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The police department in New Orleans, Louisiana found it needed to attract a more diverse police department and through money from a nonprofit, the department made the decision to work with a local director to create a promotional ad that could help NOPD achieve its diversity goals.
The department worked with filmmaker Crista Rock who says she pitched the idea for a recruitment commercial highlighting the city's "amazing culture." She wanted it to be something that would show an officer standing "tall and proud, protecting what we all represent," Rock said.
And it appeared the department got what it wanted through Rock's vision.
The 30 second ad is exciting, it's colorful and full of fascinating scenes with people celebrating like every moment is worth a party. It's what you'd expect to see in New Orleans in 2023. What the police department didn't expect to see were hateful comments online in response to the recruitment spot. And neither did the ad's director.
Rock said, "I was hopeful that the ad would attract folks who want to be part of our diverse community and embrace us all. I had no idea what a lightening rod it would be."
As NOLA.com reported, the New Orleans police department posted the commercial online to its social media accounts at about 9 a.m. on Wednesday. And hour later, the video was taken down by the department.
A public information officer with NOPD said based on comments under the video's post, the department didn't want anyone to be "offended by the negative commentary," he told NOLA.com.
The comments were called horrible and slanderous.
In one of the remarks, someone said "NOPD doesn't hire sissies," and "why are these grown men shaking ass?," reports said
The ad, which also features a clever usage for part of a quote from the famous American playwright Tennessee Williams, where he says "America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland,” gave the ad much of its character as well.
At the end of the 30 seconds, Rock playfully and somewhat competitively overlays the words "Everywhere else is Cleveland," meant as a powerful statement on the city's unique character and draw for many.
"I honestly thought people wouldn't get the Tennessee Williams joke, and would instead be offended by that. But, instead they were offended by a gay man dancing," Rock said.
The ad was funded with $27,550 from the non profit "New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation," and featured some mainstays of any Mardi Gras including various characters tied in with the history of the celebration.
It also featured backup dancers for bounce music icon and American rapper Big Freedia who has worked with superstars like Beyoncé, most recently featured heavily on her hit "Break My Soul."
The New Orleans police department, which began an outreach program, was responding its placement under federal oversight for not sufficiently fixing issues related to profiling on the basis of ethnicity and LGBTQ status, according to reports.
After the department didn't appear to be working out a way to repost the recruitment video, Rock's view is "NOPD should have stood up against the hate and made a strong stance against it. Instead they pulled the ad and ran. I feel absolutely terrible for all the LGBTQ officers who are looking at this."
As NOPD spokesperson Reese Harper told local media, "The video was removed because we did not want anyone to be offended by the negative commentary."
New Orleans police didn't immediately respond to Scripps News when asked if the department would consider posting the ad again at any point in the future.
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2023-02-18T04:20:49+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/news/national/new-orleans-police-try-recruiting-for-diversity-an-ad-for-their-campaign-drew-hate-speech-online
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (WCBD) – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and fellow lawmakers are set to introduce legislation aimed at increasing the mandatory pilot retirement age.
The “Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act” would raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age from 65 to 67. It would also require pilots over 65 to maintain a first-class medical certification, which must be renewed every six months.
The bill comes at a time when airlines are struggling to maintain pilots and keep flights on track.
“With baby boomers making up half of the airline pilot population, roughly 5,000 fully qualified pilots are being forced to retire each year,” Sen. Graham said. “The wave of forced pilot retirements continues even as hundreds of flights are being canceled due to a shortage of available pilots and crews.”
The retirement age for pilots in the United States was raised from 60 to 65 in 2007 after medical reports concluded age had an “insignificant impact” on performance in the cockpit, and there were safety precautions already in place to prevent accidents in case of incapacitation.
Sen. Graham said this legislation does not change or alter any other qualification beyond the age to become a commercial airline pilot.
Under the bill, air carriers must continue using pilot training and qualification programs approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Cancellations and delays, meanwhile, are increasing in frequency as air travel in the U.S. returns to — and in some cases exceeds — pre-pandemic levels. Major airlines have also increased their efforts to hire and train new pilots to replace those that retired during the earlier stages of pandemic, when demand for air travel was at its lowest points.
Sen. Graham said he hopes the Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act will draw bipartisan support, though Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had already expressed concern over the idea earlier this month.
During an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Buttigieg said the answer to the pilot shortage is not to keep the “Baby Boomer generation in the cockpit indefinitely,” but to attract new pilots to the commercial aviation field.
“These retirement ages are there for a reason, and the reason is safety,” Buttigieg said. “I’m not going to be on board with anything that could compromise safety.”
The Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 65,000 pilots in the U.S. and Canada, also opposes the act.
“This legislation is yet another attempt to distract the conversation from the real issue, which is that some U.S. airlines have clearly failed to plan for the industry’s comeback that we are experiencing today,” said Capt. Joe DePete, the president of ALPA, in a statement issued Monday. “ALPA strongly opposes this proposed legislation, as there is no reason to change the retirement age and doing so would only increase costs for airlines and introduce unnecessary risks to passengers and crew alike.”
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2022-07-26T20:31:42+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/national/republican-lawmakers-want-to-increase-pilot-retirement-age-amid-airline-struggles/
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With new hybrid work models, shifting demographics, and employee preferences companies of all sizes are thinking beyond gym memberships and massages to support employees
NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new benchmarking study from Benepass, a modern benefits platform for People-forward companies, illustrates the impact of the pandemic, continued work from home policies, the tight labor market, and shifting demographics on employee benefits offerings. The company's first ever benchmarking report, which analyzed benefits data from more than 20,000 employees across the U.S., found that traditional health and wellness benefits such as fitness, nutrition, mental health, and spa, beauty and massage were the most popular offerings across companies of all sizes. In a nod to changing employee needs and preferences, the study also uncovered a host of new creative and flexible benefits to support employees are also top of mind, including pet care, food, parental support, tuition reimbursement, and travel and vacation benefits.
"Employees today want to work for organizations that value their well-being, so it makes sense that companies are searching for new ways to prioritize employee wellness, especially as remote and hybrid work blurs the line between work and home. Our study findings show clear signals that companies are seeking to provide benefits that are highly personalized and flexible," said Jaclyn Chen, CEO, Benepass.
Key report findings:
Based on an analysis of benefits data from large, medium, and small U.S. businesses representing 20,000+ employees, the 2022 Benepass Benefits Benchmarking Report found:
- The Rise of Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (DCFSA): Of the various types of pre-tax accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) are the most popular. Dependent care FSAs (DCFSA) ranked second. During the pandemic, parents faced the stress of working from home while their children were in the next room due to closed daycares and schools, raising our overall consciousness of what it means to be a working parent. The popularity of DCFSAs suggests employers continue to explore how to support parents so they can be their best, most productive selves at work.
- Wellness perks most popular offering at large, mid-size and small organizations: Across all company sizes, and industries, the most popular types of perks are fitness and wellness, lifestyle spending accounts (LSAs), and work from home. On average large companies are spending $177/month, medium sized companies spending $108/month, and small companies spending $67/month on fitness and wellness benefits alone. Technology and healthcare organizations are both big spenders when it comes to fitness and wellness benefits with technology companies spending on average $111/monthly and healthcare organizations spending $117/monthly on these perks.
- Lifestyle spending accounts (LSAs) are empowering companies to expand the concept of wellness. LSAs, a relatively new benefit in the market, are non-salaried allowances that enable employees to choose how to best support their work-life balance and well-being. LSAs are fully funded by the employer and were developed on the basis that flexible, employee-led benefits lead to happier, more productive employees. The report found LSAs to be the second-most-popular perk among all companies, with 37% of companies offering it and providing an average of $171 in flexible monthly funds. Given the newness of this perk, many companies also struggle to design the core eligible spending categories. While traditional wellness pillars such as fitness, nutrition, and mental health made up the bulk of eligible spending categories, the inherent flexibility of LSA accounts has empowered companies to expand their well-being support to include spas, food, pet care, travel and vacation, professional development, tuition reimbursement, and parental support.
- WFH perks remain popular and go well beyond buying a desk: Regardless of benchmark segment or industry, many employers provide $500 to $1000 in work from home benefits, which allows employees to purchase high-cost items like a new desk or office chair. With the continued trend toward WFH, the report saw increasing creativity on the part of employers to support employees at home including paying for meals, cleaning services, trash pickup, or water treatments. Technology companies are big spenders when it comes to buying employees meals, spending on average $123/month on the popular perk. This compared to healthcare companies who are spending on average $25/month on food perks.
- Rise in experiential perks to meet preferences of Gen Y, Gen Z: Some companies provide entertainment or cultural experience benefits to help pay for podcasts, music streaming services, concert or theater tickets. This perk is particularly popular amongst tech companies who pay on average $44/month on this benefit. Other unique benefits that are particularly appealing to this demographic include travel benefits for employees to spend on personal vacations and rental homes or one-time rewards to celebrate new hires, birthdays, or work anniversaries.
- Small businesses face pressure to match benefits of larger companies: The study found that while the dollar amount may be less, small businesses were by and large offering the same benefits as large and medium size businesses.
"I think there's an expectation from younger generations for more than just the traditional core offerings. They really want flexibility and choice, and they want their employer to meet them where they're at. When you want high-performing employees, you need to make it easy for them to access the support they need, when they need it. I think it's a generational shift and change from coming out of the pandemic; people are much more aware of and more vocal about their well-being," Kelly Wakefield, senior manager, global benefits, Moderna.
Methodology
Benepass' fintech platform is home to a wealth of customer data regarding employee benefits design and usage. For the 2022 Benepass Benefits Benchmarking Guide, Benepass targeted small, medium-sized, and large U.S.-based employers, leveraging a database of companies representing 20,000+ employees. For each of the included companies, Benepass ensured a high degree of confidence in the accuracy, quality, and relevancy of the data. Do you have thoughts on the 2022 report? Share them with @getbenepass and follow us on LinkedIn for more insights.
To access the full report, visit: http://www.getbenepass.com/ebooks/2022-benepass-benefits-benchmarking-guide. For more information on Benepass, visit: http://www.benepass.com.
About Benepass:
Benepass helps companies take care of their people. With a single card + mobile app, Benepass consolidates multiple benefits into a single platform, making benefits flexible, intuitive and easy to use. With Benepass, companies can scale efficiently and say "yes" to a diverse set of employee preferences. Benepass was founded in 2019 by Jaclyn Chen, Kabir Soorya, and Mark Fischer. Additional information about the company can be found at www.benepass.com.
CONTACT:
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mary@steele-alloy.com
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2022-09-29T14:25:47+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/29/us-study-workplace-benefits-sees-widespread-adoption-new-creative-benefits-support-employee-wellness-mental-health/
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SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio – A man, 69, was robbed at gunpoint outside of Quick Shop Food Mart on Monticello Boulevard around 6 p.m. July 5.
The suspect was given the man’s car keys but was unable to start his vehicle. He fled in another vehicle that was later learned to belong his grandmother, who had reported it stolen out of Maple Heights earlier in the day.
The boy, 15, was positively identified in a photo lineup and charges are pending.
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2023-07-14T00:31:45+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/07/boy-15-uses-his-grandmothers-stolen-vehicle-in-armed-robbery.html
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Venture Capital Firm Led by Veteran Investor Yida Gao to Pursue Investments in Early-Stage Digital Asset Projects
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shima Capital ("Shima"), a global venture firm that invests in early-stage blockchain companies across all market cycles, today announced that it has launched its debut fund, Shima Capital Fund I ("Fund I" or the "Fund") and has collectively raised $200 million. The Fund received significant support from notable investors including Dragonfly Capital, Bill Ackman, Animoca, OKex, Mirana Ventures, Republic, and Andrew Yang, among others.
Founded in 2021 by veteran investor Yida Gao, Shima Capital supports blockchain startups in their earliest stages (i.e. pre-seed and seed) by providing hands-on oversight to help maximize each company's value. Shima's inaugural fund aims to consistently deploy capital when founders need it the most in addition to helping hire talent, build community, amplify narratives, and foster the acceleration of technical research and development. The Shima team is composed of seasoned investors, accomplished operators, and former founders who align on a mission to help daring teams build and scale their companies.
"Yida Gao and Shima Capital exemplify the early stage venture capital that's needed in Web3. Shima's strong focus on supporting founders and willingness to bash through walls for their sake resonates well with Animoca Brands' ethos," said Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. "It's a great honor to partner with Shima Capital, especially given the fund's high conviction in the global proliferation of digital property rights and an open metaverse."
"We at OKX Blockdream Capital believe that Shima Capital has shown promising results in being able to identify paradigm shifts in the cryptocurrency industry," said Jeff Ren, Head of Investment at OK Group. "We are looking forward to establishing a working relationship with Shima Capital alongside its other LPs."
Shima invests in the earliest rounds of blockchain startups across all verticals with check sizes of $500,000 to $2,000,000. Areas of focus include but are not limited to consumer (e.g. decentralized identity, social media, content ownership, DAO's), gaming & metaverse, composable financial systems (e.g. sustainable DeFi, regenerative finance, payments & settlement), decentralized infrastructure (e.g. data platforms, blockchain automation, cross-chain communication), and next-generation blockchain technology (e.g. Layer 1/2, zero-knowledge proofs, security).
"As crypto-focused VC's continue to raise massive billion dollar plus funds, we identified a pocket of opportunity to support Web3 founders with their first institutional checks that are considered too small for other Tier 1 investors," said Gao, Founder and Managing Partner of Shima Capital. "We also observed that early-stage funds usually do not provide extensive value-adds for founders given limited resources. At Shima, we take the opposite approach and spend the necessary resources to provide our portfolio companies with surgical support typically found only with larger funds. We firmly believe this strategy of focusing on the earliest funding rounds and delivering a full suite of value-adds will yield strong returns for LPs and align incentives the most with founders."
The Fund's investment strategy will be led by Gao who previously served as Co-Founder and General Partner of Divergence Digital Currency, a $100m+ crypto hedge fund that has grown over 15x since inception in 2017. Gao was also previously General Partner of Struck Capital, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm. Prior, he held roles as a technology investor at New Enterprise Associates, a $25Bn+ venture capital fund, and as an M&A investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Gao graduated from MIT with degrees in mathematics and computer science and briefly attended Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He teaches the 15.492: Crypto Finance course at MIT.
Gao is joined by a team of investors and professionals who possess proven track records of sourcing talent and driving successful investments at some of the top technology companies. These include:
- Carl Hua, who serves as Investment Partner and Chief Technology Officer, was formerly the Chief Architect of Celsius and Head of DeFi at Ripple where he is still an advisor. Hua also previously served as Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Logos Network, which was acquired by Ripple in 2019. He has also held engineering positions at JPL NASA and Northrop Grumman.
- Alex Lin, who serves as Head of Research, was previously a Venture Partner at Old Fashion Research, a multi-strategy Web3 fund managed by former Binance executives. Lin has served as a Fund Manager at Big Red Ventures, Cornell University's student-run, early-stage venture capital fund, and as Co-Founder of Tether Health, an early-stage digital health startup. Lin's career also includes roles as Product Manager of two successfully exited startups (i.e. Teads, Concertiv) and as a Deloitte consultant.
- Chris Adams, who serves as Head of Talent, was formerly the Head of Talent at Atomic VC where he helped scale teams from seed to series C and rolled out talent programs for early teams. Adams served as the first hiring lead at Uber and personally hired 300 candidates while leading a team of 20. He also led recruiting efforts for various teams at Google and Pinterest.
Shima Capital's core team consists of investors, researchers, software engineers, and other industry experts who are passionate about growing the future of the crypto and Web3 ecosystem. To learn more about open roles at Shima and across its portfolio, please visit jobs.shima.capital.
About Shima Capital
Shima Capital is a leading early stage VC firm investing in disruptive blockchain companies. The fund is deeply focused on taking a hands-on approach and working closely with its portfolio companies to provide the most sweat equity per dollar invested. As teams in Web3 push the frontier of innovation, Shima helps hire talent, build community, amplify narratives, and foster the acceleration of technical research and development. Shima is composed of seasoned investors, accomplished operators, and former founders who align on a mission to support all-star teams with building and scaling generational companies.
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2022-08-17T14:53:58+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/08/17/shima-capital-debuts-with-200-million-support-web3-founders-through-crypto-bear-market/
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Olaplex Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OLPX) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Olaplex common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering conducted on or around September 30, 2021.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 17, 2023
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in OLPX:
https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/olaplex-class-action-lawsuit-submission-form?id=34276&from=4
Olaplex Holdings, Inc. NEWS - OLPX NEWS
CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Olaplex Holdings, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) macroeconomic pressures and competition in the haircare market were more robust than the Company had represented to investors; (ii) accordingly, the Company was unlikely to maintain its sales and revenue momentum; and (iii) as a result, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to achieve the financial and operational growth projected in the offering documents; and (iv) as a result, the offering documents were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Olaplex you have until January 17, 2023 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.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Olaplex securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the OLPX lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/olaplex-class-action-lawsuit-submission-form?id=34276&from=4.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
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2022-12-06T11:35:23+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/12/06/olpx-alert-klein-law-firm-announces-lead-plaintiff-deadline-january-17-2023-class-action-filed-behalf-olaplex-holdings-inc-shareholders/
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2022-06-14T08:32:48+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/sports/2022/06/14/ap-top-sports-news-at-212-a-m-edt-21/
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OSO builds on Q1 growth with the addition of new affiliated orthodontic practices
GEORGETOWN, Texas, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smile Doctors, the largest and fastest-growing ortho-focused dental support organization (OSO) in the U.S., is adding to its ever-growing list of affiliated practices with the announcement of 20 new clinics added in Q2 2022.
The addition of the 20 locations brings the total number of clinics Smile Doctors represents to 344 and includes 13 new doctors and seven new practices.
- Associated Orthodontists (Illinois)
- Charleston Orthodontic Specialists (South Carolina)
- Legler Orthodontics (Florida)
- Farina Orthodontic Specialists (Florida)
- Rothenberg Orthodontics (New Jersey)
- Lakes Orthodontics (Minnesota)
- Copus Orthodontics (Michigan)
"We are so proud to partner with so many fantastic doctors who are dedicated to our mission to create confident smiles and inspire everyone they come into contact with," said J. Hedrick, CEO of Smile Doctors. "From inception, our goal has been to create a lasting positive impact in all the communities we serve. The continuous growth we are experiencing as a brand would not be possible without the heart and hard work of our family of affiliated practices."
Founded and led by orthodontists, Smile Doctors' patient-first focus allows orthodontists do to what they do best: care for patients. By joining the Smile Doctors family, private practices benefit from economies of scale, brand identity support, access to the latest cutting-edge technology, access to operational and financial tools that make their practices more efficient and improve the bottom line, and more, enabling them to focus their attention and expertise on excellent patient experience and outcomes.
"Joining the Smile Doctors family of affiliated practices was a great decision for our practice and patients," said Dr. Mark Farina of Farina Orthodontic Specialists. "It allows my team and I to focus on providing exceptional care to our patients while giving us access to an organization that is dedicated to supporting other facets of the business. Plus, I have a platform to connect with hundreds of my peers across the country for support and ongoing innovation in orthodontics."
Continuing their commitment to being thought leaders in the category, Smile Doctors is sponsoring a variety of conferences throughout the remainder of 2022 with affiliated doctors speaking on advancements in the industry at select events, as well. Conferences at which the brand is participating include GORP, Orthopreneurs Summit, The Great Lakes Association of Orthodontists, Mother of Pearls Conference, and MSO/SAO/SWSO Annual Session.
To learn more about becoming a Smile Doctors partner, visit smiledoctorspartners.com.
About Smile Doctors, LLC
Smile Doctors, LLC, is the largest ortho-focused dental support organization (OSO) in the U.S. The organization has the fastest-growing network of leading orthodontists. With more than 340 convenient locations in 25 states, Smile Doctors has a rich history of developing and growing affiliated practices by providing tools and technology that allow their orthodontists to focus entirely on patient care. Smile Doctors is the largest network of Diamond Plus Invisalign® providers. Smile Doctors orthodontists are proud members of the American Association of Orthodontists, and American Dental Association, and host for the Lecture Center for Orthodontic Excellence. Smile Doctors' mission is to create confident smiles that inspire the best in their patients, each other, and the communities they serve. For more information, please visit: www.smiledoctors.com.
Contact:
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2022-08-04T14:31:27+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/04/smile-doctors-continues-impressive-growth-q2-2022-report/
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico's top immigration official will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in Ciudad Juárez last month, with federal prosecutors saying he was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency's detention centers.
The decision to file charges against Francisco Garduño, the head of Mexico's National Immigration Institute, was announced late Tuesday by the federal Attorney General's Office.
It followed repeated calls from within Mexico, and from some Central American nations, not to stop the case at the five low-level officials, guards and a Venezuelan migrant already facing homicide charges in the case.
On Wednesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that even though the Attorney General's Office was investigating Garduño, prosecutors had revealed few details and it was not exactly clear what they would charge him with.
"We are going to wait and we are going to make decisions in the (right) moment," López Obrador said.
Anger initially focused on two guards who were seen fleeing the March 27 fire, without unlocking the cell door to allow the migrants to escape. But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said earlier Tuesday that they didn't have the keys.
Other officials also face charges
The Attorney General's Office said several other officers of Garduño's agency will also face charges for failing to carry out their duties, the statement said, but prosecutors did not explain what specific charges or identify the officials.
Prosecutors said the case showed a "pattern of irresponsibility"
The press office of the immigration agency that Garduño heads did respond to messages and phone calls requesting comment.
Prosecutors said that after a fire at another detention center in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco killed one person and injured 14 in 2020, the immigration agency knew there were problems which needed to be corrected but alleged they failed to act.
There have long been complaints about corruption and bad conditions at Mexico's migrant detention facilities, but they have never been seriously addressed.
López Obrador's comments about the guards in last month's fire in the border city of Ciudad Juárez came on the same day that the bodies of 17 Guatemala migrants and six Hondurans killed in the fire were flown back to their home countries.
It was unclear what effect López Obrador's comments might have on the trial of the guards, who were detained previously over the fire.
"The door was closed, because the person who had the keys wasn't there," López Obrador said.
A video from a security camera inside the facility shows guards walking away when the fire started in late March inside the cell holding migrants.
The guards are seen hurrying away as smoke fills the facility, and they did not appear to make any effort to release the migrants.
Three Mexican immigration officials, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant are being held for investigation in connection with the fire. They face homicide charges.
The migrant allegedly set fire to foam mattresses at the detention center to protest what he apparently thought were plans to move or deport the migrants.
In Guatemala, a somber welcome
In Guatemala City, relatives of the victims gathered at an air force base with flowers and photos of the deceased to mark their return.
"My son, my love," a female voice could be heard calling out, amid sobs from those present as the coffins were unloaded and placed in a line, and relatives were allowed to approach them.
Mexican military planes carried the bodies of six migrants to Honduras and 17 to Guatemala. Authorities say 19 of the 40 dead were from Guatemala, but two bodies were still in the process of having their identities confirmed.
An additional 11 Guatemalans were injured in the fire.
Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Búcaro accompanied the bodies, which were to be taken overland to their hometowns in nine different provinces.
Some bodies of Salvadoran migrants were returned to El Salvador last week. So far, 31 bodies have been sent back to their home countries.
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2023-04-12T19:47:49+00:00
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nepm.org
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https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2023-04-12/mexico-immigration-agency-chief-will-be-charged-in-migrant-center-fire-that-killed-40
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CHANGZHOU, China, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EZGO Technologies Ltd (Nasdaq: EZGO) ("EZGO" or the "Company"), announced today that, on January 23, 2023, it has received a notification letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") confirming the Company has regained compliance with Nasdaq's minimum bid price requirement under Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). Nasdaq noted this matter is now closed.
About EZGO Technologies Ltd.
Leveraging an Internet of Things (IoT) product and service platform and three e-bicycle brands, "EZGO", "Dilang" and "Cenbird", EZGO has established a business model centered on the manufacturing and sale of two- and three-wheeled electric vehicles, lithium batteries, complemented by the e-bicycle charging pile business. For additional information, please visit EZGO's website at www.ezgotech.com.cn. Investors can visit the "Investor Relations" section of EZGO's website at www.ezgotech.com.cn/Investor.
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Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrive today at the troubled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to assess damage and establish safety and security conditions.
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Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrive today at the troubled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to assess damage and establish safety and security conditions.
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2022-08-31T10:46:06+00:00
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Thousands of bees swarm Florida highway after beekeeper's truck hit by semi: FHP
BALDWIN, Fla. - Thousands of bees are swarming a Florida highway after a beekeeper's pickup truck was involved in a crash early Tuesday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers said a beekeeper is working to recover the thousands of bees that escaped after the collision. Officials said the truck was hauling approximately a million bees when it was hit by a semi-trailer truck.
The crash happened at 3:15 a.m. on US Highway 301 at the Interstate 10 eastbound entrance ramp in Baldwin, an area about 160 miles north of Orlando. Drivers are being asked to use caution as they travel through the area.
No one was hurt in the crash.
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2023-05-02T11:36:25+00:00
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TOKYO, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] will strengthen its partnership with Japan by opening a new Boeing Research and Technology (BR&T) center. The facility will focus on sustainability and support a newly expanded cooperation agreement with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
Boeing and METI have agreed to broaden their 2019 Cooperation Agreement to now include a focus on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), electric and hydrogen powertrain technologies, and future flight concepts that will promote zero climate impact aviation. That is in addition to exploring electric and hybrid-electric propulsion, batteries, and composite manufacturing that will enable new forms of urban mobility.
"We are excited to open our latest global research and technology center here in Japan," said Greg Hyslop, Boeing chief engineer and executive vice president of Engineering, Test & Technology. "Working with terrific partners like METI, the new center will expand upon Boeing-wide initiatives in sustainable fuels and electrification, and explore the intersection of digitization, automation and high-performance aerospace composites for greater sustainability in our future products and production systems."
The BR&T – Japan Research Center will be located in Nagoya, which is already home to many of Boeing's major industrial partners and suppliers. The facility will further expand Boeing's research and development footprint in the region, which includes centers in Australia, China and Korea.
Boeing is fully committed to supporting Japan's SAF industry and has been accepted as the latest member of ACT FOR SKY, a voluntary organization of 16 companies that works to commercialize, promote and expand the use of SAF produced in Japan. It was founded by Boeing airline customers All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL), along with global engineering company JGC Holdings Corporation, and biofuel producer Revo International.
Masahiro Aika, representative of ACT FOR SKY, said, "ACT FOR SKY welcomes the participation of Boeing. We look forward to Boeing collaborating with the other members to "ACT" for the commercialization, promotion and expansion of SAF in Japan."
In addition to becoming partners in ACT FOR SKY, Boeing has a long history of innovating with ANA and JAL on sustainable aviation, which includes pioneering SAF-powered flights and launching the ground-breaking 787 Dreamliner. Today, they signed agreements to work together to study advanced sustainable technologies, including electric, hybrid, hydrogen and other novel propulsion systems in an endeavor to reduce the carbon footprint of aircraft.
Boeing Chief Sustainability Officer Chris Raymond added, "To ensure the enormous societal benefits of aviation remain available for generations to come, we must continue to partner with capable innovators and leaders to support the industry's commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We are humbled to join ACT FOR SKY and collaborate with other members to share global best practices and help with the scale up and demand of SAF in Japan. And we are honored to open the Japan Research Center and expand our work with airline customers ANA and JAL on advanced technologies to realize zero climate impact aviation."
As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing's diverse team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company's core values of safety, quality and integrity. Join our team and find your purpose at boeing.com/careers.
Contact:
Lisa Maull
Global Enterprise Sustainability
+314-614-4583
lisa.a.maull@boeing.com
Rob Henderson
Boeing Communications, Japan
+81-90-1420-9662
Robert.J.Henderson3@boeig.com
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2022-08-01T06:44:02+00:00
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- Signed a definitive agreement to acquire TekLink International, Inc., to strengthen HGS' analytics practice and expand platform & data visualization capabilities
- Signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire uKnowva, a Cloud-based HRMS business to expand its HR Platform technology portfolio
BENGALURU, India, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In line with its ongoing evolution into a digital-led, people-driven customer experience (CX) services provider, Hinduja Global Solutions Limited (HGS) (Listed on NSE & BSE, India), continues to make significant investments to expand its digital capabilities.
The company today announced two M&A developments to support its transformation journey as HGS 2.0.
- HGS has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 100% stake in TekLink International, Inc., for a consideration of US$ 58.8 million, subject to earnouts and other customary and agreed adjustments. The transaction with the analytics service provider is expected to close in the next two months.
- HGS has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LoI) to acquire uKnowva, a digital Human Resources Management System (HRMS) product business, from Convergence IT Services Ltd, subject to necessary diligence and approvals. uKnowva is a Cloud-based SaaS platform that is easy to use, cost effective and leverages intelligent software to deliver human capital management, automation, and collaboration for midsize and growing companies.
"HGS has been investing significantly in developing technology-led capabilities to reimagine the CX journey for our clients in an increasingly digital first world. TekLink and uKnowva with their transformative solutions in the analytics & financial planning and HR technology segments, respectively, are a good strategic fit for us. The synergies will help us strengthen our existing digital portfolio substantially, expand in new rapidly growing segments, co-create solutions, and cross-sell to clients," said Partha DeSarkar, Group CEO, HGS. "We continue to build an end-to-end ecosystem of innovative solutions that support every touchpoint in the consumer journey."
TekLink International Inc., is a full-service financial planning and analytics service provider, including design, implementation, and application management services. TekLink has built technical and functional expertise across multiple industries, including consumer products, retail, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing & distribution, utilities, and high tech. The company supports over 60 clients, including one of the world's leading food manufacturers, an American multinational confectionery, a global beverages giant, etc. TekLink is headquartered in Warrenville, IL, US, with presence in Europe and delivery centers in Hyderabad and Indore in India. The company has strong credentials in the industry, with established partnerships with Microsoft, SAP, Anaplan, etc. TekLink has recently been named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Data & Analytics Service Providers.
The acquisition will strengthen HGS' digital solutions business by adding enhanced expertise in building data platforms, analytics, and financial planning. It will also add complementary digital workforce bench strength, with 275 seasoned technology and implementation professionals joining HGS as part of the transaction. HGS' digital business currently employs over 750 core technology and digital marketing experts, primarily across the US and India, who are transforming customer experiences (CX) for leading brands.
"We are excited to become part of the HGS family to complement their already established digital customer engagement, digital experience, intelligent automation, and cloud & security portfolio with our world-class data platform and analytics solutions and services," said Pankaj Gupta, Founder and CEO, TekLink. "Together, our mutual clients will benefit from best-in-class, end-to-end digital transformation."
uKnowva business has 75+ employees in India supporting over 300,000 users across 80+ clients. The acquisition of uKnowva, when approved and completed, will create technology synergies with HGS' existing HRO/ Payroll and F&A business, that supports several hundred clients with mainly HR operations related activities in India and the Middle East today. uKnowva was recently recognized as the 'Entrepreneurial Company of the Year in AI for HR Tech' by Frost and Sullivan.
About Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS):
A global leader in optimizing the customer experience lifecycle, digital transformation, and business process management, HGS is helping its clients become more competitive every day. HGS combines automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence with deep domain expertise focusing on digital customer experiences, back-office processing, contact centers, and HRO solutions. Part of the multi-billion-dollar conglomerate Hinduja Group, HGS takes a "globally local" approach. HGS has 23,146 employees across 33 delivery centers in seven countries, making a difference to some of the world's leading brands across verticals. For the year ended March 31, 2022, HGS had revenues of Rs. 57,959 million (US$ 779 million).
Visit https://hgs.cx to learn how HGS transforms customer experiences and builds businesses for the future.
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Email: thanuja.megharaj@teamhgs.com
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
2-2-1, FIREBALL: 7
(two, two, one; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
2-2-1, FIREBALL: 7
(two, two, one; FIREBALL: seven)
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2023-01-25T05:02:12+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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Episode 71: This is the time of the year when many of us make resolutions, and becoming better organized and cutting down on clutter is on many people's lists.
Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada talk about why some people value tidiness, while others say a home filled with cherished items shows a life filled with meaning and memories.
Links to stories discussed during the podcast:
Clutter is good for you, by Rob Walker, The New York Times
People are also reading…
In praise of unfinished basements, by Brady Brickner-Wood, The New York Times Magazine
The relationship between mental health and cleaning, by Sherri Gordon, Very Well Mind
About the hosts: Scott Rada is social media manager with Lee Enterprises, and Richard Kyte is the director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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2023-01-05T16:05:07+00:00
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More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers stopped spending on platform, data show
Story by Clare Duffy, CNN Graphics by Christopher Hickey, CNN
(CNN) - More than half of Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform in the first weeks of January, according to data provided to CNN by digital marketing analysis firm Pathmatics, in a striking sign of how far reaching the advertiser exodus has been following Elon Musk's acquisition of the company.
Some 625 of the top 1,000 Twitter advertisers, including major brands such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Jeep, Wells Fargo and Merck, had pulled their ad dollars as of January, according to estimates from Pathmatics, based on data running through January 25.
Wells Fargo said it "paused our paid advertising on Twitter" but continues to use it as a social channel to engage with customers. The other brands did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As a result of the pullback, monthly revenue from Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers plummeted by more than 60% from October through January 25, from around $127 million to just over $48 million, according to the data.
The data demonstrate the sharp decline of what was once a $4.5 billion advertising business for Twitter. After Musk completed his takeover of the company in late October, advertisers began to worry about the safety and stability of the platform given his plans to cut staff and relax content moderation policies. In early November, Musk said Twitter had seen a "massive revenue drop."
Although Twitter's ad business was always much smaller than that of competitors Facebook and Google, it was still responsible for the vast majority of the company's revenue. Musk must now fill in that gap as he stares down interest payments for the debt he took on to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
Twitter, which eliminated much of its media relations team during last year's layoffs, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After initially clashing with advertisers, Musk now appears to be trying to woo them back to the platform. The company reportedly offered a Super Bowl "fire sale" deal for advertisers in an attempt to win them back for one of Twitter's biggest audience days of the year. Twitter has also partnered with a third-party "brand safety" firm that says it can show advertisers if their ads appear alongside inappropriate or unsafe content on Twitter.
But the pushback continues. A coalition of civil society and civil rights groups renewed calls on Thursday for companies to join what they say is more than 500 advertisers who have stopped advertising on Twitter. The latest effort came after a research report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a member of the coalition, raised concerns about ads "appearing next to toxic content" from previously banned accounts.
In his first months in charge, Musk rolled back bans on users who had previously violated Twitter's rules, including former President Donald Trump. He also dissolved a third-party content oversight group and halted enforcement of its Covid-19 misinformation policy.
Some advertisers also complained that the Twitter employees they previously worked with had been terminated by Musk, causing confusion. In November, Musk complained that Twitter had seen a "massive drop in revenue."
But Musk has stood by those policy changes, and has since been scrambling to reduce costs and find new revenue streams for the company. Those efforts include dramatically cutting staff, revamping its paid subscription service and, more recently, announcing the controversial move to charge researchers and developers reliant on Twitter's API, which allows third parties to tap into Twitter's systems.
For now, however, Twitter remains reliant on advertising revenue as it reportedly struggles to grow its paid subscriber base.
Even among the top advertisers that remain, many have dramatically reduced their ad spending on the platform, according to Pathmatics data. HBO, for example, was Twitter's top advertiser in September, spending nearly $12 million on ads that month, but for the month of January (as of January 25), it spent just over $54,000. (HBO, which is owned by CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
A small number of Twitter's top advertisers spent more on the platform in January than they did the month prior to Musk's takeover, including ESPN, Salesforce and Apple, the latter of which Musk briefly and publicly feuded with for allegedly threatening to block Twitter from its app store. ESPN, Salesforce and Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk said in a tweet earlier this month that the previous three months had been "extremely tough, as had to save Twitter from bankruptcy," but that the company "is now trending to breakeven if we keep at it."
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2023-02-11T00:40:18+00:00
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kyma.com
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By Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News (TNS)
Alec Baldwin calls the completion of his latest film, “Rust,” “nothing less than a miracle.”
The star and co-producer of the western, whose cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot and killed on set in October 2021, posted a celebratory message on Instagram.
“Last day of filming RUST in Montana,” he wrote Monday alongside a photo of “Rust” co-stars Patrick Scott McDermott and Frances Fisher. “It’s been a long and difficult road. But we reach the end of the trail today.”
Baldwin also offered a shoutout to director Joel Souza who, along with Hutchins, was hit with a bullet fired from Baldwin’s gun while the movie was being filmed in New Mexico. Hutchins, 42, died in Albuquerque, while Souza survived his gunshot.
Baldwin and the “Rust” crew moved their set to Montana 18 months later and got back to work at the Yellowstone Film Ranch.
The 65-year-old actor was charged with involuntary manslaughter in January. In April, his attorneys said the criminal charges against the Emmy winner had been dropped.
Baldwin told CNN last August the trials and tribulations of filming “Rust” took “years” off his life, and that fallout from the on-set tragedy cost him multiple jobs.
In October, Baldwin and the film’s production company settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Hutchins’ family. Following the settlement, her widower, Matthew Hutchins, joined the team as an executive producer of “Rust.”
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2023-05-24T15:02:56+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2023/05/filming-finishes-on-tragedy-plagued-rust-movie.html
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Anne Heche on life support, survival of crash ‘not expected’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and her survival isn’t expected, according to a statement from a representative.
The actor, who is in a coma and in critical condition, is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to the statement released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Heche, who’s been hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” the statement said. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.
“She is not expected to survive,” the statement said. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable.”
On the morning of Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted with the car embedded inside the home.
Earlier Thursday, police said they were investigating Heche for driving under the influence. Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of her blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee said.
Toxicology tests, which can take weeks to complete, must be performed to identify the drugs more clearly and to differentiate them from any medication she may have been given for treatment at the hospital.
Evidence is still being gathered from the crash, police said, and they would present a case to prosecutors if it is warranted when the investigation is complete.
A representative for Heche declined comment on the investigation.
On Tuesday, Heche spokesperson Heather Duffy Boylston said she had been in a coma since after the accident, with burns that required surgery and lung injuries that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” Thursday’s statement said. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp (“Donnie Brasco”) and Harrison Ford (“Six Days, Seven Nights”). In a 2001 memoir, she discussed her lifelong struggles with mental health.
She recently had recurring roles on the network TV series “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise,” and in 2020 was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”
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Tuesday, February 14th 2023, 10:27 am
The Michigan State University gunman was found with a note in his pocket indicating a threat to two New Jersey schools, the district’s superintendent said Tuesday.
Ewing Public Schools closed for the day, but it was later determined there was no threat to the district, Superintendent David Gentile said in a statement based on information from the Ewing Police Department.
The gunman, Anthony McRae, had ties to Ewing Township but has not lived in the area for several years, according to the police statement provided by Gentile.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
The gunman who killed three students and wounded five at Michigan State University was a 43-year-old with a previous gun violation who fatally shot himself after an hourslong manhunt that ended in a confrontation with police miles from campus, officials said Tuesday.
Investigators still were sorting out why Anthony McRae fired inside an academic building and the student union shortly before 8:30 p.m. Monday. The shootings led to a harrowing campus lockdown and a search for the gunman that ended roughly three hours later.
“We have absolutely no idea what the motive was,” said Chris Rozman, deputy chief of campus police, adding that McRae, of Lansing, was not a student or Michigan State employee.
“This is still fluid,” Rozman said. “There are still crime scenes that are being processed, and we still are in the process of putting together the pieces to try to understand what happened.”
The dead and injured in the gunfire at Berkey Hall and the MSU Union, a popular place to eat and study, all were students, Rozman said. Five remained in critical condition at Sparrow Hospital, said Dr. Denny Martin, who fought back tears during a news conference.
“Our Spartan community is reeling today,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Michigan State graduate, said at the briefing.
President Joe Biden pledged his support during a phone call, she said.
“We mourn the loss of beautiful souls and pray for those continuing to fight for their lives. ... Another place that is supposed to be about community and togetherness shattered by bullets and bloodshed,” Whitmer said.
Michigan State has about 50,000 students, including 19,000 who live on the suburban East Lansing campus. As hundreds of officers scoured the campus, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Detroit, students hid where they could Monday night.
During that time, police released a photo of the suspect, and an “alert citizen” recognized him in the Lansing area, Rozman said.
“That was exactly what we were trying to achieve by releasing that picture. We had no idea where he was at that point,” the deputy chief said.
Police confronted McRae about 5 miles from campus in an industrial area, where he killed himself, Rozman said.
McRae was on probation for 18 months until May 2021 for possessing a loaded, concealed gun without a permit, according to the state Corrections Department.
In McRae’s Lansing neighborhood, there was a large police presence overnight. Suzanne Shook said she has lived a block away from McRae for about a year.
“We never spoke to him,” Shook said. “When he would be walking or riding his bike, he was always straightforward and wouldn’t look at anybody.”
Students, meanwhile, recalled the previous night’s terror. Dominik Molotky said he was learning about Cuban history around 8:15 p.m. when he and the other students heard a gunshot outside the classroom. He told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that a few seconds later, the gunman entered and fired three to four more rounds while the students took cover.
“I was ducking and covering, and the same with the rest of the students. He let off four more rounds and when it went silent for about 30 seconds to a minute, two of my classmates started breaking open a window, and that took about 30 seconds to happen. There was glass everywhere,” Molotky said.
“After that, we broke out the window and I climbed out of there, and then I booked it back to my apartment,” he said. He was unsure whether gunfire hit any of the students.
Claire Papoulias, a sophomore, described on NBC’s “Today” how she and other students scrambled to escape a history class through a window after the gunman entered from a back door and began firing.
“There was a boy in my class, and he was waiting outside the window, and he was catching people and helping people down,” she said. “As soon as I fell out of the window I kind of hit the ground a little. I just grabbed my backpack and my phone, and I remember I just ran for my life.”
Ryan Kunkel, 22, was attending a class in the Engineering Building when he became aware of the shooting from a university email. Kunkel and about 13 other students turned off the lights and acted like there “was a shooter right outside the door,” he said.
“Nothing came out of anyone’s mouth” for over four hours, he said.
Ted Zimbo said he was walking to his dorm when he encountered a woman with a “ton of blood on her.”
“She told me, ‘Someone came in our classroom and started shooting,’” Zimbo told The Associated Press. “Her hands were completely covered in blood. It was on her pants and her shoes. She said, ‘It’s my friend’s blood.’”
Zimbo said the woman left to find a friend’s car while he returned to his SUV and threw a blanket over himself to hide for three hours.
All classes, sports and other activities were canceled for 48 hours.
Interim university President Teresa Woodruff said it would be a time “to think and grieve and come together.”
“This Spartan community — this family — will come back together,” Woodruff said.
The shooting came a day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.
Dozens of people have died in mass shootings so far in 2023, most notably in California, where 11 people were killed as they welcomed the Lunar New Year at a dance hall popular with older Asian Americans.
In 2022, there were more than 600 mass shootings in the U.S. in which at least four people were killed or wounded, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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2023-02-14T19:01:35+00:00
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newson6.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Legend, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow and Lionel Richie will be among those performing in tribute to Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson when both are honored as the 2023 MusiCares Person of the Year by the Recording Academy.
The academy announced the lineup Thursday for the tribute concert and gala to be held in Los Angeles on Feb. 3 — two days before the Grammy Awards.
Other performers announced include Jimmie Allen, Chloe X Halle, The Isley Brothers, Mumford & Sons, The Temptations, PJ Morton, Rita Wilson, Dionne Warwick and Trombone Shorty.
Past MusiCares honorees include Joni Mitchell, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton and Aerosmith.
It’s the first time the tribute ceremony will honor two greats.
Gordy, a music mogul who founded the Motown record label, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
Robinson is a Grammy winner who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
The gala concert and dinner raises funds for the programs of MusiCares, the Recording Academy charity that provides health and welfare services to musicians in need.
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2023-01-20T19:42:17+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-legend-carlile-crow-to-perform-at-musicares-tribute-event/
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Global Public Health Organization Announces Update to C-Suite
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NSF, a leading global public health and safety organization, today named Sean Etheridge its Chief Legal Officer. Etheridge brings nearly two decades of experience to his new role, where he will advise and counsel NSF leaders on the legal, risk and compliance aspects of business and policies.
As NSF's Chief Legal Officer, Etheridge will serve as a liaison for executive leadership, management, the Board of Directors, outside legal counsel, and regulatory agencies in all legal and compliance matters. He will oversee compliance programs and complex strategic transactions, review and develop agreements, and recommend strategies and solutions. Etheridge will also develop legal frameworks to support the company's business strategy, ensuring its ability to operate globally to advance NSF's reputation and mission.
"Sean's prior experience leading legal teams in the public health sector is invaluable to our global work," said Pedro Sancha, President and CEO, NSF. "We're confident he will succeed in elevating our operations to further our mission to protect and improve human health worldwide."
Etheridge joins NSF from Stryker Corporation, where he served as Vice President and Corporate Secretary since 2020. He has held positions overseeing global legal and compliance operations since he joined the Fortune 250 company in 2014.
Prior to Stryker Corporation, Etheridge was a partner at Michigan-based Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, a Senior Associate at Shefsky & Froelich Ltd. in Chicago, IL, and an Associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Diego, CA. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 2003 from the University of Michigan Law School, preceded by a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1999.
Etheridge was honored as a Rising Star by Michigan Super Lawyers in 2012 and 2013, and was the sole recipient of the 2015 Rising Star Award at the Crain's Detroit General and In-House Counsel Awards.
NSF is an independent, global organization that facilitates standards development to minimize adverse health effects and protect the environment. With clients in more than 180 countries, NSF tests and certifies products for the food, water, health sciences, and consumer goods industries. Founded in 1944 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, NSF is committed to protecting human health and safety worldwide. NSF is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Water Quality, Food Safety, and Medical Device Safety.
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2022-07-18T14:05:31+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/18/nsf-names-sean-etheridge-chief-legal-officer/
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A New York man has pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, federal prosecutors announced.
In one voicemail message, according to prosecutors, Morelli said, “I’m gonna hurt you. Physically, I’m gonna harm you.” In another, prosecutors said, he threatened to “pay someone 500 bucks to take a baseball bat and crack your skull.” In a third call, Morelli said he would “make sure that, even if they lock me up, someone’s gonna get you ’cause I’ll pay them to,” prosecutors said.
Morelli, of Endicott, New York, was indicted in April 2022 on three counts of transmitting interstate threatening communications. Endicott is a village located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the city of Binghamton.
Morelli pleaded guilty on Wednesday and faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 when he is sentenced on June 1, prosecutors said.
A message seeking comment was left with Morelli’s attorney at the federal public defender’s office.
Greene, who was first elected to Congress in 2020, has been criticized for embracing conspiracy theories and suggesting that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.
A phone message seeking comment on Morelli’s guilty plea was left with Greene’s office.
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2023-02-02T14:22:58+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ny-man-pleads-guilty-to-threatening-rep-greene-of-georgia/2023/02/02/4cf1db96-a303-11ed-8b47-9863fda8e494_story.html
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The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Monday:
5-4-8
(five, four, eight)
7-0-9
(seven, zero, nine)
2-9-0-1
(two, nine, zero, one)
8-7-3-9
(eight, seven, three, nine)
03-06-16-27-30
(three, six, sixteen, twenty-seven, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $70,000
2-8-9
(two, eight, nine)
3-1-0
(three, one, zero)
1-0-8-9
(one, zero, eight, nine)
1st:1 Gold Rush-2nd:5 California Classic-3rd:3 Hot Shot, Race Time: 1:41.21
(1st: 1 Gold Rush, 2nd: 5 California Classic, 3rd: 3 Hot Shot; Race Time: one: 41.21)
15-16-22-23-27
(fifteen, sixteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-seven)
02-07-13-15-29
(two, seven, thirteen, fifteen, twenty-nine)
1-0-2
(one, zero, two)
2-1-3
(two, one, three)
1-7-1, WB: 1
(one, seven, one; WB: one)
8-7-5-7, WB: 4
(eight, seven, five, seven; WB: four)
03-04-15-16-23-28
(three, four, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $66,000
2-3-1
(two, three, one)
6-9-1
(six, nine, one)
8-0-1-0
(eight, zero, one, zero)
2-6-4-8
(two, six, four, eight)
4-1
(four, one)
9-4
(nine, four)
8-6-9
(eight, six, nine)
6-4-0
(six, four, zero)
9-3-8-7
(nine, three, eight, seven)
2-9-4-9
(two, nine, four, nine)
9-2-0-7-8
(nine, two, zero, seven, eight)
2-2-4-1-1
(two, two, four, one, one)
3-6, Fireball: 7
(three, six; Fireball: seven)
4-5, Fireball: 4
(four, five; Fireball: four)
8-9-7, Fireball: 7
(eight, nine, seven; Fireball: seven)
4-9-5, Fireball: 4
(four, nine, five; Fireball: four)
4-1-8-7, Fireball: 7
(four, one, eight, seven; Fireball: seven)
7-1-7-9, Fireball: 4
(seven, one, seven, nine; Fireball: four)
7-0-6-0-4, Fireball: 7
(seven, zero, six, zero, four; Fireball: seven)
2-4-3-8-3, Fireball: 4
(two, four, three, eight, three; Fireball: four)
1-1-3
(one, one, three)
5-5-1
(five, five, one)
4-6-1-1
(four, six, one, one)
9-2-0-4
(nine, two, zero, four)
8-9-7-6-1
(eight, nine, seven, six, one)
9-9-0-6-9
(nine, nine, zero, six, nine)
4-0-9
(four, zero, nine)
2-2-4
(two, two, four)
8-6-6-5
(eight, six, six, five)
4-0-6-8
(four, zero, six, eight)
02-13-27-33-39
(two, thirteen, twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $150,000
03-04-10-22-24-30-31-33-36-39-40-44-45-46-57-58-62-63-67-77, BE: 39
(three, four, ten, twenty-two, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-three, thirty-six, thirty-nine, forty, forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-seven, seventy-seven; BE: thirty-nine)
1-3-8, SB: 5
(one, three, eight; SB: five)
0-2-6-7, SB: 5
(zero, two, six, seven; SB: five)
1-3-8
(one, three, eight)
0-2-6-7
(zero, two, six, seven)
7-3-3
(seven, three, three)
2-5-8
(two, five, eight)
05-13-14-20-30, Cash Ball: 17
(five, thirteen, fourteen, twenty, thirty; Cash Ball: seventeen)
3-8-0
(three, eight, zero)
9-1-8-6
(nine, one, eight, six)
JC-JS-3C-4H-2S
(JC, JS, 3C, 4H, 2S)
01-12-17-26-28, Bonus: 33
(one, twelve, seventeen, twenty-six, twenty-eight; Bonus: thirty-three)
6-3-9
(six, three, nine)
6-5-4
(six, five, four)
9-7-7-5
(nine, seven, seven, five)
4-6-7-1
(four, six, seven, one)
9-4-1-1-2
(nine, four, one, one, two)
1-0-3-7-0
(one, zero, three, seven, zero)
06-15-23-25-33
(six, fifteen, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty-three)
6-0-0-5
(six, zero, zero, five)
4-4-4-5
(four, four, four, five)
03-13-14-27-33
(three, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-seven, thirty-three)
KH-2C-3D-9D-8S
(KH, 2C, 3D, 9D, 8S)
9-4-0
(nine, four, zero)
5-9-9-7
(five, nine, nine, seven)
6-4-9
(six, four, nine)
0-4-7-2
(zero, four, seven, two)
13-14-19-32-34
(thirteen, fourteen, nineteen, thirty-two, thirty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
02-06-10-11-24-27-31-34-36-42-44-46-48-61-65-67-70-71-74-75-78-79
(two, six, ten, eleven, twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-six, forty-two, forty-four, forty-six, forty-eight, sixty-one, sixty-five, sixty-seven, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-eight, seventy-nine)
5-0-1
(five, zero, one)
02-06-10-33-37
(two, six, ten, thirty-three, thirty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $160,000
05-13-16-20-21
(five, thirteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $29,000
0-6-0
(zero, six, zero)
8-9-3
(eight, nine, three)
4-5-0-1
(four, five, zero, one)
0-0-6-1
(zero, zero, six, one)
15-16-25-28-32
(fifteen, sixteen, twenty-five, twenty-eight, thirty-two)
05-14-16-17, Bonus: 5
(five, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen; Bonus: five)
Month: 6, Day: 28, Year: 13
(Month: six; Day: twenty-eight; Year: thirteen)
2-6-8, Fireball: 7
(two, six, eight; Fireball: seven)
0-8-4-5, Fireball: 7
(zero, eight, four, five; Fireball: seven)
5-6-1
(five, six, one)
5-0-3-2
(five, zero, three, two)
15-21-22-36-37
(fifteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-six, thirty-seven)
8-0-8
(eight, zero, eight)
7-3-2-0
(seven, three, two, zero)
03-05-06-07-12-18-19-23-24-28-33-43-46-47-57-61-62-71-74-79
(three, five, six, seven, twelve, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty-three, forty-three, forty-six, forty-seven, fifty-seven, sixty-one, sixty-two, seventy-one, seventy-four, seventy-nine)
1-4-1, Lucky Sum: 6
(one, four, one; Lucky Sum: six)
1-4-3-5, Lucky Sum: 13
(one, four, three, five; Lucky Sum: thirteen)
01-04-13-20-36-49, Kicker: 9-6-4-2-5-9
(one, four, thirteen, twenty, thirty-six, forty-nine; Kicker: nine, six, four, two, five, nine)
Estimated jackpot: $25.8 million
9-0-2
(nine, zero, two)
7-6-9
(seven, six, nine)
3-4-5-0
(three, four, five, zero)
1-7-1-1
(one, seven, one, one)
6-6-2-3-1
(six, six, two, three, one)
6-5-4-5-9
(six, five, four, five, nine)
08-28-29-33-34
(eight, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-three, thirty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
05-17-20-23-24
(five, seventeen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-four)
2-7-5
(two, seven, five)
03-07-11-15-19-24-28-30
(three, seven, eleven, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $29,000
4-2-4-4
(four, two, four, four)
4-0-8-0
(four, zero, eight, zero)
7-9-6-5
(seven, nine, six, five)
03-12-13-21-22
(three, twelve, thirteen, twenty-one, twenty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $350,000
01-10-29-33-40-43
(one, ten, twenty-nine, thirty-three, forty, forty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $1 million
7-5, Wild: 8
(seven, five; Wild: eight)
5-7, Wild: 7
(five, seven; Wild: seven)
1-2-7, Wild: 8
(one, two, seven; Wild: eight)
6-9-4, Wild: 7
(six, nine, four; Wild: seven)
2-5-1-1, Wild: 8
(two, five, one, one; Wild: eight)
3-5-5-4, Wild: 7
(three, five, five, four; Wild: seven)
1-9-1-7-6, Wild: 8
(one, nine, one, seven, six; Wild: eight)
4-9-4-8-4, Wild: 7
(four, nine, four, eight, four; Wild: seven)
10-11-12-23-25
(ten, eleven, twelve, twenty-three, twenty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $12,000
6-8-0-9
(six, eight, zero, nine)
3-5-6-4
(three, five, six, four)
02-08-09-10-28, Extra: 23
(two, eight, nine, ten, twenty-eight; Extra: twenty-three)
Estimated jackpot: $24,000
09-24-26-33-36, Power-Up: 2
(nine, twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty-three, thirty-six; Power, Up: two)
3-5-6, FB:
(three, five, six; FB: zero)
0-6-0, FB:
(zero, six, zero; FB: zero)
2-1-4-5, FB:
(two, one, four, five; FB: zero)
7-0-1-4, FB:
(seven, zero, one, four; FB: zero)
9-4-4, Wild: 5
(nine, four, four; Wild: five)
2-5-6, Wild: 5
(two, five, six; Wild: five)
4-0-6, Wild: 2
(four, zero, six; Wild: two)
5-0-8-4, Wild: 7
(five, zero, eight, four; Wild: seven)
3-0-5-0, Wild: 9
(three, zero, five, zero; Wild: nine)
3-1-6-5, Wild: 7
(three, one, six, five; Wild: seven)
01-02-04-05-07-10-12-14-17-20-21-24
(one, two, four, five, seven, ten, twelve, fourteen, seventeen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four)
01-03-07-08-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-23
(one, three, seven, eight, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-three)
03-05-07-09-11-12-13-16-19-21-22-23
(three, five, seven, nine, eleven, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three)
9-2-6-6, FIREBALL: 8
(nine, two, six, six; FIREBALL: eight)
0-6-6-7, FIREBALL: 1
(zero, six, six, seven; FIREBALL: one)
6-7-6-6, FIREBALL: 5
(six, seven, six, six; FIREBALL: five)
2-4-4, FIREBALL: 3
(two, four, four; FIREBALL: three)
9-9-1, FIREBALL: 2
(nine, nine, one; FIREBALL: two)
5-8-6, FIREBALL: 3
(five, eight, six; FIREBALL: three)
3-5-1, FB: 5
(three, five, one; FB: five)
7-2-8-9, FB: 5
(seven, two, eight, nine; FB: five)
01-18-20-21-22-23
(one, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three)
4-7-1
(four, seven, one)
0-5-7-7
(zero, five, seven, seven)
05-06-07-10-12-14-15-16-17-19-21
(five, six, seven, ten, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one)
4-0-9
(four, zero, nine)
4-9-9-7
(four, nine, nine, seven)
01-10-12-17-26-29, Doubler: N
(one, ten, twelve, seventeen, twenty-six, twenty-nine; Doubler: N)
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2022-04-19T03:25:09+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Lottery-State-by-State-All-17089442.php
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BEIJING (AP) — China sentenced a 78-year-old United States citizen to life in prison Monday on spying charges, in a case that could exacerbate the deterioration in ties between Beijing and Washington over recent years.
Details of the charges against John Shing-Wan Leung, who also holds permanent residency in Hong Kong, have not been publicly released.
Leung was detained April 15, 2021, by the local bureau of China’s counterintelligence agency in the southeastern city of Suzhou, according to a statement posted by the city’s intermediate court on its social media site. His detention came after China had closed its borders and imposed tight domestic travel restrictions and social controls to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Such investigations and trials are held behind closed doors and little information is generally released other than vague accusations of infiltration, gathering secrets and threatening state security.
Relations between Washington and Beijing are at their lowest in decades amid disputes over trade, technology, human rights and China’s increasingly aggressive approach toward its territorial claims involving self-governing Taiwan and the South China Sea. High-level government visits have been on hold and U.S. companies are delaying major investments amid mixed messaging from Beijing.
The sentencing comes as U.S. President Joe Biden is traveling to Hiroshima, Japan, for the Group of Seven major industrial nations summit, followed by a visit to Papua New Guinea, a Pacific island nation in a region where China has sought to increase its economic, military and diplomatic influence. After Beijing’s gains in the area, the U.S. and its Asia-Pacific partners stepped up their regional presence, offering investments and financial support rivaling those furnished by China.
Now the world’s second-largest economy, China is expanding its footprint in ports, railways and other infrastructure from Europe to Southeast Asia and beyond.
While the Suzhou court offered no indication of a tie to overall China-U.S. relations, spying charges are highly selective and evidence backing them up is not released. That is standard practice among most countries, who wish to secure their personal connections, networks and access to information.
However, China’s authoritarian political system and the ruling Communist Party’s absolute control over legal matters, civil society and freedom of information forestalls demands for further information, as well as court appeals.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said it was aware of the case, but could not comment further due to privacy concerns. “The Department of State has no greater priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas,” the embassy said in the emailed statement.
The government of Hong Kong, a former British colony that reverted to Chinese control in 1997, had no immediate word on Leung’s sentencing.
When it was returned to China, Hong Kong was promised it would retain its financial, social and political liberties, but Beijing has essentially scuttled that commitment since cracking down on pro-democracy protesters and imposing a sweeping national security law in 2020.
Chinese national security agencies have also raided the offices of foreign business consulting firms in Beijing and other cities as part of a crackdown on foreign businesses that provide sensitive economic data.
Foreign companies operating in China have come under increasing pressure as Xi Jinping’s government tightens control over the economy. That stands in stark contrast to efforts to lure back foreign investors after draconian COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were lifted at the beginning of the year.
Long pretrial detentions are not unusual in China and prosecutors have broad powers to hold people charged in national security cases, regardless of their citizenship status.
Two Chinese-Australians, Cheng Lei, who formerly worked for China’s state broadcaster, and writer Yang Jun, have been held since 2020 and 2019 respectively without word on their sentencing.
Government suspicion is particularly focused on Chinese-born foreign citizens and people from Taiwan and Hong Kong, especially if they have political contacts or work in academia or publishing.
Under Xi, the party has launched multiple campaigns against what it calls foreign efforts to sabotage its rule, without showing evidence. Universities have been ordered to censor discussions of human rights, modern Chinese history and ideas that could prompt questions about total Communist Party control.
Xi’s government has also taken a hard line on foreign relations, most recently ordering outa Canadian diplomat in retaliation for Ottawa’s expulsion of a staffer at the Chinese embassy accused of threatening a member of the Canadian parliament and his family members living in Hong Kong.
That meshes with Xi’s confrontational global stance that has seen China partner with Russia in accusing the West of provoking Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and seeking to overthrow the U.S.-led liberal dominance of global affairs.
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https://www.wboy.com/news/world/china-sentences-78-year-old-us-citizen-to-life-in-prison-on-spying-charges/
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The Bend Police Department is providing free signs to businesses around the area, reminding people to lock their cars and take their keys.
Bend Police says that most thefts in town are crimes of opportunity, so if you hide your belongings and lock your car, its less likely that it gets broken into. They hope through this little reminder, the community can prevent thefts and keep their belongings secure.
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2023-03-16T19:44:34+00:00
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centraloregondaily.com
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https://centraloregondaily.com/car-theft-reminder-sign-bend-police/
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Among the declared presidential candidates, two big names are expected to soon jump into the race for the GOP presidential nomination: former VP Mike Pence and former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Among the declared presidential candidates, two big names are expected to soon jump into the race for the GOP presidential nomination: former VP Mike Pence and former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie.
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2023-06-01T12:00:44+00:00
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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson has won eight Cup Series races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, more than any driver in NASCAR history. And yet the seven-time champion said he’s never felt more ill-prepared for a race heading into Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600.
Johnson retired from full-time stock car racing in 2020 but is participating in a few select marquee Cup races this year for Legacy Motor Club, which he co-owns. He's also racing on a number of other circuits, including next month's 24 hours of Le Mans as he works to bring more name recognition to his brand.
That means he's had very limited experience in the NextGen car, which debuted in 2022.
Johnson ran the Daytona 500 and at Circuit of the Americas this year in the No. 84 Chevrolet, but hasn't competed at a 1.5-mile oval like Charlotte Motor Speedway. And with rain threatening to wipe out practice and qualifying Saturday, Johnson could be stepping into the car cold when the race begins Sunday night, leaving him a bit unsettled.
“A couple hours (testing) in Phoenix is the only comparable oval experience I’ve had," Johnson said. “We had 30 to 40 laps in a simulator and that’s been it. I want to survive the first stage (Sunday) and go from there.”
His expectations are modest for a driver who has won the Coca-Cola 600 four times.
“A top 10 or top 15 would be an awesome finish for us,” Johnson said.
Johnson said he's “excited, invigorated and exhausted” since joining Maurice Gallagher last year as co-owner of Legacy Motor Club, the team formerly known as Petty GMS Motorsports.
On the track it's been a rough season for the team.
Full-time drivers Erik Jones and Noah Gragson are 25th and 32nd in Cup points, and neither has a top-five finish this season. The best performance from that duo is Jones’ sixth-place finish at Talladega in April.
“Erik continues to show just how good he is,” Johnson said. “He’s had challenging circumstances this year and he just stays focused and gets the job done. Noah, from afar, I wasn’t sure how seriously he took things. His desire and commitment to his craft is what has impressed me the most.
“We have a massive effort on our hands to figure out many ways to improve. I’m proud of everything going on. I can’t ask for more effort from everyone involved. We just need more consistency.”
The rain, which is forecast to continue throughout the weekend, also threatens to put a damper on Johnson's plans to fly to Paris next week to begin preparations for his latest racing adventure at Le Mans, another of his coveted global marquee events.
“It’s feeling very real,” Johnson said. “I’m very excited for the opportunity. I honestly don’t know what to expect. Right now, it’s great excitement and curiosity.”
After Le Mans, Johnson plans to return home to continue building Legacy's foundation, which will transition to Toyota cars next season.
“It’s been an exciting adventure that I’ve embarked on here,” Johnson said. “It’s exciting to be in this new element. I truly feel like that I’m part of something that’s going to be a force in the future of NASCAR.”
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US inflation pressures further intensified in September
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States accelerated in September, with the cost of housing and other necessities intensifying pressure on households, wiping out pay gains that many have received and ensuring that the Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates aggressively.
Consumer prices rose 8.2% in September compared with a year earlier, the government said Thursday. On a month-to-month basis, prices increased 0.4% from August to September after having ticked up 0.1% from July to August.
Yet excluding the volatile categories of food and energy, so-called core inflation jumped last month — a sign that the Fed’s five rate hikes this year have so far done little to cool inflation pressures. Core inflation climbed 0.6% from August to September and 6.6% over the past 12 months. The yearly core figure is the biggest increase in 40 years. Core prices typically provide a clearer picture of underlying price trends.
Major U.S. markets swung sharply lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures moving from several hundred points up to a 400 point decline in seconds. Markets in Europe tumbled as well.
Thursday’s report represents the final U.S. inflation figures before the Nov. 8 midterm elections after a campaign season in which spiking prices have fueled public anxiety, with many Republicans casting blame on President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats.
Higher prices for many services — health care, auto repair and housing, among others — drove inflation last month. The cost of eyeglasses and eye care, for example, jumped 3.2% from August to September, the sharpest one-month increase on records.
Inflation in services is being fueled mainly by steady consumer demand and higher labor costs. Both Delta and American Airlines, for example, reported strong revenue and profit growth this week, driven by increased demand from travelers. Airfares rose a brisk 0.8% from August to September.
A range of services industries, including airlines, hospitals and even veterinary services — are having to rapidly raise wages to attract the workers they need. Those higher labor costs, in turn, are often passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Inflation has swollen families’ grocery bills, rents and utility costs, among other expenses, causing hardships for many and deepening pessimism about the economy despite strong job growth and historically low unemployment.
Prices are accelerating even as some of the supply chain problems bedeviling many manufacturers are easing. Core goods prices, which sent inflation higher last year, were unchanged last month.
As the elections near, Americans are increasingly taking a dim view of their finances, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Roughly 46% of people now describe their personal financial situation as poor, up from 37% in March. That sizable drop contrasts with the mostly steady readings that had lasted through the pandemic.
The September inflation numbers aren’t likely to change the Fed’s plans to keep hiking rates aggressively in an effort to wrest inflation under control. The Fed has boosted its key short-term rate by 3 percentage points since March, the fastest pace of hikes since the early 1980s. Those increases are intended to raise borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans and business loans and cool inflation by slowing the economy.
Minutes from the Fed’s most recent meeting in late September showed that many policymakers have yet to see any progress in their fight against inflation. The officials projected that they would raise their benchmark rate by an additional 1.25 percentage points over their next two meetings in November and December. Doing so would put the Fed’s key rate at its highest level in 14 years.
Along with lower gas prices, economists expect the prices of used cars to reduce or at least restrain inflation in the coming months. Wholesale used car prices have dropped for most of this year, though the declines have yet to show up in consumer inflation data. (Used vehicle prices had soared in 2021 after factory shutdowns and supply chain shortages reduced production.)
Large retailers, too, have started offering early discounts for the holiday shopping season, after having amassed excess stockpiles of clothes, furniture and other goods earlier this year. Those price cuts might have lowered inflation in September or will do so in the coming months.
Walmart has said it will offer steep discounts on such items as toys, home goods, electronics and beauty. Target began offering holiday deals earlier this month.
Yet prices for services — particularly rents and housing costs — are remaining persistently high and will likely take much longer to come down. Health care services, education and even veterinary services are still rising rapidly in price.
“Services price increases tend to be more persistent than increases in the prices of goods,” Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, noted in remarks last week.
Rising rental costs are a tricky issue for the Fed. Real-time data from websites such as ApartmentList suggest that rents on new leases are starting to decline.
But the government’s measure tracks all rent payments — not just those for new leases — and most of them don’t change from month to month. Economists say it could be a year or longer before the declines in new leases feed through to government data.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2022-10-13T14:15:29+00:00
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2022-05-03T23:20:13+00:00
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WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paralyzed Veterans of America Executive Director Carl Blake issued a statement today in reaction to the Senate's failure to pass the PACT Act.
"We are extremely disappointed and dismayed that the Senate failed yesterday to allow the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 or PACT Act to move immediately to final passage. Veterans from all eras exposed to toxic substances can't wait any longer for health care and benefits. The time for delays is over. Veterans are dying today. We call on all Senators to ensure that the PACT Act is passed now."
Paralyzed Veterans of America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The organization ensures veterans receive the benefits earned through service to our nation; monitors their care in VA spinal cord injury and disorder units, and funds research and education in the search for a cure and improved care for individuals with paralysis.
As a life-long partner and advocate for veterans and all people with disabilities, PVA also provides training and career services, works to ensure accessibility in public buildings and other spaces, and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities through sports and recreation. With more than 70 offices and 33 chapters, Paralyzed Veterans of America serves veterans, their families, and their caregivers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Learn more at PVA.org.
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2022-07-28T19:21:13+00:00
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nobu Hospitality, the globally iconic and fastest growing luxury lifestyle brand, and Asset World Corp Public Company Limited (AWC), Thailand's leading integrated lifestyle real estate group are delighted to announce the exclusive Thailand-wide development agreement, and the commencement of two exciting projects in Bangkok.
As part of the development agreement the two partners have committed to an exclusive collaboration to develop multiple Nobu Hotels and restaurants in Thailand. The parties are exploring further development locations in Thailand's most compelling destinations.
The Nobu restaurant will occupy the top floor and rooftop of the Empire Tower, the iconic mixed-use development right at the centre of exciting Bangkok. The Nobu restaurant shall offer the most impressive panorama of the Bangkok skyline and views of the Chao Phraya River, with a design that will create an exquisite dining experience.
The location of the signed Nobu Hotel in Bangkok will soon be announced with a completely unique and distinct program and experience being collaboratively planned by AWC and Nobu Hospitality.
Bangkok, a city built on water and boasting over 11 million residents, is fast-becoming one of the most searched travel destinations in the Asia Pacific region. The Thai capital offers an unmatched, rich cultural experience for international travellers including world-class shopping, countless art galleries and museums, and one of the most impressive dining scenes in the world, which will soon include Nobu.
Trevor Horwell, CEO of Nobu Hospitality, states, "It is an honor to be partnering with the visionary Wallapa Traisorat and the powerbase that she has carefully built with Asset World Corp Public Company Limited. Our strategy is to work with regional development partners in Asia who embrace our unique business model and share the same passion for luxury and high-quality products. With Wallapa Traisorat and AWC, we have a dynamic relationship and partnership built on the foundations of trust and respect, with a vision to enact an exciting and differentiated hospitality offering. We are excited to move forward with the first phase of this partnership in Bangkok whilst carefully planning further developments together."
Wallapa Traisorat, Chief Executive Officer and President of AWC, said that "It is our great pleasure and honor to sign the development agreement for an exclusive collaboration to develop multiple Nobu Hotels and Restaurants in Thailand. The parties are exploring further development locations in Thailand's most compelling destinations. We are delighted to continue our long-term partnership with Nobu Hospitality on this exciting project at the best location in Bangkok. With Nobu's iconic brand, F&B expertise, lifestyle hospitality experience and massive recognition of Chef Nobu Matsuhisa, together with many of the world's best awards, including the # 1 Best Resort Hotel in Continental U.S. 2021, we believe this collaboration will create a unique luxurious F&B lifestyle hospitality destination for Thailand tourism industry that will attract travellers from around the world."
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2022-08-26T11:03:00+00:00
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POKROVSK, Donetsk Oblast — Russia’s defense chief says the country’s forces have taken full control of the steel plant in Mariupol that was the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the city.
That would mark the end of a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of Mariupol to ruins and left over 20,000 people feared dead.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol has been “completely liberated” from Ukrainian fighters.
There is no immediate confirmation from Ukraine.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
The West moved to pour billions more in aid into Ukraine on Friday, as Russia shifted troops freed up by the imminent fall of the pulverized city of Mariupol and fighting raged in the country’s industrial heartland in the east.
Russian forces shelled a vital highway and kept up attacks on a key city in the Luhansk region, hitting a school among other sites, Ukrainian authorities said. Luhansk is part of the Donbas, the mostly Russian-speaking eastern expanse of coal mines and factories that Russian President Vladimir Putin is bent on capturing.
“The liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic is nearing completion," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared, referring to the breakaway state proclaimed by pro-Moscow separatists in 2014 and recognized by the Kremlin.
In Mariupol, the strategic port in the southern corner of the Donbas, Russian troops worn down by their nearly three-month siege of the city may not get the time they need to regroup, Britain’s Defense Ministry said.
With the battle winding down for the Azovstal steel plant that represented the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol, Russia is continuing to pull back forces there, and their commanders are under pressure to quickly send them elsewhere in the Donbas, according to the British.
“That means that Russia will probably redistribute their forces swiftly without adequate preparation, which risks further force attrition,” the ministry said.
An undisclosed number of Ukrainian soldiers remained at the Azovstal steel plant. Russia said more than 1,900 had surrendered in recent days. Also remaining at the plant were the bodies of soldiers who defended it while tying down Russian forces.
Denis Prokopenko, commander of the Azov Regiment, which led the defense of the plant, called them “fallen heroes.”
"I hope soon relatives and the whole of Ukraine will be able to bury the fighters with honors,” he said.
Wives of fighters who held out at the steelworks spoke emotionally about what may have been their last contact with their husbands.
Olga Boiko, wife of a marine, wiped away tears as she said that her husband had written her on Thursday: “Hello. We surrender, I don’t know when I will get in touch with you and if I will at all. Love you. Kiss you. Bye.”
Natalia Zaritskaya, wife of another fighter at Azovstal, said that based on the messages she had seen over the past two days, “Now they are on the path from hell to hell. Every inch of this path is deadly.”
She said that two days ago, her husband reported that of the 32 soldiers with whom he had served, only eight survived, most of them seriously wounded.
In other developments:
— The Group of Seven major economies and global financial institutions agreed to provide more money to bolster Ukraine’s finances, bringing the total to $19.8 billion. In the U.S., President Joe Biden was expected to sign a $40 billion package of military and economic aid to Ukraine and its allies.
— Russia will cut off natural gas to Finland on Saturday, the Finnish state energy company said, just days after Finland applied to join NATO. Finland had refused Moscow’s demand that it pay for gas in rubles. The cutoff is not expected to have any major immediate effect. Natural gas accounted for just 6% of Finland’s total energy consumption in 2020, Finnish broadcaster YLE said.
— A captured Russian soldier accused of killing a civilian awaited his fate in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial. Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, could get life in prison.
Meanwhile, fighting intensified deeper in the Donbas.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk, said Russian forces were especially focused on the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway, the only road for evacuating people and delivering humanitarian supplies.
“The road is extremely important because it’s the only connection to other regions of the country,” he said via email. “The Russians are trying to cut us off from it, to encircle the Luhansk region.”
Russian forces shelled the road constantly from multiple directions, but Ukrainian armored transports were still able to get through, Haidai added.
Moscow's troops have been trying for weeks to seize Severodonetsk, a key city in the Donbas. One of Friday’s attacks was on a school in Severodonetsk that was sheltering more than 200 people, many of them children, Haidai said. Three adults were killed, he said on Telegram.
Twelve people were killed in Severodonetsk, Haidai said. It was not immediately clear if that included the three at the school. In addition, more than 60 houses were destroyed across the region, he added.
Russian forces now control 90 percent of Luhansk, but the attack on Severodonetsk failed — "the Russians suffered personnel losses and retreated," Haidai said. His account could not be independently verified.
Another city, Rubizhne, has been “completely destroyed,” Haidai said. “Its fate can be compared to that of Mariupol.”
Pro-Moscow separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in the Donbas for the past eight years and held a considerable swath of it before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion. But the effort by Putin's troops to take more territory there has been slow-going.
In a sign of Russia’s frustration with the war, some senior commanders have been fired in recent weeks, Britain's Defense Ministry said.
Russian forces elsewhere in Ukraine continued to blast away at targets, some of them civilian.
In the village of Velyka Kostromka, west of the Donbas, explosions in the middle of the night Thursday shook Iryna Martsyniuk's house to its foundations. Roof timbers splintered and windows shattered, sending shards of glass into a wall near three sleeping children.
“There were flashes everywhere," she said. "There was smoke everywhere.” She grabbed the children and ran toward the home’s entrance, “but the corridor wasn’t there anymore. Instead, we saw the starry night.”
They ran down the road to a neighbor’s home, where they hid in the basement.
Around 20 other houses were damaged and two people were lightly wounded, said Olha Shaytanova, head of the village.
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2022-05-21T04:59:36+00:00
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https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/russia-claims-to-have-taken-full-control-of-mariupol/507-e56d31b7-ae3d-4837-8d1d-06d591972d0f
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Hip hop pioneer DJ Kay Slay dies of COVID-19 at age 55
NEW YORK (AP) — Pioneering hip hop artist Keith Grayson, who performed as DJ Kay Slay and worked with top stars, has died of complications from COVID-19.
Grayson’s death at age 55 on Sunday was confirmed by his family in a statement released through New York radio station HOT 97, where he hosted “The Drama Hour” for more than two decades.
“A dominant figure in hip hop culture with millions of fans worldwide, DJ Kay Slay will be remembered for his passion and excellence with a legacy that will transcend generations,” the family statement said.
Grayson grew up in Harlem, immersed in New York City’s early hip hop scene. He got his start as a teenage graffiti artist and was featured in the 1983 hip hop documentary “Style Wars.”
He began selling bootleg mixtapes on street corners in the early ‘90s and released his first studio album, “The Streetsweeper, Vol. 1,” in May 2003. Grayson released several more albums and worked with the likes of Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Jadakiss and Busta Rhymes.
“Hot 97 is shocked and saddened by the loss of our beloved DJ Kay Slay,” the station said in a statement.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-04-18T16:17:38+00:00
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https://www.kcrg.com/2022/04/18/hip-hop-pioneer-dj-kay-slay-dies-covid-19-age-55/
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper was fired by NBC Sports California after using a racial slur during a telecast while describing a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
Kuiper was suspended by the network earlier this month following his slur that aired during a pregame segment of an A's game against the Kansas City Royals on May 5. Kuiper talked about a trip to the museum with colleague Dallas Braden but seemingly mispronounced the word "negro," making it sound instead like a slur.
"Following an internal review, the decision has been made for NBC Sports California to end its relationship with Glen Kuiper, effective immediately," the network said in a statement Monday. "We thank Glen for his dedication to Bay Area baseball over the years."
A person familiar with the investigation said "the decision was based on a variety of factors, including information uncovered in the internal review." The person spoke on condition of anonymity and didn't divulge specific details because the network had not publicly disclosed the results of the investigation.
Kuiper apologized on the air later in that game without getting into specifics, saying he said something that "didn't come out quite the way I wanted it to." He later issued a statement through the network when he was suspended, saying: "I could not be more sorry and horrified by what I said. I hope you will accept my sincerest apologies."
Kuiper has been calling A's games in the Bay Area for the last 20 years. He is the younger brother of former major leaguer and Giants announcer Duane Kuiper.
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2023-05-22T21:42:11+00:00
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espn.com
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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37709488/a-broadcaster-glen-kuiper-fired-using-racial-slur-air
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(KXNET) — An unlikely source is spreading the word on how to make sure your farm stays in the family.
An attorney from German Law, a North Dakota law firm, aims to discuss ways to preserve wealth for future generations, minimize estate taxes, and avoid probate — from making sure family or friends take over and maintain the assets to prevent your family from arguing over the division of the farm.
“If we don’t have them done properly,” explained German Law Attorney, Jogn Oelke, “assets may not necessarily go to the child that’s going to take over the farm or business. They’re going to go to everyone, and can be split up to a point where the farming child doesn’t have an opportunity to continue that farm into the future.”
Oelke says keeping assets in the family can be difficult, especially when you have to sell off land in order to cover other expenses. But one way to make sure nothing happens to your possessions is to make sure you have an estate plan in place.
“An estate plan is just how you want your assets to go to the next generation,” Oelke added. “If you don’t have a next generation that you want to send it to, you can also designate a charitable organization or whoever you want to take care of in the future. It could be a will, or it could be a trust. The state actually has one set up for you in the statutes called intestacy if you don’t set one up yourself.”
Oelke says there are only about 17% of farms nationwide that have an estate plan in order.
While putting together one of these plans seems like a daunting task, you don’t have to do it all alone. There are seminars that talk both to farmers and local business owners that can help make sure you have everything in order and know what you need to do before you step into an attorney’s office.
“These sessions will help you know what issues you’re going to face and know what’s important to you,” continued Oelke, “and when you go into an attorney’s office, you can direct the conversation instead of shooting from the hip.”
These seminars are free and are usually held in the winter when farmers have more time.
If you are interested and want to make sure you don’t miss the next seminar, visit the German Law website.
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2023-02-09T02:18:14+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/what-can-you-do-to-keep-your-farm-in-the-family/
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Iowa’s ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy was signed into law Friday by Gov. Kim Reynolds, but a judge is still considering abortion advocates’ request to put the restrictions on hold.
The new legislation prohibits almost all abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. That’s a dramatic shift for women in Iowa, where abortion had been legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Reynolds signed the measure into law in front of 2,000 conservative Christians barely a mile away from where a court hearing for the request to postpone the state’s new ban took place. The ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood North Central States and the Emma Goldman Clinic filed the legal challenge Wednesday and representatives spoke at the court hearing Friday.
That hearing ended with the judge saying a decision on whether to put a hold on the new ban may be made next week.
District Court Judge Joseph Seidlin said he could not imagine “anything that would be more insulting to either side” than for him to “flippantly” rule from the bench Friday.
The split screen punctuates a bitter battle between abortion advocates and opponents in Iowa that has dragged on for years and will likely, for now, remain unresolved as the courts assess the law’s constitutionality.
“As we gather here today, at this very moment, the abortion industry is in the court trying to prevent this law from taking effect and stop once again the will of the people,” Reynolds said before bringing people on the stage to sign the law. “But the passage of this legislation by even a wider margin this times sends an unmistakable message.”
The bill passed with exclusively Republican support late on Tuesday at the conclusion of a rare, 14-hour special legislative session.
The new measure will be considered in the context of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and Iowa’s Supreme Court last year, when both reversed themselves on rulings that had affirmed a woman’s fundamental constitutional right to abortion.
Those decisions prompted Reynolds to ask the court to reinstate her blocked 2018 law, which is nearly identical to the new one. The state’s high court deadlocked last month, prompting Reynolds to call lawmakers back to the Iowa Capitol.
“Patients’ lives are deeply impacted every day that this law is allowed to stand,” said Ruth Richardson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States. “Iowans will be harmed as they’ve lost the right to control their bodies and futures. Iowans must have the freedom to make the best medical decisions for themselves and their families. We stand at the ready for our patients as we await the Court’s decision and are prepared to help them get the reproductive health care they need regardless of the outcome.”
Planned Parenthood North Central States was planning to refer patients to other states, but remained hopeful there would not be a long interruption in services. As of Wednesday, 200 patients were scheduled for abortions at Iowa Planned Parenthood or the Emma Goldman Clinic this week and next, according to the court filings. Most of them past the six-week mark in their pregnancies.
One Planned Parenthood clinic stayed open until about 9:30 p.m. Thursday in an effort to provide abortion care before the new restrictions, their attorney said.
“I can only hope that all patients who had appointments this morning have gotten the care that they need and that they’re not sitting at a health center right now,” the clinics’ attorney Peter Im said during Friday's court arguments.
Iowa lawmakers passed the law in less time “than the 24 hour time period that’s required for patients to wait before they get an abortion in Iowa," he said, adding that the status quo for the last 50 years has been for abortion pre-viability to be legal in Iowa.
“This law, which on Tuesday the General Assembly passed in the dead of night after less than a day of deliberation, will violate Iowans constitutional rights and alter that status quo and have devastating consequences for Iowans," he said.
There are limited circumstances under the measure that would allow for abortion after the point in a pregnancy where cardiac activity is detected: rape, if reported to law enforcement or a health provider within 45 days; incest, if reported within 145 days; if the fetus has a fetal abnormality “incompatible with life”; or if the pregnancy is endangering the life of the pregnant woman.
Most Republican-led states have drastically limited abortion access in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed authority on abortion law to the states. More than a dozen states have bans with limited exceptions and one state, Georgia, bans abortion after cardiac activity is detected. Several other states have similar restrictions that are on hold pending court rulings.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre put out an immediate statement saying Iowa's newly signed law is “an extreme abortion ban that will take away a woman’s right to choose."
“While Republican elected officials advance dangerous laws, President Biden and Vice President Harris stand with the majority of Americans who believe personal health care decisions should be between a woman and her doctor, not politicians, and will continue to call on Congress to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law,” the statement said.
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Ballentine contributed from Columbia, Missouri.
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2023-07-14T22:05:16+00:00
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ksby.com
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CHICAGO (WGN) — A 20-year-old man who braved live, electrified train tracks in Chicago to save a stranger’s life was surprised with the gift of a car on Wednesday.
On Monday, Anthony Perry had just exited the Red Line CTA train at 59th Street when he saw an unconscious man bent over backward on the live rail track, according to a press release from I’m Telling, Don’t Shoot, a Chicago non-profit.
“I don’t think I was thinking about what could happen to me at the moment. It was more of what do I have to do to make the situation peaceful,” Perry said. “I felt a little shock. I felt it all over my body actually, and then I just didn’t let that stop me.”
In the video, the victim appeared to be twitching from electricity coursing through his body which seemed to jump to Perry each time he touched the man. Once freed from the tracks, Perry administered CPR to the victim, who eventually regained consciousness. Shortly after, paramedics arrived and transported him to a nearby hospital, where he was expected to live.
Perry’s heroic act was captured on camera and posted on Facebook, which quickly went viral.
For his life-saving act, Early Walker, founder of I’m Telling, Don’t Shoot, purchased a 2009 Audi A8 and surprised Perry with the vehicle on Wednesday. Perry commutes more than two hours daily via two CTA buses and a train to get to and from his job.
“We need more Anthonys in the world,” Walker said. “We need more people like this.”
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2022-06-09T03:51:33+00:00
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/chicago-man-who-braved-electrified-train-tracks-to-save-stranger-surprised-with-car/
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A new disease outbreak has been detected on another continent. It has spread to the U.S., where growth has been exponential, especially in New York City. While it’s been two months since the disease was first spotted, the U.S. is struggling to muster the tools it needs to contain the outbreak.
It sounds like where the country was with COVID in March of 2020, but now we’re seeing something similar with monkeypox.
The latest outbreak of the disease has spread to most U.S. states and dozens of countries worldwide.
The U.S. has at least 2,000 confirmed monkeypox cases nationwide, with the official case rate rising more than tenfold in the past month. With a testing shortage, it’s likely that the actual case count is higher.
Though they sound the same, the diseases are a bit different.
COVID currently spreads more easily than monkeypox, as it primarily infects people through airborne transmission. Monkeypox spreads through close physical contact and exchanging of fluids, transmitting and often presenting in ways that can resemble sexually-transmitted illnesses.
And, monkeypox only can spread once a person has symptoms, unlike COVID’s asymptomatic, or pre-symptomatic transmission. Also, unlike with COVID, there is an approved vaccine ready that prevents monkeypox transmission; an existing smallpox vaccine was found to work against monkeypox as well.
There’s also help on the way. The CDC announced last week that it has the capacity for 70,000 monkeypox tests per week and that at least 300,000 shots have been made available to states, with nearly 800,000 more expected to be ready for distribution by the end of this month, according to Health and Human Services.
But the jump from having the tools needed to stop an outbreak to actually using them has proven difficult. Vaccine rollout has been a bit of a mixed bag.
Federal health officials have been working on getting vaccines out to cities and states. But with demand outstripping supply in epicenters like New York City, it’s not a guarantee that everyone who wants, or needs, a monkeypox vaccine can get one.
"We'll certainly need much more vaccine and quickly to meet the burden of disease here in New York City, the epicenter of the monkeypox epidemic in the United States," Ashwin Vasan, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said. "We share our New Yorkers frustrations with about waiting to make appointments or long lines. Please hear us when we say every action we've taken to date has been with one goal in mind: to get vaccine to the city and to get shots in arms as quickly as possible."
It's a misstep that has come as the U.S. has had more than two years of experience combatting an existing outbreak and after a year and a half of experience distributing vaccines to slow an outbreak.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden’s top medical adviser, has acknowledged the response hasn’t been perfect.
"It would have been good to have had a lot more vaccines available early on, but right now we have accelerated that extensively," Dr. Fauci said. "Could we have done better? Always. You never say we did perfectly."
In New York, health officials say they will now focus on delivering the vaccine to people who have not received the first dose. But, this puts into question if those who already got the first shot will be at risk of not getting the second dose at all. The second dose of the vaccine is meant to be administered 28 days after the first to be fully effective.
Authorities in New York City are doing this despite advice from the FDA and CDC.
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2022-07-23T04:09:43+00:00
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that a secret peace “mission” in Russia’s war in Ukraine was under way, though he gave no details, and said the Vatican is willing to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war.
“I’m available to do anything,” Francis said during an airborne press conference en route home from Hungary. “There’s a mission that’s not public that’s underway; when it’s public I’ll talk about it.”
Francis gave no details when asked whether he spoke about peace initiatives during his talks in Budapest this weekend with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban or the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Hungary.
Deportations of Ukrainian children have been a concern since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Francis said the Holy See had already helped mediate some prisoner exchanges and would do “all that is humanly possible” to reunite families.
“All human gestures help. Gestures of cruelty don’t help,” Francis said.
The International Criminal Court in March issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s children’s commissioner, accusing them of war crimes for abducting children from Ukraine. Russia has denied any wrongdoing, contending the children were moved for their safety.
Last week Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with Francis at the Vatican and asked him to help return Ukrainian children taken following the Russian invasion.
“I asked His Holiness to help us return home Ukrainians, Ukrainian children who are detained, arrested, and criminally deported to Russia,″ Shmyhal told the Foreign Press Association after the audience.
Francis recalled that the Holy See had facilitated some prisoner exchanges, working through embassies, and was open to Ukraine’s request to reunite Ukrainian children with their families.
The prisoner exchanges “went well. I think it could go well also for this. It’s important,” he said of the family reunifications. “The Holy See is available to do it because it’s the right thing,” he added. “We have to do all that is humanly possible.” ___
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2023-05-01T13:16:13+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/pope-open-to-helping-return-ukrainian-children-in-russia/
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Credit union encourages college-bound students across the greater LA area to apply for $1,000 scholarship
GLENDALE, Calif. , Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- California Credit Union is encouraging college-bound students in Los Angeles County to apply for its 2023 Student Scholarship Program. Through the program, the credit union provides $20,000 in scholarships annually to recognize Southern California students who are motivated in their academic studies and active in their schools and communities.
"We're committed to investing in our next generation of leaders and encourage local students to apply for one of our scholarships," said California Credit Union CEO Steve O'Connell. "We know the costs of higher education have continued to rise and pursuing educational dreams can be a challenge for many. We hope our scholarships make the path to college a little easier, and look forward to reviewing the many stories of inspiration in our scholarship applications."
Los Angeles County college-bound high school seniors and community college students transferring to a four-year university who maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.0 are eligible to participate. Selection criteria include academic performance, school or community involvement, a letter of recommendation, and an essay submission.
Interested students can find more information and apply online at ccu.com/studentscholarship. Online applications will be accepted through Friday, March 10, 2023. Recipients will be announced on Monday, April 3, 2023.
The California Credit Union Annual Student Scholarship program was created in 2005 to recognize outstanding students within local communities. Each year, the credit union awards 20 scholarships of $1,000 each to students in Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties. Since the creation of the program, the credit union has awarded more than $375,000 in scholarships.
California Credit Union is a federally insured, state chartered credit union founded in 1933 that serves public or private school employees, community members and businesses across California. With more than 165,000 members and assets of over $4 billion, California Credit Union has 24 branches throughout Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. The credit union operates in San Diego County as North Island Credit Union, a division of California Credit Union. California Credit Union offers a full suite of consumer, business and investment products and services, including comprehensive consumer checking and loan options, personalized financial planning, business banking, and leading-edge online and mobile banking. Visit ccu.com for more information or follow the credit union on Instagram® or Facebook® @CaliforniaCreditUnion.
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2023-01-10T17:00:36+00:00
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Climate change negotiations have concluded at the U.N. summit in Egypt. World leaders took a historic step to help developing countries pay for damages from climate impacts. But did they do enough?
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Climate change negotiations have concluded at the U.N. summit in Egypt. World leaders took a historic step to help developing countries pay for damages from climate impacts. But did they do enough?
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2022-11-21T10:45:02+00:00
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Enochian BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOB) between January 17, 2018 and June 27, 2022, both dates inclusive, (the "Class Period"), including common stock issued by Enochian in a private placement offering on or about February 16, 2018, of the important September 26, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Enochian BioSciences securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Enochian BioSciences class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6517 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 26, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) co-founder and inventor, Serhat Gumrukcu, was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to Enochian lacked a reasonable basis; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Enochian had overstated its commercial prospects; (5) Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Enochian's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Enochian BioSciences class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6517 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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2022-08-06T00:42:30+00:00
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Mom dies after stepping on fire ant hill, family says
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (WSB) - The family of a late Georgia mother believes she died of a severe allergic reaction after she stepped on a fire ant pile at her home.
After her tragic death, Cathy Weed is being remembered as a mother to everyone on Mountain View High School’s baseball team, for which her 15-year-old son plays. The team’s players stood side by side with each other on the field Sunday to honor her.
“Cathy always had a smile on her face. She was always just so cheerful, always cheering on every boy on the team, not just her son,” friend Zuhera Waite said.
Weed died Saturday after relatives say she stepped on an ant pile at her Lawrenceville home. Her family says she had a severe allergy to fire ants, and they believe her reaction to getting bitten was so strong that she died before she could get to her medicine.
Jason Johnson, the baseball team’s coach, says there was no hesitation to help Weed’s son, a rising sophomore on the team, and shower him with love and support.
“His mom was everything to him, and he was 100%, even more so to her,” Johnson said.
“We won’t ever let him forget her,” Waite said.
The Mountain View community has raised more than $4,000 for Weed’s family, and Sunday’s tribute won’t be the last time they honor the woman who meant so much to so many.
“I know Cathy is happy that we’re still playing ball, and it was just a great, beautiful tribute to her,” Waite said.
The medical examiner’s office is investigating an official cause of death.
Copyright 2023 WSB via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2023-06-27T07:59:30+00:00
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More clouds with a small shower chance Sunday
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - We’re tracking a cloudy end to the weekend, but conditions should remain mostly dry. Showers chances will be kept to a minimum.
Temperatures will stay “cool” to finish the weekend before we get another warm up going into next week.
Speaking of, next week is looking great weather wise!
Here’s the latest forecast!
Today & Tonight (Sunday)
After a cloudy start to the weekend, we will expect more clouds to finish the weekend. Partly to mostly cloudy skies will be common for many.
Sunday AM is still looking at the chance for a few isolated sprinkles and/or some lingering showers possible. Small chances from some lingering moisture could still spark a few more Sunday PM showers.
With that said, we also anticipate many dry hours today. No need to cancel any outdoor plans. Be sure to track any rain this weekend with our Interactive Radar!
Highs for later this afternoon will stay “cool” for August standards in the 60s near 70. This comes with low humidity values and light east winds at 5-10 mph.
Later this evening into tonight should begin to break up and slowly decrease clouds going into Monday morning. Lows drop back into the 50s near 60.
Next Week
Past the weekend, trends keep the region mostly dry with varying sky conditions; partly to mostly sunny skies.
Temperatures get a little boost back into the upper 70s near 80 for high temperatures. This is closer to average for this time of year at 80.
Next week also features low humidity going into the following weekend. Good news for doing some work outdoors!
Overnight lows are expected to stay more comfortable in the 50s near 60. Good sleeping weather!
Check out the 7 Day forecast for your region right here!
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2022-08-14T15:16:25+00:00
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wnem.com
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The Honor Caps an Award Streak for The Women-Owned Independent Agency
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Media Matters Worldwide, one of the fastest-growing independent media agencies in the U.S., was honored by Ad Age as Media Agency of the Year in its Small Agency Awards. This is the second consecutive year the agency was honored by the magazine. The award contest honors the independent agencies producing groundbreaking work and teams strategizing and executing ideas that directly compete with advertising's oldest, largest, and most sought-after partners. Media Matters Worldwide (MMWW) showed its strength and creativity by producing innovative and exciting work that drives clients' brand building, outcomes, and business growth.
Judann Pollack, Ad Age executive editor said about the winners: "They may be small in number of employees, but these shops are proven to have big ideas and big ambitions. Their work is as good as—or in many cases better—than that turned out by agencies many times their size. They have proven time and time again that they are nimble, adaptable and able to compete with the giants."
The Ad Age editorial staff chooses the winners based on business momentum, creative prowess and effectiveness of campaigns, breadth of its work, and how the agency approaches future growth. In addition, the editors look at the agency's culture, team member benefits and enrichment programs, and how it is working to diversify its talent base.
"Over the past year, our investment in new tools, policies, and our culture spurred a metamorphosis that paralleled a year of explosive business growth–like our AI Agile Mix Modeling tool and benefits like increasing days off for parents to bond with their babies during the first year," said
As the only women-owned agency to be honored, MMWW's year-long winning streak kicked off with Ad Age's Silver Media Agency of the Year and a finalist honor for Campaign Magazine Media Agency of the Year. The agency is also an ANA B2B Northern California Innovation Award winner and was honored in industry shows such as the OMMA Awards and Campaign Magazine's US Media Awards. And cofounder Josy Amann was named a "Female Frontier '' winner by Campaign Magazine, recognizing the accomplishments of the most progressive and boundary-pushing women.
"We are honored to be recognized by Ad Age for the second year in a row for tackling our client's biggest business challenges and building an agency where people can do their best work," said Josy Amann, Co-Founder, MMWW. "We've always known we have an amazing team, but over the past two years the commitment, passion and creativity they've brought to our client work has been remarkable. This award is a testament to them."
Prior to the awards ceremony at the Ad Age Small Agency Conference, MMWW's Sara Owens, VP of Analytics and Data Sciences, took the stage to discuss "How to build an audience science discipline to create new revenue streams" with Ericka McCoy of Resonate and John Dioso of AdAge.
Media Matters Worldwide empowers B2C and B2B businesses to make smarter marketing decisions. We partner with clients to bring creative to life, with comprehensive analytics to prove the success and drive business growth. Our highly talented and experienced media and analytics strategists have a passion for cutting-edge media innovation and a focus on uncovering the "why" behind analytics. MMWW continuously invests in the latest media technologies to develop strategic, efficient, transparent, and measurable solutions. Learn more at www.MediaMattersWW.com
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2022-08-02T15:12:24+00:00
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/08/02/media-matters-worldwide-is-ad-ages-gold-media-agency-year/
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Dems hope to harness outrage, sadness after abortion ruling
YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — The shock quickly turned to sadness for Victoria Lowe.
The 37-year-old lawyer, working outside a cafe in suburban Bucks County, Pennsylvania, said she couldn’t believe the Supreme Court stripped away the constitutional right to abortion that women have had her entire life. She started to cry.
“I don’t understand how they could reach this conclusion,” she said.
In the immediate aftermath of one of the Supreme Court’s most consequential rulings, it was too soon to know how deeply the political landscape had shifted. But in this politically competitive corner of one of the most important swing states in the U.S., embattled Democrats hope to harness the emotion from women like Lowe to reset what has been an otherwise brutal election year environment.
For much of the year, the threat to abortion rights has seemed somewhat theoretical, overshadowed by more tangible economic challenges, particularly inflation and rising gas prices. But the Supreme Court’s decision ensures that abortion will be a central issue in U.S. politics for the foreseeable future.
That’s especially true as restrictions begin to take effect. Pregnant women considering abortions already had been dealing with a near-complete ban in Oklahoma and a prohibition after roughly six weeks in Texas. Clinics in at least eight other states — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota, Wisconsin and West Virginia — stopped performing abortions after Friday’s decision.
In Pennsylvania, the future of the procedure could hinge on November’s elections. For now, women here will continue to have access to abortion up to 24 weeks. Republicans are poised to change state law, however, should they maintain control of the legislature and seize the governorship in November. Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for governor, opposes abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother.
Democrats in Pennsylvania and beyond initially appeared to unite behind their collective outrage, fear and sadness.
They planned widespread protests. From the White House on Friday, President Joe Biden urged protesters to keep the peace, even as he described the court ruling as “wrong, extreme and out of touch.”
The Democratic president also called on voters to make their voices heard this fall: “Roe is on the ballot.”
At the same time, members of the Democratic National Committee raised the prospect of a silver lining within the high court’s historic gut punch.
“Democrats have a real opportunity right now to harness this anger, to harness the sadness,” Democratic strategist Mo Elleithee said during a meeting of a DNC subcommittee. “We are setting the foundation to ensure that Democrats stay in the White House, so that the next time, there’s an opening on the bench, on the federal bench anywhere, that we’ve got a Democratic president making that appointment.”
Democratic-aligned groups moved to deploy the resources to warn of what’s at stake in this year’s midterms. NARAL Freedom Fund and Priorities USA Action immediately spent $300,000 on digital advertising.
Republicans, for their part, sought to downplay their excitement about winning the decades-long fight against abortion rights, aware that the ruling could energize the Democratic base, particularly suburban women. Before Friday’s ruling, Democrats close to the White House were increasingly pessimistic about the party’s chances of holding either the House or Senate in November.
Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said she expected abortion opponents to turn out in huge numbers this fall, even if Democrats might be motivated by Friday’s ruling.
She called it “a great day for unborn children and mothers.” “Because it’s been a so-called right for 50 years doesn’t mean it was right,” Tobias said.
Polling shows that relatively few Americans wanted to see Roe overturned.
In 2020, AP VoteCast found that 69% of voters in the presidential election said the Supreme Court should leave the Roe v. Wade decision as is. Still, recent surveys tend to show other issues rising above abortion as the most important problems facing the country.
Thirteen percent of Democrats mentioned abortion or reproductive rights as one of the issues they want the federal government to address in 2022, according to a December poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That’s up from less than 1% of Democrats who named it as a priority for 2021 and 3% who listed it in 2020.
Other issues like the economy, COVID-19, health care and gun control ranked as higher priorities for Democrats in the poll. But the exponential rise in the percentage citing reproductive rights as a key concern suggests the issue was resonating with Democrats as the Supreme Court considered overturning Roe.
The fight for abortion rights — and the related political fallout — now shifts to the states.
Thirteen deep-red states have so-called “trigger laws” that will now ban abortion almost immediately, but the future of abortion access is less certain across several other more moderate states with Republican-controlled legislatures: Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin, among them.
In many cases, GOP legislatures have already approved restrictive abortion laws, including so-called “heartbeat” bills that would outlaw abortions before most women know they’re pregnant. Some legislation is tied up in the courts, while others have yet to move through Republican legislatures. Now that Roe has fallen, such laws — or more restrictive bans — could only be stopped by a veto from a Democratic governor or Democrat-backed court challenge, if at all.
Some states, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Texas, have decades-old abortion bans predating Roe that would now presumably take effect absent another challenge in their state courts.
Despite initial hope among Democrats that the upheaval would motivate their base, some on the front lines of the party’s uphill midterm fight aren’t so sure.
Jamie Perrapato, executive director of the pro-Democratic group Turn PA Blue, notes that Democrats produced record turnout across Pennsylvania in last year’s off-year elections. But so did Republicans, who ultimately dominated down-ballot races across the state.
“I feel sick. I hope this wakes people up. I hope they realize, even though it’s terrible, you can’t put your head in the sand,” Perrapato said. “But I don’t know. It’s a really bleak time.”
Back in Bucks County, Lowe said she votes Democratic and planned to vote in November even before Friday’s decision. Abortion rights are a top issue for her, even as inflation surges.
“I would say it is more important to me than the gas issue,” she said. “This is such a personal, fundamental human right that it’s bigger than the economy.”
Sitting next to Lowe at the cafe, 56-year-old Margaret Pezalla-Granlund also choked up when asked about the Supreme Court decision. Although they were strangers, Lowe offered her a tissue, and the women dried their eyes together.
Pezalla-Granlund was especially worried about her 15-year-old daughter. “She’ll be growing up in a really different situation than I had and I expected she’d have,” she said.
Such concern wasn’t limited to Democrats.
Not far away, 75-year-old Karen Sloan was smoking a cigarette outside a cafe in the Delaware River town of Bristol. A self-described Republican who supports abortion rights, she said Friday’s ruling upset her.
“I just can’t believe it,” Sloan said. “I’m not saying it’s right to take a human life. But there are circumstances it needs to be done.”
She said she would have voted in November even before the ruling, but now she’s planning to support candidates who back abortion rights. For her, the issue outranks high gas prices and inflation.
“You’re taking away someone’s rights and that to me is more important,” Sloan said. “It’s a big thing in the United States for women.”
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AP writers Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina; Marc Levy in Harrisburg; and Hannah Fingerhut in Washington contributed.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-06-25T05:38:50+00:00
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ktiv.com
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https://www.ktiv.com/2022/06/25/dems-hope-harness-outrage-sadness-after-abortion-ruling/
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No matter how naughty a pet might be, most will end up on Santa Paws’ nice list this year.
A recent poll by Chewy found that 94% of pet owners will get their four-legged friend a gift this holiday season.
Toys, home-cooked meals, treats, high-tech gadgets, doggie spa days — with thousands of pet gifts to choose from, how do you pick the right one? Here are some tips from the Better Business Bureau to find a safe and affordable gift your pet will adore.
- Stay within budget. If you are making multiple gift purchases this holiday season, it’s especially important to plan your holiday budget — and then stick to it! Be sure to include your pets in the budget, and then shop for gifts within your means.
- Pick a gift that matches your pet’s personality. Just like people, every pet is different. Some are more active than others, some are food-motivated, some love to chew and some love to run. Take your pet’s personality into consideration to choose a gift they will really enjoy. Check out the Humane Society’s ideas for toys based on your pets’ personalities and needs, like active toys, distraction toys, comfort toys and more.
- Choose a gift that is safe. Avoid toys that are small enough to be ingested. Make sure toys don’t have any ribbons, string, rubber bands or anything a pet could swallow. You should also be able to clean toys, whether that means machine washing them or wiping them down occasionally.
- Know what’s inside your toys. For many dogs — and some cats — destroying a toy is much of the fun. Make sure to read labels to ensure what’s inside the toy is safe. For example, many toy stuffings aren’t digestible and could pose a danger.
- Check the ingredients in edible gifts. Stick to treats and foods that are made specifically for your type of pet. The FDA warns that many human treats contain ingredients that are hazardous to pets, such as xylitol, a sugar substitute found in some human foods and dental products. If you’re looking for treats that contribute to dental health, check the Veterinary Oral Health Council’s list of acceptable chew treats for both dogs and cats. In addition to quality, keep an eye on quantity. If your pet has a stocking full of treats, don’t let them gobble them up too fast, as this could lead to choking or digestive issues.
Now, we want to hear from you. How are you involving your pets in your holiday celebrations? What do you plan to gift your furry friend? Share your plans and pet gift ideas by end of the day Wednesday in the form below, and we may include your response in a future story.
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2022-12-13T15:42:22+00:00
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach plans to sue after Governor Laura Kelly announced that she will not direct state agencies to revert their gender marker policies.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department of Revenue will continue to update gender markers on birth certificates and driver’s licenses for transgender individuals, standing against Kobach’s legal opinion issued Monday.
“The Governor has stated that SB 180 changes nothing with respect to drivers licenses and birth certificates. That is nonsense. The Legislature passed SB 180 and overrode Governor Kelly’s veto specifically to ensure that those documents reflect biological sex at birth. The Governor doesn’t get to veto a bill and then ignore the Legislature’s override. She is violating her oath of office to uphold Kansas law. We will see her in court.”
Kris Kobach, Kansas Attorney General
Kobach’s Office said he plans to sue following the governor’s move.
In his legal opinion, Kobach stated that a new state law defining biological sex, SB 180, would also require state agencies to update birth certificates and driver’s licenses to reflect sex at birth.
Kelly said she’s directed KDOR and KDHE to follow their legal counsel’s interpretation of the law in a statement Thursday.
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2023-06-29T20:34:59+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/news/capitol-bureau/kansas-ag-will-sue-after-gov-objects-to-gender-marker-policy-changes/
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“Survivor 44″ will premiere on Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p.m. The series will be hosted, as always, by Jeff Probst, and will feature 18 ‘castaways’ battling it out for $18 million.
Here’s the information you’ll need to watch a free live stream of “Survivor 44″ online without cable.
How to watch ‘Survivor 44′ without cable
If you’re a cord-cutter or don’t have cable, you can live stream “Survivor 44″ on any one of the following streaming platforms:
When is ‘Survivor 44′ on?
“Survivor” starts its 44nd season on Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p.m. on CBS. It will air directly before a new episode of “True Lies” at 10 p.m.
What channel is CBS?
You can use the channel finder on your provider’s website to locate it: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV, Dish.
How to watch ‘Survivor 44′ online on-demand
If you missed an episode of “Survivor 44″ or want to the entirety of the series online as it becomes available, look for the show on Paramount Plus (free trial).
What is ‘Survivor 44′ about?
According to the official CBS website: SURVIVOR launches a new chapter when the Emmy Award-winning series returns on Wednesdays. Stranded in the beautiful islands of Fiji, these 18 determined new castaways will be divided into three tribes of six and forced to form a new society as they adapt to their physical and social surroundings. The mental and physical challenges force players to choose between personal risk and reward, while still navigating the complex social game and attempting to forge alliances to last another day. The individuals competing are from diverse backgrounds with the same ultimate goal: to outwit, outplay and outlast and ultimately be crowned Sole Survivor. The show is hosted and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Jeff Probst.
Here’s a look at “Survivor 44,” courtesy of the show’s official YouTube channel:
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2023-03-15T21:01:27+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/tv/2023/03/survivor-44-episode-3-free-live-stream-how-to-watch-online-without-cable.html
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BEIJING, July 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NaaS Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: NAAS) ("NaaS" or the "Company"), the first U.S. listed EV charging service company in China, announced that LMR Partners Limited completed the purchase of the US$30 million convertible note from the Company, convertible into American depositary shares representing the Company's ordinary shares, on July 6, 2023 pursuant to the convertible note purchase agreement and the derivative arrangement entered into between the parties as previously announced on June 29, 2023.
About NaaS Technology Inc.
NaaS Technology Inc. is the first U.S. listed EV charging service company in China. The Company is a subsidiary of Newlinks Technology Limited, a leading energy digitalization group in China. The Company provides one-stop EV charging solutions to charging stations comprising online EV charging, offline EV charging and innovative and other solutions, supporting every stage of the station lifecycle. As of March 31, 2023, NaaS had connected over 575,000 chargers covering 55,000 charging stations, representing 40% and 49% of China's public charging market share respectively. On June 13, 2022, the American depositary shares of the Company started trading on Nasdaq under the stock code NAAS.
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This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "estimates" and similar statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the Company and the industry. All information provided in this press release is as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that its expectations will turn out to be correct, and investors are cautioned that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: NaaS' goals and strategies; its future business development, financial conditions and results of operations; its ability to continuously develop new technology, services and products and keep up with changes in the industries in which it operates; growth of China's EV charging industry and EV charging service industry and NaaS' future business development; demand for and market acceptance of NaaS' products and services; NaaS' ability to protect and enforce its intellectual property rights; NaaS' ability to attract and retain qualified executives and personnel; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of government and other measures taken in relation thereto; U.S.-China trade war and its effect on NaaS' operation, fluctuations of the RMB exchange rate, and NaaS' ability to obtain adequate financing for its planned capital expenditure requirements; NaaS' relationships with end-users, customers, suppliers and other business partners; competition in the industry; relevant government policies and regulations related to the industry; and fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and globally. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in NaaS' filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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2023-07-07T12:51:06+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/07/07/naas-technology-inc-announces-closing-us30-million-private-placement-convertible-note/
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Calling all big brothers! There’s a need for male mentors with Big Brothers, Big Sisters Central Arizona.
Big brother Brandon Barnum is familiar with how valuable it can be to spend any amount of time with someone with similar experiences.
“I just had women in my life, and I never felt connected with guys doing guy stuff,” he said.
Brandon grew up without a dad in his life, a major void when life presents moments best guided by someone of the same gender.
He’s now a big brother to someone who’s also missing their father.
You can describe the relationship with each other as, 'Just guys being dudes.'
“Like last week, we went and played video games, We went to a bowling alley, we just hung out, grab a piece of pizza and played video games,”
Big Brothers, Big Sisters Central Arizona is looking for people like Brandon — specifically guys.
The organization says there are 200 Valley kids looking for mentors to start the new year. 163 of them are boys.
“It feels like a really big ask that we’re asking you to be a father. We’re asking you to step in in place of these parents, we’re definitely not. You should just be a friend, casual and easy,” said Patrick Phillips with Big Brothers Big Sisters Central Arizona.
To be a mentor, there’s an application process, background check and training to see who the best match would be together.
The time commitment Big Brothers, Big Sisters is looking for is hanging out, just two to four times a month. "You don’t need any special skills.”
Brandon says last week, he asked his mentee to share his goals for 2023 and in the coming days, he’ll cheer him on from the sideline of his upcoming wrestling match.
Once a mentor, resources are provided to help with things to do together around the Valley, many of which are free.
But what you do together isn’t as important as just being together.
“No matter what you’re going through in life, there’s someone to walk you through it, coach you through it, just someone to listen to."
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2023-01-13T01:18:27+00:00
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abc15.com
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https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/male-mentors-needed-for-big-brothers-big-sisters-central-az
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Hazel Darlene Terrell
In Loving Memory
8/25/1953 TO 6/14/2002
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
From the Terrell, Baker and Baggett Families. It has been 21 years without you.
WE LOVE AND MISS YOU
Hazel Darlene Terrell
In Loving Memory
8/25/1953 TO 6/14/2002
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
From the Terrell, Baker and Baggett Families. It has been 21 years without you.
WE LOVE AND MISS YOU
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2023-06-14T06:25:11+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/terrrell-hazel/25A3ZAX7RVDQRK6U5LWR4T2CXQ/
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PORTLAND, Feb. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 10, 2023, the board of directors of Portland General Electric Company (NYSE: POR) declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.4525 per share.
The company's dividend is evaluated based on capital requirements and financial performance. PGE targets a dividend payout ratio of 60 to 70% over the long term.
The quarterly dividend is payable on or before April 17, 2023, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 27, 2023.
About Portland General Electric Company
Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) is a fully integrated energy company that both generates and distributes electricity to over 900,000 customers in 51 cities across the state of Oregon. For more than 130 years, Portland General Electric (PGE) has powered the advancement of society, delivering safe, affordable, reliable and increasingly clean energy. To deliver on its strategy and meet state targets, PGE and its approximately 3,000 employees are committed to partnering with stakeholders to achieve at least an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from power served to customers by 2030 and 100% reduction by 2040. PGE customers set the standard for prioritizing clean energy with the No. 1 voluntary renewable energy program in the country. Additionally, for the fifth year in a row, PGE was recognized by the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index which highlights companies committed to creating a more equal and inclusive workplace. As a reflection of the company's commitment to the community it serves, in 2022, PGE employees, retirees and the PGE Foundation donated nearly $5.5 million and volunteered more than 18,000 hours with more than 400 nonprofits across Oregon. For more information visit www.PortlandGeneral.com/news
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Statements in this press release that relate to future plans, objectives, expectations, performance, events and the like may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions as of the date of this report. The Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other factors.
Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the Company's full-year earnings guidance (including expectations regarding annual retail deliveries, average hydro conditions, wind generation, normal thermal plant operations, operating and maintenance expense and depreciation and amortization expense) as well as other statements containing words such as "anticipates," "based on," "believes," "conditioned upon," "considers," "estimates," "expects," "forecast," "goals," "intends," "needs," "plans," "predicts," "projects," "promises," "seeks," "should," "subject to," "targets," or similar expressions.
Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation: the timing or outcome of various legal and regulatory actions; changing customer expectations and choices that may reduce demand for electricity; the sale of excess energy during periods of low demand or low wholesale market prices; operational risks relating to the Company's generation and battery storage facilities, including hydro conditions, wind conditions, disruption of transmission and distribution, disruption of fuel supply, and unscheduled plant outages, which may result in unanticipated operating, maintenance and repair costs, as well as replacement power costs; delays in the supply chain and increased supply costs (including application of tariffs impacting solar module imports), failure to complete capital projects on schedule or within budget, failure of counterparties to perform under agreement, or the abandonment of capital projects, which could result in the Company's inability to recover project costs, or impact our competitive position, market share, revenues and project margins in material ways; default or nonperformance of counterparties from whom PGE purchases capacity or energy, which require the purchase of replacement power and renewable attributes at increased costs; complications arising from PGE's jointly-owned plant, including ownership changes, regulatory outcomes or operational failures; the costs of compliance with environmental laws and regulations, including those that govern emissions from thermal power plants; changes in weather, hydroelectric and energy market conditions, which could affect the availability and cost of purchased power and fuel; the development of alternative technologies; changes in capital and credit market conditions, including volatility of equity markets, reductions in demand for investment-grade commercial paper or interest rates, which could affect the access to and availability or cost of capital and result in delay or cancellation of capital projects or execution of the Company's strategic plan as currently envisioned; general economic and financial market conditions, including inflation; the effects of climate change, whether global or local in nature, including unseasonable or severe weather conditions, wildfires, and other natural phenomena and natural disasters that could result in operational disruptions, unanticipated restoration costs, third party liability or that may affect energy costs or consumption; the effectiveness of PGE's risk management policies and procedures; PGE's ability to effectively implement Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) and de-energize its system in the event of heightened wildfire risk; cyber security attacks, data security breaches, physical attacks and security breaches, or other malicious acts, which could disrupt operations, require significant expenditures, or result in claims against the Company; employee workforce factors, including potential strikes, work stoppages, transitions in senior management, and the ability to recruit and retain key employees and other talent and turnover due to macroeconomic trends; PGE business activities are concentrated in one region and future performance may be affected by events and factors unique to Oregon; widespread health emergencies or outbreaks of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, which may affect our financial position, results of operations and cash flows; failure to achieve the Company's greenhouse gas emission goals or being perceived to have either failed to act responsibly with respect to the environment or effectively responded to legislative requirements concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions; and risks and uncertainties related to 2021 All-Source RFP final shortlist projects. As a result, actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
Risks and uncertainties to which the Company are subject are further discussed in the reports that the Company has filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports are available through the EDGAR system free-of-charge on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov and on the Company's website, investors.portlandgeneral.com. Investors should not rely unduly on any forward-looking statements.
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2023-02-11T07:00:03+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/02/10/portland-general-electric-declares-dividend/
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2022-10-28T16:43:10+00:00
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bizjournals.com
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https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2022/10/28/florida-home-2022-luxury-deals-bacardi-rum-disney.html
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The State Department announced Secretary of State Antony Blinken is no longer traveling to China, after the surveillance balloon was detected over U.S. airspace Thursday.
Copyright 2023 NPR
The State Department announced Secretary of State Antony Blinken is no longer traveling to China, after the surveillance balloon was detected over U.S. airspace Thursday.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-02-03T16:05:46+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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https://www.delawarepublic.org/2023-02-03/china-says-balloon-spotted-over-u-s-is-a-civilian-airship-that-blew-astray
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, (AP) — Police in Albuquerque fatally shot a man Sunday after he told officers he had a gun and refused several orders to drop it, authorities said.
Police Chief Harold Medina said the shooting occurred around 3:30 a.m.
He said investigators have retrieved what appears to be an airsoft gun from the scene and noted that the shooting appears to be a so-called suicide by cop.
According to police, a vehicle approached them and the man inside said he had a gun and the officers were going to have to shoot him.
Medina said the officers gave the man several commands to drop the weapon but he did not and eventually shots were fired.
The man was transported to a hospital and died of gunshot wounds, according to police.
The man’s name and age weren’t immediately released.
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2022-06-19T17:11:27+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Albuquerque-police-fatally-shoot-man-who-refused-17251970.php
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SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:
For nearly 30 years, Homer Simpson has worked a union job at a nuclear power plant in Springfield, a job he got without a college degree. But on his salary alone, Homer has always been able to support a family of five. He's also been able to afford a house, health insurance and seemingly endless amounts of Duff beer. When "The Simpsons" first aired way back in 1989, the lifestyle Homer and his family had wasn't considered anything fancy. In fact, it was pretty normal for the average American middle-class family. But what about now? If the life of the Simpsons sounds unrealistic or even impossible to you for a middle class family in this day and age, you're not alone. Last year, NPR's The Indicator From Planet Money set out to answer the question, is Homer Simpson still America's economic everyman?
PADDY HIRSCH, BYLINE: He's not.
PFEIFFER: That's Paddy Hirsch, who reported the story for The Indicator along with Stacey Vanek Smith.
HIRSCH: We figured out that Homer would earn about $50,000 a year, but he probably would not be able to afford the lifestyle that he affords in "The Simpsons." He's got a wife, Marge. He's got three kids. He owns two cars. He's got a house that accommodates all of that family comfortably. You know, today, both parents have to work in order to afford to make the rent or to make the mortgage and to keep up those car payments and to make the savings that they're going to have to make to send their kids to college in the future.
STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: The writing team of "The Simpsons" heard The Indicator episode and decided to dig into this question for the show's third season finale, which airs tomorrow night.
HIRSCH: Essentially, what happens is Bart expresses his contempt for his father, for Homer. And Homer says, well, maybe I can persuade him to respect me by taking him to work. He does this. Bart is very impressed.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE SIMPSONS")
NANCY CARTWRIGHT: (As Bart Simpson) Whoa, a pop machine full of free pop, a TV showing that jerk Dr. Phil.
HIRSCH: And he becomes convinced that his dad has got a cool job.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE SIMPSONS")
CARTWRIGHT: (As Bart Simpson) And this sweet job will be mine someday.
HIRSCH: Unfortunately, he then is confronted by a - let's call him a magical janitor in the shape of Hugh Jackman, who then tells him that that actually might not be possible.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE SIMPSONS")
HUGH JACKMAN: (As character, singing) 1945, we won the war. Our boys came back to the factory floor. The good times rolled, and smiles were on our faces.
HIRSCH: Over time, those jobs slowly disappear as the economy sort of contracts.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE SIMPSONS")
JACKMAN: (As character, singing) They chopped salaries to raise top prices.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character, singing) Cut up the pie and kept all the slices.
HIRSCH: So, of course, all of this beats down on Bart. And, you know, Bart is a little crushed by this.
PFEIFFER: Bart is worried he won't be able to get a job that would provide a middle class life.
HIRSCH: So the last scene in this, when you get to the point where you think, well, there's no hope, suddenly the solution emerges. And the solution emerges in the shape of the fire department.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE SIMPSONS")
CARTWRIGHT: (As Bart Simpson) Mom, Dad, I figured out what I'm going to do. I'm going to be a fireman.
JULIE KAVNER: (As Marge Simpson) Well, it's true that fire isn't going anywhere.
PFEIFFER: Wait. Is Bart implying that becoming a firefighter or doing some other kind of government work is one of the few remaining paths to middle class life? Hirsch asked "The Simpsons" writers about that.
HIRSCH: The point was made because pay has stagnated really since the mid 1970s, because labor protections have gradually been stripped away as unions have declined. It means that if you did want that safety, you'd have to go to a government job to get them because that's where most of the union protections exist today.
SMITH: So did "The Simpsons" writers get it correct?
HIRSCH: We were quite pleased with the response. We think that the writers actually have a pretty accurate view on the economy. For us, it's a little bit skewed politically perhaps, as far as we're concerned, that the middle class has had it really tough over the last 50 years. And this episode, it points very directly at that decline.
PFEIFFER: That was journalist Paddy Hirsch. "The Simpsons" latest season finale episode airs tomorrow night. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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2022-05-23T18:06:22+00:00
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iowapublicradio.org
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2022-05-21/is-homer-simpson-still-americas-economic-everyman
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'Rust' will continue production with Alec Baldwin in lead role following his involuntary manslaughter charges
Alec Baldwin will return for the lead role in the "Rust" film production despite double involuntary manslaughter charges filed by the New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Thursday.
Melina Spadone, attorney for Rust Movie Productions, LLC, confirmed to Fox News Digital that the movie is "on track to be completed with Mr. Baldwin in the lead role and Joel Souza as director."
Halyna Hutchins was killed on the New Mexico set of the Western film, and Souza was wounded by a bullet when live ammunition was accidentally loaded into a weapon fired by Baldwin while rehearsing a scene in a church on Oct. 21, 2021. The actor has since denied he pulled the trigger of the gun that killed Hutchins.
Locals and members of the local film community mourn the loss of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died after being shot by Alec Baldwin on the set of his movie "Rust" at a vigil in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., October 23, 2021. (Photo by Mostaf
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who served as the armorer on the film, was also charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Spadone also confirmed that the project will include "on-set safety supervisors and union crew members, and will bar any use of working weapons or any ammunition."
Live ammunition was reportedly prohibited from the "Rust" movie set. The Motion Picture Association has actively campaigned for updated firearm safety requirements.
MICKEY ROURKE DECLARES ‘NO WAY IN HELL’ ALEC BALDWIN SHOULD BE CHARGED IN FATAL ‘RUST’ SHOOTING
If Baldwin is convicted, he could face up to 18 months in prison.
Actor Alec Baldwin arrives at the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala at the Hilton Midtown in New York on December 6, 2022. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Baldwin's attorney called the charges a "terrible miscarriage of justice" in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
"This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’ tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice," Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel said. "Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win."
Hutchins' family thanked the sheriff's office and the DA after the charges were announce
"We want to thank the Santa Fe Sheriff and the District Attorney for concluding their thorough investigation and determining that charges for involuntary manslaughter are warranted for the killing of Halyna Hutchins with conscious disregard for human life," said a statement issued on behalf of the Hutchins family via attorney Brian J. Panish, founding partner of Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP.
"Our independent investigation also supports charges are warranted. It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law. We support the charges, will fully cooperate with this prosecution, and fervently hope the justice system works to protect the public and hold accountable those who break the law."
While "Rust" will resume production in 2023, crews will not return to New Mexico.
In October, Spadone confirmed to Fox News Digital that the production was "considering other locations, including in California, but no decisions have been made."
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2023-01-23T21:50:40+00:00
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fox29.com
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https://www.fox29.com/news/rust-will-continue-production-with-alec-baldwin-in-lead-role-following-his-involuntary-manslaughter-charges
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DETROIT (AP) — Antoine Davis had 28 points in Detroit Mercy's 88-74 win against Ohio on Wednesday night.
Davis added three steals for the Titans (2-1). Jayden Stone scored 15 points while going 6 of 11 (1 for 4 from distance), and added five rebounds. Damezi Anderson recorded 15 points and was 5 of 8 shooting (3 for 5 from distance).
Devon Baker led the Bobcats (1-2) in scoring, finishing with 16 points. AJ Clayton added 15 points for Ohio. In addition, Miles Brown had 12 points and two steals.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2022-11-17T05:27:45+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Davis-28-lead-Detroit-Mercy-over-Ohio-88-74-17591130.php
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John Eastman agreed Clarence Thomas wouldn’t back theory to block Biden win, Pence aide says
By Tierney Sneed, CNN
(CNN) — An ex-adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence claimed Wednesday that he convinced Donald Trump attorney John Eastman that not even conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would embrace the controversial legal theory that Pence could block Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
The ex-Pence adviser, Greg Jacob, is testifying in the attorney ethics proceedings for Eastman, whom the California Bar is seeking disbarred because of the role Eastman played in Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 results.
Jacob recounted how he countered Eastman’s belief, during a January 5, 2021, meeting, that Thomas might vote in favor of the idea that Pence, as vice president, had the authority to disrupt Congress’ certification of Biden’s electors.
Jacob said he pointed to a specific decision – regarding congressional term limits – where Thomas’ dissent showed that the justice took strict view the Constitution’s enumerated powers and how the position Eastman was advocating for lacked a historical record that would be needed to attract Thomas’ support.
“So, in light of all of that, he then conceded, ‘Okay, you’re right. I don’t think Clarence Thomas would vote that way,’” Jacob testified, adding that Eastman, however, continued to put forward the possibility that the Supreme Court would refuse to even hear the case because it involved a supposed “political” question.
Jacob previously testified to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack in both a private deposition and at a public hearing, and much of his account Wednesday of his dealings with Eastman followed the broad strokes he had outlined for lawmakers.
But during Wednesday’s disciplinary proceedings, the line of questioning from California Bar attorney Duncan Carling had Jacob go into granularities of the legal debates he and Eastman were having about the vice president’s role in the January 6 electoral count.
The California Bar is arguing that Eastman had no good basis for promoting the fringe legal theories about Pence’s authority to disrupt the January 6 ceremony. The Bar has brought 11 charges of ethics violations against Eastman, and the proceedings are now unfolding in a courtroom in Los Angeles before State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland.
The California Supreme Court will have the final say over whether Eastman violated the attorney ethics rules and what punishment he will face.
Eastman and his lawyers argue that the relevant law and Constitutional provisions about the vice president’s powers were ambiguous and subject to debate.
“It was just advocacy,” Eastman attorney Randy Miller said in an opening statement on Tuesday. “Two smart people talking about the scope of constitutional authority – which was, by far, not clear. An honest debate held in good faith that lawyers do.”
During his testimony Wednesday, Jacob ran through historical examples of past congressional Electoral Count ceremonies – including a 1797 episode involving then Vice President John Adams, and how then-Vice President Richard Nixon approached disputed electors from Hawaii after the 1960 election – that Eastman thought helped his case. Jacob laid out the details of those episodes and why they cut against the arguments Eastman was making about the vice president’s powers.
“After we discussed those incidents, Dr. Eastman agreed that they did not represent vice presidential rejection of electors, vice presidents asserting or expressing that they had any kind of authority, or vice presidents even making any kind of affirmative decision,” Jacob said, though he added that Eastman did not concede that the examples didn’t support his arguments.
In addition to the congressional probe, Jacob has also testified repeatedly last fall to a grand jury investigating the Trump-aligned 2020 election subversion plots – with one of those appearances coming after Trump lost a court bid to prevent Jacob from answering certain questions. Eastman, meanwhile, had his phone seized by federal investigators last summer.
In the disbarment proceedings Eastman is currently facing, the California Bar is arguing that Eastman did real harm to the nation and to the legal profession by pushing frivolous legal arguments and debunked election fraud claims.
“The people who marched on the Capitol believed – most of them at least believed – that the vice president had the authority to determine the validity of those certificates or at minimum that he had the authority to suspend the proceedings and send it back to the state legislatures,” Jacob said Wednesday.
Eastman defends debunked fraud claims
The proceedings have already featured several hours of the Bar attorney questioning Eastman himself, with lines of inquiry that scrutinize why he held on to debunked claims about election fraud in the 2020 election, even after the assertions had been refuted by election officials.
Eastman testified Tuesday that the information put out by Georgia state officials, including several Republicans, did not persuade him. At one point, Eastman said he did not see a Georgia secretary of state release on the ballot rejection rates because he was suffering from Covid-19 during the back half of November.
“I was a little bit under the weather with a 104 degree temperature,” Eastman said.
During Tuesday’s proceedings, Eastman also stood by assertions he made to the Wisconsin legislature in 2021 – a full year after the election – that state legislatures may have the power to decertify 2020 electors for Biden.
“If the election had been conducted illegally, and they determined that in fact it affected the outcome of the election, that they there’s certainly an argument to be made that they have authority to try and remedy that constitutional violation,” Eastman said.
The proceedings are slated to last several days and operate in a trial-like fashion.
An attempt Tuesday by the California Bar attorney to question Eastman about his conversations regarding the plot to put forward rival Trump electors in battleground states that Biden won devolved into a debate over whether such conversations were shielded by attorney-client privilege.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel previously told House committee investigators that, during a December 2020 phone conversation with her and Trump, Eastman called on the RNC to help with the effort of organizing an alternate slate of Trump electors.
Eastman testified Tuesday that he didn’t have any reason to doubt how McDaniel remembered the call, but that he doesn’t have any memory of it himself. He declined to discuss any other conversation he was having about the alternate electors’ scheme – but the judge has not yet made a ruling on whether attorney-client privilege precludes him from answering those questions.
Eastman will take the stand again after Jacob finishes his testimony, which is ongoing.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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2023-06-22T01:46:00+00:00
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krdo.com
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https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/21/john-eastman-agreed-clarence-thomas-wouldnt-back-theory-to-block-biden-win-pence-aide-says/
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French strike pits workers vs. government as inflation bites
PARIS (AP) — Industries across France have gone on strike Tuesday to push for pay hikes that keep up with rising inflation. It ramps up the clash between workers and the government after weeks of walkouts that hobbled oil refineries and sparked gasoline shortages around the country. Rail and other transportation workers, trucking and bus companies, some high school teachers and public hospital employees have heeded a call by an oil workers’ union for French industry to push for salary increases and protest government intervention in the refinery strikes. Trains have been disrupted, including interruptions reported on the Eurostar and the inter-city trains linking France with Spain.
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2022-10-18T12:26:16+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/10/18/french-strike-pits-workers-vs-government-as-inflation-bites/
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Passengers climb out of windows during Boston train fire
SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — One passenger jumped into a river and several others climbed out of windows when a Boston-area public transit train caught fire during the Thursday morning commute, officials said. The fire is the latest in a string of dangerous problems with the troubled system.
No injuries were reported, and the person who jumped into the water declined medical attention, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said in a statement.
The MBTA’s inbound Orange Line train was crossing the Mystic River just north of Boston, approaching Assembly station in Somerville at about 6:45 a.m., when flames and smoke were spotted coming from the lead car, the statement said. About 200 passengers were on board, and most were walked off the train to a nearby station by MBTA personnel.
After the power was turned off, the train was brought to a railyard for an investigation, and infrastructure is being inspected. The MBTA has notified the Federal Transit Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
The train in question was 43 years old, MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo said, and not one of several new Orange Line cars that were temporarily pulled from service recently when one car experienced a failure in its battery compartment. They have since been returned to service.
The Federal Transit Administration launched a review of Boston’s subway system in April following several accidents that led to injuries or death within the past year. The federal agency last month issued a series of directives to immediately address “longstanding issues” with the system’s “overall safety program and safety culture.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-07-21T20:28:20+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/2022/07/21/passengers-climb-out-windows-during-boston-train-fire/
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Davis Thompson takes outright lead as Jacob Bridgeman moves into contention at REX Hospital Open
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June 03, 2022
By Hagan Parkman , PGATOUR.COM
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June 03, 2022
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RALEIGH, North Carolina – Members of the first two PGA TOUR University presented by Velocity Global classes made moves up the leaderboard in Friday’s second round of the REX Hospital Open. Following a 5-under 66, Davis Thompson, who finished No. 2 in the inaugural PGA TOUR University Class of 2021, took the outright 36-hole lead at 12-under par. By the end of the second round, Thompson stood two strokes ahead of five players in T2 position and three strokes ahead of a group five players at T7 which included Jacob Bridgeman, the No. 2 player from the PGA TOUR University Class of 2022.
It marks the third time atop the leaderboard for Thompson, a Korn Ferry Tour rookie making his 14th career start. The 22-year-old previously shared the 18-hole lead at this year’s The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club, and shared the 54-hole lead at last week’s NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank.
Thompson finished T5 last week and stood T2 after Thursday’s first round of the REX Hospital Open, making this his fourth consecutive round inside the top five.
“I told myself last night that I feel like I'm playing well, just don't force it and let each round come to you, and to commit to every shot and every target that I pick,” Thompson said. "I hit a lot of good, solid shots to start the day, couldn't get any putts to fall but then I hit a nice shot on No. 16 and that kickstarted the round. I hit a lot of greens today which was good. Felt like I was playing offense all day and I was able to get a lot of good looks for birdie."
Thompson, a St. Simons Island, Georgia resident, started his round at the par-4 10th but would not make his first birdie until the par-3 16th. After a second consecutive birdie at the par-4 17th, Thompson tallied back-to-back birdies at the par-4 first and par-3 second. Thompson’s only bogey of the day came at the par-4 third, but he immediately negated it with a birdie at the par-5 fourth. A birdie at the par-5 ninth closed out Thompson’s sixth round of 66 or better this season, and third in his last four rounds.
“Early on I was missing cuts, then making cuts. I was just inconsistent,” said Thompson, who recorded made cuts in four of his first eight starts, but went without a top-10 until May. “I've gotten more comfortable each week, and each week is a different challenge. I feel good and I'm excited about tomorrow."
Thompson opened last month with a T6 at the Huntsville Championship, and logged a career-high finish of T5 at last week’s NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank.
A former No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, Thompson played collegiately for four seasons at the University of Georgia, where he earned All-America First Team honors his final two seasons and was named the 2020-21 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year. Those accolades propelled Thompson to a No. 2 finish in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2021.
The mission of PGA TOUR University is to elevate the path to the PGA TOUR for college golf’s top seniors. It also incentivizes players to stay in school longer and continue to work toward a degree. The top-five players from the Velocity Global Ranking earn Korn Ferry Tour status and an exemption into Final Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament, while Nos. 6-15 earn PGA TOUR Canada status and an exemption into Second Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament.
Thompson was exempt for Final Stage of the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament last November. The top-40 and ties at Final Stage earned guaranteed starts for the first eight events of the 2022 season, and Thompson finished on the number (T39) for those starts.
"[Professional golf] is definitely different,” Thompson said. “With college, you have the team aspect and try to play well for your team, but I've been playing golf my whole life so it's nothing different. There is definitely a different sense of pressure when you're a professional because it's your job. I'm trying not to focus on that but just go out and do my best every day."
Two weeks ago, Bridgeman concluded a four-season collegiate career at Clemson University, where he won six times individually, including the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship. The 2022 ACC Player of the Year finished No. 2 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2022.
While Bridgeman will be eligible to play the final eight events of the regular season, beginning with next week’s BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX, he Monday qualified into this week’s event.
Third-round pairings will run from 6:40 a.m. through 12:40 p.m. local time off the first tee.
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2022-06-20T18:37:08+00:00
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https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour/daily-wrapup/2022/06/03/davis-thompson-takes-outright-lead-as-jacob-bridgeman-moves-into-contention-at-rex-hospital-open.html
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(The Hill) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cleared Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in adolescents, paving the way to expand eligibility for the fourth shot available in the United States.
The two-dose regimen utilizes protein-based technology previously leveraged in vaccines to combat other viruses, offering an alternative for Americans skeptical of Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA technology.
Providers can begin administering the vaccine to people aged 12 through 17 after a sign off from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has already authorized the vaccine’s use for adults. The two doses are given three weeks apart.
“Having more vaccine options for use in both adults and adolescents, like the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted will hopefully help increase vaccination rates, particularly as we prepare for ongoing surges of COVID-19 with the start of fall and the back-to-school season,” Novavax President Stanley Erck said in a statement.
“We hope that our vaccine, developed using an innovative approach to recombinant protein vaccine technology, may have a special role in adolescent vaccination based on parents’ and caregivers’ familiarity with protein-based vaccines used in other disease areas,” he added.
The FDA granted emergency use for adolescents after the company said its trial of 2,247 adolescents showed a primary efficacy of 78 percent.
But Novavax conducted the trial last year, when the Delta variant was predominantly circulating in the United States. The White House has continued urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted amid the spread of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of omicron, but questions remain as to how the mutations could impact the vaccine’s efficacy.
The FDA authorized Novavax’s vaccine for adults last month, which was followed by the CDC’s blessing nearly a week later.
White House coronavirus response coordinator Ashish Jha said on Wednesday that regulators are expected to approve updated COVID-19 vaccine doses in “a few short weeks” for everyone over the age of 12. The shots are designed to target the two omicron subvariants currently circulating.
Novavax’s COVID-19 shot helps prevent severe illness by injecting the human body with doses that contain the coronavirus spike protein.
The company inputs genetic code that creates the spike protein into an insect virus, which replicates after infecting moth cells. The manufacturer then purifies and extracts the replicated spike proteins and injects them into humans.
The process only requires regular refrigeration, compared to Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines which require storage in colder temperatures. Those vaccines contain genetic instructions for human cells to create the spike protein and defend against future infections.
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2022-08-22T00:29:03+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/fda-authorizes-novavax-covid-vaccine-for-adolescents/
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PrizePicks Becomes BIG3's First Daily Fantasy Partner, Expanding Footprint in Sports and Entertainment Landscapes for both Companies
LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The BIG3 today announced they have signed an exclusive partnership with PrizePicks, the largest skill-based fantasy sports operator in North America, to become the BIG3's daily fantasy provider and further the convergence of basketball, hip-hop and fantasy sports.
Since its inception in 2017, PrizePicks has steadily risen to become the No. 1 fantasy platform in North America for basketball, offering myriad game play options for fans of the NBA, WNBA and college basketball that include single-statistic and in-game plays. As a result, PrizePicks has turned the game into an immersive fantasy experience from the opening tip to the final whistle.
As part of the BIG3's own in-app vertical, users and FIREBALL3 fans can compete against the numbers and enhance their viewing experience. Additional terms of the agreement include commercial spots, on-court and courtside branding, in-app promos for BIG3 fans, and more.
"We are very excited for this partnership. What PrizePicks is doing for the fantasy and sports entertainment industry is very similar to what the BIG3 is working towards," said Justin Williams, CMO of the BIG3. "This partnership is a mutually beneficial relationship with the primary goal of giving fans the best experience possible. Together, we are changing the sports entertainment industry for the better."
PrizePicks influencers will attend games throughout this season to help new users learn the ins and outs of the app and cheer for their favorite players. This continues BIG3's commitment to partnering with companies that are leading the way in innovation and improving the overall fan experience. It also extends PrizePicks' efforts to further integrate fantasy sports into the basketball and hip-hop fan communities. Having recently announced rapper Meek Mill as a cultural ambassador, PrizePicks is now aligned with the basketball league founded by hip-hop legend Ice Cube.
"BIG3 is the perfect partner to mutually expand our fan bases as it appeals to both the mainstream basketball fan as well as the more casual fan who might be attracted by the familiar names or innovative game play," PrizePicks Co-Founder and CEO Adam Wexler said. "We've both recognized that the basketball, hip-hop and fantasy sports communities share common entertainment interests, which opens countless crossover opportunities."
The BIG3's sixth season tips off this Sunday in Chicago, IL, at United Center. The BIG3 is returning to a full nationwide touring model with stops at arenas in Dallas, New York, Memphis, Miami, Boston, Charlotte, Detroit, Washington D.C., and London, England.
Tickets for the first three weeks are available here. To learn more about the BIG3 and see the full season schedule, go to BIG3.com and follow @thebig3 on twitter and instagram. To start making BIG3 entries on PrizePicks, visit PrizePicks here. PrizePicks will match your first deposit up to $100.
ABOUT BIG3
BIG3 (BIG3.com) is who we are, FIREBALL3 is what we play. It's not your grandfather's 3-on-3. The premier global BIG3 league features many of the greatest, most popular and skilled professional athletes of all time. Founded by producer, actor and music legend Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG3 combines highly competitive, physical, fast game experiences and incredible fan experiences. In 2023, the BIG3 was named "Best in Web3" by Sports Business Journal for the league's groundbreaking Web3 Project, Forever Experience Action Tokens (FEATs), offering utility and ownership-like value in BIG3 teams via blockchain technology.
About PrizePicks
PrizePicks is the fastest-growing sports company in North America according to the 2022 Inc. 5000 rankings and the largest independent skill-based fantasy sports operator in North America. The company was recognized as the Fantasy Sports Business of the Year Award by the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association and as the Fantasy/DFS Operator of the Year by EGR North America. PrizePicks is the most fun, fast and simple version of daily fantasy sports, covering a wide variety of sports leagues from the NFL and NBA to esports titles League of Legends & Counter-Strike. Founded and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, the PrizePicks workforce has grown to over 250 in the past year, with the company recently being recognized as a Top Workplace by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. PrizePicks is available in the App Store and Google Play or at prizepicks.com.
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2023-06-22T15:10:30+00:00
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McCarthy invites Biden for Feb. 7 State of the Union speech
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address on Feb. 7, the White House said, after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy extended the invitation for him to address a joint session of Congress that day.
It will be Biden’s first address to a divided Congress after Republicans took control of the House this month. It will come as his administration seeks areas of common interest with the newly empowered GOP while also working to avoid a potentially debilitating default if the two parties can’t come together to raise the debt limit in the coming months.
“The new year brings a new Congress, and with it, a responsibility to work towards an economy that is strong, a nation that is safe, a future that is built on freedom, and a government that is accountable,” McCarthy wrote in his invitation to Biden on Friday. “The American people sent us to Washington to deliver a new direction for the country, to find common ground, and to debate their priorities.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden accepted McCarthy’s “kind invitation” and looks forward to delivering the speech.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-01-13T19:44:09+00:00
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kttc.com
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https://www.kttc.com/2023/01/13/mccarthy-invites-biden-feb-7-state-union-speech/
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Casper Star-Tribune
CASPER – A COVID-19 outbreak continues to impact Wyoming’s state prison in Torrington.
On July 5, the facility found 162 cases of the coronavirus among people incarcerated at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution. That’s a quarter of the prison’s population. Another 20 employees also tested positive when the entire prison was tested, according to Wyoming Department of Corrections spokesperson Paul Martin.
Last week, testing found another 59 cases in the facility, eight of those among staff. That means that one in three people incarcerated at the medium-security prison have tested positive in a two-week span.
The majority of cases have not been serious or even symptomatic, Martin said.
Those who do have symptoms and need medication can be treated with molnupiravir, an antiviral pill similar to paxlovid. “It is given as soon as possible after diagnosis and within 5 days of symptom onset,” Martin said.
No inmates have needed to be taken outside the facility for COVID-19 treatment during this latest outbreak, Martin said last Wednesday.
The prison remains in the WDOC’s “red” zone, meaning transmission is high. Positive inmates have been put into isolation; anyone inside the facility must wear a mask; recreation and in-person visitation are on pause; and all meals are being taken in living units instead of dining halls.
Phone and video visits are still happening on a limited basis.
The other four Wyoming state prisons, all less populous than WMCI, are still in the lowest transmission level, according to the DOC, and have not reported testing results in months.
Staff at the central office in Cheyenne have recently returned to wearing masks at work.
Martin said there was no testing done in Torrington for the past “couple” of months, but that the most recent round of coronavirus tests was likely spurred by an uptick in people reporting sickness.
“It is important to remember that an individual can test positive for up to 90 days following exposure,” Martin said in an email last week. “It is very possible that many/most of these (in Torrington) were exposed in the past 90 days.”
The outbreak has also put a strain on Torrington’s staff, which already has 17 vacancies.
Around 300 people work at the facility, roughly 200 of them in security. To make sure security posts stay fully staffed, Martin said, other employees have been working overtime.
Testing could resume at other facilities if transmission levels in the surrounding communities – Lusk, Riverton, Newcastle and Rawlins – are on the rise.
WDOC is assuming, based on research by the state department of health, that the omicron variant remains dominant in Wyoming.
The Torrington facility reported the most overall spread during the first two years of the pandemic, though the virus arrived later in Wyoming prisons than it did in most other parts of the country.
In May, a smaller outbreak was found at the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk, where around 46 cases were found during a month-long lockdown.
To date, nine people have died in Wyoming prisons due to COVID-19. The most recent death was reported in March.
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2022-07-20T17:22:30+00:00
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wyomingnews.com
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — After a racially-motivated shooting in Buffalo Saturday left 10 people dead, lawmakers on both sides are weighing in as calls grow for Washington to do something to stop the violence.
Many Democrats say they’re ready to call the deadly shooting where a gunman targeted Black Americans an act of “domestic terrorism” and say it’s time the country confront a growing threat: hate.
“We have domestic terrorism problem in America,” Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., said on the House floor Monday. “It’s the same idea that motivated another man to gun down African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina … another man to gun down Hispanic Americans in El Paso.”
Malinowski called on Democrats and Republicans to denounce hateful speech fueling the violence and “tamp down these horrible, hateful ideas.”
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the victims, demanded Washington act during an emotional press conference.
“We can’t sugar coat it, we can’t try explain it away talking about mental illness. No, this was an act of domestic terrorism,” Crump said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said the administration is committed to addressing the problem.
“This weekend’s terrible events in Buffalo are just another vivid reminder of the urgency of that work,” Jean-Pierre said.
While denouncing the violence, some Republicans like Alabama Rep. Jerry Carl are cautioning Democrats to not overreact.
“You know, we’re past that. Let’s be Americans. But you get one example, one person like this, and it throws us back 10, 15 years of getting that stuff put in our past,” Carl said.
President Joe Biden on Monday paid tribute to the victims during a medal ceremony for first responders. One of the victims who tried to stop the shooter was also a security guard.
The president will be heading to Buffalo Tuesday to meet with the families of the victims.
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2022-05-16T22:00:05+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/washington-dc/democrats-ben-crump-buffalo-shooting-was-domestic-terrorism/
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Florida mom arrested after toddler drowns in retention pond
ORLANDO, Fla. - A Florida mother faces a charge of aggravated manslaughter in the drowning death of her 3-year-old son.
Myra Santiago, 22, who was arrested by the Ormond Beach Police Department on Sunday, is also charged with neglect of a child.
Investigators said the toddler managed to get out of Santiago's apartment through an unlocked door, before wandering into a nearby retention pond and drowning. In an arrest report, officers noted that Santiago failed to secure her apartment door, "knowing the child was able to escape and had done so numerous times before."
The report also details that the child had been missing for approximately eight hours before Santiago noticed he was not in the apartment.
According to the report, Santiago left her child in the care of a neighbor on Saturday night and went out with friends. She said she returned to pick up her son around 1-2 a.m. on Sunday morning. Investigators said there are discrepancies in Santiago's story, as the neighbor denied ever watching her son.
Later, around 6 a.m. on Sunday, Santiago told officers that her son woke her up to ask for his tablet, and then she went back to sleep, which she said was their normal routine. It was not until Santiago woke up around 1:45 p.m. on Sunday afternoon that she realized her son was gone, the report states.
At approximately 1:44 p.m., officers from the Ormond Beach Police Department responded to a report of a drowning involving a toddler, who was later identified as Santiago's son. According to the arrest report, a review of a neighbor's security camera revealed that the toddler had run past a door and toward the retention pond around 6:47 a.m.
Santiago is being held at the Volusia County Jail on a no-bond status.
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2023-04-25T03:03:56+00:00
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fox35orlando.com
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https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-mom-arrested-after-toddler-drowns-in-retention-pond-found-8-hours-later-police
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Mary Peltola sworn in as 1st Alaska Native in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Mary Peltola was sworn in Tuesday night to finish out the remaining months of the term of the late Rep. Don Young, making her the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman to hold the seat.
“To have a seat at the table is different,” Peltola told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. “But I am just always reminding people that I’m not here to represent just the 16% of Alaskans who are Alaska Natives. I’m here to represent all Alaskans.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a ceremonial swearing-in with Peltola and the two other new members of the House, Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Joe Sempolinski of New York, on the chamber floor.
Peltola, who is Yup’ik, was donning Alaskan Mukluks, traditional boots, as the other two members of her delegation, GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, sat behind her applauding at her historic victory. Peltola previously served as a state lawmaker for 10 years representing the rural hub community of Bethel, Alaska.
The 49-year-old made history last month when she won the special election to finish out Young’s term, besting a field of candidates that included Republican Sarah Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state where she was governor.
The day before her swearing-in ceremony, Peltola stood outside what was once Young’s office, swarmed by the local and national press, and marveled at the moment.
“I really hope that Don is getting a kick out of this,” Peltola told the AP. “I can’t help but think that some things broke my way on account of his great sense of humor.”
The kicker is that 50 years ago, right before Peltola was born, her parents worked on Young’s first campaign for the only congressional seat in Alaska. Young won and went on to hold it for 49 years before his death in March.
Peltola’s campaign has emphasized her dedication to “fish, family and freedom.” Fish are a staple in Alaskan life, and salmon holds particular cultural significance to Alaska Natives. A subsistence lifestyle — relying on fish, wildlife and berries — is essential in rural Alaska, including in many Native communities, where goods must be flown or barged in and costs for basic necessities can be exorbitant.
Peltola said she sees her few weeks in office as an homage to Young’s service as a more moderate force in an increasingly polarized Congress. Like the often gruff Young, Peltola said she is bringing a sense of humor to the job, along with a history of being a consensus-builder with even the most conservative of colleagues.
After Palin came in second to Peltola in the special election last month, the two women shared a cordial back-and-forth. In a text message, Palin congratulated her and wrote that she was a “real Alaskan chick! Beautiful & smart and tough.”
Peltola replied, “Your text means the world to me ... We really are in this together.”
The newly elected congresswoman’s time in the Alaska Legislature overlapped with Palin’s time as governor, and the women have remained cordial. Peltola has said that one of the most “unsavory” parts of American politics is negative campaigning.
But staying above the fray could prove difficult. Peltola is on the ballot in November to serve a full two-year term, again facing off against Palin, Republican Nick Begich and Libertarian Chris Bye, all of whom advanced from last month’s open primary.
That’s partly why Peltola said she doesn’t plan to get too comfortable in her new office, which Young, a Republican, adorned with the heads of bucks and bears and large rifles in a nod to his love of hunting. Now those walls are bare.
“It didn’t make sense to really become too entrenched, or decorate, or set up shop,” Peltola said. “I really just feel like I’m camping here until the term is over. And then being open and seeing what happens next.”
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Associated Press reporter Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, contributed to this report.
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2022-09-14T00:17:06+00:00
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kswo.com
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DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Documents obtained by 8News through a legal information request revealed that all seven of the Henrico County Sheriff’s deputies charged with second-degree murder in connection with the in-custody death of Irvo Otieno, 28, received specialty training to address those in mental health crises.
Defense attorneys, law enforcement officials and loved ones have said that Otieno was in mental distress when he was transferred from Henrico Jail West to Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County on March 6, where he later died.
But defense counsel for two of those deputies, Jermaine Branch and Dwayne Bramble, as well as a spokesperson with the nonprofit organization the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police are shedding new light on what that specialty training entailed.
“They don’t work in the cellblock areas,” attorney Cary Bowen, representing Deputy Branch told 8News on Monday. “They’re specifically trained to deal with this kind of situation, and, usually — they’re trained to do it. They talk it down. It goes down without violence; without physical resistance, and it looked like this gentleman was pretty far gone.
Documents from the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office included a list of 551 officers — 234 of whom are no longer with the department — who received at least 40 hours of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training.
“Deputy sheriffs are forced and faced with challenges that most people would not want to face. We would not want to have to do what deputy sheriffs have to do every day,” attorney Russ Stone, representing Deputy Bramble, said. “But these deputies engaged in their duties with professionalism and care, based on their training and knowledge in a difficult and challenging situation.”
The log of training hours completed from the sheriff’s office showed the following hours completed and on what date:
- Bradley Disse
- 40 Hour CIT Training – 06/01/2009
- CIT Refresher (4 Hours) – 06/15/2021
- CIT Refresher (8 Hours) – 03/01/2017
- CIT TTT – N/A
- Brandon Rodgers
- 40 Hour CIT Training – 05/27/2022
- CIT Refresher (4 Hours) – N/A
- CIT Refresher (8 Hours) – N/A
- CIT TTT – N/A
- Jermaine Branch
- 40 Hour CIT Training – 10/01/2008 (done in Hampton)
- CIT Refresher (4 Hours) – N/A
- CIT Refresher (8 Hours) – 04/05/2017
- CIT TTT – 03/01/2009
- Kaiyell Sanders
- 40 Hour CIT Training – 08/13/2021
- CIT Refresher (4 Hours) – N/A
- CIT Refresher (8 Hours) – N/A
- CIT TTT – N/A
- Randy Boyer
- 40 Hour CIT Training – 09/01/2016
- CIT Refresher (4 Hours) – 11/19/2019
- CIT Refresher (8 Hours) – N/A
- CIT TTT – N/A
- Dwayne Bramble
- 40 Hour CIT Training – 09/01/2013
- CIT Refresher (4 Hours) – N/A
- CIT Refresher (8 Hours) – 12/05/2017
- CIT TTT – 07/15/2022
- Tabitha Levere
- 40 Hour CIT Training – 07/01/2013
- CIT Refresher (4 Hours) – N/A
- CIT Refresher (8 Hours) – 10/11/2017
- CIT TTT – 03/13/2020 (done at CVACIT Henrico)
Dana Schrad with the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police said Tuesday that it was too soon to determine whether all principles of CIT training were followed in all aspects of authorities’ interactions with Otieno before his death.
“I don’t think I’m in a position where — any of us is in a position — to sort of judge whether or not the CIT training failed these deputies or failed the officers that were at the mental health facility,” she said. “Every situation is unique, and you learn from each different encounter. Unfortunately, you do have situations like this one that ended tragically.”
According to CIT training information from the Virginia CIT Coalition, “The training is designed to educate and prepare police officers who come into contact with people in crisis, to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and to respond effectively and appropriately to the individual.”
Schrad added that CIT curriculum is ever-changing.
“The trained CIT Officer is skilled at recognizing and de-escalating crises involving people with acute episodes of mental illness, while bringing an element of understanding and compassion to these difficult situations,” training documents said. “The goal of the CIT program is to reduce unnecessary restraint and incarceration of people with mental illness and to provide individuals with appropriate treatment in the community.”
But in the days leading up to Otieno’s death in custody, authorities said that Henrico police were called to the 28-year-old’s neighborhood for calls that would be reclassified as mental-health-related. On March 3, according to a release from the Henrico County Police Division (HCPD), Otieno was taken to Parham Doctors’ Hospital for treatment. Bowen told 8News on Monday that medical personnel there refused to treat Otieno because he was combative, but an HCA Healthcare spokesperson would not confirm this information. From the hospital, Otieno was taken to Henrico Jail West; an HCPD spokesperson said that he “became physically assaultive towards officers.”
On March 6, Otieno was transferred to Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County in mental distress. His family said that, while at the jail, he was denied much-needed medication.
“We hope that we can learn more from that particular situation,” Schrad said. “But it’s it’s hard to tell right now until more investigation is done, whether or not all the CIT principles were followed in every aspect of this case.”
Schrad said that training standards come from both the state and federal level, and are adopted by both police departments and sheriff’s offices. She also noted that, in more recent years, CIT training has been provided earlier in law enforcement officers’ careers, rather than later, as was previously done.
“CIT training is widely available to all of our folks in the public safety arena, and we encourage all of our agencies to take advantage of it and utilize it,” she said. “It helps make them better officers and it helps lead to safer encounters between law enforcement and someone in a mental health crisis.”
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2023-04-04T19:53:15+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/irvo-otieno/crisis-intervention-training-for-deputies-accused-in-irvo-otienos-murder-what-is-it-was-it-followed/
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President Jimmy Carter in home hospice care: What is hospice, how does it work and who qualifies?
ATLANTA - Former President Jimmy Carter remains in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia. The Carter Center made the announcement regarding the president's health over the weekend. Representatives from the Center say the 98-year-old has decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and his wife, Rosalyn.
With former President Carter in hospice care, many may be asking what that is. Hospice is defined as care for terminally ill patients. According to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, people enter hospice care if the likely have six months or less to live. The priority is not to provide further treatment, but to reduce pain and discomfort toward the end of life.
A recent survey found most Americans did not know hospice care could be offered at home or that it's fully covered by Medicare.
How does home hospice care work?
According to the American Cancer Society, a person who enters into hospice care is asked to pick someone to be their primary caregiver. Usually this is a family member or close friend. The primary caregiver works with the hospice team and patient to develop a care plan based on the patient's specific needs and preferences. The hospice team consists of doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors, dietitians, home health aides, clergy, therapists, and trained volunteers who work collaboratively to help the patient and primary caregiver make decisions about the care that's needed.
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For patients receiving in-home hospice care, generally the hospice nurses make regular visits and are readily available by phone. Other members of the hospice team may also visit depending on the patient's needs and insurance coverage.
What services can hospice offer former President Carter and his family?
According to the Georgia Department of Community Health, hospice care can offer a variety of services. These include:
- Allows a person to remain and receive medical care in your own home, if desired and possible.
- It prevents or reduces trips to the emergency room for aggressive care that you might not want. Although you still might go to the hospital for tests or treatments, hospice allows you and your loved ones to remain in control of your care.
- Members of the hospice team can clean, cook, or do other chores, giving your loved ones a chance to run errands, go out to dinner, take a walk, or nap.
- Hospice programs offer bereavement counseling for your loved ones, often for up to a year.
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Who qualifies for hospice care?
According to the GPCH, people who are eligible for hospice care generally have a limited life expectancy of 6 months or less.
The Hospice Compare website helps patients and their families compare hospice providers on their performance and assist consumers in making decisions that are right for them.
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2023-02-21T18:12:19+00:00
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fox35orlando.com
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Students in Ohio’s largest school district were returning Monday to classrooms after members of the union representing teachers and other employees approved a contract, ending a strike that began a week ago.
The Columbus Education Association’s nearly 4,500 teachers, librarians, nurses, counselors, psychologists and other education professionals on Sunday voted 71% to 29% to approve the new three-year contract with Columbus City Schools.
The pact calls for 4% raises each year of the contract. It includes plans for building improvements to ensure that spaces are climate controlled, reduces class sizes and offers innovative paid leave benefits.
“More than 4,000 of our members stood strong on the picket line, our community joined the fight, and we won victories on all three of these issues that will impact every one of the nearly 50,000 students in Columbus City Schools,” union spokesperson Regina Fuentes said in a statement.
The president of the school board, Jennifer Adair, said the agreement puts children first.
Union members went on strike Aug. 22 for the first time since 1975 and a “conceptual agreement” had been reached Thursday, tentatively ending the strike. The district’s 47,000 students began the school year remotely last week.
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2022-08-29T20:08:29+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-columbus-students-returning-after-striking-teachers-ink-deal/
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Best beach towns on the East Coast
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Best beach towns on the East Coast
Couple enjoying the beach at sunset.
Summer vacation has already begun for some across the U.S., and if Memorial Day is any indication, travelers should expect a busy summer season in 2023.
That holiday weekend, largely considered the unofficial start of summer, the Transportation Security Administration screened 9.79 million people, surpassing pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. And half of Americans said they would take a trip this summer, according to a survey from Deloitte, up from 46% in 2022. Trips abroad are gaining popularity, as people try to make up for time lost during pandemic-era travel restrictions. However, as inflation makes travel more expensive, budget-conscious travelers are opting to cut costs by driving to their destinations and choosing to stay stateside. AAA expected 2 million more travelers on the road on Memorial Day weekend in 2023 than on that weekend in 2022.
Beach destinations are popular this year, according to a survey from vacation-rental platform Vacasa, and outdoor recreation remains a top priority. Not only are beaches a great place to unwind and create family bonding moments, but they also boost people’s mental health.
So what makes a good beach town? Access to a beach, of course, but also plenty of indoor and outdoor activities to keep kids entertained, warm weather, and a long beach season. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Florida cities dominated the list of best beach towns on the East Coast. But besides the Sunshine State, beachgoers can enjoy the sand and surf in places off the beaten path in the Carolinas and New York’s Long Island shore.
Stacker crunched the numbers to find the best beach towns on the East Coast. To be considered a beach town, each city needed at least one beach on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National List of Beaches. The EPA list includes only beaches that are used recreationally and open to the public for free or for a fee; it has more than 6,000 beaches on the United States’ Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts and on the Great Lakes identified by states and tribes in response to the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000. The act requires states to report water quality monitoring to an EPA database.
Rankings were determined by a number of factors weighted by importance in the following order from most to least important: number of beaches monitored through the BEACH Act, the total shoreline of those beaches, access to beach-related businesses based on Census Bureau County Business Patterns, and Zillow median home prices.
Read on to get some inspiration for planning your next vacation.
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#50. Swansboro, North Carolina
A boardwalk hiking trail extends over the marsh .
– Number of beaches: 8
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 20.5
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 80 degrees
– Median home price: $558,603
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#49. Carolina Beach, North Carolina
Surfer on Wrightsville Beach.
– Number of beaches: 2
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 15.7
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $807,673
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#48. North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Cherry Grove Pier and beach.
– Number of beaches: 3
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 1.8
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 84 degrees
– Median home price: $784,190
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#47. Flagler Beach, Florida
Rocks on Flagler Beach.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 9.5
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $471,503
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#46. Southport, North Carolina
Dunes on the beach at Bald Head Island.
– Number of beaches: 2
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 7.2
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $457,263
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#45. Buxton, North Carolina
Tourists at the visitor center for the Cape Hatteras Light Station.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 3.9
– Average swim season length: 213 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $586,806
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#44. Dania Beach, Florida
People enjoying the sun on Dania Beach.
– Number of beaches: 10
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 1.7
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $366,193
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#43. Bay Shore, New York
Long Island gold coast aerial view.
– Number of beaches: 6
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 6.2
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 80 degrees
– Median home price: $710,732
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#42. Jupiter, Florida
Jupiter Inlet Light at dawn.
– Number of beaches: 4
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 4.8
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $282,266
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#41. Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
Aerial view of peninsula with beach and buildings.
– Number of beaches: 4
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 3.6
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 84 degrees
– Median home price: $385,570
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#40. Port Orange, Florida
Daytona Beach from Port Orange.
– Number of beaches: 4
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 15.4
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $407,733
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#39. Atlantic City, New Jersey
Aerial view of Atlantic City beaches and skyline.
– Number of beaches: 6
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 2.4
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $461,941
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#38. Boca Raton, Florida
Aerial view of Boca Raton and golf course.
– Number of beaches: 10
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 31.5
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $364,587
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#37. Ormond Beach, Florida
Fishing pier and sunset at Ormond Beach.
– Number of beaches: 4
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 1.6
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 84 degrees
– Median home price: $355,482
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#36. Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
Sign display for Big Kill Devil Hill with a granite memorial.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 32.0
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $406,115
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#35. Key Biscayne, Florida
Key Biscayne aerial view.
– Number of beaches: 8
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 5.7
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $589,552
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#34. North Miami Beach, Florida
North Miami Beach buildings and water.
– Number of beaches: 10
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 7.4
– Average swim season length: 136 days
– Average county summer temperature: 78 degrees
– Median home price: $275,898
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#33. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Red and white striped lighthouse and boats in marina at sunrise.
– Number of beaches: 6
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 11.8
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $322,102
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#32. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Sunrise at pier in Kitty Hawk.
– Number of beaches: 3
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 14.4
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $738,216
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#31. Delray Beach, Florida
Aerial view of Delray Beach.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 4.0
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $455,660
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#30. Corolla, North Carolina
Wild horses graze in Corolla.
– Number of beaches: 2
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 7.0
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 84 degrees
– Median home price: $874,422
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#29. Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
Aerial view of Ocean Isle Beach.
– Number of beaches: 12
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 5.9
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 80 degrees
– Median home price: $1,322,625
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#28. Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Aerial view of Ponte Verde Beach.
– Number of beaches: 1
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 3.8
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $261,205
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#27. Saint Augustine, Florida
Saint Augustine lighthouse and homes.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 26.4
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $579,070
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#26. Saint Simons Island, Georgia
St. Simons Island lighthouse.
– Number of beaches: 4
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 25.4
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $632,517
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#25. Beaufort, North Carolina
Harbour in Beaufort.
– Number of beaches: 1
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 4.0
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $498,629
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#24. Kure Beach, North Carolina
Sunrise at Kure Beach.
– Number of beaches: 6
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 9.7
– Average swim season length: 208 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $603,876
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#23. Fort Pierce, Florida
Aeria view of jetty at Fort Pierce.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 11.5
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $928,755
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#22. Sneads Ferry, North Carolina
Fishing boats in Sneads Ferry.
– Number of beaches: 1
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 17.9
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $473,262
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#21. Ocracoke, North Carolina
Ocracoke Lighthouse in summer.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 4.9
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $514,087
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#20. Fernandina Beach, Florida
Aerial view Fernandina Beach.
– Number of beaches: 3
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 19.9
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $514,421
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#19. Norfolk, Virginia
Aerial view Norfolk.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 11.7
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $393,761
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#18. Holly Ridge, North Carolina
Egret on wetland area.
– Number of beaches: 7
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 9.3
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $250,153
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#17. Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
Sunset over Wrightsville Beach.
– Number of beaches: 7
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 19.6
– Average swim season length: 153 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $302,188
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#16. Salvo, North Carolina
Boardwalk through sand and coastal shrubs in Salvo.
– Number of beaches: 3
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 11.3
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $351,510
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#15. Tybee Island, Georgia
Sunst on the Tybee Island Lighthouse.
– Number of beaches: 7
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 37.1
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $470,271
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#14. New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighthouse in New Smyrna Beach.
– Number of beaches: 2
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 13.9
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $365,863
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#13. Miami Beach, Florida
Street view along Ocean Drive in Miami Beach.
– Number of beaches: 9
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 6.9
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $369,768
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#12. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Seafront beach promenade in Fort Lauderdale.
– Number of beaches: 10
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 17.0
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $660,718
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#11. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Pier in Myrtle Beach.
– Number of beaches: 4
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 15.0
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $432,034
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#10. Pompano Beach, Florida
Aerial view Pompano Beach.
– Number of beaches: 15
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 20.7
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $646,313
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#9. Vero Beach, Florida
Aerial view Vero Beach homes.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 14.0
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $491,863
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#8. Emerald Isle, North Carolina
An aerial view of homes and beaches on Emerald Isle.
– Number of beaches: 3
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 11.1
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $400,028
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#7. Hollywood, Florida
Hollywood coastal scene.
– Number of beaches: 14
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 13.0
– Average swim season length: 214 days
– Average county summer temperature: 79 degrees
– Median home price: $476,892
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#6. Nags Head, North Carolina
Sandy path to Coquina Beach.
– Number of beaches: 6
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 7.9
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $264,681
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#5. Jensen Beach, Florida
Aerial view of populated waterfront.
– Number of beaches: 7
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 9.5
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $581,150
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#4. Atlantic Beach, North Carolina
Oceanana Pier in Atlantic Beach.
– Number of beaches: 22
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 24.0
– Average swim season length: 141 days
– Average county summer temperature: 78 degrees
– Median home price: $370,003
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#3. Daytona Beach, Florida
Oceanfront buildings at Daytona Beach.
– Number of beaches: 6
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 9.3
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $335,295
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#2. Virginia Beach, Virginia
People walk along the oceanfront boardwalk and resort area in Virginia Beach.
– Number of beaches: 5
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 7.7
– Average swim season length: 364 days
– Average county summer temperature: 83 degrees
– Median home price: $385,022
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#1. Stuart, Florida
Aerial view of Stuart and boats in harbor.
– Number of beaches: 6
– Miles of monitored shoreline: 22.7
– Average swim season length: 244 days
– Average county summer temperature: 82 degrees
– Median home price: $268,370
Data reporting by Elena Cox. Story editing by Jeff Inglis. Copy editing by Paris Close.
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2023-06-17T06:44:02+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/stacker-money/2023/06/16/best-beach-towns-on-the-east-coast/
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Talks, panels, and papers will address society's greatest challenges and the role of data science and artificial intelligence
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KDD 2022, the premier interdisciplinary conference in data science, today announced special days dedicated to health, government, deep learning, and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Taking place between Aug. 14-18 in Washington, D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and online, the conference will offer designated tracks that include speaking sessions, live panels and research papers on topics ranging from digital health and algorithmic bias to exciting developments in deep learning and the U.S. government's data science programs.
Deep Learning Day on August 15 is dedicated to the impact of deep learning on data science and will provide a broad overview of recent developments, including emerging topics that deserve more attention. The six talks will include presentations by Chandan Reddy, professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, and Danai Koutra, associate professor of computer science and engineering at University of Michigan, as well as workshops on spatiotemporal data and adversarial learning methods for machine learning and data mining.
EDI Day on August 15th will focus on gender equity addressing both the challenges and opportunities for women (female-identifying and non-binary) and their allies as we work towards more gender equity, diversity and inclusion in both academia and industry. Keynote speakers include Dr. Brandeis Marshall, chief executive officer of DataedX Group and professor of computer science at Spelman College, Rukmini Iyer, vice president at Microsoft, and Kristen Titus, former Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of the State of New York, founding executive director of the Cognizant Foundation, NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, and Girls Who Code. The workshop will feature panels focused on career journeys and options, a Women's Power Lunch, and a mentoring session.
Health Day, also on August 15, is dedicated to the researchers and practitioners leveraging data science and artificial intelligence to improve health worldwide. Talks include keynote presentations from Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay professor of computer science, faculty director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University, and director of "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India and Temiloluwa O. Prioleau, assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College. Papers and in-person discussions will focus on medical dialogue response generation, mobile health applications, and other data mining applications in healthcare.
Government Day on August 16 will include panels featuring leadership and program leads from relevant federal agencies, including National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). Scheduled speakers include:
- Sylvia Spengler, Hector Muñoz-Avila, Wei Ding and Wendy Nilsen, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, NSF
- Jim Donlon, National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, NSF
- Doug Maughan, NSF Convergence Accelerator
- Margaret Martonosi, Computer and Information Science & Engineering, NSF
- Erwin Gianchandani, Technology Innovation and Partnerships, NSF
- Susan K. Gregurick, Office of Data Science Strategy, NIH
- Yanli Wang, National Library of Medicine, NIH
- Marilyn M. Miller, National Institute of Aging Programs, NIH
- Steven Thomson, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA
- Mark Flood, Information Innovation Office, DARPA
- Robert Rahmer, Artificial Intelligence Initiatives, IARPA
"Data science offers solutions to society's toughest challenges, but not without the collaboration and passion that KDD has come to represent," said Wei Wang, SIGKDD chair, Leonard Kleinrock chair professor in computer science, and director of the Scalable Analytics Institute at University of California, Los Angeles. "As the most important data science conference in the world, KDD 2022 has the opportunity to gather global leaders to address these, at times, industry-specific problems, inspiring practitioners and researchers young and old to share their inputs and discover tools that will lead to a better tomorrow."
KDD 2022 is being held in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 14-18, 2022. For more information on this year's event, please visit: www.kdd.org/kdd2022/.
About ACM SIGKDD:
ACM is the premier global professional organization for researchers and professionals dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of knowledge discovery and data mining. SIGKDD is ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. The annual KDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining is the premier interdisciplinary conference for data mining, data science and analytics.
For more information on KDD, please visit: https://www.kdd.org/.
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Workflow Automation provides customers with out-of-the-box actions and pre-built templates to proactively remediate issues and avoid service disruptions or impact to end users
NEW YORK, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced the general availability of Workflow Automation. The new product enables teams to automate end-to-end remediation processes—with out-of-the-box actions and pre-built templates—across all systems, apps and services to help identify, investigate and resolve service disruptions and security threats faster.
DevOps, SRE and security teams are tasked with keeping systems up and running to minimize the rising costs of IT downtime. To do so, they need to navigate between multiple tools for investigation and remediation, which leads to context switching, human error and wasted time. Teams also lack the observability context needed to understand which service has been impacted, who owns the service and where to find runbooks with steps for remediation.
Workflow Automation solves these challenges by combining alerts and remediation in a single, streamlined solution. Datadog provides developers and security engineers end-to-end visibility across the tech stack so that teams are alerted to disruptions as they arise. Now, with Workflow Automation, teams can use context-rich alerts to automate entire remediation processes across their tools and services in response to disruptions directly in Datadog's unified platform. By giving teams the ability to both observe the entire tech stack in a single platform and also remediate any issues directly in the same place, Workflow Automation helps organizations maintain the availability of their systems.
"It's critical to react quickly to changes in complex distributed systems. That means automation. Workflow Automation provides Protolabs' engineers with an intuitive way to leverage Datadog's context-rich data to automate monitor creation, update integrations and, ultimately, reduce the complexity and overhead in reliability and incident response engineering," said Ryan Kleeberger, SRE at Protolabs.
"Manual processes and context switching are often the root cause of long stretches of IT downtime. This impacts both a company's bottom line and its reputation with end users," said Michael Gerstenhaber, VP of Product at Datadog. "Workflow Automation provides the automation and context that DevOps, SRE and security teams need in order to remediate issues quickly. Automation that seamlessly connects observability information with remediation allows engineers to proactively respond to insights before they turn into issues that would otherwise affect their businesses."
Workflow Automation enables organizations to:
- Trigger Responses Instantly: Users can automatically trigger responses from observability alerts, security signals and dashboards. These response workflows can be enriched with real-time observability data, such as logs and metrics, that guide automated decision-making. This allows teams to identify, investigate and resolve service disruptions and security threats quickly while proactively maintaining the health of systems.
- Automate Complex Processes: Over 300 out-of-the-box actions and more than 40 pre-built templates enable users to easily automate routine response tasks and complex end-to-end processes to save engineers time, eliminate human error and reduce overhead.
- Safeguard Automation: Teams can create interactive, human-in-the-loop workflows, and safeguard these workflows with granular role-based access control (RBAC) while keeping track of executions with detailed workflow auditing.
To get started with Workflow Automation, please visit: https://docs.datadoghq.com/workflows/. To learn more, visit: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/automate-end-to-end-processes-with-datadog-workflows/.
About Datadog
Datadog is the observability and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real-user monitoring, and many other capabilities to provide unified, real-time observability and security for our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior, and track key business metrics.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America Corporation announced today that it will redeem on May 28, 2023 all $1,250,000,000 principal amount outstanding of its Floating Rate Senior Notes, due May 2024 (CUSIP No. 06051GJX8) (the "Notes"), at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date of May 28, 2023. Since May 28, 2023 is not a business day, the redemption price together with accrued and unpaid interest will be paid on the next succeeding business day, May 30, 2023. Interest on the Notes will cease to accrue on the redemption date.
Payment of the redemption price for the Notes will be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company. The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. is the trustee and paying agent for the Notes.
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Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 68 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 3,900 retail financial centers, approximately 15,000 ATMs, and award-winning digital banking with approximately 56 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Zabrina V. Reich and Anthony Barone Jr. to join Phillips Lytle, combining their boutique firm with the robust client-service capabilities of one of New York State's leading law firms
BUFFALO, N.Y., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phillips Lytle LLP announced the hiring of Zabrina V. Reich, Anthony Barone Jr. and legal support staff members from Serotte Reich PLLC, a full-service U.S. immigration firm based in Buffalo, New York, completing a strategic move that will expand the firm's immigration practice and accelerate its talent-driven growth plans.
"In the Serotte Reich team, we recognized an opportunity to expand our firm's immigration expertise and bring several very talented people into the Phillips Lytle family. With our shared values and approach to client service, I'm confident they'll make an immediate impact," said Phillips Lytle Managing Partner Kevin M. Hogan. "We've worked hard to make Phillips Lytle a marquee destination for boutique law firms that want to grow their practice by combining their expertise with the extensive resources and capabilities that a firm like ours can provide. Our focus on attracting and accelerating boutique firms remains a central component of our growth plans."
Ms. Reich joins Phillips Lytle as a partner and team leader for its Immigration Practice. She will continue providing employment- and family-based immigration services and legal strategy, representing clients in complex and highly technical immigration matters. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, Ms. Reich has counseled clients on immigration issues across several industries, including professional sports, music and entertainment, fashion, energy, health care, education, technology and professional services. Due in part to her proximity to the border, Ms. Reich has developed particular expertise in TN and L-1 applications, waiver and admissibility issues and border-problem cases. She received her law degree and M.B.A. from the University at Buffalo and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.
"As part of Phillips Lytle, we'll have the opportunity to provide immigration services as a boutique practice that's backed by a regional powerhouse with impressive resources and wide-ranging expertise. Our clients' experience with us will essentially be the same — only now they'll have access to further support from Phillips Lytle's multitude of attorneys and practice areas," Ms. Reich said. "We value Phillips Lytle's commitment to providing the highest levels of client service, and we're excited to join the firm."
Ms. Reich's career has preserved and grown the legacy of her father, William Z. Reich, who introduced immigration law to the firm that became Serotte Reich in 1975. He gained international respect and renown as a uniquely skilled immigration attorney and often served as a mentor to young attorneys who practiced immigration law.
In addition to Ms. Reich, the firm has added Mr. Barone as senior counsel. He brings over thirty years of corporate, commercial, real estate, immigration and judicial experience to business and investment clients seeking U.S. immigration status. Mr. Barone received his law degree from the University of Toledo School of Law and has served as a municipal judge in Evans, New York, for 20 years.
Phillips Lytle has also brought on Serotte Reich's support staff to ensure there will be no interruption of services to clients of Ms. Reich and Mr. Barone.
The new attorneys expand the firm's Immigration Practice and build on its significant work in international trade and international law as well as its advisement and support for employers, entrepreneurs, investors and individuals on a broad range of immigration matters. This practice area has grown in recent years through the firm's strategic locations in Washington, D.C., and Southern Ontario, Canada.
With these latest hires marking another milestone, Phillips Lytle continues to push ahead with its organization-wide, talent-driven growth plans — which were launched earlier this year. The firm is actively expanding its expertise through the attraction, retention and development of top legal talent, as well as the recruitment of boutique law firms and specialty practices in existing and new markets.
Phillips Lytle LLP is a premier regional law firm that is recognized nationally for its legal excellence. With offices across New York State and in Washington, D.C. and Canada, our attorneys serve a multinational client base, including FORTUNE 1000 companies, global and regional financial institutions, not-for-profit organizations, middle-market companies, startups, entrepreneurs and individuals on important matters affecting their businesses and personal wealth. For more information, visit www.phillipslytle.com.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Sam Reinhart scored twice and Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves as the Florida Panthers beat New Jersey 4-2 Saturday night, handing the first-place Devils their fifth straight loss.
Gustav Forsling and Carter Verhaege also scored and Aaron Ekblad had two assists for Florida, which beat New Jersey for the fifth time in six meetings and improved to 4-1-0 in its last five visits to Prudential Center. Bobrovsky, making his sixth straight start, got his 343rd career victory and improved to 18-5-1 against the Devils.
“I feel good, I've got some rhythm,'' said the 34-year-old Bobrovsky, who is third among active goaltenders in wins. ”The guys did a great job to compete. We are building chemistry."
Erik Haula had a goal and an assist and John Marino also scored for the Devils, who are 0-4-1 on their current skid. Akira Schmid finished with 25 saves.
“Our group as a whole has to be better,'' Devils coach Lindy Ruff said. ”We didn’t have enough puck management."
Reinhart gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 8:54 of the first period, finishing off a passing sequence with Aleksander Barkov and Ekblad. Barkov didn't play the final two periods after sustaining an undisclosed injury in the first.
Forsling made it 2-0 at 7:49 of the second with his fifth goal of the season,
Marino got the Devils on the board with 8:33 left in the middle period, firing a long shot past Bobrovsky for this third. Jack Hughes had an assist on the play, increasing his team lead to 36 points (16 goals, 20 assists).
Reinhart restored the two-goal margin with 41 seconds remaining in the second, tipping a shot by Ekblad past Schmid for his 11th goal of the season.
“To get one early was key,'' Ekblad said. “We got our lead and found a way to protect it.”
Haula pulled the Devils to 3-2 with 3 1/2 minutes remaining in the third with his second goal of the season, but Verhaeghe's empty-netter — for his team-leading 16th goal — with 1:11 left sealed the Panthers' win.
“I'm really proud of our team. We fought hard,'' Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. ”And our goaltender was really good."
The Devils have a challenging stretch ahead with a visits to Carolina and Florida followed by two straight home games against league-best Boston before and after the Christmas break.
Ruff expressed confidence that his team's slump can be solved by focusing on what made them so successful the first two months of the season - generating offense from effective defense.
“Our strength is how we play defensively," Ruff said. ”We can't get away from it. That's been the backbone of our team.”
STRUGGLING
New Jersey has totaled just four goals in its last three games, all defeats at home — including 2-1 to Philadelphia on Thursday and 4-1 to Dallas on Tuesday. Before that, the Devils lost 4-3 in overtime at the New York Rangers on Monday and started their losing streak with a 6-4 loss at home to the Islanders last Friday night. They had won 21 of 24 after losing their first two games of the season before their current skid.
New Jersey’s hold on first place in the Metropolitan Division was reduced to two points following Carolina’s overtime win over Dallas on Saturday.
MILESTONE
Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton played in his 700th career game.
UP NEXT
Panthers: At Boston on Monday night.
Devils: At Carolina on Tuesday night.
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2022-12-18T05:06:07+00:00
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Ballot break-down: Notable Suncoast races
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Election day is almost here.
If you’re asking yourself “What’s on the ballot?” the specific answer to that question depends on where you live. To break it all down, ABC7 sifted through sample ballots from specific addresses in both Manatee and Sarasota counties.
The big one is the governor’s race, which is on every Floridian ballot.
Incumbent Governor Ron DeSantis, the Republican, facing off against Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist.
Also on every Floridian’s ballot, the race for U.S. Senate. Every state gets two; only one seat is up for grabs. On the Republican side, incumbent senator, Marco Rubio is up for re-election. His opponent, Val Demings is vying for the Democratic seat.
These two are among other candidates who are not affiliated with the two major parties.
You’ll also see the race for the U.S. House of Representatives: each state has a designated number. Florida gets 28, with 28 districts which is a product of redistricting.
Specific to Manatee and Sarasota counties, you’re voting on the U.S. House Representative for either District 16 or 17.
District 16′s race is Republican Vern Buchanan versus Democrat Jan Schneider, among another candidate not affiliated with the two major parties.
District 17 is Republican Greg Steube versus Democrat Andrea Doria Kale; a third candidate vying for the spot is Theodore “Pink Tie” Murray with no party affiliation.
You will also vote on Florida’s State Senate and State House. In Manatee county the State Senate seat up for grabs is District 20. As it stands, Republican Senator Jim Boyd is running unopposed and District 22 Republican Joe Gruters is running unopposed.
State House seats are 70, 71, and 72.
Democrat Eleuterio “Junior” Salazar Jr. running against Republican Mike Beltran for 70.
Republican Will Robinson is running unopposed for District 71.
In District 72 Republican Tommy Gregory is facing off against Democrat Roberts Dameus.
In Sarasota County the State Senate seat up for grabs is District 22, which once again, is as Joe Gruters running unopposed.
Also on the ballot, State House Reps in seats 73,74, and 75.
District 73′s race is Democrat Derek Reich versus Republican Fiona Mcfarland.
Republican James Buchanan is running unopposed for District 74.
District 75 sees Republican Michael Grant running unopposed.
To access your sample ballot for Manatee County click here. https://www.votemanatee.com/m/Election-Information/Sample-Ballots
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https://www.sarasotavotes.gov/Election-Information/Sample-Ballots
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2022-11-07T17:41:11+00:00
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast says another prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded as seas rose 8,000 years ago.
Archaeologist Octavio del Rio says the shattered skull and skeleton collapsed are partly covered by sediment.
Given the distance from the cave entrance, it couldn't have gotten there without modern diving equipment, so it must be over 8,000 years old.
Some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered in the sinkhole caves that experts say are threatened by the Mexican government's project to build a high-speed tourist train through the jungle.
Del Rio said he's worried that the cave, which he did not disclose the location of, could collapse, become contaminated, or be closed off due to the building project and subsequent development.
Caves along some of the coastline have already been damaged by construction.
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2022-09-14T22:08:03+00:00
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news5cleveland.com
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/world/ancient-skeleton-found-in-mexico-cave-threatened-by-train
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SAN ANTONIO – A recent discovery and recovery effort at Natural Bridge Caverns is giving insight into prehistoric felines that could have roamed the San Antonio and South Texas area centuries ago.
Wildcat bones and tracks were discovered in the caves over the past few years dating back to 2019. The most recent discovery was last year.
In an effort to preserve the remains, paleontologists from the University of Texas at Austin and a Natural Bridge Caverns caving team went back into the caves this month to excavate the fossils.
Part of the expedition involved repelling up to 70 feet into a deep pit named the Inferno Room, which has the remains of at least one cat. Another deep pit named the Dungeon has remains as well.
The cat bones in both pits were estimated to be up to 20,000 years old and were embedded in cave formations.
The paw prints were covered in a soil crust that suggests they are similarly ancient.
After days of cave diving, the team identified and retrieved two separate fossil remains from the Inferno Room. Both appear to be adult wildcats.
The bones were packed for carbon dating and shipped to a lab where they will be studied by John Moretti, a doctoral student at UT-Austin, who led the fossil collection effort.
The process of determining how old the fossils are or whether they are related to any existing wildcats in Texas is expected to take a month.
The fossils and prints could be linked to a number of potential options from bobcats to margays to jaguarundis.
Researchers and the cave team are also attempting to determine how these ancient wildcats entered the caverns to begin with.
Part of the expedition focused on an area with a second set of cat tracks to see if they can determine a possible spot where the cats may have entered the cave.
A previous area that was accessible thousands of years ago that is now blocked, leaving researchers to wonder if there is another opening at the caverns that has not been discovered.
Moretti said cats are solitary creatures that makes them rare fossil finds.
Scientists hope to learn more about the diversity, distribution and behavior of these wildcats and how they compare with today’s species.
A KSAT crew was invited to be part of the expedition with the Natural Bridge Caverns caving team. Below are some photos of their findings.
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2023-01-19T02:01:13+00:00
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2023-03-02T20:05:01+00:00
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CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) _ Ansys Inc. (ANSS) on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $96 million.
The Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based company said it had net income of $1.10 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.77 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.62 per share.
The maker of engineering-simulation software posted revenue of $472.5 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $473.7 million, also topping Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $467 million.
For the current quarter ending in December, Ansys expects its per-share earnings to range from $2.58 to $2.90. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $2.95.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $621.8 million to $656.8 million for the fiscal fourth quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $671.6 million.
Ansys expects full-year earnings in the range of $7.48 to $7.80 per share, with revenue ranging from $2 billion to $2.04 billion.
Ansys shares have dropped 48% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $209.45, a drop of 45% in the last 12 months.
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2022-11-02T21:31:15+00:00
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SEOUL, South Korea, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yuhan Corporation (CEO, Wook-Je Cho) announced on the 30th of May that it has signed an in-license agreement with J INTS BIO (CEO, Anna Jo) for a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (TKI) targeting HER2, 'JIN-A04'. The total contract size is 325 million dollars, and it includes an upfront payment of 1.9 million dollars and milestone payments according to future development, permits, and sales.
JIN-A04 is an oral TKI targeting non-small cell lung cancer carrying HER2 mutations, and there is currently no approved oral drug approved to date. Preclinical data of JIN-A04 was recently presented at the 2023 edition of the American Cancer Research Association (AACR) annual meeting in April at Orlando, USA showing strong efficacy in both In-vitro and In-vivo studies.
Yuhan Corporation CEO, Wook-Je Cho said, "We have taken a step forward in the development of the 2nd and 3rd LECLAZA by securing an additional anti-cancer drug pipeline with this contract. We plan to further strengthen our anticancer drug pipeline in the future."
Anna Jo, CEO of J INTS BIO, said, "JIN-A04 is expected to be a hope for NSCLC patients with 'HER2 Exon20 insertion' mutations." And it can become the most promising Best-in-Class TKI therapy in this field."
Meanwhile, Yuhan invested 1.5 million dollars in J INTS BIO in 2021 and 2022, respectively, and holds a 14.8% stake in the company.
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2023-05-31T07:50:39+00:00
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After a Florida man was bitten by an alligator on his doorstep, an expert weighs in on the risk and offers tips on escaping an alligator attack.
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After a Florida man was bitten by an alligator on his doorstep, an expert weighs in on the risk and offers tips on escaping an alligator attack.
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2023-03-07T10:57:42+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's latest attempt to restrict who can carry a handgun in public and where firearms can be brought was picked apart Thursday by a federal judge, who ruled that multiple provisions in a state law passed this year are unconstitutional.
In a ruling that doesn't take effect immediately, U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby struck down key elements of the state's hurried attempt to rewrite its handgun laws after the old ones were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.
The judge ruled that the state can't ban people from carrying guns in New York City's subway system or Times Square, though he said it did have a right to exclude guns from other locations, including schools.
Several of the state's new licensing rules went too far, he wrote, including one that required applicants to be of "good moral character," and another that made applicants turn over information about their social media accounts.
The end result was a licensing scheme that prohibited people from carrying a handgun for self-defense unless the applicant could persuade licensing officials that they wouldn't use it to hurt themselves or others, the judge wrote.
"Simply stated, instead of moving toward becoming a shall-issue jurisdiction, New York State has further entrenched itself as a shall-not-issue jurisdiction. And, by doing so, it has further reduced a first-class constitutional right to bear arms in public for self defense ... into a mere request," wrote Suddaby, who sits in Syracuse.
Suddaby, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, put his decision on hold for three days to allow the state to challenge it in a higher court.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said her office would appeal.
"Today's decision comes in the wake of mass shootings and rampant gun violence hurting communities here in New York and across the country. While the decision preserves portions of the law, we believe the entire law must be preserved as enacted," said James, a Democrat.
Legislators rewrote the state's handgun laws this summer after a Supreme Court ruling invalidated New York's old system for granting permits to carry handguns outside the home. The high court struck down the state's longstanding requirement that people demonstrate an unusual threat to their safety to qualify for such a license.
The new law, which went into effect Sept. 1, broadly expanded who could get a handgun license, but it increased training requirements for applicants and required them to turn over more private information, including a list of everyone living in their home. The state also created a long list of places where firearms would be banned.
Suddaby's ruling upheld the state's right to exclude guns from certain "sensitive locations," but only in instances where there were "historical analogues" for such rules, meaning guns have been banned from such places in the past.
Rules prohibiting most people from carrying guns into schools, government buildings, polling places and places of worship were OK, the judge wrote. But the state couldn't put new bans on people from carrying handguns on public transportation systems, in summer camps or places where alcohol is consumed.
Suddaby also dealt a blow to a provision prohibiting people from bringing guns onto someone else's property unless the owners give permission — by posting a sign in a shop window, for instance.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat, defended the state's laws as "common-sense restrictions."
"While this decision leaves aspects of the law in place, it is deeply disappointing that the Judge wants to limit my ability to keep New Yorkers safe and to prevent more senseless gun violence," Hochul said.
There have been several federal challenges to the new law from gun rights advocates who argue the legislation violates the Second Amendment and free speech rights.
This lawsuit was bought by six gun owners from upstate New York who claim the law infringes on their constitutional rights. Most of the plaintiffs have licenses to carry and argue the law keeps them from holding a weapon in designated sensitive places like state parks or church.
One plaintiff intends to apply for a carry permit but is unwilling to share social media posts or character references with investigators, according to the federal complaint.
Suddaby telegraphed his ruling five weeks ago when he threw out a previous challenge to the law on technical grounds. The plaintiff in that case then teamed up with five other gun owners and sued again, expanding the list of defendants to include state district attorneys and sheriffs who were charged with enforcing the law.
New York is among a half-dozen states that had provisions of their gun laws invalidated by the Supreme Court.
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Associated Press writers Michael R. Sisak and David B. Caruso contributed from New York City.
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2022-10-06T21:43:17+00:00
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kivitv.com
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https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/federal-judge-halts-key-parts-of-new-yorks-new-gun-law
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WABASH VALLEY, Ill. (WTHI) - In a consumer alert, the Illinois attorney general is urging action to protect car owners.
AG Kwame Raoul says there's been a crisis of car thefts. He and 21 other attorneys general sent a letter to Kia and Hyundai.
They say the companies failed to equip cars with certain anti-theft immobilizers.
This equipment prevents cars from operating without a key or key fob.
Kia and Hyundai recently announced a customer service campaign to upgrade the software of affected cars.
However, Raoul and the coalition feel the plan is incomplete and long overdue.
They are urging the companies to accelerate the planned software upgrade.
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2023-03-21T21:08:29+00:00
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wthitv.com
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https://www.wthitv.com/news/illinois-ag-calls-out-car-companies-amid-theft-crisis/article_39c602f0-c7fb-11ed-bf05-7b9d5e2c66bf.html
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Police are clearing the area around a suburban Detroit hotel following reports of an active shooter.
State police said Thursday afternoon on the department's Twitter feed that the “situation is active and dangerous” at the Hampton Inn in Dearborn and that shots still “were being fired by the suspect.”
No other details were immediately available.
Dearborn is just west and southwest of Detroit.
Police blocked off traffic around 3 p.m. along the stretch of Michigan Avenue where the hotel is located. The area is a popular restaurant and shopping district.
Officers in tactical gear could be seen, as well as emergency vehicles.
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2022-10-06T19:41:01+00:00
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wcfcourier.com
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https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/police-investigate-active-shooter-at-detroit-area-hotel/article_16333f7c-55ce-5829-bc56-1dbd81662979.html
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A man charged with killing his live-in girlfriend in 2018 then fleeing to Jamaica where he evaded authorities for nearly two years pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
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Leroy Headley, 41, had originally pleaded not guilty in connection with the shooting death of Anako “Annette” Lumumba in the South Burlington home they shared with their two children.
Headley apologized in court, saying he was “deeply and truly sorry” for killing Lumumba and described her as his “best friend and soulmate.”
Many members of Lumumba's family as well as her friends were in court.
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“For us, we just have to, I guess carry on her legacy and be a family,” Adolphe Lumumba, the victim’s brother, told WCAX-TV.
On May 3, 2018, authorities received a 911 call came in from a man who stated, “I shot her, I shot her,” and gave the address of the South Burlington home, according to a police affidavit. The phone was registered to Headley, police said.
Headley’s car was found May 18, 2018, in Albany, New York. The U.S. Marshals Service said he had ties to Jamaica, where he was originally from, and across the U.S. and Canada.
He was arrested by Jamaican authorities Feb. 5, 2020, in Negril, officials said. He was brought back to Vermont where he entered a plea of not guilty and was ordered held without bail.
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2023-01-20T19:04:22+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Boyfriend-of-woman-slain-in-2018-changes-plea-to-17731118.php
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A leading association marketing firm streamlines event planning with new plugin, ParrotWP™
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadmium today announced a partnership with the David James Group to streamline event marketing for their customers in the association, non-profit, and corporate sectors.
The announcement coincided with the unveiling of ParrotWP™—a plugin developed by David James Group to enable the automatic transfer of presentation and presenter data from Cadmium's event technology software to WordPress-based event websites. The plugin promises to eliminate errors and tedious manual data entry for the customers of both organizations.
The David James Group unveiled the plugin today at Cadmium's annual conference, Cadmium Spark, at Nationals Park in Washington.
Cadmium is an event and learning software provider based in Forest Hill, Md., that offers continuing education, professional development, and content management solutions. The David James Group is a Chicago-based association marketing firm specializing in event marketing, website design and development, rebranding strategies, and more.
"We believe in making a client's event brand experience as positive as possible," said Ron Zywicki, president of the David James Group. "ParrotWP and our partnership with Cadmium allow us to ensure that any visitor to an event website developed in WordPress will have seamless, user-friendly access to the info they need."
ParrotWP retrieves presentation and presenter information from the Education Harvester—one of Cadmium's flagship event technology products. The plugin thus provides several key benefits to their mutual customers:
- Seamless data migration into WordPress-based websites ensures that presentation and presenter information remain in sync and up to date.
- By eliminating the need for manual data entry, ParrotWP reduces the risk of errors and inconsistencies on attendee-facing websites.
- Automatic syncing across more than 280 custom fields in the Education Harvester puts total control over event data in the hands of meeting planners.
"We value partners who develop solutions that fit seamlessly onto our products," said Paul Zickert, vice president of Partnerships at Cadmium. "The David James Group has invented an indispensable time-saving tool that promotes seamless event marketing for users of Cadmium technology."
To learn more about the DJG plugin ParrotWP, visit here.
Cadmium simplifies the production of live, hybrid and virtual events and maximizes the value of online learning with a single, flexible platform designed to capture the chemistry of people, ideas and knowledge. The company's software products are trusted by more than 1000 content-driven organizations worldwide to generate revenue, drive customer retention, and lower operational costs for their events and education initiatives. For more information, visit https://gocadmium.com.
Contact: Jessie Reyes | Cadmium
DJG is a full-service association marketing communication firm focusing on successful event marketing, membership marketing, brand and rebranding strategies, website design and development, social media, public relations, video production and other services. DJG serves mission-based clients of all sizes with specialties in healthcare, engineering, diversity & inclusion, life sciences, manufacturing, energy, technology, and business services. DJG is a division of the David James Company. For more information visit davidjamesgroup.com
Contact: Chris Martin | David James Group
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2022-07-26T18:02:18+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/07/26/cadmium-announces-partnership-with-david-james-group/
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DENVER – Michael Malone surveyed the scene Tuesday night and wondered where everyone was — not just Denver’s fans, but the Nuggets themselves.
“Our team was kind of like the crowd tonight — we were late arriving,” Malone said after Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray helped the top-seeded Nuggets overcame a slow start to eliminate the Minnesota Timberwolves 112-109 in Game 5 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series.
Anthony Edwards, who led Minnesota with 29 points, hit the back iron on a 27-foot 3-point attempt at the buzzer that would have sent the game into overtime.
The top-seeded Nuggets will face the fourth-seeded Phoenix Suns, who eliminated in the Los Angeles Clippers in five games, in the second round, which begins Saturday night in Denver.
Despite Denver being the better seed, Jokic called the Suns “the favorite to win the championship. They have an amazing, amazing group of guys, well-coached.” He went up and down their roster, saving special praise for Chris Paul, Kevin Durant and Deandre Ayton. “So, it's going to be a big challenge for us.”
Jokic also applauded the Wolves, who were without top perimeter defender Jaden McDaniels (broken hand) and center Naz Reid (broken wrist) for the series and lost Kyle Anderson to an eye injury in Game 4.
“And they still managed to be in every game except Game 1. That was the only game that was an easy win for us,” Jokic said. “They did a good job. We were just a little bit better this time.”
Jokic had a triple-double and scored 28 points despite missing 21 of 29 shots, and Murray scored 35 points to help the Nuggets overcome an early 13-point deficit and hand Malone his record 25th career playoff victory for Denver, one more than Doug Moe had.
A rainstorm slowed traffic into downtown Denver and an earlier start than normal had fans streaming into Ball Arena a little late.
“I looked up, there’s a lot of empty seats and coaches said, well, the weather’s really bad. But the way we played that first quarter was like a regular-season game,” Malone said. 'And then slowly but surely, I felt Jamal made a couple of shots. And Jamal plays with so much emotion. And I think he got our team going. ... Jamal just wouldn't quit, you know? And he made big shot after big shot.”
Good thing for Denver, too, because Jokic and Michael Porter Jr. were a combined 11 for 39 from the floor and the Nuggets fell behind by 13 in the first quarter, a sluggish start that stumped Malone.
“I couldn't put my finger on it as it was going on,” he said. “Was it nerves? Was it the moment? Was it too big for us trying to close out a team? I don't think it was. We just showed up like we weren't playing hard. But it was not the necessary physicality and aggression and intensity that is needed to close the team out.
“And I couldn't believe at halftime we were up by one,” Malone added. “I was like, 'Wow! We just played that half. And you look at all the numbers and the only reason we were up by one was the foul line.”
A 15-4 advantage at the free throw line helped Denver inch ahead 48-47 at the break. They finished 32 of 36 from the stripe.
Michael Porter Jr. was held without a basket until his dunk with 10:08 left in the game. Jokic missed eight of his first 10 shots 48 hours after tying his career playoff high with 43 points in a Game 4 overtime loss at Minnesota.
Karl-Anthony Towns added 26 points for the Wolves, Rudy Gobert had 16 points and 15 rebounds before fouling out and Nickeil Alexander-Walker chipped in 14 points.
“Guys were super-engaged and it showed," Wolves point guard Mike Conley said. “And that showed that we're going to fight no matter what.”
The Nuggets got 14 points from Aaron Gordon and Bruce Brown, who was in Edwards' face on the game-tying attempt at the buzzer. Porter scored all eight of his points in the fourth quarter, including a pair of clutch 3-pointers after missing his first five shots from behind the arc.
The Wolves, who avoided a sweep with an overtime win in Minneapolis on Sunday, jumped out to a 25-12 lead before the Nuggets began chipping away.
“We started slow,” Murray said, “but once they started talking that woke us up. We locked in. We fought back in the second quarter and then I thought we did a good job executing down the stretch.”
GOOD TRY
A disappointing season came to an end for the Wolves, who were banged up — Karl-Anthony Towns missed 52 games with a calf injury — and never really jelled like they had hoped after the monster trade for Gobert.
“The defining characteristic of this team is that we've always played our best basketball when we were in desperation mode,” coach Chris Finch said. "It's not how you want to live. Again, its all credit to us. We had many points during the season to let go of the rope or give up on the moment but we never ever did.
“So, I love that about our guys. They kept competing. But you know a more mature team doesn't find itself in those situations as much and that's a part of our growth.”
Finch added that the Wolves “learned a lot, too, with the two bigs (Gobert and Towns) and everything going into the offseason, I felt like we learned a lot to be able to build around.”
TIP-INS
Timberwolves: Anderson, who sustained a left eye injury and facial bruise in Game 4, didn't make the trip back to Denver so he could see some specialists.
Nuggets: Denver won a playoff series under Malone for the fifth time in the last five seasons.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports g
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2023-04-26T08:46:30+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/sports/2023/04/26/nuggets-eliminate-wolves-112-109-behind-murray-jokic/
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Merely one game over .500 through 11 games, Texas A&M closed the regular season by winning 19 of its final 23 contests.
Make no mistake, coach Buzz Williams’ Aggies are on a tear entering their NCAA Tournament Midwest Region first-round game against Penn State on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. As winners of eight of 10, however, the Nittany Lions are pretty hot themselves.
Seventh-seeded Texas A&M (25-9) hasn’t lost consecutive games since Dec. 17-20, and is primed to regroup from Sunday’s 82-63 loss in the Southeastern Conference tournament championship game to eventual NCAA Tournament top seed Alabama.
Tenth-seeded Penn State (22-13) also is coming off a loss in a conference tournament final, falling 67-65 to Purdue for the Big Ten crown.
“We’ve improved a lot,” Aggies leading scorer Wade Taylor IV said. “Coach preaches to us every day about being resilient, staying together through the ups and downs. We’ve had a lot of ups and downs through these last 65 days. I’m excited for what the future holds. We’ve been through a lot. We can carry that on for momentum going into the next game, too.”
The Nittany Lions tote similar optimism into the meeting. Trailing Purdue — the eventual recipient of another NCAA Tournament top seed — by 17 points with 6:18 to go, Penn State regrouped before its rally fell just short.
Dialing up its defense proved the catalyst.
“It’s nowhere we haven’t been before,” Penn State’s Myles Dread said. “We’re a gritty team, and we’ve been in multiple different down-and-out situations. We’re down, but we’re never out in any game, the way we shoot the ball and the way we defend.
“We just locked in on the focus of defending, running good offense and rebounding, and we started chipping away.”
Should Penn State channel similar intensity Thursday, Texas A&M could endure its share of fits. The Aggies shot 43.5 percent during the regular season, including 32.8 percent from 3-point range. Taylor shot 40.6 percent while averaging 16.5 points during the regular season, while Tyrece Radford shot 38.8 percent in averaging 13.2 points.
Three Nittany Lions averaged double-figure scoring during the regular season: Jalen Pickett (17.9 points a game), Seth Lundy (14.4) and Andrew Funk (12.1).
Penn State is a 46.4 percent shooting team, including 38.5 percent from long range. The Nittany Lions were just 7-for-23 (30.4 percent) from deep against Purdue, however.
“We had a lot of good looks that we just missed,” Penn State coach Micah Shrewsberry said. “Like we’re playing extremely hard on both ends of the court. We’ve played three, including this, four straight tough, close games, and we’re putting out a lot of effort. So it’s hard to make shots like that, especially on day four.”
The Aggies, who felt they were snubbed from the NCAA Tournament last season, are back in the event for the first time in five seasons.
Texas A&M is 4-0 all-time against Penn State. The schools haven’t met since 2017.
“The next season we’re going into can be four days or it can be three and a half weeks,” the Aggies’ Williams said. “So I think our identity has evolved and morphed into a lot of good things over the last couple of months.”
–Field Level Media
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2023-03-14T19:52:28+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/texas-am-penn-state-on-strong-runs-to-ncaa-tournament-opener/
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — NASCAR drivers don’t need to be reminded what Chase Elliott’s return to racing on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway means to those associated with the sport.
When Elliott is racing, everyone wins.
Voted NASCAR’s most popular driver the past five seasons — a title inherited after Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s retirement — Elliott and his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports car have become the face of the sport. When he’s competing, more stock car racing fans are watching. And when he’s not, fans seem be tuning out in big numbers.
It’s like stock racing’s version of the Tiger Woods effect.
The dramatic drop in TV ratings in the six races Elliott missed after breaking his tibia in a snowboarding accident are indicative of the impact he has on the sport.
The percentage of television viewers dropped by 12.2% at Las Vegas, 15.1% at Phoenix, 14.5% at Atlanta, 16.1% at Austin, 41.8% at Richmond and 13.9% at Bristol compared to last year’s numbers, according to sportnaut.com. About 3.45 million people tuned into this year’s spring race at Bristol Motor Speedway, down from slightly more than 4 million viewers in 2022.
“It impacts our TV ratings, I know that for sure,” No. 4 Ford driver Kevin Harvick said of Elliott’s absence. “There are more people who want to watch when Chase Elliott is here. And I think we’re all thankful he’s back.
“Whether you like somebody, don’t like somebody, get along with somebody or don’t, everybody has a piece of the puzzle that they fall into. And Chase, for us, is our biggest star and he’s the guy who needs to be here every week for it all to make sense currently.”
That’s why NASCAR went to great lengths last week to promote Elliott’s return to the track. quickly putting together a commercial after he announced last Wednesday he would race at Martinsville.
“Obviously he’s the most popular driver. I mean you didn’t see me get a TV commercial when I came back,” quipped Alex Bowman, driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet.
The TV ratings for the Martinsville race haven’t been announced, but several drivers said there was a noticeable uptick in the excitement level at the half-mile, paperclip-shaped course with Elliott’s return.
Elliott received the loudest ovation during introductions.
And while he wasn’t much of a factor in the race, finishing in 10th place after a late-race push, it was clear he was thrilled to be back in his comfort zone after watching the last six weeks as a spectator.
“Really nice to be back and appreciate the warm welcome this weekend by everybody, so I appreciate that,” Elliott said. “It definitely didn’t go unnoticed.”
Now the big question becomes if Elliott can race his way into the playoffs — something that NASCAR frankly needs to keep drawing fans. He has plenty of chances left, including this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, where he won last fall.
He was encouraged by his ability to complete the 400-lap race on a surgically-repaired left leg that now has multiple screws holding it together. He views that as a positive sign moving forward.
“Yeah, it was pretty good, honestly,” Elliott said. “It was about what I expected, so that’s a good thing. It was warm. I’ve been sitting on the couch for six weeks, so I think that probably hurt me more than anything.”
Teammate Kyle Larson, who won his first race at Martinsville on Sunday, was thrilled to have Elliott back. He believes it will help the entire Hendrick Motorsports team.
“He is very good at feeling his car, and I feel like he is pretty confident and usually the majority of the time right about the changes,” Larson said. “I think when he can explain his car and say, ‘hey, this was better for us,’ the crew chiefs on the other teams can really look at that change and look at how it might work on our cars and apply it to it. So, he is definitely an asset for sure.
“He is one of the best drivers in the sport.”
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AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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2023-04-18T18:07:02+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/nascar-drivers-know-everyone-wins-when-elliott-is-racing/
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NEW YORK (AP) — The statistics discussed at the inaugural Global Citizen NOW conference were bleak.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed 100 million people back into lives of extreme poverty. Up to 243 million people could face food insecurity between now and November due to the war in Ukraine. In Afghanistan, 24 million people depend on charitable donations for food.
Yet Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans says he feels optimistic: The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the world can unite to fight a crisis when it needs to.
Evans and the dozens of speakers from the worlds of business, politics, culture and philanthropy gathered for the two-day summit in New York that concluded Monday expressed hope that same united effort can be applied to help curb climate change, food insecurity and extreme poverty.
“During the pandemic, the world was able to mobilize $17 trillion in economic stimulus, largely for hard-hit sectors of the economy, which I think was the right thing to do,” Evans told The Associated Press. “Why do we not respond with the same degree of urgency to climate change? Because we don’t internalize this idea of (helping) now. We think ‘acceptable loss.’”
The Global Citizen NOW summit was organized to bring leaders together to change “acceptable loss” to “action now.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told “Friday Night Lights” actress Connie Britton about the importance of getting people to work together. “They know where there can be common ground,” she said of Global Citizen. “It’s a place where we laugh together, cry together, are inspired together, dance together — you can never do too much dancing, I always say — and forget our differences.”
Feminist activist Gloria Steinem said she worries about the suffering that could come from the Supreme Court’s overturning of its Roe v. Wade decision, but she is hopeful because she knows that the situation will not be as bad as when abortion was illegal throughout the country. “Obedience cannot be secured by unjust laws because people just don’t obey them,” she said.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said that a bipartisan consensus on climate change can be built by creating a policy that meets national security, energy and economic priorities. “You get bipartisan agreement by creating an understanding where all understand the connection to what they hold most important,” he said.
Many panelists discussed the Global Citizen idea of creating change from the bottom up, by mobilizing millions of its followers to convince their political and business leaders to change their minds.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario explained how her series about maternal mortality in Sierra Leone convinced Merck to donate $500 million to establish the Merck for Mothers initiative to reduce the risks of childbirth.
CNN political commentator Van Jones said “the genius of Global Citizen” is bringing hopeful, hard-working people together to discuss victories and future challenges.
“I think the world is running at a hope deficit,” Jones told The Associated Press. “I live in the world of bad news and this is like a supernova of good news.”
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Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits 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. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.
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2022-05-24T19:17:59+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/global-citizen-now-summit-seeks-solutions-for-global-issues/
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Voters in four states on Tuesday will determine their party’s nominees for the statewide office that typically oversees elections.
Much of the attention will center on Wisconsin, where the secretary of state does not have any role with elections. Republicans want to change that should they win the office in November. Primaries are also being held in Minnesota, Connecticut and Vermont.
In Wisconsin, all three GOP candidates on Tuesday’s ballot have echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims that fraud cost him the 2020 election and have called for the dismantling of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, an agency established just six years ago by Republican lawmakers with bipartisan support.
The Republican candidates have all sharply criticized decisions made by the commission heading into the 2020 election, when the COVID-19 pandemic brought major challenges to running elections, and say they would rather empower the secretary of the state so voters can hold someone accountable for election-related decisions.
To accomplish their goal, Republicans also would need to defeat Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who would block such a move, in November.
The Republicans vying for the nomination in Wisconsin are state Rep. Amy Loudenbeck, businessman Jay Schroeder and Justin Schmidtka, who hosts a political podcast.
On the Democratic side, longtime Secretary of State Doug La Follette faces challenger Alexia Sabor, who is the chair of the Dane County Democratic Party Executive Board. La Follette, 81, was first elected to the position in 1974.
La Follette has said he decided to run again to stop Republicans from meddling with elections, citing Trump’s call to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, after the 2020 election asking him to “find” enough votes to overturn Biden’s win in the state.
This year, races for secretary of state have drawn tremendous interest and money largely because of the 2020 election, when voting systems and processes came under attack by Trump and his supporters. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation of voting systems occurring in the 2020 election.
In Minnesota, the leading Republican candidate has called the 2020 election “rigged” and has faced criticism for a video attacking three prominent Jewish Democrats, including the current secretary of state, Democrat Steve Simon, who is seeking reelection.
Kim Crockett has also called the 2020 election a “train wreck” and accused state election officials of using the pandemic as “cover to change how we vote, but also how the vote is counted.”
In their respective primaries, Crockett and Simon face lesser-known opponents — Republican Erik van Mechelen and Steve Carlson, a perennial candidate running as a Democrat.
Races in Connecticut and Vermont are noteworthy because it’s the first time in more than a decade that the seats have been open. Both longtime Democratic secretaries of state opted not to seek reelection this year.
Connecticut GOP candidate Dominic Rapini, who is a former board chairman of a group called Fight Voter Fraud Inc., has called for tightening ID requirements and cleaning the state’s voter rolls. Rapini faces state Rep. Terrie Wood, R-Darien, who has also called for tighter voter ID rules and cleaning voter lists.
On the Democratic side, state Rep. Stephanie Thomas of Norwalk, who won the party’s endorsement at the state convention this spring, faces Maritza Bond, health director for the city of New Haven.
In Vermont, the Democratic primary has drawn the most interest. The candidates are Deputy Secretary of State Chris Winters, state Rep. Sarah Copeland Hanzas, and Montpelier City Clerk John Odum.
A perennial candidate for office, H. Brooke Paige, is the lone person running in the GOP primary. He also appears on the ballot for three other statewide offices.
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Cassidy reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Todd Richmond in Madison, Wisconsin; Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis; Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut; and Wilson Ring in Montpelier, Vermont, contributed to this report.
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2022-08-09T14:05:23+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/politics/voters-in-4-states-to-decide-secretary-of-state-nominees/
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