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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE: BDX) (the "Company" or "BD") today announced the early tender results for its previously announced Tender Offers (as defined below) to purchase for cash certain of its outstanding debt securities listed in the table below.
In making the announcement, the Company has exercised its previously disclosed right to amend such Tender Offers to increase the Offer SubCap (as defined below) applicable to the 3.794% Senior Notes due 2050 from $175,000,000 principal amount to $190,000,000 principal amount.
The Tender Offers are being made pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the offer to purchase, dated August 8, 2022 (as amended and supplemented hereby, the "Offer to Purchase"). Except as specifically amended hereby, all other terms of the Tender Offers as previously announced in the Offer to Purchase remain unchanged. The Company refers investors to the Offer to Purchase for the complete terms and conditions of the Tender Offers.
The Company is offering to purchase for cash up to $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount (which, subject to applicable law, may be increased in the Company's sole discretion, the "Aggregate Offer Cap") of its (i) 3.794% Senior Notes due 2050, (ii) 7.000% Senior Debentures due 2027, (iii) 6.700% Senior Debentures due 2028, (iv) 6.000% Senior Notes due 2039, (v) 5.000% Senior Notes due 2040, (vi) 4.685% Senior Notes due 2044 and (vii) 4.669% Senior Notes due 2047 (collectively, the "Securities" and each a "series"), in the order of priority set forth in the table below (each, an "Acceptance Priority Level"), subject to an aggregate principal amount of each series of Securities that does not exceed the applicable Offer SubCap, if any, set forth in the table below (each, an "Offer SubCap") (collectively, the "Tender Offers"); provided that the Company will only accept for purchase up to an aggregate principal amount of all series of Securities that does not exceed the Aggregate Offer Cap.
As of the previously announced early tender date and time of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 19, 2022 (the "Early Tender Date"), according to information provided by Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the tender and information agent for the Tender Offers, the aggregate principal amount of each series of Securities set forth in the table below under "Principal Amount Tendered at Early Tender Date" has been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Tender Offers. Withdrawal rights for the Securities expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Early Tender Date.
All conditions, including the financing condition, in respect of the Tender Offers were satisfied or waived by the Company at the Early Tender Date. The Company has elected to exercise its right to make payment for the Securities that were validly tendered prior to or at the Early Tender Date and that are accepted for purchase on August 23, 2022 (the "Early Settlement Date").
As previously disclosed in the Offer to Purchase, because the aggregate principal amount of 3.794% Senior Notes due 2050 validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to or at the Early Tender Date exceeds the applicable Offer SubCap and the aggregate principal amount of Securities validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to or at the Early Tender Date exceeds the Aggregate Offer Cap, the Company will accept for purchase the 3.794% Senior Notes due 2050 and the 4.685% Senior Notes due 2044 on a prorated basis as set forth in the table above. As described further in the Offer to Purchase, Securities tendered and not accepted for purchase will be promptly credited to the tendering holder's account. Since the Tender Offers are fully subscribed at the Early Tender Date, the Company does not expect to accept for purchase any Securities tendered after the Early Tender Date on a subsequent settlement date.
The applicable consideration (the "Total Consideration") offered per $1,000 principal amount of each series of Securities validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the applicable Tender Offer will be determined in the manner described in the Offer to Purchase by reference to the applicable fixed spread for such Securities specified in the table above plus the applicable yield based on the bid-side price of the applicable U.S. Treasury Reference Security specified in the table above as displayed on the applicable page on the Bloomberg Bond Trader FIT1 page at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on August 22, 2022. The Company expects to announce the pricing of the Tender Offers later today.
Only holders of Securities who validly tendered and did not validly withdraw their Securities at or prior to the Early Tender Date are eligible to receive the Total Consideration for Securities accepted for purchase. Holders will also receive accrued and unpaid interest on Securities validly tendered and accepted for purchase from the applicable last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date ("Accrued Interest").
All Securities accepted for purchase will be retired and cancelled and will no longer remain outstanding obligations of the Company.
Information Relating to the Tender Offers
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are the lead dealer managers for the Tender Offers. Academy Securities, Inc., Loop Capital Markets LLC and Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC are co-dealer managers for the Tender Offers. Investors with questions regarding the Tender Offers may contact Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at (800) 558-3745 (toll-free) or (212) 723-6106 (collect) or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at (866) 309-6316 (toll-free) or (704) 410-4759 (collect) or by email at liabilitymanagement@wellsfargo.com. Global Bondholder Services Corporation is the tender and information agent for the Tender Offers and can be contacted at (855) 654-2014 (toll-free) or (212) 430-3774 (collect).
None of the Company or its affiliates, their respective boards of directors, the dealer managers, the tender and information agent or the trustee with respect to any series of Securities is making any recommendation as to whether holders should tender any Securities in response to any of the Tender Offers, and neither the Company nor any such other person has authorized any person to make any such recommendation. Holders must make their own decisions as to whether to tender any of their Securities, and, if so, the principal amount of Securities to tender.
The full details of the Tender Offers, including complete instructions on how to tender Securities, are included in the Offer to Purchase. Holders are strongly encouraged to read carefully the Offer to Purchase, including materials incorporated by reference therein, because they contain important information. The Offer to Purchase may be downloaded from Global Bondholder Services Corporation's website at www.gbsc-usa.com/BectonDickinson or obtained from Global Bondholder Services Corporation, free of charge, by calling toll-free at (855) 654-2014 (bankers and brokers can call collect at (212) 430-3774).
This press release is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy, or the solicitation of an offer to sell, any of the Securities and the Tender Offers do not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Securities in any jurisdiction or in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful.
About BD
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 75,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help enhance the safety and efficiency of clinicians' care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to accurately detect disease and advance researchers' capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain estimates and other forward-looking statements (as defined under federal securities laws) regarding BD's performance, including in relation to the consummation of the Tender Offers. All such statements are based upon current expectations of BD and involve a number of business risks and uncertainties. Actual results could vary materially from anticipated results described, implied or projected in any forward-looking statement. With respect to forward-looking statements contained herein, a number of factors could cause actual results to vary materially. These factors include, but are not limited to, the factors discussed in BD's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. BD does not intend to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, except as required by applicable laws or regulations.
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One of the oldest restaurants in Disneyland’s Downtown Disney will be shutting down for good this month.
Catal Restaurant, along with its adjoining outdoor bar Uva Bar, has served Downtown Disney since 2001.
One of the oldest restaurants in Disneyland’s Downtown Disney will be shutting down for good this month.
Catal Restaurant, along with its adjoining outdoor bar Uva Bar, has served Downtown Disney since 2001.
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LIVE: Biden set to mark Inflation Reduction Act at White House event
(Gray News) - President Joe Biden plans to deliver remarks Tuesday during an event on the White House South Lawn celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
The law signed by Biden last month is designed to lower prescription drug prices, fund climate-related investments, increase corporate taxes and reduce the federal deficit, the Associated Press reported.
Biden is touting the Democrats’ legislative successes in Congress in the runup to the midterm elections in November.
Lower gas prices have helped cool off inflation somewhat. However, though inflation is easing, it’s not easing as quickly as investors would have hoped.
A report released Tuesday showed inflation decelerated to 8.3% percent in August, leading the Dow Jones Industrial Average to drop as of midday.
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Clergy sex abuse suits could bankrupt San Diego diocese
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said Friday it may declare bankruptcy in the coming months as it faces “staggering” legal costs in dealing with some 400 lawsuits alleging priests and others sexually abused children.
In a letter that was expected to be shared with parishioners this weekend, Bishop Robert McElroy said the cases were filed after California lifted a statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse claims.
Assembly Bill 218, which was signed into law in 2019, allows alleged victims to sue up until age 40. Also, beginning in 2020, it opened a three-year window for filing lawsuits without age limitations.
Most of the alleged abuse cited in the suits took place 50 to 75 years ago, and the earliest claim dates to 1945, Kevin Eckery, communications director for the diocese, said at a Friday news conference, KNSD-TV reported.
Eckery predicted that it would cost the diocese $550 million to settle the cases, none of which have gone to trial.
In his letter, the bishop said none of the suits involve allegations against any currently serving priest.
“This reflects the reality that the Church has taken enormous steps to root out the sexual abuse of minors in its life and to promote the protection of minors,” McElroy wrote.
Even so, the diocese is facing “staggering” legal costs and most of its assets were used to settle previous allegations with a $198 million payout in 2007, McElroy wrote.
“Even with insurance, the diocese will not be able to pay out similar sums now,” the letter said. “This challenge is compounded by the fact that a bill has now been introduced into the Legislature that seeks to eliminate the statute of limitations entirely, leaving the diocese vulnerable to potential lawsuits forever.”
Bankruptcy would “provide a pathway” for the diocese to compensate sexual abuse victims while continuing to run its ministries, the bishop said.
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Alex Murdaugh gets life in prison in murder of wife, son
WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — A judge has sentenced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to life in prison a day after he was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and son. The sentence issued Friday carries no chance of parole or early release. The Colleton County jury deliberated for less than three hours Thursday before finding Murdaugh guilty of killing his 22-year-old son, Paul, with a shotgun and his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, with a rifle on June 7, 2021. Murdaugh soon will be taken to a state prison where he will be held in the highest security.
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WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — In the culmination of the once-prominent lawyer’s fall from grace, Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday after being convicted of murdering his wife and son.
Judge Clifton Newman asked Murdaugh if he had anything he wanted to say before sentencing him to two consecutive life terms, and the South Carolina attorney maintained his innocence.
“As I tell you again, I respect this court. But I am innocent. I would never under any circumstances hurt my wife Maggie and I would never under any circumstances hurt my son Paul-Paul,” Murdaugh responded.
“And it might not have been you. It might have been the monster you become when you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 opioid pills. Maybe you become another person,” Newman replied, noting Murdaugh’s decadeslong addiction to painkillers.
Newman asked Murdaugh what he meant when he said “oh, what a tangled web we weave” while on the stand in his own defense.
“I meant when I lied, I continued to lie,” Murdaugh replied.
“And the question is when will it end? You continued to lie and lie throughout your testimony,” Newman said.
Prosecutor Creighton Waters said none of the victims of the crime — members of Murdaugh’s family and the parents and relatives of his wife — wished to speak on behalf of the prosecution before sentencing.
“The depravity, the callousness, the selfishness of these crimes are stunning. The lack of remorse and the effortless way in which he is, including here, sitting right over there in this witness stand — your honor, a man like that, a man like this man, should never be allowed to be among free, law abiding citizens,” Waters said.
Prosecutors asked for a life sentence to hold Murdaugh responsible for what they say are decades of lying, stealing and using his family’s considerable clout in their tiny county to his advantage. Any sentence would have no chance of parole.
As Murdaugh stood before the judge to learn his fate, he was in the same courtroom on the circuit where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather tried cases as the elected prosecutor for more than 80 years. His grandfather’s portrait hung in the back of the room until the judge ordered it taken down for the trial.
Katie Dearybury came from Charleston with her 1-year-old daughter for the sentencing.
“Everyone knows a well-connected person whose status has helped them escape consequences for wrongdoing,” she said. She was interested that the system finally acted in a case she has followed from the start.
The Colleton County jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Murdaugh guilty of killing his 22-year-old son, Paul, with a shotgun and his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, with a rifle on June 7, 2021.
Juror Craig Moyer told ABC News that when deliberations began, the jury immediately took a poll that came back with nine guilty votes. It didn’t take long to convince the other three.
The juror agreed with prosecutors that the key piece of evidence was a video locked on his son’s cellphone for a year — video shot minutes before the killings at the same kennels near where the bodies would be found.
The voices of all three Murdaughs can be heard on the video, though Alex Murdaugh had insisted for 20 months that he hadn’t been at the kennels that night. When he took the stand in his own defense, the first thing he did was admit he had lied to investigators about being at the kennels, saying he was paranoid of law enforcement because he was addicted to opioids and had pills in his pocket the night of the killings.
“A good liar. But not good enough,” Moyer said.
Prosecutors didn’t have the weapons used to kill the Murdaughs or other direct evidence like confessions or blood spatter. But they had a mountain of circumstantial evidence, including the video putting Murdaugh at the scene of the killings five minutes before his wife and son stopped using their cellphones forever.
Through more than 75 witnesses and nearly 800 pieces of evidence, jurors heard about betrayed friends and clients, Murdaugh’s failed attempt to stage his own death in an insurance fraud scheme, a fatal boat crash in which his son was implicated, the housekeeper who died in a fall in the Murdaugh home and the grisly scene of the killings.
The now-disbarred attorney admitted stealing millions of dollars from the family firm and clients, saying he needed the money to fund his drug habit. Before he was charged with murder, Murdaugh was in jail awaiting trial on about 100 other charges ranging from insurance fraud to tax evasion.
When he took the stand last week, Murdaugh appeared to cry as he denied again and again that he killed his wife. But juror Moyer said he saw through yet another lie.
“He never cried. All he did was blow snot,” Moyer said. “No tears. I saw his eyes. I was this close to him.”
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Find more AP coverage of the case: https://apnews.com/hub/alex-murdaugh
___ Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, R.O.C., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: ASX, TAIEX: 3711, "ASEH" or the "Company"), announces its unaudited consolidated net revenues for June and 2nd quarter of 2022.
CONSOLIDATED NET REVENUES (UNAUDITED)
Pro Forma Basis**
Net revenues for ATM assembly, testing and material business are as follows:
ATM NET REVENUES (UNAUDITED)
Pro Forma Basis**
*This press release is intended to comply with Taiwan regulatory requirements.
** Pro forma basis excludes the disposed China Sites.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, national IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) Integris announced it has acquired Blue Jean Networks, an MSP based in Dallas/ Fort Worth and Security7 Networks, a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) based in the Boston area. Both acquisitions mark another expansive milestone for Integris, which was named the #1 Fastest Growing MSP by Channel Futures in August, 2022. The Integris network now has offices in 10 states, with nearly 500 employees, all offering high-end, enterprise IT services and round-the-clock security monitoring scaled for the SMB market.
"The addition of Blue Jean Networks and Security7 expands Integris' capabilities and emphasizes our commitment to clients who need the highest possible levels of security for their businesses," said Rashaad Bajwa, chief executive officer of Integris.
According to Bajwa, both acquisitions signify an expansion in skillsets and offerings to Integris' current and future clients. Blue Jean Networks has positioned itself as a leader in the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) space. CMMC is a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) program that applies to Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors. The merger allows Integris to gain new CMMC and managed cybersecurity experts.
"Joining Integris adds the ability to serve remote clients effectively. This is a win for our existing clients, as well as those around the country seeking help with CMMC. Integris is a fantastic company, and we can't wait to see what this new partnership can bring to the CMMC community," said Sunny Lowe, founder of Blue Jean Networks.
Security7 Networks brings new and expanded cybersecurity practices, allowing Integris to add more Chief Information Security Officers, vCISO services and capabilities to provide compliance and regulatory consulting for more clients.
"Integris' company culture, focus on integrity and exceptional reputation fell perfectly in line with Security7 values. Now that we've joined forces, we'll be able to provide broader services and deeper security offerings for our clients with the backing of a large, fast growing premium MSP," said Jay Smith, president of sales for Security7.
Financial terms of both transactions were not disclosed. Integris has partnered with Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm, to build a national MSP platform. Integris is actively engaged and looking for additional premium managed services and service providers to be a part of the story. With the completion of this merger, Integris will now have a network of offices in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, Kansas, Georgia, Texas and Massachusetts.
Frontenac is a Chicago-based private equity firm. The firm focuses on investing in lower middle market buyout transactions in the consumer, industrial, and services industries. Frontenac works in partnership with established operating leaders, through an executive-centric approach called CEO1ST, which seeks to identify, acquire, and build market-leading companies through transformational acquisitions and operational excellence. Over the last 50 years, Frontenac has built a leading franchise working with over 275 owners of mid-sized businesses as they address complex transition issues of liquidity, management enhancement, and growth planning. For more information, please visit www.frontenac.com.
Integris is a premium, national, managed IT services provider, dedicated to helping our customers stay one step ahead of their IT infrastructure and data safety needs. We offer strategic IT consulting services, hardware and software management, networking, a 24/7 service desk, on-site troubleshooting/installations, cybersecurity monitoring, backup solutions, and more. Founded in 2021 from the merger of several like-minded MSPs, Integris offers clients the power of a national network, with the personal service of a nearby, local-market MSP. With 500 employees now serving 1200 clients in 10 states and counting, we look forward to our rapid expansion across the US. For a list of our current locations, visit: www.integrisit.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
0-4-1, FIREBALL: 2
(zero, four, one; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
0-4-1, FIREBALL: 2
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Charles Kimbrough, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11 in Culver City, California. He was 86.
Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom “Murphy Brown" between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. He reprised the role for three episodes in the 2018 reboot.
The New York Times first reported his death and his son and agents confirmed it Sunday to The Associated Press.
“Whether on stage or in front of the camera he was a joy to behold,” said SMS Talent, Inc., the talent agency that represented Kimbrough.
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The agency said the actor died of natural causes in a hospital.
Kimbrough's wife, actor Beth Howland who played diner server Vera on the 1970s and ’80s CBS sitcom “Alice,” died in 2016. They married in 2002, more than a decade after his 1991 divorce from his first wife, Mary Jane (Wilson) Kimbrough, who died in 2007.
SMS Talent said Kimbrough is survived by a sister, Linda Kimbrough, a son, John Kimbrough, a stepdaughter, Holly Howland, and a granddaughter, Cody.
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Born May 23, 1936, Kimbrough spent years in the New York theater scene. He was nominated for a Tony in 1971 for his Broadway performance in the Steven Sondheim musical “Company."
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — There are reports of more collapsed buildings Turkey in Syria after another 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s Hatay province which was devastated by a massive tremor two week ago. Syria’s state news agency, SANA, is reporting six people have been injured in Aleppo from falling debris, while the mayor of Hatay says a number of buildings have collapsed, trapping people inside. Turkey’s disaster management agency, AFAD, said the new quake was centered around the town of Defne, in Hatay province. It was followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 tremor. NTV television said the quake caused some damaged buildings to collapse, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties. The quake was felt in Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake which struck Feb. 6 has killed nearly 45,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Turkish authorities have recorded more than 6,000 aftershocks since.
Here’s a look at the key developments Monday in the quake’s aftermath:
PEOPLE TRAPPED, ABANDON HOMES IN FEAR
Lutfu Savas, the mayor for Hatay says a number of buildings have collapsed following the new, 6.4 magnitude earthquake, trapping people inside. Savas said those trapped are believed to be people who had either returned to homes or were trying move furniture from damaged homes.
In the Turkish city of Adana, eyewitness Alejandro Malaver said people left homes for the streets, carrying blankets into their cars. Malaver said everyone is really scared and that “no one wants to get back into their houses.”
MORE INJURIES, COLLAPSED BUILDINGS
Syria’s state news agency, SANA, has reported that six people were injured and taken to hospital in the northern city of Aleppo as a result from falling debris shaken loose from buildings by the new tremor.
The Syrian opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense also known as White Helmets are reporting that several people have been injured in Syria’s rebel-held northwest after they jumped from buildings or when they wee struck by falling debris in the town of Jinderis, one of the most affected town by the Feb. 6 earthquake.
The White Helmets added that several damaged and abandoned buildings collapsed in Syria’s northwest without injuring anyone.
The Syrian American Medical Society, which runs hospitals in northern Syria, said it had treated a number of patients – including a 7-year-old boy – who suffered heart attacks brought on by fear following the earthquake.
TURKS URGED TO STAY AWAY FROM DAMAGED BUILDINGS:
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay says inspections for damage were underway in Hatay and is urging citizens to stay away from damaged buildings and to carefully follow rescue teams’ directions.
The disaster management agency, AFAD, meanwhile urged citizens to stay away from the coastline as a precaution against “the risk of the sea level rising up to 50 centimeters high.”
PEOPLE FLEE HOMES IN SYRIA
Some media outlets in Syria’s Idlib and Aleppo regions that were badly affected by the new, 6.4 magnitude earthquake are reporting that some buildings have collapsed and that electricity and internet services have been interrupted in parts of the region.
The media outlets said many people fled their homes and are gathering in open areas.
Meanwhile, the White Helmets issued an alert urging residents in the country’s rebel-held northwest to follow guidelines released earlier regarding earthquakes and how to evacuate buildings.
DEATH TOLL APPROACHES 45,000
The Turkish disaster management agency, AFAD, has raised the number of confirmed fatalities from the earthquake in Turkey to 41,156. That increases the overall death toll in both Turkey and Syria to 44,844.
Search and rescue operations for survivors have been called off in most of the quake zone, but AFAD chief Yunus Sezer told reporters that search teams were pressing ahead with their efforts in more than a dozen collapsed buildings — most of them in the hardest-hit province of Hatay.
There were no signs of anyone being alive under the rubble since three members of one family — a mother, father and 12-year-old boy — were extracted from a collapsed building in Hatay on Saturday. The boy later died.
EU SEES RISK OF DISEASE OUTBREAK
The European Union’s health agency has warned of the risk of disease outbreaks in the coming weeks.
The Centre for Disease Prevention and Controls said that “food and water-borne diseases, respiratory infections and vaccine-preventable infections are a risk in the upcoming period, with the potential to cause outbreaks, particularly as survivors are moving to temporary shelters.”
“A surge of cholera cases in the affected areas is a significant possibility in the coming weeks,” it said, noting that authorities in northwestern Syria have reported thousands of cases of the disease since last September and a planned vaccination campaign was delayed due to the quake.
The ECDC also warned of viral infections such as hepatitis A, parasites and bacterial infections that can all be spread by difficult hygiene conditions in emergency shelters and camps.
SYRIA CALLS FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS
Syria’s minister of public works and housing, Suhail Abdul Latif, says the Syrian government will secure 350 housing units for people displaced by the earthquake and made a call for “friendly countries” to send more.
“We will secure the affected people within our capabilities, but after a while, it is not possible to continue placing families in shelters in order to preserve their health,” he said.
Housing has been a pressing need in all the earthquake-hit areas, with many families sleeping in makeshift tents or cramming into crowded schools and sports stadiums.
ERDOGAN SAYS RECONSTRUCTION TO START IN MARCH
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who faces elections in May or June, says his country will start building tens of thousands of new homes as early as next month.
Erdogan said the new buildings will be no taller than three or four stories, built on firmer ground and to higher standards and in consultation with “geophysics, geotechnical, geology and seismology professors” and other experts.
“We want to avoid disasters … by shifting our settlements away from the lowlands to the (more solid) mountains as much as possible,” Erdogan said in a televized address during a visit to hard-hit Hatay province.
The Turkish leader said destroyed cultural monuments would be rebuilt in accordance with their to “historic and cultural texture.”
Erdogan said around 1.6 million people are currently being housed in temporary shelters.
BLINKEN PRAISES AMERICANS’ RESPONSE
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has praised the support provided by Americans following the earthquake.
Blinken said in Ankara that the U.S. government had responded “within hours” to the disaster and had so far sent hundreds of personnel and relief supplies. But he said that ordinary Americans had also responded to “heartbreaking” images from the quake zone.
“We have nearly $80 million in donations from the private sector in the United States, (from) individuals. When I visited the Turkish Embassy in Washington, I almost couldn’t get in the front door because boxes were piled high throughout the driveway to the embassy,” Blinken said.
NATO SENDS CONTAINER HOMES
NATO says a ship carrying 600 temporary container homes has left Italy and is expected to arrive in Turkey next week.
The military alliance has pledged to send more than 1,000 containers that will serve as temporary shelters for at least 4,000 people left homeless by the earthquake.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who visited the quake-devastated region last week, called it the worst disaster in the alliance’s history.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A group of Hispanic lawmakers in Connecticut has proposed that the state follow Arkansas’ lead and ban the term “Latinx” from official government documents, calling it offensive to Spanish speakers.
The word is used as a gender-neutral alternative to “Latino” and “Latina” and is helpful in supporting people who do not identify as either male or female, according to the word’s backers.
But state Rep. Geraldo Reyes Jr. of Waterbury, the bill’s chief sponsor and one of five Hispanic Democrats who put their names on the legislation, said Latinx is not a Spanish word but is rather a “woke” term that is offensive to Connecticut’s large Puerto Rican population.
“I’m of Puerto Rican descent and I find it offensive,” he said.
Last month, Arkansas banned government officials from using Latinx on formal documents as part of several orders issued by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders within hours of her taking office.
Reyes said his motivations might be different from Sanders’, but he believes her decision was the right one.
The League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights group in the U.S., announced in 2021 that it would no longer use the term Latinx.
“The Spanish language, which is centuries old, defaults to Latino for everybody,” Reyes said. “It’s all-inclusive. They didn’t need to create a word, it already exists.”
But Maia Gil’Adi, an assistant professor of “Latinx and Multiethnic Literature” at Boston University, said the word actually dates back to Latino and Latina youth and queer culture in the 1990s, with the “x” being a nod to many people’s indigenous roots.
“The word Latino is incredibly exclusionary, both for women and for non-gender conforming people,” she said. “And the term Latinx is really useful because of the way it challenges those conceptions.”
David Pharies, a Spanish language professor at the University of Florida, said another movement would replace the “o” and “a” in many Spanish nouns referring to people with an “e.” He said that is something that would be easier for Spanish-speakers to pronounce than the word Latinx.
“Latinx was clearly a solution that was proposed outside the Spanish-speaking world,” he said.
It’s not clear how often the term Latinx has been used in state documents. A search for the word on the state government’s portal returned 945 hits for documents including press releases, blogs, and reports using the word. Michelle Dumas Keuler, an attorney for the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, told Hearst Connecticut Media that it uses the term in any a complaint it submits about housing, employment or other types of discrimination, when requested.
Reyes said he expects the bill to get a hearing before the Democratic-controlled Legislature’s Government Administration and Elections Committee during the current session.
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LONDON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metropolitan Gaming Limited (Metropolitan Gaming) today announced the sale of its interest in Emerald Resort and Casino to a consortium controlled by Tsogo Sun.
The sale will allow Metropolitan Gaming to focus on its core markets of the UK and Egypt, where it is committed to building the Metropolitan brand through acquisition and investment. Work is already underway on the refurbishment and rebranding of its Mayfair property which will reopen later this year.
Michael Silberling, CEO of Metropolitan Gaming, said, "Following the addition of the iconic Park Lane Club to our portfolio of casinos in the UK earlier this year, the sale of our interest in Emerald Resort and Casino reflects our focused strategy to invest in and develop the business within our primary markets.
"We want to thank all our employees at Emerald Resort and Casino past and present for their hard work, professionalism and loyalty, particularly during the global COVID-19 pandemic. We very much look forward to following their progress and successes over the years to come."
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
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10:20 p.m.
Leylah Fernandez couldn’t put together another long run at the U.S. Open.
The No. 14 seed was eliminated in the second round Wednesday with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) loss to Liudmila Samsonova.
Fernandez, who turns 20 next week, beat three top-10 players last year during a surprising run to the finals, where she was defeated by Emma Raducanu.
Raducanu had already been eliminated in the first round.
Fernandez could have played Serena Williams if both advanced to the fourth round.
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9:45 p.m.
Serena Williams has at least one more singles match left.
Williams moved into the third round of the U.S. Open with a 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 victory over No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday night.
Williams has said she is preparing for the end of her tennis career, but that won’t happen now until at least Friday.
She will play Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia in the next round.
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9:15 p.m.
Nick Kyrgios already was aware of the noise being a challenge at the U.S. Open.
On Wednesday, he also was bothered by the smell.
Kyrgios complained about the smell of marijuana during his second-round victory in Louis Armstrong Stadium.
The Wimbledon runner-up said afterward he was a heavy asthmatic and that when he was running side to side and struggling to breathe that the smell was “probably not something I want to be breathing in in between points.”
The No. 23 seed overcame it to eliminate Benjamin Bonzi 7-6 (3), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
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9 p.m.
Serena Williams will have to win a decisive third set to extend what could be the final tournament of her career.
After winning the first set against Anett Kontaveit in a tiebreaker, the No. 2 seed bounced back impressively to take the second 6-2.
Williams has played only one three-set match this season, falling to Harmony Tan at Wimbledon in the first round after returning from a one-year absence.
The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion recently said she was preparing to end her career, though didn’t say for certain it would be after the U.S. Open.
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8:25 p.m.
Serena Williams has won the first set against No. 2 Anett Kontaveit in a tiebreaker.
Williams won the tiebreaker 7-4, closing it out with an ace to wrap up the first set in 1 hour, 5 minutes.
Williams had lost the only tiebreaker she played this year, to Harmony Tan at Wimbledon in her return to singles player after missing a year.
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7:15 p.m.
Serena Williams is on the court, with one of the world’s top players standing on the other side of the net.
Williams is facing No. 2 Anett Kontaveit, who has won six career titles but never been past the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
Williams has won it six times, part of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
This could be her last major — or any — event, as she said recently she was preparing for the end of her tennis career.
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6:35 p.m.
Serena Williams went through about a half-hour warmup session before her second-round match.
Williams used the same practice court Wednesday night that she did Monday before that victory.
This time, she crossed paths with her sister, Venus, who was using that court for doubles work ahead of their first-round match in that event, which is scheduled for Thursday night.
As Serena left after her hitting session, crowds cheered, and she paused to wave in their direction with her right hand as she checked her cell phone in her left.
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6:25 p.m.
John Isner has withdrawn from the U.S. Open with a wrist injury, sending No. 28 seed Holger Rune into the third round with a walkover.
The 37-year-old Isner won his first-round match in straight sets Tuesday. The U.S. Tennis Association announced his withdrawal Wednesday night.
Rune took a set from Novak Djokovic last year in his U.S. Open debut. He will face No. 7 seed Cam Norrie or Joao Sousa in the third round.
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3:40 p.m.
Serena and Venus Williams will play their first doubles match together since 2018 under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night.
Their U.S. Open first-round contest against the Czech duo of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova was scheduled to start at about 7 p.m., leading off the night session. That’s unusual because typically there are two singles matches held in the evenings at Ashe.
The Williams sisters have won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles as a team, including two at Flushing Meadows. Their last competition together was at the French Open four years ago.
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1:15 p.m.
Coming off her trip to the Wimbledon finals, Ons Jabeur is hoping to finally make a run at the U.S. Open.
The No. 5 seed from Tunisia beat American Elizabeth Mandlik 7-5, 6-2 to reach the third round, where she has lost in each of the last three years.
It was Jabeur’s 40th win of the season. Only top-ranked Iga Swiatek has more.
She also played with Serena Williams in a doubles tournament before Wimbledon, where they reached the semifinals before having to withdraw because Jabeur had a knee injury.
Mandlik is the daughter of Hana Mandlikova, the 1985 U.S. Open champion.
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11:15 a.m.
Singles and doubles play got Day 3 of the U.S. Open off to a busy start, though it was still eight hours before the match that was the center of attention.
Serena Williams is playing in the first night match on Arthur Ashe Stadium, just as she was on the opening day of the tournament. She plays No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia.
Williams began what could be the final tournament of her career by beating Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3 on Monday night.
Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev, the defending men’s champion, follows Williams against Arthur Rinderknech of France.
Early starters Wednesday included third-seeded Maria Sakkari, a semifinalist in Flushing Meadows last year, and No. 5 seed Ons Jabeur, the Wimbledon runner-up. Opening-round matches in men’s and women’s doubles were also on the court.
Past champion Andy Murray, 18-year-old Coco Gauff and Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios were also scheduled for day singles action.
Also playing at night is Bianca Andreescu, who is already the most recent women’s champion still left in the field. The 2019 winner, who beat Williams in the final, faces No. 15 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Defending champion Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka, the 2018 and 2020 winner, both lost Tuesday night.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday condemned former President Trump’s dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken white supremacist and antisemitic organizer.
McConnell usually tries to avoid provoking any conflict with the former president, with whom he hasn’t spoken in nearly two years, but on Tuesday he let loose with pointed criticism.
“There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy and anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view … [is] highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States,” he told reporters at the start of his weekly press conference.
McConnell’s comments came a day after Senate Republicans across the political spectrum criticized Trump’s decision to host Fuentes and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, at his dinner table at Mar-a-Lago shortly before Thanksgiving.
McConnell’s comments represented some of his most direct public criticism of Trump since excoriating him on the Senate floor at the end of his second impeachment trial for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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Orlando Arcia Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Twins - June 26
Published: Jun. 26, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
After hitting .282 with two doubles, a home run, four walks and five RBI in his past 10 games, Orlando Arcia and the Atlanta Braves take on the Minnesota Twins (who will hand the ball to Sonny Gray) at 7:20 PM ET on Monday.
In his most recent game, he went 1-for-5 against the Reds.
Orlando Arcia Game Info & Props vs. the Twins
- Game Day: Monday, June 26, 2023
- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Twins Starter: Sonny Gray
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +700)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +220)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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Orlando Arcia At The Plate
- Arcia is hitting .318 with 10 doubles, six home runs and 17 walks.
- Arcia has picked up a hit in 69.6% of his 56 games this season, with at least two hits in 33.9% of them.
- He has homered in six games this year (10.7%), homering in 2.7% of his trips to the dish.
- In 32.1% of his games this year, Arcia has tallied at least one RBI. In eight of those games (14.3%) he recorded two or more RBI.
- In 41.1% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had eight games with multiple runs (14.3%).
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Twins Pitching Rankings
- The Twins pitching staff ranks third in MLB with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Twins' 3.64 team ERA ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Twins pitchers combine to give up the fifth-fewest home runs in baseball (77 total, one per game).
- The Twins will send Gray (4-1) out to make his 16th start of the season. He is 4-1 with a 2.44 ERA and 84 strikeouts in 81 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Boston Red Sox, when he went five innings, allowing three earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 33-year-old's 2.44 ERA ranks fourth, 1.284 WHIP ranks 45th, and 9.3 K/9 ranks 25th.
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How to Watch the Giants vs. Cubs Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 10
Michael Conforto and the San Francisco Giants play Nico Hoerner and the Chicago Cubs on Saturday at 7:35 PM ET, in the second of a three-game series at Oracle Park.
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Giants vs. Cubs Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, June 10, 2023
- Time: 7:35 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants are ninth in MLB action with 80 home runs. They average 1.3 per game.
- San Francisco ranks 11th in MLB with a .417 slugging percentage.
- The Giants are 15th in the majors with a .249 batting average.
- San Francisco has the No. 15 offense in MLB play, scoring 4.6 runs per game (289 total runs).
- The Giants are 14th in baseball with a .323 on-base percentage.
- The Giants' 9.9 strikeouts per game are the second-most in the majors.
- San Francisco's pitching staff ranks 11th in MLB with a collective 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings.
- San Francisco has the 13th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.08).
- Pitchers for the Giants combine for the 12th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.272).
Cubs Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Cubs' 70 home runs rank 17th in Major League Baseball.
- Chicago is 20th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .394 this season.
- The Cubs have a team batting average of .245 this season, which ranks 18th among MLB teams.
- Chicago ranks 23rd in the majors with 267 total runs scored this season.
- The Cubs have an on-base percentage of .326 this season, which ranks 11th in the league.
- The Cubs rank 24th with an average of 9.3 strikeouts per game.
- Chicago averages the 19th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.6) in the majors this season.
- Chicago pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.07 ERA this year, which ranks 12th in MLB.
- The Cubs rank 15th in MLB with a combined 1.278 WHIP this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- John Brebbia gets the start for the Giants, his sixth of the season. He is 2-0 with a 3.65 ERA and 33 strikeouts in 24 2/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Colorado Rockies, when he tossed one scoreless inning while giving up two hits.
- Brebbia has not recorded a quality start yet this season.
- Brebbia has not yet lasted five or more innings in a start this season (in five starts). He averages 0.9 per appearance.
- He is looking to have his third straight appearance with no earned runs surrendered.
Cubs Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Cubs' Kyle Hendricks (0-2) will make his fourth start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Tuesday, when he threw six innings against the San Diego Padres, giving up four earned runs while allowing six hits.
- Hendricks has two starts in a row of five innings or more.
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DENVER (AP) — Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic was fined $25,000 by the league Monday for making improper contact in the stands with Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia.
No suspension, though. The two-time NBA MVP is all set for Game 5 on Tuesday night in Denver, with the second-round series tied at 2-2.
It was nearly the outcome Ishbia was hoping for in a series where the home team has won every game.
On his Twitter account Monday, Ishbia praised his team’s performance and urged no further disciplinary action for Jokic.
“Great win for the Suns last night in an amazing series so far!” Ishbia posted. “That should be and is the only story. Suspending or fining anyone over last nights incident would not be right. I have alot of respect for Jokic and don’t want to see anything like that. Excited for game 5! Go Suns!”
Jokic was assessed a technical foul in the second quarter of Game 4 on Sunday night when the big man tried to snatch the ball back from Ishbia, who was sitting courtside, and hit Ishbia with an elbow.
The situation set social media ablaze and overshadowed a game in which the Suns won 129-124. One of the topics up for debate was whether it was a flop by Ishbia, a former walk-on basketball player at Michigan State, or excessive contact from Jokic.
“I was hoping they’d give him a flopping charge,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said Monday about Ishbia. “That would probably be the only fine I could imagine, but I have no idea.”
Suns standout Kevin Durant figured the incident and resulting fine would be a story, but was glad it’s been resolved.
“None of that can get in the way,” Durant said after practice Monday night at Ball Arena. “We can just focus on basketball.”
The mini-fracas began when Suns guard Josh Okogie crashed into the seats while trying to save a loose ball. He landed in a group of fans on the baseline that included Ishbia, who held on to the basketball.
Jokic was trying to get the ball quickly — apparently so the Nuggets could start getting into their offensive possession — when he attempted to grab the ball away from Ishbia. The ball flew backward into the crowd, and then Ishbia was knocked backward by Jokic’s elbow.
Jokic defended his actions after a game in which he had 53 points and 11 assists.
“The fan put the hand on me first,” Jokic explained. “I thought the league was supposed to protect us. Maybe I am wrong. I know who he is, but he is a fan. Isn’t he?”
Malone agreed.
“That’s not an owner in the stands. He’s a fan,” Malone said Monday. “We don’t designate who’s in the stands. I just felt after watching that whole incident, Nikola is just trying to get the ball. I felt the embellishment was almost comical, from my standpoint.”
There were a few minutes of confusion as officials sorted out the weird scene, and then Jokic was assessed a technical foul. The Suns made the ensuing free throw.
Devin Booker finished with 36 points and 12 assists. He also gave a shout-out to the Suns owner.
“He got us a point!” Booker said with a grin.
Ishbia has been the Suns’ owner for only a few months, purchasing the team from the embattled Robert Sarver.
Ishbia told The Associated Press at halftime that he was “fine” and more worried about the game than the altercation. He was back in his usual seats in the second half.
The tiff didn’t seem to bother Jokic, either — the MVP runner-up scored or assisted on 78 points Sunday, which was the most in a playoff game by a center in NBA history, according to ESPN Stats & Info.
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Brandt reported from Phoenix.
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The first time Mari Marin Bastidas tried to claim asylum at the U.S. border, she was turned away by authorities who said a policy instituted to slow the spread of COVID-19 meant her case would not even get a hearing.
Dejected, she returned to her home in the state of Michoacán in western Mexico.
Two years later, she is back at the border to try again. Word has been spreading that the policy — known as Title 42 — is about to be lifted.
“I decided to come because of the opportunity that is opening up,” said Bastidas, 29. “I’m not going back anymore.”
The fate of the policy now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court as anxiety and confusion build on both sides of the border. In Ciudad Juarez, untold numbers of asylum seekers have been gathering in recent weeks. Across the Rio Grande in El Paso, the mayor has declared a state of emergency in anticipation of a massive influx.
Bastidas, along with her 8-year-old daughter and two brothers, were among scores of migrants waiting along a narrow section of the river.
Some waded across to present themselves to border agents, either not realizing that Title 42 was still in effect or willing to take their chances anyway.
Bastidas and her family decided to wait and made their way to a migrant shelter nearby. They had $500 to carry them over for now.
They plan to claim asylum based on a fear of a local gang that she said had threatened her family for failing to pay a monthly extortion fee of roughly $400. Another brother had been murdered several years ago by gang members running a similar scheme.
Before Title 42, the United States considered all asylum claims, which often meant releasing migrants into the United States until a court rules on their cases — a process that can take years because of a large backlog. A small minority of asylum claims are ultimately accepted. Fleeing poverty is not a valid basis for a claim.
Under Title 42, a decades-old public health measure that the Trump administration resurrected in the early days of the pandemic, asylum seekers can be quickly expelled.
The Biden administration has opposed the policy in court while continuing to use it with help from Mexico, which agreed to accept Central Americans, and later Venezuelans, who the United States turned away.
But last month, a federal judge ruled that Title 42 was being used arbitrarily and was no longer justified as a pandemic health measure. He ordered it be lifted by Dec. 21.
Some 19 Republican-led states appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that ending the policy would result in a surge of new migrants, and on Monday — two days before the deadline — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled that it would remain in place until the court decided the case.
If the policy falls, it is possible that the Biden administration could find new ways to limit asylum seekers.
Still, El Paso has been bracing for the day when asylum seekers can no longer by summarily turned away.
At one popular crossing spot along the Rio Grande, members of the Texas Army National Guard lined the riverbank with razor wire this week as a deterrent, and were standing watch next to their Humvees.
But already, 1,500 migrants a day on average are being taken into border patrol custody in the El Paso region, according to the Department of Homeland Security. After their fingerprints and basic information is recorded, many are expelled under Title 42. Some may be transferred to an immigration detention facility.
Others who might qualify for a Title 42 exemption — usually on humanitarian grounds or because Mexico limits how many migrants it accepts from various countries — may be released and allowed to remain in the United States, often with a court date.
This week, more than 50 migrants were staying at the Annunciation House shelter just north of the border. With cots in the chapel and playroom, the shelter has room for 60.
Most move out within 48 hours to live with relatives or friends. Others have been bused to religious communities across the country that have offered to take them in.
The quick turnaround is important to make room for new migrants, said Ruben Garcia, who founded and runs the shelter.
“If we’re having a difficult time dealing with the number of people who are arriving and we haven’t even lifted Title 42, can you imagine what’s going to happen when Title 42 gets lifted?” he said.
In anticipation, the city has opened up its convention center for temporary housing. About 200 of the 1,000 beds there were filled on Thursday night.
Still, some migrants are already living on the streets.
Not far from the convention center — where ice skaters glided around a large rink beside a lit-up Christmas tree — dozens of Venezuelan migrants had set up camp along two blocks of sidewalk. Sheets of cardboard served as mattresses. Locals dropped off donations of clothes.
A 26-year old named Yesimar — she spoke on the condition that her last name not be used, because she had just crossed the border illegally — wrapped herself in a blanket. It was 7 p.m. and the temperature had dropped to 40 degrees.
She and her husband fled Venezuela five years ago and had been living in Peru. It took them three months to reach the U.S. border. With Title 42 still in place, they felt they had no choice but to sneak across.
They came through a space in the border fence and ducked into a McDonald’s to change clothes and take a breath after eluding authorities.
“The truth is that they don’t give us the opportunity to come into this country,” Yesimar said. “We never came with the idea of coming in illegally.”
Back in Ciudad Juarez, many more migrants are waiting it out.
Alexander Diaz, his wife and their 3-year-old son were down to about $100. The 24-year-old Venezuelan has been giving $2 haircuts to fellow migrants in an alley close to the Rio Grande.
The family found a spot at a shelter, but the bathroom doesn’t work. “Imagine, putting up with the cold, without a shower,” Diaz said.
Jesús Carrera, 22, said he makes $15 a day washing car windows at a stoplight. A generous local gave him and other migrants a place to sleep, and he speaks daily to his mother in Venezuela, who urges him to come home. He hasn’t seen her since leaving the country six years ago in hopes of escaping poverty.
He tried to claim asylum at the U.S. border in October but was expelled under Title 42 and moved to the Mexican state of Chiapas. He arrived to the border again last weekend because he thought the policy was ending.
“I’m asking God to change my luck,” he said. “It’s time.”
Rosalia Castro Sosa, a Sears saleswoman from southern Mexico, arrived in Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday, thinking that Title 42 had been lifted as scheduled.
She immediately crossed the river and turned herself in, waiting for hours in the cold in a long line for officials to take down her information. Then they dropped her off at the Mexican side of a border bridge.
Waiting for the policy to be lifted, Sosa moved into a church shelter. She has made some cash by opening the door for customers entering convenience stores. A local restaurant fed her in exchange for waiting tables. She hopes to work in the U.S. to finance an ear operation for her 9-year-old son.
“In the name of God, I’m going to get there,” she said. “I don’t know how, but I will.”
At the Good Samaritan shelter, many of the 73 migrants there were waiting to see a doctor. Migrants can stay for several months as they wait for appointments with immigration officials, and in that time children attend school — where they take English classes. Migrants can also receive therapy.
Pastor Juan Fierro, who runs the shelter, said he viewed the end of Title 42 with skepticism.
“How many times have they said it’d be over?” he said.
Miller, a staff writer, reported from Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. Special correspondent Gabriela Minjares in Ciudad Juarez and staff writer Hamed Aleaziz in Healdsburg, Calif., contributed to this report.
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St. Luke’s Health System has announced a new form of health insurance.
Starting in January 2023, the St. Lukes’s Health Plan is a not-for-profit subsidiary that will offer health insurance coverage options for people across west central and south central Idaho counties.
This is a brand new offering from St. Luke’s as the health system hasn’t had a similar program in the past.
The health plan will cover patients across 20 counties and give them access to out-of-state doctors through St. Lukes’s partners.
The concept of the health plan is “deeply rooted” in St. Luke’s commitment to improving health through affordability and coordinated care.
“Our vision to be the community’s trusted partner in providing exceptional, patient-centered care central to everything we do. To achieve that vision, we are on a bold and ambitious journey to continually improve quality, access, and the affordability of health care for the communities we serve,” St. Luke’s Health Plan President Matt Wolff said.
The plan still needs to be certified by Your Health Idaho this September. Once done, people can begin enrollment in mid-October with the plan going into effect in January. The individual plan will be offered through the Idaho health insurance exchange and outside of it. Employer plans will be available to large and small groups. The news release said the Medicare Advantage plan options will be “considered at an appropriate time”.
“We are excited to build on the significant progress we’ve already made in delivering greater health care value and health outcomes for Idahoans. The St. Luke’s Health Plan will connect the delivery of care with the funding of care, resulting in a simpler, and cost-conscious health insurance option for our communities,” Wolff said.
St. Lukes’s facilities will still accept most health care insurance plans and the new plan will not change how patients receive care at St. Lukes’s.
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- $0 preventive care in-network
- $0 maternity care in-network
- $0 preventive and generic prescription drugs
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Megan Thee Stallion is ready to tell her side of her story.
In an interview with "CBS Mornings," set to air April 25, the 27-year-old got emotional while recalling to co-host Gayle King the series of events that took place before her then-boyfriend Tory Lanez allegedly shot her in the feet in July 2020. He pleaded not guilty to assault and weapons charges related to the incident, which Megan first spoke about on Instagram Live a month after the encounter.
The alleged incident occurred after the two argued in a car following a party in the Hollywood Hills.
"It was an argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn't ready to go," Megan told CBS Mornings, as seen in a teaser released April 24. "So I get out of the car and it's like everything happens so fast. And all I hear is this man screaming. And he said, 'Dance, bitch.' And he started shooting. And I'm just like, 'Oh, my God.'"
She continued, "He shot a couple of times. And I was so scared."
Megan said Tory, real name Daystar Peterson, was standing over the window shooting, paralyzing her with fear.
"I didn't even want to move," she added. "I didn't want to move too quick. If I take the wrong step, I don't know if he's gonna shoot something that's, like, super important. I don't know if he could shoot me and kill me. I was really scared 'cause I had never been shot at before."
On July 15, 2020, Megan said on Instagram that she'd "suffered gunshot wounds as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me," adding that the police drove her to the hospital, where she underwent surgery to have the bullets removed.
That next month, Megan went on Instagram Live claiming that Tory was the person who fired the gun and caused her foot injuries.
Entertainment News
"Yes, Tory shot me," she alleged in an August 2020 video. "You shot me, and you got your publicist and your people going to these blogs lying and s--t. Stop lying."
Later in the session, she says that she did not tell law-enforcement officers that Tory was the shooter because of recent police violence.
"I didn't tell the police nothing because I didn't want us to get in no more trouble."
Tory, 29, denied the allegations that he shot and injured Megan. On his album, Daystar, which dropped Sept. 25, 2020, he claimed he was "framed" for the incident, rapping, "I would never put you in no danger."
In October 2020, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement that Peterson was "charged with assaulting a female friend" stemming from the July incident. The official charges included assault with a semiautomatic firearm, and one count of carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. Peterson pleaded not guilty to the charges the following month.
Earlier this month, he was remanded into custody again for violating two types of stay-away orders connected to Megan. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office told NBC News that the orders included a "temporary criminal restraining order" and a "discovery protective order."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Carney, the top policy and communications executive at Amazon and one-time White House spokesman, has been named the head of policy at Airbnb, marking another high-profile departure for Amazon as it faces a shifting consumer landscape and heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Carney, who served as the press secretary for President Barack Obama, will join Airbnb's executive team and work with co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, the company said in a Friday blog post.
“Jay has worked at the highest levels of both government and technology, serving as a strategic counselor to the President, and at one of the largest tech companies in the world,” Chesky said in the post.
Carney will join Airbnb in September in Washington, D.C.
Amazon has seen string of departures since Andy Jassy succeeded founder Jeff Bezos as CEO last summer. This month, Dave Clark, the chief executive of Amazon’s consumer business who oversaw a mass expansion of Amazon’s logistics footprint, left the company after 23 years. Clark, who will join the logistics startup Flexport in September, was replaced by Doug Herrington, another executive who helped launch Amazon Fresh in 2017.
Carney started with Amazon seven years ago and ran the company’s global corporate affairs organization, reporting directly to the CEO. He oversaw Amazon’s policy and public relations, focusing on the company's relationship with lawmakers and the White House.
Carney was White House press secretary from 2011 to 2014 after serving as director of communications for then Vice President Joe Biden.
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Auditor: Systemic failures harm CA domestic violence program
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly half of California domestic violence offenders failed to complete a required program designed to prevent future assaults and judges failed to impose new sanctions almost every time, the state auditor said Tuesday.
California requires domestic violence offenders who are placed on probation to take year-long batterer intervention classes. But auditors found that nearly half did not complete them. County probation departments did not report more than half the violations to the courts. And the courts did not impose any additional punishment to enforce the requirement in 90% of the cases where judges were told of the violations.
As a result of what auditors called long-running “systemic failures,” the requirement “had limited impact in reducing domestic violence,” Acting California State Auditor Michael Tilden said. The report comes after a state watchdog agency last year estimated that a third of women and a quarter of men in California will experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime.
The programs offered for a fee by various providers generally include weekly two-hour classes with group discussions and ways to hold offenders accountable for the violence they bring to a relationship. They can be effective, auditors found in tracking a sample of 100 offenders: Nearly two-thirds of program dropouts went on to commit new domestic violence or other abuse-related crimes. By contrast, 20% of offenders who completed the program committed new crimes.
Auditors reviewed the programs in just five of California’s 58 counties, but they include Los Angeles County, home to about a quarter of the state’s population. The others are Alameda and Contra Costa in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with San Joaquin County in the Central Valley and Del Norte County on the North Coast.
All five “largely neglected their program oversight responsibilities,” Tilden said.
None had adequate standards for the batterer intervention programs and every one approved or renewed programs that did not fully comply with state law. With poor oversight, some providers did not properly supervise offenders or report things like absences to judges and probation officers as required. Auditors also faulted the probation departments for inadequately screening offenders for things like mental health or substance abuse problems that might keep them from completing a program, and for failing to complete annual required on-site reviews of the programs.
Those “inconsistent and ineffective practices … have plagued the batterer intervention system for at least three decades, creating a critical need for statewide guidance and oversight,” Tilden said.
Four studies since 1990 including two prior state audits have reached the same general conclusions, auditors said, showing that probation departments and the courts “have known for years of the significant shortcomings in their oversight of programs and offenders.”
The auditors recommended that lawmakers have the state Department of Justice oversee the program statewide. It could track domestic violence data, create standards for the programs and oversee providers, and make sure offenders are adequately supervised, they said.
States including Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas and Washington each have a central agency overseeing their program providers, auditors said.
Chief Probation Officers of California sought more flexibility in tailoring their approach several years ago, but lawmakers created test programs that give six counties — Napa, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Yolo — more ability to customize their batterer intervention systems to the needs of both victims and offenders. The test programs started in 2019 and are set to end next year as a way to discover what works best.
Karen Pank, the probation group’s executive director, agreed that the “current law often fails the survivors of domestic violence and that we need change.”
However, she said, “safety is not about an arbitrary number of violations. Instead, the focus must be on implementing evidence-based, individualized programming that specifically addresses an offender’s risks. This is the best way to improve safety for survivors and communities.”
The California Judicial Council should train judges in overseeing the program, auditors said, noting that sanctions could include changes to probation requirements or a brief sentence to county jail.
In one Los Angeles County case, auditors said an offender violated batterer program requirements nearly 175 times by failing to attend classes or court hearings. But the judge sent him back to the program repeatedly with no punishment, and extended his probation to nearly five years so he could finally complete a program that state law requires be finished in 18 months.
The Judicial Council said it has a limited role in training and overseeing judges, who have discretion over how they handle offenders, and already provides a guide and training program for judges handling domestic violence cases.
Probation departments in the five counties generally agreed with auditors, though those in Los Angeles and Del Norte counties had some objections to the findings and conclusions.
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MUNICH (AP) — Tom Brady stayed undefeated abroad by throwing two touchdown passes to help the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-16 on Sunday in the first regular-season game played in Germany.
Brady connected with Julio Jones and Chris Godwin on scoring passes and Leonard Fournette ran one in as the Bucs (5-5) improved to .500 and snapped Seattle’s four-game winning streak.
German fans packed Allianz Arena for the historic game and the Bucs delivered with a balanced offensive performance on three long scoring drives. Rachaad White started and ran for 105 yards on 22 carries.
Brady completed 22 of 29 passes for 258 yards to add Germany to his list of international wins after victories in London (twice) and Mexico City with the New England Patriots.
Trailing 21-3, Seattle’s Geno Smith threw touchdown passes to Tyler Lockett and Marquise Goodwin to make the score 21-16 with 3:58 to play.
Smith found Goodwin in the corner of the end zone for a 19-yard score on fourth-and-1 to complete a drive that started on the Bucs 45 after Brady threw his first interception since the season opener. Linebacker Cody Barton picked it off.
Lockett caught a 21-yard touchdown pass from Smith with 8:20 left, but the 2-point conversion try failed, leaving the score 21-9.
Smith was 23 of 33 for 275 yards and the two touchdowns for the Seahawks (6-4), who are still atop the NFC West.
Brady is the first quarterback to start a regular-season game in three countries outside the U.S.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion found Jones on a short crossing route and the receiver ran it in for a 31-yard scoring play early in the second quarter. Jones put his left shoulder down and got past safety Josh Jones at the goal line.
Fournette then rumbled in from 1 yard to finish a 13-play, 86-yard drive. He scored two plays after a wide-open Scotty Miller caught a 22-yard pass and went down while bobbling the ball at the 5.
Godwin caught a 4-yard touchdown reception to make it 21-3 early in the fourth quarter. Godwin led the Bucs with 71 yards on six receptions.
Down 14-3, Seattle drove to the Bucs 9 before Devin White’s strip-sack of Smith, whose fumble was recovered by Anthony Nelson at the 13.
Seattle had 57 net yards in the first half and came out throwing after halftime with Smith completing four straight passes. But the drive stalled on the Tampa 22 on a third-down incompletion intended for DK Metcalf, who was then flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Jason Myers kicked a 55-yard field goal to get Seattle on the board at 14-3.
YELLOW CARD
The Bucs drove to the Seattle 22 when Fournette took a direct snap, rolled right and threw across the field to Brady — but it was intercepted by cornerback Tariq Woolen, who had the slow-footed, 45-year-old quarterback well covered at the 6.
Brady was then flagged for tripping — which would be a yellow card if he played for Bayern Munich.
SACK ATTACK
White had two of Tampa Bay’s three sacks.
Down 14-3, Seattle drove to the Bucs 9 before Devin White’s strip-sack of Smith, whose fumble was recovered by Anthony Nelson at the 13.
Just inside the two-minute warning of the first half, White burst through the line unblocked and brought down Smith for a 10-yard loss at the Seattle 10.
On Seattle’s first drive, Joe Tryon-Shoyinka beat rookie tackle Abraham Lucas around the edge and dropped Smith for a 17-yard loss on third down.
INJURIES
Fournette left in the fourth quarter with a hip injury. Bucs CB Zyon McCollum was ruled out at halftime with a concussion.
GERMAN CONNECTIONS
Seahawks practice squad linebacker Aaron Donkor of Germany led the team out of the tunnel carrying the “12” flag. Donkor is not on the 53-man roster.
UP NEXT:
Seahawks: Bye before hosting the Las Vegas Raiders on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Buccaneers: Bye and then at Cleveland on Nov. 27.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Adley Rutschman added a new wrinkle to the Home Run Derby, even if it didn’t result in a victory.
Rutschman displayed his power from both sides of the plate as a switch hitter, swatting a combined 27 homers in his first-round matchup on Monday night.
Rutschman had the crowd roaring during the initial 3-minute round, hitting 21 homers left-handed. Rutschman’s longest homer left-handed was a 445-foot shot that reached the third level of right field at T-Mobile Park.
For the bonus round, Rutschman flipped around and hit right-handed. Rutschman hit six out to left field in the 30-second round and walked off to a standing ovation.
Ultimately, it was a losing effort as White Sox slugger Luis Robert Jr. hit 28 homers to advance in the event.
From Portland, Oregon, Rutschman grew up attending Mariners games and had his dad Randy Rutschman as his pitcher for the event.
In his two seasons in the majors, Rutschman has hit a total of 25 homers.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
01-11-19-23-37-39, Doubler: N
(one, eleven, nineteen, twenty-three, thirty-seven, thirty-nine; Doubler: N)
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, November 28, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
402 AM PST Mon Nov 28 2022
...Cold Temperatures, Winds, and Snow Return This Week...
After a quiet holiday weekend, a few storms are on track to bring
back colder temperatures, periods of windy conditions, and the
potential for snow in the Sierra and western Nevada the week
ahead.
A quick-hitting storm will pass through the region today with
gusty winds, colder temperatures, and chances for snow showers.
Highest snow potential will be in the Warner mountains, Surprise
Valley and northern Washoe County (60% chance of 1 to 2 inches)
with lesser potential as the storm slides southward across the
Interstate 80 corridor (50% chance of a dusting).
Winds will be more impactful than the snow with this early week
storm. Widespread valley wind gusts 35 to 45 mph are forecast with
Sierra crest winds gusting to 70+ mph. Plan on impacts to
activities in the backcountry and on area lakes as well as
turbulence for aviators.
Latest guidance continues to point to a couple of more impactful
storms Thursday through next weekend. These storms will be capable
of producing strong winds and more significant snowfall
accumulations, with some snow even down in the valleys. Stay
tuned in to the latest forecasts this week as travel could become
difficult, especially in the Sierra and northeast California.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Parents of children enrolled in Maine religious schools fought for years — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — for the state to treat tuition reimbursements the same as other private schools.
But only one of the religious high schools that stood to benefit has signed up to participate this fall, after Maine’s attorney general warned that the schools would have to abide by state antidiscrimination laws, including those that protect LGBTQ students and faculty. That development has frustrated the families who sued.
“Their hands are tied. The state said you can take the money, but we’ll tie your hands,” said David Carson, whose daughter was a sophomore at Bangor Christian Schools when his family and two other plaintiffs sued in 2018.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition for private education in rural towns where there are no public schools.
Religious high schools with a known stake in the tuition fight include two Roman Catholic-affiliated schools, along with schools in Bangor, Waterville and Houlton.
Last year, 29 private schools participated in the tuition reimbursement program, enrolling more than 4,500 students, officials said. Those schools that meet the state’s criteria can get about $12,000 per student in taxpayer funding.
So far, only one religious school has signed up to participate, and that application will go through a review process, said Marcus Mrowka, a state education spokesperson. Mrowka declined to identify the school.
The deadline for applications is Thursday.
Michael Bindas is a senior attorney at the Virginia-based Institute for Justice, a nonprofit libertarian law firm that represented the families who sued. He said he’s not surprised the schools are slow to decide whether to participate, because of the questions raised by the attorney general.
“Those open questions, however, will be resolved in time, and we certainly expect religious schools to participate,” he said.
It’s more likely that there will be a greater impact in the 2023-24 school year, said Carroll Conley, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, and a former Christian school headmaster.
“People want to see it happening, but schools are being cautious. It’s a big change,” Conley said.
There have been several lawsuits over the years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling earlier this year, which was hailed as a victory for school choice proponents — potentially giving life to efforts in some of the states that have not directed taxpayer money to private, religious education.
The Association of Christian Schools International, a Colorado-based organization that promotes Christian education, said the fact that 32 other states already have a school choice program speaks volumes.
“We hope that the 18 states that do not have school choice programs will one day have one,” the organization said in a statement.
In Maine, Attorney General Aaron Frey criticized the Supreme Court ruling and said all schools that accept public funds, including religious schools, must abide by the Maine Human Rights Act, which bans discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability. That would mean accepting gay and transgender teachers and pupils, he said.
Both Christian schools associated with the lawsuit — Temple Academy in Waterville and Bangor Christian Schools — have policies that discriminate against students and staff on a basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, he said.
The Rev. Tom Brown, who is senior pastor and president at Bangor Christian Schools and an affiliated church, said in an email that the “we are processing” the attorney general’s statements. He confirmed that no students will be getting state tuition reimbursement this fall.
Officials from Temple Academy didn’t return messages.
The Supreme Court ruling doesn’t affect the Carson family because their daughter already graduated from high school, and is enrolled in college.
But David Carson, of Glenburn, said it’s frustrating to see the legal victory muddied by the attorney general.
“It’s disappointing when you do all this and nothing happens,” he said. “It’s kind of a circus to me. The Supreme Court says one thing, but the state attorney general just does what he wants to do.”
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Mississippi hunters demand action after game warden makes racist social media posts
COPIAH COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – “Bigoted and racist”: That’s what some hunters and outdoorsmen are calling a game warden in Mississippi after he shared several Facebook pictures and comments about a Black Santa Claus.
Game warden Robert Patrick’s post included comments such as, “that last chimney you went down Santa was mighty smutty,” “is that a 9 mm in my back or a gift?” and “you say you want Kentucky Fried Chicken with your milk and cookies?”
These comments are causing concern in the hunting community. Residents Devin Cockrell and Drik Carr said they are fed up with the comments.
“I saw him post a picture with a Black Santa Claus, and he kept on saying further and further into the racist jokes,” Cockrell said. “If he’s able to come onto your property, I mean, there’s no limit to how he can exercise his prejudice.”
Carr expressed concern with the warden’s level of authority.
“I mean, that’s scary because he’s walking around with a gun, and he’s got this authority, this badge, you know?” Carr said.
Cockrell and Carr said the comments are also impacting where they go hunting.
“I don’t plan on going anywhere near an area that that man has jurisdiction,” Cockrell said. “(It’s) just not conduct I want to have to deal with in the field, much less know that’s what’s policing everyone else in that area.”
According to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks website, their policy “does not allow discrimination on the basis of race.” WLBT contacted the department for a response, and they said they would not comment on a personnel matter.
Cockrell and Carr said they hope by bringing the posts to the attention of the public, something will be done.
“He’s bragged on his post, ‘I’ve been here 33 years.’ You’ve been getting away with this for 33 years. It’s ridiculous. It is ridiculous,” Carr said.
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Trump’s lawyers file motion to ‘quash’ Georgia special grand jury report
ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are attacking a special grand jury and prosecutors who investigated him in Georgia, asking a state court to throw out its report and all testimony from the inquiry and bar Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from continuing to investigate or prosecute Trump.
The filing, made Monday in Atlanta, argues that the Georgia law that allows for special grand juries is unconstitutionally vague because it doesn’t say whether such a grand jury is handing criminal matters or civil matters. The lawyers also argue that the grand jury didn’t sufficiently protect Trump’s right to due process.
Lawyers Jennifer Little and Drew Findling wrote that the world watched a special grand jury process “that was confusing, flawed, and at times, blatantly unconstitutional.”
The lawyers wrote that the special grand jury “involved a constant lack of clarity as to the law, inconsistent applications of basic constitutional protections for individuals being brought before it, and a prosecutor’s office that was found to have an actual conflict, yet continued to pursue the investigation.”
Willis opened the Georgia investigation in early 2021, shortly after a recording of a phone call between Trump and a top state official was made public. During that Jan. 2, 2021, phone call, Trump suggested that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger could “find” the votes needed to reverse his narrow loss in the state.
The special grand jury, which was seated in May 2022, heard from about 75 witnesses and considered other evidence before wrapping up its work in December. It did not have the authority to issue indictments but instead produced a report with recommendations for Willis. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered most of that report to remain under seal.
The foreperson of the special grand jury said in news interviews last month that the panel recommended that numerous people be indicted, but she declined to say who. It is ultimately up to Willis to decide whether to go to a regular grand jury to seek one or more indictments in the case. She said during a hearing in January that decisions in the case are “imminent.”
The lawyers also attacked interviews that the foreperson and other grand jurors have given, writing that “the foreperson’s public comments in and of themselves likewise violate notions of fundamental fairness and due process and taint any future grand jury pool.”
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BOSTON, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE: HTD) (the "Fund"), a closed-end fund managed by John Hancock Investment Management LLC and subadvised by Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC, announced today sources of its monthly distribution of $0.1380 per share paid to all shareholders of record as of July 11, 2022, pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan. This press release is issued as required by an exemptive order granted to the Fund by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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MADRID (AP) — Voters in Spain go to the polls Sunday in an election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the populist right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years under a left-wing government.
Here’s what you need to know about the vote.
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Opinion polls indicate the political right has the edge going into the election, and that raises the possibility a neo-fascist party will be part of Spain’s next government. The extreme right has not been in power in Spain since the transition to democracy following the death of former dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
With no party expected to win an absolute majority, the choice for voters is basically between another leftist governing coalition or one between the right and the far right.
The right-of-center Popular Party, the front-runner in the polls, and the extreme right Vox party are on one side. They portray the vote as a chance to end “Sanchismo” — a term the PP uses to sum up what it contends are the dictatorial ways of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the left’s radical ideology and numerous lies by the government.
In the other corner are the Socialists and a new movement called Sumar that brings together 15 small leftist parties for the first time. They warn that putting the right in power will threaten Spain’s post-Franco changes.
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Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election a day after his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party and its small far-left coalition partner, Unidas Podemos (United We Can), took a hammering in local and regional elections May 28.
Prior to that, Sánchez had insisted he would ride out his four-year term, indicating that an election would be held in December. But after the May defeat, he said it was only fair for Spaniards to decide the country’s political future without delay.
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The Popular Party emerged from the local and regional elections as the most-voted party by far, giving it the right to take office in all but a handful of towns and one or two regions.
Since then, the PP and Vox have agreed to govern together in some 140 cities and towns as well as to add two more regions to the one where they already co-governed.
The Socialists and other leftist parties lost political clout across the country, but after weathering the initial shock, they have regrouped and recovered some ground, leaving the vote outcome Sunday still an unknown.
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A PP-Vox government would mean another EU member has moved firmly to the right, a trend seen recently in Sweden, Finland and Italy. Countries such as Germany and France are concerned by what such a shift would portend for EU immigration and climate policies.
Spain’s two main leftist parties are pro-EU participation. On the right, the PP is also in favor of the EU, but Vox is not.
The election comes as Spain holds the EU’s rotating presidency Sánchez had hoped to use the six-month term to showcase the advances his government had made. An election defeat for Sánchez could see the PP taking over the EU presidency reins.
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The campaign has been dominated by mudslinging from all sides, with both the left and right accusing each other of lying about their policies and past records.
The PP has managed to put Sánchez’s honorability in question by highlighting the many U-turns he has made and his alliances with small regional secessionist parties, something that alienates even some left-wing voters.
The left has sought to convince voters that there is little difference between the two right-wing parties and that a victory for them would set Spain back decades in terms of social progress.
Nearly every poll has put the PP firmly ahead of the Socialists and Vox ahead of Sumar for third place. But 30% of the electorate is said to be undecided.
With the election taking place at the height of summer, millions of citizens are likely to be vacationing away from their regular polling places. But postal voting requests have soared, and officials are estimating a 70% election turnout.
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A surprise factor that could upset poll predictions is Sumar: the brand new, broad-based movement of 15 small left-wing parties, including Podemos and prominent social figures.
Sumar is headed by highly popular Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz, who is also the second deputy vice president and the only woman among the leaders of the four main parties.
This is the first time small left parties have ever come together on a joint ticket in Spain. Their earlier fragmentation was blamed for many of the town and regional losses in the May election, and they hope that joined together they can make a bigger showing.
Sumar’s big goal is to beat out Vox for the potential king-making third place finish. That would allow Sumar to give valuable support for another leftist coalition government. Surveys consistently suggested during the campaign that an absolute majority for Popular Party and Vox is very possible. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-spanish-general-election-tipped-to-put-the-far-right-back-in-office-for-the-first-time-since-franco/ | 2023-07-22 16:00:46 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-spanish-general-election-tipped-to-put-the-far-right-back-in-office-for-the-first-time-since-franco/ |
Friday is National Eat Your Vegetables Day and if you’re like most Americans, you’re not eating enough vegetables.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just 10% of adults are consuming the recommended amount of vegetables per day. Vermont had the highest proportion of adults eating enough vegetables at 16%. Kentucky had the lowest proportion of adults consuming enough vegetables at 5.6%.
Federal officials say that adults should consume between 2.5-3 cups of vegetables daily.
Eating a healthy diet that includes vegetables supports healthy immune function and helps to prevent obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and some cancers, the CDC said.
The CDC found that just 6.8% of American adults below or close to the poverty level were consuming enough vegetables. The CDC noted that cost and access to fruits and vegetables were potential barriers for those living in poverty. COVID-19 and resulting supply chain disruption might have further limited ability to access healthier foods. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/its-national-eat-your-vegetables-day-odds-are-you-dont-eat-enough | 2022-06-17 16:25:41 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/its-national-eat-your-vegetables-day-odds-are-you-dont-eat-enough |
LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joanne Moore, an acclaimed educator, university administrator, and film industry executive, will be the next dean of Loyola Marymount University's top-ranked School of Film and Television, the university announced today.
Moore brings to LMU decades of leadership experience spanning higher education and Hollywood. Most recently, she served as associate professor and chair of the Producing Department in the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
"We're excited that Dean Moore will be bringing her record of accomplishments in higher education and the film industry to LMU," said Executive Vice President and Provost Tom Poon. "Her passion for developing 'citizen artists' aligns with our LMU School of Film and Television's mission to educate the next generation of filmmakers, and her industry connections and insights will propel our students and programs to new heights."
At UNCSA, Moore oversaw the academic and administrative operations of the Producing Department and taught numerous courses about production and development. In 2020, the university honored her with its Excellence in Teaching Award.
Before her career in higher education, Moore was a producer, executive, and consultant in the movie and television industries, notably as vice president of Yorktown Productions, the filmmaker Norman Jewison's production company. She developed and oversaw production on several features, including the Academy Award-nominated "The Hurricane," and the remakes of "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Rollerball," among others.
Moore also served as an executive for several other production companies, where she developed feature films and television pilots that were eventually sold to Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, HBO, Showtime, ABC, NBC, F/X, Nickelodeon, and USA Network. While president of scripted production for VDB Productions, she created the company's graphic novel and comic division and was its co-editor in chief.
She was president of Punch Productions, Dustin Hoffman's production company, where she oversaw development and production of "The Devil's Arithmetic," and "A Walk on the Moon." Her earlier credits include producing the 1994 independent film "Swimming with Sharks," a festival favorite that has since earned a cult following.
Dean Moore's appointment at LMU brings her back to Southern California, where she also earned her juris doctorate, from UCLA Law School, and her bachelor's degree in political science from UC Riverside.
"I am excited to join LMU in these extraordinary times for education, when we are called to reimagine how best to help students navigate and thrive in an ever-changing industry," Moore said. "I look forward to partnering with LMU's world-class faculty and staff in developing new opportunities for collaboration, interdisciplinary cross-pollination, and global interconnectedness in LMU School of Film and Television."
Dean Moore's first day at LMU will be June 27, 2022.
Contact:
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310.338.5133
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Loyola Marymount University is an elite top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top five Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 6,500 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 60 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 49 master's degree programs, three doctorate programs and 14 credential/authorization programs. LMU's intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 20 Division I and varsity sports.
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U.S. Postal Service buys 9,250 electric vans, 14,000 charge stations
The U.S. Postal Service is buying 9,250 Ford Motor Co. electric vans and 14,000 charging stations, taking the first step towards the promised electrification of its mail truck fleet.
To meet an "urgent need for vehicles," the Postal Service will also purchase 9,250 gas-powered vans from Fiat Chrysler in North America, which is now part of Amsterdam-based Stellantis. The contracts awarded to Fiat Chrysler and Ford together will total just over $1 billion.
The purchase comes months after USPS announced a plan to spend $9.6 billion on its next generation of mail delivery trucks, of which at least 66,000 are planned to be electric vehicles. $3 billion in planned spending comes from the Inflation Reduction Act. The agency aims to have all newly purchased vehicles be electric-powered by 2026.
US POSTAL SERVICE ANNOUNCES $9.6B INVESTMENT IN NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLE FLEET WHILE OPERATING AT A LOSS
Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford will start delivering the left-hand-drive E-Transit vans in December of this year, while Fiat Chrysler will start shipping the left-hand-drive gas-powered vehicles in November.
USPS plans to begin building out its charging station infrastructure across a minimum of 75 locations within the next year, according to a news release.
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Contracts totaling $260 million for the charging stations went to Blink Charging Co., Siemens Industry Inc., and Rexel USA Energy Solutions, the Postal Service said.
"We are moving forward with our plans to simultaneously improve our service, reduce our cost, grow our revenue, and improve the working environment for our employees. Electrification of our vehicle fleet is now an important component of these initiatives," said Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General.
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"We have developed a strategy that mitigates both cost and risk of deployment – which enable execution on this initiative to begin now," DeJoy added.
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While the Postal Service plans to spend nearly $10 billion on the electrification of its vehicle fleet, the agency continues to operate at a loss. USPS reported an adjusted loss of $473 million for fiscal year 2022 in November, following a one-time, non-cash benefit of $57 billion to net income from the Postal Service Reform Act.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Voters approved recreational marijuana in Maryland and Missouri but rejected it in two other states, signaling support gradually growing for legalization even in conservative parts of the country.
The results mean that 21 states have now approved marijuana’s recreational use. Arkansas and North Dakota voters rejected legalization proposals in Tuesday’s elections. A similar initiative went before voters in South Dakota, but early Wednesday it was too early to call.
Advocates said the results send a message to lawmakers in Washington about support around the country for legalization.
“A growing number of voters recognize that cannabis policy reform is in the best interest of public health and safety, criminal justice reform, social equity, and personal freedom,” Toi Hutchinson, president and CEO of the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a statement. “State-level legalization victories are what’s necessary to move the needle forward at the federal level.”
The state voting follows moves by President Joe Biden toward decriminalizing marijuana. Biden last month announced he was pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of simple possession of marijuana under federal law.
Advocates of the marijuana initiatives have said Biden’s announcement could give a boost to their efforts.
Missouri’s measure will legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older and expunge records of past arrests and convictions for nonviolent marijuana offenses, except for selling to minors or driving under the influence.
“It just shows that this is not a partisan issue,” said John Payne, who led the Missouri campaign to legalize marijuana use. “This is something that transcends partisan divides.”
Payne said he expected recreational sales to start in Missouri early next year.
Opponents said they would be working to limit the implementation of Missouri’s legalization, such as working with cities and towns to opt out of allowing dispensaries.
“The devil is in the details, and we will remain actively involved in Missouri implementation because we don’t need another Big Tobacco industry harming kids in Missouri,” said Kevin Sabet, president of SAM Action, an anti-legalization group.
Maryland will also make changes in criminal law and create automatic expungements of past marijuana possession convictions.
Heading into the election, recreational marijuana was legal in 19 states, and polls have shown opposition to legalization softening. All of the states with recreational marijuana on the ballot, except for Maryland, voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
About 6 in 10 voters support legalizing the recreational use of marijuana nationwide, according to VoteCast, an extensive survey of more than 90,000 voters nationwide conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago.
“Support for ending marijuana prohibition in the states is spreading much like it did at the end of alcohol prohibition,” said Mason Tvert, a partner at VS Strategies, a cannabis policy and public affairs firm. “
The five states that held votes on Tuesday have legal medical marijuana programs. That includes Arkansas, which in 2016 became the first Bible Belt state to approve medical marijuana. The state’s dispensaries opened in 2019, and more than 91,000 patients have cards to legally buy marijuana for medical conditions.
The legalization campaigns raised about $23 million in the five states, with the vast majority in Arkansas and Missouri. More than 85% of contributions in those two states came from donors associated with companies holding medical marijuana licenses, according to an Associated Press analysis of the most recent campaign finance reports.
In Arkansas, supporters ran upbeat ads touting the thousands of jobs they said would be created by the measure. Opponents ran more ominous spots, warning voters to “protect Arkansas from big marijuana.”
“The marijuana industry spent millions of dollars trying to write itself into the Arkansas Constitution,” said Jerry Cox, executive director of the Family Council Action Committee, one of the groups opposing the measure. “Now they know that Arkansans do not support that kind of crony politics.”
The initiative drew the criticism of traditional legalization opponents as well as some medical marijuana advocates, who said the Arkansas proposal placed too many limits and would only benefit a handful of dispensaries. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a former head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, also opposed the measure.
Supporters indicated they planned to try again in Arkansas.
“Tonight, we made history by putting adult-use cannabis on the ballot for the first time, Although we fell short, we look forward to continuing this effort to build this momentum to 2024,” said Robert McLarty, campaign director for Responsible Growth Arkansas.
David Owen, who led North Dakota’s legalization effort, said he wasn’t sure another effort would be made after the proposal was rejected.
“Tonight was not what we wanted, but the people have spoken and we have to prepare for the next steps,” Owen said.
North Dakota’s proposal would have allowed people 21 and older to legally use marijuana at home as well as possess and cultivate restricted amounts of cannabis. It also would have established policies to regulate retail stores, cultivators and other types of marijuana businesses.
“It’s pretty clear North Dakota families don’t want marijuana across the state,” said Luke Niforatos, executive vice president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a Virginia-based political organization against marijuana legalization, which helped fight the measure in North Dakota.
South Dakotans, including a sizable number of Republicans, voted to legalize marijuana possession in 2020, but that law was struck down by the state Supreme Court in part because the proposal was coupled with medical marijuana and hemp. This year, recreational pot stood by itself as it went before voters.
In Colorado, where recreational marijuana has been legal for nearly a decade, voters on Tuesday took up a proposal that would allow the use of certain psychedelic substances. If approved, it would make Colorado the second state to take such a step. The vote was too early to call early Wednesday.
Melody Finley, a Republican in Little Rock, Arkansas, said she voted for the state’s legalization measure because she thinks it can help some people for certain conditions.
“If you can buy alcohol, you can buy that, too,” Finley, 47, a dance instructor, said.
But Rick Huffman, a voter in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, voted against that state’s legalization proposal, two years after supporting recreational marijuana on South Dakota’s ballot in 2020.
“I’ve got a kid that’s a teenager now,” he said. “So I think it’ll eventually happen, but maybe I’ll wait until my kids grow up.”
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Associated Press writers Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Summer Ballentine in Jefferson City, Missouri; James MacPherson in Bismarck, North Dakota; and Dave Kolpack in Fargo, North Dakota, contributed to this report.
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CLEVELAND, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Austin Company announced the addition of three Vice Presidents: David Oshins, Vice President of Engineering; David Mooney, Vice President of Construction; and Tamara Zupancic, Vice President of Marketing and Communications.
"Over the past five years, Austin has grown significantly because of the success of our sales and marketing efforts and project execution. We are now gearing up for another growth phase," said Mike Pierce, President and CEO. "To meet the needs of this growth, we have strategically organized our team for scalable for long-term sustainability and expansion."
David K. Oshins, PE, LEED AP, formerly Manager of Design and Engineering of Austin's Eastern Operations, has been promoted to Vice President of Engineering. This newly created position will have Oshins responsible for engineering services provided by Austin's US operations. "David will focus on improving consistency, quality, efficiency, training, profitability, and resource management within our engineering departments," explained Pierce.
Oshins has over 35 years of industry experience, ten of which have been with Austin. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. In addition to his role with Austin, Oshins serves as President of the Cleveland Engineering Society.
To support Austin's ongoing sales and marketing efforts, Tamara Zupancic has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing and Communications. "Tamara has been a valuable member of the senior Austin leadership team, consistently promoting the improvement and enhancement of our brand and market position. Her passion and tireless dedication to raising the standards of Austin's image have bolstered sales and recruiting efforts," said Pierce.
Zupancic has over a decade of experience in marketing within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. She graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Arts in art history, criticism, and conservation and is an active member of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS).
Austin recruited David Mooney, MBA, LEED AP, to fill the critical new position of Vice President of Construction. "David is tasked with supporting Austin's preconstruction and construction services. He will focus on consistency, quality, training, and development of our construction resources," said Pierce. "David will partner with our business unit leaders to ensure consistency, apply best practices, advance our use of technology and continually develop our preconstruction and construction personnel to be the best teams serving our markets."
Mooney has over 20 years of industry experience. He graduated from Bowling Green University, earning a Bachelor of Science in construction management, and Tiffin University with a Master of Business Administration.
The Austin Company is a full-service, design-build company offering site location consulting, design, engineering, and construction. Headquartered in Cleveland, Austin has offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Irvine, California; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Merritt Island, Florida; San Luis Potosi, Mexico; and London, United Kingdom. The Austin Company is a subsidiary of Kajima USA. To learn more about Austin - https://theaustin.com/
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Kenosha News. July 9, 2023.
Editorial: Are fireworks fading away?
Fourth of July 2023 is in the history books and the fireworks that lit up the skies in southeastern Wisconsin are fading away along with the overhead blasts and the “oohs and aaahhs” of enthralled spectators.
It’s a grand celebration of the country’s birth and pays homage to the words of Francis Scott Key who penned the Star Spangled banner – the national anthem – celebrating the defense of Fort McHenry against the British in the War of 1812;
“O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Those are stirring words that still fuel the fires of nationalistic fervor.
But while there were a multitude of fireworks celebrations across the country this year, there were also communities who, for several reasons, dropped away from the bomb-bursting sky shows and the attendant aerial booms.
They opted, instead, for drone shows to celebrate the Fourth of July.
“There’s less risk of fire, less risk of damage, less risk of injury,” said Rick Boss, president of Sky Elements Drone Shows, a Texas-based company, that has performed more than 500 drone shows using fleets of drones with brilliant LED lights to create animated scenes with shapes and patterns in the night sky – often patriotic ones featuring things like the Liberty Bell.
“Drones leave no smoke or debris behind them when performing,” Boss said. “We leave nothing behind but great memories.”
Much of the rise in popularity of the drone show-alternative comes in the western U.S., where the risk of forest fires is running high this year.
Salt Lake City was one municipality that went drone, with Mayor Erin Mendenhall saying the change was made to minimize high fire danger and air quality concerns. “As temperatures rise and fire danger increases we must be conscientious of both our air quality and the potential for wildfires,” he said. Utah us one of the most wildfire-prone states in the country, with about 1,000 wildfires a year.
Boulder, Colo., and Flagstaff, Ariz., shifted to laser light shows this year and in California several coastal cities also went to drone shows because of stricter laws on polluting the ocean with debris.
Closer to home, Highland Park, IL., honored seven people who were killed in last year’s July 4 parade with a ceremony and a walk – not a parade, At night the city planned a drone show instead of fireworks to avoid noises that sound like gunfire.
That “noise” factor from fireworks is echoed on social media neighborhood sites in Racine and Kenosha, where people have been highly critical of neighbors and do-it-yourself fireworks enthusiasts for shooting off their wares at all times during the day and night over the past week – scaring their pets and turning them into shivering, frightened animals. The commenters’ ire also focuses on military veterans who suffer from PTSD and struggle with fireworks noise.
Clearly, there is some fertile ground for those who wish to switch away from traditional pyrotechnics and go to a safer, less fiery and quieter Fourth of July celebration. It remains to be seen if that will take hold, but sometimes societal changes come in increments. It wasn’t too long ago that children bounced down the road in the back of pickup trucks secured only by the parental admonition to “hold on tight.” And within recent memory, actors and TV stars were lighting up cigarettes as the ventured into our living rooms.
No more.
Sometimes change is afoot before we even see it.
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Wisconsin State Journal. July 9, 2023.
Editorial: 400-year veto helps schools but violates principle
We can’t fault Gov. Tony Evers for wanting to have a lasting impact on Wisconsin, especially when it comes to supporting public schools.
But 400 years? That’s more than twice as long as Wisconsin has been a state.
The Democratic governor signed a two-year, $99 billion state budget last week after issuing 51 partial vetoes — one of which was clever and aggressive if not fantastical. He crossed out a hyphen, several words and “20” in the text of the budget to change the expiration of a $325-per-student annual spending increase from 2025 to 2425.
That’s more than symbolic or aspiration. It means future state budgets, starting two years from now, will default to a $325-per-student increase for schools if the governor and Legislature can’t agree on a different amount.
Assuming Evers’ veto survives a court challenge, he’ll now have more leverage in future budgets to insist on higher spending for schools. Our public schools definitely need more money, given tight limits on spending in the past, rising prices, a teacher shortage and record numbers of local referendums seeking voter permission to cover operating expenses.
Yet on principle, governors — no matter which party they represent — shouldn’t be able to unilaterally increase spending using the veto pen. Vetoes are supposed to stop or limit action by the Legislature.
Another governor could quickly get rid of the $325-per-student mandate once Evers leaves office. That’s likely to occur the next time a Republican governor is elected.
Still, Evers’ dramatic change to school funding suggests Wisconsin’s powerful veto pen needs further limits. Voters in 1990 wisely got rid of the “Vanna White” veto, named after the celebrity on “Wheel of Fortune” who flips letters. Former Gov. Tommy Thompson, a Republican, partially vetoed individual letters from the budget to spell new words.
Voters in 2008 eliminated the “Frankenstein” vote, in which former Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, stitched together individual words from across pages of the state budget to unilaterally bring new law to life. He did so by vetoing around the words he wanted to keep.
In fairness to Evers, his predecessor, Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, used his veto pen in 2017 to push back the deadline for a state program 1,000 years — from 2018 to 3018. Walker’s Republican colleagues didn’t try to limit the state’s veto powers after that, though we suspect some will revisit the governor’s authority now that a Democrat is in charge.
The solution to further veto abuse would be a constitutional amendment creating a true line-item veto, in which a single sentence could be struck in its entirety or not at all. Previously, lawmakers from both political parties have resisted going that far, usually because their guy sat in the governor’s office.
Even if you support more money for public schools — which we definitely do — it’s important to consider how a governor with different priorities could play similar veto games. What if a future governor with her veto pen extended an annual increase in private school choice enrollment indefinitely for centuries? Democrats wouldn’t like that. Nor would we.
The budget signed into law last week includes a $1 billion increase in spending authority for public schools. That’s about a 4% increase the first year of the budget, and a 7% increase the second year. The $325-per-student annual increase also is the highest in modern state history.
Yet private and religious schools in Wisconsin’s choice program are getting even higher per-pupil increases than public schools (though public schools still get more per student overall).
Evers called that a compromise, which we appreciate. Evers was right to negotiate what he could with Republicans, rather than vetoing the entire budget, which would have triggered months of delays in state programming and left local governments struggling to pass their own budgets.
The two partisan sides at the state Capitol agreed to send more money to local governments for basic services such as police and fire protection. That was encouraging. The city and county of Milwaukee also got permission for a higher local sales tax to help balance their budgets.
A big win for Wisconsin’s justice system were raises to keep assistant district attorneys and public defenders staffing our courts. In addition, prison guards and other state employees are getting raises to hopefully stem attrition and shortages.
The governor and Legislature agreed to $125 million for fighting the forever chemicals known as PFAS. We like that.
The worst decision in the state budget was the Republican-driven cut to the University of Wisconsin System. Evers is right that cutting higher education when the state is sitting on a $7 billion surplus makes no sense. The GOP’s nixing of an engineering building at UW-Madison is particularly galling, given that private funds were contributing to the project and it was the System’s top priority.
Because the pandemic is over, the federal government is ending emergency dollars for child care facilities. The Republican-run Legislature failed to step up in this budget with significant state dollars to help ensure more child care centers don’t close. Quality child care is key to keeping parents in the workforce and making sure young children get off to strong starts in life.
Evers vetoed most of the GOP’s planned tax cut. That’s how a veto is supposed to work by limiting things. Yet even if the rich don’t need a tax cut, Evers should have allowed more relief for the middle class, given the state surplus.
Four-hundred years from now, this state budget will be long forgotten, as will Evers’ veto.
What’s important today is that public schools, local governments, public health and our courts are being strengthened. Unfortunately, our universities and the child care industry are not. | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/07/14/editorial-roundup-wisconsin-84/ | 2023-07-14 22:25:23 | 1 | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/07/14/editorial-roundup-wisconsin-84/ |
Autotalks' latest CEVA-powered V2X chips - TEKTON3 and SECTON3 – already awarded series production by major automotive OEM
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Electronics Show – CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions, announced today that Autotalks, a world leader in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication solutions, has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XC4500 Communication Processor and CEVA-BX1 Digital Signal Controller in its 3rd generation V2X chipsets, TEKTON3 and SECTON3. This latest collaboration follows on from Autotalks 2nd generation chips, SECTON and CRATON2, which are also powered by CEVA DSPs.
ABI Research forecasts that the number of registered vehicles with V2X will surpass 61 million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 53% from 2023. TEKTON3 and SECTON3 are designed to support all existing and upcoming V2X requirements, with the CEVA DSPs supporting the 5G NR-V2X modem operation of these chips, enabling enhanced V2X capabilities for safety and autonomous driving. TEKTON3 and SECTON3 have already been awarded for series production of a passenger car by a major automotive OEM, set to be available in the market in 2026.
Amos Freund, Autotalks VP R&D, commented: "Autotalks is pleased to expand its collaboration with CEVA and continue to provide the world's best V2X hardware and software with our TEKTON3 and SECTON3 chips. CEVA's DSPs play a crucial role in the ability to concurrently support DSRC and C-V2X technologies, including the latest 5G NR-V2X standard. We are excited to see these chips deployed in passenger vehicles in the coming years, helping protect drivers, two-wheelers, and pedestrians."
Guy Keshet, Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile Broadband Business Unit at CEVA, stated: "Autotalks is widely recognized as a pioneer in V2X chipsets, constantly pushing the technology forward to achieve mass market adoption. We are proud to work closely with them to provide our best-in-class DSPs for two generations of their V2X technology. We look forward to safer roads in the future, thanks in part to Autotalks lifesaving V2X solutions."
Autotalks (www.auto-talks.com), a V2X chipset market pioneer and leader, helps reduce collisions on roadways and improve mobility with its automotive qualified chipsets. The company's chipsets offer the most advanced, truly secure and highest performing global V2X communication solution. Autotalks' advanced technology, to be mass deployed in the coming years, complements the information coming from other sensors, specifically in non-line-of-sight scenarios, rough weather, or poor lighting conditions. It significantly improves overall road safety, effectively coordinating vehicles, self-driving cars, motorcyclists, and pedestrians.
CEVA is the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions for a smarter, safer, connected world. We provide Digital Signal Processors, AI engines, wireless platforms, cryptography cores and complementary software for sensor fusion, image enhancement, computer vision, voice input and artificial intelligence. These technologies are offered in combination with our Intrinsix IP integration services, helping our customers address their most complex and time-critical integrated circuit design projects. Leveraging our technologies and chip design skills, many of the world's leading semiconductors, system companies and OEMs create power-efficient, intelligent, secure and connected devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, robotics, industrial, aerospace & defense and IoT.
Our DSP-based solutions include platforms for 5G baseband processing in mobile, IoT and infrastructure, advanced imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low-power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For sensor fusion, our Hillcrest Labs sensor processing technologies provide a broad range of sensor fusion software and inertial measurement unit ("IMU") solutions for markets including hearables, wearables, AR/VR, PC, robotics, remote controls and IoT. For wireless IoT, our platforms for Bluetooth (low energy and dual mode), Wi-Fi 4/5/6 (802.11n/ac/ax), Ultra-wideband (UWB), NB-IoT and GNSS are the most broadly licensed connectivity platforms in the industry.
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Business expert breaks down resale ticket market ahead of Taylor Swift Eras Tour stop in Minneapolis
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Taylor Swift Era’s Tour is making its way across the United States, and this weekend, she’s coming to Minnesota for a 2-day leg at U.S. Bank Stadium.
You may remember the Ticket Master fiasco last year when the site crashed and many Swifties lost out on the chance for tickets. Since then, ticket prices for the tour are soaring on the resale market.
Resale market experts say resale market follows dynamic pricing practices.
That’s when the prices change depending on the demand for tickets.
Experts say the practice is efficient- since people who really want one can find a ticket... but it can also be inequitable for fans who can’t afford to pay the steep prices.
“Right now, resale markets are very free market. So whatever the person telling the ticket is willing to sell it at, whatever the person is willing to pay for it and then you match where supply and demand matches. That’s where the resale price ultimately comes from,” University of Minnesota Supply Chain and Operations assistant professor Dayton Steele said.
Steele went on to say that if you’re looking to get tickets, you’ll want to buy sooner rather than later. It’s possible prices will drop right before the concert starts, but unlikely for a big artist like Taylor Swift.
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LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — A picturesque tourist destination will host crisis-weary Southeast Asian leaders with sun-splashed tropical islands, turquoise waters brimming with corals and manta rays, seafood feasts, and a hillside savannah crawling with Komodo dragons.
The sunshiny setting is a stark contrast to the seriousness of their agenda.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo picked the far-flung, rustic harbor town of Labuan Bajo as a laidback venue to discuss an agenda rife with contentious issues. These include the continuing bloody civil strife in Myanmar and the escalating territorial conflicts in the South China Sea between fellow leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
The 10-nation regional bloc and its member states will meet for three days starting Tuesday, with the growing rivalry between the United States and China as a backdrop.
U.S. President Joe Biden has been reinforcing an arc of alliances in the Indo-Pacific region to better counter China over Taiwan and the long-seething territorial conflicts in the strategic South China Sea which involve four ASEAN members: Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Indonesia, this year’s ASEAN chair, has also confronted Chinese fishing fleets and coast guard that have strayed into what Jakarta says was its internationally recognized exclusive economic zone in the gas-rich Natuna Sea.
Widodo, who’s in his final year on the world stage as he reaches the end of his two-term limit, said ASEAN aims to collaborate with any country to solve problems through dialogue.
That includes Myanmar where, two years after the military power grab that forced out Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration and sparked a bloody civil strife, ASEAN has failed to rein in the violence in its member state. A five-point peace plan by ASEAN leaders and the top Myanmar general, which calls for an immediate stop to killings and other violence and the start of a national dialogue, has been disregarded by Myanmar’s ruling military.
ASEAN stopped inviting Myanmar’s military leaders to its semiannual summits and would only allow non-political representatives to attend. Myanmar has protested the move.
In an additional concern involving Myanmar, Indonesian officials said Sunday that 20 of their nationals, who were trafficked into Myanmar and forced to perform cyber scams, had been freed from Myanmar’s Myawaddy township and brought to the Thai border over the weekend. During the summit, ASEAN leaders planned to express their concern over such human trafficking schemes in a joint statement, a draft copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said her country, as ASEAN chair, has tackled the Myanmar crisis in a non-adversarial way.
“Colleagues certainly know that in the early stages of its leadership, Indonesia decided to take a non-megaphone diplomacy approach,” Marsudi said. “The aim is to provide space for the parties to build trust and for the parties to be more open in communicating.”
Widodo’s choice of a seaside venue with stunning sunrises and sunsets and the sound of birds chirping all day complements that approach.
The Indonesian leader also hoped the high-profile ASEAN summit would put Labuan Bajo and outlying islands, dotted with white-sand beaches and even a rare pink-sand beach, under the global tourism spotlight.
“This is a very good moment for us to host the ASEAN summit and showcase Labuan Bajo to the world,” said Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who flew in Sunday with his wife to a red-carpet welcome flanked by military honor guards and dancing villagers with flower-filled headwear.
But there are a few hitches.
The far-flung fishing town with only three traffic lights and about 6,000 residents is acutely short of hotels for ASEAN’s swarm of diplomats, delegates and journalists. Many had to arrange to share rooms.
Unlike the more popular Bali resort island or the bustling concrete jungle of a capital Jakarta, which has hosted international conclaves in upscale hotels and convention centers, Labuan Bajo is a far smaller town that a visitor could cross from end to end with a brisk two-hour walk. There are no public buses, and villagers mostly move around by walking, riding scooters or driving private cars.
A small team of local technicians with hard hats were flown in to lay cables and expand internet connections at the venues on short notice.
On Sunday, Labuan Bajo’s small airport was jampacked with visitors. Teams of diplomats and journalists arrived to welcome streamers announcing the upbeat summit motto, “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth.”
Outside the airport named after the Komodo dragons, traffic quickly built up under the brutal noontime sun.
When the sun rose Monday morning, workers were still cementing some roadsides around the venues — a day before the summit opening.
Andre Kurniawan, who works at a dive center in Labuan Bajo, said the infrastructure developments would be a boon for Labuan Bajo villagers. “We were isolated from some areas before and now they are open and the areas are getting better. I hope that Labuan Bajo can be a better tourist town in the future,” he said.
Azril Azahari, chair of an association of Indonesian academic experts on tourism, told the AP that Labuan Bajo was not ready and apparently was chosen to host the summit on short notice. “The hotel facilities and the lodging have become a problem. There is a ship being used for accommodation and it’s not a lodging ship,” he said.
Welcoming visitors to her coffee shop ahead of the summit, Suti Ana said even though it wasn’t the best time for Labuan Bajo to host, ASEAN would boost local businesses. “But we cannot wait, so this is the time,” she said.
Choosing the small port town was not a bad idea, Azril said, if it came with adequate planning and government investments in infrastructure.
Located on the western tip of Flores island in southern Indonesia, Labuan Bajo, aside from its beaches and diving and snorkeling spots, has been better known as the gateway to the Komodo National Park — a UNESCO World Heritage site and the only place in the world where Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizards, are found in the wild.
Environmentalists and tourism analysts fear that a wider public interest could put further stress on the already endangered Komodo dragons. Only about 3,300 were known to exist as of 2022.
“If more people come, sooner or later the Komodo dragons cannot breed in peace, this can be a problem,” Azahari said, citing longstanding fears that the Komodos could face extinction without full protection.
Despite the odds, Indonesian officials said they would do everything to successfully and safely host the ASEAN summit in Labuan Bajo.
“If there’s any commotion along the way, that will be a big stain on the nation’s dignity,” Edistasius Endi, the regent of Labuan Najo’s West Manggarai district, said in a statement.
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Associated Press journalists Jim Gomez and Achmad Ibrahim contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says a bystander’s cellphone footage showing a deputy violently tackling a woman while she filmed her husband being handcuffed and then pepper-spraying her in the face is “ disturbing,” and community groups on Wednesday called for the department's new sheriff to hold his agency accountable.
The June 24 incident in the city of Lancaster follows several cases that have drawn scrutiny to the department amid allegations of excessive use of force by its deputies. It's also testing the reform efforts of the new sheriff, Robert Luna, a former Long Beach police chief who has vowed to overhaul the nation's largest sheriff's department since taking it over in December after defeating incumbent Alex Villanueva.
Both officers were pulled off field duty, the sheriff’s department said in a statement late Monday after the bystander footage spread on social media. The Associated Press' efforts to reach the bystander on Wednesday were not immediately successful.
The agency also announced it has opened an investigation into the deputies’ actions.
“While the Department does not make statements related to ongoing investigations, Sheriff Luna has made it clear that he expects Department personnel to treat all members of the public with dignity and respect, and that personnel who do not uphold our training standards will be held accountable,” the department said in its statement.
The agency also released footage from the deputies’ body-worn cameras on Monday.
The couple, whose names were not released, reportedly matched the descriptions of robbers targeting a grocery store in Lancaster, 72 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of Los Angeles, the department said. The video shows the man sitting on a large rock outside the store and holding a cake before deputies handcuff him as his wife stands a few feet away filming the encounter.
One deputy is seen tackling the woman to the ground. “Get on the ground!” he can be heard shouting as he pins her down with his knee on her neck and shoulder. “Stop or you’ll get punched in the face!”
The woman is heard yelling “I can’t breathe!” as the deputy is seen pepper-spraying her in the face. She screams, “I didn’t do nothin’!” and her husband repeatedly tells the other deputy that she has cancer.
The couple was cited and released from custody.
The sheriff’s department did not release the deputies’ names or other details, such as what the citations were for. The department first referred a reporter to submit questions to an online media portal and then declined to provide additional information.
Tom Yu, an attorney representing the deputy who tackled the woman, says his client took her “down to the ground due to her being resistant.”
“Deputies are trained to take suspects who resist to the ground in order to gain compliance and to safely handcuff the suspect,” Yu said in an email on Wednesday.
Yu also declined to release his client's name, reiterating that the department had not done so either.
A protest was planned in Lancaster Wednesday evening by community groups to demand that the deputies be held accountable and be dismissed.
Villanueva’s tenure was tainted by accusations that so-called deputy gangs proliferated under his watch. The groups are accused of a variety of misconduct dating back decades, from controlling sheriff’s stations and the jails, to harassing other deputies and the communities they police, to harming or fatally shooting civilians as part of gang rituals.
Villanueva resisted efforts from the county’s inspector general and a civilian oversight commission to address the cliques. The former sheriff downplayed their role in the department and refused to answer the commission’s subpoenas to testify about the gangs under oath.
The department was years behind other police agencies in outfitting its deputies with body-worn cameras, bringing them on board in 2020. The neighboring Los Angeles Police Department, in contrast, first gave the technology to its officers in 2016.
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Associated Press news researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2023/07/05/la-county-sheriffs-department-calls-video-of-deputy-tackling-woman-disturbing-opens-inquiry/ | 2023-07-05 21:41:03 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2023/07/05/la-county-sheriffs-department-calls-video-of-deputy-tackling-woman-disturbing-opens-inquiry/ |
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TRONA, Calif. — The Navy has made public the identity of a pilot killed in the crash of a fighter jet in the Southern California desert last week.
Bullock was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. His home of record was listed only as Montana, according to a biographical data sheet. He was commissioned in 2016.
The Navy said Bullock was flying a routine training mission.
“The incident is currently under investigation and the scene of the crash is secured by Navy and local authorities while recovery efforts are ongoing,” the statement said. “The Navy mourns this tragic loss alongside the family, friends and shipmates of Lt. Bullock.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/navy-pilot-killed-in-california-desert-crash-is-identified/2022/06/06/97c78a58-e5ad-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html | 2022-06-06 22:30:15 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/navy-pilot-killed-in-california-desert-crash-is-identified/2022/06/06/97c78a58-e5ad-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html |
By FRANCES D’EMILIO
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ROME (AP) — Leonardo Del Vecchio, who founded eyewear empire Luxottica in a trailer and turned an everyday object into a global fashion item, becoming one of Italy’s richest men in the process, died on Monday, the eyeglass company said. He was 87.
“EssilorLuxottica announces with deep sorrow the passing of Chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio,″ said a statement from the company, its name reflecting a deal forged several years ago between Luxottica and French-based lensmaker Essilor.
The statement said EssilorLuxottica’s board would meet to “determine the next steps.”
Luca Zaia, the governor of Veneto, the northeast region where Del Vecchio started his business in 1961 in an Alpine valley town, hailed Del Vecchio as one of the “entrepreneurs of greatest success in all the world.”
Italian media said Del Vecchio died in a Milan hospital, where he was admitted several weeks ago. No cause of death was cited.
From a start in a Milan orphanage, Del Vecchio went on to become one of Italy’s richest industrialists. Globalizing fashion eyeglasses, Luxottica now makes frames for dozens of stellar fashion names, including Armani, Burberry and Chanel.
On Forbes’ list of richest persons, Del Vecchio and his family was ranked last year at No. 60, with assets of $24.5 billion.
Del Vecchio’s father sold vegetables on the streets of Milan but died before he was born. The youngest of four children, when he was in his 20s, he worked as an apprentice making parts for eyeglass frames, then went into business for himself. He moved from Milan to the Dolomite Mountains village of Agordo in 1961, taking advantage of an offer of free land to provide jobs and discourage young people from flocking to cities for work.
What started as a company housed in a trailer steadily grew into a sprawling complex, a 90-minute drive from Venice, employing thousands of people and producing tens of thousands of frames every day.
Del Vecchio found gold by turning the rather mundane necessity of life into “designer frames” for prescription glasses and sunglasses. The Luxottica’s corporate website lists 33 top brands, including Valentino, Prada, Michael Kors, Coach and Brooks Brothers.
Two moves as he expanded his business were widely considered key. One strategy saw him invest in the retail sector, opening Luxottica stores. The other strategy led him to acquisitions, notably that of the U.S. company Ray-Ban, in 1999, a brand which under the company’s marketing approach gained cachet.
Del Vecchio’s empire expanded with a deal, announced in 2018, with France’s Essilor. That accord created a massive entity with more than 140,000 employees in 150 countries.
But Del Vecchio took care to keep his family financial vehicle, the holding company Delfin. In its latest configuration, Del Vecchio held 25% of its capital. Under Delfin’s umbrella are considerable stakes in banking and insurance companies as well.
Unlike some of Italy’s flashier industrialists, like TV magnate Silvio Berlusconi and Fiat’s Gianni Agnelli, Del Vecchio kept a low-profile, to the point that Italian media dubbed him “Mr. Nobody.”
Corriere della Sera daily quoted him as saying of his early mentors in the trade: “They left me with several important lessons — discipline, method and competence.”
Del Vecchio preached simplicity. “For years my lunch was based on boiled cabbage. Its smell reminds me of the great effort, the dream that I had to do something that was mine, even if small, but where I could put to use my ideas and my abilities,″ the Milan daily quoted him as saying.
He remained untouched by the corruption scandals that rocked Italian business and political power spheres in the early 1990s.
“I don’t like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night,” Del Vecchio told The Associated Press in an interview at company headquarters in 1995.
Premier Mario Draghi, an economist who had headed the European Central Bank, issued a tribute from Germany, where he was participating in the G-7 summit.
“For more than 60 years a protagonist of Italian entrepreneurship, Del Vecchio created one of the biggest companies of the country, starting out from humble origins,” Draghi said in a written statement. The industrialist “brought the community of Agordo and the entire country to the center of the world of innovation,” the Italian premier said.
Del Vecchio married three times, including two times with his second wife, Nicoletta Zampillo. He had six children: son Claudio and two daughters from his first marriage to Luciana Nervo; a son, Leonardo Maria from his marriage to Zampillo; and two sons, Luca and Clemente, with Sabina Grossi, a former investor in the group, La Repubblica newspaper said.
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As co-founder and director of Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based public art and history studio nonprofit, Paul Farber is concerned with memory.
According to Farber, 40, memory can be consecrated in large forms, such as Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and small forms, such as cookbooks or his childhood handprints and footprints that are stamped on the playground of the Germantown Jewish Centre, the synagogue where he grew up.
Most recently, Farber studied the memorial of one of Philly’s great fictional heroes, Rocky Balboa, as the host of WHYY’s “The Statue.” The six-part podcast wrapped up on Feb. 14.
“To tell the story of Rocky in this city and the Rocky statue is actually to tell the story of a city, of its people, of its immigrants, of the way that history moves, inspires and pushes us,” Farber said.
“That would be an approach to thinking about a monument — not just to look up at it, but to kind of place yourself there and look around and see what you can learn from the perspective of the statue,” he added.
The Rocky statue is, to Farber, the epitome of what makes monuments unique: They do not just represent a person and ask an audience to explore what makes this person worthy of public memory; monuments also contain the history and stories of those who interact with them.
Farber is just one of many Philadelphians with loose ties to the statue and the man it represents. His great-great-grandmother and great-grandparents immigrated to the U.S. and became naturalized citizens at the Washington Avenue Immigration Station. Like many Jewish immigrants, the family operated a pushcart and then a small store. Farber’s grandfather attended South Philadelphia High School and became a member of the boxing club there.
Farber’s family’s roots in Philadelphia are what made him interested in exploring memory in the first place. He often heard stories from his mother about visiting his family’s store. A photo of the Washington Avenue Immigration Station hangs on Farber’s wall.
“Memory lives in our family histories because it’s not often in monument form,” he said. “It’s often our customs and our books and our photo albums and our recipes. And there’s a way in which those who have come before us are kept — their spirit is kept alive — in really meaningful ways.”
With the preservation of memories comes with it the knowledge that memories are also lost and forgotten, through trauma or assimilation.
“What could we know that was brought forward with us? But also how do you deal with very real gaps?” Farber asked.
Born and raised in Mount Airy, where he lives now, Farber grew up in a multifaith community, “where to be Jewish was both about honoring tradition and pushing to build bridges,” a foundation that shaped his upbringing and path.
Farber attended Quaker school and later worked with Baptist ministers. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Farber left his hometown to get a master’s degree and doctorate in American culture from the University of Michigan.
His dissertation took him to Berlin to study how American writers and artists documented the Berlin Wall. The paper, and later a book, “A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall,” was inspired by a Jewish photographer who, in 1961, took pictures of an African American soldier guarding the wall, capturing the complexities of America’s role in protecting global democracy while also grappling with its own racism.
The research made Farber curious about how Jewish history was honored and preserved for other visitors of Berlin, Jewish or not.
“How do we honor the past and make room for ways that we persist into the future?” Farber said. “I’m constantly interested in the ways that people make memories in big and small ways, in ways that are official and unofficial.”
Farber returned to Philadelphia and founded Monument Lab in 2012 with Ken Lum as a series of classroom conversations at Penn that evolved into a nonprofit.
Today, Monument Lab uses its definition of monuments as “statements of power and presence in public” to look at the implications and meanings of monuments around the country and internationally. This spring, Monument Lab will launch another podcast series called “Plot of Land,” exploring how land ownership and housing has changed in the U.S. as a result of public memory and racist policies.
“Not just in Jewish culture, but kind of across boundaries, is the idea that the past, present and future are not so separated,” Farber said. “There’s not a linear history … We carry forward with us traces of the past, and we’re constantly renewing and reimagining it.”
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Which reflective dog harness is best?
Using a dog harness for walks is much preferred over just attaching the leash to the collar. If the dog pulls or moves too far forward, it can be choked or, worse, have its throat crushed and damaged. Walking at night adds the extra wrinkle of needing to be seen for safety. For such late-night walks, you should use a reflective dog harness.
The best is the Rabbitgoo No-Pull Dog Harness. Its reflectivity is spread evenly across the full harness, and it has a D-ring on both the back and chest.
What to know before you buy a reflective dog harness
Reflectivity
Most reflective dog harnesses add reflectivity by threading in reflective strips, but where these strips are incorporated and how many are added affect how reflective the harness can be.
The most reflective harnesses have reflective strips on every strap and lining every major piece of the harness, such as the chest and back pads. Others may only line some of the straps or have minimal reflective lining on the chest and back pads.
D-ring placement
The D-ring is what you attach your leash to, and its placement greatly affects what your dog can do during your walks.
- Front D-rings significantly limit how much your dog can pull. Many harnesses with front D-rings are even called “no-pull” harnesses because of this. If you have a big, excitable dog, you should use a front D-ring.
- Back D-rings give your dog a greater range of motion. If your dog is well-trained, then a back D-ring is just fine. Back D-rings are also suitable for small dogs as it keeps the leash from tripping them up.
Color
Reflective dog harnesses come in just about any color you could want. When choosing one, you can go with something bright such as orange or pink to make your dog more visible, or you can stick to your favorite color.
Leash
Some reflective harnesses include a matching leash. These are great for saving some money while putting together everything you need for your new dog.
What to look for in a quality reflective dog harness
Adjustability
Every dog is different, so the best reflective harnesses have as many points of adjustment as possible. This can include four or more places to tighten or loosen straps and several buckles for fit adjustment and easily putting on and removing the harness.
Handle
Sometimes pulling on the leash isn’t enough to control an excitable dog. Owners of such dogs should prioritize harnesses with handles on the back. Some handles can be too small to grip well, so make sure yours is big enough to hold tightly before walking your dog with it.
How much you can expect to spend on a reflective dog harness
They can cost as little as $15 or as much as $40-plus. Cost primarily depends on the harness size, with larger sizes costing more. Extra features or higher-grade materials also increase the price.
Reflective dog harness FAQ
How do I find the right size harness for my dog?
A. To find the perfect size harness, you need to measure your dog in several places, such as the neck and chest. Most harnesses will have a sizing chart that includes which measurements you need to take and which size to order based on those measurements. The easiest way to take these measurements is with a fabric tape measure.
How do I clean a reflective dog harness?
A. Most reflective dog harnesses need to be hand washed, especially those that may use metal buckles instead of plastic ones. This is as simple as scrubbing them in a sink full of hot soapy water and letting them air dry, though you should manually dry metal parts if it has them to avoid rusting.
Some dog harnesses are machine-washable. Always double-check whether yours is before tossing it in, or you could ruin the harness and damage your washing machine.
What’s the best reflective dog harness to buy?
Top reflective dog harness
What you need to know: This harness is packed with features and comes at a great price.
What you’ll love: Reflective strips are laced throughout the harness, so there aren’t any dead spots, and it has D-rings on both the chest and back. Four adjustment points and quick-release buckles make it easy to put on and take off. It comes in four sizes and 14 colors.
What you should consider: Some consumers struggled to adjust the fit with the buckles. Others found the handle on the back to be too small to grip well.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top reflective dog harness for the money
Expawlorer No-Pull Dog Harness With 16-Foot Retractable Dog Leash
What you need to know: This combo pack is the perfect way to get everything you need for walking your new dog.
What you’ll love: The reflective lines cross over the front and back. There are D-rings on the chest and back and a large handle on the back. Four sliding adjusters and two quick-release buckles make it easy to get the fit just right and put on and take off.
What you should consider: A few customers noted that some of the threads can catch the hair of some dogs. Others found the sizing chart to be slightly inaccurate.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is another good harness, though it does cost a little more.
What you’ll love: The reflective lines are well-placed around the straps. It has several points of adjustment and buckles. There’s a D-ring on the front and back and a small handle on the back. It comes in five sizes and 11 colors.
What you should consider: A few reviewers said the harness lasted about six months to a year. Some with small dogs found the sizing and fit to be poor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Anderson County assessor wins statewide honor
John K. Alley Jr., Anderson County property assessor, was named Assessor of the Year for 2022 by the Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers (TNAAO).
Alley was recognized for “professionalism, service and leadership,” TNAAO president Erinne Hester said in a news release.
“Johnny Alley being recognized as the Assessor of the Year is a testament to the positive difference he is making for the people of Anderson County,” said TNAAO Executive Director Will Denami. "Johnny was previously recognized as the East Tennessee Assessor of the Year 2019 and the Leadership Award in 2021 and I expect Johnny will continue to be honored for the contributions he makes to the profession and the example he sets as a public servant.”
“I am fortunate to work for the people of Anderson County; it truly is an honor to serve as the Assessor of Property,” Alley said. “We have an outstanding team in the Assessor’s office and we have strong support from our Commission and all the offices we work with. We strive to treat everyone fairly and make sure we put the citizens of Anderson County first.” | https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/local/2023/02/21/anderson-county-tennessee-assessor-wins-statewide-honor/69893595007/ | 2023-02-21 16:27:17 | 0 | https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/local/2023/02/21/anderson-county-tennessee-assessor-wins-statewide-honor/69893595007/ |
LONDON, ON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - VersaBank ("VersaBank" or the "Bank") (TSX: VBNK) (NASDAQ: VBNK) will release its third quarter 2022 financial results and host an earnings conference call on Wednesday, August 31, 2022.
Financial results are expected to be released at approximately 7:00 a.m. (EDT). The conference call is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. (EDT) and is expected to last approximately 60 minutes. The call and webcast will feature a presentation by David Taylor, President & CEO, and other VersaBank executives, on the Bank's third quarter financial results, followed by a question and answer period.
The presentation material referenced during the call will be available on the Bank's website (www.versabank.com), SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/edgar). The audio conference line will be available at: 416-764-8659 or 1-888-664-6392 (toll free).
Webcast Access: For those preferring to listen to the conference call via the Internet, a webcast of Mr. Taylor's presentation will be available at: https://app.webinar.net/aZgOrVWj5yv or on the Bank's web site.
The archived webcast presentation will be available for 90 days following the live event at https://app.webinar.net/aZgOrVWj5yv and on the Bank's web site. Replay of the teleconference will be available until September 30, 2022 by calling 416-764-8677 or 1-888-390-0541 (toll free), passcode: 092643#
VersaBank is a Canadian Schedule I chartered bank with a difference. VersaBank became the world's first fully digital financial institution when it adopted its highly efficient business-to-business model using its proprietary state-of-the-art financial technology to profitably address underserved segments of the Canadian banking market in the pursuit of superior net interest margins while mitigating risk. VersaBank obtains all of its deposits and provides the majority of its loans and leases electronically, with innovative deposit and lending solutions for financial intermediaries that allow them to excel in their core businesses. In addition, leveraging its internally developed IT security software and capabilities, VersaBank established wholly owned, Washington, DC-based subsidiary, DRT Cyber Inc. to pursue significant large-market opportunities in cyber security and develop innovative solutions to address the rapidly growing volume of cyber threats challenging financial institutions, multi-national corporations and government entities on a daily basis.
VersaBank's Common Shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") and Nasdaq under the symbol VBNK. Its Series 1 Preferred Shares trade on the TSX under the symbol VBNK.PR.A.
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ATLANTA, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicat announced the general availability of Medicat One Counseling in San Diego today at ACHA 2022. Medicat is a sponsor of the annual conference for advancing the health of college students and campus communities.
Medicat One Counseling is the latest product in Medicat's suite of software solutions built on the industry-leading software platform, Medicat One. After a successful beta launch and early customer adoption, the all-new counseling software solution is feature rich and ready for market.
Designed for counselors by counselors, the advanced technology, optimized features, and intuitive design of Medicat One Counseling supports and streamlines the entire clinic workflow empowering counselors to better care for student wellbeing and success. The fully integrated, cloud-based platform and client portal support comprehensive care and success while protecting counseling documentation with restricted permissions.
Innovative features include:
- Advanced calendar & waitlists
- Optimized documentation & note review
- Supervision-Training Environment
- World-class Business Intelligence Reporting
- Role-based Dashboards
- Case & Risk Management
- Outreach Event Management
- Integrated Client Portal & Self-scheduling/Check-in
"Medicat's commitment to providing a world-class counseling solution, combined with extensive field research and the active collaboration with our Product Advisory Council, has empowered our developers to create a solution that is truly designed for counselors by counselors," said Isabella Vickers, Licensed Professional Counselor and Director of Marketing & Product Requirements for Medicat. "The advanced features and intuitive design show a deep understanding of counselors' needs and clinical and operational workflows."
Medicat One Counseling, the latest release on the Medicat One platform, is being implemented at college and university counseling centers across the country. Previously released modules include Immunization Compliance Management and Business Intelligence Reporting powered by Tableau®, which have already been adopted by hundreds of customers. By constantly investing in product development and security, Medicat continues to provide innovative solutions that are highly secure, scalable, and easy to use.
"The release of this product is a major milestone for counseling clinics," said Daryl Rolley, CEO. "Only Medicat One Counseling delivers the advanced features and functionality counselors need with Business Intelligence Reporting powered by Tableau®, to put crucial, actionable insights right at counselors' fingertips for better clinical and operational decisions."
To learn more and schedule a demo, visit www.medicat.com/counseling
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Medicat is the leading provider of college health EHR and delivers the latest cloud- based Counseling and fully integrated Client Portal technology and intuitive design for an incomparable user experience. Medicat's hosted solution sets the industry standard – 99.99% Service Level Guarantee. Specializing in workflow efficiency and seamless transition from other EHRs or paper- based systems, Medicat brings the benefits of going digital to every campus.
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HOUSTON, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today it has been awarded a significant contract worth up to $1.9 billion for the continued support of NASA's human spaceflight programs, including the International Space Station, Artemis and Low Earth Orbit Commercialization.
Under the terms of Integrated Mission Operations Contract III (IMOC III), KBR will provide mission planning and preparation, astronaut and Mission Control Center flight controller training, real-time flight execution, and future exploration vehicle design and development services for all of NASA's human spaceflight programs as a part of NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)'s Flight Operations Directorate. Additionally, KBR will aid software development services for the International Space Station Program Avionics and Software Office.
Work will be performed at various agency locations including JSC, Marshall Space Flight Center and Kennedy Space Center. This contract has a base period of five years with two, two-year options, potentially lasting 9 years.
The full suite of programs supported under this contract includes the International Space Station, Commercial Crew, Boeing Starliner, Orion, Space Launch System, Gateway, Human Lander System, Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility (lunar spacewalks), and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Commercialization. This contract is a follow-on to IMOC II, which KBR has proudly supported for the past nine years.
"Having trained every astronaut, international partner and private astronaut how to live and work on every NASA human spaceflight vehicle in use today, KBR's expertise in human spaceflight is unparalleled," said Stuart Bradie, KBR President and CEO. "KBR does work that matters and we could not be more privileged to continue our support of returning humans to the moon and advancing the next generation of space exploration."
KBR delivers unmatched domain expertise in human spaceflight spanning more than 55 years. To learn more about KBR's journey, visit KBR.com/space.
About KBR
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 32,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 33 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver. Visit www.kbr.com.
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A woman accused of waving a pitchfork and black whip in front of a Publix store was arrested Tuesday in Lake County, according to an arrest affidavit.
The Publix manager told deputies that Lisa Anne Slone, 56, was trying to sell teddy bears behind the store in Minneola earlier that day, the Florida Highway Patrol report said.
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The manager told troopers Slone used the pitchfork to stab a mini van, the report said. The manager also said the owner of the vehicle did not want police involvement and would fix the damage on their own, according to FHP.
Troopers ordered Slone to stop, but she refused to put the weapon down and walked away, according to the arrest affidavit. The report said Slone unbuckled her seatbelt after being placed in a patrol car and began kicking at the window.
According to FHP, Slone appeared to be highly intoxicated on a stimulant drug but did not have an odor of alcohol. After being asked about her cut marks and bruises, Slone said she “felt no pain anymore and that God was in control,” the report said.
Slone is being held in the Orange Lake County Jail, and she is being charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with a $5,000 bond.
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Evolve's mom-centric brand embraces emerging internet trends and helps moms connect with their children and teens through the media they consume.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Evolve Media LLC, a passion-based publisher of some of the most influential internet brands since 1996, has announced the debut of the all-new Momtastic.
The Momtastic relaunch includes the introduction of an all-new Managing Editor, a refreshed look, a powerful new CMS, and a revitalized content category lineup that better reflects the daily lives of today's trendy mothers.
The new Momtastic helps moms and families navigate today's constantly changing media landscape – from what kids are watching or playing to helping moms save money while shopping online. Momtastic also tackles tough topics trending across social media, internet safety, and much more.
Developed by new Managing Editor Jessica Lieb, Momtastic-exclusive Parent Guides provide moms (and dads) with an abbreviated review of popular entertainment content and video games, allowing parents to better understand what their children and teens are most interested in.
"The new focus of Momtastic is to help parents navigate the growing number of media and entertainment options available to their children," said Jessica Lieb, Managing Editor for Momtastic. "Momtastic now provides parents with the tools they need to make educated decisions about social media, apps, movies, streaming, video games, and parenting in a digital world.."
"The Momtastic relaunch and refined category shift were designed for strategic alignment with other premium entertainment-focused Evolve Media publishing brands, ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and GameRevolution," explained Anthony Severino, VP of Content & Operations at Evolve Media LLC.
Each Evolve Media brand has recently been relaunched as part of an ongoing partnership with the leading web engineering firm, XWP. Evolve Media-owned and operated websites will feature an updated CMS for ultra-fast content delivery and an enhanced front-end designed for user-friendliness.
"Evolve Media is building significant momentum with each new website relaunch and product update," Todd Jacobs, Director of Content & Operations at Evolve Media, LLC added. "Initial performance increases and feedback from our audience and content teams have been overwhelmingly positive."
For more information, please visit Momtastic.com.
Evolve Media LLC is a passion-based publisher established in 1996. As a pioneer in web publishing, Evolve Media-owned and operated websites represent the largest and longest-standing communities in the world. Beyond publishing, Evolve Media LLC's partnership services have led to award-winning experiences built for globally recognized brands.
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BETHESDA, Md., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it is combining its fund management, proprietary capital, high yield, and seniors bridge lending groups into the Investment Management & Proprietary Capital Group, which will be led by Mitchell Resnick. As part of his new role, Mr. Resnick will also serve as president of Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners, Inc. (WDIP), Walker & Dunlop's wholly-owned alternative investment manager.
In today's macroeconomic landscape, alternative capital sources are more important to sponsors than ever before. By combining these groups, Walker & Dunlop will more effectively navigate its clients through evolving market dynamics as well as provide a broad and diversified suite of equity and debt products for all property types. Last year, the combined groups invested nearly $200 million in equity and originated $3.3 billion in debt across the commercial real estate market and we expect the realized synergies of these business lines to fuel future platform growth.
"Mitch's established relationships and commercial real estate experience will be an invaluable addition to the proprietary capital, high yield, seniors bridge, and WDIP teams," commented Sheri Thompson, Executive Vice President of Affordable Housing, Investment Management & Proprietary Capital. "As we continue to pursue our mission of matching the diverse investment needs of our investors with the capital needs of commercial real estate owners, we are thrilled to have Mitch, an industry veteran and tenured Walker & Dunlop employee, bolster collaboration and cross-selling throughout our platform."
"Commercial real estate remains a consistent and stable source of value in the capital markets, and I am excited to elevate Walker & Dunlop's product offerings as we continue to build one of the most versatile, skilled, and diversified financial services companies," Mr. Resnick said. "Walker & Dunlop has established itself as a truly unique force in the market, thanks to our talented team of investment professionals, our unparalleled brand and our ongoing development of innovative technology."
Mr. Resnick joined Walker & Dunlop in 2016, bringing over 25 years of commercial real estate experience with him. Prior to his new role, he served as Treasurer of the firm. Before joining Walker & Dunlop, Mr. Resnick led Freddie Mac's Multifamily Capital Markets department where he oversaw the growth of Freddie's lending and securitization programs and he also spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs on the Mortgage Trading Desk.
Walker & Dunlop and its affiliates currently hold over $15 billion in assets under management, far surpassing the company's Drive to '25 goal of reaching $10 billion in assets under management by 2025.[i] To learn more about Walker & Dunlop's long-term strategic plans, read our Drive to '25 press release.
About Walker & Dunlop
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. The power of our people, premier brand, and industry-leading technology makes us more insightful and valuable to our clients, providing an unmatched experience every step of the way. With over 1,300 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities.
About Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners
Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners is an alternative investment manager that provides capital solutions to middle-market commercial real estate sponsors. Investing on behalf of insurance companies, public pension funds, endowments, foundations, family offices, and high-net worth individuals, WDIP partners with sponsors whose transactions are in need of financing but are under-served by institutional capital. The Denver, Colorado-based firm has $1.2 billion assets under management through investment vehicles focused on opportunistic, value-add, and income-oriented commercial real estate strategies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Walker & Dunlop, one of the largest commercial real estate finance companies in the United States, WDIP has unmatched access to proprietary resources and market intelligence. This partnership offers clients unique, real-time insights into market movements, valuation, pricing, and underwriting. For more information, visit www.wdinvestmentpartners.com.
All investments have risk of loss and WDIP cannot guarantee any investment strategy will achieve its goals and objectives. Nothing herein is an offer to sell any security, including an interest in any private fund.
iAssets under management includes both WDIP regulatory assets under management and Walker & Dunlop non-advisory managed assets.
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Europe's leading embedded Linux company is reinventing IoT and will take reporters on a booth crawl to see firsthand how its innovative platform is reducing companies costs for the long term
LONDON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Foundries.io, the leader in cloud native development and deployment solutions for secure IoT and Edge devices, today announced it will be featured in a variety of live demonstrations throughout the Embedded World event and will showcase its use in a fleet of IoT devices - including the German-designed unu Scooter and the Tailos Robot Cleaner - in its own booth EW, 4-139. Foundries.io technical experts will also be leading sessions and panels detailing cloud native solutions for embedded development and the reinvention of IoT.
The parallel rise of cloud native computing and the explosion of IoT devices and Edge technologies is creating the perfect storm for innovative disruption in embedded development. As the only company bringing continuous delivery and other DevSecOps practices to embedded, Foundries.io is driving this transformation and will be on display throughout the Embedded World event. Foundries.io is Europe's leading embedded Linux company bringing the right product to OEMs at the right time.
Reporters are invited to join Foundries.io co-founders CEO George Grey and Chairman Ian Drew for an exclusive booth crawl to see firsthand and get insights about how FoundriesFactory® is being used by its partners to simplify and reduce the cost of developing, deploying and maintaining secure IoT and Edge devices. The founders will also be briefing press about a Fortune Global 500 customer who is shipping products built with FoundriesFactory and who has several other products in development using FoundriesFactory at different locations worldwide.
The crawl will begin at 9 am local time on Wednesday June 22, 2022 at the Foundries.io booth EW, 4-139 and will include stops at the ADLINK, WINSYSTEMS, Arm and ST Micro booths.
"This year's Embedded World marks an inflection point for embedded development of IoT and Edge devices," said George Grey, CEO at Foundries.io. "FoundriesFactory is being adopted by global device manufacturers and supply chain partners, and is leading the integration of cloud native development practices into embedded development to accelerate product development, increase security, and dramatically reduce lifetime software costs. This signals a new era for embedded software."
Designed in Germany, the unu Scooter is a road-going, two-passenger, battery powered e-scooter. FoundriesFactory is used to deploy a secure, customizable Linux-based software platform with fleet management services in the scooters, giving unu the ability to securely update, manage and maintain their scooters with new functionalities via over-the-air (OTA) updates.
"Foundries.io changes the game for us," said Pascal Blum, Co-Founder and CEO of unu. "By using FoundriesFactory to test and deploy our scooters, we know we'll be able to automatically deliver new functionality and safety to our customers in real-time over the entire product lifecycle."
The Tailos (pka Maidbot) Robot Cleaner revolutionizes the commercial cleaning industry by leaving dull, dirty and dangerous tasks to autonomous solutions, allowing humans to focus on more meaningful and enjoyable work. Tailos is using FoundriesFactory to deploy a secure, customizable Linux-based software platform with fleet management services in its robot cleaners, giving the company fine control over the lifecycle of OTA updates updates and the ability to optimize build to deployment pipelines with integrated CI/CD for both the software platform (Linux microPlatform) and its own applications.
"Foundries.io is an integral part of our product and really represents the enabler for IoT and Edge innovation," said Micah Greene, CEO, Tailos.
Foundries.io will also be demonstrating management of a fleet of IoT devices in its Booth EW, 4-139, consisting of a variety of System on Module (SoM) and development boards that include several Arduino Pro Portenta X8 SoMs, a WINSYSTEMS C444 single board computer (SBC), an Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) and a Xilinx Kria development board.
Partners FeaturingFoundries Factory Demonstrations
- ADLINK, Booth 5-235
Demonstrating FoundriesFactory running on the i-Pi Smarc development kit - Arm, Booth 4-140
Demonstrating several Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) boards that are System Ready certified and Cassini compliant, all enabled with FoundriesFactory - STMicroelectronics, Booth 4A-148
Demonstrating FoundriesFactory running on the STM32 platforms - Texas Instruments, Booth 3A-215
Offering FoundriesFactory running on the Am62xx development kit - WINSYSTEMS, Booth 2-350
Demonstrating FoundriesFactory running on the ITX-P-C444 single board computer (SBC)
Join Foundries.io Experts to Learn About Advancements in Cloud Native Embedded Development
- Migrating to Cloud Native Solutions for Embedded Software Development & Deployment
Speaker: George Grey, CEO, Foundries.io
Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 16:00 -16:30 CEST
Track 1.3: IoT Edge Computing 2 - Panel, Hosted by Embedded Computing Design: How Arduino, Foundries.io, Arm & NXP Are simplifying embedded Linux development
Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST in the exhibit hall, stand 1-121
Speakers:
Tyler Baker , CTO, Foundries.io
Justin Mortimer, marketing director, edge processing, NXP
John Thompson, director of software product management, Arm
Dario Pennisi, head of hardware development, Arduino
- Challenges and Solutions When Using Containers in Embedded Systems
Thursday, June 23 2022, 11:30 - 12:00 CEST
Track 3.4: Embedded OS and Containers
Speaker: Raul Muñoz, community software engineer, Foundries.io
For more information about Foundries.io at Embedded World, please visit: https://foundries.io/insights/events/embedded-world-2022
Foundries.io helps organizations bring IoT and Edge devices to market faster. The FoundriesFactory subscription service reinvents IoT by delivering a secure, customizable, Linux platform with fleet management services for the world's connected devices. Now, product teams gain enhanced data security while reducing the cost of developing, testing, deploying and maintaining devices across their installed lifetime. Our open-source Linux microPlatform interfaces to any cloud and supports market leading microprocessors, SBCs and SoMs, enabling developers to focus on their applications, and not have to worry about the firmware platform and operating system. For more information, visit https://foundries.io/
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(NEXSTAR) – After technical issues, delays and much anticipation over the largest-ever Powerball jackpot, lottery officials announced Tuesday that one person matched all the winning numbers to take home the $2.04 billion grand prize.
If the winner opts for the cash payout, they’ll get an estimated $997.6 million lump sum.
The lottery announced the winning ticket — which matched all five numbers plus the Powerball — was sold in California. The ticket was sold at a gas station in Altadena, an unincorporated part of Los Angeles County, according to the California Lottery.
Another winning ticket in Florida has earned a $2 million cash prize for matching five numbers, plus selecting Power Play.
Twenty-two other tickets in 16 states have won $1 million. Those winners are found in California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Washington, according to Powerball’s official site.
Only four previous jackpots have topped $1 billion, but none of those are close to the current prize, which started at $20 million back on Aug. 6 and over three winless months has grown ever more massive.
Those who spend $2 on a Powerball ticket might wonder if something is wrong when dozens of drawings pass without a jackpot winner, but this is how the game is designed. With odds of 1 in 292 million, that means it’s unlikely anyone will win the prize until a growing jackpot attracts more players. And more ticket sales mean the lottery can raise more money for public programs, which is the point of the state lotteries.
But even if you didn’t win big this time around, there are eight other ways in which you can win with a Powerball ticket.
If any of your numbers match, hang onto your ticket and sign it. If you were to lose your unsigned winning ticket and another person finds it, they can claim it. Where you can claim your prize and the length of time you have to collect it will vary by jurisdiction.
Powerball is one of the most popular lottery games in the U.S. and is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game has been played since 1992.
The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. ET, but the grand prize is back down to an estimated $20 million.
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"All students deserve the resources needed to learn and succeed. As part of Burlington's renewed community giving approach, we are committed to adding value by empowering local students nationwide to have access to classroom materials, no matter their socio-economic status, enabling them to live a better life and build a better future," said Michael O'Sullivan, CEO of Burlington Stores. "Burlington is proud to continue working with AdoptAClassroom.org, to support students in high-need classrooms across the country. Together with our generous customers and associates, we look forward to raising funds so that even more students are able to reach their full potential this school year and beyond."
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To find a store near you to donate, visit Burlington.com. For more information about AdoptAClassroom.org, including the organization's 2023 Teacher Spending Survey, visit AdoptAClassroom.org.
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Interest in exploring Alaska and vacation plans for 2024 help boost cruise sales
SEATTLE, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In an early sign of a successful Wave season, Holland America Line bookings in the third week of January were the highest on record for any January week for the premium cruise line. The week ending January 20 also exceeded bookings during the same week in 2019 by more than 20%.
The rise was especially notable for summer cruises and Cruisetours to Alaska, where Holland America Line offers more cruises to Glacier Bay than any other line and is the only cruise line with owned land operations in both Denali and Yukon. For the week ending Jan. 20, Alaska bookings were 25% higher than in the strongest week in January 2019.
On Jan. 17 alone, Holland America Line reached its highest single-day bookings for any January day on record. Guests are also booking cruises further into the future. More than 25% of the bookings for the high-volume day on Jan. 17 were for voyages embarking in 2024.
"Seeing this level of booking is a great sign for Holland America Line and for the industry," said Gus Antorcha, president, Holland America Line. "Travelers are clearly excited to get back to cruising and they appreciate the service and experiences unique to Holland America Line including our Alaska Up Close onboard programming. It's especially encouraging that so many guests are already looking ahead to 2024 and planning their next vacation."
Holland America Line's "Time of Your Life" Wave offer runs through Feb. 28, 2023, with limited-time kickers such as $1 deposits added throughout. "Time of Your Life" is available on select summer 2023 to spring 2024 cruises and includes a free stateroom upgrade, fare discounts, free fares for kids and reduced deposits — plus tours, beverages, specialty dining and Wi-Fi with the "Have It All" premium package.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) complaint seeking to block the company's proposed acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics plc:
"Amgen is disappointed by the FTC's decision and remains committed to completing this acquisition, which will bring significant benefits to patients suffering from very serious rare diseases in the U.S. and around the world.
We have been working cooperatively over the past several months to address the questions raised by the FTC's investigative staff and believe we have overwhelmingly demonstrated that this combination poses no legitimate competitive issues.
The medicines offered by Amgen and Horizon generally treat different diseases and patient populations, and there are no overlaps of competitive concern. The FTC's claim that Amgen might "bundle" these medicines (offer a multi-product discount) at some point in the future is entirely speculative and does not reflect the real world competitive dynamics behind providing rare-disease medicines to patients. And we committed that we would not bundle the Horizon products raised as issues; however, the Commission still decided to pursue this path. Furthermore, we are unaware of any prior acquisition that has been blocked under a bundling theory.
We firmly believe in the benefits of this acquisition and intend to work with the court on a schedule that would allow the transaction to close by mid-December."
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2022, Amgen was named one of the "World's Best Employers" by Forbes and one of "America's 100 Most Sustainable Companies" by Barron's.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)–U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine say help is on the way for parents struggling with baby formula shortages.
It comes as mothers like Jenny Galvez are continuing to encounter empty shelves and product limits at several major retailers.
“She is very stressed because her baby needs the milk so she is driving from one place to another trying to get that formula,” Galvez said through a translator.
Galvez stopped by a baby drive hosted by Waymakers Foundation in Chesterfield on Wednesday.
Natalie Ramos-Almendarez, the organization’s public relations coordinator, said the shortage has slowed down donations significantly with many low-income families still depending on their support.
“If we don’t find more resources to get more formula to these mothers, what’re they going to do? A lot of them are using expired or used formulas because that’s their only option,” Ramos-Almendarez said.
Warner and Kaine unpacked what steps are being taken by the federal government in press conferences on Wednesday.
In a May 13 letter to major manufacturers, Warner and Kaine joined other lawmakers in calling for an urgent increase in production.
The letter said accessing formulas has become increasingly difficult over the past several months. It said, in several states, more than half of their infant formula supply was sold out by the last week of April.
Asked if the White House and Congress should’ve acted sooner, Kaine said, “In retrospect it’s easy to say that. I only became aware of the shortage within the last month.”
“I think the White House is moving aggressively now. There has been reluctance for a long time, particularly from some of my Republican colleagues, to kind of mess with market mechanisms but this case right now is an example where traditional market mechanisms that maintain a full supply chain are breaking down and you do need this level of government intervention.”
After the press conferences on Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced he would invoke the Defense Production Act to address the baby formula shortage. The law gives Biden the power to compel private companies to produce goods and prioritize government requests.
Asked about that option, Kaine said, “I think the Biden administration is working with producers to get them to produce more but, if they are unwilling to do that, I do think the Defense Production Act should of course be on the table as a tool for the short term. This is not something that you need to use forever.”
Warner wasn’t so sure. He said he would need to do more research.
“My understanding is…it’s really not the most useful tool,” Warner said.
The Biden Administration also recently announced that they’re going to allow the importation of baby formula from other countries and ease other regulations to reduce supply chain issues. Warner said, big picture, this is just the latest example of why the United States needs to establish more reliable pathways for essential items.
Meanwhile, Abbott Nutrition, one of the largest formula manufacturers in the country, is preparing to reopen after reaching an agreement with the federal government. They shut down in February due to safety concerns. The company said in a statement that it will be more than two months before customers will see products from the plant return to store shelves.
Warner said more resources are needed to prevent a repeat of what he called a crisis.
“We only have seven formula inspectors at the FDA. That’s a little bit crazy if we are going to try to make sure we get more production back online in a way that is safe,” Warner said.
Governor Glenn Youngkin issued a statement on Biden’s announcement Wednesday evening through a spokesperson.
“Invoking the Defense Production Act in this way has the potential to speed production and get formula to mothers faster but let’s not forget the Biden administration’s FDA decision to shut down manufacturing without a viable backup plan caused this widespread chaos for parents across the country. In the meantime, the VDH is closely monitoring the supply of formula and answering any questions from parents about alternatives. Getting inventory in Virginia back to normal levels is a priority for the Governor and his team.”
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NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Enovix Corporation (NASDAQ: ENVX) between February 22, 2021 and January 3, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Enovix securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Enovix class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10931 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 7, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants overstated Enovix's ability to produce batteries at scale, touting the Company's "meaningful progress" in scaling up its manufacturing facility, and its being positioned to deliver batteries ahead of competitions, despite its continued manufacturing issues.
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In January 2019, Sarah Risser was in the passenger seat as her son, Henry Zietlow, drove them from Minnesota to Michigan for a ski trip. They were on a Wisconsin highway when an oncoming pickup towing too much weight veered into their lane.
Sarah survived the collision. Henry did not. He was 18 years old.
It's a horrific story, but Risser knows it's also a common one. Traffic fatalities have been on the rise the past 16 years. In 2021, nearly 43,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. — a 10.5% increase from 2020.
Yet in some parts of the country, efforts born from both tragedy and political will have seen the numbers move in a different direction. And in Hoboken, N.J., there hasn't been a single traffic death in four years.
Simple measures
Hoboken is a city of about 60,000 people that sits within eyesight of Manhattan just across the Hudson River. Its achievement in stopping deaths on the road comes down to simple measures, according to city officials.
Hoboken director of transportation and parking, Ryan Sharp, said the city had deployed a number of initiatives to make certain intersections and roads safer — things he called quick implementation, high impact solutions.
"Things like trying to improve sightlines at corners by doing what we call daylighting," he said. "So that can be installing something as simple as what we call a vertical delineator post or a flexible bollard. These posts get installed within 25 feet of crosswalks, and they physically restrict cars from parking right up against a crosswalk."
These daylighting solutions eliminate blind spots for cars at intersections so they can see any cyclists, pedestrians, or other cars as they approach and drive through or turn.
"One thing that you won't see is something called a leading pedestrian interval," Sharp said. "And basically, what that means is we've programmed our traffic signals to give pedestrians a few-second head start when they get into the crosswalk during their pedestrian phase without having to worry about turning vehicles."
That allows for crossing pedestrians to take up space in the crosswalk before any eager drivers try to make a turn.
But while the practical solutions may be simple, the implementation can be much more complicated. Hoboken has several factors working in its favor that allow things like daylighting and a leading pedestrian interval to be effective.
The 2020 census measured 60,419 people in the city's roughly two square miles, making it one of the most densely populated cities in the country. A denser city means higher walkability, people drive less, and speed limits are lower.
Political will also plays a part. A director of transportation and parking can aim to install daylighting solutions, but it won't happen unless the government is willing to allocate the funds.
Many leaders have publicly committed to a Vision Zero pledge, which is based on the Swedish concept of road safety aimed at eliminating all traffic fatalities. Leah Shahum is executive director and founder of the nonprofit Vision Zero Network and says every city in America, even Hoboken, could be doing better.
"We need to make sure elected people, elected folks understand Vision Zero is not a slogan," she said. "It's not a tagline. It's not even just a program, you know, it's not something you put on top of things. It is literally a paradigm shift in how we're doing business when it comes to transportation."
Managing accountability
For a city to be included in the Vision Zero Network, Shahum said there was specific criteria.
"The city has commitment from its top elected leader, like the mayor or city manager, to set a goal of zero traffic deaths or severe injuries by a date, for instance," she said. "We make them have a date, that they have a plan, that the plan has timelines, actions, deliverables, that there's an equity component within there for racial and income equity."
Following up on that plan on a large enough scale is something few cities do, she said. And how accountability towards Vision Zero is measured varies. Cities like Denver, New York City, and San Francisco have done report cards. Then there are local organizations like Livable Streets in Boston, Washington Area Bicyclist Association in Washington, D.C., and WalkDenver in Denver that advocate for safer streets in their own cities.
Shahum said it was these local, grassroots efforts that were doing the work to make change.
That's why Sarah Risser has been working with Families for Safe Streets in her home of Saint Paul, Minn. There isn't a local chapter in Minnesota, or any of the Midwest states, so she does most of her activism solo, including holding vigils for victims of collisions, and getting people to submit comments to the local government for a car assessment program.
It's hard work, and Risser said after the loss of her son, "I didn't really do anything for a few months, even the better part of the first year." But the grief and frustration of Henry's death eventually led her to Families for Safe Streets and a network of cross-country support and advocacy.
"I felt so strongly that I didn't want my son to have lost his life for nothing. And it really felt that, and it still does to this day. It kind of feels like he lost his life for nothing," she said. "And I'm hoping that we can start seeing smart progress and making smart gains. And then I feel that I have contributed to a healthier world and a safer world on behalf of my son."
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Sen. Joe Manchin spoke with veterans about a proposed overhaul to Veterans Affairs health care. Manchin and a group of bipartisan senators say it would drastically hurt the care veterans receive.
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Sen. Joe Manchin spoke with veterans about a proposed overhaul to Veterans Affairs health care. Manchin and a group of bipartisan senators say it would drastically hurt the care veterans receive.
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Meet Jacob Onken, the Republican candidate nominated to run in Iowa City's House District 89
Republican Jacob Onken will run against Democrat Elinor Levin for an open seat in the Iowa House of Representatives on Iowa City's south side.
Onken, 32, is an Iowa City resident who works at Collins Aerospace as a contracts manager. He got his bachelor's degree in political science from BYU in Idaho and his juris doctorate degree from the University of Iowa Law School. He grew up in Donahue, just outside of the Quad Cities, and spent two years in Mato Grosso, Brazil, on a missionary trip from 2009-11.
Onken said he had never planned on running for Iowa House but saw concerning trends in the country over the last few years with the economy and in schools. He said he also thinks the traditional structure of families is under attack.
"Obviously, I'm in Johnson County and I'm running as a conservative, so that is always a big challenge," Onken said.
According to the Johnson County Auditor's website, the last Republican elected to a state legislative seat primarily or entirely within Johnson County was Dale Hibbs, a former teacher at City High, who held House District 74 from 1978-80. A portion of Johnson County is represented by Republican state Rep. Bobby Kauffman, but the majority of that district lies in Cedar County and a small slice of Muscatine County.
Onken said he thinks there are plenty of Iowa City residents who agree with him but many feel apprehensive. He said that, while door-knocking in the district, people said they would not put up yard signs because they feared vandalism.
"That's the type of situation I don't want to exist anymore. I want there to be opportunities for both sides to be represented," Onken said. "I think I'm bringing that very important part of our republic to Iowa City, by being an option."
Levin is a private writing tutor and former English teacher who lives in Iowa City's South District. She won the Democratic primary in June for this seat against Tony Currin with 63% of the vote.
More:Photos of University of Iowa students returning for fall 2022 semester
No Republican ran in the primary, but Onken was nominated by a party convention. This method of getting on the ballot is allowed under state law after the primary election takes place and was used in two other races this year by both parties.
Onken said he had initially planned to run in the primary, but filed in the wrong House district. He said the county Republicans told him he could instead be nominated at a special convention, which took place July 7.
House District 89 encompasses southern Iowa City, all of University Heights and portions of East Lucas Township. The area was previously represented by longtime state Rep. Mary Mascher, who announced she was retiring at the end of her current term.
If elected, Onken will enter a Legislature that is expected to consider an array of bills in its next session, but two priorities for Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Republicans who will likely control both chambers could be passing restrictions on abortion and providing taxpayer-funded scholarships to help families send their children to private school or home-schooling.
Onken, who is considering home-schooling his own children, said he is in favor of "school choice" but isn't sure if he would support Reynolds' plan since he has not read through the bill. He thinks the state should have a role in funding a child's education even if they do not attend public school.
"The private schools need students too, and students are going to benefit from a private school in certain situations. There's no reason why state money shouldn't follow a student to the private sector as well," he said.
Onken said Roe vs. Wade being overturned was a "huge victory" for the country, calliing it a terrible U.S. Supreme Court decision from its inception. He said he believes life begins at conception and would support further restrictions on abortion, including an amendment to the Iowa Constitution saying there is no right to an abortion.
"I would also support bills that would prevent abortions even earlier than six weeks," he said.
More:Iowa's tradition of easy voting access challenged in recent years with restrictions
On his website, Onken expresses concern with schools "grooming" children multiple times and says teaching about sexuality, gender and LGBTQ topics should be limited, if not prevented entirely in public schools. This term is used by conservatives to accuse public schools of pedophilia for teaching about LGBTQ topics during sexual education courses.
Onken also wants Iowa to join in a Convention of States. There are 19 states formally calling for this already and 34 are needed.
"How the republic functions right now is not how it was designed to function in a lot of ways," he said.
Onken said his goal would be to see more limits placed on the federal judiciary, federal government agencies and the executive orders of the president. Some ideas he would like to see considered at a convention are term limits for Congress or even limiting the page limit of bills so that Congress isn't considering massive legislation that is too hard to understand.
Election Day is Nov. 8 and early voting starts Oct. 19. For more information on how to register to vote, request an absentee ballot and more, visit the Johnson County Auditor's website at https://www.johnsoncountyiowa.gov/november-8-2022-general-election.
George Shillcock is the Press-Citizen's local government and development reporter covering Iowa City and Johnson County. He can be reached at (515) 350-6307, GShillcock@press-citizen.com and on Twitter @ShillcockGeorge | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2022/08/24/republican-jacob-onken-democrat-elinor-levin-house-district-89-iowa-city-state-rep-election-2022/10327397002/ | 2022-08-25 01:32:16 | 1 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2022/08/24/republican-jacob-onken-democrat-elinor-levin-house-district-89-iowa-city-state-rep-election-2022/10327397002/ |
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Crews have begun to gain containment on the Oak Fire in Mariposa County that has forced more than 6,000 people to leave their homes.
Monday afternoon, officials reduced some evacuation orders to fire advisements. The areas will only be open to residents who live in the area.
Those areas are:
A fire advisement is not an evacuation order. It is to advise residents of the area of the possible need to evacuate.
As of Monday morning, the Oak Fire had scorched 17,241 acres with 16% containment, becoming the largest wildfire California has suffered so far this year.
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Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency for Mariposa County.
The Oak Fire was sparked just after 2 pm Friday near the community of Midpines between Mariposa and Yosemite National Park. By evening, it had reached the Sierra National Forest.
CAL FIRE says that 55 structures have been destroyed and 3,271 remain under threat from the wildfire. At least 21 of those structures destroyed were homes.
More than 2,000 fire personnel are fighting to control the flames from ground and from air, racing against time with the fire burning dangerously close to homes and buildings.
Governor Newsom has secured federal funding to keep resources moving in. Crews from across the state have already started to arrive.
Firefighting efforts are being hampered by hot weather with minimal humidity. The fire is also burning in an area with high tree mortality and dense fuels.
Video taken by an ABC30 crew shows huge, dark clouds of smoke rising from entire hillsides engulfed in flames.
This is the third wildfire in the county in two weeks.
Firefighters are still trying to fully contain the Washburn Fire.
RELATED: Track wildfires across Central California and the state with this interactive map
Officials said some CAL FIRE units battling the Washburn Fire were being diverted to fight the Oak Fire.
On Friday afternoon, the sheriff's office issued an evacuation order for the following areas:
You can find updates on the evacuations by clicking on this Mariposa County map.
The following roads have been closed to traffic:
Triangle Road from Hwy 140 to East Westfall Road and all side roads, Jerseydale Rd, Silva Road from Cole Road to Triangle Road, Darrah Road from Bootjack Lane to Triangle Rd, East Westfall Road from Triangle Road to Oliver Creek, Cole Rd, Carlton Road from Triangle to Silva Road, Allred Road from Hwy 140 to Morningstar, Morning Star from Carlton to Allred including all side roads, Ponderosa Way to Feliciana Mountain Rd Including Feliciana Mountain Rd, Carstens Road including all side roads, Brooks Road
An evacuation center has been set up by the Red Cross at Mariposa Elementary School. All the residents and responders who were at the New Life Christian Church have been relocated to the elementary school. Evacuees are being given safe shelter, water, meals and more resources.
Address of evacuation centers:
Animal evacuation centers:
Officials are urging anyone who needs information to call the Oak Fire information line: 844-MMU-FIRE (844-668-3473)
For the latest developments, photos and videos on the Oak Fire, click here. | https://abc30.com/mariposa-county-evacuation-orders-issued-oak-fire-washburn-agua/12073909/ | 2022-07-26 13:15:16 | 0 | https://abc30.com/mariposa-county-evacuation-orders-issued-oak-fire-washburn-agua/12073909/ |
Ken Starr, a former U.S. solicitor general who headed the Whitewater investigation into former President Clinton that ultimately led to his impeachment, died on Tuesday at the age of 76, his family announced.
Starr’s family said in a statement that he died at a hospital in Houston following complications from surgery. Starr’s wife said he had been in the hospital for the last 17 weeks fighting an undisclosed illness, The New York Times reported.
Starr has been a prominent figure in national politics and the legal field stretching back decades, serving as chief of staff to former Attorney General William Smith for roughly two years beginning in 1981 after a clerkship at the Supreme Court.
Former President Reagan nominated Starr in 1983 as a federal appeals judge for the D.C. Circuit, where he served until becoming the U.S. solicitor general in the first Bush administration.
Starr argued 36 cases before the Supreme Court, including 25 during his time as solicitor general, his family said.
He is best known for leading the Whitewater investigation during the Clinton presidency. The investigation began with a probe of the Clintons’ real estate investments but eventually expanded to include the former president’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The Starr Report, which he gave to Congress in September 1998, asserted that Clinton lied to the public and Congress about the relationship. Clinton was later impeached, though was ultimately acquitted in the Senate.
“We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving father and grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first,” Starr’s son, Randall Starr, said in the family’s statement.
“The love, energy, endearing sense of humor and fun-loving interest dad exhibited to each of us was truly special, and we cherish the many wonderful memories we were able to experience with him. He is now with his Lord and Savior,” he said.
Starr later served as the dean of Pepperdine University’s law school between 2004 and 2010 before becoming president of Baylor University, where he also served as chancellor beginning part way through his presidency.
After an external investigation found the school mishandled allegations of sexual assault involving its football team players, the school removed Starr as its president in May 2016. He soon after resigned as chancellor and chair of the school’s constitutional law department.
“Judge Starr was a dedicated public servant and ardent supporter of religious freedom that allows faith-based institutions such as Baylor to flourish,” Baylor University President Linda Livingstone said in a statement Tuesday.
Starr later found a welcoming home on Fox News as a contributor, making regular appearances on the cable giant.
In 2020, he joined former President Trump’s defense team during his first impeachment trial.
The House impeached Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in connection to accusations he withheld U.S. military aid to Ukraine to pressure President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The Senate later acquitted Trump on both charges.
Starr is survived by his wife Alice Starr, his three children and nine grandchildren, his family said.
This story was updated at 6:26 p.m. | https://www.kron4.com/news/ken-starr-investigator-behind-clinton-impeachment-dies-at-76/ | 2022-09-14 15:52:31 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/ken-starr-investigator-behind-clinton-impeachment-dies-at-76/ |
LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — At Tyler Malek’s ice cream parlors, one cook’s trash is another chef’s frosty treat.
The head ice cream maker at the Portland, Oregon-based Salt & Straw uses the whey leftover from yogurt makers in upstate New York to make his lemon curd flavor. For chocolate barley milk, he mixes in the remnants of rice and grains from beer brewing to give it a light and creamy taste.
“Instead of calling this food waste, we need to call it wasted food and start decreasing how much wasting we’re doing,” Malek said.
Malek’s ice cream chain is among those at the forefront of the upcycling movement, the process of creating high-quality products from leftover food. Malek’s shops from the Pacific Northwest to Miami now feature flavors like “Cacao Pulp & Chocolate Stracciatella Gelato,” which is made from leftover cacao pulp from chocolate production that otherwise would have gone to waste.
It’s a trend gaining ground as consumers spend more time reading packaging labels and menu ingredients to learn where their food comes from and how it affects the environment. More than 35 million tons (31 million metric tons) of food are wasted every year in the U.S. — about 40% of the country’s food production — costing the national economy more than $200 billion, according to the Upcycled Food Association.
Upcycled food is becoming increasingly common in cake mixes and veggie chips at natural grocery stores. Ingredients include fruits and vegetables from farms nationwide that are perfectly edible but often rejected by restaurants and grocery stores because of their shape or color, like white strawberries, wilted greens and ugly mushrooms.
The Upcycled Food Association, which will celebrate World Upcycling Day on Saturday, issues an official “Upcycling Certified” seal to qualifying products. These seals, which adorn the new Salt & Straw upcycled flavors, raise awareness with consumers that the company making the food used such ingredients.
The association initially certified about 30 products in 2021 and now has 450 carrying the label.
“A lot of the food that is uneaten or thrown away in our supply chain is actually due to archaic cosmetic standards or sort of perceptions that what we think is edible or quality food,” said Angie Crone, the association’s chief executive. “So this is a mark that you can see on the products wherever you go shopping, to be able to understand how that company is reducing food waste in their supply chain.”
The association’s seal also is featured on all products made by Renewal Mill, an Oakland-based company turning byproducts from plant-based milk into pantry stables like baking flour to reduce waste at the manufacturing level.
“Our first product is the pulp leftover from making soy milk. We turn that into a high fiber gluten-free flour called okara flour,” co-founder Caroline Cotto said. “And then we use that flour to make things like baking mixes and ready-to-eat cookies.”
The company’s okara flour is featured in Salt & Straw’s new “Salted Caramel & Okara Cupcakes” flavor.
The movement isn’t confined to recycled products found in a trendy ice cream store, farmers market or natural grocery. In San Francisco, a restaurant serving pizza and wine focuses on upcycled ingredients such as ugly mushrooms, misshapen peppers and discolored tomatoes, as well as offcuts of meat for menu stars like beef heart meatballs.
“I think so many people think about dumpster diving or using rotten ingredients, but we have this wildly overproductive food system that accounts for a ton of waste,” said Kayla Abe, co-owner of Shuggie’s Trash Pie. “Some people might not read that it’s a beef heart meatball and they just might see meatball. They order it and they’re like, that was the best meatball I’ve ever had in my life.” | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/the-us-has-tons-of-leftover-food-upcycling-seeks-to-turn-would-be-trash-into-ice-cream-and-pizza/ | 2023-06-24 02:55:14 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/the-us-has-tons-of-leftover-food-upcycling-seeks-to-turn-would-be-trash-into-ice-cream-and-pizza/ |
FAYETTEVILLE -- Every Democrat and Libertarian invited to a Washington County candidate forum attended Monday, but no Republicans did.
"I'll show up," Democratic nominee Josh Moody said, gesturing to the empty chairs beside him at the head table, while giving his qualifications to be Washington County judge. His opponent, county Quorum Court member Patrick Deakins, was one of the five Republican candidates in the five races featured in the League of Women Voters of Washington County forum. The event began at 5:30 p.m. at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Besides all five Democrats, the two Libertarians who are candidates in the featured races also participated.
Early voting begins Oct. 24. Election day is Nov. 8. Today is the last day to register to vote in time for this election.
Moody said he opposes the county sales tax increase proposed by the Quorum Court and put on the general election ballot. The proposal calls for a bond issue of up to $113.5 million for the jail expansion and another bond issue of up to $28.5 million for the juvenile courts expansion. The bonds would be paid for by a temporary 0.25% sales increase that will expire when the bonds are paid.
The Quorum Court paid for a study to find alternatives that would be more effective and cost less, then ignored those options for more than two years, Moody said. His opponent is the Quorum Court's Finance Committee chairman, Moody said. "He's had 26 months to do those things, and he's done nothing," Moody said.
Senate District 31 candidate Lisa Parks, a Democrat, said the Republican Party has become unresponsive to many of the state's needs since it gained a super-majority in both chambers of the Legislature. Republicans hold 27 seats in the 35-member Senate and 76 seats in the 100-member House. Parks' opponent is Rep. Clint Penzo, R-Tontitown.
There is no Democrat running in the Senate District 35 race. Libertarian nominee Doug Peterson of near Prairie Grove said he ran because whichever major party is in power, its legislators "do what the party wants them to do. They're not representing us in a way that makes me feel represented." Whichever party is in power writes rules, regulations and law to benefit themselves, their party and their donors, he said. Peterson's opponent is Tyler Dees of Siloam Springs.
The only race with two candidates to discuss their contest Monday was state House District 9. Libertarian candidate Steve Stilling and Diana Gonzales Worthen, a Democrat, participated. Republican DeAnna Hodges did not attend. All three candidates are from Springdale.
Both Stilling and Worthen said they hoped to reduce partisan tensions in the Legislature. Worthen said she is experienced in finding common ground and understanding because of her career in teaching and her years of helping the diverse groups in the district find common cause. Stilling said he was not going to take sides with either of the major parties against the other. "Talk to everybody like they were a human being," he suggested.
Paula Irwin of Springdale is running as a Democrat in House District 19 against Republican Steve Unger, also of Springdale. "The biggest problem is that the parties are not working together," she said of the Legislature. Arkansas teachers need a pay raise, she said. The raises being discussed by legislators now would still leave Arkansas behind Mississippi in teacher pay, she said.
The next league candidate forum is Oct. 19, also at the library at 5:30 p.m. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/oct/11/no-republican-candidates-attend-washington-county/ | 2022-10-11 10:26:06 | 1 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/oct/11/no-republican-candidates-attend-washington-county/ |
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Hospital employee dies after patient attack; death considered homicide, investigators say
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - A South Carolina healthcare employee has died after being struck in the groin, with his death ruled as a homicide.
WIS reports that 40-year-old Kevin Robinson, a Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital worker, died on May 31 after a patient suffering from mental and emotional issues attacked him.
The Sumter Police Department reported that Robinson was struck in the groin during the altercation. He was hospitalized after the incident but later died.
On Monday, investigators released the autopsy findings, saying the 40-year-old’s death was considered a homicide.
According to the Sumter County coroner’s office, Robinson’s death was related to physiological stress associated with a physical altercation.
Officials said the incident remains under investigation by the Sumter Police Department and the coroner’s office.
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Which Mattel toys are becoming movies?
“Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie as a version of the title role and Ryan Gosling as Ken, is set to be one of the biggest hits of the summer. It’s on track to make $60 to $80 million on its first weekend alone, and that’s directly up against Christopher Nolan’s next mega film, “Oppenheimer,” which is tracking at around $40 million. With success already all but guaranteed, it’s no surprise that Mattel is looking to turn as many of its other toys as possible into yet more hits.
Polly Pocket
These pocket-size dolls are set to be realized in much the same way as “Barbie.” It’s currently set to be written and directed by Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame, an indie darling creative like Greta Gerwig, co-writer and director of ‘Barbie.” Lily Collins of Netflix’s “Emily In Paris” is attached to star as Polly herself.
Uno
Sometimes the description of a film sounds like a fever dream, and Uno is one of those. At the moment, it’s set to be an action-heist comedy set in the Atlanta, Georgia, hip-hop scene, with rapper Lil’ Yachty being considered for the lead role. All of that is actually real.
Magic 8 Ball
A Magic 8 Ball film has been in development hell for decades, with takes on what a Magic 8 Ball film could be stretching from rom-coms to adventure flicks to horror. Now, it’s being developed as a horror-comedy with a script from “Cocaine Bear” scribe Jimmy Warden.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
One of Mattel’s most known toys, all the characters across the entire Masters of the Universe banner have already been used in a dizzying array of entertainment mediums. This includes many TV series, two films, several books, comics and magazines and even video games. Now a new live-action film is in development, the first since the Dolph-Lundgren-starring film from 1987.
Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots
Ever since this toy’s debut in the mid-’60s, it’s been the bane or joy of many a sibling, parent, child and friend. Unsurprisingly, it’s one of the more noteworthy adaptations in the works, with Vin Diesel of the Fast and Furious franchise attached to both star and produce. The last major update on the film has it following a father and son who bond with a war machine.
Other possibilities
According to a report by The New Yorker, Mattel has a staggering 45 films in some stage of development. Only 17 of those have been announced in some capacity, including the above. The other 12 are:
- American Girl has a long history of providing fun and education in equal measure. The latest update on the in-development live-action film has it being a cross between “Booksmart” and the Bill and Ted film series.
- A Barney movie has been in development since as early as 2019. Daniel Kaluuya, Oscar winner for “Judas and the Black Messiah,” is producing and starring in the film. It’s described as surrealistic.
- Big Jim isn’t one of the most-known toy lines since it peaked in popularity several decades ago. Nonetheless, a film centered on it is set to be directed by Dan Mazer, co-writer of both ‘Borat” films.
- Boglins, squishy hand puppets from the ’80s, are being considered for a Halloween-type movie. Mattel has said to think of it as “Gremlins,” but with a twist.
- A Chatty Cathy and Betsy Wetsy two-hander film has no known updates outside of being produced by Jason Bateman’s production company Aggregate Films. Bateman is most recently known for Netflix’s “Ozark.”
- Christmas Balloon isn’t based on any toy but a true story about a girl who tried to send Santa a Christmas list via balloon. It’s an attempt for Mattel’s film division to set a precedent for more films that aren’t based on its toys.
- Hot Wheels is still in the early stages. Not much is known about it except that J.J. Abram’s Bad Robot company is producing it as an “emotional, grounded and gritty” film.
- Major Matt Mason has Tom Hanks, two-time Oscar winner, attached to the title role. The same New Yorker article noted that the toy was the inspiration for Buzz Lightyear, a role Tom Hanks also played.
- Matchbox is another toy car flick in early development. If Hot Wheels doesn’t make it, maybe Matchbox will. Or vice versa.
- Thomas the Tank Engine has already appeared in many films and TV series, but now there’s a film in development that’s a mix of animation and live-action.
- View-Master is another film so early in development that only its planned existence is known.
- Wishbone, the beloved ’90s children’s program that followed a live-action dog acting as the lead from famous literary works, has a feature film reboot in development. Like “Christmas Balloon,” it’s an attempt by Mattel to not be boxed in with only films based on toys.
Best Mattel toys that match the upcoming movies
These tiny toys are perfect for keeping your kids entertained on the go. There are 15 sets, all of which come with enough toys to keep several kids happy.
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Uno Card Game in Collectible Storage Tin
Uno is an excellent card game for even the youngest kids, thanks to its simple rules and color-coded gameplay. There are countless versions of Uno on the market now, but this original version is still a favorite.
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If you’ve ever plucked flower petals to determine if someone loves you or flipped a coin to make a decision, you know how to use this toy. The box and design of this one is a throwback to its original release.
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Masters of the Universe Masterverse Revelation Savage He-Man Action Figures
This two-toy set comes with one of the many versions of He-Man, one with more of a Tarzan-type feel. It also includes a friend of He-Man, Orko.
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Mattel Games Classic Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots
Nothing about this version of the toy has changed since its debut, aside from perhaps the materials used. But, if you want something more modern, there are also “Jurassic World” and “Batman vs. Superman” versions.
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Bethlehem police have issued a warrant charging a chiropractor with producing child sex abuse material.
Philip O’Brien, 52, of Bethlehem Township, who runs the O’Brien Clinic, hadn’t been taken into custody as of Tuesday morning but his whereabouts are known and he is expected to be arrested soon, police said in a news release.
O’Brien is accused of producing pornographic material of a young girl whose identity is known to police, the release said. The investigation was conducted by city and Bethlehem Township police.
O’Brien is charged with two counts of sexual abuse of children, one count of unlawful contact with a minor and one count of corruption of minors.
Anyone with information about O’Brien can contact the city of Bethlehem tip line at 610-691-6660 or bethlehempolice@bethlehem-pa.gov. | https://www.mcall.com/2023/06/20/bethlehemdoctorcharged/ | 2023-06-20 16:15:11 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/2023/06/20/bethlehemdoctorcharged/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service employees made multiple miscalculations, used inaccurate models and underestimated how dry conditions were in the Southwest, causing a planned burn to reduce the threat of wildfires to explode into the largest blaze in New Mexico’s recorded history, the agency said Tuesday.
The agency quietly posted an 80-page review that details the planning missteps and the conditions on the ground as crews ignited the prescribed fire in early April. The report states officials who planned the operation underestimated the amount of timber and vegetation that was available to fuel the flames, the exceptional dry conditions and the rural villages and water supplies that would be threatened if things went awry.
Within hours of lighting a test fire on that April day, multiple spot fires were reported outside containment lines and there were not enough resources or water to rein them in.
“The devastating impact of this fire to the communities and livelihoods of those affected in New Mexico demanded this level of review to ensure we understand how this tragic event unfolded,” U.S. Forest Chief Randy Moore wrote. “I cannot overstate how heartbreaking these impacts are on communities and individuals.”
As of Tuesday, the blaze had charred more than 533 square miles (1,380 square kilometers), making it the largest fire to have burned this spring in the U.S. It comes during a particularly ferocious season in which fire danger in overgrown forests around the West has reached historic levels due to decades of drought and warmer weather brought on by climate change.
The number of acres burned so far this year is more than two and half times the national average for the past 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. So far, 31,000 wildfires have burned more than 5,000 square miles (12,950 square kilometers) in the United States.
Anger and frustration have been simmering among residents and elected officials in northern New Mexico, where several hundred homes have been destroyed and thousands of residents were displaced.
Many mountainsides have been reduced to ash and once towering ponderosa pine trees have been turned into charred toothpicks. Spots considered sacred by the ranching and farming families who have called the region home for generations have been wiped out.
U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández called the Forest Service review incredibly disturbing, pointing to the multiple errors in the calculations that went into planning for the prescribed burn.
“Forest Service failures destroyed many rich and proud New Mexico communities,” she said in a statement. “The rains may cause a second flood disaster. As the report notes, the Forest Service put numerous homes, communities, lives, historic sites, and watersheds at risk.”
The report stated that the crew believed they were within the approved limits for the planned burn and had a plan to construct a line where they could check the fire’s progress and cease ignitions if the parameters were exceeded.
But the fire was burning in much drier conditions than the crew understood, according to the Forest Service’s analysis of fuel and weather information.
“Persistent drought, limited snow and rain, fine fuel accumulation, and fuel loading from burn unit preparation all contributed to increasing the risk of escape,” the report stated.
A mix of spot weather forecasts and on-site observations were the only methods of weather collection used. The days preceding the ignition of the prescribed fire were described as a “weather roller coaster,” and the agency said more data should have been used to assess the conditions.
The report also said managers failed to accurately assess the complexity of the planned burn, providing a picture that indicated risks has been reduced when in fact that wasn’t the case.
President Joe Biden recently flew over the fire and stopped briefly in New Mexico to assure residents the federal government would take responsibility for its role in causing the blaze. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/miscalculations-errors-blamed-for-massive-new-mexico-blaze/ | 2022-06-21 19:24:34 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/miscalculations-errors-blamed-for-massive-new-mexico-blaze/ |
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Officers in Green Bay are investigating the death of a 2-year-old child and are describing the scene as ‘active.’
According to the Green Bay Police Department, the child was reportedly found unconscious and not breathing. First responders administered CPR before the child was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced deceased.
Officers say the child was found at a residence in the 600 block of South Irwin Avenue on the city’s east side around 3:30 p.m. on July 20.
The release notes that this is currently an active scene and that there is no known danger to the public.
No further details are being released at this time.
Anyone with information related to this case is asked to call Green Bay Police at (920) 448-3200 and reference case #23-239532. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (920) 432-STOP (7867). A tip can also be submitted online at www.432stop.com, or utilize the “P3 Tips” app. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/green-bay-police-investigating-the-death-of-2-year-old-on-citys-east-side/ | 2023-07-20 23:14:22 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/green-bay-police-investigating-the-death-of-2-year-old-on-citys-east-side/ |
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Austen Unbound is an improvisational play put on by Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle showing at the Center Theatre until Dec. 18. Based on the work of Jane Austen, every show is unique, with each being the first and last time that the specific play is performed. | https://www.knkx.org/tags/book-it-repertory-theatre | 2022-12-10 18:38:51 | 1 | https://www.knkx.org/tags/book-it-repertory-theatre |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials are urging voters to get election-related information from trusted sources and report possible voting rights or fraud concerns to officials.
Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and District of Idaho U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit in a news release late Friday said state and federal agencies are available leading up to and during Tuesday's general election.
Idaho's elections are run by 44 elected county clerks with oversight from Denney's office.
“It’s only logical, then, that Idahoans’ trusted source of information on elections should start in the same place — with their local clerk," Denney said in a statement. "The more we can keep the disinformation from spreading by checking details at the source, the better election we can run for Idaho.”
The secretary of state's website offers information about voting in Idaho, and officials also make available contact information for all the county clerks in the state.
“Voting is a fundamental right and one we should all take seriously,” Attorney General Wasden said. “A component of that is casting an informed ballot that’s based on legitimate information from trustworthy sources. I encourage all Idahoans to make this a priority before they go to the polls.”
U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit said he has multiple assistant U.S. attorneys across the state to address voting rights and election fraud concerns.
His office last week also reminded voters that the U.S. Department of Justice has a longstanding Election Day Program to deter voter intimidation at the polls, threats of violence directed at election officials and poll workers, and election fraud.
“The right to vote is the cornerstone of American democracy,” Hurwit said. “We all must ensure that those who are entitled to vote can exercise it if they choose, and that those who seek to corrupt elections are brought to justice.”
This year's general election will be followed by an audit of ballots chosen at random from precincts in eight counties.
The audit follows a new law to increase public confidence in election results by checking paper ballots. Republican Gov. Brad Little called for such audits at the start of the year as part of his “Leading Idaho” plan that includes enhancing election transparency.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump, made baseless claims and floated conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election in multiple states to undermine voter confidence in the outcome. That extended even to deeply conservative Idaho, where Trump easily won the state with nearly 64% of the vote.
The first audit under the new law was conducted after the May primary. Officials said it found only six variations from initial results of about 20,000 ballots. About a third of Idaho’s nearly 1 million registered voters cast ballots in the primary.
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Phase Two of the Genesis Collection Characters NFTs Mint Today Ready to Play Immediately
NEW ORLEANS, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Glimmering beckons all who dare! GRIPNR, a technology company bringing tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) to the blockchain, today announced the official launch of their on-chain play platform at play.gripnr.com and The Glimmering, a next-generation TTRPG experience designed to be played with NFT heroes that let players' character progress live on the blockchain.
"For anyone who loves playing RPG's, it's been GRIPNR's mission from day one to bring the magic, excitement and most importantly the community together to play a truly kick-ass game enhanced by the blockchain features," said Brent McCrossen, Co-Founder and CEO of GRIPNR. "The team creating the world of The Glimmering are some of the best in their respective industries, including game design, art, technology and storytelling and we're so excited for players to dive in."
In addition to The Glimmering's official start, today GRIPNR is minting phase two of their Genesis collection of characters all available to play on-chain now.
The Glimmering Experience:
Today, the first six adventures of The Glimmering are available for character levels 1-3. Players can login at play.gripnr.com and find games hosted by GRIPNR-certified Game Masters for a truly VIP introduction to this new world by using the GRIPNR website or mobile app. Rooted in a modified version of the 5th Edition ruleset, players already familiar with D&D can easily transition to The Glimmering without learning a new system.
The Glimmering takes place in a tiny corner in the far north of a world called Asuwa in the Moonstone Empire. It's a world that thrums with magic. Danger lurks everywhere in the world of Asuwa; but fame, glory and riches wait for those willing to take the risk.
"The look and feel of The Glimmering is what sets the stage for the full experience of the game and it was our top priority that the aesthetic was authentic, that the characters were exciting and the story transports players into a world of magic and mystery," said Lead Game Designer, Stephen Radney-MacFarland.
Using the Polygon blockchain, all games will be logged, and players can track character development, loot and campaign progress transparently. As players' characters level-up through gameplay, each character's artwork will morph visually over time based on in-game outcomes, allowing NFT holders to influence their own rarities. Digital collectibles allow players to resell characters, weapons, armor, treasure, and other items acquired through play or purchase.
Phase 2 of the Genesis Collection:
Along with the launch of on-chain play, GRIPNR released additional NFT Heroes in their Phase 2 mint all with hand-drawn attributes designed for not only aesthetics but also gameplay. Every unique hero has individualized attributes including class, ancestry, traits, and background, and members of The Glimmering community who mint the Genesis collection will receive benefits ranging from randomized gift drops, early access to all games on the GRIPNR protocol, and more. If they're not already sold out, players should rush to mint their Genesis heroes today at https://www.theglimmering.com/ for 250 MATIC.
The Glimmering's art direction is led by Justin Kamerer, also known as Angryblue. Justin has designed acclaimed album artwork and posters for rock artists including Metallica, Foo Fighters, Roger Waters, and Mastodon; and has pulled from his experiences to craft a vivid world unlike any other game. Players can expect a brand-new art style that blends familiar design motifs inspired by medieval fantasy settings from existing tabletop RPG games with a punk rock-inspired aesthetic.
GRIPNR has also partnered with Web3 luminary J1mmy.eth. In collaboration with GRIPNR's art team, J1mmy.eth will bring 5 Mutant Apes from his collection into the world of The Glimmering through an exclusive collection of badass mutant villains that will wreak havoc across the Moonstone Empire. Holders of The Glimmering's NFT Genesis Collection will have early access to mint the exclusive collection of Glimmering Mutant Apes coming this Spring.
About GRIPNR
GRIPNR is a Web3 technology company bringing tabletop games to the blockchain. Founded by successful innovators, artists, designers, and tabletop roleplaying game fanatics, GRIPNR's mission is to preserve the magic of classic TTRPGs while expanding player capabilities beyond the traditional gaming world and onto the blockchain. The Glimmering, GRIPNR's first game release, is now live on-chain.
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Hurricane Ian is expected to be a major storm
According to News Nation, it’s been more than a century since a major storm like Hurricane Ian has targeted the Tampa Bay area. Currently, 2.5 million people are under the evacuation order, the National Guard has been activated and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have temporarily relocated to Miami to practice with the Dolphins. Being prepared is the best way to ensure your survival.
Why a hurricane is different
Many natural storms and natural disasters strike unexpectedly, leaving you little time to prepare. The best — and only — good thing about a hurricane is you have an early warning. You’ll have a fairly good idea if you’re in the potential path of the storm and how powerful it will be anywhere from three to five days in advance.
The bad news is the average hurricane has an unrivaled power for devastation. This is because these storms are so immense, usually about 300 miles wide, though some have been measured at over 1,000 miles wide. The typical hurricane generates enough raw energy to power the entire world 200 times over.
How to prepare for hurricane season
The three most important things you can do during hurricane season are prepare a plan of action, gather supplies and be vigilant. This includes regularly monitoring a weather radio and watching the environment. As a hurricane approaches, the barometric pressure drops, winds pick up, dark clouds become visible, the ocean level along the coast rises and you’ll hear an approaching roar.
Hurricane watch vs. hurricane warning
A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions are possible, while a hurricane warning means hurricane conditions are expected. One way to help you remember the difference is a watch is looking for a dangerous situation while a warning is cautioning you of a known situation. Watches are announced 48 hours in advance, while a warning is announced 36 hours in advance.
Hurricane preparedness items that are good to have no matter where you live
This battery-operated NOAA weather radio keeps you aware of the latest weather conditions in your area. It’s the most essential piece of preparation gear because it will tell you when you need to act.
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Sawyer Products Mini Water Filtration System
After the storm, you need clean drinking water. Putting water bottles in the freezer might not be enough to get you by. This water purifying system filters out 99.99% of bacteria in up to 100,000 gallons of water.
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Durecopow Portable Outdoor Waterproof Solar Power Bank
If you have no power, eventually, you’ll have no devices. This water-resistant solar charger is also shock-resistant and dustproof. It can help keep you connected long after all other power is gone.
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LE LED Rechargeable Camping Lantern
Candles are dangerous. For lighting, it’s best to use a battery-powered lantern. This water-resistant model has a 360-degree beam angle and can last for up to 12 hours.
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NOCO Boost Pro GB150 Lithium Jump Starter Box
Your vehicle needs to start if you must evacuate. This compact device helps ensure you won’t be stranded in an emergency. It has a mistake-proof design that keeps you safe, even if it’s your first time jump-starting a vehicle.
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First Alert Home1 Rechargeable Standard Home Fire Extinguisher
After a major storm, there is a risk of fire. A multipurpose fire extinguisher is a must-have item that can quickly take care of minor gas, oil, electrical or combustible item fires to keep you and your family safe.
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Blue Coolers Blue Seventy-Two 72-Hour Emergency Backpack Survival Kit
This backpack contains emergency items such as food, a blanket, a dust mask, a crank flashlight and more. It has enough supplies to sustain one person for up to 72 hours.
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Sustain Supply Co. Premium Emergency Survival Kit
If you want to have essentials for a family of four, this survival kit is a solid choice. It has emergency water, non-perishable food, blankets, a first aid kit and more. It has enough supplies for up to 72 hours.
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Redfora Complete Three-Day, Two-Person Emergency Kit
The beauty of this survival kit is it has a color-coded organization system. It features pouches for first aid, food and water, personal hygiene, lights and more. Everything is easy to find and ready to use.
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Early morning fire at dock in Port St. Lucie under investigation
Published: Jul. 11, 2023 at 12:41 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Authorities are investigating a fire that erupted early Tuesday morning and destroyed a dock in St. Lucie County.
The incident occurred at around 3:09 a.m. after authorities received multiple calls about a fire in the woods near the water in the 2400 block of Westmoreland Boulevard, the St. Lucie County Fire District said in a Facebook post.
St. Lucie County Fire District crews arrived to find that it was actually the dock on fire.
At this time the cause appears to be an unspecified electrical malfunction, the St. Lucie County Fire District said.
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A few snow showers Wednesday night, mostly sunny Thursday afternoon with chilly temperatures
Wednesday night into Thursday, mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow with an overnight low in the lower 20’s. Winds around 10mph, with gusts at 10-20 mph.
Thursday, partly cloudy with a high in the lower 40’s for the Snake River Plain. North-northeast wind becoming north northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Friday, mostly cloudy skies in the afternoon with a chance of snow. A high in the upper 30’s with gusty winds at 15-30 mph. Scattered snow showers likely before midnight, a low around 33°. South southwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph overnight.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Long-range Russian bombardment killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in several parts of Ukraine on Friday, officials in Kyiv said, as a Kremlin official boasted that its forces were prepared to repel an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive this spring.
Five people died in Kostiantynivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province, when a Russian missile hit an aid station. Ukrainian authorities last year established hundreds of “points of invincibility,” where residents hard-pressed by the war could warm up, recharge their cellphones and get food.
Prosecutors said the Russians attacked with S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. The civilians who died were refugees, according to Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko.
As the mostly artillery war of the winter months stretches into its second spring, Russian forces also used air-launched missiles, exploding drones and gliding bombs to attack several regions, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said.
Two civilians were killed and nine were wounded in the town of Bilopillia in Sumy province by an overnight rocket and artillery barrage and airstrikes, officials in the northeastern region said.
In southern Ukraine, Russian shelling killed one person in the city of Kherson and killed another person and wounded four others in the town of Bilozerka. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited that region Thursday.
Ukrainian forces are poised to use the arrival of warmer weather and new weapons from the West, including tanks, for a counteroffensive aimed at dislodging Russian troops from occupied areas.
But Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and now deputy head of the country’s Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, said its forces were ready to repel a counterattack.
“Our General Staff is assessing all that,” Medvedev said.
He added that any Ukrainian attempt to seize Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, could trigger a nuclear response from Moscow.
“An attempt to split part of the state away means an encroachment at the very existence of the state,” he said. “Quite obviously, it warrants the use of any weapons. I hope our ‘friends’ across the ocean realize that.”
Medvedev is known for frequent bombastic pronouncements, but his warning also stems from Russia’s security doctrine envisioning the use of its atomic arsenal in response to a nuclear attack or one with conventional weapons that threatens “the very existence of the Russian state.”
Medvedev also said that Western experts operating weapons, such as the U.S.-made Patriot air defense missile systems supplied to Ukraine, could be targeted. Ukrainian soldiers have received training in the U.S., although Russian officials frequently claim that foreign instructors are in Ukraine.
“If Patriot or other weapons are delivered to the territory of Ukraine along with foreign experts, they certainly make legitimate targets, which must be destroyed,” Medvedev said in video posted to his messaging app channel. “They are combatants, they are the enemies of our state and they must be destroyed.”
“They must understand that as soon as an American or a Polish soldier shows up there, he must be killed,” he added.
The Kremlin wants to create a “sanitary cordon” of up to 100 kilometers (60 miles) around Russian-held areas so short- and medium-range weapons can’t hit them, Medvedev said.
Moscow may even try to grab a chunk of Ukrainian territory stretching all the way to Polish border, he said.
Also Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov welcomed Denmark’s plans to invite the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines to join a mission to recover an object discovered near the pipeline damaged in an explosion in September. There is still no accepted explanation for the sabotage on the Russia-to-Germany pipelines.
“This investigation should be transparent and inclusive from the standpoint of involvement of all parties concerned,” he said, adding that the object was located near a pipe weld, the most vulnerable section of a pipeline on the Baltic seabed.
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (NASDAQ: FYBR) resulting from allegations that Frontier Communications may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Frontier Communications securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=17738 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On July 14, 2023, The Wall Street Journal issued an article entitled "I Was Really Sick, And I Didn't Know From What", which discussed illnesses affecting telecoms workers who have been exposed to toxic lead.
On this news, Frontier Communications stock declined by $1.93 per share, or 11.9%, to close at $14.31 on July 14, 2023.
On July 17, 2023, The Wall Street Journal released an article entitled "Environmental Groups Ask Epa To Shield Public From Abandoned Lead Cables", which discussed how environmental groups were requesting that the EPA respond to the reports that telecom companies such as Frontier Communications were leaving toxic lead cables around the country.
On this news, Frontier Communications stock fell a further $2.26, or 15%, to close at $12.05 on July 17, 2023.
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After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the National Rifle Association (NRA), a gun rights advocacy group, has faced increased criticism.
Call to Activism, a group with more than one million total followers on Facebook and Twitter, has launched an online petition calling for the IRS to revoke the NRA’s tax exempt status in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. The petition has almost met its goal of 20,000 signatures as of May 31.
Viewer Kimberly also emailed the VERIFY team to ask whether the NRA is tax-exempt, which means it wouldn’t have to pay federal income taxes.
THE QUESTION
Does the NRA have tax-exempt status?
THE SOURCES
- National Rifle Association (NRA)
- Form 990 filed by the NRA for tax year 2018
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Ballotpedia, a digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections
THE ANSWER
Yes, the NRA has tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
WHAT WE FOUND
An income tax return filed by the NRA for tax year 2018 shows that the group filed as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. That means the NRA is considered a “social welfare organization” by the IRS. That’s a different classification than organizations recognized by the IRS as “charities,” which file as a 501(c)(3).
The NRA, which was founded in 1871, calls itself a “nonprofit organization” on its website, which is consistent with its tax filings. The group says it has “informed its members about firearm related bills since 1934, and has directly lobbied for and against legislation since 1975.”
According to the IRS, social welfare organizations, or 501(c)(4)s, “must not be organized for profit and must be operated exclusively to promote social welfare.”
These organizations can advocate for legislation related to their mission, the IRS says. That means lobbying won’t jeopardize an organization’s tax-exempt status. They can also participate in political activities that include “donations to political committees that support or oppose ballot measures,” though this can’t be their main activity, according to Ballotpedia.
Unlike social welfare organizations, traditional charities classified as 501(c)(3) nonprofits are banned from participating in partisan political campaign activity and have restrictions on lobbying.
There are other differences between 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits, too. Donations to a social welfare organization are not tax-deductible for donors like those that are made to a traditional 501(c)(3) charity, according to Ballotpedia.
On its donation page, the NRA also explains that contributions are not considered charitable donations.
The NRA isn’t the only major advocacy group that is tax-exempt. AARP, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood are also classified as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations.
While the NRA is not a 501(c)(3) itself, there are 501(c)(3) charities owned by or affiliated with the group, including the NRA Foundation, the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, and the NRA Freedom Action Foundation.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) _ Packaging Corp. of America (PKG) on Monday reported second-quarter net income of $301.5 million.
On a per-share basis, the Lake Forest, Illinois-based company said it had profit of $3.20. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $3.23 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.87 per share.
The maker of containerboard and corrugated packaging products posted revenue of $2.24 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.13 billion.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden is in Northern Ireland on Wednesday to participate in marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to this part of the United Kingdom, as a new political crisis tests the strength of that peace.
On his first presidential visit to Northern Ireland, Biden was stressing that American investment can help fuel economic growth – especially if the fractious politicians in Belfast resolve a new political crisis that has rattled the Good Friday peace deal and put Northern Ireland’s government on pause.
In a speech at Ulster University’s new campus in downtown Belfast, Biden will focus on “Northern Ireland’s vast economic potential,” said Amanda Sloat, the Democratic president's top adviser on European affairs.
She said Biden will talk about “how the last 25 years were focused on peace but the next 25 years should be marked by growth and economic prosperity.”
U.S. involvement was key to negotiating the Good Friday accord, which largely ended decades of sectarian violence that killed 3,600 people. While that peace has endured, Northern Ireland is currently without a functioning government.
Stormont, the seat of its assembly, has been suspended since the Democratic Unionist Party, which formed half of a power-sharing government, walked out a year ago over a post-Brexit trade dispute.
Biden's schedule on Wednesday began over coffee with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Asked what he would tell the leaders of Northern Ireland’s five main political parties when he meets with them later in the day, Biden responded, "I'm going to listen."
Sloat said that while Biden wants to see the Stormont government back up and running, he won't try to strongarm Northern Ireland’s politicians back to the table.
“The purpose of the president’s visit today is to mark the Good Friday Agreement, to continue to reaffirm the support of the United States for peace and prosperity,” she said. "The president's message ... is the United States’ strong support for that, the belief that the people of Northern Ireland deserve to have a democratically elected power sharing representative governance.”
The political crisis stems, in part, from Brexit. Britain's departure from the European Union left Northern Ireland poised uneasily between the rest of the U.K. and EU member Ireland and put the peace agreement under increased strain.
After much wrangling, Britain and the EU struck a deal in February to address the tensions over trade, an agreement welcomed by the U.S., which had urged London and Brussels to end their post-Brexit feud. The Democratic Unionist Party, though, says the Windsor Framework doesn't go far enough and has refused to return to government.
As he set off for Belfast on Tuesday, Biden said a priority of his trip to Northern Ireland was to “keep the peace.”
While U.K. officials hope the president's presence can help nudge the unionists back into government, Biden faces mistrust from some unionists because of his Irish American heritage. Sammy Wilson, a DUP lawmaker in the U.K. Parliament, told Talk TV that Biden “has got a record of being pro-republican, anti-unionist, anti-British.”
“The track record of the president shows he’s not anti-British," Sloat said, adding that “the U.K. remains one of out strongest and closest allies.”
Biden is spending less than 24 hours in Northern Ireland before moving on to the Republic of Ireland for a three-day visit, including an address to the Dublin parliament, attendance at a gala dinner and trips to two ancestral hometowns. He will fly to County Louth, on Ireland's east coast, on Wednesday to visit a cemetery, tour a castle, walk around downtown Dundalk and attend a community gathering.
Neil Given, a civil servant who lives in Belfast, welcomed Biden's visit but said his “expectations are not great” that it would unblock the political logjam.
“We have prevaricated for well over a year now, and ever since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement there have been numerous stoppages of the institutions of Stormont,” he said. "Whether or not Mr. Biden’s visit can in 24, 48 hours pull people together and perhaps get a message we really do need to get back to government, I don’t know.
“But hopefully he can do that. I know there is no more powerful person certainly to be over that can give out that message.”
A massive security operation was in place for Biden's stay in Belfast, with a heavy police presence on blocked-off streets around the president's hotel and the Ulster campus.
Last month, U.K. intelligence services raised Northern Ireland's terrorism threat level from “substantial” to “severe.” But Biden said then that not even the heightened risk of an attack would keep him from making the trip.
Biden last visited Ireland in 2016, when he was U.S. vice president.
Samuel Olufemia, who is studying for a degree in public health at Ulster University, said he was looking forward to meeting Biden on campus.
“Having him in Belfast here is a privilege,” said Olufemia, who is from Nigeria. “It’s going to be an historic visit, and that’s one of the reasons I’m excited.”
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Trey Lance flashed his big arm in a brief preseason stint for San Francisco with a 76-yard touchdown pass to speedy rookie Danny Gray that helped the 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers 28-21 on Friday night.
Lance played just two series in the game but that was enough to show why the Niners made the decision to transition from Jimmy Garoppolo to Lance at quarterback.
Lance delivered a perfect deep strike to Gray on San Francisco’s second possession and Gray raced the rest of the way for the score. The pass traveled 34 yards downfield, longer than all but one of Garoppolo’s completions the past two seasons for San Francisco.
The ability to throw it deep was one reason why San Francisco traded three first-round picks to draft Lance third overall in 2021 to replace Garoppolo. Lance spent most of his rookie season on the bench but has taken over the offense this year as the Niners look to trade Garoppolo.
Lance finished 4 for 5 for 92 yards, a TD and a perfect 158.3 rating. He ran it once for 7 yards.
Green Bay’s young quarterback wasn’t as sharp on a night when both teams played only a handful of starters.
Jordan Love threw three interceptions to go along with two TD passes in one half of action with starter Aaron Rodgers sitting out the exhibition game.
Love found rookie Romeo Doubs on a 33-yard TD on Green Bay’s second drive and then connected on another 33-yarder to Danny Davis at the end of the half.
But he had three interceptions in between those TDs, including one that went off tight end Tyler Davis’ hands. Love, who has thrown just 61 passes since being drafted in the first round in 2020, went 13 for 24 for 176 yards.
The teams then traded TD passes in the fourth quarter, with Danny Etling throwing a 22-yarder to Amari Rodgers to give Green Bay a 21-20 lead and San Francisco answering with Brock Purdy’s 5-yard TD to Tanner Hudson.
ROOKIE REPORT
It was an up-and-down debut for Doubs, who has impressed in training camp after being drafted in the fourth round. The highlight was the TD catch but he also dropped a pass and had a ball ripped out of his hands for an interception by Samuel Womack.
Womack was one of impressive rookies for the Niners, intercepting two passes from Love as the fifth-round pick out of Toledo makes a bid for the slot cornerback spot in San Francisco.
Gray, a third-round pick, had two catches for 99 yards.
SPECIAL TEAMS
One of the big focuses this training camp for Green Bay has been on the special teams after that unit struggled mightily last season and was a major reason why the Packers lost in the divisional round to San Francisco.
It didn’t start well in the debut under new coordinator Rich Bisaccia with a holding penalty on the opening kick. But Amari Rodgers did provide a bright spot with a 50-yard kick return.
Backup kicker Gabe Brkic also missed a 32-yard field goal in the third quarter.
INJURIES
San Francisco rookie DE Drake Jackson (shoulder) and Green Bay LB Tipa Galeai (shoulder) both got hurt in the first half. … Niners CB Dontae Johnson (rubs) got hurt in the fourth quarter.
UP NEXT
Titans: Host New Orleans on Aug. 19.
49ers: At Minnesota on Aug. 20.
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LORETTO, Pa. (AP) — Sean Hansen’s 26 points helped Cornell defeat Saint Francis (PA) 80-77 on Monday night.
Hansen had five rebounds, five assists, and three steals for the Big Red (2-1). Greg Dolan scored 18 points and added five rebounds. Isaiah Gray recorded 14 points and shot 6 of 9 from the field and 2 for 6 from the line.
Josh Cohen led the Red Flash (1-2) in scoring, finishing with 24 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Landon Moore added 15 points and four assists for Saint Francis (PA). In addition, Maxwell Land had 13 points and 11 rebounds.
NEXT UP
Cornell takes on Ithaca at home on Friday, and Saint Francis (PA) visits Butler on Thursday.
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CEDAR FALLS — The owner of an old church is interested in repurposing it into a makeup and eyebrow salon but first needs the zoning to be more flexible.
The Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday scheduled a 5:30 p.m. Feb. 22 public hearing at City Hall, 220 Clay St., for the application of Chad Welsh, owner of the former Faith Wesleyan and Jordan Crossing church, 209 Walnut St.
At that meeting, the panel will consider recommending whether the City Council should approve or reject a proposed amendment to the zoning code that applies to almost all residential districts throughout the city.
Planner Chris Sevy said it would not apply to the fairly new and controversial downtown character district code.
Planning staffers proposed the amendment to the code, adding “personal service uses” as a conditional use for any unused or vacant institutional building like a church or school.
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The proposed amendment would add the classification for what’s allowed as a conditional use and be limited to hair salons, shoe repair, tailoring services, therapy-based services, and photographic studios.
Commissioners requested a minor change to the amendment, specifically that “hair salons” be reworded to include other salons like the one Welsh is proposing or businesses specializing in nails.
The proposed project and zoning revision received some initial positive feedback from commissioners on Wednesday.
“I really like the repurposing of a building,” said Commissioner David Hartley. “I think we all understand how challenging marketing a church building or an old school building is for a repurpose. The more accepting we can be within reason the better.”
Commissioner Kristin Moser agreed.
“I love all the development that’s happening in the south and southwest side of town, but I love when we can repurpose buildings in the central part of the community,” she said.
Any qualifying conditional use proposal requires approval of the board of adjustment at a public meeting. The board can reject any proposal if the project is not in line with the conditions set forth in the code.
Eligible uses relate to hospitality, multi-unit dwelling conversions, community service, specialized education, and professional offices under code established at the end of 2021.
Sevy noted his office has some reservations and is not fully on board with the proposed amendment that would apply to all low-density neighborhoods, where a lot of these schools and churches are located and are surrounded by single-family homes.
He worried that perhaps it may spur further requests for amendments for a broader range of uses for these defunct institutionalized buildings, among other minor concerns.
“No matter what, for each and every specific use at a specific property, it’s still going to have to go in front of the board of adjustment. So, therefore, there is another overseeing body and we’re just not going to put salons everywhere,” Stephen Jordan, Welsh’s real estate agent, told the commission while voicing his support for the zoning modification.
Welsh purchased the property for $264,500 from the Iowa District of the Wesleyan Church last year, according to property records.
An engraved brick on the outside of the building, as well as an online listing, state First Weslyan Methodist had dedicated or built the church building in 1952. The listing states it’s 4,512 square feet and sits on less than a quarter acre of land at the corner of Walnut and West Second streets.
The center of town has a few former churches, including the former Mennonite church building at 215 W. Ninth St. demolished last year. A developer knocked it down for a future residential development and contended it could not be repurposed affordably. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/owner-of-old-cedar-falls-church-looks-to-repurpose-it-into-hair-salon/article_5175753e-2b8f-5920-ad43-2ce27a3afb7b.html | 2023-02-10 13:20:45 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/owner-of-old-cedar-falls-church-looks-to-repurpose-it-into-hair-salon/article_5175753e-2b8f-5920-ad43-2ce27a3afb7b.html |
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (AP) — President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are set to announce an agreement aiming to stem the flow of asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings from the U.S. to Canada.
The agreement on Friday comes as Biden makes his first visit to Canada as president. Wide-ranging Trudeau-Biden talks also were expected to touch on the 13-month old war in Ukraine, military spending, shared concerns about China’s aggressiveness, and violence and political instability in Haiti.
Biden and Trudeau were to meet for private talks before the U.S. president was to deliver a speech to the Canadian Parliament. The leaders also were to hold a joint press conference, and Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, were to host Biden and first lady Jill Biden for a gala dinner before the visiting Americans were returning to the U.S. Friday evening.
As for China, Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, arrested there in 2018, were expected to be on hand for Biden’s Parliament speech.
The two were taken into custody shortly after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the technology company Huawei’s chief financial officer and the daughter of the company’s founder, on a U.S. extradition request. The Canadians were held for more than than two years in China before the Biden and Trudeau governments managed to win their release. Kovrig is a former diplomat, Spavor a businessman.
Meng reached an agreement with prosecutors that led to fraud charges against her being dismissed and allowed her to return to China.
The migration accord eliminates a loophole under existing rules and will allow both countries to turn away asylum seekers at their borders, according to U.S. and Canadian officials. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deal before it was formally announced.
A 2002 agreement between the U.S. and Canada says asylum seekers must apply in the first country they arrive in. But the U.S.-Canada pact had only applied at official border crossings, creating an opening for migrants who travel through the U.S. to claim asylum in Canada, crossing illegally at Roxham Road, a half-hour taxi ride from the bus station in Plattsburgh, New York.
The quirk in the rules resulted in thousands of migrants annually crossing into Canada from the U.S. at a non-official checkpoint, enabling them to stay as they seek asylum instead of letting the process play out while staying in the U.S..
As part of the agreement, Canada is expected to announce that 15,000 migrants from the Western Hemisphere will be given official slots to apply to enter the country.
“We’re seeing an increase in irregular migration going north into Canada, which reflects the regional and global migration challenge, as we’ve been talking about,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Thursday. “We’re committed to working with them to address it, including by prioritizing orderly and safe migration through regular pathways.”
Regarding Haiti, Canada is being nudged by the U.S. and other allies to lead an international mission there to deal with the ongoing humanitarian and security crisis.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the country’s Council of Ministers sent an urgent appeal last October calling for “the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity” to stop the crisis caused partly by the “criminal actions of armed gangs.” But more than five months later, no countries have stepped forward. Canada’s top military official has suggested the country doesn’t have the capacity.
White House officials said Friday’s meetings would also include discussion of defense spending, an issue that’s in the spotlight after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that traversed part of Canada and the continental U.S. last month.
Canada has long faced calls to increase its defense spending to 2% of its gross domestic product, the agreed-upon target by NATO members. Ottawa spends about 1.2% now.
A senior Canadian official said the Trudeau government was expected to announce plans on Friday to accelerate billions more in defense spending. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The Bidens arrived in Ottawa on Thursday evening and were hosted by Trudeau and his family for a gathering at the prime minister’s residence. | https://who13.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-trudeau-to-hold-talks-on-migration-haiti-and-more/ | 2023-03-24 16:35:29 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-trudeau-to-hold-talks-on-migration-haiti-and-more/ |
PHOTOS: Webb telescope captures exciting new images of Jupiter
(CNN) - New images of Jupiter are now available, thanks to some new technology from NASA.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team unveiled the mission’s first science-quality images featuring Jupiter’s rings, moons and more Tuesday.
On Thursday, the team released even more photos of the planet, highlighting the $10 billion telescope’s ability to study targets much closer to home.
The photos, captured during Webb’s commissioning period, feature a handful of amazingly detailed shots of the deep and distant universe.
Webb launched on December 25, 2021. It was designed to peer deep into the universe’s past, studying the first stars and galaxies to ever form.
Astronomers now plan to use it to investigate a variety of cosmic objects and phenomena.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Greenpeace activists on Wednesday called on the Polish prime minister to take action to protect Poland’s forests, asking the government to limit the harvesting of timber in the vast old-growth forests of the Carpathian Mountains.
During a news conference held outside the office of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Greenpeace activists held a section of a fir tree trunk that they took from the forest. It was the conclusion of a 40-day expedition to try to raise awareness about the threats to a forest which is home to bears, lynx and other wildlife. They delivered it to the prime minister’s office after the conference.
According to Greenpeace, a forested area the size of five soccer fields disappears every hour from the Carpathians, which run through parts of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine.
Activists on the expedition witnessed up to 40 trucks full of timber per day being transported out of the Bieszczady Mountains, which form part of the Carpathians, on one road alone, said Greenpeace spokesman Marek Jozefiak.
He said the government has not fulfilled its promise to put more of the country’s forests under protection by declaring them national parks.
Logging in the Carpathians is highly problematic, he added, because it is the home to the only population of brown bears in Poland and to the biggest population of lynx, wolves and others species.
“It’s really mindboggling. We are talking about the most precious mountain forest that we have,” Jozefiak said.
Greenpeace says that the biggest obstacle to protecting the Polish Carpathians is the appropriation of the state forests by a party in the right-wing government.
Greenpeace argues that politicians from a party that belongs to the governing coalition led by Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro “have de facto privatized Polish forests and treat them like money-making machines.”
Jozefiak said large-scale logging is taking place in all the countries, and activists are asking governments and the European Commission to take action.
“They need to act now. If you wait a few more years, it might simply be too late,” he said. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/greenpeace-protests-mass-logging-of-old-growth-forests-in-carpathian-mountains/ | 2023-06-22 12:19:42 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/greenpeace-protests-mass-logging-of-old-growth-forests-in-carpathian-mountains/ |
Following the G7 Summit and in collaboration with ICAN - Virtual Screening of Rare First Person Account of a Hiroshima Survivor to Remind the World of The Horrors of Nuclear War and The Power of Love and Forgiveness - From May 26-29 (11:59pm EST)
NEW YORK, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Runaway Horses announce, Film 8:15 Hiroshima | From Father To Daughter in collaboration with International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons announces Free Virtual Screening available here: https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/815hiroshima-G7
"What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima." - John Hersey
8:15 Hiroshima, an award-winning film by American Director J.R. Heffelfinger and produced by Akiko Mikamo, the daughter of a hibakusha (nuclear bomb survivor), to illustrate her father's remarkable true story, message for peace and vision for a world without nuclear weapons.
Narrated in English with Japanese subtitles, this hybrid doc-narrative film weaves never before seen video and audio recordings of hibakusha Shinji Mikamo, evocative reenactments (in Japanese with English subtitles), and archival images — "bringing the past into the present." (Modern Times Review)
"My father told me, 'I don't want anybody else to ever have to go through the agony of another nuclear war,' and asked me to spread his message to younger generations throughout the world," said Dr. Akiko Mikamo, Executive Producer of 8:15 Hiroshima and Author of 8:15 – A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima. https://www.815documentary.com/
8:15 Hiroshima
2020, United States, 50 min
Director J.R. Heffelfinger
Executive Producer Akiko Mikamo
Producer: Nini Le Huynh
In association with: Runaway Horses
"A highly artistic work with a prayer for peace." - Asahi Family Newspaper For more information/interview requests:
Email: info@815documentary.com
Website: https://www.815documentary.com
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A TV miniseries about one of the most famous couples in country music -- Tammy Wynette and George Jones -- is set for release later this year by the Paramount Network.
Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon star in “George & Tammy,” a six-episode series that delves into the duo’s rocky relationship and the iconic music they performed, together and separately.
“About a year ago we were in music rehearsals, learning some of George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s biggest hits,” Chastain said on Friday via Twitter. “Nerves were high, emotions were higher as we tried to channel these two country legends. A year has passed and we can finally start to share their story with you.”
In her tweets, Chastain included several photos of herself and Shannon playing Wynette and Jones -- on stage, in the studio and during more private moments.
More to come from #GeorgeAndTammy @paramountnet pic.twitter.com/2fhpeJLOCt
— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) October 7, 2022
According to a report by Vanity Fair, Chastain has been attached to the project since 2011. She’s also one of the producers, via her Freckle Films company.
“I was really moved by the love story between them -- I started to listen to the music and understood that they were always singing to each other,” Chastain told the magazine. “They were both a huge part of each other’s lives.”
Wynette (1942-1998) was born in a doctor’s office in Red Bay, Alabama, and grew up in nearby Itawamba County, Mississippi. As a result, she claimed both states as her home. (”My top half comes from Mississippi and my bottom half from Alabama,” Wynette was known to say.)
As a hairdresser in Midfield during the early 1960s, Wynette received her first break by appearing on “The Country Boy Eddie Show,” a variety series that aired mornings on Birmingham’s WBRC-TV.
Wynette then headed to Nashville in search of more fame, signing a recording contract and charting with the 1967 single, “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad.” She married Jones -- a talented and volatile country star who earned the nicknames “Possum” and “No Show Jones”-- in 1969. Their marriage, a tumultuous affair, lasted until 1975.
As duet partners, Wynette and Jones released nine studio albums and more than a dozen successful singles such as “Golden Ring,” “We’re Gonna Hold On,” “Two Story House,” “Near You” and “(We’re Not) the Jet Set.” It’s unclear if “George & Tammy” will delve into Wynette’s early years in Alabama, or if the miniseries will focus exclusively on her time with Jones as country royalty.
According to Vanity Fair, Chastain and Shannon trained with a vocal coach for the miniseries and performed all the songs for “George & Tammy.”
“George Jones is, to my ear, one of the finest singers I’ve ever heard in my life,” Shannon told Vanity Fair. “It’s obviously a fool’s errand to try to completely emulate that -- that’s one of the reasons he’s legendary, is that there will never be another one like him.”
The cast includes Alabama native Walton Goggins, known for his work in “Justified,” “The Righteous Gemstones,” “Sons of Anarchy” and more). Steve Zahn, Kelly McCormack, Katy Mixon and David Wilson Barnes, also appear in the miniseries.
A specific air date hasn’t been announced for “George & Tammy,” created by Abe Sylvia and directed by John Hillcoat. | https://www.al.com/life/2022/10/tammy-wynette-miniseries-george-tammy-nears-debut-on-paramount-tv.html | 2022-10-07 17:38:33 | 0 | https://www.al.com/life/2022/10/tammy-wynette-miniseries-george-tammy-nears-debut-on-paramount-tv.html |
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