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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — With a nickname like “Punt God,” Matt Araiza has all but assured himself a spot on the Buffalo Bills' roster.
The Bills cleared the way for the rookie sixth-round pick with the booming left leg out of San Diego State to take over the punting duties this season after releasing returning veteran Matt Haack on Monday. Buffalo also cut veteran receiver Tavon Austin, who has failed to meet expectations since being selected by the Rams in the first round of the 2013 draft.
The move to cut Haack came after Araiza attempted just one punt in two preseason games. Araiza’s punt was impressive enough: a flip-the-field 82-yarder that dribbled into the end zone during a 27-24 win over Indianapolis in Buffalo’s preseason opener on Aug. 13.
Though the strength of Araiza’s leg was not in question, a bigger issue for the Bills was to see how the player adjusted to place-holding duties for kicker Tyler Bass. Araiza was new to holding after handling only the place-kicking duties in college.
Araiza proved to be a fast learner, handling most of the duties in two preseason games, including being the holder as Bass hit a game-winning 46-yard field goal against the Colts as time expired.
Haack was entering his second season in Buffalo and had two years remaining on his contract. The fifth-year player was inconsistent last season while struggling in Buffalo's windy elements, averaging a career-low 42.9 yards per attempt and landing just 18 of 52 punts inside an opponent’s 20.
The 21-year-old Araiza hasn’t had to deal with cold weather much during his three years at San Diego State, where the Ray Guy award winner established himself as one of college football’s premier punters. Fourth downs turned into must-watch moments, with Araiza setting the major college football record with a punting average of 51.19 yards.
Austin, meanwhile, was the odd man out among a very deep group of receivers, led by Stefon Diggs, Gabe Davis and Isaiah McKenzie. Austin did not play in Buffalo’s preseason opener against the Colts, and he finished with just two catches for 18 yards in a 42-15 victory over Denver on Saturday.
The 32-year-old signed with Buffalo in June after spending last season in Jacksonville, where he had 24 catches for 213 yards and a touchdown. The Jaguars were his fourth team in four years, with the other stops being Green Bay, San Francisco and Dallas.
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2022-08-22T15:54:07+00:00
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NEW YORK, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Fortune and Great Place to Work revealed their annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, with Cisco taking top honors for the third year in a row. Of this year's leader, Fortune Senior Reporter Megan Leonhardt writes, "Cisco continues to work toward improving workforce diversity. It increased the number of employees self-identifying as African American or Black overall from 5.9% in fiscal year 2020 to 10% in FY22. Since 2000, the company has achieved a 60% increase in African American and Black employees in entry-level through manager roles, and a 94% increase in representation at the director level. The number of African American and Black employees within the vice president and C-suite ranks grew by 160% during the last fiscal year." Read more about the companies on the list here.
- Cisco
- Hilton
- American Express
- Wegmans Food Markets
- Accenture
- Nvidia
- Atlassian
- Salesforce
- Comcast NBCUniversal
- Marriott
- 96 of the 100 best companies provide remote work options
- 17 companies cover 100% of health care premiums on at least one of their plans
- 22 companies offer an unlimited number of free mental health sessions to their employees
- 47% of new Atlassian hires live more than two hours away from a physical company office
- Wegmans has given $135 million in scholarships to more than 44,000 employees since 1984
- 109,349: The current number of open positions at the 100 Best Companies to Work For
"Leading the 'best company' through the 'worst thing'": a profile of Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins by Susie Gharib
"Visa moved part of its C-suite to Atlanta to diversify company ranks—but making a dent in the city's income inequality problem is an uphill battle" by Ellen McGirt
"Over 150,000 people have been let go so far this year. Are layoffs a confession of bad management?" by Geoff Colvin: If 2023 is "the year of efficiency," what were the CEOs of Meta, Amazon, and others doing in all those previous years?
"Marc Benioff says he can juggle empathy, cost cuts and layoffs as he doubles down on efficiency at Salesforce" by Michal Lev-Ram: Can Benioff maintain a "we're family" culture amid tough times?
"Recent Salesforce and Meta job cuts show even good severance packages won't soften the blow for workers" by Megan Leonhardt
"How to rebound from a mid-career layoff" by Alicia Adamczyk
Fortune partners each year with people analytics firm Great Place to Work to determine the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list. For the complete methodology, visit fortune.com/franchise-list-page/best-companies-2023-methodology.
The Fortune mission is to change the world by making business better. We achieve that by providing trusted information, telling great stories, and building world-class communities. We measure performance by rigorous benchmarks. And we hold companies accountable. Our goal is to make Fortune a force for good through its second century and beyond. For more information, visit www.fortune.com.
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California will need to remove about 100 million tons of heat-trapping gasses each year to meet its ambitious climate goals. A new startup stepped in and is attracting millions to support the effort.
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California will need to remove about 100 million tons of heat-trapping gasses each year to meet its ambitious climate goals. A new startup stepped in and is attracting millions to support the effort.
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2023-05-30T21:14:56+00:00
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ATLANTA, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), a leading fiber-based consumer packaging company, announced today that Stephen R. Scherger, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the BofA Securities 2023 Global Agriculture and Materials Conference and the Raymond James 44th Annual Institutional Investors Conference. The presentations will take place on Wednesday, March 1 at 1:50 p.m. ET and Tuesday, March 7 at 10:25 a.m. ET, respectively. Both will be available live and in replay via webcast and can be accessed from the Investors section of the Graphic Packaging website at www.graphicpkg.com
About Graphic Packaging Holding Company
Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is committed to providing consumer packaging that makes a world of difference. The Company is a leading provider of sustainable fiber-based packaging solutions to the world's most widely-recognized food, beverage, foodservice and other consumer products companies and brands. The Company operates on a global basis, is one of the largest producers of folding cartons and fiber-based foodservice products in the United States and Europe, and holds leading market positions in coated recycled paperboard, coated unbleached kraft paperboard and solid bleached sulfate paperboard. Additional information about Graphic Packaging, its business and its products is available at www.graphicpkg.com.
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Vital to virtually every electronic application, electrical connectivity solutions transmit
electrical current from an energy source to devices and equipment that use energy to
perform a task.
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Electronics & Automation, a trading brand of RS Group plc (LSE: RS1), a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions, offers more than 1,500 ready-to-ship electrical connectivity solutions from industry-leading suppliers including Heyco, LÜTZE and Southwire. Allied also offers facility maintenance solutions from leading suppliers like Makita that support the installation of electrical connectivity solutions. Vital to virtually every electronic application, electrical connectivity solutions transmit electrical current from an energy source, like a wall outlet, to devices and equipment that use that energy to perform a task.
Heyco has almost 100 years of experience designing and manufacturing high-quality, competitively priced connector and cable management solutions engineered to satisfy demanding application requirements in a wide range of industries. Solutions include stamped electrical components, bushings, cable clamps, conduit, cord grips and fittings.
LÜTZE has more than 60 years' experience designing and developing reliable, innovative and efficient electrical and electronic components optimized for industrial automation and railway applications, and was one of the world's first purveyors of highly flexible cables. Solutions include cables, cable management solutions and electronic connectors.
Southwire is a leading global supplier of wire and cable solutions with more than 70 years' experience and produces roughly half of the cable used to transmit and distribute electricity in the United States. Solutions include NFPA 79 cables ideal for use in applications including fans, pumps, conveyors, compressors, elevators, extruders, crushers and presses.
Makita has more than 100 years' experience designing and manufacturing power equipment and tools renowned for delivering best-in-class power, performance and durability on a wide variety of jobsites all over the world.
Allied supplies more than 3.5 million products from more than 650 trusted suppliers — including more than 250,000 ready-to-ship products in categories extending from passive, active, electromechanical and interconnect components to automation and control equipment — and offers a comprehensive suite of services and tools including the industry's largest collection of 360º product images, an extensive range of 3D CAD models, more than 1.1 million up-to-date datasheets, a highly experienced technical support team, kitting, bagging and labeling services and a BOM tool. Allied also publishes its Expert Advice series of articles and podcasts designed to place critical industry knowledge and expertise at its customers' fingertips and help them identify product and technology solutions as unique as their businesses.
For more information about electrical connectivity, please check out "An Introduction to Electrical Connectivity," an Ask the Expert Q&A with Allied Technical Support Manager Jeff Clonts.
Allied Electronics & Automation, part of RS Group
Allied Electronics & Automation is a trading brand of RS Group plc (formerly Electrocomponents plc), a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions for designers, builders and maintainers of industrial equipment and operations. RS Group plc stocks more than 700,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provide a wide range of product and service solutions to over 1.2 million industrial customers. With operations in 32 countries, we trade through multiple channels and ship nearly 60,000 parcels daily.
We support customers across the product life cycle, whether via innovation and technical support at the design phase, improving time to market and productivity at the build phase, or reducing purchasing costs and optimizing inventory in the maintenance phase. We offer our customers tailored product and service propositions that are essential for the successful operation of their businesses and help them save time and money.
RS Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with stock ticker RS1 and in the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2021, reported revenue of £2.0 billion. RS Group plc has nine operating brands: RS Components, Allied Electronics & Automation, RS Pro, OKdo, DesignSpark, IESA, Synovos, Needlers and Liscombe.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Green Bay Packers linebacker Quay Walker apologized after the second ejection of his rookie season and said he has spoken directly to the Detroit Lions physician he shoved during the fourth quarter of Sunday night's game.
Walker issued an apology via Twitter and expressed his regret again while speaking to reporters Monday.
“Another rookie mistake,” Walker said. “Selfish. Just a selfish act of me. Very, just very stupid and dumb. I’ll say immature of me. Once again, made the same mistake twice. I just always seem to overreact at times and I did it again last night. That was pretty much it.”
The incident occurred Sunday during Detroit’s go-ahead touchdown drive midway through the fourth quarter of a 20-16 Lions victory that prevented the Packers from reaching the playoffs. Walker was close behind two Lions staffers as they attended to Detroit running back D’Andre Swift, Walker’s former Georgia teammate.
Lions team physician Sean Lynch put his left hand on Walker’s right elbow to move him away from the staffers so he could check on Swift as well. Walker then shoved Lynch in the back.
Packers rookie defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt — who also played at Georgia with Walker and Swift — later appeared to bump his left shoulder into Lynch’s back but didn’t get penalized.
Walker said he was in the area because he wanted to see how his former college teammate was doing, but he now realizes he shouldn't have done anything to interfere with any Lions staffers.
“I’ve got to get out of the way and let him do his job and that’s it,” Walker said.
Walker said he apologized to his teammates as well as reaching out to the Lions.
“I made a mistake, I did what I did, and I own up to that,” Walker said. “It’s just something I’ve got to live with. It’s a mistake I made and I just pray that they forgive me and that’s all I can do at this point — and own up to everything and face everything that comes with it. That’s all I can do.”
Cameras showed a visibly frustrated Walker head to the locker room after his ejection.
The Packers selected both Walker and Wyatt in the first round of the 2022 draft, taking Walker 22nd overall and Wyatt 28th.
This was the second time Walker got ejected from a game in his rookie season. He also was ejected during an Oct. 30 loss at Buffalo after shoving Bills practice squad tight end Zach Davidson on the sideline.
“For people who don’t know me, I did the same thing twice, so I put out this image that I don’t want of myself, but I did it,” Walker said. "So I have to live with it. I can’t quite change how people view me. I try my best to try to change it, but you understand what I’m saying. I can’t control that. That’s out of my control. Once again, I just pray they forgive me. Once again, I’m human just like everybody else. And I have to face everything that I did last night and just live with it."
Packers coach Matt LaFleur expressed his disappointment over the ejection after the game.
“We’ve had a guy get ejected twice,” LaFleur said “I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in my career. We’ve got to be much more mentally tough. Any time our guys commit personal fouls, I take that very personally. Because I think that’s always a reflection of myself and the standards that we set for these players. We’ve got to be better, and we’ve got to learn from that because that is unacceptable.”
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2023-01-09T22:08:54+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/sports/2023/01/09/packers-quay-walker-apologizes-for-shoving-lions-physician/
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – U.S. Border Patrol agents watching Southern New Mexico roads stopped 10 suspicious vehicles and apprehended nearly 30 unauthorized migrants in a 24-hour period this week.
The apprehensions and arrests of several drivers who are U.S. citizens took place on New Mexico State Highway 26 northeast of Deming on Tuesday. The road links Deming to Interstate 25, which leads to Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, Denver and beyond.
The first encounter happened at 1 a.m. and involved a car transporting two migrants. Two hours later, Border Patrol agents stopped an SUV carrying four migrants along the same stretch of road. That raised red flags among the agents, who received authorization to set up a tactical checkpoint.
“It’s a secondary line of defense for anything that comes through illegally. If we have the manpower, we set them up around Deming, Santa Teresa, Lordsburg […] areas beyond our (permanent) checkpoints” on Interstates 10 and 25 and state highways near the U.S.-Mexico border, said Carlos A. Rivera, a spokesman for the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, which includes New Mexico.
The tactical checkpoint yielded swift results. Six drivers were stopped within a few hours’ time Tuesday for transporting unauthorized migrants. Two additional vehicles were pulled aside later in the day. A total of 23 foreign nationals were apprehended at the checkpoint, tweeted Peter Jaquez, chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector. The migrants were fingerprinted and expelled under the Title 42 public health law. At least one of the drivers was referred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for prosecution under immigration smuggling statutes.
Though border agents spent the bulk of last year processing asylum-seekers coming in between ports of entry in El Paso, illegal smuggling activity has not dwindled, federal officials said.
Border agents have pulled more than 800 unauthorized migrants off passenger buses in the last year and, since October 1, detected 55 “stash houses” where smugglers keep migrants who successfully evaded agents until they can transport them to the interior of the United States. A total of 651 migrants have been apprehended inside those stash houses, Rivera said.
Since October, two truckers have been arrested for hiding 51 migrants in commercial vehicles, compared to only three trucks with 192 migrants stopped the previous fiscal year.
Southern New Mexico, with vast stretches of desert and not all protected by a border wall, has long been a hot spot for transnational criminal organizations to try to smuggle migrants into the United States. The El Paso Sector since October 1 has recorded 106,561 migrant encounters. Of those, 72,356 have been handled through Title 8, which often involves asylum seekers, while 34,205 resulted in Title 42 expulsions.
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2023-01-12T20:37:52+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/border-report-tour/migrant-smuggling-activity-ramps-up-in-new-mexico/
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of people were forced to evacuate in South Korea as Typhoon Hinnamnor made landfall in the country’s southern regions on Tuesday, unleashing fierce rains and winds that destroyed trees and roads, and left more than 20,000 homes without power.
A 25-year-old man went missing after falling into a rain swollen stream in the southern city of Ulsan, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, which didn’t immediately report more casualties. Fires were reported at a major steel plant operated by POSCO in the southern city of Pohang, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether they were caused by the storm.
Government officials have put the nation on alert about potential damages from flooding, landslides and tidal waves unleashed by Hinnamnor, which they said would be the most powerful storm to hit the country in years. The storm came just weeks after capital Seoul and nearby regions were battered by heavy rainfall that unleashed flashfloods and killed at least 14 people.
Prime Minister Han Duk-soo had called for proactive efforts to evacuate residents in areas vulnerable to flooding, saying that Hinnamnor could end up being a “historically strong typhoon that we never experienced before.”
South Korea’s weather agency said Hinnamnor–packing heavy rains and winds of up to 144 kilometers (89 miles) per hour – was moving northeast toward open sea after grazing the southern resort island of Jeju and making landfall near the mainland port of Busan earlier on Tuesday.
The storm dumped more than 94 centimeters (37 inches) of rain in the central part of Jeju since Sunday, where winds once reached a maximum speed of 155 kph (96 mph).
The Safety Ministry said more than 3,400 people in the southern regions were forced to evacuate from their homes because of safety concerns and that officials were advising or ordering 14,000 more people to evacuate. At least five homes and buildings were flooded or destroyed, and scores of roads were damaged.
More than 600 schools nationwide were closed or converted to online classes. More than 250 flights and 70 ferry services were grounded while more than 66,000 fishing boats evacuated to ports. Workers as of 6 a.m. managed to restore electricity to 2,795 of the 20,334 households that were knocked out of power.
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2022-09-06T04:20:14+00:00
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BOSTON (AP) — Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years — the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport — and marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., died Sunday. He was 88.
His family posted the news on social media, saying Russell died with his wife, Jeannine, by his side. The statement did not give the cause of death.
“Bill's wife, Jeannine, and his many friends and family thank you for keeping Bill in your prayers. Perhaps you'll relive one or two of the golden moments he gave us, or recall his trademark laugh as he delighted in explaining the real story behind how those moments unfolded," the family statement said. “And we hope each of us can find a new way to act or speak up with Bill's uncompromising, dignified and always constructive commitment to principle. That would be one last, and lasting, win for our beloved #6.”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement that Russell was “the greatest champion in all of team sports."
“Bill stood for something much bigger than sports: the values of equality, respect and inclusion that he stamped into the DNA of our league. At the height of his athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice, a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps," Silver said. "Through the taunts, threats and unthinkable adversity, Bill rose above it all and remained true to his belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.
A Hall of Famer, five-time Most Valuable Player and 12-time All-Star, Russell in 1980 was voted the greatest player in the NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most prolific winner as a player and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while leaving the scoring to others. Often, that meant Wilt Chamberlain, the only player of the era who was a worthy rival for Russell.
But Russell dominated in the only stat he cared about: 11 championships to two.
The native of Louisiana also left a lasting mark as a Black athlete in a city — and country — where race is often a flash point. He was at the March on Washington in 1963, when King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and he backed Muhammad Ali when the boxer was pilloried for refusing induction into the military draft.
In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded Russell the Medal of Freedom alongside Congressman John Lewis, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and baseball great Stan Musial.
“Bill Russell, the man, is someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men,” Obama said at the ceremony. “He marched with King; he stood by Ali. When a restaurant refused to serve the Black Celtics, he refused to play in the scheduled game. He endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players and made possible the success of so many who would follow.”
Russell said that when he was growing up in the segregated South and later California his parents instilled in him the calm confidence that allowed him to brush off racist taunts.
“Years later, people asked me what I had to go through,” Russell said in 2008. “Unfortunately, or fortunately, I’ve never been through anything. From my first moment of being alive was the notion that my mother and father loved me.” It was Russell’s mother who would tell him to disregard comments from those who might see him playing in the yard.
“Whatever they say, good or bad, they don’t know you,” he recalled her saying. “They’re wrestling with their own demons.”
But it was Jackie Robinson who gave Russell a road map for dealing with racism in his sport: "Jackie was a hero to us. He always conducted himself as a man. He showed me the way to be a man in professional sports.”
The feeling was mutual, Russell learned, when Robinson’s widow, Rachel, called and asked him to be a pallbearer at her husband’s funeral in 1972.
“She hung the phone up and I asked myself, ‘How do you get to be a hero to Jackie Robinson?’” Russell said. “I was so flattered.”
William Felton Russell was born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana. He was a child when his family moved to the West Coast, and he went to high school in Oakland, California, and then the University of San Francisco. He led the Dons to NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956 and won a gold medal in 1956 at the Melbourne Olympics in Australia.
Celtics coach and general manager Red Auerbach so coveted Russell that he worked out a trade with the St. Louis Hawks for the second pick in the draft. He promised the Rochester Royals, who owned the No. 1 pick, a lucrative visit by the Ice Capades, which were also run by Celtics owner Walter Brown.
Still, Russell arrived in Boston to complaints that he wasn’t that good. “People said it was a wasted draft choice, wasted money,” he recalled. “They said, ‘He’s no good. All he can do is block shots and rebound.’ And Red said, ‘That’s enough.’”
The Celtics also picked up Tommy Heinsohn and K.C. Jones, Russell’s college teammate, in the same draft. Although Russell joined the team late because he was leading the U.S. to the Olympic gold, Boston finished the regular season with the league’s best record.
The Celtics won the NBA championship — their first of 17 — in a double-overtime seventh game against Bob Pettit’s St. Louis Hawks. Russell won his first MVP award the next season, but the Hawks won the title in a finals rematch. The Celtics won it all again in 1959, starting an unprecedented string of eight consecutive NBA crowns.
A 6-foot-10 center, Russell never averaged more than 18.9 points during his 13 seasons, each year averaging more rebounds per game than points. For 10 seasons he averaged more than 20 rebounds. He once had 51 rebounds in a game; Chamberlain holds the record with 55.
Auerbach retired after winning the 1966 title, and Russell became the player-coach — the first Black head coach in NBA history, and almost a decade before Frank Robinson took over baseball’s Cleveland Indians. Boston finished with the best regular-season record in the NBA, but its title streak ended with a loss to Chamberlain and the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Division finals.
Russell led the Celtics back to titles in 1968 and ’69, each time winning seven-game playoff series against Chamberlain. Russell retired after the ’69 finals, returning for a relatively successful — but unfulfilling — four-year stint as coach and GM of the Seattle SuperSonics and a less fruitful half season as coach of the Sacramento Kings.
Russell’s No. 6 jersey was retired by the Celtics in 1972. He earned spots on the NBA’s 25th anniversary all-time team in 1970, 35th anniversary team in 1980 and 75th anniversary team. In 1996, he was hailed as one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players. In 2009, the MVP trophy of the NBA Finals was named in his honor — even though Russell never won himself, because it wasn’t awarded for the first time until 1969.
In 2013, a statue was unveiled on Boston’s City Hall Plaza of Russell surrounded by blocks of granite with quotes on leadership and character. Russell was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975 but did not attend the ceremony, saying he should not have been the first African American elected. (Chuck Cooper, the NBA’s first Black player, was his choice.)
In 2019, Russell accepted his Hall of Fame ring in a private gathering. “I felt others before me should have had that honor,” he tweeted. “Good to see progress.”
Silver said he “often called (Russell) basketball’s Babe Ruth for how he transcended time.”
“Bill was the ultimate winner and consummate teammate, and his influence on the NBA will be felt forever,” Silver added. "We send our deepest condolences to his wife, Jeannine, his family and his many friends.”
His family said that arrangements for Russell's memorial service will be announced in the coming days.
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2022-07-31T19:10:02+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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Showing accelerating growth for Pebble — a fintech startup that pays users to save and spend their money.
NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pebble — the financial app that pays users to save and spend their money — announced today that they'll be offering unlimited 5% cash back at more than 100 major global brands.
Merchant partners, including Airbnb, Amazon, Chipotle, Uber and Whole Foods will now allow their customers to pay with the Pebble digital wallet and receive unlimited 5% cash back on their purchases. By partnering with Pebble, retailers are empowered to bypass conventional credit and debit systems, which charge a hefty fee for payment services. Those cost savings are then passed onto Pebble customers.
"These partnerships represent the latest milestone for Pebble following our $6.2 million seed round," said Pebble Co-Founder and CEO Aaron Bai. "All of us at Pebble are gratified that more and more of the world's greatest brands are joining our ground-breaking approach to consumer finance, helping accelerate the growth and scale of operations."
Unlike traditional cash back accounts, Pebble users will not need to meet credit or account requirements to begin earning. Additionally, all the cash back will be instantly deposited into user accounts in the form of cash – not points. Finally, users never have to pay fees to sign-up or use their Pebble account. With this unique approach, Pebble aims to expand the access of such financial rewards to anyone who would like to have greater control over their money.
In addition to cash back opportunities, Pebble users also earn 5% APY rewards through using the Pebble app to store funds. Pebble is able to offer attractive rates of return because it converts cash deposits into a US dollar denominated blockchain-based currency called USDC, which is then lent to financial institutions. USDC, created by Circle and Coinbase, is asset backed 1 to 1 — meaning for every USDC there is a dollar equivalent in its reserves. USDC not only has the majority of their reserves managed by BlackRock, but has also passed every monthly audit from Granton Thorton.
Given this approach, Pebble stands at the vanguard of the fintech revolution, providing people with the tools they need to take control of their finances and earn more from their money. As it expands its innovative platform, Pebble looks forward to partnering with other leading global brands to provide savvy consumers with new ways to generate rewards that puts cash back into their pockets.
Pebble
Pebble is a fintech startup offering a financial product where users are paid to save and spend their money. Built on top of novel business models, Pebble incentivizes merchants, customers, and partners to participate in a more efficient financial system. Pebble calls this The Money Revolution. To learn more, visit https://www.pebble.us.
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2022-06-22T15:39:03+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/pebble-fintech-app-now-offers-customers-unlimited-5-cash-back-more-than-100-major-brands/
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Roosters used for cockfighting found smuggled in vehicles crossing into US, officials say
LAREDO, Texas (Gray News) – Several live roosters commonly used for cockfighting were recently discovered hidden in vehicles at the Laredo Port of Entry on separate occasions, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Last week officers found six live roosters stuffed in stockings under the front seats and in the center console of a pickup truck.
Four other live roosters were discovered hidden in the console of a different pickup at the end of March.
“We remain committed to upholding our agriculture mission, preventing the spread of animal diseases and preventing the exploitation of live animals,” said port director Alberto Flores.
The roosters from both seizures were taken to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Veterinary Services.
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2023-04-17T17:41:48+00:00
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atlantanewsfirst.com
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https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/04/17/roosters-used-cockfighting-found-smuggled-vehicles-crossing-into-us-officials-say/
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NOEL KING, HOST:
Here is a consequence of being the world leader in coronavirus - a virus that spreads a lot has a lot of chances to mutate, and COVID has.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Researchers here in the United States say they have found at least seven new variants in this country. Some other countries have reported variants, too, such as the U.K., South Africa, Brazil, and they all raised the same big question - are these variants more dangerous?
KING: NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has been following this one. Good morning, Rob.
ROB STEIN, BYLINE: Good morning, Noel.
KING: What have you learned about the U.S. variants
STEIN: So the first of these variants was spotted by researchers in Louisiana, but it turns out the same kind of mutation looks like it also emerged completely independently at least seven times in this country. That sets off alarms because it suggests that the virus is doing something called convergent evolution. That's when an organism evolves in a way that gives it some kind of, like, superpower, superior power of some kind. Here's what Jeremy Kamil of Louisiana State University says about what the virus is doing. He spotted the mutation.
JEREMY KAMIL: It's infected millions of humans around the world now, and it's probably just, you know, getting into a more intimate relationship with our species.
STEIN: So the question is, what does this more intimate relationship mean exactly? Does it make it spread more easily from one person to another, you know, make it more contagious?
KING: Yes, these are some really interesting words - convergent evolution, more intimate relationship with our species. I guess at the heart of what we need to know is, do they spread more easily?
STEIN: Well, so no one knows yet. It looks like it's spreading quickly in the places where it's been spotted, but it's not at all clear that's because of this mutation. Viruses mutate all the time. And, you know, sometimes they're a big problem but sometimes not so much. And there are other mutations that have been previously spotted in this country, like one that took over in Southern California. Scientists are still trying to figure out whether it's more contagious or, you know, maybe just kind of got lucky. Now, this newly identified mutation occurred in a key protein that sticks out from the surface of the virus called the spike protein. It's how the virus infects cells. It's also the target of drugs and vaccines. So any change could be really important. I talked about this with Andrew Pekosz, a professor of microbiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
ANDREW PEKOSZ: We should keep an eye on it. I myself have already passed this on to the people in my laboratory, and we're looking to see if we can find viruses with this mutation because if we can, we're going to bring it into the laboratory and try to study it to see what's actually happening here.
STEIN: Now, to be clear, Pekosz means he'd pass on the details about these new variants to his colleagues so they can try to figure out whether they're more contagious or not. Now, no one thinks there's any reason to panic - far from it. And we already have those other variants circulating in this country that we know we should be worried about.
KING: Will our vaccines, the ones we're currently using, the ones we currently have, will they be effective against these?
STEIN: Yeah, they will. You know, the vaccines may be somewhat less effective against some of these variants, but so far, they seem to work pretty well. But it's going to take months to vaccinate enough people. So we really need to slow the spread of the virus to keep, you know, more contagious variants from triggering another big wave of infections and to prevent other possibly even more dangerous variants from evolving. You know, the winter surge has peaked, but the virus is still spreading like crazy, which makes the U.S. essentially a giant petri dish that could easily produce even more new variants.
KING: Convergent evolution. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein. Thanks, Rob.
STEIN: You bet, Noel.
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KING: At least 150 million Americans were under a winter storm alert last night.
INSKEEP: That's close to half the population of this country. The storm is dumping snow, sleet, ice and rain across much of the nation. And Texas is especially hit hard. The whole state is under a winter storm warning for the first time in its history. Temperatures are at record lows. Millions of people don't have power. And Governor Greg Abbott has issued a state of emergency.
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GREG ABBOTT: All of Texas is facing a extremely dangerous winter storm in the coming days. A disaster declaration has already been declared for all 254 counties in Texas.
KING: Bret Jaspers is a reporter with member station KERA in Dallas. Good morning, Bret.
BRET JASPERS, BYLINE: Good morning.
KING: I looked this up a couple minutes ago because I was really curious. It is colder right now in Dallas at three degrees than it is in Anchorage, Alaska. What does it look like there?
JASPERS: Well, I don't know if it looks like Alaska because I've never been to Alaska...
KING: (Laughter) Fair enough.
JASPERS: ...But it's very white. And, you know, even though the snow has been on pause since yesterday morning, there aren't a lot of plows here, so it still kind of looks like a new storm. There's still, you know, snow on the roads and people are slushing around if they are trying to drive. Like you said, it is extremely cold. We do have another wintry mix coming later today. And it's also kind of dark and foreboding here, actually, because the power situation is pretty grim. There's at least 1.5 million people without power. The numbers are shifting around a little bit, but it's a little scary.
KING: When can people expect power to be restored?
JASPERS: So the nonprofit that runs the grid, or manages the grid, I should say, is saying that they brought on 500,000 new people back on to power yesterday, but they were saying that there could be power outages all day today. If more generation comes back online - there were some, you know, generation sources that broke down in the cold. If some of that comes back online, maybe they'll be able to do more of this rotating that that was the original plan. But right now, there's - you know, predicting is a kind of treacherous thing to do. I talked to two residents of Dallas yesterday, and their power company had emailed them a couple of times with a couple of different estimates. Their names are Vince Guzman and Sonia Isaguirre.
VINCE GUZMAN: And they said it was going to come back on in about maybe 15 or 45 minutes. But now they've said - they sent another email, so now it's going to be about four to six hours. So...
SONIA ISAGUIRRE: It's been out since 4:30 this morning.
GUZMAN: Yeah. So we're outside just trying to stay warmer than inside (laughter), so might as well get used to the cold and go indoors and, you know, snuggle up.
JASPERS: So these guys are in pretty good spirits and then that's good. But, you know, it's a pretty serious situation here.
KING: How is the state responding so far to all of this? I mean, it is a massive, massive state, and the entire thing is being hit. So what's the response like at the state level?
JASPERS: So there's been a federal declaration of emergency. There are warming centers that have been set up. I think a lot of regular people are going to find hotels. I think at least in Dallas, the hotels were close to full last night. The skyline was dark. Professional sports have been canceled. They're bringing in the National Guard to help. So some cities are sending robocalls to their residents saying, you know, this is how you can conserve energy or this is how you can stay warm if you don't have energy. I think a lot of public officials, though, I've seen on social media saying really angry things at the grid manager because they're saying we knew about this storm about a week ago and, you know, why wasn't more done to prepare for this? I think there's going be a lot of fallout that we'll have to watch in the coming weeks.
KING: Just real quick, do you have power yourself there?
JASPERS: I do, luckily, although we have a friend in Fort Worth about 30 miles away that we're pretty concerned about, so we're going to maybe go get her today.
KING: OK. Fingers crossed. Bret Jaspers from member station KERA in Dallas. Thanks, Bret.
JASPERS: Thank you.
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KING: Forty-five million Americans have student debt, and President Biden has promised to do something about it.
INSKEEP: While campaigning, the number that he suggested was $10,000 per person forgiving that much debt. But some Democrats in Congress want him to use executive action to cancel up to $50,000 per person. So what's their argument?
KING: NPR's Elissa Nadworny covers education. Good morning, Elissa.
ELISSA NADWORNY, BYLINE: Good morning.
KING: What has President Biden done so far for people who have student debt?
NADWORNY: Well, one of the first things Biden did when he became president was to extend pandemic relief for federal student loan borrowers through September 30. So that means borrowers don't have to make monthly payments. Interest is set to 0%, so it's not accruing interest. And they've stopped collections on defaulted federal student loans. There are a lot of folks who see this extension as opening the door to more debt relief. And Biden has said he would support legislation cancelling up to $10,000 in student debt for more pandemic relief. He also supports more income-based repayment options and stronger public service loan forgiveness. But that $10,000 in debt relief, it would help a lot of people. Borrowers with low debt balances often only went to college for a semester or a year or two and never got that credential. And they find themselves unable to pay on that loan without the degree. Roughly 8 million borrowers are in default, and most of them have less than $10,000 in debt. When you're in default, the government can garnish your wages, take some money from Social Security when you get older. It's not good.
KING: OK. So Joe Biden is like, let's focus on the people who have a relatively small amount of debt. Democrats say let's focus on people also who have big amounts of debt, and they want to go up to $50,000 per person. What is their argument for that?
NADWORNY: So Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren are among those behind this idea. Elizabeth Warren put it pretty simply.
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ELIZABETH WARREN: Canceling student loan debt is the single most effective executive action that President Biden can take to kick-start this economy.
NADWORNY: So proponents of this plan say a more forgiving cancellation policy is also about racial justice and would target gaps in wealth among Black families especially. That's because Black households have more student debt and are more likely to have student debt than white or Latino families. According to a forthcoming research report from the Center for Responsible Lending, Black borrowers who would have their debt fully erased if $50,000 was forgiven have median assets worth just $76,000. So, you know, in most cities, that's not even a house. So loan forgiveness has the potential to help borrowers begin to build wealth - buying a home, saving for emergency, saving for retirement. Though there are critics of the higher debt forgiveness. One economist I talked to argues that anything higher than $10,000 runs the risk of rewarding borrowers who don't need the help.
KING: Has Joe Biden responded to the Democrats' proposal?
NADWORNY: So the White House just this month signaled it was willing to consider using executive action instead of going through Congress. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tweeted that the Biden team was looking into the legality of whether or not they could cancel loans through executive action.
KING: I imagine a lot of people will be waiting to see what happens there. NPR's Elissa Nadworny covers education. Thanks, Elissa.
NADWORNY: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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2023-07-25T20:11:35+00:00
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wboi.org
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https://www.wboi.org/2021-02-16/news-brief-coronavirus-variants-historic-storm-student-loan-forgiveness
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Action Auto continues to grow, receiving the UV50 award for the fourth year in a row, coming in at #20.
OREM, Utah, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth year in a row, Action Auto has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the valley, coming in at #20. The automotive dealer continues to change the atmosphere of the "Used Car" buying experience by employing a strong sales strategy and industry leading reconditioning process. This is possible through the accountability they hold themselves by to achieve the goals they have set throughout the year. Opening a third location, making over 300 sales in one month and maintaining over 600 vehicles are three of the goals the company is currently set on achieving. Follow their progress wherever you can as they finish the year out on a high note, rolling into a strong start for 2023.
UV50 is a Utah- based organization dedicated to recognizing local businesses and putting them in the spotlight. Having the name of your company show up on the list is nothing short of extraordinary.
Action Auto is holding 149% in growth for the past three years, and has been recognized for four consecutive years.
So far this year they have accomplished selling 250 cars in a single month.
"It was a lot of fun, we broke a record and everyone made a lot of money," said COO Erik Schofield.
The company is now focusing its efforts towards hitting 300 sales in a month – a task that won't be easy to attain given the current state of the car buying market, but the company holds their confidence in doing so.
"There's no reason sales should slow down," says current sales manager: Kaleb Barnes.
There looks to be a strong emphasis on perfecting the processes to get people to come in. This, alongside the online shopping process the company offers on their website (;www.actionautoutah.com), will be driving their success in the race for 300.
"A tech company that happens to sell used cars," says Co-Founder Jason Berry.
There's no denying the success of the company. Be careful not to miss out on what's to come for the Utah native company as they are making strides through the use of their website and existing relationships to further change the scope of the used-car buying process.
Media Contact: Christopher Hernandez, marketing@actionautoutah.com
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2022-10-14T20:04:22+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/14/action-auto-named-20-fastest-growing-business-utah-valley/
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by: Shelby Clark Posted: Aug 15, 2022 / 11:21 PM EDT Updated: Aug 15, 2022 / 11:21 PM EDT SHARE Tuesday’s Pollen Outlook (8/16/22)
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2022-08-16T05:14:01+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/weather/pollen-report/tuesdays-pollen-outlook-8-16-22/
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2 people taken to hospital after shooting, deputies say
Shooting happened Monday night
2 people taken to hospital after shooting, deputies say
Shooting happened Monday night
IT’S 533 AND THIS MORNING, DEPUTIES INVESTIGATING A DOUBLE SHOOTING IN GREENVILLE. IT HAPPENED AROUND 930 LAST NIGHT ON OLD CLEVELAND ROAD. DEPUTIES SAY BOTH VICTIMS WERE TO THE HOSPITAL. THEIR CONDITIONS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. DEPUTIES BELIEVE THIS WAS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU
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2 people taken to hospital after shooting, deputies say
Shooting happened Monday night
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating a shooting that sent two people to a hospital Monday night.According to deputies, they were called to Old Cleveland Road in Greenville around 9:30 p.m. for a report of multiple gunshots.When deputies arrived, they said they found two people with at least one gunshot wound.Deputies believe both people were involved in the incident and were taken to a hospital.There is no update on their conditions.Deputies say they believe this was an isolated incident and there is no potential danger to the public.
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating a shooting that sent two people to a hospital Monday night.
According to deputies, they were called to Old Cleveland Road in Greenville around 9:30 p.m. for a report of multiple gunshots.
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When deputies arrived, they said they found two people with at least one gunshot wound.
Deputies believe both people were involved in the incident and were taken to a hospital.
There is no update on their conditions.
Deputies say they believe this was an isolated incident and there is no potential danger to the public.
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2023-01-03T11:53:54+00:00
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wyff4.com
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https://www.wyff4.com/article/2-people-taken-to-hospital-after-shooting-deputies-say/42383546
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Uvalde, Texas, school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo missed his second city council meeting, opening the possibility that he will be removed from the body.
Arredondo was elected to a seat on City Council in May, weeks before a deadly school shooting in the city killed 19 students and two teachers. Officials have blamed Arredondo for law enforcement’s botched response to the school shooting.
It took more than an hour for officers to confront the gunman.
Arredondo was placed on leave last month amid an investigation into law enforcement’s handling of the incident.
Mayor Don McLaughlin said that missing a third meeting could jeopardize his seat.
"We can't stop him from taking the oath of office,” McLaughlin said. “This is his second meeting. If he misses his third, I don't think there's anybody up here that will tell you that we won't take the action we need to take."
Residents attended the meeting continuing to seek answers from Arredondo, McLaughlin and officials on hand.
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2022-07-01T15:26:48+00:00
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news5cleveland.com
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/police-chief-who-led-botched-response-to-uvalde-school-shooting-could-be-removed-from-council
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Pro Video News: Panasonic introduces its HC-X2 and HC-X20 4K camcorders with 1.0" sensors and a fast, mobile workflow.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B&H is pleased to announce that Panasonic has upped its camcorder game with the release of two 4K 1.0"-type sensor models aimed at the fast-paced workflow of on-the-go videographers, the HC-X2 and HC-X20.
Panasonic HC-X20 4K Camcorder
The HC-X2 features pro interfaces like SDI (BNC) video ports, embedded SDI audio, BNC timecode in/out, and an RJ45 GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) for tethering or connecting to a network. It offers HDR and HLG recording offers 13 stops of latitude when using V-log and can output SDI and HDMI simultaneously. Dual codec recording where images are recorded simultaneously in UHD 4K and full HD (50 Mb/s) or full HD (100 Mb/s or higher) plus full HD (8 Mb/s) can be used to create an efficient post-production workflow.
Shared HC-X2 and HC-X20 Features
Features shared by both models that will help you get the footage you need range from a well-balanced shoulder mount to optical image stabilization and advanced autofocus options. Advanced autofocus functions include Face Detection AF, color peaking, and 1-touch AF in Manual mode. Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), 5-axis Electronic Image Stabilization, built-in ND filters, versatile recording modes, integrated Wi-Fi, "paintbox"-type image adjustments, and dual XLR audio inputs are just some of the additional functions shared by both the advanced HC-X2 and the more budget-friendly HC-X20 model.
Learn More with B&H Explora here:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/videos/video/panasonic-pro-video-hc-x2-and-hc-x20-4k-camcorders
Panasonic HC-X2 and HC-X20 First Look at YouTube https://youtu.be/eW_j_lhip4U
As the world's largest source of photography, video, and audio equipment, as well as computers, drones, and home and portable entertainment, B&H is known worldwide for its attentive, knowledgeable sales force and excellent customer service, including fast, reliable shipping. B&H has been satisfying customers worldwide for over 45 years.
Visitors to the website can access a variety of educational videos and enlightening articles. The B&H YouTube Channel has an unmatched wealth of educational content. Our entertaining and informative videos feature product overviews from our in-house specialists. You can view the B&H Event Space presentations from many of the world's foremost experts and interviews with some of technology's most dynamic personalities. Tap into this exciting resource by subscribing to the B&H YouTube Channel here. In addition to videos, the B&H Explora blog presents new product announcements, gear reviews, helpful guides, and tech news written by product experts and industry professionals, as well as our award-winning podcasts.
When you are in Manhattan, take a tour of the B&H Photo SuperStore, located at 420 Ninth Avenue. The techno-carousel spins all year round at the counters and kiosks at B&H. With hundreds of products on display, the B&H Photo SuperStore is the place to test-drive and compare all the latest gear.
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2022-09-07T14:21:16+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/09/07/panasonic-announces-hc-x2-hc-x20-mobile-4k-camcorders-more-info-bamph/
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Never mind that the release of the sixth Harry Potter book is still a month away. Summer is just around the corner, and our book reviewer Alan Cheuse has been busy compiling his picks for the season.
Whether your summer plans include the beach, or the mountains, or just your own backyard, there's probably something on his list for you.
Fiction:
The Practice of Deceit, by Elizabeth Benedict (Houghton Mifflin): "The first-person story of the marriage between a Scarsdale, New York, therapist and his South Boston-born divorce lawyer wife -- a marriage coming apart at the seams. Benedict tells it from the man's point of view, and the story practically spills into your lap as you turn the pages."
Natives and Exotics, by Jane Alison (Harcourt): "In a lyrical series of chapters, [Alison] recalls the adventures of a family of wanderers and settlers and diplomats, with an early cameo appearance by the great German naturalist and explorer Alexander Von Humboldt... a fascinating summer journey between book covers that spans centuries and continents."
Europe Central, by William Vollman (Viking): "Vollman's depiction of the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia reads like Solzhenitsyn on acid, with a surreal romance starring [Russian composer Dmitry] Shostakovich at the center of the book, and major battles and betrayals and genocide erupting about the edges."
Sunstorm, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (Del Rey): "An absolute must for science fiction fans," this book is the conclusion to the authors' "A Time Odyssey" series.
Legends, by Robert Littell (Overlook): "The spy novel of the summer -- a tour de force about a former CIA agent who's taken on so many false identities he's not sure who he is."
The Right Madness, by James Crumley (Viking): Written by "Montana's answer to Mickey Spillane," this hard-boiled P.I. novel opens on a "seemingly idyllic summer evening and soon leads to a lot of murder and mayhem -- and gruff male meditations on the joys and rigors of Crumley's late middle-aged private eye."
Nonfiction:
The Restless Sleep, by Stacy Horn (Viking): In "an obsessive nonfiction account" of New York City Police Department's cold-case squad, Horn "writes in outrage at [long-unsolved crimes] and with great affection for both the living and the dead."
Young Adult:
Broken China, by Lori Aurelia Williams (Simon & Schuster): "Young-adult fiction with a true voice, about children raising children."
Poetry:
William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems, edited by Robert Pinsky (Library of America): A new volume of Williams' poetry -- over 100 poems, including the lively and goofy "Danse Russe."
CD: Native Joy for Real by Joy Harjo (Mekko Productions/Distributed by Wings Press): An American Indian poet sings her poems and plays sax.
Short Story Collections:
The Wonder Spot, by Melissa Bank (Viking)
Follies, by Ann Beattie (Scribner)
A Perfect Stranger, by Roxana Robinson (Random House)
Tropical Fish, by Doreen Baingana (University of Massachusetts Press)
Nobody's Baby, by Leo Litwak (forthcoming from El Leon Literary Arts)
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2022-08-29T07:20:52+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/2005-06-12/alan-cheuse-an-armful-of-books-for-summer
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TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - WildBrain Ltd. (or the "Company") (TSX: WILD), a global leader in kids' and family entertainment, reports that all nominees listed in its management information circular dated November 10, 2022, were elected as directors of the Company at its annual and special meeting of shareholders, held today. In addition, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was re-appointed as the Company's auditor, and resolutions related to the following were also passed by shareholders: the adoption of amended and restated by-laws; approval of unallocated awards under the Company's amended and restated omnibus equity incentive plan; and an amendment to the Company's articles to change the location of the Company's registered office.
The detailed results of the votes received for each director nominee were as follows:
As stated in the Company's management information circular, Amanda Cupples had decided to retire from the board of directors of WildBrain and did not stand for re-election this year.
Don Wright, Chair of the Board, stated: "The Board would like to thank Amanda Cupples for her diligent service to the Company and the astute oversight and valuable guidance she brought on behalf of WildBrain shareholders. We wish her all the best in future endeavours."
At WildBrain we inspire imaginations to run wild, engaging kids and families everywhere with great content and beloved brands. With approximately 13,000 half-hours of filmed entertainment in our library—one of the world's most extensive—we are home to such treasured franchises as Peanuts, Teletubbies, Strawberry Shortcake, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Caillou, Inspector Gadget and Degrassi. Our integrated, in-house capabilities spanning production, distribution and licensing set us apart as a unique independent player in the industry, managing IP across its entire lifecycle, from concept to content to consumer products.
At our state-of-the-art animation studio in Vancouver, we produce award-winning, fan-favourite series, such as The Snoopy Show; Snoopy in Space; Sonic Prime; Chip and Potato; Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City; Carmen Sandiego; Go, Dog. Go! and many more. Enjoyed in more than 150 countries and on over 500 streaming platforms and telecasters, our content is everywhere kids and families view entertainment. WildBrain Spark, our AVOD network, has garnered over 1 trillion minutes of watch time on YouTube, offering one of the largest selections of kids' content on that platform. Our leading consumer-products and location-based entertainment agency, WildBrain CPLG, represents our owned and partner properties in every major territory worldwide. Our television group owns and operates some of Canada's most-viewed family entertainment channels.
WildBrain is headquartered in Canada with offices worldwide and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at wildbrain.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" under applicable securities laws with respect to the Company including, without limitation, statements regarding the business strategies and operational activities of WildBrain and the future financial and operating performance of WildBrain. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties and are based on information currently available to the Company. Actual results or events may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations, among other things, include the risk factors discussed in materials filed with applicable securities regulatory authorities from time to time including matters discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Annual Information Form and annual Management Discussion and Analysis. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required by law.
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2022-12-14T18:45:57+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/12/14/wildbrain-shareholders-approve-all-matters-annual-special-meeting/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who as a lawyer for then-President Donald Trump pushed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election, met for hours with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a person familiar with the interview said Saturday.
The interview with Giuliani took place virtually and lasted for much of the day on Friday, according to the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment.
Giuliani had been scheduled to meet with the committee earlier this month, but a spokesperson for the panel said that meeting was rescheduled.
The former New York mayor is seen as a critical aide for the committee, which has interviewed nearly 1,000 witnesses, including family members of Trump and advisers in his inner circle. The panel plans a series of hearings in June.
In January, the committee subpoenaed Giuliani and other members of the Trump legal team who sought to overturn election results in battleground states through lawsuits that made unsupported claims of vast election fraud. Trump's own attorney general, William Barr, has said there were no widespread irregularities that could have affected the outcome of the race won by President Joe Biden, and judges across the country have dismissed the allegations.
At the time of the subpoena, the committee said it was seeking records and an interview with Giuliani, and that it wanted information about Giuliani's reported encouragement of Trump to direct the seizure of voting machines and his efforts to persuade state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.
Giuliani also spoke at the rally in front of the White House that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection.
CNN first reported Friday's interview with Giuliani.
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Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report.
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2022-05-22T00:08:17+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/AP-source-Giuliani-interviewed-for-hours-by-1-6-17189651.php
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2024 race won’t be like 2020. That’s good and bad for Biden
By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — No honking geese are likely to interrupt his speeches this time.
As President Joe Biden seeks a second term, he won’t have to depend on glitchy Zoom connections, or deliver remarks in largely vacant theaters with attendees in chairs ringed by circle markings on the floor to ensure enough social distancing. His advisors won’t scrutinize the 1918 flu outbreak for clues on pandemic-era voting.
With the country increasingly back to normal, Biden can fly to crowded campaign events on Air Force One, make policy announcements from the Rose Garden and shape not only the presidential race but global affairs with his actions.
Just as the 2024 campaign will be vastly different from the coronavirus-marred 2020 edition, Biden won’t be able to hold on to the White House by running in the same way he won it three years ago. Virtual events offered from a basement rec room he converted into a studio in his Delaware home and avoiding travel for months at a stretch won’t cut it this time.
A return to more typical campaign rhythms presents both opportunities and potential challenges for Biden.
Lockdowns made the 2020 campaign far less grueling, so much so that Donald Trump frequently accused Biden, now 80, of ignoring voters. But avoiding crowds also often made it harder for Biden to ignite supporter enthusiasm. He also averted the kind of spontaneous interactions with the public and the press that led to memorable gaffes in the past, but sometimes created endearing moments.
“If any presidential candidate benefited from the virtual mold of 2020, it was Joe,” said Democratic strategist Nicole Brener-Schmitz. “But he’s shown over the course of his presidency that he’s perfectly capable of the travel and the rallies and the events and the town halls. There shouldn’t be any concern about there being a ‘normal’ campaign and the American public going, ‘Oh no.’”
Biden advisers say that among the many societal changes wrought by the pandemic, campaigning changed too. Voters adapted to using different platforms to engage with politics and candidates. Biden’s team also notes that the president is the only successful national candidate so far in that new environment, and his advisers aim to build on the lessons of 2020, finding novel ways to deliver the most effective message to individual voters.
Biden himself likely won’t miss campaigning online. When giving one of his first virtual addresses in March 2020, he lost his place in his prepared remarks and gestured awkwardly to staff standing out of frame. Two months later, as Biden virtually addressed members of the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Victory Fund, a more jarring off-camera distraction came from the Canada geese clustered around a pond in his back yard.
“If you hear them honking away, they’re cheering,” Biden joked.
Though the production quality improved over time, Biden’s online presentations were often overshadowed by what Trump was doing — so much so that Biden’s campaign resorted to creating a short-lived podcast. They also studied balloting during the 1918 midterm elections, when turnout dropped amid the flu pandemic.
Even after he resumed in-person campaigning with social distance circles, drive-in rallies and other small events in battleground states, Biden almost always returned each night to sleep at home in Delaware. This time, it would be Air Force Once carrying him back to the White House or Delaware.
One downside of 2020, aides say, was Biden’s inability to meet people on the campaign trail. Even with Secret Service protection, brief one-on-one time will now be possible — but that also increases the likelihood that Biden will say something he regrets.
In December 2019 a man in New Hampshire suggested Biden was too old and also raised questions about the then-candidate’s son’s overseas business ties. Biden called him a “damned lair” and suggesting a pushup contest — reminiscent of times his verbal blunders as vice president made some in the Obama White House blanch.
Biden was also at his weakest during in-person campaigning early in 2020. Despite joining the race as the perceived frontrunner, he lost the first three Democratic primary contests and only clinched his party’s nomination after the pandemic took hold.
He offered a mainstream agenda that appealed to Democratic moderates early, but moved to the left as the general election approached — promising sharp federal spending increases on health care, social programs and the environment while boosting domestic manufacturing and the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
With Democrats controlling Congress through last year, Biden fulfilled many such promises. But he’s shifted to the center more recently, which some progressives say will alienate the Democratic base.
“Unless he’s hermetically sealed and doesn’t want to talk to anybody under 30, he’s going to be asked, ’Gee, you said the last time you ran for president dot, dot, dot. What’s up with that?’” said Norman Solomon, national director of RootsAction.org, a progressive group that championed the “Don’t Run Joe” campaign attempting to convince Biden to forgo seeking a second term.
Pandemic aside, the 2020 campaign was unique in unfolding as a summer of protests decrying police brutality and racial injustice erupted after George Floyd’s killing. Biden was unable to get Congress to approve major criminal justice reform, leaving some Black activists disillusioned that more wasn’t done on that issue or to protect voting rights nationwide.
An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll last week found the president’s 58% approval rating among Black adults was down sharply from the roughly 9 in 10 who approved of Biden over his first months in office.
Only about half of Democrats polled said they wanted Biden to run again, but 81% said they’d at least probably support him in next year’s general election. Among Black adults, though, the enthusiasm lagged: Only 41% said they want him to run and 55% said they were likely to support him in the general election.
Questions about the 80-year-old Biden’s physical stamina, meanwhile, will be more pronounced this time, as Biden would be 86 at the conclusion of a second term.
Aides concede that the travel and rigors of a normal presidential campaign are brutal, but not compared to the demands of the presidency, with its jam-packed intercontinental trips and middle-of-the-night wake-up calls to respond to global crises. And for much of the next year, Biden will be most intently focused on his day job, with his advisers arguing that being an effective president makes the case better than anything else for another four years in the White House.
Democrats also note that, unlike 2020, when lockdowns saw the party and its top outside supporters abandon knocking on doors and other in-person activities to mobilize their base voters, such efforts will be back this time.
Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which has 1.4 million members nationwide, said voter mobilization efforts have run continuously since the pandemic eased. Those helped Democrats to a surprisingly strong midterm election showing, are already under way for 2024, he said, and are focusing on the legislative achievements of Biden and his party.
“We just have to talk about those victories. All of us collectively: labor and allies, and the White House, and our friends on the Hill and our governors and our state reps and our mayors,” Saunders said.
Biden’s team has concentrated most on running again against Trump. Even a rematch wouldn’t feel like 2020, though, since Biden will be the incumbent. That worries Solomon, who said the Biden White House has been “exuding complacency” by insisting that Biden can top Trump again in 2024.
“These refrains coming out of the White House, ‘Oh, he beat Trump before, he can beat him again,’” Solomon said. “This time, Biden is gonna represent the status quo as an incumbent. That’s a fundamental problem.”
But Brener-Schmitz noted that the incumbent always has an advantage, being able to tap into Democrats’ nationwide supporter base and infrastructure, allowing the president to concentrate on connecting personally with voters.
She added: “This is where Joe Biden thrives.”
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Associated Press Writer Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
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HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Music Inc. (HKEX: 9899, "NetEase Cloud Music" or the "Company"), a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China, announced that it has entered into a licensing renewal agreement ("the Agreement") with Avex, a leading entertainment conglomerate in Japan, granting NetEase Cloud Music the right to distribute Avex's music catalog in China.
Under the terms of the Agreement, both parties will collaborate to promote the presence of prominent and fan-favorite J-pop artists and content under the Avex. Both parties will utilize their advantages to unlock more opportunities and bring fans closer to Avex's vast and influential catalog through innovative approaches.
Founded in 1988, Avex began as a wholesale business of imported music records, and established its own label, Avex Trax in 1990. Until now, Avex has also expanded into various areas such as record labels, live music performances, animation, and filmmaking. Avex has created numerous movements driving the trends of each era. There are many world-renowned artists on its roster, including Ayumi Hamasaki, Ai Otsuka Kumi Koda, GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, Awesome City Club, HIRAIDAI, I Don't Like Mondays., and NAQT VANE, as well as viral phenomenon PIKOTARO.
As one of China's leading online music platforms, NetEase Cloud Music has been a preferred online destination among the younger generation to enjoy music in a wide variety of genres from artists both at home and abroad. The unique music community atmosphere, highly interactive user base and impressive user stickiness of NetEase Cloud Music underpins the platform's capability in efficiently promoting music content and enhancing the interactions between artists and their fan base in China.
NetEase Cloud Music has been actively broadening its portfolio and expanding its partnerships with top entertainment companies to enrich the high-quality content offering on the platform to better address users' diverse music tastes. Recently, NetEase Cloud Music has extended music copyright cooperations with a number of top record labels, including Modern Sky, Emperor Entertainment Group, China Record Group, Feng Hua Qiu Shi, Yuehua Entertainment, Linfair Records, SM Entertainment, TF Entertainment, YG Entertainment and KAO!INC. Moving forward, NetEase Cloud Music will pursue further collaborations with upstream copyright owners and continue to provide more high-quality music content for music lovers in China.
About Cloud Music Inc.
Launched in 2013 by NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES; HKEX: 9999), Cloud Music Inc. (HKEX: 9899) is a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China. Dedicated to providing an elevated user experience, Cloud Music Inc. provides precise, personalised recommendations, promotes user interaction and creates a strong social community. Its focus on discovering and promoting emerging musicians has made Cloud Music Inc. a destination of choice for exploring new and independent music among music enthusiasts in China. The platform has been recognised as the most popular entertainment app among China's vibrant Generation Z community.
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LONDON (AP) — European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald appointed Nicolas Colsaerts as his third vice captain on Tuesday for next year’s event in Rome.
The Belgian golfer, who turned 40 last week, joins Thomas Bjorn of Denmark and Edoardo Molinari of Italy as vice captains for the European team.
Colsaerts helped Europe win the 2012 Ryder Cup and has three tournament victories on the European tour.
“My first reaction when Luke asked me was sheer joy,” Colsaerts said in a statement. “Every time I hear the words ‘Ryder Cup’, it takes me back to the edition I played in, how proud I was to wear the European colors and be part of such an unbelievable event.”
Bjorn and Molinari were both appointed by Henrik Stenson, who was stripped of the role as Europe’s captain after joining the Saudi-backed LIV Golf breakaway series.
Donald kept both Bjorn and Molinari after replacing Stenson and said the choice of Colsaerts as his third vice captain had “been on my mind for a couple of months now.”
“I played in the team with him in 2012 and you could just see how much it meant to him,” Donald said. “He understands what it means to represent the European crest and what it means to be part of the Ryder Cup setup. When I asked him, he literally had goosebumps.”
The 2023 Ryder Cup will be played at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome from Sept. 26-Oct. 1.
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2022-11-22T23:33:13+00:00
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Saturday Night Live is losing another cast member, ahead of the season 48 premiere. Chris Redd announced that he will not be returning for the upcoming season of the sketch comedy series.
“Being a part of SNL has been the experience of a lifetime. Five years ago, I walked into 30 Rock knowing that this was an amazing opportunity for growth,” the 37-year-old said in a statement per Variety.
“Now, with friends who have become family and memories I will cherish forever, I’m grateful to Lorne Michaels and to the entire SNL organization. From the bottom of my heart, I can’t thank you all enough," he added.
Redd first joined the cast in 2017 as a featured player, before being promoted to a regular cast member. During his time on the show, Redd famously played Kanye West, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and a host of other leads in sketches. The Kenan actor also took home an Emmy for his writing on the “Come Back Barack” song.
Following his time on SNL, Redd is set to star in the HBO comedy special Chris Redd: Why Am I Like This?, which is set to premiere later this year.
Redd joins Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor , Aristotle Athari, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Pete Davidson as the latest cast member who won't return for season 48.
Last week, it was announced that Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker are being added as featured players on the long-running sketch series.
Season 48 of Saturday Night Live kicks off Oct. 1.
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2022 NBA Draft: Tracking the undrafted free agents originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
The 2022 NBA Draft is over.
Fifty-eight players will now begin the next chapter in their respective professional careers. But not everyone had the pleasure of hearing their names called.
With a finite amount of picks available, some intriguing prospects just couldn’t make the cut and will have to hope they can instead get signed as an undrafted rookie.
Here is where the top undrafted free agents signed following the conclusion of the 2022 draft:
Keon Ellis, G, Alabama: Sacramento Kings
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Shareef O’Neal, F, LSU: Los Angeles Lakers
Ron Harper Jr., F, Rutgers: Toronto Raptors
Justin Lewis, F, Marquette: Chicago Bulls
Alondes Williams, G, Wake Forest: Brooklyn Nets
Trevion Williams, F/C, Purdue:
Michael Foster Jr., F, G League Ignite: Philadelphia 76ers
Lester Quinones, G, Memphis: Golden State Warriors
Jordan Hall, G, St. Joseph’s:
Dereon Seabron, G/F, NC State: New Orleans Pelicans
Julian Champagnie, F, St. John’s:
Johnny Juzang, G/F, UCLA: Utah Jazz
Gabe Brown, F, Michigan State:
John Butler Jr., C, Florida State:
Kofi Cockburn, C, Illinois: Utah Jazz
Scotty Pippen Jr., G, Vanderbilt:
Orlando Robinson, C, Fresno State:
Iverson Molinar, G, Mississippi State: Milwaukee Bucks
Kameron McGusty, G, Miami (FL):
Collin Gillespie, G, Villanova: Denver Nuggets
Hyunjung Lee, F, Davidson:
Aminu Mohamed, G/F, Georgetown: Philadelphia 76ers
Jamaree Bouyea, G, San Francisco: Miami Heat
Jared Rhoden, G/F, Seton Hall:
Tevin Brown, G, Murray State:
Darius Days, F, LSU:
Ziga Samar, G, Fuelenbrada:
Buddy Boeheim, G/F, Syracuse:
Brady Manek, F, UNC:
Kenneth Lofton Jr., F/C, Louisiana Tech: Memphis Grizzlies
Tyson Etienne, G, Wichita State:
Trevor Hudgins, G, NW Missouri State: Houston Rockets
Cole Swider, F, Syracuse: Los Angeles Lakers
Theo John, F, Duke: Minnesota Timberwolves
Marcus Bingham Jr., C, Michigan State: Dallas Mavericks
Jalen Adeway, G/F, St. Bonaventure: Miami Heat
Jeriah Horne, F, Tulsa: Sacramento Kings
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2022-06-24T06:01:39+00:00
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service San Diego CA
144 PM PDT Wed Jun 22 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of Southern California, including the following
counties, in southern California, Riverside. In southwest
California, San Diego.
* WHEN...Until 445 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 144 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Southeastern Anza, Warner Springs, Borrego Palm Canyon, Hwy
79 Between Warner Springs And Oak Grove and Los Coyotes
Indian Reservation.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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EAST HARTFORD, Conn., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, continues to receive positive support for various F135-related program items on the path toward finalizing the 2024 appropriations bill. On July 27, the Senate Appropriations Committee, led by Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME), passed a bipartisan bill that included:
- $497 million for the development of the F135 engine core upgrade (ECU), the DoD's chosen F-35 engine modernization effort.
- $264 million above the President's budget request for F135 engine spares and repair parts.
- A prohibition against integrating any alternate engine on any F-35 variant.
- $280 million for the development of future engine technology that could be used on 6th generation tactical aircraft.
"I want to personally thank Senators Tester and Collins for their leadership on this effort, because it's essential to ensuring our limited DoD funds go to the most urgent, high-priority needs," said Jeff Shockey, senior vice president of RTX Global Government Relations. "I also want to express my gratitude to the Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and the entire Connecticut and Maine delegations for their support and advocacy."
The F135 supports nearly 55,000 jobs across 41 states and more than 260 domestic suppliers. In March 2023, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Navy chose to upgrade the F135 versus replace it with an entirely new engine. The decision was announced as part of the administration's 2024 budget proposal.
"The Senate Appropriations Committee's full funding of the Engine Core Upgrade program, its addition of $280 million for future-generation propulsion technologies, and language prohibiting integration of an alternate engine on any F-35 variant are critically important," said Jill Albertelli, president of Military Engines at Pratt & Whitney. "Our collective focus should be on maximizing the performance of all three variants of the F-35, while prioritizing the advancement of sixth-generation solutions that serve our highest, most urgent national defense priorities."
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Authorities seeking info on husband of ‘Lady of the Dunes’
BOSTON (AP) — Authorities in Massachusetts, who earlier this week said they had finally identified the “Lady of the Dunes,” the woman whose mutilated body was found on Cape Cod in 1974, are now looking for information about a man she may have married.
The late Guy Rockwell Muldavin is believed to have married Ruth Marie Terry in February 1974, just a few months before the 37-year-old Terry’s body was found in Provincetown, according to a statement Wednesday from state police, Provincetown police and the Cape and Islands district attorney’s office.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the whereabouts of Terry or Muldavin in New England in 1973 or 1974 to contact them.
Muldavin, described as an antiques dealer who also used the names Raoul Guy Rockwell and Guy Muldavin Rockwell, was a suspect in the deaths of a previous wife and a stepdaughter in Seattle in 1960, according to media reports at the time. He was caught in New York City and charged with “unlawful flight.” He died in California in 2002, according to his obituary.
The death of the “Lady of the Dunes” was one of the most enduring and frustrating murder mysteries in Massachusetts.
A young girl out for a walk found the body in the dunes in Provincetown in July 1974. The woman was naked on a beach blanket with her hands severed — so she could not be identified by her fingerprints, officials said. Her skull was crushed and she was nearly decapitated. The cause of death was determined to be a blow to the head and authorities believe she was killed several weeks before her body was found.
Joseph Bonavolonta, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston division, said at a news conference Monday that Terry, who was originally from Tennessee, was identified using investigative genealogy, the use of DNA analysis in combination with traditional genealogy research and historical records.
Terry, whose aliases include Teri Marie Vizina, Terry M. Vizina and Teri Shannon, also had ties to Michigan and California, authorities said.
Authorities for decades tried to identify her by exhuming her remains, performing clay model facial reconstruction, and releasing age-regression drawings of her face. Investigators had long said she had long red or auburn hair and that they believed she was somewhere between 20 to 40 years old.
They said Monday that the next step is identifying her killer.
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2022-11-03T15:54:45+00:00
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A complaint against Gov. Kristi Noem’s use of the state airplane has been dismissed by the Government Accountability Board.
The Government Accountability Board, made up of retired judges, met at the University Center in Sioux Falls and quickly went into executive session. KELOLAND’s Tom Hanson attended Tuesday’s GAB meeting and reported the board dismissed the complaint regarding Noem’s use of the state airplane.
Hanson said the board determined it did not have the authority to determine what is considered “state business” when it comes to use of state airplanes.
“The authority for such a definition is the responsibility of the state legislature from our research there is no such statutory definition,” Judge David Gienapp said.
Gienapp announced the lack of definition of state business prohibits them from making a determination if Noem’s use of the plane proper.
In October, Hughes County State’s Attorney Jessica LaMie announced the Division of Criminal Investigation’s inquiry into complaints about Noem’s misuse of the state airplane was complete and “there were no facts to support a criminal prosecution under current law.”
The complaint started in the South Dakota Attorney General’s office, moved to the Government Accountability Board then back to the attorney general’s office before being dismissed by the Hughes County State’s Attorney and shifted back to the GAB.
The board was forced to issue a subpoena to get the details of the investigation from the DCI. The results will not be made public and Tuesday’s action basically ends the matter.
Noem has maintained she followed state law and has done nothing wrong.
Tuesday’s action by the GAB ended a process that started more than 600 days ago when Sen. Reynold Nesiba (D-Sioux Falls) first filed his complaint.
In October, Nesiba said the current law allows the attorney general or a state’s attorney discretion to look at “state business” and what it means.
“If we need to revisit this coming session and bring statute clarity to what state business is, then we’ll do that,” Nesiba said. “If we do need to go back and simply put a definition in statute of what constitutes state business, then I would hope that Republicans and Democrats alike would respect the will of the people and get that done.”
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2022-12-21T19:58:57+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — The harrowing scenes of Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse after suffering cardiac arrest has forced some fans to yet again confront a truth they’ve always known but hated to think about: Football, a game with violence in its DNA, can go from exciting and joyous to dark and tragic in a flash.
Now, as the Buffalo Bills defensive back remains in critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital, fans like Max Cerone are reflecting on their relationship with the sport they love.
Cerone, age 24 like Hamlin and a high school guidance counselor in the Buffalo area, grew up minutes from the Bills stadium, attending games from childhood with his dad “in pre-season and 90 degrees, or negative degrees and snowing.”
Settling in at home with two buddies to watch Monday's high-stakes matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals, Cerone and his friends watched in horror when only minutes into the game, Hamlin completed what appeared a routine tackle, stood up quickly and then collapsed limply, frighteningly backward to the ground, legs splayed, motionless. They watched stricken teammates weeping, kneeling and praying as medical staff fought to revive the 6-foot, 200-pound player’s stopped heart.
“People sometimes look at players like they’re in a video game,” Cerone said — as avatars, and fodder for fans’ fantasy leagues. “We watch them for entertainment, and complain when they’re not playing well. But these people are putting their lives on the line every time they’re going out there and putting on the pads."
It's exceedingly rare for a player to go into cardiac arrest on the field, and the injury Hamlin suffered wasn't necessarily specific to footbal l, or even sports.
Still, it came immediately after a hit, and was a stark reminder that human beings aren’t built to crash into other human beings repeatedly at high velocity, as football requires. And for some fans with kids, it sparked more thought about whether those kids should be allowed to play.
Like many fans interviewed in the days after the game, Cerone doesn’t see himself abandoning football anytime soon. But he definitely wants to see the NFL continue to do more about health and safety, especially as regards to head injuries.
Former fan Laurie Goldberg has made a different calculation.
Goldberg, a public relations professional who spent years working with a sports trading card company, says she soured on the sport over the last decade as she learned more about traumatic brain injury and the risks of CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, her awareness sparked by the 2015 movie “Concussion,” in which Will Smith played the real-life doctor raising the CTE alarm, and the book on which it's based.
“I loved football, and I miss it,” says Goldberg, 63, originally from Baltimore where she grew up as an avid Colts fan, and now of Marina del Rey, California. But, she says, “I couldn’t watch anymore. I felt like I was watching the gladiators, watching people sacrifice their lives. This isn’t ancient Rome ... Watching it just seems like we’re adding to the problem.”
Mark Oldfield, a lifelong Bengals fan, prefers to focus on the hope that tragic incidents on the field will lead to lifesaving improvements.
“I feel like this is going to be one of those moments that will actually make football better,” says Oldfield, 59, a teacher at Springmyer Elementary School in Cincinnati and a Bengals season ticket holder for the last 36 years.
Oldfield was sitting in the stadium, three rows from the north end zone, when Hamlin took the hit. He was also at the recent game when Miami Dolphin quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a frightening concussion on a play that knocked him unconscious and had him stretchered off the field.
Oldfield hopes Tagaovailoa won’t play again this season. But he notes there’s been steady progress in dealing with the risk of brain injury, though not enough. “As long as you see growth, that’s a good thing,” he says.
Khalil Springs, also 24, a Bills fan who works in real estate in Buffalo, agrees the sport has been gradually improving in terms of safety. “The game has changed — you can see it in the tackling where they try to let up a bit. People are aware of it, and that’s maybe all you can do in a sport so violent. It’s only going to get better.”
In a broader sense, Springs is certain that “something good will come out of this." Actually it already has, he notes; fans have joined to donate millions to Hamlin’s fundraiser for a children’s toy drive, which now tops $7 million.
Like many, Jason Fond feels the Hamlin episode will lead to some kind of positive change in player safety. One small change, he notes, has already happened: the youth team he coaches sent an email the morning after the NFL incident, requiring that coaches be certified to use a defibrillator.
“How do we digest this?” asks Fond, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist in Nanuet, New York. “People who are against violent sports are going to say, ‘I told you so, this is awful, why is football even allowed?’ Other people are going to say ‘It’s a one-off and we’re never going to see this in our lifetime again.’"
He himself falls more into in the latter category, as a fan, coach, father, and player in his youth. He says the huge increase in concussion awareness makes it feel safer for kids like his 11-year old son, who plays tackle football (his three kids play multiple sports). Fond says he told him: “You get one concussion and you’re done.”
If his son wanted to play in college, where “massive people" are running at you, “that conversation would be a tough one for me," he adds.
In some parts of the country, reverence for the sport can allow for a permissive attitude toward tackle football for young children, says Joel Fields of Biloxi, Mississippi, who founded the Gulf Coast Sharks Youth Football Club in 2021.
“We’ll be playing teams from all over the country, but we play mostly southern teams, and we’ve seen ... five and six-year-old tackle football teams,” said Fields. He doesn’t think children should play tackle football until they are eight, and hopes Hamlin’s injury reminds coaches to teach kids safer ways to play.
For every parent, the calculation is different. Kim Staley, a Kansas City mother and account manager for a pharmaceutical company, is herself a huge football fan – “youth, high school, college, NFL, Monday night, Thursday night, Saturday and Sunday,” she quips. “I’m THAT mom.” She was horrified by the Hamlin injury and is praying for his recovery, as is her son, Hunter, 17.
But, says Staley, 55, “I would not stop my child from playing because of it.” She says too little is known about what caused Hamlin's collapse, and that friends’ children in other sports have experienced more injuries than her son in football. Hunter hopes to play in college. “I support him playing the sport he loves,” Staley says. “Until he tells me otherwise.”
Lisa Burtin has made a similar call for her son Deon, also 17, who’s been playing since he was five, and also wants to play in college.
“It was definitely jaw-dropping, horrific,” Burtin said of the Hamlin injury. “When it’s life and death, everything stops. Nothing else matters.” She was glad to see the game was canceled. But she says there are still questions to be answered: “Was it because of the tackle, because of football, or something underlying?”
Burtin, 55, a nurse in Kansas City, said a bigger worry is head injuries, which are much more common.
But either way, she says, “You just don’t live your life in fear. My son wants to play football.” And as a fan, she says, she remains loyal: “I know it’s a rough sport. But I think it brings people together.”
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AP Journalist Michael Goldberg in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this report.
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2023-01-05T19:10:12+00:00
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GALVESTON, Texas, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC -- Today, a group of doctors filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra in his official capacity as Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and Robert M. Califf in his official capacity as Commissioner of Food and Drugs, over the FDA's unlawful attempts to prohibit the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
The plaintiffs, Drs. Robert L. Apter, Mary Talley Bowden, and Paul E. Marik argue the FDA acted outside of its authority and illegally interfered with their ability to practice medicine by directing the public, including health professionals and patients, to not use ivermectin, a drug that has received full FDA approval for human use.
Dr. Mary Bowden responded to today's filing, stating: "Since the pandemic began, I have had one mission - help my patients. I provided access to testing when testing was hard to find. I provided treatment when other doctors told my patients to stay home. I have kept over 3,900 patients out of the hospital, but it hasn't been easy. Sadly, fighting the system has been a much bigger challenge than fighting the disease. Despite my excellent track record treating COVID patients, the FDA's smear campaign against ivermectin continues to be a daily hurdle to overcome. I am fighting back - the public needs to understand what the FDA has done is illegal, and I hope this suit will prevent them from continuing to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship."
"If doctors are freed to treat patients according to their best judgment and unprejudiced evaluation of the medical literature, many thousands more deaths and serious disabilities will be averted," said Dr. Robert Apter. "Pronouncements from the FDA against the use of ivermectin have been the basis for disciplinary actions against doctors, interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, and have had a severe chilling effect on the use of life-saving medication for a deadly disease."
"The FDA's public statements on ivermectin have been misleading and raised unwarranted concern over a critical drug in preventing and treating COVID-19. The agency felt compelled to use language to discourage any discourse and interest in using ivermectin as a front-line treatment of COVID-19. To do this is to ignore both statutory limits on the FDA's authority and the significant body of scientific evidence from peer-reviewed research, over 80 medical trials, and results from ivermectin's use in medical settings worldwide, showing the safe and effective use of the drug in fighting COVID-19," said Dr. Paul Marik.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — From skipping out on tickets to speeding through tolls without paying, fake license plates cost the city and MTA millions of dollars.
On Monday, the New York City Council’s Public Safety and Transportation Committee held an oversight hearing on several bills that would increase the fines for both the sale of and possession of phony vehicle tags.
City Councilman Oswald Feliz is backing the bills. He said drivers are using fake paper plates.
“[They] can run through the speed cameras and the red light cameras, but also ghost cars are being used to commit major crimes.” Feliz added, “We are talking about plates that are coming from Texas, Georgia and New Jersey. These fake plates are functioning almost as a license to break all of our rules and laws.”
The council members on the committee also heard testimony from the NYPD on the department’s strategies to combat the problem of so-called “ghost cars.”
Chief Michael Pilecki, the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau commanding officer, said the best recourse is for the city to tow these vehicles. He said in 2002, they issued 250,000 summons for covered or obstructed plates, arrested nearly 4,200 drivers for forged or altered plates, and seized 7,520 cars.
So far in 2023, the NYPD has already issued 130,000 summonses, arrested 1,777 drivers and towed 1,100 vehicles.
“These cars are also involved in hit and runs of both pedestrians and motorists, leaving innocent bystanders injured and without recourse,” Pilecki said.
PIX11 News also spoke with Dr. Adam Scott Wandt at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Wandt said states like New Jersey and Texas were too lenient on allowing people to print plates at home during pandemic shutdowns when the DMV was closed.
“Now that we opened Pandora’s box, we’re trying to figure out how to get it shut again, and that’s going to require a major crackdown,” Wandt said.
Owen McShane, the Deputy Commissioner for Investigations for the New York State DMV, told PIX11 News they are teaming up with agencies across the state to crack down on drivers.
“We set up details at high volume areas, such as the Triboro bridge and in a 2-hour period, we’ll get 40 or 50 vehicles at a crossing that have invalid permits or expired or altered permits,” McShane said.
As for states that have allowed people to print temporary plates at home.
“They’re making changes; Texas has completely revamped their program, New Jersey has revamped their program, they provide up-to-date information for enforcement agencies on what permits are valid, what are not, and we work together on it,” McShane told PIX11 News.
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2023-06-27T01:52:15+00:00
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Volkswagen’s current Golf, the Mk8, will be the last to be equipped with an internal-combustion engine, VW brand boss Thomas Schaefer has confirmed.
In an interview with Automobilwoche (subscription required) published on Sunday, Schaefer said the next Golf will be offered exclusively with electric power, unless the industry takes a major turn from its current electrification path, which Schaefer said he doubts.
The current Golf was last redesigned in 2020 and will be given a major update in 2024. It means any electric successor is likely years away.
In his interview with Automobilwoche, Schaefer hinted the electric successor is likely to be released in 2028, at the earliest. That’s because the company plans to use a next-generation modular EV platform known as the SSP, he said. The timing quashes rumors that VW’s affordable electric hatch due in 2025, and previewed by the recent ID.2all concept, will be called a Golf.
The SSP platform was originally due in 2026 but has been delayed by about two years. First announced in 2021, the platform is being designed to accept battery cells and software systems that will be common across most of the models from VW’s Volkswagen Group parent.
Eventually, all VW vehicles will be electric. Schaefer has previously indicated a target date of 2033, which is two years before the European Union’s mandate for all new light vehicles to be electric, or fitted with engines that exclusively run on carbon-neutral e-fuels. VW’s last vehicle to be launched with an internal-combustion engine is expected to be a redesigned version of the T-Roc compact crossover sold overseas. The next-generation model is expected to arrive around 2026.
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2023-04-04T14:56:04+00:00
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IRVINE, Calif., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was infused with $80 million in additional funds to help improve customer service and enhance their ability to catch tax evaders. This was the largest single infusion of funds in the agency's history and laid the groundwork for a 10-year overhaul of this highly scrutinized arm of the federal government.
However, this budget has been cut by $21.4 million as the result of a new debt ceiling deal reached by Congress over Memorial Day Weekend in 2023. This budget cut will not immediately affect IRS spending. However, the cut does create challenges for current, pending legislation. Further, the IRS will face serious financial burdens down the line if it does not alter its spending plans or receive a new infusion of funds later.
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IRS Facing Budget Cut as a Result of New Debt Ceiling Deal
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) faces a significant budget cut of $21.4 billion out of the original $80 billion windfall intended for a comprehensive revamping. These budget cuts will not affect spending for the next five years. Furthermore, the IRS hopes to recouple these funds as time goes on. Still, the proposed cuts may have far-reaching effects on the IRS's enforcement and modernization plans.
Overview of IRS Budget Cuts
The IRS budget cuts came as a surprise over Memorial Day weekend because of the debt ceiling deal. The total impact of this budget cut on the IRS's enforcement and modernization plans is uncertain at this time. The agency still has about $60 billion to spend over the next decade to improve taxpayer services, upgrade its IT infrastructure, and enhance enforcement for complex partnerships and large corporations. However, the IRS projects increased spending over the years, leaving only $12.1 and $14.1 billion for fiscal years 2030 and 2031, respectively. This could create a funding shortfall in the future if spending plans are not adjusted or if Congress does not provide additional funding.
Although the bill text technically includes an immediate rescission of only $1.4 billion from the IRS's budget, President Joe Biden has agreed to shift $10 billion from the IRS to other agencies during the fiscal year 2024 annual appropriations, with a similar shift expected for the fiscal year 2025 government funding bill. House Republicans, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Adrian Smith, see these cuts as a step in the right direction, expressing concerns about the IRS's enforcement plans leading to more audits for small businesses and middle-class taxpayers.
Improvements for Taxpayer Services Still Attainable
Despite the budget cut, the IRS still has substantial funding to improve taxpayer services, and former IRS Commissioners, John Koskinen and Mark Everson, hope that this budget cut will bring some certainty going forward. One potentially positive aspect is the IRS's ability to execute longer-term projects for transforming its infrastructure, as the agency has been previously limited to six- to nine-month projects due to annual appropriations. However, there is a concern that the GOP may continue to chip away at the IRS's annual budget, requiring the agency to divert more funds for operational purposes.
New Challenges for Pending International Tax Framework
In terms of international tax matters, a GOP delegation led by House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith had plans to discuss the pending international tax framework with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, but this has likely been delayed as the result of Congress's focus on passing the debt deal. Nonetheless, the GOP's proposed legislation gives them new leverage to oppose the 15 percent global minimum tax that the OECD has been working on for years. While the proposal is unlikely to be enacted under the current Democratic-controlled Congress, it could become a real threat if a Republican administration takes office in 2024.
Trouble with Enforcement of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA)
FACTA has been instrumental in helping the IRS crack down on tax evaders, hiding unreported income generating investments in foreign countries. However, the law faces challenges, with the Association of Accidental Americans filing 23 complaints with European data authorities, questioning FATCA's legality. A recent win in Belgium ruled that transfers of information belonging to "accidental Americans" under FATCA are illegal under EU law, allowing the association to press its case alongside other countries. Accidental Americans are individuals who have U.S. citizenship but have never lived in the country, and they are now facing issues with foreign banks threatening to close their accounts in fear of U.S. sanctions, causing distress for those who were not aware of their tax obligations to the IRS.
How is the IRS Budget Allocated?
The IRS allocates its budget to support various key functions and initiatives. One major aspect is improving taxpayer services, where funds are allocated to enhance customer support and assistance. This includes providing resources for taxpayer education, helplines, and online services to simplify the tax filing process for individuals and businesses.
Another important area of budget allocation is upgrading the IRS's information technology (IT) infrastructure. Funds are dedicated to modernizing IT systems to improve data security, streamline processes, and efficiently handle increasing volumes of tax-related information.
Enforcement efforts also receive a share of the budget to combat tax evasion and fraud. This includes funding for audits, investigations, and compliance activities aimed at ensuring individuals and businesses accurately report and pay their taxes.
Furthermore, the IRS allocates funds to expand enforcement efforts focused on complex partnerships and large corporations. These initiatives target entities with intricate financial structures that may require specialized expertise to ensure tax compliance.
Finally, the budget also considers the IRS's long-term plans. While specific figures were not provided, the agency projects increased spending over the years, leading to potential funding shortfalls in the future if spending plans are not adjusted or if Congress does not provide additional funding.
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According to the latest data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, COVID-19 is currently spreading at high rates across more than a quarter of the state's 64 counties — at a level where the CDC advises people to wear masks in public places. Among them is Alamosa County, home to much of Great Sand Dunes National Park, which is not just recommending but requiring mask use in all buildings on its grounds.
Meanwhile, the one-week positivity rate, a key figure when it comes to determining COVID circulation and whether enough testing is being done, is over 10 percent in around two-thirds of Colorado counties, including all of metro Denver, with some areas hitting heights similar to those registered during the peak of the pandemic. And more than 100 COVID outbreaks have been identified in the past two weeks.
Here are the CDPHE numbers from November 30 in major categories, along with comparisons to stats from our previous roundup, which drew from November 16 numbers.
1,704,846 cases (up 16,107 from November 16)
71,437 hospitalized (up 883 from November 16)
13,609 deaths among cases (up 103 from November 16)
14,310 deaths due to COVID-19 (up 86 from November 16)
10,199 outbreaks (up 112 from November 16)
And these are the details for the past seven days.
Cases reported this week: 7,446, up 399
Cases reported for previous weeks: 95
Seven-day positivity rate: 12.6
Currently hospitalized: 440, up 53
New hospital admissions: 789, up 86
Four takeaways:
• Over the past month or so, the official new case count has been increasing by close to 10 percent each week, even though most infected individuals now use home tests whose results aren't reported to the CDPHE. That the November 30 numbers are slightly below those from the previous week is likely because of the extended Thanksgiving weekend.
• The two metrics related to new COVID-19 fatalities offer divergent information. The average of just over 51 deaths among cases for the past two weeks is significantly above the 41 counted on November 16. But deaths directly attributed to the disease averaged 43, below the 53 two weeks ago.
• On November 16, the state's seven-day-average positivity rate hit 12.6 percent — the worst in months, and well above the 5 percent mark that the CDPHE prefers not to exceed. The rate was unchanged on November 30.
• Both the number of new hospital admissions for COVID-19 and the overall hospitalization total took an unwelcome jump on November 30; admissions went from 598 to 789 in a week, while the number of people occupying hospital beds over that span hit 440, up from 379. Those numbers don't include those receiving care for RSV or the flu; the CDPHE counts 517 hospitalizations for those illnesses since October 2.
Meanwhile, the virus continues to splinter and mutate at a quick pace. Omicron 5, which once accounted for the overwhelming majority of COVID infections, was traced to just 50 percent of samples sequenced during the week of November 6, the most recent for which stats are available. Two related and relatively new strains account for the next largest chunk of cases — 12.50 percent for BQ.1 and 14.58 percent for BQ1.1 — with seven other variants turning up as well.
The following CDPHE graphic depicts the one-week cumulative positivity rate for each county. Those in red are above 10 percent, but several are more than double that as of today, December 1, including Custer (21.4 percent), Pitkin (27.8 percent), Sedgwick (30.8 percent), Ouray (31.6 percent) and Phillips (37.0 percent).
The CDC calculates the community level of COVID-19 as high in seventeen Colorado counties: Moffat, Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa, Montezuma, Routt, Eagle, Pitkin, Alamosa, Fremont, Pueblo, Otero, Prowers, Kiowa, Phillips, Sedgwick and Logan.
The agency's advice to residents of these counties: "Wear a mask indoors in public and on public transportation. Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines. Get tested if you have symptoms. If you are at high risk for severe illness, consider taking additional precautions."
Outbreaks continue to be declared with a frequency that compares to the period before the state health agency stopped reporting spread at schools and businesses in July. An average of 52 new or tweaked outbreaks have occurred over each of the past two weeks, just above the fifty on November 16. As usual, most of the sites are health-care facilities that specialize in senior care.
Here are the 104 new or tweaked outbreaks identified by the CDPHE on November 30, including information about categories, county of origin, and the date when the spread was officially recognized. The department no longer provides details regarding the overall number of infections or deaths, or whether they pertain to residents, staff members or attendees.
1. Abundant Blessings and Care Assisted Living — Eastman (23H561): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/29/2022
2. Alamosa County Detention Facility: October 2022, Jail, Alamosa County, 10/31/2022
3. Altavita Assisted Living (23F921): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Boulder County, 11/29/2022
4. Arbor View (020414): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Jefferson County, 11/22/2022
5. Augustana Elk Run Assisted Living (23R962): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Jefferson County, 11/15/2022
6. Aviva at Fitzsimons (02S294): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Adams County, 11/23/2022
7. Balfour at Longmont (23L108): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Boulder County, 11/21/2022
8. Balfour at Riverfront Park (23I587): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Denver County, 11/23/2022
9. Bear Creek Center (020435): October 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Jefferson County, 10/17/2022
10. Belleview Suites At DTC Assisted Living & Memory (2304VK): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Denver County, 11/15/2022
11. Bonaventure of Pueblo (23Y771): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Pueblo County, 11/28/2022
12. Bookcliff Manor Assisted Living (231118): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Mesa County, 11/28/2022
13. Broadmoor Court (230540): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, El Paso County, 11/21/2022
14. Brookdale Arvada (23046M): October 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Jefferson County, 10/31/2022
15. Brookdale Lowry (2304K7): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Denver County, 11/28/2022
16. Brookdale Meridian Englewood (23N600): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/22/2022
17. Brookdale Monument Valley Park (2305WD): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, El Paso County, 11/18/2022
18. Brookdale Vista Grande (23053C): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, El Paso County, 11/17/2022
19. Brookside Assisted Living (230514): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, El Paso County, 11/16/2022
20. Cambridge Care Center (020441): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Jefferson County, 11/18/2022
21. Casey's Pond Senior Living (23Y775): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Routt County, 11/21/2022
22. Center At Lowry, LLC (02G500): October 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Denver County, 10/26/2022
23. Cherry Hills Assisted Living and Memory Care (23K182): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/21/2022
24. Cheyenne Mountain Center (020573): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, El Paso County, 11/23/2022
25. Christopher House Rehabilitation And Care Community (020472): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Jefferson County, 11/18/2022
26. Colorado Youthful Offender Systems: November 2022, State Prison, Pueblo County, 11/28/2022
27. Columbine Commons Health and Rehab LLC (02L578): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Weld County, 11/23/2022
28. Columbine Manor Care Center (020698): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Chaffee County, 11/30/2022
29. Columbine West Health & Rehab Facility (020335): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Larimer County, 11/14/2022
30. Crossroads at Delta ALF (23R567): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Delta County, 11/21/2022
31. Durango Early Learning, Child Care Center, La Plata County, 11/7/2022
32. Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center (020170): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Morgan County, 11/15/2022
33. Eddie's House LLC (230662), Healthcare, Assisted Living, Pueblo County, 11/22/2022
34. Forest Street Compassionate Care Center (02H516): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Denver County, 11/23/2022
35. Fort Collins Good Samaritan Retirement Village-ALR (230329): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Larimer County, 11/29/2022
36. Frontier Valley Assisted and Independent Living (2304B1): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/23/2022
37. Garden Square at Westlake (2303C0): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Weld County, 10/31/2022
38. Gardens On Quail (23U764): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Jefferson County, 11/21/2022
39. Golden Orchard I (2304CL): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/24/2022
40. Golden Pond LLC (23P550): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Jefferson County, 112/23/2022
41. Good Samaritan Society Water Valley Sr Living Resort (23V721): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Weld County, 11/8/2022
42. Good Samaritan Society — Loveland Village Assisted Living (230373): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Larimer County, 11/28/2022
43. Grace Manor Care Center (020175): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Kit Carson County, 11/29/2022
44. Greeley Village LLC (23Q715): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Weld County, 11/29/2022
45. Harmony Home — Fort Morgan I (2301CF) & Harmony Home — Fort Morgan II (2301SC): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Morgan County, 11/16/2022
46. Harvard Square Retirement Community (230428): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Denver County, 11/22/2022
47. Hillcrest of Loveland (23E476): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Larimer County, 11/29/2022
48. Hilltop Reserve (23J981): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Denver County, 11/23/2022
49. Jerusalem Assisted Living Facility (23T697): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Denver County, 11/22/2022
50. Juniper Village — The Spearly Center (020424): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Denver County, 11/21/2022
51. Juniper Village at Aurora (2304S1): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/21/2022
52. Juniper Village at Louisville (23033N): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Boulder County, 11/22/2022
53. Keystone Place at Legacy Ridge Assisted Living (23H523): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Adams County, 11/25/2022
54. La Puente Home Inc.: November 2022, Homeless Shelter, Alamosa County, 11/16/2022
55. Las Animas County Jail: November 2022, Jail, Las Animas County, 11/17/2022
56. Life Care Center of Colorado Springs (0205X1): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, El Paso County, 11/16/2022
57. Life Care Center of Pueblo (020641): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Pueblo County, 11/29/2022
58. Linden Place Health and Rehabilitation Center (020375): November 2022 , Healthcare, Nursing Facility No. 2, Boulder County, 11/29/2022
59. Mantey Heights Rehabilitation and Care Center (021149): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Mesa County, 11/10/2022
60. Marvin Foote Youth Services Center: November 2022, Correctional, Arapahoe County, 11/1/2022
61. Mesa View (05R426): November 2022, Healthcare, RCFDD Group Home, Garfield County, 11/29/2022
62. Morgan County Detention Center: October 2022, Jail, Morgan County, 11/17/2022
63. MorningStar at Mountain Shadows (23Y392): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, El Paso County, 11/17/2022
64. Morrison Manor LLC (23R667): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Jefferson County, 11/22/2022
65. Neurorestorative Colorado (02E996): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Jefferson County, 11/29/2022
66. Oakshire Commons (23M641): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Pueblo County, 11/28/2022
67. Oasis House (23E471): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Pueblo County, 11/30/2022
68. Orchard Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center (021137): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Mesa County, 11/16/2022
69. Park Regency Thornton (23Q568): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Adams County, 11/21/2022
70. Peakview Assisted Living and Memory Care (23F490): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/15/2022
71. Progressive Care Center (020658): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Fremont County, 11/21/2022
72. Promedica Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation — Boulder (020315): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Boulder County, 11/14/2022
73. Pueblo Regional Center — House H (0506Z3): November 2022, Healthcare, Intermediate Care, Pueblo County, 11/23/2022
74. Renew Roaring Fork (23F410): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Garfield County, 11/23/2022
75. Residence at Grand Mesa (23R116): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Mesa County, 11/29/2022
76. Retreat At Harbor Cove (23114D): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Mesa County, 11/18/2022
77. Rio Grande Inn (02I146): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Conejos County, 11/16/2022
78. Sedgwick County Memorial Nursing Home (020199): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Sedgwick County, 11/16/2022
79. Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center (02Q649): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Denver County, 11/3/2022
80. Solange At Eveningsong, Inc (23P691): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Douglas County, 11/28/2022
81. Sprawka Residential Center (050104): November 2022, Healthcare, RCFDD Group Home, Logan County, 11/21/2022
82. Stonecreek of Littleton (23N524): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/18/2022
83. The Argyle (230464): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Denver County, 11/28/2022
84. The Gardens at Columbine (2304QP): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/22/2022
85. The Gathering Place: November 2022, Homeless Shelter, Denver County, 11/18/2022
86. The Harmony Home LLC — Jay Drive #1 (2301FP): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Logan County, 11/15/2022
87. The Legacy at Burlington (2301PN): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Kit Carson County, 11/23/2022
88. The Peaks at Old Laramie Trail (23V340): October 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Boulder County, 10/12/2022
89. The Peaks Care Center (020391): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Boulder County, 11/18/2022
90. The Retreat at Highlands (23O618): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Jefferson County, 11/29/2022
91. The Retreat At Palisade (2311QG): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Mesa County, 11/4/2022
92. The Suites At Holly Creek Care Center (02D456): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Arapahoe County, 11/30/2022
93. The Suites at Someren Glen Care Center (020471): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Arapahoe County, 11/21/2022
94. The Suites Parker (02K186): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Douglas County, 11/22/2022
95. The Village Care and Rehabilitation Center (0204JL): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Jefferson County, 11/28/2022
96. Valley View Health Care Center, Inc (020643): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility No. 2, Fremont County, 11/28/2022
97. Valley View Villa (020195): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Morgan County, 11/29/2022
98. Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons (02R932): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Arapahoe County, 11/14/2022
99. Village at Belmar (23Z408): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Jefferson County, 11/29/2022
100. Vista House (05081P): November 2022, Healthcare, RCFDD Group Home, Garfield County, 11/23/2022
101. Waneka Park — Assisted Living Residence (230322): November 2022, Healthcare, Assisted Living, Boulder County, 11/18/2022
102. Washington County Justice Center: November 2022, Jail, Washington County, 11/30/2022
103. Wide Horizon Inc. (020464): November 2022, Healthcare, Nursing Facility, Jefferson County, 11/22/2022
104. Xanadu Assisted Living Residence Inc (23K605), Healthcare, Assisted Living, Arapahoe County, 11/28/2022
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2022-12-01T20:32:24+00:00
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westword.com
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https://www.westword.com/news/covid-19-update-colorado-places-where-residents-are-supposed-to-wear-masks-15591170
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis is missing the second half of the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Denver Nuggets with a right foot injury.
Davis apparently got hurt Friday night when he landed awkwardly after a layup attempt under the basket in the first quarter, although he kept playing until halftime.
Davis scored 10 points in the first quarter, but went scoreless in the second while playing eight minutes. He didn’t return from the locker room with his teammates for the second half, with Thomas Bryant taking over at center.
The injury creates a new wave of uncertainty about the perpetually problematic health of the Lakers’ star big man. Davis is averaging 28.8 points and 12.4 rebounds per game this season despite managing lower back stiffness for several weeks.
After leading the Lakers to a 2020 championship in his first season alongside LeBron James, Davis played in about 50% of the Lakers’ games over the past two years while bedeviled by numerous injuries. The eight-time All-Star has missed only four games this season while enjoying a return to his dominant form from his best seasons in New Orleans and Los Angeles.
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2022-12-17T06:29:58+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/nba/lakers-anthony-davis-misses-2nd-half-with-right-foot-injury/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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WASHINGTON, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Education Reform Now released the second edition of its popular Social Mobility Elevator rankings, initially published in 2020.
The rankings measure the impact that over 1,400 four-year colleges have on improving opportunities for students and on realizing the American Dream. They highlight the four-year colleges and universities that enroll large numbers of underrepresented students and graduate them at high rates. We call these institutions Social Mobility Elevators because they help lift up many students from low-income households and underrepresented students of color by providing them an education that leads to graduation and greater economic security, which we measure through loan repayment and income data.
The Social Mobility Elevator rankings are the first college rankings to:
- include measures for the enrollment of underrepresented students of color, since closing racial and ethnic bachelor's attainment gaps represents an important aspect of upward social mobility;
- take state context into account, since eligibility for Pell-grants and the percentage of students who are African American, Latino, or Native varies by state;
- tie affordability to accessibility, in order to avoid over-rewarding wealthy colleges and institutions that may be very affordable for students from low-income household, but enroll very small numbers of those students; and
- include a penalty for colleges that provide a legacy preference, since giving the relatives of alumni a birthright advantage in the admissions process is essentially the opposite of driving social mobility.
"We are at an inflection point for how people perceive not just the value of college rankings but of college itself," said the project's lead, Education Reform Now's James Murphy, Deputy Director, Higher Ed Policy. "At the same time that more universities are finally joining the critics of Best College rankings–which mainly measure wealth and prestige–more people are questioning the return on investment of a four-year degree. The truth is, however, that higher education still has transformative power for students, families, communities, and the entire nation."
The updated Social Mobility Elevator rankings are designed to raise awareness about the institutions that are the real engines of social mobility in their state and the nation and to build support for greater investment in these institutions and the students they enroll. These are not the institutions that always get the most attention or the most financial support from policymakers and philanthropists.
"We think the best colleges in the country are the ones that help lift students to greater prosperity and economic security, not the ones that mainly admit students who already enjoy those benefits," continued Murphy. "We want more people to be talking about the Social Mobility Elevators, and we want these institutions to get more support from policymakers so that they can lift even more students up."
The Social Mobility Elevator rankings website includes a range of offerings including a comparison to the US News Best Colleges list; charts of underperformers and overperformers; rankings of small, medium, and large institutions; and an interactive map that lets users see how colleges and universities in their state do when it comes to generating social mobility.
You can learn more about Social Mobility Elevators and view this year's rankings here.
Education Reform Now (ERN) is a non-partisan, nonprofit think tank and advocacy organization that promotes increased resources and innovative reforms in K-16 public education, particularly for students of color and students from low-income families. We seek forward progress in public education—at the federal, state, and local level—developing and advocating for new, bold ideas and mutually reinforcing policies in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education.
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2023-05-23T16:03:19+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/05/23/education-reform-now-releases-update-social-mobility-elevator-rankings/
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Two NH athletes named to USA Baseball Women's National Team Training Camp
Two NH athletes named to USA Baseball Women's National Team Training Camp
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TONIGHT TO TWO LOCAL ATHLETES WHO ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO MAKING THE 2022 USA BASEBALL WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM. 40 WOMEN FROM 21 STATES MADE THE TEAM’S TRAINING CAMP ROSTER, INCLUDING MAGGIE FOXX OF BEDFORD AND BETH GREENWOOD OF AMHERST. TRAINING CAMP BEGINS TOMORROW AND THE FINAL 20-WOMAN ROSTER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY. BEST OF LUCK TO MAGGIE AND BET
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Two NH athletes named to USA Baseball Women's National Team Training Camp
Maggie Foxx of Bedford and Beth Greenwood of Amherst were two of 40 athletes named to the team's roster. The final 20-woman roster will be announced Sunday.
Maggie Foxx of Bedford and Beth Greenwood of Amherst were two of 40 athletes named to the team's roster. The final 20-woman roster will be announced Sunday.
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2022-07-21T04:47:57+00:00
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wmur.com
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https://www.wmur.com/article/two-nh-athletes-named-to-usa-baseball-womens-national-team-training-camp/40672069
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — UPDATE: Uriel Jiminez, 49, died from his injuries, according to police. Greensboro police are now investigating the incident as a homicide. Police also issued a correction, Jiminez was not taken to a hospital and was pronounced dead on the scene.
A person is injured after a shooting in Greensboro Sunday,
Greensboro police said they responded to 300 block of Hideaway Court and found a person with a gunshot wound shortly before 4:30 a.m.
The person was taken to the hospital with a serious injury, officers said.
The investigation is ongoing.
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2023-07-17T01:51:10+00:00
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wfmynews2.com
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https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/crime/1-in-hospital-with-serious-injury-after-shooting-on-hideaway-court-in-greensboro/83-596a850a-c0fc-4ee5-9742-87b6245d4570
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HFV Wilson Community Center to host heath resource day
Published: Feb. 23, 2023 at 4:25 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - The HFV Wilson Community Center will be hosting its health resource day to help the community learn more about their local healthcare resources.
According to a social media post, the event will be on Saturday, Feb. 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Refreshments and food boxes will be provided, and there will also be a chance to win a door prize every 30 minutes.
For those looking for more tangible assistance, Medicaid sign-ups, flu shots, and COVID-19 vaccines will all be available.
Healthcare partners at the resource day will include:
- Ardmore Behavioral Health Collaborative
- Carter County Health Department
- Food and Resource Center of South Central Oklahoma
- Good Shepherd Community Clinic, Inc.
- Grace Center of Southern Oklahoma
- Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers
- Mercy
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2023-02-23T23:29:18+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2023/02/23/hfv-wilson-community-center-host-heath-resource-day/
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GROTON, Conn., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Electric Boat announced today the U.S. Navy has awarded a $5.1-billion modification of the previously awarded Columbia Integrated Product and Process Development Contract for the Columbia class of submarines, the nation's next-generation sea-based strategic deterrent.
Electric Boat is the prime contractor on the Columbia program, which will replace the aging Ohio class ballistic missile submarines. The District of Columbia (SSBN 826) and Wisconsin (SSBN 827) are presently under construction.
The contract modification has a value of $5,134,324,189. Work will be performed in Groton, Connecticut; Quonset Point, Rhode Island; and Newport News, Virginia; and is expected to be completed by October 2030. The award funds advance procurement and advance construction of critical components and material to support Build II (the next five ships in the class), efforts to support continuous missile tube production, enhancements to develop the Submarine Industrial Base, and sustained class maintenance and support.
"This award enhances Electric Boat's efforts to maintain the Columbia-class production and delivery schedule. Advance procurement of long lead time materials and component construction is critical to the program, and the strategic investments in the development and expansion of the Submarine Industrial Base will help stabilize and grow the supply chain, which increases manufacturing capacity, reduces risk, and ultimately drives timely delivery of submarines to the Navy," said Kevin Graney, president of General Dynamics Electric Boat.
At 560 feet long with a displacement of nearly 21,000 tons, the submarines of the Columbia class will be the largest ever built by the United States. Ships of the Columbia class will have a fuel core that will power the submarine for its entire service life, eliminating the need for a mid-service refueling. Electric Boat will deliver the lead ship to the Navy in 2027.
General Dynamics Electric Boat designs, builds, repairs and modernizes nuclear submarines for the U.S. Navy. Headquartered in Groton, Connecticut, the company employs more than 19,000 people. More information about General Dynamics Electric Boat is available at www.gdeb.com.
General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) is a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. General Dynamics employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and generated $38.5 billion in revenue in 2021. More information about General Dynamics is available at www.gd.com.
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2022-12-21T23:55:43+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/12/21/general-dynamics-electric-boat-awarded-51-billion-by-us-navy-columbia-class-submarines/
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President Biden seeking $37B for fighting crime, hiring more police
President Joe Biden is proposing to spend roughly $37 billion for fighting and preventing crime, including $13 billion to help communities hire and train 100,000 police officers over five years.
Biden will outline his anti-crime program on Thursday during a visit to Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Democratic president will request the money from Congress as part of his latest budget proposal, according to senior administration officials who previewed the plan on the condition of anonymity ahead of the formal announcement.
Republicans are trying to gain leverage in November’s midterm elections by portraying Democrats as unwilling to confront crime problems.
As part of Biden’s plans, $3 billion would be geared toward clearing court backlogs and resolving cases involving murders and guns. The president also wants to use $15 billion to create a grant program that would fund ideas for preventing violent crime or creating a public health response to nonviolence incidents, aimed at reducing the burden on law enforcement.
The remaining $5 billion would support programs intended to stop violence before it occurs.
After speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Biden is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in Philadelphia. Then he’s expected to spend a long weekend in Wilmington, Delaware, where he has a home.
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2022-07-21T13:52:13+00:00
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kcra.com
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https://www.kcra.com/article/president-biden-crime-prevention/40674506
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CHICAGO (AP) — James Outman hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the ninth inning for his second homer of the game, and the Los Angeles Dodgers cooled off the Chicago Cubs with a 6-2 victory on Thursday night.
Max Muncy also homered for the banged-up Dodgers, who had dropped three of four. David Peralta and Miguel Vargas each had two hits.
It was the first career grand slam and multihomer game for the 25-year-old Outman. The rookie outfielder also threw out a runner at the plate.
Chicago had won a season-high four straight. Cody Bellinger homered against his former team for the second time this season, but Michael Fulmer (0-2) struggled with his location in the ninth.
With runners on first and second and one out, pinch-hitter Jason Heyward reached on a nine-pitch walk after falling behind 1-2 in the count. Outman then drove a full-count pitch deep to right for his fifth homer of the season.
It was Heyward's first game at Wrigley Field since he was released by the Cubs in November.
Caleb Ferguson (1-0) pitched a scoreless inning for the win.
Javier Assad pitched three innings of two-run ball in his first start of the season for Chicago. Assad was brought up from Triple-A Iowa after right-hander Jameson Taillon went on the 15-day injured list with a left groin strain.
Muncy connected in the second, hitting a drive to right for his eighth homer. After Bellinger responded in the bottom half for Chicago, Outman made it 2-1 with another leadoff shot in the third.
The Cubs had runners on second and third with no outs in the fourth when Dodgers right-hander Michael Grove departed with a right groin strain.
Nico Hoerner tied it at 2 when he grounded a one-out single into right field. Trey Mancini also tried to score on the play, but he was cut down at the plate on a great throw by Outman. Dansby Swanson then walked before Phil Bickford retired Ian Happ on a bouncer to second.
MAKING MOVES
The Dodgers activated outfielder Mookie Betts from the paternity list and recalled right-hander Andre Jackson from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Right-hander Evan Phillips was placed on the paternity list, and infielder Yonny Hernández was optioned to the team’s top farm club. Betts’ wife gave birth to their second child Tuesday.
Betts had a pinch-hit single in the seventh, and then stayed in the game at shortstop. It was his first career appearance at the position. He fielded a grounder up the middle in the eighth and started a nice double play.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Dodgers: RHP Tony Gonsolin (sprained left ankle) struck out seven in three-plus innings in a rehab start for Triple-A Oklahoma City. Manager Dave Roberts said Gonsolin will make another rehab start in five or six days. ... INF Chris Taylor tested his sore left side on the field before the game. ... Roberts said he is hoping to get C Will Smith back at some point during the team’s next series at Pittsburgh. Smith was placed on the seven-day concussion IL on Sunday.
Cubs: RHP Kyle Hendricks (shoulder strain) threw a bullpen session at the team's facility in Arizona. He is slated to pitch in an extended spring game on Saturday. “He's coming. I know he feels good,” manager David Ross said.
UP NEXT
Left-handers Julio Urías (3-1, 1.90 ERA) and Drew Smyly (1-1, 4.70 ERA) start on Friday afternoon. Smyly pitched 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball in a 3-2 victory over Urías and the Dodgers on Sunday. Urías was charged with two earned runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.
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2023-04-21T05:11:28+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/james-outman-hits-grand-slam-as-dodgers-beat-cubs-17909989.php
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WAXAHACHIE, TX (FOX 44) — The top-ranked China Spring Cougars are back in the Regional Final, as they beat Lake Worth 41-7.
Next up for the Cougars is a matchup against No. 4 Anna.
WAXAHACHIE, TX (FOX 44) — The top-ranked China Spring Cougars are back in the Regional Final, as they beat Lake Worth 41-7.
Next up for the Cougars is a matchup against No. 4 Anna.
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2022-11-26T06:41:09+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/sports/fox44-friday-night-football-fever/no-1-china-spring-cruises-to-the-regional-final/
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WETM) – Several area grapplers are making their mark at states.
Action kicked off Friday at the annual New York State Wrestling Championships in Albany. Some of the top wrestlers in the region have made it to the semis. Tioga has the most in the final four of their respective weights with five overall semifinalists in D-II. Elmira’s Donavan Smith, the top seed at 152 pounds in D-I, has made the semis for The Express.
Addison’s Cade Sands continues his stellar season by earning two pins on his way to the semifinals for The Knights. Below, a look at the remaining wrestlers left in the championship round looking to bring home state championships.
Action resumes at 9:30 am Saturday with the championship finals scheduled for 6:05 pm at MVP Arena.
Local Wrestlers Remaining in Championship Round – (D1 and DII)
Donavan Smith (37-1) – Elmira Express senior and top seed at 152 pounds, won by major decision over Matt Rodriguez 13-3 of East Meadow in opening match, then beat North Tonawanda’s Dylan Gagnon by technical fall 16-1. Next faces Landon Lazerek (41-5) of Hilton in semis. Smith was a state runner-up last season while competing at Tioga High School.
Logan Bellis – (39-9) Tioga Tigers freshman and second seed at 102 pounds, pinned Krish Gandhi in 37 seconds from Horace Mann, then won by 7-2 decision over D`vante Ortiz of Tamarac. Next will face Jake Lucinski (45-7) of Newfane in the semis. Bellis is competing in his first state tournament.
Cade Sands – (41-2) Addison Knights junior and third seed at 118 pounds, pinned Chenango Valley’s Connor Mike in 1:23 in first period, then pinned Carmine Calimeri of Southwestern at 1:47 of first period for his 29th total win via pinfall on the season. Next squares off with Joey Florance (33-4) of BGAH. Sands is also competing in his first state championship tournament.
Gianni Silvestri – (44-1) Tioga Tigers junior and top seed at 126 pounds, pinned Trey Bucholz of Bolivar-Richburg at 3:27 of the second period, then pinned Anthony Mirando of John Glenn at 5:59 in third period. Next faces Trevor Bishop of Tamarac (39-2) in the semis. Silvestri has won two New York State Championships for Tioga (2020 and 2022).
Caden Bellis – (33-1) Tioga Tigers junior and top seed at 138 pounds, pinned Trevor Bishop of Locust Valley at 1:38 mark of first period, then beat Pioneer’s Xander Kirsch 3-2 by decision. Will next face Hackley’s Cole Joseph (44-5) in the semis. Bellis is a state runner-up last year and has a fourth place nod in 2020.
Drew Macumber – (37-5) Tioga Tigers junior and fifth seed at 145 pounds, won by tech fall over Trent Burchanowski of Chautauqua Lake-Westfield, then won by decision 11-8 over Kyle Barber of Bayport-Blue Point. Next faces top seed Caleb Sweet (43-1) of South Seneca in the semis.
Colton Havens – (54-7) Canisteo-Greenwood sophomore and second seed at 145 pounds, won by first period pin over Perry’s Noah Leitten in 45 seconds, then beat Tavian of Copenhagen 11-8 by decision. Next faces Owen Hicks (44-3) of Fonda-Fultonville/Johnstown in the semis.
Ousmane Duncanson – (37-0) Tioga Tigers junior and top seed at 160 pounds, pinned Christian Hockx of Saugerties in 36 seconds in first period, then pinned Luke Schrimacher of Mechanicville/Stillwater at 2:53 in the second period. Faces Windsor’s Mason McCombs (31-6) in the semis. Duncanson is a defending New York State Champion for Tioga.
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2023-02-25T02:57:44+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/williams-sportsdesk/area-wrestlers-advance-to-state-semis/
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Resecurity, Inc. (USA), a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies globally, has partnered with CSG (Centre Systems Group), one of the leading cybersecurity solutions and service providers based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The partnership will accelerate channel sales growth in UAE and will enable CSG to offer an award-winning Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Dark Web Monitoring (DWM), Digital Risk Management (DRM), Fraud Prevention (FP) and Identity Protection (IDP) solutions to large enterprise and government organizations in the region. The comprehensive portfolio of solutions will accelerate specialized offerings for customers looking to take their cybersecurity operations across their ecosystem to the next level.
CSG offers a wide range of Enterprise Cybersecurity solutions, including Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), SOAR solutions, Digital Deception, AI-based Threat analysis and more. Additionally, they have established expertise in Business Continuity Management, Risk Management, and Data management to help businesses navigate challenging situations. CSG has been focused on helping firms secure and reinvigorate firms in terms of Business Resiliency and Cybersecurity. With clientele expanding to major Government organizations in the Middle East, they have procured a resolute trust among their customer and partner base. Headquartered in the UAE from 2017, CSG's local team is well versed in dealing with local and government organizations by identifying the pulse of Client needs and provide tangible and customized solutions and maintains a professional, seamless approach to business continuity and Cybersecurity needs with scalability and adaptability in mind.
Resecurity® dynamic "cloud-first" strategy is highlighted by the availability of core products via Microsoft Azure Marketplace, Oracle Cloud (and Oracle Marketplace) and Amazon AWS available across a variety of regions with full compliance according to existing data protection and regulatory requirements in UAE and GCC countries. To eliminate fragmentation, Resecurity® has adopted a unified platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model, integrating essential components of Security Service Edge (SSE) and a scalable data lake containing a vast amount of actionable cyber threat intelligence data and related telemetry, which can be integrated into security information and event management (SIEM), security operations center (SOC), cyber fusion center (CFS) and other third-party systems and applications. Resecurity® provides comprehensive protection across the enterprise ecosystem, including apps, services, networks, cloud, and users, using artificial intelligence (AI), data science, and machine learning (ML) on a 24/7/365 basis.
"Resecurity® is delivering cutting-edge cybersecurity and risk management solutions to tackle the latest threats facing the industry. Recently, we achieved remarkable success in upgrading the cybersecurity of major financial institutions in the Gulf Region and beyond, establishing a benchmark for delivering high-quality services in that sector." said Mohammed Muzammil Riyaz - Sr. Vice President of CSG. "In light of the unfortunate Covid-19 Pandemic crisis, we have raised awareness and emphasized the importance of digitizing businesses of all sizes to make them more resilient to unpredictable situations and new cybersecurity threats.", he added.
"Our partnership with CSG demonstrates our shared commitment and responsibility to assist the GCC region in safeguarding both private and public sectors from advanced cybersecurity threats and new security challenges." said Gene Yoo, CEO of Los Angeles based Resecurity® (USA).
Recently Resecurity® products have been named a Gold Winner by the 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in North America. Resecurity products and services received Gold recognition across 3 categories in highly competitive categories such as cyber threat intelligence (CTI), threat hunting, and third-party risk management (TPRM):
GOLD WINNER for Cyber Threat Intelligence in North America: Resecurity® Context™ Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform
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2023-02-14T03:14:27+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/02/14/resecurity-announces-partnership-with-csg-centre-systems-group/
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A total of 68 Niagara County employees were paid more than $100,000 last year, according to 2022 payroll records released earlier this week by an Albany based think tank that has been tracking the cost of local and state governments for years.
Updated payroll information made available by the Empire Center for Public Policy shows Niagara County District Attorney Brian Seaman received $200,400 in pay in 2022, making him the highest paid county employee last year.
Rounding out the top five highest paid county employees in 2022 were: county attorney Claude Joerg ($144,231); Niagara County Sheriff's Office Lt. Lucas James ($138,145); assistant Niagara County public defender Vincent Sandonato ($137,710) and sheriff's office investigator Douglas Daniels ($137,710).
The Empire Center found that pay for public employees across New York state increased by a total of $400 million from 2021 to 2022. State public employee pay information, which can be found online at the Empire Center for Public Policy's website, SeethroughNY.net, show total earnings reached $18.2 billion, up from $17.8 billion in 2021.
The Empire Center's analysis found that the number of people working for the government in New York state at any point during the year increased from 289,006 to 292,113, with the average full-time employee salary, not including overtime or other additional pay, coming in at $72,590, up from $71,482 in 2021.
The highest-paid state employee, according to the Empire Center's research, was Robert Corona, CEO of SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, who collected $919,123 in pay 2022.
In Western New York, the biggest earner last year was Maurice Linquist, the head coach for the University at Buffalo football team who was paid $697,409.
The Empire Center reported that 47 employees on the state payroll received more than $500,000 in compensation last year; 4,159 employees received more than $200,000 and 57,824 employees received more than $100,000.
A total of 903 state employees—all executive branch workers—were paid more than the governor’s statutory salary of $250,000.
Of the top 100 highest paid employees, 84 were SUNY employees, with 41 of those working for the Downstate Medical Center.
When asked about SUNY employee salaries during a visit to Niagara County Community College on Thursday, new SUNY Chancellor John King Jr. said employee salaries are set by the SUNY Board of Trustees. On top of the 64 public college campuses around the state, SUNY also runs four medical schools and hospital systems in Brooklyn, Syracuse, and Stony Brook, he noted.
“They’re always trying to think about what will it take to be competitive with other public higher ed systems around the country,” King said.
The Empire Center noted, in its report, that the pay data does not reflect the added taxpayer cost of pension contributions, health insurance and other fringe benefits, which can add 40 percent or more to an employee’s compensation.
The Empire Center, based in Albany, describes itself as an "independent, not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank." It regularly produces reports and analysis on state government activities and expenditures. On its website, the group notes that its work is dedicated to "promoting policies that can make New York a better place to live, work and raise a family."
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2023-04-08T03:11:03+00:00
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niagara-gazette.com
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https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/six-figure-salaries-highlight-2022-public-payrolls/article_208ffe5e-d493-11ed-aaa7-ff1dde30e46f.html
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UIL to discuss items that include new sports, banning basketball cheerleaders
The UIL Legislative Council will meet Tuesday to consider several items, including proposals to add eSports, boys volleyball and table tennis as sanctioned sports.
The UIL's athletics standing committee will discuss 15 items submitted by the public, which include prohibiting cheerleaders at basketball games and giving home-field advantage to district-champion soccer teams. There is also a proposal that would prohibit coaches from coaching their own child at the same school.
Committee staff will also consider their own proposal to allow sixth-grade participation in Class 1A.
The policy standing committee will discuss sanctioning eSports, as well as "a proposal to alter 5A football realignment structure."
Public proposals for UIL athletics
— Prohibiting train horns at football games
— Allowing Class 1A schools to participate in additional tournaments in exchange for individual games
— Prohibiting cheerleaders at basketball games
— Allowing audio communication devices for hearing-impaired athletes in basketball
— Allowing the district champion home-field advantage in the first round of soccer playoffs
— Allowing two physical-education courses
— Requiring officials to be paid for games canceled by the schools within five days
— Adding boys volleyball as a UIL sanctioned activity
— Allowing boys to participate on the girls volleyball team
— Prohibiting coaches from coaching their own child at the school they are employed
— Extending the December game-limitation rule to Thanksgiving break
— Amending the softball and baseball rules regarding batters
— Adding table tennis as a UIL sanctioned activity
— Prohibiting all athletic activities during the month of July
— Allowing coaches to coach 7-on-7 football leagues in the summer
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2023-06-13T10:33:34+00:00
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lubbockonline.com
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https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/06/13/uil-legislative-council-sets-agenda-to-consider-esports-cheerleader-ban-basketball/70313944007/
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — British national El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in an Islamic State scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners hostage a decade ago.
Elsheikh’s hostages gave him a somewhat whimsical nickname — he was dubbed a “Beatle” along with other English-accented captors — but the moniker belied the viciousness of his conduct.
“This prosecution unmasked the vicious and sadistic ISIS Beatles,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh, noting that Elsheikh and the other Beatles always wore masks when they appeared in front of their hostages.
He is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State group to ever be convicted in a U.S. Court, prosecutors said Friday at his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. The life sentence was a foregone conclusion after a jury convicted him of hostage taking resulting in death and other crimes earlier this year.
The convictions revolved around the deaths of four American hostages: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. All but Mueller were executed in videotaped beheadings circulated online. Mueller was forced into slavery and raped multiple times by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before she was killed.
They were among 26 hostages taken captive between 2012 and 2015, when the Islamic State group controlled large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
The convictions carried a mandatory life sentence. The U.S. agreed not to pursue death sentence as part of a deal that ensured extradition of Elsheikh and his friend, Alexanda Kotey, who has already been sentenced to life.
Parekh said it was difficult to convey the brutality of Elsheikh’s actions. “We lack the vocabulary of such pain,” he said, paraphrasing Dante’s Inferno.
Still, victims of Elsheikh and the Beatles testified at Friday’s hearing and gave voice to what they experienced. Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottosen, who was released after paying a ransom, said the worst moments were times of silence during and after captivity when he was alone with his thoughts.
He said when Elsheikh and the Beatles beat him up, it was almost a relief.
“Now I knew I could only concentrate on my pain, which is much easier than being alone with your thoughts,” he said.
Ottosen was particularly close to Foley, and memorized a goodbye letter that Foley wrote to his family so he could dictate it to Foley’s parents when he was released.
Foley’s mother, Diane Foley, said holding Elsheikh accountable at trial sends a message of deterrence to other would-be hostage takers.
“Hatred truly overwhelmed your humanity,” she told Elsheikh on Friday, which was the eighth anniversary of James Foley’s beheading.
At trial, surviving hostages testified that they dreaded the Beatles’ appearance at the various prisons to which they were constantly shuttled and relocated. Elsheikh and the other Beatles played a key role in the hostage negotiations, getting hostages to email their families with demands for payments.
They also routinely beat and tortured the hostages, forcing them to fight each other to the point of passing out, threatening them with waterboarding and forcing them view images of slain hostages.
Elsheikh did not speak during Friday’s hearing. His lawyer, Zachary Deubler, said Elsheikh will appeal his conviction. Elsheikh’s lawyers had argued that his confessions should have been ruled inadmissible because of alleged mistreatment after he was captured by Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces in 2018.
At Friday’s hearing, Deubler confined his arguments to a request that Elsheikh not be sent to the supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado, where he would face solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Deubler said a designation to Florence is almost a certainty unless the judge recommends otherwise.
Judge T.S. Ellis III declined to make any recommendation to the Bureau of Prisons.
“The behavior of this defendant and his co-defendant can only be described as horrific, barbaric, brutal, callous and, of course, criminal,” Ellis said.
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2022-08-19T19:25:09+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/islamic-state-beatle-gets-life-term-for-us-hostage-deaths/
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March 1, 1937-December 31, 2022
JESUP–Raphael “Ray” Arnold Schmitz, 85 years old of rural Jesup, IA, died Saturday, December 31, 2022, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. – Thursday, January 5, 2023, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Gilbertville, IA, with burial at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Gilbertville.
Visitation will begin with a 3:00 p.m.—Vigil service and followed by a Catholic Order of Forester Rosary at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 4th, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, concluding at 7:00 p.m. Visitation will continue for an hour before services Thursday at the church. Memorials will be directed to Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Online condolences may be posted at www.White-MtHopoe.com.
Ray was born March 1, 1937, on the family farm in Black Hawk County, Iowa, the son of Jacob Bernard Schmitz and Laura Elizabeth (Phillips) Schmitz. Following his educational years, he began working on the farm and soon developed a love for the farming way of life. On October 27, 1958, he was united in marriage to Marian Gertrude Wagner at St. Athanasius Catholic Church in Jesup, IA. Marian joined Ray on the farm and there they raised their four children. Ray was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and the Catholic Order of Foresters in Gilbertville.
Ray is survived by his wife, Marian Schmitz of rural Jesup; two sons, Steven (Paula) Schmitz of Jesup, Bill (Theresa) Schmitz of Jesup; two daughters, Teresa (Don) Kass of Jesup, Betty (Wayne) Breitsprecher of Independence, IA; 7 grandchildren, Brett, Erin (Zane), Jacob (Molly), Jordan (Caitlin), Allison (Elliott), Breatta (Aaron) and Nick (Maddie); also, 11 great grandchildren.
His parents and three sisters, Celeste Schares, Mardell Schmitz and Mary Jean Ehr, preceded him in death.
White Funeral Home, Jesup, IA, is in charge of the arrangements.
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2023-01-03T20:00:20+00:00
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wcfcourier.com
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https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/raphael-ray-arnold-schmitz/article_98ff5476-9ca3-5b57-ab10-8edfa1eb803b.html
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SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Display, the world's leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it will unveil its 45-inch ultra-wide OLED and 27-inch OLED displays optimized for gaming in January at CES 2023. Through these cutting-edge products, the company aims to strengthen its leadership in the high-end gaming market.
LG Display's new gaming OLED displays boast the fastest response time of 0.03ms, making them the first-ever OLED displays for monitors to provide a refresh rate of 240Hz per second which permits the clearest picture quality and smoothest movements, even during unbelievably fast-paced action. The company's gaming OLED displays take advantage of OLED's self-emissive pixels to deliver immersive gaming experiences courtesy of rich, vibrant and crisp images on top of their high performance.
LG Display's gaming OLED displays also minimize external light reflections by applying a special polarizer designed for gaming. This allows the display to achieve perfect black under any environment, adding depth to the image quality and delivering an accurate color depiction. What's more, the revolutionary gaming OLED displays bend up to 800R, or a curvature radius of 800mm, allowing gamers to experience the optimal curve for every genre of content.
In addition, the company's gaming OLED panels emit the lowest level of blue light in the industry compared to premium LCD displays of the same size and this allows gamers to enjoy , flicker-free gaming experiences with less eye fatigue.
LG Display will start mass-production of the 27- and 45-inch gaming OLED displays this month and the products are set to be used in premium monitors for several global tech companies including LG Electronics, Asus and Corsair.
"LG Display's gaming OLED is the ultimate display solution for gamers in terms of picture quality, response times and eye comfort" said Tai-jong Lee, Head of Solution Customer experience Division 2 at LG Display. "We will continue to expand our gaming OLED panel lineup based on the needs of gamers across multiple genres to take the customer experience we provide to new heights."
About LG Display
LG Display Co., Ltd. [NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220] is the world's leading innovator of display technologies, including thin-film transistor liquid crystal and OLED displays. The company manufactures display panels in a broad range of sizes and specifications primarily for use in TVs, notebook computers, desktop monitors, automobiles, and various other applications, including tablets and mobile devices. LG Display currently operates manufacturing facilities in Korea and China, and back-end assembly facilities in Korea, China, and Vietnam. The company has approximately 70,707 employees operating worldwide. For more news and information about LG Display, please visit www.lgdisplay.com.
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2022-12-29T10:35:17+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/12/29/lg-display-unveils-high-performance-gaming-oled-displays-ces-2023/
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China’s Andon Health says it has full access to funds parked at collapsed lender SVB
By Laura He, CNN
China’s Andon Health, a maker of medical devices, says it has full access to funds parked at Silicon Valley Bank, after the US government intervened to backstop all the deposits at the failed lender.
The Tianjin-based company, which manufactures consumer health devices and supplied Covid test kits to the United States during the pandemic, has cash deposits at SVB worth 5% of its total cash and cash equivalents.
That amounts to approximately 675 million yuan ($98 million), according to calculations based on its most recent earnings report.
“Our deposits at Silicon Valley Bank can be used in full and have not suffered any losses,” the company said in a Tuesday filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
The announcement comes after the US government took extraordinary measures on Sunday to avert a potential banking crisis following the collapse of SVB. Those measures include guaranteeing that customers of the bank will have access to all their money starting Monday.
By doing that, US regulators aimed to prevent more bank runs and to help companies that deposited large sums with affected banks to continue to make payroll and fund their operations
The collapse of SVB, which courted Chinese start-ups, has caused widespread concern in China, where a string of founders and companies rushed to appease investors by saying their exposure was insignificant or nonexistent.
So far, more than a dozen of firms have issued statements trying to pacify investors or clients, saying that their exposure to SVB was limited. Most were biotech companies.
SVB, which worked with nearly half of all venture-backed tech and healthcare companies in the United States before it was taken over by the government, has a Chinese joint venture, which was set up in 2012 and targeted the country’s tech elite.
The SPD Silicon Valley Bank, which was owned 50-50 owned by SVB and local partner Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, said Saturday that its operations were “sound.”
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2023-03-14T04:26:09+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/13/chinas-andon-health-says-it-has-full-access-to-funds-parked-at-collapsed-lender-svb/
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DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero said at least one armed police officer will be posted on comprehensive high school campuses.
Marrero said he will continue discussions with principals at those schools to address concerns. Two armed Denver Police Department officers will be stationed at Denver East through the remainder of the school year.
“I acknowledge this action likely violates Executive Limitations 10.10, which mandates that I ‘not staff district schools with school resource officers or the consistent presence of security armed with guns or any other law enforcement personnel,'” Marrero said in a letter to the Board of Education. “However, I can no longer stand on the sidelines. I am willing to accept the consequences of my actions.”
Marrero proposed in the letter that he and the board have a discussion regarding student resource officers in an executive session on Thursday.
Mayor Hancock backs Marrero’s decision
Following the shootings at East High School today, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero and I jointly agree that the safety of students and the public require deployment of police officers assigned to the high school for the remainder of the school year. I encouraged and strongly support the Superintendent’s decision to bring police officers back to DPS high schools, and I’ve directed Chief Thomas to support this effort and deploy our officers accordingly in coordination with the school district.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock
Board of Education response
A statement was issued from the Board of Education shortly after Marrero released his letter.
“The Board of Education supports the decision of Superintendent Marrero to work in partnership with local law enforcement to create safer learning spaces across Denver Public Schools for the remainder of this school year,” the letter said.
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2023-03-23T01:10:20+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/local/dps-superintendent-armed-officer-to-be-posted-at-all-comprehensive-high-schools/
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SÃO PAULO, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 157 of Law No. 6,404/1976 and CVM Resolution No. 44/21, Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A ("Itaú Unibanco" or "Company") informs its stockholders and the general market that, in line with the Material Fact disclosed on May 11, 2017 and in accordance with the Announcement to the Market disclosed on November 08, 2021, after obtaining the required approvals, it acquired, as of today, for approximately R$ 8 billion, an equity interest of 11.36% in the total capital of XP Inc., a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and listed on Nasdaq, as provided for in the Stock Purchase Agreement and Other Covenants, entered into on May 11, 2017.
Itaú Unibanco clarifies that this transaction does not cause any change in the corporate governance of XP Inc. Additionally, this operation is not expected to have any significant impact on the Company's current fiscal year results.
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2022-04-29T23:35:04+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/04/29/material-fact-acquisition-an-equity-interest-capital-xp-inc/
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR
AP Sports Writer
LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — With surging runs and a striker’s instinct, Julián Álvarez carried Argentina into another World Cup final.
Lionel Messi and the 22-year-old Álvarez were a pair of 5-feet-6 (1.70-meter) predators in a partnership that put to rest any hopes Croatia had of reaching back-to-back finals.
The younger of the pair rose to the challenge on soccer’s biggest stage with a huge performance on Tuesday, earning a penalty kick converted by the 35-year-old Messi before scoring twice to maybe even outshine his teammate — one of the greatest players the game has ever seen — in a 3-0 victory at Lusail Stadium.
Álvarez became the youngest player to score twice in a World Cup semifinal match since a 17-year-old Pele scored a hat trick for Brazil in 1958.
No wonder Messi held Álvarez in a playful headlock after his first goal and hugged him hard after the second.
A tight-fought first half-hour was entirely turned upside down by Álvarez’s runs, barreling at speed into and through challenges in a devastating five-minute spell. When it was over, Croatia’s players had been left strewn behind him on the turf, trailing by two goals, with their hopes of another World Cup final in ruins.
Instead, Argentina gave Messi a second chance to play for a World Cup title. He and his teammates lost to Germany in the 2014 final.
Until Álvarez changed the game, Croatia controlled much of the play with its usual neat passing in and around midfield, leaving Argentina’s attack little to work with.
Álvarez was suddenly alert to creating danger when Croatia midfielder Luka Modric got in a tangle and the ball came loose for Enzo Fernández to loop a high pass over the defense.
Álvarez was quickly clear and bearing down on goalkeeper Dominik Livaković, an imposing figure at any time and yet more so rushing from his goal. Although a deft shot past Livaković did not reach the goal, Álvarez drew a foul to earn the penalty which Messi converted.
Minutes later, Álvarez sparked to life when Argentina cleared a Croatia corner, took the ball in his stride just before halfway and ran directly at the defense. The surging run seemed to surprise Croatia’s fullbacks as first Josip Juranović and then Borna Sosa fell backwards while taking swipes at the ball as Álvarez ran through them and once more at Livaković.
This time, the Croatia keeper stayed back and Álvarez lashed his shot into the net from close range with a momentum that took him over Livaković’s body.
Álvarez ran toward the corner to celebrate and Messi chased him down, grabbing him a headlock like a playful big brother.
The pair teamed up again in the 69th minute, needing only each other to pass five defenders, mostly because of Messi’s intricate dribble to the endline for a pass into Álvarez’s path for a simple finish.
Messi joined Kylian Mbappe with a tournament-leading five goals. Mbappe will get a chance for more on Wednesday when France plays Morocco in the other semifinal match.
Álvarez now has four goals — not bad for a player who didn’t even make the starting lineup until Argentina’s third game in the group stage.
He will surely be by Messi’s side again on Sunday when they return to Lusail Stadium for the final.
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2022-12-13T23:47:12+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/sports/2022/12/13/alvarez-surges-scores-carries-argentina-to-world-cup-final-2/
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Sonovive is a natural plant-based supplement to cure hearing loss problems and boost brain health through its ingredients. It is designed by a medical chemist known as Sam Olsen.
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As we get older, this hearing problem becomes a part of our life which ruin our social life, such as hearing music and sounds, and we cannot communicate easily.
Hearing loss is a common problem in old age around the world. The National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorder confirms that more than 30 million people are affected by it in the US. The reason behind hearing loss is old age, loud noise, and heredity.
Many supplements claim to restore hearing loss, but these supplements fail as they contain side effects that result in health issues. However, SonoVive is the best supplement today in the market; that includes all organic and natural ingredients with no side effects and works for all men and women above 18.
This supplement also boosts the brain and nervous system. SonoVive Ingredients contains Ginkgo Biloba and Bacopa Extract beneficial to cure hearing problems and boost memory.
In this SonoVive Review, you will find how this supplement differs from other hearing loss supplements. Further in this review, we will give complete product information on how it works. What are its ingredients? What is its Price? Its benefits, dosage information and side effect, if any.
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What Is SonoVive Supplement?
The creator of Sonovive is Sam Olsen, a medical chemist who uses his 40 years of experience to find this plant-based formula to treat tinnitus, which is a common problem in old age.
Sonovive Supplement also contains some ingredients that assist in increasing brain function and memorizing more things.
People suffering from hearing loss problem mostly spend their time at home; they lack social communication make it difficult for them to manage because they cannot listen to what people are saying and cannot respond to it.
These people always get ringing, roaring, and noises in their ears. However, after introducing these Sonovive Pills, it makes it easy for them to do all these things they want as these pills repair damaged inner ears with zero side effects.
Many people think those hearing problems come with age, but it is not valid. Hereditary factors and loud music also damage inner ears. For all this, Sonovive is the best remedy to take care of hearing health.
Sonovive Capsule is made under the strict guidelines of the FDA and maintains the standard set by Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to make these pills safe for humans.
Types Of Hearing Loss
There are two types of hearing problems.
Conductive Hear Loss:
This is a common hearing loss problem when the sound does not pass from the outer ear to the middle ear, making it difficult for people to hear. In this problem, soft sound cannot be heard easily, whereas loud noise can be hearable easily. That's why we increase our volume when we talk to an aged person so they can hear the voice clearly. This problem can be curable with simple medication and surgical procedures.
According to the Sonovive Reviews, many people treat this kind of hearing problem with SonoVive capsules.
Sensorineural Hear Loss:
This hearing loss is severe due to damage to the auditory nerve or inner ear, making this problem permanent for their whole life. It cannot be curable with medication or surgical procedures.
How SonoVive Capsules Work For You?
Before coming to how SonoVive works, we must know how the science of people's hearing works.
When the sound waves from the outer ear come into the ear, they move through the ear canal to reach the eardrums. When these sound waves hit the eardrums, the vibration occurs then these vibrations move through the three ear bones in the middle ear.
These three ear bones increase the vibration output and send it to the cochlea. The cochlea function is to detect the sound's pitch, which then converts it to electric signals and sends it to the brain. The brain interprets these electric signals and then people can understand these sounds.
A hearing problem occurs when one of the ear or brain parts get damaged. Therefore, Sonovive came into being to repair the damaged part of the ear or brain through which hearing problem occurs.
Sonovive provides necessary nutrients and vitamins to the ear or brain organ to regenerate cells that get damaged due to tinnitus problems.
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Sonovive Natural Ingredients
In this section, we will learn how each ingredient of Sonovive works.
Ginkgo Biloba
The main ingredient of Sonovive is Ginkgo Biloba, a tree native to China and used in many antibiotics pills to treat cough, flu, nausea, diarrhea, and gonorrhea. It is now primarily used to increase memory and brain function.
Ginkgo Biloba also reduces depression and fights against inflammation to reduce pain in the body.
Many studies have been conducted on Ginkgo Biloba to prove that it will enhance eye vision and hearing.
St John’s Wort
St John’s Wort has been extracted from the yellow flower of Hypericum Perfuctum, whose plant is native to Europe and is star-shaped. It is mainly used to heal wound areas and relax muscles to repair damaged nerves.
This St John’s Wort oil is used in Sonovive Ingredients to repair the damaged nerve in the ear or brain.
It also increases chemical reactions in the brain organ, such as dopamine and serotonin. These chemical reactions are responsible for human mood swings.
Bacopa Monnieri
Bacopa is a plant herb native to Southern and Eastern India and used in Ayurvedic Medicine. Bacopa, also known as Brahmi and water hyssop.
It increases brain chemicals, including thinking, memorizing, visualization, and learning. It also shields the brain from Alzheimer's disease and hypertension.
This herb contains antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties to heal wounds and injuries quickly by removing toxins from the body.
L-Glutamine
L-Glutamine is the amino acid found in the human body plentiful.
These amino acids can be found in protein-rich food from many plants, vegetables, and animal meat. It makes strong muscles and increases neurotransmitter production. It helps protein synthesis and fuels the immune system to fight against harmful bacteria in the gut microbiome.
People take glutamine when their immune system weakens, primarily due to burns or surgery.
Each Sonovive Capsule contains 150mg of L-Glutamine to provide fuel to the white blood cells.
Phosphatidylserine
Phosphatidylserine is a fatty substance called phospholipid that protects brain cells and carries messages between them. Many studies claim that memory gets weak with age, so Phosphatidylserine is crucial for maintaining memory and mind active.
Sonovive includes 125mg of phosphatidylserine to improve memory and mind health. It reduces the risk of memory loss and brain nerve damage, a common problem in old age. A 2017 study also proves this fatty substance can enhance exercise performance and mood.
Vinpocetine
Vinpocetine is an artificial chemical made by a man similar to a periwinkle plant called Vinca minor. It contains nootropic substances to enhance blood flow in the brain organ and protect brain cells from getting injured.
Many people use Vinpocetine to boost memory, dementia, hearing loss, and stroke. The recommended dosage is 5mg, but SonoVive contains only 2mg of Vinpocetine, so overdosage can adversely affect your health.
Huperzine A
Huperzine A comes from the Chinese plant called Huperzia selago. It is used to treat memory and thinking diseases called acetylcholine.
Many people with Alzheimer's use Huperzine A to improve memory and brain function.
This Huperzine A is used in Sonovive to treat ear infections, anxiety, depression, and other hearing loss problems.
Acetyl L-Carnitine
Acetyl L-Carnitine is made with L-Carnitine in the body, which involves making fat into energy. Acetyl L-Carnitine has improved memory enhancement, thinking skills, and learning ability. It also reduces stress, depression symptoms, and nerve damage problem in diabetics patient.
Acetyl L-Carnitine also provides energy, stamina, and repair damaged tissue due to regular exercise or workouts.
No such scientific evidence to prove whether Acetyl L-Carnitine works or not.
Pros And Cons
Pros
Sonovive is a dietary supplement with all-natural ingredients of plant and herbs extract.
It is the best alternative to cure hearing loss problems.
Sonovive capsules are much cheaper than the cost of surgery or medical treatment for hearing loss.
This supplement flushes all the harmful bacteria from the body so that digestion functions do not slow down.
It also improves the brain and memory functions.
These Sonovive pills are made under the guidance of medical doctors.
It works for all men and women above 18 years old.
Sonovive also enhances mental health and reduces anxiety and depression.
All Sonovive Ingredients are scientifically and clinically proven to be safer to use.
You must buy Sonovive from the official product page to get a genuine product.
The manufacturer is giving a good discount on buying a bigger package.
The company offers a 60-day full money-back guarantee to their customers that if they don't like the product, they can apply for a full refund.
Cons
Sonovive can only be available on the official page.
You have to wait for the product to be physically delivered to your home address.
It is not for children under 18 and not for pregnant or nursing women.
If you have any health disease or taking medication, would consult a doctor for its usage.
Customer Dosage And Usage Guideline
Every bottle of Sonovive contains 30 pills, enough for one month's supply. The recommended dosage is 1 Sonovive pill daily with water or other beverage except for alcohol which is not suitable for health.
The company recommends its customers to use it for 3 to 6 months to get full benefits for their whole life.
Don't increase the recommended dosage to faster the result. It may affect other health problems like skin irritation, sunburn, vomiting, stomach pain, headache, and much more.
Taking these pills regularly without skipping any dose may faster the result.
The woman who is expected or conceiving should avoid it.
Same with people who have allergic to plants or herbs cannot use this supplement as it worsens their health issues.
All people are different in age, gender, and lifestyle and the result may also vary. According to The Sonovive Reviews, it takes up to 3 to 6 months to recover fully from hearing loss issues.
Where To Buy Sonovive
Many fraudulent products are selling online with the same label, so to get a genuine product, you must buy from SonoVive official page, as they are giving discounts on purchasing bulk quantities. Grab this offer before stock ends.
The Price of Sonovive, according to the official page, is as follows:
Buy one bottle of SonoVive at $69 for a 30-day supply + free shipping in the USA
Buy three bottles of SonoVive at $59 each, equaling ($177) for 90 day's supply + free shipping in the USA
Buy six bottles of SonoVive at $49 each, equaling ($294) for 180 day's supply + free shipping in the USA
All package includes one-time payment, no subscription, or any other upgrading fees.
If you are ordering it outside the USA, then pay the cost of shipping and handling fees which you can save by buying a 90 to 180 days supply.
You have to wait for the product to be physically available on your doorstep, which takes one week for delivery.
The company also facilitates its customer by following 60 days refund policy, so you have two months to try this product and if you still don't want it, go to the official website and apply for a refund. The company will pay back the total amount without asking a single question. This refund policy only applies when you buy it from their Official Website of Sonovive.
Final Verdict
By reading this Sonovive Review, you know that Sonovive is the most potent hearing loss supplement on the market, and that's why it is a fast-selling product.
If you still have any doubt in your mind that it works or not, then read the Sonovive Reviews on their official page and other reliable platforms to clear your doubt.
At last, if you make up your mind to use it, buy it from their Official Sonovive Store using the link below for a maximum discounted price.
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2022-08-24T04:51:11+00:00
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dailyuw.com
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https://www.dailyuw.com/ask_the_experts/sonovive-supplement-for-hearing-loss-and-brain-health/article_96ab172c-2322-11ed-85d1-577e8868a557.html
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GALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — Greg Norman tantalized the best women golfers in the world with a big-bucks flicker of hope that, they too — possibly anyone from a former world No. 1 like Nelly Korda to Stanford phenom Rose Zhang — could eventually revel in the spoils offered by Saudi-backed LIV Golf.
Norman, the commissioner of LIV Golf, insisted in April the upstart golf league propped by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund would consider adding a women’s tour.
“I have personally had discussions with individual LPGA Tour players, Ladies European Tour. They love what our product is showcasing,” Norman said. “They ask all the time, ‘How can we get involved?’ We’d love to see a LIV ladies series.”
Norman, who also boasted of more major men’s players to join the fledging series that failed to materialize, never named any women he met with to discuss LIV. But if any kind of offer ever comes that could inject a financial boon to the tour, the LPGA would at least be willing to listen, despite the Saudi’s troubling history when it comes to women’s rights.
Some women on the LPGA Tour currently play on the Ladies European Tour — which does receive Saudi funding — but there is not the distain and animosity between LET and the LPGA that had existed between the PGA and LIV Golf.
The PGA Tour partnership with Saudi Arabia’s enormous wealth fund essentially left out the LPGA in the foreseeable future of any chance of at least considering the idea to defect and join a rival league that paid signing bonuses of $100 million or more to poach players from the PGA Tour.(asterisk)(asterisk)
While bonuses likely never would have soared that high — again, there was never any firm plan a women’s version of LIV was on the table — history showed the Saudi money surely would have been considerably more massive than any payout offered by the LPGA Tour.
“It’s definitely something I would look at,” 2010 U.S. Women’s Open champion Paula Creamer said Thursday. “I don’t know all the details about that. You have to weigh your options with everything these days.”
PGA players were blindsided this week by the unfathomable announcement. The LPGA field was even more unsure how the deal could affect them, if at all.
“Who knows what the next curve ball is,” American golfer Amy Olson said.
The Saudi overtures into the women’s game aren’t necessarily surprising given that the country is already tethered to the sport via its “Vision 2030” initiative aimed to diversify and reduce its dependence on oil.
The kingdom’s investments in sports and entertainment in recent years not only funded LIV Golf, it currently sponsors six events on the Ladies European Tour. The Aramco Team Series began in 2020 — two years before LIV was launched — and featured team and individual winners. Among the past champions are Korda and Lexi Thompson, two of the biggest draws on the LPGA Tour, while Lydia Ko won the Aramco Saudi Ladies International this year.
The LPGA Tour has joint ownership of the LET. State-run oil giant Saudi Aramco reported net profits of $161 billion in 2022 off higher crude oil prices, claiming the highest-ever recorded annual profit by a publicly listed company. It’s pockets are deep enough to spread the wealth into women’s golf.
The Saudi Ladies International had a $5 million purse this year — only the LPGA majors and its year-end Tour Championship pay more. The Aramco Team Series typically has a $500,000 prize fund — miniscule for LPGA Tour standards, nearly double most purses on the LET. The more opportunities abound to fatten the bank account, the greater the allure to play around the world.
No matter who may be pulling the strings.
“I’m a global player,” Creamer said ahead of this weekend’s LPGA Classic. “I have global sponsors. I travel all over the world for my partners.”
The LGPA has refused to shut the door on any opportunities that would pump needed cash into the game. While LIV was formed as a direct competitor to the PGA Tour and designed in part to reinvent the structure of professional golf, Saudis in the women’s game serve as simply a title sponsor that pays a nice purse.
“We remain focused on growing the LPGA, continuing to work with the top partners in the world to provide the best opportunity for our membership and to make sure that everything we do continues to allow us to inspire, elevate and advance opportunities for girls and women, on and off the golf course,” LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said.
While the defections to LIV of Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and 2023 PGA champion Brooks Koepka’s brought fierce criticism for the ethical questions raised with their Saudi involvement, the LET players have largely escaped backlash for playing tournaments in Saudi Arabia.
When Ko won the Aramco Saudi Ladies International in February at the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in the kingdom, the event was largely ignored. She took home a $750,000 check largely without the accusations of greed and hypocrisy that has followed the men.
“Women’s sports is regrettably ignored in general, so they wouldn’t receive that criticism,” said Michael Serazio, an author on sports culture and associate professor at Boston University. “It never really let up on Mickelson and some of the other guys that took the money to play in LIV. They continued to weather the criticism and the disdain did not wear off.”
Anna Nordqvist, who won three LPGA majors, ended an endorsement deal with Aramco earlier this year because of the “ incredible amount of hatred and mean comments from people who don’t even know me.”
The party line for some corporations and athletes is to at least offer an excuse that they want to inspire change or modernize the Middle Eastern country. The true enticement is money.
The active career money leaders on the LGPA Tour have made as much as, say, Mets ace Max Scherzer can make in a handful of starts.
The LPGA’s 33 official events this year will have a combined $101.4 million in purses, a high for the tour and an increase of about 18% over what was planned for this season and more than doubling what was paid out on the tour just a decade ago.
PGA Tour prize money this year is about $450 million over 47 events while LIV Golf offered $405 million in 14 men’s events in 2023.
But there is another side of the ledger that can’t be ignored.
Even with modest modern reforms of late often posited as propaganda in the gender-segregated country, Saudi Arabia is still widely decried for repressing women’s rights.
Consider, laws around guardianship still limit women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. The worst laws require women to have a male guardian’s consent regarding most aspects of their life including marriage. The resentment against American dealings with the Saudis raged as the country was accused of taking part in sportswashing, an attempt by Saudi Arabia to shift focus away from its human rights abuses, such as the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Like it or not, the Saudis are major players in most sports and their portfolio is only growing.
And if the time did come for elite female golfers to make their money grab, the least they could do is listen.
“At the end of the day, you’re trying to grow the game of golf,” Creamer said. “You’re trying to keep the game going, as well.”
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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2023-06-09T23:06:21+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/lpga-tour-left-out-of-liv-golf-deal-but-some-women-would-listen-if-offer-made-to-them/
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – New data from The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) reveals an increase in FAFSA-filing rates among ‘Tennessee Promise’ applicants.
A release from the agency states the Volunteer state is currently number one in the nation for completion of the financial aid form.
The completion rate for Class of 2023 applicants within the Tennessee Promise program surpassed the prior year on March 1, which is the filing deadline for program eligibility.
The completion rate is now 74.1%, an increase from 72.8% in 2022.
THEC officials said these numbers represent about 1,600 additional students.
The statistics also reveal a record-breaking number of Tennessee Promise applicants.
64,612 high school seniors applied prior to the deadline, which is the largest applicant pool in the history of the program, according to the commission.
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2023-04-07T11:31:48+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/number-of-tennessee-promise-applicants-breaks-record/
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
06-11-19-25-35
(six, eleven, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-five)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
06-11-19-25-35
(six, eleven, nineteen, twenty-five, thirty-five)
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2022-09-09T00:56:39+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17428979.php
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Q: Hello, Ira. Yesterday you asked “Exactly what sharks have been caught? " How about Detroit sending Jerami Grant to the Blazers and the Rockets sending Christian Wood to the Mavericks? We could have made a competitive offer for both players, and though I’m no expert, they both seem like perfect fits next to Bam Adebayo. Both are in the prime of their careers, both can create their own shots, hit the open 3, and defend. Though I appreciate the whale hunting, if you don’t land the whale, all you might be left with is a fish at veteran’s minimum to start at power forward. – Carlos, West Park.
A: First, an appreciation of the thought put into your post. To a degree, you also answered your question. Neither Jerami Grant nor Christian Wood have been All-Stars, and quite possibly never will be. Both, I agree, can be quality supporting players. But that is not what the Heat want/need. So they wait for something bigger. Will it arrive? Can it happen? Nothing is guaranteed. I agree. But imagine taking on either, and then some other door opens with something shiner. Trying to fill an inside royal flush in video poker can leave you without a payoff. But it’s also the play, even if it means kicking away a pair of Jacks. Sometimes, you have to go big. The Heat are Vegas, and this seemingly is their time to go big. And, as with all the answers to similar questions this past week . . . it’s still July. There is time. Plenty of time. So let’s hold off on the report card.
Q: It’s the 2023 NBA trading deadline and the Heat have yet to make a trade and no superstars have come loose: The Heat move Duncan Robinson and two other players for Gordon Hayward (who would be going into the final year of his deal). – Gabriel, Mami.
A: But Duncan Robinson still would have three additional high-priced years on his deal, so it’s not as if he would necessarily be viewed as an asset. Still, the thinking plays into the answer above. There will be options, and fallbacks, if something major can’t be conjured in the interim. And in the interim, Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry should be capable of providing enough wins to keep it all afloat.
Q: Ira, what are your thoughts on the Heat signing Carmelo Anthony to take P.J. Tucker’s place. While not the defensive player that Tucker is, he is the better offensive player. – Joel.
A: These are my thoughts:
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2022-07-09T11:52:51+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/09/ask-ira-is-concern-about-heats-lack-of-offseason-progress-justified/
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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — One person is dead and at least six other people were shot during a Cinco de Mayo party at a Mississippi restaurant late Friday night, police said.
Ocean Springs Police Capt. Ryan LeMaire, in a news release, confirmed that seven people were shot at The Scratch Kitchen on Government Street. The surviving victims were transported to area hospitals for treatment, LeMaire said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately released.
He identified the man killed as Chase Harmon, 19, of Pascagoula.
No arrests had been made as of Saturday morning, but Lemaire said the investigation is ongoing.
“We urge anyone with any information to call the Ocean Springs Police Department,” he said.
The Scratch Kitchen’s owner told the Sun Herald there were about 200 people at the restaurant when the shooter ran past employees who were doing security checks at the entrance to the patio.
“The person who did the shooting wasn’t a customer,” owner Brittany Alexander said. “He didn’t get an arm band or anything to be out here.”
Ocean Springs is about 4 miles (6 kilometers) east of Biloxi, Mississippi.
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2023-05-06T19:16:04+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/national/1-dead-at-least-6-injured-at-mississippi-party-shooting/
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously passed a long-awaited revision of the country’s penal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as foreigners, prohibits promotion of contraception and bans defamation of the president and state institutions.
The amended code also expands an existing blasphemy law and maintains a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia’s six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
Citizens can face a 10-year prison term for associating with organizations that follow Marxist-Leninist ideology and a four-year sentence for spreading communism.
The code maintains the previous criminalization of abortion but adds exceptions for women with life-threatening medical conditions and for rape, provided that the fetus is less than 12 weeks old, in line with what is already provided in a 2004 Medical Practice Law.
Rights groups criticized some of the revisions as overly broad or vague and warned that adding them to the code could penalize normal activities and threaten freedom of expression and privacy rights.
However, some advocates hailed the passage as a victory for the country’s LGBTQ community. During fierce deliberation, lawmakers eventually agreed to remove an article proposed by Islamic groups that would have made gay sex illegal.
The revised code also preserves the death penalty within the criminal justice system despite calls from the National Commission on Human Rights and other groups to abolish capital punishment, as dozens of other countries have done. But under the new code, the death penalty has a probationary period. If within a period of 10 years the convict behaves well, then the death penalty will be changed to life imprisonment or 20 years’ imprisonment.
Under Indonesian regulations, legislation passed by Parliament becomes law after being signed by the president. But even without the president’s signature, it automatically takes effect after 30 days unless the president issues a regulation to cancel it.
President Joko Widodo is widely expected to sign the revised code in light of its extended approval process in Parliament. But the law is likely to gradually take effect over a period of up to three years, according to Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Hiariej.
“A lot of implementing regulations must be worked out, so it’s impossible in one year,” he said.
The amended code says sex outside marriage is punishable by a year in jail and cohabitation by six months, but adultery charges must be based on police reports lodged by a spouse, parents or children.
It restores a ban on insulting a sitting president or vice president, state institutions and the national ideology. Insults to a sitting president must be reported by the president and can lead to up to three years in jail.
Hiariej said the government provided “the strictest possible explanation that distinguishes between insults and criticism.”
The penal code had languished for decades while legislators in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation struggled with how to adapt its traditional culture and norms to the code, a legacy of the Dutch colonial administration. Indonesia proclaimed independence on Aug. 17, 1945.
A previous revised code was poised for passage in 2019, but President Widodo urged lawmakers to delay a vote amid mounting public criticism that led to nationwide protests in which tens of thousands of people participated. Opponents said it contained articles that discriminated against minorities and that the legislative process lacked transparency. Widodo instructed Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly to obtain input from various groups as lawmakers debated the articles.
A parliamentary taskforce finalized the bill in November and lawmakers unanimously approved it on Tuesday, in what Laoly praised as a “historic step.”
“It turns out that it is not easy for us to break away from the colonial living legacy, even though this nation no longer wants to use colonial products,” Laoly said in a news conference.
“Finalizing this process demonstrates that even 76 years after the Dutch Criminal Code was adopted as the Indonesian Criminal Code, it is never too late to produce laws on our own,” Laoly said. “The Criminal Code is a reflection of the civilization of a nation.”
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that laws penalizing criticism of public leaders are contrary to international law, and the fact that some forms of expression are considered insulting is not sufficient to justify restrictions or penalties.
“The danger of oppressive laws is not that they’ll be broadly applied, it’s that they provide avenue for selective enforcement,” said Andreas Harsono, a senior Indonesia researcher at the group.
Many hotels, including in tourism areas such as Bali and metropolitan Jakarta, will risk losing visitors, he added.
“These laws let police extort bribes, let officials jail political foes, for instance, with the blasphemy law,” Harsono said.
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2022-12-06T14:02:41+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/ap-adultery-a-punishable-offense-in-indonesias-criminal-code/
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The Ford Bronco Raptor made it to the final round of the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2023 competition because it’s one of the most outrageously fun vehicles money can buy. It’s so much fun that we can’t balk at the $69,995 sticker price, which almost seems affordable these days.
Editorial Director Marty Padgett found the Ford Bronco Raptor—which we call Braptor around here—fun when the pavement ends, saying it bedevils the dust and terrorizes all terrain. He’s right.
The Braptor looks like an adult Tonka truck, with boxy lines, a wide stance, and ridiculous fender flares. Those flares are necessary to cover the long-travel Fox remote reservoir dampers and 37-inch BFGoodrich K02 all-terrain tires. The Braptor’s stance is 8.6 inches wider than a standard Bronco’s, making it more than seven feet wide. It’s as wide as the Ford F-150 Raptor pickup, and nearly the width of an average parking spot. The width means that, like a semi or heavy-duty pickup, it needs marker lights to meet federal regulations. Combine those with the factory-installed Rigid fog and driving lights and the Braptor looks terrifying in a rearview mirror at night.
With 13.0 inches of ground clearance, and 13.0 inches of front- and 14.0 inches of rear suspension travel, the Braptor can roll over just about anything in its path. It’s too tall for the assembly line, speed bumps and curbs don’t phase it, and it tempts drivers to turn everyday obstacles like train tracks into jumps.
Inside, the Braptor is fully loaded with the Bronco’s familiar 12.0-inch touchscreen, hard buttons and knobs for climate control functions, and a large drivetrain mode-selector dial. But Braptors take things a step further than any other Bronco with a 12.0-inch digital gauge cluster and thickly bolstered Recaro front seats that can be optioned in blue. Yes, the doors and top still come off for that open-air experience.
Under the hood sits a turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 rated at 418 hp and 440 lb-ft of torque mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission. That transmission is the highlight of the powertrain thanks to quick, clean shifts that are executed so perfectly in Sport and Baja modes that they wouldn’t be out of place in a sports car.
But the Braptor isn’t perfect or for everyone.
That width can be a pain in parking lots, a parking garage, or even a home garage.
Its over-the-top look appeals to your inner bro, and that’s not the life choice all people are willing to make.
It’s also down two cylinders compared to the competition. While it’s quick enough, it doesn’t throw you back in your-seat like the V-8-powered Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392. At 5,733 pounds, it doesn’t even rip off the line like the two-door Bronco Wildtrak, which has a smaller 330-hp turbocharged 2.7-liter V-6 but weighs about 1,000 pounds less.
Will the Braptor’s off-road fun factor be enough for it to win over three hot hatches, a luxury EV, a sport sedan, and the successful return of an iconic nameplate? Will the Ford Bronco Raptor be named Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2023? Check back on Jan. 4 when we reveal the winner, along with champs from our sister sites, The Car Connection and Green Car Reports.
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2022-12-16T20:00:33+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/automotive/internet-brands/ford-bronco-raptor-motor-authority-best-car-to-buy-2023-finalist/
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The UW-Eau Claire Blugolds women’s basketball team is moving on in the WIAC tournament.
The third-seeded Blugolds defeated the sixth-seeded UW-Platteville Pioneers 65-55 on their home floor at Zorn Arena on Tuesday night.
It was close for the majority of the game, but the Blugolds went on a run in the fourth quarter to win by ten at home and advance in the tournament.
Next up for the Blugolds, they face the second-seeded UW-Stout in the semifinals on Friday in Menomonie.
To begin the game, the Blugolds had a 10-6 lead midway through the first quarter. They found some early baskets inside and from mid range to get their offense going early.
Senior Tyra Boettcher hit the Blugolds’ first three pointer of the game, putting the Blugolds up 13-6 with four minutes left in the first quarter.
The Blugolds led 15-11 after one quarter of play after Pioneers sophomore guard Brynlee Nelson hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to end the quarter.
The Blugolds held the Pioneers to 26.7% shooting from the floor in the quarter.
Blugolds senior guard Jessie Ruden hit the Blugolds’ second three-pointer of the night to make it 20-13 UW-EC with seven minutes until halftime. Senior forward Kylie Mogen added a three-pointer a minute later.
Midway through the second quarter, the Blugolds led 23-15. A minute later, Boettcher got a steal and took it to the hoops for a layup, putting UW-EC up by double digits, 25-15.
At the end of the first half, the Blugolds led 33-20. Ruden and Boettcher led the Blugolds with nine points each.
The Blugolds held the Pioneers to 29.6% shooting in the first half. UW-EC shot 40.6%, including 3-13 on three-pointers.
The Blugolds got off to a slow start on offense in the third quarter, only scoring two baskets in the first six minutes. After a three-pointer by Platteville freshman Ella Mackiewicz, the Blugolds’ lead was trimmed down to 35-31.
Ruden hit her second three-pointer to make it 40-33 with four minutes left in the third quarter.
After the Blugolds went up 45-35, a 6-0 run by the Pioneers to end the quarter made it 45-41 Blugolds entering the fourth quarter. Both teams shot 35% from the floor in the quarter.
The Blugolds hit their stride on offense feeding the ball into the paint in the fourth quarter. Back to back low post scores by senior forward Bailey Reardon made it 58-49 Blugolds with five minutes left.
A score on a tough drive to the lane by senior guard Courtney Crouch turned three-point play at the free throw line gave UW-EC their largest lead of the game, 63-51, with three minutes left.
Platteville’s sophomore guard Macey Banasik hit a three-pointer to make it 65-55 with two minutes left, but the Pioneers were running out of time.
The Blugolds owned the paint on both sides of the floor in the fourth quarter, out-rebounding the Pioneers 10-4. They outscored the Pioneers in the paint 34-16 in the game.
The Blugolds went 7-12 shooting from the floor in the fourth quarter as they closed out their 65-55 win.
Reardon led the way for the Blugolds with 18 points, while Ruden had 18 points, Boettcher had 11 and Mogen had eight. For the Pioneers, Mackiewicz and sophomore guard Brynlee Nelson had 14 points apiece and freshman guard Madalyn Reichmann had 11 points.
The Blugolds’ defense held the Pioneers to 35% shooting from the floor in the game.
UW-EC head coach Tonja Englund credited her team’s effort on the defensive end for the win against a “tough” Pioneers team.
“That’s probably one of our best defensive games all year,” Englund said. “That’s a positive that this time of the year defensively we’re starting to peak. I thought that was really the key to the game.”
Englund also credited her team’s ball movement and their play in the post, particularly Reardon’s 19-point performance.
Next up for the Blugolds, they will travel to UW-Stout in the tournament semifinals round on Friday. Englund said her team relishes the opportunity to face UW-Stout again after their disappointing 63-45 loss to them in the last game of the regular season.
“We’re ready. I guarantee that time around this group will go over there and it will be a tremendous game,” Englund said. “Our team the entire year, every time that we’ve taken one of those losses, we’ve gotten better because of it.”
Tip-off at Johnson Fieldhouse at UW-Stout in Menomonie will be at 7 p.m. on Friday night.
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2023-02-22T06:17:29+00:00
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leadertelegram.com
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, January 22, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
338 AM PST Sun Jan 22 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 AM PST EARLY THIS
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* WHERE...Moscow, Potlatch, Rosalia, Genesee, Plummer, Uniontown,
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* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
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SHENZHEN, China, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGI, a company committed to being a world-leading life science innovator, has been awarded a Silver Globee® in the 14th Annual 2022 Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards® for its innovative COVID-19 pandemic control and response efforts worldwide.
Since the rise of COVID-19, MGI has taken an active part in the prevention and control of the pandemic in over 70 countries and regions worldwide, including South Africa, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and Australia.
From facilitating large-scale nucleic acid testing for the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus through providing MGI automation systems, to virus genome sequencing to inform the tracing and understanding of the epidemiology and virology of each variant, MGI's DNBSEQ™ sequencers*, automation systems, and proprietary ATOPlex technology have been continuously put to work to combat the virus and keep communities safe.
"MGI is honored to be recognized for our innovative technology* and inclusive approach towards tackling the pandemic by the Globee® Awards," said Duncan Yu, President at MGI, "Through advanced genetic science and technology*, we are proud to support on the frontline of this important battle against COVID-19 and empower various countries and regions by supporting their genomic sequencing initiatives, enhancing their large-scale testing capability, and informing their pandemic response efforts."
The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards® are the world's premier business awards program honoring global achievements in every major industry, with over 100 experts from around the world participating in the judging process. Fellow winners include IBM, KPMG, and Honeywell who have also been acknowledged for their business excellence and cutting-edge innovation.
Amidst the ongoing fight against COVID-19, MGI is committed to playing a key role in the detection, monitoring, surveillance, and tracing of COVID-19 and its variants to safeguard communities across the globe. It will continue to work relentlessly towards improving the efficiency, flexibility, and mobility of its core tools and technology* to meet ever-growing testing demands and to reach more people in need.
About MGI
MGI Tech Co. Ltd. (MGI), headquartered in Shenzhen, is committed to building core tools and technology to lead life science through intelligent innovation. Based on its proprietary technology, MGI focuses on research & development, production and sales of sequencing instruments, reagents, and related products to support life science research, agriculture, precision medicine and healthcare. MGI is a leading producer of clinical high-throughput gene sequencers*, and its multi-omics platforms include genetic sequencing*, medical imaging, and laboratory automation. MGI's mission is to develop and promote advanced life science tools for future healthcare. For more information, please visit the MGI website or connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn or YouTube.
*Unless otherwise informed, StandardMPS and CoolMPS sequencing reagents, and sequencers for use with such reagents are not available in Germany, USA, Spain, UK, Hong Kong, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, and Romania.
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2022-06-23T16:39:35+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/23/mgi-wins-company-innovation-year-2022-globee-awards-advanced-covid-19-response-efforts/
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona will take down a makeshift wall made of shipping containers at the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the U.S. government over trespassing on federal lands.
The Biden administration and the Republican governor entered into an agreement that Arizona will cease installing the containers in the Coronado National Forest — the only national forest along the border — according to court documents filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
The agreement also calls for Arizona to remove the containers that were already installed in the remote San Rafael Valley, in southeastern Cochise County, and in the Yuma area where the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has an easement on the Cocopah Indian Tribe’s reservation. All this must be done by Jan. 4 without damaging any natural resources. State agencies will have to consult with U.S. Forest Service representatives.
Ducey has long maintained that the shipping containers were a temporary fixture. Even before the lawsuit, he wanted the federal government to say when it would fill any remaining gaps in the permanent border wall, as it announced it would a year ago.
“For more than a year, the federal government has been touting their effort to resume construction of a permanent border barrier. Finally, after the situation on our border has turned into a full blown crisis, they’ve decided to act,” C.J. Karamargin, Ducey’s spokesman said. “Better late than never.”
“Final details are still being worked out on how much it will cost and when it will start,” Karamargin told The Associated Press.
Representatives for U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately return messages seeking comment Thursday.
The resolution comes two weeks before Democrat Katie Hobbs, who opposes the construction, takes over as governor.
The federal government filed a lawsuit last week against Ducey’s administration on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service.
The federal government “owes it to Arizonans and all Americans to release a timeline,” Ducey wrote last week, responding to news of the pending federal lawsuit.
The work placing up to 3,000 containers at a cost of $95 million was about a third complete, but protesters concerned about its impact on the environment held up work in recent days.
Meanwhile, limits on asylum seekers hoping to enter the U.S. had been set to expire Wednesday before conservative-leaning states sought the Supreme Court’s help to keep them in place. The Biden administration has asked the court to lift the Trump-era restrictions, but not before Christmas. It’s not clear when the court might rule on the matter.
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2022-12-23T02:28:16+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/political-news/ap-politics/ap-arizona-to-remove-shipping-container-wall-from-mexico-border/
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Lawmakers in New York State, whose laws govern roughly half the foreign bonds issued by emerging-market countries — about $800 billion of outstanding debt — are considering legislation that would limit how much private investors are allowed to recoup when governments default and seek to restructure. Proponents of the change say it’s about social justice and protecting developing nations from exploitation. The financial industry says it would destroy the sovereign debt market and leave poor nations in the cold.
1. How could debt default be a money-making opportunity?
When a country fails to pay back debt, all bondholders come to the negotiation table to discuss the extent of losses they’re willing to absorb on the debt they hold. Wall Street investors have a lot of power in these distressed situations, and they often seek extra sweeteners or protections to account for the risk of further defaults. Such negotiations can drag on, making it hard for countries to get out of default and regain access to capital markets. In an infamous case of stalled debt talks, billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management and other hedge funds made over $4 billion in the aftermath of Argentina’s 2001 default after refusing to take losses on their bonds and demanding full repayment. Since then, the problem of private creditor holdouts in a debt restructuring has preoccupied the sovereign debt community, said Lee Buchheit, a lawyer with more than four decades of sovereign debt-restructuring experience. For years, activists pushing for debt relief for emerging markets have sought to remove some of the creditors’ leverage in these deals.
2. What would the legislation do?
The NY Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act would mandate “equitable burden-sharing between public and private creditors.” That means that private investors couldn’t get better treatment in a default than the US or another sovereign lender like the International Monetary Fund. The legislation, introduced in both the Assembly and the Senate, would apply to all future bonds, as well as existing emerging-market hard-currency bonds governed by New York law. The bill’s backers say this would speed up negotiations and reduce legal costs for governments in default, because it would reduce the incentive for private creditors to drag out debt talks or seek higher payouts through litigation.
3. Who’s pushing for it?
The legislation’s strongest supporters are a diverse coalition that includes religious groups, labor unions, charities for the poor such as Jubilee USA Network and economist Joseph Stiglitz. Former Argentina economy minister Martin Guzman and Colombia’s former finance chief, Jose Antonio Ocampo, are also among its supporters. It’s sponsored by Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy and Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
4. Who’s leading the opposition?
A creditors group representing big money managers from Pacific Investment Management Co. to Fidelity Investments is pushing back against the legislation, as are trade organizations including the Institute of International Finance and the Investment Company Institute. They argue that private investors would be less inclined to buy emerging-market debt under the proposed rules. Developing countries would be harmed, they say, because they’d be forced to pay higher interest to make their debt more attractive. Borrowing costs could rise significantly if the legislation is enacted, according to David Knutson, a senior investment director at Schroder Investment Management and chair of the Credit Roundtable, a group representing bondholders.
5. Is the legislation likely to become law?
It has a better chance than ever before, but the timing is tight because the 2023 legislative session ends on June 8. Among several similar proposals that had been introduced in New York in the past years, this legislation has advanced the furthest, passing the assembly’s judiciary committee in May. It comes at a time when governments, especially those that borrowed heavily at low interest during the pandemic, have been hit by soaring borrowing costs and economic risks. With Venezuela well into its fifth year of default and Zambia stepping into its third year of negotiations, activists are desperate to find any remedies to prevent the dragging out of debt talks so that countries can regain growth and access to international capital markets. To become law, the bills would need approval by Senate and Assembly committees, pass a vote on the floor and be signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, who has until year-end to make a decision. The bills would take effect immediately after the governor’s approval.
6. Which countries would be affected most?
The bills apply to all sovereign debt issued under New York jurisdiction, but countries that are in default or have debt trading at distressed levels would be affected most. They are economically vulnerable and in desperate need of foreign capital. This year, a record five nations — Belarus, Ghana, Lebanon, Sri Lanka and Zambia — have already defaulted and are locked out of international capital markets until a deal can be struck with creditors. Eleven more nations including Ukraine, Pakistan and Tunisia have dollar debt trading at distressed levels, which means their bond spreads are at more than 10 percentage points over US Treasuries. A record 13 countries are teetering on the verge of default, with their debt rated at at CCC+ or below, according to Fitch Ratings.
7. Could they issue debt in another jurisdiction to avoid the change?
Yes. The UK is another popular jurisdiction to issue foreign debt. But advocates for the change in New York law are also pushing the UK to adopt a similar measure, and the UK government has proposed working with New York to improve private creditor participation in debt restructurings. There’s also potential for issuers to move their existing bonds to the Delaware jurisdiction.
• Law professor Mitu Gulati and lawyer Lee Buchheit examine the duty of creditors in sovereign debt restructuring.
• Bloomberg Opinion’s Mihir Sharma argues that the International Monetary Fund shouldn’t have lent to Ukraine while it was at war.
• The text of Senate Bill S4747.
• A 2020 Bloomberg News article on Argentina’s vicious cycle of defaults.
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2023-06-06T14:25:10+00:00
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Leg Up Farm, a therapeutic riding center in York County for children with disabilities, plans to build a similar center in Franklin County.
The three-phase project is planned for 3575 Cascades Drive in Guilford Township near Fayetteville.
Phase one will include a therapy center and administrative offices. Phase two will include an indoor riding arena and horse barn. Phase three will be based upon need and future funding.
But, before construction begins, officials said funding has to be secured in full.
Officials from Leg Up Farm said that several years ago community leaders in Franklin County approached Leg Up Farm’s leadership team about replicating its pediatric therapy center. As a result, a capital campaign was launched to raise funds needed for Leg Up Farm, and recently Leg Farm announced the status of the campaign.
- READ MORE: Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning to open 3 cost-free centers in Lancaster County
“I am excited to share that the efforts of Franklin County’s leaders have culminated in raising $2,502,671 through in-kind, grant, corporate and private donations. This brings us over 40% towards our total goal of $5,825,588, which would cover site work and therapy center construction,” Mike Ross, president of the Franklin County Area Development Corporation and the capital campaign co-chair of Leg Up Farm–Franklin County, said in a news release.
Site work has already been completed.
Leg Up Farm is a pediatric facility in East Manchester Township that provides physical, occupational, speech and aquatic therapy, counseling services, therapeutic horseback riding, nutrition services and educational and recreational programming, beneath one roof. The organization said that more than 3,000 children with special needs have benefitted from Leg Up Farm’s services. Leg Up Farmers Market in Manchester Township provides support for Leg Up Farm.
Information: www.legupfarm.org/franklincounty
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2022-11-22T19:46:14+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/11/therapeutic-riding-center-for-children-with-disabilities-plans-to-build-second-center.html
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EXPLAINER: How to navigate Affordable Care Act enrollment
NEW YORK (AP) — The vast majority of Americans will find multiple options for health insurance coverage for 2023 on HealthCare.gov after open enrollment began Tuesday under the Affordable Care Act.
People searching for plans on the government marketplace should consider their budget, health, doctors and a variety of other factors before picking a plan.
Currently, more than 14.5 million people get their health insurance through the ACA, commonly known as “Obamacare.” The number swelled during the coronavirus pandemic after Congress passed generous subsidies to make coverage more affordable.
While most people have three or more options, about 8% of participants will choose from only two insurance carriers, a number that drops to one in rural counties across Alabama, Alaska, Arizona and Texas.
According to the Biden administration, 80% of consumers should be able to find a plan for $10 or less per month after tax credits.
Here’s a look at navigating the Affordable Care Act marketplace:
HOW DOES THE MARKETPLACE WORK?
The ACA marketplace is geared toward people who don’t have health insurance through their job, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or another source.
While most states use the federal marketplace at HealthCare.gov, some have set up their own. These are: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont plus the District of Columbia.
Premium tax credits and other savings reducing the cost of insurance are based on income and the number of people in your family. For example, individuals with an annual income between $13,590 and $54,360 are eligible for a subsidy. Those who make less than that qualify for Medicaid.
You can use the HealthCare.gov calculator to determine what savings are available to you.
Know the deadlines for coverage in 2023: Dec. 15 for coverage that starts on Jan. 1 and Jan. 15 for coverage that begins Feb. 1.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN CHOOSING A PLAN
Shop around, even if you’re currently covered under the ACA.
First, you’ll want to see what the monthly premium — the amount you pay for coverage — will be.
Next, check on the plan’s deductible — that’s what you pay up front for health services before your insurance begins to share some of the remaining costs for the year.
Look into the plan’s copayments or coinsurance. Those are the the fees you pay every time you visit the doctor’s office or go to an urgent care clinic, for example. Plans with coinsurance can be trickier to budget for because you pay a percentage of the service cost, instead of a set fee.
And make sure to know the out-of-pocket maximum. After you hit that number, your insurance will cover 100% of costs. You’ll want to keep that number in mind if you might have big health expenses — a major surgery, childbirth or ongoing therapy or treatment — in the upcoming year.
“Consider whether you are going to have an expensive year,” said Kelly Rector, an insurance broker and president of Missouri-based Denny and Associates Inc. “If you know you’re going to be hitting that out-of-pocket max no matter what, maybe you look at the lower premiums and higher deductible plan.”
DOES YOUR DOCTOR PARTICIPATE IN THE PLAN?
Do you want to continue seeing a favorite doctor or need a prescription drug covered on your plan?
HealthCare.gov also offers search features and tools for you to check whether your doctor or prescription drugs are covered under specific plans.
Those are “the biggest things” that Rector recommends consumers check when searching the marketplace.
WHAT LEVEL PLAN SHOULD I CHOOSE?
All plans cover basic health services, including preventive services, prescription drugs, mental health services and pregnancy.
There are four levels of plans offered: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Bronze plans have the lowest premiums but the highest out-of-pocket costs. Premium costs increase as you go up the medal ladder, but deductibles are lower.
The best deal for people who qualify for extra savings is a silver plan, said Cynthia Cox, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s director for the Affordable Care Act program.
“If you’re just barely making above the poverty level, you really should be buying a silver plan, with the lowest premiums, lowest deductibles,” Cox said.
In some cases, those plans will still be nearly free and will have much lower copays and deductibles, making for the best deal in the long run. Depending on your income, you might have to pay a monthly premium of $15 to $20, but the lower costs to the overall plan still make a better deal, Cox said.
For people in higher income brackets, shop around before selecting a plan. Your subsidies won’t be as big — if you qualify at all — and the plans will be pricier.
If you’re young and healthy and don’t anticipate significant health care needs, the bronze plan remains a reasonable choice, according to Rector. High-deductible “catastrophic plans” are also available to people under age 30.
WHAT IF I HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT MY SPECIFIC SITUATION?
In each state, people known as “navigators” provide free consultations to help you choose a health insurance plan. The program is supported by public funding. You can search for local help in your state on HealthCare.gov. Agents and brokers are also available to help. They do charge fees but typically provide their services for free to consumers and charge the insurance companies instead.
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Seitz reported from Washington.
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2022-11-01T17:55:44+00:00
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TANGIER, Morocco (AP)Mohamed Afsha scored on a deflected shot in the 88th minute and sent Al Ahly into the Club World Cup semifinals by beating the Seattle Sounders 1-0 on Saturday.
Afsha scored after coming on as a substitute in the 63rd. He lifted Al Ahly into the semifinals for the third straight year, and brought an abrupt end to the first appearance by a team from the United States in the competition.
His initial shot from outside the penalty area hit the crossbar. Seattle was unable to clear the danger and Afsha’s second attempt deflected off defender Alex Roldan and bounded past goalkeeper Stefan Frei.
It was the only shot on target by the Egyptian club as both sides played a heavily defensive game where chances at goal were limited.
Al Ahly will face Real Madrid in the semifinals next Wednesday in Rabat. Al Ahly has not lost a match in any competition since Aug. 27 in the Egyptian Premier League.
Al Ahly has finished third in each of the past two Club World Cups but has never made the final.
Seattle was the first club from Major League Soccer to take part in the Club World Cup after winning the CONCACAF Champions League last May. The Sounders carried hopes of advancing through their first match and playing at least three matches at the event.
But while Seattle was excellent defensively, it lacked quality chances on attack. Seattle finished with just one shot on goal, a speculative attempt from defensive midfielder Josh Atencio early in the second half.
”I thought we were good. I thought we were evenly matched. A couple of chances. But the deflection on the goal, it’s unfortunate,” Seattle coach Brian Schmetzer said.
Seattle was playing its first competitive match in 3 + months while the rest of MLS was going through preseason preparations. The Sounders’ previous match was last October and the team gathered for MLS preseason camp in early January.
”They put everything into the game. They put everything into preseason,” Schmetzer said.
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2023-02-05T08:12:36+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/al-ahlys-late-goal-ends-seattle-debut-1-0-in-club-world-cup/
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Recommendations Include Input from Accounting Firms, State CPA Societies and Other Stakeholders
NEW YORK, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) today released an updated version of its plan to increase both the number of accounting graduates who pursue a career in the profession and those who go on to obtain a CPA license.
The detailed plan, which builds on earlier drafts to create a nationwide CPA pipeline strategy, will be presented next week at the spring meeting of the AICPA's governing council. AICPA leadership is looking to move forward with a consensus approach for both quick and long-term actions to attract future generations of accountants and CPAs.
"Building the CPA pipeline requires a united effort from all stakeholders tied to the profession," said Susan Coffey, CPA, CGMA, the AICPA's CEO of public accounting. "We need to work together to raise awareness about the rewarding work we do, broaden the range of talent we draw from, and address stumbling blocks that derail too many prospective CPA candidates. As the largest national body for the accounting profession, the AICPA is uniquely positioned to channel ideas into action and mobilize efforts in a coordinated way to achieve success. Our plan offers a framework for moving forward but is by no means the last word – this is an evolving process that will require resolve, foresight and close collaboration with important partners."
There are numerous factors leading to a decline in the number of accounting graduates and of those who go on to obtain a CPA license. Some are not unique to the profession, such as falling college enrollments due to demographic shifts and rapidly rising education costs that have led some to question the value of a college degree. But misperceptions about the nature of a career in accounting, lower entry-pay than some comparable fields, and a licensure process that can be complicated have also played a role.
The AICPA engaged in a dialogue with numerous stakeholders before publishing its plan, including state CPA societies, accounting firms, academia, state boards of accountancy and their organizing body, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). Going forward, we intend to create a clearinghouse for innovative and meaningful pipeline ideas and convene stakeholder forums to work through issues, set data-driven goals and measure outcomes to ensure accountability.
The Pipeline Acceleration Plan includes several recommended actions not included in earlier drafts:
- Expand 529 funds to CPA Exam costs - The AICPA and state CPA societies are working with federal legislators on the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act (H.R. 1477), which would allow the use of 529 college savings plans to include expenses required to obtain or maintain postsecondary credentials, including CPA-related costs such as exam review courses.
- Support for the government audit and finance sector– To address concerns over the ability of local governmental entities to find skilled auditors and finance professionals, the AICPA is collaborating on solutions with the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT). A working group involving key stakeholders – state auditors, state comptrollers, state treasurers, CPA firm representatives and local government representatives -- will delve into opportunities and best practices for hiring CPAs to work in state and local government and finding qualified CPA firms to audit local governmental entities.
- Develop best practices for offshore talent - The AICPA is examining the need for best practices and other potential resources that would help small and medium-sized firms partner successfully where needed with offshore talent suppliers. This is in addition to the expansion of the administration of the CPA Exam in India and South Korea, and exploration of offering the CPA Exam in the Philippines.
- Explore launch of a CPA image campaign – We are looking into a campaign to create positive awareness of the profession with middle and high school students. The initiative would build on the Center for Audit Quality's Accounting+ initiative, and the AICPA will work with state society input and perspectives to draft a feasibility plan later this year.
A synopsis and full version of the Pipeline Acceleration Plan are available online
About the American Institute of CPAs
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) is the world's largest member association representing the CPA profession, with more than 415,000 members in the United States and worldwide, and a history of serving the public interest since 1887. AICPA members represent many areas of practice, including business and industry, public practice, government, education and consulting. AICPA sets ethical standards for its members and U.S. auditing standards for private companies, not-for-profit organizations, and federal, state and local governments. It develops and grades the Uniform CPA Examination, offers specialized credentials, builds the pipeline of future talent and drives continuing education to advance the vitality, relevance and quality of the profession.
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2023-05-18T13:10:46+00:00
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Stephanie Terrell bought a used Nissan Leaf this fall and was excited to join the wave of drivers adopting electric vehicles to save on gas money and reduce her carbon footprint.
But Terrell quickly encountered a bump in the road on her journey to clean driving: As a renter, she doesn’t have a private garage where she can power up overnight, and the public charging stations near her are often in use, with long wait times. On a recent day, the 23-year-old nearly ran out of power on the freeway because a public charging station she was counting on was busy.
“It was really scary and I was really worried I wasn’t going to make it, but luckily I made it here. Now I have to wait a couple hours to even use it because I can’t go any further,” she said while waiting at another station where a half-dozen EV drivers circled the parking lot, waiting their turn. “I feel better about it than buying gas, but there are problems I didn’t really anticipate.”
The great transition to electric vehicles is underway for single-family homeowners who can charge their cars at home, but for millions of renters like Terrell, access to charging remains a significant barrier. People who rent are also more likely to buy used EVs that have a lower range than the latest models, making reliable public charging even more critical for them.
Now, cities from Portland to Los Angeles to New York City are trying to come up with innovative public charging solutions as drivers string power cords across sidewalks, stand up their own private charging stations on city right-of-ways and line up at public facilities.
The Biden administration last month approved plans from all 50 states to roll out a network of high-speed chargers along interstate highways coast-to-coast using $5 billion in federal funding over the next five years. But states must wait to apply for an additional $2.5 billion in local grants to fill in charging gaps, including in low- and moderate-income areas of cities and in neighborhoods with limited private parking.
“We have a really large challenge right now with making it easy for people to charge who live in apartments,” said Jeff Allen, executive director of Forth, a nonprofit that advocates for equity in electric vehicle ownership and charging access.
“There’s a mental shift that cities have to make to understand that promoting electric cars is also part of their sustainable transportation strategy. Once they make that mental shift, there’s a whole bunch of very tangible things they can — and should — be doing.”
The quickest place to charge is a fast charger, also known as DC Fast. Those charge a car in 20 to 45 minutes. But slower chargers which take several hours, known as Level 2, still outnumber DC fast chargers by nearly four to one, although their numbers are growing. Charging an electric vehicle on a standard residential outlet, or Level 1 charger, isn’t practical unless you drive little or can leave the car plugged in overnight, as many homeowners can.
Nationwide, there are about 120,000 public charging ports featuring Level 2 charging or above, and nearly 1.5 million electric vehicles registered in the U.S. — a ratio of just over one charging port per 12 cars nationally, according to the latest U.S. Department of Energy data from December 2021. But those chargers are not spread out evenly: In Arizona, for example, the ratio of electric vehicles to charging ports is 18 to one and in California, which has about 39% of the nation’s EVs, there are 16 zero-emissions vehicles for every charging port.
A briefing prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy last year by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory forecasts a total of just under 19 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, with a projected need for an extra 9.6 million charging stations to meet that demand.
In Los Angeles, for example, nearly one-quarter of all new vehicles registered in July were plug-in electric vehicles. The city estimates in the next 20 years, it will have to expand its distribution capacity anywhere from 25% to 50%, with roughly two-thirds of the new power demand coming from electric vehicles, said Yamen Nanne, manager of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s transportation electrification program.
Amid the boom, dense city neighborhoods are rapidly becoming pressure points in the patchy transition to electrification.
In Los Angeles, the city has installed over 500 electric vehicle chargers — 450 on street lights and about 50 of them on power poles — to meet the demand and has a goal of adding 200 EV pole chargers per year, Nanne said. The chargers are strategically installed in areas where there are apartment complexes or near amenities, he said.
The city currently has 18,000 commercial chargers — ones not in private homes — but only about 3,000 are publicly accessible and just 400 of those are DC Fast chargers, Nanne said. Demand is so high that “when we put a charger out there that’s publicly accessible, we don’t even have to advertise. People just see it and start using it,” he said.
“We’re doing really good in terms of chargers that are going into workplaces but the publicly accessible ones is where there’s a lot of room to make up. Every city is struggling with that.”
Similar initiatives to install pole-mounted chargers are in place or being considered in cities from New York City to Charlotte, N.C. to Kansas City, Missouri. The utility Seattle City Light is also in the early stages of a pilot project to install chargers in neighborhoods where people can’t charge at home.
Mark Long, who lives in a floating home on Seattle’s Portage Bay, has leased or owned an EV since 2015 and charges at public stations — and sometimes charges on an outdoor outlet at a nearby office and pays them back for the cost.
“We have a small loading area but we all just park on the street,” said Long, who hopes to get one of the utility’s chargers installed for his floating community. “I’ve certainly been in a few situations where I’m down to 15, 14, 12 miles and … whatever I had planned, I’m just suddenly focused on getting a charge.”
Other cities, like Portland, are working to amend building codes for new construction to require electrified parking spaces for new apartment complexes and mixed-use development. A proposal being developed currently would require 50% of parking spaces in most new multi-family dwellings to have an electric conduit that could support future charging stations. In complexes with six spaces or fewer, all parking spaces would need to be pre-wired for EV charging.
Policies that provide equal access to charging are critical because with tax incentives and the emergence of a robust used-EV market, zero-emissions cars are finally within financial reach for lower-income drivers, said Ingrid Fish, who is in charge of Portland’s transportation decarbonization program.
“We’re hoping if we do our job right, these vehicles are going to become more and more accessible and affordable for people, especially those that have been pushed out of the central city” by rising rents and don’t have easy access to public transportation, Fish said.
The initiatives mimic those that have already been deployed in other nations that are much further along in EV adoption.
Worldwide, by 2030, more than 6 million public chargers will be needed to support EV adoption at a rate that keeps international emissions goals within reach, according to a recent study by the International Council on Clean Transportation. As of this year, the Netherlands and Norway have already installed enough public charging to satisfy 45% and 38% of that demand, respectively, while the U.S. has less than 10% of it in place currently, according to the study, which looked at electrification in 17 nations and government entities that account for more than half of the world’s car sales.
Some European cities are far ahead of even the most electric-savvy U.S. cities. London, for example, has 4,000 public chargers on street lights. That’s much cheaper — just a third the cost of wiring a charging station into the sidewalk, said Vishant Kothari, manager of the electric mobility team at the World Resources Institute.
But London and Los Angeles have an advantage over many U.S. cities: Their street lights operate on 240 volts, better for EV charging. Most American city street lights operate on 120 volts, which takes hours to charge a vehicle, said Kothari, who co-authored a study on the potential for pole-mounted charging in U.S. cities.
That means cities considering pole-mounted charging must also come up with other solutions, from zoning changes to making charging accessible in apartment complex parking lots to policies that encourage workplace fast-charging.
There also “needs to be a will from the city, the utilities — the policies need to be in place for curbside accessibility,” he said. “So there is quite a bit of complication.”
Changes can’t come fast enough for renters who already own electric vehicles and are struggling to charge them.
Rebecca DeWhitt rents a house but isn’t allowed to use the garage. For several years, she and her partner strung a standard extension cord 40 feet (12 meters) from an outlet near the home’s front door, across their lawn, down a grassy knoll and across a public sidewalk to reach their Nissan Leaf on the street.
They upgraded to a thicker extension cord and began parking in the driveway — also a violation of their rental contract — when their first cord charred under the EV load. They’re still using their home outlet and it takes up to two days to fully charge their new Hyundai Kona. As of now, their best alternative for a full charge is a nearby grocery store which can mean a long wait for one of two fast-charging stations to open up.
“It’s inconvenient,” she said. “And if we didn’t value having an electric vehicle so much, we wouldn’t put up with the pain of it.”
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This story was updated to correct attribution of data on charging ports to the U.S. Department of Energy instead of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Associated Press Climate Data Reporter Camille Fassett in Seattle, AP Video Journalists Eugene Garcia in Los Angeles and Haven Daley in San Francisco and AP Business Editor Courtney Bonnell in London contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — The National Archives and Records Administration informed lawmakers that a number of electronic communications from Trump White House staffers remain missing, nearly two years since the administration was required to turn them over.
“While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,” Debra Steidel Wall, the acting U.S. archivist, wrote in a letter to Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
The letter went on to specify that the National Archives would consult with the Justice Department about how to move forward and recover “the records unlawfully removed.”
It has been widely reported that officials in President Donald Trump’s White House used non-official electronic messaging accounts throughout his four years in office. The Presidential Records Act, which says that such records are government property and must be preserved, requires staff to copy or forward those messages into their official electronic messaging accounts.
The agency says that while it has been able to obtain these records from some former officials, a number remain outstanding. The Justice Department has already pursued records from one former Trump official, Peter Navarro, who prosecutors accused of using at least one “non-official” email account — a ProtonMail account — to send and receive emails while he worked as the president’s trade adviser.
The legal action in August came just weeks after Navarro was indicted on criminal charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The House committee has jurisdiction over the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law that requires the preservation of White House documents as property of the U.S. government. The request is the latest development in a monthslong back-and-forth between the agency and the committee, which has been investigating Trump’s handling of records.
The letter on Friday also comes nearly two months after the FBI recovered more than 100 documents with classified markings and more than 10,000 other government documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Lawyers for Trump had provided a sworn certification that all government records had been returned.
Maloney and other Democratic lawmakers on the panel have been seeking a briefing from the National Archives, but haven’t received one due to the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into the matter.
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Pending abortion restrictions strain providers in US Southeast
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A wave of newly approved abortion restrictions in the Southeastern United States has sent providers scrambling to reconfigure their services for a region with already severely limited access.
Pending bans at varying stages of pregnancy in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida — states that had been holdouts providing wider access to the procedure — are threatening to further delay abortions as appointments pile up and doctors work to understand the new limitations.
“There’s really going to be no way for the whole abortion-providing ecosystem to manage it all,” said Jenny Black, the president of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.
Black, who oversees the organization’s work in North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and parts of Virginia, said providers have had to quickly determine how to comply with the pending laws amid the “decimation of abortion access across the South.” She expects new restrictions will compound the stressors on a system that was already seeing lengthy waiting periods in North Carolina driven by an influx of patients from Georgia and Tennessee.
Abortion is severely restricted in much of the South, including bans throughout pregnancy in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. In Georgia, it’s allowed only in the first six weeks.
A report released in early April by the Society of Family Planning found rising numbers of abortions in states near those with the deepest restrictions but where abortion had remained largely legal. Florida and North Carolina were among the states with the biggest increases — and among those where new restrictions are pending.
Most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will be banned in North Carolina beginning July 1 and a six-week ban in Florida will take effect only if the state’s current 15-week ban is upheld by the state Supreme Court.
South Carolina had also proven to be a key destination for people seeking abortions. Provisional state Health Department data showed larger numbers of out-of-state patients after the state’s highest court overturned previous restrictions and left abortion legal through 22 weeks.
A new ban after around six weeks that awaits the South Carolina governor’s signature will change that status, according to Caitlin Myers, an economics professor at Middlebury College. Myers, who studies the effects of reproductive policies, said limited evidence suggests about half of the people who want abortions won’t be able to make the six-week threshold.
“It’s likely to end up sending a lot of desperate people seeking abortions even farther distances and result in even greater congestion at the facilities that are left to receive them,” Myers said.
The action comes as many state legislatures convene for their first regular sessions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck federal abortion protections. Over the past two months, Republican officials in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida have pushed Virginia closer to being a regional outlier as a place with relatively permissive access.
The tide of state-level activity has been welcomed by anti-abortion groups who had long chipped away at access. Caitlin Connors, the southern regional director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, celebrated the recent legislative changes as victories made possible by last summer’s ruling.
“We are officially in an era where states who have tried to pass pro-life legislation — laws that would protect unborn children, laws that would also implement services for moms and families and babies — to finally be able to be enacted and not be under the chokehold of the Roe v. Wade decision,” Connors said.
That shifting landscape has also heightened uncertainty among providers that has kept them from expanding services, Myers said, and likely will prevent some patients from getting abortions as doctors weigh what is and isn’t permissible.
Erica Pettigrew, a family medicine doctor in North Carolina, said the new restrictions will make it much more difficult for her to help patients navigate the system. Although North Carolina Republicans pitched the new 12-week limit as a middle-ground change, Pettigrew pointed to other provisions that make it much more restrictive.
New hurdles require that women make in-person visits to a medical professional at least 72 hours before the procedure. The three-day waiting period could previously be initiated over the phone. The law also requires a doctor to schedule a follow-up visit for women who have a medically induced abortion, increasing the hardship on those who travel from other states.
Those regulations will make it harder to advise patients on their options, she said, especially when waiting periods already spanned two to four weeks in some cases.
Other delays may result from what Pettigrew called unclear exceptions for certain life-threatening conditions.
“Now we’re in this horrible purgatory of trying to figure out how to interpret it, how we can comply with the law,” Pettigrew said. “There’s so many unknowns.”
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Associated Press writer Hannah Schoenbaum contributed to this report from Raleigh, North Carolina. Schoenbaum and Pollard are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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The Saudi government is considered one of the most conservative and repressive in the world, with strict gender-based laws and an expansive death penalty. But now, a country that once had a decades-long ban on movie theaters has morphed into a regional hub for arts and entertainment.
Later this month, it will host a Formula One Grand Prix race for the third year in a row. But there's also a massive rave in the desert outskirts of the capital Riyadh in December, an Andy Warhol exhibition currently underway in the oasis city AlUla and an international film festival whose third edition starts in November. Each year, the capital Riyadh is now punctuated with artworks for the world's largest festival of lights.
Critics say these shifts are purely transactional, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman trading the appearance of an open culture to paper over a dismal human rights record and buy political capital from the country's young population, but arts practitioners speak of real change on the ground.
Jeed Basyouni, who investigates the use of the death penalty across the Middle East and North Africa for rights group Reprieve, says the unprecedented level of changes comes at a price.
"Why we take particular issue with the use of art and sports and entertainment in this way is because it's very strategic on the behalf of Mohammed bin Salman," she told NPR's Leila Fadel.
"It's not out of the goodness of his heart that he's opening up Saudi society. There's a lot of money there for himself and the public... Saudi Arabia has a very young population who have been mostly very bored for the last 30 years because of how restricted society has been. If you distract them with these things, they won't notice that from the other hand, he's making society more repressive than it's ever been."
Reprieve published a report earlier this year with a Saudi partner, the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. They found an 82% jump in executions since King Salman and his son the crown prince came to power in 2015.
Basyouni pointed to child defendants or the case of scholar Hassan al-Maliki, who has been imprisoned since 2017 on charges such as owning unauthorized books, publishing tweets and being interviewed by Western outlets. While he has not been sentenced, the public prosecutor has called for the death penalty.
"Mohammed bin Salman will decide what Saudi Arabia will look like and anyone that has any view will be punished," Basyouni added.
But despite these very real numbers, creatives from around the region are now flocking to Saudi Arabia as a place to showcase their work.
Lebanese filmmaker Dania Bdeir recently premiered her short film Warsha, which explores gender identity, at the Red Sea International Film Festival.
"There is a willingness to at least allow for some stories to be told, and maybe when it comes to completely talk about politics — that stuff, not quite yet, I don't know if that will ever happen — but at least starting with human self-expression and each one telling their own story. That's beginning."
Dubai-based cultural strategist and art consultant Myrna Ayad has worked in Saudi Arabia for years. She is quick to point to the long history of art practice and appreciation in the kingdom, where late Jeddah mayor Mohammed Saeed Farsi installed more than 400 sculptures by Saudi, Arab and international artists across the city. And in 1968, Munira Mosli and Safeya Binzagr were the first Saudi women whose work was featured in an exhibition in the country.
Art, Ayad says, can break down barriers.
"I do fundamentally believe that you can change somebody's mind, you can influence their opinion, you can alter their thought if you do it through art and culture. I think that this is how we develop tolerance, we develop understanding," she said.
Saudi artists find ways around censorship, such as Nasser Al-Salem, who uses mixed media to re-contextualize traditional Arabic calligraphy.
She rebukes critics who focus on the political expediency behind the crown prince's apparent cultural opening, asking the public instead to focus on what the art itself has to say.
"We are a determined few, and we work very hard and we are committed to what we are doing. We believe in our countries and our region and our heritage, and we are proud of it," said Ayad, who is Lebanese and was born in Beirut. "If you are going to look at me based on my country's government, what's left? You have to you have to see me from another light. You have to see me for who I am: I'm an arts practitioner or I am a Saudi artist or I'm an Emirati artist or I'm a Lebanese artist. Come on."
These interviews were conducted by Leila Fadel, produced by Kaity Kline and edited by Olivia Hampton. To hear the broadcast version of this story, use the audio player at the top of this page.
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AMBUCS names Amber Nichols Physical Therapist of the Year
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Lubbock Monterey AMBUCS provides adaptive AmTrykes to help strengthen disabled children and brighten their lives.
But, without physical therapists, none of it would be possible. On Monday, AMBUCS honored that work.
A bike is a childhood staple; most of us learn how to ride one before we even learn how to read, but not all children are as fortunate.
Amber Nichols, Doctor of Physical Therapy at UMC says, “I know one girl that I referred who was 13 years old and had never had a bike. She had a stroke and couldn’t ride a regular bike.”
As a physical therapist, Nichols sees disabled children daily who want nothing more than to ride a bike with friends or family.
“My passion is to help kids do things that we kind of took for granted,” said Nichols.
A passion that she and AMBUCS share.
Bobby Sanders, President of Lubbock Monterey AMBUCS says, “Amber’s commitment and dedication to the wellbeing of little ones that have mobility issues, that’s what this is all about.”
That dedication had led to Nichols being named Physical Therapist of the Year by AMBUCS. But to Nichols, she is just doing her job.
“I was just doing it to help the kids and so this is just, all the nice things that everybody said, is just really - it touches my heart because I do it for the kids,” Nichols said.
Aside from connecting disabled children with AMBUCS, Nichols is still thinking ahead on ways she can improve their lives.
“I want to hopefully get involved and create some type of sports group for kids with disabilities and help them get involved with more sports. That’s what I want to do,” Nichols said.
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2023-03-27T23:16:48+00:00
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Things got wild in a matter of seconds for Western Conference teams still trying to get into the NHL playoffs — for those on the ice and those watching at home.
“Interesting. It’s why you play the full 65 minutes,” Dallas Stars coach Rick Bowness said Monday, a day after playoff-contending teams Vegas and Nashville both gave up last-second goals to lose home games after regulation.
Dallas, which didn’t play Sunday, can now clinch one of the two wild-card spots with a win in regulation at home Tuesday night against the Golden Knights, something Bowness said he realized “right away” after those two strange finishes Sunday night.
“It’s obviously what you want as a player and a team is to not rely on somebody else to do your job,” Stars captain Jamie Benn said.
Vegas, which as an expansion team in 2017-18 went to the Stanley Cup Final, is now in danger of missing the playoffs for the first time in its brief history. The Golden Knights will be without starting goaltender Robin Lehner after the team said Monday he will have season-ending shoulder surgery.
Vegas blew a 4-2 lead in the final 2:06 Sunday night against San Jose, which forced overtime on Timo Meier’s goal with 0.9 seconds left in regulation. The Sharks won 5-4 in a shootout.
That was after Nashville lost 5-4 at home to Minnesota when Dmitry Kulikov scored with 1.3 seconds remaining in overtime.
“A tough one obviously,” Predators defenseman Dante Fabbro said. “But you have to look at some bright sides. We got one point out of it, kind of just got to wipe the slate clean here and focus on Calgary. … It was definitely a playoff game out there.”
The Stanley Cup playoffs start next Monday. All eight playoff teams for the Eastern Conference are set and things are getting closer in the West.
If Dallas beats Vegas, Nashville could wrap up the other wild-card spot with a win at home against Calgary.
Going into Tuesday night when each team plays the first of three games over four nights to wrap up the regular season, Nashville sits at 94 points, Dallas 93, Vegas 90 and Vancouver 87. The Stars-Golden Knights game on Tuesday is the only head-to-head matchup remaining among that quartet.
The Canucks still have a slim chance to make the playoffs. They would have to win their remaining three games, and Dallas would have to lose its last three in regulation. Vegas, which would have to beat Dallas in that scenario, would then have to lose its final two games at Chicago and St. Louis in regulation.
Dallas is coming off a 3-2 win at homeSaturday night over Seattle, a welcome result for the Stars after an 0-3 road trip that included a 6-2 loss at Vancouver and ended with a long, miserable trip home because of extended travel issues.
The Stars practiced for only about 15 minutes Monday, and didn’t plan to have a morning skate before the potential clinching game against the Golden Knights, who are 2-0 against Dallas this season. Bowness, who wants his players to be able to rest as much as possible, likened it to trying to close out a playoff series.
“The toughest win in any playoff series is getting that fourth win. And that’s what we’re facing tomorrow,” Bowness said. “These guys know if they lose to us in regulation, they’re out, and it’s the same as in a playoff series. … The way they lost (Sunday) night, you know, they’re going to be coming at us very, very hard.”
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2022-04-26T12:12:28+00:00
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday unveiled some of the faces that will comprise his incoming administration, including his much-awaited pick for finance minister: former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad.
Haddad’s nomination ends weeks of suspense that have led to stock volatility and ups and downs of the country’s real currency, amid intense pressure from financial markets for da Silva to make his choice known.
Haddad, 59, is a former education minister who has been a member of the leftist Workers’ Party for more than 20 years. He has limited experience in the markets. Da Silva’s choice for a politician close to the party for the job rattled some experts.
“This government’s level of concern for the following years’ expenses isn’t clear yet. Haddad has less commitment to fiscal matters than what the market expects, and less dialogue with Congress than da Silva’s former ministers,” said chief economist from MB Associates, Sergio Vale.
While Brazil’s stock exchange dipped sharply immediately after the Haddad announcement, it later rebounded.
Haddad acknowledged on Friday that his incoming team will work closely with the person da Silva chooses to head the restored planning and budget ministry. “We need to have a plural and cohesive team and this needs to be combined with the planning minister.”
The future planning and budget minister still needs to be chosen. The Cabinet position had been scrapped by President Jair Bolsonaro, who opted for an all-powerful economics ministry, led by University of Chicago-trained liberal Paulo Guedes.
Haddad joined the planning and budget ministry in da Silva’s first administration, in 2003. He later became education minister – a job he kept for six years. He left da Silva’s second administration to take over Sao Paulo’s City Hall. In 2018, he ran for president after da Silva was convicted for corruption and money laundering, and lost to Bolsonaro.
On the campaign trail, da Silva – who is universally known as Lula – vowed to maintain and even expand a welfare program that transfers 600 reais (US$115) to 21 million poor families.
Faced with budget limitations, and wanting to be able to keep other campaign promises, the president-elect is seeking to remove the program’s funding – estimated to cost US$27 billion – from the country’s constitutionally enshrined spending cap.
While some have applauded his efforts to fight poverty and hunger, others have criticized his apparent lack of fiscal discipline.
Another key appointment by Brazil’s incoming president was José Múcio as defense minister. Múcio is a former president of the federal government accounts watchdog, and is a former minister of da Silva’s administration in 2003. The appointment of a civilian to the defense post is a switch from the approach taken by the outgoing Bolsonaro government which militarized the ministry.
“This is one of da Silva’s campaign promises. The main goal is to cool down the temperature, removing the military from the center of political issues,” said Eduardo Svartman, political analyst who presides the Brazilian Association for Defense Studies.
Another important aspect of Múcio’s nomination, according to Svartman, is to signal to opposition parties that the new government is open for dialogue. The new minister was a lawmaker from 2007 to 2011 in a party that is now aligned to President Jair Bolsonaro.
“He was my colleague for 20 years in Congress, I always speak to him. We live in a democracy, there’s no need to be enemies”, said Múcio when questioned by reporters on Friday about speaking with Bolsonaro.
The new minister also pointed out he will follow the existing hierarchical system for Armed Forces’ nominees. “I’ll propose to the president for us to follow the traditional system, the oldest in each force will be nominated” said Múcio.
Bolsonaro, a conservative former army captain who has often praised Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985), has relied heavily on current and former soldiers to staff key Cabinet positions.
Tensions around Bolsonaro’s interference culminated in March last year when leaders of all three branches of the armed forces jointly resigned following the replacement of the Defense Minister – a military shakeup that many experts said was serving Bolsonaro’s political interests.
Bolsonaro has also sought to expand armed forces’ role in an election he claimed, with no evidence, was prone to fraud because of the country’s electronic voting machines. Following his electoral loss to da Silva on Oct. 30, many protests popped up outside military barracks and facilities across the country, asking for the armed forces to intervene and keep their leader in power.
Other ministers announced on Friday are Worker’s Party member and former Bahia state governor, Rui Costa, for Cabinet chief of staff; Brazilian ambassador in Croatia, Mauro Vieira, as foreign minister; and former Maranhão state governor and senator elect, Flavio Dino, in the Justice and Public Security Ministry.
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AP reporter Diane Jeantet contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro.
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Bob Jurgensmeier named CEO; Sue Wilkinson named president and COO
LINCOLN, Neb., June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- William W. (Bill) Lester, CFA, FLMI, will retire as president and chief executive officer of Ameritas Mutual Holding Company, Ameritas Holding Company and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., and as chair, president and CEO of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York, effective Jan. 2, 2024.
The board has selected Robert M. (Bob) Jurgensmeier, FSA, MAAA, to succeed Lester as CEO.
"Bill's legacy reflects 40 years of unwavering commitment to the Ameritas purpose and customers and to everyone associated with the organization," said board Chair Tonn Ostergard. "Bill is an outstanding leader and an exemplary representative of Ameritas within the industry and community. The board and I thank Bill for his leadership and congratulate him on his retirement."
In addition, Jurgensmeier and the board have named Susan K. (Sue) Wilkinson, CPA, FLMI, president and chief operating officer, also effective Jan. 2, 2024.
Lester is a Nebraska native with a business degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He began his career with Ameritas in 1983 as a securities analyst and held numerous positions throughout the organization before becoming CEO in January 2020. Lester is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is a member of the Omaha/Lincoln Society of Financial Analysts.
Among his many activities in the industry and community, Lester serves on the board of directors for the American Council of Life Insurers. He is past chair and a board member of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and serves on the executive committee.
He also is a trustee of the University of Nebraska Foundation. He serves on the United Way board for Lincoln and Lancaster County and is chairing this year's United Way community campaign together with his wife, Cindy. The Lesters have two sons, two daughters and five grandchildren.
"Ameritas has been my career, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunities I've had and the people I've come to know with this remarkable company," Lester said. "Ameritas is strong and stable, with an outstanding team of dedicated associates and a growing network of excellent distribution colleagues. Now is a good time for me to take this step. Cindy and I look forward to having more time for family pursuits and continued community involvement."
Jurgensmeier and Wilkinson are terrific choices, Lester said. "Bob and Sue are smart, strategic leaders with a great vision for the future and a deep understanding of our industry and of the unique qualities that make Ameritas so special."
Lester played a key role in the mergers with two life insurance companies during his career with Ameritas. More recently, Ameritas acquired two companies complementing the Ameritas group benefits and retirement plans businesses. Lester's time as CEO was characterized by organizational growth and significant investment in transformative technology and processes.
The COVID-19 pandemic began shortly after Lester took the helm. In the years that followed, Lester guided Ameritas associates through a time of working fully remote and into a flexible hybrid workplace strategy without losing sight of company values, customer care or business goals.
Lester also encouraged associate professional development to help position Ameritas for identifying future leaders at all levels from within the organization. In announcing these leadership selections, Ostergard pointed to the board's thorough evaluation of prospective candidates.
"We're excited about the results of that process," Ostergard said. "Bob and Sue are experienced, knowledgeable and prepared to continue building on a record of growth and success at Ameritas."
Both Jurgensmeier and Wilkinson also are Nebraska natives with business degrees from UNL. Jurgensmeier holds the professional designation Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. Wilkinson is a member of the Nebraska Society of CPAs, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the UNL School of Accountancy Hall of Fame.
Jurgensmeier has worked in the insurance and financial services industry for over 25 years. He began his career with Ameritas in 2012 as senior vice president and chief actuary – individual division and currently serves as executive vice president – independent distribution and investments.
He serves on the boards of CHI Health St. Elizabeth Hospital and CHI Nebraska Heart Hospital and on the audit committee of the Diocese of Lincoln. He also is a member and past president of the Nebraska Actuaries Club. He and his wife, Sarah, have four children and three grandchildren.
"I'm excited to take this handoff from Bill," Jurgensmeier said. "I'm proud of the difference our associates and financial professionals make for our customers and communities, and I look forward to leading the next phase of growth for Ameritas."
Wilkinson joined Ameritas as a corporate accountant in 1995 and has held various leadership roles. She was elected executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer in 2018. She was awarded the 2020 Outstanding CPA in Business & Industry from the Nebraska Society of CPAs.
Her community activities include board membership for the Bryan College of Health Sciences, Lincoln Chamber Economic Development Corp., Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Catholic Foundation of Southern Nebraska. She and her husband, Bert, have two children.
"I have a deep passion for the way Ameritas helps our customers improve their lives and plan for the future," Wilkinson said. "I look forward to helping the organization and our associates grow and develop."
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2023-06-05T18:52:57+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/06/05/ameritas-announces-bill-lesters-retirement/
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POST FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a 14-year-old Washington boy who went missing in the Spokane River in northern Idaho.
Kootenai County sheriff's officials say the Spokane boy was with his family at Corbin Park near Post Falls on Saturday and was last seen alive playing near the shore. When first responders arrived at the park, the boy had not been seen for more than an hour.
Some of his clothing was found near the water, and a dive team started searching. The boy's body was found about 20 feet (6 meters) from shore in 10 feet (3 meters) of water. His name has not been released.
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2022-07-17T23:30:49+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Washington-teen-s-body-recovered-from-Spokane-17310959.php
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Which smokeless fire pit is best?
There’s nothing better on a cool night than sitting around a fire with your friends. The downside to a fire is somehow someone is always sitting directly in the path of the smoke. Not so with a smokeless fire pit — these use propane bottles to fuel the flames, which means less mess in addition to no smoke.
The best smokeless fire pit is the Outland Living Firebowl Mega Outdoor Propane Gas Fire Pit. It outputs up to 58,000 British thermal units, keeping you warm on the coldest nights.
What to know before you buy a smokeless fire pit
Size
Smokeless fire pits have two key dimensions: width and height.
- Width: Most pits have diameters of 20-32 inches, though there are a handful of options outside this range. The wider the pit the more area — and people — it can warm effectively. Just make sure it also has enough power.
- Height: Most pits have heights of 10-30 inches. Choose the height that works best for your planned seating arrangement.
Portability and weight
Many smokeless fire pits are designed with travel in mind and especially for camping. If you plan on traveling, look for fire pits that include transportation assistance or easy-carry handles and check to make sure it isn’t heavier than you can handle. Most travel-minded pits weigh 20-40 pounds.
What to look for in a quality smokeless fire pit
Power
Smokeless fire pits measure their power with British thermal units. Most pits have 30,000-58,000 Btu. Aim for at least 40,000 Btu to stay warm. Though, if you’re in a cold climate, you should aim for at least 50,000 Btu. Any Btu less than 40,000 is more for show than for heating.
Ignition system
Igniting gas is never completely safe. As such, the best smokeless fire pits have ignition systems that let you ignite the gas at a distance. The best ignition systems trigger with the push of a button.
Cover
The best smokeless fire pits include a cover, with the best covers having weather and ultraviolet light protection plus a method to secure the cover in place. These covers are invaluable for extending the life span of your fire pit.
Lava rocks
Many smokeless fire pits include lava rocks, glass beads or other similar items. These help the propane-fueled flames look more natural and also help to spread out the heat of the flames.
How much you can expect to spend on a smokeless fire pit
Smokeless fire pits typically cost $100-$400. Smaller pits typically cost $150 or less while most cost $200-$300. The largest and most decorative pits typically cost $400 or more.
Smokeless fire pit FAQ
Can I use a smokeless fire pit inside?
A. No, smokeless fire pits must only be used in a well-ventilated outdoor area since propane gives off toxic fumes as it burns. This means no using one on a sealed patio, even if it has some ventilation.
Can I use natural gas instead of propane to fuel my smokeless fire pit?
A. Some smokeless fire pits are designed to use natural gas, but most are set up to use propane. It’s possible to convert a propane pit into a natural gas pit, but it’s difficult to do and — because of natural gas’s high flammability — dangerous. If you want to use natural gas, buy the correct fire pit.
What safety precautions should I take when using a smokeless fire pit?
A. There are a few.
- First, never use your pit near anything flammable. This includes the propane tank, which should be kept as far from the pit as possible.
- Secondly, never leave a burning pit unattended and never use it in especially dry or windy areas.
- Thirdly, stay as far from the pit as possible when lighting it. Once lit, it’s safe to get closer to stay warm — just stay at least two feet away.
What’s the best smokeless fire pit to buy?
Top smokeless fire pit
Outland Living Firebowl Mega Outdoor Propane Gas Fire Pit
What you need to know: This large fire pit is perfect for backyards as well as campgrounds.
What you’ll love: The pit is 24 inches wide and has a maximum power of 58,000 Btu to comfortably warm up to six people. Included is a weather-resistant cover, decorative rock set and a 10-foot hose with a regulator. It’s made of strong, durable steel to last for years.
What you should consider: It takes time for the rocks to heat enough to better spread out the heat, plus the heat is mostly directed upward rather than outward.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top smokeless fire pit for the money
Outland Living Firebowl Deluxe Outdoor Portable Propane Gas Fire Pit
What you need to know: This smaller fire pit is designed for travel and includes extras to make it easier.
What you’ll love: The pit is 19 inches wide and has a maximum power of 58,000 Btu to comfortably warm up to four people. A weather-resistant cover-and-carry kit lets you carry the pit with one hand and your propane bottle in the other.
What you should consider: There’s no igniter. The pit takes time to cool enough to place the travel cover and straps on — packing up early melts the straps.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Bond Manufacturing Newcastle Propane Firebowl
What you need to know: If you value aesthetics, take a look at this fire pit.
What you’ll love: The raised design places the flame at chest height when seated or waist height when standing. Its power is 40,000 Btu at maximum. A pulse ignition system and control knob make lighting and adjusting it safe and easy.
What you should consider: A few purchasers received damaged columns. Others reported cracks appearing after a year or two. It’s among the priciest pits.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Wayfair
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2022-06-23T18:18:10+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/reviews/br/patio-br/fire-pits-heaters-br/best-smokeless-fire-pit/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Reaction poured in Tuesday from civil rights leaders and the entertainment world following the death of Harry Belafonte at age 96. As a prominent activist, charismatic singer, Hollywood leading man, Broadway star and trailblazing Black entertainer, Belafonte’s loss was felt across a wide swath of American life.
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“May God Have My Dear Friend Harry Belafonte At A Peaceful Rest. We Are Losing Our Giants Left And Right. We Have To Celebrate Our Elders While They Are With Us.” — Spike Lee, who directed Belafonte’s final film, 2018’s BlacKkKlansman.”
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“Another ‘GREAT TREE’ has fallen: Harry Belafonte, a Trailblazer and Hero to us all. Thank you for your music, your artistry, your activism, your fight for civil rights and justice — especially risking your life back in the day to get money to the movement. Your being here on Earth has Blessed us all.” — Oprah Winfrey.
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“Harry Belafonte was a true mentor and friend. I am heartbroken to hear of his death but inspired by the long, fruitful life he led. He realized his platform gave him the ability to affect change. He used it to advance the civil rights movement and get others in his position off the sidelines. I cherished the time he would give me and others to both guide and correct us. He was a culture-changing entertainer, a history-changing activist and an unmatchable intellectual. Rest in peace and power, Mr. B.” — The Rev. Al Sharpton.
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“When I was a child, Harry Belafonte showed up for my family in very compassionate ways. In fact, he paid for the babysitter for me and my siblings. … I won’t forget. Rest well, sir.” — Bernice King, daughter of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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“You used your profile and gifts to leave a legacy of activism, of hope, dignity … excellence. Thank you for your vision and talent. Thank you for being a beacon. You are now amongst our beautiful ancestors …. continue to guide us!” — Actor Viola Davis.
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“He represented many things to us: fun calypso music, iconic acting (I came to know him as Geechie Dan in the iconic ‘Uptown Saturday Night’ as a child) — but most importantly he taught me to think in terms of ‘WE’ not ‘I.’ That stuck with me. If there is one lesson we can learn from him it is ‘what can I do to help mankind?’ Thank You Harry Belafonte!” — Musician and filmmaker Questlove.
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“The passing of civil rights icon Harry Belafonte leaves a devastating void in the racial justice community. Before his rise, no entertainer had ever used the platform and resources his fame afforded him to accomplish so much. His personal and financial support was critical to every major event of the Civil Rights Movement, from the Freedom Rides and the Birmingham Campaign to the March on Washington and the Freedom Summer of voter registration. Every American who works for racial justice takes inspiration from his unwavering commitment. — Marc H. Morial, president and chief executive of the National Urban League.
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“Harry Belafonte was a standard bearer, in the tradition of (Paul) Robeson, for generational artistry and deeply informed & committed social & political engagement. Maybe the last of a great tribe. As smart as he was knockdown handsome. He met the moment throughout his life. What a man.” — Actor Jeffrey Wright.
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“If you think about what it means to be an artist and an activist, he was literally the epitome of what that was. I don’t know people know how much he did. So gifted as an artist, as a performer, but used his platform in almost a subversive way because he would sneak messages in there — revolutionary messages — when people thought he was just singing about good times in the islands. He was always like infusing messages of protest and revolution in everything he did, and not only that, but he used his resources. He’s one of the most successful artists of his time. He used those resources to fund the civil rights movement.” — Musician John Legend, speaking at the Time100 summit.
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“He was more than a singer, more than an actor and more than a man.” — Rapper and actor Ice Cube.
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“Harry Belafonte didn’t just speak truth to power, he shouted it, he sang it, he made people listen to the truth. This great son of Harlem leaves behind a legacy in arts and in civil rights that has changed the world for the better.” — New York Mayor Eric Adams.
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“Harry Belafonte was a man of courage who risked his life and treasure to fight those willing to murder to deny Black people our freedom to exist.He gave voice to the unsung heart songs that the common man feels but never utters.He gave voice to the voiceless. He’s an ancestor now.” — Actor Wendell Pierce.
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“Thank you, Mr. B, for all of your years of mentorship, guidance, and lifetime of activism fighting for a better future for all of us.” — Former NFL star and activist Colin Kaepernick.
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“Artists uniting to use their art form to make transformational change in the world … is one of the great benefits to living a public life. Harry Belafonte exemplified this and utilized every aspect of his immeasurable talent, applying it specifically to the plight of other human beings and their civil rights.” — Actor Jamie Lee Curtis, who posted an image of a 1953 Ebony magazine cover featuring Belafonte and her parents, actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
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“I am deeply sad at the loss of my very dear brother, the great Harry Belafonte. His artistic genius, moral courage and loving soul shall live forever.” — Civil rights activist and scholar Cornel West.
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2023-04-25T20:02:13+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/entertainment-civil-rights-notables-honor-harry-belafonte/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at where control of Congress stands in the 2022 midterm elections.
WHY HASN’T THE AP CALLED CONTROL OF CONGRESS YET?
In short, because neither party has yet reached the 218 seats necessary to win in the House or the 50 (for Democrats) or 51 (for Republicans) required in the Senate. When that will happen isn’t clear.
If Democrats retain their 50 seats, they keep control because of Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote.
The AP does not make projections and will only declare a winner when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow the trailing candidates to close the gap. In some contested races where a party or candidate has a history of consistent and convincing wins The AP can use results from AP VoteCast to confirm a candidate’s victory, even as soon as polls close. VoteCast is a survey of American voters aimed at determining why they voted how they did.
In House races, The AP has thus far declared Republicans winners in 199 seats compared with 172 for the Democrats early Wednesday. Other races hadn’t been called yet. In the Senate, where about a third of the 100 seats were up for election, the count of AP race calls meant the chamber stood at 48-48.
COUNTING CONTINUES
Key races, like contests for governor and U.S. Senate in Arizona and Nevada, remained uncalled on Wednesday as officials there continue to tally votes, including mail-in ballots.
In other close races, like the Georgia Senate contest between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, runoff contests are either pending or probable.
In Alaska, where incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola won a special election this summer to fill an open seat held for decades by Republicans, a second round of vote tabulating could take place.
That’s because Alaska has ranked-choice voting in which voters rank candidates. If no one gets 50% plus one, then the person with the fewest votes gets eliminated and voters’ choices count toward their second pick. The rounds continue until two candidates are left and the one with the most votes wins.
Peltola was leading Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich in a race too early to call.
CHALLENGES?
In 2020, former President Donald Trump challenged outcomes in close races across the country. Those challenges failed in courts, though Trump continued to insist falsely that the race was stolen.
So far, nothing like those kinds of objections has materialized.
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Mike Catalini can be reached at https://twitter.com/mikecatalini
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Check out https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections to learn more about the issues and factors at play in the 2022 midterm elections. Follow AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at: https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections
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2022-11-09T20:03:35+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-why-ap-hasnt-called-control-of-congress-yet/
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LAS VEGAS – The federal government is pledging $401 million in grants and loans to expand the reach and improve the speed of internet for rural residents, tribes and businesses in remote parts of 11 states from Alaska to Arkansas.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters Wednesday, ahead of the Thursday announcement, that farmers, store owners, schoolchildren and people seeking telehealth medical checkups will benefit from the ReConnect and Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan and Loan Guarantee programs.
“Connectivity is critical to economic success in rural America,” Vilsack said in a statement tallying the number of people who could be helped at about 31,000 in states also including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota and Texas.
The statement said the Department of Agriculture plans more spending on high-speed internet in coming weeks as part of a $65 billion Biden administration plan to expand affordable, high-speed internet to all communities in the U.S.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto joined Vilsack and Mitch Landrieu, White House infrastructure coordinator, to point to the effect the grants and loans are expected to have in the northern Nevada community of Lovelock, home to fewer than 2,000 people, and the Lovelock Indian Colony.
“There is a need for this connectivity on so many levels,” Cortez Masto said, “whether it brings telehealth, telemedicine, e-learning, workforce development. A connection is so important for so many Nevadans.”
Internet provider Uprise LLC will receive more than $27 million to connect almost 4,900 people, 130 businesses, 22 farms and seven public schools in Lovelock and surrounding Pershing County, officials said.
Masto, a Democrat seeking reelection in November, said federal funds will offer eligible Nevada residents a $30-per-month discount on their internet bill discount and up to $100 toward a computer.
Elsewhere, Midvale Telephone Co. will get $10.6 million to bring high-speed fiber-optic internet to people, businesses and farms in four central Idaho counties — Elmore, Blaine, Custer and Boise — and five southeast Arizona counties: Gila, Graham, Pinal, Cochise and Pima.
The Arkansas Telephone Co. will receive $12 million to connect almost 1,000 people, 10 businesses and 145 farms to high-speed internet in Searcy and Van Buren counties, with low-cost with voice and voice/data starter packages.
Alaska Power & Telephone, Unicom Inc. and Cordova Telephone Cooperative, combined, are slated to receive almost $55.4 million in to connect almost 3,300 people, 118 businesses and seven schools in remote areas by fiber-optic network.
In New Mexico, Continental Divide Electric Cooperative and ENMP Telephone Cooperative are due to receive a combined $18 million in grants to install affordable fiber networks, and Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative will get a nearly $29 million loan to connect “socially vulnerable communities” in Chaves, Eddy, Lincoln and Otero counties.
Vilsack said the programs will particularly help residents in what he called “persistent poverty counties,” where he said most have access to broadband, but about one in three don’t have high-speed networks needed for telemedicine and distance learning.
He said the goal was “to do what is necessary to make sure every rural resident, regardless of ZIP code has access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet.”
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2022-07-29T00:39:39+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/tech/2022/07/28/feds-401m-will-add-high-speed-internet-to-rural-us-places/
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Beloit Meals on Wheels sets pickleball fundraiser Clint Wolf Clint Wolf Author email Jun 2, 2022 3 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save BELOIT - A Pickleball Open Play Day fundraiser for Beloit Meals on Wheels will be held starting at noon on June 18 at Wootton Park, 1451 Fourth St.The cost to enter is $20 per person. There will be hot dogs, brats, burgers, water and Gatorade provided.To register, go to the website at www.beloitmealsonwheels.org/pickleball. For more information, email to ellen@beloitmealsonwheels.org.A rain date has been set for June 25. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Clint Wolf Author email Follow Clint Wolf Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today Recommended for you Trending Now Memorial Day parades and ceremonies planned across Winnebago and Rock counties Former South Beloit High standout Lenette (Range) Holden to join Sports Hall Beloit, South Beloit crowds gather for Memorial Day Parade Clinton to host Memorial Day parade South Beloit, Beloit craft deal to provide fire department leadership services Newsletters Sign up today!Get our newsletters delivered right to your inbox. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Screentime e-Edition Screentime
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2022-06-03T06:41:12+00:00
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beloitdailynews.com
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https://www.beloitdailynews.com/no_meter/beloit-meals-on-wheels-sets-pickleball-fundraiser/article_ce256b10-e2a1-11ec-8b9e-b721dc656c66.html
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Swift Current 4 Regina 2
Saskatoon 6 Prince Albert 1
Red Deer 8 Prince George 5
Brandon 4 Calgary 2
Portland 7 Victoria 6 (OT)
Tri-City 8 Kamloops 2
Seattle 3 Lethbridge 2 (OT)
Everett 5 Spokane 2
Kelowna 4 Vancouver 1
Saturday's results
Regina 5 Swift Current 2
Prince Albert 3 Saskatoon 1
Prince George 4 Edmonton 3 (OT)
Red Deer 2 Brandon 1 (OT)
Portland 5 Lethbridge 2
Medicine Hat 7 Calgary 1
Winnipeg 3 Moose Jaw 2 (SO)
Seattle 6 Everett 2
Kamloops 6 Tri-City 5 (OT)
Vancouver 4 Kelowna 3
Spokane 6 Victoria 3
Sunday's results
Calgary 4 Red Deer 2
Brandon 2 Edmonton 0
Winnipeg 6 Moose Jaw 0
Victoria 5 Kelowna 1
Monday's results
Spokane at Portland, 12 a.m.
Friday's games
Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
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2023-01-23T05:14:57+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17735073.php
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AJAY BANGA CREDITS CITIZEN ACTIVISTS FOR DRIVING MOMENTUM TOWARDS NEW WORLD BANK DEBT PAUSE CLAUSE FOR COUNTRIES AFFLICTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS
Attention now turns to the final day of Macron's Summit for a New Global Financial Pact to deliver on $100 billion promise, introduce debt clauses, provide much needed resources for developing nations
PARIS, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A night that united the Global North and Global South, 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris' lit up the iconic Champ de Mars this evening, as climate activists, Heads of State, the biggest names in music, and twenty thousand global citizens gathered to call for justice on behalf of the world's climate-vulnerable countries. Hosted by international advocacy organization Global Citizen, the event was broadcast and streamed live around the world, rallying the people everywhere to hold to account the leaders gathering in Paris for the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, chaired by President Macron.
During an unforgettable acoustic set, which included hits 'Your Power', 'Everything I Wanted' and 'Happier Than Ever', Billie Eilish told the crowd, "I can't even stress it enough – we really need to change our entire system so that the people most impacted by the climate crisis get what they need to fight it. So please, join me in demanding action from global leaders. Not in the future, but right NOW."
Jon Batiste brought his unparalleled energy to the Power Our Planet stage, with songs 'Be Who You Are' and 'Butterfly', and H.E.R. wowed with her hits 'We Made It' and 'The Journey'. In a surprise performance, Jack Harlow performed his hit 'First Class'. Closing out an unforgettable night, Lenny Kravitz brought the house down with 'Are You Going to Go My Way' and 'It Ain't Over Til It's Over'.
Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank, took to the stage alongside the Co-Chair of the Power Our Planet campaign, Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, to announce a fundamental shift in the World Bank's policies, in light of the impacts of the climate crisis on developing countries: "Today I am proud to announce a new debt pause option for countries suffering in the aftermath of a natural disaster. It gives governments, and leaders like Mia [Mottley] a break from repaying their debts so that they can focus on recovery — they shouldn't need to worry about paying the bills, and that was made possible because of you."
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley joined Banga on stage to call for action. "Change may not happen overnight, but it has to start somewhere. Action cannot be taken in some far off future, in fact it cannot even wait for tomorrow — we need to do this today," said Mottley.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil told the audience, "The Amazon is a sovereign territory, and at the same time the Amazon belongs to all humanity, and that's why we will take all the measures to keep the forest safe everyday."
William Ruto, President of Kenya said, "The joy and the happiness exuded by all of us here, I wish it could be shared around the world. The people of Kenya, Africa and many other parts of the world live in the reality of the new normal."
"The U.S. may have signed the Paris Agreement years ago, but what good is it putting your name to a piece of paper if you don't follow through on what it promises?" said Hugh Evans, Co-Founder & CEO of Global Citizen. "This morning in Paris, the U.S. had the opportunity to make history by announcing a real financial commitment to addressing climate change. Instead what we got was words from Janet Yellen that have no substance. Just last week, New York was engulfed by smoke from wildfires, and Miami was submerged in water due to severe flooding. What bigger wake up call does the U.S. need?"
"As we gather tonight, there are billions of people in low-income countries without access to the electricity needed to turn on a light bulb and stream new music at the same time. Without the healthy food needed to learn and grow," said Rajiv Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. "We're spending more than $500 million to build solar-power grids in communities in Haiti. To provide school meals in Kenya that are good for people and planet, and to electrify 10,000 buses in India — an initiative just finalized today," said Shah.
WHO Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took the stage to reiterate the call for global leaders to prioritize health amid the climate crises. "G20 countries promised to allocate $100 billion in special financing to help lower-income countries cope with things like climate change and struggling economies, as well as to provide investment in their health systems," said Dr. Tedros. "They must help strengthen primary health care systems so that its workers can deliver life-saving immunizations, like the polio vaccine — so that we can get back on track to protecting the health of children around the world," said Dr. Tedros.
Fati N'Zi-Hassane, Africa Director of Oxfam International, joined Tedros on stage to emphasize his call. "The impact of climate change on the health of the people in Africa is undeniable… and while we cannot stop the need for new hospitals and clinics tackling climate-related illnesses, we can make sure that our health workers are given fair wages and social protection," said N'Zi-Hassane.
French Environmentalist Camille Etienne spoke about the crackdown against climate activism. "For many people around the world, the climate crisis is already a question of life and death. Those on the front lines of climate disruption are the least responsible for this disaster."
Kenyan activist Elizabeth Wathuti spoke to the deforestation happening in Kenya. "Today, deforestation is not only destroying my home's environment, but due to the effects of climate change, it is becoming harder and harder to reverse forest loss and land degradation," she said. "It is time to prioritize people and our planet over short-term profits."
Mexican activist Xiye Bastida reminded us why activists must play a role in decision-making. "The United States has the power to redistribute the water," she said. "To acknowledge that historically, they have been dictating who gets what and how much. It is their responsibility to step up to free $1 trillion for vulnerable countries whose garden territories have been damaged by climate disasters. This access will help regenerate economies, pay for losses and damages, and strengthen adaptation measures."
Environmentalist and activist from Samoa and 2022 Global Citizen Prize winner Brianna Fruean spoke about hope and resilience in the midst of the climate crisis. "We will all be impacted by the climate crisis one day, though in very different ways," she said. "We are sailing the same troubled waters, but in very different boats. Vulnerable countries that contribute the least to climate change suffer the most."
Ecuadorian human rights activist and co-founder of Polluters Out Helena Gualinga spoke about the importance of putting people and nature first. "We need more than a green transition. We need a new system where we put people and nature first. Latin America is one of the most dangerous places in the world for Indigenous peoples and land defenders. But our life's work has been to protect our land. And therefore, our mere existence is our resistance."
Rwanda-based activist Ineza Umuhoza Grace explained loss and damage. "In short, when we're talking about loss and damage, we're saying that the countries that caused the damage should be paying to fix it."
Filipino activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan said, "We call on the Global North to drop the disaster debt, which would allow countries hit by natural disasters to focus on responding to them instead of being burdened by loans." She continued: "We demand that these leaders step up and pay up through climate financing. This financing is critical to ensure all countries can adapt to climate change and see a rapid transition to clean energy."
Founder and CEO of Farmer on Fire Ltd and Activist Wangari Kuria spoke about how alarming global warming truly is. "I am a smallholder farmer from Ngatataek Kajiado, a dusty town in arid Kenya… In our local language, Kiswahili, global warming literally translates into: "Alarm, alarm! The world is on fire." And this is something the whole world needs to know."
African Campaigner Dean Bhebhe reminded us why the time is now. "There is a saying that goes: 'The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time is now.'"
United States activist Jerome Foster II spoke about the need for environmental justice. "Climate crisis and social injustice are inextricably linked," said the youngest-ever White House advisor for environmental justice. "Our economic system must work not only for the few, but for all nations and all people, especially communities that are impacted first and worst by the climate crisis.
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2023-06-23T05:42:54+00:00
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Kathie Lee Gifford supports 'great friend' Regis Philbin amid Kelly Ripa drama
NEW YORK - They sat side by side for more than 15 years as two of the greatest TV talk show co-hosts of all time, first in 1985 on "The Morning Show" and then together nationally in 1988 for "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee."
So it came as no surprise that Kathie Lee Gifford recalled only positive memories working with Regis Philbin amid claims Kelly Ripa, who filled in Gifford's seat in 2001 when she left the show the year before, had difficulties with the late broadcaster.
"I’m not going to comment on Kelly’s story. It’s hers. She can say whatever she wants," Gifford exclusively told Fox News Digital. "I’m a big believer in freedom of expression. I don’t believe we’re supposed to cancel anybody. She has the right to tell her story as she remembers it."
Ripa, a former "All My Children" star, caught criticism earlier this month when excerpts of her new memoir revealed her "great privilege" of working with Philbin, also came the great burden of a less than "easy working relationship."
"My experience with Regis was one of the greatest experiences of my entire life," Gifford said. "I worked with him for 15 years. We never had one unkind word between us."
"The God of the Way" author explained that her desire to leave the show while it was at the top of its game in 2000 was to pursue her own artistic passions.
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"I wanted to be a writer and a singer and an actress like I started out being long before I met Regis," she said. "Grateful for the 15 years I had with him, but I had to go, just like I had to move away.
"There are times in your life when you got to have the courage to make a huge change in your life. I walked away from the greatest success in daytime television, except for Oprah, that ever was. I walked away from it because I needed to."
Talk show host Regis Philbin and new co-host Kelly Ripa speak to the audience during a broadcast of "Live with Regis and Kelly," Feb. 5, 2001, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Newsmakers)
"Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" first received national syndication in September 1988, three years after Regis and Kathie Lee had been paired together for the New York-based program, "The Morning Show."
After years of ratings success, she left the program in July 2000. Regis undertook hosting responsibilities alone for a year while in search of his next co-host, he eventually found his replacement in Ripa.
"I don't want to feel like I'm slamming anyone or that I'm being disrespectful. But I also want people to know it was not a cakewalk. It took years to earn my place there and earn things that are routinely given to the men I worked with," Ripa recently told People while detailing some "good and bad days" she endured with Philbin.
Gifford, on the other hand, had a different experience, even when she had to leave the show.
"We were such great friends," Gifford said. "He just didn't like it, but he understood it. He loved me. We became close friends in the next 20 years."
After taking an eight-year break from live television, Gifford returned to the studio and worked with Hoda Kotb on the fourth hour of "Today" in 2008.
She stayed with NBC until April 2019, in which she earned a Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding informative talk show host.
Gifford interviewed every major celebrity, discussed the hottest trends and biggest stories throughout her career in front of the camera. Still, she reflected on her time with Regis, who died in 2020 at the age of 88.
Regis Philbin (L) and Kathie Lee Gifford attend the Greenwich International Film Festival's Changemaker Gala at L'Escale Restaurant on June 6, 2015, in Greenwich, Connecticut. (Photo by Mark Sagliocco/WireImage)
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"I saw him two weeks before he died, and his wife told me that that's the last time she ever heard him laugh, and I treasure that," Gifford said.
"So that says all you need to know about what I think about what Kelly is saying now."
Gifford also had fond memories of her 30-year marriage with late husband, Frank Gifford, who was a former New York Giants football player and television sports commentator.
Frank died in 2015 at the age of 84, and was also survived by their two children, Cody and Cassidy. "Well, he was more than an NFL star," Gifford said of Frank. "Frank was one of the greatest football players of all time … Tom Brady's a magnificent player. Frank always felt that he was the greatest quarterback of all time … I don't compare Frank to anybody else."
The "Hello, Little Dreamer" author said she experienced challenges in her marriage as "everybody does," and was upset when she heard the Super Bowl champion was in the midst of marital woes with Gisele Bündchen.
"God loves marriage. God instituted marriage for reason, for a purpose. Family is so important to God. … Marriages are under attack. Monogamy is under attack," she said.
"I think marriage should be a holy alliance. Now, there are reasons why certain people should get divorced, and they have physical reasons to … I don't know their first story. I just know that I'm sorry to them and their children."
Frank Gifford, Kathie Lee Gifford, Cody Gifford, and Cassidy Gifford attend the "Scandalous" Broadway Opening Night at Neil Simon Theatre on Nov. 15, 2012, in New York City. (Photo by Ben Hider/Getty Images)
As for her new book and why it's so important for her to be a part of faith-filled projects, Gifford admitted the entire explanation is a "mini-series."
"My faith is everything, the essence of everything I am as a human being and beyond," she shared. "So why wouldn't I make these movies that I make and write these books that I [write]… I don't have a religion. I have a relationship with a living God, which is more than a 24/7 situation. It's a time. And that's why I do it. That's the short answer."
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2022-10-11T11:11:46+00:00
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fox29.com
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https://www.fox29.com/news/kathie-lee-gifford-supports-great-friend-regis-philbin-amid-kelly-ripa-drama
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LUX, France (AP) — Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux.
From dry and cracked reservoirs in Spain to falling water levels on major arteries like the Danube, the Rhine and the Po, an unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of Europe. It is damaging farm economies, forcing water restrictions, causing wildfires and threatening aquatic species.
There has been no significant rainfall for almost two months in the continent's western, central and southern regions. In typically rainy Britain, the government officially declared a drought across southern and central England on Friday amid one of the hottest and driest summers on record.
And Europe's dry period is expected to continue in what experts say could be the worst drought in 500 years.
Climate change is exacerbating conditions as hotter temperatures speed up evaporation, thirsty plants take in more moisture and reduced snowfall in the winter limits supplies of fresh water available for irrigation in the summer. Europe isn't alone in the crisis, with drought conditions also reported in East Africa, the western United States and northern Mexico.
As he walked in the 15-meter (50-foot) wide riverbed in Lux, Jean-Philippe Couasné, chief technician at the local Federation for Fishing and Protection of the Aquatic Environment, listed the species of fish that had died in the Tille.
“It’s heartbreaking,” he said. “On average, about 8,000 liters (2,100 gallons) per second are flowing. ... And now, zero liters.”
In areas upstream, some trout and other freshwater species can take shelter in pools via fish ladders. But such systems aren't available everywhere.
Without rain, the river “will continue to empty. And yes, all fish will die. ... They are trapped upstream and downstream, there’s no water coming in, so the oxygen level will keep decreasing as the (water) volume goes down,” Couasné said. “These are species that will gradually disappear."
Jean-Pierre Sonvico, the regional head of the federation, said diverting the fish to other rivers won't help because those waterways also are affected.
“Yes, it’s dramatic because what can we do? Nothing," he said. “We’re waiting, hoping for storms with rain, but storms are very local so we can't count on it.”
The European Commission’s Joint Research Center warned this week that drought conditions will get worse and potentially affect 47% of the continent.
Andrea Toreti, a senior researcher at the European Drought Observatory, said a drought in 2018 was so extreme that there were no similar events for the last 500 years, "but this year, I think, it is really worse.”
For the next three months, "we see still a very high risk of dry conditions over Western and Central Europe, as well as the U.K.,” Toreti said.
Current conditions result from long periods of dry weather caused by changes in world weather systems, said meteorologist Peter Hoffmann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research near Berlin.
“It’s just that in summer we feel it the most,” he said. “But actually the drought builds up across the year.”
Climate change has lessened temperature differences between regions, sapping the forces that drive the jet stream, which normally brings wet Atlantic weather to Europe, he said.
A weaker or unstable jet stream can bring unusually hot air to Europe from North Africa, leading to prolonged periods of heat. The reverse is also true, when a polar vortex of cold air from the Arctic can cause freezing conditions far south of where it would normally reach.
Hoffmann said observations in recent years have all been at the upper end of what existing climate models predicted.
The drought has caused some European countries to restrict water usage, and shipping is endangered on the Rhine and the Danube rivers.
The Rhine, Germany's biggest waterway, is forecast to reach critically low levels in the coming days. Authorities say it could become difficult for many large ships to safely navigate the river at the city of Kaub, roughly midway between Koblenz and Mainz.
On the Danube, authorities in Serbia have started dredging to keep vessels moving.
In neighboring Hungary, wide parts of Lake Velence near Budapest have turned into patches of dried mud, beaching small boats. Aeration and water circulation equipment was installed to protect wildlife, but water quality has deteriorated. A weekend swimming ban was imposed at one beach.
Stretches of the Po, Italy's longest river, are so low that barges and boats that sank decades ago are resurfacing.
Italy’s Lake Garda has fallen to its lowest levels ever, and people who flocked to the popular spot east of Milan at the start of a long summer weekend found a newly exposed shoreline of bleached rocks with a yellow hue. Authorities recently released more water from the lake, Italy’s largest, to help with irrigation, but halted the effort to protect the lucrative tourist season.
The drought also has affected England, which last month had its driest July since 1935, according to the Met Office weather agency. The lack of rain has depleted reservoirs, rivers and groundwater and left grasslands brown and tinder-dry.
Millions in the U.K. already were barred from watering lawns and gardens, and 15 million more around London will face such a ban soon.
U.K. farmers face running out of irrigation water and having to use winter feed for animals because of a lack of grass. The Rivers Trust charity said England’s chalk streams — which allow underground springs to bubble up through the spongy layer of rock — are drying up, endangering aquatic wildlife like kingfishers and trout.
Even countries like Spain and Portugal, which are used to long periods without rain, have seen major consequences. In the Spanish region of Andalucia, some avocado farmers have had to sacrifice hundreds of trees to save others from wilting as the Vinuela reservoir in Malaga province dropped to only 13% of capacity.
Some European farmers are using water from the tap for their livestock when ponds and streams go dry, using up to 100 liters (26 gallons) a day per cow.
In normally green Burgundy, the source of Paris' Seine River, the grass has turned yellow-brown and tractors churn up giant clouds of dust.
Baptiste Colson, who owns dairy cows and grows feed crops in the village of Moloy, said his animals are suffering, with the quality and quantity of their milk decreasing. The 31-year-old head of the local Young Farmers union said he has been forced to dip into his winter fodder in August.
“That is the biggest concern,” Colson said.
EU corn production is expected to be 12.5 million tons below last year and sunflower production is projected to be 1.6 million tons lower, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights.
Colson expects at least a 30% drop in corn yields, a major problem for feeding his cows.
“We know we’ll have to buy food ... so the cows can continue producing milk,” he said. "From an economic point of view, the cost will be high.”
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Dana Beltaji and Jill Lawless in London, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal, Ciarán Giles in Madrid, Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade, Serbia, and Bela Szandelszky in Budapest, Hungary, and Andrea Rosa and Luigi Navarra in Sirmione, Italy, contributed.
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2022-08-14T16:43:45+00:00
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wkbw.com
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https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/european-drought-dries-up-rivers-kills-fish-shrivels-crops
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Emory & Henry College announced the start of a Collective Connections Campaign during the college's homecoming activities this weekend with a goal to raise $25 million to enhance the on-campus experience in support of student success, encourage community engagement and improve the athletics program.
College President Dr. John W. Wells highlighted E&H’s history of reinventing itself in order to thrive and be a continued presence in Southwest Virginia.
“Emory & Henry is choosing to be proactive at a moment when much of higher education is experiencing enrollment decline and demographic changes, ”Wells said. “Emory & Henry has a long history of creative reinvention when we have embraced flexibility and nimbleness to ensure we remain relevant for our students and our community. Emory & Henry must be part of the solution for growth and prosperity in Southwest Virginia.”
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So far, E&H has raised $5 million of the $25 million it has set as the Collective Connections Campaign goal. The campaign comes after the college welcomed a record 1,400 undergraduate students to its campus this semester.
Funds raised during the campaign will go towards establishing additional scholarships for students, as well as new housing and supporting the development of a planned multi-sports complex, which would house various athletic programs such as men’s and women’s rugby, lacrosse, and the E&H equestrian team.
The campaign co-chairs, Kyra K. Bishop and Tom B. Bishop, explained in a statement that through the campaign, they hope to provide present and future E&H students with more resources and opportunities.
“Over these many years, we have only strengthened and deepened our commitment to transforming lives and increasing excellence,” Tom Bishop said. “The Collective Connections Campaign will provide new opportunities to empower more students to embrace the power of an Emory & Henry education and experience to change their own lives and amplify their excellence.”
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2022-10-03T22:28:22+00:00
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heraldcourier.com
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https://heraldcourier.com/news/local/education/emory-henry-announces-campaign-to-raise-25-million/article_2952417c-435d-11ed-9def-970f2c98197a.html
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — No menu. No delivery. No walk-ins. Advance orders only. Explanations and instructions while you eat.
Welcome to Baking Virsa, a hole-in-the-wall in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore described as the country’s most expensive restaurant for what it serves — household favorites like flatbreads and kebabs.
It attracts diners from across Pakistan and beyond, curious about the limited offerings, the larger-than-life owner, and the rigid, no-frills dining experience that sets it apart from other restaurants in the area.
The windowless space opens out onto Railway Road in Gawalmandi, a neighborhood crammed with people, vehicles, animals, and food stalls. Restaurants belch out smells of baking bread, frying fish, grilling meats, and opinionated spicing into the early hours of the morning, when preparations begin for breakfast.
Lahore is a culinary powerhouse in Pakistan and, for years, Gawalmandi was famous for having a pedestrian area with restaurants and cafes.
Many of Gawalmandi’s original communities migrated from Kashmir and eastern Punjab province before partition in 1947, when India and Pakistan were carved from the former British Empire as independent nations. The mix of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims enriched Gawalmandi’s commerce, culture and cuisine.
Some upscale parts of Lahore used to see Gawalmandi as “virtually a no-go area,” said Kamran Lashari, the director-general of the Lahore Walled City Authority. But a makeover more than 20 years ago helped pull in the crowds and turn it into a magnet for diners.
“We had street performers. President Pervez Musharraf sat in the street with people all around him. The prince of Jordan also visited. Indian newspapers reported on Gawalmandi,” Lashari said.
Restaurants in the neighborhood tend to be cheap and cheerful places.
And then there is Baking Virsa, where dinner for two can quickly come to $60 without drinks because drinks, even water, are not served. By comparison, a basket of naan at the five-star Serena Hotel in the capital, Islamabad, sells for a dollar and a plate of kebabs is $8. In Gawalmandi, one naan usually costs as little as 10 cents.
There are five items in Baking Virsa’s repertoire: chicken, chops, two types of naan, and kebabs. Owner Bilal Sufi also does a roaring trade in bakarkhani, buttery, savory, crispy pastry discs best enjoyed with a cup of pink Kashmiri chai. Everything is available for takeaway but must be ordered days in advance, even when dining in.
It is not a restaurant but a tandoor, a large oven made of clay, the 34-year-old Sufi tells people. It has been in the same location for 75 years, serving the same items for decades.
Sufi says he is only doing what his father and grandfather have done, detailing his marinade ingredients, cooking methods, meat provenance and animal husbandry. His sheep are fed a diet of saffron milk, dates and unripe bananas.
He also tells people how to eat their food. “Pick it up with your hands! Take a big bite! Eat like a beast!” he urges them.
There is no salad, no yogurt, and no chutney, he tells a potential customer on the phone. “And if you ask for these you won’t get them.”
Sufi has run Baking Virsa for more than three years, taking over from his father Sufi Masood Saeed, who ran it before him and his grandfather Sufi Ahmed Saeed before that.
“In Pakistan, people think the spicier the better,” said the third-generation tandoor owner. “Everywhere in Pakistan you’ll have sauce or salad. If you have those on your taste buds, will you taste the yogurt or the meat?”
The meal arrives in a sequence.
First, Sufi presents a whole chicken, for $30, followed by mutton chops at $12.50, then a kebab, which costs $8. Sufi says one kebab is enough for two people. A female diner asks for a plain naan with her chicken but is told she can't have it until she gets her kebab.
Her companion asks for a second kebab but is declined.
“All our kebabs are committed,” Sufi tells him solemnly.
Another diner wants the mutton-stuffed naan but is told she can’t have it as it wasn’t part of the telephone order made three nights earlier.
Dinner comes on plastic plates atop plastic stools to a soundtrack of tooting rickshaws and other street life. Neighbors complain that the SUVs and sleek cars with Islamabad license plates block their doorways. Nobody moves their vehicles.
Sufi is unapologetic about everything. If he doesn’t get the quality of meat he wants, he won’t serve it. He’ll cancel the order and return the money to customers.
If there aren’t enough orders, he won't open on that particular day.
“It isn’t necessary to open every day," he says. “We need to fulfil a minimum quantity for the recipes, that’s 10-12 people."
He insists on his customers knowing what they eat, where it comes from, how it's made — and “why it tastes so different."
Baking Virsa, like the properties surrounding it, has no gas or running water. There is little to no street lighting on Railway Road. Any illumination comes from traffic, homes, and businesses. Away from the lip-smacking aroma of food, there is the occasional whiff of sewage.
Lashari, the city official, laments the “decay and disorder” that blights Gawalmandi and other traditional neighborhoods like it. He says they have a lot of commercial, residential and tourism potential but need an urban regeneration program.
Sufi, unperturbed by his very basic surroundings, has no intention of changing anything.
“Baking Virsa is a legacy," he says. “I’m doing this out of love and affection for my father.”
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2022-12-13T07:43:21+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Exclusive-dining-Pakistani-hole-in-the-wall-17649977.php
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SEATTLE — A man suspected of breaking into a Seattle home has refused to come clean about his intentions, even though police found him fully clothed in a bathtub filled with water.
She remained outside the home and called police. Upon their arrival, officers instructed anyone inside to come out. When they got no reply, they went in to search the home — and found a suspect in a bathroom.
“The man was clothed but very wet, and the bathtub was full of water,” police said in a statement.
The 27-year-old man was arrested for residential burglary and refused to explain his actions, including his choice of a bathing spot, police said.
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2023-01-28T22:39:45+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fully-clothed-bathing-burglar-found-in-seattle-bathroom/2023/01/28/045be2c4-9f56-11ed-93e0-38551e88239c_story.html
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SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Giants’ deficit against the New York Mets grew from one run to four runs in a span of about a minute Friday night – and not without an inquiry from manager Gabe Kapler.
Catcher Joey Bart fielded a check swing from Jeff McNeil in the fifth inning right in front of home plate, but his throw to first base went off McNeil’s back and into right field, allowing Luis Guillorme to score from second base.
Kapler came out of the dugout to talk to home plate umpire Bill Miller about McNeil potentially being inside the line on his way to first base, but the discussion was brief.
The next batter, Pete Alonso, took the first pitch he saw from Anthony DeSclafani over the center field wall, giving the Mets more than enough offense in what became a 7-0 win over the Giants before an announced crowd of 27,551 at Oracle Park.
“I did go out there to ensure that the play was not reviewable, and then asked (Miller) if he would be willing to check with the other umpires,” Kapler said. “He said that it was his call. He had a pretty clear view of it. We’ve reviewed it and it looks like it’s probably a fine call.”
DeSclafani’s next pitch was a slider that wound up 415 feet away from home plate, as Alonso hit his Major League-leading 10th home of the season.
DeSclafani allowed seven hits and four earned runs in five innings, his shortest outing of the season as his record fell to 1-1.
“It was a really weird play,” DeSclafani said. “Obviously, I wish we got that out there, but we didn’t and then I just didn’t do a good job of walking back in and having some damage control. A hanging slider to Pete and it just kind of got us out of the game.”
Mets left-handed starter and Newark native Joey Lucchesi, in his first big league game since June 2021, struck out eight in seven innings as he helped hand the Giants their seventh loss in eight games.
Lucchesi allowed just four hits and induced three ground ball double plays as the Giants were shut out for the third time in 19 games this season.
Prior to Friday, the Giants had hit just .211, with a .593 OPS in 229 plate appearances against left-handed pitchers. By contrast, the Giants were hitting .252 with a .812 OPS in 486 plate appearances against right-handers.
“It’s a problem that we have to solve,” Kapler said of the lack of success against lefties.
Including its 9-4 loss to the Mets on Thursday, San Francisco has now not won a series since it took two of three games from the Chicago White Sox from April 3-6.
At 6-13, the Giants’ record is tied for the second-worst in the National League, bettering only the 6-15 Colorado Rockies. The Washington Nationals improved to 6-13 with a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday.
The question is now — when is it no longer early in a full Major League Baseball season?
After one month? Six weeks? Memorial Day?
Whatever the case may be, the Giants now have to go 84-59 just to reach 90 wins this season. In 2022, the Philadelphia Phillies, at 87-75, had the worst record of any NL team to make the playoffs.
Does Kapler worry about falling too far below .500?
“No, not from a record standpoint,” he said. “I definitely expect us to play better baseball going forward. That’s not negotiable. We have to do that to be competitive in our division. But no, I’m not concerned about where we are today on the (21st) day of April.
“We have not played good baseball to this point. I’m just not focused on how many games we’ve won as the main thing.”
DeSclafani agreed.
“It’d be nice to be playing a little bit better baseball and stringing some wins together,” he said. “But Kap’s right. It’s April 21. We need to obviously get going but there’s a lot of baseball left. There’s no reason to dwell on (the record) just yet.”
One of the bright spots for the Giants was seeing outfielder Brett Wisely pick up his first big league hit, a single to left in the third inning. Wisely had been 0-for-7 with three strikeouts over four games up until that point.
“It felt like a weight off my shoulders,” Wisely said. “I felt like I was pressing so much the last two games. To get my first one out of the way felt pretty good.”
Wisely was going through his phone after the game, and said he had received dozens of text messages.
“I’ve probably got like 50 in there from everybody,” Wisely, 23, said. “From people in elementary school, people I went to college with. It’s wild seeing everybody pop up in my phone.”
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2023-04-22T06:19:41+00:00
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santacruzsentinel.com
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https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/04/21/how-sf-giants-game-vs-new-york-mets-turned-in-an-instant-and-when-is-it-no-longer-early/
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These toys are some of the most popular heading into the holiday season
The holidays are always more fun when you’re celebrating with children. Kids are usually easy to shop for, too, because you can’t go wrong when gifting toys.
The trick is choosing toys that will keep your children entertained.
Whether you’re looking for toys that are educational, inspire creativity or are classic hits with kids, here are the most popular toys this holiday season, with options for every budget.
In this article: Squishmallows Mystery Box, LEGO Jurassic World Dominion T.rex Dinosaur Breakout Set and Barbie Dreamhouse Playset
Most popular toys for holiday shopping
Under $25
Green Toys Bath Time Submarine
This submarine toy can make bath time more fun for kids ages 6 months to 6 years. It has a wide mouth that allows for pouring and scooping of water in the tub and a rear propeller that spins. Best of all, it’s made from 100% earth-friendly materials and doesn’t contain BPA or phthalates.
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For kids who are fans of the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian,” this plush toy of Grogu The Child is a perfect gift. The doll’s body is soft, but the base is filled with beans that help it stay upright. It is an excellent collectible for display, but many children will enjoy cuddling with it, too.
Sold by Amazon
Learning Resources Spike The Fine Motor Hedgehog
The game can help develop fine motor skills in toddlers ages 18 months and up. It features chunky pegs that fit into the hedgehog’s back and the quills are different shades to help with color recognition. It also comes with an activity guide.
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LeapFrog Clean Sweep Learning Caddy
Help your kids learn to have fun cleaning with this singing cleaning caddy. The bucket spins and makes a water-swishing sound when the foot pedal is pressed, while the pretend soap pump makes fun squirting sounds. It also comes with a spray bottle, cleaning cloth, mop, dustpan and broom.
Barbie Cutie Reveal Polar Bear Snowflake Sparkle Doll
This Barbie doll is plenty of fun to unbox because it comes with four surprise bags with clothes and accessories. The doll comes in a polar bear costume with an adorable bear head. The costume reverses into a fleece jacket with a polar bear print, too. Barbie’s makeup can also change when cold or warm water is applied to her face.
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This mystery box contains three 8-inch plush Squishmallow toys. These super-soft, squishy toys are ideal for cuddling, squeezing and other types of play. All three Squishmallows are made of high-quality materials, too, so they hold up well to regular snuggling.
Sold by Amazon
$25-$50
Magna-Tiles Glow In the Dark Set
These fun magnetic building tiles make it easy for kids ages 3 and up to build three-dimensional shapes. However, these tiles are even more fun than the original because they glow in the dark when exposed to the included LED light. The set contains 16 tiles for plenty of building options.
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Elenco Snap Circuits Jr. SC-100 Electronics Exploration Kit
For kids interested in STEM, this electronics kit is both educational and fun. It offers components to build over 100 electric-powered projects that don’t require any soldering or tools to build. The set is suitable for kids ages 8 years old and up.
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Fisher-Price Little People Swing & Share Treehouse
This treehouse playset offers many fun play opportunities for toddlers. It comes with two little people and a puppy that can play on the swing, climb up the treehouse or drop down a secret trap door. The toy also plays songs and makes fun sounds to entertain kids.
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Marvel Black Panther Heart of Wakanda Plush Figure
Fans of Marvel superheroes will love opening this Black Panther plush figure this holiday season. When the figure’s chest is pressed, it says the character’s iconic phrase, “Wakanda Forever!” and the eyes light up with a purple glow. The doll is soft, so it’s also excellent for cuddling. Even better, this is normally about $38, but is currently on sale for 50% off.
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Cry Babies First Emotions Dreamy Interactive Baby Doll
This sweet interactive baby doll offers over 65 expressions, movements and sounds to mimic a real baby. It laughs when its belly is tickled and can cry real tears. Kids can even feed the baby a bottle when it’s hungry. It also comes with a unicorn baby outfit, shoes, a baby bottle, a rattle, a hairbrush and a pacifier.
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Lego Jurassic World Dominion T.rex Dinosaur Breakout Set
This building set contains 140 pieces that fit the Jurassic World theme. It comes with an airport, a helicopter, a buggy and a T.rex figure, plus three Lego mini-figures. It’s an ideal gift for kids ages 4 and up who love dinosaurs and comes with pictorial instructions to make building as easy as possible.
Little Tikes My Real Jam Electric Guitar
If you know a kid who enjoys playing rock star, this fun, realistic toy guitar can provide hours of fun. It has an extremely realistic design, so children will feel like they’re playing a real guitar. It can also sync with any Bluetooth-enabled device to play your child’s favorite songs. It has volume controls, too, so you can control how loud your kids play.
Sold by Amazon
$50-$75
Star Wars Animatronic Edition Obi-Wan Kenobi Series-Inspired Electronic Droid Toy
Star Wars fans will love this interactive droid toy that offers 45 light, sound and movements. It responds to background noises with different combinations and has three modes inspired by droids in the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” TV series. It’s suitable for kids ages 4 and up.
Sold by Amazon
Little Live Pets Mama Surprise Guinea Pigs Interactive Toy and Accessories
This adorable interactive toy is perfect for kids interested in animals. It comes with a mama guinea pig that magically “delivers” three babies when her heart lights up and indicates she’s ready to go into her hutch. The toy makes more than 20 sounds and has multiple accessories for babies, too.
Sold by Kohl’s
Bluey Ultimate Lights & Sounds Playhouse
For kids who love the “Bluey” TV series, this amazing playhouse will make their holidays. It lights up and plays over 50 sounds and phrases when the Octopus is pressed. It also comes with Bluey, Bingo, Chattermax and Nana figures.
Sold by Amazon, Kohl’s and Macy’s
$75-$100
Magic Mixies Magical Misting Crystal Ball
This fun interactive toy lets kids play at casting spells and creating a magical fortune-telling pet inside the crystal ball. It includes an interactive light-up wand to cast the spell, which can make over 80 sounds as children play.
Hot Wheels Ultimate Garage Toy Vehicle Playset with Robo T-Rex
This super-tall Hot Wheels garage offers plenty of racing and stunt opportunities. It also has storage for miniature cars to keep them organized. Kids will also get a kick out of the hungry T-Rex in the center that’s ready to eat some Hot Wheels cars.
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$100+
LOL Surprise Fashion Show Mega Runway
This amazing playset includes 80 surprises for kids to open, including 12 exclusive dolls. The set offers four areas to play with the dolls and has enough pieces to create over 1,500 different looks.
Kids who love Barbie dolls will be blown away by this elaborate dollhouse. It has 10 indoor and outdoor play areas and offers many customizable pieces. It even has realistic sound effects, songs, light color options and light settings to bring the house to life. It comes with more than 75 accessories, too.
With a 7-inch OLED screen, this gaming device offers bright colors and sharp contrast during play. It also features enhanced audio from its onboard speakers for a truly immersive gaming experience. It comes with a wide adjustable stand for optimal positioning, too.
Sold by Amazon
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2022-11-22T20:10:37+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/reviews/br/baby-kids-br/get-a-head-start-on-your-christmas-shopping-with-the-21-toys-kids-are-sure-to-ask-for-this-year/
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Andrew Putnam finishes with Even-par 72 in second round of the Sanderson Farms Championship
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September 30, 2022
By PGATOUR.COM
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September 30, 2022
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Andrew Putnam lips in birdie putt at Sanderson Farms
In the opening round of the 2022 Sanderson Farms Championship, Andrew Putnam makes a 8-foot birdie putt on the par-5 14th hole.
In his second round at the Sanderson Farms Championship, Andrew Putnam hit 12 of 14 fairways and 13 of 18 greens in regulation, finishing at 5 under for the tournament. Putnam finished his day tied for 18th at 5 under; Thomas Detry and Mackenzie Hughes are tied for 1st at 10 under; Sepp Straka is in 3rd at 9 under; and Scott Stallings, Garrick Higgo, and Mark Hubbard are tied for 4th at 8 under.
On the 223-yard par-3 10th, Putnam hit the green off the tee but had a three-putt after missing a putt from 7-feet for a par and finished with a bogey. This put Putnam at 1 over for the round.
On the 554-yard par-5 11th, Putnam reached the green in 2 and sunk a 38-foot putt for eagle. This put Putnam at 1 under for the round.
On the 584-yard par-5 14th hole, Putnam reached the green in 3 and sunk a 28-foot putt for birdie. This moved Putnam to 2 under for the round.
Putnam got a bogey on the 479-yard par-4 16th, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Putnam to 1 under for the round.
On the par-4 first, Putnam's 109 yard approach to 9 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Putnam to 2 under for the round.
On the 482-yard par-4 sixth, Putnam had a bogey after hitting the green in 3 and two putting, moving Putnam to 1 under for the round.
Putnam got a bogey on the 403-yard par-4 eighth, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Putnam to even-par for the round.
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2022-10-01T17:50:16+00:00
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A bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan proposed by the Boy Scouts of America, which would allow it to continue operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting.
Though legal hurdles remain, the ruling by Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein in Delaware marked an important milestone for the BSA, which sought bankruptcy protection more than two years ago to stave off a flood of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by Scout leaders and volunteers.
Lawyers for some of the victims said the amount an individual survivor may receive from the bankruptcy plan depends on multiple factors relating to the abuse. They said in a statement that funds for the settlement would come from Boy Scouts of America, local councils, insurers and organizations that have have chartered scouting troops and activities, including Catholic institutions and parishes.
More than 80,000 men have filed claims, saying they were abused as children by troop leaders around the country.
“Credit to the courageous survivors that this breakthrough in child and scouting safety has been achieved,” said attorney Jeff Anderson, whose firm represented over 800 Boy Scout abuse survivors.
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2022-09-08T22:05:30+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Judge-approves-2-46-billion-Boy-Scouts-17428654.php
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Chico's FAS, Inc. Debuts Redesigned Rewards+™ Loyalty Programs Across All Three Brands
FORT MYERS, Fla., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chico's FAS, Inc. (NYSE: CHS) ("Chico's FAS" or the "Company") announces the launch of new customer loyalty programs for its three brands, Chico's, White House Black Market and Soma, reinforcing the retailer's digital-first, customer-led strategic priorities.
For the Chico's brand, this marks the first significant change in the customer loyalty experience since the Chico's Passport® loyalty program launched in 1990. The new Rewards+ loyalty programs provide more personalized and seamless opportunities for Chico's FAS customers to reap the benefits of their loyalty to the company's brands.
With a tiered benefits structure, the new Programs revitalize the Company's customer retail experience by emphasizing a "future-fit" loyalty approach that offers earned benefits aligned to customer spending trends. The programs amplify the unique strengths of each brand, allowing for simplified yet meaningful customer engagement across all touchpoints. For example, with a minimum annual spend of $500, Chico's Rewards+ members will access enhanced benefits with each new tier level, like personalized rewards offers; a new birthday reward experience; VIP access to limited edition products, collection previews and collaborations; enhanced styling services and personalized campaigns.
"Chico's FAS's purpose is to promote a kind world where women never have to compromise. Providing solutions, building communities and creating memorable experiences to bring women confidence and joy through personalized shopping experiences designed to help women look and feel their best. Our Rewards+™ Programs celebrate the exceptional customer loyalty that we work so hard to earn every day. The new Programs offer curated benefit suites matched to spend, that deliver industry-leading value with more meaningful ways to reward her every time she shops with us; two things that are important to our customers now more than ever," said Molly Langenstein, CEO of Chico's FAS.
Chico's Rewards+™ moves customers from one lifetime tier into 4 tiers (Daring, Magnetic, Fierce and Phenomenal) based on annual spend thresholds that unlock access to benefits from her first purchase. For example, members that unlock the Phenomenal tier receive benefits including 5% back in rewards, free shipping and returns for all chicos.com purchases plus early access to new products.
In addition to the new Chico's Rewards+ program benefits and to preserve the loyalty of legacy Chico's Passport members (now called Founders 5), the everyday 5% off and free shipping benefit will continue in addition to the new benefits.
WHBM Rewards+™ Shifting from a loyalty program that limited benefits access to WHBM members that reached minimum spending thresholds to a program that unlocks new earned rewards and shipping benefits with her first transaction allows the brand to start engaging and rewarding new WHBM® customers sooner.
Soma Rewards+™: This program reinforces the customer's wellness journey and investment in herself through accessible, tiered thresholds featuring benefits designed to motivate increased engagement and incremental spend. Unlike the former Love Soma Rewards® program, the new Soma Rewards+™ program features 4 tiers (Dream, Serene, Bliss and Cloud 9) to drive frequency across customer segments and reduce plateau effects.
"Consumer experience and consumer expectations go hand in hand, and Chico's FAS was facing the challenge of revamping a program like Chico's Passport® that shoppers had known for more than 30 years. Drawing on exhaustive consumer research and their strong executive vision, we were able to work together to redesign and launch exciting new loyalty experiences for each brand," said Stephanie Meltzer-Paul, EVP of Loyalty for Mastercard, Chico's FAS' loyalty strategy partner. "This new suite of loyalty programs reinforces Chico's FAS position as a leader in customer engagement and loyalty, and we look forward to continuing to partner closely in the future."
Quick fact - As of August 24, 2021, the Company operated 1,284 stores in the U.S. and sold merchandise through 66 international franchise locations in Mexico and 2 domestic franchise airport locations. The Company's merchandise is also available at www.chicos.com, www.chicosofftherack.com, www.whbm.com and www.soma.com as well as through third-party channels.
Chico's FAS is a Florida-based fashion company founded in 1983 on Sanibel Island, Fla. The Company reinvented the fashion retail experience by creating fashion communities anchored by service, which put the customer at the center of everything we do. As one of the leading fashion retailers in North America, Chico's FAS is a company of three unique brands – Chico's, WHBM and Soma – each thriving in their own white space, founded by women, led by women, providing solutions that millions of women say give them confidence and joy.
Our Company has a passion for fashion, and each day, we provide clothing, shoes and accessories, intimate apparel and expert styling in our brick-and-mortar boutiques, digital online boutiques and through Style Connect, the Company's proprietary digital styling tool that enables customers to conveniently shop wherever, whenever and however they prefer.
To learn more about Chico's FAS, please visit our corporate website at www.chicosfas.com. The information on our corporate website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this press release or incorporated into our federal securities law filings.
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2022-07-13T13:43:40+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/13/celebration-customer-loyalty/
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MADISON, Ill. (AP) — The focus in IndyCar is clearly on the seven-driver championship race as it heads into the final oval race of the season. But one more round racetrack also means a chance for Jimmie Johnson to grab his first series victory.
The seven-time NASCAR champion added the ovals to his schedule this year, his second since moving to IndyCar, and he’s steadily shown improvement. Johnson finished a career-best fifth last month on the Iowa Speedway oval, one spot higher than he did earlier in the season at Texas Motor Speedway.
Now he’s got a chance Saturday night at World Wide Technology Raceway, the a 1.25-mile oval outside St. Louis where Johnson has raced three times before.
Only problem? Johnson can’t remember two of those three races.
“I do remember my first race here in, I think ’98,” Johnson said Friday. “I do not remember being here two other times… which is kind of weird. I was in an argument with my social media team — ”I’ve only raced here once” and they said, “We have these stats that show you have been here three times.’”
All three of Johnson’s previous starts at Gateway came at the start of his career in what’s now called NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series. He finished 15th in his debut race, then was 13th in 2000 and 14th in 2001.
But he has a valid reason for only remembering the 1998 race: It was the start of his NASCAR career and Johnson was desperate for his big break.
“Myself, Ryan Newman and Adam Petty were all fighting for that seat,” Johnson recalled. “Adam Petty was sitting in the stands watching me. We’re literally fighting for this ride. I have more memories of that experience than the other two.”
For the record, none of them got the ride. The seat instead went to Mike Dillon, father of current Cup drivers Austin and Ty Dillon, and it took Johnson more than a year to finally land a full-time ride.
He made it to the Cup Series in 2002 and never looked back, winning 83 Cup races and a record-tying seven championships.
Johnson moved to IndyCar in 2021 but skipped the ovals, even those tracks were his specialty in NASCAR. He added the ovals to run a full season this year and the tracks have unsurprisingly been site of Johnson’s strongest runs since making the switch.
He didn’t drive an Indy car on at Gateway until Friday’s first practice but had tested a Cup car at the track before it was repaved. So is he headed into Saturday night believing he can win?
“I want to. I don’t know if it’s fair to think that until I get out on the track, get an understanding of it,” Johnson said. “I think when I look at my oval performances, if there are multiple lanes, I seem to run well. Until I get out there, it’s hard to say.”
TIGHT RACE
Only 59 points separate the top seven drivers headed into Saturday night’s race, the first of three to decide the IndyCar championship. Mathematically, though, 11 drivers can still win the title.
The leaders believe the numbers are proof of IndyCar’s overall strength.
“There’s no series like it in the world,” said Will Power, who holds a six-point lead over Scott Dixon. “You’ve just got to look at qualifying every week, you’ve got to look at the time gap from first to last every week. There’s not a series as tight as this, as tough as this.”
The points lead has changed five times in the last 10 races and Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson controlled the point for six races following his victory. But consistency has been rewarded, as evidenced by Josef Newgarden, whose four wins are double any other driver in the field despite being fourth in the standings and not leading the points since April.
“In some ways it’s undercredited,” Newgarden said. “You can be with any team and have a shot at winning a race when you show up every single weekend. That’s not just a marketing line — it’s a reality. It’s just the best championship you will find on the planet with the top-line drivers of the world.”
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS
With so much on the line, it will be imperative for title contenders to be aware of their surroundings and who is racing alongside them on Saturday night.
Reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou learned firsthand last year how this race can disrupt a title run. He was wrecked out by Rinus VeeKay, and it cost him the points lead.
Although he recovered by winning the next race to retake the points lead and get his first title, Palou understands that few want to give an inch at Gateway.
“I would not race the championship contenders (hard) just because they are risking something and you’re not if you’re not a championship contender,” said Palou. “But I don’t expect people to treat us differently. The good thing is there’s so many cars that are still in the fight for this championship that everybody’s going to race the same way.”
Those out of the title hunt aren’t willing to concede anything.
“I think you’re more aggressive with them because you know they probably have to back out,” Alexander Rossi said. “At the same time, certainly you don’t want to be the guy that hits them. You’re almost more aggressive and more cautious. It’s hard to explain.”
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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2022-08-20T19:53:52+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/ap-sports/johnson-seeks-to-close-oval-schedule-with-1st-indycar-win/
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COSTA MESA, Calif (AP)Justin Herbert sprinted out to the practice field Monday, energized and confident as the Los Angeles Chargers began organized team practices.
Coming off a Pro Bowl season and not having to learn a new offense can do that.
For the first time in his three-year NFL career, Herbert doesn’t have to learn a new offense or coaching staff during the offseason.
In 2020, Herbert learned things on Zoom after being the sixth overall pick in the draft after COVID-19 eliminated in-person practices. Last year, he was getting up to speed and building a relationship with coach Brandon Staley and offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi.
Now, it is picking up where last season left off in some respects.
”I think the biggest thing is understanding that we’re miles ahead of last year,” Herbert said. ”Last year, we were focused on calling the right plays in the huddle and getting lined up on the field. We also have tons of film to look back on last year. We’re farther ahead of where we thought we would be.”
Even with learning a new offense throughout the season, Herbert set franchise records with 5,014 passing yards and 38 touchdowns last year en route to making his first Pro Bowl. That came after he was the Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2020.
Without diving into a new playbook, Herbert said his biggest point of emphasis throughout the offseason has been working on his footwork, especially five- and seven-step drop-backs after being under center. He has also tried to understand the run game better and pass protections.
”His balance and body control is something that he does very well, especially for a young player. When he has his feet in a good position, he’s already one of the special passers in the league, but I think there’s a confidence that comes when his body’s in the right spot,” Staley said. ”He’s been working hard with (quarterback coach) Shane (Day) on his fundamentals and really solidifying that.”
The one thing Herbert is trying not to focus on is expectations. While Herbert has piled up individual accolades, the Chargers have not made the playoffs since 2018. They were 9-8 last season and lost three of their final four games.
In an AFC West that includes Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, Las Vegas’ Derek Carr and Denver adding Russell Wilson, Herbert hopes to keep the focus more internal.
”I think we focus on ourselves. We’ve done a good job of eliminating that extra noise,” he said. ”There are going to be a lot of things said about the AFC West. We’re going to do our best to focus on this house and what we’re doing inside of it. If it’s not coming from a coach, a teammate, family member, we aren’t going to pay too much attention to it.”
While Herbert was on the practice field, some of his teammates were not there for the optional session. Outside linebacker Joey Bosa and running back Austin Ekeler aren’t expected to arrive until closer to the start of the mandatory minicamp in three weeks.
New cornerback J.C. Jackson, who signed a five-year, $82.5-million contract early in free agency, missed Monday because of a travel issue but should be back this week.
Defensive tackle Jerry Tillery also wasn’t in attendance. The 2019 first-round pick did not have his fifth-year option picked up and is on the roster bubble going into training camp.
”He’s going to fit into that competition of guys that are going to have to earn a role,” Staley said of Tillery. ”Sebastian (Joseph-Day) and Austin (Johnson) are proven NFL players. Khalil Mack is a proven NFL player. Derwin James is a proven NFL player. Then, there are a bunch of guys that are trying to prove themselves, to earn their way in the league. I would put him in that category.”
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2022-05-24T07:10:39+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/sports/nfl-football/familiarity-important-for-herbert-as-chargers-otas-begin/
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