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It's been almost a year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan again and the U.S. military pulled out of the country.
As the withdrawal unfolded, Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman was watching the chaos from a distance. He was on a family vacation in Italy but couldn't tear himself away from what was happening.
Ackerman had deployed to Afghanistan multiple times. He felt bound to America's Afghan allies, so when the U.S. announced it was leaving and those same Afghans were desperate to get out, he lay awake at night, glued to his phone.
"My entire network was lighting up and it had become quickly a crowdsourced evacuation, with each person playing their part," Ackerman told Morning Edition.
''Some people were trying to raise money for charter flights, other people were arranging the buses that would transport evacuees from various pickup points in Kabul into the airport."
Ackerman was key because he knew Marines who were inside the airport, manning those gates and deciding who could come in and who could not. He writes about this experience in his new book, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On mobilizing to help Afghans evacuate
Everyone was very much focused on the task at hand, because the stakes are obviously very high. You know, you've got the photographs of the people who are trying to get out and their families, [because] these aren't people any of us knew — the only family that I got out who I had a direct personal connection to was my interpreter. He has since moved to the U.S. but his family was still there and we were able to get his family out. But everyone else, these were strangers and they were strangers for most of us. So in that moment, you can't really step away.
But there were certainly little interludes. And my wife, in the book, she almost comes off like a Greek chorus conscience of the book, saying, you know, "Why are you all having to do this? Why are the people who left the wars 10 years ago now being sucked in to try to finish them?"
On how he views America's exit from Afghanistan
I think it was a collapse of American morals that we made these promises and we fell short. It was a collapse of American competence. I mean, listen, despite the heroic efforts of those who were at the airport — and our efforts were truly heroic, so I'm not questioning their competence — but I would question the competence of decision-making that put us into this position where our back was up against a wall with this Aug. 31st withdrawal date that we couldn't seem to move.
It was a collapse of hierarchy, because as the war was ending in those days, I found myself on text chains and phone calls with retired four star generals and admirals, some of whom had commanded the entire war, because no one could get anyone out because of the craziness. And because, for a brief window, the team that I was working with was having some success, we found ourselves serving in this collapsed hierarchy all working together. And that was surreal for me at times.
On how it's impossible to really separate yourself from the experience of war
People have sometimes asked me, "Elliot, how do you think the war's changed you?" and I've never known how to answer that question. Because the war in so many ways made me. I don't know how to unbraid it out of the knots that are me. But the friendships that I have there, the memories that I have from that time, of course I think about and it's the time when I was growing up. I mean, I grew up there in the war.
I entered the service and started that training pipeline at 17 years old. And as you see in the book, those friendships have projected out because as Kabul was falling, so many of the people I'm working with, these are folks who've also transitioned. They've ended the wars themselves and we're all still friends.
On what an appropriate memorial would look like to these particular American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
I started thinking about it with regards to the recent passage of the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act, which has gone through Congress to authorize a memorial to these wars. But the global war on terrorism isn't over yet, so it's actually interesting.
For the first time as a country, we will be trying to make a memorial to a war that we are still technically fighting. But it got me thinking, how would you make a memorial to a forever war? And that got me thinking, well maybe what would be more appropriate instead of erecting all these memorials upward, maybe we should dig downward, kind of like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And I imagined a war memorial that would look almost like the sloping granite rock, sort of descending downward conically like something from Dante, and we would get rid of all the memorials to each specific war and we would just have one American War Memorial.
It would begin with the names, the first being Crispus Attucks, who was killed at the Boston Massacre. And we would just list them all chronologically digging ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper. So we have more than a million war dead at this point in our country's history. And every time we fund a new war, we just add the names going down and down into the earth. And then, in my imagination of this war memorial, when you got to the very last name, there would be a desk and a pen. And Congress would pass a law that before any troop deployment, the president — he or she — would have to come down to the war memorial and that pen would be the only pen that could be used to sign that troop deployments.
They would have to walk by all of the war dead before they would need to do that. And then we wouldn't have to have any more debates about war memorials — we would just know what we did every time we fought a war, we'd just add the names.
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Hundreds stuck at Peru-Chile border in crackdown on migrants
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A migration crisis at the border between Chile and Peru intensified Thursday as hundreds of people remained stranded, unable to cross into Peru in an effort to return to their home country of Venezuela.
The mostly Venezuelan migrants are seeking to cross into Peru to continue on to their home country but Peru isn’t allowing them to enter because they lack documents.
While stalled at the border of the two South American countries, the migrants face the inhospitable climate that characterizes the Atacama Desert, one of the driest on the planet, with extremely hot days and intensely cold nights. Some have improvised tents with blankets but they lack water and other basic services.
A group of migrants ran through the desert toward Peru, but they were turned back by Peruvian officers. Some women complained and demanded that the government of President Gabriel Boric provide a bus for them to travel to Venezuela.
Images showed migrants shoving Peruvian border patrol officers in an effort to enter the country.
Officials in Arica, the northern Chilean city that borders Peru and is around 2,000 kilometers (1,245 miles) from the capital of Santiago, declared a migration emergency Thursday.
A day earlier, the Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, declared a state of emergency in Tacna, a town near the border with Chile, in order to “preserve domestic order” and contain the arrival of migrants. In announcing the measure, the president attributed “criminal acts” to migrants.
Boluarte said she would push for a constitutional reform to “authorize the intervention of the armed forces in the border area.” Boric, for his part, already deployed troops to the border in late February to help stop the entry of migrants.
Amnesty International urged Peru and Chile to end what it called “the militarization” of the border. Leaders on both sides are “needlessly aggravating the situation, turning it into a humanitarian crisis that increases the risk to the lives and safety of these people,” said Erika Guevara Rosas, director of Amnesty International for the Americas.
The Chilean government summoned Peruvian Ambassador Jaime Pomareda to express its displeasure over statements by Tacna Mayor Pascual Guisa, who called Chile’s president “irresponsible” for what the envoy called an effort to transfer the country’s migration woes to the border. Pomareda did not publicly comment on the meeting.
Arica’s mayor, Gerardo Espíndola, vowed to “provide resources” to support those in need, particularly children and the elderly.
“We will act as quickly as this critical situation affecting the people stranded at the border requires,” Espíndola said.
Amid the impasse, the head of Chile’s lower house of Congress, Vlado Mirosevic, called for a humanitarian corridor involving all the countries in the region to resolve the crisis and allow migrants safe passage back to Venezuela.
Chile’s foreign minister, Alberto van Klaveren, warned there was “a significant humanitarian problem in the area” and said Boluarte’s decision “increases pressure” at the border.
The departure of migrants from Chile comes shortly after the National Prosecutor’s Office on April 10 called on prosecutors to request preventive detention for anyone caught committing a crime who could not prove their identity.
In addition, a measure is set to be debated in the lower house of Congress that would classify irregular immigration as a crime and proposes jail sentences of as many as 541 days for anyone caught entering Chile through unofficial channels.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2023-04-28T02:13:00+00:00
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New York Giants hired Brian Daboll in the hopes he could get more production out of quarterback Daniel Jones and the offense.
The first preseason game of Daboll’s tenure revealed signs they may be heading in the right direction.
Graham Gano hit a 24-yard field goal as time expired, Daniel Jones was solid in limited work and New York beat the New England Patriots 23-21 on Thursday night to open the preseason.
It gave Daboll a victory in his head coaching debut against his predecessor and the team he started his NFL career with.
Despite some breakouts by the offensive line, the Giants moved the ball well, with Jones completing 6 of 10 passes for 69 yards. Running back Saquon Barkley had four carries for 13 yards and one catch for 8 yards.
“I thought (Jones) operated the offense well. He led them down on the first drive,” Daboll said. “We stalled there in the red zone. Good first start, but certainly things to clean up.”
Antonio Williams had a 2-yard touchdown run and Gano made three field goals.
“There’s going to be good, there’s going to be bad. We got to go back and watch film and learn from it, but that’s what the preseason’s for,” Barkley said. “Try to sharpen up the tools, sharpen up the game.”
Brian Hoyer and Bailey Zappe each threw touchdown passes for New England which, except for rookie left guard Cole Strange, gave quarterback Mac Jones and most of its projected starters the night off.
The Giants elected to play their starters for one quarter, which amounted to the first two series.
Zappe was 19 of 32 for 205 yards and touchdown. Hoyer was 5 of 8 for 59 yards and a TD. Kevin Harris had a 3-yard touchdown run and Kristian Wilkerson finished with eight catches for 99 yards.
The Giants led 20-14 in the fourth quarter before the Patriots took the the lead after a 20-yard TD pass from Zappe to Lil’Jordan Humphrey.
But New York responded on the ensuing series, with Davis Webb leading the Giants on an 11-play, 69-yard drive capped by Gano’s winner.
It wasn’t all positive for the Giants, though. Starting left guard Shane Lemieux played the opening series before leaving with a toe injury. He was replaced by rookie Josh Ezeudu.
Defensively, two of New England of free agency acquisitions made their presence felt. Cornerback Terrance Mitchell forced a fumble and finished with four tackles. Linebacker Mack Wilson had five tackles and was credited with a quarterback hit.
One of the biggest questions for the Patriots has been who’d be tasked with play calling for the Patriots following the departure of former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to become the Las Vegas Raiders coach.
There still doesn’t appear to be a definitive successor.
Senior football advisor Matt Patricia and offensive assistant Joe Judge, back in New England after being fired by the Giants after two seasons, have both taken turns doing it throughout training camp.
That continued Thursday with Patricia handling the duties for the first two series. Then, after rookie Zappe was inserted in the second quarter, Judge took over the headset.
Coach Bill Belichick said it’s still a work in progress.
“We did a lot of things in this game that are going to be beneficial in the long run, whether it was on the coaching staff, playing time, players that played and so forth. That’s all part of the process,” he said. “We’ll work it out.”
Working against New England’s second-team defense, the Giants moved the ball well on the opening drive of the game, moving all the way to the 6 before settling for Gano’s 25-yard field goal.
EARLY ACTION
With Hoyer at quarterback, New England punted on their first touch of the night. But following a Giants punt, the Patriots went to work.
First, Hoyer connected with Wilkerson on a 33-yard pass to get the Patriots into the red zone. Six plays later, Hoyer found Thornton for a touchdown from 2 yards out.
The Giants answered just before halftime via a 7-yard TD pass from backup Tyrod Taylor to receiver Richie James.
INJURIES
Giants: Backup center Jamil Douglas left in the second quarter with an ankle injury and did not return. … Rookie CB Cor’Dale Flott exited in the third quarter with a groin injury.
Patriots: Offensive lineman Yodny Cajuste was helped off the field in the third quarter.
UP NEXT
The Giants host Carolina on Sunday, Aug. 21. The Patriots have a week of joint practices with Carolina before their matchup next Friday.
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2022-08-12T18:31:03+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/sports/late-fg-gives-giants-daboll-23-21-victory-over-patriots/
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Michigan basketball's comeback effort at Maryland falls short in 64-58 loss
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It couldn't have been a better start for Michigan basketball's trio of DMV prospects.
Dug McDaniel, a Paul VI graduate, penetrated the lane and kicked it out to Terrance Williams II, a Gonzaga product, who tipped a touch-pass to former Dematha star Hunter Dickinson.
The 7-foot-1 center — who grew up 14 miles south of Xfinity Center — flipped in the left-handed hook and pumped up the crowd to a chorus of boos, as he ran back down the court.
But that was as good as the vibes got for the Wolverines all night long.
U-M went on two separate four-minute scoreless droughts in the first 10 minutes of the first half which allowed Jahmir Young and Maryland to get ahead by double digits and lead the rest of the way, avenging Michigan’s 35-point thumping in Ann Arbor on New Year's Day with a 64-58 victory in College Park on Thursday.
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Young, an AAU teammate with Michigan's trio, was the catalyst, getting to the rim at will. The senior scored a game-high 26 points on 9 of 19 shooting while Hakim Hart added 10 and Donta Scott had nine points and seven rebounds.
Dickinson led Michigan with 21 points and 10 rebounds, his sixth double-double of the year, while Jett Howard had 13 and kept Michigan (10-8, 4-3 Big Ten) in the game in the first half with a flurry of 3-pointers but missed his final six shots of the night, all of which 3-pointers.
Williams had his best night of the month (and perhaps of the season), scoring nine points and grabbing a game-high 13 rebounds (four offensive). McDaniel, a freshman from Washington, struggled; he finished 2 of 10 from the floor with four points but had a team-high seven assists.
Drop down flip it and reverse it
The last time these teams met, Michigan jumped on Maryland 17-0 in that game and left little doubt the rest of the way.
The same was somewhat true in reverse on Thursday, only with the Terrapins on the other end. After a corner 3-pointer, Maryland got four consecutive buckets at the hoop, the last two of which were Young who took McDaniel to the rack for an 11-6 Terrapins lead.
Donta Scott hit two free throws, Caelum Swanton-Rodgers finished over Dickinson at the rim and Scott found Hart on the outlet pass who threw down the slam to cap an 8-0 run, make it 17-6 and force a Michigan timeout.
At that point, U-M was 3 of 13 from the field and 0 of 5 from 3. To make matters worse, Howard picked up two fouls in three seconds with 11:14 left in the half but his head coach and father, Juwan, broke his usual "auto-sit" rule with two fouls and kept him in.
It worked as the offense started to click. Tarris Reed Jr. threw down a dunk, Will Tschetter made a mid-range jumper and Howard hit a long ball from the wing on three straight possessions to get back within eight.
Maryland punched back with a quick 7-2 run to make it a 13-point game before the Wolverines closed the half on a 17-7 run. Howard hit another three, this time from the corner before Dickinson scored on a drop-step slam-dunk that seemed to get him going — though Swanton-Rodgers returned the favor on the ensuing trip down to make it 30-20 Maryland.
Of the Terps first 32 points, 22 came in the paint.
Williams hit a 3-pointer with 3:24 to play in the half before Dickinson hit one with 1:22 left and another with six seconds left in the half. Michigan made 10 of its final 13 shots from the floor while the Terrapins didn't score a bucket for the final 3:46 of the half to make it 34-32 at the break.
Maryland outrebounded Michigan 20-15 in the first half, 10 of which came on the offensive end and led to 11 second-chance points.
Can't quite come back
However for the second straight half, Michigan would weather the storm. After Maryland went up 40-34 in the second half, Howard hit two free throws then Dickinson recorded a tip-in (the crowd was asking for a Williams travel call and shot clock violation on the possession, but got neither) before Williams had the best two-possession stretch of his season.
The Clinton, Maryland, native (30 minutes south of College Park) recorded two offensive rebounds on one trip, the second of which he tipped in to cut the lead in to two. After a stop, Michigan got out on the break, Williams caught the pass and put the Maryland defender in the spin-cycle before his layup tied the score at 42 with 12:01 to play.
That's right when Maryland's offense got hot. The Terps would hit six of their next seven shots — the highlights a flying put-back slam by Scott and a nice up-and-under move by Hart — but consecutive Joey Baker buckets, a left-handed layup and a 3-pointer, kept Michigan in striking range, 55-49.
Michigan's offense went silent the next 3:35, Maryland scored four straight, before a Dickinson long ball made it 59-52 with 4:05 to play.
Williams made a slashing layup and Dickinson had an offensive tip-in with 40 seconds to get within four, but Maryland would ice the game away at the free-throw line.
Maryland finished with the edge on points in the paint (42-22), via fast break (14-2) and off turnovers (9-7).
Contact Tony Garcia at apgarcia@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter at @realtonygarcia.
Next up: Golden Gophers
Matchup: Michigan (10-8, 4-3 Big Ten) vs. Minnesota (xxx).
Tipoff: 7 p.m. Thursday; Xfinity Center, College Park, Maryland.
TV/radio: ESPN; WWJ-AM (950).
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2023-01-20T02:59:51+00:00
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https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2023/01/20/michigan-basketball-game-recap-maryland-hunter-dickinson/69824115007/
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Medtronic common stock between June 8, 2019, and May 25, 2022, inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: November 7, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in MDT:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Medtronic plc made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Medtronic's product quality control systems were inadequate; (2) Medtronic had failed to comply with numerous regulations regarding risk assessment, corrective and preventive action, complaint handling, device recalls, and reporting of adverse events; (3) these failures increased the risk of regulatory investigation and action; (4) as a result of the Company's misconduct, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would delay the approval of additional Medtronic MiniMed devices, including the MiniMed 780G; (5) these delays in product approvals, as well as the Company's need to improve its quality control systems, would negatively affect the Company's financial performance and cause Medtronic to fall further behind its competitors; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Medtronic you have until November 7, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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2022-11-01T11:26:09+00:00
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SYDNEY (AP) — Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has revealed he spent time in a psychiatric ward following a loss at Wimbledon in 2019 because of suicidal thoughts.
The comments from Kyrgios, widely published in Australia on Thursday based on interviews for the upcoming Netflix documentary series “Break Point,” are the latest on his longtime struggles with mental health.
He went to a hospital in London to “figure out my problems” after the loss to Rafael Nadal four years ago at Wimbledon, where he wore a compression sleeve over his right arm during his singles matches to conceal his scars.
“I was genuinely contemplating suicide,” Kyrgios said, in comments published by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I lost at Wimbledon. I woke up and my dad was sitting on the bed, full-blown crying. That was the big wake-up call for me.
“I was like ‘OK, I can’t keep doing this.’ I ended up in a psych ward in London to figure out my problems.”
Kyrgios said he was “drinking, abusing drugs” and his relationships with family and friends were deteriorating.
“That pressure, having that all-eyes-on-you expectation, I couldn’t deal with it,” he said. “I hated the kind of person I was.”
Kyrgios, who has previously discussed his mental health struggles on social media and in interviews, has spent many months on the sidelines with injuries since reaching the 2022 Wimbledon final, which he lost to Novak Djokovic.
He returned to the elite tour this week at Stuttgart after seven months off, but lost in the first round.
In February, he apologized in an Australian court when he escaped conviction on a charge of common assault after pleading guilty to shoving a former girlfriend to the ground in 2021.
Kyrgios’ psychologist, Sam Borenstein, said in a written report and testimony that Kyrgios had suffered major depressive episodes around the time of the assault and had used alcohol and drugs to cope. Kyrgios’ mental health led to impulsive and reckless behavior.
A magistrate did not record a conviction against Kyrgios for reasons including that the offense was at the low end of seriousness for a common assault, was not premeditated and he had no criminal record.
Immediately after the court ruling, Kyrgios issued a statement through a management company saying: “I was not in a good place when this took place and I reacted to a difficult situation in a way I deeply regret. I know it wasn’t OK and I’m sincerely sorry for the hurt I caused.”
“Mental health is tough. Life can seem overwhelming,” he added in the statement. “But I’ve found that getting help and working on myself has helped me to feel better and to be better.”
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2023-06-15T21:41:25+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/sports/ap-sports/nick-kyrgios-reveals-he-ended-up-in-psychiatric-ward-during-wimbledon-in-2019/
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Slate of New Mexico regulatory candidates sparks concern
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Many decisions by New Mexico’s most powerful regulatory panel have had direct economic and environmental consequences for one corner of the state, and yet not one candidate nominated to fill the Public Regulation Commission is from northwestern New Mexico. Critics are concerned about the lack of representation as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham prepares to pick a new commission as part of an overhaul that takes New Mexico voters out of the equation. Former two-term governor and U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson is among those taking notice. He called it “a glaring omission,” saying residents in the area — particularly Navajos — need to have a voice in future regulatory decisions.
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2022-12-08T00:47:11+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/12/07/slate-of-new-mexico-regulatory-candidates-sparks-concern/
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COLLINSVILLE, Okla. — October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the Collinsville Police Department started something unique to help victims in Oklahoma.
Collinsville police say the 911 call center often gets accidental calls from young children using old cell phones, so they decided to do something to not only stop that problem, but make a difference. Little do youngsters know, disconnected cell phones can still reach 911 dispatchers, according to the Collinsville Police Department.
Instead of giving disconnected cell phones to children, they can now be dropped off at the police station and officers will donate them to Tulsa's Domestic Violence Intervention Services Center, or DVIS. Officers have a stack of educational toy phones that they'll then give out to children in return.
Alice Worth, owner of Treasures of Worth Antiques in Collinsville, says she sees the importance even with her own loved ones.
“I have a grandson that’s five that has autism," Worth said. "He loves to play the games on it and he has no idea that he can call 9.1.1. from it."
In addition, she also had a friend that was a victim at one time.
“I have somebody that was close to me that was stalked, and her phone was her hotline," Worth said.
DVIS staff says that cell phones can be a critical tool for survivors, but they say their team is just trying to figure out the best way to set them up to give to survivors.
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2022-10-10T22:29:03+00:00
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kjrh.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will provide an additional $1.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, with funding for about 18 more advanced rocket systems and other weapons to counter drones that Russia has been using against Ukrainian troops, according to U.S. officials.
The latest package is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which funds contracts to purchase weapons and equipment. And it brings the total of U.S. aid to Ukraine to nearly $17 billion since the Biden administration took office. Officials provided details of the package on condition of anonymity because it has not yet been made public.
The aid announcement, expected later Wednesday, comes as Russia moves to annex parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine that held Kremlin-orchestrated referendums on living under Moscow’s rule. The votes, denounced by Kyiv and the West as illegal and rigged, underscore that Russia’s long-term goal remains taking control of Ukraine.
Since the funding is for contracts for weapons and equipment, it is aimed at helping Ukraine secure its longer-term defense needs. It could take a year or two for Ukraine to get the systems. The U.S. has used Pentagon drawdown authority to provide weapons more immediately, and another announcement for that Defense Department aid is expected early next week.
The package includes funding for 18 of the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, and ammunition for them, and 12 Titan systems, which are used to counter drones. Officials have said the HIMARS and other similar systems were key to Ukraine’s battle successes in recent weeks. And the Russians have been using Iranian-made drones to target Ukrainian forces, underscoring the need for more systems to counter that threat.
Also in the package is funding for about 300 vehicles, dozens of trucks and trailers to transport heavy equipment, a variety of radars, communications and surveillance equipment, and other gear for soldiers. It also will include funding for equipment to detect explosives and for maintenance and training.
The war, now in its seventh month, has shifted to a new phase, as Russia tries to rebound from recent combat losses and use the votes to politically solidify the gains it had made in the four occupied regions in the south and east.
Pro-Russia officials in Ukraine’s Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions said Wednesday they would ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to incorporate their provinces into Russia. It wasn’t immediately clear how the administrative process would unfold.
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2022-09-28T18:05:36+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/us-poised-to-provide-1-1-billion-more-in-aid-to-ukraine/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world
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Three organizations to share bequest from Flock estate
Posted/updated on: November 11, 2022 at 3:47 pmTYLER — Three charitable organizations will share a multimillion-dollar bequest from the estate of community philanthropist June S. Flock, who died July 2. The Marvin Methodist Church Foundation, the Tyler Junior College Foundation, and the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Foundation each received $1.75 million. Spokespeople for all three organizations are expressing their appreciation. A CHRISTUS Health news release termed Flock “a gracious woman with a generous spirit, whose desire was ‘to be remembered.’”
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2022-11-11T23:37:26+00:00
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ktbb.com
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https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1179058
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Linn County farmer reacts to consistently chilly planting season
CENTRAL CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - During a rainy day in spring, Linn County Farmer John Airy usually takes care of paperwork. Seeing a chilly and wet day in early May doesn’t worry him yet.
“Usually when we get into early May, we’ve got a lot of corn planted. In a good year, we’re done by now, not always. But that window between April 20th and May 15th is really nice,” said Airy.
Having been a farmer for nearly 30 years, he’s used to the ups and downs of Eastern Iowa weather. To him, he’s grateful it’s been consistently chillier.
“With the cold temperatures and all the moisture and rain we’ve had, it’s probably not the worst thing that we’re not planted because if we had had a warm streak early and been planted now, and come into all this wet, cold rain, that’s not always the best,” said Airy.
In this week’s Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report, soybean and corn planting has already begun in other parts of the state.
Despite the cool soil temperatures, 9 percent of Iowa’s expected corn crop has been planted. That’s 11 days behind last year and 9 days behind the 5-year average.
As a corn and soybean farmer himself, Airy says these numbers are a positive sign given the weather.
“Logistically we’re in good shape, the seed, the chemicals, the fertilizer, we can have all that placed. And when we do have those nice weather breaks, with today’s equipment, today’s technology, we can get more done in those windows,” said Airy.
This week’s corn report goes on to state that farmers in the western one-third of the state were able to get in at least 3.7 days of fieldwork and made more planting progress than those in the rest of Iowa.
Airy says none of his neighboring farmers are concerned quite yet, either. But they are anxious and certainly ready to start plating once the time and weather are right.
Copyright 2022 KCRG. All rights reserved.
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2022-05-04T00:29:58+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/2022/05/03/linn-county-farmer-reacts-consistently-chilly-planting-season/
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Monday temporarily blocked a unique rule that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill several other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery.
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule until May 15 unless she extends it. She also scheduled a May 11 hearing over the lawsuit challenging the rule.
In her ruling, Ribaudo wrote that those suing to block the rule would “be subjected to immediate and irreparable loss, damage or injury if the Attorney General is permitted to enforce the Emergency Rule, and its broad, sweeping provisions were implemented without further fact-finding or evidence.”
She wrote that patients “are at high risk of having their medical care interrupted for an unknown length of time; once the Rule goes into effect, they may lose access to medical care through their current providers until such time as the provider can come into compliance with the Rule’s requirements.”
Bailey’s office said it will continue to defend the new emergency rule.
“We remain confident in our position because the Court even acknowledged that it deferred its consideration of the science until a later date,” Bailey’s office said in a statement. “Our six pages of endnotes speak for themselves: these procedures are experimental.”
Gillian Wilcox, deputy director of litigation for the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which filed suit on behalf of transgender Missourians, applauded the ruling.
“Today’s ruling marks a win for transgender Missourians over an unprecedented attempt by the Attorney General to unilaterally legislate and harm their right to self-expression, bodily autonomy, and access to lifesaving health care,” Wilcox said in a statement.
Legal experts and transgender advocates say that if the lawsuit ultimately fails and Bailey’s rule takes effect, it would make Missouri the first state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults and the first to enact such restrictions through emergency rule-making instead of through a new law.
Transgender Missourians argue in the lawsuit that the rule is discriminatory, and that Bailey sidestepped the Republican-led Legislature and exceeded his authority by attempting to regulate gender-affirming health care through the state’s existing consumer-protection law.
Bailey has touted the rule as a way to shield minors from what he describes as experimental medical treatments, though puberty blockers and sex hormones have been prescribed for decades and the rule would also apply to adults.
The attorney general’s office has said there are 12,400 Missourians who identify as transgender, the ruling noted. The office estimated that 600 to 700 Missourians would begin intervention in the next year.
The rule, which was initially set to take effect last Thursday, would require people to have experienced an “intense pattern” of documented gender dysphoria for three years and to have received at least 15 hourly sessions with a therapist over at least 18 months before they could receive puberty blockers, hormones, surgery or other treatment.
Before receiving such care, patients would also have to be screened for autism, and any psychiatric symptoms from mental health issues would have to be treated and resolved. Minors, but not adults, also would have to be screened for “social media addiction” before treatments could begin. Some people would be able to maintain their prescriptions while undergoing required assessments.
But the transgender Missourians and health care providers suing to block it say the rule is discriminatory and illegal.
Tony Rothert, an attorney for the ACLU, told Ribaudo at a hearing Wednesday that the regulations would “cause immediate, severe and potentially irreparable harm” for people who could lose access to medications that include puberty blockers and sex hormones.
“We don’t allow attorneys general to legislate, and we don’t allow them to play doctor,” Rothert said.
He and other attorneys said transgender people who can’t get gender-affirming care are at higher risk of suicide.
Assistant Attorney General Joshua Divine argued that Bailey’s order would not ban gender-affirming care, and instead would provide “basic procedural guardrails.” He cited studies showing that a high percentage of children seeking to transition are dealing with mental health issues. He said that rather than transition they should undergo “talk therapy.”
Bailey issued the restrictions following an investigation he launched in February into the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The investigation was prompted by a former employee who alleged that the center was providing children with gender-affirming care without informed consent, a sufficient individualized case review and wraparound mental health services. An internal review by the university found no misconduct and determined that the former employee’s claims were unsubstantiated.
Some transgender people have been trying to stockpile their prescribed hormones or find alternative ways to get the medications on their own, out of fear they could lose access to the gender-affirming treatments many credit as life-saving. Some are considering leaving Missouri if the emergency rule isn’t blocked in court.
“This feels like the end of Kansas City being my home,” said Stacy Cay, an autistic transgender woman. “It feels like it’s being taken away.”
Missouri’s Democratic House minority leader, Crystal Quade, said last week that she asked President Joe Biden and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services for an executive order that would extend coverage for Missourians who seek gender-affirming care in other states. She also asked the Democratic governors of Kansas and Illinois if their health care systems would accept Missouri patients for such care.
Bailey’s efforts to crack down on gender-affirming health care come as Republicans across the country have proposed hundreds of laws aimed at transgender people. At least 13 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Bailey was appointed by Republican Gov. Mike Parson and took office in January. In a campaign email asking donors for money last week, Bailey said minors are “learning about their genders on TikTok.”
“Think about how frightening that is!” the campaign email said. “And think about how CRAZY it is to expose children to the twisted experiments advocated by extreme transgender activists.”
Brandon Hill, the interim president and CEO of Vivent Health, a health care provider with an LGBTQ+ and HIV focus serving Missouri and other states, questioned Bailey’s description of gender-affirming care as “experimental.” Hill said the same hormones used in gender-affirming treatment are used off-label to treat symptoms of menopause and help some cancer survivors.
“If you’re concerned about the drug and its potential effects, you should be concerned about it for everybody,” Hill said.
He said it is “discriminatory if you decide to isolate one group and decide what their treatment looks like, but not others who use the same exact products.”
Meanwhile, Republican state lawmakers are fighting over competing Missouri House and Senate bills that would ban all gender-affirming care for minors. The chambers are split over which version they want to send to Parson, who is threatening to force the Legislature to keep working if nothing is done on the issue by the May 12 end of the legislative session.
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This story was updated to correct that the judge blocked the rule from taking effect until May 15 unless she further extends her order, not until the lawsuit challenging the rule is resolved.
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Associated Press writer Jim Salter in O’Fallon, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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2023-05-01T21:11:02+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/health/ap-health/missouri-judge-to-rule-on-strict-trans-health-care-limits/
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UL junior linebacker K.C. Ossai changed his jersey number from No. 29 to No. 8 for this upcoming season.
The new number was his high school number.
“That’s my roots,” Ossai said.
But there’s another number that’s really on Ossai’s mind these days — 16. That's the number of tackles he missed last season.
“The most in the linebacker room,” Ossai admitted.
No one needs to remind Ossai about that stat, although some still do to motivate him.
“A lot, a lot,” Ossai said. “Coach (Joe Montag), our assistant linebackers coach, is always throwing jabs here and there. I can’t really say anything back, because it’s true.
“It bugs me a lot, but I know that all I have to do is keep working and it’ll get better.”
For a perfectionist such as Ossai, there’s no telling how much those occasional reminders irritate him.
“It’s mostly in space, just coming and gathering myself and running through the ball instead of just lunging at times,” Ossai said. “That’s something I’ve been working on in practice during the tackle drills every single day. I know it’ll translate into the season, even though we’re just in spring right now.”
Despite those missed opportunities, Ossai still finished with 63 total tackles last season — including two behind the line of scrimmage — as a reserve.
So don’t mistake all of those missed tackles as an indication the UL coaching staff doesn’t have high expectations for the 6-foot-1, 242-pounder from Conroe, Texas.
In fact, that's nowhere close to the truth.
“He’s big, he’s strong, he’s athletic, he’s smart,” UL defensive coordinator LaMar Morgan said. “He could be one of the best we’ve had here in a long time. I know I probably shouldn’t say that in spring ball, but it’s just the way he’s wired.”
Morgan was quick to give Ossai's parents the credit for his work ethic and mindset.
“He’s a good football player, but he has all the intangibles,” Morgan said. “You know how when you look at a quarterback and you want all these intangibles? He has the intangibles of a guy who really loves being around his teammates.
“He’s really hard on himself, gets upset when he doesn’t do something right. It’s his parents. We can’t take credit for that. He’s just wired the right way. He wants to get better.”
Morgan sees Ossai as the top candidate to fill the leadership void left by the departures of longtime defensive standouts Zi’Yon Hill-Green, Jourdan Quibodeaux, Eric Garror and Bralen Trahan.
“K.C. Ossai, he’s a real dude,” Morgan said. “He’ll be all-conference this year. When he walks in, he just commands the room. He’s just a leader. He’s just wired the right way.”
Ossai doesn’t take that responsibility lightly.
“I feel like I’m a natural-born leader,” he said. “I’ve just been waiting for my opportunity. I feel like I lead by example first. Now I’m just in a position to be more vocal and talk to the team.
“I would say just being a vet every single day and coming to work every single day. I feel like we’re doing a great job of doing that, just motivating especially the linebacker room to come out and work. It’s a daily grind.”
It certainly helps that Ossai comes from a football family. His older brother Joseph currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals and Philip plays at North Alabama.
“We talk all the time,” Ossai said about his siblings. “Most of the time, we talk about non-football stuff. But a lot of things we talk about, especially my oldest brother, we talk about taking care of our body during the season — how to maintain the power and speed and everything.
“The season is long and as the season goes on, you lose a lot of muscle, so you have to keep up and take care of your body throughout the whole season.”
Despite all of the high praise, Ossai’s approach in spring practice is to be as humble as possible.
“I come in thinking I’m not a starter,” he said. “I feel like I have to work every day to earn an opportunity that I get. Right now, I’m just trying to grind every single day to get better, because I know if I’m better, they’re better and if they’re better, I’m better."
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2023-03-22T07:41:43+00:00
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theadvocate.com
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https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/sports/ul_lafayette/why-the-number-16-is-so-motivating-for-ul-linebacker-k-c-ossai/article_9798f870-c81d-11ed-ad6f-e3769ac9e73f.html
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Merck Manuals now offering one method for evaluating resources online and through social media
KENILWORTH, N.J., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two recent surveys from Merck Manuals offer competing views of the presence of medical misinformation online. In one recent poll conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of Merck Manuals among 2,044 U.S. adults, 44% of Americans believe there is more medical misinformation online and in social media now than in previous years. But in an opposing survey – a poll conducted by Merck Manuals of 263 physicians at the recent 2022 Family Medicine Experience (FMX) hosted by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) – nearly 98% of physicians said there was somewhat or significantly more medical misinformation online and in social media today than in previous years.
"We've all had that moment when we experience a new medical symptom – back pain, a sore throat – and we turn to the internet for information," said Dr. Sandy Falk, M.D., Merck Manuals Editor-in-Chief. "The challenge for patients and their doctors is that there is so much health information online and on social media, but it can be difficult to know which sources are credible. Doctors often point patients towards resources that they know are reliable. The Merck Manuals is committed to giving physicians and the general public access to trustworthy medical information."
The Merck Manuals/Harris Poll survey found almost half of Americans (47%) say consumer health and medical news websites is one the sources they are most likely to use to access medical information; 32% say to the same of family or friends; 20% say the same of social media. At the same time, only half of Americans (50%) say they are completely forthcoming with their doctor about the sources they use to get their medical information.
Nearly seven in 10 doctors (69%) surveyed at FMX said the availability of medical information means patients come in more frequently because they read about symptoms and/or treatments online. A vast majority of physicians (93%) say patients visit with self-diagnoses they've concluded from online information or social media more today than five years ago.
In order to help patients, evaluate medical resources online, MerckManuals.com is now detailing one method known as STANDS:
- Source: Does the resource cite recognized authorities and provide their credentials?
- Transparency: Is it open and obvious whether the site's mission is educational or commercial?
- Accessibility: Is the site available without registration, and is there a way for users to contact someone with questions or concerns?
- Neutrality: Is the information available purely as a resource, or does the site benefit financially from what its users do (such as buying products or visiting advertised websites)?
- Documentation: Is the site updated when needed by recognized medical experts?
- Security: Can users access content without forfeiting personal information?
To read more, please visit: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/news/editorial/2022/11/07/04/04/medical-misinformation?sccamp=sccamp
This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Merck Manuals from Sept 22-26, 2022 among 2,044 U.S. adults ages 18+. The sampling precision of Harris online polls is measured by using a Bayesian credible interval. For this study, the sample data is accurate to within +/- 2.8 percentage points using a 95% confidence level. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables and subgroup sample sizes and for the physician survey methodology, please contact Katie Miller at kmiller@gobraithwaite.com.
First published in 1899 as a small reference book for physicians and pharmacists, The Merck Manual grew in size and scope to become one of the world's most widely used comprehensive medical resources for professionals and consumers. As The Manual evolved, it continually expanded the reach and depth of its offerings to reflect the mission of providing the best medical information to a wide cross-section of users, including medical professionals and students, veterinarians and veterinary students, and consumers. In 2015, The Manuals kicked off Global Medical Knowledge 2020, a global initiative with the goal to make the best current medical information accessible by up to three billion professionals and patients around the world by 2020. The Manuals achieved that goal, and today its medical information is available in more than 241 countries and in 13 languages. It's continuing its ambitious mission through outreach, education and creating new reliable medical resources. For access to thousands of medical topics with images, videos and a constantly expanding set of resources, visit MerckManuals.com or MSDManuals.com and connect with us on social media: For Consumers in the U.S. and its territories: Twitter and Facebook. For Professionals in the U.S. and its territories: Twitter and Facebook.
At Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, we are unified around our purpose: We use the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world. For more than 130 years, we have brought hope to humanity through the development of important medicines and vaccines. We aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world – and today, we are at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. We foster a diverse and inclusive global workforce and operate responsibly every day to enable a safe, sustainable and healthy future for all people and communities. For more information, visit www.merck.com and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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2022-11-09T18:27:47+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/11/09/surveys-show-doctors-patients-with-opposing-views-medical-misinformation/
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 11, 2022
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216 PM PDT Sun Sep 11 2022
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The Flood Advisory is cancelled for a portion of southwest
California, including the following county, Los Angeles.
Flood waters have receded. The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no
longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to heed remaining
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2022-09-11T21:48:35+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LOS-ANGELES-Warnings-Watches-and-17434400.php
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The BDN is exploring Maine’s housing crisis from every possible angle, from how it affects home prices, to what it means for Mainers across the state. Read our ongoing coverage here and fill out this form to tell us what you want to know.
Two Maine locations that offer larger-than-average homes at lower prices made Realtor.com’s top-10 list of U.S. zip codes garnering the most interest from homebuyers visiting its website this year.
The 04062 zip code covering most of Windham, a town of just over 18,000 residents on Sebago Lake in Cumberland County, ranked fifth. That is up from 15th last year, when the town was the only Maine location to crack the top 50. The 04210 zip code of Auburn, a city of just over 23,200 residents in Androscoggin County, ranked 10th. It made the list for the first time.
New England cities and towns dominated the top-10 zip code rankings, with Nashua, Derry and Hooksett, New Hampshire, at second, fourth and eighth, respectively. North Attleboro, Massachusetts, ranked ninth.
Brighton, New York, which is in the Rochester metropolitan area, ranked first, with Worthington, Ohio, at third; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at sixth; and Johnson City, Tennessee, at seventh, rounding out the top 10.
The real estate listing service ranked 42,000 zip codes by the number of unique visitors to each property on its website and how quickly homes sold from January to June. The list, released on Tuesday, is limited to one zip code per metropolitan area.
Auburn and Windham drew the most interest from homebuyers in the higher-priced Portland area.
The Nashua area tended to attract views from Boston homebuyers. The proportion of Boston buyers looking at Boston properties dropped almost 8 percentage points between 2021 and 2022.
Realtor.com said that while the hot zip codes are higher priced than their surrounding area, they still are less expensive than Boston and offer homebuyers a deal.
Rising prices and mortgage rates this year made affordability a top concern among homebuyers. The listing service said the common themes among the zip codes were “value for money” and “relative affordability” compared with nearby more expensive cities like Portland and Boston.
The median listing price across all of the top 10 zip codes reached $432,000 in June. That was 4 percent lower than the national median of $450,000. The median listing price in June in Windham was $505,000 and in Auburn, $267,000.
Millennials were a big part of home ownership in the top-10 zip codes, where 57 percent of millennials located in them owned homes compared with 51 percent nationwide. The millennials in those areas also tended to have higher incomes than their peers nationwide, boosting their buying power and letting more of them own homes.
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2022-08-22T15:46:09+00:00
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bangordailynews.com
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https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/20/business/real-estate/2-maine-towns-hot-zip-codes-joam40zk0w/
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by: Adrienne Smith Posted: Jul 31, 2022 / 05:33 AM EDT Updated: Jul 31, 2022 / 08:06 AM EDT SHARE (WSYR-TV) – Here’s your News on the Go for Sunday, July 31, 2022, with NewsChannel 9’s Adrienne Smith and Storm Team Meteorologist Tom Esterguard.
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2022-07-31T12:18:28+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news-on-the-go/news-on-the-go-july-31-2022/
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Which high-end gift for your brother is best?
Whether you’re looking for gifts for a younger brother or the best gift for a big brother, it can be tough to select the right one. A high-end gift may be just the ticket for the best holiday gift, birthday gift or just-because gift.
There comes a time when all brothers develop passions, hobbies and interests beyond causing family mayhem. To help you narrow down which gifts fit your brother’s unique interests, here are the best high-end gifts for your brother.
Best high-end sports and fitness gifts for your brother
Whether your brother is training for his next big game or likes to stay fit on his own schedule, these high-end fitness gifts will help him take his workout to the next level.
NormaTec Pulse 2.0 Full Body Recovery System
The NormaTec Pulse 2.0 hastens recovery time, reduces pain and soreness and increases blood circulation by utilizing variable air-compression technology. The great thing about the NormaTec Pulse is that its benefits are useful to athletes of all levels and disciplines. In fact, the NormaTec Pulse is so good that 97% of professional teams across all U.S. sports rely on it for help pre- and post-workout.
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Bowflex SelectTech 552 Adjustable Dumbbells
These dumbbells are a great high-end gift for any brother who’s passionate about health and fitness. Each dumbbell adjusts from 5 to 52.5 pounds and comes with a convenient rack that allows you to switch from one weight to another easily. Since each dumbbell adjusts in increments of 2.5 pounds, you can hone in on just the right weight for your needs. This set combines 15 pairs of dumbbells into one, so they don’t take up a lot of space.
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The Fitbit Versa 4 fitness smartwatch will help your fitness fanatic brother take his workouts to the next level. With a high-resolution screen, music streaming capabilities and improved data collection, this watch has all the bells and whistles your brother needs to target his fitness goals. One of the best parts about giving the Fitbit as a gift is that you’re not only making your brother happy in the short term but also helping him achieve his long-term fitness and health goals.
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Best high-end technology gifts for your brother
These cool gadgets are functional, fun and sure to please anyone with an interest in high-end technology.
Bang And Olufsen Beolit 20 Bluetooth Speaker
Boasting a big sound and a great design, the Beolit 20 is the perfect high-end gift for your brother on any occasion. The Beolit 20 will deliver the crisp, clear notes of your brother’s favorite music with precision accuracy. Thanks to the 8-hour battery life and onboard portable charger for your phone, your brother can take this speaker with him on his wildest adventures. To top it all off, you can link the Beolit 20 with other nearby Beolit speakers, including the previous series Beolit 17.
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This iPad is a great high-end gift for your brother if he’s a frequent traveler or just a traditional tech-geek. With an unsurpassed true tone retina display, powerful stereo speakers and a sophisticated Apple M2 chip, this iPad can do it all and then some. Add in an iPad stand or other accessory to complete your gift.
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iRobot Roomba s9 And Braava Jet M6
This little robotic helper automatically vacuums and mops your floors and carpets. It even has a sleek self-disposal port that can store up to 60 days’ worth of dirt and other floor grime. To top it all off, the robot learns the layout of your home over time, so it can expertly clean all the nooks and crannies.
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Best high-end bedroom gifts for your brother
These products promise to improve your brother’s sleep and keep him comfortable.
Barefoot Dreams CozyChic Barefoot in The Wild Throw Blanket
Everyone loves curling up in bed at night, and there’s no better way to do that than with a Barefoot Dreams throw blanket. Made from an incredibly soft polyester microfiber, this blanket has a comforting weight that envelops you in warmth. It also comes wrapped up in a color-matching bow, which means you can save time and money on wrapping paper.
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Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Cloud Breeze Cooling Pillow
Many people report that they sleep hot, which means they’re often waking up to shed blankets or stick a wayward foot out from under the covers. Even if they’re not a hot sleeper, this pillow is fit for royalty. With a unique gel layer surrounding the cooling memory foam, this pillow relieves pressure from neck, shoulders and head while subtly cooling you off.
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Brooks Brothers Men’s Bathrobe
Brooks Brothers has been a leader in the high-end menswear market for decades, and nowhere is that more evident than in the quality of this bathrobe. Made entirely from ultra-thick pile cotton sourced from Turkey, this bathrobe is capable of drying you off after a shower and keeping you comfortable while you sip your morning brew.
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2022-12-14T16:50:47+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/reviews/br/apparel-br/holiday-br/best-high-end-gift-for-your-brother/
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NY Burlington VT Zone Forecast for Friday, February 17, 2023
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311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming cloudy.
Highs in the lower 40s. South winds around 10 mph, increasing to
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows 10 to 15.
.THURSDAY...Snow. Highs in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers. Lows around 10 above. Chance of
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.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 20s.
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311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 30. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. West winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph until midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Rain or snow showers likely. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 10 to 15.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Highs in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows around 10 above.
.THURSDAY...Snow. Highs in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers. Lows around 10 above. Chance of
snow 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and brisk. Highs around 20.
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Northern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of Massena and Norfolk
311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds
around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the lower
40s. Southwest winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows around 10 above.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely. Little or no snow accumulation.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows around 10 above. Chance of
snow 60 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow. Highs in the mid 20s. Chance of snow
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Lows around 10 above.
Chance of snow 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 20.
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Southwestern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of Ogdensburg, Potsdam, and Gouverneur
311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the lower
40s. Southwest winds around 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 15 to 20.
.TUESDAY...Snow or rain showers likely. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows around 15. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow, freezing rain and sleet. Highs in the upper
20s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Lows around 10 above.
Chance of snow 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 20.
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NYZ029-181600-
Southeastern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of South Colton and Star Lake
311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 30. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers
until midnight, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
mid 20s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Rain or snow showers likely. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around
10 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 10 to 15.
.TUESDAY...Snow or rain showers likely. Little or no snow
accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 20.
Highs in the upper 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows 15 to 20. Chance of snow
70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow, freezing rain and sleet. Highs in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely with freezing rain. Breezy
with lows around 10 above. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 20.
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NYZ027-181600-
Northern Franklin-
Including the cities of Fort Covington and Malone
311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph until midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. Light and
variable winds, becoming south around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the lower
40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance
of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows around 10 above.
.TUESDAY...Snow showers likely. Little or no snow accumulation.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
Highs in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 above.
.THURSDAY...Snow. Highs in the mid 20s. Chance of snow
90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers. Lows around 10 above. Chance of
snow 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 20.
$$
NYZ030-181600-
Southern Franklin-
Including the cities of Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake
311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers
until midnight, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
lower 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph until
midnight. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Rain or snow showers likely. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow showers. Lows around 10 above. Highs in the mid
30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
Highs in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows around 10 above. Chance of
snow 60 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow with freezing rain likely. Highs around 30.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Breezy with lows around
10 above. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy and brisk. Highs 15 to 20.
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Eastern Essex-
Including the cities of Port Henry and Ticonderoga
311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. South winds around
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. South winds around
10 mph until midnight, becoming light and variable.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming cloudy.
Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid 40s. Southwest winds around 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow showers.
Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
20s. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Snow and freezing rain. Highs around 30. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Lows 15 to 20. Chance of
snow 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s.
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NYZ034-181600-
Western Essex-
Including the cities of Lake Placid and Newcomb
311 AM EST Sat Feb 18 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain or snow
showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Snow likely. Lows 15 to 20. Chance of snow
60 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow, freezing rain and sleet. Highs in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers and freezing rain likely. Breezy
with lows 10 to 15. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny and breezy. Highs in the lower 20s.
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2023-02-18T08:39:04+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/ny-burlington-vt-zone-forecast-17792318.php
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Dear Abby: I am a 23-year-old child of divorce. For nine months, my father has been dating a woman he was seeing while still married to my stepmother. My youngest brother (age 19) and I have yet to meet her. If they marry, this will be Dad’s third marriage.
While I love him, he deeply hurt not only my former stepmother but also my mother, because he cheated on them both multiple times. He excuses it by saying he had no other choice.
I recently moved back to my hometown after living in New York for 16 months. At some point soon, the three of us, as well as my middle brother, will likely have dinner together. I’m afraid I’ll lash out at her and possibly lose my father in the process. I feel like a child when he tries to explain his behavior in an indirect way. Must I accept this new woman as my father’s partner or risk him dropping out of my life? — Revolving Doors
Dear Revolving Doors: If you want a relationship with your father, it’s important that you not lash out at whatever woman he is with, whether it be “fiancee” number three, four, five, etc. This isn’t as much a question of accepting this new woman as it may be accepting your father for who he is. If things eventually turn out as I suspect they will, YOU may choose to drop out of HIS life.
Dear Abby: I am curious about proper etiquette when a dinner guest brings a bottle of wine. Should that bottle be offered/opened instead of the wine already opened by the host? How should we respond to the guest? — Confused in the Midwest
Dear Confused: No rule of etiquette requires you to open the wine your guest has brought and serve it instead of what you have chosen for the meal. Thank your guest for their generosity and put it aside to be used on another occasion or as a second bottle for that night’s dinner.
Dear Abby: My wife’s niece had a baby. My wife called several times asking to visit the child but was told that her niece’s pregnancy and delivery were very stressful and she would have to wait to see the baby. She made more calls and was told the same thing. The baby is now a year old, and we heard the mother invited her cousin’s children to the birthday party but nobody else. The cousins have young children, too. My wife and I have a 12-year-old who is a second cousin. Should my wife say anything to the mother because our child was excluded? We don’t want to cause bad feelings, but my wife is hurt. — Left Out in New Jersey
Dear Left Out: Were your wife and her niece close before the baby was born? From what you have written, it doesn’t appear so.
Because the pregnancy and delivery were difficult, it seems reasonable that the mother needed time to recover and adjust. With a year gone by, a birthday party given for the child and your wife still not receiving an invitation, I would say the niece isn’t interested in maintaining a close relationship. Your wife may gain better insight into what has been going on if she talks with her niece’s parents about her feelings.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
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2023-04-10T05:21:53+00:00
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bostonherald.com
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/04/10/dear-abby-man-disdains-dads-parade-of-wives/
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HIALEAH, Florida (AP) — A few days after selling all she had to flee Cuba with her three children on a crowded boat, Daneilis Tamayo raised her hand in praise and sang the rousing opening hymn at Sunday worship in this Miami suburb.
“The only thing that gave me strength is the Lord. I’m not going to lose my faith, whatever I might go through,” she said. The family has been sleeping in Iglesia Rescate’s improvised shelter since the promises of help made by her contact in the United States turned out to be “all lies.”
In the past 18 months, an estimated 250,000 migrants and asylum-seekers like Tamayo have arrived in the Miami area after being granted only precarious legal status that often doesn’t include permission to work, which is essential to building new lives in the U.S.
This influx is maxing out the migrant social safety net in Miami’s faith communities, long accustomed to integrating those escaping political persecution, a lack of freedoms and a dearth of basic necessities. Cubans were the first to arrive during the island’s communist revolution 60 years ago, and they’re still fleeing here alongside Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
“The Lord says to welcome the stranger. It’s the saddest thing, the quantity of people who come and we can’t help them,” said the Rev. David Monduy, Iglesia Rescate’s pastor.
Miami’s faith leaders and their congregations remain steadfast in their mission to help settle new migrants. But they’re sounding the alarm that the need is growing unmanageable.
“We can get a call on a Saturday that 30 migrants were dropped off, and two hours later all have been picked up,” said Peter Routsis-Arroyo, the CEO of Catholic Charities in Miami. “But the challenge is at what point you reach saturation.”
The number of arrivals, by sea directly to Florida and from those heading here from the US-Mexico border, surged earlier this winter. For most newcomers, the best hope to settle in the U.S. is to win asylum, but immigration courts are so backlogged migrants can be in limbo for years, ineligible to get a job legally.
Advocates say that makes them vulnerable to criminals, puts an impossible financial burden on existing migrant communities that try to help, and slows down integration into U.S. society.
“It’s completely irrational that they’re not giving out work permits,” said Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, whose Catholic archdiocese has long helped welcome migrants. “Because of that, the government can make a situation that’s not too bad yet, become worse.”
Many migrants are already homeless due to soaring rent and motel rates.
“Every day, people knock on the doors of our parishes, saying they have no place to sleep,” said the Rev. Marcos Somarriba, rector at St. Agatha Catholic Church on Miami’s outskirts.
In addition to providing food, clothes and some housing relief, churches are helping educate migrants about their legal options.
St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church put together a migration forum with Catholic Legal Services in mid-February about a new humanitarian parole program that allows 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans into the U.S. each month if they have a sponsor who assumes financial responsibility for them for two years.
Parishioner Dalia Marrero attended to learn about sponsoring an uncle in Nicaragua, where many are fleeing President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on opponents.
“I don’t want to fail him or U.S. law,” she said, worried about how long she’d be required to support her relative.
Miami’s established diaspora communities know all too well the hardships that migrating entails, and that motivates many to help. But there also is mistrust among some old timers who remain active in opposition to autocratic regimes like Cuba’s and view some new arrivals’ politics with suspicion, said Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.
That underscores the potentially crucial role for faith leaders — to preach forgiveness and build a sense of shared experience.
“That’s it — to unite,” said the Rev. Elvis González, pastor at St. Michael the Archangel, a historically Cuban church that welcomes faithful from across Central America. “They have seen the church as the only institution that can give some hope.”
A few miles south on the seashore stands La Ermita, a shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Charity that’s long been a beacon for Cuban exiles.
Migrants from all over Latin America come to bring sunflowers to the Virgin, to cry in gratitude for having made it and to ask for help with food and clothing, said Sister Consuelo Gómez.
“Jesus also was a migrant,” said Gómez, who helps many newcomers find jobs and decent housing, often with the aid of diaspora members. “We try to help so that they can get ahead on their own.”
Among them were two Venezuelan sisters Gómez helped get their own place as well as jobs that allow them to send money back to their ailing mother.
“Here I motivate myself, even though, yes, I miss my family,” said older sister Daniela Valletero, who works two jobs, six days a week. “Here I feel that I’ll make it.”
That’s the kind of faith that motivates Marylin Rondon, an attorney originally from Venezuela whose weekly prayer group of professionals from Latin America prepares hundreds of sandwiches for the nuns to distribute to migrants and the homeless.
“As a Catholic, you can’t stop at sadness,” Rondon said. “The biggest faith is that of the one who is arriving. He has to depend 100% on providence.”
Outside the Ermita shrine, a couple stood under the palms, their homeland of Cuba some 200 miles across the sea. Roberto Sardiñas came seven years ago, and in December managed to get his wife, Dadiana Figueroa, to immigrate legally through family reunification.
Asked about the influx of new arrivals, Sardiñas said it would be selfish to argue anything but that “all who can come, let them come.”
“The ideal would be that freedom existed in Cuba,” Figueroa added.
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Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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2023-03-05T22:08:37+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/national/miami-faith-community-strains-to-help-new-exiles-migrants-2/
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2 Florida men arrested in separate child sex abuse cases in Volusia County, deputies say
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - Two Florida men are facing charges in separate child sex abuse cases in Volusia County, according to the sheriff's office.
Daniel Tills, 76, of DeBary – the owner of Tillis Pest Control – and 32-year-old Jacob Bloom of Orange City, were both arrested Wednesday and booked into the Volusia County jail where they're being held without bond.
Pictured: Daniel Tillis (Photo via Volusia Sheriff's Office)
According to the Volusia Sheriff's Office, Tillis is facing a charge of lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim under 12. Deputies said Tillis knew the child victim, but the sheriff's office is not revealing the connection to protect her identity.
While investigating his case, two adults reported that Tillis had sexually abused them when they were children.
Bloom is facing a capital sexual battery charge for sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl over several years, deputies said. She was also not a stranger to Bloom, but to also protect her identity, deputies are not releasing the connection.
Pictured: Jacob Bloom (Photo via Volusia Sheriff's Office)
The sheriff's office said Bloom had a record of sexually abusing infants when he was 13 years old in Flagler County.
Due to Bloom's history and current charges, and the allegations against Tillis and his potential access to his customers' homes, deputies are asking anyone with information about other potential victims to contact the VSO Child Exploitation Unit at 386-323-3574.
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2023-01-26T21:08:13+00:00
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fox35orlando.com
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https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/2-men-arrested-in-separate-child-sex-abuse-cases-in-volusia-county-deputies-say
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MCCARRAN, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada company that recycles batteries for electric vehicles has won a $2 billion green energy loan from the Biden administration.
Redwood Materials, a recycling venture founded by the former chief technology officer at Tesla Inc., secured the conditional loan from the Energy Department’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program, which helped Tesla more than a decade ago.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced the grant Thursday at Redwood’s facility in Nevada with Gov. Joe Lombardo, where they spoke from a stage to dozens of employees.
“This region is leading the way to a broader story of what is happening in the country,” Granholm said, pointing to a map of 80 battery manufacturing or supply chain companies that are expanding or opening in the U.S. Most have been announced in response to the infrastructure law President Joe Biden signed in 2021 and the climate law he signed last year, she said.
Battery recycling will help the U.S. establish its own electric-vehicle supply chain, a major goal of the Biden administration as it seeks to move away from gas-powered cars in the larger fight against climate change. Biden also has promoted domestic production of critical minerals used in EVs and other electronics, as part of the climate fight and to counter China’s longtime dominance in the supply chain.
With Redwood and other projects underway, “China might be starting to worry,″ Granholm boasted. “And to that I say we’re just getting started.″
The Energy Department said its conditional commitment demonstrates its intent to finance the Nevada project, but several steps remain before officials approve a final loan.
Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by Jeffrey “JB” Straubel, Tesla’s former chief technology officer. It now has more than 300 employees who recycle used batteries and has supply contracts with Ford and with Panasonic, which makes batteries for Tesla.
Straubel said the company already has more material than it can process from spent consumer batteries from lawnmowers, cellphones and toothbrushes, as well as production scraps from lithium-ion battery manufacturing.
The company says it can recover more than 95% of the elements in a spent battery, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and copper. The metals are then used to make anode and cathode components for new battery cells.
Redwood Materials “is going to play this outsized role in bringing the batteries supply chain home — because you’re focused on the pieces that we don’t have in the United States,” Granholm told employees at Thursday’s event. “You guys are making history in this.”
Redwood Materials is expected to create about 3,400 construction jobs and employ about 1,600 full-time workers, the department said.
Redwood Materials’ history in Nevada started under former Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who was in attendance on Thursday. It continued under Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak before the loan was conditionally approved under Lombardo, who acknowledged he was a latecomer to negotiations. The investments and subsequent jobs help fulfill a campaign pledge by Lombardo and past governors to diversify Nevada’s casino and tourism-based economy.
“This is what we’re going to have to do to have success in the state of Nevada,” Lombardo said. “We can’t have all our eggs in one basket.”
In December, the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development awarded $105 million in tax incentives to Redwood, the second-largest capital investment in the office’s history, behind Tesla.
Last month, the Energy Department announced a conditional loan of $700 million to an Australian company to mine lithium in northern Nevada as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for the key component in electric vehicle batteries.
Redwood also has announced plans to build a $3.5 billion battery manufacturing and recycling factory in South Carolina.
Once fully operational, the battery materials campus in McCarran, Nevada, outside Reno, will be the first domestic facility to support production of anode copper foil and cathode active materials for a lithium-ion battery manufacturing process. The process would recycle end-of-life battery and production scrap and remanufacture it into critical materials, the Energy Department said in a blog post.
Straubel, Redwood’s CEO, told The Associated Press last year that recycling battery materials will help the U.S. establish its own electric-vehicle supply chain. China now dominates the EV supply chain, including critical minerals needed for EV batteries.
“Redwood fills a critical gap in that whole piece, and our goal is to close the loop on all the materials that we’ve already mined and produced into products, keep them in the regions where they were bought and are being used,” Straubel told the AP. “Every battery that we can recycle is one battery worth of materials that we don’t need to mine again.”
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Daly reported from Washington.
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Associated Press auto writer Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this story.
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2023-02-10T01:24:20+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-battery-recycling-firm-wins-2b-loan-from-energy-department/
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Tony La Russa called the first game after the All-Star break “one of the most intriguing games of the season.”
“Because you really don’t know what you’re going to get, either team,” the Chicago White Sox manager said before Friday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians. “All of a sudden, it switches back on.”
The Guardians came out swinging, taking advantage of some hits that found holes before a two-run home run from Andrés Giménez during a four-run first.
The Sox never recovered, losing 8-2 in the opener of a four-game weekend series in front of 31,379 at Guaranteed Rate Field. The teams play a split doubleheader Saturday, with the opener at 12:10 p.m. and the nightcap at 6:15 p.m.
“You bloop a couple in, hit a couple of seeing-eye ground balls. It’s part of the game,” La Russa said. “They had it going for them early. They jumped ahead. It could have been us, but it happened to them.
“I don’t think that was part of first day back. Buzzard’s luck. Sometimes it’s for you. Sometimes it’s against you.”
Sox starter Lucas Giolito (6-6) allowed six runs on nine hits in just three innings.
“It was tough,” Giolito said. “Never fun giving up a bunch of runs early and nine hits. It’s a tough one to assess because a lot of the hits weren’t hit hard. I felt like they were relatively well-executed pitches.
“The ones I would really like back are the homer, a bad first-pitch changeup and the first base-hit of the game was not the best slider to (Steven) Kwan. Other than that it was like, I’d have to go back and look at it. Maybe I need to sequence better or execute a little bit better. Just unfortunate.”
The Sox had an opportunity to get to over .500 for the first time since May 26, when they were 22-21.
Instead they slipped back under .500 at 46-47 and are two games behind the second-place Guardians in the American League Central. The Sox trail the division-leading Minnesota Twins by 3½ games.
“I continue to work on the adjustments and mechanical stuff that I need to work on, especially with the lower half,” Giolito said. “But it was just a rough outing. It sucks. It’s a results game, and getting poor results, putting our team in a hole, I’ve got to find a way to be better.”
Two of the Guardians’ four hits in the first had exit velocities of less than 80 mph, according to MLB Statcast.
José Ramírez’s bloop hit to left that landed just fair, with an exit velocity of 78.6 mph, gave the Guardians runners on second and third with one out. Josh Naylor drove in a run with a single with an exit velocity of 74.8 mph.
Ramírez scored on Owen Miller’s sacrifice fly to shallow center field. The Sox appealed to third, hoping that Ramírez left the base early. Third-base umpire Edwin Moscoso ruled Ramírez properly tagged up.
Giménez hit the first pitch after the appeal over the right-field wall for a two-run homer. And just like that the Sox trailed 4-0.
“You saw the same rally I did,” La Russa said. “How many balls were hit hard? Two hard, but the other ones were well-placed. The ground ball got through. They hit three bloopers, one of them (Adam) Engel made the catch.
“It’s a tough way to start the game. You initiate less than good contact and you don’t get an out for it. That’s what I saw. That’s four runs, and two more (the next inning). It wasn’t his day.”
The Guardians scored two more runs in the second.
“Credit to them, they got the bat on the ball and found holes and ran up a four-run first inning and a couple of more runs in the next inning and then I was done after three,” Giolito said.
Giolito exited after 64 pitches.
“At that point, you’re better off turning the page,” La Russa said. “He had done his part, and we stayed in the game. He knows we needed innings. He definitely wanted to go back out there. Sometimes it’s just not your day.”
Meanwhile, the Sox didn’t convert early chances. They had runners on first and second with two outs in the first and didn’t score. The first two batters reached in the second, but a double play and strikeout ended the threat.
The first two batters reached in the third. The Sox came through with a run on a double by José Abreu and another on a groundout by Yasmani Grandal, who returned from the injured list Friday.
But after collecting five hits in the first three innings, the Sox had only two more the rest of the way.
The Guardians have won four straight. Their last loss was to Giolito and the Sox 2-1 on July 13. Giolito allowed one unearned run and five hits in 6⅓ innings in that outing, his last before the All-Star break. But the Sox weren’t able to duplicate that success Friday.
“I’ve made some good adjustments, but I’ve got a lot more in the tank than what I’m showing,” Giolito said. “It’s frustrating because it’s probably just one little adjustment away that I just haven’t gotten to yet.”
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2022-07-23T05:58:26+00:00
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Moose Jaw 5 Brandon 1
Lethbridge 2 Winnipeg 1
Edmonton 3 Calgary 0
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Red Deer 5 Saskatoon 1
Portland 6 Swift Current 3
Kamloops 7 Victoria 4
Tri-City 2 Everett 1
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Vancouver 3 Kelowna 1
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Winnipeg 5 Red Deer 1
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Lethbridge 10 Edmonton 2
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2023-01-31T05:24:27+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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Which lip gloss set is best?
When you want a fresh-faced, glistening look, nothing is as flexible and flattering as a great lip gloss. Since different shades go with different moods and occasions, it’s best to have a selection on hand. A great gloss set gives you options for day and night, with a bit of shimmer thrown in for good measure.
If you’re looking for a high-quality lip gloss set, Babo Botanicals Nutri-Shine Hydrating Luminizer Vegan Lip Gloss 4-Piece Set is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a lip gloss set
Your lip gloss can do a lot of heavy lifting
Gone are the days of goopy, messy hot-pink lip gloss. Today’s lip glosses can serve as hydration, color, plumping and definition for your lips. Day-friendly glosses come in sheer shades that give a hint of color while allowing your natural look to show; shimmery and more color-saturated glosses are the perfect companions for your evening look.
Simple gloss vs. shimmer
Traditionally, lip gloss just added shine to your lips. You may want to look for a set of glosses that also add a bit of shimmer. It gives you more options when you want your lips to stand out, and works well with summery nighttime vibes.
What to look for in a quality lip gloss set
Level of pigmentation
Lip glosses come in barely-there clear shades, as well as fully saturated deep colors. For evenings, look for a gloss with a lot of pigment in it in an eye-catching hue. For daily wear, more sheer, light glosses give you a breezy, clean put-together look without making you seem heavily made up.
Plumping gloss
Look for a set of lip glosses that includes at least one with a plumping ingredient. Lip plumping glosses don’t just add shine or color, but also contain ingredients that can cause the lips to appear fuller. Some achieve this through a deep moisturizer such as hyaluronic acid, while others contain a mild irritant like capsicum or peppermint, which causes increased blood flow to the area, temporarily making lips fuller.
Moisturizing
Lip gloss used to be made with mostly sticky ingredients that didn’t offer a lot to the health of your lips. Today’s glosses are chock-full of moisturizing ingredients that make your skin kissably soft, even after you’ve removed them for the night. If you are plagued by chapped, flaky lips, be sure your lip gloss set includes highly moisturizing ingredients such as beeswax, shea butter or ceramides.
Flattering to your skin tone
Lip glosses can run the gamut from cool tones to warm, sunny ones. Being aware of your skin’s undertones gives you the tools to buy a lip gloss set whose colors will look awesome on you. If you tend to burn easily in the sun, the chances are good that your skin tone is cool, and will look best in pinks and mauves. If you tan and don’t burn easily, you’re most likely warm-toned, and peaches and rose colored glosses will be the most flattering.
How much you can expect to spend on a lip gloss set
For a good drugstore lip gloss set, expect to pay in the $10-$15 range. A department store brand, particularly one with a plumping ingredient, will range from $20-$40.
Lip gloss set FAQ
Do lip gloss sets expire?
A. The liquid consistency of lip glosses makes them expire more quickly than other lip care products, such as lipsticks or balms. While you’ll want to check your lip gloss to know for sure, the average life of one is about a year to 18 months.
You’ll know a lip gloss is beginning to reach the end of its usefulness when it clumps or changes color, or its scent changes. Label it with the date you bought it and replace it by the expiration date to prevent applying a gloss that may harbor bacteria or whose ingredients are breaking down.
How do I prep my lips to make lip gloss wear longer?
A. Lip gloss can be a more casual look than lipstick, so if you are going to be on the go all day, expect to have to reapply. But some preliminary work can help it last longer on your lips.
The first order of business is to exfoliate your lips well, gently but thoroughly. You may benefit from a weekly lip mask or a homemade treatment such as a raw sugar and olive oil scrub. Moisturize your lips, unless your gloss has specific emollients or other hydrating ingredients. Then apply your gloss. Finally, a bit of clear lip liner applied to the edge of your lips will keep the gloss from running or feathering.
Is it true that you shouldn’t wear lip gloss after a certain age?
A. You’ve probably heard the rule that mature lips should not wear gloss. This is out-of-date advice that no longer holds, if it ever did.
The thinking behind this rule was that the fine lines that can form around lips as they age will make lip gloss look feathery and messy as it makes its way in. Good prep will prevent this, as will a clear lip liner, a trick lips of any age will benefit from. In fact, the moisturizing qualities of today’s lip glosses make them a great choice for any age.
What’s the best lip gloss set to buy?
Top lip gloss set
Babo Botanicals Nutri-Shine Hydrating Luminizer Vegan Lip Gloss 4-Piece Set
What you need to know: This up-and-coming brand takes its ingredients seriously, making sure to source only the purest, all-natural ingredients
What you’ll love: Not only are these colors pretty, they also offer the moisturizing effects of coconut oil, as well as all-natural sun protection to protect your lips.
What you should consider: There’s no plumping option in this set, so if you want a big pout for a night out, this isn’t the set to achieve that.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
Top lip gloss set for the money
Morphe X Avani Gregg Lil Beb Mini Lip Gloss Kit
What you need to know: Morphe makes great glosses, and this little kit will give you an option for every mood.
What you’ll love: This versatile set gives you clear, creamy and shimmery options in buttery, glide-on glosses that aren’t at all sticky.
What you should consider: If you’re sensitive to smells, note that the glosses in this set have pronounced scents. Many users find them pleasant, but you may want to sample one before buying.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
Worth checking out
Lancome Mini Juicy Tubes Lip Gloss Set
What you need to know: This premium brand creates glosses that feel light and are highly hydrating.
What you’ll love: The five tiny glosses in this set range from clear to creamy to shimmery, all with a glassy shine.
What you should consider: The tubes are designed for direct application onto your lips and don’t provide an applicator. If you’re a stickler for an applicator or don’t like the idea of pressing your lips to the tube, use a swab or buy a pack of disposable applicators.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora or Ulta Beauty
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2022-04-23T15:21:25+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/reviews/br/beauty-personal-care-br/lip-makeup-br/best-lip-gloss-set/
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- Mendix selected New Hope Community Services (APAC), Project Alianza (Americas), and the Welcome App Foundation (EMEA) for its upcoming MxHacks 2022 global hackathon
- MxHacks 2022 will take place on September 23 – 24 at four international locations and remotely
- Teams from around the world will build digital solutions that advance good causes
BOSTON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mendix, a Siemens business and global leader in modern enterprise application development, announced the designated nonprofit organizations that will participate in its upcoming 'MxHacks 2022: Low-Code for Good,' one of the biggest low-code hackathons in the world.
The first-ever Mendix global hackathon has already attracted over 800 registrations from 45 countries. The event will take place in four locations on three continents: Boston, London, Rotterdam, and Singapore, as well as remotely from anywhere in the world, to build solutions to improve lives, fight for justice, or advance other good causes. MxHacks 2022 will invite developers to work on a challenge for New Hope Community Services (APAC); Project Alianza (Americas); and the Welcome App (EMEA).
Mendix has selected the organizations for its MxHacks challenge based on a series of criteria, including mission and vision and the role that low-code technology plays in supporting the organization's future growth. By selecting real-life use cases from nonprofit organizations for the hackathon, Mendix aims to create a platform and community that is accessible for everyone. The hackathon is a means through which Mendix tries to help the most vulnerable people in the world access education, integrate in a new country, and provide them with shelter and a chance to rebuild their lives. This supports Mendix's core values of empowering a wide range of citizen developers regardless of background to innovate through low-code.
New Hope Community Services (New Hope CS) is a growing organization committed to meeting the needs of Singapore's rough sleepers and homeless community. Their core services focus on providing shelter as well as mentoring and employment support for the displaced and disadvantaged. New Hope CS currently runs four shelters across Singapore that serve individuals, families, and male ex-offenders, and recently began managing 50 flats under the new HDB Joint Singles Scheme (Operator Run) Project.
"At New Hope CS, we strongly believe that everyone should have access to four fundamental needs: shelter, food, health, and clothes. As our society in Singapore evolves, it's more vital than ever that we support the homeless community. We believe this requires a series of programs that not only help people find a place to stay when they need it most, but also find a way to reintegrate into society so they can build a positive future for themselves. We are looking forward to working with Mendix and the low-code community during MxHacks to create new services that will support our mission to restore hope to those we serve," said Pastor Andrew Khoo, CEO and founder of New Hope CS.
Project Alianza aims to bridge the learning gap for rural school-age children in Central America by leveraging technology and existing community networks. The organization aims to support disenfranchised communities and women and empower them to take control of their education so they can reach their full potential.
"Our primary focus is to improve literacy and health behaviors through an offline and online system that promotes healthy hygiene practices and aids the learning and educational process for everyone," said Kristin Van Busum, CEO and founder at Project Alianza. "We aim to positively impact others' lives by providing value-added education: learning opportunities and connectivity to people in rural areas who have limited access to the internet and resources. We believe that tech is critical in leveling the playing field for people living in the most rural parts of Central America. Working with Mendix and its low-code community of developers will help us make education more accessible for children who need it the most."
The Welcome App offers a one-stop shop for people who are rebuilding their lives in a new country. By linking newcomers with service providers, companies, municipalities, and local individuals, it facilitates social integration in a scalable way. This app allows newcomers to create a social network, learn the local language, and find work and leisure activities to recreate a life similar to the one they had before. Designed for refugees and asylum seekers, the platform aims to simplify integration into a new society to help people feel at home wherever they are.
Julius Weise, founder and director at Welcome App, said, "In recent years, we have learned a lot about the challenges people face in building a new life and sustainable integration into a new society. So we want to facilitate meaningful connections by offering an accessible overview of organizations, networks, information, online and offline activities, a helpdesk where newcomers can ask questions, and a chat function that encourages 1:1 contact between newcomers and local people. By working with Mendix and the low-code community, we are confident we will be able to improve the quality of our services and extend the range of services we offer to newcomers in the Netherlands and other places in Europe so they can all feel welcome."
"We have been humbled by the organizations who contacted us to participate in MxHacks," says Mendix CEO Tim Srock. "We always knew that low-code could be a force for good, and working with organizations who are having such a positive impact as New Hope Community Services, Project Alianza, and the Welcome App is a great opportunity for Mendix and the low-code community to make a positive impact for those who need the most support. The starting point of our Low-Code For Good program, MxHacks, is an excellent opportunity for developers to share their passion for creating, learning, and showcasing how low-code can help everyone use technology to improve their lives."
In addition to the challenges that developers will be asked to solve for New Hope Community Services, Project Alianza, and the Welcome App, attendees to MxHacks will be able to meet like-minded individuals across the globe and grow their networks by joining workshops hosted by experts, attending training, and working with the many coaches patrolling the hackathon. Attendees will also have access to career opportunities at meet-and-greet sessions with companies looking to hire developers and expand their teams.
Admission to MxHacks is free and can include teams of up to four people. Solo developers can participate independently or join a matchmaking session to team up before the event. Hybrid teams are also eligible, with some members going on-site while others call in remotely.
Mendix boasts a community of 250,000 low-code developers, who use its platform to create solutions to complex problems. Developer-led apps include a compliance claims tracker through to an ESG app platform, AI smart banking or modeling everywhere.
Developers can register for the hackathon on the MxHacks page and are encouraged to join the Mendix Community Slack and watch the #announcements and #mxhacks-general channels.
For more information about the hackathon, please visit MxHacks 2022.
In a digital-first world, customers want their every need anticipated, employees want better tools to do their jobs, and enterprises know that sweeping digital transformation is the key to survival and success. Mendix, a Siemens business, is quickly becoming the engine of the enterprise digital landscape. Its industry-leading low-code platform and comprehensive ecosystem integrates the most advanced technology to support solutions that boost engagement, streamline operations, and relieve IT logjams. Built on the pillars of abstraction, automation, cloud, and collaboration, Mendix dramatically increases developer productivity and empowers a legion of not-so-technical, 'citizen' developers to create apps guided by their particular domain expertise, facilitated by Mendix's engineered-in collaborative capabilities and intuitive visual interface. Recognized as a leader and visionary by leading industry analysts, the platform is cloud-native, open, extensible, agile, and proven. From artificial intelligence and augmented reality to intelligent automation and native mobile, Mendix is the backbone of digital-first enterprises. The Mendix enterprise low-code platform has been adopted by more than 4,000 leading companies in 46 countries.
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2022-09-07T14:44:49+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/07/mendix-selects-three-nonprofits-its-upcoming-global-low-code-good-hackathon/
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ATLANTA, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta-based Revenue Analytics™ announces a new strategic relationship with global hotel company IHG Hotels & Resorts. As part of the agreement, Revenue Analytics will seek to further innovate its state-of-the-art N2Pricing™ software to potentially enhance IHG's overall revenue management capabilities.
N2Pricing is revolutionizing Revenue Management Systems (RMS) and creating efficiencies and automation for hotels to manage their pricing and drive revenue to their property or portfolio of properties through advanced price optimization, dynamic room type pricing capabilities and focus on revenue optimization.
Dax Cross, CEO of Revenue Analytics, said, "I am extremely excited about this next chapter of our long relationship with IHG. We have a history of innovating together, and it was clear to IHG that N2Pricing offers unique capabilities that other RMS options cannot provide. I'm confident that by leveraging our capabilities, IHG will see how we can help reduce the workload on revenue managers, enable greater automation across their portfolios of hotels and drive revenue for owners."
Dennis Corrigan, Senior Vice President, Commercial Services, IHG Hotels & Resorts, commented, "At IHG, we are always focused on improving owner returns, which starts with providing better tools to more easily make pricing decisions for their properties. This collaboration takes our established relationship with Revenue Analytics to the next level as we look to drive the best results for our owners and guests."
For more information on N2Pricing, visit RevenueAnalytics.com.
About Revenue Analytics
Revenue Analytics invented yield management in 1984. Today, they're the brains behind N2Pricing™ – the first modern Revenue Management System for the hospitality industry. N2Pricing simplifies and automates revenue management, giving revenue managers 50 hours back each month for high-impact work, so hoteliers can stop losing profit and start tapping their people's full potential.
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IHG Hotels & Resorts [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good.
With a family of 18 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes, IHG has over 6,000 open hotels in over 100 countries, and more than 1,800 in the development pipeline.
- Luxury & Lifestyle: Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, Regent Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Vignette Collection, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Hotel Indigo
- Premium: voco hotels, HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, EVEN Hotels
- Essentials: Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, avid hotels
- Suites: Atwell Suites, Staybridge Suites, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Candlewood Suites
- Exclusive Partners: Iberostar Beachfront Resorts
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated and registered in England and Wales. Approximately 325,000 people work across IHG's hotels and corporate offices globally.
Visit us online for more about our hotels and reservations and IHG One Rewards. To download the new IHG One Rewards app, visit the Apple App or Google Play stores.
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2023-03-01T15:31:36+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/03/01/revenue-analytics-announces-strategic-relationship-with-ihg-hotels-amp-resorts-it-selects-n2pricing/
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"Alarm bells are going off" as area hospitals are dealing with a surge of patients related to RSV, a Tulsa pediatrician says, adding parents of infants need to take extra precautions.
Respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus is especially dangerous for children 6 months old and younger, Saint Francis pediatrician Travis Campbell said, with symptoms often scary enough for hospital visits.
About half of the pediatric beds at Children's Hospital at Saint Francis are RSV-related, he said Wednesday. Babies younger than 6 months who get RSV are seven times more likely to need hospital care, according to Campbell.
"Pediatric beds are filling up, and it's getting difficult to get kids in to get the inpatient treatment they need, so that's why the alarm bells are going off related to this viral spike of RSV," he said. "October's not a common month to have this large a volume of RSV."
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Hospitals formerly prepared for RSV surges in winter, pediatrician Donna Tyungu said Tuesday in a Healthier Oklahoma Coalition update on COVID-19. She said attempts at "universal masking" in the earlier months of the pandemic resulted in "no RSV, basically" in 2020. Then, when people started feeling more safe the next summer, masks came off, allowing RSV to make a resurgence.
"We know most children might get exposed from an asymptomatic adult and then become symptomatic and move the virus to their peers," Tyungu said. "We were getting very, very sick children who were older (than 2) ... and the thought was they just had not developed any immunity whatsoever to RSV."
Campbell said it's impossible to come up with a concrete answer as to why RSV is surging again now, but the seasonality isn't the main concern.
"The message is, those 6 months and younger, try to protect them as much as you can from siblings, other people in their day care, school that might have a runny nose or a simple cough," he said. "That might manifest as respiratory distress (in infants)."
For most healthy people, RSV is not unlike getting the common cold, Campbell said, but the problem for infants is compounded by their little bodies. Their tiny muscles lack the ability to clear their lungs and sinuses of all the mucus RSV produces, Tyungu said.
Campbell offered guidance for parents on the differences between COVID-19, RSV and influenza, as they present in the youngest patients. Pediatric patients needing hospital care for gastrointestinal symptoms such as dehydration are more likely to be COVID-positive, he said, while respiratory concerns equates to RSV. Flu symptoms, at least in previous seasons, include 102-plus degree fever, decreased appetite and malaise.
Parents of children 6 months or younger worried about RSV can count breaths: 60 times per minute or more indicates medical attention is needed, Campbell said. Respiratory distress might also look like the baby using belly muscles to breathe.
"Some of those things can be mitigated by suction, so clearing the nose airway can help tremendously to relieve distress," he said of treating RSV at home.
Many people don't realize RSV affects all ages, said Dr. Dale Bratzler of OU Health, and most adults have had it multiple times. Because most adults who become infected remain asymptomatic, the risk is great of unwittingly passing RSV to a child.
"Something like 170,000 adults get hospitalized every year with RSV — primarily the elderly, primarily those with underlying medical conditions," Bratzler said. "But it can cause pneumonia in older adults just as it can cause problems for young children."
Most hospital and ER visits due to RSV are in pediatric patients, according to My Health Data Network CEO Dr. David Kendrick, with the recent spike starting in late August-early September.
"Right now, it's kind of blowing the socks off the system," Healthier Oklahoma Coalition leader Dr. Jean Hausheer said.
Video: Health leaders worry as RSV is "blowing the socks off the system" in Oklahoma.
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2022-10-28T23:26:16+00:00
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tulsaworld.com
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https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/rsv-surge-slams-hospitals-the-alarm-bells-are-going-off-tulsa-pediatrician-says/article_6a6e5fda-5602-11ed-8d4d-d7af1e6c2fb1.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will send another $400 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including four more advanced rocket systems, a senior defense official said Friday, in an effort to bolster Ukrainian efforts to strike deeper behind Russian frontlines in the eastern Donbas region.
The aid comes as Moscow this week claimed full control of Ukraine's Luhansk province in the Donbas, but Ukrainian officials say their troops still control a small part of the province and fierce fighting continues in several villages.
The defense official said that the eight High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, that were previously sent are still being used by Ukraine forces in the fight. And this will give them four more to help hit Russian command and control nodes, logistics capabilities and other systems that are further back behind the battlefront. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet made public.
Russia in recent days has launched dozens of missiles across Ukraine and pinned down Ukrainian forces with continuous long-range fire for sometimes hours at a time. Ukraine’s leaders have publicly called on Western allies to quickly send more ammunition and advanced systems that will help them narrow the gap in equipment and manpower. The precision weapons can help Ukraine hit Russian weapons that are farther away and are being used to bombard Ukrainian locations.
The latest aid is the 15th package of military weapons and equipment transferred to Ukraine from Defense Department stocks since last August. In addition to the HIMARS, the U.S. will also send 1,000 rounds of 155 millimeter artillery which has an increased precision capability that also will help Ukraine hit specific targets. The package also will include three tactical vehicles, counter battery radar systems, spare parts and other equipment.
Looking ahead to the coming months, the official said that a key goal is to build up Ukraine's logistics and repair capabilities so troops can maintain its weapons systems and continue the fight into the future.
Overall, the U.S. has sent about $7.3 billion in aid to Ukraine since the war began in late February.
Luhansk is one of two provinces that make up the Donbas, a region of mines and factories where pro-Moscow separatists have fought Ukraine’s army for eight years and declared independent republics that Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized before he sent troops into Ukraine.
Putin on Thursday warned that Kyiv should accept Moscow’s terms or brace for the worst, saying that Russia hasn't yet “started anything in earnest.”
U.S. and other western officials have said that Russia has been making slow, incremental progress in the Donbas but has not made gains as rapidly as Moscow initially intended. President Joe Biden has said that the U.S. is giving Ukrainians the aid needed to continue to resist Russian aggression.
"I don’t know how it’s going to end, but it will not end with a Russian defeat of Ukraine in Ukraine,” Biden said last week.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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2022-07-08T17:49:37+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/us-sending-400-million-in-military-aid-to-ukraine/CSQLDJGAGFEPPFTPIVPJRYTMJQ/
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Company Aims to Increase Early Detection of Breast Cancer by Empowering Women to Take Control of Their Health
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gabbi, the risk assessment and care navigation company, today announced it has raised a round of $4.4 million to help tackle its mission of ensuring breast cancer is detected at the earliest possible stages when it is a treatable, survivable disease. Bread and Butter Ventures led the round which also saw participation from Female Founders Fund, WR Hambrecht, Phoenix Rising, Claridge Ventures Advisors VC, Coyote Ventures, Gaingels and prominent angels including, David Kidder, Sarah Jones Simmer and Naseem Sayani also invested.
"Just as streaming platforms have paired user specific behaviors, hyper personalization, and a vast library of media content (data) to deliver a 100% unique user by user experience, Gabbi is, for the first time in the healthcare space, pairing individual women's input with vast amounts of clinical data and tested medical standards to deliver more accurate risk profiles for women of all ages and races in the comfort and intimacy of their own home." said Kaitlin Christine, founder and CEO of Gabbi. "I know firsthand the difference of a timely diagnosis–when caught early, the five-year survival rate is 99%! Everyone should have the tools that allow them to understand their risk and get access to the appropriate care."
Christine lost her mother to breast cancer a decade ago after a delayed diagnosis. She was then diagnosed with cancer herself during a preventative mastectomy. She was only 24 years old. Since then, Christine has dedicated her career to trying to change the paradigm around delayed diagnosis.
Gabbi is a revolutionary risk assessment and care navigation solution, delivering immediate, accurate results for women of all ages and all ethnicities. For the first time, women can understand their risks and be armed with recommendations that enable proactive action. Gabbi provides a comprehensive solution that includes risk assessment results, personalized ongoing care plans, and a care concierge.
The five year survival rate for a late diagnosis is 31%. Christine and Gabbi look to change this reality by utilizing data in a new way. They've created the GRAM (or Gabbi Risk Assessment Model), a proprietary machine learning risk model that takes into account four different categories of data, and is built off of one of the largest and most diverse claim sets in the world.
"We are thrilled to back Kaitlin and the Gabbi team in their critical mission," said Mary Grove, General Partner at Bread and Butter Ventures. "Their unique approach of leveraging data to predict risk and ultimately empower women to have more ownership of their health outcomes is transformative. Gabbi's laser focus on women age 21-49 who are historically not included in these screenings changes the access game for all." Christine shared that Grove and every single investor on Gabbi's cap table has a deep connection to the mission of Gabbi–whether they are cancer survivors themselves, have lost a loved one to cancer, or have a loved one currently battling. Everyone supporting Gabbi deeply understands the problem they are solving.
Gabbi will launch at the beginning of 2023 via employers who will provide Gabbi as a benefit to their employees. This new funding will go towards funding team growth and product development.
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Stephanie Rich
stephanie@breadandbutterventures.com
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2022-10-27T15:51:37+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/10/27/gabbi-raises-44-million-bring-breast-cancer-early-detection-support-directly-women/
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About one-third of Republicans indicated approval of former President Trump’s recent dinner with rapper Ye and “his associates,” but disapproval shot up when asked specifically about white supremacist Nick Fuentes’s presence, according to a new YouGov-Yahoo poll.
The poll found 36 percent of Republicans approved of the dinner when it was framed as hosting Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Ye’s “associates,” but that figure fell below 20 percent when the dinner was framed as Trump dining with Fuentes.
Trump has garnered bipartisan criticism for the Thanksgiving week dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, which came days after the former president formally entered the 2024 race and after Ye made a series of antisemitic comments that caused him to lose multiple brand partnerships.
The former president has claimed he didn’t know Fuentes, an avowed white supremacist and Holocaust denier, and later indicated he “had no idea” about Fuentes’s views, although Trump did not condemn him.
But a plurality of all Americans indicated disapproval of the dinner no matter how it was framed.
When asked about Trump dining with Ye and his associates, the poll found 41 percent of respondents disapproved of the dinner, compared to 23 percent who approved and 36 percent who weren’t sure.
Among Republicans, 28 percent voiced disapproval, trailing the 36 percent who approved. Thirty seven percent of Republicans weren’t sure.
The pollster also asked respondents if they approved of Trump dining with Fuentes specifically, but the question came in two versions.
In one version, where the pollster primed the question by noting Fuentes’s past comments suggesting the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was “awesome” and that “this is going to get a lot uglier” for Jews, 15 percent of respondents voiced approval for the dinner and 56 percent voiced disapproval.
Among Republicans, 18 percent approved with that framing while 53 percent disapproved. Twenty nine percent weren’t sure.
When Fuentes was named but his background was not explicitly mentioned, only 27 percent of Republicans disapproved of the dinner. Nineteen percent approved, and a majority — 54 percent — weren’t sure.
But the poll also suggested the dinner may not significantly dent the former president’s support for the 2024 primary.
Sixty-nine percent of Republicans in the poll said the dinner does not change their opinion of Trump.
The poll was conducted from Dec. 1 to Dec. 5 among 1,635 U.S. adults. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
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2022-12-07T18:10:08+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/hill-politics/republicans-divided-over-trump-hosting-ye-associates-at-mar-a-lago-survey/
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Superior reminds residents to keep pathways accessible.
Under Superior Municipal Code, the storage of landscaping or construction equipment is prohibited from being stored in any way that obstructs public property, streets or sidewalks without a permit.
Instead, residents can store dumpsters on privately owned driveways, remove public restrooms from public property and keep landscaping off roadways and out of stormwater runoff paths.
For more information, visit www.superiorcolorado.gov.
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2023-06-13T23:50:03+00:00
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dailycamera.com
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https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/06/13/superior-residents-reminded-to-keep-pathways-clear/
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During last week’s CNN town hall, the audience laughed and applauded as Donald Trump mocked E. Jean Carroll as a “wack job.” This happened the day after a federal jury found the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil trial that arose from allegations he raped Carroll some 30 years ago.
Trump’s cruelty, not to mention his absolute moral corruption, is well-documented. Going back to his observation that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing a vote — so is the willingness of his supporters to embrace it. Still, no matter what you think of Carroll’s accusation, the deplorable chortling at her expense made me think about the little voice in our head that tells us the difference between right and wrong. With this crowd, that voice died a long time ago.
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Social science has a term for it. It’s called “motivated reasoning,” said Liane Young, director at the Morality Lab at Boston College, where a team of researchers study the subject of morality and society’s reaction to it. People believe in right and wrong, said Young. But they are also motivated to protect favorable impressions “of those on our side, on our team,” Young told me. Trump supporters practice it to an extreme, but motivated reasoning drives all of us, Young said.
One research paper, titled “The Psychology of Motivated versus Rational Impression Updating,” shows how such thinking works in a non-political setting: Imagine you observe someone take money from a tip jar. If a trustworthy friend were doing this, you might generate an auxiliary hypothesis about her innocent intent. For example, she was trying to make change for a dollar. You are giving her the benefit of the doubt, because you have stronger beliefs about her trustworthiness. By contrast, if a stranger performed the same action, you might be less likely to make such a situational attribution, as you have weaker, less certain prior beliefs about her trustworthiness.
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It’s human nature to want to believe the best about people you know and support. For example, said Young, “If my most conscientious grad student skips an important meeting, I don’t immediately change my mind about her. Instead, I consider the alternative possibility that an emergency came up.” While that analysis makes sense up to a point, the challenge, she said, is “to figure out when belief maintenance is motivated and biased versus rational.” Trump supporters, said Young, “want to keep supporting Trump, so they come up with all sorts of justifications. They can discount the credibility of his accusers, they can blame them, then try to explain away the story.” They can also cruelly laugh at an accuser they never wanted to believe.
When the subject is sexual assault, research shows that ideology also plays into perceptions about right and wrong. “Values that conservative-leaning participants tend to endorse more so than liberals, such as loyalty, authority, and purity, are associated with thinking [that] victims are more causally responsible and more morally blameworthy for what happens to them, including in the case of rape,” said Young. That may explain the reaction of Trump supporters to accusers like Carroll. But it doesn’t explain why Democrats defended Bill Clinton from similar accusations during and after his presidency.
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In politics, we are all guilty of “motivated reasoning,” aren’t we? Democrats can get outraged over the hundreds of millions paid by Persian Gulf countries to the firm owned by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. Meanwhile, the recent disclosure of financial documents that show that some of President Biden’s relatives — including his son, Hunter — were paid more than $10 million from foreign countries between 2015 and 2017 gets the “is-that-all-there-is” treatment. It’s not as much as Kushner’s windfall, and anyway, presidential relatives have long made money off of their family ties — or so the motivated reasoning goes. While there could be common moral ground over the idea that influence peddling is wrong no matter who’s doing it, each side will ignore or discount information that makes their side look bad.
This is where people will start arguing about false equivalencies and point out that Trump is in a morals-free zone of his own. He is, and he has yet to cross the line that makes him unacceptable to his core supporters, so much so that his mocking of Carroll at the CNN town hall barely registers on the scale of moral outrage. Spurred by motivated reasoning, his loyalists are sticking with him.
But now, how much does their motivated reasoning influence the rest of us to do the same? To rationalize, to look the other way, like Trump supporters do, to protect someone who best reflects their political interests, no matter what their moral failings?
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Every time we break faith with the voice in our head that tells us the difference between right and wrong, it’s just another sign that Trump has lowered the bar for everyone.
Joan Vennochi is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at joan.vennochi@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @joan_vennochi.
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2023-05-15T17:52:31+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/15/opinion/trump-supporters-know-right-from-wrong/
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Though drenched in deep melancholy, Lamar's new album avoids superstar-level self-pity. Instead, the hip-hop artist summons up specific memories and works through his issues with uncommon grace.
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Though drenched in deep melancholy, Lamar's new album avoids superstar-level self-pity. Instead, the hip-hop artist summons up specific memories and works through his issues with uncommon grace.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air
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2022-05-31T18:55:38+00:00
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nprillinois.org
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-05-31/kendrick-lamar-looks-inward-on-mr-morale-the-big-steppers
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Senate waded into the culture wars Friday by passing bills to make Minnesota a refuge for youth seeking gender-affirming care, out-of-state abortion patients and providers seeking protection, and to ban so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth.
All three bills passed the Democratic-controlled House earlier this session. While Democrats hold just a one-seat majority in the Senate, bill sponsors were confident heading into the emotional debate. First up was the conversion therapy ban, which passed 36-27 with two Republicans voting “yes.” The abortion refuge bill passed 34-29 on a party-line vote, and the trans refuge bill won similar approval 34-30.
The conversion therapy ban and trans refuge bills now go straight to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz for his signature. Meanwhile, the bill expanding abortion rights was headed back to the House for its agreement with adding pharmacists to the list of shielded medical providers.
“The through-thread in all of these, of course, is people should be free," Democratic Sen. Scott Dibble, of Minneapolis, author of the conversion therapy ban, said at a news conference ahead of the debate.
“People should have the liberties that are guaranteed in our constitution," Dibble said. "People should have the right to self-determination, and in Minnesota, people should be free from the laws of other states that would impact and negatively affect all of those basic American rights and freedoms.”
Democratic Sen. Kelly Morrison, of Deephaven, the author of the abortion bill, said the three pieces of legislation collectively “say to Minnesotans that you are safe here in Minnesota, and to people who are forced to flee their home states because they are not safe there, we say, ‘Welcome and you are safe here in Minnesota.’”
Walz has already signed an executive order to protect young people and their families who come to Minnesota for health care from states where it's illegal to seek gender-affirming care. But the bill will etch those protections into law. Similarly, the conversion therapy ban builds on another Walz executive order.
The abortion bill is designed to protect people who come to Minnesota for abortions from legal repercussions in states where abortion is banned or sharply restricted, such as lawsuits, subpoenas and extradition. Minnesota courts would be prohibited from enforcing out-of-state subpoenas for medical records or judgements against patients or providers.
Opponents of the conversion therapy ban argued that it would impinge on religious freedom and the ability of families to seek counseling for children who they say need help sorting out their sexual identities.
GOP Sen. Paul Utke, of Park Rapids, argued against the abortion bill, saying Minnesota should not protect doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who have intentionally violated the abortion laws of other states.
“We need to uphold and honor the rules and laws of our neighboring states, and states across the country,” Utke said during the debate.
The author of the trans refuge bill, Democratic Sen. Erin Maye Quade, of Apple Valley, filed an ethics complaint this week against Republican Sen. Glenn Gruenhagen, of Glencoe, over a link to a video that he emailed to Democratic senators, with a note saying it documented “mutilating transgender surgeries on minor children. Extremely graphic and disturbing.”
Maye Quade said at the news conference that it would be “wildly inappropriate” for senators to send videos of genitalia to their colleagues. She said she wanted “to draw a very bright line in the sand of what is and is not appropriate behavior and conduct. ... This crossed the line.”
Experts testified as the bill went through committee hearings that gender-confirmation surgery is very rare for minors, and that gender-affirming care for them normally ranges from changes in dress and hairstyles to counseling and hormone therapy.
Gruenhagen clarified that what he shared was actually a video created by doctors at the University of Louisville Medical School as a tutorial for gynecologists to familiarize them with gender transition surgery. The introduction to the video does not disclose the age of the patient.
“I’m disappointed that Sen. Maye Quade choose to take this matter public before ... approaching me with her concerns," Gruenhagen said in a statement, in which he claimed the complaint was without merit. “I’m sure we could have found some resolution as colleagues.”
Maye Quade told reporters that senators can maintain strong opinions without sharing such imagery. She was backed up by Democratic Rep. Leigh Finke, of St. Paul, the first trans person elected to the Minnesota Legislature.
“Trans people are not mutilated. Trans people are whole,” Finke said. “We are wholly ourselves. ... They are obsessed with our bodies and genitalia in a way that is absolutely horrific.”
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2023-04-21T23:05:42+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2023/04/21/minn-senate-protects-gender-affirming-care-abortion-rights/
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The CSI Foundation: Helping students, and programs, thrive
Any donation made to the CSI Foundation is tax-deductible.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The College of Southern Idaho has always been known for the many community events and fundraisers they put on, not only in Twin Falls… but across the Magic Valley.
Yesterdays CSI Turkey Trot is a perfect example of what type of event the college offers.
But behind all the fun and games is a non-profit foundation with the simple goal of elevating the lives of the students that attend class at the college.
The CSI Foundation was formed to help financially support current students and programs on campus.
For the Turkey Trot, it was the CSI Presidential Leaders that will be the beneficiaries of most of the money raised.
“That’s a big part of what we do on campus, is we work with different groups, programs, departments… if a group wants to put on a fundraiser, were able to assist them with that,” said Karrie Van Noy from the CSI Foundation.
But it’s not just specific programs the foundation supports.
Students are another aspect that the foundation works tirelessly to support.
“We have a lot of first-generation students, we have commuter students, non-traditional students… students that are single parents. So, every little bit helps, it can change futures and improve our community,” said Van Noy.
Any donation made to the CSI Foundation is tax-deductible.
If you would like to learn more about the foundation, and how you can help support them, click here.
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2022-11-26T00:00:54+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/2022/11/25/csi-foundation-helping-students-programs-thrive/
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LONDON, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE: IGT) today announced the posting of its Notice of the 2023 Annual General Meeting ("AGM"), accompanying proxy for the meeting, and the 2022 Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended December 31, 2022 to shareholders. The AGM will be held at IGT's registered office, 3rd Floor, 10 Finsbury Square, London, England, EC2A 1AF, on May 9, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. British Summer Time (BST).
The Notice of the 2023 AGM and the 2022 Annual Report and Accounts are available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.IGT.com, along with IGT's 2022 Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2022. These materials can be viewed online and are also available for download in PDF format.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 jurisdictions around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.igt.com.
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2023-03-30T11:20:38+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/03/30/notice-2023-annual-general-meeting-2022-annual-report-accounts/
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican hopes to reclaim a crucial governor’s seat in swing-state Wisconsin this year long appeared to rest on Rebecca Kleefisch, a former TV news anchor who spent eight years as former Gov. Scott Walker’s heir apparent and vowed to continue his sharply conservative policies. Then a wealthy construction company owner jumped in, dumped $12 million of his own money into the race and won Donald Trump’s backing.
Now Tim Michels is in a competitive race against Kleefisch heading into Tuesday’s primary to decide who will face Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November.
The contest is part of a deepening proxy fight between Trump and his estranged former vice president, Mike Pence, who has thrown his support to Kleefisch. And it could ultimately have implications for 2024, when Trump has dangled the possibility of another White House bid and has shown his willingness to pressure elected officials, including those in Wisconsin, to overturn election results.
Michels has focused on shaping an outsider candidacy — bolstered by the Trump endorsement — while Kleefisch has embraced her establishment support as evidence that she’s a more reliable GOP choice.
Kleefisch and Michels have both questioned President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in Wisconsin in 2020 — an outcome that has withstood recounts, lawsuits and reviews — but neither has taken up Trump’s pressure campaign to have those results decertified.
Kleefisch has called the 2020 election “rigged” but said she won’t consider decertification because “it’s not constitutionally possible.” Michels initially called decertifying Biden’s 2020 win in Wisconsin “not a priority” and then later said “everything will be on the table.”
Both Michels and Kleefisch want to do away with the current bipartisan commission that runs elections in the state.
A third Republican candidate for governor, state Rep. Tim Ramthun, has repeatedly called for decertification and made it the centerpiece of his longshot campaign.
Biden’s win in Wisconsin has withstood two partial recounts, numerous lawsuits, a nonpartisan audit and a review by a conservative law firm. Republican legislative leaders have repeatedly said decertification is impossible.
Kleefisch has racked up support not only from Pence, but also her former boss Walker, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, GOP leaders of the Legislature, 56 lawmakers, the state chamber of commerce, the Tavern League and a majority of the state’s county sheriffs.
“I am the one who is tested and proven and ready to go,” Kleefisch said after Pence touted her at a stop in suburban Milwaukee on Wednesday. “I am the one who has won statewide four times.”
Michels claims that he is “not a politician,” but he’s been a power player largely behind the scenes for decades and previously ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, losing to then-Sen. Russ Feingold. He’s been a regular donor to Republicans, including both Walker and Kleefisch.
“People want an outsider, people want a veteran, people want a businessman,” Michels said in a candidate debate.
Wisconsin is the third state where Pence and Trump have been on opposite sides in governor’s races that highlighted deep divisions about the GOP’s future. In Georgia, Pence-backed Gov. Brian Kemp thumped Trump’s choice, former Sen. David Perdue, by more than 50 percentage points. In Arizona’s governor primary, Trump-backed former TV news anchor Kari Lake and Pence-backed businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson were in a race that was too early to call on Thursday.
The territory that drew Pence and Kleefisch on Wednesday is the heart of Republican Wisconsin and home to the key suburban Milwaukee voters who will likely decide the fall election. It’s also Kleefisch’s home turf. Trump, whose support in the area declined from 2016 to 2020, planned his Friday rally for Michels just three miles from where Pence came for Kleefisch.
“There is no candidate for governor in America who is more capable, more experienced, or a more proven conservative than Rebecca Kleefisch,” Pence said in touting Kleefisch without mentioning Trump or Michels.
Kleefisch is a former Milwaukee television news anchor and teenage beauty pageant contestant who got into politics in 2010 and won a five-way primary for lieutenant governor. After Evers beat Walker in 2018, Kleefisch started laying the groundwork for her own run.
She has reminded Republicans about the fights she went through with Walker, when his proposal effectively ending collective bargaining led to massive protests in 2011 and eventually a failed attempt to recall both him and Kleefisch from office. This cycle, she has focused on issues like instituting a flat income tax, expanding school choice programs and investing more in law enforcement.
Michels co-owns the state’s largest construction company, Michels Corp., along with his brothers, and has spent nearly $1 million a week of his own money since getting into the race. Though he uses the Trump endorsement as evidence of his outsider status, he’s also backed by Wisconsin’s ultimate Republican political insider — four-term former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who briefly flirted with his own run.
Michels has stumbled at times.
He flip-flopped this week when asked whether he would back a Trump run in 2024, first refusing to say, then 24 hours later saying he would back Trump for president. At an earlier debate, he didn’t appear to know what DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a highly contentious immigration program — stood for. And he’s faced criticism for purchasing $30 million in properties in New York and Connecticut between 2015 and 2020 and splitting time between Wisconsin and the East Coast, where his children attended and graduated from high school.
Michels’ positions on the boards of various transportation-related industry groups have caused him some heartburn, with Kleefisch seeking to tie him to those groups’ past support for raising the state gas tax. Michels says he opposes an increase.
He is also running ads taking a strong anti-immigrant position, even though he headed the board of directors of a transportation group that opposed an anti-immigrant bill that would have prevented companies that employ “illegal aliens” from getting state contracts.
While the Republicans battle, Evers has raised more than $11 million this year and is casting himself as the only block against Republicans who want to overhaul elections for the 2024 presidential campaign and keep in place an 1849 state law banning abortions. Both Kleefisch and Michels support the ban and the law, which is being challenged in court by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul.
“I have a good record,” Evers said, highlighting the state’s 2.8% unemployment rate, increased funding for public schools, expanded rural broadband access, emphasis on repairing roads and a 15% cut in income taxes. “Let them bring it on.”
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2022-08-05T19:56:16+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-ally-takes-on-walker-protege-in-wis-governors-race/
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Groups that wish to beautify their Indianapolis neighborhoods can now apply for funding through the city’s Neighborhood Grant Program.
The program was announced Monday by Mayor Joe Hogsett, the Indianapolis City-County Council, and the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center.
“No one knows a neighborhood better than its neighbors. The Neighborhood Grant Program will capitalize on that knowledge and improve quality of life for residents across Indianapolis,” Hogsett said.
The grant program has $500,000 available. The funding is being provided through the American Rescue Plan Act.
Neighborhood groups can apply now through June 6 for grants of up to $100,000.
The program is open to Registered Neighborhood Organizations within Marion County and located within a Qualified Census Tract and/or within a ZIP Code that was negatively impacted by COVID-19.
Examples of eligible projects include:
- Community gathering areas
- Community gardens
- Neighborhood clean-ups
- Neighborhood (gateway) signs
- Murals or public art installations
A second round of grant funding will open for applications in October.
For more information, visit the INRC website.
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2022-05-02T17:04:27+00:00
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wishtv.com
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https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/mayor-hogsett-announces-indianapolis-neighborhood-grant-program/
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal circuit court has reinstated a ban on lobster fishing gear in a nearly 1,000-square-mile area off New England to try to protect endangered whales.
The National Marine Fisheries Service issued new regulations last year that prohibited lobster fishing with vertical buoy lines in part of the fall and winter in the area, which is in federal waters off Maine's coast. The ruling was intended to prevent North Atlantic right whales, which number less than 340, from becoming entangled in the lines.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maine issued a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of the rules. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston vacated that ruling Tuesday.
The circuit court sent the case back to the district court level, but noted in its ruling that it does not think the lobster fishing groups that sued to stop the regulations are likely to succeed because Congress has clearly instructed the fisheries service to protect the whales.
“Although this does not mean the balance will always come out on the side of an endangered marine mammal, it does leave plaintiffs beating against the tide, with no more success than they had before,” the court ruled.
The ruling was the second by a federal court in favor of right whale protection in the past week. A U.S. District judge ruled last week that the federal government hasn’t done enough to protect the whales from entanglement in lobster fishing gear, which can be lethal, and new rules are needed to protect the species from extinction.
The whales feed off New England and Canada and migrate to waters off Georgia and Florida to give birth. They were decimated during the commercial whaling era and are vulnerable to entanglement in gear and collisions with ships.
Commercial fishing groups have filed lawsuits about new rules designed to protect the whales because of concerns that the regulations will make it impossible to sustain the lobster fishing industry. The industry, based mostly in Maine, is one of the most valuable in the U.S., worth more than $500 million at the docks in 2020, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Conservation groups have called for tighter laws. Tuesday's ruling is “a lifesaving decision for these beautiful, vulnerable whales,” said Kristen Monsell, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity who argued the case at the circuit court.
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2022-07-13T17:18:17+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Court-reinstates-ban-on-lobster-gear-to-protect-17302140.php
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LONDON (AP) — Being there is better.
I didn’t see much of the coronation of King Charles III and neither did many of the 2,300 or so other guests inside Westminster Abbey. We were too far away, or were seated behind the choir, or had our view blocked by a guardsman in a plumed helmet. But we heard it — and felt it — in a way that just wasn’t possible for those watching on television.
It was in the moment the choir, organ and orchestra blasted out “Zadok the Priest,” Handel’s coronation anthem, so boldly that it startled me even though I knew it was coming. It was in the gusto with which the congregation shouted “God save the king!” after Charles was crowned. And it was in the joyous fanfare blown by trumpeters in the balcony where just a few months ago a lone bagpiper bid farewell to Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
This was a moment of celebration for Charles and his supporters, a stark contrast to the day in September when the nation mourned the death of a queen who had reigned for 70 years.
But there was also a sense of the torch being passed in the place where the kings and queens of England have been crowned for 1,000 years. The chance to be part of that history made it special to be inside the abbey, said Barbara Swinn, a librarian from York who was invited because she was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to her community.
“I also got emotional when they did ‘Zadok the Priest,’ and I suppose it’s because it was reminiscent of Elizabeth II,” she said. “Whenever they talked about her coronation, they played that, and I just thought there was that sense of continuity. It just sort of gave me goosebumps.”
I didn’t earn my place in the abbey through community service. I’m just a reporter who occasionally gets the chance to witness history.
But my own goosebumps began the moment I walked in and was herded to my “vision obstructed” seat more than three hours before the service began.
The church was awash with flowers, and it smelled like a garden after a soft spring rain. The space above the high altar looked like a wildflower meadow.
Everywhere there were reminders of the medieval roots of this ceremony, alongside Charles’ efforts to make it more reflective of modern Britain.
Lords and ladies in ceremonial robes, judges in their wigs and soldiers with medals pinned to red tunics filed in alongside women wearing hats in spring shades and men in suits and kilts.
As the trumpeters’ fanfare rang out from the balcony, we knew the king and queen were arriving. But I wouldn’t have seen them if I hadn’t glanced at the giant TV screen mounted over the nearby tomb topped by a sculpture of a reclining nobleman.
I finally caught a glimpse of Charles, his head at least, when he faced each corner of the congregation and was presented as Britain’s “undoubted king.” Later there was a flash of purple velvet as the crown was placed on Queen Camilla’s head.
But that was about all anyone in my corner of the abbey could see. Even so, Kim Beck wouldn’t have missed the opportunity to be there.
Beck, a teacher who helps refugees from Afghanistan, was awarded a British Empire medal for services to education. But she didn’t think she was something special and was surprised to be invited.
The service, she said, was spectacular.
“I was struggling to sing the national anthem,’’ Beck said. “It was really emotional.’’
I understand why she feels that way.
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Danica Kirka is an Associated Press writer based in London.
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Follow AP’s coverage of King Charles III at https://apnews.com/hub/king-charles-iii
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2023-05-07T06:28:19+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/feeling-is-believing-inside-the-abbey-for-kings-coronation/
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Police aren’t sure yet if the two recent homicide victims were targeted or killed in random events, Sioux Falls Public Information Officer Sam Clemens said on Tuesday.
Tunis Lomax, 36, was shot around 2 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20 in a parking lot near 26th Street and Bahnson Avenue.
Police believe Paul Billion, 36, was shot in his residence in the 1300 block of South Duluth Avenue on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 16, or the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 17. His body was found on Friday, August 19.
Other than both being victims, “We don’t believe there is a relationship outside of that,” Clemens said.
Clemens could not say if the public is any danger.
“I wish I could give you an answer to that. The short answer is I can’t tell you if there is danger to the public or not. We have two different homicides, two different victims,” Clemens said. “From what we’ve been able to dig into, we don’t believe they are related. Outside of that we don’t have a lot of information to share.”
“We haven’t a whole lot of tips come in on (Duluth Street) homicide or the 26th Street one,” Clemens said.
Clemens asked for the public’s help in the investigation.
“There is no piece of information too small,” Clemens said.
“We’re trying to piece together what happened,” Clemens said when asked if there was evidence that someone had broken into Billion’s residence.
The shooting of Lomax was reported quickly after it happened on Aug. 20.
Billion’s death was reported on Friday, Aug. 19 after a relative found him, Clemens said. Police investigated it as an unattended death and called for an autopsy.
Police said Lomax died from a single gunshot but Clemens would not comment on the number of gunshots in the Billion case.
Clemens said some information about the victims could relate to the investigation but “it’s more about trying to find who is responsible.”
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2022-08-23T19:19:28+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/police-uncertain-if-homicides-were-random-or-targeted/
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Valley businesses prepare for large crowds during Holy Week
Local merchants are hoping to cash in on the large crowds that are expected to gather during Holy Week.
Businesses in Brownsville along Elizabeth Street say this week will be hectic, but they are ready. There has been more traffic in the downtown area as Holy Week gets underway.
"Because...the children are on vacation. Well, we took the opportunity to come," Matamoros resident Melany Morales said.
Morales spent the day shopping with her children, and she's not the only one. Shoppers from Mexico are expected to hit the streets in the Valley.
Holy Week is expected to bring in a 30% jump in sales.
Terras Urban Mexican Kitchen Co-Owner Christian Nevarez they usually serve 150 people. He expects that number to double thanks to the Holy Week crowd.
The biggest crowds are expected Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8.
Watch the video above for the full story.
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2023-04-05T03:10:01+00:00
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krgv.com
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https://www.krgv.com/news/valley-businesses-prepare-for-large-crowds-during-holy-week
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ABERDEEN – Through a recent cyber camp, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders learned lessons about protecting themselves online, which started the idea process for jobs that could help protect others against cyber threats.
Aberdeen High School’s JROTC program partnered with the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi State University to provide the camp.
“It’s an opportunity for students to be exposed to computer science, cybersecurity and some careers they could conceivably enter into. The objective is trying to expose kids early so they’ll have that interest, and that feeds into our school and pushes us to provide the types of classes to prepare our kids for these 21st century-type jobs,” said AHS JROTC instructor Maj. Allen Williams.
He added cybersecurity jobs will be needed for years to come.
“It’s similar to the mindset of terrorists. If you don’t learn to think like a terrorist, you’re at a disadvantage to try to fight against it. If you don’t learn to think like a hacker, you’re at a disadvantage to try to defend against them,” Williams said.
Areas covered through the camp included academics, passwords and perils of social media.
“The most fun and where most of the learning has occurred is the use of the Smart Train. It has allowed the kids to build a capacity where you lay out a railroad track and there are certain pieces of the track that are already programmed to have the train do certain things,” he said, adding students completed coding exercises to program the trains’ functions.
This year was the second year for Aberdeen to host the camp. Whereas 2021’s camp included students from Aberdeen and nearby cities, this year’s camp was strictly for Aberdeen students. It was made possible by contributors to MSU.
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2022-06-27T14:25:02+00:00
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djournal.com
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https://www.djournal.com/monroe/news/cyber-camp-offers-lessons-in-technology-cybersecurity/article_4d17bb4b-0870-5ee5-9018-fd02cfd61a63.html
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Presented by the Kemper Freeman family and The Bellevue Collection, the 18th annual nightly parade features toy drummers, dancers, snowfall, beautiful lights, Santa and much more Nov. 25 – Dec. 24
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the Pacific Northwest's favorite holiday traditions is back! Snowflake Lane, presented by The Bellevue Collection and the Kemper Freeman family, will return with its nightly holiday parade from Friday, Nov. 25 through Saturday, Dec. 24. Set between Bellevue Square and Lincoln Square from NE 4th to NE 8th Streets along Bellevue Way, the free nightly performance at 7 p.m. will feature dazzling lights, vibrant floats, snowfall and a festive production of holiday characters. For more information on Snowflake Lane visit snowflakelane.com.
"Snowflake Lane is one of the community's most cherished traditions of the holiday season," said VP of Marketing for The Bellevue Collection Jennifer Leavitt. "We look forward to gathering friends and families to enjoy this memorable holiday experience and spread a little holiday cheer. Additions this year include a new dance troupe called the SnowBelles and a new selection of music bringing even more excitement to our holiday show."
For 30 consecutive nights, The Bellevue Collection is transformed into a winter wonderland with falling snow, a colorful light show, festive floats, sing-along music and the arrival of Santa every night. The annual event is produced locally by Greg Thompson Productions, and performers, who are mostly students, come from all over the Puget Sound to perform nightly as Toy Drummers, JingleBelle dancers, Snow Princesses and more. Snowflake Lane is a must-do activity the whole family will love this holiday season.
The Bellevue Collection's Kemper Freeman was inspired to create Snowflake Lane nearly two decades ago after visiting New York City's Fifth Avenue and Chicago's Magnificent Mile. He was determined to design a one-of-a-kind celebration for the local and regional community to come together and share the joys of the holiday season. Kemper and his family personally provide this gift to the community each year.
In addition to Snowflake Lane, The Bellevue Collection will also offer the following holiday programming:
- Santa Photos at Snowflake Lane Factory (Friday, Nov. 25 – Saturday, Dec. 24, Bellevue Square Center Court, Second Level) – Children and families can pose for a photo with Santa inside the Snowflake Lane Factory. Make your reservation at bellevuecollection.com/santa.
- Bellevue Place Wintergarden Tree Lighting (Friday, Nov. 25) – Following the Snowflake Lane parade, guests are invited to watch Santa count down to the lighting of a 30-foot holiday tree, complete with music, cocoa and cookies.
- Snowflake Lane Getaway Hotel Packages – Bellevue is the perfect drivable getaway for a shopping trip to the place where holiday spirit is alive. Book a weekend getaway at any of The Collection's three on-site luxury hotels including Hyatt Regency Bellevue, The Westin Bellevue or W Bellevue, and receive a $100 Bellevue Collection Gift Card per night stay to shop and dine at The Bellevue Collection. To book a room or for more information, visit bellevuecollection.com/getaway
- Holiday Wishes (Friday, Nov. 25 – Friday, Dec. 16) – Stop by the Holiday Wishing Trees in Bellevue Square's Center Court and pick up a Wishing Tag to learn how you can support local organizations to help families and children.
- Holiday Entertainment – Visit The Bellevue Collection for performances throughout the holiday season. Watch school choirs and orchestras perform in Bellevue Square's Center Court or enjoy live music in the Wintergarden at Hyatt Regency Bellevue. For dates and times, visit bellevuecollection.com/holiday.
- Holiday Hours – To see the full calendar of holiday hours for Bellevue Square visit bellevuecollection.com/holidayhours.
To learn more about the parade, holiday hours and more, visit bellevuecollection.com.
Located in the heart of Bellevue, Wash., The Bellevue Collection comprises three developments owned by family-operated Kemper Development Company and affiliates. The first is Bellevue Square, a super-regional upscale shopping center, which is joined by Bellevue Place, a mixed-use property featuring Hyatt Regency Bellevue and small boutiques. The third development is the recently expanded Lincoln Square, anchored by Cinemark & Cinemark Reserve Lincoln Square, The Westin Bellevue, W Bellevue, restaurants, and home furnishing stores, along with premier office space and luxury high-rise residences. Combined, The Bellevue Collection features more than 200 shops, 50 restaurants and entertainment venues, 1,315 luxury hotel rooms and 12,500 free retail parking spaces all in one place—making it the region's largest shopping, dining, nightlife, and entertainment destination. For more information, visit bellevuecollection.com or follow on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
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2022-11-14T16:59:32+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/11/14/snowflake-lane-returns-bring-more-holiday-cheer-pnw/
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HONG KONG, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba TV was announced as the Official Television of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. From the craftsman's impressive collection of products set to storm the market, the stunner Toshiba TV M550L is high up on the anticipation list, and for good reasons.
The M550L with its resplendent display quality and other rich features raises the bar in television technology and epitomizes Toshiba TV's commitment to quality craftsmanship. Sleek, slim, and nicely trimmed around the edges for borderless viewing, the M550L promises to make an effortlessly captivating statement at first sight.
Delving into its visual capabilities, the Toshiba TV M550L displays the brightest, sharpest, and most colorful images for a sensational TV time. Its inbuilt Quantum Dot technology sees to this, designed with over a billion color shades, each one expressively brilliant for optimal viewing. The Full Array Local Dimming feature adds richness and depth to dark scenes on the M550L, making for remarkable contrast and shadow detail. Supported with the professional-grade REGZA Engine 4k Pro, every picture on the M550L displays in peak quality.
The M550L does not compromise on quality sound for its splendid visuals. Supported by the nifty Dolby Atmos and the advanced REGZA Power Audio PRO, the Toshiba TV M550L spatially immerses viewers in every sound that emanates from its bass woofers and delivers every sound detail with unmatched crispness for the cinematic-standard experience.
Efficiently capping the streak of Toshiba TV M550L's high performance is VIDAA TV, a superior operating system that blazes a range of smart, user-friendly features that make for a premium, and convenient experience.
Combining vivid beauty with immersive real vision and the signature heart-shaking sound, the Toshiba TV M550L is made for high value by people who know and set store by excellent home entertainment.
As an enthralling football event edges near and the world counts the days until its arrival, Toshiba TV rises to the occasion as the Official Television of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. The exquisitely-designed all-rounder M550L assures a reliable source of pristine viewing for football lovers, friends, and families.
For more details, stay tuned to Toshiba TV on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube.
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2022-11-21T13:44:19+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/11/21/toshiba-tv-promisingly-hits-mark-with-stunning-m550l/
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COLUMBUS, Ga., May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar power developer Silicon "Ranch" Corporation ("SRC") and its contractor Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. ("IEA") got slammed with a $135.5 million verdict yesterday as a result of intentionally polluting a downstream neighbors' property. The case was tried in federal court in Columbus, Georgia, before Hon. Clay D. Land, U.S. District Judge.
SRC has developed over 160 solar panel facilities across the country, many of them built by IEA. This case involved one in Stewart County, Georgia, called "Lumpkin solar." SRC and IEA cleared and mass graded some 1,000 acres without first installing adequate erosion and sediment control measures. The result was what one would expect - when it rained, pollution poured downhill and downstream onto the neighbors' property, inundating wetlands with silt and sediment and turning a 21-acre trophy fishing lake into a mud hole.
The downstream property is owned by Shaun and Amie Harris, lifelong residents of the Stewart County area. They were the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit. Amie has been an elementary school teacher; Shaun started his own business at age 18 and runs B&S Air, Inc., which is in the reforestation business and also uses helicopters and airplanes for firefighting in western states. The Harris property was formerly known as "Kawikee Refuge."
SRC calls itself by the name "Silicon Ranch" and refers to its solar panel facilities as "solar farms" and projects images in its press releases of sheep grazing lush grass under solar panels. In reality, there is no 'ranch,' there is no farming, there are no sheep, and there is very little grass. "That was the main problem with the Lumpkin site," said Plaintiffs' lead counsel James E. Butler, Jr. of Butler Prather LLP. "For two years SRC and IEA failed to stabilize and vegetate almost a thousand acres they had mass graded - which was breaking the law."
Both the SRC property and the Harris property had previously been owned by Jim Butler, Joel Wooten, and George Fryhofer, formerly law partners together. When Wooten negotiated the sale to SRC he was promised that SRC would be a "good neighbor" and "you won't even know we're there." Before the Kawikee property was sold to Mr. And Mrs. Harris, SRC pledged that there would be "no impact to [the downstream] property from our solar development." When the first rain came after the mass grading by SRC and IEA, the once gorgeous 21-acre lake turned to the color of mud.
There was expert testimony that SRC and IEA in fact knew what the results of their conduct would be, and that the fishery was dead, and that the lake can never be remediated unless and until the pollution by SRC and IEA is stopped.
At the end of the trial, the jury returned a compensatory damages verdict of $10.5 million and also found that punitive damages should be imposed against SRC and IEA. Then, in a second phase of the trial, financial evidence was presented to prove that SRC and IEA are each worth more than $1 billion. In its second verdict the jury found that SRC and IEA, and an IEA subsidiary called "IEA Constructors, LLC", acted with the specific intent to cause harm. The jury imposed $25 million in punitive damages against SRC, $50 million in punitive damages against IEA Inc., and $50 million against IEA's wholly owned subsidiary IEA Constructors, LLC.
The engineering firm that designed the erosion and sediment control plan for SRC and IEA, Westwood Professional Services, Inc., was also a defendant. The jury released Westwood from any liability.
"The SRC/IEA litigation and trial strategy was to blame everyone else and deny responsibility," said Plaintiffs' counsel, Dan Philyaw. "They blamed Westwood, they blamed Shaun and Amie, they blamed too much rain, and they blamed 'erodible soils.'"
At the start of the trial, SRC and IEA denied they had created a nuisance, denied they had committed any trespass, denied they were negligent, and denied they had caused any damage to the downstream property. On the ninth day of trial SRC President Reagan Farr admitted liability on the witness stand. On the twelfth day of trial the President of the IEA subsidiary IEA Constructors, LLC admitted liability on the witness stand.
In a weird twist, when it bought its property SRC had insisted that timber on the property be harvested by the prior owners, Butler and Wooten - an approach SRC's own witnesses admitted was unusual. Then, when the mass grading without adequate erosion controls unleashed pollution on the downstream neighbor, SRC and IEA blamed the prior owners who hired those who did the logging. At trial SRC and IEA sought to apportion fault to non-parties involved in the logging. The problem for SRC and IEA was there was never any evidence that logging caused erosion that caused damage to the Harris property: not a photograph, not a witness. Plaintiffs presented expert and lay witness testimony that the logging accusation was totally false. At the conclusion of the evidence, U. S. District Judge Clay D. Land granted Plaintiffs' motion for directed verdict as to the logging accusation leveled by SRC and IEA, where they claimed that non-parties shared in the fault for causing the damage.
Plaintiffs also sued for an injunction to make SRC and IEA finally fix the problems at the SRC site and stop the damage. At the conclusion of the evidence, Judge Land stated he would grant an injunction to require that no more sediment escapes the site post-development than did pre-development. The parties are to submit proposals as to the terms of an injunction.
Plaintiffs Shaun and Amie Harris were represented by Jim Butler, Dan Philyaw, and Caroline W. Schley of Butler Prather LLP, assisted by paralegals Kim McCallister and Sarah Andrews and investigator Nick Giles. Plaintiffs were also represented by Cooper Knowles of Atlanta, who was unable to attend trial.
The defendant released by the jury, Westwood, was successfully represented by Kent Stair, Melissa Bailey, and Corey Mendel of Copeland, Stair, Valz & Lovell in Atlanta.
SRC was represented by Alycen Moss and Danielle LeJeune of Cozen O'Connor, Atlanta. IEA was represented by Charles Rogers, Sarah Carpenter, Steven Stuart, and Brent Beaver of the Smith Currie & Hancock firm, Atlanta and Washington D.C.
"Meanness is not neighborly," Butler said in summarizing the case, "and it is a terrible litigation and trial strategy."
The verdict was Butler's ninth verdict over $100 million. No other lawyer in American history has won so many big verdicts.
Contact: James E. Butler, Jr. jim@butlerprather.com; 800-242-2962
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2023-05-03T23:01:18+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/05/03/butler-prather-llp-silicon-ranch-corporation-its-contractor-iea-inc-hit-with-1355-million-verdict/
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, effectively ending nearly 50 years of federally guaranteed access to abortion that will have long-term consequences for reproductive health.
The justices ruled by their ideological appointments, with the conservative bloc led by Samuel Alito drafting the opinion.
Here's a breakdown of how each of the nine justices voted in this landmark case.
Who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade?
Justices appointed by Republican presidents voted to overturn the landmark abortion-rights ruling. These are:
- Samuel Alito
- John Roberts
- Clarence Thomas
- Neil Gorsuch
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Amy Coney Barrett
Who voted to uphold Roe v. Wade
Justices appointed by Democrat presidents voted to keep the ruling these include:
- Elena Kagan
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Stephen Breyer
What will the ruling do?
The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.
The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
It puts the court at odds with a majority of Americans who favored preserving Roe, according to opinion polls.
Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overturned.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision,” Alito wrote.
Authority to regulate abortion rests with the political branches, not the courts, Alito wrote.
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2022-06-24T15:05:57+00:00
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wcnc.com
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https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/how-justices-ruled-on-dobbs/507-2d25d6ef-6222-4664-baac-8d539ea35866
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WANT TO VOLUNTEER?
• Shoals CASA is in need of volunteers.
• Orientation will be held at 9 a.m. April 7 at 102 Jackson Court, Sheffield.
• The orientation doesn't obligate participants, but explains the process of becoming an advocate and the role of the volunteer.
• Becoming a volunteer requires that the applicant be 21 or over; fill out an application online providing three references; pass a child abuse/neglect background check, as well as a criminal background check; and attend 6 weeks of pre-service training.
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SHEFFIELD — Heather Begley is seeing one of her goals come to fruition with the recent certification of five new volunteer court advocates, who'll be working in Colbert County courts for the first time in several years.
Begley, who took over as director of Shoals Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in 2021, came in wanting to re-establish a CASA presence in the Colbert County court system.
After six weeks of training, including courtroom protocols and participating in a culminating mock trial last week, the volunteers were sworn in by Colbert District Judge Chad Smith.
Advocates can work both Colbert and Lauderdale cases.
Begley said Shoals CASA is now up to 22 volunteer advocates, who work directly with Smith in Colbert County or judges Ben Graves and Will Powell in Lauderdale County on behalf of abused or neglected juvenile dependents.
New advocate Arlene Merry, who retired from teaching at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, knew of CASA and the need for more volunteers.
"I knew the time was right to get involved," she said. "I have the time for it and it's rewarding to be able to help."
Advocates work directly with the judge to report factual case information through the doublechecking of DHR documentation, assuring court orders are being followed, conducting family member interviews, and interacting with the children.
"We're about providing consistency for these children, especially in this day with such a high turnover with DHR workers," Begley said. "The advocates have the responsibility of following the children through the system until the cases are closed."
Begley said CASA volunteers not only advocate for the children and their families, but they are a connection to other resources the children need.
Currently, there are 59 cases being worked by the volunteers.
Last year, there were more than 500 dependency cases; 78 of them were worked by CASA volunteers.
While not all the children are in foster care, the majority are either in foster care or awaiting placement.
"We desperately need more volunteers, especially now that we've added Colbert County," Begley said. "We want people to understand that (advocacy) isn't difficult or demanding; it just takes a lot of time."
Shoals CASA volunteer coordinator Gloria Stokes said the importance of the role of advocates can't be overstated.
"We're the eyes and ears on these cases for the judge," she said. "We provide consistency and make sure the needs of the children are met, and in some cases the parents need services as well in order to get their children back. We can help these cases move along a little faster, which is good for everyone."
Advocates, on average, meet with the children monthly.
Once the volunteer is sworn in, they are assigned their first case.
Gracelyn Morrison, one of the five volunteers sworn in last week, called her involvement with Shoals CASA "a God thing."
"I'm graduating from the University of North Alabama in May and needed an internship for my sociology degree," she explained, saying Shoals CASA welcomed her. "I had no idea at first what it was, but I quickly learned it's the kind of work I'm passionate about."
Morrison said she was fortunate to work with the organization and get a first-hand look at the good it does.
"I certainly wasn't required to become a volunteer advocate, but it fits in so perfectly with my passion for helping people and loving children who might not otherwise have anyone," she said. "I feel like I'm contributing, and I look at this as an amazing opportunity to hopefully inspire someone."
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2023-03-29T06:54:01+00:00
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timesdaily.com
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https://www.timesdaily.com/news/local/shoals-casa-renews-work-in-colbert/article_743b6182-267d-5b59-934b-86013f4f0353.html
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IPads are among the best computers you can buy. They can do everything from keeping your kids entertained to being used to create breathtaking works of digital art, and they can do it from anywhere. Before you buy one, though, you need to ask yourself what you can afford, keeping in mind that affordability isn’t just about the cost. It’s also about knowing what high-level functions you need and can’t afford to give up to shave down the cost.
In this article: Apple iPad (Ninth Generation), Apple iPad Air (Fifth Generation) and Apple iPad Pro 12.9-Inch (Fifth Generation).
Models
Apple currently has four lines of iPad with five models between them.
- The iPad: This is the base model and a perfect introduction to tablets.
- The iPad mini: This is the smallest model, though it still packs a punch.
- The iPad Air: This is the best nonprofessional-grade model.
- The iPad Pro: There are two models in the Pro line: an 11-inch size and a 12.9-inch size. They have slightly different specifications, but both are must-haves for professionals.
Although these are what are currently being produced, Apple still supports older models of iPad for several years. If your budget is particularly tight, you can get one of these older models instead. That said, you’ll likely only find refurbished versions of these older models.
Data storage
How much data an iPad can store is more important for iPads than other tablet brands, as iPads don’t offer expandable storage. More data storage means a higher cost, but it’s always better to overestimate your needs.
Each model of iPad offers different data storage tiers. IPads, iPad minis and iPad Airs offer 64 gigabytes and 256GB. Both iPad Pros offer 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1 terabyte and 2TB.
Connectivity
All iPad models have two versions: One can only connect to the internet using Wi-Fi, and the other can connect with Wi-Fi and your cellular service. Wi-Fi and cellular models cost $100 to $200 more than Wi-Fi-only models with the same total data storage. All cellular models can use 5G data speeds — except for the base iPad, which can only use 4G LTE. Additionally, all models have Bluetooth connectivity.
Cost
The cost of an iPad is determined by three aspects: what model it is, how much data storage it has and how it can connect to the internet.
- The iPad: This model has four price tiers: $330, $460, $480 and $610.
- The iPad mini: This model has three price tiers: $500, $650 and $800.
- The iPad Air: This model has three price tiers: $600, $750 and $900.
- The 11-inch iPad Pro: This model has nine price tiers: $800, $900, $1,000, $1,100, $1,300, $1,500, $1,700, $1,900 and $2,100.
- The 12.9-inch iPad Pro: This model has nine price tiers: $1,100, $1,200, $1,300, $1,400, $1,600, $1,800, $2,000, $2,200 and $2,400.
Screen size and quality
Each iPad model has a different screen size and quality.
- The iPad: This model has a 10.2-inch Retina display with True Tone.
- The iPad mini: This model has an 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display with True Tone.
- The iPad Air: This model has a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with True Tone.
- The 11-inch iPad Pro: This model has an 11-inch Liquid Retina display with ProMotion and True Tone.
- The 12.9-inch iPad Pro: This model has a 12.9-inch Liquid Retina XDR display with ProMotion and True Tone.
Processor
The processor of an iPad determines how well it can perform. For example, better processors mean an increased ability to multitask and let intensive apps work without lagging or stuttering. If your iPad is just for streaming and playing games, you don’t need to worry much. However, you should get an iPad with the best processor possible if you plan on using it for work.
The iPad has an A13 Bionic chip, which is the weakest available. The iPad mini has a slight upgrade in the A15 Bionic chip. The iPad Air and both iPad Pros use an M1 chip, which is the best processor.
Battery life
Among the best features of any tablet is its high portability, but the degree of portability is restricted by its battery life. All iPad models have up to 10 hours of battery life on a full charge when only web browsing, but this length will decrease if you’re multitasking or using intense apps.
Color
Each iPad model’s back comes in a range of colors. The iPad and both iPad Pros come in space gray and silver. The iPad mini and iPad Air come in space gray, purple, starlight and pink with the Air also available in blue.
Accessory compatibility
The two main accessories used with any iPad are the Apple Pencil and various Apple keyboards, but not all iPad models are compatible with these accessories.
- The iPad: This model is compatible with Apple Pencil (First Generation) and Smart Keyboard.
- The iPad mini: This model is compatible with Apple Pencil (Second Generation).
- The iPad Air, the 11-inch iPad Pro and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro: These models are compatible with Apple Pencil (Second Generation), Magic Keyboard and Smart Keyboard Folio.
Best iPads
This model is the perfect introduction to tablets, thanks to its solid specifications and low cost. Grab it if you want an affordable entertainment center or a mobile computer for students.
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Apple iPad mini (Sixth Generation)
This model is another great option for an affordable mobile entertainment center and workstation. It may be smaller than the iPad, but it’s more powerful in return.
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Apple iPad Air (Fifth Generation)
This model is perfect for people who need a good mobile workspace or want a high-quality entertainment center but don’t need the extra abilities of the iPad Pros.
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Apple iPad Pro 11-inch (Third Generation)
This model upgrades several aspects of the iPad Air for high-level, professional-grade performance. If you’re looking for an iPad for daily work, this is what you need.
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Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch (Fifth Generation)
This is Apple’s current best model with the largest and highest-quality screen. If you’re a high-end creative, you can’t afford not to get one, but noncreative professionals should be fine with the iPad Pro 11-inch.
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Worth checking out
- If you need more power than an iPad, grab the entry-level MacBook Pro 2022.
- If you need the most power possible, consider the MacBook Pro 2021 16-Inch.
- The MacBook Air 2022 is a great iPad alternative if a standard computer works better for you than a tablet.
- Save the most money possible on the low-end MacBook Air 2020.
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2023-04-24T20:45:59+00:00
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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston officials lifted an order Tuesday that had called for more than 2 million people in the nation’s fourth-largest city to boil their tap water before drinking or using it.
The boil order had been in effect since Sunday, when a power outage at a purification plant caused pressure to drop.
The order led to the closure of businesses and schools, including the Houston Independent School District, which canceled classes Monday and Tuesday. The city rescinded the order shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday.
The city said water quality samples sent to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality confirmed the tap water meets regulatory standards and is safe to drink.
At a news conference Monday, Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city issued the notice, which affects all of Houston and some adjacent areas, in an “abundance of caution” after two transformers — a main one and its backup — “uniquely and coincidentally” failed at a water plant. The problem affected the plant’s ability to treat and pump water into the transmission system, resulting in low pressure.
Because the issue was within the plant’s system, backup power generators would not have made a difference, Turner said. Since the transformers were down, they couldn’t transmit power to the plant.
The power system at the water plant undergoes regular maintenance, Turner said, but he did not give a timeline for how often. The mayor said he has ordered a diagnostic review of the system to understand how the problem was possible and how it can be prevented.
Sixteen sensors marked dips under the minimum pressure levels required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, 14 of them for only 2 minutes and two of them for nearly 30 minutes, Turner said.
Typically, there is enough pressure for water to flow out of leaky pipes. When pressure is lost, however, contamination like bacteria sitting near pipes can be sucked into the system, creating a health risk.
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2022-11-29T18:57:02+00:00
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SANDVIKEN, Sweden, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandvik has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of US based company Peterson Tool Company, Inc., ("PTC") a leading supplier of machine-specific custom insert tooling solutions. The product offering includes custom carbide form inserts for high-production turning and grooving applications, primarily within the general engineering and automotive segments. The company will be reported in the GWS Tool business unit in Walter, a division within the business area Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions.
"The acquisition of Peterson Tool Company is well aligned with the shift to growth strategy to enhance our presence in the North American market and continuing GWS' strong track record of growth", says Stefan Widing, CEO and President of Sandvik.
"I am pleased that we continue to execute on our shift to growth strategy by expanding our offering towards the important general engineering and automotive segments. Peterson Tool Company adds to the GWS' solid position within custom cemented carbide solutions and is a great fit for our business area", says Nadine Crauwels, President of Sandvik Machining Solutions.
PTC is headquartered in Nashville, USA, and has 73 employees. In 2021 the company had revenues of 9 million USD and an EBITA margin neutral to Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions. Impact on Sandvik's earnings per share will be limited, yet slightly positive. The transaction is expected to close during the second or third quarter of 2022.
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2022-05-11T11:46:09+00:00
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/05/11/sandvik-acquire-us-based-custom-tooling-manufacturer-peterson-tool-company/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis, Rosario Dawson and other top movie and TV actors joined picket lines alongside screenwriters Friday on the first full day of a walkout that has become Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in decades.
A day after the dispute brought production to a standstill across the entertainment industry, Sudeikis was among the picketers outside NBC in New York pressing for progress following the breakdown of contract talks with studios and streaming services. Dawson, star of the film “Rent” and the “Star Wars” TV series “Ahsoka,” joined picketers outside Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California.
“Lord of the Rings” star Sean Astin marched with chanting protesters outside Netflix’s offices in Hollywood. Also present at Netflix were “Titanic” and “Unforgiven” actor Frances Fisher and “The Nanny” star Fran Drescher, who is president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
The actors’ arrival energized the picket lines outside Netflix, where music blared and the sidewalks were packed with demonstrators.
Elsewhere, “Once Upon a Time” actor Ginnifer Goodwin stood with protesters at Paramount Pictures.
The famous faces of Oscar and Emmy winners will likely be seen with some regularity on picket lines in New York and Los Angeles, adding star power to the demonstrations outside studios and corporate offices.
The walkout is the first double-barreled strike by actors and screenwriters in more than six decades.
In recent weeks, many actors made a show of solidarity with the 11,500 writers, who walked out in May. On Thursday, 65,000 members of the actors’ union formally joined them on strike.
The two guilds have similar issues with studios and streaming services. They are concerned about contracts keeping up with inflation and about residual payments, which compensate creators and actors for use of their material beyond the original airing, such as in reruns or on streaming services. The unions also want to put up guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence mimicking their work on film and television.
Many on the picket lines took aim at Disney chief executive Bob Iger, who said Wednesday that the damage the strikes will do to the entertainment economy is “a shame.”
“I think that when Bob Iger talks about what a shame it is, he needs to remember that in 1980, CEOs like him made 30 times what their lowest worker was making,” actor Sean Gunn, who starred in “Guardians of the Galaxy,” said outside Netflix.
Now Iger “makes 400 times what his lowest worker is. And I think that’s a shame, Bob. And maybe you should take a look in the mirror and ask yourself, ‘Why is that?’”
No talks are planned, and no end is in sight for the work stoppage. It is the first time both guilds have walked off sets since 1960, when then-actor Ronald Reagan was SAG’s leader.
“What we won in 1960 was our health and pension plans and the existence of residuals. That was the most important strike in LA union history, and now we’re on strike together again, and honestly, this strike is even bigger,” Adam Conover, host of the TV series “Adam Ruins Everything” and member of the Writers Guild negotiating committee, said outside Netflix. “We’re going to win. If you are gaining momentum like we are, 70-odd days into a strike, you are going to win.”
Conover was one of many picketers, including Sudeikis, who are members of both unions.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents employers including Disney, Netflix, Amazon and others, has lamented the walkout, saying it will hurt thousands of workers in industries that support film and television production.
The actors’ strike will affect more than filming. Stars will no longer be allowed to promote their work through red carpet premieres or personal appearances. They cannot campaign for Emmy awards or take part in auditions or rehearsals.
The strike triggered cancellations of red carpet events scheduled for next week for “Special Ops: Lioness,” starring Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman, and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
A “Haunted Mansion” premiere event at Disneyland on Saturday was set to go on as planned, but with no actors in attendance to promote the film.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said it was clear that the entertainment industry “is at a historic inflection point.” She urged all parties to work around the clock until an agreement is reached.
“This affects all of us and is essential to our overall economy,” Bass said in a statement.
The writers’ strike had already stopped much of television production, and the actors joining them immediately led to a shooting shutdown for many major films, including “Deadpool 3,” “Gladiator 2” and the eighth installment of Tom Cruise’s “Mission Impossible” series. All are scheduled for release next year.
The writers’ strike also shut down late-night talk shows and “Saturday Night Live,” as well as several scripted shows that have either had their writers’ rooms or production paused, including “Stranger Things” on Netflix, “Hacks” on Max and “Family Guy” on Fox. Many more are sure to follow them now that performers also have been pulled.
Associated Press writer Krysta Fauria contributed.
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2023-07-15T17:25:17+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/movie-and-tv-stars-join-picket-lines-across-hollywood-new-york/
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis has agreed to a $700,000 settlement with family members who were locked inside two squad cars when police killed their father after officers refused their offers to try and help calm him down.
A federal judge ruled that officers were justified in shooting 52-year-old Chiasher Vue after he pointed a rifle at them on Dec. 15, 2019. The settlement will resolve a lawsuit his family filed arguing that police had illegally and unconstitutionally detained them that night.
Chamee Vue and her brothers Hailee and Nou Vue tried to intervene but weren’t allowed out of the police cars. And after the shooting, they spent hours detained in interrogation rooms while police questioned them.
“I couldn’t get out of the car, couldn’t give him reassurance that everything would be OK,” Chamee said.
A language barrier contributed to the incident because Chiasher Vue spoke little English and few officers there that night spoke Hmong. Hailee Vue said he wants the Hmong community to understand what happened to his family, and for their case to be instructive for future policing.
“I just don’t want any other family to go through what the four of us went through,” he said.
Since this incident, Minneapolis police have changed department policy on handling witnesses to say they must be treated in a constitutional manner. A police spokesman told the Minneapolis Star Tribune the policy change wasn’t related to this case, but the Vue siblings say they still take consolation in the change. The new policy makes it more clear that a person who has not been charged with a crime and isn’t being held on probable cause is free to leave at any time.
Family members say Chiasher Vue was going through a mental health crisis and suffering with untreated depression on the night he was killed.
A night of drinking and karaoke spiraled out of control when after a series of quarrels Chiasher fired several shots at a wall inside the house and another one of his sons called 911. An autopsy later determined that Chiasher Vue has a blood alcohol level of 0.20 at the time he was killed.
“Look, my dad is mentally ill … Just let me and my little sister go talk to him. We can talk him out,” Nou Vue said to an unidentified officer, according to squad car footage. “You’re not getting out of the squad. Stop asking,” replied the officer.
But after Vue came out of the house pointing a rifle, he and officers quickly exchanged gunfire. Investigators weren’t able to determine who fired first, but Vue was struck by 13 bullets.
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2023-05-22T18:32:18+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-minneapolis-to-pay-700000-settlement-with-family-members-detained-while-police-killed-their-father/
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FBI increases reward for information on Capitol pipe bomb suspect
(CNN) - The FBI has increased the reward money for information leading to the arrest of a suspect who placed pipe bombs in Washington D.C.
The reward is now $500,000.
Surveillance video shows an individual wearing a mask and a gray hoodie placing pipe bombs outside both the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarter buildings.
It happened two years ago on January 5, 2021, the night before the Jan. 6 riot.
Those bombs were placed in the evening and discovered the following afternoon.
Neither of them detonated, but Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drove within several yards of the bomb outside the DNC.
So far, the FBI has conducted 1,000 interviews watched 39,000 videos and assessed nearly 500 tips.
The new half-million-dollar reward marks a massive jump from the $100,000 reward that has stood for more than a year.
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2023-01-04T19:37:38+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/2023/01/04/fbi-increases-reward-information-capitol-pipe-bomb-suspect/
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-5-8
(eight, five, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-5-8
(eight, five, eight)
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2022-08-29T01:12:05+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17403906.php
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PHOENIX (AP) — Karrin Taylor Robson, a wealthy Republican businessperson who was seen as the likeliest establishment candidate for a crucial Arizona Senate contest, said Thursday that she won’t run for the seat now held by independent Kyrsten Sinema.
Robson ran for governor last year but lost the GOP primary to Kari Lake, a Donald Trump ally and darling of his Make America Great Again movement. Lake went on to lose the general election to Democrat Katie Hobbs and said this week she is considering a run for Senate.
The Arizona Senate race is a pickup opportunity for the GOP, but many traditional Republicans worry Lake, who would be the clear front-runner in a GOP primary, can’t win a general election.
Sinema left the Democratic Party last year. She is raising money for a potential campaign but has not said whether she will seek a second term, a decision that could set up a complicated three-way contest. U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego is the only major Democratic candidate in the race so far.
Robson said she may run for office in the future but “now is not the time.” She said she’ll instead work to “identify and elect strong conservatives,” focusing in particular on the state Legislature where Republicans hold a narrow majority.
“Arizona voters will help determine control of the U.S. Senate in 2024, and it has been humbling to hear from Arizonans around this state who have urged me to enter this race,” Robson said in a statement announcing her decision.
Robson, a lawyer for housing developers, spent millions from her family’s vast fortune on her unsuccessful campaign for governor last year. She racked up endorsements from prominent establishment Republicans including then-Gov. Doug Ducey and former Vice President Mike Pence.
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2023-05-26T04:17:14+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-republican-karrin-taylor-robson-says-she-wont-run-for-sinemas-senate-seat-in-arizona/
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‘People they don’t think’: Killeen mother shares message for drivers after her daughter was hit and killed
KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - At just 23-years-old, Tatiana Mathis lost her life when a car hit and killed her earlier on Dec. 5.
Mathis was on her way to a convenience store when a driver hit and killed her as she was trying to cross Elms Road on foot.
“She aspired to join the military,” her mother Shuvona Mathis said. “She was working on enlisting in the air force and possibly signing up here pretty soon.”
Friends and family members have set up a tribute with balloons and candles off of Elms Road. Mother Shuvona urges drivers to take caution anytime they’re on the road, but especially when on that street.
“People they don’t think,” Shuvona said. “They’re careless when they’re driving, people are texting when driving.”
Since the crash Shuvona has obtained the police report. The suspect was issued a citation for failing to have car insurance on hand and driving without a license.
Shuvona said she still has some unanswered questions after reading the full report. KWTX News 10 reached out to the Killeen Police Department on Monday and did not hear back.
“I feel that that’s not going to fly for drivers. We need to have stronger laws for drivers,” Shuvona said.
Her family, including grandma Elizabeth Jones, now remembering Tatiana through the photos taken over the years.
“As we stand now we have a hole that will never be filled,” Jones said.
Tatiana leaves behind her two-year-old daughter.
“It’s disheartening to fill in those steps for my granddaughter when she’s crying and she knows mommy’s not here,” Shuvona said. “She knows mommy is gone.”
Anyone wanting to donate money to Tatiana’s family can do so at any First Convenience Bank branch. Everything raised will go directly to a trust fund for Tatiana’s two-year-old daughter.
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2022-12-27T17:16:06+00:00
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A police investigation of a cyberattack on an Australian telecommunications company in which the personal data of more than one third of Australia’s population was stolen has resulted in its first arrest, investigators said Thursday.
Police launched Operation Hurricane in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Bureau Investigation after Optus, Australia’s second-largest wireless carrier, lost the personal records of 9.8 million current and former customers on Sept. 21.
The hacker dumped the records of 10,000 of those customers on the dark web last week as part of an attempt to extort $1 million from Optus, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., also known as Singtel.
A 19-year-old Sydney man was arrested on Thursday and charged with using the dumped data in a text message blackmail scam, police said in a statement.
The man, who has not been identified publicly, has yet to appear in court on two charges that carry prison sentences of up to 10 and seven years.
Police allege he sent text messages to 93 Optus customers demanding 2,000 Australian dollars ($1,300) be deposed in a bank account or the data would be used in a financial crime. None of the targets paid.
One of the extortion targets, identified only as Belinda and described as a mother of a 5-year-old child with cancer, told Nine Network News last week, “To be honest, it’s just not what we need.”
“I guess they’re just trying to hopefully pressure people into paying,” she told Nine.
Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Justine Gough said the investigation is continuing.
“The Hurricane investigation is a high priority for the AFP and we are aggressively pursuing all lines of inquiry to identify those behind the attack,” Gough said.
“Just because there has been one arrest does not mean there won’t be any more arrests,” she added.
The Australian government announced changes to its telecommunications law to protect vulnerable Optus customers.
The changes to the Telecommunications Regulations allow Optus and other providers to better coordinate with financial institutions and governments to detect and mitigate the risk of cybersecurity incidents, fraud, scams and other malicious cyber activities, a government statement said.
Optus ran full-page ads in Australian newspapers on Saturday under the headline, “We’re deeply sorry.”
The ad included a link to an Optus website that details actions that customers can take to avoid identity theft and fraud.
The government can change regulations without legislative approval. But the government hopes to pass changes to the Privacy Act in Parliament during the final four weeks of its 2022 session in response to the Optus breach.
The changes would include increased penalties for companies with lax cybersecurity protections and curbs on the quantities and types of customer data that businesses can amass, as well as the duration for which personal information can be kept.
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2022-10-06T17:08:52+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-australia-updates-law-to-protect-data-after-optus-hack/
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will immediately ban the import of aquatic products from Fukushima and other Japanese prefectures if Tokyo discharges treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, a top official in the city said Wednesday.
Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan said although the wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant would be treated before discharging into the Pacific Ocean, any errors in the process would significantly affect ecology and food safety. The concern stems from Japan’s U.N.-endorsed, but controversial, plan to gradually release the treated water.
“Our assessment shows prefectures near Fukushima have higher risks, so we are now taking a responsible way for our residents,” he told reporters at a briefing.
The 10 affected territories are Tokyo, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama, he added.
A massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt and releasing large amounts of radiation. The tanks storing the water used since the accident to cool the reactor cores will reach their capacity in early 2024.
In 2021, Japan’s government announced plans to gradually release the treated — but still slightly radioactive — water following its dilution to what it says are safe levels. Japanese officials say the water, currently stored in about a thousand tanks at the plant, needs to be removed to prevent accidental leaks in case of an earthquake and to make room for the plant’s decommissioning.
Last week, the U.N. nuclear agency endorsed the plan, saying it meets international standards and the environmental and health impact would be negligible.
But the plan has faced fierce protests from local fishing communities concerned about safety and reputational damage. Neighboring countries, including South Korea, China and Pacific Island nations, have also raised safety concerns.
In Hong Kong, the import of certain products — such as fruits and vegetables — from Fukushima is currently banned. Other products such as meat and poultry from there are allowed in if they come with a radiation certificate.
The import of many food products from four other Japanese prefectures immediately south of Fukushima — Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Chiba — will also have to be accompanied with radiation certificate.
For the planned policies announced Wednesday, Tse said the government will be scientific and review data. If the situation is safe, the government will consider relaxing its restrictions, he said.
Earlier, Naoto Nakahara, deputy consul general at the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong, told Nikkei that the Hong Kong government was “trying to win brownie points from Beijing.”
In a response to the reported criticism but without identifying anyone, Tse said officials devised policies in accordance with Hong Kong’s situation.
“Hong Kong has a high degree of autonomy,” he said.
Last year, the major food imports from Japan amounted to about 2% of the total food supply in Hong Kong, official data showed. Although Hong Kong is not highly dependent on Japanese food products in terms of quantity, many residents love Japanese food and there are many Japanese restaurants in the city.
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2023-07-12T22:22:11+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/business/ap-ripples-of-fukushima-hong-kong-to-ban-japanese-products-from-areas-that-discharge-radioactive-water/
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Aussie surfer sets record with mammoth 30-hour surfing session, then goes back for more
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN
A quick dip in the surf can be refreshing at any time of the day, but one Sydney man has taken it to the extreme, setting a new world record in the process.
Surfing coach Blake Johnston smashed the previous world record of 30 hours and 11 minutes early Friday morning, but rather than drying out, he went straight back into the water for 10 more hours.
The former pro surfer is trying to raise 400,000 Australian dollars ($268,000) for youth mental health, 10 years after his father took his own life.
Blake’s brother, Ben Johnston, co-founder of the Chumpy Pullin Foundation, a partner in the world record, commended his sibling’s effort to draw attention to mental health issues.
“We’re just so immensely proud of what he’s done and what he’s setting out to achieve. This is all about honoring the legacy of our amazing dad,” he told CNN Affiliate Sky News.
Crowds gathered on Cronulla beach in southern Sydney throughout the mammoth surfing session that started at 1 a.m. on Thursday and was due to end at 5 p.m. Friday.
After breaking the 30-hour record, Blake Johnston told CNN Affiliate Nine News he was “cooked,” Australian slang meaning he was exhausted.
By early Friday, Johnston had ridden around 550 waves, and more were to come as supporters stood on the beach and cheered him on during a hot and sunny day in Sydney.
“He’s a big part of the Cronulla community and he’s got so many people around him, I think he’s probably running on adrenaline,” said Ben Johnston.
Under the rules of the record-breaking effort, paramedics were on standby and every hour the former pro surfer could come to shore — if he wished — to eat and drink.
Johnston had originally intended to run 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) to raise money, but after spending seven hours in a wave pool in Melbourne, he searched for information on the world record and found it was “only” 30 hours, according to his fundraising website.
“Blindness, infected ears, dehydration, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, sharks, drowning, and big ideas are all possible challenges that lie ahead in the unknown of surfing for the world record,” the website added.
A shark mitigation plan had been put in place, Ben Johnston told Sky News, though he said jellyfish had already posed problems.
Johnston said he and others had joined Blake for a surf on Thursday night and they were all stung by jellyfish, but that’s “part and parcel” of surfing, he added.
Money raised will support initiatives to help young people with mental health issues, through the Chumpy Pullin Foundation.
Chumpy Pullin was a two-time world champion Australian snowboarder who died while spearfishing in July 2020. He competed in three Olympics and held the flag for Australia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
His partner, Ellidy Pullin, gave birth to their baby 15 months after his death.
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2023-03-17T06:07:07+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/16/aussie-surfer-sets-record-with-mammoth-30-hour-surfing-session-then-goes-back-for-more/
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Tech Veteran Brings Nearly Three Decades of Experience to Help Drive Growth for Leading Fast-Casual Mexican Restaurant
SAN DIEGO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern Restaurant Concepts ("MRC"), a leading fast-casual restaurant platform comprised of the QDOBA and Modern Market Eatery brands, announced that Prashant Budhale has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. Budhale brings more than 28 years of experience in technology leadership to MRC, and as CTO, will lead all technology across MRC brands.
"We are excited for Prashant to join the MRC team," said John Cywinski, CEO of Modern Restaurant Concepts. "I view technology as a foundational enabler of all that we do in the restaurant business, from a guest, team member, and corporate enterprise perspective. Prashant will lead our strategy to drive technology as a powerful brand differentiator, and he will be a terrific collaborator with our existing leadership team as well as our franchise partners moving forward."
"I'm excited about QDOBA's history of strong same store sales growth, potential for net unit growth, and the ability for technology to make a positive impact to both guest and team member experiences," Budhale said. "I'm also very encouraged by John's vision and Butterfly Equity's commitment to the growth of brands within MRC portfolio."
Prior to joining Modern Restaurant Concepts, Budhale served as Head of Technology for SONIC Drive-In, part of the Inspire Brands portfolio. At SONIC, he was responsible for the vision, development, and implementation of all technology initiatives across the 3,550 unit, $6B brand. Prior to SONIC, Prashant was Senior Director for Pizza Hut, part of YUM! Brands, where he led retail technology. Earlier in his career, Prashant worked as a software development consultant with IBM, Allstate, Oracle, Capgemini, and Fujitsu America.
QDOBA is a fast casual Mexican restaurant with over 750 locations in the U.S. and Canada. Committed to delivering flavor to people's lives, QDOBA uses ingredients prepared in-house, by hand, and fresh throughout the day, to create delicious menu options. Guests can experience QDOBA's delicious flavors by enjoying one of its signature menu options that are chef-crafted for convenience and ease or by customizing their burritos, tacos, burrito bowls, salads, quesadillas, and nachos to fit their personal tastes. For five years running, QDOBA has been voted the "Best Fast Casual Restaurant" as part of the USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards. Discover more at www.QDOBA.com or on the QDOBA app.
For more information on the company, please visit www.QDOBA.com or follow the brand on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.
About Modern Restaurant Concepts
Modern Restaurant Concepts is one of the largest fast casual restaurant platforms in North America with nearly 800 units across two brands, QDOBA and Modern Market Eatery. The system operates corporate-owned and franchised units across nearly every U.S. state as well as Canada and Puerto Rico. Modern Restaurant Concepts is owned by Butterfly Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm specializing in the food sector, with more than $10 billion of equity capital in companies ranging from growth-stage to Fortune 500 enterprises.
QDOBA is a fast casual Mexican restaurant with over 750 locations in the U.S. and Canada. Committed to delivering flavor to people's lives, QDOBA uses ingredients prepared in-house, by hand, and fresh throughout the day, to create delicious menu options. Guests can experience QDOBA's delicious flavors by enjoying one of its signature menu options that are chef-crafted for convenience and ease or by customizing their burritos, tacos, burrito bowls, salads, quesadillas, and nachos to fit their personal tastes. For five years running, QDOBA has been voted the "Best Fast Casual Restaurant" as part of the USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards. Discover more at www.QDOBA.com or on the QDOBA app.
Modern Market Eatery is a food forward, sustainable fast casual restaurant concept that operates in Colorado, Texas, Arizona, and Indiana. Delivering the freshness and flavors of the market in a modern dining format and environment, Modern Market Eatery's menu of protein-centric bowls, garden fresh salads, toasted sandwiches and brick-oven pizzas redefine what it means to eat well at a reasonable price. For additional information about Modern Market Eatery, please visit www.modernmarket.com.
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New York's TALEA Beer Co. teams up with Billion Oyster Project to create oyster beer
Billion Oyster Project has restored 100 million oysters to New York Harbor and has a larger goal of restoring 1 billion oysters to the harbor by 2035.
It may seem unusual to some people to use oysters or oyster shells to create a new beer, but that's exactly what one New York City brewery did, and it's helping the environment.
Earlier this year, TALEA Beer Co. teamed up with the Billion Oyster Project to create the beer She Sells Seashells to support the organization's mission to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor.
Founded in 2014, the Billion Oyster Project has restored 100 million oysters to New York Harbor and has a larger goal of restoring 1 billion oysters to the harbor by 2035. In addition, 2 million pounds of oyster shells have been collected and prepared for reuse so far. After a year of preparation, the shells are seeded with oyster larvae that settle onto the shells.
According to NOAA's National Ocean Service, once the larvae permanently attach to a surface, they are known as spat.
According to the Billion Oyster Project, the spat-on-shell oysters and cured shells are then placed in reef sites in New York Harbor to become self-sustaining oyster populations.
TALEA Beer Co. was founded in April 2019 by Tara Hankinson and LeAnn Darland, who met while working at a beer e-commerce startup.
"They quickly bonded over the realization that, although women are the fastest-growing subset of craft beer consumers, beers are rarely made or marketed with women in mind," said TALEA Beer Co's. Noelle Witt. "They out to make easy-to-love, approachable beers that appeal to a broader audience."
CHARLESTON BREWERY CREATES BEER TO HELP PEOPLE PREPARE FOR HURRICANES
TALEA currently has two Brooklyn, New York, locations and is preparing to open its first Manhattan location later in 2023.
Witt said it's always been a pleasure to brew beer that people enjoy while giving back to the community. That's where She Sells Seashells comes in.
"We've always been inspired by Billion Oyster Project and are thrilled to partner with their team," Witt said. "We both share a strong connection to our NYC community and have a love for the seas, so we hope to bring awareness to Billion Oyster Project's important work."
Among other ingredients, the She Sells Seashells beer is brewed with – you guessed it – oyster shells.
"Our team visited the Billion Oyster Project's headquarters on Governors Island, where we collected about 100lbs of shells from their oyster piles for the beer," said TALEA Beer Co's. Noelle Witt.
Witt added that TALEA brewed a 20-barrel batch of She Sells Seashells.
CONCERN BREWING OVER CRAFT BEER SHORTAGE DUE TO CARBON DIOXIDE FIZZLE
"The toasty flavors of oyster stouts are a perfect match for winter weather, so we likely won't brew the beer again this year," Witt said. "But it's been a huge hit in our taprooms and with retailers, which has been exciting to see."
Witt added that while TALEA has had the opportunity to collaborate on other beers with partners like Levain Bakery, Bowery Farming and Dogfish Head Brewery in the past, the She Sells Seashells oyster beer has a partnership donation element.
TEXAS OYSTER SEASON SEES CHALLENGES DUE TO STORM SURGES, RAINFALL
Some of the proceeds from the sale of She Sells Seashells were donated to Billion Oyster Project's efforts.
"She Sells Seashells oyster stout supports BOP's mission to restore oyster reefs to New York Harbor through public education initiatives," Witt said. "It's always a pleasure to be able to brew beer people enjoy while giving back to our local community."
Witt said that in April, TALEA would release a collaboration beer with Tony's Chocolonely, whose mission is to make 100% exploitation-free chocolate worldwide.
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2023-03-19T19:33:51+00:00
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foxweather.com
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https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/new-yorks-talea-beer-co-teams-up-with-billion-oyster-project-to-create-oyster-beer
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Missfresh Limited.
Shareholders who purchased shares of MF during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Missfresh securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with Missfresh's June 2021 initial public offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Missfresh provided false financial figures in its registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with the Company's June 2021 initial public offering; (2) Missfresh would need to amend its financial figures; (3) Missfresh, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and (4) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared.
DEADLINE: September 12, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/missfresh-lawsuit-loss-submission-form/?id=30889&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of MF during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is September 12, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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2022-08-17T10:47:46+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/08/17/shareholder-alert-gross-law-firm-notifies-shareholders-missfresh-limited-class-action-lawsuit-lead-plaintiff-deadline-september-12-2022-nasdaq-mf/
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How major US stock indexes fared Friday 5/12/2023
Stocks slipped on Wall Street after a report showed that sentiment is souring among U.S. consumers.
The S&P 500 lost 0.2% Friday. The Dow ended barely lower and the Nasdaq gave up 0.4%.
A preliminary survey said confidence in the economy among consumers is tumbling. Treasury yields rose because the data also suggested the Federal Reserve may need to keep interest rates high in order to undercut rising expectations for inflation. That in turn hurt Big Tech and other high-growth stocks, which were the heaviest weights on Wall Street. Worries are also still high about a possible default on the U.S. government’s debt.
On Friday:
The S&P 500 fell 6.54 points, or 0.2%, to 4,124.08.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 8.89 points, or less than 0.1%, to 33,300.62.
The Nasdaq composite fell 43.76 points, or 0.4% to 12,284.74.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 3.86 points, or 0.2%, to 1,740.85.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 12.17 points, or 0.3%.
The Dow is down 373.76 points, or 1.1%.
The Nasdaq is up 49.33 points, or 0.4%.
The Russell 2000 is down 19.03 points, or 1.1%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 284.58 points, or 7.4%.
The Dow is up 153.37 points, or 0.5%.
The Nasdaq is up 1,818.26 points, or 17.4%.
The Russell 2000 is down 20.40, or 1.2%.
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2023-05-12T21:20:45+00:00
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kaaltv.com
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https://www.kaaltv.com/news/business-news/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-friday-5-12-2023/
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(WFLA) — Just in time for the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, Coors Light is unveiling its new non-alcoholic “Coors-icles” — a frozen beer-flavored treat for basketball and Coors Light fans ages 21 and older.
Starting Tuesday, March 14, customers can buy Coors-icles online, while supplies last. The brand said it will release a limited number of Coors-icles every weekday at noon ET through March 24.
The company said Coors-icles will only be available during the tournament season.
Coors Light is also giving away six-packs of Coors-icles now through April 3. One hundred winners will be selected after the final game on April 4, according to the brand. Find out how to enter here.
“For passionate basketball fans, March is pure chaos,” the beer maker said in its announcement. “It’s an emotional rollercoaster, and it’s hard to keep your cool when your bracket goes up in flames.”
The popsicles will also be available at 800 bars nationwide throughout the tournament, Coors says.
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2023-03-14T20:18:56+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/national/coors-light-launches-beer-flavored-popsicle-in-time-for-march-madness/
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The English Premier League kicks off its 2022-23 season Friday. Here’s what you need to know as the world’s most-watched sports league gets going.
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2022-08-03T12:22:38+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/08/03/english-premier-league-2022-2023/
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DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio Products Laboratory (BPL), a leading manufacturer of plasma-derived protein therapies with US Offices in Durham, NC, announced today its support of the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF) Research Grant Program for the second year in a row.
The IDF Research Grant Program is designed to encourage and support patient-oriented research on primary immunodeficiencies (PI), including well-defined research projects with a specified benefit for improving the treatment, health, management, or diagnosis of people with primary immunodeficiencies
"We're excited to support IDF's grant program again this year," said Eric Wolford, PharmD, Vice President of the Global Medical group for BPL. "Helping PI patients live healthier, happier lives is a goal we share with IDF, and we are pleased to reflect this ongoing commitment with another year of support for this research grant."
According to Tracy Shaw, Chair of IDF's Board of Trustees, "This partnership represents our combined commitment to support studies that contribute to the body of medical knowledge in PI. The research funded through this program will advance IDF's mission to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life of persons with primary immunodeficiencies."
Primary immunodeficiencies are a group of more than 450 rare, chronic disorders in which part of the body's immune system is missing or functions improperly. Because one of the most critical functions of the normal immune system is to protect against infection, patients with PI commonly have an increased vulnerability to recurrent and sometimes severe and debilitating infections.
For more information about the IDF Research Grant Program, contact Christopher Scalchunes at cscalchunes@primaryimmune.org.
Recognizing the power of plasma and with over 60 years heritage in the industry, BPL supplies high-quality plasma derived medicines to meet the needs of clinicians, patients, and customers globally. BPL is headquartered in Elstree, United Kingdom, where its manufacturing operations are located. BPL USA Inc.'s offices are located in Durham, North Carolina. BPL is dedicated to producing medicines for the treatment of immune deficiencies, bleeding disorders, and infectious diseases as well for critical care. BPL invests in the latest R&D, technology, and manufacturing methods, and continuously adapts to ensure that it continues to serve all its stakeholders effectively. As of September 1, 2022, BPL became part of the Kedrion group of companies, a portfolio company of the global private equity firm, Permira. For more information visit http://www.bplgroup.com or https://www.bpl-us.com/.
The Immune Deficiency Foundation improves the diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life of people affected by primary immunodeficiency through fostering a community empowered by advocacy, education, and research. Individuals affected by PI often find it difficult to receive proper diagnosis, treatment, and specialized healthcare. IDF estimates that the average length of time between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis is between nine and 15 years. Patients also experience difficulties financing their healthcare, finding educational materials, and/or locating others with whom to share their experiences. IDF helps individuals overcome these difficulties. Tens of thousands of individuals and families affected by PI depend on IDF for advocacy, education, and empowerment.
IDF provides accurate and timely information for patients and families living with PI and offers valuable resources. IDF…
- Helps the patient and medical community gain a broader understanding of PI through education and outreach efforts.
- Promotes, participates in, and conducts research that has helped characterize PI and given patients and physicians substantially improved treatment options.
- Addresses patient needs through public policy programs by focusing on issues such as insurance reimbursement, patient confidentiality, ensuring the safety and availability of immunoglobulin therapy, and maintaining and enhancing patient access to treatment options.
- Offers patients and healthcare professionals educational materials and specialized programming free of charge. This is possible because of the generosity of the donors and sponsors who make unrestricted gifts to IDF.
Learn more at www.primaryimmune.org.
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2022-11-02T16:15:59+00:00
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serb separatist leader on Sunday awarded Russian President Vladimir Putin with the highest medal of honor for his “patriotic concern and love” for the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia.
“Putin is responsible for developing and strengthening cooperation and political and friendly relations between RS (Republika Srpska) and Russia,” the Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, said at the awards ceremony in the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka.
Dodik, who visited Putin in September in Moscow, has maintained close ties with the Russian president despite Russia’s war in Ukraine. The medal will be presented to Putin during the next meeting between the two.
Moscow has often been accused by the West of seeking to destabilize Bosnia and the rest of the Balkans through its proxies in Serbia and Bosnia. Dodik has openly advocated tearing away the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia from a Bosniak-Croat federation to join it up with neighboring Serbia.
A U.S.-brokered peace deal in 1995 ended a war in Bosnia that left at least 100,000 people dead and millions homeless, but left the country deeply divided between its three main ethnic groups. Moscow has been exploiting the divisions by tacitly supporting Dodik’s separatist policies.
Dodik awarded Putin on the occasion of “the day of Republika Srpska,” which has been deemed illegal by Bosnia’s constitutional court. It marks the day when Bosnian Serbs proclaimed they were splitting from Bosnia in 1992 with the aim of separating the Serb-populated regions of the Balkan state and join them up with Serbia.
Tensions were running high in Bosnia as the Serbs planned to hold their main celebrations on the outskirts of Sarajevo on Monday, the town they held under siege for three years during the war. Thousands of people were killed in the relentless shelling and sniping of the Bosnian capital.
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2023-01-08T15:42:11+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-bosnian-serbs-award-putin-with-medal-of-honor/
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An automated filter system can identify and filter out invasive Pacific salmon to prevent them from overwhelming and wiping out Norway's wild Atlantic salmon.
OSLO, Norway, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei and local partner Berlevåg Jeger-og Fiskerforening (BJFF) have successfully deployed an AI-powered filtering system in Norway's Storelva River that allows Atlantic salmon to pass upstream and filters Pacific salmon – an invasive species – into a holding tank.
Pacific salmon – also known as humpback salmon – were introduced into Russia's White Sea in the 1950s. Quickly making their way down Norway's coast, they began wreaking havoc on the local ecosystem. Alongside introducing new diseases, the invader's rapid reproduction cycle and aggressive competition for food threatens to overwhelm Atlantic salmon in hundreds of rivers along Norway's coastline.
In June 2022 under Huawei's TECH4ALL initiative, Huawei and BJFF deployed the filtering system to prevent Pacific salmon from entering the upstream channel of Norway's river system. A mechanical gate allows local Atlantic salmon and Arctic red-spotted salmon to continue upstream to complete their migratory spawning process. The invasive species is diverted to a holding tank for subsequent removal.
"This is a unique innovation, both in Norway and globally. With this high-tech solution, we have complete control of the river. Local river managers and local and central administrations along the coast have also shown great interest in the project," said BJFF President Geir Kristiansen.
The demand for a solution was urgent, and one shared by the community, government departments, regulators, river owners, and the aquaculture industry – wild Atlantic salmon are an integral part of Norway's identity, culture, and economy. In recent years, however, the number of Pacific salmon caught in Norway's rivers by sports anglers has skyrocketed. In 2019, 13,900 were caught, jumping to a record-breaking 111,700 in 2021 – 57% of all salmon caught in Norway. While almost all were in Troms and Finnmark, Pacific salmon catches have been recorded in every county.
In contrast, numbers of the native wild salmon have declined by a quarter from peak levels. The invasive species is largely responsible, with escaped and less genetically diverse farmed salmon exacerbating the problem by weakening the Atlantic salmon's genome after interbreeding.
"Norway's wild salmon are threatened by other species, including humpback salmon and escaped farmed salmon. The monitoring system using AI is helping to stop this and enable future-proof river management," said BJFF Administrator Tor Schulstad.
The data collected can also reveal accurate patterns of migratory behavior, monitor different types of fish populations, provide information for further research, and help develop measures to stop overfishing.
"Installing a diversion system in a turbulent river is an extremely challenging task. I was impressed with the efforts of our partners, BJFF, and the local community. Here, people aspire to prove the role that good management has in saving rivers from environmental disasters," said Vegard Kjenner, Technical Director at Huawei Norway.
As a world first, the solution had to be designed from scratch. In early 2021, algorithms were designed based on Huawei's machine vision technology to identify different fish species. Then in July 2021, Huawei and BJFF deployed a monitoring station equipped with an underwater camera in Storelva River. Providing a continuous video stream, the hardware coupled with the algorithm identifies Atlantic salmon with an accuracy of 91% and cuts manual labor requirements by 90%. Traditional methods are labor-intensive, relying on volunteers to stand in the river and identify Pacific salmon with the naked eye, mainly by the spots on their tails. This makes it hard to quantify the threat – many fish are missed and their sex is impossible to determine.
The next step is to deploy the solution in Norway's salmon farms to reduce the environmental harm caused by escaped farmed fish.
About TECH4ALL
TECH4ALL is a long-term initiative and action plan that Huawei launched to promote digital inclusion. Its primary goal is to ensure that no one is left behind in the digital world. Huawei works with customers and partners to promote digital inclusion and sustainable development in four domains – education, environment, health, and development.
Read more about Huawei's TECH4ALL Tech4Nature projects:
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2022-08-25T03:31:43+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/08/25/huawei-partners-install-worlds-first-ai-filtering-system-salmon-natural-river-norway/
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Oklahoma State faces Oklahoma in the Big 12 tournament, a NCAA men’s basketball tournament that has major March Madness implications, on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 (3/8/23) at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Fans can watch the game, which starts at 9:30 p.m. ET, via a free trial to fuboTV or DirecTV Stream, both of which carry ESPN2 and ESPNU. Fans can also watch via SlingTV’s Blue Package, which is offering 50% off for the first month.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: Big 12 Tournament
Who: Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma
When: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Where: T-Mobile Center
Time: 9:30 p.m. ET
TV: ESPN2
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Here’s the complete 2023 Big 12 men’s basketball tournament TV schedule (all times eastern time):
First round (Wednesday, March 8)
Game 1: No. 8 West Virginia vs. No. 9 Texas Tech | 7 p.m. on ESPN2/ESPNU
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Game 2: No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 10 Oklahoma | 9:30 p.m. on ESPN2/ESPNU
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Quarterfinals (Thursday, March 9)
Game 3: No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 5 Iowa State | 12:30 p.m. on ESPN/ESPN2
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Game 4: No. 1 Kansas vs. Game 1 winner | 3 p.m. on ESPN/ESPN2
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Game 5: No. 2 Texas vs. Game 2 winner | 7 p.m. on ESPN/ESPN2
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Game 6: No. 3 Kansas State vs. No. 6 TCU | 9:30 p.m. on ESPN/ESPN2
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Semifinals (Friday, March 10)
Game 7: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner | 7 p.m. on ESPN/ESPN2
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Game 8: Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner | 9:30 p.m. on ESPN/ESPN2
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Championship Game (Saturday, March 11)
Game 9: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner | 6 p.m. on ESPN
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com.
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2023-03-09T00:57:03+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/03/oklahoma-vs-oklahoma-state-free-live-stream-3823-watch-big-12-tournament-online-time-tv-channel.html
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A couple of days before Serena Williams claimed the 22nd of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon in 2016, she was asked what she makes of it when people refer to her as one of history’s greatest female athletes.
Her reply: She prefers being characterized as “one of the greatest athletes of all time.”
That one, brief response from Williams said quite a lot — about her one-of-a-kind talent with a racket in hand, about her status as an icon, about her willingness to stand up for herself, about why women’s sports should not be thought of any differently than men’s sports.
That all came to mind again Tuesday, when Williams indicated she is preparing to walk away from her professional tennis career as the start of the U.S. Open approaches on Aug. 29 and her 41st birthday next month nears.
Yes, with shouts of “Come on!” marking the journey, she’s won the most major singles championships in the professional era of tennis, which began in 1968; more than the 22 for Steffi Graf or Rafael Nadal, more than the 21 for Novak Djokovic, more than the 20 for Roger Federer, more than the 18 for Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, more than anyone else. And, yes, Williams won a total of 73 tour-level singles titles and spent more than six years’ worth of weeks ranked No. 1. And she combined with older sister Venus to claim 14 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles. And then there are the four Olympic gold medals. And so on. And so on.
Still, mere numbers can’t capture everything Williams has represented during a distinguished career that began when she was a teenager in the 1990s and is remarkable for not just the successes but also the longevity, including a record 10 major championships after turning 30.
“She’s lasted longer than most, if not all, female tennis pros. She’s transcended tennis and become a leader on many important cultural, social and gender issues. She has lived an extraordinary life,” Evert wrote in a text message to The Associated Press, “and will undoubtedly continue to crash the glass ceiling in the future.”
Indeed, what Williams did without a racket in her hand is rather noteworthy, and extends past the millions in endorsement deals; the flirtations with acting; the interest in fashion design and penchant for bringing the catwalk to the court with body suits and knee-high boots and whatever else she decided to try; the celebrity and place in pop culture; and, most recently, the work as a venture capitalist (“Seventy-eight% of our portfolio happens to be companies started by women and people of color, because that’s who we are,” Williams said).
“It is important to take a step back and think about everything that Serena has brought to our sport and what she has accomplished both on and off the court,” said Steve Simon, the head of the WTA women’s tennis tour. “She is one of the greatest champions, an entrepreneur, a mother, an investor in women’s business ventures and an inspiration to women and girls across the world.”
Williams spoke out about being Black in her sport — she was the first to win a Grand Slam tournament since Althea Gibson in the 1950s — and in her country. She stayed away from a tournament in California for years after she and her father heard racist taunts there. She talked about being a woman in tennis, about being a woman who dealt with complications in childbirth, about being a mother (her daughter, Olympic, turns 5 on Sept. 1, and Williams wants to have another baby).
She and Venus helped their sport reach a broader audience and helped bring a broader slice of society into their sport (Coco Gauff, the 18-year-old African-American who was the runner-up at the French Open in May, said Tuesday she plays what she called “a predominantly white sport” because she “saw somebody who looked like me dominating the game”).
“I don’t particularly like to think about my legacy. I get asked about it a lot, and I never know exactly what to say,” Williams wrote in an essay released by Vogue magazine. “But I’d like to think that thanks to opportunities afforded to me, women athletes feel that they can be themselves on the court. They can play with aggression and pump their fists. They can be strong yet beautiful. They can wear what they want and say what they want and kick butt and be proud of it all.”
There were, to be sure, moments that she perhaps was not as proud of, confrontations with match officials that led to getting docked a point or a game in U.S. Open losses to Naomi Osaka and Kim Clijsters — maybe the sorts of episodes she was referring to in her essay when she said: “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career. Mistakes are learning experiences, and I embrace those moments. I’m far from perfect, but I’ve also taken a lot of criticism, and I’d like to think that I went through some hard times as a professional tennis player so that the next generation could have it easier.”
Her serve was a gift, as were the powerful groundstrokes that she and Venus — her opponent in nine all-in-the-family Grand Slam finals — made a permanent part of the game. So, too, was an unbending will and desire to always come out on top, whether the person across the net was Big Sis or anyone else, whether she was trying to win a point during a match or make a point in an interview.
“I want to be great. I want to be perfect,” Williams said. “I know perfect doesn’t exist, but whatever my perfect was, I never wanted to stop until I got it right.”
In tennis, of course, and beyond.
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Write to him at hfendrich@ap.org or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HowardFendrich
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2022-08-10T13:54:03+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/sports/ap-sports/serena-williams-legacy-involves-plenty-of-wins-plenty-else/
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Metabolon and the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre will identify new metabolomic biomarkers to advance Parkinson's research and detect new therapeutic targets
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metabolon, Inc., the global leader in providing metabolomics solutions that advance a wide variety of research, diagnostic, therapeutic development, and precision medicine applications, today announced it is partnering with the University of Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre to identify metabolomic biomarkers related to Parkinson's disease progression and prediction and to detect new therapeutic targets.
The Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC) is a unique multidisciplinary research program at the University of Oxford. Founded in 2010, OPDC Discovery, also known as the Oxford Discovery Cohort, is a leading Parkinson's biomarker cohort and among the most deeply phenotyped and genotyped Parkinson's cohorts in the world. This unique cohort also includes a population of patients diagnosed with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) that are at risk of developing Parkinson's.
Through this collaboration, Metabolon will perform global metabolomics on longitudinal serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples collected by OPDC. This will enable Metabolon and Oxford to gain insights into the metabolomic changes occurring during Parkinson's disease progression over many years in this deeply phenotyped cohort. The metabolomic data will be incorporated with clinical and genetic data to provide a holistic view of Parkinson's over the course of the disease.
"We are thrilled to partner with the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre to support their mission to improve research and understanding of the biology of early Parkinson's," said Rohan Hastie, Ph.D., President and CEO of Metabolon. "Metabolon's highly accurate data will enable the identification of metabolomic biomarkers crucial to understanding and better predicting Parkinson's disease progression to help improve patient care and the proactive management of symptoms."
"I am excited to be collaborating with Metabolon, who are global leaders in their field and ISO 9001:2015 recertified, reflecting their highest standards of testing and quality assurance. Understanding the unique, real-time fingerprint of an individual's biological system alongside individual clinical and digital measures captured longitudinally across the Oxford Discovery cohort is a powerful combination. I am optimistic this will lead to tailored treatments to reverse deranged metabolic pathways in Parkinson's, as well as biomarkers that capture each individual's response to these therapies," said Professor Michele Hu, University of Oxford.
Metabolon, Inc. is the global leader in metabolomics, with a mission to deliver biochemical data and insights that expand and accelerate the impact of life sciences research. Over 20 years, 10,000+ projects, 2,800+ publications, and ISO 9001:2015 and CLIA certifications, Metabolon has developed industry-leading scientific, technology, and bioinformatics techniques. Metabolon's Precision Metabolomics™ platform is enabled by the world's largest proprietary metabolomics reference library. Metabolon's industry-leading data and translational science expertise help customers and partners address some of the most challenging and pressing questions in the life sciences, accelerating research and enhancing development success. The company offers scalable, customizable metabolomics and lipidomics solutions supporting customer needs from discovery through clinical trials and product life-cycle management. For more information, please visit www.metabolon.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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2022-08-23T12:42:19+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/08/23/metabolon-partners-with-university-oxford-parkinsons-disease-centre/
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The reigning District 3 4A champions will get another chance to secure a gold medal.
Posting five runs in the top of the sixth innings, East Pennsboro reorganized a three-run deficit into a 7-6 semifinal triumph over top-seeded Bermudian Springs Thursday.
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2023-05-26T01:08:55+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/highschoolsports/2023/05/east-pennsboro-erupts-in-sixth-inning-stops-bermudian-springs-in-district-3-4a-baseball-semifinal.html
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Many cities argue over "defunding the police." In Kansas City, Mo., they are debating whether the city — or the state — should manage the law enforcement budget.
Copyright 2023 KCUR 89.3
Many cities argue over "defunding the police." In Kansas City, Mo., they are debating whether the city — or the state — should manage the law enforcement budget.
Copyright 2023 KCUR 89.3
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2023-05-25T10:33:34+00:00
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kanw.com
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https://www.kanw.com/2023-05-25/kansas-city-fights-the-state-of-missouri-for-control-of-its-police-department
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Behind Thomas Ricks’s new book, “Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968,” lies an obvious question. In the 20th century, the world’s militaries unleashed a wave of destruction unprecedented in human history, devastating vast stretches of countryside, leveling entire cities and killing more than 100 million people, a portion of them with genocidal intent. So what’s to be gained by casting one of the century’s greatest nonviolent movements in martial terms, by thinking of it as yet another army fighting yet another war?
According to Ricks, such a reinterpretation opens a new understanding of the civil rights movement’s remarkable success. Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter who has also written six widely praised books on American military policy and political history, makes his case through an extended analogy. The movement was able to topple Jim Crow, he argues, because it acted the way a successful military acts. Its leaders set a clearly defined goal, adopted a tactical approach that served its ends, carefully trained their troops in those tactics, and then gave them the logistical, emotional and public-facing support they needed to see the movement’s mission through.
Ricks weaves that analogy through his vigorous retelling of what historians have come to call the movement’s “classic phase,” from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder in April 1968. The boycott was a highly organized, intensely disciplined siege of one of Jim Crow’s citadels, he says. The 1961 Freedom Rides were a “daring but almost suicidal foray behind enemy lines” much like World War II’s Doolittle Raid. In the spring of 1963, the movement fought its Gettysburg — the epic confrontation that reshaped the course of the war — in the streets of Birmingham, Ala. With the next year’s Freedom Summer, it staged its blitzkrieg, in hopes of breaking open White Mississippi’s deeply entrenched defenses. In Selma, Ala., in 1965, it reached its Yorktown, the last great battle of the modern American Revolution. Then the movement’s discipline broke, Ricks says, its leadership fractured, and it spiraled down to its tragic end on the blood-soaked balcony of Memphis’s Lorraine Motel.
It’s an intriguing analogy swept along by Ricks’s impressive storytelling skills. It also misses one crucial point. Ricks is certainly right to say that the best militaries have clear goals and tactics that they execute with precision. But that’s true of any successful organization, from the well-run grade school around the corner to the massive corporation that puts a package on your front step the day after you clicked your order into a shopping cart. What sets the military apart, what lies at its core, is its commitment to using violence to pummel its opponents into submission. The Union Army didn’t turn the course of the Civil War at Gettysburg purely because it had an effective plan, but because it littered the ground with Confederate corpses.
For its part, the Southern civil rights movement wasn’t trying to beat anyone into submission. It was trying to make real the United States’ promise of equal justice by forcing an intensely reluctant federal government to use the powers at its disposal to break the state laws that sustained Jim Crow. Sometimes the movement targeted the federal courts, more often the White House — Ricks oddly dismisses one of the most important of those moments, the 1957 Little Rock crisis, as nothing more than a “skirmish” though it was in that crisis that the movement proved its power to push the president into actions he desperately wanted to avoid. In its breakthrough years, the movement turned to Congress, where it had to shatter the institutional arrangements that had blocked meaningful racial reforms for almost a century.
The campaign had its casualties, of course, all of them on the movement side; in the long arc of the Southern struggle, not a single segregationist was killed, even on those rare occasions when Washington sent federal troops into the South to protect Black rights. Ricks emphasizes the tactical value that the movement derived from its willingness to endure the brutality its opponents inflicted without retaliating in kind; its success rested, he says, on its embrace of Gandhian resistance. For most of the figures who dominate his story, though, nonviolence was far more than tactical. King, James Lawson, James Bevel and John Lewis all devoted themselves to Gandhism because it dovetailed so perfectly with the Christian concept of redemptive suffering. In their sense of the movement, activists had to offer themselves up to the White South’s violence — to be threatened, beaten, tortured, maimed, even murdered — to free the nation of its sins.
That’s where Ricks’s analogy breaks down, not on the movement’s mechanics but on its mind-set. Imagine a commanding officer marching his unarmed troops toward the enemy lines on the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, knowing that they have no way to defend themselves from the assault to come, and believing that through the resulting horror they might achieve something transcendent. It’s impossible to do because militaries operate on a fundamentally different imperative than the movement did. Armies are forces of destruction, as the past century’s dark history makes clear. The movement was a moral crusade, driven by a radical faith that the soul of America could be redeemed by ordinary people willing to take the terrible weight of its racism on their shoulders.
Kevin Boyle teaches American history at Northwestern University and is the author of “The Shattering: America in the 1960s.” His book, “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age,” won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Waging a Good War
A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
By Thomas E. Ricks
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 422 pp. $30
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2022-10-06T09:57:06+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/06/did-civil-rights-movement-use-military-tactics-topple-jim-crow/
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, February 2, 2023
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CHILD ABDUCTION EMERGENCY
The following message is transmitted at the request of the Texas
Department of Public Safety.
THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS SEARCHING FOR AVIANI BROWN,
BLACK, FEMALE, 1 YEAR OLD, 2 FEET ZERO INCHES, 23 POUNDS, BLACK HAIR,
BROWN EYES. LAST SEEN WEARING A WHITE BEANIE, BLACK JACKET, GRAY
ONESIE THAT SAYS UNITY, AND ORANGE SWEATPANTS.
POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR JAESHAUN BROWN, 20 YEARS OLD, BLACK, MALE, 5
FEET 7 INCHES, 130 POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES. LAST SEEN WEARING
BLACK CLOTHING, IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR ABDUCTION.
THE SUSPECT IS DRIVING A WHITE 2020 HONDA ACCORD BEARING TX LICENSE
PLATE NUMBER P J B 2 5 8 2.
THE SUSPECT WAS LAST SEEN IN SAN ANTONIO, TX.
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS BELIEVE THIS CHILD TO BE IN GRAVE OR
IMMEDIATE DANGER.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THIS ABDUCTION, CALL THE SAN
ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 2 1 0 2 0 7 7 6 6 0.
NEWS MEDIA POINT OF CONTACT IS SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 2 1 0
2 0 7 7 4 8 8.
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE TEXAS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
BLACK, FEMALE, 1 YEAR OLD, 2 FEET ZERO INCHES, 23 POUNDS, BLACK
HAIR, BROWN EYES. LAST SEEN WEARING A WHITE BEANIE, BLACK JACKET,
GRAY ONESIE THAT SAYS UNITY, AND ORANGE SWEATPANTS.
POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR JAESHAUN BROWN, 20 YEARS OLD, BLACK, MALE,
5 FEET 7 INCHES, 130 POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES. LAST SEEN
WEARING BLACK CLOTHING, IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR ABDUCTION.
THE SUSPECT IS DRIVING A WHITE 2020 HONDA ACCORD BEARING TX
LICENSE PLATE NUMBER P J B 2 5 8 2.
THE SUSPECT WAS LAST SEEN IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THIS ABDUCTION, CALL THE
SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 2 1 0 2 0 7 7 6 6 0.
NEWS MEDIA POINT OF CONTACT IS SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT AT
2 1 0 2 0 7 7 4 8 8.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Sabine
Parish in northwestern Louisiana and east central Sabine Counties
through 830 AM CST...
At 759 AM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles east of Milam, or 17 miles north of Toledo Bend Dam, moving
northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Milam, Many, Florien, Fisher, Negreet, Mount Carmel and Columbus.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
If on or near lower Toledo Bend, get out of the water and move
indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to
10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you
are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter
now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
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TIME...MOT...LOC 1359Z 233DEG 49KT 3141 9367
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2023-02-02T14:51:10+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-austin-san-antonio-warnings-watches-and-17759057.php
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EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - An outdated and discriminatory ordinance in Eau Claire could soon be modified.
Right now under a certain section — homosexuality is considered a violation of the public decency code. The proposed amendment would remove the word 'homosexual' from the code related to exposing minors to harm.
As it reads now, the ordinance includes homosexuality as 'sexual conduct' that is prohibited under the 'exposing minors to harmful materials' ordinance. This would strike that out.
City Manager Stephanie Hirsch says the goal of the ordinance is to clean up old code and the outdated language.
She said the complaint for the change came from a non-Eau Claire resident last month.
Kayla Johnson is the executive director for the Chippewa Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center. She said the amendment would positively impact people who identify as LGBTQ+.
"Making sure the laws are updated and removing discriminatory language is a win for the community. We don't want to have laws on the books that could allow for discrimination in the future just because something isn't enforced now," she said.
Johnson admitted she did not know the law existed. She's happy the city is making the change and taking action on a small change that is a large deal.
"Something that could negatively impact the community or in the case of updating a law positively impact the community absolutely would raise awareness," Johnson said.
Both Chippewa Falls and Altoona do not have any ordinances discriminating against homosexuality.
The ordinance amendment will first be introduced to the Eau Claire City Council next week. A vote will come at a later council meeting.
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2023-07-23T09:49:16+00:00
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wqow.com
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https://www.wqow.com/eye_on_eau_claire/eau-claire-city-council-to-vote-on-striking-homosexuality-from-public-decency-ordinance/article_9438a65c-280e-11ee-b431-27df1a47237c.html
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Running a business as a woman has a unique set of challenges.
“I had called an electrician to come and wire a piece of equipment that I had just purchased and he proceeded to give me unsolicited advice on what I should be doing to grow my business successfully and market,” said Maya Madsen, owner of Maya's Cookies. “I thought to myself, if the tables were turned and my husband was the business owner, would this electrician come in and start telling my husband how he should run his business?”
According to the Census, women now own more than 12 million American businesses. That's an increase of 2 million in the last decade. Compared to men, their workforces and revenues are growing more quickly.
Like Madsen, Bertha Orea recognizes the challenges of running a business as a woman.
Orea, who is a mother of four, sells, cobbles and repairs shoes.
“I had to work 12, 13, 14 hours at that point. I had no options. I had no choice. Either I would go out, work and look at a better future for them, or I would stay at zero,” Orea said.
“I have that extra layer of being a woman of color,” Madsen added. “Just as recently as last week, we received messages and emails about our Black history collection and why we need to highlight that and our 'woke agenda.'"
Hurdles have already existed, none bigger in recent years than the COVID-19 pandemic. It forced a greater percentage of women-owned businesses to close or cut staff.
Elizabeth Schott is the CEO of Accessity, which gave loans to Orea and Madsen at the height of the pandemic.
“Access to capital, while the conversation has shifted and there’s a lot more focus on that, I think there hasn’t necessarily been a systemic change to the level that we need to see it moving forward,” Schott said.
“When I was in the pandemic, it was a very difficult time, very uncertain," Orea said. "I had no other income, another entry of money. It was just this business."
Things are looking up for Orea and Madsen at the other end of the pandemic thanks to the growing networks of support to enable leaders to shine.
Madsen said that initial encounter with the electrician helped her find her voice.
“I was just getting extra hot listening to him. And I finally interrupted him and said, ‘I don’t want your advice right now. Could you please just perform the tasks that I hired you to do?’ It was a turning point for me,” Madsen said."
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2023-03-09T16:31:27+00:00
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koaa.com
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https://www.koaa.com/news/national/two-americas/despite-challenges-theres-a-rise-in-women-owned-businesses
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A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans.
The journey began with a perfect morning liftoff by Europe’s Ariane rocket from French Guiana on the coast of South America. But there were some tense minutes later as controllers awaited signals from the spacecraft.
When contact finally was confirmed close to an hour into the flight, Mission Control in Germany declared: “The spacecraft is alive!”
It will take the robotic explorer, dubbed Juice, eight years to reach Jupiter, where it will scope out not only the solar system’s biggest planet but also Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. The three ice-encrusted moons are believed to harbor underground oceans, where sea life could exist.
Then in perhaps the most impressive feat of all, Juice will attempt to go into orbit around Ganymede: No spacecraft has ever orbited a moon other than our own.
With so many moons — at last count 95 — astronomers consider Jupiter a mini solar system of its own, with missions like Juice long overdue.
“This is a mission that is answering questions of science that are burning to all of us,” said European Space Agency’s director general, Josef Aschbacher after the launch. “Of course, one of these questions is: Is there life out there?”
It can’t find life, “but Juice will be identifying the habitability of these icy moons around Jupiter,” he added.
The spacecraft is taking a long, roundabout route to Jupiter, covering 4 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers)
It will swoop within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of Callisto and 250 miles (400 kilometers) of Europa and Ganymede, completing 35 flybys while circling Jupiter. Then it will hit the brakes to orbit Ganymede, the primary target of the 1.6 billion-euro mission (nearly $1.8 billion).
Ganymede is not only the solar system’s largest moon — it surpasses Mercury — but has its own magnetic field with dazzling auroras at the poles.
Even more enticing, it’s thought to have an underground ocean holding more water than Earth. Ditto for Europa and its reported geysers, and heavily cratered Callisto, a potential destination for humans given its distance from Jupiter’s debilitating radiation belts, according to Carnegie Institution’s Scott Sheppard, who’s not involved with the Juice mission.
“The ocean worlds in our solar system are the most likely to have possible life, so these large moons of Jupiter are prime candidates to search,” said Sheppard, a moon hunter who’s helped discover well over 100 in the outer solar system.
The spacecraft, about the size of a small bus, won’t reach Jupiter until 2031, relying on gravity-assist flybys of Earth and our moon, as well as Venus.
“These things take time — and they change our world,” said the Planetary Society’s chief executive, Bill Nye. The California-based space advocacy group organized a virtual watch party for the launch.
Belgium’s King Philippe and Prince Gabriel, and a pair of astronauts — France’s Thomas Pesquet and Germany’s Matthias Maurer — were among the spectators in French Guiana. Thursday’s launch attempt was nixed by the threat of lightning.
Juice — short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer — will spend three years buzzing Callisto, Europa and Ganymede. The spacecraft will attempt to enter orbit around Ganymede in late 2034, circling the moon for nearly a year before flight controllers send it crashing down in 2035, later if enough fuel remains.
Europa is especially attractive to scientists hunting for signs of life beyond Earth. Juice will keep its Europa encounters to a minimum, however, because of the intense radiation there so close to Jupiter.
Juice’s sensitive electronics are encased in lead to protect against radiation. The 14,000-pound (6,350-kilogram) spacecraft also is wrapped with thermal blankets — temperatures near Jupiter hover around minus 380 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 230 degrees Celsius). And its solar panels stretch 88 feet (27 meters) tip to tip to soak in as much sunlight that far from the sun.
Late next year, NASA will send an even more heavily shielded spacecraft to Jupiter, the long-awaited Europa Clipper, which will beat Juice to Jupiter by more than a year because it will launch on SpaceX’s mightier rocket. The two spacecraft will team up to study Europa like never before.
NASA has long dominated exploration at Jupiter, beginning with flybys in the 1970s by the twin Pioneers and then Voyagers. Only one spacecraft remains humming at Jupiter: NASA’s Juno, which just logged its 50th orbit since 2016.
Europe provided nine of Juice’s science instruments, with NASA supplying just one.
If Juice confirms underground oceans conducive to past or present life, project scientist Olivier Witasse said the next step will be to send drills to penetrate the icy crusts and maybe even a submarine.
“We have to be creative,” he said. “We can still think it’s science fiction, but sometimes the science fiction can join the reality.”
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2023-04-14T19:30:32+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/news/science/ap-science/european-spacecraft-rockets-toward-jupiter-and-its-icy-moons/
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Going into its third decade, the annual fundraiser and community staple Saturday Live is set to take place next week in Pioneer Park. The carnival put on by the Billings Public Schools Education Foundation is the biggest fundraiser for K-12 schools and has raised over $2.7 million since its debut.
“The goal was to celebrate education,” founder Karen Moses said. “And when you see everybody together in that park…you see a community coming together and it just doesn’t get any better than that.”
Saturday Live began in 1993 when the Education Foundation was down to its last $3,000. A special events committee was formed to develop the fundraiser with dedicated event staff rather than volunteers and a public campaign for the foundation.
Another goal was to highlight a common thread throughout all the schools in Billings. Mitch Dimich, co-owner of Pepsi Cola Bottling of Montana and a committee member at the time, took part in organizing various fundraising events and suggested the school carnival.
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“I believe in thinking outside the box,” Dimich said. “There were some people that thought, ‘we can’t pull this off’ and I really had to convince them to believe.”
A member of the same board, Moses immediately jumped on the idea and worked to model the carnival after Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland in California, with the schools hosting a variety of booths and raising funds through old-fashioned carnival games.
The idea was an easy pitch to the schools, who would focus on a single event rather than an entire carnival of their own. This consolidated approach also allowed them to partner with a local business to enhance their event to a point that wouldn’t have been possible before.
Proceeds would then be split 50-50 with the foundation, which allowed schools to raise funding for their own specific projects or needs that could be used for anything from books, science supplies, and computer labs, to playground and PE equipment. The money raised at each booth goes directly to the school sponsoring it, without resorting to state funds and school bonds.
The carnival soon garnered support from businesses to sponsor the event and provide food, drinks and prizes. Organizers prepared for a modest crowd in that first year. Some volunteers were anticipating 1,000 attendees while others like Dimich anticipated 10,000.
“Turns out, it was 15,000,’” Dimich recalled. “Whoops.’”
As a result of the larger-than-expected crowd, all the food and drinks for the event were gone in under two hours and volunteers scrambled to accommodate the students, parents and community members who came out.
Still, the fundraiser was a resounding success and met all of the foundation's goals. The proceeds allowed the foundation to create a full-time executive director position. Over the years, it would grow into an annual campaign for the schools, students and local businesses.
“It was like throwing a wedding,” Moses said. “Nobody really knew what to expect.”
Several of the booths at the inaugural Saturday Live have become mainstays and include a troll bridge, haunted house, rubber duck regatta, a rope bridge, fishing booth and face painting booth. Over the years, it has also included pie eating contests, game shows, scarecrow contests, local dance groups, live bands, and singing contests. More businesses would join as sponsors and booths more accommodating to growing crowds. Schools would also grow to incorporate their music, drama, dance and science clubs along with their sports teams into their events.
“It’s grown overtime, but the concept hasn’t changed,” Dimich said. “We’re a village, we’re a community and this event is one of a kind.”
While the concept has changed, sometimes the carnival itself has. Inclement weather moved all its events from Pioneer Park inside to Skyview High School in 2019 while the COVID-19 pandemic reduced it to a Fun Run in Daylis Stadium to a family Fun Run in 2020 and 2021.
The annual event would continue to grow over the years in both attendance and impact, raising roughly $100,000 each year for school groups and local PTAs while also funding foundation programs including Reading Rocks, Classroom Grants, Partners in Education, and Back Pack Meals. It would also become a generational tradition for the community of Billings, with residents continuing to attend as students, volunteers and now parents.
“That was our motto, ‘It takes an entire village to raise a child,’” Moses said. “It’s an example of what we have in common and what we can do better together if we just…go have fun on a day in the park.”
This year’s Saturday Live begins at 9:30 am and goes until 4:00 pm with over 60 carnival booths throughout the park. Tickets are on sale at elementary schools prior to the event at a discounted rate and the day of the event for 50 cents each.
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2022-09-18T13:40:59+00:00
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billingsgazette.com
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https://billingsgazette.com/news/billings-schools-set-to-celebrate-30-years-of-saturday-live/article_37fe09e6-351a-11ed-8120-7b8852d4f47f.html
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Amarillo Symphony receives $2,000 grant to expand arts access
Published: Jun. 30, 2022 at 2:20 PM CDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The Amarillo Symphony receives a $2,000 grant from Texas Women for the Arts to expand arts access.
The grants fund will be used to support Kinderkonzerts, an educational program for K-2nd grade students.
“The Amarillo Symphony is very grateful to TWA for their investment in the youth of this region,” says Larry Lang, the Symphony’s Executive Director. This grant allows more young students to experience the wonder of a live orchestral concert in a visually stunning venue. The Amarillo Symphony is proud to serve over 16,000 students a year through its education programs.”
Copyright 2022 KFDA. All rights reserved.
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2022-06-30T19:43:20+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/06/30/amarillo-symphony-receives-2000-grant-expand-arts-access/
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LAUREL, Fla. — A 47-year-old man died in a crash involving three cars in Laurel on Monday, Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.
The 47-year-old and another person driving an SUV were heading northbound in the middle lane of U.S. 41 as they approached Inlets Boulevard, troopers say.
The man was driving at a high speed and turned into the left lane to avoid hitting the rear end of the SUV in front of him but instead lost control of the car, FHP says.
The 47-year-old's car then sideswiped the left side of the SUV, crossed over a raised median and collided into another car that was heading southbound on the left lane on U.S 41 approaching Inlets Boulevard.
The man was pronounced dead at the crash by Sarasota County EMS, troopers say. The drivers in the SUV and the car traveling southbound did not face any injuries.
FHP says the investigation remains ongoing.
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2022-08-10T04:42:40+00:00
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wtsp.com
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https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/1-person-dead-laurel-crash/67-698d7a02-8a81-4dac-b581-f43bcd382895
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A Tennessee surgeon is dead and a patient accused of shooting him is in custody, police said Tuesday.
The shooting happened around 2 p.m. inside the Campbell Clinic in Collierville, located about 25 miles southeast of Memphis. According to Collierville Police, a healthcare worker was fatally shot by a patient in an exam room.
The suspect was taken into custody without incident outside the clinic roughly five minutes after the shooting, Police Chief Dale Lane said during an evening press conference. The suspect, who reportedly had a handgun “in his possession” when he was apprehended, has not yet been identified.
“This appears to be a one-on-one interaction,” Lane explained, adding that the patient had been in the clinic “for several hours” before the incident.
A witness who was in the building told Nexstar’s WREG the patient had been threatening someone at the clinic for the past week. Lane said Tuesday he was not aware of any threats made against the victim, identified as orthopedic surgeon Dr. Benjamin Mauck in a statement from Campbell Clinic.
“We are shocked and heartbroken to confirm the incident resulted in the tragic loss of one of our highly respected and beloved physicians, Dr. Ben Mauck,” the statement continued. “During this difficult time, we will be working through many details and will keep you updated as we are able.”
Campbell Clinic said its locations will be closed Wednesday, adding that it “will communicate the reopening of all facilities at a later time.”
Dr. Mauck also worked as a surgeon at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Dr. Trey Eubanks, Interim President and Surgeon-in-Chief at Le Bonheur, spoke highly of Mauck, saying in a statement:
“Ben was a friend to so many of us – a respected member of our Le Bonheur family, a beloved colleague and a dedicated physician to so many patients. We already miss him.”
According to Lane, multiple searches were conducted inside and outside the facility, including drone searches, to ensure there were no other encounters. Officers will remain in the area for the next few days.
Lane also credited those inside for acting on their active shooter training.
“Don’t live your life in fear. These incidents drive fear and if we sit around and think about it and worry about it. We just have to be observant, pay attention to our surroundings, do what the people at Campbell Clinic did today. When it began they reacted the way they were trained,” he said.
There is no ongoing threat to the community, Lane noted.
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2023-07-12T03:27:16+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/surgeon-fatally-shot-by-patient-at-tennessee-clinic-police/
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Experts from the United Nations’ nuclear power agency inspected two sites in Ukraine on Tuesday that Russia identified in unfounded claims that Ukrainian authorities planned to set off radioactive “dirty bombs” in their own invaded country.
Russian strikes targeting eight regions of southeastern Ukraine killed at least four civilians and wounded four others in 24 hours, the Ukrainian president’s office said. Tens of thousands of people faced power blackouts and water shortages following Russian shelling of energy infrastructure in 10 regions on Monday.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi said the inspections for evidence of a so-called dirty bomb, requested by Kyiv in the wake of the unsubstantiated Russian allegations, would be completed soon.
In the wake of battlefield setbacks for Russia in its war in Ukraine, top Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, made unsubstantiated accusations that Ukraine was manufacturing such an explosive device, which scatters radioactive waste. The Russians, without providing evidence, alleged the Ukrainians planned to make the purported bomb look like Russia’s doing.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, alleged in a letter to Security Council members last week that Ukraine’s nuclear research facility and mining company “received direct orders from (President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy’s regime to develop such a dirty bomb.”
Western nations have called Moscow’s repeated claim “transparently false.” Ukrainian authorities dismissed it as an attempt to distract attention from Moscow’s own alleged plans to detonate a dirty bomb as a way to justify a further escalation of hostilities.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said the investigated sites “are under IAEA safeguards and have been visited regularly by IAEA inspectors,” whose mission is detecting undeclared nuclear activities and materials related to the development of dirty bombs.
“The IAEA inspected one of the two locations a month ago and no undeclared nuclear activities or materials were found there,” the agency said in a statement Monday.
The U.N.’s atomic energy watchdog also has had on-site monitors at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Fighting around near Europe’s largest nuclear power station has created worries of a possibly catastrophic leak there.
The Ukrainian president’s office said Tuesday that cities and towns around the plant experienced more heavy shelling between Monday and Tuesday. In Nikopol, a city which faces the plant from across the wide Dnieper River, over a dozen apartment buildings, a kindergarten, and various private businesses were damaged, the office said.
Russian shelling hit 14 towns and villages in the eastern Donetsk region Monday and into Tuesday, destroying sections of railway track, damaging a power line and taking down mobile communications in some areas. A missile also struck the city of Kramatorsk, which hosts the Ukrainian army’s headquarters.
The shelling killed three civilians and wounded three others, the region’s governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said. Donetsk is one of four regions illegally annexed by Moscow last month, and continues to see fierce clashes as Russian forces press their grinding attack on the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
Another woman was killed after Russian rockets slammed into apartment buildings and a school in the southern city of Mykolayiv, its mayor reported Tuesday.
Ukraine was still grappling Tuesday with the consequences of Mondays’ massive barrage of Russian strikes, which disrupted power and water supplies in multiple Ukrainian cities and villages.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said authorities restored electricity and running water in the capital’s residential buildings but that rolling power outages would continue in the city because of significant power shortages.
Kyiv region Gov. Oleksiy Kuleba said Tuesday that 20,000 apartments remained without power.
“Russia has opened an energy front, and is using energy to blackmail the civilian population, provoking hunger and cold in Ukraine,” Kuleba said on Ukrainian TV.
Ukraine’s state energy company, Ukrenergo, said in a statement Tuesday that seven regions would experience rolling blackouts “to reduce the load on the (energy) grid, maintain a stable balance within the system and avoid repeated failures.”
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, subway service was suspended again on Tuesday, according to the subway’s Telegram page. No reason for the suspension was given.
In the occupied Kherson region, Russian-installed authorities sought to evacuate up to 70,000 more people living within 15 kilometers (9 miles) of the Dnieper River in anticipation of a Ukrainian counteroffensive pushing deeper into the region. The effort was already underway on Tuesday morning, according to the Kremlin-appointed governor of the region Vladimir Saldo.
In Russia, the regular fall draft got underway Tuesday with a total of 120,000 men expected to be conscripted within the next two months. Russian military officials have assured that conscripts will not be sent to fight in Ukraine, including to the annexed regions.
This year’s fall draft was scheduled to start in October, but was delayed by one month because of the partial mobilization of 300,000 men, which was declared completed on Monday. Kremlin critics have warned that the call-up could resume after the fall draft is over and military enlistment offices are freed up from processing conscripts.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that of the 300,000 men drafted in the partial call-up announced by Putin on Sept. 21, 87,000 were deployed to Ukraine. Some 3,000 military instructors with combat experience acquired this year in Ukraine are involved in training draftees, Shoigu said.
Activists and reports by Russian media and The Associated Press said many of the mobilized reservists were inexperienced, were told to procure basic items such as medical kits and flak jackets themselves, and did not receive training before they were sent off to fight. Some were killed within days of being called up.
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2022-11-01T13:33:00+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/ap-un-nuclear-agency-starts-probe-of-russian-dirty-bomb-claim/
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with mercenary expert Sean McFate about recent recruiting strategies by the Wagner Group due to Russian losses in Ukraine.
Copyright 2022 NPR
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with mercenary expert Sean McFate about recent recruiting strategies by the Wagner Group due to Russian losses in Ukraine.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-08-22T21:49:27+00:00
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klcc.org
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https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-22/a-kremlin-linked-mercenary-group-is-now-openly-recruiting-for-the-war-in-ukraine
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NY Burlington VT Zone Forecast for Wednesday, January 4, 2023
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National Weather Service Burlington VT
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
NYZ028-051900-
Eastern Clinton-
Including the cities of Champlain and Plattsburgh
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of light rain, mainly this
morning. Highs around 40, except in the mid 40s along Lake
Champlain. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph this
morning. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and freezing rain
until midnight, then a slight chance of rain and snow after
midnight. Near steady temperature in the mid 30s. Light and
variable winds. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Light and variable
winds. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow or rain showers.
Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds
around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to
20. Highs in the upper 20s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
Lows in the mid 20s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper
30s. Lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
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NYZ031-051900-
Western Clinton-
Including the cities of Dannemora and Ellenburg
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of light rain, mainly this morning.
Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain until
midnight, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow after
midnight. Lows in the upper 20s. Light and variable winds. Chance
of precipitation 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. Light and variable
winds. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 30s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 10 above.
Highs in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20. Highs in
the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
Lows around 20.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.
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NYZ026-051900-
Northern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of Massena and Norfolk
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of light rain, mainly this morning.
Highs in the upper 30s. Southeast winds around 10 mph, becoming
southwest this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy until midnight, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds around 10 mph until
midnight, becoming light and variable.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Light and variable
winds. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows in the mid 20s.
West winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 30s.
West winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 10 above.
Highs in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs
in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s. Highs around 30.
$$
NYZ087-051900-
Southwestern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of Ogdensburg, Potsdam, and Gouverneur
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain this morning, then a slight
chance of rain showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s. South winds around 10 mph until midnight,
becoming light and variable. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Light and variable
winds, becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows in the mid 20s.
West winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 15. Highs
in the upper 20s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
Highs in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
Highs in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s. Highs around 30.
$$
NYZ029-051900-
Southeastern St. Lawrence-
Including the cities of South Colton and Star Lake
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain this morning. Highs in the
upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy until midnight, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s.
Light and variable winds. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Snow
accumulation up to 1 inch possible. Highs in the mid 30s. Light
and variable winds. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Light snow accumulation
possible. Lows in the mid 20s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance
of snow 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no additional snow accumulation. Highs around
30. West winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 10 to 15.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 30. Lows
in the lower 20s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s. Highs around 30.
$$
NYZ027-051900-
Northern Franklin-
Including the cities of Fort Covington and Malone
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of light rain. Highs in
the mid 30s. East winds around 10 mph this morning, becoming
light and variable.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy until midnight, then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of snow after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s.
Light and variable winds. Chance of snow 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Light and variable
winds. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Light snow accumulation possible. Lows in the upper 20s. West
winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no additional snow accumulation. Highs in the
lower 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 10 to 15.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.
Lows around 20.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower
20s. Highs around 30.
$$
NYZ030-051900-
Southern Franklin-
Including the cities of Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of light rain this morning. Highs
around 40. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain until midnight,
then partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow after midnight.
Lows in the upper 20s. Light and variable winds. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow. A chance of rain in the
afternoon. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch possible. Highs in the
mid 30s. Light and variable winds, becoming southwest around
10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Light snow accumulation
possible. Lows in the mid 20s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance
of snow 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Little or no additional snow accumulation. Highs in the
upper 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows around 10 above.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.
Lows around 20.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 20s. Highs in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s.
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NYZ035-051900-
Eastern Essex-
Including the cities of Port Henry and Ticonderoga
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the mid 40s. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph this
morning.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of rain until midnight, then
partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow after
midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Light and variable winds. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow and rain. Little or
no snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Light and variable
winds. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. Light and variable
winds.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain showers. Highs in
the upper 30s. Northwest winds around 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 30.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s. Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper
30s. Lows in the mid 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
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NYZ034-051900-
Western Essex-
Including the cities of Lake Placid and Newcomb
609 AM EST Thu Jan 5 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain this morning. Highs in
the lower 40s. South winds around 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph this
morning. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain until
midnight, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow after
midnight. Lows around 30. Light and variable winds. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...A chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the
upper 30s. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow or rain showers.
Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds
around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 20. Highs
in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
Highs in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
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2023-01-05T11:31:59+00:00
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expressnews.com
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BOISE, Idaho —
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
A local indie filmmaker’s movie premiere was canceled after public outcry over his past conduct.
Bill Doty’s film “Fugued Up!” was set to be screened at the Egyptian Theatre on May 4 — but the event was called off.
Doty said the film was canceled because someone called the Egyptian and told them he was a “sex predator,” and protests were planned the day of the showing.
The Egyptian did not respond to a request for comment.
Numerous people on Facebook who are a part of the film industry in Idaho protested the premiere of Doty’s film online, citing his alleged past conduct with women as a reason the film should not be shown. Multiple women on Facebook said in their posts that Doty acted inappropriately with them and people they know. Doty has denied these accusations, and no charges have been filed in connection with them.
Doty, 53, who is a creator and partner of the marketing agency Senestre Creative, was charged in 2017 for second-degree stalking, a misdemeanor, and video voyeurism, a felony. He pleaded not guilty.
Doty reached a Rule 11 plea agreement, which is an agreement entered into by the parties for a specific sentence if the defendant pleads guilty to a certain criminal charge.
He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace and a misdemeanor charge of using a telephone to harass, threaten, or intimidate and served six days in jail.
Doty has denied the stalking and voyeurism charges and said they were “dropped.”
“The voyeurism charges, like I said, Idaho has weird laws so they didn’t know what to do with it,” Doty said.
Court documents show that Doty’s former fiancee, identified as E.D., said after a turbulent relationship and breakup, Doty stalked and harassed her. Court documents also show a protective order.
The Idaho Press does not identify victims of potential harassment.
“The defendant then proceeded to stalk me for over a year despite me cutting off all communication on my end,” E.D.’s statement said. “I could not go more than a month without hearing from him and it was a constantly sinking, sick feeling in my stomach knowing he was not leaving me alone.”
E.D. went on to say in the court statement that Doty kept insinuating he would distribute naked photos of her to people in his circle.
“He then did so, verified, to two different people, although I suspect many more in his ‘network’ may have them as well,” she said in the document.
“I never sent any nude pictures to anyone nor committed revenge porn,” Doty said.
Catrine McGregor, a casting director and producer with Blue Banner Films LLC, said that Doty came to her years ago and sent her the script for the film. She said she liked it, and began working with Doty for production.
Later, it came to her attention that Doty had a history with the law after a local actor brought up the charges to her.
McGregor said Doty admitted to disturbing the peace and using a telephone to harass someone in a brief meeting with her.
“He said ‘can we go on and make a movie?’ and I said ‘yes’. Because if I worked with people that had never had anything, I wouldn’t make a movie,” McGregor said.
Lana Westbrook, who has been outspoken against Doty’s film being premiered due to his past, said that he had been harassing her through a website domain that Westbrook said he purchased. Westbrook dated Doty in 2012 for nearly six weeks, she said.
The Idaho Press confirmed that the website, boisefilmfestival.com, as of Wednesday morning had a message on its main page claiming that the Boise Film Festival was “destroyed” by Westbrook because she ran off with the festival’s funding. Westbrook disputes the claim made on the site.
On Wednesday afternoon, the website was no longer available.
In a Feb. 2, 2016, email from Doty to Westbrook and her attorney, Doty said, “My only fault was making a website for some people who registered the film festival name because we all thought it was funny.”
Westbrook said the domain was most likely to get her attention after years of “ignoring his advances.”
“Seven years later, the site is back up with slanderous information,” Westbrook said on Monday. “At present, I am volunteering with a local missing child’s case and this information has impacted my PR work. I’ve been trolled on Twitter and called a fraud thanks to a sociopath who won’t leave me alone. It triggered my PTSD and caused multiple emotional breakdowns.”
Doty said he bought it years ago, but with threats of being sued by Westbrook, he said he gave it up and it remains in the hands of someone else.
Doty is currently on probation in the 2017 case.
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2022-05-21T17:40:41+00:00
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Canadian businessman Geoff Cumming on Wednesday promised 250 million Australian dollars ($172 million) over 20 years to fight the next pandemic in Australia’s largest ever donation to medical research.
The donation to Melbourne’s The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, also known as the Doherty Institute, will go toward creating the Cumming Global Center for Pandemic Therapeutics.
The center will develop new technologies to treat future pathogens of pandemic potential.
“We’re trying to provide protection for Australia, for the world,” Cumming, a Melbourne resident, told reporters. “We will have more pandemics."
Doherty Institute director Sharon Lewin said her institute planned to raise AU$1.5 billion ($1.03 billion) over the next decade. The Victoria state government has committed AU$75 million ($52 million) to the project.
She described COVID-19 therapeutics as an area of “significant underinvestment.”
During the first year of the pandemic, AU$137 billion ($94 billion) was publicly invested globally in vaccines compared to just AU$7 billion ($4.8 billion) in therapeutics.
“We’re really looking at developing the technologies for the future, not the technologies we currently have,” Lewin told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
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2022-08-31T10:03:08+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Canadian-donates-172-million-to-Australian-17409344.php
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Randal Lee Mackey, 68, was born in Lander, Wyoming on May 22, 1954, to Herbert Leroy and Dorothy Marie (Bronnenberg) Mackey. Randy died at home on Wednesday April 5 after a short battle with lung cancer. Randy attended Washington Elementary School, Lincoln Junior High and Billings Senior High School. He worked as a gas station attendant until he joined the Union Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 708 in 1971. Randy wed Bonnie Krueger in 1974 and from that union came three girls. Nicole, Stephanie and Brandy. In 1981 he married Susan McLaughlin, with whom he shared the next 40 years.
For 35 years his hard work and dedication led him to the position of superintendent for Bechtel. His career took him to many different places including Montana, Arizona, Vermont, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Washington.
Randy enjoyed grilling, listening to music and having a cold Bud Light. He enjoyed golfing, boating, fishing and hunting. Randy is preceded in death by his wife Susan Mackey; Mother Dorothy Limpp; Father Jack Limpp; grandson Cole Deines, and mother-in-law, Fern Stauch.
He is survived by his brother Herb Mackey (Pat); his sister Shelly Wierzbinski (Mike); three daughters: Nicole (Derek) Lauwers, Stephanie (Sean) McNamara and Brandy (Daniel) Mustoe. He had seven grandchildren: Dylan and Abby Deines, Seamus and Sullivan McNamara, and Keira, Emily, and Bridgette Mustoe and his 11 nieces and nephews.
Memorial Service will take place Tuesday April 11, 2023 at 11 a.m. at Cremation and Funeral Gallery, 29 Eighth Street West in Billings and a reception following the services at the American Legion, 1540 Broadwater Avenue. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the National Amputation Foundation or the charity of your choice.
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2023-04-09T06:05:24+00:00
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billingsgazette.com
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https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/randal-lee-mackey/article_7317131d-7e6a-59cb-8f2d-59dd487a3b38.html
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At Jefferson County Public Schools, administrators and teachers are preparing for the upcoming school year.
“This is the school response protocol that we use,” said Jeff Pierson, the interim executive director for the Department of School Safety at Jefferson County Public Schools.
Like many school districts, they are preparing to keep kids safe this fall. The recent events in Uvalde added to the burden many safety experts face.
“This year, some of our big points of emphasis are really around logical thinking around your building. What types of things do you need to be knowledgeable around locked doors? What type of doors are accessible to people?” Pierson said.
For security consulting companies, it’s been a busy summer.
“We’ve been pretty busy getting contacted by schools from the elementary school level through high school and even colleges. They’ve contacted us to come in and do security assessments,” Joe Lawless, a security consultant and Senior Security and Transportation Specialist at The Edward David Company, said.
Lawless looks at what technologies and systems schools have in place, the training and drills they practice, and their relationship with local law enforcement.
“The first thing we do is go into these schools and we do a physical security assessment. We look at locks, closed circuit television, buzzers, buzz people in and out, access control,” he explained.
There’s a lot of focus on the basics. But they also look at what’s being discussed industry-wide.
“I think at the national level, you're always going to hear about the latest and greatest,” Pierson said.
“There’s a lot of fad issues that come on and some of those are very good. Some of those items are very useful in the case of a shooting,” Lawless said.
From bulletproof backpacks and whiteboards to new safety systems, new products pop up frequently with the purpose of helping protect schools.
“The inquiries have increased greatly since the last shooting, just based off what our product is and does,” Peter Facchini, the co-founder and CEO of ProtectED Rooms, said.
Protected rooms, which was started a couple years ago, designed a mobile piece of furniture that fits into classrooms. These bookcases are built with bullet resistant panels and a latch system.
“It’s designed to be rolled in front of an opening or a door from inside the room and latched to the wall,” Facchini explained.
Another company, National Safety Shelters, took an existing tornado shelter already in production and turned it into a multipurpose safety pod or room, depending on the size.
“It’s best not to let somebody in the school in the first place, but as we’ve seen throughout the last 20 year or so, even when some schools have those things in place, they don't always prevent the person from getting in,” Dennis Corrado, the president and co-founder of National Safety Shelters, said. “What we’re offering is a safety net should those things fail.”
Lawless said these are great tools, but they should supplement what is already in place.
“You can't lose sight of your training, what the protocols are,” he said.
“It’s about making sure you keep it what we call safety 101. Locking doors, ensuring that the things that you do every single day, muscle memory, drills with kids, those things are very important to us,” Pierson said.
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2022-08-01T22:21:06+00:00
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ktvh.com
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https://www.ktvh.com/news/national/schools-weigh-options-for-safety-as-classes-start-up-for-fall
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At first glance, the video Ethan Mollick posted on LinkedIn last month looks and sounds like what you'd expect from a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Wearing a checked shirt, he's giving a talk about a topic he's deeply familiar with: entrepreneurship.
Sure, his delivery is stiff and his mouth moves a bit strangely. But if you didn't know him well, you probably wouldn't think twice.
But the video is not Ethan Mollick. It's a deepfake Mollick himself created, using artificial intelligence to generate his words, his voice and his moving image.
With just a photograph & 60 seconds of audio, you can now create a deepfake of yourself in just a matter of minutes by combining a few cheap AI tools. I've tried it myself, and the results are mind-blowing, even if they're not completely convincing. More: https://t.co/6GfHrI0YhQ
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) February 10, 2023
"It was mostly to see if I could, and then realizing that it's so much easier than I thought," Mollick said in an interview with NPR.
Like many who have been closely following the rapid acceleration in AI technology, Mollick is excited about the potential for these tools to change the way we work and help us be more creative.
But he's among a growing chorus of people worried that this proliferation of what's known as "generative AI" will supercharge propaganda and influence campaigns by bad actors.
Mollick teaches would-be entrepreneurs and executives about innovation. Lately he's gotten deeply into a new set of AI-powered tools that anyone can now use to create highly plausible images, text, audio and video — from chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing to image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney.
"I've stumbled into being a AI whisperer," Mollick said, laughing. He now requires his students to use AI and chronicles his own experiments on his social media feeds and newsletter.
Quick, easy and cheap
Mollick started with ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI that exploded in popularity when it debuted in November and has kicked off a race among tech companies to launch generative AI.
"I said, 'Write a script that Ethan Mollick would say about entrepreneurship,' and it did a pretty good job," he said. Next, he turned to a tool that can clone a voice from a short audio clip.
"I gave it a minute of me talking about some unrelated topic like cheese and then pasted the speech in and it generated the sound file."
Finally, he fed that audio and a photo of himself into another AI app.
"You put in a script and it realistically moves the mouth around and moves the eyes around and makes you shrug. And that was all I needed," he said.
It was quick, easy and cheap. Mollick spent $11 and just eight minutes making it.
"By the end, I had me — a fake me — giving a fake lecture I've never given in my life, but sounds like me, in my fake voice," he said.
Mollick posted his experiment online as a demonstration, and a warning, that the risks from this kind of AI are not in the distant future — they're already here.
"I think people aren't worried enough about this," he said. "I'm somebody who's actually pretty pro this technology in a lot of ways. But I also think that we're not ready for the social implications of being able to spoof people at scale. ... The idea that you could do this for anyone is sort of a new phenomenon."
Fake video and images of Biden and Trump already exist
Concerns about deepfakes have been around for years. What's different now is technology has advanced and become accessible to anybody with a smartphone or computer.
People are having fun using them for jokes and memes, like a viral TikTok trend of videos using synthetic audio to spoof Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Joe Biden playing video games.
But deepfakes are already being used for political ends.
Jack Posobiec, a right-wing activist known for promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, recently created a fake video of President Biden announcing a draft to send American soldiers to Ukraine.
AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war pic.twitter.com/896Htrtteu
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 27, 2023
While Posobiec explained that the video was a fake created by AI, he also described it as "a sneak preview, coming attractions, a glimpse into the world beyond."
Many people went on to share the video without any disclaimer that it's not real.
This week, AI-generated fake images depicting what it might look like if former President Trump were arrested were viewed by millions of Twitter users, amid speculation that a New York grand jury may soon indict the former president. A likely faked photo of Chinese leader Xi Jinping meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was also widely shared online.
AI-generated propaganda and scams are proliferating
The research firm Graphika identified the first known case of a state-aligned influence operation using deepfakes late last year. The researchers found pro-China bots sharing fake news videos, featuring AI-generated anchors, on Facebook and Twitter.
Meanwhile, scammers are using fake audio to steal money by posing as family members in crisis.
"The information ecosphere is going to get polluted," said Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist at New York University who studies AI.
He says we're not prepared for what it means to live in a world full of AI-generated content, and he fears widespread access to this technology will further erode our ability to trust anything we see online.
"A bad actor can take one of these tools ... and use this to make unimaginable amounts of really plausible, almost terrifying misinformation that the average person is not going to recognize as misinformation," Marcus said.
"That may be complete with data, fake references to studies that haven't even existed before. And not just one story like this, which a human could write, but thousands or millions or billions, because you can automate these things."
Text from AIs will be harder to spot than pictures and video
Marcus and others watching the rapid release of AI to the public are particularly concerned about a new set of tools that create text — the technology that powers Bing, ChatGPT and Bard, the new chatbot Google released this week.
These tools are trained to identify patterns in language by ingesting vast swaths of text from the internet. They can generate news articles, essays, Twitter posts and conversations that sound like they were written by real people.
"Language models are a natural tool for propagandists," said Josh Goldstein, a research fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology. He co-authored a recent paper examining how these AI-powered tools could be misused for influence operations.
"Using a language model, propagandists can create lots and lots of original text, and they can do it quickly and at little cost," he said.
That means a troll farm may need fewer workers and that widescale propaganda campaigns could be in reach for a larger variety of bad actors.
What's more, researchers have found AI-created content can be really convincing.
"You can generate persuasive propaganda, even if you're not entirely fluent in English, or even if you don't know the idioms of your target community," Goldstein said.
Generated text can also be harder to detect than faked video or audio. Online campaigns that use AI to write posts may appear to be more organic than the copy and paste messages usually associated with bots.
And even if AI-written content is not always successful at persuasion, for propagandists that's a feature, not a bug. The fear is this profusion of generated text will amplify what's called the "firehose of falsehood," a propaganda strategy that indiscriminately sprays out false and often contradictory messages.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon had another phrase for this: "flooding the zone with s***."
"If you want to flood the zone with s***, there is no better tool than this," Marcus said.
To be clear, researchers have not yet identified a propaganda or influence operation using generated text.
Companies are scrambling to build safeguards
The tech companies launching AI tools are scrambling to put guardrails in place to prevent abuse, as well as the technology's own habit of simply making things up (known in the field as "hallucinating") and behaving bizarrely.
But there are open source versions these companies don't control. And at least one powerful AI language tool, made by Facebook parent Meta, has already leaked online, where it was quickly posted to the anonymous message board 4chan.
Meanwhile, tech companies are rushing to incorporate AI into more and more products, from search to productivity tools to operating systems.
Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, described it as "an arms race to arm every other arms race."
Raskin and his co-founder, Tristan Harris, are known for the documentary The Social Dilemma, where they raised alarms about the societal harms of social media. They've now turned their focus to warning about the next iteration of those harms enabled by irresponsibly released AI.
Raskin said he sees big potential benefits from AI and acknowledges we will all have to learn to live with and use these tools.
"But that's very different than having these technologies baked into fundamental infrastructure," like consumer software and social apps, "before we know that they are safe," he said.
Mollick, the Wharton professor who deepfaked himself, worries none of this will curb the speed of Silicon Valley's AI frenzy.
"The cat has come out of the bag," he said, "and we're all dealing with cats everywhere."
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2023-04-05T00:51:18+00:00
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wqcs.org
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Clark, Charlotte Ann, 77. Glenpool, Educator. Died Thursday, March 23. Private family services. Schaudt Glenpool-Bixby Funeral Service, Glenpool, OK
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2023-03-26T05:24:42+00:00
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https://tulsaworld.com/obituaries/deathnotices/clark-charlotte-ann-77-glenpool/article_b0701455-1f56-5d13-a21c-1410642ff93f.html
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PANAMA CITY, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA) announces the following events:
We encourage our listeners to join the conference via webcast. Please access the website several minutes prior to the scheduled start time, allowing sufficient time to register, download and install any necessary software.
If you are unable to listen or access this presentation at the scheduled time, a webcast replay option will be available at the above website shortly after the conference.
Copa Holdings is a leading Latin American provider of passenger and cargo services. The Company, through its operating subsidiaries, provides service to countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. For more information visit www.copa.com.
CONTACT: Daniel Tapia – Panamá
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011 (507) 304-2774
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2023-01-07T06:10:06+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2023/01/06/copa-holdings-announces-fourth-quarter-2022-financial-results-release-schedule/
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(CNN) — Jane Birkin, the British singer and actress who found fame in France, has died aged 76, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Sunday, citing its sources.
Birkin was born in London but moved to Paris when she was 20 to work on a movie called “Slogan.”
She fell in love with the movie’s star, French actor and singer Serge Gainsbourg, and the two quickly became the subject of widespread public fascination. The couple often collaborated professionally, memorably performing together on “Je t’aime… moi non plus.”
While her relationship with Gainsbourg made Birkin a household name, Birkin quickly become a star in her own right and a fashion icon in France, despite being British.
She was the inspiration for the famous Birkin bag by French luxury house Hermes.
“Mom represents a very Parisian style, which is funny because she’s not,” her daughter Lou Doillon told CNN in 2017.
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2023-07-16T15:42:11+00:00
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wsvn.com
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https://wsvn.com/entertainment/british-born-actress-and-singer-jane-birkin-who-found-fame-in-france-dies-age-76/
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- More than 5 out of 6 (84%) Americans fear a recession is on the horizon this year
- Significantly fewer U.S. consumers feel confident about their financial situation compared to last quarter
- Due to recession fears, nearly 8 in 10 adults are making lifestyle changes, such as delaying large purchases on a house or car
- 74% say their concerns about inflation have increased
CHICAGO, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - This quarter's BMO Real Financial Progress Index results found that Americans are growing increasingly concerned about rising consumer prices, inflation, and a potential recession. A total of 84% of Americans said they are concerned about a recession occurring by the end of the year. Over the past three months, nearly three quarters (74%) of Americans said their concerns about inflation have increased. More than 70% feel their financial momentum is threatened by higher grocery bills (78%) and the rising cost of gas (76%). In order to prepare for a potential recession, 76% of Americans said they are making lifestyle changes such as delaying large purchases on a house or car, paying down debt, and cutting back on holiday spending.
These findings are from the latest BMO Real Financial Progress Index, a quarterly survey conducted by BMO and Ipsos that measures Americans' sentiment around financial confidence. The survey was conducted from July 27 to August 29, 2022.
Concerns vary significantly by generation. Older Americans report feeling more concerned than younger generations. Between ages 55-64, 82% said their concerns about inflation have increased over the last three months, compared to 62% of those between aged 18-24 and 70% of those aged 25-34.
Americans are not waiting to take action to improve their financial situations in the event of a recession. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans (76%) said they plan to adjust their lifestyles in response to recession concerns:
- 34% are delaying major purchases, like buying a new home or car.
- 29% are paying down debt.
- 28% are planning to cut back on holiday spending.
- 24% are allocating more income to savings.
- 14% are staying in a job they don't enjoy.
U.S. adults report feeling significantly less financially secure compared to this time last year. A significant decline in confidence is also reported compared to last quarter.
- Americans who report being "much more" financially secure decreased to 39% from 50% a year ago and 47% last quarter.
- Americans who said they feel "much less" financially secure, rose to 27% from 16% in the same quarter a year ago.
- The number of Americans who said they are making financial progress decreased to 54% from 62% a year ago.
- More than 40% of Americans under age 35 do not have enough savings to cover an emergency.
"It's clear that Americans are feeling the weight of inflation with concerns of a recession in mind, and now, many are going so far as to put off their homebuying journey or buying a new car," said Paul Dilda, Head of U.S. Consumer Strategy for BMO Financial Group. "BMO's findings only underscore what we know is crucial right now - that everyone should look at their finances and develop a solid plan after talking with their banker or financial advisor. With the right advice and tools, people can continue to reach their financial goals and make financial progress through inflationary periods."
Most Americans understand the importance of having a budget. However, there is room for improvement as the Index revealed 25% of Americans do not track financial progress. The number is higher among women (30%) compared to men (21%).
BMO offers the following tips to help Americans make financial progress:
- Talk to a financial advisor who can help you review and adjust your budget to account for rising costs so you can continue to save and make financial progress.
- Utilize digital banking tools and apps to help track spending patterns and save. 78% of Americans said mobile banking tools have helped them make financial progress. The number is higher among younger generations (84% of those aged 25-34 compared to 65% 65+).
- Develop a savings and retirement plan with your banker or financial advisor who can help create structured long-term financial goals and help keep you on track. Assess ongoing expenses such as streaming services, cable subscriptions, gym memberships or cell phone plans to negotiate lower prices or see if any of these can be reduced or eliminated.
- Postpone big-ticket purchases, such as new appliances or expensive vacations. Due to inflation, some price increases may be temporary, in which case it may be worthwhile to wait.
- Review monthly payments, such insurance bills, and monthly subscriptions to ensure you are getting the most for your money.
- Speak with an expert to help ensure your savings and spending goals are still on track to reach financial goals such as buying a house or car. If not, adjust.
To find out how BMO can help customers make financial progress, visit: https://www.bmoharris.com/main/personal
Launched in February 2021, the BMO Real Financial Progress Index is an indicator of how consumers feel about their personal finances and whether they are making financial progress. The index aims to spark dialogue that will help consumers reach their financial goals and to humanize a topic that causes anxiety for many – money.
The research detailed in this document was conducted by Ipsos in the United States from July 27 to August 29, 2022. A sample of n=3,402 adults ages 18+ were collected. Quotas and weighting were used to ensure the sample's composition reflects that of the U.S. population according to census parameters.
For more information on how BMO's products and services can help consumers make real financial progress, visit http://www.bmoharris.com.
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.07 trillion as of July 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
For further information:
Media contact: Lucas Seiler,
lucas.seiler@bmo.com, 312-931-5351
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2022-09-28T11:41:24+00:00
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kswo.com
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SpryPoint Leverages Strategic Investment to Expand Team and Meet Growing Demand for Cloud Customer Service and Operations Platform
CHARLOTTETOWN, PE, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SpryPoint, a leading provider of enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to the utility industry, today announced it has received a strategic investment from Norwest, a leading venture and growth equity investment firm. With this investment, SpryPoint will build on its significant business momentum over the past three years, expanding its team and positioning the company to continue increasing market share of its mission-critical, cloud-native solutions for smart utilities.
"We started SpryPoint in 2011 with a very clear and simple goal: to bring cloud-based enterprise software to the utility market to improve the lives of our customers and their consumers," said Keir Pollard, SpryPoint's founder, Managing Partner and CTO. "We have effectively led this evolution, developing and delivering advanced solutions that help utilities address the changing expectations of their customers. We look forward to working with Norwest as we continue to accelerate our innovation and extend our leadership in the utility technology market."
Utilities are at an inflection point as they adopt smart grid and distributed generation models, while simultaneously seeking to improve customer engagement and embrace mobility. However, utilities face significant challenges in adapting traditional software solutions to meet their new marketplace reality.
SpryPoint helps utilities evolve and optimize performance with its cloud-native customer service and operations platform. SpryPoint's approach enables smart utilities to standardize on the platform for key customer services and operational needs, while leveraging native interoperability to connect with other information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems in their technology stack.
SpryPoint's SaaS model has been adopted by progressive utilities across the United States and Canada. The company has seen 100% growth over the past three years, while operating profitably. Demand for SpryPoint's cloud-native solutions, including its customer information system (SpryCIS), has resulted in the company gaining significant traction upmarket. The flexibility of the platform enables utilities of all sizes – including those serving populations of over 400,000 – to dynamically support customer service and operations.
"Evolving consumer expectations, dynamic energy pricing, electric vehicles, security threats and physical infrastructure advancements are pushing legacy utility customer information systems (CIS) to the brink. SpryPoint is delivering critical innovation to the market with the industry's leading cloud-native CIS platform," said Ran Ding, Partner at Norwest. "With an impressive history as a bootstrapped company, SpryPoint has catapulted to the forefront of the utilities CIS market. We are excited to partner with SpryPoint in the long-overdue revolution of the utility software market."
SpryPoint's core leadership team will remain, with Kyle Strang assuming the role of CEO. Keir Pollard will continue as CTO, along with Ryan Cawley as Vice President of Business Development and Kevin Clancy as Senior Vice President of Services.
As part of the investment, Norwest Partner Ran Ding and Vice President Chris Sondej will join the SpryPoint board of directors.
Miller Thomson LLP served as legal advisor and Bonfire Capital as financial advisor to SpryPoint for this transaction.
About SpryPoint
Founded in 2011, SpryPoint is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for the utility sector. The expert team has extensive experience serving utilities across North America, and is dedicated to helping clients improve their operations and better serve their customers. SpryPoint solutions include advanced billing and customer relationship management tools, as well as powerful analytics and data management capabilities. The company has been recognized by industry experts and clients alike for bringing value and innovation to the utilities market. For more information, visit www.sprypoint.com.
About Norwest
Norwest is a leading venture and growth equity investment firm managing more than $12.5 billion in capital. Since its inception, Norwest has invested in more than 650 companies and currently partners with more than 230 companies in its venture and growth equity portfolio. The firm invests in early- to late-stage businesses across a wide range of sectors with a focus on consumer, enterprise and healthcare. The Norwest team offers a deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses. Norwest has offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, with subsidiaries in India and Israel. For more information, please visit www.nvp.com. Follow Norwest on Twitter @NorwestVP.
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2023-03-06T16:01:16+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/03/06/sprypoint-partners-with-norwest-fuel-growth-cloud-native-solutions-utilities/
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MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of Pantokrator Monastery, a metal library door swings open.
There, deep inside the medieval fortified monastery in the Mount Athos monastic Orthodox Christian community, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts that include the oldest of their kind in the world.
The libraries of the self-governed community, established more than 1,000 years ago on northern Greece's Athos peninsula, are a repository of rare, centuries-old works in several languages including Greek, Russian and Romanian.
Many have been extensively studied, but not the Ottoman Turkish documents, products of an occupying bureaucracy that ruled northern Greece from the late 14th century — well before the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, fell to the Ottomans in 1453 — until the early 20th when the area became Greek again.
Byzantine scholar Jannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis says it's impossible to understand Mount Athos' economy and society under Ottoman rule without consulting these documents, which regulated the monks' dealings with secular authorities.
"Ottoman was the official language of state," he told The Associated Press from the library of the Pantokrator Monastery, one of 20 on the heavily wooded peninsula.
Niehoff-Panagiotidis, a professor at the Free University of Berlin, said the oldest of the roughly 25,000 Ottoman works found in the monastic libraries dates to 1374, or 1371. That's older than any known in the world, he said, adding that in Istanbul, as the Ottomans renamed Constantinople when they made the city their own capital, the oldest archives only go back to the late 15th century.
"The first documents that shed light (on the first period of Ottoman history) are saved here, on Mount Athos," he said, seated at a table piled with documents and books. Others, the more rare ones, are stored in large wooden drawers.
These include highly ornate Sultans' firmans — or decrees — deeds of ownership and court decisions.
"The overwhelming majority are legal documents," said Anastasios Nikopoulos, a jurist and scientific collaborator of the Free University of Berlin who's been working with Niehoff-Panagiotidis on the project for the past few months.
And the manuscripts tell a story at odds with the traditional understanding in Greece of Ottoman depredations in the newly conquered areas, through the confiscation of the Mount Athos monasteries' rich real estate holdings. Instead, the new rulers took the community under their wing, preserved its autonomy and protected it from external interference.
"The Sultans' firmans we saw in the tower ... and the Ottoman state's court decisions show that the monks' small democracy was able to gain the respect of all conquering powers," Nikopoulos said. "And that is because Mount Athos was seen as a cradle of peace, culture ... where peoples and civilizations coexisted peacefully."
Nikopoulos said that one of the first actions of Murad II, the Ottoman ruler who conquered Thessaloniki — the closest city to Mount Athos — was to draw up a legal document in 1430 protecting the community.
"That says a lot. The Ottoman sultan himself ensured that the administrative system of Mount Athos was preserved and safeguarded," he said.
Even before that, Niehoff-Panagiotidis added, a sultan issued a mandate laying down strict punishment for intruders after a band of marauding soldiers engaged in minor thieving from one of the monasteries.
"It's strange that the sultans kept Mount Athos, the last remnant of Byzantium, semi-independent and didn't touch it," he said. "They didn't even keep troops here. At the very most they would have a local representative who probably stayed at (the community's administrative center, Karyes) and sipped tea."
Another unexpected revelation, Niehoff-Panagiotidis said, was that for roughly the first two centuries of Ottoman rule no effort was made to impose Islamic law on Mount Athos or nearby parts of northern Greece.
"Mount Athos was something like a continuation of Byzantium," he said.
The community was first granted self-governance through a decree by Byzantine Emperor Basil II, in 883 AD. Throughout its history, women have been forbidden from entering, a ban that still stands. This rule is called "avaton" and the researchers believe that it concerns every form of external administrative or secular intervention that could affect Mount Athos.
Father Theophilos, a Pantokrator monk who is helping with the research, said the documents show the far-flung influence of Mount Athos.
"Their study also illuminates examples of how people can live with each other, principles that are common to all humanity, the seeds of human rights and respect for them, democracy and the principles of social coexistence," he told The Associated Press.
The research project is expected to continue for several months, even years.
"What could emerge in the long term I'll be able to say when we have catalogued and digitized all the documents," Niehoff-Panagiotidis said. "Right now, nobody knows what's hidden here. Perhaps, even older documents."
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2022-10-21T10:35:13+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/arts-and-entertainment/arts-and-entertainment/2022-10-21/greek-monastery-manuscripts-tell-new-story-of-ottoman-rule
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — On the surface, everything looks normal.
There's the East Palestine High School baseball team learning the finer points of baserunning at one edge of Reid Memorial Stadium. At the other, a handful of sprinters dart through the mild March air, the blue parachutes attached to their waists mushrooming behind them as they pick up speed.
Same as it ever was at East Palestine as it transitions from winter to spring sports. Only, not really.
A little over a mile east of the small school — student population 285 — tucked near the Pennsylvania state line, cleanup crews are still dealing with the aftermath of the Feb. 3 train derailment. While no one was hurt, concerns over a potential explosion led state and local officials to approve releasing and burning toxic vinyl chloride from five tanker cars that forced the evacuations of half the village and closed schools for a week.
More than a month later, the cleanup is ongoing. The legal wrangling over who to blame just starting.
Workers in reflective yellow vests are everywhere you look. There are road closures and a seemingly never-ending series of press conferences and photo ops by state and federal officials, the CEO of rail operator Norfolk Southern, and politicians, including former President Donald Trump. Not to mention all kinds of interlopers — from media to attorneys to environmental activists — who have come to poke and prod a community that wouldn't mind simply getting on with things.
“Sometimes it’s like no offense to you guys, but like, when are we going to have our privacy back?” high jumper Mia Lee, who is a senior, told The Associated Press.
While the dark noxious plumes from the accident are gone, a sense of uncertainty remains.
Residents worried about lingering environmental and health impacts, and symptoms such as headaches and rashes, are being told their air and water are safe. Yet that hasn't stopped the spread of what East Palestine athletic director Dwayne Pavkovich describes as "fearmongering" that has disrupted the school's crowded spring sports schedule.
Nearly a dozen schools have pulled out of the series of invitational track meets East Palestine hosts. While Pavkovich stressed he’s not criticizing any school that opts not to come, he also pointed out that the school has provided a link to the results of the Environmental Protection Agency's daily air, water and soil tests in an effort to allay health concerns.
On Wednesday, the high school hosted a panel of scientific and health experts, and invited all of the local school districts. Pavkovich described it as a “proactive approach” in hopes of enticing more teams to compete.
When asked by administrators at other schools what they can do to help, his answer is simple: Come and play us. Give our athletes — particularly seniors who didn’t have a spring sports season as freshmen because of the COVID-19 pandemic — the same opportunities as everyone else.
“We want to create as much normalcy as possible,” he said.
It’s telling of the importance of athletics to East Palestine’s identity that none of the school’s spring sports lost a single player in the aftermath of the derailment.
For Owen Elliott, a golfer during the fall and a center — all 5-foot-10 of him — on the basketball team during the winter, these three months of baseball season represent the end of his competitive athletic career. An apprenticeship to become an electrician awaits the high school senior.
While Elliott believes East Palestine might not be the cleanest place in the world at the moment, he also doesn't have much of a choice. He can't tell you how safe it is. He can tell you this is his last chance to stand on a field next to his friends before the next chapter of his life begins.
“I want to play as many games as I can,” said Elliott. His final baseball season will begin Monday when East Palestine hosts Wellsville High at a turf field 5 miles (8 kilometers) up the road — and typically upwind — of the cleanup that is still likely months from being completed.
It's much the same for Lee, a two-time state qualifier in the high jump who is looking to make it three in her spring season. She's grateful for the opportunity to say goodbye the right way.
It’s an opportunity she wasn’t afforded at the end of basketball season when her Senior Night ceremony was wiped out by the school closure after the derailment. She hoped for another chance when the Bulldogs earned the right to host a playoff game, but their opponent opted to forfeit rather than travel to East Palestine.
“I understand they were scared,” said Lee, who had her Senior Night ceremony tucked into a boys’ basketball game. “But if we’re able to come to school that entire week and live here and, you know, everyone’s still here, I think they should have been able to come for a couple of hours to play a game.”
Her family moved into a house alongside the train tracks four years ago, 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) away from the derailment. She grew so used to the constant rumble of passing trains that she long ago tuned it out.
Until Feb. 3 anyway. Now, whenever she hears a big “thud” she reflexively heads to the window to check things out.
Being at the track — even if it's bartering with her coach in an attempt to get out of running — allows Lee to turn her focus away from everything else. The familiar rhythms of practice and the laughter of Lee's teammates make it easy to forget — for a couple of hours anyway — about the recently installed air quality monitor attached to a pole just outside the stadium, and the uncertainty of what comes next.
“Mentally, I'm fine,” Lee said. “But like if they said my season was cut, that would affect me. But nothing's going on right now. I think I'm OK."
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2023-03-23T14:31:08+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/after-derailment-toxic-burn-student-athletes-seek-normalcy/DS4F5H3IDJHBJCPS7XXROCTULI/
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