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On a Wednesday matinee performance of Broadway's "& Juliet," assistant company manager Annie Schroeder is making the rounds backstage.
The show is a humorous take on what would happen if Juliet of "Romeo and Juliet" elected not to take her life and decided, instead, to adventure to Paris with her crew of besties (good nurse included). In lieu of original tunes, "& Juliet" works in iconic pop hits such as Backstreet Boys' "Larger Than Life" and Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream."
Schroeder walks around through offices, dressing rooms and green rooms checking in with the show's various players. Did the assistant stage manager who was out on medical leave receive her catered meals? (She did.) What's the update on new ensemble member Kate Mina Lin? (She's trailing cast member Rachel Webb at 1:30.) Is the merch booth out of beanies? (Yes.)
Schroeder's main task every show is checking ticket sales and sending numbers up to the producers. But as assistant company manager, she has her hands in much of the behind-the-scenes logistics of the show as well. "She's a sister girl," says cast member Michael Ivan Carrier, and she's "the mother that needs to stay out of my room."
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As far as work's concerned, it's exactly what Schroeder had in mind. She's partial to "having my foot in every part of the show," she says.
Working in theater 'is what I want to do'
Schroeder, 28, grew up in Columbus, Ohio, always a theater kid.
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She was enrolled in a drama program for kids in elementary school, joined drama club and took on acting, stage managing and directing in high school, and eventually attended Otterbein University for her bachelor's in theater. It was there that she discovered her love of the details of what makes a performance.
Schroeder's school hosted an annual drag show that raised money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She put the show on with a friend and in the process realized what balancing the finances of a performance is really about: paying those involved, covering the cost of merch and advertising and still raising money for the charity. But Schroeder had a knack for it.
"Over the three years, we ended up tripling what we made in sales," she says.
When an alumnus of her school working as a company manager of the "Kinky Boots" show on tour came to talk to her class and described his role, Schroeder realized, "Oh, this is what I do for drag show," she says. "This is what I want to do."
'I kind of describe [Broadway] as like a food chain'
It takes dozens of people to put on a Broadway show.
There's the actors, writers, composers, producers and directors, of course, but also the choreographers, casting directors, sound designers, costume designers, lighting designers, hair and makeup designers, stage managers, general managers, associates and assistants to the aforementioned, sound mixers, electricians, props managers, physical therapists, accountants and more.
"I kind of describe it as like a food chain," says Schroeder. "Producers are at the top. They're the ones that are raising all the money." They also bring on the general management office, which creates the budget for the show and hires everyone else (with input from producers). This includes hiring the company managers, who are responsible for payroll, policy enforcement and meeting the day-to-day needs of select patrons, cast and crew.
Schroeder's day usually starts around 10 or 11 in the morning and ends around 9 or 9:30 at night.
"One of our actors, Mel, came from England," she says as an example of a recent workday. "At one point I was balancing a payroll sheet, budgeting, and at the same time I'm unpacking, like, 200 boxes from Amazon actually moving this woman into her apartment."
Technically, she gets one day off per week. Often she's roped into last-minute duties even on that day, though.
"Sunday was my day off and I think we got four or five last-minute house seat orders," she says, referring to seats booked privately through the show for VIPs or people in the company. "I spent the morning getting those last bits of ticketing in."
'I'm barely breaking even'
Virtually all roles on Broadway are unionized. They're part of just 10% of the American workforce that's represented by a union, according to the Department of Labor.
Schroeder's role is under the jurisdiction of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. She's about a quarter of the way toward getting her membership, which requires working for 52 weeks on valid contracts over up to three consecutive seasons, a series of seminars plus an oral and a written test.
Once she becomes a member, she'll have access to health insurance, a pension plan, paid vacation and holidays and other benefits. Associate company managers, the next step up from Schroeder's current role, who are in the union make a minimum of $2,466 per week with a full benefit package. She's currently making half of that.
"I'm barely breaking even," she says.
'You have to be a little bit crazy if you want to do this'
Even once she's in the union, Schroeder won't necessarily be guaranteed work.
"You jump from show to show all the time," she says. "You never know if a show is going to close. You never know if you get a job and then it's going to end up not getting to the stage." But she's building a network for herself and has thus far been able to continually book gigs.
"Something that I remember a college professor told me on our first week of classes was, 'you have to be a little bit crazy if you want to do this for the rest of your life,'" she says. There are both daily fires to put out and uncertainty in the long run.
But then there's magic, too. At least once week, and on rough days in particular, Schroeder tries to watch both the first act of "& Juliet" and the audience's reaction to it. Seeing their adoration and respect for what's happening on stage feeds her.
"It was tough at first," she says of the job. "But I think, for right now, I love it."
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A child was killed Thursday night when she was struck by two vehicles in northwest Jefferson County.
Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched just after 8 p.m. to a report of a pedestrian struck on Heflin Avenue West near Oak Ridge Drive.
They arrived to find the 12-year-old girl critically injured. She was taken to Children’s of Alabama where she was pronounced dead, said sheriff’s Lt. Joni Money.
Money said evidence indicates the girl was walking with friends in the road when she was hit by a vehicle. She was then struck by a second vehicle that was traveling in the opposite direction.
Both drivers were interviewed.
The investigation is ongoing by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Traffic Accident Reconstruction Team.
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NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana voters can begin casting early, in-person ballots Wednesday for the Nov. 8 election in which Democrats are looking for a backlash against the Republican-backed state abortion ban approved over the summer.
Republicans in the tightest races are largely avoiding the abortion issue while emphasizing economic topics as they seek to extend their dominance over statewide offices and the General Assembly.
Republican U.S. Sen. Todd Young is seeking reelection by following a front-runner strategy of mostly ignoring Democratic challenger Thomas McDermott ahead of their only televised debate scheduled for Sunday.
Democrats, meanwhile, are targeting the Indiana secretary of state’s race, in which former Mike Pence aide Diego Morales won the Republican nomination despite twice leaving jobs in that office after being written up for poor job performance.
Here is a look at top races on Indiana ballots:
U.S. SENATE
Young entered the campaign with huge fundraising and organization advantages over McDermott, who has been the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, since 2004 but is little known outside northwestern Indiana.
Indiana’s Senate race hasn’t seen the tens of millions in outside spending that it attracted four years ago when Republican Mike Braun defeated Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly and in 2016 when Young won the Senate seat over former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh.
Young avoided a primary challenge this year despite not fully embracing Donald Trump’s presidency — and not getting a Trump endorsement. Young voted to acquit Trump in his Senate impeachment trial but voted to uphold President Joe Biden’s election win.
McDermott, a lawyer and U.S. Navy veteran, has tried to build an appeal to working-class voters attracted to Trump while advocating congressional protection of abortion rights and federal marijuana legalization.
The lack of national groups spending money in the race when Democrats and Republicans are fiercely fighting for control of the current 50-50 Senate makes it difficult to see Young as vulnerable, although the abortion issue is a wildcard, said Paul Helmke, the former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne and the party’s 1998 U.S. Senate candidate.
“It might be something that gives a little new spark to Democrats in the state,” said Helmke, now an Indiana University public affairs professor. “But whether that’s enough to overcome the strong Republican mindset is hard to tell.”
SECRETARY OF STATE
Morales won the Republican nomination to become Indiana’s top elections office after talking up a push for tighter state voting restrictions and calling the 2020 presidential election a “scam” while pointing to unfounded claims Trump and his allies have made about other states.
Democrats criticize Morales as an “election denier” and see a chance to defeat him by pointing to him leaving low-level secretary of state office jobs in 2009 and 2011 after job performance write-ups.
Morales returned to state government as an aide on Pence’s gubernatorial staff until Pence left to become Trump’s vice president in 2017.
Democratic candidate Destiny Wells, an attorney and Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, says Morales is “sowing seeds of fear and doubt” about elections and that the secretary of state should focus on improving Indiana’s troubles with low voter turnout. Libertarian Jeff Maurer, who is also on the ballot, is advocating improved statewide paper versions of all ballots and independent audits of vote tallies in all counties.
U.S. HOUSE SEATS
Republicans are making their first serious challenge in several decades for the northwestern Indiana congressional district that has long been a Democratic stronghold.
Black U.S. Air Force veteran Jennifer-Ruth Green is challenging Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan, who won his first term in 2020 in the 1st District that hugs Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Democrats have typically won there by large margins, but Trump closed the gap by appealing to working class voters in the district that has some of the country’s largest steel mills.
Green, who is a lieutenant colonel in the Indiana Air National Guard, touted herself as a Trump supporter during the Republican primary campaign. Democrats have focused much of their criticism on her opposition to abortion rights.
STATE LEGISLATURE
Democrats are trying to pick up enough state legislative seats to break the Republican supermajorities that have left Democrats largely powerless against conservative proposals such as the abortion ban that’s been blocked by a court order. Democrats need to gain five seats in the 100-member House needed to break the two-thirds supermajority that allows Republicans to act even if no Democrats are present.
New district maps taking effect with this election protect most current Republican lawmakers, but Democrats are targeting some Republican-held seats in the northern suburbs of Indianapolis and in the South Bend and Fort Wayne areas.
State Democratic Chairman Mike Schmuhl said the abortion ban is an example of “government overreach” stemming from the decade-long Republican legislative supermajority.
“I think that really crystallizes things for people,” Schmuhl said. “That something so personal, that really should be between a woman, her family, her faith, her doctor, have Republican politicians kind of step in front of those folks and say, ‘Oh, no, we’re going to make those decisions for you.’”
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Which Amorepacific product is best?
If you’ve ever used a skin care product that included green tea extract, thank Amorepacific. The company pioneered the use of green tea in skin care in the 1980s and today it’s a powerhouse — one of the largest and most respected Korean beauty brands. To experience how Amorepacific blends heritage ingredients and cutting-edge skin care technology, Amorepacific Enzyme Peel Cleansing Powder is a great choice.
What to know before you buy an Amorepacific product
Island-sourced ingredients
Amorepacific’s tea is grown in the company’s tea garden on Korea’s Jeju Island. The volcanic soil there is rich in minerals, and the subtropical climate is excellent for growing green tea, which Amorepacific began doing in 1979.
K-beauty rituals
Korean skin care focuses on hydrating and nourishing the skin to help it stay resilient. To accomplish this, K-beauty skin care routines can include up to a dozen products, layered according to their consistency, with lightest products applied first. Amorepacific products include guidance on when to use them in your routine.
Green tea in skin care
Building on the heritage of green tea in Korean culture, Amorepacific started experimenting on the plant to scientifically determine what made it so good for skin. Green tea extract is a potent source of polyphenols — specifically EGCG — that according to the National Institutes of Health provide antioxidant benefits to skin, improving its appearance and elasticity.
Today, Amorepacific’s research and development looks for improved extraction methods while researching amino acids, antioxidants and new probiotic strains found in green tea. The company has even created its own unique hybrid green tea varieties.
What to look for in a quality Amorepacific product
Handpicked green tea
Many beauty brands use green tea, but no one does it quite like Amorepacific. The brand’s hero ingredient is grown exclusively on Jeju Island and the company says it’s harvested for only 15 days each year, at dawn, so gently that the harvesters must use only their non-dominant hand. This is done during spring when the tea leaves contain their highest levels of nutrients.
After the tea harvest, some tea leaves are fermented and aged to maximize their potent ingredients. Depending on the product, the leaves are aged up to 100 days.
Cutting-edge skin care
Amorepacific’s history reaches back to the 1930s, when its founder, Suh Sung-Whan, helped his mother source and produce camellia seed hair oil. Later, he founded Korea’s first lab dedicated to cosmetics research. Today, that lab has patented multiple skin care discoveries, some in partnership with Harvard University. And the company’s studies go beyond green tea: it’s researching topics such as blue light and the effects of chemotherapy on skin.
Effective botanicals
Along with green tea, Amorepacific products use botanicals with a long tradition of cosmetics usage in Asia. Bamboo sap is extracted in early summer to maximize the hardy plant’s sugars, minerals and amino acids. Red ginseng, which has a long history in traditional medicine, has been used in Amorepacific products since 1966 to help rejuvenate skin and protect it from sun exposure.
Other Asian botanicals you may find in Amorepacific ingredient lists are soybeans, which can plump and firm skin, and camellia seed, which may have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
How much you can expect to spend on Amorepacific product
Amorepacific’s luxury moisturizers cost $160-270. Cleansers cost $50-$68, while toners and essences cost $95-$250 depending on the bottle size.
Amorepacific product FAQ
How do you use Amorepacific?
A. Amorepacific’s product line includes cleansers, toners, moisturizers, masks, eye creams, serums and makeup, but your routine can use as few or as many of these products as you wish. Each product contains thorough instructions, which can be especially helpful for less well-known products such as cleansing oils and exfoliating scrubs.
Is Amorepacific cruelty-free?
A. Amorepacific does not conduct animal testing on its ingredients or finished products. However, Amorepacific permits animal testing in countries where it’s required by law.
What’s the best Amorepacific product to buy?
Top Amorepacific product
Amorepacific Enzyme Peel Cleansing Powder
What you need to know: This powder cleanser transforms into a foam that hydrates skin and supports skin cell turnover with botanical enzymes and hyaluronic acid.
What you’ll love: The chemical exfoliator is gentle enough for daily use, and a small amount of powder goes a long way. It contains papaya and green-tea-derived enzymes for exfoliation that’s gentler than a physical scrub. It has a mild scent and leaves skin soft, smooth and hydrated.
What you should consider: The redesigned packaging may dispense too much product at once, leading to waste. While most will be able to use this peel daily, it may be too strong for sensitive skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Amazon
Top Amorepacific product for the money
Amorepacific Treatment Cleansing Oil Makeup Remover
What you need to know: For a first cleanse that washes away makeup, try this oil-based cleanser, which gently removes even waterproof makeup with just one pump.
What you’ll love: The oil blend transforms with water into an emulsion that glides over skin — no tugging or scrubbing required. The blend of botanical oils such as green tea seed, babassu palm and coconut helps improve skin’s radiance and moisture retention. The formula is safe for removing eye makeup.
What you should consider: It contains a lot of added fragrance, which caused irritation for some users.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Worth checking out
Amorepacific Color Control Cushion Compact Broad Spectrum SPF 50+
What you need to know: Amorepacific pioneered the cushion compact in the 2000s, and this dewy foundation is perfect for customized coverage and touching up while on the go.
What you’ll love: It offers SPF 50 sun protection plus the hydrating and anti-inflammatory benefits of bamboo sap and green tea extract. The formula gives skin a glowy, not shiny, finish. While it’s pricey, it comes with a refill compact included.
What you should consider: It’s only available in five light to medium shades. Coverage, while buildable, is still light. The scent may be too strong for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Amazon
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Saturday, AJ Vinatieri, son of future Pro Football Hall of Fame kicker Adam Vinatieri, announced his commitment to Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Vinatieri, who handled place kicking and punting duties at Zionsville High School this past season, first committed to UMASS in January before deciding to play for Cardinals Head Coach Mike Neu.
As a junior at Zionsville, Vinatieri’s 22-yard game-winning field goal gave the Eagles a regional championship. According to 247 sports, Vinatieri ranked as a three-star kicker/punter among the Class of 2022.
For the former Colts and Patriots legendary kicker, there is officially some MACtion on the way this fall.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An Office of Motor Vehicles employee was arrested Wednesday for issuing fraudulent commercial driver's licenses and commercial learners permits in East Baton Rouge Parish who had not taken the related tests.
Louisiana State Police said Reggie James Jr., 28, issued six permits and licenses to drivers in exchange for cash, news outlets reported. James faces one count each of malfeasance in office and public bribery and six counts of injuring public records.
An arrest warrant for James said the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles complained to Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft about an employee of its Baton Rouge location being paid $800 cash in exchange for processing a CDL for someone who never took a test. Following an investigation, James was found to have allegedly issued a total of six CDLs and/ or Commercial Learner’s Permits to customers who either did not take the test or failed the test, according to his arrest warrant.
In one instance, James accepted $1,300 from a driver who had not passed the test, troopers said.
The alleged crimes occurred between Feb. 4 and March 25.
The OMV has contacted those accused of buying the license and they have a limited amount of time to respond before the license is suspended, officials said.
James has been placed on administration leave, authorities said.
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Adolis García Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Dodgers - July 21
Published: Jul. 21, 2023 at 4:23 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Friday, Adolis Garcia (.243 batting average in his past 10 games, with three doubles, two home runs, five walks and nine RBI) and the Texas Rangers play the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose starting pitcher will be Tony Gonsolin. First pitch is at 8:05 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his last game (0-for-3) against the Rays.
Adolis García Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Friday, July 21, 2023
- Game Time: 8:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Globe Life Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Tony Gonsolin
- TV Channel: BSSW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +260)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +115)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -115)
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Adolis García At The Plate
- Garcia has 96 hits, which leads Texas hitters this season, while batting .259 with 45 extra-base hits.
- Among the qualifying hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 71st, his on-base percentage ranks 77th, and he is 15th in the league in slugging.
- In 62.5% of his 96 games this season, Garcia has picked up at least one hit. He's also had 24 multi-hit games.
- In 21 games this year, he has gone deep (21.9%, and 5.7% of his trips to the plate).
- Garcia has an RBI in 44 of 96 games this year, with multiple RBI in 21 of them. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in seven contests.
- He has scored in 49 games this year (51.0%), including 18 multi-run games (18.8%).
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Adolis García Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Dodgers pitching staff ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Dodgers have a 4.42 team ERA that ranks 20th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Dodgers allow the ninth-fewest home runs in baseball (105 total, 1.1 per game).
- Gonsolin (5-3 with a 3.72 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 72 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Dodgers, his 15th of the season.
- The righty last appeared on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he tossed five innings, allowing one earned run while giving up two hits.
- The 29-year-old has a 3.72 ERA and 7.1 strikeouts per nine innings in 14 games this season, while allowing a batting average of .196 to his opponents.
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This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series from the Hidden Brain team about people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.
When Walter Delgado was 11, he and his grandfather began a dangerous journey from their home in El Salvador to the United States. They traveled by bus, up through Central America toward the Mexican border. And because they were undocumented, they had to make the last leg of the journey across the desert, in the middle of the night, by foot.
After about six hours of walking, Delgado's feet began to hurt.
"I remember that I was wearing the worst shoes you can choose to walk in the desert. It was uncomfortable," he said.
It was also freezing cold. Delgado had come from a tropical climate and wasn't prepared for the desert's harsh drop in temperature.
"The most vivid memory I have is I could hear women crying, and sometimes they were complaining of pain in their legs. And heavy breathing," he said. "All those things are the ones that I remember."
Somewhere along the way, Delgado met another traveler named Modesto. They shared where they were from and made small talk. Then their conversation turned serious – because Delgado was faltering.
"I told him, 'Hey man, I can't, I can't, my legs,'" Delgado said. "And he just pulled me up, put me on his back and started walking."
"I must have been at least 90 pounds, probably 100 pounds."
Delgado estimates he was on Modesto's back for two or three hours. All along the way, Delgado worried about whether he and his grandfather would be among the many people who didn't survive the journey. But Modesto reassured them they would.
"He told me, 'Don't worry, we're almost there, we're gonna make it. I'm going to make sure you're gonna make it.' And those are the words that he kept saying," Delgado said.
They eventually reached their destination. Delgado became a U.S. citizen and now lives in Houston, with a job he loves, and a pit bull mix named Blue. His grandfather is now in his 80s.
Delgado said he thinks of Modesto often.
"It just blows my mind," he said. "And it's one of those defining moments in my life where it gives me hope and I can see that human beings can be a channel of goodness to the world."
"Everything that I have now, everything that I've accomplished now, it takes me back to that moment. I have a good life now, thank God. And thanks to Modesto. Because he was the one that made it all possible."
My Unsung Hero is also a podcast — new episodes are released every Tuesday and Thursday. To share the story of your unsung hero with the Hidden Brain team, record a voice memo on your phone and send it to myunsunghero@hiddenbrain.org.
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Yer gonna be a mother, Ginny!
Bonnie Wright is pregnant with her and husband Andrew Lococo's first child. The actress, best known for playing Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films, announced the news on Instagram alongside a photo of her showcasing her baby bump. For the snap, she wore a sleeveless dress while appearing with her partner in front of a picturesque mountain view.
"We're having a baby!" Wright wrote in her April 28 post. "So excited to share this beautiful land with them. What a wild and humbling journey pregnancy is, transforming to make space for new life."
The 32-year-old continued, "Andrew and I can't wait to meet our baby later this year and become parents. It feels like they're coming to say hello in the little rainbow orb across my belly."
Wright, who married Lococo in March 2022, received a slew of congratulatory comments, including from Scarlett Byrne Hefner, who played Pansy Parkinson in the Harry Potter films, and James Phelps, who played Ginny's brother Fred Weasley. After he wrote, "Congratulations," fans were delighted, with one commenting in response, "You're havin a nephew."
See the Kid Stars of Harry Potter Then and Now
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Wright is one of several former Harry Potter stars who played Hogwarts students to start a family in recent years.
Her onscreen husband Daniel Radcliffe, whose main character Harry Potter shares three kids with Ginny, welcomed his first baby with his girlfriend, Erin Darke, several weeks ago.
Meanwhile, Rupert Grint, who played Fred's younger brother and one of Harry's best friends, Ron Weasley, and his partner, Georgia Groome, share daughter Wednesday Grint, who is almost 3.
In addition, Phelps' twin brother Oliver Phelps, who played Fred's twin George Weasley, has two daughters with wife Katy Humpage, while Byrne shares three daughters with husband Cooper Hefner.
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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBERSTAMP is proud to release the 400G data center interconnect architecture based on silicon photonics transceivers. Currently, what the interconnection scenarios within 2 kilometers of 400G data centers mainly deployed are the 400G QSFP-DD DR4 transceivers based on EML technology. However, the data centers have been looking forward to a new technology that can address the higher and higher bandwidth demands coming with emerging artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, and that is silicon photonics technology.
For hyperscale data centers, 400G QSFP-DD silicon photonics optical transceivers have brought some tangible benefits. The signal generated by the silicon photonics transceivers features less dispersion, less inter-symbol interference (ISI), and the best optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), etc., which ensure the high quality of optical transmission based on the 100G PAM4 technology. For massive demands, silicon photonics can significantly reduce the cost per bit. In addition, the latency and power consumption caused by DSP can also be well reduced with silicon photonics technology.
The launch of FIBERSTAMP's 400G silicon photonics transceivers has paved the road for high-speed 400G data centers. The company is looking forward to the recognition and appreciation of customers and the industry.
Highlights of FIBERSTAMP's Silicon Photonics 400G QSFP-DD DR4/DR4+ Transceivers
- Industry-leading 7nm DSP chip
- Silicon Photonics chip integrated with multiple active and passive chips such as MZM modulators, silicon waveguides, and detectors
- 4-channel fiber array coupling components and ultra-low loss CW light source coupling technology
- The integrated chip is greatly reduced in size and can be packaged into the transceiver with mature COB technology, which significantly simplifies the design and manufacturing process.
- TDECQ ≤ 2.0dB, BER reaches 1E-11 without FEC
- Reach up to 2km and power consumption is lower than 9W
"The Silicon Photonics 400G DR4/DR4+ transceivers are designed for the intraconnection of data centers, such as the interconnection between TOR switches and Leaf switches, where the number of interconnections is extremely large," said Aaron Chow, the product manager of FIBERSTAMP, "We believe that our Silicon Photonics 400G QSFP-DD DR4/DR4+ transceivers can become the most reliable choice for data centers based on 112G PAM4."
About FIBERSTAMP
As the mail carrier of open optical network, FIBERSTAMP is committed to providing global customers with Economic, Professional and Efficient products and solutions, including 25G/50G/100G/200G/400G optical transceivers, active optical cables (AOCs), direct attached cables (DACs), 100G/200G/400G coherent optical modules, and UHD video optics.
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Update posted at 2:00 p.m. April 6
The Oregon House has passed Oregon CHIPS (Senate Bill 4) with bipartisan support.
Oregon CHIPS strategically invests $210 million to bolster Oregon’s semiconductor industry. Having already passed the Senate, Senate Bill 4 now heads to the Governor’s desk for signature.
The vote comes a day after U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo praised Oregon’s work on Oregon CHIPS at a roundtable visit with U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D- OR), Governor Tina Kotek, State Representative Janelle Bynum (D- Clackamas), Senator Janeen Sollman (D- Hillsboro), and tech industry executives.
As reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting, Secretary Raimondo described Oregon’s work on Oregon CHIPS as “exceptional.”
“Not every state has a state CHIPS Act, which includes very smart investments, like worker training, site selection and investments in companies,” Raimondo saiod. “Not every state has world class community colleges that are already working with the industry.”
“Oregon CHIPS is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to solidify our status as a global leader in semiconductor production and advanced manufacturing,” Rep. Janelle Bynum (D- Clackamas) said.
A report last year by the Oregon Semiconductor Competitiveness Task Force referred to Oregon as “home to one of the world’s leading clusters of semiconductor makers.” Oregon is home to about 15% of the semiconductor workforce in the United States.
Leverage Federal Investments: Oregon CHIPS investments include $190 million to support applications by Oregon businesses as they compete for Oregon’s share of $52 billion of federal investments made available through the CHIPS and Science Act.
“Oregon CHIPs will be a historic accomplishment when it comes to keeping Oregon’s economy stable and competitive in the 21st century,” said Rep. David Gomberg (D-Lincoln and Western Benton & Lane Counties) said.
Land Readiness: Oregon CHIPS invests $10 million to support local communities as they work to prepare sites for industrial development related to the semiconductor industry.
During a series of public hearings at the beginning of the legislative session, the Joint Committee on Semiconductors heard from representatives of cities across Oregon who said they had identified lands with good potential for manufacturing development and needed help in getting that land shovel-ready.
“By growing the semiconductor industry, we are expanding the middle class and providing living-wage jobs to thousands of Oregonians,” Rep. Nathan Sosa (D-Hillsboro) said.
Research and Development: Oregon CHIPS invests $10 million to help public universities to leverage federal research grants. This investment in the existing University Innovation Research Fund is aimed at bolstering the competitive advantage of Oregon proposals in the federal application process by demonstrating state commitment to projects related to economic development.
"The passage of Oregon CHIPS will boost prosperity in our state and make our nation safer," Rep. Kim Wallan (R- Medford) said. "Oregon is the number three producer of semiconductors in the world and the number one developer of new technology in this industry. It is vital to our economic and national security that we do everything we can to secure Oregon’s position as a global leader in advanced manufacturing. I am thrilled to see this act pass out of the legislature, and look forward to seeing it signed into law."
Oregon is among the first states in the nation to advance legislation to seize on the competitive dollars made available by the federal CHIPS and Science Act.
The bill passed with 44 ayes and 10 nays. Senate Bill 4 now heads to the Governor’s desk for signature.
Previous coverage posted March 28
The Oregon Legislature's Joint Committee on Semiconductors has passed on a bipartisan vote the OR CHIPS Bill (Senate Bill 4).
The bill is the Oregon Legislature’s first step toward securing the future of Oregon’s semiconductor economy.
The bill is designed to empower Oregon businesses to apply for a share of $52 billion in federal money from the CHIPS and Science Act. This money represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to solidify Oregon’s place as a global leader in semiconductor development and manufacturing.
“This is a crucial first step towards securing Oregon’s semiconductor future. This legislation will create good-paying, long-term jobs in every corner of our state, keep Oregon’s economy stable and competitive in the 21st Century, and protect America’s critical semiconductor supply chain,” Sen. Janeen Sollman (D-Hillsboro) said.
The bill allocates $190 million to the Oregon CHIPS Fund to be distributed via grants and loans for:
- Development and acquisition of a site for semiconductor manufacturing
- Semiconductor research and development
- Workforce development, including internships and apprenticeships
An additional $10 million is dedicated to the newly established Industrial Lands Loan Fund for financial assistance to local governments to prepare sites for semiconductor industrial development. The University Innovation Research Fund will also receive $10 million for public universities to leverage federal research grants.
“Oregon is a world class hub for semiconductors, and with SB 4, we are making our first move to draw in federal CHIPS Dollars and solidify Oregon’s status,”Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Clackamas) said. “I am so proud of the work of this committee.”
The bill requires that projects funded by OR CHIPS commit to creating permanent, full-time jobs and have a net positive impact on local and state revenues.
Semiconductor research and manufacturing jobs are well-paying, stable careers that often do not require four-year degrees. An estimated 26,000 jobs would be created by a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Oregon and could generate billions in state GDP.
“This is a great first step, but phase two begins now. Oregon has work left to do to attract business and invest in our future shared prosperity,” said Rep. Kim Wallan (R-Medford) said. “I look forward to continuing to work with this powerhouse committee.”
“OR CHIPS is a game changer for Oregon," Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber (D-Beaverton and Southwest Portland) said. "It will open up billions in funding for local businesses and innovators, create thousands of family-wage jobs, and put Oregon families in every corner of this state on the path to prosperity. “There is still more work to be done, but I applaud the urgency and effectiveness of this committee in passing such a consequential piece of legislation this early in session.”
The bill also establishes a balanced land use solution that respects Oregon’s 50-year-old land use system while allowing flexibility so the state can attract multibillion-dollar manufacturing centers. Under Senate Bill 4, the governor will have the authority to site a maximum of eight new areas outside of current urban growth boundaries.
The authority to issue an executive order is limited by clear guardrails within the bill.
Before issuing an executive order, the governor must:
- Conduct one public meeting near the site,
- Accept public comments for at least 20 days following the public meeting, and
- Determine that there is not an existing site within the urban growth boundary that meets the project’s needs.
Any land brought into the urban growth boundary must be used for semiconductor manufacturing purposes. If a project does not receive federal money through the federal CHIPS Act, the governor can then remove the land from the urban growth boundary.
Any legal challenges must be initiated within 60 days and will be directed to the Oregon Supreme Court to ensure due process is respected and Oregon does not miss out on any manufacturing opportunities due to a protracted legal process.
Senate Bill 4 now moves to the Joint Ways and Means Committee for consideration.
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Dartmouth Big Green (6-12, 2-2 Ivy League) at Harvard Crimson (11-7, 2-2 Ivy League)
The Big Green are 2-2 in conference matchups. Dartmouth is fifth in the Ivy League allowing 69.1 points while holding opponents to 42.6% shooting.
The Crimson and Big Green match up Monday for the first time in conference play this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Ledlum is averaging 19.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1.7 steals for the Crimson. Chisom Okpara is averaging 8.1 points over the last 10 games for Harvard.
Ryan Cornish is scoring 11.8 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Big Green. Cade Haskins is averaging 1.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games for Dartmouth.
LAST 10 GAMES: Crimson: 5-5, averaging 65.1 points, 37.0 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 42.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.0 points per game.
Big Green: 3-7, averaging 64.1 points, 32.2 rebounds, 10.7 assists, 5.2 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 41.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.4 points.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC is investigating potential claims against Enovix Corporation ("Enovix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ENVX). Investors who purchased Enovix securities are encouraged to obtain additional information and assist the investigation by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/envx.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida renewed Japan’s no-war pledge at a somber ceremony Monday as his country marked the 77th anniversary of its World War II defeat, but he did not mention Japanese wartime aggression.
In his first address as prime minister since taking office in October, Kishida said Japan will “stick to our resolve to never repeat the tragedy of the war.”
Kishida did not mention Japanese aggression across Asia in the first half of the 20th century or the victims in the region. The omission was a precedent set by the assassinated former leader Shinzo Abe, who had pushed to whitewash Japan’s wartime brutality.
Kishida largely focused on the damages Japan suffered on its turf — the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, massive firebombings across Japan and the bloody ground battle on Okinawa. He said the peace and prosperity that the country enjoys today is built on the suffering and sacrifices of those who died in the war.
Beginning in 2013, Abe stopped acknowledging Japan’s wartime hostilities or apologizing in his Aug. 15 speeches, scrapping the tradition that began in 1995.
Emperor Naruhito repeated his “deep remorse” over Japan’s wartime actions in a nuanced phrase in his speech, like his father, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, who devoted his career to making amends for a war fought in the name of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, the current emperor’s grandfather.
Some 900 participants observed a minute of silence at noon during the ceremony held at the Budokan arena. The crowd was reduced from about 5,000 before the pandemic, participants were asked to wear masks, and there was no singing of the national anthem.
While Kishida on Monday stayed away from praying at the Yasukuni Shrine and sent a religious ornament instead, three of his Cabinet members visited — Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi and Disaster Reconstruction Minister Kenya Akiba earlier Monday and Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday.
“I paid respects to the spirits of those who sacrificed their lives for the national policy,” Takaichi told reporters, adding that she also prayed so that there will be no more war dead in Ukraine.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno defended their Yasukuni visits by saying that “In any country, it is natural to pay respects to those who sacrificed their lives to their nation,” but that they decided to pray as “private citizens.”
“There is no change to Japan’s policy of strengtheing its ties with its neighbors China and South Korea,” Matsuno said.
Victims of Japanese actions during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see the shrine as a symbol of Japanese militarism because it honors convicted war criminals among about 2.5 million war dead.
The visits sparked criticisms from China and South Korea.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry expressed “deep disappointment and regret” over the Yasukuni visits which it said beautifies Japan’s past invasions. The ministry urged Japanese officials to “look squarely” at history and demonstrate their “sincere” remorse with action.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, on Sunday after Nishimura’s visit, criticized it as “Japanese government’s erroneous attitude toward historical issues.” Wang also urged Japan to “deeply reflect” on its wartime aggression and act responsibly to gain trust of its Asian neighbors and the larger international community.
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden likely contracted a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through the United States, and now has body aches and a sore throat since his positive test, according to an update from his doctor on Saturday.
The variant, known as BA.5, is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year, and it’s believed to be responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the country.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, wrote in his latest update on Biden’s condition that Biden’s earlier symptoms, including a runny nose and a cough, have become “less troublesome.” O’Connor’s earlier notes did not mention the sore throat or body aches.
Biden’s vital signs, such as blood pressure and respiratory rate, “remain entirely normal,” and his oxygen saturation levels are “excellent” with “no shortness of breath at all,” the doctor wrote.
O’Connor said the results of the preliminary sequencing that indicated the BA.5 variant do not affect Biden’s treatment plan “in any way.”
Biden tested positive for the virus on Thursday morning. He has been isolating in the White House residence since then. Administration officials have emphasized that his symptoms are mild because he has received four vaccine doses, and he started taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid after becoming infected.
During a virtual meeting with economic advisers on Friday, Biden was hoarse but insisted, “I feel much better than I sound.”
In his previous update on Biden’s health, O’Connor said the president had an elevated temperature of 99.4 F on Thursday evening, but it returned to normal after taking Tylenol.
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Baked custard is a classic and comforting dessert that is perfectly suited for summertime. With a silky, chilled filling and a crisp, toothsome crumb base, egg custard is an elegant but deceptively simple recipe.
That’s right: Even though baked custard might sound like a fancy dish straight out of “Bridgerton” or “Downton Abbey,” the dish (also known as custard tarts) can easily be made even by novice chefs at home.
Best of all, baked custards only require a few simple ingredients. To make a classic egg custard, you only need eggs, butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, and nutmeg. You will also need milk, but you have options here. For example, this recipe for Homemade Baked Egg Custard from Allrecipes calls for regular milk, but you can also use sweetened condensed milk (as The Southern Lady Cooks does) or evaporated milk (as Nestle recommends for its recipe).
To make the baked egg custard from Marcea on Allrecipes, you first need to make your dough. Using butter, sugar, flour, and an egg, mix your pastry dough and then roll it out onto your work surface. You can roll the pastry to the size of a standard 9-inch pie dish or you can make individual egg custards in oven-safe ramekins. (If you are baking the latter, roll out your dough and then use a jam jar or a circle-shaped cookie cutter to expertly cut your dough to the size of your baking ramekins).
To prevent your custard bottom from getting soggy, many baking experts advise that you first “blind blake” your crust. This means you bake your crust for 15-20 minutes before putting your filling in. This helps the crust firm up and not get overly soggy when you put your wet ingredients inside of the pie. For mini pies, reduce the time to 10-12 minutes.
Next, add in your egg custard filling and bake for about 45 minutes, until the egg custard is firm and only ever-so-slightly jiggly. Then, pop in the fridge and let your egg custard cool for at least an hour.
Find the full instructions for homemade baked egg custard from Allrecipes here.
You can serve your egg custard warm or chilled. Once you perfect your egg custard technique, try other variations like Baked Lemon Custard from the North Carolina Egg Association or Maple Custard from Martha Stewart.
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Small business owners may seldom think about international markets, because they are, well, “small businesses.” But what if there was an opportunity to expand beyond the U.S., and what if some seasoned consultants could help with not only market evaluations, but also with insight into the promotion of business opportunities?
Listen as Sally Handlon speaks with Andrea Hampton, Program Director for International Trade at Lehigh University’s Small Business Development Center about opportunities and supports which may help guide someone’s 2023 business efforts.
Lehigh Valley Business Beat provides an exploration of the topics and developments impacting our region's booming business scene. New episodes air the third Thursday of every month from 6:00 to 6:30 PM following All Things Considered.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The life of Los Angeles’ most famous mountain lion followed a path known only to the biggest of Hollywood stars: Discovered on-camera in 2012, the cougar adopted a stage name and enjoyed a decade of celebrity status before his tragic death late last year.
The popular puma gained fame as P-22 and cast a spotlight on the troubled population of California’s endangered mountain lions and their decreasing genetic diversity. Now, with his remains stored in a freezer at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, wildlife officials and representatives from the region’s tribal communities are debating his next act.
Biologists and conservationists want to retain samples of P-22’s tissue, fur and whiskers for scientific testing to aid in future wildlife research. But some representatives of the Chumash, Tataviam and Gabrielino (Tongva) peoples say his body should be returned, untouched, to the ancestral lands where he spent his life so he can be honored with a traditional burial.
In tribal communities here, mountain lions are regarded as relatives and considered teachers. P-22 is seen as an extraordinary animal, according to Alan Salazar, a tribal member of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians and a descendent of the Chumash tribe who said his death should be honored appropriately.
“We want to bury him like he’s a ‘wot,’ like a ‘tomier,’ ” Salazar said, “which are two of the words for chief or leader” in the Chumash and Tataviam languages, respectively. “Because that’s what he was.”
Likely born about 12 years ago in the western Santa Monica Mountains, wildlife officials believe the aggression of P-22’s father and his own struggle to find a mate amid a dwindling population drove the cougar to cross two heavily traveled freeways and migrate east.
He made his debut in 2012, captured on a trail camera by biologist Miguel Ordeñana in Griffith Park, home of the Hollywood sign and part of ancestral Gabrielino (Tongva) land.
Promptly tagged and christened P-22 — as the 22nd puma in a National Park Service study — he spawned a decade of devotion among Californians, who saw themselves mirrored in his bachelor status, his harrowing journey to the heart of Los Angeles and his prime real estate in Griffith Park amid the city’s urban sprawl. Los Angeles and Mumbai are the world’s only major cities where large cats have been a regular presence for years — mountain lions in one, leopards in the other — though pumas began roaming the streets of Santiago, Chile, during pandemic lockdowns.
Angelenos will celebrate his life on Saturday at the Greek Theater in Griffith Park in a memorial put on by the “Save LA Cougars.” P-22 inspired the group to campaign for a wildlife crossing over a Los Angeles-area freeway that will allow big cats and other animals safe passage between the mountains and wildlands to the north. The bridge broke ground in April.
P-22′s star dimmed last November, when he killed a Chihuahua on a dogwalker’s leash i n the Hollywood Hills and likely attacked another weeks later. Wildlife officials said the puma seemed to be “exhibiting signs of distress,” in part due to aging.
They captured P-22 on Dec. 12 in a residential backyard in the trendy Los Feliz neighborhood. Examinations revealed a skull fracture — the result of being hit by a car — and chronic illnesses including a skin infection and diseases of the kidneys and liver.
The city’s cherished big cat was euthanized five days later.
Los Angeles mourned P-22 as one of its own, with songs, stories and murals crying “long live the king.” Post-It notes of remembrance blanketed an exhibit wall at the Natural History Museum and children’s paw print messages covered a tableau outside the LA Zoo.
While fame is fleeting for most celebrities, P-22’s legacy lives on — though in what form is now up for debate.
The Natural History Museum took possession of the animal’s remains, prompting swift condemnation by tribal leaders who feared P-22′s body could be taxidermized and put on display. Samples taken during the animal’s necropsy also are causing concerns among the tribal communities about burying the cougar intact.
“In order to continue on your journey into the afterlife, you have to be whole,” said Desireé Martinez, an archaeologist and member of the Gabrielino (Tongva) community.
A year before P-22’s death, Ordeñana — the wildlife biologist whose camera first spotted the cougar and is now a senior manager of community science at the Natural History Museum — had applied for a permit from the state for the museum to receive the mountain lion’s remains when he died. Typically an animal carcass would be discarded.
Ordeñana and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife have apologized, saying they should have spoken with the tribes from the start.
Museum, state and other officials began talks with the tribes Monday in the hopes of reaching a compromise. Ordeñana and other scientists are advocating to retain at least some of P-22’s tissue samples to preserve future research opportunities for the endangered animals as new technologies and techniques arise.
“We’re trying to see what can we do differently — regarding outreach, regarding our process — that is feasible for us as an institution,” Ordeñana said, “but respectful of both the scientific and the cultural-historic legacy of these animals.”
Salazar and Martinez, however, do not believe samples should be taken from the animal’s remains and held by the museum in perpetuity.
“We’ve been studied like the mountain lion has been studied,” Salazar said. “Those bones of my tribal ancestors are in boxes so they can be studied by future generations. We’re not a science project.”
Beth Pratt, California executive director for the National Wildlife Federation and a key player in developing the wildlife crossing, said it’s important to balance the different arguments to ensure the diminishing LA cougar population has a future.
“We do need data from these animals, even P-22, for science,” said Pratt, who calls him “the Brad Pitt” of pumas.
Chuck Bonham, director of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the P-22 discussions have forced his agency and others to reckon with their outreach to California’s tribes.
“I think he’ll live forever in this way,” Bonham said.
Martinez, of the Gabrielino (Tongva) community, said the beloved mountain lion’s death also symbolizes how humans must take responsibility for respecting animals’ lives.
“We are wildlife. We are creatures of nature, just as all the animals and plants are,” Martinez said. “What can we do to make sure that the creatures that we are sharing this nature with have the ability to survive and live on — just like us?”
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HOUSTON (AP) — Lamont Butler hit the biggest shot in San Diego State history, putting the Aztecs in the national championship game for the first time.
The next step, in Monday’s title game, will be a difficult one.
UConn has been the dominant team all through the bracket, delivering one beatdown after another while showing no weaknesses — even on a short turnaround.
The Huskies snatched the euphoria right out of Gonzaga last week in the Elite Eight, ruining the Zags’ vibes after their last-second win over UCLA two days earlier. Baylor did the same thing to Gonzaga in the 2021 national title game, bullying the Zags two days after Jalen Suggs’ miracle shot.
“We don’t stop,” UConn guard Jordan Hawkins said after scoring 13 points against Miami on Saturday night. “We keep putting our foot on their neck. We have a really tough team.”
The Huskies got to the title game by breaking their opponents’ will.
UConn won its first four NCAA Tournament games by at least 15 points and wrecked Miami’s first Final Four appearance by dominating the Hurricanes at both ends in a 72-59 win.
The Aztecs have done it with defense.
San Diego State shut down four straight NCAA Tournament opponents and leaned on its D in the second half to overcome a 14-point deficit to ruin Florida Atlantic’s first Final Four. Butler provided the heroics, hitting a buzzer-beater in the 72-71 win that had all of San Diego celebrating.
The first buzzer-beating game-winner by a trailing team in Final Four history now puts the Aztecs within a win of the Mountain West Conference’s first national title.
“I don’t consider ourselves a mid-major,” San Diego State coach Brian Dutcher said. “I think we’re a high-major program.”
UConn (30-8) will be vying for its fifth national title since 1999, but first since Dan Hurley was hired to bring back the program after its fall from grace.
UConn won its fourth title under Kevin Ollie in 2014, but spiraled downward in the wake of recruiting violations and Ollie’s ugly departure.
When Hurley took over in 2018, UConn was 170th on the KenPom analytics rankings and low on the national relevance scale.
The knock on Hurley’s Huskies then turned to UConn’s meager Marches; two first-round NCAA Tournament burnouts, including to No. 12 seed New Mexico State last year.
UConn had an uneven 2022-23 season, climbing to No. 2 in the AP Top 25, tumbling back toward irrelevance with six losses in eight games.
The Huskies turned into the best team in the maddest of Marches that culminated in the most unexpected Final Four, putting them in position to tie Duke and Indiana for fourth on the all-time championships list.
“The group has shown their quality so many times in terms of the level that we could play at,” Hurley said. “And I think we experienced everything in that month of January, it’s a battle-tested team.”
For San Diego State (32-6), Monday’s title game will be the culmination of the program building Steve Fisher started and Dutcher pushed forward.
Fisher had built San Diego State into a mid-major power, leading them to six straight NCAA Tournaments. When he retired in 2017, the reins were handed to Dutcher, his assistant back to Michigan’s national championship with the Fab Five in 1989.
Dutcher kept many of the same principles Fisher had, adding an extra dash of defensive devilry.
San Diego State appeared ready to break through in 2020, on its way to a likely No. 1 seed before the pandemic wiped out the NCAA Tournament.
The Aztecs suffered first-round NCAA Tournament flameouts the next two seasons before becoming defensive dominators this year.
San Diego State was fourth in the KenPom.com defensive efficiency ratings while winning 27 games during the regular season. The Aztecs took it to new lows in the NCAA Tournament, holding their first four opponents to 57 points per game and 17% shooting from the 3-point arc.
Upstart FAU appeared to have solved San Diego State’s defense in the first half of Saturday night’s first semifinal, stretching its lead to 14 midway through the second half.
The Aztecs got back to being dirty (in a good way) to get back in it and Butler finished if off with one of the most memorable shots in NCAA Tournament history.
“We’re going to the national championship,” Butler said. “That’s not things many people do.”
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“I’m jealous you get to meet her,” an employee working behind the scenes at a recent press opportunity for “Daisy Jones & the Six” told some journalists.
“Daisy Jones,” debuting Friday on Prime Video, is the first Reid adaptation to hit the screen and others are in the works.
Reid and her husband, Alex, adapted an early book, “One True Loves,” which stars Phillipa Soo and Simu Liu and opens April 7. She’s also written a screenplay with her best friend, which Kay Cannon (”Pitch Perfect”) is slated to direct.
Reid says she always knew she wanted to work in Hollywood and calls writing books “a happy accident.” She originally moved out to Los Angeles to work in casting but when she wrote her first novel, “Forever Interrupted,” she knew that was what she was meant to do.
“I found this piece of myself I never anticipated,” she says. Now, to have Hollywood come calling for her work, Reid says, is “really fun.”
Reid spoke with The Associated Press about the future of her book series, the intertwining threads and the status of that “Evelyn Hugo” adaptation. The transcript has been condensed for brevity.
AP: You’ve said that your most recent novel, “Carrie Soto is Back,” is the last in your series of books about celebrities. Is that true?
It’s not something that I come to easily. I ache to return to this world. I ache to return to each one of these books. I miss them when I’m done with them. And they never feel like they never feel over for me. It always feels like an opportunity to go back to them is so welcome.
But I have likened it a little bit to, you know, it’s senior year of high school and .. it’s important that we go expand and do other things and find new challenges. That is what I am planning to do. It is not because I’m ready to go as much as I just know it’s time.
AP: The character of Mick Riva, a playboy, smooth-talking crooner shows up in each of those books. Why?
First and foremost, I write about women and I’m interested in women, but women are very affected by the decisions of men and a lot of time women are left holding the bag. When men make the decisions that they do, that they sort of escape unscathed. There are a lot of men in our culture who keep making pretty big mistakes, and it doesn’t stick to them, but there are women behind those men dealing with the consequences of those men’s actions.
While I do write about women, I wanted to put forth a man who gets away with it. I know people hate him. And I know when they see his name in books, they get mad. But I want you to be mad because there are many, many, many Mick Rivas in the world. I think we would all do well to look out and see if we can spot any of them, because they’re getting away with a lot and they’re allowing the women around them to be the one to pick up the pieces, whether it’s whether it’s Nina Riva or it’s Evelyn Hugo or it’s Daisy Jones at a party or it’s Javier Soto finally being the person who calls them out.
Not every man is Mick Riva, but there are a lot of Mick Rivas in the world.
AP: Do you agree that there was a change in tone to your writing from “Evelyn Hugo” on? If so, was it intentional?
Absolutely. I’m not sure it was intentional as much as it was honestly not too similar to how I feel now with the end of “Carrie Soto.” It was just time. I want to tackle new and different things, and it’s really wonderful when you find this pocket of creativity where you feel like, “Oh, I can live in this space for a little while and I can tell a lot of stories here,” but I never want to stay at the party too long.
AP: “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” blew up, in large part due to readers on TikTok posting about it. What was that experience like for you?
You probably heard about it before me, because what happened to me was I’m sitting at my computer. I get an email from my agent with the New York Times list, and she’s like, “’Evelyn Hugo’ just made The New York Times.” I yelled in my office and my husband comes rushing in ... and I’m like, “I must be misunderstanding this, right? Can you read this?”
The book had come out many, many years before and had not hit the list when it first came out. My husband read it and he’s like, “Nope, I think this is real. I think you’re understanding this.” It took us probably two weeks to figure out how it had happened. Everyone kept going, “What led to this bump?” And I’m like, “I don’t know.” Then my manager, Brad, he goes, “I think it was something called BookTok.” I was like, “What’s that?” And he started showing me that there were all these young women talking about “Evelyn Hugo” on TikTok. I felt very seen because I’m very, very proud of that book and to have it take off with readers, especially young women, just felt really good.
AP: Netflix is adapting “Evelyn Hugo” into a film. Did you ever wonder how they’re going to fit a story of a woman who had seven husbands into a movie?
I did. Then I read the script and I’m not concerned, but I get it. I understand. It’s not dissimilar to the experience on “Daisy Jones.” You have to pick the right people and trust them. Liz Tigelaar, who wrote the script, is a phenomenal talent, and I said, “I don’t know how you’re going to do this. I think you need to condense the story.” And she said, “No, I don’t.” ... And then she turns in the script and I was like, “I was wrong. You were right. You got it.”
AP: Can you share where the casting process is at for “Evelyn Hugo”?
There is no news but I will say that who is going to play Evelyn Hugo and who might play Celia St. James are always on the forefront of my mind. There is no definitive answer (but) there’s just a short list of women that I am incredibly, incredibly excited about.
AP: During the height of the pandemic you also wrote a screenplay with your best friend Ashley — who was not a writer prior to this — sold it, and Kay Cannon will direct. Not everyone would take a chance like that.
I grew up with very little, and I have so much more than I ever dreamed. I never thought people would read my books at this rate. I never thought that Hollywood would come calling. I have been so blessed that if all I’m doing is taking that in and I’m not using that light to bounce it on others, I’m not sure why I’m doing this.
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Kremlin poker-faced on US swap offer to free Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin warned Thursday that a possible prisoner swap with the United States involving American basketball star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated quietly without fanfare.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Washington had offered Russia a deal that would bring home Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan. A person familiar with the matter said the U.S. government proposed trading convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Whelan and Griner.
Asked about the U.S. offer, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied that prisoner swaps were typically negotiated discreetly behind the scenes.
“We know that such issues are discussed without any such release of information,” Peskov told reporters during a conference call. “Normally, the public learns about it when the agreements are already implemented.”
He emphasized that “no agreements have been finalized” and refused to provide further details.
In a separate statement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russian and U.S. officials have conducted negotiations about possible prisoner exchanges and “there has been no concrete result yet.”
“We proceed from the assumption that interests of both parties should be taken into account during the negotiations,” Zakharova said.
Blinken’s comments marked the first time the U.S. government publicly revealed any concrete action it has taken to secure Griner’s release. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and player for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury was arrested at a Moscow airport in mid-February when inspectors found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
In a sharp reversal of previous policy, Blinken said he expects to speak with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss the proposed prisoner deal and other matters. It would be their first phone call since before Russia sent its troops into Ukraine.
Russia has for years expressed interest in the release of Bout, a Russian arms dealer once labeled the “Merchant of Death.” He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012 on charges that he schemed to illegally sell millions of dollars in weapons.
Griner’s trial on drug charges started in a court outside Moscow this month, and she testified Wednesday that she didn’t know how the cartridges ended up in her bag but that she had a doctor’s recommendation to use cannabis to treat career-related pain.
The 31-year-old has pleaded guilty but said she had no criminal intent in bringing the cartridges to Russia and packed in haste for her return to play in a Russian basketball league during the WNBA’s offseason. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of transporting drugs.
On Wednesday, Griner testified that a language interpreter translated only a fraction of what was being said while she was detained at Moscow’s airport and that officials told her to sign documents, but “no one explained any of it to me.”
Griner also said that besides the poor translation, she received no explanation of her rights or access to a lawyer during the initial hours of her detention. She said she used a translation app on her phone to communicate with a customs officer.
Her arrest came at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington ahead of Russia sending troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Griner’s five months of detention have raised strong criticism among teammates and supporters in the United States.
The Biden administration has faced political pressure to free Griner and other Americans whom the U.S. has declared to be “wrongfully detained” — a designation sharply rejected by Russian officials.
Whelan, a corporate security executive from Michigan, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges in 2020. He and his family have vigorously asserted his innocence. The U.S. government has denounced the charges as false.
Washington has long resisted prisoner swaps out of concern that they could encourage additional hostage-taking and promote false equivalency between a wrongfully detained American and a foreign national regarded as justly convicted.
In April, however, the government struck a deal to trade U.S. Marine veteran Trevor Reed for jailed Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko.
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Matthew Lee and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Gracie Perryman, a 20-year-old college student just a month shy of her 21st birthday, had an unexpected surprise when she attended her grandmother's funeral on Oct. 18 in Breckenridge, Texas.
Jodie Perryman, who died of cancer at age 81, prepared for the occasion by making handmade Ouija boards for guests. The unexpected keepsake also included a photo of Perryman sticking her tongue out and putting her middle fingers up in the air, along with a little note that read, "Let's keep in touch!"
"It was hysterical," Gracie Perryman, who lives in Austin, which is about a 3 1/2 hour drive south of Breckenridge, said. "And everybody was like, of course, that's so Jodie of her."
Perryman described her grandmother, who used to work in retail, as a "firecracker" who could "outwit anybody."
"She was hilarious. She had a great sense of humor and a huge heart," Perryman said. "She loved her family. And she just took care of people around her. She was a great woman."
Perryman said that her grandmother started to notice that her health was declining "pretty quickly" over the summer.
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Ultimately, she was faced with two choices: get surgery, even though her body might not be able to handle the operation, or let her cancer take its course. She chose the latter.
But before Jodie Perryman died on Oct. 12, she reached out to her network on Facebook in August and promised that "everyone will be gifted their very own ouija board" at her funeral "with a little note from me that says: 'Let's keep in touch!"
Despite this declaration, Gracie Perryman was surprised when it happened.
"'What on Earth is this?'" she recalls thinking when she opened up the gift at the funeral. And then, a few seconds later, she said that laughter erupted in the room of about 30 to 40 people because everyone was opening up their gifts, too.
"Everyone was dying, laughing. It was hilarious," she said, "because that was so her."
Perryman said that she and her roommates tried to use the Ouija board later on, but they soon realized it didn't work.
"It's just paper," she said while laughing. "We tried but to no avail."
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A man charged with kidnapping a woman and her 4-year-old son and sexually assaulting the mother after he escaped from a substance abuse treatment center went on trial for some of the charges Tuesday.
Everett Simpson, 45, is charged in federal court with two counts of kidnapping and two counts of interstate car theft. He is representing himself in the trial, which is expected to last four days. If convicted of the kidnapping charge, he could be sentenced to life in prison. Simpson was charged separately in state court with sexually assaulting the woman. He has not yet entered a plea on that charge.
The start of the federal trial was delayed several times, at least in part because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Before the jury entered the courtroom Tuesday, Simpson, who is being assisted by a federal public defender, told U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions he objected to the wording of the indictment. Sessions told him he was obligated to read the indictment to the jury.
Police say Simpson left a Vermont drug abuse treatment center on Jan. 4, 2019, stole a vehicle, and traveled the next day to a shopping mall in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he is accused of pushing the woman and child into their car and driving them to Vermont.
Once back in Vermont, Simpson traveled back roads along the Connecticut River about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of the capital of Montpelier looking for his estranged wife, Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Lasher said in opening statements. Simpson then went to a hotel in White River Junction, where he eventually released the woman and child, and drove the woman’s car to Pennsylvania, where he was arrested, Lasher said.
The prosecutor told jurors that witnesses will describe how Simpson stole two vehicles, and that the woman will testify about being “subjected to sexual acts” in front of her son.
In a brief opening statement, Simpson said that none of the witnesses would be able to corroborate the woman's story or the case presented by prosecutors. “There is no evidence to suggest she was seized against her will,” he said. “I did not do these things."
In 2020, the woman received $400,000 in the settlement of a lawsuit accusing the state of Vermont of not doing enough to find Simpson after he left the addiction treatment center.
She also filed suit against the center. The status of that case is unclear.
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Jae Crowder trade odds, speculation includes Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks
The Jae Crowder saga continues with the Phoenix Suns, but a new set of odds offers hope the NBA team could soon trade the forward, who has not played all season for the team.
Bookies.com released NBA trade deadline team odds for Crowder and it has the Miami Heat as the favorite, at +275, or a 26.7% implied probability.
The Atlanta Hawks are each at +450, with Atlanta having a 22.2% probability and Milwaukee interestingly at 18.2%.
The Suns are fourth in the odds at +500, or a 16.7% implied probability.
Only two other teams are included in the odds, the Indiana Pacers (+800, 11.1%) and the Brooklyn Nets (+1000, 9.1%). "The Field" is given odds of +525, or 16%.
The NBA trade deadline is Feb. 9 and speculation about Crowder's future has accompanied the team all season.
Bookies.com's Adam Thompson writes of Crowder's trade chances: "The Heat, our NBA betting frontrunners, and Hawks have inquired about Crowder for over a month, with the Bucks getting into the mix more recently. Three weeks ago, Crowder was part of a three-team trade that would have sent the former Marquette standout back to Milwaukee, but it fizzled late. All three of potential suitors are Eastern Conference contenders looking for help in the stretch run and beyond. Phoenix has held up any moves by seeking playoff-caliber talent in exchange."
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Sports Illustrated recently listed the Hawks, Heat and Bucks as the teams that could offer Phoenix the most in a potential deal for Crowder, including John Collins as a possible piece going back to the Suns.
Everett Williams wrote: "Giving up important role players for Collins could be worth looking into if the Suns want to make a major change. He certainly has the most potential of the available candidates for the Suns. Collins carries with him significant talent, but the checkbook will ultimately have the final say for the Suns."
Fansided speculated about the Suns trading potentially trading Crowder to the Cavaliers for Cedi Osman.
Josh Cornelissen wrote: "Osman could fill in some of that rotational space, giving the Suns a steady hand who has a decent jumper and good enough defensive chops. Whether it’s inside of a three-team trade or something worked out for Jae Crowder, Osman could help the Suns at a point of weakness as they’re trying to rebuild a contending roster in time to not miss the playoffs."
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Bleacher Report speculated that the price for Crowder might not be all that high.
Andy Bailey writes: "He could certainly bolster the rotations of both of those teams (Bucks and Heat), assuming it doesn't take too long for him to get back up to speed. And considering what he's done to his own trade value over the last several months, the final price of this trade shouldn't be too high."
Fansided speculated about the Bucks potentially doing a 3-team deal for Crowder.
Dalton Sell writes: "Despite their best efforts, the Bucks have not been able to pry Crowder away from the Suns, who are seemingly holding out to make a move until the deadline. The Bucks do not have the strongest assets in a trade for Crowder, so getting another team involved to give up some assets would help. Perhaps the Wizards will look to make more moves after trading Rui Hachimura to Los Angeles recently. With one big man out the door, perhaps they could look to add another, hence their rumored interest in Ibaka. The Crowder theory is just speculation, but it would make sense for the Bucks, who seem intent on adding the veteran power forward in the next few weeks."
Will the Suns trade Crowder? Where will he end up?
We might not have to wait long to find out.
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WIND CHILL ADVISORY
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121 AM EST Sat Feb 4 2023
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST THIS
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* WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 20 below
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* WHERE...Portions of southern Connecticut, northeast New Jersey
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* WHEN...Until 9 AM EST this morning.
* IMPACTS...The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on
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* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Wind chills could reach as low as 25 below
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration’s failed border policies.
Flights to the upscale island enclave in Massachusetts were part of an effort to “transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations,” said Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ communications director.
While DeSantis’ office didn’t elaborate on their legal status, many migrants who cross the border illegally from Mexico are temporarily shielded from deportation after being freed by U.S. authorities to pursue asylum in immigration court — as allowed under U.S law and international treaty — or released on humanitarian parole.
Massachusetts’ Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, said he was in touch with local officials and that short-term shelter was being provided.
State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who represents Martha’s Vineyard, tweeted: “Our island jumped into action putting together 50 beds, giving everyone a good meal, providing a play area for the children, making sure people have the healthcare and support they need. We are a community that comes together to support immigrants.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing thousands of migrants to Washington in April and recently added New York and Chicago as destinations. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has been busing migrants to Washington since May. Passengers must sign waivers that the free trips are voluntary.
DeSantis, who is mentioned as potential presidential candidate, appears to be taking the strategy to a new level by using planes and choosing Martha’s Vineyard, whose harbor towns that are home to about 15,000 people are far less prepared than New York or Washington for large influxes of migrants.
The move is likely to delight DeSantis’ supporters who deride Democrat-led, immigrant-friendly “sanctuary” cities and anger critics who say he is weaponizing migrants as pawns for political gain.
The Florida Legislature appropriated $12 million to transport “illegal immigrants” from the state consistent with federal law, Fenske said.
“States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies,” Fenske said.
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Rescue group trying to find new home for dog after owner surrenders her at airport
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WSOC) – An animal rescue group is trying to find a home for a dog that was surrendered at a North Carolina airport.
Daryl Strickland, the founder of Furbabies Animal Rescue, said the dog, named Baby Girl, was surrendered at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Tuesday.
Baby Girl has since been fostered by Robin King.
“We’ve taken her to the vet, and she’s real friendly with everybody,” King said. “And just lays up on the couch and made herself right at home.”
King said the two of them have become inseparable.
“This was just an emergency situation, but I felt like I can do this at this moment,” she said.
Strickland said she thinks of King as a fairy fur-godmother after the first-time foster mom stepped up to take care of Baby Girl at a moment’s notice.
An airline worker alerted Furbabies after the pup was surrendered after her owner, who asked not to be identified, said she couldn’t fit the dog’s crate under her seat and was unable to pay the crate-transport fees.
“Baby girl was not abandoned at the airport. I surrendered her,” the woman said.
The dog’s owner, who is visually impaired and on a fixed income, said she left the dog with Furbabies before boarding the plane.
She said she wouldn’t have left Baby Girl if the dog was not in good hands.
“I wouldn’t have gone on the plane,” the dog’s former owner said. “I would’ve been homeless. I would’ve stayed on the streets of North Carolina with my dog.”
An airline worker contacted Strickland, with Furbabies Animal Rescue, and King picked the dog up from the airport Tuesday.
Now, they are trying to give the 14-year-old Beagle a fresh start with a new family.
“She’s an older dog, so she would have to go to an older family,” King said. “She likes her little walks but not very enthusiastic like little dogs would be.”
King said she’s confident Baby Girl will be more enthusiastic when she finds her forever home.
The rescue group said Baby Girl still needs blood and dental work before she can go to a home. The group estimates the vet bill will cost about $1,000.
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Space Force releases official song
Published: Sep. 20, 2022 at 5:07 PM EDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
(CNN) - Every other branch of the U.S. military has its own official song, and now the newest branch has one too.
The U.S. Space Force was created in 2019, and the force’s official song was unveiled at a conference Tuesday in Maryland.
The song, titled “Semper Supra,” was written and composed by a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a former member of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Here are the lyrics:
“We’re the mighty watchful eye,
Guardians beyond the blue,
The invisible front line,
Warfighters brave and true.
Boldly reaching into space,
There’s no limit to our sky.
Standing guard both night and day,
We’re the Space Force from on high.”
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Who is Joe Biggs? Fate of seditious conspiracy defendant in hands of the jury
It was 2020, a month or so before the presidential election. "Proud Boy" Joseph Randall Biggs was speaking with a News-Journal reporter and reflecting on how he would react if then-President Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden.
In the interview, Biggs, now 39, said there were things he liked about Trump and things he didn't like. "If he loses, then so be it," he said. "I'm not gonna be out there (expletive) flipping out and acting like a child."
He lost. And today the former Volusia County resident faces more than 20 years in federal prison as he awaits a jury verdict in a trial where he is charged with seditious conspiracy and other crimes for his role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots.
Who is Joe Biggs?
As jurors deliberate the fate of Biggs and four codefendants, here are some things the otherwise outspoken Army veteran has said about his life, the Proud Boys, and the 2020 election.
A North Carolina native, Biggs joined the Army Reserve in 2004 and served on active duty from 2007 until 2012, according to a U.S. Army spokesperson. (Biggs disputes having served in the reserves.) He served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving service as a staff sergeant. He received several honors.
He told the News-Journal that he earned a Purple Heart for "getting blown up" during his service.
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He said his transition to civilian life was rough; injuries to his foot and knee required rehabilitation.
In a YouTube video, Biggs described himself in the 2012 time frame: "I'm freshly coming out of the Army. I was depressed. I was drinking heavily, all day every day. I was suicidal and I was out of my mind."
Alex Jones 'saved my life'
While Biggs was in the Army, he met the late journalist Michael Hastings, who helped him get his start in media. Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist whose website and program Infowars got millions of monthly visits, saw Biggs on TV and invited him to appear on his show.
"I would come on and talk with (Jones) and eventually him and I became friends and he asked me to come to Austin and he kept offering me a job," Biggs told The News-Journal, "and I didn't really want to do it and eventually I said, '(expletive) it. Nobody wants to hire military guys anymore and this guy's willing to pay me.'"
He was with Infowars for nine years and three months, according to his still-accessible LinkedIn profile. He listed his job as an "investigative journalist."
In the YouTube video, Biggs said the Infowars job was a life-changing event.
"When Alex Jones hired me at Infowars, it saved my life," he said. "I turned my life around and picked my ass up and went out and started doing something. I saw that I had a reason to live."
Jones' was sued for making defamatory statements about the Sandy Hook shooting and plaintiffs were awarded $1.5 billion in damages. On December 2, 2022, he filed for personal bankruptcy.
On joining the Proud Boys
After he left Infowars, Biggs moved to a home co-owned by his mother in unincorporated Volusia County with an Ormond Beach mailing address. He was married and had a daughter, got divorced, and joined the Proud Boys, whose founder, Gavin MacInnes, hired Biggs to host his own show on the website Censored.TV.
Originally claiming the Proud Boys were a "drinking club" interested in "Western chauvinism," the group morphed into something more political and violent. The Proud Boys intervened in Black Lives Matter and gay-pride rallies around the country in 2020. Biggs responded to a News-Journal question about whether he's a white nationalist or that the Proud Boys are racist.
"I'm a nationalist, yes, as far as I have pride in my country," he said. "But the white thing, no, I don't give a (expletive) --- what your color is."
Biggs compared his time in the Army to the Proud Boys. "It's just like when you're in the military. You have a brotherhood. You have a bunch of guys you can depend on that will have your back and it's kind of nice having that."
Coming to Washington
Journalist Brandi Buchman, who covered the entire seditious conspiracy trial, reported in Emptywheel.net that Biggs shared text messages with co-defendant and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in December 2020. It was the height of Trump's "Stop the Steal" conspiracy theory claims that led many Americans to believe the 2020 election was rigged.
“Let’s get radical and get real men,” Biggs wrote to Tarrio on Dec. 19, the same day Trump urged supporters to come to a rally in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, promising it "Will be wild."
Later, Biggs wrote: "No one looks at us from our side and sees a drinking club. They see men who stand up and fight. We need to portray a more masculine vibe.”
The following day, Biggs bought airline tickets to be in Washington from Jan. 5 to Jan. 7, Buchman reported.
On Jan. 6, Trump spoke at a large rally of supporters on the Ellipse urging them to march on the Capitol as Congress was certifying the results of November's presidential election. Biggs and a large contingent of Proud Boys had been moving toward the Capitol.
According to a federal indictment, Biggs, a co-defendant, and others in the crowd tore down a black metal fence between the crowd and police. Biggs and many others who had been led by Biggs and as well as a co-defendant then went past the trampled barrier and into the Capitol grounds west plaza.
Co-defendant Dominic Pezzola, of Philadelphia, used a riot shield he took from a police officer to smash the window in the Capitol and people started to enter. Biggs entered at 2:14 p.m. through an adjacent door with other Proud Boys.
After later exiting the Capitol, Biggs and several other Proud Boys members posed for a picture on the steps on the east side of the Capitol. Biggs took a video in which he said “We’ve taken the Capitol.”
In the jury's hands
Indicted on seditious conspiracy charges were Biggs, Tarrio, of Miami, the group’s former national chairman, Ethan Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, Zachary Rehl, of Philadelphia, and Pezzola. The seditious conspiracy charge alone could result in 20-year prison sentences for the men.
They were also hit with a number of charges including conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. Pezzola is also charged with robbery for taking the shield.
After a more than three-month trial, prosecutors, in closing arguments, said the Proud Boys wanted to be "Donald Trump's army" and were "thirsting for violence and organizing for action” ahead of the Jan. 6 attack, according to news reports.
Biggs' lawyer, according to an NBC News report, said the defendants came to Washington because of Trump's tweet.
“‘Be there, it’s going to be wild,’ the commander-in-chief said. And so they did,” Norm Pattis told jurors, adding that “their commander-in-chief sold them a lie.”
The fate of Biggs and the others is now in the hands of a jury.
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Former UCLA defensive coordinator Bill McGovern passes away at 60
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill McGovern, who was an assistant coach for 39 years in the college ranks and in the NFL, has died. He was 60.
UCLA announced McGovern died on Tuesday due to cancer. The family informed the school of his death.
McGovern was the Bruins’ defensive coordinator last year but missed most of the second half of the season due to health issues. He remained on staff as director of football administration.
McGovern was an assistant mostly in college, including 13 seasons at Boston College (2000-12) where he was the linebackers coach and later defensive coordinator for four seasons. He also coached at Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Massachusetts, Holy Cross and Penn.
In the NFL, McGovern had stints with the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants and Chicago Bears.
McGovern also had a successful playing career at Holy Cross. He was a four-year starter at defensive back and set a NCAA Division I-AA record with 11 interceptions in 1984. His 24 career picks also tied a Division I-AA record. He is in Holy Cross’ Hall of Fame and is currently on the ballot as a candidate for the College Football Hall of Fame.
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The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT is set to testify before Congress as lawmakers call for new rules to guide the rapid development of AI technology.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to speak at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
His San Francisco-based startup rocketed to public attention after its release late last year of ChatGPT, a free chatbot tool that answers questions with convincingly human-like responses.
What started out as a panic among educators about ChatGPT's use to cheat on homework assignments has expanded to broader concerns about the ability of the latest crop of “generative AI” tools to mislead people, spread falsehoods, violate copyright protections and upend some jobs.
And while there's no immediate sign that Congress will craft sweeping new AI rules, as European lawmakers are doing, the societal concerns brought Altman and other tech CEOs to the White House earlier this month and have led U.S. agencies to promise to crack down on harmful AI products that break existing civil rights and consumer protection laws.
“Artificial intelligence urgently needs rules and safeguards to address its immense promise and pitfalls,” said a prepared statement from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI is also known for other AI products including the image-maker DALL-E. Microsoft has invested billions of dollars into the startup and has integrated its technology into its own products, including its search engine Bing.
Also testifying will be IBM's chief privacy and trust officer, Christina Montgomery, and Gary Marcus, a professor emeritus at New York University who was among a group of AI experts who called on OpenAI and other tech firms to pause their development of more powerful AI models for six months to give society more time to consider the risks. The letter was a response to the March release of OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4, described as more powerful than ChatGPT.
“Artificial intelligence will be transformative in ways we can’t even imagine, with implications for Americans’ elections, jobs, and security,” said the panel's ranking Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. “This hearing marks a critical first step towards understanding what Congress should do.”
Altman and other tech industry leaders have said they welcome some form of AI oversight but have cautioned against what they see as overly heavy-handed rules. In a copy of her prepared remarks, IBM's Montgomery asks Congress to take a “precision regulation" approach.
"This means establishing rules to govern the deployment of AI in specific use-cases, not regulating the technology itself,” Montgomery said.
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MIDDELBURG, South Africa (AP) — Plumes of heat-trapping pollutants last billowed from the giant stacks of Komati Power Station in October, when the coal-fired plant that fed South Africa’s hungry electrical grid for more than half a century was shut down to make way for a solar, wind and battery storage plant.
Converting Komati to be part of the clean energy revolution is seen as an important test case for coal-reliant South Africa, the world’s 16th-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and developing nations elsewhere. It’s supported by $497 million, most of it from the World Bank.
The problem, energy experts say, is that almost all that money is in the form of loans that can be difficult for developing nations to repay. And that risks hobbling the global effort to cut emissions and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
For South Africa, which needs an estimated $38 billion over the next five years to meet its climate goals, the structure of the Komati funding should be concerning, said Andrew Lawrence, an analyst and senior researcher at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Not only is most of the money in loans, but the loans are dollar-denominated. South Africa’s rand will depreciate against the dollar, “so that is going to become an increasingly snowballing financial burden,” Lawrence said.
As world leaders open a two-day global finance summit Thursday in Paris, a central question will be: How can they get the developing world the finances they need to move away from fossil fuels while also growing their economies?
“We can’t in the developing world say, look, you got rich by polluting, we’re going to wait till we get rich and then we’re going to start doing what you’re doing now,” said Avinash Persaud, special envoy to Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley on climate finance. “We could say that, but that isn’t the solution for the planet. What we need to do is finance the transition so it can be scaled up and done faster than it would otherwise get done.”
Persaud was one of the architects of the Bridgetown Initiative, first put forward by Mottley at last year’s United Nations climate summit in Egypt and now expected to be a cornerstone of the Paris summit. The initiative, named for the Barbados capital, would overhaul the way development lending works to aid developing nations struggling under rising debt from climate damage.
It calls for loan clauses that allow for suspending payments when a country is hit by a natural disaster or pandemic, thus freeing up millions of dollars that could be spent on relief and rebuilding. Barbados has been a pioneer in such clauses, last year issuing its first sovereign bond with such a provision.
The plan offers several ideas for lowering borrowing costs for developing countries, including offering loans to climate-vulnerable countries at below-market rates. Another would have the World Bank and other multilateral development banks offer currency risk guarantees so investors aren’t worried about currency fluctuations.
Loans made in local currency can help protect recipient countries if their currencies are downgraded, said David Uzsoki, who offers research and advice on sustainable finance to investors and government officials via the International Institute for Sustainable Development. But international lenders needed to back large projects are generally not willing to take on that risk, he said.
Riya Saxena of the New Delhi-based clean energy non-profit group RMI India said that makes it all the more important to come up with innovative financial structures that guard international investors from currency risks.
A panel of scientists convened by the United Nations estimated that $2.4 trillion is needed each year by 2035 if the world is to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Much of that need is in developing countries, who account for nearly 80% of the world’s population and whose leaders have made repeated promises to bring their people out of poverty.
Growing economies and improving living conditions have a cost, though, especially when the growth is fueled by fossil fuels. While 79% of greenhouse gases emitted in the last 170 years are from rich countries, developing countries have contributed up to 63% of annual emissions in recent years, according to an analysis by the Center for Global Development.
And pressure to continue using fossil fuels can be intense. South Africa, which gets 80% of its electricity from coal, is dealing with a power shortfall that has led to rolling nationwide blackouts that have damaged the economy. With national elections looming next year, President Cyril Ramaphosa this spring said South Africa might delay decommissioning some coal plants to ease the blackouts.
Suranjali Tandon, an associate professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, a research institute under India’s Ministry of Finance, was dubious about the “massive shift” in global finance that the Bridgetown Initiative would require. She suggested changes might be easier at a regional level — for example, dedicating tax revenues from fossil fuel users in a region to climate finance needs in that region.
Other climate experts fear the World Bank and other development banks just don’t have the money to support the clean energy transition in the developing world.
But Franklin Steves, of the environmental think tank E3G, said he saw momentum for the Bridgetown Initiative and felt some optimism for Paris.
“There are some really good proposals on the table, and I hope the Paris summit should be kicking off processes around all of these,” he said.
Back in Komati, about 2 hours northeast of Johannesburg, the former coal plant looked deserted this week, with only security guards and cleaners on site and large parking lots sitting empty. In a community where everyone depended on coal jobs to make ends meet, groups of men could be seen on most corners, hoping to be picked up by contractors in trucks for temporary jobs as gardeners or cleaners in nearby settlements.
Work on repurposing the plant is expected to take up to five years. Some of the World Bank money is to go toward retraining former plant employees; this week, power utility Eskom invited bids for a plan to mitigate the effect of the plant’s closure on surrounding communities.
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Simulate the entire machining process with the click of a button
TOLLAND, Conn., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNC Software, LLC, developers of Mastercam, the world's leading CAD/CAM software, has partnered with CAMWERK to provide customers with the unique and easy to use fully-integrated machine solution called NC2Check.
Mastercam developers worked closely with CAMWERK to build a solution for G-code simulation within Mastercam. The integration gives Mastercam customers a solution for avoiding machine damage, downtimes, failures, and makes their production and programming even more efficient and error-free.
N2Check precisely simulates the CNC machine and the entire process of machining. By verifying the NC code through NC2Check, users have an NC code-based virtual machine simulation of all movements. NC2Check helps users detect errors that lead to machine downtime, damage to the workpiece, or even expensive collisions on CNC machines before the real machining even begins.
"We are excited to partner with CAMWERK on a complete mapping of the entire machine tool and simulation of NC programs based on G-code and make it available to over 300,000 users," said Stas Mylek, Partnership Program Manager, CNC Software, LLC. "The collaborative effort between both companies provides Mastercam users complete machine simulation for detecting issues such as travel limits or potential workpiece collisions before machining takes place," Mylek continued.
NC2Check is an add-on to Mastercam that installs as a single button on the ribbon bar interface. The single button allows users to launch NC2Check to provide full simulation and G-code verification from within the Mastercam session.
Bircan Öztürk, Director for CAMWERK says, "With NC2Check, you can see collisions and errors directly on your PC and run on your machines completely virtually. We do not offer G-code simulation in the classic definition, we offer our customers the freedom to create ideas and creatively use ideas elsewhere in the company instead of looking for errors in the NC program, and to run in every single part on the CNC machine. It is a small tool, but its effect in production makes it a real-time miracle for everyone."
For more information on Mastercam, please visit www.mastercam.com.
For more information on CAMWERK, please visit http://www.nc2check.de/en/home-english/.
Founded in 1983, CNC Software, LLC is headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, with corporate offices in China. The company develops Mastercam, a suite of CAD/CAM software created to reduce production time and expense with efficient machining strategies and advanced toolpath technologies like Accelerated Finishing™ and Dynamic Motion™. Mastercam is the world's #1 CAM software, with more than 300,000 installations in industries such as moldmaking, automotive, medical, aerospace, consumer products, education, and prototyping. It is distributed through an international channel of authorized Mastercam Resellers in 75 countries, providing localized sales, training, and support for 2- through 5-axis routing, milling, and turning; 2- and 4-axis wire EDM; 2D and 3D design; surface and solid modeling; artistic relief cutting; and Swiss machining. Visit www.mastercam.com.
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MIAMI, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Trust Group ("RTG"), a full-service healthcare and life science real estate advisory firm, and Ponder & Co. ("Ponder"), an M&A and capital advisory firm serving more than 150 non-profit hospital and healthcare system clients, recently helped Nicklaus Children's Health System to close a major deal with Steward Health Care, LLC. RTG and Ponder provided exclusive advisory and brokerage services for the sale of the former Miami Medical Center property. Their work included a strategic options assessment, advisory on a potential transaction, and negotiation of key business terms. The former Miami Medical Center features 69 beds, and is over 160,000 square feet. This transaction increases Steward's South Florida network to six hospitals.
"After a thorough process which included the review of multiple options for the sale of the property, Nicklaus Children's decided to sell to Steward Health," said Matthew A. Love, President and CEO of Nicklaus Children's. "We look forward to continuing serving children in South Florida and collaborating with Steward, as we do with other health systems in our community."
RTG and Ponder worked together helping Nicklaus Children's Health System throughout the transaction. "Nicklaus Children's and Steward Health are a great combination in South Florida. We're proud of the role that we played in this partnership between the two organizations and look forward to the positive impact it will have on the quality of care in their communities," says RTG's Tom Wittenberg who led the RTG team.
Nicklaus Children's is the region's only healthcare system focused exclusively on the care needs of children. The health system includes Nicklaus Children's Hospital, a 309-bed nonprofit pediatric specialty hospital; a network of nonprofit outpatient and urgent care centers in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Martin counties; Pediatric Specialists of America, a nonprofit physician practice subsidiary; and an ambulatory surgery center.
Please visit RTG's website for more information on their advisory and transaction services.
Realty Trust Group, LLC ("RTG") is a healthcare and life science real estate advisory and services firm offering a full spectrum of real estate services including advisory, development, transactions, operations, and compliance.
Since 1998, RTG has helped hospitals, physician groups, and property owners navigate the rapidly changing industry with growth strategies that gain market leadership as well as enhance patient and physician experiences for better delivery of care. Our philosophy is to provide innovative solutions to the complex and challenging issues found in today's healthcare real estate market. These solutions include strategic campus and facility planning, portfolio optimization, portfolio monetization, project development, leasing, acquisition and disposition services, portfolio management, regulatory compliance, and many other ideas and services. For more information about RTG and our innovative healthcare real estate services, visit www.realtytrustgroup.com, Facebook, LinkedIn, or call 865-521-0630.
Ponder & Co. provides M&A and capital advisory services to more than 150 non-profit hospital and healthcare system clients. Ponder has completed more than 250 M&A engagements involving acute and specialty hospitals, senior health and housing facilities, long-term acute care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers and behavioral health facilities. Transactions have ranged from $10 million to $1.5 billion in value.
Ponder's M&A advisory services include:
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ORLANDO, Fla. – When Florida voters go to the polls in November, they might be surprised to see only a handful of constitutional amendments on their ballot. There are only three this year, a big departure from previous elections.
All of the amendments were placed on the ballot by the Florida Legislature, and two of them deal with taxes, while one of them deals with abolishing a commission that reviews the constitution. There are no citizen initiatives on the ballot this year.
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For an amendment to pass the ballot, it must get 60% approval from the voters.
Here is what Florida Amendment 3 is about.
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BALLOT LANGUAGE
“Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to grant an additional homestead tax exemption for nonschool levies of up to $50,000 of the assessed value of homestead property owned by classroom teachers, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, child welfare services professionals, active duty members of the United States Armed Forces, and Florida National Guard members. This amendment shall take effect January 1, 2023.”
BREAKING IT DOWN
In Florida, property owners get a homestead exemption on their primary residence.
Say a house has an assessed value of $100,000. In Florida, the property is taxed like this:
- First $25,000 – tax-exempt
- $25,000-$50,000 – taxed
- $50,000-$75,000 - exempt from all taxes except school taxes
- $75,000-$100,000 - taxed
All property value after that $100,000 would also be taxed unless you qualify for another exemption.
Florida has a number of additional property tax exemption programs, many approved by voters through constitutional amendments. Recent homestead exemptions include:
- Property Tax benefits for active duty military and veterans
- Property tax benefits for persons 65 and older
- Property tax benefits for surviving spouses of a first responder who died in the line of duty
You can learn more about property tax exemptions on the Florida Dept. of Revenue website.
Amendment 3 creates a homestead exemption for a large swath of public service employees, including teachers, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, child welfare services professionals and active duty members of the military and national guard.
If passed, these homeowners would get an extra $50,000 exemption on property valued between $100,000 and $150,000.
On a home valued at $150,000, the property tax would like this for a public service employee if the amendment is approved:
- First $25,000 – tax-exempt
- $25,000-$50,000 – taxed
- $50,000-$75,000 - exempt from all taxes except school taxes
- $75,000-$100,000 - taxed
- $100,000-$150,000 - exempt from all taxes except school taxes
During the legislative session, the Florida Association of Counties told lawmakers that the amendment would shift more of the property tax burden onto businesses and renters.
A Florida House staff analysis for the amendment found that, if approved, the amendment would reduce local property tax revenue for everything other than school taxes by $85.9 million starting in fiscal year 2023-2024.
The state legislature did not specify in the measure how one would prove they are eligible for the tax exemption. That likely would be handled in an implementing bill should the amendment be approved by voters.
BOTTOM LINE
A “YES” vote on Amendment 3 means you approve giving public service employees an extra exemption on property taxes.
A “NO” vote on Amendment 3 means you do not approve giving public service employees an extra exemption on property taxes.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ XCel Brands Inc. (XELB) on Monday reported a loss of $4 million in its third quarter.
The New York-based company said it had a loss of 21 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 17 cents per share.
The brand management company posted revenue of $4.5 million in the period.
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The wife of Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles' Matt Altman is facing legal trouble.
Johanna Altman was arrested on Aug. 4 and charged with felony domestic violence according to booking records obtained by E! News. She was released on a $50,000 bond the following day.
Matt told E! News in a statement on Aug. 17, "We ask everyone to please respect our privacy on this. Since my wife lost her father a few months ago to Covid, we as a family have been struggling with that loss and going through a difficult time because of that."
"It's very sad to lose a father unexpectedly," Matt continued. "We have been working through it and it has made us stronger than ever now."
The real estate agent—who has appeared occasionally on Million Dollar Listing: LA alongside his brother, Josh Altman, a main cast member on the series with whom he owns and operates a firm—and Johanna have been married since Aug. 2017 and share three children, 4-year-old twins Ashton and London, and 2-year-old Hudson.
Matt recently marked his and Johanna's five-year anniversary with a sweet Instagram tribute. "Happy 5th Anniversary @johanna_altman couldn't imagine sharing life with anyone else," he captioned e a photo from of their wedding on Aug. 12. "5 years, 4 house moves, 3 incredible kids, 2 people sharing 1 heart. Love you xo."
Days later, Johanna also took to social media to honor their anniversary. "Such a beautiful anniversary weekend," she wrote alongside photo of her and Matt in the Aug. 16 post. "5 years and only getting stronger. Ups and downs ain't gonna stop anything. Love you so much @themattaltman."
Johanna is due back in court on Sept. 2.
Page Six was the first to report on Johanna's arrest.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Group of Seven nations and Australia joined the European Union on Friday in adopting a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil, a key step as Western sanctions aim to reorder the global oil market to prevent price spikes and starve President Vladimir Putin of funding for his war in Ukraine.
Europe needed to set the discounted price that other nations will pay by Monday, when an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea and a ban on insurance for those supplies take effect. The price cap, which was led by the G-7 wealthy democracies, aims to prevent a sudden loss of Russian oil to the world that could lead to a new surge in energy prices and further fuel inflation.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement that the agreement will help restrict Putin’s “primary source of revenue for his illegal war in Ukraine while simultaneously preserving the stability of global energy supplies.”
The agreement comes after a last-minute flurry of negotiations. Poland long held up an EU agreement, seeking to set the cap as low as possible. Following more than 24 hours of deliberations, when other EU nations had signaled they would back the deal, Warsaw finally relented late Friday.
A joint G-7 coalition statement released Friday states that the group is “prepared to review and adjust the maximum price as appropriate,” taking into account market developments and potential impacts on coalition members and low and middle-income countries.
“Crippling Russia’s energy revenues is at the core of stopping Russia’s war machine,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said, adding that she was happy the cap was pushed down a few extra dollars from earlier proposals. She said every dollar the cap was reduced amounted to $2 billion less for Russia’s war chest.
“It is no secret that we wanted the price to be lower,” Kallas added, highlighting the differences within the EU. “A price between 30-40 dollars is what would substantially hurt Russia. However, this is the best compromise we could get.”
The $60 figure sets the cap near the current price of Russia’s crude, which recently fell below $60 a barrel. Some criticize that as not low enough to cut into one of Russia’s main sources of income. It is still a big discount to international benchmark Brent, which slid to $85.48 a barrel Friday, but could be high enough for Moscow to keep selling even while rejecting the idea of a cap.
There is a big risk to the global oil market of losing large amounts of crude from the world’s No. 2 producer. It could drive up gasoline prices for drivers worldwide, which has stirred political turmoil for U.S. President Joe Biden and leaders in other nations. Europe is already mired in an energy crisis, with governments facing protests over the soaring cost of living, while developing nations are even more vulnerable to shifts in energy costs.
But the West has faced increasing pressure to target one of Russia’s main moneymakers — oil — to slash the funds flowing into Putin’s war chest and hurt Russia’s economy as the war in Ukraine drags into a ninth month. The costs of oil and natural gas spiked after demand rebounded from the pandemic and then the invasion of Ukraine unsettled energy markets, feeding Russia’s coffers.
U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday that “the cap itself will have the desired effect on limiting Mr. Putin’s ability to profit off of oil sales and limit his ability to continue to use that money to fund his war machine.”
More uncertainty is ahead, however. COVID-19 restrictions in China and a slowing global economy could mean less thirst for oil. That is what OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, pointed to in cutting back supplies to the world in October. The OPEC+ alliance is scheduled to meet again Sunday.
That competes with the EU embargo that could take more oil supplies off the market, raising fears of a supply squeeze and higher prices. Russia exports roughly 5 million barrels of oil a day.
Putin has said he would not sell oil under a price cap and would retaliate against nations that implement the measure. However, Russia has already rerouted much of its supply to India, China and other Asian countries at discounted prices because Western customers have avoided it even before the EU embargo.
Most insurers are located in the EU or the United Kingdom and could be required to participate in the price cap.
Russia also could sell oil off the books by using “dark fleet” tankers with obscure ownership. Oil could be transferred from one ship to another and mixed with oil of similar quality to disguise its origin.
Even under those circumstances, the cap would make it “more costly, time-consuming and cumbersome” for Russia to sell oil around the restrictions, said Maria Shagina, a sanctions expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Berlin.
Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, said the price cap should have been implemented when oil was hovering around $120 per barrel this summer.
“Since then, obviously oil prices have fallen and global recession is a real thing,” he said. “The reality is that it is unlikely to be binding given where oil prices are now.”
European leaders touted their work on the price cap, a brainchild of Yellen.
“The EU agreement on an oil price cap, coordinated with G7 and others, will reduce Russia’s revenues significantly,” said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm. “It will help us stabilize global energy prices, benefiting emerging economies around the world.”
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- Second Quarter Financial Report and Corporate Development Update to be Focus of Presentation
PHOENIX, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint, Inc. (OTCQB: SING) ("SinglePoint'' or "the Company''), a solar energy and sustainable solutions provider, announced today that Wil Ralston, CEO of SinglePoint, will conduct a 30 minute virtual presentation at the Sidoti & Company LLC Microcap Virtual Investor Conference on August 18th at 1:00 PM.
The SinglePoint presentation can be accessed live at: https://sidoti.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xWnkkIRRQJ6qR4H5u-qUmg. The presentation will be available for viewing 90 days following the event.
Free registration for investors is available at https://www.meetmax.com/sched/event_85147/conference_register.html?attendee_role_id=SIDOTI_INVESTOR
SinglePoint management will also host virtual one-on-one meetings with investors throughout the conference. To register for the presentation of a one-on-one meeting, visit https://www.sidoti.com/events/august-micro-cap-virtual-conference.
About SinglePoint Inc (OTCQB: SING)
SinglePoint is a solar energy ad sustainable lifestyle company currently in the solar energy and air purification markets. The Company's goal is to build the largest network of renewable energy solutions and modernizing the traditional solar energy and energy storage business model.The Company's continues to execute on it acquisition strategy and is currently exploring future growth opportunities in air purification, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and healthier life. For more information, visit the Company's websites-- www.singlepoint.com, www.bostonsolar.us and www.boxpureair.com
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Sidoti's mission is to provide a nexus between issuer and investor Sidoti's institutional investor clients enjoy a combination of quality equity research, a small and micro-cap focused nationwide sales effort and broad access to corporate management teams. At the same time, Sidoti provides its covered companies insightful research and the opportunity (along with other publicly traded issuers) to interact with many of Sidoti's ~500 North American institutional clients by appearing at the Company's small and micro-cap conferences. Most of Sidoti's investors and clients manage portfolios with $200 million to $2 billion of assets and have a specific interest in the small and micro-cap arena, creating a mutually beneficial forum for information exchange.
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EXTON, Pa., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST), a global leader in innovative solutions for injectable drug administration, today announced that it will release first-quarter 2023 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, April 27, 2023, and will follow with a conference call to discuss the results and business expectations at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
The live audio-only webcast will be made available via the Company's Investor Relations website here or by clicking here.
To participate in the conference call by asking questions to Management, please register in advance by clicking here. Upon registration, all telephone participants will receive the dial-in number along with a unique PIN number that will be used to access the call.
Management will refer to a slide presentation during the call, which will be made available on the day of the call. To view the presentation, select "Presentations" in the "Investors" section of the Company's website. A replay of the conference call and webcast will be available on the Company's website for 30 days.
A live audio webcast will be available in the "Investors" section of the Company's website at www.westpharma.com. Replay of the webcasts will be available for approximately 90 days after the events.
About West
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative, high-quality injectable solutions and services. As a trusted partner to established and emerging drug developers, West helps ensure the safe, effective containment and delivery of life-saving and life-enhancing medicines for patients. With 10,000 team members across 50 sites worldwide, West helps support our customers by delivering approximately 47 billion components and devices each year.
2023 marks West's 100-year milestone of innovation and the critical role it continues to play in healthcare and the patient experience. Headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, West in its fiscal year 2022 generated $2.89 billion in net sales. West is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: WST) and is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. For more information, visit www.westpharma.com.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP)The Arizona Cardinals hired Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon on Tuesday to be their next head coach.
Gannon replaces Kliff Kingsbury, who was fired last month after going 4-13 in his fourth season. Gannon becomes Arizona’s fourth coach in seven years and the second Eagles coordinator to become a head coach after Shane Steichen was hired by Indianapolis on Tuesday.
The 40-year-old Gannon has been Philadelphia’s defensive coordinator the past two seasons, helping rebuild a defense that helped the Eagles reach the Super Bowl last Sunday. The Eagles lost to Kansas City 38-35 at State Farm Stadium, home of the Cardinals.
The Eagles had the NFL’s No. 2 defense this season and the third-most sacks in NFL history with 78 under Gannon in 2022. Philadelphia led the NFL with 70 sacks this season – 15 more than any other team.
Gannon’s resume took a bit of a hit during the Super Bowl. The Eagles coughed up a 10-point halftime lead and couldn’t stop Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, even though the MVP wasn’t moving at his best because of a sprained ankle.
That hiccup wasn’t enough to deter Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill, who is trying to find a leader who can help the franchise win its first NFL championship since 1947.
Gannon’s hiring is the first major move by general manager Monti Ossenfort, who was hired last month after Steve Keim and the team parted ways.
Gannon inherits a defense spearheaded by Pro Bowl safety Budda Baker and young linebackers Isaiah Simmons and Zaven Collins. Arizona also is potentially looking at a roster overhaul with roughly 30 unrestricted free agents and the retirement of three-time NFL defensive player of the year J.J. Watt.
The Cardinals also have the No. 3 overall pick in the upcoming draft.
One of Gannon’s first tasks will be connecting with franchise quarterback Kyler Murray, who tore the ACL in his right knee late last season and is expected to miss at least a few games next fall.
The two-time Pro Bowl selection regressed some during his fourth season, though the former No. 1 overall pick was still productive when healthy. He signed a $230.5 million deal during last year’s offseason that could keep him with the franchise through 2028.
Before being hired by the Eagles, Gannon served as the defensive backs coach for the Colts from 2018-20. He also worked as an assistant defensive backs/quality control coach for the Minnesota Vikings from 2014-17 and held the same position with the Tennessee Titans from 2012-13.
Gannon began his coaching career as a defensive assistant with the Atlanta Falcons in 2007 and worked as a scout for the Rams from 2009-10. He played defensive back at Louisville in 2002 before sustaining a career-ending hip injury and served as a graduate assistant at his alma mater.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) _ Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (FSM) on Wednesday reported a third-quarter loss of $3.8 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had a loss of 1 cent. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 1 cent per share.
The silver and gold miner posted revenue of $166.6 million in the period.
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky is stepping down as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, citing the nation's progress in coping with COVID-19.
Walensky announced the move on the same day the World Health Organization declared that, for the first time since Jan. 30, 2020, COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency.
"I have never been prouder of anything I have done in my professional career," Walensky wrote in a letter to President Biden. "My tenure at CDC will remain forever the most cherished time I have spent doing hard, necessary, and impactful work."
Walensky, 54, will officially leave her office on June 30.
Biden selected Walensky to lead the CDC only a month after winning the 2020 presidential election. At the time, Walensky, an infectious disease physician, was teaching at Harvard Medical School and working at hospitals in Boston.
In response to Walensky's resignation, Biden credited her with saving American lives and praised her honesty and integrity.
"She marshalled our finest scientists and public health experts to turn the tide on the urgent crises we've faced," the president said.
The CDC did face criticism during her tenure for at times issuing confusing COVID-19 guidance, among other communication issues.
On Thursday, the CDC reported that in 2022, COVID-19 was the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease, cancer, and unintentional injuries, according to provisional data.
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Kassa Overall is no stranger to NPR. Back in 2020 he was a featured vocalist and percussionist on the Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science Tiny Desk concert and in the same year he scored the original music for the first season of NPR Music's Louder Than A Riot podcast. (His catchy theme song has been remixed by producer Suzi Analogue for the show's second season.) Now, Kassa's back again, leading his own band and doing what he always does — pushing musical boundaries and finding new ways to express himself through a unique blend of experimental hip-hop-infused jazz.
This Tiny Desk starts with two cuts from ANIMALS, Kassa's May release that will be featured on his upcoming summer tour. On "Ready To Ball," pianist Ian Finkelstein opens with a chord progression that signals bebop but quickly moves into a more dynamic, experimental sound with hypnotic meter changes and surprising interludes.
"Make My Way Back Home" is a beautiful song featuring Nick Hakim's sultry vocals overtop a captivating rhythmic foundation with an avant-garde yet familiar feel. I especially love the catchy melodic line, one you can sing along to even if only hearing this tune for the first time.
Then, Kassa's outstanding drum solo on "Find Me" moves into a driving percussive groove that breaks for a short rap interlude and thoughtful melodic moments featuring soprano saxophonist Tomoki Sanders and vocalist J. Hoard. "Who's on the Playlist" is an oldie but goodie from Kassa's 2019 record, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, which finishes the set with a continued virtuosic display of musicianship, lyricism and artistic innovation.
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Dow Finsterwald became a footnote in history as the first player to win the PGA Championship in stroke play and the last U.S. captain of a Ryder Cup before continental Europe was invited to join.
More than a major champion and Ryder Cup player, he devoted his life to golf as the longtime professional at The Broadmoor in Colorado.
Finsterwald, a 12-time winner on the PGA Tour, died Friday night at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 93. His son, Dow Finsterwald Jr., said he died peacefully in his sleep.
“He did all he could for the game,” said his son, the head professional at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. “He enjoyed his friends and they always remembered. He loved the rules and he cared about the game. He had a wonderful life and he felt like for sure it was complete.”
Finsterwald was born in Athens, Ohio, and played college golf at Ohio University. One of his earliest matches was against Arnold Palmer at Wake Forest, and they became best friends until Palmer's death in 2016. Finsterwald spent his winters at Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
“He (shot) 29 the first round we played together, so I didn't have much luck there,” Finsterwald once said.
Palmer came along as golf was being shown on television. That was a big reason why the PGA Championship decided to switch from match play to stroke play in 1958.
Finsterwald lost in the championship match in 1957 to Lionel Hebert. The following year at Llanerch Country Club in Pennsylvania, Finsterwald was two shots behind Sam Snead going into the final round when he closed with a 67 and won by two over Billy Casper.
“It certainly made a big impact on my life and certain things were made available because of winning that championship,” Finsterwald said at Oakland Hills in 2008 on the 50-year anniversary of his win. “But as important as it was to me — and believe me, it has been very important — it was a major step for the PGA of America to go from match play to stroke play.”
“It certainly was a little extra there in that I had been the runner-up in the finals of the last match play. So I guess I’m a little prejudiced about stroke play,” he said. “But it was the logical thing to do and the time to do it.”
Finsterwald was the PGA player of the year in 1958 and he won the Vardon Trophy for the lowest scoring average in 1957. He also played on four Ryder Cup teams, going 9-3-1. He was the captain of the 1977 U.S. team that featured Ryder Cup rookies like Tom Watson and Lanny Wadkins.
The U.S. won easily, and it was at that Ryder Cup at Royal Lytham & St. Annes that Jack Nicklaus suggested stronger competition because the Americans were winning with regularity. The Britain & Ireland team was then expanded to include continental Europe.
Finsterwald's last win was the 500 Festival Open Invitation in Indianapolis. He also made 72 consecutive cuts, a remarkable feat from his era because it was not measured on a 36-hole cut but being among the top 25 or so finishers who were paid from the prize fund.
Finsterwald became the head pro at The Broadmoor in 1963 and kept the position for 28 years.
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Rates of gun assaults on children roughly doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study that looked at gun deaths and injuries in four major cities. Black children were the most frequent victims.
The analysis from Boston University included a review of gun assaults between March 2020 and December 2021 in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York.
It found that Black children in those cities were 100 times more likely than white children to be victims of fatal and nonfatal shootings. Researchers did not include accidents or incidents of self-harm.
Study author Jonathan Jay, who studies urban health, says the team looked at the rates to understand whether some children were at higher risk than others.
"We knew that children of color, even before the pandemic, were more likely than non-Hispanic white children to be shot, and we also knew that child gun victimization seemed to be increasing during the pandemic," Jay says.
"But no one had looked at how racial disparities in child victimization might have been changing."
The researchers are still unpacking pandemic-specific factors that may have driven the change, he says. Some of the influences they're considering include:
"Stress associated with job losses, school closures, loss of access to certain kinds of services that closed down," Jay says. "Also, really visible police violence, especially against people of color. Loss of loved ones and family members to COVID-19 virus."
In a Philadelphia neighborhood, a life of constant vigilance
Makhi Hemphill, a Black teen in Philadelphia, says he thinks about the threat of gunfire on a regular basis. The 16-year-old grew up in North Philly, an area of the city that's seen roughly two dozen gun homicides this year and many more gun injuries.
Hemphill pays close attention to his surroundings when he's outside the house.
"I still have the thought in the back of my head to protect myself, 'cause of how this world is currently," he says. "I don't want anything bad to happen to me, and my mother doesn't want anything bad to happen to me either."
Philadelphia's child gun assault rate in the study jumped from about 30 per 100,000 children to about 62 per 100,000 during the pandemic.
Hemphill says he thinks some teenagers argued with one another during the COVID-19 pandemic because they were spending too much time on social media, and for some, frustration and isolation led to violent behavior.
"People are at home, maybe their home is not their safe place," he says. "They didn't have that escape because they couldn't leave home. So maybe they had a break or something like that."
In 2020 firearms became the leading cause of death for American children, surpassing car crashes for the first time ever according to the CDC.
As gun purchases rose, so did pediatric injury rates
An estimated 16.6 million U.S. adults purchased a gun in 2020, up from 13.8 million in 2019, according to a National Institutes of Health analysis of the National Firearms Survey.
"With COVID, we've seen an increase in gun purchases and more guns in the home," says Dr. Joel Fein, co-director of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Violence Prevention. "So [children] were in places where there were now more guns, and probably more guns on the streets as well."
In late March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that there were 36% more average weekly emergency department visits for firearm injury in 2021 than there were in 2019, with the largest increase in children ages 14 and under.
In Queens, New York, Northwell Health's Cohen Children's Medical Center saw a 350% increase in gunshot patients between 2021 and 2022, according to Dr. Chethan Sathya, a pediatric trauma surgeon and director of Northwell Health's Center for Gun Violence Prevention.
Screening, preventing, and intervening to drive down firearm violence
The data that's emerging on child gun deaths should be a clear call to policymakers, Sathya said.
"Violence intervention groups are doing really great work, these studies highlight that they're needed more than ever," he says. "It disproportionately does affect and has affected Black kids, and it's horrific. So how can we step up as a community to address the root causes?"
At the Cohen children's hospital in Queens, gun injury prevention starts with asking all patients some screening questions about firearm access and risk factors, Sathya explains, and providing trauma-informed services to violently injured patients.
In Philadelphia, Kaliek Hayes founded a nonprofit called the Childhoods Lost Foundation. Hayes and other community leaders in neighborhoods where gun violence is prevalent work to reach children and teens early, and make sure they don't get involved.
As alternatives, they connect children to a network of after-school mentorship programs, arts opportunities, and career prep offerings.
"If we err on the side of getting in front of it before it happens, a lot of the numbers we're seeing would be different," Hayes says.
This story comes from NPR's health reporting partnership with WHYY and KFF Health News.
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- TVA has priced $500 million of new 30-year maturity global power bonds carrying an interest rate of 4.25%, which locks in historically low-cost funding.
- The rate on the new bonds ties as the second lowest ever for a TVA bond 30-years or longer.
- This is TVA's first 30-year bond offering since 2012.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The Tennessee Valley Authority priced $500 million of new 30-year maturity global power bonds today, with an interest rate of 4.25 percent. Today's offering marked TVA's first 30-year bond since 2012, and the 4.25 percent rate is tied as the second lowest ever for a TVA bond of 30 years or longer in maturity.
Despite an increase in interest rates in the first half of the year, long-term rates remain at historically low levels, creating an opportunity for TVA to secure long-term funding at attractive levels.
"We were pleased to see a window of stability develop in recent weeks, and an opportunity for TVA to take advantage of still historically low long-term rates," said TVA's Treasurer and Chief Risk Officer, Tammy Wilson. "With one of the nation's largest electric power systems, TVA is a natural issuer of longer-maturity bonds, and the success of this transaction shows the confidence investors have in TVA and the strength of the public power model."
Strong demand for high quality investments of longer duration contributed to the success of the offering. The bonds drew interest from a variety of investors including asset managers, pension funds, and insurance companies, among others.
"The new 30-year bond fits well in TVA's debt profile, which has a low number of bonds maturing in the early 2050s. TVA debt levels remain at the lowest levels in over 30 years, and the new bonds will help TVA maintain stable interest costs for decades to come," added Wilson.
Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets, and TD Securities served as joint book-running managers for the transaction. The proceeds of the bonds will be used to refinance existing debt and for general power system purposes. The new bonds will mature on September 15, 2052, and are not subject to redemption prior to maturity. Interest will be paid semi-annually each March 15 and September 15. Application has been made to list the bonds on the New York Stock Exchange.
The bonds will be issued, maintained and transferred through the book-entry system of the Federal Reserve Banks. Transactions may be cleared and settled by international participants through Clearstream and Euroclear. The bonds can be identified by the CUSIP number 880591EY4 (ISIN number US880591EY48).
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power companies serving nearly 10 million people in parts of seven southeastern states. TVA receives no taxpayer funding, deriving virtually all of its revenues from sales of electricity. In addition to operating and investing its revenues in its electric system, TVA provides flood control, navigation and land management for the Tennessee River system, and assists local power companies and state and local governments with economic development and job creation.
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The House has passed an interim funding bill to tide federal agencies over until mid-December. The vote came a day after the Senate approved the measure, and should prevent a government shutdown that would have gone into effect at midnight Saturday morning.
The bill now heads to President Biden for his signature.
The House passed the measure by a vote of 230-201, with ten Republicans joining all Democrats in voting to keep the government open.
The continuing resolution maintains current levels of spending and extends funding through Dec. 16, giving both chambers extra time to hammer out details for a broader budget deal.
"This is common sense, bipartisan legislation," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the floor Thursday before the upper chamber passed the bill 72-25. "I'm glad we came to a timely conclusion and didn't go right up to the brink and risk a shutdown. Millions and millions of people can breathe easy knowing that we have done this in a timely way and the money to continue the government will be there."
What's in the bill
It includes $2.5 billion to aid communities devastated by natural disasters, $1 billion in funding a low-income home heating program, and $20 million in emergency to address the water crisis in Jackson, Miss. The bill also includes $12 billion in aid for Ukraine.
"This package comes as a pivotal moment, as Ukraine freedom fighters work to turn the tide, liberating key cities and repelling Russian forces," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said ahead of Friday's vote.
The bill also allows for the reauthorization of Food and Drug Administration user fees for another five years, which Schumer called "vital if we want to avoid any slowdown in the review of new lifesaving drugs."
What's not in the bill
The legislation does not include funding for vaccines, testing and treatment for the coronavirus or monkeypox that the White House had requested.
The initial hurdle in getting the votes in the Senate to pass the stopgap bill centered on language drafted by West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin that would overhaul how the government approves permits for energy production. Schumer and Manchin had previously brokered a deal that Manchin would support the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats' signature spending package, if he could attach his permitting legislation to the continuing resolution.
But bipartisan opposition to Manchin's proposal ensued, with Senate Republicans bitter over Manchin joining Democrats in passing the Inflation Reduction Act after indicating he wouldn't support such a package. A group of progressive Democrats concerned about potential environmental impacts also objected to Manchin's measure.
Once Manchin agreed to remove his language from the legislation, the continuing resolution easily overcame a procedural vote on Tuesday, setting it up for final passage.
Although House Republican leaders opposed the bill, the measure still easily passed because of Democrats' simple majority.
Both chambers were eager to leave Washington and return home, particularly lawmakers making final pitches to constituents ahead of November's midterm elections.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans are stuck in their first three-game skid since Mike Vrabel’s debut season with the latest loss just plain old “bad football.”
Yet they’re still atop the AFC South, chasing their third straight division title with four games remaining.
First, they have to fix a lot of mistakes and hopefully start getting some key Titans back.
Vrabel said Monday that nobody did anything good enough consistently enough for the Titans in a 36-22 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
“That’s the challenge,” Vrabel said. “It’s not looking ahead to how many games we have left. It’s making sure that we eliminate bad football and that we find ways to go out there and play complementary, which we’ve done. Certainly haven’t done it here recently.”
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The previous time this franchise lost three consecutive games, two came on the road. This time, the Titans have lost two of these three at home.
The 2018 Titans finished 9-7 and missed the playoffs when an injured Marcus Mariota couldn’t start the season finale, leading to the March 2019 trade for Ryan Tannehill.
These Titans (7-6) currently have 15 on injured reserve, including last year’s sack leader in Harold Landry Jr., both starting inside linebackers and a three-time Pro Bowl left tackle. They played against Jacksonville with four key defenders out injured.
Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk fired general manager Jon Robinson last week and made clear roster construction was a big part of her decision. That doesn’t help the next man up approach the Titans have leaned heavily on over the past two years.
Next up is a Sunday game in Los Angeles against the Chargers (7-6). Vrabel has to figure out how to make who he has available work.
“I don’t think we have any other choice,” Vrabel said.
WHAT’S WORKING
The run game. Derrick Henry had more yards by the end of the first quarter with 96 than he had managed in any of the previous four games.
Henry had a 50-yard run that was more than he had in either of the past two games.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The offense after halftime. They’ve been outscored 147-70 and managed only eight points against the Jaguars after trailing only 20-14 at halftime. The Titans rank 26th in the NFL, averaging a mere 18.5 points because their offense disappears after halftime, and they’re last in averaging 5.4 points in the second half.
They’ve scored more than eight points only three times this season in the second half, and Tennessee has been completely shut out in four games. The Titans also are last in the league with 46 three-and-outs in the second half. They rank 28th in offensive penalties with 84 after halftime.
STOCK UP
Rookie TE Chig Okonkwo. He caught every pass thrown to him with six catches for 45 yards, including one touchdown. That doesn’t include the 2-point conversion Okonkwo caught with one hand and pinned against his face mask and helmet in the fourth quarter.
STOCK DOWN
OL Dillon Radunz. With left tackle Dennis Daley beaten regularly and needing help, the 53rd overall pick out of North Dakota State in 2021 should be an option either at left tackle or right tackle where he lost an offseason position battle to rookie Nicholas Petit-Frere. Radunz didn’t play against Jacksonville.
INJURED
Vrabel said RB and special teams player Dontrell Hilliard will not play Sunday after being carted off the field with a neck injury. Vrabel said he saw Hilliard on Monday, and he was doing good. S Amani Hooker went down with a knee issue, but returned to the game after being evaluated for a potential concussion.
Sack leader Denico Autry has missed three games with an injured knee, and Vrabel said he hopes Autry is close to returning. The Titans waived a pair of linebackers later Monday in Ola Adeniyi and Joe Schobert.
KEY NUMBER
80 — An NFL-high number of players used by the Titans this season, after using an league-record 91 players in a non-strike season in 2021.
The Titans used four new players against the Jaguars to push past Arizona (77), Rams (76), Detroit (74) and the Giants (74).
NEXT STEPS
Snap the skid. Winning three of the final four games would keep the regular-season finale in Jacksonville from putting a playoff berth on the line. The Titans host Houston (1-11-1) on Dec. 24 and Dallas (10-3) on Dec. 29 for their only back-to-back home games this season with a chance to clinch a wild-card game in Nashville.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mallory Swanson scored a pair of first-half goals and the United States beat Canada 2-0 Thursday night in a SheBelieves Cup match clouded by a labor dispute between the Canadian players and their federation.
The Canadian women wore purple shirts during the pregame national anthems that read “Enough Is Enough.” Before kickoff, U.S. players linked arms with their Canadian counterparts in the center circle in a show of solidarity.
Canada’s women are negotiating for a new collective bargaining agreement that would give them equal pay with their male counterparts. They say they haven’t yet been paid for 2022.
“Purple has historically been associated with efforts to achieve gender equality,” the Canadian Players Association said in a statement Thursday. “Considering the current circumstances, our players will continue to wear purple until our association has standards in place that ensure equal treatment and opportunity.”
The players initially said they planned to boycott team activities surrounding the tournament and sat out a practice on Saturday, but were told by Canada Soccer that their job action amounted to an illegal strike.
“I couldn’t fault their effort. You just could see a flatness to them,” Canada coach Bev Priestman said. “But this isn’t fixed overnight, so we’ve got to push through. We’ve got to use this tournament for what’s in front of us. We can’t roll over, nor will this group roll over.”
In the earlier SheBelieves Cup match on Thursday at Exploria Stadium, Brazil beat Japan 1-0 on Debinha’s late goal off a cross from Marta, who was playing her first match since tearing her left ACL last March.
The four-team round-robin SheBelieves Cup moves to Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, where the U.S. will play Japan and Canada plays Brazil. All four teams have qualified for the World Cup. The United States has won the last two World Cups and has four titles overall.
“That’s in front of our minds,” forward Alex Morgan said. “That’s why we’re playing these games. Everything we’re doing right now is just to put us in contention for the World Cup.”
Swanson scored her fourth goal of the new year in the seventh minute. She added a second in the 34th.
Formerly Mallory Pugh, Swanson married Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson in December. She’s scored 30 goals for the United States and has scored in each of the last four matches.
“It’s not just the two goals, her flair in the game makes the game look so easy sometimes,” U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said.
Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher stopped Janine Beckie’s attempt for Canada in first-half stoppage time.
“You saw those first 10-15 minutes we came out flat. We looked like a team that was tired, a team that was mentally exhausted,” Canadian captain Christine Sinclair said.
The U.S. players used the occasion to draw attention to LGBTQ rights in Florida, some wearing wristbands that said “Defend Trans Joy” along with purple wristbands in support of Canada’s players.
Morgan was honored with a pregame ceremony for her 200th appearance for the national team, which occurred late last year against Germany.
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The U.K. government has struck a deal with Rwanda. The U.K. pays for all people seeking asylum, who are deemed to have arrived illegally, to be sent to the central African country for processing.
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, made a recent trip to Rwanda to sign the contract and to examine the accommodation.
"Those who travel to the U.K. by illegal and dangerous routes may be relocated to Rwanda, where they will have their asylum claims considered," she said.
But for these London-based Ukrainian volunteers, some of them refugees, there is a concern.
"They’re very worried. They're just afraid," said Maxim Holuvuk, who supports refugees.
He says he knows a large number of undocumented Ukrainians living in London and the community as a whole is concerned.
"I can't imagine taking me to another continent with a different culture, so far away from everything I know and leaving my life here," Valeria Titkova said. "I don't think any of us would want to be in that situation so why should we be putting these people in that situation."
The reason Ukrainian refugees are drawn to the U.K. is, in large part, because there is a substantial Ukrainian population there. But due to an administrative backlog, many visa applications are yet to be processed. It's meant some have decided to enter the U.K. via the back door.
Ireland lifted visa requirements for Ukrainians, meaning refugees who arrive there can enter the U.K. via northern Ireland, through the open border arrangement.
Could undocumented Ukrainians who have entered the U.K. illegally be sent to Rwanda for processing? The government has confirmed that this is technically how the system could work — which is something that has been welcomed by some members of parliament in Boris Johnson's Conservative party. A system, they believe, will deter illegal immigrants.
Andrew Bridgen is a conservative member of Parliament who supports the government's Rwanda plan.
"I think it's going to serve as a huge deterrent," he said. "We're going to have laws to make it easier to deport foreign criminals and I think it is important that included in those foreign criminals, are people who have committed the criminal act of entering the U.K. illegally and undocumented."
But Patel told Newsy the U.K.'s Ukrainian visa program makes it unnecessary for Ukrainians to travel there illegally in the first place, and didn't acknowledge that this could be a problem.
"Ukrainian nationals in the U.K., there is no reason why they should be undocumented," Patel said. "They are here legitimately and legally."
But if they are undocumented?
"One, through our visa route and secondly, through their status in the U.K.," Patel said. "The other point about Rwanda, which is a migration and economic development partnership, is it actually addresses the wider issue about illegal migration."
The government designed the policy to deter migrants who take the dangerous decision to travel across the English Channel.
The fact that it also applies to undocumented Ukrainians may be an unintended but extreme consequence of this new law.
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(WFLA) — Trick-or-treaters aren’t the only ones who can score free food on Halloween.
Restaurants across the country are offering free and discounted treats to celebrate the spooky season. Here are 25 scary-good deals for your fright night plans.
7-Eleven
Hosting a Halloween party? 7Rewards and Speedy Rewards members can take advantage of a buy one-get one free deal on large pizzas on Oct. 31. The convenience chain also has $5 large pizzas on Halloween weekend (Oct. 28 through Oct. 30).
Applebee’s
You can score a free plate of boneless wings with any to-go or delivery order totaling $30 or more. Just place the order on the Applebee’s website or the Applebee’s mobile app, using the code “SPOOKY22” at checkout. The chain also brought back their Spooky Sips cocktails for the season. You can try a Dracula’s Juice or Tipsy Zombie for $6.
Baskin-Robbins
If you’re craving something sweet, Baskin-Robbins is offering 31% off all scoops, all day on Halloween.
Boston Market
Boston Market’s Halloween Party Special runs from Oct. 29 to Oct. 31. You can get $10 off a family meal, plus double Rotisserie Rewards points.
Burger King
Now through Halloween, use the “ghost detector” in the BK mobile app to search for a ghost in your house. You’ll get two Ghost Pepper Whopper sandwiches and two small fries for $10 if you find one.
Chipotle
Chipotle is bringing back its “Boorito” promotion. Chipotle Rewards members can score a $6 entrée by dressing up in a costume and visiting the restaurant on Halloween. The offer runs from 3 p.m. until the store closes.
Chuck E. Cheese
Looking for something to do with the kids? Children dressed in costume can get 10 free Chuck E. Cheese play points on Halloween. The chain is also offering 30 minutes free game play when you buy 60 minutes or more.
Corner Bakery
On Halloween, Corner Bakery loyalty rewards members can score a free sweet treat with their purchase, like cookies, muffins, or pastries. New rewards members will also get $5 off their next purchase.
CVS
CVS is offering a buy one-get one 50% off promotion on Teal Pumpkin Project items. Those include non-food treats and buckets for children with food allergies who can’t eat traditional Halloween candy, but still want to get in on the fun.
Dunkin’
Dunkin’ rewards members can score free food through Oct. 31. The chain is offering a free breakfast sandwich, Bagel Minis, or an order of Munchkins donut holes when you buy a large or medium drink.
Haagen Dazs
You can score a free mini cup or cone of ice cream by visiting a Haagen Dazs ice cream shop on Halloween. Just put on your costume before you head to the store and claim your free treat via the Haagen Dazs app.
IHOP
Now through Halloween, IHOP is offering free Scary Face Pancakes to kids when you buy an adult entrée. The offer is valid from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Krispy Kreme
You can get a free donut of your choice if you stop by a Krispy Kreme store in costume on Halloween. Look out for the illuminated “Hot Light” if you want donuts at their freshest.
McAlister’s Deli
This deal’s for the whole family. McAlister’s rewards members can get up to two kids meals for free with the purchase of an adult entrée through Oct. 31. Use the code HALLOWEEN22 to redeem this offer online.
Noodles & Company
On Oct. 31, Noodles rewards members can get a free small entrée with the purchase of a regular one.
Publix
Publix said to expect “no tricks, just treats!” when visiting the grocery chain on Halloween. Kids in costume can go trick-or-treating inside the store from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
QDOBA Mexican Eats
QDOBA Rewards Members get a buy one entrée, get one free deal on Oct. 31. This offer can be redeemed in-store or online.
TGI Fridays
On Halloween, TGI Fridays is offering discounts on wings and drinks. You can get wings for 50 cents each, which is nearly half-off the regular price. If you combine this deal with the restaurant’s Happy Hour (3 p.m. to 6 p.m.), you can also score half-priced appetizers and discounted drinks.
Ordering to-go? You can get a 25% off Party Platters and Family Meals when ordering off the TGI Fridays website. Just use the code SPOOKY25.
Taco Bell
Taco Bell is offering free chips and nacho cheese sauce with the purchase of a Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito in the Taco Bell app through Oct. 31. You can also claim a free Doritos Locos Taco as part of the “Steal a Base, Steal a Taco” promotion.
Wendy’s
This Halloween weekend, Wendy’s has a different deal for each day.
- Oct. 29: Free small chili with any purchase
- Oct. 30: Spicy chicken sandwich is buy one, get one free
- Oct. 31: Free junior bacon cheeseburger with any purchase
You must order through the Wendy’s mobile app to redeem these daily deals.
Zaxby’s
Zaxby’s customers can take advantage of a buy one, get one free deal when they order boneless wings through the restaurant’s mobile app. This offer is valid all day on Oct. 31.
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CLEVELAND — Former NFL defensive end Chris Smith, who was touched by tragedy while he played for the Cleveland Browns, has died. He was 31.
Smith’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, and the Browns confirmed his passing on Tuesday. The cause of death was not immediately known.
“Rest in Peace Chris,” Rosenhaus wrote on Twitter. “Condolences to all his family, friends and loved ones. We will miss you.”
Smith played for the XFL’s Seattle Sea Dragons this season. He previously spent eight seasons in the NFL with Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Las Vegas and Houston.
While Smith was with the Browns in 2019, his girlfriend, Petara Cordero, was killed when she was hit by a car after she exited the vehicle he was driving. Cordero was standing on the road’s shoulder when the vehicle driven by a 47-year-old woman smashed into the passenger side of Smith’s car.
“Chris was one of the kindest players and people that I’ve ever met,” Browns All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett said. “He was willing to give you the shirt off his back for you. It’s hard just knowing people like that can go at any time.”
Smith and Cordero had a daughter shortly before Cordero’s death.
After playing at Arkansas, Smith was drafted by the Jaguars in the fifth round in 2014. He finished with 11 career sacks in 72 games.
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Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says he is suing the Food and Drug Administration because the restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone are "entirely unreasonable and not medically necessary."
Ferguson, who spoke with NPR's All Things Considered on Saturday, is one of a dozen Democratic attorneys general who filed a lawsuit accusing the federal agency of excessively regulating the drug.
Mifepristone is typically used in combination with misoprostol to induce abortion in the first trimester. Ferguson says it's one of just 60 drugs — out of more than 20,000 medications approved by the FDA — to have extra restrictions that make the drug difficult to prescribe and dispense.
Ferguson said that while the FDA has not added any new restrictions on the medication since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, overturning the right to an abortion, the options for Americans seeking a safe abortion have grown limited across the country.
Ferguson also said the lawsuit serves as a countermeasure to a case before a Texas judge, who could soon rule to cut off access nationwide to the abortion pill.
"What the plaintiffs in that case are asking from that very conservative judge is to put a national injunction in place, saying that mifepristone should not be available to anybody in the United States anywhere," Ferguson told NPR's Michel Martin. "So our view is, while that case is going on, we have filed a case that takes the opposite position: that actually mifepristone should be expanded in terms of its access."
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview Highlights
On why a coalition of State Attorneys General are filing the lawsuit now
Ever since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, my team has looked for ways in which we can enhance reproductive options for the people of my state.
It became clear to us that this medication was being limited in terms of its access by the FDA in a way that we thought was entirely unreasonable and not medically necessary, and that's why we're filing this lawsuit to enhance the availability of this important medication for the people of my state and the other states who joined our lawsuit.
On what makes these extra restrictions on mifepristone burdensome
To give you an example, pharmacies must be specially certified in order to provide this medication. We filed this lawsuit in eastern Washington. As an example, Washington State University, the pharmacy there on campus is not certified to provide this medication because it's a hassle for them. It's administratively difficult. Why are we putting these pharmacies through this burdensome process for a medication that is perfectly safe and literally safer than Tylenol? It makes no medical sense.
Study after study demonstrates that this medication is safe. Obviously anything you put in your body inherently has some risk. There is evidence that this medication is as safe or safer than using Viagra. Viagra does not have these limitations. Why do they have it for a product that women would utilize?
On why they are filing this lawsuit
In my ten years as attorney general, I have filed about 110 lawsuits against presidential administrations of both Democratic presidents and Republican presidents. I think in those, I've lost exactly three cases. So I don't file a lawsuit against anyone, especially an administration, a president, unless I feel very confident that we are right on the law and that the rights of the people of my state are very much on the line. That is the case in this situation and why we're confident it will prevail.
On the goal of the lawsuit
If we're successful, at a minimum, in those dozen or so states, access to mifepristone would still be available even if this judge in Texas enters an opinion that tries to put a national injunction in place preventing people in this country from accessing mifepristone. Again, the attacks on women's reproductive freedoms continue post Dobbs, and this is the clearest example yet.
NPR's Gurjit Kaur and Miranda Kennedy produced and edited this story for broadcast.
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(Stacker) – Delayed packages, bare grocery store shelves, and inflated prices have become the norm for American consumers over the past two years. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been the catalyst, there are other challenges causing supply chain issues, including a lack of truck drivers to transport goods from one place to another. In late 2021, the American Trucking Associations reported that the driver shortage had risen to an all-time high of 80,000, partly due to the aging population and shrinking wages.
In response, the Biden administration vowed in December to get more truck drivers on the road by boosting recruitment efforts and expediting the issuing of commercial licenses. However, that won’t have an effect on another hurdle: disparate marijuana laws across the U.S. that are contributing to an increase in violations. In 2022, a growing number of truckers are being taken off the job, which could soon worsen the already suffering supply chain.
As more states legalize recreational marijuana—four of which did so in the past year and three more are expected to by the end of 2022—more truck drivers have tested positive for the substance. As of April 1, 2022, 10,276 commercial vehicle drivers have tested positive for marijuana use. By the same time in 2021, there had been 7,750 violations. That’s a 32.6% increase year over year.
Truck drivers who travel cross-country face inconsistent state regulations as 19 states have legalized recreational marijuana and 37 states permit it for medicinal purposes. But even if a driver used marijuana or hemp-based products like CBD while off duty in a state where those substances are legal, they could still be faced with a violation due to the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) zero-tolerance policy at the federal level. “While states may allow medical use of marijuana, federal laws and policy do not recognize any legitimate medical use of marijuana,” a DOT handbook for commercial vehicle drivers reads. “Even if a state allows the use of marijuana, DOT regulations treat its use as the same as the use of any other illicit drug.”
Stacker looked at what’s causing thousands of truckers to be removed from their jobs, and the looming domino effect of the continued supply chain disruptions.
Truck drivers are being tested more and the consequences for drug-related violations have increased
Under regulations set forth by the DOT, truck drivers are tested for drug use—including marijuana—prior to starting a new job. They can also be tested at random, as well as after accidents. In January 2020, the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration also upped the random drug testing rate from 25% of the average number of driver positions to 50%. Truck drivers are mainly screened for drug use via urinalysis, but there are now new saliva tests being proposed as well.
At worst, if a driver fails just one drug test, that can be grounds for termination under DOT regulations. At best, they are temporarily taken off the road and required to complete an evaluation with a substance misuse professional who determines their rehabilitation process, which can sometimes take months.
As of January 2020, employers are also required to list commercial drivers who fail a drug test in the FMCSA’s Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse. These violations remain searchable for five years. Potential employers are also required to check the Clearinghouse to see if a commercial driver had any previous violations, which would prevent them from being hired.
Differing marijuana laws by state are causing confusion among truck drivers
In recent years, more states have legalized both recreational and medical marijuana, making it more widely available and used. However, marijuana use is still prohibited for commercial truck drivers, state laws and medical prescriptions aside. According to the FMCSA, “a driver may not use marijuana even if [it] is recommended by a licensed medical practitioner.” The DOT has maintained its zero-tolerance stance for marijuana use even as it’s become legalized, saying, “Legalization of marijuana use by States and other jurisdictions also has not modified the application of U.S. Department of Transportation drug testing regulations.”
A commercial driver could use marijuana while off-duty, not driving, and in a state where marijuana is legal, but still test positive for the substance for up to a month later and be taken off the road. The American Addiction Centers says for infrequent marijuana users—meaning those who use the substance less than two times a week—it can show up in their urine for up to three days. Someone who uses marijuana several times a week can test positive for up to three weeks, and those who use marijuana even more frequently can “test positive for a month or longer.”
Truck drivers with violations tend to not return, adding to the shortage and supply chain woes
Shortages, factory closures, and goods waiting to be unloaded at ports are just some of the current issues affecting the supply chain across America. Trucking transports 72% of products within the U.S., according to a report from the White House, but a growing number of commercial drivers are sidelined for marijuana use.
The return-to-duty process that commercial vehicle drivers must undergo once faced with a marijuana violation can keep them from returning to work at all. According to the FMCSA’s monthly report, 89,650 commercial drivers are currently in prohibited status as of April 1, 2022, but 67,368 of them have not begun the RTD process.
If violations continue at the current rate, the truck driver shortage will further disrupt the supply chain, which means higher prices not just for commodities but the cost of living at large.
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RACINE, Wis., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, today announced that Paul Plourde has been appointed Vice President, Business Development and Corporate Strategy. In this role, Mr. Plourde will be responsible for leading the Company's global implementation of 80/20, overseeing corporate finance, managing strategic planning, and leading the overall business development process to ensure Modine's transformation and future success.
Mr. Plourde has more than 20 years of business leadership experience, most recently leading Gibraltar's business development focus into new markets including the renewables segments. Prior to that, he spent more than 10 years as the General Manager of Construction Products Canada (Paslode, Ramset, Buildex, Redhead and GRK brands) with ITW in Canada.
"It's an exciting and transformative time at Modine as we are shaping the company for a sustainable future," said Modine Chief Financial Officer, Mick Lucareli. "The addition of Paul to our leadership team will enhance our 80/20 implementation while bringing a strong set of acquisitions skills that will help accelerate our growth plans."
About Modine
At Modine, we are engineering a cleaner, healthier world. Building on more than 100 years of excellence in thermal management, we provide trusted systems and solutions that improve air quality and conserve natural resources. More than 11,000 employees are at work in every corner of the globe, delivering the solutions our customers need, where they need them. Our Climate Solutions and Performance Technologies segments support our purpose by improving air quality, reducing energy and water consumption, lowering harmful emissions and enabling cleaner running vehicles and environmentally-friendly refrigerants. Modine is a global company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin (USA), with operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Modine, visit www.modine.com.
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This is it … don't get scared now.
Checkers & Rally's has the answers to make this day the adventure of a fright-time.
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Checkers & Rally's, an iconic drive-thru restaurant chain known for flavorful, craveable food at a great value in partnership with Heinz® Brand, is reminding you that today is Friday the 13th – or better known as "Fry-Day" the 13th – but that doesn't mean it has to be a scare-tacularly dreaded day. Don't get caught up in superstitions, turn your "Fry-Day" to a "Fry-YAY" and find ways to lift your spirits like visiting a neighborhood Checkers & Rally's for an order of the #1 Most Craveable Fries in America* paired with Heinz Brand®, America's Favorite Ketchup®. We partnered with Fry-day essential Heinz ketchup to bring this experience to life. Secretly seasoned, famously good and made just for you fries will take your mind off all the bad that could happen and leave you with only the good and positive.
In fact, the company is already helping two lucky paraskevidekatriaphobics get over their fear of "Fry-Day" the 13th by sending them to a pop-up fry bunker called The Frunker that has been transformed into a Checkers and Heinz themed getaway. Sweepstakes winner Mike and his son from Newark, NJ will spend tonight enjoying a seasoned spready prepared by Corporate Chef Andrew Ruga that includes a six-course fry-inspired dinner of Fry-Seasoned Monsterella Stix, Mini Fry Burger Sliders, Shrimp Cocktail, Fry-Seasoned Chicken Tender Caesar Salad, Duo of Meats & Frites and Fully Loaded Brookie. The Frunker will also have burger-themed movies and more – alongside a carefully curated a music playlist rightfully titled 'The Frunker: Fry Bunker'.
Don't have a Frunker in your neck of the woods or ready to turn that freaky Friday around? Not to worry – Checkers & Rally's has you covered with a list of 13 delicious ways to get through "Fry-Day" the 13th:
- Carrying a potato in your pocket helps cure a toothache.
- Some people used to carry a potato to ease aches and pains by rubbing the water, potatoes were boiled in, on the affected area.
- Tying a sock filled with a baked potato around your neck to ease the pain.
- The tradition of eating black eyed peas on New Year's Day assures good luck.
- Many newlywed couples hand out tiny bundles of cooked rice for well-wishers to toss in their direction as they leave to symbolize good health and prosperity.
- Some consider it bad luck to spill salt. You can reserve your impending misfortune by throwing a handful of salt over your left shoulder.
- Some Chinese cultures believe long noodles symbolizes a long life, so cutting the noodles before serving symbolizes cutting life short.
- The belief that garlic wards off vampires, evil spirits and unwanted first-date kisses has been passed from generation from generation.
- In France, you should never put milk in your tea before the sugar; otherwise, you may never get married.
- People believe blowing out candles on a birthday cake will make a wish come true.
- Bubbles on the top of your coffee could mean that you're going to find sudden riches.
- In the 16th century, potatoes were unfamiliar and grew underground. Oddly, the belief arose that these vegetables were evil.
- These silly superstitions brought to you by Checkers & Rally's Frunker – a fun, French fry-themed bunker to protect you from all the things that may spook you on the 13th.
"At Checkers & Rally's, we really enjoy owning fun, irreverent moments in time where we can use our creativity to not only offer loads of our craveable fries, but to come up with something memorable and unique for our guests," stated Frances Allen, President & CEO of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. "We hope The Frunker is a reminder to face your fears and be brave in 2023, while also taking time to relax, disconnect and enjoy time with friends and family. We encourage everyone to create their own Frunker from the comfort of your home and remember to relish in it with Checkers & Rally's famous fries in hand."
For more information, hours of operation or to find a Checkers or Rally's location, please visit Checkers.com.
*Technomic Ignite Consumer Data (2020), published by Restaurant Business.
Based in Tampa, Fla., Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc., an iconic and innovative drive-thru restaurant chain known for its bold, craveable food, famous fries, exceptional value, and people-first attitude, operates and franchises both Checkers® and Rally's® restaurants. With 850 restaurants and room to grow, Checkers & Rally's is a proven brand with flexible building formats that is aggressively expanding across the country. Checkers & Rally's is dedicated to being a place where franchisees and employees who work hard can create opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. In recent years, the brand has earned several of the industry's most prestigious awards including: "#1 Most Craveable Fries" by Restaurant Business 2020 and 2018; Best Franchise Deal and "Best Drive-Thru in America" by QSR Magazine; Top Food and Beverage Franchise by Franchise Business Review; the "Hot! Again" award from Nation's Restaurant News and has consistently been ranked on Entrepreneur's Franchise 500.
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Which lizard food and treats are best?
From tiny anoles to iguanas, people keep lizard species of all shapes and sizes as pets. And since we now understand what lizards need to live long, healthy lives, manufacturers have created several nutritious food and treat options for your cold-blooded companion.
Zilla Reptile Food Munchies Omnivore Mix offers a blend of whole veggies and insects, providing great nutrition suitable for a range of lizard species.
What to know before you buy lizard food and treats
Know your lizard’s natural diet
In order to provide the best diet for your pet, you need to understand what it would naturally consume in the wild.
- Herbivorous lizards exclusively eat vegetable matter. Iguanas enjoy eating a varied diet of leafy greens, veggies and the occasional fruit treat.
- Carnivorous lizards, such as monitors, are predators that consume meat. Most lizards fall into this category, specifically insectivores that hunt insects and invertebrates. Geckos and chameleons are examples of insectivorous lizards.
- Omnivorous lizards require a diet that includes both prey items and vegetables. Bearded dragons, for example, are omnivores.
Your pet’s habitat
Lizards can’t regulate their body temperature and need UV rays from the sun to synthesize vitamins. Indoor pet reptiles are totally reliant on their owners to provide them with enough light in their habitat. Most reptiles don’t have an appetite unless they have a healthy environment. Be sure to research your lizard extensively to create a home for your pet that will keep it healthy and hungry.
Competition among your pets
If you have more than one lizard in a tank, be aware that the most dominant one may prevent your other lizards from eating enough food. If one of your pets is larger or more aggressive than the others, you should feed them all separately to ensure that smaller lizards aren’t hungry.
Live food is often the only option
Predatory lizards such as geckos rarely show interest in freeze-dried crickets or other dead prey items. In many cases, these animals like to hunt live insects. Because of this, these animals cannot be fed a prepared diet. However, you can still dust powder on their prey to provide them with additional nutrition.
What to look for in quality lizard food and treats
Insect ingredients
Insectivorous lizards need a diet that is high in insect protein. You can achieve this by selecting a food that is either completely prey items, such as dried crickets or grasshoppers, or one that has insect protein listed as a top ingredient.
Vegetable content for vegetarians
Omnivorous and herbivorous lizards should be fed food with quality plant matter as a top component. Look for ingredients such as carrots, dandelion greens and clover.
Quality protein for carnivores
Monitors, skinks and tegus lizards require a meat diet. You can supplement live or freshly-killed prey items with food that is high in whole protein, such as chicken.
Texture and smell
While this will vary from one lizard’s preference to the next, sometimes all it takes is a change in texture or smell to get your pet to eat prepared food. If freeze-dried insects don’t entice your pet and you prefer not to deal with live bugs, try a canned option. Canned insects provide a smell and texture that is more similar to live prey.
How much you can expect to spend on lizard food and treats
Depending on the size of the container and ingredients, lizard food costs between $10-$20. However, if you feed several lizards, you’ll end up saving money by buying in bulk.
Lizard food and treats FAQ
What if my lizard doesn’t eat all of its food?
A. You should remove uneaten food after a couple of hours to prevent any mess or bacterial growth in your pet’s habitat. Live food should be promptly taken out after feeding time to prevent crawling insects from bothering your pet or multiplying in its terrarium.
Can I feed my lizard “people food?”
A. Aside from vegetables and fruit, avoid feeding your pet any “people food.” They should only eat food that is specifically formulated for its diet.
Do lizards appreciate treats?
A. Unlike mammals and birds, reptiles don’t typically appreciate treats as a reward. However, the enrichment and stimulation that they get from experiencing a new or rare food item are both nutritionally and physically beneficial.
What are the best lizard food and treats to buy?
Top lizard food and treats
Zilla Reptile Food Munchies Omnivore Mix
What you need to know: This mix is fortified with additional calcium to promote healthy bones.
What you’ll love: With ingredients like dried bok choy, peas and crickets, this food has everything an omnivore needs to live happily. You can add water to this mix to soften it.
What you should consider: Especially picky eaters may reject this food in favor of fresh options.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top lizard food and treats for the money
Fluker’s Bearded Dragon Medley
What you need to know: This mix is great for insectivores or to supplement an omnivore’s diet.
What you’ll love: Made of whole crickets, grasshoppers and mealworms, this medley has no artificial ingredients. While marketed for bearded dragons, these snacks are great for any insectivorous lizard that will eat prepared food.
What you should consider: This medley should only complement a diet already rich in variety. It not be used as a primary food.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Pangea Fruit Mix with Insects Crested Gecko Complete Diet
What you need to know: This insect and fruit medley is a complete diet for Crested Geckos and other fruit-eating lizards.
What you’ll love: Some of the fruits in the mix include banana, apricot, papaya and coconut. Insect meal is still a primary ingredient, so don’t worry about protein.
What you should consider: You can’t feed this to any non-fruit-eating lizards. Some people found the mixed food has a strong smell.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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It's no Halloween trick. Some Instagram users were alerted Monday that their accounts had been suspended.
Users were greeted with a message that said their accounts don't follow Instagram's "community guidelines." Users were informed that their accounts would be permanently disabled if their accounts could not be confirmed within 30 days.
Instagram tweeted that it was aware of users unable to access their accounts.
"We're looking into it and apologize for the inconvenience," the public relations team for Instagram tweeted.
Instagram has not said how many people are impacted by the account suspensions or when they can expect to regain access.
The website DownDetector.com, which tracks outages, shows many accounts had been restored by the middle of the day.
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JINJIANG, China, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited (NASDAQ Capital Market: AEHL) ("Antelope Enterprise" or the "Company"), which engages in business management, information systems consulting, and online social commerce and live streaming, and is a manufacturer of ceramic tiles used for exterior siding and for interior flooring and design in residential and commercial buildings in China, today announced that effective November 3, 2022, its Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Qiguo Wang and Mr. Dian Zhang as members of the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Zhang has been appointed as an independent director and as a member of the Board's Audit, Compensation and Nomination committees. Mr. Zhang meets the Nasdaq Stock Market independence requirements as well as additional independence requirements under the US securities laws for membership on these committees. The Board of Directors now comprises seven directors, which is an increase from its previous five members, and which includes four independent directors.
"We welcome Messrs. Wang and Zhang to our Board and are confident that they will make positive contributions to the Company based on their experience and backgrounds," said Ms. Meishaung Huang, CEO of Antelope Enterprise.
Mr. Qiguo Wang is currently General Manager of Chengdu Zhongbo Industry Research Technology Development Co., Ltd., having joined the institute in 2018, where he is focused on the promotion of scientific and technological products and commercial transformations, as well as investment planning services for the industrial park. Previously, Mr. Wang was Executive Director of Chengdu Zhongbo Future Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. from 2018 to 2020, where he led the investment team to fund projects through the company's incubation platform. Previous to that, Mr. Wang was General Manager of Shanghai Shenghui Performing Arts Development Co., Ltd. from 2007 to 2015, where he managed large-scale conferences, volunteer activities and other events. Mr. Wang graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Information Security and Network Management from PLA Institute of Electronic Engineering.
Mr. Dian Zhang is currently Chief Financial Officer of Baiya International Group Inc., an SaaS (software as a service) platform company in China. Previously, Mr. Zhang worked at Eaton Square from 2014 to 2020, an M&A advisory firm, where he was responsible for investments in new ventures and their financing in the Chinese market. Previous to that, Mr. Zhang worked at the Chengdu branch of ShineWing Certified Public Accountants from 2009 to 2013 where his responsibilities included the auditing of annual reports of publicly listed companies and due diligence for IPO projects. Mr. Zhang holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Accounting from Aston University, a Master's degree in Banking and Finance from Monash University, and a Master's degree in Financial Management from the Australian National University.
About Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited
Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited engages in business management, information systems consulting, SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) systems platforms, and online social commerce and live streaming in China. The Company is also a manufacturer of ceramic tiles in China which are used for exterior siding, interior flooring, and design in residential and commercial buildings, and sold under the "Hengda" or "HD" brand For more information, please visit http://www.aehltd.com.
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All written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary notice, including, without limitation, those risks and uncertainties described in our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 and otherwise in our SEC reports and filings. Such reports are available upon request from the Company, or from the Securities and Exchange Commission, including through the SEC's Internet website at http://www.sec.gov. We have no obligation and do not undertake to update, revise or correct any of the forward-looking statements after the date hereof, or after the respective dates on which any such statements otherwise are made.
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Snailfish becomes deepest fish ever photographed
Published: Apr. 3, 2023 at 12:53 PM CDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
(CNN) – Scientists have recorded the deepest ever fish.
Last September, a sea robot filmed this snailfish just above the seabed off Japan at a depth of 27,000 feet.
Scientists also physically caught two other fish at 26,000 feet, a new record for the deepest catch.
The fish have tiny eyes, a translucent body and no swim bladder.
Scientists from the University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology released the footage.
The discovery is part of a 10-year study into the deepest fish populations in the world.
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Vegas man facing death penalty in boy’s body-in-freezer case
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty at trial of a Las Vegas man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and hiding the body in a freezer — where police found it when the boy’s sister gave notes to her teacher saying her mother was being held captive at the man’s home.
Brandon Lee Toseland, 36, has been jailed since his arrest in February and is due for trial in December after pleading not guilty to murder, kidnapping, child abuse and domestic battery by strangulation charges.
Prosecutor Michelle Fleck declined comment Tuesday about notice of intent to seek the death penalty filed Aug. 11 in Clark County District Court.
Toseland’s defense attorney, Craig Mueller, didn’t immediately respond to messages.
A lawyer who represented the boy’s mother has alleged she was physically, sexually and emotionally abused by Toseland. The woman isn’t facing criminal charges in the boy’s death.
The mother filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Toseland in March. He responded with a counterclaim alleging the mother was aware the boy died in December and said she would help Toseland “preserve” the body.
The Clark County coroner ruled in July that the boy died of blunt force injuries and his death was a homicide.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for KRKR, GOVX, REV, AMD, and TLRY.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- KRKR: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=KRKR&prnumber=080220225
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- REV: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=REV&prnumber=080220225
- AMD: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=AMD&prnumber=080220225
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The White House on Friday defended the presence of U.S. Marines at President Biden’s speech in Philadelphia the previous evening, arguing their positioning during the prime-time speech was to demonstrate the president’s respect for service members.
“The presence of the Marines at the speech was intended to demonstrate the deep and abiding respect the president has for these service members to these ideals and the unique role our independent military plays in defending our democracy no matter which party is in power,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
Marines were stationed behind the president as he spoke on Thursday, drawing scrutiny over the use of the military during a speech centered around blasting former President Trump and warning that the former president and Republicans aligned with him are “a threat to this country.”
“Whatever you think of this speech, the military is supposed to be apolitical. Positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden for a political speech flies in the face of that. It’s wrong when Democrats do it. It’s wrong when Republicans do it,” tweeted CNN anchor Brianna Keilar, whose husband is in the military.
White House officials have pushed back against criticism that the speech was overly political in nature.
“The president gave an important speech last night, a critical speech at an inflection point, and our democracy, our values, our values that our men and women who protect us every day and fight for every day believe in as well,” Jean-Pierre said Friday.
The White House spokeswoman maintained that “it’s not abnormal” to have military members during presidential speeches, pointing to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as previous presidents who also had service members on hand for speeches.
“It is not abnormal, it is actually normal, for presidents from either side of the aisle to give speeches in front of members of the military,” she said. “It is not an unusual sight, it is not an unusual event to have happened.”
Jean-Pierre reiterated the White House’s argument that Biden was simply recognizing the urgency of the issue in his remarks.
“Standing up for democracy is not political,” she said Friday.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A post circulating around Instagram has scared users into thinking people are able to obtain their exact location through the social media app.
For starters, those who share their location with the app are able to tag location in posts, access certain filters and add the location and outdoor temperature to their Instagram story posts. But a graphic stating that under a new Instagram update people are able to find your exact location has users scrambling to their settings to turn off the function.
Originally posted by @goaldiggercoachingltd, it said, "Since a new update, people can find your EXACT location from Instagram and this is being used by individuals to target people to commit crimes including theft, stalking, etc.
"Please make sure 'precise location' is turned off. You can do this by going to your phone settings, Instagram, location & then make sure precise location is turned off."
The Instagram post has since been deleted.
According to Instagram, that's not how it works. In a series of tweets by Instagram's public relations account, it debunks the post and reiterated that the company does not share users' locations.
"We’ve seen a meme going around about how Instagram uses 'precise location,'" the company said in a tweet.
The tweets continue, "To be clear, we don’t share your location with others. Similar to other social media companies, we use precise location for things like location tags and maps features.
"People can manage Location Services via their device settings, and tag locations on their posts if they want to share that information."
Meta, Instagram's parent company, says the company does not sell any of your information to anyone, and never will, according to its privacy policy.
The company uses location-related information, such as your current location to "provide, personalize and improve our products, including ads, for you and others." It continues, and "detect suspicious activity and help keep your account secure."
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GENEVA (AP) — The coronavirus remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Monday, after a key advisory panel found the pandemic may be nearing an “inflexion point” where higher levels of immunity can lower virus-related deaths.
Speaking at the opening of WHO’s annual executive board meeting, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “there is no doubt that we're in a far better situation now” than a year ago — when the highly transmissible Omicron variant was at its peak.
But Tedros warned that in the last eight weeks, at least 170,000 people have died around the world in connection with the coronavirus. He called for at-risk groups to be fully vaccinated, an increase in testing and early use of antivirals, an expansion of lab networks, and a fight against “misinformation” about the pandemic.
"We remain hopeful that in the coming year, the world will transition to a new phase in which we reduce hospitalizations and deaths to the lowest possible level,” he said.
Tedros' comments came moments after WHO released findings of its emergency committee on the pandemic which reported that some 13.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered — with nearly 90% of health workers and more than four in five people over 60 years of age having completed the first series of jabs.
“The committee acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic may be approaching an inflexion point," WHO said in a statement. Higher levels of immunity worldwide through vaccination or infection “may limit the impact” of the virus that causes COVID-19 on “morbidity and mortality,” the committee said.
“(B)ut there is little doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the foreseeable future,” it said. While Omicron versions are easily spread, “there has been a decoupling between infection and severe disease” compared to that of earlier variants.
Committee members cited “pandemic fatigue" and the increasing public perception that COVID-19 isn't as much of a risk as it once was, leading to people to increasingly ignore or disregard health measures like mask-wearing and social distancing.
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LOS ANGELES – It’s during the commercial breaks that the audience inside the Dolby Theatre really comes to life on Oscar night.
The stars will gladly play for the cameras posted in their face during the global broadcast – they are actors after all – but a lot of the time it seems like most would rather just talk to their fellow artists in the room.
The breaks may go on for an eternity for people watching the Oscars at home but in the Dolby, they’re never long enough as stars on the main floor abruptly end conversations and rush to take their seats again.
The beginning of the show is always a scramble as security, organizers and a booming voice of god all try to coax attendees to their seats in time for the live broadcast start. Some barely made it in, like “The Last of Us” and “The Mandalorian” star Pedro Pascal, whose handler pleaded to let him in because of his appearance in host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue, while others, like Elizabeth Banks, seem to have been shut out of the opening moments. She was led in the room during the first break, walking past supporting actor nominee Brian Tyree Henry, who had made his way up to Cate Blanchett a few rows ahead.
A few minutes later, Henry was one of the first to jump to his feet to cheer for Ke Huy Quan, who won in their category, as Quan’s co-star Michelle Yeoh wiped a tear away from the front row. One person even stood for the end of Quan’s speech: Harry Shum Jr.
After his loss, Henry was in good spirits in the lobby. He made his way over to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Martin McDonagh. He asked for a photo with Waller-Bridge, which McDonagh then dutifully snapped.
Back in the room, as Jamie Lee Curtis took the stage to accept her supporting actress prize, Cate Blanchett put her hands over her mouth and made prayer hands toward the newly anointed Oscar winner.
Audience members were briefly concerned as what appeared to be smoke billowed up in front of Curtis during her speech. But all breathed a sigh of relief to realize that it was merely a part of the next act, a performance from Sofia Carson.
During the next break, Blanchett beelined over to fellow Australian Nicole Kidman to give her a big hug, and Kidman did the same later with Austin Butler.
Outside of the theater in the lobby Miles Teller hung by the bar with his wife, while Bill Nighy took a quick bathroom break. And in another part of the room, filmmaker Rian Johnson shared a laugh with Hugh Grant, who made a cameo in his nominated movie “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
The lobby was quite chilly, but at least a few came prepared with layers: Rooney Mara had a red coat to put over her dress and Andrea Riseborough put a black leather jacket over her pale pink gown, which she wore through the end of the ceremony.
At the bar, best actor nominee Paul Mescal made some new friends for a few moments. As they debated whether or not they should order tequila, a fan approached Mescal in line to ask for a photo.
“Is a selfie ok?” Mescal asked, snapping the pic himself.
A few feet away, Mescal's “Aftersun” director Charlotte Wells spent most of the ceremony in the lobby, sipping on a beer
In another corner, Rooney Mara chatted with her “Women Talking” co-star Jessie Buckley. And over on a hard-to-come-by couch, 84-year-old “EO” director Jerzy Skolimowski sat by himself snacking on the popcorn and trail mix available for guests.
In the ladies’ room, Yeoh and Sandra Oh were walking arm and arm to exit, while Florence Pugh was a bit delayed. She needed a little help drying her hands in her voluminous dress.
“I’m dripping, I’m dripping,” she said with a laugh, her arms extended as far as they could go out in front of her.
Moments later at the bar, Pugh sidled up next to Cara Delevingne, both with trains that extended feet behind them, as they whispered to one another. The act of turning around to leave was not as straightforward as they may have anticipated.
“To follow each other it takes like ten minutes,” Pugh said.
As the night wears on, the lobby gets a bit shinier as more and more winners come out with more and more Oscars in hand, but it also gets a bit less starry as the bigger names of the night make their way back into the room for the final categories.
Some, hungry from the long show, took advantage of the “snack boxes” under every seat with a pretzel, a bottle of water and various types of movie theater candy, from Junior Mints to Raisinets.
During one of the last breaks, Kerry Condon hugged “Everything Everywhere All At Once” directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert as they came back to the room, best original screenplay Oscars in hand, as Michelle Williams stretched her legs a few feet away.
Michelle Yeoh was one who didn’t have time to make it back to her seat between winning the best actress award and when Harrison Ford announced that “Everything Everywhere All At Once” had won best picture. So, she emerged from the wings of the stage to join her cast and crew at the microphone for the last award of the night.
Many choose to linger in the Dolby Theatre for a bit, but others were eager to move on to the Governors Ball, Vanity Fair and various other gatherings where press and photographers are not invited. For stars on Oscar night, the show is often just the first stop.
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CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is trying to determine if a man who appeared to be threatening officers with a gun was actually armed when they fatally shot him this week, a spokesperson said Thursday.
Two Claremore police officers and and a Rogers County deputy shot Bobby Joe Johnston, 40, on Wednesday as he ran at them “in a threatening manner” along Interstate 44 in Claremore, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Tulsa, OSBI spokesperson Brooke Arbeitman said.
Johnston was taken to a hospital where he died, Arbeitman said.
Video from KOTV-TV shows Johnston running at armed officers, holding his hands in front of him as if pointing a handgun.
The OSBI declined to say whether Johnston was armed.
“That’s what we’re determining through the investigation,” Arbeitman said.
Johnston had broken into a woman’s home in Claremore, attacked her and stolen her phone and car, then led police on a short pursuit, Arbeitman said. Johnston eventually crashed the car and fled on foot into a wooded area then ran along the shoulder of the interstate toward officers, she said.
The shooting involves Native Americans and falls under the provisions of the U.S. Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling, leaving jurisdiction to the FBI, but the federal agency asked the OSBI to lead the investigation, Arbeitman said. She did not know which party was Native American.
The OSBI will submit a report to the prosecuting attorney, who will decide whether the shooting was justified.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Nucor's (NYSE: NUE) second quarter earnings release, you are invited to listen to its live conference call with host Leon Topalian, Nucor's Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer. This conference call will include a review of Nucor's results for the second quarter ended July 1, 2023, followed by a question-and-answer session. The event will be available on the internet on July 25, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Nucor and its affiliates are manufacturers of steel and steel products, with operating facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Products produced include: carbon and alloy steel -- in bars, beams, sheet and plate; hollow structural section tubing; electrical conduit; steel racking; steel piling; steel joists and joist girders; steel deck; fabricated concrete reinforcing steel; cold finished steel; precision castings; steel fasteners; metal building systems; insulated metal panels; overhead doors; steel grating; wire and wire mesh; and utility structures. Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company and its affiliates, also brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron and hot briquetted iron / direct reduced iron; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap. Nucor is North America's largest recycler.
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World's largest owner of A320 Family Aircraft
DUBLIN, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AerCap Holdings N.V. ("AerCap") (NYSE: AER) announced today it has placed firm orders for 15 Airbus A321-200 Passenger to Freighter (P2F) aircraft conversions and an option for a further 15 A321P2F conversions with Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH 'EFW'. The aircraft are from AerCap's A321 passenger portfolio and are expected to begin delivery in 2023 through 2025.
"Extending the life of our A321 fleet will complement the Cargo portfolio and meet the strong demand from our diverse customer base, from which we've seen a significant appetite for this freighter," said Rich Greener, Head of AerCap Cargo. "The A321 freighter is the best-in-class and most fuel-efficient aircraft to replace the B757-200 freighter. This transaction is in line with our cargo portfolio strategy of diversifying our fleet with improved economics and returns. We look forward to working with the EFW team on this program and thank them for the trust they have placed in AerCap."
"We are glad to finalize the agreement with AerCap on the A321P2F conversions," says Jordi Boto, CEO of EFW. "Our young A320P2F family program has gone from strength to strength and gained traction very quickly in the market with a dozen aircraft already in operation."
About AerCap
AerCap is the global leader in aviation leasing with one of the most attractive order books in the industry. AerCap serves approximately 300 customers around the world with comprehensive fleet solutions. AerCap is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (AER) and is based in Dublin with offices in Shannon, Miami, Singapore, Memphis, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, Seattle, Toulouse and other locations around the world.
About EFW
Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW), a subsidiary of ST Engineering and Airbus, combines various aviation activities under one roof including the development and manufacturing of fibre-reinforced composite components for aircraft structures and interiors of the entire Airbus family, the conversion of passenger aircraft into freighter configuration, maintenance and repair of Airbus aircraft as well as engineering services in the context of certification and approval. With almost 30 years of experience, and more than 40 conversion customers worldwide, thereof the largest Express carriers in North America and Europe but also renowned General Freight and Combination Carriers, EFW is the Centre of Excellence for freighter conversions driving the development of the Airbus freighter family.
About ST Engineering Aerospace
Similar to the A330P2F program, the latest conversion programs A321P2F and A320P2F are a collaboration between ST Engineering, Airbus and EFW, which is holding the STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) and leading the overall programs as well as marketing & sales efforts.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Kayaking is an excellent summer sport for anyone looking to cool off in ponds, rivers, lakes and elsewhere on the water. While the origin of the water sport is thousands of years old, today’s kayaks come with various bells and whistles.
For some, choosing between a regular and an inflatable kayak can be daunting, but understanding your skill level, storage capacity and price points can help you decide which kayak is best for you.
Shop this article: DriftSun Almanor Inflatable Recreational Touring Kayak, Perception Crank 10 Sit-On-Top Pedal Kayak With Adjustable Lawn Chair Seat and Intex Explorer K2 Two-Person Kayak With Aluminum Oars
What to know about kayaks
Use
How you plan to use your kayak may determine which ones work best for you. While inflatable kayaks are suitable for most casual kayaking applications, you’ll also want to consider other factors such as how much gear you have, how much storage space you have when it’s not in use and where you’ll be kayaking.
Kayaking location
Most kayaks are designed for somewhat specific types of bodies of water. While most introductory kayaks are made for use in ponds, lakes and other still bodies of water, high-end kayaks are often designed for faster-flowing rivers. It’s essential to choose a kayaking location consistent with your skill level. Those just starting should avoid fast streams, stay close enough to shorelines to swim back if needed, and wear life vests.
Types of kayaks
A wide range of kayaks exist, and inflatable kayaks are just one subset. Recreational kayaks include the majority at the hobbyist level, while those more serious about the sport may choose touring kayaks or hybrid kayaks. Another common distinction is between sit-in kayaks and sit-on-top kayaks. You can also find kayaks designed for fishing, storage, whitewater or sea touring, multiple people and more.
Inflatable kayaks vs. regular kayaks
Size and weight
Size and weight are significant differences between inflatable and regular kayaks. Inflatable kayaks are usually much lighter than traditional kayaks and have a wider base which can provide added stability. Regular kayaks are also bulkier than inflatable kayaks.
Performance
Overall performance for inflatable and regular kayaks is comparable. However, those heading to Class 2 rapids require specific, non-inflatable kayaks designed for tumultuous streams. Others may want longer or shorter overall kayaks, depending on where they’ll be kayaking. However, you can find various differently sized kayaks in both inflatable and regular configurations.
Storage and transportation
Because of their small size when deflated, inflatable kayaks make an excellent option for those with limited storage or transportation space. Car drivers require kayak roof racks for transporting their kayaks, while inflatable kayaks can fit into just about any space.
Durability
Inflatable kayaks are usually made with high-grade, durable PVC material. However, hardtop kayaks are more equipped to be durable than inflatable kayaks. Still, those concerned about popping an inflated kayak don’t need to worry. Most are made with safety features such as multiple air pockets and multi-layered exteriors.
What you need to buy for inflatable kayaks and regular kayaks
DriftSun Almanor Inflatable Recreational Touring Kayak
This high-end inflatable kayak includes a high-back, EVA padded seat for optimal comfort, as well as up to 300 pounds of maximum capacity. You can buy this inflatable kayak in configurations meant for one person or two people, in either yellow or green.
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Perception Crank 10 Sit-On-Top Pedal Kayak With Adjustable Lawn Chair Seat
This premium kayak features a comfortable seat and an easy-to-use pedaling system, making the use of a paddle unnecessary or optional. At 10 feet, it’s very easy to maneuver and includes two separate storage areas for as much as 350 pounds of gear.
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Intex Explorer K2 Two-Person Kayak With Aluminum Oars
This river and lake tandem kayak comes at a low price point, offering space for one to two people and mitigating the need to buy two kayaks to hit the water together. It has an impressive weight capacity of 400 pounds, and the seats come with a comfortable inflated backrest.
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Old Town Vapor 10 Recreational 10-Foot Kayak
This kayak is super affordable and has a spacious cockpit despite being shorter than most kayaks. It also includes adjustable footrests, thigh pads, a cupholder and a gear capacity of up to 325 pounds.
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Intex Excursion Pro Two-Person Inflatable Kayak
This is a great kayak pick for those fishing, featuring two fishing rod holders and a mounting bracket for accessories such as fish finders and GPS systems. You can buy this kayak in either two or one-person configurations, both boasting a lightweight and easily storable inflated material.
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Perception Zip 9.5-Foot Compact Sit-On-Top Kayak
This is a very affordable, basic sit-on-top kayak suitable even for beginners, and it features a small uncovered space for rear storage rated for up to 250 pounds of gear. You can buy this kayak in three separate colors, dubbed classic camo, earth and blaze.
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FAQ about inflatable kayaks vs. regular kayaks
Q. Are inflatable kayaks good for fishing?
A. Most inflatable kayaks are considered just as good for fishing as regular kayaks. However, it’s worth noting that most inflatable kayaks are only rated for use in smaller bodies of water, so you shouldn’t use them for fishing in rougher streams.
Q. Can dogs go in inflatable kayaks?
A. As long as you and your dog don’t outweigh a kayak’s maximum capacity, they are fine to go in inflatable kayaks. In fact, most inflatable kayaks have wider bases than traditional kayaks, making them more stable. Most inflatable kayaks are also made from a durable material that even tough dogs won’t rip through.
Q. Do inflatable kayaks need to be registered or licensed?
A. In most states, you won’t need to register inflatable kayaks or any other non-motorized marine inflatables. However, some states, such as Ohio, Delaware and Washington D.C., may require licensure or registration. Additionally, you may need to register large kayaks more than 12 to 13 feet long in some areas. You’ll want to check your local laws and regulations.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Regina 3 Brandon 1
Prince Albert 3 Lethbridge 0
Moose Jaw 3 Saskatoon 1
Kelowna 3 Victoria 0
Friday's results
Saskatoon 5 Brandon 3
Swift Current 5 Prince Albert 4 (OT)
Winnipeg 5 Regina 2
Red Deer 5 Lethbridge 0
Kamloops 5 Victoria 2
Edmonton 3 Spokane 1
Seattle 5 Kelowna 4
Medicine Hat 6 Everett 3
Prince George 4 Vancouver 3 (SO)
Saturday's results
Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 5:05 p.m.
Monday's games
Brandon at Calgary, 1 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Edmonton at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Prince Albert at Regina, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
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AP seeks to protect access to records of death row inmate
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Associated Press has filed a motion seeking to protect public access to records detailing the treatment of a Tennessee death row inmate who cut off his penis while on suicide watch.
Henry Hodges has accused the state of cruel and unusual punishment for keeping him tied down with restraints on a thin vinyl mattress over a concrete slab after his return from the hospital, where surgeons reattached his penis. He was immobilized — at one point for six hours straight — despite discharge orders from Vanderbilt University Medical Center that he avoid sitting for more than two hours at a time, according to court filings, which don’t mention whether that also includes lying down.
Hodges ended up having to return to the hospital to have his penis surgically removed after necrosis set in, according to filings. The state maintains that Hodges was not mistreated and that he has received appropriate care.
Attorneys for the state are seeking a protective order to prevent the public disclosure of records that include any video of Hodges taken inside the prison. That includes footage from the cell where Hodges severed his penis with a razor and the cell where he was held in restraints after discharge.
“The disclosure of any such photographs, videos, or other recordings could pose a severe security risk to both inmates and staff,” according to an affidavit by Ernest Lewis, the associate warden of security at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institute. Specifically, the recordings might show the interior layout of the prison, including windows and doors, Lewis said.
Hodges opposes the protective order. In a court filing Wednesday, his attorneys claim the state’s motion is an attempt to “hide their bad behavior from the public.” The document describes one episode in graphic detail.
“These videos depict Mr. Hodges in 4-point restraints, laying in an obviously painful spread eagle position with nothing but a black cloth thrown over the middle of his body,” according to the objection filed by Kelly Henry, an assistant federal public defender. “In the video, Mr. Hodges is left to defecate on himself and lie in his own feces instead of being offered an opportunity to go to the toilet.”
“The overwhelmingly horrific nature of these videos is the exact reason why Defendants want to hide them from the public under a protective order,” the objection reads.
It includes a declaration from Ben Leonard, an investigator with the federal public defender’s office. Leonard states that much of what the state seeks to protect, such as the layout of the prison or location of security cameras, is already public on the Tennessee Department of Correction’s own YouTube channel.
The AP on Thursday filed a motion to intervene in the case to protect public access to the records that document Hodges’ treatment. The AP wants the court to consider its motion at a Monday hearing, which Hodges supports but the state opposes.
The state cannot simply claim a broad security risk, but must show that specific harms would come from disclosing the records, Paul McAdoo, an attorney with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press who is representing the AP, wrote to the court. The fact that the defendants are public officials and that the case is of public interest also weigh against granting a protective order, according to the memorandum.
“Widespread news coverage of Mr. Hodges’ hunger strike, mental health crisis, and treatment by correctional staff underline the compelling public interest in his case, in particular,” the memorandum states.
A Nashville jury in 1992 convicted Hodges of murdering telephone repairman Ronald Bassett two years earlier and sentenced him to death. He also was sentenced to 40 years in prison for robbing Bassett.
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How to Watch the Guardians vs. Diamondbacks Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 17
The Cleveland Guardians and Jose Ramirez head into the second of a three-game series against Ketel Marte and the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday at Chase Field.
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Guardians vs. Diamondbacks Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, June 17, 2023
- Time: 10:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona
- Venue: Chase Field
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Guardians Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Guardians are last in MLB play with 45 home runs.
- Cleveland's .364 slugging percentage is the third-lowest average in baseball.
- The Guardians have the 20th-ranked batting average in the league (.241).
- Cleveland has the No. 27 offense in MLB action, scoring 3.8 runs per game (262 total runs).
- The Guardians' .306 on-base percentage ranks 24th in baseball.
- The Guardians strike out 7.2 times per game, the second-fewest mark in MLB.
- The 7.8 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Cleveland's pitching staff ranks 27th in MLB.
- Cleveland's 3.87 team ERA ranks eighth across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Guardians average MLB's 16th-ranked WHIP (1.290).
Diamondbacks Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Diamondbacks have hit 79 homers this season, which ranks 14th in the league.
- Fueled by 238 extra-base hits, Arizona ranks fifth in MLB with a .438 slugging percentage this season.
- The Diamondbacks rank third in MLB with a .264 team batting average.
- Arizona is among the highest scoring teams in baseball, ranking fifth with 360 total runs this season.
- The Diamondbacks have an on-base percentage of .330 this season, which ranks seventh in the league.
- The Diamondbacks rank fourth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 7.6 whiffs per contest.
- Arizona averages the 22nd-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.5) in the majors this season.
- Arizona pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.41 ERA this year, which ranks 18th in MLB.
- The Diamondbacks rank 21st in MLB with a combined 1.357 WHIP this season.
Guardians Probable Starting Pitcher
- Shane Bieber (5-3 with a 3.29 ERA and 64 strikeouts in 87 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Guardians, his 15th of the season.
- In his last time out on Sunday against the Houston Astros, the righty threw seven scoreless innings while surrendering three hits.
- Bieber is trying to secure his 11th quality start of the year in this game.
- Bieber will try to continue a three-game streak of pitching five or more innings (he's averaging 6.2 frames per outing).
- In three of his appearances this season he did not allow an earned run.
Diamondbacks Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Diamondbacks' Tommy Henry (3-1) will make his 10th start of the season.
- The left-hander's last appearance was on Tuesday, when he threw 4 2/3 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up five earned runs while allowing nine hits.
- In nine starts this season, he's earned three quality starts.
- Henry has five starts of five or more innings this season in nine chances. He averages 5 innings per outing.
- He has finished two appearances without allowing an earned run in 10 chances this season.
Guardians Schedule
Diamondbacks Schedule
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Jessica Meir Not on Trip Around Moon, but May Walk on Moon
Caribou native and NASA astronaut, Jessica Meir, will not be on the Artemis II mission around the moon.
Jessica Meir Not on Current Mission, but might Walk on the Moon
She may be the first woman to walk on the moon on a future voyage.
Artemis II Team
NASA has picked four astronauts to take the trip on the Orion rocket ship in 2024 for a 10 day trip around the moon. The Artemis II team includes NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency. The mission is to establish an ongoing human presence on the moon, according to WGME News.
Meir May Walk on the Moon
Meir could be selected to be on a future mission to land on the moon.
All-Female Space Walk in 2019 and NASA Research and Training
Meir is from Aroostook County, Maine and is a native of Caribou. She was teamed up with Koch to do the first all-women space walk in 2019. She spent over 200 days aboard the International Space Station doing research and has been instrumental in training for the Artemis missions.
Meir Posted a Video to Announce the Birth of her Daughter
Meir recently announced the birth of her baby girl and posted a video on social media.
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Michael Beard made his first really big Lehigh moment Sunday.
And it was about as big as can be.
Beard, the Mountain Hawks’ sophomore 197-pounder, brought a sold-out Stabler Arena crowd to its feet when he knocked off returning national champion and No. 1-ranked Max Dean with a rousing come-from-behind 11-9 decision.
“I knew I could beat him on his feet,” said Beard, ranked No. 9 by Intermat and, of course, a transfer form Penn State. “That might be the best match I have ever won. I feel pretty good about it. He’s the defending national champion.”
So are the Nittany Lions as a team, but No. 18 Lehigh fell short of a similar upset as No. 1 Penn State posted a 24-12 win in front of 6,032 fans. It was the Nittany Lions’ 12th straight win over Lehigh.
But the Beard decision almost – almost – made up for that. It made it feel like a really good day for the Mountain Hawks even considering the team score.
“It’s the match the fans wanted to see, right?’ Lehigh coach Pat Santoro said.
Judging from the reaction in the stands, it sure was.
Beard fired off right from the start, getting in on Dean on a single leg, switching to a double, to lead 2-0., But a Dean escape and double-leg made it 3-2
“That wasn’t in my game plan,” Beard said.
But key moment in the bout came just before the end of the first period.
Dean, who had lost Friday night in sudden victory to Rider’s Ethan Laird, was on top but not exactly dominating as Beard was able to get to his base, well off the mat, and Dean was called for stalling.
“There were 17 seconds left in the match, and my coaching staff was calling to me to get to my feet and get my one (escape),” Beard said. “I didn’t get my one (escape) but I got a point anyway.”
That was because Beard’s constant movement and ability to get to feet drew another stall on Dean. Not only did it tie the bout at 3, the two stalls made sure Dean could not take an overly defensive posture at any point.
The second period saw Dean escape to start, but then Beard converted another single-leg to a double. Dean escaped for a 5-all tie.
Neither wrestler could ride for long.
“I thought top and bottom we’d be pretty much even,” said Beard, and he was right.
Dean scored his final takedown off the match with 21 seconds left the second period, but, once again, Beard battled all the way through the period to earn an escape with one second left. In a two-point bout, such points are enormous.
So Dean led 7-6 into the third period, but Beard escaped 10 seconds into the period – and then he took it over.
“I thought Michael got stronger as the match went along,” Santoro said.
Dean came in on Beard at the 1:30 mark but the Mountain Hawk countered and took a clean re-shot to take Dean down at 1:25 and lead 9-7. After an escape at 56 seconds, Beard cemented the win with another takedown at 0:48, followed by an escape and Dean didn’t really threaten on his feet afterwards.
“I knew Max would come after me for all seven minutes,” Beard said. “I knew I had to give 100 percent effort in the third period. I had to take my shots when I needed to.”
Santoro was impressed by Beard’s offense.
“The fact that they know each other so well and both put so many points on the board was pretty impressive,” Santoro said. “They both enjoyed the atmosphere. That’s why you wrestle. You have to embrace these opportunities and they both wrestled really hard.”
Lehigh’s fans – who seemed to be a majority in the arena, though there was plenty of Penn State blue and white – serenaded Beard with a Mountain Hawk roar to finish the third period.
“At the end I heard the fans a little bit,” said Beard with a smile.
There was a bit of negative sound – not that loud - from the stands when Beard was announced from Penn State fans, perhaps understandable, but there was no other animosity all.
“I know Max pretty well, but I wouldn’t say we were hanging out together or anything (when he was at Penn State),” Beard said.
Penn State coach Cael Sanderson gave his former athlete a boost.
“Beard’s really good – he has always been good,” said Sanderson, who won his 12th straight match against Lehigh. “Things aren’t personal with us, when kids leave your program, and these days there’s going to be a lot more (transfers). Max wrestled two really good kids this weekend. He didn’t have the weekend he wanted, but it’s early December, there are little things to fix. Max works his tail off, he’s a kid that makes coaching fun.” Beard’s teammates loved every minute of his success.
“Michael is on a mission,” said 133-pounder sophomore Connor McGonagle, who defeated Karl Shindledecker 6-1. “He’s a really hard worker. That was a huge win for him and really good to see.”
Beard said the win will be huge mental boost for him.
“I definitely feel like I needed (the win) to bounce back from losing to (Pittsburgh’s) Nino Bonaccorsi (10-4, in their dual Nov. 19),” Beard said. “I needed that to pick up my confidence.”
We’re confident a really confident Michael Beard will make a lot more big moments at Lehigh.
No. 1 Penn State 24, No. 18 Lehigh 12
125: No. 26 Carter Bailey, L, d. Gary Steen, 3-1
133: No. 19 Connor McGonagle, L, d. Karl Shindledecker, 6-1
141: No. 9 Beau Bartlett, PSU, d. No. 30 Malyke Hines, 8-4
149: No. 20 Shayne Van Ness, PSU, p. No. 26 Manzona Bryant IV, 2:28
157: No. 8 Josh Humphreys, L, d. No. 30 Terrell Barraclough, 6-3
165: No. 17 Alex Facundo, PSU, d. Brian Meyer, 6-2
174: No. 1 Carter Starocci, PSU, md. Jake Logan, 21-9
184: No. 1 Aaron Brooks, PSU, d. No. 22 Tate Samuelson, 8-3
197: No. 9 Michael Beard, L, d. No. 1 Max Dean, 11-9
285: No. 2 Greg Kirkvliet, PSU, tf. No. 22 Nathan Taylor, 4:01 (19-0)
Records: Penn State (3-0), Lehigh (3-3)
Referees: Brian Murphy and Mark Cesari
Attendance: 6,032
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The March For Our Lives rally against gun violence in Orlando following the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Citing gun restrictions dating to the Reconstruction era, a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a 2018 Florida law that prevents sales of rifles and other long guns to people under age 21.
The law, passed in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is one of the only firearm restrictions approved by the Legislature in decades. Federal law already prohibited the sale of handguns to people under 21.
Lawmakers passed the measure weeks after Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, used an AR-15 rifle to kill 17 students and staff members and injure 17 others at the Broward County school.
The National Rifle Association quickly filed a federal lawsuit, arguing in part that the law imposes an unconstitutional restriction on the Second Amendment rights of people under 21.
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker rejected the challenge in 2021, ruling that previous court opinions have given states leeway to impose Second Amendment restrictions in some instances. The NRA appealed, and a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments last year.
Thursday’s decision relied heavily on guidance from a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in a case known as New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which said gun laws must be “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
The history shows Florida’s 2018 law is consistent with such tradition, Judge Robin Rosenbaum wrote in an opinion joined fully by Judge Anne Conway. Judge Charles Wilson wrote a short concurring opinion.
The ruling mapped out the historical record on age restrictions since the Reconstruction era. It also said the Florida law allows people under 21 to possess or use guns, such as guns that they receive as gifts.
“To begin with, the act is no more restrictive than its forebearers: While the act burdens 18-to-20-year-olds’ rights to buy firearms, unlike its Reconstruction era analogues, it still leaves 18-to-20-year-olds free to acquire any type of firearm — including ‘the quintessential self-defense weapon,’ the handgun … in legal ways, as long as they don’t buy the weapons,” Rosenbaum wrote.
In the mid-1800s, Rosenbaum wrote, Alabama and Tennessee laws prohibited selling, loaning or giving guns to people under 21, which was the age of majority in both states at the time. A similar law passed by Kentucky in 1859 included an exception allowing parents to give deadly weapons to their children.
The Alabama and Tennessee laws imposed “a greater burden on the right to keep and bear arms than does the (Florida) act, which leaves 18-to-20-year-olds free to obtain firearms through legal means other than purchasing,” Rosenbaum wrote.
The Kentucky law and the Florida law both “provide pathways” to acquire weapons, Rosenbaum, who was appointed to the appeals court by former President Barack Obama, added.
“As for the ‘why’ of those historical regulations, it is also ‘relevantly similar’ to the ‘why’ of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act (the 2018 law). Both ‘regulations burden a law-abiding citizen’s right to armed self-defense’ for the same reason: enhancing public safety,” the 40-page ruling said. The Florida law also aims to enhance public safety by addressing gun violence at schools, a goal “that is well in keeping with traditional firearm regulations,” Rosenbaum wrote.
The NRA has argued, in part, that the age restriction infringes on Second Amendment rights of young adults who have been authorized to use weapons when they serve in the military or in law enforcement.
The NRA “is currently assessing our appeal options” and is disappointed in Thursday’s decision, spokeswoman Amy Hunter said in an email.
“The NRA supports the right of law-abiding adults to possess firearms for self-defense, hunting and sport shooting. There is no reason why an adult who is old enough to defend his or her country should be restricted from exercising their Second Amendment rights,” Hunter said. “The NRA also looks forward to the Florida Legislature addressing the issue and removing this unconstitutional ban.”
The panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court disagreed with the NRA’s arguments related to people under 21 being able to use guns in the military or in law enforcement.
“The NRA’s conclusion is incorrect. The NRA mistakes a legal obligation for a right,” Rosenbaum wrote.
Thursday’s ruling came days after two Republican House members filed a bill (HB 1543) that would remove the age restriction. Hunter’s email pointed to the bill, which Wilson also addressed in a concurring opinion.
Wilson agreed “with the judgment given the law as it stands today” but said he would have waited until the end of the legislative session before issuing a ruling because passage of the bill “may render the issue moot.”
But in a lengthy footnote, the main opinion said the case “remains very much alive.” State lawmakers might not pass the bill, and the parties in the lawsuit — filed five years ago — submitted briefs before and after the Bruen ruling.
“Given these circumstances — the speculative nature of any possible mootness scenario and the fact that neither party has asked us to wait to see whether any mootness potentiality materializes — we think we should resolve the parties’ disagreement without further delay,” Rosenbaum wrote.
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A week after several suspicious ruptures were discovered along the undersea Nord Stream pipeline, gas has reportedly stopped leaking but the questions keep flowing. Namely: What — and who — caused the damage? And how can countries try to prevent similar incidents going forward?
Scientists say the two leaks were likely caused by powerful underwater explosions, based on seismic data from Sweden and Denmark. And European leaders believe those leaks were no accident, with NATO blaming "deliberate, reckless, and irresponsible acts of sabotage."
Sweden, Denmark and Germany have all opened investigations, while Russia — whose state-controlled energy company, Gazprom, is the main owner of the pipelines — is calling for a review and blaming the West.
Neither pipeline was operational at the time of the leaks, since Moscow cut flows to Nord Stream 1 in August (in retaliation for Europe's support of Ukraine and sanctions in Russia) and Germany postponed the opening of Nord Stream 2 just before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Still, the incident has raised a number of concerns about the impact on the environment (because of the massive amount of climate-damaging methane it released) and Europe's energy supply, as well as the vulnerability of critical infrastructure more broadly.
The Nord Stream leaks serve as a warning that any one of the numerous gas, power and telecommunication cables crisscrossing Europe could be a target, as NPR's Jackie Northam put it. Taking note, countries like Norway, Denmark, Italy and Poland have ramped up security and surveillance around their own undersea pipelines in recent days.
There are about 730,000 miles of pipelines around the world, enough to circle the Earth 30 times, says national security analyst Juliette Kayyem. And that's not including wires connecting the internet, which she says amount to "another million miles of cable, essentially."
These pipelines are "lifelines for these countries to continue moving and living and having access to electricity," Kayyem told Morning Edition's A Martínez on Monday. "They're vulnerable because they're large, they are exposed — at least under the ocean floor — and they are very hard to protect."
What steps can countries take to protect their critical infrastructure?
That doesn't mean no one is trying to protect these vulnerable pipelines, Kayyem says.
"We should think about it more and people do think about it," she explains. "The standard is not, 'Can we make it safe?' It's just sort of, 'Can we make it safer?' at this stage, can we minimize the risk for these pipelines."
There are four primary ways that security experts think about minimizing risk, according to Kayyem, who describes the approach as "layered defenses."
It involves building more protective pipes that can withstand intrusion, controlling access to pipelines, monitoring them and intercepting potential attacks.
Kayyem says the Nord Stream incident shows the importance of surveillance, and making sure countries know which boats and submarines are around the pipeline. These kinds of pipelines have lots of detection devices, she adds, which can help authorities figure out if the object nearby is a whale or an actual threat.
And if something does look like it's attacking the pipeline, are a country's forces prepared to go after it? Kayyem says they could use battleships, submarines or even equipment like drones to "take things out."
"It's a little bit like warfare, because you are protecting something that would be attacked in a war," she adds.
Not all threats come by land or sea. It was just last spring when a ransomware attack temporarily shut down the Colonial Pipeline, which carries gas, diesel and jet fuel along the U.S. East Coast from Texas to New York.
Kayyem says it's crucial for countries and companies to plan for these kinds of disruptions so they can prepare to restore their systems as fast as possible.
"We just have to anticipate that there will be attacks," she says. "And then the standard of success is, can we get back online quickly."
The audio interview was produced by Naina Badarinath Rao and Julie Depenbrock, and edited by Simone Popperl and Reena Advani.
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Gas prices continue to drop for the 12th week in a row
(Gray News) – Gas prices are on the decline for the 12th consecutive week, which is the longest streak since 2018, according to GasBuddy.
The national average price of gas has fallen to $3.75, which is down 29.5 cents from a month ago but is still 57.6 cents higher than a year ago.
Gas analysis experts are hopeful the decrease in gas prices will continue into the fall but could be contingent upon what happens in the tropics.
“According to weather analysts, it’s the first time in 25 years that a named Atlantic storm did not develop in August. That’s the good news,” said Andrew Gross, AAA spokesperson. “But we still have another month of peak hurricane season, and these storms can affect gas prices by disrupting oil production and refining.”
GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan noted that the switch to winter gasoline will happen in just over a week and should provide some additional relief at the pumps.
Most of the country’s least expensive markets fall in the southern region and include states like Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia.
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Wednesday, Feb. 22
Irby appears on 'This Old House' today
Wabbaseka native and author Jason Irby will appear on television at 6 p.m. today during Make48 on "This Old House" Makers Channel -- Roku (Channel 458.) Make48 is described on its website as a 48-hour competition where teams are tasked to build a prototype, create a sales sheet, produce a 1-minute marketing video and pitch their big idea to a panel of judges. North Little Rock was one of the locations included with a challenge theme focusing on the Trail of Tears, according to Stuff in The Bluff.com. Irby, vice president of the Arkansas Chapter of the National Trail of Tears Association, was a judge at the competition. Details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y5LsvfajRY&feature=youtu.be.
Business start-up event set
The community is invited to attend a free seminar on the Business of Business from 2-3:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library System's main library, 600 S. Main St., or online. The presenter will be Angelisa Henry, director of the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Business Incubator. "Give your business a boost by mastering essential business skills and learning how to stay connected to your customer. We will focus on networking, problem-solving, leadership, time/stress management, and conflict resolution. Learn how to increase your organization's output and productivity," according to a news release. Registration is available at https://asbtdc.ecenterdirect.com/events/70371623. Details: Angelisa Henry, (870) 575-8033.
Go Forward plans town hall event
Go Forward Pine Bluff invites the community to attend its town hall meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Pine Bluff Convention Center in the banquet hall. The agency will introduce phase II of the Citizens' Plan and Strategy. Details: (870) 939-6900 or www.goforwardpinebluff.org.
Housing board to meet
The Housing Authority of the city of Pine Bluff will hold its board meeting at 6 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Colonial Steakhouse, 111 W. Eighth Ave. Details: (870) 541-0706.
Pine Bluff Commercial sets church news deadline
Church news is printed in The Commercial on Friday. The deadline to submit church announcements is noon Wednesday. Pastors, ministers or others interested in writing for the Devotional Page may also submit columns for consideration. Column writers should have connections to Southeast Arkansas. Articles should be submitted by email to shope@pbcommercial.com. Details: (870) 534-3400, ext. 5.
Thursday, Feb. 23
Ebony founder topic at event
The Alex Foundation and Friends of John H. Johnson Museum will observe Black History Month at Parkview High School at Little Rock at 9 a.m. Thursday. Johnson was the founder and publisher of Johnson Publishing Co. and created the Jet and Ebony magazines. The observance will include a discussion led by architectural historian, Mason Toms, on the John H. Johnson Museum, a replica home museum of John H. Johnson's childhood home at Arkansas City, according to a news release.
Mental health wellness forum set
Project LIVE (Lifesaving Information and Vaccination Education) will present a Mental Health Wellness Literacy Forum. The event will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at Hurricane HYPE Center, 3319 S. Ohio St. This forum is free and open to the general public, according to a news relase. The speaker will be Kimberly D. Key-Bell, assistant deputy director of treatment for the Arkansas Division of Youth Services.
GOP plans meeting
The Jefferson County Republican Committee will meet at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 at Larry's Pizza at White Hall. The guest speaker will be state Rep. Mike Holcomb of Pine Bluff. Under new business, the committee will be setting fundraising goals for 2023 and hearing from the new fund-raising chairwoman Mandi Martin,. according to a news release.
VA sets virtual claims event
The Little Rock VA Regional Office will hold a virtual claims clinic for Arkansas Veterans from 4-6 p.m. Feb. 23. To reserve a timeslot, veterans should call (501) 370-3829 before 4 p.m. Feb. 22, according to a news release. Veterans may speak one-on-one to staff of the Little Rock VA Regional Office regarding their claims for VA benefits. The staff is is available to answer questions about existing VA benefits claims and how to file a new one.
Friday, Feb. 24
UAM sets day for high students
The University of Arkansas at Monticello Office of Admissions will host Weevil Welcome: College Preview Day for high school juniors and seniors Feb. 24 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Registration will be held in the UAM fine arts center. Prospective students are invited to attend the event to learn more about programs of study at UAM, financial aid and new scholarship opportunities, residence life and more. High school seniors who have already applied to UAM are encouraged to attend the event to meet with faculty, staff and current UAM students. Parents are also welcome to attend. For details or to RSVP, contact the UAM Office of Admissions at admissionsoffice@uamont.edu or (870) 460-1026.
Through Friday, Feb. 24
WH Sports Hall of Fame seeks nominees
The White Hall Sports Hall of Fame Association, a non-profit organization, is seeking nominations for 2023-2024 inductees into the Hall of Fame. Nominees must have upstanding character and citizenship who have made outstanding contributions to White Hall school athletics, according to a news release. The following categories include: former players and coaches who have achieved outstanding contributions through personal service to White Hall school athletics; special services such as sports writers, sportscasters, school officials, or others who have made outstanding contributions to White Hall athletics; and distinguished services, including the criteria listed in the first two categories, with the addition that the honoree's service or contribution was a commitment of 10 years or longer. Nomination forms may be obtained from White Hall High School, White Hall Administration Building, or https://bit.ly/WHSportsHallofFame. The deadline for submitting a nomination is Feb. 24.
Beginning Friiday, Feb. 24
Knights of Columbus sets fish fry
The Knights of Columbus invites the community to its annual fish fry on Fridays at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Gallagher Hall, 412 W. Sixth Ave. Meals are dine in or carried out and will be served from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 24, March 3, 17, 24, and 31. The dinners are $15 (all you can eat) and $8 for children, according to a news release.
Through Friday, Feb. 24
Taylor exhibit addresses racism prophecy
An exhibition at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas showcases the work of noted Memphis-based artist Madai Taylor. "An Elegy to America in Black and White II: The Artwork of Madai Taylor" features 18 pieces. Taylor's exhibition addresses racism, and prophecy. The exhibition will be on view in the William H. Kennedy Jr. Gallery through Feb. 24.
Deadline set for WH Sports Hall of Fame nominees
The White Hall Sports Hall of Fame Association, a non-profit organization, is seeking nominations for 2023-2024 inductees into the Hall of Fame. Nomination forms may be obtained from White Hall High School, White Hall Administration Building, or https://bit.ly/WHSportsHallofFame. The deadline for submitting a nomination is Feb. 24. Nominees must have upstanding character and citizenship who have made outstanding contributions to White Hall school athletics, according to a news release. The following categories include: former players and coaches who have achieved outstanding contributions through personal service to White Hall school athletics; special services such as sports writers, sportscasters, school officials, or others who have made outstanding contributions to White Hall athletics; and distinguished services, including the criteria listed in the first two categories, with the addition that the honoree's service or contribution was a commitment of 10 years or longer.
Saturday, Feb. 25
Highland plans Arts of Worship
Highland Ministries, 1320 S. Peach St., will present Arts of Worship at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The event is free and open to the general public. The service will emphasize how the arts are used in worship, said Gekisha Shaw, Highland's assistant minister of music. "Arts of Worship is a night of expressing worship and invoking God's presence via different artist forms outside of the norm, such as spoken word and dance," Shaw said. "It's a night of seamless music, scripture, prayer, dance, spoken word and other giftings that bring glory to the Father."
ASC plans Weave & Unwind Workshop
Morgun Henson, the communications and development coordinator at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, will teach the basic skills of weaving during Weave & Unwind from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 25 at the ARTSpace on Main, 623 S. Main St. The class will teach participants how to create a wall hanging using weaving techniques. The class is open to people ages 21 and older, and complimentary wine, beer, soda, water and coffee will be provided. The cost is $25 for ASC members and $35 for nonmembers. Materials are included and no experience is necessary. Registration is required at asc701.org/adult-classes, (870) 536-3367 or visit ASC in person. For details, contact Rachael Bynum at rbynum@asc701.org or call (870) 395-7059.
Irby plans Heritage, Black History event
Wabbaseka native and author, Jason Irby, will host the eighth annual Arkansas Heritage Celebration of Black History Month and Legend Among Us presentation. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 25 at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library and Learning Center at Little Rock. The program will be followed by a Black History program presented by the Central Arkansas Library System, according to Stuff in The Bluff.com. This year's Legend Among Us honorees include Daniel F. Littlefield, Muskie Harris and Philander Smith College. Details: jasonirby.wordpress.com.
Sunday, Feb. 26
Saint Bethel observes Black History
Saint Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, 4508 S. Main St., invites the community to the annual Black History program at 3 p.m. Feb. 26. The theme will be Embracing the Past/Moving Forward with Hope and Faith. The speaker will be state Rep. Kenneth B. Ferguson. Guests will include Watson Chapel High School Choir, Marguerite N. Flannigan, Montavian Haywood, and Jamal Gordon. The pastor is the Rev. Louis E. Williams Jr.
Beginning Monday, Feb. 27
Generator to host events
The Generator, 435 Main St., a program of Go Forward Pine Bluff, will host several community events, according to a news release. These include: Feb. 27 -- Business Planning Workshop with the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, from 5:30- 7 p.m. Details: Angelisa Henry, director of UAPB ASBTDC, (870) 575-8033. March 14 -- All 5th-grade students in Pine Bluff are invited to the G5 Math Competition at 5:30 p.m. Send emails to kaneshabarnes@gmail.com for the study guide. Details: (870) 663-0200 or stop by the Generator. March 15 -- Starting a Side Hustle, with UAPB - ASBTDC, 6 p.m. Details: Angelisa Henry, (870) 575-8033.
Through Tuesday, Feb. 28
TOPPS accepts food agency forms
Targeting Our People's Priorities with Service (TOPPS), 1000 Townsend Drive, will apply to Arkansas Special Nutrition for the 2023 Summer Feeding Program. TOPPS is a sponsor organization that can serve other sites. The meals served will be breakfast, lunch or snack, according to a news release. Organizations such as churches, schools, non-profits, or camps that serve children 18 years old and under may apply for this program if they aren't under any other food program, according to the release. There is no charge. The deadline to submit an application is Feb. 28. Details: Paulette Barnes or Annette Dove at TOPPS, (870) 850-6011.
Through Wednesday, March 1
Crop Block Grants available
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for the 2023 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. These grants are funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to enhance the competitiveness of the Arkansas specialty crop industry. Specialty crops are defined by USDA as fruits, vegetables, horticulture, floriculture, and tree nuts, according to a news release. Project concept proposals outlining the project's goals, tasks, and budget requirements must be submitted by March 1. The 2023 SCBGP application can be found at cognitoforms.com/ArkansasAgriculture1/SpecialtyCropBlockGrant2023ProjectConceptProposal. Details: Amy Lyman, amy.lyman@agriculture.arkansas.gov.
Friday, March 3
Agri Hall of Fame members to be inducted
Five new members will be inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame at 11:30 a.m. March 3 at the Little Rock Convention Center. Inductees include veteran cotton farmer and industry leader Steve Stevens of Tillar; Arkansas Century Farm owner/operator and philanthropist Ellis Bell of Forrest City; Arkansas State University professor of agricultural economics Bert Greenwalt of Jonesboro; innovative rice farmer Chris Isbell of Humnoke; and the late Jessie (J.D.) Vaught of Horatio, a pioneer in contract livestock production, according to a news release. Luncheon tickets are $80 each and available by calling (501) 228-1609 or emailing aghalloffame@arfb.com. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.arkansasaghalloffame.org/pages/induction-luncheon/. Details: www.arfb.com.
Through Friday, March 3
Zeta Phi Beta offers
scholarships
Epsilon Zeta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. will provide a $1,000 scholarship ($500 each semester) to a young woman enrolled at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and a $500 scholarship ($250 each semester) to a young woman enrolled at Southeast Arkansas College. An applicant must have a 3.0 grade point average. The application, an official transcript, and letters of recommendation on the letter writer's official letterhead, may be emailed to epilonzz.pb@gmail.com or mailed to P.O. Box 1161, Pine Bluff, AR 71613, by March 3, 2023, according to a news release. For scholarship details or for an application, email Mary Liddell, second vice president, at marylddll@yahoo.com or call (870) 643-2383.
Saturday, March 4
New date on free childcare provider classes
Family and consumer sciences agents will conduct free classes for childcare providers through the Best Care program. The training will be held at 8 a.m. April 22 at the parish hall of St. Joseph Catholic Church, 412 W. Sixth Ave. The date was changed from March 4, according to a news release. Ten hours of training will be offered. The training will be taught by agents of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. Instructors include Danielle Watson and Mary Ann Kizer, extension agents in Cleveland and Jefferson counties. Registration is required by April 17. Interested participants may contact Kizer at the Jefferson County Cooperative Extension Office at (870) 534-1033 or by email at mkizer@uada.edu.
Sunday, March 5
Lake Village spaghetti supper set
The Ladies Altar Society at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church at Lake Village will hold the annual spaghetti dinner March 5 with the drive-thru starting at 8 a.m. and reserved tables will also be available inside the facility. Drive-thru and carryout plates will be available and dine-in seating is limited. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children. To purchase tickets, call (214) 533-0227 or (870) 489-2883.
Through Sunday, March 5
WH softball registration open
White Hall Softball League registration is open until March 5 online at https://whitehallsoftball.sportngin.com/register/form/115952577. In person registration is available from 1-4 p.m. March 5 at the White Hal Softball Fields, a spokesman said. The fee is $125 per player. T-Ball, 8U, 10U, 12U, 14U/16U divisions are available.
Monday, March 6
Mayor sets State of the City address
Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley M. Washington will deliver the State of the City address at 5:30 p.m. March 6 at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. The Pine Bluff City Council meeting, scheduled for March 6, will proceed after the mayor's address. Washington plans to report on the city's accomplishments in 2022 and its goals for 2023. The public is invited to attend, according to a news release.
Tuesday, March 7
WH plans art showcase
The White Hall School District Art Showcase will be presented from 5-6:30 p.m. March 7 at the White Hall Community Center. The district art department will host the 2023 showcase. Selected works created by White Hall students from each district school will be featured at the event. The public is invited to attend, according to a news release. The event will also include art teachers, working artists, photo booth, craft stations and Richard Davies, the school resource officer.
Wednesday, March 8
UAPB slates anti-smoking event
The 20th Clearing the Air in Communities of Color Conference will be held virtually from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 8. The Minority Initiative Sub-Recipient Grant Office at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the Arkansas Cancer Coalition have partnered for a fourth year to jointly host the event, according to a news release. The theme is "New Priorities in Tobacco Control: Menthol Flavoring and Vaping," and will spotlight the work of community organizations to reduce minority tobacco use and will include tobacco control training. The virtual event is open to the public but registration is due Feb. 28. Registration details are available at arcancercoalition.org/arkansas-cancer-summit. For questions about the conference, call Marian S. Evans, MISRGO coordinator, at (870) 575-8923.
Chamber observes International Women's Day
The community is invited to join the Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce for an evening of live music by "The Vibe," and refreshments during the International Women's Day celebration. The event will be held March 8 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the ARTSpace on Main in the Kline Family Foundation Gallery. Tickets are $50 per person and sponsorships are available. The attire is trendy, according to a news release. The Chamber will honor 10 women in these categories: Woman in Healthcare; Woman in Real Estate; Woman in Finance/Banking; Woman Business Owner; Woman in Education; Woman in Manufacturing; Woman in Not-For-Profit; Woman in Hospitality; Woman in Public Service; and Woman in Law. Details: Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce, (870) 535-0110.
Through Friday, March 10
Master Gardeners offer scholarship
The Janet B. Carson Master Gardener Scholarship is available to high school seniors planning to attend an Arkansas college or university and major in a plant science related-field, including horticulture, botany, agronomy, forestry, and landscape architecture. The deadline to apply is March 10 and the scholarship application is available at bit.ly/carson-scholarship-23. The Arkansas Master Gardener program funds the $1,000 scholarship, according to a news release.
Women's Hall of Fame seeks nominees
The Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame is seeking nominations for the 2023 induction class. The AWHOF was created to honor women whose contributions have influenced the direction of Arkansas in their community or the state, according to a news release. Nominations must be submitted by March 10. Details are available at www.ARWomensHallofFame.com. The 2023 induction ceremony is scheduled for Aug. 24 at the Statehouse Convention Center.
Saturday, March 11
Distinguished Gentlemen's Banquet set
The Pine Bluff Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta will host the Delta Distinguished Gentlemen's Banquet on March 11 at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Details: Follow the chapter on Facebook, according to a news release.
SEARK announces gala
Southeast Arkansas College will host the Sock Hopfundraising gala March 11 at Seabrook, 6808 S. Hazel St., a SEARK college and community recreation center. The VIP reception is from 6-7 p.m. and the gala from 7-11 p.m., according to the newsletter of the Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Through Tuesday, March 14
Synergy grant applications available
Synergy Forum Inc. is accepting grant applications for its 2023 grant cycle. Registered non-profit organizations: IRS 501(c)(3) public charities, public schools, government agencies, and the hospital in Jefferson County are eligible to apply. Synergy grants fund projects for the benefit of residents in Jefferson County in the areas of the arts, education, and social services, according to a news release. Applications should be requested by March 14, completed and then submitted by April 6. For an application and details, email synergyforumgrants@gmail.com. Applications will only be accepted by email.
Through Wednesday, March 15
UAMS Pathways accepts applications from youth
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is accepting applications for its Pathways Academy program for students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Applications will be accepted through March 15 a part of the program will be held at Pine Bluff. Pathways Academy focuses on preparing K-12 students for opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and health sciences (STEM-H) disciplines, according to a news release. Details: ddei.uams.edu/outreach-programs/pathways-academy.
Applications available for USDA/1890 Scholars
The application deadline for the U.S. Department of Agriculture/1890 National Scholars Program is March 15, said Belinda Demmings, USDA liaison for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The program awards scholarships to students attending one of 19 historically black land-grant universities. High school seniors entering their freshman year of college and rising college sophomores and juniors are eligible to apply. USDA/1890 National Scholars receive full tuition towards a bachelor's degree, books and the cost of room and board, Demmings said. During the summer months while in college, the students will receive an internship with a USDA agency, including employee benefits. After graduation, all USDA/1890 National Scholars are employed by their selected agency and must commit to at least one year of service to USDA for each year of financial assistance provided. Applicants must apply using the e-application form, which can be found at https://www.usda.gov/partnerships/1890NationalScholars.
Foundation scholarships available
Beginning Feb. 1, Pine Bluff Area Community Foundation will accept applications for scholarships from high school seniors in Pine Bluff and Jefferson County. The deadline to apply is March 15. These scholarships are for local students pursuing higher education at two- or four-year colleges or universities, vocational schools or technical training programs. Details: www.arcf.org/scholarships or Lawrence Fikes, executive director of Pine Bluff Area Community Foundation, at pinebluffarea@arcf.org or (870) 850-7934.
Thursday, March 16
Christian Women slate luncheon
The Christian Women's Connection will host its luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 16 at the Pine Bluff Country Club. The speaker will be Juanita Buckmaster of Pine Bluff. There will also be a presentation by Ricky Williams, director of the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library System, according to a news release. The luncheon is $21, which includes meal, tax and gratuity. Everyone is invited to attend. For reservations or cancellations, call Jennifer Keahey at (870) 540-9302. All reservations must be made three days in advance. Participants will be a charged for reservations not kept, according to the release.
Friday, March 17
Moscow pantry to open
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church of Moscow will open its food pantry at noon March 17. The pantry won't open in February, according to a news release.
Through Sunday, March 19
Grand Prairie sets arts events
The 67th Grand Prairie Festival of the Arts 2023 will hold its Photography and Decorative Arts exhibits for adults and youth at the Arts Center of the Grand Prairie at Stuttgart. Exhibit dates are through Feb. 23 for the photography contest, according to a news release. Entries may be picked up Feb. 24-25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Decorative Arts entries are to be delivered to the arts center on March 10 from noon to 5 p.m. and March 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Decorative Arts Exhibit will be at the center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays March 17-19 and on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. The awards reception and presentation will be March 19 at 3 p.m., according to the news release. To register or for details visit www.grandprairiearts.com or email artscenter001@gmail.com.
Beginning Tuesday, March 28
Skilled technical career event set
Be Pro Be Proud will host its Draft Day, an event designed to match employers with high school seniors across Arkansas. In the region, Draft Day Arkansas will be held at the Grand Prairie Center at Stuttgart March 28-30, according to the Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce newsletter. The purpose of Draft Day is to coordinate engagement and interview opportunities between companies and graduating seniors whose interest and experience match hiring needs. Details: https://beprobeproud.wufoo.com/forms/employerpartner-participation/?blm_aid=202754.
Through Friday, March 31
UAPB accepts AgDiscovery applications
AgDiscovery, a residential career and science exploration program for teens, is scheduled for June 10-23 at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. March 31 is the application deadline, according to a news release. The program allows participants, ages 14-17, to live on the UAPB campus and learn about agricultural science, environmental biology, industrial health and safety, plant and soil science, animal science, aquaculture and fisheries, and human sciences. The sessions is offered at 20 other unversities as well. A complete list of host universities, brochures, information and application forms and instructions are available at www.aphis.usda.gov/agdiscovery. Details: Christopher C. Mathis Jr., UAPB AgDiscovery program director, at (870) 575-8543.
Through Saturday, April 1
Black Hall of Fame grants available
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Foundation, in partnership with Arkansas Community Foundation, will award grants to programs that benefit African American or underserved populations in Arkansas. Nonprofits with programs focusing on education, health and wellness, youth development, strengthening families and economic development are eligible to apply. Proposals will be accepted online through April 1, according to a news release. All geographic sections of the state are eligible. Details: www.arcf.org/ABHOF.
Thursday, May 4
Chamber plans Business Expo
The Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce will present Business Expo 2023 on May 4. Details are forthcoming. "Save the date and join us for a day of networking, promoting, and fun at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. The Business Expo Committee selected a casino theme for this year's event with the slogan, 'We're Betting on the Bluff!'" according to the Chamber newsletter.
Friday, May 5
JRMC golf tourney set
Jefferson Regional Medical Center will host its third annual golf tournament May 5 at the Pine Bluff Country Club. To register or for sponsorship details, contact Laura Beth Shaner at (870) 541-7210 or shaner1@jrmc.org.
Through Monday, May 15
SBA disaster loans available
Small nonfarm businesses in 75 Arkansas counties are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The deadline to apply is May 15, 2023, according to a news release. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by excessive heat and drought that began on May 30. Details: https://disasterloanassistance.sba.gov/. Applicants may also call SBA's Customer Service Center at (800) 659-2955 or email disastercustomerservice@sba.gov.
Through Wednesday, May 31
Century Farm applications available
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for the 2023 Arkansas Century Farm Program. This program recognizes Arkansas families who have owned and farmed the same land for at least 100 years, according to a news release. Applications are available at agriculture.arkansas.gov/arkansas-department-of-agriculture-services/arkansas-century-farm-program/. There is no cost to apply. The deadline is May 31. Details: Beth Moore, (501) 539-4027 or beth.moore@agriculture.arkansas.gov.
Through Thursday, June 1
ASC accepts entries for Rosenzweig exhibit
The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas is accepting entries for the 2023 Irene Rosenzweig Biennial Juried Exhibition. The deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m. June 1. The exhibition is open to artists 18 years or older who reside in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee or Texas, according to a news release. The Rosenzweig exhibition opens July 20 with a free, public reception from 5-7 p.m. and an awards presentation at 6 p.m. The works will be on view in the William H. Kennedy Jr. Gallery through Oct. 14. Visit asc701.org/rosenzweig for the submission guidelines and entry portal. The cost is $25 per entry, with a maximum of five entries accepted per artist. Details: Visitor Relations Coordinator Matthew Howard at mhoward@asc701.org or (870) 536-3375.
Underway
Covid-19 vaccines, testing available
The Arkansas Department of Health, various pharmacies and healthcare providers offer the covid-19 vaccine, tests and other information about coronavirus. Details: Call the Arkansas Department of Health at (800) 985-6030, visit the website at healthy.arkansas.gov/programs-services/topics/covid-19-vaccination-plan or contact area medical professionals, according to spokesmen.
Tuesdays
Unity Christian offers free financial classes
Unity Christian Fellowship Church (UCFC), 2712 S. Bay St., invites the community to its free Small Business and Personal Financial Education classes at 7 p.m. Tuesdays. Recent subjects included "The Importance of Having a Financial Plan" and "Financial Literacy," according to Stuff in the Bluff website. "You cannot afford to miss out on these life-changing classes. We are practicing social distancing and will have hand sanitizer wipes available," according to the site. Anthony Armstrong is the senior pastor. Details: unitychristianfellowship@live.com or (870) 329-1182.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The father of a missing University of Mississippi student is making a public plea for help finding his son.
In a video statement released Wednesday, Jimmie Lee Jr. said he was calling out to anyone who might have information that could lead to his son’s return.
“I’m asking if anyone knows anything or sees anything to say something,” said Lee.
Lee’s son, Jimmie “Jay” Lee, has been missing since July 8.
He was last seen getting into his car at the Campus Walk Apartments in Oxford, Mississippi.
His 2014 black Ford Focus was discovered at the Molly Barr Trails Apartments.
Lee’s sister said the last contact family members had with Jay was on the day he went missing.
Tayla Carey said her brother sent their mother a text message at around 2 a.m. wishing her a happy birthday and telling her he loved her.
“So he went missing on her birthday,” said Carey.
Carey said a camera at Jay’s apartment complex showed he was wearing a silver robe, gold sleeping cap, a t-shirt, shorts, and gray slippers when he left just before 6 a.m.
She doesn’t know if Jay was visiting someone at Molly Barr Trails apartments or if that’s just where his car ended up.
“He is a social butterfly, so it is possible he might know someone there. He literally can talk to a wall,” she said. “Possibly, he drove it there and got into a car with another person.”
She said her brother’s car has a gold racing stripe down the middle of the hood and the personalized license plate ‘JAYLEE1.’
Carey is asking anyone who remembers seeing that car or captured any video of the vehicle around the time of Jay’s disappearance to contact the police or the family.
“Just please come forward and tell us something because this could be them in this situation. You could be losing a family member,” Carey said. “The scare of that is out of this world.”
Carey said her brother is very active in the LBGTQ community, but she doesn’t think it has anything to do with his disappearance.
“Everybody loves his personality, and everybody loves how open he is,” Carey said. “I will say Jay Lee is the most unapologetic person I have ever met. He is his true self.”
Jay’s father said he wanted everyone to know his son was a hard worker and would do anything to help someone in need.
He said Jay had been working with the Mississippi Department of Child Protective Service on a Baby Formula and Toddler Hygiene Drive in Oxford.
“I can remember my son coming to this college willing to face the unknown without a problem. I’m so proud of him for that,” said Lee
Jay Lee just graduated from the University of Mississippi and was getting ready to start graduate school.
The family plans to pass out flyers about Jay Thursday afternoon in Oxford.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for anyone with information that leads to Lee’s whereabouts.
If you can help, call the University of Mississippi Police Department at (662)-915-7234 or (662)-915-4911.
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Actor Danny Masterson drugged, raped women, prosecutor says
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Danny Masterson drugged then raped three women at his Hollywood-area home between 2001 and 2003, a prosecutor told jurors Monday in his opening statement in the retrial of the star of “That ‘70s Show.”
Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller said Masterson put substances into drinks that he gave to a longtime girlfriend and two women he knew through friend circles around the Church of Scientology, all of whom Masterson is charged with raping.
“The evidence will show that they were drugged,” Mueller told the jury.
Masterson has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers, who will give their opening statement later Monday, have denied any of the assaults took place, saying the accusers’ decades-old accounts are full of inconsistencies and not credible.
A mistrial was declared on all three counts at the end of Masterson’s first trial in November when jurors told the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked.
Direct discussion of the drug element was missing from the first trial, with Mueller instead having to imply it through the testimony of the women, who said they were woozy, disoriented and at times unconscious on the nights they described the actor raping them.
But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo is allowing the direct assertion at the second trial.
The actor, 47, could get 45 years in prison if convicted.
Masterson, who has been free on bail since his 2020 arrest, sat at the defense table, with a large coterie of supporters behind him who also sat through his first trial. They included his wife, model and actor Bijou Phillips; his sister-in-law, “One Day at a Time” actor Mackenzie Phillips; and his brother, “Malcolm in the Middle” actor Christopher Masterson.
Actor Leah Remini, a former Scientologist who has become one of the church’s most vocal opponents on social media and through a TV series she hosted featuring dissident ex-members, sat in the front row of the courtroom in support of Masterson’s accusers.
Because the investigation that led to Masterson’s two trials did not begin until about 15 years later, there will be no direct or forensic evidence that he drugged the women, Mueller said.
But Mueller said he will call an analyst from the police toxicology unit, “who will tell you how some of the most common drug-facilitated sexual assaults, how some of the most common date rape drugs work, how quickly they’re metabolized, what side effects look like.”
The drugging allegations had echoes of the trial of Bill Cosby, where women testified to similar experiences. Cosby’s conviction after two trials of his own was permanently thrown out by Pennsylvania’s highest court.
Mueller spent much of his presentation on Masterson’s longtime girlfriend, an actor and model who he says will testify that their relationship had grown increasingly physically and sexually abusive before he raped her in December of 2001.
“After dinner, she recalls getting up to leave, and she has absolutely no memory after that,” Mueller said. “That’s the last thing she remembers until she wakes up the next afternoon, in bed, naked and alone.”
He said she’ll testify that Masterson laughed as he admitted to having had sex with her when she was unconscious.
Only five of 12 jurors voted to find Masterson guilty on this count in the first trial. Even fewer voted guilty on the other two. The District Attorney’s Office nonetheless decided to proceed with a second trial, and the women agreed to testify again.
The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually assaulted.
Mueller also told jurors that the women did not immediately go to authorities because they were told not to by officials in the Church of Scientology, and they were told what happened to them was not rape.
Masterson is a prominent member of the church. All three women are former members.
The church said in a statement after the women’s testimony in the first trial that it “has no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of Scientologists, or of anyone, to law enforcement. Quite the opposite. Church policy explicitly demands Scientologists abide by all laws of the land.”
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BETHESDA, Md. – In Gee Chun is alone atop the Women’s PGA Championship following a sensational start.
Chun breezed to an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take a five-stroke lead after the first round at Congressional. While most of the field slogged through the day on the wet Blue Course, Chun birdied seven of eight holes during one stretch. She was seven shots ahead when she finished her round and ended up tying a record for the largest 18-hole lead at a major.
Mickey Wright led this tournament by five after the first round in 1961.
“I don’t know what golf course In Gee is playing,” defending champion Nelly Korda said after finishing her round of 71.
Chun was playing the same course as everyone else.
“The course, after a lot of rain, feels longer,” the 27-year-old South Korean said. “At the same time, greens were softer. So I think it was just a balance.”
Pornanong Phatlum and Hye-Jin Choi shot bogey-free rounds of 69 to cut Chun’s lead to five, but that was still a big enough advantage to tie Wright’s mark. The 1961 tournament was one of a record four victories by Wright at this event. Chun is trying for her first.
PGA: In Cromwell, Connecticut, Rory McIlroy fought off a sinus bug to shoot an 8-under 62 for a share of the first-round lead with J.T. Poston in the Travelers Championship.
Coming off a fifth-place tie Sunday in the U.S. Open after winning the Canadian Open the previous week, the second-ranked McIlroy had a bogey-free morning round — highlighted by a 47-foot birdie putt on the par-4 seventh. McIlroy matched the lowest opening round of his PGA Tour career.
Poston had five straight birdies on Nos. 13-17 and made the turn at 6-under 29.
U.S. SENIOR OPEN: In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Jay Haas shot a 67 at Saucon Valley and shared the 18-hole lead with Mark Hensby.
It was the seventh time Haas, 68, has shot his age or better. And he became the fifth player in U.S. Senior Open history to shoot his age.
Haas and Hensby had a one-shot lead over a group of four players that include Steve Stricker and Rocco Mediate.
DP WORLD: In Munich, Li Haotong shot a 10-under 62 to lead the BMW International Open after the first round.
Li finished his round with his second eagle of the day on the par-five ninth to lead Daan Huizing by one stroke and Nicolai von Dellingshausen by two.
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Man gets 59 years for attempted kidnapping of teen he was prostituting, DA says
MCKINNEY, Texas (Gray News) – A man was sentenced to 59 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl, officials said.
According to Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis, 29-year-old Ricky Stevenson took the teen to a nail salon in January 2021. After paying for their services and leaving the salon, Stevenson was seen punching the girl so hard that she fell to the ground.
Captured by surveillance cameras, Stevenson then grabbed her, dragged her by her hair and clothes, and threw her in his car.
The district attorney said the girl was able to stumble out of the car in an attempt to run away. Stevenson then grabbed her by the hair a second time and tried to throw her back in the car, but she was able to escape and run to the safety of eyewitnesses.
Upon investigation, the Plano Police Department revealed that the girl had been prostituted by Stevenson beginning at age 16, and she was 17 at the time of the 2021 assault.
A jury found Stevenson guilty, and he was sentenced to 59 years in prison. Detectives testified that they identified at least two other women that Stevenson had been prostituting, one of whom he also physically assaulted.
The jury was also presented with evidence from Stevenson’s social media pages in which he boasted about being a pimp and controlling women.
Stevenson had two prior felony convictions for assault.
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Dream vs. Sky Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - July 9
The Chicago Sky (8-9) hit the court against the Atlanta Dream (8-8) at 8:00 PM ET on Sunday, July 9, 2023 on MARQ and BSSE.
There is no line set for the matchup.
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Dream vs. Sky Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- Where: Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois
- TV: MARQ and BSSE
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Prediction: Sky 87 Dream 76
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- Computer Predicted Spread: Chicago (-11.3)
- Computer Predicted Total: 163.1
Dream vs. Sky Spread & Total Insights
- Atlanta is 8-6-0 against the spread this season.
- Out of Atlanta's 15 games so far this season, 11 have gone over the total.
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Dream Performance Insights
- Offensively, the Dream are the third-best squad in the WNBA (86.9 points per game). But defensively they are the worst (88.8 points allowed per game).
- On the boards, Atlanta is third-best in the league in rebounds (36.1 per game). However it is second-worst in rebounds conceded (36.8 per game).
- In 2023, the Dream are second-worst in the WNBA in turnovers committed (14.7 per game) and sixth in turnovers forced (13.4).
- In 2023, the Dream are sixth in the league in 3-point makes (7 per game) and fourth in 3-point percentage (36.5%).
- Giving up 7.5 3-pointers per game and conceding 33.4% from downtown, the Dream are seventh and sixth in the WNBA, respectively, in those categories.
- In 2023, Atlanta has taken 72.3% percent of its shots from inside the 3-point line, and 27.7% percent from beyond it. In terms of made shots, 77.0% of Atlanta's buckets have been 2-pointers, and 23.0% have been 3-pointers.
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BBC tries to understand politics by creating fake Americans
NEW YORK (AP) — Larry, a 71-year-old retired insurance broker and Donald Trump fan from Alabama, wouldn’t be likely to run into the liberal Emma, a 25-year-old graphic designer from New York City, on social media — even if they were both real.
Each is a figment of BBC reporter Marianna Spring’s imagination. She created five fake Americans and opened social media accounts for them, part of an attempt to illustrate how disinformation spreads on sites like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok despite efforts to stop it, and how that impacts American politics.
That’s also left Spring and the BBC vulnerable to charges that the project is ethically suspect in using false information to uncover false information.
“We’re doing it with very good intentions because it’s important to understand what is going on,” Spring said. In the world of disinformation, “the U.S. is the key battleground,” she said.
Spring’s reporting has appeared on BBC’s newscasts and website, as well as the weekly podcast “Americast,” the British view of news from the United States. She began the project in August with the midterm election campaign in mind but hopes to keep it going through 2024.
Spring worked with the Pew Research Center in the U.S. to set up five archetypes. Besides the very conservative Larry and very liberal Emma, there’s Britney, a more populist conservative from Texas; Gabriela, a largely apolitical independent from Miami; and Michael, a Black teacher from Milwaukee who’s a moderate Democrat.
With computer-generated photos, she set up accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok. The accounts are passive, meaning her “people” don’t have friends or make public comments.
Spring, who uses five different phones labeled with each name, tends to the accounts to fill out their “personalities.” For instance, Emma is a lesbian who follows LGBTQ groups, is an atheist, takes an active interest in women’s issues and abortion rights, supports the legalization of marijuana and follows The New York Times and NPR.
These “traits” are the bait, essentially, to see how the social media companies’ algorithms kick in and what material is sent their way.
Through what she followed and liked, Britney was revealed as anti-vax and critical of big business, so she has been sent into several rabbit holes, Spring said. The account has received material, some with violent rhetoric, from groups falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election. She’s also been invited to join in with people who claim the Mar-a-Lago raid was “proof” Trump won and the state was out to get him, and groups that support conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Despite efforts by social media companies to combat disinformation, Spring said there’s still a considerable amount getting through, mostly from a far-right perspective.
Gabriela, the non-aligned Latina mom who’s mostly expressed interest in music, fashion and how to save money while shopping, doesn’t follow political groups. But it’s far more likely that Republican-aligned material will show up in her feed.
“The best thing you can do is understand how this works,” Spring said. “It makes us more aware of how we’re being targeted.”
Most major social media companies prohibit impersonator accounts. Violators can be kicked off for creating them, although many evade the rules.
Journalists have used several approaches to probe how the tech giants operate. For a story last year, the Wall Street Journal created more than 100 automated accounts to see how TikTok steered users in different directions. The nonprofit newsroom the Markup set up a panel of 1,200 people who agreed to have their web browsers studied for details on how Facebook and YouTube operated.
“My job is to investigate misinformation and I’m setting up fake accounts,” Spring said. “The irony is not lost on me.”
She’s obviously creative, said Aly Colon, a journalism ethics professor at Washington & Lee University. But what Spring called ironic disturbs him and other experts who believe there are above-board ways to report on this issue.
“By creating these false identities, she violates what I believe is a fairly clear ethical standard in journalism,” said Bob Steele, retired ethics expert for the Poynter Institute. “We should not pretend that we are someone other than ourselves, with very few exceptions.”
Spring said she believes the level of public interest in how these social media companies operate outweighs the deception involved.
The BBC experiment can be valuable, but only shows part of how algorithms work, a mystery that largely evades people outside of the tech companies, said Samuel Woolley, director of the propaganda research lab in the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas.
Algorithms also take cues from comments that people make on social media or in their interactions with friends — both things that BBC’s fake Americans don’t do, he said.
“It’s like a journalist’s version of a field experiment,” Woolley said. “It’s running an experiment on a system but it’s pretty limited in its rigor.”
From Spring’s perspective, if you want to see how an influence operation works, “you need to be on the front lines.”
Since launching the five accounts, Spring said she logs on every few days to update each of them and see what they’re being fed.
“I try to make it as realistic as possible,” she said. “I have these five personalities that I have to inhabit at any given time.”
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BEIJING, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU) ("Sohu" or the "Company"), China's leading online media, video, and game business group, today reported unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter Highlights
- Total revenues were US$193 million[1], down 13% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter.
- Brand advertising revenues were US$24 million, down 23% year-over-year and 29% quarter-over-quarter.
- Online game revenues were US$158 million, down 11% year-over-year and up 10% quarter-over-quarter.
- GAAP net income[2] attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$3 million, compared with net income of US$32 million in the first quarter of 2021 and net income of US$4 million in the fourth quarter of 2021.
- Non-GAAP[3] net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$9 million, compared with net income of US$37 million in the first quarter of 2021 and net income of US$0.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Dr. Charles Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Sohu.com Limited, commented, "In the first quarter of 2022, despite the negative impact of COVID-19 and a challenging macroeconomic environment, we continued to focus on product refinements and improving operational efficiency. Thanks to the excellent performance of our online game business, we delivered better-than-expected bottom-line performance and achieved profitability for the quarter. For Sohu Media Portal, we carried out product upgrades and improvements in the overall quality of our news and content, all of which continued to draw users to our platforms and keep them engaged. For Sohu Video, with the continuous execution of our "Twin Engine" strategy, we proactively extended our live broadcasting to a greater number of scientific fields. We also focused on user acquisition for our key mobile products and explored ways to improve monetization for both Sohu Media Portal and Sohu Video. For Changyou, our online games performed well during the quarter, with revenue exceeding the high-end of our prior guidance."
First Quarter Financial Results
Revenues
Total revenues were US$193 million, down 13% year-over-year and flat quarter-over-quarter.
Brand advertising revenues totaled US$24 million, down 23% year-over-year and 29% quarter-over-quarter. The decrease was mainly due to a decrease in portal advertising revenues.
Online game revenues were US$158 million, down 11% year-over-year and up 10% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year decrease was mainly due to the natural decline of TLBB Vintage. The quarter-over-quarter increase was mainly due to improved performance of TLBB PC, as a result of content updates and promotional activities launched during the quarter.
Gross Margin
Both GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin were 75%, compared with 79% in the first quarter of 2021 and 73% in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Both GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin for the brand advertising business were 2%, compared with 20% in the first quarter of 2021 and 28% in the fourth quarter of 2021. The margin decrease was mainly due to the decrease in brand advertising revenues.
GAAP gross margin for online games was 86%, compared with 89% in the first quarter of 2021 and 84% in the fourth quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP gross margin for online games was 86%, compared with 90% in the first quarter of 2021 and 84% in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Operating Expenses
For the first quarter of 2022, GAAP operating expenses totaled US$132 million, up 6% year-over-year and down 9% quarter-over-quarter. Non-GAAP operating expenses were US$130 million, up 6% year-over-year and down 9% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year increase was mainly due to increases in traffic and user acquisition cost. The quarter-over-quarter decrease was mainly due to decreases in salary and benefits expenses.
Operating Profit/(Loss)
GAAP operating profit was US$13 million, compared with an operating profit of US$51 million in the first quarter of 2021 and an operating loss of US$3 million in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Non-GAAP operating profit was US$14 million, compared with an operating profit of US$53 million in the first quarter of 2021 and an operating loss of US$3 million in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Income Tax Expense
GAAP income tax expense was US$17 million, compared with income tax expense of US$23 million in the first quarter of 2021 and income tax expense of US$9 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP income tax expense was US$17 million, compared with income tax expense of US$23 million in the first quarter of 2021 and income tax expense of US$6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Income tax expense in the fourth quarter of 2021 included a one-time tax benefit of US$7 million recognized by Changyou after pre-adjustment of its income tax due for 2021.
Net Income
GAAP net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$3 million, or net income of US$0.07 per fully-diluted ADS, compared with net income of US$32 million in the first quarter of 2021 and net income of US$4 million in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Non-GAAP net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited was US$9 million, or net income of US$0.26 per fully-diluted ADS, compared with net income of US$37 million in the first quarter of 2021 and net income of US$0.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of March 31, 2022, cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and long-term time deposits totaled approximately US$1.54 billion.
Supplementary Information for Changyou Results
First Quarter 2022 Operating Results
- For PC games, total average monthly active user accounts[4] (MAU) were 2.0 million, a decrease of 13% year-over-year and 1% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year decrease was mainly due to the natural decline of Changyou's older games. Total quarterly aggregate active paying accounts[5] (APA) were 1.0 million, an increase of 4% year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter.
- For mobile games, total average MAU were 2.4 million, an increase of 16% year-over-year and a decrease of 6% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year increase was mainly from Bright Stars, a game designed for female players launched during the quarter, and Little Raccoon: Heroes launched during the third quarter of 2021. The quarter-over-quarter decrease was mainly due to the natural decline of Changyou's older games, including Little Raccoon: Heroes. Total quarterly APA were 0.5 million, an increase of 14% year-over-year and 6% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter increases were mainly from Bright Stars.
First Quarter 2022 Unaudited Financial Results
Total revenues were US$160 million, a decrease of 11% year-over-year and an increase of 10% quarter-over-quarter. Online game revenues were US$158 million, a decrease of 11% year-over-year and an increase of 10% quarter-over-quarter. Online advertising revenues were US$2 million, a decrease of 37% year-over-year and an increase of 1% quarter-over-quarter.
GAAP and non-GAAP gross profit were both US$137 million, a decrease of 14% year-over-year and an increase of 13% quarter-over-quarter.
GAAP operating expenses were US$54 million, a decrease of 11% year-over-year and 21% quarter-over-quarter. The year-over-year decrease was mainly due to a decrease in bonus expenses, partially offset by an increase in marketing and promotional spending for online games. The quarter-over-quarter decrease was mainly due to a decrease in bonus expenses, as well as a decrease in marketing and promotional spending for online games.
Non-GAAP operating expenses were US$53 million, a decrease of 10% year-over-year and 21% quarter-over-quarter.
GAAP operating profit was US$83 million, compared with an operating profit of US$99 million for the first quarter of 2021 and US$53 million for the fourth quarter of 2021.
Non-GAAP operating profit was US$85 million, compared with a non-GAAP operating profit of US$101 million for the first quarter of 2021 and US$55 million for the fourth quarter of 2021.
Business Outlook
For the second quarter of 2022, Sohu estimates:
- Brand advertising revenues to be between US$22 million and US$25 million; this implies an annual decrease of 32% to 40%, and a sequential decrease of 7% to a sequential increase of 5%.
- Online game revenues to be between US$150 million and US$160 million; this implies an annual decrease of 1% to an annual increase of 6%, and a sequential decrease of 5% to a sequential increase of 1%.
- Non-GAAP net loss attributable to Sohu.com Limited to be between US$15 million and US$5 million; and GAAP net loss attributable to Sohu.com Limited to be between US$18 million and US$8 million.
For the second quarter 2022 guidance, the Company has adopted a presumed exchange rate of RMB6.59=US$1.00, as compared with the actual exchange rate of approximately RMB6.46=US$1.00 for the second quarter of 2021, and RMB6.35=US$1.00 for the first quarter of 2022.
This forecast reflects Sohu's management's current and preliminary view, which is subject to substantial uncertainty, particularly in view of the potential ongoing impact of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, which remains difficult to predict.
Non-GAAP Disclosure
To supplement the unaudited consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"), Sohu's management uses non-GAAP measures of gross profit, operating profit, net income, net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited and diluted net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited per ADS, which are adjusted from results based on GAAP to exclude the impact of share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge imposed by the U.S. TCJA. These measures should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results.
Sohu's management believes excluding share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge from its non-GAAP financial measure is useful for itself and investors. Further, the impact of share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge cannot be anticipated by management and business line leaders and these expenses were not built into the annual budgets and quarterly forecasts that have been the basis for information Sohu provides to analysts and investors as guidance for future operating performance. As the impact of share-based compensation expense and changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values does not involve subsequent cash outflow or is reflected in the cash flows at the equity transaction level, Sohu does not factor this impact in when evaluating and approving expenditures or when determining the allocation of its resources to its business segments. As a result, in general, the monthly financial results for internal reporting and any performance measures for commissions and bonuses are based on non-GAAP financial measures that exclude share-based compensation expense, changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values, and also excluded the interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge.
The non-GAAP financial measures are provided to enhance investors' overall understanding of Sohu's current financial performance and prospects for the future. A limitation of using non-GAAP gross profit, operating profit, net income, net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited and diluted net income attributable to Sohu.com Limited per ADS excluding share-based compensation expense; changes in fair value recognized in the Company's consolidated statements of operations with respect to equity investments with readily determinable fair values; and interest expense recognized in connection with the Toll Charge is that these excluded items have been and will continue to be significant recurring expenses in Sohu's business for the foreseeable future. In order to mitigate these limitations Sohu has provided specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from each non-GAAP measure. The accompanying tables include details on the reconciliation between the GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to the non-GAAP financial measures that have been presented.
Notes to Financial Information
Financial information in this press release other than the information indicated as being non-GAAP is derived from Sohu's unaudited financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. It is currently expected that the Business Outlook will not be updated until release of Sohu's next quarterly earnings announcement; however, Sohu reserves right to update its Business Outlook at any time for any reason. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Sohu's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections, and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, instability in global financial and credit markets and its potential impact on the Chinese economy; exchange rate fluctuations, including their potential impact on the Chinese economy and on Sohu's reported U.S. dollar results; recent slow-downs in the growth of the Chinese economy; the uncertain regulatory landscape in the People's Republic of China; fluctuations in Sohu's quarterly operating results; the possibilities that Sohu will be unable to recoup its investment in video content and that Changyou will be unable to develop a series of successful games for mobile platforms or successfully monetize mobile games it develops or acquires; Sohu's reliance on online advertising sales and online games for its revenues; the impact of the U.S. TCJA; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy in China in general and on Sohu's business in particular; and the possibility that, unless an accommodation is reached between the SEC and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and rules of the SEC thereunder may cause the SEC to prohibit trading of Sohu's ADSs on NASDAQ, any other U.S. stock exchange, or the U.S. over-the-counter markets beginning in 2024 or, if currently pending legislation becomes law, 2023. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Sohu's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, and other filings with and information furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Conference Call and Webcast
Sohu's management team will host a conference call at 7:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, May 16, 2022 (7:30 p.m. Beijing/Hong Kong time, May 16, 2022) following the quarterly results announcement. Participants can register for the conference call by navigating to http://apac.directeventreg.com/registration/event/5725798. Once preregistration has been completed, participants will receive dial-in numbers, an event passcode, and a unique registrant ID.
To join the conference, please dial the number you receive, enter the event passcode followed by your unique registrant ID, and you will be joined to the conference instantly. Please dial in 10 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin.
A telephone replay of the call will be available after the conclusion of the conference call at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time May 16 through May 23, 2022. The dial-in details for the telephone replay are:
The live Webcast and archive of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of Sohu's Website at http://investors.sohu.com/.
About Sohu.com
Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU) was established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, in the 1990s. As a mainstream media platform in China, Sohu is indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based products which continually offer a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication to the vast number of Sohu users. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties, consisting of the leading online media destinations Sohu News App, mobile news portal m.sohu.com, PC portal www.sohu.com; online video website tv.sohu.com; and the online games platform www.changyou.com/en/.
Sohu provides online brand advertising services as well as multiple news, information and content services on its matrix of websites and also on its mobile platforms. Sohu's online game business, conducted by its subsidiary Changyou, develops and operates a diverse portfolio of PC and mobile games, such as Tian Long Ba Bu ("TLBB"), one of the most popular PC games in China. Changyou also owns and operates the 17173.com Website, a game information portal in China.
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The St. Louis Blues have signed forward Jordan Kyrou to an eight-year contract extension worth $65 million, the organization’s latest move to keep its top young players in the fold long term.
General manager Doug Armstrong announced the deal Tuesday, two months to the day since the Blues extended forward Robert Thomas for the identical contract terms. Each player counts $8.125 million against the salary cap from the start of the deal in 2023 through 2031.
Kyrou set career highs with 27 goals, 48 assists and 75 points in 74 games last season. He had 47 points in his first 99 NHL regular-season games.
Thomas is 23, while Kyrou is 24. St. Louis also has top four defensemen Colton Parayko, Torey Krug, Justin Faulk and Nicky Leddy signed for at least the next four seasons, and center Brayden Schenn is under contract for six more years.
Armstrong has reshaped the Blues since they won the Stanley Cup in 2019, the first championship in franchise history. Cup-winning goaltender Jordan Binnington signed long term, while then-captain Alex Pietrangelo left in free agency in 2020.
Two big questions still face the front office with key members of that title-winning team: Top center Ryan O’Reilly and winger Vladimir Tarasenko are each set to be a free agent after this upcoming season. O’Reilly figures to be part of the long-term core, something that’s far less certain with Tarasenko, who requested a trade in the summer of 2021 but remains with St. Louis.
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The American Red Cross, Texas Gulf Coast Region has tips on how to ensure your child's safety as they return back to school in the coming weeks.
The organization recommends developing plans for various emergencies such as weather-related events, particularly as the region enters the crux of hurricane season.
For hurricane safety and preparedness tips, visit redcross.org.
In addition to having and knowing one's own family plan, the Red Cross recommends checking in with your child's school and knowing their emergency plan.
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Doing this will allow parents and guardians to know who to contact and where to go should something happen during the school day, according to a news release.
"There are a lot of things to think about for the start of a busy new school year, but don't forget to include safety," said American Red Cross Regional Communications Director Vanessa Valdez in the release. "We ask parents and guardians to consider familiarizing their children with these measures to help keep them safe as they head back to school."
Here are some school-specific tips Red Cross recommends implementing to keep your child safe:
Cell phone safety:
- Don't text or talk on the phone while walking or move out of the way of others and stop on the sidewalk to text or talk on the phone.
- Don't cross the street while using an electronic device.
- Don't walk with headphones in your ears.
- Drivers can be distracted, too -- don't use a phone while driving to eliminate distractions.
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Bus safety:
- Students should get to their bus stop early and stand away from the curb while waiting for the bus to arrive. Young children should be supervised.
- Board the bus only after it has come to a complete stop and the driver or attendant instructs students to get on. Students should board their assigned bus, not an alternate one.
- Students should stay in clear view of the bus driver and never walk behind the bus.
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Walking safety:
- Cross the street at the corner, obey traffic signals and stay in the crosswalk.
- Do not run into the street or cross between parked cars.
- Use a route that has school-approved crossing guards.
- Parents are encouraged to walk with young children and those taking new routes or attending new schools for the for the first week to ensure they know how to get there safely. Arrange for students to walk to school and home with a friend or classmate.
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Car safety:
- Everyone should wear a seat belt.
- Younger children should use car seats or booster seats until the lap-shoulder belt fits properly -- typically for children ages eight to 12 and taller than 4 feet 9 inches tall -- and ride in the back seat until at least 13 years old.
- Red Cross recommends parents mandate their driving teenagers to wear seat belts as well.
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Biking safety:
- Wear a properly fitted helmet and brightly-colored clothing.
- Ride on the right side of the road with traffic in a single lane.
- Come to a complete stop before crossing the street and walk bikes across the street.
- Stay alert and avoid distracted riding.
Red Cross encourages all drivers to slow down, particularly when driving through residential areas and school zones and staying up-to-date on what yellow and red bus signals mean.
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Yellow flashing bus signals indicate the bus is getting ready to stop, alerting motorists to slow down and be prepared to stop.
Red flashing bus signals and an extended red stop sign indicate the bus has stopped and children are getting on or off the bus.
When a bus is stopped, motorists are required by Texas law to stop as well until the red lights have stopped flashing and the stop sign has been withdrawn. This rule applies to two and four-lane highways. If physical barriers such as grassy medians, guide rails or concrete median barriers separate oncoming traffic from the bus, motorists in the opposing lanes may continue without driving.
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Other safety tips Red Cross recommends parents and guardians implement are keeping their kids in-the-know when it comes to important information.
For example, make sure children know their phone number, address, how to get in touch with parents or guardians at work, how to get in touch with another trusted adult and how to call 911.
Children should also be aware of strangers and not to talk to strangers or accept rides from people they don't know.
To read more about Red Cross safety tips, visit redcross.org.
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Monday with U.N. atomic energy chief Rafael Mariano Grossi in southern Ukraine where they discussed the precarious situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
The plant, which is Europe's biggest, has lost several of its power transmission cables during Russia's war, and on multiple occasions has had to switch to emergency diesel generators.
Grossi, who is director-general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, plans to visit the plant, which is held by Russian forces, this week. The agency has permanent staff stationed at the plant.
In the meeting, covered exclusively by The Associated Press, Grossi expressed his concern to Zelenskyy that the situation at the plant “isn’t getting any better.”
He stressed that the situation at the plant remains tense because of the militarization of the area around it and the recent blackout at the plant. It wasn't the first time that has occurred since Russian forces last year took it over.
The two met in the the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is in Ukrainian-held territory, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of the nuclear plant with the same name.
Elsewhere, two people were killed and 29 wounded Monday when Russian forces shelled the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, in the partially occupied eastern Donetsk region, local officials said.
Video footage of the aftermath showed damaged residential buildings, debris in the streets and vehicles on fire.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as “terrorism.”
Russia has denied targeting residential areas even though artillery and rocket strikes have hit Ukrainian apartment buildings and civilian infrastructure daily during the war.
The Sloviansk attack followed a typical pattern of long-range shelling adopted by the Kremlin's forces, especially in recent months as the fighting became deadlocked during the bitterly cold winter months.
In the eastern Donetsk region, some 10 cities and villages were shelled by Russian forces over the previous 24 hours, Ukraine’s presidential office reported Monday.
On Monday morning, Russian missiles hit the city of Avdiivka, damaging residential buildings, a hotel and a courthouse, it said.
Avdiivka Mayor Vitali Barabash said utility companies are being evacuated from the frontline city, as it “resembles more and more a landscape from post-apocalyptic movies.”
Attacks also intensified in the partially occupied southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, where 14 settlements on the front line were shelled, authorities said.
In the partially occupied Kherson region, the Ukrainian-controlled part of the province was shelled 20 times by the Russian artillery and aviation, wounding four people, the presidential office said.
The mayor of the occupied city of Melitopol said several explosions shook the city Monday, damaging a building where Russian security forces have been quartered.
Mayor Ivan Fyodorov posted photos of smoke billowing over the area where the Russian barracks are located.
The Russian-installed authorities said “artillery shelling” of Melitopol partially destroyed a vocational school building, damaged several other buildings and wounded four people.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy met in Kyiv with British actor Orlando Bloom, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office Andriy Yermak said Monday.
Bloom, who is also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, arrived in the Ukrainian capital over the weekend and visited its suburb of Irpin.
During his meeting with Zelenskyy, Bloom said “he was struck by the courage and resilience of Ukrainians, who despite the war remain strong,” Yermak wrote.
Bloom “will support projects to provide humanitarian assistance and restore infrastructure, focused on ensuring the interests of Ukrainian children,” the official said.
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Gonzales 4-H Club successful in raising animals at the Salinas Valley Fair
KING CITY, Calif. (KION-TV)- The Gonzales 4-H Club is back in full force over the weekend.
During the Salinas Valley Fair, the Gonzales 4-H club were able to successfully raise their lambs and auction off the animals this past weekend.
In February, two lambs at the Gonzales 4-H club were stabbed to death after a Gonzales man broke into the farm and killed them.
The 4-H Club were able to able to replace the slaughtered lambs with three new ones. The following kids participated in the fair include Santiago Cuevas, Galilea Flores, Zoey Escobedo, Dominic Murillo, Paloma Ochoa and Jordan Askew.
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PARIS (AP) — A French court of appeal ruled Thursday not to extradite to Ukraine the Ukrainian billionaire businessman Kostyantin Zhevago, who was temporarily detained in France in December.
Ukraine’s National Bureau of Investigation had said Zhevago, who owns a majority stake in mining group Ferrexpo, was wanted on suspicion of embezzlement and money laundering related to the bankruptcy of Ukrainian bank Finance and Credit.
Zhevago was detained in Courchevel, a ski resort in the French Alps. At the time, French judicial officials in Chambery said he was detained pending a formal request for extradition by Ukraine — which was ultimately refused.
Zhevago was released under judicial supervision in France in January.
The court in Chambery said Thursday it had “an unfavorable opinion” on the extradition request.
Zhevago’s lawyers said in a joint statement that “beyond the respect of the human rights, this decision carries the mark of good sense.”
The decision can be appealed at the Court of Cassation, a higher French court, by a prosecutor.
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