight people were gored in 2019, the last festival before a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixteen people have died in Pamplona’s bull runs since 1910, with the last death in 2009.
Runners gather before the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Runners gather before the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People run through the streets with fighting bulls and steers during the last day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People run through the streets with fighting bulls and steers during the last day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People run through the streets with fighting bulls and steers during the last day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People run through the streets with fighting bulls and steers during the last day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People run through the streets with fighting bulls and steers during the last day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People run through the streets with fighting bulls and steers during the last day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
A group of youths wait for the start of the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
A group of youths wait for the start of the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People dressed in San Fermin's colors stand in a balcony while waiting for the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
People dressed in San Fermin's colors stand in a balcony while waiting for the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Runners wait before the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Runners wait before the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Runners and revellers during the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
Runners and revellers during the last "encierro" or running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Credit: Alvaro Barrientos
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ATLANTA (AP) — The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington. But without party control of Congress at stake and absent other candidates on the ticket, the runoff looks different from the November general election.
The results of the AP VoteCast survey illustrate some of the challenges each candidate faces on Tuesday. Walker will need to turn out a GOP base that wasn’t enamored with him to start with, and do it without the more popular Gov. Brian Kemp on the ballot. Warnock must get his coalition of some lower-propensity voting groups to turn out.
And both candidates have to motivate voters despite a predetermined balance of power in Washington.
The wide-ranging VoteCast survey of more than 3,200 midterm voters in the state provides a detailed look at the Warnock and Walker coalitions and the attitudes that defined their choices this year. The data reveals advantages — and disadvantages — for both candidates in the runoff.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
Fifty-four percent of Georgia midterm voters said they considered party control of the Senate to be the primary factor in their vote in the general election. But that’s no longer at stake.
Democrats flipped a Republican-held Senate seat in Pennsylvania to maintain their thin advantage in the chamber without relying on the outcome in Georgia.
In the general, many supporters of both candidates were motivated by party control, and they’ll need to be persuaded to vote a second time around when it doesn’t hang in the balance.
It’s a challenge for Walker in particular, whose supporters were slightly more likely than Warnock’s to say control of the Senate was their chief consideration, 57% vs. 52%. A Walker victory in the Senate would keep the 50-50 status quo, but Democrats maintain control with Vice President Kamala Harris ’ tie-breaking vote.
REPUBLICAN SUPPORT
Walker benefits from Georgia’s Republican-leaning tendencies, but Kemp didn’t carry Walker when they were both at the top of the ticket four weeks ago. In fact, Walker’s vote tallies fell more than 200,000 short of his fellow Republican’s, which might suggest he has a harder time getting Republicans out for him without Kemp on the ballot.
While 7 in 10 Kemp voters said they enthusiastically backed the governor, only about half of Walker’s voters said they were enthusiastically supporting Walker. Among Walker supporters, about 4 in 10 said they backed him with reservations and about 1 in 10 said they were simply opposing the other candidates.
“I’ve got some reservations, I’m not 100% Walker, but he is a hell of lot better than what we’ve got up there now with Warnock in there,” said Donny Richardson, a retired Marine who voted for Walker last week in Marietta. “Things need to change.”
Warnock has more work to do in a state that resoundingly reelected Kemp over two-time Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams and elected exclusively Republican statewide constitutional officers.
That’s especially true when Warnock may have been helped by Republicans who decided not to support Walker but showed up in the general to vote for other Republicans, including their governor. Fifteen percent of moderate and liberal Republicans backed Warnock. Eleven percent of Kemp voters supported Warnock or another candidate, including Libertarian Chase Oliver, compared with just 3% of Abrams voters bucking Warnock.
CONSTITUENCIES
Warnock and Walker both amassed familiar Democratic and Republican constituencies in last month’s election. But there were signs that Walker did worse than his fellow Republican Kemp among groups that were core to the governor’s success, including white voters and voters in small towns and rural areas. College-educated men and women without a college degree were evenly divided in the Senate race, but both groups went decisively for Kemp in the governor’s race.
And most white Protestant voters backed the Republican candidate in both races, but Kemp won them by a wider margin than Walker did.
Warnock won majorities of young voters, Black voters, women, college graduates and suburbanites. Warnock also picked up about two-thirds of ideologically moderate voters.
CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY
The final stretch of campaign featured harsh insults from each candidate on his competitor’s character and integrity. Voters in the general were more skeptical about Walker than Warnock, though neither candidate earned glowing marks.
Fifty-six percent of Georgia voters said the incumbent senator “has the right experience to serve effectively” in the job, compared with just 39% saying that of Walker, a 60-year-old political novice.
“I think Herschel Walker is incompetent and Raphael Warnock has more experience, and I think he’ll get the job done,” said Lolita Baylor, an executive assistant at JCPenney who lives in Morrow. She voted for Warnock.
Voters also were more likely to think Warnock has strong moral values compared with Walker, 53% vs. 43%.
Those critiques of Walker didn’t keep some voters from backing him the first time around, though it might eat into his support in a runoff. About a third of his own supporters said he didn’t have the right experience and about a quarter said he lacks strong moral values.
TRUMP LINGERS
Walker’s endorsement from former President Donald Trump helped him earn the party’s nomination, but that may have stunted his success among the state’s general electorate.
Biden’s razor-thin 2020 win in the state led Trump to falsely claim the results were rigged and to suggest Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “find” the votes needed to hand Trump a victory. Georgia’s voters reelected Kemp and Raffensperger despite Trump’s attempts to promote other candidates.
While Walker overwhelmingly won midterm “MAGA” voters — those who say they support the “Make America Great Again” movement — 43% of voters last month said Walker supports Trump too much. Fewer said Kemp or Raffensperger supports Trump too much, though somewhat more said they support Trump too little.
“He’s not a politician,” said Kat Shreve of Walker. The nonprofit manager in Marietta backed Warnock. Walker’s “a puppet of the Trump administration,” she said.
Sixteen percent of Republican voters who don’t identify as MAGA supporters backed Warnock in the general.
Even if Trump is not the draw he once was, opposition to his rival might be enough for Walker to convince voters to get back to the ballot box.
Overall, only about half of Walker voters said their vote was meant to signify support for Trump, but far more — about three-quarters — said their vote was in opposition to President Joe Biden. Walker has stressed Warnock’s ties to the president throughout the campaign.
“Let’s just say he’s much better than the Biden guy. Warnock has been. ‘Yes sir, Mr. Biden,'” said Jim Howle, a retired voter for Walker. Warnock’s “not representing the people.”
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Fingerhut reported from Washington.
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Florida 5th grade teacher under investigation for showing Disney movie with gay character
Fifth-grade teacher said she showed the movie 'Strange World' to her students because they were learning about earth and ecosystems
A Hernando County, Florida, fifth grade teacher is under investigation by the school district and state Department of Education after showing a Disney movie with an openly gay character.
Jenna Barbee is a first-year teacher at Winding Waters K-8 who is being investigated by the Hernando County School District and Florida Department of Education for showing the Disney movie "Strange World" to her fifth-grade students.
The movie features a character named Ethan Clade who happens to be gay and is played by an openly gay comedian named Jaboukie Young-White.
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But Barbee did not show the students the movie because it had a gay character. In fact, she claimed on a TikTok video, and during a school board meeting on May 9 that she showed the movie to her students because they were learning about earth and ecosystems.
Barbee said in her TikTok video that school board member Shannon Rodriguez’s daughter is in her class. The daughter told her mother about the movie she and her peers watched in class, which resulted in the school board member reporting Barbee to the Florida Department of Education, Barbee claimed.
The issue is controversial because Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Act into law in 2022, which restricts discussions on topics like sexual and gender identity in classrooms. The act has been inaccurately referred to as the "Don’t Say Gay" law.
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Barbee said it was her understanding she needed to have signed permission slips to show PG movies in her class, which she claimed to have required.
Rodriguez spoke about the issue during a school board meeting, saying the principal did not approve the movie, nor did any of the administrators, which she claims must approve all movies that are shown.
Barbee, though, took Rodriguez’s actions as an attack.
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On May 9, Barbee spoke during the public portion of the school board meeting, oftentimes taking shots at Rodriguez for not addressing the issue as a parent of a student in her classroom, but instead as a school board member.
"The word indoctrination is thrown around a lot right now, but it seems that those who are using it are using it as a defense tactic for their own fear-based belief without understanding the true meaning of the word," Barbee said. "The craziest thing about this is the abuse of power she is allowed to use and that nothing is being done about it."
Rodriguez did not immediately respond to inquiries about the matter.
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During the school board meeting, she said it was her job, as a parent, to teach her child about the "birds and the bees" in relationships, and to determine at what age to teach those lessons.
"I want to embark on those conversations by not following policy and procedure," Rodriguez said. "Ms. Barbee stripped me of my right as a parent to have those conversations prematurely." | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-grade-teacher-under-investigation-showing-disney-movie-gay-character | 2023-05-15 23:44:56 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-grade-teacher-under-investigation-showing-disney-movie-gay-character |
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA / OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf" or the "Company"), a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis, today announced that members of Curaleaf's executive management team will be participating in the following investor community conferences and events during December 2022.
- Cowen's 5th Annual Cannabis Conference
December 6, 2022
Matt Darin, Chief Executive Officer of Curaleaf, will be participating in a fireside chat with Vivien Azer, Managing Director at Cowen, on December 6 at 1:20 – 1:50 p.m. ET.
Curaleaf management will also be hosting investor meetings. - Stifel Canada's 3rd Annual Future of Healthcare Conference
December 7, 2022
Matt Darin, Chief Executive Officer of Curaleaf, will be participating in a lunch panel with Andrew Partheniou, Vice President at Stifel, on December 7 at 12 – 12:55 p.m. ET.
For more information regarding upcoming Curaleaf financial community conference and event participation as well as details to access the webcasts please visit Curaleaf's IR website at https://ir.curaleaf.com/events.
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Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to improve lives by providing clarity around cannabis and confidence around consumption. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. In the United States, Curaleaf currently operates in 21 states with 144 dispensaries, 29 cultivation sites, and employs nearly 6,000 team members. Curaleaf International is the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in Europe with a unique supply and distribution network throughout the European market, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Curaleaf is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol CURA and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol CURLF. For more information, please visit https://ir.curaleaf.com.
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To some surprise, Youngkin hosts series of Pride events
By SARAH RANKIN
Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin hosted a series of events this week marking Pride month. The decision generated some bipartisan surprise in Richmond, given the conservative governor’s position on a range of LGBTQ issues. He’s previously indicated that he does not personally support gay marriage, but called it “legally acceptable.” A Wednesday evening reception at the Capitol astonished and angered many LGBTQ advocates, who called the festivities hypocritical and chose not to attend. But Youngkin’s supporters held up the event as an example of the governor living up to a central campaign promise to serve as a unifier who cares for all his constituents. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/10/to-some-surprise-youngkin-hosts-series-of-pride-events/ | 2022-06-10 21:54:34 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/10/to-some-surprise-youngkin-hosts-series-of-pride-events/ |
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Four staff members at a Waukesha child care center were taken into custody while investigators looked into allegations of physical abuse.
According to Waukesha police, three staff members at The Lawrence School were booked and released Wednesday on potential charges of failure to protect and the fourth person was arrested and taken to the Waukesha County Jail on possible child abuse charges.
The center closed early Wednesday and police worked most of the day to reunite children with their parents.
“The investigative team developed a plan to substantiate and moreover have access to key personnel and pieces of evidence,” Waukesha Police Capt. Dan Baumann said in a statement late Wednesday. Baumann said the school was also found to be operating at over 150% of its state-regulated capacity.
“Investigators were able to have access to family members as well as the children to seek out other potential victims in this case. With this being an open and active investigation, we will refer further questions to the criminal complaint which will be forthcoming.”
The Lawrence School serves children ages 6 weeks to 12 years old. It also provides before and after school care for the Waukesha school district.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
6-0-9, FIREBALL: 7
(six, zero, nine; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
6-0-9, FIREBALL: 7
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Officials: Filipino attorney shot and killed in rideshare vehicle in University City
UNIVERSITY CITY - Philadelphia Police are investigating a shooting that led to the death of a Filipino attorney.
The attorney was said to be in town visiting relatives when the shooting occurred.
Officials say the attorney, identified as John Laylo, got into a rideshare vehicle, along with his mother, at 38th and Spruce Saturday morning, a little after 4 a.m.
Police say when the vehicle stopped at Spruce Street, a car pulled up behind them and fired shots into the back window. Laylo was struck in the back of the head.
He was rushed by responding officers to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and listed in critical condition.
Authorities say Laylo died from his injuries Sunday morning.
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BEIJING, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- China Life Insurance Company Limited (the "Company") (HKSE: 2628; SSE: 601628), announced that the Company has filed its 2022 Annual Report on Form 20-F (the "2022 Form 20-F"), which includes its audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Company has made available through its website (www.e-chinalife.com) its 2022 Form 20-F, which can also be accessed electronically at www.sec.gov. Upon request by any shareholder, the Company will also deliver, free of charge and within a reasonable period of time after such request, a hard copy of its complete audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
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SMALL TOWNS: Menasha museum carries on late professor’s legacy
MENASHA, Wis. (WBAY) - A Fox Valley museum is celebrating a milestone this month.
First opened 20 years ago, it’s Wisconsin’s official museum for all things rocks, minerals, and fossils.
This week in Small Towns, we travel to Menasha to explore the Weis Earth Science Museum, 1478 Midway Rd.
Over the course of several decades, Leonard Weis unearthed and collected many treasures.
Growing up in New York City, Weis became fascinated with fossils, rocks, and minerals.
Inspired by his collection to become a geology professor, Weis arrived at Lawrence University in 1955, before moving on to UW-Fox Valley ten years later.
His son Stephen remembers an adventurous childhood with his rock-hound father.
“Every weekend that I wasn’t in some kind of activity we were out in the field, in a tent, hiking, all over the state of Wisconsin,” recalls Stephen.
Weis retired in 1987, but his work was far from over.
He had the vision to build a museum.
The only problem: finding one large initial donor to jump-start the non-profit proved difficult.
“And so one day my mother said, ‘Well why don’t we do it?’ And so that was the impetus that started it, and from there my parents did a lot of fundraising and then got Sen. [Herb] Kohl involved and he put forth some funding through the federal government which was approved, so between some private funding, the federal government funding and my parents, the museum came to be in 2002,” explains Stephen.
Stephen, who serves as president of the Friends of Weis Earth Science Museum, recalls how the opening trigged incredible community support, right off the bat.
“It just was like the dam broke open and the floodgates, and now we’re just inundated with boxes and boxes and boxes from community members,” says Stephen.
Dr. Joseph Frederickson is the director of the museum, which was designated by former Gov. Tommy Thompson as the Official Mineralogical Museum of Wisconsin.
“Oh Wisconsin is a very special place geologically, we have very, very old rocks that go back billions of years, so when you come here you will learn about fossils, minerals, rocks, and why they are important to our everyday life as Wisconsinites,” says Fredrickson.
With more than 5,500 square feet, the museum offers a number of permanent galleries, along with traveling and temporary ones that are constantly changing.
Of the museum’s 20,000-plus specimens, only about 10 percent are displayed at any given time.
“In the end, we offer a very unique experience, not just telling you about the story of Wisconsin and your home state and all the neat things that are happening just below our feet, but you also get to touch the past and that’s something I think puts us apart from a lot of other museums, that there’s a lot of hands-on specimens here that we encourage people to come out and not just see but also feel and I think that connects us to Wisconsin’s geologic history in a very unique way,” explains Frederickson.
Just as Leonard Weis envisioned.
“Think the thing that I respect about him the most, not only was he a brilliant geoscientist who had an important value system that he imparted on this museum to put something like this together, but he was a teacher, he was a teacher in the deepest parts of his heart and you can tell when you talk to his former students, that he was one of those professors that you hear about in movies, or you read about in books that really fundamentally changed your life and he did that to just about everybody he met,” says Frederickson.
Weis passed away in 2011, but he certainly saw his dream become a reality.
Those continuing to carry on the museum’s mission say this month’s anniversary is a meaningful milestone.
“20 years is a very important anniversary because so many places don’t make it 20 years, it’s very special to know that you are part of a community for two decades,” says Frederickson.
“He’d be ecstatic, he would be absolutely ecstatic, just like my mother is, we talk about it almost every day, so it’s very exciting for her as well,” says Stephen.
Looking ahead to the next 20 years, the museum’s goal is to double in size, allowing it to showcase even more of Wisconsin’s geologic history.
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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Hours before Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared “a major step forward to secure our border” with the installation of 130 double-stacked shipping containers, hundreds of migrants found their way around them, belying his claim.
They walked through tribal lands to the edge of a towering wall built during Donald Trump's presidency to surrender to border agents waiting outside the reservation, expecting to be released in the U.S. to pursue asylum.
Families, young parents carrying toddlers, elderly people and others easily waded through the knee-deep Colorado River before dawn Wednesday, many in sandals with shopping bags slung over their shoulders.
The wall isn’t the issue it was in 2018 when Congress denied Trump funding for one of his top priorities, prompting the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. But last week's events in Yuma are a reminder of obstacles that the government faces with border barriers: difficulty building on tribal land, most notably in the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona, and opposition from landowners, especially in Texas, where, unlike other border states, much property is privately owned.
Ducey's critics have seized on images from Univision network showing two containers that toppled during 11 days of construction for unknown reasons. Gary Restaino, the top federal prosecutor in Arizona, used a bilateral meeting in Mexico City to needle the governor Friday, tweeting, “We're not dumping a bunch of shipping containers in the desert and calling it a wall to get cheap press.” Ducey retorted that ”we've taken matters into our own hands" because the federal government hasn't done enough.
Migrants continue to avoid barriers by going around them — in this case, through a 5-mile (8-kilometer) gap in the Cocopah Indian Reservation near Yuma, a desert city of about 100,000 people between San Diego and Phoenix that has become a major spot for illegal crossings.
President Joe Biden halted wall construction his first day in office, leaving billions of dollars of work unfinished but still under contract. Trump worked feverishly in his final months to reach more than 450 miles (720 kilometers), nearly one-fourth of the entire border.
The Biden administration has made rare exceptions for small projects at areas deemed unsafe for people to cross, including four gaps in Yuma. It expects to award a contract for Yuma this fall and take up to 28 months to complete work.
When U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced its Yuma plans in July, Ducey said he couldn't wait. Like fellow Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, he has sparred with the Democratic administration over immigration policies, often suing and recently offering free bus rides to the East Coast for asylum-seekers who are released in the United States to pursue their cases.
“Arizona did the job the federal government has failed to do — and we showed them just how quickly and efficiently the border can be made more secure – if you want to," Ducey said to celebrate installation of the containers, which run the length of 13 football fields in five locations combined.
A string of 44 double-stacked containers ends abruptly in an open desert expanse. Farther north, at the Morelos Dam, containers plug several openings in an area that had become less traveled in recent months.
The day Ducey declared his project complete, the Border Patrol encountered a fairly typical count of about 850 migrants entering the country illegally in its Yuma sector. Most were dropped off by bus or hired vehicle on the Mexican side and walked through the reservation in darkness under a crescent moon.
Migrants used vehicle barriers, dirt roads and flashlights on their phones to guide them to Border Patrol agents outside tribal lands to be taken into custody.
CBP hasn't commented on Ducey's containers but says its plan to plug gaps in the Trump-style barrier of steel poles topped with a metal plate up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) high will make a difference by funneling traffic to fewer areas.
“If Yuma has 10 gaps and people were crossing all 10 gaps, it’s much more difficult for us to deal with than if Yuma has one or two gaps and the majority of traffic is crossing through those gaps,” said John Modlin, chief of the Border Patrol's Tucson, Arizona, sector.
Asked for comment, the Cocopah Indian Tribe referred to a May 2020 letter to CBP expressing strong opposition to a wall, saying it would cut access to the river and tribal members in Mexico.
The tribe also released video showing its interim police chief, Arlene Martinez, outlining other cooperative measures with the Border Patrol, such as surveillance cameras and ground sensors. “Cocopah supports efforts to secure the border and always has,” she said.
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The cruel irony is not lost on Gary Dotterman.
In 1989, there was an effort to erect a small sign in the Fenway area to memorialize his partner, neighborhood activist John Cyrus, who had died of AIDS two years prior. That was until South Boston councilor James M. “Jimmy” Kelly got wind of the plan. He protested and the sign was taken down.
“‘We’re not going to honor that faggot.’ He said that to me,” recalled Dotterman, a Vietnam War veteran who worked as a City Hall aide from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, in a recent Globe interview.
Years later, Dotterman, who now lives in Brazil, was told someone had restored the sign recognizing his loved one, he said. Sure enough, today a sign reading “John Cyrus Square” is affixed to a light pole at the corner of Kilmarnock and Queensberry streets.
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And nowadays, the late Kelly also has a sign memorializing his life and service: He has a bridge named after him in his native South Boston. But should he? Dotterman said he muttered some curses when he found out about the span named after Kelly and moved on with his life.
“I wasn’t going to dwell on it,” he said.
What’s in a sign? And who gets to have public spaces — government rooms, pieces of infrastructure, squares, roads, bridges — named after them? Post-George Floyd, those conversations are unfolding across the country. Boston is no different.
There’s, of course, the well-publicized push to rename Faneuil Hall, the historic town meeting hall and marketplace named for Peter Faneuil, a colonial merchant who became one of Boston’s richest men partly through the transatlantic slave trade.
Dudley Square, the heart of Roxbury, was re-christened Nubian Square in 2019, following a five-year campaign that gained momentum in the midst of a national conversation about whether to remove Confederate statues and the names of former enslavers from prominent buildings.
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Many supporters of the name change say that as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Governor Thomas Dudley perpetuated slavery. By the mid-1700s, nearly one in 10 people in Colonial Boston were enslaved, although historians say it’s not clear that Dudley himself was an enslaver, and his role in the promotion of slavery is somewhat murky.
In 2020, city officials voted to take down a controversial statue in the Back Bay depicting Abraham Lincoln standing over a half-dressed, kneeling formerly enslaved man.
But those controversies involve names tied to centuries past. Faneuil was an 18th-century merchant. Dudley’s governorship pre-dated the founding of the country by more than a century. The Lincoln statue, known as “The Emancipation Group,” dates back to 1879. (One notable exception was renaming Yawkey Way, which bore the name of the late Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, said by some to be a racist, to Jersey Street in 2018. Yawkey died in 1976.)
The local reckoning has so far spared more recent figures like Kelly and Albert L. “Dapper” O’Neil; white, Irish, and socially conservative relics of bygone eras in Boston politics who were known to embrace bigoted rhetoric and policies. (Both died in 2007.)
Jamarhl Crawford hopes to change that. Crawford, a community activist who worked in City Hall for a year during the late 1990s, says he was present to hear Kelly and O’Neil use the n-word inside the council chambers. Crawford is currently heading an effort to strip names of sites that memorialize men like Kelly and O’Neil in the city, lobbying members of the city council to take a stand on the matter.
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While Kelly has his bridge in Southie, O’Neil has an 8th floor City Hall hearing room that bears his name.
“They were dinosaurs,” said Crawford recently. “They were Archie Bunker in the flesh.”
O’Neil’s history of public prejudice is a lengthy one. In 1972, after three nights of rioting following the Puerto Rican Day Festival in Boston’s South End, he wanted police to club “those maggots and leaches out of the park,” referencing the city’s Spanish-speaking community, according to Globe coverage from the time.
He was also known to use homophobic slurs during his lengthy political career, which was also marked by accusations of misogyny. In 1995, one female city employee alleged she was harassed 10 times by O’Neil. In the late 1990s, O’Neil said he supported the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens.
Kelly’s public life, too, is littered with instances that would be politically untenable in the Boston of 2022.
In 1989, he lamented what he called “the instability of the Black family,” and Black people’s “total dependence on government.” He once asserted that Black politicians and the city’s Black communities condoned crime and violence that would not be tolerated in South Boston, then an enclave of the white working class. He opposed desegregation efforts throughout his adult life, which included resistance to court-ordered busing, yes, but also a consent decree that led to the desegregation of the Old Colony and Mary Ellen McCormack housing developments in Southie in the late 1980s.
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Attempts to reach Kelly’s relatives were not successful. O’Neil had no children.
Brian Wallace, a former state representative, South Boston native, and de facto historian of the neighborhood, said the naming of the bridge was symbolic in that it connected Boston’s South End with Southie, two communities that Kelly represented during his time as a politician.
“It meant a lot to Jimmy, and it meant a lot to us,” he said. Kelly was a “damn good representative of the people” and a “stand-up guy.”
He thought the move to rename the structure was grounded in Kelly’s opposition to the court-ordered de-segregation of the city’s schools in the 1970s. The effort to rename the bridge would never happen if Kelly was still alive, he added. “They wouldn’t have the guts.”
He added, “People in Southie are really, really pissed at this. They know what kind of guy Jimmy was.”
He pointed out that Joe Moakley, a deceased South Boston pol who has a park and courthouse named after him, also opposed busing in the 1970s and rhetorically asked whether Moakley’s name should also be removed from the places bearing his namesake.
“This is getting ridiculous,” he said.
Charles Yancey, who tangled with both Kelly and O’Neil during his long career on the city council, has plenty of problematic anecdotes from both men.
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There was the time in 1992 when O’Neil compared a stretch of Dorchester Avenue to Saigon because of all the Vietnamese businesses there and suggested that people in the neighborhood subsisted on government welfare. Yancey thought O’Neil should have resigned after that episode.
While O’Neil practically lived in the hearing room that now bears his name, often camping out there during zoning hearings, Yancey thinks his bigotry should mean his name doesn’t adorn the room.
“Did he deserve it? No, his racist attitudes should have disqualified him,” said Yancey.
Yancey is a little more circumspect when it comes to Kelly, saying the South Boston councilor always treated his family with respect and demonstrated respect for Yancey himself “90 percent of the time.” He acknowledged that Kelly manifested racist ideology but Yancey said he still respected him as a human being, adding that he dislikes speaking ill of the dead.
Still, of the bridge bearing Kelly’s name, Yancey admitted: “Looking at it objectively, no, I don’t think it’s appropriate.”
For Michael Curry, a Boston-based member of the NAACP’s national board of directors, dialogue about the names of places should be part of the process of “figuring out what city we want to be.”
He acknowledged that many controversial pols are beloved by the communities they represented, that their unacceptable sides are often “mixed with delivering resources and services.”
Nonetheless, he said, “it’s worth having a conversation whether those same people are the ones we want to” name public spaces after.
Jeremiah Manion of Globe staff contributed to this report.
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2 arrested for stealing $1,200 worth of items from Dollar General, police say
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – Two people were arrested for stealing $1,200 in merchandise from a Dollar General in Oklahoma, according to police.
The Tulsa Police Department said officers were called to the store for a theft Monday evening.
When officers arrived, they saw the suspect vehicle speeding out of the parking lot.
Police said the car failed to pull over and continued to flee officers.
Eventually, the car hit spike strips and pulled over to a gas station.
Tulsa police said the driver, Mark Burris, and the passenger, Tabitha Kelly, were taken into custody.
Burris was charged with grand larceny, driving with a suspended license, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, obstructing/interfering with a police officer, and an improper vehicle tag. Kelly is facing a grand larceny charge.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)Angel Reese was knocked backward as she came down with an offensive rebound, tossed the ball in off the glass as she fell and pounded both hands triumphantly on the floor as roaring fans rose from their seats.
Even as much of her team was stifled by defensive-minded Mississippi, Reese simply would not be denied. She had a season-high 36 points and 20 rebounds, carrying No. 5 LSU to a gritty 69-60 victory over Mississippi on Thursday night.
”I don’t know if I look tired,” said Reese, who played all 40 minutes. ”I was doing everything I could do to win.”
Reese said she was driven in large part by her desire to see LSU (24-1, 12-1 SEC) bounce back from its lone loss this season on Sunday at No. 1 South Carolina.
”Last game, I didn’t help my team win and mentally it was tough on me for the past two days,” Reese said. ”I knew coming out tonight my team needed me. And it was just about how I was going to respond tonight and I feel like I responded well and did what I could.”
Reese, who reached double-digit points and rebounds for the 24th time this season, was the only player for LSU to score with any regularity against Ole Miss (20-6, 9-4), which came in ranked 18th nationally in scoring defense.
LSU shot just 32.8% (22 of 67), including just 1 of 8 from 3-point range.
But when the Tigers missed, the 6-foot-3 Reese was in the paint fighting for eight offensive rebounds and often converted those into put-backs off the glass. LSU had 22 second-chance points, 16 scored by Reese. She also hit 12 of 14 foul shots to help LSU outscore Ole Miss 24-4 at the foul line.
”Angel responded. The thing I was most pleased with is she responded on the boards,” LSU coach Kim Mulkey said. ”We got to the foul line, which is good, and we made our free throws.”
Angel Baker scored 21 and Madison Scott added 13 for Ole Miss, which only briefly led by one point in the first quarter, but which tied the game at 34 on Baker’s jumper in the third quarter and never trailed by more than 11.
Noting that the final margin could have been even tighter if Ole Miss hadn’t been forced to foul in the final minute, Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCiun asserted, ”If they’re No. 5, in my mind, we’re like around No. 10 to 15 in the nation. … We’re pretty good, too.”
Alexis Morris scored 15 for LSU, but had an off night shooting, hitting just three of 18 shots. Still, her clutch jumper gave LSU a 63-56 lead with 1:50 left. She made nine of 10 free throws, including four in the final 33 seconds to seal the victory.
”She always hits the big shots,” Mulkey noted.
Morris, who normally shoots close to 46% from the field and averages nearly 16 points, missed nine of her first 10 shots. But Reese scored half of LSU’s 30 first-half points to keep the Tigers in front most of the way.
The Tigers never led by more than eight in the opening two quarters and Mississippi scored the final six points of the second period, capped by Baker’s layup, to pull to 30-28 at halftime.
BIG PICTURE
Mississippi: Ole Miss has been one of the top defensive teams in the SEC, allowing 54.7 point per game coming in. It showed against LSU, which finished well below its scoring average of 85.8 points.
”We hold everybody below their average, that’s our defensive system. I’d be shocked if we don’t,” Mississippi coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said. ”We take pride in it.”
The Rebels have to win all three of their remaining regular-season games to reach 23 regular-season victories for the first time in program history. And that means beating No. 1 and undefeated South Carolina.
LSU: The Tigers won their 10th straight against Ole Miss, which hasn’t beaten the Tigers since 2015 in Oxford. LSU improved to 41-22 all-time against the Rebels. LSU is now 50-7 since Kim Mulkey took over as coach for the 2021-22 season. Meanwhile, Reese needs just three more double-doubles to tie Sylvia Fowles’ program record of 27, set in the 2006-07 season.
UP NEXT
Mississippi: Hosts South Carolina on Sunday.
LSU: At Florida on Sunday.
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The hottest rivalry in sailing heads across the pond to Old Blighty, where Sir Ben Ainslie and his British crew will face the tall task of defending home waters against Tom Slingsby and his crew of seemingly unbeatable Australians.
Team Australia will try to run its SailGP winning streak to six during the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix Plymouth on Saturday and Sunday. The Aussies won the Plymouth regatta last year while Britain finished fourth, with Paul Goodison filling in for Ainslie while the national star was with his wife for the birth of their second child.
The Aussies have largely dominated tech tycoon Larry Ellison’s global league since its inception, including winning the championship and a $1 million check each of the first two seasons. They've won seven of the last eight regattas spanning two seasons.
Ainslie, the most-decorated sailor in Olympic history, has also sailed spectacularly at times since joining SailGP, and his rivalry with Slingsby has been elevated to the point that it’s being called “Ashes on Water,” a comparison to the long-running cricket rivalry between the countries.
Slingsby hasn’t been shy about talking about the brimming confidence of his crew, which is loaded with America’s Cup and Olympic veterans. Days before the Chicago SailGP regatta last month, Ainslie mentioned the Aussie team’s confidence as being a big motivator “to try and beat that and take that down. I think it’s a dangerous line to tread.”
Slingsby and crew then did what they’ve done best recently. They came on strong on the second day of fleet racing to sneak into the three-boat podium race and then sped off aboard their foiling 50-foot catamaran to victory against Canada and Great Britain.
Slingsby is still as confident as ever, especially after winning in the historic southwest English port last year.
“I’m sure Ben and his team have done plenty of sailing around Plymouth before, definitely more than us,” Slingsby said. “So, you’ve got to think there is some home-field advantage there, but we did well here at this event last year so we feel pretty confident as well in these conditions."
Slingsby and Ainslie, who each won a gold medal at the London Olympics 10 years ago, were crewmates aboard Oracle Team USA in the 2013 America’s Cup. They helped helmsman Jimmy Spithill — now the skipper of SailGP’s Team USA — stage a stunning comeback to beat Emirates Team New Zealand and retain the Auld Mug.
Now they’ve got a pretty good rivalry going.
“I guess it’s turning out that way,” Slingsby said. “Ben and I used to be pretty good friends but we probably talk a little bit less than we ever have. I guess competition just does that to you. I think it’s a pretty healthy rivalry. They’re one of the best teams and so are we."
Ainslie said it’s a bit early in the season “to start picking rivalries, but for sure the Aussie team is doing a fantastic job of setting the standard, really. So, I think for myself and the rest of our team, that should be great motivation whenever you’ve got somebody like that or a team like that out there and they’re obviously feeling good about how they’re going."
Ainslie said he and Slingsby are still mates off the water, “and we always will be."
Ainslie said that while members of his crew have sailed in Plymouth before, he hasn’t sailed there since he was 15.
“The other thing, of course, is having the home crowd giving you that little bit of extra motivation,” Ainslie said. “You want to try to put on a good show for them, which definitely will make a difference.”
Ainslie said he’ll also be motivated by the 10th anniversary of the London Olympics. Ainslie capped his Olympic career by winning his fourth straight gold medal and fifth overall up the coast at Weymouth.
Australia leads Canada and Britain by three points in the overall standings. They’re followed by New Zealand, Denmark, France, the United States, Spain and Switzerland.
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The Blue Devil signee teams up with fast-rising hydrating lemon water brand to stay refreshed all season
ATLANTA, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lemon Perfect, the fastest-growing brand in the enhanced water category*, announced today a partnership with top-ranked basketball prospect and celebrated social media star Jared McCain.
One of the country's most sought-after high school basketball recruits, McCain–committed to Duke University–is widely considered an elite NBA prospect and reaches over two million fans daily across his social media platforms. McCain joins Lemon Perfect in the midst of the brand's rapid rise in the hyper-competitive enhanced water category. As a key Lemon Perfect ambassador, McCain will help build brand awareness among his super-engaged social media following and Gen Z peers.
"I'm thrilled to partner with Lemon Perfect," said McCain. "You rarely find a brand that shares your enthusiasm and positive energy. I pride myself on always showcasing my very best, and as a disruptive brand, Lemon Perfect shares my commitment to high quality, originality, and excitement. We are looking forward to creating many fun moments together."
"Our partnership with Jared is exciting for Lemon Perfect as we dive meaningfully into the NIL ecosystem," said Lemon Perfect CEO and Founder Yanni Hufnagel. "That Jared is both an NBA prospect and social media star is unique. He is a one-of-a-kind basketball prospect and content creator whose talent in front of the camera and on the court will help drive brand awareness as Lemon Perfect continues its quest to become the number one brand in the enhanced water category by dollar share."
In April, Lemon Perfect announced the closing of a $31 million Series A headlined by internationally celebrated award-winning artist and entrepreneur Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. The financing brought Lemon Perfect's total valuation to over $100 million in less than three years from the company's selling its first bottle.
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Lemon Perfect is a great-tasting and hydrating flavored lemon water with zero sugar and no artificial flavors or sweeteners. Powered by squeezed organic lemons, Lemon Perfect contains electrolytes from potassium and is packed with vitamin C, making healthy hydration more convenient, delicious, and refreshing than ever.
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Lucid has made it easier to hop behind the wheel of its 819-hp, 516-mile Air Grand Touring sedan.
The EV startup this week announced a new starting price of $138,000, down from $154,000 previously.
To achieve the lower price, Lucid removed some standard features and made them available, thus giving buyers more flexibility when it comes to configuring the car. This flexibility is already found with the lower Air Pure and Air Touring grades, which start at $87,400 and $107,400, respectively.
Previously standard features on the Air Grand Touring that are now available include the DreamDrive Pro driver-assist package ($10,000), Surreal Sound Pro audio system ($4,000), and 21-inch Aero Blade wheels ($2,000). Adding all of these features will bring you back to the previous $154,000 starting price.
Buyers who choose the standard DreamDrive driver-assist package and/or the standard Surreal Sound audio system will be able to trial the respective Pro versions for 90 days at no cost, Lucid said.
By making these previously standard features optional, and thus lowering the starting price, Lucid has essentially walked back much of the Air Grand Touring’s price rise announced in May, when the starting price was increased from $139,000 to $154,000. While the starting price is now $138,000, it should be noted that the original $139,000 starting price included the DreamDrive Pro package as a standard feature.
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CHICAGO — Paul DeJong had an RBI double in the 10th inning and the St. Louis Cardinals edged the Chicago White Sox 4-3 on Sunday.
Contreras batted fourth and returned behind the plate after missing two games following a dental procedure on Friday. The catcher was charged with two passed balls and a throwing error.
JoJo Romero (1-0), the fourth Cardinals reliever, pitched two innings for his first career win.
The Cardinals tied it at 3 in the top of the ninth after they loaded the bases against Kendall Graveman with one out.
Alec Burleson’s chopper up the middle glanced off Graveman’s glove, and the White Sox were able to get only an out at second, instead of a game-ending double play. Lars Nootbar scored from third.
Graveman allowed a double to Nootbar to open the inning, then went on to walk a batter and hit two others with pitches before escaping with just one run scored by striking out Gorman.
Zach Remillard scored Chicago’s third unearned run of the game on Luis Robert Jr.’s sacrifice fly in the eighth to put Chicago ahead 3-2.
In his first start since May 24, St. Louis left-hander Steven Matz allowed one unearned run and struck out nine in 5 1/3 innings. He yielded just two hits and walked none.
Matz dueled with Chicago righty Lucas Giolito, who allowed only two hits, both to Contreras, and two runs in seven innings.
Elvis Andrus drove in Chicago’s first run with a single.
Matz made 10 starts to begin this season, going 0-6 with a 5.72 ERA, before moving to the bullpen. He was 0-1 with a 2.81 ERA as a reliever and his longest outing was 3 1/3 innings. Matz struck out six of the first 10 hitters he faced, but the White Sox pushed across an unearned run in the third to take a 1-0 lead.
Oscar Colas reached when first baseman Paul Goldschmidt flubbed his chopper. Colas advanced to second on a passed ball, then third when Contreras’ throw to second sailed into center field.
Colas scored on Andrus’ single to left, the first hit of the game.
Contreras drilled his 10th homer to the back of the left-field bullpen for the first hit off Giolito and a 2-1 St. Louis lead in the fourth.
The White Sox tied it at 2 in the seventh. Gorman couldn’t come up with pinch hitter Carlos Perez’s bouncer and the error allowed Robert Jr. to score.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: LHP Jordan Montgomery (right hamstring) will be checked by a doctor on Sunday night, giving the team a clearer timeline for his return. Montgomery abruptly left Friday night’s series opener in the fifth inning after he slipped on the mound. ... INF/OF Brendan Donovan (sore throwing arm), restricted to DH since late June, is expected to start throwing during the All-Star break. ... OF Tyler O’Neill (lower left back strain) went 0-for-2 with two walks as DH in his fourth rehab appearance with Triple-A Memphis on Saturday night.
White Sox: OF Andrew Benintendi sat out a second straight game with a right wrist injury.
UP NEXT
The Cardinals host Washington starting Friday.
The White Sox open a three-game series at nine-game trip at Atlanta on Friday.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Pickleball, the National Governing Body for the sport of pickleball, today published its annual growth report, containing important industry metrics recorded in 2022.
As the sport continued to expand across the country, USA Pickleball saw its membership increase nearly 30 percent over 2021. The National Governing Body currently has a membership base of nearly 69,000 strong, a major uptick compared to 53,110 in 2021.
Some of the highlights include:
- Membership: 68,697 registered USA Pickleball members, an increase of 29.4% over 2021.
- Certified Facilities: The organization's Places2Play database grew from 9,167 to a total of 10,724 USA Pickleball-registered facilities in North America. This equates to 130 new locations per month, or more than four per day.
- Approved Paddles & Balls: The USA Pickleball Equipment & Evaluation Committee (EEC) and its independent lab tested and approved 525 new paddles and 34 new balls in 2022.
- USA Pickleball Ambassadors: 1,973 dedicated volunteers who actively promote the game at the local level by supporting new programs and facilities.
- Sanctioned Events: USA Pickleball sanctioned 237 tournaments in 2022 compared to 153 in 2021, including USA Pickleball's own Indoor National Championships, National Championships and the first-ever Diamond Amateur Championship.
- 2022 National Championships: The 2022 Margaritaville USA Pickleball National Championships drew nearly 2,300 amateur players, while the sport's top professional players competed for $150,000 in prize money, compared to $90,000 in 2021. On November 13, the event also set the record for the largest-ever attendance in the history of the sport at 5,522.
- Facilities Development: USA Pickleball directly supports the development pipeline for over $100M in new facilities, including over 25 Regional- and Sector-level venues.
The full Annual Growth Report can be found at usapickleball.org.
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City officials are preparing for the summer months with an effort to push back on gun violence.
Mayor Jim Kenney, on Monday, joined Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, along with other representatives of the city's police force, to detail new efforts to combat crime over the summer months, and provide an update on recent crime data.
"We are still losing too many people to senseless gun violence," said the mayor.
In his remarks, Kenney said he would make gun violence prevention a top priority throughout his remaining time in the city's highest office.
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"It seems like everyone has one and wants to use it," he said, when asked about gun violence.
Law enforcement officials said that research has shown that about 43% of violent crime in the city occurs within the boundaries of four police districts -- the 39th district that covers Germantown and parts of North Philadelphia and the 22nd, 24th and 25th districts which cover Strawberry Mansion, parts of North Philadelphia, Kensington and some river ward neighborhoods.
In response, officials said, they worked to focus in on fighting crime and increasing staffing in these four districts.
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The update comes as violence targeting children continues to plague Philadelphia.
According to the most recent shooting data from the City Controller's Office, children have made up about 10% of Philadelphia's more than 620 shooting victims so far this year.
To date, at least 151 homicides have occurred in Philadelphia, according to Philadelphia police data. That's down about 14% from the same date last year, but still on pace to be one of the deadliest years on record in the city.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. prosecutor displayed grisly crime-scene photos as he urged a jury Tuesday to impose the death penalty on a “proud terrorist” who killed eight people in a vehicle attack in New York City in 2017, while defense lawyers insisted death was not the answer.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Houle told jurors that defendant Sayfullo Saipov, 35, “chose to violently smash and crush his victims, who were defenseless and included a child” with his Halloween day truck attack.
She reminded jurors of the horror of the day by showing them gory pictures of the dead, some with clothing torn away, and by reminding them of the tearful testimony of their family members and some of the 18 individuals who suffered injuries but survived.
“It is brutal to look at these photographs. But it is important,” Houle said.
The images affected one man sitting among families of the victims so strongly that he appeared to lose consciousness, leading the judge to interrupt Houle’s closing long enough for an ambulance to be summoned. The man later walked into the ambulance.
A defense lawyer, David Patton, told jurors in closing statements in federal court that death was not the answer for his client, a Uzbekistan citizen.
In his closing to the same federal jury that convicted Saipov in January, defense lawyer Patton said a death sentence was not necessary, especially since a decision against death would mean his client would spend of the rest of life in extreme isolation at the nation’s most secure federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
“I know he committed a horribly, horribly violent crime,” Patton said.
Before the summation had resumed, Patton requested a mistrial over the prosecutor’s images, citing “traumatic imagery” so dramatic that it so affected a man, the husband of an FBI agent, who was sitting among victims’ families. Patton said a woman seated nearby also seemed to have been affected by the images.
The judge denied the request at a trial that has featured numerous days of testimony by emotional witnesses and gruesome images and videos from the killing scene.
Houle said the death penalty was appropriate because of choices made in planning the attack and carrying it out, “choices of Sayfullo Saipov, a proud terrorist.”
“He chose to come to this country and then fight for an enemy,” the prosecutor said. “In our system of justice, the highest punishment is reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes.”
Prosecutors said at a trial that resulted in guilty verdicts against Saipov in late January that Saipov admitted to FBI agents that he carried out the attack on behalf of the Islamic State group and would have continued to the Brooklyn Bridge to kill others if he had not crashed his truck and been shot by a police officer.
Patton suggested that if left alive, Saipov may “10 years from now, maybe longer,” question what he had done, just as his closest relatives said they hoped would happen if he lived.
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Woodbridge, NJ police officer saved man hit by lightning
Earlier this week we brought you the story of the Woodbridge public worker who was hit by lightning while lining the soccer field at Iselin Middle School.
39-year-old Eric Baumgartner is lucky to be alive after a bolt of lightning struck him just after noon this past Wednesday. Thankfully his co-worker was on the field and immediately called 9-1-1.
Officer Robert "RJ" McPartland from the Woodbridge Police Department happened to be nearby and was able to respond immediately. Turns out RJ was a firefighter and EMT before joining the police force and was ready and able to resuscitate the victim.
When Officer McPartland found Eric Baumgartner he had burns on his hands and no pulse. Thanks to the quick reaction, training, and composure of the police officer, a tragedy was avoided.
Officer McPartland exemplifies the professionalism and dedication to duty that is represented daily by the Woodbridge PD and cops across New Jersey.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia and China continued their tit-for-tat diplomatic rivalry in the Pacific on Thursday as the foreign ministers from each country paid separate visits to island nations.
In Samoa, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced that her country would donate a patrol boat to replace a similar one that was wrecked after it ran aground last year.
Meanwhile, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Papua New Guinea to meet with leaders there on the penultimate stop of an eight-nation regional tour.
Wang had hoped to ink an ambitious multilateral deal with 10 South Pacific nations this week covering everything from security to fisheries. He couldn’t find consensus on that deal but has been notching up smaller wins by signing bilateral agreements with many of the countries he’s been visiting.
The diplomatic push by China, especially around Pacific security, has caused deep concern among some of the island nations as well as farther afield in Canberra and Washington. Since news of the proposed deal emerged, Wong has made two trips to the Pacific to shore up support for Australia.
In Samoa, Wong met with Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa.
Wong told reporters that Australia respected the right of sovereign nations to make their own security decisions, but said those decisions “have the potential to affect the nature of the security arrangements of the region. So having a collective consideration of those matters is important.”
Fiame said she wanted to make clear that while Samoa had signed some bilateral agreements with China, it hadn’t favored inking the big multilateral deal — at least not right away. She said Samoa and the other nations needed to talk through the issues first.
“Our position was that you cannot have regional agreement when the region hasn’t met to discuss it,” she said.
Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has been even more blunt, tweeting: “The Pacific needs genuine partners, not superpowers that are super-focused on power.”
Wang’s visit to Papua New Guinea comes ahead of a national election there next month.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday rejected accusations that the country's military carried out deadly artillery strikes against tourists in northern Iraq.
In an in an interview with Turkish state broadcaster TRT, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey was willing to cooperate with Iraqi authorities to shed light on the “treacherous attack.”
“According to the information we received from the Turkish Armed Forces, we did not conduct any attack against civilians,” Cavusoglu said. “Our fight in Iraq has always been against the (banned Kurdistan Workers Party) PKK terrorist organization.”
“We reject the accusations that have been leveled against Turkey before the smoke screen has been lifted,” Cavusoglu said, adding that Turkey believed the attack was aimed at preventing Turkish military operations in the region.
“Iraqi authorities must not fall into this trap,” he said.
On Wednesday, at least four artillery shells struck the resort area of Barakh in the Zakho district in the semi-autonomous Kurdish-run region, killing at least eight people, officials said. More than 20 other people were wounded. All of the casualties were Iraqi citizens. A small child was among the victims.
Iraq’s military said eight people were killed in the attack. Health workers at the Bidar Hospital in Dohuk province, which received patients, said nine were killed.
The incident is testing ties between Iraq and Turkey — two countries that share deep economic ties but are divided over security issues related to Kurdish insurgents operating in Iraq, oil trading with the Kurdish region and water-sharing.
The Iraqi government, which condemned the attack as “flagrant violation of Iraq's sovereignty,” convened an emergency national security meeting, summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad and ordered a pause in dispatching a new Iraqi ambassador to Ankara.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi accused Turkey of ignoring “Iraq’s continuous demands to refrain from military violations against Iraqi territory and the lives of its people.”
Cavusoglu said Turkey had offered to bring the wounded to Turkey for treatment.
Turkey regularly carries out airstrikes into northern Iraq and has sent commandos to support its offensives targeting elements of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party or PKK.
Wednesday’s attack marked the first time that tourists had been killed in the frequent attacks by Turkey in the area, the officials said. Turkish strikes in the area are common and have killed civilians, mostly local villagers, there before.
In April, Turkey launched its latest offensive, named Operation Claw Lock, in parts of northern Iraq - part of a series of cross-border operations started in 2019 to combat the outlawed PKK who are based in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq.
The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, and has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 which has killed tens of thousands of people.
Ankara has pressed Baghdad to root out PKK elements from the northern region. Iraq, in turn, has said Turkey’s ongoing attacks are in breach of its sovereignty.
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Locals Can Make Their Taste Buds Smile with Free Entrée Grand Opening Offer
DALLAS, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- What's the news? Mendocino Farms, the fast-casual restaurant known for turning sandwiches, salads and more into an unexpected culinary adventure, is giving Plano a taste of its "Eat Happy" mantra with a new location at Legacy West (7700 Windrose Ave), opening on Tuesday, August 2. Mendocino Farms' expansion to Plano is part of a larger growth strategy for the area, bringing its total Dallas-Fort Worth locations to four.
Why is this important? Known for its approachably adventurous dishes, Mendocino Farms will bring a new, chef-driven experience to Legacy West, offering a convenient setting to enjoy a quality meal to satisfy every craving.
"Since Mendocino Farms entered the DFW market we had our sights set on Plano's diverse dining scene and look forward to providing a new flavorful spot for Legacy West shoppers and business district to enjoy," said Kevin Miles, CEO of Mendocino Farms. "As experts in adventurous eating, our elevated menu will bring fellow foodies together over a leisurely meal while dining in, or an on the go lunch."
Plano residents can enjoy a special offer of a free sandwich, salad or bowl with any menu purchase during the first two weeks post-opening when they create a My Mendo account and select "DFW-Plano" as their favorite location before opening day.
Seeking to better the communities it serves, Mendocino Farms will donate 50% of opening day sales to La La Land Kind Café's We Are One project, helping solve the challenges DFW's foster youth encounter when pursuing education and employment. Additionally, Mendocino Farms is inviting local schools to host Give Back nights with them at the restaurant, where 50% of proceeds from the fundraiser go directly to the school (if hosted within the first three months).
What's good to eat? Inspired by global cuisine, Mendocino Farms' menu puts unique twists on sandwiches, salads and more. Crafted for the season, the Summer Street Corn with Chicken is back for a limited time, featuring al pastor chicken over creamy street corn, with poblano and onion rajas, cilantro, and jalapeno salsa verde on a toasted sesame roll. A year-round standout known for its various textures and flavors, the Avocado & Quinoa Superfood Ensalada takes chopped romaine, curly kale, quinoa and millet, housemade superfood krunchies, succotash with roasted corn, black beans and jicama, red onions, grape tomatoes and avocado before being topped off with cilantro and cotija cheese under a hearty drizzle of chipotle vinaigrette.
The whole family can dine at Mendocino Farms with a kid's menu comprised of classics like air fried Crispy Chicken Tenders and Cheddar Cheese Quesadilla as well as limited-time soup offerings, such as the Chicken Tortilla Soup.
How/where can I get it? Order in-store, online or through the Mendocino Farms App for pick up or delivery, seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Delivery is available daily through third-party partners including UberEats, DoorDash and Postmates. Flexible catering options are also available for larger groups at schools, offices or community gatherings.
To learn more about the upcoming opening in Plano's Legacy West, click here.
About Mendocino Farms
Mendocino Farms takes guests on a culinary adventure with its diverse menu of chef-driven, seasonal sandwiches and salads made from fresh, high-quality ingredients. Founded in Southern California in 2005 by husband-and-wife team Mario Del Pero and Ellen Chen, Mendocino Farms has grown to 48 locations and counting in California and Texas. By creating gathering places for connection and nourishment whether dining in store, enjoying at home, or catering it to the office, the restaurant company aims to make hearts and stomachs happy through unexpected flavors and friendliness. For more information visit mendocinofarms.com.
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LOS ANGELES — If Kyle Schwarber lost his first-round matchup in the home run derby because of a counting error, well, it was news to him.
And he isn’t bothered by it at all.
Shortly after Schwarber bowed, quite literally, to Albert Pujols by a 20-19 margin after a tiebreaking swing-off Monday night at Dodger Stadium, social media buzzed with clips that appeared to show the derby scorekeepers, who are appointed by Major League Baseball, fail to credit the Phillies left fielder with an 18th home run on his third-to-last swing. He went deep to right field — the same spot as the possibly omitted homer — on his final two swings, finishing with 19 homers.
» READ MORE: Kyle Schwarber is also an All-Star teammate
“I heard that. I don’t know,” said Schwarber, who received a few text messages Monday night that clued him in to the potential conspiracy. “I just saw 19 on the board, and I lost. Trust me, I’m not by any means trying to put up an uproar. If I was going to lose to someone, I’m happy it was Albert.”
Indeed, Pujols was the sentimental favorite, even among many players. The iconic St. Louis Cardinals slugger is retiring after the season. At age 42, and with only six homers in 149 at-bats this season, he competed in the derby for the fifth time.
Pujols hit 10 homers in the regulation portion of the first round, easily the fewest of the six contestants who came before him. Players from both leagues came together for a picture with Pujols in a gesture that was described as spontaneous and organic. Pujols called it “one of the top moments in my career.”
It also was premature. Not only did Pujols have 30 seconds of bonus time, in which he hit three more homers, but Schwarber had a poor round and finished with 13 homers. Pujols added seven homers in the one-minute swing-off before Schwarber hit six — or at least that’s how many were credited to him.
Schwarber didn’t react like someone who had been shortchanged. He doffed his cap and bowed to Pujols, who seemed as surprised as anyone that he was moving on to the second round.
“I just looked up at the number and I said, ‘You know, that’s it,’” Schwarber said. “I’m not worried about it at all. To be honest with you, it was probably a good thing for me. Get to save some swings. But the miscounting thing, I’m not paying that much attention to it.”
Pujols lost in the second round to Washington Nationals star Juan Soto, who defeated impressive Seattle Mariners rookie Julio Rodríguez in the final round.
» READ MORE: Phillies 2022 MLB draft tracker: Breaking down all 19 picks
Trades Happ-en
A year ago, the Chicago Cubs shipped out 2016 World Series heroes Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, and Javier Báez in a trade deadline purge that began a full-scale rebuild.
Ian Happ knows he could be next.
Happ, a 27-year-old outfielder, is eligible for free agency after next season. He said the Cubs haven’t initiated talks on a contract extension, which makes him a prime candidate to be traded before the Aug. 2 deadline. If the Cubs move Happ now, they could maximize their return because the acquiring team would have him for two postseason runs.
The Phillies could have interest in Happ, a switch hitter with slightly better power splits from the left side and positional versatility. Happ, who is batting .274 with nine homers and an .807 OPS this season, has played 228 games in center field in his career. Phillies center fielders rank last in the National League with a .559 OPS.
Happ said he’d prefer to stay with the Cubs, who drafted him as a 20-year-old in the first round in 2015. But he’s also bracing to leave, just as so many of his former teammates did last year.
“As tough as it was to lose friends, those guys are all playing baseball and doing really well,” Happ said. “Joc [Pederson] is an All-Star; [Anthony] Rizzo has [22] homers before the break; Kris [Bryant] is happy where he is; Javy [Báez] is happy where he is. Guys end up being OK and playing baseball and still having a great time.”
Kansas City Royals left fielder Andrew Benintendi also is a trade candidate, although his market may be affected by his decision to not get vaccinated against the coronavirus. American League teams, in particular, may be hesitant to acquire him if he’s unable to travel to Canada for late-season or playoff games in Toronto.
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MLB and the Players Association face a July 25 deadline to decide on the implementation of an international draft. The trade-off for instituting the draft would be the elimination of the qualifying offer for free agents. “We want to remove it, we’re committed to removing it,” MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said. “But we’re not going to do so at the expense of further damage in the international market.” ... Commissioner Rob Manfred said attendance across the majors is down 5% from 2019 before the pandemic. | https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/phillies-kyle-schwarber-home-run-derby-albert-pujols-20220719.html | 2022-07-20 01:09:42 | 0 | https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/phillies-kyle-schwarber-home-run-derby-albert-pujols-20220719.html |
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died Saturday at age 73.
Rivers died from cancer, Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis told the Savannah Morning News. Campbell and Sons Funeral Home said Rivers died at a hospital in Savannah.
Rivers was a sophomore on the all-Black Beach High School team that won the first Georgia High School Association basketball tournament to include Black and white players in 1967. He blossomed into an all-state player, graduating from the Savannah high school in 1969 and going on to be a small college All-American at Moberly Junior College in Missouri and an all-conference guard at what is now Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph.
He went on to play and coach for 16 years with the Harlem Globetrotters, reuniting for a time with high school coach Russell Ellington.
Rivers once told WTOC-TV that during his tryout for the Globetrotters, team legend Marques Haynes led Rivers into a closet storing tables and folding chairs, handed Rivers a basketball and said “Let’s see you dribble around this.”
“So I was dribbling around chairs, under tables, doing anything I could do to impress him,” Rivers said.
Rivers came home to Savannah and got involved in the community, volunteering in schools, promoting the rebuilding of neighborhood basketball courts and opening the non-profit youth mentorship organization Gatorball Academy to teach basketball.
Rivers ran for the county commission in 2020 as a Republican and was elected without opposition after the Democratic nominee was disqualified over a previous felony conviction.
"I don't know when we weren't friends," Ellis told WTOC-TV, calling Rivers "a legend."
”That was a big part of him, giving to the children that’s behind him," Ellis said. "Like he said, ‘Somebody gave to me, and so it’s my job and my responsibility to give back.’ And that’s going to be missing a whole lot.”
Rivers' death brought condolences from U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, Savannah Mayor Van Johnson and others. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Rivers “led a life of accomplishment and chose to spend much of that life serving the people of his community.”
Johnson wrote on social media that “Legends never die, so you will always be around, my friend," adding in an official city statement that Rivers “never forgot Savannah or Beach High School and dedicated endless hours of mentoring and teaching the rules of basketball and life to scores of young people. For this, he will always be remembered.”
Funeral arrangements had not been announced Sunday.
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- Eighteen percent of California households could afford to purchase the $829,760 median-priced home in the third quarter of 2022, up from 16 percent in second-quarter 2022 but down from 24 percent in third-quarter 2021.
- A minimum annual income of $192,800 was needed to make monthly payments of $4,820, including principal, interest and taxes on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at a 5.72 percent interest rate.
- Nearly 30 percent (27 percent) of California home buyers were able to purchase the $630,000 median-priced condo or townhome. A minimum annual income of $146,400 was required to make a monthly payment of $3,660.
- Infographic: https://www.car.org/Global/Infographics/HAI-2022-Q3
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Housing affordability in California bounced back in the third quarter with the statewide index for existing single-family home sales inching up to 18 percent after hitting a 15-year low of 16 percent in the second quarter of 2022, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.
The percentage of home buyers who could afford to purchase a median-priced, existing single-family home in California in third-quarter 2022 rose slightly to 18 percent from 16 percent in the second quarter of 2022 but was down from 24 percent in the third quarter of 2021, according to C.A.R.'s Traditional Housing Affordability Index (HAI). California hit a peak high affordability index of 56 percent in the first quarter of 2012.
C.A.R.'s HAI measures the percentage of all households that can afford to purchase a median-priced, single-family home in California. C.A.R. also reports affordability indices for regions and select counties within the state. The index is considered the most fundamental measure of housing well-being for home buyers in the state.
A minimum annual income of $192,800 was needed to qualify for the purchase of a $829,760 statewide median-priced, existing single-family home in the third quarter of 2022. The monthly payment, including taxes and insurance on a 30-year, fixed-rate loan, would be $4,820, assuming a 20 percent down payment and an effective composite interest rate of 5.72 percent. The effective composite interest rate was 5.39 percent in second-quarter 2022 and 3.07 percent in third-quarter 2021. In anticipation of the Fed's strong push on rate increases in the past few months, the market continued to put upward pressure on yields which resulted in the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) reaching the highest level in 20 years in late September.
The median price of existing single-family homes in California experienced the largest quarter-to-quarter decline in price since the first quarter of 2011. Despite the sizable quarter-to-quarter drop in median price, the share of households in California that could afford to buy a median-priced condominium or townhome continued to slide from last year as the cost of borrowing remained high.
Twenty-seven percent of California households earned the minimum income to qualify for the purchase of a $630,000 median-priced condo/townhome in the third quarter of 2022, which required an annual income of $146,400 to make monthly payments of $3,660. The third quarter 2022 figure was down from 37 percent a year ago.
Nationwide housing affordability also plunged in third-quarter 2022. Compared with California, 39 percent of the nation's households could afford to purchase a $398,500 median-priced home, which required a minimum annual income of $92,400 to make monthly payments of $2,310. Nationwide affordability was 50 percent a year ago.
Key points from the third-quarter 2022 Housing Affordability report include:
- Compared to the previous quarter, housing affordability in the third quarter of 2022 improved in 40 counties and remained unchanged in four counties. All but two counties decreased in housing affordability from a year ago, with Tehama being the only county with an increase from last year and San Mateo County remaining unchanged at 19 percent year-over-year.
- In the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, affordability improved from the previous quarter in all counties except Napa County, which declined 2 percent.
- In the Southern California region, housing affordability increased in all counties except Los Angeles County where affordability declined to 13 percent compared with 16 percent in second quarter 2022. San Bernardino County was the most affordable in the region at 31 percent of households able to purchase the $480,000 median-priced home. However, San Bernardino County also had the third largest year-over-year dip declining 12.7 percent.
- In the Central Valley region, Kings County was the most affordable at 40 percent, and San Benito was the least affordable at 20 percent.
- In the Central Coast region, Santa Barbara County was the least affordable at 12 percent, and Santa Cruz County was the most affordable at 14 percent.
- For the state as a whole, Lassen (56 percent) remained the most affordable county in California in the third quarter of 2022, followed by Kings (40 percent), Shasta (39 percent) and Tehama (39 percent). Lassen also had the lowest minimum qualifying income ($56,800) of all counties in California to purchase a median-priced home and was the only county in the state with a qualifying income less than $60,000.
- Mono (8 percent) and Santa Barbara (12 percent) were the least affordable counties in California, with each requiring at least a minimum income of $197,200 to purchase a median-priced home in the county. San Mateo ($448,400) continued to have the highest minimum qualifying income over more than $400,000 required in the third quarter of 2022. Other counties with minimum qualifying income just slightly below $400,000 included Marin ($394,800), Santa Clara ($392,000) and San Francisco ($385,200).
- Housing affordability declined the most on a year-over-year basis in Kings, falling 16.2 points year-over-year. Mariposa (13.7 points) and San Bernardino (12.7 points) had the second and third largest year-over-year dips. The surge in mortgage rates, along with elevated home prices, continued to be the primary factors for the plunge in affordability in these counties.
See C.A.R.'s historical housing affordability data.
See first-time buyer housing affordability data.
Leading the way…® in California real estate for more than 110 years, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (www.car.org) is one of the largest state trade organizations in the United States with more than 217,000 members dedicated to the advancement of professionalism in real estate. C.A.R. is headquartered in Los Angeles.
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Traditional Housing Affordability Indices (HAI) were calculated based on the following effective composite interest rates: 5.72% (3Qtr. 2022), 5.39% (2Qtr. 2022) and 3.07% (3Qtr. 2021).
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a cardiologist and I wanted to create a safer way to perform the radial artery approach during a coronary angiogram," said an inventor, from Sierra Madre, Calif., "so I invented the RAD STABILIZER. My design would stabilize the sheath and help to achieve homeostasis after removing it."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective tool for use during a coronary angiogram. In doing so, it would stabilize the access site. It also helps to achieve homeostasis after removing the sheath. As a result, it enhances safety when using the radial artery approach. The invention features a multi-functional design that is easy to use so it is ideal for hospitals and surgical centers. Additionally, a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Los Angeles sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-LAX-1444, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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- New data reinforces how Quantum Health's unique model works to control costs across entire member populations, leveraging real-time member intercept capability, care coordination and proven digital health solutions.
- Analysis found while many employers experienced annual healthcare cost increases of 6% or more, the cumulative cost impact from better navigation and utilization was held to less than 1%.
DUBLIN, Ohio, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Health, the leading independent navigation and care coordination company, today released results of an analysis that shows how the company's solution helps employers improve cost effectiveness on medical care received by their health plan members. The study found that navigation demonstrates cost-control impact across the entire member population and helps to counter increases in provider prices, which are expected to rise significantly in 2023 and beyond.
The study examined medical claims data for all Quantum Health clients active during 2016-2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that produced a historically distorting effect on U.S. healthcare consumption. Provider prices were factored out of claims costs during the study period. Instead, the study focused on how the company's navigation model works to control two other primary cost drivers: utilization (the volume of services consumed) and mix of services (the type of services used.)
By acting as the single point of contact for members seeking benefits guidance and providers looking to confirm benefits eligibility prior to providing services, Quantum Health is uniquely positioned to intervene early in members' healthcare journeys, through Real-Time Intercept® capabilities, to guide and inform utilization and mix of service decisions. The analysis found that, over the study period, while many employers were seeing healthcare costs increase by 6% or more annually, the cumulative cost impact from utilization and mix of services was held to less than 1%. This can translate into millions of dollars in savings for midsize and large employers.
"Higher inflation is showing up in prices negotiated for and charged by providers, and that's expected to continue for some time – something both HR and finance professionals are grappling with across industries," said Scott Doolittle, Quantum Health's chief financial officer. "It's important for employers and benefits advisors to recognize that price is just one factor applying upward pressure on cost trend. We did this analysis to look more closely at how navigation helps employers manage and control utilization and mix of services."
Other findings include:
- In-network care steadily increased year over year, helping employers take greater advantage of negotiated rates with providers.
- Clients' members had fewer avoidable ER visits, while use of urgent care grew at four times the rate of ER use.
- Inpatient admissions, length of hospital stays, and readmissions within 30 days of a hospital discharge all declined.
- Surgeries performed in more cost-effective outpatient settings grew, while surgeries done in more costly inpatient settings declined.
- For the most prescribed specialty drug, treatments administered in home and office settings increased, while those performed in more expensive outpatient hospital settings declined.
Along with identifying cost-control impacts, the study found that Quantum Health clients' members outperformed healthcare industry benchmarks for receiving recommended preventive services and achieving chronic-condition treatment quality metrics.
"Many people still think of navigation as a tool to help members find providers and reduce the HR team's benefits workload, and navigation does that, absolutely," said Doolittle. "But the true art and science of independent navigation is to ensure all members get the clinically appropriate care they need, when they need it, at an appropriate cost, within a highly simplified and satisfying experience," Doolittle said. "Provider prices show no signs of going down. Employers have an opportunity to adopt a real-time, always-on strategy for managing the other major cost drivers: utilization and mix of services."
On Dec. 15, at 1 p.m. ET, Quantum Health executives will share results from the study in a webinar, Pushing Back Against Healthcare Inflation. To register for the webinar, click here or download the full healthcare navigation cost control study at quantum-health.com.
About Quantum Health
Quantum Health is the industry-leading, independent healthcare navigation and care coordination company that delivers an unparalleled consumer experience to its members, as well as validated claims savings and high satisfaction rates for its self-insured employer clients. Quantum Health's proprietary Real-Time Intercept® model identifies opportunities for early intervention in a member's healthcare journey, resulting in better engagement, outcomes and cost efficiencies.
The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Dublin, Ohio. Since its inception, Quantum Health has earned numerous awards and honors, including being named among the Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000, the MedTech Breakthrough Award for technology innovation, the Gold Stevie for Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year, and a Great Place to Work by FORTUNE Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine. The Women Presidents' Organization has ranked Quantum Health as one of the 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies, and Columbus Business First has honored Quantum Health as a Best Place to Work. To learn more about the company, visit quantum-health.com, and connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Media Contact:
John Hallock
Quantum Health, Corporate Communications
John.hallock@quantum-health.com (617) 615-7712
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