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Take our new poll Oct 26, 2022 3 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The City of Lawton has suggested building a new LATS transfer center in the W. Gore median between NW 3rd Street and NW 6th Street.Do you think this is a good choice?Do you think this is a poor choice?To take the poll, visit our website at swoknews.com Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags The City Lawton Poll Internet Lat Nw Website Transfer Recommended for you Online Poll The City of Lawton has suggested building a new LATS transfer center in the W. Gore median between NW 3rd Street and NW 6th Street. You voted: Do you think this is a good choice? Do you think this is a poor choice? Vote View Results Back Sign Up For Newsletters Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Obituaries Receive the most recent obituaries from The Lawton Constitution every Morning in you E-mail. Signup today! Headlines / e-Edition Would you like to receive our daily news from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Sports Headlines Would you like to receive our daily sports from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Breaking News Get the latest breaking news from The Lawton Constitution. Sign up today! You must select at least one email list. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists
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2022-10-26T10:00:14+00:00
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Warming up next couple of days before storms arrive on Friday
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - After a mainly cloudy day on Tuesday that helped to keep temperatures down a bit, bright sunshine today will allow for a significant warm-up as highs climb into the mid 80s. It will be breezy at times, with southeast winds running 10-15 miles per hour.
Friday Storms
Thursday stays warm and dry as we await the arrival of our next storm system. By Friday, widespread showers and t-storms are expected in advance of a cold front. The rains could get an early start, with the potential for more than one round of showers and t-storms during the day.
The Storm Prediction Center continues to highlight the potential for a few strong to severe storms, posting a Level 1/5 (marginal) risk of severe weather area-wide, with a Level 2/5 (slight) risk noted to our west.
The Weather Prediction Center (WPC) is also highlighting the potential for locally heavy rainfall, expanding the Level 2/4 (slight) risk of flooding to include most of the WAFB viewing area. WPC shows rain totals averaging 1″-2″ for most, which would be manageable, but locally higher totals are possible.
Looking Better for the Weekend
Rains will likely come to an end before daybreak on Saturday with the passage of a cold front. In the wake of that front, the stage should be set for a nice, albeit cooler, weekend. Highs will top out in the low to mid 70s on both days, with lows dipping into the upper 40s by Sunday. It looks as though we should stay dry through the weekend.
Extended Outlook
Weather starts out quiet next week, with temperatures a little below-normal, but scattered showers and t-storms are expected to return by the mid part of the week. Temperatures will moderate a bit, but overall look to run near-normal through the second half of the week.
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2023-04-19T10:39:05+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/2023/04/19/warming-up-next-couple-days-before-storms-arrive-friday/
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LaGRANGE, Ohio — Softball coaches had until noon Saturday to file their votes for the OHSAA district tournaments.
Around that time, Brecksville-Broadview Heights began to make one of — if not the — biggest statement of its season with a 7-1 win vs. state-ranked North Ridgeville at the Prebis Memorial Invitational.
At least when Division I teams pick their spots on the brackets during Sunday’s draw, they have further reason to avoid the Bees (19-2).
Coming into this week, North Ridgeville (16-2) owned the No. 5 ranking in the coaches’ state poll for Division I. Brecksville made its case for a top 10 billing ahead of the postseason.
Kentucky recruit Chelsea Mack and junior Kaleigh Urbanowicz each scored twice atop the batting order. Sophomore Anna Wise struck out seven with a rugged effort from junior catcher Brooklyn Kimball, and Toledo recruit Grace O’Malley drove in three runs to lead the Bees.
“It established a lot of confidence into our girls that we can come into this big tournament and see teams like Ridgeville, South Range, Walsh and Keystone,” O’Malley said. “They belong here, and we belong here.”
Brecksville left LaGrange Community Stadium taking all three of its games and now is riding a 17-game winning streak. The performance, which included a 14-2 victory Friday against Mount Vernon and 4-2 win Saturday morning vs. Canfield South Range, even impressed coach Rex Mack.
“This is just such a good test every year,” he said. “It feels good. They played well together, and I don’t often say we played well.”
Mack and his players knew their final matchup vs. North Ridgeville could be their biggest of the weekend. They prepared for it by pitching Wise sparingly Friday vs. Mount Vernon and resting her against South Range, allowing Emma Cozza to eat up most of the innings in that one.
Against the Rangers in the afternoon, Chelsea Mack and Urbanowicz opened with singles off pitcher Katie Barnhart. Mack stole home on a passed ball, while Wise and Stephanie Myers drove in he next two runs. Brecksville added two more runs in the second inning for a 5-0 lead on Barnhart, an Ohio Dominican commit who played strong in the Rangers’ other two wins of the weekend.
“I always have a little trouble off her, but she’s a great pitcher,” said Mack, who once played 10-and-under travel ball with Barnhart.
To start this spring, Brecksville scrimmaged North Ridgeville. Mack and O’Malley said having faced Barnhart and not Autumn Behlke — the Rangers’ other ace and a Youngstown State commit — helped them in this matchup.
“We kind of knew coming in that it was that outside pitch,” Mack said, “and it really helped us.”
Behlke pitched North Ridgeville’s 4-2 win later in the day against Mount Vernon. The Rangers also beat Canfield South Range, 3-0, to win two of three, while Walsh Jesuit — like the Bees — swept the weekend with three wins.
“It was a great weekend for us,” said Walsh Jesuit coach Tony Scibelli, whose team opened with a 10-3 win Friday against defending OHSAA Division II state champion Keystone.
The Warriors came back Saturday for wins of 12-1 vs. defending Division I state champion Massillon Perry and 11-7 against Perry from Lake County. They pitched freshman McKayla McGee in the 11-7 win, giving her time in place of standout sophomore Natalie Susa, who had 13 strikeouts against Keystone.
“That last game, we faced some adversity and worked through it,” Scibelli said. “McKayla, who has not gotten a lot of pitching, fought through seven innings for us.”
Walsh Jesuit and Brecksville could meet this postseason. Their paths will begin to unfold Sunday, starting with the tournament draw.
Check back Sunday for more on the Prebis Invitational, including takeaways and video features on Brecksville, North Ridgeville, Keystone, Elyria Catholic and Walsh Jesuit. Contact sports reporter Matt Goul on Twitter (@mgoul) or email (mgoul@cleveland.com).
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2022-05-01T00:47:22+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/highschoolsports/2022/04/brecksville-tops-north-ridgeville-7-1-for-signature-softball-win-at-prebis-memorial-invitational.html
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Max Stock Limited (TASE: MAXO); (the "Company", "Max Stock") announced holdings of interested parties and senior officers as of December 31, 2022
Published: Jan. 6, 2023 at 1:32 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
CAESAREA, Israel, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
A. Corporation's interested parties (including the CEO and directors, and including any other employee holding 5% or more of the corporation's issued share capital or voting rights):
B. Corporation's senior officers (excluding the CEO and directors, and excluding any other employee holding 5% or more of the corporation's issued share capital or voting rights):
Presented below is a summary table of the holdings of the corporation's senior officers:
The summary table below includes an overview of interested party holdings which were subject to a change in the reporting period:
(*) As notified to the Company by the interested party or to the best of the Company's knowledge.
(**) For a detailed description of which corporate entities are included as part of the interested party's reported holdings – please see the full text of the report dated January 5, 2023 published on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange distribution website (MAYA).
This is an English translation of excerpts of a Hebrew immediate report that was published on January 5, 2023 (Ref. No: 2023-01-003283 (hereinafter: the "Hebrew Version")). This English version is only for convenience purposes. This is not an official translation and has no binding force. Whilst reasonable care and skill have been exercised in the preparation hereof, no translation can ever perfectly reflect the Hebrew Version. In the event of any discrepancy between the Hebrew Version and this translation, the Hebrew Version shall prevail.
About Max Stock
Max Stock (TASE: MAXO) is Israel's leading extreme value retailer, currently present in 56 locations throughout Israel. We offer a broad assortment of quality products for customers' everyday needs at affordable prices, helping customers 'Dream Big, Pay Small'. For more information, please visit https://ir.maxstock.co.il
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2023-01-06T08:49:23+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/01/06/max-stock-limited-tase-maxo-company-max-stock-announced-holdings-interested-parties-senior-officers-december-31-2022/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s behavior toward women, long a source of flashpoints in his political career, now faces a new level of scrutiny: a trial in a lawsuit accusing him of rape.
Jury selection is set to start Tuesday in the case filed by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped her in a luxury New York department store dressing room in the 1990s.
Trump, who is unlikely to attend the trial, has called the accusations “a complete con job.” Carroll, who is seeking unspecified damages, casts the case as a #MeToo-inspired quest for accountability from the epitome of prominent men.
“I’m filing this lawsuit not just for myself but for every woman in America who has been grabbed, groped, harassed, sexually assaulted and has spoken up and still has been disgraced, shamed or fired,” Carroll said early on.
The lawsuit is putting Trump’s history with women under a microscope as he runs to return to the White House. But if a trial over a rape accusation would be a crisis for most candidates, with Trump, it remains to be seen.
“To the extent that the chaos around Trump is his biggest challenge, this reinforces that narrative,” said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist who worked on Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign. “The No. 1 thing I hear in focus groups of Republican voters is that they’re tired of the constant drama that comes with Trump.”
Trump’s political rise was riddled with criticism of his attitudes and conduct toward women. There were his insulting remarks about onetime Republican rival Carly Fiorina’s appearance, his misogynistic comments about former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, his double-down on denigrating a former Miss Universe whom he had pilloried about her weight and more — including, most notoriously, the crass “Access Hollywood” hot-mic recording that nearly derailed his 2016 campaign and elicited rare contrition for what he called “locker room banter.”
Then there were the dozen-plus women, including Carroll, who came forward during his campaign and presidency to accuse him of sexual assault and harassment. He denied all the claims. Other lawsuits over them were dropped or dismissed, but Carroll’s has endured.
If Trump prevails in the case, he will likely tout it as another example of him beating what he sees as spurious claims about him, Conant said. If Trump loses, the impact could depend on the circumstances of the judgment. Carroll is seeking unspecified damages and a retraction of Trump’s denials of her allegations.
Trump has aimed to use his other legal troubles — including a recent, unrelated indictment and ongoing investigations into other matters — to bolster his support among fellow Republicans, painting the various probes as a politically motivated “witch hunt” and a broad attempt to “interfere” with the 2024 election. It’s unclear whether the voters he seeks to reach will sympathize with his portrayal of Carroll’s lawsuit as a pile-on, see it as a growing distraction or ignore it altogether.
His campaign saw a spike in donations after his indictment, which accuses him of fudging his company’s records to try to conceal payments made to suppress stories about his alleged marital infidelity; he denies the charges and the sexual encounters.
His favorability ratings have held steady at 34% among U.S. adults overall and 68% among Republicans, according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Beyond its political ramifications, the trial marks a #MeToo milestone, even after closely watched civil and criminal cases against disgraced movie honcho Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men. The case also is drawing national attention to a New York law that allows for lawsuits over decades-old sex crime claims.
The time frame for pursuing criminal charges over the allegations, which Carroll never reported to police, has long since passed. If she prevails in the lawsuit, it could cost Trump money but not his freedom.
A former magazine journalist, talk show host and “Saturday Night Live” writer, Carroll was best known — at least until her lawsuit — for the eponymous advice column she wrote for Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019.
According to Carroll, she crossed paths with Trump at Bergdorf Goodman sometime in 1995 or 1996, when he was a real estate mogul and man about town. Recognizing her as “that advice lady,” he asked her to help him browse for a women’s gift, bantered with Carroll about a bodysuit and steered her to a fitting room, she says. Then, in her telling, he suddenly forced himself on her while she tried to push him off.
“That rape changed my life, which is shocking for me to now understand,” she said in a deposition, a legal term for pretrial questioning under oath.
According to Carroll, she immediately lost interest in dating and desire, then lost her job after she told her story in a 2019 memoir and Trump responded that she was “totally lying.” Elle has said her contract wasn’t renewed for unrelated reasons.
Trump says he never encountered Carroll at Bergdorf Goodman and had no idea who she was when she publicly accused him. He has asserted that she invented the story to sell her book.
“It’s a false accusation. Never happened, never would happen,” he said during a caustic 5 1/2-hour deposition, which can be played for jurors.
In snippets released to date, he called Carroll a “nut job,” her attorney “a disgrace” and the case “a big, fat hoax.” He reiterated his description of Carroll as “not my type” — and misidentified her in a 1987 photo as Marla Maples, his wife from 1993 to 1999.
Besides Carroll, two Trump accusers who never sued are set to testify in Carroll’s case.
Jessica Leeds has said Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt when they were seatmates on a flight three decades ago. People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff has said Trump forcibly kissed her against her will while showing her around his Florida home for a 2005 article.
Jurors also are expected to hear the “Access Hollywood” recording.
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly.
The trial will unfold at a federal courthouse a block from the state court where Trump was arraigned earlier this month on his indictment.
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Associated Press writer Michelle Price contributed to this report.
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2023-04-23T11:23:02+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/rape-lawsuit-trial-puts-spotlight-back-on-trump-and-women/
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School district bans all backpacks, including clear ones, for rest of 2023
Published: May. 2, 2023 at 4:20 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
FLINT, Mich. (CNN) – Starting Monday, public school students in Flint, Michigan can no longer bring backpacks to class, including those made of clear plastic material.
The Flint Community Schools Board of Education voted to ban backpacks for the rest of the school year.
The move is designed to keep weapons from being brought on to school campuses.
The backpack ban includes every grade level in every school.
Small purses and lunch bags are allowed but will be subject to searches.
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2023-05-02T22:29:01+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2023/05/02/school-district-bans-all-backpacks-including-clear-ones-rest-2023/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence waned this month as concerns about inflation took hold after receding somewhat in recent months.
The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 102.5 in October, from 107.8 in September. Consumers had grown more confident in the two previous months as rising gas prices moderated slightly even as the costs for other essential items remained elevated.
The business research group’s present situation index — which measures consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions — fell sharply to 138.9 from 150.2 in September.
The board’s expectations index — a measure of consumers’ six-month outlook for income, business and labor conditions —- dipped to 78.1 from 79.5 last month.
Lynn Franco, the Conference Board’s senior director of economic indicators, said a reading below 80 for the expectations index is a level associated with recession, suggesting that risk appears to be gaining momentum.
The government reported recently that inflation in the United States accelerated in September, with the cost of housing and other necessities intensifying pressure on families, wiping out pay gains and all but ensuring that the Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates aggressively.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curb inflation that has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities.
In late September, the Fed boosted its benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since early 2008. It was the central bank’s third straight three-quarter point increase and most economists and analysts expect more increases before the year ends, including another potential 0.75 percentage point increase when the Fed meets next week.
Franco said that inflationary pressures will continue to be a drag on confidence and spending “which could result in a challenging holiday season for retailers.”
Earlier this month, the government reported that the pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August. Rising rents and food prices chipped away at money Americans were willing to spend elsewhere.
Despite the downturn in overall confidence, Franco noted that consumers’ intentions to buy big-ticket items — major appliances and cars — rose slightly this month.
General Motors reported Tuesday that its third-quarter net profit rose 36.7% on strong sales.
Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said the company isn’t seeing any sign that demand for new vehicles is slowing despite higher interest rates and inflation. “Pricing remains strong, demand remains strong for our products,” he told reporters early Tuesday.
The Conference Board also noted that intentions to buy homes also ticked up this month. That’s a somewhat surprising development as sales of existing homes have fallen for eight straight months with long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbing near 7% last week.
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2022-10-26T11:40:58+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/business/ap-business/ap-american-consumer-confidence-takes-a-hit-in-october/
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House consideration of the annual defense authorization bill is likely to be kicked into next week as House Republicans battle over which controversial amendments will get votes on the floor.
The extended timeline is just the latest reflection of the challenges facing Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and GOP leaders as they race to iron out internal differences and unite as a party to pass their top policy priorities with a pencil-thin majority in the lower chamber.
Up to now, the focus of the divisions has been on issues related to spending, as members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus have jousted with more moderate Republicans over the size and scope of the federal government.
The current fight involves the same players but different concerns, focused on culture war issues like abortion and “wokeness,” which have split the ideological wings of the conference and extended the debate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which GOP leaders had hoped to pass this week.
Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), two hard-line conservatives who also sit on the House Rules Committee, each said Wednesday that they do not expect final passage of the defense bill this week.
“We’re not gonna get the NDAA wrapped up I don’t think by like Friday, right,” Roy said. “So the point is we got to work through this and figure out whether we can get agreement and everything, you know, in the rule and everything here in the next couple days.”
“I would put the odds, if I had to bet on this I’d say it’d be next week,” Norman — a self-proclaimed “betting man” — echoed regarding final passage of the defense bill.
Passage of the annual NDAA has historically been a routine, if tedious, process — one that invites plenty of debate and amendments, but also widespread bipartisan support in a Congress where the military is largely revered.
But the arrival of new Pentagon policies under the Biden administration — which have touched on social issues like climate, LGBT rights and abortion — combined with the ongoing battle between McCarthy and his conservative critics have altered the dynamics of this year’s debate.
“Abortion, transgender, DEI, climate change … All that stuff, social engineering stuff, needs to be addressed,” Roy said. “There are amendments to address it. The question is, when will they be voted on, how will they be voted on. And then, you know, thirdly is Ukraine. That’s a whole other issue.”
The fight has defense hawks worried.
“A small group of people isn’t just saying ‘we want to vote on things that we care about.’ They want to say, ‘If we don’t get what we want, we’ll tear the whole thing down,’” said Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee.
Pressed by a reporter on whether he was concerned about the bill passing, he responded, “Absolutely, I think it’s more likely than not right now that it won’t pass.”
The committee-passed version of the NDAA, which moved through the Armed Services Committee by a 58-to-1 vote in June, already bans drag shows and any training that promotes critical race theory.
But it does not reverse a Pentagon policy to reimburse service members for travel expenses if they get abortions, a major concern for some conservatives. Others want to go further to gut diversity and inclusion programs, and Ukraine is another massive target for the hard-liners.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), for instance, is pushing an amendment to eliminate $300 million in new Ukraine funding, which is provided in the committee-passed bill. She called Ukraine funding a “red line,” and warned that if her proposal does not receive a separate vote she might vote against the procedural rule to allow consideration of the bill.
Conservatives used the tactical move of voting against rules to grind floor action to a halt last month. While they ultimately relented, they also hinted they could use the tactic again if McCarthy crossed them.
Greene has also introduced several other amendments that include blocking the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
Also complicating the timeline has been the sheer volume of proposed amendments. Lawmakers in both parties have submitted more than 1,500 amendments to the bill in the House Rules Committee — a massive number for the panel’s members to sort through to weed out redundancies, verify relevance to issues of defense and more generally seek ways to expedite the process.
The Rules Committee Tuesday made an unusual procedural move to allow floor consideration for nearly 300 noncontroversial amendments while Republicans hash out remaining issues on more touchy provisions. A bulk of those passed Wednesday by voice vote.
But the committee will have to meet again to craft another rule that decides which controversial amendments will get votes, and to allow the bill to move to final passage.
The trouble for House GOP leaders as they negotiate amendments is that they are likely to need Democratic support to pass the NDAA, given the party’s slim majority and history of many members voting against the NDAA in the past.
If approved, the hot-button conservative amendments could be poison pills for the bill.
“If some of those amendments pass, I think all Democrats will oppose it,” Smith said.
But House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) downplayed the difficulties of passing an NDAA with any of those amendments approved.
“If [an amendment] passes with Republican votes, if it becomes part of the NDAA, we’re gonna pass it with 218. That is our goal,” Emmer said.
Smith is also not thrilled about the prospect of delays.
“The longer you delay the tougher it is to pass it,” Smith said.
But conservatives welcome the delay.
“The NDAA doesn’t have to pass this week. Why are we rushing through this?” said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), chairman of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus. “I’d like to see it be right and righteous.”
McCarthy said Tuesday that he had not put a timeline on the NDAA’s passage.
“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. We want to finish right,” McCarthy said.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) similarly downplayed the prospect of extended NDAA consideration.
“If we can finish it all this week, we will. And if it takes more time, we’ll take it right,” Scalise said Wednesday during a press conference. “The most important thing is that we get the policy right.”
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2023-07-13T01:02:06+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/house-gop-battles-stretch-out-consideration-of-defense-bill/
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BERWYN, Pa., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (NYSE: ANVS) Annovis Bio ("Annovis" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage drug platform company addressing neurodegenerative diseases, announced today the publication of three granted US patents – US11400075 (link), US11376238 (link), and US11382893 (link). The patents cover methods of treating amyloid lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's disease, and prion diseases by administering buntanetap. They will provide intellectual property protection through 2031, prior to any patent extensions.
The patents strengthen and expand the Company's intellectual property portfolio. The Company now has issued patents covering a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), alpha-synucleopathies, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), tauopathies, such as frontotemporal dementia (FTD), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and acute injuries such as stroke and traumatic brain injury.
"These additional patents represent further proof for our platform drug, buntanetap, which acts on a variety of neurodegenerative disorders by inhibiting multiple neurotoxic proteins," said Maria L. Maccecchini, Ph.D., Founder, President, and CEO of Annovis.
Summary of key coverage:
- A method of treating amyloid lateral sclerosis, a rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder, by administering buntanetap and inhibiting the synthesis of superoxide dismutase protein1 and TDP43.
- A method of treating Huntington's disease, a rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder, by administering buntanetap and inhibiting the synthesis of Huntingtin protein.
- A method of treating prion diseases, a family of ultra-rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders, by administering buntanetap. There is additional coverage of particular Prion diseases, including scrapie prion, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME), chronic wasting disease (CWD), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) prion, feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE), exotic ungulate encephalopathy (EUE), kuru prion, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD, nvCJD), Gerst-mann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), and fatal familial insomnia (FFI) prion.
Buntanetap (previously known as ANVS401 or Posiphen) is an oral translational inhibitor of neurotoxic aggregating proteins (TINAPs), which mode of action leads to a lower level of neurotoxic proteins and consequently less toxicity in the brain. In a Phase 2a clinical trial in AD and PD patients, buntanetap was shown to be well-tolerated and safe, and its pharmacokinetics were found to be in line with levels measured earlier in humans, meeting both the primary and secondary endpoints. Additionally, exploratory endpoints were also met, as treatment with buntanetap resulted in statistically significant improvement in motor function in PD patients and cognition in AD patients. Presently buntanetap is being studied in a phase 3 early PD study and will enter a phase 2/3 study in AD patients later in the year.
Headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Annovis Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage, drug platform company developing transformative therapies that treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other chronic and acute neurodegenerative diseases. The Company believes that it is the only company developing a drug that inhibits more than one neurotoxic protein, improves the information highway of the nerve cell, known as axonal transport, reduces inflammation and protects nerve cells from dying in chronic and acute neurodegeneration. Annovis conducted two Phase 2 studies: one in AD patients and one in both AD and PD patients. In the AD/PD study, buntanetap showed improvements in cognition and memory in AD as well as body and brain function in PD patients.
For more information on Annovis Bio, please visit the Company's website www.annovisbio.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Statements in this press release contain "forward-looking statements" that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "estimate," "project," "outlook," "forecast" or other similar words, and include, without limitation, statements regarding the timing, effectiveness, and anticipated results of buntanetap clinical trials. Forward-looking statements are based on Annovis Bio, Inc.'s current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the section titled "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and Annovis Bio, Inc. undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.
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2022-09-13T12:08:01+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/09/13/annovis-bio-announces-publication-patents-covering-treatment-amyloid-lateral-sclerosis-huntingtons-disease-prion-diseases/
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When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school prayer meeting in 1997, school shootings were not yet a part of the national consciousness. The carnage that left three students dead and five more injured at Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky, ended when Carneal put down his weapon and the principal walked him to the school office — a scene that seems unimaginable today.
Also stretching today’s imagination — Carneal’s life sentence guaranteed an opportunity for parole after 25 years, the maximum sentence permissible at the time given his age.
A quarter century later, Carneal is 39 with a parole hearing next week that comes at a very different time in American life — after Sandy Hook, after Uvalde. Today police officers and metal detectors are an accepted presence in many schools, and even kindergartners are drilled to prepare for active shooters.
“Twenty-five years seemed like so long, so far away,” Missy Jenkins Smith recalls thinking at the time of the sentencing. Jenkins Smith was 15 when she was shot by Carneal, someone she considered a friend. The bullet left her paralyzed, and she uses a wheelchair to get around. Over the years, she has counted down the time until Carneal would be eligible for parole.
“I would think, ‘It’s been 10 years. How many more years?’ At the 20-year anniversary memorial, I thought, ‘It’s coming up.’”
Ron Avi Astor, a professor of social welfare and education at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied school violence, said public opinion around school shootings and juvenile punishment has changed a lot over the last 25 years. In the 1980s and 1990s, Astor provided therapy to children who had committed very serious crimes, including murder, but were rehabilitated and not jailed.
“Today all of them would have been locked up,” he said. “But the majority went on to do good things.”
Jenkins Smith knows first-hand that troubled children can be helped. She worked for years as a counselor for at-risk youth, where her wheelchair served as a stark visual reminder of what violence can do, she said.
“Kids who would threaten school shootings, terroristic threatening, were sent to me,” she said. Some are now adults. “It’s great to see what they’ve accomplished and how they’ve changed their lives around. They’ve learned from their bad decisions.”
But that doesn’t mean she thinks Carneal should be set free. For one thing, she worries that he is not equipped to handle life outside of prison and could still harm others. She also doesn’t think it would be right for him to walk free when the people he injured are still suffering.
“For him to have a chance at 39. People get married at 39. They have children,” she said. “It’s not right for him to possibly have a normal life that those three girls he killed will never have.”
Killed in the shooting were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger.
Astor said that when it comes to the worst crimes, like many people, he struggles with the question of what age children should be held strictly accountable for their actions. As a class exercise, he has his students consider the appropriate punishment for a perpetrator at different ages. Should a 16-year-old be treated the same as a 12-year-old? Should a 12-year-old be treated the same as a 40-year-old?
Without any national consensus, you end up with a patchwork of laws and policies that sometimes result in very different punishments for nearly identical crimes, he said.
The shooting at Heath High School took place on Dec. 1, 1997, the Monday after Thanksgiving break. Less than four months later, 11-year-old Andrew Golden and 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four classmates and a teacher at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Arkansas. They wounded another nine children and one adult. The pair were tried as juveniles and released on their 21st birthdays.
Two decades later, in 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At the same time Carneal is being considered for possible release, a Florida juryis decidingwhether to sentence Cruz to death.
Jenkins Smith has tried for years to understand why Carneal opened fire on his fellow students that day. She was in the marching band with Carneal, and, before the shooting, “I loved being around him because he made a boring day fun,” she said.
She met with Carneal in prison in 2007 and had a long conversation with him. He apologized to her, and she said she has forgiven him.
“A lot of people think that exonerates him from consequences, but I don’t think so,” she said.
Carneal’s parole hearing is scheduled to start on Monday with testimony from those injured in the shooting and close relatives of those who were killed. Jenkins Smith said she knows of only one victim who supports some form of supervised release for Carneal — less confining than prison but not unrestricted freedom. On Tuesday, Carneal will make his case from the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange. If the board rules against release, they can decide how long Carneal should wait before his next opportunity for parole.
The parole hearing will be conducted by videoconference, but Jenkins Smith said she will position her camera to show her full body so the parole board can see her wheelchair. It will be, she said, “a reminder that everyone who experienced that impact 25 years ago is still dealing with it, for the rest of their lives.”
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News Researcher Jennifer Farrar contributed to this report from New York City.
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Oklahoma's abortion ban driving thousands of state women to Kansas, Colorado
More than 2,100 Oklahoma women received abortion services in Kansas and Colorado last year after Oklahoma banned nearly all abortions, according to new state reports that provide a look at the impact of patchwork abortion laws.
A new report from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment shows that 2,026 Oklahoma residents received an abortion in that state in 2022, up from 137 in 2021. In Colorado, 198 Oklahomans received abortions last year, up from 12 in 2021, according to that state’s Department of Public Health and Environment.
The two states are among only three in Oklahoma’s region where women can get an abortion; New Mexico is the other, but 2022 statistics are not available.
The numbers reflect only about seven months in which Oklahoma women seeking to terminate a pregnancy were not allowed to do so in their home state. If the patterns of 2022 repeat this year, Kansas and Colorado would be likely to report higher numbers of Oklahoma women receiving abortion services.
Reported abortions in Oklahoma drop to zero after Gov. Stitt signs bill modeled after Texas
No abortions were reported in Oklahoma after May 2022, when Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law that allowed people to file civil claims against anyone who helped a woman obtain an abortion. The law was based on a similar one approved months earlier in Texas.
The law in Texas drove many women from that state to Oklahoma before Oklahoma legislators copied the legislation. Up until Stitt signed that law, there had been 2,160 abortions in Oklahoma, with more than half provided for residents of Texas, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
The rush of Texan women to Oklahoma because of the civil law was an early glimpse of what would happen nationally after June 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its abortion rights precedents and left it up to states to write their own abortion laws.
As most abortions were banned in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri, women went to Kansas and Colorado. Kansas reported 12,318 abortions in 2022, up from 7,849 in 2021. Nearly 3,000 Texas women received abortions in Kansas last year, up from 233 the year before, according to Kansas statistics. Colorado reported a total of 14,154 abortions in 2022, up from 11,580 in 2021.
More:Oklahoma lawmakers pass nation's most restrictive abortion law
Reports from the Oklahoma Health Department show there were 4,145 abortions for Oklahoma residents in 2021 and 4,177 in 2020. Last year, there were 898 for Oklahoma residents before the Texas-style law went into effect.
The Oklahoma Legislature and the governor also approved criminal laws that were triggered when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
“In the year after Oklahoma passed the first total abortion ban since Roe, we have worked to help patients overcome unbelievable barriers to care,” Anamarie Rebori Simmons, director of communications and marketing for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said last week.
“During that time, we’ve expanded our patient navigation services with the generous help of supporters and the critical network of local abortions funds. We continue to provide Oklahomans assistance with travel, lodging and the cost of care, knowing that those hurdles are overwhelming for many of the people we serve. Patients deserve local care in their communities, but while that’s not available, we’re committed to helping them get to states like Kansas, where they have rights to make their own health care decisions.”
Tony Lauinger, chairman of Oklahomans for Life, said he wasn’t surprised at the statistics from Kansas and Colorado regarding abortion services provided for Oklahoma residents.
“The abortion industry is doing everything they can to facilitate out-of-state abortions … through their offers to help with travel and hotel rooms,” Lauinger said. “They go to the hilt to try to facilitate the killing of unborn children. Our hope is that there will be many unborn children who will be born in Oklahoma this year instead of being aborted. It’s the case where not all unborn children’s lives will be saved, but we hope a lot of them will.”
Rights and restrictions
Kansas voters last year effectively upheld their state constitution’s guarantee of bodily autonomy, including abortion.
This year, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down the state’s new criminal and civil laws after finding that the state constitution includes “an inherent right of a pregnant woman to terminate a pregnancy when necessary to save her life."
The laws required a “medical emergency” for an abortion to save a woman’s life, something the court said was not required under the state constitution.
More:Oklahoma Supreme Court strikes down two state abortion bans
The court left in place a law from 1910 that bans most abortions unless “necessary to preserve” a mother’s life. The court took no position on the broader question of whether there is a right to elective abortion.
Lauinger said he and others opposed to abortion are concerned that an initiative petition drive may be launched in Oklahoma to guarantee a broader state constitutional right to abortion. Such a drive might be supported by the fact that an overwhelming majority of Oklahomans don’t favor the lack of exceptions now in state law, he said.
Lauinger, who has been working to restrict abortion in Oklahoma for decades, is now supporting legislation that would make exceptions for life of the mother; for a medical emergency that threatens the physical health of the mother; for rape reported to law enforcement; and for incest with a minor reported to law enforcement.
A poll this year showed about 70% of Oklahomans support those exceptions, but only those exceptions, Lauinger said.
According to the state Health Department report on abortions in 2021 — the last full year in which abortions were available in Oklahoma — 59 were reported as necessary to avert the death of the mother.
Also, 324 women who received an abortion that year said their physical health was at risk, while 394 said there may be a problem affecting the health of the fetus. Twenty-one women cited forcible rape and 11 cited incest as the reason for seeking an abortion. Women could give more than one answer.
More:US Reps. Cole, Bice oppose paying expenses for US military women traveling for abortions
Planned Parenthood Great Plains has seen an increase in appointments at its Oklahoma health centers for contraception, ranging from 5% to 15%, Simmons said.
In November, the organization opened a health center in Lawton that sees patients for services including birth control, testing for HIV and sexually transmitted infections, emergency contraception, gender-affirming care and general wellness care.
“Since we opened Lawton in late 2022, we’ve been proud to see continued increase in patient volume and we’re excited that residents have turned to us as a local health care provider,” Simmons said.
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2023-07-03T17:04:36+00:00
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oklahoman.com
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VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - First Mining Gold Corp. ("First Mining" or the "Company") (TSX: FF) (OTCQX: FFMGF) (FRANKFURT: FMG) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive royalty purchase agreement with an affiliate of Sprott Resource Streaming and Royalty Corp. ("Sprott") to sell its 1.5% net smelter return ("NSR") royalty on the Goldlund gold property in Ontario (the "Goldlund Royalty") owned by Treasury Metals Inc. for total cash consideration of approximately C$9.5 million (US$7 million) (the "Goldlund Royalty Transaction").
"We are very excited to announce the sale of our Goldlund royalty to Sprott," stated Dan Wilton, CEO of First Mining. "Sprott is an existing royalty holder across the Goliath Gold Complex with a deep understanding of the project and this transaction is a further endorsement of the potential of the asset. First Mining continues to retain exposure to the success of the project as the largest shareholder of Treasury Metals while the proceeds from this royalty sale will provide the Company with additional financial flexibility as we continue to focus on advancing our two flagship assets, Springpole and Duparquet."
Following the completion of the Goldlund Royalty Transaction, First Mining's royalty portfolio will be comprised of 20 royalties across four countries, which includes a 2.0% NSR royalty on the Pickle Crow gold project in Ontario operated by Auteco Minerals Ltd., a 1.5% NSR royalty on the Hope Brook gold project in Newfoundland operated by Big Ridge Gold Corp. and NSR royalties on a number of other exploration and development projects.
The Goldlund Royalty Transaction is expected to close on or before December 31, 2022.
Stifel GMP acted as financial advisor to First Mining.
About First Mining Gold Corp.
First Mining is a gold developer advancing two of the largest gold projects in Canada, the Springpole Gold Project in northwestern Ontario, where we have commenced a Feasibility Study and permitting activities are on-going with a draft Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") for the project published in June 2022, and the Duparquet, Pitt and Duquesne Gold Projects in Quebec, a collection of advanced stage development assets located on the Destor-Porcupine Fault in the prolific Abitibi region. First Mining also owns the Cameron gold project in Ontario and a portfolio of gold project interests including the Pickle Crow gold project (being advanced in partnership with Auteco Minerals Ltd.), the Hope Brook gold project (being advanced in partnership with Big Ridge Gold Corp.), an equity interest in Treasury Metals Inc., and a portfolio of 21 gold royalties.
First Mining was established in 2015 by Mr. Keith Neumeyer, founding President and CEO of First Majestic Silver Corp.
ON BEHALF OF FIRST MINING GOLD CORP.
Daniel W. Wilton
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "plans", "projects", "intends", "estimates", "envisages", "potential", "possible", "strategy", "goals", "opportunities", "objectives", or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions.
Forward-looking statements in this news release relate to future events or future performance and reflect current estimates, predictions, expectations or beliefs regarding future events and include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to: (i) the closing date for the Goldlund Royalty Transaction; (ii) the proceeds from the sale of the Goldlund Royalty providing the Company with additional financial flexibility as it focused on advancing its two flagship assets, Springpole and Duparquet; and (iii) the Company's royalty portfolio being comprised of 20 royalties following the completion of the Goldlund Royalty Transaction. All forward-looking statements are based on First Mining's or its consultants' current beliefs as well as various assumptions made by them and information currently available to them. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the respective parties, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Such factors include, without limitation the Company's business, operations and financial condition potentially being materially adversely affected by the outbreak of epidemics, pandemics or other health crises, such as COVID-19, and by reactions by government and private actors to such outbreaks; risks to employee health and safety as a result of the outbreak of epidemics, pandemics or other health crises, such as COVID-19, that may result in a slowdown or temporary suspension of operations at some or all of the Company's mineral properties as well as its head office; fluctuations in the spot and forward price of gold, silver, base metals or certain other commodities; fluctuations in the currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar); changes in national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments; risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected formations, pressures, cave-ins and flooding); the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on mining; employee relations; relationships with and claims by local communities, indigenous populations and other stakeholders; availability and increasing costs associated with mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development; title to properties.; and the additional risks described in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities under the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, and in the Company's Annual Report on Form 40-F filed with the SEC on EDGAR.
First Mining cautions that the foregoing list of factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on our forward-looking statements to make decisions with respect to First Mining, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. First Mining does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by the Company or on our behalf, except as required by law.
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2022-12-12T12:38:34+00:00
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 15, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
1239 PM PDT Wed Sep 14 2022
...Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality Impacts...
* Smoke from the Mosquito wildfire continues to produce unhealthy
to hazardous air quality across the region. The latest
observations indicate the worst conditions to be concentrated
north of Truckee and extending into Reno, Sparks, and the North
Valleys.
* The next wave of smoke is projected to push into the region this
afternoon and evening with the latest smoke simulations
spreading smoke across much of western Nevada, the Tahoe Basin,
and portions of the eastern Sierra by late tonight into early
Thursday. Expect additional reductions to air quality and
visibility.
* For the latest air quality info, please continue to visit:
fire.airnow.gov. You can also refer to your local Air Quality
Management Division or the latest Smoke Outlook Statements from
the US Interagency Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program
which are also available via: fire.airnow.gov.
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The coming-of-age drama Stay Awake takes its title from the efforts of two teens to get their mother safely to the hospital after an accidental overdose of prescription pills.
Copyright 2023 NPR
The coming-of-age drama Stay Awake takes its title from the efforts of two teens to get their mother safely to the hospital after an accidental overdose of prescription pills.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-05-19T21:51:34+00:00
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https://www.kunm.org/2023-05-19/stay-awake-explores-the-fallout-for-brothers-after-their-mom-overdoses
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MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks and Memphis Grizzlies aren’t saying whether their star players will be available Wednesday night as both teams try to avoid falling into 0-2 holes before hitting the road in their respective first-round series.
Antetokounmpo didn’t practice Tuesday, but the Bucks haven’t ruled out the possibility the two-time MVP could play Wednesday in Game 2 against the Miami Heat. The Grizzlies called Morant a game-time decision against the Los Angeles Lakers after an MRI revealed no ligament damage.
“We have 24-plus hours before game time, so he’ll get treatment,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said Tuesday afternoon. “We’ll see how he feels. I think there’s been a lot of progress. Hopefully there’s more in the next day or so.”
During the portion of Tuesday’s Grizzlies practice open to reporters, Morant didn’t use his right hand at all. He used his left hand to help rebound and put up a couple of shots. He finished the session with a bag of ice wrapped over his right hand.
“Symptoms are slightly improving from the other night. ... He’s going to come in and get working in the morning and test it out, see how is feeling,” Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins said.
Antetokounmpo has a history of making rapid recoveries from injuries.
The most notable example came two years ago during the Bucks’ championship run. Antetokounmpo hyperextended his right knee during the Eastern Conference finals and missed the final two games of the Bucks’ 4-2 victory over the Atlanta Hawks, but he was named the MVP of the NBA Finals after averaging 35.2 points, 13.2 rebounds and five assists in the 4-2 triumph over the Phoenix Suns, including a 50-point performance in the title-clinching win.
This season, Antetokounmpo sprained his right wrist just before the All-Star break but was back in the starting lineup for the Bucks’ next game, just four days after heading to New York to have the wrist examined.
“I would say we’re optimistic,” Budenholzer said.
Both teams have shown they can bounce back from losses in series openers.
The Grizzlies fell behind 1-0 in their first-round series with the Minnesota Timberwolves last year before winning in six games. The Bucks have lost Game 1 six previous times during Budenholzer’s tenure and won five of those series.
“I’m not necessarily saying that you’re going to fight back all the time, but I think it kind of tests you in a different way,” Bucks forward Bobby Portis said. “Sometimes those tests can be good for a team.”
LAKERS AT GRIZZLIES
Los Angeles leads 1-0. Game 2, 7:30 p.m. EDT, TNT
— NEED TO KNOW: The Lakers got big performances from Rui Hachimura and Austin Reaves to win the series opener at Memphis, which had the NBA’s best regular-season home record at 35-6. Hachimura had a playoff career-high 29 points. Reaves had 23, including nine in the closing minutes. Anthony Davis had 22 points and LeBron James 21, marking the first time since 1988 that the Lakers had four 20-point scorers in a single playoff game.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Rebound margin. The Lakers outrebounded the Grizzlies 45-34 and outscored them 22-10 in second-chance points in Game 1. The absence of Steven Adams due to a knee injury and key reserve Brandon Clarke with a torn Achilles leaves the Grizzlies with a lack of size.
— INJURY WATCH: Morant’s status obviously is critical. Davis hurt his right shoulder but missed only the final 75 seconds of the second quarter with the stinger.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Grizzlies guard Luke Kennard. After leading the NBA in 3-point percentage (.494) for a second straight season, Kennard was just 1 of 4 from beyond the arc in Game 1. The Grizzlies need more from him.
HEAT AT BUCKS
Miami leads 1-0. Game 2, 9 p.m. EDT, NBATV
— NEED TO KNOW: Jimmy Butler had 35 points and the Heat set a playoff franchise single-game scoring record in a 130-117 Game 1 victory over the Bucks on Sunday. The Heat are trying to stage a repeat of the 2020 postseason, when they took an early 3-0 lead over a top-seeded Milwaukee team and went on to eliminate the Bucks 4-1 in the second round. The Bucks have lost Game 1 six previous times during Mike Budenholzer’s tenure and won five of those series.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Miami’s shooting. The Heat ranked 26th in the NBA in field-goal percentage (.460) and 27th in 3-point percentage (.344) during the regular season, but they shot 59.5% (50 of 84) from the floor and 60% (15 of 25) from 3-point range in Game 1.
— INJURY WATCH: Antetokounmpo wasn’t the only notable player to get injured in Game 1. Miami’s Tyler Herro broke his right hand while diving for a loose ball late in the first half. He probably won’t play again this season unless the Heat reach the NBA Finals.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Bucks guard Jrue Holiday. Although Holiday had 16 points and 16 assists in Game 1, he shot just 6 of 18 from the floor and 2 of 9 from 3-point range. The Bucks will need Holiday and Khris Middleton, who had 33 points in Game 1, to shoulder more of the scoring load if they don’t have Antetokounmpo.
TIMBERWOLVES AT NUGGETS
Denver leads 1-0. Game 2, 10 p.m. EDT, TNT
— NEED TO KNOW: Jamal Murray had 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists as the Nuggets rolled to a 109-80 Game 1 victory over the Timberwolves on Sunday. That puts some pressure on the Timberwolves, who have never won a series after falling behind 2-0.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Denver’s defense. The Nuggets held the Timberwolves to their lowest point total of the season Sunday.
— INJURY WATCH: Jaden McDaniels is Minnesota’s best perimeter defender, but he broke his right hand punching a wall in the Timberwolves’ final regular-season game. His presence was missed as the Timberwolves allowed Denver to make 16 3-point baskets Sunday. … Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert has been dealing with back trouble, though he still played in Game 1.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns. He shot 5 of 15 overall and 1 of 7 from 3-point range in Game 1. He had nearly as many turnovers (four) as baskets (five).
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AP Sports Writers Arnie Stapleton and Teresa M. Walker contributed to this report.
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2023-04-18T21:49:06+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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At least two U.S. citizens were among those killed in the deadly crowd surge in South Korea's capital on Saturday night, the U.S. Embassy in Seoul has confirmed.
"I am deeply saddened by the loss of so many lives last night, to include two young Americans celebrating alongside their Korean friends and others from around the world," U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Philip Goldberg said in a statement.
Authorities say more than 150 people are dead and 133 injured, many of whom were young adults celebrating Halloween.
As of 9 p.m. Sunday local time, officials say at least 26 foreign nationals were killed in the incident in the Itaewon neighborhood, according to local media reports.
The U.S. Embassy in Seoul is working with local authorities and providing consular assistance to any U.S. citizens affected by the incident in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood, a spokesman told NPR.
The popular district in Seoul was hosting Halloween celebrations that drew around 100,000 people when the crowd surge began. Many were attempting to gather in a narrow alley filled with bars and restaurants, according to local media.
In response to the tragedy, South Korea Prime Minister Han Duck-soo announced a period of national mourning to last until midnight on Nov. 5.
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2022-10-30T15:14:41+00:00
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wbfo.org
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https://www.wbfo.org/2022-10-30/2-americans-are-among-the-dead-in-the-halloween-crowd-surge-in-seoul
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Former Pueblo-area church youth leader to be tried for third time in sexual assault case
A former church youth group leader will stand trial in Pueblo for a third time for allegedly sexually assaulting a child more than a decade ago.
Gabriel Geringer, 45, faces charges of sexual assault on a child, a class 4 felony, as well as a pattern of sexual assault on a child, a class 3 felony.
His first trial in September 2021 ended in a hung jury when jurors could not reach a verdict after more than 10 hours of deliberation, while his second trial in July ended in a mistrial due to a witness testifying that Geringer had also sexually assaulted them, according to a source inside the courtroom at the time a mistrial was declared.
The witness testimony was "in direct contradiction to the judge's orders regarding admissibility of evidence," Bradley Smith, an attorney representing Geringer, said after the mistrial.
"I think it's good they're retrying him, but obviously the third time is a little stressful," Geringer's accuser, who has not been named publicly because she was a minor at the time of the alleged incidents, said in a phone interview with the Chieftain.
"I'm definitely hoping for a better outcome this time — obviously every time, I've hoped for a good outcome."
The assaults Geringer is alleged to have committed took place in 2010 and 2011 but were reported to the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office in December 2018.
Geringer's accuser told the PCSO she wanted to report her experience to authorities at that time to “keep this from happening to anyone else,” according to an arrest affidavit.
According to the affidavit, the victim told deputies she was 14 years old when the youth leader at her church in Fowler, the then-33-year-old Geringer, initiated a sexual “relationship” with her that lasted approximately three years.
Because the girl was younger than 15 years old, every sexual interaction that took place prior to her 15th birthday constituted sexual assault on a child.
The woman told detectives that in the years since her “relationship” with Geringer ended, she came to realize it was “wrong” because she was a child while Geringer was an adult. Geringer was 19 years older than her when the alleged assaults took place.
Geringer's first two trials relied heavily on testimony and graphic recollections from his accuser, as the time that elapsed since the crimes allegedly were committed made it difficult for investigators to collect physical evidence in the case.
"Mr. Geringer has from day one consistently asserted his innocence in this matter," said Smith in an email Tuesday evening. "It is unfortunate that the District Attorney has decided to ignore the voice of the large majority of the jurors in the first trial that heard the evidence and were 9-3 in favor of acquittal. Furthermore, it is unfortunate that the Prosecution has not taken accountability for the misconduct of their witness that resulted in the second mistrial in this matter. We will continue to vigorously defend against these unjust charges."
Geringer's new trial is set for Jan. 23.
All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. Arrests and charges are merely accusations by law enforcement until, and unless, a suspect is convicted of a crime.
Questions, comments, or story tips? Contact Justin at jreutterma@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @jayreutter1.
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2022-08-31T22:36:50+00:00
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chieftain.com
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https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/31/geringer-to-be-tried-for-third-time-in-pueblo-sexual-assault-case/65464232007/
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Nominations open for leaders and innovators in retail ecommerce
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The REM Council, an independent, non-profit trade association of retail ecommerce leaders, today announced its inaugural REM Awards, which recognizes outstanding leadership, achievement, and innovation in retail ecommerce management (REM). The 2023 REM Awards are the premier international celebration of retail ecommerce management, recognizing individuals and organizations that exemplify the innovative approaches fueling this emerging space.
Retail ecommerce, or indirect ecommerce, like Amazon, Walmart or Target, represents a majority of global ecommerce sales, making it a key business priority and area of innovation for major brands. Retail Ecommerce Management (REM) transforms retail teams with a holistic approach that involves transforming processes and data to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The REM Council was founded to connect and support practitioners across ecommerce, sales, finance, and marketing, to advance retail ecommerce. REM Council membership enables participants to keep up with trends and resources, define standards of excellence, and grow their careers.
The REM Council invites organizations to nominate ecommerce leaders for consideration for the REM Awards. Award recipients will be selected by a panel of industry experts utilizing a combination of leadership, business, and technology criteria per category, along with big data quantitative analysis. Winners will be announced and presented in February of 2023 at the REM Awards Gala in New York City.
The REM Awards recognize exceptional individuals in REM in the following categories: Rising Stars, Most Powerful Leaders, Most Influential, Most Innovative Retailer and Best REM Employer. A Hall of Fame award will also be awarded to an individual who has made incredible contributions to the industry.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A massive fire erupted at an oil depot in Crimea after it was hit by two of Ukraine’s drones, a Russia-appointed official there reported Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks on the annexed peninsula as Russia braces for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, a port city in Crimea, posted videos and photos of the blaze on his Telegram channel.
Razvozhayev said the fire at the city’s harbor was assigned the highest ranking in terms of how complicated it will be to extinguish. However, he reported that the open blaze had been contained.
Razvozhayev said the oil depot was attacked by “two enemy drones,” and four oil tanks burned down. A third drone was shot down from the sky, and one more was deactivated through radio-electronic means, according to Crimea’s Moscow-appointed governor, Sergei Aksyonov.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world considered illegal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview this week that his country will seeking to reclaim the peninsula in the upcoming counteroffensive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea last month to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine. Putin’s visit took place the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.
The attack reported in Sevastopol comes a day after Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine, killing at least 23 people. Almost all of the victims died when two missiles slammed into an apartment building in the city of Uman, located in central Ukraine.
Six children were among the dead, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said Saturday, adding that 22 of the 23 bodies recovered have been identified. Two women remained missing, Klymenko said.
Russian forces launched more drones at Ukraine overnight. Ukraine’s Air Force Command said two Iranian-made self-exploding Shahed drones were intercepted, and a reconnaissance drone was shot down on Saturday morning.
Razvozhayev said the oil depot fire did not cause any casualties and would not hinder fuel supplies in Sevastopol. The city has been subject to regular attack attempts with drones, especially in recent weeks.
Earlier this week, Razvozhayev reported that the Russian military destroyed a Ukrainian sea drone that attempted to attack the harbor and another one blew up, shattering windows in several apartment buildings, but not inflicting any other damage.
Ukraine’s military intelligence spokesperson, Andriy Yusov, told the RBC Ukraine news site on Saturday that the oil depot fire was “God’s punishment” for “the murdered civilians in Uman, including five children.”
He said that more than 10 tanks containing oil products for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet were destroyed in Sevastopol, but stopped short of acknowledging Ukraine’s responsibility for a drone attack. The difference between the number of tanks Yusov and Razvozhayev gave could not be immediately reconciled.
After previous attacks on Crimea, Kyiv also wouldn’t openly claim responsibility, but emphasized that the country had the right to strike any target in response to Russian aggression.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces shelled the city of Nova Kakhovka, according to Moscow-installed authorities in the Russian-occupied part of southern Ukraine’s Kherson province. “Severe artillery fire” cut off power in the city, the officials said.
The Ukrainian-controlled part of the province also came under fire on Saturday. Russian shelling in the area of the village of Bilozerka killed one person and wounded another, according to the Kherson prosecutor’s office.
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2023-04-29T14:36:42+00:00
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The Bighorn National Forest is located in north-central Wyoming and spans over a million acres. Within the forest are several species of pine, spruce, fir, and aspen.
"The majority of our tree species here in the Bighorns is lodgepole pine," said Jacob McCarthy, District Forester for the Wyoming State Forestry Division. "Aspen accounts for about one percent of the entirety of the Bighorn National Forest."
This abundance of lodgepole pine is cause for concern, according to McCarthy. Diversity amongst the trees in a forest helps prevent disease and allows the ecosystem to be productive. There are two aspects to forest diversity: different ages of trees and different types of trees.
Currently, it is more common to use management techniques to promote age diversity in the Bighorns. Most often, this is in the form of clearing trees in an area.
The trees that are cleared are chosen based on specific objectives that land managers decide. These objectives could include things like targeting older trees or targeting areas that are more susceptible to fires.
While regrowth is likely to be of the same tree species, age diversity amongst the lodgepole pines makes the landscape more resilient because the trees are then less susceptible to illness.
But increasing age diversity is only one of the benefits of clearing trees like lodgepole pines..
"Those trees start to out-compete the aspens for the soil or water nutrients in the ground because there's a finite amount," said McCarthy.
With fewer lodgepole pines in the area, there is less competition for new species, usually aspens, to grow and succeed in the forest, which is what forest managers like McCarthy want. This promotion of aspen growth is called aspen enhancement.
"Aspen is what we call a deciduous tree," said McCarthy. "It does not contain the compounds that are more flammable that you have within pine and spruce, so they're a little less susceptible to fire."
While aspens can still burn, they do not burn as quickly as coniferous tree species like pine and spruce, so they’re often used in forests to promote diversity and protect the area. Aspens also have a lot of resiliency -- once aspens are in an area of the forest, they generally stick around.
"It is one of the first tree species that we tend to see repopulate a site after a major disturbance," said McCarthy.
He also said they have an important impact on the area’s big game species because increasing forest diversity with aspens adds more than just trees to the ecosystem.
"[Aspens] bring in a diverse group of plants and insects that live within these micro-ecosystems of the forest and that increases wildlife habitat through cover as well as food," said McCarthy.
Aspen enhancement has only been done a handful of times in the Bighorns, but McCarthy said they are looking to do it more through the Pole Creek Vegetation Management Plan. The Forest Service is in the process of deciding the specifics of the project. The National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) review will be completed in 2024.
"Our national forest systems are very much multiple use," said McCarthy. "And we try to utilize the tools within our toolbox to conserve our systems so that we can see enjoyment out of them for all the values they give us."
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2023-04-13T19:22:43+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-resources-energy/2023-04-13/aspens-grow-forest-diversity-in-the-bighorn-national-forest
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How the weather may trigger migraines
Migraines are unseen, but they can cause life-altering pain.
"The brain itself is very mysterious, and migraine, which is very common, is one of the most mysterious of all neurologic conditions," said Thomas Berk, a neurologist and headache specialist with NYU Langone Health.
According to Berk, MRIs don’t detect changes in the brain of a person suffering from migraines.
"So, there's this silent and mysterious dysfunction that's happening to the brain that comes and goes, and then you can be completely and totally back to normal afterwards," he said.
"This is something that people have been describing for literally thousands of years," Beck added. "Ancient Egypt, ancient Greece -- they've had their own treatments for it, and this is something that's extremely human and, to me, very fascinating."
What causes migraines
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Migraines are caused by inflammatory proteins, which the brain produces in response to specific triggers, according to Berk.
"What will happen is your brain will reach a certain threshold -- something will flick that switch," he said. "We don't always know what that is, and it can change in different times. Once your brain starts to go into migraine mode, it starts to produce these inflammatory neurotransmitters."
This response is experienced as an intense headache, or migraine.
According to Berk, unlike other types of pain the body may feel, which are isolated to a specific body part and a specific nerve, pain caused by migraines can result in visual symptoms, vertigo and other types of pain.
"Because your brain itself is what's dysfunctional and is the part that becomes affected by the pain, it can manifest in so many different ways," he said.
As migraines can cause a variety of pain, the stimuli that trigger migraines can vary, as well.
The role of weather
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Migraines may be caused by factors such as hormones, vitamin deficiencies, and how hydrated a person may be. However, migraines may also be caused by something outside of the body: the weather.
According to Berk, barometric pressure has been known to trigger migraines to an extent.
"Oftentimes, I'll be seeing patients in my office, people with migraines and it'll be a beautiful day and they'll say, ‘I know it's coming. I know it's happening -- there's a storm coming,’" he said.
"It's that change in barometric pressure that they can sense that does trigger their migraine symptoms even before the storm starts."
According to Berk, this recognition of pressure changes may have to do with the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls sleep-wake cycles and senses the time of year and the seasons.
"That part of the brain can oftentimes be exquisitely sensitive to small changes that are sometimes internal to you," he said. These changes, such as changes in barometric pressure, may then result in dysregulation of migraine in the hypothalamus.
How to mitigate migraines
A young woman sits peacefully at the Grand Canyon. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
For people who suffer from weather-induced migraines, treatment may be a bit complicated.
"A lot of times patients will say, ‘Maybe I should move to the desert or a place where there's no weather,’ and the truth is there still is weather in these places," Berk said. "Sometimes when the weather comes, [migraine] can be even more disastrous when it does happen, and sometimes this can be really severe."
He added that, while weather may be a major trigger, it’s only one of the multiple factors that may consistently trigger migraines.
"What we like to do is try to figure out what all of your triggers are and sometimes mitigate some of them more than others," Berk said.
"Weather is definitely something that you can't really mitigate for, but there can even be things that can happen and your migraines, whether they're triggered by weather or anything else, there are supplements that we sometimes recommend."
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Top Player Prop Bets for Maple Leafs vs. Panthers NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 3 on May 7, 2023
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- When: Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 6:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: TBS, SportsNet, CBC, and TVAS
- Where: BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida
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- Points Prop: 1.5 (Over Odds: +135, Under Odds: -164)
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2023-05-07T12:59:41+00:00
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Biden vetoes bill that sought to toss EPA water protections
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending his administration’s actions on clean water, President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a congressional resolution that would have overturned protections for the nation’s waterways that Republicans have criticized as overly intrusive.
Republicans — and some Democrats — targeted an Environmental Protection Agency rule protecting thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, labeling it an environmental overreach that harms businesses, developers and farmers.
In separate votes, the House and Senate used the Congressional Review Act to enact a measure blocking the clean water rule, which was adopted at the end of last year.
In his veto message Thursday, Biden said the bipartisan measure would leave Americans without a clear definition of “Waters of the United States. " A dispute over the term — and the breadth of the landmark Clean Water Act — stretches across at least three presidential administrations.
Environmentalists and Democratic presidents have pushed to broaden the definition and protect more waterways from pollution, while right-leaning groups and the Trump administration argued that protecting fewer waterways would benefit builders, farmers and business.
“The increased uncertainty” caused by the congressional action “would threaten economic growth, including for agriculture, local economies and downstream communities,’’ Biden said in his veto statement.
“Farmers would be left wondering whether artificially irrigated areas remain excluded or not,’’ he added. “Construction crews would be left wondering whether their waterfilled gravel pits remain excluded or not. The resolution would also negatively affect tens of millions of United States households that depend on healthy wetlands and streams.’’
The Senate voted, 53-43, last week to overturn the water rule. The Republican-controlled House approved the resolution in March, 227-198. A Congressional Review Act resolution requires a simple majority in both chambers and can’t be filibustered.
In all, four Democratic senators and one independent, along with nine Democratic House members, voted in favor of the resolution.
“The overreach, basically, it’s unreal,” said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a frequent critic of Biden’s environmental policies.
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said the EPA rule is protective and fair. “The Biden rule requires us to be good neighbors, and stewards of our planet, while also providing flexibility for those who need it,” said Carper, who chairs the Senate Environment Committee.
In late December, the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repealed the Trump administration’s business-friendly rule that scaled back protections. Since then, Republicans have targeted the Biden rule in the courts and in Congress.
Last month, a federal judge paused the clean-water rule in Texas and Idaho in a win for Republican legal challenges. Red states have argued in court that the rule is too vague and would create unacceptable economic hardships.
The Supreme Court is also considering a related case brought by an Idaho couple who have been trying for 15 years to build a home near a lake after the EPA determined that part of their property was a regulated wetland. The justices heard arguments in Sackett v. EPA in October. A decision is expected in the next few months.
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2023-04-06T23:10:13+00:00
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Trump returns to campaign rallies, draws thousands to small South Carolina city ahead of July 4
PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to thousands gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing day ahead of the July 4 holiday.
“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be to kick off the Fourth of July weekend than right here on Main St., with thousands of hardworking South Carolina patriots who believe in God, family and country,” Trump said to a roaring crowd standing on asphalt as temperatures climbed into the 90s.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people had gathered in the streets of downtown Pickens, a small city in South Carolina’s conservative Upstate of around 3,400 residents. Law enforcement officials told some media outlets that around 15,000 people had gathered by 11 a.m., two hours before Trump’s remarks.
The heavily Republican area is a popular one for GOP hopefuls as they aim to attract support for South Carolina’s first-in-the-South presidential primary. In recent months, other candidates including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have all held events in the Upstate, as well as the two South Carolinians in the race: former Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott.
But none drew a crowd like Trump, whose appearance effectively shuttered Pickens’ quintessential southern downtown.
Contrasted with his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, which drew thousands to rallies in states across the country, Trump’s 2024 effort has been markedly different. Earlier this year, instead of addressing voters in a gymnasium or airplane hangar, Trump held his first South Carolina campaign event inside the Statehouse in Columbia, rolling out his state leadership team at an invitation-only gathering in an ornate lobby between the House and Senate chambers.
In other states, the former president has focused his efforts on smaller events, including a series of speeches before state party organizations, as he works to bolster his standing with delegates and local officials.
This was only Trump’s second large rally of the 2024 campaign. In March, he rallied in Waco, Texas, disparaging the prosecutors then investigating him on hush-money charges — on which he was later indicted — and predicting his vindication. A planned outdoor rally in Iowa in May was canceled due to tornado warnings.
The rallies are also expensive to put on, although Trump has continued to bring in millions in fundraising, after both the New York indictment and also federal charges related to his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House. Last month, senior Trump aide Chris LaCivita told the conservative Ruthless podcast that the rallies “are half a million bucks a pop.”
Trump’s campaign has also leaned in on unannounced stops at restaurants — such as at a celebrated Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant Friday or Versailles, a famous Cuban eatery in Miami — in a bid to showcase his strong appeal among supporters despite the multiple legal challenges.
In a broad GOP field that has continued to grow, Trump’s campaign has pointed to polls showing him with a considerable lead over his rivals, despite a campaign schedule that is far less robust than many of his rivals. He has also given frequent media interviews and appeared at many of the multi-candidate events of the primary season so far, including this past week’s Moms for Liberty gathering in Philadelphia.
Still, the chance to see the former president in person drew thousands from across the Southeast for Saturday’s rally, with attendees beginning to line up the night before, and coming from as far as Florida. Greg Pressley and his wife, Robin, said they drove more than three hours from their home in eastern Tennessee to see the candidate they’ve supported since his first run in 2016.
“Donald Trump’s the best president in history,” Greg Pressley said. “I love his policies. I love the man. I’m here to support him getting back to where he needs to be, to begin with.”
Shelley Fox of Spartanburg, who said she has supported Trump since he entered the 2016 race, said she didn’t feel it necessary to even think about any other candidates for next year’s election.
“I’d write him in,” she said, when asked what she would do if forced to consider another hopeful. “No question — I’d write him in.”
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2023-07-02T00:32:51+00:00
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Police investigating death of 3-year-old who family says fell down flight of stairs
DANVILLE, Ill. (Gray News) – Police in Illinois are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl who fell down a flight of stairs, according to her family.
The Danville Police Department said officers responded to a local hospital Thursday just after midnight for a report of a child with serious injuries.
When officers arrived, the family told them that the girl was injured at home from falling down a flight of stairs.
Although medical staff tried to save her, the 3-year-old was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police said preliminary medical reports suggest the girl died of blunt force trauma.
Police are now investigating the death and the nature of the injuries.
No further details are being released at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Danville Police at 217-431-2250 or Vermilion County Crime Stoppers at 217-446-8477.
Danville is located along the Indiana border, about 150 miles south of Chicago.
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2023-01-20T22:58:21+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/2023/01/20/police-investigating-death-3-year-old-who-family-says-fell-down-flight-stairs/
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‘Rick and Morty’ creator has domestic abuse charges dropped
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors on Wednesday dropped domestic violence charges against Justin Roiland, who created the Cartoon Network animated series “Rick and Morty” and provided the voices of the show’s two title characters.
Orange County district attorney’s spokeswoman Kimberly Edds said the two felony counts involving a former girlfriend were dropped “due to a lack of sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Roiland responded to the dismissal on Twitter.
“I have always known that these claims were false — and I never had any doubt that this day would come,” he said. “I’m thankful that this case has been dismissed but, at the same time, I’m still deeply shaken by the horrible lies that were reported about me during this process.”
He added that he is “disappointed that so many people were so quick to judge without knowing the facts, based solely on the word of a bitter ex trying to bypass due process and have me ‘canceled.’”
Roiland, 43, had been awaiting trial on charges of corporal injury and false imprisonment by menace, fraud, violence or deceit against the woman, who he was living with at the time. She was not identified in court documents.
The charges dated to May of 2020, but they apparently went unnoticed by media outlets until NBC News reported on them in January of this year.
Roiland and Dan Harmon created the animated sci-fi sitcom about a mad scientist and his grandson, both voiced by Roiland. It has aired for six seasons on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim nighttime programming block, and it has been renewed for a seventh.
Adult Swim and Cartoon Network cut ties with him when the charges were reported and said his roles would be recast. 20th TV Animation and Hulu Originals, which produce two other animated series Roiland worked on, did the same.
The companies declined comment on Wednesday.
In his tweet, Roiland said he is “determined to move forward and focus both on my creative projects and restoring my good name.”
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2023-03-23T01:04:13+00:00
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kwtx.com
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials and lawmakers treaded carefully Wednesday while reacting to Mikhail Gorbachev's death, praising him for his role in ending the Cold War but deploring his failure to avert the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The stance was reflected by state television broadcasts, which paid tributes to Gorbachev as a historic figure but described his reforms as poorly planned and held him responsible for failing to safeguard the country's interests in dialogue with the West.
The criticism echoed earlier assessments by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has famously lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century."
In a telegram of condolences released by the Kremlin, Putin praised Gorbachev as a man who left " an enormous impact on the course of world history."
“He led the country during difficult and dramatic changes, amid large-scale foreign policy, economic and society challenges,” Putin said. “He deeply realized that reforms were necessary and tried to offer his solutions for the acute problems.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described Gorbachev as an “extraordinary” statesman who will “always remain in the country's history.”
“Gorbachev has given an impulse to ending the Cold War and he sincerely wanted to believe that it will be over and a new romantic period will start between the renewed Soviet Union and the collective West,” Peskov said. “Those romantic expectations failed to materialize. The bloodthirsty nature of our opponents has come to light, and it's good that we realized that in time.”
While avoiding explicit personal criticism of Gorbachev, Putin in the past repeatedly blamed him for failing to secure written commitments from the West that would rule out NATO's expansion eastward — an issue that has become a major irritant in Russia-West ties for decades and fomented tensions that exploded when the Russian leader sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Members of the Kremlin-controlled parliament sought followed a similar path, hailing Gorbachev's historic role but lamenting the Soviet collapse.
Leonid Slutsky, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house, the State Duma, hailed Gorbachev as “the most remarkable politician of his time,” but described him as a “contradictory” figure whose reforms “played into the hands of those who were trying to wipe the USSR off the world's map.”
Sergei Mironov, the leader of the Just Russia party, told the official Tass news agency that Gorbachev “was like a breath of fresh air, embodying the hopes for colossal changes,” but added that his policies led to “the loss of a great country” and became a “tragedy for generations of Russians.”
Some others were far less polite.
Oleg Morozov, a member of the main Kremlin party, the United Russia, said that Gorbachev should have “repented” for the errors that hurt Russia's interests.
“There is a mystical coincidence in Gorbachev passing away at a time when the special military operation in Ukraine,” Morozov said in remarks carried by the state RIA Novosti news agency. “He was a willing or an unwilling co-author of the unfair world order that our soldiers are now fighting on the battlefield.”
Nikolai Kolomeitsev, the deputy head of the Communist faction in the Duma, went even further, denouncing Gorbachev as a “traitor” who “destroyed the state.”
Gobachev’s foundation said that he will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife. The date hasn’t been set yet and it wasn’t immediately clear whether he will be given a state funeral.
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2022-08-31T10:49:44+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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Ozzy Osbourne says he's leaving the US because of gun violence
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Ozzy Osbourne is a Brit by birth and a Californian by choice, but after spending decades in the Golden State, he's ready to leave the U.S.
Osbourne and his wife Sharon are returning to their Buckinghamshire residence after spending more than 20 years living in Los Angeles, the Black Sabbath singer told the Observer in a wide-ranging interview.
Osbourne's family life in California was famously documented on the MTV reality series "The Osbournes" in the early 2000s.
Gun violence in the U.S. is part of what convinced him to return to the UK full-time, he told the Observer.
"I'm fed up with people getting killed every day," he said of American gun violence. "God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert ... it's (expletive) crazy."
He also noted that he didn't want to die in the U.S. "I'm English. I want to be back."
There have been more than 440 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which updated its data on Monday. The mass shooting in Las Vegas Osbourne referred to occurred in 2017 and killed 58 people, and it remains the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Sharon Osbourne said "America has changed so drastically" and said there's "nothing united about it." She waded into divisive debates last year, when she defended her friend Piers Morgan in an argument with Sheri Underwood on an episode of their daytime series "The Talk," and she later left the show after former colleagues accused her of using racist and homophobic language.
Ozzy Osbourne gave a different reason for wanting to leave to the Mirror earlier this year: In March, the UK tabloid reported that Osbourne said "the tax is getting too much" and that while he'd miss Los Angeles, he didn't want to continue paying current taxes to stay in the U.S.
The Osbournes will return to the UK in February, the Observer reported, where Osbourne said he will continue to make music. His new solo album, which he recorded while experiencing several chronic health issues including Parkinson's disease, will be released next month.
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2022-08-29T18:32:36+00:00
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kcra.com
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https://www.kcra.com/article/ozzy-osbourne-leaving-us-because-of-gun-violence/41020593
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LAS VEGAS (NEXSTAR) – Some of the NFL’s best players will be taking the field Sunday after participating in skills challenges on Thursday as they compete in the 2023 Pro Bowl in Las Vegas.
As players participate in the events, including the first-ever non-contact flag football games, they’ll be competing for much more than bragging rights.
Their earnings — though not as much as what they would have made winning the Super Bowl — are still quite substantial. The NFL’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) shows players on the teams in any AFC-NFC Pro Bowl game will receive $88,000 if they win (more than if they participated in last year’s Super Bowl) or $44,000 if they lose.
That’s up from $84,000 and $42,000, respectively, from last season.
If a player is injured during the Pro Bowl, they may receive additional compensation. According to the CBA, players who suffer serious injuries, such as a torn ACL, loss of sight in one eye, cancer that “manifests” during Pro Bowl Week and is diagnosed within a month (except skin cancer), or a heart attack caused by “physical exertion while participating in covered events during Pro Bowl Week,” could receive a lump-sum payment of $1 million. If they tear certain ligaments or tendons in their arms or legs, or suffer a fractured foot that requires surgery, the player could receive $500,000 in compensation.
Players who are injured during Pro Bowl Week and can’t participate still qualify for their payout based on their team’s win or loss.
According to the agreement, players could receive additional compensation if they have a Pro Bowl incentive clause in their contracts as long as they were “signed prior to the effective date” of the CBA. Pro Bowlers can expect to receive their bonus pay within 15 days, according to the agreement.
Under the current CBA, Pro Bowl winners are set to receive $116,000 and losers $58,000 in compensation by 2030.
This year’s Pro Bowl events included dodgeball, a relay race, and “kick tac toe.”
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2023-02-05T23:15:20+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/how-much-do-nfl-pro-bowl-players-get-paid/
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By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” has died. He was 73.
Cook had Parkinson’s disease and disclosed his diagnosis in 2017. He died Tuesday at his home in Destin, Florida, said Don Murry Grubbs, a representative for the band.
Tributes poured in from country stars, including Travis Tritt who called Cook “a great guy and one heckuva bass fisherman,” and Jason Aldean, who tweeted: “ I got a chance to perform with him multiple times over the years and I will never forget it.” Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, added: “Everything he did was rooted in his deep love of music, a love he shared with millions.”
As a guitarist, fiddle player and vocalist, Cook — alongside cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry — landed eight No. 1 songs on the country charts between spring 1980 and summer 1982, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. That run included the pop crossover hits “Love In The First Degree” and “Feels So Right,” as well as “Tennessee River” and “Mountain Music.”
“Jeff Cook, and all of the guys in Alabama, were so generous with wisdom and fun when I got to tour with them as a young artist,” Kenny Chesney said in a statement. “They showed a kid in a T-shirt that country music could be rock, could be real, could be someone who looked like me. Growing up in East Tennessee, that gave me the heart to chase this dream.”
The band had a three-year run as CMA Entertainer of the Year from 1982-1985 and earned five ACM Award Entertainer of the Year trophies from 1981-1985. He stopped touring with Alabama in 2018.
Cook released a handful of solo projects and toured with his Allstar Goodtime Band. He also released collaborations with Charlie Daniels and “Star Trek” star William Shatner. He entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of Alabama.
A song he co-wrote in 2015, “No Bad Days,” took on new meaning after his diagnosis. “After I got the Parkinson’s diagnosis, people would quote the song to me and say, ‘No bad days,’” Cook told The Tennessean in 2019. “They write me letters, notes and emails and they sign ‘No Bad Days.’ I know the support is there.”
Survivors include his wife, Lisa.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2022-11-09T01:27:50+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/entertainment/2022/11/08/jeff-cook-co-founder-of-country-band-alabama-dies-at-73-6/
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Josh Lospinoso’s first cybersecurity startup was acquired in 2017 by Raytheon/Forcepoint.. His second, Shift5, works with the U.S. military, rail operators and airlines including JetBlue. A 2009 West Point grad and Rhodes Scholar, the 36-year-old former Army captain spent more than a decade authoring hacking tools for the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.
Lospinoso recently told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee how artificial intelligence can help protect military operations. The CEO/programmer discussed the subject with The Associated Press as well how software vulnerabilities in weapons systems are a major threat to the U.S. military. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Q: In your testimony, you described two principal threats to AI-enabled technologies: One is theft. That’s self-explanatory. The other is data poisoning. Can you explain that?
A: One way to think about data poisoning is as digital disinformation. If adversaries are able to craft the data that AI-enabled technologies see, they can profoundly impact how that technology operates.
Q: Is data poisoning happening?
A: We are not seeing it broadly. But it has occurred. One of the best-known cases happened in 2016. Microsoft released a Twitter chatbot it named Tay that learned from conversations it had online. Malicious users conspired to tweet abusive, offensive language at it. Tay began to generate inflammatory content. Microsoft took it offline.
Q: AI isn’t just chatbots. It has long been integral to cybersecurity, right?
A: AI is used in email filters to try to flag and segregate junk mail and phishing lures. Another example is endpoints, like the antivirus program on your laptop – or malware detection software that runs on networks. Of course, offensive hackers also use AI to try defeat those classification systems. That’s called adversarial AI.
Q: Let’s talk about military software systems. An alarming 2018 Government Accountability Office report said nearly all newly developed weapons systems had mission critical vulnerabilities. And the Pentagon is thinking about putting AI into such systems? A: There are two issues here. First, we need to adequately secure existing weapons systems. This is a technical debt we have that is going to take a very long time to pay. Then there is a new frontier of securing AI algorithms – novel things that we would install. The GAO report didn’t really talk about AI. So forget AI for a second. If these systems just stayed the way that they are, they’re still profoundly vulnerable.
We are discussing pushing the envelope and adding AI-enabled capabilities for things like improved maintenance and operational intelligence. All great. But we’re building on top of a house of cards. Many systems are decades old, retrofitted with digital technologies. Aircraft, ground vehicles, space assets, submarines. They’re now interconnected. We’re swapping data in and out. The systems are porous, hard to upgrade, and could be attacked. Once an attacker gains access, it’s game over.
Sometimes it’s easier to build a new platform than to redesign existing systems' digital components. But there is a role for AI in securing these systems. AI can be used to defend if someone tries to compromise them.
Q: You testified that pausing AI research, as some have urged, would be a bad idea because it would favor China and other competitors. But you also have concerns about the headlong rush to AI products. Why? A: I hate to sound fatalistic, but the so-called “burning-use” case seems to apply. A product rushed to market often catches fire (gets hacked, fails, does unintended damage). And we say, ‘Boy, we should have built in security.’ I expect the pace of AI development to accelerate, and we might not pause enough to do this in a secure and responsible way. At least the White House and Congress are discussing these issues.
Q: It seems like a bunch of companies – including in the defense sector — are rushing to announce half-baked AI products. A: Every tech company and many non-tech companies have made almost a jarring pivot toward AI. Economic dislocations are coming. Business models are fundamentally going to change. Dislocations are already happening or are on the horizon — and business leaders are trying to not get caught flat-footed.
Q: What about the use of AI in military decision-making such as targeting? A: I do not, categorically do not, think that artificial intelligence algorithms — the data that we’re collecting — are ready for prime time for a lethal weapon system to be making decisions. We are just so far from that.
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2023-05-29T13:04:57+00:00
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wsls.com
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https://www.wsls.com/news/2023/05/23/insider-qa-artificial-intelligence-and-cybersecurity-in-military-tech/
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Good morning Tri-Cities. Here is a look at your week ahead:
Today: Widespread dense fog this morning. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind.
Tonight: Widespread dense fog late. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. Calm wind.
Tuesday: Widespread dense fog early. Showers and storms are likely, mainly in the afternoon. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.
Tuesday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 54. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Wednesday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm early afternoon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms through the evening. High near 68. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 51. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30.
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 48.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 34.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51.
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 49.
Enjoy the rest of your morning.
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2023-01-02T14:11:43+00:00
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before they can enter some public spaces including gyms, museums and libraries, drawing concern from city residents over the sudden policy announcement and its impact on their daily lives.
The health app that shows a person’s latest PCR test results has been updated to make it easier to also access their vaccination status, according to Li Ang, a spokesperson for Beijing’s municipal health commission.
The list of public places requiring vaccination does not include restaurants and offices. The mandate will go into effect on Monday, with exceptions available only to those who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons.
“In the normalization of COVID-19 pandemic controls, getting vaccinated is still the most effective measure at controlling the spread of COVID-19,” Li said in an announcement on Wednesday.
More than 23 million people in Beijing have been vaccinated, Li said, which if accurate would cover the city’s entire population and more. A 2020 census found that Beijing was home to some 22 million long-term residents. It is unclear what makes up the discrepancy in the numbers. The Beijing government did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment on the new measures.
Li said that more than 3.6 million people over 60 years old have been vaccinated. He did not say if they received two shots or three.
A vaccine mandate is not unusual and some major cities in the U.S. required proof of vaccination for entry into restaurants and bars at some point during the pandemic.
However, those mandates did not include spaces like libraries. Few places in the U.S. now actively require proof of vaccination to enter. Most U.S. cities have also rolled back social distancing measures that were implemented in the first year of the pandemic. Certain spaces, like hospitals, still mandate proof of vaccination.
Many countries around the world still require proof of vaccination for arrivals. However, vaccine mandates in daily life have been largely rolled back internationally as countries seek to live with the virus.
In Beijing and other cities across China, many government facilities already require people to show proof of vaccination before entry.
Online, the announcement drew some anger and pointed questions. Social media users questioned how to obtain a certificate showing one was unsuitable for vaccination, whether the unvaccinated could ride the subway and other logistics of the new requirement.
Chen Yumei, a 48-year-old Beijing resident, said she hasn’t been vaccinated yet because she suffered from hives that doctors had said made her unsuitable.
“A lot of doctors told me I couldn’t, but who’s going to give me the certification for an exception? No one dares to give you this certification,” she said.
“Something like this is too unreasonable,” Chen said. “We’ve already been cooperating with the PCR tests, no matter how hot it is or how long the line is.”
Another Beijing resident, Leo Zhang, said he was confused whether the new policy meant he needed to get a booster or if two doses were enough. He is planning to get a booster shot as a result.
“At least for me, it doesn’t have a big impact, it’s just getting a booster,” said Zhang, who regularly visits the gym.
Others on social media shared an article from last year from Xinhua, an official state media outlet, that quoted National Health Commission officials forbidding local governments from putting forward policies that prevent people from entering places like supermarkets without proof of vaccination.
It is unclear how Beijing’s new directive will be implemented given the national policy. Additional requirements are already in effect for medical workers, delivery workers and public transportation employees, who are all required to be fully vaccinated.
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Associated Press news assistant Caroline Chen and researcher Yu Bing contributed to this report from Beijing.
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2022-07-07T22:08:39+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/health/beijing-mandates-covid-vaccines-to-enter-some-public-spaces/
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They gathered to watch the nightmare they lived nearly 20 years ago — only now, up on the big screen.
A group of nurses sat in the audience at the Montclair Film Festival Saturday.
The health care workers were once colleagues of Amy Loughren and Charles Cullen in the intensive care unit at Somerset Medical Center, the real-life setting for the movie “The Good Nurse.”
The movie, which stars Oscar winners Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain, tells the story of Cullen, the serial killer nurse who murdered at least 29 people over his 16-year nursing career in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Loughren, the nurse who helped bring him to justice.
In the film, due out on Netflix Wednesday, Oct. 26, Chastain plays Loughren, who becomes friends with Cullen (Redmayne) before she learns he is responsible for the deaths of 13 people at the hospital (known in the movie as Parkfield Memorial Hospital). Cullen killed patients by adding lethal doses of drugs like insulin to IV bags (which other nurses could unknowingly use for their patients).
The former nurse, 62, is suspected of murdering many more patients at various hospitals (up to 400), and is currently serving consecutive life sentences at New Jersey State Prison.
Fictional and real-life nurses Redmayne and Loughren attended a post-screening Q&A with Stephen Colbert at the film festival. The event was part of a lineup at the Wellmont Theater that showcased two major films based on real New Jersey stories — both “The Good Nurse” and “The Inspection,” the narrative feature directorial debut of Jersey’s Elegance Bratton.
Redmayne was presented with the Montclair Film Festival’s 2022 award for performance of the year. He dedicated the honor to the nurses who worked with Loughren and Cullen.
The actor, who won an Oscar in 2015 for playing another real person, Stephen Hawking, in “The Theory of Everything,” talked about how he got into the stooped physicality of Cullen, which made the nurse look like a question mark, according to Charles Graeber, author of the 2013 book “The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder,” from which the movie is adapted.
“When you’re playing real people, you never get it right,” said Redmayne, 40. “It’s not documentary.”
Both Redmayne and Chastain attended a truncated version of “nurse school” to prepare for the film, learning things like proper form for CPR.
Colbert, whose wife, Evelyn “Evie” McGee-Colbert, is president of the Montclair Film board of trustees, riffed on Redmayne’s American accent in the film.
“I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, you have a British accent,” said the “Late Show” host, 58, who lives in Montclair. “It’s quite pronounced.”
From there, he touched on the actor’s subtle Jersey accent for the film.
“Could you please yell the word ‘Bruce’?” he asked Redmayne. The actor, who would ride to work listening to recordings of Cullen’s voice, said the praise comes as a relief after working with a dialect coach.
But Loughren, who hadn’t been billed for the Q&A that night, got some of the warmest applause of the evening. Colbert thanked her for saving lives.
She became a confidential informant to help detectives from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office investigate Cullen. After he was arrested in 2003, she aided police in getting him to confess to his crimes.
However, Loughren, who started working as a nurse 40 years ago, long held guilt for not realizing more quickly that her friend was sending patients to their deaths. Seeing someone else tell her story finally offered some measure of catharsis.
“I was for the first time able to forgive myself, watching Jessica up there on screen,” Loughren, 57, said of Chastain’s performance.
“The Good Nurse” director Tobias Lindholm joined Redmayne, Loughren and Colbert for the film talk.
The Danish filmmaker (Oscar-nominated “A War”) makes his American film debut with the New Jersey-set drama. His movie that’s been in the works since 2016, with a script from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns (”1917,” “Last Night in Soho”).
Lindholm, 45, said the approach seen in “The Good Nurse” wasn’t an easy sell for studios — having a story that wasn’t focused on the serial killer, but instead the friendship between the hero and the killer (which is a smaller part of Graeber’s book).
In Loughren’s story, Lindholm said he saw the example set by his own mother and other had-working single parents who fight the good fight to change systems.
Loughren, as shown in the film, had to face the ills of the American health care system on two fronts: one, as a patient with a chronic heart condition and unmanageable health care costs, and two, as a hospital employee facing the silence of an administration that seemed more interested in covering up Cullen’s destruction as she tried to bring the truth to light.
“What you see on the screen is very real,” Loughren said, talking about a hospital risk manager shown trying to sweep Cullen’s misdeeds under the rug in the film and send him along to his next job.
“She was promoted after that ... once we started to capitalize on people’s suffering here in this country, we lost our soul.”
Lost — and found.
In a Q&A for A24′s “The Inspection,” director Elegance Bratton talked about finding his way as an artist and storyteller after joining the Marines changed the course of his life.
The Montclair Film Festival presented Bratton, 43, with its breakthrough director and writer award for the film, in theaters Nov. 18.
When Bratton told the audience he shot the film in just 19 days, gasps were audible.
Emmy and Tony nominee Jeremy Pope (”Pose”) stars in a searing performance as Ellis French, a gay Marine who enters basic training when “don’t ask, don’t tell” is still law. (That changed in 2011 after former President Barack Obama signed a bill to repeal it.)
“It’s always been hard for me to come to this medium and to see myself,” Bratton said. “It’s very rare that queer Black characters actually get to be a hero, so Jeremy (who is gay) and I would speak often about what it would mean to us at 15 years old to have a movie like this.”
French’s story is Bratton’s own.
The director, a Jersey City native who grew up in Phillipsburg (a place Cullen, who hails from West Orange, once also called home), based the script on his real-life experience being rejected by his mother and forced to live on his own.
The movie is dedicated to his mother, who died just after the film got the green light. Gabrielle Union plays her in the film.
Beyond the actor’s electric presence on screen, Union’s performance gave him a gift — closure.
“I was kicked out of my house when I was 16 years old for being gay,” Bratton said, introducing the film, which opens in Trenton and was filmed in Mississippi. “I spent the next 10 years homeless, and when I joined the Marines, I thought I was completely worthless. I thought my life had no meaning. And then I was fortunate enough to have a drill instructor remind me that my value was high, because I had the ability to protect the Marine to my left and to my right. This is why I made the film.
“This movie is for anyone who’s ever felt downtrodden,” he continued. “Anyone who’s ever been (overlooked) and undervalued, and anyone who understands and is moved by the unbreakable bond between mothers and sons. I hope by the end of this viewing experience, you’re reminded that your power lies in your ability to protect one another.”
Bratton became a combat filmmaker when he was in the Marines before studying at Columbia University and attending film school at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He went on to create the 2018 Vice reality series “My House,” set in New York’s ballroom culture.
His 2019 documentary “Pier Kids,” which won the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards’ Truer than Fiction Award, follows homeless LGBTQ youth at New York’s Christopher Street Pier over a period of five years.
The title of “The Inspection” refers to both the inspection of Marines under the watchful eyes of drill instructors as well as a broader test of masculinity, Bratton said.
“For me, this is about sharing with all of you the power of radical and defining empathy,” the director said.
The ultimate message?
“You are enough.”
The Montclair Film Festival continues through Oct. 30; montclairfilm.org. “The Good Nurse” is now in select theaters and on Netflix Oct. 26. “The Inspection” will be in theaters Nov. 18.
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Amy Kuperinsky may be reached at akuperinsky@njadvancemedia.com and followed at @AmyKup on Twitter.
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2022-10-23T19:36:49+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/10/the-good-nurse-star-eddie-redmayne-the-inspection-director-elegance-bratton-honored-for-real-nj-stories.html
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean organizers of a regional rugby tournament have apologized for mistakenly playing a song embraced by Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters as China’s national anthem, an incident that sparked strong reaction from the city’s government.
“Glory to Hong Kong” — whose lyrics call for democracy and liberty — was played before the men’s finals between South Korea and Hong Kong in the second leg of the Asian Rugby Seven Series in Incheon, just west of Seoul, on Sunday.
Video of the song playing at the tournament went viral on social media in Hong Kong, where the song composed by a local musician and sung by demonstrators during widespread anti-government protests in 2019 is now highly sensitive.
The Hong Kong government early Monday issued a strongly worded statement to express its dissatisfaction over the incident. “The national anthem is a symbol of our country. The organizer of the tournament has a duty to ensure that the national anthem receives the respect it warranted,” a government spokesperson said.
The Seoul-based Korea Rugby Union said later Monday that the wrong song was played because of a human error and it wasn’t politically motivated.
Union officials said they’ve apologized to the Asia Rugby Union as well as to the Hong Kong and Chinese sides. They said staff of the mainland Chinese team also competing at the tournament notified them of the error.
The organizers announced an apology both in Korean and English at the stadium after the game, and the official Chinese national anthem was played for the winning Hong Kong team during the award ceremony, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to media on the matter.
According to the officials, a person handing the playing of the national anthems accidentally chose the protesters’ song saved in a computer file folder named “Hong Kong.” They had mistakenly saved that song without knowing it’s linked to protesters before each tournament competitor submitted the recordings of their countries’ respective anthems, the officials said.
Asia Rugby also apologized to the Hong Kong Rugby Union and the governments of Hong Kong and China, adding the song mistakenly played was downloaded from the internet.
While the Hong Kong Rugby Union accepted it was a case of human error, it said the mistake was still unacceptable. Pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong also voiced their discontent, with some demanding an investigation to see whether it was a deliberate act.
Ronny Tong, a member of the Executive Council — Hong Kong’s Cabinet — said if the mistake was unintended, the act would not constitute a criminal offense. But if an investigation later proves it was a deliberate act, those involved could face legal consequences linked to the city’s sedition charge, the National Security Law or the National Anthem Ordinance depending on the results, the veteran lawyer said.
The sweeping security law was imposed by Beijing in 2020 to crack down on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. It criminalizes succession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces. The National Anthem Ordinance penalizes insults to the Chinese national anthem.
In 2019, thousands of Hong Kong soccer fans booed loudly at the Chinese national anthem when the song was played before a World Cup qualifier match. The crowd broke out into singing “Glory to Hong Kong” at the event and brought the city’s protests into the sports realm.
In September, a man who paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II near the British Consulate in Hong Kong was arrested for sedition. Local media reported he had played songs on a harmonica including “Glory to Hong Kong.”
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Leung reported from Hong Kong.
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2022-11-14T12:58:15+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-protest-song-played-for-hong-kong-rugby-team-in-south-korea/
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KCCI Archive: 2009 April blizzard left people stranded on the highway
KCCI Archive: 2009 April blizzard left people stranded on the highway
It's *** typical spring storm. Typical is one way to describe the winter weather that made its return Sunday. It's April, isn't it? You know, we shouldn't have blizzard like this in April, but instead of spring like weather, it was snow that covered most of central Iowa in just *** few hours. You know, it's been *** long time since we've had one that comes so fast and dumped this amount of snow. This fast conditions to the north got so bad. The Iowa State Patrol had to shut down part of I 35 between Story city and highway 20 snowed so much up here that traffic apparently is having trouble getting up the hill here. One traveler found himself stuck in the snowy backup in what was supposed to be *** short trip. Well, we thought we'd take *** fun Sunday drive and see how the weather was and take our recyclables back up to Ellsworth about *** 15 minute drive normally. And, and unfortunately, we got stranded on the interstate for about an hour and while parts of North central Iowa saw blizzard warnings, it was *** much different story in the metro with many people making the most of the cold and snow. We've had *** lot worse than this. Well, it's Iowa. If you enjoy the weather in that way, you live here. If you don't, you move on while it's not perfect spring weather, it turned out to be good weather to make *** snow fort. Although Lars and his friends didn't think they'd be wearing hats and gloves in April. I'm looking forward to wearing shorts all spring. Those shorts will have to wait until all the snow melts away. I just wish it wouldn't snow anymore. MEREDITH Garman K News Channel eight. Iowa's news leader.
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KCCI Archive: 2009 April blizzard left people stranded on the highway
In April of 2009, Iowans were in for a surprise. Snow covered central Iowa in just a few hours.The Iowa State Patrol had to shut down part of Interstate 35 between Story City and Highway 20 because of the blizzard conditions.On the other hand, the snow was great for making snow forts.Watch the video above to see how this late-season blizzard caught Iowans by surprise.
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In April of 2009, Iowans were in for a surprise. Snow covered central Iowa in just a few hours.
The Iowa State Patrol had to shut down part of Interstate 35 between Story City and Highway 20 because of the blizzard conditions.
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On the other hand, the snow was great for making snow forts.
Watch the video above to see how this late-season blizzard caught Iowans by surprise.
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2023-04-03T14:00:38+00:00
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kcci.com
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https://www.kcci.com/article/april-blizzard-left-people-stranded-on-the-highway/43493832
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CINCINNATI, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc. ("Meridian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VIVO), a leading global provider of diagnostic testing solutions and life science raw materials, today provided preliminary results for its third quarter of fiscal 2022.
For the third quarter of fiscal 2022, preliminary unaudited net revenues are expected to be between $66 million and $69 million. The Diagnostics segment net revenues are expected to be between $41 million and $43 million. The Life Science segment net revenues are expected to be between $25 million and $26 million, of which sales of immunological reagents accounted for approximately 69% and molecular reagents contributed approximately 31%.
Meridian has not yet completed preparation of its interim financial statements for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 and the information presented herein is a preliminary estimate, subject to change.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor from civil litigation for forward-looking statements accompanied by meaningful cautionary statements. Except for historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which may be identified by words such as "continues", "estimates", "anticipates", "projects", "plans", "seeks", "may", "will", "expects", "intends", "believes", "signals", "should", "can", "guidance" and similar expressions or the negative versions thereof and which also may be identified by their context. All statements that address operating performance or events or developments that Meridian Bioscience, Inc. ("Meridian" or "the Company") expects or anticipates will occur in the future, including, but not limited to, statements relating to per share diluted net earnings, sales, product demand, net revenues, operating margin, other guidance and the impact of COVID-19 on its business and prospects, are forward-looking statements. Such statements, whether expressed or implied, are based upon current expectations of the Company and speak only as of the date made. Specifically, Meridian's forward-looking statements are, and will be, based on management's then-current views and assumptions regarding future events and operating performance. Meridian assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied therein will not be realized. These statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, without limitation, the following:
Meridian's operating results, financial condition and continued growth depends, in part, on its ability to introduce into the marketplace enhancements of existing products or new products that incorporate technological advances, meet customer requirements and respond to products developed by Meridian's competition, its ability to effectively sell such products and its ability to successfully expand and effectively manage increased sales and marketing operations. While Meridian has introduced a number of internally developed products and acquired products, there can be no assurance that it will be successful in the future in introducing such products on a timely basis or in protecting its intellectual property, and unexpected or costly manufacturing costs associated with its introduction of new products or acquired products could cause actual results to differ from expectations. Meridian relies on proprietary, patented and licensed technologies. As such, the Company's ability to protect its intellectual property rights, as well as the potential for intellectual property litigation, would impact its results. Ongoing consolidations of reference laboratories and formation of multi-hospital alliances may cause adverse changes to pricing and distribution. Recessionary pressures on the economy and the markets in which the Company's customers operate, as well as adverse trends in buying patterns from customers, can change expected results. Costs and difficulties in complying with laws and regulations, including those administered by the United States Food and Drug Administration, and in complying with the ongoing investigation of the Department of Justice described in Meridian's reports filed with the SEC, can result in unanticipated expenses and delays and interruptions to the sale of new and existing products, as can the uncertainty of regulatory approvals and the regulatory process. The international scope of Meridian's operations, including changes in the relative strength or weakness of the U.S. dollar and general economic conditions in foreign countries, can impact results and make them difficult to predict. One of Meridian's growth strategies is the acquisition of companies and product lines. There can be no assurance that additional acquisitions will be consummated or that, if consummated, will be successful and that the acquired businesses will be successfully integrated into Meridian's operations.
There may be risks that acquisitions may disrupt operations and may pose potential difficulties in employee retention, and there may be additional risks with respect to Meridian's ability to recognize the benefits of acquisitions, including potential synergies and cost savings or the failure of acquisitions to achieve their plans and objectives. Meridian cannot predict the outcome of future goodwill impairment testing and the impact of possible goodwill impairments on Meridian's earnings and financial results. Meridian cannot predict the possible impact of any modification or repeal of any of the provisions of current U.S. health care legislation, and any similar initiatives in other countries on Meridian's results of operations. Efforts to reduce the U.S. federal deficit, breaches of Meridian's information technology systems, trade wars, increased tariffs, and natural disasters and other events could have a materially adverse effect on Meridian's results of operations and net revenues. The Company can make no assurances that a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting will not be identified in the future, which if identified and not properly corrected, could materially and adversely affect its operations and result in material misstatements in its consolidated financial statements. Meridian also is subject to risks and uncertainties related to disruptions to or reductions in business operations or prospects due to pandemics, epidemics, widespread health emergencies, or outbreaks of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, including, without limitation, related supply chain interruptions. In addition to the factors described in this paragraph, as well as those factors identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Part I, Item 1A Risk Factors of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K contains a list and description of uncertainties, risks and other matters that may affect the Company. Readers should carefully review these forward-looking statements and risk factors, and not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements.
About Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
Meridian is a fully integrated life science company that develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic products. We are dedicated to developing and delivering better solutions that give answers with speed, accuracy, and simplicity that are redefining the possibilities of life from discovery to diagnosis. Through discovery and development, we provide critical life science raw materials used in immunological and molecular tests for human, animal, plant, and environmental applications. Through diagnosis, we provide diagnostic solutions in areas including gastrointestinal and upper respiratory infections and blood lead level testing. We build relationships and provide solutions to hospitals, reference laboratories, research centers, veterinary testing centers, physician offices, diagnostics manufacturers, and biotech companies in more than 70 countries around the world.
Meridian's shares are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, symbol VIVO. Meridian's website address is www.meridianbioscience.com.
Investor Contact:
Charlie Wood
Vice President – Investor Relations
Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
Phone: +1 513.271.3700
Email: mbi@meridianbioscience.com
Media Contact:
Bryan Locke / Monique Sidhom
FGS Global
Email: MeridianBioscience-FGS@sardverb.com
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2022-07-07T11:54:48+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/07/07/meridian-bioscience-announces-preliminary-results-fiscal-2022-third-quarter/
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The report also finds that Louisiana, Texas, and Kentucky offer the worst retirement benefits for new teachers
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Equable Institute measuring the adequacy of retirement benefits for K–12 public school teachers in America finds that South Carolina and Tennessee are the top two states for new teachers to enroll in retirement benefits. The report also reveals that Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky are the worst states for new teachers when it comes to retirement income security.
The rankings come from The Best U.S. States for New Teacher Retirement Benefits, a special report providing deeper insights from analysis initially published in Equable's Retirement Security Report: Teacher Edition. All 50 States and Washington D.C. are ranked by the best plan available to new teachers based on Equable's open-source Retirement Benefits Score methodology. Expanded rankings with scores specific to worker tenure are also available in the report.
The Retirement Benefits Score measures the adequacy of retirement benefits for workers on three primary metrics – Eligibility, Income Adequacy (based on a 70% pre-retirement income replacement rate), and Flexibility & Mobility – to determine if states are providing a path to retirement income security.
This rankings approach focuses on the best plan available to new teachers in each state. In most states, there is just one retirement plan available to teachers. But in nearly a dozen states teachers do have options, and this approach simply uses the highest scoring plan among those options. In Equable's special report, states are also ranked based on the average Retirement Benefits Score for all retirement plans available in a given state. The report also provides an overview of choices available to teachers in the select states where those are offered.
"As states grapple with how to address challenges with building a quality primary school workforce in today's pandemic-shaped labor market, it is incumbent on policymakers to consider whether the value of their retirement plans is really making a difference in recruiting new teachers, particularly those of younger generations and marginalized identities who typically are less likely to work a full career in one state" said Anthony Randazzo, executive director at Equable Institute. "Most people aren't becoming teachers for the retirement benefits, but to the degree that compensation packages can attract talent coming out of graduate programs certain states are much better positioned than others."
To dive deeper into the full Retirement Security Report Teacher Edition (2022), which offers insight into the full landscape of teacher retirement benefits, the value of teacher pensions over time, and best practices in retirement plan design, visit http://equable.org/rsrteacheredition.
The Retirement Security Report Teacher Edition is an extension of the first iteration of Equable's Retirement Security Report (RSR) released last year. The RSR is a universe of in-depth research, interactive tools and other resources to shed light on the quality and value of retirement benefits for all public workers. All RSR projects are based on data from our comprehensive benefit database of retirement plans offered to public workers and use an open-source scoring methodology that accounts for three primary criteria: Eligibility, Income Adequacy (based on a 70% pre-retirement income replacement rate), and Flexibility & Mobility.
Equable is a bipartisan non-profit that works with public retirement system stakeholders to solve complex pension funding challenges with data-driven solutions. We exist to support public sector workers in understanding how their retirement systems can be improved, and to help state and local governments find ways to both fix threats to municipal finance stability and ensure the retirement security of all public servants.
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2022-06-29T14:06:23+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/06/29/ranking-south-carolina-tennessee-are-best-states-new-teacher-retirement-benefits/
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Boulder should highs in the 80s with a chance of rain today, according to the National Weather Service.
Today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with a high of 88 and an overnight low of 61. There is a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3 p.m.
Wednesday’s forecast calls for partly sunny skies with a high of 89 and an overnight low of 61. There is a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon.
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2022-07-26T12:48:46+00:00
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dailycamera.com
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https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/07/26/boulder-weather-forecast-15/
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WASHINGTON — The Mega Millions jackpot is up for grabs once again, with $494 million on the line for Friday's drawing.
The numbers are in for Friday's Mega Millions jackpot, after several months without a grand prize winner. The lottery game says this is its second-largest jackpot this year.
The winning numbers for Friday's $494 million prize were 9-22-26-41-44, Mega Ball 19 and Megaplier 2.
With no big winner from Tuesday night's drawing, the jackpot rose to $494 million — $247.9 million if the winner takes the more popular cash payout.
Mega Millions hasn't seen a winner since July 29, when a single ticket sold in a Chicago suburb won a $1.337 billion prize.
In order to win the Mega Millions grand prize, a player needs to match all five numbers and the gold Mega Ball number. Players face astronomical odds for a jackpot win: 1 in 302.5 million.
If there are no winners on Friday's drawing, players will have another chance to go for the enlarged jackpot on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
Meanwhile, Powerball has an estimated $454 million jackpot up for grabs on Saturday as its own winless streak continues, inching the jackpot closer to the top 10 largest Powerball jackpots ever won. The cash value on the prize is $232.6 million.
Nobody won the Powerball jackpot Wednesday, but three tickets from Wednesday night's drawing won $250,000 after matching four numbers and the Powerball, along with having the "Power Play" feature that multiplied the prize by five times. Those tickets were bought in Colorado, Idaho and Texas.
While Mega Millions and Powerball both hit jackpots over $400 million this week, neither come close to last summer's near-record $1.377 billion Mega Millions jackpot that had Americans in a lottery frenzy in July. A winner in Illinois took home the grand prize. Two people came forward last month to claim it but chose to stay anonymous.
Megan Divers contributed to this report.
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2022-10-15T03:33:47+00:00
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11alive.com
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https://www.11alive.com/article/news/lottery/mega-millions-jackpot-494-million-dollars-oct-14/507-bc091673-14b4-4d75-9af7-d3917b73ab91
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ross R. Moody, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of National Western Life Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NWLI), announced today first quarter 2022 consolidated net earnings of $36.2 million, or $10.23 per diluted Class A common share, compared with consolidated net earnings of $62.1 million, or $17.57 per diluted Class A common share, for the first quarter of 2021. The Company's book value per share as of March 31, 2022 was $632.00.
Total revenues declined 42% in the quarter ended March 31, 2022 from the level reported in the first quarter of 2021 due to a decline in investment income caused by unrealized investment losses. Net investment income in the first quarter of 2022, including unrealized investment gains and losses, was $69.7 million as compared to $166.1 million in the first quarter of 2021. Mr. Moody observed, "The combination of higher interest rates and lower equity market performance substantially effected the fair values used to report the Company's investments this quarter."
The Company reported that index options purchased to hedge the crediting rate mechanism in its equity-indexed life and annuity products swung from an unrealized gain of $28.0 million in the first quarter of 2021 to an unrealized loss of $38.2 million in the first quarter of 2022. In addition, the Company's debt security investment portfolio shifted from an unrealized gain position of $476.0 million at December 31, 2021 to an unrealized loss of $155.3 million at March 31, 2022. Mr. Moody indicated, "The decrease in the Company's book value per share during the quarter is entirely due to the unrealized losses recorded on debt securities. The Company's core book value, without unrealized gains and losses on debt securities, exhibited a healthy increase during the first quarter."
The Company reported that net earnings for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 included improvement in claim experience over the first quarter in the prior year. Mr. Moody noted, "Claims reported which indicated the cause of death as COVID-19 decreased nearly 60% in the first quarter this year from that of last year. There is industry speculation regarding the completeness of COVID-19 death claim reporting, but the trend is headed in the right direction."
National Western Life Group, Inc. is the parent organization of National Western Life Insurance Company, which is the parent organization of Ozark National Life Insurance Company, both stock life insurance companies in aggregate offering a broad portfolio of individual universal life, whole life and term insurance plans, as well as annuity products. At March 31, 2022, the Company maintained consolidated total assets of $13.8 billion, consolidated stockholders' equity of $2.3 billion, and combined life insurance in force of $20.6 billion.
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release contains statements which are or may be viewed as forward-looking within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 2005. Forward-looking statements relate to future operations, strategies, financial results or other developments, and are subject to assumptions, risks, and uncertainties. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements can be found in the Company's Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statement was made and the Company undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that other factors not currently anticipated by the Company will not materially and adversely affect our results of operations. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf.
Summary of Consolidated Financial Results (Unaudited)
(In thousands except per share data)
Investor Relations Contact:
Brian M. Pribyl - Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
(512) 836-1010
bpribyl@nationalwesternlife.com
www.nwlgi.com
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2022-05-10T19:42:56+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/05/10/national-western-life-group-inc-announces-2022-first-quarter-earnings/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A franchise player out for the season. A first-year head coach. A 1-12 start. The New Orleans Pelicans overcame it all and stormed back to make the playoffs.
Brandon Ingram scored 30 points and the Pelicans rallied from a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the depleted Los Angeles Clippers 105-101 in a play-in Friday night and earn the West’s No. 8 seed.
“That win was big-time,” Pelicans coach Willie Green said.
New Orleans blew a 16-point lead in the first half and didn’t grab the lead for good until the game’s final 4 1/2 minutes.
“It was an emotional game, a ton of highs and lows,” Green said. “But for us, our mentality is we’re going to continue to fight. We’re not going to fade out.”
The Pelicans made the playoffs for the first time since 2017-18, guided by Green, a former Clipper. They’ve been without Zion Williamson all season because of a foot injury.
“Starting off 1-12 and 3-16, you’re thinking when is it going to pick up?” rookie Trey Murphy said. “Being my first year, I don’t know what winning is like. Look at us now.”
CJ McCollum added 19 points and Larry Nance Jr. had 14 points and 16 rebounds for New Orleans, which will play No. 1 seed Phoenix in the first round. Game 1 is Sunday in the desert.
“This team is resilient,” said Nance, who was traded, along with McCollum, from Portland in February and recently returned from knee surgery. “They started 1-12. That’s so hard to pick yourself up from. I’ve been in seasons like that, it’s hard to keep going and keep striving for it.”
The Clippers were dealt a huge blow earlier in the day when Paul George entered the league’s health and safety protocols. They’d already been without Kawhi Leonard all season while he rehabbed an ACL injury. He watched from the bench early in the game.
Marcus Morris and Reggie Jackson each had 27 points for the Clippers.
“I am disappointed in us not being able to make the playoffs, no matter who was playing,” said Clippers coach Tyronn Lue, who is missing the postseason for the first time as a head coach.
The Pelicans shot 57% in the first half and were better on the boards, in the paint and off the bench. They led by 16 in the second quarter before the Clippers cut their deficit to 56-46 at halftime.
The Clippers roared back in the third, outscoring the Pelicans 38-18. They opened with a 20-2 run that had the crowd on its feet. Jackson scored 10 points and Morris added six in the spurt.
Robert Covington started the third in place of 7-footer Ivica Zubac and his three-point play gave the Clippers a 75-62 lead, their largest of the game.
Ingram scored five of the Pelicans’ final 12 points to send them into the fourth trailing 84-74.
“Just having faith in each other and staying connected,” Green said of the Pelicans’ mindset. “Knowing we took their best shot and we’re only down 10 going into the fourth.”
That’s when New Orleans staged a rally of its own.
After the Clippers scored to go up by 13 points, the Pelicans ran off 11 straight points and then McCollum hit a 3-pointer to tie it, 88-all.
Murphy hit his second 3-pointer of the quarter for another tie at 94-all.
That sparked a 10-0 run that gave the Pelicans a 101-94 lead, capped by Murphy’s 3-pointer that bounced on the rim and went in. He was one of three rookies who contributed.
“Murphy had huge stones to come in and make those big shots they needed when they were struggling to score the basketball,” Lue said.
The Clippers twice closed within two in the final 1:17, but they missed 2 of 4 free throws and Jackson and Morris missed shots down the stretch to see their season slip away.
“I thought our guys got a little tired,” Lue said. “We didn’t continue to keep attacking.”
The Clippers, who made the Western Conference finals for the first time in franchise history last year, also were missing Luke Kennard. The league’s 3-point percentage leader didn’t play because of a sore right hamstring that kept him out of the loss at Minnesota on Tuesday in the team’s first play-in game.
TIP-INS
Pelicans: They had won the season series, 3-1.
Clippers: Hadn’t missed the playoffs since 2017-18 season. … Nicolas Batum and Terance Mann started in place of George and Kennard … Lawrence Frank, president of basketball operations, said Leonard “continues to progress with his rehab,” but there is no timetable for his return.
UP NEXT
The Pelicans were 1-3 against the Suns this season.
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2022-04-17T04:31:26+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/pelicans-earn-105-101-win-over-clippers-claim-no-8-seed/
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The future of Bend firefighters is now in the hands of voters.
The department recently hired more staff, but is at risk of losing money for payroll.
Bend City Council approved a 5-year $65 million operational levy to be out on the ballot come May.
The levy will provide funding for current and additional staff if approved by voters come to the May election.
“We need to make sure that we are keeping pace with the increased calls for service,” said Bend and Fire Rescue Chief Todd Riley.
Bend Fire and Rescue Chief Todd Riley says in the last ten years, call volume has gone up 60%, and Bend has grown roughly 30% in that same timeframe
The fire department is asking for a 5-year $65 million operational levy to offset the increased volume.
The current tax rate is 20 cents per $1,000 of assessed taxable value.
If passed, that would more than triple the tax rate, going from 20 cents to 76 cents.
“The reason for the increase is because of the cost of doing business has gone up, and our revenue has not changed. So essentially, we’re operating with revenue from 2014,” said Riley.
Bend fire says approving a new levy is necessary to allow Bend Fire and Rescue to prevent response times from increasing, and to continue to provide fire and emergency medical services to the community at an acceptable level of service.
The levy will provide ongoing funding for nine firefighters/paramedics and add six firefighters/paramedics and three emergency medical technicians.
“As well as add enough staff for an advanced life support ambulance, which would give us a total of four in the city of Bend and for the amount of EMS calls that we run that need is today.”
City Council approved the five-year $65 million local operating levy to be on this May’s ballot where the voters decide.
“We rely on community support to operate and we’re thankful for the support in the past levees,” said Riley. “We’re hoping that we get supported in this levee and we’re not asking for anything that we don’t immediately need.”
The levy had three chances to make it past voters: once this may, again in November and again in May 2024.
▶️ Bend Fire hires 9 new firefighters in hopes of securing levy
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2023-02-16T09:50:25+00:00
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centraloregondaily.com
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https://centraloregondaily.com/%E2%96%B6%EF%B8%8F-5-year-65-million-bend-fire-operational-levy-heading-to-may-ballot/
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PHOENIX (AP) — Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused Monday to certify the 2022 election despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count, a decision that was quickly challenged in court by the state’s top election official.
The refusal to certify by Cochise County in southeastern Arizona comes amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject results showing Democrats winning top races.
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who narrowly won the race for governor, asked a judge to order county officials to canvass the election, which she said is an obligation under Arizona law. Lawyers representing a Cochise County voter and a group of retirees filed a similar lawsuit Monday, the deadline for counties to approve the official tally of votes, known as the canvass.
The two Republican county supervisors delayed the canvass vote until Friday, when they want to hear once more about concerns over the certification of ballot tabulators, though election officials have repeatedly said the equipment is properly approved.
State Elections Director Kori Lorick wrote in a letter last week that Hobbs is required by law to approve the statewide canvass by next week and will have to exclude Cochise County’s votes if they aren’t received in time.
That would threaten to flip the victor in at least two close races — a U.S. House seat and state schools chief — from a Republican to a Democrat.
Hobbs’ lawsuit asks the Cochise County Superior Court to order officials to certify by Thursday. Failing to certify would undermine the will of the county’s voters “and sow further confusion and doubt about the integrity of Arizona’s election system,” lawyers for Hobbs wrote.
“The Board of Supervisors had all of the information they needed to certify this election and failed to uphold their responsibility for Cochise voters,” Sophia Solis, a spokeswoman for Hobbs, said in an email.
Arizona law requires county officials to approve the election canvass, and lawyers in several counties warned Republican supervisors they could face criminal charges for failing to carry out their obligations.
Election results have largely been certified without issue in jurisdictions across the country. That’s not been the case in Arizona, which was a focal point for efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election and push false narratives of fraud.
Officials in a northeastern Pennsylvania county where paper shortages caused Election Day ballot problems deadlocked Monday on whether to report official vote tallies to the state, effectively preventing their certification of the results.
Arizona was long a GOP stronghold, but this month Democrats won most of the highest profile races over Republicans who aggressively promoted Trump’s 2020 election lies. Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for governor who lost to Hobbs, and Mark Finchem, the candidate for secretary of state, have refused to acknowledge their losses.
They blame Republican election officials in Maricopa County, the state’s largest, including metro Phoenix, for a problem with some ballot printers. Officials in Maricopa County said everyone had a chance to vote and all legal ballots were counted.
Navajo, a rural Republican-leaning county, and Coconino, which is staunchly Democratic, voted to certify on Monday. In conservative Mohave and Yavapai counties, supervisors voted to canvass the results despite their own misgivings and several dozen speakers urging them not to.
“Delaying this vote again will only prolong the agony without actually changing anything,” said Mohave County Supervisor Hildy Angius, a Republican. The county last week delayed its certification vote to register a protest against voting issues in Maricopa County.
In Cochise County, GOP supervisors abandoned plans to hand count all ballots, which a court said would be illegal, but demanded last week that the secretary of state prove vote-counting machines were legally certified before they would approve the election results. On Monday, they said they wanted to hear again about those concerns.
There are two companies that are accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to conduct testing and certification of voting equipment, such as the electronic tabulators used in Arizona to read and count ballots.
Conspiracy theories surrounding this process surfaced in early 2021, focused on what appeared to be an outdated accreditation certificate for one of the companies that was posted online. Federal officials investigated and reported that an administrative error had resulted in the agency failing to reissue an updated certificate as the company remained in good standing and underwent audits in 2018 and in early 2021.
Officials also noted federal law dictates the only way a testing company can lose certification is for the commission to revoke it, which did not occur.
Lake has pointed to problems on Election Day in Maricopa County, where printers at some vote centers produced ballots with markings that were too light to be read by on-site tabulators. Lines backed up amid the confusion, and Lake says an unknown number of her supporters may have been dissuaded from voting as a result.
She filed a public records lawsuit last week, demanding the county produce documents shedding light on the issue before voting to certify the election on Monday. Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich also demanded an explanation ahead of the vote.
The county responded on Sunday, saying nobody was prevented from voting, and 85% of vote centers never had lines longer than 45 minutes. Most vote centers with long lines had others nearby with shorter waits, county officials said.
The response blamed prominent Republicans, including party chair Kelli Ward, for sowing confusion by telling supporters on Twitter not to place their ballots in a secure box to be tabulated later by more robust machines at county elections headquarters.
The county said that just under 17,000 Election Day ballots were placed in those secure boxes and all were counted. Officials also said the problem was distributed across the county, dispelling claims by Lake that it was concentrated in Republican areas. Election Day ballots went overwhelmingly for Republicans, though only 16% of the 1.56 million votes cast in Maricopa County were made in-person on Election Day.
Maricopa County supervisors heard for hours from dozens of people angry about the election, some demanding the county hold a revote, though there is no provision in state law allowing that. Supervisors unanimously approved the canvass.
“This was not a perfect election,” said Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates, a Republican. “But it was safe and secure. The votes have been counted accurately.”
Meanwhile, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Randall Warner said he would decide in the next few days whether to allow an election challenge by Abraham Hamadeh, the Republican candidate for Arizona attorney general, to move ahead.
Warner, who was appointed to the court in 2007 by Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, spoke after a Monday afternoon hearing. Hamadeh filed the lawsuit earlier this month against his opponent, Democrat Kris Mayes, who holds a 510-vote lead in the race, along with every county recorder in Arizona and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who is now governor-elect.
The lawsuit alleges errors and inaccuracies at some voting centers and seeks to have Hamadeh installed as attorney general. A lawyer for Mayes says the suit is premature.
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2022-11-29T15:44:04+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/gop-controlled-arizona-county-refuses-to-certify-election/
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo") (NYSE: WFC) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Wells Fargo, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Wells Fargo includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: August 29, 2022
Aggrieved Wells Fargo investors only have until August 29, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
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2022-08-01T10:53:43+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/08/01/class-action-alert-law-offices-vincent-wong-remind-wells-fargo-investors-lead-plaintiff-deadline-august-29-2022/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will send $1.8 billion in military aid to Ukraine in a massive package that will for the first time include a Patriot missile battery and precision guided bombs for their fighter jets, U.S. officials said Tuesday, as the Biden administration prepares to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Washington.
U.S. officials described details of the aid on condition of anonymity because it has not yet been announced. The aid signals an expansion by the U.S. in the kinds of advanced weaponry it will send to Ukraine to bolster the country’s air defenses against what has been an increasing barrage of Russian missile strikes.
The package, which was expected to be announced Wednesday, will include about $1 billion in weapons from Pentagon stocks and another $800 million in funding through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which funds weapons, ammunition, training and other assistance, officials said.
Zelenskyy and other Ukraine officials have pressed Western leaders to provide more advanced weapons, including the Patriots, to help their country in its war with Russia. The Patriot would be the most advanced surface-to-air missile system the West has provided to Ukraine to help repel Russian aerial attacks. The timing of the military aid announcement — as Zelenskyy makes his first trip out of Ukraine since the war began — sends a strong message of continued U.S. support for Ukraine as the war drags on.
The aid comes as Congress is poised to approve another $44.9 billion in assistance for Ukraine as part of a massive spending bill. That would ensure that U.S. support will continue next year and beyond as Republicans take control of the House in January. Some GOP lawmakers have expressed wariness about the assistance.
The decision to send the Patriot battery comes despite threats from Russia’s Foreign Ministry that the delivery of the advanced surface-to-air missile system would be considered a provocative step and that the Patriot and any crews accompanying it would be a legitimate target for Moscow’s military.
It’s not clear exactly when the Patriot would arrive on the front lines in Ukraine, since U.S. troops will have to train Ukrainian forces on how to use the high-tech system. The training could take several weeks, and is expected to be done at the Grafenwoehr training area in Germany. To date, all training of Ukraine forces by the U.S. and the West has taken place in European countries.
Also included in the package will be an undisclosed number of Joint Direct Attack Munitions kits, or JDAMs, officials said. The kits will be used to modify massive bombs by adding tail fins and precision navigation systems so that rather than being simply dropped from a fighter jet onto a target, they can be released and guided to a target.
U.S. fighter and bomber aircraft use the JDAMs, and the Pentagon has been working to modify them so they can be used by Ukraine.
The U.S. so far has been reluctant to provide Ukraine with American fighter jets. Russia has warned the the advanced aircraft would be considered provocative, and the U.S. to date has said other weaponry would be a better fit, citing the significant maintenance and training needs for those warplanes.
So instead of providing Ukraine those U.S. aircraft, the Pentagon is helping Kyiv find innovative ways to upgrade its fleet with the same capabilities it would get with a U.S. fighter jet.
The aid package will also include an undisclosed number of rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, thousands of artillery and mortar rounds, trucks, and HARM air-to-surface anti-radiation missiles.
According to officials, the urgent pleadings of Ukrainian leaders and the devastating destruction of the country’s civilian infrastructure, including loss of electricity and heat during winter, ultimately overcame U.S. reservations about supplying the Patriots.
White House and Pentagon leaders have said consistently that providing Ukraine with additional air defenses is a priority, and Patriot missiles have been under consideration for some time. Officials said that as the winter closed in and the Russian bombardment of civilian infrastructure escalated, that consideration took on increased priority.
U.S. officials had balked at providing the Patriots to Ukraine because they could be considered a escalation that would trigger a response from Moscow. In addition, there were concerns about the significant training that would be required and questions about whether U.S. troops would have been required to operate it. President Joe Biden has flatly rejected sending any U.S. combat troops to Ukraine.
One Patriot battery routinely includes up to eight launchers, each of which can hold four missiles. It would be coming from Pentagon training stocks in the U.S..
The entire system, which includes a phased array radar, a control station, computers and generators, typically requires about 90 soldiers to operate and maintain. However, only three soldiers are needed to actually fire it, according to the Army.
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2022-12-21T01:47:13+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-to-send-1-8-billion-in-aid-patriot-battery-to-ukraine/
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Sussex County pro wrestling star Jay Briscoe dies at 38, Ring of Honor Wrestling says
SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. - Jay Briscoe, a professional wrestling star and Sussex County native, has died at the age of 38, according to the Ring of Honor wrestling company.
Briscoe, whose real name is Jamin Pugh, formed the 13-time reigning championship tag team "The Briscoe Brothers" with his brother Mark.
Ring of Honor, as well as its owner Tony Khan, shared the news of Briscoe's passing Tuesday night:
"Sadly, Jamin Pugh has passed away. Known to fans as Jay Briscoe, he was a star in ROH for over 20 years, from the first show until today. Jay and his brother Mark dominated ROH, reigning as champions to this day. We'll do whatever we can to support his family," Khan said.
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"It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the tragic passing of Jamin Pugh, known to wrestling fans around the world as Jay Briscoe. Our thoughts are with his family, his friends, and his fans," ROH tweeted.
TMZ reports that the star wrestler died in a car crash in Delaware. However, further details are not known at this time.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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2023-01-18T06:59:29+00:00
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fox35orlando.com
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https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/sussex-county-pro-wrestling-star-jay-briscoe-dies-at-38-ring-of-honor-wrestling-says
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EAU CLAIRE — Within six months of graduating in August 2021, December 2021 or May 2022, more than 99% of UW-Stout graduates say they are currently employed, continuing their education or serving in the military, according to the university’s 2021-2022 First Destination Report.
Of the 1,333 graduates with known statuses included in the report, 59% are employed in Wisconsin. Altogether, the 2021-2022 graduates are spread across 38 U.S. states and six countries.
Total, 1,611 students graduated in 2021-2022, but 278 are unaccounted for in the report’s findings. Students who responded to post-graduation surveys, communicated with the university or updated their employment statuses on social media were included in the report.
“UW-Stout continues to be a national leader in preparing and placing students in successful careers,” Chancellor Katherine Frank stated in a university news release. “Our approach to career placement is intentional and strategic; it depends on in-depth and long-standing relationships with industry and business partners who help to inform student preparation throughout the university and across all academic programs.
“Successful career placement through applied learning and collaboration with external partners is embedded in our mission as Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University,” Frank added.
Last school year’s employment rate is up by 1% from 2020-2021, making it the best in the region, according to the university. Since at least 2000, the average employment rate for graduates has been above 97% and has averaged above 98% for the past six years.
The average starting salary for Stout’s 2021-2022 graduates is $53,000 —surpassing the statewide average starting salary of $41,912, according to ZipRecruiter. The national average is $47,479. The amount increased by about $4,000 over the past two years, the university stated.
UW-Stout graduates were hired at 54 Fortune 500 companies. Select top employers include 3M, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Mayo Clinic Health System, Menards, Milwaukee Tool, Walmart and Walt Disney World.
Approximately 60% of the students included in the report had jobs before graduating. Within four months, 96% had jobs. The graduating classes included 65 veterans and 488 first-generation college students, both with a nearly 100% employment rate.
Heather Dietsche, of Bloomer, said UW-Stout gave her a “solid foundation to transfer (her) knowledge and skills to a professional position.” Andrew Campion, of River Falls, said UW-Stout’s programs “allow students to discover themselves and truly find their purpose by applying their skills in real-world projects,” according to the university.
The percentage of graduates finding work directly related to their major was strong at 94.5%, the university stated.
“We have continued to build upon our long-standing history of high rates for career outcomes of our students, as well as deepening and widening the career opportunities for our students through expanded partnerships, new employers and industry supported collaborations,” stated Bryan Barts, director of Career Services, which produced the First Destination report.
Dietsche, a first-generation student and mother who returned to school at age 27, is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduate who earned a degree in plastics engineering in December 2021, according to the university. She accepted an engineering job at Phillips-Medisize in Menomonie before she received her diploma.
“Stout (was) a positive and supportive environment for me to earn an engineering degree. I feel 100% prepared to work in a manufacturing environment,” she stated, noting 2½ years of co-op field experiences.
Campion, a professional communication and emerging media major, told the university that research experiences and an internship helped set him up for success when he landed a technical writer position before graduation at Entrust, an information security solutions provider, in Shakopee, Minn.
“This is an advantage compared to those who are stuck without experience or first-hand accounts of what they are studying,” stated Campion. “UW-Stout helped me find my true passion for technical writing, and the professors, curriculum, internship experience and relevant coursework helped me stay focused and excited to be successful.”
UW-Stout’s undergraduate and graduate programs require at least one experiential learning activity before graduation, the university stated. This includes co-ops, internships, practicums and field experiences.
Contributing to the university’s “strong hired-before-graduating tradition” are the Cooperative Education and Internship Program and the biannual Career Conferences, which connect students to business and industry. In 2021-2022, more than 1,100 students participated in CEIP, the university stated, and recently more than 325 state and national employers attended the Spring Career Conference.
“We often hear students express that they would have never known about the career opportunities that were out there if not engaging in our career events, programs and resources,” Barts stated. “It’s the students themselves who see the value of applied learning experiences as pivotal to their career success, often serving as a launching pad to their first position after graduating from UW-Stout.”
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2023-03-16T03:14:28+00:00
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leadertelegram.com
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https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front-page/uw-stout-post-graduation-employment-rate-hits-new-high/article_8bd468b2-c35e-11ed-a69d-c3b57cbcc22a.html
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Booklet is daily spark of inspiration featuring women who dare
KENSINGTON, N.H., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation today announced the release of Daring Women Who Change the World, a quote-of-the-day compilation of words of wit or wisdom from great women leaders born on that day.
"We have always believed that daring leaders are the most important thing for a stronger community and a healthier planet," said Harriet Lewis, Chair, Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation, which helps over 200 organizations led by women leaders worldwide. "We are grateful for the brave leadership of these women and how they have helped change people's lives and make this a better world."
Daring Women Who Change the World opens with a quote for March 21st, when many Indigenous groups begin their calendars, for spring symbolizes the start of a new year through the birth of new plants and animals.
The women leaders highlighted in the book cross a wide spectrum. They are disrupters and divas; poets and public servants; artists and activists; trailblazers and teachers; suffragettes, and saints. They pioneered, innovated, provoked, and shattered glass ceilings. Some quotes may make readers stop and think, and some may just make them smile — for humor is such an essential balm for a weary world.
The dedication of Daring Women Who Change the World features quotes from numerous regional women leaders, including Catherine D'Amato, President and CEO, The Greater Boston Food Bank; Christa Big Canoe, Legal Advocacy Director, for Aboriginal Legal Service and 1st recipient of Alnoba's Moment of Truth Award for Gender Equity Leadership, and Fiona Wilson, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, University of New Hampshire, Director, Sustainability Institute.
Daring Women Who Change the World is available for $12.95 per copy, plus $2.00 shipping. For more information, contact 617-346-6649.
All book profits will be donated to the Grand Circle Foundation to support Ukrainian refugees. Funds will be used to renovate the roof and heating system of Poland's Trzebnica Orphanage, which houses 60 orphans from Ukraine. Grand Circle Foundation has donated more than $2 million this year to support women and children who have been impacted by the war in Ukraine.
To learn more about Alnoba and women's leadership training, contact Wendy Manning at wmanning@alnoba.org.
Alnoba, in Kensington, New Hampshire, is the base for Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation. Today, Alnoba's 600 acres include 10 miles of trails, wildlife habitats, cabins, sculptures, and ropes and aerial courses.
The Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation transforms people's lives and builds strong communities by empowering young people, developing courageous leaders and creating strong alliances with key strategic partners to help save the earth we share. Since 1981, the Foundation has donated more than $225M to over 500 projects in 50 countries around the world. The organization's work is focused on Boston, MA, Kensington, NH and within the global villages where Grand Circle Corporation travels.
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2022-06-23T17:12:53+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/06/23/alnoba-lewis-family-foundation-releases-daring-women-who-change-world/
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Rock Valley, Iowa, man was sentenced for sexually abusing a victim after providing the victim a bus ride home from a bar, according to Sioux County, Iowa, District Court.
Joe Lee Kats, 45, was sentenced today (May 8) on charges of sexual abuse in the third degree as a habitual offender and burglary in the first degree by sexual abuse. The charges stem from a January 2022 incident in which Kats had provided a bus to drive bar patrons to their homes. Kats entered the victim’s home without consent and sexually abused the victim.
Kats’ sexual abuse charge was enhanced to a Class “A” felony, because Kats had previously been convicted of sexual abuse in 2005 and lascivious acts with a child in 1997, the court news release said.
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2023-05-09T00:03:09+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/rock-valley-man-sentenced-on-sexual-abuse/
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 5 Evening" game were:
9-7-3-8-1
(nine, seven, three, eight, one)
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2023-01-27T01:31:56+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-5-evening-game/2SJT56KEP5APPAVULQXULNFT4I/
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WLFI) -- Purdue students and graduates continue to fill the garages at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway each May.
Purdue's Indianapolis motorsports engineering program is the only one of its kind in the country.
The motorsports engineering program is unique because it teaches the engineering sciences and tie those to practical application problems.
Professor Chris Finch has led the program for almost a decade.
He draws students from across the United States and overseas.
Located fewer than four miles from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the program gives Boilermakers hands on experience who have dreamed of a career in racing.
"The motorsports engineering program focuses on the automotive engineering disciplines in vehicle dynamics, vehicle aerodynamics, vehicle powertrain, including icy engines, and now hybrid and electric vehicles," Finch said. "We've been recognized for the design aspect of the program. All of those tied together with emphasis in electrical engineering as well, provides the students with a real, well rounded automotive motorsports engineering background, making them ready for the industry."
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2023-05-29T05:06:58+00:00
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wlfi.com
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https://www.wlfi.com/news/purdue-students-fill-the-garages-at-the-indianapolis-motor-speedway/article_c760c23a-fdd9-11ed-bad2-eb531d63a9a2.html
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Sara Campos remembers being inspired to start skateboarding after playing Tony Hawk videogames on the California family’s PlayStation 2.
Campos, 23, who uses they/them pronouns, never dreamed they would be part of Tony Hawk’s charitable work. But last month, Campos was selected for the first class in The Skatepark Project’s fellowship program. The program trains 15 diverse skateboarding enthusiasts in community organizing and project management to be able to build a skatepark in their neighborhoods. Not only does the program hope to create a new gathering place in minority communities. It also aims to support and train young minority leaders.
“It’s almost like a dream come true,” said Campos, who used to draw skatepark designs on printer paper to show their parents. “Getting to do that again, but for real this time, is one of those things you didn’t actually think would happen.”
It’s almost exactly what Hawk hoped for when he launched this initiative.
“With this program, we are engaging these kids — not only to advocate for a skatepark for their use but also to realize that their voices can matter, that they can effect change,” Hawk said. “If you’re a city looking for more projects that are inclusive, that are diverse, I think skateboarding is at the top of the list these days.”
Hawk, who won 73 championships by age 25 and was world champion of vert skating for 12 straight years in the 1980s and ’90s, noted that the sport has changed dramatically over the years. He no longer hears people shouting, “White boy sport,” at him while he’s on his board.
He now sees a wide array of races and genders when he visits skateparks. It’s a shift that he hopes to foster with his nonprofit work.
“My style was so mechanical that I became an outcast within the skate community, but I did find my own sense of identity and community at the skatepark,” Hawk said. “It’s an individual pursuit, but you are bolstered by the community around you. And then they support you in your endeavors.”
Neftalie Williams, a sociologist and expert on skateboarding culture as well as a provost postdoctoral scholar at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, said he is excited by the prospect of having skateparks built through the fellowship program.
“These young people care passionately about skateboarding and are now getting training to be able to carry out their mission and get the work done,” Williams said. “It’s not just getting the skatepark built or getting knowledge within these young people’s hands. They’re gonna have generational knowledge that’s going to passed down and there are very few things that allow that.”
The Skatepark Project – which began as the Tony Hawk Foundation in 2002, funded by Hawk’s $125,000 win on the celebrity edition of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” – saw the fellowship as a response, of sorts, to the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. Hawk said he believes the fellowship can help address racial inequality as well as provide opportunities for a new generation of minority leaders.
Williams, who is also on The Skatepark Project’s board of directors, recalled Hawk and his team saying: “How do we do more? There’s a racial reckoning that’s going on. There needs to be more representation (in skateboarding) for LGBTQ+ communities. There needs to be more work for Indigenous folks. How do you take this platform and really take it to the next level, really empower the next generation?”
Creating a new generation of skateboarding advocates who also understand the mechanics of community organizing is part of the answer.
Nicole Humphrey, program coordinator for the fellowship, wants each fellow to create a skatepark that reflects their community and its needs, while also being economically sustainable. But she also wants them to feel that they can apply what they learn in this fellowship to future projects beyond skateboarding, from building other public spaces in their communities to making their voices heard on issues that concern them.
“What I learned very early is there wasn’t a book or anything to reference,” said Humphrey, a community organizer who also co-founded the nonprofit Black Girls Skate, dedicated to supporting minority skateboarders. “There’s nothing like it. We’re really honestly building it from scratch, and it’s been fun. But I think my entry point was really just being in the organizing space.”
Though the Skatepark Project fellowships began only in September, Campos, a communications and digital marketing specialist at Utopia PDX, has already learned much about what they need to do to build a skatepark in Northeast Portland, one that can be “a space where once you show up, you just feel like you belong there.”
Campos also received plenty of information they can use for Queer Skate PDX, the nonprofit they co-founded to support women, LGBTQ+ and gender nonconforming people getting started in skateboarding by offering them needed equipment and sponsoring events to meet other skaters.
“As a person of color who lives in a state that is predominantly white, it makes it a little bit harder to find community groups that you can relate to,” said Campos, whose family is from Guam. “I had the idea of trying to prioritize and uplift all of these marginalized communities, as well as serving everyone as a whole.”
Campos said the fellowship has given them a deeper knowledge about the history of skateboarding as well as what the sport has done for them.
“Skating has brought me a group of friends and connections and community that I would not have if it wasn’t for skating,” Campos said, adding that they also met their partner, Rochelle, through the sport. “It’s taught me a lot in terms of falling down and getting back up. It’s taught me a lot about courage.”
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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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2022-11-02T17:49:27+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/ap-tony-hawk-uses-skateboarding-to-teach-community-organizing/
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Reactions to the death of Jim Brown, former NFL star, actor and activist:
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“To the world, he was an activist, actor, and football star. To our family, he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken.” — Brown's wife, Monique Brown, on Instagram.
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“Jim Brown is a true icon of not just the Cleveland Browns but the entire NFL. He was certainly the greatest to ever put on a Browns uniform and arguably one of the greatest players in NFL history. Jim was one of the reasons the Browns have such a tremendous fan base today. So many people grew up watching him just dominate every time he stepped onto the football field but his countless accolades on the field only tell a small part of his story. His commitment to making a positive impact for all of humanity off the field is what he should also be known for.” — Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam.
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“Jim Brown was a gifted athlete — one of the most dominant players to ever step on any athletic field — but also a cultural figure who helped promote change. During his nine-year NFL career, which coincided with the civil rights movement here at home, he became a forerunner and role model for athletes being involved in social initiatives outside their sport.” — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
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“I’ve said many times, and I will always say, Jim Brown is the best, and he will still be the best long after all his records are broken.” — Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers.
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2023-05-19T21:38:34+00:00
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wsls.com
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https://www.wsls.com/sports/2023/05/19/reactions-to-the-death-of-jim-brown-nfl-star-social-activist-and-actor/
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On-air challenge: Every answer today is an animal whose name contains an R. I'll give you an anagram of the name without the R. You tell me the animal.
Ex. ABE + R = BEAR
1. SHOE + R
2. TOTE + R
3. HEWS + R
4. PITA + R
5. DEBAG + R
6. GUACO + R
7. BILGE + R
8. THAMES + R
9. NUNCIO + R (imaginary animal)
10. NEEDIER + R
11. TOOTSIE + R
Last week's challenge: Last week's challenge came from listener Mark Isaak, of Sunnyvale, Calif. Think of part of the human body whose name is a compound word (like fingertip or toenail). Add an N and rearrange the result to get another part of the body whose name is also a compound word. What body parts are these?
Challenge answer: Eardrum --> underarm
Winner: Mitchell Szczepanczyk of Chicago, Illinois
This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from Ed Pegg Jr., who runs the website mathpuzzle.com. Think of an animal in which the singular form of the female and the plural form of the male sound like synonyms. What animal is it?
If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, May 18th at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-05-14T12:39:46+00:00
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wlrn.org
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https://www.wlrn.org/2023-05-14/sunday-puzzle-animal-anagrams
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PREIT (NYSE: PEI), a leading real estate investment trust focused on creating thoughtful, community-centric properties, today announced the opening of its shareholder Q&A platform for its upcoming second quarter earnings call on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 11:00 am EDT.
PREIT believes in the value of transparency with stakeholders. In order to expand engagement with shareholders, PREIT has partnered with Say Technologies, LLC a Robinhood Markets company, that has built an innovative communication platform to make it easier for investors to exercise their ownership rights.
Beginning today at 11 am EDT, retail and institutional shareholders will be able to submit and upvote questions to management. To submit questions ahead of the earnings call, qualified investors can submit questions by visiting this link. The Q&A platform will remain open until August 8 at 8 pm EDT.
The live webcast of the Q2 2022 earnings call will be available on PREIT's Investor Relations website at https://investors.preit.com/investors. Following the call, a replay of the call, as well as a transcript, will be available on the same website.
About PREIT
PREIT (NYSE:PEI) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns and manages innovative properties developed to be thoughtful, community-centric hubs. PREIT's robust portfolio of carefully curated, ever-evolving properties generates success for its tenants and meaningful impact for the communities it serves by keenly focusing on five core areas of established and emerging opportunity: multi-family & hotel, health & tech, retail, essentials & grocery and experiential. Located primarily in densely-populated regions, PREIT is a top operator of high quality, purposeful places that serve as one-stop destinations for customers to shop, dine, play and stay. Additional information is available at www.preit.com or on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that can be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "may" or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans, strategies, anticipated events, trends and other matters that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, the economy and other future events and conditions and are based on currently available financial, economic and competitive data and our current business plans. Actual results could vary materially depending on risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that may affect our operations, markets, services, prices and other factors as discussed in the Risk Factors section of our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While we believe our assumptions are reasonable, we caution you against relying on any forward-looking statements as it is very difficult to predict the impact of known factors, and it is impossible for us to anticipate all factors that could affect our actual results. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the effectiveness of our financial restructuring and any additional strategies that we may employ to address our liquidity and capital resources in the future; our ability to achieve forecasted revenue and pro forma leverage ratio and generate free cash flow to further reduce indebtedness; the COVID-19 global pandemic and the public health and governmental response, which have created periods of significant economic disruption and also have and may continue to exacerbate many of the risks listed herein; changes in the retail and real estate industries, including bankruptcies, consolidation and store closings, particularly among anchor tenants; changes in economic conditions, including unemployment rates and its effects on consumer confidence and spending, supply chain challenges, the current inflationary environment, and the corresponding effects on tenant business performance, prospects, solvency and leasing decisions; our inability to collect rent due to the bankruptcy or insolvency of tenants or otherwise; our ability to maintain and increase property occupancy, sales and rental rates; increases in operating costs that cannot be passed on to tenants, which may be exacerbated in the current inflationary environment; the effects of online shopping and other uses of technology on our retail tenants; risks related to our development and redevelopment activities, including delays, cost overruns and our inability to reach projected occupancy or rental rates; social unrest and acts of vandalism or violence at malls, including our properties, or at other similar spaces, and the potential effect on traffic and sales; our ability to sell properties that we seek to dispose of, which may be delayed by, among other things, the failure to obtain zoning, occupancy and other governmental approvals and permits or, to the extent required, approvals of other third parties; potential losses on impairment of certain long-lived assets, such as real estate, including losses that we might be required to record in connection with any disposition of assets; our substantial debt and our ability to remain in compliance with our financial covenants under our debt facilities; our ability to raise capital, including through sales of properties or interests in properties, subject to the terms of our credit agreements; and potential dilution from any capital raising transactions or other equity issuances.
Additional factors that might cause future events, achievements or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements include those discussed herein, and in the sections entitled "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. We do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or otherwise.
Contact:
Heather Crowell
heather@gregoryfca.com
preit@gregoryfca.com
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2022-08-02T11:22:19+00:00
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PHOENIX (AP) — Supporters of abortion rights on Tuesday sued to block an old Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions, arguing that laws passed by the state Legislature after 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision should take precedence and abortions should be allowed until 15 weeks into a pregnancy.
The lawsuit filed by a Phoenix abortion doctor and the Arizona Medical Association repeats many of the arguments made by Planned Parenthood and its Arizona affiliate in their failed effort last month to persuade a Tucson judge to keep in place a 50-year-old injunction barring enforcement of the pre-statehood law. The judge said it was not procedurally proper for her to try to reconcile 50 years of later law with the old law.
Instead, she agreed with Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich that the injunction should be lifted now that the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe.
The Sept. 23 decision from Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson came a day before a new law signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey that banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy took effect.
In wake of the decision that said the 1864 law that bans abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger is enforceable, abortion clinics statewide shut down. It was the second time clinics had halted services — they shut down the first time after the Supreme Court ruling, but some restarted after a federal judge ruled that a different “personhood” law was unenforceable.
There is no exception for rape or incest under the old law.
The new lawsuit was filed in Maricopa County Superior Court and seeks an order that says that a raft of newer laws regulating abortion practices by doctors enacted since Roe are the ones that should be enforceable, including the 15-week ban Ducey signed in March. The pre-territorial law should be enforceable only against non-physicians, the lawsuit says.
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Perkins Coie law firm filed the case, which names the state as the defendant.
“The state of Arizona has caused complete chaos by seeking to enforce clashing abortion bans, including one of the most extreme in the country,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.
She said the result of the confusing set of laws is that providers and patients are in an untenable position where they “have no sense of what the law is and whether they are breaking it.”
Brnovich’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Arizona clinics have been arranging to have patients go to California and New Mexico for abortions. On Monday, a Phoenix clinic announced a new workaround that allows patients to have abortion pills mailed to a city on the California-Arizona border and pick up the pills out of state, saving a two-day round trip for care.
Arizona is one of 14 states that have banned abortions at any stage of pregnancy since Roe was struck down. About 13,000 people in Arizona get an abortion each year, according to Arizona Department of Health Services reports. About half are with a pill, which can be taken up to 12 weeks gestation, and most are done at 15 weeks or less.
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2022-10-04T20:28:02+00:00
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-arizona-abortion-rights-backers-sue-to-overturn-old-ban/
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Driver in sheriff’s academy crash says it wasn’t intentional
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 22-year-old driver of an SUV that crashed into Los Angeles County law enforcement recruits on a training run last week says it was not deliberate.
Nicholas Gutierrez told NBC4LA that he didn’t do it intentionally and feels bad.
Gutierrez had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a peace officer but was abruptly released, with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department saying further investigation was needed.
WARNING: The following video contains graphic content viewers may find disturbing.
Gutierrez’s attorney says he was on his way to work at the time and had no drugs or alcohol in his system.
The Nov. 16 crash injured 25 members of a sheriff’s academy class, several critically.
Authorities said Sunday that one recruit was in grave condition.
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2022-11-21T20:48:25+00:00
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https://www.ksla.com/2022/11/21/driver-sheriffs-academy-crash-says-it-wasnt-intentional/
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aleut Information Technology, LLC (Aleut), a leading provider of enterprise-level Information Technology (IT) solutions, has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) public-facing website, farmers.gov.
"Our top priority is ensuring that our Nation's farmers have streamlined, convenient and clear access to USDA's critical programs and resources," said Aleut's General Manager, John Mays. "We've seen first-hand the difference this website is making for farming and agricultural operations, as well as the communities they serve."
Farmers.gov was developed in 2018 as an online platform to provide easy access to USDA programs for America's farmers, ranchers and foresters. Customers using the platform can easily locate previously disparate resources on one central website, which was designed with a farmer-first approach. Farmers.gov provides critical resources including disaster and pandemic relief programs, farm loan tools, conservation guidance, and resources specific to the historically underserved farming community.
Since its launch, the platform has had over 7.5 million total users, and almost 20 million page views, with its usage continuing to grow.
Aleut will partner with the incumbent, MetroStar, which designed and developed the website. Aleut is proud to retain the original project team, ensuring a seamless transition, and avoiding any potential gaps in service. The contract has a possible duration of up to three years, including a one-year base period and two option years.
Based in Reston, Virginia, Aleut will provide operations, maintenance, design, and development of the farmers.gov public-facing Drupal-based website, using digital service techniques and user-behavior data to identify and solve core user needs.
Aleut will facilitate ongoing technical releases for continual enhancements and improvements, regularly updating the site. The company will ensure accessibility, and support America's agriculture community through interactive functionality built around customer needs. New and existing farmers are engaged through user-centered design and digital media on this easy-to-navigate custom designed website.
Formed in 2016, Aleut is a Small Business Administration certified 8(a) program participant, and Small Disadvantaged Business providing proven capabilities in the IT sector including, infrastructure and communications.
Aleut Information Technology, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aleut Federal, LLC, a holding company for federal subsidiaries of The Aleut Corporation (TAC). TAC was one of 13 original Alaska Native Corporations established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1971.
Berlyn Martin
Aleut Federal, LLC
Phone: 276-244-3319
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LEEDS, England (AP) — United States midfielder Brenden Aaronson will play in Germany’s top flight next season after joining Union Berlin on loan from Leeds on Sunday.
Aaronson has agreed a season-long deal after Leeds was relegated from the Premier League last term.
“We would like to wish Brenden good luck during his time at the Stadion An der Alten Forsterei,” his club said.
The 22-year-old Aaronson made 36 Premier League appearances for Leeds last season after joining from Red Bull Salzburg for a fee close to 25 million pounds ($32 million) in the summer of 2022.
He joins Union Berlin after it qualified for the Champions League for the first time.
His brother Paxten also plays in Germany for Frankfurt.
Aaronson scored one goal in 40 appearances in all competitions for Leeds. He is the third player to leave on a season-long loan following relegation.
Diego Llorente and Robin Koch joined Roma and Eintracht Frankfurt, respectively, in similar deals earlier this week.
Former Norwich boss Daniel Farke has been hired as head coach and charged with the responsibility of trying to guide the club back to the Premier League.
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2023-07-10T15:36:46+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-leeds-midfielder-brenden-aaronson-joins-union-berlin-on-loan/
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Acquisition Will Expand Equifax International Footprint in Large, Fast-Growing Brazilian Market
ATLANTA, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax® Inc. (NYSE: EFX) ("Equifax") today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boa Vista Serviços (BOAS3: SAO), the second largest credit bureau in Brazil. The agreement was approved by the Boa Vista Serviços Board of Directors for R$8.00 per share, implying an estimated total enterprise value of R$3,103 million, or USD$596 million based on a USD/BRL exchange rate of 5.2033 (PTAX as of February 8, 2023). This acquisition will expand Equifax's capabilities in the large and fast-growing Brazilian market and offers Boa Vista Serviços access to Equifax's expansive global capabilities and cloud-native data, products, decisioning and analytical technology for the rapid development of new products and services, and expansion into new industries.
"We're energized to expand Equifax's reach internationally with the acquisition of Boa Vista Serviços, and look forward to welcoming Boa Vista Serviços' employees to our global team. This acquisition will mark an exciting new chapter for Equifax and Boa Vista Serviços customers that will bring powerful new insights to Brazilian lenders and service providers to help them better understand their customers and promote greater financial inclusion to meet the needs of the approximately 34 million unbanked or underbanked consumers in Brazil," said Mark W. Begor, CEO of Equifax. "Strategic, bolt-on acquisitions are core to our EFX2025 growth priorities. Boa Vista Serviços is our 14th acquisition that Equifax has signed or completed in the past 24 months totaling $4.1 billion."
Under the terms of the agreement, Equifax will offer all Boa Vista Serviços shareholders the option to receive (1) R$8.00 per share in cash, (2) R$7.20 in cash and 0.0008 of an EFX Brazilian Depository Receipt ("BDR") representing an equivalent fraction of one share of Equifax common stock or (3) R$5.33 of Equifax do Brasil S.A. ("Equifax Brasil") common shares and R$2.67 in either cash or 0.0027 of Equifax BDRs. This agreement represents an 89 percent premium to the closing stock price of Boa Vista Serviços on December 15, 2022, the last unaffected trading day prior to the issuance of the notice to the market by Boa Vista Serviços acknowledging receipt of the Equifax acquisition proposal, and a 185 percent premium to Boa Vista Serviços' enterprise value based on such closing price on December 15, 2022. The agreement also represents a 65 percent premium to the volume weighted average trading price of Boa Vista Serviços for the 30 trading days ending on December 15.
In conjunction with the definitive agreement to acquire Boa Vista Serviços, Associação Comercial de São Paulo ("ACSP"), the largest shareholder of Boa Vista Serviços, has executed a voting agreement in support of the transaction. Combined, Equifax and ACSP currently have over 40 percent of the capital stock of Boa Vista Serviços and are aligned in completing the transaction. Additionally, ACSP has also entered into a 15-year agreement with Boa Vista Serviços to maintain its commercial relationship with Boa Vista Serviços, refrain from competing with the Boa Vista Serviços business and provide consulting and regulatory support services to Boa Vista Serviços.
Equifax maintains a unique understanding of global credit needs and is driving cloud-based innovation in consumer credit, commercial credit, and digital enablement that spans geographies. The company's Equifax Cloud™ transformation enables Equifax to scale and adapt for the specific needs of the countries in which it operates. It further enables the sharing of learnings and strengths from each region to help other regions identify and execute effectively on new growth opportunities. The Equifax Cloud, combined with Equifax's unique data assets, leading decisioning and analytical solutions, and Identity and Fraud solutions will help accelerate Boa Vista Serviços's digital transformation and increase the scale of the Boa Vista Serviços business for continued success - meeting the evolving needs of both consumers and lenders in Brazil.
The initial Equifax offer to acquire Boa Vista Serviços was announced on December 19, 2022. The transaction is subject to Boa Vista Serviços's shareholder approval and other customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed sometime in the second quarter of 2023, at which time the company will become a subsidiary of Equifax Brasil. The acquisition is not anticipated to have a material impact on 2023 Equifax financial results.
BofA Securities is serving as financial advisor to Equifax, and Hogan Lovells US LLP and Machado Meyer Advogados are acting as legal counsels to Equifax.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. All statements that address operating performance and events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future, including statements relating to our ability to consummate the proposed transaction with Boa Vista Serviços, the ability of Boa Vista Serviços to receive shareholder approval and satisfy other closing conditions, the expected financial and operational benefits, synergies and growth from the proposed transaction and our ability to integrate Boa Vista Serviços and its products, services, technologies, IT systems and personnel into our operations, and similar statements about our outlook and our business plans are forward-looking statements. We believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable as and when made. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our historical experience and our present expectations or projections. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in our 2021 Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). As a result of such risks and uncertainties, we urge you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date when made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
NO OFFER OR SOLICITATION
This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
This press release is for informational purposes only and should not, under any circumstances, constitute, be interpreted or understood as an investment recommendation, nor as an offer to acquire any of the securities of Equifax or Equifax Brasil.
FILINGS WITH THE SEC
Equifax and Equifax Brasil plan to file a Registration Statement on Form S-4/F-4 with the SEC in connection with the transaction. The Form S-4/F-4 will contain a prospectus and other documents. The Form S-4/F-4, and prospectus will contain important information about Equifax, Equifax Brasil, Boa Vista Serviços, the transaction and related matters. Investors and shareholders of Boa Vista Serviços should read the prospectus and the other documents filed with the SEC in connection with the transaction carefully before they make any decision with respect to the transaction. The Form S-4/F-4 and the prospectus, and all other documents filed with the SEC in connection with the acquisition will be available when filed free of charge at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, the prospectus and all other documents filed with the SEC in connection with the acquisition will be made available to investors free of charge by calling or writing to Equifax Inc., Attn: Office of Corporate Secretary, P.O. Box 4081, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, telephone (404) 885-8000.
ABOUT EQUIFAX INC.
At Equifax (NYSE: EFX), we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics, and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping financial institutions, companies, employers, and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. Our unique blend of differentiated data, analytics, and cloud technology drives insights to power decisions to move people forward. Headquartered in Atlanta and supported by more than 14,000 employees worldwide, Equifax operates or has investments in 24 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit Equifax.com
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‘Avatar’ sequel sails to 2nd week atop the box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Avatar: The Way of Water” sailed to the top of the box office in its second weekend, bringing in what studios estimate Sunday will be a strong $56 million in North America — a sign that the sequel may stay afloat into the new year and approach the massive expectations that met its release.
James Cameron’s digital extravaganza for 20th Century Studios has made $253.7 million domestically in its first 10 days of release, compared to $212.7 million in the same stretch for 2009′s first “Avatar,” which would go on to become the highest-grossing film of all time.
While Cameron’s films like the “Avatar” original and “Titanic” tend to have serious legs at the box office, sequels tend to open big and decline quickly, complicating guesses on where the film will end up. Its second-weekend drop-off from the $134 million it made in its first was not precipitous, given the way blockbusters open.
“This is James Cameron’s first $100 million opener,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore “For this movie to have opened that big and only dropped 58%, it shows it has staying power.”
Globally, “The Way of Water” is already the third highest-grossing film released in 2022, bringing in $855 million — putting it behind only “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Jurassic World Dominion” — and is a lock to surpass $1 billion.
It’s also clear sailing for the film looking ahead, with more holiday time coming and no comparable competition until February, when Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is released.
Storms across the U.S. could keep people home, however.
“The biggest foe that Avatar is facing at this moment is the weather,” Dergarabedian said.
Universal’s animated Shrek spinoff, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, finished a distant second with $11.35 million in its opening weekend.
Sony’s biopic “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody” finished third with $5.3 million.
The weekend’s biggest disappointment was “Babylon,” the epic of early Hollywood from “La La Land” director Damian Chazelle starring Brad Pitt and and Margo Robbie. In a nationwide release it brought in just $3.5 million, finishing fourth.
The tepid, $6.5 million opening weekend in October of director David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam,” another film, set in a similar period, that combined prestige, scope, star power and a celebrated auteur, brought industry worries that audiences just weren’t flocking to theaters for such films.
The concerns proved justified, as “Babylon” barely made more than half of the opening of “Amsterdam.”
The coming weeks in theaters, streaming showings and any nominations it may get could help “Babylon” rise above bomb status.
“I would say Babylon is a movie that isn’t about the opening weekend,” Dergarabedian said. “We’ll have to see what it does in the coming weeks then into the new year, particularly if it gets more awards buzz.”
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore, with Wednesday through Sunday in parentheses. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Avatar: The Way of Water,” $56 million.
2. “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” 11.35 million.
3. “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” $5.3 million.
4. “Babylon,” $3.5 million.
5. “Violent Night,” $3.14 million.
6. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” $3 million.
7. “The Whale,” $924,000.
8. “The Menu,” $617,000.
9. “The Fabelmans,” $550,000.
10. “Strange World,” $410,000.
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This story has been corrected to show that weekend studio estimates say “Avatar: The Way of Water” brought in $56 million in North America, not $58 million.
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2022-12-25T22:53:06+00:00
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https://www.kcrg.com/2022/12/25/avatar-sequel-sails-2nd-week-atop-box-office/
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — A crash involving two military vehicles claimed the life of one soldier and injured three others at a Pennsylvania military training area over the weekend, officials said.
Killed in the crash was Spc. Mackenzie L. Shay, 20, of New Castle, the officials said. Shay was a 92F, Army Petroleum Supply Specialist, assigned to the 28th Infantry Division’s Company G, 128th Brigade Support Battalion.
Three other service members were treated at Hershey Medical Center and released, officials said.
“Our priority right now is taking care of the family and soldiers, ensuring they have all the resources they need during this critical time,” said Army Maj. Gen. Mark Schindler.
Officials did not release details about the crash, saying only that it remains under investigation. WHP-TV quoted fort officials as saying that the crash happened during a routine supply mission between ranges in the fort’s more remote training area.
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2022-10-24T21:05:58+00:00
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/military-vehicles-crash-leaving-1-soldier-dead-3-injured/2022/10/24/6faa0d86-53d8-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html
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Updated March 2, 2023 at 4:06 PM ET
After months of scandal, the House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it has opened a formal investigation into New York Republican Rep. George Santos.
A statement released by the panel stated an investigative subcommittee will examine whether Santos "engaged in unlawful activity" during his 2022 campaign.
The probe will also determine whether Santos violated federal conflict of interest laws and whether he "engaged in sexual misconduct" toward an individual who was seeking a job in the freshman congressman's House office. Santos has denied that allegation.
In its statement, the Ethics Committee noted that opening an investigation "does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred." If the panel finds that Santos committed ethics violations, punishments could range from a reprimand to expulsion from the House of Representatives, depending on the severity of the conduct.
Santos' verified Twitter account stated the congressman "is fully cooperating. There will be no further comment made at this time."
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Santos will remain a member in good standing in the GOP caucus until a full investigation is complete.
Santos has said he plans to serve out his full two-year term. He has admitted "embellishing" his resume before winning a seat on Long Island last November, but has repeatedly denied any criminal wrongdoing.
Santos lied to voters about his education and his career, invented a fictional Jewish heritage for his family and claimed falsely that employees working for him died in the 2016 Pulse night club shooting.
A growing number of Republicans have called for his ouster, and Santos is widely viewed as a pariah in his home district on Long Island, which includes a small portion of Queens.
Santos also faces investigations from state and federal prosecutors.
One question which he has declined to answer is where he got hundreds of thousands of dollars that he loaned to his own campaign.
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2023-03-03T02:20:55+00:00
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Dems, GOP make urgent final pitches as election season wraps
COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Coast to coast, candidates and big-name backers made final appeals to voters Monday in the last hours of a fraught midterm election season, with Republicans excited about the prospect of winning back Congress. President Joe Biden insisted his party would “surprise the living devil out of a lot of people” while acknowledging that Washington will be “more difficult” if it falls short. Democrats contend Republican victories could profoundly and adversely reshape the country, eliminating abortion rights nationwide and unleashing broad threats to the very future of American democracy. Republicans say the public is tired of Biden policies amid high inflation and concerns about crime.
Election Day tests voters, voting systems amid election lies
The final day of voting in this year’s midterm elections arrives with an intense focus on voting itself after two years of false claims and conspiracy theories ignited by former President Donald Trump following his loss in the last presidential election. Trump and his allies succeeded in sowing wide distrust about the way votes are cast and counted by promoting false claims of widespread fraud. The effort has eroded public confidence in elections and democracy, led to restrictions on mail voting and new ID requirements in some GOP-led states and prompted death threats against election officials.
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2022 midterms live updates: Latest election news from AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day has dawned. With polls set to begin opening in a few hours across the country, you can find a guide of what to expect for each state at our Election Expectations 2022 hub. It’s not a presidential year, but these are high-stakes elections nonetheless. Among the things to watch: Will the expected red wave be a ripple or a tsunami? What effect will the Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade have? And what will we know before we go to bed tonight? While there are some races the AP can call as soon as polls close, other winners might take a lot longer to identify.
Putin-linked businessman admits to US election meddling
Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted that he interfered in U.S. elections and would continue to do so. The statement by the man known as “Putin's chef” because of his catering company confirmed for the first time the accusations that he has rejected for years. In a posting on a Russian social media platform, Prigozhin said: “We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way.” The remarks came on the eve of U.S. midterm elections in response to a request for comment. Prigozhin and other Russians were charged in 2018 with operating a covert social media campaign aimed at dividing American public opinion ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Powerball announces delay to record-breaking $1.9B drawing
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Multi-State Lottery Association said in a statement that the Powerball drawing was delayed Monday and it’s likely that the official results won’t be known until later Tuesday. The record-breaking $1.9 billion Powerball drawing was delayed because a participating lottery had issues processing sales. In a statement to the Associated Press it said, “Powerball requires all 48 participating lotteries to submit their sales and play data prior to the winning numbers being selected. Once Powerball receives the outstanding submission, the drawing can proceed." The winning numbers and recorded video of the drawing will be posted to the Powerball website and YouTube channel. The game is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Leaders push for climate action, fossil tax at UN talks
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — World leaders are making the case for tougher action to tackle global warming Tuesday, as U.N. climate talks heard growing calls for fossil fuel companies to help pay for the damage they have helped cause. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday that humanity was on “a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,” urging countries to ”cooperate or perish.” He and leaders such as Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said it was time to make fossil fuel companies contribute to funds to help poor countries suffering climate-related losses. The U.S. mid-term elections were hanging over the talks Tuesday. Many environmental campaigners fear defeat for the Democrats could make it harder for President Joe Biden to pursue his ambitious climate agenda.
Their lagoons languishing, precious Spanish wetlands go dry
DOÑANA NATIONAL PARK, Spain (AP) — Flamingos, herons and fish once filled a freshwater lagoon in southern Spain. Today it’s a fetid brown splotch. The whisper of wind in the grass is a sad substitute for the cacophony of migratory birds. Biologist Carmen Díaz steps onto cracked mud. The lagoon in the heart of Spain’s Doñana nature reserve is a puddle. The park called “the crown jewel of Spain” may be dying. Farming and tourism had already drained the aquifer feeding Doñana. Then climate change hit Spain with record-high temperatures and a prolonged drought. The disappearance of Doñana’s Santa Olalla lagoon’s in August makes Díaz, 66, fear that the ecosystem she has studied for four decades may have vanished for good.
N. Korea denies US claims it sent artillery shells to Russia
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea denied American claims it's shipping artillery shells and ammunition to Russia for use in its war against the Ukraine, and on Tuesday accused the United States of lying. The denial came in the wake of dozens of weapons tests by North Korea, including nuclear capable missiles with the ability to strike the continental United States. It said it was testing the missiles and artillery so it could “mercilessly” strike key South Korean and U.S. targets if it choose to. U.S. officials recently confirmed a U.S. intelligence finding that Russia was in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea.
Italian EV startup takes on US, Chinese rivals with design
MILAN (AP) — A new fully electric vehicle startup in Italy is challenging U.S. and Chinese rivals with “Made in Italy" design. AEHRA is being launched by a former oil trader who hired a former Lamborghini designer to infuse the cars with Italian emotion and is placing emphasis on aerodynamics over performance. Its biggest hurdle to success is an already crowded market of EV startups and traditional carmakers. And AEHRA doesn't plan to launch its first vehicles until mid-2025. The ultra-premium cars plan to sell for $160,000 to $180,000, rolling out first in the United States and key European markets before expanding to China.
Residents clash with Chinese authorities over COVID rules
BEIJING (AP) — Police in northeastern China say seven people have been arrested after a clash between residents and authorities who were enforcing COVID-19 quarantine restrictions. China has been reporting new cases nationwide, with 2,230 cases reported Tuesday in the southern manufacturing and technology hub of Guangzhou. While the numbers remain relatively low, China has relentlessly pursued its strict “zero-COVID" policy. The police department in the Shandong city of Linyi said public security would take strong measures against those who “illegally violated the legal rights of personal protection of citizens." Anti-pandemic measures have prompted backlashes across the country — a rare challenge to Communist Party authority.
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2022-11-08T10:07:06+00:00
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(The Hill) – Thursday’s hearing by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol focused on the day of the riot itself, zeroing in on former President Trump’s inaction as a mob of his supporters descended on the Capitol and put lawmakers and law enforcement in danger.
The hearing, which is expected to be the committee’s last until September, featured new footage and audio clips that shed further light on Trump’s reaction to the violence and on what was happening inside the Capitol as the riots escalated.
Here are seven of the most notable moments from Thursday’s hearing.
Trump speaks off the cuff to rioters
Raw footage presented Thursday showed former President Trump ignored a script that called for him to tell protesters to “leave the Capitol Hill region now and go home in a peaceful way.”
Instead, he spoke off the cuff, delivering a meandering message to his supporters from the Rose Garden. The footage showed Trump starting a message before stopping and trying again.
Trump expressed empathy with the rioters, saying he believed the 2020 election was “stolen from us” and “fraudulent.”
“But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order; we have to respect our great people in law and order,” Trump said in the video, recorded at 4:03 p.m. on Jan. 6.
“There’s never been a time like this where such a thing happened. This was a fraudulent election. But we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you, and you’re very special.”
Hawley flees the mob
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was captured in a now infamous photo on the morning of Jan. 6 raising a fist toward a group of protesters outside the Capitol. But the committee showed new footage on Thursday depicting how the tables had turned on Hawley hours later.
Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) quoted a Capitol Police officer who told the committee Hawley’s gesture “riled up the crowd” gathered near the complex the morning of the 6th.
“Later that day, Sen. Hawley fled after those protesters he helped to rile up stormed the Capitol,” Luria said.
The committee then played footage of Hawley visibly running through the halls of the Capitol and then jogging down the stairs as lawmakers and staff sought safety from the mob.
The video was widely shared on social media. Video from the hearing showed those in the room audibly laughing as it played.
Secret Service feared for their lives
One of the most dramatic moments came when the committee played previously unheard audio of Secret Service weighing whether they had time to move former Vice President Pence to a secure location in the Capitol without encountering the mob.
“If we lose any more time, we may … lose the ability to leave. So, if we’re going to leave, we need to do it now,” one Secret Service agent said in a radio transmission.
The committee interviewed an anonymous White House security official, who told the panel that the National Security Council was listening to the audio in real time and could hear some officers audibly fearing for their lives.
“There was a lot of yelling. A lot of very personal calls over the radio, so it was disturbing. I don’t like talking about it, but there were calls to say goodbye to family members, so on, so forth,” the anonymous official said in audio played Thursday.
At the same time the security council was remarking on the panic among the Secret Service, Trump sent a tweet complaining that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.”
Kushner says McCarthy sounded ‘scared’
Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner recalled to the committee in testimony played Thursday that he was in the shower on Jan. 6 when he heard his phone ringing.
“Saw it was Leader [Kevin] McCarthy, who I had a good relationship with,” Kushner said. “He told me it was getting really ugly over at the Capitol and said, ‘Please anything you could do to help, I would appreciate it.’”
“I got the sense that they were scared… He was scared, yes,” Kushner added.
Multiple other former White House officials told the committee about McCarthy’s many attempts to reach Trump as the violence was unfolding.
In an audio clip, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) described McCarthy talking about calling the White House and getting through to Trump.
“He said, ‘You have got to get on TV. You’ve got to get on Twitter. You’ve got to call these people off,’” Herrera Beutler said. “You know what the president said to him? This is as it’s happening. He said, ‘Well, Kevin, these aren’t my people. These are, these are antifa.’”
The committee later showed footage of McCarthy condemning the violence and saying Trump bore some responsibility for the events of Jan. 6. But weeks later, McCarthy traveled to Florida to make amends with the former president.
Video shows lawmakers talking with Pentagon officials mid-riot
The committee shared new video footage of senators inside the Capitol directly calling Pentagon officials for assistance as they hid from rioters who had stormed the building.
“We’re not gonna let these people keep us from finishing our business. So, we need you to get the building cleared, give us the OK, so we can go back in session and finish up the people’s business as soon as possible,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller over the phone.
“Amen, sir,” Miller responded.
The video also shows Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) asking Miller how long he expected it would take for authorities to clear the building so Congress could “safely resume” certifying the election results. Miller indicated he believed it would take at least four or five hours.
The video footage juxtaposed how lawmakers who were under siege at the Capitol were directly contacting Defense officials about how to clear the facility, while Trump isolated himself in the White House and refused to condemn the violence until hours after it had started.
DC officer corroborates Hutchinson testimony
Testimony presented by the committee on Thursday corroborated former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s claim that Trump got into an interaction with Secret Service personnel in his presidential limo on Jan. 6 after they informed him that he would not be joining his supporters at the Capitol following his speech at the Ellipse.
During a hearing last month, Hutchinson said she was told that Trump was “irate” in the presidential vehicle, telling the Secret Service something along the lines of “I’m the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now.”
Sgt. Mark Robinson (Ret.) of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department — who was in the lead vehicle with the Secret Service agent overseeing the presidential motorcade, known as the TS agent — informed the committee that he was told Trump got in a “heated discussion” about going to the Capitol with his supporters on Jan. 6.
“The only description I received was that the president was upset and that he was adamant about going to the Capitol and that there was a heated discussion about that,” Robinson testified in a clip presented Thursday.
“Meaning that the president was upset and he was saying there was a heated argument or discussion about going to the Capitol,” he later added, noting that the TS agent described the situation as “heated.”
The committee also showed testimony from a former Trump White House employee who spoke with then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato and Robert Engel, the head of Trump’s security detail who was in the vehicle, after the incident.
The employee said Ornato “expressed to me that the president was irate” when he was informed that he could not go to the Capitol with his supporters.
Trump outtakes from Jan. 7 video
The committee showed never-before-seen outtakes of Trump recording a video message on Jan. 7, one day after the riot.
The video gave a window into Trump’s ongoing refusal to accept the election results, as well as the behind the scenes tinkering that took place to produce a three-minute video.
In one outtake, Trump cuts himself off to say that he does not want to say “the election’s over” while reading a script from a teleprompter.
“’But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results’ — I don’t want to say the election’s over, I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election’s over, OK?” Trump said.
In another outtake, which is likely to draw the ire of the former president, Trump is seen saying he can’t say the word “yesterday” in the context of the script.
Additionally, the committee showed two outtakes of Trump becoming frustrated after reading the line, “My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote.”
In one clip, he pointed his index finger down before starting over, and in the second, he slammed the podium.
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2022-07-22T14:44:16+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/seven-stunning-moments-from-the-jan-6-hearing/
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The red carpet unfurled Monday in Abu Dhabi for Hollywood action megastar Tom Cruise, who was on hand for the Middle Eastern premiere of “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.”
Cruise was met by an enthusiastic crowd of fans and movie buffs eager to catch a glimpse of the star at the Emirates Palace Hotel in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Dressed in a tailored tuxedo and flashing his signature smile, Cruise appeared moved by the exuberant reception, stopping to speak with many attendees. The evening’s buzz was punctuated by the “Mission: Impossible” theme, its familiar chords adding a layer of cinematic nostalgia to the night.
“I’m a cinephile, I love movies and the history of cinema and how this art form develops,” Cruise told The Associated Press on the red carpet. “I didn’t know whether the audience was going to embrace (the first Mission: Impossible movie), it was the first film I ever produced and I did it because I wanted to challenge myself in many ways as an actor, as a producer, as a storyteller.”
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is the seventh installment of the blockbuster $3.5 billion grossing franchise famed for jam-packed action and ever-daring stunts performed by the 60-year-old Cruise himself.
“We’ve had a lot of fun coming up with these moments,” said Cruise.
The Mission: Impossible series follows the globe-trotting adventures of Ethan Hunt, a secret agent of the Impossible Missions Force, or IMF, as he undertakes high-risk covert operations. Picture heart-racing action, sophisticated gadgets, and Cruise’s Hunt executing death-defying stunts at every turn.
Matching the topic of the moment, Hunt and his IMF team are tasked with tracking down a potent new artificial intelligence weapon in “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.” Scenes include base-jumping off a cliff on a motorcycle, hurling a steam train off an exploded bridge, and drifting a yellow Fiat 500 through Rome’s winding streets.
In a nod to the locale, the film incorporates several action sequences in Abu Dhabi. The desert landscapes of Liwa, known as the Empty Quarter, set the stage for intense horseback chases and firearm confrontations. Cruise runs across the dune-shaped roof of Abu Dhabi International Airport’s new Midfield Terminal in another scene.
“When you see us shooting a sequence in Abu Dhabi, it’s about that culture, it’s about that country, and that’s why we keep coming back here,” said Christopher McQuarrie, who is returning for the third time as director of the high-octane spy series.
McQuarrie joined Cruise on the red carpet along with other Mission: Impossible co-stars, both new and returning. Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff made their franchise debut, while Simon Pegg reprised his role as Benji Dunn, a character known for infusing comedic relief into the franchise’s most tense scenes.
“When you have a film which is high-tension you need that to occasionally be injected in order to make it a little bit more enjoyable,” said Pegg.
Following pandemic delays, the production companies behind the franchise, Paramount Pictures and Skydance, pushed the film’s release from September of 2022 to July of 2023. A leaked video from the set featured Cruise launching an expletive-laden rant at colleagues after he reportedly spotted two crew members failing to respect social distancing rules. The star expressed his concern about the potential consequences, which included shutting down production and jeopardizing the then-struggling movie industry and the jobs it supports.
“We just had to write the rulebook on how to make a film during a pandemic,” said Pegg. “Make sure everything was super safe, that was Tom’s biggest challenge in a way was to make us all feel safe and be safe, somehow we muddle through.”
Cruise was praised by many for his role in revitalizing Hollywood following the industry’s pandemic-induced stagnation. This recognition came on the heels of his blockbuster film, “Top Gun: Maverick,” which not only marked Cruise’s first $100 million debut but also signified the return of blockbuster movies to theaters as the most significant movie debut since the onset of the pandemic.
Abu Dhabi marks the third premiere location for “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” with the red carpet previously rolled out at the Spanish Steps in Rome and Leicester Square in London. The movie is set to open in U.S. theaters on July 12.
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2023-06-27T10:43:26+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/still-cruising-tom-premiers-new-mission-impossible-adventure-in-abu-dhabi/
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While Future Uncertain, County Extends Paratransit Taxi to September
County initially planned to discontinue service due to new federal regulations.
A publicly-funded, on-demand taxi service for people with disabilities was set to disappear at the end of May, but it will continue through at least September while the county explores a long-term solution.
Citing noncompliance with federal regulations, the Milwaukee County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) did not renew its annual contract with American United Taxicab Services for on-demand paratransit service.
MCDOT Director Donna Brown-Martin explained during the budget process that the contract would not have complied with federal regulations because American United did not have wheelchair lifts in its vehicles. It also did not conduct random drug screening, which the county would have had to pay for.
But when the disabled county residents and disability advocates found out the service would not be continued, they pleaded with county policymakers to restore it.
Advocates told county board members that the paratransit bus service was not practical for everyone or every trip, nor was it a replacement for the taxi service, especially during an emergency.
Disabled residents explained that they use the taxi service to get to work and doctors appointments and other daily errands that, if they had to rely on the bus services, would be nearly impossible or wildly unreliable. In the 2023 budget, Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson and Sup. Liz Sumner authored an amendment restoring funding for the taxi service in 2023.
The contract with American United has a 120-day continuation clause which MCDOT is planning to exercise after it expires on May 28, according to a recent MCDOT report.
“MCDOT has submitted notice to FTA regarding our intent to extend the current contract and the efforts to work with the community for alternative solutions to the current service model,” the report states. “To date, MCDOT has not received feedback on this correspondence.”
The department has been discussing shifting the taxi contract to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). “As a non-[Federal Transit Administration (FTA)] regulated entity, DHHS would not need to implement the random drug and alcohol testing program that is required if the program is administered by an FTA-regulated entity such as MCTS,” the report states. “However, wheelchair-accessible vehicles must be available for service under this contract no matter which entity administers the program.”
There’s also the possibility that the next biennial state budget will include increased funding for the county’s paratransit program. Gov. Tony Evers‘ recommended budget included a 4% increase in funding for paratransit in Milwaukee. But that still has to make it through the state Legislature.
The 2023 county budget also created a Paratransit Taxi Task Force to work with the county to find a long-term solution to the paratransit taxi service problem. It will include representatives from Disability Rights Wisconsin, Independence First, the Transit Plus Advisory Council and the Milwaukee County Commission for Persons with Disabilities.
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2023-03-31T21:27:51+00:00
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https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/03/31/transportation-county-extends-paratransit-taxi-to-september/
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The House committee investigating last year's attack at the Capitol shared a draft tweet in which Donald Trump planned on explicitly telling his supporters to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, suggesting his comments during a speech outside the White House were not "spontaneous," but in fact pre-meditated and "deliberate."
“I will be making a Big Speech at 10AM on January 6th at the Ellipse (South of the White House),” the draft tweet says. “Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to the Capitol after. Stop the Steal!!”
The draft tweet, which was obtained by the Jan. 6 committee from the National Archives, was not dated and it was not clear when it was crafted, but it was stamped with the words “PRESIDENT HAS SEEN."
“The evidence confirms that this was not a spontaneous call to action, but rather a deliberate strategy decided upon in advance by the president,” said Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a committee member.
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The committee also showed messages they obtained from Jan. 6 rally organizers, indicating that they knew of plans to march to the U.S. Capitol days in advance and before Trump's speech on the Ellipse.
The message from Kylie Jane Kremer to Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow and a Trump ally, outlines details of the rally and notes that Trump would call for the march to the Capitol “unexpectedly.”
"It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it 'unexpectedly,'" Kremer wrote in an email, the House committee showed.
This is a live update. Click here for complete coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings.
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2022-07-12T21:04:00+00:00
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nbcmiami.com
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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/not-a-spontaneous-call-trump-planned-to-direct-crowd-to-march-on-capitol-draft-tweet-shows/2803625/
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Authorities say the number of catalytic converter thefts has exploded in recent years, with some vehicle models being targeted relentlessly.
The number of reported catalytic converter thefts rose from 1,300 in 2018 to more than 52,000 in 2021 — a staggering 1,215% increase, according to data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).
Catalytic converter thefts have seen a “significant increase” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NICB said.
“There is a clear connection between times of crisis, limited resources, and disruption of the supply chain that drives investors towards these precious metals,” NICB said in a news release.
A catalytic converter is a device essential to a vehicle’s exhaust system. Its purpose is to convert toxic exhaust emitted by an engine into more environmentally friendly gases.
Thieves steal converters for their valuable metals that turn a quick profit.
Here are the top targets for thieves nationwide, according to CARFAX.
- 1985-2021 Ford F-Series pickup trucks (F-150, F-250, etc.)
- 1989-2020 Honda Accord
- 2007-17 Jeep Patriot
- 1990-2022 Ford Econoline vans
- 1999-2021 Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks
- 2005-21 Chevrolet Equinox
- 1997-2020 Honda CR-V
- 1987-2019 Toyota Camry
- 2011-17 Chrysler 200
- 2001-21 Toyota Prius
How are the catalytic converters stolen?
All vehicles manufactured after 1974 contain a catalytic converter. Hoping to obtain and sell its high-in-demand metals, criminals often use a jack and an angle grinder to steal catalytic converters in minutes.
The brazen crime comes at a high cost for vehicle owners. Many miss work, encounter transportation hardship and pay $1,000 to $3,000 out of pocket to fix their vehicle.
However, experts and law enforcement officials explain the measures residents can take to protect their vehicles from these robberies.
- Park in areas where your vehicle will be seen most easily by pedestrians. For example, park vehicles in secured, alarmed, and well-lit areas
- Park defensively: Park high-profile vehicles so they are surrounded by low ground-clearance vehicles. This may deter thieves by making it harder for them to access the most vulnerable targets
- Install a catalytic converter protection device that will clamp around the converter
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2022-06-17T00:26:59+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/these-vehicles-are-the-most-targeted-for-catalytic-converter-thefts/
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The city of Amsterdam is banning the smoking of marijuana outdoors in its red-light district. The ban is part of a host of changes to appease those who live in the popular neighborhood, which attracts millions of tourists each year.
"Residents of the old city center are structurally and excessively bothered by the crowds and nuisance caused by mass tourism and substance abuse in the public space," the city council said in a statement announcing the news on Thursday.
This behavior, the council said, comes "at the expense of the residents' night's rest and the quality of life and safety of the entire neighbourhood."
In the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal, and marijuana is openly sold in shops, city officials are working to combat "overtourism" within the Dutch capital. A former mayor attempted to ban marijuana cafes within the red-light district in 2014. Since then, the city's government increased taxes on hotel rooms and short-term rentals.
The ban, which will go into effect in May, is part of a host of other changes to the historic neighborhood. The municipality is tightening a measure that prohibits the sale of alcohol after 4 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.
In order to spread foot traffic in the area, the city also extended its curfew for certain businesses which will take effect in April. Cafés, restaurants and sex establishments with a catering permit can keep their doors open until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m., while "prostitution businesses" can remain open until 6 a.m.
The municipality is also enforcing what it calls a "window time" for businesses that serve alcohol: no one will be allowed to enter after 1 a.m. These businesses will also need to close their terraces at 1 a.m., an hour earlier than normal.
The city council is also considering banning smoking on the terraces of coffee shops in the future.
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2023-02-10T22:06:56+00:00
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klcc.org
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https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/2023-02-10/amsterdam-will-ban-cannabis-outdoors-in-its-red-light-district
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ANDOVER, Vt. (AP) — A storm that dumped up to two months of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast brought more flooding Tuesday to communities marooned by water, including the state capital, where officials kept watch on a dam just upstream.
There were signs of hope in some areas where flood waters had begun to recede and officials began assessing the damage and the scope of the clean-up ahead.
The flooding has already caused tens of millions of dollars in damage, officials said, with more to come: If water pours over the dam on the Winooski River that flows through Montpelier, it could surge through downtown blocks where the floods were already waist-high.
City officials said Tuesday afternoon, however, they had not seen any significant changes in the water levels at the dam, but would continue to monitor it.
“Floodwaters continue to rise in some places, like our capital city, and have surpassed the levels seen during Tropical Storm Irene,” Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said. Irene killed six people in Vermont in August 2011, washing homes off their foundations and damaging or destroying more than 200 bridges and 500 miles (805 kilometers) of highway.
The sun was out Tuesday and more sunshine was expected Wednesday. But more rain was forecast Thursday and Friday.
“We are not out of the woods,” Scott said. “This is nowhere near over.” He tweeted that the roads around his house were impassable Tuesday morning, so he had to hike through the woods to reach the state’s emergency response center.
Montpelier Police said just before noon that waters had risen to within a foot of the top of the dam, and that every foot of water that goes over the spillway would double the flow into the city. But city officials later said they hadn’t seen any significant changes in the water levels since then. They said they would continue to monitor it through the night.
One woman was swept away in New York. There have been no reports of injuries or deaths related to the flooding in Vermont, where swift-water rescue teams aided by National Guard helicopter crews have done more than 100 rescues, Vermont Emergency Management said Tuesday.
That included an “extremely high-risk rescue” by a visiting New Hampshire team, of a person who decided to drive around a barricaded road, said Mike Cannon of Vermont Urban Search and Rescue. “The car was washed off the roadway almost into the river,” he said, urging drivers to pay attention to road closures.
Dozens of roads and highways were closed, including many along the spine of the Green Mountains, and flash flood warnings and advisories were in effect for much of the state, from the Massachusetts line to Canada.
Downtown Montpelier, a city of 8,000, was swamped between the capitol building and the Winooski River. Montpelier Town Manager Bill Fraser warned that the Wrightsville Dam several miles to the north could exceed capacity for the first time.
“There would be a large amount of water coming into Montpelier which would drastically add to the existing flood damage,” he said, adding that there are very few evacuation options remaining. “People in at risk areas may wish to go to upper floors in their houses.”
Multiple rescue crews were positioned in Montpelier, where dispatch, police and fire operations were relocated to a water treatment plant after heavy flooding at City Hall and the police and fire departments. Also, the radio towers they use for emergency calls are not functional, Police Chief Eric Nordenson said.
Bryan Pfeiffer, a biologist who has lived in the Montpelier area for four decades, canoed around the downtown area on Tuesday to check out the damage, and was appalled by what he saw.
“It’s heartbreaking to see my city flooded like this,” said Pfeiffer, whose home is on higher ground. The basement of every building — including the one where he works — and the lower levels of most were inundated by water that reached near the tops of the parking meters.
Shelters were set up at churches, town halls and the Barre Municipal Auditorium, where delivering food to the more than 200 people taking refuge there was a challenge. “We’re trying to find paths to get supplies in to them,” said John Montes, American Red Cross of Northern New England regional disaster officer.
The slow-moving storm reached New England after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut on Sunday. Some communities received between 7 and 9 inches (18 centimeters and 23 centimeters) of rain by Monday night. Towns in southwest New Hampshire had heavy flooding and road washouts, and the Connecticut River was was expected to crest above flood stage Wednesday in Hartford and towns to the south.
President Joe Biden, attending the annual NATO summit in Lithuania, declared an emergency for Vermont and authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help coordinate disaster relief efforts and provide assistance. He also spoke with the governor and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
FEMA sent a team to Vermont, along with emergency communications equipment, and is prepared to keep shelters supplied if the state requests it. The agency also is monitoring flooding in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire, regional spokesperson Dennis Pinkham said Tuesday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre urged people on Tuesday “to please, please be safe, and follow safety protocols.”
Road crews cleared debris Tuesday, reopening Interstate 89 as it follows the river between Montpelier and Middlesex. Rescuers from North Carolina, Michigan and Connecticut joined Vermonters in among those reaching towns that had been isolated since torrents of rain began belting the state.
One of the worst-hit places was New York’s Hudson Valley, where a woman identified by police as Pamela Nugent, 43, died as she tried to escape her flooded home with her dog in the hamlet of Fort Montgomery.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point was pounded with more than 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain that sent debris sliding onto some roads and washed others out.
“They’re calling this a ‘1,000 year event,’” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said during a briefing on a muddy street in Highland Falls, just south of the academy on the west bank of the Hudson River.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrator Richard Spinrad said Tuesday that 13.7 million people were under inland flooding alerts on Tuesday. Atmospheric scientists say destructive flooding events happen more frequently as storms form in a warmer atmosphere, and the planet’s rising temperatures will only make it worse.
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Minchillo reported from Highland Falls, New York. Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; Michael Hill in Albany, New York; and Mark Pratt and Steve LeBlanc in Boston contributed.
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2023-07-11T19:54:40+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/news/ap-us-news/ap-rescuers-brace-for-more-rain-as-relentless-storms-flood-northeast-vermont-hit-hard/
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How Emily Adams Bode Aujla Created a Menswear ‘Brand That Has No Gender’
Her clothes are ornate, androgynous — and a critical success
By Marisa Meltzer
November 16, 2022 at 10:27 a.m. EST
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Taking up about 10,000 square feet, the offices of the fashion line Bode are spread over two floors of an industrial building in Brooklyn. The headquarters feel like a massive warehouse of antiques: mid-century women’s basketball posters, dolls, a box of cigar labels, several shelves of French linens dating from the 1890s to the 1930s. Emily Adams Bode Aujla, 33, started the brand six years ago making mostly one-of-a-kind menswear items: jackets constructed from patchwork quilts, shirts created from handwoven African textiles. She found materials while frequenting estate sales and auctions. When she thinks about designing, “it goes back to the idea of preservation, so you can tell the narrative of one specific garment,” she says.
In 2018, the brand expanded into full collections, which by the next year were shown on the menswear fashion calendar in Paris. They include everything from leather espadrilles to purple wool suits to crocheted cardigans to tuxedos; some are made of vintage fabrics while others are replications. There are Bode boutiques in New York and Los Angeles, and the brand is available in retailers such as Ssense and Bergdorf Goodman.
Bode’s clothing is boyish and usually oversized by design. “It’s something that would be very hard to place in a specific time period,” Bode Aujla says. A pair of black striped high-rise pants called Hollywood Ribbon Trousers ($850) are made from a reproduction of a rainbow ribbon fabric from the 1940s in a silk and acetate blend. Like a lot of the brand’s clothes, the Hollywood pants and their matching workwear-style jacket ($1,300) are at once androgynous and ornate. Many of Bode Aujla’s pieces are adorned with beads, prints or embroidery. The menswear line’s dedication to whimsy and color gives it a softness, a kind of femininity. “I did menswear initially instead of womenswear so I could design for someone outside of myself and think of this person and their habits and their understanding of the world around them that was not just my own,” she says.
This approach received fast critical success. In 2019, three years after her debut collection, Bode Aujla won the award for Emerging Designer of the Year from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)/Vogue Fashion Fund. (The previous year she was a runner-up.) In 2021, Bode was included in the show “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Later that year she was awarded American Menswear Designer of the Year by CFDA. She won again in 2022. “What makes Emily very special is … she has a very laser-focused vision on what her brand is. Brands can be about marketing and hype often, but hers is about craft, talent and creativity, an old-school way of creating,” says Steven Kolb, CEO of the fashion council. “There is a quietness about her as a person and also about her brand that resonated with men and women. It really is a brand that has no gender.”
Bode’s signature boxy shirts, which are 50 percent of what it sells, are somehow fitting on all manner of people. Harry Styles, Jay-Z, Jonah Hill, Lorde, Ethan Hawke, David Sedaris — all celebrities who are fans of the brand — look like the clothing was made for them. “I have a shirt from them made from a German tablecloth,” Sedaris says. The humorist and author thinks he owns at least eight pieces. “I’m not sure I’ve gotten so many comments on an article of clothing. ... I always tell them more than they want to know: how much it costs and where I got it.” Half of Bode customers are women, but what is notable is they are not just purchasing the clothes for men. “We have women buying it for themselves and also for other women. So that’s … what sets us apart from another traditional menswear line,” says Bode Aujla, who has started adjusting some patterns to cater to female clients. “Because I approach the collections as menswear, that’s why it’s menswear to me.”
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Jessica Glasscock, a former researcher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and a lecturer at the Parsons School of Design, sees Bode Aujla’s style of dressing men as reflective of the way vintage enthusiasts shop. “The assignment of gender is once removed and can be ignored in vintage dressing. Those rules don’t exist because you’re just seeing a great jacket rather than a great menswear jacket,” Glasscock says. “Vintage shopping is a huge influence on what Emily thinks is allowed in her vision.” The Bode brand isn’t marketed as gender fluid or unisex. It just is.
By 16, Bode Aujla knew she would design clothes. “I wanted to be able to affect culture” through the way people dress, she recalls. “I always had that in my head.” She grew up in Atlanta, but her father, a doctor, and her mother, an artist, were both from Massachusetts. Cape Cod, in particular, was an important place for her. “But I loved growing up in the South,” she says. “There’s a lot of characteristics, especially around hospitality and making people feel welcome, that I admire from people that I was raised around.”
After high school, she took a sort of gap year to study at the American School in Switzerland and then enrolled at Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School in New York for a five-year dual degree in menswear design and philosophy. She interned at Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren.
Before graduating, she had been recruited by a handful of American brands and considered a position at a company she didn’t name. “It was a very good offer. ... I immediately was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to start my own brand,’ ” she says. She hoped to create a line that would make “people change their relationship to materials.”
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She developed her business plan while working as a retail buyer, prop stylist and photographer. She also got financial assistance from family, who helped pay her rent for two years. Her recent 29 Clinton collection is a reference to the address of that apartment, a top-floor seven-story walk-up on the Lower East Side where she lived from the fall of 2011 until she moved in with now-husband Aaron Aujla a few blocks away in 2019. The two met at her 21st birthday party, when a mutual friend brought Aaron. “Her whole MO has not changed since then. When people that age say, ‘I’m going to have a brand and open a store,’ it’s kind of like, ‘Okay, cool?’ ” Aaron says with a laugh. “But we bonded over that love for dreaming up crazy things and doing it.”
“I remember the first buyers that I ever met with, no one believed this was a viable business,” Bode Aujla says. How could retailers put in orders for clothing that was one-of-a-kind? they asked. Initially the Bode brand had a few pop-up stores. Prospective buyers had to make an appointment to visit a small Chinatown atelier, where they tried on pieces while employees sewed around them. Some of Bode Aujla’s first trousers had seven-inch seam allowances in the back and the pockets were placed far apart, so the waist size could be adjusted. “I want everybody and anybody to be able to buy our clothing,” she says. (Trousers are now offered in sizes 25 to 40.)
She chose to prioritize wholesalers to grow the business, and stores like Totokaelo, the now closed multibrand boutique, put in small orders for simple black or cream lace shirts. It was the kind of store that didn’t have strict gender divides, so Bode easily fit into the retail space. Press followed — GQ magazine editor Will Welch was an early champion — and the brand’s status rose as more retailers signed on. Once Bode Aujla opened her first store on the Lower East Side in 2019, her business had become viable and critically adored.
Bode Aujla speaks with a lot of determination but has a soft voice and quiet demeanor. She often wears pants or coats or shirts she designed, paired with vintage pieces. Her effortless integration of Bode into her outfits makes a compelling case for women to wear it. Today she is dressed in an oversized antique men’s bib shirt — which her company offers a similar reproduction of — paired with a vintage Chanel basket-shaped bag. (She collects the brand.) She wears piles of high-karat gold jewelry, some from her friend, the jewelry designer Jean Prounis.
In headquarters, there are floor-to-ceiling stacks of antique quilts organized in a system akin to a library database and tended by in-house archivists. “We’ll photograph them and use them for historical significance and look at the patterns in the prints,” she tells me. “Sometimes we’ll get one that’s so rotted, it’s oxidized so much that the prints are not even visible, but we’ll use it … to know the patterns and where it came from.”
Bode Aujla shows me a shelf of fabric waiting for mending. “Some of these textiles are 100 and 120 years old. So they really need a lot of care and love to bring them to the place in which a client can wear them,” she says. But a certain amount of imperfection is acceptable. “If something is very purposefully splattered … that’s okay. We’re not going to cover every single mark.” She picks up a shirt made of a heavy, creamy cloth. “This had a fold mark from where this cloth had been probably folded in somebody’s linen closet for maybe 80 years.” The team covered the crease mark in a star stitch, which is used in quilts, and soon it would be for sale. “In a literal sense, they are showing the work that goes into fashion — every stitch,” Glasscock says. “It’s so thoughtful.” Sustainability, she notes, is a common focus these days, but Bode Aujla makes sustainability “the text, not the subtext.”
“I did menswear initially instead of womenswear so I could design for someone outside of myself and think of this person and ... the world around them that was not just my own.”
Bode Aujla’s inspirations are intimate, almost insular. She got the idea for the 29 Clinton collection while unpacking boxes of clothes, fabric and books from her time in her post-college apartment. She “can attach how she sources to personal memories,” explains Kolb of the CFDA, “and then a customer associates it with their own memories of shopping.” Her work is based on layers of narratives: the vintage fabrics’ built-in history, Bode Aujla transforming it into an item of clothing, and what the customer will bring to the piece.
Family is another influence on Bode, both the idea of it and literal family: Her husband, who is the co-founder of Green River Project, a studio that builds furniture and interiors, collaborates with her and works in the same building; his brother Dev Aujla is Bode’s CEO. In the fall of 2021, Bode Aujla wed Aaron, who is originally from British Columbia and is Punjabi, at their home in Connecticut in both Punjabi and western ceremonies. She and the Bode team designed all the clothes for the wedding party — and it became the basis for the recent E.A.B.A. Wedding collection (Bode Aujla’s initials for her married name). “It’s natural for me to make all the clothes for my wedding and to share that with people,” she says. The collection, which came out earlier this summer, included formal pieces such as black peak lapel tuxedo jackets with grosgrain ribbon ties and a white pajama set with white rickrack detail. “I wore that pajama for a morning prayer when a Sikh priest came in and blessed the house,” Aaron says. “They’re based off of the kind of pajamas she’s made for me before — it’s super meaningful.”
I ask if she’s ever concerned that it’s the sort of thing that could feel too personal for some customers or difficult to translate. “It works for us. I know that’s not for everybody,” she says, explaining she’s aware that some people want their professional lives to be detached from their personal lives. “It’s the way my brain works.”
The company’s ambitions seem grand but methodical. It is an enterprise that “I want to pass on to my children. And I want my children to pass it on to their children,” says Bode Aujla, whose executive team is all women except for members of her family. “Every decision that we make has this idea of legacy in mind versus scaling for the sake of scaling.” Her influences give an idea of her plans for Bode. Three of her favorite apparel companies are Ralph Lauren, Eileen Fisher and Chanel. All are very different, but each started as family companies, and both Chanel and Eileen Fisher are still privately held. “Is she cool with her beautiful shops in L.A. and New York that’s a community center in many ways for her customer?” says Kolb, referring to the brand’s tailor shop that also sells coffee and snacks next door to the Lower East Side store. “Maybe she doesn’t want to be a $100 million brand. Not everybody does.”
Even if a large heritage brand offered her a position as designer — say, Calvin Klein or a company owned by LVMH — she says right now she wants to concentrate on Bode. Retail will be the focus for the next two to five years, with a London store they’re scouting locations for. Then Paris, then perhaps Japan or Korea — two big markets for Bode — or places that she and her family have ties to, like Atlanta, Cape Cod or British Columbia. Bode Aujla loves spending time in her retail stores, where male and female employees seem evenly mixed, all of them wearing the brand. “People when they shop are often quite emotional and it’s very personal to buy clothing. ... That’s compounded ... when we’re dealing with antique materials,” she says. “You’re putting on something that had 100 years of life before. It’s a very delicate experience. ... It’s not really uncommon for people to cry in our store.”
Occasionally, someone will buy a piece and then reach out to ask if there’s anything more Bode Aujla can tell them about what they bought. “That’s why I make clothes,” she says, “because I can really share that with somebody. And then that story is not being lost to me.” She continued, “If I can share that little bit of knowledge ... it’s super inspiring.”
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2022-11-16T15:46:22+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/11/16/emily-adams-bode-aujla-menswear/
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- Roche has developed a COVID-19 test for researchers that detects the latest subvariant BA.2.75 and can differentiate it from BA.4 or BA.5
- This new test is a highly accurate tool that specifically targets mutations found in the BA.2.75 subvariant - providing important epidemiological insights in monitoring the potential impact of therapeutics, vaccines, and public health interventions
PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and its subsidiary TIB Molbiol have developed a COVID-19 test for researchers that detects and differentiates the latest subvariant of interest BA.2.75. The test specifically targets two of the known unique mutations in BA.2.75, which allows clear differentiation against other notable subvariants.
"Roche is pleased to have developed a test for researchers that provides insights into the epidemiology of BA.2.75, helping to understand its impact on public health," said Cindy Perettie, Head of Molecular Labs at Roche Diagnostics Solutions. "Being able to differentiate emerging variants and understanding their similarities and mutations, can provide a basis for experts to make predictions of their spread and response to treatment strategies."
Since it was first detected in India in May 2022, cases of BA.2.75 have been reported in more than a dozen countries. The BA.2.75 is a subvariant related to the Omicron variant. The subvariant is being monitored by both the World Health Organization as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It has not reached the level of a Variant of Concern, but differentiating it from BA.4 and BA.5 allows for improved tracking to understand how it is spreading.
The available research use only test, VirSNiP SARS-CoV-2 Spike 147E 152R, adds to the broad suite of COVID-19 test kits developed by Roche and TIB Molbiol, for instance for the detection of the recent BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, as well as other mutations present in the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant.
Roche and TIB Molbiol's researchers continue to work in collaboration with partners globally to continually screen for new variants and emerging diseases.
The test specifically targets two of the known unique mutations, K147E and W152R, in BA.2.75, which allows clear differentiation against other notable subvariants. This test is for research use only and is available globally. The VirSNiP SARS-CoV-2 Spike 147E 152R for use on Lightcycler(R) and cobas® z480 analyser.
As a leading healthcare company, we are doing all we can to support countries in their fight against COVID-19 and minimising its impact. That is why we are working with governments, policy makers, healthcare professionals and others to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic and make sure patients continue to receive the tests, treatment and care they need.
The pandemic has profoundly raised awareness of the role diagnostics play in COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment development and disease management. Roche has developed and launched more than 20 COVID-19 diagnostics solutions, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid antigen and antibody tests. Our solutions serve the entire diagnostic continuum, from high-throughput laboratories to point-of-care and home self-testing, and cover all currently known variants. To help meet global demand, we have supplied more than 1.5 billion tests for COVID-19 since March 2020.
Roche continues to evaluate its existing therapeutic portfolio and is researching future options to help benefit patients with Covid-19. Our IL-6 inhibitor Actemra®/RoActemra® (tocilizumab) has been approved for patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19 in more than 30 countries including the European Union and is authorised for emergency use in the United States. The World Health Organization has prequalified Actemra for use in patients with severe COVID-19, facilitating its availability in low- and middle-income countries. In addition, we have been improving access to Actemra by introducing an international differentiated pricing strategy, providing the medicine at cost for use in low- and middle-income countries and non asserting patents in these regions during the pandemic.
We have also been partnering with Regeneron to jointly develop the antibody combination Ronapreve™ (casirivimab and imdevimab, known as REGEN-COV™ in the US). It has been approved in multiple territories including the European Union, Japan, and Switzerland and authorised for emergency or temporary pandemic use in many countries including the US. The antibody combination has been made available to patients in more than 60 countries, across many geographies including low and middle income countries. As the virus continues to evolve, we are constantly monitoring Ronapreve's activity against emerging variants of concern, and will share results with health authorities as soon as possible.
Our utmost goal remains to be a trusted partner who acts with urgency to save and improve the lives of patients with COVID-19 and to reduce its burden on society. For more information please visit our COVID-19 response page.
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In recognising our endeavor to pursue a long-term perspective in all we do, Roche has been named one of the most sustainable companies in the pharmaceuticals industry by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the thirteenth consecutive year. This distinction also reflects our efforts to improve access to healthcare together with local partners in every country we work.
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2022-08-22T05:45:06+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/08/22/roche-launches-covid-19-test-that-detects-differentiates-emerging-variant-interest-ba275/
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Is dethatching or aerating better for my lawn?
When it comes to lawn maintenance, chances are you need a combination of both dethatching and aeration. Both techniques are often essential to ensuring your lawn is lush and healthy. However, there are different tools and processes involved with dethatching and aeration. Also, it’s usually better to dethatch the lawn before aerating it.
Dethatching the lawn
Dethatching is the process of removing thatch from the lawn. Thatch is a combination of organic and inorganic matter that builds up over the topmost layer of your grass. It generally consists of leaves, stems and roots. These materials form a barrier that prevents essential resources such as sunlight, water, nutrients and oxygen from reaching the grass roots.
Some thatch — no more than half an inch — is beneficial for the lawn because it can protect it from extreme heat and help keep the soil moist without blocking resources. It can also decay over time and act as a natural fertilizer for grass.
However, too much thatch can prevent the grass from growing. It can also cause dead spots in the yard. Left unchecked, it could even become a breeding ground for pests and plant disease or rot. If you have too much thatch on your lawn, you need a dethatcher.
There are a few main types of lawn dethatchers:
- Tow-behind: These attach to the back of a lawnmower or tractor and can remove thatch as they go. They’re great for larger lawns.
- Manual: These require you to push or pull them to break up thatch. One of the most common types is the thatch rake. This type is best for small yards.
- Motorized or electric: These dethatchers usually have a motor and require a power source to operate. They’re ideal for larger areas.
Dethatchers have tines or claws and can loosen or break up thatch as they go. Some collect the thatch in a tray you can empty once you’ve finished the process. Others leave the thatch behind for you to rake up manually.
Dethatching pros
- Provides grass more access to resources such as sunlight, water, fertilizer and nutrients, so it can grow lush and healthy.
- Inspires growth of newer, smaller grass shoots.
- Makes fertilizer more effective.
- Decreases the number of weeds.
- Lowers the risk of plant disease and pests.
- Gets rid of standing water such as puddles.
Dethatching cons
- Can cause stress in the yard if done at the wrong time, leading to stunted growth.
- Higher-tier equipment can be expensive.
- Manual dethatchers are time-consuming and laborious.
- Removing all thatch could also get rid of necessary nutrients or fertilizer, which could hurt the lawn.
Best lawn dethatchers
Greenworks 10-Amp Corded 14-Inch Dethatcher Plus Tines
This ergonomic dethatcher comes with durable stainless steel tines that can easily break up clumps of thatch. It has a tine depth controller that lets you adjust how deep the tines go. It’s best for removing light to moderate thatch.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Brinly-Hardy 40-Inch Tow-Behind Dethatcher
This tow-behind dethatcher easily attaches to a lawnmower or tractor and can automatically break up and remove thatch. It comes with two rows of 10 steel tines and is 40 inches wide. It has a durable all-steel design and can support an additional 70 pounds for lawns with a lot of thatch or tough soil.
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Brinly-Hardy 38-Inch Front-Mount Dethatcher
Compatible with an electric riding mower, this front-end dethatcher makes lawn maintenance easier than ever. It’s easy to install and is 38 inches wide. It has two rows and a total of 20 tines.
Sold by Home Depot
Aerating the lawn
Over time, the soil becomes compacted. This can happen for several reasons, including foot traffic and heavy equipment placed in the yard. Compacted soil prevents oxygen, nutrients and water from reaching the grass roots. Without these necessary resources, the grass will start to turn brown, thin out and eventually die.
That’s where aeration comes in. Aeration is the process of loosening up compacted soil by creating small holes so nutrients and other resources can get to the grass roots. You should aerate the lawn once every year or if you notice the soil is starting to become compacted. If you’re not sure, here are some ways to tell if it’s time to aerate:
- Push a screwdriver down into the ground. If it goes down easily, the yard probably doesn’t need aeration yet. If it doesn’t, you may need to aerate.
- Dig a small hole in the yard. It should be deep enough for you to see the grass roots — usually, 5 to 6 inches is enough. If the roots are only about an inch long, you should aerate the lawn.
- Check for standing water. If puddles are starting to form in places they didn’t before, it could be a sign that the soil is too compacted to absorb water.
- Look for thinning grass or discoloration. Thin or brown patches of grass aren’t getting the resources they need. This could be a sign that it’s time to aerate.
There are several types of lawn aerators, including:
- Tow-behind or attached: These attach to the back of riding equipment, such as a lawnmower. They’re ideal for larger areas.
- Manual: With either a spike aerator or aerator shoes, you’ll use these manually to create small holes and loosen up compacted soil.
- Motorized or electric: These run on electricity or gas and can aerate large sections of the lawn at once.
- Core and spike: Core aerators remove plugs of soil so resources can reach the roots. Spike aerators push down the soil to create small holes between 2 and 4 inches deep.
Aerating pros
- Can promote healthier grass easily.
- Helps prevent potential yard erosion.
- Can reduce the need for dethatching.
- Prevents standing water.
- Helps manage weeds.
- Reduces how much fertilizer you need.
Aerating cons
- Core aerators leave soil plugs throughout the yard that require manual removal.
- Spike aerators can cause soil to become more compacted in certain areas.
- Electric or tow-behind lawn aerators are often expensive.
- Manual aeration is time-consuming and physically intensive.
Best lawn aerators
Agri-Fab 45-0299 48-Inch Tow Plug Aerator
With 32 blades that can create 3-inch deep cores, this tow-behind aerator can easily handle large yards. It has flat tires that keep it from tearing up the soil. It also comes with a universal hitch that can connect to nearly any tractor or lawnmower.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Axansiho Upgraded Metal Lawn Aerator Shoes Spiked Shoes
These aerator shoes attach to nearly any shoe size and have a metal base plate that makes them resistant to corrosion. Each shoe has 13 spikes that are 2.2 inches long. They can aerate any soil type.
Sold by Amazon
Yard Butler IM-7C Multi-Spike Lawn Aerator
This durable spike aerator can penetrate 3 inches of soil with ease. It also has a long handle that’s ergonomic and reduces back strain. It’s ideal for smaller projects.
Sold by Amazon
Should you dethatch or aerate the lawn?
Ultimately, you should dethatch the lawn if there’s more than half an inch of organic matter blocking essential resources from the grass roots. You should also do this before aerating the lawn.
Dethatching on its own is sufficient if the grass is still lush and healthy and the soil is not heavily compacted. However, you should aerate the lawn once every year or two, or if the grass isn’t receiving the resources it needs.
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2022-06-09T05:23:00+00:00
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krqe.com
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LEXINGTON, Ky., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Valvoline Inc. (NYSE: VVV) today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.125 per share of Valvoline common stock. The dividend is payable on Sep. 15, 2022, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Aug. 31, 2022.
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Valvoline Inc. (NYSE: VVV) is a global leader in vehicle care powering the future of mobility through innovative services and products for vehicles with electric, hybrid and internal combustion powertrains. Established in 1866, the Company introduced the world's first branded motor oil and developed strong brand recognition and customer satisfaction ratings over the years across multiple service and product channels. The Company operates and franchises approximately 1,600 service center locations and is the No. 2 and No. 3 largest chain in the U.S. and Canada, respectively, by number of stores. With sales in more than 140 countries and territories, Valvoline's solutions are available for every engine and drivetrain, including high-mileage and heavy-duty vehicles, and are offered at more than 80,000 locations worldwide. Creating the next generation of advanced automotive solutions, Valvoline has established itself as the world's leading supplier of battery fluids to electric vehicle manufacturers, offering tailored products to help extend vehicle range and efficiency. To learn more, or to find a Valvoline service center near you, visit valvoline.com.
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2022-07-20T21:24:04+00:00
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that blocks public colleges from using federal or state funding on diversity programs, addressing a concern of conservatives ahead of the Republican governor’s expected presidential candidacy.
The law, which DeSantis proposed earlier this year, comes as Republicans across the country target programs on diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education.
The signing builds on the governor’s larger push to shape Florida’s education system through regulating how schools deal with subjects such as race and gender, with DeSantis arguing that he is challenging inappropriate liberal ideology in the classroom.
DeSantis, who is expected to announce his presidential run in the coming weeks, has focused heavily on divisive cultural issues as he moves to win over the conservative voters who typically decide Republican primary elections.
Diversity, equity and inclusion offices in higher education often spearhead services tailored to students of various races, genders, sexual orientations, cultures and abilities. Some college administrators also consider so-called DEI factors when admitting students, providing scholarships or deciding which faculty to hire and promote.
The law blocks public universities from diverting state or federal funds toward programs or campus activities that advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion or promote political or social activism.
“In reality what this concept of DEI has been is to attempt to impose orthodoxy on the university,” DeSantis said at a bill signing ceremony in Sarasota. “This has basically been used as a veneer to impose an ideological agenda, and that is wrong.”
The measure also bars curriculums that teach “identity politics” or “theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities.” The provision is aimed at curtailing education about critical race theory, a way of thinking about U.S. history through the lens of racism.
In a signal of DeSantis’ reach on education, he chose to sign the bill at New College of Florida, a small, traditionally-progressive school that became nationally known this year after the governor appointed a group of conservatives to its board of trustees. Among the DeSantis appointees’ first moves was to eliminate the New College’s diversity, equity and inclusion office.
The takeover has led to pushback among students at New College, long known for its progressive thought and creative course offerings that don’t use traditional grades.
On Monday, a small group of protestors gathered outside the signing ceremony. DeSantis, as well as most of the speakers at the event, ridiculed them.
“You know, I saw some of the protestors out there. I was a little disappointed. I was hoping for more,” DeSantis said with a smile as his supporters clapped.
Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, issued a statement after the signing that said the law continues DeSantis’ “overreach” into education.
“Education ought to be about teaching kids how to think through issues, not what to think about issues,” Jones said. “The exposure to wide-ranging experiences and fresh perspectives encourages understanding and creativity. By restricting what students can learn, the state is actively suppressing students’ academic and intellectual freedom.”
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2023-05-16T09:19:35+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/green-living/top-story/ap-top-headlines/desantis-curtails-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-programs-in-florida-state-colleges/
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TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - Shoplifting seems to be becoming more and more of a problem.
This has caused a fear for local business owners.
WTVA reporter Jake White asked Tupelo business owners how they are combating the crime and how shoplifting affects their stores.
Watch the interview in the video above.
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2022-07-07T23:34:19+00:00
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wtva.com
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https://www.wtva.com/news/tupelo-businesses-work-to-prevent-shoplifting/article_4c29f47e-fe43-11ec-b8c3-4f6e391fb393.html
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Chad Red's perfect HS wrestling mark had him destined for NCAA titles. It's not that easy.
"I know he fell short of being a national champ, but I think he understands that it's about the journey, not about the accolades."
- was a four-time IHSAA state champion with a 183-0 career record..
- Red finished with a 98-46 record at Nebraska, and is now an assistant coach with IU.
Longtime wrestling coach Chad Red Sr. knows the drive from Indiana to Nebraska well. He had his entire route mapped out for the 64 trips he made during the six years his son, C.J., wrestled in Lincoln for the Cornhuskers.
Attending practices and matches was common for the elder Red, but this practice during Parents Week of C.J.'s sophomore year was different.
The plan was to watch practice and then go to the football game against Purdue. C.J. was wrestling against Tyler Berger, a two-time NCAA All-American and the No. 2-ranked 157-pounder in 2019, but C.J. was struggling.
C.J. came to Nebraska after one of the most decorated prep wrestling careers in Indiana history. Wrestling under his dad at New Palestine, C.J. was a four-time IHSAA state champion with a 183-0 career record. He ranked as the No. 5 pound-for-pound wrestler in the nation and the top-ranked 132-pounder in the country, according to the Asics FloRankings in 2016.
C.J. had the pedigree, but wrestling against older, stronger collegiate wrestlers was a challenge for him early in his career.
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"He was killing me," Red said of Berger. "It was the first to 10 points and he had eight, then he took me down and he had nine. So I made a mental decision that I was going to get one (point)."
C.J. executed and got a point on Berger, but his partner was quick to respond. Berger shot for a takedown and seconds later, C.J. was running off the mat and into the locker room.
"I remember he hit me with a level change and I remember his head being lower than mine on the level change," C.J. said. "I was like, 'oh crap', I need to get my head out the way, too little too late. Before I knew it, the back of his head had already knocked out my tooth. I looked at my tooth being on the mat, and yeah, that was about it."
Maybe it was the difficult adjustment to being away from home and dealing with an elevated level of competition. Maybe it was the hours of extensive dental work C.J.'s family put into correcting his teeth. But after losing his tooth, C.J. struggled with his mentality on the mat and his passion for the sport waned. He continued to compete, but he was scared to share his feelings with anyone, his dad included, because he was not sure how it would affect his scholarship.
"That season wasn't going really well," Red Sr. said. "Really up and down with a lack of confidence. Definitely was afraid and kind of hesitant to shoot just because again, he had his main front tooth knocked out and he was still in there doing it six days a week.
"I think (being) 10 hours away, (being) 20 years old, he hadn't quite figured everything out yet. He still needed a little bit of touch up as far as just growing. I think that's just part of life. I think kids get it at a little bit different ages."
Red's coaches and family noticed the change in the affable and outgoing C.J., so they encouraged him to seek help.
"I remember when that happened, I didn't want to wrestle at all," C.J. said. "Towards the end of the year, my dad and my coach, coach (Kendric) Maple, both got me to sit down and talk with somebody and it only took after that first time, I felt totally different towards wrestling. I felt that love that I had before my incident and I was ready to go back out there and compete."
C.J. said all athletes deal with mental struggles at times and he hopes the stigma around seeking help will be eliminated over time. He added that it's important to recognize the signs of an athlete who may be dealing with challenges.
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"Everybody has their mental battles and sometimes those mental battles can affect how somebody performs or how somebody is looking at their sport that they so-called love, or how they're just kind of getting away from the sport and don't want to be around it," C.J. said. "I feel like if that's happening, we need to be able to get our guys into a sports therapist and that's something that I was able to touch down with in Nebraska, especially my sophomore year."
C.J. finished his sophomore season with a 22-14 record and a second-place finish in the Big Ten tournament. He ended his career with a 98-46 record. He was a three-time All-American and a five-time NCAA Championship qualifier. But he never won a Big Ten or NCAA championship.
"We pushed him to (win a national championship) and he pushed himself to do that," Nebraska wrestling coach Mark Manning said. "Sometimes it's just not in the cards. There's only one guy that can say they're national champion at the end of the day.
"It's a perspective that a lot of times people forget. You're the best in one state, now you're trying to be the best in 50 states... As a redshirt freshman or an 18-year-old, 19-year-old guy, you might be wrestling 24-year-old guys. You weren't doing that when you're in junior high or high school. So sometimes it's just another level. You have to jump up another level, not only from the technical style standpoint and the knowledge of the sport, but mentally you have to get better. I call it neck-up training."
Looking back on his career at Nebraska, C.J. has no feelings of bitterness or disappointment about not winning a national championship. C.J. is still the positive and exuberant person he rediscovered after his sophomore year, and that will serve him well in his next role as an assistant wrestling coach at IU under Angel Escobedo.
"Going around kind of hanging my head, 'Oh, I didn't get a national title' or hanging my head just because last year I didn't end up on the podium. My grandma told me at a young age, walking around carrying your head down just leads you into walls, dead ends," C.J. said. "Just keep your head up and even if something does set you back, you work a little bit harder the next time. That's one of the reasons I'm still wrestling."
While coaching at IU, Red continues to train with the Team USA Regional Training Center in hopes of competing in the World Wrestling championships. Red’s role on IU’s staff will be coaching the lightweights and middleweights.
Coaching has always been in the younger Red's blood. Chad Red Sr. has trained numerous state-champion and collegiate wrestlers through his Red Cobra Wrestling Academy. Escobedo, a national championship winner at IU in 2008, participated in camps at Red Cobra for years and even gave a young C.J. Red a signed wrestling shoe he during a visit to the academy.
Escobedo knows the Red name carries weight in Indiana, and a lot of his wrestlers grew up watching C.J. dominate the state as a prep star. C.J.'s name, game, positive personality and strong relationship with Escobedo made him a natural fit for the IU coaching staff.
"His energy's really contagious," Escobedo said. "I tell him all the time, it's great to have him in the room as a coach just because of his perspective. He's pretty happy-go-lucky and just excited to be there every day, which is awesome.
"I know he fell short of being a national champ, but I think he understands that it's about the journey, not about the accolades. He's gonna bring a lot to coaching. He's gonna bring a lot to the table, all the things that maybe he wished he could do, or could go back and do, I know he's going to pass that along to the college guys."
Follow IndyStar sports reporter Akeem on Glaspie on Twitter at @THEAkeemGlaspie.
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2022-11-09T11:22:21+00:00
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indystar.com
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https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2022/11/08/chad-red-jr-didnt-win-ncaa-titles-at-nebraska-wrestling-now-an-iu-assistant-indiana/69617406007/
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Colleges will be able to hide students’ race, ethnicity on popular application portal
(CNN) - More than 1,000 colleges in the U.S. allow students to apply for admission through the Common App.
Soon, those colleges will be able to hide information about a student’s race and ethnicity.
The Common App said it is making the change to allow colleges to do that starting Aug. 1.
The decision could diminish the number of Black and Hispanic students in higher education.
The move comes ahead of a Supreme Court’s ruling that would likely ban college and universities from taking race into consideration when admitting students.
Questions about race and ethnicity are optional on the Common App, and that likely won’t change, according to the organization.
The common app also lets schools hide information about an applicant’s test scores, birthday, gender and Social Security number.
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2023-05-30T19:08:07+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2023/05/30/colleges-will-be-able-hide-students-race-ethnicity-popular-application-portal/
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BEIJING (AP) — China defense budget up 7.2%, just .1% higher than last year, marking 8th consecutive year of single-digit increases.
BEIJING (AP) — China defense budget up 7.2%, just .1% higher than last year, marking 8th consecutive year of single-digit increases.
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2023-03-05T03:06:19+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/alert-china-defense-budget-up-7-2-just-1-17820480.php
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Keith Higgins Jr. had 17 points in Lehigh's 97-58 victory over Misericordia on Sunday night.
Higgins shot 6 for 9, including 3 for 6 from beyond the arc for the Mountain Hawks (1-2). Tyler Whitney-Sidney scored 15 points while going 6 of 11 (1 for 4 from distance), and added four steals. Evan Taylor was 5 of 7 shooting (2 for 3 from distance) to finish with 12 points.
Dewin Concepcion finished with 15 points and three blocks for the (2-2). Misericordia also got 11 points from Will Anozie.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2022-11-14T01:53:28+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Higgins-puts-up-17-Lehigh-beats-Misericordia-17582078.php
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2023-06-27T23:05:52+00:00
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WASHINGTON – There's no reason for China and the U.S. “to come to blows" should House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visit Taiwan during an Asia trip she is expected to make soon, the White House said Friday, underscoring the international tensions surrounding her travel plans.
The remarks by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby came as Pelosi, D-Calif., offered a rationale for a visit to Asia that she had yet to publicly acknowledge. Kirby was asked Friday if the U.S. has noticed any Chinese military preparations due to her travel plans.
“There’s no reason for it to come to that, to come to blows, to come to increased physical tension,” Kirby said at the White House. “There’s no reason for that because there’s been no change in American policy with respect to One China.”
Seeming to stop just short of saying she would travel there, Pelosi said, “I’m very excited that should we go to the countries, that you’ll be hearing about along the way about the conversations” she would have there.
She noted President Joe Biden's focus on Asia and referenced his recent trip to South Korea and Japan, telling reporters, "He has visited there, his vice president has visited, the secretary of commerce and others. And we want the Congress of the United States to be part of that initiative.”
Pelosi and her aides have not confirmed her travel plans or named the countries she might visit, citing security concerns. China considers Taiwan its own territory and has said it might reclaim the island democracy by force.
For more than four decades, the U.S. has followed a “one China" policy in which it recognizes Beijing as the government of China yet maintains informal relations and defense ties with Taiwan.
China has objected strenuously to any Taiwan visit by Pelosi, warning of “resolute and strong measures” if she does.
Biden said earlier this month that the Pentagon thinks a Pelosi trip to Taiwan is “not a good idea right now.” Senior defense officials who briefed reporters on Friday declined to discuss any potential preparations for a trip.
Biden has designed his foreign policy in part around countering China's growing economic and military might. Pelosi's itinerary has also become a domestic political issue, with some Republicans urging her to visit Taiwan as a show of standing up to Beijing.
Kirby said Friday that Pelosi “does not need nor nor do we offer approval or disapproval" for travel. And he said, “The speaker is entitled to travel aboard a military aircraft.”
The military routinely supplies aircraft for travel by lawmakers, which presidents have the rarely used authority to deny. In a highly unusual move, then-President Donald Trump blocked Pelosi and other lawmakers from using a military plane to visit Afghanistan during a 2019 battle over a government shutdown and after she told him to delay his State of the Union address.
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2022-07-29T19:46:39+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/07/29/white-house-no-need-for-tensions-if-pelosi-visits-taiwan/
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OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. (WTNH) — For nearly a week, a Connecticut community has been searching for a couple’s cat after an explosion destroyed their home. “Lucky” for them, the cat miraculously made escaped harm and was found.
The explosion happened on June 28 in Old Saybrook, a coastal town roughly 30 miles east of New Haven. It shook the neighborhood and completely destroyed a portion of the home, lifting off of its foundation and dropping it into the basement, according to Old Saybrook Fire Marshal Peter Terenzi.
June 28 also marked the 65th wedding anniversary of the couple that owns the home, neighbors told Nexstar’s WTNH.
The man, who was home alone at the time doing dishes, was rescued by a neighbor. His wife is currently in a nursing home. Authorities say the man required an overnight stay at the hospital but was then released.
Unfortunately, the couple’s cat was nowhere to be found after the explosion and subsequent fire. The community had been rallying together to find Lucky, a black-and-white cat beloved by his owners.
On Tuesday, nearly a week after the harrowing incident, Lucky was found at Pieper Veterinary in Essex, roughly six miles away.
The vet said Lucky was indeed lucky; he escaped the disaster with only a few singed whiskers and was checked for smoke inhalation.
“This little cat is certainly living up to his name!” Pieper Veterinary said. “We’re so relieved that Lucky is healthy and back with his loving family.”
While an investigation is still underway, Terenzi noted there was a propane line from an underground tank in the basement. Water was preventing authorities from getting into the lower level of the home to evaluate the line.
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2023-07-04T15:50:01+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/cat-named-lucky-escapes-connecticut-house-explosion-that-hospitalized-homeowner/
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(The Hill) — Former Attorney General William Barr on Monday called for a new leader of the Republican Party, warning in a blistering rebuke that former President Donald Trump “will burn the whole house down.”
“Unless the rest of the party goes along with him, he will burn the whole house down by leading ‘his people’ out of the GOP,” Barr said in a scathing op-ed published in the New York Post on Monday.
“Trump’s willingness to destroy the party if he does not get his way is not based on principle, but on his own supreme narcissism,” he added. “His egoism makes him unable to think of a political party as anything but an extension of himself — a cult of personality.”
Barr’s comments follow the 2022 midterm elections, where Republicans were expected to see a “red wave” in the House, taking control of the chamber by a wide margin. Some polls before the midterms also showed that Republicans had a good chance of capturing the Senate.
However, Democrats kept control of the Senate, and while the GOP did gain control of the House, the final margin was significantly smaller than anticipated.
Several high-profile candidates who were endorsed by Trump, including Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters (R) and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz (R), lost to their Democratic opponents.
Barr has become a frequent critic of his former boss since leaving Trump’s administration in December 2020. He resigned as attorney general after contradicting Trump’s unsupported claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 election.
Barr has also separated himself from Trump and the rest of the GOP on the subject of the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
Barr has consistently rejected Trump’s claims about classified and sensitive documents recovered after the FBI executed a search warrant of the Palm Beach, Fla., residence.
The former attorney general has said he is “skeptical” of Trump’s claims that he declassified the documents. Barr said that there was “no justification” for taking the documents from the White House and criticized a court’s decision to appoint a special master in the case.
In an interview on Friday, Barr added that the Justice Department likely has a “basis for legitimately indicting” Trump over his handling of the sensitive documents.
In his op-ed published Monday, Barr acknowledged the Trump administration’s “substantive achievements,” but said he believes it’s “time for new leadership.”
“It is painfully clear from his track record in both the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms that Donald Trump is neither capable of forging this winning coalition nor delivering the decisive and durable victory required,” Barr said.
“Indeed, among the current crop of potential nominees, Trump is the person least able to unite the party and the one most likely to lose the general election,” he added.
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2022-11-23T13:56:39+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/barr-warns-trump-will-burn-the-whole-house-down-calls-for-new-gop-leader/
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The past few years have been difficult for Nya Owens of Oakland, California. The pandemic made learning difficult, and she’s moved several times after losing her brother to gun violence.
But a new intensive mentoring program has been working with high school seniors, including Nya, giving them skills to use both in and outside the classroom. Julia McEvoy of KQED has more.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-06-06T18:21:10+00:00
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wksu.org
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https://www.wksu.org/2022-06-06/one-students-journey-to-her-high-school-diploma
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Our editorial team at The Car Connection wouldn’t call ourselves cheap, but we value a good value. It’s one of the key considerations in deciding on our Best Car To Buy 2023 award, and a key reason why the redesigned 2023 Kia Niro is one of five finalists whittled down from dozens of contenders.
The second-generation Kia Niro grows from its hatchback origins into a small crossover size, though it still only comes with front-wheel drive. It’s larger, roomier, edgier, and more efficient in all three of its powertrain choices, and the only model covering the green spectrum on the powertrain rainbow, with hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or full battery electric versions all wearing the same nameplate. With prices ranging from $28,000 for the Kia Niro Hybrid to $40,000 for the Kia Niro EV, there’s a Niro for every powertrain preference and for every budget.
All three are slow, but all three are efficient. And all three have standout styling unlike any other small crossover. A black or silver panel covers the rear end bending from the roof to the rear wheel well, like a boomerang. Also like a boomerang, it was designed with aerodynamics in mind. Kia calls it an air blade and it’s meant to direct air around the tailgate. It’s framed by vertical taillights, but otherwise the Niro has the blocky ends and pronounced rockers of other small crossovers pretending to be larger.
That pretension become reality inside with a wide, open cargo hold totaling 22.8 cubic feet (the plug-in hybrid has 19.4 cubic feet) and with nearly 40 inches of rear legroom. It’s no problem fitting four adults or four collegians and all their dirty laundry for the holiday road trip home. Heated front seats with a power driver seat come in all but the base model, and Kia offers sustainable materials such as recycled wallpaper for the headliner and seat upholstery made from eucalyptus leaves. But Kia should recycle all the gloss black plastic that dominates the cabin.
The real magic sits under the hood or under the cabin floor. The Niro HEV hybrid pairs a 1.6-liter inline-4 with a 32-kw electric motor to produce 139 hp and 195 lb-ft of torque. It won’t go fast but it goes far with an EPA rating of 53 mpg combined, and the power delivery is so smooth between the single motor and the engine as to be unnoticeable.
The Niro PHEV one-ups the hybrid with the same engine paired to a 62-kw motor that’s juiced by an 11.1-kwh lithium-ion polymer battery. Output increases to 180 hp and 195 lb-ft, and the electric range extends to 33 miles when the 2023 Niro is fitted with 16-inch wheels. Both the hybrid and plug-in hybrid use a 6-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission.
The quickest of the bunch, the less glacially slow 2023 Niro EV uses a 64.8-kwh battery pack and a 148-kw (201-hp) motor rated at 188 lb-ft of torque. It’s the quietest, quickest, cleanest, and most efficient of the triplets, and has a range of 253 miles.
Kia also corrects one of the biggest wrongs from the first-gen Niro by equipping all models with driver-assist features that include automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, active lane control, blind-spot monitors, a safe-exit monitor so you don’t open the door into a cyclist or vehicle, and a rear occupant alert system.
The brand’s excellent 5-year/60,000-mile basic warranty plus standard features such as an 8.0-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto make it a great value, but we’d step up to the Niro Hybrid EX to get leather trim, a 10-way power driver seat, heated front seats, and a 10.3-inch touchscreen with wired smartphone compatibility as well as a wireless smartphone charger, all for about $30,000.
With a lower and lowest cost of ownership over the long haul, the Niro PHEV and BEV also entice. All three iterations make the 2023 Kia Niro a strong contender as our best-of-year debate continues.
We’ll announce the winner of our Best Car To Buy 2023 award on Jan. 4, 2023, when we also crown the champs at Motor Authority and Green Car Reports.
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2022-12-16T21:31:51+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/automotive/internet-brands/kia-niro-the-car-connection-best-car-to-buy-2023-finalist/
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Ticketmaster cancels public on-sale for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour
(Gray News) – If you were waiting to get tickets Friday to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, you’re out of luck.
The public on-sale for the tour, which was scheduled for Friday, has been canceled due to “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand,” Ticketmaster announced Thursday.
As of Thursday afternoon, Ticketmaster has not yet announced a backup plan for the public on-sale.
Unprecedented demand for pre-sale tickets led to major issues for Ticketmaster earlier this week.
While hundreds of thousands of tickets were sold during the pre-sale, many fans were stuck in a queue for several hours with thousands of people ahead of them in line. Ticketmaster’s website eventually crashed.
The Eras Tour starts March 17 in Glendale, Arizona and ends Aug. 9 in Los Angeles.
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2022-11-17T22:09:03+00:00
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wfsb.com
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https://www.wfsb.com/2022/11/17/ticketmaster-cancels-public-on-sale-taylor-swifts-eras-tour/
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ben Kennedy may someday be the head of NASCAR.
If it happens, it won’t be a case of nepotism. Yes, he is the the great-grandson of NASCAR’s founder, but the 31-year-old graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in sports management and has spent his entire life learning the family business.
Once a little boy tagging alongside his grandfather to the hidden hot dog stand Bill France Jr. installed inside Daytona International Speedway, Kennedy grew up and eventually had to staff that snack shack. He’s sold programs, parked cars, drove the truck that empties the waste from motorhomes and worked in the signage shops.
Kennedy gave it a go as a driver and entered 90 races at NASCAR’s national level. He scored a victory in the Truck Series race at Bristol in 2016, the year he ran a full season and finished seventh in the standings.
But he’s also seen as the future leader of NASCAR, which this year is celebrating its 75th season. NASCAR is currently run by his 78-year-old uncle, chairman Jim France, and his mother, Lesa France Kennedy, the executive vice chairman.
Once he turned in his firesuit, Kennedy moved into the operations side of NASCAR and is presently the senior vice president of racing development and strategy. He is young, progressive, unafraid to take gambles and returns this weekend to what will forever be a milestone moment in his young career.
It was Kennedy who devised the idea to take NASCAR’s unofficial season-opening exhibition race to Los Angeles, where the iconic Coliseum is transformed into a temporary short track for a stock car race. It could have been a disaster of terrible racing, poor track conditions or a snoozefest for an LA audience with no shortage of entertainment options.
But it was a success and Kennedy, primarily the architect of NASCAR’s most recent season-long schedules, put the Clash back at the Coliseum this Sunday for a repeat performance. Actor Rob Lowe is the grand marshal, Cypress Hill will play a pre-race concert and Wiz Khalifa will perform at halftime.
“The Coliseum, for us, was a huge, huge risk. And there were so many questions, and so much uncertainty, and frankly I was uncertain,” Kennedy said in an interview with The Associated Press at NASCAR headquarters overlooking Daytona International Speedway. “We knew as much as we possibly could, but we didn’t know what the race was going to be like until we put cars on a temporary circuit inside a football stadium.”
Kennedy has a dream list of places he’d like to take NASCAR. For now, he is content returning to the Coliseum as a warm-up for the Feb. 19 season-opening Daytona 500.
“I think on many metrics last year was a a big success. So for us, it was very difficult to say ‘Hey, this was a really big success and now we’re going to go do something else,’” Kennedy said. “I think this year will be really kind of telling because last year it was new and different, and there were a lot of novel concepts that had a lot of people talking.
“I think it’s it’s on us, NASCAR, to make it so that when the fans come out, or they tune in on TV, that this year is just as good, if not better than what it was last year.”
Kennedy didn’t exactly need to prove himself to NASCAR’s Board of Directors, but after pulling off the Clash plans rapidly moved forward on staging a Cup Series race on the streets of downtown Chicago. The once outlandish idea is now scheduled for July 2 for a series that has traditionally stuck to oval tracks with banked turns.
“I would say a lot of the Chicago conversations really started picking up steam after the Clash,” said Kennedy, dismissing speculation that the race will fall through and noting excellent relationships with the mayor’s office and other city agencies.
“What we’ve continued to focus on is this is brand new for NASCAR. This is brand new for the city of Chicago, and we’re really trying to help everyone understand what this will look like,” he said. “We want this to be successful for NASCAR, but even more so successful for Chicago and something that Chicagoans can look forward to.”
It seems inevitable that Kennedy will soon be running the entire show. Steve Phelps is the current president of NASCAR and only the third non-France family member to hold the position in 75 years; Steve O’Donnell currently runs competition.
Kennedy does not believe his future is pre-determined.
“I don’t think it’s inevitable for for me and I tell Steve and Steve and my family this all the time: ‘I want to earn my stripes along the way. The last thing that I want to do is be put in a position that isn’t for the betterment of the company and the people around us are being put in a position that I’m not competent for,'” Kennedy said. “I want to centrally deserve whatever that position or promotion might look like. It’s really important to me. I think it earns me a bit of respect. It makes it that much more meaningful.
“Do I end up there? I have no idea. But I have to do a good job to earn that right.”
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2023-02-03T16:36:17+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/big-race-daytona/column-kennedy-takes-bold-risks-with-nascar-family-business/
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We're dodging hit-and-miss showers through the morning commute, and then the rest of the day should be dry. Sunshine should break out again by this afternoon with comfortable temperatures in the 70s to around 80. A quiet night is on tap tonight with lows around 60s.
The overall forecast for the holiday weekend is still looking pretty good but becoming a bit unsettled. We'll now put a slight chance for storms in the forecast for Saturday and Sunday, but most of the time will be sunny and warm. A better chance for storms, unfortunately, arrives Monday, the 4th of July.
TODAY: Sct'd Early Morning Showers/Storms. Bec. Mostly Sunny and comfortable
High: 78
Wind: W to NE 10 mph
TONIGHT: Mainly Clear
Low: 63
Wind: Variable 5 mph
SATURDAY: Mostly Sunny. Slight Ch. T-Storms
High: 81
SUNDAY: Mostly Sunny. Slight Ch. T-Storms
High: 83
MONDAY: Partly Cloudy and Humid. Ch. T-Storms
High: 83
TUESDAY: Partly Cloudy and Humid. Ch. T-Storms
High: 83
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2022-07-01T12:02:28+00:00
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tmj4.com
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https://www.tmj4.com/weather/forecast/todays-forecast/mostly-sunny-and-comfortable-following-morning-showers
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2023-01-03T22:47:22+00:00
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wtmj.com
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Ninja or Vitamix blender: which is better?
Whether you want to make daily smoothies or blend icy drinks for a party, a great blender is a must-have kitchen appliance. It can create healthy concoctions for a fraction of the cost of pricey juice bars and specialty stores.
Ninja and Vitamix produce top-of-the-line professional blenders that make blending and cleaning up easy. While both are more expensive than basic blenders, they offer high-powered blending as well as systems that include extra cups and storage.
Ninja blender
Ninja makes an entire line of kitchen appliances that deliver top performance. The company was founded in 1993 and is currently based in Massachusetts. With a strong development team, it’s one of the leaders in appliance innovation.
Many Ninja appliances work as a system, reducing overall cost and storage needs without sacrificing utility. For instance, there are attachments to convert a blender into a food processor, and Duo Systems combine pitcher-style blenders and smaller personal blenders into one easy-to-store appliance.
Ninja also makes individual serving blenders with smaller bases. This is ideal for those who want something compact and affordable for a single serving of smoothie or juice. The individual models are also easier to store because the to-go cup can come off the base and includes a travel lid.
Ninja blender pros
Price is one of the standout pros for choosing a Ninja blender. They are a fraction of the cost of a Vitamix and comparable across most features. Even the highest-capacity Ninja blenders are around $200. These include extras, such as to-go cups and storage containers.
They also have plenty of small-capacity blender models. These come with individual cups that can go right on the base. Even the smaller models have 900-watt motors and multiple Auto-IQ presets.
Ninja blender cons
Some are loud, especially when operating on the highest settings. They also take up a lot of space due to their large, powerful motors and multiple accessories. If you do not use individual storage cups, these can easily get lost in your cabinets.
The blades can dull over time. Replacement parts are easy to order but add to the overall cost.
Best Ninja blenders
Ninja BL610 Professional Countertop Blender
Combining 1,000 watts of power and a 72-ounce pitcher for batch blending, it’s one of the best values from Ninja and can work for everything from crushing ice to pureeing fruits and vegetables. The pitcher is dishwasher safe, making clean-up easy as well. It doesn’t come with the individual containers some of the pricier Ninja models have, but they can be purchased separately.
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This smaller blender is perfect for your daily smoothie. Its Pro Extractor blades grind up fruits and vegetables, while the included personal cup can go right in the dishwasher when you’re done.
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Vitamix blender
It seems a bit unfair to call a Vitamix a mere blender. It can make smoothies and purees just as most blenders. It also purees soup until it is piping hot, makes nut butter and can grate hard cheese to a fine powder.
Vitamix has been making blenders since 1937. Its focus has always been on whole foods and nutrition, a message that resonates with many Vitamix enthusiasts today. Many of its models are used commercially in bars, restaurants, schools and healthcare institutions.
Vitamix blender pros
All Vitamix blenders have 1,200 watts of power and a 2-horsepower motor. The superior power output means they can blend ice and cold items as well as create hot soups. The torque of the motor keeps it from overheating even after five minutes of continuous use.
The blades are made of aircraft-grade stainless steel for maximum durability. The blenders come with up to a 10-year warranty, among the industry’s longest-lasting.
Vitamix blender cons
Vitamix blenders are expensive. The top models cost as much as three times a comparable Ninja blender. That is a lot to pay for slightly higher power and blending capacity.
All Vitamix models are pitcher-style. You can purchase an individual serving cup, but it requires an expensive adapter to be used with the Vitamix base. These additional parts are almost as expensive as the entire Ninja system.
Best Vitamix blenders
Vitamix Professional G Series 750
This is one of the best blenders money can buy, with 10 settings, including some labeled for their use, such as soup or ice. The pulse feature works to keep soup or salsa chunky, and the 64-ounce pitcher is low, which makes it easy to store on a kitchen counter under a cabinet. This is one of the most expensive Vitamix blenders, but it comes with a 10-year warranty so you know you’ll get your money’s worth.
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For those wanting to try a Vitamix, this is half the cost. It has a slightly smaller pitcher at 48 ounces but can still make everything from smoothies to soup.
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Should you get a Ninja blender or Vitamix blender?
Vitamix has the edge on power and features, but Ninja is more budget-friendly. If you plan to use the additional functions of a Vitamix to make soups or nut butter, you’ll be happy with your purchase. For the best value for making smoothies and icy drinks, stick with Ninja.
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2022-06-27T22:42:30+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/reviews/ninja-blender-vs-vitamix-blender/
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NPR correspondent Chris Arnold is based in Boston. His reports are heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. He joined NPR in 1996 and was based in San Francisco before moving to Boston in 2001.
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2023-06-23T10:25:51+00:00
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kcbx.org
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https://www.kcbx.org/2023-06-23/death-threats-and-harassment-2024-election-workers-already-are-scared
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — Residents were intrigued, but not exactly shocked, when a state House of Representatives race in the small city of Rochester ended in a deadlock last month: 970 votes cast for the incumbent Democrat, 970 for the Republican challenger.
In the purplish state of New Hampshire, where Rochester sits between the liberal southern seacoast and the more conservative Lakes Region at its center, the tie only confirmed what people already knew: Their city of 30,000, like their country, is politically split. And like many Americans, they are trying to navigate the divide with a careful approach: keeping their views to themselves and attempting to get along.
Last week, state legislators voted to send the tied race in Rochester’s Ward 4, where there are about 3,000 voters, back to the city for a special election, expected to be held in February. Both candidates said they are determined to prevail, although they dread the challenge — familiar to many a hopeful presidential candidate — of inspiring voter turnout in the frigid, slushy middle of a long New Hampshire winter.
“It’s going to be a tough slog,” said David Walker, the Republican, a longtime City Council member who challenged state Rep. Chuck Grassie, a three-term Democrat. “I can’t see a lot of elderly people coming out in the cold, but you just have to knock on the doors and entice them.”
The two men have known each other, and have worked together on city business, for years. Grassie said he mentored Walker in his early years on the council, helping the newcomer learn how to read a budget. Walker said he once helped Grassie with an unsuccessful campaign for mayor.
They live a half-mile apart on the same street of modest houses, separated by a cemetery, a ballfield and the polling place for their ward, a brick elementary school.
Low-key despite their unresolved rivalry, the candidates say they see no reason to become enemies now. “I went by his house the other day and said hello,” Walker said. “He said, ‘Oh, you’ve come to concede?’ And I said, ‘No.’”
The mild tone of the local standoff stands in stark contrast to recent national races with split outcomes, such as that of U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who last week fended off a challenge from Herschel Walker, a Republican, in a bitter and chaotic runoff. In Rochester, as in many small cities and towns, politics tend to be practical, with the drama left at town hall.
David Walker, 59, who retired recently from a career as an engineering supervisor, describes himself as “conservative but not hard core.” He said voters he talked to during the campaign were most concerned about inflation, the economy and heating costs this winter, and he wants to rein in what he said was reckless spending by Democrats.
Grassie, 70, an energetic grandfather of 18 who has worked as a stockbroker, town planner and special-education teacher, has been a leader of the Progressive Caucus in the New Hampshire House, and a proponent for causes including shoreline protection, tax relief for older residents and the decriminalization of marijuana.
If the tied race conjures visions of a city paralyzed by frequent, heated disagreement, the everyday reality is much quieter, said residents, some of whom take pains to keep a lid on any tensions that spill over.
“We have a no-politics rule,” reported Richard Brunelle, a manager at the Jetpack Comics store in downtown Rochester. “We don’t even play that game in here.”
The rule became necessary in 2020, he said, during the run-up to the last presidential election, when the national contest increased friction among residents. Former President Donald Trump lost New Hampshire to President Joe Biden in the election, 45% to 53%, but the outcome was far closer in Rochester. Trump prevailed in the city by the slimmest of margins, beating Biden by 235 votes out of more than 16,000 cast.
Voter turnout topped 65% in Rochester in last month’s elections that included the state House race in Ward 4, a resounding show of engagement, and patriotism is a visible thread through the city. Residents can get a trim at the Allegiance Barbershop or the Freedom Beauty Salon, where American flags fly in a row out front. But if Trump remains a periodic topic of debate, local politics appear to draw less interest. A half-dozen residents interviewed downtown said they were aware of the tie but knew little about the candidates or their positions.
Mark Marchionni, owner of Revolution Taproom and Grill, sees that as a problem.
“The less people focus on national issues, and the more they focus on local, the more they will find they have in common,” he said.
Marchionni and his wife, Stacey, originally envisioned the 8-year-old business as “a modern take on a colonial tavern” — where, historically, people shared news and discussed politics while drinking beer. But fulfilling that mission has become more difficult.
“We see the division in our guests, especially after a couple of drinks,” Marchionni said while wrapping red ribbon around a Christmas tree in the dining room. “I think a lot of people are avoiding talking politics more than they used to, and I think that is unfortunate.”
An avid history buff with his own take on America, Marchionni sometimes finds such discourse hard to resist. “Occasionally, I have to shush him, and remind him, ‘We own a business — we’re middle of the road,’” his wife said.
New Hampshire has the largest House of Representatives in the country, with 400 members, each representing about 3,000 residents. That means its state-level politics are more local than most. In Rochester, many voters know the candidates personally, relationships that can make their decisions less party-driven and predictable.
When one of his council races ended in a tie in the 1980s, Grassie said, the stalemate was settled with a genial coin toss, after each candidate chose a sealed envelope containing a slip of paper that said either “heads” or “tails.” Although his opponent was allowed to provide his “lucky coin” for the toss, Grassie came out the winner, he said.
Stranger solutions have been tried. At least once in state history, Walker and Grassie said, two candidates in a tied race were allowed to share a seat in the Legislature, taking turns attending sessions.
The newly elected Legislature could have dispensed with the current tie more quickly last week by voting to determine a winner. With Republicans holding a slight majority, 201-198, Democrats feared such a move, and urged the body to resist a power grab and respect the will of voters.
In the end, representatives who gathered in the 200-year-old chamber, under portraits of native sons Franklin Pierce and Daniel Webster, tossed the decision back to the city. Watching the vote via livestream from home, his legislative email address deactivated pending the final outcome of the race, Grassie chafed at being sidelined. “I should be there, meeting new members, getting things done,” he lamented.
As Grassie and Walker mustered the strength to revive their campaigns (“I’m tired,” each confessed in separate interviews last week), Stacy Horne, a high school social studies teacher, was planning a lesson about the tied race. Horne teaches a required course for juniors and seniors at Spaulding High School in Rochester, “Civics in N.H. and the Nation: Growing Up Granite,” and in the tied result she saw a chance to drive home a crucial point.
“When we talk about turnout and the reasons people don’t vote, someone usually says, ‘People feel like their vote doesn’t count,’” she said. “That’s a perfect segue into the tie — you look at Ward 4 and see it’s all about who shows up that day.”
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2022-12-12T18:23:08+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/after-an-election-tie-in-new-hampshire-a-do-over-without-the-drama/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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FINDLAY, OH (WLIO) - Educators in Northwest Ohio are learning how to find some educational opportunities in the biggest classroom that they can use, the great outdoors.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife hosted their annual project wild workshop. Teachers, naturalists, and camp leaders from all across the state took part in the day-long hands-on workshop that focuses on animals and plants that people can find in their backyards. Plus, Project Wild also promotes conservation and environmental practices that they can teach their students. Unlike other teaching tools, the outdoors doesn't cost a thing.
That is the beauty of Project WILD. They try really hard to make the activities so the teachers don't have to go out and buy expensive equipment. They don't have to buy a ton of materials," says Jen Dennison, Education and Outreach Manager ODNR. "We of course we try and provide as an agency, we try and provide as much to them free of charge.
While nature could be pigeonholed as strictly a science curriculum, the program shows educators that many other areas could be adapted to some outside learning.
"Project WILD, Aquatic WILD, they do not just pertain to science you can utilize math, social studies, and ELA(English Language Arts) to your activities," says Abby Ditomassi, Wildlife Communication Specialist in Northwest Ohio. "We just did an urban nature search outside and so we were talking about all the different ways they could use this data that they found outside. Can they graph, can they share it in a citizen's science projects? So, it opens up a wide variety of things that it can do.">
The Northwest Ohio Division of Wildlife has been putting on this workshop for 25 years.
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2023-02-10T23:42:19+00:00
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hometownstations.com
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https://www.hometownstations.com/news/teachers-naturalists-and-camp-leaders-from-all-over-ohio-take-part-in-odnrs-wildlife-workshop/article_ebea1926-a988-11ed-95d0-3798e5e74544.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career in government service.
His departure, which comes in the midst of an increasingly serious crisis over Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as disputes over detained Americans in Russia, had been expected this fall as he reached the usual length of time for U.S. ambassadors. But it was sped up due to family medical issue, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the situation.
“Ambassador Sullivan’s departure is planned and part of a normal diplomatic rotation,” the State Department said. “He has served a full tenure as U.S. ambassador to Russia, managing one of the most critical bilateral relationships in the world during unprecedented times.”
The department added: “The U.S. will continue to condemn unequivocally the Kremlin’s aggressive war against Ukraine and remain steadfast in our commitment to supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the war has slowed to a grind with both sides trading combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both Russian and Ukraine have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, and Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
Elizabeth Rood, the deputy chief of mission to Russia, will be the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow until a successor nominated by President Joe Biden replaces Sullivan.
A Boston native and big ice hockey fan who brought his skates and equipment when he left for Russia, Sullivan had returned to Moscow from a summer break just last week and had attended former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s memorial service on Saturday.
Sullivan took the helm of the Moscow embassy at a particularly difficult time in U.S.-Russia relations, which have only grown worse. He struggled to hold together a diplomatic mission dramatically reduced in staff as Washington and Moscow carried out an increasingly severe series of tit-for-tat expulsions.
Sullivan spoke frequently of his frustrations about deteriorating conditions for U.S. diplomats in Moscow, especially after Russian restrictions on American and local personnel forced major reductions in staffing.
His four-decade public service career included postings in Republican administrations as deputy secretary of state and senior positions in the departments of Justice, Defense and Commerce.
Sullivan was deputy secretary of state when he was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate with unusually strong bipartisan support to be ambassador to Russia in December 2019. Biden asked him to remain in the post when Biden took office last year.
He had been the lead U.S. official in talks with Russia on counterterrorism and strategic security and testified in his Senate confirmation hearing that Russian efforts to undermine democracies must be combated.
Sullivan told senators that he would be “relentless” in confronting Russia over election interference, hostile moves against neighbors such as Georgia and Ukraine, human rights abuses and violations of arms control agreements.
His time as the State Department’s No. 2 official was not without controversy.
Sullivan was the one who delivered the news to Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that Trump had lost confidence in her and that she was being recalled early from the post.
Sullivan told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he was given no other explanation for Yovanovitch’s removal and told her that he did not believe she had done anything to warrant her recall.
Asked why he did not oppose Yovanovitch’s ouster or speak out publicly on her behalf at the time, Sullivan said ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president and can be removed with or without cause. He noted that his uncle, a former U.S. ambassador to Iran, had been recalled early from Tehran by the Carter administration for what the family believed to be unfair political reasons.
“When the president loses confidence in the ambassador, right or wrong, the ambassador goes,” Sullivan said.
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2022-09-05T11:46:59+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-ambassador-to-russia-leaving-post-as-ukraine-war-drags-on/
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Roxanne Baker
August 21, 1956-March 23, 2023
DAVENPORT-Roxanne Baker (Bendickson), 66, of Mason City, passed away on Thursday, March 23, 2023, at the Select Specialty Hospital surrounded by her family. A celebration of life will be held on April 15, 2023, from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Mason City VFW, 1603 S Monroe Ave. Memorials may be directed to the family of Roxanne Baker. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com
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2023-04-13T07:26:11+00:00
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globegazette.com
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https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/roxanne-baker/article_c026e231-3aef-5cdb-8fdc-dd9963e30103.html
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TORONTO (AP) — A 73-year-old man shot and killed five people at a suburban Toronto condominium building before police officers killed him, authorities said.
Chief James MacSween of the York Regional Police said one of his officers fatally shot the gunman at a condo in Vaughan, Ontario.
Police did not disclose a possible motive for the attack or release the names or ages of anyone who was killed, including the alleged assailant. But Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which gets involved when there is a death or serious injury involving police, said Monday that the alleged attacker was 73.
“Horrendous scene,” MacSween said late Sunday. “Six deceased. One of them is the subject. The other five are victims.”
One person who was shot by the attacker was hospitalized and was expected to survive, the chief said.
MacSween said he didn’t know whether the shooter lived at the condo building.
York Regional Police say officers were called to the Vaughan, Ontario condo for an active shooting around 7:20 p.m. Sunday.
Police evacuated the building on Sunday, but MacSween said there was no further threat to the community. Residents were allowed to return home early Monday.
Resident John Santoro said police went floor to floor to try to find out if anybody else was involved.
“When I opened my door, police were in the corridor. There were two officers right outside my door in the elevator lobby,” he said.
Mass shootings are rare in Canada, and Toronto has long prided itself as being one of the world's safest big cities. Vaughan is just north of Toronto.
Canadians are nervous about anything that might indicate they are moving closer to the gun violence situation in the U.S., where mass shootings are common.
“Everybody is horrified,” Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca said. “To wake up to this news this morning or see it last night, we are in absolute shock. ... This is something I never thought I would see here.”
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2022-12-19T17:16:05+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/police-gunman-kills-5-near-toronto-before-officer-kills-him/RO3JQK7VEVB5FEKGGXLVIGCMVQ/
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Herschel Walker sticks to abortion claim denial, pivots blame to Dems
WADLEY, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker remained defiant Thursday after successive reports alleging that he encouraged and paid for a woman’s 2009 abortion and later fathered a child with her.
Digging in on his denials of reporting by The Daily Beast, Walker, a football icon turned celebrity politician and staunch abortion foe, blamed the stories on Democrats and their “desperation” — a defensive tactic that Walker’s friend and ally, former President Donald Trump, used to weather myriad controversies on his way to the White House.
“I know why you’re here. I do,” he told reporters after his first public campaign speech since The Daily Beast’s initial report Monday. “You’re here because the Democrats are desperate to hold on to this seat here, and they’re desperate to make this race about my family.”
He went on to repeat: “This abortion thing is false. It’s a lie.”
Walker promised in the hours after the initial report to sue the news outlet, but has not followed up with an announcement that he has done so.
The allegations, along with statements from Walker’s adult son blasting his father as a liar, have rocked one of the nation’s most important Senate contests. Walker is locked in a tight race against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, with the outcome potentially determining which party controls the Senate for the final two years of President Joe Biden’s term.
Walker’s stop Thursday, his first public appearance of the week after a series of conservative media interviews and closed events, marked his latest attempt to navigate his rocky past and reconcile the allegations with his support for an absolute national ban on abortions. He has previously confronted stories revealing additional children he had not publicly acknowledged and detailing his exaggerations of business achievements.
None of that has shaken public support for Walker among Republicans in Washington, but the abortion allegations have rattled some party faithful in Georgia.
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t getting calls from Republicans who are very concerned and struggling with what they’re going to do in the voting booth,” Martha Zoller, a popular radio host in north Georgia and one-time congressional candidate, said in an interview.
The Daily Beast, which first reported Monday on the abortion, said it had agreed not to reveal details of the woman’s identity to protect her privacy.
The outlet’s initial report included paper evidence the woman provided. Those records include what appears to be a $575 receipt for an abortion procedure, a get-well card signed by Walker and a bank deposit receipt showing a $700 personal check from Walker, dated five days after the abortion receipt.
In that story, The Daily Beast described the woman only as someone who was dating Walker in 2009, at the time of the abortion. Walker responded with flat denials, including interviews during which he claimed to have no idea who could be making the allegation. In its Wednesday story, The Daily Beast revealed that the woman — who remains unnamed — was so well known to Walker that, according to her, they conceived another child years after the abortion. She decided to continue on with the later pregnancy, though she noted that Walker, as he had during the earlier pregnancy, expressed that it wasn’t a convenient time for him, the outlet reported.
Prior to his Senate bid, Walker had publicly acknowledged only his son, Christian Walker, whose mother was Walker’s first wife. Earlier this year, after another story by The Daily Beast, Walker he acknowledged the existence of three additional children he had not previously talked about publicly.
Christian Walker, a high-profile social media commentator, has issued several comments and video statements since the first report, accusing his father of lying about his past and being an absent father. Asked about the son on Thursday, he said simply that “I love my son so much. He’s a great little man. I love him to death. I will always love him no matter what.”
The Daily Beast said the Walker campaign declined to comment on Wednesday’s story, and he had little to say on details Thursday during his five-minute exchange with reporters in south Georgia.
During the Republican Senate primary, Walker openly backed a national ban on abortions with no exceptions for cases involving rape, incest or a woman’s health being at risk — particularly notable at a time when the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court precedent had been overturned and Democrats in Congress had been discussing codifying abortion rights into federal law.
“I’m for life,” Walker has said repeatedly as he campaigns. When asked whether he’d allow for any exceptions, he has said there are “no excuses” for the procedure.
As the Republican nominee, Walker has sometimes sidestepped questions about his earlier support for an absolute ban, a tacit nod to the fact that most voters, including many Republicans, want at least some legal access to abortion.
Warnock was in his hometown of Savannah on Thursday for a ceremony naming a street after him, attending the event with his two young children. The senator declined to address directly the allegations against Walker.
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Associated Press reporter Russ Bynum contributed from Savannah, Georgia.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-10-06T20:06:55+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/2022/10/06/herschel-walker-sticks-abortion-claim-denial-pivots-blame-dems/
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