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MADRID — Spain's second heat wave in less than a month and the year's first for neighboring Portugal is expected to last at least until the weekend, weather forecasters said Tuesday. With temperatures in both countries already elevated, the outlook magnified wildfire worries.
Portugal could get the highest temperatures. The central Alentejo region is expected to reach 46 C (115 F) on Wednesday and Thursday.
Spain's State Meteorological Agency said southern cities such as Cordoba and Seville could reach 42 C (107.6 F). Pontevedra in northwest Spain, a region less used to such extreme heat, could hit a record 41 C (105.8 F).
Meteorologists said an overheated mass of air and warm African winds are driving temperatures in the Iberian Peninsula beyond their usual highs.
Portugal and Spain started the week battling a number of wildfires in both countries, and authorities said the sweltering conditions could worsen the danger.
Civil protection services in Spain helped evacuate 400 people from seven different villages near Las Hurdes, in the central-western Extremadura region, owing to a wildfire that scorched about 2,500 hectares (6,200 acres).
Regional agriculture chief Begoña García Bernal said the fire that started Monday wasn't expected to be brought under control soon. She said it appeared to have been started by lightning.
The Spanish army's emergency unit deployed 100 soldiers to help around 300 firefighters and other response teams battle the fire.
Hundreds of firefighters in Portugal tried to tame blazes in the center of the country that forced the evacuation of dozens of people from their homes, mostly in villages around Santarem and Pombal.
On Saturday, Portugal's government declared a state of heightened alert that was set to run from Monday through Friday.
The danger of more fires led Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa to postpone a visit to Mozambique this week. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also canceled a trip to attend a United Nations event in New York.
The European Union has said climate change has the continent facing one of its hardest years for natural disasters such as droughts and wildfires.
Spain experienced a heat wave in mid-June that lasted a week and was said to be the earliest recorded in almost 40 years.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s governor wants the state to require parental consent for kids under 16 to get new accounts on TikTok, Snapchat and other social media platforms.
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s two-year budget proposal would create a law that social media companies must obtain a parent’s permission for children to sign up for social media and gaming apps. The proposal also names YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, but the proposal would apply broadly, to “any online web site, online service, online product, or online feature that requires consumer consent to register, sign up, or otherwise create a unique username.”
Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who is driving the initiative, said it would not apply to “e-commerce” or “online shopping.”
“Social media companies produce a product that is intentionally addictive to our children and has been proven harmful to kids,” Husted said. “Parents should know about it before it happens and social media companies should be held accountable.”
Companies subject to the regulations would have to produce methods to determine if a user is under 16 and send written confirmation to parents to verify their consent is legitimate. If parents do not sign off on the companies’ terms of service, their children couldn’t use the platforms. The restrictions would apply only to new account creation.
Social media companies also would have to create an introductory screen known as a “splash page” for age verification. If the user indicates they’re under 16, a parent could verify consent by signing a digital form, providing government identification, connecting with “trained personnel” over video chat, using a credit or debit card or other online payment system, or calling a toll-free number.
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Mercedes has issued a 'Do not drive' advisory for 292,000 vehicles. Here's which ones are included
Mercedes-Benz is recalling 292,000 SUVs and advising owners of the vehicles to stop driving them until a potential problem — which could cause the power brake system to fail — can be fixed if needed.
The recall and advisory apply to Mercedes ML-, GL-. and R-class SUVs from the 2006 through 2012 model years. Brake boosters, which provide power assistance to the brakes, can corrode over an extended period of time, especially when exposed to significant amounts of water, according to announcements from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Mercedes. Corrosion can allow air to leak into the system, weakening the power brakes. This would cause drivers to have to exert more force to bring the vehicle to a stop and could lead to increased stopping distances.
In "rare cases of very extreme corrosion" sudden hard braking could damage the brake booster leading to brake system failure, according to the advisory. The parking brake is not affected by these issues.
Mercedes will ask owners of vehicles involved in the recall to take their SUV to a dealer for an inspection. If the brake booster does not show corrosion, no further action will be needed, according to NHTSA. SUVs that exhibit brake booster corrosion will undergo further tests to determine if the brakes are functioning normally. In this case, owners of SUVs that have brakes that are functioning well will be asked to return later, possibly up to two years, for re-inspection and possible repairs. If the brakes are not functioning normally, the booster will be replaced immediately.
There will be no charge for any recall-related repairs or inspections and Mercedes will provide free towing of vehicles to the dealer for inspections and repairs. Mercedes dealers can also help arrange alternative transportation for owners whose vehicles need recall-related repair work that cannot be done immediately, the automaker said.
There have been no crashes, injuries or deaths related to the issue, according to Mercedes. Owners with questions can contact Mercedes at 888-548-8514 or NHTSA at 888-327-4236. Owners can also go to NHTSA's website and enter their vehicles' VIN number to see if it is involved in the recall. | https://www.wisn.com/article/mercedes-issues-do-not-drive-advisory-for-292-000-suvs/39983346 | 2022-05-14 18:27:02 | 1 | https://www.wisn.com/article/mercedes-issues-do-not-drive-advisory-for-292-000-suvs/39983346 |
How the Supreme Court student loan decision affects you
NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loan debt, effectively killing the $400 billion plan, which would have canceled up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million people. Of those, 20 million would have had their remaining student debt erased completely.
The court’s decision means, barring an act of Congress, those Americans are on the hook for payments starting in October.
Still, borrowers who are worried about their budgets do have options. For instance, the government has other loan forgiveness programs that are still in effect, even if Biden’s plan was struck down.
Here’s what to know about how the decision will affect you:
WHEN WILL STUDENT LOAN PAYMENTS RESUME?
Student loan payments that have been frozen for the last three years because of the pandemic are set to restart in October. That was going to happen no matter what the Supreme Court decided. Interest will start accruing Sept. 1.
HOW SHOULD I PREPARE?
Betsy Mayotte, president of the Institute of Student Loan Advisors, encourages people not to make any payments until the pause has ended. Instead, she says, put what you would have paid into a savings account.
“Then you’ve maintained the habit of making the payment, but (you’re) earning a little bit of interest as well,” she said.
Mayotte recommends borrowers use the loan-simulator tool at StudentAid.gov or the one on TISLA’s website to find a payment plan that best fits their needs. The calculators tell you what your monthly payment would be under each available plan, as well as your long-term costs.
Katherine Welbeck of the Student Borrower Protection Center recommends logging on to your account and making sure you know the name of your servicer, your due date and whether you’re enrolled in the best income-driven repayment plan.
WHAT IF I CAN’T OR DON’T WANT TO PAY?
If your budget doesn’t allow you to resume payments, it’s important to know how to navigate the possibility of default and delinquency on a student loan. Both can hurt your credit rating, which would make you ineligible for additional aid.
If you’re in a short-term financial bind you may qualify for deferment or forbearance — allowing you to temporarily suspend payment.
To determine whether deferment or forbearance are good options for you, you can contact your loan servicer. One thing to note: interest still accrues during deferment or forbearance. Both can also impact potential loan forgiveness options. Depending on the conditions of your deferment or forbearance, it may make sense to continue paying the interest during the payment suspension.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER PROGRAMS THAT CAN HELP WITH STUDENT LOAN DEBT?
If you’ve worked for a government agency or a nonprofit, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program offers cancellation after 10 years of regular payments, and some income-driven repayment plans cancel the remainder of a borrower’s debt after 20 to 25 years.
Borrowers should make sure they’re signed up for the best possible income-driven repayment plan to qualify for these programs.
Borrowers who have been defrauded by for-profit colleges may also apply for borrower defense and receive relief.
These programs aren’t be affected by the Supreme Court ruling.
WHAT’S AN INCOME-DRIVEN REPAYMENT PLAN?
An income-driven repayment plan sets your monthly student loan payment at an amount that is intended to be affordable based on your income and family size. It takes into account different expenses in your budget, and most federal student loans are eligible for at least one of these types of plans.
Generally, your payment amount under an income-driven repayment plan is a percentage of your discretionary income. If your income is low enough, your payment could be as low as $0 per month.
If you’d like to repay your federal student loans under an income-driven plan, the first step is to fill out an application through the Federal Student Aid website.
HOW CAN I REDUCE COSTS WHEN PAYING OFF MY STUDENT LOANS?
— If you sign up for automatic payments, the servicer takes a quarter of a percent off your interest rate, Mayotte says.
— Income-driven repayment plans aren’t right for everyone. That said, if you know you will eventually qualify for forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, it makes sense to make the lowest monthly payments possible, as the remainder of your debt will be cancelled once that decade of payments is complete.
— Reevaluate your monthly student loan repayment during tax season, when you already have all your financial information in front of you. “Can you afford to increase it? Or do you need to decrease it?” Mayotte said.
— Break up payments into whatever ways work best for you. You could consider two installments per month, instead of one large monthly sum.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The idea of a daring wartime trip by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Washington had percolated for some time before the surprise visit was revealed just hours ahead of the Ukrainian president’s arrival.
During an October summit in Zagreb, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed with her counterpart in the Ukrainian parliament the prospect of Zelenskyy addressing the U.S. Congress. Biden administration officials had similarly for months talked with Ukraine about a Zelenskyy visit to the White House, hoping for one before year’s end to send an unmistakable signal of support ahead of a brutal winter that could deepen Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault.
In previous calls, Zelenskyy had indicated to President Joe Biden and other senior officials that the United States was the first country he wanted to visit when the time was right for him to travel, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the conversations. So in a Dec. 11 phone call between the two leaders, Biden reiterated the invitation.
This time, Zelenskyy told Biden, was the right time.
“I really wanted to come earlier. Mr. President knows about it, but I couldn’t do it because the situation was so difficult,” Zelenskyy said from the Oval Office on Wednesday. The trip could happen now, the Ukrainian leader said, because “we controlled the situation and … first of all, because of your support.”
The behind-the-scenes details of Zelenskyy’s surprise visit to Washington were described by an aide to Pelosi, a U.S. official and a senior administration official, all of whom requested anonymity to describe planning for the secret trip. Once the wheels of planning started to roll, Zelenskyy’s 10-hour visit — which packed in an Oval Office meeting with Biden, a joint news conference at the White House and an address to a largely supportive Congress — came together quickly.
After the two presidents discussed the trip on Dec. 11, the White House extended a formal invite on Dec. 14, according to the senior administration official. Zelenskyy accepted the invitation on Friday, and the visit was confirmed two days later, at which point White House officials notified Pelosi’s office of the Ukrainian leader’s travel plans.
“I’m delighted you were able to make the trip to be here,” Biden told Zelenskyy on Wednesday. “It’s an honor to be by your side in united defense against what is a brutal, brutal war being waged by Putin.”
What came about Wednesday was an elaborately executed plan by U.S. and Ukrainian officials to swiftly and safely route Zelenskyy to Washington, his first known trip outside the country’s borders since Russia’s invasion in February.
The Ukrainian president crossed into Poland early Wednesday, according to Poland’s private broadcaster, TVN24, arriving at a train station in Przemysl, a border town and the arrival point for many refugees fleeing the war. Accompanied by the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, Zelenskyy was transported in a U.S. Embassy vehicle to an airport in Rzeszów, where he boarded a nonstop flight that landed at Joint Base Andrews shortly after noon Wednesday.
Carrying Zelensky to Andrews was a U.S. Air Force jet — a government plane typically used for Cabinet secretaries and other dignitaries below the president and vice president. The White House didn’t publicly announce the impending Zelenskyy visit until 1 a.m. Wednesday — waiting until they felt Zelenskyy was safely out of Ukraine.
Once Zelenskyy landed, Secret Service protection kicked in, as is typically done for visiting heads of state.
The senior administration official said the U.S. consulted closely with Zelenskyy on his security, and that the Ukrainian president felt it was sufficient for him to briefly travel to the United States.
Meanwhile, Pelosi, who had traveled the world in recent months in a ferocious defense of Ukraine, had also been planting the seeds for months for a Zelenskyy address to Congress.
She had been at the Zagreb summit in October at the invitation of Zelenskyy and Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament. There, Zelenskyy spoke to the audience of “the importance of the free world’s unshakable solidarity with Ukraine” — an address that Pelosi emphasized in her invitation to the Ukrainian president.
The U.S. House speaker returned from Croatia and began discussing the idea of a Zelenskyy address, informing the other main congressional leaders — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — about her conversations abroad and asking for their support for the Ukrainian leader to come to the Capitol.
On Wednesday, Pelosi — just days away from handing over her gavel to Republican control — finally welcomed Zelenskyy to the Capitol, which she called a “profound privilege” and a “great pride,” coming at a moment when Capitol Hill is about to greenlight an additional $45 billion of emergency aid to Ukraine.
“Your visit comes as the Congress prepares to again pass another consequential round of security, economic and humanitarian assistance,” Pelosi told Zelenskyy. “Within the next 48 hours, hopefully this will be done.”
Before he left Ukraine, there were clues in Zelenskyy’s own words that a surprise trip abroad could be in the works.
In a visit Tuesday to Bakhmut, located in Ukraine’s contested Donetsk province, Zelenskyy was handed a Ukrainian flag. He pledged then that he would pass on the flag “from the boys to the Congress, to the president of the United States.”
Standing before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday night, Zelenskyy finally produced the flag — covered in signatures by Ukrainian troops battling on the front lines.
“They asked me to bring this flag to you, to the U.S. Congress, to members of the House of Representatives and senators whose decisions can save millions of people,” Zelenskyy said in his final words to lawmakers. “So let these decisions be taken. Let this flag stay with you. Ladies and gentlemen, this flag is a symbol of our victory in this war.”
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THE BRAND'S SPRING 2023 COLLECTION INITIATIVES WILL BLEND THE VIRTUAL + PHYSICAL WORLD
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NYX Professional Makeup announces their latest entertainment venture into the metaverse; the brand's highly anticipated Spring 2023 Drop collection will be available to experience virtually in iHeartLand on Roblox.
NYX Professional Makeup is one of the leading beauty brands activating in the metaverse, focusing on experiences that are changing the way consumers interact with NYX Professional Makeup offerings, while also empowering creators and celebrating self-expression.
In their latest brand adventure into the Metaverse, NYX Professional Makeup has entered Roblox in a partnership with iHeartMedia, expanding their connection to the world at play. As gaming continues to be an area of focus for the brand, merging beauty and ensuring digital is part of the shopping journey has been key. The "House of NYX Professional Makeup" in iHeartLand's immersive world launches on December 19, where 58.8 million daily active users on Roblox will have the chance to explore the brand's newest collection in a dreamlike-interactive space.
"Every year at NYX Professional Makeup, we release our Spring Collection by surprising our community with an immersive, social, and interactive experience", said Vivianna Blanch, Head of Marketing NYX Professional Makeup. "As one of the leading and fastest growing cosmetics brands, we partnered with iHeart, the top entertainment and leading audio brand, to drop our Spring Collection as they drop the latest in today's music. We are excited to immerse Roblox users into the world of entertainment, artistry, digital cosmetics and self-expression."
In the house, users will encounter the Los Angeles brand style and have different points of engagement to collect NYX Professional Makeup's limited-edition makeup looks for their Roblox avatars– the three looks feature exclusive Spring 2023 products: Vivid Matte Brights Liquid Liner ($9), Smooth Whip Matte Lip Cream ($8), Vivid Matte Liquid Liner ($9), and Bare With Me Blur Skin Tint Foundation ($14). The partnership will carry into 2023, where the brand's presence will also be spotlighted through the NYX Professional Makeup Pink Carpet featuring emerging artists from iHeartLand's upcoming Artist Chat Series where users can snap selfies with artists' Non-player characters (NPC's) and chat live with them.
An industry leader in the beauty space, NYX Professional Makeup continues to define the future of beauty, makeup artistry and e-commerce through immersive activations in the metaverse and Web3 via strategic partnerships to interact with fans of the brand. This latest integration with iHeartMedia will close out another year of digital experiences and growth in the metaverse for the brand, following the success of their Meta-Pride that brought diverse representation to the metaverse, creating the world's first beauty DAO, GORJS, and more.
The NYX Professional Makeup Spring 2023 collection and avatar looks are shoppable at NYXCosmetics.com and the House of NYX Professional Makeup can be found in iHeartLand on Roblox.
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Bruno Mars tours Charlotte’s bar scene with rum brand
He has planned appearances at a few more bars around town this week
Published: Jul. 11, 2022 at 3:37 PM EDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AXIOS) - Bruno Mars is in Charlotte this week to promote his rum brand SelvaRey.
What’s happening: The music legend spent Sunday night at the Uptown rooftop bar Merchant & Trade doing a private tasting with guests from Charlotte’s bartender guild and members of the media.
- The Uptown funk didn’t stop there — Mars also stopped at Fahrenheit on Sunday.
- He has planned appearances at a few more bars around town this week (our lips are sealed 🤐).
Context: Mars is co-owner of SelvaRey, a Cuban-style rum brand made in Panama. The rum is now available at North Carolina’s ABC stores and local bars.
- It comes in flavors like coconut and chocolate, and starts at $34.95 from ABC stores.
Hey Bruno, looking for recs as you continue your Charlotte bar tour? Check out our 50 best bars list. Or do as Mick Jagger did and head to the Thirsty Beaver.
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — The mother of a Swiss Guard member accused of committing one of the most sensational crimes in recent Vatican history – fatally shooting his commander and the senior officer’s wife before killing himself — is turning to the United Nations and Pope Francis in hopes of getting some closure nearly a quarter-century after the slayings.
Muguette Baudat was on hand Tuesday as her lawyer, Laura Sgro, a veteran defense attorney in Vatican criminal trials, detailed her efforts to pry information out of the Vatican and access the court file into the May 4, 1998 slayings that are recounted in Sgro’s new book, “Blood in the Vatican.”
“I’ve been waiting for more than 24 years, so I don’t expect anything,” Baudat said at a book launch event. But she added: “The book is very important.”
Within hours of the slayings, the Vatican spokesman announced that Baudat’s 23-year-old son, Cedric Tornay, a noncommissioned Swiss Guard officer, had killed Col. Alois Estermann and Estermann’s Venezuelan-born wife, Gladys Meza Romero, with his service revolver and then turned the gun on himself. The spokesman said a buildup of resentment over a reprimand by Estermann and the denial of a decoration, combined with a ″peculiar″ psychology, led to Tornay’s violent acts.
Nine months later, in February 1999, the Vatican released a 10-page summary of its internal investigation that confirmed its initial assessment. It concluded that Tornay was solely responsible for the murder-suicide but added that his marijuana use and a brain cyst the size of a pigeon’s egg could have impaired his reasoning.
Baudat spent two decades campaigning for more information and hired Sgro in 2019, asking for the Vatican investigation to be reopened. She said her request was not spurred by a belief that the Vatican was responsible, but rather to end the secrecy with which it has always handled the case.
Last year, the Vatican secretary of state intervened personally in the case and asked the Vatican tribunal to pay “particular attention” to Baudat’s request. Sgro was granted access to the court file.
In the book, Sgro details what she found in the file, as well as the conditions imposed on her by the Vatican prosecutor for viewing it: She wasn’t allowed to make copies but could only view the documentation in the tribunal, with two gendarmes standing behind her back monitoring her at all times. She was allowed to take some notes but not too many since she was explicitly barred from copying the text. She had to submit her notes to the prosecutors’ office after each viewing session, which took place over the course of a year.
And what she discovered in reading the court file, she said Tuesday, “confirmed all the doubts that the mother had about an investigation conducted in an absolutely superficial way.”
Sgro noted that at least 20 people were allowed access to the crime scene in the moments after the slayings, including chaplains, monsignors and the Vatican spokesman, none of whom wore protective gear. No fingerprints or blood samples were taken, and no DNA tests performed.
A handwriting analysis of a letter, purportedly from Tornay to his mother and foreshadowing the killings, was done on a photocopy, not the original document. The corpses were moved around the Estermann apartment, as was furniture, according to 38 photographs taken by a Vatican newspaper photographer that were in the court file. Autopsies were performed not in a hospital morgue but in the crypt of a chapel inside the Vatican walls.
“After one hour, Cedric was given up as the guilty one and the investigation was built around this, and this is absolutely the most alarming thing,” Sgro said.
The lawyer alleged that the conditions in which she was forced to work to view the file, as well as the mother’s long fight to find information about her son, constituted human rights violations that should be taken up by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
There was no indication Tuesday whether the U.N. might take up her case, since such complaints must show a consistent pattern of “gross violations” of human rights, such as the policy of apartheid in South Africa.
Sgro said she had little other recourse since the Holy See is not a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, and therefore not a party to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, where such appeals would normally be heard. The Holy See enjoys observer status at the U.N. and has received criticism from U.N. human rights experts over the clergy sexual abuse scandal.
Sgro said she sent a copy of “Blood in the Vatican” to Pope Francis and he responded with a personal letter. His response, she said, gave her hope that the Vatican might be ready to acknowledge that its original investigation was flawed and that Tornay’s legacy might somehow be rehabilitated even if he is confirmed as the killer.
“It’s a small drop after 24 years of silence,” Sgro said. “Let us hope this drop becomes a glass of water, then a lake.”
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RapidDeploy to innovate and continue building its international reputation as a partner dedicated to putting state and local communities first with proven 911 solutions
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RapidDeploy, the leading provider of cloud-native 911 mapping and analytics solutions for Public Safety, announced today $34 million in new growth capital led by Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, with participation from existing financial and strategic investors GreatPoint Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, GM Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, Tao Capital Partners, Clearvision Ventures, Tau Ventures, NedBank CIB, and others. This investment brings RapidDeploy's total raised to $87 million.
RapidDeploy has grown to 10 statewide contracts and more than 1,500 contracted 911 centers using its platform. The company has also sold to major enterprise accounts, most recently General Motors' OnStar for its call centers. This new growth investment will enable RapidDeploy to build on its successes, accelerate go-to-market initiatives, and continue innovating for the Public Safety sector. The company prides itself on how it supports its mission-critical customers and partners and will be scaling to meet the growing demand for their solutions.
"With this investment, we'll be able to further our mission of saving lives by reducing response times," said Steve Raucher, CEO and Co-founder at RapidDeploy. "We are excited to have Edison Partners as the lead investor with such deep operational expertise. This investment will help us serve our customers with proven experience in delivering tightly integrated mission-critical software to one of the most demanding industries in the United States. We are here to serve the mission!"
RapidDeploy's next-generation, cloud-native solutions include Radius Mapping, a mapping tool designed to reduce response times and radically improve the way 911 calls are handled, and Eclipse Analytics, a solution that empowers Public Safety leaders to make better decisions to improve the efficacy of the entire 911 workflow. Both Radius Mapping and Eclipse Analytics are "best in class" solutions.
"First Responders should have access to configurable solutions that tap into all available data streams and communications methods in an easy-to-digest single pane of glass. RapidDeploy's Radius Mapping and Eclipse Analytics product adoption provides strong validation that they are the solution of choice," said Edison Partner Daniel Herscovici, who led the investment. "CEO Steve Raucher and his team are recognized as the premier partner and innovator with a significant technological advantage. Their vision of creating an operating system for next-generation 911 response will save lives and transform our nation's emergency response infrastructure."
"As an early investor in RapidDeploy, it is an honor to be a part of this journey. They transformed Public Safety, and continue to advance this industry," said Ray Lane, Managing Partner at GreatPoint Ventures.
911 centers require a technology platform that delivers relevant and contextual emergency information in real time for those charged with responding to emergencies. RapidDeploy is a proven leader in next-generation technology at the state and local level and will use this investment to further support and prioritize its local, state, and federal communities.
About RapidDeploy
RapidDeploy is the leading provider of mapping and analytics solutions in Public Safety, transforming 911 and other emergency communications centers of any size into data-centric organizations. RapidDeploy achieves its mission of saving lives by reducing response times with new levels of situational awareness and the seamless integration of third-party data onto its cloud-native platform, ensuring it is available when, where, and how Telecommunicators and First Responders need it. To learn more, visit rapiddeploy.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
About Edison Partners
Edison Partners is a leading growth equity firm providing the financial and intellectual capital that CEOs and their executive teams need to grow and scale their companies. The firm's team brings more than 275 years of combined investing, operating and sector experience to each investment, accessible via the Edison Edge value creation platform, which is tailored to each business' strategy, stage and operating needs. Edison targets high-growth financial technology, healthcare IT and vertical SaaS and marketplace companies located outside Silicon Valley with $10 million to $30 million in revenue. Investments also include buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, and secondary stock purchases. Edison's active portfolio has created aggregated market value exceeding $10 billion. Edison Partners manages $1.6 billion in assets. For more information on Edison Partners, please visit edisonpartners.com and follow on LinkedIn.
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How the Eagles’ Jordan Davis got in better shape: ‘Greater power comes great responsibility’
Davis has seen his offseason efforts at improving his conditioning help, as the second-year defensive tackle prepares for a larger role with the Eagles.
When Jordan Davis looks at his reflection, he likes the face looking back at him.
The Eagles defensive tackle spent his offseason trying to improve his conditioning in preparation for a bigger role up front this year. The 2022 first-round pick said he spent the summer “moving,” whether it was going for walks or riding a stationary bike to go along with his weight-lifting regimen in an effort to improve his endurance.
The numbers on Davis’ scale aren’t reading much differently — he’s still around 340 pounds dating back to last year — but he’s noticed a more defined jawline.
“That’s all I worry about, it’s just how I look in the mirror every day,” Davis said Sunday. “My face slims up, I’m like, ‘Alright!’ I look a little bit more handsome. That’s a little motivating, too. You want to look good, feel good, play good. And be healthy for life, too, so that’s all it really takes.”
A year removed from the Eagles drafting him 13th overall, Davis went into his first NFL offseason with the expectation to see a significant uptick in playing time from his rookie season when he played just 26% of the team’s defensive snaps.
Early in his first year, the former Georgia standout offered solid run support for a defense that struggled to contain opposing offenses’ ground games without him. Just as his playing time started to increase, Davis suffered a high-ankle sprain in Week 7 that sidelined him four games and seemingly hindered him even after his return. His injury facilitated the Eagles signing veteran nose tackle Linval Joseph to stand in for Davis as the space-eating interior lineman of the group.
This year, Davis figures to be the anchor at the heart of the Eagles defensive front and have the opportunity to show that he’s explosive and stout enough to be an impact player.
“Going into this offseason, I understood I’d be in a bigger role,” Davis said. “With that, greater power comes great responsibility. I’m just going to do whatever it takes, whatever I can do to help the team, whatever package I’m on, just be conditioned and be ready for that call.”
Davis has been running almost exclusively with the first-team defense during training camp, often playing alongside veteran defensive tackle Fletcher Cox. Davis has even been a main fixture in the Eagles’ even fronts after spending the overwhelming majority of his rookie season confined to the nose tackle in odd fronts.
It’s still early and the first padded practice Tuesday will certainly be a better indicator for the Eagles’ linemen on both sides, but Davis has gotten into the backfield a few times in the first week of camp and impressed his teammates.
“He’s healthy,” Cox said last week. “Last year, I think he really started to ramp up and then he got hurt as a rookie. I think that kind of affected him. ... Now he’s healthy and he’s flying around and you can feel his presence.”
Physical appearance aside, Davis said he has noticed a difference early in camp stringing plays together without getting tired.
“It’s like, you go five plays and you’re like ‘Dang, five plays. That’s pretty cool,’” Davis said. “Obviously as we go further along the summer, there’s going to be more plays, I’ll get more conditioned. That’s just how it is, you can condition all you want in the offseason, but until like 600 pounds is pushing on you, that’s like real football [stuff.]”
Davis’ ability to impact the run game should come easy, but the bigger question lies in how he eventually rushes the passer. He was typically off the field for known-passing situations in college and just 52% of his snaps last year came on passing plays according to Pro Football Focus.
He’ll need to develop as a rusher to realize the potential that made him a first-round pick, something new defensive coordinator Sean Desai said his physical traits should make a real possibility.
Desai said he believes Davis will be able to develop into a disruptive rusher because of his physical traits.
“I think all those guys can be impactful pass rushers,” Desai said. “We’ve just got to find those roles, and it’s our job to get them in those roles to do it. Yeah, I think we’ve got a lot of guys that can be impactful pass rushers.”
“You see him. Go find another human being that looks like him,” Desai added when asked more specifically about Davis. “So I think that part of it. There are not many people built like that. He’s strong. He’s fast. He’s quick. He’s powerful. It’s about putting it all together.” | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-jordan-davis-weight-training-camp-20230731.html | 2023-07-31 17:58:57 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/eagles-jordan-davis-weight-training-camp-20230731.html |
BEIJING, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, mutates constantly. Since the beginning of the pandemic three years ago, the virus has hit the world with different faces – Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and then Omicron – taking away millions of lives.
Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Saturday at an annual meeting that if China's latest measures to ease restrictions had been taken at the beginning of this year, 866,000 to 1 million COVID-related deaths would have occurred on the Chinese mainland in 2022.
By November when China announced its new policies to relax a series of stringent measures meant to monitor and cut the spread of COVID-19, the country had reported over 5,000 deaths caused by this virus.
The low death toll, out of a population of 1.4 billion, did not come easily. As many countries tried and gave up stricter measures one after another in the past three years, China didn't follow.
Over the past three years, whenever and wherever there was a resurgence of COVID-19, the local governments attempted to cut off the virus transmission as soon as possible, even though it meant a temporary slowdown of social mobility and economic activities.
The country has released and updated nine versions of the Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for COVID-19, providing guidance for controlling the spread and timely treatment of COVID-19 patients.
A new edition will be released soon, Zhong Nanshan, China's renowned respiratory disease expert, said last week at a lecture on the fight against Omicron held by the Sun Yat-sen University, adding that the new edition will be conducive to economic development on the basis of active prevention and control of the pandemic.
All these measures based on the latest situation and mutation of the virus were introduced in order to contain the virus spread in a more science-based and targeted manner, said China's National Health Commission.
Less lethal Omicron
Researchers have found that Omicron's pathogenicity and virulence have decreased, compared with COVID-19's previous strains.
A study led by researchers from the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Hainan Medical University in south China's Hainan Province, published in the journal Nature on January 21, showed that the replication and pathogenicity of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in mice are attenuated compared with the wild-type strain and the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants.
Neeltje van Doremalen, a researcher at the Laboratory of Virology of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the United States' National Institutes of Health, gave a similar opinion in November in journal Science Advances. Data showed that Omicron replicates to lower levels than the Delta in rhesus macaques, resulting in reduced clinical disease.
China's next move amid Omicron
Chinese researchers are optimistic about the situation, with Omicron being the dominant virus for the time being.
Epidemiologist Wu said that the proportion of severe and critical cases of the disease among all confirmed cases in China has dropped from 16.47 percent in 2020 to 3.32 percent in 2021. As of December 5, 2022, it was 0.18 percent.
Zhang Wenhong, head of the Center for Infectious Diseases with the Shanghai-based Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, said at a conference that with human's immune system gradually coming to a balance with Omicron, it was unlikely that a more contagious strain would jump out.
It is "a foregone conclusion" that China is coming out of this pandemic, and the trend is not going to reverse, Zhang said, but the elderly and other vulnerable groups still need to be properly protected, urging seniors to get vaccinated.
The Chinese government has recently released a plan aimed at ramping up vaccination among the elderly population in order to better protect this vulnerable group.
The plan calls for efforts to accelerate the increase of the vaccination rate among people aged 80 and above, and also to continue to raise the vaccination rate among people aged between 60 and 79.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on December 14 that he was "hopeful" that the COVID-19 pandemic would no longer be considered a global emergency some time next year.
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Propane vehicles have a role to play in getting cleaner air
On Aug. 2, I attended a ribbon cutting ceremony at Hi-Pro Inc., a transportation and logistics trucking firm that hauls mail for the U.S. Postal Service. The event celebrated the beginning of operations for five propane powered trucks that will reduce emissions by over 20% from so-called “clean diesel” trucks. This is being done at approximately half of the cost of diesel. A speaker stated that to be “environmentally sustainable you need to be economically sustainable.” Propane vehicles fulfill that premise. It was announced that four more propane trucks were being ordered by Hi-Pro.
The event was well attended by people from the Federally funded Clean Cities organization. Clean Cities’ goal is to reduce air pollution in non-compliant areas. The U.S. Postal Service’s Jennifer Beiro-Rivelle , Senior Director, Environmental Affairs and Corporate Sustainability, was also present and spoke about propane’s role in cleaning the environment.
Conspicuously absent was anyone from the Colorado Energy Office (CEO) whose stated goal is to “electrify everything.” Electric vehicles are not available for the type of service that Hi-Pro delivers except for experimental options that are prohibitively expensive and require expensive infrastructure expenditures.
If the State of Colorado and the CEO truly want to get Colorado’s air cleaned up in a timely manner, they would support all efforts at reducing CO-22 and NOX emissions.
DAN BINNING
Arvada
Time to revisit fees required of teachers
My wife just sacrificed $56 from her humble Social Security for a fingerprint test required by the Colorado Department of Education to get her one-year substitute teacher certification.
I got a notice that my 3-year substitute teacher authorization will expire in October, and I must renew at a cost of $90.
News reports that the Bay District Schools of Panama City, Florida is waiving the $75 fingerprinting fee, as well as covering the $75 paraprofessional fee under the stress of 125 positions to fill.
With a nationwide shortage of teachers isn’t it time for Colorado lawmakers to revisit the required fees related to public education?
Oh, does Governor Polis know that my 2021 W2 form for sub-teaching in a Colorado public school district came from an outsourced West Palm Beach, Florida business?
MIKE SAWYER
Denver
Holding TABOR refunds isn’t fair
I found out yesterday that if you owe money to the courts, child support or any other of the government entities that you won’t receive your check! They put the TABOR money towards those bills.
I don't understand why they would do that to the people who need it the most, like myself. I have been unemployed since March of 2020 when COVID first hit, and am currently still unemployed. Come on Colorado do something for the people who are struggling
TAMMY WIEBERG
Palisade
There are economic reason behind China’s Taiwan aggression
Chiang Kai-Shek, China's leader of the Republic of China, is forgotten in this China/Taiwan conflict. Chiang retreated to Taiwan during Mao's revolution in 1949. It has since become a powerhouse of the microchip industry that China wishes to steal by invading Taiwan.
Deja vu. If the chip industry were to move to Korea or Japan, would Xi change his sites, or does he love the Taiwanese? | https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/letters/emailed-letters-aug-11-2022/article_7a57d9bc-18f9-11ed-b22d-b3ed1572fbeb.html | 2022-08-11 11:04:31 | 1 | https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/letters/emailed-letters-aug-11-2022/article_7a57d9bc-18f9-11ed-b22d-b3ed1572fbeb.html |
Which black jumpsuits are best?
A must have staple in any wardrobe, a black jumpsuit is one of the most timeless and versatile pieces you can own. Additionally, a black jumpsuit can range in a variety of styles for numerous occasions, and the top choice for this reason is the Nina Leonard Solid Ankle Jumpsuit. Following these tips will help you with finding the right jumpsuit that fits your shape.
What to know before you buy a black jumpsuit
Style and occasion
Jumpsuits come in various styles and are great to wear for just about any occasion. Have a cousin’s wedding to attend? A best friend’s graduation? Maybe you just want something easy to throw on before heading out to brunch. The great thing about black jumpsuits is that they can be dressed up or down for whatever event you are attending. Some black jumpsuit styles are ideal for professional settings like corporate gatherings, while others work better for more casual settings like running errands or shopping.
Design features
Black jumpsuit designs and features all have a functional look with a modern design. Today’s jumpsuit has differed from the original workwear design from the early 1900s, but a jumpsuit typically has a naturally high waist and a pant leg that either flares into a wide leg or is tapered at the ankle. Other distinct features include deep pockets, a belted waist and a range of flattering necklines.
Length and inseam
Before spending hours shopping online or trying on jumpsuits, check your body measurements first. Be sure to note your inseam, or the inside of the pant leg. Even though black jumpsuits are known for offering a classic style for everyone, not all body types fit the mold. For instance, more petite figures may have a difficult time finding a jumpsuit that won’t need to be hemmed.
Jumpsuits can run long, so it helps to budget for the possibility of needing an alteration. Make sure the length also lines up with the inseam. For example, a 31-inch inseam is tall, whereas 26 inches is short. Most inseams on jumpsuits run on the tall end, and the high waist creates the illusion of a shorter mid-section. Use the jumpsuit design features to your advantage.
What to look for in a quality black jumpsuit
Comfortable fit
If anything, a jumpsuit should always be comfortable. From the fabric to the measurements, the style of the jumpsuit enhances comfort and ease. The jumpsuit you have your eye on should fit well in the chest, waist and inseam. Length can be an issue for some, but it is an easier alteration than the rest.
Stretchy fabric
Along with comfort, a jumpsuit should have some stretch to it. Look for jumpsuits made with spandex blends. This allows it to easily fit more body types, adding breathability and space instead of being tight and constricting.
It should be adjustable
In order to create a custom fit, look for features like adjustable straps and a drawstring or built-in sash belt at the waist. These features will help fix the height and length of the garment, as well as take in the waist, if needed.
How much you can expect to spend on black jumpsuit
If you plan on buying a name brand jumpsuit, know that it will be more expensive than others, with costs around $140-$200. More affordable jumpsuits can cost anywhere from $30-$70.
Black jumpsuit FAQ
How do you prevent the color from fading?
A. You will no doubt fall in love with your jumpsuit and in turn, wear it pretty often. Frequent wear means frequent washing. In order to prevent fading, it’s helpful to wash your jumpsuit in cold water by hand, or machine wash with similar colors and dry on the gentle setting or hang to dry.
How should it fit on my body?
A. It is wise to compare your measurements if there is a corresponding size chart, but also keep in mind the fabric type and style of the jumpsuit. A jumpsuit will normally have a high waist starting above your belly button. Those with longer torsos may want to avoid jumpsuits without adjustable straps and shorter inseams that are form fitting.
What are the best black jumpsuits to buy?
Top black jumpsuit
Nina Leonard Solid Ankle Jumpsuit
What you need to know: A classic black jumpsuit with a slimming fit, this one is great for every occasion.
What you’ll love: The boatneck collar and stretchy fabric accentuate the figure. It comes together at the waistline to create a slim fit and ends the sleek look at the tapered pant leg.
What you should consider: The tapered leg ends at the ankle but may not be ideal for those who are taller or need more leg room.
Where to buy: Sold by Kohl’s
Top black jumpsuit for the money
DouBCQ Casual Short Sleeve Jumpsuit with Pockets
What you need to know: This cute and casual jumpsuit is perfect for lounging or running errands.
What you’ll love: The soft, stretchy fabric, elastic waistband and crewneck design compliment all body types. The ankle length gives you endless options with footwear.
What you should consider: The seller notes that this jumpsuit is better for warmer weather.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Pink Queen Wide Leg Jumpsuit with Belt
What you need to know: A classy and sophisticated jumpsuit, this wide leg jumpsuit can be worn to the office, then go straight to a night out with friends.
What you’ll love: The wide pant leg starts at the waistline, offering legroom and comfort, while the darting along the pant leg accentuates the height and length.
What you should consider: Users mentioned that the legs were overlong and needed to either have it hemmed or wear heels.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Trump's legal woes mount without protection of presidency
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s latest legal troubles — sweeping fraud allegations by New York’s attorney general and a stark repudiation by federal judges he appointed — have laid bare the challenges piling up as the former president operates without the protections afforded by the White House. The bluster and bravado that served him well in the political arena are less handy in a legal realm dominated by verifiable evidence, where judges this week have looked askance at his positions. This week alone, he has been sued in New York and a federal appeals court has sharply rejected his legal team's arguments about documents seized from his Florida home.
US urges world to tell Russia to stop its nuclear threats
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is urging other nations to tell Russia to stop making nuclear threats and end “the horror” of its war in Ukraine. All three countries’ top diplomats spoke at a high-profile U.N. Security Council meeting. But they didn't quite meet. Held alongside the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders, the session followed a striking development in the war this week. Russia called up a portion of its reserves for the first time since World War II. At the same time, President Vladimir Putin said his nuclear-armed country would “use all means available to us” to defend itself if its territory is threatened.
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Officials: Navy bribery case fugitive tried to get to Russia
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Officials say a fugitive Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” at the center of a Navy bribery scandal was trying to head to Russia before Venezuelan authorities captured him. Interpol Venezuela Director General Carlos Garate Rondon said in an Instagram post Wednesday that Leonard Glenn Francis would be handed over to Venezuelan officials to start extradition proceedings. U.S. officials say Francis was under home arrest in San Diego when he cut off his GPS ankle bracelet and escaped on Sept. 4, prompting an international manhunt. Francis was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in 2015 to bribing Navy officers to help his ship servicing company, then overcharging the military at least $35 million.
'Knocking on famine's door': UN food chief wants action now
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. food chief is warning that the world is facing “a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm" when it comes to hunger. David Beasley is urging donors to give a few days of profits to tackle a crisis with the fertilizer supply right now and prevent widespread food shortages next year. Beasley says that when he took the helm of WFP 5 1/2 years ago, only 80 million people around the world were headed toward starvation. But climate problems increased that to 135 million. The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in early 2020, doubled it. Finally, Russia invaded Ukraine in February, sparking a crisis that has pushed the number to 345 million.
Biden vows US won't walk away from storm-struck Puerto Rico
SAN SALVADOR, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Joe Biden says the full force of the federal government is ready to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Fiona. Speaking in New York Thursday, he said hundreds of FEMA and other federal officials are already on the ground with more help coming. He said his message to the people of Puerto Rico is: “We’re with you. We’re not going to walk away.” Meanwhile, Bermuda and Canada’s Atlantic provinces are preparing for a major blast from the Category 4 storm. It's expected to pass overnight near Bermuda, where officials are opening shelters.
Celtics suspend coach Ime Udoka for 2022-23 season
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics have suspended coach Ime Udoka for the 2022-23 season. The move takes effect immediately and with no guarantee he will be back with the franchise. The Celtics said Thursday night that Udoka was suspended for “violations of team policies.” Earlier Thursday, two people with knowledge of the matter said Udoka was being sanctioned because of an improper relationship with a member of the organization. Those people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team did not reveal that detail publicly.
US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea for joint drills
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan has arrived in the South Korean port of Busan ahead of the two countries’ joint military exercise that aims to show their strength against growing North Korean threats. The joint drills will be the first involving a U.S. aircraft carrier in the region since 2017. The allies have revived large-scale military drills this year, responding to North Korea’s resumption of major weapons testing and increasing threats of nuclear conflicts with Seoul and Washington. The South Korean navy said the training is meant to boost the allies’ military readiness and show “the firm resolve" of the South Korea-U.S. alliance for the sake of peace on the Korean Peninsula.
At least 9 killed as Iran protests over woman's death spread
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend. That's according to a tally on Thursday by The Associated Press, based on statements from Iran's state-run and semiofficial media. The demonstrations in Iran began as an outpouring of anger over the death last week of a young woman held by the country’s morality police for allegedly violating its strictly enforced dress code. The government has largely shut down internet access in an attempt to rein in the protests, in which many have called for the overthrow of Iran's ruling clerics.
Millennials, assembled: At UN, younger leaders rise
Millennial leaders are rising at the United Nations General Assembly. Shaped by the borderless internet, growing economic inequality and an increasingly dire climate crisis, the Generation Y cohort of presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other “excellencies” is making their mark at the largest gathering of world leaders. This week at the UN offers a glimpse of the latest generation of leaders in power, as a critical mass of them – born generally between 1981 and 1996 – now represent and rule countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-11-14-p-m-edt/article_62550909-81fd-5bc6-9348-470ad43a3004.html | 2022-09-23 04:09:57 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-11-14-p-m-edt/article_62550909-81fd-5bc6-9348-470ad43a3004.html |
Helen Mirren plays an otherworldly goddess in Shazam!: Fury of the Gods, but on the set of the upcoming sequel, she was only human!
The actress revealed in a recent interview that she actually broke a finger during the filming of the Shazam sequel, in which Mirren, Lucy Liu and Rachel Zegler join the cast as a trio of supernatural sisters. When the co-stars sat down to discuss the film with ET's Ash Crossan, Mirren shared why she kept the injury a secret from the cast and crew.
"When you're in that stunt world, the stunt people are so brave, and you want to be accepted by them," the Oscar winner confessed. "I'm sucking up to the stunt people."
"They're the popular kids," Zegler added with a laugh.
"They were the cool kids, exactly," Mirren agreed. "I wanted to be accepted by them so I was not going to complain about my finger."
Thankfully, the 77-year-old actress promised that she doesn't have any extreme stunts coming up in her next franchise installment, Fast X, teasing that in the film, "I just stand looking at Rome... but the driving was great."
The film's titular star, Zachary Levi, also opened up about Mirren hiding her on-set mishap.
"I had no idea, but she's such a trouper," the actor said. "She was so there and present and rolling up her sleeves, like, 'How can we go have fun? How can we do this?' She's everything. Such an icon."
For Zegler, stepping onto the set of the massive comic adaptation came with a bit of whiplash, as Fury of the Gods was just her second film ever. It helps, however, that her first was Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated remake of West Side Story.
"It was amazing," the actress raved of the experience. "I kept telling my family -- no pun intended -- that lightning struck twice for me. I was able to work with living legends on West Side Story, with Rita Moreno and Steven Spielberg. And then I come onto this, and I'm with Helen and Lucy and they're playing my sisters... I feel like the luckiest girl in the world."
ET also spoke with Levi about the future of his role in light of the recent major shakeup behind the scenes of the DC Comics cinematic universe -- James Gunn and Peter Safran were hired as the new co-chairs and co-CEOs of DC Films late last year.
"Listen, I've talked to Peter a good bit, we're gonna talk more on this tour. Certainly, the idea is to continue the character, this world," Levi told ET. "It's a really enjoyable extension of the DCU. It has DNA that a lot of the other characters and extensions don't necessarily have because we are a more family [movie]... [That] kind of franchise comes with a lot of fun. It's a throwback to... stuff like Goonies and Indiana Jones and all those things that evoke that kind of adventure in you."
Levi added that "the idea is to keep" the Shazam! franchise going, adding that they'll have "a better shot of making more in the future" if audiences turn out to see the new film.
Shazam!: Fury of the Gods flies into theaters March 17.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, January 8, 2023
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AVALANCHE WATCH
The following message is transmitted at the request of the U.S.
Forest Service Sierra Avalanche Center.
The Sierra Avalanche Center in Truckee has issued a BACKCOUNTRY
AVALANCHEWATCH for the following areas: NWS Reno NV - NVZ002
(Greater Lake Tahoe)...CAZ072 (Greater Lake Tahoe (CA))
* WHAT...A period of HIGH avalanche danger may occur in the
backcountry from Sunday morning through Wednesday morning.
* WHERE...Central Sierra Nevada Mountains between Yuba Pass (Hwy
49) on the north and Ebbetts Pass (Hwy 4) on the south,
including the greater Lake Tahoe area.
* WHEN...In effect from Sun 07:00 AM PST to Wed 07:00 AM PST.
* IMPACTS...A series of strong winter storms with gale force winds
and intense rain and snow may result in widespread avalanche
activity in the mountains. Large destructive avalanches could
occur in a variety of areas.
* PRECAUTIONARY / PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...Very dangerous avalanche
conditions may occur. Travel in, near, or below avalanche
terrain is not recommended during HIGH avalanche danger.
Consult https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/ or
www.avalanche.org for more detailed information.
Similar avalanche danger may exist at locations outside the
coverage area of this or any avalanche center.
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Which swim cap for kids is best?
Few things are as fun for a child as swimming on a warm day, but it can become a drag if they get too much chlorine, sand or salt in their hair. A swim cap protects your child’s hair and helps keep their field of vision clear.
The best swim caps are made with durable materials and provide a secure fit. For example, the Alepo 2-Pack Unisex Swim Caps are excellent, with a 3D ergonomic structure and a hydrodynamic design optimized for competitive swimmers.
What to know before you buy a swim cap for kids
Materials
Swim caps can be made of many materials such as latex, rubber, Lycra and neoprene. However, most swim caps for kids are made with silicone. Silicone is considered the best material for those with medium to long hair because it’s stretchy, waterproof, tear-resistant and odorless. It’s also easy to slip on and take off, and doesn’t cause hair tangling.
Fit
Most swim caps for kids are one-size-fits-all, but it’s still a good idea to check if actually suits your child. Almost all caps fit children ages 3-12, but there are some smaller ones for younger children. A swim cap should provide a snug fit to prevent water from entering, but should also be comfortable enough for your child to wear for extended periods.
Hair texture
Although your child should have no problem fitting their head in a standard kids swim cap, children with thicker hair might have trouble putting one on. If your child’s swim cap doesn’t completely cover their head and hair without them experiencing discomfort, exchange it for another. Also, don’t rule out adult swim caps if a kids model isn’t working for your child, as older children with coarse hair may find them more comfortable.
What to look for in a quality swim cap for kids
Goggles, noseclips and earplugs
Some swim caps for kids come with accessories such as goggles, noseclips and earplugs. Goggles keep water out of your child’s eyes, while noseclips help keep them in place as they swim. Earplugs prevent water from entering your child’s ears and can enhance their performance if they’re a competitive swimmer.
UV protection
You can protect your child’s head from the sun with sunscreen, but if you want to give them a layer of protection, most swim caps are great at preventing the sun’s rays from penetrating their material. Some caps are designed to provide protection from the sun’s ultraviolet rays and have a rating on the label or product description indicating how much.
Style and color
Most children prefer to wear gear and clothing that corresponds with their favorite colors. Some caps have a solid color, while others feature stripes, shapes, polka dots and even designs from popular kids TV shows and movies.
How much you can expect to spend on a swim cap for kids
If you’re looking for a practical swim cap for your little one that’s comfortable and delivers excellent protection, expect to pay $20-$40. However, if you want something more fundamental for casual swimming, you can find a reliable cap for $10-$20.
Swim cap for kids FAQ
Are latex caps suitable for children with long hair?
A. It’s best to go with a silicone cap if your child has long hair. Latex caps are great for keeping water out, but the material can tug on longer hair, making it painful when taking removing.
Are swim caps fully waterproof?
A. No, there are virtually no waterproof kids swim caps. However, wearing one limits how much water makes contact with their hair.
What’s the best swim cap for kids to buy?
Top swim cap for kids
What you need to know: These caps are durable and versatile enough for adults and kids with short or long hair looking for protection from chlorine and saltwater.
What you’ll love: These caps help keep hair tangle-free and have a 3D ergonomic structure for a comfortable, secure fit. They’re made with waterproof silicone, offer excellent elasticity and have a hydrodynamic design that lets swimmers move faster. Plus, this set comes with ear plugs and a noseclip.
What you should consider: Some customers with thicker hair found them uncomfortable, and the earflaps let some water leak into the cap.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top swim cap for kids for the money
What you need to know: These caps are excellent for children ages 2-12 and come in five stylish colors.
What you’ll love: They’re made with tear-resistant, odorless silicone, and 3D ergonomics let them conform to the wearer’s head’s shape. The material’s soft feel makes them easy to slip on and take off, and the anti-slip design helps them stay in place and prevents hair pulling.
What you should consider: They run small, and some reviewers had trouble getting them on kids with longer hair.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Start Smart Kids Fun Sharks and Minnows Swim Cap
What you need to know: These caps come with goggles and have a playful shark design, making swimming fun and safe for kids between 3-12.
What you’ll love: They come in a blue shark or pink minnow style, and feature high-quality anti-fog lenses for clearer vision. They’re made with soft, super-stretchy silicone, and the shatterproof lenses offer excellent UV protection and keep water away from your child’s eyes.
What you should consider: Some consumers reported that the fins tore easily, so they may not be as durable as other kids swim caps.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
13-15-26-32-35
(thirteen, fifteen, twenty-six, thirty-two, thirty-five)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
13-15-26-32-35
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PHOENIX (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. hit his first home run since returning from an 80-game drug suspension, driving a fastball into the left-center stands to give the San Diego Padres a 1-0 lead against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night.
It was Tatis’ first homer since 2021. The 24-year-old missed all of last season, first because of a broken left wrist. When he was about to return, he was hit with his 80-game suspension for a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Clostebol.
Tatis was hitless in his first seven at-bats in his return before a line drive single on Friday night. He followed that on Saturday by driving an 0-2 fastball into the stands, just out of the reach of a leaping Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
Tatis led the National League with 42 homers in 2021.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After more than three years of intense work, the Official Creditors Committee ("Committee") has negotiated a settlement with the Diocese of Rochester to resolve the Diocese's Chapter 11 case. The Committee, counseled by Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP ("PSZJ"), was appointed at the outset of the case to represent the interests of the approximately 475 sexual abuse survivors who asserted claims against the Diocese. The settlement provides that the Diocese and related entities will pay $55 million to a trust for the benefit of survivors and assign valuable insurance rights to that trust. Many survivors will also be able to pursue their claims in court against the Diocese and related entities in order to recover proceeds from their insurance policies.
The Diocese previously announced a settlement of approximately $106 million with its insurers, which the Committee deemed inadequate. Under the new settlement, the insurance policies will be assigned to a trust that will pursue a more substantial recovery from the insurers. The settlement funding does not include any money from the Diocese's insurers.
In exchange for the settlement payment, the Diocese will receive a discharge in bankruptcy and the affiliates will be released of their liabilities for the sexual abuse claims. Perpetrators and non-affiliates of the Diocese, such as religious orders, are not included in the settlement and will not be released.
The negotiated settlement will be incorporated into a plan of reorganization that survivors will have an opportunity to vote on. The Committee expects that process to take approximately six months to complete.
"The settlement is the result of the Committee's hard work and tenacity. The courage and faith of Rochester's survivors empowered the Committee to stand up and negotiate a settlement on our terms. The bankruptcy case has lasted a long time, and the Diocese's insurers still have not stepped up to provide an adequate recovery for survivors. This settlement will allow survivors to take control of the process and pursue financial recoveries from the insurers that are acceptable to us," said Jim Cali, Chair of the Committee.
"The Committee has sought a fair and reasonable resolution for Rochester's survivors for over three years. The Committee has stood strong and united in its efforts to represent the interests of their fellow survivors. It will continue to do so as we move into the next phase of this process, which will seek an appropriate payment from the Diocese's insurers," said Ilan Scharf of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP.
"The Diocese's insurers have not come forward with a sufficient settlement, and this agreement gives survivors the tools needed to seek an appropriate settlement from the Diocese's insurers," said Timothy Burns of Burns Bowen Bair LLP, insurance counsel to the Committee.
The case is In Re: The Diocese of Rochester; Case Number: 19-20905 (PRW); Western District of New York.
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In 2014 Time magazine ran a cover story titled Manopause?!, documenting the rise of the $2 billion testosterone industry, which marketed the hormone as a way to fend off age-related declines in sexual function, energy and strength.
As interest soared, so too did questions about safety. A small study showed testosterone could improve muscle strength in older men, but it also found something unexpected: a higher rate of adverse cardiovascular events such as heart attacks. In 2015 the FDA required manufacturers to add warning labels to inform consumers about the potential risks. Use of prescription testosterone started to decline.
Now a new study out Friday may ease the minds of people interested in the treatment. It finds that men who had low levels of testosterone, and were given prescription testosterone gel to increase the level of the sex hormone, did not have a higher rate of heart attacks or strokes, compared to men who took a placebo.
"The results of this study provide reassuring and substantial evidence that testosterone replacement therapy does not appreciably increase the risk of death from cardiovascular causes when appropriately prescribed," says study author, Dr. Michael Lincoff of the Cleveland Clinic. The results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
(This study did not evaluate over-the-counter dietary supplements that contain testosterone which are not regulated like drugs.)
The new study is aimed at better understanding the effects of testosterone on cardiovascular risks, explains senior study author Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic. Yet, he interprets the results with caution.
"Although the trial showed some evidence that testosterone treatment may be safe for men with low levels of testosterone, these findings should not be used as a justification for widespread prescription," Nissen says.
The FDA says the treatment should be reserved for men with low testosterone confirmed by laboratory tests. Nissen says he's "concerned" that the results could be interpreted by bodybuilders and athletes, looking to improve performance, as a green light to use testosterone. "I really think that's a potential risk," Nissen says.
Nissen emphasizes that all the participants had preexisting or a high risk of cardiovascular disease as well as symptoms of hypogonadism, a medical term for not producing enough testosterone. The study included about 5,200 men, ranging in age from 45 to 80, who were assigned to use either a placebo gel or a testosterone gel, which is rubbed into the skin, daily for 22 months.
Among the men using the testosterone gel, 7% had a major cardiac event, such as a heart attack or stroke. Among those using the placebo, 7.3% had a major cardiac event. And, given that all the participants were at high risk of heart problems, the results suggest that testosterone does not raise the risk. As reassuring as this may be, Nissen points to other safety concerns picked up during the study, including an increased risk of heart arrhythmias in men taking testosterone.
"We didn't expect that," Nissen says. In addition, there were small increases in the risk of kidney injury and pulmonary embolism. The study authors conclude that the findings "support current guidelines that testosterone should be used with caution" in men who have had a previous blood clot event.
The study was funded by a group of testosterone manufacturers including AbbVie, maker of Androgel, which was the product used in the study. Common side effects and risks associated with the product are included in marketing material, including a possible increased risk of prostate cancer. In the new study, prostate cancer occurred in 12 patients (0.5%) and in the testosterone group compared to 11 patients (0.4%) in the placebo group. The trial was independently run by the Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research.
The new study results are "very encouraging," says Dr. Kambiz Tajkarimi, a board certified urologist in the Washington, D.C., area, who treats people with sexual dysfunction. He prescribes testosterone, including pellets marketed as bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, to many of his patients, and says he uses them himself.
"I was so tired," says Tajkarimi, who is in his early 50s. Now, he says he has more energy, which he attributes to the testosterone pellets. "I think this is a truly beneficial treatment."
But, clinical trials of testosterone point to modest, or even unnoticeable symptom relief, or benefits of testosterone replacement therapy. Dr. Steven Woloshin of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, says one of the important findings from the new study is that about 60% of the men in the clinical trial stopped taking testosterone during the trial. Many said their symptoms persisted.
"That's just another way of saying it didn't work or didn't work enough for [men] to notice a benefit," Woloshin says.
Prior research, including a study published in 2016 showed testosterone led to improvements in sexual function and mood among men aged 65 and older, but a close look at prior research shows very modest benefits, Woloshin says. For instance, a 0.6 point improvement on a 13 point scale of sexual function, and 0.5 point improvement on a 45 point mood scale, "an effect unlikely to be noticeable by many men," Woloshin says. In addition, there were no improvements in fatigue.
Big picture, Woloshin says, he too is concerned that the study findings could revive interest in testosterone replacement therapy, among people who may not stand to benefit. "It's not the fountain of youth," Woloshin says. "You're going to feel the effects of aging."
Nissen agrees. "Men want to feel like they did when they were young," he says. But, of course, we can't turn back the clock.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to step into a legal fight over state laws that require contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel.
The justices rejected an appeal on behalf of an alternative weekly newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, that objected to a state law that reduces fees paid to contractors that refuse to sign the pledge.
The full federal appeals court in St. Louis upheld the law, overturning a three-judge panel’s finding that it violated constitutional free speech rights.
Similar measures in Arizona, Kansas and Texas were initially blocked by courts, prompting lawmakers to focus only on larger contracts. Arkansas’ law applies to contracts worth $1,000 or more.
Republican legislators in Arkansas who drafted the 2017 law have said it wasn’t prompted by a specific incident in the state. It followed similar restrictions enacted by other states in response to a movement promoting boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israeli institutions and businesses over the country’s treatment of Palestinians. Israeli officials said the campaign masked a deeper goal of delegitimizing and even destroying their country.
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The Indianapolis Motor Speedway saw nearly 85,000 fans for Indy 500 qualifying on Saturday and Sunday, according to IMS.
The crowd is the largest the weekend has seen in more than a decade. Some Speedway business owners say this is just another sign of a larger-than-last-year crowd for the greatest spectacle in racing.
“It’s a week out still and it’s been unbelievable,” said Marie Hall, the owner of Three Sisters and a Trunk on Main St. in Speedway.
Marie Hall’s business is a boutique selling Indy 500-inspired outfits and race memorabilia.
Just down the road is The Spark, a coffee company getting closer to its second anniversary of existence. Shift Lead Meagan Hall said the qualifying weekend treated them very well.
“Oh we had people in at 6 a.m.,” Meagan Hall said. “Packed at 6 a.m.”
A bigger crowd in 2023 than 2022 is a tall order, though. The 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 was the first at full capacity in three years. The recorded attendance was over 300,000 fans in IMS, making for the second-largest crowd in the last 20 years.
“That Saturday before the race was unbelievable, unbelievable,” Marie said. She put an employee on the door just before closing time to finally stop the constant flow of people packing the store.
The Spark saw a crowd as soon as it opened bright and early on race day 2022.
“We had at least 240 breakfast sandwiches we made last year in just three hours,” Meagan said.
Even without the excitement of a full capacity crowd for the first time in three years like 2022 – both businesses are confident the 107th running of the Indy 500 will be even bigger.
“There are no doubts, we’re not worried at all,” Hall said.
Marie said the fans and customers showed up earlier than they ever have in her time on Main St.
“I opened April 1 and April was a very good month,” she said.
As of Friday, IMS said ticket sales for Carb Day and the race itself continue to track up year over year.
Marie said she believes it will be the best month of sales her store has ever had. Even bigger than 2016, when the 100th running of the 500 saw the biggest crowd in the last 20 years.
“It’s going to be too good, that’s all I can say,” Marie said.
Marie said Three Sisters and a Trunk will be closed Sunday but she expects crowds to be so big Saturday she’ll have a line out the front door of her store with people waiting to get in.
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‘He’s close to us’: Wheelchair users in Africa await pope
GOMA, Congo (AP) — When Pope Francis arrives in Congo and South Sudan next week, thousands of people will take special note of a gesture more grounded than the sign of the cross. Watching from their wheelchairs, they will relate to the way he uses his.
The pope, who began using a wheelchair last year, is visiting two countries where years of conflict have disabled many, and yet they are among the world’s most difficult places to find accessibility and understanding. His visit is heartening Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
“We know that it’s a suffering, but it also comforts us to see a grand personality like the pope using a wheelchair,” said Paul Mitemberezi, a market vendor in Goma, at the heart of the eastern Congo region threatened by dozens of armed groups. “Sometimes it gives us the courage to hope that this isn’t the end of the world and one can survive.”
Mitemberezi, a Catholic and a father, has been disabled since he was 3 because of polio. He works to support his family because he can’t imagine a life of begging. On the way to market, his three-wheeled chair crunches the stones of unpaved roads. Without a ramp at home, he must leave the brightly painted vehicle outdoors, at risk of theft.
Every morning, before he leaves for basketball practice, he makes sure the chair’s still there before crawling out his front door. “It is my legs, which helps me to live,” he said. He applies a bicycle pump to the wheels and is off, weaving through traffic of motorcycles and trucks.
Pope Francis is still adjusting to a life that Mitemberezi has long accepted. The pope was first seen publicly in a wheelchair in May, with an aide pushing it. The pope, at age 86, never propels himself. Sometimes he walks with a cane, but he uses the chair for longer distances and has a wheelchair lift to get on and off planes.
Francis has insisted that his mobility limitations don’t affect his ability to be pope, saying “You lead with your head, not your knee.” He has lamented how today’s “throwaway culture” wrongly marginalizes disabled people. He makes it a point to visit places serving the disabled during his foreign trips, and routinely spends time greeting wheelchair users at the end of his general audiences.
“No disability — temporary, acquired or permanent — can change the fact that we are all children of the one Father and enjoy the same dignity,” Francis wrote in his annual message for the U.N. International Day of Persons with Disabilities in December. He said people with different abilities enrich the church and teach it to be more humane.
Such messages are warmly awaited by wheelchair users in South Sudan, where a five-year civil war killed hundreds of thousands of people. As in Congo, data is lacking on just how many people are disabled by conflict or other means.
While the road leading to the Vatican’s embassy in the South Sudan capital, Juba, was paved by city authorities this month for ease of travel, residents who use wheelchairs said they have long gone without easy access to schools, health centers, toilets and other public facilities.
South Sudan, unlike Congo, is yet to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Both countries, however, face vast challenges including underfunded health systems, poor infrastructure and conflicts that leave many disabled people vulnerable as others flee. Even displacement camps and shelters often are not accessible, the United Nations has said, and wheelchairs are not always available.
Discrimination is another problem. “People see those who get around using a wheelchair as useless,” said James Moses, who leads a local organization in South Sudan for disabled people and uses crutches after being wounded by a land mine.
He and others called on South Sudan’s government to give them special consideration during the pope’s visit, and they hope that Francis will advocate for them. “He’s close to us,” said Susan Samson, a wheelchair user and mother.
They hope they will have a chance to greet the pope at the airport with congratulatory messages and flowers. ”Put us in front so the pope will see us,” urged wheelchair user Seme Lado Michael.
The Vatican’s ambassador to Congo, Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, said he believed the sight of a wheelchair-using pope could be a powerful teaching moment in a culture where disabilities are often viewed with suspicion and superstition.
Families often abandon their disabled children, he said.
Seeing someone like the pope suffer should make Francis more approachable for people during his visit, Balestrero said. “They identify, in a way, even more with him.”
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Machol reported from Juba, South Sudan. Anna reported from Nairobi, Kenya. Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed.
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Family dog kills 4-day-old baby girl, police say
Published: Dec. 22, 2022 at 4:28 PM MST|Updated: 56 minutes ago
CAVE SPRINGS, Ark. (Gray News) - Police in Arkansas say a baby has died after it was bitten by a dog.
According to the Cave Springs Police Department, officers responded to a home on Dec. 14 regarding a family dog that bit a four-day-old baby.
Authorities said the newborn suffered severe injuries to her head and was transported to a hospital.
The baby girl was flown to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock but eventually died.
According to police, the dog, a 3-year-old Siberian Husky, was seized and euthanized by a veterinary service in accordance with state law.
Cave Springs police did not immediately identify the family involved but said the incident remains under investigation.
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) announced today that Steve Filton, Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer will present at the following conferences:
Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. (ET) at the 31st Annual Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. (ET) at the 2022 Wolfe Research Healthcare Conference in New York, New York.
Live audio webcasts of the presentations will be available on the Company's website (www.uhsinc.com). For those unable to listen to the live webcast, replays of the presentations will be available on the Company's website for 90 days following the conferences.
Universal Health Services, Inc. ("UHS") is one of the nation's largest providers of hospital and healthcare services. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points located throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.
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JSU acting president holds first news conference on administration priorities
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Jackson State University’s new acting president held her first news conference today, introducing herself and laying out her goals for the school. Dr. Elayne Hayes-Anthony is an alumnus of the university who said students will be her focus.
“I’m homegrown. I’m not going anywhere. I’m here,” said Hayes-Anthony. “This is not necessarily something for me as a resume builder. My resume is here.”
The latest top JSU administrator thanked the Institutions of Higher Learning for the opportunity to lead her alma mater during her first news conference as acting president. She said during this transition, her priority is accommodating students.
“I want to hear from students,” said Hayes-Anthony. “I want to know what students need because part of my mission is increasing enrollment, and you can’t do that unless you listen to the students.”
The second day on the job, she confirmed an investigation into the alleged sexual assault of a female student Saturday in the university library.
“The victim is doing as well as she can,” said the acting president. “We have done our due diligence to make sure that she’s ok. In terms of the investigation, it is ongoing. So I can not talk about that.”
According to the previous Chair and Professor of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, her administration will be transparent and accountable. She plans to soon meet with faculty, staff, the community, and alumni.
IHL placed President Thomas Hudson on administrative leave with pay. The acting president said she was given no timetable for the length of her position. Wednesday, she will be speaking with legislators on behalf of the university during JSU Day at the Capitol.
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Ex-FBI supervisory agent arrested on Capitol riot charges
A former FBI supervisory agent has been arrested on charges that he joined a mob storming the U.S. Capitol, where he cheered on rioters attacking police officers, federal authorities said.
The former agent, Jared Wise, repeatedly shouted, “Kill ’em!” as he watched rioters assaulting officers outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.
Wise was arrested Monday in Oregon on misdemeanor charges including entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, court records show.
Wise, 50, worked as a special agent or supervisory special agent for the FBI from 2004 through 2017, according to the affidavit.
The FBI says security camera video captured Wise inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters disrupted the joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
Wise clapped his hands and raised his arms ”in triumph” after he entered the building through the Senate wing door, the affidavit says. He left the building about nine minutes after entering.
Nearly two hours later, police body camera footage showed Wise berating police officers outside the Capitol and repeatedly shouting, “Shame on you!”
“You guys are disgusting,” he told them. “I’m former law enforcement. You’re disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo. You can’t see it.”
The FBI says it received a tip in January 2022 that Wise had entered the Capitol on Jan. 6.
A federal magistrate judge ordered Wise’s release from custody after his initial court appearance in Eugene, Oregon, on Monday.
Wise lived in New Braunfels, Texas, until June 2022 before moving to Bend, Oregon, the affidavit says.
The FBI and a lawyer for Wise in Oregon didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
More than 100 officers were injured during the Jan. 6 riot. Over 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol siege.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 30, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Diego CA
559 PM PDT Sat Jul 30 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Southern California, including the following
counties, Riverside and San Bernardino. This includes the Apple
and El Dorado burn scars.
* WHEN...Until 800 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 559 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.25 and 0.5 inches of
rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Yucaipa, Forest Falls, Mount San Gorgonio, Banning, Hwy 38
Between Yucaipa And Onyx Summit, Seven Oaks, Angelus Oaks,
Mountain Home Village, Hwy 38 Between Onyx Summit And
Sugarloaf, Barton Flats Campground, Heart Bar Campground,
Cherry Valley, Morongo Indian Reservation and Woodlands.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Move away from recently burned areas. Life-threatening flooding of
creeks, roads and normally dry arroyos is likely. The heavy rains
will likely trigger rockslides, mudslides and debris flows in steep
terrain, especially in and around these areas.
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Cowboys Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
Published: Jul. 17, 2023 at 4:29 AM CDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
As of December 31 the Dallas Cowboys' odds of winning the Super Bowl are listed at +1600.
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Cowboys Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the NFC East: +170
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +1600
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Dallas Betting Insights
- Dallas covered nine times in 17 chances against the spread last season.
- The Cowboys and their opponents combined to go over the point total nine out of 17 times last season.
- Dallas ranked 11th in total offense (354.9 yards per game) and 12th in total defense (330.2 yards allowed per game) last year.
- The Cowboys went 8-1 at home last year and 4-4 on the road.
- Dallas went 3-2 as underdogs and 8-3 as favorites.
- In the NFC East the Cowboys were 4-2, and in the conference as a whole they went 8-4.
Cowboys Impact Players
- Tony Pollard ran for 1,007 yards (62.9 per game) and nine touchdowns in 16 games last year.
- In the passing game, Pollard scored three touchdowns, with 39 receptions for 371 yards.
- In 12 games, Dak Prescott threw for 2,860 yards (238.3 per game), with 23 touchdowns and 15 interceptions, and a completion percentage of 66.2%.
- In addition, Prescott ran for 182 yards and one TD.
- In the passing game a season ago, CeeDee Lamb scored nine TDs, catching 107 balls for 1,359 yards (79.9 per game).
- In the passing game for the Texans, Brandin Cooks scored three TDs, hauling in 57 balls for 699 yards (53.8 per game).
- Micah Parsons recorded 65 tackles, 14.0 TFL, 13.5 sacks, and three passes defended in 17 games last year.
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The force was strong for St. Joseph-Ogden as it pierced Nashville during Saturday's 59-35 thumping during this Illinois boys high school basketball game.
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The Nation's Weather for Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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NATIONAL SUMMARY
With a cold front sliding southeastward today, a wave of
showers and thunderstorms will sweep through much of the
Southeast. This will be most likely from Louisiana to the
coastal Carolinas. These storms are unlikely to turn severe
but could produce pockets of torrential downpours and even
small hail. Drier and cooler weather is likely in the
Midwest and Northeast, but a couple of showers cannot be
ruled out in northern Maine. Well to the west, additional
storms are likely to develop in the High Plains from New
Mexico to the western Dakotas. A few of these storms have
the potential to turn severe, with hail and damaging wind
gusts. Showers and storms may also extend westward into the
Rockies and Desert Southwest.
SPECIAL WEATHER
No new information for this time period.
WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS
No new information for this time period.
DAILY EXTREMES
National High Tuesday 109 at Death Valley, CA
National Low Tuesday 28 at Gothic, CO
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Hamilton/Northern Burlington battled all the way to the championship round of the Babe Ruth League Southern New Jersey 13-year-old State Tournament and unfortunately fell short.
But, wait, there’s new life for the Switlik Park Kids as SNJ champion Atlantic Shore is hosting the Middle Atlantic Regional, so Hamilton/Northern Burlington will be the Southern New Jersey representative.
“We have been practicing things that we did wrong leading up to the tournament to help these kids become a unit of one moving forward,’’ said HNB manager Dan Tozzi, who has taken a Little Lads Cal Ripken team to the World Series. “As they say practice makes perfect.’’
Hamilton/Northern Burlington with play at 1 p.m. on Thursday against the Pennsylvania runner-up, Altoona. The game will be played in Ventnor.
Other opening round games in the pool play event have Bridgewater (Northern New Jersey) facing Gibbsboro Voorhees Athletic Association (SNJ-Runner-up), West End (Pennsylvania) is taking on Hertel N Park (Western New York) and Franklin (Northern New Jersey) will face host Atlantic Shore.
Atlantic Shore is the defending 13-year-old BRL World Series champions and have been guided by Mike Gill for many years.
“We are happy to be home, the regionals will be in Ventnor, which is where the 13-year old team practices,’’ said Gill. “The Ventnor field is beautiful, quirky and unique. I think the visiting teams will enjoy playing there.’’
One of the things that makes coaching the 13’s so intriguing for Gill, who is an ESPN Radio Personality in Atlantic City, is the kids’ desire to improve and at the same time have fun.’’
One of the interesting things about the 13’s is that it’s kids from various Cal Ripken or Little Leagues coming together for the first time.
“Being a new bunch coming together they played pretty well at times; we have a lot we can improve on,’’ said Tozzi. “We have the potential we just have to put it together as a team.’’
Tozzi saw players like Justin Kramer, Danny Tozzi, Tyrone Crupi and Lucas Burgos step up in the state tournament and is looking for them to have a great regional tournament.
Like Hamilton/Northern Burlington, Atlantic Shore did some nice things in the state tournament.
“We pitched very well, got some key hits and showed fight,’’ said Gill. “We were losing to a tough Berlin team and didn’t put heads down, kept fighting. We lost to a very good Hamilton team and got off the mat and came out in Game 2 and scored seven in the first.’’
Atlantic Shore will rely on a deep pitching staff as in states it struck out 38 batters in 33 innings. The mound staff is Ryan Brady, Kam Street, Jack Murray, Frank Steelam and Dante Zappala.
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Mardi Gras ebullience intersects with crime worry, politics
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ annual Carnival season entered its ebullient crescendo Tuesday with thousands of revelers expected to pack the French Quarter and line miles of parade routes in a citywide Mardi Gras celebration underpinned this year by violent crime concerns and political turmoil.
Gunfire that broke out during a parade Sunday night left a teenager dead and four others injured, including a 4-year-old girl. Police quickly arrested Mansour Mbodj, 21, for illegally carrying a weapon, then upgraded the charge to second-degree murder.
Officials stressed Monday that the shooting was an isolated event.
The violence appeared to have little effect on Monday night crowds. St. Charles Avenue, including the area where gunfire broke out, was again lined with people dancing, drinking and eating in a football tailgate atmosphere as they awaited the evening’s parades. The French Quarter was packed with partiers wandering among bars, restaurants and strip clubs.
Revelers shrugged off crime at an afternoon riverside park event celebrating this year’s king and queen of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
“I think whatever it was, it was a private dispute that happened in a public place,” said Chris Flug of New Orleans, referencing the Sunday night shooting. “It’s always sad when gun violence takes a life, but it shouldn’t taint the city or the event. You can’t predict people’s behavior.”
Crime has contributed to dissatisfaction with Mayor LaToya Cantrell. She won re-election easily in 2021, but has suffered a myriad of political problems since, including criticism about crime, the slow pace of major street repairs and questions over her personal use of a city-owned French Quarter apartment.
A recall petition launched last year is nearing a Wednesday deadline. One of the organizers, Eileen Carter, said she believes the movement has enough signatures, but will make a last-minute push.
“We’re going to have people canvassing the parade routes,” Carter said. “That’s been really helpful to us.”
Fueling the political tumult: Cantrell was captured in a social media video gesturing with her middle-finger as a parade passed by a city reviewing stand over the weekend. What sparked the gesture was unclear. The mayor’s press office did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. A statement given to The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate shed little light.
“Mardi Gras is a time where satire and jest are on full display,” spokesperson Gregory Joseph said in a prepared statement. “The city has been enjoying a safe and healthy Carnival,” the statement said, adding that the mayor was looking forward to continuing the celebration.
Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the culmination of Carnival season, which officially begins each year on Jan. 6, the 12th day after Christmas, and closes with the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
New Orleans’ raucous celebration is the nation’s most well-known, but the holiday is also celebrated throughout much of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Mobile, Alabama, lays claim to the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in the country.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. — Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said.
The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing in the food court, Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison said.
A 22-year-old from nearby Bartholomew County who was legally carrying a firearm at the mall shot and killed the gunman, Ison said at a news conference.
Four of those hit by gunfire were females and one was a male, Ison said. He didn't immediately know the specific gender or age of those who were killed.
He said a 12-year-old girl was among the two injured, both of whom are in stable condition.
Police confiscated a suspicious backpack that was in a bathroom near the food court, Ison said.
Officers went to the mall at about 6 p.m. for reports of the shooting.
"The real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began," Ison said.
The mass shooting was just the latest to unnerve Americans in 2022. Schools, churches, grocery stores and a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, have all become killing grounds in recent months. Still, the reality of America's staggering murder rate can often be seen more clearly in individual deaths that rarely make the news.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police and multiple other agencies are assisting in the investigation.
"We are sickened by yet another type of incident like this in our country," Indianapolis Assistant Chief of Police Chris Bailey said.
There was no threat to the area Sunday night, authorities said.
Greenwood is a south suburb of Indianapolis with a population of about 60,000. Mayor Mark Myers asked for "prayers to the victims and our first responders."
"This tragedy hits at the core of our community," Myers said in a statement.
Authorities said they would provide more details Monday.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Tyler Adams acted like a leader since he joined the United States soccer team five years ago. Now he has the title.
Adams was appointed captain at the unusual age of 23, the youngest at this year's tournament and the youngest for the Americans at the soccer showcase since Walter Bahr in 1950.
“I want to be a winner. So first off, I’m very competitive,” Adams said after United States coach Gregg Berhalter's announcement Sunday. “I want to hold the guys around me to the same standard. I don’t want to lose and then have to point the finger and say, `You let me down today.' I just want to make sure that everyone’s on the same page intensity-wise, mentality-wise, no frustration — we all buy into the same thing. And, yeah, I think I’ve been doing that since a young age.”
Adams was elected captain in a vote by about 35 players held in September and announced on the eve of the national team's tournament opener against Wales.
He will become the first African-American to wear the armband for the United States throughout a World Cup. Earnie Stewart, then 33 and the son of an African-American serviceman, captained the United States in the 2002 opener against Portugal because of Claudio Reyna’s strained right quadriceps.
“For the last three-and-a-half years, we’ve been working with the leadership council,” Berhalter said of a group that included Adams, Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie and Walker Zimmerman. “We asked them, well, what do you guys want to do for the World Cup? And they thought it’d be better to have a captain named for the World Cup.”
The last of the 32 captains announced for this year’s tournament, Adams is only the second under 30 years old. England forward Harry Kane is 29 and has captained the Three Lions since the 2018 World Cup, when he was 24.
Adams, from Wappinger, New York, captained the national team nine times previously, including seven wins, one loss and one draw.
Berhalter had rotated the armband since he was hired in December 2018. Pulisic captained the Americans 11 times and Zimmerman six times. Adams was captain in seven of 14 World Cup qualifiers, Pulisic four and Zimmerman three.
“Coming into the national team, you’re a newbie, right? You don’t want to step on anyone’s toes,” Adams said. “You want to come in, you want to do your job, and although that hasn’t changed now compared to when I first came into the national team, now I’m the guy that people rely on when they need to communicate with Greg and something needs to be said.”
Different players captained the United States national team for each game in 1950. Bahr was 23 years, 3 months, 2 days for the 5-2 loss to Chile on July 2, 1950. Adams will be 23 years, 9 months, 8 days on Monday.
Ed McIlvenny (25) wore the armband for the famous 1-0 upset of England in Belo Horizonte and Harry Keough (22) for the opening loss to Spain.
Adams made his national team debut in November 2017 and has made 32 international appearances. He debuted with Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls in 2015, moved to RB Leipzig in 2019 and to Leeds in the offseason.
“Tyler’s a guy that’s just mature beyond his years, and you notice it from the minute you start talking to him,” Berhalter said. “He’s a guy that teammates know exactly what they're going to get from him. They know that he’s going to go out on the field and compete. They know that he’s going to be thinking about the game. They know that he’s going to be into the details of the game — not just a competitor, he’s also a strategist. And I think that helps the group because he calms people down and he’s a guy that people get behind.”
Previous World Cup captains included 24-year-old Mike Windischmann in 1990, 25-year-old Tony Meola in 1994, 37-year-old Thomas Dooley in 1998, 28-year-old Reyna in 2002 and Reyna again in 2006, 31-year-old Carlos Bocanegra in 2010 and 31-year-old Clint Dempsey in 2014.
“We’re not a group of guys that it's like, oh, I want to be captain," McKennie said Saturday. "Whoever has it, has it. The mission is still the same. The goal is still the same, and we just need all 26 players no matter their role to be on the same page and have the same role at the end of the day, which is to compete and win games.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump’s legal vulnerability and the limits of executive power.
The department wrote that although a president enjoys broad legal latitude to communicate to the public on matters of concern, “no part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence. By definition, such conduct plainly falls outside the President’s constitutional and statutory duties.”
The brief was filed by lawyers of the Justice Department’s Civil Division and has no bearing on a separate criminal investigation by a department special counsel into whether Trump can be criminally charged over efforts to undo Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election ahead of the Capitol riot. In fact, the lawyers note that they are not taking a position with respect to potential criminal liability for Trump or anyone else.
The Justice Department wrote that it also takes no view on a lower court judge’s conclusion that those who sued Trump have “plausibly” alleged that his speech caused the riot. Nevertheless, the department said that an appeals court should reject Trump’s claim that he’s immune from the lawsuits.
The Justice Department cautioned that the “court must take care not to adopt rules that would unduly chill legitimate presidential communication” or saddle a president with meritless lawsuits.
“In exercising their traditional communicative functions, Presidents routinely address controversial issues that are the subject of passionate feelings. Presidents may at times use strong rhetoric. And some who hear that rhetoric may overreact, or even respond with violence,” the department wrote.
Trump is appealing a decision by a federal judge in Washington, who last year rejected efforts by the former president to toss out the conspiracy civil lawsuits filed by lawmakers and two Capitol police officers. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Trump’s words during a rally before the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol were likely “words of incitement not protected by the First Amendment.”
The lawsuits, filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby, and later joined by other House Democrats, argue that Trump and others made “false and incendiary allegations of fraud and theft, and in direct response to the Defendant’s express calls for violence at the rally, a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
The suits cite a federal civil rights law that was enacted to counter the Ku Klux Klan’s intimidation of officials. They describe in detail how Trump and others spread baseless claims of election fraud, both before and after the 2020 presidential election was declared, and charge that they helped to rile up the thousands of rioters before they stormed the Capitol. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/trump-can-be-sued-by-police-for-jan-6-actions-justice-dept-says/ | 2023-03-02 20:44:31 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/trump-can-be-sued-by-police-for-jan-6-actions-justice-dept-says/ |
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A former suburban Chicago police officer who was fired after he shot into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and seriously wounding the man’s girlfriend, has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
A grand jury returned indictments on Wednesday against former Waukegan police Officer Dante Salinas in the Oct. 20, 2020, shooting that killed a 19-year-old local man, Marcellis Stinnette, and wounded his girlfriend, Tafara Williams, the Lake County News-Sun reported. Salinas also was indicted on charges of aggravated battery and official misconduct stemming from a separate incident in 2019, the newspaper reported.
On the night of the shooting, another Waukegan officer stopped the couple’s car and was questioning them when Williams suddenly drove off, according to investigators. The officer pursued them and Salinas responded to his call for help and joined the chase. Williams ran off the road and then put her car in reverse, leading Salinas, who had gotten out of his car, to fire several shots, striking Williams and Stinnette.
The shooting came just weeks after an officer in nearby Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot and wounded a Black man, Jacob Blake, which led to several nights of protests that were sometimes violent. The Waukegan shooting also sparked protests and led the police department to quickly fire Salinas for what it described at the time as “multiple policy and procedure violations.”
Williams, who according to court records has been charged with aggravated fleeing, sued Salinas and the officer who stopped her and Stinnette earlier that night. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-ex-illinois-cop-charged-in-2020-fatal-shooting-of-black-man/ | 2022-09-22 20:55:17 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-ex-illinois-cop-charged-in-2020-fatal-shooting-of-black-man/ |
SEATTLE, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on years of gear designing, experience, customer feedback, and industry leading sustainability insights, REI Co-op introduces its first foray into running shoes since the 1970s, with the introduction of the REI Co-op Swiftland Multi-terrain (Swiftland MT). This versatile trail runner maximizes recycled and bio-based materials without compromising technical expectations, while giving runners freedom to take their adventures over multiple surfaces beyond the pavement.
The Swiftland MT is a foundational running shoe that joins a wide variety of running apparel, equipment and gear for REI customers to choose from, and continues the co-op's commitment to broaden its running assortment and more deeply invest in this activity category.
"More than half of our customers who are hikers or campers are also runners, so we developed the premium Swiftland collection, and are expanding the run assortment we carry to give runners more options at the co-op," said Fan Zhou, REI general manager for run and footwear. "The running community continues to grow every year, and it's been great to see REI Co-op support that growth with its own business expansion, product innovation and partnerships."
All major components of the Swiftland MT are designed with carbon-reduced technology and use recycled or bio-based materials. Highlights include:
- 90% recycled PET FirmaKnit™ RUN upper
- 10% Bloom Algae TerraLoft™ RUN compound in midsole
- 20% recycled rubber TerraGrip™ RUN outsole
- 100% recycled PET laces and webbing
- 100% recycled nylon rockplate
- 75% recycled PET collar lining
- 70% recycled PET collar foam
- 70% recycled PET reinforcements
- 30% Bloom Algae sock in TrailBed™ liner
- 30% recycled TPU haptic overlaps
Bennet Grimes, REI senior product manager for footwear adds, "We want runners to experience the sense of spontaneity and excitement an unpaved path can bring. With the Swiftland MT, customers can confidently explore new adventures and feel good about their lighter impact on the planet."
The Swiftland MT trail running shoe is available at REI and on REI.com for $130, customers can complete their running kit with the co-op's full Swiftland collection, including the Swiftland shorts named the "best running shorts for men of 2023" by GearJunkie, joggers, tops, vests, socks, pants and hydration vests for both men and women.
Beyond product, REI is proud to support running communities across the country through efforts such as weekly group runs from the Seattle Flagship store, race sponsorships like the Boston Women's 10K, the Denver Marathon, and the HOKA x REI Mt. Baldy 5K in the Los Angeles area. REI and Strava have also teamed-up to offer a virtual run challenge. During June 7-29 REI members can join the REI + Strava challenge to receive a discount on the REI Co-op Swiftland running collection and 60-day free Strava Pro subscription trial. To find more information about local events, please visit www.rei.com/events.
About the REI Co-op
REI is a specialty outdoor retailer, headquartered near Seattle. The nation's largest consumer co-op, REI is a growing community of 23 million members who expect and love the best quality gear, inspiring expert classes and trips, and outstanding customer service. REI has 181 locations in 42 states and the District of Columbia. If you can't visit a store, you can shop at REI.com, REI Outlet or the REI shopping app. REI isn't just about gear. Adventurers can take the trip of a lifetime with REI's active adventure travel company that runs more than 100 itineraries across the country. In many communities where REI has a presence, professionally trained instructors share their expertise by hosting beginner-to advanced-level classes and workshops about a wide range of activities. To build on the infrastructure that makes life outside possible, REI invests millions annually in hundreds of local and national nonprofits that create access to—and steward—the outdoor places that inspire us all.
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(THE CONVERSATION) The Supreme Court may soon transform the role of faith in the workplace, which could have the effect of elevating the rights of religious workers at the expense of co-workers.
On April 18, 2023, the court heard oral arguments in Groff v. DeJoy, a case addressing an employer’s obligation to accommodate religious employees’ requests under federal law. The dispute involves a Christian postal worker who quit his job and sued the U.S. Postal Service after he was unable to find coverage for his Sunday shifts. Current law requires employers to make accommodations for workers’ religious requests only if doing so doesn’t impose more than a minimal cost on their business, known as the “de minimis” standard.
After listening to the oral arguments in the case, I believe it’s very likely the court will overturn the de minimis standard and require employers to accommodate more religious requests. As Justice Gorsuch stated, “I think there’s common ground that de minimis can’t be the test, in isolation at least, because Congress doesn’t pass civil rights legislation to have de minimis effect, right?”
In my view, as a scholar of employment discrimination, the only questions are how far the justices will go – and who will ultimately pay the price.
Religious rights in the workplace
Employers are required to accommodate the religious needs of employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, so long as they can do so without imposing an “undue hardship.”
Congress didn’t define what that term meant, and it took another dozen years for the U.S. Supreme Court to do so in Trans World Airlines v. Haridson. The court determined that Title VII does not require employers to bear more than a “de minimis” or minimal cost in accommodating religious employees.
Relying on this narrow decision, employees requesting religious accommodation in the workplace have generally fared poorly in the courts. Supporters of more religious accommodation in the workplace have tried many times to amend Title VII to redefine undue hardship as a “significant difficulty or expense.”
From 1994 to 2013, over a dozen bills attempting to codify this definition were introduced in Congress, with none coming close to passage. After failing to persuade Congress to amend Title VII, religious advocates turned to the Supreme Court. However, the court’s decision to hear this case is highly unusual, since it suggests it is considering overturning its own long-standing precedent.
The other key issue in the case is whether or not a religious accommodation that imposes on co-workers can count as an undue hardship on the employer.
Since Trans World Airlines v. Haridson, most federal appellate courts have determined that accommodations affecting religious employees’ co-workers – such as those requiring them to take over undesirable weekend shifts – can be an undue hardship, even if the business is not directly harmed. In practice, that has made it easier for an employer to avoid accommodating a religious request.
Business interests vs. religious rights
Ultimately, the Groff case pits business interests against religious rights. That presents a unique dilemma for the current court led by Chief Justice John Roberts, which is both the most pro-business and the most pro-religion court in recent memory.
One way to resolve these two apparently competing interests would be to overturn the de minimis standard and require employers to provide greater accommodation to religious employees while allowing employers to sometimes shift this cost to co-workers.
Based on what the justices said at the hearing and their discussion about accommodations that affect worker morale, I believe it’s likely that that’s exactly what the Supreme Court is going to do. That would have the effect of dramatically limiting employee rights.
Take, for example, one common type of accommodation request, which is time off from work for religious observance.
In those cases, either co-workers can bear the cost of accommodation, by covering for the religious employee without necessarily earning more income, or the employer can bear the cost of accommodation, by hiring additional workers, paying premium wages or suffering a loss of productivity. If the Supreme Court determines that a cost to co-workers alone can never be an undue hardship under Title VII, employers would likely shift the cost of accommodation onto co-workers – for example, requiring them to work to work an undesirable weekend shift.
Unless an accommodation also leads to a significant difficulty or expense on the business itself – such as through a loss of productivity or efficiency - harm to co-workers would never be a justification for denying an accommodation, as it has been in most federal appellate courts.
Co-workers bearing the brunt
Co-workers could also be harmed in cases involving accommodation of religious expression. This is of particular concern in cases in which religious expression demeans LGBTQ+ people.
In 2004, the 9th Circuit determined that it would pose an undue hardship and be demeaning to co-workers for a religious employee to post in his cubicle the Bible verse “If a man also lie with mankind … both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death.”
Yet if the Supreme Court broadens the definition of undue hardship and determines costs to co-workers alone never create an undue hardship, employers might be required – by a civil rights law originally aimed at prohibiting employment discrimination – to accommodate religious expression that demeans LGBTQ+ employees.
Assuming the Supreme Court decides this case as expected, the losers would be co-workers who will bear the brunt of the increased religious accommodation requirement. And the Roberts court would maintain its status as one of the most pro-business and pro-religion courts in modern times.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Akira Schmid made 25 saves and the New Jersey Devils beat the Ottawa Senators 5-1 on Saturday for their 12th straight victory.
Erik Haula, Nathan Bastian, Jesper Boqvist, Yegor Sharangovich and Michael McLeod scored for New Jersey (15-3-0).
Ottawa (6-10-1) continued to struggle, having won just twice in its last 11 games (2-8-1). Late in the game, there was a faint chant of “Fire D.J.!” D.J. Smith is the head coach.
Derick Brassard scored for the Senators. Anton Forsberg started the game but was pulled early in the second period after allowing the third goal on 18 shots. Cam Talbot finished the game allowing one goal on 17 shots.
Haula opened the scoring with a power-play goal early in the first period for his first of the season. Bastian made it 2-0 late in the first, jumping on a rebound out front.
The Devils didn’t let up, making it 3-0 early in the second when Boqvist was able to grab a puck out front, putting an end to Forsberg’s afternoon.
Brassard got the Senators on the board late in the period, but the Devils came right back, scoring a shorthanded goal with 34 seconds remaining in the period.
Ottawa pulled the goalie with 4:51 remaining in the third, but the Devils made them pay for it with McLeod scoring an empty-net goal.
NOTES: Ottawa D Artem Zub returned to the lineup after missing the last eight games with an upper-body injury. ... The Devils are a perfect 7-0-0 against Canadian opponents this season. Saturday's matchup is the second of three against the Senators. ... Devils captain Nico Hischier has 12 points (6 goals, 6 asssists) over his last 10 games.
UP NEXT
Senators: At the San Jose Sharks on Monday.
Devils: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.
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STERLING, Va. (AP) — Brooks Koepka returned from the high of winning his fifth major championship with a flat round of even-par 72 that left him eight shots behind Harold Varner III on Friday after the opening round of LIV Golf DC at Trump National.
Koepka still had reason to be thankful. On the first hole that he used driver, the face cracked.
“Thank God it cracked now instead of coming down the stretch last week,” Koepka said.
The drive came in handy when he hit one of his best tee shots on the reachable par-4 14th onto the fringe at Oak Hill, carried the bunkers on the 15th that set up a wedge out of the rough to 4 feet and another PGA Championship title.
It was back to LIV Golf just five days after his major victory.
Varner started his round with a bogey on the par-3 fourth hole, and that was his only mistake. He had a pair of eagles and five birdies for a 64, giving him a two-shot lead over former U.S. Amateur champion James Piot.
Andy Ogletree, getting another start as an alternate for Paul Casey and his wounded foot, was in the group at 68 that included British Open champion Cameron Smith.
Phil Mickelson had six bogeys in his round of 74.
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Advertisers gain invaluable transparency into which Reels ads are seen by consumers
NEW YORK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Integral Ad Science (Nasdaq: IAS), a leading global media measurement and optimization platform, today announced that it has rolled out ad measurement tools for Meta's Facebook and Instagram Reels videos. Expanding a partnership that began in 2016, IAS will now provide viewability and invalid traffic measurement for Meta's rapidly growing Reels video feed inventory so that advertisers can be assured that their ads are seen by real users.
The growing collaboration between Meta and IAS means Reels advertisers will now have unparalleled transparency into the performance of their ad campaigns. IAS has already been providing advertisers with measurement tools that include viewability and invalid traffic for placements across Facebook and Instagram.
"Facebook and Instagram Reels are enormously popular with advertisers, and based on the success of the existing partnership between Meta and IAS, we are pleased to broaden our work together and provide this deeper level of transparency for Reels ads," said Yannis Dosios, Chief Commercial Officer, IAS. "With more than 140 billion Reels played daily, smart marketers have already been placing advertisements on Reels and now they have even more measurement insights into which of their ads are being seen and driving results."
IAS's innovative reporting product suite and comprehensive data collection allows advertisers to generate more actionable reports with insights into ad views at a granular level. For more information, visit integralads.com.
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry's most actionable data to drive superior results for the world's largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS's software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. For more information, visit integralads.com.
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It’s safe to say $20 probably won’t buy much at the 2022 edition of the Three Rivers Festival, but that wasn’t the case in 1985. Reporter Vince Robinson shows you what it could buy back then.
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SAN DIEGO, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kintara Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTRA) ("Kintara" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new solid tumor cancer therapies, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation (FTD) to Kintara's VAL-083 for the treatment of patients with newly-diagnosed unmethylated glioblastoma (GBM).
Fast Track is a process designed to facilitate the development, and expedite the review of drugs to treat serious conditions and fill an unmet medical need. Some of the significant benefits of FTD include:
- Enhanced access to the FDA, including opportunities for more frequent meetings and written consultation throughout the remaining development of VAL-083.
- Drugs with FTD are eligible to apply for Accelerated Approval and Priority Review at the time of a New Drug Application (NDA) submission, which may result in faster product approval.
- FTD also allows for 'rolling review', whereby Kintara may submit completed sections of the VAL-083 NDA as they become available, rather than at the end of development.
"We believe Fast Track Designation is indicative of VAL-083's potential to improve outcomes for patients with GBM, the most aggressive form of brain cancer," stated Robert E. Hoffman, President and CEO of Kintara. "We look forward to announcing top-line data from the international registrational phase 2/3 GBM AGILE Study around the end of calendar year 2023. Fast Track Designation allows us to work closely with the FDA and may expedite our commercial launch of VAL-083, if approved."
Located in San Diego, California, Kintara is dedicated to the development of novel cancer therapies for patients with unmet medical needs. Kintara is developing two late-stage, Phase 3-ready therapeutics for clear unmet medical needs with reduced risk development programs. The two programs are VAL-083 for GBM and REM-001 for Cutaneous Metastatic Breast Cancer (CMBC).
VAL-083 is a "first-in-class", small-molecule chemotherapeutic with a novel mechanism of action that has demonstrated clinical activity against a range of cancers, including central nervous system, ovarian and other solid tumors (e.g., NSCLC, bladder cancer, head and neck) in U.S. clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Based on Kintara's internal research programs and these prior NCI-sponsored clinical studies, Kintara is currently advancing VAL-083 in the Global Coalition for Adaptive Research registrational phase 2/3 clinical trial titled Glioblastoma Adaptive Global Innovative Learning Environment (GBM AGILE) Study to support the development and commercialization of VAL-083 in GBM.
Kintara is also advancing its proprietary, late-stage photodynamic therapy platform that holds promise as a localized cutaneous, or visceral, tumor treatment as well as in other potential indications. REM-001 therapy has been previously studied in four Phase 2/3 clinical trials in patients with CMBC who had previously received chemotherapy and/or failed radiation therapy. With clinical efficacy to date of 80% complete responses of CMBC evaluable lesions, and with an existing robust safety database of approximately 1,100 patients across multiple indications, Kintara is advancing the REM-001 CMBC program to late-stage pivotal testing.
For more information, please visit www.kintara.com or follow us on Twitter at @Kintara_Thera, Facebook and Linkedin.
Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the impact of Fast Track Designation and the status of the Company's clinical trials and the GBM AGILE study. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations and clinical trials; the Company's ability to develop, market and sell products based on its technology; the expected benefits and efficacy of the Company's products and technology; the availability of substantial additional funding for the Company to continue its operations and to conduct research and development, clinical studies and future product commercialization; and, the Company's business, research, product development, regulatory approval, marketing and distribution plans and strategies. These and other factors are identified and described in more detail in the Company's filings with the SEC, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2021, the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K.
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(The Hill) — Scientists have uncovered a link between the world’s most commonly used weedkiller and convulsions in animals — raising questions about the herbicide’s potential impact on the human nervous system as well.
Exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, increased seizure-like behavior in soil-dwelling roundworms, according to the researchers, who published their findings in Scientific Reports on Tuesday.
With glyphosate use expected to rise dramatically over the coming years, understanding its possible effects on human health is critical, according to the study.
“It is concerning how little we understand the impact of glyphosate on the nervous system,” lead author Akshay Naraine, a Ph.D. candidate at Florida Atlantic University and the International Max Planck Research School for Synapses and Circuits, said in a statement.
“More evidence is mounting for how prevalent exposure to glyphosate is, so this work hopefully pushes other researchers to expand on these findings and solidify where our concerns should be,” Naraine added.
Just last month, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that more than 80 percent of urine sampled by the agency was at or above the detection limit for glyphosate, as The Hill reported.
Bayer, which manufactures Roundup, has faced thousands of lawsuits alleging that the product causes cancer. While the International Agency for Research on Cancer deemed glyphosate a “probable” carcinogen in 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency said in 2020 that there was insufficient evidence to show that the chemical is a probable or likely carcinogen.
In Tuesday’s study, Naraine and his colleagues said they used the roundworm C. elegans to test the effects of glyphosate alone and of both the U.S. formulation of Roundup and the British product from two distinct periods.
The two windows in question were before and after 2016, at which time the United Kingdom banned a surfactant — called polyethoxylated tallowamine — that had been in the earlier formulation.
These varying conditions, the scientists explained, helped them pinpoint which effects were specific to the active ingredient glyphosate.
Ultimately, the authors found that glyphosate exacerbated convulsions in C. elegans and concluded that a receptor protein called GABA-A was the neurological target for the observed physiological changes. In humans, these receptors are essential to locomotion and contribute to sleep and mood regulation, according to the authors.
Scientists often study C. elegans to gain an understanding about human diseases and development, as they share a common ancestor.
The data revealed a significant distinction between exposure to glyphosate alone and Roundup — with exposure to Roundup increasing the percentage of C. elegans that did not recover from seizure activity, according to the study.
The scientists also used significantly lower levels of glyphosate and Roundup than is suggested on the product — more than 300 times less herbicide than the lowest concentration recommended for consumer use.
Yet they found that the roundworms convulsed at concentrations that were diluted 1,000 times more than concentrations previously deemed toxic, according to the study.
“Given how widespread the use of these products is, we must learn as much as we can about the potential negative impacts that may exist,” Ken Dawson-Scully, a professor of neurobiology and Naraine’s faculty mentor, said in a statement.
“There have been studies done in the past that showed the potential dangers, and our study takes that one step further with some pretty dramatic results,” added Dawson-Scully, who also serves as a senior vice president and associate provost at Nova Southeastern University.
Roundworms already experience convulsions when they encounter thermal stress — and these new findings show that exposure to glyphosate and Roundup can exacerbate these impacts, according to Naraine.
“This could prove vital as we experience the effects of climate change,” Naraine said.
Dawson-Scully acknowledged that, at this point, there is no insight as to “how exposure to glyphosate and Roundup may affect humans diagnosed with epilepsy or other seizure disorders.”
“Our study indicates that there is significant disruption in locomotion and should prompt further vertebrate studies,” he said.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 22, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
Issued by National Weather Service Nashville TN
1258 AM CDT Mon Aug 22 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A FLASH FLOOD WARNING...
The threat of flooding continues and a Flash Flood Warning is now in
effect. Please refer to that bulletin for more information.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Hill County in central Texas...
* Until 400 AM CDT.
* At 1258 AM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
thunderstorms producing heavy rain across northern Hill County.
Radar estimates up to 3 inches of rain has fallen in the past
hour, and an automated rain gauge in Covington measured 2.91
inches of rain in the past hour. Flash flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Itasca, Covington and Carl's Corner.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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40,000 American Shoppers Voted Organic Valley's Reduced Sugar, Lactose-Free Flavored Creamers as Most Innovative Products in the Coffee Creamer Category of 2023
LA FARGE, Wis., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Organic Valley, the leading organic farmer-owned cooperative on a mission to save, serve and safeguard small organic family farms, has been recognized as a winner of the 2023 Product of the Year USA Awards. Determined through a national study of 40,000 American shoppers in partnership with Kantar, a global leader in consumer research, Product of the Year is the largest consumer-voted awards program centered around product innovation, and the Organic Valley Flavored Creamers are awarded the highly acclaimed honor of the best product within the Coffee Creamer category. At-home baristas now have a great-tasting, premium organic creamer option with 40% less sugar than the leading flavored creamer brand, containing no artificial ingredients, and lactose free.
A globally established seal of approval, the Product of the Year emblem was developed over 30 years ago and has been a trusted CPG pillar in the U.S. for nearly 15 years. The early mission was simple: help consumers cut through the noise on their grocery shelves and highlight the best new products when it comes to things that matter, such as thoughtful design, quality and innovation. As the world evolves on a daily basis, consumers are continuously in search of products that are smarter, more efficient, and easier to use. The Product of the Year red seal is a distinctive mark that allows shoppers to easily identify the top trendsetting products on the market, voted on by 40,000 fellow consumers, while also serving as a valuable marketing tool for brands to build consumer awareness, especially among competitors within their respected spaces.
"Product of the Year is more valuable now than ever. The level of access consumers have to products today is unprecedented – far beyond retail aisles, they have DTC options, grocery delivery in the palm of their hands, and they can watch their favorite influencer review items they're considering purchasing in real time," notes Mike Nolan, Global CEO of Product of the Year Management. "Product of the Year is an established and increasingly relevant resource for CPG companies, helping their products stand out, and be understood and trusted by their customers. Entirely new 2023 categories of Product of the Year award winners further demonstrate the ever-evolving trends we are seeing in the U.S. market, and as a company we're thrilled to be at the forefront of recognizing these products for top performing function, design, packaging, or ingredients."
"It is an honor to be the first farmer-owned cooperative endorsed by Product of the Year," said Jaclyn Cardin, Organic Valley Chief Brand Officer. "Our team at Organic Valley set out to make everyday coffee better with a delicious, high-quality creamer that isn't filled with artificial fillers and a laundry list of synthetic ingredients. Organic Valley creamers add a delicious and smooth flavor to coffee without overpowering drinks and recipes. Receiving the Product of the Year red seal reinforces that we achieved that goal with our Flavored Creamers. And, consumers can feel good knowing that every Organic Valley purchase helps save small organic family farms."
The premium Organic Valley Flavored Creamers are available in French Vanilla and Sweet Cream flavors, enhancing any coffee or tea beverage without overpowering it. The Flavored Creamers include all-organic ingredients, and that means real dairy from cows that are pasture-raised cows on small family farms without antibiotics, toxic pesticides, or added hormones. The Organic Valley Flavored Creamers are available nationwide in 24.5 oz/750 ml for an SRP of $4.99 – $5.29.
The full list of 36 winners of the 2023 Product of the Year Awards were revealed at the annual Product of the Year Awards Show on February 16th at the Current, Pier 59 in New York City. The celebration kicked off with a red carpet, followed by a night full of entertainment with Rachel Dratch and Alex Moffat hosting the Award Show.
In tandem with the winner announcement, the Organic Valley Flavored Creamers are currently featured in a shoppable article on PEOPLE Online created in partnership with Dotdash Meredith, the largest digital and print publisher in America. Additionally, Ensemble IQ, a premier business intelligence resource with revered publications, including Progressive Grocer, Store Brands, Drug Store News, Convenience Store News and CBD Retail Insights, has also shared the news of the 2023 winners in respective categories.
For more information about Organic Valley, visit www.organicvalley.coop. Additional details on the full list of 2023 Product of the Year Winners can be found at productoftheyearusa.com, along with on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at #POYUSA2023.
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Frances Tiafoe 2023 MercedesCup Odds
Frances Tiafoe enters the MercedesCup following his French Open finished with a loss at the hands of Alexander Zverev in the round of 32. Tiafoe's opener is versus Jiri Lehecka (in the round of 16). Tiafoe's monyeline odds to win the tournament at TC Weissenhof, Stuttgart are +1400.
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Tiafoe at the 2023 MercedesCup
- Next Round: Round of 16
- Tournament Dates: June 9-18
- Venue: TC Weissenhof, Stuttgart
- Location: Stuttgart, Germany
- Court Surface: Grass
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Tiafoe's Next Match
In his opener at the MercedesCup, on Wednesday, June 14 (at 4:00 AM ET) in the round of 16, Tiafoe will face Lehecka.
Tiafoe is currently listed at -350 to win his next contest versus Lehecka. Check out the latest odds for the entire field at BetMGM.
Frances Tiafoe Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +5000
- US Open odds to win: +2000
- MercedesCup odds to win: +1400
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Tiafoe Stats
- In his most recent match, Tiafoe lost 6-3, 6-7, 1-6, 6-7 versus Zverev in the Round of 32 of the French Open.
- Tiafoe has won one of his 22 tournaments over the past year, with an overall match record of 40-21.
- Tiafoe is 3-3 on grass over the past 12 months.
- Through 61 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), Tiafoe has played 27.7 games per match. He won 52.9% of them.
- On grass, Tiafoe has played six matches over the past year, and he has totaled 38.8 games per match while winning 51.9% of games.
- Tiafoe, over the past 12 months, has won 83.1% of his service games and 23.4% of his return games.
- On grass over the past year, Tiafoe has claimed 82.8% of his service games and 21.4% of his return games.
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BEIJING (AP) — China has sanctioned two U.S. citizens in retaliation for action taken by Washington over human rights abuses in Tibet, the government said Friday, amid a continuing standoff between the sides over Beijing’s treatment of religious and ethnic minorities.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Todd Stein and Miles Yu Maochun, along with their close family members, would be banned from entering China.
Any assets they had in China would be frozen and they would be barred from contact with people or organizations within China.
The notice said the measures were in response to the U.S. sanctioning two Chinese citizens “under the excuse of the ‘Tibet human rights’ issue.”
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said China was responding to what it considered a violation of the “basic norms of international relations” and that Stein and Yu “behaved egregiously on Tibet and other China-related issues.”
“We would like to stress once again that Tibetan affairs are purely an internal affair of China, and the U.S. has no right to interfere in it, and that gross interference in China’s internal affairs will be met with strong countermeasures from China,” Mao told reporters at a daily briefing.
“We urge the U.S. to withdraw the so-called sanctions and stop interfering in Tibetan affairs and China’s internal affairs,” the spokesperson said.
Neither Stein nor Yu could immediately be reached for comment.
On Dec. 9, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Wu Yingjie, the top official in Tibet from 2016 to 2021, and Zhang Hongbo, the region’s police chief since 2018.
“Our actions further aim to disrupt and deter the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) arbitrary detention and physical abuse of members of religious minority groups in the Tibetan Autonomous Region,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in announcing the sanctions.
An accompanying Treasury Department notice said Wu had been responsible for “stability policies” in Tibet whose implementation involved “serious human rights abuse, including extrajudicial killings, physical abuse, arbitrary arrests, and mass detentions.”
It said that during Zhang’s tenure, police have been engaged in serious human rights abuses, including “torture, physical abuse, and killings of prisoners, which included those arrested on religious and political grounds.”
The Chinese announcement gave no specific accusations against Stein and Yu.
Stein has been deputy staff director at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China since 2021 and previously served as senior advisor to Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Sarah Sewall, including serving as her lead staffer on Tibetan issues. Previously, he was director of government relations at the monitoring group International Campaign for Tibet.
The Chinese-born Yu is a senior academic who taught at the U.S. Naval Academy and a noted critic of the regime of Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping. He served as key China adviser under former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
China in recent years has passed legislation mandating tit-for-tat sanctions against foreign individuals from the U.S., the EU and other countries over perceived slights against its national interests. Washington and others have compiled a long list of Chinese officials barred from visiting or engaging in transactions with their financial institutions ranging from the leader of the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong to local officials accused of human rights abuses.
China claims Tibet has been part of its territory for centuries, although backers of the exiled Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama say it was functionally independent for most of that time.
Communist forces invaded in 1950 and China has ruled the Himalayan region with an iron fist ever since, imposing ever stricter surveillance and travel restrictions since the last uprising against Beijing’s rule in 2008. Lengthy prison sentences in dire conditions are imposed for acts of defiance, including defending the region’s unique language and Buddhist culture from attempts at assimilation.
China has also been accused of detaining hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in reeducation camps as part of a campaign to wipe out their native language and culture, including through forced adoptions and sterilizations. China denies such charges, saying it has only been fighting terrorism, separatism and religious extremism. | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-china-sanctions-us-individuals-over-action-on-tibet/ | 2022-12-23 12:43:38 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-china-sanctions-us-individuals-over-action-on-tibet/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Friday effectively killed President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans. But he declared, “This fight is not over.”
The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, said the Biden administration overstepped its authority with the plan, and it left borrowers on the hook for repayments that are expected to resume in the fall.
The court held that the administration needed Congress’ endorsement before undertaking so costly a program. The majority rejected arguments that a bipartisan 2003 law dealing with national emergencies, known as the HEROES Act, gave Biden the power he claimed.
Biden, who once doubted his own authority to offer student loan forgiveness, said later Friday he would push ahead with a new debt relief plan while blaming Republican “hypocrisy” for the decision that wiped out his original effort.
The president said he would work toward a new path for student debt relief, using the Higher Education Act, which he called “the best path that remains to provide as many borrowers as possible with debt relief.” He also moved to create an “on ramp” that would help ease the risk of default for students who fail to make payments when the current pause ends.
The president said he would work under the authority of the Higher Education Act to begin a new program designed to ease borrowers’ threat of default if they fall behind over the next year.
The Supreme Court ruling was blunt in rejecting Biden’s first plan.
“Six States sued, arguing that the HEROES Act does not authorize the loan cancellation plan. We agree,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court.
Justice Elena Kagan, wrote in a dissent, joined by the court’s two other liberals, that the majority of the court “overrides the combined judgment of the Legislative and Executive Branches, with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million Americans.” Kagan read a summary of her dissent in court to emphasize her disagreement.
Roberts, perhaps anticipating negative public reaction and aware of declining approval of the court, added an unusual coda to his opinion, cautioning that the liberals’ dissent should not be mistaken for disparagement of the court itself. ”It is important that the public not be misled either. Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country,” the chief justice wrote.
Biden blame Republican officials for causing the dispute that led to Friday’s ruling.
They “had no problem with billions in pandemic-related loans to businesses. … And those loans were forgiven,” Biden said. “But when it came to providing relief to millions of hard-working Americans, they did everything in their power to stop it.”
Loan repayments will resume in October, although interest will begin accruing in September, the Education Department has announced. Payments have been on hold since the start of the coronavirus pandemic more than three years ago.
The forgiveness program would have canceled $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 or households with less than $250,000 in income. Pell Grant recipients, who typically demonstrate more financial need, would have had an additional $10,000 in debt forgiven.
Twenty-six million people had applied for relief and 43 million would have been eligible, the administration said. The cost was estimated at $400 billion over 30 years.
Advocacy groups supporting debt cancellation condemned the decision while demanding that Biden find another avenue to fulfill his promise of debt relief.
Natalia Abrams, president and founder of the Student Debt Crisis Center, said the responsibility for new action falls “squarely” on Biden’s shoulders. “The president possesses the power, and must summon the will, to secure the essential relief that families across the nation desperately need,” Abrams said in a statement.
The loan plan joins other pandemic-related initiatives that faltered at the Supreme Court.
Conservative majorities ended an eviction moratorium that had been imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and blocked a plan to require workers at big companies to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing and wear a mask on the job. The court upheld a plan to require vaccinations of health-care workers.
The earlier programs were billed largely as public health measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19. The loan forgiveness plan, by contrast, was aimed at countering the economic effects of the pandemic.
In more than three hours of arguments last February, conservative justices voiced their skepticism that the administration had the authority to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions.
Republican-led states arguing before the court said the plan would have amounted to a “windfall” for 20 million people who would have seen their entire student debt disappear and been better off than they were before the pandemic.
Roberts was among those on the court who questioned whether non-college workers would essentially be penalized for a break for the college educated.
In contrast, the administration grounded the need for the sweeping loan forgiveness in the COVID-19 emergency and the continuing negative impacts on people near the bottom of the economic ladder. The declared emergency ended on May 11.
Without the promised loan relief, the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer told the justices, “delinquencies and defaults will surge.”
At those arguments, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her fellow justices would be making a mistake if they took for themselves, instead of leaving it to education experts, “the right to decide how much aid to give” people who would struggle if the program were struck down.
The HEROES Act — the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act — has allowed the secretary of education to waive or modify the terms of federal student loans in connection with a national emergency. The law was primarily intended to keep service members from being hurt financially while they fought in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Biden announced the program last August and legal challenges quickly followed.
The court majority said the Republican-led states had cleared an early hurdle that required them to show they would be financially harmed if the program had been allowed to take effect.
The states did not even rely on any direct injury to themselves, but instead pointed to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, a state-created company that services student loans.
Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell, arguing before the court in February, said the Authority would lose about 40% of its revenues if the Biden plan went into effect. Independent research has cast doubt on the financial harm MOHELA would face, suggesting that the agency would still see an increase in revenue even if Biden’s cancellation went through. That information was not part of the court record.
A federal judge initially found that the states would not be harmed and dismissed their lawsuit before an appellate panel said the case could proceed.
In a second case, the justices ruled unanimously that two Texans who filed a separate challenge did not have legal standing to sue. But the outcome of that case has no bearing on the court’s decision to block the debt relief plan.
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Associated Press writers Collin Binkley, Colleen Long and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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Spencer Steer Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Brewers - July 14
Published: Jul. 14, 2023 at 4:24 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Spencer Steer returns to action for the Cincinnati Reds versus Corbin Burnes and the Milwaukee BrewersJuly 14 at 7:10 PM ET.
In his last action (on July 9 against the Brewers) he went 0-for-4.
Spencer Steer Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Friday, July 14, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Great American Ball Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Corbin Burnes
- TV Channel: BSOH
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +200)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Spencer Steer At The Plate
- Steer leads Cincinnati in OBP (.367), slugging percentage (.477) and total hits (90) this season.
- Among the qualifying hitters in MLB action, his batting average ranks 36th, his on-base percentage ranks 22nd, and he is 39th in the league in slugging.
- Steer has reached base via a hit in 57 games this season (of 88 played), and had multiple hits in 24 of those games.
- In 14 games this season, he has hit a home run (15.9%, and 3.7% of his trips to the plate).
- In 35 games this year (39.8%), Steer has picked up an RBI, and in 14 of those games (15.9%) he had two or more. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 45.5% of his games this year (40 of 88), with two or more runs five times (5.7%).
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Spencer Steer Home/Away Batting Splits
Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The Brewers pitching staff is 22nd in the league with a collective 8.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Brewers have the 15th-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (4.10).
- Brewers pitchers combine to give up 114 total home runs at a clip of 1.3 per game (to rank 22nd in baseball).
- Burnes makes the start for the Brewers, his 19th of the season. He is 7-5 with a 3.94 ERA and 102 strikeouts in 107 1/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander's last time out was on Saturday against the Cincinnati Reds, when he tossed six innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing three hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 28-year-old ranks 36th in ERA (3.94), 26th in WHIP (1.137), and 32nd in K/9 (8.6).
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
501 AM CDT Wed May 25 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northern Jim Hogg
and northwestern Brooks Counties through 545 AM CDT...
At 501 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hebbronville High School, or near Hebbronville, moving east at 40
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Hebbronville, Las Lomitas, Gruy Stadium, Jim Hogg County Airport,
Hebbronville High School, South Fork Estates and Hebbronville Border
Patrol Station.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 2734 9855 2734 9852 2727 9852 2726 9820
2696 9835 2712 9885 2736 9875 2736 9863
2734 9862 2734 9859 2736 9859 2736 9855
TIME...MOT...LOC 1001Z 288DEG 35KT 2726 9860
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
The National Weather Service has allowed Severe Thunderstorm
Watch 272 to expire for the following areas
In south central Texas this allows to expire 1 county
Jackson
In southeast Texas this allows to expire 16 counties
Austin Brazoria Chambers
Colorado Fort Bend Galveston
Harris Liberty Matagorda
Montgomery Polk San Jacinto
Trinity Walker Waller
Wharton
This includes the cities of Alvin, Anahuac, Angleton, Bay City,
Bellville, Brookshire, Cleveland, Clute, Coldspring, Columbus,
Conroe, Corrigan, Dayton, Dickinson, Eagle Lake, Edna, El Campo,
First Colony, Freeport, Friendswood, Galveston, Ganado, Groveton,
Hempstead, Houston, Huntsville, Lake Jackson, League City,
Liberty, Livingston, Mission Bend, Missouri City, Mont Belvieu,
Old River-Winfree, Palacios, Pearland, Pecan Grove, Prairie View,
Rosenberg, Sealy, Shepherd, Stowell, Sugar Land, Texas City,
The Woodlands, Trinity, Waller, Weimar, Wharton, and Winnie.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico task force charged with addressing missing person cases involving Native Americans is teaming up with researchers in Nebraska on a data collection project that they hope will begin to close the gaps when it comes to tracking cases and their outcomes nationwide.
The goal of the federally funded effort is to better define the scope of what many experts and activists have referred to as a “silent crisis.” The work began last week, said Melody Delmar, special projects coordinator with the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department.
One of the challenges for policymakers across Indian Country has been the lack of a consistent and sustainable system for reporting and tracking such cases. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Omaha will be using a model first developed for that state to address data collection across multiple law enforcement jurisdictions.
It was only last year that the FBI started publishing a list of Indigenous people missing in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. That list took six months to compile by validating different databases, and Delmar said this next phase of research will build on those efforts and help to guide future policymaking.
“While we’re working at the higher levels of government and at my level — policy work on the ground level — we know that people are still going missing. So we’re moving full steam ahead,” she said.
The U.S. Justice Department’s research and evaluation arm is funding the New Mexico project with a grant worth nearly $250,000. In all, the National Institute of Justice awarded six grants totaling nearly $5 million for research that could help curb violence against women.
Indigenous families, activists and advocacy groups gathered last Friday and over the weekend to bring more attention to the disproportionate number of tribal community members who have gone missing or have been killed in North America. While past studies have shown homicide and violence rates are exponentially higher for Native Americans and Alaska Natives, the number of missing and slain Indigenous women remains unknown.
A 2022 congressional research report highlights jurisdictional overlaps among tribal, local, state and federal police forces as a top challenge, aside from the lack of data.
In New Mexico, the state Department of Public Safety became the first agency in the United States to allow reporting agencies to identify Indigenous people and their respective tribes, pueblos, or nations. That was made possible when the department modified its National Crime Information Center.
Delmar and others who are working on the issue say the next step for New Mexico will be consideration of an alert system for when Indigenous people go missing, like systems being developed in California and now Oklahoma.
“It’s about identifying what other missing pieces are there,” she said. “And I think this is an important part, when we get done going through the research, that will help inform what kind of effective legislation we can improve on and work on.”
Nationally, the Urban Indian Health Institute distributed $1.2 million in grants last fall for groups to carry out best practices for data collection on American Indians and Alaska Natives. The institute refers to the effort as “decolonizing data,” as inaccurate categorization and racial misclassification has led to undercounts when it comes to representation of social, economic and health measures.
Advocates say that has resulted in fewer resources being given to Native communities.
In New Mexico’s largest judicial direct, there are no extra resources being funneled to prosecutors to work on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, or MMIP, cases. Still, Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said the office has dedicated two staffers to review as many cases as they can. The special unit has been able to locate five people since its creation in December 2021, he said, but there are 28 still on the list.
“This is a work in progress, and we continue to get better at it,” he said. “And I think from what I’ve seen, the federal agencies involved are getting better at it as well.”
For Denise Billy and Kayleigh Otero, their work in the district attorney’s office starts after cases are reported to law enforcement. They review the files and develop profiles that include the missing person’s daily routine, whom they associated with and any other details the family can provide — even the smallest of details.
“That’s something that me and Denise think about the most: just really digging deep,” Otero said. “It’s important work and it’s work that we’re dedicated to doing. We don’t just turn it off when we get to go home.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/indigenous-missing-person-cases-get-researchers-attention/ | 2023-05-09 03:11:06 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/indigenous-missing-person-cases-get-researchers-attention/ |
featured Williston Coyote Foundation announces WHS Legends Class of 2023 By Brendan Saunders bsaunders@willistonherald.com Brendan Saunders Journalist Author email Mar 24, 2023 Mar 24, 2023 Updated 1 hr ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Williston Coyote Foundation has officially announced the Williston High School Legends Class of 2023. In addition to 10 new individuals, four teams have been honored: The 1948 boys basketball team, which brought the first basketball state title to WHS. The 1963 boys basketball team which included future NBA coach Phil Jackson. 1976 and 1977 girls basketball teams, for winning back-to-back state titles. The ten members who have been honored:Don FougnerCoach Bob PetersonPhil Jackson Coach Pat Hatlestad Lori Anseth Gene Tetrault Ron ErdmanNeil Reuter Brian and Brent Qvale The Legends Banquet is scheduled for Sept. 28. Copy article link Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Sports Basketball Brendan Saunders Journalist Author email Follow Brendan Saunders Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today Load comments See more e-editions View Today's Digital Edition E-Edition Williston Herald 19 hrs ago Comments Most Popular Williston Police Dept. names suspect in Basil Sushi hit-and-run Juvenile arrested after social media threat referencing Williston High School Update: Driver in fatal crash south of Williston identified Williston partners with Gate City Bank to help homeowners Sheriff's office resumes missing person investigation Police investigating stabbing; suspect in custody Six projects receive STAR fund grants Lyons and Ensrud join American State Bank & Trust Company of Williston Williston school district eyes expansion to ease overcrowding Athlete of the Week Kara Hansen
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Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are engaged in an escalating back-and-forth over their respective immigration plans, competing over who presents the more hawkish vision on the border.
On Tuesday, DeSantis rolled out his immigration proposal, titled “Mission Stop the Invasion No Excuses,” a clear jab at Trump’s handling of the issue during his administration. DeSantis’s plan calls for an end to birthright citizenship, and he has endorsed the use of “deadly force” against migrants suspected of drug trafficking.
The plan has drawn Trump’s ire, with the former president accusing DeSantis of ripping off his policy.
“Well, his plan is my plan,” Trump told Semafor on Tuesday. “I mean, he’s basically copied everything I said — catch and release, finish the wall.”
On top of Trump’s response, his campaign spokesman Jason Miller tweeted side-by-side photos of Trump at the border wall and DeSantis building a wall with blocks with his children in a 2018 campaign ad, writing “Ron DeSantis is the Fisher Price version of President Trump.”
The pro-Trump super PAC Maga Inc. echoed Trump, mockingly saying in a statement it was “flattering” that DeSantis was copying the former president.
The two campaigns have thrown increasingly acrimonious darts at each other since DeSantis’s rollout.
On Tuesday, DeSantis traveled to the border community of Eagleton, Texas, where he unveiled the plan before taking it on the road to the early primary state of New Hampshire.
“We’re actually going to build the wall,” DeSantis said, taking a swipe at Trump while speaking to voters in Hollis, N.H., on Wednesday. “A lot of politicians chirp. They make grandiose promises and then fail to deliver the actual results. The time for excuses is over. Now is the time to deliver results and finally get the job done.”
Although the early primary state is not a border state, the issue has proven to be salient among its voters.
“Immigration is always right up there, and it’s not just Republicans; it does cross party lines as well,” said New Hampshire House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R), who is supporting DeSantis.
Osborne, who was present at DeSantis’s stop in the state earlier this week, noted the overlap between DeSantis’s and Trump’s plans.
“There’s going to be overlap because some of it is just common sense,” Osborne said. “The real issue is that Gov. DeSantis actually has a real track record on delivering on things he says he’s going to do.”
“We can elect a president and they can do a great job, but if they’re going to just leave and turn the reigns over to someone who’s not going to do a good job, then what is the lasting benefit of that?” Osborne said.
The Trump campaign responded Thursday with a “comprehensive overview of the most groundbreaking reforms ushered in by the Trump Administration” — a 31-page document touting the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
The Trump campaign’s document depicts his policies as a unique success story, attacking former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton, as well as the Biden administration.
“As President, Donald J. Trump mobilized every resource of the federal government to reverse the destructive open borders policies of his lawless predecessors and implement the first-ever immigration system that served the best interests of America and its workers,” reads the document.
Meanwhile, DeSantis is looking to put Trump on the defensive over his signature issue.
DeSantis is pushing the GOP envelope on attacking Trump, and he is going further than others in his party have gone by adopting “invasion” rhetoric, very clearly marked as off-bounds by immigrant advocates.
In doing so, DeSantis has accomplished two goals: setting a hawkish stance on immigration and publicly angering liberals.
In May, DeSantis previewed what his presidential campaign’s immigration plan would look like when he signed an immigration overhaul into law in Florida. The law hones in on the state’s migrant relocation program and limits immigrants without legal status from obtaining social services. The Florida governor’s supporters say his campaign swagger is a sign he would outdo Trump on implementing hawkish immigration policies.
“Gov. DeSantis has a plan to do on his first day in office what the Trump admin couldn’t do after four years: secure the border. His plan calls for a declaration of a national emergency, the end of phony asylum claims and to finally finish the border wall — without excuses or empty rhetoric. His commitment to getting the job done is the reason why there is so much enthusiasm behind Gov. DeSantis,” said Dave Vasquez of Never Back Down, a super PAC promoting DeSantis.
Never Back Down is run by Ken Cuccinelli, who was among the top immigration ideologues in the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration.
The similarities between the two campaigns in tone, messaging and staffing are no coincidence, according to Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist.
”When it comes to policy in the Republican primary, the policy is already set, it’s the ‘America First’ suite of policies. And that means being tough on illegal immigration,” said O’Connell.
That puts DeSantis in a difficult position, O’Connell said, because the GOP base looks to Trump to set the standard.
“Donald Trump is seen as the gold standard within the Republican primary. And when Ron pushes back and says, ‘Well, you didn’t get this accomplished,’ and Trump basically says, ‘Yeah, because I’m being blocked by the Democrats and even some Republicans.'”
The tit-for-tat has immigration advocates on edge, in part because it’s changing what’s acceptable to publicly say about immigrants.
“There’s just a continual level of escalation that they’re feeling, so that they can show this very specific base, ‘Well, actually, I’m the true nativist here. I am like the most extreme version of what you want,'” said Zachary Mueller, who monitors Republican rhetoric on immigration as the political director of America’s Voice, a progressive immigration advocacy group.
“I don’t think we’ve seen the end of it. I think what we’re really going to see is a nativist arms race here, as they move further and further to the extremes over the next year as they compete for these primaries.”
The escalating feud also raises questions about how either candidate would fare in a general election.
Republicans see an opportunity to translate the fire-and-brimstone language to a general electorate if it focuses on the border and treads carefully on the humanitarian aspect of immigration.
“The general election voters’ mindset, particularly the independents, they’re thoroughly unhappy with Biden and anyone who’s pushing a change of course to [the border] is going to be in good standing,” O’Connell said.
“Now the question is, Republicans are wiser to phrase it as ‘border security’ than say, ‘illegal immigration’ because remember, when we talk about the word migrant, when we talk about the word immigrant, it’s a word that has different meanings depending on the audience who you’re talking to.”
But immigration advocates say DeSantis is stuck in a Catch-22, where he has no choice but to push to the right to appeal to primary voters, rolling out proposals that will hurt him in a general election.
“For somebody like Ron DeSantis, who is trying to oust and overcome the former president of the United States in a primary — which is always going to be a difficult thing — he’s trying to convince that very activist, core, radicalized part of the base that he is actually the true spirit of what they actually want, and Donald Trump is just a reflection of them. I think DeSantis is trying to say, ‘I’m one of you,'” Mueller said.
“There’s probably some real concerns about a general election strategy,” he added. “How much is it going to cost you if you were focused on what may generously be 30 percent of the population in [a primary], and then you have to go to a general election and, you know, win 50 percent?” | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/trump-desantis-seek-to-prove-whos-tougher-on-immigration/ | 2023-07-01 22:29:29 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/trump-desantis-seek-to-prove-whos-tougher-on-immigration/ |
WHAT IS THE BEST MEN’S MOUNTAIN BIKE?
Few combinations are better than exercise and nature. Improving your physical health while taking in the beauty of the physical world is fun and easy with a mountain bike.
Cycling is a popular pastime, and mastering the trails at your favorite park or course is what mountain bikes are for. There are many different styles of mountain bikes — even electronic bikes so that people of all abilities can enjoy the ride. The best mountain bike is the Yeti SB130 Turq T2 X01 Eagle Mountain Bike due to its durability and extra smooth ride.
What to know before you buy a men’s mountain bike
Which type of bike do you need?
Mountain bikes are for off-road riding. If you are regularly hitting the trails, you will need a mountain bike with the design and components to absorb the bumps and jumps on the path. Some people prefer mountain bikes for navigating downtown or a leisurely ride. There also are fat bikes designed for sand and snow. Electric mountain bikes assist with pedaling for those who want a little extra boost.
Which type of frame do you need?
Rigid bikes do not have suspensions. Instead, they rely on spoked wheels and pneumatic tires for shock absorption. Rigid-framed bikes are usually less expensive and have less maintenance issues. Hardtail frames have spring suspension on the front of the bike. This improves shock absorption and can be adjusted on some higher-end models. Hardtail frames are common for lower and middle-priced bikes. Full suspension frames have suspension at both ends of the bike, which provides the most control and comfort. Full suspension frames are heavier and the most expensive. They are typically used by competitive mountain bikers.
Which material is best for your bike?
There are three metals used to make mountain bikes. The lighter the metal, the more expensive it is. Steel is the heaviest and the standard for lower-cost bikes. Aluminum alloy is found in many mid-priced bikes. Carbon fiber is the lightest metal but expensive. If you aren’t racing competitively, steel or aluminum alloy should suffice.
What to look for in a quality men’s mountain bike
Wheels
Wheels have changed over time. Some bikes with 26-inch wheels, which used to be the standard, but now there are wheels that measure from 27 to over 29 inches. Larger wheels make the bike faster but also harder to control. The new standard is 27.5 inches. The best wheel for your bike depends on how you plan to use it.
Gears
Beginner mountain bikes usually have five to seven gears, but there are many bikes with more than that. More gears provide more options to make climbing hills easier. Fat bikes can have as many as 30 gears for helping to move through thicker terrain.
Brakes
Rim brakes, which grab the outside edge of the wheel, are reliable and efficient. They are very common but can struggle when the bike is wet or muddy. Disk brakes are more expensive and fare better with off-road conditions. They can be cable or hydraulically operated.
How much you can expect to spend on a men’s mountain bike
Beginner mountain bikes cost between $200-$500, have minimal features and are primarily intended for leisure. Active bikers should consider mountain bikes between $500-$1,500 that provide most of the options you would need for frequent biking outings. Higher-end mountain bikes, made from ultra-light carbon, and electric mountain bikes, run from $2,500 to as high as $10,000.
Men’s mountain bike FAQ
Do mountain bikes come with a warranty?
A. Yes, mountain bikes have a warranty, but the parameters vary widely by manufacturer. The length of the warranty can be one to 10 years. Some warranties have exclusions such as if the bike was altered in any way, if you crash the bike and even normal wear and tear. Read your manufacturer’s warranty closely so that you know what is covered.
Do mountain bikes wear out quickly?
A. Even though mountain bikes can take a beating on the trails, they are built for the long haul. When parts fail, the most typical thing to look for are faulty brakes. Look over the pads for excessive wear, as well as the cables and hydraulics.
Check your tire tread regularly, too, for punctures or a needed replacement.
What’s the best men’s mountain bike to buy?
Top men’s mountain bike
Yeti Cycles SB130 Turq T2 X01 Eagle Mountain Bike
What you need to know: Designed for the rider who bikes regularly, this high-quality mountain bike is smooth and efficient.
What you’ll love: Made from the lightest and stiffest carbon Yeti offers, this mountain bike is built for hills and turns. It features an aluminum wheelset and strong brakes for quick stopping. It is highly rated for its durability.
What you should consider: This is one of the higher-priced mountain bikes and is not intended for beginners.
Where to buy: Sold by Backcountry
Top men’s mountain bike for the money
Schwinn High Timber Mountain Bike
What you need to know: An affordable bike from a leading brand, this bike is perfect for beginners.
What you’ll love: This bike has an alloy crank for steady gearing and twist shifters with a rear derailleur. It features wide knobby mountain tires on alloy wheels intended for all terrains. The seat is easily adjusted.
What you should consider: Assembling the bike can prove challenging for people that are not mechanically inclined.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Mongoose Dolomite Men’s Fat Tire Mountain Bike
What you need to know: This bike features a sturdy frame with extra-large knobby tires for riding on any terrain.
What you’ll love: The steel frame is designed for bumps, and supersized tires can handle about any off-road trail. There are disc brakes in the front and back with beach cruiser pedals for extra comfort. Seven speeds make it easy to climb hills.
What you should consider: The seat included with this bike is not very comfortable, according to some riders.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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A quick recap for those who don’t keep up with Dallas dining drama. Carbone is the big-money-backed New York red-sauce Italian restaurant that opened here a year ago with a reservation waitlist as long as your arm. The problem was, Dallas already had its own red-sauce Italian standby, Carbone’s, which was a staple of our Top 100 restaurants.
Confusion naturally ensued, including a lawsuit from Carbone’s asking for some relief. Big-money Carbone paid Carbone's owner Julian Barsotti to undertake a remodel and a rebrand.
Good, we're all caught up. Barsotti’s Fine Food and Liqueurs is the new name of the former Carbone’s, which reopened two weeks ago in the same spot on the corner of Oak Lawn and Wycliff avenues. Naturally, we were curious to see the changes for ourselves.
The new Barsotti’s (no lie, it’s going to take us a while to stop saying Carbone’s) trades in the former’s minimalist and bright decor with an interior that speaks in more Italian restaurant tones. There’s a new tile floor, tin ceilings, rich wallpaper along the back wall and a small bar that wraps around the edge of the kitchen. A banquette divides most of the dining room, upholstered in a rich burgundy.
Menu-wise, many of the classics remain. We couldn’t resist ordering the vodka tortellini ($26), which tasted better than we remembered. The vodka sauce is phenomenal, and the tortellini are filled with a bit of savory pork that we didn’t remember in the original. And the Sunday gravy ($26) tops a dish of perfectly al dente creste pasta. There’s ground beef, sausage and more tiny globes of pork, and you can taste the hours of simmering in each forkful. If you can’t get enough Sunday gravy on your plate, Barsotti’s still sells containers of the stuff to go.
We opened our meal with an order of asparagus ($15), perfectly cooked and topped with Calabrese chili oil and Parmesan. And since our beloved Dallas Stars were facing off against the Kraken up in Seattle, we couldn't resist an order of calamari ($17) to get in the spirit. The calamari is crispy and light, not even the slightest bit greasy. But that crispy batter hides much of the seafood flavor. That didn’t stop us from eating the entire plate, alternating dips in the sweet and tangy marina and a remoulade.
Barsotti's still has that textbook cannoli on the dessert menu, as well as a carrot cake topped with caramel, but we opted for a chocolate layer cake ($15) topped with a chocolate ganache. The cake was moist and light, not too sweet, and a perfect end to our meal.
The morning of our visit, the only reservation we could find for two was at 8:30 p.m., just 30 minutes before Barsotti’s scheduled closing time. And when we arrived about 15 minutes early, the restaurant was still packed wall to wall on a Sunday night, which speaks to the pent-up demand from people who missed their Italian fix from their neighborhood favorite for the last four months.
Perhaps it was a byproduct of being so busy, but the service seemed a touch out of practice. Our waiter was helpful enough while we picked appetizers, but we were halfway through those plates before the waiter reappeared to take our entrée orders. As the dining room thinned out around us, the pace of service seemed to pick up.
For the first two weeks, Barsotti’s was open only for dinner while the team worked out the kinks. As of May 8, lunch service has resumed seven days a week. Over at Carbone, a meal is a theatrical production, and reservations are still tough to come by (especially if you’d like to sit indoors). Meanwhile the resurrected Barsotti’s brings back all the Italian classics we’ve missed, dressed in slightly fancier clothes, but with less pretentious flair. There’s space in Dallas for both options, and we love that the latter has finally returned.
Barsotti's Fine Food and Liqueurs, 4208 Oak Lawn Ave. Monday – Wednesday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. and 5–9 p.m.; Thursday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. and 5–10 p.m. | https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/barsottis-dallas-is-now-open-16538220 | 2023-05-10 15:57:08 | 0 | https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/barsottis-dallas-is-now-open-16538220 |
Warrant: Texas FedEx driver says he strangled girl in van
The FedEx driver accused of abducting and killing a 7-year-old girl last week in Texas told authorities that he strangled her after accidentally hitting her with his van while making a delivery at her home, according to an arrest warrant obtained Thursday.
Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, told investigators that Athena Strand wasn’t seriously hurt after he hit her while backing up, but he panicked and put her in his van. He said she was talking to him and told him her name, according the warrant.
But Horner said he didn’t want her to tell her father what happened, so he first tried to break the girl’s neck and when that didn’t work, he strangled her with his hands in the back of the van, the warrant said. The warrant said Horner took investigators to where he’d left Athena’s body.
Athena was found dead on Dec. 2, two days after she was reported missing from the home of her father and stepmother in Paradise, a town of fewer than 500 people about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Dallas.
Horner was arrested last week on charges of capital murder and aggravated kidnapping and remained jailed Thursday with his bond set at $1.5 million. Jail records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Athena’s mother, Maitlyn Gandy, spoke at a news conference Thursday outside Wise County courthouse in Decatur, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Paradise. She said said that the package that Horner dropped off that day was a Christmas present for the “amazing little girl” she wanted everyone to know about.
“I was robbed of watching her grow up,” Gandy said as she stood beside the present, a box of “You Can Be Anything” Barbies.
Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin has said that they knew early on that a delivery had been made at the girl’s home at about the same time that she disappeared. Akin has said she was killed about an “hour or so” after being kidnapped.
Working with employees from the contracting company that was delivering packages for FedEx, investigators determined which van and driver made the delivery, the warrant said. Investigators also learned that the van that delivered the package was equipped with video, the warrant said.
An FBI employee who then watched video from the van could see that the driver had taken a young girl who looked like Athena in the van and had talked to her. The warrant said that when investigators located Horner, he told them Athena was dead and confessed.
Gandy said that Athena had been set to return home to her in Oklahoma after Christmas break.
“Now, instead, Athena will be cremated and she will come home in an urn because I’m not even, I’m not anywhere close to being ready to let my baby go,” she said.
Gandy said her daughter, who loved school and her friends in the first grade, also “loved dancing, singing and all animals: dogs, cats, horses, lizards and chinchillas.”
She said Athena loved flowers, and also wasn’t afraid to get “down in the mud with the boys.” “She was her father’s daughter,” Gandy said.
“I will never see her bright blue eyes or her ornery smile again,” Gandy said. “I will never be able to hear her say, ‘I love you, Mommy.’ I will never be able to do her hair again or to hold her while she sleeps.”
She thanked the community, saying they “flew into action” from the moment Athena went missing and she’s been seeing people everywhere wearing pink in her daughter’s honor. At a vigil Tuesday night in Paradise, many of the mourners gathered to remember Athena wore pink.
“I ask everyone to hold your littles just a little tighter for me,” Gandy said.
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The Baltimore County Council plans its first in-person meeting since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic at 6 p.m. Monday in Towson.
Council Chairman Julian Jones, a Woodstock Democrat, said the council had hoped to resume open meetings in September, around the time county schools welcomed students back for the year.
But there have been delays associated with setting up screens and other technology in the council chambers that would allow the meetings to be held simultaneously in-person and online, he said.
That work remains unfinished, but Jones said the council wanted to hold its last meetings of the year in-person for the two longtime members departing in December — Cathy Bevins and Tom Quirk.
The meeting will still be broadcast online, Jones added, but the setup will not be as advanced as it will be once the equipment arrives. There may only be one camera trained on the entire council as the meeting proceeds, rather than seven individual cameras — one for each member. And large screens intended to display online speakers in the council chambers may not be up and running yet, Jones said.
Regardless, Monday will be the first time the council is meeting in its chambers in Towson’s Historic Courthouse since March 2020.
The council is scheduled to hold its Nov. 29 work session solely online, but the evening Dec. 5 legislative meeting, during which council members will vote on bills discussed Nov. 29, will be held both in-person and online, according to an online schedule. That meeting follows a 10 a.m. Dec. 5 inauguration for the new council.
Jones said the council wanted to welcome its two new members — Mike Ertel and Pat Young — with an in-person meeting, even though the desired technology for hybrid meetings may not be set up until February. The pair of Democrats will be representing areas that include Towson and Catonsville, respectively. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-co-baltimore-county-council-first-in-person-meeting-covid-20221119-xhdnezdsbvcnzezskwebod4jb4-story.html | 2022-11-20 22:43:20 | 1 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-co-baltimore-county-council-first-in-person-meeting-covid-20221119-xhdnezdsbvcnzezskwebod4jb4-story.html |
Russia rejoins wartime deal on Ukrainian grain exports
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia agreed Wednesday to resume its participation in a deal brokered by Turkey and the U.N. to keep grain and other commodities moving out of Ukraine’s ports during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Turkey’s president said.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar that the deal for a humanitarian grain corridor would “continue in the same way as before” as of noon Wednesday.
Erdogan said the renewed deal would prioritize shipments to African nations, including Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan, in line with Russia’s concerns that most of the grain exported since the agreements first was reached in July was ending up in richer nations.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Russia agreed to continue carrying out its role in the deal after receiving written guarantees from Kyiv that Ukraine would not use the sea corridor for military actions against Moscow, according to a statement by the Russian defense ministry
Russia suspended its participation in the grain deal over the weekend, citing allegations of a Ukrainian drone attack against its Black Sea fleet. The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that ship traffic from ports in southern Ukraine was halted, calling the movement “unacceptable.”
The Defense Ministry said Wednesday that Ukraine had formally committed to using the safe shipping corridors through the Black Sea “exclusively in accordance with the stipulations of the Black Sea initiative,” a reference to the separate U.N. and Turkey-backed agreements signed by Moscow and Kyiv on July 22.
Ships loaded with grain departed Ukraine on Tuesday despite Russia suspending its participation in the U.N.-brokered deal, which aimed to ensure safe passage of critical food supplies meant for parts of the world struggling with hunger. But the United Nations had said vessels would not move Wednesday, raising concerns about future shipments.
The United Nations and Turkey brokered separate deals with Russia and Ukraine in July to ensure Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia would receive grain and other food from the Black Sea region during Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — This iconic tavern and restaurant first made its way into town in 1981.
Rodeo Bar in Downtown Dallas is a DFW staple, providing comfort food and a nostalgic appreciation for Americana fare. Some of you may remember that it was closed down for a bit, but it re-opened in 2021, offering new food, a new vibe and a back room for private get-togethers.
“Texas grit and authenticity,” the bar’s website says.
Every Friday and Saturday they host live music in the back room with a variety of artists playing all different kinds of genres. Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. is Happy Hour, offering some of their fan-favorite drinks for just $6.
If all of that sounds appetizing to you and you’d like to learn more, visit adolphus.com/rodeo-bar. | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/inside-dfw/iconic-rodeo-bar-at-the-adolphus-in-downtown-dallas-has-been-a-dfw-staple-since-the-80s/ | 2022-05-13 15:47:40 | 1 | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/inside-dfw/iconic-rodeo-bar-at-the-adolphus-in-downtown-dallas-has-been-a-dfw-staple-since-the-80s/ |
Minnie Bruce Pratt, a prominent poet and essayist who explored issues of gender fluidity, the friction between acceptance and intolerance, and personal struggles such as living apart from her sons after coming out as lesbian in the 1970s, died July 2 at a hospice in Syracuse, N.Y. She was 76.
Her son Benjamin Weaver said Dr. Pratt had an aggressive brain tumor.
Dr. Pratt moved among the worlds of literature, scholarship, and activism over nearly five decades as the LGBTQ+ community achieved gains such as legalization of same-sex marriage and greater recognition of trans and nonbinary identities. But Dr. Pratt rarely adopted a celebratory tone on perceived progress.
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In more than 10 books and anthologies, she carved out a distinctive niche with narrative-driven poetry that had a restless energy and a wide-angle lens. She decried economic and racial injustices with the same urgency as she denounced the political and social forces opposing gay rights and different forms of gender expression.
Her work, she said, was about trying to connect the dots. She called it the "understandings of the intersections," such as how laws can codify discrimination or how views can be shaped by culture and social class. "None of us is just one thing," she said.
She often described her upbringing in segregated Alabama as the foundation for her belief in the unifying power of sharing stories and experiences.
“Of course, almost every Southern child, white or Black, stopped at least once at water labeled ‘Black’ or ‘White,’ and sneaked a sip. We said, ‘This is just like my water. What’s the difference between us?’” she recounted in 1999. “But this was a hidden, secret making of a bond between us. This was a private unspoken metaphor.”
Dr. Pratt also found a voice on the streets, taking part in early pride events and other outreach projects during eras such as the AIDS crisis. During that time, in the 1980s and early 1990s, Dr. Pratt and her partner, photographer Joan E. Biren, also known as JEB, were leading figures in gay and lesbian movements in the District and surrounding areas.
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In 1984, Dr. Pratt co-founded LIPS, a lesbian-led activist group in Washington, and joined other organizations including the National Women’s Fightback Network.
Dr. Pratt’s years in Washington also marked some of her defining works including “Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991″ (1991), a mix of autobiography and observations that have been incorporated in many college feminist studies programs, and 1990′s “Crime Against Nature,” a collection of poems on her relationship with her sons as a lesbian mother as the boys lived with their father.
In one poem, “The Child Taken From the Mother,” Dr. Pratt seesaws between anguish and anger.
And here,
perhaps, you say: That last word doesn't belong.
Woman, mother: those can stay. Lesbian: no.
Put that outside the place of the poem. Too
slangy, prosy, obvious, just doesn’t belong.
The book takes its name from wording within a North Carolina anti-sodomy statute. Dr. Pratt was living in Fayetteville, N.C., when her marriage splintered in the mid-1970s after she acknowledged her sexuality as lesbian. In 1976, she decided not to wage a court battle for full-time custody of her boys, then aged 6 and 7. Instead, she reached an arrangement with her ex-husband for visitation and occasional hosting, which became more frequent as the boys moved into their teen years.
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"I paid for my freedom with my children," she wrote.
Her long relationship with author and activist Leslie Feinberg, which began in the early 1990s, provided a grounding for some of Dr. Pratt’s mediations on gender and her own place in the spectrum. Feinberg, author of the “Stone Butch Blues” (1993), took male hormones for a time and was often regarded as a man in public.
Dr. Pratt’s 1995 volume of memoir-style essays, “S/He,” takes readers through her girlhood questions over gender roles, her contempt for a society that she feels shackles women, and the fateful moment when her husband finds her “love notes” to another woman. It leads to the pivotal tale about a lover who is not named but clearly an homage to Feinberg.
“In the Tastee Diner we’ve had our french fries and coleslaw and a shared chocolate milkshake. Full of comfort, I put down the tip, you go pay the check,” Dr. Pratt wrote.
A song from the 60s is playing, Dr. Pratt described. They dance “in the aisle between the booths and the coat racks.”
“At the next table two women are scandalized,” she wrote, “their eyebrows in O’s of astonishment.”
Minnie Bruce Pratt was born Sept. 12, 1946, in Selma, Ala., and raised in nearby Centreville. Her mother was a social worker, and her father worked as a clerk at a timber company.
She received her bachelor’s degree at University of Alabama in 1968 and married Marvin Weaver, who became a director of arts programs and fund-raiser. She was mostly a homemaker while raising her sons.
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After her marriage ended, she received her doctorate in Renaissance English literature in 1979 from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. At the university, Dr. Pratt became a member of “Feminary,” a feminist journal that describes itself as “emphasizing lesbian visions,” and was co-author of “Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism” (1984).
Dr. Pratt’s first book, “The Sound of One Fork” (1981), examined her personal journey as a lesbian and white woman in the South. Themes of race, sexuality, and injustice were explored in “Walking Back Up Depot Street” (1999), a story in poems set in the segregated rural South, and “The Dirt She Ate” (2003), about people pushed to the margins of society.
Her 2021 book "Magnified" deals with subjects of mortality and memory and was dedicated to Feinberg, who died in 2014. They became domestic partners in New Jersey in 2004 and had a civil union in 2007. In 2011, they were legally married in Massachusetts.
Dr. Pratt taught at various universities, including the University of Maryland, and retired in 2015 as professor of writing and women’s studies from Syracuse University, where she helped develop the university’s first LGBT studies program. Her awards include the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets for “Crime Against Nature.”
She leaves her sons Benjamin Weaver and Ransom Weaver and five grandchildren.
Dr. Pratt once said she was fortunate to live “at the intersection of great waves of social change” including the civil rights movement, feminism, and what she called “queer liberation.”
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country’s first new rocket series in more than two decades.
Coming three weeks after an aborted launch due to a separate glitch, the H3’s failure was a setback for Japan’s space program — and possibly for its missile detection program — and a disappointment for space fans who were rooting for Tuesday’s retrial.
The H3 rocket with a white head blasted off and soared into the blue sky from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as fans and local residents cheered. It followed its planned trajectory and the second stage separated as designed, but the ignition for it failed, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
JAXA officials apologized for the failure, and said it sent a command to destroy the rocket about 14 minutes after liftoff as there was no hope for it to complete its mission.
Yasuhiro Funo, JAXA director for launch implementation, said the second stage and its payload fell into the deep sea off the eastern coast of the Philippines. He said the rocket, which was not going to enter the targeted orbit while carrying a lot of fuel, was unsafe and had to be destroyed.
No damages or injuries were reported from the destruction of the rocket or its falling debris.
The rocket was carrying an Advanced Land Observation Satellite, or ALOS-3, tasked primarily with Earth observation and data collection for disaster response and mapmaking, and an experimental infrared sensor developed by the Defense Ministry that can monitor military activity including missile launches.
There is no plan for an alternative satellite launch to replace the earlier generation of ALOS, said Katsuhiko Hara, Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology minister. He did not say if or how the delay could affect disaster and missile detection capability.
The failure is the second in six months since a smaller Epsilon-series solid-fueled rocket designed to launch scientific satellites failed in October.
The H3 launch had also been held up more than two years because of an engine development delay. During a launch attempt in February, an electrical glitch after the main engine ignition aborted the launch just before its liftoff and narrowly saved the rocket.
Further delay is expected, but JAXA officials said analyzing the malfunction and rebuilding trust comes first.
“Our top priority is to do everything we can to find the cause and regain the trust in our rockets,” said JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa at a joint news conference. “We need to figure out what we should do to successfully achieve the next launch.”
Yamakawa said global competitiveness is still important. “Delays and additional costs are both burdens, but we will achieve international overall competitiveness from the perspectives of cost and user friendliness in delivering satellites.”
The H3 rocket — Japan’s first new series in more than 22 years — was developed at a cost of 200 billion yen ($1.47 billion) by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a successor to Japan’s H-2A rocket, which is due to retire after its upcoming 50th launch.
The H3, about 60 meters (196 feet) long, can carry larger payloads than the 53-meter (174-foot) H-2A. But its launch cost has been slashed approximately in half to about 50 million yen ($368,000) by simplifying its design, manufacturing and operation in an effort to win more commercial launch customers. The hydrogen-fueled main engine is newly developed and uses fewer parts by altering the combustion method.
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At least eight mass shootings took place across the U.S. over the weekend following Tuesday's mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Another three occurred between Wednesday and Friday.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that collects data from over 7,500 sources, eight people have been killed and another 45 injured in the five days following the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
A mass shooting, defined by the Gun Violence Archive, is an incident in which four or more individuals are shot and either injured or killed, excluding the gunman.
Wednesday, May 25
In Philadelphia, a man riding a mountain bike opened fire Wednesday night on a home where a young man and his date were preparing to leave for prom, CBS3 Philadelphia reported. Police said the gunman shot a 19-year-old man, a young woman – also 19 – and the young woman's 34-year-old mother and 60-year-old man.
The boy was in critical condition and the other three victims were stable as of Thursday morning.
Friday, May 27
Six people were shot at a graduation party in Alabama early Thursday, The Anniston Police Department reported on Facebook. None of the injuries were life threatening. Over 150 people, as young as 14, were at the party at the time. Stray bullets struck nearby vehicles, the police reported, and several firearms were recovered at the scene.
That same day, ABC13 in Michigan reported a 40-year-old mother and her three children – ages 3, 4 and 6 – were shot killed about 50 miles north of Grand Rapids. The mother's stepfather suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was in critical condition as of Saturday. A surviving daughter told ABC13 that the stepfather shot the children and then the mother.
Saturday, May 28
In Chattanooga, Tenn., six people were shot a block away from the Tennessee Aquarium downtown, Local 3 News and CNN reported. Two of the six victims suffered life-threatening injuries. The victims were in the teens and early 20s.
Police in Colorado Springs, Colo., are investigating a shooting in a bar parking lot that killed one man and wounded three women, KKTV11 News reported. Witnesses said the shots appear to have come from a moving vehicle.
ABC30 in California reported that three teenagers were wounded and one man killed in a shooting in Fresno Saturday night. The three teenagers expected to survive, but the man, in his 20s, died from his injuries.
Shots broke out at a house party in Malabar, Fla., Saturday night, striking four people between 15 and 18 years old, 1010 News reported.
Sunday, May 29
Fox32 in Illinois reported that five people remain in serious condition after they were shot in Chicago's West Garfield Park. The victims range from 16 to 33 in age.
In Taft, Okla., a 26-year-old man is in custody in connection with a shooting at a crowded Memorial Day festival that left one 39-year-old woman dead and seven others wounded. The surviving victims range from 9 to 56 and are suffering from non-life-threatening injuries, Fox23 News reported.
Police in Detroit told WWJ News Radio that a group of three men and two women came under fire around 3:40 a.m. Two of the men who were struck are in stable condition, but the third is in critical condition, WWJ News Radio reported. The women weren't shot, but received minor injuries from broken glass. (The Gun Violence Archive includes this incident on its list. NPR has reached out to the group to clarify its methodology in this case.)
The Merced Sun-Star in California reported Sunday morning that four people, two youths and two adults, were shot sometime after midnight Sunday. One of the victims was killed, one is in critical condition and two were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Mahoning County Dog Warden is asking for information after a dog was left tied to a railroad track.
A video shows the dog being tied to a pole that is just inches from the railroad tracks on E. Florida Avenue in Youngstown around 8:30 Monday.
It was a few hours before a nearby business owner found the dog around 11:30 a.m., according to a Facebook post on the Mahoning County Dog Warden’s page.
The business owner looked back at the security footage and could see an individual tying the dog up with two other people waiting nearby.
“As you can see, she repeatedly looks up at the one individual while wagging her tail wanting to trust them,” the Facebook post read.
The warden’s office is asking anyone with information on the dog or the individuals in the video to call 330-740-2205 or email ssabol@mahoningcountyoh.gov.
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MCKINNEY, Texas, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globe Life Inc. (NYSE: GL) will release Third Quarter 2022 earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. At that time a copy of the Company's Q3 - 2022 earnings press release and any other financial and statistical information about the quarter will be available on the Company's website at https://investors.globelifeinsurance.com/ under Financial Reports and Other Financial Information. In conjunction with the Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Release of Globe Life Inc. you are invited to listen to a conference call that will be broadcast live over the Internet on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 11:00 am Eastern (10:00 am Central).
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What outfits are best for fall family photos?
Family photos make great accents around your home and let you look back on treasured moments and seasons. Coordinating or matching outfits tie the look together and can express your family’s personality and interests while also working with a fall theme.
Should my family coordinate outfits for photos?
Matching outfits can be a fun way to make your photos special and highlight the bond between family members. You can find outfits made from the same material or with the same silhouette. If you don’t want to match exactly, complementary colors and patterns look intentional while allowing for individual expression.
Best matching fall family photo outfits
Top matching fall family photo outfits
Mumetaz Family Matching Outfits
What you need to know: These outfits complement each other with coordinating colors and materials.
What you’ll love: You can choose the pieces you need for your family members. The silhouettes are classic and the patterns simple, so you can add your own style with accessories, shoes and sweaters for fall. The dresses have bows at the waist that coordinate with the collars of the boys and men’s matching polo shirts.
What you should consider: The smallest size available is 18 to 24 months for toddlers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top matching fall family photo outfits for the money
The Children’s Place Family Matching Pajamas
What you need to know: Coordinating pajamas are adorable for a fireside photo shoot that captures a special family moment.
What you’ll love: The green moose plaid, black and white buffalo check and red and black buffalo check are all great for fall. There are pajamas for adults, kids, toddlers, babies and even pets. This set is especially great for an at-home photo shoot for a casual, candid look.
What you should consider: Not all patterns come in every size or style.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What you need to know: Matching dresses work for a Mommy and Me photo session.
What you’ll love: There are seven colors, including earthy ones like mustard and burgundy that look great in fall photos. They have ruffle sleeves, button fronts, and a defined waist. The hem on the dress is longer, which allows for more comfortable movement when capturing candid shots.
What you should consider: You’ll need to find something separate for those who prefer pants and shirts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best coordinating fall family photo outfits
Top fall family photo outfit for mom
Croft And Barrow Knot Waist Shirt Dress
What you need to know: You can build your family’s photo color palette around the white and black of this plaid flannel.
What you’ll love: The knot waist is flattering and the longer hem looks great with heels, boots or even sneakers. It has buttons down the front and at the sleeves for an authentic shirt dress shape. You can also adjust the tie closure for a more custom fit.
What you should consider: The only other color is red and green plaid, which will look out of place in a fall photo.
Where to buy: Sold by Kohl’s
Top fall family photo outfit for dad
Men’s Sonoma Good for Life Flannel Button-Down Shirt
What you need to know: Iconic fall plaids look great while apple picking, at the pumpkin patch, or with a fall foliage background.
What you’ll love: It comes in regular and slim fits to make sure Dad looks his best in family photos. There are plenty of plaid color combinations as well as some solid neutrals for those who prefer a simpler look.
What you should consider: The flannel is heavy and might be too hot for some fall days.
Where to buy: Sold by Kohl’s
Top fall family outfit for girls
Bonnie Jean Girl’s Thanksgiving Dress with Cardigan
What you need to know: Fall colors such as teal, dark orange and dusty pink combine with delicate delicate floral patterns in four color combinations.
What you’ll love: The cardigan can be worn with other outfits as well, making it an even better value. It is machine-washable and has a zipper closure in the back. Some sets include a button-front cardigan while others have a small hook at the top.
What you should consider: The satin dress may be too formal for outdoor photo sessions, especially popular in the fall.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top fall family outfit for boys
Tommy Hilfiger Pullover Sweater, Dress Shirt and Pants Set
What you need to know: Boys can choose their look with two shirts.
What you’ll love: The plaid dress shirt looks great on its own or under the solid white sweater. A shawl collar and front knitted design give just enough detail to add interest while still coordinating with the rest of the family. Solid-color pants have elastic at the back, which makes them easy to pull on and off.
What you should consider: You can’t mix and match sizes if your child has long legs or a longer torso.
Top fall family outfit for baby
Hope And Henry Organic Cotton Sweater Romper
What you need to know: It doesn’t get any cuter than a baby in a knit sweater.
What you’ll love: The romper comes in multiple colors and styles, including five with long pants and sleeves. It’s made of organic cotton but is still safe to put in the washing machine. All of the colors are solid with subtle details and won’t clash if other family members have patterns.
What you should consider: It doesn’t include footwear, which most babies will need to stay warm.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has suspended a Baton Rouge judge without pay for 180 days for abusing her power to hold people in contempt.
East Baton Rouge Parish Family Court Judge Charlene Charet Day, who has held the seat since 2011, violated the law when she issued a bench warrant that resulted in a teacher being arrested at the school where she works, the high court ruled Friday.
The Louisiana Judiciary Commission, which investigates complaints of judicial conduct, recommended the six-month suspension in July, finding that Day violated rules of conduct and committed “willful misconduct” when she locked up litigants for contempt of court. Day was directed to pay the commission a $6,260 fine.
The justices unanimously agreed that a suspension was warranted, though one thought a less-severe penalty was required, The Advocate reported.
“Judge Day’s conduct harmed the integrity of and respect for the judiciary,” Justice William Crain wrote in the prevailing opinion. “When a judge abuses the immense power to deprive a person of their liberty, it has a profound effect on public confidence in the judiciary.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Baton-Rouge-judge-suspended-for-abusing-power-17527141.php | 2022-10-22 16:29:28 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Baton-Rouge-judge-suspended-for-abusing-power-17527141.php |
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I was tired of gloves being damaged, wet, providing inefficient protection and so I came up with TUF GLOVE" said inventor from Henderson, NV "This new invention would be a more durable and protective alternative to conventional gloves, providing an added layer of protection for the wearer's hands and could be used to illuminate dark spaces."
This innovative invention fulfills the need for a glove that would feature enhanced protection and functionality.
This design would protect an individual's hands from impact with various objects, as well as from sharp, pointed, or rough objects and surfaces. Would provide illumination when little or no ambient light was available allowing a person to see clearly when performing various tasks or simply moving about.
The original design was submitted to the Las Vegas, NV sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-LGT-230, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Six days after earthquakes in Syria and Turkey killed tens of thousands, sorrow and disbelief are turning to anger and tension over a sense that there has been an ineffective, unfair and disproportionate response to the historic disaster.
Many in Turkey express frustration that rescue operations have proceeded painfully slowly, and that valuable time has been lost during the narrow window for finding people alive beneath the rubble.
Others, particularly in the southern Hatay province near the Syrian border, say Turkey’s government was late in delivering assistance to the hardest-hit region for what they suspect are both political and religious reasons.
In Adiyaman, in southeastern Turkey, Elif Busra Ozturk waited outside the wreckage of a building on Saturday where her uncle and aunt were trapped and believed dead, and where the bodies of two of her cousins already had been found.
“For three days, I waited outside for help. No one came. There were so few rescue teams that they could only intervene in places they were sure there were people alive,” she said.
At the same complex, Abdullah Tas, 66, said he had been sleeping inside a car near the building where his son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren were buried. He said that rescuers had first arrived four days after the earthquake struck. The Associated Press could not independently verify his claim.
“What good is that for the people under the debris?” he asked.
The sentiment that not enough is being done to free people’s buried family members has taken hold in other parts of the earthquake zone as well. In the ancient city of Antakya, a crush of onlookers stood behind police tape Saturday to watch as bulldozers clawed at a high-rise luxury apartment building that had toppled onto its side.
Over 1,000 residents had been in the 12-story building when the quake struck, according to relatives who watched the recovery effort. They said hundreds were still inside but complained the effort to free them had been slow and not serious.
“This is an atrocity, I don’t know what to say,” said Bediha Kanmaz, 60. The bodies of his son and 7-month-old grandson had been pulled from the building — still locked in an embrace — and his daughter-in-law was still inside.
“We open body bags to see if they’re ours, we’re checking if they’re our children. We’re even checking the ones that are torn to pieces,” she said of herself and other grief-stricken family members.
Kanmaz blamed Turkey’s government for the slow response, and accused the national rescue service of failing to do enough to recover people alive.
She and others in Antakya expressed the belief that the presence of a large minority of Alevis — an Anatolian Islamic community that differs from Sunni and Shia Islam and Alawites in Syria — had made them a low priority for the government. Traditionally, few Alevis vote for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party. There was no evidence, however, that the region was overlooked for sectarian reasons.
Erdogan said Wednesday post-quake efforts were ongoing across the 10 affected provinces and dismissed allegations of no help from state institutions like the military as “lies, fake slander.” He has acknowledged shortcomings. Officials said rescue efforts in Hatay were initially complicated by the destruction of the local airport’s runway and bad road conditions.
Anger over the extent of the destruction, however, is not limited to individuals. Turkish authorities have been detaining or issuing detention warrants for dozens of people allegedly involved in the construction of buildings that collapsed, and the justice minister has vowed to punish anyone responsible.
Kanmaz blamed negligence on the part of the developer of the apartment building where her family had been killed.
“If I could wrap my hands around the contractor’s neck, I would tear him to shreds,” she said.
That contractor, who oversaw the construction of the 250-unit building, was detained at Istanbul Airport on Friday before boarding a flight out of the country, Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency reported. On Saturday, he was formally arrested. His lawyer suggested the public was looking for a scapegoat.
In multiethnic southern Turkey, other tensions are rising. Some expressed frustration that Syrian refugees who have lived in the region after fleeing a devastating civil war are burdening the sparse welfare system and competing for resources with Turkish people.
“There are many poor people in Hatay but they don’t offer us any welfare, they give it to the Syrians. They give so much to the Syrians,” Kanmaz said. “There are more Syrians than Turks here.”
There were signs Saturday that the tensions could be boiling over.
Two German aid groups and the Austrian Armed Forces temporarily interrupted their rescue work in the Hatay region citing the tense situation and fear for the safety of their staff. They resumed work after the Turkish army secured the area, the Austrian defense ministry spokesman tweeted.
“There is increasing tension between different groups in Turkey,” Lt. Col. Pierre Kugelweis of the Austrian Armed Forces told the APA news agency. “Shots have reportedly been fired.”
German news agency dpa reported that Steven Berger, chief of operations of the aid group I.S.A.R. Germany, said that “it can be seen that grief is slowly giving way to anger” in Turkey’s quake-struck regions.
For Kanmaz, it is both grief and anger.
“I’m angry. Life is over,” she said. “We live for our children; what matters most to us is our children. We exist if they exist. Now we are over. Everything you see here is over.”
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Emrah Gurel in Adiyaman, Turkey, Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul, Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, and Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed.
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Today in History
Today is Sunday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2023. There are 273 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 2, 2005, Pope John Paul II died in his Vatican apartment at age 84.
On this date:
In 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.S. Mint.
In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, because of advancing Union forces.
In 1912, the just-completed RMS Titanic left Belfast to begin its sea trials eight days before the start of its ill-fated maiden voyage.
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Congress declared war four days later.)
In 1982, several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)
In 1986, four American passengers, including an 8-month-old girl, her mother and her grandmother, were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.
In 1992, mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering; he was later sentenced to life, and died in prison.
In 1995, after a work stoppage lasting nearly eight months, baseball owners accepted the players’ union offer to play without a contract.
In 2002, Israel seized control of Bethlehem; Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, where they began a 39-day standoff.
In 2003, during the Iraq War, American forces fought their way to within sight of the Baghdad skyline.
In 2007, in its first case on climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, ruled 5-4 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
In 2020, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide passed the 1 million mark, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Ten years ago: North Korea said it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material in what outsiders saw as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war. Pope Francis prayed before the tomb of Pope John Paul II on the eighth anniversary of his death. Irish character actor Milo O’Shea, 86, died in New York.
Five years ago: Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who’d been married for nearly 38 years to Nelson Mandela, died in a Johannesburg hospital at the age of 81. Thousands of Oklahoma teachers began two weeks of walkouts and descended on the state Capitol to demand more education funding. Ethan Couch, who as a 16-year-old driver drunkenly struck and killed four pedestrians but dodged prison after suggesting at his trial that his irresponsibility was a result of an entitled upbringing, went free after serving almost two years in a Texas jail on a probation violation. Villanova beat Michigan to capture its second NCAA college basketball championship in three years.
One year ago: Ukrainian troops moved cautiously to retake territory north of the country’s capital, using cables to pull the bodies of civilians off the streets in at least one town out of fear that Russian forces may have set booby traps before leaving. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned residents that departing Russian troops were creating a “catastrophic” situation for civilians. Retiring Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski coached his final game, a loss to archrivals North Carolina in the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in New Orleans. Patrick Demarchelier, a French-born photographer known for his high fashion images top models and celebrities including Princess Diana, died at age 78.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Sharon Acker is 88. Actor Dame Penelope Keith is 83. Actor Linda Hunt is 78. Singer Emmylou Harris is 76. Actor Sam Anderson is 76. Social critic and author Camille Paglia is 76. Actor Pamela Reed is 74. Rock musician Dave Robinson (The Cars) is 74. Country singer Buddy Jewell is 62. Actor Christopher Meloni is 62. Singer Keren Woodward (Bananarama) is 62. Country singer Billy Dean is 61. Actor Clark Gregg is 61. Actor Jana Marie Hupp is 59. Rock musician Greg Camp is 56. Actor Roselyn Sanchez is 50. Country singer Jill King is 48. Actor Pedro Pascal is 48. Actor Adam Rodriguez is 48. Actor Michael Fassbender is 46. Actor Jaime Ray Newman is 45. Rock musician Jesse Carmichael (Maroon 5) is 44. Actor Bethany Joy Lenz is 42. Singer Lee Dewyze (TV: “American Idol”) is 37. Country singer Chris Janson is 37. Actor Drew Van Acker is 37. Actor Briga Heelan (TV: “Great News”) is 36. Actor Jesse Plemons is 35. Singer Aaron Kelly (TV: “American Idol”) is 30. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/today-in-history-april-2-pope-john-paul-ii-dies-17861521.php | 2023-03-27 07:12:07 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/today-in-history-april-2-pope-john-paul-ii-dies-17861521.php |
NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Kennel Club (AKC®), a not-for-profit organization, the world's largest purebred dog registry and leading advocate for dogs, welcomes the introduction of the Healthy Dog Importation Act of 2023 in the United States Senate.
AKC is grateful for the continuing and bipartisan leadership of Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) as lead sponsors of the bill and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga), Roger Marshall (R-Kan) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) as original sponsors. This measure and their leadership will go a long way to addressing concerns about recent documented incidents of unhealthy dogs being imported into the United States.
The AKC has been long concerned about the threat of highly contagious and zoonotic diseases such as rabies, canine influenza and distemper, which have been carried into the U.S. by dogs imported without basic veterinary checks or valid health certificates.
Similar concerns about the import of rabies alone from infected dogs led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to renew enhanced import requirements last month for dogs entering the U.S. from countries at high risk for rabies.
The Healthy Dog Importation Act provides a long-term solution that addresses a broad range of pathogens that can enter the U.S. via the import of unhealthy dogs. It does not ban imports from any specific country, but instead requires that all dogs imported into the U.S. submit valid health certificates from a licensed veterinarian accredited by recognized veterinary authority, be permanently identified and subject to checks or inspection at the port of entry.
"Dogs are being imported into the U.S. at records rates. Unfortunately, dogs imported without basic veterinary checks or valid health certificates are also bringing contagious and deadly zoonotic diseases such as rabies and canine influenza," said Dennis Sprung, AKC President and CEO.
"This poses a serious health threat to our pets and the public. The basic health certifications in the Healthy Dog Importation Act will protect the health and wellbeing of every dog in our nation – and the humans who care for them."
AKC thanks the National Animal Interest Alliance for their long-time leadership on the issue, and the American Veterinary Medical Association for their support of this measure.
Background:
The U.S. demand for pet dogs—without accounting for population growth—is more than 8 million dogs annually. U.S. Breeders are unable to meet this demand. Instead, as many as 1.245 million dogs are imported annually into the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Exponential growth in the import of dogs – particularly from unregulated sources – has resulted in dogs with non-native parasites and zoonotic diseases such as rabies, viral infections and brucellosis being imported and passed into the general public, creating a significant threat to the health of other dogs, animals and the humans who care for them.
Zoonotic diseases – those which can be transmitted across species, including animal to human transmission, and include a variety of viruses such as corona and other viruses – pose a serious threat to US public health. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 75% of emerging diseases are zoonotic.
The American Kennel Club recognizes the value of importing breeding stock from overseas, the importance of insuring sufficient access to detection dogs that protect public safety and security, freedom of choice in selecting a pet, and ensuring that people may travel with their pets with a minimum of disruption. However, we are also concerned about the increasing documented incidences of the importation of unhealthy random-source pets, particularly for transfer, where public and pet health may be inadequately protected.
Current pet import oversight mechanisms administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Customs were established prior to the exponential growth in imports and are unable to adequately check canine health upon entry or protect against the public and animal health threat this represents.
AKC supports efforts to ensure that all dogs imported into the United States are fully immunized; free of infection, parasites and contagious diseases; and are individually certified as such by a qualified veterinarian. We look forward to working with the sponsors to advance this important safeguard for pet and public health.
About the American Kennel Club
Founded in 1884, the American Kennel Club is a not-for-profit organization which maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world and oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States. The AKC is dedicated to upholding the integrity of its registry, promoting the sport of purebred dogs and breeding for type and function. Along with its more than 5,000 licensed and member clubs and its affiliated organizations, the AKC advocates for the purebred dog as a family companion, advances canine health and well-being, works to protect the rights of all dog owners and promotes responsible dog ownership. More than 25,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred and mixed breed dogs are held under AKC rules and regulations each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog tests.
Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Humane Fund, AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Reunite and the AKC Museum of the Dog. For more information, visit www.akc.org.
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With 20 Delicate Layers, The Lady M Butter Pecan Mille Crêpes Cake is the Ultimate Holiday Dessert This Season
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lady M Confections, creator of the world-famous Mille Crêpes, is launching its Butter Pecan Mille Crêpes Cake, inspired by the classic Southern dessert, Pecan Pie, available starting tomorrow on October 1.
The Butter Pecan Mille Crêpes cake features 20 alternating layers of handmade crêpes and pecan-infused pastry cream topped with roasted pecans and finished with a swirl of buttery pecan pastry cream for an irresistible dessert. The sweetness of French pecan praline pairs perfectly with the saltiness of roasted pecans, and the candied pecan pieces delicately tucked between the layers adds the perfect amount of crunch to each bite.
"We are so excited about our latest addition to the Mille Crêpes collection. We wanted to create the perfect holiday cake this year to be shared with family and friends," said Lady M CEO Ken Romaniszyn. "The result is a delectable dessert which emphasizes our goal to offer a memorable and delicious luxury to both daily life and festive occasions."
Lady M's Butter Pecan Mille Crêpes Cake is sure to be the life of every party this holiday season. Beginning October 1, 2022, the Butter Pecan Mille Crêpes cake ($108) will be available in all US Lady M Boutiques as well as online at LadyM.com and LadyM.ca.
About Lady M:
Lady M is a New York City luxury confections brand with over 50 boutiques worldwide. Created in 2001 and led by CEO Ken Romaniszyn, Lady M is the creator of the world famous Mille Crêpes. Lady M marries French pastry techniques with Japanese sensibilities, resulting in delicate cakes that are a touch sweet and perfect for every occasion. All cakes are handmade and prepared fresh without food additives or preservatives. Lady M's recipes have been refined over years to provide the finest quality in taste and appearance. Indulge in a world of cakes and confections at LadyM.com.
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PLAINS, Ga. — Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme.
Misconceptions take especially strong hold where U.S. presidents are concerned: sometimes to their advantage, sometimes not. Some claims relate to policy, others to their biographies and personal traits.
That George Washington story about the cherry tree? Apocryphal. And his teeth weren’t actually made of wood. (At least some of his “false teeth” were taken from the mouths of enslaved persons.) There’s no evidence that William Howard Taft ever got stuck in a bathtub. (He was the heaviest president on record, though, at more than 300 pounds.)
James Monroe wasn’t the principal force behind the Monroe Doctrine. (That would be his secretary of state and future president John Quincy Adams.) And Richard Nixon wasn’t actually impeached. (He resigned before the full House could vote on the matter.)
As former President Jimmy Carter receives home hospice care at the age of 98, misconceptions about his life are coming into focus as well. Most are rooted in some truth but need more context:
MISCONCEPTION: Ronald Reagan freed the American hostages in Iran.
MORE ACCURATE: Carter and his administration negotiated their release, but Tehran wouldn’t free them until after Reagan’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 1981.
THE DETAILS: Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. They would hold 52 U.S. citizens for 444 days. From the outset, Carter resolved not to start a shooting war in response. He authorized a rescue mission in the spring of 1980, but mechanical problems forced the helicopter operation to abort and one crashed, killing eight servicemen.
Carter, a Democrat, continued diplomatic efforts but suffered politically amid intense news coverage of the crisis. He lost in a Nov. 4 landslide to the Republican Reagan. A final round of negotiations began in Algeria after. The U.S. delegation was led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Iran and the U.S. finalized terms for the hostages’ release on Carter's final full day in office, Jan. 19, 1981, and Carter remained in the Oval Office the next morning, Inauguration Day, seeing through details. They were released shortly after Reagan was sworn in. Reagan then sent Carter to West Germany to greet the freed Americans.
MISCONCEPTION: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter founded Habitat for Humanity.
MORE ACCURATE: The Carters have been Habitat’s most famous endorsers and volunteers. But the organization was established by wealthy businessman Millard Fuller and his wife, Linda, as an outgrowth a Georgia commune where the spent time in the 1960s.
THE DETAILS: Habitat grew out of the housing ministry of Koinonia Farm, a multiracial commune in Carter’s home county that was ostracized in the days of Jim Crow segregation. In 1965, Fuller came to the farm for what he’d later describe as spiritual renewal.
Carter biographer Jonathan Alter details that Martin Luther King Jr. befriended Koinonia's white founder, Clarence Jordan, during the civil rights movement. But the non-profit organization was accused in Georgia courts of being a communist front, and King’s inner circle considered it radical. Jordan was beaten on the streets of Americus, a short distance from Plains. Against this backdrop, Alter writes, Jimmy Carter kept his distance. Jordan’s nephew, Hamilton Jordan, would become Carter’s White House chief of staff. Alter records the younger Jordan, who died in 2008, saying his uncle viewed Carter as “just a politician.”
Koinonia’s local housing programs were formalized as the “Fund for Humanity” in the late 1960s. Carter was running for governor then. The Fullers established Habitat for Humanity in 1976, the year Carter won the presidency. The Carters’ first volunteer Habitat build was in New York City in 1984. That became the annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, which would eventually build, renovate or repair 4,400 homes in 14 countries. The Carters worked alongside more than 104,000 volunteers, by The Carter Center's count.
MISCONEPTION: Jimmy Carter was an unabashed liberal.
MORE ACCURATE: Carter was a moderate politician, campaigned deliberately and, once in office, pursued policies that don't fit easily under one label.
THE DETAILS: Carter sought the presidency in 1976 as an outsider in a party largely controlled in Washington by New Deal liberals and Kennedy loyalists. Carter was a “Southern Democrat” who never gelled with Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who challenged him in a damaging 1980 primary. Carter had described himself in Georgia as both “conservative” and “progressive,” depending on the issue, the audience and the campaign. Sometimes he even used those words together.
He was a good-government policy wonk who spent considerable political capital reorganizing government in Atlanta and then Washington. He pushed windfall taxes on big oil (unsuccessfully) but frustrated fellow Democrats on spending priorities and added little to the national debt compared to all his successors (less than $300 billion in four years). The deregulatory era often associated with Reagan actually began with Carter loosening regulations on airlines, trains and trucking.
Carter advocated for a national health program but his top health care bill failed because it didn’t go far enough for party liberals, including Kennedy. Carter grew more openly progressive as a former president, voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries. But he also warned his party ahead of 2020 not to move too far left if they hoped to defeat then-President Donald Trump.
MISCONCEPTION: Jimmy Carter is married to “RAHZ-lyn,” and he was there when she was born.
MORE ACCURATE: It’s “ROSE-lyn,” and he met her as a newborn – but not immediately.
THE DETAILS: Eleanor Rosalynn (again, “ROSE-lyn”) Smith was born in Plains on Aug. 18, 1927. The nurse who delivered her was Lillian Carter, the future president’s mother. But Jimmy Carter, who was born Oct. 1, 1924, was back on the family farm in nearby Archery, outside Plains. “Miss Lillian” brought her her son back to the Smiths' house a few days later to see baby Rosalynn, who is now 95.
As for the pronunciation, remember the flower. The former president's affectionate name for her might help, too. He often calls her “Rosie.” | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/jimmy-carter-things-to-know/507-d8ae15ed-463e-48ee-a393-1bf8383c9e4e | 2023-03-02 19:36:16 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/jimmy-carter-things-to-know/507-d8ae15ed-463e-48ee-a393-1bf8383c9e4e |
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Gonzaga may be rolling out an injury-depleted roster, but the Bulldogs nevertheless left a lasting impression on their West Coast rival in Stanford.
And that leads the Cardinal to wonder if the two power programs might meet again on college basketball’s biggest stage come March.
“This is a team that is a Top-25 team,” Hall of Fame Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. “I think if we can do it, they’re going to be in Seattle (for the NCAA Tournament).”
Cameron Brink had 14 points and a season-high 16 rebounds and Brooke Demetre made a career-high five 3s and scored 17 points, leading second-ranked Stanford past No. 23 Gonzaga 84-63 on Sunday.
The Cardinal (10-1) have now won five straight games after falling to top-ranked South Carolina in overtime on Nov. 20.
“I kind of call Brooke my secret weapon,” VanDerveer said. “She is a really special young lady, and when you have both Cam out there and Brooke, it’s a two-headed monster.”
“She has one of the highest releases I’ve ever seen, one of the quickest releases,” Brink said of Demetre. “She can shoot it, and we’ve always had confidence in her.”
Hannah Jump hit four 3s and scored 14 points, and Haley Jones had 12 points for Stanford.
Short-handed Gonzaga (7-2), limited to seven players because of illness and injuries, had won three in a row.
The Zags kept the pressure on Stanford early in the game, thanks to a 20-point first half from Kaylynne Truong.
Truong shot 4 of 9 from deep and finished with a career-high 22 points.
Brynna Maxwell contributed 19 points. Yvonne Ejim, Gonzaga’s leading scorer, was held to two points in the first three quarters but added six points in the fourth.
“We try to focus on a leading scorer and try to limit them,” VanDerveer said. “But you can’t just focus on (Ejim) because they’ve got Truong, they’ve got Maxwell. … I think we did a much better job (on defense) in the second half.”
STAT OF THE GAME
The Cardinal were able to pull away due to a strong game from beyond the arc, making 15 3-pointers on 15 of 28 (53.6%) shooting. A season-high eight different Stanford players made a 3, led by Demetre’s five and Jump’s four.
BIG PICTURE
Gonzaga: Lost its fourth straight in the series with Stanford and dropped to 1-7 on the Cardinal’s home floor. The Zags haven’t won any matchups since a 79-73 victory at home on Dec. 2, 2018. ... Despite playing short-handed, Gonzaga did not yield an easy win to its higher-ranked opponent, trailing by just one point after the first quarter before fading in the second half.
Stanford: Held a 37-23 rebounding advantage. ... This win marked the beginning of a crucial stretch in the Cardinal’s season. Stanford’s next two games come against Tennessee — receiving votes in The Associated Press Top 25 poll — and No. 13 Creighton, followed by the start of Pac-12 Conference play against rival California on Dec. 23.
UP NEXT
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs return to McCarthey Athletic Center to start a five-game homestand, starting with a Tuesday matchup vs. Queens University of Charlotte.
Stanford: After a two-week break for final exams, the Cardinal will continue their seven-game homestand vs. Tennessee on Dec. 18.
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Teamsters Local 317 Members at Sysco Syracuse Walk Off Job Over Unfair Labor Practices After Weeks of Contentious Contract Negotiations
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters Local 317 members at Sysco Syracuse are on strike after weeks of contentious contract negotiations with the company. Last night, more than 230 drivers and warehouse workers walked off the job in response to unfair labor practices (ULPs) being committed by management. Picket lines could extend to more locations across the country in the coming days.
"We're striking over unfair labor practices, unsolved grievances, and unfair wages," said Matt Wademan, a 30-year driver at Sysco Syracuse. "This is nothing but corporate greed. Sysco simply doesn't want to pay us what we're worth."
Nationally, Sysco faces multiple federal investigations for violating U.S. labor law. The Teamsters are currently in negotiations at several Sysco-branded locations across the country, and hundreds of members are currently working without a contract or have contracts about to expire due to the company's failure to bargain in good faith.
"We aren't going to allow corporations like Sysco to bully and disrespect workers any longer," said Tom Erickson, Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division. "Sysco Teamsters are more unified than ever. Members know how important their Teamster contract is, and they are united in this fight. Locals across the country are standing together to win our members the respect they deserve, and they have the backing of 1.2 million Teamsters across North America behind them."
Sysco [NYSE: SYY] is North America's largest broadline foodservice company, providing food and supplies to restaurants, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and government accounts.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents more than 10,000 Sysco workers nationwide.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
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WNBA draft: Sparks select South Carolina guard Zia Cooke at No. 10
The conference call disconnected. Karen Bryant and Curt Miller looked at each other with wide eyes. Bryant, the Sparks’ general manager, couldn’t help but gush to a family friend later about the South Carolina guard that blew her predraft interview out of the water.
“Whatever organization has a chance to bring in Zia Cooke,” Bryant remembered saying, “whatever coaching staff has a chance to work with her and develop her at the next level is a really lucky staff.”
Bryant is part of that lucky organization as the Sparks selected Cooke 10th overall Monday in the WNBA draft. A 2022 national champion, Cooke won the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award as the nation’s top shooting guard this year while averaging a team-high 15.4 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists.
“We hit a home run, we believe, with Zia Cooke,” said Miller, the Sparks coach.
The 5-foot-9 guard is one of the best two-way players in the draft, Miller said, as the Sparks tried to address short-term needs and long-term goals in their first draft with Miller and Bryant at the helm. To balance their rebuilding process, the Sparks used the 14th overall pick on 19-year-old Australian point guard Shaneice Swain, who is not expected to join the team this year, and took Iowa forward Monika Czinano with the 26th pick.
Cooke and Czinano dueled in a thrilling Final Four matchup that saw Czinano, an All-Big Ten first-team selection, score 18 points as the Hawkeyes shocked Cooke’s previously undefeated Gamecocks. In the career-ending loss, Cooke led her team with 24 points and eight rebounds.
All-Star forward Nneka Ogwumike re-signed with the Sparks after GM Karen Bryant and coach Curt Miller joined her in Texas to discuss the future.
Cooke’s selection will make for a crowded guard rotation during training camp. In addition to trading for point guard Jasmine Thomas, who came from the Connecticut Sun in a deal that gave the Sparks their first-round pick Monday, the team signed veteran guards Jordin Canada, Layshia Clarendon and Karlie Samuelson to training camp contracts. Sharpshooter Lexie Brown also re-signed as a free agent and the Sparks added Chinese national team guard Yang Liwei.
But the 22-year-old Toledo, Ohio, native isn’t scared of competition.
“I know the hard work won’t be a problem for me,” Cooke said during a news conference. “I’m going to be a rookie but I definitely want to use the vets in the best way possible by learning from them. Asking them to watch film with me, asking them to work out with me and just taking it all in for those two weeks. Of course I want to make the team, but I definitely want to get as much knowledge as I can and hopefully when it’s all over, I can be on the team for sure.”
The Sparks didn’t address the gaping hole at small forward, where they will be without Katie Lou Samuelson, who is pregnant, and Stephanie Talbot, who suffered a torn ACL while playing overseas after the team signed her as a free agent. Instead of drafting a rookie to fill the role, Miller said he anticipates acquisitions like Dearica Hamby and Azurá Stevens to step up.
“Clearly mindful of the need that we have at that position and I think the toggle back and forth these last couple days and certainly today was balancing the short-term need with the long-term build,” Bryant said, noting that Talbot is expected to return next season. “When we got to our picks we did a good job of balancing both sides of that equation.”
Cooke, who received a hug from Sparks star Nneka Ogwumike after hearing her name announced at the draft, was the third player out of South Carolina drafted in the first round. Forward Aliyah Boston led the group as the No. 1 overall selection.
USC had its first draftees since 2016 with forward Kadi Sissoko and guard Okako Adika going 29th and 30th, respectively. Sissoko, who led the Trojans in scoring with 15.4 points as they returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2014, went to the Phoenix Mercury while Adika was selected by the New York Liberty. This is the first time USC had multiple players drafted in the same year since 2012. | https://www.latimes.com/sports/sparks/story/2023-04-10/sparks-wnba-draft-outlook | 2023-04-11 03:55:20 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/sports/sparks/story/2023-04-10/sparks-wnba-draft-outlook |
Summer lovers will enjoy what we have on tap for the rest of the week. Our glimpse of fall this past weekend is long gone, and a late summer sizzle will return to the region. Temperatures going forward this week will be between 5 and 10 degrees above average.
Highs on Tuesday will push into the lower 90s. This is quite the change up, but after it is the reality around this time of year. Humidity levels will at least be on the lower end. Expect abundant sunshine to be the name of the game through our afternoon. A little bit of extra cloud coverage begins to filter in out west later in the day.
While a random shower is possible down in far southwest Kansas today, most of us stay dry. Our next rain chance will be slim and spotty out west later in the day on Wednesday. A few showers and storms are possible into the evening. Severe weather not expected.
The slim rain chance will move a bit more east on Thursday and Friday. While most stay dry, a few small and brief downpours could offer a little liquid relief for a few of our communities.
We have a HOT weekend on tap with most of us pushing into the mid to upper 90s. It will be sunny and also windy. This hot stretch carries us into early next week as well. Our average high has dropped to 84 degrees for this time of year.
KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Meteorologist Warren Sears:
Wichita:
Today: Mostly sunny. Hi: 93 Wind: S 8-18
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lo: 67 Wind: S 5-15
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy, windy. Hi: 93 Wind: S 10-25
Tomorrow Night: Partly cloudy, breezy. Lo: 66 Wind: S 10-20
Wichita Weekly
Thu: Hi: 89 Lo: 65 Partly cloudy, windy. 10% chance of a shower or storm.
Fri: Hi: 91 Lo: 67 Partly cloudy, windy. 10% chance of a shower or storm.
Sat: Hi: 94 Lo: 68 Partly cloudy, windy.
Sun: Hi: 96 Lo: 68 Mostly sunny, windy.
Mon: Hi: 95 Lo: 67 Mostly sunny, breezy.
Tue: Hi: 93 Lo: 66 Mostly sunny.
-Meteorologist Warren Sears | https://www.ksn.com/weather/weather-blog/storm-track-3-forecast-pattern-turns-toasty-with-little-rain/ | 2022-09-13 14:56:56 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/weather/weather-blog/storm-track-3-forecast-pattern-turns-toasty-with-little-rain/ |
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Oxygen, a leading short message service (SMS) solutions provider, today announces it has joined the partner program for Telnyx, a next-gen communications platform that provides carrier-grade services on a global, private IP network and transmits billions of SMS/MMS messages every year. As a result of the partnership, Telnyx clients can utilize Red Oxygen to add more functionality to their software solutions. This includes combined services of message routing, customer support, and billing, all within the easy-to-use SMS interface.
"Telnyx is committed to unlocking the power of intelligent connectivity, and Red Oxygen offers messaging that provides easy connectivity between businesses and their customers, so the partnership is a natural fit," said Tom Sheahan, Red Oxygen CEO. "We're proud to partner with this innovative organization that is prioritizing offering added value to customers."
Integration between Telnyx and Red Oxygen is simple, making business SMS setup and transmission accessible for software providers of all kinds. Additionally, Red Oxygen's multiple application programming interface (API) options give Telnyx customers the flexibility to use what works for their specific software needs. Red Oxygen customers will also be able to scale messaging infrastructure and numbers much faster—thanks to Telnyx's industry-leading 10dlc/TCR setup speeds.
In addition to Telnyx, Red Oxygen is already a partner to many other notable companies, including: RMS Mercury, Direct CONTROL Medical, and more.
To learn more about Red Oxygen, visit https://redoxygen.com/
To visit Red Oxygen's Telnyx partner page, visit redoxygen.com/partners/telnyx/
ABOUT RED OXYGEN
Founded in 2001, Red Oxygen is a leading short message service (SMS) solutions provider. The company enables businesses to send appointment and payment reminders, security codes, emergency alerts and staffing updates easily online, through email or from a spreadsheet. Headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, Red Oxygen has worked with some of the world's top brands, including: Lowe's, Allstate, Neiman Marcus, Shell, The University of Chicago, Pfizer and more. Red Oxygen has been trusted to send more than 400 million messages to people in over 50 countries. To learn more about Red Oxygen, visit https://redoxygen.com/ or follow them on Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Ohio race car driver dies at Lawrenceburg Speedway
LAWRENCEBURG, IN (WXIX) -A sprint car racer is dead after a crash occurred in Lawrenceburg Saturday night, according to the Lawrenceburg Speedway.
The speedway states that Justin Owen, 26, was competing in the USAC AMSOIL sprint car international championship Saturday night when his vehicle crashed, causing it to flip multiple times.
Officials canceled the event after the deadly incident, Lawrenceburg Speedway stated.
Owen, a Harrison, Ohio native, was the reigning track champion at the Lawrenceburg Speedway, scoring two feature wins and the title in 2022.
Lawrenceburg Speedway says it was his first crown at the 3/8-mile dirt oval in southeastern Indiana, where he was a regular competitor in the sprint car division for many seasons.
Owen won in the season-closing Dick Gains Memorial during his Lawrenceburg championship season in 2022. In 2019, Owen received three victories, one with the Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series at Pennsylvania’s Lernerville Speedway, one at the Indiana Paragon Speedway, and another at Lawrenceburg’s Night of Champions event.
“USAC expresses its deepest condolences to Justin’s family, team, and many friends throughout the racing community,’ Lawrenceburg Speedway stated in a Facebook post.
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Police: 6 California killings may be work of serial killer
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Ballistics tests have linked the fatal shootings of six men and the wounding of one woman in California — all potentially at the hands of a serial killer — in crimes going back more than a year, police said.
Authorities last week announced that five men in Stockton had been slain in recent months, ambushed and shot to death alone in the dark. Late Monday, police said two additional cases last year — a man’s death in Oakland and the non-fatal shooting of a woman in Stockton — had been tied to those killings.
“It definitely meets the definition of a serial killer,” said Stockton Police Officer Joseph Silva. “What makes this different is the shooter is just looking for an opportunity, and unfortunately our victims were alone in a dark area.”
Police would not say whether all seven shootings had been linked to the same gun.
In the fatal Stockton cases, none of the men was robbed or beaten before the killings — which all took place within a radius of a few square miles between July 8 and Sept. 27 — and none appeared to have known each other, Silva said. The shootings also do not seem to be related to gangs or drugs.
The other Stockton crime — in which a 46-year-old woman was shot but survived her injuries — occurred April 16, 2021, around 3:20 a.m., police said. The woman was also alone at the time.
The shooting death of a 40-year-old man in Oakland has also been connected to the violence in Stockton, police said. The man was shot to death around 4:15 a.m. on April 10, 2021. It was not immediately clear whether the man was also unaccompanied when he was killed.
The city of Stockton, Stockton Crime Stoppers and a local construction company owner offered a total of $95,000 for information leading to an arrest in the slayings.
Police released a grainy still image of a “person of interest,” dressed all in black and wearing a black cap, who appeared in videos from several of the homicide crime scenes in Stockton.
The San Joaquin County’s Office of the Medical Examiner identified the Stockton victims on Monday as Paul Yaw, 35, who was killed on July 8; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, who died on Aug. 11; Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21, who died on Aug. 30; Juan Cruz, 52, who was killed on Sept. 21 and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54.
Lopez was shot shortly before 2 a.m. on Sept. 27 in a residential area just north of downtown.
He “was just a person who was out here at the wrong place, at the wrong time, at the wrong circumstance,” his brother, Jerry Lopez, told KXTV-TV. “It’s hard to process that this has happened.”
There may even be multiple people involved in the violence.
“To be honest, we just don’t know,” Silva said. “This person or people who are out doing this, they are definitely very bold and brazen.”
Police said four of the Stockton homicide victims were walking alone and a fifth was in a parked car when they were killed in the evening or early morning in the city of 320,000 residents, located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of the state capital, Sacramento.
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Buy something now, pay later: It's changing how we shop. People are paying for laptops, coats and even groceries in installments. In a year marked by historic inflation, this is the holiday season's biggest trend.
"If a retailer doesn't offer that option, I don't shop with them," says Elmy Escalante, 50, from California, who has used financial companies Afterpay and Klarna to buy a computer, a vacuum cleaner and winter clothes.
Escalante's sentiment is spreading fast. The number of "buy now, pay later" loans grew more than tenfold during the pandemic, a U.S. government study shows, from almost 17 million in 2019 to 180 million in 2021. This month, an Ally Bank survey found twice as many people using "buy now, pay later" than they did just in August.
The appeal is obvious. At online checkout, most BNPL companies typically let you pay a quarter of the bill (or less), as long as you set auto payments for the rest — no interest, no credit history required. And so, for example, Escalante can buy $140 lounge pants in four installments of $35, over six weeks. Or Peloton can sell $1,530 bikes for 12 monthly payments of only $127.50.
One common problem is bank overdraft fees, when some shoppers lose track of future auto payments and don't have enough in their account when the debt gets deducted. New research is tackling the central concern about "buy now, pay later": Does it encourage people to overspend?
People use it as an alternative to credit cards
"Buy now, pay later" has largely grown by offering a new way of stretching out big payments for people with no credit history, bad credit or a desire to avoid credit card debt. A short BNPL loan usually doesn't ping your credit score, as long as you pay on time. (Federal research estimates about 12% of "buy now, pay later" borrowers faced late-payment fees in 2021, and almost half were waived.)
"With 'buy now, pay later,' I feel more — I don't know if responsible — but I feel more on top of it," says Maria Dahn, 35, from Overland Park, Kan. She used to shop with credit cards, make minimum monthly payments, roll over a balance and face escalating interest charges.
Now, she's closed her credit cards. This year, Dahn bought a $550 Doona stroller for her newborn in installments of $94.36, a six-month plan that did incur $16 in interest (for taking longer to complete payments than the typical six weeks). But it still cost her less than if she had used an average credit card.
"It doesn't snowball. ... It's not like I keep adding to it like with a credit card," Dahn says, and quickly clarifies: She could, in theory, run up a bunch of "buy now, pay later" loans, but she makes she's sure she "not tripling or quadrupling" her BNPL debt.
Stores pay high fees to offer 'buy-now-pay-later'
The way BNPL providers make money is by charging retailers. In fact, stores might pay 2% fees for credit-card companies to process transactions, but they pay up to 8% fees to buy-now-pay-later providers.
Financially, that would only make sense if "buy now, pay later" encourages people to buy more than they would otherwise, says Marco Di Maggio, one of the authors of new research from Harvard Business School.
Indeed, Di Maggio and team found that people who use "buy now, pay later" not only spend more on average, they also universally shift more of their budgets to retail. In other words, they shop more.
Retailers have also said that "buy now, pay later" encourages more people to actually complete their purchases rather than abandoning their online carts. And recently, BNPL companies have expanded marketing on their own apps, pushing out notifications of sales to shoppers who'd used their loans in the past.
"They do make it incredibly easy and tempting to make purchases," says Andy Arias, 43, from Los Angeles. "And if gone unchecked, it can be a little bit addicting, you know?"
It's an easy mind trick: you get, say, an $80 sweater today, but $60 of that is a future-you problem. In reality, you're likely to add more things to your basket as you check out, so you might still spend that full $80 today, with another $60 still due later.
'Buy now, pay later' loans not reported to credit bureaus
A growing number of brands have started to offer "buy now, pay later," including Instacart for food delivery, some gas stations for fuel and airlines for tickets. Last spring, Arias paid 12 installments of $126 for a last-minute flight to London for a wedding, feeling "a little weird" in a plane seat he hadn't technically paid for yet.
Because Klarna, Afterpay and their rivals aren't technically lenders, they don't have to report to credit bureaus. So we don't know, for instance, how many shoppers owe multiple "buy now, pay later" loans, potentially hurting their ability to pay utilities and other bills.
Harvard research estimated that as of last year, 15% of the U.S. population had tried BNPL at least once — a number that has certainly grown since then. Some surveys of shoppers put the number much higher, topping 50% or 60%.
So far, delinquencies on "buy now, pay later" loans seem to be in line or below credit cards, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Both are rising.
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Regarding the story “Housing woes hinder hiring across sectors” (Page A1, Aug. 2), I moved here from Maryland in 1990. The cost of housing almost kept me from making the move. That the state has more than 300 towns didn’t phase me because I knew the towns were contained within counties. I was used to that; Maryland has more than 20 counties. What I didn’t realize was that Massachusetts counties were powerless as compared to the towns. The word “decentralized” in the article is a euphemism for “town governed.” I’ve seen enough of the consequences of our model to conclude it adds unnecessary overhead to government (police chiefs, fire chiefs, school superintendents for each city and town). And the ability to segregate by town is well known here. I hadn’t thought as much about the impact on housing, but my guess is it would be a lot easier to deal with affordable housing issues at the county level.
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European Union's drug regulator needs to handle shortages of widely used antibiotics according to patients
European patients claim substituting amoxicillin with other antibiotics has squeezed supply of other drugs
The European Union's drug regulator needs to do more to tackle shortages of some widely-used antibiotics in the region, according to a letter from a group of European patient and consumer organisations reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
The letter to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) comes as antibiotics, including amoxicillin - used to treat bacterial infections and often prescribed for ear and chest infections in children - have been in short supply since October.
The letter said measures like substituting amoxicillin with other antibiotics have squeezed supply of some other drugs and that the current steps in place to deal with the shortages have not contained the crisis.
150 PEOPLE ARRESTED, OVER $31M SEIZED IN INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING STING: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
There has been a spike in demand for certain drugs linked to the resurgence of respiratory infections after two years of COVID restrictions, which has put additional pressure on global supplies. Drugmakers had also cut output when demand dipped at the height of the pandemic.
But the letter highlights growing concerns about prolonged shortages in the region even as the winter comes too an end.
DRUGS ARE BACK IN THE EU: 'EVERYWHERE. EVERYTHING. EVERYONE'
"The main root cause declared by producers is an insufficient production capacity to face the surge in demand," the letter signed by 11 organisations, including the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) said.
The consortium asked the EMA to declare the current antibiotic shortage a "major event", which would mean the regulator could coordinate action to address the shortfalls at a pan-European level and increase the reporting obligations of manufacturers.
The EMA and the European Commission did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
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In an interview with Reuters on Jan. 13, EMA chief medical officer Steffen Thirstrup told Reuters that the agency was monitoring the situation but did not believe it should be classified as a major event at that time.
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Thursday, July 6
Thursday's MLB schedule features a slew of interesting pitching matchups, and we've got all of the probable pitchers listed below. Top billing goes to the head-to-head matchup between the Mariners and the Astros, who will be sending George Kirby and Framber Valdez to the hill, respectively.
Read on to find the likely starters for every contest on the schedule for July 6.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Reds at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Brandon Williamson (1-2) to the hill as they play the Nationals, who will look to MacKenzie Gore (4-7) for the game between the clubs on Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Nationals
- WSH Odds to Win: -120
- CIN Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 10 runs
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Athletics at Tigers Probable Pitchers
The Oakland Athletics will send Hogan Harris (2-2) to the hill as they play the Tigers, who will look to Michael Lorenzen (2-6) when the teams meet on Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Athletics at Tigers
- DET Odds to Win: -165
- OAK Odds to Win: +140
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Cubs at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Chicago Cubs will send Marcus Stroman (9-6) to the hill as they take on the Brewers, who will hand the ball to Freddy Peralta (5-7) when the teams play Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Cubs at Brewers
- MIL Odds to Win: -110
- CHC Odds to Win: -110
- Total: 8 runs
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Blue Jays at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The Toronto Blue Jays will send Jose Berrios (8-6) to the mound as they face the White Sox, who will give the start to Lance Lynn (5-8) for the matchup between the clubs on Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Blue Jays at White Sox
- TOR Odds to Win: -120
- CHW Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 9 runs
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Phillies at Rays Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Cristopher Sanchez (0-2) to the mound as they face the Rays, who will give the start to Shawn Armstrong (0-0) when the clubs face off Thursday.
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Cardinals at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Jack Flaherty (5-5) to the bump as they face the Marlins, who will look to Eury Perez (5-2) when the teams meet Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Cardinals at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -135
- STL Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 8 runs
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Orioles at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The Baltimore Orioles will send Kyle Bradish (4-4) to the mound as they face the Yankees, who will hand the ball to Luis Severino (1-3) for the matchup between the clubs on Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Orioles at Yankees
- BAL Odds to Win: -120
- NYY Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Royals at Guardians Probable Pitchers
The Kansas City Royals will send Jordan Lyles (1-11) to the mound as they play the Guardians, who will counter with Tanner Bibee (5-2) when the teams play on Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Royals at Guardians
- CLE Odds to Win: -210
- KC Odds to Win: +170
- Total: 9 runs
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Rangers at Red Sox Probable Pitchers
The Texas Rangers will send Nathan Eovaldi (10-3) to the mound as they play the Red Sox, who will look to Kutter Crawford (3-4) when the teams meet on Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Rangers at Red Sox
- TEX Odds to Win: -140
- BOS Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Mariners at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Seattle Mariners will send Kirby (7-7) to the mound as they face the Astros, who will look to Valdez (7-6) when the teams face off Thursday.
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Blue Jays at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The Toronto Blue Jays will send Yusei Kikuchi (7-3) to the mound as they take on the White Sox, who will give the start to Dylan Cease (3-3) for the game between the teams on Thursday.
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Mets at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The New York Mets will send Carlos Carrasco (2-3) to the mound as they face the Diamondbacks, who will look to Ryne Nelson (5-4) for the matchup between the teams on Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Mets at Diamondbacks
- ARI Odds to Win: -130
- NYM Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 10 runs
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Pirates at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send Johan Oviedo (3-9) to the mound as they play the Dodgers, who will give the start to Julio Urias (5-5) for the game between the clubs Thursday.
Vegas Odds for Pirates at Dodgers
- LAD Odds to Win: -250
- PIT Odds to Win: +200
- Total: 9 runs
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, a former U.S. president has appeared in court as a criminal defendant.
Donald Trump surrendered to authorities Tuesday after being indicted by a New York grand jury on charges related to hush-money payments at the height of the 2016 presidential election.
Trump, a 2024 presidential candidate, pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges in a Manhattan courtroom. He then flew home to Florida and spoke to a crowd of supporters at his home.
Here’s what to know about Trump’s day in court:
HUSH-MONEY PAYMENTS RELATED TO 2016 ELECTION
Prosecutors unsealed the indictment against the former president Tuesday, giving Trump, his lawyers and the world their first opportunity to see them. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Prosecutors said Trump conspired to undermine the 2016 presidential election by trying to suppress information that could harm his candidacy, and then concealing the true nature of the hush-money payments. The payments were made to two women — including a porn actor — who claimed they had sexual encounters with him years earlier, and to a doorman at Trump Tower who claimed to have a story about a child Trump fathered out of wedlock, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
DONALD J. TRUMP, DEFENDANT
Trump was only seen briefly outside the district attorney’s office, where he surrendered to authorities and was booked and fingerprinted behind closed doors. Trump’s mugshot was not taken, according to two law enforcement officials who could not publicly discuss details of the process and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
As the former president entered the courtroom, he briefly looked at a huddle of news cameras but did not stop to speak to reporters.
Inside the courtroom, Trump sat at the defense table with his hands in his lap and his lawyers at his side. He looked right at photojournalists who were briefly allowed into the courtroom as they snapped his photo. During the rest of the proceeding, he stayed still with his hands together and looked straight ahead. Trump only spoke briefly in court, telling the judge he was pleading “not guilty” and had been advised of his rights. The judge warned Trump that he could be removed from the courtroom if he was disruptive. Trump made no comment when he left court just under an hour later.
Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said during the hearing that Trump is “absolutely frustrated, upset and believes that there is a great injustice happening” in the courtroom.
A ‘SURREAL’ DAY IN THE CITY WHERE HE GAINED FAME
Before he appeared in court, Trump made posts on his social media network complaining that the heavily Democratic area was a “VERY UNFAIR VENUE” and “THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE!” As his motorcade carried him across Manhattan, he posted that the experience was “SURREAL.”
The Republican has portrayed the Manhattan case and three separate investigations from the Justice Department and prosecutors in Georgia, as politically motivated. In recent weeks, he has lashed out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, called on his supports to protest and warned about “potential death and destruction” if he were charged.
TRUMP ADDRESSES SUPPORTERS
Appearing in front of several hundred supporters at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday night, Trump repeated his claims that the investigation was politically motivated. He and attacked Bragg and the judge in the New York case, the judge’s family and other prosecutors investigating him in other cases.
“The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” Trump said.
BRAGG SPEAKS BRIEFLY
Bragg, speaking publicly for the first time since the indictment last week, held a brief news conference after the court proceedings in which he said the hush-money scheme constituted “felony crimes in New York state—no matter who you are.”
“We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Bragg said. The Democratic prosecutor said accurate and true business records are important everywhere, but especially in Manhattan, because it’s the financial center of the world.
Bragg was asked at the news conference why he was bringing the case now and if the timing was political. The district attorney said his office had “additional evidence” that his predecessor did not.
“I bring cases when they’re ready,” he said.
WARNINGS AND POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES
The judge on Tuesday did not impose a gag order but warned Trump to avoid making comments that were inflammatory or could cause civil unrest. If convicted of any one of the 34 felony charges, Trump could face a maximum of four years in prison, but he’d likely be sentenced to less.
TRIAL WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR PRESIDENCY
Trump is due back in court in December, but his lawyers asked that he be excused from attending that hearing in person because of the extraordinary security required to have him show up. Prosecutors asked the judge to set a trial for January — weeks before the first votes will be cast in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Trump’s lawyers asked that it be pushed to the spring. The judge did not immediately set a date.
MIXED POLITICAL IMPACTS
Though he faces a swirl of legal challenges, Trump is running for president again and has sought to use the charges and other investigations to galvanize his supporters.
Most of the Republicans also running or eyeing campaigns have released statements supportive of Trump while slamming the investigations of him as politically motivated. Many Democratic elected officials have said little about the New York indictment, including President Joe Biden. Trump’s legal troubles are only expected to bolster Democratic voters’ opposition to him, but it’s unclear whether some Republicans and independent voters will see the legal problems as too much baggage.
A NEW YORK CIRCUS
A crowd of Trump supporters, thronged by journalists, gathered Tuesday outside the Manhattan courthouse. Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and George Santos of New York, who is facing multiple investigations over lies he told while running for office, were swarmed by cameras and reporters when they arrived and spoke mid-morning. A band of anti-Trump protesters appeared with a large banner saying, “Trump Lies All the Time.”
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The Golden State Warriors have clinched the team's fourth NBA title in eight years, decisively defeating the Boston Celtics on the road, 103-90, to win the seven-game championship series, 4-2.
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The Golden State Warriors have clinched the team's fourth NBA title in eight years, decisively defeating the Boston Celtics on the road, 103-90, to win the seven-game championship series, 4-2.
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AUSTIN, Texas — June is nationally recognized as Pride Month, a time to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
One way you can help lift up the community during Pride and beyond is to support local LGBTQ-owned businesses.
We've made it a little easier for you by providing a list of LGBTQ-owned businesses in the Austin area. If you know of any other LGBTQ-owned businesses not included on this list, email kvuedigital@kvue.com.
Austin-area LGBTQ-owned businesses you can support:
Restaurants/bars/etc.
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LAKE WALES, Fla. — A man and his 19-year-old stepson are dead following an early morning hostage situation at a Lake Wales home that turned into a murder-suicide, Polk County law enforcement reports.
Lake Wales Police Chief Chris Velasquez said a woman called the department around 4 a.m. Monday to ask for help getting her kids out of a home on Lindsey Place, near the intersection of Tartan Loop due to a "domestic-related situation."
The woman was not at the house at the time but met police outside the home.
"What started out as a domestic-related situation has turned into a tragic, tragic scenario for a number of people involved," Velasquez said during a news conference.
When officers arrived, a child ran out of the house and told officers that 39-year-old Antonio Oliver was inside, and they thought they had "heard a gun cock," the chief continued.
From there, Velasquez said police tried everything to try and get Oliver to come out peacefully. But Oliver didn't want that, the chief explained, saying instead he wanted to just walk outside and have cops shoot him. That was something police "didn't want," Velasquez said.
At one point during the standoff, Oliver reportedly told police not to shoot in the house.
"The reason he said that was because he was essentially using the children [who] were inside as a shield," Velasquez explained. "He didn't want the children to get hurt, from what he was telling us."
Around 7 a.m., police reportedly heard a gunshot come from inside the home. From there, S.W.A.T. took immediate action and "made emergency entry" into the home, according to Velasquez.
Once inside, they found Oliver dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound directly behind the front door.
When clearing the house, law enforcement found a 19-year-old, Oliver's stepson, dead in a back bedroom. At this time, police said they believe Oliver killed his stepson. However, it's unknown when exactly the 19-year-old was killed because first responders only heard one gunshot during the standoff.
The two girls inside the home, ages 16 and 14, were not hurt.
"Right now, our main concern is the family, the survivors, and their mental health, and basically their wellbeing," Velasquez said. "We wanna make sure they're okay."
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the S.W.A.T. team found "numerous" firearms inside the home.
"We consider ourselves very, very lucky today. Had he wanted to have a gunfight, he could've created a war," Judd said.
The sheriff added there were 911 calls with Oliver where he "begged us to shoot him."
Anyone experiencing a mental health crisis is urged to reach out for help. You can contact the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay at 211 or call 911. The National Domestic Violence Hotline can be reached 24/7 at 800-799-7233. Anyone experiencing a mental health crisis can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/polk-county-hostage-situation/67-b16ae5ff-982c-44e8-9b5e-1fd4a346d5aa | 2023-04-10 23:08:41 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/polk-county-hostage-situation/67-b16ae5ff-982c-44e8-9b5e-1fd4a346d5aa |
NO. 23-4-00666-9
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
RCW 11.40.030
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PIERCE
In Re the Matter of the Estate of:
GREGORY V. BUCHHOLZ,
Deceased
The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in R.C.W. 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below, a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under R.C.W. 11.40.020 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in R.C.W. 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: March 21, 2023
Personal Representative: Jonathan Buchholz
Attorney for Personal Representative:
Katie M. Hendricks and
Address for Mailing or Service:
510 East Main, Suite F
Puyallup, WA 98372
Court of Probate Proceedings: Pierce County Superior Court
930 Tacoma Ave. So.
Tacoma, WA 98402
Cause No. 23-4-00666-9
Dated this 17 day of March, 2023
Submitted by:
/s/ Katie M. Hendricks
Katie M. Hendricks, WSBA #52776
510 E. Main, Suite F
Puyallup, WA 98372
253-770-0116
Attorneys for Personal Representative of Estate of Gregory V. Buchholz
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers rested their case Friday in the trial of three men charged with assisting the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
An undercover FBI agent, Mark Schweers, told jurors that leader Adam Fox talked favorably about the Wolverine Watchmen, a paramilitary group whose members included Joe Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar.
The trio is not accused of having a direct role in the Whitmer kidnapping scheme, which included a night ride to northern Michigan to scout her vacation home. The main charge is providing material support for a terrorist act, especially gun drills and ambush training with Fox in Jackson County.
The last witness for prosecutors was a gas station attendant who said Musico and Morrison regularly complained about the Democratic governor and her COVID-19 restrictions and wanted to harm her back in 2020.
“She’s a Nazi. She’s a tyrant,” Shawn Toth said, quoting the two.
The trial resumed Friday following a four-day suspension for an illness among the defense lawyers.
Morrison, Musico and Bellar chose not to testify. Defense attorneys briefly called a state police officer and recalled an FBI agent before resting their side of the case. Closing arguments were scheduled for Monday.
The trial in state court is an offshoot of the main case handled in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were convicted of a kidnapping conspiracy. Two men pleaded guilty and two more were acquitted.
Defense lawyers say Morrison, Musico and Bellar stopped associating with Fox by late summer when the kidnapping plot was accelerating. They also didn’t participate in training that occurred on the same weekend as the trip to see Whitmer’s home.
Bellar had moved to South Carolina by the end of July 2020, two months before the FBI broke up the plot with 14 arrests. Whitmer was never physically harmed: Undercover agents and informants were embedded in the group for months.
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White reported from Detroit.
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(Our Auto Expert) — Recently in the news, the Biden administration announced it wants to remake the U.S. Auto industry using the toughest emission limits ever. That means more consumers are going to be buying electric vehicles. But the question is, are Americans ready for a fully electric future? Do we have the means and infrastructure to pull off this society-changing move?
According to the Washington Post, as of January of this year, fully electric cars made up 7% of new-vehicle registrations in the U.S. But does that directly equate to Americans shifting toward electrification?
President Biden aims to have 50 percent of all new vehicles sold, to be electric. And he wants that done by 2030. The White House has announced both public and private commitments to help support the transition to EVs under the EV acceleration challenge.
Which electric vehicles are most appealing to Americans? Ford may have cracked that code by offering fully electric versions of two of its most iconic vehicle names in history – The F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E.
Ford believes introducing electrified versions of its legacy vehicles may help consumers adapt to going electric more comfortably with familiar brand names. It is coupled with financial incentives.
This month Ram debuted its entry into the electrified truck market, the Ram REV 1500. Ram says it’ll have an extended range of over 500 miles on a single charge.
Slated for 2024, Chevrolet’s first-ever Silverado EV will contend with both Ford and Ram’s offerings. While the Lightning is available now, both Ram and Chevrolet EV trucks are set to be available fall of this year.
The Biden administration also encourages EV automakers to boost EV production with various subsidies. EV automakers have received tax credits to help encourage consumers to go electric.
The President’s Inflation Reduction Act expands and adds to tax credits for purchases of new and used EVs. The law also has some benefits to electrify heavy-duty vehicles like school buses. This will also support installing residential, commercial, and municipal EV charging infrastructure.
There’s also the discussion of charging. According to the administration, about $7.5 billion will go toward constructing EV charging stations nationwide.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters and other buildings in Northern California must undergo a psychiatric examination, a judge said.
The court wants more information about the mental state of Ian Benjamin Rogers before he is sentenced, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles E. Breyer wrote in an order filed in San Francisco on Friday.
Prosecutors said Rogers and another man conspired to attack targets they associated with Democrats after former President Donald Trump’s defeat in the November 2020 presidential election, including the California governor’s mansion and buildings for social media companies Facebook and Twitter.
Breyer on Friday ordered sentencing documents turned over to a psychiatrist to “assess the defendant’s mental condition, recommend an appropriate course of treatment, if any, and assess the defendant’s dangerousness,” according to the order cited Monday by the Sacramento Bee.
A report is due within 60 days. Rogers’ Oct. 27 sentencing date was postponed.
Rogers, of Napa, pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to destroy the building in Sacramento by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun as part of an agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.
But three weeks ago, Breyer rejected the proposed plea agreement, saying he was concerned that Rogers hadn’t shown any remorse for his actions and had told probation officials for a pre-sentencing report that he only felt bad for putting himself in a situation ”that allowed the government to destroy my life.”
The judge said: “I have to say in … 23 years I’ve never seen that type of statement. I’ve never seen a defendant come in and simply say I regret I was caught.”
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Sandy Hook parents: Alex Jones claims created nightmare
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The parents of a 6-year-old killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting described being put through a “living hell” of death threats, harassment and ongoing trauma over the past decade as they confronted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has used his media platforms to push claims that it was all a hoax.
The parents led a day of charged testimony Tuesday that included the judge scolding the bombastic Jones for not being truthful with some of what he said under oath.
Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son Jesse was killed at the school in Newtown, Connecticut, took the witness stand Tuesday on the final day of testimony in the two-week defamation damages trial against Jones and his media company Free Speech Systems. They are seeking at least $150 million damages.
In a gripping exchange, Lewis spoke directly to Jones, who was sitting about 10 feet away. Earlier that day, Jones was on his broadcast program telling his audience that Heslin is “slow” and being manipulated by bad people.
“I am a mother first and foremost and I know you are a father. My son existed,” Lewis said to Jones. “I am not deep state ... I know you know that ... And yet you’re going to leave this courthouse and say it again on your show.”
At one point, Lewis asked Jones: “Do you think I’m an actor?”
“No, I don’t think you’re an actor,” Jones responded before the judge admonished him to be quiet until called to testify.
Lewis continued trying to impress on Jones that the Sandy Hook shooting and trauma inflicted in the decade since then was real.
“It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this — that we have to implore you, to punish you — to get you to stop lying,” Lewis said. “I am so glad this day is here. I’m actually relieved. And grateful ... that I got to say all this to you.”
Jones visibly shook his head several times while Scarlett Lewis was addressing him.
Heslin and Lewis are among several Sandy Hook families who have filed several lawsuits alleging that Sandy Hook hoax claims pushed by Jones have led to years of abuse by Jones and his followers.
Heslin and Lewis both said they fear for their lives and have been confronted by strangers at home and on the street. Heslin said his home and car have been shot at. The jury heard a death threat sent via telephone message to another Sandy Hook family.
“I can’t even describe the last nine and a half years, the living hell that I and others have had to endure because of the recklessness and negligence of Alex Jones,” Heslin said.
Scarlett Lewis also described threatening emails that seemed to have uncovered deep details of her personal life.
“It’s fear for your life,” Scarlett Lewis said. “You don’t know what they were going to do.”
Heslin said he didn’t know if the Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy theory originated with Jones, but it was Jones who “lit the match and started the fire” with an online platform and broadcast that reached millions worldwide.
“What was said about me and Sandy Hook itself resonates around the world,” Heslin said. “As time went on, I truly realized how dangerous it was.”
Jones skipped Heslin’s morning testimony while he was on his show — a move Heslin dismissed as “cowardly” — but arrived in the courtroom for part of Scarlett Lewis’ testimony. He was accompanied by several private security guards.
“Today is very important to me and it’s been a long time coming ... to face Alex Jones for what he said and did to me. To restore the honor and legacy of my son,” Heslin said when Jones wasn’t there.
Heslin told the jury about holding his son with a bullet hole through his head, even describing the extent of the damage to his son’s body. A key segment of the case is a 2017 Infowars broadcast that said Heslin didn’t hold his son.
The jury was shown a school picture of a smiling Jesse taken two weeks before he was killed. The parents didn’t receive the photo until after the shooting. They described how Jesse was known for telling classmates to “run!” which likely saved lives.
An apology from Jones wouldn’t be good enough, the parents said.
“Alex started this fight,” Heslin said, “and I’ll finish this fight.”
Jones later took the stand himself, initially being combative with the judge, who had asked him to answer his own attorney’s question. Jones testified he had long wanted to apologize to the plaintiffs.
“I never intentionally tried to hurt you. I never said your name until this came to court,” Jones said. “The internet had questions; I had questions.”
Later, the judge sent the jury out of the room and strongly scolded Jones for telling the jury he complied with pretrial evidence gathering even though he didn’t, and that he is bankrupt, which has not been determined. Plaintiff’s attorneys were furious about Jones mentioning he is bankrupt, which they worry will taint a jury decision about damages.
“This is not your show,” Judge Maya Guerra Gamble told Jones. “Your beliefs do not make something true. You are under oath.”
Last September, Guerra admonished Jones in her default judgment over his failure to turn over documents requested by the Sandy Hook families. A court in Connecticut issued a similar default judgment against Jones for the same reasons in a separate lawsuit brought by other Sandy Hook parents.
Heslin and Lewis suffer from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder that comes from constant trauma, similar to that endured by soldiers in war zones or child abuse victims, a forensic psychologist who studied their cases and met with them testified Monday.
Closing arguments were expected Wednesday after more testimony from Jones, who has portrayed the lawsuit against him as an attack on his First Amendment rights.
At stake in the trial is how much Jones will pay. The parents have asked the jury to award $150 million in compensation for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The jury will then consider whether Jones and his company will pay punitive damages.
The trial is just one of several Jones faces.
Courts in Texas and Connecticut have already found Jones liable for defamation for his portrayal of the Sandy Hook massacre as a hoax. In both states, judges issued default judgments against Jones without trials because he failed to respond to court orders and turn over documents.
Jones has already tried to protect Free Speech Systems financially. The company filed for federal bankruptcy protection last week. Sandy Hook families have separately sued Jones over his financial claims, arguing that the company is trying to protect millions owned by Jones and his family through shell entities.
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Associated Press writer Paul J. Weber contributed to this report.
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