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SEASONED EXECUTIVE TO LEAD DATA INTENSITY'S COMPREHENSIVE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE STRATEGIES FOR BEST IN CLASS CUSTOMER SUCCESS
COVINGTON, Ky., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Intensity, a leading trusted Oracle Partner and global Managed Services Provider, today announced the expansion of its executive team with the appointment of Clint Harder as its new Chief Experience Officer (CXO). Harder, a solutions-focused and results-driven technology leader, will be responsible for delivering consistent and efficient customer service strategies that engage and satisfy clients through best-in-class delivery.
Harder is an accomplished business leader who brings more than 25 years of executive experience leading global teams of IT professionals in product development, engineering, architecture, and operations. Most recently, he was the CTO and CPO of OneNeck IT Solutions. In the role of Data Intensity's CXO, Harder will report to Phil LaForge, Chief Executive Officer.
"Clint's background and deep experience servicing clients through all facets of the technology adoption cycle brings the depth and breadth we need to double-down on our commitment to drive superior client outcomes", says Phil LaForge, Chief Executive Officer, Data Intensity. "We are thrilled to have Clint lead this critical function for us."
Harder's background includes a variety of consulting and global leadership roles leveraging his extensive knowledge of infrastructure and cloud services with a security focus.
"I am excited to contribute to Data Intensity's commitment to client success excellence. Our mission is to ensure our clients are highly satisfied by creating more visibility and insight into our relationships," said Harder.
Data Intensity is an industry-leading Oracle Managed Services Provider delivering world-class, expert, managed services for the complex lifecycle of your Oracle-powered workloads. We provide full-stack, SLA-backed, technical and functional application services on any cloud. We future-proof your Oracle investments and optimally power your business with effective license position assessments, secure migration, 24x7 technical operational services, and functional adaptation of your E-Business Suite. Visit www.dataintensity.com to learn more about Data Intensity products and services.
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Bee attack forces man to collapse on live TV in LA
LOS ANGELES - SkyFOX captured the dramatic moments where a man collapsed to the ground after he was attacked by bees in Los Angeles' Encino neighborhood.
Emergency crews initially responded to a call of a bee swarm on Adlon Road in Encino a little before 4 p.m. Monday. A volunteer with the Los Angeles Police Department arrived at the scene to help and the bees began attacking him.
The attack was so bad that as the LAPD volunteer tried to slap away the bees, he collapsed to the ground and a partner he was with kept the car door closed since the volunteer was still around a bunch of bees.
The man eventually was able to walk out of the scene as other uniformed people went to treat the man. The uniformed LAPD volunteer was taken to the hospital, marking the second person injured in the bee attacks.
Officials did not say where the swarm of bees came from or how the bee problem came about in the Encino neighborhood.
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The big front porch and simple Victorian facade of this house on Wolcott Avenue in Ravenswood are sweet, but they’re not what attracted Phil and Ann Ponce. It was the mess out back that first caught the eye of this couple, a Chicago newscaster of four decades and a painter.
In 2009, Ann Ponce was renting studio space nearby and happened to spot a building on the alley that looked like it might make a nice studio. “It was a shambles, with all the windows broken,” Phil Ponce recalls, “but she thought it could be transformed.” (See more photos below.)
Soon the property, which included both the alleyside coach house and the streetside house, went up for sale, and “the reason we bought the house was because of the coach house,” Phil Ponce says.
Then the transformation began, years of work that turned the broken-down coach house into a bright, stylish workspace for Ann Ponce and other family members and updated nearly every inch of the main house.
“It’s been our oasis,” said Phil Ponce, who describes himself as “99% retired” from WTTW/Channel 11, where he still pulls occasional shifts on “Chicago Tonight,” the show where he was a reporter or anchor from 1992 until 2021, minus two years on a national PBS show.
The property is now too much for the couple, both in size and in its many stairs, says Phil Ponce, who’s in his 70s. They are buying a single-story house and will put the Wolcott Avenue property on the market May 30.
The asking price for the property — the five-bedroom, roughly 3,600-square-foot house and the coach house on a 50-by-152 lot — is $1.6 million. The listing agent is Jennefer Folsom of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-market/phil-ponce-selling-ravenswood-home | 2023-05-25 11:35:32 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-market/phil-ponce-selling-ravenswood-home |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)Tennessee controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk has very high standards for her Titans.
Combined with the millions she’s investing, she also isn’t afraid of making big moves chasing the Lombardi Trophy that eluded her late father.
Strunk fired general manager Jon Robinson on Tuesday in the midst of his seventh season with the Titans off to a 7-5 start and Tennessee second only to the Kansas City Chiefs for the NFL’s longest active streak of consecutive winning seasons in his tenure.
The Titans announced Strunk’s decision in a statement. Ryan Cowden, the vice president of player personnel, will handle player personnel for the rest of this season. The Titans plan to start searching for a new general manager soon with a full search at the end of the season.
Strunk said her goal since replacing her brother-in-law as controlling owner in March 2015 has been to raise the standard for every part of the NFL franchise founded by her late father, Bud.
Strunk said she believes the Titans have made ”significant progress” on and off the field.
”This progress includes the core of our business, the football team itself, which is regularly evaluated both by results (wins and losses) and team construction/roster building,” Strunk said. ”I am proud of what we have accomplished in my eight seasons of ownership, but I believe there is more to be done and higher aspirations to be met.”
Strunk paid to renovate the Titans’ headquarters, essentially doubling the size of the facility to both update the building and hold all the new employees hired.
The Titans also are finalizing the last piece of financing for a new enclosed stadium they want to open for the 2026 season. Strunk and the rest of ownership, with some help from the NFL and the sale of personal seat licenses, are expected to contribute $840 million toward the stadium estimated to cost $2.1 billion.
Strunk fired coach Ken Whisenhunt after a 1-6 start to his second season in November 2015 and a 3-20 record overall. She fired general manager Ruston Webster at the end of that season.
She hired Robinson, a native of Union City in West Tennessee who grew up cheering for the Titans, in January 2016 after the franchise went a combined 5-27 in 2014 and 2015.
When coach Mike Mularkey balked at making changes, Strunk fired him in January 2018 after a loss in the divisional round of the playoffs and quickly hired Mike Vrabel as his replacement.
The Titans never went worse than 9-7 in Robinson’s tenure. That includes earning the AFC’s No. 1 seed in 2021 with a 12-5 record despite setting an NFL record by using 91 players in a non-strike season. That earned coach Vrabel, whom Robinson helped hire in January 2018, the AP NFL Coach of the Year award.
Both Robinson and Vrabel had their contracts extended in February.
The Titans currently sit atop the AFC South with a chance to win the division for a third straight year, something that this franchise hasn’t done since its beginning in the original AFL.
Of their final five games, only one is against a team with a winning record. The Titans host the Jaguars (4-8) on Sunday.
But they just were routed 35-10 in Philadelphia, a loss that featured a big performance by the wide receiver Robinson traded to the Eagles during the first round of the NFL draft. A.J. Brown wanted a new contract and got it from Philadelphia in the deal Tennessee used to draft rookie Treylon Burks at No. 18.
Vrabel said on a national show before the draft that Brown wouldn’t be traded as long as he was the head coach.
Brown had eight catches for 119 yards and two touchdowns against the Titans. He has 61 catches and ranks seventh in the NFL with 950 yards along with nine touchdowns for the season. Burks leads the Titans with 369 yards receiving despite spending four games on injured reserve, while veteran Robert Woods has a team-high 33 catches.
Running back Dontrell Hilliard leads Tennessee with four TD receptions on an offense tied for 29th in total yards, 30th in averaging 171.4 yards passing per game and 26th with 18.3 points scored per game.
The Titans allowed a season-high six sacks in that loss behind an offensive line that featured three new starters due to a combination of salary cap moves during the offseason and a season-ending injury to left tackle Taylor Lewan.
In his first draft, Robinson selected two-time NFL rushing champ Derrick Henry, the eighth man in league history to run for at least 2,000 yards in a season in 2020, and a two-time All-Pro in safety Kevin Byard. His gamble taking defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons in the first round of the 2019 draft paid off with the lineman becoming a starter as a rookie.
Robinson also had several draft and other trade mistakes costing the Titans now.
He drafted offensive lineman Isaiah Wilson out of Georgia in 2020 at No. 29 overall, a player who only took four snaps in garbage time before the Titans suspended the rookie in December of that season. The Titans traded Wilson away after the season ended.
Robinson also selected cornerback Caleb Farley at No. 22 in 2021 despite questions over a second back surgery the month before the draft. Farley, who opted out of the 2020 college football season, has started two of 12 games played with both of his first two seasons ending with him on injured reserve.
Another draft pick that has turned out to be more of a bust is offensive lineman Dillon Radunz, the 53rd pick overall in 2021. Radunz came out of North Dakota State, a Football Championship Subdivision power, but he played only one game in 2020 because of the pandemic.
Radunz lost the right tackle job to rookie Nicholas Petit-Frere this season. His five career starts all have come because of injuries.
Robinson traded for seven-time Pro Bowl receiver Julio Jones in June 2021, reworking quarterback Ryan Tannehill’s contract to create cap space. The Titans cut Jones in March, and Robinson traded for Woods as a replacement with the veteran coming off a torn ACL in his left knee last November.
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NEW IT FIVE. IT TURNS OUT A JAWBONE FOUND IN THE IOWA RIVER LAST MONTH IS FROM THE PREHISTORIC AGE. TAKE A LOOK. THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE JAWBONE FROM THE MARSHALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. THE OFFICE SAYS A MORE EXTENSIVE SEARCH UNCOVERED THREE MORE BONES. THE STATE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE DETERMINED THIS JAWBONE BELONGED TO A PREHISTORIC, PREHISTORIC NATIVE AMERICAN OF MIDDLE TO OLDER AGE. BUT MORE RESEARCH WILL NEED TO BE DONE. THE OTHE
A jawbone found in the Iowa River belonged to a prehistoric human
Updated: 5:45 AM PDT Sep 22, 2022
A jawbone that was found in the Iowa River last month has been identified as a Native American relic from the prehistoric ages.Conservation staff found the jawbone while doing a survey in August. The discovery launched a Marshall County Sheriff's Office investigation. The jawbone was intact, but the condition was deteriorated, indicating the jawbone was several thousand years old. The Office of the State Archaeologist determined the bone belonged to a prehistoric Native American of middle to older age. More research will be done to determine what tribe had a camp on the north side of the river.According to the Marshall County sheriff, the bone was in "remarkable" condition given its time period. There was no indication of trauma on the mandible.After it was found, a more extensive search uncovered three more bones nearby. The state medical examiner's office determined they did not belong to a human. Video below: Pennsylvania boy finds prehistoric artifact
MARSHALL COUNTY, Iowa — A jawbone that was found in the Iowa River last month has been identified as a Native American relic from the prehistoric ages.
Conservation staff found the jawbone while doing a survey in August. The discovery launched a Marshall County Sheriff's Office investigation.
The jawbone was intact, but the condition was deteriorated, indicating the jawbone was several thousand years old.
The Office of the State Archaeologist determined the bone belonged to a prehistoric Native American of middle to older age. More research will be done to determine what tribe had a camp on the north side of the river.
According to the Marshall County sheriff, the bone was in "remarkable" condition given its time period. There was no indication of trauma on the mandible.
After it was found, a more extensive search uncovered three more bones nearby. The state medical examiner's office determined they did not belong to a human.
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Kim Kardashian condemns hate speech in midst of Kanye West controversy
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Days after a fellow celebrity called her out for remaining publicly silent in the face of antisemitic comments made by her former husband Kanye West, Kim Kardashian has released a statement condemning hate speech.
Kardashian posted her statement on the Instatstories portion of her Instagram account on Monday.
“Hate speech is never OK or excusable,” her statement read. “I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
The posting came days after singer Boy George posted a video on his Instagram account questioning why Kardashian had not publicly addressed her ex’s behavior.
“I’m appalled that Kim Kardashian hasn’t come out and added her voice to this debate because this woman has children with Kanye, so she must understand as a mother what it feels like for little Jewish children to hear these f***ing comments, how demoralizing and terrifying it must be,” he said.
West, who legally changes his name to Ye, has been under fire in recent weeks for social media posts criticized as antisemitic and for wearing and producing “White Lives Matter” wear at his recent fashion show.
The Anti-Defamation League categorizes that phrase as a “hate slogan” used by White supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.
There was also major backlash to a now-deleted tweet, in which West said he was “going death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE,” according to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine records pulled by CNN.
His tweet has since been removed, and Twitter locked his account. In an interview conducted after the controversial tweet, West told Piers Morgan that he was sorry for the people that he hurt, though he also said that he didn’t regret making the remark.
A spokesperson for the talent agency CAA confirmed to CNN on Monday that West is no longer a client.
CNN’s Jamiel Lynch and David Williams contributed to this story.
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Mayor Michelle Wu told reporters Wednesday that she is feeling better after an unmarked Boston police car she was riding in on Tuesday collided with another vehicle in Hyde Park.
“I’m doing okay, I’m doing just fine,” Wu said. “I’m feeling it a little bit, a little stiffness, but everyone is safe and I’m just so thankful. It happened pretty fast.”
Video from the scene Tuesday, obtained by Boston25, shows an unmarked police cruiser with flashing blue lights drive into the intersection of Blakemore Street and Hyde Park Avenue at around 9:50 a.m. Another vehicle, traveling in the opposite direction, slams into its side. A spokesperson for Wu’s office later confirmed she was a passenger in the police cruiser, and that “no one sustained any major injuries.”
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“[I] really heard the sound before anything else ... first responders were on the scene immediately,” Wu said.
Wu addressed reporters Wednesday as she arrived at a luncheon for seniors in Charlestown, organized by the city’s Age Strong Commission.
The mayor said she was sitting in the front passenger seat of the car, reviewing documents on her phone. She was traveling from Roslindale to a “meeting and engagement” at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.
When asked why the emergency lights were activated, Wu said that she “was on my phone and not really seeing what was happening as the lights were turned on in that intersection.”
“It was not an emergency yesterday where we were headed,” she added. “I know my team and the officers who are on our detail team are of the utmost professionalism and training.”
The exact circumstances of the crash are under review, Wu said.
“The first step is an internal review of every single incident that happens with a departmental vehicle,” she said. “And then if there are things that need to come out of that ... we’re working to make sure that policies are clear and transparent.”
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COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Who would have thought six weeks ago Justin Herbert’s ribs would be the least of the Los Angeles Chargers’ concerns?
The star quarterback continues to progress from his early season injury, but he has seen his favorite targets and other key players end up sidelined.
The Chargers’ lousy luck with injuries seems to be a theme every year, but the first seven weeks of this season have been especially tough.
Despite that, the Chargers are 4-3. But as the players get a well-deserved couple of days rest on their bye week, coach Brandon Staley and his staff need to figure out how to contend with a short-handed roster, especially on offense.
The one constant Staley has been able to count on is Herbert’s ability to weather everything around him.
“I know that it’s probably one of the first times where there has been a lot that’s happened around him, including within himself in dealing with an injury for the first time,” Staley said. "He’s experiencing a lot of tough stuff that happens in the NFL, and he’s who he always is. He’s poised and steady.”
Entering Week 8, Herbert is tied for the league lead in completions (203), third with 2,009 passing yards, and fifth with 12 touchdown passes despite playing most of the season with fractured rib cartilage. The injury occurred when he took a brutal hit during the fourth quarter against Kansas City on Sept. 15, but he missed only one play.
After struggling in a Week 3 loss to Jacksonville, Herbert passed for 340 yards and two touchdowns the following week at Houston. Last Sunday’s game against Seattle marked the first time he wasn’t on the injury report in four weeks.
“It’s just continuing to progress, get better, do everything I can to rehab, to get treatment and take care of my body,” Herbert said. “As long as you stay ahead and get after it, I think you can limit those.”
Making the Chargers’ run of injuries worse this season is that nearly all of the significant ones have happened on their home field at Hollywood Park.
Wide receiver Keenan Allen strained a hamstring during the Sept. 11 opener against Las Vegas that would sideline him for five games. Two weeks later against Jacksonville, All-Pro offensive left tackle Rashawn Slater (biceps) and wide receiver Jalen Guyton (knee) suffered season-ending injuries. Linebacker Joey Bosa had a groin injury that will keep him out until at least December.
In the Oct. 17 Monday night overtime win against Denver, Dustin Hopkins kicked four field goals, including the game-winner, but strained his hamstring after the first kick.
This past Sunday, cornerback JC Jackson was lost for the season after rupturing the patellar tendon in his right knee. In the fourth quarter, Mike Williams suffered a high right ankle sprain that will keep him out for at least four weeks.
Of the five receivers that made the opening week roster, DeAndre Carter is the only one that hasn’t been sidelined.
“That group has been banged up. It hasn’t played together very much, that’s for sure,” Staley said. “We have to make improvements, for sure, on our whole offensive football team. I want to see that group together playing because that hasn’t been able to happen yet so far this season.”
Herbert has gone three straight games without going over 300 yards for the first time in his three-year career. He is 1 of 13 on passes of 20 yards or more in the past three games.
With the injuries at receiver, Austin Ekeler has become the first running back in 18 years to have at least 10 catches in consecutive games. His 53 receptions are third in the league entering Week 8. Tight end Gerald Everett has also stepped up with at least five receptions in three of the past four games.
It also hasn’t helped that the running game has been inconsistent. The Chargers are averaging 88.9 yards per game on the ground, the seventh-worst mark in the league, and have the league’s fourth-biggest disparity between running and passing rates. They’ve gone to the ground only 34.4% of the time compared to passing it 65.5%.
Entering Week 8, Ekeler is tied for the league lead with eight touchdowns and is third among running backs with 737 scrimmage yards. More than half of those yards have been receiving. Of his 380 yards rushing, a career-high 173 came in the win Oct. 9 over Cleveland.
Even though the offensive line has struggled with run blocking, it has kept Herbert clean. Herbert has been sacked only 10 times. The line has two rookies, with sixth-round pick Jamaree Salyer taking over for Slater at left tackle and first-round selection Zion Johnson at right guard. All-Pro center Corey Linsley has also missed two games.
Staley’s goal during the bye week is to get more consistency out of the running game while increasing the number of explosive plays. Getting back Allen and Joshua Palmer should help the passing game expand.
Four of Los Angeles' next five games are on the road as it tries to get to the playoffs for the first time since 2018. The Chargers' only home game during that stretch is Nov. 20 against Kansas City.
“I think that over the next two weeks, it’s just us coming together," Staley said, "and making sure that in the second half of the season, we go into that week and try to maximize this group.”
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Bank turmoil led Fed officials to forecast fewer rate hikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Turmoil in the banking system after two major banks collapsed led many Federal Reserve officials to envision fewer rate increases this year out of concern that banks will reduce their lending and weaken the economy.
The heightened uncertainty surrounding the banking sector also helped Fed officials coalesce around their decision to raise their benchmark rate by just a quarter-point, rather than a half-point, despite signs that inflation was still too hot, according to minutes of the Fed’s March 22-23 meeting.
The Fed also revealed Wednesday that its staff economists have forecast that a pullback in lending resulting from the banking turmoil will cause a “mild recession” starting later this year. The minutes noted that this forecast depends on how severe the consequences of the industry’s troubles prove to be and to what extent it will cause a cutback in lending.
Overall, the minutes showed that the banking troubles injected significant uncertainty into the Fed’s decision and reversed an emerging trend to keep raising rates aggressively to quell inflation. At their meeting last month, Fed officials projected that they will raise their key short-term rate — which affects many consumer and business loans — just once more this year, at their May meeting.
Before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, many officials said they had expected to forecast more than just one additional hike this year because economic and inflation data showed that the Fed still had more to do to control the pace of price increases. Instead, Fed officials agreed that the collapse of the two large banks “would likely lead to some weakening of credit conditions,” as banks sought to preserve capital by curtailing lending to consumers and businesses.
Several officials said they had considered supporting leaving rates unchanged at last month’s meeting. But they added that actions by the Fed, the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had “helped calm conditions” in banking and reduced the risks to the economy in the short run.
Some other officials said they had favored a half-point hike last month because hiring, consumer spending, and inflation data still pointed to a hot economy. But given the uncertainty resulting from the banking troubles, they “judged it prudent” to implement a smaller quarter-point increase.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Poised for expansion after doubling canopy and manufacturing space in Illinois, multi-state cannabis operator Revolution today announced that it has a new Chief Executive Officer, Craig Johnson. Craig will be based in the Chicago headquarters.
Revolution has long been a favored brand in Illinois for its award-winning products, extensive genetics program and best in class cultivation. Revolution won six Cannabis Cup Illinois awards this week, bringing their total to 20, more than any other cultivator, large or small. Building on this momentum, Revolution has made investments to expand its operations in Illinois, as well as Arkansas, Missouri, Maryland, and Florida. This multi-state footprint coupled with the leadership of a seasoned business executive positions the company for further growth in 2023.
"Revolution is at an inflection point, poised for rapid growth with several strategic initiatives underway," said Board Chair Tony Hunter. "In our search for a CEO, we sought out a transformational, accomplished leader with experience leading a business to scale and deep operational aptitude. We are excited to announce we have found that leader in Craig Johnson. Craig has an impressive track record leading organizations in retail and direct-to-consumer industries, and his experience and knowledge of consumer-facing businesses will provide the leadership needed to execute on our profit-driven growth plans."
Most recently, Craig was the Chief Executive Officer at BigName Commerce running three successful ecommerce businesses specializing in customized paper products for businesses. Previously, Craig was the Chief Executive Officer of Harry & David, a leading retail and direct-to-consumer gift business. He successfully led Harry & David from bankruptcy to profitability.
Craig also served in CEO and other senior executive roles with Musician's Friend and its parent company, Guitar Center. During his tenure, the company's direct revenues grew from $60M to over $600M. His knowledge and focus on consumer marketing and sales, coupled with a focus on operational excellence will pay dividends at Revolution.
"Revolution is well positioned to capitalize on the doubling of capacity in Illinois, and the opportunities in Arkansas and Missouri to drive profitable growth," said Mr. Johnson. "I'm excited to bring my experience in retail and direct to consumer to this nascent industry. Paired with Revolution's existing team, assets and brand loyalty, we will create tremendous top-line revenue opportunities."
Based in Illinois, Revolution is a 20-time Cannabis Cup award winning, multi-state cannabis operator that is on a mission to advance wellness, improve lives, and open minds. Focusing on health and wellness solutions, Revolution uses a best-in-class cultivation process, informed by extensive genetic research, to produce superior cannabis. In addition to Illinois, Revolution also operates in Arkansas, Florida, Maryland, and Missouri. For more, visit www.revcanna.com
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Woman found dead after grizzly bear encounter near Yellowstone National Park
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana (AP) — A woman was found dead in Montana on Saturday after coming into contact with a grizzly bear on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said in a statement on Sunday that the woman was found deceased on a trail near West Yellowstone, a Montana town nestled in the Custer Gallatin National Forest just west of Yellowstone National Park.
They said the woman was found deceased “following an apparent bear encounter” based on what investigators determined were grizzly bear tracks at the scene. The department said the investigation into the grizzly attack was ongoing.
Rangers issued an emergency closure of the area where the woman was found, which is popular with hikers.
Though the department’s statement said the death appeared to have followed the woman’s interaction with the bear, it did not confirm her cause of death.
The attack comes amid a rise in Montana’s grizzly bear population and an increase in sightings.
The department put out a news release last week warning visitors that staff had confirmed grizzly bear sightings throughout the state, “particularly in areas between the Northern Continental Divide and the Great Yellowstone ecosystems.”
They implored those camping and visiting parks to carry bear spray, store their food while outside and tend to their garbage.
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Saturday, Feb. 18
Baseball
Valparaiso vs. Kansas at Corpus Christi, Texas, 1 p.m.
Men’s Basketball
Purdue Northwest at Northern Michigan, 3 p.m.
St. Francis (Ill.) at IU Northwest, 3 p.m.
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Purdue Northwest at Northern Michigan, noon
Calumet at Bethel, 1 p.m.
St. Francis (Ill.) at IU Northwest, 1 p.m.
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Purdue Northwest vs. Indianapolis at Music City Invitational at Smyrna, Tenn (Cedar Stone Park), 11 a.m.
Calumet at Indiana Tech, 12:30 p.m. (DH)
Purdue Northwest vs. Findlay at Music City Invitational at Smyrna, Tenn (Cedar Stone Park), 1 p.m.
Women’s Swimming
Valparaiso at MVC Championships at Northern Iowa, Day 4, 10:30 a.m.
Men’s Tennis
Hillsdale at Purdue Northwest (Park Forest Tennis Club), 12:30 p.m.
Women’s Tennis
Hillsdale at Purdue Northwest (Park Forest Tennis Club), 12:30 p.m.
Men’s & Women’s Indoor Track
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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Environmentalists allege that the closure of public beaches for SpaceX test launches violates the Texas Constitution.
A lawsuit filed by SaveRGV, the Sierra Club and the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe was heard in the 445th District Court on Wednesday in Brownsville, the same week that the Federal Aviation Administration told SpaceX it must reduce the number of hours that Boca Chica Beach, a public beach located on the border with Mexico, is closed for launch tests.
The lawsuit heard Wednesday challenges the constitutionality of an amendment to the Texas Open Beaches Act that allows beach closures for space flight activities. The case is brought against the Texas General Land Office, Land Commissioner George P. Bush and Cameron County, where Boca Chica Beach is located.
The groups argue that the repeated closure of Boca Chica Beach in order to allow SpaceX to test rockets is a violation of the 1959 Texas Open Beaches Act that guarantees “the public’s right to free and unrestricted access to public beaches along the Gulf Coast,” according to the lawsuit that was filed in October 2021.
The groups allege that it was illegal for the Texas Legislature in 2013 to pass a law allowing for exceptions to that act for space flight activities.
“Here we’re talking about open beach access,” plaintiff attorney Marisa Perales, of San Antonio, told State District Judge Gloria Rincones. “These members of the Sierra Club and SaveRGV have recreational interests. They have all visited and relied upon their ability to visit the beach throughout decades, years, some for their entire lives as they are from this area. So they are impacted by the frequent beach closures.”
SpaceX has applied to test launch the Starship, the world’s largest spacecraft, from this remote launch facility the company built just a quarter-mile from Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.
If they meet all environmental, safety and financial requirements, they could get a launch license from FAA.
“SpaceX is closer to launching giant rocketship from Texas,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted late Tuesday.
But environmentalists have repeatedly complained about the damages to the Rio Grande Valley ecosystem associated with rocket explosions and launches so close to the beach.
It is an area where sea turtles nest and rare endangered ocelots are said to live.
The beach itself is accessible only through Highway 4, a two-lane road from Brownsville, that often is closed for SpaceX launches.
Perales said the beach is especially sacred to the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe.
“The Boca Chica area is a sacred area for them and their inability to access the beach during a critical time in order to practice their sacred exercises has impacted them,” Perales said.
But defendants argued that a section of the Open Beaches Act “does not create a private right of enforcement” for private parties to sue the state. “It isn’t a viable constitutional challenge,” Caroline Meriden with Attorney General’s Office told Judge Rincones.
And the 2013 amendment allows county officials to close public beaches in the interest of public safety, they said.
At the end of the hour-long hearing, Rincones said she would rule on or before June 30 on whether the court has jurisdiction to even hear the case. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/lawsuit-argues-texas-cant-close-public-beach-for-spacex-launches/ | 2022-06-15 22:42:07 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/texas/lawsuit-argues-texas-cant-close-public-beach-for-spacex-launches/ |
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Dog found hanging in carrier on animal organization’s front door
OKLAHOMA CITY (Gray News) - An animal organization in Oklahoma said its staff found a dog left at its front door over Independence Day weekend.
According to the Oklahoma Humane Society, a Chihuahua was found in its carrier hanging from their front door last Saturday.
“Thankfully, the pup is just fine, but we wanted to address situations like this and ask for your help,” a spokesperson for the nonprofit wrote.
The organization said it wanted to take this time to point out the current situation when it comes to the available space at the facility.
“We don’t have sheltering facilities for animals to be housed. Even the dogs at our adoption center are dropped off and picked up by their fosters until they are adopted,” the spokesperson said.
And this comes at a time that other animal facilities are closing their doors due to the canine flu.
“We know this is frustrating, especially to well-intentioned people wanting to drop off stray animals,” the nonprofit shared. “OK Humane is currently doing everything we possibly can to step in and fill the gaps.”
The Fourth of July often keeps animal service teams extremely busy, and the animal care team in Oklahoma shared tips for keeping pets safe over the holiday.
“A collective community effort to help our community’s animals can make a difference,” the team shared.
Representatives of the Oklahoma Humane Society also urged those in the community to become foster parents to an animal in need of a home.
“Being a foster costs you nothing but your time. If you can open your home to a pet in need, you can help us save more lives,” the nonprofit shared.
The organization thanked those who have already helped adopt an animal in need, with 66 pets finding a new home the previous week.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Airstrikes targeting Palestinian militants in a crowded residential area. Armored bulldozers plowing through narrow streets, crushing cars and piling up debris. Protesters burning tires. A mounting death toll.
Israel’s large-scale military raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Monday had undeniable similarities with the second Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s — a period that claimed thousands of lives.
But the current fighting is also different from those intense years of violence. It’s more limited in scope, with Israeli military operations focused on several strongholds of Palestinian militants.
It’s also a symptom of a conflict with no foreseeable end. The Palestinian leadership is weakened, and the Israeli government has been accelerating the expansion of settlements that have eroded any chance of Palestinian statehood.
WHAT IS AN INTIFADA?
The word that means “shaking off” in Arabic was coined to describe an uprising against Israel’s military occupation that erupted in 1987. It ended in 1993 with an agreement of mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
What became known as the first intifada was marked by widespread Palestinian protests and a fierce Israeli response. In the second uprising, which began in 2000, Palestinian militants carried out deadly suicide bombings on buses and at restaurants and hotels, eliciting crushing Israeli military reprisals.
The second uprising pitted Palestinian militant groups against a far more powerful Israeli military. Over 4,000 people died, including vast numbers of civilians. Roughly three times as many Palestinians as Israelis were killed.
Israeli crackdowns upended Palestinian lives, including placing tight restrictions on movement that choked the fledgling economy. For Israelis, especially during the frequent bombings of the second intifada, stepping onto a bus or going out to a restaurant was terrifying.
Those events were initially fueled by widespread participation. Many Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in 1967 and claimed by the Palestinians for their state — joined in the protests.
The protests were also driven by the Palestinian leaders, including President Yasser Arafat, whom Israel accused of encouraging and abetting militants. The intifada petered out after Arafat died in 2004 and the current Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, took power.
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?
In the spring of 2022, a spate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis prompted Israel to launch near-nightly raids into Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
Israel said the raids were meant to stamp out militant networks. But Palestinian attacks have continued, and the death toll on both sides has risen, making last year one of the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank since the second intifada.
The violence has only intensified since Israel’s current far-right government, which is made up of hard-line ultranationalist settlement supporters, took power late last year.
The Palestinian death toll this year in the West Bank and east Jerusalem stands at more than 135, according to a tally by The Associated Press, nearly matching the death toll for all of 2022. Hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested. Some 24 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
The region has not seen such a sustained cycle of violence since the second uprising, which lasted about five years. More recent periods of bloodshed have not lasted this long or involved such a strong show of force by the military.
The tactics seen Monday, with airstrikes, armored bulldozers and a brigade of troops, were a mainstay of the second uprising.
But analysts say that’s where the similarities end.
For one, a monthlong Israeli operation in 2002 that was seen as the peak of the fighting during the second intifada involved an intense clampdown on most cities in the West Bank. Israel’s raids over the last year have been smaller in scale. Israel’s targets are also more limited to local armed groups and militant cells.
Other differences, analysts say, include the weakened Palestinian leadership and the lack of popular participation. While protests have erupted in response to the raids, they have not engulfed the entire West Bank.
“Intifada is a people’s uprising. It’s a society that fights,” said Amir Avivi, president and founder of Israel Defense and Security Forum, a hawkish group of former military commanders. Avivi, who served as a battalion commander in the northern West Bank during the 2002 operation, claimed that the current fighting is dominated by militant groups that are funded by Israel’s archenemy, Iran.
Ziyad Abu Zayad, a Palestinian analyst and former Cabinet minister, said the fighting is best described as “waves” of Palestinian anger, not an uprising.
“The problem is not security, but rather political. And as long as there is no political solution, these waves will continue,” he said. “People, mainly young people, want to live in freedom and dignity. They see no future for themselves, and they only see oppression from the occupation.”
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
There is no end in sight to the fighting. The military raids have tended to fuel more attacks that prompt even more raids.
As attacks against Israelis have mounted, including one that killed four settlers last month, government members have called for a harsher response. They have also intensively advanced settlement building, further dimming hopes for a negotiated solution to the conflict.
The last 16 months, including Monday’s large-scale raid, showed Israel lacks a long-term vision for how to deal with the Palestinians, said Michael Milshtein, a former military official and head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University.
“We need to start thinking strategically about the Palestinian issue,” he said. “We can’t just keep plastering over it.”
Abu Zayad, the Palestinian analyst, said Israel’s government is instead pushing the Palestinians “toward more extremism and violence.”
“If there is opposition to the idea of a Palestinian state, these waves are likely to remain for long periods to come.”
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Associated Press writers Julia Frankel and Josef Federman contributed to this report from Jerusalem. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-a-year-of-fighting-between-israel-and-the-palestinians-just-escalated-is-this-an-uprising/ | 2023-07-04 16:47:06 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/international/ap-a-year-of-fighting-between-israel-and-the-palestinians-just-escalated-is-this-an-uprising/ |
I’ve been told, with every breath I (or anyone) takes there are a few of the same molecules of oxygen breathed by Jesus. The same could be said of every Aunt Edith, tree, patch of prairie or sea grass, every lion, or elephant, whale or dinosaur that roamed the planet. Their shared breaths circulate within us.
Ideally we would pattern our own creations along the same lines. Iron, steel, aluminum, concrete and glass follow similar patterns of re-manufacture or dissolution. Reinforced concrete is a wonderful example. If left unattended for a thousand years the structures of buildings and bridges would collapse because the iron in them turns to rusty dust as concrete rubble slowly weathers away.
But humans have created compounds which are unnatural. Plastic is one. I love the way my cordless drill feels in my hand – due to its light-weight and sturdy plastic molded case. On the other hand I hate having to peel the nickel sized stickers from organic apples or bananas, (EVERY SINGLE ONE of them!) or finding missed ones PERFECT in 3-year-old kitchen compost. Only 5% of are recycled. Plastics break apart, more than break down. Bits and pieces clog our oceans, are now found in the meat we eat whether fish, fowl, or mammal, are in each raindrop and in blood samples of newborn babies. What they do inside us, no one knows yet. Such devised conveniences ultimately collect a tax of ugly, sorrow and misery. And it ain’t natural.
— Richard Roth, Chico | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/12/23/letter-devised-conveniences-that-lead-to-misery/ | 2022-12-23 12:50:20 | 1 | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/12/23/letter-devised-conveniences-that-lead-to-misery/ |
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main challenger in Turkey’s presidential race shifted gear and adopted a more nationalist and hard-line stance on Thursday, vowing to send back millions of refugees if he is elected and rejecting any possibility of negotiating for peace with Kurdish militants.
Voters in Turkey will head back to the polls on May 28 for a runoff election after neither Erdogan nor his rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, won more than 50% of the votes in Sunday’s first round.
The election will decide whether the country remains under the increasingly authoritarian president for a third decade, or can embark on a more democratic course that the opposition has promised to deliver.
Erdogan had faced electoral headwinds because of the cost-of-living crisis and criticism over the government’s response to a devastating earthquake in February. But with his alliance retaining its hold on the parliament, Erdogan is now in a good position to win in the second round.
Kilicdaroglu, the soft-mannered joint candidate of a six-party opposition alliance, had led a highly positive and uniting campaign, mostly on promises to reverse crackdowns on free speech and other forms of democratic backsliding. He had also campaigned on a pledge to repair an economy battered by high inflation and currency devaluation.
Many of the rallies of his pro-secular main opposition party, Republican People’s Party, or CHP, had ended with Kilicdaroglu making a heart shape with his hands.
This week, however, the 74-year-old politician hardened his rhetoric in an apparent effort to appeal to nationalist voters, including those who voted for a third candidate, nationalist politician Sinan Ogan.
Ogan, who received 5.2% of the votes and is backed by an anti-migrant party, has said he would consider sending migrants back by force if necessary.
“Erdogan! You did not protect the borders or the honor of the country. You brought in more than 10 million refugees,” Kilicdaroglu said in an address at his party’s headquarters. “You have turned your own citizens into refugees. I declare that as soon as I come to power, I will send all refugees back home. Period.”
Amid rising anti-migrant sentiment in the country, Kilicdaroglu had previously said he intended to repatriate refugees within two years by creating favorable conditions for their return. Turkey is ranked as the country hosting the largest number of refugees, including at least 3.7 million Syrians.
The CHP leader also hit back at Erdogan, who had portrayed Kilicdaroglu as colluding with “terrorists” after he received the backing of the country’s pro-Kurdish party. With Erdogan controlling mainstream media in the country, analysts say that narrative seems to have resonated with nationalist voters who shied away from backing Kilicdaroglu, fearing he wouldn’t be tough enough against terrorism.
“Unfortunately, an election process that should have been a democracy festival … was overshadowed by Erdogan’s campaigns of lies and slander,” Kilicdaroglu said.
“Weren’t you the one who was sitting at the table with terrorist organizations, making secret bargains with terrorist organizations behind closed doors? I declare to all of my citizens that I have never sat down with terrorist organizations, and I will never do. Period,” he said.
He was referring to peace efforts between Erdogan’s government and the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which collapsed in 2015. The PKK, which has waged an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984, is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
Preliminary results showed that Erdogan won 49.5% of the vote on Sunday, while Kilicdaroglu grabbed 44.9%. Ogan hasn’t yet endorsed Erdogan or Kilicdaroglu for the runoff, though it wasn’t clear what proportion of his supporters would vote for his preferred candidate in the second round. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-turkish-candidate-kilicdaroglu-hardens-stance-before-runoff-against-erdogan/ | 2023-05-18 23:43:24 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-turkish-candidate-kilicdaroglu-hardens-stance-before-runoff-against-erdogan/ |
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NAPA, Calif. (AP) — With the wind whipping around the golf course in the afternoon and the greens hard and dry, Justin Lower knew there wouldn’t be many opportunities for birdies.
He made the most of his chance on the final hole Saturday as he tries to win his first PGA Tour title.
Lower weathered the wind and shot a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the season-opening Fortinet Championship.
“I just tried to really keep it as simple as I could, keep it in play, keep it in the fairway because I really think you can score from the fairway,” Lower said. “It’s very tough to score from the rough, especially with the pins tucked the way they are.”
Lower made five birdies on the round at Silverado Resort & Spa to give him his first career 54-hole lead in his 29th start on the PGA Tour.
“I’m sure I’ll be nervous, for sure, but just part of it,” he said. “I mean, it’s why we play. Playing on the PGA Tour with a chance to win, it’s pretty cool.”
Defending champion Max Homa and Danny Willett were a shot back after even-par 72s. Byeong Hun An had a 71 to get to 11 under.
While several players who went out early in the day posted low scores in good playing conditions, the course got much harder late in the day when the wind picked up to wreak havoc on the players.
Willett took several minutes on the eighth green clearing off blowing leaves just before making a birdie putt that put him briefly in the lead at 13 under.
Workers with leaf blowers came out on the next hole to keep the green clean but Willett made a double-bogey 7 after his approach shot flew past the green.
“It was tough when we started the day, it was really windy,” Willett said. “It’s hard trying to hold some of them front flags when it’s pumping downwind when the area’s really small, but yes, some scrappy golf.”
There were few birdie chances available with players happy with pars late in the day. That led to a very condensed leaderboard with eight players within three shots of the lead headed into Sunday.
An moved into a one-shot lead when he hit a solid tee shot on the par-3 15th came and then made a birdie from about 6 feet to get to 13 under. But he gave it back and more with a double bogey in the par-5 16th when his second shot got caught near the root of a tree.
“It was tough out there today, it was a little breezy, greens getting firmer and firmer,” An said. “I feel I played decent all the way through. Got a bit unlucky.”
That opened the door for Lower, who put his second shot on the par-5 18th just off the green and then made the short birdie putt.
It’s been quite a few weeks for Lower, who appeared to lose his tour card after three-putting the final home of the Wyndham Championship for a bogey when he only needed a par to remain in he top 125. But after more defections to the LIV Tour, Lower moved back into the top 125 and is taking advantage of it in the first tournament of the new season.
Conditions aren’t expected to be much better in the final round, which has already been altered by an ominous forecast with rain and wind. The leaders will tee off several hours earlier than scheduled with the final round featuring threesomes off split tees.
Davis Thompson and Harrison Endycott shot the low rounds of the day with 65s that left Harrison in a four-way tie for fifth place with Paul Haley II, Matt Kuchar and Adam Svensson. Endycott was a stroke behind in a four-way tie for ninth.
Endycott the first player out on the course and played as a single in his first career tournament make the cut with a birdie on the the final hole of the second round. He overcame a broken driver early in that round and was happy to have all of his clubs available Saturday.
“Definitely helps when you’ve got a driver in the bag after yesterday’s shenanigans with the cracked driver face,” he said. “This golf course is tough hitting 3-wood everywhere. So it was nice to get freed up, played some good golf today.”
Haley, who had gone 3,315 days between appearances on the tour from the 2013 Wyndham Championship and the start of this tournament, was tied with Thompson in the group at 10 under after a 66.
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Former president Donald Trump has added an attorney from New York City’s oldest law firm to the legal team that will defend him in a criminal prosecution in Manhattan, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Blanche, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, did not respond to request for comment Monday.
He could appear with Trump as early as Tuesday, when the former president will be arraigned on charges levied by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The indictment is still sealed, so the specific charges are not known. But Bragg’s office has been presenting evidence to a grand jury about money paid to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during Trump’s 2016 campaign, to keep her from talking about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump years earlier. Trump denies the allegation.
People familiar with Bragg’s probe have said investigators were exploring the possibility of charging Trump with falsifying business records related to the payment to Daniels. While the charge is a misdemeanor, it could be elevated to a felony in New York if the records are falsified in furtherance of another crime.
Among Blanche’s previous clients is Igor Fruman, a key player in Trump’s first impeachment. Fruman and fellow Ukrainian American Lev Parnas worked with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, then a candidate for office. Fruman and Parnas were arrested in October 2019, as they prepared to fly to Vienna on Giuliani’s behalf.
Parnas then turned on Trump, giving evidence to Congress and doing a series of public interviews about his and Fruman’s work with Giuliani. Fruman remained silent, however, and with Blanche’s help, ultimately pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations unrelated to his work for Trump.
Blanche also led the Cadwalader legal team that represented Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chair, in a financial fraud case brought by District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., Bragg’s predecessor. The case was ultimately dismissed on the grounds of New York state’s double-jeopardy law, which aims to prevent the re-prosecution of a defendant on similar charges already faced in federal court.
Blanche also represents Boris Epshteyn, a lawyer and senior adviser to Trump.
Trump, the first person in U.S. history to serve as president and then be charged with a crime, has struggled to assemble a team of seasoned lawyers with strong track records amid a raft of ongoing criminal investigations. The former president is expected to surrender Tuesday and appear for an arraignment.
Trump has a coterie of sometimes warring lawyers, informally helmed by Epshteyn, whose phone was taken by prosecutors last year as part of an investigation into fraudulent electors in the 2020 election. Another one of Trump’s lawyers, Evan Corcoran, was recently forced by a federal judge in D.C. to testify in front of a grand jury in a different criminal investigation — focused on Trump’s response to a subpoena seeking the return of classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s home and private club in Florida, after he left the White House.
Corcoran is believed to have been involved in the search in response to the subpoena, which yielded 38 documents with classified markings but left more than 100 additional classified documents behind.
Chris Kise, a former Florida solicitor general who was given a $3 million retainer fee last year, has largely been relegated to a New York civil case after disagreements with other Trump lawyers.
Trump’s New York team has been led by Susan Necheles, who has long-standing ties to the Trump Organization, and Joe Tacopina, who has conducted rounds of combative television interviews that have rattled some of Trump’s other lawyers.
Since Trump left office, his political group has spent more than $10 million on legal fees in response to myriad probes. The former president is under investigation by the Justice Department in the matter of the classified documents, and by the Justice Department and a district attorney in Georgia over efforts to block or overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/03/todd-blanche-trump-lawyer/ | 2023-04-03 21:10:26 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/03/todd-blanche-trump-lawyer/ |
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ENOCH, Utah – A Utah man who fatally shot his five children, mother-in-law and wife and then killed himself removed guns owned by himself and his wife days before the murder-suicide, leaving the family “vulnerable,” a relative said Friday.
The wife, Tausha Haight, told her extended family that her husband, Mike Haight, took the guns from the family's home this week, just two weeks after she had filed for divorce, sister-in-law Jennie Earl told The Associated Press.
She said she did not know how Tausha Haight felt about the removal but said it “left the family vulnerable,” noting that both Tausha and her mother, Gail Earl, were trained in gun safety and personal protection. Jennie Earl's comments came after the Earl family issued a statement lamenting the tragedy and revealing that guns had been removed.
“Protective arms were purposely removed from the home prior to the incident because all adults were properly trained to protect human life,” the Earl family said in a statement. “This is the type of loss that will continue to occur in families, communities and this nation when protective arms are no longer accessible.”
Enoch city manager Rob Dotson said local law enforcement were not involved, saying in an emailed statement that police “has never had reason and has never had to remove firearms.”
The revelation provides more insight into what happened in the days leading up to a shooting in a southern Utah home that occurred after Tausha Haight had filed for divorce on Dec. 21 from her husband of 19 years.
The victims were found Wednesday when police did a welfare check at the residence, according city officials in Enoch, a small town of about 8,000 people located 245 miles (394 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City.
Without knowing the details about how the shootings unfolded it is not clear whether having those firearms in the home could have helped stop the bloodshed, Jennie Earl said. However, if either Tausha Haight or Gail Earl had a chance to defend their family, they would have been able to use the guns, she said.
“They could have because they had the skills to do it,” she said.
Matt Munson, the attorney representing Michael Haight’s family, did not respond to questions about the firearms in the home but sent a statement from his clients mourning the loss of the family and sending condolences to the Earls.
The family revealed the information about the guns being removed in a statement issued Friday that also lamented the “unthinkable tragedy” and called on the media and public to refrain from using the shooting for any “advocacy of political agendas.”
“We would encourage reporting about the value of all human life, the great works of God that can render a forgiving heart, how religion can heal and enlarge our capacity for love, and a return to foundational principles of peace within our nation,” the Earl family wrote.
Enoch officials have said they are aware of the divorce filing but don't know if that was the motive in the killings.
Enoch Police Chief Jackson Ames also said this week that officers investigated the 42-year-old man and his family a “couple of years prior,” suggesting possible earlier problems inside the household, but he would not elaborate.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins stocked up their sputtering pitching staff ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline by acquiring All-Star closer Jorge López in a deal with the Baltimore Orioles and starter Tyler Mahle in a swap with the Cincinnati Reds, giving up a total of seven prospects.
The 29-year-old López is in the middle of a breakout season for the Orioles, with a sparkling 1.68 ERA and 19 of his 20 career saves. The 27-year-old Mahle is 5-7 with a 4.40 ERA in 19 starts with 114 strikeouts over 104 1/3 innings for the Reds.
The Twins, who took a one-game lead in the AL Central into their game on Tuesday night, have a 5.30 team ERA since the All-Star break.
López joins a Twins team that has been desperate to find reliable late-inning options beyond Jhoan Duran. Griffin Jax has been a find after his conversion from a starting role in 2021, but Emilio Pagan was recently moved into lower-leverage situations and Tyler Duffey has an ERA (4.57) almost two runs higher than his cumulative total of the previous three seasons.
Mahle will help shore up a rotation that has been ravaged by injuries, with Bailey Ober, Josh Winder, Chris Paddack, Kenta Maeda and Randy Dobnak all sidelined. The Twins acquired Mahle’s former teammate, Sonny Gray, in a March trade with the Reds.
Baltimore received minor league pitchers Cade Povich, Yennier Cano, Juan Nuñez and Juan Rojas from Minnesota for López. Only Cano has major league experience, but Povich was a third-round draft pick last year.
Cincinnati got the bigger haul of minor leaguers — infielders Christian Encarnacion-Strand and Spencer Steer, and left-handed pitcher Steve Hajjar.
Including 2021 first-rounder Chase Petty, who went to the Reds for Gray, the Twins have now traded four of their first five picks from last year’s draft. Hajjar, Povich and Encarnacion-Strand went in the second, third and fourth rounds, respectively.
The surprising Orioles are in the mix for an AL wild card, just 2 1/2 games out of the final spot entering play on Tuesday. But they traded slugger Trey Mancini to Houston as part of a three-team deal on Monday before shipping López to the AL Central leaders.
“This team, it was a little different than the last two, and I mean it a lot. These guys really take care of business, and that really taught me a lot,” López said. “I feel emotional, and I hope for success for everyone to just keep going.”
The Twins under President of Baseball Operations Derek Falvey have preferred to avoid short-term rentals, typically prioritizing in trades players they can contractually control for more than a year, and López satisfies that goal.
“Just completely life-changing. I’m just really thankful for the Orioles and what they’ve been doing, and I’m glad it’s coming to a new chapter with the Minnesota Twins,” López said on a conference call with reporters before a scheduled flight to Minnesota. “They’ve got a really good group, and I’m going to do anything I can to keep competing.”
Making $1.5 million this season, López is arbitration-eligible in each of the next two winters and can’t become a free agent until after the World Series in 2024.
With 17 walks, 54 strikeouts and a .174 opponent batting average in 48 1/3 innings, López has produced quite the turnaround after taking a 6.04 career ERA into this season. He previously split his time between starter and reliever, but full-time focus on a late-game role has served him well.
“When you get a new opportunity, you keep learning at your uncomfortable things,” López said. “Just put yourself in the position where you can just stay positive and you can do this, so I’m really thankful for all the hard work we did. Just can’t wait to get to this team and do the same thing.”
López previously pitched for Milwaukee and Kansas City. The native of Puerto Rico was a second-round draft pick by the Brewers in 2011 and made his major league debut in 2015.
Cano, a 28-year-old right-hander from Cuba, made his major league debut in May and was sent back to Triple-A St. Paul on Monday. He had a 9.22 ERA in 10 appearances for the Twins and will report to Triple-A Norfolk.
The 22-year-old Povich is 6-8 with a 4.46 ERA in 16 starts at High-A Cedar Rapids this season. The left-hander is the most touted player going to the Orioles, currently ranked as the No. 22 prospect in the Twins’ organization by MLB.com. He’s going to High-A Aberdeen.
The 18-year-old Rojas and the 21-year-old Nunez have been assigned to the Orioles’ team in the Florida Complex League.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators trudged through rugged terrain Monday in search of wreckage from a business jet to solve the mystery of why the plane veered off course and slammed into a mountain, killing four people.
A day after the plane flew over the nation’s capital, prompting the military to scramble fighter jets, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a brief update that the pilot and three passengers were killed and that the plane was “destroyed” in the crash. Their identities weren’t immediately released.
NTSB investigator Adam Gerhardt told reporters it will take investigators a while to reach the remote crash scene about two to three miles north of Montebello. They expect to be on the scene for at least three to four days. NTSB spokesperson Jennifer Gabris said that the investigators had to hike to the site on foot because of the mountainous terrain.
Attention on the crash and its cause was heightened by its unusual flight path over Washington, D.C. and a sonic boom caused by military aircraft heard across the capital, and parts of Maryland and Virginia. The North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement that military aircraft was authorized to travel at supersonic speeds, which caused the sonic boom. The aircraft also used flares to try to get the pilot’s attention.
Speaking at a briefing Monday morning, Gerhardt said the wreckage is “highly fragmented” and investigators will examine the most delicate evidence on the scene, after which the wreckage will be moved, perhaps by helicopter, to Delaware, where it can be further examined, he said. The plane is not required to have a flight recorder but it is possible that there are other avionics equipment that will have data that they can examine, Gerhardt said.
Investigators will look at when the pilot became unresponsive and why aircraft flew the path that it did, he said. They will consider several factors that are routinely examined in such probes including the plane, its engines, weather conditions, pilot qualifications and maintenance records, he said.
“Everything is on the table until we slowly and methodically remove different components and elements that will be relevant for this safety investigation,” Gerhardt said.
A preliminary report will be released in 10 days and a final report will be released in one to two years, he said.
Meanwhile, the White House expressed its “deepest condolences” on Monday to the family of those on board the plane.
“We need to keep them front and center,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
Kirby deferred questions about a follow-up report on the security response over Washington airspace to the Pentagon and U.S. Secret Service. But he said, “What I saw was just a classic, textbook response.”
The White House was continuously informed as Air Force jets tried to contact the pilot of the civilian plane and monitored the small aircraft’s path from Washington airspace to rural Virginia, Kirby said.
Police said Sunday night that rescuers had reached the crash site in a rural part of the Shenandoah Valley and that no survivors were found. Virginia State Police said officers were notified of the potential crash shortly before 4 p.m. and rescuers reached the crash site by foot around four hours later.
The FAA said the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport. Inexplicably, the plane turned around over New York’s Long Island and flew a straight path down over D.C. before it crashed around 3:30 p.m.
The plane flew directly over the nation’s capital, though it was technically flying above one of the most heavily restricted airspaces in the nation.
According to the Pentagon, six F-16 fighter jets were immediately deployed to intercept the plane. Two aircraft from the 113th Fighter Wing, out of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, were the first to reach the Cessna to begin attempts to contact the pilot. Two F-16 aircraft out of New Jersey and two from South Carolina also responded.
Flight tracking sites showed the plane suffered a rapid spiraling descent, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) per minute before crashing in the St. Mary’s Wilderness.
In Fairfax, Virginia, Travis Thornton was settled on a couch next to his wife, Hannah, and had just begun recording himself playing guitar and harmonica when they were startled by a loud rumble and rattling that can be heard on the video. The couple jumped up to investigate. Thornton tweeted that they checked in with their kids upstairs and then he went outside to check the house and talk to neighbors.
The plane that crashed was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc, which is based in Florida. John Rumpel, a pilot who runs the company, told The New York Times that his daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane. They were returning to their home in East Hampton, on Long Island, after visiting his house in North Carolina, he said.
Rumpel told the newspaper he didn’t have much information from authorities but suggested the plane could have lost pressurization.
“It descended at 20,000 feet a minute, and nobody could survive a crash from that speed,” Rumpel told the newspaper.
The episode brought back memories of the 1999 crash of a Learjet that lost cabin pressure and flew aimlessly across the country with professional golfer Payne Stewart aboard. The jet crashed in a South Dakota pasture and six people died.
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Acquisitions support AIP's vertical integration strategy and add important transfer, disposal and treatment infrastructure further enhancing Waste Eliminator's recycling capabilities
HOUSTON and ATLANTA, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Eliminator, LLC ("Waste Eliminator" or the "Company"), a leading regional provider of solid waste hauling, disposal and recycling services backed by industrial-focused private equity firm Allied Industrial Partners ("AIP"), today announced that it has acquired Gainesville Waste & Recycling ("GWAR") and Dawsonville Waste & Recycling ("DWAR"), both based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
Founded in 2007 by Kacy Cronan, GWAR is one of the premier recycling and composting operations in the Atlanta-metro area. GWAR, which partners with large corporate and industrial customers to assist in achieving their sustainability goals, is one of only five permitted biosolids composting companies in the state of Georgia. GWAR has been chosen to handle waste by several nationally recognized corporate due to its resourcefulness in diverting waste from landfills to other beneficial uses. Mr. Cronan will remain with Waste Eliminator as a partner, and will serve on the board of directors and the executive leadership team where he will be responsible for leading business development efforts.
"The acquisition of GWAR is a game-changer for Waste Eliminator, bringing important disposal and recycling infrastructure to the platform, and offering additional recycling capabilities to better serve our customers," said Wes Turner, Chief Executive Officer of Waste Eliminator. "The combined platform is now the largest independent waste management and environmental services business in metro-Atlanta. With the support from Allied Industrial Partners, we are well positioned to integrate these companies and grow further."
"Waste Eliminator shares our commitment to corporate sustainability initiatives and beneficial re-use, which makes them an ideal partner," said Mr. Cronan. "The demand for recycling and sustainability services among our client base is strong, and joining Waste Eliminator will provide us with the additional tools to address the market need."
Waste Eliminator also acquired DWAR, formerly known as 400 North Landfill, an inert landfill outside of Atlanta that handles, processes and recycles organic waste and inert materials that otherwise would be destined for a landfill. DWAR's facilities also includes transfer capacity for C&D and MSW waste.
"When we invested in Waste Eliminator, we saw an attractive opportunity to grow the platform and gain economies of scale in a fragmented market, and we're pleased to be delivering on that vision," said Bradford Rossi and Philip Wright, Co-Founders and Managing Partners of AIP. "Our continued investment in Waste Eliminator will further enhance the Company's recycling capabilities, which also aligns with AIP's own sustainability goals."
Over the past 18 months, AIP has consummated a total of seven acquisitions, consisting of three platform investments and four bolt-on acquisitions.
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Waste Eliminator is a premier, full-service provider of waste collection, storage, removal, hauling, and recycling and landfill services to industrial and large commercial businesses and governmental entities across Metro-Atlanta. With state-of-the-art recycling capabilities, technology and equipment, and an impressive collection fleet, Waste Eliminator offers unparalleled service and can assist customers across the entire waste stream. For more information, visit www.wasteeliminator.com and www.gwarrecycle.com.
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Founded in 2019 by an experienced group of operating executives and investment professionals, Allied Industrial Partners LLC is an operationally focused lower-middle market private equity firm that thematically invests in high-growth companies within defensive industrial subsectors, including industrial services, niche manufacturing, value-added distribution, waste management, environmental services, and critical infrastructure services. AIP seeks to partner with experienced management teams that can benefit from its operational enhancement capabilities and its active, hands-on involvement, which allows the firm to execute on buy and build strategies. For more information, visit www.alliedindustrialpartners.com.
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Katrina Rasmussen was an eighth grade student in North Texas when she watched the raw, televised images of kids her age running from their Colorado high school while bleeding students and teachers were carried into parked ambulances.
Now, 23 years later, she watched the tragic week’s events in Uvalde unfold as a high school teacher herself, in Dallas and she says it is as if nothing has changed since the Columbine High School shooting.
“We feel like we’re at the mercy of people who don’t even know what it’s like in the classroom,” she said.
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Across the state, teachers in Texas are finishing out one of the toughest years they have ever seen. A global pandemic closed schools and forced more than 5 million public school students onto laptops and desktop computers at home.
This was to be the successful road back to normalcy for public schools. But after two large COVID-19 surges, a year of angry school board meetings, parents claiming teachers were grooming kids for abuse, and fights over everything from mask mandates for students to what books they can read, teachers were already at a breaking point with nearly 500 quitting even if it meant losing their license.
On top of all of that, Texas passed a law last year prohibiting teachers from discussing “a widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs," the state's so-called "critical race theory" law. And both state lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott have called into question books in school libraries about race, gender and sexuality and asked education officials to develop standards to keep "pornographic" books from school shelves, after singling out titles that include LGTBQ characters.
In short, it's been a lot.
Rasmussen said watching the news about the shooting at Robb Elementary School which left 19 children and two teachers dead, including the news conference by Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders, she feels she has no control over how to respond to these mass shootings.
“People who have never taught before, make policies that affect every moment of my day, she said. “Right now, that’s really what cuts me the deepest.”
Lakeisha Patterson, an elementary school teacher in Deer Park, said it’s been exhausting watching so many school shootings over the years. When Columbine happened, she said there was a shockwave felt across the country and people came together demanding for change and for action to happen.
Now, she says that she’s tired of hearing the words “thoughts and prayers” after every tragedy.
“As a teacher, not only am I responsible for curriculum, but I have to be a counselor at times a parent, a guardian, a cheerleader, supporter, a nurse, a custodian and now I need to be a police officer,” Patterson said.
A day after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom in Uvalde one of Luaren Gonzalez's students asked her a gut-wrenching question.
“Miss Gonzalez, are we safe?” her third grader asked her.
Gonzalez, who teaches in the Pasadena Independent School District, she felt she had to be strong for her students who were the same ages of those who were killed in Uvalde on Tuesday.
“That really got me,” Gonzalez said, trying to hold back tears. “That was something that just really hurt my heart.”
Even before the horrific shooting in Uvalde, the mood among Texas teachers has been one of resignation. Literally.
And that’s on top of a teacher shortage the state was experiencing before the pandemic that is now exacerbated by the return to school forcing Gov. Greg Abbott to create a commission to come up with solutions.
Public education advocates and teachers themselves, fear that this latest incident will be the breaking point for teachers that were already considering leaving the profession since the pandemic hit. All while Texas is already facing a teacher shortage.
Teachers have been leaving with the fear of a shooting happening for years and everytime one occurs that fear just keeps compounding, said Alejandra Lopez, president of San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel.
“We are talking about compounding crises,” Lopez said. “We have the lack of funding and resources, we have had to endure two years of a pandemic and now the reality of school shooting.”
Already there have been more than 200 mass shootings in 2022, according to the The Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection organization. Teachers, whether here in Texas or anywhere else, feel the pain of shootings in their communities as schools most of the time serve as a community hub.
Lopez said people need to reject the premise that teachers need to be prepared for these incidents and instead figure out ways to stop them from happening entirely. That starts with making it harder to get guns.
Ron Acierno, executive director of the UTHealth Houston Trauma and Resilience Center, said it is “insane” that people are asking how teachers can be better prepared for this situation when people should instead be calling for less gun violence and more gun reform.
“Are we really at that point where that's a valid question?” Acierno said. “It's like saying, how can we prepare children to be sexual exploitation or sex trafficking victims?”
Acierno said for teachers the fear or trauma can start with the school shooter drills they practice throughout the school year, especially for those that have already experienced past trauma.
“They're going into these drills, many of them having already experienced trauma in the background of their life,” he said. “They're dealing with the trauma of their students and then you put this over stress levels that are already very high.”
Nicholas Westers, a clinical psychologist at Children’s Health in Dallas, said it’s normal that students feel anxiety over the mass shooting, but that parents should keep an eye on it if it continues.
With children already dealing with behavioral issues from being stuck at home during the pandemic, Westers said during this time, parents and teachers need to give students reassurance that they will be safe and explain to them how.
“We all have physical needs for food, shelter, water,” he said. “That is most important because if you don't have that, and nothing else really matters and then right above that is safety.”
Westers encouraged parents to have conversations with their children about what they’re feeling, what they’ve heard and what their most worried about.
Andrew Hairston, a civil rights attorney and education policy advocate for Texas Appleseed, an organization that works to address systemic inequalities in state education, said the next steps forward should be a robust expansion of menta health experts in schools.
“That should be a priority for policymakers alleviate the suffering of teachers and young people to invest in those mental health resources,” Hairston.
Rasmussen, who signed her contract for the next school year on the day the shooting occurred, said she has been considering leaving the profession every year for the last couple of years.
“This year, I really was expanding my network, putting my resume out there and doing some deep soul searching over where I want to be this time next year,” she said. “Not from the standpoint that I don't like teaching anymore but from the standpoint of I don't know if I can live like this anymore.”
Many teachers this year saw a dramatic rise in behavior problems in the classrooms this year as students who attended virtual school from their kitchens or bedrooms, had to reaquaint themselves with sitting in a classroom away from home for more than seven hours.
Those increase in student behavior problems are one of the reasons, Darrell Nichols, 30, quit his job in April at a Brazos Valley charter school, near College Station, after teaching for seven years.
“I've been bitten; I've been scratched; I've been punched in my line of work over the last two years, with this last year in particular,” Nichols said.
But Nichols, who left teaching to go into sales, said this past week has hit him hard, particularly as he remembers all the active-shooter drills he did with his own students every few months. His kids are so used to them by now they don’t even question what they are doing.
“It is bringing up a lot of old feelings for me because I had to practice what those teachers drilled for,” said Nicholls, referring to teachers Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles who were killed on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School. “I had my kids hidden away from the window, the door. I would brace myself against the door with my car keys in my hand as a makeshift weapon if I needed to use them.”
He said watching Abbott and other state leaders come to Uvalde and ask for healing prayers for the community, also upset him.
“I didn’t get into the classroom, on the one hand, to be accused of grooming my students and on the other hand being asked to take an AR-15 clip for them,” Nichols said. “And no one I know got into the teaching profession for that.”
Reporter Jason Beeferman contributed to this story.
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A teenager was shot in the hand and leg Wednesday afternoon in northeast Baltimore.City police said officers were called around 4:37 p.m. to a hospital, where a 17-year-old boy sought treatment for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.The victim told police he was shot behind the Northwood Commons Shopping Center in the 1600 block of Argonne Drive by an unknown man armed with a handgun.Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-396-2444 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7LOCKUP.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, will pay Oregon $698 million to end a lawsuit over PCB pollution associated with products made by Monsanto, the agriculture giant it now owns, the state’s attorney general announced Thursday.
It’s the largest environmental damage recovery in Oregon’s history and “magnitudes larger” than any other state settlement over PCB contamination by Monsanto, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said. She described it as “vitally important” to the state’s land, air, water, wildlife and residents.
“I’m really, really excited that we’re able to bring this amount of money to the state of Oregon to be able to begin to resolve this terrible problem that we have,” Rosenblum said during a news conference. “When we start digging and understanding what is in our land what is in our water, it can really bring tears to your eyes. So let’s get this cleaned up so that our kids and our grandkids will not have tears in their eyes.”
Bayer said in a statement that the settlement over “legacy Monsanto PCB products” fully resolves all Oregon’s claims and releases the company from any future liability. The Oregon agreement contains no admission of liability or wrongdoing by the company, the statement said.
“The settlement terms reflect the unique challenges and trial procedures in this Oregon venue even though Monsanto voluntarily ceased production of PCBs in 1977 and never manufactured, used or disposed of PCBs in Oregon,” it said.
The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed by Oregon against Monsanto in 2018, claiming the company’s products polluted the state for 90 years until PCBs were banned in the 1970s.
PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, were used in many industrial and commercial applications — including paint, coolants, sealants and hydraulic fluids. They still contaminate Oregon’s landfills and riverbeds and show up in fish and wildlife. Monsanto, which was based in Missouri, produced them from 1935 until 1977, two years before they were banned by Congress.
In Oregon, more than two dozen rivers and streams have tested positive for PCB contamination, and fish and wildlife in more than 40 watersheds have also shown signs of pollution, according to court documents.
Portland’s harbor sustained the most pollution because it was lined for a century with businesses that relied heavily on PCBs for manufacturing, metal recycling, fuel storage, railways and other industrial uses.
PCBs have been shown to cause a variety of adverse health effects, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. They can cause cancer in animals and affect their immune, reproductive and nervous systems. The agency has also found that they are probable carcinogens for humans.
A variety of fish species in Oregon are vulnerable because the PCBs accumulate in their fatty tissues. When seals, eagles, osprey, orca whales and humans eat those fish, that contamination is passed on, the lawsuit alleged.
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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — DJ Uiagalelei tapped backup Cade Klubnik on the helmet and gave him a final piece of advice before the freshman headed to the field with No. 5 Clemson down 21-10 in the third quarter.
“You’re ready for this,” Uiagalelei said.
Clemson’s starter was right. Klubnik, the five-star newcomer, led the fifth-ranked Tigers to two fourth-quarter touchdowns in a 27-21 win over No. 14 Syracuse on Saturday.
Will Shipley scored twice on the ground, including the go-ahead 50-yard TD run with less than 12 minutes to go. Shipley also had a career-high 172 yards rushing.
Clemson (8-0, 6-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) r allied from 14-points down in the first half for its 14th straight win overall, an ACC-record setting 38th straight home victory, and maintained control of the ACC Atlantic Division as the league’s last unbeaten.
And it likely wouldn’t have happened without Klubnik’s steady hand in the final 20 minutes.
Uiagalelei had his worst game of the season with two interceptions — he had two in the first seven games — and a fumble that Syracuse (6-1, 3-1) returned for a 90-yard scoop and score as the Tigers fell behind 21-7.
Klubnik’s spark was immediate. He led a 15-play, 80-yard drive finished by Phil Mafah’s 1-yard bull rush.
After a Syracuse punt, Klubnik opened the next series with an 11-yard run before Shipley’s game winner to go up 22-21 that sent him into the stands with his own Lambeau Leap. The Tigers went for two as Klubnik escaped a defender in the backfield, rolled right and found Joseph Ngata for the conversion.
Klubnik punched the air and Death Valley erupted in a frenzy.
“Just excited to get my moment,” Klubnik said. “It was awesome — such a great environment today.”
Will there be more ahead this year? Perhaps not.
“As far as DJ, DJ’s our starter, DJ’s our leader,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “Nothing’s changed there.”
Klubnik’s chance came because the Orange pressured Uiagalelei into mistakes. Safety Ja’Had Carter had Syracuse’s first interception, then picked up the loose ball Uiagalelei dropped and ran uncontested for a score.
When Uiagalelei threw his second pick on an off-target pass, Swinney made the change.
Uiagalelei understood, telling offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter he just wanted to win.
“It was a bad day,” Uiagalelei said. “There were mistakes I made, things I wish I had back.”
Clemson held Syracuse to 119 yards and no points the final two quarters. Shrader took Syracuse to the Clemson 30 with 32 seconds left but was picked off by safety R.J. Mickens on his fnal throw.
Shrader passed for a touchdown and rushed for another. He finished 18 of 26 passing for 167 yards.
“This is the first time we’ve tasted defeat and I want the taste out of my mouth and be back on the right side of it,” Syracuse coach Dino Babers said.
Klubnik’s performance was eerily similar to Clemson’s last close call at home against Syracuse in 2018 when Chase Brice — he of the Appalachian State Hail Mary win this season — came in for injured starter Trevor Lawrence and led a 94-yard fourth-quarter scoring drive in the final minute for a 27-23 win.
THE TAKEAWAY
Syracuse: It was certainly a tale of two halves for the Orange, who looked unstoppable and on a mission in the first 30 minutes before caving to the Tigers. Syracuse also made its share of mistakes with several costly penalties down the stretch contributing to Clemson’s win.
Clemson: Quarterback controversy? Don’t be so certain. Fans were hopeful Klubnik would take over for Uiagalelei when the season began after he struggled at times in 2021. While Klubnik was essential to beating Syracuse, Clemson is still Uiagalelei’s team going forward.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Expect Clemson to hold steady, although it has lost ground in the rankings twice before this season after wins. Syracuse will likely slip a few spots, but should remain in the Top 25.
INJURY LIST
Clemson linebacker Barrett Carter, third on the team with 33 tackles, missed the game due to a concussion. He’s the latest starter to miss time this season, including defensive linemen Xavier Thomas, Bryan Bresee and Tyler Davis. For Syracuse, top cornerback Garrett Williams did not play after getting hurt against North Carolina State last week. Williams is third on Syracuse with 32 tackles.
UP NEXT
Syracuse returns to the Dome to play Notre Dame on Saturday.
Clemson has the week off before heading to Notre Dame on Nov. 5.
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Nikola Jokic put up numbers not seen before in NBA history. Not from Wilt. Not from Kareem. Not from “Air Jordan.” Not from LeBron.
With a historic season, the Denver Nuggets’ center earned his second straight Most Valuable Player award, a person with knowledge of the decision said Monday. The NBA was preparing to make the announcement in the coming days, likely this week, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the voting results have not been announced.
ESPN, citing sources, first reported that Jokic would be named MVP again.
The 7-footer became the first player in league history to eclipse 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 500 assists in a season. And that type of dominance by the player nicknamed “Joker“ helped convince voters that he should be the 13th player of the NBA’s exclusive MVP back-to-back club.
The other finalists — who will finish second and third in some order — were Philadelphia center Joel Embiid, who led the league in scoring average, and two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo of the reigning champion Bucks.
Williams Coach of the Year: Monty Williams won the NBA Coach of the Year award after leading theSuns to a franchise-record 64 wins during the regular season.
Williams joins Cotton Fitzsimmons (1988-89) and Mike D’Antoni (2004-05) as coaches who have won the award with Phoenix.
The runner-up to New York’s Tom Thibodeau last season, Williams was the runaway winner this time. He received 81 of 100 first-place votes from a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters, finishing with 458 points.
Memphis’ Taylor Jenkins was second with 17 first-place votes and 270 points. Miami’s Erik Spoelstra and Boston’s Ime Udoka also received a first-place vote.
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metaverse blockchain company Marvion, a fully owned subsidiary of Bonanza Goldfields Corp. (OTC:BONZ), is pleased to round up the year 2022 with several key partnerships in place and its core focus on its proprietary products and services, namely Marvion Metaverse, Marvion Metastudio and its Brand Activation Campaigns.
2022 was a foundation year for Marvion as it had its first full year of operations. The business saw steady revenue growth for its sale of media and entertainment digital ownership tokens, and success in securing key partnerships in the media and entertainment industry. Notably, the Marvion Metastudio saw a sellout of 2,000 "Forensic Psychologist" DOTs on its platform, and committed to invest for DOT rights to an upcoming zombie action thriller "Chungking Mansions" by Phoenix Waters Productions. The film is touted to be the biggest zombie film to be shot in Hong Kong with an estimated production budget 8-figure US Dollar sum. In terms of expanding its media and entertainment assets, Marvion also successfully acquired 20 movie remake licenses from Euro Amazing Limited which will allow Marvion to own the associated licensing, sub-licensing rights in whole or in part, as well as associated territorial rights to mint 10 digital ownership tokens (DOTs) per category for 10 categories of adaptation rights derived from each movie, which will bring immense potential for its DOT offerings.
According to a report in June 2022 by consulting firm McKinsey, the metaverse is worth US$5trillion by 20301. As a company heavily involved in the metaverse and virtual realms, Marvion has dedicated resources to its technology arm this year and has successfully built the Marvion Metaverse. Apart from a strong online presence, Marvion also co-organised the inaugural in-person Web 5.0 Conference in Singapore where it focused on real life applications and ownership in the centralised web 2.0 and decentralised 3.0 ecosystems. The conference delegation consist of guests who flew in from the US, Europe and Asia and overall, it set the stage for quality, in-depth discussions on the untapped potential of the Web 2.0 and 3.0 space. As a result from the conference, Marvion has inked strategic partnerships with firms like Next Level Ventures and 8SIAN to help these businesses capitalise on the fast growing Web 3.0 market. Marvion is also privileged to be partnering many prestigious organisations such as the Hong Kong listed China Information Technology Development Limited (8178: HK), Hong Kong University, and ComicAsia, amongst many others for our metaverse offerings.
Looking ahead in 2023, Raymond Chua, Chief Executive Officer of Marvion says, "2023 will be another exciting year as we look to boost and enhance our AI, smart contracts, and IP capabilities within our product offerings. Ultimately, we aim to strengthen and capitalise on the opportunities that lie in evolving areas that we are already operating in. I would also like to thank our many partners for their trust and collaboration and look forward to continued engagement and success in the coming year."
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Marvion is a global company headquartered in Singapore. It is one of the first public-listed Web 3.0 group with market-leading technologies and ecosystem that aims to be the driver behind the world's transition into Web 3.0. We offer services, access and content and provide the necessary tools for creators to create unique content in the Web 3.0.
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How to Watch Creighton vs. San Diego State on TV or Live Stream - NCAA Tournament Elite Eight
Published: Mar. 26, 2023 at 9:16 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The No. 6 seed Creighton Bluejays (24-12) play the No. 5 seed San Diego State Aztecs (30-6) in the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight on Sunday at KFC Yum! Center, airing on CBS beginning at 2:20 PM.
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Creighton vs. San Diego State Game Info
- When: Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 2:20 PM ET
- Where: KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky
- TV: CBS
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Creighton Stats Insights
- This season, the Bluejays have a 47% shooting percentage from the field, which is 6.2% higher than the 40.8% of shots the Aztecs' opponents have made.
- Creighton is 15-6 when it shoots better than 40.8% from the field.
- The Aztecs are the 85th-ranked rebounding team in the country, while the Bluejays sit at 40th.
- The Bluejays score 13.9 more points per game (77) than the Aztecs allow (63.1).
- When Creighton totals more than 63.1 points, it is 18-8.
San Diego State Stats Insights
- The Aztecs are shooting 44.3% from the field, 2% higher than the 42.3% the Bluejays' opponents have shot this season.
- This season, San Diego State has an 18-4 record in games the team collectively shoots better than 42.3% from the field.
- The Bluejays are the rebounding team in the country, the Aztecs rank 95th.
- The Aztecs score an average of 71.9 points per game, just 3.2 more points than the 68.7 the Bluejays allow.
- San Diego State has a 23-4 record when allowing fewer than 77 points.
Creighton Home & Away Comparison
- Creighton averages 79.3 points per game in home games, compared to 72.5 points per game on the road, a difference of 6.8 points per contest.
- At home, the Bluejays are allowing 8.1 fewer points per game (62.5) than in road games (70.6).
- When playing at home, Creighton is making 2.6 more threes per game (9.9) than when playing on the road (7.3). It also sports a higher three-point percentage at home (37.5%) compared to when playing on the road (30.7%).
San Diego State Home & Away Comparison
- In 2022-23 San Diego State is averaging 6.5 more points per game at home (75.4) than on the road (68.9).
- At home, the Aztecs give up 60.4 points per game. Away, they concede 65.6.
- San Diego State knocks down more 3-pointers at home (8.2 per game) than on the road (7.5). But it has a lower 3-point percentage at home (37.4%) than on the road (38.7%).
Creighton Schedule
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After a slight stumble in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge just over a week ago, No. 3 Alabama has climbed one spot in the national rankings and remains atop the Southeastern Conference.
Unbeaten in SEC play, coach Nate Oats’ Crimson Tide (20-3, 10-0 SEC) will host the Florida Gators on Wednesday night in Tuscaloosa in the only regular-season matchup between the rivals.
Since a 93-69 blowout loss to Oklahoma a couple of Saturdays ago, Alabama has rebounded with a pair of solid wins. At home, it demolished an inconsistent Vanderbilt side, 101-44 on Jan. 31, then went to Baton Rouge on Saturday and topped LSU 79-69.
In the latter win, Noah Clowney and Rylan Griffen led a balanced scoring attack with 14 points apiece as five Crimson Tide cagers netted double figures. Freshman star Brandon Miller contributed 11 points, 10 rebounds and four assists. Nimari Burnett had 13 points, three rebounds and three assists.
For the most part, Alabama had to grind out the triumph in the bayou, but Oats said winning contests like the one over the weekend go a long way for teams seeking a conference title.
“It was definitely not one of our better wins, but sometimes when you compete for a league championship you go on the road and win games that are not pretty and are ugly,” Oats said. “I thought we had some guys step up; that is back-to-back games that Nimari has played really well for us. And Rylan shot the ball really well tonight, so it was good to see some guys step up.
“I thought our defense was nowhere close to where we’d like it to be, but I thought late in the game we got some stops when we needed to.”
Alabama improved to 10-0 in the SEC standings for the second time in three seasons and third time overall in school history.
Following a 67-54 upset of No. 2 Tennessee on Feb. 1, Florida (13-10, 6-4) battled back late Saturday but dropped a 72-67 decision at Kentucky — a hard blow to the Gators’ hopes of March Madness participation.
The wire-to-wire defeat dropped Florida to 2-8 in Quadrant I matches in the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) category. It also fell to 11-54 against the Wildcats in Lexington and placed first-year coach Todd Golden’s group alone in sixth place in the SEC standings.
Colin Castleton outplayed Kentucky big man Oscar Tshiebwe, the 2022 SEC and NCAA Player of the Year. Castleton had 25 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three blocks. Tshiebwe had a season-low four points and 15 boards before fouling out.
Suddenly, beating the third-ranked Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa appears to fall under the designation of must-win.
Castleton said the Gators — 3-4 in away games — have to be more focused when they hit the road.
“We’re on the road. It’s a tough environment. You can’t dig a hole,” said the fifth-year senior. “It’s something we’ve dealt with all year, whether it’s guys missing wide-open layups or in the case of this game, transition (defense).”
Alabama has won the past two meetings in the series.
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How to find out if your child’s classes have teachers with proper credentials. Many don’t
At least 10% of California’s public school classrooms are overseen by teachers who are not properly credentialed, according to a first-of-its-kind report released by the Department of Education on Thursday.
The new data shed light on the number of classrooms with instructors who are fully trained in the subject they are assigned to teach. It also shows how many classrooms are led by teachers who are working while awaiting full credentialing. The data come as California schools have been grappling with widespread staffing shortages, a problem compounded by the pandemic.
A vast majority — 83% percent — of classes are led by teachers fully authorized to cover the subjects they teach. Data are unknown for nearly 7% of classrooms. But the report did delve into classrooms without properly trained instructors:
- The 10% of classrooms without credentialed teachers represents 27,500 courses.
- 4.1% of the state’s teaching assignments are considered “ineffective,” meaning educators are using emergency permits or are otherwise teaching without proper authorization.
- 4.4% of classrooms are led by teachers who have a credential but have “not demonstrated subject matter competence” in the course they are assigned to
- 1.5% of courses are taught by teachers with an intern credential, the report said.
The inaugural report was mandated by legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 amid concerns about a lack of monitoring and accountability of “teacher misassignments.”
The new data, available on the California Department of Education website, allow the public to drill down to individual districts, schools and grade levels. But advocacy groups, including the Education Trust-West are pushing the state to provide even more information about how the data impact students of color and those living in poverty as well.
“We can’t fix what we can’t see clearly. That’s why the release of this data is a vital first step toward better understanding the quality of California’s teacher workforce,” Jana Luft, senior associate for the Education Trust–West said Thursday. “Now that we are finally starting to see clearly the equity gaps in teacher preparedness, it’s time to get to work fixing them.”
The state’s previous, more limited monitoring of credentials showed that such misassignments were disproportionately higher for courses such as special education and in schools located in low income zip codes.
Assemblymember Reggie Jones Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), who authored the bill that requires the state to provide the annual reports on teacher credentials and class assignments, said Thursday’s results shows why it was needed.
“This is the exact purpose of the legislation — to identify deficiencies in the system and make targeted investments in schools and communities most in need of resources to address these problems,” Jones Sawyer said. “Our main concern is whether or not students are being served and educated properly, especially in Black and Latino communities.”
In school districts like Montebello Unified, where 95% of students are Latino and 74% qualify for free or reduced price meals, less than half of classrooms are led by teachers properly credentialed.
Los Angeles Unified, the largest district in California, is about on par with the state, with 82% of classrooms overseen by teacher properly credentialed. Many of Los Angeles Unified’s highest-needs campuses remain significantly understaffed, and the problem has hit hardest at schools in parts of South L.A. and other low-income neighborhoods.
At San Diego Unified, about 89% of classrooms have adequately authorized teachers. At Oakland Unified, about 58% of teachers meet the state standards.
The California Teachers Assn. said the pandemic affected teachers’ ability to finish their credentials programs while at the same time there has been an urgent need to get teachers, even if not fully prepared, in classrooms lacking instructors.
“Exceptions were made during COVID in order to return to in-person teaching and learning,” said Lisa Gardiner, CTA spokesperson. “The state’s testing centers were closed, and the temporary solution was to give student teachers more time to complete the assessments and earn their credentials, in addition to granting them preliminary credentials to be able to move to the classrooms.”
The state budget finalized by Newsom and state lawmakers this week includes millions to increase the pipeline of aspiring teachers, expanding grants and residency programs. Nationwide, teachers have fled the profession, with a significant decline in education degrees and accelerated retirements because of pandemic disruptions partly to blame.
In a news release Thursday, the California Department of Education said that the data will be used to get more teachers properly certified. State officials pointed to $3.6 billion the state has provided in the last four years to improve teacher recruitment, retention and training.
“As we begin to emerge from a global pandemic, this data is an important tool to drive conversations about how we can best serve students,” said Mary Nicely, state chief deputy superintendent of public instruction. “By launching this annual report, we are providing a new level of transparency to support schools, students, and families as we find ways to navigate today’s challenges to public education, including statewide education workforce shortages.”
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DUBAI, UAE, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yalla Group Limited ("Yalla" or the "Company") (NYSE: YALA), the largest Middle East and North Africa (MENA)-based online social networking and gaming company, today announced it showcased its new hard-core game, Merge Kingdoms, at the Dubai Esports and Games Festival (DEF) 2023, MENA's premier esports and gaming event. Offering an exceptional gaming experience steeped in local custom, Merge Kingdoms gained great popularity among players during the 5-day event.
Officially launched in June 2023, Merge Kingdoms is Yalla's second hard-core game, following the success of the Company's debut hard-core game, Age of Legends. Merge Kingdoms is a strategy game that takes players on a captivating journey through an Arabian-themed environment, bringing the world of Arabian folklore to life with stunning visuals, rich landscapes, and enchanting Middle Eastern music. The integration of Yalla's unique voice chat engine enhances the game's real-time strategy element, allowing players to coordinate during battles without using third-party tools. Merge Kingdoms' interactive social features, intriguing storyline and vibrant community attracted broad player attention at the Festival.
"We are encouraged by the warm reception our new game, Merge Kingdoms, received from players at DEF 2023," said Mr. Yang Tao, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Yalla. "Its strong showing reflects our local expertise and strengthens our brand awareness across the region. With the fast development of MENA's gaming and esports industry, we view mid- and hard-core games as a crucial growth driver for our diversified product portfolio. As always, we will continue to develop digital products tailored to the needs of local users, seizing growth opportunities in the region and contributing to the development of the local digital economy."
About Yalla Group Limited
Yalla Group Limited is the largest MENA-based online social networking and gaming company, in terms of revenue in 2022. The Company operates two flagship mobile applications, Yalla, a voice-centric group chat platform, and Yalla Ludo, a casual gaming application featuring online versions of board games, popular in MENA, with in-game voice chat and localized Majlis functionality. Building on the success of Yalla and Yalla Ludo, the Company continues to add engaging new content, creating a regionally-focused, integrated ecosystem dedicated to fulfilling MENA users' evolving online social networking and gaming needs. Through its holding subsidiary, Yalla Game Limited, the Company has expanded its capabilities in mid-core and hard-core games in the MENA region, leveraging its local expertise to bring innovative gaming content to its users. In addition, the growing Yalla ecosystem includes YallaChat, an IM product tailored for Arabic users; Waha, a social networking product featuring 3-D avatars; and casual games such as Yalla Baloot and 101 Okey Yalla, developed to sustain vibrant local gaming communities in MENA. Yalla is also actively exploring outside of MENA with Yalla Parchis, a Ludo game designed for the South American markets. Yalla's mobile applications deliver a seamless experience that fosters a sense of loyalty and belonging, establishing highly devoted and engaged user communities through close attention to detail and localized appeal that profoundly resonates with users.
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SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Carroll ISD’s school board voted Monday evening on three policies surrounding LGBTQ students in the district.
A Policy Review Committee had been reviewing the district’s code of conduct and handbook. One of the district changes removed specific protections against bullying and harassment for LGBTQ students.
The policy listed in the district’s online agenda shows “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” crossed out repeatedly, including in anti-harassment and bullying policies that also list race, religion, and disability.
“The only takeaway that I can see is that this is a district that does not protect its LGBTQ students,” Pam Francis, who is on the policy committee, said before the board voted.
Francis said she voted against the policy changes, but they passed 7-2 to move on to the full school board for approval Monday night.
“School is the place where you’re supposed to feel accepted and supported and empowered to learn,” she said. “I don’t understand how students can feel that way when these policies are in place.”
The board also approved policies already passed in Keller ISD and Grapevine-Colleyville ISD requiring students to use the bathroom of their biological sex and another telling students and staff not to encourage the use of pronouns other than those that match a person’s gender at birth.
Formally, the policy allows teachers and staff the ability to refuse to address a student by a preferred pronoun.
But, board members mentioned that it doesn't prohibit teachers from using a preferred pronoun. It's merely their choice.
Board members also said accommodations may be made to students if they want to use a gender-neutral bathroom.
Carroll ISD school board President Cameron Bryan, Vice President Andrew Yeager, and the district itself all either declined to talk or didn’t respond when reached for comment before the board’s 5 p.m. meeting.
Bryan did make a statement before taking any vote - saying that the language in the new student handbook and code of conduct does not exclude protected classes.
Regarding bathroom use and pronouns, he said, "We felt like it was pertinent prior to school starting to clarify where this board stands in terms of ensuring the protections of our teacher's first amendment rights on pronoun use and the board's position maintaining separate restrooms."
Francis said while board members ran partly on a platform of transparency, the policies were posted online on Friday before the vote on Monday, leaving the public little time to learn of the significant change.
“The school district can also not just vote to violate federal civil rights law like that’s just not an option for them,” Francis said.
Carroll already faces seven open investigations by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, including three based on race, two for disability issues, and two based on gender or sexual harassment.
“In the face of that, Carroll ISD is adopting all of these policies with open investigations. I mean, it’s incredible to me that the district would be so wrongheaded in this,” Francis said. “It’s shocking to me.”
Francis was also a co-chair of a committee that crafted a diversity plan for the district following two high-profile incidents of students using a racial slur in social media videos.
The plan was defeated after a parent lawsuit and pushback from many parents and trustees who said the district should instead focus on enforcing the student code of conduct that already exists.
“Members of the community said, 'Oh, well, we don’t need this diversity plan. All we need is a strong student code of conduct, and we’ll be fine,’” Francis said. “Instead of vigorously enforcing the student code of conduct, which is what they said needed to happen, they’ve gone the opposite direction.”
District voters have overwhelmingly and repeatedly elected trustees running as conservatives and targeting issues of both race and sexual orientation.
“My viewpoint is not the majority in this community. I understand that,” Francis said. “The majority doesn’t get to decide that they’re going to violate the rights of the minority.”
Francis said federal action and lawsuits are likely the only way to stop changes she and others believe are harmful.
"It does seem like they are simply inviting litigation,” she said. “I don’t know why they would want that when it just drains resources away from our school district, resources that we need.” | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/carroll-isd-voting-removing-protections-against-bullying-lgbtq-students-adding-bathroom-use-restriction/287-cb66dba0-15dc-4790-96d6-2afd8b495c14 | 2023-07-25 18:13:22 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/carroll-isd-voting-removing-protections-against-bullying-lgbtq-students-adding-bathroom-use-restriction/287-cb66dba0-15dc-4790-96d6-2afd8b495c14 |
RENTON — Pete Carroll is usually pretty reliable when it comes to propping up his former players. Doesn’t matter if one flipped him off midgame (Earl Thomas) or accosted him publicly for signing off on a pass play at the 1-yard line (Richard Sherman).
He’s the teacher you always turn to for a college recommendation letter — the old boss you put at the top of your reference list. That’s why the Seahawks coach’s response to how Russell Wilson should be received by fans upon his return Monday night to Lumen Field jumped out during Thursday’s news conference.
Remember, two days earlier Seattle receiver Tyler Lockett had responded to a similar query by praising what Wilson has done for Seattle as a quarterback and philanthropist. The implication was that a warm welcome should be waiting for the Broncos’ new starting QB in the teams’ season opener.
Carroll, however, made no such implication. In fact, he implied the opposite.
“You are either competing, or you are not. … It’s game time, and we are going for it, so however [fans] take it, I will follow their lead on that,” Carroll said. “I’ll leave it up to the 12s. I think they will know exactly what to do.”
There are a couple ways to interpret this: 1) Carroll holds some antagonism toward Wilson after a sour divorce in which Russell forced his way out of Seattle despite having multiple years left on his contract. 2) Carroll may still think fondly of Wilson — who just signed a five-year, $245 million extension with Denver — but he isn’t about to offer him any kind of home-field advantage.
I think it’s a combination of the two, but I’m leaning toward the second. And it is that interpretation that has shifted my view on whether fans should boo him when Wilson’s likeness is posted on Lumen Field’s big screen.
No doubt that No. 3 was Seattle’s No. 1 sports attraction for the better part of a decade. Wilson was an inimitable signal caller whose deep ball and elusiveness were in the top tier of the NFL, and whose mastery of the zone-read offense helped catapult the Seahawks to their sole Super Bowl title. He also was a weekly presence at Seattle Children’s hospital and, in addition to myriad other charitable efforts, was a multimillion-dollar benefactor to the Seattle charter school Why Not You Academy.
Regardless of your feelings toward Wilson’s departure or Pollyanna public demeanor, it’s hard to argue Seattle isn’t better because of his presence. So at first I thought, “If I were a 12, of course I’d cheer him.”
Now I don’t. More on why in a sec, but not before a word from former Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright.
Wright played alongside Wilson for nine seasons. He won two NFC championships with him and a Super Bowl to boot. He understands the value Russell brought to the Emerald City — but he also understands the miffed fans’ perspectives.
“I believe fans have this narrative in their head that Russell wanted to leave Seattle. … We know fans are loyal to the Seahawks brand, and if anyone crosses that, they get thoroughly upset,” said Wright, who anticipates boo birds Monday for Wilson. “I can see where fans are coming from 100 percent. But also, as a former player I can see where Russell is coming from.”
Well, how would you feel if you came back after all the goodwill you built up and got booed?
“That would sting. That would hurt very bad,” Wright said. “However, if I could get another Super Bowl in Denver and I could get another big contract, it would make life that much sweeter, and I would sleep just fine at night.”
And I imagine that’s what fans are thinking about with Russ right now. There’s sports hate, and then there’s real hate. The 12s don’t actually hate Russell Wilson, but he’s done enough recently to justify their sports hate.
This isn’t like the return of Ken Griffey Jr., for whom Mariners fans cheered wildly when he first stepped foot in T-Mobile Park in a Reds uniform. Griffey’s popularity and proficiency may have saved the M’s from moving in the 1990s, and he left to play for his dad’s old team in the city he grew up in.
Plus, baseball players get one-ninth the time in the batter’s box as their teammates. A quarterback controls the offense every second he is on the field. So if the 12s are interested in winning — they should boo the heck out of Wilson and make him feel as uncomfortable as possible. They should turn the stadium into Boo-men Field every time Wilson steps between the lines.
Remember when LeBron James came back to Cleveland for the first time after leaving for Miami? Jilted Cavs fans summoned every ounce of strength from their larynxes to jeer him into oblivion. It was unlike anything The King had ever experienced. And even though the Cavs were big underdogs, just like the Seahawks are, they pulled out a victory in front of a visibly rattled James.
Oh, wait — LeBron scored 38 through the first three quarters, and the Heat won by 28.
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Moncton Man Faces Weapons Charges Following Traffic Stop
A 35-year-old Moncton man has been charged after police seized a loaded and prohibited firearm following a traffic stop.
Members of the Codiac Regional RCMP conducted a traffic stop on Second Avenue in Moncton late last Friday afternoon, according to a news release from Corporal Mathieu Potvin.
When the driver exited the vehicle, police say they observed illegal drugs in plain sight. The driver – identified as 35-year-old Joshua Belliveau of Moncton – was arrested at the scene. During the search of Belliveau, police seized a loaded, unsecured and prohibited firearm along with ammunition.
Police seize drugs during Moncton traffic stop
RCMP also searched the vehicle and reportedly seized what appeared to be crack cocaine. A 32-year-old man was also arrested at the scene, along with a 43-year-old woman who was later released.
On Tuesday, January 17, Belliveau appeared in Moncton Provincial Court and was charged with numerous weapons offences and resisting a peace officer. He was remanded into custody and is scheduled to return to court on Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas — No one hit the Powerball jackpot Wednesday, but one lucky winner in Round Rock is $1 million richer.
The winning $1 million ticket was sold at JaJa Accessories at 900 Round Rock Ave., near Round Rock High School.
This is the second $1 million ticket sold in Central Texas this week. On Monday, a $1 million ticket was sold at Reserve by Camco off Cluck Creek Trail in Cedar Park.
The Powerball jackpot has now climbed to $1.5 billion, with the next drawing set for Saturday, Nov. 5, at 10:59 p.m. ET.
If someone matches all five numbers and the Powerball number, they will be taking home the second-largest jackpot in Powerball history, according to the Powerball website. On top of making Powerball history, this is also the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
There will be two options for the winner to choose if someone matches all six numbers to score the $1.5 billion jackpot. That person could choose to be paid in 30 graduated payments or the cash option, which is $745.9 million.
The largest jackpot in Powerball history was set back in 2016, when winners in California, Florida and Tennessee shared $1.586 billion.
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BEIJING, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NaaS Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: NAAS) (the "Company" or "NaaS"), one of the largest and fastest growing electric vehicle charging service providers in China, is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Mr. Alex Wu as its Chief Financial Officer, effective January 15, 2023. This appointment concludes the previously announced executive search process undertaken by the Company.
Mr. Wu has also been appointed the President of the Company and will join its Board of Directors, effective January 15, 2023.
"We are delighted to appoint Alex as our President and CFO. Alex brings in a wealth of experiences and skills he accumulated during his successful career in both business and finance. This is an exciting time for NaaS to invest and grow its business with someone of Alex's caliber, and we are confident this appointment will provide value to NaaS and its shareholders." Says the Chief Executive Officer of NaaS, Ms. Yang Wang.
"I am excited to be offered this opportunity to be part of such a dynamic and capable team at NaaS", says Alex, "NaaS is a clear leader in the charging service industry. I look forward to working with Ms. Wang and the team to develop the Company further in this remarkably fast growing market."
Mr. Alex Wu has been serving as the Company's interim chief financial officer since October 1, 2022, and previously served as interim chief financial officer of RISE Education Cayman Ltd, the predecessor of the Company, from September 2021 to June 2022. Mr. Wu has extensive experience in corporate finance, technology and management matters and served as a Managing Director of Bain Capital Private Equity. In addition, he served as a board director or board observer of various Bain Capital portfolio companies. Before joining Bain Capital Private Equity in 2017, Mr. Wu worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting with a focus on the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sectors and digital solutions across cloud, e-commerce and analytics. Prior to that, he worked with airline and telecommunications companies to plan and deliver transformation programs. Mr. Wu received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Peking University and his MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales.
As of September 30, 2022, NaaS' charging solutions had serviced 1,282 charging station operators, and connected over 45,000 charging stations with over 434,000 chargers on NaaS' network. In the first three quarters of 2022, charging volume transacted through the Company's network reached 1,892GWh, and gross transaction value reached RMB1,861 million, representing 2.29 times and 2.35 times that of the same period of 2021, respectively. The Company also established strategic cooperation partnership with Chevron, Li Auto, NEWRIZON, Ohways, On Time, DianYue Travel, Tunghsu Group, and other industry partners during the third quarter of 2022.
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NaaS Technology Inc. is one of the largest and fastest growing EV charging service providers in China. The Company is a subsidiary of Newlinks Technology Limited, a leading energy digitalization group in China. NaaS provides one-stop services to charging pile manufacturers and operators, OEMs, companies with their own delivery fleets as well as fleet operators, with online, offline, and non-electric services covering the whole value chain across the EV sector. As of September 30, 2022, NaaS had connected over 434,000 chargers with a total charging volume reaching 1,892GWh in the first three quarters of 2022. On June 13, 2022, the American depositary shares of the Company started trading on NASDAQ under the stock code NAAS.
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Rich and creamy million dollar pie (aka millionaire pie) is the perfect no-bake dessert. With a crunchy graham cracker crust and a decadent filling made from freshly whipped cream, sweetened condensed milk, toasted pecans, shredded coconut, and pineapple, it’s luscious and decadent — hence its expensive name.
A pie with an ingredient list like this would seem like it can easily become overly sweet. But this one is incredibly balanced, thanks to salt and lemon juice and zest. And although it has many elements, it’s a super-easy, foolproof recipe that guarantees your guests will ask for a second slice.
The history of Million Dollar Pie
It’s a bit difficult to trace the exact roots of million dollar pie, but the Southern pie is said to have roots in South Carolina and likely became popular in the 1940s, just as more home kitchens were getting refrigerators and icebox pies were becoming very en vogue. As for the name, the consensus across food blogs and cookbooks seems to be that it was born from the pie’s inherent richness.
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- Caramelized pineapple: In the traditional Million Dollar Pie, you don’t caramelize the pineapple. But I really hope you do! Briefly cooking the pineapple guarantees a rich, fruity flavor that gets rid of the tinny taste of canned pineapple. Plus cooking the pineapple draws out extra moisture, ensuring a thick and creamy filling.
- Salt: I’ve also added salt to help balance out the sweetness from the condensed milk, caramelized pineapple, and graham crackers. When paired with the whipped filling, the salted graham cracker crust is truly magical.
- Height: Last but not least, a springform pan is my no-bake pie vessel of choice for an extra-tall slice. But two standard pie tins can be used as well.
Million Dollar Pie
Serves 9, Makes 1 (9-inch) pie
For the graham cracker crust:
- 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter
- 10 ounces graham crackers (about 19 full sheets)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
For the caramelized pineapple:
- 1 (20-ounce) can pineapple rings in juice
- 3 tablespoons packed light or dark brown sugar
For the filling:
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut (4 ounces)
- 1 cup raw pecans halves (4 1/2 ounces)
- 1 large lemon
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup cold heavy cream
- Whipped cream and maraschino cherries, for serving (optional)
Make the graham cracker crust:
1. Cut 2 sticks unsalted butter into a few pieces and melt in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Continue cooking, swirling the pan occasionally until browned and nutty smelling, 10 to 13 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, place 10 ounces graham crackers in a zip-top bag and crush until you get coarse crumbs. Transfer to a medium bowl (reserve the bag).
3. Scrape the browned butter into the bowl with the cracker crumbs. Add 1 teaspoon kosher salt and mix until the mixture resembles wet sand, about 30 seconds.
4. Transfer to a 9-inch springform pan. Press the crumbs evenly into the bottom and up the sides 2 to 2 1/2 inches. Refrigerate while you make the caramelized pineapple and filling.
Make the caramelized pineapple:
1. Pour off and reserve 1/4 cup of the juice from 1 (20-ounce) can pineapple rings. Drain off the remaining juice.
2. Heat a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the pineapple juice and 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar and stir to combine. Add the pineapple rings in an even layer. Cook undisturbed until the bottom of the rings are browned and caramelized, 5 to 7 minutes. Flip the rings and continue to cook until the second side is caramelized, about 5 minutes more.
3. Transfer to a cutting board. Once cooled, coarsely chop into 1/4-inch pieces.
Make the filling:
1. Arrange a rack in the middle of the oven and heat the oven to 350 F.
2. Place 1 1/2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut and 1 cup raw pecan halves on a rimmed baking sheet and spread into an even layer. Bake, keeping a close eye and stirring a few times, until toasted and fragrant, 8 to 10 minutes total.
3. Transfer to a plate and let cool. Transfer to the reserved zip-top bag and lightly crush the pecans and coconut with a rolling pin or bottom of a pan until the pecans are a little larger than pea-sized.
4. Finely grate the zest of 1 large lemon (about 1 tablespoon) into a medium bowl. Halve the lemon and squeeze the juice into the bowl (about 1/4 cup). Add the pecan-coconut mixture, chopped pineapple, 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk, and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt. Stir until combined.
5. Place 1 cup cold heavy cream in the bowl of a stand mixer (or large bowl if using an electric hand mixer). Beat with the whisk attachment on medium speed until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes. Add the condensed milk mixture and fold together with a flexible spatula until just combined.
6. Transfer into the graham cracker crust and spread into an even layer. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until set, at least 4 hours and up to overnight. Top with more whipped cream and garnish with maraschino cherries if desired. Remove the outer ring before slicing and serving.
Recipe notes: Leftover pie can be covered and refrigerated for up to three days.
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LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s new government outlined plans Friday to cut taxes and boost spending in an effort to bolster the faltering economy, but the high-risk moves sparked concerns that increased public borrowing will worsen a cost-of-living crisis and sent the British pound on its biggest one-day drop in 2 1/2 years.
Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng announced sweeping tax cuts that he said would boost economic growth and generate increased revenue without introducing corresponding spending reductions. He also said previously announced plans to cap soaring energy bills for homes and businesses would be financed through borrowing.
Kwarteng offered few details on the costs of the program or its impact on the government’s own targets for reducing deficits and borrowing, but one independent analysis expected it to cost taxpayers 190 billion pounds ($207 billion) this fiscal year.
It triggered the pound’s biggest drop against the U.S. dollar since March 18, 2020, when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first nationwide lockdown to control the spread of COVID-19. The British currency fell more than 3% to as low as $1.0899 in afternoon trading in London, from 1.1255 on Thursday.
Investors are concerned that government lacks a “coherent policy” at a time when the economy is facing “immense inflationary pressures,” said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
“I think Kwasi Kwarteng really set off fireworks with his budget,″ Streeter told The Associated Press. “It was much bigger and bolder than expected. But the real concern on financial markets is that these widespread tax cuts are unfunded, they’re going to add to the government’s debt burden.″
Prime Minister Liz Truss, who took office less than three weeks ago, is racing to combat inflation at a nearly 40-year high of 9.9% and head off a prolonged recession. Facing a general election in two years, she needs to deliver results quickly.
The government’s program offers immediate help for homes and businesses struggling with soaring energy costs while betting that lower taxes and reduced red tape will spur economic growth and increase tax revenue in coming years.
“We need a new approach for a new era, focused on growth,” Kwarteng told lawmakers in the House of Commons.
But opponents accuse the government of dodging scrutiny by rolling out a major shift in economic policy without the normal analysis from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility. Kwarteng said the office would publish a full economic and fiscal forecast before the end of the year.
The opposition Labour Party attacked the plan for favoring the interests of business over working people and failing to provide any figures on its impact on government fiscal targets.
“It is a budget without figures, a menu without prices,’’ said Rachel Reeves, Labour’s spokeswoman on Treasury issues. “What has the chancellor got to hide?”
The British economy has foundered for the past three months as Truss’ center-right Conservative Party staged an internal contest to replace Johnson, who stepped down after a series of scandals.
That left the country with a caretaker government unable to introduce new policies to shield consumers from soaring energy prices, which are fueling inflation and curbing economic growth. The Bank of England on Thursday forecast that gross domestic product would shrink for a second consecutive quarter in the three months ending Sept. 30, an informal definition of recession.
Since taking office, Truss announced plans to cap energy prices for both consumers and business that are expected to cost taxpayers more than 150 billion pounds ($166 billion).
Inspired by Margaret Thatcher’s small-state, free-market economics, she is also pressing ahead with her campaign promise to boost economic growth by cutting taxes and reducing red tape. This will benefit everyone, she argues, by spurring investment, creating jobs and generating more tax revenue.
The so-called mini-budget unveiled Friday reverses many of the initiatives announced by Johnson and his Conservative predecessors, who have led Britain for the past 12 years.
For example, Kwarteng announced that he was canceling an increase in national insurance taxes that Johnson introduced in May to boost spending on health and social care. Kwarteng said the government would maintain the expected level of funding for the National Health Service — but he didn’t say how.
Kwarteng also said the government would cut the basic rate of income tax to 19% next year from 20%. The top rate will drop to 40% from 45%. In addition, he canceled a planned 6 percentage point increase in the corporate tax rate, leaving it at 19%.
“This was the biggest tax-cutting event since 1972, it is not very mini,” said Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent think tank that scrutinizes government spending. “It is half a century since we have seen tax cuts announced on this scale.”
Truss declared this week that she was ready to make “unpopular decisions” such as removing a cap on bankers’ bonuses to attract jobs and investment.
On Friday, Kwarteng announced new “investment zones” across England where the government will offer tax cuts for businesses and help create jobs. He also said the government would accelerate dozens of major new infrastructure projects, including in transportation, telecommunications and energy.
Truss’ overall program runs counter to the views of many Conservatives, who believe the government shouldn’t rack up huge debts that taxpayers will eventually have to pay.
Reeves, of the Labour Party, criticized the government for expecting taxpayers to foot the bill, rather than increasing a tax on the windfall profits of energy producers benefiting from the jump in oil and natural gas prices triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
While Kwarteng denied that the government was gambling on a “dash for growth,” many economists said it was taking a huge risk by allowing borrowing to balloon while the economy is weak and inflation is high.
The IFS has estimated that Truss’ policies will push borrowing to 190 billion pounds this fiscal year, compared with the 99 billion pounds that the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast in March. While borrowing is expected to decline over the next four years, it will remain above the previous forecast throughout the period, the IFS said.
As a result, government debt will rise to about 94% of GDP by the 2026-27 fiscal year, compared with the March OBR forecast of 81%, the IFS said.
To offset that increase, the government’s policies would have to achieve an additional 0.7% increase in economic output every year for the next five years, according to the IFS.
“If the government were to achieve this feat and get that extra growth, it would be either a stroke of extraordinarily good luck or a huge policy success,” Isabel Stockton, an IFS economist, said Thursday. | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-uk-treasury-chief-to-set-out-tax-slashing-emergency-budget/ | 2022-09-23 22:40:01 | 1 | https://www.kark.com/news/business/ap-uk-treasury-chief-to-set-out-tax-slashing-emergency-budget/ |
OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn't a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018.
Soon after, the San Francisco lab started a major transformation. It turned itself into a business that's attracted worldwide attention as the maker of ChatGPT.
Now its chief technology officer, Murati leads OpenAI's research, product and safety teams. She's led the development and launch of its AI models including ChatGPT, the image-generator DALL-E and the newest, GPT-4.
She spoke with The Associated Press about AI safeguards and the company's vision for the futuristic concept of artificial general intelligence, known as AGI. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: What does artificial general intelligence mean for OpenAI?
A: By artificial general intelligence, we usually mean highly autonomous systems that are capable of producing economic output, significant economic output. In other words, systems that can generalize across different domains. It's human-level capability. OpenAI’s specific vision around it is to build it safely and figure out how to build it in a way that’s aligned with human intentions, so that the AI systems are doing the things that we want them to do, and that it maximally benefits as many people out there as possible, ideally everyone.
Q: Is there a path between products like GPT-4 and AGI?
A: We’re far from the point of having a safe, reliable, aligned AGI system. Our path to getting there has a couple of important vectors. From a research standpoint, we’re trying to build systems that have a robust understanding of the world similarly to how we do as humans. Systems like GPT-3 initially were trained only on text data, but our world is not only made of text, so we have images as well and then we started introducing other modalities. The other angle has been scaling these systems to increase their generality. With GPT-4, we’re dealing with a much more capable system, specifically from the angle of reasoning about things. This capability is key. If the model is smart enough to understand an ambiguous direction or a high-level direction, then you can figure out how to make it follow this direction. But if it doesn’t even understand that high-level goal or high-level direction, it’s much harder to align it. It’s not enough to build this technology in a vacuum in a lab. We really need this contact with reality, with the real world, to see where are the weaknesses, where are the breakage points, and try to do so in a way that’s controlled and low risk and get as much feedback as possible.
Q: What safety measures do you take?
A: We think about interventions at each stage. We redact certain data from the initial training on the model. With DALL-E, we wanted to reduce harmful bias issues we were seeing. We adjusted the ratio of female and male images in the training dataset. But you have to be very careful because you might create some other imbalance. You have to constantly audit. In that case, we got a different bias because a lot of these images were of a sexual nature. So then you have to adjust it again and be very careful about every time you make an intervention, seeing what else is being disrupted. In the model training, with ChatGPT in particular, we did reinforcement learning with human feedback to help the model get more aligned with human preferences. Basically what we’re trying to do is amplify what’s considered good behavior and then de-amplify what’s considered bad behavior.
Q: Should these systems be regulated?
A: Yeah, absolutely. These systems should be regulated. At OpenAI, we’re constantly talking with governments and regulators and other organizations that are developing these systems to, at least at the company level, agree on some level of standards. We’ve done some work on that in the past couple of years with large language model developers in aligning on some basic safety standards for deployment of these models. But I think a lot more needs to happen. Government regulators should certainly be very involved.
Q: A letter calling for a 6-month industry pause on building AI models more powerful than GPT-4 got a lot of attention. What do you think of the petition and its assumption about AI risks?
A: Look, I think that designing safety mechanisms in complex systems is hard. There is a lot of nuance here. Some of the risks that the letter points out are completely valid. At OpenAI, we’ve been talking about them very openly for years and studying them as well. I don’t think signing a letter is an effective way to build safety mechanisms or to coordinate players in the space. Some of the statements in the letter were just plain untrue about development of GPT-4 or GPT-5. We’re not training GPT-5. We don’t have any plans to do so in the next six months. And we did not rush out GPT-4. We took six months, in fact, to just focus entirely on the safe development and deployment of GPT-4. Even then, we rolled it out with a high number of guardrails and a very coordinated and slow rollout. It’s not easily accessible to everyone, and it’s certainly not open source. This is all to say that I think the safety mechanisms and coordination mechanisms in these AI systems and any complex technological system is difficult and requires a lot of thought, exploration and coordination among players.
Q: How much has OpenAI changed since you joined?
A: When I joined OpenAI, it was a nonprofit. I thought this was the most important technology that we will ever build as humanity and I really felt like a company with OpenAI’s mission would be most likely to make sure that it goes well. Over time, we changed our structure because these systems are expensive. They require a lot of funding. We made sure to structure the incentives in such a way that we would still serve the nonprofit mission. That’s why we have a “capped profit” structure. People at OpenAI are intrinsically motivated and mission-aligned and that hasn’t changed from the beginning. But over the course of five years, our thinking has evolved a lot when it comes to what’s the best way to deploy, what’s the safest way. That’s probably the starkest difference. I think it’s a good change.
Q: Did you anticipate the response to ChatGPT before its Nov. 30 release?
A: The underlying technology had been around for months. We had high confidence in the limitations of the model from customers that had already been using it via an API. But we made a few changes on top of the base model. We adapted it to dialog. Then we made that available to researchers through a new ChatGPT interface. We had been exploring it internally with a small, trusted group, and we realized the bottleneck was getting more information and getting more data from people. We wanted to expand it to more people out there in what we call a research preview, not a product. The intention was to gather feedback on how the model is behaving and use that data to improve the model and make it more aligned. We didn’t anticipate the degree to which people would be so captivated with talking to an AI system. It was just a research preview. The number of users and such, we didn’t anticipate that level of excitement. | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2023/04/19/insider-qa-openai-cto-mira-murati-on-shepherding-chatgpt/ | 2023-04-24 19:41:34 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2023/04/19/insider-qa-openai-cto-mira-murati-on-shepherding-chatgpt/ |
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — Digimarc Corp. (DMRC) on Wednesday reported a loss of $12.4 million in its fourth quarter.
The Beaverton, Oregon-based company said it had a loss of 62 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 41 cents per share.
The online marketing company posted revenue of $7.2 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $59.8 million, or $3.12 per share. Revenue was reported as $30.2 million.
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Man arrested for threatening to run over officers, K-9, police say
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - A driver in Mississippi is facing several charges stemming from an early morning incident involving police.
WLOX reports Gulfport police officers made a traffic stop involving driver Aaron Shey Miller, 31, at around 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Police officers asked Miller to exit the vehicle once they had him stopped but he drove away.
Officers said they caught up to him, but Miller ended up backing his vehicle into their patrol car that had a K-9 officer inside.
Gulfport police said Miller then threatened officers, saying he was going to run them over.
The 31-year-old tried again to hit the officers with his vehicle before they were able to get him out of his car and arrest him, police said.
Miller is facing charges that include aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and attempted injury of a public service animal.
He was booked into the Harrison County Adult Detention Center on a $510,000 bond.
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Texas prosecutor drops domestic violence case against Chris Beard
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor on Wednesday moved to dismiss a felony domestic violence case against former Texas basketball coach Chris Beard, in part because of the alleged victim’s wishes not to prosecute.
Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza said that after a review of the evidence, and considering the wishes of Randi Trew, Beard’s fiancée, his office determined the charge of assault by strangulation/suffocation-family violence could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Beard was arrested Dec. 12 after Trew called 911 and told officers Beard strangled, bit and hit her during a confrontation in his home. She later said Beard acted in self-defense and that she never wanted him prosecuted. Beard’s attorney has said the coach is innocent.
The Associated Press does not typically identify alleged victims of sexual abuse or domestic violence, but Trew issued a public statement on Dec. 23 in which she denied telling police Beard choked her. She also said she never intended for him to be arrested or prosecuted.
Texas suspended Beard without pay the day he was arrested. He was fired on Jan. 5 when Texas officials told Beard’s attorney he was “unfit” to lead the program.
Texas has been led by interim coach Rodney Terry since Dec. 12. The Longhorns are ranked No. 6 and share first place in the Big 12.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Brittney Griner believes her voice is being heard when it comes to safer and better travel conditions for herself, her team, and the other players in the WNBA.
Griner was back in action for the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday night, getting the start in Seattle against the Storm in her return from a three-game absence.
Griner suffered a hip injury when the Mercury and Seattle met in Phoenix on June 13. She left that game during the second quarter and did not return, as the Storm went on to win, 83-69. She subsequently missed the next three games, all double-digit losses.
“It feels good being back on the court – I hate missing games, I hate being hurt or down with anything,” said Griner, who had 11 points and six rebounds in 20 minutes of action of a 97-74 loss. “I just wish we could have done better.”
This was Griner’s first appearance in Seattle since a 2021 playoff game. She missed all of last season while being detained in Russia on a drug possession charge. Griner rejoined the Mercury after being released and returning to the United States in December.
Saturday was the fourth road game for Phoenix since an incident in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport on June 9 when Griner was harassed by a social media “provocateur” as the team was heading to its flight for a game in Indiana. Since then, the Mercury and the WNBA have been evaluating travel options for Griner and the team. Griner played in the Indiana game, and warmed up with the team but did not play in games at Washington and New York because of her injury.
“The message is being heard,” Griner said. “It has been a very warm welcome being back home, but there are times when it’s not so warm, so we’re dealing with that in different steps, trying to avoid it as much as we can. My team is doing a good job on keeping the noise back.”
Griner has been welcomed warmly around the league, and Saturday in Seattle was no different. She was the last player introduced among the Phoenix starting five, and received a standing ovation from the crowd. She tapped her heart several times and waved to both sides of Climate Pledge Arena.
“Seattle has always been so warm and so ice. Just to see them cheer like that when they read my name at the introduction, I could feel the love from everybody here,” Griner said.
During early warm-ups, a small group of fans standing along the rail above the player entrance to the playing floor greeted her with, “Hey, BG!” and “Welcome back” when she hit the court. She slapped hands with several of them and said, “Thank you.”
On her way back to the locker room about 50 minutes before game time, Griner posed for several photos with fans – even taking some of the phones and snapping the pictures herself. She also exchanged a few hugs, signed autographs, and gave some high-fives
Griner and her teammates remained on the court for the national anthem. The Storm players, as has been their practice, left prior to the anthem and returned afterward. | https://www.fox16.com/sports/griner-returns-to-mercury-lineup-after-missing-three-games/ | 2023-06-25 20:19:31 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/sports/griner-returns-to-mercury-lineup-after-missing-three-games/ |
Not quite 14 months have passed since Rocky Wirtz embarrassed himself with a petulant and indefensible response to an innocuous question about steps the Blackhawks had taken to ensure a safe and secure work environment after a lawsuit by former player Kyle Beach detailed egregious sexual misconduct on the part of former video specialist Brad Aldrich and an equally odious cover-up that reached the highest levels of the organization.
Wirtz's diatribe, directed at The Athletic's dependably professional Mark Lazerus, was stunningly out of character for the mild-mannered liquor, real estate, banking and hockey baron. Especially given the setting — a "town hall" convened by the Hawks to convince their fans that the organization grasped the gravity of the situation and had taken appropriate action against those responsible for mishandling it. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/dan-mcgrath-business-sports/mcgrath-blackhawks-pride-night-debacle-sign-rebuild-woes | 2023-03-24 17:34:46 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/dan-mcgrath-business-sports/mcgrath-blackhawks-pride-night-debacle-sign-rebuild-woes |
HOUSTON, Miss. (WTVA) - The sheriff of Chickasaw County has released more information about a weekend standoff that ended with an arrest.
Andri Walker, 44, of Okolona, is charged with burglary of a dwelling and attempted aggravated assault.
He’s accused of breaking into a home near County Road 136 on Sunday, July 17.
The homeowner and two children were inside.
Sheriff Jim Meyers said Walker was armed.
The standoff happened at 10 a.m. and ended shortly after 2 p.m.
The homeowner and Walker know each other, but nothing more, according to the sheriff. | https://www.wtva.com/news/okolona-man-arrested-following-weekend-standoff/article_3c95cf1a-06b3-11ed-bf30-2b6fb9e86cbc.html | 2022-07-18 19:08:09 | 1 | https://www.wtva.com/news/okolona-man-arrested-following-weekend-standoff/article_3c95cf1a-06b3-11ed-bf30-2b6fb9e86cbc.html |
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California toddler fatally struck by a stray bullet while sleeping in his car seat last year was the victim of a rolling gun battle between rival gangs on a freeway, prosecutors said Thursday as they announced charges against three people.
The 1-year-old boy, Jasper Wu, was killed Nov. 6, 2021, on Interstate 880 in Oakland when his mother's car got caught in the crossfire. He was just weeks away from turning 2 years old.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office filed murder charges Thursday against Trevor Green, Ivory Bivins and Johnny Jackson. A fourth suspect, Keison Lee, was killed in a separate shooting last month.
The defendants are part of the rival Chopper City and Eddy Rock gangs out of San Francisco, District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said during a news conference Thursday.
Green and Bivins, who are allegedly members of the Chopper City gang, were driving in an Infiniti along the freeway, while Jackson and Lee, alleged members of the Eddy Rock gang, were in a Nissan Altima, prosecutors said.
A shot fired from the Infiniti missed the Altima, prosecutors said, and instead went through the windshield of the Wu family's car. The bullet was found lodged in the seat behind Jasper's car seat, O'Malley said.
Green and Bivins are in custody on other charges in Contra Costa County and will be transferred to Alameda County for this case. Jackson was arrested Wednesday on a warrant and will be arraigned Friday.
It was not immediately clear whether the suspects had attorneys who could speak on their behalf.
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Popular spicy chicken restaurant sets opening date for it’s first NJ location
Wayne, New Jersey is about to get a heck of a lot spicier.
It was announced earlier this year that Dave’s Hot Chicken would open a new location. Now we have the opening date.
The Wayne location’s grand opening will be Friday, Dec. 9. It will be in the West Belt Plaza shopping center at 57 Route 23.
Operating hours will be Monday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Take a look at the kind of food you'll be able to enjoy once it's officially open:
Is your mouth watering yet?
For those who aren’t good with spicy foods, you don’t have to be a heat enthusiast to enjoy the chicken, there are non-spicy sauce options as well.
The different sauce levels are:
️No spice
Lite mild
Mild
Medium
Hot
Extra hot
Reaper
I’m hoping one day to be brave enough to try the “Reaper” sauce, but for the time being I’m going to stick with “Hot.”
The chain was created by four friends, Dave Kopushyan, Arman Oganesyan, and Tommy and Gary Rubenyan, who were able to put together $900 to open a tiny stand in a parking lot in East Hollywood, California.
Through social media hype the friends' food quickly gained popularity. In no time they had lines forming around the block.
After a year, they were able to open a shop in a strip mall. The enthusiasm from fans never died down, the guys had hour-long wait times.
Those sandwiches seem well worth the wait. Look at how perfectly spiced the chicken is.
Per their website:
From there, the incredibly craveable ‘Hot and Spicy’ varieties have created a cult following with rave reviews across the U.S. and Canada.
The chain now has over 70 locations nationwide. I can only hope that more will open in New Jersey!
The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5's Kylie Moore. Any opinions expressed are Kylie's own. You can follow Kylie on Instagram.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A man who kept a chokehold around the neck of an agitated fellow passenger on a New York City subway, leading to the other rider’s death, is expected to turn himself in to authorities Friday on a manslaughter charge that could send him to prison for 15 years.
Manhattan prosecutors announced Thursday they would bring the criminal charge against Daniel Penny, 24, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, in the May 1 death of 30-year-old Jordan Neely.
Neely’s death, captured on video by a freelance journalist, has raised an uproar over many issues, including how those with mental illness are treated by the transit system and the city, as well as crime and vigilantism.
Penny’s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment after the prosecutors made their announcement. They have previously said Penny acted in self-defense.
According to an onlooker, Neely, who is Black, had been screaming and begging for money aboard the train, but had not gotten physical with anyone.
Penny, who is white, was questioned by police in the aftermath, but was released without charges.
Friends of Neely said the former subway performer had been dealing with homelessness and mental illness in recent years. He had several arrests to his name, including a 2021 assault of a 67-year-old woman leaving a subway station.
A second-degree manslaughter charge in New York will require the jury to find that a person has engaged in reckless conduct that creates an unjustifiable risk of death, and then consciously disregards that risk.
The law also requires that conduct to be a gross deviation from how a reasonable person would act in a similar situation. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/man-who-fatally-choked-another-nyc-subway-rider-to-surrender-on-manslaughter-charge/ | 2023-05-12 05:33:09 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/man-who-fatally-choked-another-nyc-subway-rider-to-surrender-on-manslaughter-charge/ |
Caught on video: Bus driver helps lost toddler in Wisconsin
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) - A bus driver with Green Bay Metro Transit helped a toddler reunite with his mom last Tuesday.
“Operators are trained to be very observant and aware of their surroundings, so a lot goes into it when they’re moving down the road,” said Jake Lueptown, the operations supervisor.
That training kicked into high gear for one driver, who declined an on-camera interview, when an unattended little boy ran across a street in Bellevue around 6:30 p.m.
The WBAY crew noticed a busy street was just one block away in the direction the boy was headed.
Surveillance video from the bus shows several angles of the road and inside the bus. It shows the driver taking the boy into the bus.
“We’re going to find your mom and dad, OK? Find out where they went. Did you wander away from the house? Yeah. Yeah? Do you live here? Are you in the apartments?” asked the driver.
She continued to ask questions and reassure the boy they’ll find mom and dad. They remained in the bus for about 10 minutes until law enforcement showed up.
“Hey buddy, how are you?” asked the officer. “He was just standing in the middle of the road here,” said the driver.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office said the boy was reunited with his mom.
Lueptow said he is proud of the driver and said it’s what they do.
“Just goes to show how the great job that the drivers do in utilizing that training, being observant, aware of their surroundings and always willing to help out any way that we can,” he said.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Before the gates to Oracle Park opened Friday, before even many of his White Sox teammates had emerged from the visitor’s clubhouse, Johnny Cueto was commanding a crowd.
A handful of Giants coaches made their way to the White Sox’s side of the field to greet Cueto, who this weekend made his return to the ballpark where he spent the past six seasons. Reliever Jarlín García found his friend during batting practice and embraced him in a bear hug.
The only bitter part of this sweet reunion, for Cueto at least, was that Chicago’s rotation schedule meant he wouldn’t get a chance to pitch against his former team.
“It would be nice to have a chance to pitch here against them for the fans,” Cueto said Saturday morning through a Spanish-language translator.
Wearing sunglasses that reflected the group of reporters in front of him, Cueto sat on the bench inside the first-base dugout and answered questions about his time on the opposite side of the field.
After signing a six-year, $130 million contract here in 2016, Cueto was named the All-Star Game starter in his first season with the Giants and became an integral clubhouse figure, despite injuries derailing the majority of the following five seasons.
Cueto started 103 games with a 3.83 ERA over his Giants tenure, but the club exercised a $5 million buyout to bring that time to a close after last season, when he contributed 114⅔ innings with a 4.08 ERA to the club that won 107 games.
“We didn’t have any type of communication,” Cueto said of the Giants’ efforts, or lack thereof, to bring him back. “They didn’t call me. They didn’t reach out to me.”
Cueto, 36, ultimately settled for a minor-league deal with the White Sox, where Andrew Bailey disciple Ethan Katz is the pitching coach. The deal didn’t come together until a few days before Opening Day, but since joining Chicago’s rotation in mid-May, Cueto has been as effective as any point since his 2016 All-Star campaign.
In eight starts, Cueto has a 3.33 ERA.
Unfortunately, none will come in front of Giants fans at Oracle Park.
The faithful on the shores of McCovey Cove paid their respects in the series opener Friday night with a standing ovation between innings. Cueto stood on the top step of the dugout and tipped his cap as he appeared on the video board.
“It was good. It was a good moment. I felt very good,” Cueto said. “It was good … to see the fans. It was definitely a good moment. I liked it.”
This felt great and meant a lot. Thanks to you awesome fans and to the Giants. 🤗 🧡 🖤 https://t.co/l20DBXMQdK
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MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, today announced that it plans to release 3rd quarter earnings results before the market opens on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Management will discuss the results the same day in a live webcast at 7:30 a.m. Central Time (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time), which can be accessed on the company's website.
The webcast will be available for replay at the same URL beginning at 10:30 a.m. Central Time (11:30 a.m. Eastern Time) on October 20, 2022. The replay will remain available for 30 days in this location. Supplemental financial information referenced in the webcast and the text of the 3rd quarter press release can be found on the company's website, in the section titled "Financial Information," after 7:30 a.m. Central Time on October 20, 2022.
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A decade ago, utility executives and policymakers dreamed of a clean energy future powered by a new generation of cheap, safe nuclear reactors. Projects to expand existing nuclear plants in South Carolina and Georgia were supposed to be the start of the "nuclear renaissance."
But following the decision last week by two utilities to scrap the expansion at the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in South Carolina, that vision is in tatters. There's now just one nuclear expansion project left in the country, its future is also uncertain.
That remaining project is an expansion at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in eastern Georgia. As recently as five years ago, then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited Plant Vogtle and declared the project the start of "the resurgence of America's nuclear industry" and a critical part of President Obama's energy strategy.
The two new reactors at Plant Vogtle were the first next-generation reactors in the country, and some of the first new reactors to be built in the U.S. in three decades. After the partial meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island in 1979, the U.S. nuclear industry went into hibernation for more than two decades.
But by the early 2000s, the Three Mile Island accident and the 1986 meltdown at Chernobyl were distant memories, says Paul Murphy, managing director in the energy group at the law firm Gowling WLG. "On top of that, people were projecting significant growth in power demand," he adds.
The earlier generation of nuclear power stations are also starting to reach the end of their lifespans and some are being shuttered.
Building a nuclear reactor is expensive and time-consuming but once it's up and running, it offers cheap and reliable electricity without generating the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.
Recession, fracking, renewable energy
With encouragement from the federal government, utilities around the country began applying for permission to build new reactors. At Vogtle in Georgia and V.C. Summer in South Carolina, power companies got to work.
"I thought it was going to be a very good thing for the Southern economy," says Marilyn Brown, a public policy professor at Georgia Tech and board member of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates three older nuclear power plants in Alabama and Tennessee.
Then there were setbacks. First came the global financial crisis, which flattened the demand for electricity. Then fracking flooded the market with cheap natural gas. Renewable energy — especially wind power — also got more competitive.
According to Brown, "that meant if you went back to reappraise the nuclear investments, they probably would not have been approved, or might not have been approved."
Both the Georgia and South Carolina nuclear projects racked up billions of dollars in cost overruns and delays. Then earlier this year, Westinghouse, which was building the reactors in both states, went bankrupt, blaming high construction costs for its problems.
Finishing the plant in South Carolina without Westinghouse didn't make financial sense for the South Carolina utilities, so they scrapped the project.
"Last kid on the block"
"Now Vogtle's the last kid on the block," says Stan Wise, the chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates local utility Georgia Power. The utility says it will propose later this month whether or not to complete the Vogtle expansion.
Wise says Georgia Power is in a better financial situation than the South Carolina utilities, since it has more ratepayers to support the project. Georgia Power's customers have been paying for the new reactors in their monthly power bills since 2011.
"I'm still a proponent of nuclear," says Wise. "I'm going to keep my powder dry in the coming weeks and months as we decide whether or not to continue this project."
Marilyn Brown at Georgia Tech says she hopes the Plant Vogtle expansion is completed.
"I'm a person very concerned with climate change," she says. "If these plants can't be continued, then where would you build the next one? Is that the demise of the industry?"
But for now, Brown says the American nuclear renaissance appears to be stalled.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Common sense more than any campaign strategy dictated that Adam Laxalt not trumpet his own military service in Nevada’s sometimes-heated Republican Senate primary.
After all, the ex-attorney general, who served as a Navy judge advocate general in Iraq, was running against retired Army Capt. Sam Brown, a war hero who was nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan and whose badly scarred face serves as a more powerful reminder of his sacrifice than his Purple Heart.
But with his former foe now turned patriotic ally, Laxalt, the son of a U.S. senator and grandson of another, is trying to make the most of his own military career.
He is relying on familiar GOP buzzwords in appealing to veterans to help save the country from “the left” and calling Democrats the party of the “megarich” as he tries to unseat Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
In some cases he is also capitalizing further on his military experience — and Cortez Masto’s lack of it — with links to conservative issues from U.S. border safety to government overreach on things like COVID-19.
He warns about the dangers of Afghan terrorists, prematurely released from captivity, sneaking into the U.S. and pledges to reinstate military members who were discharged for refusing to get coronavirus vaccinations.
They're the kind of campaign issues that strike a chord with many rallying around candidates like Laxalt, backed by former President Trump in a Western battleground that Republicans view as one of their best chances to turn a blue Senate seat red.
“First and foremost, there is no substitute for service. And we all know that,” Laxalt said recently at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, where he and Brown served up free hot dogs. “Obviously, Sen. Masto hasn’t served."
It's a line he couldn’t use in debates with Brown, who denounced Laxalt during the primary as part of the “elite” Washington establishment.
Laxalt — the grandson of former U.S. Sen. and Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt, and son of former Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. — spent much of his early life in the D.C. area.
He graduated from Georgetown law school, was an assistant law professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and served with the JAG Corps in Iraq but didn’t engage in the sort of field combat Brown saw with the 1st Infantry in 2008.
At the VFW, Laxalt was introduced by an ex-commander of a B-2 test squad who created a potentially awkward moment when referencing Laxalt’s role in the military before the room eventually erupted into laughter.
“I’ll forgive him for being a JAG,” Air Force Col. Tony Grady said. “But then, not really, because when I was a commander, the JAG was in my hip pocket, to keep me out of trouble.”
Brown never claimed his military record outranked Laxalt's, but he did make veiled references during the primary to the way each got where they are.
“I wasn’t born into power,” Brown said in his first ad, describing the Taliban bomb that “nearly killed me,” the soldiers who dragged his burning body to safety under mortar fire and his subsequent 30 surgeries.
Each pitch ended with the same tag line: “Career politicians can’t fix Washington; they broke it."
Initially, the quote was juxtaposed with images of Cortez Masto and President Joe Biden but later was accompanied by photos of Cortez Masto and Laxalt.
Now, Brown is singing Laxalt's praises and pleading with vets of all political stripes to rally behind him.
“What we do in primaries as Republicans is identify who can lay down the most effective fire, and they become the main effort,” Brown said. “Our duty is to go out there and be those foot soldiers for Adam Laxalt."
At the VFW, Laxalt linked Cortez Masto to Democratic policies he says have weakened the U.S. military, disrespected its soldiers and made young Americans less likely to enlist. His biggest applause came when he ridiculed those who “wonder why” military recruiting is down.
“Well, how about because they kicked out service members for refusing to take the COVID shots?” Laxalt said. “We have Navy SEALS after 12-year investments and 15 tours of duty to terrible places. I'm a guaranteed vote to reinstate those people.”
Laxalt said he'd heard Cortez Masto hadn't held a town hall meeting with veterans for at least a year.
Not true, her campaign said.
Cortez Masto, whose father and grandfather served in the U.S. Army, hosted at least a dozen events with Nevada veterans in the past year “to make sure she’s hearing their concerns and is able to deliver the federal support they need,” her campaign said in an email.
Her accomplishments include approval of the construction of a national veterans cemetery in Elko that locals had sought for nearly a decade.
She helped pass a bill guaranteeing health and compensation benefits for veterans exposed to Agent Orange. Her legislation to protect VA benefits for student veterans was signed into law, as was a measure she backed to improve veterans’ access to mental health services.
As he did during the primary, Laxalt reminds vets he founded the nation's first state office of military legal services as Nevada's attorney general — a creation the Pentagon eventually embraced and several states later adopted.
He touts his JAG work in Iraq — where his legal team oversaw more than 20,000 detainees — when blasting the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan, “leaving billions of dollars of weapons behind” for potential terrorists.
He said the “Afghan debacle” marked the first time Americans “took the measure of this commander in chief and knew he was not up to the job."
“Sen. Masto is not holding him accountable,” Laxalt said. “A terrorist that was released in Afghanistan could actually be in this country today. This is a huge issue, and it’s an absolute shame that Sen. Masto is dead silent on this.”
Cortez Masto insists she has pushed back on Biden’s method of withdrawal from Afghanistan after criticizing Trump’s proposal to withdraw without a plan in place.
She gets high marks from Ross Bryant, a retired Army veteran who is the executive director of UNLV’s Military & Veteran Services Center in Las Vegas.
Bryant describes himself as a moderate Republican who has voted for candidates in both parties. He's glad when veterans are elected to Congress and acknowledges the veteran community “is sometimes very harsh: 'If you are not a vet, you don’t know what it’s like.’”
He said that Laxalt “did great for us” as attorney general, and that Brown's backing should carry weight with some: "He’s been wounded, he’s one of us.'”
But, he said, it’s wrong to portray Cortez Masto as anything but a staunch, effective advocate for veterans. He ticks off a list that includes expanding Agent Orange coverage to toxic burn-pit exposures, pressuring federal agencies to set up booths at UNLV's veteran job fairs, and reversing benefit formulas during the COVID pandemic that would have drastically reduced $9 million worth of vet benefits for remote-students at UNLV alone.
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Motorcycle vs. pickup truck crash kills rider in Ocala
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - A biker was killed in Southwest Ocala on Tuesday night after his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck.
Officers say around 8 p.m. a motorcycle was headed west on Easy Street near the intersection of Southwest 19th Avenue Road. The motorcycle was in the inside lane when a pickup truck in the eastbound turning lane crossed the motorcycle’s path.
The rider, a 29-year-old man, was taken to the hospital where he died. The driver of the pickup truck suffered only minor injuries.
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Officers say speed is not believed to have been a factor in the crash. The rider was wearing a helmet.
In a Facebook post, the police department stated, “Our hearts go out to the rider’s loved ones during this very difficult time.”
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Former Kansas state lawmaker convicted of COVID-19 relief fraud
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - Former Kansas state lawmaker Michael Capps, 44, was found guilty by a federal jury Wednesday of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief, KWCH reports.
A jury found Capps guilty of three counts of making false statements to apply for loans, one count of bank fraud, four counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering.
Federal prosecutors say Capps lied about the number of employees he had and the revenue brought in through ventures that include Krivacy, LLC and the Fourth and Long Foundation. They say he also made a false statement to a bank for a PPP loan.
Capps faces the possibility of several years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. The two steepest penalties are for the false statement to a bank for the PPP loan and the bank fraud charge. Each one carries sentences of up to 30 years in prison.
Capps was also acquitted Wednesday on six other counts and a 19th count was dismissed before trial, court records show.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-5-6
(seven, five, six)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-5-6
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — Jurado declara culpables a 3 por muerte de rapero XXXTentacion.
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A major New England staple is now red-listed by a sustainability group that works with Whole Foods, The Cheesecake Factory and other national brands.
As of this week, Seafood Watch announced that it has classified American lobster, including Maine lobster, as seafood to avoid.
The group, which is a program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, said in a news release that, “after reviewing all available scientific data, as well as existing legal requirements and regulations, Seafood Watch determined that current Canadian and U.S. management measures do not go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the North Atlantic right whale. As a result, Seafood Watch assigned a red rating to those fisheries using pots, traps, and gillnets.”
Maine Gov. Janet Mills criticized the “avoid” designation from Seafood Watch, saying in a statement:
Seafood Watch is misleading consumers and businesses with this designation. Generations of Maine lobstermen have worked hard to protect the sustainability of the lobster fishery, and they have taken unprecedented steps to protect right whales – efforts that the Federal government and now Seafood Watch have failed to recognize. No right whale death has been attributed to Maine gear, and there has not been a right whale entanglement attributed to Maine lobster gear in eighteen years.
This designation is flat out wrong. It sends the wrong message about Maine lobster, and it insults thousands of hardworking lobstermen who risk their lives to put food on the table while practicing responsible stewardship and taking action to protect whales. Consumers and businesses must see through this list and recognize that lobstermen are partners in conservation and sustainability and that the delicious Maine lobster can and should continue to be enjoyed.
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In an interview, Monterey Bay Aquarium Vice President of Global Ocean Conservation Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly said, “No one wants their appetite for seafood to be driving a species to extinction.”
In terms of whether or not a business, restaurant or chef who follows Seafood Watch guidance chooses to longer use or sell lobster, Dianto Kemmerly said that depends on their commitment to sustainability.
She also explained that it is possible for New England lobster to return to a green or yellow designation if further research can more clearly rule out lobster gear from the state as a cause of whale entanglements.
"Right now, science indicates most entanglements are not recorded," said Dianto Kemmerly.
She added that "90%" of entanglements "can't be linked to a particular gear type, so that's the evidence we're looking for."
Meanwhile, Marianne LaCroix, executive director of the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative, called the Seafood Watch designation "disappointing."
LaCroix explained that her organization commented to Seafood Watch earlier this year during a public feedback opportunity and noted that Maine's lobster industry believes that decades have gone by without a known right whale entanglement.
She also said she hopes consumers and other businesses recognize the effort that people who fish for lobster have put in to avoid hurting whales.
"They've continued to make improvements over the years, even this year, they have put in a whole new round of measures," LaCroix said.
A representative for Whole Foods said the company will not stop selling lobster at this time, saying in a statement: "We are aware of the decision by Seafood Watch and are committed to working with our suppliers, local fisherman and fisheries, fishery managers, and environmental advocacy groups as the situation develops. In the meantime, we will continue to sell lobsters from fisheries that are certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/avoid-eating-new-england-lobster-sustainability-group-says/3065965/ | 2022-09-07 03:36:05 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/avoid-eating-new-england-lobster-sustainability-group-says/3065965/ |
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BOSTON — The reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year showed he can do it on offense, too.
“He’s always brought it defensively,” Celtics interim coach Joe Mazzulla said. “I have full trust in him diagnosing where the matchup is, where the advantage is, and what can we do to exploit that. And he’s doing a great job anticipating that once he gets the ball.”
Smart said he was seeing the court so well, it was like he had X-ray vision.
“You kind of zone out, and it’s just you out there throwing practice passes. Finding guys in the right spot at the right time,” he said. “Once you’re locked into that, guys ... start making plays to get them the ball, and make it even easier for you.”
Jayson Tatum scored 35 to help the Celtics jump to a 27-point, first-quarter lead. Malcolm Brogdon had 21 points, Derrick White scored 15 and Blake Griffin scored a season-high nine points for Boston.
Tatum, Smart and Brogdon all sat out the fourth quarter. It was the ninth straight win at home for the Celtics, who have the best record in the NBA.
“This is a treat. For any NBA player, it’s a treat playing on an NBA team like this,” said Brogdon, who won two playoff series in his first six years in the league. “For me and Blake, we’ve been in situations where a team is not winning, where the team is really struggling and there’s chaos. So definitely I try to encourage the guys to be appreciative of what they have here.”
Jalen McDaniels scored 24 points and Kelly Oubre Jr. had 22 for the Hornets, who lost for the 12th time in 15 games.
GOOD START
The Celtics put this one away in the first quarter.
It was 19-12 when Boston scored 24 of the next 28 points, hitting six straight 3-pointers to pull ahead. Tatum had 16 points in the quarter, Smart had 10 points and eight assists and Brogdon scored 10. Boston shot 73% from the field, making 10 of 15 from 3-point range.
Charlotte missed all six 3-point attempts in the quarter.
BROWN DOWN
Jaylen Brown missed the game with neck stiffness. He scored 36 points in Sunday’s game against the Wizards, which Tatum missed with a sprained left ankle.
Al Horford (lower back stiffness) also missed the game, the second of a back-to-back.
TIP-INS
Hornets: Charlotte was without ex-Celtics Gordon Hayward and Terry Rozier.
Celtics: Led by as many as 27 less than 10 minutes into the game. It tied for their second-biggest lead of the season. … Griffin made his third start of the season.
UP NEXT
Hornets: Host Washington on Friday.
Celtics: Host the Heat on Wednesday night in the first of two games against Miami in Boston in three days.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Royce Lewis hit a grand slam for his first big league homer, capping a nine-run fifth inning that sent the Minnesota Twins past the coronavirus-struck Cleveland Guardians 12-8 Friday night.
Byron Buxton, Jorge Polanco and Gary Sánchez also homered for Minnesota. The barrage came after Minnesota was shut out in two of its three games against Houston.
“It came down to the good at-bats that we crave. We had one after another,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It was kind of a breakthrough where we actually created that really great separation that we're always after.”
The Guardians returned after having a game Wednesday at the Chicago White Sox called off — that was the first COVID-19-related postponement in the majors this season.
Cleveland pitching coach Carl Willis ran the team in place of manager Terry Francona, who entered MLB's health and safety protocols this week. First base coach Sandy Alomar, third base coach Mike Sarbaugh, bench coach DeMarlo Hale, assistant pitching coach Joe Torres and hitting analyst Justin Toole also are out.
Earlier Friday, Cleveland outfielder Josh Naylor was put on the COVID-19-related injured list.
“We just want to be accountable to each other and go out and pick each other up and play the game the right way,” Willis said. “I think they're in a good frame of mind.”
Lewis, the Twins’ top prospect who debuted earlier this season, batted twice in the fifth. After doubling in his first trip to the plate in the inning, Lewis cleared the bases with a grand slam off reliever Bryan Shaw.
The 22-year-old shortstop received a curtain call from Twins fans, stepping out of the dugout to tip his cap after his memorable homer.
“I think it was pretty much everything I could've imagined and more,” Lewis said. “I really appreciate it. This fan base has been always really, really special to me and have always been great to me. Minnesota nice.”
Lewis didn't play at all in 2020 or 2021, missing all of last year due to a torn ACL in his right knee. He made his debut with the Twins on May 6th after Carlos Correa went on the Injured List.
Lewis now has hits in six of his first seven major league games.
“I'm just grateful for the opportunity to be here and have fun playing the game I love,” Lewis said.
Minnesota had gone four games without a home run, but got its first of the night in the first at-bat. Buxton connected off Aaron Civale (1-3) for a drive deep into the second deck in left field.
Polanco also hit a first-inning solo shot off Civale, who eventually settled down to retire 11 straight batters before Minnesota’s offense erupted.
Sánchez tagged Shaw for a three-run drive in the fifth to make it 7-2.
Twins starter Sonny Gray had mixed results in his outing. He struck out a season-high eight but also walked four in 4 1/3 innings, allowing two runs and four hits. He surrendered a solo homer to No. 9 batter Austin Hedges in the fifth.
“Not overly thrilled with how I threw the ball,” Gray said. “I think as a unit and as a whole staff in general, we do have to clean up the walks and giving teams free passes."
Griffin Jax (3-0) relieved Gray and got the win despite giving up four runs on four hits and three walks in 2 1/3 innings.
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Willis once pitched for the Twins.
“I told the players, we just want them to play it the right way,” Willis said before the game. “We’re not going to get in their way, but we’ll make decisions as we have to and we’ll go ahead and go forward.”
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RHP Shane Bieber (1-2, 4.13 ERA) gets the start Saturday for Cleveland in the second game of the series as he looks to rebound from his worst outing of the year. Devin Smelter will be recalled from Triple-A St. Paul for his 2022 debut to start Saturday's game for the Twins, Baldelli said after Friday's game.
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Q&A: Benjamin Millepied on directing a reimagined ‘Carmen’
By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
When Benjamin Millepied was a teenager starting dance training in New York, he and fellow students got into ballet performances for free, but opera was another story: They had to be creative. They’d sneak into the Metropolitan Opera House during intermission, or talk their way backstage, relying on a sympathetic usher for seats.
“We did these totally naughty things,” he says with a laugh.
It helped Millepied, who was born and raised in France and Senegal before coming to the United States, keep his love for opera alive while climbing the ranks at New York City Ballet to principal dancer. He also maintained his passion for cinema, sparked during a childhood of watching classic films with his mother.
Millepied would go on to make a number of short films, and then in 2010, he choreographed and acted in Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” alongside future wife Natalie Portman. Now, he’s achieving a long-held dream by making his directorial debut with “Carmen,” starring Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal, which opened Friday. He also cowrote the script and created numerous dance sequences — including for Barrera and Mescal, neither of whom is a trained dancer.
But this “Carmen” has little to do with the story many know from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera set in Spain, about a mysterious woman who is ultimately killed by a jealous lover. Millepied explains that he has neither adapted nor updated “Carmen,” so much as made a whole new work of art. His Carmen is a young Mexican woman who escapes death and makes it across the U.S. border with the help of a Marine who is emotionally damaged from war. The two fall in love, but tragedy finds them.
Millepied, 45, who spent two and a half years as director of the Paris Opera Ballet and for more than a decade has directed the L.A. Dance Project in Los Angeles, sat down with The Associated Press to discuss how he came to “Carmen,” how he chose his cast and what he tried to accomplish.
The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
AP: You grew up in the world of dance. What brought you to filmmaking, and “Carmen”?
MILLEPIED: It was really in the back of my mind since I started at New York City Ballet. I had a real love for cinema (growing up in France), and saw so much American film on French TV. I had kind of a dream. I started to make short films and I was into photography. So all the ingredients were there. My interest in Carmen, part of that is personal, my close relationship with my mother. I wanted to kind of embody this woman.
AP: The story we know best from the 1875 opera now feels dated — how did you deal with that?
MILLEPIED: I had dinner with (opera and theater director) Peter Sellars in LA and told him I wanted to make “Carmen” and he almost got angry. He said to me, “If you’re really going to do it, you have to completely reinvent it.” For him, it was really a 19th century story written by men who knew nothing about women. It gave me the freedom at that point to say, “Well, why am I interested in it, and what do I want to do with it?” Ultimately, it was to portray the freedom in this woman. And the almost magical qualities she has.
AP: What was the biggest challenge?
MILLEPIED: The experience of writing was maybe the most foreign thing to me. Everything else in a way has to do with theater performance. And photography and lights and moving people on the screen, and knowing when to move the camera and not. I stripped (plot) away and found ways to tell the story without a lot of dialogue.
AP: You gave your Carmen a completely new story, as a young woman fleeing Mexico for the United States after the murder of her mother. The film is set to an original score by Nicholas Britell. What did you save, then, from the older versions?
MILLEPIED: What’s interesting is this woman’s capacity to express herself. And this freedom, this larger-than-life quality and her fearlessness. I wanted her to be a woman who could love and be loved, and not just be objectified or or be a fantasy. In the (older) version, she’s this thing that people want to own. I was interested in putting her against a character (played by Mescal) that actually is a deeply good person. It’s really about freedom, a person who is completely free.
AP: Tell me how you went about casting the two lovers.
MILLEPIED: For Carmen, we had a big search. I saw Melissa on a tape and she was really impressive. This was long before “In the Heights.” She has this ability to look like a dancer without having ever danced. It’s wild actually, and pretty unfair. We met, and she was really kind of bold in the meeting. We started working. With Paul, it was after I saw “Normal People.” I was watching Elia Kazan movies. I didn’t want a man-boy. I didn’t want someone who is self-conscious. I wanted somebody who could embody a Marine without posing — it’s not so easy. I think he just had this understanding of physicality, and how actors express themselves through their bodies.
AP: It’s always a challenge to integrate dance into film. How did you achieve that?
MILLEPIED: It’s not so common — a drama with dance. I wanted to tell a dark story that isn’t just (makes a happy-dance gesture.) How are you going to make this work? That’s tricky. I think the challenge here was doing a dark story and using dreams. Sometimes you don’t know whether you’re in a dream or reality: That’s where the dance takes place.
AP: Is dance having a crossover cultural moment?
MILLEPIED: Yeah, I think there’s definitely a cultural interest in dance. However, there’s a lot of dance that is related to the telephone, you know? Like TikTok videos. And there’s a problem with the frontal quality of it all. People don’t even dance in 360 (degrees) anymore. And the way you’re supposed to digest it: 15 seconds, 30 seconds. We’re in a moment where I just believe more than ever that dance and theater are so important. Dance not only as performance but as a communal experience, where you don’t have a telephone, is important and I really believe in it as a tool for wellbeing. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2023/04/21/qa-benjamin-millepied-on-directing-a-reimagined-carmen/ | 2023-04-21 22:41:03 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-california/2023/04/21/qa-benjamin-millepied-on-directing-a-reimagined-carmen/ |
Higher-than-normal heat is forecast to blanket most of the U.S. from July to September, drying out large chunks of the Great Plains and the Midwest while threatening to push drought into the Mississippi River Valley.
Kenosha County, which saw its first days into the mid-90s last week, will return to seasonal summer temperatures this week, with highs expected to be into the mid-80s.
The summer forecast, in general, calls for much hotter and drier conditions, weather experts predict, for much of the the country, including the Upper Midwest.
A swath of land from Wyoming and Montana southeast to Kansas, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle will likely be the driest while Arizona and the East Coast could see more rain than normal, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday in a media call. New England and Utah face the highest risks for above normal temperatures, while things could change in some areas which have forecasts that remain unclear for the Pacific Northwest and parts of the northern Great Plains.
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California had its driest January-to-May period on record, while Texas had its second warmest May in data going back to 1895, said Victor Murphy, a climate services program manager with the National Weather Service. Only 1996 was hotter. Texas also had its eighth driest January-to-May on the books and was the driest since 2011, a year that became the state's worst summer for heat and drought. This June has already delivered record heat to Texas, Murphy said.
Texas reservoirs are about 77% full at this time of year, a little bit more than levels seen in 2011, he said. The reservoirs in the Lone Star state are at about 10% below normal levels based on a 30-year average.
Most of the drought conditions across Arizona and parts of New Mexico are expected to be erased by the so-called Southwest monsoon, which typically starts around June or July, said Brad Pugh, a forecaster with the U.S. Climate Prediction Center. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/get-out-that-sunscreen-again-hotter-weather-returning-this-week-hot-dry-summer-in-forecast/article_e9e39950-f00a-11ec-b069-eb748d673f25.html | 2022-06-19 21:01:30 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/get-out-that-sunscreen-again-hotter-weather-returning-this-week-hot-dry-summer-in-forecast/article_e9e39950-f00a-11ec-b069-eb748d673f25.html |
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The class salutatorian is Harrison McCarty, 19.
Angtuaco, daughter of Drs. Terence Angtuaco and Josephine Co, is planning to attend the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, with career plans to become a doctor.
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NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — One early morning this week in ocean waters off the coasts of Rhode Island and New York, signs of the nascent wind industry were all around. Giant upright steel tubes poked from the water, waiting for ships to hoist up turbines that will make electricity driven by wind.
A battleship-gray vessel was on the prowl. In this ramp-up for U.S. offshore wind, American marine companies and mariners fear they’ll be left behind.
So Aaron Smith, president of the Offshore Marine Service Association, was looking through binoculars to see whether ships servicing the new wind farms were using foreign-flagged vessels instead of U.S.-made ships with American crews.
“It really makes me upset when I think about the men and women I know who can do this work. American citizens, fully capable, sitting at home while foreign nationals go to work in U.S. waters,” Smith said. “It’s unfair.”
The ship is named the Jones Act Enforcer, after the century-old law that says the transport of merchandise between U.S. points is reserved for U.S.-built, owned and documented vessels. The motto: “We’ll be watching.” Smith was documenting operations to show to federal law enforcement officials and members of Congress.
The Offshore Marine Service Association says it strongly supports the offshore wind industry. Many of its member companies are already working in it. Smith said this effort is about securing their future — decades of jobs and investments. The U.S. could need roughly 2,000 of the most powerful turbines to meet its goals to ramp up offshore wind to dramatically cut its use of fossil fuels to protect the atmosphere and reduce climate change.
The Enforcer made several trips to where Danish energy company Ørsted is developing the South Fork Wind project with the utility Eversource. This will likely be the first U.S. commercial-scale wind farm to open.
Approaching the site Tuesday, Smith saw a large crane ship sailing under the Cyprus flag, smaller Belgian-flagged vessels, and U.S. fishing and offshore supply vessels near the turbine bases. The Associated Press was the only media outlet aboard.
The U.S. fleet doesn’t yet have massive ships specialized for offshore wind to install foundations and turbines. But some of the foreign-flagged vessels working in wind development areas along the East Coast are tugs and smaller supply ships. U.S. ship operators told the AP they have similar vessels that can do this work.
Ørsted responded that 75% of the vessels supporting South Fork Wind’s offshore construction are U.S.-flagged, including barges, tugs, crew transport vessels and fishing vessels that monitor for safety and marine mammals. But the larger U.S.-flagged offshore wind vessels aren’t built yet. Even so, the installation vessels for South Fork Wind have American union workers on board, the company told the AP.
“While the U.S. industry continues to mature, we’re designing our projects to tap as many American workers, contractors, suppliers and vessels as possible. We’re proud that South Fork Wind is putting hundreds of American mariners and union workers to work at sea in a wide range of roles,” Bryan Stockton, head of regulatory affairs for Ørsted, said in a statement Thursday.
Ørsted’s offshore work is complying with Jones Act provisions, Stockton added.
On this day, Smith said he could see no clear violations of the Jones Act, no “smoking gun.” In order to make a Jones Act case to Customs and Border Protection, the association would need to see several stages of activity, observing a ship for weeks if not months. It would need to show loading merchandise onto a ship in port, transporting it to an offshore site and returning empty.
In the past, the association has also checked oil and gas sites for foreign vessels. It first chartered the Enforcer from Harvey Gulf International Marine in late 2021.
Both wind and oil and gas companies can seek waivers to the Jones Act, citing national defense and unavailability of U.S. vessels, or get a ruling from Customs that a specific transaction is permitted using a foreign vessel.
But Smith said he feels that offshore wind developers are violating the spirit of the act. He said he worries investors won’t finance the building of offshore ships if they’re going to compete against foreign vessels with cheaper day rates, largely because foreign crews can be paid less. That would create a cycle where developers keep using foreign vessels because no U.S. vessels are available.
The association wants to break that cycle as the industry takes off, Smith said. Federal officials expect to review at least 16 construction and operations plans for commercial, offshore wind energy facilities by 2025.
“That’s a ton of work we could be doing,” Smith said, “and a ton of good-paying jobs.”
Randy Adams owns Sea Support Ventures in Cut Off, Louisiana. His vessels do geological surveys for oil and gas. He wants to do the same for the clean energy transition, but hasn’t yet.
“I’m just concerned that our industry is going to miss the boat on the wind farm work,” he said. “I can’t say we’re being shut out of it, but we’re sure not on the top of the totem pole.”
As for the Jones Act Enforcer, Smith plans to keep it berthed at the port of New Bedford, Massachusetts into August, visiting the two commercial-scale wind farm sites. Ørsted is installing 12 turbines. The other developer, Vineyard Wind, is building a 62-turbine wind farm 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the Massachusetts coast.
Vineyard Wind said in a statement Thursday that its project complies with all U.S. laws, including the Jones Act, and it fully supports the American maritime and shipbuilding industry.
Before arriving in Massachusetts, the Enforcer was off the coast of Virginia where Dominion Energy plans an offshore wind farm. Smith was seeing if foreign vessels were surveying the area for unexploded ordnance, and he said they were, despite at least four of his member companies bidding on the job.
Dominion told the AP those vessels are not transporting merchandise between U.S. points, so they’re compliant. The company said U.S. vessels got the work surveying, scouting, hauling equipment and transporting technicians.
In Texas, Dominion is also currently building the Charybdis, the first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind-installation vessel and says it strongly supports the Act. Ørsted will charter that ship.
Ørsted is also investing in the Eco Edison, the first American-made offshore wind service operations vessel, now under construction in Louisiana, and in five more crew transfer vessels being built in Rhode Island.
Sam Giberga is executive vice president and general counsel at Hornbeck Offshore Services in Covington, Louisiana. Its supply vessels and multi-purpose support ships are primarily used by the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico. He said at first they were excited by the promise of offshore wind because it’s clean energy that will create jobs and business. But for him, it’s starting to feel like a broken promise. The company recently lost a bid to a foreign vessel.
“We are a maritime nation. Always have been. This is the next great maritime frontier and we’re not going to get to do it,” Giberga asked. “Why would we allow that?” ___
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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Merced County is preparing for another round of storms just two months after widespread flooding displaced hundreds of residents.
Picnic areas at Hanagan Park in the Stevinson area of Merced County were already underwater on Wednesday.
Barbecues and trash cans were barely visible because of flooding from the nearby Merced River.
Officials say it's the result of water being released from Exchequer Dam to make room in the reservoir for heavy rain and runoff during the upcoming storm.
"I flew that Tuesday and we were at treetop level. I was going really slow. and there's still a lot of compromised areas. Do I think they're gonna fail not really but there's always a chance. We don't know what kind of variables are running around the canal banks," Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke says.
About two months ago, floodwaters displaced many people in Merced.
The neighborhood is trying to put the pieces back together. But just weeks after returning home, these resilient residents are getting ready to possibly evacuate again.
One local, Chris Krzanich, recalls being evacuated two months ago.
"All I keep thinking to myself is not again not again. I don't wanna go through this again. being rescued at 1:30 in the morning on a flatbed trailer with it. Yeah, we're not going through that again. So, I will be leaving early if it is gonna look bad."
Houses are boarded up to prevent thieves from breaking in.
We're told it's already been a problem.
But the biggest concern is flood waters reaching the doors of these already damaged homes. Some partially repaired.
"Now we're gonna go get sandbags and pray it doesn't happen again," says Chris.
The City of Merced is offering sandbags and crews have been putting up barriers known as muscle walls along Bear Creek.
All in efforts to prepare for this next round of rain.
Merced Fire Chief Derek Parker mentions, "We are prepared to see what we saw before if not greater. However, we have a lot of plans. we've already had some lessons learned and we're trying to make some improvements."
The Merced County Sheriff's Office does advise people to park their cars in elevated spots, and not to drive through flood waters.
City officials also urge people to stay away from bike paths near moving waters and streams because they can be fast, dangerous and cold.
Also be ready with your important documents, medications, pets and necessities in case of evacuations. | https://abc30.com/merced-county-storm-preparations-river-flooding-concerns/12931270/ | 2023-03-09 02:50:13 | 0 | https://abc30.com/merced-county-storm-preparations-river-flooding-concerns/12931270/ |
Washington, D.C.'s city council unanimously passed a bill that would ban employers from firing workers that fail tests for cannabis.
If approved by the city's Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Cannabis Employment Protections Amendment Act of 2022, would also stop employers from refusing to hire an employee if it is found they use cannabis for recreational purposes or use it for medicinal purposes.
As NPR reported, exceptions to these rules include acting under federal guidelines on the part of the employer, or if an employee is found to have consumed cannabis while on duty.
The bill's language states that it also prohibits the "possession, storage, delivery, transfer, display, transportation, sale, purchase, or growing of cannabis at the employee's place of employment." | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/washington-bill-to-stop-firing-of-dc-employees-for-failing-tests-for-cannabis-passes | 2022-06-09 01:00:00 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/washington-bill-to-stop-firing-of-dc-employees-for-failing-tests-for-cannabis-passes |
Brewery Workers Demand Fair Wage, Fair Contract
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Leinenkugel's Brewing Company workers represented by Teamsters Local 662 went on strike July 10 after rejecting the meager wage increases offered by the beermaker, which is owned by the global brewery giant Molson Coors.
"Leinenkugel's has been brewing beer in Chippewa Falls for over 150 years, which is a point of pride for both the facility's workers and the entire community," said Tom Strickland, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 662. "That storied history of success wouldn't have been possible without the hardworking Teamsters who keep this operation running. Molson Coors needs to respect these workers by agreeing to a fair contract."
"We are sick of the corporate greed and want a fair and equitable pay increase," said Dann Jackson, a maintenance technician who has worked at the brewery for 16 years. "We are underpaid given our qualifications and the number of different jobs that we do."
About 40 workers on strike voted overwhelmingly to reject Leinenkugel's last, best and final offer, which did not come close to giving workers what they deserve. The Teamsters voted 98 percent in favor of authorizing a strike after their contract ended in May.
"Leinenkugel's needs to quit stalling and pay up now," said Dan Boley, Local 662 Business Agent. "These workers are fired up and ready to fight for the pay increases they are due."
Teamsters rallied on the second day of the picket line the morning of July 11 as passing cars honked in a show of community support.
Teamsters Local 662 represents workers in a wide variety of industries throughout central and northern Wisconsin. For more information, go to teamsters662.com.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star.
Scientists said Monday that doesn’t bode well for the rest of the planets in this solar system, some of which are in the sweet spot for harboring water and potentially life.
The NASA-led team reported little if no atmosphere exists at the innermost planet in the Trappist system, 40 light-years away. The researchers used a special technique geared toward a warm planet like this one. Results were published Monday in the journal Nature.
The lack of an atmosphere would mean no water and no protection from cosmic rays, said NASA's Thomas Greene, the lead researcher.
As for the other planets orbiting the small, feeble Trappist star, “I would have been more optimistic about the others” having atmospheres if this one had, Greene said in an email.
Because this innermost planet is bombarded by solar radiation — four times as much as Earth gets from our sun — it's possible that extra energy is why there's no atmosphere, Greene noted.
More observations are planned not only of this planet, but the others in the Trappist system.
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ALPENA, MI – A Michigan man is facing felony charges after he allegedly fabricated false claims of misconduct against Michigan State Police troopers who conducted searches of his home and business, officials said.
Thomas VanDuinen, 70, of Alpena, has been bound over to circuit court, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced. He is charged with three counts of false report of a felony, a four-year felony; one count of providing a false statement to a police officer, a two-year high misdemeanor, and; one count of use of a computer to commit a crime, a seven-year felony.
In February 2021, MSP troopers executed search warrants on the defendant’s home and on a pole barn he was renting for his business in Alpena. Two days after the searches, VanDuinen began filing demands for the return of his property. He then filed lawsuits against MSP.
In his demands and lawsuits, VanDuinen allegedly made numerous false allegations against the troopers who searched his home and business accusing them of stealing money and hydrocodone pills, and forging signatures on the search warrants.
VanDuinen reported these allegations to the MSP Professional Standards Section. A criminal investigation against the troopers was initiated in June 2021. The Michigan Solicitor General authorized the closing of the investigation in January.
“Law enforcement officers who uphold their duty to serve and protect deserve to be vigorously defended against false accusations,” Nessel said in a statement. “I take seriously accusations of misconduct and am committed to thoroughly investigating such claims to ensure the public trust. In this case, Michigan State Police were falsely accused, and the offender will be held accountable.”
Earlier this month, VanDuinen’s preliminary examination was held at Alpena’s 88th District Court before Judge Alan Curtis. After hearing from six witnesses, Judge Curtis found there was enough evidence to proceed to trial and he bound the defendant over to 26th District Court on all five charges. The defendant has not yet been arraigned in circuit court.
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What is the best Zarbee’s supplement?
For nearly 15 years, Zarbee’s has been committed to making natural supplements that help fight symptoms of colds, keep our digestive systems healthy, assist with sound sleeping and strengthen our immune systems.
While they make products for all ages, the brand is probably best known among parents looking for a safe alternative to cold and sinus medications for their children. For its tasty honey-based formula that is the top recommended cough syrup by pediatricians for children under 10, the best Zarbee’s supplement is Zarbee’s Children’s Cough Syrup.
What to know before you buy a Zarbee’s supplement
Zarbee’s supplements are drug-free
Cough, throat and sinus symptoms can be aggravating. Many over-the-counter products contain alcohol and different pharmaceutical-grade drugs. Zarbee’s supplements pride themselves on being natural, using things like honey, elderberry and zinc to help treat the symptoms of common illnesses.
Zarbee’s is baby-friendly
There is a wide range of supplements made for babies. The natural ingredients and Zarbee’s commitment to not use drugs, alcohol and artificial fillers make them a favorite of parents. Zarbee’s offers cold remedies, probiotics, immune health, soothing balms and vitamins for the littlest members of your family.
Zarbee’s supports protections for bees
Zarbee’s partners with the Bee Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting bees and strengthening their environment. One-third of the world’s food relies on bee pollination. Buying Zarbee’s products helps promote bee conservancy.
What to look for in a Zarbee’s supplement
Dark honey
Zarbee’s cough and throat supplements are based with dark honey. The color of honey comes from the flower source, but dark honey is known to have higher levels of minerals and antioxidants than lighter colored honey. Honey’s stickiness is a natural soother for irritated throats. The company began with its honey-based products and continues to build the supplement line.
Allergen-free
All Zarbee’s supplements are manufactured without common allergens for dairy, eggs, wheat, fish, peanuts, soybeans, shellfish and tree nuts.
Melatonin
Zarbee’s sleep supplements use 3 milligrams of melatonin that is not habit-forming and formulated to help occasional sleeplessness without drugs.
Chamomile
Chamomile is an herb extracted from the Asteraceae plant. It is has been recognized for its calming properties. Zarbee’s incorporates chamomile into its baby balms to help calm and soothe baby’s skin and dispositions.
Agave
For its infant products, Zarbee’s uses agave for cough relief instead of honey. Honey is risky to infants and should only be used in older children as directed. Agave coats the throat like honey but research shows that it is effective only as a placebo.
Ivy leaf and thyme
Ivy leaf extract is used in Zarbee’s products that also focus on mucus reduction. Ivy leaf is believed to thin mucus similar to the drug guaifenesin in over-the-counter products.
Thyme is a herb that contains thymol, which is a natural anti-spasmodic to help with coughs. In combination with ivy leaf, this combination can be very helpful for coughs and congestion.
How much you can expect to spend on a Zarbee’s supplement
Zarbee’s supplements are priced between $6-$20 per container. The prices vary based on product category and container size. For instance, cough medicine costs $7-$8, and cough medicine with mucus treatment costs between $13-$14. Their popular elderberry immune support products cost $10-$12.
Zarbee’s supplement FAQ
Are Zarbee’s supplements drugs?
A. Zarbee’s products are considered dietary supplements by the Food and Drug Administration. That means they are not meant to prevent, diagnose, cure or treat any illness. They use natural ingredients known to have healing properties.
Is it acceptable to give children probiotics?
A. There is clinical research supporting probiotic use by children. They positively impact the immune system and may lead to improved digestive health in adulthood.
Where are Zarbee’s products sold?
A. Zarbee’s products are available at most national drugstore chains and retail stores.
What is the best Zarbee’s supplement to buy?
Top Zarbee’s supplement
Zarbee’s Children’s Cough Syrup
What you need to know: The top recommended cough syrup by pediatricians for children under 10 with all natural ingredients.
What you’ll love: The dark honey is full of antioxidants and designed to soothe irritated throats, and this doesn’t contain any alcohol, drugs, dyes or artificial flavors. It can be used with children as young as one year old and comes in grape and cherry flavors.
What you should consider: The formula is thick for some toddlers and younger children to swallow. Also, make sure your child is one year old at minimum since it contains honey.
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Top Zarbee’s supplement for the money
Zarbee’s Baby Daily Bottom Balm
What you need to know: This balm is free of petroleum and designed to calm your baby’s diaper area skin.
What you’ll love: The balm is safe for babies and is free of fragrances, parabens and petroleum. Made from natural beeswax, it also incorporates aloe, calendula and chamomile. It can be used frequently to help soothe irritated skin.
What you should consider: Some parents noted the balm is very sticky and can be hard to work with.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Worth checking out
Zarbee’s Elderberry Immune Support Gummy
What you need to know: These tasty gummies are designed to strengthen the immune system with vegetarian-friendly ingredients.
What you’ll love: Made from real elderberry extract for its antioxidant properties and good taste, these gummies include immune support with Vitamins A, C, D, E and zinc. They are made with fruit pectin for the soft texture.
What you should consider: The daily dose is three gummies which means the container only holds a 20-day supply for one person.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — To drive, or not to drive? This Memorial Day weekend, with surging gas prices that are redefining pain at the pump, that is the question for many Americans as a new COVID-19 surge also spreads across the country.
For Marvin Harper, of Phoenix, his family’s weekend travel plans are a double punch to the wallet. His college-age son and daughter each have a soccer tournament in Southern California and Colorado, respectively. He and his daughter will fly to Denver, rather than drive, because of the cost of fuel, while his wife and son will go to California in her SUV.
“My mother-in-law’s going with my wife and son to split that cost because it’s just too much on our household,” said Harper, as he filled up the tank of his truck at a Phoenix QuikTrip. “We can’t afford both of us to drive. That’s the bottom line … Gas prices are killing our household.”
For some, that’s exactly what’s caused them to rethink their holiday plans, making them opt for a staycation in their backyard to limit the damage to their wallets.
Laura Dena and her sons would typically go to Southern California around Memorial Day weekend to escape Arizona’s scorching heat. This year, because it takes at least $100 to fill up her truck, they’re staying home.
“It’s really frustrating,” said Dena while waiting in line in 90-degree heat for a pump at a Costco in Phoenix. “It’s upsetting, but there’s not much we can do. We have to pay the price.”
The average gas price in the U.S. on Thursday was $4.60 per gallon, according to AAA figures. In California, it topped $6. The high price of oil — largely because many buyers are refusing to purchase Russian oil because of its invasion of Ukraine — is the main cause of the steep gasoline prices.
Americans aren’t the only ones weighing their options as the summer travel season begins. Across the European Union’s 27 countries, gasoline has risen 40% from a year ago, to the equivalent of $8.40 a gallon.
Rising prices in the U.S. coincide with a COVID-19 surge that has led to case counts that are as high as they’ve been since mid-February, and those figures are likely a major undercount because of unreported positive home test results and asymptomatic infections.
Still, 2 1/2 years of pandemic life has many people hitting the road or taking to the skies, despite the surge. AAA estimates that 39.2 million people in the U.S. will travel 50 miles (80 kilometers) or more from home during the holiday weekend.
Those projections —- which include travel by car, plane and other modes of transportation like trains or cruise ships — are up 8.3% from 2021 and would bring Memorial Day travel volumes close to 2017 levels. The estimates are still below pre-pandemic 2019 levels, a peak year for travel.
About 88% of those 39.2 million travelers — a record number — are expected to go by car over the long weekend even as gas prices remain high, according to AAA spokesperson Andrew Gross.
In California — despite being home to the nation’s highest gas prices — the state’s nonprofit tourism agency also predicts a busy summer for the Golden State, beginning this weekend.
Ryan Becker, Visit California’s spokesperson, said his agency is seeing a lot of “pent-up demand” because of the pandemic: “I want to get out, I want to travel. I’ve had to put my anniversary trip on hold, I’ve had to put my 40th birthday trip on hold.”
Outdoorsy, an online rental marketplace for RVs and camper vans, is noticing that its renters have changed their plans over the course of the pandemic. Early on, people would rent an RV to travel cross-country safely to visit family. Now, they’re back to using the RVs as a cost-effective way for a vacation tethered to nature.
“I think everyone needs a vacation, I really do,” Outdoorsy co-founder Jen Young said. “Have we ever lived through a more stressful, challenging — mentally and physically and spiritually — time in our lives?”
Others shrug off the stress of the added travel costs because it’s out of their control. At a Chevron station in the Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Ricardo Estrada tried to guess how much the $6.49 a gallon price would run him in total for his Nissan work van.
“I’ll go with between 60 and 70 bucks,” the heating and air-conditioning technician speculated, eyeing the display as the price went up and up.
Estrada — just missing his guess when the pump registered $71.61 for 11 gallons of regular grade — has been forced to raise his business fees for customers to overcome the gas prices. He’ll be working over the holiday weekend but has a vacation planned in Arizona next month.
He’s flying, but only because of convenience, not cost.
But with airline tickets prices up, too — AAA found that the average lowest airfare for this weekend is 6% higher than last year — that’s not a sure bet, either.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jack Flaherty pitched five effective innings for St. Louis in his first big league action since June, but the NL Central-leading Cardinals had their four-game winning streak stopped by Joey Meneses and the Washington Nationals 6-0 Monday.
“Jack was encouraging,” St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol said. “I thought he did a nice job. It looked good. He was poised. I’m looking forward to him taking the bump again.”
Meneses got three hits and fellow rookie C.J. Abrams had four to back five shutout innings from Aníbal Sánchez (2-5). Washington, which has the worst record in the majors, has won three in a row.
“We’re all swinging it pretty well. Felt good to get the win and keep it rolling,” Abrams said. “I’m swinging at strikes and putting good pitches into play. You know, see ball, hit ball.”
Flaherty (0-1) returned from the injured list after being sidelined by a right shoulder issue. In his first start since June 26, he allowed one run on six hits and a walk. He struck out six and hit a batter while throwing 91 pitches.
“Some good. Some bad,” Flahlerty said. “I made pitches when I needed to for the most part. I made some adjustments pitch to pitch. Mentally, I was a lot better.”
The 26-year-old Flaherty went 9-2 last season. He’s been out for most of this year, including a stint on the IL from April 7-June 14. He made five rehab starts in the minors.
“This time, I ran with it,” Flaherty said. “I take the emotion or the adrenaline and not play it down. I didn’t try to suppress it. I was comfortable with my stuff. It’s been fun watching but it’s more fun to be a part of it.”
Sánchez gave up just two hits. It was his first start at Busch Stadium since he threw 7 2/3 no-hit innings in the opener of the 2019 NL Championship Series.
“That game was spectacular,” Sánchez said about the 2019 start. “That’s the year we won the World Series. Today is way different. I tried to be aggressive today and not let them get comfortable at the plate.”
In his last four starts, Sánchez has allowed just two runs on eight hits in 21 1/3 innings. The Nationals have won all those starts.
“We’ve got a pretty good team,” Sánchez said. “I know it doesn’t show in the numbers.”
Meneses is 40 for 118 (.339) since making his MLB debut Aug. 2. Keibert Ruiz homered, César Hernández added two hits and Lane Thomas drove in two runs against his former team.
“We’re playing good baseball right now,” Washington manager Dave Martinez said. “If we catch the ball and throw strikes we’re going to be just fine. I love what I’m seeing right now. They’re starting to get it.”
St. Louis managed just three singles against three pitchers. Mason Thompson allowed one hit in three innings for his first big league save.
“That was awesome,” Thompson said. “It wasn’t something I woke up and expected to do today. I’m really happy with how I pitched.”
The Cardinals have won seven of their last nine games and 23 of 31.
Abrams, acquired from San Diego in the trade that moved Juan Soto from Washington, led off the third with a triple.
“Maybe I could have got four if I wasn’t fixing my helmet the whole time,” Abrams laughed.
Thomas followed with a double to go up 1-0.
“This is a special place,” said Thomas, who also drew two walks and was hit by a pitch. “I started my career here and I have a lot of good friends over there. For sure, I wanted to do well here.”
Washington added four runs in the sixth. St. Louis native Luke Voit drove in the final run with a sacrifice fly.
LABORING ON HOLIDAY
The loss left Cardinals are 0-3 on Labor Day against the Nationals. St. Louis lost 4-1 at RFK Stadium in 2006 and dropped a 4-3 contest in 10 innings at Nationals Park in 2018. That game also was started by Flaherty.
ROSTER MOVES
Cardinals: Activated Flaherty from the 60-Day injured list. … Optioned RHP Dakota Hudson to Triple-A Memphis. … Designated RHP Junior Fernández for assignment. Fernández appeared in 13 games in relief for the Cardinals this season with a 0-0 record and a 2.93 ERA.
MOLINA MILESTONES
Cardinals star Yadier Molina made his 2,098th career start at catcher, passing Carlton Fisk (1969-93) for second all-time in MLB history. Hall of Famer Iván Rodríguez (2,346) is the only catcher with more starts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Nationals: DH Nelson Cruz (right knee contusion) is listed as day to day. Cruz has been out of the lineup since Sept. 3, the day after he made an early exit after fouling a ball off his right knee.
Cardinals: LHP Steven Matz (left MCL tear) will begin a minor league rehab stint Tuesday with Double-A Springfield. When he returns later this month, the Cardinals plan to use Matz out of the bullpen.
UP NEXT
Nationals: RHP Paolo Espino (0-6, 4.22) will make his second start against the Cardinals this season and his first ever at Busch Stadium. He allowed four runs on seven hits in a July 30 game that Washington ended winning 7-6.
Cardinals: LHP José Quintana (4-6, 3.47) will be making his third start of the season against the Nationals and his first as a member of the Cardinals. The Nationals are one of five teams that he has no career wins against.
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Police have arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing a man near the Oregon Historical Society and Portland Art Museum in downtown Portland late Tuesday.
Jonathan Grall, 25, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon charges.
The names of the victim was not immediately released.
According to the Portland Police Bureau, the investigation began at 10:57 p.m. on Jan. 31 when Central Precinct officers responded to a stabbing call in the 1200 block of Southwest Park Avenue. When officers arrived, they found an adult male suffering from an apparent stab wound. Paramedics arrived to treat the victim, but he died at the scene.
One person has been detained. The Portland Police Homicide Unit responded to continue the investigation. Southwest Park Avenue and Southwest Ninth Avenue were closed between Southwest Main Street and Southwest Jefferson Street for several hours.
The identity of the victim will be released after he is positively identified, the Medical Examiner has confirmed cause of death and after family members have been notified, police said.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Enservco Corporation (NYSE American: ENSV) between May 13, 2021 and April 18, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 19, 2022.
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It was a tie game in Orlando on Nov. 5. De’Aaron Fox got the ball with about five seconds left, took four dribbles and let a shot fly from just inside of midcourt as time expired.
Miami’s Jimmy Butler was second, and Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan was third.
“You can’t be afraid to fail,” Fox said on the TNT broadcast of the announcement. “Obviously, you’re not going to make every shot, but my teammates, my coaches, they put me in position to succeed. So the least I can do is have confidence in myself to take good shots.”
Fox became Sacramento’s first individual winner of a major award since Tyreke Evans held off Stephen Curry for rookie of the year in 2010. The Kings almost certainly won’t be waiting 13 years for their next award — it’ll be more like 24 hours, probably, with Mike Brown expected to be announced as the coach of the year when the NBA reveals those results on Wednesday.
The voting was a runaway; Fox, who led the league with 194 clutch points, got 91 of the possible 100 first-place votes and 460 of a possible 500 points. Butler got one first-place vote and 104 points, while DeRozan finished with 80 points — just three ahead of fourth-place finisher Jalen Brunson of New York.
DeRozan was second in the NBA with 159 clutch points scored this season, and Butler was third with 151.
Fox led the league in clutch-game scoring this season with 194 points in 39 such games; clutch games are defined as those where the margin between teams is five points or less at any point in the final 5:00. He actually shot better from the field in those moments (53%) than he did at all other times (51%).
He becomes the first recipient of the Jerry West Trophy; it was named for the player who earned the moniker of “Mr. Clutch” during his career. The NBA announced in December that it was adding the clutch award; like most other awards, it is voted on by the media panel, but unlike other awards the field of candidates is first narrowed down by polling of NBA coaches.
Fox was one of many major contributors to a resurgence in Sacramento this season.
The Kings — who currently lead defending champion Golden State 2-0 in a Western Conference first-round series — reached the postseason for the first time in 17 years. Fox is averaging a team-best 31 points in those two playoff games so far. And at 48-34, this was Sacramento’s best regular season since going 50-32 in 2004-05.
“My teammates and my team put me in position to succeed,” Fox said.
The award was the second major individual one to be announced by the league this season.
Memphis’ Jaren Jackson Jr. was announced Monday as the defensive player of the year. Coach of the year (Brown, Oklahoma City’s Mark Daigneault or Boston’s Joe Mazzulla) will be announced Wednesday and Sixth Man of the Year (Boston’s Malcolm Brogdon, Milwaukee’s Bobby Portis Jr. or New York’s Immanuel Quickley) will be revealed Thursday.
The rest of the schedule for announcing other league awards, including MVP, most improved player and rookie of the year, has not yet been disclosed.
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DENVER (KDVR) — Are you looking for ways to spread holiday cheer? If you’re thinking about gifting a few extra bucks, we have some advice.
“By no means is holiday tipping mandatory, but giving someone who regularly provides you with a service a little something extra at the end of the year is always appreciated — perhaps more so than ever this year,” according to experts at Care.com.
Have you been keeping your post office busy? If you’re thinking about tipping your mail carrier, there are certain rules you must follow.
According to the United States Postal Service, mail carriers are permitted to accept a gift worth $20 or less from a customer per occasion, such as Christmas. However, cash and cash equivalents, such as checks or gift cards that can be exchanged for cash, must never be accepted in any amount.
Additionally, no employee may accept more than $50 worth of gifts from any one customer in any one calendar year period.
When it comes to tipping more this time of year, 45% of U.S. adults say they typically give higher-than-usual tips to service providers who normally receive tips throughout the year, according to a survey completed by CreditCards.com.
Care.com shared tipping recommendations, saying that experts recommend considering several factors when deciding how to give and to whom. They include your relationship with the recipient, your budget, the recipient’s position and your personal preferences. Here are some suggestions:
Tipping recommendations
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NET MERCHANDISE SALES GREW 13.6%
COMPARABLE NET MERCHANDISE SALES INCREASED 9.2%
MEMBERSHIP BASE AT RECORD HIGH AND RENEWAL RATE OF 88.9%
EPS GREW 19% TO $0.75
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSMT), operator of 50 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory, today announced results for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2022, which ended on August 31, 2022.
Comments from Sherry S. Bahrambeygui, Chief Executive Officer:
"Our team delivered impressive results for the fourth quarter, with net merchandise sales finishing at $989.9 million and total revenues exceeding $1.0 billion for the quarter and $4.0 billion for the year. Net merchandise sales grew by 13.6%, after a negative 2.9% currency impact, and comparable net merchandise sales increased by 9.2%, after a negative 2.7% currency impact.
"Our total membership base grew to a new record of 1.76 million accounts, representing growth of 5.5% versus last year. Our 12-month membership renewal rate was 88.9%, and our membership income for the fourth quarter was a record $15.6 million, an increase of 6.7% over the same period last year. We believe that these strong results and solid renewal rates demonstrate that our team is executing well on our unique club-focused business model and that our Members are pleased with the value they are receiving.
"Our team adeptly handled the excess inventory challenges head-on and efficiently moved through overstocks, allowing us to begin restoring a more normalized inventory balance and margin structure.
"We ended the year with a strong balance sheet, which included cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash of $251.4 million and debt of only $137.3 million.
"As to fiscal year 2023, we are off to a respectable start with September total net merchandise sales of $324.1 million, an increase of 12.1% over the same period in the prior year, and comparable net merchandise sales for the four-week period ended October 2, 2022 that increased 7.8% compared to the same period last year. Currency fluctuations continued to negatively impact net merchandise and comparable net merchandise sales by 2.0% and 2.1%, respectively, in the first month of the fiscal first quarter.
"Our team continually strives for improvement, and with each new experience, our team becomes more agile and better prepared to take on the uncertainties and capitalize on potential opportunities going forward."
Fourth Quarter Financial Results
Total revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022 increased 12.3% to $1.02 billion compared to $909.6 million in the comparable period of the prior year. For the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022, net merchandise sales increased 13.6% to $989.9 million from $871.2 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021. Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations impacted net merchandise sales negatively by $24.8 million, or 2.9%, versus the same period in the prior year.
The Company had 50 warehouse clubs in operation as of August 31, 2022 compared to 47 warehouse clubs in operation as of August 31, 2021.
Comparable net merchandise sales for the 47 warehouse clubs that have been open for greater than 13 ½ calendar months increased 9.2% for the 14-week period ended September 4, 2022 compared to the comparable 14-week period of the prior year. Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations impacted comparable net merchandise sales negatively by $24.9 million, or 2.7%, versus the same period in the prior year.
The Company recorded operating income during the fiscal fourth quarter of $39.0 million compared to operating income of $32.5 million in the prior year period. Net income attributable to PriceSmart grew 19.5% to $23.3 million, or $0.75 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022 as compared to $19.5 million, or $0.63 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021.
Full Year Financial Results
Total revenues for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2022 increased 12.3% to $4.07 billion compared to $3.62 billion in the prior year.
Comparable net merchandise sales for warehouse clubs that have been open for greater than 13 ½ calendar months increased 10.4% for the 53-week period ended September 4, 2022 compared to the comparable 53-week period of the prior year. Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations impacted comparable net merchandise sales negatively by $76.2 million, or 2.2%, versus the prior year.
The Company recorded operating income during the fiscal year ended August 31, 2022 of $167.1 million compared to operating income of $158.0 million in the prior year. Net income attributable to PriceSmart grew 6.6% to $104.5 million, or $3.38 per diluted share, in the fiscal year ended August 31, 2022 as compared to $98.0 million, or $3.18 per diluted share, in the prior year.
Conference Call Information
PriceSmart management will host a conference call at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time (9:00 a.m. Pacific time) on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, to discuss the financial results. Individuals interested in participating in the conference call may do so by dialing toll free (855) 209-8211 or (412) 317-5214 for international callers and asking to join the PriceSmart earnings call. A digital replay will be available shortly following the conclusion of the call through November 8, 2022 by dialing (877) 344-7529 for domestic callers, or (412) 317-0088 for international callers, and entering replay passcode 1071897.
About PriceSmart
PriceSmart, headquartered in San Diego, owns and operates U.S.-style membership shopping warehouse clubs in Latin America and the Caribbean, selling high quality merchandise and services at low prices to PriceSmart Members. PriceSmart operates 50 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory (nine in Colombia; eight in Costa Rica; seven in Panama; five in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, four in Trinidad; three in Honduras; two each in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Jamaica; and one each in Aruba, Barbados and the United States Virgin Islands). In addition, the Company plans to open a warehouse club in San Miguel, El Salvador in the spring of 2023 and a warehouse club in Medellín, Colombia in the summer of 2023. Once these two new clubs are open, the Company will operate 52 warehouse clubs.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements concerning PriceSmart, Inc.'s ("PriceSmart", the "Company" or "we") anticipated future revenues and earnings, adequacy of future cash flows, omni-channel initiatives, proposed warehouse club openings, the Company's performance relative to competitors and related matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements containing the words "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "project," "estimate," "anticipated," "scheduled," "intend," and like expressions, and the negative thereof. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including, but not limited to: various political, economic and compliance risks associated with our international operations, adverse changes in economic conditions in our markets, natural disasters, volatility in currency exchange rates and illiquidity of certain local currencies in our markets, competition, consumer and small business spending patterns, political instability, increased costs associated with the integration of online commerce with our traditional business, whether the Company can successfully execute strategic initiatives, our reliance on third party service providers, including those who support transaction and payment processing, data security and other technology services, cybersecurity breaches that could cause disruptions in our systems or jeopardize the security of Member or business information, cost increases from product and service providers, interruption of supply chains, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) related factors and challenges, exposure to product liability claims and product recalls, recoverability of moneys owed to PriceSmart from governments, and other important factors discussed in the Risk Factors section of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other factors discussed from time to time in other filings with the SEC, which are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date that they are made, and the Company does not undertake to update them, except as required by law.
For further information, please contact Michael L. McCleary, EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer (858) 404-8826 or send an email to ir@pricesmart.com.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
712 PM EDT Sun Sep 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Jefferson and west central Lewis Counties through 815 PM EDT...
At 712 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Barnes Corners, or near Watertown, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Watertown, Carthage, Lowville, West Carthage, Adams, Barnes Corners,
Adams Center, Denmark, New Bremen, Watson, Martinsburg, Rodman,
Lorraine, Copenhagen, Croghan, Castorland, Worth, East Rodman,
Bellwood and Rector.
This includes Interstate 81 between exits 42 and 44.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 4377 7602 4396 7602 4401 7536 4370 7539
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 271DEG 30KT 4387 7588
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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PLEASANTON, Calif., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, plans to announce its fiscal 2024 first quarter financial results after market close on Thursday, May 25, 2023. The company will host a conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to review its financial results and business outlook.
A live webcast of the event will be available on the Workday Investor Relations site. The replay of the webcast will be available for a minimum of 90 days after the conference call.
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work. Workday is used by more than 10,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
© 2023. Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday and the Workday logo are registered trademarks of Workday, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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EUGENE, Ore. — There are still no winners of the Mega Millions billion-dollar jackpot, but a number of people across the United States, including one lucky Oregonian, will be headed to the bank with a $1 million winning ticket.
The ticket was sold in Eugene on Monday and the person matched five of the six winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing, the Oregon Lottery said. The winning numbers for the jackpot were 7-13-14-15-18 and Mega Ball 9.
The Mega Millions jackpot started on Oct. 14. With no grand prize winner for the 25th time in a row, Friday's drawing has now ballooned to an estimated $1.35 billion paid out over 29 years, or $707.9 million in cash. The jackpot is the second largest in Mega Millions history.
Plenty of lottery players in the Northwest alone have attempted to try their luck. Since Saturday, the Oregon Lottery has sold more than $3.15 million in tickets.
The largest Mega Millions prize ever won in Oregon was $3 million in 2019, according to the Oregon Lottery. Two people won that sum in separate lottery games.
When is the next Mega Millions drawing?
The next Mega Millions drawing will be on Friday, Jan. 13 at 7:59 p.m. PST.
Want to check if you won? Players can type in their ticket numbers on the Oregon Lottery website or by using the mobile app.
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Back-to-back shootings in Long Beach leave one dead, two wounded
Police were investigating back-to-back shootings Friday night in Long Beach, including one that left a man wounded on a beach bike path and a second that left another man dead and a woman injured.
Officers were called to the bike path near the 2100 block of East Ocean Boulevard around 8:25 p.m., where they found the man with a gunshot wound to his upper body, according to the Long Beach Police Department. By the time officers arrived, the shooter had fled.
The victim was hospitalized in critical condition.
A couple of hours later, three men shot a man multiple times in his upper body in an unprovoked attack around 14th Street and Walnut Avenue, the department said. Police said that passersby in the area were trying to save the man when officers arrived.
The man, identified as Duwayane Thomas, 24, was taken to a hospital, where he died.
As the three men were fleeing the area, police said, they shot at a woman who was driving nearby. The woman, who did not know Thomas, was expected to survive. She had multiple gunshot wounds to her upper and lower body.
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TORONTO, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Valour Inc. (the "Company" or "Valour") (NEO: DEFI) (GR: RMJR) (OTCQB: DEFTF), a technology company bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance, is pleased to announce that further to its news release dated October 11, 2022, it has closed the second tranche of its non-brokered private placement financing (the "Private Placement") of units ("Units") for gross proceeds of $132,400 through the sale of 662,000 Units at a price of C$0.20 per Unit (the "Second Tranche"). Each Unit is comprised of one common share of the Company and one half of a common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"), entitling the holder of a Warrant to acquire one additional common share of Valour (a "Common Share") at an exercise price of $0.30 for a period of 24 months from issuance. No finders fees were paid in connection with the closing of the Second Tranche.
All securities issued in connection with the Private Placement will be subject to a statutory hold period of four-months and one day. Completion of the Private Placement is subject to a number of conditions, including without limitation, receipt of NEO Exchange approval.
Valour Inc. is a technology company bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance. Our mission is to expand investor access to industry-leading decentralized technologies which we believe lie at the heart of the future of finance. On behalf of our shareholders and investors, we identify opportunities and areas of innovation and build and invest in new technologies and ventures in order to provide trusted, diversified exposure across the decentralized finance ecosystem. For more information or to subscribe to receive company updates and financial information, visit https://valour.com
Cautionary note regarding forward-looking information:
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to: closing of further tranches of the Private Placement; tokens in its venture portfolio; the regulatory environment with respect to the growth and adoption of decentralized finance; the pursuit by Valour and its subsidiaries of business opportunities; and the merits or potential returns of any such opportunities. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company, as the case may be, to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but is not limited the acceptance of Valour exchange traded products by exchanges; growth and development of DeFi and cryptocurrency sector; rules and regulations with respect to DeFi and cryptocurrency; general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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Jane Fonda has received a new cancer diagnosis.
The Grace and Frankie star shared on Sept. 2 that she is battling non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and is going through chemotherapy treatments.
"This is a very treatable cancer. 80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky," Fonda, 84, wrote on Instagram, later adding, "I'm doing chemo for 6 months and am handling the treatments quite well."
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma is a cancer that begins in white blood cells and it affects the lymph system, which is part of the immune system, according to cancer.org.
"Cancer is a teacher and I'm paying attention to the lessons it holds for me," Fonda reflected. "One thing it's shown me already is the importance of community. Of growing and deepening one's community so that we are not alone. And the cancer, along with my age --almost 85-- definitely teaches the importance of adapting to new realities."
Noting that "we're living through the most consequential time in human history," she said that she will not "allow cancer to keep me from doing all I can" in the world.
Fonda previously had a tumor removed in 2010 following a breast cancer diagnosis, and also got a cancer removed from her lip about four years ago.
"I've had a lot of cancer," she told Vogue in 2019. "I was a sun-worshipper. When I have a day off, I frequently go to my skin doctor and have things cut off me by a surgeon."
However, she explained in her Sept. 2 post that her latest health concerns will not "interfere with my climate activism" or other advocacy. In fact, she used her diagnosis to spread awareness for both climate change and health insurance obstacles.
"I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments," she wrote. "I realize, and it's painful, that I am privileged in this. Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don't have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right."
Fonda continued, "We also need to be talking much more not just about cures but about causes so we can eliminate them. For example, people need to know that fossil fuels cause cancer. So do pesticides, many of which are fossil fuel-based, like mine."
The Oscar winner said she hopes to keep building her Fire Drill Fridays movement and "finding new ways to use our collective strength to make change."
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 24, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
354 PM EDT Sun Jul 24 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL STEUBEN COUNTY...
At 353 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Cameron, or 16
miles southeast of Hornell, moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
This severe storm will be near...
Thurston and Gang Mills around 405 PM EDT.
Campbell, Savona and Coopers Plains around 410 PM EDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Stolen helicopter crashes at Sacramento Executive Airport
Published: Mar. 15, 2023 at 8:06 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The attempted theft of a helicopter ended in wreckage on Wednesday when it crashed at Sacramento Executive Airport, authorities said.
Between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., someone tried to start four helicopters that were sitting at the airport and managed to operate one, Sacramento police said.
The Bell 429 helicopter wound up on its side with its rotors sheared off and its tail boom cracked.
No injuries were reported. The thief took off and no arrests have been made, authorities said.
It’s a federal crime to destroy an aircraft. The FBI, Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board were investigating.
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It's now easier for customers to find out if a product sold on Amazon has been recalled.
The company launched its “Your Recalls and Product Safety Alerts” page this week. Customers can access the page when logged into their account.
In addition to listing recalls on the page, the new feature will alert customers if they purchased a recalled product.
"We also can issue refunds on behalf of the selling partner and manage return logistics," Amazon said in a blog post.
Amazon said it will notify customers in a timely fashion because it monitors all public retail alert websites. The retailer says it also gets direct information about recalls from manufacturers and sellers.
"When we learn of a recall, we stop all impacted product offerings and hold any related stock in our fulfillment centers," Amazon states.
SEE MORE: Children's cup sold on Amazon recalled for high lead levels
Instacart offers a similar service. The company says it engages with customers directly who may have purchased a product in the past. Other retailers also offer recall information. Walmart, Target and Kroger all have pages on their websites that are dedicated to recalls. However, they link you to the company responsible for the recall. There are also numerous apps in both the Google Play store and App Store that will provide consumers will recall information. The federal government also offers the SaferCar app that provides information about recalled vehicles.
SEE MORE: Tesla recalls nearly 16,000 of its vehicles for seat belt detachment
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18-year-old uses college savings to buy restaurant
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WEWS) – Instead of spending four years in college, an Ohio graduate took the money she would have used on tuition and invested in her future in a different way.
Samantha Frye, 18, owns Rosalie’s Restaurant and is putting all she has into making it a success.
She started working at the restaurant as a dishwasher when she was 16 years old. As the years passed, she moved up in the ranks, from kitchen prep to line cook.
Like most high school students, Frye went to college after graduation.
She went to Ohio State for business and then environmental engineering, but when the 18-year-old came in for a shift during winter break, an idea sparked when the past owners told her they wanted to sell the restaurant.
“I was thinking that maybe this was something I wanted to do,” she said. “I had savings because I was saving for college, so I had quite a bit of money saved away. And I was like, I could possibly do this.”
Frye paid her down payment and took ownership of Rosalie’s in April.
She has become an inspiration to her customers and her staff alike.
“I really think she’s just a great example of a young lady that is following her dreams and doing what she loves,” employee Leanna Gardner said.
Frye doesn’t want to change the name of the restaurant or update much, but she hopes her story has one clear message for her generation: you don’t need a college degree to make a decent living.
“Follow your instinct,” Frye advised. “If it feels right, just do it.”
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