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Thursday storm damages homes in Hale County
Several families in the Hale County area are facing major damage to their homes or property after heavy storms blew through the county and much of the state Thursday morning.
Donnie Wedgeworth, who lives in Greensboro, said the tornado caused so much damage to his home he and his wife will be sleeping in a camper for the time being.
“We got some significant structural damage,” he said. “Our shop is about gone and almost all of our trees took damage.”
Just down the road, a massive tree fell and knocked down power lines and blocked entrances to several homes.
But Hale County Pastor James Franks had good advice for those affected.
“Just take it one day at a time and watch God provide and restore our home back, restore our minds back from this tornado,” Franks said. “Just one day at a time.”
On Highway 25, several homes were blown open, leaving furniture, clothes and family memories scattered across lawns.
Hale County Emergency Management Agency Director Russell Weeden said it could take weeks to get everything cleaned up.
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PEABODY, Mass., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Barton Associates, the 4th largest locum tenens staffing and recruiting agency in the U.S., with 10 offices nationwide, is proud to announce the promotion of several employees who have demonstrated exceptional performance, leadership, and made significant contributions to the company's success.
The following individuals have been promoted to new positions within the company:
- Emily Marr will now serve as Senior Director, Sales & Recruiting, in a regional role for the Peabody, MA and Windsor, CT offices. Emily has been with the company for 10 years and has consistently exceeded expectations, delivering for clients, locum providers, and her staff, demonstrating a deep commitment to the company's mission.
- Vanessa Moriarty, has been promoted to Senior Director, Sales & Recruiting, continuing to lead the Worcester office. An employee since 2011, Vanessa has demonstrated exceptional leadership and a passion for driving results, and has been a key player in growing Barton Associates.
- Mackenzie Murphy, has been promoted to Senior Director of Strategic Accounts, continuing to build strong relationships with Barton Associates and Barton Healthcare Staffing clients. Mackenzie has continued to drive growth for the business, ensuring client and provider satisfaction since 2017.
"We are thrilled to recognize the hard work and dedication of Emily, Vanessa, and Mackenize with these promotions," said Lina Gallotto, Executive Vice President, Barton Associates. "Their contributions have been instrumental in driving our success, and we are confident that they will continue to play a key role in our future growth."
AnneMarie Zukowski, Senior Vice President, Inbound Division at Barton Associates, comments that "Our 700+ employees are the backbone of our success, and we are thrilled to recognize these incredible individuals and reward their continuous and outstanding contributions to not only Barton, but the healthcare industry too."
About Barton & Associates Inc.
Barton is a leading U.S. healthcare staffing company focused on locum tenens with additional capabilities in travel nursing, allied healthcare, and government-related physician staffing markets. Barton utilizes its large network of highly skilled providers to quickly respond to critical customer needs. Barton is headquartered in Peabody, Massachusetts, and the Company serves over 1,000 active customers in the United States via a network of 10 offices and more than 700 employees. For more information, visit https://www.bartonassociates.com.
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Unveils Strategy to Lead Emerging Hybrid Education Market
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (NYSE American: AMBO) ("Ambow" or the "Company"), a technology-driven educational company with primary operations in the United States, today announced its financial and operating results for the second half[1] and full fiscal year[2], ended December 31, 2022.
"During the second half of 2022, we completed the sale of our overseas assets and transitioned our business operations to the U.S. where we introduced HybriU, our industry-leading hybrid learning platform designed to tackle the challenges of the new education paradigm," said Dr. Jin Huang, Ambow's President, Chief Executive Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer. "We believe that HybriU brings the education industry its first fully integrated, interactive, online and offline instruction platform. This places Ambow at the cutting edge of a game-changing transition toward hybrid learning with HybriU's ability to facilitate borderless education opportunities by removing historical barriers between online and offline, languages and regions, as well as academia and industry.
"In 2023, we will continue to build out our U.S. operations by expanding our sales network to establish strategic partnerships with top-tier educational institutions and leading corporations, with a primary focus on the rapidly growing higher education market. While we work diligently to deploy our innovative technology, we maintain solid cash resources of approximately US$ 7.7 million as of December 31, 2022. As always, we remain committed to creating sustainable, long-term value for all our stakeholders as we leverage our expertise in the education industry to take us into our next phase of growth," concluded Dr. Huang.
Ambow Provides Update on Strategic Operations in the U.S. with New HybriU Platform
Ambow is wholly dedicated to offering connective technology that can dramatically decrease the historical barriers between online and offline education, languages, regions, academia and industry. During the second half of 2022, the Company transitioned its business to an exclusive focus on operations in the U.S., powered by its HybriU education technology platform. HybriU's first-to-market, patented technology solutions are ideally positioned to meet the rapidly growing global demand for higher education and workforce training. As the education market begins to grow beyond purely online and offline models of learning, HybriU's advanced platform capabilities place Ambow at the forefront of the global education market's transition toward a hybrid learning model.
Designed to address the specific needs of colleges, universities and corporations across the world, HybriU empowers these institutions to convert traditional teaching and training facilities into hybrid classrooms and laboratories in a scalable, affordable manner. The platform provides instant AI translation, simultaneous content creation and SaaS-based right-fit IT solutions. To date, HybriU has been deployed at Ambow's fully owned and operated U.S.-based schools, providing case studies in success for Ambow's potential scope and reach.
Ambow is targeting deployment of its HybriU solution in large U.S. markets such as leading colleges, universities and corporations, and particularly those that have historically relied on offline instruction and training. This includes top-tier universities that wish to make their courses available to audit students, as well as smaller colleges that need to increase their enrollment through out-of-state and international students. In addition, the Company is seeking to deploy HybriU in industry-leading corporations, helping to connect the global workforce with regional or international offices, outside trainers, or academic institutions.
Ambow believes HybriU's connective technology will be invaluable in decreasing the traditional barriers that have existed between students and employees from different regional and linguistic backgrounds, and that it will help to facilitate a global transition toward hybrid education and training, where Ambow is ideally positioned to lead this growing revolution.
Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net revenues from continuing operations in the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB 22.6 million (US$ 3.3 million), compared with RMB 29.7 million (US$ 4.7 million) in the same period of 2021. The decrease was primarily driven by lower student enrollment.
- Gross loss from continuing operations in the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB 5.2 million (US$ 0.8 million), compared with gross profit of RMB 2.0 million (US$ 0.3 million) in the same period of 2021. Gross profit margin was negative 23.2%, compared with positive 6.8% in the fourth quarter of 2021. The decrease in gross profit was mainly attributable to the decrease in net revenues due to lower student enrollment during the period.
- Operating expenses from continuing operations in the fourth quarter of 2022 decreased by 79.8% to RMB 5.2 million (US$ 0.8 million) from RMB 25.7 million (US$ 4.0 million) in the same period of 2021. The decrease was primarily due to stringent expense controls to improve operating efficiency, primarily driven by decreased rental expense associated with college campus during the period.
- Operating loss from continuing operations in the fourth quarter of 2022 improved to RMB 10.4 million (US$ 1.5million), compared with a loss of RMB 23.6 million (US$ 3.7 million) in the same period of 2021.
- Net loss attributable to the Company's ordinary shareholders from continuing operations improved to RMB 6.1 million (US$ 0.9 million), or RMB 0.12 (US$ 0.02) per basic and diluted share, compared with a loss of RMB 23.2 million (US$ 3.7 million), or RMB 0.50 (US$ 0.08) per basic and diluted share, in the same period of 2021.
Full Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net revenues from continuing operations in fiscal year 2022 decreased by 9.8% to RMB 102.4 million (US$ 14.8 million) from RMB 113.5 million (US$ 17.8 million) in 2021. The decrease was primarily driven by lower student enrollment.
- Gross loss from continuing operations in fiscal year 2022 was RMB 0.6 million (US$ 0.1 million), decreasing from gross profit of RMB 12.4 million (US$ 1.9 million) in 2021. The decrease in gross profit was mainly attributable to the decrease in net revenues due to lower student enrollment.
- Operating expenses from continuing operations in fiscal year 2022 decreased by 3.7% to RMB 64.9 million (US$ 9.4 million) from RMB 67.4 million (US$ 10.6 million) in 2021. The decrease was primarily attributable to lower selling and marketing expense due to decreased marketing activities as the Company transitioned its business operations to the U.S., and the enactment of strict expense control measures. The decrease was partially offset by increased general and administrative expense due to the grant of restricted shares to senior management, as well as the impairment loss during the period.
- Operating loss from continuing operations in fiscal year 2022 was RMB 65.4 million (US$ 9.5 million), compared to an operating loss of RMB 55.0 million (US$ 8.6 million) in 2021.
- Net loss attributable to the Company's ordinary shareholders from continuing operations was RMB 63.8 million (US$ 9.3 million), or RMB 1.29 (US$ 0.19) per basic and diluted share, compared with a loss of RMB 42.6 million (US$ 6.7 million), or RMB 0.91 (US$ 0.14) per basic and diluted share in 2021.
- As of December 31, 2022, Ambow maintained strong cash resources of RMB 52.9 million (US$ 7.7 million), comprised of cash and cash equivalents of RMB 22.8 million (US$ 3.3 million) and restricted cash of RMB 30.1 million (US$ 4.4 million).
Subsequent Events
On February 28, 2023, the Company consummated a private placement of ordinary shares and an accompanying warrant to an institutional investor, generating total proceeds of US$ 2.0 million. The warrant is exercisable upon issuance and has a three-year term from the exercise date. The exercise price of the warrant is US$ 0.80 per share. As of the date of this report, the warrant had not been issued.
On January 19, 2023, the New England Commission of Higher Education ("NECHE") informed Bay State College ("BSC") of its intention to withdraw BSC's accreditation as of August 31, 2023. Ambow has filed an appeal for the decision. On March 20, 2023, the appeal panel of NECHE affirmed NECHE's decision to withdraw. Without NECHE accreditation, Bay State College will not be able to disburse Title IV funding to its students for classes after August 2023, and will not be able to disburse VA funding to its students for classes after Spring semester ends.
Exchange Rate Information
This announcement contains conversions of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars at a specified rate solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all amounts converted from RMB to U.S. dollars for the third quarter is based on the effective exchange rate of 7.1135 as of September 30, 2022; all amounts converted from RMB to U.S. dollars for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2022 are based on the effective exchange rate of 6.8972 as of December 30, 2022.The exchange rates were according to the middle rate as set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. Fluctuations in financial highlights are based on RMB amounts.
About Ambow
Ambow Education Holding Ltd. is a technology-driven educational company with primary operations in the United States. Through the operation of its for-profit colleges and dynamic patented open platform technology, Ambow offers high-quality, individualized, and dynamic career education services and products.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is apparently moving to sell millions of rockets and artillery shells — many of them likely from its old stock — to its Cold War ally Russia.
Russia has called a U.S. intelligence report on the purchasing plan “fake.” But U.S. officials say it shows Russia’s desperation with the war in Ukraine and that Moscow could buy additional military hardware from North Korea.
The ammunitions North Korea reportedly intends to sell to Moscow are likely copies of Soviet-era weapons that can fit Russian launchers. But there are still questions over the quality of the supplies and how much they could actually help the Russian military.
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WHAT EXACTLY WILL NORTH KOREA SUPPLY TO RUSSIA?
Slapped by international sanctions and export controls, Russia in August bought Iranian-made drones that U.S. officials said had technical problems. For Russia, North Korea is likely another good option for its ammunitions supply, because the North keeps a significant stockpile of shells, many of them copies of Soviet-era ones.
North Korea “may represent the single biggest source of compatible legacy artillery ammunition outside of Russia, including domestic production facilities to further supplies,” said Joseph Dempsey, research associate for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
Lee Illwoo, an expert with the Korea Defense Network in South Korea, said both North and South Korea — split along the world’s most heavily fortified border for more than 70 years — keep tens of millions of artillery shells each. North Korea will likely sell older shells that it wants to replace with newer ones for multiple rocket launch systems or sophisticated missiles in its front-line army bases, he said.
North Korea’s greater reliance on nuclear weapons and guided missiles may also remove the need for many of its older, unguided artillery shells that once played a prominent role, said Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
But Bruce Bennett, a senior security expert at the California-based Rand Corporation, said most of the artillery rounds to be sent to Russia are likely to be ammunition for small arms, such as AK-47 rifles or machine guns.
“It’s not millions of artillery shells and rockets – that’s more than the likely consumption. It could be millions of small arms rounds,” Bennett said.
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HOW GOOD ARE NORTH KOREAN WEAPONS?
According to an IISS assessment, North Korea has an estimated 20,000 artillery pieces including multiple rocket launchers in service, a number that Dempsey described as “significantly more than any other country in the world.”
North Korea’s state media have called its artillery guns “the first arm of the People’s Army and the most powerful arm in the world” that can reduce enemy position into “a sea of flames.”
But its old artillery systems, whose ammunitions will likely be supplied to Russia, have a reputation for poor accuracy.
During North Korea’s artillery bombardment of South Korea’s front-line Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 that killed four people, Bennett said that only 80 of the 300-400 weapons North Korea should have fired likely hit their target. In his assessment, Lee said about half of the North Korean shells launched ended up falling into waters before reaching the island.
“That is miserable artillery performance. The Russians may experience the same thing, which will not make them very happy,” Bennett said.
Observers doubt the usefulness of North Korean ammunition for the Russian campaign in Ukraine, which they say has depleted the military. There have been photos of barrel-busted Russian guns on social media.
It’s unclear how serious Russian shortage of ammunitions is. In July, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters that Russia was launching tens of thousands artillery rounds each day and couldn’t keep it up forever.
“While substantial stockpiles likely still exist, they may be increasingly infringing on those reserved for the contingency of a wider future conflict,” Dempsey said.
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NO NORTH KOREAN MISSILES EXPECTED
It’s unlikely for North Korea to provide Russia with ballistic missiles that it views as crucial in its military strategies toward Washington and Seoul, said Yang Uk, an analyst at Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies.
And if North Korea decides to supply missiles to Russia, it would need to send their launch platforms as well because Russia doesn’t have launchers for the North’s Scuds and other missiles. North Korea has developed a highly maneuverable, nuclear-cable ballistic missile that was likely modeled on Russia’s Iskander. But the two missiles are of different sizes, according to Shin Jongwoo, a military expert at the Seoul-based Korea Defense and Security Forum,
There would be a number of items that North Korea could provide to Russia, given that the two countries share weapons systems going back to Soviet times. But the type of ammunitions North Korea would provide to Russia “are likely to be old and somewhere close to expiring,” said Moon Seong Mook, an analyst at South Korea’s Korea Research Institute for National Strategy.
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WHAT COULD NORTH KOREA GET IN RETURN?
In return for weapons, North Korea will likely want food, fuel and other materials from Russia because the North finds it difficult to buy such goods from abroad under U.N. sanctions imposed over its nuclear program.
Panda said North Korea is likely benefiting in the form of cash transfers from Russia, or perhaps greater Russian leniency in not enforcing other sanctions on Pyongyang, including the transfer of materials necessary for the growth of North Korea’s missile programs.
According to Bennett, North Korea would be willing to be compensated with fuel. For its more advanced arms, it could seek advanced weapons technologies from Russia, possibly including those it needs for its expected nuclear test, the first of its kind in five years, he said.
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has officially sent a subpoena to former President Donald Trump.
In a letter accompanying the subpoena, the committee said Trump personally oversaw an effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Earlier this month, the select committee all voted in favor of the subpoena, at the time saying they want the former president to answer questions under oath.
"We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion," said House Select Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming.
"If he wants to clear the record, he will have an opportunity to do it," said House Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi.
The committee, though, wants more than just testimony. In the subpoena, the committee specifically demands Trump turn over any communications sent or received from November 3, 2020, to January 20, 2021.
Under the subpoena, Trump has until Nov. 4 to turn over documents and to testify on or around Nov. 14.
It is still unclear how the former president and his legal team will respond.
Meanwhile, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison and a $6,500 fine Friday, after defying a subpoena he received from the Jan. 6 committee.
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It's crunch time for the United States women's national team as it battles it out one last time before potentially securing a spot in the Women's World Cup Round of 16.
After finishing in a draw against the Netherlands on Wednesday, the U.S. needs a group stage win to solidify a spot in the knockout rounds.
There's a lot of hope riding on the USWNT as it continues its quest for a three-peat and fifth overall Women's World Cup title.
The stakes are high! Here's everything you need to know to tune into the action:
When is the U.S. women's soccer team's next game?
The USWNT takes on Portugal in a Group E matchup on Tuesday, Aug. 1, at 3 a.m. ET.
How can I watch the U.S. vs. Portugal on TV?
The USWNT vs. Portugal group stage game will be available on FOX in English at 3 a.m. ET.
All of the 2023 Women's World Cup action will be available on FOX, FS1, Universo and YouTube TV.
How can I stream the U.S. vs. Portugal?
Catch the USWNT vs. Portugal on Peacock in Spanish with coverage beginning at 2 a.m. ET.
How many World Cups has the U.S. women's team won?
The USWNT has won the Women's World Cup four times since FIFA debuted the tournament in 1991.
The United States has won the previous two World Cups, with victories in Canada and France, and the team is the betting favorite in the 2023 tournament. A win would make the USWNT the first team in soccer history to win three consecutive World Cups.
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A national initiative that aims to build a diverse health database and to connect with communities that have been historically underrepresented in medical research made a stop in Longmont on Tuesday afternoon.
The All of Us program, an Obama-era initiative that’s run by the National Institutes of Health, hopes to advance precision medicine, which is based on a person as an individual and takes into account a person’s environment, lifestyle, family health history and genetic makeup.
It’s important to have a diverse health database, at least in part because of the fact that health conditions affect races and ethnicities differently. For example, the All of Us program reports that Asian Americans have the highest proportion of undiagnosed diabetes at 51% while African Americans are three times more likely to die of asthma than their white counterparts.
Despite this, research indicates more than 80% of the individuals who participate in clinical studies in genetics are white.
According to Harvard Business Review, clinical trials primarily enroll white, male patients with consistent underrepresentation of women, the elderly, and people of color — especially Black and Hispanic patients. While people of color make up about 39% of the U.S. population, these groups represent from 2% to 16% of patients in trials.
“One of our biggest things is being able to show that everyone matters,” All of Us program tour manager Reuben Campino said.
“It’s very important to be able to change not only the way that we look at health but our intergenerational health,” he added.
That’s what tour manager Jerry Phelps noted, too.
Unlike some other marketing jobs he’s had, “this has a worldly purpose,” he said.
“I may not see the difference that it makes, but my grandkids’ grandkids may,” Phelps added.
The All of Us research program began in 2018 and has visited more than 100 cities in more than 40 states. To date, more than 350,000 people have enrolled and completed the initial steps with more than 80% belonging to communities that have been historically underrepresented in biomedical research, the program notes.
The mobile exhibit, which returns to Longmont’s Roosevelt Park on Wednesday before moving to the Louisville Recreation & Senior Center on Thursday and Friday, features hands-on activities, including an augmented reality experience and interactive stations designed to help visitors learn about precision medicine research.
Those interested in participating in the program could then register, take a health survey and provide blood samples.
The more enrollment and representation in a particular area, the more researchers will be able to help address health issues that are prevalent in the community.
Richard Van Scotter was among those who participated in the program on a Tuesday afternoon at Roosevelt Park in Longmont. Van Scotter said he noticed the tent while walking into the Longmont Senior Services Center.
When asked what made him want to participate, he said curiosity was the main draw.
Generally, in terms of the importance of the program, Campino often points to a wall of the mobile exhibit where people can share their story.
Some said they chose to participate in the program for their family.
“My wife is a breast cancer survivor. My dad died of cancer. Hope my kids will be fine,” one person wrote.
Another wrote that their goal was “to help improve the health of future generations.”
If you go
What: All of Us mobile exhibit
When and where:
• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday: Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave. in Longmont
• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday: Louisville Recreation & Senior Center, 900 Via Appia Way in Louisville
Learn more: joinallofus.org
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), the world's largest association of facial plastic surgeons, today released its 2022 member survey outcomes. With in-person work, events and socializing moving towards a return to pre-pandemic levels, 2022, like 2021, saw an increase in demand for facial plastic surgery and cosmetic treatments. In fact, 58 percent of AAFPRS facial plastic surgeons report an increase in bookings and treatments over the past year, with more than 75 percent indicating they have seen a bump of more than 10 percent in patient demand.
Back to Reality
"As people returned to the office and eased back into the routine of daily life without quarantine, interest for elective surgeries and non-invasive 'tweakments' remain high," shares AAFPRS President Theda Kontis, MD. "In 2022, our members continued to see the impact of the "Zoom Boom," with 79 percent of respondents pointing to the "Zoom Effect" as a major contributing factor in patients' desire to seek treatment." A second source of motivation, following closely behind the Zoom Effect at 60 percent, was an increase in disposable income. "Many patients reported spending money saved during the pandemic on cosmetic procedures," says Kontis.
According to the new data, 82 percent of the total number of procedures performed in 2022 were minimally invasive; the remaining 18 percent were surgical. Of these, the three most common treatments were neurotoxins, fillers, and topicals (think chemical peels), while the top three surgical procedures were Facelifts, Blepharoplasties, and Rhinoplasties. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Rhinoplasty continues to be the single most requested surgery among patients under 34 years old.
It is still no surprise that women continue to reign when it comes to undergoing facial plastic surgery. In 16 of the 18 procedures tracked, surgeons indicate more of their patients are women, with the exceptions of hair transplantation, which skews toward men. Otoplasty, surgery to diminish ear prominence, has the highest gender equality.
The Buzz About Buccal Fat
2022's resurgence of Doc Martens, crop tops, and wide-leg jeans paved the way for an equally 90s facial trend: Sharp, prominent cheekbones a la Cindy, Kate, and Naomi. Indeed, the sculpted, chiseled look is in vogue once again, with 15 percent of facial plastic surgeons reporting an increase in buccal fat removal to achieve a slimmer facial appearance. The most headline-making trend of 2022, the intentional removal of buccal fat has taken Hollywood (and those who take a cue from its A-listers) by storm. This was followed closely by the hollowed-out 'Ozempic® Face," trend, a side effect of the Diabetes weight-loss drug Semaglutide.
While popular, all of this cheekbone worship certainly has many surgeons scratching their heads, as the procedure delivers the opposite effect of filler and fat injections, a common request of middle-aged women hoping to re-inflate the cheeks of their 20s. The moral of this story? Consider the long-term effects of any surgery—buccal fat removal included—very carefully before proceeding. "Buccal fat surgery is not reversible–so while you may love the look in your 20s and 30s, as you age, your face naturally loses fat, and therefore volume," says Dr. Kontis. In regard to "Ozempic Face" specifically, she adds that rapid weight loss can actually accelerate the aging process. "Like any massive weight loss treatment, Semiglutide treatments can cause fat pads to shrink, making facial volume depleted and the skin can appear lax and saggy," she says. "Of course, we can treat these unwanted side effects with everything from fillers to facelifts, but the point is there's no such thing as a magic pill."
Selfie Satisfaction
The media has been quick to brand the phrase "Snapchat dysmorphia" in regards to Gen Z seeking treatments and tweakments aimed to mimic Snapchat filters. In reality, though, Gen Z's influence in the aesthetic marketplace is not yet generating leaps in facial plastic surgery procedure numbers (and that's probably a good thing). Consistent with 2021, close to 75 percent of facial plastic surgeons report increases in the number of patients under 30 years old requesting cosmetic surgery or injectables, representing a consistently higher plateau over the 5 previous years. But pre-juvenation and low-to-no downtime is still top of mind for these age groups; 78 percent of AAFPRS members believe there will be a greater emphasis on earlier maintenance and age prevention starting in the 20s-30s to forestall bigger procedures and surgeries for later down the road. In fact, this year's survey indicates that surgical procedure activity sees significant increase once patients reach the 35-55 year age group.
So while there isn't much credence behind "Snapchat Dysmorphia," patients have indeed taken 2020's Zoom effect a step further; in 2021 and 2022, a desire to up that selfie game took center stage. In fact, a whopping 79 percent of facial plastic surgeons agree that looking better in selfies continues to trend upward. To that end, lip lifts, a new category for the 2021 survey, were up 3 percent in 2022; at least 73 percent of AAFPRS members performed lip lifts in 2022 versus 70 percent in 2021. As facemasks continue to become less and less prevalent, this intel doesn't really come as a surprise. The trendy procedure aims to remove some skin under the nose in order to shorten the skin of the upper lip, overall increasing the amount of visible pink lip. "We lose bone under the nose as we age, which can cause the nasal tip to droop and the upper lip to elongate; in other words, 'the table becomes too small for the tablecloth,'" says Dr. Kontis. "By removing this excess upper lip skin, it shortens the upper lip skin and everts the upper lip, which results in a more youthful appearance."
Another selfie-boosting procedure, the blepharoplasty, has seen an upward climb in popularity, with blephs sitting just behind rhinoplasty as the most-requested procedure of 2022. "Upper blepharoplasty removes the excess skin above the eyelid, reducing that hooded appearance that can occur naturally with age, while lower blepharoplasty targets the fat pads below the eye, restoring a smoother, more youthful look," says Kontis. "Both are relatively minor procedures that lend themselves to tremendous patient satisfaction."
The Bottom Line
Whether patients are considering significant surgery or a trendy tweakment, choosing a qualified surgeon is a non-negotiable. Steve Jurich, CEO and Executive Vice President of the AAFPRS advises, "Finding the right, most qualified, physician to perform any procedure is priority number one. Always select a surgeon specifically trained in procedures of the face, head, and neck and make sure the physician is qualified, experienced and board-certified in the procedure you want." The good news? Just 20 percent of surgeons report patients referencing celebrities when coming in for consultations, which points to a more educated consumer base, thanks to the multitude of candid plastic surgery depictions on social media and the prevalence of data driving individual research.
The 2022 AAFPRS annual member survey was conducted in December 2022 by ACUPOLL Precision Research, Inc. through an online survey from a select group of the organization's 2,200 members.
ABOUT THE AAFPRS:
The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is the world's largest specialty association for facial plastic surgery. It represents more than 2,200 facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons throughout the world. The AAFPRS is a National Medical Specialty Society of the American Medical Association (AMA), and holds an official seat in both the AMA House of Delegates and the American College of Surgeons board of governors. AAFPRS members are board certified surgeons whose focus is surgery of the face, head, and neck (inclusive of Rhinoplasty and Facial Rejuvenation). More information at www.aafprs.org.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday called on Congress to allow regulators to impose tougher penalties on the executives of failed banks, including clawing back compensation and making it easier to bar them from working in the industry.
Biden wants the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to be able to force the return of compensation paid to executives at a broader range of banks should they fail, and to lower the threshold for the regulator to impose fines and bar executives from working at another bank.
He called on Congress to grant the FDIC those powers after the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank sent shockwaves through the global banking industry.
“Strengthening accountability is an important deterrent to prevent mismanagement in the future,” Biden said in a statement. “Congress must act to impose tougher penalties for senior bank executives whose mismanagement contributed to their institutions failing.”
Currently the FDIC can only claw back the compensation of executives at the largest banks in the nation, and other penalties on executives require “recklessness” or acting with “willful or continuing disregard" for their bank's health. Biden wants Congress to allow the regulator to impose penalties for “negligent” executives — a lower legal threshold.
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(WHTM) – It is a sure sign of summer when you begin to see those lightning bugs (or fireflies) glow across the land. But have you ever wondered how they glow and why?
North Carolina State University says these insects are not flies or bugs; they are actually soft-winged beetles that really produce light, an ability called bioluminescence. The university says this is relatively rare in living organisms.
To produce this light, fireflies use special organs in their abdomens. There they combine a chemical called luciferin, oxygen and enzymes called luciferases. Scientists believe these insects control the flashing by regulating how much oxygen goes into the organ that produces the light.
Every species of lightning bug has its own signaling system, the university says. Males fly around at a certain height during a certain time at night and flash a unique signal. Females sit on the ground waiting for the males. When a female sees a male sending out a signal specific to her species, she will then flash one back.
If the conditions are right between the male and female, the male will fly down to the female and they will mate.
Most male lightning bugs fly around and do their own thing and signal independently of each other. But some synchronize their flashes when there are many others around.
The university says there are two species that do this in North America, including the Photinus carolinus of the Appalachian Mountains and the Photuris frontalis, which can be found in such places as South Carolina.
In both species, scientists think the males synchronize so everyone has a chance to look for females and for females to signal males.
The university says the study of these insects is still in its infancy, though scientists have identified about 170 different species in North America.
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Head coach John Wright emphasizing toughness, fundamentals in return to Post football
Antelopes to be without Texas Tech commit Isaiah Crawford
There’s a new sheriff in Post.
Head coach John Wright replaces Michael Pittman, who resigned after eight seasons to take the same position at Crane. Wright, an assistant at Decatur before coming to Post, knows all about the Antelopes program after a stint as offensive coordinator under coach Tim James from 2003-07.
Wright wants to bring the “Bold Gold” tradition back to Post following a substandard season. He will prioritize fundamentals and hard-working attitudes over everything else. Toughness, technique and attention to detail will all be priorities.
In part because of Post's rural setting, Wright believes he has the players to form the physical team he wants.
“Down here below the (Caprock), it’s a special place,” Wright said. “These kids, a lot of them don’t get out of town. When we get done with our workout, they’ll go work on a field, or they’ll go work at a ranch. To me, there’s just a different caliber of kids here. It’s a one-horse town. We basically ride the brand here.”
Wright was named head coach July 12 and has spent his first weeks trying to rally everyone together. He’s done so by having his players work out with other Post teams, including the girls' side. Wright also wants the players to grow in their strength and tenacity in order to show the town how gritty his team can be.
He also wants to see steady maturation from his squad. Coming off a 5-7 season, Wright is focused on a “growth curve” with constant improvement each week. He believes the Antelopes can challenge for a district championship but admits this will be a “building year.”
“My goal is for us to improve every year,” Wright said. “Do I think our kids are capable of playing for a district championship? Absolutely. But we’re gonna have to beat good teams in order to do it. It's gonna be competitive, and we're gonna have to be ready for everyone each week.
“We want to continually move the bar. It doesn’t have to happen overnight … but we want to continually improve.”
On defense, Post will have sizeable shoes to fill.
Four-star defensive end and Texas Tech commit Isaiah Crawford won’t play this season because of a knee injury. He will graduate early from Post and in the spring attend TTU K-12, a state-approved online academic program run by Texas Tech.
Crawford provided the following statement to the Avalanche-Journal:
“I will be graduating early to get (to Tech) early and get used to things and a routine. I will not be playing (at Post) due to injury and not wanting to risk re-tearing my ACL.”
Despite the loss, Wright is confident in his 3-3 stack defense. Landon Hair and Steve Gonzales will play key roles at defensive tackle and linebacker, respectively, while Wright will rely on safety E.J. Jefferson and linebacker Samuel Walls to make plays alongside them.
Wright is impressed with Jefferson’s mobility, while Walls, who may also play quarterback this season, is regarded by Wright as one of the Antelopes’ fastest players.
“He’s really mobile and has a great attitude,” Wright said of Jefferson. “I think he’s going to be a good one for us. He’s a great athlete overall.
“And Samuel can do whatever we need him to. Look for him to be on the field defensively in more than one capacity.”
On offense, Wright will run a power spread that mixes passing with “20th century” running. He thinks it will take time for Post to adapt to a pass-heavy offense, so Wright will lean more on the run this season.
This means the Antelopes will rely heavily on the running-back duo of junior Jamarion Reed and Gonzales. Wright has been impressed with their commitment this summer, believing they’ll fit his “hard-running” style.
“Those will be the two breadwinners in our backfield,” Wright said. “We’ll count on those guys to get the ball moving.”
They’ll run behind an offensive line that includes tackle Hair, guard Sebastian Chapa and Wright’s son, freshman center Mason Wright. The seniors Hair and Chapa have played together for three years, and Wright thinks his son will find cohesion with them to form a physical and athletic offensive line.
“They’re good, strong and aggressive,” Wright said. “They’re stereotypical Post kids. They’re athletic and they love the weight room. Those are the things that get me excited about those guys.”
After two straight 15-1 seasons, Post wants to rebound in 2022. The Antelopes are hoping Wright, who already knows Post’s culture, can get them back to their winning ways.
Wright believes, with the right attitude, that his coaching style can do that for Post. He isn’t expecting an immediate turnaround but promises his team will be tough, physical and competitive against everyone.
“I have a lot of faith in these kids,” Wright said. “I have a lot of faith in their abilities. I think that they intend to win when they go out on the field. And with that said, I think we'll be competitive every week.”
Post Antelopes
Head coach — John Wright
2021 record — 5-7 overall, 3-2 in District 2-2A Division I
Base offense — Power spread
Base defense — 3-3 stack
Returning lettermen — 15
Returning off./def. starters — 5/4
Top returners — Sebastian Chapa, Sr., OL/LB; Steve Gonzales, Sr., RB/LB; Jamarion Reed, Jr., RB/LB; Samuel Walls, Sr., QB/LB; Landon Hair, Sr., OL/DL, E.J. Jefferson, Sr., RB/DB
2022 schedule
* — denotes District 2-2A Division I game
Aug. 26 — vs. Brownfield, 7 p.m.
Sept. 2 — at Forsan, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 9 — vs. Littlefield, 7 p.m.
Sept. 16 — at Abernathy, 7 p.m.
Sept. 23 — at Slaton, 7 p.m.
Oct. 7 — vs. Olton*, 7 p.m.
Oct. 14 — at Tahoka*, 7 p.m.
Oct. 21 — vs. Sundown*, 7 p.m.
Oct. 28 — at Floydada*, 7 p.m.
Nov. 4 — vs. New Deal*, 7 p.m.
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“My joke,” the mystery writer Joseph Hansen remarked in an interview, “was to take the true hard-boiled character in an American fiction tradition and make him homosexual.”
Only one year after the Stonewall riots, it was a risky time to write about such a character. All states except Illinois still criminalized homosexuality. Not until 1973 did the American Psychiatric Association stop classifying it as a mental disorder. After writing other books whose gay themes forced him to use a pseudonym for an illicit press, it took Hansen three years to find a publisher before Joan Kahn, the legendary crime fiction editor at Harper & Row, accepted “Fadeout.”
George Baxt had published his first campy novels about Pharoah Love, a Black gay detective in theatrical Greenwich Village, but while they received encouraging reviews (and some abuse), the books were not written with the same talent or ambition as Hansen’s. Baxt portrayed gay characters in what reviewers and readers seemed to regard as a safely “gay” environment. Hansen wrote about “ordinary” Americans who happened to be gay.
Although not as famous as he ought to be, Hansen has long been acclaimed. In 1992, the Private Eye Writers of America awarded him The Eye, the group’s lifetime achievement award. That same year he received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Mystery for the last Brandstetter novel, “A Country of Old Men.”
The Brandstetter series is now in development for Netflix, and the entire canon is being reprinted by Syndicate Books (distributed by Soho Press). The publisher, Paul Oliver, sums up why he is excited to publish them: “They’re soulful, poetic books that manage the neat trick of coolly delivering West Coast noir combined with a tender portrait of a community struggling for basic rights.” The struggle lives on, and so does the talent of Joseph Hansen.
“He was going to be a nice man,” Hansen said about his protagonist, “a good man, and he was going to do his job well.” Instead of a cynical ex-cop turned tough-talking private eye, Brandstetter is respected and professional, a death claims investigator for an insurance company. He never blusters.
A century ago, on July 19, 1923, Joseph Hansen was born in Aberdeen, S.D. When he was 13, his family moved to California. This lush habitat had already begun to evolve a unique literary genus by 1936: the Southern California private eye. Dashiell Hammett had written the single Sam Spade novel, “The Maltese Falcon,” and other books. Raymond Chandler was busily typing the pulp stories that he would weave together into the first Philip Marlowe novel, “The Big Sleep,” in 1939.
Unlike Spade, Brandstetter is trustworthy and articulate. Unlike Marlowe, he doesn’t regard women with fear and disgust, that antonym of chivalry running through pulp fiction. Unlike Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer, Brandstetter has a past and a rounded identity. Unlike Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, he is surrounded by nourishing human connections — friends, family, colleagues, even former stepmothers.
Hansen, who died in 2004, didn’t like categories and didn’t fit into many. His work was not overtly autobiographical, although he used some of his own experiences from activism and journalism, says his former agent, Stuart Krichevsky. Brandstetter drives a beloved Jaguar, for example, but his creator didn’t drive. When Krichevsky visited L.A., he had to pick up Hansen at home. “Joe liked to ride out to Marina del Rey and look at the water while we ate and talked about books.” Brandstetter attends to his clothing and grooming and notices details of other people’s, but Hansen “dressed in an ordinary, rather unassuming way,” says Krichevsky.
When Krichevsky arrived in his driveway, Hansen seldom referred to the world beyond the door that he closed behind him. Gay himself, he had an open marriage with a lesbian, Jane Bancroft. “Here was this remarkable person who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with,” Hansen said later. “We were married 51 years. So something was right about it, however bizarre it may seem to the rest of the world.”
Not for Hansen the first-person mask of Chandler and Macdonald. He wrote about Brandstetter in a close, informal third person. Hansen was unpredictable — old-fashioned in some ways, even as an activist. He didn’t like the term “gay” and preferred to describe himself as “homosexual.” He regarded some of the activists of his era with admiration, some with scorn.
Gradually Hansen overcame more barriers. In 1973, he submitted a Brandstetter story to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, where the editor replied that its readers were “not ready for homosexuality.” A full 16 years later, the magazine finally published a Hansen story about a different gay character. “I was pleased,” Hansen said later, “because it meant I had broken down a literary barrier against me and my kind.”
Among the many virtues of his books is how they capture a time — the 1970s and ’80s. The clothes are worthy of “The Mod Squad,” and the theater seats have those little metal ashtrays in the arm. When Brandstetter visits a TV studio for evidence, he notices that the news stories are all “typed down half the page in capital letters.” A woman has “television teeth.” He “crossed the uneven bricks of the courtyard under a dark, spreading oak whose dry leaves crackled beneath his shoes.” Even the bricks are given an adjective that helps us feel them beneath our feet.
Hansen anchors characters in convincing surroundings and has their consciousness arise from a body experiencing ordinary life — hunger, sexuality, fear, but also tired feet or too-cold air conditioning in a car. Thus he conjures a suspenseful story not with thriller gimmicks but through our sense that a truly embodied character can get hurt.
Perhaps the most autobiographical aspect of Hansen’s writing is his caressing of the details of everyday life. Despite opposition and trauma, he seems to have enjoyed being alive. Like Dickens, he imbues characters with some of his own vitality, which was not about to be smothered by anti-gay bias.
This may be one way Hansen helped inspire some of the contemporary gay novelists who proudly claim him as an ancestor. Of course mystery writers offer clues, writes Michael Nava, creator of the acclaimed Henry Rios mystery series, “but the masters also plant clues about the greater mysteries of all human motivation that, in the end, create morally complex and ambiguous stories in which murder is only the tip of the iceberg. This is what Hansen does.”
Michael Sims has written extensively about the history of crime fiction. His recent books include “Arthur and Sherlock” and “The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to throw out Roe v. Wade last month and an Ohio 10-year-old having subsequently been forced to leave her home state in order to obtain an abortion after police say a man raped her have drawn new attention to how some state restrictions on abortion allow exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
The girl’s pregnancy was apparently too far along to permit an abortion in Ohio, where there are not exceptions for rape and incest, so she instead received an abortion in Indiana.
The dilemma that the child and her family faced, and similar decisions playing out quietly in communities across the country, have been made more common and more consequential in the wake of the high court’s decision.
While many states with abortion access limits in place do have exceptions for victims of rape or incest, that’s not the case in about a dozen states — most of them located in the South.
WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO
The girl’s mother notified child welfare authorities on June 22 she had been attacked, a detective testified this week at a court hearing for the 27-year-old man accused of raping her. An Indianapolis physician said the girl underwent an abortion in Indiana on June 30.
Ohio had been among the states that had abortion bans or nearly total bans on the books before the Roe v. Wade decision was issued on June 24. In its wake, an Ohio judge lifted a stay on the new law, which does not allow abortions after cardiac activity is detected.
The Ohio abortion law permits abortion when a woman’s life is threatened or if she faces a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.
AROUND THE COUNTRY
The high court decision revived some previously dormant state laws and also put into place more recent legislation that had been designed to take effect if and when Roe v. Wade were to be invalidated. Litigation around the country is also shaping abortion policy, and state lawmakers and governors are pushing to add or revise existing exceptions.
The changing legal landscape of state abortion restrictions and regulations currently includes places with very few exceptions for abortion, including Texas and Missouri.
In at least three states — Utah, Mississippi and Oklahoma — there are laws stating a woman who has been raped can obtain an abortion only if she has made a police report. Unusual among states with rape exceptions, Mississippi does not permit abortion in instances of incest.
MOTHER’S LIFE OR HEALTH
The most common exceptions to abortion restrictions are for when a mother’s life or health are seriously endangered. They can take effect when needed to save a mother’s life, when she is at risk of death or serious impairment or if she could suffer an irreversible health impairment.
Some states that restrict abortion allow if the fetus has a serious or fatal — and confirmed — health anomaly. In some cases, the medical necessity of an abortion for the mother must also be documented, sometimes by multiple health care providers, hospital administrators or lawyers.
The process to document a woman’s health status can slow her care, adding to risk, said Ianthe Metzger with Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
“This care is happening in the moment, right now, and the doctor is trained to provide the care,” Metzger said. “They know what they need to do, they know how to help these patients.”
The Biden administration recently said federal rules require hospitals provide abortions if necessary to save a mother’s life, even when state law mostly bans the procedure.
HOW ADVOCATES SEE IT
National Right to Life, a prominent anti-abortion group, supports exceptions only when the mother’s life is in danger, which Ohio permits. Organization President Carol Tobias said the risk of any 10-year-old giving birth would likely qualify.
“We are not going to ask a mother to give up her life for her baby,” Tobias said. “I don’t know that we have ever supported a ‘no exceptions’ bill and I don’t know that we would.”
Planned Parenthood officials, however, say they know of no state restrictions on abortion providing an exception that has anything to do with age, and that exceptions drafted by those opposed to abortion are often very narrow by design.
Children have a fraction of all abortions. In Ohio, 52 children under the age of 15 received abortions in 2020, according to the Ohio Department of Health. That figure was as high as 182 in 2010, but like abortions in the state overall, it has since fallen significantly, the report said.
Tobias said that, taken together, abortions to save a mother’s health or life, or after cases of rape or incest, probably amount to 1%-2% of all abortions in the United States.
Planned Parenthood says such statistics do not take into account that sexual violence is considerably underreported and that some states do not require or collect data from women about why they sought the procedure.
The list of exceptions to otherwise restrictive anti-abortion laws has been growing, Metzger said.
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LOS ANGELES – A lawsuit alleging the NCAA failed to protect a former University of Southern California football player from repetitive head trauma is nearing trial in a Los Angeles court, with a jury seated Thursday in what could become a landmark case.
The wrongful death suit filed by Matthew Gee's widow says the former USC linebacker died in 2018 from permanent brain damage caused by countless blows to the head he took while playing for the 1990 Rose Bowl winning team, whose roster also included future NFL star Junior Seau.
Of the hundreds of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits brought by college football players against the NCAA in the past decade, Gee’s is only the second to go trial alleging that hits to the head led to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease, and could be the first to reach a jury.
The issue of concussions in sports, and football in particular, has been front and center in recent years as research has discovered more about long-term effects of repeated head trauma in problems ranging from headaches to depression and, sometimes, early onset Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease.
“For years (the NCAA) has kept players like Matthew Gee and the public in the dark about an epidemic that was slowly killing college athletes,” Alana Gee's lawsuit said. “Long after they played their last game, they are left with a series of neurological conditions that could slowly strangle their brains.”
The NCAA, the governing body of college athletics, has criticized what it calls “copycat lawsuits ... full of misleading and inaccurate declarations” and said it wasn't responsible for Gee's tragic death, which it blamed on heavy drinking, drugs and other health problems.
"Mr. Gee used alcohol and drugs to cope with a traumatic childhood, to fill in the loss of identity he felt after his football playing days ended, and to numb the chronic and increasing pain caused by numerous health issues," NCAA lawyers wrote in a filing in Los Angeles Superior Court.
A 2018 trial in Texas led to a swift settlement after several days of testimony by witnesses for the plaintiff, the widow of Greg Ploetz, who played defense for Texas in the late 1960s.
In 2016, the NCAA agreed to settle a class-action concussion lawsuit, paying $70 million to monitor the medical conditions of former college athletes, another $5 million toward medical research and payments up to $5,000 toward individual players claiming injuries.
The NFL has been hit with similar suits and eventually agreed to a settlement covering 20,000 retired players providing up to $4 million for a death involving CTE, which is found in athletes and military veterans who suffered repetitive brain injuries. It's expected to exceed $1.4 billion in payouts over 65 years for six qualifying conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and dementia.
After years of denials, the NFL acknowledged in 2016 that research done at Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center showed a link between football and CTE, which is associated with memory loss, depression and progressive dementia.
The center has found CTE in the brains of 110 of 111 deceased former NFL players and 48 of 53 former college players, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Hall of Famers diagnosed after death include Seau, Ken Stabler and Mike Webster.
Gee, 49, was one of five linebackers on the 1989 Trojans squad who died before turning 50. As with Seau, who killed himself in 2012, Gee's brain was examined posthumously at BU and found to have CTE.
The defense has sought to exclude any testimony about Gee’s teammates, and the NCAA said there was no medical evidence Gee suffered from concussions at USC.
Two ex-teammates, however, testified at depositions about blows they routinely took in an era when they were told to hit with their heads.
Mike Salmon, who played defense at USC and went on to the NFL's San Francisco 49ers and Buffalo Bills, said he distinctly recalled Gee and other linebackers being “out of it” during hard-hitting practices.
“Matt hit like a truck," Salmon said. "I saw him quite a bit coming back to the huddle. You could tell ... he wasn’t all there.”
“It was our job to make helmet-to-helmet contact in the ’80s,” Gene Fruge, a former nose-tackle testified. "There was no question about it. That was your job, to explode the man in front of you.”
The NCAA, which required schools in 2010 to have a concussion protocol, said it gave them “state-of-the-art” information about head injury risks known at the time Gee played. It said long-term effects of head injuries weren't well understood then.
Gee's lawsuit said the debilitating effects of concussions and other traumatic brain impacts have been known for about a century, first from studies of “punch drunk” boxers and later from findings in football and other contact sports.
“The NCAA knew of the harmful effects ... on athletes for decades, they ignored these facts and failed to institute any meaningful methods of warning and/or protecting the athletes," the lawsuit said. “For the NCAA, the continued expansion and operation of college football was simply too profitable to put at risk.”
In his senior year, Gee was team captain and led USC in tackles, forced fumbles and fumbles recovered.
After graduating in 1992, Gee was cut by the Los Angeles Raiders in training camp. He married Alana, his college sweetheart, and they had three children as he ran his own insurance company in Southern California. For 20 years, he lived a “relatively normal” life, the suit said.
But that began to change around 2013 when he began to lose control of his emotions, the lawsuit said. He became angry, confused and depressed. He drank heavily. He told a doctor days would go by without him being able to recall what happened.
When he died on New Year's Eve 2018, the preliminary cause of death was listed as the combined toxic effects of alcohol and cocaine with other significant conditions of cardiovascular disease, cirrhosis and obesity.
Joseph Low, a Los Angeles lawyer for clients with traumatic brain injury who is not involved in the case, said drug and alcohol abuse can become a symptom of brain injuries as those suffering try to self-medicate, particularly as they deteriorate.
Blaming Gee’s death on substance abuse will not shield the NCAA from evidence showing he had CTE, which is not caused by drugs and alcohol, Low said.
“The whole discussion about drugs and alcohol isn’t going to get it done for them. That’s a distraction," Low said. “It's really a disgusting way to do character assassination. It’s what you call defense strategy 101.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
1-5-6-8, FIREBALL: 8
(one, five, six, eight; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
1-5-6-8, FIREBALL: 8
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia — (AP) — Thousands of people gathered outside the cathedral in North Macedonia's capital on Thursday during a protest organized by the country's Orthodox Church against proposed legislation on gender equality and identity which it says threatens family values.
Church leader Archbishop Stefan said at the gathering in Skopje that the proposed bills would introduce “unacceptable and insulting new ideologies.”
He said the message of Thursday's protest was to ”say ‘yes’ to life, to emphasize the sanctity of the family formed by one man and one woman, (and) to say that we will we defend our dearest, the children."
The protest was also supported by North Macedonia's leading Islamic officials, the Catholic Church and other religious communities.
The left-wing government hasn't officially released any details on either draft bill. Labor and Welfare Minister Jovanka Trenchevska has said the one on gender equality is aimed to “improve the position of women in all spheres of social life” and "offer equal opportunities for men and women."
Neither has yet been submitted to Parliament. The one on gender equality is still at the stage of public debate, while the government indefinitely froze work on the one on gender identity before it advanced that far.
Media reports say the gender identity bill would allow all residents of the country over age 16 to define their gender on their official police identity cards. After it was frozen, they said, part of it was incorporated in the gender equality bill.
Archbishop Stefan said the proposed bills would force the Church "to speak and express itself in the language of some world order that is alien to the word and spirit of the holy fathers and the holy gospel.”
Trenchevska said critics were erroneously conflating the two separate proposals.
North Macedonia, a largely conservative Balkan country — about 63% of whose 1.8 million people are Orthodox Christians — is deeply divided on LGBTQ+ rights.
Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1996, but same-sex couples and their households don't enjoy the same legal protections as opposite-sex married couples.
The ILGA-Europe advocacy group in 2019 ranked North Macedonia 34th out of 49 European countries in terms of LGBTQ+ rights legislation.
On Wednesday, a Christian Orthodox bishop said the Church should note which lawmakers back the two draft bills.
"Then, if it wishes, the Church can decide that those MPs should be deprived from baptisms, weddings, funerals and all other religious services,” Bishop David wrote on his blog.
North Macedonia's Platform for Gender Equality and the Network for Protection against Discrimination said Thursday's protest was an attempt to interfere with the country's secular order and showed disrespect for the constitution.
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I had never heard a voice like Marcia Reifman's before — androgynous, earthy, slow and poised. Full of mystery. But she didn't always sound like this.
The day we met in 2020, we were seated next to each other at a Photo Club gathering at the Vista Grande Public Library in Santa Fe, N.M., just a few months after I moved there from my hometown of Miami, Fla.
I was 23 at the time and she was 74, but it felt like she was of my generation, not just in appearance — she sported all-black Chuck Taylor All Stars and her hair was braided in colorful ties — but also in spirit and energy. I knew within minutes of being in Marcia's presence — of hearing her voice — that I wanted to make photographs with her.
Marcia agreed and suggested that I call her one day — not to talk, but to listen to her voicemail. I eventually rang her and waited until I heard a voice on the other line. It was clear, bright and reassuring — in some ways, totally opposite of the one I'd heard in the library. I was stunned.
She later told me the reason for the disconnect: In 2013, Marcia was diagnosed with stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma and underwent a 13-hour surgery in which she had more than three-quarters of her tongue removed. The procedure was followed up by 66 radiation treatments administered daily with concurrent chemotherapy.
The most agonizing part of it all, she says, was the treatment and recovery — the energy she had withered away, along with what she calls her "life force."
As our friendship deepened, Marcia and I began to speak in vulnerable ways we hadn't before.
It felt odd at first, feeling myself becoming such close friends with someone who was the same age as my grandparents, and Marcia tells me it was just as strange for her. We started to question and explore who we were to one another and who we were to ourselves.
Prior to moving to Santa Fe, I spent three years committed to Contact, a photo series in which I created rituals with my family and used them to reexamine the significance of death in the wake of my mother's passing. I had visions of continuing this exploration in a desert landscape, but I found myself changing — my preoccupation with death was morphing into an obsession for life.
I was finding my rhythm again and building my own family in Santa Fe, and Marcia was a big part of that. Together, we were streamlining our personal narratives into a shared record of indignation, healing, growth and victory. I wanted a space to visualize this in. I wanted a home. So Marcia and I constructed an outdoor structure on the land behind her house and called it the Refuge.
It took nine months of planning and building — and the help of our friends Aaron, Russell, Osiel and Alicia — to create the desert studio that eventually became the home for this photo project, TRIALS.
The structure lends itself to a very haptic experience. Because of zoning restrictions, it can't be a permanent installation, so it needs to be reassembled each time it's used. We determine the size and shape with each new build, creating a different environment every time.
In the Refuge, secrets and movements are shared, photographs are made and recorded. When I set out to capture myself within it, I compose the image, move and interact with the installation, and ask Marcia to hit the shutter when I'm at my peak. I do my best to feel myself in that moment. I want to reveal something.
Marcia tells me that I met her right at the time. And though her life force is not nearly what it once was, she describes our friendship as a jolt that woke her up after six years of feeling totally dead.
In a way, we act as counselors or therapists for each other. In talking to her, I've come to acknowledge and confront my inner walls, discovering access to what lies behind them — my personal truth — along the way. When I feel like I've lost the keys that grant me that access, I trust Marcia to help me find them again.
Though I may not be able to provide her with the emotional support she's provided me, I think that I am able to help Marcia in a tactile way — her diagnosis put a pause on her own artistic practice, but the intensity and passion of our collaboration has led her to revive her creative pursuits.
Marcia has been an artist since she was a little kid. She holds an MFA in Photography, an M.Ed. in Art Education, and is the retired department chair of Media Arts at Santa Fe Community College.
She is currently working on a series of 66 multimedia pieces that represent her 66 days of cancer treatments. Each image is composed of found material and her PET scan imagery.
She says this new body of work represents how her cancer treatment felt — "metallic, indifferent, poisonous, relentless and deadly."
When I asked her how she picks these materials, she answered, "osmosis."
"It's very direct," she told me. "I'm influenced by what's around me, especially when I'm working with you in the Refuge. The way you use wire and how you connect with materials ... there is an absorption that happens to you that I really relate to, and that transfers itself into action and excitement, and that translates into me creating."
Seeing her make new work after so many years of not doing so has been such an inspiring process to witness.
Struggle and pain are integral to existence, or what I call, being up against myself. These photographs I've made with Marcia embody human existence and the experiences associated with it — suffering and mortal fear, relief and ordeal, directness and brutality, a liberation with no winners.
TRIALS aims to encapsulate those frictions of reality, wounds from survivors, and the ambiguity of human conflict. In other words, it's about acknowledging ourselves as living memorials, people becoming testimonies to events that happened but are no longer there.
For as long as our paths continue to cross, the Refuge will be a home to me and Marcia — and others who feel inspired to embark on their own creative journeys.
You can find more of Andrés Mario de Varona's work at AndresMario.com or @andres.deva on Instagram.
You can reach Marcia Reifman at mreifman@q.com.
Tsering Bista photo edited this story.
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KINGSTON, ON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The winning pod design for SnapCab's first annual "Space To Be You" contest will be revealed on the eve of Chicago's NeoCon® on Sunday, June 12 (3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT). SnapCab, the pod design and manufacturing company, will unveil a full-scale build of the winning design, the "Japandi" pod, by Georgia Southern University recent interior design graduate, Emma Franceschina.
Carla Bostock, SnapCab's art director and product aesthetics designer, led the contest in collaboration with commercial interior design media company, i+s. Bostock says designers and design students were invited to use their creativity, innovation, and vision to completely customize a SnapCab pod for a chance to win a trip to Chicago to attend NeoCon 2022 and have their design come to life.
"Submissions were sent in from all over North America, and the winner was determined by the highest number of votes on the i+s Instagram account," says Bostock. "We were amazed and inspired by what we received, and Emma's design was named the winner."
Franceschina focused on biophilic and wellness design during her time in school.
"I am still feeling so honored that I won this contest, and I can't wait to see the design come to life at NeoCon this year," she says. "This is my first architecture project outside of college. I can't wait for the grand reveal and celebration, and to meet the wonderful SnapCab team that has worked with me to turn this into a reality."
Both Franceschina and Bostock were interviewed about the contest and final design by the i+s I Hear Design Podcast.
An RSVP is recommended for the event, which will include champagne, a signature cocktail, and a nibble. After the pod reveal, guests will have a chance to hear from Franceschina herself.
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The second annual "Space To Be You" pod design contest will be announced in the summer of 2022.
For the past 50 years, NeoCon has been the standout event for the commercial design industry. Over 400 exhibitors will showcase new products and services relevant to the workplace, education, public spaces, healthcare and more.
About SnapCab
Since 1983, SnapCab has been a leader in developing workspace privacy solutions and elevator cab interiors that are flexible, high quality and safe to use in a variety of environments. SnapCab Workspace offers a flexible kit of parts that is designed with a customizable frame, panels, finishes, colors, furniture, accessories and more. These isolated pods for the open office are moveable, simple to clean and can be combined with the SnapCab Connects walls to transform any workplace.
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(WHTM) — With the impacts of Hurricane Ian starting to affect the Florida peninsula, there have been tornado watches and warnings issued for the coast and the center of Florida. This is a common phenomenon when a hurricane is close to making landfall.
So, why do tornadoes form when hurricanes make landfall?
Well, one of the main reasons is friction.
According to the University of Wisconsin, a hurricane occurs over water, and there is nothing stopping it. No land mass, no structures, and no vegetation to slow the winds down at the surface. Both winds high up in the storm, as well as down at the surface, are the same when a hurricane is over water.
But, when the outer bands of a hurricane reach land, the winds at the surface are now bouncing off of objects, trees, land masses, and other objects slowing the wind down, the university said.
Winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere, however, are remaining the same. These changes in wind speed at different levels of the atmosphere are one of the reasons tornadoes form during a landfilling hurricane.
Meteorologists study hurricanes by dividing the storm up into four quadrants. The right front quadrant of the storm is the area where the most tornadoes form, due to it usually being the first part of the system that makes landfall, causing the most wind and wind shear.
Hurrican-spawned tornadoes are usually wrapped in rain and are hard to see. But most hurricanes produce weak tornadoes between the EF-0 and EF-1 ratings,
While the actual hurricane remains the primary safety concern, these smaller tornados can cause additional problems.
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(WHO) – Netflix is bringing back its 2021 smash hit “Squid Game” in more ways than one. Earlier this week the series was picked up for a second season. Now, the streaming service is launching a reality competition based on the Korean thriller.
“Squid Game: The Challenge” will pit 456 competitors against one another in a series of challenges. Each eliminated player adds $100,000 to the prize pool with a total payout of $4.56 million dollars to the last person standing.
Netflix is currently casting for the 10-episode series. According to the streaming platform, the show will have both the largest cast and total payout in reality TV show history.
“Squid Game” was a runaway hit for Netflix after its release in the fall of 2021. The series followed 456 contestants as they competed in a series of challenges with fatal consequences, leaving one contestant standing.
For “Squid Game: The Challenge,” the stakes will still be high, but “the worst fate is going home empty-handed,” Netflix explained in a press release.
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NEW YORK — A state court in New York has ordered two companies owned by former President Donald Trump to pay $1.61 million in fines and penalties for tax fraud.
The amount, the maximum allowed under state sentencing guidelines, is due within 14 days of Friday's sentencing.
"This conviction was consequential, the first time ever for a criminal conviction of former President Trump's companies," said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg said he thinks the financial penalty for decades of fraudulent behavior wasn't severe enough.
"Our laws in this state need to change in order to capture this type of decade-plus systemic and egregious fraud," he said.
Kimberly Benza, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, issued a statement describing the prosecution as political and saying the company plans to appeal.
"New York has become the crime and murder capital of the world, yet these politically motivated prosecutors will stop at nothing to get President Trump and continue the never ending witch-hunt which began the day he announced his presidency," the statement read.
The sentence comes after a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump's family enterprise guilty of all charges last month in a long-running tax-fraud scheme.
Trump himself was not charged, though his name was mentioned frequently at trial, and his signature appeared on some of the documents at the heart of the case.
Earlier this week, the long-time chief financial officer to Trump's various business entities, Allen Weisselberg, was sentenced to five months behind bars for his role in the criminal scheme.
Trump's family business is known as the Trump Organization, but in fact consists of hundreds of business entities, including the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation.
Weisselberg, 75, worked side-by-side with Trump for decades, and was described by Trump's attorneys as being like a member of the family.
Last summer, he agreed to plead guilty and serve as the star witness.
In the statement, Trump Organization spokeswoman Benza suggested Weisselberg had been coerced into turning against the company.
"Allen Weisselberg is a victim. He was threatened, intimidated and terrorized. He was given a choice of pleading guilty and serving 90 days in prison or serving the rest of his life in jail — all of this over a corporate car and standard employee benefits," the statement read.
At the heart of the case were a variety of maneuvers that allowed Weisselberg and other top executives to avoid paying taxes on their income from the Trump businesses.
The Trump businesses also benefited.
For example, the Trump Corporation gave yearly bonuses to some staffers (signed and distributed by Trump) as if they were independent contractors.
Weisselberg acknowledged on the stand that the move enabled the Trump business to avoid Medicare and payroll taxes.
Weisselberg also improperly took part in a tax-advantaged retirement plan that is only supposed to be open to true freelancers.
While the size of the fine is too small to significantly harm the overall Trump business, there are other implications.
Being designated a convicted felon could make it harder for the Trump Organization to obtain loans or work with insurers.
And the legal peril for the Trump business does not end here.
According to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, this chapter of the criminal investigation of Trump and his businesses is over but a wider investigation of Trump's business practices is ongoing.
A sprawling civil suit from New York Attorney General Letitia James is also scheduled to go to trial in the fall.
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SEATTLE (AP) — A divided Washington Supreme Court on Thursday approved a registered sex offender’s application to become an attorney in the state.
Zachary Leroy Stevens, 35, has been living in Arizona, where since attending law school he has worked for a lawyer who represents American Indian tribes. He grew up in Utah, where he was convicted of voyeurism after sending child pornography to an undercover detective at age 19 and where several years later he was arrested for drunken driving while on probation.
In a 5-4 decision, the court noted his relative youth at the time of his offenses and said he had demonstrated the “good moral character” necessary to be allowed to practice law. Stevens was previously refused admission to the Arizona bar but said he would move to Washington state if his application there was approved.
“Like all of us, Stevens is more than the sum of the worst moments of his life,” Justice Mary Yu wrote for the majority. “As an adult, he has abstained from engaging in any unlawful conduct since 2013. In that time, he has graduated from college and law school, he has been steadily employed, and he has developed a supportive network of friends and family. It is apparent from the record that Stevens has taken responsibility for his prior misconduct and shows remorse.”
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The dissenting justices, led by Justice Barbara Madsen, said they were concerned that Stevens had not completed his legal obligations — he must continue to register as a sex offender until 2024 at least; that he had not provided a current mental health evaluation; and that the Arizona bar had rejected his application, a factor that Washington should respect, they said.
"The fact that Stevens must register as a sex offender until he is eligible to petition for remission is particularly concerning, especially because one of this court’s key responsibilities is to guard the public and its confidence in the judicial system,” Madsen wrote.
That said, she suggested her analysis might be different once Stevens submitted a current evaluation and was no longer required to register as a sex offender. Under Utah law, sex offenders can petition to have their registration requirements canceled after 10 years.
Stevens applied to become a lawyer in Washington in 2019, after Arizona rejected his application. A Washington State Bar Association committee reviewed his petition and rejected it 6-5. He appealed to the Supreme Court.
His attorney did not immediately return an email seeking comment Thursday. The attorney he works for in Arizona, Margaret Vick, supported his application, the majority noted.
“When asked about Stevens’ criminal history and his bar application, his employer stated, ‘That 19-year-old should not be a lawyer. The . . . 33-year-old that I work with I think is a different person than that 19-year-old was,’” Yu wrote.
The Washington Supreme Court has previously allowed people convicted of crimes to become lawyers. In 2014, the court ruled that Shon Hopwood, a convicted bank robber who became a “jailhouse lawyer” could take the state bar exam. Hopwood passed, was admitted to the bar and now teaches at Georgetown University Law Center and has been admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court bar.
He also represented Tarra Simmons, who successfully petitioned the court to take the bar despite convictions for assault and drug and theft charges. In 2020, she became the first formerly incarcerated person elected to the Washington state Legislature, and she now works with the National Justice Impact Bar Association, which helps people with criminal backgrounds become lawyers.
Simmons said Thursday the organization is aware of about 100 attorneys around the country who have been admitted to practice law despite past convictions — but no others who have ongoing legal obligations such as probation or sex offender registration. She was thrilled for Stevens, but to the extent that criminal history has long been used as a proxy for race, the ruling is about more that just his admission to the bar, she said.
“This is about furthering justice and advancing policies against systemic racism,” Simmons said.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nation's longest home price boom has ended after a run-up lasting 10½ years. Since prices peaked in June, we have had Month-on-Month declines of 0.5%, 0.4%, & 0.2% in September, August, & July respectively, according to data from the American Enterprise Institute's Housing Center.
Out of the 60 largest metros, 51 have had a decline from their respective peak home price levels, and only 2 are still growing. San Jose, San Francisco, & Seattle had the biggest declines from their peaks at -10.7%, -8.5%, and -8.2% respectively (see #1 in graphic).
September's Year-on-Year HPA was 10.3%, down from 11.6% a month ago, a YoY peak of 17.2% in March 2022 and 15.8% a year ago. Based on Optimal Blue rate lock data, YoY HPA is projected to decline to further 9.2% in October 2022 and 7.4% in November and YoY HPA is expected to slow to 4%-6% for December 2022.
YoY HPA varied significantly among the 60 largest metros. It ranged from 2.6% and 3.4% in San Francisco and San Jose to 21.2% and 20.6% in Cape Coral and North Port (see #2 in graphic).
Historically, HPA in the low price tier outpaced HPA in the upper price tiers. This trend continues to hold true. Although home prices were down across all four price tiers, the high end and low end of the market were hit differently. In September, high price tier was down 3.7% from its peak in May 2022, while low price tier was down 0.5% from its peak in July.
September months' supply & active listings both increased above seasonal trends, but remain at historically low levels. Months' supply stood at 1.9 months in September 2022, down from 2.8 months in September 2019, but up from 1.7 months in August 2022, and 0.7 months in April 2022 (see #3 in graphic).
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WASHINGTON — WNBA star Brittney Griner didn't want any alone time as soon as she boarded a U.S. government plane that would bring her home.
"I have been in prison for 10 months now, listening to Russian. I want to talk," Griner said, according to Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, who helped secure the basketball star's release and bring her back to the U.S. last week.
She then asked Carstens, referring to others on the plane: "But, first of all, who are these guys?"
"And she moved right past me and went to every member on that crew, looked them in the eyes, shook their hands and asked about them, got their names, making a personal connection with them.," Carstens recalled. "It was really amazing."
Ultimately, Griner spent about 12 hours of an 18-hour flight talking with others on the plane, Carstens said. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and Phoenix Mercury pro basketball star spoke about her time in the Russian penal colony and her months in captivity, Carstens recalled, although he declined to go into specific details.
"I was left with the impression this is an intelligent, passionate, compassionate, humble, interesting person, a patriotic person," Carstens said. "But above all, authentic. I hate the fact that I had to meet her in this manner, but I actually felt blessed having had a chance to get to know her."
Although Griner is undergoing a full medical and mental evaluation, Carstens said she appeared "full of energy, looked fantastic."
Griner, who also played pro basketball in Russia, was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport in February after Russian authorities said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. The U.S. State Department declared Griner to be "wrongfully detained" — a charge that Russia has sharply rejected.
President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the U.S. had secured Griner's release. In exchange, the administration offered Russia the release of notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, who had been serving a 25-year sentence on charges that he conspired to sell tens of millions of dollars in weapons that U.S officials said were to be used against Americans.
But the U.S. was unable to secure the freedom of Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russia for nearly four years. Administration officials have stressed repeatedly that they are still working to release Whelan, whom Russian officials have jailed on espionage charges that both his family and the U.S. government say are baseless.
"They hold Mr. Whelan differently because of these espionage charges," John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said Sunday. "So we're working through that now. We are now more informed, clearly having gone through this process over the last few months. We're more informed. We have a better sense of the context here, where the Russia's expectations are and we're just going to keep working on it."
Carstens, the U.S. government's top hostage negotiator, said "there's always cards" to play in securing an offer for Whelan and said he spoke with the jailed American on Friday.
"Here's what I told him. I said, 'Paul, you have the commitment of this president. The president's focused. The secretary of state's focused. I'm certainly focused, and we're going to bring you home,'" Carstens said. "And I reminded him, I said, 'Paul, when you were in the Marines, and I was in the Army, they always reminded you, keep the faith.' And I said, 'Keep the faith. We're coming to get you.'"
Carstens spoke on CNN's "State of the Union," and Kirby appeared on ABC's "This Week."
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CHICAGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Courte Partners, LLC ("GCP"), a private equity real estate investment firm and owner of The Parking Spot ("TPS"), the nation's leading near-airport parking company, announced today the acquisition of Blue Sky Airport Parking, a 1,540-space parking facility serving Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport ("PHX"). The facility, which will be rebranded as "The Parking Spot South" in the coming months, will be the company's third property in the PHX market and is the only near-airport parking facility located south of the airport. The property's unique location relative to the other two TPS properties on the north side of the airport will allow TPS to extend its customer base to include those arriving from the fast-growing southern and eastern Phoenix suburbs. The acquisition expands GCP's near-airport parking portfolio to 38 facilities at 22 airports containing approximately 78,000 spaces nationwide.
David Warren, the developer and owner of Blue Sky Airport Parking, stated, "When I developed Blue Sky in 2010, I intended for it to be a family-owned asset for generations, so selling it was an emotional decision for me. I've gotten to know GCP and TPS well over the years and there is no other group that I would have trusted to take over Blue Sky. They customized a deal that suited the financial needs of my family and our partners, and I'm confident that our employees and customers will be in good hands with them."
Jordan Kerger, Managing Director at GCP, added, "Blue Sky has been a high-priority acquisition target for us for a decade and we are pleased to expand TPS's presence at PHX with a property that is well positioned to capitalize on the future growth of the region. We have known Dave for years and are very impressed by the high-quality facility and successful business that he built."
For more information and to make parking reservations, please visit The Parking Spot's website (www.theparkingspot.com).
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MEXICO CITY, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akkodis, a global leader in the engineering and R&D market, has begun supporting its clients from Mexico with the opening of a new Operations Center in Santa Fe, one of the largest and most modern business districts in Mexico City.
Complementing existing offshore Operations Centers, the new Mexico location will provide Akkodis clients with nearshore support services that will enable them to scale fast and jump-start critical business initiatives.
The launch team is comprised of IT specialists who will provide recruitment and selection services for specialized candidate profiles as well as support onboarding and monitoring of new employees.
"Our new Operations Center in Mexico City will help us provide more support options for both new and existing clients," said Mike Small, Head of Akkodis North America. "Many of our clients in North America are looking to bring critical support functions closer to home and Mexico's growing base of professional and technical talent make it a compelling proposition."
"Mexico City offers a vibrant tech community and a highly skilled, English-speaking workforce," said Lane Greever, COO of Akkodis North America. "A new generation of talent is taking advantage of the region's investments in higher education and skills training and we're excited to support our clients with this growing talent pool from our new Operations Center."
About Akkodis
AKKA & Modis, soon to become Akkodis, is a global leader in the engineering and R&D market that is leveraging the power of connected data to accelerate innovation and digital transformation.
With a shared passion for technology and talent, 50,000 engineers and digital experts deliver deep cross-sector expertise in 30 countries across North America, EMEA and APAC. AKKA & Modis offers broad industry experience, and strong know-how in key technology sectors such as mobility, software & technology services, robotics, testing, simulations, data security, AI & data analytics. The combined IT and engineering expertise brings a unique end-to-end solution offering, with four service lines – Consulting, Solutions, Talents and Academy – to support clients in rethinking their product development and business processes, improve productivity, minimize time to market and shape a smarter and more sustainable tomorrow. AKKA & Modis is part of the Adecco Group.
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On a summer's day in 2006, inside an apartment not far from Virginia's old death chamber, an 82-year-old man handed over a briefcase to an archivist. The bag held four execution recordings so rare, similar tapes from another state had been released just once before in history.
When executions take place, only a few people are permitted to attend as witnesses. Since prisons forbid even those journalists, lawyers and family members from recording audio or images, virtually no physical evidence from their vantage point exists from any state. But they're not the only ones watching. Prison employees also see what happens in the death chamber – and they sometimes tape it.
The cassettes in the briefcase were recorded by staff, and the donor, R. M. Oliver, had worked in Virginia prisons for years. But how that government audio ended up in his bag – and why he privately donated it to the Library of Virginia – is a mystery. Oliver left his last position with the Department of Corrections in Richmond before any of the executions were taped. His family said he took the story to his grave when he died.
"Dad kept it a secret from us," said his son, Stephen Oliver. "I don't even remember seeing that briefcase."
The tapes from Oliver's bag remained unavailable for 16 years. The library initially restricted them and planned to keep them off limits for decades more. But NPR argued for their public release and obtained the audio in 2022.
An NPR investigation can now reveal the tapes show the prison neglected to record key evidence during what was considered one of Virginia's worst executions, and staff appeared unprepared for some of the jobs they were tasked to do in the death chamber.
Before Virginia abolished capital punishment in 2021, the state executed more people than any other in America. This is the first time audio recorded during any of those executions has ever been published.
Behind the scenes: "We didn't know for sure"
Minutes before he was scheduled to die by the electric chair, Alton Waye used his last words to forgive the workers who would soon have to help kill him.
"I'd like to express that what is about to occur here is a murder," he starts by saying on the tape.
An employee whispers the rest of Waye's statement into the recorder: "And that he forgives the people involved in this murder. And that I don't hate nobody and that I love them."
That worker then checked in with another colleague to see if he had heard the statement correctly. He hadn't.
"I'm trying to get it," the second man responds. "I would like to express that what is about to take place here is a murder. Did anyone else catch the rest of that?"
The prison eventually got Waye's words down right. But the other tapes show uncertainty was common in the death chamber. At the beginning of the narration of Richard Whitley's execution in 1987, the staff seemed confused about how they were supposed to record the event.
"We're not using a blank tape?" one worker asks, before a second wonders out loud if the recorder was turned on.
The prison staff seemed still more unprepared during the electrocution of Richard Boggs. For more than two minutes, staff can be heard on the tape appearing to struggle to connect a call from one of the only people with the power to cancel an execution at the last moment.
"We need to get 306 clear, the governor's office is calling," a worker says.
The situation was urgent.
"Debbie, they are strapping him in the chair!" a second woman exclaims. "Hold on a minute."
If the governor wanted to save Boggs' life, he would need to be connected with someone in the death chamber quickly. Minutes passed, however, and the issue appeared unresolved. A third employee predicted they would have to cut Debbie off in order to connect the governor.
"Let me call Switchboard and see what's going on," one of the workers interjects, before a line appears to go dead.
Boggs was eventually executed. The governor, L. Douglas Wilder, had not called to spare him. But if Wilder had felt differently – and had the staff not been able to connect him in time – Virginia could have come close to carrying out the execution of a pardoned man.
"We didn't know for sure whether you had contact down there with the governor's office," one of the workers reiterates on the tape.
The fourth and final recording revealed a more serious oversight.
Bloody evidence, hidden on record
Local reporters who watched the execution of Wilbert Lee Evans in 1990 said they witnessed one of the worst in Virginia's history. Three journalists wrote in the Richmond Times-Dispatch that, following the administration of the first jolt of electricity from the chair, Evans started to bleed from his eyes, mouth and nose.
"Blood flowed from under the leather death mask," observed a journalist from the Virginian-Pilot.
A reporter from a third newspaper, the Alexandria Journal, said something similar.
"He started bubbling blood," Geoff Brown observed, "and it ran down his belly and his shirt."
But the tape the prison created during Evans' execution recorded none of those details.
"It is 11:04, the first surge of electricity has been administered," an employee states.
It was right after that first jolt that reporters said the blood started streaming down Evans' chin and soaking his shirt. The voice of the narrator can be heard breaking on tape. But if she was affected by the scene, she didn't clarify the reason. She never mentioned any evidence of blood.
"It is 11, 11:05," she stutters. "The second surge of electricity has been administered."
Then, minutes later, just: "The inmate has expired."
"What is the state trying to cover up?"
None of the 27 states that currently allow the death penalty use the chair as their primary method of execution anymore. Most have switched to lethal injection. But mistakes in the death chamber are still common.
In 2022, more than a third of the 20 executions that were attempted across the country were botched. The governor of Tennessee called off an execution after he learned staff had failed to test the chemicals they were planning on using for contamination. Workers in Texas struggled for more than half an hour to place an IV into a disabled man's neck.
Official cover ups after the executions go wrong are also not unusual. Behind closed doors, on July 28, 2022, execution workers in Alabama took more than three hours to set an IV line into Joe James, Jr.'s body. The state said nothing out of the ordinary happened during that time. But a nonprofit, Reprieve, obtained permission from his family to conduct an autopsy afterwards. It revealed multiple puncture wounds, bruises, and evidence that the state may have cut into his skin to find a vein, said Blaire Andres, who leads death penalty projects for Reprieve.
"All of that was hidden from view from the journalists that were supposed to witness the execution," said Andres. "If the state is doing everything correctly, they shouldn't have anything to hide. So it does raise the question, what is the state trying to cover up?"
The Alabama Department of Corrections did not respond to NPR's request for comment. The same question now remains open in Virginia, too. Though the library eventually released the tapes Oliver donated, NPR discovered the Department of Corrections has more audio that it's still choosing to keep hidden from the public.
After NPR requested all remaining execution audio from the agency under the Freedom of Information Act, Corrections confirmed it has at least six additional audio files with 70 minutes of tape recorded on them. But it refused to share the tapes. It also declined an interview request.
In an email, a representative from the agency defended the decision to keep the audio concealed. Because the tapes are private prison records, private health records and contain confidential personnel information, the agency does not have to share them, the representative wrote.
An attorney who teaches at the University of Virginia's law school, Ian Kalish, reviewed the email. He said Corrections seemed to be acting in a manner contrary to the intention of the state's public records law, which was designed to grant people access to government files.
"These types of records are really key to facilitating public oversight and holding public bodies and government actors accountable," Kalish said. "It's very concerning to me that this type of information is being withheld."
As long as Corrections refuses to reveal the rest of the execution audio, Oliver's tapes could be the only existing content from inside Virginia's death chamber that people can hear. Together with the 19 execution tapes from Georgia that an attorney subpoenaed during a court case, the two sets are the only pieces of publicly available audio evidence from the more than 1,500 executions that have taken place across the U.S. during the past 50 years.
Whether Oliver knew how significant the four tapes would be when he gave them away is unclear. But Roger Christman, the archivist who collected the briefcase from Oliver's apartment back in 2006, thinks he may have had an idea.
"He was really happy that he could find a home for these records," Christman remembered. "He thought they were very important."
Barrie Hardymon edited this story. Monika Evstatieva produced it.
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48 million Americans have hearing loss, many still don't have accessible communications required by ADA
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) – the leading voice for the growing number of Americans with hearing loss – marks the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), with a call for more progress on accessible communication. HLAA participated in the passage of the landmark 1990 civil rights legislation, requiring equal access for people with disabilities in public spaces, jobs, schools, transportation, and government services.
HLAA was instrumental in getting accessible communications, such as captioning and assistive listening systems, included in the ADA over three decades ago, and still advocates on behalf of the 48 million Americans who have hearing loss. HLAA wants people with hearing loss to understand their rights by visiting hearingloss.org/KnowYourRights.
"There's no question that accessibility has improved over the last 32 years, but there's a long way to go, especially when it comes to accessibility for invisible disabilities like hearing loss," says Barbara Kelley, executive director of HLAA. "We've become accustomed to looking for curb cutouts and wheelchair-accessible elevators, but many people don't know that those same public places are also required to have assistive listening systems for people with hearing loss," she explains.
Public places like movie theatres, lecture halls, stadiums — and anywhere with a public address system — are required to provide access to special listening systems and devices for patrons with hearing loss, but according to HLAA, equipment is often missing, broken or non-existent.
Another area that often lacks accessibility is the workplace. A recent survey of people with hearing loss conducted by HLAA found 44% reported accessibility issues on the job, which can lead to frustration, isolation, and job loss. Accessible communication in health care is also a common and serious problem, according to HLAA.
"The ADA requires both employers and health care providers to provide accessible listening systems or captioning to people with hearing loss on request, but these systems are often missing or inadequate," says Lise Hamlin, HLAA's director of public policy. "You can imagine the dangers of not fully understanding your doctor's instructions because your telehealth appointment doesn't have captions available, or you were unable to get the proper listening device in the emergency room to know what's happening to a loved one," adds Hamlin.
HLAA notes that accessibility doesn't always mean providing a sign language interpreter, since many who have hearing loss don't use American Sign Language (ASL). Accessible technology — like hearing loop systems that feed into hearing aids or amplifying receivers, or real-time captioning that provides the text of the spoken word — may be needed instead.
HLAA is urging people to learn what accommodations are available, by visiting hearingloss.org/KnowYourRights, and taking steps to file a complaint if they're not provided.
"After 32 years, it's time to demand more. People with hearing loss, and all people with disabilities, deserve to have equal access to public spaces, work, school, and health care. It's up to people with disabilities themselves to know their rights and file complaints if they don't get access," says Barbara Kelley.
HLAA also urges all Americans to get their hearing checked, and not to wait to get treated. Untreated hearing loss is linked to cognitive decline, depression, dementia, and falls. HLAA provides ongoing employment and health care access resources, to empower people to live full lives with hearing loss.
The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is the nation's leading organization representing the growing number of people with hearing loss in the U.S. Its mission is to open the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support, and advocacy.
HLAA was instrumental in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) more than 30 years ago, and still fights for the rights of people with hearing loss at local and national levels and offers support online and in chapters across the country.
HLAA's Walk4Hearing events raise awareness and funds in cities across the country and offer support to families dealing with hearing loss. HLAA also publishes Hearing Life magazine and other news and important resources at hearingloss.org.
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BALTIMORE — The Maryland Attorney General’s Office has publicly released a redacted version of an investigative report detailing sex abuse allegations against more than 150 Catholic priests and examining the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s response.
Former Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh launched the probe in 2019 and announced its completion in November, saying investigators had reviewed over 100,000 pages of documents dating back to the 1940s and interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses. The report’s contents weren’t immediately released because they include information obtained from church officials via grand jury subpoenas, which are confidential proceedings in Maryland.
Lawyers for the state asked a court for permission to release the nearly 500-page document, which identifies 158 priests accused of abusing more than 600 victims over the past 80 years, and Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Robert Taylor ruled last month that a redacted version should be made public. Officials recently started making the necessary redactions, which included removing the names and titles of 37 people accused of wrongdoing.
“The need for disclosure outweighs the need for secrecy,” Taylor wrote in his decision to release the report, saying a “public reckoning” may be the only form of justice available to some victims.
He also said Maryland legislators should be able to consider the report’s contents during the ongoing legislative session, which ends April 10. That timeline meant the report became public during Holy Week, which concludes Lent and is considered the most sacred time of year in Christianity ahead of Easter Sunday.
State lawmakers are currently considering whether to end the state’s statute of limitations for when civil lawsuits related to child sexual abuse can be filed against institutions. Similar proposals have failed in recent years, but the issue received renewed attention this session and the current proposal is nearing passage in Annapolis, where lawmakers have until midnight next Monday to give final approval and send the bill to Gov. Wes Moore, who has said he supports it. Currently, victims of child sex abuse in Maryland can’t sue after they turn 38. The bill would eliminate the age limit and allow for retroactive lawsuits.
“The report is likely to evoke many emotions: anger, disgust, disillusionment and sadness among them,” Baltimore Archbishop William Lori said in a statement Monday ahead of its release. “Though the Archdiocese has made great strides over the last three decades to rid the Church of the scourge of abuse and to set the standard for how institutions should respond to allegations of child sexual abuse, the report covers a period in the Archdiocese’s past when our response to such allegations was woefully inadequate.”
In the weeks leading up to the release, Taylor directed prosecutors to entirely redact the identities of 37 people from the report before releasing it. He also told the attorney general to rephrase some pieces of the document to avoid identifying 60 other people. The court will consider releasing a more complete version in the future.
When Maryland prosecutors asked to release the findings of their recent investigation, they summarized some of the report’s contents, which paint a damning picture. Sexual abuse was so pervasive, the filing said, that some parishes, congregations and schools had more than one abusive priest at the same time — including one congregation where 11 abusive priests practiced over 40 years. In some cases, victims ended up reporting abuse to priests who were abusive themselves, prosecutors wrote.
The investigation also revealed that the archdiocese failed to report many allegations of sexual abuse to authorities, conduct adequate investigations, remove abusers from the ministry or restrict their access to children.
“Instead, it went to great lengths to keep the abuse secret,” the court filing said. “While the Archdiocese reported a large number of allegations to police, especially in later years, for decades it worked to ensure that the perpetrators would not face justice.”
The Archdiocese of Baltimore, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland, has long faced scrutiny over its handling of abuse allegations.
In 2002, Cardinal William Keeler, who served as Baltimore archbishop for nearly two decades, released a list of 57 priests accused of sexual abuse, earning himself a reputation for transparency at a time when the nationwide scope of wrongdoing remained largely unexposed. That changed, however, when Keeler was named in a sweeping Pennsylvania grand jury report. The 2018 report presented extensive evidence of a far-reaching coverup that often involved transferring accused clergy to other parishes instead of holding them accountable.
In Keeler’s case, the grand jury accused him of covering up sexual abuse allegations while serving as bishop of Harrisburg in the 1980s. Keeler later allowed the accused clergy member, now-defrocked John G. Allen, to transfer to Baltimore and continue working. Not long after the report became public, church officials announced the archdiocese was changing its plans to name a new Catholic school after Keeler, who had died the previous year.
A 2017 Netflix documentary also placed a spotlight on abuse claims against the late priest A. Joseph Maskell, who taught at a Catholic high school in Baltimore in the 1960s and ’70s. Detectives exhumed his body several years ago while investigating the still unsolved cold case homicide of Catherine Ann Cesnik, a nun who disappeared from a Baltimore shopping center in 1969. She was teaching at the same high school as Maskell at the time of her slaying.
Maskell died in 2001.
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GAYLORD — Saturday on the golf course in Gaylord was all Traverse City as the Trojans of Traverse City Central and the Titans of Traverse City West took the top three spots at the Big North Conference meet.
The Blue Devils hosted the BNC tournament at the Treetops Resort’s Smith Tradition Golf Course, and the Trojans’ two teams took first and second place while the Titans’ first team grabbed third.
After winning the Loop Classic on Friday and breaking 300 for the first time this season with a combined score of 298, the Trojans did themselves two shots better with a 296 to take home the title. Boston Price carded a 72 as Mack Shane fired a 73, Graham Peters shot a 75, and Cam Peters and Cameron Mansfield notched a 76. Michael Beattie had a 78 as well.
The Trojans’ second team finished with a 307 as they were led by EJ Maitland, who fired a 2-under 68 to finish second overall. Gaylord’s Kole Putnam was one stroke better at 67 to win the individual championship. Helping Maitland’s effort were Griffin Mawson (79) as well as Ben Lee and Spencer Stegenga, who each fired an 80.
“To watch them perform tournament after tournament as they are increasingly lowering their scores, it’s just a lot of fun,” TC Central head coach Lois McManus said. “It’s just a blast to see them smile and how they visit and converse with each other.”
McManus said this 2023 Trojan squad is not just a collection of individual golfers. They are truly a team.
“They know that they can trust each other and rely on each other,” she said. “And it’s not just the top six players. It’s all 19 of them. It’s just an enjoyable experience. ... This team is just extremely passionate.”
The Titans combined for a 312 to take the bronze. Winslow Robinson continued his solid play with a team-best 75 followed by Henry Stachnik at 76, Alex Lee at 80, and Austin Stehouwer at 81.
Aside from Putnam and Maitland in first and second, Price was fourth followed by Shane in fifth; Graham Peters and Robinson tied for sixth; Stachnik, Cam Peters, Mansfield and Robinson tied for eighth, and Beattie alone in 11th.
Despite Putnam’s winning effort, the Blue Devils finished tied for fourth with Alpena at 325. Petoskey was sixth at 356, Cadillac eighth at 369, and the TC West second team in ninth at 371.
LACROSSE
TC United pick up road win against Midland Dow
MIDLAND — The Traverse City United reached double digits in wins as they took down a tough Midland Dow squad on the road Saturday morning after a home night game Friday against Warren De La Salle. The victory is the United’s fifth straight and moves them to 10-3 overall.
Caleb Lewandowski and Gavin Hysell once again starred for the United in their 19-12 win over the Chargers, despite the Traverse City Central and Traverse City West co-op trailing 5-2 after the first quarter. Lewandowski tallied seven goals and assisted on five others, while Hysell had another six goals to give him 32 in his last five games.
The United were also helped by Jackson Dobreff with two goals and one assist, Sam Tursman with two goals, Remy Soper with one goal, two assists and 13 groundballs, Kurt Sheahen with two assists, Spencer Gerber with one goal, and Ryan Grubbs with one assist. Ty Cooper and Grady Ellis led the defense.
Ethan Gerber picked up the win again in cage for the United with nine saves. Connor Kinsey came on in relief and had seven saves.
“This was a nice one to have today, especially after a night game last night and an early-morning road trip,” United head coach Liberty Provost said. “We were slow off the bus, but I was proud of the guys’ ability to rally and hit our groove in the second and third quarters. Happy with where we’re at right now.”
The United travel to Ada Forest Hills Eastern on Monday.
“Another big test for us,” Provost said. “I hope we can show up with some good effort right off the bus.”
GIRLS SOCCER
BC Western 2
TC West 1
Traverse City West: No stats reported.
UP NEXT: The Titans (6-3-2, 3-1-1 Big North) take on crosstown rival Traverse City Central on Tuesday.
BOYS GOLF
Glen Lake’s O’Connor ties for 1st at Bedford Valley
BATTLE CREEK — The Glen Lake Lakers finished fourth out of a field of 17 at the Sentech Services Golf Open at the Bedford Valley Golf Course in Battle Creek on Saturday due in large part to Blake O’Connor’s first-place effort.
O’Connor, a senior, fired a 73 to tie Portage Central’s Ethan Tiller at the top of the leaderboard. The Lakers combined to shoot a 320, just 12 strokes behind overall winner Unity Christian at 308.
Michael Houtteman carded an 80 for the Lakers followed by Garrett Moss with an 82 and Drew Dezelski with an 85.
Trojans, Sabres compete at Cardinal Invite
BIG RAPIDS — Traverse City Christian and the Traverse City Central headed down to Ferris State University’s Katke Golf Course to compete at the JV Cardinal Invite, with the Trojans taking third with a 380 and the Sabres finishing fourth after combining for a 403.
Brogan Danbrook and Donovan Payne both carded a 93 for TC Central followed by Drew Davison with a 94, and Kiel Knapp with a 100. For the Sabres, Joey Mirabelli led with an 86 followed by Garrett Schultz with a 96, Zachary Connor with a 110, and Rowan Blain with a 111.
TRACK & FIELD
Leland’s Knudsen wins 4 at Saber Flash Invite
MANISTEE — Leland’s Ella Knudsen took home four wins, three individual and one relay, at Saturday’s Saber Flash Invitational in Manistee.
The sophomore Comet won the 800-, 1600- and 3200-meter runs and was the anchor leg the relay team that won the 4x800m. Knudsen won the 800 in 2:39.9, the 1600 in 5:41.32 and the 3200 in 12:52.85. The Comet relay team of Knudsen, Amabel Schaiger, Bridgette Duncan and Ariana Rodriguez won in 11:09.79.
Manistee Catholic Central’s Lauren Niedzielski set a PR in the 200m at 28.54 to win and took the 400m title as well at 1:04.03.
On the boys side, McBain Northern Michigan Christian finished third overall as White Cloud won both the boys and girls titles. McBain NMC won the 4x400m realy with Nathan Eisenga, Collin DeKam, Isaac Bowden and Tucker Tossey running a 3:53.42. Bowden also won the pole vault, clearing 13 feet.
The only other area boys winner was MCC’s Andrew Potter, who won the 300m hurdles in 45.61.
McBain boys, girls win All-Sports Day Invite
PINE RIVER — The McBain Ramblers ran roughshod over the competition at the Pine River All-Sports Day Invitational as the girls collected 174 points and the boys collected 121. Host Pine River finished second in both.
Boys individual winners for McBain included Benjamin Rodenbaugh (400m, high jump); the 4x100m relay of Bryce Akom, Eli Wilt, Luke Hoitenga and Jacob Hart; the 4x400 team of Brett Eling, Thomas Maloney, Claydon Ingleright and Levi Myers; and Mack Bontekoe (shot put, discus).
Girls individual winners for McBain included Mikayla Blood (200m); Aubrey VandePol (400m); Kahli Heuker (800m); Analiese Fredin (100m hurdles, 300m hurdles); the 4x100 team of Sydney Heuker, Sarah Wilt, Ayla Fredin and Blood; the 4x200 team of Gabrielle Verberkmoes, Analiese Fredin, Sydney Heuker and VandePol; the 4x400 team of VerBerkmoes, Analiese Fredin, Sydney Heuker and VandePol; the 4x800 team of Kahli Heuker, Haley Miller, Karley VandePol and Chelsi Eisenga; Isabel Rozeveld (shot put, discus); Kahli Heuker (high jump); Olivia Wilt (pole vault); and Sydney Heuker (long jump).
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WENZHOU, China, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the evening of the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, Chinese traditional Mid-autumn Festival, the Mid-autumn Festival Activity held by Cangnan Foreign Cultural Diffusion Centre as well as Zaoxi Full Moon Admiring Activity was successfully taken place in Cangnan Zaoxi Town.
On that evening, the Zaoxi Old Street saw the bustling scene of crowded visitors who were in the Hanfu with lanterns in different models such as the moon and the jade hare in their hands. The visitors felt the charm of Chinese traditional culture and experienced festival atmosphere as well as its historical deposits in various ways such as cruising the streets, clocking in different sites by taking photos, visiting landscapes and tasting local characteristic delicious foods, all of which demonstrated a full sense of ceremony.
The activity has set different activity parts such as experiencing wearing the Song Dynasty Hanfu, feeling intangible cultural heritage, suspending wish cards, taking part in the moon-worshipping ceremony as well as the activity of visiting "the old street under the moon" and tasting teas and delicious foods. Inside the Changtai Academy, in the reading and sharing session, under the theme of "Forever Mid-autumn Festival, Eternal Family Affection", people read books together and shared mid-autumn themed poems and stories. In the Old Street, visitors had immersive experiences, in a short range, of the performances of inheritors of the intangible cultural heritages such as Marionette, the Glutinous Rice Sculpture, Sugar Painting, the Sugar Figure Blowing Art, Crochet Hook Embroidery. On the moon-worshipping ceremony, people surrounded the fete table with lightened red candles on it, and expressed their wonderful wishes of the Luna blessing them. Under the big banyan tree, on the special concert of folk songs, county sages and members of chamber of commerce were invited to talk freely about the development of Zaoxi Town, while tasting teas, worshipping the moon, talking about common wealth as well as listening to folk songs. The abundant activities and thoughtful arrangements put international friends, overseas Chinese, visitors from all other parts of the country and local residents together, and gave them an enjoyable flowing feast of Mid-autumn Festival.
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After generations of being overlooked and sidelined in the job market, Americans with disabilities are enjoying an unprecedented employment boom — thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Widespread acceptance of remote working and an overall labor shortage have opened up historic opportunities for some of the nation’s most skilled and underutilized workers. Since the pandemic began, employment of people with disabilities is up nearly 25%, to more than 7.3 million workers last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That contrasts sharply with the rest of U.S. employment, which still hasn’t caught up to what it was three years earlier.
The jobless rate for disabled workers — typically in double digits and 12.3% two years ago — dropped to 5.8% in November. While that’s almost double the rate for all workers ages 16 and over, it represents the lowest rate for people with disabilities since record-keeping began in 2008.
“It’s been a total game changer,” said Mason Ameri, an associate professor at Rutgers University who has been monitoring disability employment.
The shift to telework, he noted, has been particularly helpful for people with physical difficulties and mobility limitations. “The ability to get to work via this 10-second commute is to their advantage,” Ameri said.
Even as experts expect the broad shift to remote work to continue in some form, it’s unclear to what extent companies will expand opportunities for people with disabilities or allow them to retain the option to telework.
The Americans With Disabilities Act requires employers to offer a reasonable accommodation to employees with a disability. Since the law’s enactment in 1990, there have been persistent disputes over what “reasonable” means.
After almost three years in which telework has been the norm, lawyers say it may be harder for an employer to justify refusing to let disabled employees work from home.
With a pressing need for workers and new tools like videoconferencing and screen readers readily available, employers who had long resisted telework and other accommodations quickly changed their minds in the face of the pandemic.
“It’s good that we now have this option, but it’s also heartbreaking that it took so long and that it happened overnight. And it was possible all along,” said Charles-Edourad Catherine, director of corporate and government relations at the National Organization on Disability.
The EEOC has issued updated guidelines reflecting workplace changes during the pandemic. But there are few hard and fast rules, underscoring how each request may differ from job to job and the specific circumstances of the worker and employer.
While the pandemic has awakened more employers to the untapped pool of disabled workers, 3 out of 10 today don’t have a process to provide requested accommodations, according to the Kessler Foundation’s employment and disability survey with the University of New Hampshire. Many experts say that corporate America’s movement on diversity and inclusion doesn’t regard disability status as being a priority as important as race and gender.
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DALLAS, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) invites you to listen to a live webcast of its 2022 Investor Day. Southwest will be webcasting the presentation live, and a link to the webcast will be made available via the Investor Relations homepage on the Southwest Airlines website. Details of the webcast are as follows:
To access the live webcast and subsequent replay, click on the link above, or go to www.southwest.com and click on "Investor Relations" under the "About Southwest" menu at the bottom of the page. The audio webcast can be found under "News & Events" in the drop down menu. Access for this event begins 15 minutes prior to the start of the event.
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James Patterson feels the heat after saying white men face ‘another form of racism’
James Patterson has apparently seen what being marginalized is like, and it isn’t for him. Or for the aging, white male writers he seems to be worried about.
Reflecting on his illustrious career following the release of his autobiography, the bestselling author expressed concern for white men, whom he thinks are now having difficulty finding work in the entertainment and publishing industries.
Patterson classified their struggle as “just another form of racism” in an interview published in the Sunday Times in the U.K. Not surprisingly, he’s getting a lot of heat for saying so.
The quote came as the “Stories of My Life” author, whose writing success came in tandem with his thrillers about Black detective Alex Cross, was trying to express disappointment over film adaptations of his novels, saying that he’d for once like to “stand up and cheer for one of my books on the silver screen.”
Big-screen adaptations of his more than 300 books include the Morgan Freeman-starring films “Kiss the Girls” (1997) and “Along Came a Spider” (2001). (Next up is an adaptation of “Run, Rose, Run,” which he co-wrote with music legend Dolly Parton.)
The beloved songwriter and performer will publish a novel, “Run, Rose, Run,” with Patterson, accompanied by an album of the same name.
“I just wanted to create a character who happened to be Black,” the 75-year-old said. “I would not have tried to write a serious saga about a Black family. It’s different in a detective story because plot is so important.”
“I get it,” he continued. “How could we run through that period, especially in Hollywood, where there was all this talent and nobody got hired?”
From there, the writer of the Sunday Times piece said that Patterson is now worried about white men struggling to find work in film, theater, TV and publishing and thinks the problem is “just another form of racism.”
“What’s that all about?” he mused. “Can you get a job? Yes. Is it harder? Yes. It’s even harder for older writers. You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.”
Critics were quick to judge “The President Is Missing” co-author‘s remarks, taking to the replies of Patterson’s most recent tweet to share their thoughts.
Author James Patterson is donating $500,000 to help indie bookstores across the country. For many L.A. booksellers, that could be a life saver.
“So sorry to hear about the discrimination you and your $700 million face on a daily basis. We really should do more to help rich white multi millionaires get their voices heard. Can’t imagine the struggles. Hang in there sir,” one user wrote.
“I hope you really did not say this,” added another.
“Great to see you overcome the stigma of being a white dude and get the gig to... *checks notes* write your autobiography. How many other writers were you up against?” said one tweet.
“You already know.... I’m not throwing away or burning my money (books [of] his I own) but I’m [definitely] removing them from my library And will never purchase them again. This man literally had 2 well known people of color play his main Character Alex cross then says this b.s. done,” wrote another user.
‘Harvey Weinstein: My Story,’ a memoir allegedly written by the convicted producer, went up for sale on Amazon on May 10 but was pulled Friday.
Representatives for Patterson did not immediately respond Monday to The Times’ request for comment.
Elsewhere in the interview, Patterson also said he disapproves of actors and public figures weighing in on topics they’ve gleaned off the internet, but said that he’s “almost always on the side of free speech.”
He said that he “hated” that Little, Brown in 2020 pulled embattled director Woody Allen’s memoir after the publishing company’s staff staged a walkout.
“He has the right to tell his own story,” Patterson argued.
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Set your goldfish up swimmingly
Goldfish are hardy, fairly simple to care for, and eye-catching, so it’s no wonder they’re popular pets. These passive freshwater fish are ideal for renters who can’t have other types of pets, aquarium hobbyists who love colorful fish, and kids who are ready for their first pets.
While goldfish are easy pets to own, proper care will help them live long, healthy lives. That’s why goldfish pet ownership doesn’t begin with choosing a goldfish. First, you’ll need a proper tank, accessories, and goldfish food to create the correct environment in preparation of your new finned friend.
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Goldfish basics
Did you know that there are more than 200 types of goldfish? One of the largest breeds is the Oranda goldfish which can grow as large as 16 inches in length. On the opposite end of the size scale is the Pompom goldfish which typically maxes out at five inches long. The dimensions of most goldfish fall in between, although the maximum size they achieve depends on factors like care and nutrition.
Some goldfish breeds sport the standard gold coloration and typical fish characteristics, while fancy breeds are recognized by their intricate double fins and unique shapes. Both common and fancy goldfish require similar care. However, it’s important to keep in mind that not all types are compatible, and most common varieties should not be housed with fancy types.
When you shop for goldfish, there’s a good chance that you’ll be able to choose from several types that are popular pets. Common, Comet, and Shubunkin are some of the most popular non-fancy varieties, while Wakin, Fantail, and Oranda are top choices for those who prefer fancy goldfish.
Goldfish bowl vs. tank with an air pump and filter
Goldfish have been kept as pets for centuries, with the first pets kept in bowls long before electricity was invented. In modern times, many people still opt for a simple goldfish setup with a classic fish bowl. While opinions vary, most pet fish experts agree that a fish tank with filter and pump provides the best home for pet goldfish for several key reasons.
A 20-gallon tank is required for one or two goldfish, which makes the average bowl too small. Additionally, a bowl setup that doesn’t include an air pump that’s powered by electricity won’t have optimal air circulation. An electric aquarium filtration system is also helpful for keeping the water clean and removing debris from a goldfish’s aquascape.
Because of the challenges of keeping goldfish in a bowl, we recommend a tank setup instead. However, if you choose to use a fish bowl, there are a few tips you can follow to make it possible for your goldfish to live its best life.
- Don’t keep a goldfish in a small bowl for extended periods of time.
- Choose the largest fish bowl you can find.
- Monitor the water with an aquarium thermometer. The right water temperature for goldfish is between 68 degrees and 74 degrees.
- Be meticulous about keeping your pet’s bowl clean. The water should be replaced and the bowl should be thoroughly cleaned every two to three days.
Setting up a goldfish tank
A fish tank with an air pump, filter system, and all the accessories provide the best home for your new goldfish. Understanding the features of the must-have items will guide you as you shop the products you’ll need to welcome your pet to its new home. While you can buy all the necessary items separately, you can also purchase them in an aquarium starter kit that includes the essentials.
Tank size
A 20-gallon tank is the best starter home for a single goldfish. However, a larger tank that holds 50, 75, or even 100 gallons of water is a good choice for providing ample room, especially if you choose a large breed or multiple fish. If you opt for a larger tank, an aquarium stand provides a stylish and functional way to display it.
Tank design
Tank design is really a matter of preference. Many designs and shapes are available, from the traditional rectangle to a unique hexagonal structure. The most important aspect of any goldfish tank is space, which makes oblong models with generous swimming length a smart choice.
Air pump
When a goldfish has adequate oxygenation in its watery environment, it’s healthier and happier. That’s why an aquarium air pump is recommended for a goldfish tank. Choose one that’s easy to install, appropriate for your tank size, and includes all the components you’ll need for setup.
Filtration
Goldfish tend to produce a fairly high volume of waste. A reliable aquarium filter keeps the water clean and minimizes the need for thorough cleanings. There are several different types of electric mechanical filters, including air-driven, internal, fluidized bed, canister, and under-gravel. The best one for your needs depends on the size of your tank and the number of fish you place in it.
Heater
Goldfish thrive in cool water with temperatures ranging from 68 degrees to 74 degrees, so an aquarium heater isn’t always necessary. On the other hand, you should invest in a heater if you’ll be keeping your goldfish tank in a cool room where temperatures have the tendency to dip below suitable goldfish conditions.
Lighting
Not only does an aquarium light illuminate the tank so you can easily see your fish, it also showcases its beauty. Fluorescent, ultraviolet and LED lights are available. Some models attach to a tank lid or sides and have multiple settings, modes, and colors. A few lights can even be submerged.
Goldfish food
The best diet for any fish is a food that’s formulated especially for the species. Many top fish food manufacturers make food that contains ingredients and nutrients that are vital to goldfish development and health. Quality goldfish foods are made with vitamins and are infused with omega fatty oils that goldfish need to thrive. Flake food is a popular choice, but pellets are also available and are great for fish that like to root in substrate for food.
Extras
Part of the fun of setting up any aquarium is accessorizing it. Tank-approved decorations, rocks, and real or faux plants are all suitable for goldfish environments and spruce up the appearance of the aquarium. When it comes to a substrate, aquarium sand is the best choice. Small stones or gravel can be dangerous to goldfish that like to dig and scoop up substrate into their mouths.
FAQ
Q. Is it true that keeping a goldfish in a bowl or tank will stunt its growth?
A. While it’s true that most goldfish won’t outgrow their watery environment, the answer to this question is a bit more complicated. Factors such as care, nutrition, and stress levels all play key roles in how large a goldfish will grow. Many fish that stay small even though they have the potential to grow much larger may not be getting optimal care.
When it comes to tank size, a goldfish’s hormone and pheromone secretions likely play a role in preventing the fish from outgrowing its home. These substances are secreted by the fish into the water, then reabsorbed into their bodies. The result is smaller growth. The good news is that there’s no indication that stunted growth negatively affects a goldfish’s health or longevity.
Q. How often should I feed my goldfish? How much food should I give it at feeding times?
A. Goldfish should be fed two to three times each day. Just a small pinch at each feeding time will do. Avoid overfeeding your fish, as it results in cloudy water and potentially harmful debris buildup.
Q. How long do goldfish live?
A. A goldfish’s longevity depends on the care its owner provides. With an appropriately sized tank, regular maintenance, and quality food, a goldfish may live 10 years or longer.
Q. Can I put other types of fish in the tank with my goldfish?
A. Goldfish can definitely have tankmates, but keep in mind that goldfish are passive and should not be paired with aggressive fish that could hunt them as prey. Plecos, danios, barbs, and platies are all passive fish that will live harmoniously with goldfish.
Q. How do I introduce a new goldfish to an established tank?
A. If you have a large tank, it’s important to add one fish at a time to ensure that the tank’s inhabitants adjust and that the tank doesn’t get too dirty. When you bring your new fish home, leave it in the bag and place the bag in the tank. Gradually add a few scoops of tank water to the bag before releasing the new goldfish into the tank after about 30 minutes. Wait a few weeks to a month before adding more fish.
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Members of the Democratic National Committee overwhelmingly voted to reshuffle the party's presidential primary calendar, booting the Iowa caucuses from the early slate of states and boosting primaries in South Carolina, Nevada, Georgia and Michigan.
The vote Saturday, which punctuated a three-day gathering in Philadelphia, ratifies a proposal the Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) made in December and officially cements what many Democrats have long called for: the elevation of states that are more reflective of the Democratic Party's diversity.
"Folks, the Democratic party looks like America and so does this proposal," DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said ahead of the vote.
The RBC made its recommendation after conducting a lengthy process in which states interested in one of the coveted early window spots pitched the committee on areas of diversity, voter access, and competitiveness in a general election.
Under the adopted proposal, which President Biden himself advocated for in a letter to the RBC in December, the 2024 presidential calendar will have South Carolina in the plum first position on Feb. 3, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada jointly sharing the no. 2 slot on Feb. 6, then Georgia on Feb. 13 and Michigan on Feb. 27.
It's a calendar that in many ways rewards states that helped propel Biden to the White House in 2020, including South Carolina, which drastically shifted Biden's presidential fortunes.
"It's a big day for the state of South Carolina, and I would say not just South Carolina, but our region," said Trav Robertson, chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. "It is a clear indication that the DNC is no longer going to take the South for granted."
But the sweeping calendar changes are not without hurdles - and they come in the form of outstanding questions about whether New Hampshire and Georgia can meet the demands imposed on them by the national party.
New Hampshire Democrats argue they're in a 'no-win position'
Members of the Iowa and New Hampshire Democratic delegations energetically voiced opposition to the new calendar Saturday before the official vote.
"I vigorously support our president and I support the principles that guided the calendar," said Rita Hart, chair of the Iowa Democratic party. "But I cannot support a proposal that further erodes Democratic party support in my state and the entire middle part of the country."
Joanne Dowdell, a member of the RBC from New Hampshire, said it "broke my heart to vote against [Biden's] proposed calendar."
"I agree with my colleagues that it is essential that we lift up diverse voices in our presidential election process," she said. "When some members say that we are frustrated or that we are attacking them by standing up for New Hampshire, it is frustrating. It is frustrating the DNC is set to punish us despite the fact we don't have the ability to unilaterally change state law."
New Hampshire Democrats, who for generations have viewed the first primary in the nation as their political birthright, insist following the DNC's marching orders on the primary schedule isn't up to them. They point to a state law that gives the secretary of state, currently a Republican, the power to move the date of the primary to protect its first-in-the-nation status.
"This is not about New Hampshire's history or our pride," Dowdell said. "This is about state law."
The DNC is not only requiring that states in the early window hold the primary on the dates specified by the national party but also implement expanded voter access - something New Hampshire Democrats say is a political impossibility.
"We have a Republican trifecta on the state level with Republicans controlling the governorship, the House and the Senate, and they have all said very clearly and colorfully that these provisions are non-starters and will not be done," longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley told reporters Friday.
"We're in an impossible, no-win position," he said. "We know that New Hampshire will still hold the first-in-the-nation primary, whether or not the DNC approves of it or not."
But if that happens - which Buckley stressed is not a hypothetical but an eventuality - DNC rules will be triggered and consequences will be meted out.
"It wouldn't be the first time states have tried to jump the line," RBC member Mo Elleithee told NPR. "I hope it doesn't come to that. But I think the DNC is probably better prepared to enforce this calendar than it ever has been."
In December, the DNC detailed the enforcement actions it is prepared to take. Should a state - like New Hampshire - not meet the requirements and hold its primary early anyway, the state automatically loses half its delegates.
Presidential candidates would also be precluded from campaigning — which includes putting their name on the ballot — in any state that goes outside the DNC-approved window.
"The DNC can choose to do whatever they wish to do," Buckley said. "But it seems odd that we would be punished for doing something that is completely out of our control."
Both New Hampshire and Georgia have received extensions on meeting the waiver requirements until early summer.
When asked what would practically change between now and June, Buckley said the extension "was offered to us and we took that as an olive branch that there will be an option to have further conversation and try to make this work."
The public campaign waged by New Hampshire Democrats has touched a nerve among many of the party faithful
Dowdell and Buckley's comments come amid exasperation from some DNC members who are sympathetic to New Hampshire's political uphill battle but are frustrated by the public nature of their complaints.
The state's Democratic U.S. senators recently skipped a White House congressional gala in protest and have vowed the primary would continue as usual anyway. A group of Democrats, including former Gov. John Lynch, warned Biden the new calendar could affect the president's reelection campaign. Former Democratic New Hampshire House Speaker Steve Shurtleff went as far as to say he would look for another candidate to support if the state lost its first place spot.
"We get it - they have a Republican legislature, they've got a Republican governor," Elleithee said. "I look forward to seeing them put the same level of energy into fighting that as they are into fighting us."
Georgia Democrats hope to convince Republicans to move up their primary
Elleithee said Georgia, which has been critical in delivering the U.S. Senate for Democrats in the past two election cycles, made "one of the most compelling pitches of all the states that came in."
"They sort of hit all the criteria and really fit into the framework that we set as to the values and the factors that we cared about," he said. "They came in hot, they came in strong, and they were impressive."
But like New Hampshire, Georgia faces significant challenges in meeting the DNC's requirements, as Republicans control the state government there as well.
The Republican National Committee has retained its lineup of early states: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, has said both parties' primaries must be held on the same day to minimize the costs of administering elections.
Wendy Davis, a DNC member from Georgia, said state Democrats now have to work to convince "Republican leaders that [moving the primary up] is good for our state, not just that it's good for Joe Biden."
Davis points to the outsized attention states receive when they are slotted in the early window, along with the major economic boon that comes with hosting an early primary.
"There's campaign spending there. Ask people in Iowa who sell snow shovels - they sell more snow shovels in a caucus year than they do any other time," she told NPR.
"A lot of money is spent in that state. A lot of money is spent on radio and TV with direct mail, houses buying yard signs, all the things you think of in a campaign," she said. "The reality in my town, for example, which is 35,000 people in Rome, Georgia — people who are running for president will be buying radio ads on our little radio stations. That's an influx of revenue that if we are on Super Tuesday, we don't get."
But just like Democrats, Republicans could face their own penalties, including a loss of delegates, for holding their primary out of order.
New calendar not set in stone
The DNC will meet again in June to review where Georgia and New Hampshire stand in meeting the party's requirements.
Biden has encouraged the DNC to revisit the process of evaluating states for the early window every four years.
Elleithee said the current calendar "makes a lot of sense for a race in which we have an incumbent Democratic president running for reelection with no serious opposition."
Biden has not yet officially announced his reelection bid.
"It might not be the calendar that makes sense in 2028 when we have a wide open field," Elleithee said. "And so we'll be making decisions on what makes sense in that environment. Doing this now sets the precedent that we can do it moving forward, when it's going to have an even greater impact."
Trav Robertson of the South Carolina Democratic Party said revisiting the calendar each cycle is critical.
"The fact is that the only way you survive is to evaluate, adapt and change," he said.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN) will hold a conference call and webcast on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time to discuss its fourth-quarter fiscal year 2022 financial results, provide a general business update and respond to analyst questions.
A live webcast of the call will also be available on the Company's investor relations website. Please visit investor.dfinsolutions.com at least fifteen minutes prior to the start of the event to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
If you are unable to participate live, a replay of the webcast will be available following the conference call on the Company's investor relations website, along with the earnings press release, and related financial tables.
DFIN's financial report for the fourth-quarter will be released before the market opens on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 via a filing with the SEC on Form 8-K and will also be posted on the Company's investor relations website.
About Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
DFIN is a leading global risk and compliance solutions company. We provide domain expertise, enterprise software and data analytics for every stage of our clients' business and investment lifecycles. Markets fluctuate, regulations evolve, technology advances, and through it all, DFIN delivers confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter. Learn about DFIN's end-to-end risk and compliance solutions online at DFINsolutions.com or you can also follow us on Twitter @DFINSolutions or on LinkedIn.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Astros vs. Mariners on July 8, 2023
Player prop betting options for Kyle Tucker, Julio Rodriguez and others are available in the Houston Astros-Seattle Mariners matchup at Minute Maid Park on Saturday, starting at 7:15 PM ET.
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Astros vs. Mariners Game Info
- When: Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: Houston Astros
Framber Valdez Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 6.5 (Over Odds: +105)
Valdez Stats
- The Astros will send Framber Valdez (7-6) to the mound for his 17th start this season.
- He has earned a quality start 12 times in 16 starts this season.
- Valdez has seven starts in a row of five innings or more.
- He has three appearances with no earned runs allowed in 16 chances this season.
- Among qualified pitchers this season, the 29-year-old's 2.49 ERA ranks third, 1.048 WHIP ranks eighth, and 9.4 K/9 ranks 23rd.
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Kyle Tucker Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +380)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +155)
Tucker Stats
- Tucker has 19 doubles, 13 home runs, 39 walks and 55 RBI (92 total hits). He has stolen 14 bases.
- He's slashed .290/.365/.473 on the season.
Tucker Recent Games
Alex Bregman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -179)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +140)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +165)
Bregman Stats
- Alex Bregman has 11 doubles, two triples, 12 home runs, 50 walks and 55 RBI (82 total hits). He's also stolen four bases.
- He's slashing .242/.342/.392 on the year.
- Bregman has picked up at least one hit in two straight games. In his last five games he is hitting .167 with three walks and two RBI.
Bregman Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: Seattle Mariners
Julio Rodríguez Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Rodríguez Stats
- Rodriguez has 90 hits with 18 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs, 27 walks and 49 RBI. He's also stolen 20 bases.
- He's slashing .252/.312/.417 so far this year.
- Rodriguez hopes to build on a seven-game hitting streak in this matchup. In his last 10 games he is hitting .289 with four doubles, three walks and seven RBI.
Rodríguez Recent Games
J.P. Crawford Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -179)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +130)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +800)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +265)
Crawford Stats
- J.P. Crawford has 73 hits with 18 doubles, eight home runs, 49 walks and 32 RBI. He's also stolen one base.
- He's slashed .253/.363/.399 so far this year.
- Crawford has picked up a hit in eight straight games. During his last 10 games he is batting .308 with four doubles, two home runs, seven walks and six RBI.
Crawford Recent Games
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CARY, N.C., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fathom Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FTHM) ("Fathom" or the "Company"), a national, technology-driven, end-to-end real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings for brokerages and agents, will hold a conference call on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (2:00 p.m. Pacific time) to discuss its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. Financial results will be issued in a press release prior to the call.
Call Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (2:00 p.m. Pacific time)
U.S. dial-in: 833-685-0908
International dial-in: 412-317-5742
Please call the conference telephone number five minutes prior to the start time. An operator will register your name and organization.
A live audio webcast of the conference call will be available in listen-only mode simultaneously and available via the investor relations section of the company's website at www.FathomInc.com.
A telephone replay of the call will be available through May 17, 2023.
U.S. replay dial-in: 877-344-7529
International replay dial-in: 412-317-0088
Replay ID: 8297603
Fathom Holdings Inc. is a national, technology-driven, real estate services platform integrating residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance, and SaaS offerings to brokerages and agents by leveraging its proprietary cloud-based software, intelliAgent. The Company's brands include Fathom Realty, Dagley Insurance, Encompass Lending, intelliAgent, LiveBy, Real Results, and Verus Title. For more information, visit www.FathomInc.com.
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Alex Kovtun and Matt Glover
Gateway Group, Inc.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eight people were wounded, some critically, in a shooting in a Minneapolis park during unofficial Fourth of July celebrations. Police say the shooting took place about 11:30 p.m. Monday at Boom Island Park.
Kaayla Laanaee says she and others were watching people light fireworks when she heard a series of gunshots. First responders converged on the park and police began investigating.
Minneapolis Park Police say there was no formal July Fourth event or fireworks at the park, but that people had gathered there to celebrate the holiday.
Police say no one is in custody and authorities have not released details about the eight who were taken to hospitals.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP/KARK) — A tornado plowed through Little Rock and surrounding areas on Friday afternoon, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter.
More than 350,000 people were at risk as what the National Weather Service called a “confirmed large and destructive tornado” tore through business districts and neighborhoods in Little Rock and North Little Rock.
Passengers and airport employees at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock took shelter in bathrooms and were ordered to stay there until 3:45 p.m. Aerial footage showed several rooftops were torn from homes in Little Rock and nearby Benton.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Nearly 70,000 customers in Arkansas were out of power on Friday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages; about 37,000 were without power in neighboring Oklahoma.
Massive storms brewing over at least 15 states in the Midwest and southern U.S. on Friday have meteorologists urging people to brace for dangerous weather including tornadoes, saying the conditions are similar to those a week ago that unleashed a devastating twister that killed at least 21 people in Mississippi.
More than 85 million people were under weather advisories Friday as the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center forecast an unusually large outbreak of thunderstorms with the potential to cause hail, damaging wind gusts and strong tornadoes that could move for long distances over the ground.
The area at greatest risk for storms on Friday follows a large stretch of the Mississippi River from Wisconsin all the way to Mississippi, with rare high-risk advisories centered around Memphis; and between Davenport, Iowa, and Quincy, Illinois and surrounding areas.
Forecasters issued tornado watches over both high-risk regions until Friday evening, with the weather service expecting numerous tornadoes and calling it a “particularly dangerous situation.”
All told, by Friday afternoon, tornado watches issued by the National Weather Service cover most of Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa; western Illinois; and parts of Wisconsin, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi. Tornado warnings were issued for isolated areas of Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois on Friday afternoon.
Also Friday, parts of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas were at risk for widespread fires due to dry conditions, high winds and warm temperatures, the weather service said.
The “intense supercell thunderstorms ” predicted for Friday afternoon are only expected to become more common, especially in Southern states, as temperatures rise around the world.
Apart from Little Rock, the major population centers at high risk for storms starting Friday afternoon include Chicago; St. Louis; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
“There will be lots of thunderstorms … tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail,” said Northern Illinois meteorology professor and tornado expert Victor Gensini.
People in those areas should stock emergency supplies, prepare for power outages, avoid getting stranded in places vulnerable to falling trees or severe hail, and park vehicles in garages if possible, meteorologists said.
Forecasters warned of a “relatively rare, significant severe weather threat” around Chicago that could include powerful winds, tornadoes and large hail.
In Iowa City, the University of Iowa canceled Friday’s watch party for fans who planned to gather for the women’s basketball Final Four game against South Carolina. Deputy Director of Athletics Matt Henderson said in a statement the decision was made “due to the unpredictable timing of possible severe weather and potential storm impact.”
Last Friday night, a vicious tornado in Mississippi killed at least 21 people, injured dozens and flattened entire blocks as it carved a path of destruction for more than an hour. About 2,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
The toll was especially steep in western Mississippi’s Sharkey County, where 13 people were killed in a county of 3,700 residents. Winds of up to 200 mph (322 kph) barreled through the rural farming town of Rolling Fork, reducing homes to piles of rubble, flipping cars and toppling the town’s water tower.
Gensini said Friday’s atmospheric setup is similar to the conditions that were present during Mississippi’s deadly storm.
The hazardous forecast is a result of strong southerly winds transporting copious amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico north, where they will interact with the strengthening storm system.
In South Dakota, Gov. Kristi Noem ordered state executive branch offices to be closed Friday in parts of the state, as freezing rain, snow and high winds were expected. Many counties were under blizzard or ice storm warnings.
The weather service is forecasting another batch of intense storms next Tuesday in the same general area as last week. At least the first 10 days of April will be rough, Accuweather meteorologist Brandon Buckingham said earlier this week.
Bill Bunting, the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center chief of forecasting operations, said people need to have a severe weather plan in place that includes multiple ways to receive storm warning information.
“We’ve all seen the coverage of the heartbreaking situations in other parts of the country. Our fervent hope is that people pay attention to the forecasts that have been out for several days now regarding Friday’s threat,” Bunting said.
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Harrisburg School District considers creating its own police force
The Harrisburg School District is looking into creating its own police force.
The district this week discussed the concept of a police force, after the start to the school year at John Harris High School was marred by fights.
"Sometimes things just go from A to Z quickly," Superintendent Eric Turman said.
Turman said in-house police officers could improve safety.
"I've been threatened since I've been here simply for asking children to go to class and stay out of the hallways," said Wendell Morris, the school district's security and safety director
Morris said the support is needed, but the police force can also keep many kids from ending up in the criminal justice system.
"For me personally, if it's an option that we have, there's nothing wrong with bringing a child in and saying, 'OK, you're going to clean desks this weekend,'" he said.
Nonviolence advocate Kevin Dolphin with Breaking the Chainz resource center hopes the district brings in other resources while classes are in session.
"You can also have one or two grassroots organizations, some mentors in there, to bridge the gap between these police officers and these youth," Dolphin said.
District leaders said they're just in early discussions of this plan. They're initially only looking to hire as many as two to three police officers.
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Federal agency enters new multi-year partnership with Avel eCare with additional telemedicine services to improve the health of tribal communities and ensure access to care in rural areas.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avel eCare today announced it has entered into a new strategic partnership with the Indian Health Services (IHS), a department within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). This partnership enables Avel eCare to deliver telemedicine services to more than 145,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives in the rural Midwest health network for the next five years and expands the existing program to include sexual assault medical forensic exams (eSANE) and psychiatric support for emergency departments in the Great Plains Area.
"Telemedicine is one of the best ways to ensure vital access to quality healthcare in these remote, hard-to-reach tribal communities. Before this, many tribal members would either travel hundreds of miles to see a doctor or forgo care altogether. We look forward to furthering our impact on the lives of patients and providers and continuing our work addressing health disparities for this vulnerable population," said Brian Erickson, Vice President and GM of Behavioral Health and Specialty Clinic at Avel eCare.
More than half of the American Indian population live in rural areas, and statistics show American Indians have a life expectancy that is 5.5 years less than the average.
Avel eCare began its relationship with IHS in 2017 when the telemedicine provider was awarded a contract to deliver Specialty Clinic services to reservations in the Great Plains Area, which includes Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. In 2019, the partnership expanded into the Billings Area across Montana and Wyoming.
In the past five years, Avel eCare's providers have scheduled more than 50,000 appointments, transforming care delivery to American Indian patients and helping restore health equity in the process.
For more information on Avel eCare's telemedicine services, visit: www.avelecare.com/services
Avel eCare offers the largest and most comprehensive virtual health networks in the world, partnering with more than 650 health care systems, rural hospitals, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, schools, and correctional facilities across the country.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) – Both the NFL and Kansas City police are investigating after video showed Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams shoving a photographer to the ground as he ran off the field Monday night.
It happened following a 30-29 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Adams was visibly upset as he left the field after a collision with fellow Raiders receiver Hunter Renfrow snuffed out a chance to win the game. He made his way to the tunnel when the photographer walked in front of him. That’s when video showed Adams shoving the photographer.
The photographer contacted Kansas City police officers working security at the stadium around 10:30 p.m., just minutes after the game ended.
According to the report filed, the photographer told officers he was injured when Adams pushed him and went to the hospital for treatment Monday night. Police said the injuries are not life-threatening.
Detectives with Kansas City’s assault unit will investigate the case. When they are finished with the investigation, the department says it will be forwarded to either city or county prosecutors to determine if charges are warranted.
The Chiefs said the photographer is not one of its employees.
The NFL confirmed to Nexstar’s WDAF Tuesday the league is reviewing the incident and Adams could be disciplined for his actions.
Adams later apologized for his actions on Twitter.
“He jumped in front of me coming off the field. I kind of pushed him. He ended up on the ground,” Adams said after the game. “I want to apologize to him for that. That was just frustration mixed with him really just running in front of me.”
“I shouldn’t have responded that way, but that’s the way I responded. I want to apologize to him for that.”
Adams had three catches for 124 yards and two touchdowns in the game. He has 29 catches for 414 yards and five TDs so far in his first season with the Raiders.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The brand has awarded over $13 million in tuition to students since 2008
FRISCO, Texas, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr Pepper announced today the winners of the 14th Annual Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway, who achieved their victory during the College Football Conference Championship games this weekend. On Dec. 2 and Dec. 3, 2022, the finalists of the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway Contest took to the field during the ACC, Big 12, SEC, Big Ten, and Pac-12 NCAA conference championship games, where they each competed to throw as many footballs as possible into an oversized Dr Pepper can in 30 seconds. The winning contestants at the five conference championship games received $100,000 toward tuition, and the runner-up received $20,000 for their tuition.
Ahead of the big toss, the finalists were allowed to meet with prolific Alabama Quarterback, 2021 Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young to get advice on staying calm while on the field and share how the tuition giveaway will impact their lives. The Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway program has provided over $13 million in tuition to deserving students across the country since 2008.
This year offered new firsts as an unprecedented double tie-breaker took place during the Dr Pepper Tuition Toss at the 2022 SEC Conference Championship. Dr Pepper surprised the runner up, Kayla G. from University of St. Augustine, by awarding $100,000 in tuition to both her and winner Reagan W. from Baylor University. This is the first time since the start of the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway Program and Tuition Tosses that two finalists have tied twice in a row for the winning toss. Reagan W. scored the most points in the preliminary round and thus was originally named the winner of the Dr Pepper Tuition Toss Giveaway at the SEC Conference Championship per the rules.
"Dr Pepper and college football go hand-in-hand and the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway program is a tradition that represents our ongoing dedication to supporting students' education," said John Alvarado, SVP of Dr Pepper Brand Marketing. "We're proud of this year's winners, whose dedication to their education and career ambitions is truly inspiring. We look forward to seeing what they do next."
Grand prize winners and runners-up include:
ACC
- Winner: Gavin K., North Dakota State University
- Runner-up: Althea M., Baylor University
Big 12
- Winner: Daniel Y., Duke University
- Runner-up: Malia B., Treasure Valley Aviation College
SEC
- Winner: Reagan W., Baylor University
- Runner-up: Kayla G., University of St Augustine
Big Ten
- Winner: Jaylynn J., Oklahoma City Community College
- Runner-up: Sarah P., Jefferson State Community College
Pac-12
- Winner: Raphael I., Texas A&M University
- Runner-up: Kylie H., Texas State University
"Participating in the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway has been a life-changing opportunity," said Raphael I., a Kinesiology/Physical Therapy major at Texas A&M University. "I'm so grateful that I was able to participate in the program and win in the gameday toss. This tuition will help me and my fellow incredible winners achieve our academic dreams."
Students entered the 2022 Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway via TikTok, the second year the brand has tapped the platform for the program, using the #DrPepperTuitionContest hashtag, and posting videos that showcased why they deserve tuition in creative ways.
In her submission, Big Ten Championship toss winner, Jaylynn J. shared that she is working towards earning her Bachelor's degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering at Oklahoma City Community College, and plans to transfer to Oklahoma State University. With aspirations of one day working at NASA or SpaceX, winning the $100,000 in tuition this weekend from Dr Pepper is helping her turn her dreams into a reality. "I am so grateful to have received $100,000 from Dr Pepper during this year's Tuition Toss. This scholarship money allows me to be able to afford living on campus, saving me hours that I would have otherwise spent commuting. I'm now able to reallocate this time to my studies, and focus on maintaining a 3.5 GPA. I am passionate about bringing new innovation and creativity into our fast-changing world, and the money from Dr Pepper has opened up a world of opportunity for me. I am so excited about what the future holds, and thankful that Dr Pepper is making it possible for students like me to succeed!" said Jaylynn J.
"Congratulations to all students who participated in this year's Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway program! It is so energizing to hear your stories and ambitions, and an honor to give tuition to support students achieving their dreams," continued Alvarado.
Follow or interact with Dr Pepper on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @drpepper.
About Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper, a brand of Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), is the oldest major soft drink in the United States. Since 1885, the 23 flavors of Dr Pepper have earned legions of fans that enjoy its unique, refreshing taste. The brand is available in Regular, Diet, Caffeine Free, Cherry, and Cream Soda varieties. For more information, visit DrPepper.com or keurigdrpepper.com. For the brand's latest news and updates, follow Dr Pepper at Facebook.com/DrPepper, Instagram.com/DrPepper or Twitter.com/DrPepper.
About Keurig Dr Pepper
Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with annual revenue in excess of $12 billion and approximately 27,000 employees. KDP holds leadership positions in soft drinks, specialty coffee and tea, water, juice and juice drinks and mixers, and markets the #1 single serve coffee brewing system in the U.S. and Canada. The Company's portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands is designed to satisfy virtually any consumer need, any time, and includes Keurig®, Dr Pepper®, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters®, Canada Dry®, Snapple®, Bai®, Mott's®, CORE® and The Original Donut Shop®. Through its powerful sales and distribution network, KDP can deliver its portfolio of hot and cold beverages to nearly every point of purchase for consumers. The Company is committed to sourcing, producing and distributing its beverages responsibly through its Drink Well. Do Good. corporate responsibility platform, including efforts around circular packaging, efficient natural resource use and supply chain sustainability. For more information, visit www.keurigdrpepper.com.
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Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: This November, Boulder is set to introduce ranked-choice voting for mayor and hold its final odd-year city council election. Meanwhile, around the state, lawmakers and election officials are continuing to explore ways to make elections more insulated from misinformation and more equitable for candidates and voters alike. Your take?
Last November, I worked as a Boulder County election poll judge registering voters, issuing ballots, facilitating in-person voting on electronic devices or paper ballots and answering voter questions. I discovered how many intentional redundancies are built into the system to prevent fraud, and how dedicated Boulder County election officials are to running fair, trustworthy elections.
There are an astonishing number of people in Boulder County who vote in person. College kids at the University of Colorado Memorial Center streamed into the polling place to register and vote. On Election Day, I worked in Longmont and was inundated from the moment we opened until the minute we closed with voters of all ages and demographics. I worked as part of a bipartisan staff, meaning that there are an equal number of Democrats and Republicans or Independents at all polling stations, and we eschewed political talk. Consequently, instead of identifying through our differing political ideologies, we were merely people working in the service of democracy. The entire experience felt like a valuable social experiment and a return to life, pre-Trump. It embodied trust, respect and honesty.
Inevitably there are ways to strengthen elections and prevent bad actors from trying to subvert them or sabotage the results. I also think that those running for local government positions need to live in the community they want to represent and that a P.O. box address does not suffice. Ranked-choice voting works, and I welcome its adoption in Boulder.
More than anything, people need to continue to vote and our society needs to make voting as easy as possible. Kids should learn about voting and how to research issues in every grade, in an age-appropriate way. Businesses should offer paid leave to their employees to vote. Voting is essential, and casting a ballot is one of the most rewarding ways to participate.
Rachel Walker, rodellwalker@gmail.com
I used to believe that the main task of electoral politics involved educating/persuading voters about issues/candidates. It’s why I became a political consultant and how I learned how easily education/persuasion morphs into manipulation. Although I left that career disillusioned, I still believed it was possible to work within the system to produce change. After all, it was theoretically possible to win public office with honest appeals — especially if your marketing people were creative and your budget was large. However, recent efforts to restrict voting threaten this possibility. Indeed, ID requirements, inconvenient/scarce polling places, complex registration procedures, limited absentee voting, etc. are the modern equivalents of race, property ownership and sex in terms of voter suppression.
We may have moved away from de jure disenfranchisement, but history shows that de facto barriers to voting also threaten democracy — especially when disguised as attempts to solve non-existent problems with voter fraud. While it’s not surprising that elected officials would attempt to identify their own voters and get them to the polls, current efforts go way beyond such typical strategies by providing government-sanctioned bureaucratic mechanisms for silencing opponents. Thus, the issue becomes how to use our imperfect system to access the authority to improve it before we lose our seat at the table.
In this context, every election is about the struggle to preserve our democracy. To that end, voters must demand that candidates recognize and prioritize this threat and develop plans to secure the survival of our form of government. In other words, questions about and attention to candidates’ actual plans to protect voting access should be standard parts of town halls, editorials, letters-to-the-editor, political ads and campaign coverage. The absence of such plans should be treated as prima facie evidence of unworthiness for office. Otherwise, this election may well be our last.
Elyse Morgan, emorgan2975@gmail.com
There is a lot to worry about in our voting infrastructures nationwide, particularly the current attempts to prevent some people and groups from exercising their votes. Inexcusable, and we should root it out on all sides. But attempts to manipulate vote tallies by changing voting rules pale in comparison to the growth and spread of disinformation.
Worse, we have somehow lost the ability to distinguish between truth and fiction. Not because we can’t think critically when we need to, but because we increasingly resort more to our reptilian brains in choosing to believe what feels good to us or what aligns with our tribe(s).
Thinking about how science has advanced over the past couple of centuries, two elements stand out: comfortableness with uncertainty, and the willingness to be proven wrong about even the deepest-held hypotheses. What we are seeing in politics today is the opposite: Demonstrably false but loudly claimed absolute certainties based in authoritarian belief systems, and a rigid unwillingness to consider any facts that undercut those beliefs.
Science largely relies on peer review to help sort the real from the fabulous. There is no equivalent in today’s fractionated media. Worse, with social media, everyone becomes their own publisher for even the most outlandish ideas and can easily find followers willing to embrace and pass them on. As revealed in the Dominion suit against FOX, even traditional media outlets are moving from ensuring truth to giving viewers “what they want.”
What viewers often want is not freedom as meant by our Founders, but only the “freedom” for everyone else to do what their tribe believes all of us should do. Democracy is only good, then, if it produces the outcome they want.
Voting process improvements alone cannot fix this challenge. We need something more transformative. Even in Boulder.
Fintan Steele, fsteele1@me.com
The U.S. electoral system is imperiled. Judges, county clerks and staff are subject to harassment and physical attack. Misinformation is confounding the democratic process.
Voter turnout in the United States is low relative to the rate in peer countries. Only an estimated 46.8% of eligible voters participated in the 2022 midterm elections. Even at just 58.8%, Colorado had the fifth-highest turnout rate among the 50 states. Likely due to a high level of education and the advanced tech sector, 75% of Boulder County’s active registered voters went to the polls in 2022. Yet, for Boulder residents, the searching question remains: How to fix the system?
Political partisans, academic researchers and other pundits have suggested why people don’t cast ballots: structural constraints on voting rights, inaccessible polling places, restrictive hours, campaign finance violations, malfunctioning machines and lingering concerns about absentee filing. These factors are significant because elections are a barometer of the health of democratic politics. But they fall short of a deep explanation for low levels of voter participation.
The root is democratic backsliding and signs of authoritarian populism. To stem it, we have two options. Adopt reformist reforms or structural reforms. One tweaks the system; the other would fundamentally alter it by restructuring access, procedures and accountability.
The voting changes Boulder is undergoing are primarily of the first type. They would keep the current system intact by pruning some restrictions and abuses. Another set of participatory initiatives emanates from social justice movements: coalitions of peace, environmental, anti-racist, women and LBGTQ activists.
As with the civil rights struggle, history shows that grassroots social movements can help drive electoral politics. At present, a two-track strategy of reform coming from above and below is the best way to address the crisis of legitimacy facing our electoral system.
Jim Mittelman, jhmittelman@yahoo.com
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The country is the first in Latin America to have the product, the card is in beta phase and will be widely available in the coming weeks
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Binance, the world's leading blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, and Mastercard announce the launch of Binance Card in Argentina to bridge the gap between cryptocurrencies and everyday purchases. Argentina is the first country in Latin America to have the product. The Binance Card is part of the company's ongoing efforts towards furthering global cryptocurrency adoption in a tangible manner. The product is in beta phase and will be widely available in the coming weeks.
The Binance Card issued by Credencial Payments will allow all new and existing Binance users in Argentina with a valid national ID to make purchases and pay bills with cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and BNB, at over 90 million Mastercard merchants worldwide, both in-store and online. Users can enjoy a seamless transaction in which their cryptocurrencies are converted to fiat currency in real-time at the point of purchase, as well as earn up to 8% in crypto cashback on eligible purchases and enjoy zero fees* on ATM withdrawals.
Binance cardholders will be able to manage their cards through the card dashboard on the Binance App and website. Users will also be able to view their transaction history and access customer support via the card dashboard.
"Our work with digital currencies builds on our strong foundation to enable choice and peace of mind when people shop and pay. Together with our partners, Mastercard has been leading the payments industry in enabling entry to this exciting new world, helping bring millions of additional users into crypto and other digital assets in a safe and trusted manner", said Walter Pimenta, Executive Vice President, Products and Innovation, Mastercard Latin America and the Caribbean.
"Payments is one of the first and most obvious use cases for crypto, yet adoption has a lot of room to grow. By using the Binance Card, merchants continue to receive fiat and the users pay in cryptocurrency they choose. We believe the Binance Card is a significant step in encouraging wider crypto use and global adoption and now it is available for users from Argentina", said Maximiliano Hinz, general director of Binance in Latin America.
Binance plans to continue expanding in new markets as well as providing support for additional cryptocurrencies. All interested users can now register for the card via https://www.binance.com/es-AR/cards or the Binance App.
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Target is removing some merchandise celebrating Pride Month from store shelves after facing a backlash against the products, including threats against the safety of its workers.
The retail giant said in a statement posted on its website Wednesday that it was committed to celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community but was withdrawing some items over threats that were "impacting our team members' sense of safety and well-being" on the job.
"Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior," the company said.
Pride Month takes place in June, though some of the items were already on sale.
Target did not reply to a series of follow-up questions from NPR, such as which items were removed and whether it was increasing security at its stores.
Reuters reported that the company is removing from stores and its website products created by the LGBTQ brand Abprallen, which offers some products featuring spooky, gothic imagery, such as skulls and Satan, in pastels colors.
Conservative activists and media have also bashed Target in recent days for selling "tuck-friendly" women's swimsuits that allow some trans women to hide their genitalia, the Associated Press reported.
Target has only been selling tuck-friendly swimsuits made for adults — and not, contrary to false online rumors, for kids or in kid sizes, the AP also found.
Those swimsuits are among a group of products under review by Target but that haven't yet been removed, Reuters said.
In addition to public criticisms of the company, video has also emerged on social media of people throwing Pride displays to the floor in a Target store.
"Extremist groups want to divide us and ultimately don't just want rainbow products to disappear, they want us to disappear," Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a tweet.
"The LGBTQ+ community has celebrated Pride with Target for the past decade. Target needs to stand with us and double-down on their commitment to us," she added.
Michael Edison Hayden, a senior investigative reporter and spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate crimes, told NPR that Target's reversal would only serve to encourage more violent threats.
"If [Target is] going to wade in on this, and they're going to put support out there for the LGBTQ+ population, I think once they enter that fray they have a responsibility to stand by that community," he said. "As soon as you back down like this, you send a message that intimidation works, and that makes it much scarier than if you had never started to begin with."
Target is the latest company to face criticism and boycott threats over products aimed at supporting the LGBTQ+ community.
Bud Light faced a major social media backlash and saw sales dip after Anheuser-Busch ran an ad campaign featuring popular trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Earlier this month, Target CEO Brian Cornell said in an interview with Fortune's Leadership Next podcast that the company wants to support "all families" and that its "focus on diversity and inclusion and equity has fueled much of our growth over the last nine years."
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Pfizer Inc. cemented a deal first announced in March to sell its antiviral medication Paxlovid in China through a state-owned company, adding to supply of COVID treatments in the country that’s now facing a massive infection surge.
China Meheco Group Co. signed an agreement Wednesday with Pfizer to import and distribute Paxlovid on the mainland, the company said in a filing with the Shanghai Stocks Exchange. The agreement is effective immediately and expires on Nov. 30, 2023, the statement said. Further terms weren’t disclosed.
Pfizer’s relationship with Meheco has been in place for some time, with a contract signed earlier this year that “business related to Paxlovid” in China would be handled by the mainland company. Separately, Pfizer also has an agreement, inked in August, with Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co. — one of China’s biggest pharmaceutical companies — to produce and sell Paxlovid in the country for five years.
Meheco’s shares climbed by the daily limit of 10% in Shanghai trading on Thursday while Zhejiang Huahai advanced over 3%.
In the Huahai deal, it was agreed that Pfizer will provide ingredients to make nirmatrelvir, the antiviral portion of the drug, and ritonavir, which slows the antiviral’s breakdown in the body. Huahai will manufacture and combine the two into Paxlovid.
“As China optimizes its COVID policy, Pfizer is actively collaborating with all stakeholders to secure an adequate supply of Paxlovid in China and remains committed to fulfilling the COVID-19 treatment needs of patients in China and around the world,” said a Pfizer statement on the Meheco deal Thursday.
The move to boost supply of Paxlovid in China comes as the country’s abrupt reopening sends infection surging through its vast population, raising concerns over whether the country’s health system is prepared for the wave. Paxlovid is the top oral treatment for the virus, outpacing Merck & Co.’s Lagevrio, also called molnupiravir, and is already a multi-billion dollar drug for the American company.
China’s need for COVID treatments has weakened its resolve to rely only on home-grown therapies for the virus. It has not approved any foreign-made vaccines but greenlit Paxlovid for use in February.
Merck & Co. also struck a deal with Chinese state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm to import and market molnupiravir in the country in September, a tentative sign that that antiviral might also be cleared for use locally.
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UN says it’s forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said Friday.
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon — including Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and West Africa.
He said WFP’s operating requirement is $20 billion to deliver aid to everyone in need, but it was aiming for between $10 billion and $14 billion, which was what the agency had received in the past few years.
“We’re still aiming at that, but we have only so far this year gotten to about half of that, around $5 billion,” Skau said.
He said humanitarian needs were “going through the roof” in 2021 and 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its global implications. “Those needs continue to grow, those drivers are still there,” he said, “but the funding is drying up. So we’re looking at 2024 (being) even more dire.”
“The largest food and nutrition crisis in history today persists,” Skau said. “This year, 345 million people continue to be acutely food insecure while hundreds of millions of people are at risk of worsening hunger.”
Skau said conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers of acute hunger around the world, along with climate change, unrelenting disasters, persistent food price inflation and mounting debt stress — all during a slowdown in the global economy.
WFP is looking to diversify its funding base, but he also urged the agency’s traditional donors to “step up and support us through this very difficult time.”
Asked why funding was drying up, Skau said to ask the donors.
“But it’s clear that aid budgets, humanitarian budgets, both in Europe and the United States, (are) not where they were in 2021-2022,” he said.
Skau said that in March, WFP was forced to cut rations from 75% to 50% for communities in Afghanistan facing emergency levels of hunger, and in May it was forced to cut food for 8 million people — 66% of the people it was assisting. Now, it is helping just 5 million people, he said. In Syria, 5.5 million people who relied on WFP for food were already on 50% rations, Skau said, and in July the agency cut all rations to 2.5 million of them. In the Palestinian territories, WFP cut its cash assistance by 20% in May and in June. It cut its caseload by 60%, or 200,000 people. And in Yemen, he said, a huge funding gap will force WFP to cut aid to 7 million people as early as August.
In West Africa, where acute hunger is on the rise, Skau said, most countries are facing extensive ration cuts, particularly WFP’s seven largest crisis operations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said cutting aid to people who are only at the hunger level of crisis to help save those literally starving or in the category of catastrophic hunger means that those dropped will rapidly fall into the emergency and catastrophe categories, “and so we will have an additional humanitarian emergency on our hands down the road.”
“Ration cuts are clearly not the way to go forward,” Skau said.
He urged world leaders to prioritize humanitarian funding and invest in long-tern solutions to conflicts, poverty, development and other root causes of the current crisis.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena on former President Donald Trump. The committee wants him to testify by mid-November.
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Migrants dropped near VP Harris home on frigid Christmas Eve
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve.
Texas authorities have not confirmed their involvement, but the bus dropoffs are in line with previous actions by border-state governors calling attention to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
The buses that arrived late Saturday outside the vice president’s residence were carrying around 110 to 130 people, according to Tatiana Laborde, managing director of SAMU First Response, a relief agency working with the city of Washington to serve thousands of migrants who have been dropped off in recent months.
Local organizers had expected the buses to arrive Sunday but found out Saturday that the group would get to Washington early, Laborde said. The people on board included young children.
Some were wearing T-shirts despite temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Fahrenheit (-9 degrees Celsius). It was the coldest Christmas Eve on record for Washington, according to the Washington Post.
Laborde said employees had blankets ready for the people who arrived on Christmas Eve and moved them quickly onto waiting buses for a ride to an area church. A local restaurant chain donated dinner and breakfast.
Most of the arrivals were headed to other destinations and expected to remain in Washington only briefly.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office did not respond to a request for comment Sunday morning. His office said last week that Texas has given bus rides to more than 15,000 people since April to Washington, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, are strong critics of President Joe Biden on his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, where thousands of people are trying to cross daily, many to seek asylum. Officials on both sides of the border are seeking emergency help in setting up shelters and services for migrants, some of whom are sleeping on streets.
Republicans argue Biden and Harris, designated the administration’s point person on the root causes of migration, have relaxed restrictions that induced many people to leave their countries of origin. Biden has ended some policies but kept others enacted by former President Donald Trump, whose administration also grappled with spikes in border crossings and at one point separated immigrant families and children as a deterrence initiative.
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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Scientists around the world are warning governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for the United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and are urging officials to “avoid trade-offs” between people and conservation needs in a report Monday.
The study published in the One Earth Journal found that even though there has been an increase in investment in conservation over the last three decades governments “have not succeeded in bending the curve on biodiversity decline.”
The conference known as COP15, which begins Tuesday, hopes to set the goals for the world for the next decade to help conserve the planet’s biodiversity and stem the loss of nature. So far the world has failed to meet goals set at previous meetings.
The scientists proposed six areas for action for delegates working toward what’s known as the global biodiversity framework. They include greater involvement of local communities and addressing both direct causes of nature decline such as the destruction of land and habitats as well as indirect causes such as climate change.
In the report scientists repeatedly called for officials to be “nature and people positive” in their approach, highlighting the need for solutions that are realistic and have support from local communities in order to best protect nature.
Instead of conserving areas by making them inaccessible to local people, the scientists said greater inclusion of communities and particularly Indigenous groups will be vital in curbing even more biodiversity loss.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions which fuel climate change that leads to the loss of land and species also needs to be addressed, the scientists said.
“No amount of conservation or restoration actions may be effective in stopping biodiversity loss if the accelerating drivers of decline continue and intensify, as has been the case to date, especially in wealthier countries and among elites, who often express commitment to conservation action,” said David Obura, who is one of the report authors.
The growing demands of rich nations, in particular “excess consumption and unsustainable trade and investments” also need to be halted if groups are to be protected, co-author Diana Liverman said. “Consumption footprints in richer countries consistently drive biodiversity loss in poorer countries,” she added.
Outside experts’ views of how the summit can be a success were in line with the report’s findings.
“The Montreal COP needs to send that signal that the global economy is transitioning to be nature positive,” said The Nature Conservancy’s Linda Kreuger who wasn’t part of the report.
“Much of the conversation in Montreal is likely to revolve around money and specifically how much of it wealthier countries are willing to make available to support the conservation efforts of emerging economies.”
Indigenous rights groups led by Survival International and Amnesty International agreed that local communities were central to protecting local biodiversity.
“Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the natural world and an essential part of human diversity,” said Fiore Longo of Survival International. “The best way to protect biodiversity is to respect the land rights of Indigenous peoples.”
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GREENWOOD, Ind. — Greenwood Police joined members of several other law enforcement groups Thursday as they sought to make sure they are ready for the next time an active shooter event happens.
The training comes as police look at the response to the Greenwood Park Mall shooting in June. More than 15 law enforcement agencies responded to that scene.
“They just responded, and when you bring people together like that, the inter-operability, sometimes that can be a recipe for disaster because we don’t train together on a regular basis,” said Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison.
After the shooting, Chief Ison said they compiled an after-action report showing their strengths and vulnerabilities.
“Many of the vulnerabilities that we found were vulnerabilities that almost every law enforcement response fire response has found with public or active shooter incidents in the past,” said Chief Ison.
The report offered recommendations ranging from training officers to wear ballistic vests when responding to active shooter situations to keeping witnesses or bystanders out of view of disturbing images.
On Thursday, members of several police and fire departments joined together at Greenwood High School to put some of the recommendations to the test.
With the help of some volunteers, police were able to train on getting students to safety, alerting parents about how to get in touch with their children, and dealing with media attention—all while dealing with the threat at hand.
“We’re trying to do everything just as we would in a real situation to better prepare ourselves should, and hopefully it never does,” said Chief Ison.
During the exercise, responding agencies were also trained on how to work together and keep the communication going. This helped address one of the vulnerabilities brought up during the Greenwood Park Mall shooting.
Thursday’s training is not the end for the agencies that trained together. Chief Ison said they will repeat the training every year at different high-profile locations to make sure those who would respond to an active shooter situation know what they are getting into, no matter where it happens.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP)Garrett Hicks scored 23 points as Alabama A&M beat Mississippi Valley State 75-68 on Wednesday night.
Hicks shot 7 for 12, including 7 for 10 from beyond the arc for the Bulldogs (6-9, 2-0 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Olisa Akonobi scored 13 points while finishing 6 of 9 from the floor, and added seven rebounds and three blocks. Lorenzo Downey shot 2 for 4 and 4 of 4 from the free throw line to finish with nine points.
Rayquan Brown finished with 22 points for the Delta Devils (1-15, 0-2). Alvin Stredic Jr. added 16 points and three steals for Mississippi Valley State. Tyronn Mosley also had 13 points, two steals and two blocks. The Delta Devils prolonged their losing streak to 11 in a row.
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Cooks Who Feed Invests its Profits with Partners Redirecting Surplus Food
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seema Sanghavi, founder of Cooks Who Feed, is on a mission to end hunger and she's doing it one apron at a time. Her company is part of a world-wide network with the goal of redirecting surplus food to those who need it.
Sanghavi was inspired when she read an article that reported ⅓ of the world's food is thrown away while that amount of food could feed the entire world's hungry four times over.
"I love to cook," Sanghavi says. "Many of my fondest memories revolve around sharing a good meal. But as much as food gives me joy, I've always been bothered by the number of people who go hungry and do not get to experience food the way that I do. I struggle to live in this world of feast or famine," she explains. She became determined to do something about it.
Sanghavi remembered an NGO in India she'd visited a few years before that provided paid training and safe, fair trade work to marginalized women. She decided to employ women through that NGO to produce her textiles. Every product comes with a tag that explains the impact and is signed by the maker.
And, through her partnerships with organizations across the United States, Canada and beyond, she is making a difference.
- To date, the company has provided more than half a million meals.
- Every apron sold provides 100 meals.
- Aprons are ethically produced, handcrafted, and provide fair wages to marginalized women.
Sanghavi has partnered with numerous celebrity chefs, including Art Smith and Christine Cushing, to create aprons and spread awareness. She's also introduced children's aprons as a way to involve children in food.
"I never set out to create a company. I set out to create a movement that would empower foodies everywhere to fight hunger in the most socially responsible way possible," Sanghavi says. "What better way to fight hunger than with an apron; the uniform of a cook."
Cooks Who Feed is a company founded by Seema Sanghavi. Known for alleviating hunger by sharing profits with charity partners around the globe, Sanghavi is leading a movement to recover and redirect surplus food. To date, the company has provided more than half a million meals. Most importantly, Sanghavi is fostering innovation around hunger, food waste and sourcing.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Piedmont Orthopedics | OrthoAtlanta will serve as the Official Orthopedic Sports Medicine Provider for this year's Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games with Oregon vs. Georgia on Saturday, Sept. 3 and Clemson vs. Georgia Tech on Monday, Sept. 5. OrthoAtlanta has served as the Official Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Provider for more than 10 years, since the Chick-fil-A Kick Off Games originated.
"We're honored to once again be there to support the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games and its players," said Todd Schmidt, M.D., a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician. "Our role on the field is an important one, as we ensure all players are safe, and in the event of an injury, we're there to provide best-practice treatments for sports-related injuries." Dr. Schmidt has served as the Medical Director for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games since the first kickoff game in 2008.
According to Schmidt, while teams typically travel with their own medical-support staff, OrthoAtlanta is there for both home teams as well as those traveling from out-of-state, serving as the key medical point-of-contact and assisting with any orthopedic and sports medicine needs.
"OrthoAtlanta physicians and medical staff work together with Peach Bowl staff, the teams and officials, to deliver top medical services each year," said Gary Stokan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and president of Peach Bowl, Inc. "We're thankful for the expertise and support that OrthoAtlanta provides our teams, helping make the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games possible."
About OrthoAtlanta
OrthoAtlanta is one of the largest physician-owned orthopedic and sports medicine practices in the Southeast providing an integrated approach to delivering musculoskeletal care. With over 50 physicians serving in 18 offices, the practice provides the highest level of patient care for injuries or deformity of muscles, joints, bones, and spine. OrthoAtlanta offers convenient accessibility to a full range of musculoskeletal surgeons, specialists and patient services including on-site physical therapy, pain management care, six MRI imaging centers and workers' compensation coordination. OrthoAtlanta Surgery Centers in Austell and Fayetteville provide cost-effective, same day surgical procedures in an accredited outpatient center. Comprehensive operative and nonoperative musculoskeletal care and expertise includes sports medicine, arthroscopic surgery, hip replacement, knee replacement, neck and spine surgery, elbow and shoulder surgery, hand and wrist surgery, foot and ankle surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, arthritis treatment, general orthopedics, work-related and acute orthopedic injuries.
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Drag show in Warsaw canceled after threats of violence
WARSAW, Ind. (WPTA) - “The last few days have been a crazy week,” Travis McConnell said.
McConnell’s shop in Warsaw, along with serving coffee, is a private venue space. This Saturday, a private drag show was scheduled at his shop.
“There were a small minority of the population that did not approve of it and got very vocal and heated about it,” McConnell said.
So heated, in fact, that McConnel says the event had to be canceled after his business was threatened with violence.
“It was just a lot of phone calls that were harassing, things like that,” McConnell said. “One of which was the level of an actual threat where we ended up having to call the police.”
McConnell explains the organizers of the event originally said children were allowed at the show at the discretion of their parents.
For one mom, Monica Boyer, that was unacceptable.
“Any business owner is able to own their company, do business as they so choose,” Boyer said. “But it’s when we bring children into the picture that I was deeply concerned.”
Boyer and her family live in Warsaw. She says she was not okay with children being allowed at the event.
“People are free to run their business and I believe that our pocketbooks direct the temperature of a community,” Boyer said.
McConnell says, after backlash from the public, he asked the organizers to make the event 18-years-old or older. But, even after that, He says they continued to receive threatening calls, leading to the show’s cancellation.
He says it shows the difficulties those in the LGBTQ+ community face.
“People that are in the LGBTQ+ community that have to go through this their whole lives or have to live in the closet due to fear of it,” McConnell said. “So, they’re the ones that really have to suffer and they’re the ones that had their show canceled.”
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'Abortion is Freedom Rally' to be held in Hanover, York County
'Abortion is Freedom Rally' to be held in Hanover, York County
SUSAN: ABORTION RIGHTS ADVOCATES ARE RALLYING TODAY AT WORK PARK IN HANOVER, YORK COUNTY. ORGANIZERS AT THE ABORTION FREEDOM RALLY SAY THEY WILL MARCH TO CENTER SQUARE STARTING
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'Abortion is Freedom Rally' to be held in Hanover, York County
Abortion-rights advocates will rally Monday in York County.The Abortion is Freedom Rally will kick off at noon with speeches at Wirt Park.Organizers said demonstrators will then march to Center Square around 1:30 p.m. and remain there until 4 p.m.There will be security on site, according to organizers.
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Abortion-rights advocates will rally Monday in York County.
The Abortion is Freedom Rally will kick off at noon with speeches at Wirt Park.
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Organizers said demonstrators will then march to Center Square around 1:30 p.m. and remain there until 4 p.m.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces, accompanied by an investigative judge, raided the country’s Central Bank on Tuesday in a divisive investigation against the bank’s embattled governor.
Judge Ghada Aoun had been investigating Gov. Riad Salameh, and in March charged him with illicit enrichment and money laundering. A handful of European countries, including Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein are also investigating Salameh for alleged money laundering and embezzlement.
Also in March, in an initiative by Germany, France, and Luxembourg, the European Union froze $130 million worth of Lebanese assets belonging to five unnamed Lebanese. They accused the suspects of embezzling over $330 million and 5 million euros ($5.5 million) respectively, between 2002 and 2021. It is widely believed that Riad Salameh and his brother Raja are among the five.
Lebanon is grappling with a staggering economic crisis that has pushed over three-quarters of its population into poverty.
Many hold Salameh responsible for the crisis, citing policies that drove up national debt and caused the Lebanese pound to lose 90% of its value against the dollar. The 71 year-old Central Bank governor, who has held the post for the past three decades, still enjoys the backing of most Lebanese political parties.
On Tuesday, the investigative judge arrived at the Central Bank headquarters in Beirut with Lebanese state security personnel, apparently trying to find Salameh.
Aoun told the press after leaving the premises that she did not find Salameh and was unable to look for him in the building’s offices and storage rooms. “We immediately received a judicial order (to leave),” she said.
State security forces earlier Tuesday raided Salameh’s home, but he was not there.
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the raid in a statement, calling it a “brash” move for a sensitive case in the troubled country.
“What is required is to solve this case with a prior political agreement on a Central Bank governor, and then take the appropriate legal course,” Mikati said.
Aoun’s monthslong investigation into Salameh has divided the country. In January, she froze his assets as a “precautionary measure, ” after he did not show up for questioning in a lawsuit filed by a Lebanese anti-corruption group.
She has also charged the governor’s brother, Raja Salameh, with involvement in the formation of three illusive companies in France alongside Ukrainian citizen Anna Kosakova to purchase real estate worth nearly $12 million there. Raja was detained in March and released in May on record bail worth $3.7 million.
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This story has been corrected to show that the bail amount for the governor’s brother was $3.7 million, not billion.
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How 4/20 became a pot holiday - and call to action
Thursday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when cannabis fans gather in clouds of smoke at music festivals, celebrate with all-you-can-deals on chicken wings and other munchies, and take advantage of pot-shop discounts in legal weed states.
This year’s edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect on how far their movement has come, with recreational pot now allowed in 21 states and the nation’s capital, as well as a national political climate that hasn’t moved as quickly on legalization as many expected.
Here’s a look at the holiday’s history.
WHY 4/20?
The origins of the date, and the term "420" generally, were long murky. Some claimed it referred to a police code for marijuana possession or that it arose from Bob Dylan’s "Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35," with its refrain of "Everybody must get stoned" — 420 being the product of 12 times 35.
But a consensus has emerged that it started with a group of bell-bottomed buddies from San Rafael High School in California, who called themselves "the Waldos." A friend’s brother was afraid of getting busted for a patch of cannabis he was growing in the woods at Point Reyes, so he drew a map and gave the teens permission to harvest the crop, the story goes.
During fall 1971, at 4:20 p.m., just after classes and football practice, the group would meet up at the school’s statue of chemist Louis Pasteur, smoke a joint and head out to search for the weed patch. They never did find it, but their private lexicon — "420 Louie" and later just "420″ — would take on a life of its own.
The Waldos saved postmarked letters and other artifacts from the 1970s referencing "420," which they later kept in a bank vault, and when the Oxford English Dictionary added the term in 2017, it cited some of those documents as the entry’s earliest recorded uses.
HOW DID ‘420’ SPREAD?
A brother of one of the Waldos was a close friend of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, as Lesh once confirmed in an interview with the Huffington Post. The Waldos began hanging out in the band’s circle, and the slang spread.
Fast-forward to the early 1990s: Steve Bloom, a reporter for the cannabis magazine High Times, was at a Dead show when he was handed a flier urging people to "meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais." High Times published it.
"It’s a phenomenon," one of the Waldos, Steve Capper, once reflected. "Most things die within a couple years, but this just goes on and on. It’s not like someday somebody’s going to say, ‘OK, Cannabis New Year’s is on June 23rd now.’"
Capper went on to become a chief executive at a payroll financing company in San Francisco.
Bloom, who became editor-in-chief of Freedom Leaf Magazine, noted in a 2017 interview that while the Waldos came up with the term, the people who made the flier — and effectively turned 4/20 into a holiday — remain unknown.
HOW IS IT CELEBRATED?
With weed, naturally. Some of the celebrations are bigger than others; Hippie Hill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park typically draws thousands. In Seattle, one movie theater is offering a "dank double feature," with Cheech and Chong’s "Up In Smoke" as well as the 1930s "Reefer Madness" era cult classic "Assassin of Youth." In Boston, a pottery party is offering participants a chance to make their own pipe.
Pot shops are offering discounts, and several music festivals are planned through the weekend, including one at the Smokey River Entertainment District in Missouri, which launched recreational sales in February.
Some breweries make 4/20 themed beers — including SweetWater Brewing in Atlanta, whose founders attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, which hosted massive 4/20 celebrations before officials began closing the campus to outsiders about a decade ago.
Lagunitas Brewing in Petaluma, California, releases its "Waldos’ Special Ale" every year on 4/20 in honor of the term’s coiners.
THE POLITICS
There has been a proliferation of legal marijuana measures since Washington and Colorado in 2012 became the first states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis by adults. Some 21 states have now approved it. Sales just began in Missouri, are expected to begin in July in Maryland and totaled $300 million in the first year of New Mexico’s program.
Some 38 states — most recently Kentucky, last month — have OK’d the drug’s medicinal use.
But things have progressed much more slowly at the federal level. A fractured Congress hasn’t been able to agree on even relatively modest reforms, such as allowing state-licensed cannabis entities to claim businesses expenses on their taxes or easing banking restrictions that force many pot businesses to operate in cash, leaving them vulnerable to robberies.
Last October, President Joe Biden announced full pardons for prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession and urged governors to do the same in their states. The Justice Department is conducting a review of federal pot policy.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told senators last month that the new policy would hew close to the "Cole Memorandum" of 2013, which made clear the feds would not interfere with state efforts to regulate marijuana as long as certain law enforcement priorities were met. Former President Donald Trump’s administration rescinded that memo.
Activists this week urged Biden to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and to take steps to undo the harm the drug war caused communities of color, such as by directing agencies to stop using state marijuana convictions to deny federal benefits or to trigger deportation.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newmark has arranged a $535.8 million loan on behalf of GFP Real Estate ("GFP"), Metro Loft Management and Rockwood Capital for the acquisition and redevelopment of 25 Water Street. 25 Water Street is a 22-story, 1.1 million-square-foot office building in New York City's historic Financial District. The Newmark team was led by Vice-Chairmen and Co-Heads of the Debt & Structured Finance team Dustin Stolly and Jordan Roeschlaub and Senior Managing Director Chris Kramer. MSD and Apollo provided the loan. This transaction represents the largest ever office-to-residential conversion in the United States.i
Upon redevelopment, the property will be refitted to feature approximately 1,300 residential units ranging from studios to four-bedrooms. The property's 12'4" slab-to-slab ceiling heights and expansive 40,330-square-foot floor plates provide an attractive canvas for residential conversion. The property will also provide residents with an unmatched amenity package relative to other rental buildings in lower Manhattan. Fitness amenities are expected to include a basketball court, a steam room/sauna, indoor and outdoor pools and sports simulators. Lifestyle amenities are expected to include an expansive sky lounge and landscaped outdoor rooftop terrace and multiple entertainment and coworking spaces.
The residential conversion of 25 Water Street will be executed by a world-class sponsorship team led by GFP in collaboration with Metro Loft Management. GFP has recently acquired and redeveloped 13 properties comprising $2.2 billion invested into 3.9 million square feet and recently completed a $550 million renovation of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Metro Loft Management has a market-leading track record of conversions in lower Manhattan, including over five million square feet over the past 20 years.
Built in 1969, 25 Water Street enjoys uninterrupted light and air on three sides, offering broad views of lower Manhattan and New York Harbor from all floors. The property is situated on a double-wide street corridor with the widest exposure fronting Water Street protected by the property's own broad plaza, the low-rise Fraunces Tavern historic district and Coenties Slip park directly across Water Street. The property is also surrounded by two acres of broad plazas and public parks. Several modes of transportation, including over a dozen nearby subway lines, provide convenient access to the property.
Lower Manhattan has transformed into a true 24/7 neighborhood. The 2020 census revealed a residential population that is 33% higher than in 2010 and a massive four-fold increase from 2000. It is now the fastest-growing neighborhood in Manhattan.
About GFP Real Estate
GFP Real Estate is a vertically integrated owner, operator, property manager and developer of commercial real estate in the New York Tri-State Region. GFP owns over 55 buildings with more than 13.8 million square feet including some of New York City's most iconic real estate assets, including the Flatiron Building (175 Fifth Avenue), The Film Center Building (630 Ninth Avenue), 515 Madison Avenue, 1560 Broadway, the New York Market Center at 230 Fifth Avenue and 40 Worth Street. In addition to managing and leasing its own properties, GFP also provides management and leasing services to third-party building owners, representing additional buildings that cover more than 4 million square feet.
About Metro Loft Management
Metro Loft Management, LLC is a vertically integrated real estate development and management company founded in 1997. Metro Loft is a pioneer in residential conversions. Over the past 20 years, Metro Loft has earned a reputation as a leading conversion developer with more than 5 million square feet of results. Metro Loft has developed some of the most notable condominium and rental buildings in Lower Manhattan, including 443 Greenwich Street, 20 Broad Street, 180 Water Street, 20 Exchange Place and 63 Wall Street among many others.
About Rockwood Capital
Rockwood Capital is a real estate investment management firm founded in 1995 that provides debt and equity capital combined with real estate operating expertise for the repositioning, development, redevelopment and recapitalization of residential, office, retail and hotel space in key markets throughout the United States.
Rockwood is a more than 85-person organization with offices in New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, and Los Angeles, CA. Since inception, Rockwood and its principals have invested in approximately $38.6 billion of real estate and real estate-related assets (gross asset value). As of Q3 2022, Rockwood manages a portfolio of approximately $13.2 billion (gross asset value). Rockwood's international investor base includes sovereign wealth funds, public and private pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, funds of funds, high net worth individuals and family offices. For more information, visit www.rockwoodcap.com
About Newmark
Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries ("Newmark"), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark's comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform's global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. Newmark generated revenues of approximately $3.1 billion for the twelve months ending September 30, 2022. Newmark's company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operate from approximately 180 offices with nearly 6,700 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements about Newmark
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Ending his most recent COVID-19 isolation, President Joe Biden on Sunday left the White House for the first time since becoming infected with the coronavirus last month, settling in for a reunion with first lady Jill Biden in their home state of Delaware.
The president tested negative Saturday and Sunday, according to his doctor, clearing the way for him to emerge from an isolation that lasted longer than expected because of a rebound case of the virus. “He will safety return to public engagement and presidential travel,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote.
“I’m feeling good,” Biden said before boarding Marine One outside the White House.
The Bidens were expected to spend the day in Rehoboth Beach, a popular vacation destination.
Biden originally tested positive on July 21, and he began taking the anti-viral medication Paxlovid, which is intended to decrease the likelihood of serious illness from the virus. According to his doctor, Biden’s vital signs remained normal throughout his infection, but he his symptoms included a runny nose, cough, sore throat and body aches.
After isolating for several days, Biden tested negative on July 26 and July 27, when he gave a speech in the Rose Garden, telling Americans they can “live without fear” of the virus if they get booster shots, test themselves for the virus if they become sick and seek out treatments.
But Biden caught a rare rebound case of COVID-19 on July 30, forcing him to isolate again. He occasionally gave speeches from a White House balcony, such as when he marked the killing of an al-Qaida leader or a strong jobs report.
He continued to test positive until Saturday, when he received his first negative result. While the president was isolating in the White House residence, the first lady remained in Delaware.
The Bidens are scheduled to visit Kentucky on Monday to view flood damage and meet with families.
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12 squirrel monkeys have been stolen from a zoo in Louisiana, officials say
Twelve squirrel monkeys have been stolen from a zoo in Louisiana after their facility was broken into over the weekend.
The theft happened shortly before midnight Saturday and authorities are investigating, Zoosiana said on its Facebook page.
"The individual targeted facilities of smaller primates and specifically compromised the Squirrel Monkey exhibit," the zoo said.
The investigation at the zoo in Broussard, Louisiana, just outside Lafayette, comes as authorities in Dallas are investigating a series of unusual incidents involving animals at the zoo there, including the disappearance Monday of two emperor tamarin monkeys found a day later in an abandoned home about 15 miles away, officials said.
Zoosiana didn't say how many squirrel monkeys it had but noted the remaining monkeys were assessed by a veterinarian and animal care team and were in good health.
"All other animals are accounted for and appear to have been undisturbed," Zoosiana said.
Zoo officials are working with local, state and federal agencies and asked anyone with information to come forward.
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GENOA – Fifty-nine people went on trial Thursday for the 2018 collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge, accused of manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of 43 people.
The defendants include former executives and experts of the company that manages many of Italy’s bridges and highways, as well as former officials of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
A huge section of the Morandi bridge broke off during a violent rainstorm on Aug. 14, 2018, when highways were packed on the eve of Italy's biggest summer holiday, sending cars plunging into the dry riverbed below.
Prosecutors have alleged the defendants knew the bridge, which was built in the 1960s, was at risk of collapsing and that corners were cut on maintenance to save money.
The bridge’s designer had recommended regular upkeep to remove rust, especially due to the corrosive effect of moist air from the nearby Ligurian Sea, and maintenance to counter the effect of pollution on concrete.
“There are elements that prove that, since 2013, it was written in documents that the Morandi bridge was at risk of collapsing," said Egle Possetti, a member of the committee of relatives of Morandi victims who attended the hearing.
"In five years, nothing was done. This is unacceptable. So we will fight, as relatives and civil parties, so that this trial will give justice to our families and respect for the dead who aren’t here,” Possetti said outside the tribunal.
After an hour of procedural motions, Judge Paolo Lepri adjourned the proceedings and set a new hearing for Sept. 14 in a trial that is expected to take more than a year to reach any verdicts, the LaPresse news agency reported.
In April, a Genoa judge approved plea bargain requests by both the highway company, Autostrade per Italia, and the Spea engineering company, to pay 29 million euros ($33 million) to the Italian government in exchange for avoiding a trial.
The lawyer for former Austostrade CEO Giovanni Castellucci, who is among the defendants, said the trial would show that the bridge collapsed not as a result of maintenance negligence but due to an original “construction defect.”
“This is why 43 people died in a terrifying and absurd way,” lawyer Giovanni Paolo Accinni told reporters Thursday outside the Genoa tribunal.
A replacement bridge, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, a Genoa native, features 43 lamps in memory of the people who perished.
The governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, said the start of the trial was important for the region but also for relatives of the victims.
“Starting today, justice and truth are closer and we hope will arrive quickly,” Toti wrote on Facebook. “It's the only way to rebuild the trust between citizens and the state that collapsed on that Godforsaken Aug. 14.”
After the collapse, the Italian government forged a deal in which the Benetton fashion family agreed to sell its ownership stake in Autostrade.
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Clay County deputies arrest a man accused of taking a van
CLAY COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – Clay County deputies arrest a man accused of taking a van, with a plan.
Albert Dale Chism of West Point is in the Clay County Jail charged with Grand Larceny.
According to the Clay County Sheriff’s Department, Chism stole a van out of someone else’s yard, took it to a scrapyard, and sold it for scrap.
Chism is being held on a 5 thousand dollar bond.
Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott reminds people to be aware of strange vehicles and people on their property or their neighbors’ property.
Scott says if you see anything suspicious call his office.
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MOSCOW — A Russian court has found Brittney Griner guilty on drug smuggling and possession charges. The widely expected verdict comes after a monthlong trial and nearly six months after the basketball star was arrested at a Moscow-area airport with cannabis vape cartridges in her luggage.
The judge sentenced Griner to nine years in prison. Her charges carried up to 10 years, and the Russian prosecution had requested a sentence of nine years and six months in a penal colony.
The trial's outcome was not unusual given that Russian criminal courts have a reported conviction rate of 99%. But it appears that Griner's fate will now be decided in the political arena.
The Biden administration, under public pressure to secure her release, has tried to negotiate with Russia to free her as well as another jailed American, Paul Whelan. Russia has said any potential deal — including a rumored prisoner swap that could see the U.S. release notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout — would have to wait until after the court's verdict.
In a statement released shortly after the verdict, President Biden called Griner's sentence "one more reminder of what the world already knew: Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney."
"It's unacceptable, and I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates," he added. "My administration will continue to work tirelessly and pursue every possible avenue to bring Brittney and Paul Whelan home safely as soon as possible."
Secretary of State Antony Blinken echoed that pledge in a statement of his own, in which he said the court's decision "puts a spotlight on our significant concerns with Russia's legal system and the Russian government's use of wrongful detentions to advance its own agenda, using individuals as political pawns."
"Russia, and any country engaging in wrongful detention, represents a threat to the safety of everyone traveling, working, and living abroad," Blinken continued. "The United States opposes this practice everywhere. "
Griner admitted to making 'an honest mistake'
Earlier on Thursday, as the two sides delivered closing remarks, Griner's defense attorney called for her to be acquitted, or for the court to show leniency in any punishment she's given. The 31-year-old also spoke on her own behalf.
"I made an honest mistake and I hope that in your ruling that it doesn't end my life here," Griner said.
The Olympian and NBA champion says she must have put the cannabis in her bag by mistake. Her defense team notes that Griner has a medical marijuana card in Arizona to help her cope with injuries sustained over years of competition. But personal cannabis possession is illegal under any circumstances in Russia, similar to U.S. federal law.
In their closing arguments, Griner's defense attorneys cited Griner's contributions to the growth of Russian women's basketball and detailed irregularities in her arrest and detention — including a lack of access to qualified translators — in arguing for Griner's acquittal or at least a lenient sentence.
Her lawyers also noted that the basketball star was prescribed medical marijuana by a U.S. doctor to treat chronic pain in the offseason — and still had never failed a drug test.
"What does this show?" said defense counsel Maria Blagovolina. "It shows that Brittney Griner used marijuana only at home and only in very small doses and that she had no intention to bring the substance into Russia."
In her final statement to the judge, Griner reiterated that she never intended to break any laws or hurt anyone.
She apologized to her Russian teammates for any damage she may have caused, adding that "this is my second home and all I wanted to do was win championships and make them proud."
Her ordeal began just before Russia invaded Ukraine
Griner was arrested in February, one week before Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Her detention quickly led to speculation that Putin's government wants to use her as leverage against the U.S. Griner alluded to that in her closing remarks to the judge on Thursday.
"I know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but I hope that is far from this courtroom," she said.
Here's a quick recap of Griner's ordeal:
Griner is a star center for the Phoenix Mercury. But like many WNBA players, she plays in overseas leagues during the U.S. league's offseason, earning far more than her WNBA salary. In recent years, she has played for UMMC Ekaterinburg, a Russian team owned by oligarch Iskander Makhmudov. The team has had longstanding ties to Griner's U.S. club.
Griner was returning to her Russian team from the U.S. when she was detained.
The effort to free Griner has grown from her fans and fellow basketball players to include a much broader circle. This summer, dozens of rights groups, including the Human Rights Campaign, the National Organization for Women and National LGBTQ Task Force wrote a letter to President Biden urging him to treat her case with urgency.
Maynes reported from Russia. Chappell and Treisman reported from Washington, D.C.
This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.
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(WTAJ) — Through three weeks of the NFL season, fans are adjusting to using Prime Video exclusively for Thursday night games. However, the games are streaming somewhere else for free.
While still under the Amazon umbrella, Twitch has streamed the previous two games and will continue streaming all Thursday Night Football games on its platform for free. Twitch was purchased by Amazon for $970 million in 2014.
The broadcast will still come from Amazon Prime, which holds the exclusive Thursday Night Football rights for the next 11 years. Amazon paid the NFL a reported $11 billion for the deal.
Those interested in watching any Thursday Night Football game, being run by Amazon/Prime Video, can do so by going to Twitch’s website or using the Twitch app on Apple and Android devices, Xbox and Playstation consoles, Apple TV, Android TV, and Amazon Fire Sticks. There is currently no Twitch application on Roku.
After opening Twitch, all you have to do is search for Prime Video. Each Thursday Night Football Game is slated to start at 8:15 p.m. EST. No account is needed to watch the game.
While Twitch is primarily for streaming video games, it has recently branched out to allow more on its platform, including football, music and more.
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BERWYN, Pa., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Triumph Group, Inc. (TRIUMPH) (NYSE: TGI) today announced that its Actuation Products & Services business has been awarded an agreement from Lockheed Martin to manufacture the brake valve assembly for the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft. This work will be performed at TRIUMPH's facility in Valencia, California.
"TRIUMPH is very pleased to continue our long-standing position as the OEM for the Lockheed Martin F-16 brake manifold assembly," said Mike Boland, President of TRIUMPH Actuation Products & Services. "The F-16 is one of the most proven and mission-capable aircraft in use today for countries around the world, and TRIUMPH is proud to continue our role on the program by providing production hardware and operational support for the global fleet."
TRIUMPH Actuation Products & Services is a leader in design, development, manufacture and support of complex electro-hydraulic and mechanical systems and equipment for the aerospace and defense industry. Products include actuators, pumps, motors, reservoirs, control valves and a wide range of mechanical controls for commercial and military aircraft. Our Actuation Products & Services business services customers around the world with ten manufacturing sites across North America and Europe.
TRIUMPH, headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls a broad portfolio of aerospace and defense systems and components. The company serves the global aviation industry, including original equipment manufacturers and the full spectrum of military and commercial aircraft operators.
More information about TRIUMPH can be found on the company's website at www.triumphgroup.com.
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Shooting at California birthday party leaves 1 dead, 6 wounded
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - A shooting at a birthday party killed an 18-year-old woman and injured six others in Northern California early Sunday, police said.
The Antioch Police Department responded to multiple 911 calls about a shooting just before 1 a.m., the department said in a statement.
Multiple shots were fired after some people arrived uninvited at a birthday party for a 19-year-old man at a home in the city about 45 miles (72 km) northeast of San Francisco.
Victims and a large crowd were found by officers outside the home, police said.
The 18-year-old woman was transported to an area hospital, where she died, police said.
The victims who suffered non-life-threatening injuries included an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old man, two 19-year-old women and two 20-year-old women.
Some of the victims transported themselves to area hospitals after “a panic where attendees ... fled in multiple directions and into the neighborhood,” police said.
The Antioch police said a suspect or suspects fled the scene before officers arrived, but there were no arrests immediately reported.
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Whether you’re traveling with family, friends or solo, beach getaways satisfy travelers of all stripes. Since you can visit most public beaches for free and many cities have accommodation options for a broad spectrum of budgets, booking a sun-soaked getaway doesn’t have to come with sticker shock.
We round up seven sunny beach destinations that you can visit on a budget. (Note: Prices will vary depending on when you book and plan to travel.)
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San Diego, California
San Diego has nonstop flights to and from more than 70 domestic and international cities, making it a convenient beach destination for those residing within the U.S. and beyond. In addition to having an impressive roster of free beaches and accommodations that cater to a wide range of needs and price points, the city also has a bounty of free activities, many of which cater to travelers with little ones in tow (think: sea otter watching and hiking). There’s also an economical bus system and downtown trolley for getting around, more reasons it is a lower-priced alternative for families than cities such as Long Beach and Santa Barbara.
Cancún, Mexico
While Cancún, Mexico, is home to many swanky hotels and resorts, the area offers a wider variety of places to stay to accommodate different budgets than Cabo San Lucas. That includes vacation rentals, resorts, boutique hotels and chain properties. Those who don’t mind the heat and humidity (that’s what pool and beach days are for, right?) and the occasional rainstorm will discover particularly great deals on lodging and flights from June through October, when there are still oodles of activities and thinner crowds in popular areas such as downtown Cancún and Playa Mujeres.
Curaçao, Caribbean
If you love scuba diving and snorkeling, a trip to Curaçao should be at the top of your list. The reefs on the coast of the Caribbean island beckon explorers, while the white sands and Dutch-influenced architecture attract those seeking relaxation and cultural exploration.
To score the best deals on flights and accommodations, plan on visiting between May and November and staying at a smaller hotel that’s further away from the waterfront instead of a resort. While it depends on when you go, the island is still less popular than Caribbean destinations such as Jamaica, Martinique and Trinidad and Tobago. It also sports more wallet-friendly lodging, dining and activities as a result.
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Sarasota, Florida
While cities on Florida’s East Coast like West Palm Beach and Miami may attract the most attention from travelers, the Sunshine State’s Gulf Coast has quieter seaside destinations with cheaper lodging and equally lovely (if not more beautiful) beaches. In fact, Sarasota’s Siesta Key — favored by locals for its sugary white sands, convenient concessions and plentiful parking — is regularly ranked as one of Florida’s best beaches.
To get there, visitors can fly into Tampa International Airport (about 60 miles north) or the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. Book a hotel or resort in Sarasota or Bradenton; the latter of which tends to have lower rates (though the properties don’t tend to be as close to the waterfront).
Hydra, Greece
Because the Greek island of Hydra (pronounced ee-dra) is smaller, quieter and less affluent than its sister island Spetses, a stay in the Aegean Sea hideaway can be easier on your bank account.
Situated less than two hours from Athens by ferry, there are no cars on Hydra (guests and locals get around on foot via water taxi), which means you can pay for less transportation. The lack of cars also makes the turquoise-water-framed landscape more tranquil and idyllic. Spend the afternoon relaxing on one of the tucked-away beaches, reachable by boat from the port of Hydra, or lingering over a glass of wine in one of the many waterfront cafes.
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Phuket, Thailand
The advantageous exchange rate for Americans makes Thailand a better destination for travelers on a budget than spots like Hawaii or the Caribbean. For example, $100 can pay for both a one-night hotel stay and a flight from Bangkok to many beach destinations in the country, including Phuket.
The island is only about a 90-minute flight from the capital city and is loved by travelers for its warm hospitality. It also offers pristine stretches of soft sand, gorgeous temples (there are more than 25) and plentiful activities and tours. Keep yourself busy with scuba diving, snorkeling and sailing on the Andaman Sea.
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
South Carolina beach towns are known for giving visitors access to golden sands, ample water activities and exquisitely manicured golf courses. Myrtle Beach has all of the above—plus a bevy of off-shore family-friendly activities that won’t break the bank. When crews are ready for a break from splash-worthy fun, they can ride the Myrtle Beach Skywheel, play a round of mini golf or check out Barefoot Landing, a waterfront entertaining destination that hosts free concerts and fireworks shows.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges apologized Tuesday for “the pain and embarrassment” caused by the domestic violence investigation that kept him out of the league last season.
Bridges, speaking publicly for the first time since signing a one-year, $7.9 million contract to return to the Hornets, vowed to rebuild relationships with teammates and become more active in the Charlotte community.
He pleaded no contest in November to a felony charge that stemmed from accusations that he assaulted the mother of his children in front of them. The 25-year-old was sentenced to three years of probation.
"I want to apologize to everybody for the pain and embarrassment that I have caused everyone, especially my family," Bridges said. "This year away I've used to prioritize going to therapy and becoming the best person I can be — someone that my family and everyone here can be proud of."
Following a lengthy investigation, the NBA handed down a 30-game suspension earlier this offseason, but determined that he'll only miss 10 games to start the upcoming season after giving him credit for 20 games served after sitting out 82 games last season.
Bridges thanked the Hornets organization and the NBA for giving him a second chance, adding that "a lot of people don't get a second chance, and I want to use this second chance to prove to everyone that I'm the same kid you drafted five years ago.”
Hornets general manager Mitch Kupchak said outgoing majority owner Michael Jordan and incoming owners Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall gave unanimous approval to re-sign Bridges.
Kupchak said that decision was based on separate investigations by the NBA and the Los Angeles Police Department, as well as the team's personal five-year relationship with Bridges. Bridges was drafted in the first round in 2018 and has played four seasons in Charlotte.
“You have to make a judgment, right?” Kupchak said. “Is this sincere remorse? Is this sincere accountability? It is not something that is easy to judge. We took all of those factors into consideration and ultimately gave him a second chance.”
Kupchak said he realizes that decision may not sit well with some fans.
“Obviously it is a polarizing topic,” Kupchak said. “Everybody may not agree. It's a tough situation to be in.”
Bridges said he understands he'll need to regain the trust of everyone involved, from fans to teammates to members of the Hornets organization.
“Yes, I understand that some people don't think I deserve a second chance,” Bridges said. “That's why I am trying to use this year to prove to everybody the person that I am. Who is Miles Bridges? It's not what people think he is.”
Added Kupchak: “He understands that even though his teammates are happy to have him back, there is some trust that needs to be earned back.”
Bridges declined to get into specifics, other than to say he continues to attend therapy and has a good relationship with his young children.
Bridges' NBA career took an abrupt turn last summer.
After a career season in 2021-22 in which he averaged a team-high 20.2 points and seven rebounds, Bridges appeared likely to sign a multiyear contract worth more than $100 million as a restricted free agent. But just days before the start of free agency the mother of his children posted graphic photos and descriptions of alleged physical abuse by Bridges on her Instagram page.
He was charged with three counts of felony domestic violence days later.
The big contract offer never came, and Bridges did not play at all last season as the NBA opened an investigation.
By signing the Hornets' qualifying offer, Bridges is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent next summer giving him more flexibility in his next destination.
The Hornets will still have Bridges' Bird rights, which gives them a competitive advantage over other teams because of their ability to offer him a longer contract worth more money. Bridges said Tuesday he'd like to remain with the Hornets.
But Kupchak said that will be a discussion for another day.
“We will have to wait to see how that plays out,” Kupchak said. “From a basketball point of view, putting aside the serious nature of what took place, we are excited to have him back. He had his best year ever two years ago. Whatever it is we have to deal with a year from now, we will deal with it a year from now.”
Charlotte recently selected forward Brandon Miller from Alabama with the No. 2 pick in the NBA draft and he could serve as an eventual replacement for Bridges.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ordered a man released from prison immediately after his attorneys presented new evidence and argued that he didn’t commit the crimes he was convicted of and spent more than 20 years locked up for: the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman visiting Hawaii.
Albert “Ian” Schweitzer, who was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to 130 years in prison, should be “released from his shackles immediately,” Judge Peter Kubota ruled.
That prompted applause in the Hilo courtroom and hugs for Schweitzer, who was flown to the Big Island for the hearing from the Arizona prison where he was serving his sentence.
“My feelings were all over the place,” Schweitzer told the AP during a phone interview in recalling the moment of his release. “Nerves, anxiety, scared.”
The justice system is “flawed,” he said, calling himself one of many imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. He earlier told reporters that he was “grateful” for the judge doing the “honorable thing.”
A petition filed late Monday outlined additional evidence in one of Hawaii’s biggest murders, which unfolded on Christmas Eve in 1991 on the Big Island.
Dana Ireland, 23, was found barely alive in the bushes along a fishing trail in Puna, a remote section of the island. She had been sexually assaulted and beaten, and later died at Hilo Medical Center. The mangled bicycle she had been riding was found several miles away and appeared to have been run into by a vehicle.
The slaying of the blond-haired, blue-eyed visitor from Virginia gained national attention and remained unsolved for years, putting intense pressure on police to find the killer.
“Whenever you have a white, female victim … it gets a lot more attention than people of color and Native Hawaiians,” said Kenneth Lawson, co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project. “The parents, understandably, were becoming more and more infuriated. … There was insurmountable pressure to solve this case. And when that happens, mistakes are made. Some intentional and some unintentional.”
Ireland’s relatives couldn’t immediately be reached for comment on the petition and Schweitzer’s release. Prosecutors didn’t immediately comment on Schweitzer’s release.
With help from the Innocence Project in New York, the co-counsel in the case, Lawson’s group represented Schweitzer, the last of three Native Hawaiian men convicted in Ireland’s death who had remained imprisoned.
DNA evidence previously submitted in the case belonged to an unknown man and all three of the convicted men were excluded as sources.
New DNA evidence, according to the petition, shows a “Jimmy Z” brand T-shirt found near Ireland and soaked with her blood belonged to the same unknown man, and not to one of the three men, as prosecutors claimed.
Additionally, a new tire tread analysis concluded Schweitzer’s Volkswagen Beetle car didn’t leave the tire marks at either location where Ireland and her bicycle were found. A forensic odontologist also concluded an injury on her left breast wasn’t a bitemark, as previously believed, the petition said.
“At a new trial today, a jury would not convict Mr. Schweitzer of Ms. Ireland’s sexual assault and murder,” the petition said. “In fact, a prosecutor would likely not even arrest Mr. Schweitzer for this crime.”
The likelihood that all three men participated in a sexual attack and left no trace of biological evidence — including a lack of evidence uncovered with advanced forensic testing — is “extraordinarily improbable,” the petition said.
In 2019, Schweitzer’s attorneys and Hawaii County prosecutors entered into a “conviction integrity agreement” to reinvestigate the case. It was the first time in Hawaii there has been this type of agreement, Lawson said, which is increasingly being used to reexamine questionable convictions and guard against future errors.
“Over the last three years, we have shared information and re-examined forensic evidence. No matter the outcome in these post-conviction proceedings, we remain committed to identifying unknown male #1 and seeking justice for Dana Ireland and her `ohana,” Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney Kelden Waltjen said in a statement before the ruling, using the Hawaiian word for “family.”
However, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Shannon Kagawa asked the judge to deny the petition, saying the new evidence wouldn’t change the outcome of a new trial.
Kubota disagreed, saying that based on the new evidence, a jury would acquit Schweitzer.
Much of the background on the Ireland case is detailed in a document filed with the petition listing facts that defense attorneys and prosecutors have stipulated.
In 1994, police made what they believed to be a major breakthrough. A man facing charges for his role in a cocaine conspiracy contacted police and claimed his half-brother, Frank Pauline Jr., witnessed Ireland’s attack, according to the stipulated facts document.
Police interviewed Pauline, who was in his third month of a 10-year sentence for an unrelated sex assault and theft. He claimed brothers Ian and Shawn Schweitzer attacked and killed Ireland. But he was interviewed at least seven times and gave inconsistent accounts each time, eventually incriminating himself, the stipulation document said.
Despite the lack of evidence linking them to the killing, the two Schweitzers and Pauline were indicted in 1997.
At one point the charges were dismissed because all three men were excluded as the source of semen found in Ireland and on a hospital gurney sheet. They were indicted again after another informant claimed Ian Schweitzer confessed to him in jail that Pauline raped and killed Ireland.
Pauline later said he offered details to police about the Ireland murder in order to get drug charges dropped against his half-brother.
In a prison interview with the A&E show “American Justice,” Pauline compared his story to the tale of the boy who cried wolf. “Wasn’t me,” he said in a strong Hawaii Pidgin accent. But when he started telling the truth, he said no one believed him.
Shawn Schweitzer took a deal to plead guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping — and receive credit for about a year served and five years of probation — after seeing juries convict Pauline and his brother in 2000.
In October, Shawn Schweitzer met with prosecutors and recanted. According to the stipulation document, he pleaded guilty because his “parents did not want to risk losing another son and encouraged Shawn Schweitzer to do what he needed to do to come home and not suffer the same fate as his brother.”
Shawn Schweitzer “continues to feel immense guilt about agreeing to the confession and entering a guilty plea for a crime he did not commit and falsely implicating his brother,” the document said.
A polygraph test in November showed he was telling the truth when he denied any involvement in the murder, the document said.
Pauline was killed in a New Mexico prison by a fellow inmate in 2015.
Being back in Hawaii “tastes great,” Schweitzer told the AP.
“The air is good,” he said. “The water is good.”
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Fort Meade football looks to get back into postseason
Hardee transfer Carson Montsdeoca will quarterback the spread power offense which will feature balance between the running and passing game
In 2021, Jemalle Cornelius saw his Fort Meade football program finish .500 for the second time in five seasons.
But the 14th-year football coach is at the helm of a program that has had winning seasons in eight of those years. He knows what it takes to win. And to Cornelius, the formula is simple.
“To me, when you've got guys on the team that are self-driven, and kind of have some self-starters ... and I do feel like we do have that this year," he said. "We got some guys that don’t mind to speak up and kind of get things done. I think just the overall core leadership of this team is pretty good.”
Miners
Head Coach: Jemalle Cornelius (14th year)
Coaching Staff: Clinton Cornelius, Andre Camp, Henry Grace Jr., Eric Grace Jr., Eric Grace Sr., Anthony Russell, Maurice Russell, Channing Carithers, Frankie Lastinger, Adrian Neal, Cedric Simmons and Frank Town.
2021 Record: 5-5.
Last time in Playoffs: 2021, lost in regional quarterfinal.
Players to watch: WR/DB Josh Porter (Jr., 6-0, 170); WR/RB/DB Ja’Marion Davis (Sr., 6-0, 175); WR/DB Josiah Lozano (Jr., 5-8, 155); RB/DB Ryan Valdez (Sr., 5-8, 150); LB/RB Taijaeous Blandin (Sr., 5-11, 245); WR/DB Cyhdrin Simmons (Jr., 6-0, 175 ); QB Carson Montsdeoca (Jr. 6-3, 170); LB/RB Jayden Daniels (Sr. 5-11, 170); DL/FB Ashton White(Sr., 6-0, 220); OL/DL Nigel Coon (Sr., 5-10, 260); OL/DL Damian Silvia (Jr., 6-0, 270); OL/DL Michael Brown (Jr., 6-1); OL/DL David Rodriguez (Sr., 6-2, 250) DB/WR Jaylen Daniels (5-10, 255); FB, ILB Jack Barnett (Sr., 5-10, 180)
2022 Schedule
Aug. 26 — Hardee
Sept. 1 — AACA (Winter Haven)
Sept. 8 — At Lakeland Christian
Sept. 16 — Mulberry
Sept. 23 — VCA
Sept. 29 — Discovery (Lake Alfred)
Oct. 7 — ACA (Winter Haven)
Oct. 21 — Tenoroc
Oct. 28 — At Frostproof
Nov. 4 — SCHS (Seffner)
OFFENSE
Your offense is only as good as the offensive line and Fort Meade intends to anchor that line with players such as Rodriguez, a third-team all-county player last year, as well as Coon, Silvia and Brown.
This offensive line will protect Hardee transfer quarterback Montsdeoca — a University of Florida commit as a pitcher — who threw the ball well a few weeks ago in a scrimmage even after just learning all the terminology over the spring and summer. Montsdeoca will spread the ball around to guys like Porter and Lazano.
Keeping the passing game respectable will be the running game, and Cornelius said he intends to run by committee with Blandin, Davis and Jayden Daniels.
These players will be in a spread power offense — 21 personnel, two backs and three wideouts.
“My No. 1 thing is you want to be balanced on offense,” Cornelius said. “I don’t have an offense per say. I just have to be multiple enough to be able to do what needs to be done given the situation.”
DEFENSE
The quarterback of the defense will be Barnett — a smart and cerebral player making all the calls. And on the outside is cornerback Simmons utilizing his size and athleticism.
Of course, the defense, which will be a 4-3-4 or a 4-4-3, will need the entire unit to complete a winning season for the first time since 2020.
OUTLOOK
Based on the 2021 season, the focus in the off-season for Cornelius was all about recovery. For two to three times a week, players focused on taking care of themselves, including getting in the cold tub in an effort to make sure their legs were refreshed.
"We really been focused on rest and recovery, keeping the kids fresh," Cornelius said. "Work them hard, but also get them back recovery-wise."
The Miners should be a rejuvenated team when the games matter.
COACH'S COMMENT
“Last year we were fortunate enough to make the playoffs ... we lost in the first round,” Cornelius said. “The expectation is to win the district. We want to be home in the playoffs. We haven’t had a home playoff game in quite some time. And the best way to put yourself in position to do that is to take care of the district. That’s what our players expect and I think that’s what the community expects.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — A Kansas City family is grieving after their loved one was gunned down Sunday morning.
Ricky Monroe was shot to death at a home near 36th and Manchester.
Monroe’s sister said he was partying at a short-term rental.
“I can’t sleep,” Rodteshia Johnson, Monroe’s mom, said. “My son was partying. He was having fun, and nobody knows nothing.”
Pain is now woven into this family’s daily routine.
“It took a toll on me, it really did,” Feleacia Johnson, Monroe’s grandmother, said. “It has and it always will.”
Pictures, videos, and memories are all they have of Monroe.
“I know my son was calling for me,” Johnson said. “My son was in a moment, and I couldn’t be there for him. That was the worst call ever.”
KCPD said they’re confident multiple people saw the shooting, but right now, there are no suspects.
“You hear about it, and I see it, but I couldn’t understand it,” Johnson said. “That was the worse call of my life.”
So, police, along with Monroe’s family, are counting on witnesses to speak out.
“Like these kids, they don’t know nothing, but they do know something, and they are not speaking out, and I just want justice,” Johnson said.
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Pinnacle Hills Promenade to Welcome Premier Brazilian Steakhouse
DALLAS, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas de Brazil Churrascaria, the world's largest family-owned and operated Brazilian steakhouse brand, is bringing its rodizio-style dining concept to one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country, Rogers, AK. The new restaurant will open next year in the luxury retail lifestyle center, Pinnacle Hills Promenade, which spans 152 acres and features more than 100 popular retail and entertainment brands, and a wide array of restaurants.
Texas de Brazil embraces a time-honored tradition of churrasco-style cooking, which was adopted from the gauchos, or Brazilian cowboys of Southern Brazil. All the meats are cooked over an open flame using natural wood charcoal to give the meats a deeper and more intense flavor with just the right amount of smokiness.
"The Rogers location will be our first in the state of Arkansas, representing an exciting expansion into the region," stated Salim Asrawi, President of Texas de Brazil. "The Pinnacle Hills area continues to grow and provide new opportunities to the residents and visitors of Rogers, and we are excited that our upscale dining experience will be a part of that."
The steakhouse's menu boasts various cuts of beef, lamb, pork, chicken and sausage, which are perfectly seasoned, grilled and carved tableside by the restaurant's gauchos. The concept comes to life through the illustrious red and green cards, which guests use to indicate when they'd like to sample more cuts of meat, or when they need to take a break. In addition, diners can also help themselves to the fresh gourmet salad area, which features more than 50 delicious items, such as imported cheeses, charcuterie, Brazilian black beans, roasted vegetables and the ever-tempting lobster bisque. The dining experience is also enhanced by the extensive award-winning wine list, rich in South American varietals.
Area residents can sign up for the Texas de Brazil e-club to stay informed of the opening and then start receiving special promotions and exclusive offers to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and much more.
Texas de Brazil is an authentic churrascaria featuring a continuous dining experience that blends the unique culture of Brazil, with the generous hospitality of Texas. The menu features a vast selection of grilled meats, a 50-item salad area, an award-winning wine list and a la carte dessert selections. Founded as a family-owned business in 1998, Texas de Brazil is one of the largest Brazilian-American steakhouse brand in the world, with restaurants in 21 states and 12 international locations.
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LIVE: Day 12: Jurors expected to begin hearing of Murdaugh financial crime accusations
WALTERBORO, S.C. (WCSC) - Jurors in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial will hear from witnesses about alleged financial crimes the disbarred attorney is accused of committing.
Murdaugh is on trial in Colleton County for the murders of his wife, Maggie; and their youngest son, Paul, on June 7, 2021.
Judge Clifton Newman said Monday the jury is entitled to consider whether Murdaugh’s “apparent desperation” and “dire financial situation” resulted in the killings of his family. Murdaugh faces nearly 100 charges ranging from money laundering, to stealing millions from clients and the family law firm and tax evasion.
Prosecutors have said those witnesses are key to their case in Murdaugh’s double murder trial to show he was worried his alleged crimes were about to be discovered and that Murdaugh killed his family to get sympathy and buy time to cover up the missing money.
READ RECAP: Day 11: Judge allows admission of financial evidence in Murdaugh murder trial
Over the past few days, Newman listened to testimony from several witnesses without the jury in the courtroom. That testimony focused on the alleged financial crimes. Those witnesses are expected to be called back to court to testify a second time before the jury.
One focus of Monday’s testimony centered on a blue raincoat. Shelley Smith, who took care of Murdaugh’s mom, testified that she saw Murdaugh at his parents’ home holding what she described as a blue tarp.
SPECIAL SECTION: The Murdaugh Cases
Defense attorney Jim Griffin argued against allowing the raincoat into evidence after Smith’s insistence that it was a tarp she saw Murdaugh with. But the state pushed back by bringing up Griffin’s questioning during cross-examination as the defense acknowledged the raincoat’s existence.
When Smith was shown a photo with the jacket balled up in a closet she said that was the item she saw. A blue tarp was also collected from the home. Photos of the tarp show one side of the tarp to be silver, something Smith said she never saw.
Kristin Hall, a former SLED investigator, testified that she had collected gunshot residue tests on the raincoat as well as a white t-shirt, green cargo shorts and a pair of shoes collected from Murdaugh on the night of the killings. She also testified that she had conducted a GSR test on the seatbelt taken from Murdaugh’s Chevy Suburban.
Smith said Murdaugh came to the house on the night of the murders and stayed between 15 and 20 minutes. She said he was wearing a T-shirt, shorts and boat shoes and that she couldn’t see any blood on him or left on the bed when he was next to his mother.
After the funeral for Murdaugh’s father Randolph, who died days after the shootings, Smith said Murdaugh came into the room and told her he was at Almeda for 30 or 40 minutes on the night of the murders.
Murdaugh later mentioned helping her with an upcoming wedding and finding her a new position with the school system where she worked, Smith said.
Testimony will continue Tuesday morning.
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Expanded role integrates internal diversity and inclusion programs with racial and health equity strategy
EAGAN, Minn., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) has announced the promotion of Bukata Hayes to the new position of vice president, chief equity officer. In this role, Hayes - who has served as vice president of racial and health equity since March 2021 - will be responsible for integrating all diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) strategies into the company's Racial & Health Equity (RHE) department.
By aligning the internal representation goals of DEIB with the external facing initiatives of RHE portfolio, Hayes will be able to generate greater capabilities and impact among talent and recruitment efforts to maximize the opportunities for Blue Cross' workforce to more accurately mirror the growing diversity of Blue Cross membership and the Minnesota population in general.
"Bukata Hayes is the ideal leader for this expanded role, given his talent, expertise and collaborative style," said Dana Erickson, president and chief executive officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. "His experience and capabilities continue to position Blue Cross to accomplish our goals around diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and racial and health equity, to deliver meaningful and lasting change, both within our company and throughout our communities."
As chief equity officer, Hayes will report directly to the CEO and serve as a member of the company's senior leadership team.
Prior to joining Blue Cross, Hayes was the executive director of the Greater Mankato Diversity Council for nearly 15 years. He has more than 20 years of experience organizing and facilitating systemic change within large and small systems such as non-profit, K-12, higher education and rural communities.
Hayes received his bachelor's degree from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota and is also chair of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation's board of directors having served on the board since 2014.
About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
For nearly 90 years, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (bluecrossmn.com) has supported the health, wellbeing and peace of mind of our members by striving to ensure equitable access to high quality care at an affordable price. Our 2.5 million members can be found in every Minnesota county, all 50 states and on four continents. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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WATCH: 4-H District Livestock Show 2023
Published: Feb. 4, 2023 at 10:35 PM CST|Updated: 7 minutes ago
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - On Sat. Feb. 4, the 2023 4-H District Livestock Show and Sale of Champions was held at Louisiana State University of Alexandria’s Dewitt Livestock Facility LSU AgCenter.
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SEATTLE — The man suspected of leaving a pipe bomb inside a Seattle parking garage was charged with possession of an explosive device and malicious placement of an explosive in the second degree on Tuesday.
Osman Ibrahim is being held on $350,000 bail after charging documents say he placed a bomb in the garage at South 918 South Horton Street that is near businesses, trails and transit.
If the bomb went off, it "people could have been seriously injured or killed," charging documents state.
Around 8 a.m. on Dec. 29, an employee of the building called 911 to report they found a metal pipe with what was described as having wires coming out of it, laying on a piece of clothing.
The employees immediately recognized Ibrahim in security video from previous encounters involved in the building and had nicknamed him "hatchet" because he was usually carrying a hatchet, according to charging documents.
Security video shows Ibrahim covering up a camera with a jacket on Dec. 26, and then removing the jacket. An item of clothing that wasn't in the background could then be seen in a corner on the ground.
On Dec. 29, Ibrahim is again seen approaching and covering up the camera with a jacket - the item of clothing is still on the ground. Ibrahim uncovers the camera, and there is a "clearly visible" metal pipe device on the clothing, according to charging documents.
While police were on scene, Ibrahim was seen passing by the scene on a bicycle and arrested. Ibrahim, according to charging documents, admitted to having been in the hallway/alcove of the garage and left the item behind because he had "no use for it."
Members of the bomb squad removed the device and rendered it safe at a demolition range. The pipe measured 9 inches from end cap to end cap and 1.3 inches in diameter. The fuse "violently" burned when lit. The content of the pipe was measured at 97 grams and "reacted positively by burning, sparking, flashing, and reacting in a consistent manner for explosive materials," charging documents state.
Ibrahim will be arraigned on Jan. 12.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission is taking applications for two Family Court vacancies.
The Second Family Court Circuit serves Marshall, Tyler and Wetzel counties. The Ninth Family Court Circuit serves Logan County.
The deadline for completed applications and letters of recommendation is July 13. They should be submitted by email to JVAC@wv.gov or by mail to the commission, c/o Office of the General Counsel to the Governor, Office of the Governor, State Capitol, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E, Charleston, WV 25305. More information is available by calling (304) 558-2000.
The application forms are available online for the Ninth Circuit and the Second Circuit.
Interviews will be held July 27 in Charleston.
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“The Voice” is airing the 4th episode of its 22nd season, the beginning of the ‘blind auditions’ phase, on Tuesday, Sep. 27 at 8 p.m. The series is hosted by Carson Daly, and features coaches Camila Cabello, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, and John Legend.
Here’s the information you’ll need to watch a free live stream of “The Voice” online without cable.
How to watch ‘The Voice’ without cable
If you’re a cord-cutter or don’t have cable, you can live stream “The Voice” on any one of the following streaming platforms:
It will also be available the day after it airs on Peacock (free trial).
When is ‘The Voice’ on?
“The Voice” airs the 4th episode of its 22nd season on Tuesday, Sep. 27 at 8 p.m. on NBC. It will run for two hours and will be followed by a new episode of “New Amsterdam” at 10 p.m.
What channel is NBC?
You can use the channel finder on your provider’s website to locate it: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV, Dish.
How to watch ‘The Voice’ online on-demand
If you missed the premiere episode of “The Voice” or want to binge watch the series online as it becomes available, check out the following streaming platforms:
What is ‘The Voice’ about?
According to the official NBC website: The four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series “The Voice” returns with the strongest vocalists from across the country invited to compete in the show’s newest season, which returns September 19.Multi-Grammy-nominated Cuban-born singer-songwriter and actress Camila Cabello claims her red chair alongside superstar returning coaches John Legend, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. Carson Daly returns as host for Season 22.The show’s innovative format features four stages of competition: Blind Auditions, Battle Rounds, Knockouts and Live Performance Shows.During the Blind Auditions, the decisions from the coaches are based solely on voice and not looks. The coaches hear the artists perform but they don’t get to see them, thanks to rotating chairs. If a coach is impressed by the artist’s voice, they push a button to select the artist for their team. At this point, the coach’s chair will swivel so that they can face the artist they selected. If more than one coach pushes the button, the power then shifts to the artist to choose which coach they want to work with. If no one pushes their button, the artist is eliminated from the competition. In addition to performing in front of a fully vaccinated, limited-capacity live audience, the artists’ family and friends are able to attend their Blind Auditions in person for the first time since Season 18!
Here’s a look at a performance from “The Voice,” courtesy of the show’s official YouTube channel:
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NEW YORK (AP) — Danielle Deadwyler says racism and misogynoir played a role in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, where she and Viola Davis were overlooked in the best actress category.
Going into Oscar nominations last month, Deadwyler was widely seen as a likely nominee for her lauded performance as Mamie Till-Mobley in “Till.” But the best actress field, perhaps the most competitive category this year, didn’t shake out as expected: Both Deadwyler and Davis were left out.
Davis, a four-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner for her performance in “Fences,” had been celebrated for the historical epic “The Woman King.” Deadwyler had been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the BAFTAs in the run-up to Oscar nominations, and won best lead performance at the Gotham Awards.
That two prominent Black actors were among the most striking snubs has been seen by some as a reflection of racial bias in the film industry. The day after the Oscar nominations, “Till” director Chinonye Chukwu posted on Instagram: “We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women.”
Asked for her reaction to that comment on an episode of the “Kermode & Mayo’s Take” podcast posted on Friday, Deadwyler strongly agreed with Chukwu.
“We’re talking about people who perhaps chose not to see the film — we’re talking about misogynoir — like it comes in all kinds of ways, whether it’s direct or indirect,” said Deadwyler. “It impacts who we are.”
Misogynoir, a term coined by the Black feminist author and activist Moya Bailey, refers to misogyny and prejudice directed at Black women.
“I think the question is more on people who are living in whiteness, white people’s assessment of the spaces they are privileged by,” added Deadwyler. “We’ve seen it exist in a governmental capacity — it can exist on a societal capacity, be it global or national.”
That Deadwyler and Davis were edged out of an Oscar nomination is part of what fueled the initial backlash to the star-studded grassroots campaign for actress Andrea Riseborough. After a string of celebrity-hosted screenings (a regular feature of Hollywood’s awards season), Riseborough unexpectedly landed a nomination for her performance in the indie drama “To Leslie,” alongside Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) and Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”).
After the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced an inquiry into the Riseborough campaign, it found no reason to rescind her nomination or take any other action — though Bill Kramer, academy president, said some social media and outreach campaigning tactics “caused concern.”
But conversation has continued on how money, race, status and connections can influence awards campaigns. “The Woman King” director Gina Prince-Bythewood said earlier this week that she questioned how people in the film industry are using their social capital.
“People like to say, ‘Well, Viola and Danielle had studios behind them.’ But we just very clearly saw that social capital is more valuable than that,” Prince-Bythewood told The Hollywood Reporter. “That type of power is exercised in more casual ways in social circles, where folks are your friends or your acquaintances. There may be diversity on your sets but not in your lives. And Black women in this industry, we don’t have that power.”
Deadwyler, whom The Associated Press named one of the breakthrough performers of last year, said on the podcast it was everyone’s responsibility to ensure an equitable playing field.
“Nobody is absolved of not participating in racism and not knowing that there is a possibility of its lingering effect on the spaces and the institution,” she said.
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NevayaCast available for new installations as well as retrofit Chromecast solutions
PLANO, Texas, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enseo, the premier technology services provider offering solutions in hospitality, senior living and education, launches Enseo's NevayaCast, a Google approved solution. With this partnership, Enseo delivers the Nevaya Cloud platform, a solution approved by Google for the use of Chromecast in hospitality (hotels, student accommodation, assisted/senior living, cruise ships and more). The partnership allows guests and residents to quickly and securely stream their content to in room TVs.
Michiel van Eldik, GM/VP EMEA Devices & Services at Google said, "We are delighted to be working with Nevaya to deliver a cloud-based in room hospitality solution using Google Chromecast devices for casting. We are excited to support our hospitality partners in delivering a feature-rich and secure entertainment experience to their guests, as we look to travel more again in 2022."
"Together, we're providing hospitality and senior living with a better TV experience, including more content choices," said Kris Singleton, president and CIO of Enseo. "We are thrilled to work with Nevaya to deliver a Google approved, cloud-based, in room solution using Google Chromecast devices for casting."
Unlike other casting technologies available to hotels, Nevaya is the only fully SaaS cloud platform, allowing global scalability and removing the need for unreliable onsite servers. Most importantly, the technology is more secure, having been through Google's detailed security process, as well as meeting the stringent requirements of ISO 27001. Further, Enseo's NevayaCast is planned to be available on future platforms.
James Richmond, CEO of Nevaya elaborates, "We're seeing over 30% of guests using the service daily, and while they're using it, they are also ordering in-room dining and staying onsite longer. We are proud to partner with Enseo, providing hotels higher revenue and improved guest satisfaction."
This casting offering comes on the heels of the recent announcement of CORE by Enseo, a rebrand of Enseo's trusted Enseo Entertainment Experience, E3. CORE powers Enseo's complete product offering, including in-room entertainment, smart room controls, managed WiFi, and safety and staff support, as well as both custom-facing features like casting and back-end monitoring and management.
To see casting and CORE live, stop by Enseo booth #301 at HITEC Orlando. Visit https://enseo.com/enseo-hitec-orlando-2022-booth-301/ or email sales@enseo.com to schedule a meeting.
Enseo is the premier technology services provider in the U.S., offering solutions in hospitality, senior living and education. Located in Plano, TX, Enseo has been engineering innovative hardware and software solutions for 22 years that deliver digital entertainment, managed WiFi, smart room automation (IoT) and energy management, and safety and staff solutions including employee emergency alert system, MadeSafe®, and touchless technology. Enseo is enjoyed by more than 85 million users annually.
Enseo has been recognized for excellence on Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators, a Financial Times's America's Fastest Growing Companies, one of the best Entrepreneurial Companies in America for three consecutive years by Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur 360 List, and consistently recognized on the Inc. 5000. For more information, please visit www.enseo.com.
Nevaya helps the hospitality industry give its guests a better digital experience around the globe, ranging from independent establishments to the world's largest groups. Easy to implement, Nevaya's cloud platform can be setup for an entire property fast, with almost no guest disruption. Casting, TV, WiFi & mobile guest experience can be managed at both central and localised levels to ensure reliable and consistent services across multiple properties. www.nevaya.com
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fears about the potential for a radiation leak at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant persisted Saturday as both sides traded blame for nearby shelling. Ukraine said Russian forces fired on areas just across the river from the plant and Russia claimed Ukrainian shells hit a building where nuclear fuel is stored.
Authorities were distributing iodine tablets to residents who live near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in case of radiation exposure, which can cause health problems.
Much of the concern centers on the cooling systems for the plant’s nuclear reactors. The systems require power to run, and the plant was temporarily knocked offline Thursday because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line. A cooling system failure could cause a nuclear meltdown.
Russian forces occupied the nuclear plant complex early in the 6-month-old war but local Ukrainian workers have kept it running. The Ukrainian and Russian governments have repeatedly accused the other of shelling the complex and nearby areas, raising fears of a possible catastrophe.
Periodic shelling has damaged the power station’s infrastructure, Ukraine’s nuclear power operator, Energoatom, said Saturday. “There are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,” it said.
The governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Reznichenko, said Saturday that Russian Grad missiles and artillery shells hit the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each located 10 kilometers (6 miles) across the Dnieper River from the plant.
But Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Ukrainian forces had fired on the plant from Marhanets. Over the past day, 17 Ukrainian shells hit the plant, with four striking the roof of a building that stores nuclear fuel, he said.
It was not immediately possible to verify either account.
The U.N.‘s atomic energy agency has tried to work out an agreement to send a team in to inspect and help secure the plant. Officials said preparations for the visit were underway, but it remained unclear when it might take place.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was essential for International Atomic Energy Agency representatives to get to the plant as soon as possible and to help keep it “under permanent Ukrainian control.”
“The situation remains precarious and dangerous,” Zelenskyy said in his latest nightly address. “Any repetition of (Thursday’s) events, i.e., any disconnection of the station from the grid or any actions by Russia that could trigger the shut down of the reactors, will once again put the station one step away from disaster.”
Ukraine has claimed Russia is using the power plant as a shield by storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it. Moscow, for its part, accuses Ukraine of firing on the nuclear complex.
The dispute over the plant led Russia late Friday to block agreement on the final document of the four-week-long review of the U.N. treaty that is considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament. The draft document of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference criticized Russia’s takeover of the Zaporizhzhia plant.
The deputy head of Russia’s delegation said the conference became “a political hostage” to countries that were trying “to settle scores with Russia by raising issues that are not directly related to the treaty.”
Elsewhere in Ukraine, one person was killed and another wounded in Russian firing in the Mykolaiv region, local government officials said. Mykolaiv city is an important Black Sea port and shipbuilding center.
The governor of the eastern Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said Saturday that two people were killed in Russian firing on the city of Bakhmut, a significant target for Russian and separatist forces seeking to take control of the parts of the region they do not already hold.
The British government said Saturday that it was giving Ukraine underwater drones and training sailors to use them to clear mines from the ravaged country’s coastline. Mines laid in the Black Sea during the war have hampered seaborne exports of Ukrainian grain to world markets, although an agreement reached in July has allowed shipments to resume along a single corridor.
More than 1 million metric tons of Ukrainian foodstuffs have been shipped since the start of August under the Black Sea grain deal, the United Nations said Saturday. The flow of grain under deal has driven down prices, reduced the risk of food insecurity and allowed the World Food Program to restart wheat purchases from Ukraine for drought-hit countries such as Ethiopia and Yemen.
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber is alerting Orange County homeowners that the deadline to file a claim regarding the Silverado Fire that took place in Silverado Canyon near Irvine, CA is nearing on October 26th, 2022.
The fire, which started on October 26, 2020, grew to almost 14,000 acres, destroying three structures, damaging five others, scarring the entire landscape and injuring firefighters. Roughly 90,000 homeowners were told to evacuate the area. Later, rainstorms caused massive flooding in the area that caused further damage to homeowners.
Southern California Edison (SCE) filed a report stating a "lashing wire" might have struck a 12,000-volt conducting line above it. Just before the fire ignited, SCE had shut off power to roughly 38,000 homes and businesses in five counties in the same region due to high winds the utility feared might knock down equipment or throw tree branches into power lines. Eventually the rolling blackouts were lifted, but the fire ignited later that day.
Crews could not bring water or fire retardant to the blaze because of those strong winds, so air support was delayed for almost a full day.
Homeowners and business owners in the region are eligible to make claims. Anyone who lives or works in the evacuation zone, whose home or property was damaged or who may have been injured due to the fire can make a claim.
"This was yet another preventable fire caused by the negligence of a major utility," said Gerald Singleton of Singleton Schreiber. "Homeowners and residents have rights, and we want to be able to fight on their behalf."
If you or anyone you know were affected by the fire or would like to inquire if a potential claim can be made, please be sure to contact the firm before the above-mentioned deadline.
With more than 100 employees and offices throughout the western United States, Gerald Singleton and his team have represented more than 12,000 victims of utility fires and has recovered approximately $2 billion in settlements and verdicts for its clients. The firm currently represents thousands of victims of the numerous fires in New Mexico, California, and Oregon.
For more information, please visit https://singletonschreiber.com/silverado-fire/.
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Tulare Lake used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. A wet winter in California has revived the dried up lake — leaving whole communities under water.
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Tulare Lake used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. A wet winter in California has revived the dried up lake — leaving whole communities under water.
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Red Robin says employee fired after reports of edibles in to-go orders
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WSOC) – A hamburger franchise in North Carolina has fired an employee after he was accused of putting possible drug-laced treats in to-go bags.
Several customers have reported finding what appear to be marijuana edibles in their orders at a Red Robin in Charlotte.
One of the customers, who didn’t want to give out personal information, said she and her daughter got an unwelcome surprise in their to-go bag when they ordered from the restaurant.
“I said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you ordered a dessert or something,’ and she said ‘I didn’t,’” the woman said.
She said they got an item resembling a rice krispy treat, along with a card promoting “Kellz Sweet Treets: The Incredible Edibles.”
“It was a shock to realize the person was that bold, to give their card, put their face out there,” the customer said.
The treat is similar to what other customers said they received from the same location on the same day. Another viewer sent in a photo, saying she got a gummy candy with the same business card.
The Twitter account listed on the business card was taken down after an earlier report on the edibles, but a video on the account showed what’s described as infused Sour Patch Kids.
Regular customers say they find it all to be concerning.
“I’m just concerned for children that may get it, especially,” one regular customer said.
She believes the man pictured on the card is the same man who brought her order to her car.
It’s not clear whether any of the treats actually contain drugs.
In the meantime, the woman is warning everyone to be vigilant about their food.
“Check that there’s nothing additional that you didn’t order, for sure,” she said.
After the incident, the Mecklenburg County Health Department visited the restaurant for an inspection.
During their walkthrough, the health inspectors said they did not find any items from an unapproved source.
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'The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals' report reveals the devastating economic and human toll in the U.S. as a direct result of racist and gendered beauty ideals specifically targeting women and girls
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Dove Self-Esteem Project released "The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals" report – the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted on the pervasive and damaging impact of beauty standards on the U.S. economy and society. The report explores the impact of harmful beauty ideals through dual pathways of body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination, which has led to a silent public health threat that disproportionally impacts women and girls starting as young as 10 years old.
Findings provide overwhelming evidence that racist and gendered beauty standards have a devastating impact on both the economy and wellbeing of individuals. This groundbreaking study estimates toxic beauty ideals cost the U.S. economy $305B due to body dissatisfaction and $501B due to appearance-based discrimination in 2019. Expressed in current dollars, the costs of body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination would be even higher, with inflation averaging 3.9% annually between 2019 and 2022.
The study was conducted in consultation with Dr. S. Bryn Austin, Founding Director of the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders: A Public Health Incubator (STRIPED) at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children's Hospital, and a diverse team of economists at Deloitte Access Economics along with an advisory panel of subject matter experts.
"We have known for a long time that narrow and biased beauty ideals can be toxic, especially for girls' self-esteem and self-concept, and can play a role in the risk for developing an eating disorder or other serious mental health conditions," said Dr. Austin. "We've also had a sense of how pervasive discrimination based on weight and skin shade can be and how cruelly undermining in just about all facets of the lives of affected individuals. But until we did our study, we had no idea how broad reaching and enormous the impacts are on our economy. By our estimates, hundreds of billions of dollars are being squandered in our economy every year. Why? Because our society has not yet been willing to reckon with the pernicious effects of sexist and racist beauty ideals and the discrimination that serves no other purpose than to enforce and perpetuate these noxious ideals. We hope our study findings will be a catalyst to begin that long-overdue reckoning."
Beauty ideals are socially constructed notions of ideal beauty. In the United States, the most accepted beauty norms reflect white standards, reinforced through media, film, family, and other sociocultural channels. This has a profound impact on the way people think and feel about themselves and the people around them.
The toll toxic beauty ideals can take on individuals and their livelihoods are both vast and dangerous, with body dissatisfaction shown to lead to depression, anxiety, suicide, smoking, eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, and appearance-based discrimination shown to result in increased risk of poor health care, weight gain, incarceration, premature mortality, and more.
Key Findings from "The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals" report:
- Every year, harmful beauty ideals result in astronomical costs to the U.S. economy and society. In 2019, harmful beauty ideals cost:
- Economic Costs: $84 billion in health system, productivity, government, employer, family, individual and societal costs
- Loss of Wellbeing: $221 billion as a result of depression, anxiety, suicide attempts, smoking, eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse
- Women and girls bear 58% of these costs at $177 billion
- Over 45 million people experience body dissatisfaction with increases their risk of depression, anxiety, self-harm, substance abuse, and suicide
- Economic Costs: $269 billion in health outcomes, labor market outcomes, other life outcomes (e.g., incarceration)
- Loss of Wellbeing: $233 billion as a result of anxiety, depression, drug abuse, smoking, hypertension
- Women and girls bear 63% of these costs at $317 billion
- Over $66 million people experience appearance-based discrimination, which increases their risk of poor health care, depression, anxiety, weight gain, incarceration, and premature mortality
- Weight discrimination affected 34 million people and incurred $206 billion in financial costs
- Skin shade discrimination affected 23 million people and incurred $63 billion in financial costs
- Natural hair discrimination affected 5 million people with Black and women being 3.4 times more likely to be perceived as "unprofessional" due to their hair when compared to non-Black women 1
"The way people feel about their bodies can no longer be considered a superficial issue as we're seeing the devastating toll of narrow beauty standards and appearance-based bias on individuals and society as a whole," says Alessandro Manfredi, Chief Marketing Officer for Dove. "The harmful beauty ideals perpetuated in media, advertising and in our social media feeds every day are negatively impacting the quality of life for women and girls, and we must take action to change this. The 'Real Cost of Beauty Ideals' report uncovers the significant scale of the harm being perpetuated from these ideals and Dove is deeply committed to changing beauty for the better – but we need the help of others to make systemic change possible."
Coupled with the release of the report, The Dove Self-Esteem Project is working alongside likeminded individuals, experts, and organizations to combat the complex influences that lead to both body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination. As part of this, Dove is supporting a series of programs and commitments. Some of these commitments include:
- Building Positive Body Image Through Education
- Supporting Inclusive, Diverse & Authentic Images in Media
- Legislative Advocacy
Together we can end appearance hate. Learn more about what Dove is doing to change beauty and take action at Dove.com/realcostofbeauty.
ABOUT THE DOVE SELF-ESTEEM PROJECT
Dove has a long-standing commitment to creating a world where beauty is a source of confidence, not anxiety. The Dove Self-Esteem Project was established in 2004 to help the next generation develop a positive relationship with the way they look so they are not held back by appearance-related anxiety and can realize their full potential. Created in partnership with the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of West England – the world's largest research group focusing on the role of appearance and body image in people's lives – Dove Self-Esteem Project tools are academically validated and free to download. So far, The Dove Self-Esteem Project has reached more than 82 million young people across 150 countries, making it one of the largest providers of body confidence education globally. By 2030, we'll have helped 250 million through our no-cost academically validated tools.
ABOUT UNILEVER NORTH AMERICA
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products, with sales in over 190 countries and products used by 3.4 billion people every day. We have 148,000 employees and generated sales of €52.4 billion in 2021. Over half of our footprint is in developing and emerging markets. We have around 400 brands found in homes all over the world – including iconic brands like Dove, Knorr, Hellmann's, Magnum, Axe, Ben & Jerry's, Degree, Seventh Generation, St. Ives, Suave, TRESemmé, and Vaseline.
Our vision is to be the global leader in sustainable business and to demonstrate how our purpose-led, future-fit business model drives superior performance. We have a long tradition of being a progressive, responsible business. It goes back to the days of our founder William Lever, who launched the world's first purposeful brand, Sunlight Soap, more than 100 years ago, and it's at the heart of how we run our company today.
The Unilever Compass, our sustainable business strategy, is set out to help us deliver superior performance and drive sustainable and responsible growth, while:
- improving the health of the planet;
- improving people's health, confidence and wellbeing; and
- contributing to a fairer and more socially inclusive world.
While there is still more to do, in the past year we're proud to have achieved sector leadership in S&P's Dow Jones Sustainability Index, 'Triple A' status in CDP's Climate, Water and Forest benchmarks, and to be named as the top ranked company in the GlobeScan/SustainAbility Sustainability Leaders survey for the eleventh consecutive year.
For more information on Unilever U.S. and its brands visit: www.unileverusa.com
ABOUT THE STRATEGIC TRAINING INITIATIVE FOR THE PREVENTION OF EATING DISORDERS: A PUBLIC HEALTH INCUBATOR
The Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, or STRIPED, is a graduate-level training initiative based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children's Hospital. We bring together experts in eating disorders, public health, adolescent preventive medicine, health law, policy, and economics, and many other disciplines to create a public health incubator, a place where transdisciplinary collaborations catalyze crosscutting, innovative approaches to eating disorders prevention.
ABOUT DELOITTE ACCESS ECONOMICS
Deloitte Access Economics is united by a passion for economics and a belief that it can create a better future for all. Our deep economic rigour comes from our cutting-edge analytic tools, our experience working with business and governments, and the expertise of our people who help shape public policy, deliver business insights and inform investment strategy.
Deloitte Access Economics combines foresight with sophisticated analysis to shape and unlock economic, environmental, financial and social value. Connecting leading global insight and local knowledge with an independent perspective, we illuminate future opportunities and drive progress. We share practical policy, industry and evidence-based insights to help businesses and governments tackle the most complex economic, financial, and social challenges.
1 Dove CROWN Research Study, 2019 | Hair texture and style is not included in the $501 billion annually due to appearance-based discrimination
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End-user evaluations earn EngageCare® top rank for the second time in three years
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AccuReg®, a healthcare technology solutions company offering EngageCare, a full suite of intelligent patient access, revenue cycle management and digital patient intake and engagement solutions for hospitals, health systems and large clinics, has been awarded the 2023 Best in KLAS® designation as the number one ranked company in patient access. AccuReg also earned the Best in KLAS® award for patient access in 2021.
"Our goal is to provide our customers nationwide with fully integrated, automated solutions that utilize exception-based workflows to simplify the indispensable work of patient access teams, resulting in increased revenue, improved satisfaction and experience," said AccuReg CEO and Founder Paul Shorrosh. "By combining our proven revenue cycle management technology with an innovative digital patient intake and engagement platform in EngageCare, KLAS researchers confirmed our customers exceed patient expectations by providing a safe, intuitive experience that incorporates payment and affordability options. We are honored to have received this designation again, confirming that our customers value exceptional service and innovations that produce measurable return on investment."
AccuReg's market-leading patient access solutions enable patient access teams to detect and correct errors and risks to revenue at the front end of patient engagement. This eliminates expensive rework, denials, collections and write-offs that surface later in the revenue cycle, while increasing pre-service payments and financial assistance conversions. AccuReg integrates and complements leading EHRs to improve customers' return on investment. EngageCare enables end-to-end automated prior authorization, self-service check-in and registration, virtual waiting rooms and intelligent eligibility and benefit validation capability. AccuReg solutions also help hospitals comply with complex government requirements for price transparency and the No Surprises Act (NSA).
"The 2023 Best in KLAS report highlights the top-performing healthcare IT solutions as determined by extensive evaluations and conversations with thousands of healthcare providers," said Adam Gale, KLAS CEO. "These distinguished winners have demonstrated exceptional dedication to improving and innovating the industry, and their efforts are recognized through their inclusion in this report. Congratulations to all the winning vendors for setting the bar for excellence in healthcare IT! KLAS continues to be committed to creating transparency and helping providers make informed decisions through our accurate, honest, and impartial reporting."
The 2023 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report recognizes software and services companies who excel in helping healthcare professionals improve patient care. All rankings are a direct result of the feedback of thousands of providers over the past year. A Best in KLAS award signifies to the healthcare IT industry the commitment and partnership that the top vendors should provide. Read the report to see the top-rated medical software and services for 2023.
About AccuReg: AccuReg, the market leader in patient access, provides health systems, hospitals and large clinics with a single platform that integrates patient engagement, intake and access and enables healthcare consumerism, the consolidation of vendors and increased net revenue. AccuReg EngageCare utilizes an advanced rules engine and intelligent robotic process automation, machine learning and predictive analytics to provide patients intuitive digital tools that allow them to complete error free pre-registration and registration, access a digital front door and virtual waiting room at check-in, make payments from accurate price estimates and communicate bi-directionally in real-time. EngageCare delivers the data integrity required to reduce denials, increase collections and protect net revenue. EngageCare provides patients the digital experience they expect and further positions customers as leaders in their markets. AccuReg has offices in Nashville, Orlando and Mobile. AccuRegSoftware.com
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Washington Post congressional investigations reporter Jacqueline Alemany about questions raised by the finding of classified documents in an office that President Biden once used after his vice presidency ended.
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Wyoming tornado injures 8 people and flips buses and train cars at mine site, report says
CAMPBELL COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — A tornado touched down at a mine in Wyoming Friday evening, injuring eight people and knocking over employee transport buses and empty train cars at the facility, a news report said.
The tornado hit the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Campbell County around 6 p.m. during a storm complex that also delivered tornadoes to neighboring Natrona and Johnson counties, the Gillette News Record reported.
The Campbell County Fire Department responded to the open-pit coal mine about 64 miles (103 kilometers) south of Gillette.
Six people with non-life-threatening injuries were transported by ambulance to Gillette, one victim was transported to Douglas and another refused treatment, the newspaper reported.
The tornado struck during a shift change and flipped buses waiting to transport workers, although it was not immediately clear if there was anyone on the vehicles at the time, Campbell County Public Information Officer Leslie Perkins said.
All workers were accounted for after a search by the mine’s search and rescue team, which was assisted by the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds said.
The storm also knocked over 12 unoccupied train cars, the News Record reported.
Melissa Smith, a meteorologist and hydrologist with the National Weather Service office in Rapid City, South Dakota, told the newspaper that the storm system scattered tornadoes throughout Campbell, Natrona and Johnson counties.
“The tornadoes would form, come down, stay on the ground and come back up,” Smith said.
Peabody Energy Inc., the operator of North Antelope Rochelle Mine with headquarters in St. Louis and South Brisbane, Australia, confirmed six employees were being treated in hospitals as of 11 p.m. Friday and that all employees had been accounted for.
“Operations have been suspended until we can fully assess facility damages and begin the process of restarting safe operations,” Peabody said in a statement Saturday, which did not provide specifics about the damage caused by the tornado.
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Which Spider-Man web shooter toy is best?
Some of the best Spider-Man toys let kids step into the shoes of their favorite hero. One of the most fun ways to feel like the web-slinging hero is using a web shooter toy. The toy attaches to the wrist, allowing you to sling a ‘web’ at any supervillains that come your way.
If you want the best Spider-Man web shooter toy, the top choice is the Super Web Slinger. It is very adaptable, able to shoot web fluid and double as a water blaster. No tools are required to assemble the device.
What to know before you buy a Spider-Man web shooter toy
Is making a mess a concern?
If you give some kids a web shooter toy that launches web fluid, you may find that the house is covered in Spidey webs in no time. If you are looking for Spider-Man web shooter toys that do not make a mess, there are other Spider-Man toys that do not involve shooting webs or anything else.
Is it for a costume?
Many Spider-Man web shooter toys are not designed to look exactly like the Spidey web-shooters that appear in the comics and the movies. The trouble is that making a web-shooter of that size that actually launches web material would be very difficult and expensive. If you are going for a web-shooter toy that will look realistic with a Spider-Man costume, it probably won’t be able to actually shoot anything.
Do you like Nerf or water guns?
Some web shooter toys are designed to work with foam darts or shoot water. They could be a great addition to a collection, so consider whether the user already has similar toys before picking out a web shooter. Toys that launch foam darts or water can be lots of fun to use with friends, so consider buying a spare.
What to look for in a quality Spider-Man web shooter toy
Adaptability
Some web shooter toys can adapt to shoot different ammunition. The best options for web shooter toys can adapt to a variety of play situations. Going from shooting web fluid to joining a water gun battle is convenient and fun.
Spider-Man web shooters that are easy for kids to fire are also more adaptable to any kid’s activities. Web shooter toys and Spider-Man toys are not always designed for all ages, so check the package label before you buy.
Durability
Many web shooter toys have small internal parts to allow them to function. If kids aren’t somewhat careful, they can break. Some web shooter toys are more durable than others, which can help kids to focus on playing rather than being gentle with an intricate device. If a kid easily breaks toys, the best web shooter options will be highly durable toys with as few moving components as possible.
Appearance
If you care about the way a web shooter toy looks, some are just better than others. Web shooters that are meant to be worn with Spider-Man costumes probably won’t look like a toy. The best options for cosplay are web-shooters that focus on imitating the design of the devices that appear in comic books or movies, even if they do not fire webbing.
How much you can expect to spend on a Spider-Man web shooter toy
Depending on the type of material and its function, Spider-Man web shooter toys will vary greatly in price. A shooter that launches some kind of object or fluid will generally be less than $25, while high-quality costume web shooters can be more expensive.
Spider-Man web shooter toy FAQ
Can Spider-Man web shooters help children develop useful skills?
A. Some web shooter toys can be difficult to fire without a certain amount of dexterity. If they are durable enough to last, a child could improve their fine motor skills by moving their fingers and wrist in the correct manner. If they take the time to aim a web shooter, it can also help with hand-eye coordination.
Is assembly needed for web shooters?
A. Depending on the toy, a Spider-Man web shooter might be able to be used immediately. Some may require some assembly and preparation to use appropriately. Before buying a web shooter toy, consider if your child will be able to safely operate the device without assistance.
What’s the best Spider-Man web shooter toy to buy?
Top Spider-Man web shooter toy
What you need to know: This Spider-Man web shooter toy can be a water gun or web fluid launcher.
What you’ll love: It is safe for ages 5 and up, but may require some adult assembly. The web shooter can launch web fluid, silly string or water. The set includes the web shooter, a refillable water cartridge, one can of web fluid and a Spider-Man glove.
What you should consider: Some children had difficulty firing it, and it can make a bit of a mess if you are not careful.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Spider-Man web shooter toy for the money
What you need to know: This affordable Spider-Man web shooter toy launches plastic discs instead of webs.
What you’ll love: It includes a Spider-Man glove, a web disc blaster and three discs. It is safe for ages 5 and older. The web shooter launches spinning discs when the lever is pressed in the palm of a kid’s hand.
What you should consider: It is not particularly durable, so some customers have had issues with it breaking after a while.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This Nerf blaster is an unusual Nerf product designed to shoot like Spider-Man web-shooters.
What you’ll love: It is compatible with other Nerf bullets and products. The launcher is Spider-Man-inspired and fires only when held and fired in the manner Spider-Man would shoot a web. It is sized to fit a child’s arms and hand.
What you should consider: Some customers had trouble loading the Nerf bullets and found it was difficult to fire. It may jam and does not come with safety goggles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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South Carolina families to hold more than 300 events during the twelfth annual celebration of school choice
COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gov. Henry McMaster has proclaimed an awareness week Jan. 22-28 recognizing that every child in South Carolina deserves access to an effective education, and encouraging parents to explore and identify the best learning option for their child. With this announcement, South Carolina joins a growing number of states in supporting its parents and educators by officially setting aside time to celebrate school choice.
The proclamation highlights the importance of high quality education options for the economic vitality of South Carolina. It also recognizes the contributions and hard work of teachers, parents, and community leaders who invest in local schools.
"South Carolina School Choice Week" is timed to coincide with National School Choice Week, a weeklong national celebration of K-12 education that takes place during the last week of January. The full text of the proclamation can be found on the School Choice Week website at schoolchoiceweek.com/proclamations-2023.
For the Week, parents, schools, and other organizers have planned 344 activities across the state of South Carolina–– in-school activities, talent shows, even a capitol rally in Columbia –– all of which aim to spark conversations about the opportunities parents have, or want to have, for their children's education.
More than 25,000 events have been independently planned for the week nationwide, raising awareness about school choices of every type.
"The goal of South Carolina School Choice Week is twofold: to celebrate great education options of all kinds and to empower parents with the information they need to choose the best fit for their children," said Andrew Campanella, president of National School Choice Week. "It's time for families, educators, and community leaders to work together to celebrate educational opportunities for all."
National School Choice Week (NSCW) informs, inspires, and empowers parents to discover the K-12 education options available for their children, including traditional public, charter, magnet, online, private, and home schooling. Every January, tens of thousands of schools, organizations, and individuals plan unique events and activities to shine a positive spotlight on effective education options in their communities. The Week is a project of the nonpartisan, nonpolitical National School Choice Awareness Foundation.
For more information, visit schoolchoiceweek.com/South-Carolina
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(WSYR-TV) – Friday, June 24, celebrates the 24th annual Take Your Dog To Work Day created by Pet Sitters International (PSI). On a day to honor that special human-animal bond seems even more important this year, due to research on the positive impact dogs had on their owners during the pandemic.
PSI Founder and CEO, Patti Moran says this day has gown into a global phenomenon. She says, “We can’t wait to see the creative ways that companies will celebrate pets and promote their adoption this Take Your Dog To Work Day.”
PSI established Take Your Dog To Work Day in 1999 to give back to the pet community from which their members earn their living. The event was created to be a unique way to celebrate the great companions dogs make and encourage their adoptions from local shelters, rescue groups and humane societies.
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After three years of unprecedented growth, UCU re-aligns organizational structure with new hires and internal promotions
LOS ANGELES, July 13th, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After three consecutive years of loan and membership growth which has led to over $1 billion in asset holdings and over 50,000 members served, UCU is announcing a new organizational structure to support continued growth and maintain executive leadership alignment with member values. The restructuring includes several new hires and internal promotions to the executive team.
"University Credit Union always puts people first. Whether it's our members, staff, or university partners, UCU grows because of the important contributions from our community " Dr. David Tuyo II says. "We are thrilled to welcome some new team members and even more excited to see the promotion of some valuable players."
University Credit Union is proud to announce the following promotions and hires:
- Cory McDaniel, SVP, Chief Lending Officer
- Pam Blackburn, SVP, Chief People Officer
- Chiasia Moua to SVP, Chief Experience Officer (formerly VP, Member Services)
- Serge Rizk, EVP, Chief Financial Officer, (formerly SVP, CFO)
Joining current Executive Leadership Team members:
- Estela Nagahashi, EVP, Chief Operating Officer
- Steve Sercu, SVP, Chief Technology Officer
- Tristan Dion Chen, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer
Each new member of the executive team brings extensive experience and unique qualities to the organization and will provide crucial support for the continued growth and success of UCU in 2022 and beyond.
University Credit Union, a federally-insured financial cooperative, was founded in 1951 on UCLA's campus by faculty and staff. Serving more than 50,000 members, UCU has become a leading credit union in the United States. UCU is guided by a board of directors, comprised only of faculty, staff and alumni of the university community. UCU's core purpose is to give members a financial advantage in life, and with their promise to advocate, educate and innovate, UCU is an industry-leading financial partner to university communities.
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An unusual metabolism must propel Vivek Ramaswamy’s rapid-fire fluency during peripatetic campaigning. And something keeps him slender while not counting calories, as at last Sunday’s brunch of huevos rancheros followed by a hamburger topped with a fried egg.
“Shutting down” the administrative state? Easy, he says, because much of it was created by rescindable executive orders. Returning the Federal Reserve to the single mandate of preserving the dollar as store of value? Statute be damned, the person he chooses to replace Chair Jerome H. Powell will acknowledge no other mandate.
Making Social Security and Medicare sustainable? Painless: Neither benefit cuts nor revenue increases needed because sustained 5 percent economic growth is attainable partly by “abandoning the climate cult, drilling more, fracking more, burning coal unapologetically.” Abolishing the Education Department? A piece of cake, and without congressional involvement: Civil service rules protect individuals, so mass layoffs are possible by executive fiat. And impoundment — the presidential power to not spend appropriated money — should be revived.
Congress might not cheerfully bid adieu to the power of the purse, but Ramaswamy might have the most capacious conception of presidential power — institutional and pastoral — in this history of U.S. politics.
Although he describes today’s pandemic of wokeness as a disease — “a cultural cancer” — he also calls it a “symptom” of “a vacuum at the heart of our national soul.” Americans, he says, are suffering a “void of purpose.” This is an echo of 1979, when President Jimmy Carter addressed the nation about its supposed “crisis of confidence” striking “at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.” Americans were, Carter sermonized, misunderstanding “human identity” and “longing for meaning.” Actually, they were longing for competent government, not a presidential scolding.
Ramaswamy sensibly deplores what he calls the “waterfall of political accountability” — authority cascading from Congress to administrative agencies that often work their wills by pressuring private entities. He thinks the Biden administration’s industrial policies — scattering subsidies like confetti — make corporation’s “effete,” flinching from competition. He is right about many such things, from the Fed’s mission creep to the merits of meritocracy.
Ramaswamy and his wife, Apoorva, are the meritocracy incarnate: its energy, intelligence, discipline and creativity. And its boundless confidence in the plasticity of things under the touch of people trained to master society’s messiness. He met his wife when, after Harvard, he was at Yale Law School and she, now a surgeon with 21 operations scheduled this week, was at Yale School of Medicine.
One of her husband’s rare misfortunes in a life of swift and stratospheric ascent is that the 45th president tarnished the recurring idea that the nation needs a president who thrived in the private sector and is innocent of political experience. Ramaswamy did not inherit wealth: His parents immigrated from India, settling in Cincinnati. He made hundreds of millions from biotech start-ups, and has published three books, so his preternatural confidence is understandable.
But unconvincing, considering the political challenges he must surmount before, he hopes, he will confront governance challenges, such as the war in Europe. Ramaswamy favors “major concessions” to Russia: ending support for Ukraine in exchange for Vladimir Putin’s pocketing another portion (beyond Crimea) of Ukraine and promising better behavior (regarding arms control and China).
Ramaswamy, who has not encountered many problems that are impervious to his charisma and certitude, believes that a forcefully expressed presidential vision can conquer Washington’s viscosity. When he has lived longer, he will know better.
He is less than half the age of the Republican front-runner, and if elected would be four years younger than John F. Kennedy was when, at 43, he became the youngest elected president. Ramaswamy’s bid is not a vanity candidacy: He is public spirited and wholesomely exasperated by what he correctly considers the unusual and unnecessary quantity of irrationality in public life today.
It is good that the political process is porous enough to be penetrated by an outsider who is a Roman candle of ideas, many of which merit a hearing. He might kindle a fire. Stranger things have happened. But not many.
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7,000,000 organizations applied. 5,000 make the list. Leaving Pioneer in the top .01% of fastest- growing private American companies.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. revealed that Pioneer Management Consulting is No. 2198 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the fastest-growing private companies in America.
The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Inc. 5000 honorees have not only been successful but have also demonstrated resilience amid challenging market conditions.
Brian Westerhaus, Partner and Founder expresses his respect for other honorees:
"We have tremendous respect for every company on this list, especially our fellow entrepreneurs and small businesses owners. From our company to yours—thank you—for having the courage and grit it takes to start businesses, create jobs, fuel the economy, and serve in more important and innovative ways than imaginable. We are proud to be on this list with you."
- Approaching every decision it makes through the lens of its core values; humble, hungry and connected
- Creating new ways for employees to stay connected to the organization, their colleagues and clients, resulting in a 99% employee engagement score
- Focusing on complete client satisfaction—so much so, that it only incents consultants to do good work, resulting in a 97% client satisfaction score
- Introducing a national organizational design and opening a second office in Denver, CO, in 2022.
Molly Koenen, Partner and Co-Owner expresses her gratitude:
"To our clients, thank you for trusting us. We don't take that responsibility lightly.
Know our growth objectives remain the same:
(1) To get to 75 of the most elite consultants in each market,
(2) So we can continue to serve in guaranteed ways,
(3) To accumulate the capital we need to invest in the communities we care about most.
Most importantly, a huge thank you to team Pioneer.
There can't be a more talented, passionate, and funny team on the planet. We're so grateful."
Pioneer was founded in 2009 in Minneapolis to create local jobs in service to the companies we admire– a consulting experience that is strikingly better for all. Its core values: humble, hungry, and connected, serve as the lens through which all its decisions are filtered.
Pioneer serves some of the world's most reputable organizations nationally, that have complex transformation projects planned or underway through each of its four disciplines:
- Strategy
- Execution
- Organizational Change
- Data Analytics
Pioneer continues to experience rapid growth with 60 employees in Minnesota and Colorado, and has received other recognition including Star Tribune's Top 200 Workplaces and a MN Fast 50 awardee.
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Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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